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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1945-04-12, Page 2• • • .• •sr • • 4:L'r It liPto, It flirt! ott ,.., 4' Qmousitio Tin 00b1CRICO ‘S/Q.NAL •AINT0- PIS CIO Caf ara 1'011404 by iiiignal-Star •Press,„ ii!,.*A*,(1. _ West met, (erieil. Outarief. kialif‘eript!elt. TAIkte*a:41allada WI Great -;Britain; „42,q0 a . Year; to',14,1nited atatea, SW. • ' ' .A.dvertising Rates on 'request.: 'Telephone 71; ..--•,.. 44.14 TEUTI,S14 12th, 194.5 AM NOUS APan has a new premier, !ha tells •4114 People that war developments "do iot warrant optimism," That is a exam* et- ,uliderstatement. " ']are1 n thi.11istery of Pie. sugar eet'indtr4ry 'of t outhwesterh Sontrtrico .,ItaVe.„tarmers signed up. contracts So quickly u1 for SO many acres of -Sugar beets" says an. advertisement issued by the Canada. and Pominion Sugar O man y of Chatham .anawausee',,, burg, This is good news,,,particulatly • "in face. of th.e. failure -of the maP10 , ..sYrUP ye • 4t:001/higIvo04 the tax rate remains 31“ mills, the same as last year, in 'spite 0 the 'larger education . grant. .-The Clinton Council has managed to ...reduce the rate one mill, leaving it. at 44 nulis 'ibis Means in each" case Mat the Council or the, Board of bduCa.tion, or both., is spending more -waoneY this year. The increased ilro- vincial grants,as this 'paper predicted, are tailing in their ostensible purpose of r,elieving the taxpayer.. :tQluaget 14ans Jo the teattiio. the wreckage of wartime.. ,•if they need uiy adyiee, it is that theY keep sharp Ore -011 fnture deyelopments on the • Continent, Particglarly..tn 'Oertnany„ so that neer again' will -they be .caught.in SOU, ar predicament as that• fron2 which they are *now einerging. • r 41„- .',There is considerable ;Comment in the newSpapere to the efeet that the 'party that carries Ontario m the coming Provincial election will' take majoritY•of,the Ontario seats in. the Federal election. ,ilits.doeS not At all follOw. 'The issues w1U .be different, the candidates will be Oferent. Back in Oliver tlYiewat's time, on ,ene • 'Oct: casion, Provincial and Federal elec- tions were held within a fe7i. weeks, of,, each other; • the' Mowat Liberal Government was sustained„ but the Conservatives under Sir john Mac- donald carried the Province in the Federal contest. And in those days electors could' be labelled either Grit or Tory much more feadily thant.. is the case today; nor was there any third party to create confusion •amOng political workers. . * A' school: of journalism, the 'first in Canada, is to be established at the Vniversity ..'of :Western Ontario. may raise the standard of journalisin in, this country,..but. we _have our doubts. 'A journalist should haye the grounding of a good general education; but, outside of that what he learns from actual experience and ' -practice In journalistic work Is infinitely more ifgeftil than anything hecan pick up in . a cellege course. For technical hrairches of -the--.arti-er-PrefeSsien-,--0 business --sometimes 1 is all three. -- a college course may be of advantage; but for a successful Journalistic eareef native ability, a capacity' for work, willingness to learn as.'one goes along, and an; interest' in' people and ;affairs . .• are qualities that leave far behind the unpradticid Prestige of a college degree. The _precipitate disSolution of the Legislature has leftMr: DreiV in, an AwkWard position 'withregard to the overseas soldier vote. 