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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-10-09, Page 7THURS., OCT. 9, 1941 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thanks be Unto God By "PEG,,,..r•....:.......:...•.....w.•.wn When we have finished a prayer of any length do we ever stop to an- alyze just what that prayer has been -composed of. In very many cases we will find that the greater part of it has been rade up of asking for things. Giving thanks has had a very small part in it. In fact we do not give God, who is the Giver of all Good, nearly as much thanks as we give to those with whom we come in daily 'contact. Isthat not something of which we should be ashamed?- On ,The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year . in advance, to Can- adian addresses; ;2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. 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Offices In Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation San -Ray Treatment Pions 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 Correspondence promptly answered., Every effort made to give satisfac- tion. Immediate arrangements can be made for sale dates at News -Record Office ar writing Gordon M. Grant, Goderich, Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President. Win. Knox Londesboro; Vice -President,. W. R. Archibald, eaforth; Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Win. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris, Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos, Moyylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex •McEw- ing. Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton.. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31. Clinton Jas. Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Bruce- field, R.R. No. 1; R. F. McKercher. No. J. F. Preuter, 'n R.R. 1 Dubh . n• A. G. Jarmuth Bornhohn, , , 'R.R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin, Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applies: - Con to any of the above offieere at- dressed to their respective poet oi!- eea. Losses inspected by the direrbor CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE' Tniae' will arrive at and depart from Clinton se follows: ' Buffalo and Goderich Dir. Going rest, depart 6.43 a.m Going Eget, depart 3.00 p.m Gots* West, depart 11.45 a.m West 9 50 m �g �eka� p• �oa,Laidenlh ar. - GIerote L Liu 2.J0, ays SA' p.Tz Sunday, we will gather in the church- es to give thanks to God for His Great Goodness • to us. Surely in our own individual lives we can find many things for which we may be thankful. In reviewing the history of the world we learn that the Davy • of Thanksgiving was instituted by the Pilgrim Fathers, when, in comparis- on with us it seethed they had little to he thankful for. That is mater- ial things. There were few of them to begin with and their ranks had been thinned out by sickness. Yet they felt that they should have a day for public Thanksgiving, and, it was a day of Thanksgiving, a day when they went to God's House and offered Thanks. Today many of out church- es are not even opened on Thanks- giving Day, but our places of Amuse- ment are. Can we expect. God to help us if we •.vill not even thank Him for all He has done for us. Why should we refrain from thanking God, the Giver of all good things for what He In looking back over the past year we may think that wehave not much for which to return thanks. A great deal of hardship has 'come to us• dor- ing the past months; we have been faced with financial difficulty; sick- ness and death have crossed our threshold; our sons and daughters have been called away to war; the war has made a great drain on our' salary. Even granting that all that is true we still have a great deal to be thankful for. While we pray that our young men and young women may come back to us yet we must realize that we are, none of us excepted, responsible for this war. We have wandered far from God, and we are very slow in coming back to Him. One,great pity is that these young men and women, a great many of them at Least, are going forth to fight oar battle, and they have been taught practically nothing of the Love of Christ, which alone will save the world. Let us be thankful that He will forgive us for our lack of thought of Him and will yet give us a chance to speak for Him. When we think this thing out we will find that it is really adversity which gives us the greatest cause for which 'to be thankful. We can al- ways see something worse which might have happened to us. Things are not in the world what they should be today. They are not the same as they were some years ago, but God is the sante and He will care for us. How ;much more prone we are to complain than we are to be thankful. The complaint office .in one of the big Department Stores tells us that it is seldom anyone goes to thank them for any courtesy extended to them by their employees, but when a clerk, it may be tired and weary answering questions and pulling down and putting back goods make a mistake or answers a little sharply it is strange how quickly people are to report such a one. A word of en- couragement to a clerk in a store goes a long way towards making the day happier for her and it will make ushappier too. • In regard to those who have been sick and who have passed to the 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, L'th. 10.00 a.m.