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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-05-21, Page 3Page 3 (BANKS • POST OFFICES DEPARTMENT STORES • DRUGGISTS GROCERS ♦ TOBACCONISTS BOOK STORES and other RETAIL STORES t 2(s MEN CALLED FOR ARMY TRAILING NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO* TRANSFER The National Defence Depart­ ment has announced that after May 2'0, men called out for training un­ der the provisions of the National Resources Mobilization Act will not be permitted to transfer ''from the army to the navy or the air force after they have reported to an army training centre, The announcement added that the navy and air force will discontinue recruiting in army training centres. Reason for the change in proced- dure, the departmental statement said, is the expansion of army ac­ tivities. The statement continued: “The mobilization -of the 7th and 8th divisions, and of special units, calls for a large increase in the number of men suitable to train as tradesmen, The army has particu­ lar need of men of this type just now in connection with mechan­ ized and special army equipment.” THAMES ROAD Social Gathering The home of Mrs. William Lam­ port was the setting for a social time when about seventy-five friends gathered to extend their good wish­ es to Miss Helen Selves on her ap­ proaching marriage to Private Lee­ land Webber. Helen has been the president of the Ladies’ iCircle. Alice Rassm-ore and Marjorie Mc­ Dougall led Helen to a chair pret­ tily 'decorated with pink and white streamers. An interesting program was presented, consisting of a short comedy with Margaret Allison as groom and Mary Borland as bride; a reading by Jeanette Stone; an instrumental1 by June Coward; a duet by Lois> Ford and Roberta Duncan and a reading by Mary Bor­ land. Helen was the recipient of a chest of silverware from the Circle and numerous other gifts. The address was read by Jean McDou­ gall. Helen expressed her apprecia­ tion, after which games and con­ tests were enjoyed. Lunch was served. Jack Duncan, of the marine ser­ vice, is holidaying at his home. Weeding bells were ringing at the manse on Saturday. ' Three couples were united in marriage. SHIPKA Mr. Wm. Sweitzer attended the Presbyterial meeting at Clinton last week. ' ■ Mr. Milton Ratz and son Jack, Mr. Simon Ratz and Mr. Arthur' Webb are sipending a few days on a fishing trip in Northern Ontario. Mr. and Mrs.. Lome Finkbeiner visited over the week-end with re­ latives in Sarnia. Mr. S. Schrader has been on the sick list for the past Week. He is now improving. Mrs. Alf Tilley and family, of Crediton, visited on Sunday with friends here. GRANTON — Ronald Westman, of Granton, leaves soon for New­ foundland, where he will be em­ ployed by the Bell Telephone Com­ pany. Nagging, Dragging Pains In the Back Many woinen have to do their' own housework, and the constant bend* ing over, lifting) making beds, sweeping, ironing, sewing, so neces* sary to perform their household duties puts a heavy strain on the back and kidneys, and if there were no kidney Weakness the 'back would be strong and Well; Doan’s Kidney Dills help io give relief to weak, backache, kidney suf­ fering women. Doanes Kidney Pills are put up in an oblong grey box with our trade mark a nMaple Leaf” on the wrapper. e Don’t accept a substitute. BO sure and get ‘tDoan’s?’ The T. Milburn Co., Lid., Toronto, Ont* News from the International $ 4 , $ In this year of gasoline and tire shortages old dobbin occupies a place of supreme importance. Not since the days when father did his courting with a fancy horse and rig has the horse been so essential to the welfare of our country. This is particularly so when you consid­ er that in all probability another year will bring even scantier sup­ plies of gasoline,n whieh is so es­ sential to the operation of mechan­ ised farm equipment. J. W. Gamble, of Gome, is one of the most important figures in connection with the International Plowing Match which is scheduled for October 13, 14, 15 apd 16 in Hullett Township, He is the dir­ ector of the Horse Show and dur­ ing the past three months has been actively engaged in laying the foun­ dation for one of the, most success­ ful Horse Shows in the history of the International. “J,. W.” is a really and truly practical farmer with the interests of farming at heart. Born, and reared in the country, he has made a success of farming and it is a mark of trib­ ute to him that his fellow farmers have returned him on the Howick Township council