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This picture, passed by the British and French the "business censors, was snapped at the moment a shell, smoking on its way to hot, was ejected from the breech of a big gun after Publishers don‘t help the reading public very much. ‘They don‘t adverâ€" tise as much as they should. Where is the publisher‘s equivalent of the bargain announcements or new maâ€" terial announcements of the departâ€" ments stores? If the big stores find it worth their while to emphasize that their new stocks or special sales contain suits. corsets, lingere, boots or skiâ€"slacks to fit all sizes from "boys" .and "misses" to "outâ€"sizes" The answer to that question, of course,. is that it would be pretty dull reading if you confined yourself only to the sort of thing you always had read. And. too, there is the thought that ‘by reading widely, indiscriminately, you may fit yourâ€" self to something that otherwise would ‘be missed. ‘ In other words do you make sure that your reading fits? Or do you read because it is the fashion? Or do you read anything and everything you can lay your hands on because you hate to think that there is anyâ€" thing you could enjoy, or profit from that you might miss if you didn‘t grah at it while the chance offers? After all, you wouldn‘t think of buying a new suit without making sure that it fits both your figure and your personitlity. Why should you acquire the contents of a book unless you are sure that it fits you? ‘ I can‘t help wondering, though, how imany more people would read a books for just that reason. Why do you read a book? Is it because some one tells you about it? Do you go to your bookseller and say, "Give me something light", or "What have you that you think I would like?" Or do you buy. rent or borrow books the same way you would buy a pair of skiis, a pound of tea. a new coat or a new car? These thoughts struck me after I had finished a new book by a young friend of mine, Philip Jordan, a Briâ€" tish journalist whom I have run across in some very unexpected places. Don‘t de afraid, I am not going to turn this into a review. As a matter of fact, I couldn‘t. The young fellow‘s ‘book is no more capâ€" able of a workmanlike job of reviewâ€" ing than he is of proper appreciation within the confines of a newspaper column. I enjoyed the book for the reason that most reviewers would obâ€" ject to itâ€"it contains so much of the anthor. . ‘But can you do? ‘There it is in black and white, a book. The pub lisher must have thought it would interest enough people to be worth publishing and distributing, his ediâ€" torial department must have found the subject matter sound enough to pass muster. So who are you to judge. Perhaps you are wrong. The worst of readings books your friends have written is your personal knowledge of the authors. There is no dowbt at all that the very fact that something has been changed from speech or thought into black print on white paper gives that something an air of authorityâ€"or, at the least, a certain dignity. But, as you read it,. you remember this and that about the author. You rememâ€" ber how many times you have beaten him in an argument, how often his ideas have been demonstrated to be unsound, how juvenileâ€"or senileâ€" his judgments are. "II ALL DEPENDS" Motorgycles â€" And C.C.M. BICYCLES DON EBY 112 Queen St. 5. Phone 3878w _Satisry M“jj _ 48 Ontario St. 8. ORDON‘S After Its Work Had Been Done yo mile 1t oX :; ooo t o ~ ce At the end of the hour, he said:‘ "Do not be alarmed. We confidently expect that ‘Father Coughlin will reâ€" turn to the microphone next Sunâ€" day. By all means, do your share to have his largest audience ready to hear his message." ( f Praise "Social Justice" NEBW YORK.