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detested in those we do not lnow, but
who need our help.
The speaker told of women In Afri-
•ea who gage out' aif their poverty to
help Jewish 'refttgees, od refuges stat
dents in 'China who gave flea 'help
British bomb victims, and of girls'
camps in Canada who gave to
1lfadame Chiang Kal-Slbek go for the
care of Chinese orphans. .
In relenting to missionary meetings'
the speaker urged the practice of
'deanocracy in its true sense. To
' somepeople, democracy means equal
rights for all, but not equal responsi-
bili't1ee, so most of the work has to
be done by `the faithful few.' There
will be many difficult problems fac-
ing us in the future; now' is the time
that we should plan for the better
world we hope to see after the war,
and if we put our trust in God we
can rely on His guiding hand to briug
us through."
The report of the courtesy commit-
tee was presented by Miss A:..Mac-
donald, of Goderich, who expressed
the thanks of the delegates to the
Blyth ladies for their hospitality, to
the speaker for her splendid address,
and to all those who took part in the
meeting.
Mrs. Jack reminded all present of
the "family night" to be held in each
church in the Presbytery during the
week beginning September 26th, when
Miss Margaret Webster, girls' work
-secretary, will be guest speaker.
The meeting was breught to a close
with the singing of a hymn and
prayer by the Presbyterial president,
IIENSA.LL
(Continued from Page 4) '
more, B.A.
Mr: and Mrs.. Allen Douglas and
little 'son, Allen, and 'Mrs. H. Vair
and son, Douglas, all of London, vis-
ited at the 'home of their grand-
mother, Mrs, John Johnston, and'
Margaret on Tuesday last.
Mrs. Adeline Johnson spent last
week visiting with her daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mr's. W." Cook, of
London, and with her son and daugh-
,ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Johnson, of Melbourne.
Cpl. HaroldHedden, of the Royal.
Canadian Regiment overseas, had the
pleasure of meeting Pte. Cecil Kipfer
of 'Hensall. It was an unexpected
pleasure as neither one knew of the
others whereaboutas.
Cpl. Russell Hedden, who was re-
cently transferred to, Windsor, N.S.,
from Suffield; Alberta, had the plea-
sure of meeting Lloyd Brock, a well
known Hensall boy.
WINTHROP -
. The' Red 'Cross unit' will meet in
the basement of the church .on Tues-
day, .Sept. 2nd. , We want a good
turnout to make ,arrangethents for
the conking sale and bazaar to be
held in Seaforth Qct, a 2nd. This is
the last- call for donations for pris-
oners.' parcels. Cash donations can
be given to be used to buy articles
for prisoners' Parcels. Sewing is to
be handed in at this meeting.
Mr. Melvin Dodds, of Buffalo, spent
the week -end with Mr. and Mrs. 'Robt.
Dodds.
Walter Eaton and ' family spent
Sunday with Robert Dodds' and Mr.
"•and Mrs. Eaton.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beattie spent
Sunday with Messrs. William and
Joseph Kinney.,
-We are sorry to,•hear of Mrs: Rich-
•ard- .Harman, of Detroit, being in
Scott Memorial Hospital, Seaforth.
She had come to visit her 'brothers
'and sisters and was ,taken i11. She
was formerly"? ode Doimage.
WALTON
Hold Trousseau Tea.
Mrs. W. E. Turnbull, of Grey Town-
ship, held a trousseau tea at her
home on Friday last.. in honor of her
daughter, ,Miss Helen Turnbull. The
guests were welcomed at the door by
little Flora •Turnbull. Mrs. Gordon
McGavin and Mrs. George Henderson
poured tea, while Misses Margaret
and Jean Habkirk served the guests
with a delightful lunch. Mrs.. Wm, J.
TUT/h0 d MMs4 t ktl^oth7 Tux
a*e 3n ebai r, o 14'100 rAllssen'h.
A. Clark of 21?e8 -TOMO O }l,•
t present -du S'eott NrOMOrilrii s.
Ott I, Seafortb, sofferiug from a olr
ten knee -44p. Hie many friends hope
for a quick recovery,
Mr. and Mrs, G. Stimore have Icy,
ed into the 'house owmed by 'Mr.'Wal
iter F'orreat, which they purchased re-
cently.
