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the georgetown herald wednesday evening march 12th 1941 5 the georgetown herald news of georgetown nerval glen wulbuns umehww stewarttawn and torn cotta subsoripnon rates canada 180 a year united slates 2 00 a year single copies 3o walter c biehn leslie clark advertising rates will he quoted on application pakptcld l mcoilvray reginald broomhead phonk no 8 member of the oanadlan weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec division of the o wna the editors corner six appeals in one on march 24th an appeal will be launched to the citizens of canada to provide 5 500 000 for the canadian war services fund this fund is in the na ture of anoint appeal by six organizations actively en gaged in war work each of which submitted a budget for the year to come to cut down on campaign ex penses and to relieve the vexatious necessity of the public responding to what may seem endless calls for financial aid these six organizations have decided to make one united drive for funds to carry on their year s work the fund will be divided as follows ymca salvation army canadian legion knights of columbus ywca iode 1 741 000 i 426 100 916 100 705 000 289 965 1 00 000 5 178 165 in addition to the above total the sum of 321 835 is required to make up the 5 00 000 objective it is right and proper that people approached for donations should know where the money is going and below we have outlined some of the work undertaken by these six organizations 1 personal services adjustment of home prob lems allowances and pension claims visits to hospitaliz ed sbldiers and distribution to them of cigarettes maga zmes etc 2 recreation huts comfortable home like surroundings where soldiers in training may relax free note paper and envelopes are one of the attractions offered by these huts 3 mobile canteens large vans such as the salvation army canteen which visited georgetown last friday follow the troops during route marches and supply tea and hot buns free of charge 4 hostess houses where women and children may visit with their menfolk at the training centre 5 entertainment moving pictures sing songs concert parties to relieve monotony and lonesomeness among the troops 6 religious services every sunday religious services are held as part of the auxiliary organizations work among the troops 7 sports thousands of dollars have been ex pended for the purchase of sporting equipment for the troops 8 canteens located in virtually every area where there are men in training here men can purchase food handkerchiefs shaving and dental supplies etc five per cent of the gross receipts are turned over to the units served while the balance after operating expenses have been deducted is placed in the hands of a board appointed by the government to be used for the benefit of the men following demobilization and their depen dents 9 residential clubs overseas where officers and other ranks can find bed and meals at minimum rates 1 0 education more than 1 5 000 men have en rolled as students in the courses conducted by the cana dian legion war services these are only some of the headings which might be given to work undertaken by one or another of the six organizations it can be seen from this brief summary how important their work is in the present war ontario s objective in the drive is 2 553 200 almost half of the total and it is stressed that trns will be the only appeal of this type coming this year be cause of this the people are urged to make their dona bona generous in order that these six organizations may effectively carry out their good work in 1941 thanks mrs duncan all tfae way from wiarton cornea a letter setting us right on die it of the lengthy poem which we reprinted in the herald last wmfc mrs x a duncan editor of the oanadlan bono wlartons bright weekly paper write noticed your heading author unknown on the poem oh why shoald the spirit of mortal be prood my quotation book gives this as written by wlqlsm knox lfsvuk it u in songs of israel j hfcrtauty- furtber at the loom horary we find thk brief amount l5h at titllissrsf in roxburghshire he was author t tow lonely bstvratsrttbt hwp-of-ztolfc- v walter 8eot amy of hta m ms diary hta fattier ww a resp yeoman and be himself suoceed- f wood fume under the duke of bucclencfa became too soon us l master sad plixifed into dtoskmuon and turn his talent then 1 itself tn s fine strain of pensive poetry i 1830 kbox earned a precarious livelihood as a journalist in until bis early death to ikk at the age of m s herald war victims fund a fund for british war relief has been started by the georgetown herald and interested individuals and organizations may leave their donations at the her aid office the money will be turned over to the evening telegram fund in toronto at in ervals please make cheques payable to the georgetown herald war victims