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01)1414IT itIONAL AND MN GODINII
littionelted by Sto4-4W Pres*, X4liOiteak
Weet *Street Goderlith, Ontario
KtItiaDAY, FEBRUARY' 13th, 1041
*TAX
sERv-rx Tat PUBLIC •
The death of E. Jet Wigle eeerutves a
Pablieepirited eitiseu of Godericie A.4
tualor for eitVieriii.Yeare, ate, a neetaber
et the Ittietitteial begielature fer '
terkile-etiditater es a meatber and ehairt
Mail Of the 'Thitielie Ittilities•Comenie.sioa,
• he int4e, •reeOrti ef peiblie service that
Is •IXOrt often quafli go had ithe
.• idlossuera.Sies, .•one witl,eit WAS LI
acorn Of tikPopulerity," het lie 'had ,the
7 later** Of Ithe. town, ,aad. eoniMUnitY
alittitYti heart tine he will be Misted.
,
- our *Ott your flght,.eveirir
Ciketildhlea fight agehlet Ntiei tete
• rodent and tiraW3Y.s Liveflt in war
tiftvhigfeetettineatea and hell) heel/
the World * decent Saco to live hi.
'loom ROPY: RETURNs"
• 0Coigratu1atiohs to the Itioderieh
brimeli of the Ilromens Institute en its
. fortieth annieersary. 'The Institute
agiibe Illeened to a goodshouse*Ife whe
• e
sees about her dafiY dtitit'S eheertailet
• •,„ , •
- And efficiently, keeps her eyes and her
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,liesitt,Otten for any good deed elle ean
." :Ate thlOni on added-taskstineomptaint
glela
. In,. and 'without tikleg nuitth of ,a.
. • . •
noise•le the world. accomplishesettelm-
titense amount of work. -1
. Long matt the WoMents 1ir:titute
' Itreitttee,in its eettelteaett teas.
•
:thiet tau ot doing Your best in
• .the tight 'against ifftlerista by. 10
v�flg all you cant* war savings.
eittes. •
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IT:ErLINTOICWINGII.Ard LINE
,
• .'Scone peeple gotethe impressicat that
the•Bearde of Transport Conunissioners
• , in Atte ineeting 'in Goderieb, this .week
• • was Ine,Fel$: gsq.40.41:coug•4s0.--14ressaikkeeds
- • term -of: procedurebefore issuing the
eider for the abandonment of theVlrn
,ton--Wingtoute 110e -We trust • this is
e et -So. • -- -
The national railway system is aiciiite.
Whet 'like a laturtait body, of Which the.
head and the Vitae issue all the orders
ante -take all the nourishment but -which
withoutthe linibs wouldbe,4 a sorry
. thing and would not litie beg. •The
Interdependenee of yartous parts of
• • Atte railway system was strikingly
shown in the statement of (1r '% E.
Treleaven, Lucknow done miner, to
Ibe effect that the ettattnuance of the
line was iliceetary to the suceess pf
his busetesS and that If it were closed
the,C.N.letwoUld late infreight:revenne,
front„his,:blisiness alone twice as Much
,M the book-keeping degeit of the.lineui
s quesition. Luelsnoii• is not on the Clips
• ten-Wine:lam line at all and .its @ski-
- nesse1 not figured ehereturns of the
line; :but, If. the line were abandoned
• the C.N.R; ivould Jose in revenue frora
.bneiness 'orleinating. in any number 'of
places': like Muck/news .Ooderieh,Kb
earaine, ete., which, are . situated • on
' . „ •
•
• other •branehes of the System. Some
Coeservative party, The ISmitla vote,
of •eourte, is a very strong one.
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Visitere toitely .are now requited to
explain their 'reasons ffir, *siring
entraeee to theecoontry, eayet deepatela
tone IOW. As -if aeybody ;could think'
Oe 'any , reason .for wanting' to be in
Italy these 4aYs4 ,
• • ,
Toroeto isesaid .to be ta.ggiug in its
response to the war Sp.vingo.o.ppeiti; but
it woul4 be toe much to exPect that
there tvld be aux; let-up to the feed
o ,ittleice on how to rim the war that,
cOmee trent that cite.- It Should be,, a,
O.SseO "put up or shut up."
•Some 'PeePle° Ctabie a "bliteltout" .18
'neededi-In T,erotitti*WalselisWespeep
swar-conseloustaeSseeme rather
silly to us, but 'it there is to, be a
blackout -.'o ehow'people what war le
Ike '—it shQt4d hatfe the trimmings of
bombings and incendiarY ,iires. There
'are a few &tees I Toronto we
ehoulda't Mind •seeleg hoMbed.
