The Seaforth News, 1940-10-24, Page 7THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940
!der Royal Highness Princess Alice, seen here with His Excellency the
Earl of Athlone, recently spoke in a broadcast presented by the CBC ill
co-operation with the Canadian welfare council..
AN EMPIRE AT WAR
Britain's great colonial empire is
mobilising its strength in the battle'
foe freedom, Everywhere is' keeu de-
sire to enlist in the Army, Navy or
Air Force. Round the Seven Seas,
British colonies are providing sum
plies indispensable to war effort. By
the ens! of August, 1940, total cash
t:ontributlous frons the peoples of the.
Colonial Empire to the general war
effort wore approximately 75 cents
per head from the sixty million col-
onial peoples.
In a fleet of lorries, a contingent
from the Northern Rhodesia regiment
made a mechanised "serail" of 2,000
miles from Lusaka to Nairobi in
East Africa.
Two-fifths of the total stale Europ-
ean population of Kenya had enlisted
in the East African forces as long
ago as last May.
Uganda has formed a local defence
force with central officers' training
schooland army motor driving
school.
The Tanganyika Naval Volunteer
Force and the Tanganyika Air De
fence are co-operating in coastal de-
fence.
Nigeria has compulsory military
training for Europeans up to the age
or 40. In Hong Kong all British resi-
dents of military age are enrolled in
the Colony's defence forces.
In both the Straits Settlements and
Federated Malay States, British Eur-
opeans have either volunteered or
been called up under special legisla•
time
In Mauritius, the territorial force
has been reorganised. Skilled trades-
men have been recruited for service
in the Middle East.
Cyprus had the distinction of pro•
riding the first unit of colonial troops
to arrive in France.
Both Jews and Arabs in Palestine
have enlisted is great numbers.
Volunteer forces in Bermuda were
called up and expanded at the begin -
Mug of the war.
In Trinidad, Live timet the number
of then needed have applied for en-
listment on the R.N.V.R.
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THE: SFAFORTH NEWS
WHY BRITAIN WILL
WIN
By ARTIIUI, WAUTI4RS.
10amone Belgian Stu tesman
and Writer
M. Warners has had it remark-
able career. He volunteered ie the
last war and won great ,military
distinction in the Belgian Army.
Since that time he has gained
many academie honour's and be-
come a prominent figure in Belg-
ian politics. He is a professor of
Brussels University and a mem-
ber of the Belgian Colonial Insti-
ly in Belgian Congo and written
ly in Belgian Congo and wrtiten
a number of books on Colonial
questions.
Hitler's military victories achieved,
for a time, a double psychological re-
sult. The German people were filled
with faith in a magician who was re-
shaping Europe, as though invested
with a mysterious power. On the
other hand, some superficial neutral
onlookers began to be convinced of
the invincibility of Nazi Germany..
The Allies, perhaps unwittingly,
contributed to establishing this child-
ish belief by complacent descriptions
of the war methods of the German
armies in the first period of the war.
They did it, of course, with the
praiseworthy object of stimulating
the will for resistance and readiness
of sacrifice of the democratic masses.
The psychological effect of the
German successes has been increased
in geometrical progression, Hitler has
kept his promises of victory with
mathematical precision. He had an-
nounced that he would be in Paris on
of rphtintral tretnt 1. ttltr 6',.+.11:%1''
n lydt• tt:i q tri $u•
ncr•,
in Britain tie ratan rr.,ttuntr,
gates are in fl;!.
one cat? :listen ir, -•1t- to ,Naz
casts, !happens 'u &1511 ti, d } !
I"hc
dentocret is liberties en' fully
resireseed. The !'res; ann aunts ern
Government iTei11o11 with a snrerisinv
fnanknees. Parliament, ,whos'r l, ewee-
are sn'pretric, d?tin'tilivec to Bit tvhett-
ewcr .tbcre :is 4nusiuesa w transact.
'Mese things are, Ila my mind, one
of the essential gtrarante e of ,Britaitn','
.cantittt 'viotery.
The officially inspired optimism of
the r.nuntries living -tinder a system
of censorship lull bite 'fighting spirit
sof the citizens -to sleep. A flood of
reassuring .best oftenunfounded state-
ments act like chloroform -upon them.
