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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-12-30, Page 7• • ee r THURS., DECEMBER 30th 1943 The - Lucknow Sentinel, Lucknow, Ontario Cpl. Mac Graham of the R. ' G: A.: F. at. ,Goose, Bay,. Labrador is on furloughat present. Bob . Thomlason of the •Can adian Navy ,,has been .,,posted to. the IL1Vl.0:S. Wallaceburg. Melvin ,Stewart of Manning Pool, Toronto; spent the;week-end with his parents, Rev. and . Mrs. J. W: Stewart. Bob MacIntosh • of the R.C.A.F. school at Centralia spent his Christmas leave with his parents, Mr.: and• Mr.s.. Jack McIntosh.. Now in iia1y Sgt.. Jack McLeod, son' of Mr., W. S. McLeod of . town, arrived in .Italy with the Canadian forces in mid-Novmbcr. '",We understand that Jack Leith, son . of.. Mr. and .-Mrs. Jack Leith `of Hamilton ands formerly of .'Luckno.w, , recently arrived in 1 Italy with the Canadian forces. (V onrrtn Ville and Charlie Robinson of London . spent Christmas with their -mother, Mrs. Tyndal Rob- inson. On his• 'return' Charlie re- ported for duty' at Camp Borden. • -- Gerald . Culbe-rt; who-- is spat- ioned ..at Hamilton in the R. C. A. F., . spent • Christmas with' his parents, Mr, and Mrs. 'Jas. Cul- bert: . Bill Treleaven of the, R.C.A.F. training centre. at Victoriaville,. Quebec„ spent the week -end with his parent's, Mr. and Mrs. Harold. Treleaven. • Gordon. 'Steward of the • Army, . Postal .Corps at Ottawa was a Chris:trnas • visitor with his...par./ -ents, :Mr, and Mrs. Charles Ste- ward. Sid Whitby was home from Camp• Petaw.awa to' spend Christ- mas with his parents, Nit.• 'and • Mrs., Joseph Whitby. , '@ r, Heads Class •Jack Coak, son of 1VIr. and Mrs. Charles Cook, . has completed his R.C.A.F. course .at St. Tomas, and was successful in• ' eading his ,class. Jack is on furlough at .his home her until "January 10th, when he reports •at Halifax• for posting` to his next training cen • tie. V' Pareel"s Acknowledged . Mr. _. G. H. Smith, -..president of the Lucknow Red ,Cross .1 as re- ceived .acknowledgements of gifts Of knitted -goods from H. ,. ,IL. .Rutherford, Orillia;'; •Chas. Mc- Quillin, Halifax; and Lloyd E1= liott, Mossbank, Sask.. Mr. Smith has also received _a: Christmas card sent to . the local branch by 11dajor M. J. <, Dalton of Kings- bridge who Ls a . chaplain .with the Canadian Armley overseas. WAS WOP NDESD I N. ITALY Mrs. . Wm. , Stimson received word last week that her 'son `Bill had been wounded in the fight- ing in Italy. Bi is a member of the Princess Pats Light ' Infantry,' and 'it *as known that he was. seeing plenty of action with this Regi -� ..�' .. s..in dace and bitter contact with the Germans in driving them . out of their rAGE SEVEN IAETTERS. TO THE EDITOR° Walkerton; Dec. 27; 1943 The Publisher, Luckrioi Sentinel. Dear Sir: We wish 'to take the opportun ity at this time to •thank you for the, generous • cooperation you have given -this. office„•in„the ,pub- licity, (of various ,press releases. relative -to ,National 'Selective Service and Unemploynient In-° strrazice Regulations. Your : action .. in this • matter..lias., been of much` .assistance ©'in • administering the work -of this office. •• • To the individual • .employers and the numerous employees• .of this ' Walkerton Office' '.area ea ef- fected by these regulations •' who willingly accepted and carried out these orders as. .a duty dur- ing these critical days, we also extend our sincere thanks, • 'To all citizens of -the. Walker- ton' ,Office area, • we wish to ex- tend - x -•tend- the. Season's • Greetings and wouldask , .the: • continuance, of your •co-operation in, carrying out the , future worli of the office. •. • Yours truly, A. J. ,SCHNURR Manager, Employment and democratic national convention to determine whether the Brack- en.,program suits the rank and file or • not. . • +td After the C.C.F. 