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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows
By Harry J. Boyle
"ANNIVERSARY"
One flickering candle on a" small
white birthday cake. There it was,
buffeted about by every draft
swinging and swaying to and fro and
then straightening and reaching high-
er. Across from the cake on the table'
in the high chair sits. the object of
the celebration . , Patrice Ann,
A, man once told me never to look
back. But somehow the Bickering
light of the, one candle and the rosy-
cheered, fair-haired little lady who
Inas now progressed from the infant
it seems so far away ... and some-
times it seems so close --- that day
when the nurse said, "Well, Daddy
Phil, you've got a fine baby girl ...
and both it and the mother are doing
Can this be the same baby girl?
That one was wrinkled and red .. .
and when she cried it sounded like
one of those dolls that are almost hu-
man and which cry when you turn
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CANADIAN a miONAL,,,' AILWAYS
TIME TABLE
'Trains will arrive at and depart from
Clinton as follows:
Buffalo and Goderici
Going East, depart 6.43 a.m
^,Ding East, depart 8.00 p.m.
Going West, depart 11.46 a.m.
Going West, depart 9.50 p.m.
London, Huron & Brace
Going. North, ar 11.21, lye. 11.47 a.m.
Going South' ar. 2.60, leave 8.08 p.m.
thein over. She looked small in tthhac
shawl olid helpless. And now,
look at her . , smiling as the hired
man tickles her toes ... and pound-
ing two chubby fists on the shelf of
the high chair demanding supper.
How we hated that doctor the night
he was roused from his sleep by a
frantic voice that said, "Doctor, come
quick, the baby's dying!" It seemed
honors until his --ear coasted up in front.
of the house and he came tripping in
with his little black bag. By turns
we had been walking the floor , .
while Patricia's wail grew louder and
louder. He fiddled and fumbled with
her and stroked his chin ... I sup-
pose to cover his own amusement and
then said . , , "She's got a little
tummy ache. Give her a little pepper-
mint water and she'll be all right."
Dubiously the peppermint water was
administered, and wonder of Wonders,
after a few belches she settled down
to sleep . . and, at ten the next
morning was still enjoying restful
slumbers.
Then there was teething. First of
all, with ideas gathered from solicit-
ous Mende, We gained the impression
that she would go through life with
toothless gums. But a tiny white
glimmer appeared one morning after
a restless night, and by degrees more
of them have been appearing since
then.
The walking problem was another
difficulty. First of all some said she
was too heavy to let stand. They
painted verbal pictures of bowed legs
that would make a cowboy shudder..
Then there was the school of thought
firmlyconvinced in its own opinion'
that if she didn't stand her'muscles
would become useless. Others would
look at you with a glassy stare and
say,"'Walking?" What could you say
but, "No." They would then purse
their dins up into a tight knot and
shake their heads in that terrifying
way that can only mean calamity. But
one day Patricia Ann fooled us.
Grasping a coiner of the play- box she
hoisted herself up on to unsteady
legs, and when ,we looked she was
smiling broadly, . . . quite pleased
with herself. Since then it's been a
problem to keep her from clutching
at everything in sight to support her-
self in toddling•.
Raising babies is much the same as
any other occupation. You hear about.
the babies that have full sets of teeth
at a year of age .. , the one that
can walk and: dance the Highland
Fling at twelve months of age .. .
wonders of babies that can sing and
talk about world affairs at a year anti
six months . but never the reg-
uiur "honest to goodness" babies that
take their natural time in maturing,
And so, we wonder and fret and fuss
. , , but Patricia Ann is a year old
noW.
The candle burns down . . . the
cake is cut ... the supper over .. .
and Patricia' Inn, tiring of the fuzzy
dog and the singing sop ... and the
other presents . . . rests a curly,
golden head against my shoulder and
drops off to sleep and we tuck her
into bed and wonder somehow about
all the things bound to happen be-
tween tlic time when there's one can-
dle and two candles on the cake.
.AN EMPIRE AT WAR
Britain's great colonial empire is
mobilising its strength in the battle
for freedom. Everywhere is keen
desire to enlist iu the Army, Navy
or Air. Force. Round the Seven Seas,
British colonies are providing sup-
plies indispensable to war effort. By
the end of August 1940, total cash
contributions front the people of the
Colonial Empire to the general war
effort were approximately 75 cents
per head from the Sixty million col-
onial peoples.
