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The Clinton News Record, 1941-09-11, Page 7THURS., SEPT. 11,, 1941 I Read - And Write For You (Copyright) THE CLINTONNEWS-RECORD By John C. Kirkwood , MAINLY PERSONAL front. His fame attracted to him the attention of British military men, and he was engaged to do for Brit- ish soldiers what he had been doing so conspicuously well for Canadian men, It was then that he was given the rank of brigadier -general, A Canadian in.. London whose name has appeared in our Canadian papers rather• frequently, and may appear with increasing frequency, in Briga- dier -General A. C. Critchley. Before he went to England in connection with world War No. 1, he had been a professional soldier in the Canad- ian West, where he was born. In England he ceche quickly known and well-known for his ability to get Can- adian soldiers ready to go to the The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS 0F'• SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian.addresses; $2.00 to the. 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ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203, Clinton E C. 'WEIR Barrister -at -Law Solieltor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. ..Notary Public and Commissioner. Offices to Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. D. M. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR. Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Almon Street, (Few Doors west of Royal .Bank) Hours -Wed, and Sat. and b7 appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation SamRay Treatment Phone 207 EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer For Huron Correspondence promptly answered, Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling Phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14 -661, 06-012 GORDON M. GRANT Licensed Auctioneer for Huron Correslpondenee promptly answered. Every effort made to give satiefac- tion. Immediate arrangernen's can be made for sale dates at News -Record Office or writing Gordon M. Grant, Goderich, Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President. Wm. Knox Londesboro; Vice -President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broadfoot,• Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos. Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex IVIcEw- ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: 16. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31. Clinton; Jas. Watt, Birth; John E. Pepper, Bruee- field, R.R. No. 1; It. ` F. McKercher. Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Iirod'hsgen; A. G. Jarmath, Bornholm, R.R. No A, Any money to Ise paid may be paid to ,tlie .:Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commence, Seaforth, or at Calvin Gutt's 'Grocery, Goderich. Parties• desiring to effect hear anee or transact other business wil be- promptly -attended, to on applica- tion to any ,of the above, officers al - dressed, to..theirrespectivepoet ofll. ter Losses inspected by the director CANADIAN NATIONAL' RAILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as •foltoeys: MOND. atideGoderikli Div. Goise Egat,? depart 6.43 a.n} Going f•.rtt, ,depart, 3.00 -p.m Going Wast, depart 11.42 "a.m IRaing West,, depart 9,60 p.m. tater. 1.dndon.-Clinton_ sobs !®oath Mr. Churchill is seen firing the ar. 2,i50, leave S.02 p.m NoW General Critchey is repeating his own history: in this present war he is again making a name for him- self as a rapid preparer of men-fly- ingmen this time -to go to the front, meaning getting them in good condi- tion and well disciplined. Because T had a rather intimate' contact with General Critchley for several years following 1920, it may be all right for me to tell of this association. It was early in 1921 that the news- papers of London announced that General Critchley had been. made managing director of the British Cement Combine, which controlled the manufacture and sale of about 70% the British consumption. He had been given his position to do a particular job, namely, to get rid of the directors of the company. These directors had been paying themselves very handsomely -at about the rate of £7000 each per annum. It meant that the holders 'of. the. common stock were getting nothing. One man had acquired the ,control of the common stock, and was determined, to get rid. of the directors, and he engaged Critchley to be the executioner. When Critchley took the office, he was high -hatted by the directors