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i aw the georgetown herald wedneiday evening february 19th 1941 the georgetown herald news of omirtm nerval glen mhasne l m qt bkultmfikd and terra cotta bubscsuftidn revtbb canada 150 a year united sutea coo a year single copies so advertising bates wlu b qersted on sppltoauon walter c fluchn oahfuojd l mcollvray leslie oark wetaber reginald broombead phone no 8 of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec division of the cwna tae editors corner herald war victims fund one day last week we were talking to a local merchant and he suggested that we start a war vic tims fund this was something we had been thinking f for some time but we hadnt got to the point of doing anything about it we had noted in the evening tele gram thatjocal mills had been contributing to the fund for britiahjwar victims which that paper had started smith ot stone employees had sent in two donations amounting to 17245 alliance paper mills 6050 provincial paper 4000 as well as sundry smaller do nations lay individuals and organizations in the district we fed that recognition should be given to these generous donations and perhaps the best way to rjo this would be for donations to pass through the local fund we will simply act as a sort of agent for the toronto paper and when we have a substantial amount of money turned in will forward it together with our complete list of donators to the toronto paper by doing this we hope that some of our local people will be encouraged to donate tp this worthy cause which the evening telegram has fostered with such success no donation is too small and all dona tions will be acknowledged from week to week in the herald oops sorry a couple of years ago we remember an ad which ran in the theatrical newspaper variety and whfch was reprinted in time magazine it seems that frecjertc march and his wife florence eldndge had appeared in a new york play which folded after a few perfor mances taking the reaction of critics and public in good grace the pair inserted the ad in variety it was in the form of a cartoon which showed a circus trapeze artist swinging on his trapeze and his unlucky partner missing by inches his outstretched hands underneath was the simple caption oops sorry frederic march and florence eldndge to say that we felt like the trapezeman who missed is putting it mildly when we think back to a telephone conversation we had last thursday morning about an article which appeared in this column the article in question was a plea to organisations and in dividuals not to ask us to display handprinted signs in the herald window it was not aimed at any organiza tion or any individual but rather it was our way of telling the public about a policy which is tohgwed by most newspaper offices we thought it a most oppor tune time as we had at the date bf writing no less than four such signs in our window we werent trying to infer that any of these organizations were cheapskates for not getting signs printed that is a matter of policy which is absolutely none of our business we are here to do printing if it is wanted or required not to heap slander on organiz ations for n6t having everything printed if we have caused any embarrassment to any organization because of our article we are genuinely orry the organization towhich the irate telephoner belonged has done is doing and will in the future do good work in georgetown and we should be the last to say or do anything which might reflect on this work moreover it has always been very fair to the herald in the matter of printing and advertising and we rjave quite often voiced our appreciation because they dont look for something for nothing have you signed your pledge thcwax savings pledge campaign has swung into the last two weeks of the february drive to enlist a canadian army of war savers this morning we re ceived a communication from the office of the national chairman in ottawa which gave the number of pledges reported to february 1 5th in ontario municipalities georgetown eacu the field in helton county with 528 with oakvittq and acton reporting 243 and 151 respectively and nonreturns in from other towns other returns include brampton 1271 port credit 319 weston 946 etobicoke 346 orange- vffle 166 simcoe 1361 elora 238 fergus 705 cuelph 2847 a more about the broom salesman our warning last week about a broom salesman wo claimed to be selling his wares for the benefit of cnfecaoklian national institute for the blind proved to tjfe ttarity reports from erin state that he was in that isjapmlmt wekend so georgetown housewives may pmtjfgp with him in the near future i r i dont forget to let ear cook get a couple of easy ones the worlds news seen through the christian science monitor an international daily n cms pa per m truthful conructjv unbiased freefroaa sensational tsm editonah are timely and inamlctiv and iu daily feature together with the weekly magazine section make the monitor an ideal newspaper for the home rh chnirian