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SIGN.AL AND mat GODICItIOLI
Published be Sienaln-Star rresa. Inutite&
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tVUURI)AY WRWRYtratie 1
TOO AVO(91 LOOSE TALK done better in North " Africa,f the
British benal moved first, would be
anansing Peolne Wet* net ee full Of
ditgaSt at tile big bully that they don't
llt to waste evert a laugh On him.
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Cats are.eteid. to be great demand
in Ilondoe, and one dealer leis„ ad-
0rtised Cor a thousand ekettens. It
seems that man y Peeple deetroyed their
pets when the ale'raide began and bave
since foiled rats and iniee 1111 *greasing
pest. Pussyni value in the ecneme of.
things is being e'ealined.
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Kew that .intellament 'ia seseion
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there 'will twit delletion of some on the
netheferiaten .:erit kis of Canane'e wM
•effert re4Ple Maio 'Mont nothing Of
the Militari,requireraents of the pee -
lent war ale, Int at all backward in
-telling aneninet willing to listea. that
the Gegernutteat is, Makin; a egreat
iteistake *doing this in- io.otdoing that;
Ent mew who e.etunt not Put UP a
• length of etoyepijoe teel .perfectly corn,
lvettOrtit dind fault with the rate on
,IP""4111q0P, «,Yar enninment 'that only
the, meet ,nnetertmeeltattists and the
'ihoet elabointely equipped.factories caa
10,roduee at :
Thennenntete.ntree Preen wniell tanten
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et tees pertieten: Anti 'Benno; int°11
vie:* e tee tittles .than some -newse
itanern thatennild be named, • a few
4eee - ago. • petered editorially .to the
eillaieet of ttinplaee proeuctiOn 'and had
this to sty:
It is 40.0 Out we are far 'behind 2
plane peottnetion in this country,
. 'but an ,ailOine industry cannotebe
„ built oneeriiightIt is the most
'hidustry rn the ,wittid.
The United States l facing the
' isaine problem as Canada ,and hate
e • as meat nnettleneeks bolding • up,
,C.prOnttetterun despite its great ie-
dustrial eighttinotion.
• Under "tete •British 'Common-
wealth Air 'Training 'Scheme, as
origtuanytleaneed, ;Canada Was to
build tint ''eleritentary • training
planes aitnihnteat 'Britain w•ae to
soppee the eteavy Anson bombers
•.:ter the 'final stages of ;training.
The eollanse Of Prance and the
attack on, !Britain elianged the
whole Pfettinelt Canada was laud:.
tgenle• ..thentwat. apoe iter 'Own re -t.
emincee. 'Intete was no one -lean;
a�jan neeterr'sufficiently equiped
-.-neeintkettheing-So•tlagekovernment
_ et en the Federal Airehaft Oom-
litany,' a GOveen.ment-osined corpor-
ation,' with'nttay LawsOn, Of tnts
....nun', as -the #headc to let 'tile „con- .
tracts and eigiervise construction.
.^ It • is difficiat nor a -101=0: to,.4P-•
, predate the Pronlems which *re
" feeed or the 'headaches which de- ,
veltipecitnestreete were wee ne of
;dente through the lose .of plan,s
between Eeniand and °amide. No
Was to blame. Every single
gait •of • his harleate ,Anson "
tenitinenine Must be fabricated Wed
needy tor ttenemblta befote.„ a single
Machine can be built. One import-
ant serew er eat missing will held
up :the whole ansembly. Hundreds .
ofecontratte. have had to be let.
Then the Aneon is not a -rapidly-
. ,built maIijn It eannot be turned
oitt in inaita praductiont To pro- e
duce event-teriaahweek, we haye
been autfunitatively infenmed, will
probably take 5;000 eo.eat :working
, eight hours a date Then many of,
the parts. 'inelndine engines,' have
to be-secuied 1 the 'United States,-
• aneethatehen-beenedittleulteet
• The Anierieen. industry has been
tfa.eing the • game eflticisni as in.
Canada. •Ool. John II. Jou.ett,,
president . of the Aeronautical
Chamber o OomMerce of America,,
• the` trade asaociation of the air-
craft industry; recently spoke to
_ the National Press 'Club. in Wash-
ington. He tad the newspapermen
that if they expected: "an overnight
miracle, ot some panacea from out-
nele -the indestry which will sud-
denly produce thousands upon
theusands of planes, you are due
lot -disappointment. It elinn.ot bee
' done. • 'Intuits -cannot be -built -that
Ie went on, to peint ont that
there was no substitute for time. .
About -30,000- man-houts-of-labor
are neeessary to. ,realre the ait
frame of a tuediumesized,htom.ber,
exeltisive of engines, propellers,
lestrumente and other equipaient.
