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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.
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. .
"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
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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,
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,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
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