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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1940-09-19, Page 3• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1940 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE THREE MADE IN CANADA IT'S ALWAYS DEPENDABLE! CUTS Right Through CLOGGING DIRT Tuse use Gillett's Pure Flake J Lye regularly ... and you'll keep sink drains clean and run- ning freely. It will not harm enamel or plumbing. Banishes unpleasant odors as it cleans. Gillett's Lye makes light work of dozens of hard cleaning tasks . saves you hours of drudgery. Keep a tin always on handl FREE BOOKLET — The Gillett's Lye Booklet tells how this powerful cleanser clears clogged drains . . keeps out- houses clean and odorless by destroying the contents of the closet ... bow it performs dozens of tasks. Send for a free copy to Standard Brands Ltd., Fraser Ave. and Liberty Street, Toronto, Ont. 'Never dissolve lye in hot water. The action of the lye itself heats the water. 7Twieits naallot JUST LIKE CHURCHILL'S SPEECH The following is the text of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech broadcast from London, England, last week: When 1 said m the house of cone mons the other clay that I thought it improbable that the enemy's air at- tack in September could be more than three times as great as it was in August, iwas not. of course, refer. ring to barbarous attacks an the civil population, but to the great air battle which is being fought out be tween our fighters and the German air force. You will understand that when- ever the weather is favorable waves of German bombers, protected by fighters, often 300 or 400 at a time fly over this island, especially the pro- montory of Kent, in the hope of at taching military and other objectives by daylight, However, they are stet by our fighter squadrons, and 'warty always broken up, and their losses average three to one in machines and six to one in pilots. This effort of the Germans to se- cure daylight mastery of the air over England is, of course, the crux of the whole war so far, and it has failed conspicuously. It has cost them very dear, and we have felt stronger and are actually relatively a good deal stronger than when the hard fighting began in July. There is no doubt that Herr Hitler is using up his fighter force at a very high rate, and that if he goes on for many more weeks he will wear down and ruin a vital part of his air force. That will give us a very great ad- vantage. On the other hand, for him to try to invade this country without having secured mastery in the air would be a very hazardous undertaking. Nevertheless, all his preparations for invasion on a great scale are steadily going forward, Several hum dred self-proil'elled barges are mov- ing down the coast of Europe from the German and Dutch harbors to the ports of northern France, from Dun- kirk to Brest and beyond Brest to the French harbors in the Bay of Biscay. Besides this, convoys of merchant ships in tens and dozens are being moved through the Straits of Dover into the Channel, darting along from port to port under the protection of the new batteries which the Ger• mans have built on the French shoe, There are now considerable gath- erings of shipping in the German, Dutch, Belgian and French harbors all the way from Hamburg to Brest Finally there are some preparations made for ships to carry an invading force front the Norwegian harbors. Behind these clusters of ships or barges there stand very Itn•ge numb- ers of German troops awaiting the order to go on board and set out on their very dangerous voyage across the sea.. WO cannot tell when they will try at 71 11, bul fro or0 should blind himself to the fact that a heavy, full -settle invasion of lois is- land is being prepared with all of the n nal German thoroughness ;led hit :hod. and that it may be iatmehed at ooy time now deco England, neon Seetlaud, or upon Ireland, or upon Her!'lttrtd, or upon Ireland, or upon all :hirci•. 1f this invarioe is goiter to lie tried at all, itdoes no!. seem that it can be long delayed. Tim weal her may bleak .tt. any Una. Bei:ides tai.. it is difficult for the enemy to keep these gatherings of ship waiting about indefinitely while they er! bnmbed every high! by our bombers and very oft en shelled by our wars ships which or„ waiting for them. Therefore, we mustregard the next iveck or 80 as a very important weep for us in our history. As great as the days when the Spanish arm- ada was approaching the Channel, and Drake was finishing his game of bowls, or when Nelson stripped be tween us and Napoleon's Grand Army at Boulogne. We've read about the English in the history books. But what is hap penin now is on a far greater scale. and of far more consequence to the Life and future of the world and its civilization than these brave old days. Every man and woman will, there• fore, prepare himself to do his duty whatever it may be, with special pride and care. Our fleets are very powerful and numerous. Our air force is at the highest. it has ever reached and it is conscious of its. proved superiority, not indeed in numbers, but in men and machines. Our shores aro well fortified and strongly manned= and behind them, ready to attack the invaders, we have a far larger and better equipped mobile army than we have ever had Besides this, we have more than 1.500,000 menof the Home Guard who are just as much soldiers of the regular -army in status as the (Irene. dies Guards and all are determined to fight for every inch of the ground in every village and in every street It is with devout Int sure cmtfd• encs that I say