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SAMUEL FARMER. Editor and Publisher. ORT PERRY STA PORT PERRY; ONT., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940 1 \ EDITORIAL "Buch is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam: His first, best country ever is at home. A FARM WOMAN'S SUGGESTION | An Ontario farm woman has suggested to the Globe and Mail that surplus food might constitute ! the contribution which farmers could make to | the Win-the-War Program. "Why not have a national campaign for the | gathering of wheat, barley, oats, apples, butter, ! i cheese, potatoes, and give them to England? Let the railways put on extra cars free and labour give its services free. There are plenty of com, petent people living near every railway station who would be glad to supgrintend and inspect each shipment free," It is to be hoped that this suggestion will not be neglected. Very probably it will not go very | far this year, as the suggestion comes somewhat By late in the season. An effective campaign, for the salvaging of surplus produce" to be sent as a | gift to Britain, would require careful organization, The produce is there, labour can be made avail- able--both civil and military; transportation could "El : be secured under proper direction; the problem i is to put them all together effectively. i The plan 'cannot be started too soon. We helped i the 'drought suffering West. i Britain, We could help * 5 * SPENDING FOR WHAT WE WANT or. WHAT WE NEED? Twelve years ago Persia (now Iran) was a backward country overwhelmed by Russia's com- mercial influence. But the Shah decided to build a railway from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf. Fifty thousand engineers and workers laboured for nearly thirteen years, 24 hours a day, to build that railroad at a cost of $216,000,- 000. Persia is mountainous. At times the line ran 7000 feet ab6ve sea level. When the struggle 7 ET against rature was ended there wer 131 tunnels and 4700 bridges built. . That is the type of pioneering that is character- izing the forward looking nations of the world. This is particularly true in South Ameri¢a. We can spend our money-and our energy to supply our immediate wants--real or fancied; or : { we can be far-sighted and direct our energies and 3 our wealth for those purposes that shall meet our future need as a people. fs : Canadians and democratic people of all nations 3 FE must meet this pioneering spirit individually by simpler and less selfish living, and by the develop- ment of our splendid natural resources. Slowly, very slowly, the world is working to- ward international unity. 'At first that unity will 5 be retarded by national development; but event- ee ually the nations with acknowledged resources ; and power will'be the forces that will shape the wider federation of free peoples.' 7 pers PN ECONOMIC FALLACIES Extremes. of poverty or riches will have a greater or lesser influence upon an individual ac- 5 AF Fag ro cording to the weakness or strength of his char- acter. Great men-have overcome both poverty and riches and have used the very handicaps of life to further their life projects. Just now much is being said about the effect of poverty upon human life. Frankly, the world is being troubled by a lot of wishful thinking. The fact is that for many years it is unlikely that a comfortable standard of living will be handed to the citizens of any country irrespective of in- dividul effort. Most of us had better make up our minds that we shall have to work hard for our living--per- haps harder than some of us do now. Wealth is the joint product of natural resources and in- dustry. The theory that all human behavior is the result of stimulus 9a espa) and that will power and character ha¥e nothing to do with the matter, is all very well for a theory; but history can tell of the lives of nearly all great men to disprove that theory. Hard work, good judgment, wise expenditure, and a progressing objective in life will overcome most handicaps; and will ensure real success in most cases. [] Neither capitalism nor its abolition will bring or destroy peace. Note this illustration. By Norman Angell ""When the thirteen colonies that grew into the United States had won the war of inde- penence, they had to settle the future form of their relationship to one another, Some wanted tach colony to be a separate and inde- pendent state--which was the line actually taken at a later date by Spanish colonies in America who won their independence. If that policy had prevailed north of the Mexican border, as later it actually did prevail south, and a number of separate nations had _ established themselves in what is now the United States, each with its own army and own navy, tariff walls, monetary systems, foreign offices, ambassadors (perhaps there would have been a French-speaking nation in Louisiana, a --Spanish-speaking one in Texas or California) we can be pretty sure that those sovereign and independent nations would have fought each other at intervals, as the separate nations of South and Central American have fought each other, as Bolivia and Paraguay were fighting bitterly only a year or two ago. "But if in that circumstances the indepen- dent nation of Pennsylvania had gone to war with the independent nation of Ohio, in some quarrel about access to the Great Lakes, what would Have been the cause of the war, Capi- talism- But both states have capitalism now, "and they do not go to war, _ of the peace between them? The abolition of Capitalism? They