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the gcmgetown herxm wednesday evening january 15th 1941 the georgetown herald newt of georgetown norval glen wuuanis umehoom stewarttowa baillaslad and terrs ootu canada tlju a year united states 1390 a year single copies sc advertising kate will be qaoted en subscription rates walter c biehn leflilc clark garfield l mcoilvrat reginald broomhead phone nov 8 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec division of the c wna the editors corner short and sweet we can t say we blame a reader for the note which accompanied his renewal to the herald we realize that m our last two issues in december there was a scarcity of reading matter and news this waft due to a cdrnbmahon of circumstances illness of one member of the staff holidays machine trouble and the general rush which seems to prevail during a holiday period last week we were back to normal again and with our troubles behind us we are once more bending every effort to give you a newsy newspaper and remember that you all can help us by turning in your news items early if you have visitors for the week end give us a ring on monday morning if you are bringing in an account of a wedding or a funeral the earlier you bring it in the more you help us get the herald out on time on wednesday business good in georcietown we have been pleased to hear the optimistic comments of local merchants concerning business con ditions in georgetown during the past yea the ma jority ob the merchants set a new mark in christmas business one which has not been equalled for several years one main street man remarked that his total 1940 intake was the highest since he came to town se veral years ago another said that during the whole year there had been a noticeable improvement in sales and his christmas business was even better than he had hoped for it is difficult to say just what has caused this increase nodoubt much of it is due to more employ ment and a higher total wage bill in town we would like to think that part of it can be traced to more buying at home to an increased sense of loyalty to our own local merchants it is a sad but nonetheless true fact that some of our citizens buy practically nothing in local stores they seem to prefer to shop exclusively in gpelph and brampton and toronto just what is the reason for this is hard to find out to be sure some articles can be purchased a few cents cheaper in the larger stores in other centres when this saving is balanced against the travelling expenses of the trip however the argu ment of cheaper goods would hardly hold water whatever the reason may be we wish that people who buy out of town would give our local mer chants the benefit of their purchasing power we are confident that any merchant would be only too glad to order something for you if he does not carry it in his tegular s by buying at ho you a helpin your community to prosper georgetown has one of the highest per capita incomes in the dominion why not give our merchants the benefit of this income public spending curtailed if the voice of georgetown s 1941 42 council is truly reflected in the inaugural address delivered by mayor gibbons on monday night and printed in de tail elsewhere in the herald public expenditures are going to be limited in the next few years even more than they were last year the mayor feels that we can further the war effort by curtailing local expendi tures to the point of lowering our tax rate and allow ing more of our money to be at the disposal of the do minion and the empire he does hot stand alone in this idea the do minion government has expressed its wish that all municipalities limit expenditures to bare necessities in order that federal taxing power may be expanded in other words we are giving up our local luxuries and sjorae of our local necessities in order that our mite may be added to swell the coffers of the empire in this belief we can scarcely disagree and we do not believe that our council will go to the other ex trexne and tie the municipal purse strings so tight that qh necessities will be dispensed with there is a rea sonable limit beyond which we cannot go save in a cmc of desperate emergency it would be foolish for instance to let our streets and asdewalks crumble into i wjt wmlnngr frfssniy repairs such a policy would be shortsighted and in the long run ruture re placements would cost us much more than present re pairs we feel sure that this is not the aim of the mayor or council we expect that they wih carefully oiisjfler all financial measures which crop up during tfteir term of office and that nothing will be turned down flatly without a fair hearing on the basis of war two praters for new years dedicated to their majesties our wellbeloved king oeorge vi and queen sllmbetlav sp grateful memory of their visit to canada an empire kneeling o lord another year has gone and stin the war drum beats grant us o christ the courage high that flames in london streets o son of maiy and thy saints we humbly call to thee to arm and guird our fighting men on laud in sky and sea jehovah oort of israel th chosen ones implore that thou wilt be their god of hosts amid tne bat les roar and we who name thee other