let God defend 91e right These cruel, wanton, indiscrim inate bombings of London are. of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plan. He hopes by killing large num- bers of civilians and women and children that be will terrorize and cow the people of this mighty impel' sal city and make them a burden and anxiety to the government, and thus distract our attention unduly from the ferocious onslaught he is prepay ing. Little does be know the spirit of the British nation or the tough fibre of the Londoner whose forbears played a leading part of the estab lishment of Parliamentary institu tions and who have been bred to value freedom far above their lives This wicked man, the repeeitary and embodiment of many forms o1' soul-destroying hate, this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame has now resolved to try to break out famous island race by a process of indiscriminate slaughter and de struction, 'what he has done is to kindle a fire in British hearts here and all over the world which will glow long after all traces of the con• flagration be has caused in London has been removed. He has lighted a fire which• will burn with a steady and consuming flame until the last vestiges of Nazi tyranny have been burnt out of Europe and until the Old World and the New can join hands to rebuild the temples of mar's freedom and man's honor upon foundations which will not soon o easily be overthrown. This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm, as they are Before The Morning atch y "llart;rtieua" The summer tlnsit lie!pen*tl slow lY over the North lea as Dm dt. strop r flolilia reat heti its, :•,aro area. In an overcast s:ty .a Lar e1 smoky orange light hold outfor while against the clarkm ss. o faded at last. The long low sli„pes +a the destroyers glided thrtmelt the night like grey ,solves whe=e sit, t1 t'ca' iuuun+., had Cana tthd Ins."^,'.13 merged' snot Us+ darkness. In Om }calf light the eeet t'.:-!, had gout, to at -lien Math oas, 'Poo crews had done if all so' ()Dm) .bei they gave the impression Of it17 al• most mechanical efficiency. The ,*d- ews, conveyed inpeace time by pipe and shouting, were given in under- tones, almost superfluously, and the reports when they reached the bridges—such and such a gun ready and closed up—searchlights and tor- pedo tubes crews at their stations -- were made and acknowledged in un- dertones, pitched just -loud enough to overcome the drone of the fan ex- hausts and the sound of the sea. "Very good," came the low answer to each report. It was 'n truth good. TheBo- r u very 6 0 . tilla, the ships themselves, every bit of machinery, every weapon, every officer, and man, the whole co- ordination of discipline and etl'ieien- cy atcl experience, seemed to belt together like a lura embloelt slamitied home. On the bridge cif the flotilla leader the captain levered himself on to a high wooden seat abaft the compass. turned up the collar of his coat and stud: en empty pipe in his mouth All about hint were the tortes of DIEM motionless in the darkness: Ile was conscious of theist not so n,uch as individuals but as functions, parts of himself as it were. It was as if he were simultaneously staring through half -a -dozen pairs of eyes into the darkness, listening with other ears to the sounds of the sea, calculating the set of currents, read- ing a tiny beam of light flickering a message on the bridge of the next astern; and at the same time he was estimating his fuel 'requirements when lte returned to harbour, wish- ing he could smoke, and hoping he could somehow keep at bay for the next six hours a longing for sleep. For the first few hours nobody talked very much. The sky held a pale diffused light, with patches of. stars alternately obscured and re- vealed in the shifting ceiling of thin clouds. This light sufficed to show tite dark shadows of the waves as doing. I express my admiration for the exemplary manner in which all the ah' raid precaution services of London are being discharged, espee. sally the fire brigades whose work has been so heavy and also danger. ous. All the world that is still free marvels at the composure and forth tude with which the citizens of Lon- don are facing and surmounting the great ordeal to which they are sub jected, the end of which or the spy. erity of which cannot yet be foreseen Counter h,< ckBook Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. they curved and bloke in gleams 01 grey foams. Occasionally tt look•out gave :tongue. Once 0 floating mine was reported and avoided, and the warning flashed astern to the flotilla. Once tate dark outlines of a convoy glided past. birder guard of its es• sorts, silent and flit 'k ss gi ost .,lOp Al midnight fannies of hot cneoit avivecl lion: the galley. Ale t stir;'; ti 11 t ^el ' lath drams, gr ti Il 1<,r 1 . e ar?tilt of the thick sw . t 1 't -w. and uh-a1 ibto their tiur,}p t .r 'l'ttt,. Fit: L ieuts ,.atm 1o1101r .r . n- J,•lt of his gl7sts}:irs a;rl nits:.l a 171 Out of his 7,,:71::.1 0.1. - smell ',tiring against No. :0 .j1.. ulin•„ tht. :rsruit and ;JIMeine et, .e t! his em.!'P.011 000]. It was II ;n+ o1' ,arae -r:, ,.v'n. be Palestine, r! it i.eads and ty had bought it hi .11r-x- tuitiria. 