HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-04-29, Page 6THE SEA1 OR•TH NEWS.
THURSDAY, APRK. 39, 1943.
DUBLIN
The following will be of Interest
M Many treaders in the vicinity of
Dublin, Perth and Huron counties,
where the family are well known, Mr,
Edward Kerley cat'iie from Kilkenny,
Ireland, and settled in Logan Tp,
Prone years after he married Miss
Judge and their family consisted of
eight sons and one daughter, The
four oldest sons and in fact thewhole
ramily,were sehooled,i t No. 1, Logan.
Here Mr. and Mrs. Kenny made a
fine bonne, The eldest son Martin, has
brought up his fine family, of four-
teen in Logan Tp. and now resides at
74 Rectory St., London, Ont. His
family said goodbye recently to their
eldest son now in England,
Mrs. E, Nagle will be house at
Dublin, from London, about May ist.
Mrs. A, Dantzer fell in her home
and fractured her hip. She was taken
to Seaforth hospital for treatnest.
Joseph Nagle has returned after
spending the winter in Windsor,
Miss Loreen Leahy and 1'ifiss Elea-
nor McGrath, London, at their hones.
Mr. and Mrs, Michael McPhail,
Wingham, with Mt', and Mrs. Alex
Darling; Mi•. and Mrs. Jordan, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Coyne and Joseph
Coyne, Hamilton, with Mr, and Mrs,
Michael Coyne;. lVlr, and Mrs. Leo
Kenny and daughter Patricia, Toron-
to, with. Mrs, Philip Kenny; Edward
Swifts, Logan, and his sister, Mrs.
William Wolfe of Clifford, with John
A. Darling; Leonard Nagle, Provost
Corps, Kitchener, with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs, M. J. Nagle; Clarence
Howard, Hamilton, with relatives
here; Lawrence Dillon, of the Prov-
ost Corps, London, with Mr, and Mrs.
D. Dillon; Mr. and Mrs. Ross Mm•die,
Seaforth, with Mr. and 1VIrs, James
MalcoIni; Gunner Norval Parker,
Halifax, on his lust furlough, with
Mrs. Philip Kenny; Miss Edith Ron-
ey. Seaforth, with Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert Roney. Mrs. James Shea lots re-
turned home from Chicago; Louis
Lane at Blyth; Mr, and. Mrs. Harold
Smuck and daughters, Kathleen and
Carol Ann, Kitchener, with Mr. and
Mrs, Thomas Molynsaux; Mr. and
Mrs. C. Young, Toronto, with Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph O'Rourke.
VARNA
The Easter Thank offering meeting
of Goshen W.M.S, was held in the
church with the president, Mrs. Rus-
sel Erratt presiding. The meeting
opened by singing the hymn, "Never
further than Thy Cross." The Scrip-
ture lesson taken from St, Mark, 15th
chapter, was read by Mrs. Ben Keys.
The Lord's prayer was repeated in
unison. The hymn "0 my Saviour
lifted" was sung. Some very interest-
ing letters from India were read 'by
Mrs, Bert Peck, one being from Rev.
Mr. Smillie from Hensall. A splendid
address on the 23rd psalm was given
by Mrs. Hern, mither of Rev, Reba
Here. Prayer was offered by Mrs.
John Armstrong, Miss Reba Hern
sang a solo "When Jesus Comes", ac-
companied by Mrs. Elmer Keys ou
the organ. The meeting closed with
the hymn "The Day of Resurrection,"
Travel In Wartime
Britain
By Walter R. Legge.
Travel at any time in another
country is exceedingly interesting,
but the privilege of travelling as we
did in Britain in wartime is an ex-
perience enjoyed by few.
One item on the list of instruc-
tions given us before we started read
as follows: "It must always be re-
membered that the British. Isles are
very definitely in the war zone, and
that a party such as this moves in
accordance with the instructions of
the War Office,"
On every hand there is evidence
that you are in the war zone. There
are plenty of signs of preparation to
repel an invader at a moment's not-
ice, Obstructions have been placed in
fields, or other places that might be
used as a landing spot for enemy
planes, and material has been pre-
pared and placed in readiness to
;make barricades or obstructions at
strategic points on the roads and
highways.
Everything is different from peace-
time travel, in fact travel is diseour-
aged now as much as possible. There
are signs at every station reading "Is
,oar journey really necessary ?"
