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pie. The boys were quite pleased
with the support they received and
quite proud of the sum of •money
raised—Mitchell Advocate.
New Engine Arrives •
Zurich's new fire engine lies finally
arrived in town on' Friday and what
a creditable equipment it is, with all
the newest gadgets for fire fighting,
a big strong dual wheel Dodge truck,
it carries a few hundred gallons of
water besides the regular chemical
tanks, ladders, etc. The pumper of
the equipment has a most tremendous
volume, being able to throw a stream
over the highest buildings in Zurich
But here's hoping no fire, will break
eat! Zurich Herald.
On Fishing Trip
Messrs. Theo Haberer, Hy. Eick-
meier, Geo. Hess, •Milt. • Schilbe, John
Turkheim and Alf Pfaff enjoyed a
fishing trip up at Meaford on Geor-
gian Bay last .week, and some of the'
boys got more than fish, 'we art told.
nafnely a bit ofseasickness, which is
a common ailment on those choppy
•and disturbed waters.—Zurich Iler-
,ald.
Enlists With R. C. A. F.
• Mr. Donald McRae, son of Dr. and.
Mrs. T. 'McRae, Brussels, and,a grad-
uate of the Listowel high school, has
enlisted with the R.C.A.F. Mr. Mc-
Rae graduated from university this
year and had accepted an assignment
with the Presbyterian church in Sas-
katchewan. His mother has gone to
visit him at Yorkton, Sask. Mr. Mc-
Rae preached in Knox Presbyterian
Church here on two occasions.—Mit-
chell Advocate.
Minister Goes To South America
Next Tuesday• a •designation ser-
vice will be held in Btirns Presby-
terian ..Church, Milverton, when the
Presbytery of Stratford will desig-
nate Rev. John Elder as a missionary
to British Guiana, South Amer!ea:
The missionary will be addressed by
Rev. W. A. Cameron, D.D.. of Toron
to, general secretary of tae Presby-
terian Church. Mr. Elder went to
Milverton in 1930' from Cromarty.
Mitchell Advocate..
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920 Kcs. 326 Metres
WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Friday, August 1-8 a.m., Howard
Bedford; 12.30 p.m., War Savings
Club; 6.40, Guy Lombardo Orchestra;
2.30, Gulley Jumpers.
Saturday, August 2-9.30 a.m., Kid-
dies' Party; 6.30 p.m., Clinton Sport
Interview; 7.15, Tommy Dorsey Or-
chestra; 8, • Barn Dance.
Sunday, August 3-11 a.m., United
Church; 12.30 p.m., Howard Bedford;
1, Freddy 'Martin Orchestra; 7, Pres-
byterian Church.
Monday, Aug. ,4-12.30 p.m., War
Savings Club; 6, G. Wade Cornhusk-
ers; 8, Songs by Sarah; 8.30, Ranch
Boys.
Tuesday, Aug. 5-10.30. a.m., Church
of the Air; 7.30 p.m., Royal -T Party;
8, Captains of., Industry; •8,30, Piano
Ramblings.
Wednesday, Aug. 6-11,30 a.m.,
Wayne King Orchestra; 6.15 p.m.,
Howard Bedford; 8.30, Clark John-
son; 9, Home Folks.
'Thursday, Aug. 7-7.45 a.m., Hymn
Time; 9.30, Music with Romance;
8.30 p.m., Make Believe Ballroom.
Cut your , own wood and it will
warm you twice.
We miss most of our blessings by
refusing our burdens.
The misfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never tome.
We are born to enquire after truth.
Good
taught.
manners 'are caught, - not
What 1 am to be I 'am now becom-
ing.
Moral fibre and spiritual vigor .are
not developed ',by comfort or ease.
Those who are wise 'will discipline
themselves so as to live day by day.
YONfratiaXe
TORONTO
Try
HOTEL WAVERLEV
Located on Wfde;Sp' db+a Ave.
at Co(Ilebb !