4�e said that' °it- required about,
15,000 snot' orders, eaeh ealling noi
an average of ten distinct operan
tionn elefere it isliown away the
bomber has 22;000 inspections.. lit
;addition there are 5,000 inspections
on each engine. This shows the
diffieultiegeneat are faced. „
The Free. Piens noes on to say that
yeah regard to flie Federal Aircieft
, Convoy a mistake may possibly have
been Made, and it deks that theGovern-
went be frann •with the cc:that-Ye and if
a ihorganizatiori :14 necessary bring it
'about at once. The question!" it says,
"is too impettaat ta the country and
the trapite to pe made a Ponticen foot'.
Hoe. C. I). Howe, the Itlinister In
.eitargeo alteraft production, hasnro-
• hnieceVa. statement onethe naetbee, Minch
may Oemee,ganelealtefeetheneettiesh hat
eritieitm itiirtAv:14
disatified, one thing is certain—there
will be anotidee eropof rumors *hien
will be 'tiled ;he Paragons and by the
fenom4j know it all" 'to create
unmet and dieteuet among the people.
EDITORIAL NOTES
' Now will begin the tuartualotusele
betweeinthe Karen wind and the spring
' hale And We 'Know that Old not always
wing, sonaer later-
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The war ie `not won yet, ny any
*leans, Nit If quite' evident that
*liner is on the aneioun Oat. for
eay In -done.
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After nizirett Itallaes are to' have
to more 4 -?team, eake Or paetre.
Thii4 /A by (loYernment deeree, net lit
nbtervance• on the Lenten eetison,
Sttneedini himeenn, it le understood,
eating erere. .
t
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' ninstollnre rain that he wotild nave
Premier Hepburn will eet call bye-
eleptions for the five vaeant Seats in the
Legielature, inelUding niuroneBrune,
ande theeOppesitioneleaneohnDr4we
nas intimatedhbi agreement Win', this
decision. The expense, he says, would
not be justified at this time, ann the
reCults -could have little effect on the
situation in the eLegnhlature. If the
,present Legisnature Is allowed to live
gut its term, there 'will be no general
election until 1942.'
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Months. an tbis paPer queettone'd the
wisdom on spending millions in way.
time Upon the taking of the eecenntal
census,• and now, with arrangeetents
no doubt 'Well advanced for the. count,
some tef the daily Papers. are taking up
the cry that should have been raised
months ago. If the Governinent finds
It inadvisable to cancel the (temps-
takieg this year, it simian see that the
work is simplified., as much as possible
and that the expense is; kept at the
lowe_sm%7ssi.ble4, figure.
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Defeth loves .a shining mark, andthe
plane which crashed a fevi days ago
Newfoundland bore to this death • Sir
Frederick ••Bantingeeene, of the great'
ken of the generatienia the field et
medical research.'It is' understood
that Sir Frederick was on his way to Telllue time when yoe're doing.
chores i; 'largely from force of -habit.
You usually, get to the barn at the
saitte time each turning . . . per-
form much the same wor1 . every day.
By the time you get through pulping
the tturnips or petting down the ba
or feeding the hens or some other JO,
you know that the. time bas Tolled
around to the point 'where 'it's dinner-
time. ,
' :nelliiign the time is a combination
of what your inner man and the outer
men have to say on the subject. The
inner man is clamoring far "vittles"
and the. outer man watelies for the
signs. •• „
My irandfather carried a watch
every day of his life. He had, a little
key in a pocket on the bib of his over-
alls and lie used to Wind the watch
religiousl3r every night when he Vent
toe eetaieve ofteggeeen someone step_
,him.tend say, "Whet thee is It Be
would look at the sky, serateh the side
of Ian head, take the watch out. and
squint at it for a long moment and
thee he would tell the time. I never
thought anything about it, until one
daye I noticed ',that when he told the
time there' was live minutes difference
In what '.he said age what •the wateh
told. I asked ;him and be laughed 'and
said, "Heck, Phil, I never could tell
what a watch tells. I've 'lever been
able to read time'from a watch In my
life. 1 can tell it within tfive min.utes,
hut peeple don't believe gou unless
itten_e_eogleokieg •at a wetch."
THE GODVRICII SIGNAL,STA
Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows. Current Views on the War
Ifinntn J Beek; I THE InATTLIntent LONDON
Until thee nestructiort of Coventry,
with itS devilieli concentration on the
(*the hf the eity, nothing quite ale
proaenecl the lihoek OT that •first day
aften °Bieck Saturdate" 'September 7.
