HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-04-03, Page 166 G. ODERIOH S1GNAI tSTAlt,, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1,9P6
elcome
"The Beaver' is the Canadian -
Land Forces Europe newspaper
a. copy of, which, for February
28, arrived recently, courtesy
Mrray MacDonald. Two pages
are given over to the celebrations
of "Paardeberg Day" in
Germany, one of the earliest
battle honours eof the Second
$attalion The Royal Canadian
Regiment. This Special Service
battalion was first recruited in
1885, and bec-ame 'the, first
Canadian unit to serve abroad,
being engaged in the Boer war in
1.899,
Paardeberg will always be
associated„ with the name of
General Piet Arnoldus Cronje,
(pronounced Cronjay) INV fi5st
commanded the Boer forces
which frustrated Sir L. ,S.'
Jameson's raid against the
Transvaal. Later, in the Beier \War•
Th.
Beaver'
• By G. M: Ross
of 1899-1 02,`Cronje conducted
the unsuccessful siege of
KilnVerley, . but was forced to
retreat west by British troops
under Lord, Roberts. He was
eventually • surrounded at
Paardeberg and surrendered in
19QQ. The Regiment being
present, it was the first ('anadian
victory in a war on foreign•,soil.
His Royal Highness, The Prince
Philip Duke of Edinburgh, the
Colonel -in -Chief ot: the
Regiment, was at Fort York on
.Febrary 27 to inspect his
regiment • and to join in the
celebraltions.'-
:'1'he Regiment is proud of
being the only' one permitted to
continue the use of the Imperial
Cypher of Queen Victoria, in the
form "of VRI, w hich appears
within the silver eight -pointed
stat' of the Order of the Garter
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to form th Regiment's cap
badge, In 191 King George V
granted this pe mission w for all
time,. in, honour . of the
Regiment's prowess in World
\\ ar I.
In the course of paragraphs in
"1 he Beaver' describing other
aspects of this Regiment's
histor\ , mention is made of
Queen Victoria's Scarf* of
Honour. When 82 years of age,
the Queen knitted .-five scarves,
each bearing the Royal Cypher
VRI. They were ' awarded to
private soldiers of the Empire.
Forces for distinguished service
in the Boer War. The -conditions
cit'° award'l1 were such that the
soldier �m,must first be,
recommended for the \'l'ctoria
Cross, \\ ith which the scarf was
to rank equally. The .,sole
('anadian winner of a scarf was
•`?'_' \ ear old Private Rowland
l humpson of °' }d ,„Company, 2hd
Battalion R.C.R. His scarf is now
in Canada's New National
Museum of the Royal Canadian
Regiment in London, Ont. The
sear\es \\ere knitted in khaki
Berlin wool and the location of.
only, two others' is known. One
in a hank vault in Tanzania and
the other at Kingston-on-
'1'hames.
It becomes evident that the,
old Queen was very keen on
knitting, because she is also
credited with a white wool shawl
which, in 1988, was displayed in
a glass rase in the entrance hall
of Netley 11ili.tary Hospital, near
Southampton. I'he story • went
that the Queen - intended the
shawl »to be placed round the
shoulders, of any soldier as he
Was dying. The Queen felt that
no soldier should' die without
feeling that his Queen was
mindful of him and of his
services to the Empire.
It was a nice idea, but, as
explained to_ me when I •-was
responsible . for the structural
maintenance of Netjey, Hit
d.eyetaped...,in.to, a kiss. of ..death..•
and a source of extreme
agitation whenever it appeared
in a ward, each man wondering
-whether he would be enveloped.
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I. don't suppose many of you
know what it's like to be a
director of a company.. . On
the surface, it looks great.
Vu Some big operators, like
Robert Winters or General
Lostafew, are directors in half
a dozen companies, and it
doesn't seem to bother them
They go to directors' meetings.
voted, the %%ay they're supposed
to, and pick. up their annual
director's fee, any1' 'here from
$1,000 to $5,000, depending
on who they arc and how much
prestige is attached to the
name.