'According to Mr". jolliffe, leader,,,the election law still in fore calls forTnominatiOns only seven days before "voting.. It Was tb:e intention of the Legislature ' to change this, so that nominations W-Ould be twenty-eight -days_ in advance- of polling, as provided in the Federal Act but the 'tfonst was• dissolved in such a hurry that the change was -not made; and soldiers overseas' will have little or.n opportianity to learn Who the candidiiieS'a.re.' -Months ago ar- . _ .Warning„ has been issued frera. •,.. lOttawat.; that fuel supplies for next Wint;er, shouli be leld in as early as the coal merchant cannot f1i. ail: orders=-- there is always the ' • SibilitY it41 strike of coal miners -7- *#- Witt have to -be -`a= greater use Of wood. if .next January or February • , ands the householder with an empty ctule-bin and no woodpile, it won't do much good for him to Cuss the Miners, •the railwaYs, or the Government, ...or' the 01W:tate. And there • is not Ificely-t0,be!-0repet1t10n. Of4his :year's 'early spring to ease the fuel situation. dentinciation. of. _ its nor- aggreSS1fl treaty with .Japan will shorten the 'war in Asia. Even .if, $Oviet forces are not "actually -sent • intosisht,,Iapan will have to keep N orce in Manchuria to guard against the possibility of a Russian Offensive It 1O4s as if the conquest of „Japan proper may: not be long- rde-. ist3TeW, and if her Government -elects ' to. fight it out on the mainland the •• *4ive assistance of Russia., or merely itussian goedwill towards the Allies, will hasten the expulsion of ' the itt .vaders Who . have been the equals of the Nazis in cruelty and opPression. • 0. m. The Canadian, delegation to the San_ lyandisar-coni-erence has been. ..named and inchide,s, besides the -Prime MiniSter and the Minister of lustice leaders of the conservative and. CPS.. parties in the 'House of Com - tens 1Mr..Graydon And Mr; Coldwell4; a:Liberal-and a,ConserratheSnafor • 1011 40.1, Tax cionzruat SIONALWAR Curren lors the War ....,,,,000moo.••••••••.Orr.,•,,...m.•••••••• C91011,1NT ON Vi.tirti. IN TIM LATtl ' ENGLISH JOURNALS filar. that, 'feta the Kok of the eon« ferehee hail been so vat 'that the, actualpeaee conference, If ono. is ever "This is Murder,"‘• is the ,official held, will have little to do but 'apply German eQmment on, the deeittr41, OnS in detail.' the 'principles on which the of, the Crimea conference,. The (ler- hree have reached' so large 4, mea - man propagandist is unerringly 4.0.car• sure of agreement, Their ' words,' Of ate, So tar asGerMan.4„Nagisin and. :eeurse, are addressed in the, Ora in- Gerinan militarion are eoneerned;; It Stance, even if only indirectly, to Ger- la warder, and Was *ant to be 'pre- many. Iler doom is sealed, her sent- OiselY that. What,is more, the cern- ence 16 pronounced. It is,not, 'so far mission of the crime will be pursued, as the German, people is concerned, remorselessly. The preliminaries Were sentence of death, though one of the admirably executed at Yejta itself, for few criticisms to be made of the Allied there . mas,••clispelled; ' 'finally and, de, declaration is that the Single Sentence eisively, Go:Manes last hope of esca* in which it is affirmed that •"it. is not lag the 'fate .she merits., The Crimea our purpose to deatroy, the' .peoplcof Conference might, not ha ve gene well. Germany" Might have been expanded, Questfons had to. be discussed, ".sueb, and So 'phrased as to, wake it dear as Poland,,,' on which it. was linovn that for, individual Germans, forswear - that: -the. partiCipants held 'different ing dream s Of aggresahM and domin... views. They might quite well have atton,- life may, still, have satisfactions rereatned of opoite Opinion; ; . But to ,offer. • there is no escape from the uneom- So, far as there is,tientence of aelith premising declarationd 'that emanated for Germans it Is pronounced by their from Yalta. •There is no mere Sop°. own rulers. it has indeed been +pro, Tilde assurancelhat "full. agreement flounced already. For, apart from the hes been reached:" The.detailS Of the millions of solciters whom littler's' ,agreement are In almost every '01180 ,dententia