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TIITJRSDAY, AUGUST 23rd, 1045
NOTist
' to throw away
o have °��Mw dad t , �
os asoline_coupons you. didn't
use •r
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,•'Se °temlier is
in sight~ and people
•
p
• ming leatok• to reeover
w>tIl aeon. be dao
from their holidays.
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'Parents lose baby bonus if children
rear
lay hookey." Isn't this an itifringe
•
play
anent of one of the ivalieuable rights
a boyhood?
• * *
Latest prediction from Ottawa. on.
's nest budget is that' there
Mr. Ilsley
• will be a little •, reduction in taxes;
with the accent on the "little.,
* * *
Now, when someone tells you "it
,doesn't make an atom of difference to
me," it would be wise, and -"up to date,"
to ask.what kind of atom. he means.
* *
The schoolboy may render it this
way: r
"Backward, turn backward, 0. Time,
• 1n thy flight, 1"
Make it the 1st of dui:' with two.
months' holidays in sight."
• * *
The Saltford..Sage says he is afraid
„that in the world' of the future no-
-body but a scientist will be of much
use. For instance, instead of asking
her man to split a bit of wood for the
stove before he goes up town, the lady
of the house will tell him to'"split an
atom or two.before you go.",
• * " *. +
The Chinese can stand a lot of
punishment. having got rid •of -the
sheet 'on the war that bas just been.
ended,what would he find? ' Oan. the
° bethe. Millions , pf
obi
sae
would,
debit
orrecked : the suf
lives' lost �w ,
human_ Ives s
fering, tl 'hardships of other mill/011Sr
4
the destruction of property; including
� y i< and other
theloss of historic build ugS .
of historic or sentimiet tal . value
things
n
the
, O_
thai.t can never be replaced."'
credit side -Might be placed the patriotic:.
and 'heroic: spirit that has been 're-.
quickened; the deeper sense of the
'soul
for
freedom of
f d
value- of liberty,
`and body; the better adjustment of
ons be ween? nations and within
relations t
cations which otherwise it might have
centuries to .bring about; the
taken
Ynore rapid, advancement . of science in
various directions, including medicine
and surgery. These are .some of the
things that might• he introduced into
a balance sheet of war. However, war
is so dreadful, and each war becoming
more frightful than the last, that we
may take it as 'a =certainty that only
in' the most dire peril will mankind
allow itself to be drawn into another
world war.- -World War II was neces-
sary to prerve human freedom, and
those who would have made them-
selves masters ,of the world having
receided their lesson there should be
reasonable prospect of a long period
of ";siSrld peace: No matter what May
be' placed to the credit ` df -war, it is
only, in time of peace that mankind
can enjoy any advantages that war
may have brought in its train. -
•
EXEMPTIONS FOl RETURNED
MEN ' •
(Lotttion Free Press,)
Japanese .menace, - they seem to be No returned veteran should -be asked
getting into a fight among themselves. to attend formal banquets, make public
,The Communists have • a large and addresses, march' in parades, chum'
Well-trained, army, and evidently are with an ex -military policeman, listen to
unwilling to take orders from Chiang bugle calls, tell -the story of his ex
-
unwilling pleats, or how he won his decoration,
..
. F � YMEADOWS
�NNNN. Q�N �R � . .
T E. 'A' tR -IS' OVER
Well, it's over at last; After two
or three false rumors we finally' had
the signal_ and people whooped and
hollered and let off steam. 1 was.
in town . the n Yht they had. a big
w Hell
boutlre �in front- tai theTo a?.
and a omebody: dragged " up a stray
duuuuy..' with a alga "Hirohito" on
it and - t ey burned i °with great gusto.
t o
Itw s a. fine time; , People' sort +f
a
.let themselves go. I saw •• a young
fellow' kissing. a .girl soundly right'
under the light the town fathers put.
up over .the library steps to prevent
that sort of thing.
g
Tim, 'Murphy, the. storekeeper, was
quite °happy.: the next day.' Ifo figured'
some of his shelves would be filling up
'with stuff again. Ab: Richard that
rues the foundry said,. he figured the
first thing they- should do is lire all
that t
told
'him
sin Ottawa, oefe
flow O a
those s
what to do. during the war and then
take off some, of the taxes that kept
eating into, a tnan's profit. Two,' of the
automobile showrooms in town were
in, the process of being painted. t At
the implement shop a'couple of farmers
were ordering new tractors. -
There's a new feeling in the air.
