The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-03-27, Page 7Thursday, March 27 th, 1941
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■ * For the things that are not given to a fighting man with~£ls uniform
•. v ,jnings that are not part of his military equipment... things of the
spirit. . . Canada’s fighting sons, wherever they may be, rely on you.
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i THE ONLY
NATIONAL APPEAL
THIS YEAR
FOR OUR MEN
IN UNIFORM
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The Government provides them with uniforms, rifles, ammunition—
but. for comforts—recreations and wholesome opportunity to make
their precious moments of leisure a genuine boon . . . they rely on you;
Of course you help to buy airplanes, guns, ships, tanks—BUT for
the things that express to the soldier the affection and thoughtfulness
of the folks back home ... he relies on you.
Six great national organizations labour unceasingly to provide him
with those things.
They can do it only with your money.
Your money started this work—your money is needed to carry it on;
The need is urgent. Be generous.
Let the volunteer helper who calls on you carry back your pledge of
fullest support for our fighting men.
THE BOYS RELY ON THE FOLKS BACK HOME
If you have not been canvassed—if you are not canvassed—send your
Contribution to your local committee or to:
National Headquarters—200 Bay St., Toronto, Canada 60Six APPEALS IN ONI-^W
CHAIRMAN FOR ONTARIO — CONN SMYTHE, ESQ., TORONTO
THE LIFE OF
WINSTON CHURCHILL
When Lord Randolph Chlurchi.ll fell
in love at first sight with a beautiful
American girl, and, following a whirl
wind courtship, married her early in
<894, it wasn’t too much to expect that
such a bold; brilliant and- unusual pair
woujd produce a brilliant son.
Lord Randolph was the 3rd son of
the 7th Duke of Marlborough, and a
Conservative peer-politican of great re
nown in his day; Lady Churchill was
the former Miss Jennie Jerome, whose
beauty, dash, vivacity and intelligence
took English society by storm.
They did not disappoint, for Wins
ton Leonard Spencer Churchill was
born on November 30th, the same
year.* **
“BACKWARD. BUT PRECOC
IOUS.” First sent to a fashionable
children's school, young Winston fell
seriously ill, and was transferred to a
private school at Brighton kept by two
ladjes.
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WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES
guests on
and iMrs.
Goderichj
and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smith and
daughter, Barbara, and Miss Jean Mc
Dowell, of Goderich, were
Sunday at the home of Mr
J, L. McDowell.
Mr. Jasper McBrien, of
spent Sunday with Mr.
Douglas Campbell.
Mrs. John Shobbrook, of .Londes-
boro visited last week at the home of
her daughter, Mrs, Norman Radford.
The devotional programme, of the
W. M. S. held last Wednesday after
noon, was in charge of Mrs. W. F.
Campbell’s group. Mrs. W. McDowell
presided at the piano. The Bible les
son was read from St. Matt. 14: 22-
23, by Mrs, Wm. Govier. Mrs. Camp
bell gave a paper on prayer. Readings
were given by Mrs. Ernest Snell “The
Man Who Sings”; Mrs. Douglas
Campbell “God First”; iMrs. J. L. Mc
Dowell “What My Christian Faith
Means To Me”; Mrs, Fred J. Cook,
“When The Heart Is Lovely”. A solo,
“Under His Wings” was rendered by
Miss Winnifred Campbell. A season
of prayer was led by Mrs. W. F.
Campbell, Mrs. F. J. Cook, Mrs. J. L.
McDowell. Study book, Life of Dr.
Dan Norman, given by Winnifred
Campbell, The president presided over
the business part of the meeting. Mrs.
J. L. M'cDowell gave a paper on tem
perance “Alcohol From A Business
Standpoint”. Further plans were made
for the making of quilts. The roll was
called with twelve responses. The
Easter roll call is to be responded to
with a verse with the word “Love” in
it. Mrs. M'cVittie closed the meeting
with prayer,
Mrs. Jasper McBrien, who has been
nursing Mir. Thomas Walsh for the
past eight weeks, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Gordon Snell.
The worst storm of the winter
struck this vicinity on Sunday and rag
ed all day Monday and Tuesday. The
school was closed. It doesn’t look as
if spring will be here for a few days
yet.
Mrs. William Anderson viisted' on
Friday with her brother, Mr. Roy Pat
terson, of Goderich.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Campbell and
family visited on Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs, A. E. Johnston, of West Wawa-
nosh.
