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The Lucknow Sentinel, Lucknow, Ontario
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL-
-LUCKNOW,
EN.INEL•LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
Established 1873 .
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THURSDAY, MAY 11th, ,194 .
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MOTHER'S DAY, .. : ' • And saw, the face'wof God .,
Sunday is Mother's .Day; ' 'a . daywhen Dear : Lord, when Victory comes,
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mother love, devotion and sacrifice. is•'recog- •When the guns :are silent;
nixedby thought, word and deed, as on .no Andthe bombs stop falling, •
other occasion lestit be at Christmastide. And the seas.: -ire '• clean and fresh and safe;
- This day must bring pride and joy to' 'When . the dying shall scream no -more;
many -a mother's heart, as her family and
loved • ones honor and bless her -as every good.
mother so richly deserves. The • evidence of
such devotion is all she .desires . as recompense
for the days and years of toil and care and •'Give us the strength to keep our pledge
f that motherhood demands of her, and' ' To make a better world .. .
Sweating in the desert and the jungles;
Wheeling 'through the clouds;
Drawing their , deadly beads
Under' the choppy waves
'Of a -dozen sena
This was war. .
Bitter and' uncorripromising;.'
Gloves off and no holds barred;
: Kill or be killed;.
Exterminate, stamp out and -smash forever m
The 'threat.. to: Freedom.:, •
This was the dark,•hard road: io Victory.
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A thought,' '
When Victory. comes . . 'what then?.
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Arid the starving are ,fed;
And the soft green • moss
Covers the'tragic scars of ' ruined cities .
• Then dear: God, .make us .worthy y,
of Victor.
sacrY ice .
which stile . so' cheerfully gives.
Mother's. Day is an • old, old , custom, al-
though it isgenerally regarded • as having
originated ' during' the 20th ccentury. - True;' the
present century , has commercializedthis day aggression to .a large, extent, but . individually it is .obser_ , While the beasts of
Swallowed the little people one by one;
A world that ' lived divided, : '
Where ' everyone locked• his "door against his
neighbour,
Where the 'mad were strong,.
Arid the wise were weak . .
Not the: world we've known,
The world of power against power, • -•
The World of breadlines and bitterness,
A world that would not let a man work,
A world that watched unmoved,
ved with all sincerity, and' affords an Oppor-
tunity for an expression of family devotion .to
the one to whom we owe s� • much:.
With our nation at .'war,. 'Mother's . Day to
some will bring deep sorrow through' bereave-
ment. In many homes there will be the lonli-' .- Give tis the. strength to take Victory, ..
Hess of separation from loved ones. Where': Quietly and with gentle hands;
• there. has been .bbereavement, there will be •
Ari_dL:moud a -great new friendship ,..
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• Memories. Where there is separation there will ' To take l like a garden; ,.
,----14a;:prayerg.:.,c2rk,:- ;a??3'.,n�lips for the „reunion• o
'loved Ones ere another yeas; rolls nit, . •1"i;ipp�irrg•• -the•-•••weeds u.
sr,
But it 'Will be Mother's Day, and her. name
;will bererered in spite of death' or distance.
That is the way they would want it
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From the rich; , black earth,
Burning 'theminthe fires of ;Truth,
So that never again ,
Will there ' be :a. Hitler or a Mussolini;
A , IHirnmler or a "Goebbels; ''
CAN WE DO LESS?, Never again a blitzkreig;
' Bruce and Huron . C'ounty Victory Loan Never again the bitter treachery
'' officials are not happy about the resuitsgof.ttie Of. .pearl Harbor;
first two weeks. of the campaign. During that :
Or the tragedy of Coventry;
time Duron had raised only slightly over 50 Or blood.': running in the dills of Bataan:
per cent of its objective and Bruce 58 per. cent. God give us strength
This week -;-the final week—imposes a.tre- To set our 'own .house in order
mendoustask on'those ; charged with the suc- To open ":our doors in fri-endship,
t.55, of the campaigns in• these two. counties, To set all .men 'free;
and which• have had enviable records'in past
Soaps. •
They must ,not fail this' time, but the on -as
is on eiery citizen of Bruce and Huron County, .
to invest ' every last dollar he or she can spare.