By some legal fluke, I am
still a director of the company
in which I started a hri.11iant
newspaper career. on 'about
twenty-eight cents. The rest
was cash' money, . borrowed
from relatives, insurance poli-
cies and everOhing else -.hurt
of armed robbery and •selling
cigar. let Rfpne a sharpened
pencil, and ( find myself oper-
ating as labor-management ar-
bitrator, father confessor and
den mother.
Somehow, 1'd rather have it
that _ way. The only time I
smoke a cigar is when someone
has a baby. Aqd our problems
are more human. They're
things like, "How are we going
to keep the frazmatogal work-
ing on the lin.otype machine?"
Or, "The 'trout are scarcer than
.hen's teeth this spring."
Sounds simple. But you've
no idea how difficult it is
being a director In your old
home town. The trouble is, al-
most everybody is a ,.director.
They're all unpaid, like me,
but they have a stake in the
paper.
Maybe it's only the fact that
their son graduated, or their
daughter is not going to re -
'my wife. r form school, after' all, but they
But 1 guess I'm nobody .and know how the paper should be
the prestige attached to m>
name is somewhere below zero.
Because I, don't get, any direc-
tor's fees. .And I don't sit
around an oval table with a lot
of other directors, with the
cigars and sharpened pencils
and the notepads and the
dickering over whether we
should sell 5,000 shares to
Amalgamated or buy up 20,-
000 shares of Moose Factory
Refineries.
run, and they are not loath to
say so.
There 'are the directors who
huy a five -dollar advertisement ,
twice a year. but expect the
paper, to carry two pictures
(flattering) and a two -column
account of their daughter's
wedding, for free.
And there arc the directors
who scream with outrage when
yon report, in all honesty, that
they've spent two n weeks ip
Our director's meeting -usual- Florida or California or Mexi-
ly takes place in the hack shop_ co. They don't want their cus-
(the printing area) of a weekly tomers to think they're making
newspaper. I don't even rate a that kind. of money.. And, of
course, they'd be, equally fu-
rious if you hadn't mentioned
rt.
And there are the directors
who are fanatics abouttthe
WCTU or the Fall Fair com-
mittee, who expect seven col
umns to be devoted to their
work, and spend four dollars
for an ad, or go to the opposi-
tion to get their printing done.
And here and there, about as
numerous as the White•Footed
Beagle -Breasted Thorny Pink
Owl, there are the directors
who say, "You're putting out a
good paper; keep • it up." These
you try to stuff, mount and put
up in frblit of the building. But
they often object.
But it's worth it, to. revisit
the old town. This week, I met
an old buddy with two broken
ribs, in considerable.\pain. He
cracked one rib in' a fall, and I
was too polite to ask how he
did it. Got it all strapped up by
the doe.
His wife sleeps on the inside'
of the bed, next the wall. She
had to go to the bathrooht-
"I know," I said, "she put
her elbow in your ribs, climb•
ing over you." He replied,
grunting with agony: ."Elbow
be , damned. She put both
hands, backed by her 138
pounds, on my ribs. I had one.
cracked rib. Now 1 have two
broken ones,"
' Exactly why we peed direc
tors. If' he'd had a Director in
charge of Climbing Out of Bed
When• You Have to Go to the •
Bathroom, he would not be in
that shape •today.
any
shoulders
has your
executor?
rhe hard corned estate you leave behind is�,�yy,
too' important to he .entrusted to ine\perienCed
and untrained help. People• even those who
merit \ our trust - die,'disappear,,heconle
incapacitated.. Lt happens every day.
13ut not here, because ;it Victoria and Grey Trust,
our estate man'agenlent problems, big zinc!,
little, ;ire the responsibility first, of a Friendly,
s\ up,tthetic trust officer }00 get to know, :Ind
seg �,nc1.
or a team of competent, trained
spe',:I,tlists \vlio operate under government license.
1)oI1't lea \e our estate to chalice. Le;t\e It In the
competent cure of \-'iL-toria :and Grey.
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