but when , one by one, they found themselves out of their job, Critchley was treated with a vast respect. When the newspapers told of Critchley's new appointment, one man who saw the news item was a Canad• ian, C. R. Cowley, from St. Thomas, Ontario. He had been adjutant to Critchley for a period; then he had lost track of him. Then he went to call on Critchley, and was heartily welcomed. Critchley said, "You are the very man I need. I have been made managing director, and part of my duty is to advertise our cement. I know nothing whatsoever about ad- vertising." "Joe" Cowley -be became lcnown as Joe --'was attached to the "city" office of our advertising ag- ency, meaning the division of our ag- ency which dealt with financial ad- vertising as distinguished from "pro- ducts" advertising. So Cowley and Critchley came up to our West End headquarters, and Critchley outlined his problem. 'This problem was how to advertise 30 or more brands of cement, especially so when the cem- ent, no matter under what brand sold, was identical -made to a standard specification. Yet users of cement were loyal to the brand which they fiad knownand used in pre -combine days. You can understand Critch- ley's perplexity by imagining that it was 35 brands of tea, or soap, or toothpaste, each put in a single -style wrapper or container, except for the brand-name or brand -picture. It fell to my lot to study Critchley's pro- blem,' and to propose an acceptable solution, which was: to surround the brand' name and picture with a tlue circle, and to call aII brands -"the Blue Circle Brand." By this means the brand name and picture -"Pyra- mid", "Falcon," by way of example - remained unchanged. Straughtway, the Combine company made its bags with a blue cirele and' changed the color of its delivery trucks to a lem- on -eider plus blue. We began to ad- vertise "the Blue Circle" brand, and everything went forward smoothly, From this time onward. I had fair- ly close association with General Critchley, and always found him a very affable man. In 1926, the year of Britain's fam- ous "General Strike," General Cratch ley was put in charge, by the Govern- ment, of the distribution of the Goy, ernmient's official daily. newspaper. The distribution Was made over ev- ery part of Great Britain; and was made by truck or lorry. It was ef- ficiently done. Whatever Critchley undertook was done efficiently. He had strength of will and purple, and knew how to handle men. 1 recall going to see Critchley on some matter, and made some remark about his connection with a new form, of 'sport -greyhound racing. Crich - ley handed me a typewritten sheet showing the earnings front the var- ious'traeks. They were juicy. It was not long after this that Critchley be- came the chairman and general man- ager of the Greyhound Raeing As- sociation. Hie personal salary from each ne'itrack opened was S1000,'and- in addition he derived income' from the profits of this sport, which had taken Britain by storm. About this time I became a free- lance advertising man in London, and Critchley had likewise become a sort of free lance company director: he became a director of several compan- ies, and in each case he wanted the company" served by him to modern- ize its selling procedure. So at var- oius times he engaged me to investi- gate the merchandising and advertis- ing activities of the companies of which he had becomes director. One of these companies was Bellevue Pleasure Park of Manchester; anoth- er was a manufacturer of copper rods and tubes; another was the makers of the Rolls Razor; another was a com- pany which was seeking £11 millions to make and market a process for toughening high-speed steel. It would, perhaps, be interesting to some of my readers if I told of my probings of these several enterprises, in a purpose to discover their weaknesses and market possibilities. But to do this -tell these stories -would take up too much space and time. Suffice it to say that it led General Critch- ley to propose that he and I should be joined in a new kind of capital - finding and management service in Great Britain. "I can find you lots of customers" was Critchley's aseur- ance to me, and I believed firmly that there was the possibility of a very- profitable eryprofitable business for eaoh of us in the proposed association. But alas and alas for one's dreams. Just about this time a "wonder man" in London's and Britain's financial circles -named Hatry-confessed that he had been sinning against the British