have not abolished it." What is the cause . "four or five warnings a day. | The , anniversary services which i were || __ are being. postponed owing to Young sas | | People's Conference of Oshawa Pres- afternoon I . bytery held at Port Perry. | PRINCE ALBERT "The Y. P. U. have started ings for the fall and winter. All are "invited, Anal We are sorry to report the illness t r { ttended of Mrs, Josiah Smith who suffered a |the anniversary services at Epsom. stroke last week. if hobs "Mr, and Mrs, Fice and family are Aileen Harper. spent a few days with relatives in Oshawa. dap ~The Blue Bird Club met at the home to have been held on Oct, 27th, of Mrs. Harold Kerry on Wednesday Mr, Jas, Steer enlisted in the Air Force. : Mr, Charlie Builton returned tu Oshawa. © Quite a number from here attended its meet- Mr, and Mrs, Fred Ackney and fam- ily visited with Mrs, J. Ackney on Bert Hutcheson and kindly took over. the secretary's job. The hilarity be-' ing temporarily subdued, and the Tail Twister and Lion Tamer put in strait Jackets, the Agenda of the Zone 10 meeting was put on the table, Then followed addresses on the fol- lowing topics: "Money Raising" by President Bradley, of Port Hope, At- tendance by Lion Stuart James, Bow- |" manville, Club Activities Governor, Fred Cripps, Value of Inter-Club Visi Samuel Farmer. moving to Oshawa. 'Mrs, A. Heayn and son in Toronto last week. ~*~ Mr. and Mrs, Groupe, and guests, Mr. and Mrs. Watson, (the ¥ the sister of G friends eno, £ ES Sunday, . i wore After each talk questions disc Mrs. Chester Geer visited with her |asked and the sister Mrs. Doug McKinley last week. Watch your label; it tells when your subscription expires LIL $1.50 per year in advance. 5 cents a single copy A Very Interesting Letter from England Editor's Note--The following letter was received by Rev, Jos. Denny from his niece in England: 13.Buckland Lane, Maidstone, Kent. September 26th, 1940. DEAR UNCLE-- Very many thanks for your letter received Sept. 11th, and also for the Onwards' a few days before that, and The Fam- ily Herald which arrived this morning. It looks to bea very interesting book, and I am sure we shall all enjoy reading it. There seem to be articles in it for everyone. I have not had time to study it thoroughly yet, but will do so when I have sent these few lines to pou. How very much the world has changed since I wrote to you last at the end of Julv. We only seem to live now from one day to another, and things of all sorts happen so frequently that life seems all dazed. The number of air raids this last week have not been so many each day, and last night was the first time for weeks that we did not have a warning. The night before it lasted from 7.45 till 6 to 6 the next morning. But I understand that at Tunbridge Wells last night they had two raid warnings." So far to-day we have had only one. that was al 8.30 a.m. till 10 a.m. Now I hope you will not be bored with all my war talk, but it is all we have to live for now. ) Charles and Ken have their war jobs allotted to them, Charles is on the stirrup pump every Thursday night. There is a pump to be shared in our road and different men take a night each to be on the alert to extinguish any incendiary bombs that happen to fall here. Ken is a stretcher bearer, and has to be on duty every fourth night in case of necessity at his of fice. There are always people at work on the controls, and the fire squad and lots more doing various jobs. We have had to move our beds downstairs because we could not get any sleep upstairs. The drone of German planes continually over us all night long, and their anti-aircraft guns blazing away all the time, and never knowing whether a bomb was coming on the house, it has been a nerve-wracking time. We have been luckier than London. Dad told me last week that Clapham had it rather badly. He mentioned Manor Road. What a good thing Aunt Jess is away from there. Dad has had a rough time. A bomb fell on the back of his house. It made crater 10 ft. deep. All his downstairs windows at the back were blown iu. Part of the dairy roof was blown off; and the boiler roof partly blown off. Now he is all boarded up, and he lives in darkness all the time There were over 20 houses damaged, and some made uninhabitadle. This happened about 11 o'clock at night Two days later they had a molotor breadbasket, and two of the incendiaries from it fell on the furniture shop oppo- site. They had already lost their plate glass windows. That Sema afternoon nine men were killed with abomb at Tunbridge ells. . + += We have had a bomb drop in the sports ground just oppo- site our house. But it did no damage, only gave us a dreadful fright. Charles has had some narrow shaves in his journeys round the country. He has had to lie in ditches to save him- self from being machine gunned. [can't see where all this is leading to. The war will never finish as we are going on now. We must soon make an attack somewhere. Porhaps we will have done so by the time you get "this letter, events happen so very quickly. We find it difficult to get shopping done. Lots of the shops close directly the siren goes, and we have to make several jour- neys to get the most hecessary things. We have been getting Last week, twice in one day the siren sounded just as I had reached town, and I had to come straight back home, Yesterday I was luckier. I had just fin- ished shopping, but had to wait ten minutes before the bus was due. Buses continue to run unless things are very bad. Whilst we were waiting we