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World Wide News In Brief Form
Call On Militia For Volunteers
Ottawa,. — Defence Minister Mac
kenzie announced volunteers would be
ealled from the non-permanent militia
at once to bolster the permanent force
in such special military duties as man
ning coastal defences and guarding
“certain vulnerable points.”
A statment issued by the minister'
made it clear that “no officer or man
shall be under compulsion to report”
for the duties considered necessary for
national security at this time.
she headed for home, was brought
into Quebec harbour after a warrant
had been served for the non-delivery
of goods in Montreal.
The warrant was taken out against
the boat itself but was served upon
Captain Wilhelm Siegert, who was
ordered to post bond of $12,000 be
fore the vessel will be permitted to
oresume the voyage.
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ilar to that in effect in the fall of
1938, has been authorized by Hon,
J. C, Gardiner, Doninion minister of
agriculture,
Wide Power Given
British Government
London, — Emergency legislation,
vesting the British Government with
wide and flexible power to deal with
any contingency, was rushed through
both houses 'of Parliament a few hours
after Prime Minister Chamberlain told
a hushed Commons that Great Brit
ain stood in imminent peril of war.
While Europe, armed and ready.for
all emergencies mobilized an estimat
ed 11,000,000 men, Mr. Chamberlain
and Foreign Secretary Viscount Hal
ifax asked Fuehrer Hitler to settle
his dispute with Poland by negotia
tion and consultation.
At the same time they gave the
Reich leader an unmistakable warn
ing that Britain was united and de
termined to honor its pledge to Pol
and.
British Rail Strike Called Off
London, — A threatened strike by
British railway workers was called, off
at least temporarily, following a con
ference between union delegates and
labor ministry officials, in view of the
international war danger and the vital
role railways would play in event of
evacuation moves.
Jap May Adopt Isolation Policy
Tokyo, — Japan appeared to .be re
turning to isolation in her foreign pol
icy, at least for the present, as a re
sult of the German-Russian non-ag-
gression pact.
Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita told
Japenese-language newspapers that
the nation’s revised policy must be
based on “independence without
counting upon any other powers.”
Roosevelt Appeals to Hitler
Washington — President
velt addressed another appeal to Fue
hrer Hitler immediately after receiv
ing an acceptance from President
Moscicki, of Poland, and asked Hitler
to “agree to, the pacific means of set
tlement accepted by the Government
of Poland.”
“All the wcffld,” the president add
ed, “prays that Germany,
accept.”
Roose-
Will Rumania Be Split
Sofia, — Deputy George Markoff,
vice-president of the National Assem
bly, said that Russia Had signified
its full approval of Bulgaria’s territor
ial claims on Rumania. It was the
first sign ,of...possible. German-Russ
ian co-operation in affecting territorial
changes in Southeastern Europe.
too,
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Halted German Freight
Quebec — The German
Koenigsberg, halted in midstream by
Royal Canadian Mounted Police as
freighter
Expect Many Western Feeders
Indicating the possibility of another
heavy influx of feeder cattle from the
Western Provinces to this section of
Western Ontario this fall, many dis
trict livestock men have 1 applied of
the department of Agriculture for ben
efits of the 1939 feeder purchase pol
icy. Effective from September 1 to
December 31 the policy, which is sim-
beautiful parkways an two sides which
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W. D. JACKSON, Secretary
Take an Enjoyable Holiday
at Western Ontario's Exhibition
PRIZE LIST - $32,000
Speed Events Dally—Night Horse Show—Photography Salon
Dog Show—Superb Grandstand Spectacle—Hobby Fair
Carnival Midway—Hundreds of Exhibits
a ^niNdnaa. io
REAL Hoipiialtiy
Carpenter to Head Salvation Army
London, — Commissioner George
L. Carpenter, of Canada, was elected
commander of the Salvation Army.
He succeeds General Evangeline
Booth, who is retiring because of the
age limit.
Commissioner Carpenter was ap
pointed territorial commander for
Canada in May, 1937. Before that he
was stationed in South America. He
was born in Australia,.where he began
his Army career 45 years ago.
CONSTIPATION
DULLS YOUR BRAIN
• You can’t think clearly when con
stipation keeps you feeling heavy
and headachy. Millions of people
make sluggards out of their intes- ,
tines by eating food that fails to
supply the right kind of bulk. Get
back to regular bowel movements.
Add Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN to your
diet. ALL-BRAN helps to form a
soft “bulky” mass that gets at tha
cause of common constipation.