London was, to feel the norm of .the
'Nazi attaek .eexitinuouely dUeing 'the
week e which eollowed, but eOmehow,
one became inured to damage and Was
less „impressed with the emeetacle
bontindestrUction. and ruore with the•
eufferinge end veith the courage of the
people. . . .
Thennirelighting •oervices had been
magIikeAt 1 saiv them itt work in
the (Unite.' Auxiliary firemen had been
drawn f:rom the ,eubuelee tied froxn the
soutia eoast.. I saw' speetaclecit 'clerks
from euletrbs, of which we "used to
thin]; vatroaisingly in terms of the
8.45 -to -tonne traia or vvhiet arives Or
amateur drematics. There were busi-
eminded, although the shelter Was -Open.
And the 'reason was that if they went
la they would be ordered, out again at
the eignal of "Itaideis Peseeedn te find
they had loet their placee in the qUette
and, coesequentle, then^ favorite
sleeping pla.ce which they were taking
out for the workers ofttleet(seelly who
would come been at night.t ,fennt
That wee a phenomenon whine' made
the ebelter problem so difficult for
people who talked' about shelters in
terms Of eafete-nactors. It showed'
that those people mere less eoncerned
about safety--eittee they defied the date:
thrte,riskreet, tban about the escape Creel
night-noisee wlittch Mule Sleet) impos-
eible. People wanted 'eleene, The • int
titix into tubes and into the big com-
munal shelters, with all the restating
bealttedangers, followed the nrilltz,n
but still it remained true that weer
eighty per eent. of the populatipe slept
either in their beds, et -refuge-row=
.in their houses, in their Aminesene Or
)theieettomeetic-'surnaeg shettnve.!'
4t Venn •tbeirt 'ovvrin turn came, Pro7
vtnclal eitien Mareelled at the resoia-
tion of Londoneee as though thnY were
.peettliarlte ceurageoua breed, neor.
1:ELIAN6 TIME
Country people are never much to.
ny elects: In fact, I've found that
few elocne In farm homes eier worn,
and the majority -of watenes tarried by
farmere are Of .the Maeltinery type
that come at a dollar and a 'quarter
delteered and tell time in a general
sort of way. It' e quite an interesting
experiment to, wateli the way folks in
the eountry tell time.
, Here at Lazy Meadows our 'Kitchen,
clock bas been a 'hit and .miss" aftnir
for ages. 'onle, days it Tuns nee, and
Some days it stops and starts and MS
'fast or slow, depending- a good "deal
On the way it feels. I3ut Ittrserha.has
'Ong ceased to depend oat1e elo,ek for
titne. ,
In the ,,morning she alwa.ys knows
when it's 10 o'clocn tn. the teleplioneneanmen and ettopatneistaras from holt,
day xesortsftier,eeeleeelogngenewle
salesmen trona the net -End, • Titer
Were hundreds of "little men" 'trims°
lives had •been Staid, uneventful, un-
just as' regular as van. be the telephone
rings' three longs and two aborts an
Tabitha. Maby ea1J up Mrs. iHiggine
for, 'the gossip of the -nentliborhood,
eoutee ehat's the general eat), for
fake
an our Thiel th'ectilhrtieltnall the`
recelfersnnand ,:menes • you
laugh to see the way they always care -
Tully place one hand over the mouth-
piece and then slip -the receiver off the
hook, so's 'not one will know they are
listening. Yet, everybody on the line
knows that everybody ...else listens. •
-That's only one example of the ways
to tell the time. In the suinmertime
ina gauged by the way the sunlight
comes in the windows. It's 12 enclock•
when It hits the rug in tront, of the
stove . . and ,in the afternoon it's 5
ceelock wheal • the Otte hitt" that bere
worn spot in frent of the sideboard.
Slie-has .variations for the time of year
mid on dulltlays you cau always depend
on the mailman . because he has
prided himself on being at oer box ot
a quarter of 3 every •fine day fpr the
past thirteen years. ... •
Have you ever watched a man, plow-
ing on a eold,, fall day? Hell .tramp
"back and forth . . • back and forth. . .
with hesenead bent to escape the driv-
ing force of a cold fall rain . . and -
then You'll see tint stog . . • at the end
Mate order atel eeeerity Fahtepia of
whih311,1**ollui boasbad, awl *hien the
ntallane hOme -believed to be a tact
,,weie no attire" than. a le011ow preteeee.