Whether it was eoritintied adherence
to 'the' SoCiiii *edit theory, 'et .etipport
DI Preiniet.A`berherVe attitude on the.
froli report, ., the Provineial ' bye-
titection in •the Cemrese ri44ng of. Al
-
•beets, last week reaulted in the return
of the Aheithart etipporter. The oltroS-
ing .candidate was the nominee of tee
Co-operative Commonwealth Federa-
Ube.
•TiOn. J. Leley, Minister of Finance,
speaking at Kingston a few days ego
mide a titrong appeal. to Canadiarts,, ana
plirticUIarlY the .wagi-earners'- and
salary workers, to glee theleassistanee
In the _warosettlege .eatritittten. No
doubt the Mintster is . reported. as
saying, &erne menees. hatl been as*iit
•Siby thesGoverninent) that ceind nave
•beenr.eaxee,eltut eveey_effertewas being
made •to buy Supplies and maintain the
fighting forces' With the smallest waste
,of funds. Ile invited letters from
Peoifie whotcould give specific instancee
of waste, extravagance or overpayment,
and promised that othese inetances
weitild be Investigated promptly.
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'Three Minutes, Please
(BY Mit.n- With.a Notebbok)
When Ls the ..world coming to• ? •
StSitell ifoairler'aftmati," not '"aircrafts.
man." . -
The Italians are cominghome bring-
ing- their tales with them. • • •
•"You can always tell an honest
man," sae! Uncle (Silas, setting down
the newspaper. When he breaks a
law he tioesntt 'know how to escape
•punis'hmeet"
• .
, of this businees would go to'de ap,R., A more suitable name for the Italian
••,•seine. would simply disappear. -blitzkrieg would be "boomerang." •-•
- Another statemeettmade before 'the •Likening to 'Churchill is getting to
r.
eaanntissieeers dementia attention, It
• . be rather an expenslve pastime. The
;WAS stated by an °incital of the Post- first tune we tuned him •in the aerial
office Department that to give • mail eaine down. The next •time a trans-
former had to be replaca, and last
,' ' eervice. to the peoaleeof t•he affected
•e , _ — -Sundae-the-power tube -blew- out.
area a truck would be put on from • ____
, Clinton . to Lontleeboro 'and another Lend to defend, or, better, give,
. from Wingham to Beigrave. This That your way of life may forever live.
' would be an inferior service to the
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Advertesement in a New York paper:
present one, whieh isn't any too gilod,
. but tee point is that it would east the and Is b
young man who gets paid on Monday
rake by. 'Wednesday would like
-Peeteffice Department something. The to eochange small loans with a young
railway and the postal servicearo inan who sets paid on 'Wedneedaiteanci
both zerneesed by tthe people of Canada Is broke b5''S. W°11t11:Vri • ' •'
and to Make; an inconsiderable
in one service, and place upon the spline. and -the Mikado held a eonfer-
It's ,aboat time that ;Hitler, Muse
.other service an additional expenee, ehee to aeeide just who IsPublic 'Enemy
lookselike very poor maxiagement. Wo' 4° • •
The Olinton-Wingbata line serves a We sink into the favorite armchair,
' Useful purpose in givine eec,omroodation turii on the radio and, get set for an
't in the immediate area, and the tearing evening's enjoyment wben a red-hot
swing bantesears -through the ether In'
1.11) of the rails to give better eervice
the latest version of "There'll be some
• • - „to mime big centre wetild reeented. • changes male."
. There ought to be.
If you neer got the money back
Investment in Canada's war effort • The explanation of the succees of the
would be well worth., while. But British campaign in Lib a may be the
the money will be returned vvitif fact that the Itallan 1ees are more
hiterest as with ow other Govern t •Italian than fore.e.
itent loan. • , '
"Being a millionaire is a headache,"
timiroll/AL NOTEs asserts the seventh richest man in the
world. All the Elaine we Wouldn't mind
The WaVeli vacuum tleaner is doing relfeving him of his' headache and buy•-
•• ing an intereet in an aspirin factory.
• a ereat job in Libea. ••
• * •
Sem a 1 of the newertypes a hater-
, et setae' of the war • eeptor planes travel. eo fast that dif-
From •day to. tiny • reveals,
While the British, use 'their heads.,
The Italians 'use their heel's."'
t. • There was a „euggeetion in yester-
day'e newa that Italy might turn about
and &ate Over on liritain'e side t What
telatility' that Weida be! •.
