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Wednesday, June 9, 1943 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE UNINSURED ACCIDENTS COSTLY Accidents happen in a flash. If yon are not in- MII fil. repayment may cost you your home, your savings or months of income. Let us explain Pilot Automobile insurance to you. It costs so little. We write Pilot Insurance to cover selected risks in Automobile, Fire, Personal Property Floater, Bnrglary, Plate Class, Public Liability and other general insurance. H. W. KERNAHAN Flesherton If THt FLESHERTOii AWANCE on CoUinwood Stzwt, Wedm*4n> of ortb vek- Circulation ovr !,000. Pnc* in Canada $2.1)0 per yar. *iu-n p*id in advance |1.6O; IB < S. A. $2.60 pw year, when PB 'i in ftdvancfe 12.0O. F J. THVRSTON. Editor. THE BOMBER PRESS IN GREAT BRITAIN BOMB DAMAGE AND CIVILIAN MORALE CEYLON Mias M. Henxphall and Mr. S. HemphiU returned Friday evening after a two weeks' visit in Toronto. Aircraftman Allan Haw, Manning Pool, Toronto, Mrs. Bert Haw, Swin- ton Perk, Mrs. Jas. Parslow of New Westminster, B.C., Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Richardson of Markdale were recent visitors with Mrs. J. Knox. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Arnett, Durham. visited Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Genoe. Mrs. H. Griffin of Toronto spent the week end with Mrs. C. Wilcock and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cairns. Tpr. Robt. Meads. Camp Borden, was a week end visitor at his home recently. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Black visited on Wednesday with the latter's aunt. Mrs. Jas. MeWhinney, rt-turning to Grnvenhurst Thursday morninjr. Mr-. C. Archibald and Mr. Harvey Archibald visited on Sunday with T|>r. L. J. Archibald at Camp liorden. RPV. Butler of Durwlalk had charge of the morning service in the United Church her*. The Women's Institute met at tho home of Mrs. J. Knox on Thursday evening last. Mrv Douirlas Reid ;,nd son. Bobbie, visited 'n Toronto a couple of days la^t \vri.|, wit), frien<]s. s Klma Hamil'on of Flehc-i-ton ' tiie week end with Miss Mary Whitehead. Mr. and Mr.. Ernest McMuHon ( .1 Toronto viMtod on Friday last with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. McMulIen. Mrs. K. C. Mitchell visited frifnds in Toronto on Tuesday. We are very .-,,:ry ; learn of the < "f Mi. Perry Hemnhll. our ^torekeepi-r. and hope that he will very soon ho afxn't as usual. P R ! L : K V I L I F L.A.r. Tharles Savers and wife of Mnlton visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sayors f,,r a few days. Friends here were sorry to heai that Mr. Neil Mclx-od had the ,!- forturw- to have his li-if broken at the home of Mr. Donald McMillan. South and if. ;K>-,V a r;it : "'' ii: !'ur v -- , ital. Mr. Innis .McLean. Tonui'.i. t'-ie wi-k end at his parental home. '"' Archie Sturroof| <xf Sussex. ^^M., is liomc on furlough. Mrs. Mary Ferguson is visitinjr fii' i I- at Swinton Park. Ptc. Johnnie Mr Arthur of Toronto f)ient the week end at his home. Mr. and Mrs. Angus McArthnr. Mr '. Ilincks. Mrs. D. Cnmphe]!. Mrs. J. Sturroek, Mr. and Mrs. Hector Mc- T.ian. Mr- Ilumball nnrl bahe, Mr. :,nd Mr-. Hill MrKet-hnin and Mrs. K Currie ntfi-ndrd tho funeral of the Mrs. Angus MaoCannoll on Tues- day at S'.vinion Park. Mr. and Mr- . .h, k Calder and son ol Hols-ein were recent visitors at the home of A. I,. Tlincks. SKLF.TKAI'I'KI) Mr Bert Sarncnt, w'.i : working in the field saw a fkahinj? object approaching, which, a (nearer view turned out to be a groundhop with it head jammed into a tin can. The can apparently came from a dump ir the vicinity. Bert had an excell- ent opportunity to examine a live groundhog, but had to desipntch the animal since its head was jammed so tightly into the can. Shelbiirnt Free Pn-s and Economist. Maybe one of the days (hi- fall 'i:ill -top laiiK'hing at the old her. mit who lives on and wild growth. (By Walter All Canadians arc intensely inter- ested in the bomb damage in Britain. We found on our return to Canada, that everywhere we went we were certain to be asked aibout it. It has been said that there is not a village in England that has not had j a bomb dropped on it, but I know of ! several places that up to the time that we were there had not seen a bomb. After landing and boarding the train for London, we were sur- prised to see no sign of bomb damage until after we had been travelling for several hours. There are few signs of bomb darn- ! age to be seen in any of the smaller | places, except near the east and south coasts. Even in London there- arc large areas that appear to have been untouched. We began to real- ize- how small a start the Germans had made toward the destruction 01 Britain. Where a building has been total- ly destroyed, it is difficult for anyone who has not seen that building to visualize the amount of the destruc- tion. For instance, when we were Uinu shown around Bristol, one day, our guide halted in the centre of a larjrc area that had been demolished Pointing to a part of it he said. "That is where one of our larpcest depart- mental stores u."od to stand." We could sec a heap of nibble, but never hi.ving "CPU the store it was imposs- ible realty to appreciate the extent | of the destruction. In other places where the walls ore still standing, it is much easier * understand the damage. \W ilrove through parts of London, and later \vnlked tlu-mieh parts of Bristol, on brilliant moonlight nights, ami the moonlight, shining through roofless and wimlowless buildings, made n terrible picture, never to he forgot- ten. We visited blitzed areas in London, Bristol, Bath and Portsmouth, but there ;i re many other places that \ have badly batteml areas . Hull. Dover, Coventry, Plymouth, etc. In some cases areas of several blocks have been absolutely flattened while in others, one house in the mid- ille of a block may have been demol- i.