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PAGE TEN bTWPMrT TATEMN'OMN« ILE NTROTHRD TH C±ýrÂAW Lz vcitAwy W A ILE NAI Soldiers' Letters B-132855, Pte. W. W. Buckle: 4th Can. Arm'd Bde. Coy., R.C.1 S.C., C.A.O., Somewhere in Ge many, Feb. 25, 1945: Dear Mr. James: I receive you weekly paper quite regularly an arn always pleased to hear wha the folks back home are doin Quite often I have read letter from different Bowmanville boy who are over here. 1 have thougi of writing you but after readinz some of the interesting letter that Hub Hooper and others hav, sent I decided to remain in th, background. I think I arn safe in saying tha every soldier here collectsa many souvenirs as possible. have a souvenir, a poem, which cherish very much and woul( like to pass it on for publicatior sa that others may read it. The authoress, Eva Scholtz, is fourteen and a haîf year old gir who ives in a small village ir Holland. I was billeted at hez home for ten weeks during which tirne she wrote this poem for me. Eva speaks four languages fluent- lY. Her native tongue of Dutch, plus English, French and Ger- man. In Hoiland, Eva has been recognized as an authoress and several of her poems have been set to music. Writing a poem in English was a little difficuit fo: her but I think it is very well done. I have copied it word for word and hope that you will find .space to publish it in your paper. Sincerely, BILL BUCKLEY. Dear Bill When the sky is dark and rair falîs down, And the birds no sing at ail, And the people are sitting round the stove; Is my heart as a berry s0 small. But when the sun is shining, and the sky is clear, And the birds are jolly and gay, And the lambs are playing in the field; Is my heart so happy, always. I wish you, Dear Bill, many sun- shine, And neyer an unhappy day, And I hope you don't never for- get me, "Pensez a moi" please always. B-64961, Sgmn. V. C. Avis, 4th Cdn. Arrn'd. Bde., R.C.C.S., B.L.A. Cdii. A r my Overseas, Some- where in Germany, March 9th, 1945. Dear Mr. James: 1 arn writing this letter to you for the many thanks of receiving The Canadian Statesman. I will flot give you the naine of the subscriber who has been very kind enough to send this paper to me. I will tell you the main reason why this paper is my favorite. 'First is that I spent three years in the district GOLDEN CRICK STA The start mneans everything!1 start. You will readlly apprec quallty Chlek Starter on baud1 "GOLDEN HARVEST" Chiek balanced diet for baby chieks. ORDER TODAY FR( O ce of Tyrone. Then I spent a bit of my ti me at Haydon School, Burketon, Cadmus and attended ey, the English Church at Blackstock. .A. Tonight as I ]ay in my dug-out r- sornewhere in Gerrnany great memories corne to me as I read ýur the four copies of The Statesman Id got today. Since I left three iat years ago there have been many .. g.changes. Also a lot of rny comn- 4 rsrades are in the arrny, some have rs lost their lives in this battle. li When this job is finished I have r rgplans to take a farm in the dist- ric James Darlington. Yes, Mr. ýrsJamsyou may ask who this vstranger is that is dropping a few 3 he lines to you. Well, you stop off at Tyrone main store and they ~ at wiil soon tell you who I arn. ' " as Well now to get more over to I the pleasant side of the letter. I Id had a grand leave in Brussels Idwhere I* spent alrny time sight- )nseeing. Other cities I saw on my travels in Belgiurn were Antwerp, a Ghent and several other srnaller rl places. I really take in the coun- in tryside for I drive a jeep a great ýr lot, being in a signal corps. I ýh spend a lot of work on telephone e.ines, repairing and building new t-ines. It is a very big task but , our ittie crew neyer gives a rmurmur when they are called , n out of bed at two o'clock in the, d morning. So you see the part I *- n have to do in this war. Wishing i the people of Bowmanville and ~ ,r district the best of luck for this D fIt Od [l year, from a soldier who has spentr %v v 1 three years overseas, l e ITRC VS KEEP THEM OFF THE CROP C-51296, B.S.M. Hooper, H. M.,________________________________ 66 Fd. Bty., 14 Cdn.' Fd. Rgt., R.C.A., C.A.O., B.L.A., Gerrnany, corning. Thanks to our Drurn- of paper was only meant to be March 4, 1945. rnondville friends sorne more 'used or one purpose. Cheerio, Dear Mr James: Just finished Canadian lives rnay be sacrificed. HUB. HOOPER. 