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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1940 MORAL VICTORIES MUST BE BASE OF THE OSHAWA, DAILY TIMES, Cobourg Expects To See Big Tax Rate Reduction PAGE TEN Almonds (Miss Lois Balsdon) ALMONDS, Dec, 23--Miss Adams, |, of Arnprier, the niece of Mr, and Mrs. Hazen, is spending Christmas This Year Colebrate Christmas and New Year's at the Wishing Their Many Friends and Customers the Compli- ments of the Season. The Royal Billiard Parlor GEO. SACHLAS, PROP. Tobacconist, Magazines, Cigarettes, Ice Cream, Anticipate Lower Re- lief Costs and Deben- ture Debt in Next Few that the stitching resembles a fine piece of embroidery work. Today Beda is the "life of the party" among the tots who play about the floors of the hospital's NEW WORLD PLAN (Continued from Page 1) week at their home here. Mr. Bert Rowntree is spending a week with his parents, Mr, Mrs. Rownurce, of Lindsay. and GRAND all (peoples)," the pontiff said. "The church cannot be called par- tisan." He declared the church wants to Candy and Soft Drinks, Phone 584 - Mrs. J. Guy spent several days with Mr, and Mrs. L. Richardson, of Ashburn, last week. Mr. and Mrs, C. L. Morcombe and sorridors, The legless lad is little Gerald Cashmore of Waukegan, Ill, who was brought to the hospital last October. Since then he's had four | carry truth ahd moral instruction |g, onters, Evelyn and Temple, of sets of plaster legs, each time get-|to "to all peoples". The church Omemee, attended the funeral of ting a pair just a little longer than | fas preached truth, he added, but | Brooklin's grand old man in the the ones that are discarded, row "hard realism itself preaches' |person of Mr. J. Knight on Satur- "His first plaster legs were only | it |day which was largely attended. about an inch long," said Dr. The pope said he was gratified | Mrs. Frank Peckover, of New Moore. "Each time they were|to be able to "console with moral |Liskeard, is spending Christmas changed they were bullt a little | and spiritual assistance . . . large | week at the home of her parents, longer so he could gradually learn | numbers of refugees, expatriates (Mr. and Mrs. William Ballard. to balance himself a litile higher.| and emigrants, Including 'non-| The school concert was held on Mother nature left him just enough | aryans"." Wednesday afternoon. last with muscle below the hips to help him He lamented "the ever-diminish- imany of the parents present to see balance himself. He's proved his| ing possibility" of his bringing aid [their children put on a very fine sense of balance and convinced us| "through efficacious relief and con- program which they had prepired we will be justified building him a | solation to war prisoners" where. lunder Mr. Hazens' leadership. Old brace with a pair of joint-less steel | he sald, "victims are most numer- iganta was on hand and had a gift legs. : ous and misery most pitiable." for every child. Later he'll get steel legs with| "However, although our aim has| The Red Cross Branch will open |Joints, and perhaps in 10 years he'll | been frustrated in some countries," |; 'ater Christmas and we trust be up and about on regular arti- Le said, Your efforts were not every- | hat al) the ladies will plan to at- ficial legs. where in vain." tend y and followed through, thousands of nd, dollars. will yn be paid in be- | "Gerald is about ready for his The Sonuil Seslared that Hoy Mr. Elmer Lee and Hanson Rich- fore the properties will be allowed | brace and joint-less steél legs now, my " ay a presen, ton ards have compelted their month's to be sold" stated the report of ja Gus will see that he gets : ag ne us af | training at Newmarket and arrived | the financial committee. them." nations will realize the nee or home on Saturday | The debenture set-up on which | The "Gus" Dr. Moore referred to the solution of social problems in| Mrs. NW. Stafford is spending | #% the 1941 tax levy will be based is [1s August Dreher, a brace maker, he bint o! Christianity, | Christmas week at the home of her made up of total debenture debt, (who toils. dally in the hospital's e world Will legve the hard || er Mrs. Jeff Brown, of To-| $515,217.28, less the self-supporting {machine shop to make all sorts of bole, 2 tay with an improved [ronto. ' Mr. George Stafford has! [ues Re uN contraptions to aid crippled "kids "Mankind will listen to.the voice | een called up and looks well in | a net o to get back on their feet et aga, i § Only | 11s Royal Alr Force uniform. He | 254.86 were paid off in 1940. Along of reasoning and of justice. nly ; in such a state of mind can the | 8 stationed at Toronto. with other items the total deben- | ture debt has been reduced to $218. | world proceed to the establishment | | 343.60. About $24,000 will be drovped | of a new order based on justice." | tof 1 ugt urse, ol {in 1943, or a tax reduction of 8 wm of course: vopeny oitizely on The pontiff spoke of "unchecked | ! mills. . propaganda" in some countries | he de: Yelop ments of the war.' Direct relief costs were ony AN ut he said that "twice as many which, he said, sets up the ememy | trained pil ts Ww » Sent $1,000 over last year, reflecting im- rain pilots will be sent out from (Continued 'from Page 1) daily and hourly in a false light. : re a Yeas, rE mn | In conclusion he said that wwe | the British Gommonweaith Air I were expected the Pope and all the authority of the Vatican and of the Roman Ca- Years CAFE 141; King St. East (Upstairs) CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL S 00 DINNER : FOR RESERVATIONS TELEPHONE 321 3] Kive St. E, Cobourg, Dec. 24.