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Wednesday, September 17, 1941 * THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE F a THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE Publiahed OB CoUiOfVMd >toa*f KlfHherton, Wednesday of Ttlh wk. Circulation OTW 1.060. Price in C*u*d* ft.QO pr y*w, , when paid in advance flJW; in C S. A. f&60 per year, whan paid in advance |2.00. F. J. THURSTON. fcxl.tor EDITORIAL NOTES Requests are pouring in to the Dominion Minister of Labor to come down from his ivory tower and deal in a forthright manner with agitators who are fomenting strikes and stirr. ing up unrest among munition work era at a time when an all-out effort is required to ensure victory and safeguard democracy. While most things are being subordinated to the manufacture of war materials, the strike at the plants of the Campbell Company in New Toronto, makers of soups, and the McKinnon Industries of St. Catharines, makers of war ma. terials. The government has called the strikers to go back to work and on Monday a few hundred responded and were working, and the Campbell Company strikers went back to -work also. Strikes in Canada are becom- ing all too numerous and are a detri- ment to the successful carrying on of the war effort. Conscription of labor will have to be undertaken if strikes continue and many are advocating that step at the present time. WP should hope that loyal Canadians would think- twice before striking, as workers under the democratic system nr* treated with (rreater regard than those In totalitarian countries. The recent sharp advance in the price of cheese will soon, practically speaking, render it unnecessary to call upon Canadians to refrain from rating cheese In order that the hard. pressed peonle of Britain may be assured of their agreed quota. 112. OOO.OOO pounds or more. The price will be quite sufficient to restrict domestic buying, as cheese in Ontario last week wa* retailing at almost double what trie commodity com- manded a vear aeo. All Canadian cheese products since Mav 26th last Tiave been shi"T>ed overseas to meet the demands of the United Kingdom und unles trovernment rulinirs are relaxed, this nractice will continue indefinitely. Normally, Canada con- sumes about 40,000,000 pounds . of cheese annually. On every hand there is indication of inflation, despite the strenuous efforts of the Government to combat ' it. This applies to products vitally required by farmers, although con Burners in the urban domestic field are perhaps more severely affected. Prices of hay and straw in Ontario are anywhere from $1 to $5 a ton higher than at this time last year, although there was a pronounced shortage in HMO. The authorities have placed a ban on the export of except under license. Fortun- CANADA AT WAR (This is the first of a series of five articles written by Bruce M. Pearce, editor of The Simcoe Reformer, for member papers of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, in connection with the recent tour of Eastern Canada military camps, num. itaon plants, R.C.A.F. school and naval yards, made by a group of pro- minent weekly, daily and trade news- paper eitors and publishers. The first article is general in nature, summarizing impressions of the trip and outlining the various highlights encountered en route. Subsequent articles wiU deal with the Army, the War Industries, the R.C.A.F. and the Navy.) By B. M. P. On the morning of August 23rd last a group of nearly fifty represent- ative Canadian newspapermen as - sembled in Hamilton to commence a journey that is probably without pre- cedent in Canadian journalism. On the night of August 81st, eight days later, they arrived in Montreal to complete the last leg of a trip which had taken them to the Atlantic coast and given them a complete pan- orama of the great war giant which is rapidly taking form in Canada. Sponsored by the Department of National Defence, the tour was initia ted primarily to give the editors an insight into Canada's military and in- dustrial activity and to provide them with an enlightened conception of what is actually taking place in this country, with the thought that they would then be able to discuss more ately the deficit in the hay crop will be partially offset by a bountiful yield of corn. Arrangements are under way for the shipment, under favorable freight rates, to Ontario of coarse grain from the West, which will be required for feed if the de- mand from Great Britain for bacon and cheese is to be met. KIMBLRLEY Mr. Wilbcr Kllis has returned from a trip to 'Winnipeg and points west and is visitinr with hi? father, A. E "Ellis, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Bunting are th< quests