;MotiOn. pit urs and newspaper photo
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gravels, tilseleeing nativenpartielpating
with Italian officials in obetereing na-
tioual holidaye, are now realieed to be
,nothing more than 'Unadulterated
propaganda, The truth is then the
country is In smelt an unsettled state
that no Itelian eaglet dares te
'venture out intreck auto. Wen, in
broad dayligint, most vehicles are armed
with mactane pine. ,
Since tbe day Italy ,entered the war
and stanned France ire the back, unrest
through the eojony has eitiereaead
enormously. It is plain that almost
in every eeetion the -tribes are organie-
nine 4.4 'attack their opnreespre at,
Oxen Signal, One of the 'flint who bas
'gone over to the rebels Ras. Abbabe
Lagarain tomer polletephief of Addis
Ababa; who promptly. answered the
eturtmone of 'General Ras Tifton" Bindle.
Ile hes proved hithself a resourceful
guerilla aeatier. In the. district - a
_Annober, where lie active, uprising
break out With,raonotonous regularity.
ere is a• higitpriee on .hia head, But
Jo, of the Italian army, in Ethiopia tas
been Unable to catelt „
Trit-mpNIC, EVART' 210, 1
A-10, Tann and no nation' arkeed be the
SlaVO Og 410110y, Or of any' insost
Minority Millen eeeennte the nehea oe
destine.
.Nothing is !inevitable! We ean ewe :
lenge 'and ,inaSter the fature., Teoee
who doubt haw a right to tbeir open
in. But they are poor felende 0
Inenau freedbat end of this Arnett." ,
Republic es. at Present eolietituteti.
--Mae °NOW York Tine.
MEDIATION: -IT'S- WONDERFvt '
The war between Thailand and
rrencn, Indere:Nana ended last" weee
t eoe. .
The niettie was Jan= nwundY nad
asked ja.pan to mediate the quarrel. e
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which bad gone on intermittently ine
tee Swampy jungles along the Mekone ,
Wier sinee October, but a fortnight ago
Tokyo offered 1W services. When the
offer was not immediately accepted,
Javen ibeceme insistent, nitteateniee.
Nipponese war lorde *elated that, as
M the most stabilizing power .in the
Far Eaet," Japan alone had the right
to settle \Oriental disputes. :under
thous nVichy, Wen Thailand, aecepted.
Cast :week the stage wao Set for
mediation., NIPPeneso style. ' The
Japanese cruiser 'N'atciri steamed into
Saigon barbor. Onf the southeast Indo.
'Chinese eoast appeared two Japanese
eneerprieleg and unexciting. Now, they, • n—The Living Age (New York) from , ea. eepeeet two ere ne and two
Wee *toe's; -TheY•11-ad Vaned into -the- -getting thatthe-people.-of -Loinion, Were eenegene Ale e-- den 'alrerinten"enetth eral glee -
Inferno of dockland with their light really the people or ,tegeteen since e do boats. Planes 'from e car-
e y.
vane and trailer 'tuna?, They, had .Londoner in the sense of a third or NOTHING IS INEVITABLE,
-eletred the hazards of , 'he night with fourth -generation Londoner belongs to Six months age tee. world Tainted in
the tougheited London firemen. They a small.enitiority in a population drawu tea
the Nazis' secret
had stood on water -towers swaying and from, every pa,rt of 'Britain and.....the orratIness )39,701' for ,
rocking with every eberinb-blast, above Commonnealth, and, for that matter, Weaftin. Now We know *what it IS.
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the 'fires thetroared through the ware- from the ,whole world, since In this It le the pellet* democratic eountriesn
houses. They bed'worked.through the costnopolls every race and color shared
. spreadsome mes flown. y Some -
ti ' in' tl ,
bambino's. Seme Of them had •clied. tbe risks.
Am. Iherts bad proved their Werth: —The 'Fortnightly Iteview •(Lo' ndon) times -otherwise,. that something beyond
Parties of therm. desheel into blazing •
our control is happening to our
buildings 'with foam sprays to tackle • REVOLT ittsi ETHIOPIA . and that Ninzinna and OcanInun.
ism are expressions oft the inevitable
fires which in peace -•time the; regulars In the mountains a Ethiopia the
futuxe, _
would havetteckleenfrem fire -floats on muffled beat of war -drums- is agent
the river. -, And I found them after heard in •the night, calling upon the .1-118 new suPerstitim donic's °holm -
tired, cheerful and it'll at it. Italian oppressors. The „armee are 'lot wirspe,surecil. but seouut
their it tlenies free will. 'Yet 'we hear it,
twenty-tonr-bottrs blackened, ted -eyed, tribes onee inPre to rise against
essea b ted,pr;oCiloatimslel„mie-n
' These nieneef the Auxiliary Fire Ser- also heard on the 'neighboring- frontiers la
free Ataerica, WM..* praetleal terms,.