--Substantially lower tax rate within the next few years was forecast by the finance committee's report, submitted at the end of the town's year. The year 1940 was entered with tax arrears amounting to $56,843.37, of which $12,037.87 was colected Current taxes were $144,054.59 with collection to Dec. 15, totalling $125.- 218.48, leaving a balance outstand- ing of $18,836.31. This makes the total amount of taxes outstanding $63,641.81. Allowing for the amount set up for uncollectable taxes of $13,542.31, net total tax arrears were $50,009.50. "It is becoming increasingly dif- ficult to collect on tax arrears and unless assistance is given through a tax sale of improved property, we see no immediate help for the diffi- culty, If a tax sale is advertised A la Carte -- All Hours Te All Our Friends and Customers. GLECOFF'S GCROCMEATERIA 174 Ritson Road South RIPEE The Management and Staff of The Grand Cafe ex- tend to all their patrons and friends heartiest of Christmas Greetings. Season's (Greetings May we join the many who are wishing you a Merry Christmas with our own very personal hope that the holi- day be all you expect of it-- and a little bit more. At This Glorious Season, the Time of Peace and Goodwill, Good Cheer and Good Fellowship. : BURNS SHOE CO. LIMITED Wishes You the Best Christmas You Ever Had, PY nZIE VICTOR'S SPORT =~» CYCLE 34 King St. W. « Phone 918 ; the Best of Health, Happiness and Prosperity, Now and in the Future. Cd y FRPP IIIIIIPIIIIISIIIIN pray that men will grow mature | 1r2ining Plan as ; Moet of the comntitiees kept with. enough to establish a new and just under the original scheme in their estimates, the report point- ie p pray that mankind will be liberated | useful discussions with a number of | Strests Commitee was obiiged to from his tribulations." | British cabinet ministers, and that exceed thelr estimates by existing he had found them all "enthusias- | circumstances. tholic Churches and the wishes of RAL N PR men, and money and materials. has been one of steady progress" | the Italian people who had no lus: il Col. Ralston said he was looking sald the report, "We did. not. levy forward to a visit this week with | for a surplus, and it is a source of | tees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of ferocious pagan I paid our way and maintained our | barbarians." wiehay from tieir | friends at home lower tax rate. Estimated surplus | * (Continued from Page 1) for 1940 was $1,100." bib to Where has ne hau doy Rial) | Britain and I know that that is the | "comparative insignificance" of the prostra rance? Where | spirit of Canada. damage done to London by Nazi air "Yes, and that's the spirit of the raiders, and that as far as he could social and economic order. We The minister said he had the most ed out, but the Highways and tic about Canada's contribution in| "Taken altogether, the year 1040 for this war, has a y / - s arrayed the trus $ Canada's troops in England, and "I | satisfaction to feel that we have / Jove give them the best of i Vis + love ones an credit. Just ahead is a substantially * & 0 ! : He said 1 { hed at ti 8 1€e was astonished a ne was the need to invade Egypt, which | CRIPPLED KIDDIES GREET GHRISTMAS WITH HIGH HOPES | was under British protection . . | Why were you made to attack and | Invade Greece? , .. Why have you placed yourselves in the path of this | (British) avalanche néw only just | started from its base to roll forward | on tis predestined track?" . . ' y "The people of Italy were never | conSulted. The Army of Italy was whole empire as the Hallans heard tonight . The minister's voice faded, and a | recording of part of Prime minister | Churchill's radio address to the.| ister sald: -- judge the attacks by one jota the courage of the Brit- ish people, and their determination to carry on and to win "I realize Italian people yesterday was run in | have-meant great suffering --the section where the prime min- | British people, but it appears to me that if Hitler proposes to destroy . The British nation and com- | London with bombs he has a job on monwealth of Nations across the | his hands." "haven't shaken that the air attacks for the PRR BRIN RFR RR As the year 1939 draws to a Globe and indeed I may say the English-speaking world are: now aroused. They are on the march or on the move and all the forces of modern progress and of ancient | culture are ranged behind them... Col. Ralston sald in the en ite | that he had repeated to the British | Government "our assurance Hin Canada is in this war to the limit of her resources." He said Canada's contribution of | men to the land {fighting Toreest close, we again extend our | | (Continued from Page 1) never consulted. No one was con- the Shriners Hospital for Crippled | sulted. One man, and one man alone Children, where more