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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1941-03-06, Page 2NMI TWO Published by 81 Witat V TR* Now TAXATION cuesitog Pittanee liteiSter Ittley's sttittement 'that, aa amount tapproxitaat- - tos eete-halt of tthe totol rottiouftl telt*, 'ite *appropriated Otte Year t,. gterettehtentel expeedittirea etal, Ittolittneitti and munIcipal), Tor- eteto Siehlritest, Night pante ont thatthis does:eitth "teen enteltelfo eterebodeiti inehine. „eteottlit wealth. Will be •fitet Wiltedt pdti a terettertioroportioneett their ineetne than people of entall• earn- aed ISiturdey Night makes "Sile45" at thechuldspeint" (Just bet tweeneithittee wbo will Pay moreethan thalt of ',their Wean* and these who trill hay tteSs than half t' wtil I* some-, where. b'eletw .$0,809. • It is to be, noted that 'the fittitnee ritiftiaitetert,bk*id• 4tAti*A. mind_ etenteiderable Sencenits aaready Pith eta vedette -toreig of .tettatlett. The Per.,e'ent.• weh e SPelte -eindeti all •theSe., Another paint to be seetenitented, (but e,pparentlyforgetten tIty Saturday Night) Ifs that 'the antettut tettentioupd, the net to be ,raistd. fot -the •present;* taxation. A 'very ettesider- Ole Portion ot the War expenditure !At* the Met: by w1ng ae that the lectgeetta itisitetaaed texatioa i uttt.so •.iteettseme tts otherwise it might: be. horreititne. :will "have to be repaid ehtee,„tUflp couree, but tnat is a- enehlenttfolettuture years. , The Mak NAM a YearlY illeOnle of say $2,0ith ueedtnat teartthat neve:taxation • ie. visit. leve him with, ottly• $11600 io•Dittet hitt-Usual expenditures. He is . already Paehtg in, Municipal taxes, in teasel:lee ttetd Other 'Pzetvittelal taxes, sales ightekeistoms tax, xelse taxes ketitieli pay st without kaowing it) , and 'Othertreeteral. taxes, PossibiY as faUe4.4*(10,, perhaps more, depending Iqw rinteh he smokes, how, ranch drinhseiketW-Mitehega.sollue he uses,: and so oe As his Mem* is con- olderably •belevr the eatinaated "Vide epoine ot $0,000, the• -levy he will have meetterill t belew. the atrerage- fiftY Per eent„ and etinsidethn.g all the t taxes lie s already peeing, and the amount toe raised by loan 'instead Of lbs° taxation, the aew Federal. taxation -Wtltetleaveehint--VVlihs-something more .eban his shirt. Right bet* ts, 4 point in connection With the " 'ear eavinge campaign now .4n' Progress. This is different from , . • 'other war leen eampaigns ui that the mOiint el -Bowed 'to, 4 abseribed by nnl' one Permit), in a year is restricted to $500. When ,the war is over and the tnoney is to be repaid, it will not go in mounts of, millions t� wealthy people and big corporations, but will be paid egmliarittiveir entail amounts to .etteople who are un:abIe to -make large hetestraents. It will provide . a nee tnesttegifor families whet have foresight to: see the opportunity and strength of will to make present sacrifices for ifhture good. STOP THE KNOCKING • Net doubt many in Godericit read With .interest en• Monday's Globe a brief but lilted letter trom Mr. Joseph Gold- : thorpe of Geldth.orpe Ont. , am gettitig tired of . your hammer, hammer, tempter -every t day llor Natkntal Government. Ton - gannet get Itrational Gotterameat, . " 'aitd YOU know it. In, the Federal . election about a year. ego you and n. few of • your pets 'talked: youit - head off, for National. Government. You got a, good- Spanking and were eent hornet but 11d14not seem to 4ure you. Ineteed of giving holiest 'criticism, you keep on *hammering. Therefore I would suggeet you cut out this 'National Goyernio.ent carat Deign of your:tend join up with the • rest of us loyal Oanediang and bop us- win, the -war, josePh Gold- thorpe, Goldthorpe. , J, T is a Coneervativee-used -to be, anyway, in lila GoderIch elay,s-bet 'he aLto • a tt tautteh Britisher, and eeldently lie does laot see arty profit in the jangling 'that is going. on over Ibtatienal Government while Oanadiens 6hould be !devoted their eller-les* to getting on with tlie war. • read woett littrt thenit As The Herald points out, it is 4111Orkg its readere the United States that itt an do nide- ehieft and banning ft trete Mettle Will not- pett,fi stop to that. Perhaps reading many Papers •pf •all eorte of opleion$ Makes a