viee were Vie same tepe as the "little of Kenya Colony and of the' Anglo -
does it mean? 41t -means a sirnmission
menn tnhinetykellOut tboeght a glory, 'Egeptian Sudan, where thousands on
had pier'ofteleititas the Channel to bring Ethiopians, who would not subnnit .1* 't* fate' which is in reality a ewardlY
submiesioe to violettee. It means sloe:
the Ilritish Expeditioeary'Force.out of the Italian invaders, fled and found
eryt not to an idea, but to the men of
thfthell that was Dunkirk. . They went nefuge. Ie. hornet:tend today . of these
on until they were, dead beat, until revolting Ethiopians . Is General Ras blood
minister of for power beland the shabby rags of
who hide °their malignant 'lust
many of them were taken to hoentittil Tifrauri Biedu, - former
an idea. To say that we Must submit
.with what the doctors now call `93unt Wee, who after •the fall a Addis Ababa,
a
kirkeiyedromeay
," that is to s, the same in 1936, followed Eto future in vehicb we ho not dictatemperor Haile
- a furrow- . . . pull out his 'watch nhara.cteristies which • were, -.found Selassie. Into -exile, -„and ,escaped to
,,
terms 'is to ,say, specifically, that we
whether it's 'Oleg or note , . look „at among soldiers taken off the beaches— Jerusalem. The old war -flag :of the must submitto Hitler ort•Statinor, if
the horseshe is not already deflated, aftesolini.
. . . take hte beta Tartly off exhaustion, hunger, lack of sleep and n`Lion of JUdah" has been raised again
and serateh his head, and tb.ett, make the strain of continuous tlartger," un -2-nd'1t-sUalWilitrre-WArrieturwind:- - Well,--lettat- -wen ----Weettatiebetter
one or two mere furrows more as the noticed -while they were hgoing through Four, years -have passed eine& M-
en. weigh our answer T for if we -say -Test
-rase may beeand unhitch. He 11 water It, but 'producing effects afterivardssplini incorporated Ethiopia info his aur national "preparedness" would be
the horses, feed thee" . . . stop to wash But similar epics of ' 'heroism of "Empire" by a ruthless -attack' on un- a jon.e.' then would make, the gods of
in the eback woodshed and be in the civilians-in-liniform were being lived by armed people. Nevertheless the, country the new 'Olympus toll 'with langhter.
house at the stroke of 12. , the ute_n and women of the other civil 'has never been pacified. The Italians The leaders of the French Republic
,defence seevices. Wardens held their' have shown their ineptitnee as ',colon- were convinced that they could not,
posts on patrolled their ibeate, courting izers. Calling theinselves pioneers -and "fight- the future!' Now there is no
deatheGirlatrieets drove th'eir 'am- purveyors of • civilization to ' EtlitoPia, Fieneb. Republic.' The British ,people
Matinee through streets of craehingnevertheless they seem demonstrated and their leaders were not convinced:
ruins and. exploding hoinbs. Streteher that they had no 'interest in the fate of Per did not slerreeder. , When Goer
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parties went steadfastly into 'hel,l, like the natives, and their only interest In digs air flotilla came overent-again said
the stretcherbearets from a Jewiee• be country was to extract even more surrender : . they. did not surrender.
post who went out and were killed, only wealth than Ethiopia possesses. „Before When Mussolini marched on Egypt, It
•to be followednev their comrades' from the Duce fell upon the country, without said retreat Instead they -took Sidi
the same poste Rescue parties groped any declaration ofwar'he promised Barran' and Bardle and eighty thous -
in the diebris of crumbling. houses; -by las people "mountaineof _gold" in re- and prieoners. The Greeks were not
the light of the fires which 'raged turn for their war effort 'Ile lied, of eenvineect. ' For theni the Fascist
armed tbemlien and women. died •
course, 'since Ethiopia eontains not a armies were not the, (bearers of an
with a courage we had oece ascribed fraction of the •rewards that he pro-. invincible new order." They were
to disciplined and seasoned troops. -- ;raised his public and his leghms. • As 'braggarts whe had come *xi a danger-,
e . . . One couldbut admit* the little one consequence of Italian elisappaien ous errand unprepared. • In the mourn
shopkeeper who groped - among the ment ever the nen-existent rewards, tains on Albania • the Fascist 'future"
denris 4eftittetehep to sell me a packet Italian officials and officers Who ' weretook what maybe its natal wound.
Of eigarett64, and the costeri peddling Sent' to ..admin.ister the country. inti- -Do' we need clearer _answers ••than
. their trult among' the ruins, and the tutecl a reign of terrorthese to tile new philos•ophy of defeat?