â€"Approximately 2,000 persons attended a rally last night to raise funds for the defence of 17 members of the Christian front, charged with attempting to overâ€" throw the government by force. â€" Speakers criticized newspapers. and "a New York columnist", and said _ Father ‘Coughlin‘s "social justice" : and the Brooklyn Eagle were the only publications that had treated ! the case fairly. C ‘CHURCH After some 20 minutes of music, Mitchell said. "I am instructed to say: ‘Pay no heed to idle rumors which will be circulated this week. Be assured Father Coughlin knows what he is doing. He knows why neither he nor any other person is speaking over this microphone toâ€" day. Probably events transpiring this week will enlighten you.‘" (Continued from Page 1) am not authorized to give any ex planation.‘" _ The publisher will probably say that it all depends upon the taste of the reader and that if he tries new writers he may acquire now tastes. That‘s all right. But garbage is a new taste and you don‘t have to sample it to know that you wouldn‘t like it. * f There should be some way in which we could get some idea of what awaits us between the covers of a book, some way of feeling as sure that the contents will be as guaranâ€" teed to or tastes as is the quality of government branded beef or tradeâ€" marked tea or cereals. What that way is, I don‘t know. Perhaps you do. Hf you do there should be a forâ€" tune waiting a column is that you don‘t have to supply the answers to all the questions you ask. For I don‘t know what the answer to this book question is. It has bothered me for quite a long time. I like to read. But, equally.I like an assurance that I am not going to waste my time reading that is not worth the trowble. How I am going to accomplish this with out scanning as much trash in the next thirty years as I did in the last thirty is what I would like to know. Not that ! am advocating a stanâ€" dardization of the sameâ€" method. That would defeat itself. But 1i do think that a certain measure of stanâ€" dardization would be quite a help. To the reader who has to depend on the views of his or her friends as to the merits of a novel there comes many a shock. That reader is in the same situationâ€"as the visitor to New York who relies on what the dramatic critic writes about a show. Some of them rave about cleverly written plays without mentioning that the clever lines are based enâ€" tirely upon situations that would give motion picture censors hardenâ€" ing of the arteries. You can‘t say that they misrepresent the plays they have seen. They are clever. Butâ€"so are many smokingâ€"room stories! and "stylish stouts", why doesn‘t the publsher extend his sales by a variaâ€" tion of the same method. Thm&lwamattzwwwv%z training cen a m n are undergoing rigorous training wri.ntry weather with -ug-nro temperatures such as those of the farâ€" northern battlefront where the l"lnuiQh' forces gre battling it out with "business end" of the implement had been sent its way to the enemy lines. Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Martin and family visfted relatives in St. Jacobs on Sunday. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Schwindt _ _: ° ""2" ""S Harvey Schmidt, of Kitchener and Mr. and Mrs. Wilâ€" Miss Edna Schultz of Kitchener lard Schwindt and son Wilson of °P°Dt the weekâ€"end at her home here. Waterloo were recent guests of Mr. _ M!%@ Grace Schmidt is spending and Mrs. E. Schwindt. several weeks with her aunt and Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Martin and uncle, \R'dr. and Mrs. Harvey Schmidt. family visited relatives in St. Jacobs . \%S Versie Schaefer spent several on Sunday. _days with friends at Waterloo. Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maurer wore: Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Ross of Unity, Sask., Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Gooding of Wallenstein, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitâ€" more of Elmira, Mr. and Mrs. Wilâ€" rid Underwood and daughter Carol and Miss Fern Klem of Bridgeport. Miss .Orpha Miller apént the ;;éi; cond with her sister, Miss Margaret Miller in, Rockwood. Mr. Osiah Horst went to Breslau on Monday where he will be emâ€" ployed on the farm of Mrs. John Cressman for the summer months. Messrs, Philip Edmund and Gorâ€" don Bonn and ‘Miss Mildred Bonn were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brenner in Kitchener. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Adâ€" dison Bauman were: Miss Gladys Bauman of Kitchener, Miss Ermina Bauman and Mr. Egbert Smith of St. Jacobs, Mesars. Howard Bauman and Nathaniel Horst of Elmira. Miss Margaret Bender spent the weekâ€"end at her home here. Miss Norma Bird of St. Jacobs | spent the weekâ€"end with her parents, ; Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Bird. i Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Beckner of . Hawkesville and Mr. Edgar Schmehi of Elnrira visited their parents, Mr.\ | and ‘Mrs. Peter Schmehl on Sunday.‘ | Members of the ‘Mennonite Sewing Circle, met at the church, Tuesday afternoon for their February meetâ€" ing. Lovina Ziegler of St. Jacobs spent Sunday with her parents here. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Jack Soehner, Esther and Bob spent Sunday with Mr. and ‘Mrs. Jacob Oberle at Balsam Grove. Mr. and «Mrs. Clayton Snider, Camâ€" eron and Eleanor, ‘Waterloo, Mr. and Mrs. MelviniMartin and sons Harold Stewart and Douglas visited Mr. and Mrs. Orvie Bauman Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Shoemaker and Berna, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bauâ€" man spent Sunday with ‘Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bauman. Norma Shoemaker spent Sunday with her sister, Myra Shoemaker. Misses Lena and Valina Martin Eileen and Ruby Musselman of Kitâ€" chener apent the weekâ€"end at their homes here. * ‘Miss Mabel Dadswell spent the weekâ€"end at her home in Stratford. Mr. and ‘Mrs. George Gole of Bridgeport spent Sunday with Mr. and ‘Mrs. Sylvan Shantz. ‘Miss Erma Stroh and Oscar Hoffer of. ‘Kitchener visited Mr. and Mrs. Ananias Grosz, Sunday. Miss Hannah‘ (Martin entertained of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Martin, Thursâ€" her friends atâ€"a quilting at the home day. â€" M~s. Isaac Gingrich spent Sunday with ‘Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bowman. Norman Martin of Brantford spent the weekâ€"end with his parents, Dan Martin‘s. 1 Mi+ and iMrs. Clare Rickert of Windsor were Saturday visitors with Mrs. Ida Korell. A NORTH WOOLWICH FLORADALE BEHLLEVILLE, (Friddy) Foully mardered for a few bushels of grain, parhaps becanee of a atory that they kept $200 in cash in their house, an elderly and highly respected couple of Rawdon Township werte found dead yesterday on the property they had tllled for two decades, The heads of the couple Mr. and (Continued from Page 1) order a complete new jury to con tinue with the inquest." ARREST JUROR We are sorry to report that Mr. Edwin Brenneman of near Cassel is on the aick liat. He is under the care of Dr. T. B. Frick of New Hamâ€" bure. The roads, around here. are pretty badly blocked with snow for cars. Mr. and Mrs. Hevbert Wettlaufer and baby of Cassel #pent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John W. Facey. Mrs. Allen Otto and Mr. Adam Linglebach attended the funeral of the late Solomon Schlemmer of Stratford on Saturday ‘Miss Mabel Beisel spent the week end at the home in Toronto. Miss Alice Gingrich spent Sunday with Miss Grace Schmidt at the home of Mr. and Mré. Harvey Schmidt. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Beam, the Misses Stella and Gladys Bierman and IMr. Reuben Schmidt of Waterloo spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bierman. 