11 .smell like nothing on earth whoa he bought it, but he stung it in the snit and the wind on board his destroyed' "up the straits" and that made it all right. Shepherds had pro- bably worn coats like that in the time of Christ, guarding their flocks from wolves on tate bleak hills of Pal. estine, He felt that there was some sort of connection between him and the shepherds although it was a far ery from Palestine to the North Sea. Anyhow they both had much the same sort of job and they were both wearing the sante sort of coat, and it was a good coat for keeping teh in, once you got the smell of goat out of it. The loader of the foremost gun had toothache. He'd been a fool to drink hot cocoa because that made it worse. He wanted to bang his head against the gun shield. Ile wondered hew anybody could be unhappy who hadn't got toothache. The world was just composed of two lots of people, those who had toothache and those who hadn't. The ones who hadn't ought to go about dancing and bash- ing cymbals together, and shouting "I have:n't got toothache! Hurrah! I haven't got toothacre!" Most people didn't know when they were well off. and that was a fact. He wondered what the captain would say it the ship's company started beating tam- bourines; and shouting "Hurrah!" be- cause they hadn't got toothache. He wished they would gut into action and then perhaps a shell would 'cine along and blow his head off. That was about the only thing that would cure him. The second hand of the signal watch was thinking about his bed at home. His home was a farm house in Hampshire. There was lavender growing in the front garden, His mother dried the flowers and put them in muslin bags in her linen cup- board. His pillow and the sheets smelt faintly of lavender. A down pillow. 'Your head sank into it and the scent of lavender went over you in a soft wave. He tried to t=rop thinking about it, nodding where he stood. He thought of waking up in the morning instead, on the first day of his leave. His mother bringing him a cup of tea, and the noises of the farm coning through the win- dow. The clang of a milk pail. The cock crowing, Solomon, his name was The Chief Yeoman stuck hint in the ribs with his elbow, "Come en —keep your eyes skinned. You're half asleep." The light In the sky strengthened inipereeptibly. The wind blew :'hill- ier. The shadowy forms on the bridge became individuals with features and identities. tired men in need of a shave. Cups of cocoa were passed round again. Eyes were raised to the sky. The captain filled and lit his pipe. "Keep a good lookout over- head," he said, "This is Heinkel time —just before the morning watch." FEW TULIPS OR OTHER BULBS AVAILABLE THIS YEAR In the spring of 1941 there will pcsibly be substantially less bloom in gardens in hone grounds and parks throughout Canada than has been seen in recent years. The rea- son is that this fall no tulip or other flowering bulbs will be available from Holland. Formerly more than 98 per cent of all tulips dame from that country, and millions of other bulbs. Some bulbs also came from France, Belgium. the Chanel Islands and Germany. frons United States and front the British Isles. The remain- ing bulbs, mostly Easter lilies. calve from Japan anti other countries. CO i +N AND SEE GOOD -YAR P Ti ID I A BIG VALUE TIRE AT A ROCK.BOTTOM OTTOl PRICE! WE HAVE IT! ntri IT'S A GOODYEAR EXTRA VALUE FOR 19401 See it taIIUY I No Waiting 1 No Delay 0 Pathfinder has a centre -traction tread, twin pro- tector cord plies and new Super - twist cord, It's built for long ser- vice, KEN. MacLEAN EGMONDViLLE, ONT. While these is a possibility of some imports to Canada from the United States and the British Isles, it is not expected they will be as much as in former years. Imports from France, Belgium and the Channel Islands, while these countries are under Ger- man occupation, are also not possible. For several years the culture of flowering bulbs has been a growing industry in British. Columbia, but it has as yet only reached the point where but a fraction of the demand from all parts of Canada can be met. 179 to the present the British Colum- bia growers have not been able to compete successfully with the low cast 09 Dutch bulbs, It is expected that seedsmen will have available for sale this fall not more than 10 per cent of their usual supply of bulbs and the size is not likely to be equal to that which they were formerly able to offer. HUGE MACHINERY DISPLAY FOR GREAT PLOWING MATCH There will be over $600,000 worth of farm machinery and home conveni- ences housed in the fifteen acre "tent- ed city" at the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demon- stration to be. held Oct, 15, 16, 17 and 18 on the Ontario Hospital Farm, and adjoining farms, south of St. Thomas. Included in the plowing area will be a number of acres on the farm of Hon. Mitchell F. Hepburn. The entire display area has been surveyed for water mains and hydro• service, while parking spaces adjoin- ing the "tented city" will have room for ten thousand cars. There will be 175 plow teams stabl- ed on the site of the big match, and contestants will draw for teams each morning. There will also be a special parking space for tractors. The 200 or more tractors to be used in com- petition will also be serviced in this area. .A horseshoeing competition for blacksmiths will be open to the world. Send sa the names of your visitors.' FREE SERVICE OLD, DISABLED OR DEAD HORSES OR CATTLE removed promptly and efficiently. Simply phone "COLLECT" to WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED PHONE 21 . INGERSOLL PHONE 219 - MSTCHELL J. GALLOP'S GA;;I 'AGE SEAFORTH Chrysler Plymouth and Fargo Dealer Come in and see the new Plymouth car and Fargo Truck We also have a Fervice Truck—if you have car trouble, phone 179 and we will come promptly Electric Welding Done by an Experienced Welder, Ken Campbell Work guaranteed. The portable welder can be taken any place with or without Hydro PHONE 179, All Repairs Strictly Cash. SEAFORTH We Aim To Please.