'takes office, we will have to .inaintain'law and order by using the police, •• and army if 'the pol ee.'is, challenged.; That was really all that Harold Wi, cI said F in his ,famous Cal. ga ry. • speech: "Socialism can't be' at half -Way measure. It must be totalitarian or nothing” reads :part of your last paragraph. -,Yo'' .1.3/ill , .agree that we have a great measure of socialism in. Canada now. Every week the "saci.alist" post office .brings. The Sentinel from Luck - now to: Canora for a few :cents each • year. If every paper in Canada maintained its . own de- livery service subscription nates would: be. prohibitive. When you go to .work you walk down a socialist sidewalk, and cross a socialist. bridge;' ; If your house catches fire ,you. use ' socialist equipment and water. to putit out. NO one in this age Would suggest turning the post office ee ent'erprie.e, nor trLigt- ing to big business to build roads, budges and . sidewalk. ;and ' re- turning to the toll system,. • When war ends, . two million. Canadians will have to find a different job.. How.rrrany of those who have enlisted from the Luck - now area can' return and find gainful ernployrnent? The citizens of Canada have spent $25,000 ,tte train a pilot, $27,000an observer and $28,000 .'to . train a navigator: We do not begrudge these expen- ditures..Those' whofight for us must be ;given the b'est'.equip- ment and training, we can pro='' vide. But can we do as .we did after the ' last war,y°force our heroes to accept ' unemployment and ' want . as being inevitable?. The only way Yto prevent the greatest depression in Canadian history is to . have the people's representatives 'their govern-. ment, plan fox' full employment. The banks, the mines, the trans- portation systems• and all the large monopolies will. have to be socialized. That does not meat that every farm, . every store, every paper should be run by' the. government. The test as to whether ' an industry should be taken over will be , whether it is exploiting its. •worker's or the public or both. '• Thanking you ' for the space fpr this letter and wishing you and The Sentinel- readers Vic- tory and Peace in 1944. I' remain Sincerely yours„; , A. M.. Nicholson, NIT. for MacKenzie. e eq rve° ervice ice. mountain stronghold in Italy Canora, The message gave `no details of theextent' or seriousness of the wounds,' but simply advised *}i=at-Etll�had beat wounded and further word would,,be received later.• , Bill's Dad, Wm. .Stimson, Si', who is a member'of,the .Veterans'' Guard arrived home for Christ- mas leave not Jong after the.'Jevord, :had' been received. . Men Oversea6 Heard Messages From Home • Cpl. Elwood •:.Solomon of the R.C.A.F. at .Dauphin, Manitoba, visited last ' week' with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Austin . Sol- - omon. • ' Returned To Moncton LAC. Eldon.H. Bradley, son of Mr. and Mrs.. Jack Bradley of Amberleye who has been home on furlough frons' 'Moncton, New. Brunswick, left for the ,Maritimes on Sunday. • Arrived Overseas Mr. ;and Mrs. Jim Smith re- • ceived. a cable the . day, before Christmas, ' announcing the ar- rival ,overseas of their on Capt. Ted Smith. Ted was home on his embarkation leave early in De- cember. Arrived Overseas Mr, ,and Mrs. A. E. McKim re- - caved -a cable- -on- - Wednesday morning • frorni their son ..Reid, announcing his arrival overseas. This was 'anticipated aS they had not heard from him in over two, weeks. Posted'. To Nova Scotia Lane Gardner,' son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gardner of Zion, has been posted to Cornwallis,. Nova Scotia.,, LLane. is taking a naval course in wireless telegraphy and .expects to be at Cornwallis for about three months.. He was pre- viously 'stationed at ,Quebec. Cornwallis is the . Empire's larg- est naval training establishment shore. Ori Oct'cer :20th. a number mothers and wives of: soldiers and airmen, who are overseas :from. this .corninun.ity, Went .to Loudon, Ontario, and the Free .Press Radio station made a recording of their messages.. This record was sent to Ottawa :and there a transcrip- tion..was made and sent. overseas. The list' of those. broadcasting Was published at that time; Last week Mrs. Tom Wilson (taurine Miller) of : St. 