of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Myle? tins week. Mr. Art Wardmnn of Toronto is visiting the Weber families this week. A number from here attended the "Rorklyn fair Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stuart and son and daughter spent the week end -with Mrs. Les McMullen and Mr. and "Mrs. R. Chard. Mr. and Mrs. Chard motored with theim on Sunday to Atwood. Miss Vern Brush is the guost of Mrs. D. L. Weber thin week. AUCTION SALE HOUSEHOLD KFFECT8 W. H. Patterson will sell by public auction at CEYLON Wednesday, September 17th the following, namely: Dining Room Suite, 8 pieces; Cupboards, 3 Bedroom Suites, 4 Odd H*dn, Extension Table, 2 Lounges, Stoves, Bookcase, Odd Tables. Wash Stands, Number of Odd Chairs, Rock 1ng Chairs, Dishes, Ceilers, etc. Extension Ladder 40-fcet; Short Lad der. Some Liirht Wood and Quantity of Hay, a'">m !", SALE AT 2 P.M. SHARP TERMS Cnph. GEO .DUNCAN', Auctioneer intelligently in their columns the various phases of Canada's war enterprise. That the editors gladly embraced this unique opportunity may be taken for granted. Heretofore they had known all too little of the inside story of the huge machine which con, stitutes Canada's contribution to the fight against Hitlerism. Not being in a position to inform their readers, tho majority were inclined to give voire to the growing impatience on the part of Canadians at the appar- ent lack of all-out effort. Until the fall of France in June, 1940, it is done all too little. That is no longer true to day. The truth is that Can- ada is rapidly shaping a formidable- war machine that will have a not- able part in licking Hitler. In the short space of eight days, the Can- adian editors were treated to a spec, tacle that not only Utterly opened their eyes but inspired pride and strengthened their faith in the part anada is playing and will play on an ever-growing scale in aiding the Mother Country. Kverything Wide Open Everything was thrown wide open M the prying eyes of insatiably cur- ous editors. Nothing was held back. We had with us Brigadier Kenneth Stuart, D.S.O., M... Vice Chief of the General Staff, together with dis tinguished representatives of every branch of the service, including the Department of Munitions and Supply. as well as 0. Herbert Lash, Director of Public Information and J. W. G. Clark, Director of Public Relations for Army and R. C. A. F., and mem- bers of their staffs. Their policy was that every bit of available in formation should be forthcoming. And it was. Nor did they place any contents of our the well-known rules of censorship. Not only did these men utilize every waking moment to answer the million questions levelled nt them by their guests, but they made sure that every Camp Commandant, every factory head and every officer re- vealed the whole show am) held nolh ing back. At Ottawa the editors were entertained at a dinner at which Hon. J. L. Kalston, Hon. C. D. Howe nd Hon. ('. (J. Power were the prin- tpal speakers. The general im- iression was that these men were incerely trying to do a job. They were frank in admitting their mi jikes and Hon. Mr. Ralston declared hat one chief mistake was in having failed heretofore in letting the light Mood into editorial minds that tlu-ir eadcrs, the Canadian public, might the chiefs of the navy and air force, with whom we came in contact. They gave the impression of being on top of their job and they inspired con fidence by their brisk, alert and con- fident bearing. Many Canadian ed- itors are resting more easily as a re suit of those contracts. Not a Joy-Ride Where did we go? What did we see? What did we learn in those eight days '! If any reader has the impression that it was simply a joy- ride at government expense, we can only say that was the most strenuous joy-ride that most of those editors had ever experienced. From 8 a.m. until late at night we were walking miles through military camps, in and out of barracks, machine shops and airdromes, through huge munitions factories, naval dockyards and arsen- als. We were bounced over hill and dale in trucks, tractors, carriers, blitz buggies and many other of those frightening vehicles which form the mechanized and armoured army of 1941. (We saw not a single horse except on a back street in Halifax and we learned that only nine horses remain in the Canadian army and they are headed for the glue factory). We were driven about in open army trucks in weather that penetrated to the marrow; we were embussed and debussed until we loathed the sight of a bus; we were thumped by depth charges tossed from a destroyer on the broad Atlantic; we travelled some 3,000 miles by train and were finally disembarked in Montreal on a Sunday night in the midst of a downpour of rain. 