has already Sent to their disclosed, Which has , the. double ad, fruitless deaths, it is inevitable that Vantage of .holding the ", participants hundreds of thous.ands of civillans will to thera *(12. that were needed) ,and of perish' fromliaMger,,exPesnre and, die, detonstrating ,' incontrovertibly ,the ease if the crime and madness of eon - participants' 'geed . *Jess tinning. a hopeless resistance persistS. every indieation is misleading, the Wien if the Allied organisations were 'Crimea conference will- be remeixtbered •able to .undertake relief ma:Sures' In as net merely the most important but qterraarty on, ,the scale contenaplated the mbst harmonious and constructive in the case of Germany's liberated of t4e now lengthy series. . victims, they would be unequal to. the Nothing could be, More encouraging task, of saving German women and children from the Consequences of their leaders' crimes. And in the crowd Of suppliants for bread and clothing Ger- ft 'she is givenany place at all, can, hope for nothing better - than the last. From that form of death and suffering yet to -come she cannot be saved; but, at least, whatever of Ger- many. survives the grim ordeal Still before her will be entitled to pursue her peacef,u1 vocations if to peaceful: vocations she reconciles herself, as an. accepted member of the community' of nations. Spectator (London). 4 • _ Friend' and foe haVe•alikereeognized the cardinal Significance of the Crimea,. conference. Its tar -reaching decisions, achieved with eireniplary rapidity, have dissipated at a stroke* the last fears on the one side, and the .lagt hopes on the other, that deep-seated rifts of %Opinion would embarrass the principal 'United Nations in the hour f 'Victory -and perhapv-"even postpone victory itself. . - ' The central: fact diselosed by careful study. of ° the • arixaea deelaration is the Magnitude ,.,211 the ceinmitment which the three %ignatorP•pawers,have joint-. ly',undeittiken and the degree of unity between " them which it presupposes. rig °NEB OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry .T. Both ..citarra •"0014LERING" It, seemed that last day I was in the sugar- shantS= as i2. everybody- in the blOCk had a hand at yelling..LI was standing 16 the sugar shanty- door \ and . the sound of Pete Martin 'came rolling across the river_ H.was work- ing with'- the team .picking - up Some rails fibrin a. fence through his back pasture held and he bellowed. every tune he had to direct the team. Then another Sound caine ,rolllng up through the tiVenties of maple trees. There were visitors coming to the ,Sugar shanty. .It was. a ,.,party of -youngsters, fromthe school intown. v • had walked-uP along the riVer. from the concession bridge an wending their wAy through the bush to where I was working. I, wish Yon could have heard 'the* yelling.* .At time s tlat whole bush seemed to be full of noise, and: the birds were agitat+d and fluttering away off in droves as if a forest fire Was Sweeping up- from the bank of the river, . The collie pricked up his ear S • and stood at attention -beside me."' There'-s-sotethiag abeutTspring that makes you want to yell.: In fact,. only. that morning going back to the bush tooleirkautious look around and- then let ...a war-whOop out Myself. The team Of browns were 'El. bit: startled anthl they lathered along .for. -the dis- tanee of at least two fields at a •terrific clip, and I had a. hard job to keep MY -footing on the old stoneboat. My neighbor Ed. Higgins was al- ways a great Man for Yelling. In the house he is as quiet -spoken as the average person, but the minute,he stePs oolitkde his voiee is about like a whisper. Theother day I was stroll- ing over to his pla0e and • had 'gone only a few steps when I heard him roar -acress the ileids and ask me to bring. .the pesthole