' true ' '
woman who crept out of a bombed I In the beginning, the natives de tie id not Th future is no mystic tide that
hospital, where she was awaiting an 'believe aily resistance possible, in view steals upon us while we sleep. It is
_operation, and' Started. tO 1Y of Mussolini's weapons which they sawf what free hilmanity will it to be -h -what
to see If her family was all right in a en every. side. But the Italians eon- itewilletoelyetw men, guns, tanks,
,
street whin had been embed,. tinued their terroristic tactics, not be- airplanesfightin g ships ; what it
Menf, women arid children behaved lievbig the natives were ready to sub- tbvills with confidence and passion in
with a courage which we had no right mit, and they shot a good many of the rotherhood and jUstice. Democracy
to expect of thein.". A lot of 'blab". has tribal leaders. The administratoes stands Or falta upon the doctrine that
Britain in, connection with invettiga-
tionsethet premeted to solve one of the
great problems,, pf aviation—tbat of
alleviating the effeet of altitude and
other flying coedit:lens on the heart
action Of Pilots. Sir Frederick won
fame "by the 'discovery ef. Instil*, but
he had since been devetimg Ititaself to
research worein various lies and had
made several valuable additions to
medical knowledge. Goderich has a
direct' interest in his wink by reason, of
the •fact that . two 'residents of this
town, Mr. T. R. Wallis and Mrs. George
Gould, are closely related to him. '
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In .her exhibitions of bluff and cheek
apan Is a eleesteninnitatenn a Hitler's
'Germany. The Nipponese, have been
making threatening 'gestures against
British and Dutch possessions In the
Far East, and when Britain and the
'United 'States took measures to guarn
againet these threats the Japanese
Foreign Minister had the effrontery to
express the hope that "the Anglo-.
Saxons" would retrain from "taking
any measures tehhing • -to, excite
Japanese 'public. opinion." 00n tin flea
defence preparations by Great Britain
and the United States in thePacitilit he.
Said, would produce a situation "at-
tended by considerable danger." Anglo-
Saxon diplomacy peobabln tocteith
IS VMS WAR EFFORT?
•eSinteoe Reformern •
-- It Seems almost impossible to believe
that at a time when 'Canada fftees the
been written about the morale a the eould not be induced to make wise CO11-
LOrid'011erS V but as •one who saw them cessions to the religious traditions of
in their every Mood, in the depths of the various tribee and nationalities.
, All kthlopiane who had been vested
sublime moments of cheerfut defiancewith any au
'
!thority and were xespected
,m.isery and ire -Operation and in their
I say that the spirit Of London was one 1y the te people were 'replaced with
a the miracles of history. For thous- Italians, men who had not the slightest
ands o
more than the .bornbs vehich destroyed knowledge of the la.nguage, no respect
.rthe homeleas it meant enduring
everything ' they had. They endured for Ethiopian traditions, and no in.ter-
tribulations, due to the breakdown fif ,..a
est in •the temperement and character
the eight • minim'. souls they were.
arrangement, which would- -have
broken the spirit of leseer people. How
they stuck. it out in •those early weeks,
I eo not know. NIghteafter night the
webers came; and day after day
direct in its la.nguage to reply that that gravest emergence in her history and Londoners emerged from their shelters
is just What is Intended by these con.- when'. Canadians .are • beleg urged te to ,find: their homes gone. The good
, an e
th contribute their* savings to the war neighbor who took in homeless in the
Untied defehee piieparations d
"dangern would be to Japan-. When effort until it hurts, our 'Governments morning was very Often herself h6,me-
are devoting, serious consideration to lese at night.. No wonder they used to
John •Bull gets through with Hitler he. the proposed deepening: on. the ISt. carry such family treasures as they had
will havn time .to deal with the .nasty Lawrence waterway. Here is a project to the shelters with them' • '
little customers in the Peel:fie—if Uncle that will cost Canadian taxpayers -at 'Oecasionally, in those m:ituttdreonrred.eta,
Jonathan doesiet.atteed to 'them in tia least 250 million. dollars and perhaps. sarreaays, onewouldfionnctea would
yd
meatitime: . e twice that much before it is finished, a t
project that le not needed by Canada corner and, unbelievably, find a woman had to be sold at exorbitant pricee,since ,the ha.utage • cost was consider-
' * * * • l' ' ' either from a navigation or power Polishing tne brasses etr pipe -cloying
. -,
.Don't be so patriotic as to destroy standpoint. Inasmuch as it Will 're. the doorstep of a solitary house, shat ^
ableThe cost of living rose to un
' * endurable levels, •
Your. war savings stampe and *certifi- quire six or seven years to coiriplete, It tered but 'still, to her, it liteme One --
Nativee were excladed by the Italian