eeivspaper editor more thee ordinaelly hard -bolted. (we lind evert Wrontels Financial Post atausing), but ConatilaneoIiould. learnLtOE 'statte in their readtee as incother things. if Canadian readers really went:. to "get hack" at The Saturday Evening Post, there is a Way in titialeh they eat •elo it. Make up their nalnelg not to buy anything advertised In It pees, and get as many others as Possible to boycott its adtertisers. In .ttnie the advertigers would 'notice a „felling off In their Canadian ,s•aleSet they, woUla ey.thet---244wiltetitttlittePubli8hertat and tbe intlgeettens would thotti decide whether to modify their editorial at. titude oreltisetaftite•of their advertising patronage. 1DITOR1AZ NOTES- , March le -and it Tether looks as If In the Balkans the armies are going to do just that. * * • . . "Take measles $eriously"-Heading of medical article. ' ' But we would, 'rather' not take th,era at all, please. * ' * * A. baobile -laundry unit :la to be organizedin military district Ne. I. slt, should ,clean up on the Tlitleraes. • • * Acres, M.Pt.P., would take the tables and chairs ttut ef the beverage romns. ef the beverages were taken out, toe, the rooms could be pet • to some good use. • - TRION IWO For a leseon In endurance, yea should ' try riding in a day toaeh on a trellis- 1-dontinental trent. "Onjuirettrayetatit week t� Meet a friend in SudbUttel, bad the experieece ef riding fleight long on what the railway was pleased to call its 'ttanscontinental train. It' weea experienee Werth UtanY &Bare ,although in the:actual priteeas the expetience didn't seem to DO eompensa- deft for the aches and creaks that teemed to 'develop evith eaele hitch of the train, • t Evidently in an effort to drain' up busiaos for the sleepers, the train. Of- licials placed us in a coach that woutd have made 'Noall'e Ark look like a, palace. Each Seat was individual, and Ite Matter -how melt teou tiled there, was no thanee of Melting 4 double eat for yourself and so enjoying etimet measure of comfort. • It appeared also that the track had been eprung into strange curets, , for, ,Whielt the lumbering Old car Was not prepared.. 'When the remainder of; the train was swinging in one direettont thitt-Pertictlier-ear, llke the-Ittet_lambeehatethe yeareliastbroughteint-Londontst In. 4 bend of sheep, wanted. desperately seeial life. The whole ,of the welting bard to get off, by iteelf.' • day eltee been advaneed by aeveral .Purehateng a -pillow for the night hours. Mot offiees IOW phut at four; from .the porter, we tried; .curling uP on Sundaes' Most ehurches hold their on a Seat. Placing the pillow 'beside evening services' at theeettbirty. , Clne- the andgra.nually easing deem .111a& shut at seven, and after that time, • into the seat, the unpleasant expert- a good many restaurant's; are unwilling ence of birth* frigid Cold ;blowing down* to serve new customers. By ten in the avalt 1Jurrost Views.. the War 4W 4.‘41444 10.4 01111.14044 IN LONDON 10210% eon} mieitioeitries luterferiet with tteera titutwar4te Leetiou hes thattlied ittr- )40diwollsk. The docottet orudogly little, in thtwee last twelve 4•14114(knottY Ili Itotot*Ittg with leh tile Children of the virgiu feast de MA Menthe. The ware of Ilente and ex- „ know what to do Moreover Christiett plosives are not eoeePlettotta exeeltt in ity With its theory of equality and ret few plaeee.sTitere are 'change* in sdeollition ,is a 'hindrance to the terter- beetit troetaewitieth-Coclateye--imteefort-eeigutee-eft-erhite--uieUtstTW. Veatest gettelt to notice but.whielt would. etrike danger of the dethroning Of white men visitor. 'The ugly reetanicalar block.% and their politleal power emote from ef sUrfttee shelter, -the kaleidoscope of the teaehing of InisSiOnS. Every doe. unifornts of all natione and bUses of trine of equality' and retlemPtion, every all eitles, the emaller number of primate *teaching that • lone cell beeoute perfeet ears and the ecirrehnonding increase of by ivelttetriees praying, every propagat Military ones, the women , conductors tion Of theIdea that by prayer one can kthe tbUSOS.,,..,these IIDM the ;things that -become white, must destroy tbe prestige one notices immediately. , of white men. There is, therefore, no It is not till later that a mune irn futrther pine for miselouere societies portent difference imprestestitselften in the •Gertnan colonial empire, Mist the mind. There are hardly any ehild- 'sloes are tnstitutions Which. have out - ren in the streets. 