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...WeWell, Mr. OrOtiratiang-OrMllill.ihre his
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sig tv.teeltd. Mere wittier for
Mr. and iMrit' Wilmer Willis were
.Sunday visitors • vvith Mr. and Mrs.
8. H. NVIStIlaPret ,
MT. and .Mrte, F. ToWnsend Were
visitors in Gederich On Tuesday with
frientle :In
relatives of the late Mr.
and /Mrs. 'James Salkeld, 'Who were
killed in an occident near London on
Sunday. • -
• Mr. and Mrs. E.• '•Crich were 'with,
relatives in Clinton on Sunday.
Mr. ',Melbourne Ball, of Sarnia, was'
a week -end visitor under the pareatal
roof. -
-Mrs., Crich is tinder the doc-
tor's care. We hope for an early re-
covery.
cREDITON
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Mrs. Louisa Swartz, native and
lifelong resident of Stephen. township,
died' -at her home Sunday night. She
had not been siek prior to her dearth
Mrs. Swartz, althouglh in her 71st year
was an active member of the Credi-
ton Evangelical Church. Predeceased
by her husband ,five years ago, she
Is survived by six some: Harry, of
Central*. William, Lawreape and
Roy, all of Crediton,and Josai ,and
Earl, ath of Detroit; two sisters,
Mrs. WIlliaan Morlock, of ,Crediton,
and Mrs. Thomas Wawhinney of Exe-
ter; two daughters, Mrs. .Alfred
Wurteh, of 'Exeter, and Mrs. Howard
Thielner, eteDetroit, and four bro-
thers, John Christian and Harry
Heist, of Crediton, and Mose Heist,
of Pigeon, •Michigan.
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WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
r(Daylight Saving Time)
Friday, Fob. 13-8.25 a.m., • Over-
night News; 8.30, The Early Birds;
.p.m., House of Dreams; 10, Victory
Loan Program."
'Saturday,' Feb. 14-8.45 a.m., Hymn
Time; 7.15 p.m., NHL Hockey ,Play-
ers; 7.45, Songs of the Prairie; 8,
CKNX Barn Danee.
, Sunday,. Feb. 16-1 p.m., Freddie
Martin 'Orchestra; 2.30, CKNX Cam-
era Club; 6.30, Lipton Tea Musicale.
Monday, Feb. 16-8 a.m., "TK
Breakfast Olub; .10, IVild.morning
News:. 4 p.m., "At Home ViAth the
Ladies?; 6.45,- Your Evening News'
Tuesday, Feb. 17-10.10 a.m.., Char-
lle Kunz, .piano;e3ap.m., Our Family;
5.45, Loudon Arens, Highlights; 9.00,
Memories Of Hawaii.
Wednesday, Feb. 18-8:30 a.m.; The
Early Birds; 10.30, Church of the Air;
6 'P.m., George Wade's CornhuSkers;
7I5, Sport Reporter. •
Thursday, Feb. 19-11 a.m., Concert
of the Air; 4.45p.m. The Kings Men;
8.30, MINX Ranch Boys.
"'Mogi* will Provide War equip-
ment feod, raw nataterials, to the
artiste 'of- a billion. dollars, to the
dialled Kingdom as a contribiti.".
ton to the war effort. Thereavill
be MO cbarge.. It is a free gifte-
the .greatest gift ever made by .
• one ,station to another." • '
How inech is a 'billion? • Ask the
average person and the ',chances are
that he or she will stumble, hesitate
fatal pevh;aps give' the wrong answer.
'A million le within human compre-
henscioneee billion is on the fringie of
the incoaceitible. The term is used
when we want to,. measute the dis-
tance to the sun or the quantities of
material which might be removed in
same great constructive effort, •Like
the deepening of ths St. Lawrence
canals.
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A billion is a thousand million. AS:
•part of the war effort, we now pro-
pose to give to Great -Britain, not a
billion dollars, but goods valued sat a
billion. A thousand million' ,dolkirst.„
This is a sap three times as great de
the national debt of Canada ithe-
beginning of World War No. One, al-
most a third of the total debt at the
beginning of World War No. Two, a
yr:Auntie Whieh, 'estliteitaled• in dollars,
'is nearly double the Federal govern:-
ment•expeadithres la the last prewar
year. It is a magnificent gift for a
worthy purpose. It is the greatest
gift ever made by one free natioru 10
another.
