The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-10-09, Page 3Thursday, October 9 th, 1941
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Eoery duty, well and honestly done,' is a contribution to victory,
• Thb Prime Minister of Canada.
STANDARDIZED FOR EFFICIENCY
A car with Nova Scotia license plates limps into a service
station in Winnipeg. Steam is spouting from under the hood.
“IfS your water pump,” says die mechanic, “We can
have a new one on in a jiffy—won’t hold you up long*’
Only a water pump—perhaps' assembled in Oshawa or
Windsor from parts made in half a dozen different
towns, yet it fits to a T when this Manitoba mechanic
puts it on a car from Nova Scotia,
Uniformity—standardization—are big factors in tele
phone service, too. You can talk practically anywhere,
any time, for one reason, because telephone equipment
made with meticulous .care fits to a T in all parts of the
system. Operating methods are co-ordinated, too, so
that your call is put through
quickly and accurately—-your
voice spans the miles direct
to your listener’s ear. To a
nation at war, such standard
ization is a great asset.
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WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES
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Fined For Rent Boost
Hamilton, — First landlord to be
convicted here under the War Meas
ures Act for increasing rent after the
pegging order, Nixon Acheson, 53, of
Hamilton, was fined $150 and $13
costs, or three months in jail. Part of
the .fine will reimburse a former ten
ant and the present tenant.
Halifax People Given Scare
Halifav, — An exploding
Canadian Air Force plane rattled
windows in downtown^ Halifax, four
miles from the^Eastern Passage Air
drome where the blast occurred, awak
ening hundreds of citizens and caus
ing a brief period of alarm, in which
many residents thought the city’s fort
had opened fire against an enemy.
not effect the people’s unity in the*
war.”
Japs Warn Dutch E. Indies
Tokyo, — The Japanese spokesman
warned that any large shipment of
supplies from the Netherlands East
Indies to Soviet Russia would be con
sidered a manifestation of an “un
friendly^ attitude.”
Royal
Another- U. S. Ship Sunk
New York, —■. The 7,052-ton tanker
I. C. White, owned by American in
terests and flying the flag of ^Pan
ama, was torpedoed in the South
Atlantic on September 27, the freight
er West Nilus ■ reported in announc
ing rescue of 18 of the .tanker’s 37-
man crew, one of whom is’ a Can
adian. This is the eighth U. S, ship to
be sunk.
Norse Guerrillas Carry On
London, — Norwegian guerrillas
have had several bris^k clashes with
German occupation forces near Trond
heim, the Norwegian Telegraph Ag
ency reported. Another clash happen
ed in a cafe. German soldiers entered
the cafe and turned on the radio, to
listen to a Nazi broadcast, it was .said,
the Norwegians promptly walked out.
Minister Dies of Injuries
Three Rivers, Que., — Hon. Maur
ice Dupre, one-time Dominion solic
itor-general, died from injuries suffer
ed in a train wreck last week. His
death, resulting from a fractured
skull, brought to three the number of
dead in the wreck at Maskinongfi,
Que., caused when the Montreal-
Quebec pool train was derailed by a
split rail. The crash sent 39 other
persons to hospital with injuries. ,
Japs Ready To Strike?
Saigon^ ‘French Indo-Cliina, — Jap
anese forces capable of a “full dress
campaign” and supported by aerial
units began grand manoeuvres in this
occupied area as thetTainy season end
ed.
Execute Over 600
____; — German dispatches said
that the mayor of Prague, Otakar
Klapka, had beeh seized by the Gest
apo and sentenced to die. With un
official reports running far ahead of
official figures, it was known that
nearly 600 persons had been executed
for military and political offences in
Germany and the conquered areas
Since June 22 wh#n the war with Rus
sia started.
