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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1942-02-26, Page 7Sugar, too, enlists for Victory Our government, through the medium of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, has issued an order restricting the use of sugar for all. Naturally, this regulation includes "Coca-Cola". Besides all bottlers of carbonated beverages, the restrictions affect bakers, confectioners, ice cream manufacturers and many other industrial users.. • We, in the "Coca-Cola" business, accept this conserva- tion order without question, as a necessary measure. As a result, our output has been reduced and patrons may not be able to get "Coca-Cola" at their favourite dealer's as often as they might wish. We count upon the patience and co-operation of dealers and consumers everywhere during these restrictions. Although volume has been reduced, this one thing is cer- tain -- the quality of genuine goodness — the character of "Coca-Cola", the real thing .— remains the same. The public can-continue to trust its quality. Authorized Bottler of "Coca-Cola" Stratford Bottling Company, Stratford,' • 5.556 You trust its quality - rzwirICTO YBONDS VITINGITAM. ADVANM,TIMS In 1 PORT ALBERT PADRE GAVE A STIRRING LOAN APPEAL Squadron Leader Hooper Says It Can Be Done; It 'Will Be Done If Every Free Person Plays Their Part To the large audience that were present at the town hall Thursday :night to see the Presentation "Thumbs Up" Squadron Leader Hooper, Padre at the 31st Air Navigation School, R. Port Albert, ,gave a most inter- esting and appealing address on behalf 'of the Second Victory Loan, His vivid oration held the audience in very close ,attention and the only regret about the ;natter was that his voice was not scathing an -audience of much greater proportions. The following is the text of his ad- dress. We print it in full as we are sure it will bring' home to us all the -necessity of playing our parts in \these perilous times, Squadron Leader Hooper When I was honoured by being in- -vited, to take part in this campaign I _felt a certain amount' of doubt as to -whether as an Englishman I had any' .right to speak to Canadians about the Second Canadian Victory Loan. My such doubts I may have entertained 'however have been utterly and com- pletely dispelled by the events of the past few days, Today there is no dis- linetion between Englishman, .Canad- -law or American, Today, its the most perilous, most critical times our civil- ization has known, all men who value freedom, and liberty and who mean to keep their freedom and liberty are banded together in one great fellow- ship, Their interests are identical; they stand or fall together. And SO I feel today that you and I are members of the sante great family, the family of free men, and I trust you will regard me as one of your- selves and will permit me to speak to You freely and frankly as man to man and brother to brother. This is no time for idle words. The hour of Des- . tiny has struck and every man and woman who is still free must have the appalling fact driven home that everything he or the holds dear, every- thing that makes life worth living is threatened' with destruction. 'rot gOa Years the English-speaking Peoples have been the leader§ of man, kind, Why? 'Because of their 'supreme tottrage, their dogged determinatien its the face of tertiporary defeat and .•••••••• disaster, their energy under such cir- cumstances and their cheerful willing- ness to sacrifice self. But just because we have enjoyed freedom and liberty so long,' many of us have come to take it for granted, just as we take the sunrise and the sunset for granted. So much so that many of us fail to appreciate what, it would mean to lbse that freedom, that liberty. It is difficult, in this land of plenty and of seeming security to realize that everything you generous hospitable Canadians hold dear is at stake. It is tragic that in any of you still do not grasp this fact. . . Tragic, but under- standable.... You have not Seen with your own eyes the disaster which has burst on mankind. Pray God you never will. Some of us have seen that disaster; have liVed among the hundred of mil- lions of men, women and children, just like you, who have suddenly found the unbelievable happen in their lives; have suddenly found their lives shipwrecked; their dear ones suddenly blasted into Zternity or maimed for- life, for no tenon at all so far as they are concerned; their homes devastated; their simple yet cherished household' treasurers ruthlessly destroyed, and they themselves in hundreds of Mil- lions of cases losing at a blow their most precious possessions, their lib- erty, and experience the utter degrad- ation of slavery, literal slavery at the point of the whip, the bayonet, the fir- ing squad, the devilish concentration camps and the bloody torture chatrib- V'S that befoul the face of God's fair earth today. Over here, in this still-peaceful land one cannot realize the appalling hOrror of the humeri slavery that has fallen on hundreds of millions of men and women. These things must be seen and felt to be realized, and therein lies the danger;' therein lies the reason for the downfall of those hundred of mil- lions 'of once-free thee and women. They did not realize they would lose their freedom if they were not prepar- ed. For long years we refused to lis- ten to those who warned its that Ger- many, Italy and Japan were plotting the doWefall of the easy-going, free- dom loving democracies; For long years we went on our easy way bury- ing our heads in the sand, refus- ing to fate grim reality; refusing to take heed of the