*
Dorothy says elie is Ivey eireful not
to weele Itydro (etyma fleet* date, eo
there will be More eleetricity left for
he
tpeople in the 'Old •Country,
ttrr-
The postal •authorities are no doilbt
taking preceutione against the burning
ettietievg that tittle* be tepeeted to page
lbetween 11111Y Xing and Mit& ilepburn
en St. 'Valentine's 'Day.
0 • e•
Dr. fildney ;mitt), Prethient of e
totta tetiversity, ntfiltionett es a
posalbility for the lontership isf the
fienity is encountered -in turning out a I
bullet that will eeeett ethe plane'
getting ,to be doggone
humiliating to Ore h bust at the enemy
•only „tee have it •rip yolir own 'wing -tip
off. •.
When 'Rattle the Killer heard of tile
methods Iiinimler je using to torturee.
•the heIttleee P6I•eehe beeame GO died
gusted he wrapped up the totem -glee '
automatic, and blaeltjack, ttieled the
parte' off the Brooklyn bridge and
last heard from was tolleetine • initteie
tometvliere f Arfzeina. '
A COMPARNON '
• (Chesley Enterprise) "
Liverpool, which has had much At-
, tention from German lbombere, recently
I boughtsPritish war eavings eertifiettte9
1 to the exterit of$51 par person. We,
11 Canada are aeked for $12 per person
iser year. Yet aeti7illlS7 how subdi luare
to give $31 are we than the PeOPle
ot Licensee!, whoop. hornet factories '
and doeke have been tombed alms* In-
tealtintlY, And whose normal mintier of 1
IlvIng has been serlotiely slierupted.
1
Phillislistif Lazy lisidevis
By Harry J. WA.
TOWNSHIP MEETING
The farmere are going to organize.
That was :the purposei.of the meetiter
inethe townehip ball laSt night.. I Went
because, likieeverybode elee, I feel that
the farmers' should be organieed, •lt
the Aesociateci Fleacatchers' Uxtion ot
America an petitien tjicGoverument
eo prevent the useresotepraY glint front
,extermluating all tee ileaand in so
,40114 destroY itileir livelihood; in the
name of gel:Iciness gracious why can't
we tarmers have epee° forint:a organiz-
,atien to point ihttee few of the evils of
the present der ,
With three-querters a tie fame in
our toWnsitliepieetered With mortgages,
eo ehat the only- thing father hands
down ,teseetil is 4 incirtga.ge ••which col-
lects its flee pee:Cent. eecb. Year, it
, eeeme thatthere enuet eonte 4 time
witeu a man has to stop taking -a hie%
We don't tstopto figure up ,the loss, be-
cause just as I said lest week is ,a
let easiee on 4 manta get-up to. have
the la:6710y for a lead ot hogs in his
iteeket ,11.11d-PaY a few bills with it, than
it is figure up that you've tuet lost
three • donate, on extela hog that ,yenitve
sold and didn't get anything for 'your
74)k.
Trhe•tewnehip was pretty: much all
at the 'meeting. Looking Armed the
group :that sat listening to the.speaker,
it was beriteot to pick out theoliffekeot
ones. ' They were all -listening, mind
you, but from past experienee with,
there it was sort et easy to make a
good Oets at whntsthey were thinking.
.'-Etetsittingeopeja the front seat, is
one ac the *.el'ae agin It" type. 'He made
his money and retired, .right on his
farm; living by the money he Makes for
gra.ssine, cattle and dipping ever so
sligletty Into his interest money. He
diteent 't event to see any organization,
because he might have to pay something
to it; ..
• Peter, .over in -that •next row, het'
one of the "Letts go slow"' groupteHell
argue all day about not jumping • into
anything- too hasty. That's his main-
stay in life, as he consoles hiraeelf that
a man always makes, Mistakes by lump-
ing at cenelustoes., *Of eouttee, it takes
'hiratitt tang to melee uP:hie mind tbut
he never get* anything. done. In the
fall lie •ftgoree Oyer What ainount of fall
_wheat, he. _shouid.i,..srovi and the. snow
cOnsee and he's still doting. - 111 the
spring he 'does the semething until the
season goes goes bY and he,gete only a bail
.
croft,- int - tHeealwitestiets a eeM that he
twonderseWhetherehe'll, eoteebuekwhea t-, ..
roots or cern in . •.• ...until it goes by too
far and then he pectiles over the probe
lem altteuninier Of whether he should
cultivate it to kill the teilteli grass. .
'eloett -back In the next row, -he's a
"Let's get going tonight" maa. Joe
is right for every idea advanced. Just
as Soon as the speaker got through Joe
jumped up and he started talking about
the organization and he sailed through
:that and the had the organization sitting
ion the door stem Of the Department of
Agriculture and then he ,had..botzuseS
for all fa.rthers and the •first thineyou
knew we Were all living In plenty. He
does the same thing at hiamte.---Letehint
read he a ,book about a new kind of
crop,whether it be..40y bean or hybrid
corn, and he'll bey enough seed to plant
the whole faint and get all worked up
about it . . . and the - Idea just dies
down leaving him with a less.