Germans
Berlin,
Labor Takes Over in Australia
• Canberra, — Labor Leader John
Curtin was charged with the forma
tion of.a new government for Aus
tralia as two supporters of Prime
Minister Arthur Faddert threw their
support to Labor and brought about
the defeat of the Country patty-united
Australian party coalition. He prO-
fclaimed that the political change does
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FOR A MILD, COOL, SMOKF
Britain to Debate Man Power
London,— The 'House of Commons
will debate — probably in, secret —
whether Britain can continue to con
script her own man power for an
eventful continental offensive and still
turn out armaments which
her allies -need, Prime
Churchill disclosed. There
confirmed reports that the
ment will form 'no more all-British
divisions on home soil.
she and
Minister
are un-
Govern-
Six Paris Synagogues Blown Up
Vichy, — Six Synagogues were
blown up in Nazi occupied Paris. The
explosions were caused by bombs
which destroyed the interiors of the
buildings and- left only the walls
standing.
“Windfalls” New Apple Grade
The Ontario Department of Agri
culture 'has created a new “windfall”
grade of apples, effective for October
and November, so that fruit growers
who lost heavily in the windstorm on
September 25, will be able to sal
vage part of their crops,, according
to information released by J. J. John
son, federal fruit inspector for Huron
and Middlesex. ' ....
Moscow Talk is Ended
Moscow, — Great Britain and the
United States agreed to fill practically
all Soviet needs for war supplies in
exchange for Russian raw materials
at the concluding session of a momen
tous three-power conference that end
ed two days ahead of schedule.
Nazi Execute Czech Premier '
Premier-Gen. Alois Elias, two
tired'generals and. an unstated number
of other Czechs fell before firing
squads in the German protectorate
Bohemid-Moravia, making a total
nearly 100 executions in four days.
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Prepare For Heavier Raids.
London, •— The Government, work
ing feverishly during the current lull
in air raids,’has prepared Britain for
heavier and more violent attacks which
officials warn may come soon.
Plan Rehabilitation for A. F.
Ottawa, — A new program of re
habilitation framed with the objective
of placing ex-serviceman in as good
a position as if he had remained a
civilian was announced by Pensions
Minister Mackenzie. The program
calls for placing ex-servicemen who
go to insurable employment on a par
ity with others under the terms of the
Unemployment Insurance Act.
“THANKS-LIVING”
‘Play the Game, Canada, Play
Game!”
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A Thanksgiving article by Leslie,
' Hamilton
year ago, upon the occasion of
last National Holiday before
A
our
Christmas, I wrote an article entitled
‘Thanks-Living’—a ,W0rd intended to
convey the idea of practical Thanks
giving by deed, instead of by smug,
formal, empty gestures, or meaning-
| less words arid phrases 'which are
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only too often so easily forgotten be
fore the festive day is done,
■Now, upon the occasion of another
National Day of Thanksgiving, I trust
my reaffirmation of some of the
points emphasized in my previous art
icle will not be amiss, if they are
’stressed once again in the light of
events which have occurred during the
past twelve months.
Outwardly, of course,Oour .-National
Day of remembrance will run true to
form. There will be turkey, goose and
chicken on tables plentifully supplied
with eatables of all kinds in the homes
of the majority in the New World.
Entertainment of various sorts will be
in full, swing throughout the country,
while in the large churches of pur
metropolitan cities and in the smaller
places of worship in the country com-'
munities, many will wend their re
spective ways to offer up prayers to
a divine providence for our bountiful
harvests, and the countless blessings
which our people have received and
are still receiving in a world of strife
and bloodshed, sweating toil' and salty
tears.
Owing to our terrific losses in the
‘Battle of the Atlantic’, with cargoes’
of precious foodstuffs and supplies be
ing sent to the bottom of the seas
by a ruthless foe who strikes without
mercy or warning—in the dead of
night as well as in the light of day—
■Canadians are especially able to apply
the idea of Thanks-Living under pres
ent circumstances to a far greater de
gree than has ever been the case be
fore,
Now, threfore, is the time for all
of us to demonstrate, by some form
Of self-denial, how much we apprec
iate our favoured position in this*
Western Hemisphere. Now is the
time to cut down on the appetizing
things we have heretofore enjoyed
without restraint or forced control.
