The Lucknow Sentinel, 1947-05-15, Page 2PAGE:' TWO
• ' '1' 1E. LUCKNOW SENT NEL', LUCKNQW,, ONTARIO
THE LUCKNGW SEN'1INE
I•uclnc�w, � •. ; Mario.
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Morn .
-- Published Each:Wednesday'X g
Established •1873
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•
L,:9C,±Thompson,`Publisher� and Proprietor
THURSDAY, MAY 15th, 1947 '
CAN. WE RUT RESPOND?
The benevolence and generos-
•ity of the folk' 'of '7; ucknow •and
'district is again being appealed
to Few appeals have ever 'been
Snore worthy •of a' l earty'response.
:This time: the '`call is for, cloth.
R...)EAL'
COMMAND' "CONSIDERATION
(Fort" Erie :,Times -Review))
• As,.'the'end of World. War IL
-recedes fu they into the :pages 'of,
"r • ni . inber :of
h.story,� an, increasing ; ,u . •
: rn. business are • coming to
people
a ."realization, ;that ;'today custom-
:. . . _ • . � ecome' ver • im ortant
�, . ,food `or cash contributions to . ers, have; .b :... ,• y Y p Y
aid the hardship-ridden.'people. of persons; It• is being impressed .on.
Great Britain: ' ' . , the minds of :sales clerks and
a ,.
ellers
a
me s
Local particip tion in the: cam- ;others ;that the , war ,
i which is provincial -wide in market is becoming . instead a
pa lm, P
°
scope, and under r •the sponsorship
l?..
of the Ontario 'Government, is
• somewhat belated, in commencing
and will 1e of short. duration. ' So,
act 'noir—make your _contribution_ "
today.... '1947," with a 'consequent loss of
For the last eight years the, peo- . profit.
a
BITUAR'Y`
r MISSAlYI',GFFIN_.
• .:There' died in St.. Joseph Hos-
pital , at Reliance, ,South Dakota,
on March 27th, Miss Ann Griffin,
after a lingering • illness, Ann
•Griffin, was bo;i n : on the 10th Con
.eession:.ef Ashfield, the eldest
daughter. of James Griffin and
'Julia Shea, There she resided un-
til going to Reliance twenty years
ago to: be housekeeper ' -for her
cousin, Rev. John J.. O'Reilly .•
There she. endeared herself, with
her real Christian life, to. all who
knew. her. A g
buyers' market; that the indiffer-
ent, and.. sometimes impudent. Waukee, *ere among those : at --
treatment had, tending.„ Miss Griffin is survived
treatment `which _customers by two sisters, Mrs. Dean (Kate)
'THURSDAY, MAY 15th, 1.04, 7
AnailAGhaidhelI' -: Air A Mhullach
�/�(MEf�I I
"WH
WIN
The •greatest, pipers mall •
E'E i were; of course, , the' MacCrti
HE SW
pions, pipers to .N,[acI.e�od of Mae -
•
By• R. J. Deachman
One night my son who lives in
g
Montreal gave me a call: `"Any.'
thing new", he°rernarked, •"I have
not . heard from you for a few
days, how's everything?"
Now I knew ,that' he 'had a tic-
ket on
ic-ket.on the Irish Sweep and it had
been, .run a few and
L.eod, in .Skye,' For over,300 yeas
their ..school set the . standard of
piping , for all Scotland. It' w"as. i,
said that it took seven genera...
tions' of pipers and seven years'
at the. schodi 'to' make a piper,
When MaeCriimmon and 'Mac1.
e quarreled the •school. was closed
eod
-l1 throu Yr hex life days before,
<< and piping:•, suffered a severe set; •''
the deceased was pgsitia for her ....:" asked b way of reply You .
I rem . Y Y g angered str,ll• .
kindness ess of . disposition,. lies :. , rse?„ bac"1. Pipet was end
n i' .. d}dn t get a. ho , • . snore after 1750 .when pipers .were
te her for. others .and he>. " „ ,he said `.`I ' didn t,, but .
devotion . t church: Solenin 'No"($2.6.:e07.),
2':50) rn -danger of being ;hanged it
o
ie'.' 1 got :mY, mcaley, s worth• ( 'u .ht^.becau9sle .Qf the Iaw7:en4c,.t�
rrrass's requ h, Was held.w Where
• , .. it ,,_ :drearnrng" ca •g.
<... Wh. re°'dreaming ':about . Y . .