• Tone 'back 'here, doesn't say much in
an open way, but •hesargues with. every-
body Within live feet of him with his
"It won't work" talk. •First of all It'
just propaganda, and then it's been
started 'by the Government to sidetrack
the farmers,. and the next thing' you
know he has it headed by the packers.
But just let somebody suggest. that he
say something to the crowd and he'll
,
mutter antitswal_lo7. his cute of tobacco
m
and umble-that he hasn't anything to
say.
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You see, it takes all kinds of people
'to make a township meeting. •
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-BEWARE THE IDES OF MACH
The month of March takes its name
.
from Ma,, the god ofwarand, in the
early Boman ' and English' calendars if
was the first month of the yeAr. The
Romans called it MartiustThdicated
to :the war god; •the AuglotSaeons
teellett it Hlyd Monate,. signifying stormy
month, „It is posslbie that the early
Rofnans saw seine sort of correspond-
ence between stormy and bliistering
/Starch and the figlating spirit of which
they themeelees Were sO proud, though
therealways held that they did- not
fight for the sake offighting alone, but.
to establish the 'Pax Roinane" through-
onte-the world.
History. repeats. Is not a eert414
demented , paperhanger trying at 'tele
very time to establieh a telew order"
throughout the .. world? It wait. ,In
Mareh hi past year that the eatmog-
Mere, was tharged 'With the disruptive
elements of '•tretteon, stratagems and
spoils." And note England is threat-
ened as, never •before by -a nation 'of
'vile, murdermie Huns, deterfnined on
her toMplete destruetien, and if Britain
faith- Canada and tltee United States
ate the next. 1 * '•
' It was ti soothsayer whoford hie
wee; in front of ,tt ehcaiting mob, and
called out to :Ctteea.r. to "beware the
Ides of March," meaning that there
whet danger in, the hire' ''So now there
a,nger in the air, cuch as there never
Was at any other period.ln •the hietory'
of the world, With the maniac Hitler
bent on destroying civilization-, religion
and 'liberty and everything that we aei
:Canadians lued most dear. We in this
country, in fact all on this Continent,
are- fee* to face vvith-the eame thing
which line reduced ntest of Europeto a.
state of •slavery—elaveiteTto the mort
,bestiai people ever to pollute this earth
—and uniees we do everything in our
power, yea, and: more, the fate of itho.';e
'conquered nations 'will be our:;. •
Thettvay we can ,beet iheip•le te•gliee,
and give at tince—not in e few months'
time or next year—all the aid we, as' a
nation, ean to Britain. At the moment
we are being asked to buy war savings
eertilleatee, and, if we front one end of
`Canada to the other, (16 our auty in
this reopeetithen- it eannot be maid of
us that we did not heed the Warning,
el.teware the Ides of March," -
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• 11019/06 '
. (Windeor tftdr)
Britain 19 evolving a new' kind of
eitueage, one made out of oatuteet &eel
beef. Ao entetfindiree ttiffereect be-
tWetii it and the German' variety- Ile that
t Won't roll -Orer mid growl where there
are elite stint&
t
1
DERION SWNALSTAR
ryas' Ihs" ws tbs War the doWnfell of an the hetet' abatraeo'
NaMpfs and Pilsen (Ired00, to oateve
ily told us in their rosteelitile 31401U
• tioue of the tot:atilt mau—Liberty,
of
TAN 11481.11; IN TilX 'MUSD
There have been two fichoole of
thought in Ameriean feiteigtorelatious
almost eluee, that June dy in 1784
when Congress resolved that "the true
interests a the States require that they
eiliould' be ati little as possible entangled
in the eelitlea end eontroversles of the
European , nations." °Isolationiets wes
the label for these opposed to entangle-
mente. Interventionists was paeted on
tnese Wi10benteveil that in the affairs
of Europe the United States could not,
be otiter than interested. `
It took the World War and the debate,
over the Treaty of Versailles to disclose
the wide gulf between isolationist and
interventionist. • The gulf was .neither
closed nor bridged during the next
decade and 4 half, .which eaerotie Jetta-
tiontst victory after another in foreign
policy. • Anteelean World Court mem-
bership, for eXample, tea,teiteeted. Co-
operation 'with, the League was je-
'strieted. 111 1935, isolationist .inittitenev
reached 'Ans apparent...peak With the
•
writing of o iieutrality law' 0400
to keep the United Settee out of foreign
Ware even at. She sacrifice Of 8110
)OliCiOS 110thelfietorietinsistence -on- the
freedom, of the seas. '
• The Roosevelt Administration op -
Posed leonciad isolation, insisting that
a great nation must lift its voice
against treaty violations and Infringe -
merits of international law, warning
that laws passedt by Congress pa.ight,
hoover. the State Department in its
task of protecting Aritericat eigats and
interests abroad and in warding off the
danger of war. When,. Europe tooe'01)
ftrMs ete1909. the, lesue between
ISola-
ti�nlst and Interventionist passed out
of the academie stage. • . •
. In the nearly seventeen months of the
European conflict the two schools have
beenalmost emistantly at 'odds. ,Out
of their tteguntents have emerged some
bread but definite conclusions, although
the import of 'Europe's war has made
the old •labels inexact, and *mostly a'
matter of convenience.