It's quite noticeable. ' People are talk-
ing about new things . . . mostly ma-
terial, Magazines are starting to have
articles about what they call the
Atomic Age. 'Quite a prospect seems
.to be opening up of living in a world
of fantasy. A fellow at a car service
station or plane service station may
squirt an . eyedropperfull of atomic
energy into your motor and .you'll
scoot faster than the wind to one
auction of purebred,' cattle in Dallas,
Texas, or Surrey,' England. •di
Think of halving your' relatives drop
in from. Vancouver for. Sunday even-
ing dinner. Possibly your cousins
from Scotland°may decide to come over.
The whole thing has a .frightening side
of course, too. Relatives• in one
county are enough to contend with.
Mrs. Jack Wilson wasn't at the
pence celebrations. She is still think-
ing of her only son now resting, in
a Fx ench grave.Ed. Harkness wasn't could' succeed, and it was natural to
there . . nor his wife. They have
a two -weeks -old grandchild • . and its feel - that it 'might be better from the.
father won't see it. - long' -range party view to see the Con-
I hope with all 'the fuss .and servatives back with a -clipped majority
feathers we're making these days about
the wonderful new . world we don't
forget about ax few other things.. It's
so :easy to forget the unpleasant and
create another fool's paradise. which
Seems now to be what:We were living
so hardly in during that twenty year's''
stretch after the last war. Mind you,
I think it's . a wonderful thing to •ha`ve
Kai-shek. Friends of China' will' hope
that.. civil. war will not result.
* * *
• From the . complaints about one
sleep out in a tent for the good of his
health, or listen to ,some civilian tell
him how hard the war was on the
home front. • ”
',SILENT N.
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e
1n its, first issue a ineer,the results of the British general
�._ . . �. af`*phe hlanehenter
elections were anuoauced; the +week edtttiioax ,
GuaxdiaA - •had' . the fallowing, editorial ' summing-up, The Ouairdiau
d of the u oat influential newspapers of the Untied 'Kingdom
is on
and in' the past was as great-orgaii,of Liberal. opinio•
n.
itain -has undergone silent and the !certainty of a crushing defeat.
r
i n. Pew suspected lt. Ilardlyy in; two years' time. But the ; people
ieeyolut p p� .
.: f the ,has. willed otherwise andthe plunge,
a politician ,from one..ena� :p, h
o a o Cher had `ventured to, has been e
country t , .; n, t i ill t of carr
forecast what hail happened, at the
polls. The people. kept their 'secret.
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�et`thrattghout the�Cottxttxy', p. c u y
no less than is town, they swung to
the Left Arid when they voted! Left . c nal lions' are aaXu-
ad no use fortit it about.,The o u
theymeant it. The hthat
y • on
- the. les
s
ti
r of s e
Lary. , U,ppe m s
the British people will not be domin-
ated admire . Mr.
aced by one mina. T , ey
Churchill as a great Englishman; they
are -grateful, to : the war leader, but
they are resentful of the party Witte -
lam. 'It is - now'; plain that Mr,
Churchill's -broadcasts and his attempt
al
in
ono a personal
n
bt o t
to turn the ole p
plebiscite did him ivamense harm. His
tour was nal great personal success;
politically .it meant nothing,.• rather
it stirred up active resentment, (The
size of the vote for his obscure op-
ponent is the most . striking comment-
nry.) Similarly the efforts of Lord
iaverbrook were a disservice to the
Conservatives. As in 'President Roose-
tek n. A Labor- Government
will have • the respons b ty ° y
iu � tie through and we.• must give it
gIt we can.
aa'll the . support .and 1'oya
f.
��**o the
rust thoughts, are inevitably •
G, ver�lmerit's defeat and what ,brpught
the middle-of-the-romad Liberals; they
voted'Labor and they ta1eW what they
were .voting for. The Conservative
know
press had �seeu -that they should
the worst; the 'Prime Minister had.
tried ,to scare •them in broadcast after
broadcast. But their marrows were
''not froSen•; • they took the risk. And
in
first time
so here we are for the. .
British history with ti clear Labor
mtlj.ority In the House of - Gommone
and the' crushing defeat of Couserv-
atism after ever .tweaty41Ye years' of
dominance. We enter into it 'new
political world, and though we (and
the Labor. leaders too) may shiver
just a little at, the thought of what
lies ahead, we enter it with confidence.