In a fleet of lorries, a contingent
from the Northern Rhodesia regiment
made a mechanised "safari" of 2,000
miles from Lusaka to Nairobi in East
Africa,
Two-fifths of the total male Euro-
pean population of Kenya had enlist-
ed in, the .East Aft -Teen forces as long
ago as last May.
Uganda has formed a local defence
force, with central officers' training
school and army motor driving school.
The Tanganyika Naval Volunteer
Force and the Tanganyika Air De-
fence are cooperating in coastal de-
fence.
Nigeria has compulsory military
training for Europeans up to the age
of 40.
In Hong 'tong all British residents
of military age are enrolled in the
Colony'sdefence d'efe nce forces.
In both the' Straits Settlements and
Federated Malay States, British
Europeans have either volunteered
or been called up under special
legislation.
In Mauritius, the territorial force
has been ne-organised. Skilled trades-
men have been recruited for service
in the Middle East.
Cyprus had the distinction of pro-
viding the first unit of colonial troops
to arrive in France.
Both Jews and Arabs in Palestine
have enlisted in great numbers,
' Volunteer forces in Bermuda were
called up and expanded at the begin.
ning of the war.
In Trinidad, five times the number
of men needed hare applied for en-
listment -in the R.N.V.R..
TItITJRS., OCT. 17, 1940
Why Britain will
Win
by
ARTHUR WAUTERS,
amens Belgian statesman and
writer.
M. Welders has had a remark-
able career. Ile volunteered in the
last war and won great anilitaxy
distinction in the Belgian Army.
Since that time he has gained many
academic honours and become a
prominent • figure in. Belgian :poli-
tics.' He is a Professor of Brussels
University and a member of the
Belgian Colonial Institute, He has
travelled extensively in Belgian
Congo and written a number of
books on. Colonial 'questions:
He is a member of- the Belgian.
Chamber of Deputies and has held
a number of ministerial posts. He
was for a long timie political editor
of the great Belgian newspaper,.
"Le Peuple."
Hitler's military victories achieved,
for a time, a double psychological
result. The .German people were
filled with faith in a magician who
was re -shaping Europe; as though in-
vested with a mysterious power. On
the other hand, some superficial neut-
ral onlookers began to be convinced
of the invincibility of Nazi Germany.
The Allies, perhaps unwittingly,
contributed to establishing this child-
ish belief by complaint of the war
method's of the German armies in the
first period of the war, They did
it, of course, with the praiseworthy
object of stimulating the will of resis-
tance and readiness of sacrifice of the
democratic masses.
The psychological effect of the
German successes has been increas-
ing in,. geometrical progression. Hit-
ler has kept his promises of victory
with mathematical precision, He had
announced that he would be in Paris
on June 15. He was there.
But it may be doubted whether
the process of collective bewitchment
will have a lasting effect.
Hitler• announced that he would be
in London on August 15. IIe failed
to keep the appointment.
Ile himself thus furnished the
proof of the vanity of some of his
boasts. Those who had been intoxi-
cated by German propaganda are
baffled, They are beginning to make
historical comparisons. There is no
need to go back very far in time.
I{aiser Wilhelm's Germany collapsed
almost immediately after achieving
indisputable military triumphs.
The Fuehrer's thirst for conquest
is now encountering some obstacles.
The time for easy successes is past.
in the neutral country which I left
for London a month ago, the most
absurd stories found credence in de-
fiance of all human intelligence. It
was whispered that Britain's fate
would be sealed within three weeks
or that 45 millions of starving anti
terrorised Britons were spending
their lives queuing up for a problem-
atic crust of bread in the daytime,
and with collective lamentation in the
underground shelters at night. Brit-
ain, it was said, was no more than a
heap of ruins. The electric power
stations were destroyed, the largest
city in the world was plunged in
darkness. Transport was paralysed,
A desperate people was in revolt
against its leaders. The Empire was
collapsing.
I am writing these lines in London
where the roar of the greatest air
battles in history reaches our oars,
The German 'planes are being
brought down by the magnificent
pilots of the Royal Air Force at the
rate of five to one and sometimes
of one a minute. The power of the
Umpire is unimpaired, In spite of:
the self-styled German, "blockade",
millions of tons of 'merchandise reach
British ports week after week.