'Otte of the most lived titemselvee and must be, rePlaced, familiar liglince is the A,F,S. (Auxiliary by something else,” ' Fire Service) man, and he, too, has Christianity: will not perish from the ('hanged tiering 1940. .A.• year ago hie earth.' No earlier tyranny ,or perseeu- uniform was smart and elean, and he tiou has eueetteded in enctlepating it. -often wore it With 4 eelf-etonselous, al- or I will this one, despite It more most a defensive, air.' Today it is Powerful weaponseand more' entitiOgs fade& and often 'grimy, but he lcarries ingenuity. But we must Awe, -the tact -himself with the casual confidence of that, eheuld sthe Axis designs mean, proved Manhood. . • • tb ,e type of Olirlatian faith and life The 'external differences, hoveeter, which the overwhelming majority of , are nothingeompered with the chengee, •Arnerieen Onrietiane Vetter& as atttht enticeettillt Mese.lo fitnettoivetaa Rettig factor in the ,publIc life. of three-fourths of what we call IheiChristlan -tate Christian Century i(Cblettgo), Speaking of 'radio advertiging on° Sunday The •Orangeville Banner asks, „your ;leek was discoveredt The windows evening the vest majority of the popu- Were far • from being airtight in their laden is in some sort of shelter, pultlic frames. -• ta or private.. - The next step was -to turn completely The night -life Of supper and -cebaret ' arOuted and try placinethe pillow next continues In'expensitte places,' some of to the aisle. Then with a hand dirmly which bffer their clients a bed ill the grasping the hack (if the seat the feet basement •after*ards. At suck resorts were drawn up tightly and the body one ',sees dotted about ._among the uni- was eased down into what we fondly forms an occasional blaclettle, but never believed to be a eotitfortable petition. full evening "dress, . and most of the Beerythingwas fine until the trate eivillaus are in, day clothes Privates lurched and, in emnparty with aheut and N.(1.0.s •Onany of them Canadians thirty other people * sudden descent or Heine 'Guards) are dining- among the was made from the seats to the 'flooiofficers-a curious sight to those who etrowing alniest desperate t another remember the customs of the last war. hour Was epent in punching the pillow By ,mitinigibt the streets are deserted into various shapes and draping the 'except for a few stray taxis and an Oc- feet in all poteible.•pesitions. Twice casional "soldier groping his Way the feet slipped and tame dangerously through the gloom towards Iffetiatia or close to going out the window. Dis-, Waterloo. ' gusted,. a -trip was made back ti) the The night, Which beam' early; ende =otter:for n. smoke,tatid there we dis- early toot,- At -SiX 4n the -morning 4 Covered about twenty men erowded into thousand alarm clocks are rousing from a small compartment smohirtg every- their solitary beds the grass- widowers thing from foul pipes to hand rolled who • hew learnt to look after them- * hi t b 1 es while th i ;take-'eareof -stortleathredetout -of somet ng 'emb- se v erwives • the children in the country', About VIP seine time breakfasts are being taken around by. train* or Van to the sleepers inUnderground stations �r public shelt- .ers. The popularrestaurants are eroweed with ehelterers looking -for brettletast, The dwellers in Suburbs, many of them, hose ca.ught early trains In case a raid has caused delay on the line, and If et the train ,was Punctual* • after all, they in time with breakfast in a restaurant. More non-iletmestie ibreak& must have been eaten le ',London in the last four months than int,he 'previous fifty 'years, and the pirveyors of shaves and shoe -shines have entered into a par- adise d whib ethey • never dreamed. One of the miracles of the London war Is that people who sleep every night in . shelter, and never gohome except for a bath and a clean shirt and a few hours in bed at the week-end,Man- age to turn out so neatand clean at the ginning , of -every -era The changes in the Cockney himself have,been teeny. At the beginning of the war he was apatheticallyeregaeding