Many' bad things have been made an
end df Ia„la the kind of Progressive
opportii4it'r t}rlt comes only once'in
every few. generations—in 1832, in 1$68,
iii '1836, iu 1906. Thule were internal
revolutions; this is part of •a European
revolution. The British vote parallels
the' -revulsion of feeling that has oc-
urred throughout Europe against old
regimes and old.. habits of thought.
There is encouragement . in this, for
if our affairs are wisely managed we
have a magnificent chance of exerting
British leadership in a desperately
troubled world. Many of us, perhaps,
may have '• felt in advance ,a littlegip
prehension. at th6 thought of a Labor
victory on the edge of the economic
upheaval of demobilisation and with
all the great problems of European and
'Far Eastern resettlement in front of
us. Only a Government of. archangels
thing and another in the letters pub- GROUNDS FOR PRIDES
l.ished in •the`.daily papers one would (Toronto Saturday 'Night)'
never • realize that Canada" `(including It will in course of time. come to be
the complainers) had just emerged a ,greater source of pride to Canadians
-victorious from a desperate war.••Can- than b it seems to - be at this moment;
than° -although:,, far from the scene of
not we tape a while . to enjoy the the✓ original 'outbreak of - the conflict
victory -before we allow our minds. to they et entered into both its stages at
get bogged. down in a lot - of petty
annoyances?
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,their very beginning, that during the
most crucial • period they with the
* * other lighting members of the Com-
* were the only nations of
• The French 'markked the spot where the 'world which • still stood in arias
the Germans signed the armistice of against the might of ther"aggressors,
- and that without their aid in • those
• 1918. In 1940 the Germans came back,
took . away the old railway car in
days of darkness the task of beating
which the armistice was signed, and
removed the historic brass plates which
down aggression . might well have been
lengthened by many months or many
years. When these things come to be
the French had placed in 1918. Now it, more fully realized, we 'shall find our -
is France's turn again. ``He who
laughs last laughs best"—if he Is sure
it . is the last.
selves to be _ more of a nation than
we at;presen•t suspect.
THE EDITOR'S DILEMMA '
• (Halifax Herald)
Woe death;rsen`tence has been passed•Why do some people, persist in at-
a- incapable of writing plain, readable,
teinpts' to write poetry when they are
on Marshal Potain, • convicted of con-
spiracy
o
spiracy against the. security, of France, grammatical prose?
but the sentence has been commuted 'Chile the public may not have. given.
to life imprisonment. As the Marshal
is eighty-nine years of tiger the sen-
tence may be regarded as an exemplary
- one, giving warning to other Vieiiyites
of the.,fate that -awaits' them ---without
it -even a first -thought, it is one of
those burdens editors have' to ,bear..
• Poetry should express ideas in gram-
matical form . . and fonsiderations
of rhythm and metre in poetry a not
to be despised.. But, in their ° v ue,
leniency. The greatest punishment for groping fashion, certain would-be nets
compose poetry add" send It along
Petain will be the thought that in his with a covering•letter that transgresses
• country's distress he failed to • take the fundamental rules cif "good Eng-
lish" and composition! -
What .to .do about it? The editor
• is in a quandary. He doesn't •want
to offend the cciatributor .:�. nQr, does
he wish the reading public to get the
impression , that he, doesn't , know
poetry when he ses, it. It is a
dilemma ' the- "horns" of which are
the heroic, part. •
* . * * ..
Ernest Bevin; Foreign. Secretary in
the Labor Government of Great
Britain, making his initial speech in
the- new House of:, Commons, • was
eh'eered by the Conservatives '1a$ well
aki by the members of his. own party.
]Bevin made it plain that he is` not
going to "let the old flag fail" in lila'
administration of Britain's foreign
affairs. His blunt' speech has dispelled
',any fear that the new' Coverntent,
• in, its . plans to improve conditions att•
home, :will neglect British interests
• abroad.
* *
Genetal - ughtor has retired
from ' the Ottawa Government and
• ' •Hon. "'Douglas both of Montreal has
been appoint Minister of Defence,
with both army.and navy administra-
tion in his charge. In announcing the
change,, ` Prime Enlister King ack-
nowledged • t eat service Genertti
McNaughton d rendered to • the
Governmexlt to. Caapada and said,
..X aain exceed sorry to lose General
Mel`ittughtoti m the alinistry, - 1
hope' this is y a. pause .in ' a 'great
Itareer."