Easy Paikttipt 4i*IUHss
Convenl*flt oto' li lighways
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Slr . • ,$1.51 is SL
Rates F ,pooh $5.NuUN
Close to the University,
Parliament Buildings,
Maple I. eat' Gardens,
Th eatoes,, Hospitale,
Wholesale Notelets, end
the Fashionable Retail
Shopping District.
A. M. r•.CiNls1:6, iipkdloe?Yr
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did so, and 1 'passed tr'iuu phantly itz.
side: �.
There isn't much beauty about /be
Mount- Hope School. The countryside
is flat and uninteresting, A year ago
the camp site was still, farm land'.
The landing field hasn't grown up in
grass yet, though the rupfways axe
paved. The buildings are of the Fam-
iliar pattern found at all the • schools,
with everything standardize( f o r
rapid and economical construction.
The outside of the huts is covered
with roofing .paper. Everywshere there
is a look of newness.
The' First Flying Instruction
After graduation from the Initial
Training School, the future pilots
part from the other students and -go,
to the Elementazyy Flying Training-
Schools, of which Mount Hope is a
typical example. These schools are
not run by the Government, but by
private companies, each one sponsored
by a Canadian Flying Club. One re-
sult is that there is a certain division
of labor at each of these Elementary
Schools. There is a civilian manager,
whose duty it is to supervise all the
actual flying instruction and main-
tenance of the planes, and an R.C.A.
F. officer in charge of discipline and
of the classroom teaching.
The arrangement has teen criti-
cized, but it -seems to be working
well. Early in the war, when the
great Air Training Plan was first put
into operation, it enabled the R.C.A.
F. to take advantage of the most ex-
perienced instructors available, the
enthusiastswho had kept alive•"the
Flying Clubs. That saved precious
weeks and has worked so well there
is not likely to be any immediate
change, except in minor details. All
other types of - schools are directly
under the R.C.A.F.
All the planes used at Mount Hope
are Fleet Finches. Some other schools
use Tiger !Moths. There was a time,
months ago, when they used some of
each or whatever training planes
were available, but there is no long-
er any scarcity of training planes. The
Fleet Finches and the Tiger Moths
are both double -seated biplanes. Two
pairs of wings enable them to fly
steadily in the hai1ids of beginners
and to land at a safe speed. Flying
speed is' slightly over 100 miles an
lour; landing speed less -than halt;
that.
Officials at liount Hope are proud
of one record. Since the school was
opened last October. not one student
hat; been .injured or killed. The• hos-
pital hasn't had an emergency case
to handle. I found similar records
t;t other schools. It is pot the begin-
ners whocrash, but those who think
they are experienced pilots.
Parachutes and Their Uses
The student takes his• first flight in
the front seat of a Fleet trainer with
an experienced pilot in the rear. Be-
fore he goes up, he puts on one of
several types of warm flying suits, a
helmet with ear phones, so that he
can listen to the instructor, and a
pair of big, soft moccasins. A para-
chate is strapped to his body. There
is a broad belt of webbing around the
waist, .with two, narrower straps over
the shoulders and two' moire. around
the legs. All the straps are fastened'
to a lock in front of the body. The
pa'rachute itself is carefully folded
inside a bag w:)rich serves as a cush-
ion on which the student sits while
flying. The "rip cord" isn't ..a, cord.
at all. Fastened to' the belt, on the
left side, is a large metal handle, in
easy reach of the right hand. When
it is pulled a metal cable, like that
used in camera shutters, jerks• open
the bag in which the parachute is
folded. Few students. will ever have
to use one, in Canada at least, but
'the feel of a parachute on the back
gives added confidence.
Ogle of the buildings at Mount Hope
is the parachute room. •The parachute
is made of the finest grade Japanese
silk, with braided cords. The length
is about 40 feet and the cost of one
is about $400. Parachutes are given
constant care, since lives depend on
them. Every few days, they are ung
packed and ,hung up in a tower, look-
ing like a flock of big bats hanging
from the ceiling. Folding and re -pack-
ing are done by experts.
An interesting 'chute story comes
from another school. New parachutes,
were taken there for testing. A "weight
was attached and the parachute taken
up in one of the big bombers. It was
laid on two planks ac'r'oss an opening
in the floor of the .plane. ,One of the
ground crew, trot too bright appar-
ently, woe given the duty of going
aloft and releasing ,the parachute
to be tested. His .duties were simple.