the "phoney war" across tile Channel and grumbling about the black -out, May brought him excitemeet.te June brought him a deep andl. gobering anxiety which had hardly worn off when, in the Second week of September, the storm Of high:explosives burst about his head. Per a few days then --(there is no harmnow in 'admitting it) he maintained a stolid front vtnicle con- cealed -horror and, somethingnot far from despair, though it never ,came near surrender." Since then he haisgretittally eweemoretehardenetleandemotee-con- fldent. In eettirn for the loss Of privaei and tlornestie life he has- gained eelf- reliance. Be has learnt to Steep on concrete or sitting on a wooden bench, and how to put out an incendiary bomb yvlth anything that .comes to heed.' Ile has also gained a tietvIttlee of fel- lewship with other Londoners. ° Civie pride is -not a natural growth in a cier as big as this. But companionship in "Copping it" hateproduced atnew sense of London as a body corporate. The phrase "Londonteate take it" (of whieh Londoners are now so ;heartily siek) has done a good deal to make Lonhott spiritually one eity: We still neve our parasites, het many of them ere now preserving their enloyely, lives in the country, and *there halve, sueprisingly, turned into eitizene, London haStnot. beenfor centuries so tough or hardy or so single-minded. • ;-The Manchester Guardian. What Weald happen the newspaper's')ling rotted burdoele leaves. Were ':they attetapt to carry on thefi Back to the eeet again. The .train - business ortthe 'Sabbaela? • The Dominion Government • has placed a an on circuses' and carnivals by way 'of a prohibitive tariff. Our Mayor had. already turned thumbs. ditivatonniaIk iror 1hr-oder-lett ; but we had hoped to see a circus 0//CO' in a while.- This war is terrible. * 0 'There Is rieleg thee,tof peete.st against the projected "spending of 'nit - Betts of dollars on the St. Lettrence and Great Lakes Seaway during wartime. Is tne GeOrgian Bay and Lake Harbors Association' formed last year not miss- ing an opportunityto crystallize op.. position to the sehem,e? * • NE SHOULDN'T COPY XijITLER If Canada were to treet The Tribune end The 'Saturday Poet as Hitler treats enewtpapere and newepapet correspond- ents he (Tomei; like by barring them time Germany, we -would be aupplyhig the antieBritielt• itlement 'With the MO- W:tuition, •they tete 100Ialg fait Thee would- :thea 'CM that --Canada - was against freedom of epeech, against (reAlorn of the Prest, that it had re- ' sorted to Nazi iiiethodt. Anyway, their vrepaganda in 'Milted; Statea wouldn't cease if we did tate erastie action; ttnetead it Weald ltecome store Intensl. tied, and theeattily swayed, ill-informed ,reatiers as a'retult might be influenced miaow than they have been up to the iireeeeteettettihridete Herald. , We don't lee 'Die Tribune and cannot /lay iturtlAipg .abautt it t but * the writer tuts been reader Of The SaturdaY .1r.vening Post for years and Woillil he storey to 4et it ?)anned ,t tom Canada. Vitae, be residu vi:v little Of It except Ithe Veriest perliatet gitineleg over the *Morita Pftee, in witile to mee ibtow' +silly it. can Ile. Caudle**. don't *need to read Ile, 6i)jectionable eirtielts, it fin *old to reett,ata, and what they don't man padded Intend looked over the tiny. tickets Punched over each Window and Touted a hotiple of iitirtiete who Were getting off at a small StatIon. How we envied them! Goan' they would be able to climb into a bed' and • sleep. .Eyezt the prospect of stretching out on a hard_station___waiting-_reous benth seemed like heaven compared with try- ing to sleep on a -space-roughly estim- ated at being; feet by I. , 'An Altelteree member slept with his .mouth open; ,his feet draped ep over the seat, in front :him. His buddy half slumtied into 'the sett- ahead nad to duck the -feet each time, * went e.rourer a curve. A girl kt the seat across the aisle Solved the PrnibleM.bY piling all [her baggage up In the space - 4n front of her seat and making slightly • more space on which to stretch. out. Up ahead there slept it man In a red _senntilytandtrespin 4. ,• ea cress -mit saw_tin a spike every -, The • announcement that the Ontario , time we rounded a carve. Agrieultural College at !Guelph is to " But came