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TauitsDAY, AUaGUST loth, 0,45
nog In oz
Si*'.ears of wax, have ended hi de-
tor th United N'at itfas,
+ea1s%'�e• �victcixy o.., ..
it . The -cute ..tee'..has
and for hwntiu ,y.. Si
been so long foreseen that the edge of
`''otir' auk • ilatton" and of .our gratitude
bis been dulled, but one needs only.
.oto ', recall the gloomy 'stays o 1940 to
realize -that. .we have been saved from
fearful calamity:
It is sobering to reflect how different
the :outcome Haight have been, or at
any •rate how • long delayed 'victory
would have been, had it not been for
the blunders of our enemies. When
Hitler invadedRussia, in 1941 a great
new force came to our aid, and when
Japan 'dui -heated Germany's blunder
by' attacking the United States the
immense power of our neighbor country
was set in motion for,the assurance of
defeat for the marauc',g nations.
In our jubilations we •Should not for-
get the men who risked their -=dives in
battle for our security ; nor should
we 'fail to realize that in the time of
victory there is .loneliness and sadness
in many a home to which the tragedy
of war has come with direct force, and
that'many galllint men will spend the
r remainder of their lives in pain or
invalidism or incapacity because they
'heard" the call of duty and responded
nobly,
The second World War has ended.
May there never be another..
OiIINA'S LONG AGONY
Nowhere will the end of the, wi r
• be _more gladly welcomed than in
..China.' 'Since their villainous attack
'. • en the teeming city of Shanghai
fourteen years ago the . Japanese had
becomemore and more aggressive, • and
the .peaceful'' Chinese, unprepared for
defence, had to submit to ever ad-
vancing ,,terrorism mounting to in-
human savagery.' Growing ever bolder
and' bolder, the Japs made,.. the' attack
mon Pearl Harbor in December, 1941;
which brought upon them the , ven-
geance of the United, States; What
Would have been the ultimate fate of
China but for this colossal blunder can
only be. imagined. In the end it has
.6ring?
meant the humiliation' of Japan_ and • •�
LONDON PROFESSOR•SAYS
THRY WERE SPITTLE BUGS
waY out for lam is to etbnit that ,he
is no more than men ordinary mortal,
o
War ii s as the ha
The • ova ..� .aver' jut y
fever season .,;begins.., Someone lois
described hay fever, as one: of man-
kfi ire greatest plagues. Xolt cant
sabre, it and it "won't kill you. '.
M * . '
Scitence - having produced a great
instrument of destruction h?. the atomic
bomb might- now turn to the common.,
place problem of making some prac-
tical use of the vastowth 'of wild
carrot on our roadside's and in •`our,
farm fields.
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The comments in thit column 'two
weeks ago .'on :the demands front- the
cities for Government action in house-
buildin • did not fall , altogether . on
stony ground. They were republished
in The Ottawa Citizen as indicative of
a view that the cities might'do some-
thing to help ,themselves. Sarnia is
offering a good- example in this respect.
There "a group of citizens are forming
an incorporated company , to ' provide
needed housing, independently of other
housing schemes, and hope to begin
building ina, few weeks , is there not
enough enterprise in Toronto and
other cities to follow Sarnia's 'sx-
alnple? :
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If the reader's ,memory, carries . back
to the early years of the century, he
(or she) will recollect that when war
„broke out between Japan 'arid Russia
iii 1904 Canadian, sympathy was' over
w ielmingly 'With ..the Japanese. At
that time, of course, Russia was under
C%gist rule and~ -had few friends in
the world, while Japan was looked
upon somewhat as an underdog taking
on a big bully. The Japanese won
great victories on sea and on land
and evidences of their skill and valor
were welcomed almgst everywhere
with enthusiasm. Forty years have
brought about a great reversal. Russia
has overthrown the Czars and adopted
something like democratic government,
while Japan has become a ,.gangster
nation,; with the results we see today.
