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' .T40, ge49i Parliament. Will be "This," says ',the letter, 'intist not
Called ,t0_,Meet, en Afareli pat' for, a be alloWed t� * haPePla :it tanida is to
shoRt., Sessien preceding disSolution, stirtuount the, ,dilOcUlties of „Post-war
1$:11eb 'aeCere
cling - to cth,...:genstItetton reerganizatien." '•
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' eannOt be Oh:0d heyend April 17th. - • - Y -g----;---,--.----7." ' --
The eigli,th ,NrleterY .1aau emuliaign, EDIT01,1141 NOTES
' opening April 23r4,.. will centinue until
the middle •of May, and 'kr an election will ,
More sins of spriag 4. 4,obins Rifting
follOW. • The earliest date ' foi. polling. about; suowdr.ors and. ppasi.es bipova,
thus Will pe 0, July. It uttlY. be bad mg In „ gardens. "Wlq, it must be
' ofe ota, 8.t( but iTtily looks like the aprin, ,,,,,,, . • t
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-111--'a 'rildio addxest4 on FriclaY night Do your best for ' the )ed. Creest.
* Prime Minister king explained . VI...7e whio.b. is dobig so muo tQF th,e
Government's posttion in ,the Matter wounded, the sick, the imppisoned, and
of a session, and an election. As .Ye the starting/
. hos fiequekAtly stated, he •was 7 averse ' * *
• to holding an eleption until, the fighting ' Tcliaanto is •t,alking of building a
in .Europe would be over, and on the 00,00,0,000 subway. It's all. right -so
other hand, he ' waS _Opposed, te anY -long as Toronto uses its own money
. suggestion-. of eitentling--the--'term--- Lto4PaST,for
Parliament beyfand, the constitutional
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five. yearS, :The San •Ftanciseo con- bresden, „•one of Germany's 'import-
ferenceof f•lhe allied nations; is to. be ant • cities, has' been 'wiped' outby
oks ,dates aPPrOxintating , ; hose, of Allied'. bombing. What A smashing
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' the' Victory loan, ancVcanada's- par- there would be Of the famed Dfsdn1t4 to--t-h--e- south -and the pleasant elf -mates that it iS,their intention that ali inter- isiations • Pelitical,Con.liWACAL.se
Where they:basked in bright sunshine national organization shall be function- up, iik Europe "to .prevent the world
. ,ticip,atian *,thiS _40,Portant ' 'gathering china!
while we bra)190,..tiva OW .biatS,..ef a ing before,the. conclusion of hostilities Mtn being rim . by bro.& force, in the
-ialt ,--441ft-her,...]tli-vertatten44 from' partieularly-harsii',w,inter- .- . _ in_ thirape, , •SCI. _ Oat, At ' May :play - a handi-of a few" ' .' ' .',. ' •• ** '- ''' - - --
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„ elettiOn".*atterEO"r. - ,,* ' ' , ;next:question was '1 lot trickier. deciding part in, laYiPg..d.PW.K tile terinS . -Without this action, Senhter-Wheeles
'The Canadian General, .Electrie_991', _ , Hot,
• • P'arliartient :will have :four weeks pany is to build' a new plant at Barrie She -wanted • te know what bircla -of the, pence to wine. - - '.'' ‘.,'-'-' said, he SaW • 110 other alternative to
,, 10.....vOte 'the mehey .necessary to meettnna.. win. employ -one hundred , or more thought abolit: up- to. that time I It this objective is realized, repeti- "a Europe • divided. against iteelf, with
particularly bothered about the tion of. the unilateral action taken in. England and. RUSSia; :pitted against
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exPenditures for the next few months, there. A Toronto hat ,eolnpany after hadift
- .thinking abillt3, of the birds. The the recent. , past by individual great each • ether in another bloody -conilietp"
----Laud -itoinediately_. after _the :election_ looking., around for a. site for_ h manu- ,euestiw.waS Ort of intrigning. , D04 powers in shaping the course oppolitier which A.mericans would have to MIL
the new. "Parliament' Can Meet in ;factoring plant has '.chosen Aillifen. birds worry about food supplies and al' , airelOprants, Within Europe cant,' Xlii said; that :the. Yalta decisions.