HOW BRITAIN MEETS
HUGE COST OF WAR
It cannot be said that young
Churchill distinguished himself. In
deed, he himself has since confessed
that he was “backward but precoc
ious” At this time, his father was per
haps the most-talked-of man in the
British Isles, and a schoolmate, writ
ing some years later, said that Win
ston, “never singularly modest, be
came a trifle more cocksure.” It is
certainly true that even in those early
years, young Churchill was extremely
ambitious.
* * «
- BOTTOM OF THE CLASS! From
Brighton, Winston gravitated to Har
row where, the boys being placed in
alphabetical order, he (his proper
name being Spencer-Churchill) was
placed at the 'foot of the lowest class
in the school.
It was at Harrow that the pattern
of his life began to take shape. He
was very proud of his 1500 toy sold
iers, and one day asked his father to
review his “standing army.” Lord
Randolph was so impressed with Win
ston’s interest and enthusiasm that
from then on his education followed
military lines.
The preliminary examination for the
Army was taken at Harrow. And it
will be seen that the Churchill luck, so
often apparent in his career, played its
part then.
It was common knowledge that the
students would be asked to draw from
memory the map of a country, but the
name was a secret until the actual ex
amination. The night before, young
Churchill put the names of all the
countries in the world into a hat and
drew one. It was New Zealand, and he
studied the map of that country in
tensively. Next day, the Fates were
kind! One of the questions asked was,
“Draw a map of New Zealand from
memory.” „ •
Time passed and he entered the
Royal Military College at Sandhurst,
where he finally came into his own,
for he passed out, with honours, high
in a class of 150.* * *
BRUSHED SHOULDERS WITH
DEATH! In the following year, when
he was 21, he was gazetted to the
Fourth Hussars. Now commenced a
period of military life when he tasted
deep of a'dventure and fighting. He
played polo, brushed shoulders with
death in foreign lands, and served a
brilliant apprenticeship at war corres
ponding.
iti India he took part hi the cam
paign against troublesome pathan
tribesmen, and later he accompanied
Lord Kitchener’s army of the Nile in
their dashes with the Dervishes in the
Sudan. At the same time, he wrote ar
ticles on the campaigns for London
newspapers. ,
During this Egyptian campaign, a
friend and fellow-officeA sustained a
gaping wound which needed a skin
grafting. The doctor, an Irishman,
took a piece of skin from Churchill’s
forearm, about ’ half an inch square,
saying, “You’ve heard of a man being
flayed aloive? Well, this is what it
feels loike.” And it did! Mr. Churchill
tells a harrowing story of the doctor’s
razor being sawn up and down his
arm! He still bears the scar. .
'S'
CLASHED WITH KITCHENER.
In Egypt, Mr. Churchill had a clash
with Lord Kitchener, displaying a
moral courage that has been amply
demonstrated on so many occasions
since. Lord Kitchener ordered that the
Mahdi’s tomb be destroyed, claiming
it was a rallying point for the rebels.
Mr. Churhcill, in his newspaper ar
ticles, called it “an act of vandalism
without excuse.”
Early in 1899, Mr. Churchill, finding
that the life of an officer presented in
creasing financial difficulties to one
who lacked an independent income, re
signed his commission, to devote him
self to the more lucrative profession
of writing books. Already he had
written "The Malakand Field Force”
— the story of the Indian campaign,
and he now started the history of the
Sudan campaign. He was 24,
But the clouds were lowering over
South Africa, and before the year was
out, Mr. Churchill, as a fully accredit
ed war correspondent, was on his way
out there.
*■—Next week’s article tells of Mr.
Churchill’s capture and escape from
the Boers, and the start of his bril
liant political career.
(Copyright Reserved. Reproduction
Forbidden).
Robert Mackay
Never before in the history of the
world has a people voluntarily con
sented to make such immense financ
ial sacrifices in defence of a cause as
the British nation is making in defence
of democracy. Nothing could there
fore be falser or more ridiculous than
the charge — one of many equally ab
surd brought by the totalitarian reg
imes against the democracies — that
the British democracy is too effete and
too wealthy to be able or willing to
make sacrifices for its political faith,
A few facts and figures will suffice
to dispel such a fantastic notion.
To begin with, the figures of nation
al expenditure show that hi defence
of democratic freedom the people of
Great Britain do not count the cost.