'Marys .church, 'Reliance, • ; e ..ed to -break up . tlie' clan-.�•s��iz•.t:
' numberpaid. their what .I would do "with' the °money i ers kept the art uiri
a ',very' large,. Hardy . p p p g g.
final tribute. Her brother, Timo=
thy Griffin of Detroit; ,and a
cousin, Francis, .Desmond Of ' Mil
to tolerate during the war •years;
t Cobe sharply l "resented ; in of Cloverdale, B. C,' and Mrs,.
is apt P_y __ .._ _ _._
a'nd a •brother, Timothy of . De -
trait. ;The' interment. took ' place
in St: Mary's• cemetery, Reliance,
-Will -Clair (Minnie-), of .•Ashfield,
p1e of Great Brittain : have made Acutely aware of this is an
tremendous • personal sacrifices. ;acquaintance of ours who is in S,D,
During' six years of that period the.,.automobile and tractor busi- .
the faced and' suffered the rav-Hess Last month' •he sent a gen
.Y r ,--B4RN-
• ages. of war For• tw years; r1- eral ,letter to his Itaff vvliioh con-
qn� pertinent
: • ' taiiri stood:.. alone ' .and.•,• held the.twined the following p •
enemy at bay.: Her economic re- paragraphs.. •
sources were all thrown into • the . A Customer is 'the most impor
ff ie, , , - g1 e t . our
She..won that struggle—but' came ' door,: whether in person, by mail,
out of ' it impoverished by the' or, by —telephone:.'
magihitude. of. her effort.
The end, of, the ,war did not see
'the end: of su tering; and privation
for the British•. people.. They faced
courageously; the• struggle . re-
habilitate 'their economic condi
tion. •(loving courageously tight
ened
their belts and en,' ured.re='.'
duced .rations: to :fight . this new.
•battie,..they suffered' one 'of the
: worst.disaster in 'their ;history
from the `, forces of nature. An
•un recedented winter, with': :rec., human' being'with "feelings' and
F_ h ‘'with .
cou led.'with dras emotions; like our, :own and. she,
oro. snowfalls, P emotio . our, .,..
fuel and ower .a'prejudices:.
tic shortages 'of p , �• .also: has biases arid .,
as followed bythe mds',devast- • • stonier ` is • a person who
' w .A :cu`'
tating 'flood : conditions the' Bri- : brings. us. ,his. •wants I is our, job
.tish•people' have ever known. The ':to. handle them 'acceptable:'to hip•
results.: were that • 'gd o
p y•
reat 'stocks arid • r fitabl to -Ourselves:
. an
food, oflivestock and crops, have' make Our customers
on �" Which
been: destroyed. Crop's. w
the; ,people, .depend;ed. to,. ,
t sir meagre . oo o, spppi.
.washed • out. • Two .million.- sheep
.• nd. 30,000 :cattle 'were drowned
allant :'`' eo
- in:"tile 'floods. �. These .gallant p,
tritio ` unless .dras:=
:�.. •`ole face mal u , ... xl ...
tic steps are :.taken �to • '.augment
the. ' diminished food supplies:
Your donations''of' foodstuffs cash'
and -clothing will .help tide"thein on . Sunda ;'Rev. W 'A::Hender-
Y�
over, a.period.of national era is _ .son (ill,;to his many ,friends
': here):. made: °a marked :impression' that, slate and its successors down the.: impossible,"cleared the land,
The marked rowth
on his .listeners:''by his earnest -the • „t'ears. Y. g. built homes . arid' barns, lived to
`and .'sometirnes :
nes•s and outspoken conuictons:'`.and development•.a , ,.clian e `a wilderness into a: great.,
' disci' line:: Writ'e,'tvvo hurl- g
•
I -is.. ill � i •mannerism ':typical of stern p
1? P ,.
., late". l'Was ;area; They: .were"' profs:e
• f' drama or Bred times=: I was late Was
lairrr; :.is stripped bare •o
scoc!-�`r.��J�t'•'' •Sr'r�6i- e - . e. `. a• �SQi1n•. >a Of what'could }Jedone }�y�honeSt,
GAMMIE•—Zn Wingham Hospital.
On Friday, May' 2nd, ,1947,: to Mr,
and Mrs: Ross ,Gammie,, .R.134. 1,
;Lucknow,..a 'son.
