HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-02-20, Page 3THURSDAY, FEERuARY 1941
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THE SEAFORTH NEWS
AILWAYS DEPENDI Rl.E!
HENSALL
Hensel] Red Gross Notes—
elle following goods were shippeed
from the Hensall Branch of the Red
Gross in the month" of January:—
Ilospital supplies: 8 'pillow cases; 31
sheets; 3 bed Jackets: 3'6 Abdominal
Bandages; 322 Diapers; 6 pillows.
Woolen Goods: 10 doz. pair socks; 6
pair Seamen's socks; 24 pair mitts;
7 Helmets; 27 scarves; 5 turtle neck
sweaters; 17 pair two-way mitts; 2
turtle neck tuck -ins. Refugee Sup-
plies: 13 large quilts; 2 skirts; 6
dresses; 1 pair Pyjamas; 3 crib
quilt; 4 windbreakers.
All these goods passed : inspection
and the entire shipment reflected
great credit upon the work of our
Ladies. It is gratifying to notice an
increased attendance at our work
rooms an Mondays and Fridays. and
to know that our revised organizat-
ion is meeting with success.
On Monday February 10 Major
Watson, the Red Cross Field Secret-
ary for Western Ontario, paid a wel-
earned visit to our Work Rooms,
which was a source of information
end encouragement to all the Ladies
present. Major Watson explained
how the refugee goods sent to Eng-
land reached the refugees and illust-
rated what is placed in the parcels
sent to Canadian Prisoners of War:
how these parcels are packed and
shipped and assured the Ladies that
RB per cent of them are reaching
their destination.
Major Watson also warned again.
against many rumours that are al-
ways in circulation about the failures
of the Red Cross to do this and that.
'That the articles made through volun-
"'i.
tary labour do
not reach needy sail-
ors, soldiers and airmen. And that
such Red Cross articles are purchas-
ed, and so on.
Some ctf these rumours are defin-
D. H. McINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
Office — Commercial Hot.eI
Electro Therapist — Massage
Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after-
noons and by appointment.
FOOT CORRECTION
:ry manipulation—Sun-ray
treatment.
Phone 227.
BUS TIME TABLE
Leaves Seaforth for Stratford:
Daily 8,25 a.m. and 5.15- p.m.
Leaves Seaforth for Goderich:
Daily except Sunday and bol., 1.05 p.m.
and 7.40 mut.
Sun. and hof., 1.05 p.m. and 0.20 p.m:
Connection at Stratford for Toronto.
Hamilton. Buffalo, London, Detroit,
Tavistock , Woodstock. Brantford
Agents: Queen's, Commercial, nick Bouec
hely placed in eireulation by Fifth
Columnists, whose purpose it is to
block any and every form of war ef-
fort by discouraging workers and
malting them u1 feel that. their work
is useless.
Other rumouits get started by good
intentioned people who do tot lake
a fair view of the work as a whole,
Sometimes an ordinary conversation
is repeated incompletely. Or excerpts
from letters received from overseas
men who may not understand the
place and function of tete Red Cross
in the total war programme suggests
impartiality_ in the disposition of Red
Cross comforts, These stories are
enlarged upon from time to time and
their repition does as much harm as
the definite work of the fifth Col-
umnist.
All Red, Cross supporters and
workers must maintain absolute con-
fidence in those who manage affairs.
And leaders are people of character
and Worthy of our trust. The Offic-
ials value highly the work of •the
Branches and do all in their power to
distribute the goods that have been
trade by voluntary efforts in a fair
manner and where they are needed
most. Wherever and whenever a.need
arises and it is certified as a. genuine
need the Red: Cross Society will not
withold its help,
It ought to be understood that the
Reel Cross Society does not under-
take to supply the members of His
Majesty's Forces with socks, sweat-
ers, mitts etc. It is the duty of the
Government to clothe the omen. The
Red. Cross augments what the Gov-
ernment does, and tries to supply
added comforts. where they are peed -
ed most. When need has become an
emmergency, then the Red Cross
cones to the rescue,
A. soldier for example, wbo'ueeds
socks or a sweater or anything else
that the Red Cross supplies, in or-
der to get such supplies interviews
the Quarter Master Sergeant. He
makes a requisition which must be
passed by the Colonel of the Regi-
ment. Then the order is put through
to the Red Cross Supply Depot and
the goods are forthcoming.
