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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1945-03-01, Page 24rt TRL MONA atm BUONO THE GODERICIR SIGNA.1.4 ANI;) TEE ,,OODER1(01 - -Th414,14041:4)' "7:4,1guat*stri-Prossf.--14.161140i. West Street, Goderieh, Ontario StibeetiPtlen Rate4t4,anada and Great Britain, $2.09 a year 4,40yetiein'r Rate on neat' S. " TelePhOne 71, • Q, ever: • ending up of men- for the army. ha0 agii3t.0;giVen .OpperturtIty ter attacks upon' the ik-,;,-.O.ttii.Wao Geverinnent by. ' JoUrrials whigh ;advocated ,the very measures that have -Cau$V,V the dis- tightinees. •These journals said there weiitd he uo ,troahle With the .Quebee people'it " conscription were huposed; they were° onlY.waltirig .to be teld that their yeulig. men , must go overSeas,' The proRhecs6.-of teourse, proved' to be talse, •ThereNv•Pre r.;,lots and, blot:401Pd' In Qeebee. In 1918 o'er the enter:et- meet of couseriptiOn, and the (*bee people have not, altered 4ittee ,..thea their oPpositions to " compulaory war Service.. They may he wrong and. Itut- reasonable in. their attitude, but they are they'are,, and the Opinions and feelings of a corapa,ct pepulatimi, of ea'amot ,disregarded, The • campaign. -for eouseriptian in ' Capada .was largely '%ounded ere': is, ...attegether. 'too :nriuch7-et: the -4t1atfe comPlek—it---44nebeewants - eeniethini, that something in,* :be re - 'fused; if • Quebec shoveS opposition to ' something, that something, Must be forced' upon it. That 18 not the Brit1sh. way. Northern Ireland is as nittCh part, of the United Kingdom d p • as .Quebec is of, the ;•Bonliniein. of Canada; but -Northern:Ireland Is ex - emit from conecriptien for war seniice. what Would be thaiight of any • parts'. that, should attack Mr.. Churchill and. • necuse, Win of .covynxdice • AA 1,1(4 en- forcing corapulSory. among *he' Irish- Nationalists of Northern Ireland and then, if lie did apply „ con- scription.... should ,blanie• hini- for the disturbances ,,that-' would . inevitably -toile*? , 'Yet ;that is exactly the Sort of thing we have had in. Canada, The Tritento Globe and .Mall, so' Ioudly.' demanded' Conscript -16n; -lie* ' says in its best tongue-in-cheek' manner, ".a rePotifibn of „what happened at , Dranimondyille must not be per- mitted."; 'As if anY, Government 'could • prevent such "'OuthreakS1 -• • t,„ A.ustralia- does• not have • &insole - Alan (eicept for home ,service as .we h:eve' had: it in 'Canada) ; . South Africa. lh• atlia. the'. British Government,. dees. not force the natives to JO* the 'array. bet •raises its armed 'forces - on %Velma- ' tail' Methods. „What • is gained, by foOing cooSeriptien Quebec? ,N!!!:!,u1(1. „Our...A4n3r-Pve*ellE.t"-bn.L,,stiongts.lien4*.• by 'theoaddition"ef 'men' whe have to 'ioeited, into Wearing the unitOrili? The hest' thing. the Government do,- is . to: forget, `about conscription hz Quebec ,and! endeavor , ;. undo :the dainage that has already been :chine emong the people Of that ..Province the ctinPulsers." method-S.:that:, ItT6 , - ..-being•eMployed. • • EDITORIAL NOTES Another sign ef spriog: 'Tearing the FehrinitY sheet off the . Calendar. ,* ' • • • • • • .. Anyway, It has been. a good 4 winter • for the Aim Canadian game -of -hockey. • • • „Nazis that have endured ithe worst.---tliat "there is, 110' g• Mttek... terror stere" for. them. • •)3elt Niaitl When ,The ',bbYti..ogetihold of them they may have the-iievr-eV0* • 4,1 Strikes, Blots, TYPhes: Said Rampant headline. . And :the Gernians may also joeled,e, Moe:- 4iiittiesTyplibons,' Spitfires and" Other: llyIng'ereatiires, as well as -• Beds, &wicks :nod,. British TorninieS,' .