people. Hatry had specialized in municipal seeurties and, in a pur- pose to get money needed; to help him get control of Britain's steel industry, he had forged, twice over, a number of municipal bond issues. When the losses to British investors had been ascertained, they were found to ex- ceed £18i4 millions! The shock to the confidence of British investors was so sudden and complete that for a whole year it was almost futile to seek new capital for any enterprise. The London Stock Exchange had suf- fered a deadly blow from whichthere was no recovery for quite a year. So the proposed enterprise for Critchley and me had to go to sleep: until con- ditions were better, But before this time came, I returned to Canada, on the invitation of a friend, to take ed- itorial charge of a particular type of business newspaper, In the years since then -1929 and 1930-Critchley's connection with var- ious forms of sport has widened. Al- ways he has remained the top figure in the greyhound racing world. Then he became a promoter of prize fights in Britain. He introduced profess- ional ice hockey into Britain. But my •knowledge of his doings and succes- ses, in the unrelated worlds' of sport and finance and industrial enterprise in the last ten years is really unin- formed. It has interested me much to learn that again he is identified with military work in Britain -that his very vestal genius and abilities have had the recogniton and employ- ment of the British military leaders. Along with others I shall be looking far his name in our newspapers, and my hope is that fresh and high hon- ors will be his portion in these pre- sent times•and in the post-war days. BRITAIN'S MARKSMAN PRIME MINISTER 0When he paid a visit recently to an armament establishment Mr. Churchill tried his hand with an automatic. gun.. He fired a number of rounds attargets some distance away and accurately peppered them. 'fire Secretary of State for War Capt. D. Margesson was on interested spec bomatic gun. 3t: f ,.wor•••••01.01-..z NEWS Direct From ' England NEATLY PLACED, SIR! England Lands Tennis Balls in. Switzerland Tennis balls just made' in England have been safely delivered to Switz- erland for this year's national champ- ionships there. How they got through will be .a secret until the war is over. There makers . are actually sending more balls overseas than in peace lime. Sportsmen in no fewer than 51 overseas territories are getting balls for tennis and squash from them to- day, and they have produced an en- tirely new ball for. U.S.A. V THREE COURSES -10d English Miners are Living Well in War Time Three -course meals for tenpence are now being served daily from one o'clock to half -past six at Mansfield colliery in Nottinghamshire. Here are three typical menus: - Lentil Soup; Steak Pie, Cabbage Potatoes; Rhubarb Tart and Custard. • Ox -Tail Soup; Brown Stew; Car- ots Potatoes; Date Pudding and Cus- tard. Celery Soup; Boiled Pork Sage and Onion Sauce, Cababge and Potatoes; Jam and Custard. The soup costs 2d; meat and two vegetables 6d, and pudding 2d. Tn spite of the cheapness of the food it is hoped that, when fully developed, the scheme' will pay for itself. The miners, and their wives are so en- thusiastic about it that it will prob- ably be extended to other pits in the Bolsover group of which the Mans- field colliery is one. - Cultery, crockery, tables and cook- ing equipment are supplied with the help of the Miner's Welfare Commis- sion which has already sponsored pit- head baths, recreation grounds and other amenities. Three West Yorkshire pits have also got pit -head canteens• which are serving from 3,500 to 4,000 hot meals a day -breakfast, dinners, teas and suppers. Plans are ready for feeding a further 10,000 workers. Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food, has appointed an e.pert with wide experience in organizing indus- trial canteens to help, and what has now been begun as a war -time meas - tire promises to take a permanent place in English colliery life. V "VEG." - £20,000,000 Even Britain's Railway Embankments Are Dug "for Victory" Britain amateur gardeners are re- sponding to the "Dig for Victory" drive by growing on their 1,600,000 garden allotments vegetables to the value of £20,000,000 a year. In ad- dition, hundred of tons of vegetables are being grown on railways embank- ments throughout the country. The Southern Railway alone have 13,000 allotments covering an area of 600 acres. Even densiey populated London has found room for over 