Start today on this easy routine:
Eat ALL-BRAN for breakfast;
drink plenty of water. Feel alert
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ALL-BRAN MAKES
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above the’previous mark of 357.5 mil
es per hour held by another Briton,
Capt. George E. T. Eyston.
the folks all call him Doctor Jim. I
was his last patient yesterday after
noon and after dressing my foot
where I slivered it with the tine of
the hay fork we sat talking,
“I was up to the city yesterday,
he smiled as he refilled the old
that’s generally in his mouth.
I’ve just
I was not
been thinking how
to stay at that hos-
offered me a job af-
NEWS OF
THE DISTRICT
Veterans Services Available
■ Vancouver, — Brigadier W. W.
Foster, Dominion president of the
Canadian Legion, said he had sent
a telegram to Prime Minister King,
renewing the Legion’s offer to place
60,000 registered war veterans atothe
disposal of the Dominion in time of
emergency.
“In the present crisis, as in the
last, the entire resources of the Can
adian Legion are placed at the dispos
ition of their country,” Brigadier Fos
ter said in an interview in which he
disclosed he had sent the telegram
to the prime minister.
Russian-German Pack Signed
Berlin — German foreign minister,
Joachim von Ribbentrop reported to
Fuehrer Hitler that the Russian-Ger
man non-aggression treaty had been
signed, the Official German news ag
ency (DNB) stated in a dispatch
from Moscow, The agreement covers
a period of 10' years with provision
for five years extension. It restrains
the signatories-' from aiding a third
power in “case one or the other be
comes engaged in war; each of the
signatory countries agrees to stay out
of groups aimed at the other, and in
cases of disputes between themselves
they agree to arbitrate by commission.
The pact is to be ratified by formal
treaty, * :
Accuser Accused In Goderich Court
The biter was bitten in county
police court, when Mrs. Violet Mc
Gee, Tuckersmith Township, corri-
plaintant in a $67 theft charge again
st Marvin Ray, linoleum salesman,
heard the charge dismissed and the
announcement made that she herself
would be charged with keeping liquor
for sale.
On instructions from Crown At
torney Holmes, Ray and George Wal
ker, a one-legged man, were retained
in jail as material witnesses against
Mrs. McGee in the liquor charge to
be aired on August 31.
During an alleged drinking bout
at the McGee home, $6J in cash dis
appeared and the theft was charged
to Ray. Magistrate Makins, in sum
ming up, noted that the crown evi
dence was totally circumstantial and
that in view of the fapt that whiskey
drinking was going oh, the missing
money “might be any place.”
A Big Cuke
One of the largest ’specimens of
cucumber ever exhibited here was
brought into the Herald-Times office
on Thursday last by Mr. George Geis
ler, the elongated vegetable having
been grown in his garden near the
Sacred Heart Church. The cuke very
much resembled an eel in formation
and when straightened out measured
slightly over two feet in length.-
Walkerton Herald-Times. ’
Phil,”
briar
“And
lucky
pital where they
ter graduation.”
Strange thoughts came into my
mind then. Doctor Jim today is just
another country doctor. His hair is
truning quite gray, deep lines have
seared his face as a result of sleepless.
nights and hard work and worry. His
clothes are rumpled and baggy and
anything but stylish. He has little or
no money and his patients forget
about him after he has cured them.
People get a little frantic when he
takes his time in checking the course
of their ailments, and they go over his
head and call in a city specialist. They
pay the city man’s fees and forget
about Doctor Jim, His car is just as’
shabby as his'clothes and yet a man
who owes him three hundred dollars
in doctor bills just bought a new car
last week.
“No; I’m not crazy, Phil,” he laugh
ed at the sight of my apparent won
der, and tilted back further in the old
swivel chair as he swung around frbm
the old roll-top desk' to face me.
“The doctor who took that job has
a Park Avenue practice now,” he re
collected, “I. called on him yesterday.
He wears suits that cost as much as
will keep me in clothes for a year. He
has three cars and a chauffeur and a
wife who has just divorced him. He
has a swanky set of offices and a lot
of chronic imbeciles for patients who
think they’re sick' and pay for his
show. But Phil, he’s not happy. He
started out' to be a great surgeon at
that hospital and today’s he’s wasting
his talents for money. See those
hands?”
I saw two capable hands, and a
great deal more. In that moment I
glimpsed something that I had never
thought of before. Doctor Jim cares
little for money. He gets enough to
keep he and his wife in decent com
fort. But Doctor Jim’s reward comes
from building healthy, strong bodies.
He walked five miles in a raging bliz
zard to save the life of a man who to
day appears slated for one of the
the greatest honours his country can
give him. He worked all night back
in the nineties to save the life of a
boy who is today a great surgeon. He
operated on a little Irish girl who has
since borne ten sturdy children . . .
ten of the township’s finest people.