In January, 1940, Government spend
ing, calculated on an annual basis, was
at a rate of £2,275,000,000 a year. But
by January, 1941, so intense had the
British war effort become that that
figure had been more than doubled,
the rate of expenditure being over
£4,630,000,000 a year.
On the basis of estimates made by
an economic authority (Professor- Pi
gou), it is calculated that the national
income of Great Britain to-day is about
£8,120,000,000, of which Government
expenditure represents some 57%. In
1941-42, there is little doubt that these
figures will have increased and that
out of a national income of £9,000,-
000,000 Government expenditure
be well over £5,000,000,000.
This financial test is a crucial
Germany can show nothing even
tantly like it. The Nazi regime, in
pursuance of its conception of the Ger
man people as the dominating people
will
one,
dis-
TO PEOPLE
WHO CANNOT
SWALLOW
WESTFIELD PILLS
(Too Late For Last Week)
Mr. Bert Vincent of Belgrave visit
ed last week with friends in this com
munity.
Rev. H, C. Wilson gave an excellent
address on Sunday, talcing aS his text
"'Honesty”. The men’s choir favored
with a number.
Mr. ’John Gear, London, spent Sun
day at his home here.
Mr. John Vincent was a week-end
guest at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Murray McDiarmid, Hamilton.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Taylor, Mr. and
Mrs. W. F, Campbell and Miss Witmi-
fred, attended the funeral on Saturday
of their aunt, the late Mrs. James EIs-
ley, of txmdesboro. ,
If you feel sluggish, depressed,
liverish or are inclined to constipa
tion—just try this treatment for
two weeks: Take enough Kruschen
to cover a dime, in warm wtiter every
morning. *
Nothing could be easier to take,
and Kruschen is not harsh, but is a
mild, gentle laxative.
Constipation is caused mainly by
lack of moisture in the large intes
tine, Kruschen contains carefully
blended mineral salts that bring
back the moisture. Besides cleaning
out stagnating poisonous waste
matter, Kruschen helps to rid the
bloodstream of other poisons result
ingfrom constipation.
' Get a 25c size of Kruschen from
your druggist and Within two weeks
you’ll feel your old good health
coming back. Other size at 75c.
ONE DEAD, 62 INJURED IN MONTREAL EXPLOSION
One man lost his life and 62 other persons were
Injured when an explosion, followed by fire, ripped
apart a big fur-dyeing plant in Montreal. Heavy
winds and • extreme cold hampered firemen as they
battled the blaze which kqu>ckly followed the ex-
plosion. Firemen, searching the ruins of the build
ing, stated they had not discovered the bodies of
any victims, but stated it was possible that bodies
might be hidden under benches or covered with ice.
is actively engag-
depreciating the currencies of
nations in a vain attempt to
off the financial .bankruptcy that
inexorably overtake the German
1— the Herrenvolk
edin
other
stave
must
people on the day of final defeat, be
cause the germs of it were sown by
the Nazi regime in the days of .peace.
By their processes of financial dis
honesty then, and by the forced labor
imposed to-day on conquered peoples,
as well as by the spoliation of occupied
territories, the leaders of Nazi Ger
many’have sought to deceive the Ger
man people about the awful weight of
financial burden which the Nazi policy
of world conquest involves.
Such methods are in themselves
ample proof that, unlike the British
democracy, the German totalitarian re
gime is afraid of its financial responsi
bilities and of the capacity of its peo
ple to make any real sacrifice in de
fence of the Nazi regime.
.Far different is the case of Great
Britain. The British people is fully
conscious of its financial burdens it
has to bear, and has resolutely set it
self to bear them. It h^s restricted its
consumption and has consented to
wider and heavier taxation. But that
is by no means all. Of deeper signi
ficance is the voluntary, effort by
which the funds in the Government’s
war chest are replenished. Public sub
scriptions to the various issues which
fall under the heading of War Savings
are coming in at the rate of over
£100,000,000 a month.
Millions of pounds are being raised
by “War Weapons Weeks,” of which
no less than 140 have already been
held in cities and towns throughout
the country.
The Red Cross and similar good
causes receive gifts of thousands of
pounds each week, and millions of
pounds have been lent to the Treasury
free of interest.
The people of Great Britain present
a united front to-day because they are
united in the sacrifice they are prepar
ed to make in defence of democratic
ideals, and are fully conscious of the
further sacrifices they will have to
make.