huge armaments be `mg piled togetiter, armaments which ' made the weapons of 1914 AS obsolete as a bow and arrow. Shutting our eyes to the training of vast armlet- to use those weapons which had been placed in gangsters hand's by the prostitution of abuse of science. For years we went on our way, blindly, madly, foolishly, enjoying our lives and our liberty and comforts, making our plans for the future (as we thought!), thinking that somehow or other, someone or other would do something or other and put all things right without our interven- tion so that life would go on for us in the same old way as usual. Am I right or am I wrong in be- lieving many people here in Canada still think in this way? Am,I? Answer the question yourselves. Many people out here do still think like this . . . So did many of us in Britain until 1939, 'so did the people of France, of Belguim, of Holland, of Norway, of Demark, of Greece, of Yugoslavia, of Hawaii, of Burma, of Malay , . You are more fortunate than were these hundreds of millions of men and wo- men. But only in one respect. You have been given a greater breathing sPace, a larger time in which to make up to face grim reality, Already the tide of conquest has lapped your shores. Your fate, your freedom, your way of living lies in the balance along with the,fate of the men and women of Britain and of all the peoples in the tragic list I gave just now, Today men who are still free stand up against -the most deliberate, most deadly, most devilish scheme of world conquest ever derived by the greed and lust of evil men. Today, the cream of your manhood stand among other free men ready, prepared to lay down their lives for the preservation of that precious freedom won for us by the sacrifice and devotion of gen- erations of our forefathers. Whether or not they will be called upon to make that supreme sacrifice depends in large measure on you, On what you do today, Not "you" as a crowd, but "you" as an individual, on the extent to which yOU provide those men 'with the vast and costly arma- ments essential to the modern soldier, sailor and airman if he is 'to hold his own in conflict with the gangster tie- floes, We have no choice but to fight, no alternative save slavery,, Total war has been forced on us, . Everything hi Germany, in Italy, and in japarii and to a great extent in the wide lands they have overrun, is being focussed and directed to otte Mtn only the overthrow of the Eng.. lish-speaking peoples and the conquest of the world by twai' at the dore. ocraclea Stich an accumulation of brute force as they cannot or will not mateh; or by the sweeping aside of all moral restraints by which our civilization has sought to make life decent and livable. Their own peoples, powerless in the grip of their dread secret police enjoy no free choice such as yotOand I enjoy, Everything they own, every- thing,they produce, is at the unfettered WI of their Nazi masters and over- lords, It is ceaselessly, relent'esslY being turned into weapons of destruc- tion to be used against us. Great and disquieting though this menace is, it can 'be overcome; it must be overcome if we are not to lose everything that makes life worth liv- ing. But one thing is plain, It can only be overcome by the combined united self-effacing efforts of every individual free man and woman. Un- like the Nazi hordes, we free men and worrier' have the right to exercise our own power of choice. Either we can throw the whole weight of our support behind the men who have to grapple with the ferocious hordes who would enslave us, or we can stand aside as an individual and hope that somebody else will do what is necessary as did the peoples of France, of Belguirn, of Holland, of Norway, of Denmark until it was too late, aye, or the peoples of the British Empire and the U. S. until it was almost too late. Freedom, that most precious heri- tage of mankind, carries with it great and heavy responsibilities. Every single• individual man and woman must play his or her part otherwise all will go down before the directed energy and might of the millions of brown and Nadic barbarians who are determined to destroy us and all we hold dear. TOday, I have said, is man- kind's greatest hour of Destiny. What response are you as an individual making? Look at it this way-- Suppose the person nearest and dearest to you is lying critically ill, Do you hesitate to throw all Your savings into the strug, gle to save that life so dear to you? Do you hesitate to mortgage your future earnings? Do you not gladly and willingly do these things? Do you not gladly and willingly and with a song in your heart go without that radio, that washing machine, those clothes, that projected holiday? Of course you do. Without your clear one, of what-value are any t of these things? And without liberty of what value is life? Death itself is far more prefer- able . . Let me leave, in your minds some words of the greatest Englishman of all times, a man you admire and trust and respect as much over here as we do in Britain. Mr. Churchill, "the per- sonification of England's greatness" recently said, "The contribution of Canada to the war effort in troops, in ships, in aircraft, in food and in fin- ance has been magnificent." But he urged you to drive yourselves for- ward with' unrelenting zeal. "The en- emies ranged against us have asked for total war", he said. "Let us make sure' they get it." I urge you to do your part today: to make such a supreme effort in buy- ing this Victory Loan that the blood ie the veins of the brown barbarians and their Nazi Allies many run cold with dismay when they see what is corning to them. It can be