. guinea possibly be maintained that it is dav I, drone throbgla aeres of charred administrattos /rem all public, works,
catee—unless you really have emoney vital to Canada's war. effort. Row the, ,rbuietisk o
to Ilifindatr wphleichntillhdlivisntigrviinvdThe soldiers and thousands of Italiana
. to, burn." Ottawa points 'out some Politicians can justify such an outlay io
amongst .the-, devastetion, and was. laborers, who had been told they wotad
more reasonable ways ;In deallage,with ttaet time when every dollar is declared
.r •
them. . If you 'want to make a gift of 'bY them t° be 111(lition of the war prooe
gram "a more than
nsable to preseen- firented by the shouts of children, rani-
enjoy 'countless adeantages as citizens
slheospswheared .gliovniengamiherteh4axelthwoausghnaavIlattheer eelves forced' to build roads, adrain-
of the conquering country, found them
-
them to the country', send them totthe we can underetand, juet 'ea is the istra.tion •buildInge )barrficks etc. One
reortie have to provide for their redempt who has opposed the preject from the
change in attitude of Premier Ilepburet, or gas, so they had to Send lotaging , ,
parties to theirtain streets, mites avegy, . - n • en
i • ' consequence of the exclusion of native ,
Minister of 'Flit:ince. heOtherwise he
, front this program of pub c wor was
tion ; if he knew the money would never beginning' but who for some steange DO neteh food'. And in another dock- be
reason apnet only to breed eetentinent and bitter -
called for he couidelivert it to other pears lling now to wi'embark side district there was aworkman w
' ho
used to climb enet the rtiThs each day,
upon it at a cost to 'Ontario tanPaners
It
the pile Of rubble which nese among the nietiven, but to see the
seramble into alians lose prestige in theeye
e s ,of
uses. Another plan would 'be' to turn of unknown naagnitriden
had been- the -image' where, he had the •tribee., The I:title-Naha began to
the starting ov-er to friends Who had not . • • ,.
, .
reared' keen:lily and turn on the wire- cell the Itallans.hwhite slaves" benituse
aiready begtitetto Plarchane them, 'and- ; . NOT' SO MANY MISFITS, they '4g.aNtr ' theliu undertake all the
thus get tttem In ehe way of investing ' (tliageton Whig Standard) • , less to listen to the 1 eeloek news. It
WAs ' like listening to a Bal.C. an Menial labor.' -,
wartime savad
ings. -Or they might be There are fewer mi.gflte in the Caie
'`
nouneer in the ruins of Pompeii. During the four mare of. occupation,
handed, otver to fetter ctiller•en who iali.fonces in thie war. For one thing
enlistinent Is being done more cawfully h•.trangest of all .waa. hew. Pthe Italians suceeetied brillianely in
eoPle'S one rt: they united all groups,
would value there more thee tem do. and exaniinatiorte are more thorough nerves and Minds etood up to thedirectio
night-. races and tribes in one burning hatred.
Mit unless your future. Is otherwise Red Cross The-pet:theft of socks and other the shock ef emerging' from their she
and extensive. And for 'another, the le ordeal,' and the anguish of lose and ,
well and surely provided, for, eon artieles wbich women are ktatting,fer teys, ofetn smothered ihdebris, to 'find
nvould.better keep your,mtificatee and •8°Idiers is believed to be more efficienttheir homes gone. ,Beeattse no intelli- ., To HEW
t
gent inedicar men ,tissumed that they
. - -e—
' • A- 'Roosevelt Story , Could expect more of civillane than of
When - President titoosevelt was a 'disciplined tivenee an elaborate service,
oung lawyer just gettlia started in ofpeyehiatrie elifilte and units * had
will not destroy their bonds and there y, .
New York, he was retainekth
to handle a been eetablished under e EmergeneY
Is no reason why peoof modest
• ' '' "diffieult -civil ease, The ,oppoeing lIoepital Service. Then expeeted Wide-
ple
. lawyer .wfie a very effective jury spread neuroses and ewaems of nerve
-
means ',should het more generous vilth pleadeh and entalinetely outshone his shattered patients. In two monthe only
titebt money than the pluberate areyouthful rival in the argument to the twenty-three eagee received tteatment
. Jury. Iiowever, he made one fatal from the teams of highlyeskilled mental
niletake: lie orated for Gewral, noun. specialise". At the same time doctors
"NO* remember, Pat," said a cereealit i As he Inendered on, Roosevelt eotieed repotted net theirn`favorite patients,"
to as Irish eoleier, ',the password is I that the Jtire Wasn't peeing tauseh it the cbronic itevalidn Who hail enjoyed
Saxe—aftee Weibel etaeet nee effeet," tention. hhe PlaYing et hunelk when life ilthealth nor yeare, . were strangely
it. Wasn't my father a miller anmy d"Gentlemen, you have heard the planatnt
io: he introverts forgot them
-
Shttre, said Pat, 01 11 never forget I turn came, he rose •41.11d said : - tured, There was one poesible ex -
mune a eoalman?" , • , evidence. "YOU also - have listened to eelves in the Newel of eommon danger
Later inthe dayt the Irishinart was ;tiny distiehhished 'colleague, a brilliant and of eotnmon Put -post. . . .