But these are merely figures—dit:
fioult to imagine. What does it mean
in terms ot human effort; in muni-
tions, guns, planes, shells, ships, mo-
tor equipment, and all the innumer-
able things which 'constitute the mak-
ing of the tools of war and the deliv-
ery 'of ;these instruments to their des-
tinatiOn? ApProxiinately 85 per eeat
of the cost of, a Product represents
waged and salaries. Wages and sal-
aries enter costs at every turn. •The
workers include the producers of the
raw material, including food, the men
who dig •the iron ore from. the mine
or gather scrap in field or factory.
This ,great amity of workers is engag-
ed in moving raw materials from the
point of •production to the places
where they are, 'processed or refined
—to the factories where they are us-
ed. It is a 'steady, forward. moving`
process, as if Cm an endless belt-'-reav
.inlatez:lat, to semi -finished producte—
then-through the final stages to the
tools and implements of war.
To count the labor cost it must be
followed ,through many phases. It
means taking into account the small-
est details—the men in the banks who
...cash the pay Cheques, the 'telegraph
and telepholie Operators, the I•etters
typed. and mailed—all these are part
of••••••the labor cost of an anti-aircraft
gun, the shells, whieh. feed it, or any
•ether• item of produCritin in the king
list of the tools of modern war. If
we say that eighty-five. cents...Ant ,If
everi dollar geee to. labor their eight,
kadeed and fifty Milton dellars must
be ePent on labbr directlf or indirect-
ly la. order to7 produce the products
,we send to the United rKingdom as a
gift...to help in winning 'the we:
Assume now tthat tabor is paid 60
cents an hour, then :the work involv-
ed mr,41 r.eilulre, over a billion four
hundred millionnaant-houts bt work.
Perhaps that •ehotda: read "machin,e-
matehours," for medern labor works
With machines in order to miultiply•
the eapacity to produce. A worker
working eight hours a day, three bun.
dred days in the year, puts twen-
'ty•four hundred man-hours. would,
therefore, take a worker hundred
thousand years to produce a •billion
dollars' worth of the products which
win wars. ,
' Of course one man cotild not do it
if he 'had eternity for the task. rf erix
thousand were pat to 'work it would
take them a century. Even that Weald
fe impossible because it is a work so
,complex that it cannot be performed
by,..otte small group of men. -We calt
lecrease that to stst,yethousand which
would make the tmlinarial background
of a city alit:tont as large as Toronto
• and •even • then, they would •have to
work -at the task ten years before
they would produce produets valued
at a dollars --our gift to those
who, with magnificent courag‘e, itood'
ready tight to the death when few
were there tO aid.
The: whole problem is complicated.
These things. are not done(in modern
industry as they were in the Old days
of handwork, The process takes lou -
ger to develop. Production is im-
measurably greater onee it is begun.
The armourer of ancient days produc-
ed his products in a shop. They re-
presented individual work of individ-
ual men; but when we move forward
to the ,production of a billion dollars'
worth of goods by Modern mea'ns, we
go beyond the small shop to the great
plant. Plana had to be made, sites
chosen, great factories had to be
built,• 'power provided. • There , 'were
problems too of raw' materials. Many
of the •products teeded had never be-
fore been made'in Canada. Raw ma-
terials had to be brought in from out,
side. Imports from other countries
had to be finaneed. In ruder to do
this. Canada must ship- goods abroad
to pay for the products imported.,
When we sell planes to Great Britain;
hula in Canada, with 'engines impera.
ed from the Cnited States, they are.,,
effect, "all -Canadian',' in. construc-
t} because we bought -the eugines
ueed. in them :with money obtained
from Canadian products sold. in the
United States. It represents the ex-
change Or ,Canaddan: paper, cattle, gold
or some other product, for plane en-.
sines. Their production, therefore,
represents a wholly Canadian effort.
Approximately eighty-fiVe eents out
of every dollar goes to labor. . This,
CLEAR TELEPHONE LINES FOR
Gun -Power Demands
Right-of-Waynti-afrexatt guns, field guns, naval gums,
wink guns, anti-tank guns, Brett guns, Brotim-
ing machine guns, Vickers machine guns, sub-
machine guns, naval machine guns, tommy
guns, trench mortars, bomb. throwers, smoke
projectors, munitions, munitions . .
Throughout Canada, plants.are working day
and night on guns, guns and more guns.lhe
work goes forward under all possible speed
and speed means telephone calls, literally
thousands of. themmn'top of normal peace-
time traffic.