Instead of bacon or ham for break
fast oii seven days a week, let every
family in the Dofhinion voluntarily
curtail that privilege to once a week
on Sundays. Instead of calling your
grocer, butcher or baker to send over
this or that particular delicacy for
dinner, now is the time to walk a few
blocks and carry home some plain,
substantial items for ourselves. Now
is the time to reduce all mercantile
deliveries as much as possible and con
serve gasoline for military purposes.
Every parcel carried home these days
means another revolution in the ‘prop’
of a flying fortress, and these small
•savings multiplied a hundred and a
thousand fold by housewives all over
Canada, mean .countless miles added
to the schedules of our gallant airmen
as they take off on their well-merited
missions of retribution upon a Godless
Germany.
Instead of going for that usual
Sunday afternoon drive in the family
car, let us reduce this hitherto pleasur
able pastime to once a month, there
by providing greater reserves mf fuel
for the mechanized equipment guard
ing our frontiers of our civilization.
Let us pause for a moment, before
indulging in those things for j«ur own
enjoyment which curtail in any way
our support of the army and our kith
and kin across the water. Let us go
to church on this Thanksgiving and,
besides listening to a sermon#about
our many blessings for which, we
should truly be thankful, let us make
up our minds and resolve—deep down
within our hearts—to show our .ap
preciation in the shape of living
thanks; thanks which are more to the
point than merely church attendance
and prompt forgetting of the minis
ter’s message before the ensuing week
is over. Let us determine to leave the
house of worship which we have at
tended with not only a message from
the pulpit, but a firm resolve to prac
tise Thanks-Living in our very day
life as well, for by our deeds shall we
prove the sincerity of our thanks and
demonstrate our appreciation of our
unscathed homes and well-filled re
frigerators,
Our British cousins have a saying
about ‘Flaying the Game-', a saying
which brings to mind .a motto I learn
ed at. school, a motto which teaches
that when the Great Scorer comes to
write against our names, it will matter
not whether we have won or lost the
battle of life, but how we played the
game! It is a motto which—-during the
past current year—has been lived up
to upon our
man, woman
Kingdom, as
courageously
out the terrible struggle which has
raged unceasingly over their unbowed
heads; and while to the individual—
as the words of the motto so truly
state—it matters not whether he, or
she, has won lost in a personal
sense; to a nation in the throes of
a desperate Struggle for its very exis
tence, it matters a great deal; for de
feat would spell the end of all that
we hold hold dear while victory spells
renewed hope for another forward
turn in the wheel of world affairs, a
negative turn back to the days of
barbarism, slavery and oppression.
In playing the game, therefore,
from a National standpoint, the in
dividual is, entreated not to cheat, or
in devious ways escape his or her pro
portionate self-denial or contribution
to the cause. From a personal stand
point, it is true that individuals can,
and may evade the issue, but while
those individuals are perhaps the only
persons who will ever know about it,
their own conscience will forever re
mind them of it, and although such
persons may perform lip-service on
this Thanksgiving Day, in the words
, of that old motto, it will not matter
to the nation as a whole in the final
analysis so much whether those in
dividuals stole a few more joy-rides,
ate more bacon than they needed to,
or hid their money in old socks in
stead of buying War Savings Stamps
or Victory Bonds, but it will matter
much to the individuals concerned, for
they are the unfortunates who will
■ have lost their self-respect—if not
souls—on that final day of accounting
when we render unto God the things
that are- God’s, and unto Hitler^ the
things that are Hitler's. '
Fortunately, however, for the future
of our country and the ideals which
our free and Democratic form of gov
ernment represents, the majority of
our people will heed appeals such as
this is meant to be, but, if all of us
‘Play the Game’, and demonstrate the
sincerity of our Thanksgiving by
Thanks-Living. in the days ahead, then
the present Struggle will be materially
shortened and the defeat of Hitler
ism brought immeasurably nearer than
we, at present, have any right to hope
or to believe.