, . w -e -re a proof that "the prineiple of
re lar '4eSsion.. Four :weeks will be Goderich sits by' and, does nothing to the clanger from hawks? ' Do they ever. be avoidett, .
sit down and. plan out canipaigns to , Second, the immense' importance' a brute' force Is nowthe criterion of
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• * 1.014 ,enough. for the ..sessibn opening secure new industries. r
elude the newer.,tactics of cats? How those portions of the joint declaration future action in international affairs.'"
*arch 19th if the' members Will. get . , • do t1ey. know when to heAd for tiM Concerning Germany, where the three '`Let as recall," he said,. "what' Was
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,.. .aetually decided at Yalta. , There was
deWn, 14-iyasi4,ess, eat out long speeches, . .
0.4..'fiid,uiee in a minimum •of useless; ye4rs ago aVeraged about a -million older . and wiser Ones ' and the' .word ' ilt is our inflexible Purpose to de- cynical partition ' of Poland, ' ahnost
New they are :ap. spread around? In :that - caSe our -.strOY German militarism and Nazism Wentical with the'treacherouS Melotov-
, am:L.:time-wasting ' _wrangling.' But dollars a week.
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ABOUTTAXATION
T, h' •Febroary :letter issued by _the
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Royal Bank of Canada:Isoan interest-
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.ing and: informative survey oreanada's
taxation. , system or 'systems. Adam
SiVitiek'eatioas of taxation are quoted,
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Rotting fertill• equality, certainty, con-
. ceiclenee :and. economy as desirable in
taxatton; and, a , further one is. added:
that .."iiii, expenses a the State should
bet . met by direct taxation, lest the-,
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I:PHIL OVER oF LAZY MEADOWS, '
By. litIrrl, Bottlo
'Current Views on the War
jtArtRUIVAN ytEws, Ot‘
-Tim FIRST ROBIN -, PRO ID et"
ExciteMent is running at high' piteh BY Simmer Welles
y . oIt.S. Y
yuaNt., termined -upon for 'the 4ecetifititutiort
;Or PoltkOd offerS the best het* which
could be ‘affortied that the Poland
the future , will in fact-teekane that
around LazMeadowsThe ether Frmer Under Seeretarof State
"strong and independent" Poland to
talk. •
morning; when the sun .seemed 40 have 109ring-the day' whithe ereation of Whichthe iaajor powers
form neW COMMUUltlea that Would
-eventiol!dir, beeame „French in, every
Sense.
'The, at that is 'Milling- ;11,e Son
almost' scone "te have Penetratedthe
soulOf the people,'" ;Vali the'llry torn-
ment of the older Men., Who doubted
that mach would come.'0,41te migration'
ch. have passed harvest this year will fall anent
a, really geed wallah to it, a robin since the Declaration of Yalta, was are pledged'.. The Prnsilevtive cession 2iier eget, belowMina If a worse
n
NV&11$
hard. In fact. we relined enr" blAde Public the ternks of the agree- to the' Soviet Ihtion of the preponder dleaster strikes the . copatry to the
nortiVerthe great rivers it Might well
selves from,.the.droWsy armS,Of Sle(t) ments reaehed in the (..11ifl0tL, ,
to hear the plaiativki and yet eheerful been subjeeted to 'searching Scrutiny
SoOnd of the merry little fellow. - 'throughout the world.„, In the United,
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Lighting 'the . fire In the ;kitchen :States, as was to be exPeeted, .the
range,' I" noticed him perched o11 topl c11r4ie "pointers with pride" and the'
of the ,old post in the baelt.gard'. , With 1 Chrenie "Viewers ,witii alarm" 'have
his, back to tile *vviud-likitt ,did haveI had their -euStoinary say. -
a sort of edge,' to It,- he was.sourtaing- ,Ant: to independent miblic opinion
the 'first strains, of spring weather and , here the Preclamatien• of the deeisions
r hastily , looked; at the -4,a1611dar„----,4 reaches1:--at Ystlt9,Lhas_been heartening
was the 'first , of ilrlarelt„ That old ! wad, stimulating to an -extent 'Weli
saying kept miming through my mind ! had not generally been anticipated.