and in the Huron County Council for so many years. Mr, Gamble knows and appreciates good horses.' He based his farming on the proper use of horses and it paid him dividends. It is little wonder then that he is so keenly interested in seeing' that the Horse Show at the 1942 International Plowing Match will he a success­ ful one. Horses are going to get a break that they deserve, after being ©lac­ ed in the background for the past number of years by reason of the tendency toward power' farming. Glimpses of London in War Time.... The following article by Hugh Templin’, editor of the Fergus News-Record, who returned last October from a ‘trip to Britain, is taken frdm the Fergus papei*. The regular series has been com­ pleted, but Mr. Templin has un­ dertaken to publish a few extra * articles* for his readers. In the previous articles of this series, I have covered the story of the trip from New York to Lisbon, to London and return by Ireland and Portugal, the story going to papers all across Canada. I had ex­ pected to complete the story in that series, but quite a number of persons have written to ask for more, and there were many things which I passed over quickly or left out entirely. For that reason, I am retracing my steps to some ex­ tent, and will write a few more stories. Most stories of London seem to take it for granted that the reader is quite familiar with the city, hav­ ing lived there or visited it. Yet nine out of ten readers of this paper never saw London and while many of the names of .places in London are Well known throughout the world, names such as Tower of Lon­ don, Piccadilly Circus, Bucking­ ham Palace, Hyde Park and the like, yet ’they don’t mean much to most native born Canadians, nor even to people from ‘the Old Country who never happened to visit London. I am one of those village natives who don’t like large cities on first acquaintance. Though I lived sev­ eral years in Toronto (and got my wife there), I never was really fond of Toronto. I remember my first visit to Montreal as a boy, and I loathed the place then, though I like to go there now. (Quebec City I always liked, however.) In three times in New York, I have failed to feel any enthusism. Yet. I liked London from tb,e start and I think all Canadians feel the same way about it. Perhaps it is because it is the centre of the Empire, and the King and Queen are there, and. Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament and all that. So often one runs across a familiar name and says, "Oh, I always wanted to see that.” But We don’t think that is the explan­ ation entirely. One reason why I liked London was because it didn’t try to overawe me, as New York does. There are no skyscrapers in London, It seeriis that a building bylaw decrees that nd building can be more than six stories in height. As a result, whole blocks of buildings are an even six stories high, and it seems ob­ vious that the builders co-operated. There was a queer story going around London last fall. The Lon­ don university buildings are fairly new, ©art of the money having been supplied by a former 'Canadian mil­ lionaire. It is said that when the great central tower was built, the by-law was simply disregarded and the tower was built with >more than the regulation six stofies| It isn’t being used as a university new,’ but houses the Department of public Information-—and it , has been bombed. One bomb is said to have THE EXETER TIMES-AOVOCATE Thursday, May 31 1W Pictures Taken at the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Convention 1. Mr. and Mrs. R, A. Giles, of Lachute with Clarence Charters of Brampton in the background, just about to board the bus outside the Star Building, Toronto, 2. Some of the Officers in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Ding­ man, of York Mills, where the dele­ gates were entertained. Mr, and Mrs. Dingman are the parents of Mrs. A. 0. Hebb, of Newmarket, L. to R.: C. B. Smith, Creemore Star, 1st vice-president; Frank Mac­ Intyre, Dundalk Herald, honorary president; John A. Marsh, Amherst- rasna burg Echo, ©resident; R. A. Giles, Lachute Watchman, secretary-trea­ surer. 