The shops are overflowing with
goods. There is a certain amount of
rationing, but it does not interfere
with anybody's good supply, Mao does
it diminish any workman's productive
capacity. Astonishing quantities of
produce are accessible to all: coffee,
oranges, bananas, grapefruit, tropical
nuts, pepper, tobacco, olives, and
what not.
There is something, disconcerting
about the calm and coolness of this
great people. It is clue neither to
indifference nor to passivity. With
it the senseof national co-operation
reaches a prodigious .degree. Each
one is mobilized either organically or
morally. Each is doing his work with
orderliness,
calm and discipline.
isciphne.
There is neither haste, nor precipita-
tion, nor panic, Everyone applies
rules strictly and encourages every-
one ,else to do likewise. Vigilance
never relaxes. Pritain is not invaded,
but everyone behaves as though
vasion might cone at any moment.
This people will in no circumstances
be taken by surprise.
A sporting people, the British are
counting the blows and taking stock
impartially of their reserves and fail-
ings, not to be disheartened 'by them,
but to correct them. Nothing is left
to chance or to improvisation.
Britain gives the impression of a
powerful up-to-date machine, whose
flawless, well-oiled march proceeds
noiselessly and without a hitch.
Everyone knows what he has to do,
And he, or she, will do it at the sight
time.
There is complete, trusting and
,eager co-operation between the pub-
lic, and the authorities-.
German propaganda will not
change this nor diminish in the least
the calm and self-conscious force of
this great free people.
It is a significant fact that, in
spite ,of ephemeral triumphs, the
Germanpeople meed to be drugged
by false news. In Britain . Gorman
communiques are published daily in
full. Anyone can listen freely to
Nazi broadcasts, if he happens to
want to do so.
The democratic liberties are fully
respected. The Press comments 051
Government action with a surprising
frankness. Parliament, whose powers
are supreme, continues to sit when
.ever there is business to transact.
These things are, to 'my mind, one
of the essential guarantees of Brit-
ain's corning. victory.
The officially inspired optimism of
the countries living under a system
of censorship lull the fighting spirit
of the citizens to sleep. A flood of
reassuring but often unfounded
statements act like chloroform upon
them.
The British peeple are conscious
of the fact that they have never been
invaded for the last 900 years. They
are not oblivious to the unsuccessful
attempts made successively by Philip
II, Louis XIV and by Napoleon. They
know that 200 or 250 ships would be
needed to land five divisions. They
know they -will never be betrayed by
that ally which always lseeps faith
with them: the sea. They know that
their ships are sailing the seven seas
and using thousands of ports ell the
world over, whereas the German and
Italian mercantile fleets are confined
to coaletal traffic in the Baltic and
the Adriatic.
They know that in defiance of the
furious attacics of the German Luft-
waffe, the Royal Air Force is daily
delivering its blows on Germany, on
Turin, on Milan, on Libya, wherever
it cares to strike.
They also know that the United
States is on their side.
They realise that those who were
unable to prevent the heroic re-em-
baritation of Dunkirk are now faced
with the incomparably more formid-
able task of attempting the same
operation in the opposite direction.
They know that the whole Empire,
without 1 wi•c
ut et eption, constitutes one
solid rock.
No clo they forget that two thirds
of the peoples subjected by Germany
are not Germanat all, anti that the
terrible faire of vengeance which is
now smouldering in the hearts of the
I oppressed nations will burst into
3 flame at the right moment.
i As a citizen of an indomitable na-
tion, I know that, in shite of /voics-
sional traitors and place -seekers, the
whole of Belgium constitutes a col-
umn in the service of domocracy and
liberty. The beloved spirts of Card-
inal Mercier, of Burgomaster Max,
of King Albert, of the heroic workers
who were deported for refusing to
work for the Germans, accompany us
I in our effort and inspire us with
hope,
Britain and with her the permanent
values of mankind will triumph,
DUTCH FREIGHTER ARRIVES
IN G.ODERICH
And Creates a Problem for Officials
—Brought Prem Chicago
A prize Netherlands merchant
freighter, the Prins Willem III, is the
object of much curiosity as it lies
tied up in the harbor at Goderich,
awaiting the arrival of a Government
inspector from Ottawa to straighten
out a tangle of international cont -
plications.