uhen:t 434areh.ceines In, with, the hOnhTe any chieetive observer the Deciar- -
and goes out with the lion." ' I *nal ation a Yalta whatever/ the future
denly. felt sorry, for this brave feath- i may bring forth, will always stand out
eied, friend, who flittel. into oar lives as.a. gigantic etepl.forward --te'vvad the
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antly oils ty 0 , wow is g y
debatable.* It IS' to be hOneti -that
when Vie eastern .frolitier„ of Poland. As.
fin:illy.drawn-sOrae equitable kielution
of that controversial question nkay,,he
found,, With ,clue recognition of the
very practical reaSorks which 'make the
Soviet Tiniott,',cleternained to (*tato a
Common, frontiey with Czechoslovakia -
The final accomplishment, and eile
for -,.*Which. President Roosevelt' WITS'
Primarily responsible,- is - the Vint
agreement of the three major powers,
to- assist the liberated peeple$ ‘).of
Waive in , solving "1)17 -autocratic'
means „their pressing lieditical and
to •raarit the °Petting of Mareh, and in kultimate establishment 0 1
Pe economie problems:" The assurance M
doing so mete or less sealed his own 'nisi orderly world. now offered that the *United States will
doom.. ,It i easy enough to pick flaws and play a. full •and equal part in seeing to
MrSr--Phil-ttat -sorads-breacl--Promb e .onkiSsiens. ...,•:-.13.4-111...the ili 1haLflee.„LProiniSea to the Peeples
,out and a littlestringOf suet, but lie ;larger sense, the practical accomplish- of the liberated -countries aremade-
scooted a,way and the sparrows had a. Inents obtained. at Yalta far OUtWQ1g11 good. There will now be, no IhrtlitM
busy ° time ; it, chattering away ea ail valid objections which caul, be,Shrinking on , our side front assuming',
if in amazement at their goed fortune.; raised. , „ . • the respensibilities *Sidi are iikeunt-
In their secret councils they must -have ! It seems ,to. me that the four out- bent upon Os. - •
marked March ast down as an indica- standing achievements orlhe Yalta By these achievements the President. slender roots open
tiOn Of good fortune for the year, be. , meeting are these: . has succeeded retaining, and oven.' air, and give life a chance; .Clover
the soil, admitting
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cause provided food is something they , First. of -all, the announcement by in increasing, popular support for the' and alfalfa will follow, with wheat aud
haven't 'been paiticular/y, endowed the, major 'countries that all of the foreign policy to which his admin. oats in time. Years must claPse before
wit,h aromid,,,this farni. . ' United Nations- will ineet at San istratien is committed:" .market rrden produce can be bar -
drop, eeesiglerOly. lower, Flooding' IS
-feet the; fittlk source or,grlet altheUgh
it ,is...the.ff;utitilf:-concern, of 'a people
whose-hietory IMO. been a releiitlesa
fight *against the sea; It is estimated
that 300.000 Ores are under ,:Water,
The ;salt lige "killed" the ,lalad for
a .minimnin ef five years, oceotang
to the best acivice..obtainable. Little
better-Vtf are aQrefor
years- through •the nearli,cona.
plete',Iab_sence of Phosphates and nit-
rates.- LiveStOck has been alaughtered
or stolen and, farm equipment heavny
hit. ; • , •
The time 'it will take .to restore the
land, to full vigor may be reduced in
the ,event heavy „rains, "which votsh
a,w4Y47the aaltiness. The Netherlands
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"14.ACII-41X Paieltawra-type-.:4-sid-4twat
,pwaks..derieri under 1$alt,:ater,;beceitk-
ing hard and, barren. •
Barley. will be the first crop sewn
on the reelaimed land. The Ilya
-leht--Anu---wits-enits--faseinated_ --7•The New, York Ileraid TribUne., Vested. long vvith the restoratien
den:landed to lcnow 'Where the robin international 'organization. The great Senator Bnrton K. Wheeler assailed Smallholdings on . an island like for crokinole wenttelack.Grahtkin and
Our Family
Regulator is
DR. CHASE'S
KIDNEY- PRLS"
LIVER
of London silent the weekiend at their
.home.
Social Eyening.-An enjoyAble even-
ing was $lient at SheppardtOn school
on Friday, .Wheir the teacher, Mrs.
Bryans, and pupils held soZtial even -
hag, the proceeds going to the Red „„,
Cross The evening was spent
by the 'whele affair. She, immediately agreement open the -elf-atter An ehange tests-,--erokbrole----attd--eUelute.—
had been- allter.- -Sun:intoning up powers have, in- this - chapter of tlie the :Yalta- Otonfer-e)no And,-Dumbartou
all our powers of imagination, we declaration, made plain their conixnon Oaks tonight in a radio address in
told ...her about the flight of the I:Ards' belief that speetl is of the essence and which he _Jalse„,,,ealleti.... for -,:kini,ted.
Sales of liquors • in Ontario it few, south, or is' the niaiter deeided by the major powers say: •
robin friend on the Ist o March must and to insure that Germany will never Ribbentrop agreement of ,1.,039. Mere
proaching the two-Millions-a-week'ha-
lt been a very rash youngster; -to again be aule to disturb the peace of was betrayal of Yugosla,via, and , we
figure. .Tit 1944 they were $95 849 513 g against •the general milli,- that the world. We are determined to dis- can only, guess at what happened to
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and 'the 1)01:14 tO the Gmiernment 'fobins should return on such and such: arm and, _disband all German armed Latvia,. Lithuania,' Estonia and •Ru -
"There was decision to partition,
dismember, de -industrialize and en -
were •$20,000,006. The Province is hi., a- date. Pessibly he . was only the
advance scout who skimmed up to man° deneral Staff that has aepeatedly
get a general lay of the land and take contrived, the resurgence of German
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* 0 * * ''' baek a report. . - . militirism; . . . . eliminate or control slave..the German nation; •,alt• in- the
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' War reeofirements are still so huge Man knows so much and -yet he. all German industry that could be sweet mune of peace." •
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that prospects for an increase ithe knows so little.: Where would he be used for military production ;.,' bring ' The, Senator said that he , favored
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, if he had to depend on his 'instincts all war criminals to just and swift destroying German militarism_ and
gasoline ration ox for release of tires as were told the birds 00? Thinking punishment." Nazism; but that the Yalta' decision
for ,Civilian use eat' said to be remoteof some of the-situutions niy own in- No clearer pronouncement of a wise on Germany was a costly i)sychological
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The manager of the Ontario Motor stinct or -so-called :"horse sense has and potent long-range common policy blunder in refusing. it decent alter.
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League states that. the average age got me into, I shuddered .and left for toward Germany could have been native to Geimans willing to destroy
the barn ,and the chores . ... . just made by the . three powers than that Hitler Tyranny. .. ,
of cars now in use isnine years; a trifle puzzled,! and all because a robin summariZed in these final words : • . ' -The •Nen York Times.
,decided to.show Up on March 1st.
forces break up for all time the Ger- mania.. •
• the liquor business in -frbig way.- -
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.,itiiiiibility' of _taxation shbuld. divert
pitigie attention, ' frem . governmental
:egriei*011'ee.."
A table is given showing the relation ,
can be 'imagined. • '
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of governmental .expenditure- to na- .,/, -,. --!•-. Jo__ - ,
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tional 'income in four representative .What a • changed world it is when
years, 192649334939-1942. Federal sp „it •
ti g comes! What ,ft relief, . after
"expenditnre, in 1926 was 8.07 per centtrudging through snow and treading
ofnational.. income ; inereaSed to .1713 cautiously on ice, to feel the good sOlid
iri'1933, dropped to 16.72 'm 1939, and
. earth under one's feet! Soon tile
naked trees will put Mit their foliage,
gardens.Qyill burst . into •bloom, , -all
ouldebri will be alive, ....Noteverybody
would, exchange tiie, wonder. of this
transformation' for the everlasting
sminner : of tropi6a1 regions. The
•northerner. • Ands •:',.the...„ winter -worth
while for having, lived , through it:
mpared with four and a half years
Were the war. What this 'will. mean
in the revival of car and tire business
when war demands come to an end
111,,1042‘was 4765 per cenp, of 'which,
• 40 per centwas war )expenditure And
7-65 nOn-war, ,
_Provinefor expencliteie , (f -o -r,
' "-..c.Proyinceip .of •Canada) ' Was 2.79 per
• freAtof the national income in 1926,
' • increased to 6.95. in „1,93.,L.drePP,e4 :t9
0.25 in 1939 and to 413. in 1941.
.expencliture in 1926 was
6.7,9 per eent.. ef national 'incoliae, Ihi
1933- was •'nearly double, 1..38, but in
The .• death ' of*. X. .Loekle Wilson is
reported.. The name Means little to
4939 was .8..14 and. in 1912 only _5.38 1 the younger generation,' --but for many
, per cent. * - yea•rs Lockie Wilson was one of' the
The combined figures for 1926 were
14,63- per coif.; 1933, 36.49 Per cent.;
1939, 31.11 per cent.; and in 190 were
. 57.16. per cent. Deducting the 40, per
exile -for Federal Government war
_ . . ,
. :expenditures; the combined expend1-
4-rt.pii- 1042 is 17.16 ,,i)er , cent:, less
thaw.thtit of 1926 and less than lia,lf,
that ,of 1033. ' • -'' 1. • -
'---"IlteSer-Woold-be,'---L-iery---encouraglug
..iiiiii.4.': ' if when war expCnditureS.
conse02,the nationalr incon.ae Would re-
.1014.',Itt its present height; but ex:
POclttiire$ due to the war Will 'continue
fiiir".!•tilany years arid; - 'unless some
iiiiiiele).,-littppens, the national income
will, ,t4rop, to some point ' between the,
lovely* digure .and the present one,
..We' din see that att individual who has
*11;e0„ earning bi,g . Money during the
' : • 'war and sPendingmost of it.will- littire
to ..live • .more ' economically When the
war and: the: big-money•,,jelis are fin-
ished., :Governments and . municipal -
t1#& Will hate. te :Oalikewise if they
''kre, not to swamp the country with
taxation; 'more; than half „the., money
novi earned by Canadiatts.ioes. in taxes
('Fgderal; Provincial and municipal) ; A, proposal islipfore the Legislature
,OnSithing like . Pie same .expenditure a
, to lower the age for Voting elections
'*(4"(Iolitt.rs, not percentage)' on' "a' re- to eighteen years. We do: not see
it ,riational .).ticorne would .tatiltrupt, 'ranch to etinkteend it; Knowledge' 0(1
e' ta*Meriii. . . ' ' experience give valtie to opinion) and
..,' The. way in which heavy taxation ,
how mizeittio roost boysand girls at
''elreetc, ti*Inetri is described .thus: eighteen really know of public Affairs,
. ' TaIreia which are ,,,Strtiggline to and of "eXperielice they bitie • 1100e.
