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AdVerthfing Rates on. requeet'. Te1ePhon4
OCTOBER, 5th, 1944
'WILLIA1,4 PIVLOOk -
aVe, had co-operatives In -,,,anada tor
youtoo ptiolook 1114 oven • so , Many years and they take been 'She,
mito,,sigo of fitiotig strength that tbe cessful or .not accortlieg to the degree
Of their useininess in the field in,Whiell
!few's'. of bideath In WS •102ncl'.. year oeate,Co-oPeratives,,are 'just
oOttrise., 'He pas'seci "
in tie • sleep" early SundaY 'Morning, "-"" i•orn cerabilied,
"
o1! hVkLUa1S Ar t
111$ viraS .reraarkanW°4ge; Born' efe°it 'tanim°a'
*objeet. Socialism is something entirel$
in the little' village of Bond
tar from Torente.t.he ,son of a. -doetor,, conclusion would ineanthe
he was 'trained tor the lawi With 71iieli .destruction of Co-:operatiVe societies.
46: 1.cris igssociated th. one capacity or :Britcliz has • ee-operative 'concerns
Itiailkaroent,..;beame a member, ,61 the
• .14iinrier Cabinet as POStillaaer-Gen.--
Jarfil,:, was Wistrinnental in the inaligur-
'p.tion of Empire penuy poitage . and
)1inaPire"- Cable ,service,.- established the
**Cderal. _1:W1)4Tb:ilea of tabor, for over
•seventy 'years Was a niemb.er of: the
ate _.,t4..-ithe r University, of- Toronto
.. slid its chanceilor'for•'.the last tvventy
years of 'his retireMent
_ifriain political life .he.'ivas appointed*to
•high'Itiatelali4Offire-unciwas--0111ef
41MW-Of-Ontarloifor-taan-y-years
• In • these and, other capacities he
atiowed MX energy- which. was. ma tete&
egdy by the broadness and 'sanity- of
his views. As the years passed and
his astonishing Mental and phYsical
vigor 'coutinned:tO eXelte wonder and.
*dtairation, he was rightly regarded as
• the Grand Old.. Man of Canada.. We
, strengthening:-
WEA0111‘.
Harr!' fr, Voule
PIGS ARE 116$.
We shipped. uload of pigs to • Toronto
Yesterday. They were all sleek and
tun% and by careful use- of a, set of
scales-, I, ani eonvInced, that we shall dUrante. l$0t/r, militarily and politic-
inive a stair proportion, of selects. If ally; the Strength. of japan is mere
decisively dependent 'en her trent
41W AN'S 1NRIKOING when a till • vacuum tithe may -mean
onuoupirpts 10St Ship. ,
neW governinent of japan- le We have- conquered the menace of
LUt stressing the graviti •°Vents, and the submarine by a combination
attempting to prepare -the Ilona° front phyalcs and tlie..niassive fleet of can-
tor greater ,sacrifices. and greater en- voy mut -patrol -craft, the deStroYer
escort teffin, and the long-range patrol,
planes. Japan ,Cannet 'build the great.
'fleet . of cOnVOY cra# that her extended
netivork of 'Waterways. requires, ,
• ,Nettriwbile Japan is losing ships itt,
rate„#r beyond, her repleeement eapa
city. This loss of., tonnage is ,not, only
a grave 'Impairment or her mWtarY
petential; doeS pernaanent „damage
they' doe't etene back wthe.majority as we shear avvay her een'tnieStS.,
of • them. that' `klass goln;: to The, astonishing success of Allied
spend at least a. half-day at the grist subMarines against Japanese. shipping
mill and: another behind ,the *Owe at Is ope of tUe 'deciding factors of the
th Vrov- J? a resent tied post-war ecen-
the,;Inick. of, the grocery store einnidatu- War. it is also having great effect
ing hovC the packers bac& a 02 ap .p
eminent graders bought over. , omy, We have been sinking.irrePlace-
jim Williams called me uP Ote 41g.1.1t, able :tonnage and irrePlaceahle, Mater -
Wore last arid, said lie could take ttlY ials in almost 'every vat ,of
Japan 5
eleven „ in load to the station., It waters, while our own extended supply
rained that oue those late lines have' been, virtually free from
September drizzles that don't seem to Attack. . • ,
mount to Much, When tile Here is, one aspect of the war in
clock, houneed off hoarsely I looked,. out ,NN;hieli Japan's, technological inferiOr. new, fast tonnage that brought large
iuto the muric ainl found that the rain itr is clearly 'Visible. Both suVularine commercial returns', ". •;.