The British .people are conscious ttf
tlb'e fact that they have .never 'been in -
waded for the last 900 years. They
are not ebllIvious to the unsuccessful
attempts .made successively by -Phidip
II, Louisa XI'V and iby Nalpoleon, They
know that 150.0 or 2,50 ships 'would the
needed to land five divisions. They
know 'that they will neier 'he betrayed
tby that ally evlhiah always 'keeps faith
with them: the Asea. They khow Ihat
their -s°hips are sailing the seven seas
and using thousands of ports all the
world over, ,whereas elle German and
Italian mercantile fleets are ettfitted
'to coastal traffic in the Baltic and the
Adriatic.
They know that in defiance of the
iuritu• attacks of the German Luft-
wafie, the Royal Air Force -is daily -
.delivering its blows on Germany, on
Turin, on .\ Blau, nn Libya, 'where -ver
it cares t, strike.
They also know trete - the 1'niterl
States is on their side.
They realise that those who ,were
unable hz prevent the heroic re-ent-
lbeekation of Dunkirk are now faced
with the incomparably more formid-
able task of attenuating The came op-
eration in the rappa rte .direction.
They know ,that the whole Empire,
without exception, constitutes one
solid reek.
Nor do they forget that ewe thirds
of the peoples subjected Iby Germany
are not Germans at all, and that 'Phe
terrthle fire of vengeance .which is
now smouldering in the !hearts of the
appressed nation. -will burst into
flame at the ru le moment.
.1s a citizen of an indomitable nat-
ions. 1 know that, in Spite of profes-
sional 'traitors anal place -seekers, the
,Whole of Tioretinol tonetit tuff. a cul-
timn in the service oe ttenuxtuy and
liberty. The beloved .spirits of Cardin-
al Mercier, of '13 ergo auteter Mao, of
Kine' .\lheet, of the heroic workers
aha were deported for refusing' to
work for the German., accompany us
in otir effort and inspire its -with hope.
Britain and with her the permanent
values of •mankind will triumph.
ONE MILLbON TELEPHONE
INSULATORS
Since the antiihreak of .na'r a fain -
CMS __ London pottery fine hat shipped
one .million porcelain telephone insul-
ators to markets avereeas.
I\V'lten the electric telegraph was
introduced a hundred years ago they
were one of 'Vie few able to meet the
earliest orders from the Britt,'h Rost
Office.
Then carne vette telephone, ,with its
blether 'demand for insulators, and.
latter, a .specially rtdbust insulator was
designed to support the live rails of
electric railways, a design which has
been .almost ,universally adopted in
Britain and to a longe extent making
porcelain insullaltors for sup,portieg
overhead telephone send electric pow-
er dines; tior the ringing and support
of Ibroadcasting 'towers; for ship and
aeroplane girdles- equipment; for the
overhead :lines of tramway and trot-
'leysbus undertakings; and for electric
substations.
Many of the more elaborate insul-
ators are tthrown, shaped and lathed
by 'hand in this historic ,pottery, -exam
ples of !brilliant ,crafts'manship accur-
ate in dintensian and identical to a
'fraction of an 1n -ch which itt days ro
come may well !be prized as examples
of 20th century- .design and skill.
June 15. He was there.
But It may be doubted whether
the process of collective bewitch-
ment will have a lasting effect. Hitler
announced that he would be in Lon-
don August 15, He failed to keep the
appointment.
He himself thus furnished the
proof of the vanity of some of his
boasts. Those who had been intoxi-
cated by German propaganda are
baffled. They are beginning to stake
historical comparisons. There is no
need to go back very far in time.
Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany collapsed
almost immediately after achieving
indisputable military triumps.
The Fuehrer's thirst for conquest
is now encountering some obstacles.
The time for easly successes is past.
In the neutral country which I left
for London a month ago, the most
absurd stories found credence in defi-
ance of all human intelligence. It was
whispered that Britain's fate would
be sealed within three weeks or that
45 millions of starving and terrorised
Britons were spending their lives
queuing up for a problematic crust of
bread in the daytime, and with col-
lective lamentation in the under-
ground shelters at night. Britain, it
was said, was no mere than a heap
of ruins. The electric power stations
were destroyed, the Largest city in
the world was plunged in darkness.
Transport was paralysed. A desperate
people was in revolt against its lead-
ers. The Empire was collapsing.
I ant writing these lines in London,
where the roar of the greatest ail'
battles in history reaches our ears,
The German planes are being brought
down by the magnificent pilots of the
Royal Air Force at the rate of five to
one and sometimes of one a minute.