SOYBEANS IN
INDUSTRY
The soybean is a very versatile
crop. In recent years it has found an
important place in industry, says F.
Dimmock, Division of Forage Plants,
Central Experimental Farm. The ripe
seed is processed to extract the oil,
for which a great many uses have
been found. The soybean oil meal, or
that pant of the bean which remains
after the oil has been extracted like
wise has many uses.
Soybean oil is utilized in th'e manu
facture of soap. It is also finding an
increasing use in the preparation of
paints and varnishes. It is a rich
source of lecithin, which enters into
the making of ice cream, candy, cos
metics and other articles. It finds its
way into the household kitchen in the
form of salad oil, prepared mayonn
aise, shortening and margarine. It
may be present as a constituent of the
linoleum which covers the floor.
The great bulk of soybean oil meal
is used as a source of protein for live
stock feeds. A considerable quantity
is used in the production of soybean
glue which is important in the ply
wood industry. Many plastic com
pounds incorporate soybean protein
and only recently upholstering has
been woven from fibre made exclus
ively from soybean protein. Flour
may be made either from soybean
meal or from the beans themselves and
may be high or low in fat content ac
cording to the production process. Aw
important characteristic of soybean
flour is its near freedom from starch than horses, and so, many a young
which makes it valuable in certain
diets. Soybean milk is likewise made
from either the oil meal or the whole
beans. Its special properties have
made it valuable as a diet in certain
cases of infant feeding.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
“THE STORM”
For some time now .... perhaps
longer than it is possible for any of
my readers to recall, a pleasant Sun
day evening pastime has been that of
“courting.” Of course the courting of
today is not nearly as serious a busi
ness that it was back thirty years ago,
but nevertheless romances emerge as
a result of the present Sunday evening
“sitting-up exercises” just as they did
back in the days when Father and
Mother sat in the next room and
strained their ears to hear the conver
sation that filtered through the glass
beaded red drapes which separated the
parlour from the “sittin’-room”.
Other changes have taken place, as
well. For instance, the favorite torture
seat wasa horse-hair sofa. At first it
did not bother you, but gradually as
the evening -wore on, you became
aware that you were sitting on some
thing not so far’unlikethe famous spik
es that Indian prayer-men choose as
a form of mortification. Today it’s a
comfortable chesterfield or a so-called
studio couch, and Father and Mother
have become tactful enough to retire
to another part of the house.
The competition between the coun
try boy and the town boy still remains.
It has grown, due to the fact that the
majority of country roads are plowed
ou during the winter months. The
country boy usually sticks to his horse
and cutter, while the dashing young
blade from town comes out arrayed
in his toggery and driving anautomo-
bile. Cars travel faster and farther
lady tilts her freckled nose at the
country suitor and is lured away by
the car.
They say all things are equal in this
world and that sooner or laterthe ad
vantages are removed!
On a recent Sunday evening it start
ed to snow. Blizzardy winds swirled
snow down in a barrage that defies
description. The country boys with
their hearts akin to Nature immediate
ly harnessed Dobbin to the cutter and.
plodded home through the snow. The
town boys, not being so familiar with
the stormy ways of wind and weather,
dallied. When it came time to go
home, there was simply no way in
which a car could be made to travel a
road by itself. A car has none of the
instincts of a horse, to go back to its
warm stable. The car drivers couldn’t
see.
And so, for three or four days,
young men from all parts of the coun
tryside were quartered in our town
ship. You could see the tops of the
cars in defferent laneways as you went
down the concessions..
Perhaps some of the fascination of
the town boy will have waned by now.
Imagine what it must seem like to see
the young man who always appeared
freshly shaven at your home, witha
clean shirt andwell marcelled hair . . .
appear with whiskers of two days
standing . . . his shirt crumpled ....
his hair lotion but a vague memory
on a snarl of unruly hair. Sometimes
when people are closelyconfined, tem
pers flare up and we have just a trifle
of a suspicion that tempers flared on
many occasions during those two or
three days.
On the other hand, the town boys
must have been surprised to see their
pretty friends without make-up. How
shocked they must have been to find
that a wind-blown country blush
comes from a box!
A horse and cutter may not be as
swift . . . but it’s certainly more de
pendable in the winter-time.
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
Shoulder to shoulder these United States and Canadian pilots leave
the vessel that brought them to England to augment the Royal Air Force.
The men were given their last, final training la Canada under the
empire air training scheme.
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