A.11 trains are overcrowded, no
meals are now served on them, and
reservations of space are very diffi-
cult. Their system of reserving a
compartment is- to paste on the door
a sticker reading "Reserved." If there
are several of these on the train it is
difficult to find out which reserved
compartment is yours,
Travellers must now look after
their own haggege, The English rail-
ways have never adopted the Canati-
ian system of checking baggage. Be-
fore the war there were many port-
ers to look after the baggage. John
L. Stoddard, famous world traveller
and lecturer, was so impressed with
these English porters that he Wrote,
, . the host of uniformed porters,
.9r.r._. 9.n
who, spring forth to assist on the .ar-
rival ,o1 the train, relieving us of bags
and parcels, bringing our baggage
front the, van, claling a cab, assisting
us fate it with our satchels, and tell,
ing the driver our destination; all of
which is 50 quietly and quickly done
that were I asked to name a speci-
men of alinost perfect service, 1
should say 'that of an English rail-
road porter,' "
• Today, there are no porters, and
the traveller rushes desperately along
the side of the train, peering into the
compartments, looking for a vacant
seat, and "finally piling in anywhere,
standing up for the journey, and
blocking the corridor, if there is, one,
With the baggage.
It i1 -taken as a matter of coers0
that most of the trains are late, pro-
bably due to delays caused by over-
crowding, A. ticket must be shown
before anyone can get onto a station
platforib. This tioket is taken up
when leaving the platform at the
destination. However, platform tick.,
ets may be purchased which entitle
the holder to go on to the platform
to meet or say goodbye to a visitor,
The usual place names have disap-
peared from the stations. In their
places are very small printed signs,
which are very hand to see or read.
The traveller must therefore listen.
carefully to the name called out at
the stops, and take care that he Is
not taken past his or her destination.
.Wartime destrictions have made a
big change in the travellers them-
selves, who now are very friendly and.
will frequently even share their lunch
with other travellers who are com-
plete strangers.
We saw very few signs of damage
to the railways, but were told,when
we expressed our surprise, that all
such damage had ben quickly re-
paired.
At blackout time, guards make sure
that all windows are covered, .al-
though in most compartments there
is very little light, only about enough
to enable one to get in or out without
wlaking ou other people's feet, Us-
nally there is only one dim light in a
compartment, and that is almost con-
cealed with a metal reflector:
Hotels carry on under difficulties,
due to shortage of help and food re-
strictions. Guests are expected to
walk upstairs if they . are not above
the thir dstorey, and to walk down
no matter how many stories. It takes
almost a week to get any laundry
done.
Few of the hotels provide keys to
the rooms, yet nobody seems to lose
anything. It was difficult to find ac-
commodatino for a party the size of
ours, as hotels with room accommod-
ation probably would not be able to
feed us, or if they could furnish
Meals, did'not have the rooms.
The London Underground system
seems to have been affected by the
war the least of any mode of travel.
The trains run through tubes which
are very deep in the ground and are
reached by large numbers of escalat-
ors or moving staircases. One much
appreciated advantage of under-
ground travel is that it is brilliantly
lighted at all times.
Bus travel, though greatly restrict-
ed, due to the need of so many buses
for transporting munition wor'ker's, is
still carrying on.
During the first few weeks we were
there, we travelled 1930 miles in our
own private bus, We found it most
difficult to know where we were as
allplace signs i have disappeared. We
frequently went through large places
without the least idea of their names.
It gives one a feeling of bafflement
when it seems impossible to find out
the names of the places.
One day we stopped in a small set-
tlement, Seeing a young boy at the
side of the road, we asked hien the
name of the place. He had evidently
been well trained, because he an-
swered that he did not know, Some
of otu' bus travel was done at night
and it always was amazing to us how
the bus driver could find his way so
well in the dark.
While most of the surface trans-
port in London is by omnibus, there
are several street car lines, such as
the one on the Old Kent Road. These
look very strange to Canadian eyes
as they are double deck street ears,
and are operated with hand brakes,
The street cars in Blackpool, how-
ever, are very smart and modern,
In most cities taxies are not run-
ning, or are very hard to get. In
London, however, they are fairly
plentiful. They looked very old fash-
ioned to us, but are efficient and ca.n
"turn on a dine,"
Bicycles are still popular in Eng-
land, One Sunday afternoon we were
taken through Runnymede, (where
the Magna Chaeta was signed), and
we never saw so many people on bi-
cycles before in our lives, Some of
them. were equipped with sidecars
and could take out the whole family,
including tine baby,
Altogether, travel in Britain today
is difficult, but not impossible, Our
experience gave us an insight into
the way Britain's transportation prob-
lems are being handled.
