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mediately after which he went over
seas. Tommy had enlisted in the
Royal Canadian Air Force, Nothing
definite has as yet been received as to
how he met his*death, but it has been
rumored it was during a bombing raid,
—Exeter Times-Advocate.
changing a customer, and although
they promised to make good, they
sneaked out of jt< At Walkerton one
of the peddlers became intoxicated and
was fined $10 and costs for his indis-
cretion.’—Mildmay Gazette,
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The relationship between the news
paper and its advertisers is as import
ant to the newspaper reader as it is to.
the publisher. Newspapers are some
times unfairly accused of being sub
servient to the advertisers who pro
vide the revenue upon which the news
paper exists. This erroneous impres
sion has been gathered because the av
erage person knows that the newspap
er must have advertising to exist, and
therefore if he happens to'be of a sus
picious turn of mind, he concludes
that the advertiser must set the policy
of the newspaper.
Not only is such a suggestion un
true, hut it is unfair both to the news
paper and to the advertiser, Practical-,
ly every publisher will tell you that
few merchants ever attempt to dictate
the policy of the newspaper. They may
express opposition to some stand the
newspaper has taken, but few would
go so far as to threaten the newspap
er with withdrawal of business, if that
policy was not changed to conform
with the wishes of the advertiser. The
successful merchant is usually success
ful because he is an honourable man,
and few would ■ stoop to the level of
threatening a newspaper because its
publisher had different ideas on a giv
en question than the advertiser.
■ The relationship between the adver
tiser and the newspaper is similar to
that which exists between a merchant
and his customer, only in this case the
publisher is the merchant and the ad
vertiser the customer. The advertiser
purchases space in the newspaper be
cause he has a story to tell the read
ers of the paper. He uses advertising
as a legitimate means of drawing cus
tom to his store. If the newspaper
continues to provide the service re
quired and adequate returns for the
investment, the merchant continues to
advertise. When he feels he is not get
ting that value he ceases to'advertise.
That too is the relationship which ex
ists between any other merchant and
. *I his customer, So long as the custom-
| q,r feels lie is getting good value and
! service from the store, he continues to
| be a customer. When value and serv
ice cease he takes his trade elsewhere.
That, very simply, is the relationship
between the publisher and the adver
tiser. Any suggestion that the pblicy
of the newspaper is dictated by the ad
vertiser is a slander on both newspap
er and merchant. Best proof that the
advertisers do not dictate policy is the
fact that it would be almost impossible
to find a group of merchants in any
community whose ideas could be so
identical that they could formulate the
" policy of any newspaper.
Specialist Visits Editor
Dr, John Qile of Toronto, the em
inent heart specialist was in Walker
ton and while here paid a profession
al 'call on the editor of the Herald-
Times, The Toronto physician gave a
most encouraging report as to Mr.
Wesley’s condition and intimated that
hrs recovery was now a matter of time
with the crupial period apparently well
past,—Walkerton Herald-Times.
Teeswater Lads Gerseas
Teeswater and Culross are now well
represented in the Old Country by
men in uniform, and us far as is known
five local lads are “over there.” They
are Pte. George K. Armstrong, Pte,
Nyle McKenzie, Pte. Eddie Moore,
Pte, Harold Caslick, Sergt.-l’ilot Mac
Elliott,---Teeswater News,
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Greets Family Over Radio
Majoj; Fred Thompson.of the C.A.
S.F. Medical Corsp, England, spoke to
his family at Clinton and other friends
over a CBC hookup with the BBC last
week. His voice came over quite dis
tinctly and was heard by many Clin
ton radio fans. Mrs. Thompson had
been advised by cable that the major
would be on the air at that time. His
young daughter, Mary, was greatly
pleased to hear her father wish her a
happy birthday on the 24th.
Shot In The Eye
William J., the sevenjyear-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard McLuhan,
suffered an accidental shot in his right
eye from an air rifle in the hands of
a. playmate, Whitney Crawford., The
children, along with several others,
were playing with a raft on a pond
near the C.N.R. tracks north of town,
when the accident happened. The boys
were picked up by members by truck
and taken to a doctor’s office. At first
it was* feared that the sight of the eye
would be destroyed, but happily it is
being restored.—Mount Forest Con
federate.