auger. There's Standing, joke, in. this 'community that he can stand outside • the *Ole deer' and make the boys hi the .betelc •field - hear .hira. When I was a.. young :lad, able to, Make the odd excursion Into town with the other lads from here. and sit Around the grocery store -Or on the verandah of the .hotel, there Was • nothing in which ' we delighted more than yelling. Going along the road about 11 -or\ 12 o'clock When most people were In bed. there was common agrekinent tbat'vire had to let out several banshee wails in front 'of every house. The farmers were provoked -1 ithagine, forgetting that in all probability -4t our age they Ajd• the same: thing. Some .of these fellows who study people's minds .cOuld probablyi3give a reason v`ilay.p. man wants to yell some.. times. In thernearitiniehlie waiting for such...a pronouncernen , , tha even en old htd like myself enjoys Whopping it up a bit 4.. „ • eourse, when nit reasonably 'certain. nobodY's ' • • rangements -were made by the Federa and. a.woman .M.P., Mrs. Casselman of I authorities for the •taking • of the ove'r-, Adm.:Mien. gr:- Graydon put •u P a seas vote and in the absence of any such arrangements- for a ,Provincial vote the Ontario Government has liad to Apply to .Ottawa for, the necessary. facilities': These have- b4n. granted, and annin.cement of the election date niitd.protest • against the non-inclusion nt,' gr. Bracken, but as •Dir. Bracken hits no. Parliamentary . standing there ,waS 110 good reason to name -him a -,Member Of • the delegation. - AS• • `, be Will be Able to continue Itis election- eering activities while Mr -King fs in atthndance at the conference. * * , "iiiime Minister Iring, has announced that enlistments .for,,Canada",s part in the. ''Viir*Witli Japan will be purely on voluntary basis. Men who have '--..4ent--years-bf-serVice--in-Burope wili Nob. be required to go to the Pattfie •Ataa when. the ; war with Germany is catteluded;„ Some who have lilting • another distant part of, the World, will join volinftarily for service againat. apan, but there will be COMptilSion- 0bOnt -:it, It. is confidentlY expected there will be sufficient 'number of ' volUnteefs', Irina those who have been w.'service• in. Europe. and from new • et4ifaments, to make a forcelhat will ,renresen.t this' Country creditabiY. The dictum "Whatever :is' physically can .be 'nuule, ;financially ix.s- " Will not bear close examination. , „ physically possible for everybody spend his time doing nothing, but, possible. It ,PessibleJOr ^Mirada I:4 -period -follotved, with real lively -ideas - . • Is expected to,be made„shortly, FARM FORITIVIS • • (Contributed) A. word about "farm ferums." ltw many of you farm people belonged to A Fortin' last winter? If you dldn t, emisSetr-soraeth lug jespeclally-2g-Ood • There was a 'very _up And coming Forum. organized at the home of Amax trooks last *November lAtik for Colborne, friexids. Alt thrangh -WS -stormy missed only One Monday night Thele Were thirty-tWo names ' on the roll and -tin ---tiverage -attendance of around twenty-five. Broadeaats" subJeets vitally 'inter- esting to .farmers came from TorontO every Monday-ftnight froin 8.80 to 0 o'clock. There were • series of three programs each, with, a monthly report on the last Monday of each month. The subject' for discussion were Land—Foundation of . the °.-Com- • . They have undertaken not 'only to. deetroy all Nazi Institutions and Ger. man rallitary power, but to "eltrainatw or control all German industry that could be used for military produetiomm It can hardly be doubted that total eilulination would he imprsetierable as well as, inconsistent 'with the declar- ation that it is "not our purpose to 'ileatroy. 