3. On the steps of the R.G.A.F. No. 1 Manning Depot, Toronto, where the delegates inspected the premises and were the guests of the Officer Commanding. L. to R,: “Dave” Williams, dean of the On­ tario-Quebec Weekly publishers, of the Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin; “Bob” Giles, of Lachute; Wing Com­ mander H. 0. McDonald, R.C.A.F., Officer Commanding;, Frank Mac­ Intyre, ‘of Dundalk; Walter Legge, struck the top -of the tower, and it is now exactly six stories 'high. The Heart of Old London The heart of London is an inter­ esting place and it’s easy to find one’s way around, even in these days when .maps are unobtainable. One reason is because the Thames runs through the centre of the city, from west to east, and one can always find his way to the river, even in a blackout. The Thames really isn’t much of a river. It is fairly broad in Lon­ don only because it is practically at sea level, but west of London, it soon dwindles away until it isn’t any bigger than the Grand at Fer­ gus. It is a dirty, murky stream, with rubbish floating in it most of the time. The big boats come up as far as Tower Bridge and a little .beyond. Tower Bridge is near the East End, being the nearest to the sea. Its shape is familiar to nearly everyone, with high towers at each end and an elevated walk, so that persons, can cross even when the two halves of the main bridge have been. lifted' u.p to let the ships pass. Actually, we don’t suppose anyone bothers to climb up inside the tow­ ers just .for that reason, it being quicker and easier to wait until the steamboat goes past. Most of the important dock area is nearer the sea. The ancient Tower of London is at the north end of Tower bridge. It is down in a bit of a hole, but looks exactly like its pictures. In the yard behind the Tower of London, there was a barrage balloon, with the machinery for raising and low­ ering it, and the ’day I was there, the crew of the balloon h’ad a soc­ cer game going on in the courtyard of ‘the Tower, • surely a romantic place for a game of football. Apparently the Tower has been hit only once by a bomb, and that was what is generally called a “near-miss”’ rather than a hit. The bomb evidently exploded against a small bastion and the old, old wall, Which was six feet thick, was blown out, disclosing the little rooms, with their miniature fireplaces. The grates in the fireplaces couldn’t have been over a foot* wide and they must have been hardy people Who got along with so little heat in those rooms. (Incidentally, I missed 'the tradi­ tional English climate. The weeks I was in London were sunny and warm. The hotel, with “central heating” as it’s called, over there, was invariably to warm, I never had to depend on fireplaces on chil­ ly nights. But there is a story of a Canadian cabinet minister who was in London. He was asked about our Canadian climate., He said; “There isn’t much difference be­ tween the climates of England and Canada except that we leave ours outdoors.”) The Fast .Kind of London has been severely bombed. There are rea­ sons for that. First, a plane com­ ing up the Thames reaches the East End first and it’s easier to unload bombs there. Second, and more important, the Germans naturally supposed that they could starve London by destroying the docks and shipping. They no doubt thought they could prevent ships from using the Thames. They were wrong. I believe the docks did suffer heav­ ily, *but they were repaired and in operation when I wandered down that way on the bus one day. And I know that ships were using the Thames, for I saw them, including a convoy going out the mouth of the river with each ship trailing one of the barrage balloons behind it. But the little houses of the East End of London show’ 'the scars of the bombing. Whole blocks are completely gone. saw two city blocks piled high with bricks from demolished houses. These houses were old and many of them were true slums. They will never be re­ built as they were before. Farther u.p the Thames, ‘there is a steady stream of barges and tugs. The tugs have smokestacks which can be laid down flat* to go under the bridges, Little river steamers also go up the Thames a surprising distance, considering how little wa- tpr there is in it. A series of locks provides ‘the necessary stretches of quiet and level water. In the days of the invasion scare, it was feared that enemy seaplanes might come down on these stretches of water along the Thames, so old barges and other obstacles of various kinds were moored in the centre of the stream. There are quite a number of other bridges over the Thames in the heart of London besides Tower Bridge. The names are familiar, London Bridge, most famous of them all, is the next one upstream from Tower Bridge. Then there’s Southwark bridge, and Blackfriar’s bridge, which is opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral. Waterloo bridge is at