HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-07-09, Page 7THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1042
THE SEAFOTH NEWS
PAGE SEVEN
OPEN HOUSE FOR SEAMEN
In every British port today 0 man
'appointed by the government, but
with long experience of seamen and
the sea, has the full-time job of co-
ordinating club, canteen, informa-
tion and recreation facilities for sai-
lors, It's a bigger job and means
more to every man putting in at a
British port than it may appear at
first.
It!s 110 secret that many of Brit-
ain's sea -faring towns have taken a
beating. But even as the cities lost
buildings by fire and exPlosion, and
as food rationing and liquor short-
age cut down on evening entertain-
ment, a new and floating population
representing a score of nationalities
invaded the country's most active
Ports.
Liverpool, the port that provides
a good many Americans with their
first sight of Britain .at war, is one of
the most cosmopolitan cities in Eu-
rope. The sailer sees here—instead
of the vivid, gay internationalism of
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San Francisco or Rio—a gray city,
rather forbidding in its War g'arb,
Bat he does not have to dig very
deep to discover—in hundred of sai-
lors' homes, clubs and canteens—the
world democracy of the sea
-
Rising out of fields of debris not
far from the docks stands a big, mo-
dern building, miraculously undam-
aged. In the days of trade and home-
building it housed showrooms. With-
in two or three months it will be the
40ceart Club," open twenty-four
hours daily, biggest rendezvous in
Europe for sailors and their friends,
While 1,000 get packs OT full meals
in the snack lounge and restaurant,
hUndreds more will be dancing down.
staisr, seeing movies upstairs, coin-
ing and going in the spacious lounge,
the thing the men seek alroosb as
avidly as food.
Liverpool is determined not only
to have this emergency club tb wel-
come allied seamen, but to follow it
up with a "permanent residential
center which will assist merchant
seamen in Liverpool in those days
after the war when there will be
less glory for seamen in the public
mind than at this titre.," That declar-
ation is signed by directors of the
big Booth and Alfred Holt and
Brocklebank companies, and Percy
Knight, district secretary of the Na-
tional Union of Seamen.
Keeping such local projects mov-
ing on the one hand, R. B. Paul, port
welfare officer for merchant- sea-
men, takes care of the Liverpool end
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ride above Um docks, facing Liver -
Pool's soaring eathedral of soft red
StQI1G, he is watching the progress of
a residential club that ,will be Brit-
ain's premier government -operated
residenee for merchant seamen.
It is a loftly, Georgian building,
which. was a nursing home for sick,
wealthy Merseysiders before the war.
The city is already peppered with
canteens and clubs within easy walk-
ing and street -car distance of the
docks. A drink, a movie, a cup of
coffee and a sandwich, are rarer than
diamonds in Liv.erpool after 9.20 p.
unless man has the open sesame
of an allied service uniform or a
merchant seaman's pass—and ROW,'
where to go.
Tammy Griffiths, tough, wizened
little quartermaster at the Gordon
Smith Institute, where men of the
merchant navies and Royal Navy are
messing side by side, was chief stew-
ard on an ocean-going liner for 25
years trail a year ago. Nothing floors
him. Food rationing and blitzing
have never stopped him from serv-
ing 10,000 meals a week and more.
Griffiths is just one of hundreds of
"characters" in British port working
minor miracles every day and known
to seamen the world over. At Sea -
forth, near the end of. Liverpool's'
dockside "El" is Mother Wilkinson.
When war began this brisk, white-
haired lady, who is not young but
certainly is not only, saw a home
that had once been a hydropathic ho-
tel just across from her residence
evacuating its patients. She moved
over to the empty house and began
fixing cups of tea and sandwiches for
groups of soldiers and sailors billet-
ed in the town.
Today, with the blessings of the
port welfare committee and of the
brigadier of a nearby ack-ack unit,
the entertains up to 500 men night-
ly. Once the brigadier turned up un-
announced on her doorstep with 400
boys en route for Canada lined up
behind him, wanting a night's enter-
tainment. Mother Wilkinson conjur-
ed up a movie and a cup of tea and
sandwiches for everybody.
Americans around Liverppol are
especially drawn to the Allied Cent-
er, or British Council House, a club
center in a badly blitzed area, where
several of the Allies have their own
special room and an American
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In the photograph above the Army driver has his owh scheme of rubber salvage, travelling his jeep with all
wheels off the ground, He's just cleared an obstacle and is levelling off for a four point landing.
lounge is the latest addition. The
Women's Services, local college girls
and other women's organizations
take turns at playing hostess. Liver-
pooPs welcome to the men of the
sea is paralleled all through Great
Britain today by every kind of org-
anization and individual from the
13ritish Broadcasting Corporation
(which holds open house every week
at a London dance salon for "Ship-
mates Ashore") to Mother Wilkinson
of Seaforth.
A traveller connected with a cycle
company was expecting an "Interest -
Mg' event" in the family and before
going away asked the nurse to wire
"Gent's model arrived" if a boy
came, and "Lady's model," If a girl.
The wire he received staggereli him.
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"THE AIRMEN'S TRIBUTE TO THE MEN IN BATTLE -DRESS"
For you, our pats in battle -dress.
It's time to take a bow;
Well tell the world, in this man's war,
You've done a job—and how!
It hasn't been an easy job;
As we who've watched you know—
Nm have you shared our luck as yet
Your stuff in full to show.
You've had to work like Hell and wait
For two long years and more
Nor has Publicity's acclaim
Held much for you in store;
But when your time comes, as it must •
By all the Gods of War,
The Hun will find out to his cost
'What you've been waiting fort
On you, our pals in battle -dress
We airmen must depend—
For what it takes us to begin,
It's up to you to end!
Your tanks and your artillery,
Your armoured cars and guns
Will clear the earth, as we the sky,
Of Hitler and his Huns.
And every bomb we drop is just
A warning in advance
Thal he who's lost his shirt to us,
To you will lose his pants!
While we who bear the torch aloft
May play the opening role,
The Cause of Freedom in your hands
Will reach its final goal.
To all our pals in battle -dress
From us in air force blue,
Here's luck and best of hunting
To the last man jack of you!
The way things look to us right now,
It won't be very long
Before, in person, you'll collect
For comrades of Hong -Kong 1
For every khaki-alad Canuck
Who made the Sacrifice,
The Prince of Darkness and his friends
Will pay a bitter price—
A bogus and a busted seer
Will finally confess
"I might have licked the world, but for
These men in battle -dress.'
SgnoLdr. G, L. CREED,
lt,C,A,F.
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