The weight rested on a couple of
planks stretched! across' the opening.
All he bad to do was tip the planks
at 'the proper time, to let the para-
chute go. All went well until one day
when a plank got caught. Jerking at
it, the aircraftman lost his 'balance
and fell forward through the hole.
-Quite unexpectedly, he tested a para-
chute, but it was his own.
How To Aima Spitfire
At the Elementary Flying Training
School, the student pilots flies about
50 hours, 25 of them under the eyes
of aninstructor and the rest alone.
He may go up as often as four times
a day, but never over four hours al-
together in one day. The other half
of the day is spent in the lecture
rooms. Two afternoons a week there
are sports at four o'clock—tennis,
softball and soccer. One • building
houses the Link trainers, 'which are
continually used for testing the stu-
dents. Lectures include each subjects
a ate
Miniatures
C,inumodore Howard Emerson Reid
Is now Deputy Chief of Naval Staff
at Naval Headquarters, Ottawa. Far
the first full year of the wary he was
Comma,nding Officer Atla$tic Coast, a
post which made him responsible for
all shipping out of Eastern: Canadian
ports.
The vast job of expanding Canada's
peacetime harbours, with their limit-
ed docking space and meagre loading
machinery, into ports ranking among
the world's busiest, .was carried out
in the midst of many wartime difficul-
ties. It was accomplished while dan-
gerous enemy aliens were arriving by
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Commodore H. E. Reid, R.C.N.,
Deputy Chief of Naval Staff.
the shipload, while vessels and crews
put into port carrying the registry of
one nation after another that had fal-
len under Nazi domination and rum-
ours • of submarine off • shore were
cropping up almost daily.
Convoys mrade up under Commo-
dore Reid's jurisdiction included ships
and• strong-minded ship's captains
from the four corners of the earth.
Upon his shoulders fell the safe dis-
patching of our own soldiers, airmen,
nurses and all their equipment for
overseas service.
Reid first went to seat at 16. He
was born and brought up in. Portage
du Fort, P.O., educated at Ashbury
College, Ottawa, and Royal Naval
College of Canada. He was posted to
ILM.S. Berwick as Midshipman six
months before World War One start-
ed. His first two years of war - ex-
perience included chasing t h e'
Karlesruhe, capturing and delivering
three prizes to Santa Lucia, and even
on thie Canadian cruiser, Rainbok, he
assisted in the capture lot two prize
vessels. -
Hardest work of his life came at
the age of 20 on H.M.S. Attack on
convoy service out of Plymouth with
continual fatigue, no leave, bitter cold
hours' on duty, complete exhaustion
at the end of it due ta bracing one-
self continually against the swift
movement of the turning twisting
naval craft in sub -infested waters.' In
1917 this stern experience ended with
his being blown up when the "At
tack" struck a mine while on convoy
in the Mediterranean. Reid as• first
as navigation, engines, rigging, 'theory
of flight, armament and signals.
Classrooms vary according to the
subject' taught. I will describe only
one of the most interesting.
It is obviously important that pilots
of fighting planes should be able to
recognize an enemy at a distance and
get in the first shots—and those shots
must be accurate.
All flying schools teach aircraft re-
cognition. 'Walls of classrooms and
balls . are covered with pictures of
British, American and enemy 'planes.
Models, made of plastic and brought
from Britain, or carved from wood by
Canadian boys, accurately, measured
to scale, are suspended from wires gin
various positions and can be' moved
across the room.
Using these models, the student
learns to aim with the sights used on
the famous Spitfire planes. I found
this sight a fascinating piece of opti-
cal equipment. It is not much larger
t:ian a flashlight and is illuminated by
a small bulb at the, bottom. The pilot
looks •through a sloping piece of glass
which is transparent and yet, acts as
a mirror. On the glass, a circle of
bight appears, , with a cross -bar of
light, broken in the middle. In the ex-
act centre of the circle bs a "spot of
bright light.