-liccl as if cut. out by a huge knife \Vc were tol<< that them is n well defined pathway between Lon-don a:id tHc coast, leading toward Germany .I'.-mtr which the fields were ploughed liy bonubs which had been dropped by raiders who, unable to penetrate the London defences, had turned hack and flumncd their bombs at rmi<|..,,i In April, 1IM2. HiHor carried out whnt is known as the "Baodockcr" :: id-, (jo called because they were aimed .-ololy a t destroying famous places), on Exeter, Rath, Norwich. ^'rk and Canterbury. Civilian cas- i unities at Hath, Exeter, Norwich and! Vnrk were MS persons killed and : injured. Many of the killed werc rwver identified. The pathetic d<>.- Tiption of one at Bath read, "Are rll "' ut 'wo yonrs; hair, fair; eyp<= 'lur grey; division between top '><> "'Hi; no other distinguishing features. 1 ' The most deplored nrchitortunl loss in Bath was tho Assembly ooma. The Rooms, said to have 'I'n the most beautiful j n RHnin wen- fir-t opened in 1771. and had Been refined in 1938 at a cost of fif. .v thousand pounds ste.-ling. These rooms delimited Charles Dickons who mnde them famous as the scon,' f Mr. Pickwick's game of whist with "thivp trroroujrh-iwccrt female <"ird-players." Bristol, we found, had been rather '""".V battered, .principally in the winter of 1040-41 during which 2 25P houses were destroyed and about 4. < 00 received varying degrees 1 ''"".age. Many other htiildir** wo destroyed, including 22 clean- "T schools and 2n chmvhes Our homo in Bristol WM thp , .which was ewytag nn> fi* tho hack part. including the' T room and m.ny of tho , ' ' off. T f our part* did not have any glass in the windows. In four of the larger cities which we visited, we saw areas many blocks in extent that have been completely flattened. Since reurning home, 1 have heard) that up until December 31st, 1942, the number of Britons killed in air raids was 47,860 and the number injured was 56,410. We heard many expressions of ap- preciation for the assistance sent to the stricken people by various funds in Canada. One of the aims of the enemy was to destroy the morale of the people. It was interesting to study the act- ual effect. We foutui that the stor- ies we had heard of the way in which the people had taken the punishment dished out to them were absolutely true. Their spirit is simply wond- erful. One of our guides in Bristol, who had been a prosperous merchant showed us a mass of rubble in the midst of the bombed area, and quiet- ly remarked, "That is all that is left of my life's savings." No complaints. Just a grim determination to carry on. An official of a n establishment where one of my relatives was em- ployed, was bombed out of three places the same nifcht, but he was on time at the office in ihe morning. There have been cases of employ- ees coming to work in the morning '"fire some of their relatives had been rescued from ruined buildings. England is a tight little isle packed with hi'ros and heroines, even if they do not all wear uniforms. Their morale is proof against any terror that can be launched against them. Here's to heroes and heroines, valiant and strong, Who carry on bravely, no matter how long; Through darkness and peril, they're steadfast and true, The people of Britain - - Here's to you! PADRE HOLDS SERVICE IN HUT TO TUNK OF ARMY AIRPLANE ENGINES ' And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. fo r the old heaven had pasM-,1 away . . ." The padre reads slowly and firmly from a pocket Testament. The congregation is sil- ent around him; there is no shuffling of feet. He pauses, and looks up. His eye, roviiiR swiftly over the faces in front of him, sees a curious mixture; it's not the kind of congregation he used tc get in church back home in Can- ada. In the front row, for instance, is a boyish-looking figure in blue battfc dross. () his shoulder 'tabs arc the two and a half stripes of a squadron lender; he is thu C.O. The padre's eye wanders further. In the !>:.ck seats sit men in greasy over- alls. Thoir hands are black with oil. That is scarcely surprising, for five minutes ago they werc tuning a Spitfire's engine to perfection. The padre scans the walls of the building. They aren't like the grey of the stone from which his church in Canada wa.s built; there is no atained u-la-.s. The main decoration a big chart printed with the sil- ht; Hi-ties of two or three dozen dif- ferent aircraft. On the far wall is i blackboard on which a dozen dif- !'