AlthtiUgh this talk of gun production doesn't
flow through your telephone., needless delays
on your line mean delays on others as welr,
because of the interlocking nature of the
telephone system. So help' build Canada's
gun power . . . avoid telephone ' delays by
adopting Wartime Telephone Tactics.
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Hogaarth
Manager.
•HE stink you have the
right.; itrunber . . . consult
the directory-.
• SPEAK distinctly; direerly-
into the ruonthpieee.
• ANSWER promptly when
the hell rings.
• BE BRXEF. Clear you} Erie
ter the next call.
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USE OPP-PEAK hen -FS for
your Long Distance Call5.
nese things int:y.49°k trifling, but
on 60504000 dltily telephone ealh,
thel't are very in:portant.
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rn tc0 ta*.tiow 04 49p, paTip14 spid,
of theaniU�7-
Ono 'flaY, Iring Mansieuvres at Alm
llershot 1 went along the. street .ask=
ing the residents WA* trbel. lbol101t • a large part .orthai'.erty • Was :vy4004-.
00 he WeAt 4104ll Mit/4.43W' •
have -AVOW MIEINtiened the WM*
reception given us at ViReatrti. 'When,
of -the Canadians. I sulked if they had oat, mos residents escaped with their
'lives tfut little 'else. Canadiaii gar.
menhir clothed the People; Cana-
dian travelling kiteliens fed the*
Canadian raedlcal supplies were used
10 ealsritheir pain. Standing in_the
"filidst of the nglisM Coveatry Cath -
the Provost, presented to each
Canadian editor a priceless souvenir,
a erose made of two ancient nails
picked up among the ruins.
Actually, every person rink had
high•praise for Canada and Canadians
=and it wart sincere, not merely a
polite gesture. Marty of them had vis-
ited Canada. Thede was Lord River-'
He: gave me comparative id dale, head of great steel company,
might be -expected that the record of who knew my own town of Femme;
the English Regiments, living near Sir Harry Brittain, who asked par -
their calm homes, would be better ticulerly about Aettin, Ontario, be -
than that of the Cattadiaas. Actually, Abuse he had visited there, his home
it isn't. Crime among the soldiers of being in Acton England; Winston
any complaipts, if there had heeit'aztty
trouble. Alitnest invariably, Om' W-43
nothing but"raise. I netee heard any
criticism of'the Second Division,
which w -as in the dlistrtet at the time,
although there was some of anathar
divielon 'which had been there•eearl-
ier. Alderehot has t" probabl* smell
more of the Canadians than any other
town.
The best authority is doubtless th
Provost Marshal of the Cauadian
Headquarters staff. I IF, dinner with
him one night at the q
Indies and Sporting Club in
t old Fleet
London.
rete It
the 'Canadian Corps is only one-third
as prevalent in proportion to the
number enlisted, as in the Imperial
Forces. In spite of' driving conditions,
that are strange to .canadians, the
highway accident records' • of Cana-
dians is better in proportion. to the_
number of vehicles. Investigation of
accidents showed that there was a
tendeticy-tO blame the Canadians for
More than 'their shire. For instance,
a Woman called up one day. ,to say
that a Canadian army- vehicle had
damaged her fence. -Asked how she
knew it was Carladian, she said it had
a hippopotamus painted oir the sidd.
It was explained to her that the hip-
potamus was not a Canadian animal:
the vehicle ;belonged to another De-
•rainion. . .
A Few Aetual Incidents' •
Perhaps a few simple stories will
illustrate the attitude of the English
perople to the •Canadians.
In a small city near London, friends
called a taxi to take me to the rail-
way station in the blackont. When
the driver arrived and' found I was a
Canadian, he asked if I would raital
if he wentaround by his houseand
brought his Wife along; she 'would
like to talk to a Canadiaa. When I
;left them at the station, he. would net
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accept a penny from me.
Waiting for the -train in thatsame
station, I talked to three Euglish'
Aircraftmen in the R.A.F. They were
loud in their.,praise of the Canadians
because Of an incident that .11.0., last
happened. They had ordered lam%
at the refreshment counter. Service
was slow. An English Major Caine
along after their orders' were in and
insisted- on being serired first. The'
girl at the counter refused. A bit of
an argument had arisen till it was
settled by an R.C.A.F.-officer of high-
er rank who took the part of the
boys. He had -given the Major a hit
of a lecture. "After' all," he conchal'
ed, "we are all fighting for the same
King." . .