9 Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schaefer spent Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and ‘Mrs. Harvey Schmidt, A sleigh load of young people of this vicinity enjoyed skating at the St. Clements rink on Sunday evenâ€" ing. The first Lenten Service was hold on Ash Wedneslay at St. Paul‘s Luâ€" theran Church. A native of Southport, England, F. Johnson, above, viceâ€"president of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, has been appointed director of administration of the British purâ€" chasing commission in America. The commission will @rrange all purâ€" chases of war and other supplies for Great Britain for duration of the ie [ i. Dr. ‘Marvin Wellman of Whitby; a w@#‘ * son, said that his father used to keep \ .. câ€"p000000 $200 in the house for current exâ€" «,g%~ F ~ penses, but "somebody cautioned é‘,fim him a few years ago about leaving 2. t that much money around." The thief or thieves had ransacked drawers in F, s Mrs. Wellman‘s bedroom and had %, yX stolen most of a load of grain which sa s wl Mr. Wellman bought Monday and Ns â€" All * /A stored in the barn. * 7 " 3 Seek Mysterious Stranger Pilot Officer Thomas Ross Wilâ€" â€" Charles DPunham ,a neighbor, told liams, 21, of Ottawa, was killed in PO!i¢e he noticed a man acting an airplane accident in England. He S$¢rangely near the Wellman: farm joined the Royal Air Force in 1988. Wednesday afternoon. The stranger iesd drove a team of horses and a sleigh TCt OO ~~â€"~~â€" up the rodd to a point near the BUYS FOR BRITAIN house and then he walked to a mound about 200 yards from thé omm mprompame omm house where he was able to inspect wm s “I the farm, Dunham .said. the might of Soviet Russia. Dressed in fur hats, with heary leather, Cz sleeveless pullover, h loves and goggles, the recruits are out daily mll.ngd how to';!lo:‘.t'hnfr speedy tanks through heavy snow, ice nd‘='==== n . â€" 1% sper _ EA4ST TORRA ERBSYVILLE FLIER KILLED Squadron Leader W. D. Van Vliet, of Winnipeg, has l-;een appor to command No. 110 Army Coâ€"operation Squadron, selected for d:l overseas as the air force component of the first Canadian d ‘_‘The top of,Mr. Wellkman‘s head had Geen (blown off by the ‘blast that came from behind and passed comâ€" pletely through the skull, striking the wall on the other side. The side of the cow was covered with blood. A milk stool and the milk pail were both lying between the man‘s legs, Three Children Physicians Parents of three physicians, the couple lived in comparative comfort, a prominent and stabilizing influence in the Harold community. Their chilâ€" dren had long ago â€"made prominent names for themselves in Canada and the United States. = Tonight farmets for many miles around gathered in their homes and in country stores to discuss the bruâ€" Police took : footâ€"prints of the horses and the man. One horse was a heavy one and one light, they beâ€" lieved. The investigators â€" believed the man drove his sleigh to the barn «fter committing the murders Wedâ€" nesday afternoon, loaded the vehicle with ‘bags of grain anl drove off. Tracks of the horses and sleigh could be peroeived ‘behind the barn where the grain was kept. ’ According to a reconstruction of the events tho stranger then drove around from the seventh concession, on which the Wellman resided, to the sixth, at the rear of the Wellman property. There police were able to find footprints leading from the road, where the sleigh stopped, to a trap in the bush where a skunk had been caught. ‘The ultimate destination of the sleigh could not ‘be learned as it turned into a wellâ€"used road. Neighbors told of the actions of a imnysicrious person with a team and cutter who had apparently been watching the Wellman home Wedâ€" nesday. Mrs. Arnold Wellman, aged 77 â€"and 75 respectively, were virtually blown off by what is believed to have been charges from a shotgun in the hands of a cruel assassin who crept up beâ€" hind.the two, one at a timé, and blastâ€" ad out their lives. The shotgun was posstbly one owned iby Mr. Wellman, which norâ€" mally bung a book in his home and was missing when investigators vresched" the house after ® postman found .the two (bodies yesterday. To Lead First Airmen Overseas i ‘tal slayings. A Jury of neighborhood er and was more respected than the ecce==» farmérs was éeWworn in to make an aged couple. "My uncle was respectâ€" 1 77 â€"ana investigation. ed