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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1944-08-03, Page 7' t By A,. liecent exeurribme In WeStern Q4- •Slieep neiliatitrhed, -within _thy ,perlee- aiefe *ale dealled fOrth on MY partt "ftil *Urine, os' ii 'IMpreSsion$ t'Serne of f 701 Ankt"..1$' Wa,Ice ftwe .witit Such nOte$ i wilivh may be found, here: Lambton county after a `0,10 trirndS. Qne gOOtt men who, .liad rt gbOWn Old in the many yearif we, had not met took time off /rem his imsY .- day. •have a reel ViSit with "me, raid , much' appreciated Togethev ,-we • bed ,worked in church life over.,thirty yearm age. *.He had only one fault, and. ithat was \ unpunettudity. Always add .!tOrtitiAlttetf---Wttfe4hgelte'--vapr4rx- Onsiderable absence I Met many geoll- One . -evening in --retrOlitt--44, 4-4141te-r. teifeh,erS And elergY, •ftinotig minty storieS thirr Was told by a 4o1109f. teacher.. Welched for it truth' *and..Said it WaS by a young min who,teught in our northland, end: was hit; oiwn. experience. . In that 0011001 secthei, so tar httek in:Northern 'Ontario cri4tein-tO.1,arrange for the teacher to board arounit'.---FtUnong pecte(1 there, and tben you',might have tO Wait a' little for his coming. • Ilik; erharaeter. 64eer integrity, And 144, t s. yoking man was eli,hanghlg from ()Ale there until they- :rine fatuities,. say two. weeks here and two weeks there, through the. Vrin, -when, off cattle Storleif, Are to tbli*. day. ',Once *Wmilinerf hOrned heitat, *Mad : h had mede a petted ries to keep it While' the' bidding 3Ivae on, he coeld hardily -refrain trete „Deirkkg fnu at --a. bewhiskered •man in the, crowd, Who Wak3 tar trout being the victim of. hie Yarn. He Said thatInte tinielie vvent to a meeting house ef a certain evan4 &Mt -permaelen - where they were keen 4)11 making praying rings 'round StrangerS, and particularly if they Were Marked iiinner$: Curly said there was one old Mau. with a long' beard there, who looked like the One et the auction sale, who hii(t. Come to the Meeting and eertainly• needed • praying ' for, though he WOuldnt. own up to that: rviimi-theArrilYing,Ainie...eirmethel- formed a ring arolind-laiiii-nt one simeirrus, end of the harilding and even •exceilencies of were a Merry good:nature, , hi • claimed hands that be should 'remain •••foreard-leader in every good, cause in -1J)+,24iirterl" to , Anethe e l'elVellea te` beWhiskered shiner objected •and t ed. .he'eopiiimeity. rie was 00 closely as- t-----,ts, Otie„Of these hospitable homes - ,. to 'get free; lint the. more he tried the , ..„., . •-+- "Atoeigt,sti :With the rural Church by iiis 4t- hntigteciV4-01% tix•e• _ 4.ve'lLhing more 'they Heem' ea determined, . `to keep heme that when his name was mem, w,,,,iit,s,,lit-cenfupion, for Vadat the good- mui there '.i.uitil Pelatenee 1.arld 'tears' , , .., , but aNired that he "-W.-ere' forthemning:u lie tried this 'pert 40nou'Yon thought' of the Cluireha • Ile ''''".4'.° 401°01Zed *Atte lin OrceedinglY clear, • resonant ,illight-,Intlkes the bOst of it illtil tit" a the ring to Storm parif the ciaSlied i got Iliings right; and that vvoulduet bands, end then -that part and. again seeiee That was a -pleasure to liear, be hong, i'or the' first night they had , at another ,,,,Possilde ',„ 'Opening as he, taughti..it to ask that he sleep In the seine room thought. ,Ruf each rime he was re In the Bible class which' lie- 401111,nated all ether velce$ of teachers as two two, hteecy, *ten -age hoy$ who la!di: pulsed with who taught, itnyvvhere near. I noticed extra Closing in. of the the a provided for -the time being will.' militant : praying'. :people, Curly - said, ;.lrie tvoice_ was Just Ole- same after t4e a ,hed in the the guest ram, re tolomg "'"--- "I laughed and laughed. I never saw -passing of the •yeark-e• He makes MQ ' think'. of an `epitaph in a. churchrard heti also wail placed. At bedtime the such a pea example of #le 0110004 - f boys went off to bed but evidently not game we used to play, We called it inmy-eld-home-count-in --finglant,,--4rto sleep.