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the georgetown hcralcf wcgrncfclay evening june 4th 1941 hak in the wind br helen topping miller chapter v branf ord wills improved rapidly is breathing ceased to rasp through the room and though his voice was little more than a reedy croak his cracked lips managed to frame a scrap of a smile whenever marian morgan came into view for days while wills was ill mar ian had been strangely gentle and quiet and concerned born electri cal difficult and with a dainty chip forever poised on her shoulder she was troubled by this new uncertain ty that came over her whenever she took her turn at watching in the sick room and when wills eyes lost the vagueness of fever and be gan to survey the scene with oew masculine interest she withdrew a little turned tan and airy though whenever she hurled an acid barb her heart recoiled as though the point had pierced herself and wills refused to be humble he had so be had told virgie av era times an insurance policy that would take care of the expense of tius illness he was profoundly grateful but there was dignity in his attitude he would not fawn nor placate and the indomitable ore in marian crackled against the cool steel of his assurance till sparks flew far and wide virgie morgan observed her daughter with a dry and quizzical smile on her face in a world where she walked in mastery meeting bankers and bark choppers on the r own ground vir gie was abashed only by her own daughter marian could make her aware that her hair pins were loose and that she needed to buy a better fitting corset virgie liked young wills but she kept a still tongue around the house and watched marian with wise amused eyes but when tom made remarks at the office she cut him off curtly am t that feller never going tom demanded he hit it pretty soft looks to me good thing he didn t knock on my door that s your torndown stingi nessl virgiesnapped you don t need to live like white trash tom pnutt have you taken those papers up to pratt like told you to no m tom was swiftly meek i am t had time if you lose everything thi right fully belongs to you it s nobody s fault but your own bill gallup was over from the power house he said he wanted to see you bill always wants to see me he wants me to junk a good steam plant thats been turning this mill for twenty years and put in mo tors i don t blame bill he s a smart young fellow trying to get along she went home tired out of pa tience with tom and his affairs and a little out of patience with herself marian was right she ought not to be trailing around in the wet woods doing manchores things she had kept on doing because david had il ways done them her throat was raw and burnei now from exposure and et feet marian had said that a woman in her position ought to have more pride and that was true too da vid had kept his hand on every op eration of the mill kept the plant going on the old handcraft system of the ancient guild but david had been a man and those days were passing what she needed she had been telling herself for days was a young an to take over a lot of this re- onsibility that was getting her down tom was all right so far as his ability went but the slightest ac celeration of pace left tom hope lessly behind he was still living and working in a day when the men had carried pulp out of the ware- bouses on their backs he could not keep step he liked to spend a whole morning tinkering with a fiftycent lock on an oil house he was get ting old not that i m so young any more myself virgie humored her rheu matic twinges but i haven t begun to collect moss on the north side of me hello she said as she entered the sick room how does life look this morning any brighter wills turned on his engaging gallant grin swell he croaked in his husky hisper he et all his breakfast beamed ada clark and he s only got one degree i took it twice to see go on down and eat ada vir gie ordered j i ii sit here a few minutes do you still think the pulp peo pie are the desnoilers of the earth some eastern nber grabbers are after it fellow named cragg stayed at my house last night i heard after he left that they have raided a piece already over on the tennessee side moved in and cut it off quick- before the different claim ants could get together and gej court action they have papers usually that will hold water stand off the courts for a while then they set tle for about a tenth of what the timber s worth and leave the land worthless virgie had not sat down her mo- bite face had stiffened into grim lines continued next week 3uii victory ada departed an young w lis tol lowed her starched back with an impish grimace the siars he said are propitious lorlay virgo just looked it up in the book too bad sometl nj propitiou doesn t happen to poor ada a wid ower with six children miuld be jum grand look here i bent her out because i want to talk lo you vir tie edged her rocker nearer the bed do jou still think lie pulp people are the