Mr. and Mrs. Wafer Forrest have
moved to Brussels and are now set-
tled in the house which they purchas-
ed from the Wilton Estate.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sauaderoock,
of the 12th concession of 'Grey; have
purchased the 'Charles Trager resi-
dence and intend to move in shortly.
Mr. George Jackson • is spending
two mnonths' vacation in Moose Jaw,
Mr. Walter Somerville and Mr.
John Dennison have gone to the Went
on a'trip.
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BRUCEFIELD
Mr. and Mrs. A. Wheeler and • Don-
ald, Mr. and Mrs. N.T : Wheeler .and
Joanne, of Detroit, and Mr, and Mrs.
C. Halstead and Floyd, of Stratford,
were week -end guests with Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Wheeler.
Miss Jessie Grainger is visiting
with. Mr. and Mrs. J. Grainger.
Mrs. Stuart, of Hensall, is" visiting
Mr, and Mrs. H. Dalrymple. •
Miss Grace Dalrymple is visiting at
her home here.
Following is a list of ' prize winners
in the school children's 'flower show
held in trucefieid on Saturday by the
Horticultural • Society: Class one,
Grades 1 and 2, 1st, Allan Haugh, 2nd,
Terry Bawden, 3rd, Lorne Thompson,
4th, Margaret Zapfe, Class 2, Grades
3 and 4: 1st, Ruth Wooley; 2nd, Gor-
don Thompson; 3rd, Eleanor McCart-
ney and Leonard O'Rourke (tie) ; 4tli,
Eileen McCartney. Class 3, Grades 5
and 6: lst, Douglas McBeath; 2nd,
Huglj Zapfe; 3rd, Cora Taylor; 4th,
Lois Richardson. Classt 4, Grades 7
and 8: 1st, Wanda Bawden; 2nd,
Marion Paterson; 3rd, Madeline Wil-
son; 4th, Betty Wooley.
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VARNA
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dunkin, of
Flint, Mich., in company with Mrs.
Lilly . Thompson, of Parkhill, were- re-
newing acquaintances in and around
Varna and were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Lee McConnell last Week.
Mrs. Schell, of Detroit, who has
spent the past week with her brother,
Russell, and mother, Mrs. Austin, has
returned'home. We are sorry •to re-
port Mr. Austin'is still in hospital in
a serious .condition.
We are pleased to report Louis
Taylor, who is still confined to hos-
pital, is doing well,
Pte, Bill' McAa'h and Mrs. McAsh
have returned from a visit with rela-
tives and friends in Toronto and
other eastern points.
Pte. Floyd 1M,cAsh, of St. Jean, Que.,
is spending the week -end at the par-
ental home.
Mrs. T. Stinson still continues quite
ill.
Miss Gertie Smith, of the W.D.A.F.,
has returned to. Patricia Bay after
upending a few days With her par-
ents.
Mrs, (Dr.) Flora and her sisiter,
Miss Mary Batters, of Toronto, spent
a few days last week at the home of
their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Johnsons. of
Wellington, spent the week -end with
relatives here. Muss Rena Johnson,
R.N., returned home on Sunday with
them for two• weeks.
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ST. COLUMBAN •
The regular meeting of the • C.W.L.
was held recently with a large at-
tendance. The president opened the
meeting with prayer. Letters were
read from boys overseas for cigar-
etfee received.. Mrs. Joseph Feeney
was appointed recording secretary in
place of Mrs. D. J. O'Connor, who re-
signed. it was decided to send $2.00
to Byron Chapel Fund andto donate
$10.00. towards the decorating of the
church. The president, Mrs. JO'hn7Mc
Iver, was appointed delegate to the
Diocesan convention, to be held in.
London from ,October 12th to 14th. A
quilting bee far the Red Cross 'was
held on Thursday. The meeting cloth-
ed :with prayer for the 'boys in the
armed forces.
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Oen, Atom near :litWood, visited Sun,
day with relatives here.
Mr. and :Mrs A. C. Whitlock, o
St, Thornes, visited relatives here the
first of last week., Miss Joy Whit-
lock returned with them after Rend-
ing a few days with her sisters fol-
lowing a trip to the West in August.
• Sgt. Clarence R, Ford, of Jarvis,
spent a 48-hour leave at his hone
last week.