thenawn, and as the porter be turned over to the Royal Canadian went around gathering uP bis Pillows Air 'Force as a wireless -school for the genial trainman came in and said, n attliedittruygiflut,netITioent next bleep." As an d: "Sleep airmen has created eonsternatio among those interested in. agricultural - pretty good?" There wet; no answer education. An effort' is. being made, to that question. . t only an assorted however, <, to secure accommodation medley eof groans and moans as the elsewhere for staff and students in party limbered up. order • that the important. work of the CREWE 'Colle'ge may not be dis on• ti ed - y c nu . * * * After -the -Greek stownetofteLarise had been. severely damaged by earth - _quake, it was visitedbyetalian bombers eeteehas been eheres -- •• - ' °nowt, Mar. 3. -Mr. Wan. French up north. 'north. He- reports Jots of snow up there more then hi other vvinters who made an, hour -tong rale, on the The Blake brotheredisposeil-of eleven place, where thousands were hoinelesshead of cattle on ISaturday *via Luck - British bombers; learning of the an's- nofow, whieh will net. them a nice sum • money. tee tress caused by the earthquake, flew to -Your reporter saw it crow today; the stricken city With physiciane and so spring ig around the corner., • medical supplies. No wonder the • The NV,,A., of the United chureit are Greek soldiers • sw•ear • to :et:reek • SiDODSOrill'' a box social 01), Friday even- ing, .Merc% 14thtrin the schoollionse, vengeance •on, the- cowardly and iitt the men of the congregation te treetop. humane Fascists.. the program, the ladies to bring the ▪ tboxee ; proceeds to 'go to the British • War -Victims' Fend. The ,Ontario ;Government, tit is . Women *Meettr-SPne ladie.t of Crewe neettced, will pay 'seventy -else per centunited chureh met e.t the home of Mrs. of relief, expenditures, leaving twenty- Wilfred Drennan On February 28111 and five per cen•tfor the municipalities to obaortv4 'the • Wo/1-4 nal of .1)ra•Yert During the 'program the ;Scripture read - pay, the Federal Government having leg woe oven by peria meeetateley and witbnra.wrt tIs aasistanee preiloughte Mrs, S. .Stervvotid ga.ve a reading 'on' gtven • in this matter. Except In the "Christian Women at Week in...Korea," ease Of municipalities having a large number of imenthloyables, relief ex- pendithres, even et twenttefive per cent. of 'the total, should not '1)4 heavy nedet present eonditions, •* * • • Parliament, having met, ttfinisters are able to -.make ,explattations and give information which dissipate nauch of -the unrest '&reatett -by newspatteis, whose object seems to be erabarrase the -Government rather than -to serve any - useful , purposet e„ Mr. Mete, • MitiSteretif Mutilt166:t ,Suppii., itt referring te come of the erlticisms has had to meet,' $aid he was not -complaining about, the people who want to blow; but about "people who with- out knowledge make statements that; leg dart teem to be but a continuance undermine pehlie eonfldente." Nowa- of the 'cold and eheerless whiter Of paper e that in theed,',t.q'ttiat Units dis- which mot ef tia (the youngsters ex - play personal or partisan 'Animus in cepted) are heartily weary), , By the their referencee to those who are middle* of the month, however,the korying 'the burden of oar activities onounting oun has cleared Away much may be set down as ,untelialhe and of the ice and mow, has released the creeks and titers, and has coaxed lout of their winter hidingithe davver$ .(we have alreade" seen snow- dropo) ; and 'hy the end of the month' spring has definitely arrived and a new world of life and ',growth has up- peared about us,. "Ifareh omen in llke .ft lion and go eS Out like tt felltb." Sentence prayere were offered and -Mrs. Crozier gave the prayer eftdediention. A. short readingewas given by Mrs, IIt *Finnigan ton the W.M.S. and the locaf ehufch. The president closed the meet- ing. A lengthy discugsion by the W.A.. on,the ranking of 'quilts and elothing for refugees.. took place. It was decided to dispense with - lunch at the- meetings. The attendance .was not quite so large as n„sual -on account ot the_extreme cold of thet day. • eaYing has no t'1f'-Itt it a positive statement of the general! eharacter ef thee -Month; 'Marcb eomet in like a lieu and goeg out like a tenth." More than any other m.onth of the year March 'brings a distinct transformation from one season to another. Its' open- untruetworthy. • * As regularly as March emicieg around there reappears the. misquotation, .,"Xf March comes in like "a lion it will go out like a tenth," with the implication that if the month comes in like a iamb it *rill go out like a lion. The obi .7 • THE WAR AND * CHRISTIAN missIoNs Within e short time 'after Britain'e capitulation, the Western hemisphere, poesiblyt the North American eentinent, will •he the laet considerable area on the eatth's, .