The Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-10-07, Page 2THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, • LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1943
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL
LUCKNOW, ONTAIZIO.
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THURSDAY,, OCTOBER 7th,. •1.943
• E•DITORIAL.
CAN'T RE TOO CAREPUL WITH FIR]
'This week, October 3-9, ' bas been ,set aside
- by Royal Proclamation as . Fire Prevention
Week for the purpose of impressing upon the
public consciousness " the 'enormous waste of
life and property . occasioned by fire and the
Means to be taken to reduce this tragic and
unnecessary wastage.
When it is considered. that Canada's loss
by fire : in 1942 'was 304 lives and over
1;31,000,000 property damage, it is easily; ap-
parent that something must be done about it.
Fire is a disease that annually saps our -net=
Tonal wealth and every citizen should resolve
to do his bit to wipe, oufthis ;menace: to our
happiness and : prosperity. •
Every' citizen can assist in this campaign by
simply being careful' with ,fire, by disciplining
'himself in his' smoking habits,by seeing that
every ,fire 'hazard n. his home, store or factory
• '' A . little sister .for Donald arrived• at the '
Thompson home :this Week., My, what we
• fathers go through at' a tie like. this!
Mr. ;and ,Mrs. Peter McCall
were visitors at ,Brussels ver
the week-enct.
°ca1 and General
Fire Prevention Week, which is being cur-
rently observed, commemorates the Chicago
• Conflagration of October 9th, 1371,. caused, you
,remember,' by .Mother O'Learyts cow kicking
over.. the lantern.
is retrieved and by owmg
at to no sriould .
a fire start. Every fire is small lirl its incipiency
but it might easily reach the proportions of
a conflagration. Our duty is to see that a fire ceased' to exist. However, it is evidence of the
does not start. This is doubly 'important with good work done by salvage organizations with
our nation at war: the co-operation of the public, in recovering
This week, in thepress, over, the radio, many thousands of `toffs of Vitally important
in theatres and from the platform, Jean --Q. scrap rubber.
Citizen will be exhorted`to use every care with * * • • •
fire, not only 'during Fire' Prevention Week but. A sign of 'the times seems to be indicated
every week in the year: It would be well for by the ."Terms—Cash",' on practically every
him to, take. this advice to heart and to make auction sale bill. No .credit. need . be offered
Canada a fire -safe country 'in which' to live, to encourage buying. Bidding is brisk, prices'
We need only to call to mind two .holocausts are' good, and if the buyer hasn'ta roll' in his.
which have occurred during the past. 'year in pocket at the moment, there are few you can't
order to show the tragedy which can follow borrow it.. There were few who could, a few
in the wake of. fire. These are the Cocoanut short years ago.
Grove Night Club fire in Boston in which 491 e. * *
people lost their lives; and the ;Knights of Cole Lucknow' Business Men took an. important,
mnbus Hostel fire in St. John's, ,Newfoundland, ' and, very necessary step, ori Monday night
in which' 99 lives were snuffed out. We: can't when they set up a three-man housing coin -
be too careful with fire. • mitteeto cope with the housing.. shortage that
/* ' '* * * -exists in the Village. The committee comprises
THE; FAC FS MISCONSTRUED Reeve J. W. Joynt, G. H. Smith and Wm• Mur -
Canadians generally have submitted grat- ° die. This is a committee thatshould q receive'
iously and willingly to wartime rules, rigida; the utmost co -operation and assistance from
tions' and regimentation, accepting such' as be- every resident of the Village.
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hat obnoxious, hard -to -get -rid -of pest, the
milkweed,, is now providing "pin". money for
' many a school pupil. But the Department Of
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One, .lady reports what ,. looks like a de-
liberate program of pat poisoning, within .the
Village. If its necessary to get rid of the felines,
a more humane' means could. ,be adopted, than
slow -working poison;. "�
Monday s< Thanksgiving,, Day, when we
well may pause to reflect' upon our :many reas
ons for giving thanks, ,particularly so- in this
land, where the destruction that rains from
the sky is 'unknown.
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The stage is almost set for another Victory
Loan, performance. Mr. Ilsley has announced
the. objective --1,200,000,000; . and the opening_
date for the campaign --October" 18th. Scrape
up all the greenbacks : you , pan—even 'if its
only 50 bucks. '
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`Two pant suits ,and cuffs ' are again per-
missible. There didn't seem to be much long
range economy in eliminating the extra pants,
but tbe yardage saved by these restrictions
has been tremendous, sufficient it seems, to
have'tided over a critical period and prevented
the ' expediency . of rationing men's . clothing.
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That the owners of passenger—cars may-
now have tires .retreaded without a .permit, is.
not to, be, taken that the rubber shortage has
ing imperative to the successful prosecution
of the war.. There are those, however, . who
take the attitude • "they can't do this to me",.
and concentrate on ways and means of evad-
ing official restrictions, and at thesame time - Agriculture . at Ottawa isn't getting enough of
excite their neighbors to the "unjustice" of the ' it to carry on • their research work, and. the .j
Kelly'Ritchie is in Goderich for"
two --or three weeks doing sign
paiclting,. and decorating. Kelly
says .he' intends returning to the
Village' when the job is done..