—Sunday School. 11 a.m. Morning Prayer. 7 p.m.—Evening Prayer. THE SALVATION ARMY Lieut. Deadman Lieut. Whiteley 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.tn.—Sunday School. 11 a.m—Divine Worship 9.30 a.ni. Turners Church Ser- vice ervice and Sunday. School 7 p.m. Evening Worship WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A.; B.D. 11. a.m.—Divine Worship 7 p.m.—Evening Worship. Sunday $chool at, conclusion of morning service. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. B. F. Andrew Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Serriee 11 a.m. 8 p.m; Worship: Servioe at Bayfield 2 p m:—Sunday Soltoo1. Beytielw CANADA AT WAR Article Number Three • "WAR INDUSTRIES" BY B.M.P. Anyone who inspected the Depart- ment of Munitions and Supply exhibit their newspapers, fifty Canadian ed,- at the Canadian National Exhibition itors salried forth late in August to this year trust have stood amazed at I find out for themselves. We saw only the marvellous display of implements ; a few industries, eight to be exact, of war shown there, all products of a bare fraction of the grand total, but Canadian industrial enterprise and in- they in- formed a highly -revealing, genuity, cross-section. In Hamtilton, for inn - They included the 26 -pounder field stance, a beehive of armament -mak - artillery gun, the Bofors anti-aircraft mg, we visited only one plant, the gun, the Boys anti-tank gum the Bren •National Steel..Car, largest shell- gun, gun, the Universal carrier,; producing plant in the British Empire,. bombs, rifles, shells, trench mortars, a Around the clock. seven days a week', complete engine for the Canadian -1 thousand's of shells for field artillery bhilt corvette and a remarkable 'ex- and anti-aircraft , guns are .' pouring hibit of Canadian -made bomber and from the complicated machines which fighter planes. Canadian factories are bore them, lengthen them, shape also turningout hue them, nose them and prepare them to g quantities of receive fuse, loading caps and other chemicals and explosives, depth char - parts, gee and land mines., as well as motor torpedo boats, naval gun mountings, mine-eweapers and auxiliary craft. It was for the purpose of giving Canadian editors a chance to learn the inside atory of produldtion of these war weapons that the Department of Munitions and Supply, headed by Hon. C. D. Howe, made possible for them to visit a number of Eastern Canada war . industries. In the short time available the editors saw sufficient to make them realize that Canada is with the accusation of political tor - responding nobly'to the Churchill ap- peal: "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." Right across Eastern Canada a ' gigantic new arsenal has atter of the enterprising Major come into being with scores of new Hahn, chief promoter of the Bren gun factory buildings being added to Can- program for Canada. We had the ad'a's industrial war giant, and eider privilege of meeting Major Hahn, of plants turning to war work. Spin hearing him speak for half an hour Hing wheels, turning lathes and whir- and of learning •something about the ring machinery tell their own story. man from acquaintances of. long The Dominion Government alone has standing. . We would judge that a expended $500 millions for new plant majority of editors present. on that and materials, while, total orders for occasion became, convinced that here munitions of all kinds now exceed two was a man win: knew his business, industry, this has happened almost billion dollars. In terms of large-scale who had the vision to make possible a vital link in our: war machine and Canada was not looked to seriously overnight. Until the fall of France, who was striving earnestly to do a job for his country. Incidentally Major Hahn served in Canada's armed for- ces in the Great War, and according to comrade -in -arms, he was a first- class soldier and an officer noted for his initiative and fearlessness. Under his direction the Inglis Co. plant has become the largest produc- er of automatic guns in North Amer- ica, if not in the world. Working far ahead of schedule it will have pro- duced many, many thousands of Bren guns in 1941. The Canadian Bren gun enjoys a high reputation for ef- ficiency and perfection of workman- ship. It is in high favour with then of Canada's army. The plant and eq- uipment used to produce the Bron gun was paid for jointly by the British and Canadian Governments and remains their property. It was designed and thy name, 0 most High". Even very is operated by the Inglis Company. young 'children should be taught Thousands' of