'Helens received a cable 'from her. husband 'inform.- ing her • that he ; had . heard the broadcast :and that he was( great- ly pleased to hear her. voice: Mrs. ,R. S. • Hetherington also had a cable from .her husband quoting part of her broadcast 'message. Others whom we know have heard .from . oyerseas stating they listened to . b-roadcasts are, Mrs. W. A. McKibbon .from her hus- band, Major (Dr.) McKibbon; Mrs. Horace Aitchison from . her tw9Q sons Douglas and Aylmer; Mr§. Percy Harris from her on. Bill. • 'Wally Armstrong who announ- ced the broadcast, had an air - graph from Bob' ' Hetherington stating that it was.a greatday for -him as' he heard , his wife's. message, • listened with interest. •to the, announcing, read four cop-' ies of the Advance -Times,' also a letter. from Wally. The recording and' broadcast was arranged through • the , Can- adian Legion War Services . in co- operation with the. Wingham Leg ion.—Wingharn Advance -Times.•. • Veteran Doctor 111 • Dr, W. A. bail„ . Walkerton's coldest medical practitioner, is ill and confined to bed at his home in the County Town. He 'w -obliged . to give up his practice sSome..-tixr e—a o. - is --fire r 'iealth. •.Y Dee..22nd, 1943. Dear Campbell:' I.have just read your editorial. in—The—Sentinel of November 25th, "Trying to 'Gloss it Over". There are several. statements which should be questioned, but I shall just .Mention two. "They: (C.C.F.) recognize that their communistic ideas : of state ownership can be established: and maintained probably only'by re- sorting to force". We have stated repeatedly that we will n,ot' take power until we have been given a mandate .by the people of Can- ada. Ours is:the most 'democratic political party' in Canada.. The. rank 'and' file ..of our . members meet annually in constituency conventions' to make recomrnen-F' dations regarding provincial and national. policies: Provincial con- ventions are held in each pro- vince every, year, and a national. convention meets every • other year") In contrast with this you have the, last national convention of. Liberals at- the end of the last war when the present • • Prime Minister was selected as leader. °When -the Conservatives met in Winnipeg a year. ago, they had no mandate from the rankand, file members to "change the 'party nan,ie, nor to select as leader one who helped defeat. R. B. Bennett in 1935. After Mr: Bracken was selected as leader it®was left to him to, forinulate a party pro- gram. There has not been any • Department • .Endorses Work Of .Childr.ri .s Aid On November 13th, the annual grading report of the • Children's 'Aid Society of- • the County of ' Bruce; made by ,the Department of .Public Welfare, Children's Branch:,. was,- received -heyt!ee., President; Mr'., Archie Weir; OW report .egvers' the period front April ' ist, ' 1942, •to MMar'c:h .31st 194, The Department considers that the board's decision to''provide their superintendent. with 'an as- sistant, is a progressive step,, worthy, of commendation.. They hope, that despite ..the scarcity of qualified social workers, clue largely to the demands of War' Services,' a 'suitable person will -finally be, located.' • They ,praise' the, superintend.- ent's promptness.iii-investiga't ng'' complaints of child neglect; and •his practical..' approach' :to', the work; which has very: good re- sults..., in all oorrectable cases. 