The '9 . A. meeting was held at Mrs.
Charles 'Stephen's last Thursday af-
ternoon, Miss Florence Bell, $f To-
ronto, who has been' holidaying here,
gave. a very interesting talk on • her
work as public health nurse in Toron-
to. She told of her reaction to some
of her varied experiences in her pres-
ent occupation. •
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CROMARTY
At the time of writing, John Mc-
Culloch who is in Victoria Hospital,
London, is improving, but slowly.
Mr. Frank Scott and bride are at
present spending a few days at the
home of the groom's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Scott. .
Mrs. MacDonald Is at , present
spending a few days at the home of
hey" pa.rettts in Brussels.
Wedding bells were again ringing
in the village the past week,
A heavy frost fell on Saturday
night, but luckily no serious damage
was done. -
Mrs.s McIntosh, of the village, has
returned after a trip to Ottawa- and
Lanark, visiting relatives.
The Presbyterian Manse, Mitchell,
was the scene of a quiet wedding on
Wednesday, Sept. 8th, when Rev.
Norman McKay untied . in marriage
Irene Leola, youngest daugrhter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Smale, of Hen -
sail, and Allen B. Quante, only son
of Mrs. Violet Quance, of Cromarty,
The bride was attractive in salmon
wool crepe with matching . corsage of
Talisman roses and fern. After the
Ceremony .the happy couple left by
motor for points north.
Mr. Orval 'McLaren, of Stamped
and Enamelled Ware Ltd., Hespeler,
O'nt., spent a week's holidays . visiting
friends at Mitchell, Cromarty and al-
so St. 'Marys during last week.
BAYFIELD
Messrs. Wm. L. Ferguson, James
Robison, John Parker and At E. Er-
win attended the Blue. Water Assoc-
iation meeting at Southampton on
Monday.
Pte. Ella McKay, of Windsor, spent
the Week -end at her home.
Miss Mabel Scotchmer, of Toronto,
is visiting her home this week.
Mr. and 'Mrs. Hugh McLe.ren and
daughters, of Port Elgin, spent the
week -end with Misses Maud and Jos-
ephine' Stirling.
The many friends of Mr. Murdock
Ross;,, wte,-sorry _•i,o bear .he had fal4
len off a ladder en Monday, fractur-
ing two ribs. All are hopingofor a
speedy recovery. ,
Mr. Ernie, Featherston, of Hamil-
ton, spent the' week -end with Mrs.
Featherston. •
Mrs'. Clarence Bennett and Mrs. H.
Barrett, of Detroit, are visit/ill- their
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weston.
Tuesday .and Wednesday of next
week, 2lst and 22n, is Bayfield Fall
Fair. The prize list has been revis-
ed;. prizes in stock increased, and
every • effort made for a successful
fair. A concert will be held Fair
night in the -Town Hall 'by a talent-
ed company of entertainers of Lon-
don. •
Rev. Mr. Harris, of Southampton;
was a. visitor with Dr. and_''Mrs. Vol-
ume on Tuesday. •
Dunkirk
And After
(Arthur Bryant in "Britain")
The days between May-29•th. and
June 3, 1940,, were the turning point
in the history of mankind. In those
days the British Navy, with the help
of the Royal Air Force, saved a Brit-
ish Army -at that moment virtually
the only British . Army -from what
seemed certain destruction.
Dunkirk was a kind of British vic-
tory, and as such has tended to ob-
scure events that preceded it. But
the occasion of Dunkirk•• itself was
the greatest military disaster in
British history.
An army of more than one-quarter
of a million men with practicaliy'the
entire available field . equipment of
Britain, was surrounded, and penned
in with no apparent choice but imme-
diate surrender or death.
It marked the apparent collapse of
all values which an easy-going parlia-
mentary democracy had. stood for.
In that moment the miracle occur-
red. It was like a sudden rainbow
at the climax of 'some terrible storm.
In the midst of it long columns of
men, tormented, utterly weary and in
deadly peril were seen going down
unperturbed 'to the water's edge.
Their only way of escape was a sin-
gle. port ,blgsted by enemy bombs and
shells and a line of exposed beaches
with shelving shores from which an
evacuation would have been impos-
sible -in •anything j5ut dead calm.