'tho peoPle, of Germany;tand - this, undertaking therefore implies the prolongationfor an lndefixdto period of a jointresikniSibility- for ventral` which pannet be discharged' without an active- policy common to :the three. powers' and maintained by Constant consultation between them. ; ,Ptudenee Should, however, recall, ,even at this 'moment ..0f, general con- gratulation, that the pOlieles Of the Crimea "eonference require not only the immediate assent of the peoples 02 the countries concerned but . their eon - tinned'. readiness. over a period of years to assnuie the ' resPonstbilitieS of 'effective Common action. Because' the wOrk. Is ,essentitil it would be a grievous :error to pretend that it. IS easy. munity. '• .I/. People-;43uilders of the Com- munity. 111 Education for Rural Living. IV'. Let's Talk about Marketing. V. The Community Rroadens Ifs View,. Atter the bioadetiat0;•*"ditIsS1011 In /these circumstances eucour- agIng that the authors of the Crime* declaration should hav.e preferred to proeeed not by the enunciation of ame vast general •sebeme for the resettle,. ment of Rave or of the world, but by a liMited number of well -Judged concrete. propoala. The procedure ef peace -malting will be too vast and 'varied, in scope and toe inMongvi in time to fill within the Araditlentil. conception of a "peace conference " or to -issue In a 'stogie coMposite and comprehensive, "treaty of peace." The machinery decided on at.Yalta is al- ready•a part of the, prone, of peace - snaking. ' ' Tuoes (London). A Portwitt ,TAX-0/4.9MKBER. (Regina Leader Post) • „ • Canadians -have become accustomed to astronomical government expendi- tures. They aecePt them, even demand them, because - they know; they are .1',tecessarY to 'enable Canada to. do- its ,proper share in the mar. it IS A re- rkable thing that Ur. Ilsley, who inieharge of imposinethe taxes and ranging the: borrowing that takes' 'much from Canadian pockets, should IZA . itU 12th *1045 "WORN OUT! WORRIED • with the chiltiven-", feeling. miserable BtawingitoL%"fle110&" when the kidney* WY be-out.eferder; When tb kidneys fail*. ilyitteia feihystsaNV6 doss witillas 44ngear4ergy47. ‘it'''Clhan4f, ;Agile; rel,Sahlrele. heatilth andi‘ coatinne t4e PuNiktWiAliat. Perhaps the most popOlar, member of . the Government. • •' kultiply‘ 'reSelitMent And' .:$0t1 get , .4,44 ?4,44.444,441,44,444.40,444.4,44 KICATION 'whith has been appointed to enquire into and- report upon- the.system of education in Onta.rio will hold. its first sessions in the Senate chambet of the University of Toronto at 10 • a.m.. and at 2 p.m. on and on April 12, 1945, under: the thairinahship of the 116n. justice -3._A. Hope, Such briefsasare gabmitted on or before April 10, 1945, will be given preliminry consideration at the first sessions. 13ri.'efs, submitted after April lb; 1945, will on:sidered at . subsequent sessionsof the Commission, The sessions are op,en to the public: • All organiiatious.interested in any of the problems related to pulatic_education.arp invited to submit. briefs to . . • .44 • . R. W. 13,Jackson, Sccretary, Royal C,ownissiolvon Education; Pni•liament TorontO. — -4444-44 0 1.4 wow 0•0 ortmeimplommlik 1111 our . township. Ive,t.' .i014 h -Pe triPre .,will 1945-46; a..0 Pr:eatable 'winter in LLULIY "er ' 7rd'. -:'differeiit-J-_leader,:---elery -O4.1.42*- itioadem6re- - itta *heat alluitiatir; but it isn't Ilnalleniglit - possible; th'e graiii • svpulo rot n different hewer, fOrsthe mellOfl eetin gvat,e7enclu, jIhr ts *Are it. odd be disposed of, tit, al*TruttlevEtedwtlate,a,ttenthe°n11'ntdilieto 'Toronto to the Ontario 1anm. Forum office. Each evening wound up with A aOdial'hodr, of soMe kind and hinch was served. •, • • We -"feel we have •benefitted greatly by„thene discussions.' Our horizon ha's become- so ranch broader, taking the world in our strideWe feel that farmers are finding their Plaee, their, rightful place, in