'We forgave all except the sharp nudge of a heartless porter every morning at 6:30 a.m. Yes, a joy-ride indeed! Highlights of the Tour In concluding this initial article, just an outline of a few unforgettable highlights. There was the astound- ing demonstration of tracked or armoured fighting vehicles and wheeled passenger or load-carrying vehicles at the General Motors prov- ing ground near Oshawa, featuring movement over the roughest ground which put the machines to the stern est test and which proved convinc- ingly that Canadian industrial genius is prepared to meet the challenge of mechanized warfare. There was the nocturnal visit to the National Steel Car plant at Hamilton where several thousand men are turnipg out artillery and anti-aircraft shells, with the largest output of any sim- ilar factory in the British Empire. Thewe was a Sunday morning pre- view of that remarkable exhibit by the Department of (Munitions and Supply at the Canadian National Ex- hibition, giving a vivid portrayal of the achievement of Canada's war in- dustries. At the Inglis plant in To- ronto, apart from viewing the pro- duction of Bren machine gnns in full of the Battle of Britain and men from London who had lived and worked through the blitz. In succeeding articles we will try to tell the story of Canada's army, navy and air force, of the turning writing u new and glorious chapter in Canada's history and which may revolutionize the Dominion's entire future. Certain it is that since the fall of France a little more tha.i one year ago, a miracle has 'been wrought. While Canadians fumed impatiently th,e keen brains of Canada's military and industrial leaders were working night and day to set in motiop the wheels that would make her conlrT- bution to the Empire cause one of which every Canadian may rightly be proud. (Article No. 2 next week will deal with Canada's Army). or. Maybe the remedy was worse the effect of gas that is, it made ODD INVENTIONS SPURRED BY WAR restrictions on the stories aside from Recently the United States Army was offered a "liquid cement" which the inventor claimed could be shot at an enemy deatchment and it would harden quickly, freezing the enemy troops in their tracks. The invention was declined. Thousands of new patents are tak. en out every year, yet they represent only a fraction of the fantastic da vices and gadgets that are put for- ward by hopeful inventors. In war time, especially, there is a continual stream of imaginative ideas and no- tions offered to the authorities. When the Zeppelin raids over Engi land were causing such anxiety dur- ing the last war, one imaginative fel. low outlined a plan for freezing the clouds so that machine guns could be perched on them to fight the Zepps. Another enthusiast conceived the idea of attaching a number of giant magnets to balloons which would be let out over the enemy's trenches. The magnets would then pick up the en' emy's rifles. Any soldiers wearing their tin hats would, presumably, be lifted also. During the Dardanelles campaign, the War Office was offered a gun which would fire square bullets at Turks and round ones at Christians. The inventor never explained the reason for the variety, nod did he suggest how our soldiers were to differentiate between Turks and ' Christians. Ideas for .special guns and shells were legion, one of the quaintest being to replace shells by snakes, which were to be scattered by pneu- matic compulsion into the enemy's trenches. While war increases the number of ideas and gadgets, hopeful inventors pursue their plans unwearyingly in peace days, too. A few years ago, one inventor claimed to ]\ave made an than the disease! A kiss curd was the ingenious in- vention of a brainy youth. A post- card was impregnated with rouge composition which took a perfect im. pression of the sender's lips. How the postman would chuckle at that! However, it doesn't always pay to laugh at inventioi.s*. History records host of object lessons fer the scoffer. When, many years ago, knives and forks were introduced into England, there was a tremendous outcry against them. Clergy even claimed that to use them was an affront to the Almighty, who had provided fing. ers and thumbs, just as in more re- cent times there were people who pooh .poohed automobiles because "had we been intended to ride in cars we wouldn't have been given \vgV' Baking powder is, today, a house- hold adjunct, yet it was first greeted with ridicule and fear. People claim- ed 1 it means "cooking with chemicals"' and would probably poison anyone who used it. When the manufact- urers said that baking powder had the dough rise the scoffers said it would probably continue to rise when the bread was eaten, and cartoonists