ancl aitti-Subitn.Firte warfare are :high,- Other domestic headaches plague the
ly complex teelrnical operations. We Government, and, they will be intensi.-
have shown otarselveS the *masters of fled by our Military pressure. Man" -
one in the Pacffie and of the other hi power shortages that make necessary
the 'Atlantic, • Guile; daring, .and, sea- use •ofiniore women in industry and
niansbip still play their part; but that 'disrupt r the educational 5iystem
physiesradar,' asdic, :and the phen7„affeet Japan's Soeial structure. So 0.0
omehal devices •of both offensive_ and the shifts of population 'that accOni-
defensive undersea warfare that have pnny decentralization and the evacu-
ation of target areas. •
Changes in. the Cabinet And in the
Higli ConareindLcanno_t alter 4,apall'S
basic military situation: Thertannil
our subma.rine- fleet q. withont „the preVen.t the release of Allied poWOr
'scientific resources that \ionic' enable fOr •use againsLthere. that will resitil
her to evolve, produce, and t -man 'effic,- from German, defeat, . .,1311„t JaDa_4'.4
lently—th-#--detection---4nStrenientS ulers.can,still,4)reserve-Japaia,milLt
have found, So Valual?le. Modern° war fight, and , hone that they ,can -keep us
to one of her • major peacetime. re.
sOurcea„ The highly developed Japanese
-merchant marine Was a source of
Japanese national pride :and national.
wealth. In 3.93Q Japan's merchant
ileet of almost six million tons was the
third largest in the world, much of it
• wbieh an lenneuse business, and 1144 stopped. EverytlAng leoked good
r, ter the job, •
Britain is not under Socialism.
The rain had been deceptive.: We've
., had quite a bit of rain lately and the
,
, The papers the other' 44s recorded lalvaY waS, gteasY. Jira: came along
_ , . . .
the murder ofia young girl in Trinidad ' kb: 4tateta"ylarciiiself'riedlegrgitlitr tiflinchstire,
in a 'voodoo ceremony, the murderers Postiole a week ago, Init the big ilouble
alleging Abet they wanted the .girl's wheels filially gripped an e
blood to cure their -ailing wives. nn"- cl-mn to the 'Plg"'Peni which -is.-airetlY been- develoPed* and about whicia we
... -1."L'. are told, so little ---have given us a new
was among the_ East Indians. 'of whom
, _ din:tension' in whieh-to opdrater
there are manY ing Trinidad. But lit • Japan hif's - heeril 'unable- to camter
,
the , papers ef the same day is the
„ •
story of how, hi the State of Ob.io, a
_ .
Man, evidently- an .A.V.gla.xonJ"stddd
acroSs the Jnirn7yard..from the barn.
It took bini about tWenty minutes, to,
get straightened around ,so that Vs e
could. drive the -pigs up,the loading
ehute. • , °
Jigs can_ certainly_ be ce-enerative,
lithe otlier'hand-they be.--vory-
on.-a- bildge—alid-dtbiyped-twu -of-his -cantankerous.- --Ours_were_Rantanker-
.
of them drowned. The father when the more -adventurous ones to walk up
aninto the truck. We had a one,
apprehended gave as the reason for eared veteran. _of many battles who
d
his actiolt that he had no home for
the boy, . To Use a, trite expression,
the veneer of civilization is not so very
thick.; at any rate, it could stand some
Sena into the river beneatli, where one ous. • Usuallp you can peretiade one of.
vulnerability • of the Bonins and the
'home islands to ,our carrier forces...'
We Still face "it hard fight in: the,
Pacific, Although the loss, of sea-
borne air strength greatly weakened
Japan's fleet,, she has- been hoard -41g
her air forces. For months the OV-
ernitient's propaganda has 'exhorted,
commanded, and besOught 'Japanese
worker S to turn out planes, and Japan
call still put a -sizable number in fthe
air to defend "vital points,'
In the 'final oefeftf• of -Japan we
'Must 'still .be dependent on Chir's
zeparav4y. ability to
support 9111:laii4#46:•
—The Atlantic illenthly E(Beston)..
PLASMA NEEDED
*
TORONTO, Oct. J. Laug-
t- oarfmtku-- of tile blood -donor ------
cemmittee of the Toronto branch of
t- the Red Cross; said tonight that news:
of Allied victories .was baying an
"adverse effect" on blbod donors' ehinies
which was "alarming"- to --the lcd
strolled nonchalantly up about half-
way and ' their ,became- cantankercals-
It knocked, me don, belted into Jim
and drove the other tee pigs into con:-
fusion, The- battle was on, and we
couldn't -seem ,to--,-get.--anywhere with
them.. -The ;more we chased them, the
More tkey ducked and dodged,- and,, I
could just 'see the pounds rolling off
each one of them. .
Jim was sweating and -swearing and
I was -sweating .- -and finally he
stopped' and said, "These are the .worst
lot I've everirun into." Just then the
pig walked up into the truek as 'pleas-.
ant fas could he.- We sort .of feebly
w:ived our arms lina darned if the. rest
of -those pig.s didn't walk into it just
as easy as could be. We...pulled the
chute ,oht, slammed . the tail -gate and
'looked atteach other in a silly sort of
ARE TRET.,FOR ,OR AGAINST.?
note -that at the Pre-
gresstve OtnaserVative ',convention at
Nitingham.iaSt vveek Mr._ Karl Homuth,
speaking in support- of Mr.
na.rdiff, the Progressive Conservative
naember for North Huron..,, and the
.larty's :nom -pee for the coining elee-
t•ton attacfed' the family %allowances
meaSure. Apparentli he failed_ to
Mention why, it his .party is opposed
to 1.t everyFrogres.Sive Sonservafive
MeMber in the House of, Commona,
Including 11r; Cardiff, :voted. for it.
If Mr., Ilounith was in the House at
the'tinie, voted'fOr it too. NOW he
has ,nothing.__good_td say of it—eVen
7 4711s. it names; ;,.'haby bonuses" ,,f`diaper
doles' • •
Wliere does 'the. • ProgressiVe
. servative party stand -o°13..this ineasurei,
• anyway? Despite the,. fact that the
• lfederal Members • of id's' patty at
___
arinies in Europe has almost destroyed
Premier Drew "came out with . a 'state -
the head widely. held.. tha:ii-the war
went (copies of -which. he distributed
with Germany -would-be ovhr M ajfew
throughout the' Province) ' vigorously
week ..42 ' One eimseciuence is. that the
iOndemning -the, measure. • ' Then the
probable , date of ' a • Federal' general
other day he produced another state election has .been advanced to next
raeat, to the effect that i-te.-ad -never
. Spring. In a pre' issue we .ruen-
opoosed it but found 'fault with its tided the areumstanceS Which 'even
adininistrationthongh it has not Yet • •
theu seemed to preclude the possibility
reached :the: stage of administration.
., . 'of an election before Christmas, and
It is all..yery confusing.
EDITORIAt.NOM'. • even more improbable: Mr. King has
• :. - . •. 4Atdiecl. • that -he--u to avoid an
Fire Prevention Week is annoitnced;' election while the 4oldiers abroad are
two years has been on the 'political
•elines, announces his intention' of
again- taking an active part in political
affairs, his iniMediate 'purpose being,
as he declares, to _`,(1c;o: battle iaiiit
reactienary Toryism!" n Ontario. , He
says nothing of his feu& with:Prime
Minister Mackenzie King,- but he has.
declined • an invita.tion, to contest the
Federal riding of Elglpin tie nett
election and directs:his published
„stattement!' to ..Provincial Matters. His
.reappearance as oan active. participant'
in Public affairs will be regarded with
mixed' feelings. He, has ability,
especiallt as it. speakerwith a remark-
able capa,eity for,the rousing ,of popular
enthusiasra. His conduct. during
recent- years,; however, has .been
erratic in the extreme, and We fancy
‘Way„, ), • ,
The barnAird. was slippery and Jim
was, -ip a hurry. Ile radar the truck;
a little -too •fat and the" rand. Started
splattering all over and he just wasn't
getting anywhere. We tried old--newS-
'papers under- ,the .; wheels. • We tried
:straw and finally We had . to ltan.1 a:
couple of wheelbarrow loads ,,of4;,.gravel
-- Re-
made •a slow get -away, but' not bekDre
the truck Inrched, and knocked. over a
post. -The laneway was all marked
up; cut and torn ,to the point where
it'e liable.to 'he bad all fall. .
• Those pigs certainly better be.seleets.
I have to repair the barnyard .fence,
fiX, the laneway, and my temper is
still �n the verge of: serious outbursts.
MUST .GUARD, OUR TONGUES.
* (Amherstbnrg Echo)
del:Ten-dr -dii—th-e-AlUick-prodnetton--in-At,•41---distarice_And_deny us the use o
great quantity of complex instruments, bases from which t-6-#4Pliir---01-f,r Tfrig
This demands uniformity of materials mented strength billy againstqbem: -
for .mass machining ° and tools; and . This hope still remains, despite th
workmen capage of high -precision failure of the Manipur offensive to cu
operations: These require a tech- off the Allied troops figlating.to reope
nological maturikv which Japan does the overland road to Chinai the failure et s a fatal weakness in 'day§
f Coss .i' ' '
= -7.417Olunteers-reel.-thereja.
any ,need for • them}to 'donate their
e blood. Nothing could be further -froxn.
t the truth. Even .after the defeat of
n Germany. Canada , will undoubtedly
to hold the Central Pacific, and ee iiiake some c!ontribution in the Pacifie
the ,
theatre,"- Col. Langinult said.
Since
Using
.The slower progresi 'of :the "Allied
'Ottawa. 'had iumniinetisl'Y supported it, ,
- _their an early electi4ii appears
but Dorothi"saYs thiy ,can't'fire hers7-.. hen:VS.1y, erigage'd, but :tpat the'election
.her boss couldn't. get another girl -to should:be held within the' constitution-
. . * LT. this statement has inet with general
The ,Town of EsseX plans' to have approval,. exceptions tieing only in a
..", the town hells rim,. tif any, hour, day few partisan :quarters WIrere—no., nit
or night, when war;_with. German's, is ter what Mr. King might do it would
ended as a signal, for 'the. citizens ,to ;Talk of a "snap"' eleOion
.-ga.ther fir a -degignatect-plate -tor - flaieulops. . :gyerybody
• religious -service. That is very coin -
mendable f,er the peeple of Essex; we
:wonder how many. Gotterich people
wonld hear the bells Athe ,twitching
hour Of, say, 3- a,m.
* *
Thofa
attended With itunsial success. We
fill her plate for- love or money. • • •terin. So far •s have.observed,
• . •
• •Bliould like. to give them more atten-
tion in our ohthan we are 'alale
r: to give under:present conditions of re:
stricted SpaCe. • We, hope that. 'after
the war the Godertch Fall Fair Will be
resurrected. .to resume „tts long clireer.
There_ is in -d reaSon Goderich
‘thoutd Mit have -a :suecessful fair if
the People of town district would
'.'e� -Operate its •sutiport. ,
The Saltford Sage has been quiet
Lorlate, Ile says tha.i, When he, has
ids beets and tirrnips lats.Appies
picked artd soldOltii bit a fan plowing
'From now on More and more .:•••
wounded* men will be returning from
overseas. Some, no doubt, will be -
.SenSitive. *Int their physical disabil-
ities. We - civilians should be very
careful and considerate of them so'
that their hurts Will not. be aggravated
in any. way. Recently a thoughtless
remark, "What happened'to that guy?"
—a' guy, W -ho was wearing service rib-
bons we, all would be'proud to wear—
hurt him to: the quick needlessly. He
went through enough fOr us without
that mental agony. Things Which are
said "without thinking's are better left
unsaid. •
Tim vivriNG, Aop
-(Peterlpough Eiaminer)
Bat should we giyetbe vote at
eighteen? Franklyp we think not.• A
boy-er girt .of eighteen is stilt a child
in many important ways: 'Perhaps'
tifey' wir---Drotat. that:they -rite • con,
has known ?Jr. King's position for
sidered old enough to fight, and thus,
rnoiithd' be is waiting, as -all parties should be old enough to vote.We
think that thisis false logic. They
ate pld enough to take orderscertain-
ly, but they are not old enough to give,
them, and voting is a Ns,- of giving
orders. 'We-thinkthat it might be a
good idea ,t� raise the voting age to
ge_raoa-people have.had.
some _experience of life and ought to
have some knowledge. of what is going
on• in the world. ',Such a change th
the Voting ;age would not do anything
abottt the problem of the -voter who
110:er advances beyout the age of
'twell-e,, but we .think would .he'an
improvement, nevertheletls. '., •
are, - for a :suitable time at which -to
.the elector's, to exercise their
eonstitutional rights at the polls. There
'can be no i"snair election; the law
provides foil an interval of nearly two
m °alit between i the' isStiefittlie-wriffii
and -the day. -of polling: :That ought tO
he long enough ;for ftnybody.
• • 4,
Two amateur weather forecasters in
the Niagara disttiet have been jore-
Aicting • an nearly fall' and a steady eeid
winter, basing their forecast` On the
alleged , facts that ItearthworIns' are
doWn In the grirund• Ai their lowest
1e el In. many years, five and six feet
maple .lecives.• are turning the. earliest
in years -1". -,also few walnuts for the
squirrels." The editor of The Wat-
toia Guide -Advocate SfiYs this is all:
bunk—it is all-7NA- cause and effect
. potatoes, 4 lifted.. and 'Stored, writes '
--4ortle broken vvindowsTfited, bis WinWr
wood ctit &nt and when be .has
had a .cliance to look oyer the Grit;
• Toryt and p.0.1%, literatute that bath
• 'drimPed on .him tlie fast six
nionths,,,he may have somethingto mak
to the public through The Signal tar
• ."