Yes, Doctor Jim worked with a coal
oil lamp and his operating table was
a storm door on two saw-horses . . .
but he pulled her through.
“I haven’t the hands of a great sur
geon,” he said softly, “I’ve had to
crank a car too often on a freezing
night. I’ve harnessed a horse too of
ten for that. But they have been pret
ty fair as average doctor’s hands. They
helped bring you into the world and
a great many more like you. I’ve tried
to make the best use possible of them.
It seems that as the rest of me stiffens
with age they still keep supple.”
“Have you ever watched the way a
child grows. One year it’s a little pink
bundle and soon it’s walking and then
it’s going to school and after a wliile
it’s grown-up and then it gets mar
ried. I’ve watched* a good many of j
them, Phil. And all during the time ]
from the cradle until they leave this
world they have their Spells when they
have to be repaired and put back into
active service. I’ve been the repair
man. My office may be old-fashioned,
but it’s comfortable. My clothes may
be in poor taste but they cover me,
and Phil . . . I’m happy here. If I
were in that swank’y office that my
friend has I don’t believe I would be.
Thank God I came to the country.”
And the telephone rang and he an
swered it and started reaching for his
hat and his little black bag .... and
what more can I say about a man like
Doctor Jim.
CANADA’S 200,000
BICYCLES
Centenary Celebrations in September
LONDON
EXHIBITION
In effect from many points
Ontario.
SINGLE FARE
FOR THE ROUND TRIP
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Good going Sept. 9 to 16. Return
Limit Sept. 19.
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The direct ancestor of Canada’s
200,000 bicycles is being commemor
ated by the unveiling in September of
a plaque to mark the hundredth anni
versary of the invention of the first
bicycle to be propelled by pedals.
The inventor was Kirk patrick Mac
millan, a Scottish blacksmith, and he
was 29 years old when he mounted
his bicycle and rode oft to Glasgow to
see his three brothers, one of whom,
a former tutor of John Brjght’s, was
Rector at Glasgow High School.
“I met a man fleein’ through the
air on wheels,” cried a shoemaker j
when he encountered the first bicycle tries, a record figure representing in
in action, “and if it wasna’ a man, value £486,306.
t.hen it must ha’ been the De’il him-
sel’ ”,
The plaque is to be placed on the
wall of Kirkpatrick Macmillan’s
smithy at Courthill in Dumfriesshire.
It is estimated by the British cycle
makers Union that in the world today
there are 61,000,000 descendants of
this first bicycle. Last year Great Bri
tain sent 576,458 abroad, of which to
tal 156,166 were sold to foreign coun-
Claims Milroy Reward
Galt — Mrs. William Oliver said
she will claim “at least part” of the
$5,000 reward offered by the Ontario
Government for information . leading
to the arrest and conviction of the
person or persons responsible for the
deaths of John and Annie Milroy on
Saturday in their farm,home four mil
es south of Galt. Mrs. Oliver, lifelong
friend and neighbor of the aged Mil-
roys, said she gave Ontario Provinc
ial! Police their first lead in develop
ments which led to the arrest of Reg
inald White, 35, of Hespeler, in con
nection with the double killing.
New Storage Tanks
Construction of four new storage
tanks by the Imperial Oil Co., at the
waterfront, Goderich, already started,
has much significance to the indust
rial life of that town. With the new
work completed the program is said
to call for a much wider area to be
served front Goderich by a fleet of
trucks with a maximum capacity of
1,000 gallons, doing away with large
tank deliveries by rail and highways.
FINE CHOICE OF PERSONNEL SHOWN IN R..C.A.F
Here is a flying cadet at Trenton ing instruction in the daring art of aonnel that has been selected, advises
at the controls of a machine-gun. sky warfare. In the rebuilding of Air Marshall W. A, Bishop,
mounted in the observer’s cockpit of Canada’s air force the public may have
a modern fighting ship. He is feceiv* every confidence in the type of per-..
Raspberries for Christmas
Sounds interesting, doesn’t'''it? . . .
the idea of raspberries for Christ
mas ", , . earlier or later as fancy
dictates. But that is just what J. H.
Mulholland, R<R, 3, Mitchell, can do
If he wishes for he has 100 pints of
this delicious fruit, picked from his
own bushes reposing at freezing
point in a cold storage. Last year
he put in a few boxes just for ex-’
perimeht and used the last box at
Easter time,—‘Mitchell Advocate.
Rumanian Neutral
Bucharest — Rumania, with 850,000
men under arms, declared she was de
termined to remain neutral if war
came to Europe and would fight only
if attacked.
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PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry'J. Boyle
“DOCTOR JIM”
The shingle ontside his house with
the weatherbeaten letters1 011 it reads
James Wellington Ueftty, M.D., but