Stio,ile may film% that taxes,aftect-
'Mille we :are not advocating any
.. ing, their Costs of 'proditetion coin...,
. ,, peL,them to raisetheir 'prices, and : ,change from the preselvt voting age.,
*tilos tau off, ., They marlind that we .are inelined , .to,' believe that if
'business lino beeonte actually un- ,
will. tend, td People-' didn't vote ,uutil t.tio were
.. Drofitoie, and they
tWenty,..five better resalts might be
'disappear'. vvitile other firins in
, the mune 'line, which had formerly' had, Okke 'eertain effeet of the lower -
«been comfortably ioroiltable, in log of tho age Wettid ii,added. 0,- peoplO, Of Britain, Perhapil to9glieftt i,
. , turn become marglitat Now •ontot.-7 periser in printing 'voter' list& tad in of all for the women. Or men are nurictat'an"cy4 IcwilleanelgetW) 411Ttoilht44,revirtliel.
rises, will be •heid back ' from
, otiteting a husitiesif in which volts „Iproviding ether election . equipment. more aecustoined to faetory. Work and bo j!ty!il.eadzinpi,,,,..,;.,,,,. to ....,,,,.
'halm been raised by tax ttlon .ond.. 1. . _ . _. _ .,'' .,." i!',..„,,,„, .1.' they have hadr.--diatisictions, even the tlerims,,Z.,:b,,, 170.40,711,-',"'", ---;air„
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liOnannitption restricted, 'br bigli 1 Britain's women war workers, tight: distruetion of ifighting, to relieve the iiit-T;g7;10"-iie'll: -7'
.prices. A*. a result, both Onhor million of them are beginning to feel monotonous grind of the last titve, -VO4$011„'Irdney KO.. oke, VOL,
Old -capital resources are throw*
out of einPloYMetit the seticzuki. ' the Strain' Ot eyontilined toil in mini. years. 'Canadian' vitinneti lase liOVOi . tr 41,2 ita,,,,TebP3c,r4",114',0%.:71
itteogit 44111410es, out of the AA- • tlons‘ factorioe an 4 other War induitrieet, worked haid In Bed CroOs Work ontl
UOU*1 theme Janet be tonna 4 along With. hone dittio# and in tneny other War effortis ad, like the Women 1370,t7t,, iktop,,t, 6 subliti,t0., B.
ttl"tinviensgortat than beg***t. sibuct"*".* taw% fitrillitY tatio. Bente of thou are Of Britain, hteto ProVed 004 'Soldiers. Iwo *ad get Tirittike,./16," '
.116. er. worm,* oc, 1.44., Toss* OA'
tad ow ykdona, dole it
broking dOwn.; other; are on the Titer deserve tx rest.
WON'T LAST FOREVER
(Winnipeg Free Press)
. The thousands' of good jobs due -
to the •war boom cannot last forever;
and there Mast be -general-, appreciation
of that fact if there is not to be tee
much disappointment on the part of
workers as they, tUrn. to other eii3ploX-
nient that is available. • ' '
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The , 'dnly °strength to Mae us
ultithately stronger than Oni• enemies
is 'strength in the moral sense.
agricultural leaders of Ontario. and
Was known throughout the.. Province,
Ile was a director -�f many agricultural
and horticultUral assodatioPs,
credited With having been the origin:.
dr 'of the 6ntario. Plowmen's Aa
-sochition, and waS conneeted--with"-tIXO.
.Departnient of Agrieulturp at. Toronto
for a quarthr of a eentur,v. He. died
at 'the `Age -of -
Reports ale -le -the effect that ,high-
pressure salesmen are Out for the
money in the lands of war , veterans
after receipt of their service gratuities.
Not „pilly. are the stock-pelling 'wolves
hot on the scent, but it is repkirted that
cheap ,.;,vvatehes, clothilfg and
other 'c'heap things are being peddled
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about the dountry arid represented as
'of, good quality. . The .veteran who has,
earned his money so dearly should
button it Op tight when - any ,of 'these
ily-by-night cleiktera times around,'
There are reputable firms in every
.coMmunity with whom business can
'be dozke with .sitfety tuair:assurtince:
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It is. not our purpose to destroy
the' people of Germany,' but only -when
Nazism and militarism have been ex-
tirpated will there be -hope for a decent
life for Germans and a place for them
hrthe coraity of nations."