The power of the Empire is unimpair-
ed. Iu spite of the self-styled German
"blockade", millions of tons of mer
chandise reach British ports week
after week.
The shops are overflowing with
goods. There is a certain amount of
rationing, but it does not interfere
with anybody's good supply. nor does
it diminish any workman's product-
ive capacity. Astonishing quantities
of produce are accessible to all: cof-
fee,•oranges, bananas, grape fruit,
tropical nuts, pepper, tobacco, olives.
and what not.
There is something disconcerting
about the calm and coolness of this
great people. It is due neither to in-
difference nor to passivity. With it
the sense of national co-operation
reaches a prodigious degree. Each
one is mobilised either organically
or morally. Each is doing his work
with orderliness, calm and discip-
line. There is neither haste, nor pre-
cipitation, nor panic. Everyone ate
plies rules strictly and encourages
everyone else to do likewise. Vigil•
ante never relaxes. Britain is not
invaded, but everyone- behaves as
though invasion ,tight conte at any
moment. This people will its no cin
cumstances be taken by surprise. .
A sporting people, the British are
counting the blows and taking stocit
impartially or their reverses and Mil.
Tugs, not to be disheartened by them
but to correct them. Nothing is left
to chance or to improvisation.
A sporting people the British ate
counting the blows and taking stock
impartially of their reverses ses anti fail-
ings. not to be disheartened by them
but to correct them. Nothing is left
to chance or to improvisation. -
Britain gives the impression of tt
powerful ,up -to -dire machine, whose
dewiess, wellsoiled - march proceeds
noiselessly :and w^ithou'c a hitch. Ev-
eryone knows what he has 10 do. And
he, or -she, will do it art the right tiuu'.
There is complete. iiueting and cag-
e ,co-operwtiou Ibleeween the ,public
and the a3rtltori'ties.
IGertnan pro;pwgand'a ,will not tshange
this nor chineiniA in the least the calm
and self—conscious 'force of this great
tf tee Ipoopite.
Lt is 'a significant 'fact that, tin spi't'e
RHODESDA'S GIANT
LOCOMOTIVES
BRITISH H COASTERS
CARRY *ON
By T.al"l l.:ji:."
!••tittt+,ti; 111'11 k ii :;,,vol :;'i'itf71'
of the :1.770 . t, atncrs anti 1110101'
shills of loll tots, and upwards regia
torrid anther the British- flag at the
beginning of this year', no fewer
than 4,247 are of lees than 2.0111)
tone. Many of these are "remelt; of
the coasting type, or 111050 used in
normal times for the shorter voy-
ages to the Continent
Britain's larger ports specialise in
the impart and export of certain
commodities carried by oceangoing
steamers from and to the uttermost
parts of the world. But the smaller
coastal ports, used by small vessels,
play a most important part in what
may be termed the secondary distrib-
ution of Britain.
The coasting vessels collect car-
goes
argoes at the greater ports and distrib-
ute them to many smaller ones. In
Great Britain, where no part of the
country is at any great distance
from the sea, a large part of the pop•
ulatiott can be supplied through one
port or another involving only a short
haul by either rail or road. The coast-
ing trade is entirely responsible for
the low rates existing between port
and port, and from and to towns
within a considerable radius of those
ports.
Eveu in time of war much British
coasting trade still continues to run.
One -stay instance the distribution of
coal from the coal -producing districts
and of the huge quantities of food
and other materials from the term -
had ports where it is landed from
a Ve rsett.
British coastwise trade lessens the
burden on Britain's hardly -worked
railways, and diminishes tate inevit-
able delays of sorting and shunting.
One comparatively small ship will
carry the goods that could only he
handled by a fleet of lorries using
imported petrol. For the carriage of
goods in bulk, and in spite of German
aircraft, submarhtes and mines, the
distribution by sea over a cottsider-
Fifty 1 e er-Garratt locomotives are
I1 ow operating ,m the Rhodesia Rail-
way;: fente bringing the. total ftp. oto
the lt:tlf century mark, have ;lase lhee,t
�p�rd antt irnm England in 3 stain
section std assent -bled en arrival,
'I`h•r Ile \N- engines are ifor the trees
(ro sin:g Bechuanaland for .1113 miles
and linking 11afekiee with 11 til ttvayo.
East of ',.hent has 38 when.<, weighs
tlt7t)!5 dmfs and utas an overall length
of el'4 feet.3 itiches.
Cltcir rnaximtttu bails are 050 tons
for a mail train and 1,1150 ton, for a
goods. They dist £163,000.
Mr.—"This motor is heating up
worse than ever.
Mrs. ---"Isn't it provoking—and I
had a man come in only this morn-
ing and disconnect the radiator'."
Want and For Sale Ads, 3 week 25c
PAGE SEVEN
DANDELIONS HELP
Britain is growing -datt(I'elion's for
export. - -
It is one of the herbal drugs which
the eonntry eased 'to import from.
France, Germany. Belgium and Italy.
Chief in .wartime inrpertanee among
1118m, henbane, stramonium and '1a1 -
able area is still swifter and more erian.
economical than by road or rail. - Ad are now beim; grown in auOfi-
The debt that Britain owes to tate tient quantttice to rneett British war -
Merchant Navy tend to those who
,tan it is generally recognised.
\Vhat is not so often realised is the
great percentage crnttage of the British Mee-
onaut Navy that fs made ftp in the The 1. S.A. are big !havers. The
little ships plying between the vari-
Teams rani—Teamsare exotic and fastidious in e' -
ons smaller p1r15 of Great Britain. 41rd to climate and soil yet although .
Their names. litre those of the ;\teetica has many climate, and nnauy
tramps which ply furtlterulteld. ,u'„ ,ell 1111,1 , the pl'luts d', ,tna thrit-c
hot lutowlt like those of the liners 1111.1.' a.tnl „hey are therefor,. :beingported from front Great Ilritain.
Among the brief hobo' drtt.g4 now
lrcbr ra,wu iu Britain 'for the home
and export markets are digital.. tra-
tnonitnu, valerian, pyrethrum. broom,
dandelion. tarragon and calendula.
Britain's nl,at important drug farm;
er", who daily risk being bombed,
are in elle south 00 I^.luE roti'. '[''leer is
machine-gunned or perhaps mined. also one in Scotland. Indeed, 'the old -
Protected by the Royal Navy and est of them all, the Physic Garden.
the Royal Air Force. they carry on I w1s founded in Edinburgh by a hos-
unperturbed, taking the risks of war pita! in 11001-.
merely as additional hazards to the -
ordinary risks or Peart. They were CATTLE SHOW, SALE
not trained to the use of weapons. or IN LATE NOVEMBER
for the rigours of battle.
Skilful, rugged, unflinching, stolid The Ontario Provincial Winter
and perhaps a little unintaginative. Fair (Guelph Winter Fah') in c•o-oper-
British coastwise seamen enjoy none ation with the Out. Dept. of Agricul-
of the glamour of publicity, or the ture and the Union Stock Yards Co.,
glory of ribbons and gold -laced uni- Toronto. will bold a commercial
forms. One cannot distinguish tltent show and sale of beef cattle, sheep
ashore, except perhaps by the silver and swine, Nov. 29 and 30 at the
badge with the aaval crown and the Union Stock Yards where a similar
letters M.N. (Merchant Navy) worn show and sale of outstanding success
time steeds -after existing 'big stocks
are done, and British drug ,gromers
are. even increasing their average to
supply the foreign market.
which carry passengers.
British coastwise seamen are now
enduring the full fury or the Ger-
man aircraft attacks on Channel and
East Coast. convoys. These are the
men in 1110 ships rounding what ie.
popularly knnwu t s 'Hell -flet roru-
in their buttonholes. They are simple
then carrying on their normal peace-
time jobs in the midst of the feight-
fulness of the fiercest war that Brit-
ain has ever known.
They are also carrying on a great
tradition, that of the Elizabethan
seamen who sailed from every little
port in England, when, in 1538. the
Armada sailed up -Channel and Brit-
ain was threatened with invasion by
the Duke of Parnta's army in
Flanders.
"God blew with His winds and
they were scattered." was the pious
legend used on the Armada medals
bearing the effigy of - Queen Elizab-
eth. England gave thanks to the Al-
mighty for her deliverance; but lea
small meed or gratitude was also
due to lies seamen. - Without them
the comury would have been lost
10 is the same to -day. Those 11101111 -
antis of British coastwise sea 1110D
carrying: asenti:tl cargi)es in their
small ships 110111 )tort 10 port \venld
hate to be culled heroes. Yet to de-
scribe tlieut by any ether term would
err on the side of tinder -statement.
The Canadian a ,!'-is the iiing oaf
Fruits and its food 1at1 1-!ihth, ane
Lange apple alone providing lite calor-
ies, -
Two heavyweight boxers. chasing
each - other round the ring, kept
treading on the toes of the :small ref-
eree. At last he lost patience and
shouted: "If you guys don't stop
treading ou my corns there's going to
be a fight!"
was held last fall. Upwards of $2,000
is being offered in prize money, states
L. E. O'Neill, secretary of the Guelph
Winter Fair. The purpose of the show
is to bring together the producers of
high class animals with buyers look-
ing
ooking for this class of stock for the
Christmas trade.
Classes are being provided for
Shorthorns, Hereford and Angus Cat-
tle, with five classes for each breed
on a weight basis. Prizes will be of-
fered for groups of six steers weigh•
ing over 1000 pounds.
Group prizes are also being offered
for pens of five market lambs and
five bacon hogs.
BUS TIME TABLE
Summer Time Table
Leaves Seaford, for Stratford:
II•,i:y .3a a.m. and 5.121 p.m.
I clues Sea forth for Goderich:
Rally exe,pt Sunday and hot., t.o.• P.m
and 7,40 p.m,
3x0. and hos., 1.o-, -p.m. and'a 1,.m
oo ,tenh at Sleet ford tor ,1,,
Hamilton, au„ t.�,,:d.,tl. l ,: t^nit,,
Buff
Tavistock, Woodstock, Brant o .1
Agents: Queen's. Commercial, Dick nu.e
Auseasomommostrasonostras ee.
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of rphtintral tretnt 1. ttltr 6',.+.11:%1''
n lydt• tt:i q tri $u•
ncr•,
in Britain tie ratan rr.,ttuntr,
gates are in fl;!.
one cat? :listen ir, -•1t- to ,Naz
casts, !happens 'u &1511 ti, d } !
I"hc
dentocret is liberties en' fully
resireseed. The !'res; ann aunts ern
Government iTei11o11 with a snrerisinv
fnanknees. Parliament, ,whos'r l, ewee-
are sn'pretric, d?tin'tilivec to Bit tvhett-
ewcr .tbcre :is 4nusiuesa w transact.
'Mese things are, Ila my mind, one
of the essential gtrarante e of ,Britaitn','
.cantittt 'viotery.
The officially inspired optimism of
the r.nuntries living -tinder a system
of censorship lull bite 'fighting spirit
sof the citizens -to sleep. A flood of
reassuring .best oftenunfounded state-
ments act like chloroform -upon them.
The British .people are conscious ttf
tlb'e fact that they have .never 'been in -
waded for the last 900 years. They
are not ebllIvious to the unsuccessful
attempts .made successively by -Phidip
II, Louisa XI'V and iby Nalpoleon, They
know that 150.0 or 2,50 ships 'would the
needed to land five divisions. They
know 'that they will neier 'he betrayed
tby that ally evlhiah always 'keeps faith
with them: the Asea. They khow Ihat
their -s°hips are sailing the seven seas
and using thousands of ports all the
world over, ,whereas elle German and
Italian mercantile fleets are ettfitted
'to coastal traffic in the Baltic and the
Adriatic.
They know that in defiance of the
iuritu• attacks of the German Luft-
wafie, the Royal Air Force -is daily -
.delivering its blows on Germany, on
Turin, on .\ Blau, nn Libya, 'where -ver
it cares t, strike.
They also know trete - the 1'niterl
States is on their side.
They realise that those who ,were
unable hz prevent the heroic re-ent-
lbeekation of Dunkirk are now faced
with the incomparably more formid-
able task of attenuating The came op-
eration in the rappa rte .direction.
They know ,that the whole Empire,
without exception, constitutes one
solid reek.
Nor do they forget that ewe thirds
of the peoples subjected Iby Germany
are not Germans at all, and that 'Phe
terrthle fire of vengeance .which is
now smouldering in the !hearts of the
appressed nation. -will burst into
flame at the ru le moment.
.1s a citizen of an indomitable nat-
ions. 1 know that, in Spite of profes-
sional 'traitors anal place -seekers, the
,Whole of Tioretinol tonetit tuff. a cul-
timn in the service oe ttenuxtuy and
liberty. The beloved .spirits of Cardin-
al Mercier, of '13 ergo auteter Mao, of
Kine' .\lheet, of the heroic workers
aha were deported for refusing' to
work for the German., accompany us
in otir effort and inspire its -with hope.