despoilers of the earth do ou have to ktep rubb ng it ir all the tirre i m srt lou new 1 could walk out of this ro n w tlo i opening the door you ve bten sr fine to me mrs morgin thnt i m keeping on living just lo p iv yol back 1 might be ly ng over ther n the laurel now like that poor pho togripher you got yourself out of the laur el 1 didn t and i d dn t tike i in for pa i m a mo ntain wnma what i want to talk to cu about vhat comes next what do vou fn ure you ii do when vou get loose from ada and the zod ac he wrinkled his forehead and his dry lips straightened i 11 go back to washington probably if i have any job left there i hope i won be a nuisance to you much longer- and i have to pay you know this nurse and the doctor i wish you d hush ip about pay ing and let me say what i want to say before ada bounces back you say you may not have any job in washington if you had a job here do you suppose you could stand lt- or would it be too painful to you to work for pulp people he clutched the mattress turning on his shoulder dull color burning in his face you mean you d give me a job rafter i haven t said so directly i m just speculating i couldn t pay very much and i d work you hard i work myself hard there s no mer cy in me i m a hard old woman but i m fair but i m going places with my mill and id take the peo ple along who work for me and play fair with me don t make up your mind suddenly mine isn t made up yet i think that i d rather work for you than for anybody i ve ever met he said but i might not be much use people who work for me have to be of use virgie rose briskly and gave her corset the usual disciph nary jerk well good by i d bet ter get to work you 11 have a quiet day lassie s got washing to do and marian is organizing the little the atre yourvchild said mr wills does not like me there are times virgie grinned dryly when she doesn t admire me a whole lot but maybe we 11 grow in grace she went downstairs and out to her muddy old car she was wonder ing as she drove toward the town if she had been a sentimental old fool tom would say so and so would marian but mar an had had the idea in the first place she said nothing to tom about young branford wills tom wanted to carry on the pulp business with a double bitted ax and a wheelbar row he was rooted hating change fearing it she was exasperated with him anyway her exasperation increased when she found bdj gallup waiting for her lucy was typing at a furious pace as she always did whenever a man sat in the chair beside virgie s desk hello bill she said as she spiked her limp hat and bumped her briefcase down are you back again to try to talk me into throw ing away a good old boiler that has been tooting our whistle for going on thirty years7 no bill punched out a ciga rette i d like to see that ancient kettle go into scrap of course and you ve got to come to tt sooner or later but ill wait wait till a cou ple of engineers and a bremen or two go out through that rusty root of yours but that isn t what s on my mind today i wanted to talk about a tract of hardwood timber over across the ridge on little fork i found out that pru tt has a first mortgage lien on it what about it hope for a million a major objective in the present victory loan will be to secure as large an army or small subscribers as possible with this in view the victory loan campaign will be vlrtuallj a house to house canvas the necessity of assist in the war effort by buying victory bonds will be impressed on every householder and every individual with a savings account an official prospectus of the loan and a letter from the minister of finance lias been mailed to every home in can ada every householder will also re- cele an illustrated boomit describing canad s wax activities in addition the banks and trust companies are co operating by sending letters to all their dtpaitors urging them to buy victory bonds nothing would please the war loan and departent of finance officials mo e than to have over a million subscribers to the presen loan this ma seem a large number but it is invisible of achievement in the fifth war loan of the first great war 1 140 057 canadians subscribed for 707 11750 of bonds and were allotted 682 302 900 of bonds if evtrj canadian with a savings account gets behind the 1941 loon the record of the first gnat war will be exceeded most recent figures avail able show that the chartered banks have 4 845 000 depositors and 2 753 millions in deposit thus the average bank account is 568 the record of 1140 000 subscribers established by the filth loan of the last ttar will be exceeded if 25 p the depositors of the banks subscribe to the coming loan in fact an average sub scr ptlon of 500 from 1 200 000 depos iters along witfi the large purchases l by corporations would result in the loon being over subscribed as at october 31 last the bonks had 4 462300 customers with deposits of 1 000 or less these deposits aggre gated 557 7 millions customers with deposits of 1 000 or