• Isolationists 'maintain in part: (1)
The United States must stay out of
Europe's war; (2) no measures abould
betaken by the :Government that might
:•invOlve theCountry in the foreign con-
flict; :(3) diritaie should be aided, 'but
if the Atilt 'WILLS the war the United
States
States will be Innoimmediate danger.
Ifiterveritioeistattatietintein In lied;
.-(1)--Thiiiigh 'the United States must
4:10 all possiblete'ittoid entanglement he
Europe's warethe best guarantee of
"continued' peace is to give Britain suV•
ficient aid 'to defeittothe.eAxise. (IL
Britaln is the •first line of .A.merican,de-
fence; ,(;) If Britain is defeated, the
United States will face the immediate
danger of Axis preesuteor attack.
The Importance of Britain in the
American scheme of -adtenee hits been
a eardleal point in • the (Roosevelt Ad -
Ministration's foreign policy. It 'lay
behind the November, 1939, amendment
of tee ;Neutrality Aet by whieh, the
arms embargo was erased from the law.
,It lay , iltehind last September'soex-
ehange of •Afty destroyers for bases on
British possession a in the New World.
It laylbehind the LeaeeeLend.Bill sent
to Congress on January la.
That bill, rforecasting all-out aid. to
Britain; Greeel,. Chinaand any tither
nations that roight' be attacked by
dictatorships,: would grant the presi-
dent power to "sell, transfer, lease, lend
or otherwise dispose oft any "defence
articles" to at ferendly power, provided
defence of .that power eheulti 'be deemed
"vital to the defence Of the iJnited
States" and thatthepower should not
transfer thesedefence articles" without
the !President's -consent No President
In peacetime has ever had such extent
sive powers. • • ,
—The New York Times.
A HEARTENING EXAMPLE
"We fought Philip la and Louis XIV
and Napoleon and Wilhelm II," writes
the Priam Minister 'in his foreword to
a reissue of the war speeches of Wil-
liam Pitt the younger. "Of these four
Contests it is the &Ira that most nearly
resembles the struggle in which we are
.• now -engaged." The re.semblattee
_deederemarkable ; it is rooted in the
very source „ of conflict aneeeae be
worked out in the detail a events.
We het.* gone tie• war, as dia Pitt, tn
BLUE BOOK FOB PARENTS
•
(Health League of Canada)
Just as Henry Pord standardized
automobiles and put teem, in reach of
everybody, so Emily Pont; that emilin
•old-fashioned. woman whose face is
frequently a feature of womens' maga-
zine*, believes intchild :discipline. In
her Blue Book on the subject "Child-
ren Are People," Mrs. Post lays down
some =lee to which proeressives anight
take •exception. But these ,rules, have
A etrong appeal, to sanity; they meet
the •views a, modern psychologists.
Some 'of these rules are:
• Unhappy, quarrelsome parents make
unhappy, naughty chlidr'en,
• `Never talk to a child or correct him
before other people. .
Never break a promise made to e.
'
;lever punish achild by Dutthfg bini
to bed, •(Bed should :be plepsant)
Spank a child only ler extreme mis-
demeapers " (tor example a temper
tantrum ; for -ehotiting "Shut tui 1") ,
Never be afraid to Oil a -child that
you don't knew1 ii otiewer to 4 question,
Never open A child's mail,
A e4iIhi should eat neatly at tWotaxid-
a-half years.
t Ile should be taught to Gaye "Yes
roothee er tree rafr. Jones," and not
merely 'Yes" or "yeah," tlictetglP the
latter xnate be used during play.