throughout the community, and y blawn . The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Wellâ€" hasn‘t one enemy that I know of. ave been Dan were found about 10 o‘clock ‘He has lived in Rawdon Township all he hands TBursday morning by Edmund Faulkâ€" his life, and has lived on this farm pt up be. Dér, mail carrier. Mr. Faulkner, a for at least 4wenty years. My uncle ind blast. distantâ€"cousin of the murderedâ€"man, has worked the farm himself, oecaâ€" habitually carried the mail into the sionally having a hired man in the Ibly one Weilman home every morning to say busy season. Robbery seems to ‘be rich nor. bellio to Mrs.‘Wellman, who was sick the only motive to me." he said _| Rarly Sprin irily ~Springâ€" C l K; : EK‘ >*x: * # | Sewing EKE 2 .=~>Â¥ #5 i*'fl \_s~_ _ _{0ld Prices â€" Shrewd Buying) l GALAXY OF EHERRY NEW PRINTS for making » * dresses and children‘s washables. 'I‘&undi:t‘ 1?‘5':: 17 %e 5 and 19¢ yard. 19¢ f, ies sA in solid shades for & col binaâ€" 1#¢ s mmumamm.“ fe e sts mmnitet onhmegd wil en M Lt borth in & f . _ width at 50c yardâ€"also twilled at 75¢ yard in 9/4 width. _ T6« * ,rgc':"‘oqt .‘:‘rzu at I)Oe xlr’: ,1” Inches) and 12 W ¢ l igk 1P > M .Oaane ioh‘ 9 000 thnt bvality is 12 14e Dr. E. R. Frankish, medicoâ€"legal expert, has been. called from Torâ€" onto to assist in the investigation. Everett Wellman, a nephew of the Wellmans. stated that he did not know any one who had worked hardâ€" Mr. Wellman usually milked his cows about 3 o‘clock in the afternoon and it is likely the murders occurred at that time. _ Drawers of the bureau and desk in the bedroom were ransacked and contents strewn over the floor, but other rooms in the house seemed unâ€" disturbed. Slain About 3 p.m. Wednesday The murders occurred some time Wednesday afternoon, according to Coroner Dr. J. Robertson, who visitâ€" ed the scene and called an inquest. It is certain death was instanâ€" taneous," ho added. thet used to hang near the bed where the body of Mrs. Wellman was found. The gun was missing and could not ‘be found in the house. The police were told one barrel of the gun did not work. There were no signs of shells or powder packing either in the house or in the barn. "It is such a terrible ending for a pa‘r who ‘worked so hard throughâ€" out their lives," said Mrs. W. Faulk:â€" ner, a neigh‘bor and cousin. "They we‘ e so unselfish and helped many of their friends who were. in need. They were hardworking thrifty ‘peoâ€" ple. who did everything they could for their family," . Defective Shotgun Mjssing ‘iefzhbors told police (Mr. Wellman owhed a â€" doubleâ€"barrelled shotgun He found the ibody of Mrs. Wellâ€" man lying on the bloodâ€"spattered bed. with an unfinished letter in her hands. The top of her head had been completely blown off.â€" He immediately telephoned the Proâ€" vincial Police at BeNeville, and Berâ€" geant H. Thompson was sent out to conduct the investigation. Unable to find Mr. Wellman about the premâ€" ises, theâ€"mail carried made a search of the_cow stable, and found the body of his cousin lying on the floor, near a cow, which he evidently had been milking. % & _ M~. Wellman ;r:i'; snccéssl;ui farâ€" mer. but neighbors said he kept very little money in the home. The leiter beinrg written by Mrs. Wellman to her daughter in Chicago stated that she was confined to bed with a slight heart attack. "I expect to be up within a day or two," the partiallyâ€"completed letter read. _ At the cow stable the murderer siâ€" lently wormed his way between the stalls to within seven feet of his vicâ€" tim before releasing the blast. â€" In both cases the assassin crept up s‘lently behind his victim and fired the sh9ts from a short distance. â€" in ~Goudies Dept. Store C King And Queen $ts â€"~ Kitchener in which the correspondents often ate was hit. One bomb narrowly missed the correspondents‘ dugout. Danish Flier Killed TOPENHAGEN. â€"Fritz Rasmussen, first Danish flier to volnnteer for service with Finland, has been killed in action, it was announced. Rasâ€" mussen had been listed as "absent without leave from the Danish air force" since Christmaa Won‘t Enter Again MOSCOW.