•stirface where ewe' and women will be permitted to gather for Worship without pollee Surveillance; where the elemental trutbs of Christian faith can 'be preached without immineet -threat of coneentration eamp e where it wilt *be .permitsible to pray for All nation:; and peoplea„ especiallY the needy .and oPpreteede. where it will be legal to declare •onete .14,411 man- kind as of °rteblood undereettObtaittert hood of one God, •Durbag these, latter yeara many have tliecovered the signitipance of the Chriettool World 'nun nt, now spread to every eontineet almost every •tand through the hill* nee of Chtletian missiona. No one'elie forecaet the pret cite effect Of an Ate* victory upon that veet worlei-eireling and world -uniting movement The more or less offielal publieatioe of the Nazi party, Greet* Volkerkuntle, ptitt it tptifeabluntly, "We will forbid all religions inigsions. ' The ‘Seliwarze lhorPe, °Metal organ of the KS., contains an article .with these pro- posals "The (Negro must remain -,what he IR and not be spoiled by European missions. As he is, he ig itt hig own way perfect, axperfeet as every natural creationwith wait men have not interfeml. Wisdom missions mean a survival of the inferior mitt 4100114OratO« We will 'mem/de that situation which existed before the white /410,ver trittler$ THE CHURCH 1VIIIATANT NORTHERN. _EVROPE_ Twice last week the Christian Cross was raised*1 .eaPtive Europe to defy the will of the conquering Nee's. • In Norway -the seven 'bitSitot* ot the, Norwegian Lutheran,' Ohureh a• letter -to the etate's Cotureill,pr, issued the holdest publie' indictment yet' lean:Cited against the Nazi new elder." Timed with the sinister visit to Norway iGestape Chief litimutler, it nailitant- ly recalled: 'broken Nazi promi.seseto respect -Norwegian church- and 'civil jaws, resoundingly dethiled examples of: brutal vtolepee byetnieling's 'unit* formed hooligans,' and challenged. Nazi benning_pf preachere' few of secrecy - "the titiundation of .the ehurcle the Magna Carta of the eottecience." The Bishops ° expected ILO FIatOfactory answer from the State's Councillor ; the answer they listened for was that of the' Norwegian people. the Netherlands- last: Week the Areningliop of Utrecht ,- and four Catholic bishops, 18 e pastoral- letter „read- a.every Dotal Catholic. eleurch, proclaimed their •refneal, -to administer extreme unction or bury -with. Catholic rites "Liberals, Socialists, Communists and National Socialiete,Y' and forbade Dutch Catholics to join Nazi groupa. Equally un.eonipromising lethe altitude of • Hollaud's Caleinists. The Nazi- -backed 'Deutsche Zeltung „teemplaens • tint ,t"the. Dutch churches have been veritable centres of opposition to the *-ttieh'--a-Pratestant „meeting in Afneterdam a former Cabinet Minister apostrophized the Nazis :. ,'Do not ex - poet as •tet drive out arpublie life that which is most holy. Spiritual freedom, 'freedom: of cherch, *echool aud opinion; lies in our very blodd:" • About, -a third a the Netherlands's 1,3,700,000 population are Catholtes, an- • other third strict Calvinists, the Teat Mostly Calvitiste of broader denomin- ation% nollatad'S *160,000 Jews .