Cromarty Youth Dies in England
It was with deep regret that the
community heard of the death of
Thomas Couper. He paid a visit 'to
Cromarty in November and his list
Corvette To Be Named Goderich
The Town of Goderich Is to be re
cognized in the naming of one of the
corvettes now being constructed for
service with the Royal Canadian Navy
This intimation is contained in a let
ter received by Mayor E. D, Brown
from the Department of Naval Serv
ice, Ottawa. The vessel, which is be
ing built by the Dufferin Shipbuilding
Co., Limited, Toronto, is to be launch
ed soon.—Goderich Signal-Star. x
Brief Backgrounds in the Careers of
Canada’s Captains in War
Air Commodore Harold Edwards
Log Five Feet in Diameter
Arkwright has won fame ’by grow
ing a log of such proportions that it
could not be cut with the local mills’
largest circular saw. It was therefore
necessary to use a small charge of dy-<
namite to break the log into smaller
sections so that it could be cut into
dressed lumber. This gigantic piece of
timber when taken to the mill measur
ed five feet in diameter. —• Wiarton
Echo.
Lucknow Man Enters Ministry
An interesting occasion in the his
tory of the Lucknow Presbyterian
Church was celebrated in the church
when William A. Henderson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Henderson, was
ordained as a minister of the Presby
terian Church in Canada. Mr. Hend
erson was the third young man of the
congregation to be ordained in the past
few years, the others being Rev. Geo*
Lees Douglas, now minister of Drum
mond Hill Presbyterian Church, Ni
agara Falls, Ont., and Rev. Roderick
Douglas MacDonald of Alma Church,
St. Thomas. - Mr. Henderson has been
appointed to Hillsdale charge in the
Presbytery of Barrie. Miss Dorothy
Douglas, who recently returned from
Formosa, went from this congregation..
Brucefield Red Cross Won Prize
The Brucefield branch of the Canad
ian Red Cross won a $25 award don
ated by a national magazine for the
outstanding war effort by a group of
women. The contest is held monthly.
Seaforth Huron Expositor.
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A Pack of Cigarettes Cosh More Than a Bright Light for 100 Hours
• Plenty of good light at the bridge table
makes the game and conversation go better
—saves mistake* and tempers. Be considk
erate of your guests by making saure they can
see the cards and the play without eyestrain.
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School Principal Has Fine Record
Principal J. A. Gray o-f the Blyth
Public School has established what we
believe should be a record in effic
iency. Remarking on his teaching ex
periences “the other day, he said that
in ten years of teaching only two ent
rance pupils had failed in their
inations. Truly a record to be
of.—Blyth Standard,
exam-
proud
On Serious Charge
Frank Rutledge, of Brussels, elect
ed trial by judge and jury on a charge
of serious offence against a girl, and
the case was adjourned for a week.
Charged with Attempted Suicide
Charged with attempted suicide, a
28-year-oId Dungannon woman when
asked how she wished to be tried, told
the court she did not understand the
question and Frank Donnelly was ask
ed by the Crown to explain to her. Af
ter consulting relatives and the accus
ed, who was pale and shaken with
sobs,, it was agreed to adjourn the case
for a week on bail.
R.A.F. Choir Presented Concert
The R.A.F. choir of Air Navigation
School No. 31, Pott Albert, under the
direction of Sergeant Charles Grant,
presented a delightful program at God
erich before an audience which filled
to capacity the parish hall of St.
George’s Church. The program was a
pleasing and varied one, and finely ar
tistic in detail, consisting of well-bal
anced choruses, Scottish, Welsh, Eng
lish and Irish songs, clever dialogues
and monologues, and a period of com
munity singing.
Kite Cut Hydro Power
Attempting to free a kite caught in
the Hydro wires on Peel Street, be
tween Proctor and Victoria, some
young lads short-circuited a. 4,000 volt
feeder line, precipitating a blackout
which lasted for an hour and a quar
ter.—Hanover Post.
Unscrupulous- Peddlers
Last week a bunch of soap peddlers
landed into this village, and succeed
ed in doing quite a volume of business.
