The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1944-04-27, Page 8THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1944
You Can Help Protect
1
Our Fighting Men
j
.good, work it is
Put Victory First
Buy Victory Bonds
ISponsored in the Interest of the Sixth Victory Loan by
THE CANADIAN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY effort to
Canadians
when on
interests
to cater to
of men for
and night,
basis. Here
were quick to point out
more Canadian weekly
on the reading racks,
papers across Canada
club was
Honorable
Commissioner■
i
I
the Information
rather surprised to
102,000 Canadian
at the club. As
so that the boys
carry shaving kit
on holiday. Sev-
the building are
B. Francis
District Representative
good,” growled
war and was very
in this
where
.London
where their
revolver?” asked
There is no such thing as a safe war. But each man faces less
danger when the enemy is pounded by overwhelming fire
power. Your Victory Loan dollars help provide the trernen-
of
up
dous weight of equipment our men need. Can you think
anything more important—more urgent—than backing
our fighting men in their supreme hour of conflict?
founded by the
Vincent Massey,
for Canada,
he grunted, “for
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son
Agent
Set the date NOW!
Speed "Victory Day”. Back up our
fighters with an overwhelming weight
of munitions. Buy the bonds that
buy the bombs. Hasten the victorious
homecoming 1
Set the stage NOW!
Lend every dollar you can now to buy
war needs so that when “V-day”
comes you’ll have the dollars to spend.
Lend again! Lend more I
CTORY FIRST
Sponsored by
Tuckey Transport
Beaver Club is Doing a
Good Jpb for Canadian Troops
(By C, J. AUbon, Jr.)
While Canadians at home know
that the Beaver Club near Trafal
gar Square in London is doing a
| good job for the Canadian troops,
there are few who realize just how
far this club does go to make lire
for the Canadian soldier on leave a
very real pleasure. In this article
we want to tell you something about
this club and the
doing.
Its Founder
The
Right
High
and Mrs. Massey, both of whom are
actively interested in the welfare
■of the Canadian soldier. {Among
those who put money into the pro
ject are such men as Ernest H.
Cooper, who fought with the Cana
dians in the last
much interested
provide a place
could meet in
leave, and
could be looked after as they should
be. Mr. Cooper, who is head of
Gillett Industries, put £10,000 into
the club as did Mr. Charles A.
Banks. Lord Beaverbrook, another
great Canadian and publisher of
the Daily Express, added another
£5,000; The Canadian Red Cross
£3,748, hile the Y.M.C.A, provides
the management and stands ready
to contribute the operating ex
penses. Other Canadians who con
tributed various amounts compile
a lengthy list and we will not at
tempt to name them, but it can be
said they have made a contribution
to a project that stands high in the
estimation of the Canadian soldier.
10,000 Visitors Daily
One can very easily visualize the
extent of the work carried on by
this organization when they realize
that some 10,000 Canadian pass
through this club daily. Over the
week-end it is estimated that this
figure runs to 14,000. It takes some
800 volunteer workers
the needs of this army
the club is open day
operating on a 24-hour
the boys arrange to meet their pals
from the various units who may be
obtaining their leave at the same
time. Here they pick up messages
from their friends and mail from
home. The reading rooms offer them
the latest papers from home; the
writing rooms provide, them with
materials and a comfortable place
to write letters; the billiard rooms
provide them with a place to while
away an hour or a day; comfortable
chair in a large and bright lounge
room attract those who tire of go
ing places or are recovering from
the previous night’s sight-seeing
tour—for London has much to
show the visitor despite the punish
ment it took during the blitz; the
washroom provides them with a place
to clean up and free shaving equip
ment is provided
do not need to
with them while
eral sections of
given over to providing them with
food. The queues are endless. In
our tour we visited the kitchens
where they prepare the food and
the odor was such as would tempt
anyone to eat. The quality and
quantity of the dinner being served
for about 33 cents caused one to
marvel that it could be produced so
cheaply for outside of the Beaver
Club the same meal could not be
obtained for less than five shillings,
about $1.25. if obtainable at all in
any high class London hotel. In
specting another queue we found
them being served delicious pan
cakes smothered with Canadian
maple syrup and doughnuts
from the machine which turned
about 1,100 daily—all that
flour quota would permit. In
other room sandwiches were pro
vided-
was
two shillings or about fifty cents,
which is very reasonable indeed.