- these decisions, :are -fully Ample,:
molted, . and efficiently carried -out,'
they offer a rock-battom ,basis for the
future ...security of the peoples , of
Europe.
The third great accomplishment was
the decision „reached -concerning, the
future -of, Poland. In my SOdgment,
except in one regard, the solution de-
EARLYAIN Of :'$ALTFORO:
By Richard plerrish, Chicago
I have heard • of gangsters- who, to
evade the minions of the law, moved
from place,to place, each time ehaiging
their nanies. Slabtown, alias -*Wait-
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lthartdavleilisea,maeliapsiaSette.ltford, always stayed,
It began, in ...the long age; as you
crossed the Maitland bridge, with Bill
Lasham'S hotel, extended north about
two hundred feet to Isaac Martin's
hotel, spread east and west to Archie
Sands' hili and Dunlop's Inr, reisoc-:
was. narrow --plateau,
bounded by the river on the soutlir''and
litglimembanlanent -011-the :north:
wards, the. Sky was the limit, Pe' the
poker .games in its to hotels.. Th.*
mere„in_theearly_ days, a number of
shanties, none tvair mony.
of a house, lining the one street' tvol
bisesoci the *narrow 'Styli) ,. of la
These,. shacks, of luniber" and logs and
slabs most gave the viihtge itt"
Origin:at name. . •
- The arkit'.'salt-Velt, in the Goderieh
district was sunk there and for many
.Yeattp.the plant was 'operated Peter
Mectkvan. %Ire helped PIO ..or many a
dollierne fatin, Mortga. Winter. 'after
:..svvept away; z.no
niatter how ancient may hethe-rights'
of .the landowners. New .,and larger
IitTruiLlerfi0 .STIT,y0147 and individual
arnielie -ire-e-eff6 -an -in terest-in•rittletT
their present stake.' '
= - • e_.-"1,1ew Tyorlc.:-Titoes;
THE FrOODING OF - HOLLAND -
Young farmers in tb6 liberated pro-
vinces of the NetkerliMS, heartsick
at the" sight Of 4 -heir -ancestral lands
under sea water or useless forklack of
-chernical.--•fertilizers,-are-- pleading- to
be allowed to regettle'iiiiidjacent parts
of Germany and in France. .
During the German occupation they
discussed these- projects. Whole vil-
lages would- decamp, seeking a 'brighter .1
future far froth' the beloved polders!
of their homeland. ltligration to Ger-
many would. be possible' only if those
now in possession were .to be deported,
but so -far as 'trance is concerned the
Netherland farmers are willing to
EVPARiYFONrT
SIIEPPATIDTON% Ma.rch 6. -Misses
Margaret and Betty Poster 'Cif
ener sPent week -end.• at the, horae
Ignriel_ _Schram Jot, eards* tk,k. Mrs.
Risthg 'tieroy Doper,: -IVES,' Atnea-
.14.1.ostee and Sgt. -r:.i3un..
s
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of their hunt, Mrs. Agnes Fbster. •
S 0 LD IE RS_
Mr. and. Mrs. Dan iiIcEenzie of Btyth
visited -recently with the lady's fattier, -r- ,70 - •
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Mr. Robt. Bogie, and Mr. and 'Mrs. int ()UT ACHE$
Varl: I3egie. ,
- Mr. and Mrs., Harvey -Slilib visited
in Rlyth. on Salurday with Mr. and ,
Mrs: Jon ;Foster. '
Misses 'Jean and Christina- Me4illan
•
• Farmers drive
cars less than city
people 'arta get
low rates from
But faroders do
drive -one
• sured ee idkent
could wipe out
your home or your
savings. Buy. the
' fall proteetion of
Pilot Autentobile
Insurance poW. -
rear. .As the water evaporated, the
salt crystals settled to the bottom. and
were raked up by •hand on the plat-
form. , - .