„ • 1 • among their plagues * *4: , '.4Middle:cf-the-Itoturi• Minister Gard-. ...-..iner-Seeirla to •hiOire 81160 Eight Into . the glitter'irc..his slandering of Major- • General Pearkes, V.C. .tiattord Bea0011-Herald.% .41(ing"Witit.the politicians, and neWs.- ...papers that, were so busy • slandering thattne soldier,Alineral MeNatightcm. 's •*. , • , - • , , A,. good: -.exanipleof a sentence. the InfinitiVe, is better ',split than not Is, "Smoking Is strictly' for- ‘."' Not ,eyea' a, •p#clazyto we sup- ose, would, Say '"Smoking • Strietly 15 for eh" or. eVell "tinibiting Is, for. biddenstrietlyi" • „ , , ,• "fs not a,aehooilioY "howler it is from .the edltorlal Page Of "Citrateltee-nationat Uti 1915 ' . toy skiddin; carS, The S.anding • of I • 'United Current 1eW$ tbe $0014,ted PONS, Walk WhO had evielentlY 1'•L Abeerni4,3401(44intirteret"474",ePex4°11t047 t • erat'14t.ittaA'S Purees had Wren -am.WIIEN ' 11)4)Etil,i 'MORALE RAM?' used _to ahi anyt_hinkimie tta jot 700 1111bOteer. tbe;.entrent "Atteenekra, Th lioj* AO: the" Etiepetin, wr shock ie "aillieoettiedor. Wheel but that 041000 mixe;nemainetlini would 'end in 19.1.1 was based II1HIrI1V *1r41"' °114"4efi'trea uan 114II4 ou 41°4 "t)4147t of the 4°414t; vr AY, M :. - t - • son gate the people ,ne chanee to be on .optimistie speOulation" about ' the. como ,acenstonted, to the effects. 0 state of. Geri:nate niertile. 1- Though 130 ,,stuhee Amt., pkoigts, rathe 1-hetieh hat, serious ane1YSt4'eVen when the . Allied tile to.. adjuet, theinierves to the Witz armies were ad nen* rapidly through the Germana have had time So get lute -1Yintitch in .kte , 'WOO* Many., perepens „Freifee, expec that'they ceulti.ilglit to strategie botabing--and' Man their way through to Berlin' -and sideeroks as. pi'aetiSeO in..•Gecierieli is hoped w: that „a , Cellarie of ‘Gernian Inerale would open the''read laid Mire the . Allies. tile ettortS and* the risks , of further battles OptiMisire. WAS, ,; trap.' Wild by IrarlOtaCtara that were SUP- Pas0.4 , IQ deer° e iGerniany'S will-to- resist—the great air raids 'against Ger- man'cities and tile threat Of even more cleotructivo .bon11440. to come, Ger- 11144's terrifte, Josses on the. eastern frOnti the expnlalon, of the .Welirmaeht front. France And "the' capitulation OP GerMney's last elites . in Europe. " The '. °I* ni16't' IIII;94Ille tiI4 if an! conibleed fOrce• et these developmentS, •. Actually, the felnotia front haS.110 more been.penetreted than it wioicleet , August,. when the iiiineuncement• wile ; lirst made. The Origfnal defences were d scattered elltthrough the roUgh country y en the weet bank of th0,4111te' and ' probably aloeg the eat hank ilts0, frein Karlsruhe to, the Swiss hOrder0.-Sinee., rbeeanie- evident , last fall that theY would ,,ee' attacked, the -Germane lave ,lied• plenty' of tithe to inteniofyt„,and deepen the `defense:Wei, and they,have had UG shortage Of the meaus rerruireds, whielt are ree'relY0011erete and labor. Their, general methed Lae been, as it Was in 'Italy,o,t0,.eet up' tar more pill, boxes than. they. have troops to oceueY, the , „defending soldiers remaining mobile ••and '' Using Whatever forts are required by the local'factical. situation, But •1n• spite of, the tact 'that .there are Still many miles. of Siegfried de. feneee NJ. he pierced* before General fitSenhower 'Can bring his, campaign, lute the open' warfare 'stage 'of 'the IteSsians,- 'a 'great' deal :has been dime by: our arultio The contrast with lest yeare-7-Cassieo operation 14 Marked, This time the pillbexes are being taken, the troops are going forward. Tbe