(less that two per cent. of the 'population) are highly regarded. When. Jews in one city Were charged with harboring r tis •lisagentsetendeasseseed-a--50, guilder tine to be paid within sii" hoittig, the sum was raleed in time by Christ- ians who handed the money over to the local rabbi, while • in five Protestant ehurchet in Amsterdante,protests were 'evenly. uttered. When .a Jevlish pro- fessor was forced out of the Univensity of Delft, the students' strack. The Nazis closed tne University the next day. Said an etlumnus- in -the United States: It makes us very proud to have our alma mater the first to, be elosedet „, • ' Many cherchmen in the Netherlands are now 'behind the barbed wire of eoncentration camps. One pastor Was sent there—WheiseaSter theehtazi sworn that only 300 people had been killed by the bombing Rotterdam (instead of the, 30,000. commonly 're- ported) , he held a tzteneorial service and said:: "Wet are here to pray for those who. have died of violence in this eitY. But 'before we pray for all the dead, let us pray 'first for the dead ot our own 'Congregation, -lin all Itittterdam 300 people have been killed. . Let us -pray for the 1,300 ofethis 300 that we of this ehureh knew personally." • • I famed' Protestant youth leader was thrown in -to eoneentration tamp for denouncing the Nasi policy, scoring the Persecution of Jews as unObriatian, and writing: "If we do nottOMproniise, If 1. we are willing to ettfter for our -faith, we will ,find the pattCht the heart of our people. Tlaere are in Holland more than 7,000 who do not want to bow 'before Baal. And behind these 7,000 and morestand millions* w,hit ere united todey in one eommort ereed, This un-, ion needs ,no demonstration. One de- mopstration itt made by them each *Week, every .Stinday., morning,: when the- get to churell."- To diet elannoyance, Dutch churches stilt pray for Iller Majesty., Queep Wilheltnina, the other members of ebe noral 'Family, and the Nether- lands Government." _dritao (Chicago). ' Unfinished Sympliony WESTMELD WMPIIMINAD, Uarob 4,e --Mr, end `Mu. J. le Mettewell Were gee** Oa Thintielay at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert. Vtikellto •-**141`itft Mies Elitt Mae Whoop( Of Heti:tett. and lire, W. WilSett at Clinton *Pent a for day e With the lattertiv daughter, Mrs. Wm. 'Carter, and Mr. Outer, AirseIlartildstil~teofeGoderieh re- turned!. home ea Saturday; Miss Helen Vitieent ia vielting at the home of her oieter, Mrs. Ii. ilUttOn Of Londesboro. • • Mr. Bert Tattler into had the hydro installed, t the power being turned on Wedneetlar INthe filet time. Miss WInnifred Campbell spent thigh° of days last ,vteek With hire, Charles Scott of 'Ailburn. beet Week several of the. ladies at. tended the Reel protte„ quilting - at Aliblern. • Mr. and Mee. Gordon Smith and Barbara tied Miss- Jean; MeDotvell of Ciodertell vhslted • on. -Sunday with Mr. and Mr.. J. IL, !Mel:km*11. .aletears. Earl. Mugtord lob tkrm. strong, 'ittertion Bosman and •Stenley, Black attended, the; locket, tante at Toronto on Saturday eight. - Mr. - and Mrs, 'Watt McDowell are spending a few dope this week with :Mr, and Xret Wesley Stedchciute of Breceneld„,--t---- • , ' , Mr, and Mrs. Albert:Campbell visited •on Wednesday with. Mrs. - Berkley of Dungall11011i Mr, and Mrs. Norman McDowell and Mr.% OtbaleleSton were London visitors" on Monday. , _ Mrs. Wm, MclItewell is visiting with 'Miss Ade Stackhouse and Other friends at Myth. - • Rev. H. C. Wilsen gave 4 splendid address on the Sixth' Commandment at the glinrcICService on Sunday,;tak-, leg his itext from Exodus go ;13 -"Thou shalt not kill." Mrs. ,Piett J. Cook and Mr. Doughty Campbell Tendered a duet, "Take U.reThy Oros.' The Day of Prayer. -The World's ay of Prayer was observed on Friday afternoon, when seventeen ladies met at the thutehe Mrs. Wm, tieDovell Presided at the piano. Mrs. Alva -Me-. Dowell was in.. charge of the prayer' service. The Seripture lesson was read by Mrs. . E. Snell and Mrs. Charles ISInIth and prayer was led, by Mrs. R. Vincent,' Mrs. Marvin 31eDowell, Mrs. W. F. -Campbell, Mrs. 0,, Smith and Mrs. Wm, lileVietle. A dust, "The Garden of Prayer," was rendered- btt Mrs. --17red, 4, Opole and Mrs. Wm. me - accompanied at the Piano,, by Mist Winnifred '04mpbelit Business was conducted by the president, Mrs. --Virrif.---McVitttie.Plans-were. made ,tor the making of ethilts for the Ited Cross unless requested for the W.M.S. bale.. A letter was read front hilsa Young of Londesbero stating the ,alloeation. for 1941 was $145. A letter was read also from Mrs. (Bev.). Longley of Mina - The Ladies' Aid decided to WY two war savingteertifiesee's of $4 each as it loan to the country and gift to the elnerch. The meeting was closed with prayer by et at the 'Strittford othiateral tiltetrittel, Weriti Rey ef rrealitteeTweattelotte ladle* gathered at the hen* et hiee Robin** Woo& ou Fritts, lifterthsia Ito the Oletterratteittof the Werld Dew et Prater. Itite'.; W L Miller Preaklett for the Meeting, fer Which the then* watt 'Thy If.ingdem Come." The Seriptete, leSSOnS _iwere read' F MO.