than 60 dis- | ordered the Italian soldiers to rave abled 'youngsters from the middle- | their neighbors' vineyard." west and other sections of the ie 4 * aA United States are finding new hope for living. the Italian monarch and the peo The boy who is standing again: ple who guard the sacred centre of after being off his feet for peven Christendom should have a word to | years is nine-year-old James Kohl- | say upon these awe-inspiring issues. | horst of Rockford, Til, Surely the Ttalian Army, which has THOMPSON'S | When Jimmy entered the hospi- | fought so bravely on many occasions [tal last September his hips were in the past but now evidently has no DRUG STORE | drawn up. , This was correcetd by | hart for the job, should take some pit = & y | surgery. His legs were crooked. | care cf the life and future of Italy" ing when it was announced last | 19 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH 48 They were straightened by osteo- "What is the position of Italy to- spring they could no longer be | PHONE 22 |tomy--the surgical art of cutting| day? Where is it that Il Duce has | poor eo ctired. { | the bone through and setting it in | led his trusting people after eighteen | put some will be there. They (a straight position again. years of dictatorial power?" may have been held over from last Dr. Moore sald he expects Jim-| 'That is where one man and one | saa50n or manufactured before the | my would be able to walk without | Man only has led you; there I leave | pan, but when I left London many | I lcrutches by the time another | this unfolding story until the day | Christmas show windows were al- | : | Christmas rolls around, but that he comes--as it will--when the Italian | ready filled with them again. To All Our Customers and Their Friends We Extend a Most Sincere Wish For a | would not walk in a normal man-! nation will ence more take a hand Some puddings have been made | | ner. in shaping its own fortunes." also, by t hose who gathered fruits | and a Happy and Pg gli sg PE ACE ON F ARTH Dns Fart soared tampiias | BENEATH LONDON PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR Christmas Dinner Suggestions Saat beet SEASON'S GREETINGS! sincerest wishes to all for a BeBe 203 3: Be Be Bee Be "Surely the time has come when very merry yuletide. VIRTUE HARDWARE Phone 52 SERS LS Simcoe N. or REAL SERVICE THROUGH THE YEAR -- AND NOW -- A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO OUR MANY, MANY CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS. BOERS NAMI, | And Jimmy was quick to agree. ingredients from autumn fruits, i The little girl who can close her home-dried because there was no | | eyes again is Beda Hall, sent to the sugar for their canning, hospital last July from Elbowoods, This year, in spite of all the ob- N.D., by a doctor for the Indian stacles, there is every sign that Service. She was burned in an ex- Christmas will be Christmas, even (Continued from Page 1) invasion attempt. British leaders are keeping the people alert, wary, prepared. If this were a peacetime Christ- I I I y plosion of fluid being used to clean though the fireplace which held A N a dress when she was 10 months old. Scar tissue from the burns mas, it wauld be a perfect set-up last year's stockings be shattered, RED INDIAN SERVICE STATION SITIO 50 3 Wat lmptesinle to for a perfect holiday, with Christ even though the pudding may be tasted In an underground hideaway. her to close her eyes. Dr. Clarence PHONE 1096 67 KING WEST Monroe removed the scar tissue and mas falling on a Wednesday. The day after Christmas--boxing day, One can be sure the earols will sewed in its place skin grafted from when boxes and baskets or surplus be sung in thousands of shelters ecocoaenneey | Another part of her body--so deftly To All Our Friends and Customers K | cood things go to the retainers and where people have taken to singing . . 2 | poorer people--is normally a legal We Extend Our Best Wishes for planes and guns, raise their spirits and show stubborn resistance to the raiders. I am confident this will happen even if the enemy chooses the sea- son to prepare his path for inva< sion. There may be hell on earth above but there will be the sound of "peace on earth" below ground. There will be gifts given. I am sorry I shall miss it all by a couple of weeks. anyway to drown the sound of holiday. Since Saturday and Sun- day are the peacetime week-end, few would interrupt the festivities merely to work on Friday and there would be a grand five-day celebra- | tion, : And there would be crackers and and A | pudding at each feast, for crackers # and pudding are things sacred to Health, WwW K| an English Christmas. ealth. A This year, however, the people § | have been warned against letting and. 2 | their Joy in survival influence them § | to pause in the war effort. § This year, by government order, " Boxing Day is not a legal holiday, A This year, the creamy sweets and rich fat dishes of the old-time % | feast will be no longer Creamy and * | rich, because of rationing. The real RED D. GARRARD |=iiis cause of the absence of the candied fruits which go into it. And crack- PLUMBING + HEATING DCK ST. 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