Their method of approach is to give
three cakes away and collect 50 cents
for another 3 cakes—so they were get
ting a good price for the six cakes. In
one home they succeeded Iff short-
■ Air Commodore Harold Edwards is
Air Member for Personnel on Can
ada’s Air Council. Personnel problems
of both the Royal Canadian Air Force'
and, since Canada administers it, the
British Commonwealth Air Training
Plan, fall under his responsibility.
This includes appointments, promo
tions, enlistments, recruiting,, manning,
discipline, pay and many other things.
Today the right men must he picked
from the vast number who wish to
join the Air Force, existing members
and newscomers must be grouped and
shifted about in the process of mann
ing the existing air stations and new
training centres. Air Commodore Ed
wards has undertaken a tremendous
assignment.
First Served in Navy , ‘
“Gus” "Edwards, as hb is known
from coast to coast, is another “Blue
nose”, though , he first saw the light
of day in Lancashire, England. His
father brought the family over to set
tle in Cape Breton when Edwards was
very young. He there learned early
the secret that has brought many an
other Nova Scotian to the top outside
his own territory — ho.w to work, and
work hard.
At the outbreak of World War One,.
Edwards enlisted in the Royal Canad
ian Navy as an “able bodied seaman”,
drawing 85c per day. By 1915 he had
moved to the Royal Naval Air Service,
the embryonic British unit out of
which came the Royal Air Force. -He
.flew over to France, there learned by
trial in .battle much that is taught fliers
today before they leave the ground.
When the Germans torpedoed and
sank the British hospital shop Astur
ias, Edwards was part of a unit order
ed across the German border as a re
prisal, not a pleasant assignment. To
be taken prisoner on such an occasion
was definitely uncomfortable. After
six weeks solitary confinement, Ed
wards went on a round of German
prison camps, up one side of the Rhine
and down the other, and eventually in
to Silesia, an interesting if very un
comfortable “tour”. It was character
istic of Edwards to make his two
years .imprisonment ah. interesting per
iod of his life. He dug into books and
read himself through two years of lib
eral education.
Russian Adventure
Back in England after the war, two
months’ vacation restored his health
and found him ready for fresh advent
ure. He joined an old friend in Lon
don who was recruiting an air unit to
bolster up the ill-fated General Denne-
kin against the Bolsheviks in Russia.
The British took planes and equip
ment to the Russians, tried to teach
them to fly the planes and operate the
transport and took an active part in the
fighting. Conditions were atrocious,
death the only penalty for every
crime,' typhus rampant. It proved a
wild experience and a great lesson.
On his return to Canada in 1920,
Edwards joined up with the newly-
formed Royal Canadian Air Force, has
been with it ever since. He is today
a veteran of 24 years of ait service.
He commanded the Royal Canadian
Air Force Detachment to the Corona
tion of George VI In 1937, was In’
charge of R.C.A.F, arrangements for
the visit of Their Majesties in 1939.
Air Commodore Edwards combines
Canadian initiative and independence
With thorough comprehension of the
technique of his service.
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PERSONALITY PARADE
Working stealthily and craftily in
Turkey today is a man who Hitler des
pises, who has several times been on
the Nazi list of those “to be purged,”
•but who^ is too useful1 to the Nazis to
be eliminated, because he has such a
deputation for—-failure!
This man is Franz von Papen, Ger
man Ambassador to Tttrkey,
His reputation comes from back in
the last Great War. He was then Ger*
man. Military Attache in the United
States, but was expelled for Ms in-
. trigues and plotting. After his depart
ure, it was discovered that he had left
behind him incriminating papers dis
closing names and activities of Germ-
i an secret agents in America!
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APOSTLE OF MISCHIEF. When
; Fratig von Papen went to Vienna af*
Thursday,
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* of money—-week by weekz month by month“~loaned from the
savings of her people.
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—ACT NOW! Canada needs ALL you
can save and lend; There are three
ways to pledge:
1. Ask your employer to deduct a speci
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each pay day.