hands are workng on this spirit of Thanksgiving. \Ve get fire materials and assembly lines of this fact from some present every the Bren gun. We noticed that a re - day book, :but the careful study of the Bible will always impress' it on us. -' There can be no true Thanksgiving more and more. One official empha- without the upward look bo God." In sized that in many operations the our own hones quite often it is cost- nimble fingers of young women were more suited to fast production. Building Bombers The editors had their first glimpse says "Niaweb" (I air thankful) when of how a bomber is made in an air - he rises from a meal, craft factory near Montreal. This In the Book of Books we have the particular plant is engaged in produc- story of the ten lepers who were tion of the Bolingbroke bomber. It cleansed. Of the ten just one came has been enlarged four tines to take back to return thanks. Where were care of expanding orders. We saw the nine? They simply took it for bombers in all stages of production to be on a scale not deemed possible :a few months ago. Knowing little of this war program other than what they had read in Bren Machine Guns At Toronto we visited the John .Inglis Co. plant, 'producer of the fam- ed Bren automate machine gun, now one of the most prized weapons of the Canadian Army. Successful laun- ching of Bren gun production consti- tutes one of the epics of this war. The enterprise began at the outset of war under inauspicious chtommstances, ruption rifle in the press. The result was a government investigation that failed at least to besmirch the char - for the tools of war. When Vichy capitulated ,the picture changed ab- ruptly. Canada's industrial and gov- ernment leaders. worked day and night to formulate the blueprint of the huge machine which in little more than one year has swung into action. A year, even six months hence, production will Great Beyond if we could just see the plan of that dear ones life we would be very thankful that God took hire or her to be with Him. It may be that they were relieved from a long illness and it would have been •griev- ors to us to have had to watch then suffer. Psalm 92 verse one teaches us "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto markably high percentage of the workers were girls or women. Indeed we found in nearly every war plant that female help was being utilized unary .for us to partake of a meal without any thanks to Hite who has provided it for us. What ingratitude! It is claimed that every real Indian granted that their healing was thein the point where they were rolled right and went on their way regard- from the factory for trail flight. We less of the great blessing which Go dwere given a demonstration of releas- had bestowed on them. The same is mg bombs from the plane's belly that time with us today. We take too .was highly significant. The entire much for granted. We hold out our plant reverberated with activity as hand to take God's gift's of rain, trained hands of men and women put sunshine, seed time and harvest time, together the huge bombers which -will Hitler - shelter, food and friends and seldom one day wreck vengeance over Hitler- take time to say "Thank You". If land. It is fcult to imagine that these things were to 'cease we would Canada's aircraft industry was only suddenly realize what it meant. in its embryo stage when war broke The song of . Thanksgiving has out, yet today we are manufacturing come down to us through all the 18 different types of planes. The ages. From earliest Bible times' majority of primary trainers for the there has' been good reason for Commonwealth been Air Training Plan Thanksgiving. What would we do have been delivered and the factories without the psalms of David, which are giving more attention to advanced are filled with Thanksgiving) and trainers and heavy bombers. In teff trust? I years the personnel of the aircraft Our greatest cause of Thanksgiving factories has increased from 1,600 to is found in the fact that Christ came more than 25,000. The cost of an to earth and gave Himself in order airplane staggers the imagination. A that we might be able to spend et- about den bomber, for instance, costs etnity with Him. He died that sacri- about Ham$160,000. ficial death on the Cross in order that Ile night be an Intercessor for as. God Will abide at all times with Tanks and Tank Guns We visited another factory which 05. only a year ago was a peace -time in - We can return thanks to God,. by, drafty but which is now producing in the first place, giving ourselves to tank and antitank, guns for Canada's Him. What a small thing that is in armoured forces at an astonishing comparison with what He has done ?'ate. Fully equipped with the most for us. We can also give thanks, to modern machinery, the greater part Him by working for and in co -ester- of United States origin, this plant ty- ationwith Him. pifies the revolution which has taken Let us pray that. God will help us place in Canada's war industry. A to make it a habit of