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the georgetown herald wedncaday feb 23rd 1944 the georgetown herald georgetown norval glen williams hmehoube stbwarttown ashgove balllnafad hornby terra cotta acton brampton miltpn subscription rates canada united sales and overseas 200 a year single copies c advertising rates will be quoted on application telephone no 8 walter c biehn publisher garfield l mogllvray mary h biehn editor j boley member ol tho canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec division of the cwna the editors corner the big jobs ahead the big need is now the canadian red cross drive for funds begins february 28th and concludes march 1 5th its a call for assistance which every man and woman in service is echoing a call which if we have a heart at all we cant refuse because of the terms of the geneva conven tion no government funds can be turned over to the red cross and it is for this reason that the organiza tion asks for your support the society operates as an auxiliary of the department of national defence how ever and submits its audited statements to the auditor- general of canada a large part of red cross monies is spent on sending food parcels to prisonersofwar there are two men from georgetown eddie francis and johnny wilson whom we know to be definitely m german prison camps both these men in letters home cannot emphasize too much the importance of giving to the red cross altogether over seven million prisoner-of- war food parcels have been packed by the red cross and reading between the lines in these two boys letters we know what theyre trying to tell us theyd be nearly starving if it werent for those red cross par cels if the organization did nothing else but this it would be worth all the support you could give wouldnt it but that s bnlyrr3760 v of their work to be exact another important task theyre doing is in the field of blood donor service with casualties mounting every day this department will be taxed to the limit of its supplies there have been seven blood donor clinics in georgetown and a splendid response from the people of georgetown and vicinity at all of them the blood is given free and the local nurses and doctors and committee in charge give their services free but in spite of this the expense involved in ob taining preparing and packing the serum for use on the field of battle is high with every battle the need grows for lifegiving blood hospital supplies medical supplies building and equipping hospitals sending food and comforts to the armed forces navy merchant marine airraid sufferers and the neey in britain and our allied countries the end of conflict looms near our nations prepare for their supreme effort and if need be sacri fice in that crucial hour everything will be thrown into the balance the sweat the btood the lives the prayers of our gallant men then as never before will be needed the mercy that is the red cross to sup port and cherish them in their great crisis it is in their name and against their fastapproaching need that the red cross now asks your most liberal generosity to this nationalappeal next week arnember of the local red cross canvassing committee wih call on you to do your share in reaching the 4600 objective set for george town your help is needed now sum working margin jne of the most difncujt decisions confronting the 19441 council was the striking of the tax rate for this year there was no doubt but that it would have to be increased over last years rate of 38 mills which hit a new low for the past quarter of a century the big question was how much to increaseit so that all expen ditures could be met according to the municipal act its illegal to budget for a deficit the tax rate had to be increased for several rea sons in former years there has been a large surplus to work on the purchase of the bank of montreal building took a large slice of this surplus and the col lection of back taxes has given the town a small mar gin tooperate on this year theres very little surplus and added expense the expense includes two itoms garbage collection and the arena garbage collection operated for onlypart of last year so the full expense will be bdrne this year the board of parks manage ment in charge of the arena is entitled to one mill of taxes to meet their expenses repairs etc and although they do not yet definitely know whether they will need it ail it must be included in the budget forty mills on the dollar is not a high tax rate council is aware it will have to he very conservative in its expenditures this year if the levy is to cover the debit aide of the municipal ledger apprenticeship toaining plan estabush- v ed by dominion government honourable humphrey mitchell minister of labotir announce that an orderincouncil approved jmhwrtj gives authority to the department of labour to extend financial assistance to provincial governments in order to stimulate trade apprenticeship training do minionprovincial agreements on the subject are pro vided for for the fiscal year 194445 the dominion fund available for distribution among the provinces is not to exceed 250000 this sum will bevaised to an annual 1000000 for later fiscal years the planned dominion assistance is designed to supplement regular industrial apprenticeship training apprentices while working at industrial trades will be subject to working conditions and wage rates determin ed by the province under the agreement and will be paid by the employer nythe usual way each province must administer its share of the fund under an apprenticeship act or its equivalent and will be required to appoint one or more apprenticeship committees composed of an equal number of represen tatives of employees and workers together with repre sentatives of provincial departments of labour and education both exservicemen and civilians will benefit by the scheme where training of returned men is approv ed by the minister of pensions and national health the dominion will pay full costs in civilian cases costs will be divided fiftyfifty between the dominion and provincial governments commenting on the order honourable hump hrey mitchellminister of labour stated it is import ant for the welfare of our industry as a whole that a sufficient number of our young people in the postwar world should be given trade training of various sorts so that they may be among the most highly skilled wor kers in the world the order defines an apprentice as any person at leas 16 years of age who enters into a written agrees ment with an employer to learn a skilled trade requir ing a minimum of 4000 hours of reasonably continu ous