See your Victory Loan salesman at once, and
no matter ho v 'small the 'amount, invest all
To live, not alone,
With the door locked,
'And the windows barred,
Watching . through the shutters,
The bitter strugglesof the little- people. '
This time;. dear God,
Let every nation take its rightful - place; •
you can, Do it now, the time is short:.. In;. the world of men,
•_. Canada's _Armed ,Forces have 'set the ex- � Free and ' untrammelled
ample for us. Not •only are they fighting our ' Bpnds of friendship but not' chains of bondage;
battles; . but in the Fifth Loan purchased,--°
$37,506,000 worth of bonds, • oversubscribing
their' original objective by 65 per. cent. Their
response' in the ' present loan promises to sur- 'And the rain of wisdom
pass their previous record. The evidence. of ' Wash .the slums of the earth,.
this is contained in a recent letter from a Into vague mernorie's.
Let the strong be wise,
And the weak,.; protected,
I1.et the, sun light the darkest street,
Lucknow boy in ...Italy T to says: "Another
`Victory Loan is underway here.' In the first
three hours our 'unit' reached 239 per cent of
its objective” • • - '
Let the wheat ' grow,
And the fruits ripen, •
And dear Lord, let them be eaten,
Not left to rot or burned or buried
If we at home "Put Victory First", can we — While men .starve 'for want of them.
do less? • Give us strength and wisdom,
Truth, ruth, honesty and
faith;
While unloading salvage on Monday night, - Maintain our .anger against aggression,
humility ..
one of the boys had a, lense in his glasses • And give .us before' you, Dear Lord.
broken. The comparison may be superficial,
but the value of the lense ,represents . about Give' us the power and the purpose
To make children . laugh;
To give work to the men who fought for us;.
And comfort to the women who suffered';.
'And peace to the aged . ,
Hope to the devastated,
And release, to the enslaved,,'
Food to the hungry,
And strength to the weak..
Let this hilltop be the world,
Soft green and eternally at peace,
With the leaves drinking life
From the Sun; '
And the long blue horizon
Dusted with. smoke
Of a million peaceful hearths, '
And, thebreeze vibrant and bright -
With . the laughter and . song
Of a million voices.
Dear . Lord of heaven 'and earth, .
---Give---tis-these-strengths
When Victory comes -.- .
Guide l Ili to peace; -
Forever and ever,
two tons of salvage glass.
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PRAYER FOR • VICTORY
By' Major Dick Diespecker
Canadian Army.
I stood upon a hill in the fall of • the year,,
A lovely hill, soft and still green
With the breath of summer.. '
And the stip, readied long' golden fingers
Into the valley floor, . '
And lighted the .autumn -painted trees
With the fires `of God. -.
This . was peace. ,
tut over the ridge there was rio peace,
Over the,ridge was war ... :
Ghastly and bloody;
The quick anti the dead, '
Whirling in a mad blasting conflict : .
Ripping • the skies' • _ •
And the ear' lr -
And the churning sea .
And our men were there,
They • were fighting• and dying;
TH RSDAY, MAY 11th, 1944
.&-; Local and General Le'r
Mrs. J. H. Hall • was. a recent
visitor in London with Mrs. Key-
ser.. .
Miss Doris Ritchie of • Strat-
ford Gerierai' Hospital' :spent the
week -end at her home.:
Mrs. Margaret ,Paterson has re-
turned . to -hey. ,home . here •after
spending the winter in. Goderich.
With Mr. and Mrs. Fraser Pati
erson, ,
Miss Islay Campbell returned
this week from' . visiting her sis-
ter Audrey. at Kitchener' and
with friends, ? at Hillsburg .and
Fergus. • '
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.Sunday ' visitors with friends
Here were Mrs. J. A.`"Robertson
of Mount Forest, Mrs Cameron
Geddes..of •Mitchell, Mr.and Mrs.