Let& us, therefore, do our bit and
play the game wholeheartedly. Let us
adopt in addition to the sign V for
Victory, the letter T for Thank-Liv-
> iag, for, quite apart from the patriotic
side of it, there will always be a per
sonal satisfaction in knowing—if only
to ourselves—that we have done our
duty ii? every possible way. Even
though our names may not appear in.
any roll of honour when victory is
won, we shall at least have-the satis
faction of knowing that we have play
ed the game, and that the Great
■ Scorer understands that our thanks on
this occasion were honestly expressed
and extremely sincere.
As more and more of our people
turn to the Almighty and thank Him
for the blessings bestowed upon us,
and by practical application of those
thanks in their daily lives show that
we humbly crave a continuance of the
good fortune we have enjoyed since
the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot upon
this land of milk and honey, so wih
the answer of providence become
more and more apparent, and the tide
Of victory over the foul, slimy beast
of Berechtesgaden rise proportionately
higher and higher in the months of
deadly combat still to come.
For the duration of the struggle
then, let Thanks-Living be our motto,
and let every Canadian play the game,
for it' is in the little things that we
count individually, in the pints of gas
we save, in the pounds of butter wo
conserve for England’s fighting men
who are slowly but surely whipping
the tyrant to his knees, in the pennies
we give to succour little helpless
children bombed out of their homes
by the vultures Of the skies, in the
unstinted day of work we give to pro
duce supplies, in the smile with which
we accept hardships and deny our
selves the luxuries to which we have
been acciitonied heretofore. Singly,
our puny individual efforts do not
seem to matter very much, but added
together from the Pacific to the At
lantic, and from the border to the
Artic circle of the north, it can be- 1
come a united effort which wilt hasten
that Thanksgiving Day when we can
give thanks not only for the daily
food we eat, or for the untroubled
nights of sleep we have been permitted
to enjoy, bat for the return of peace-—
a lasting peace—and the right to live
oar normal lives again.
When that day dawns, then—like
behalf by every British
and child in the United
they stood firmly and
to their tasks through-
It is evident that when these three functions are co-ordinated under one management, the success
of each being entirely dependent on the success of the other, and the success of all being the
responsibility of that management, that each functions at its highest point of efficiency. One
cannot blame for its short-comings the actions of the others, insofar as the customer is concerned
there can be no—''buck-passing." It's an undivided responsibility.
These three factors are —
• ENGINEERING—which by study and experi
mentation conceives and develops the implement
or machine to meet the immediate need or
problem of the farmer.
• MANUFACTURING—to produce in quantity and
quality the machines developed so that they may
be economically available to'the farmers whom
they were designed to assist, ,
• DISTRIBUTING—to sell with ah the details which
this includes, and which in its broader sense
implies the missionary work of introducing new
developments so that the full possibilities en
visioned by the engineer may be fully appre
ciated by a sufficient number to provide the
volume necessary to bring manufacturing costs
down to a point that extends the benefits of the
machine to the greatest number. Including, also,
as it does the rendering of the necessary service
to assure of the purchaser getting the utmost in
satisfaction in the operation of his machine and
the furnishing of parts to keep it in operation
during its lifetime, with loss through breakdown
reduced to a minimum.
The three mam factors in providing the machines which
will continue to improve farm operating and make it
more profitable are closely inter-related and achieve
the utmost in their f unctioning when properly correlated.
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the century and has earned an enviable reputation for the character and quality of the goods
it manufactures. Its own Sales Organization of exclusive Deqlers permits its farmer customers
to deal directly with the Company that designs and builds the machines if sells. A Company
which stands behind its product with the highest kind of guarantee—it has to be satisfactory—
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the founders of our National festive
—-We can offer Up our grateful thanks
for the preservation of our land, and
for the opportunity to create out of
the storm and stress-—like the Pilgrim
Fathers before us—a new world out of
the old, a new era out of chaos! It’s
up to each and every one of us! To
the rich and ro the poor, to the lead
ers and to the followers! To the weak
and to the strong, from the bottom
to the top of us! Canada' is calling—-
and in you and you alone—lies the
answer! U for Unity—T for Thanks-
Living—and V for Victory. Play
Game, Canada, Play the Game!