employment assistance from the governments will relate largely to the vocational or other school courses inciden tal to apprenticeship such an orderhas not been framed too soon from the standpoints of both employer and employee anyone who operates a business where skilled labor is essential realizes what a sorry plight his plant will be in several years hence if a new crop of men to learn that particular lrade doesnt come along to take the places of those who drop out since war began this new crop hasnt been coming along for in addition to youths in the forces who would normally be learning a trade the young men at home have no wish to earn a small sal ary while learning a trade when they can step into high paying jobs elsewhere after working thus for two or three years they feel theyre too old to start at the bot tom of the ladder and learn a trade if apprenticeship training isnt stimulated by some means there will be a decided lack of skilled labor resulting in increased pro duction costs increased cost of the product to the-con- sumer as your dollar buys less and less that the government should assist with appren ticeship draining is of course very important to the men who return from war and civilians alike places must be found for our soldiers to earn their living what could be more logical than to train them to fill places where they will definitely be needed war in dustries will no longer be able to take up all the slack and those men too should be groomed to fit into the peacetime industrial scheme boy scout week once again canadas 90000 boy scouts and wolf cubs are observing their annual boy scout week from february 20 to 26 the purpose of this yearly observance is to bring to public attention the work the boy scouts association is endeavouring to do in raising up amongst us a group of citizens who are morally spiritually and by physical virile perhaps never before in canadas eventful his tory was the task of building good citizenship more pregnant with meaning- the young people of this generation will have to face the tremendous problems of reconstruction when the drums of war have ceased to beat theirs will be the duty to carry forward the peace and to implement the ideals of the new world laid down in the atlantic charter it will be their task to main tain peace which is in reality a peace and not just the uneasy quiet before the dnwn of another world con flagration faced with these tasks it is a paramount concern of canada that its youth be imbued with the ideals which make for peace and progress scouting here in canada in every part of the empire and in more- than 40 other countries is doing more perhaps than any group outside of the christian church to extend the ideal of international goodwill and fellowship the boyish mind harbours no resentment be cause another boy has a different racial origin a-differ- ent religion or a different coloured skin scouts cor respond with scouts around the world tnfcy learn of the problems and peculiarities of other lands and what is more important they learn on just how wide a front the peoples of all lands agree on the fundamentals which make for peace and progress boy scout week is not a money raising event it is simply a week for boy scouts with the aid of their good friends in the newspaper world to parade their purposes and programme before the country bo that- people might have an opportunity to see find learn what the movement is and what it stands for summed up f r watson ddjs mdb georgetown office hours 0 to 5 except thursday afternoons dr j burns milne dental surgeon xtrat georgetown phone bo dr clifford reid udb dxhj jbbnttst phone 410 main street georgetown elmer c thompson insurance skrvics fu auto thndatorm c p railway and allied steamship summer hsodrsionb phone llftw or j georgetown monuments markers and loitering pollock ingham galt designs on requestphone 2048 inspect our work in greenwood cemetery dr s e magwood veterinary burgeon phone 11 office between division court clerks office find the new municipal buhdtng at the cor ner of main and mill streets oakv0lle monument works w r edwards monuments cemetery lettering and markers designs submitted good display of- monuments on band tour patronage solicited phone 636w oakyxlle h nielsen the chiropractor drugless therapist 31st year of practice- lady attendant hours 25 89 pin closed thursday over xxamnion stork georgetown phone 180w leroy dale kc m sybil bennett ba barristers and solicitors mill street b georgetown phone ib kenneth m langdon barrister solicitor netary psftuc first mortgage money to loan office gregory theatre bmg mill street phone bb georgetown c n r time table daylight saving time going east passengei 701 ajn passenger and mail 1040 passenger and mall 703 pjn passenger sunday only 831 pm passenger daily 925 pin this train was formerly the dyer but now stops going west passenger and mall 840 ajn passenger sat only 233 pjn passenger dairy except saturday and sunday 635 pjn dally except sunday 733 pm passenger sundays only 1153 pjn dally except sunday 1259 ajn going north pusseiircr and mail 850 am going south possenrer and mall 708 pjn depot ticket oftice phone 20w radio repairing we specialize in this work 16 years experience j sanfordson phone georgetown mir frank petch licensed auctioneer prompt service phone 391 georgetown po box 413 gray coach lines timetable now in 1 daylight saving time leave georgetown for toronto 704 ajn 644 pjn 934 ajn 934 pjn 224 pjn to 1009 pjn for london v 1035 ajn z 715 pjn y 220 pm 450 pjn b 820 pjn xb 1110 pm to sun and holidays only x to guelph dally to kit chener sun and hoi y to kitchener to stratford depot phone 89 in the promise a scoutrnake9 on his investiture into the movement is a simple philosophy which transcends mere nationalism or narrow denominationalism on my honour i promise to do my best to do my duty to god and the king to help other people at all times to obey the scout law since scouring broke out in canada back in i 908 the same year as in england some 7 1 0000 boys have passed through the movement the boy scouts in georgetown were organized almost exactly a year ago the organization gained strength as the months rolled by these boys and their leader have concentrated on a doublebarrelled eervice to heir country at war and their community they have made and axe still making a fine job of sal vage collection in georgetown and district this week especially boys were thinking of you of the splendid contribution youre making to the war effort and of the effect this training in service toothers will have on your future life as citizens of the community