What changes will the next forty years
salvation dor the Chinese. The long-
continued agony which " they have en-
dured has. developed Chinese national
• strength, and now, liberated from the
fear of their burying, grasping neigh-
-bor,, they will have ' good prospect of
• rapid advancement ..in the arts of
peace. It has been a cruel ex erience
for the Chinese people, and if they
could • complain, with good . reason, that
help in 'their: troubles. was long- 1
-conning from." thee' ?Vestern__. nations they
-can now be assured of 'a greater inter-
' est -and sYmpathy•from the rest of the
world" than they had ever,, ' before re-
ceived.
SPENDING WITHOUT TAXING
The .Dominion -Provincial conference
has adjourned to November 26th -to
allow time for the' provincial Cabinets
to • consider ''the....proposals submitted
-by the Federal 'Government.
- Informal.expressions by some of
the Provincial- representatives indicate
doubt as to the wisdom of the proposal
that the Federal authority should have
free hand in certain fields •qf tax-
ation 'and from the moneys thus :col-
lected should hand over a • portion to
the . Provinces.' Since. Confederation
the Provinces have been in -receipt of
"Subsidies" from' the . Federal Treas-
ury, the amounts being inereased from
time ta tune, and the -,proposals now
advanced' at Ottawa 'would, fasten the,
•:system more securely upon the country.
The objection ---and it is a valid one—
Is' to the `spending by one body . of
Money- colleeteci- by- -another.- -Each
Government, it is held, should raise by
.taxation the money that it spends and
in this way be .directly responsible to
the taxpayers. ry - '
An 'alternative suggestion is •that If
the, Federal Government is' to have
exclusive rights:: in, say, income- and
dorpera.tion taxes.the Provinces should,
be allowed exclusive rights in , ,some,
other field, say that of the sales tax.
The' objeetten to this •wotdd.be that
it Mean. the perpettuatioii of the.
wales tax, the most 'vicious tax is the
Whole' "enteiegite, orvever, there Is
Merit In .the.proposal that each'author-
its should collect' the ' money that It
zpenats and there is encouragement in
the fact that this.prindipre Is Beet; forth
Provincial reeresentativei who
mind . lather be responsible for - tax-
atlon imposed byothenaseives than be
reelpienta Of Federal beunty.
Angliet 14, 1046, 'will ° he n gateat
day In history.
* ae ,t
o 'great, rosiits df Aix'
tfr
the Atoi
Seettehing the
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The London Free Press says:
"The details of • the recent air -borne
invasion of the Goderich area by a
mysterious enemy insect have finally
been tracked down by -intelligence at
the ' University of Western Ontario:
In this case the intelligence- office' was
Prof. J, D. 'Detwiler, of the department
of biology.
-`When Dr,,,,,jetwiler first heard of
the attack ,icy the bugs which were
rumored to be eating -all the vegetation
in sight he thought that they might
have been mayflies. , After -seeing a
specimen recently. however,. he has
identified thepi definitely as frog -hop-
pers, sometimes known as spittle in-
sects. •
'"Dr. Detwiler maintains,- however,
that it is not these insects which are
damaging the foliage of trees and
plants. It is impossible- for them to
do 'so, he• explained, ..
"An interesting point about the in-
truders. Is the fact that they manu-
facture the spittle from which they get
one of - their names out of the sap of
whatever plant they 'happen to be
working on and a secretion from their
'glands. •
" rt ' is in. masses of this , spittle on
grass and shrubs that the larvae de-
velop, he continued. • He noted that
there • have been a number- of these
insects found on the campus at 'tile
'university this 'year." - •• .
Confirms Signal-Star'e Identificatten
The;Signal-Star in its. issue of July
19th, the day ` after the visitation of
the bug, named it as the "spittle iz Hct,
' PHIL 4 OF
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Parry 1'. Bouts.