done; it will be done if every free man and woman plays his or her part. "Whatever the cost, what- ever the suffering, we shall stand by one another, trite and faithful com- rades, and do our duty, God keeping us, to the end. FINANCING OF THE INTERNATIONAL IS EFFICIENTLY DONE Co-operation Will Put Match Over various committee members of the gin county International match, Then he went to Peterborough .and compar- ed notes there, After that he talked with secretary-manager J. A. Carroll of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, Compiling his information and drafting a budget he presented it to the execu- tive of, the Huron County Plowing Match committee. They went into ses- sion and attacked the budget front all angles and when they finally retired from that session the budget was con- sidered' as nearly perfect as possible , . . and incidentally it still maintained general structure set up by the pract- ical farmer from Colborne township,, Hugh Hill is-a—breeder -or PurebsTed Guernsey cattle. People are often guil- ty of calling him all Ayrshire breeder, but he just laughs it off, He apprec- iates Guernseys best of all and feels certain that the day is not far off when people in Huron county will swing over to Guernseys from some of the other breeds. He has 25 head of Guernsey cows milking at the present time. Translat- ed into terms of work such as milking and caring for the cows and the rais- ing of sufficient feed for them it rep- resents a staggering total. The %bort- age of labor has affected him just as much as any other farmer in the county. Yet he is looking ahead to the International Plowing Match in Hur- on county as being the greatest in the history of the Ontario Plowmen's As- sociation. "Naturally the raising of the money for the match is a real job," says Mr. Hill; "but I have mighty good assist- ants on the directorate. We'll get the money to put this match over in a real bang-up way. What we ask for is the loyal co-operation of everybody in Huron county, SOMEBODY'S SON By G. L. Creed (Squadron Leader R. C. A. F.) Somebody's Son has volunteered to risk his life for you .'. . Somebody's Son is far from home and the things that homefollc do ... Somebody's Son for your Freedom's sake is preparing himself for War . . Somebody's Son deserves your help— for it's YOU he is fighting for! n New or Additional. COST OF LIVING BONUS Prohibited Without Permission Order of National War Labour Board to Bmployera and Employees; An employer who was not paying his employees a cost of living bonus prior to February 15, 1942, may not start to' pay such a bonus on or after that date, nor may an employer who has been paying such a bonus now increase it unless he has specific permission from a War Labour Board. Whether in the future a bonus may be paid or changed in amount will depend on the National War Labour Board's an- nouncemen,t in May 1942, with respect to any change in the cost of living index between October 1941, and April 1942, unless in a particular case a War Labour Board has given specific permission to do otherwise. By Order of the National War Labour Board HUMPHREY MITCHELL Minister of Labour and Chairman Ottawa, Canada Febniary 16, 1942 Somebody's Son in the days to come must meet the bitter Test . . . Somebody's Man for our Freedom's plan in a foreign field may rest . . . Somebody's Job is to care for them NOW — for on them all our hopes depend .. • Somebody's Job is to dig up the cask -and that Somebody's YOU, my friend! T HERE were scribers to 1,147,057 sub- the last Loan of 1914 -1918. during the war THERE were only 968,259 subscriptions to the First Victory Loan although the popu- lation of Canada was more than 3,000,000 greater than in 1918. EVERY person in Canada should subscribe to the Sec- ond Victory Loan and have a share in the defense of Canada. Hugh Hill, a dairy fanner from the Goderich district, is the man who holds the purse-strings for the Inter- national Plowing Match to be held Oc- tober 13, 14, 15, and 16 in Hullett township. Hugh is a man who is first and fore- most a farmer. Tall and muscular from contact with plenty of hard work, he wastes few words. When he has an opinion to express he does so with a minimum of frills. His language is plain and forceful, Hugh Hill is a man possessed of a good deal of ability its holding an audience, He has that knack of deliv- ering a message in a way that people like to hear, Put him in a smoky con- vention hall or at a formal banquet and he does equally well, He strips all the unnecessary fixtures from his ad- dress and gets down to "brass tacks." That is the way in which he is at- tacking the problem of putting on the international Plowing Match during wartime. Satisfied that the Ontario government' believes that the Inter- national serves a very useful purpose in wartime he plunged into the work of putting the whole affair ,on a strict budget, Each item of 4 experik was neatly catalogued and each source of revenue was stacked up beside it, He travelled! to St, Thomas -and interviewed the Somebody's Mother is giving her boy • in a Cause that is yours as well . Somebody's Wife knows a loneliness that only her heart can tell Somebody's Mother and Somebody's Wife are doing all they can do . . . Somebody prays that some other may .- care and the answer is up to YOU! 1918 In 19 41 This space donated to National War Finance Cotnmitted by EMPIRE BRASS MFG. CO., LIMITED London • Hamilton • Toronto . Sudbury a Winnipeg a Vancouver arid their DEALERS Makers -of DURO Pumps and EMCO Quality Plumbing Fixtures and Fittings Thursday, February 26, 1942 40.1•Peeeemmeeemeemememeeeegemeeeewialkeme-weeienememeameme