1 reading a brilliant account of the Given the material German prop- Editor's Note - The "littie "Drummondville, P.Q., Fiasco" aganda can work wonders on the sornething" Hub refers to in his and it leaves me just a little daz- German mind. At one time they last paragraph is a Nazi propa- Ied, dispondent and disillusioned would believe anything the "good ganda folder headed "Are Cana- --dazed because I can't yet be- Doctor" told them, though they dians Cowards?" In part it *lieve it, dispondent lest there are are beginning to doubt him a reads: Canadians, you are again other such demonstrations and little, these days. In any case, to assume the offensive. In case *disillusioned to think that such a this last scandal has certainly you should corne into a hopeless thing cop.ld happen in my beloved been given a great build-up by situation don't lose courage. Ger- Canada. Much has happened to the German radio and though it many treats prisoners of war ac- us since this drive started Feb. 8, may not have hindered our war cording to the Hague and Geneva but nothing has left such a bad effort materially, it certainly Conventions. Your soldier's hion- taste in our mouths. I'm at a loss hasn't helped any. our will be respected. BETTER to know how best to explain the To date, none have been more COME ACROSS THAN GET A general feeling here. Perhaps if proud of Canada's war effort than CROSS." I could give you a few examples, the soldier serving abroad. It's you could draw your own con- always a pleasure and a real thrill REPATRIATED SOLDIER clusions. to us to read of Canada's produc- RELATES GRAND WORK 0F The day the news was released, tion of war mnaterials, like shelîs, RED CROSS SOCIETY' British papers seized upon it and ships and food. We can be justly aIl featured it on the front pages. proud of our part to date and we Last Wednesday, Quarter- Since we still get these papers here who fire the shelîs are more master Sergt. R u s s e 1 1 Candler, only a day late, I need hardly say than willing to share the gîory lately repatriated from a German how chagrinned we were. One with you who make them. Up to prison camp, spoke to the 2nd paper stated that at one time 10,- now, e have neyer had reason to Midlands at the Armouries on 000 civilians were involved in the doubtwthat Canada was behind us "Being a Prisoner of War in Ger- fiasco and friend Goebells seized 100 per cent. rnany". Russ described what hap- upon the news, carefully distort- Cone now this glorious chap- pens from the tirne a captured ed the 10,000 to read 20,000, and ter in our history! On the very soldier leaves the front until hie broadcast it to an earger German night Drummondville staged its is well behind the frontiers of audience who now, if ever, need exhibition, Canadian troops were Gerrnany. a real boost tQ their morale. moving in for one of their tough- The methods of questioning, the Thanks to our Drummondville est batties since this present drive crowded trip in the boxcars, friends a few more Nazis *ill began. Thank God we didn't "Forty Hommes ou Eight Chev- figlit on a little longer and hope hear the news then. aux'», the cabbage soup and black for the "split" Goebells says is Here were Canadians (sorne of bread, the treatment accorded by whom were ernbarking on their guards and civilians, the atten- first real battle) up against the tion given the wounded, ail were finest and rnost fanatic fighters revealed by Russ in an interest- this world has yet produced. Back ing and intriguing address. in Drummondville, the civilian He certainly puts in a big plug INA IIT ~~II population could find nothing bet- for the Canadian Red Cross. He U IIR L ~ ,ter to do than attack civilian and was definite and ernphatic in de- 19A R V E ST rilitary policemen who were clarinà that without Red Cross carrying out their duties the sane parcels, thousands of iii and as we here! wounded prisoners would have LIRTE 18%Frankly, l'n beat on the subject died and the sturdy would have demostrtion asthee, nr cn cap rtios. Aoveallelse the Make sure y'ou have a to0p-rMy comrades. At a tirne when we Red Cross did more than any date the unlformn goodness of need ail the moral support we can other agency in sustaining morale to give Young chicks the rlght get, we find Canadians still in- amrong troops. Starter 18% - a complete, volved in the kind of antics that Troops overseas are the ones befits the type of people we're who really appreciate the efforts fighting againsthere. We somne- of the Red Cross and that the OM OUR DEA ER times wonder just what Cana- troops at horne can be inspired 'OM Y UR D ALER dians at home think we are. They with the saine conviction was evi- can't bý aware how these things denced at the conclusion of the affect us I'm sure. On the other address when the Headquarters A sh to na hand, I wonder. Bear in mind Company, 2nd Midlands, prompt- the fact that we here know ex- ly voted $50 for the local branch el. Bowmanville 2829 actly what is the cause of ahl this of the Red Cross. trouble. Unfortunately we can't The current week closes the discuss the subject, since it ap- DCRA akrasi ots parently isn't supposed to con- and it is hoped that when the cern us. Why then must we be final results corne out, Bowman- allowed to read these things in ville boys wîll be listed arnong papers? the winners. The parade and pro- 've read much in papers on the gramn was in charge of Capt. L. W. subject of "What Canada's Over- ippell, M.M. and Bar. seas Soldier Is Thinking About," - and it's amazing how little has It is easier to incline the early beenpubishd abut ur ealthought rightly, than the biased thoughts. People seern to think md hlrnntmsagt ess that we are mere robots, have to naturally love God: for they are do what we are told, whether we pure-minded, affectionate, and . like it or not, and that's near generally brave.