At NEW PROBLEM
•Alost folk
s here have givengiven around .
up talking about, the harvest in favor
of the` endin 'g of the war. and ;this new
atomic "bohib. I've heard some; queef
explanations of how it -works from the
boy s who .sit around the grist mill
and chat of an, evening. At that .they.
may be rights m I' ,quite sure don't'
h �
know . anything , about it, .,
We're " getting used • •to havii> the
impossible'happezx. Battik my grand-
,
father's days When something',miasul
happened the first reaction, was to say,
"It can't be true."- Later on, and it
often took quite a while to prove the
new invention, people were prepared tO
-accept its The' rdrst ,shock had'„worn
'6fe: ' Nowadays the, experiment and
the result;are.'all, tied up together, 'The
atomic bomb became general news
when we found out 'that,- it had been
used to wipe out a large part of a. big
Japanese, city,
•,This atomic •bomb 'has had a pro-
found effect on people. Big 'Ed. 'Simp-
son just about summed' it up when
he said the other night, "I think we
got, a tigerAp ; the tail and we don't
know quite what to do with it. If wee
let him go he'll get us. If we ha
on ... well, who knows what may
happen if we hang ,on?"
We threshed our wheat last week.
There was about ten -acres and it went
thirty bushels to the Are. That
wasn't as good as we expected,,because
the 'crop looked like a forty -bushel one.
Peter .Ross, the thresher, told, me it
was as good as' any in the district.
There was so. much straw this year
that a fellow just naturally overlooked
the fact that the' heads were shorter
and that some of they' grain is a bit
dwarfed. Thirty bushels to the acre
is still a -pretty good crop and I guess
we have a rot to bethankful for.
Forty bushels would have been pretty
good, however,,
Threshing isn't • what it used to be
and maybe :it's•just at well. The
old steam engine with it's huffing and
panting was always a figure et romance
for a country„..boy when it pulled 'in.'
Threshing was! done for the. most part
in the barn.. By hanging. around a•
fellow could usually get a trip or two
.down to the creek when the tank -man
was filling up iiia.,.tank With water for
the engine. . '
My, father always insisted that we
boys work in the granary. We had• to
beep the grain_pushed back in the bins
and it was a tedious job.. There was
•always more fun out around the engine.
The danger with the 'old steam engines
came from spark's, as the wind might.
shift around, blowing the smoke from
the stack towards 'the barn: 'The usual
•wood was a pile of old fence rails
which the tank -man . sawed up on a
small saw with .a belt from the pulley
on the big wheel.
Nowadays they have tractors that
run pretty well themselves. The.tank-
man and his wagon and pump and -
Seam are gone: Thus do the years
change the unchanging country.
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or frog -hopper."
•The Unvarnished trutji wears well;
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THE IIQUPOI
AL STi
PRO
Editor rilie•
'Siguat- tar. .
Sir, -44g 4ight of the recent , an-
,nouneemen;t emanating from the Coun-
eil, -Caliber, thatthere is under eon*.
sideration ' the establishment of. 'a
brewery .warehouse and , liquor store
In the town,; I would like to voice .n
few thoughts regarding the matter.
I'1rst of ell, ,suCh• a step,..shoeld not
bre ,wondums
peopletaken, unlessithut thea Ooureferencil wishesof,theto
eater to the few, .and ' e2 don't believe
this 'to be ;the case, It nasi been. said
that there is an agitation for -'the
esteelisbreent;oof, such. .I 'would like
to say that it is my belief that those
who are doing the most agitating are
those viiia are seeking employment. in
the operationof such a store; a To them
r would say, whO do they thilik they
arethat they. should be given prefer-
enee in. employment over returned men?
The theory has• also been advanced
that they town is "losing .much business
by,people going tri Stratford orL.ondon
-to make their beer and liquor : pur-
chases and then doing their ,shopping
while there.' To this 1 would say,
Give ,the merchants a ,chance to speak
for themselves. I" aha .of the opinion it
would 'a:ffect them adversely, It is
only logical to assume that • the more
money the. Citizens spend ,on liquor
the less they have to -spend on the
necessities of life.
All sober-minded 'citizens will :agree
that our fair town has enough drunken-
ness now and that it would be a• very
poor remedy to cure ' the ' evilness of
excessive drinking by, making alcoholic
beverages more plentiful and more
easily accessible.`
Retueiuber the•Halifax riot and think
it over.