The vessel, a 2,800 -ton, 250 -foot
ton Dei`sel-engined craft. left Chicago
last Tuesday With its original crew
of eighteen Hollanders 'virtual pris-
oners and arrived in Goclerich Wed-
nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, flying
only the Dutch merchant marine en-
sign. She had been anchored' at
Chicago since June 27, when the en-
tire crew, with the exception of the
captain and steward, refused to sail
back to Europe on an unarmed mer-
chant ship, The Hollanders were net
permitted to go ashore all the time
they were at Chicago, because
they
were aliens without papers allowing
than to land in the United States.
Fourteen seamen from Montreal were
furnished under an agreement be-
tween the Canadian Government and
the Orange Lines, owners of the boat,
and it was these seamen who brought
the ship here.
Officials Puzzled.
Shortly after its arrival a crowd
began to gather at the harbor to
view the ocean-going vessel which
has caused' so much controversy since
it entered these inland waters last
June. Provincial police, customs of-
ficials and the harbormaster were in;
conference with Capt. W. P. C, Hale-
linger for over an hour, attempting
to straighten out details in connection
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ANNIMMOINIMIIILIEM Wet
with the ship's entry here. The cus-
toms officals, taken completely by
surprise by the ship's unscheduled
arrival, wired Ottawa to take the
mix-up off their hands and put it in
those of the proper authorities Ten
members of the Pinkerton detective
agency are at present guarding the
strikers. The Hollanders are allowed
to come on deck and Friday morning,
under the watchful eye of two de-
tectives, were getting great enjoy-
ment out of perch fishing from the
stern of the ship while they whistled
modern American airs,
Unfounded Rumors ,
Rumors flew thick and fast around
town on Wednesday evening to the
effect that the "rebellious" crew was
in irons, that "G" men stood over
them with - machine-guns, that an
armored car full of Royal Canadian
Mounted Pollee was coming to Goder-
ich front •Toronto to take the crew
away for internment—and even one
report was current that the ship
mounted a six-inch gun at its stern.
It is a matter of conjecture as to
just what will happen to both ship
and crew, but it is considered likely
that the vessel will be taken over
by the British merchant marine, and
Captain Helsdinger is of 'the opinion
that if the crew members have not
changed their minds about working
by then they will be interned some-
where in,Canada.
Canadian Red Crass News Service
London (Special) Oct. 17—A letter
appearing in a London newspaper
recently ended with the words, "God
bless the Canadians/' It was one
of many communications appearing
in the newspapers of England these
days expressing gratitude to the Can-
adian Red Cross Society for its con-
tributions of food, clothing and
blankets to air -rail victims,
The letter, written by an official
of the Charity Organization, official
society handling relief in the distres-
sed areas, said, "It was not only that
the Canadian Red Cross supplies
were just what the needed, but they
reached us when the need was great-
est. The people of Canada should
know that their generosity has saved
the lives of babies who might have
suffered sadly front cold and hunger
andit has given thousands of people
a fresh start. God bless the Canad-
ians."
One story is quoted as typical of
the cases assisted by the Canadian
Red Cross. In one of London's work-
ing class districts, mothers put their
children to sleep in concrete shelters.
They were wrapped warmly in blan-
kets sent from Canada. A bomb land-
ed above, blew in the doors and walls.
There were casualties and bad bruises
and cuts. Escape seemed impossible,
but finally the little company was
pulled out by brave A.R.P. workers
while bombs were still dropping and
pieces of steel were flying around.
A greater shock faced the family.
The row of houses that has been
their home had been completely de-
molished. The women and children
spent the night at a school. In the
morning they were told to go to a
nearby centre to collect clothing for
themselves and the children. It was
Canadian Red Cross clothing that
stood ready its bundles. Every moth-
er remarked on its good quality. One
woman, the wife of a builder, re-
marked frankly, "These are the best
clothing my children have ever had."
Many have been the comments on
the use being made of Canadian Red
Cross blankets, donated by the peo-
ple of Canada, in London's safe but
uncomfortable draughty under-
grounds. Canadian Red Cross of-
ficials have been working day and
night filling the demands which con-
tinue to pour in as families are left
homeless and with no belongings but
the clothes they stand in.
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