- Stanley Todd, eMr te Bari Dentin aud *TN, Thone PreSere, were offered by tete , Ramage, Mts. _Ball, itire. W. I.,- eXenzies'Webh, ttlfeetescenteete. Mrs, W. Rutherford, Mr T. J. Todd:. lire, W. A. Miller and.3frat4. CaMeron, Mrs. Iteinage gave a sitert addretie on tee theme and Mete Bice favored with a. solo, "Sweet Peace, the Gift"of ttodtt leote." -the president. HELENS • ST.• HELENS, March- 8. --The week- ly meeting of the Y.P.U. was held, with the president, , Miss- :Minnie Barnard, in the cbair. Audrey Oongram lead the 'Seripture lesson, and Mr t Wilson led in prater. .The topic, "Tom Thompettn, Painter of 'Our 'North Country," was taken 'by Grace Weetherheatleandelle. and Mrs *Rice favored with a dttet.- Mite Vera .Taylor .has returned from sit-vzitlr-frlendstatsBlytie-Oli-nt iand-Godericht Murray Taylor was hotne from iGoderich for the week -end. iGordetn Miller, of Stratford, was a week -end vistiot a his home here: An interesting feature •of the dance •heldfor pittrtotic purposes by the Woments Institute was a presentation to Mr. George ,M.Nuillin .ef the RIC. A.F., home on leave.. Peel read the address and tHarld «aunt made the presentation of a pen ane peneil Set and attre-velling dock. Mr and MTS. W A. 11111er and Mr • . Tom Wilson were visitors in Stratford on Saturde.y. • On ...their return, they were accompanied by Miss Laurine Iflir,who-has cemptetedtber 'tral GODZRICH 40. ..A0KNOWlartp(aD The follewhig teeter hist been 'received bY Mr. 0, lieettraonie ellaitintat of the leeal ObristMaa seal eommltbea in eon., neetion With the QUeele Alexandra Sanatotiuna ; Dear Ittr. Parsonit-I am •deiedred by Colonel Ibitoteme Leonard, president of - the London 'Health Aeeociation, tee, Arthur It. Verdi' ebah'Intint and the Members of the Vhrlatlaao Rai con,‘: ralttee of .Queen Alexandra Sanatorium; to express their deePeat 'gratittele to ottetheettemberseef the-Goderich opj WItee, and the people of iltioderleh and Huron county for the splendid Seeponse te our 194000hrlstmas seal appeal. IN'otwithstanding the many other ap- peal$ this year ter increased giving? the seven countiesett „Wee -tern "Ontario; Middlesex, Lambton, Elgin, Kent, Oxt ford, Perth and Huron, contributed the emu of .$16,670.99, an tnereaseeof $2,- 301.16 over 1939„. • • , • • Coclerich also '• did splendidly, re- teelpte amounting 18-$.108.95 tastagatnat $158.10 last year: " 1. • Our warmest thanks are also• due MT. Robertson of The SignaltSta ,r the moeie theatres, the milk -distributing companies, the Boy Scouts, and all who • helped make the campaigntso -great a seecess. / . • Our earnettthope is that everyone In letohetich and Huron county will avail themselves of the sereicesof the •travelt ling dirties which monthly visit • the Goderich Hospital, order that the spread of that devastating scourge, • tuberculosis, may be curbed. , • 4.00 11 4 Yours sincerely; FRANCIS B. WARE, ••Seeretary, Christmas Seal Committee. tendott, it:; nstit-18","194fet s ,HONOR FOR sEArouni 'PoETEigs - Miss IL Isabel 'Graham has received congratulations front Anita Browne, director of National Poetry Center and founder -organizer. • of poetry • week, ,Radio City, Rockefeller Center, New York City, on her. poem,"Good-bye," Which was on.exhibition n National Poetry Day at the New York World's Fair, and was .awarded honorable men- tion by the judges as. beteg "one of the best poems received front your State." -L.'S-ea-forth Wrpositor. The St, Louis Star says: %Is estim- AO that 39 per cent. of the. world's misinformation is introduced with the words: "Now, let us look at the• facts."• • ••••••••I • LOOK OUT, FOR TOUR LIVER -- .uck It up rigbtnow and feel like a milifont • Your liver is the Ingest organ in your body and most important to yout health. It pour,* out Writ° digest hid, gets rid of waste, supplies newenerry, allows proper nourhhment to reach • your blood. 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