names at other altnrs bow our millions pray in many tongues god keen our enrolre now our noble allies lord uphold throughout the hitler night and may their spartan spirit fine inspire our empires might and we at home in lesser ways whateer our taaks may be god make us kind and strong and brave to sulve for victory god sav bur king our statesmen guide our men and women bless as we rededicate our lands to thee and righteousness amen ottawa december 32nd 1940 in tranquil days o lord the old year is no more its sullied page is turned with flying foot the entitles the dear dead year has spurned the pastiis bell of- midnight peals with humble hearts we hear the clanring tongues ring wide the news the birth of another year no survey of otir faltering no memory of each fall will cancel their unworthiness they hae passed beyond recall again we gird our armour on v intent our fight to win in thls clean unlived twelvemonth now that time has ushered in so with thv kindly aid o god we face the coming days and trust that in the paths of right thine arm wilt guide our ways from lack of christian charity the unkind thought or word prom all these petty little sins deliver us o lord ouelph december 31st 1909 3 rupert broadfoot eco what other papers sat thf lords prater according to an item in some of the papers the principal of the aulston public school asked the entrance class to write down the lords prayer th result surprised and shocked him there were thirty pupus in the class and two or the thirty were able to write the prayer that s rather a low percentage though a similar experiment in other public schools might show that very few know this great prayer very well and of those who knew the prayer well enought to repeat it it is proba ble thai some couldnt write it never having been asked to do so before wf recall a similar experiment when a teacher was surprised to read our father which art in heaven harold be thy name- then there is the story of the mo ther who called her child harold be cause he was born on christmas eve and because she heard somebody sing ing hark the harold angels sing any experienced teacher can prob ably tell similar stories and they aren t funny fergus news record farmers union in ontario one of the most cheering bite of news gathered in the new year is that premier mitchell hepburn and other leading agriculturists in ontario are seriously talking of setting out to form a non partisan farmers union the way in which federal authorities both before and since the war have set aside as negligible the vote and in fluence of the producers of our food in this province has not been a pretty sight individualism is a grand qual ity when it does not run as so often in ontario communities and country side to defeating the interests oi those concerned farmers in the west have gained political and economic power by organization and agreement on policies in the common interests of the growers of wheat or other agrlcul tural commodities it can be done m ontario but has never yet been done successfully owing to too much blind individualism defeating what must be an entirely co operative enterprise de libera tely aimed at acquiring and us ing political leverage to attain desired ends if 1m1 sees the successful unionaa tlon of ontario farmers to achieve ec onomic justice for the agricultural in iu rtomimiaunwbii ii w mnimmunmnnunmnia nmnittcftommtii imwninamiainnuinrmmurjiiuiiiininiutmhnamimn f r watson i dds mds georgetown office hours 9 to 5 except thursday afternoons mi w i m mm uuueiu mi mi uhiii muito mnmonnmnniaiinraihmoiuaiiniiiinimtiii inuiiuinim j dr j burns milne i dental surgeon x rat oeorgetown phone 80 6 clifford g ld8 dj dentist phone 410 main street georgetown reid j wltuhuuutmmmta leroy dale k c m sybil bennett b a barristers and solicitors mill street georgetown phone 1 monuments markers and lettering pollock ingham i gait ont designs on request phone 2048 g inspect our work in greenwood g cemetery jumnmnnmitiiminiiiimisinwiimiiuaifwmumaiiibiiwi gray coach lines time table effective sunday october 6th 1 eastern standard time leave georgetown eastbound to toronto f 614 ajn 408 pjn 9 18 a jn 6 48 pjn 11 48 pjn 0 13 pjn c 223 pjn westbound to london 935 aj 600 pjn x13 0s pjn w50 pin 3 06 pjn dxlo35 pjn ay am pjn exh3s pjn a except sun and hoi b sun and hoi only o saturdays only d jqocept sat sun and hot e sat sun and hoi f dally except sun x to kitchener y to stratford w h long phone 89 j coo cement and cinder blocks brick and tile manufactured with uptodate power machine all sizes any quantity 3 new st phone 838 burlington jnih 26th tear of practice chiropractor xray drugless therapist lady attendant office over dominion store georgetown hours 2 5 730 9 jo pjn closed thursday phone isow hi luimrjijmi umniuuimnauiiiu i tt dastiy by stattumag prsoea for labour and products a great step forwari and one long overdue will have been made nor is this anything but a justifi able course even in wartime unskilled labor in the military camps is being paid at the rate of 75 cents per hour by the federal government and eon- tractors in order to s pro per standard of living to thesd work- erst yet the highly seined labor of the agriculturists is paid