On Saturday night the overflow
crowd is hard to handle, but as a
last resort the air raid shelters in
the tubeg are used and a comfort
able bed is provided. Special buses
carry the boys to the shelters where
blankets arg provided and canteen
service available,
Weekly
When
and his
Ashton,
tors were editors of weekly news
papers they
the need of
newspapers
Many daily
are represented and Canadian week
lies can help to make life pleasant
for these boys by providing them
with the latest news of their home
town. A special' file for weeklies
will be set up as soon as a suffi
cient number reach the club. Each
paper will have a file of its own
and the boys will be able to go back
through the file for months with a
great deal of enjoyment. In thia
way the weeklies can do much to
help maintain the morale of the
boys who have been away from
home for a long time.
Papers ^Vanted
Manager W. H. Spearman
assistant manager, A. L.
discovered that their visi-
squadron is ready! Every
man in the forces of sea and
land and air is ready—waiting
for the last, BIG PUSH!
Have YOU
Whqt means
to wear this emblem!
The gangster walked into the
pawn shop and placed a revolver
on the counter.
"How much?”
this gun.”
"Is it a good
the proprietor.
‘‘Certainly it's
the lawbreaker. ‘‘I bumped off sev
eral fellows with it.”
‘‘You don’t say,” mused the pawn
broker. ‘‘If that’s the case, why do
you want to sell it?”
‘‘I just found out,” explained the
gangster, “that you need a permit
to carry a gun!”
ARE YOU ? There are some
Canadians who aren’t! Some
men and women who are not
taking their full part in the
struggle for freedom — who
haven’t even bought as many
Victory Bonds as they possibly
can. Are you one of them ?
It*s not too late! Zero hour is
near, but there’s still time to get
in the fight!
When you listen to news of what
our boys are going through
overseas
, . , and read the casualty lists in
your newspaper every day
. , . and measure the sorrow and
anxiety that have come to thou
sands of Canadian homes — and
may come to many more . . .
Are your satisfied that you are
doing ALL YOU CAN ?
Our. men and women in uniform
are ready, if need be, to die for
Canada, for Freedom, for YOU.
Compared with that, no amount
of self-denial is too great.
Are you prepared to put EVERY
SINGLE DOLLAR YOU CAN
SAVE into Victory bonds? Into
bonds that will assure a steady
flow of vital supplies to bring
Victory closer?
That’s what YOU can do to
help shorten the war, to save
precious lives. And that’s what the
wearing of this emblem means—
that you too are doing your share
. . . that you are buying all the
Victory Bonds you can!
PUT CTORY FIRST CTORY FIRST
Sponsored by
C. V. Pickard
General Insurance
and Real Estate
Sponsored in the Interest of the Sixth Victory Loan by
Snell Bros. & Co
GARAGE and TAXI SERVICE
•but in each section theye
an endless queue and the volun-
workers seldom enjoyed
moment. There was no need
the boys what they thought
it all for it was clearly evident
their
was
away
manner
workers
added a
phere of
102,000 Canadians Registered
At
were
over
tered
makes use of the club he is expect
ed to register, leaving his name and
address with the club. No record is
kept of succeeding visits. Through
these records the boys can learn
quickly if their friends have arrived
from Canada and visited Loudon
and the address permits them io
make quick connections
friends,
Rind. Lodgings
The club does not run
does aid
who need
may be secured for
faces that the Beaver Club
providing them with a home
from home.
in which
went about
•great deal to the atmos-
the dub.
The pleasant
the volunteer
their tasks
Desk
learn that
had regia-
each mail
with their
ho usd, blit it
beds for those
and breakfast
& rooming
in finding
them. Bed