Amerieen army has, as was usually' the caSe. hi historic past, learned to ‘:11,014.4e: 0"1", Aqekre4t., Eventup,uy some mearts may be found ef ',doing "away with the 10 lierit; the, meantime it,,,'beheeves us . all to walk ivarilY 'and save our fC'or seine. better use than s 110Spital -eases, • * * People Weida scorn to patronize if many, believed, would reduce German "bilikk• marker, it *Odd. he the, people', morate-te-,the breaking -Point before the , of Great Britain the people who endured. the bombing terror. through months and years of flaming death., Xet, are told that huge quantifies of pods, tobacco, cloth, shoos, furni- ture, fuel, drugs and' other- -goo4s disappear and are .sold, in underground, markets. Even In a• nation of heroes there are those who will not Nisi the game hi the -distribution (it the easelit:1214,(4un but will 'reach Out fromr `Yh'er--commocn supply more than their rightful share. Canada Allied reeelied the Rhine: It wa§ alelight that 'the' Germans could not. but realize that further .fighting, espeolally on Cierimu; soil, would mere- ly mean senseleasi kftel'itiCVS 011 their part. ,Yet German morale did' not break. • In 1944, and ' before, Gerraan morale was Indeed very low, at least in. the interior • of , the 'eaturtry; 'The ' events of June 20, whether, theserepreseuted -gennine-reverr or preventive action by Hininaler, Made it '.clear that even generals and stair odicers„„as well as servants in high positions and leaders of induStry, no longer believed owslitut-ortue of'd• Gib:mialli viol _60,, „ nowspape , a or a on Ague is endering;, •hut-bere' we have. reported almostIodally-that wo ‘ers' and who' are -till-patient of rationing and. middle-class mea and vk eaten were being punished by Nazi' courts Or de- whor;welcome opportunities of king featiSt talk, spreading rumors, offend - the regulations. • ing • Nazi officials, helpiug foreigp * • • workers and prisoners of war, listening The ,Ontarlo,Legislathre" is giving a to foreign radio stations, refusing to good . exhibition „ Of ,,,. shadow-boxing. work, and "the like. , There . is much evidence that disillusionment, sceptic,' Party leaders -talk and protest and at him about- propaganda:, hatred, for the tthiPS indulge in a bit of temper; but ,ree,..2'-'-e,;* and 'hinging for peace had none of the parties wants an election, 'spread through:Germany as never he - and the Government, although in a fore a. country at war, Even -in , Germany ihad not shown- eueli. minoriti," is safe, for the present , at defeatism. Nevertheless, there was no least,' if it .keeps . reasonable' expiesto.., bounds. ----The Opposition parties. .did • When: does' morale break?, In 1940 not fa.il to take advantage Of Premier and 4941. the German's expected to Drew's- indiscreet declaration telt lorect",k *.•: British ,moraie :by the blitz. odasy it is generally conceded that be *pier •of opposition to the Federal Gov- blitz- actnallg had the, OPPO—Stie effect. ernment's family allowances measure, When the R,A..,P.,,begon to bomb Ger-- and in face .coi combined attack from: man• cities in earnest, many observers the C.C.F. and Liberal sections of. the doubted Germany's ahility. to endure • , 'such. attackS. for, Jong. • As it 'turned House he modined his o attitude, said out, German. morale was able to with- , in favor fairilit•Allowances,: stand -several. years of strategic bomb - but wanted a better system than had • • • ••• • It is geitain, that • at some critical been adOpted by Ottawa. With Mr. ents in the life of rtations, when Hepburn again in the saddle' as leader mevrithing is' at stake, a "miner Incident raaY beCome 'decisive. When the morale of a people .has been brought close to the breaking -point, just a bit more of • ermg and. horror may cause',the explosion. Who knows what, would have happened to , England in lt$40 if the Gerniauso- at that 1 „time had been ahlez to add ,the V-banAgi• Of IA44 to the bhtt ef the ,,Luftwaffe? - Apparently, an- nature, given...a little time, -is able .,to adapt itself to seemingly. un- bearable ',conditions.: People can . get 'of the Liberal eontingent, the preeeed-• ings of the House . are eonsiderahly more lively than they were in the last Sessial; , but. there is not much Stuff in the verbal 'punches. * * * , Laker 41inister Mitehell Must he semeivhat *of a humorist; . Addressing the Ki*anis Club, at Ni$garn Falis the other day he. expressed the hope that ,.the RuiAlans would. get le""BerIin "before we do, beca.ise we might: treat. it-Uke "a- foOthidi - tIllide 'give Wee- eheers for the losers and 'three eheers for the winners and olay the foundation for auother war." However, that is something more than .a mere One .Of the "'dangers of the post war period will he 'the lazy inclination •••••• ,P1111. 0$1,FER OF LAZY ,MEADOWS By .Harry ,T,. • Bode--' , DREAMING • OF SPRING Yesterday was. warm and noticed the first. signs of spring. amongst the at Lazy Meadows. Mrs, reetly„ that they will all have to pay ampng Anglo-Saxons to consider ths;t;, stock here other thInge, • •Private 'lettere' Written tO,IGernien` Soldiers as tar back as 1912 by ,tamily, ,friends, itrid. sweethearts are in the liana' th.e „ These, letterdefil mostly with. the . ersts great air •rtiels.over GermanoLeitied- end. the hard- ships' of the, eastern ; they. mirror the average germ:pia 'Stet' realization that -the end of, the ,war weei stilt far off, that. Vie; outcome was uueertain. Reading theee letters, one haallifileulty .dis- 'ibleaker hopelesaness.; Throegh .i.--limulreda: pagesIttlna Ole leitmotiv; there most he a 'change for. the better very s000,. hecause:,..thlegs are se hiid that no •chaege, er, a change Or the Worse; is. uniniaginable... At the time theSe letters fell hit° ,hanels, things had, heeente worse from the Germen ,poiet of, vieW, but there was hardly; any evidence that „moraie had ,ileterlorated sti1l. further and none at all that was breaking. Goehhels's shrewd. propaganda: inaY ...have • helped ttthohoetyhpegb.o:ped14et tteeyy. over the n' aure sol snie but,p uu only jail,rgaLelolot gateht wervi nangre iistoonErtssh, igniog,i?n.00g one T. uhaV gends, could not change the reality that, notably conebide ' that they grew ,accustomed ItivihdoneetibhuttpspTlotinbIetae,,iya--unanpudtt'leiecttoct.laut: Apparent's, 'morale does not break notbebitet:sfsairanthoirnt, otte•itihagteaogehraiepricleary automatically when subject to a cer- till .4 „ainount-- of ,8train, $05metbnefie far Were widespread oPeration. . however, as history, shOwkwor-Morale: nct:as an. infection andas S-tieb has 'tleelsive "etre-Pls. At thoge times It *spreads like a disease in all directions, from factories and mark„0-places to government 0ffiees-: and police stafiens, from civilians to the armed "forces, , trent the 'Man in the street to the .1 ruler's in :chan,celleries and staff head- (matters,- ',Finally it paralyses the in- struments of power iii. the hands -of' these rideks,aect they give up—as they : - did. in Russiain 1917, in Austria and, frermany in 1018, in Italy in• 1943, in ROmania • Bulgaria, and" Hungarir 1944, The ,-,Nazi7Tulers, it is true, are, not likely .to he .a.ffected by their .sub- jects' low morale. Their instruments power—the Elite Guard, the Gestapo, Naziofficials of all .rauks— are bound to them by the fear of hay- . Ing to, share their leaders' fate in case' of defeat. The 'leaders 'themselves have no 0(44 that their own lives will be lost if they cede power. They know verY. :well that for- them there is no way out. , Germany's morale held ie. 1944 be- cause soine' essential condition of col- lapse was lacking. some kind pf spark is needed to cause the texplosive transition' from low morale to breaking morale. -.There must be incitement to action and also., the possibility of ef- fective: aetiOn.. The 'froxit-line 'soldier whose ;Morale sinks to a certain level can surrender to the enemy; h 'can escape from his difficulties by . merely raising hiS,arms ; as a prisoner of war he will receive -food, lie' NVi11 be allowed •to sleep. The cii1ian 111 the interior .cannot surrender; only 'by suicide, tan' he'lnit-lin'instant end to his sufferings. Which, nickleetally,„ furiiishes.- - other capital caie of the 011ierence..be- tween victories, *on in -the field 111311 those wou in newspaper' headlines, The River Oder seemed to exercise On the gentlemen -of the city desk the same fascination as the Sieg -fried Lhne. They • put the Russians 'Across, it • on every day of the week.. „Actually,. by Fehrti- ary_42,,,Soviet .troOps in members suf,' licIent.4toc...eonduct- jarge-tbare oper- ations appeared to have crossedonly In the areas ,north mid south of Breslau; and It is hard to see how these Can make Meek' real progress until that city Is taken. , .- • Here as before. Berlin,' the 'Nazis have set. up 'their "bort positions" ,and are Waiting for the offensive to ex- haust Itself before' *Undertaking a cOnter-attack. Getting troops' across the middle ;Oder 4s not very important to licarshar,Z,htikoy so. long as, the Ger-' inanS•• 'Continue to. hold Posen, Frank- furt, 'Kustrin, with the possibility of a counter-attack- from 'Ponieranial (to the north): The probability that :the bulk of the German' armor, has been moved east for 'Such a counter -offensive hs indicated by the fact -that inthe west, where American and 'Canadian. forces were making' lavish use ,of tanks, only ten German tables were rePorted • in action , during ,a 24-hour Period at the week's end. • • • Zhukov :has aecordingly taken the perfectly logical .step of 'throwing hip main weight northward to • disjoint this prospective „attack bkOre • it chn be organized. Stict;eSs . in • the battles • now in 'Progress' would be far more important- than the encirclement of Berlin, 'will& will he tinder siege' any' - way •,-if the "ProspeetIVe . Nazi ,Coniter, attack Can be, Strangled in „Iii; cradle.' —The New Republic -:(New York).• PIMACOILL • AN.D.f.t7.8..' • - mixm ,. • • ,.„1,1N-FoRu.s. Prime .,Minister Churehill; who once: startled* rSoviet,•eliPloinats, by: showing 'up at the'ReCiullivin a one,plece %Utz' 'oult",,..witli 'zipper, ..;violtfted sartorial - rules at Yalta by wearing parts of the • • lbe average,German whb has lost his. belief in the Nazis, or who never had such belief, AN'ho is fed ep with the 'war and longs ter 2pace,, has very little ehange_. to act. Any...a/tempt. to change"hiesituation would tecluire bim to beccorte a hero—for one has. t� be a lei() to disregard the power ,Of the. ,Gestapo, disobey and, „resist the, Nazi rulers, and risk execiltionas a traitor. But 'exhaustion valid hopelessness. do not ,hreed,leroesen Masse., _ - Moreover, most dermans 'think .cor- ,..anywaY---for ethe-Naiis have -done- but 1.,ehme always maintained toother nations. No hopes such, 'as the. events .of...the last ten • yeah from that „onceyou turn January and the . were aroused in. Germany in 1918 by their. nibids afid '''itnagine that every,' -min gets :warmer; everything,:etarts ef-:the Russian revolution ,thinkln feture willbe niee.