There are two dials on the gun -
sight, similar to those on the lens of
a camera. The pilot sees an enemy'
plane' 1n• the distance. He sets one
dial according to the type of plane,
say a Messerschmitt 109, and the
other for the. distance at which he
intends to open fire, say 300 yards.
After that he can concentrate on
keeping the enema plane inside that
circle of light. When it is close en-
ough that the wings of the approach-
ing plane fill the space in the brok-
en bar of light, the pilot touches a
button and the fire of eight machine
guns converges on the spot marked
by the bright point of light on the
gun.sight, In training, no guns are
fired but the pupil learns to judge dis-
tance and to aim accurately and
quickly. .
Commanding Officer at Mount Hope
is Flying Officer W. P. Pleasance.
The Adurindstration Officer, who was
our guide, is Flying Officer L. W.
Code.
NEXT WEEK—"Camp, Borden."
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missiort izito i(li, Silicic to 'Copenba;g,
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-. After a leave in 'hada in 1919,
Reid went off on the &Pot whip of a•
subl►zari'lve clod) to. china,' to be eta.
tioned at Hong,Koz9gr which was goo4
travel and lois sf Ian.' The rest of
Commodore Reids' service up to the
outbreak of the present war alter-
nated between missions with the Roy`
al Navy and command/ an Oanada,;Nin-
eluding a turn with Naval Intelli-
gence, Ottawa, In command of H.M.
S. Sepoy in 1929, he became one of
the first Canadian officers to coo
mand a British destroyer. There 'was
Royal Staff College in England in
1932, and then Reid became stale of-
ficer on the "Warepite."' In '35 he
was in charge of Operations . and
Training at Headquarters, Ottawa,
Commander "D," West. Coast in '36.
Capt. Reid became C. O.. Halifax in
'38 and as soon as war broke out,
was made C. O., Atlantic Coast.
Good Humor
Let us try to be good humored for
a single day; if we -let the sunlight
into our souls, it will generate in our
hearts every good Motive, and we
shall find life strengthened and our-
selves armed to Tight, on the coming
morrow, the battle of every trick of
fate.—James Ellis.
Self
Some people spend most of their
time looking at themselves to see how
clever they are. Others 'spend most
of their tinooking at themselves
to see show stupid they are. And the
ti ouble with both sorts is that they
spend most of their time looking at
t hemselves.
Courage
Most men and women are good in
parts; courageous about some things
and cowardly about others. Don't ex-
pect yourself to be brave "all over."
Don't call yourself a coward because
some things make you afraid. Only
last week a soldier aho had, won the
U.C.M. refused to make a speech in
public because he was "scared stiff."
We're all like that.
� War Edi
A Weekly Review of Devlopmentli
- On On the Heine Front
1. Duke of Kent,bretiher of Kin!,
George VI, is visiting Canada. KILT'.
is • desirous of seeing for himself
training establishments uhder the
British Commonwealth Air. Training
Plan.
2.: • Jean Desy appointed first Can-
adian Minister to, Brazil, tf ttil the
German occupation, iMr: • .Deily was -
Canadian Minister. to Belgium and the
Netherlands. Brazil and the Argen.
tine already have ministers in: Ot•
tawa.
3. Charles J. Burchell, Canadian
High Commissioner to Australia for
the last year, and a half, appointed
High Commissioner to Newfoundland.
Tho post is a' new one and completes
Canada's representation in the Domin-
ions.
4. Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Minister of
Agriculture, announces 'three-point
program to provide maximum quan-
tity of Canadian pork products for
Great Britain. Program calls for:
(a) Reduction of twenty-five per cent
in amount of pork products, including
ham and bacon, which may be dis-
tributed by exporting packers for
Canadian consumption,; (b) Prohibi-
tion of export of live hogs, dressed
hogs and other edible pork products,
excepting lard, to points other than
neetls
Stater.. Q'Qr`41SWW'e
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ited anadiall *Algae,tP
tributory to akAltt'
their 1940 Centanni#19# 9t
lion-eseelttial 0Urpose0x .-
8. dales of DOinthoon of 'CPA*);
noik-intereat ,0e014g eert,PlcAtto .V0„,.