Britain and with her the permanent
values of •mankind will triumph.
ONE MILLbON TELEPHONE
INSULATORS
Since the antiihreak of .na'r a fain -
CMS __ London pottery fine hat shipped
one .million porcelain telephone insul-
ators to markets avereeas.
I\V'lten the electric telegraph was
introduced a hundred years ago they
were one of 'Vie few able to meet the
earliest orders from the Britt,'h Rost
Office.
Then carne vette telephone, ,with its
blether 'demand for insulators, and.
latter, a .specially rtdbust insulator was
designed to support the live rails of
electric railways, a design which has
been .almost ,universally adopted in
Britain and to a longe extent making
porcelain insullaltors for sup,portieg
overhead telephone send electric pow-
er dines; tior the ringing and support
of Ibroadcasting 'towers; for ship and
aeroplane girdles- equipment; for the
overhead :lines of tramway and trot-
'leysbus undertakings; and for electric
substations.
Many of the more elaborate insul-
ators are tthrown, shaped and lathed
by 'hand in this historic ,pottery, -exam
ples of !brilliant ,crafts'manship accur-
ate in dintensian and identical to a
'fraction of an 1n -ch which itt days ro
come may well !be prized as examples
of 20th century- .design and skill.
June 15. He was there.
But It may be doubted whether
the process of collective bewitch-
ment will have a lasting effect. Hitler
announced that he would be in Lon-
don August 15, He failed to keep the
appointment.
He himself thus furnished the
proof of the vanity of some of his
boasts. Those who had been intoxi-
cated by German propaganda are
baffled. They are beginning to stake
historical comparisons. There is no
need to go back very far in time.
Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany collapsed
almost immediately after achieving
indisputable military triumps.
The Fuehrer's thirst for conquest
is now encountering some obstacles.
The time for easly successes is past.
In the neutral country which I left
for London a month ago, the most
absurd stories found credence in defi-
ance of all human intelligence. It was
whispered that Britain's fate would
be sealed within three weeks or that
45 millions of starving and terrorised
Britons were spending their lives
queuing up for a problematic crust of
bread in the daytime, and with col-
lective lamentation in the under-
ground shelters at night. Britain, it
was said, was no mere than a heap
of ruins. The electric power stations
were destroyed, the Largest city in
the world was plunged in darkness.
Transport was paralysed. A desperate
people was in revolt against its lead-
ers. The Empire was collapsing.
I ant writing these lines in London,
where the roar of the greatest ail'
battles in history reaches our ears,
The German planes are being brought
down by the magnificent pilots of the
Royal Air Force at the rate of five to
one and sometimes of one a minute.
The power of the Empire is unimpair-
ed. Iu spite of the self-styled German
"blockade", millions of tons of mer
chandise reach British ports week
after week.
The shops are overflowing with
goods. There is a certain amount of
rationing, but it does not interfere
with anybody's good supply. nor does
it diminish any workman's product-
ive capacity. Astonishing quantities
of produce are accessible to all: cof-
fee,•oranges, bananas, grape fruit,
tropical nuts, pepper, tobacco, olives.
and what not.
There is something disconcerting
about the calm and coolness of this
great people. It is due neither to in-
difference nor to passivity. With it
the sense of national co-operation
reaches a prodigious degree. Each
one is mobilised either organically
or morally. Each is doing his work
with orderliness, calm and discip-
line. There is neither haste, nor pre-
cipitation, nor panic. Everyone ate
plies rules strictly and encourages
everyone else to do likewise. Vigil•
ante never relaxes. Britain is not
invaded, but everyone- behaves as
though invasion ,tight conte at any
moment. This people will its no cin
cumstances be taken by surprise. .
A sporting people, the British are
counting the blows and taking stocit
impartially or their reverses and Mil.
Tugs, not to be disheartened by them
but to correct them. Nothing is left
to chance or to improvisation.
A sporting people the British ate
counting the blows and taking stock
impartially of their reverses ses anti fail-
ings. not to be disheartened by them
but to correct them. Nothing is left
to chance or to improvisation. -
Britain gives the impression of tt
powerful ,up -to -dire machine, whose
dewiess, wellsoiled - march proceeds
noiselessly :and w^ithou'c a hitch. Ev-
eryone knows what he has 10 do. And
he, or -she, will do it art the right tiuu'.