-and• tfuiet and ,orderly,„ Right now: thPie, are people in England who are satsingthat bare -terms should not be *Posed on Germany.; that the 'German . people sheuld be trusted to behave Properly -in the futore.. Presumably they are„much the: Same peeple wbo .before the war cheered Chamberlain when he turned' front - LA/Mitch with, the ..assur- -twee- 02 `!peaee in out. time ," Hti'Vieg gone to all the trouble and expense of ..subdvineg:tho-IsTraztaionsteir Nations ShOuld'4ffed that '4Iireielidreko4 *trlide§s for nfl time, -se• for aJ any tern** Conditieres.. now *Posed Can assore Ithin 4n1 anythleg . the nu's- $111.11S, may dO. 11C,Beth1ll wzfl bk Very, very.far train rePayhig the .Gernuois „ or tie rniSept, toe tortiire, and destritc, tion ,that they have Caused in the last six years. • GERUANir. HAS NO ' HALO • (-Montreal PallY,..§,tar). Froin a Briton In gwitzerlar44 conies , a rather amazing ,cutting' troin a ,Nazi. newspaper published.4nyrueittoiberg.. is it," the ,Gennan writer .aake, 'ghat so many otiour 11ie, hi the,laat ,war And,' in, „this;°,1mye „left Clerpmnr in the 'lurch, at the most eeritical mo, Merit, while .Oreet, J41144111'0 .alUes, in, similar situatiChSt.ktiek :to 'herr The answer he 'supPlies •4 is :,...'`Engintid Is ,able to make.the world. believe that the IS protecting the • wetiker. nations and-Ig:ligliting for moral. ;luat1004. More- over. Great 11.ritalti has,. developed A kind of worldivide, trade system front -which these who are In it derive profit. , t'Otliermere, . the )ast .three hundred neWSPtier" (Self-Styleti), Xer Seine Years, the litritish, Empirp has acquired reason MeArge fancies himself ne some. sort of halo which'exercises consider - 'What ao, aotherity- in matters of FingUsh.Where he getS,,,some of his hinny IdeaS on the subject we do not know,))ut.' really he onght to Atoll. tbe notoi Untli be beglis Itirowi. what he IS ;talking about. Where Is the inOtlitive in the' sentence he (litotes? • One of the Isorst- features of our wlnter season the- conditimi of roede and walks that follovirs sue- calgiot of thawing and freezing, Every *later Mats eitip tkoken flmb rianitiag grow falls on the 1#rootn.. Veoll $ug ius Qv/emir:4AI accident caused able attraetfori. Germans* lies 'no such heir), .• It is a tact that tnuth•will Obi lied sortietimes from the strangest pitieest Dried' blood serum is, often more 'practieal. for a, wounded nata than a `direct transfusion, accerdirig„,. to in- • formatem from the. *Canadian Red Cross, When ,tiitted With sterilized; ;water it may be administered to any ,person. regardless of blood tve. The proper tYnc 02 blood 113 110t 111WAYS* hopeful suspicion . that maybe -spring available At the scene, Dried - blood has coree. Everything looks pretty Serum will .keeit intleilititely in Al/ good an4 when you wake up next temperatures. 4 has been blind just morning And look out, as Sure as fate, ni eirettive in the severe' pold of it's snowing again and the temperature ° Ittwia as in the, heat of the Durniese hos drooned haek to norct,r4,1, -jungles. Naos; looking to spring. That's a bit of a and .the ;discussion. of WoodroW"' hard thebri..t6 'accept -,when. we have son's ideas. neutralize -today , German • sudden bllzznrd blow up about the fears of things " to come. We •should beginning of March, but havingmade not be surprised that German morale the statetnent wiling to 'abide by has not yet broken. Forceful under- • - • . • :.