Miss Isobel Douglas and. two
friends, Misses Dorothy Kruspe
and Jean Bilger of Kitchener
spent the week -end with the for-
mems parents; Mr. arid -Mrs. W. J.
Douglas,
Grandmother's ,Day. Will be . obe
:served at the October meeting
of the Women's Institute to be
held in the Town Hall on . Fri-
day, October 8th at 2:30. Grand-
mothers and visitors `welcome.
Pot luck lunch.
Flt. -Sgt. Lloyd Henderson and
Mrs. Henderson spent the week-
end with his parents, Mr.- and
Mrs. ' Jack Henderson, of Luck-
now. Flt: -Sgt. Henderson has . re-
turned to Hamilton but Mrs. Hen-,
derson will remain for a week'
or two.
' thing. • . appeal is again sounded for •more and more.,
All of us, at times, are ready and willingly milkweed leaves. It does not matter whether,'
to "rip open" officialdom for • their ' "crazy" or not the leaves have been frozen. Payment
rules and regulations. We see 'them only s is made on a basis .of three cents a pound. dry
they affect us, and not from the nationwide • weight, but the leaves may be- shipped .green,
perspective with which they are drafted.
Officialdom, more often than not, ignores
the hue and cry that is raised against some
orders, but it could not ignore the widespread
criticism that resulted *hen a "farmer was
• fined $50 by a Toronto magistrate for giving
his wife a ride in his truck". .
That was the substance. of the yarn,, that.
was the subject of conversation•, wherever peo-
ple. met, and :what was said about the powers
that be isn't quite printable
But an investigation brought out the true
' facts of the case, which included such revealing
points as this: the driver of the truck was not
a farmer at the time the offence was com-
rnitted; the trunk 'was not- •a farm- -truck but
was owned and registered in Toronto . by his
father-in-law, Max Gold; the truck was cru4s-
ing in Toronto about 3 ,a.rn. the night in ques-
- • tion and , carried no freight; ,Rush, the driver,
if desired.
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ASKING FOR IT
Thirteen ways of "asking for it" are- listed
in this month's memorandum to industrial
executives released by the Industrial Accident
Prevention Association.,• These suggestions ap-
ply to those in industry, in the home and on
the street. Here they are: - '
1 Crossing a street without paying at-
tention to traffic. '
2 Using a couple of boxes in place of a
ladder.'
3 Leaving firearms where children may
find them, ,or leaving_ firearms loaded . at any
time in the house.,
4 Reaching for any electric connectiorss
while • in the ' bathtub.
5, Leaving ,things' lying ori stairways.
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told police ,the truck had been at a nearby n ` 6 Using inflammable liquids for clr•anir,
garage for repairs and' he had. picked it up • . a • either in the shop or at :home.
• on his ,way home from a friend's houise; the.
fact :was,. he had taken it from the .garage
• three days before and had picked it up at a
-parking lot following a midnight show.
All of which gives a much different picture
of the affair, and emphasizes ' the fact there
are two sides to every question. We should
know them bollen, before.we do too much
"shootingoff the mouth",:'
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Doc) you realize that during 1942, twenty-
• seven small children in "Canada ° •lost their,. lives
by- fire while left alone-- at-- home- - by-
parents. . ,
7 Running,a motpr car in a closed garag-r:.
8 Chipping or grinding without n;,,f;:':y
goggles.
9 Operating a circular saw without ,e
proper guard. . .
10 ' Failures to get first aid, promptly
every minor scratch or injury. '
11. Allowing children to play with rr,,tr;•,,r:.,
12 Failure to correct anis haxard,t i`ff,rrr-•.
lately. '
13 Accepting the iclea, that .. a!•r.,.;r•> R
vexation or safety rules "ire the bunk'.
Monday is Thanksgiving Day
and will . be observed as a pat -
tonal holiday.
World-wide communion ser-
vices were observed throughout
the Christian church on Sunday:
Mr. and Mrs: Menno .Jackson
o f Brussels were visitors , with
Mr. and .Mrs. Peter 'McCall on,
Fair. Day. -
>± riends from a ' distance who
attended the .funeral of Robert
Andrew oan Monday included Dr,
arid Mrs: . John McKinnon and
daughters Mrs: ;Jean Colburn and
Mrs. Margaret Munn of Detroit,
Edmund Gardner of Windsor., Mr.
Wm. Pritchard of Fergus and Mr.
and 'Mrs. Bruce -.Gammie and . c
family of Elora:.