saw the Germans (160 of them) The guns opened fire, and they turned back. Then the Spitfires and Hurricanes went after them, and they disappeared from "view, We could hear the rattle of the machine guns as they" fought in the sky, SLi © have had two Germans brought down in this town, one one thought itwas coming to their h ke one house, and some pe le were instead of 1s. and 10d. worth. each, when you can buy them. never buy our full ration as it is. But that will not affect us. We Eggs are very scarce, 83d. Cheese has been difficult to obtain. It has been more plentiful on Friday and Saturday, but only English cheese, and it does crumble so when cut. " ° . I know that all your thoughts are over here, hoping that we shall come through all safe. How thankful you must be that none of your little ones are going through the horrors that the children over here are experiencing. I hope it will soon pass away. But Hitler will never break our morale. We are too de- termined to beat him; and we know we'll beat him in the end. in the middle of the night, all ablaze, and the roar was terrific, 4 ; In f did 8 Yours very sincerely, "Peggy." War Work A « eg ctivities Please bring all finished articles to the work room on Friday arternoon, The October bales will be packed for shipment, There is a demand for Refugee ciothing, and the Committee would appreciate the help of any ladies who would make or work on girls' dresses, SCUGULG The Presbytery of Oshawa of the United Church of Canada, is holding within its bounds a Kingdom of God Crusade from Oct. 27 to Nov. 1, Next Sunday Rev. IF. G. Joblin will go to urono and the Orono minister will be here. Foot at 10.30, Centre at 11.30 and Head at 7.30. Al lare invited. On Tuesday evening, October 29, a roast fowl supper is being served the Town Hall followed by a play: "the Girl in the Fur Coat" given by Funiskillen talent, Everyone come and have a good supper with plenty of room to cat and be served. The Red Cross meeting will be held next Wednesday, October 30th, Bring all finished work to ¢he Town Hall. Our first snow came on Sunday morning then it rained later in the day. We hope it does not freeze up yet for awhile. Sunday was Anniversary services at the Foot Church and the weather was not very pleasant. Rev. Mr. Becker of Rawdon gave two splendid sermons. In the morning his text was "The earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof," In the evening the text was "What the earth needs is Jesus." The choir assisted at both services, Maple leaves and flowers were the decorations. : Rev. and Mrs, F. G. Joblin had a nice visit with old acquaintances at Stirling and Rawdon while Mr, Job- lin was supplying for Mr, Becker. The Women's Association held its meeting in the Town Hall on Tuesday afternoon with a good attendance. The meeting was opened by the Pres- idént. The Scripture lesson was read by Mrs. R. Hood. Mrs. F. G. Joblin gave a interesting talk on the Mis- sionary Study Book, The Ways in India; Mrs. Fines gave a couple of choice readinigs. Mrs. D. Hope gave a reading from Richard Maxwell's "Mother's Love". Plans were then made for the Supper and Play. The lovely supper was then ready on Hallowe'en decorated tables. was group five of the Centre--M: . Mrs. J. L. Sweetman, Mrs, H. Myrtle Dowson, were guests on Sun- day of Mr, and Mrs. R. Hood. Mr. and Mrs. G. Hood visited their daughters Marie and Grace, in Toron- to, ocvr the week end. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gerrow," Oshawa were visitors of her sister Mrs, €. Wannamaker on Sunday. ' Mr. and Mrs. D. Crozier, Mr. and Mrs. M. Fralick and little Gloria, visited friends in Toronto, a few days last week. Mr. Leonard Hope left on Tuesday for a hitch-hike to the North and had splendid luck as he landed in Kirk- land Lake the same evening, to visit his cousin Mr. Henry King, Mr. and Mrs. C. Ptolemy have moved from Oshawa to Port Perry. Mrs. Fines received word that her father's home in England had been bombed, also the street where her sister lives, but the house escaped damage, Mr. Harold Williams and daughter, Elsa, and Mr, P. Williams and nephew of Whitby, visited Mr. and Mrs. Gor- don Hope on Monday, Mrs. J. A. Sweetman visited her sister-in-law, Mrs. Peter Williams, in Whitby, 4 couple of days last week. © Mrs. R. Carter is visiting her sister in Muskoka for a few days. too Railway Decision Deferred Judgment was reserved by the Board of Transport Commissioners of Canada at the hearing Monday at the Court House, Whitby, of the applica- tion of the Canadian National Rail- ways for an order granting leave to abandon the operation of the Whitby- Port Perry subdivision, a distance of about cighteen miles, and serving the villages of Brooklin, Port Perry, and well settled townships. = The Board heard the argument of the Canadian National Counsel, and also called to give evidence were officials of op- posing municipalities and several heuds of business concerns. Opening the hearing, I. C. Rand, K.C., C.N.R. counsel, Presented figures purporting to show that the railway in the operation of the branch line un- year, due almost entirely to the in- roads made by trucks. Quoting figures dealing with oper- ating losses for four years, Mr, Rand told the Commissioners that the net los on the line for 1936 were $5258; 1037, $8,064; 1038, $7,830; and 1089 $7,799; with a total of $29,065 for 4 years. "For the length of the line, I submit that these:fare substantial losses and that the railway be asked to assure them, der dispute was losing $7,600 per