â€"Estonia _ has _ agreed that Rastonian airplanes will not fly over the port of Tallinn, the Ratonian capital. or Russian warships anâ€" chored _ there, it was _ di@closed. Eatonia complained Saturday that warships in the harhor had fired on an ERetonian plare Sortavala on the north shore of Lake Ladoga was bombed heavily Saturday and several civillans were killed a communique said. It was asserted that one bomb crashed through the Red Cross emblom paintâ€" ied On top of a hospital. Still Use Parachutes * | Dispatches indicated that the Rusâ€" «lans continued to drop tr by parachute ibehind the Manmelm lipe. Official sonrces said the paraâ€" chute troops wore Finnish army uniâ€" forms, with white snow cloaks, and carried skis. automatic arms and raâ€". dio sending sets. Some captured parachute troops were quoted that they had orders to spread propaganâ€" da in the Finnish fighting lines. A party of war correspondents narrowly escaped dcath in a [Russfan bombing raid on Yiborg Saturday. One bomb exploded in the lobby of the hotel in which correspondents always stayed. It struck 20 feet from the room Webb [Miller of the United Prees had occupied. The restaurant Reports had not been qpllated of the most recent air raid casualties, but it was said that more than 100 persons were known dead and 200 wounded Friday and Saturday. Among the Mbuildings reduced to ruins at Viborg was the city‘s 17th century cathedral, famed for its stained glasa windows. In Sunday‘s futile attempt to break through Karelian isthmus defences at Summa, 20 miles south of Viborg (Viipuri), Finns said; the Russians lost more than 1,000 men. "Heavy" Soviet losses also were reported at Muolazfaervi, on the same front. Fires Rage in Two Cities Two of iFinland‘s main cities, meanwhile, were hard hit by Russian air _ raiders. Bombâ€"ignited _ fires burned through the night in the seaâ€" port of Abo (Turku) and in Vfborg, a city of albout 73,000 population at the head of the Gulf of Finland. Exâ€" plosives rained down from shortly after down until far in the night. tContinued from Page 1) The air attacks continued (Monday and an official announcement said Swedish ambulances were struck but damage was negligible and there were no casualties among the ambuâ€" lance workers. _ Bruce Weber, Arthur Breithaupt and Leslie Jessop of Kitchener, William Aitken of Galt, Gilbert Dilly and Harold Schultz of Preston were â€"pallbearers for Mrs. Bruce Mcâ€" Cullough. _ _ h â€" SO SHORT â€" Six schoolmates, John Stager, Robert Currier, Roy Eagle, Robert Rahn, Rodger Talbot and Gordon Heipel were palibearers for the late John Schlegel. Interment was made in Preston cemetery. W. A. Hewitt, of Toronto, seereâ€" tary of the O.H.A.; James Douglas, of Brantford, president of the O.H.A.; A. Gordon Colvin, of Presâ€" ton, president of the local Rotary Club; Allan Kerr, George Weiberg, M. H. Smith, Thomas Fink and John Paterson, of Preston, were pallâ€" bearers for Mr. Schlegel. Irvin Fink, F. H. Pattinson, W. H. Heise, C. J. Whitney, L. O. Metler and R. Melntyre were pallbearers for Mrs. Schlege. _ _ _ ® (Continued from Page 1) to the family. The Canadian Office and School Furniture Company and the Preston Furniture Company, of Preston, of which concerns the deâ€" ceased was secretaryâ€"treasurer, susâ€" mded work Wednseday afternoon. office staff of the Canada Sandâ€" papers Ltd., of Plattsville, also atâ€" tended services in a body. CITIZENS All three children of the aged couple are prominent doctors,. They are: Dr. Marvin Wellman, Ontario Hospital, Whitby; Dr. A. Lorne Weliâ€" man, Waterloo, and Dr. Victoria Wellâ€" man, connected with the University of Chicago. his life, and has lived on this farm for at least 4wenty years. My uncle has worked the farm himself, oecaâ€" sionally having a hired man in the the only motive to me," he said. tA < Â¥