A, customer -isnot dependent'' on
us, but .; we': are on lim. , •
A. eustorner ' is not an inter-
ruption . of our. wo"rk', he is.: .the
" i We 'aye not dohi
• purpos`e � of t. �g
him a favor by .serving: him. He
is doing .•us. a favor by •giv,ing us.
the opportunity toe do iso
A. custome is not an;: outsider
s of it.
of•'our''biisxness, H•�s part
A' . customer is ;not a Old sta-
tistic, He: is flesh and.; blood , :.a
Boc KS
AT.ES:
and Dad I .did a . rnighty fine:jo
spending at", • r •
Years ago I had a ticket ' on
.I
the same' show and'I too did" some
dreaming I lived in the. Town
ship of Howick' in..the County ;of
Huron, three miles from the little
village of Corrie. All .th'at country
in-, the• old .days Was one great
forest, mostly hardwood, ]maple,
and elm, Mountainous trees they
were: :The pioneers who hewed
that •• wi'lderness
were robust men of ni.ighf valor,
Them are .few like them ..today.'.
Where now could you' find 'men
who:„....with the tools the e 'nen
of
:' e `ro
'leen
�sec1; would tace�'h . p
Clearing alarm in conditions such
as then existed',
fthr'ough those: dark and gloomy
years, • no easy task when at is ,
remembered 'that ' the • present'
staff notation':system was notl in
use until 1838: Previous to that
sound symbols were used . for
groups of notes.. and; -v werer.mo>.,e___.
often hummed or sung than writ.
ten down:. Here are two dines:
I hohroho, hodroho, hanan,
hiechin,
Iodroha, ••hodroho, .hanin,
hiechir.
There are still'to be 'found
pipers i`n. Scotland who . use the•
old style. •.One of them ; has: a set
'of pipes. in` keepa.t g=they',ay^c' 1't1`
years old • and. the fingering holes
the- chanter so : badly' �� of r
Iv the :years; as they passed 1' that, the ends of the fingers «ill
these"• things in my r thorn..
(Contributed) pondered;
The best known piper of. the
— n t ..Hall"; mind When. I had this' ticket ••1.
.For. 'Sales-- `Ciammu � y •i.•,esen�t.•d�ay..is - Pipe-lylajtiiik. ��';;-'
,ed that 1 would ,w:in thep
• in' .the � local'• 'dream
'•:;tittle, ,item.'lie" ' .: .
Just 'a ..
a on
n' 'author .t i ',
Ile Ross a r�.
A0:
1
have l
;� would, ,-.�
a er• buf'•fraugfit• with meaning. Sweep •, �,tha•t I••wo ,., d,
p , :.,.000_with-the 'tnf►.fi[1 _t_.x,n,:,7:d .huv_ music'. and official in t'.• uctui
and memories f or; some.
old . school : stood by
True, � the •
the roadside across :from' the new;
duty as 'a hall: occrasionally,'
doing Y
o- main lone•1 and,.desert re `too the:trees.ed, •practically • every pipe-anajoi•
but in they., rt .once' was: He
dolike of the' Brztis'h, ' rmy d,u i irrg . tlrk>
like .an, empty nest It stood ."were mostly maple-andalong.
dosing in .the sun ox shivering. fhe igher levels; basswood,; with past' •16 :'years.: Many Canadian' •`
the wand •and• riot enjoying:. they : i the pipers ;had' a month with Ross afro ,
bere_and there: a butternut n
new..ro a thrust tpof t ". trees grey!' in .one -;•of; t m Neil Sutherland, Ut.
It • was •= a• t 'e'. <of the!' lower areas. >Iaw g • �, the
•.I,. �p .. .
old•. Ontario, country -school`• dist the beaver meadow. `:close to the :Calgary, surprised.: Ross' by his
e
;bac they Fold': farm,' plant it. in.
trees; return it to fores.t,,a 'replica',.
Could make it', of what:
so'far as I
the Piobaireachd4 Society..•hlc� lr-
'ducts a' school:'' of. piping' .at.Edin-
burgh.-
din-
bur �i-Castle where he has,.tt.tun
carded '.with, the' march of pro -
creek: Ho:vi .gorgeous : they Were:
. i. ;' In the :.:fence' corners
Let's.'feel :gross. But an •old school °has so in-: ,May
at home here ,' many • rr emeries hidden in : its,. wh'en'I knew'° it there' were'a,few'
replenish. • nt, that those sah s-: •heart':and•can talk. wisely to those lum s of wild'plum and choke-
.li It rs.•srgnzflca .. saleS, _ c...�p p
les were,
people. who most .frequently ask-: Who have ears to dear •duct'?ear , herr ti.:E.- .-- 'We m -15.e3:'6
' u•• .know there's • a:. to . understand,, Like: its .kirid; ,it the.
e bran-
i.Year Was-on?"'ears' ago ' `seem' tb; had 'witnessed""'the • passing of .:the
h'
e
i
a
elates School life' be the one- who x�ow ignore the slate from sc :When•I ;had it, all `p1'anted and.:
'most'appr.opriate' question,.. "Don't. nave a, loi: to. • 15e said of. •them, ,
•--.kw,, the. trees growing I•would •dopate
you know the war., ist 'over. ro•• and clop "
,
• c es.
f .and �1:t
o:.