The dietiite of a contemporary ; that
there cannot be too nautili „wheat is
bpon to 'question, as 1.9.0ftt sweenin
-stateirtents are, If every • countrY oii
'ettr,th would permit the Importation
wheitt,' And ir its people would eat
wheat prodects (instead. of' rice,* for,
imstance), and if they had the •money
Everyone ,knows now dry and
• "fiard thie tarth Waite during thatAngust drought, ,naturallY earth-
•, wnrios burxowed deeper to cool
moisture .,or curled up and, went
• Ormant; maples usually begin to
turn by mid-September when it's
dry And hot for lack of 'moisture;
nml, there IS ti light nut croft thiS
'fall because a. severe ;Frost last
May caught the tender pink bloom
overnight. We keew—our Japanese
ivallint that provided ,over
of shelled nuts tuit talinow has.
only , a handful that,„ escaped7 the "
spring frost, % '-
we don't know rabout the eirrtle
worms, .nor the stute of the Squirrels.'
•
'larder: bile in Goderieli there have
- THOSE 1iALCY0$
(Glasgow Ilerald)
The ,first world War lies outside the
•
memory of more than half the People
'now alive ; and, it -would be true to say
that these Younger 'men and NvOnle11
are rumble to •envisage the shape and
mental climate of 'the society which
was 'then fireafBritain
Was at peace, and deeming herself en-
Affely Secure:, in a world whitia :ap-
peared' to Teat updri the -most stable
foundations. . It ".1'5 .not possible to
convey in words the -4,914t and depth
of British security through the Vic-,
torian and Ethvardian epoch, ' This
favorect•ceUntry;had 'defeets in plenty.
But ordered progress was the genera'
-rule, and ,.the ' British peeple enjOyed
a- degree' of actual ,freedom widen was
the enty of all their neighbors. Ex-
cept in the Matter a taxation, they felt
almost nothing of the coereitVe power
of the state. The Ystein of national
detente WaS svithout Rey element of
eompulsion. The Citizen these'
islands could not begin to imagine an
,entergency so severe that the Govern-
ment Wouldi'be eompelled not' only to
• i'MpOSe nationni miUtnry serviee but
tilso to assume complete. anthOrit3' over
the whole range of industry 'and agri-
eulture, of commerce and labor and
the;,:persopal life„
Or goods to exehange for imported:been eominents upon how the inapies
, *heat, perliaPS there conla never • he and' other - trees are retainiug their
too much Wheat in the world « But ttte Summer greenness. In the eountry
thirratii of 'Western Canada havepa1n there 1,1 more color, but, prehaley no
int knowledgOP,,of 'the. fact 'that there More than at 'this time in tile average
ten tet tors-retteh w1eat-1n We;nrs 1e .quite .stire„ 1)(1W-
° ' ever; there is a 'winter conting,, Ito
There IS no .gootl groniel foranyquatter what the worms and the'
towores4on that (0 0P4 are sonte-isquiriels do, and it Would be Wise to
• raiked up will lifoelalisru. We,prepare for 'it.
It the homes, all over' Cana.aa, loy.al, ttatriotic.-women Ole to
a...1,:$0vering..
0.ei4 ValS to economize . neig. ways to.ey to lend t
.save .money to. leria their
contitry.,, swy,eu an:a nuke savea mete krosti.o.es mono
'fiollai`ttlafevery Canaalan save and lead. Carip.dessieed for borti6vVing is
Canari
atea to, help pay for,the s Small frookinillions of tanadiaris moun
t
'grer' now than ever beforevery-Cati artnitistleh 41.eodooretb.atkbefore:
, to billions vtlaeo. topllea Ilk., , . • ' .
'Motley' Oa' sav- ' - ' V
1eciorY ondsled.benefit a personal way,
, tool :V01,1011. lieie ca.or
:01) b.ett,
iaolne , , ,114iiss you ate aoingvi,14tboilt ii,ow. . .. .
-13iy. cio o. new c0„
'the ato.oniA tbat you, ukaylecafl r.l.d to y'our co* untry ittstseetn.' a small van. to you, ,
iienntes.m. alMes arta &rites make and Canacia, peeas every
No Man ever did, or (*.eer will become
most ,truly eloqueet without 'ibelng a
eOnStant reader of the `13thie, Atid HIt
aditirer.ef the purity and fitilittlifttY
its langdage. Plsher .Atues,
tte that los tile truth at 111S) heart
need never fear the wantof persuasion'
on his tongue.--jolin Ruskin. '