more totalled 383 000 and these deposits amounted to 1583 millions while thousands upon thousands of subscriptions of 50 and up from the group of depositors with less than 1 000 are essential to tlie success of the loan a large proportion of the total raised must come from the sec ond group an average subscription of 2 000 from this group would raise a total of 776 millions many more canadians will have to become war loan conscious than was the cose in the first and second cam palgns in 1940 subscriptions for the firs loan in january 1940 numbered 178 363 the average being 1 327 there were it 231 purchases for amounts from 50 to 5 000 x education is an unusual commodity to property isn t it often the less of it we possess the more we think we have and it isn t unusual for a fresh man to give us the idea that he knows a great deal more than does the grad uate no doubt the graduate realizes that no matter how much be may know it is still very little compared to bhe amount still to be learned and unless education teaches us that very fact then we would conclude that ed ucatlon has failed no doubt this same idea has something to do with the naming of graduating exercises com mencement exercises perhaps educa ion is more necessary today than it to ever been and the youth who has n t senior matriculation at least is out of luck although education is necessary we find it just as difficult to instill that fact hi the minds of youths as it ever kos and these worm days are apt to tempt the youth to quit school if any jouths with that idea in the back of theirs head should tread these linesilt might be a good idea to remind thorn that they are only young once and h they should foolishly quit school theu m gilt find it rather difficult to giji back to studying later on should they vlsh to do so education is not only leccsary but it is easily carried about it has never yet been classed as excess biggage v we all know that schools are main tamed by taxes or taxation and this applies to our colleges and universl lies as well as it does to our local schools of course tuition fees are charged students that attend these higher schools but they never amount to enough to allow those colleges or universities to balance their budget we recall the small amount we paid for tuition fees not enough to pay for the lecture for even one day and no dm jt you and you made up that dlf ferenoe for our benefit wc have known folk who complain of the am kroun uunt that comes out of taxes for edu b veteran pilot learning to deliver bombs to right spot winnippja tribune watches lac tort evans cflattt course on observation manoeuvres an interesting article appears in the winnipeg tribune of may 17th in which john macnaughton tribune reporter tells of his trip aboard a training plane hi which l a c an evans son of mr and kirs walter t evans of georgetown was onserver we are reproducing the article in its entirety as we behbve the subject matter will be of general interest to many of our readers navigation is the science of getting from a to b that is the definition you hear from instructors at no s air ckbservetns school at stevensons field and it rates a high place in the language as a classic example of un derstatemerut r cflliumfous was concerned with this buiness of getting from a to b wen heset out to find a short route to the indies but his methods were ar removed from the treamluied pcllnci ta ight at no 5 ajr observers hool today ix- nt a is usually an air port n england point b is often a mil ry obj ctlve in blackedout ger many to et a load of high explos ive bombs from one to the other jirough ra n overcast squadrons of fighter aircraft and bursts of ack- ack jlre is the job student observes learn to do in the commonwealth air ir lining plan that they learn to do the job well is evidenced in the fact that last pri day two student observers from no 5 air observers school guided an avro nson training plane with a tribune reporter aboard high over the rough est toughest country to be found in this area without once resorting to a map or chart and without once check ng their ooujse with landmarks on first wife m husband is a gentleman he neiei walks into the room when i m undressing seond wife neither does mine he waits until i m through have us examine your childs eyes now cation and hae also noticed same folk send tjhelr own children to some private school or business college instead of sending them to ome pub lie school of learning which uiey thmselves lave been helping support it scarcely makes sense unless the fa t is uiat their own children may iot have gotten along far enough at high school to be able to attend these jiuwlc universities or colleges if we remember correctly it was henry ford ha wis credited with making the remark that the trouble with gradual ing from the university of experience is that by the time they graduate they ire then too old to be of much bene fit to themselves or anybody else in a recent lssue of the herald