' The Council has been doing ,much
good work recently in beautifying our
town. May they .receive the public
support and continue in wholesome
and worthwhile endeavors.
CITIZEN.
A PROTEST
Editor The Signal -Star.
Dear Sir, — T was amazed and
grieved to - read,~ in .the last issue of
your excellent' `paper, the following
paragraph in the report of the pro-
ceedings of the Goderich•Town Council:
" `That the Clerk write the Liquor
Control Board of Ontario, enquiring,
if a liquor store and a brewer's ware-
house could be opened in-Goderich if a
resolution favoring this action,' is.
passed -by the Council',,,• • This was
passed 'Without- opposition." • • •
Does this not mean that all the
members of the Town Council are
wholeheartedly in favor -of the liquor
business? What a noble example for
the boys and girls and young people.
of our towel w It has been proved
again. and again that increased fadil-
ities for securing intoxicating bever-
ages always result in increased drink-
ing, and that means an increase in
drunkenness. It is the function of
good government to make• it difficult.
and not ; easy for• the people to do
wrong.
• I earnestly. hope . the temperance
people and• the churches of Goderich
and district will make a strut protest
dgainst this action .- of the • •Goderich
Town •Couneil.•
• 'Yours faithfully,,
JOSEPH -SANDS,
Minister, Goderich Baptist Church.
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TOWNSHIP COUNCILS
COLBORNE TOWNSHIP
The Township council met • on Tues-
day, August- 7th, with all members pre-
'sent except Wm. Clark. Minutes of
'July meeting read and adopted.:
Mr. B. H. McC reatb. appeared before
the Council requesting an option 'until
November 15.th on the„ lots owned by
the Township at Ilienesetuug Park.
Mr. ` Kimble Brindley was present.
asl,ing • Council for tliiniages to his crop
due to washouts :- Ne action taken. ,
Mr..:Jonathan Fisher also was pre-
sent asking advice about an open 'ditch.
running through his place. Council
advised ' him to send for Mir, Cox of
Guelph, also to call a meeting of all
parties tuaterested to, look over 'the
the
situation!•
Council decided' Decoration Day will
be held. Sunday, Auugst 26th, at 2.
o'clock p,l„ in Colborne cemetery,: all
arrangements to be lbdked after by
McCreath. •
•• - • Motions
Stanley Snyder—Ross • That
Mr. • B. H. McCreath 'be, given the
option .of .buying the se\.:enteen• lots at
Menesetung for $127.60. '
Ross Fisher—Stanley Snyder: That
road vouchers` and bills be grad Road
vouchers f $79:07; .Wm. Thom, 2 sheep
injured-liy dogs, $10.; 'Bruce Grigg, one
sheep -injured by clogs, $13; hospital
account, Colborne share, $23 ; Baxter &
Linfield, account, $10.10; J. F. Wilson,
drawing culvert from Varna, $7; W.
Roope;• sharpening cemetery mower, $1;
W. J. Westlake, salary for July, $90;
George E. Radford, cleaning out Allen;
drain, .$40.8; Geo.. F. Bean, work 1)n
Allen drain, $9 ; •Kimbel'nBrindley, -work
on Allen drain, • $4.80`; Henry Walters,
work • On..Allen drain, $ 40 ;.• Ormond
Walter, work on Allen _drain, "$2:40.
. Council' °adjourned. to .meet September
4th •at '8 '' o'clock p.m, •
WM. SALLOWSI,;Clerk. -
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Pa-infuI,• Pus:Filled Boils
the Causcof Much Miser
` you suft'er from boils you know how' Sick and
miserable they made, you feel. ..
Boils are 'an; outward indication of impurities in
the•rystem, and just when youthink you are rid of
one another crops
up to take its placer and prolong
your misery. Alt the lancing and poulticing you can do may not stop More
. coming.. - • - • -
To help overcome boils ,you should purify- the blood, ' tip why not f givethat old, reliable blood. medicine, ,Burdock Blood Bitters, a chance to> show
what it will do in helping you get rid of them? Thousands liave used it for
this purpose for the past 60 years. Why not you?