( rent names are written in chalk, with a \>{ K capital letter after each; the squadron's: battle formation. In :i few odd places, there an; eidor pictures of sweater girls and bathing beauties, clipped from magazines. Not a Chapel No, it isn't a chapel. It's the dis- hut of an R.C.A.P. Spitfire squadron oven-seas. As a matter of fact, there is a chapel on his station, but it ia on the other aide of the airfield and therefore about a mile away. And not even on Sunday morning can the Spitfire pilot afford to be more than about 10 seconds' fest sprint from his aircraft. It was Flight-Lieut. Jack Jolley, padre o f the R..CA.F. overseas, who was responsible for the iden of hold- ing Sunday morning services in the umdron dispersal ) )n t. The serv- aro very T!! ill. ill happen to he wearing at the pi Smooth -flowing Paint that "/eaves no brush marks!* For a kitchen you'll be happy to work in and proud to show your friends, use Flo-glaze Interior Gloss, espe- cially made for painting walls, ceilings and woodwork. It flows on smoothly, produces a washable high-gloss finish that looks and feels almost like enamel. Of course, it's just as "slick" for recreation rooms and bathrooms, 'im.' rrici7on r ," At least do over one room to freshen up the home front and improve everybody s morale! Consult your friendly Flo-glaze Dealer today. The IMPERIAL VARNISH ft COLOR CO., LIMITED, TORONTO - Flo-glaze quality U maintained, in LIAVCS NO tHUlH MAIKS' Paints and Enamels McKillop Estate, Flesherton time. Flight-Lieut. Jolley kept the first of these services very short just a prayer, a lesson, a hymn. Then one Sunday morning two or three of the pilots caine to him and said: 'Padre, why don't you give us an address at these services?" Jolley still thinks that was the best compliment he ever got. WE DON'T NEED A DEPRESSION Not a great depression but a (jreat expansion will take place in Canada after the war if we keep our heads. For the first time in our history we will find ourselves in a position for intensive and large scale development of our nation hence be able to maintain "full employment." We will have a huge new indus- tial plant created by the war and a giant flow of base metals, power and other supplies to keep it going. We will have new skills. We will have ready and waiting new air, rail and water arteries stretching into the north. These, if we use them pro- ' perly, are the raw materials of great national expansion, not national- stagnation and poverty. The first necessity in attaining this is constructive thinking. We must regard postwar reaadjustment as an opportunity to do the things we have dreamed about but never before had the equipment to carry out. This time we will have that equipment. Speaking in New York the other day, Dr. F. Cyril James, Principal and Vice Chancellor of McGill University and Chairman of Canada's Committee on Reconsruc- tion stated: "Factories and skilled men will be available in Canada, after this war, ' to utilize the tremendous quantities ot materials derived from our farms and factories and I suggest strongly that the existing Canadian popula- tion will be too small to utilize to the full extent, all of the opportuni- ites which can be exploited by wise . policy on the part of the Canadian Government and determination on the part of the Canadian people. If Canadian leaders are wise enough and courageous enough to carry out policies of reconstruction that will make Canada's rich resources and advantages, we shall not again In the future hear of distressed pro- vinces and permanently unemployed individuals." The Financial Post. You keep more friends if you're good for nothing when ;t eomes ' time for a loan. FAT K AMMUNITION! fat and bone conservation begins at home and ends in the firing line - DO YOU KNOW - One pound* of fat supplies enough glycerine to fire 150 bullets from a Bren gun. Two pounds of fat will fire a burst of 20 cannon shells from a Spitfire or 10 anti- aircraft shells. Bones produce fat and aircraft glue. If we saved fat at the rate of one ounce per person per week this would mean 36,000,000 pounds per year, enough to produce 3,600,000 pounds of glycerine for explosives. " OUR FIGHTERS DEPEND ON YOU "Every householder who delivers to a retail butcher, collector, or Salvage Committee, any rendered or unrendered fats or bones shall be entitled ta receive from the person to whom they are delivered 4 cents per pound net weight for rendered fats, and 1 cent per pound for unrendered fats." The above paragraph is a direct quotation from Order A-642 of Th Wartime Prices and Trade Board. "Rendered fat" means fat melted down and strained to remove solid matter. It includes drippings and strained pan grease resulting from the cooking of meat. "Unrende'red fat" means raw or partially cooked fat free from lean meat and bone, but not fully rendered. "Bones" means raw or cooked bones of cattle sheep and hogs. EVERY OUNCE COUNTS! SAVE AND STRAIN EVERY DROP TO SPEED VICTORY. SELL IT TO YOUR BUTCHER OR GIVE IT TO YOUR SALVAGE COMMITTEE. NOTICE TO BUTCHERS, HOTELS, ETC. You have been mailed a copy of Order A-642. This Order affects operators of hotels restaurants and other establishments where meals are served. It is of immediate Importance to butchers and slauah- terers. If your copy has been lost you can obtain another from Fhe nearest office of The Wartime Prices and Trade Board WARTIME PRICES AND TRADE BOARD