- Mary Baker enough to the truth. But they've Eddy. lost sight of the fact that we have not lost our ability to think for Those who really care for ourselves. And one day sorne of1 children seldom find children a Cakethesethughs ill rsi n- -care. Enniskillen BURKETON BOY~ WINS DECORATION OVERSEAS The award has been announced by the Department of National Defence of the Military Medal to Lance Corporal Richard George Wolfe of Burketon for gallantry while serving in the Western European theatre of war. The citation with the decoration is as follows: "On November 1, 1944,' The Cal- gary Highlanders were assigned the task of establishing a bridge- head irnrediately across t h e causeway of Walchern Island. After "D" Company had estab- iished themselves at the end of the causeway "B" Company was ordered to proceed through them and to, consolidate at the west end of the causeway. LCI "No. Il Platoon with LCl Wolfe in charge of the 2-inch mortar progressed about four hundred yards south along the flooded bank and consolidated. "A sudden increase'in enemy fire p#rticularly at the end of the causeway indicated a counter-at- tack. In order to tighten thé de- fences it was decided to, move il Platoon further back. The enerny fire or srnall arrns, mortar and 2Ornm was increasing and very effective. It becarne necessary to move in short bounds, and to hold each successive position. "LICpl. Wolfe with great cour- age and under withering fire suc- ceeded in holding several points, firing upon the enemy and delay- ing them. Several times it appear- ed as if No. il Platoon would be wiped out but the mortar fire brought down by this non-com- rnîssioned officer restored the t: situation. The protection given bya LICpl. Wolfe with his 2-inch mor- r, tar enabled the platoon to take up g more effective positions. e "When the platoon was in a ci position to bring effective fire t( upon the enemy they noticed LICpI. Wolfe corning towards thern in the midst of heavy enerny tE fire helping a wounded non-com- nr rnissioned officer back. The en- hý erny fire becarne extrernely heavy n and LICpI. Wolfe stopped, set up his mortar and attempted to neutralize this withering fire ai whîch was being brought to bear it on himself and his platoon. 1Pl "Throughout the whole opera- resolved to effect.-Shakespeare. points and also served in the Pro- creating a market if you only take it away frorn somebodv else. r * There is a solution. It's s0 ob- I is Douidous vious I wonder why it hasn't been gone into long ago. If we a Dalys Toc is deliclous can see it, then it follows that 'becaiuse it s a high quality you who are nearer the source toc.Askyou grcerfor should be able to as well. n é e a i tea.Ask omn roce loi I'm enclosing a little sornething ,.Dlys Tea. Veu'.nJOY IL. that will show you the kind of things we are up against. It flut- L f soito tered down yesterday. There's P no cause for alarm since thi---n ;ion LICPl. Wolfe showed remark- CONSTABLE GEO. COLLING able coolness and complete dis- SUCCEEDS R. POLLARD regard for his personal safetyf. His ON PORT HOPE BEAT gallant action made possible the ____ effective repositioning o! h i s Provincial Constable George Company and was an inspiration Colling, recently of Kitchener, is to ail who were with hirn." the successor in Port Hope terri- tory of Provincial Constable J. When a chîld can be brought to Russell Pollard, whose transfer tears, not from fear of punish- te Bowmanviile was announced ment, but from repentance for a fortnight ago. his offence, he needs no chastise- Constable Colling took over his ment. - Horace Mann. newi duties March 14, and was in- troduced throughout the town by See first that the design is wise Constable Pollard. ind just: thât ascertained, pursue Raised in Palmierston, Con- ýresolutely; do not for one re- stable Colling has seen service in ýulse forego the purpose that you the Provincial Force at various vost Corps of the Canadian Army until discharged in December. He is married, has a wife and a baby bay, a future hockey player of seven months, and is looking for a horne-house or flat. Incidentally, the territory cov- Grafton to Newcastle, and on No. 28 north to Bewdley. Constable Euss Pollard is en- gaged in criminal investigation work for the Provincials at Bow- manville. It's a mistake to think you are THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION which as been appointed to enquire into and report upon the systrem of education in Ontario will hold is first sessions in the Senate Chamber of the University of Toronto at 10 a.m. and at 2 p.m. on April il, and on April 12, 1945, under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Mr. justice J. A. Hope. Preliminary consideration will be given o such written submissions as are presented on or before April 10. Briefs submitted after that date will be con- sidered at subsequent sessions of the Commission. Al organizations interested in any of the problems relatèd o public education are invited to submit briefs to RL . & .Jackson, Secretary, Royal Commission on Education, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. i Te