* They talked qind-tteoled- and 'bull in the: ring '4' -and .'tlie Oiti" win ,where the parish clerk lies buried- On as the Will." 'curly' 11$, More---;cOndne.ta i auction sales. His voice and activities, have been stilled In death for some Utile now. But .we shall always remember Win'. for the---Sunsliine he put intoso: many lives in and around that town - hip. ' '' ' 1 laughed. 40.0 'made mueu noise; and ,even when the *young man ;teacher re. - turned 'td'occupy his bed in the room they kept uptheir hilarioustalk and doings, much to the 'Chagrin of the parents below: At:last-the-tether-got Irate and said if. there WOS to be no pipipg demi by _ the boys he 'would' cone up there and Strap them, And: risr rateia&vv§i _ _ _ the- strati: l'or--!'dlSeiPline; There- was. a. little lull after .this warning, but the boys forgot about it 'and -still kept .1,4) the noise 88(1 laughter which hindered anyhaey from going to sleep. ' The father, --true to his, word, in tlie dark- ness secure.d,a good leather strop and without getting a light entered the room where the boys and teacher were, with -a griiii deterininationto .put. 44 end to this fooling. Not knowing how the women- had, placed the beds for, the ., housecleaning time. It never ncearrOct, to hirktilat he might_get to the wrong bed; and he turned in the gloom to the ettrest-bedlie-cOuld-reach,. peed to bethe teacher's. Turning down' the clothes he .proceeded to lay the 'Strap . heavily and repeatedly on 1‘nat'part of 'the -body that generally thtn best niget with punishment.. The boys were 'silent ntiw. They were hid- den under- the „clothes in_the.ir bed' .. . .marvelled that the: teacher Was "tak; •', ,ind there was nester _a Word cirproteat or "holler." The father, Seeminglyjmtisfied that fie.had reduced. :all te silence. ',went out of the ,roorn again unaware - of his Mistake. 'Talk .about taking it!That teacher WaS a king ie theestimation of those boys and .of that father -if ever he found out his 'ratlike. , ' the tQrnl)stone it reads: The vocal ,'powers let us mark 'Of Phial), Our late parish Clerk. In church .none ever heard...a layman With clearer voice say an- Amen, * Who 114* with hallelujahs , sound Like hint can make the roofs rebound. Ate Choir lament ide -choral tones, The.,-trorn'"-sfr,""snniffert' ... . .... . .. • :Muir e# iAriatia TOE CANowlaN ralltliaNKSuMOkie CO timitto' *628 Frani-St: W. Toronto ocyliaa'N4T-4.0.t, 011 11117-Tpurir-ole vildts thig July, as -August -has- -a- -Achedule when I expect to be there for a- few days. Then I would like to visit the grare of my old, friend Luther there last.' -Luther, thirty- years 'ago, had itwo great and wonderful gifts that 1 thought he , did not •ticielitlt. He had the 'faculty to nitrate ethers and surprise yell -with•-'neises of beasts and birds AM re'''cePtAduzd them to perfection. Also, .11e had "a most retentive ,meinory. I- am' told large portions of it, aod also put.•in. the"gestUres and. tones Of tbe.procher. He was not iu the habit of 'doing 'this. Nor, would he: e'er make light of any pod tiring or cause. But in -a. party he •had a way -with-hire thatwith the: Aid and mimicry he was an Al entertainer.: X often wished that I dOUld borrow his:.tnenibry When tak- ingor~:ztudfeb hi pond ouS • volurnes of ,philoseram nndjpyscliol- ogy. 