•The school' boy, with his shin=
er.
Speaking ,_ in his' home . church ng' morning face, -his 'first'prim
•
and slate' axed• his first.copy lin-e!
Alii ine• the tracks that crossed
k...
it ,to: the Townshipof:'a. Howick. to
bei- maint'ained as perfi anent:•
f'orest, •m
:'as a'e.morial ,to the' men.
who,, in a lifetirne• accomplished
Zook Out Fo The Children...
When I am: driving on the street
Where little: folks I'm apt to meet,
•Who clash.across the street in play:
ope ' ;' . � � . he: w
That I Id del if '
Weight •b their' srrn Books a d , Slates Aw y What •That carriedy•
lexcellency in interp:retation.'.•.aaid_,
execution.. A, 124year•-old
John Buiee's is .a :� a it Of.
gs�. p p
n r rriarkaa" tc kilt.
whop has;show. e ? .
annd. -i re -rd-e t a t u-t§"'t i.Yc i,
r ,i, s :� his.`
diribu $ 'mon c 5. t,
Tr. rg. g p p
' Ross •, has, h•ad• ' a : drst"rii s;ii iglied
career :both as 'plpei:
Both his,- father ,and moths \vert.•
skYlled :pipers -and "if :�.\'yrs
•pP
hem• that he' learned
x
burin his service, as Pi. v. Major
South African Warlie ctis-,
the
tinguislied •himself: by i�tillying
regiment. at.. the •;MVl;oddci•
g
.,:also served thr•out;hy:ut thL
)+'first `Great,'. Wai •with .tho, c.>cep
on.. ot_ a Te o t
when - he was :invalided• .40 t..
has won a, gr eat ., numbe r ,ii..,
medals cups 'and tro hics'hut',his..,'
r p F .. p ,:�.
most' cherished posscssi n; j,;thc•
iCtoilafl
medal` :of the 'Ri�yal`,
Order• given :ham by the./King.
toI ' a •mg .,w -o—la to ay- .ere,
a . would . ..
•..vemine were. licit were delivered iti force- rush.Jor' the playground : or: for ; is a tendency • to despiser There
: there , ,. .t? y, . • .; • '� ,
..ful and_. stray ht -forward„ sincer home! j are :,easier ••ways. of getting' rich`
...".Upon that °crowded thgroughf, re. ..... g ,r'".
rt 'How. many •tales the •oId;:school. now,'at,least`:we think there are:
Y k 11 t tykes 11 Y.
*You never .now what
yes..: ..
.. ;, '.., could. tell, Tales of this and'th'at'. "r•.if thereare Etter ways.
• do �i. o I:Wondc b
e '' e' just a's! .'at to' rush: on Although, the.; significance ofl V-• one,; some now. old and grey,.. some: of making ,a ,life?'
Th. Y r just p • i . orei n ;...l'. ces •. manyPassed ,
Day: isprobably more' -indelibly n. f g p a ,.
through..,li deep' •wisdom the old' How ;`long 'would , it take for
s'•• ou draw : impressed • bit:,'.:the hearts and away. W t p
Across 'your :path,, a y
minds than is apparent the sec=
' near, `
.:'.For playful' feet don'.t' understand:
When P :death, erhaps, is neer a+,
>
•
• ,hand. .•
So,. 'as along• .these streets I roll,
school . had' learned :that, once in .these planted •,trees•to'grow into a
ni `' •sar last week of the' a all :grown ' ups,. are . lone-; forest",as .it •was11'rn. the..days:of my
.ono .an Iver Y ......while. •.•
o ti hties• in Europe, some: father? I. don't know. It seems, to.
cessation Of h s 1 Eir p, , ,' '
Passed almost unnoticed so far "People first. in big affairs • me that .100 years. would do,:"the
Passed
as. • any public ' recognition „was' - Even they arei lonesome, - ' a . short ' space ' of time
tack It. s
in the life of :a people Once. the
trees started fo `,row and 'their
purpose became visible it would
become a living :Monument which.