Those men stood there in long pa-
tient queues, as though waiting for
the last bus home, or sheltered in im-
promptu boles evacuated in the sand
while overhead dive -bombers roared
and screamed and fantastic air bat-
tles were fought out in the midst of
immense pillars of drifting smoke and
fountains of, water. They waited with
a kind of dogged faith, and presently
their faith was justified. Guarded by
lean,' 'crowded destroyers, hundreds 6f
little boats came'out of England and
bore thein away.
For five days and nights the miracle
continued until no one remained do
the. beaches at all, save the -dead. The
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*aty, •cax'ridl ea aii14 i'ko ogo.
;nen and the Fir l3 eldiA$' 'e71;
tea, _.And :there f Oa'`, Wyk_'t?
sHuother ray 149„~fie, Rands' of PI
Vein and iv, Tuniiidacand. Sicily.
,,.he name Of (tn.,-general who e..
Bred, their• retreat against the vide
ions Teuton hordes and who hiM
self among the, last 10 embij,rk,• w .
Sir Harold R. 1 . G.. Alexander. Anio
those who toot part'in the avec
tion was another general by the nam
of Sir Bernard L. Montgomery.
On June 17, while every road to th
southwest of Europe was blockade
with refugees and the panzer sp
swept unresisted into the Rhone Va
ley, the :men of Bordeaux; after Pr
mier Reynaud's last vain, despairin
appeal, made • their object surrender
In the eyes of the overwhelming m
rarity of mankind at that momen
there seemed nothing else that the
could, possibly do.
The world prepared itself for th
inevitable.
But the voice which came out
-England at that moment was neithe
repentant nor,submissive. it was th
voice of a man angry, defiant, utterl
resolved -or rather of forty-seve
millions looking •in'a single direction
and that direction seawards, and i
toning in their hearts words whit
one man spoke for all: "We shall de
fend our island whatever the cos
may be. We shall fight on the beach
es;, we shall fight on the landing
grounds; we shall fight in the field
and - i -n the streets; we shall fight i
the hills and we shall never surren
der."
It sounded to the world the wild
est extravagance, for outside the Brit
ish Empire and the White House i
Washington there was scarcely any
body to whom such words at soon an
hour made sense. The Herrenvolk,
who were far too busy counting their
gains and herding their prisoners in-
to pens to listen, announced them to
be the drivel of a broken-down drunk-
ard in the pay of impotent money -
enders, and they contemptuously %of-
fered • the English peace in a global
concentration camp.
Mr. Churchill and- the British peo-
ple did not hear them. With a mini-
mum of fuss and chatter and a maxi-
mum of speed they were girding on
their armor. They knew- that Hitler
could and would do his worst. But
they were not thinking about what
h could do but about what they could
d w
o one'who lived in England
through' that wonderful summer of
1940 is ever lifrel7 to forget it. The
light that beat clown:son her green
meadows, shining with emerald love-
liness, was scarcely.of this world. The
streets of her cities, soon to be torn
and shattered, were • loathed in the
calm serene ' sunshine,: and in the
forge -and factory, en,!the faun and
in the mine her people with a fierce,
unresting yet quiet intensity worked
as they bad never worked before •4n
history.
In every village primeval carts -that
might have. barred the way of Napo-
leon's grand army, wreathed with
farmyard wire were placed across the
roads Signposts were taken down
and trenches and gun emplacements
were dug in the fields. In the city
and in the country millions of citi-
zens strove to make themselves sol-
diers. Factory hands and retired am-
bassadors, graybeards and boys in
their 'teens, middle-aged men' holding
themselves taut after twenty years
of easy living in the memory of their
former prowess in war, paraded side
by side.in working clothes with arm-
lets lettered LDV. Many of them
-wore medals. Many made arms dur-
ing the daytime which they learned
to use in anticipation at night.
For strange though it, seems; and
this was pert of the miracle of Dun-
kirk, the British people were. already
thinking not' of averting defeat but
of earning victory.
Never in all her history had victory,
seemed more. remote or improbable to
Great Britain than in 1940. Yet in
the very hour when in the midst of
unparalleled disasters he offered his
colleagues blood, toil, sweat and
tears, Prime Minister Winston Chur-
ehill defined his country's goal. "You
ask,".,he said, "What is our ,aim. I
can "answer in one word: Victory -
victory at all costs, victory in 'spite
of all"terrors, victory, however hard
and long the road m•ay be. For with-
out victory there is ifo •survival."