'Ile_ certainly taught pAe ,and many others the art of a .fine hospital- ity and friendship. , ' Just now, while writing this; I hap- pened to turn over an Old notebook and found this about the great- MitcauleY, . .who wrote in his diary when crossing to, Ireland from England at, one timne: "I put On my great cootand sat on the .deck •during the whole , of the voyage. ,As could not read used an excel- -lent ,substitute for: --reacting. I .1went throtigh 'Paradise'Lest' in my .:head. I's -as Daivn -township,. on the grpupd where: •"Curly?' -Brown, the well-known auctieneer, conducted so many farm sales. Ple-toId Stories to the glee Of his rural `COmpitnies,gath- ered iii -the lee side ,of • strawS(ack or ii:harn,:Where. breezily -auctioned eoUld* still repeat half Of it and that Win,gbara pruperty; ewner re to vote .04 A.ugnet 21$t. uu 141441F to grent $15,009 toWartie the erectiOn* of an addition to the 1410141 In that Own. - , , MrfeJonatifen Kyild, of Exeter, tiled on- Friday last in her eightieth year. Sife•- reirverr thlity:Six direct descend- uts,, three .rons, two daughters, four- teeu -.1rfindelfik1ren Seventeen grea liandebildren: • - nOttuces the marriage of her daughter, Ruth Mildred, to „Harry' It. ConnOrk4,- • Petty Officer 'U.S.' Navy,. October, 4443. 'Mrs. Connors. is 4 elerelierpf,•the etaft Of AlhanY Hospital, Albany, N.Y., .and her husband IS serving Witik. We tiavY • 'in the ,Atlantic theatre, • -*Pete lying iestrtXtors from the - Centralia air training 'sehOol` were seriously injured on Friday, last when their Anson plane crashed when, lend. hag at a relief geld at Grand They; Were taken, by amleilunee to the air - sel4oe1 -hospital at Centralia: The Men were PO,'ThoMes J. Muleair, from' •Outremorrt, -Que.,. PO. C. It: it. rririg,, from Zoting, SaSir. _ , The -death occurred in Sta.111-ef.toWn.• Ship, near-Biheefteld, on Saturday, of' Annie F.-. Carter, Wife of John E. Pepper, after ft Prolonged illness. Mrs. PenPer,, who was In her SiXty'-eixth year, was bore in- Clinton and spent the early years of her life in Oaderich township._ Since her marriage in 1991 her -home was:ln Stanley. • Surviving, besides 'the- -husband, are _three._ Sena ordaughteis._ ja-S-----Ste.„.,-:-Matie.,;:of..tbe'---White- chureh district, met with a . painful accident in -Wingham .recently. Her son, , had been changing :a 'tire at a -garage and she Was, standing beside the agp.inst the running board, commenced to „roil and struck her at the back" of the': knee, causing her to fall back- wards. She tell* heavily on, her left hand, :breaking-thelarge wrist„-and_clislocating the other :}Nriiplin,',and hand -were put ta aeast at the .Wingluun hospital.- :TO:IreOpeuM.lit„. Station at Bluevales , The-:(1.N.R. station at, Bluevale , is being repaired, preparatory to its being reopened and„ an agent pieced at the • IRY• Vdtut -da4Oe4 - "Oneof the mein thhigs: we fellows keep in. mind 'here in Normandy is, -the knowledge that the, folks at- home are backinguS„,,to the limit. ,It's a great comitrt 15--06'." " This - is what one bey Wrote home to -his Mother, in one of th-e first letters to corn e backf, to Canada from Prange. •He went on.;:-,''Th,e; great' •,_,,„nes'" of etinipinent• being brought lir' would stagger your:,i,h4aghiation. C4•1.14S, tanks, - artillery, jeeps, handgreinideS; supplies for total war,: food for thousands- of men': The trucks -MoVe . up the roads If th-VETifi-dfe-dTifr-gigliTctiTT we hudn't faith 'in the ability of the Allies to keep this rolling along, :we'd be in bid :shape.We- keow that the -horde frons of all. our Mlles ---e steady and secure and they will -se to it that we get our,supplies pronto': -We also kuow that, there IS ,a let niorc where these are, ceanifi'' - That is a priceless tliiig for fighting raen to haVe-Lfaith. 