being thankful third plant in the Montreal area was to Rim. producing the new heavy infantry We are building, every day In a good or evil way And .the .building as it grows. Will our inmost self expose stank, designed to cooperate with in- fantry in assaults en enemy positions. Several of the completed' tanks were driven in procession in front of the Build it well whate'er'you do factory for benefit of our party. They Build it, straight and strong:red made an imposing spectacle as the trub„ 4 heavily -plated, and armoured vehicles Build it clean and high and broad117 moved up and down the street, their Built it for the eye el God.treads clanking on the pavement. A "PEG" (total of 809 of these tanks is now on PAGE 7 The three main' factors in providing the machines which will continue to improve farm operating and make it more profitable are closely, inter -related and achieve the utmost in theirfunctioning when properly correlated. These three factors are— * re—* ENGINEERING -which by study and experi- mentation conceives and develops the implement or machine to meet' the immediate need or problem of the farmer. — • MANUFACTURING—to produce in quantity and quality the machines developed so that they may be economically available to the farmers whom. they were designed to assist. • DISTRIBUTING—to sell with all the details which this includes, and which in its broader sense implies the missionary work of introducing new developments so that the full possibilities en- visioned by the engineer may be fully .appre- ciated by a sufficient number to provide the volume necessary to bring manufacturing costs down to a point that extends the beneflts of the machine to the greatest number. Including, also, as it does the rendering of the necessary service to assure of the purchaser getting the utmost in satisfaction in the operation of his machine and the furnishing of parts to keep it in operation during its lifetime, with loss through breakdown reduced to a minimum. It is evident that when these three functions are co-ordinated under one management, the success of each being entirely dependent on the success of the other, and the success of all being the responsibility of that management, that each functions at its highest point of efficiency: One cannot blame for its short -comings the actions of the others, insofar as the customer is concemed there can be no—"buck-passing." It's an undivided responsibility. Massey -Harris is proud of its engineering developments in the field of farm machinery over the century and has earned an enviable reputation for the character and quality of the goods it manufactures. Its own Sales Organization of exclusive Dealers permits its farmer customers to deal directly with the Company that designs and builds the machines it sells. A Company which stands behind its product with the highest kind of guarantee—it has to be satisfactory— and there's no divided responsibility. order. The infantry tank is 17 feet long, earries a cannon and machine guns, as well as smoke bomb epuip- ment. It is equipped with a wireless set, periscope, telescope, telephone and other instronents. The crew are well protected by thick armour plate. A year ago these tanks were not con- sidered within the realm of Canada's potentialities. Today they are a reality. The 25 -Pounder Gun One of industry's most spectacular achievements was viewed by our par- ty at the magnificent plant at Sorel where the new 25 -pounder guns are coming off the assembly 1i8e. Here we stet the Brothers Simard, Joseph and Edouard, small-town French-Can- adian lads whose enterprises would make a story in themselves. Origin- ally engaged in the ship building in- dustry, they had the foresight and ini- tiative to launch a war undertaking of vital import to Canada. Overcom- ing tremendous obstacles they have built a modern plant, equipped with precision machinery, that is turning scrap iron into the sleek and powerful 25.pounder gun, Before the war the Simard brothers bought all the scrap iron they could find in America and transported it up the St. Lawrence to the spot where they planned to erect their plant. To- day the great piles of scrap outside their building' testify to the fact that they have an abundant supply for months to come. They brought skil- led artisans from France to undertake mechanical operations. After the fall of France they lost these worrier. The Chrysler Corporation stepped into the breach. Today many hundreds of. workmen, chiefly French Canadians, ere performing the exacting tasks in the Simard plant, The drama of war production is strickingly depicted in this factory, where massive, white-hot ingots are lifted from glowing furnaces to huge presses•where the gun barrels are hammered and scaled to the right pro- portions, a spectacle that completely fascinates the visitor just as a black- smith's anvil: has an irresistible lute for the smelt boy. Another machine will, cut up the red-hot ingot ofgun- barrel steel as a knife wouldcut through cheese. . T h etacisio