A branch of the Red Cross has the
privilege of donating to overseas
• a in which It
oper-
ates,
men from the areP
ates, articles of clothing etc. Through
the good services of our War Time
Services Committee here in Hensall,
the Hensall Brandt of the Red Cross
sent forward to every man overseas
from our village, in the first package
that were sent, a pair of socks each.
.At Christmas time the Branch sent a
pair of socks, Mitts and a sweater to
every man. Now that was our priv-
ilege and we were very happy to be
ab e to do this. However the Red
Cross is distinctly an emergency
Society, and if any young man is not
getting Red Cross supplies it is not
because the Red Cross is a racket
that favours a few. hut because re-
quests for articles have not been put
through in the regular way, or such
requests have not been necessary be-
cause the Government has taken care
of all needs efficiently.
Our very sincere thanks is hereby
expressed to Major Watson for his
visit and for elucidating some of the
items touched on here.
The Ailsa Craig Junior Institute
and Junior Farmers are planning to
present a three act comedy. "The
Whole Town': Talkir,g" in the Hen-
call on Friday, February 28 al. S p.ut.
under the auspices of the Hensel]
Red Cross. This is the hest play these
youugt people have ever presented..
About a year ago they delighted a full.
house with their efforts, This prom-
ises to be another teat. Do not boss
It,
We express our thanks again to tete
member's of the Legion far carrying
on successfully the Jteno Party in
January, The next time writing we
will report the receipts:
D'EFE:R JUDGMENT
Continued :from ' page 2
on the disputed litre (that is, traffic
carried over the line to points
beyond).
"We have a transportation econom
ist. This feature has been looked
into," said Chairman Cross.
Mr, Hetherington asked the Board
to consider the closing application In
its national aspect. His c'iient, Mr
Treleaven of Lucknow, for instance
paid $17,000 a^ year in freight rates,
twice the amount it was claimed was
Whig lost at Londesboro, Blyth and
Belgrave. 11 the line were Closed this
$17,000 also would be lost to the rail
ways, Thousands and thousands of
dollars would be lost• to the Village
of Lucknow each year,
"We get your Point. This is a
publicly -owned railway and you ask
us to consider the general weal of
the whole country," said NIr. Cross.
Frank Fingland, K,C., argued it
was unfair to close the line just, he.
cause it had lost money for three
years, What about the years and
years it made money, he asked,
"\IVe bonuscd this railway to the:
extent of $85,000 and we should not
be cut off from our rights under this
eontrac!," he pointed out,
Counsel were told that they might
submit further written argument if
they wished to do so in a reasonable
time, judgment being reserved.
Lantern Exploded, Barn Razed
The barn on the farm of Mr, James
Valsd, Holyrood, was completely de-
stroyed by Bre. Mr, Valad had gone
to the barn to find one of his cows
lodged in the feeding hack. While
setting down the lantern to free the
animal it lunged forward striking the
lantern which caused it to explode,
The fire going up the two trap holes
had the barn completely covered with
flames in a short time. A quantity of
grain and hay, also a new tractor
Plow and two wagons were destt'oy-
ed.--Kincandine News,
BRITAIN'S NAVY SMASHED !
THE DUCE'S DREAMS
(H i'eifrail")
When., Italy declared war upon
Britain and .France on 11 tine 10, H)41),
we already had a considerable fleet
at .1lexanclria ander he command .a -
Admiral Sir .\ndre,t .0 Inningham,
The Contnutuder-in-(Chief's main
object, of course, was to engage and
destroy the Italian fleet wherever he
might find it. Ile had also to protect
Egypt and the Suez Canal, and to
harass any invading army along the
coast road .from Libya. Ile must
guard the oil supplies from 'Iraq
which reach the \I editerranean at
Haifa; maintain the Allied trade in
the Aegean; and interrupt Italy's im-
portant line of communication with
the oil weilt of Roumania and Rusa
sia passing out of the Dardanelles
and through the Aegean,
To a man of Sir Andrew 'Cunning -
ham's determination and mettle it
mattered little that the ,paper strength
of the Italian fleet was superior to
his own, He knew his ships and the
temper of his men, and was always a
firm 'believer in the offensive. !More-
over, 'through long service there, he
'knew the ?Mediterranean like the
palm of his hand. Within a short time
of Italy's unprovoked taib in the
shack at a 'very critical time, the
Mediterranean Fleet was at sea,
Because the surrender of France
was imminent. Mussolini may have
thought the British Empire could be
unalble to fight on alone. No doubt
the Italian dictator \visited to share
in the spoils of the German conquest
without serious fighting—to acquire
control of Egypt and the Suez Canal;
to take over the Fre'nch colonies of
Algeria and Tunisia; to exert his in-
fluence over Greece, Turkey and the
;Middle Last; to transform the Med-
iterranean into an Italiatr 'lake. I"
Hitler had spread himself over most
of Europe, where else could Mussol-
ini come in?