111 -Ili -6, People at 'horiie: It .gives thenr coeficlence 1111(1 :11. sense' of securitythat iiPthing cisc ,eduld. " - _ They- have faith :in their allies, arid ther 'have faith in OW; another. With- out this they couldn't have facecl the blazing gnus of the beachhead, the booby traps and machine guns They . Last week, in an *red, isoment of our. own, we stated "-there- never -Wats- d'ilJetter -tiMe than now .to ..pay slebts,!" - So many apPro70c1ofthe-s-uggestiou"and _acted .on it, that. are citing Attention to i.t.again', - We beii.eve about 85- peii-cent, of the people are gen.. laiinely Anxious to 'Pay tiller debts; the other 15 per cent. through indifference .for the rights Of others, or a liiistaken idea .,of their own importance AO niit meet their iblancia4 -- rpsponsibilities, until pt:eSsed It is the latter class to whom. tb.is advertisement is directed. . • .We ask all .subscriber s to check the libel on their paperif the 'date is not what it should be, please let us know at once so the necessary correction can be rnade, now :that-'theY-are-_.-lightbfg: ethe -for- rt -great- toramoo- cause, • ..- - And behihd the leaders, the com- manders and generals; behind the fight- ing:Soldiers of earth, air and Sett, there is faith in us -the folks at home, the mot1i_er1e---74,nti workers, The. welders, the riveters, the men and women who . Work on pittneS, A 'paratrooper standing before the • yawning darkness„,pf the quiur,...floors .knowS that his ' paraclaute, bas been packed right, He has faith in the pet - son who packed it for 'him. - They have faith that we, the lichne root, are, stantlinsleid- ly. With tools of war; Munitions, sup- plies:- They See-'-iu their mind's, eye rows of arinaments tailing Off the assembly lines. They know nal bullett aed shells are being -turned out in a never-ending, supply, that .food is being grown ' and shipped, mail- that more is ever ou the WaY• _ - It may seem a far :crY-,,frfmllvrir that the •price "of sugar or bread_ is not allowed to move . upward-. - But bow about the price of steel, nickel, powder, rubber,. lucite, plane's" coin - pass . . . camouflage paint .Tor,in. in- VaSion barge? '1 • :Keeping the home front prices On an evenkeel will keep all 'prices at a steady ,fe'Vel. •ICS lip to • us '-'-every 'citizen of Canada -to .do his part. station. Foe Ogre Sodrrio thion Weir no fitatiOn alont, the expreee mod freight Waitress being brindled limier other arrangement*. Rebertsereeereeeter 'y .At the home of ildfr..,and 3Xri. Jams Forster, West Wawatfosh, int SOW. day, jUir 22udi-lthe3r-41aweir4ets, Jaan laiZabetb, Wit4 44104 14 lastertage Adam Alexander Robertoon, 1004 pi .A.thuff Robert**, gest Waweareth. 'Ore eetennear-;---***-----irettaautsli4x-tey.-16. WIlson. After ft Wedding 'trip to points :north- Jite young coup10,, wILL make their home in V. est' WawanOtth. $ebultx----Edgar wtughtua .Zsted, opt.* was Uto scene'of, It pretty wedding 94 $sturdart July 22nd, ;When _FratelAl. ktene ter of Mrs. Felgar'aild-tlie:late fleOrge.• Edgar of Aiorris tewnehip, bee4ine''the bride of John It, Schnitz, son of Mr. • and Mrs, GeOrge SebuitZ, 'Kitchener. MeePonfild of Pict - now, cousin of the -bride, 'officiated. Mr. and Schultz will reside at Kitchener, - -fileatoittes New 'Rector ." )344 at- Present rector!. of Christ • Church • (Angliean),•Lendoni will become'reeter of St. Thomas' Church,. Seaforth, when Rev. Pr. It. P. 'I):,1-IfirfOrd, now of Seaforth, :,goes to, London as rector. of Christ• amen. The ._e=ttange place this month. Rey...Mr. Gilbert is ntitive,..of Sherbrooke; Que., Noted 'Bandsman , ,i,Prederfek-- Wa: citizen: of Clinton; .died on Whigs ay last in ;his Seventy-second year. He was a nittirle of Aniutru,but spent the -- greater part of his life in -Clieton as tr,-hardware-sa-UMM---.,,,Ile---,-waS,•-a-- - noted musician and in addition -to his • membership' -in .the Clinton4 brasS, band lie organized, the' Clinton pipe- -band, of which he was leader and his ..sons -1143:•11. 1i:tether;Williiufl, -Were Members: ••• „ He 1 avek besides hi,s wife; three sena; , Cob . Centralia; PrOlaklin. C., of Clinton; the best half. • I really never enjoyed, it so' rauch.''