The dancing season is here a-
gain in the Village. Next Mon-
day night, the Legion will spoil=
sor the Thanksgiving Night
dance; the Fire CO:' will hold .a
dance at Hallowe'en time and
on -November .lith, The Legion
will hold ' their annual . dance,
when the big draw will be made:
FORSEES WITHDRAWAL OP MORE PROOF THAT "WANT
GERMANY FROM NORWAY ADS"- PAY : B•IG PROFITS
.�— We are constantly recommend•-,
(By Jim Greenblat)
You run into interesting -pee_ ing the use of the "Want Ad".,,
Tele ona train alright: I talked column for big results at low
with . a diplomat's wife who cost -la -been are . constantly
receiving•
from
proof that these little .
just three , weeks away
Stockholm with her two -,small ``go-getters" ,are the. .easiest,
children n and as Norwegian nu -
rse cheapest: way of turning idle' art
James McIntosh advertised a
blower. cutting box a week' .ago..
The -paper was scarcely delivered
when the sale was made, and: the
my trouble was that Jim didn't,.
have enough cutting boxes to
fill the 'demand that followed.
We are not at liberty td tell
you the details of another little
ad that recently brought Calls
from sixteen prospective. buyers:
There :.are occasions, we admit,
when a sale is not made. These
instances are rare, put one thing
is certain, you can't blame it on,
the excuse "nobody saw it". They
do read the "Want Ads" - and
failure to sell an advertised art-
icle is due to some other season.
"Want Ads" will. pay big div-
idends to merchants,. farmers,
housewives, and anybody who
wants _to sell something_ that
somebody else may want. Try a
"Want Ad"!.
A high priority got her out of icles into cash.
Sweden by plane. Some of her
observations 'I think will record
here . something • that I haven't
seen suggested anywhere in the
press , of Canada or the United
States: She had spoken to news-
paper .people , in Stockhoh'n, to.
people from Germany. ,who bad
been in in Sweden on business,
to refugees just escaped from oc-
cupied Norway, and she said the
•
feeling isgrowing that Germany
will soon quietly "move out of
Norway and be rid of what's
turning out to be a decided pain
in the neck to her—economically,
militarily, and . otherwise. This. `is
the "something" that I haven't
seen even suggested before.
° She said conditions in Norway
are terrible, worse. than what you.
read about. There is an average
of about forty Norwegians .get --
ting out every day to . Sweden,
and,. she has had the opportunity'
of getting first hand information.
She confirmed. the reports' that Ashfield Presbyterian W.M.S.
'no German troops have moved The September meeting of the •
through Sweden. `for- some time;
ever since 'the Swedish govern-
ment promulgated that edict.
People recently from Germany.
had told her that the city of.
Hamburg, for instance, was real-
ly totallyobliterated. Fires so
terrible raged there after the big
raids that they didn't even try to,
stop them, .and cement flowed
down the streets like lava. Berlin
has taken a terrible,pasting and.
is in a bad way, but her informa-
tion was that the morale of the
German people is not yet shaken
to the extent where t -here is liable
to he an early. collapse.,
GUIDE NEWS . .
The firstGuide Meeting was
he1�3 September 24th. The Guides
are glad to have Margaret. and
.74.7$ 'y Salkeld a i l`ade`s.
?4'rs. Mc•K r . was f.1 -.'P H6'11
..tri,, .a.'rari.gr:d 'r''r a meeting of
'the petrol lr.; rlr•.r . ;t 4 o'clock
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Ashfield W.M.S. was held• at the
home of Miss Sadie 'Johnston. •
The president, Mrs. D. A. McLean
conducted the meeting which was
opened by repeating the . dailse
prayer in unison. The scripture
reading . from ' Philippians was
read by Mrs. D. A. McLean. Mrs..
Donald MacKenzie gave a read-
ing. This paper Was composed by
_Rev. Allan who' -lost his life an
the Athenia. Anna Mae MacDon
ald offered .prayer. The roll call •
was answered with a verse from
scripture. Mrs. Neil G. MacKenzie
was appointed to' fill the -office of
secretary - treasurer succeeding•
Mrs. John McRae. Mrs. Neil G.
MacKenzie gave a reading en-
titled "Blink Bonnie” composed
by Rev.. Allan. Mrs. Dr. Simpson
gave a reading on India and Br.
Guihea composed by Rev: E. II.
Johnston. Mrs. Neil, J. MacKen-
zie offered prayer. . Mrs. Earl
Howeeread a paper composed
by Mrs. Ross. Shielis. The meet-
ing closed with the 1Vlizpoh bene-
diction and° God save the King.
The hostess served a dainty lunch
and the attendance wws,52.
Murder Ca,Stle-.-.Real Life
Story Of A. 1Vlariiaa
Corpses were the'stock in trade
of mysterious' Mr. Mudgett who,
•for 14 yearn, terrorized. the Mid-
dle West with , his one-man. crime
••; nrlirate, Read, in The American
Weekly with this 'Sunday's (Oct:
10) issue ,of The Detroit Sunday
'1', mes, the story of a crazy man
with a strange -way with women
end f.hecastle he transformed in-
to a "murder factory" Get' the
i��tr)it f;rxntl'ay Times this week
.,,nd every week..
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