• A child should, hold ,,ble motheee
chair at the table, fetch his father'
hat, never shout upstairs, and Always
knock :before entering a •Iteditiout,
• itirie ehouid wear hate outdoors
titetleesnees Let a t"definite eign of
inferior clue.")• •
No girl should be addreesede ae
• "Mee" before 14 and no boy ae
before 18. •
• The age at %Well a girl meg go to
a inevie with t ,boy :depends en elr
eutastanees. -In "6. ernall town she may
do so Atetweive ; in a large city in
winter, when darkeees etemee early ehe
may tot until after 15,
• None a the foregoing rules are
gevere. Thek form a very goodguide
for 'the parente,
- -
'Thely-----tlirldget If that's iMrs. Earl
tell her I'm not in. Widget (return.
ing)—It wa% MA she eel& She wa led
to beer It, •
the defeace t tbe liberty of /Mill
tettiolte, tetsit upon the nartiV14,r oes
easion of the •breaith of a 4olenut treety.
Ms time, the enemy is 4 MOW,
tionary govereraelate which We *DPW,
not because it has subverted the ite
etitutioue of its own country, not even
beeauee it has been guilty of luloaman
'cruelty to its Own eubjecteeetliough Itt
both these eeepecte the Nazis have gone
-to *ore hateful extremee than, +ROOF,'
plerre or illarat---hut beeauseit elaime
the right to leapitee A order" on
miwilling nations. .4
There .is indeed a, notable differenee
in the doetrinee Preached, and again
to the disadvantage of tthe Nazis; for
At least` the Vreneh revolutionaries
claimed that they tern& down the
,aepleet governments of Europe for the,
Sake of 4 universal cause, the eights ot
mite, and not. for :the selfish expansion
of their own Lebensraum. Today 'we
‘sitoeldA have to strengthen the language
of ,Pitt'e denunciation.: "Thee- have
tbeoiseives -annoueeed, and In-eel:timed
the proposition that whatthey mean to
bring with their Invading armeele the
genius of their own liberty and tile- an-
nihilation of British liberty, and the
obliteration 7 oft -everything: fleet -thee
Pelidered YOU a great, a fiourfshing, and
a happy people." But esseutielly the
cause to ep 'defended' is the sameeithe
right of every people to live under the
inetitutionstef tts own choiceteethiele
Is equally 'sacred' 'against any regime
that claims to be imposed -by 'tete,
whether.that regime is called liberty, or
openly acknowledges Itself as etneallen
domination.
Asin its origins, so in ate. eourse,
.tair_Preeent ,Wnti.arehatt ..thoWttettettike,
Ing resemblance to Pitt's., although it
has tneyed with the speed Of the blitz-
• krieg and not at the leisurely.pace of
• the eighteenth century,. The long de-
fensive„ in which Pitt endetivored to•
stem The revolutionary tide over a
period of thirteen years (all within the
Ofteen.yeara'Of expected peace in wideti
he bad booked forward t�: a steady
work of &iced' reform) bas been paral-
leled in the tirst sixteen inmate `of „the
struggle with lititietisme atui we Stand
now in a 'position comparable to that.
`which we occupied on the day that
Pitt "diedo Like bim We have eeep all
our Continental allies struck 'down by
ithe'enemy's'iland power, and the great.,
est of them in danger of being terned
activelt. etgainetaieteets .the Tsar -Paul
'turned Russia. . We haee'been brought
to e 'position in which the emotes
absolute command of the Continent hits
been enatehed by our iev•ntnitaeseeom,
_prete.-tommand-oftethe ea,send the
'war of blockade and counter•blocka.de,
which is the- natural eonsequeuce of
such a eituation; lias shown alitier
„following Netpcileon'e leotsteps the
tast.years Pitt'alife Napolectu'e•OnSs
was massed against us in the very Sense
Invasion ports that 'menace us itoday
andcitizen soldiers stood , to arMS • in
tee eame manner and spirit, as 'the
Home 'Guard.. ,• . - • •
'Pitt lived to See the int -a -Sion menace
/*Movedby the greet victory :of Ttitt,
falgat etive-imee Wee seen the first, at-
tempt ertielied by the Royal Air Force
.in ,the eutumer battles•of 1040eolthough
we .eannot .yet say that the danger,. is
over, Pitt died under the'ehadow, of
[Austerlitz, but had hLs prevision of .fthe
turning of the tide, When the , declared
In ,his last speech that England had
saved herself by , her exertione and
would, as' he trusted, save -Europe by
• her example. '
We may :reasonably hop e that the
tide of . our _own -fortunes. has turned
With he • seizure of the „ initiative
• against the Italians by, the British. and
Greek- forces in tae • Mediterranean.