. How , many of us tan repeat- ten lines of this: -excellent yet lengthy Poem of -the great Miltoo? recall about seven lines Of it, com- mencing • "Still evening came t and twilight gray .had in- -her sober 'Itrery all -things -clad." That.*•thefoory lesson of forty-three years' ago aft .public school .perhaps will never • leave me. But a punctilious, astonishing memory InY family say I have not, and espec- ially when I lay My glassres down, or ferget that I °was to be ,at -home for supper, at a, certain- time. LiEMBURN LEEBURN • tt.ug Hugh Chisholm is here from Sarnia- for two weeks. " Visitor's at Mr, and Mrs. Jas. Phis- belueslionie on-SundaY were Mr. Atvin Whaling-aod,,grandson. and Mrs. Mary "Bowler, from Atwood. Miss Alma Chisfielm returued__,-home with, -plena, after ' spending- two weeks' ,holidays there:.. • . Church service' was held last Sunday. Mrs: Grace McQearrie of Goderich and - 'Mrs..' sttod Young of Toronto were among the.; congregation. There will 'PORT Ai4BERTbe no service 'hh ere for the montet August, • the pastor, Rev. Harold *Currie, being on holiday. • ' PORT A.LBERT, Aug. 1. -Mrs. Dan Dan Congratulations :are due to 'Miss Alton of Belfast spent the -.past two Maryhelle Chisholm, who lately . ie - weeks at the home of her -daughter, ceived•honors in her MUSIC examination Mil. Percy Graham. • " • in grade 4, piano. Private• Arnold' Hodge, .of the .Can- (Intended gor last week) adian Reserve Army, 'stationed at, LEEBURN, ju1kz-4--S0me.... of our Chatham, spent last weekend .at the .farthera-attended the sate Of the late. home of his parents. Ed. Lawson's .Stock and implements* Mrs. Richard -Reed 'spent th,e Week-! on Wednesday gjast week. ' • .end, at. the home of her sister, Mrs, • Haying is netirV• over for another Bay 'Altdiir at Belfast. ' • - , • Year. The crop Went in ifl fine shape, There will be no service at the United there -•being no rain of any account . to church during the month. of August, ,Spoil it. -The rain which came last The minister„., Rev. IL L Vickerson, week was • much appreciated for -the will beon his holidays: . Rev. 'Mr. grain, fruit and root ',crops. - • •Ha.kleyvotid of 'Toro)* eonducted •the W.M.S.-7-T1(e • july meeting service last Sunday and delivered "an of the •Wilg.S.. of Leeburn church was interesting address. • held on Wednesday July at the Mr. and Mrs. Percy Graham and home of MISS_ Helen_ Cam*, with seven. family spent Suiaday Witli Mr. and Mrs. members land seven visitors ' present. -Gordon Orr of Gocierich township. The devotional exercises Were eon-, - Miss. Marjorie McKenzie vyas •home &Acted by Mrs. Elainilton Clutton. The from aainiiton for the week -end.. -4q-program in the Missionary Monthly was "-Miss--Kathleeir'--Crawtordr Reg:N., on followe,d. Miss Prlith _Horton . read .4 the staff of Goderich hospital, is ell. prayer. The temperance leaflet was -b;aea I feud hy the leader _ane Mrs. , (Rev.) lier parents find has been -visiting Mrs, Currie reed from the study book. 'The -Clifford .41Ipatrick and Mrs. :lames meeting,. closed with singing and the WilSou -Of near • Dungannon for -a- few; benedietion • -Lunch-wag- - served- by gy• the hostess. Miss -Menthe Graham, nurse-in7.) • • , • - - training ..at St. Joseph's Hospital, lon.-..".•• iREDUCTION IN BUTTER -RATION ' don, Is spending three Nireeksa holiday FOR AUGUST With her parents.A recent order ofthe„Wartime Prices Mrs. Robt. Okeand Miss Kathleen and Trade' Board ha's announced the Crawford spent -last week -end holiday- temporary suspension. of, the , butter Jagat .PortElgin. ration. This has been done by qxteusl- . . ' 4. The Ashfield Patriotic Society will ink the die date .of the next butter meet at the home et Mrs, Victor Green coupons until August 10. In this way on Tuesday afternoon, the -8th. The there 10 a period of three weeks -during ladies will be packing boxeS' for the vehich.no butter coupons. becothe local boys overseas. All donations 'This saving, of one-half • 'mom& of will he gladly receivedfor the boxes. 