Lubrication of
Farm Machinery
Tho life of bearings and other
moving parts on farm machinery is
determined Largely by the lubrica-
tion which machinery receives, 011
and grease lubricate moving parts,'
reduce wear, act as flushing agents
to remove grit and dust from bear
ings, and protect exposed metal sur-
faces when the f machine is idle,
states W. Kalbfleiseh, Assistant Ag-
ricultural Engineer, Field Husbandry
1;
Division, Central xperimental Farm
at Ottawa,
In the lubrication of machines, it
is important that the proper lubric-
ant be used, and that lubricants be
kept clean. Machine oils have a
sticky consistency and; cling to bear-
ings better than other oils. Used
motor' oil is satisfactory for lubricat-
ing bearings on farm implements,
but it must be applied .at very short
intervals because it does not cling to
bearings.
Where oil holes are used for lub-
rication, a small amount of machine
oil applied frequently gives better
lubrication' and wastes less oil than
does a large amount applied once or
hwice a clay. The practice of going,
over the entire machine with an oil
can eac}1 time the horses stop to rest
will undoubtedly prolong the life of
the moving parts in machines; Oil
holes which are exposed to dust may
require cleaning with a wire each
time the machine is lubricated.
Where parts are lubricated by oil
cups the oil channels should be
checked to be sure that the grease
has not caked in the oil channels.
Where a pressure gun is used for
applying grease, the lubricant should
BRITISH CAPTURE MERSA MATRUH: ATTEMPTED AXIS STAND BROKEN
Axis forces, in 11111 retreat, attempted to make a stand at Mersa Matruh but were noon overborne. The Sth'
Army's main forces by-passed the town and pressed on at full speed in pursuit of the main body of the Afrika
Ko•ps, Matruh, attacked from East and West, soon capitulated. Picture shows: — British tanks running down the
lest hill into Mersa Matruh,
be forced into the bearings until the
old grease is forced out at both sides
of the bearings.
In cases where gears or chains
are exposed to dirt and sand, less
wear niay result if these parts are
run dry. Drive chains should be
washed periodically in kerosene,
dipped in light oil, drained off and
wiped and then replaced.
Because pressure gun lubrication
is more convenient to use and super-
ior to grease cup lubrication, the
lubrication systems of many mach-,
hies have been converted to pressure
gun lubrication. Pressure gun fitt-
ings as used on cars, tractors, or
trucks can often be screwed directly
into the bearing casting after remov-
ing the oil cup. Where lubrication is
by oil holes it is necessary to drill
out the oil hole and tap it to fit the
thread on the pressure gun fittings.
Sometimes pressure fittings are plac-
ed in the grease cup caps by drilling
a hole in the cap and screwing in the
fitting without cutting a thread.
profession qf$aitG
a have faith in Caulk
., . re -have faith in her past* faith
that the courage of the pioneers anb the
spirit which achieveb txonfeberation anb
linheb a continent with the shining steel
of railways have laib strong founba-
tions for national greatness anb unity.
have faith in her present-* in
the part oho i5 plap'tng to save the
worth from tpranny...in her young men
anb women who serve on lana anb sea
anb in the air...in her workers who la-
bour for more than wages...in everyman
anb woman anb chilb striving for7ctory.
rtif el have faith in her future,* beticv-
ing that she is bestineb to exert an
ever-increasing influence in worth af-
fairs,
ffairs, anb in the shaping of tomorrow,
when man? will turn to herwith new hope.
Q have faith in more than the sta-
tistics of Qanaba's bank clearings
tub her car-loabings, the vastness o
vers JctortsEonb ,on 13uts is an Oct of Faith in Oman,
her.untappeb resources, or even the
glorious war recorb of a people num-
baring less than twelve millions .
Itfl? faith is a faith in a rank we
7#1/49 love, whose Soul speaks to us from
every free acre of Gandhian 5-oit...
in the splenbour of the 1ockies at sun
set,the blue mystery of a Ifaurentian bawn,
the quiet of an.Ontario wooblot, the far
call of prairie horie:on5, the sounb of
surf on the Atlantic shore anb the wash
of the Pacific tines. It speaks to us from
ehurekparbs where Qanabian bead lie
beneath the tribute of Qnglish blossoms
..from the poppieb fielbs of France anb
anthers ...from the wingeb anb sea-
faring anb ntechaniEeb epics of anewwar.
MR faith is a faith in her people., .
people, noteb anb obscure, with whom
we bail, rub shoutbers..,anb by whose
unitQb effort, sacrifice anb creative vigour
the greater Qanaba of tomorrow will be built
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El have faith in € nnnba
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