challenged. "Bags," be replied.--. orator.. If. you :believe him 'and dis- It lnystilfied visitors to london 0
Motttreal (Star. i believe the evidence, you will have tO obeerv,e the people who were .queueing
suppeseaeteerolet
Methodically, the invaders deetroyed
all the , old commercial practices and
depo.sed thetenative traders. and mer-
chants', whoalone understood the intrie-
acies of Ethiopian ecortomyetFavoted
mercha'nts from Rome, Milan and Leg-
horn, who, were permitted to monopolize
,the entire business of the conettered
nation were eonfronted with unending
difficulties. Instead or finding thene
selves in a position eo export Ethiopian
products, they were compelled to lin.
port enorMons quantitien of goods from
the; Mother Coantry. These imports
'cash them when tneyebeemhe due. The
weelthy people and companies that
ere investing large eums in war loans
PREVENT
any COLDS
FROM ,OEVELOPING RIGHT AT PART
3.Parpote lifedidne a Success
At Ilrat enV, sneeze or nand irrita-
tion, put it ttle Vattroteol up each
neetria Its stimulating utter' aids Na.
-tures defenses itgainst the cold,
. And remember. -when a hetid •
cold -makes you auger, or trensient
congestion "nus up" no and spoils
sleep, 3.parpost Vo-trc-nol gin* Val*
liable help it$ it (1) Shrinks a -Wolter'
membranes, (2) relieves irri tion, 43)
• mign, Iona. long ap.,• dgesind;.•.* his favor. That's all I have up at Mid'dity tO get places in tom: beivs flush out
munal shelters or the tubes tor the pima
Meant etillg 11 1, yottr liquor; the PiwaS ty OUt OnlY five 1111111ft1.-8 night, They would see them keep their - cleating clogging MK
Plisslitte4. S
Tint now it means: You gave your doughl'earieudbt!ought in a verdiet for Rtill
oosevelt's, places in the ole while megebilw mucus--
To finish Hitler quicker. g guns 'rattled noverhead or the bonibo re= 14
WAVILEHNOt
riers ernised lotr over the cityA, an
appointed hour six Freneb and.six Thai
delegates were taken abeerd the Natori.
where seven wane -uniformed japaneee
officers headed by, file thief of the
Japanese military mission
China eeeetved tflern With bows and
tpothy , ,
Tea was served; then the delegates
prepared to mediate.. Before • eithet
Thailand or - Iedo-China couldpresent
a elaim or grievance, Japan handed
both a bill or aer s.erelMolta_ ffieflietor
—to ne paid -in advance. She tleinanded
a virtual monopoly over Indo -China's
production of rice, rubber' and eoal-;
a free hand to exploit Indo -China's
national resources; minters" garrieons
along the Chinese frontier; Japanese
inspecters at all Inde -Chinese customs
houses; a, naval . bese at itrategic
Camranh Bay and defenee concessions
"at Saigon;(air-bases throughout Indo-
China. From 'Phallane she denianded
a naval base in the Gulf of Sianyfor a
fleet of thirty-five battleship, Cruisers
and auxiliary craft. Unless the tercels
were accepted on the spot, it waelte.
timated. naval units would , go into
-act lergarid-Invaidoti Of both countries
would follovn. The delegates signed.
Smiles returaed to Japanese tapes,
'teacups were mfilled and an 'armistice
ereating a twelve -mile -buffer zone be-
tween the Indo-Chinese and Thai forges
was quickly arranged. •Peace tatEr
were postponed .for a later meeting in
,Tolceo, when claims would be settled .
and peaceful &elaboration in the New
Asiatic -Order discussed. The bows
were 'dee r and, smiles toothier as
J.apan'st ni ators eentothe delegates
ashore.
Asked last week in Washington
Whether accepting Japanese mediation
was not equivalent to letting a fox
areitrate- beheeen two rabbits 'in ft
cabbage patch, the Thai Minister re-.
plied : "What would you do if you
were a rabbit?" • .
--Tim,e (Chicago).
• •
Ste
The sermon preached by the vieltine
minister was runnino. rather long; end
quite a few of the congregation began
to get restive. Suddenly the preacher
stopped, and looked slowly round the
church. "My...friends," he said, "I don't
mei you belting •at I v. 40
find out tne time. But when YOU begin
to hold them to your ears to make sure
they are still going, I feel it is time I
made nSmall protest." r
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