There is complete. iiueting and cag-
e ,co-operwtiou Ibleeween the ,public
and the a3rtltori'ties.
IGertnan pro;pwgand'a ,will not tshange
this nor chineiniA in the least the calm
and self—conscious 'force of this great
tf tee Ipoopite.
Lt is 'a significant 'fact that, tin spi't'e
RHODESDA'S GIANT
LOCOMOTIVES
BRITISH H COASTERS
CARRY *ON
By T.al"l l.:ji:."
!••tittt+,ti; 111'11 k ii :;,,vol :;'i'itf71'
of the :1.770 . t, atncrs anti 1110101'
shills of loll tots, and upwards regia
torrid anther the British- flag at the
beginning of this year', no fewer
than 4,247 are of lees than 2.0111)
tone. Many of these are "remelt; of
the coasting type, or 111050 used in
normal times for the shorter voy-
ages to the Continent
Britain's larger ports specialise in
the impart and export of certain
commodities carried by oceangoing
steamers from and to the uttermost
parts of the world. But the smaller
coastal ports, used by small vessels,
play a most important part in what
may be termed the secondary distrib-
ution of Britain.
The coasting vessels collect car-
goes
argoes at the greater ports and distrib-
ute them to many smaller ones. In
Great Britain, where no part of the
country is at any great distance
from the sea, a large part of the pop•
ulatiott can be supplied through one
port or another involving only a short
haul by either rail or road. The coast-
ing trade is entirely responsible for
the low rates existing between port
and port, and from and to towns
within a considerable radius of those
ports.
Eveu in time of war much British
coasting trade still continues to run.
One -stay instance the distribution of
coal from the coal -producing districts
and of the huge quantities of food
and other materials from the term -
had ports where it is landed from
a Ve rsett.
British coastwise trade lessens the
burden on Britain's hardly -worked
railways, and diminishes tate inevit-
able delays of sorting and shunting.
One comparatively small ship will
carry the goods that could only he
handled by a fleet of lorries using
imported petrol. For the carriage of
goods in bulk, and in spite of German
aircraft, submarhtes and mines, the
distribution by sea over a cottsider-
Fifty 1 e er-Garratt locomotives are
I1 ow operating ,m the Rhodesia Rail-
way;: fente bringing the. total ftp. oto
the lt:tlf century mark, have ;lase lhee,t
�p�rd antt irnm England in 3 stain
section std assent -bled en arrival,
'I`h•r Ile \N- engines are ifor the trees
(ro sin:g Bechuanaland for .1113 miles
and linking 11afekiee with 11 til ttvayo.
East of ',.hent has 38 when.<, weighs
tlt7t)!5 dmfs and utas an overall length
of el'4 feet.3 itiches.
Cltcir rnaximtttu bails are 050 tons
for a mail train and 1,1150 ton, for a
goods. They dist £163,000.
Mr.—"This motor is heating up
worse than ever.
Mrs. ---"Isn't it provoking—and I
had a man come in only this morn-
ing and disconnect the radiator'."
Want and For Sale Ads, 3 week 25c
PAGE SEVEN
DANDELIONS HELP
Britain is growing -datt(I'elion's for
export. - -
It is one of the herbal drugs which
the eonntry eased 'to import from.
France, Germany. Belgium and Italy.
Chief in .wartime inrpertanee among
1118m, henbane, stramonium and '1a1 -
able area is still swifter and more erian.
economical than by road or rail. - Ad are now beim; grown in auOfi-
The debt that Britain owes to tate tient quantttice to rneett British war -
Merchant Navy tend to those who
,tan it is generally recognised.
\Vhat is not so often realised is the
great percentage crnttage of the British Mee-
onaut Navy that fs made ftp in the The 1. S.A. are big !havers. The
little ships plying between the vari-
Teams rani—Teamsare exotic and fastidious in e' -
ons smaller p1r15 of Great Britain. 41rd to climate and soil yet although .
Their names. litre those of the ;\teetica has many climate, and nnauy
tramps which ply furtlterulteld. ,u'„ ,ell 1111,1 , the pl'luts d', ,tna thrit-c
hot lutowlt like those of the liners 1111.1.' a.tnl „hey are therefor,. :beingported from front Great Ilritain.
Among the brief hobo' drtt.g4 now
lrcbr ra,wu iu Britain 'for the home
and export markets are digital.. tra-
tnonitnu, valerian, pyrethrum. broom,
dandelion. tarragon and calendula.