'butter per person :does* not appear to All the ladles of the ceremunitr are bnietintilupciihe',d1:ribity7nennit'dtliait,.: .plioaplfatottiionn. dis borgitilly invited .to 'attend. • ,. The W.M.S; or..theAlpited. church' aniounts to over half it million Pounds Met last Thursday afternooh at the of Abeueottredring to- the ,D'emitkieh :Bureau 'home of. Mrs, • Itiehard• Reed, With twenty ladies present. **Interestieg of ,Statisttes, butter supplies in *Ceti - readings' were given by Mrs: lames ada on July 1, were cloven nearly 5 'McKenzie and Mrs, .1Iarry teenor, million pounds from the sttieka on 'The study book Was taken by Mrs. hand on julY 1 of 1943., In additien, Bert Crawford and Was Inuch enjoyed, tsliehrprottiiilc,iyoenaretacsreatnicereraysehai slightly hostess.. a A 'dainty lunch was eerved .by time omore than five PO CW1t.p while butter , , consumption has increased about teen tier eerit, for the saine period:. The production of butter • cannot be increased to meet this higher deinand iVithout causing great hardship in soine Aher'phases of the d'airy,AtidastrY; as, :Por•extunple,--cheese,.. evaporated Milk, ?ream, milk pOwder and lee ereann In. the hist few years; the produttioft of milk has hit ,an ali.tipie peak. But it 'is not expected that the total milk preduetion this, year will exeeed that Of -last year very, Much., More butter is produeed, during the 81111011er iremtlis than is heeded. That extra butter isplaced 111 storage to meet. the Iemarals of the 'whiter 'When, More butter -Is eaten than is produeed. This Situation • likeWiffe influeneed the temporary 'eurtitilmetit in the butter allovranee. denghter, Mrs': E, Jacob,' ClintOM. A. younger sim, Plt. Sgt Qbarles` a Muteh, was ,killed aetien .maltar- ;in 1942. ' COMB 110NiE3: , AQQ0rdillg to -a.'reeent annointeerrient by the prices and siiiippiy represent- ative for Western Ontario, eoeab honey has been removed from tlie list Of re- ioned.--iireserves-i---When--it is offered. fer-vile In standard,seetiOns 414 ieelres be 4% filches>, or 4-itebes by 5 inches; Out eeinb :hewever, end trotted honey. are tll1 listed- as ra- tioned eonimodities, on - the,- basis of, two ,mounds per ' preserves eoupon. Speeial vouchers for the ,purchase .01! hOneY bY mall order eer: be, seeured from 1oil . ration boards in exchange for .preserves pOtipens. •One Ventlier issuedin exchange for four preserves eoupens, eacli-*voticher being good for the anal order purchese .of . eight pounds of 110110. - , WRITTEN 'SPECiikl.L.Y Tta. , ' vvEEkt-‘1.0 NEvvAP,A,FERS, OF •cANADA JIM GREENBLAT tko SIM $W(FT GU 0114 ill .00,KATcb4 • OTTAWA, July .31„ -.-Details 'Of, the Sixth* Victory Loan Are tow srevealed: On .an.. objective -of• $1,200,900;000, -pup- scriptions tota1le4.$1,407,547,650, with - 3,77,0,000 indiVidual ariplications. The, arnied.forcesbought .$47 millions,,those overseas $13 milliOns. 'Finance Min- ister Ilsley„ told,' the 'House a -904. mons thatcost of the issue would not exceed 88 cents fcir- each 1Q0. Because of the exiatetiee of an ade- quate pool of trained pilots; stispension of recruiting., for Canada's nir",force until Octoberl was alitibuneed'cAdmitly; by Air Minister POwer. It was pointed out that this will not 'affect the output of aircrew for 'approximately' a year. Because of this reserve; pilot training -flying training schools will be -lengthened by eight, Weeks and only , those-, best qualified Nowhere' ha§ ther'e. stich will • abeowa,Ibloaled t4-teo,fi.ecaorant:huo:poti:uinniin: rked benefit -from the 'Ce* as' pilots: • All eategories• a air crew and dittribution -eontr I - '9111)?:t1 - to earm-commisslops...It is likely that - , as with he : hese regulations wl11: .result- in the schools turning out the best ,Aralped pilots in :hist97.; atimis in France, were completed, ahd. the reasoo..is, of coarse, obvionSt/ The R.C.A..r. now has .a, two-way mali ker.