would help ..us . to ° remernber' at
least .one of the • great 'things.•well,
worth 'remembering, ' -
• So the dream. remains,' I • have
still .to win:the e. "Sweep'. I. have
in imagination planted ' a . great
many:farms like that: I have 'vis-
ioned 'them in the West on areas
where now there is nothing but
sand; I have .planned them in, inti-.
agination along the banks of
streams. I have wondered if there
growing
were treesg. •in other conn-
tries, which would be more' :suit-
able than • the ones we now have
w in the West. There • they would
serve a different purpose. Here
in Ontario we .should have them
in:.every county, perhaps in every►
township • a forest Memorial of
fifty acres or .even' a liuridred-a
I'llkeep my car in close control concerned. The : bickering of Maybe like:to put on1 airs,
,.1?... y
There s risk enough' in all events
To, make '•me .always: drive with
sense.r' . : i
•
Especially, no chance I'll ,take
When lives.of'.children. are at,
stake. ,• ,
' rations and' the unrest'that, pre- : Just- the same, they're lonesome.,
Men . for 'whom existence blends
Every god,' who gain. all •ends
• Still reach out their, hands ' for
friends.,.
,Everybody's lonesome.
Women, silk clad, jewelled.fine
Yes, they foo are • ;lonesome.'
• When their, 'gems the brightest
shine
Theyare: •a • lonesome.
just•s.
•"Makes.. no difference: how they
smile . t._
(low they live or'. how
Vans in the world, howeyer, shad=
ows the joy and thanksgiving that
Should be so. manifest on..V-lay,
The issue that, has been •raised'
by :Avery Brundage of the': United
07-7 States Amateur Athletic Union;:
to . the emateur status of Bar
While. the extreme.coiarirriercial- as
' ization of Mother's Day'' may be bara Ann Scott,, queen of the
' • ` blades, s`�eems nothing shot of an'
open to . criticis iii, yet it is very�" • ;, . . , �' :
evident that 'sons and daughters effort to get Miss -Scott. • The
,'everywhere welcome this oppor-' young` Ottawa• miss ' has proved
tunity to unloose: the deep rooted her superiority to anything the .
affection, . love salad appreciation' States has, to .offer and in some style
that every child 'worthy of the circles .across the border such,'a . Once in every' little' While •
c n 'tion sim ., 1. cannot be' coup- : Everybody s lonesome.
he ori shed owes so 'tr:iu hto whorri tnar!ced' And in such moments hundreds
'have wandered ,back' in retrospect
Carolyn ,will,�,scom:plete her train- • tow: the old school 'and the :play-
ing in the early fall.'mates of .youth
Forty -Two Graduate
Miss' Carolyn Al in was one of
forty-two members of the' 194'
graduating plass of "St. ` Joseph's
Hospital, . London, to receive her
• • •:diploma and pin.: at an. impressive
ceremony., in the .Beal Technical
'.SchUool;'on Tuesday of last 'Week.
•"Going; going,. gone!" the atxc-
NEIL MacLENNAN of •Ripley has tioneer's voice rang.out ,with fin -
received • delivery of a new Sup., ality. The• old school., smiled and
erior hearse:: which is grey inwas glad. •
color, replacing; 'the customar' " "Books .and Slates'. Away" and' , _
sombre black.' .fareWell,
xe
BOOIL;.REVIEW 'F•E•AT1L14114
DISCONTIN'ED (TILL' FALL
.The "'Book Review:: a wcekl:
feature of The Sentinel frlr, thQ' •
.
past, several• weeks; has been dis-
continued until. Fall: These'e-
views, summarized by' local" lib=
r'ar 'Y pPatrons and; officials, 'proved
quite interesting •
nteresting to many, and
the feature' .will be resumed: in
September, it is expected.
The: ;Library Board has just
placed an order for new books:
w. ,,z,r'will
amounting tc9 :$200, be
•'ar.
w, iii' the
• i Ii r
av la le "to b . ;�`
a b Y ,.,,r:,��.:. •. ..
early fall, a number o .,,a h will,:
no, ddubt be "reviewp.d at ,that
time,
•
. Thrilling Story Of ,
"pistol Packing Cha,ipions'”'
Readthe amazing story of how
four ` prize -' winning detectives
smashed, a ruthless 'safe -cracking
g'ang.ii•t's just one of many. dram.
'tic featur•.es you
will find in Thi`
.American .Weekly with this Sun
diiy;s '(May- 18) issue.' of The' 1)e-•
troit Sunday Times.
• .._..._..:...-•--•-moi,
living tribute to 'the greatness o,
the then who -made 't'he,;nation