we noticed u advertisement for a boy to learn a tra le this looks like a step n the right direction as tnosc ads for boj s to learn a trtde have been very warce during these last few years tradesmen are still necessary and all earn ot to m for the professions ag iln tradesmen arc still retiring in ail lines and some one lias to take their i place the boy commencing to learn a tiade todaj lias advantages that wre inknown a few yeans airo usu ally tney have a better education to comimncc with and working condi lions ue verj much improved over that of a few years ago again they get a decent wage for their servtcea while learning their trade as well we recall the princely wage that we got when we started out on our own it was oie dollar ptr week and board or course at that titne there weren t so many ways of spending money as there are today wc had no gas to buy nor picture shows to attend and he dances of that day were all pri ate affairs that didn t cost us any ad nushion fee even chewing gum had n t become the necessity that it is to day but we didn t get rich on that wage nor buy vitcory bonds with it either however it didn t hurt us any and it at least taugh us the value of noney war soon changes values doesn t it before the war we were getting about 3c each for emp v j ite sacks in fact hey were difficult to dispose of at limes bi t we co ild easily sell the cot- on ones for 10c each today the flour mills pay 6c each for empty jute sacks but the cotton ones art worth only a nickel and they have to be in perfect condiuon to get even that it is re markable though the amo int of mon ey being real zed from salvage right now we noticed where one town had gathered up over 4000 00 worth of sal vage at a total overhead cost of a little over 23 00 again a gentleman who drives a delivery wagon in toronto has during his evenings gathered sal vage and sold it and as a result has been able to turn in about 1000 00 to the telegrams war viotlms fund good going well say the s udent were lac jim evans georgetown out nd lac jim garland of portage la prairie don marshall a veteran manitoba bush pilot wa at the controls the flight was made through the courtesy of william straith operations manager of no 5 aii observers school actually the exercise required that the student observers navigate the plane from winnipeg southeast to whitemouth lake then north to eagle lake and finally west to glmli but he observer were not given the names of any of these points when they climbed into the plane tl e pilot handed the first navigator a sheet of paper ruled with lines of longitude and latitude and with the posljon of winnipeg plotted on he lo gave him code letters and num b rs called gratit ile references w inch indicated the latitude and longitude of the positions to which he must navigate find positions for fne effect of altitude and temper ature and then allow for the effect of the wind to determine his ground speed since he had no bowr reference to guide him the combination of elap sed time and ground speed was his on ly measure of distance travelled with the course set and the flight definitely under way the trip sudden ly became humdrum garland clim bed into the nose of the plane cram tme bo tone to make drift sights br ans checked and rechecked his cal culations instructing marshall to alter course slightly on one occasion re vising his estimate of the time of ar rival on another but as the minute hand on marsh- alls wrist watch crept closer to this estimated arrival time the tribune reporter experienced a growing feel ing of tension this was the scm ftest for less than 12 weeks evans and garland working together asa team had studied this exacting science of air navigaften could they in sb brief a period have become proficient en- ough to carry out this difncub exercise the answer lay beneath bank of fleecy clouds directly ahead lake sighted with less- than a minute left to go a break appeared in the clouds ahead ai d a lake shimmering silverblue in bh afternoon stm lay far below in a setting of velvety green marshall nodded with a proud i told you so expression and pointed significantly it was whitemouth lake i have a hunch that lake was our point so i missed it by a little ev ans said ruefully after marshall had swung the big plane north on the second leg of the journey one min ute out on a trip of more than 100 miles and he was disappointed 1 on tlie trip north to eagle lake the reporter realized that even had the s udent navigators been miles out on their estimates there was little chance of being lost marshall knew every lake and stream in the area by name and could tell at any moment the di rection and distance to winnipeg early in the trip from eagle lake gimll garland stretched out once again to take a drift reading from the nose of the plane iin allowing for a three degree starboard drift evans said if he doesn t give it to me tm off my course complete coarse garland s hand appeared in the op ening with two fingera