Britain's nl,at important drug farm;
er", who daily risk being bombed,
are in elle south 00 I^.luE roti'. '[''leer is
machine-gunned or perhaps mined. also one in Scotland. Indeed, 'the old -
Protected by the Royal Navy and est of them all, the Physic Garden.
the Royal Air Force. they carry on I w1s founded in Edinburgh by a hos-
unperturbed, taking the risks of war pita! in 11001-.
merely as additional hazards to the -
ordinary risks or Peart. They were CATTLE SHOW, SALE
not trained to the use of weapons. or IN LATE NOVEMBER
for the rigours of battle.
Skilful, rugged, unflinching, stolid The Ontario Provincial Winter
and perhaps a little unintaginative. Fair (Guelph Winter Fah') in c•o-oper-
British coastwise seamen enjoy none ation with the Out. Dept. of Agricul-
of the glamour of publicity, or the ture and the Union Stock Yards Co.,
glory of ribbons and gold -laced uni- Toronto. will bold a commercial
forms. One cannot distinguish tltent show and sale of beef cattle, sheep
ashore, except perhaps by the silver and swine, Nov. 29 and 30 at the
badge with the aaval crown and the Union Stock Yards where a similar
letters M.N. (Merchant Navy) worn show and sale of outstanding success
time steeds -after existing 'big stocks
are done, and British drug ,gromers
are. even increasing their average to
supply the foreign market.
which carry passengers.
British coastwise seamen are now
enduring the full fury or the Ger-
man aircraft attacks on Channel and
East Coast. convoys. These are the
men in 1110 ships rounding what ie.
popularly knnwu t s 'Hell -flet roru-
in their buttonholes. They are simple
then carrying on their normal peace-
time jobs in the midst of the feight-
fulness of the fiercest war that Brit-
ain has ever known.
They are also carrying on a great
tradition, that of the Elizabethan
seamen who sailed from every little
port in England, when, in 1538. the
Armada sailed up -Channel and Brit-
ain was threatened with invasion by
the Duke of Parnta's army in
Flanders.
"God blew with His winds and
they were scattered." was the pious
legend used on the Armada medals
bearing the effigy of - Queen Elizab-
eth. England gave thanks to the Al-
mighty for her deliverance; but lea
small meed or gratitude was also
due to lies seamen. - Without them
the comury would have been lost
10 is the same to -day. Those 11101111 -
antis of British coastwise sea 1110D
carrying: asenti:tl cargi)es in their
small ships 110111 )tort 10 port \venld
hate to be culled heroes. Yet to de-
scribe tlieut by any ether term would
err on the side of tinder -statement.
The Canadian a ,!'-is the iiing oaf
Fruits and its food 1at1 1-!ihth, ane
Lange apple alone providing lite calor-
ies, -
Two heavyweight boxers. chasing
each - other round the ring, kept
treading on the toes of the :small ref-
eree. At last he lost patience and
shouted: "If you guys don't stop
treading ou my corns there's going to
be a fight!"
was held last fall. Upwards of $2,000
is being offered in prize money, states
L. E. O'Neill, secretary of the Guelph
Winter Fair. The purpose of the show
is to bring together the producers of
high class animals with buyers look-
ing
ooking for this class of stock for the
Christmas trade.
Classes are being provided for
Shorthorns, Hereford and Angus Cat-
tle, with five classes for each breed
on a weight basis. Prizes will be of-
fered for groups of six steers weigh•
ing over 1000 pounds.
Group prizes are also being offered
for pens of five market lambs and
five bacon hogs.
BUS TIME TABLE
Summer Time Table
Leaves Seaford, for Stratford:
II•,i:y .3a a.m. and 5.121 p.m.
I clues Sea forth for Goderich:
Rally exe,pt Sunday and hot., t.o.• P.m
and 7,40 p.m,
3x0. and hos., 1.o-, -p.m. and'a 1,.m
oo ,tenh at Sleet ford tor ,1,,
Hamilton, au„ t.�,,:d.,tl. l ,: t^nit,,
Buff
Tavistock, Woodstock, Brant o .1
Agents: Queen's. Commercial, Dick nu.e
Auseasomommostrasonostras ee.
D. H. IO/ItcINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
Office - Commercial Hotel
Electro Therapist — Massage
Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after-
noons and by appointment.
FOOT CORRECTION
by manipulation—Sun-ray
treatment,
Phone 227.