To compare the position on that *basis
no
with the situation • after TrafalgaIs
rash optimism. The fight that Pitt,
r'
broken at forty-six, bythe long tabors
of leadership, left to .his successors was
to last for: ten more years. We have
to be ,prepared for an erde'al that .• will
be comparable, if, not in duration,
then in intensity. But, we fight for
the same cause *2 liberty liberty that inspired.
Pitt, and may feel that our country
requires of as. jteetettiotteletig, faith
and era neitifee of which his patience'
and courage gave so great •an example.
• —The ,Tiates Literary Supplement
(London).• •.
•
•
•
• CATASTROPHE OR- MIRACLE?
-- The catastrophe which for 'years has
been gathering remorselessly has beret
over Europe, and perbaps, over 'Ittie
Whole World. Our nation, divided dur-
ing. the ,momentous. period leading to
the denouement as it :has seldom been
la its long history,' is now- united In
purpoee and in. Weal. The 'apPeasers,"
Iyet be sayed the ordeel of battle by
who hoped. that 'Western Europe might
rendering principle after principle to
the dictates a - expediency, profit, or
love of "peeee," have now either xe-
tired into the gloomy shelter of their,
brooding thoughts or, frankly repudiat-
ing their previous misconceptions and
'evasions, have entered the cOnflict with
-
•thele tvliole naind and will.' The bitter ly opposed ,friends of 0°am:emit= and
friends of Propeety have.beeome united
in ateommon Inipositien to a foe.tvbich
Ls now clearly seen to be mere nienftes.
lug, more, fundattental, triore itv-8erttial,
than either Wiiiit mistakenly conceived
• by the otheeqo be. The :loverso of
"peace," hating striven by peace-bal,
lots, by resolutions not to fight agitiu
for King and eountre, • by eincere
apolegiae about "loving" bate into lat.
" potenee Or non-existence .ahile, Mina
' •charmiiig military might into pi, stir• -
reCeer of Ite' arms, have for the nioet
' Pea' coke to see that there are tliinge
of • More value than, the peace which
! -
they tried etubboinly 'to esteereahoee
itik elsess_ . . - , • - - - -
1 'I'hus it has eoute to pasetthat the
I nation as a:Whole' (marvel et Marvels')
e ;is con:kids' dlesly to ate that there aro
! Lesuee here which penetrate to every'
i eentre of the spieft of man, and to the
I very tonetittitionl ef the Onivers6 in,
I :which man lives, I 'have' heard during
these recent mouths feous ,Suelz diverse
,' type.i of men as Conservative members
• of Patliament and Soelarist artisans the
impassioned declaration that "this' whr
, is a. 'war of the eiiirit of Inlet,"
I Are -these declarations bet the eont
'f ?scion§ or enconscioue *evasions by which
Mammontseeking eloakteits de-Sigee (hs
the Nazi propagandist ma:chime the
t most sinister ekeation a the eoropietely
' Aeeptieo ond ordeal spirit, Melon-
ates)? IsThe insinstatione emanating
from so subtly created a wahine, how -
•ever, aro stripped of cogeney-except
for the unintelligent and uninornissby
the very elainte of the makers, and ttlio
avowed purpose of' the machine. It
, has been emoted, they have very frank-'
•Justiee, Truth, Freternity, OW—and
to replace them with the material goods
which belong- to the perverted spirit
welch has treated it—Dominion, Race,
Blood, and Sopoelfie Joy ; Dominion
the avowed motive of the, elite few;
Raw and Itlood, the mystici stlinulant;
Joy, the dope for theexploited multi-
tude.
This Is indeed a war of the spirit
of man, But the ;essential, nature •of
this war will have te be etill more
firmly grasped if it is to be so endured
and won as weeny to purge „man's
spirit from the laeSitatioin%,- evasions,
and decadences 'which occasiouee it.
Thie enlightening and eztkindling of the
'general niitisr and will of 'the nation,
so that it is prepared, to eacrifice tile
Last drop of blood And the last fraguteut
of property 'to.preserve TrutheFreedeni
and justice in the earth, is a real
mtracle. •••.
--The Hibbert Journal (London).
AN AlEritiCAN 'PAOADI.SE .