at a lower rate while his produce receives a price inadequate to pay any decent return for either his skill or labor we hope this unionization will take place and quickly there is no good reason sentimental or patriotic which puts agriculture the basic in dustry in the undignified and unjust position in which it finds itself today in ontario except its own lack of organization elora express selling goods to council mat unseat tou a decision of interest to municipali ties and citizens was rendered by judge cochrane at brampton when he ruled that the seat of the bolton school board held by harold egan must be vacated it was brought out in evidence that egan as a hardware merchant sold paint and other goods to the board of which he was a mem ber but that there was no attempt by mr egan to stifle competition or to obtain n unfair share of the business of the board as a matter of fact it was pointed out that the other hard ware store in bolton sold more goods to the board than did mr egan and that he made little profit in his trans actions with the board despite all this judge cochrane held that the personal interests of a man who is selling goods to a board of which he is a member might clash with those of the board even if the amount la small the principle lnvol ved is one of great importance and he judfte thought that no trustee should place himself in a position where he might be thought to be both sellr and buyer there are inconsistencies in the pre sent law and judge cochrane refer red to them but they make the act seem ridiculous in some cases for instance a councillor or trustee may be a partner in a firm iellmg goods to a board of which he is a member and that is all right in the eyes of the law but to make ft direct sale is all wrong it s hard to see the cense of such a set up it has been held in test case that an editor ofa weekly p m do-oer- tain business with a board of fthlch he is a member and still not be jn srated this lenient view is largely because there is usually only one pa per in a town and the editor is usu ally a fairly competent man to serve his municipality in public offlc atouffvllle tribune c n r time table standard time going east passenger 6 is ajn passenger and mall 10 03 am passenger saturday only 237 pjn passenger and mall 64c pjn passenger sunday only sjfl pjn passenger dally 8 41 pjn toronto and beyond going west passenger and man 834 ajn passenger saturdayonly 1 15 pm passenger daily except saturday and sunday 6 00 pjn passenger and uall 4s pjn passenger saturday and sunday only 1130 pjn oeiagnertn passenger and basil going sovta passenger and sou 640 pjn sweet caporal ftj london hospitals carry on despite raids perfect organisation countr confa sfon courage of staffs inspires patients by david cumock the bombing of hospitals in great britain by the german air force ll not having the effect witch the nads would hope it is hot causing terror or confusion it is putting the london doctors nurses and hospital staffs gen erally more than ver on their mettle a visit to a london hospital which has been bombed to se the hospital staff at work to hear the stories of quiet bravery amid raids is something never to be forgotten thh is the slo- ry of just one hospital on the seventh flow where the bomb fell the ohapi has been des troyed the beautiful windows are gone the roof has fallen the altar is scattered and the organ shattered but someone has lent us a grand piano sister prior the asslstan ma tron told me it is surprising what we managed to save it is wonderful what you can do i though the same as i looked ar ound it is wonderful what they oan do i noticed that even the splintered wood of the chairs had been repaired with little pieces of sticking plaster we don t want people running splin ters into their hands and legs ex- plained sister prior with a quiet smile there s quite enough troutfe as it is the raid routine only the first three of seven floors are used as wards so there is plenty of security with four reinforced con crete floors above there are special wards for air raid casualties and those who have been rendered homeless we had a number of old married coup les but we couldnt fix them together so they had to be separated until they moved off to the country where they go after a few days rest in the hospi tal in the casualty station on the ground floor everything is ready for emergen cies nurses and doctors are always on duty volunteer stretcher bearers are ready to take the patients from the ambulances as they come m in the operating thea uvea are sa ved by the moat skilled surgeons hi the world a saving a life here is one story grim yet m- spdrtng outside the mih planes droned overhead there was a crump of dropping bombs the first casualty tej brought k was a f oi okhmtar he had teen blown fromito mothers arms aa she hutnrlad to a shel ter she herself jsaa uninjured 1 was down ttssre- at the time said sister prior the little mite was burned and so silent thats always a bad sign quietly the doctors got to work they fought to fan a tmy spalfc of life the battl wen on t whimpered fwzttixn jvubqu mfnufcas be was crying a cry of pain but to that group of whitecoated workers the cry meant that another lite waa mtsd c