• ! ground movement's have not developed A the* Lin .rebrattry is an :event.. in any country Without some help froth After the Cold zero weather-whea the • the.outhide... -Not many men will risk sun gete-,La ;little rwarmth in it, your their lives 'simply to hasten thedefeat blood -seems to run just a ilttle fasterJof , their -owe _ armies and to deliver AVu---sget- up' some morning . and look themselves ip to the,: uncertain wilt outside and It's: hazy. On the wily, a many victors'. ., At any rate it seems to the barn yen noticeithat the air has ,that Many Germans, low as their n soft feel. to it. The cows are bawl- spirits' have sunk, have chosen, to welt. ing ljust a little • harder than usual They ,..may grumble, they may 141d--004.401-44-AhRtflIng,:*P.R.44-#11.C1ttiplecApr44., thlit,..r.the...4.0r4.40141.4110, squectibw for their feed- When 016 ;Milted IN,Tatiiiis hasten the .: end;but muktug.44, over .e.ha„.4,eleve: had. hreaW, ,their depression .of yesterdaY, today, fast you notieetiutt,,tho sun Is And, and tomorrow • -does . not .luiluenee events.. *-• One day, .nevertheleisa. German morale' May .loreak, -certainly break if, greater losses than-,Gerinenr already Suffered 'den)* the physical, power: 'of the;INaM'machinei if Gestapo mail:Reek duards 'leeoree. toe tired and -hopeless to do- tilde duty; and refuse- to break, ,up, strikes., and ti901c land.' to prevent,. the liberation of p sonera-vven' Gauleiters and I 'fit hidesmaY become unable- to the ,eaves Are.startlogyto. drip, a little,:. ,DirtYpateheS are.showing„through the 8110V. ill, Itf0t.,1#0,0,4k.• • • - .,,',' • , The 'tetdPet#1;331`, - in ,the , Stable„has, gcille' V .'414, '..411Cilifaille it,re,-swetifieg, by- the.. he'free .f atable,' .04 :4 Vtili- 8Unn* 4310e. Of t110, bat*, iieEk4 ;0480141V W.01131. Standing !beside the.; gangway ' you. notice that ,your Old ,•ruhherao, are start - Ing. to leak '.a ,ilttleAnd ,trom now o11. the rubber, hoots ,Will.Pe igettleg,More Werk, ;to ,do. "Some ,peeele-;oWear thenl,. all, winter, *,• but .no, tee40.',nre,.., PrPttY,:.earry. 911. ., 'Until then, however, we ,senSifiveo to, treat' ever 014cfe, I -got, i3luakeht a tziaterland elearer;positiOn. thein frozen cutting wood,',iii"the` bush' If We collat. exclitalvety. uPon'5,,letoriee. in, the 404. ,'Oerrehn..A0Idler$ hhve.,,P,14, Opportunity to surrender. .; German ''!, iv'illta.:13;sf:m:te' diter of., . a ' Iterlin journal In The Wm. York.:Nation. . "ITACTE,1: ...VEOTiiitli:r4144*S', , In asacisslhgAthe, progress „. of the `1,11144. Arnilea against .0ermanYy. -it is.•', a good ;Kew., to.- keen . A, POO_ Pwitfliii between the Often inconsiderable actietd, The,. sparrows have a brighter , "chit9" laberholuevgeht6,:hee-natticittOrlitdrtetbrOe, ieeeeveSliotrsslifierfltiedat to. them. The train rumbles loud !and, long ,,as it sidling' ,along. the tar side., itr108108ti?°rne'immaurkhilliogb*AvVrhitti:tgo ,1:60141 'inVe Of the„liver ,and . then ; rimililes .overr the briAge. ' Big, Ed. Rigtinille *ening Pt:e11:11:r,bI-ThinnikkinggeP;e,Italrjitaolletlidg. ernakiet3i)ec.prc-, froni. the stabletopthe house and every, word tedlee !dti.tupg , across , the 11.4e 5.poirzti,owit doutrlheng.,litehwe :wveoerkk, liekaperor, Februaryim tenc'e 16 Our Plaee., There's it 110,,k,,tittod„by at lost those :ot obiolgo .04 blob trvitty:pdown the road on the 8,.'4i#I -phoe.00phia,. broke, through tbc, $10g* Pf Jenkins', hill •and YeirAilow that% sIC fried line on eery' dal' of the ',week, hardy --motorist Is stuck .in a. pitch., hole. • The into* plow :. is breaking Ttinh3 our 84*44114t.