up then bla thumb motioned to starboard evan shrugged and went back to writing his log rot the least perturbed he 11 alter course later the re- poiter thought after all the man doesn t want to zlg zag all the way to gimll but no change in course came forward later when the reporter confldentlsr expected to find himeeli over morden or tlie international boundary the town of gimll appeared over the star board engine and the exercise wae finished successfully one degree means a difference of dancing ac lurnrn nt tmlur j ot walker r0 eyksiht spboulmt who win be at his effln et the bell telephone o- mate street oeerretown the msend 1 wednesday f each month r i roe may eonaalt o t walker i at his oflboi m bramptea fhonky oeerretown t7 huttonville park every wednesday and saturday wednksdat june 4th len allen finduij these positions on his s i about one mile in so evans explained commencing june 11th gibsonboyd orchestra par balance of on on regtoar admission as as simple as finding any given positions on a standard road map by iollowing designated horizontal and rtlcal lines to their point of inter ction the next step was to join these positions with straight lines tnat was simple too l now the problem was to fly the air craa in the direction of those unea a protractor would ive the exact compass reading anfl dividing the speed of the aircraft into the number of miles between positions would give the tune required to fly from one to the other or would it here the bogey man of naviga tion steps into the picture the dir ection and velocity of the wind throws all such beautifully simple calcuia tlons into a cocked hat illustration to illustrate ust what wind does to the best laid plans of would be navi gators think of yourself as sitting in i rowboat on the right bank of the river you want to row the boat to a point exactlj opposite on the left bank do you row straight across of oouroe you don t you point the boat ipstream and pull for all youx wculh lac jim evans first navigator on this trip couldn t point the plane on i4ie upwind side of whitemouth lake and hope for the best because he did n t know he was flying to whitemoutn lake he was filing to position a designated on his otherwise blank sheet by code letters it might be a town a railway intersection a farm hoiise obviously the first job was to deter mine the direction and velocity of the liund he knew what it was on the ground before he took off but in 3 000 feet of altitude an easterly wind can oecome a westerly wind and velocity can also increase or decrease greatly when staff pilot don marshall had flown the plane to an altitude of 6000 feet over winnipeg bvans gave him three courses to fly and lac jim garland second navigator on the trip climbed down into the nose of the aircraft to take drift readings on each course signal back with the direction and degree of drift on each of these three short courses signalled back evans was able to calculate accurately the direction and velocity of the wind and he could then calculate the degree to which the planes nose should point unwind from position a the next move was to hand this compass reading to pilot mrhaii and then estimate the time of arrival so the pilot would know wnen the- diet position had been reached here again the wind entered be picture the speed of a plane through the air is not necessarily its speed from point to point on the ground because when there is a wind the air is moving too attitude and temper ature also affect ah speed as an il lustration jkn oejtiandqpiatamthatfj a s per hour shown on the air speed indicator would actu ally mean an air apeed of 187 miles per hour if the plane were oymg at 10000 feet and the temperature waa 0 de- as a result jim evans had to read i the ah- epeed off the hyucator allow the trip back to winnipeg i dld- n t alter course because a slight mis calculation in a drift reading a slight ch ngt in wind could easily make a one degree error in my calculations these young men are not automa tons drawing set conclusions from pre- persortbed formula they must have judgment and bhe confidence to use they must understand fully the reason and logic of every calculation they make no one set of rules can work where so many variable factor influence every calculation so they use several checking one against the other and appraising them all wtth their own judgment may health report the epidemic of mumps which has been causing a lot of swelled heads georgetown for the past few months shows signs of slackening april s total of 45 cases has been more than cut in half and some 20 cases ure reported by dr c v williams moh in his report for june one case of german measles is also eluded in the list which follows scarlet fever chicken pox measles german measles mumpo infantile paralysis typhoid fever whooping cough oerebrospmal meningitis epidemic in- 0 1 30 sweet caporal yaaayyirffljgafg now on display new idea furnace now k uo time to tttdt atavt f l mcgilvray phone rraw bur