fund eire and the war qu shipping the bombings of dublin have raised again the vexed problems of eire a relation to this war most important of these concerns the irish naval bases a problem which was ratified very specifically by mr churchill in no vember when he declared the fact that we can not use the south and west coasts of ireland to refuel our flotillas and aircraft and thus pro tect the trade by which ireland as well as great britain uvea is a most heavy and grievous burden and one which should never have been placed on our shoulders broad though they be what are these bases and why are they so important the naval har bours which britain would like to use and which eire is not willing to have her use are those of oobh the port of cork formerly known as queenstown on the south coast berehnven in the southwest and lough swllly tn the northwest when britain and the utah free state ended their strife in 1821 with a treaty the naval defence of the free state was left to the royal navy pending an agreement whereby the irish would undertake their own coastal defence the free state pro mised to afford the imperial forces in peacetime certain harbours i other facilities and in war or periods of straoned relations with foreign powers such harbour and other facili ties as the british government might require for the defence by sea great britain and ireland under this agreement britain maintained her naval bases at the three parts in the free state as well as at belfast in british northern ireland and garrl soned them with imperial forces when mr de valera came to power in 1932 he was determined to remove what he considered an encroachment on the independence of ireland for six years he waged a trade war with britain and strove to remove from the irish constitution the remaining sym bols of dependence then in 1938 he negotiated an anglo irish treaty which settled manyof the outstand tng reasons for disagreement this agreement provided for the withdrawal of british forces from the three ports tn eire the agreement was uncon ditconal although the irish govern ment made clear its intentions ol maintaining and modernizing the de fences mr de valera had also de clared repeatedly as he has con tinued to declare that eire would never allow her soil to be used as the basis of an attack on england his argument had been that the remoi of brutish troops would contribute to good relations and that a free and friendly ireland was britain s best guarantee of security on her western flank the chamberlain government was persuaded to accept this point of iimmamn ninanu lommsi mum uiiaumi m iciuiimi n mi directory ojiiuim maw iinnnaiimu iitiannmiunanhmiacawmmt f r watson 1 djxs mjs i georgetown i office hours 9 to 5 ricept thursday afternoons dr j burns milne dbntai sitbgbon cuffordg reid 1 lsta dj8 1 dentist phone 410 i i main street georgetown otmmmnanmnnmunnii ntmiiumiiitinii iinuitiaiimiinnit le roy dale kc m sybil bennett ba barrhrten and souettm mill street georgetown tmimunjuuiwimitmiimmtitomfflwiim- monuments and pollock ingham gait ont designs on request phone 3048 inspect our work in oreenwood oemetett gray coacb lines timetable i effective sunday eastern standard time leave georgetown i f 814 ajn 406 pm 1 9 18 am 48 pjo 1148 pm 913 pjn o 223 pjn 1 westbound to land 935 am 600 pjn i x 12 05 pm btjsopjn 2 00 pjn dxl03b pjn i ay 400 pjn exll38 pjn 1 a except sun and hol 1 b sun and hol only i c saturday only i d except sat sun and hol i e sat sun and hoi r daily except sun x to kitchener 1 y to stratford w h long phone 8 animumnniiuiiiioiinm iioimui mi tmninuaniiuiiiuiuu n mawiuuh i a m nielsen zethtear of practice chiropractor xray drugess therapist office over dominion store georgetown hours 2 5 730 930 pju lww jcooke cement and cinder blocks brick and tile manufactured whh aptodate power all rises any quantity 3 new st phone vm bublengton view although it was costested by mrqxubhlu who felt that even a fadsnafe zealand would be too weak to defend banelf- most neutral observers seem of the opinion that the use of these base would be of very great importance to british defence of the sea lanes in peacetime a large share of shipping to england came up the channel be tween ireland and france now be cause of the threat from german in france british ports are reached largely around the north of ireland thin means that no matter in what devious ways vessels cross the atlantic they fliid it necessary eventu ally to enter the limited approaches betiwcen scotland and ireland the nazis it would seem instead of oper ating singly as in the past now lie in wait in these approaches in groups of as many as a dozen the germans- are reported to operate a shuttle ser vice of planes from brittany to nor way going clear round ireland and signalling to the waiting uboats the location of the convoys these planes fly out of reach of fighterplanes bas