2. Authorize your bank to deduct it
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3> Sign an "Honour Pledge” to buy
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Published by the War Savings Committee, Ottawa
If YOU HAVE pledged yourself
—keep up yopr pledge. See your invest*
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INCREASE the amount you have pro
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ter the murder of little Dolfuss, the
anti-Nazi Chancellor, nobody took
him seriously. And before long they
greeted him as a welcome friend —
he looked too much, like a gentleman
to be a Nazi!
But, under the surface, van Papen
schemed and tricked, unscrupulously
— paving the way for the Anschluss,
the union of Austria with Germany.
Again nobody took much notice
when it was- learned in 1939 that
Papen had turned up in Russia,
his fine hand was soon seen in
Russo-German pact that stunned the
Allies.
jury was — a pair of bent legs, which
an artificer straightened out so quick
ly that Bader was back in the air in
30 minutes.
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THIS STRANGE WORLD
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There are men who would like to
have a dumb wife, but William Mc
Kinley, of Edinburgh, Scotland, had
too dumb a one. He has sued for di
vorce because his wife, although liv-.
ing in the same house, has not spoken
to him for many years. When he had
anything to say to her, he had to leave
notes — but she didn’t even answer
these.
* * *
In a Western U.S. state recently, a
sparrow was found guilty of setting
fire Jo a house, thereby burning a wo
man to death and suffocating her child,
It had been carrying a lighted cigar-
ette to its nest in the eaves of a house,
to which it set fire.
* * *
A former tennis champion, Laura
Garwood Pittenger, 45, of Camden, N.
L, gave her relatives and friends a
severe jolt the other day when she an
nounced she will ask for a divorce,
when they didn’t know she was even
married ... It appears she married a
prominent businessman secretly, nine
teen years ago, but they both changed
their minds immediately after, and
continued living separate lives.
* * *
It would happen to a doctor! Dr,
William Page’s; car. crashed into a
guard fence in the state of Utah and
broke down the horizontal bar, which
drove through the car, passing be
tween the doctor and his passenger,
Miss Kathryn Noble. Both received
only minor bruises, but the girl’s
clothes were all ripped off by the bar.
almost home,
was declared
being placed
saw a film of
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WOOING THE TURKS. He has
been in Turkey for the last two years,
trying to ingratiate himself with Turk
ish generals, for he served with the
old Turkish Army during the. last'
War.
Whatever else he does, you may be
sure there is nothing in the bag. of
tricks — deceit,, subterfuge, chicanery
or worse— that he won’t use to try
and attain his ends — weaning Turkey
away from its British alliance.* ♦ *
FAMOUS R.A.F. LEGS! Two of
the most famous pairs of legs in Brit
ain are in the Royal Air Force. One of
them belongs to Don Finlay, probably
the best 120 yd. hurdler Britain has
ever produced* In the final of the
Olympic Games, he made a bad start
and. stood last until
Then he spurted and
fourth, an American
thir'd.
Later, the American
the race, noticed he had really got in
only fourth plate and Finlay third, and
sportingly told the j,udges. They alter
ed their decision in favour of Finlay** * ♦
FAMOUS LEGLESS! The other is
an artificial pair; worn, by Squadron-
Leader Douglas Bader, whose achieve
ments are fast becoming legendary.
As British leader of an All-American
squadron, Bader’s story is particularly
interesting to us.
One of the best all-round athletes in
the R.A.F,, Bader crashed when try
ing out a new fighter plane in 1931.
So badly was he injured that both legs
had to be amputated, This would have
meant “finis” to most men, but to
Duggie Bader it meant simply starting
all over again.
Mastering the use of his “new” legs
and becoming an expert tennis player,
when war broke out in September ’39,
Bader haunted R.A.F. headquarters
until they took him back again.
He has had- one slight crash light
ing the Huns, bitt his sole personal In-
‘WHAFS NEW, MR. PRIME MINISTER?”
ferenc^wlth President VfaS? Park aIld con*
arrived back in Ottawa * ir^^°SteVe^* Frlme Minister MacKefiZie KingTheAlBta *J«S hEte by newspaper-
arriving but was heard tn cX1 A^°VSt?e,any ctiiclal statement, upon
than » holld d 10 ssy “WiieMly that his trip had been "better
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