science publiihmg society norwav street bo hon mamachusetu r si 2 00 yearly or si 00 a month e including magazine secnon z 60 a yea roductorv offer 6 luuei 25 ccnta sample copy on request britains navy the duos s dream by -ntttap- wlwn italy declared war upon bri tain sod trance an june 10 1940 we already had a padttteimtile at alexandria undo ttn ounimu of ad miral sir andrew ouwrtngbbht the ooowtiandermchiers main object of oooree was to engage and destroy the italian fleet wherever he might find it he had also to protect egypt and the sues canal and to har ass any iwadlng army moving along the comet road from libya he must guard the- oil supplies from iraq which reach the mediterranean at haifa mlntj tae allied trade te ttw ae gean and interrupt italys important line of communication with the oil wells or roumania and russia passing out of the tfedaneww and through the aegean to a man or six andrew gunning hams determination and mettle 1 mattered little that the paper strength of the italian fleet was superior to his own he jmew his ships and the tem per of his men and was always firm behoyer tn che offensive bio over through long years of service there he knew the mediterranean like the palm of hte hand wlttxm a short time of italys unprovoked stab in the back at a very critical time the med iterranean fleet was at sea because the surrender of prance was imminent mussolini may have thought the british empire would be unable to fight on alone ho doubt the ital ian dictator wished to share in the spoils of the german conquest with- out serious fighting to acquire con trol of egypt and the suez canal to take over the french colonies of al geria and tunisia to exert his influ ence over greece turkey and the middle east to transform the medit erranean into and an italian lake if mtler had spread himself over most of europe where else could mussolini come in the italian despot reckoned without the paralysing effects of british sea power the british control of gib raltar the suez canal and the aegean cut off all the sources of supply of fresh oil for his aircraft ships mech anised armies and industries his coal which normally came from britain and germany was seriously diminished main theatre of war libya too was more of a responsi bility than an asset since the large italian army there had to be supplied and reinforced from the home coun try with vulnerable lines of commun ication by sea abyssinia eritrea and somahland were at the end of what someone called a british drainpipe and would have colloquially to live hte eitxoawj the earl of atfa- leae gevenwrgrcnetml of canada ahown here with her royal high prineea anoe win address the bay scent of canada from montreal an saturday march l the address will be broadcast ever the cbc national network at sjm pan edst directory clifford a reh us dds nornsi phone 410 main street le roy dale kc m sybfl bennett ba barriaten and sollattim mu1 street obobvgstown ibwi u kenneth m langdon barrister seuottor notary mai first afortgafe money to loan office orawr ibmtn bwf frank fetch cutwwi or nfgpatawca franca ooillue po box all on their own fat mussolini could crow as much as he pleased about the british withdrawal from somahland but it would have been folly for us to pass troops into that colony to hold it ev ents have proved that we were wise not to dissipate our strength in slde- 4iow but to concentrate in the main theatre of war against italy the mediterranean the end is not yet in sight and it may be unwise to predict but it seems not unlikely that italy win eventually lose libya and eritrea somahland and abyssinia as well mussolinis dreams of himself as a second caesar of an italian medit erranean and of a vast italian em pire stretching from the mediterran ean through egypt and the sudan o the red sea and indian ocean have vanished into the ttunnest of smoke the amateur strategist who is hitlers weaker partner appears completely to have ignored his own many weaknes ses and the overwhelming and far- reaching effect of british sea power wielded as it always has been through out the whole of our lone history effective sunday october flth eastern standard time leave georgetown easuwand to toronto f 6j4 ajn 408 pjn 9 ib ajn 6 48 pjn 1148 pxo 913 pjn o 3jq pan weasaomnd to louden 936 am 00 pjn x 12 05 pjn b 750 pjn a os pjn dxao36 pjn ay 406 pjn exll36 pjn a except sun and hol b sun and hol only o saturday only d except sat sun and hol e sat sun and hoi f dally except sun x to kitchener y to stratford w h long radio repairing we specialize in this work j sanfordson jcooke cement and cinder blocks brick and tile hanvfacmmsd max ptaatob pewer ta au staes any quantity s nkw st pbonb 3 bubungton c n r timetable standard time getat1 passenger saturday only u6 ajn 1003 un 3j7 pjn ramoiar av emu j846 da passenger jtanday only u pa mi i daily 9m dj toronto and beyond nsamtger and ma 8j4 axn passenger saturday only 1 is pan n- dally except l and sunday sjob pm ms pa 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