The T. 'Milburn Co.,•Limfted, Toronto. Ont.
SAD ?. lONS A7G"
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Some new'titles have been added
recently' to` the book collection of the
Goderich library: • . •
Burned Fingers—Norris,
Buffalo Coat -Brink,
My •4onace Is - Far Away Powell.
Enemy Brothers-- -Savary.•
Pause to Wonder—Fisher. .
Leaning Tower—Porter.
Captain from Castitle—Shellaba,rger.
Furlou fh-Hvelleri:ng
o e West Land••-�•Dieks0; .,
ilut.a the
Case o, the Black-eyed Blonde -7?
Gardner, ' .M
A deer. . . � the . Velvet. Claws G
Ca x e
<.se o.
Case of the Perjured Purrot--G:trdzaer..
Death.- -Christie.
Remembered il-�- . w*
Ta rest in'April—Dern. Dern. • :
Courage. Stout-Raine,
Cleric's Secret-Deepin ••
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Wed> ebday Murrain; Bentson.
t 'teat Son- -Ferber.
,linnefa fOr the :bridegroom—Dodge.
Cartridge Carnivaj Mci0hnld.
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Radiant IhfeTones.
Great Time to Be .alive—Fosdick;
Ry Water and- the. Word-Shearwood ,
Lake Outarte--Pound.
Revive Your Old tirniture- - Shane.
Panorama of 'Rural Fngiaad--Turner.
Vie,teria Trough the Looking -glass-•-
Bleck Lenon: boy*Wright..'
Brave Men --Pyle.
The War x;. Fourth Year—McInnis.
The Amazing • Bob'• ,Devis-e--Mathias.
Your Eyes --Fox.- , -
NHaowha`NnChvae s
reat.
rok .Bede. oTu,,ilre
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-edHiRu
ryg,o
is,
The Biln the Commen Rea
der-
The
Great L: akes--•Hatcher.
First Steps to. Tokyo Griffin,
Famous Novelists•Thoflaas. . '
Oanadian B,eatoratio�a• l'ewton-W1111$e.
Enjoy Your Sousse Plank - Jenki / m
YoLltc d #m -B , _
Alaska IIighv air_-•GodSell. -
;I' Never Left Tame -•.-•Hope.
Alibi for Isabel --"Rinehart.
Ladies and . Gentlemen—Ka/in.
Evenings with MUhic---Skolsl�y. .
Bride in the Solofnons --Johr►spn,
Riding the' Rainbow--�TaYlor..
of Carnegie Giting-.
Forty Yeas � •
Lester. .
The library is open from 2 to, 6 Api.tn.,.
and 7 to '9 p.iu. daily, except i�edne-
daiys .incl holidays..
' We ; shall reach, comm round only
.
pwehdeenstawe al come down oft' Out,
` Discord • comes from , everybody.
, plowing lila own horn...
VICTORIA
VANCOUVER
.. NEW WESTMINSTER
WINNIPEG
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No person may move to.and rent, or occupy family quarters
in any of 'ihese congested, ureas without a permit_: from the
Administrator of EmergeiiCi`Silteltiti.
Before iicak ng arrangements to ` vacate your present home, be sure that 'you
have other acounmodation and a permit to occupy it. Applications for permits
should be addrdssed to the Administrator of Emergency Shelter in the rarea to ,l
which you plan to. move.
Every person who rents ox,occupzes family quarters in any of these districts contrary
to the order, commits an offence and, in addition to other penalties, will be required.
to vacate the shelter and the distiict at Ids own expense.
(Issued under this authorityof the Emergency Shelter Regulations, Order-ia-Connell P.C. 9439,
December ;19,' 1944).
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As 'business gradually ' returns to normal condi,
!ipnss.,the demands dor Printed tionery will inorease.
Man.y grades ofpaper are not yet `available but there are
enouh of the :lighter weights to : meet' essential needs.
We suggest the placing,of orders now to assure being ready
for the ,Better Days Ahe€td..,.
PHONE 71 GODERIog
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