ed in britain or northern ireland from bases in eire british fighter- planes could attack the heavier ger man scoutlngplanes if british troyers and aircraft were based in t south at oobh or berehaven some convoys might pass through the chan nel thus relieving the traffic in nor- them ports and also dividing the attention of the submarines with a base in lough swllly british planes and ships could move their range of operations possibly 200 miles further out to sea eire declared ner neutrality at the beginning of the war and she has en deavoured to maintain her neutrality her infringements of neutrality hawe been if anything in britain s favour she has not attempted to stop the steady flow of thousands of her citi zens into the british army and from the outset the lights of dublin and other cities have been reduced in order not to assist german planes in finding their locations in october last when the british government urged the irish government to reduce the lighting of dublin still further the latter compiled after the smk- n of the city of benares the irish government made arrangements to receive thousands of evacuated women and cnildren from britain there have been unofficial com plaints voiced on one occasion by a member of the northern ireland par- llament that german uboats are re- fi elllng in the lonely coves of the west irish coast mr de valera has categorically denied these allegations asserting that irish forces patrol the coasts at all times that as oil sup plies arc rationed and as all oil is dis tributed ji eire by american and bri tish controlled companies or by com panies which receive their supplies from the british petroleum control board it would be impossible for sup plies to be diverted to the nazis he also stated that a trained submar ine commander is attached to the british high commissioners office lb dublin who could easily become aware of any refuelling and that the brl- tih government had lodged no offi cial protests the british have not denied the sincerity of the irish governments intention to prevent nasi use of irish sdj but have ques tioned the ability of a nation of 3 000 000 peopel to carry out their in tentions the complaints about sub marine refuelling have however been officially denied by lord snell in the house of lords who stated that the british government had no evidence to substantiate such charges the irish government has main- i talned that there can be no question of handing over use of her ports at least until partition between northern and southern ireland is ended northern ireland has made it quite clear that there can be no quei- hon of joining eire while the latter is neutral great britain has shown no disposition to seek a solution by i force while the irish have insisted that they will meet britain or get- l man force with force the british i have not asserted any legal right to j the bases as this right was surrend- l ercd in 1938 but have based their i position on the assumption that the i bberty of eire is threatened as much i as that of britain by a nazi victory i and that eire should cooperate to i defeat this threat and to protect the i shipping lanes by which she as well i as britain lives the united states i which has usually provided at least i moral support to irish causes bail given little encouragement to dublin i in this situation president boose- 1 velt in a recent speech suggested that i he accepted the british view of elres i positipb in face of the nazi threat there have been many efforts te find a formula of compromise pari tlcularly since the death of lordl qralgavon prime minister of nor- 1 thern ireland and staunch opponent of 1 republican claims there have been rumours of a compromise which would give britain the bases and end the pax- 1 titlon of ireland the leader of the canadian oppositilon has that eire might lease her canada as the prejudices with british troops in ireland not connected with the oanadlanah mi de valeras reply to this r gestlon was that canada is a bslj gerent just as england is no i ment of that kind would make action other than an act of war posing us to immediate attack an american correspondent asked 1 if it might not be just as feasible 1 ireland to lease ports tc britafin as 1 was for britain to lease bases to th united states he said but there 1 no analogy at all in one case it 1 leasing territory to a neutral other case it is leasing a neutral terr to one belligerent to another the real difficultly with all i is that the rights and wrongs of i taaaty matter very utue the aid your country and yomsetf well by purchasing war baring certi ficates if you havent already signed your pledge do so at once cession on their part in ttte matte the bases whether it is arranged i britain canada or with a neu country uke the united states be met wtth nasi sir attacks 1 and cork and the other ettss a cities n to ntajtts ttw