- vice-, linked • with postal notate hi, Gibraltar, Italy. and the Near East: The ' hens of Canada Are cackling mightily for l3rititio. xels.astonighilig. .to learn that the Special Products' Board of the Dominion ,Department of Agriculture bought forexport- to the . British Ministry of. food 3,700 carloads - of egg g *from Janilary 1 !to '.'Jtine 28 this year. That means ahont l-00,000 -cases or .72 tailliOn 11.0Zell. • Last year . for this period -the . purehases were , 1,700, carloads, ninlier or eases -par- -chased from various Provinces were as • follows: B.C., 155,000; Alberta 363,000;._ Saskatehewan 455,004; Manitbba 2714,- .--000;---Ontario- 090091-f •Quebett- 143i0001:-* Nr Brunswick 2;600; To -build or not to bend, that is the QueStion Which was discussed recently'. hi the Ho,use of Commons by the -rar- liamentary , assistant to the Minister of Munitions and . Supply. Ile gave severalreasons-for. deferring Constrec- tion of -homes :except where it is es- sential in order tp meet ' housing re. qtdreinents. •" One advantage is that postponethent ef-building will suPPlY 1 a backlog of construction -activity -: for 1_ employment..Purpeses . atter ,..the...,Y;Ar.1.., Another is that inaterial available at,- -present- are In _-rusuy : cases -tub-. ., stitutes: or alternatirtAraterials. The demand': for luniber.. for wiir bUrposeir' does not slacken; ,Canada's increased shell prOgram calls for more steel,. while productipe of brick,,tile and.cbm- crete 'blocks is well below normaltlind supply of hot-air furnaces will not begini-tO meet the flemand.• In most areas, too- plumbing Supplies are in short. supply. • • . * * '* : , , fifty-three- million :poOnds . of the 100;000,000' pounds of beef Canada;,has agreed to Ale to thd Un,ited•Kingdoin t, In 1944.-45 hitS already gone there, even • though* the contract Ints •' justbeen signed; ..,13tit the British are going to take all that. we can make available, so- when the contract is 'over it may he three or four times the reininnini figure Stated. • This represents the equivalent 01! 250,000 eattle ivained„up to thirty. million dollars:, One of the factors in, the coetract ,is reported to. he that fresh-:Careidian.beef can be landed tette Old Country in ten -daYs,. While-tha.t shippad from the Argentine takes three %timeslig loug.- in rlie.liast the 'hilfi Shipped 1,25000 heed of cattle to the U.K. in a year. This contract, accerding to Agrieultur. al . Minister .Gardiner, assures floor prieeS for beeCon a revised settle, and further Will not -disrupt doniestie sup.; plies to a 'point 'Where 'meat ,ratiiming will be neeessitry again. - • • 4. j. *, jest -recently, three Plying' Fort- resses landed at Iteeirliee airport, Ot- tawe, tarrying eight tons of mail, about 750,000 -letters for the folks back home' ,froru our (Matiedian meti end women oversea. 'Thebig load was the re- sult Of' a hold-up by British tensors Who were waiting while P.1)fty °per. 1 country general. store Ei- total business increase -since 1939, ac- cording to official •estunates -tabulated at (ttaa s around sikty per .cent.• • To fhow the Telatil-e position of. VariffaS types ot_inerelunas, here are.. ,fignres_ort sale§ volunie for the year 1943.: .Por department stores and mail order houses there was a decrease of onelyer cent.; chain, 'tore' also showed a .decrease 2.3 per cent.: independent storesg not Ancluding country geOeral stiyes, increased 5S per centand the eonnirr "e.tore__Inereased--.9.52--per---cent.- • !IRSTf:pleitTGApZ1--001*.7 If ocutfonoi vionesr i14 .needed .rarml,senSd"us.brart4icutiter(tetive Possibly we can assist you through.our Rmining.deptirtmeut' . - Attraetive,• terms. Alt inquiries treated, confidentially. Hiror&Erie .moprreAG.E.,cpcotAxioNLondon -. . " St.