i' mach- inery r u- inery for turning gun barrels„ for fashioning gun carriages and the great multitude of intricate parts which go to make up a mrodern artil- lery gun, command the highest, type of mechanical • skill. Soon Canada's regiments of artillery will be equipped with the deadly 26 -pounder, one of French Canada's contributions to the fight for freedom. A. visit to the Dominion • Arsenal where ;small arms ammunition is made completed; our tour ofmunitions plants in Ontario and Quebec, ,We had seen only a small sector. qf• Can- ada's war industry, a lusty infant that is speedily acquiring the vigour' of young manhood anti will'within•a few months have reached maturity. Col. W. A. I arsison, executive assistant Huron Fruit Growers Planning Show A fruit show will be held in the Town Hall, Clinton, on November 28th, it was decided, at a meeting of the executive of the Huron Fruit Growers Association, held in the ag- i ricultural office on Tuesday evening, Wesley Joynt, Lucknow, vice-presi- dent, was in the chair, and the at- tendance. included T. J. Lassaline,' George Laithwaite, Clayton Laith- waite, Benson Sowerby, Harold Mont- gomery, T. J. Salkeld, Stewart Mid- dleton, J. R. Stirling and J. C. Shear- er. Committees appointed for the show are as follows: prize list, J. R. Stir- ling, Clayton Laithwaite, Stewart Middleton, Mrs. D. A. Smith; pro- gram and publicity, J. G. Shearer, Benson Sowerby, D J. Lassaline, George Johnston; hall arrangement, Fred Middleton, H. Montgomery, George Laithwaite, Ross Middleton; reception, R. J. McLaughlin, Wesley Joynt, T. J. Salkeld, D. A. Smith. The purpose of the show is to bring to the public notice, including parti- cularly the temporarily resident members of the Royal Air Force from Britain, the high quality of Huron county fruit. It is expected that a sale of fruit shown will be. held. It was also decided at the meeting that the association will affilitate with the Huron Federation of Agri- culture, and Wesley Joynt was ap- pointed to represent the association on the county board• to the Minister of Munitions and Sup- ply, who was a member of our party, told the editors that in addition Can- ada was producing twenty kinds of high explosives and, as many as 400 motorized' vehicles a day, as well as operating the largest small anus fee - :tory in the Empire. He said that when maximum •output was reached they could equip a complete division every six weeks, Rifles, two -pound- era and Tommy guns were among other equipment being produced in Canada. He declared that Canadians 1 could make any kind of war equip- ment if given the plans and designs. The Department of Munitions and Supply personnel had grown Yrom 200 to 2,000 since the war began. He ad- mitted that the officers had experien-, iced many heartaches, that many -bot- tlenecks had been encountered and that only now was the entire plan coming to fruition. Unquestionably the armaments plan has cost Canada a colossal: sum of money,: even • now running, into ast- ronomical figures. No doubt waste, inefficiency and extravagance have had a part in the story. But the main (point is that the war industries are now swinging into production and that if is' NOT "too late," as once we l had.good reason to fear.:. l(Next week's article will feature the • R.C:A, P. it ris+ • PUT OUT THAT CIGARETTEI A group of men stand smoking cigarettes in a newsstand. Very seen one is called away on some other bus- iness. His cigarette which is about two-thirds smoked is thrown down on the wooden floor and the smoker walks away without a thought of the dangerous consequences which may follow. Fortunately, an onlooker who appreciates the potential danger of such actions puts his foot on the burning stub and snuffs out the ven- omous little ball of heat which if left alone could destroy a whole building or a whole .block of buildings. And here and there throughout Canada, 13,000 such little balls of heat did destroy over a million dollar's worth of property in 1940. Most fires from this cause originate in the homes but frequently they happen., in factories, stores, warehouses arid other mercantile buildings where the loss occasioned niay be very serious. Fires •caused by smokers' careless- ness constituted the alarming pro- portion of •32,5% of all fires from known causes in 1940 and the amount of loss entailed was more than 9% of the total loss from known causes. The remedy for this growing evil is very simple. First of all, make sure that your cigarette, cigar or match is out before disposing of it. It is a good habit, especially in*the woods, to break a match in two before throwing it away. Malty motorists are care- less in such matters. When in the open country in dry weather, dispose your cigarette butts, etc. in the re- ceptacle provided in your ear, Sev- eral serious fires have been 'caused by the careless throwing away of cigar- ette butts in the dry grass along highways and roadways. Never snake a practice of smoking in bed. 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