38,000 allot- ments, while in the famous parks of the Metropolis an ,additional 350 acres aro being farmed for food crops and 600 acres set aside for sheep grazing. London's railwaymen are cultiva- ting 2,700 of these allotments, cov- ering 100 acres, while other workers of the London Passenger Transport Board have dug up 36 acres from which they hope to get 900 tons of potatoes. They are also Working 120 acres of market garden land at Lon- don's chief bus depot. Altogether apart from this, the London County Council is now farm- ing 4,000 aeres.in the City's Green V RECORD MEDAL YEAR Expected at Royal Mint after the War London's Royal Mint exp"ccs to, turn out more medals in the year fol- lowing the present war than at any period in its history: and in an aver- age year it strikes some 34,000 of them and of decorations of all kinds. The Mint has been doing that contin- uously since 16.43 when Charles I in- stituted the Forlorn Hope Badge. Meanwhile they are busy making not only the decorations awarded during the war to the fighting servic- es"but the George Crosses and George Medals now for the first time in hie - tory awarded for valour to civilians. Id was the King himself who de- cided that the ribbon, which is blue, for the 'George Gross should be wid- PAGE 7 Belt and today the citizens of London own 15,000 head of pedigree cattle, 3,000 pigs, 7,000 head of poultry and 560 sheep. • Last year the City's farms had a record production of 360,000 eggs, 550,000 gallons of milk, 351 tons of Meal, 1,668 tons of vegetables and 81 tons of fruit, ened to the same length as that of the Victoria Gross. The monarch chooses all ribbons, and always has done in He is assisted by a committee to make sure that a design has not already been used either here or by a foreign rower. The rainbow' Trues of the "Victory Medal ribbon, now familiar through- out the Empire, are the result of the deliberations of an interallied com- mittee who sat to think out a ribbon incorporating the colours of all the allied nations concerned in the last war. After the South African War, it was King Edward VPI himself who decided that the Dolours of the Orange Free State should be those used for the King's Medal. V COCOA - .£11,000,000 British Government's Huge Pur- chases of Wool The British Government has spent round about 3171,000,000 on cotton from Egypt and on cocoa and wool from the British Empire since war broke out, Lord Moyne, Colonial Sec- retary, told LordBarnby in the House of Lords. Of the total, £11,000,000 has gone on cocoa, almost all of it from Nig- eria and the Gold Coast; 325,000,000 on cotton and cotton seed from Egypt; and £185,000,000 on wool from the Dominions and certain of the Colonies. The wool figure covers two com- plete wool ,years for Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Falk- land Islands and one year wool for 1 enya. Much of the cocoa, cotton and wool has now been re -sold. V Fall Fair Dates The following is a list of Agricul- tural Societies' Fairs and Exhibitions New Hamburg, Sept. 12-13. Stratford, Sept. 15-17. Blyth, Sept, 17-18. Exeter, Sept. 17-18. Listowel, Sept. 17-18. Kincardine, Sept. 18-19. Palmerston, Sept. 19.20. Zurich, Sept. 22-23. Mitchell, Sept. 23-24. Ripley, Sept. 23-24. Bayfield, Sept. 24-25. Kirkton, Sept. 25-26. Atwood, Sept. 29-30. Teeswater, Sept, 30 -Oct. 1. Dungannon, Oct. 2.3. Gerrie, Oct. 5-4. London (Junior only), Oct. 1011. CHURCH DIRECTORY THE BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor 2.30 p.m. -Sunday School 7 p.m. -Evening Worship The Young People meet each Monday evening at 8 p.m. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Rev. G. W. Moore, LTh. 10.00 a.m.-Sunday School. 11 a.m. Morning Prayer, 7 p.m. -Evening Prayer. THE SALVATION ARMY Lieut. Deadtuan Lieut. Whibley 11 a.m. - Holiness Service 3 p.m. - Sunday School 7 p.m. Salvation Meeting ONTARIO STREET, UNITED Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., B.D. 10.00 a.m.-Sunday School. 11 a.m.-Divine Worship 9.30 a.m. Turner's Church Ser• vice and Sunday School '1 p.m. Evening Worship WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED Revs Andrew Lane, B.A., S.D. 11. a.m..