• The• .firSt evolution in the process
of manufacturing was a decided im-
provement. The caldrons were sup-
planted by large; long double:bottom
steel pans. The space ,between the
tWo • buttons was', a chamber- for steam
'which furnished the heat for evapor-
ation: . •
It is very interesting for an Old-
tiraer--to-visit-theAnodern-plant; now
'operating near the Grand Trunk depot,
and -note thel,great-strides-thoiindustry
has. made In the Method?. Of maim,
facture.
1-, rticidentally,_ Jet me mention :that
I. Y. itiffairr aPn.- oo
shaft just across front the :harbor
With the intention •of sinking it to the
salt •beet -some 1100 feet -and mining
the salt. - After digging don about
eighty' feet the project Was abandoned,
for reasons AO. Attrill never .divulged,
So far as the writer kno'vvs. -
Those were the days when boys worb
eePPer-toed becks', with pant legs
tucked ..to. proudly'. disoittY the,
daily at titsalt" Out, each' to. un- ,and Were very ,happy
111 red or Woe tePO as the case Might be,
winter,. streams .of oeigha .turned
iiitta, its cordor wood,' the usual 'Aztec,' if on Christiaaa.', morning they took
for which 'Was,'$2.64 Per .cord.. the from their stoekingS, !that had been
spring; the farmers. Who had hemlock
logs t� go to my father's, tiiilipeeXd Off I .-aun,fpg*b.3toottihveere.shaiflintibneI-.1.694'n°gevesr, :aa eShtaiicri
the bark and :found . XeitdX, -12nar;ket I or two of candy, a tin, trumpet and an,
for the !,lan. bark" At thelVfned'0,. 'tan- orange, the ta, ate of,. Which roust .last,
nerrin tenni:flier .and at the aItford meth for another year.,
tannery owned. b)! Ada tu and '1*,ePh: Like the man who old he would:
1,3efs
llhen , the e salt in' *.t1110 t*ry.' Was ,fol'ist ,t,e046tiitasIrn. baut93wilotludn'tegifitvres 'at.°Zennb'Y
started, the 'brine t'r44 Wn,,Poi4ed in• or atiother, . I AM glad 4ad*80:Intle
UM long ,row it of tafge7e441drisrts separ- ptoneer experience but don't 'volt any
ated by a wide plartfOnt.',11aelt row of 'more of , • I.
caldrons Wee snr•ported by two brick .
waits that made a flue which carried
the heat from wood -fed furnaee at'
the. front to a large smokestack at the
W. CRAIGIN-GB0.. 'G. ,MicRWAN,...GODERICII
6* 0* T""AvEN AONCY, DUNGANNO/4 • <,
'.,GORDON JElITEL, MB. No. 6, GODERV.-2.:!
BEPRBSENTI;NG '
PILOT INSURANCE COMPANY
We write insnrance to cover selected risks in Automobile, Fire, Burglary,
-Plate Glassi-PublirLiabilityand other, general -insurance.
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g gOiji 1:1 r 17 tellSg
Pains In the Back
verge of collttpse. 'Ikleastires are being
takeh to, alloW them to ease lift, and
with •Xlirma.ny nearing, eihaustion the
prosset„ of liermitnent ,t,oliet. within it Man/ worasalteve to do their OWn
few weeks will itelP there to get "h41**4441w.-orer,14, alif"tiutgb,e triddniangt' rots;
through the remaining period, of strain, it* too,' g-, ironing!itilit- gitasonoci_ts:;-
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It has been A tough time for all the , 641'4es ;.0 putertiQMirsr stratri:rrae
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• many of on; ,tnililSorllieys, di?, not wit to go into debt, but
would rathOr be -rei14,141,4, PlOVITatd-PrOmPt17,0 that
their subscription. to The 1441141:Star ill sitpter everdus. or
will explic shortly. We sqlt yoU to accept this advettise-
merit as a. notifipatiow,It awes thus snit mousy Whom,
, subscriptions are paid before' statenre*are. ren4ered.
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