May and Juane totaakled i):,286,1uring-.,
ing, the total oiutsta ding' issue to ;8,-
914,921. ,
9. Canadian sailors . arrive at Drib-
;altar as pari..�f, the crew of 'fast •mb-
for 'torpedo bcW.ta added to British
naval` forces.
10. Headed by Major-General B.
Duch, group of 30 Polish officers and
60 non-commissioned officers' are to
make their headquarters at Windsor,
Ont. They will raise and instruct
Polish recruits from the United
States and Canada.
11. Federal Government revenue
in June was $85,280,272' compared
with $43,648,696 in June, 1940. Ex-
penditures lompared: June, 1941,
$89,932,907; June, 1940, $73,730„968.
12. Canada'sproduction of aircraft
in the quarter ended June 30th jump-
ed 25 per cent over that of the pre-
ceding three months, and was ten
times greater than the entire 1939
output.
13. Contracts awarded by the De-
partment of ,Munitions & Supply dur-
ing the week ended July 10th. num-
the United Kingdom and British pox- bered 3,912 and totalled $11,704,203.
sessions; (c) Further advances of $1
The largest order wasone of 8%592,-
a hundredweight in price payable to '•000 for ordnance placed with the John
packers at Canadian seaboard for
Wiltshire bacon for export to United
Kingdom.
5. R. E. Jamieson, professor of
civil engineering, McGill University,
appointed Director General of new
Army Engineering Branch, Depart-
ment of Munitions and Supply. Pro-
fessor Jamieson will also head an in-
ter -departmental advisory committee
on Army Engineering Design.
6. Accelerated by war 'demands,
reports the Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics, business operations in Canada
Inglis Co. Ltd., Toronto.
14. Plans now being completed for
nation-wide drive for aluminum- H. R,
Cockfield,, managing director Cock-
field, Brown & Co., advertising agen-,
cy, Montreal, appointed director of
aluminum production.
15. 'During three months ended
June 30, rent control extended to 20
additional areas. Nearly fifty areas in,
the Dominion now under rent control.
16. Canadian pig iron production
in May about 9 per cent. greater than
in April, about 21 per cent greater
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lect of oeif; let the ilrgnt ;tti,,
pass in, and the baantyt Qf ;o
action is gone, dikethe” blooan
soiled flower.
Lessons
Have you learned lessons only”
those who advised you, aid were :telt»
der with you, -and stood aside ` for
you? Have you not learned gre,tiea.-
sons from those who braced';thew
selves against you and disputed 010
passage with you?—Waft Whitman.;
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Best of all fly killers.
Clean, quick, sure,
cheap. Ask yoprDrug-
gist, Grocer or General
Store.
THE WILSON FLY PAD
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EVERY MOT4RIST.SHOULD CLIP THIS
1Zeasy ways towards a
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(Approved by Au,tomobi ,e. Experts)
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Check this List—Every
0 Reduce driving speed from 60 to
40 on the open road.
Avoid jack -rabbit starts
spark• plugs
and valves
0 Seep
clean. •
0 Check cooling system; overheating
waste% gasoline.
resstue.
Maintain tires at right P
Avoid useless or non-essential worn engines
A 0 Lubricate efficiently; driving• nixie gasoline.
use. do Daps to and from work,
ID .Turn motor lir when not is o Drive n 9T
not leave idling- using cars alternate days.
engII1e%let it warm o, picnics and other outings.
Don't race your ❑ For glf, stead of four•
up slowly. use one care, trips ON
engine; choccige 0 Take diose short shoppinghome,.
0 Don't strain Your FOOT cold carry parcels
gears. FOOT
to and from the movies
ed cord prop- help by
a Seep Carburetor clean 0 Boat owner*, too, can
erly adjusted. reducing speed'
• 0Tune up motor, timing, etc.
will °glexplain these
regular service station marl dl y him.
Your g s ofsaving gasoline.
and other ways
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REMEMBER: The slower you drive, the move you save!
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DOMINION OF -CANADA
Acting through:
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