.t'ar froaaat ing a grudge against
the• Canad t ldiers on tteconn.t of
the`�damage etad on their 'property
by, a number"iatient r1otere ` a
few'weekf ago, he' people' of ,Aldershot,
Efgl-attair e h tviteat` '+'very Can-
.edtah' .oldie become °al. "freeman
oaC, the bora ' and the Mayor has
oxpresfted ratioxn for them as
Mr.,,
°spleli'did ws, fi Aldershot .no.
doubt b regard for ° >t feeling*, o f
tie t jorit the' Canadian, Sooldiier,
stationed there,Who ltu.d no pout: in the
rioting. Sensible . people, `those Alder
It otos Vert
McNa
ttaaw
'Ab
ed. -
ha rg
me'
he gr
htt
and
ingly
from
Dani
'�
inters
n� so
indli
ot
iia, t
'have
Soldier
admiration
more than uncomfortable.
A MESSAGE FROM• REV. L. IL
• TURNER
Rev. Lawrence H: Turner, minister
f Victoria street United chur"ch, Gode-
rich, -after conducting services for
tire first two Sundays of August in
Roseland United 'church, Windsor, has
been invited by the Officials of West-
minster United church, in that. City,
to conduct services there 'for the re-
maining Sundays of August with the~
Roseland United church congregation
as' guests. Mr. Turner has acquiesced
and looks forward to a. confirmation
of the happy and fruitful fellowship
inaugurated at Roseland.
In sending•this item of news , Mr.
Turner adds s' ."To the Victoria street.
church family. Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
Turner and Grace. Marie, send • green
' else to ends
C aented in the tnermatlmcommerce
life." - • -
peace and �tor`have , all these prospects
of better living. I just hope we neat
forget that the world was made for all.
people_, to live in .... happily : not
for jest a few who . get a corner on
the good things and leave the scraps
for the' others.
volt' election the it uenee of the
popular newspapers ono. polttiea , QPin-
ton is shown to be far less than their
proprietors like to think; they', canubt
maanufacturre opinlon at their will,
i," , caused the °revulsion of feel-
ing?
hardly
be 'that :Labor lute
It can a affection for lie
wan because of a et rho s, but
leaders ; there is respect, pe p.
hardly°,affection. The overwhe'luling
influee was distrust of the Conserva-
es. This is not because of what
tiv
the have done whip they' were in the
_Coalition but because •of° their + history
. • Munich: and the phoney
before 1510. M
have been, too much: to stomach,
war"
and' even Mr. Churchill has-ot been
ableto make people believe that there
The
change' of heart. T.
has -Peen �
Conservative .record has., been enough,
wipe e out the ' sentinnent '.for a Na
to w p .
ws
again .
a
ick
' -w
do
n h
tionlal Coalition;
evidently not as ;deep as, many thought.
Reaictionary► -ha social and international.
olicp ' before the war, the Congc'rv'a-
ve party held` out no hope for `the.
future. If reconstruction was to be
bold, if the high hopes of full era-
pigment
m
ployment and social security were 'to
be . fulfilled, it was not the Conserv-
atives
•ihth
1 be fair seed with o u
h cud....
atges who a
task. The soldiers' vote in particular'
went against them, but it was, only
the reflection of the way the mass of
the people at home were taking.
There are, of course, some things in
the election to be regretted. The
submergence of the Liberal party is a
URSDAY, AUGUST 23rdt, I
WOMEN AND PEER
(Midland, Free 110 60 '
"More women drink beer than feet
drink it, and they're going to "
on doing it. Women who have Wee
will get the Edea tartly
before-
tho ht of patronising a blir pig
il$
ht .
pre..
if their beverage rooms are dam .
down.",, So spoke the president of
the
Essex County •Hotelmen s A ...kion,
That statement may be true of the
'women of his acquaintance but 'it, cer
tainly Is a libel of the women of Oa*
Will be "a sorry day if ever
t ' sno women drinkers than,
there Are .p4Ar�
abstainers, ,, r
but unless Vat women al
rooms' are closed • down, for
beveragetthe .thing that is likely
keeps that ' is o e • ono .what
to h en."- The hotel p.
c oat
and are not- ba d fu•• '•
sayi .wantdesire to see
`'saying so. People who o °
protected agat the
our womanhood rid
de rads tion ` that is part en parcel
g c
of the drinl� troth should make their
. ,
voices Beard at Queen's Park. •
•
Religion
is
man'sbe
worst cloak.
(Continued on "page 6)
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