Roy Lightfoot`' and •Mr:' and Mrs_
Eaton of Port .Elgin.
�Arrien..
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The May meeting of the - Wo- -
men's Institute • will be held in
the Town Hall, Friday; May t
at 2.30. ,„.12° ..-
Brought• :TO Wingham
• Mr,'s. 3.- R. • McNab who has
been in London since suffering
a hip fracture; was brought , to.
Wingham Hospital.. , last .
Mrs.' • McNab_ is :Ma -king ta. favor-, ,
able • recovery from:' the fracture
.and • is "able; • to move around 4
little, with •the aid, of crutches.
Condition isni. proving •
Lloyd Saunders., : son • oil°
Mrs. George, Saunders,; of Ash.-
field,
sh-field, who has been seriously ill
with peritonitis, • ' underwent • , a.
major operation in . Wingham
General Hospital i:ast Thursday
•
'afternoon and since then.. his
coridi-t-ion • - has .: shown` ' gradual
improvement.
COUNCIL MINUTES
•TOWNSHIP. OF KINLOSS.
Council met. April 17th,' 1944,•
as ' per adjournment, Ali .menti:
hers present. '
The minutes of the meeting of
March 20th as .read were approv-
ed and signed. '
Funeral expenses 'of the late
Robt..:MeGillvary were paid to
the amount of $54.19.
The -Board went on record as
being wholeheartedly in support
of the 6th Victory Loan and Urg-
ed all ratepayers in • the 'Muni-
cipality 'to ,support the loan to
the utmost -of-their ability..,
a.,..The...4cierk....:. was, instructed to
reply to Robertson ` &'•Robertson
re Black Creek extension .repair
at KinlougIL.ond also to reply to
sessment •roll of 1944.
Cheques issued -F.' G., Moffat,
.insurance on hall, `$7.20; Muni- - -
'cipal World, supplies, 2.03; Win. '
J. 'Davison, .funeral ' expenses, i e.•
late Robt. McGillvary,' 54:19:
Highway, cheques.'--- Pay',' roll '
No. 4, $158.37;: J. W. Henderson;
20.80.
J. R. LANE, Clerk.
FEED •FINN'S Poultry Tonic and
Vitamin Builders --stops canni-
balism. MacLennan's . Feed and
Robertson Egg Grader, Lucknow.
7Out- Of This,. World - - -
In Reno" . • BY hlez Robb
.-"7"iie �a3'tasYe'"story^�rflife lrb-
rty and the pursuit. of alimony.
in America's dizzy divorce:. capi-
Culross Council'ire' collection of 'tat Read, in the" American
accumulated • costs on Ackert Weekly with this,' Sunday's (.May , ••
Drain.. . ' .. . 14) 'issue of The :Detroit .Sunday
Council then adjourned 'to
meet again, on Monday the .29th
.`day .of May at the usual time -arid
place for general ..business,' and
at .2 - o'clock • in ,the afternoon as
Times, Inez Robb's absorbing
story of. the amazing 'antics of
Reno's :divorce seekers, who are
never too young or . too old to
try their luck' with love again.
a Court of Revision on •the as- Get The Detroit Sunday Times.
PUBLIC MEETING
Re Hydro Rates
WILL BE HELD IN THE TOWN HALL
Thursday, May 18
AT 8.00 -P.M. _
Present at .the . meeting will be Messrs.: T. C. ` -
James- and D. Flannery of the Hydro
Electric Power Commission.
Members of the ,Business Men's Association,.
power users, and all citizens of the Village
•interested in the -matter . of hydro rates
are urged to:. attend:, • -
Let's Put Bruce
over the top
We are still some distance from our objective
in the. Sixth Victory Loan in Bruce County. The
time- is, short. Act now! Put Bruce over the Top.
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OUR BOYS IN UNIFORM ARE COUNTING
ON US—LET US NOT FAIL THEM.
Warden .`Shewfe
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