One night the London Standard.
had a .cartoon. It showed an. English
girl, 'rather embarrassed,- introducing
a young R.C.A.F. man to her parents,
with the words, "I picked • him up
along the road." The. next day I sat
beside the editor Of thireStand.ard at
a -luncheon. He told Me the story.
He' and his wife had been driving
to the country home the. previous Sun-
day. Along the road they caught up
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to a young couple with their, thumbs
up. Hitch -hikers are not common in
England but one had an, R.C.A.F. uni-
form so they stopped ic, pick them ,op.
They' learned: that ta girl had just
Met the"Canadian. In tact,, it was his
first week in England. he invited
With ferher home and ho•acc.epted. As
they' neared the place•wliere she was
to et out, bean to have doubts.
Perhaps he , wouldn't be welcomed.
The editor was a good sport. He 01'-
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of course, is an estimate onlY. 'ft
would be quite possible to algae that
in any product produeer tae,entire
value goes ultimately to labor,
the exception of the sums paid for
the rent ef land. This would *elude
of course such items as royalties paid
to the owners ,or rnirws. timberlands,
or other natural :resnurcee.
What happens to the, balance? A
large proportion goes' to governments
in ./axes. The landlord will take a
share. Some must be side aside for
depreciation w h ch • a gain, at ter it pe--
iod of years, will go back tog,those
who •build, the machines which Will
replace those worn out in production.
Some will go to bank interestwhich
again Involves labor. for it costs mon-
ey. to run a bank? Some goes to divi-
dend's and bond interest. Part of all
this, coupled -with the contributions
of labor and business men whose sav-
ings or profits have been increased
by expansion of demand for goods,
finda its way back into government
bonds and savings certifleates to help
carry on the war. It was splendid
that Canada was, able to make this
contribution. It was ,goodt that it was
willing to rici-So. There will be no
dissenting voien.
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CROMARTY
(Intended for last week)
. Personals: Mr. and Mrs. Thebes
Hodgert, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Gillespie,
Seaforth, with Mr. and 1111re. James
Scott; Mr. and Mrs. Jamea Fulton, of
Mitchell, with Mr. and Mrs. Duncan
McKellar; 'MT. aria Mrs. James Scott
and Duncan, Brodhagen, with Mr. and
Mts. Thomas. Scott; Pte Alex Ram-
sey has been transferred from No. 10
13asie Training Centre; Kitchener,- to
an Alberta Army Centrb.
Leg Fractured
Stanley Menzies, 33, an imployee
r" 1- rs fl ':.'o Hydro Electric Power
7 , fractured' both bones Of
ifis right leg above the ankle when he
fell iiito a post hole 'near the Cen-
tralia airport Monday Morning. Men-
zies had been workink with the rural
hydro gang installing a substation at
Centralia to supply tho nearer for the
R.C.A.P. airfield now in course of con-
struction 1.14 was brought to the of -
flee of Dr. Fletcher and teas"remotted•
in Mr. Harry Hoffman'e ambulance to
Victoria Ilespitali London
barite is in Northern Ontario. He has
bee'n residing in 1-ohldoo• r eteY
Tinittfliamottuty.
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Churchill, who promised to visit Can-
ada again aa soon as be conicla a pro-
mise since carried out; Tames Bone;
LOadoe Editor et the Manchester
Guardian, who -teat his ciothes when
his beet Was torpedoed as he return-
ed from Canada; and the taxi driver
who used to work'airlesper•Park and
believed . tt as the moat. ..heantiful
spot on earth.
Canadian Soldiers and English Girls
Many Canadian Soldiers are marry-
ing EngliSh girls. That is: not eurpris-
in'grbut few in Canada realize how
many weddings there thave been. The
commanding officer of a Western
Ontario battalion told me that 1001 ef
his men had married English, and
Scottish girls. He said they were
good girls, of the best types, for he
Insisted on interviewing eyery one
before he gave his permission- for the
marriage to take place. • •
Now that is something that Cana-
dian relatives ot soldiers and partic-
ularly Canadian gbas, should not
overlook. B. K. Sandwell, who was
With me, believes that a certain
"glamour" surrounds Canadians in
Britain. He ascribes this in part te
the movies and novels. Perhaps he is
right. At a big aircraft factorY saw
a girl sitting at -a table reading a
paper covered novel entitled, "Love
in the North." On the•cover. was a
huge Canadian youth dressed' in fur
parka, hugging a •beautiful 'girl, while
the aurora borealis made a brilliant
background. Bishop Renison who has
spent mucirefthis.'lire in the North,
was much amused.