(1114t, .rchebannit7g; .mtariti through, the drifts on., the countY, road „ and yeti can hear ,tte motor roaring. ("81)14.-`"" disPatelk 111)111 " Alf*. quiekly* AS DOstiiige .,before. the Snow' The,' Want to get down to „the road -as wits too much, , t ou go' in the house 'with -just A MAGIC Peach Ea yer jkIfU unisiboott:70:ct, r. yrup ' radunii4 admithig rtgtittZt0fdt.:114' 31Tirrellnits 1E4w.' 'lend well. Add novuonchalta bitu:ttentowenatinint ,0041i!! LITtifl:titArtioirm.rita t:17 _anti' =Wore In thin*. kotfroring, 130.4040din iver 4 • cstkAt, pane nr $75°,44;/ until lgone. Top and SO hiyers . with . Peach -41-m and **Pod creani.4 tilitpar+otire* H -British Army, Navy, and' Force unItorme ,at the same tine. The, Prime Minister's mixed attire, which Was . deplored 1n correct military circles, was revealed in photographof the Big Three's Crimearconference lishecl hz neWspapers here. Churehill's garb ou" one oecasim, when . he ',strolled' .throuelr . the old Czarist resort cl-trWith. Premier Stalin' c'ensisteci of a *RoYal Air Force uniform topped by a greatcoat from his. ArnlY 'togs. .Another ,..picture .shewed the PritiLe't,e,t-..14.•.:,the. -uniform .of,, the grOW134041;14.atbsgain black care. presented to hitn, at tiik „Quebec conference. The unofficial military attitude was summed up by a • tall, kilted Scots ' (Continued oa 'page .7) imeneememes Y• Famous tinaolVert Questions as told by the Phristian Science . 'Monitor; "Why does a man hold on to his. 'bat - Ore& and frayed -wallet while ••'' the feminine part of the household gets new handbag every month or so?" That's velay. L,et2::C 'Billotsness1.just anothei naai for a clogged or -elnigieft liver. It is a 'very common complaint; but ean, be. quickly remedied by stimulating" the -flow of bile;,, -.7 Thi soften the *accumulated man, the •peisons are carried' out of 'the .system, and the liver ". and loviels are readied' and toned up, , • " . • Milbnra 's Laxa;Liver Pitt. quicken Dad enliven thp sluggish, liver, open- ing up. every. "chalinel, hy,cartsing. a free •IloW' of bile and thus"cleansteg tlieliver of tihe clogging iniimritieS. They are small and easy to take. Do not gripe, weaken of si.OlcIa• • •. • The Toronto: Ont. . . .ituo6rwra***, -.63TAIN,THEM AT YOUR . ECT'D RO :SHOP , Painful, the Cause of filch Mise Ifyou stiffer froM boils You. -know bov*.piek and Miserable they made you feel. - • " . Boils are an outward 'rich-61E0w; of impurities in . the system, and just when you think you are,rid,ef 'One ..enother crops up to, take its, place, and,„prolong,i,,,,,,,, your misery..• All the lancing, itad poult,icing you.can do nay not atop More . To fhel cotetemte- boils:you:shoed :purify Ahebktod, so,..1Vhsiimot give thet.44Ylell,lcod4.Mcgigine,OndoeiApoal3itters, gbance oh.ow. \what 14elnryott getxid _5•Theaeatai Live used it for for thipciat 60 years. 'Why not you? • 1147 C44,,titaited, Toronto. ithont fain- vyinter.s. , The cats- led thein40,108.,,,,senni". ledges dez0 cOnteritedly with, twitcltlng whiskers: 'The, ohlie Is romping Arabi& , the side. 01 big lilt, arid I'm sure„he,niuit,,be* thinking of groutidliog Season- The; Wood gets- iae;' too; and I start-tin1144.841) bneketa • down from over the, granary ; just, In . ease 4the soft daY, might develop into 4.spring -thaw; • - 4110w, notices, & lot of other things. • .` Mania our subocri,i,1741: do ,not want to go info,Oolf, but Immo& :railer' IN. $44 rxviiptiy; tbM , 0 waiiici•iptit'itit. to itiknal.Eitatieither overdue or. will, okpiro thortly, We 'ask .yoU accept flap' adsfortiiio:-. Irielit* AS notiiicatiot, It Awirek Situ and '4 money' when " !subscriptions are 1)9*i:before stiationenti Ato'.rondeteti, 6