Already with empty arsenals and
housewives mobilizing their pots and
pans to make enough fighter planes
to save London from the fate of War-
saw, Britain was laying down her
four -engine bomber , program which
was to wipe out cities of the Ruhr in
1943.. With invasion hourly expected
she 'was sending out her only armor-
ed division on the long sea passage
around the Cape of Good Hope to
guard the Nile Valley and lay the
foundations of a land offensive which
was to chase Marshal ErWin Rommel
from El Alamein to Enlidaville and
pound Colonel General Jergen von
Arnim into ultimate surrender.
Meanwhile, the angry Germans,
slowly and incredulously realizing
that the British would not make
peace, prepared with Teuton thor-
oughness to smash them to a pulp.
The men of Bordeaux,•who had good
reason to know the might and -ruth-
less power of Germany, supposed that
island state that, had withstood ,Na-
poleon would have its neck - wrung In
a: few weeks like a chicken, as one
of them said.
And by the standards of mathe-
matics it appeared only too likely.
The swastika rose over the Channel
Islands; Mussolini's legions, outnum-
bering _General Sir Archibald Wavell's
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intrepid few. by ten to one, marched
into Egypt; the Japanese sharpened
their swords at the gates of Hong
Kong, and the' 'victorious -grayeoated
hordes danced and revelled in the
streets of a dazed and ravished Paris
preparatory to the final triumph amid
burning villages and the smouldering
debris of London. All the while' the
long- procession of barges floated
down the rivers and canals of Europe
towards the Channel ports, endless
columns. of gray and steel moved to
their appointed places and the great,
black, laden airplanes gathered in
their thousands on the airfields of
northern France, Belgium, Holland
and Norway. And 'as the world
watched it suddenly realized with a
thrill of wonder and awe that England
was going to fight.
Scarcely anyone imagined that she
could survive such a contest, not ev
en in America where so many gener-
ous hearts bled for her, and where
British agents, aided by every device
open ,to a. farsighted President, were
desperately buying up. machine and
tommy-guns. The general belief was
that • Europe 'and Britain were alike
finished. .
That was the rallying hour of free-
dom. Faithful Czechs, Frenchmen,
Norwegians, Dutchmen and Belgians
and Jews stood side by side with
these indomitable British and their
kinfolk from overseas "unshaken, un -
seduced, unterrified." For though
Europe had relapsed into .a barbaric
darkness, a light had been lit that
summer id England that could not be
put out.
Already on Kentish airdromes as
the sirens began their low wall over
the Lon -don streets, the few who were
to save the many were preparing for
battle, and the Spitfires were warm-
ing up. Already in citieg tens of
thousands of men and women, dedi-
cated to death, calmly awaited the
hour when hell would descend out of
the slides to blast their homes to
pulp and tear theft' bodies, The Bat-
tle of Britain and the world's deliv-
erance had begun.
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"Hitler knows," Britain's inspired
leader said,. "thatbewill have `
a e to• FALL FAIR, DATES
break us in this island or lose the Blyth Sept. 14, 16
war. If we can stand up to him all I Kincardine Sept. 16 17
Europe pray be free and the life of I Stratford Sept. 20-28,
the world may move forward into the Bayfield Sept. 21, 22
broad sunlit uplands. But if we fail, Listowel Sept. 22, 2
the SEAFORTH Sept. 23, 24
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United States, including all that we Harriston Sept. 23, 24
have known and cared for, will sink ' Zurich Sept. 27, 28
into • the abyss of a new dark age Mitchell Sept. 28, 29
made more sinister and perhaps more I Lucktrow Sept. 28, 29
St. Marys Sept. 29, 301
Arthur , Sept. 30, Oct. 9.
Dungannon Sept. 30, Oct. 2
then the whole world, including
protracted by '''the lights of a pervert-
ed science.
"Let us, therefore, brace ourselves
to our duties and so bear ourselves Corrie
that if the British Empire and its Teeswater
commonwealth last for a thousand Atwood
years, men will still say, 'This was Walkerton
their finest hour'."•
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