I.dhink there .is a more practical
side to it than that. The English be-
lieve we live in a land of plenty and
wealth. Just,now. v -hen we. eat much
they can't get, that idea spreads. A
Canadian ,is considered a "catch,"
and from • what. I saw on the 'streets
and elsewhere, English giels, are out
to "get their man" in wartime.
From the soldier's point of view, I
believe loneliness plays a part. The
boys don't get enough letters from
home. Perhaps they get plenty at first
but the number falls off. Some don't
get any. They want the news from
home,. but even more, they want to
think that they haven't been forgot-
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_unhealthy, your body lacks this energy Stud
Theco,nAgaineystrorenigeeverbirours."1",ort bailevimto diatsgeattfroutls,',
get ridof waste and:agoW pruPer liaufisinizeof
to reach your blood, When your liver gets
outofoyorduerrepr;
opiseerdinedgeslotiothaandidenownrisastehratheaatt-
decomposes in your intestines. Nervous
uoubles and rheumatic pains arise from this
poison. You become constipated, stomach and
kidnees can't work properly. The whole
systels sffected and you feel "rotten." head-
- achy, backicliii, dizzy, tired oat -7a reeds' ere,
for sickness and disease. =-
Thousands of p-wple arc never sick, and have
won prompt earl from these miseries with
"Improved Frait-setives Liver Tablets." The
liver is toned lap, threother organs functioni
normally and ksung geed health results.
Today 'Improved Fruit -waives" are Canada's
largest selliegliv,er tablets. They must be good!
Try them yourself NOW. Let "Fruit -A -ewes"
gut you back oa the road to lasting health-,
feel like snew petiole 254 50e.
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they need parcels -L -newsy, gossipy let-
ters telliag what people at•home are
doing: Asad they like the home town
newspapers, which pass from hand to
hand, Conneils or service clubs' would.,
be doing good acts if they would sub-
scribe for the local paper for all hays
from their, towns who are Overseas.
• Parcels are appreciated, of course.
The troops are adequately fed, but
they get few luxuries. Remember that
when you send parcel. Some things
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are luxuries in 'England that are pleie
drill here. Candies are most welcome.
I saw candles only twice an Englastil
and 'they were really eonfetctionts, Meg
real candies. I would hairs given 'mut* 1
i for some real ones. Send potted tarter,
meats and cheese, marinalade sad
jams in tins (not glasses) braes an•
garters and razor blades.
Illustratedniagazines, such as Liao
are heavelete send, but are most wee.
come. Send a few of them to NNW
soldiers, or to Mr. A. Savaard Caltart
dian Army Headquarters, )0frekspnif
,Street, London. "
Ilut aergember, letters are beia
all. There can't be too snany of theta.,
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RECIPES SEND TO:
Ma0c Baking Powdet,
Fraser Ave. Toronto mitios IN
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shipyards
comes a long line of cot- sites to do his,ututpst and can there-
vettes and cargo ships, mine -sweepers tore tahe pride in she faCt (hat 14ydris
'is ptoviding wen over 2,000;000 h.p.
swittly adding to the Royal Canadian to assure the victory program crd to
maintain all essential 4er/ices. '
and patrol boats -31 types at ships --
Canada's victory program, sea 'Because Hydro is vital to victory
strength is of paramount importance. we must all be econontica in its use
in shop and home,.:7not OtA;# tO con-
tslavy arid our Merchant hAarine. In
And trout keel -laying to launch- serve electricity but, also, to save
1.4ydro.,Electfic energl is indis., Meny Metals anti materials which are
pensable. Day and night, thousands essential to the production of weap-
ons of war. Let Victory come firstl
of workers in "the yards use their
Ontario's , Operate your electric range whit the auto-
' according to directions. Cook
in the range oven,
ve
fun shove °
powec
Nvoover
Ie industries.
scattered all the Province other
thousands of workers on machines
by
weed HYdro are raoducle4
d equipment to feed
rrisetlytelcroslvatlIticsties at onem6:1,e_ment Nemever lea
' using 001'!001'!the boa° ie.
heating elem
thts on %Ian' a mont longer
an necessary. Have
keep yout appliances"
or local 'Hydro'
yout e ecitical dealer
good repair.
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