-Divine Worship '7 p.p._Evening„Worship. Sunday Eckool at conclusion of morning, ,ae seq., PRESBYTERIAN .CHITECS Rey. = 8.: F.. Andrew Sunday,, School lo•„4:m. , Worship Service 11 Lt.,. Worship Service at, Bayfield 2 it,m;-8ntidalf ;School. lisyfielt: 5eeinwecrati 5n Week 9rager 0 Lord of Hosts, in this time of our reconsecr, a•• tion to Thy service and in defence of the light brought' into this world by Thy beloved. Son, we turn to Thee in prayer. We pray for our fighting men on land, on the sea and in the air that they, may be imbued with courage to persevere and strength to vanquish the dark forces which now seek to rule this earth. We pray re. for endurance for all those who, in any way, are engaged in this great conflict, and, for our peoples„ understanding of the truth. We pray for :mercy for the stricken, consolation for the bereaved and eternal rest for those who, having blazed the path, have been gath- ered to Thine arms. These things we ask, 0 Lord, so that in the fullness of time the dread conflict may cease; the right may triumph, and our children be brought up to serve Thee and to do those things which are of good renown, to know and to spread. the Christian Light. --Amen. £eecsnseeratian Week *ace For the courage of our fighting men and the devotion of those who stand behind them: for our continued freedom and for these blessings of our unscarred earth, we give thanks in this week of reconsecration to the Lord of Hosts, who is the only Defen- der of the Right. -Amen. "THEY FLY FO R FREEDOM Dealing with the activities of the men in the sky who have won so im- portant a place in the present war, and of the army of men on the ground whose duty it is to back them up and keep them flying, a new series of programs was recently launched en- titled "They Fly For Freedom." Heard over stations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it Lelia' the story behind the Commonwealth Air Training Scheme and of the thous- ands of young men from all parts of the Empire who are eagerly develo• ping into pilots, observers, gunners and mechanics. Much of the mater- ial used in these broadcasts has been gained first hand. C.B.G. Engineers and producers, along with Gerald 0 Nexon, the author, have journeyed to many of the centres' where training is going' on and have there records the actual sounds and voices of the students and instructors on the spot Listeners who desire knowledge o the training of the airmen and al that goes to make our Royal Canad ian Air Force, will find that this pro gramme is extremely interesting Normally heard on Wednesday, a 10.30 p.m., the time is to be temper arily changed to Thursday, Septem ber 11th, at 8 p.m., EDST for thi week, and, to Tuesday, Septembe 16th, at 10 p.m. EDST on the follow ing week, on stations of the CBC' National Network. "YOUR ROME STATION" C R H 920.kca. WINGHAM 326 metas WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGRLUGATR FRIDAY, SEPT. 12TH: 7.30 a.m. "Eveready Time" 10 a.m. Jim Maxwell 5.30 p.m. Kiddies' Birthday Carn- ival 9 p.m. Abrams-Zale Fight SATURDAY, SEPT. 13TH: 8.05 a.m. "Breakfast Club 9,30 a.m. Kiddies' Studio Party 11 a.m. Saturday Morning Frolic 6.45 p.m. Wilf Carter SUNDAY, SEPT. 14th: 11 a.m. Church Service 1.80 p.m. Melody Time 6 p.m, Gracie Fields Varieties 7 p.m. Church Service MONDAY, SEPT. 15TH: 11 a.m Hawaiian Strings 12 noon "Farm & Home Hour 6 p.m. George Wade's, Cornhua- kers 8.80 p.m. CKNX Ranch Boys TUESDAY, SEPT. 16TH: 1.30 pen. Glad Tidings 6.15 p.m. Jitn Maxwell '7.30 p.m. Royal T Party 8.30 p.m. Harold Pym, piano WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17TH: 7.45 a.m. Strike Up The Band 1 p.m. Polka Band 6.45 p.m. Telephone Tunes 8,30 Clark Sohnson THURSDAY, SEPT. 18TH:: 8 p.m. -Jim Maxwell 11 a.m. 'Piano Ramblings 1 pain. Brussels Program' $ p.m. Wayne' Xing Orch. Riggers and Fitters We are the Riggers and. Fitters; w are the Men on the ground; Serving the Bombers and Fighte keeping them airworthy, sound! We bid them god -speed in the gleam ing with a pat of affection an pride; We hall them with joy at their hon ing, as we haste in the dawn t their side; With eyes keen to mark their condi tion, "What luck sir?" we eager! ask. Then the Pilot's "thumbs up" of eia tion returns us renewed to o task- - Serving the Bombers and Fighters keeping them airworthy sound; We who are Riggers and Fitters, w who are Men on the Ground! Our names are not written in story we wear not the purple -and -white Yet we still have a share in his glory whose work keeps the Pilot i flight! And no matter where'er, duty . take them -•wherever the war -planes a found --- No Rigger of Fitter 'forsakes them there always are men on th ground Proud to be Riggers and Fitte P4'oud.to be Men on the;,Ground. Serving the Bombers : and Fighter keeping them' airworthy, sound! ' l!tontreal -Grace Foliar.