a big bend in the Thames. It leads to Waterloo station, south of the river. Next bridge is Westminster, just at the corner of the Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben in 'the clock tower just west of the bridge. Lambeth bridge is beyond the Par­ liament, and above that I - never knew the bridges by name. These bridges must have present­ ed alluring targets to many a Ger­ man bomber, but apparently not one of them was ever hit seriously. I examined, the stonework of the Tow­ er Bridge quite carefully and there was no sign of scare from bomb fragments, nor machine guns. Hon. Arthur Henderson, who was then a member of the inner war cabinet, sat beside me at dinner, one day, He said the Germans had wasted thousands of bombs on these bridges, and had never scored a direct hit. He lived down towards the east of London, and said the bed of the river must be covered with bombs that missed their an ar k. ' ‘ Waterloo bridge is being rebuilt, but not as the result of damage by bombing. Work on the new bridge began before the war and has kept on. The structure seemed to be about finished. There were two emergency bridges over the Thames. They were temporary zW0oden struc­ tures, w^th a span left nut so the tugs would not have to lower their stacks. The idea was to use them In case one of the other bridges blew ttj), but’ neither has ever been used. Such things as these caused doubts aiout the value of bombing. But to offset this, there was a long Granby Leader-Mail, president of the Dominion-wide parent group. 4, D. R. Wilson, publisher of the Shawinigan Falls Review 'obtains an autograph from Flight Sgt. A. C. Jose©h, the Canadian-Irish air­ man poet. 5, John A. Marsh, president for 1942-3 Ontario Quebec Division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. 6, Delegates outside the I.O.O.F, Hall, Toronto, prior to inspecting the Red Cross packing room where parcels for prisoners of war are made up. The delegates were im­ pressed by the businesslike man­ ner in which the volunteer workers make u© the parcels in. which noth­ ing but the best quality, highly nu­ tritious products are placed. 7. -Frank MacIntyre proudly dis­ plays the Clark Tropbv, which he won as publisher of the best all­ round newspaper published in a town of 1500 or less. line of ruined factories on the south bank. If the bridges had escaped, the factories certainly had not.. Along the north side of the Thames between Blackfriars bridge and Westminster, runs the Thames Embankment. Along the river side is an iron fence. Inside that is a broad sidewalk with trees along it, The road has steady traffic, the. "■trams” running quite close togeth­ er, and half a dozen routes of double-deck buses as well. Here and there old sailing vessels or train­ ing ships are anchored along the wall. On the side of the road away from the river, there are many parks and gardens. The garden be­ hind the Savoy had statues of.Gil­ bert and Sullivan, the profits of whose popular operas provided the money to build the hotel and the ad­ joining theatre. Cleopatra's Needle, an Egyptian obelisk, stands on the bank of the Thames behind the Sa­ voy. It is unharmed by bombs. I had intended to cover much of London in this two columns, hut the rest will have to wait for an­ other week. i-Saraw THE J,000,000 HYDRO-ELECTRIC HORSEPOWER SOW USED IN ONTARIO'S WAR TIME PRODUCTION - Ontario’s wartime plants now use over 1,000,000 hydro-electric horsepower. And still more hydro power must be harnessed to steel to produce guns, gun carriages, tanks, corvettes, cargo vessels, etc* Over half of Canada’s wartime weapons are “made in Ontario”. Your Ontario Hydro System must and will supply the electric energy to produce them. K . x <• C ■* k J.SW, ..X •, ’ Electric Furnace pouring molten steel War of Steel, , • and of Electricity!‘This is a Now, you can see why we must all save “Hydro" current in everyway. Such ^avingS will help to win our Battle for Freedom. Everyone can help—-in homes, offices, shops, factories and public buildings. Not a Single unit of electricity, for light, heat ar power should be used unnecessarily. Remember, too, that wartime production must he paid lor. Save all the money you can artd buy more War Savings Certificates. SAVE HYDRO IN THE HOM£ Turn bff a 11 electric lights when notin use. Switch off your range elements promptly as soon as food is cooked. Have your electrical dealer or Ibcdl Hydro Shop keep your appliances in first-class order. THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIO j