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The Lueicnow Sentinel. Lueknow,. Ontario
'111URSLI4Y,,•4114.1( ,20th, 1944
OTTAWA LETTER
By A. M. Nicholson,
Expecting that this will be the Mg trades who had the inisfor-
last session before the federal tune to be in the ranks of the
unemployed. While they were
election, members of parliament
able to secure their logs free of
•are taking advantage of the Bud- charge, $50.00 to purchase shin -
get Debate to -deliver speeches gles, hardware, windows & doors
.in the hope that the constituents did not make possible the build -
back home will lend a sympath- ing of decent houses. ,
etas ear to the represenations
lupe Ross MacDonald •of Brant-
. • niade, on the floor of parliament.
. ford city was the 6n13, member
Members,. who have *waited four to object to . the removal . of the
years befurl venturing into the tarriff on farm implements. It
'arena 'are• to have at dast one has been most unusual to find
speech to their credit before go-
.A t • Conservatives expresging, approv-
ing
back.. to the electors . ?al of this ,,, gesture to agriculture
The member frona Madkenzie and . a --protest coming from a
diScusseci 'one of ,hiS Pet subjects, 'Member of the low-tarrif Liber -
the question of a housing pro- al par&Y., '
gram in Canada'. He, .reviewed the .
Mr. 'W.rcy Wright, M.P. for
• -history of housing legislation iia Melfort, brought salient points to
Great Britain,,which has exten- the attention of the -House mouth
•-ded for a period of over a hun- regard to the removal of the tar-
dred years. In the United States, iff on farm implements. He ex-
• a serious attempt to clear. their pressed the hope, that the bene-
• slums and provide adequate rural fits of the removal would not
housing was begun in the early ' accrue solely to the manufactur-
years. tof ' the New- Deal. Canada ers He pointed out that in 1936,
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Passed her first Dominion Hous- after a %substantial reduction in
ing Act in,1935, but to date no- the " tarriff from 25 percent to
• thing has beendone under the 101/7 ...-,..' ...t instead of the .x..
• legislation to clear slums or, Pro- pected reduction in farm Ample -
vide houses for the- people in the 'vent prices, an increase, of 4.4
lowest income. brackets: He urg- percent was announced. . The
ed that •when the, new housing reason given by the companies
legislation is introduced provision for the: increase was that they
be made for rural housing. Gov- were losing money on their Can-
• ernan.ent statistics indicated that adian sales. However, .examina-
only one farm house in every 100 tion of the International Harves-
in Saskatchewan had•running ter Company's books a tiring the
water, compared with 34 in Bri- years 1926 to 1935.inClusive, five
,
'Fish Columbia, 35 in Quebec, and of which were depression years
• 14 in Ontario. In Saskatchewan shows a profit of $24,000,000 from
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.cities,,the residents are more for- canadiao business: Despite the
a.s484...houses—in_Regina
and 76 in Saskateon ogt of eVery,
hundred. are equipped with run-
ning water. In the pioneer _arGea
in Saskatchewan where the ma37,..
ority of veterans settled on their
return to the province following
the Great War, 3.7 percent oc the
houses were classified as good,,
39.8 as fairi and 56.5 wetpoor.
The average value of 56 houses
out .of every hundred in this pio-
neer area was• given as prim.
• It was explained that large quan-
tities of excellent luinber had
'• been. available for these Com-
anunities, and that during the de-
pression it Was possible for set-
• tlers to have their logs cut into
timber at the rate' of $5.00 a
• thousand feet._ But even under
these circumstances `it had -been
impossible to secure enough cash
to build better homes. He des-
cribed the $50.00 houses which
were built during the depression
to • accommodate carpenters,
plumbers and others from build -
Predicted. War In ith Century
Ste Odile, daughter of the.; will continue and " he will cl-y:
Duke- of Alsaee and patron of
that district, who founded the
Monastery Of liohenburg, lEndtvn
as the Ahbey of Ste. Odile, in
the seventh century, is said; to
have made the- following pro-
phecy in a letter to her brother: of surprises that, wilt cause the
• "Listen, listen,' 0 my brother people of the world to quake,
for I have - seen the terror of the particularly when 20 opposing
forests, and the' mountains. Fear nations take part ir the war. A-
hasfrozen the peoples, for' never
in -any region of the universe kas
such perturbation been witnessed.
It is the- time - when Germania
Will be called the most belliger-
ent nation on earth. 1t is, the time
when- there ,will spring from its
womb' the terri.ble warriors wh.o
Will undertake war on the world
and whom men will call anti -
Christ, he who will be damned
by, mothers in thousands, crying
like Rachel for their children, and
refusing consolation because
their children no longer live and
because all will have been laid
waste in their invaded. homes.
'Misfortune will befall. them, be-
cause I am their conqueror!"
"The second- part of the war
will equal in length' the half -of
the first; it will. be known as the
perio.d of decline:. It will be full
bout half, way thro • gh this per-
-id, -the small nations .submitted
to the conqueror will say: -`Give
us -peace, give, us peace'. But
there will be- rio peace for these
people. This will not he the end
of these wars,. but the beginning
Of the end' when hand -t� -hand
fighting will take place in then
citadel of the citadels. It is then
that there will be revolts among
the women of his own country,
who will want to stone him. But
also prodigious things will be
done di the Orient. •••
"The third period will be of
the shortest duration and the
"The 2onqueror will come from victor will have lost confidence
the banks of the Danube; he will in his warriors. This will be call -
be remarkable chieftain among ed the period of the invasion, be-
cause the country of the ,con -
all men. The 4.4-ar he will under- I
aueror will be invaded in ail
take will be the zno,st terrifying
that humans have ever under-
gone, up to the / summit of the
mountains. His arms will be flam-
buoyant and the helmets of his
flow. It will be the last battle.
soldiers will be topped by points: flow.
will sing their hymns of
throwing off lightning as . their
thanksgiving in• the temples a
hands will carry flaming torches.
It will be impossible • to list the God and will thank him for their
• deliverance because there will
victims of his cruelties. He *ill
win victories on the land aiid have appeared the warrior who
sea, and even in the air. Because will disperse the troops of the
his winged warriors will be seen,
victor . whose ,'an • unknown and armies will be de -
in unbelievable attacks to rise up cunated by
to the firmament, and there to great illness.
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ports and laid waste in just re-
tribution for • his injustices and
his ungodliness: -Around the
mountain torrents of blood will
-findings, of bottiNthe-Ottawa•and, :se4e „the stars to throw them)
OYekend-lif
Saskatchewan 'gm/eminent com-
the universe, to ' the . other and
mittees, set up fof :the inveatiga' ,light gigantic fires. , Nations will
tion farna implement prices, be stunned and Will -exclaim
that profits were excessive, no- !Whence comes his, • strength.
thing has been done to pass on How has. he been able to under -
any saving from the lower tariff take such a var?'
to the cOnsumer.
Earth ,WM ROch
While no date has been sugges-
ted for the federal elietion, it
becomes more obvious every day
that Mr. King is going to askthe
people for a mandate in the near
future.,
Will Be Discouraged
'The Malady wil1 discourage4
the hearts of soldiers, while the"
nations will say: 'The finger of
God is there; it is the just pun-
ishment'. The people will believe
that his end is near; the sceptre
will change hands and my people
will rejoice. Because God is just,
while. sometimes allowing cruel -
"The earth will rock with • the
ty and depredations), all the
shock • of the combats; rivers will
'flow *red with blood, and the spoilated people , who have be-
lieved, in Him will recover what
Marine monsters themselves will! they have lost and something ad -
flee in terror' to the bottom of
I tlitional as a reward on earth.
the oceans, .while bleak tempests I.
Countless regions where all was
will spread desolation every- fired and, made hlpod;r will be
saved in a providential manner
by their heroic defenders.
• "The' region of Lutetia herself
will be saved because of its bles-
sed mountains Nand its pious wo-
men, although everyone will
have . believed it doomed. Then
the men will go to the mountain
and offer thanks to' God: Because
men will have such terrible
abotninations in this war that
generations will never want any -
mor * of it".
• where. Future generations will
"My son says he doesn't
to' get married".
. Yeah! Just wait until
wrong girl comes along".
long and the conqueror will have
attained the apex of his triumphs
abut the middle of the sixth
month of the second year of hos-
tilities. It will 1:ee the end of the
period 'of bloody victories he will
say: 'Accept the yoke of my dom-
ination'. But his enemies will not
submit in any way, and the war
want I be astonished that his strong and
• -Inumerous- enewies were unable
the to stop the march of his victor-
ies. And the war will be very
Customer: My watch won't run.'