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LETTER FROM THE
OLD LAND
The following letter was received by
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Seddon of town
and we are sure that it will prove
interesting to arc readers.
104 C/c Rd., Leigh
Dear Uncle and Aunt and Cousin:
Many thanks for your letter Ralph,
are sorry to hear aunt Polly is
not too good on her legs. It’s a good
fat Nan has good legs ready for
off. /Mice was here a few weeks
we
job
the
ago, after they had been bombed, you
, should hear her tell the tale. She was
scratching her way into the next door,
scratched her face and shoulder, What
a night Ralph, you would laugh your
sides sore of course after it is over.
Lizzie said she could hear his bombs
rattling as the plane goes over, but
I told her she was mistaken—it was
not his bombs? By the way Ralph,
you ask are we getting plenty of eggs.
You mean those things hens lay. Well,
we had 4 a few weeks ago and they
came from Canada and believe me
they were as^nice as any new laid we
have eve)- had and what lovely rich
yokes. Speaking about the other eggs
Ralph, he (Hitlpr) must not think the
English folks will be afraid of his
bombs. We are all very well pleased
now that our lads are giving them
a taste of what we have had, but
worse. Anyway I think the job will be
finished off proper this time. Well we
arc all glad to hear that the lads are
doing well and if Wilf, gets over here
he can sure make this his home, we
always have room to fix one or two
up and only be too pleased. \Vc have
had several Canadian lads over here
and I always give them a good look
over thinking it may Be one of Nell’s
cousins or one of mine. Ralph you
sure have some good bacon in Can
ada, we had some a while ago and
it was real good. Well we ate rationed
pretty well, but I think everybody does
not worry much about it—its that old
-we are all wanting to get at.
How is Frank getting on, we were in
Liverpool a few weeks ago, we all
thought about him as we saw plenty
of his old (Redg) I<. Liverpool.. Well
Lizzie and .Mary are doing their stuff
on munitions, also Tom’s wife, she
says, she wishes old Hitler had one
of the large ones under his britches.
Well Ralph, the old town dori’t alter
much, but to go out at night in the
black-out is an experience, not a light
to be seen anywhere. I tell you there
are more folks at home in the winter
nights than ever. When Lizzie is on
the night turn, I said to Nan, shall one
of us stay with you? Nan: No, I don’t
want any of you. Ralph, I don’t
think Hitler will ever get here, we are
too well prepared and God help him
if he does; ’• 1 ■ - ;
- Well Ralph, what do you think of
Churchill’s meeting on the Atlantic,
that’s just the spirit of all Bfitains
and the Canadians and Yanks. Well
they are real trumps, God bless them,
they have created a feeling between
them and us that I think will never
die.
x Well Ralph, I will let (fatty) have
a try now. Oh yes, nearly 12 stone
now and as fit as a fiddle. The nearest
(Egg) we have had was close to the
workhouse and what a bang, I think
it shifted all the cobwebs and wind
ows. Well I think this is all
ent. Love and good luck to
Yours affectionately.
Nephews, Neices
at pres-
you all.
and all.
Not one in the courtroom seemed
to know just what the case was about.
The lawyers themselves were tii'ixsd:
up. Then an important witness was
presently asked to tell the court the
amount of his gross income. He re
fused; the counsel appealed to the
judge. “You must answer the ques
tion,” said the judge sternly.
The witness fidgeted about and then
burst out: “But . . . but, your honor,
I have no gross in come! I'm a fisher
man, and it’s all net!”
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Mrs. Muchwealth (testily): Nora
do you realize that you've broken that
valuable Chinese vase?
Maid (calmly) Yes, ma’am, but I
read the other day that things like
that have no real value—'merely a fic
titious value in the minds of a small
group of eccentrics.
“J’retty warm weather we’re having, sir!’*