The Italian despot reckoned with
out the paralysing effects of Britis
sea power. The British control o
'Gibraltar. the Suez Canal and th
Aegean cut off all the sources of sup
ply of fresh oil for his aircraft, ships
mechanised armies and industries, Hi.
coal, which normally came fr
Britain and Germany, was serious]•
diltainithed
Libya, too, was more of a respon
sibility than an asset. since the larg
Italian army there had to be supplic
and reinforced from the home covntr
with vulnerable lines of communicat
ion by sea. Abyssinia, Eritrea an
Somaliland were at the end of vha
someone called a British drainpip
and would have, colloquially. to liv
on their own fat, 'Mussolini cowl]
crow as much as he pleased about th
British 'twithdrawai from Somaliland
rhut it would have been folly for us 't
pass troops into that colony and ho]
it. Events have proved that we wer
wise not to dissipate our strength i
sideshows; but to concentrate in th
main theatre of scar against Italy
the 'Mediterranean.
'rhe end is not yet to sight, and i
may he unwise to predict. But i
e seems not unlikely that Italy will ev
entually lose Libya and Eritrea, Soot
c aliland and .Lbyssinia as well.
Mussolini's dreams of himself as
second Caesar; of an Italian Medi.
erranean; and of a vast Itahan F
pire stretching from the Mediterrar:
can. through Egypt and the Stria:
to the Red Sea and 1rdieu, c'tcea,
have vanished into the thinnest
soacke. The anw,tteur strattgis w
is ,Hitler's weaker scanner appear
completely to have ignored ill ow
many weaknesses, and the cat
whelming and far-reaching effect.
British sea power, wielded as 1t a
ways has 'been throughout the wh'.,1
of aur long history.
Burned By Flaming. Toy—
When the baby's toy she was entitl-
ing
old
ing took fire, Mrs. (Dr.) W. A. Mc -
Ribbon had a narrow escape front
being badly burned. As it was the
dames from the celluloid toy gave
her PM and hand quite a scorching,
burned quite dee-
rivo fingers being a .ed p
ly. The blaze flashed up the dressing
gown she was wearing and her hair
was singed, The toy took lire from
an electric heater with which it did
not come in contact, being at least a
foot distant from it.—Wingham Ad-
vance -Times.
Former Seaforth Woman—
Seaforth friends will regret to bear
of the death last week at her home,
11ti5 at, Clemens avenue, Toronto, of
Frances Lett, wife of ,'\, E. Colson,
and sister of .Kenyon Lett. Mr, and
\Irv, Colson were former highly
c,tremed residents Of Seaforth whet
Mr. Colson herd the position o1 1mai1
aver of the Seaforth branch of the
I-eominion Bank f• -.r a ttmnher of
years.
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The landlady glanced round t
daibtle at her twelve hungry 'boarde
'before starting to carve the .rath
sad -looking chicken.
Tn rapid succession she asked vac
which part of the fowl he preferre
Ten of them decided on legs.
The carver dropped her knife wit
a clatter ern' the dish.
'What do yon imagine this
she Said, sarcastically, pointing to
chicken, "A centipede, or what,"
"Oh, no," replied the rhoar•der
had been served. 'Judging uy,
piece of neck I've got, 1
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1 know I am," said the groom.
But this is a nerve-racking time :For
nee. I've got some excuse for 'being
frightened, haven't I? J've never
been married before."
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hest man. "Ii von had you'd be mac}.
more scared than you are.,'
now, who :an tell
we should always be neat
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