'They also praise his success in securing partial maintenance fon children of unmarried parents - -. '• - , :red -}"e •"assistance.,given', the' ,•mother to • ' plan ,for her child. They consider. that . a social worker could help greatly in the mother's readjust meat in the community. Th'e:siiperi inion given to child- ren inhoines is quite satisfactory, this having 'been learned by the field. supervisor sent out by the provincial deparement, when dif- ferent homes are visited, and placements, of .children discus sed with Mr. Cameron. • The friendly „understanding attitude taken • towards .the : children is worthy -of • praise.: The method of firidin .:homes, by making- active, search : for them, rather., thee,: merely:,following• up applications, has 'resulted in a :.good standard of home: ' The records ` of : various case:. kept in the office'•a,re considered a credit to the, Society; and hay R^ •• been improved, in various ways: .The office secretary • has • shown ample, evidence of aptitude in learning the multitude of ' new dirties connected with the stents=' graphic, bookl eeping,'and general office work.' The settingup anti auditing'' of the Society's ' book^, is properly done. The education ,of Bruce C'oun- ty ,wards : is looked after . to the satisfaction of the 'department. The clothing and, medical care both' are kept up to a high stare" : dard. Periodical dental .examin- ations,. examin-'tions,• when dentists are More plentiful after the war,arc:. te- comnlerided. ' Archie. Weir,' P•resi.derri Women's Association The annual meeting of • the three groups of the W. A. was held in , the • basement of • the church with the • president, in the chair. Letters of thanks were re- ceived from Jim Burns, Alex Smith'nd Harold Ritchie for boxes received freta the' W. A, - All were very much appreciated: A letter of thanks was read from the official. board for money re ceived from, the W. A. to be used for the local fund's 'of the church. The treasurer of each group gave a report. All reported a very good year with over $300 being raised in 1943. Mrs: L. C. Thompson had. tendered her resignation, as pres- ident. Rev. J. W. Stewart . took the chair- forriominations for this office, Mrs.' W. V. Johnston being elected. The • program consisted of solos by Mrs, Harold Trelea- ven and Margaret Rae and a reading by Eva Greer. Mrs. W. P. Reed: closed-. the pa with - prayer.. United Church Evg. Ad'x. - • The december meeting of the Evening Auxiliary of the United Church was held at the home of Miss Eva Greer with fifteen pre- sent. The 'president, Mrs.. Gorr don Taylor, conducted the' wor- ship service. Mrs. K. ' C. Murdie -read the --scripture.- At the: ton-- clrision of this service a . small beautifully decorated. Christmas tree: was placed in the centre • of, the room. Mrs. • Taylor led in a dedicatory prayer and the mem, bers in turn placed the star cov- ered envelopes containing' their Love gifts _en the tree. 'During the business period rports 'covering. the past year were given and soiree arrangementsmade regard- ing the work for 1944. Mrs. Alex Andrew took the chair , for, the prograrn. Miss Margaret Rae and Mrs. Haeold Treleaven each' rene dered appropriate Christmas solos accompanied by Mrs. Harold Al - lin, Mis...Ga:,.W- k' me entitled "I love to cook". • Qld Friend In A- • New Streaniline Dress a See the. American Weekly, in :, new size to read and keep, and with more features than ever be- fore! Get it with January 2 is- sue, of The Detroit Sunday Times. Among many attraction's will he the- i genly—g 'instalmen't "I Traded My 'Heart", the intim- ate confessions of a . Cinderella' Girl who .became the•'toast of •Broadway. Get the Detroit Sun- day Times. A NEW INDUSTRY_Is. expected to be '•established' in Walkerton shortly which will manufacture•: both civilian and military clot;?- ing.. lot"?-ing,. , Mrs: ilex And•rew .gave the topic on the "Origin :of Carol Singing' Mrs. Taylor closed the meeting with prayer. During the . social. ducted :carol singing,