drew pictures of people becoming in. fiated and rising to the ceiling after eating bread. Summer Time Table Effective Sat., June 28 Leave Flesherton TO TORONTO e 11.50 a.m. b 7.25 p.m. TO OWBN SOUND c5.50 p.m. d 7.4ft p.n. b : San. and Holiday; e: Sat only; d : Friday only Standard Tim* Grey Coach Lines STATION We have reopened our egg grading station and are now prepared to handle any amount of eggs 0. & A. Co-operative Company, Ltd. FLESHERTON, Ontario mow the true story of this country's war achievement. A Real Achievement It in an achievement, too, as these articles aim to .tell, not just an effort* a word that fails to give the true emphasis. Wo would also add that not once throughout the entire pilgrimage was the word "politicH" heard. The men who were our hosts, were far too intensely absorbed in the vital task of sharpening Can- ada's tools of war to worry for a moment about, politics. It was one of the last impressions of the trip that these men, many of them dollar -a iyear public servants, were out to do a job for Canada, that they were sparing neither strength nor talent to perform that service, and that they \\i-re admirably fitted for the lev w'lirli thev wen pi i-d. The applies !.i Ibc- Industrial lr:il- ihe milit.iry rump cm respondents swing we were addressed by Major Hahn, who earlier in the war was severely maligned by some section of the press, but whos enterprise and ingenuity have created one of the most integral units in Canada's war machine. Tanks, Planes, (Jims On we travelled to Camp Borden and Petawawa. names Inseparably linked with the Great War, but which have undergone tremendous expan. sion in the past year, were impress- ive displays of Canada's armed might were provided. In Montreal a procession of Canada's new tanks roared up and down the street in front of the all-Canadian factory in which they were produced, while at the Fail-child aircraft plant we watch ed huge bombers being constructed and assembled from start to finish. Then there was the memorable morn. ing at Sorel where the magnificent new 25-pounder artillery guns are being forged 'and where corvettes are coming off the stocks nt a rapid clip, all under direction of the now famous Simavd brothers, whom we had tho privilage of meeting. On to Valcartier, another nai.ic imper- ishably associated with the days of 1014-18, where we met French (Can- adian officers and men and gained new insight into the military situ- ation in Quebec. Then to Debert, that great now military enmp hewed from the ibaekwoods of Nova Scotia, final train! n|> point for Canadian troops bound for England. lastly, infalliblu mousetrap. And he was as good. If a mouse so much as protruded his nose into a room which held the trap, his doom was scaled. Unhappily, this invention contained so many contrivances and acessories that each mousetrap would cost over $500 an impossible handicap, of How many of us would welcome an anti-snoring device? Some time atco one was patented but it has never made the open market. It consisted in fixing a microphone in front of the sleeper which, as soon as he snored, picked up the noise and amplified it so loud screams sounded through a loud .speaker and awakened the snor- Men of 30,40, 50 PEP, VIM, VIGOR, Subnormal? Want normal ppy rim, rigor, vitality r Try Ostrex Ton la TubloU. Contains tonlos, stimulants, oyiter laments aide to normal pep utter to, 40 or ML Get a special Introductory six* (or only H8<. 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Here a man from Dunkirk, another from the sunken Fraser, om 1 who had just flown from England or another about to board a bomber for the Old Land, heroes ' f "Bvtry dut-r. *// bonttl), dent, it tt contribution to vi THE PRIME MINISTER OF A Mechanized Army Serving YOU Mechanized and motorized units these make up the g| modern army. You have oftn noticed Bell line crews ^ with their trucks along the highway. Those too ar ^ mechanized, motorized units, each with highly ^* skilled crew; each completely equipped with tools, % power, material. fix. / In an emergency they can b* mobilized quietly, 4fk ' quickly, efficiently to repaif the havoc wrought by ^ storm, fire, or flood. The equipment they carry -^? standardized apparatus of many kinds makes pos- ^> sible the speedy restoration of vital service. ;j2x Preventive maintenance, preparedness, experience, and skill these all serve to ensure that your message ^^ will get through with minimum delay in any enter- "% geney a vital contribution to the country's war effort. ^X AUCTIONEER WALTER SEELEY See me about your auction sale. All | sales conducted on business prin- 1 elples. Phone me at Feversham 4rl2 i or make arrangements at The ( Fleshc'rton Advance office. Y//