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¥ BE ae o£ THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1931 Convention Delegates -- Welcome YOU WILL ENJOY YOUR MEALS IF YOU EAT . -- AT THE -- COMMERCIAL HOTE cents up. Our Club Breakfast will more than satisfy you. FOR COMFORT, CONVENIENCE AND SERVICE IN A QUIET, HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE, COME TO THE . Commercial Hotel CANADIAN LEGION DELEGATES Will find a warm welcome waiting for them at the home of Hudson-Essex and Plymouth AUTOMOBILES And General Electric Refrigerators We are glad to welcome you to Oshawa, and are ready to serve you in any way we can while you are here. Ross, Ames and Gartshore A Good Place to Get a Good Used Car HUDSON-ESSEX-PLYMOUTH SALES AND SER VICE 135 KING ST. WEST PHONE 1160 'Clay Products Welcome! On the occasion of the visit of the Delegates to the Canadian Legion Convention we desire to extend our heartiest welcome and sincerely, hope that their visit to the Motor City of Canada will be a happy one and one that will not soon be forgotten. : Canadian Pharma- ceutical Journal Link and or Canadian Ch 'Acco! Si JN Regular Baptist Call Canadian Druggist We are equipped to produce the highest grade of commercial printing, advertising serstute, catalogues, ~ Mundy-Goodfellow PRINTING COMPANY LIMITED Toronto + Oshawa . Why Comrades :-- I regard it as a great honour to be privileged to send this brief mes- sage to my old comrades of the Legion on the occasion of the On- tario Provincial Convention to be held this month, August is a never-to-be-forgotten month in the annals of the Canadian Corps. Seventeen years ago today 'the trumpet of freedom called Can- ada's sons to the defence of Empire, Unhesitatingly, they rallied to this call of duty, not thinking very much about it except that it was their duty, That is-the first great lesson for us. Wherever and whenever duty calls we mustiobey, whether it leads to conflict with foes from without or foes from within. Often the latter. are the greater menace, though less easily detected. Sixteen years dgo our Second Division was about to join our First in France. By that time we at the front and those at home knew what a grim tragedy war was. Yet there was no hesitation, --nothing but cou- rage and determination,--the second lesson, and just as necessary in days of peace. Times are hard, there is depression everywhere. If we are to win through it must be courage and determination once more. Fiffeen years ago, all four Divi- sions were in France, and Canada was prepared to strike at full strength, under our trusted leader, General Byng. Who that was there will ever forget the bloody Somme, with its bitter fighting, its Sordid misery, its heavy sacrifice and its unparalleled endurance! Little at Gen. Sir Arthur Currie _ Extends His Greetings that time was there to give cheer, except the supreme confidence that we could defeat our foes. That is the third lesson. Life's battles are not easy, They call for effort and pain, endurance and sacrifice, but, with trust in God, in our fellowmen and in our country, victory shall be ours. Fourteen years ago, there was the fine victory of Hill 70,--a hard struggle, but showing a decided su- premacy on our part, The reputa- tion won at Vimy, Arleux and Fresnoy, was amply confirmed, and leaders regarded the Canadian Corps with supreme confidence. Canada, after its long struggle, has won the respect and admiration of the world. Then, thirteen years ago, --Aug- ust, 1918--Canadiags, with the splen- did victories of Amiens and Arras, were playing an outstanding and de- cisive part in ensuring final victory in the field--how outstanding and how decisive few people even yet appreciate, But we know, and are proud. I don't know why I am writing this kind of a message. Perhaps it is the day. Memories haunt me, as they do you, and there are times when pictures of other days ap- pear most vividly in one's mind. There is always one thought remain- ing, when all the rest have gone. am proud of my old comrades and of our homeland. I trust them to- day as implicitly as then. I know they are always willing to serve Canada as unselfishly and as grand- ly as when they wrote her name so high on' the world's Honour Roll. --A. W. CURRIE. BRIG.-GEN. J. A. GUNN The first president of the Ontario Provincial Command of the Cana- dian Legion. Ps MAJOR R. B. SMITH Second-in-Command, Acting C.O., Ontario Regiment. LT.-GEN. SIR RICHARD : E..W. TURNER, V.C. One of the organizers of the Cpas- dian Legion, and a pow in of its the early stag MAJOR J. R. BOWLER Better knewn in the Legion as "Reg," the Popular Dominion General Secretary of the Cana- dian Legion. "FOR EVER ENGLAND" Rupert Brooke's dream of a little }| corner of some foreign field that} should "be for ever England" has || === received a striking fulfilmenesDver in Belgium, in the Ypres district, where so many of our dead lie bur- ied, about six hundred British peo- ple are engaged in caring for the cemeteries. There is, in fact, a little British scttlement at Ypres, a com- munity which in some ways is un- ique. It has been granted legal status under the civil law. It has its own church and parsonage, a school in which about one hundred children are being educated as Bri- tish citizens, and a rest room for pilgrims. When he introduced the bill to regularize an entirely British community in a foreign country, the Belgian Minister of Justice said that his government had framed it "in remembrance of what we owe to the British nation and in homage to the spirit that inspired the creation of these. establishments in the Ypres district." Needless to say th& Bri- tish people everywhere are pleased with this evidence of continued friendship and good will between the two countries. --New Outlook. For ten minutes a small man tried to get a view of the screen at the talkies, but the big hat of the big woman in the seat directly in front of him obstructed his view. He complained to the at- tendant. "Would you mind removing your hat, madam?" the attendant asked, "as it is in the way of the small man behind you?" "You will find it much easier to remove the small man behind me," the woman replied, and sat back to watch her favorite star, o | This special Convention Edition of ||! The Oshawa Daily Times is a splen- did souvenir of this great gathering. Take a few copies to your branch. Fred D. Fred D. 116 Brock St. E. PLUMBER WELCOMES THE Legion Convention We may not be able to serve you directly, but we do appreciate your work of ser- vice, and hope that your convention in Oshawa may be even more successful - than you wish it to be _ PLUMBER | Garrard Garrard Phone 726 Panoramic Camera Co. of Canada THE PANORAMIC PHO- TOGRAPHERS bid wel- come to the Canadian Legion Convention delegates. We have in our possession practically all the military panoramic negatives made by the Canadian Expeditionary Forces dur- ing the Great War, and reprints may be obtained from same at any time on request. 321 St. George St. Toronto F. S. RICKARD, Mgr. Telephone Midway 3663 MCLAUGHLIN Coal and Supplies Limited Welcomes the Canadian Legion Provincial Convention Oshawa has a warm place in its heart for the War Veterans who served their -. Country and Empire so well, but we take special pride in welcoming to our city the distinguished representatives of the Em- pire's greatest service organization, and its Canadian unit, The Canadian Legion: May your stay in Oshawa be pleasant and MCLAUGHLIN Coal and Supplies : Limited 110 King St. West Phone 1246