I'm afraid I made a mistake
when I dropped it. . '
Jeweler examining watch:
You made two mistakes; the sec-
ond one was when you picked it
Up.
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Two •Big Events Sponsored By •KINCARDINE • Kinsmen. Club
Saturday, July 29 *Tuesday, August 1
• HARNESS RACES MART KENNY
CONNAUGHT PARK, KINCARDINE
Stalling at 1:30
3 BIG RACES — $900.00 PURSES
126 Tie! al. -Pace —220 lroforrace
Free For Alt-
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EVENING PROGRAM:
CKNX Barn Dance Broadcast
From the Arena
ST RE ET 1) A14.1 CE •
• CENTRALIA PIPE BAND
' ALL KINDS,/ OF GAMES
And His Western Gentlemen
KINCARDINE PAVILION
-with '„,„ • -
Norma Locke — Art Hallman
Dance From 9:30
.A1LINARITgairthlikir ,C1 'DC .
ADVANCE SALE $1.04 at
WEBSTER'S RESTAURANT, Ltitkno'cir
PROCEEDS FOR "MILK FOR BRITAIN" AND OTHER SERVICE WORK •
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'MAFEKING -
Mrs. Henry Horton is spending
a few days at a cottage at Kin -
tail. ,
' Mr. and Mrs., Charles Hodgins
and baby and Mrs. Hodgins, Sr.,
visited op Sunday. with Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Anderson. r7 -
Mr. and Mrs. H. Curran, Mr. 8c/
Mrs. T. M. Anderson spent Sun-
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.,
Jim Curran.
Mrs. Will Reid of Galt is visit-
ing' with Mr,. and Mrs. T. J. An-
derson,,.
Mr. and Mrs. George Andrew,
end Miss FlOra Andrew of Luck -
no, 'Miss Olive Webster of Tor-
Onto aid Mr. and Mrs, Jack Long'
of i3 efinailler, were Sunday visit-
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ors with Mr. and Mrs. W. And-,
rew. • , '•
\OBSERVED THE 12th 9
Lucknow, Amberley and Kin-
loss lodges •were among more
than sixty which took part in the
12th of July parade at Listowel
last Wednesday, and which mark-
ed the 254th anniversary of the
Battle of the Boyne.
Member k of other)district lod-
ges attended also, it these lod-
ges' were not officially registered
in the parade. An all -morning •
rain .cleared 'shortly after dinner'
and the afternoon was fine. Chief
speaker for the -day was Grand
1Vlasteryied Cook. •,
Locally we'failed to hear a fife
or drum the whole day long.
"Waiter, call the manager, I
can't eat this awful stuff'.
"It's no use, sir, he wouldn't
eat it •either".
Doctor (to patient): It's "nor
thing to worry about, just a little
boil on the back' of your neck..
But you must keep your eye on
it. '
Where will you find a. man
who doesn't like to see smiling,
cheerful faces around him when
things go wrong?
You will find them on any golf
course. ' ' '
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• Magistrate (sympathetically):
"Could the motorist have avoid-
ed you?"
Henpecked victim (sadly): "He
could that, your worship. 'E 'ad .
the choice of 'itting me or the
missus and 'e picked on me".
-"Don't be downhearted", said
the steward to the suffering pas-
senger, "Nobody'S ever died of
seasickness". •
"Don't jay that!" moaned the
other. "It's- only the hope of dy--
ing that's kept me- alive so far".
Mrs. Johnson (learning to
drive): Henry, th.4 little mirror
up there isn't set right.
Hubby: Isn't it?
Mrs. Johnson: No, I can't See
anything but the car behind. .
Teacher: Sir ,lsaac. Newton
was sitting under a tree ' when
an apple fell on his head, and he
discovered the law of gravitation.
Wasn't that wonderful, children"
,Boy: "Yes, and if he had been
Sittire• in school lookin' at his
books he wouldn't have discov-
ered nothini."
Accompanked by a driver, an
AMerican major in a motor veh-
icle was stopped by a sentry on
guard at a crossroad,
"Who goes there?" .
• "One American major. one -ton
• truck of fertilizer and one- buck
private".
The'? were allowed to proceed,
but-A-every-croaaroad "they 'Went
• through the same formula.
After a time the driver asked ,
if they were likely to be stopped
again.
• "I guess so", replied the major. •
"Well, Major", said ,the private,
"just this once would you mind
giving me priority over the fer-
tilizer?"
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