Canada, ' and are going farther to keep that place. It hag been said that these bruins are the ilrst really democratic move. inent-in Canada (no politica here), for •while We meet in our group Mona. Oda of sueli 'groups' meet all across Canada: We wound up our winter's work with a banquet at whieh twenty-eight people sat down and enjoyed a real social evenings ever, after o'er fife years of lardslaps There. are several, projeets in nand ,bitokaur tiodurtd, *dun* sre tittottbi in for nort winter., tor we fel sure all P14-AkellY **Bible .ler to ,cotitinne peacetiroe the pkresent .large.seale manufaetwe of kisatiptto and equipment O. war; * there *timid pe. ne 'Market, There ,taws of supply, ad. ndemand which, **it be Alituiegarded, even hr At last the pcople • of,, Britain tan ,to bed at night ,!with reasonable 144rataee: that their homes will not ti*, blown to bits before' the mortar*. rite blackout:4*o, pitially. lifted. sopplies,.still are to* what they Would be, and aceording to reports tlsit elothing situation Is Woree. Row; oto nientheta turn out• 4111141 alert eig$4#7 *04 stre imatkok * rota; there Arfull fol*,e Ave , OTH take,needii‘Sa °bailees- wlth intizied:,remedieL-xisitevo- misities this /4020.0" proved, double -talon voOnl, Alt 0 coli* ...PENETRATE illglet bteat Pastaftee With' ether VO.Pdrit. $11100tViCS ()beet and tatAlc Sur facealties,warnt...; -7,toto,ing POUltiee. It* 000 Now to get sal the boots of this 'combined Aetion tib.own sbcoie, jolt rub throat, Chest and wittiVieksliaptiptub bed.* • . Then •44 see time lam - Alt standW goes to 'wort Mates* ,-,7trasiatstaeso-to relieve rough, spasms,,esse muscular sore.. newt ot tightnebe-4ring grand distrasat soothing lon Witt* be the • $ • 0 tatting 4 4— • THIS STORY. IS BASED ON AN .ACTUAL CASE , • ft • • • / • • •,.:{3 .01 JOHN HALEY, reiired farmer, wat talking to tiis,son *ho was now rimning the farm. ``. "Yes, Ronnie; they Were , %-,,- , , t;:tough.,yeart.--..opt', that was. , 'fore you were born. our mother anct, I cattle here back in 1906-4. all -we had was this squareinfle.of land 7,- with a shack4:ranishackle barn and, • a bit at fence' . ;p1i,jeti,dand • a mortgage. And we had to,',Kaul water -two miles and drivetwentyto market,'", . • , t" .,„ "Gosh, Did, „it, must liOe'.been-taighty haid. sledding • guess I have a "'1,yi today." • • "Wel)," said the old thin, "it would have been a , sight harder sleddltig if that young manager of he Dank of Montreal hadn't. stuck by mei There were some years' vibqrt1 had bad luck with my little herd and the crops Vdie poor, when rd have just gone under if lie hadn't givenme a hand, 'tunny, you know, he always useil, to *say r was. a '105'od• Credit risk because / Used to haggle .with the r people X bought cattle from and When I wanted a loan 'TOA **NAOMI. • witAitig Cormiiiasst is 'eery walk orlite shoo 1817 • o-> o'• _ 414.4.4.4.44.44044.44 411.444.4 ...1111$1.1.114 to buy feed I Almost always Oral the Bank,,.to advance •„money for. just part of the cost. "Anyway, good ,risk or not, the Bank stuck by me, , and , if it'..Avexeri't, forthat you wouldn't be running , this 640 -acre 'farm today arid getting first prizes for your Ayrshires, and —.wha.4 tnore -- doing a good "MIS true experience is typictl of thousands of , customer? relations With he Bank of Montreal. The John ifaleys get on in life because of their detirmiiiation, enterprise and selfleliance, It is they who have- niado' Canada what .she'is:tOday .; the third-.greatOst trridiiig nation of thi-world.' * * It you need a loan' for the better operation a your farm$ or for assistance in, your personal affaiis, we will be glad of, #1c.:0,pportuniti, to discuss, in confidence, • your pians hod' problems with you ' RANI( OF .6 ,NTREAL 9derieh 13ranet!:-}1.!:Vf. MONM1:11, Manager: . 4 SF • t LW* •