As .tbe• Britieh eoetinue their adeanet
from Tobruk, whet* sand storms de-
layed the advent*, they have 'left the
desert And come into one of :the pleas-
Ontesteandomosteeneient garden spots
*2 011e ' world.' • In fact, it Was in this
"evening land of the westward sun"
. that the eta CITeeks 'located tee Gardene
of the Hesperides. The whole Nfediter-
ranean Promontory that swings ,from
Deena round to Bement and :the gulf
ot :Sidia Is a fertile treseent of rolling
'tableland bordered only well to the
south by wateiless wastes. Deruit,
whieh British . forces have already
.reached, is watered by neverefailing
springs, and the :rainfall over the rest
of the region 18 so heavy that irrigation
,18 required only about once in live
emeune t -e
• The' elituate and the prospect suggest
Southern ' Weed, Italy le a
single generation has made Cyrenalea
the ehoWpiake of all her colonies. Vine-
yards t and ollee groves dot the land
stet*. • Cypress, junipers and ilex.grow
luxuriantly.. One of the chief crops
is a superior type of barley much in
demand by •seoteh distilbers. Detila 18
'no Ionger the dilapidated ,Senussi
stronghold, over which :General •William
Eaton etalsed the American flag for a
brief eltnteeviti In 184 It le an at-
tractive modern town. "Bengazt, fax-
ther,. west, le le handsome city vvith a,
peacetime POPitkatieereetf 21110M -than!
65;060. Its mosques and minarets
indicatethat et' is still eonsiderea; a
hole pikee by the tribesmen.
In ,anelent times Oyieealca. WaSeven
More eospetetee than it le today. Then_
the eopet had neither sunk nor silted,
and the fertile plain extended much
deeper into the desert. It 'was there
in tlieseventh, century B.C. that the
!Greeks- founded the city that was sto
betomesthe,gsreateat all Greek come
diunities overseas. Indeed,40irene was
known as "the Athens 'of Africa." At
the peak of its power It Was the metro -
Polis of a vast granarythat fed the
homeland In famine years'. It had a
population of more than 100,000'and
among its famous. citizens were •Erittoie
theme, the geographer, and the poet
Caltimachus.. Most of its: ruins still
are buried in the coastal sands behind
the Port of Mersa •Sasa, but the Itallane
have done _much exedvatien and ire
earthed some of the loveliest ?tithes of
antiquity. .
Two strange plants are associated
With' ancient '0Yrenalca One was
sil-
phlum, to which tlyrenalea owed ita
prosperity More than to any ',other pro,
duct . of the soil. .Silphiuni was a
medicinal herb' regarded by the whole
:Mediterranean World as a Sovereign,
euro for almost every ailment, from
croup and open wounds :to the bites of
venomous snakes and mad dogs. , So
great was the demand for it that it
became literally worth its weight in
silver. Finally the Romans taxedethe
crops so heavily that the natives
systematically destroyed the plant. It
Is now extinct. The other plant was
the lotus; for Cyrenalca was the fabled
, I
RAPAY, IJRTJAILX 33* I
1111 Tired Out
'Bofors Day Hall Over
Women WhO obould hi strong aite ;
Maltby become Virtoidcp TUX( down and
worzs out, ski are =Ole to MUad.
to their household duties: IT110/ get
up in tbe kuoyaiug ilreedlag, the
&es' work t!iihbactld thew.
tuforrinttoara:noettedioht:41:eiorofertaeliiisotntieotu7tt ini:vdter,Le
144 blood, and an eahanstreci• eoa
dition of the entire eystenie
Women ilIand in =burn,. ,
llealth and, Nerve Pills the remedy
they- need to supply food for the „
• **ousted nerve force, and out that •
• wraitlihelaPitabzliem back to .007(1,peirfrt
b ,
'T. Witeirn Oes, rote l'oetatee Osia
tot..00.1,10,eteesteitteeemomoieteaireestametse • ,
hied of the Lotus !Eaters. It was here
ithasattctithttem,maryTteerreionesf Trlureet, w,erehaviugeon,
tent to .remain "with lialf-sinit eyes
devto ream."6:eenilierofclaotilinusgd'aelleeParesill.thaaPaittlie-
lotue had a -sweet taste.semethingelike
the, fruit of the 'date paim. Antrim..
eab mho III e;piegoirizt taai today en, is eee eans er?tt abdr older
1.3 'rot h,ti tathe
capitalr oea soy tth
Lotus 'Eaters. Its origin is shrouded
deep in myth. It wee in the country
beck of ',this town that the Gardena
of gtheoaleva
esperildie•shappy
pi
were itw
eseclit. tote
ts ,
here also that the river :Lethe poured
Its Waters of torgetfulness, • into tee
underworld. "Here, heavily and slow,
the Silent, dull fo'rgetfiii waters now."
The legend of the oblivion conferred
by Ito waters may be connected with ;
similar qualities attribUted to the lotus,
but the rivee. itself 119 no TOO. A
stream, believed to be, the original
Lette, rises neer Bengazi today and ;
finally lostamidunderground caverns. ,
It is not certain, •however, that Ito
watits, will help the Itellans 'forget
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