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e the georgetown herald wednea february 21 1945 marry no fisherman v b i flo m rtin jr mcclure syndic tott vo fenlurt p loser we get of how she 11 fraider i am take it said hans delphine looked up at his blond tall ne s3 me too she confessed and squeezed his hand for tuelbls w thought of her mother was still bttfcildr tween them delphine remembered what she had said and her worrv grew we d better be ready for the worst she told hans you know mama always said my delphine hes never going marry no ftsher man hans looked uncomfortable yeah i know he said look maybe i d better not go to the house with you maybe you better break it alone no delphine was firm it best you come now 1 want she should know we rp it ashamed f what at vt viunc and i m proud of my husband no matter what he has been well i m not exaetl a fithei man now even if i still own my shrimp boat and jus leased her of course ifot delphine tossed the shiny black curls and it s time for mama to know the shrimp trawlers at the docks faded behind them as they ent down the leafy street toward her home mama 11 be by herself delphine said that s good though i wish raoul could be there he d side with us your brother would help hrfns sighed but the army s got him too far away delphine s mind was busy she temembered just how she and hans had met that very first time nearly three years before she had been in her father s store helping during school vacation of her senior high school year the young man had walked in to ask for information blond hair yellow in the slanting sun as he doffed his cap and tall and fair with the widest shoulders delphine had thought she d ever my name s hansoisen he said and i ve come from florida in m trawler heard the shrimping s good over this way can you tell me where i can find a boarding place but yes she answered him madame broussard will be glad to bave you and she directed him walking to the corner to point the way hed been back several times in fact he d made it a point to come and always they found something to talk about delphine was sure jumost from the start that he liked her and soon the whole town was talk ing about the young swede fisher man one of those east coast shrimpers from florida they said who sure knew how to get the ish way out a hard worker too ou bet more than one timbalier mam i would ave been glad t have h i corre calling slit hani olsen went onl to t leblew store where there was d i phine and delphine had been gli oh so glad she shuddered r membering her mother s tirade anj of her friends parents would hvc been happy if this sober industrious young man appeared to have serious attentions toward men daughters but not her mama ever since you been big enough to go with boys for the dates she ranted i been afraid this happen you know why 1 nevair let you go out with boys from the shrimp boats always 1 don wan you marry no fisherrmn look what you get nothin but to be sorry 3 yes mama 4 you know a shrimper he s nevair make nothin hardly when he catch good he throw away the mom y garnblin or somethin that had been so unfair to her s that she d spoken tip but mama hans is net lute that he differ ent different eh non all shrimp ers theyre allkej and thaj had settled that she couldnt sea hans at home their surreptitious meetings jhad been feu and car bctwmau but for her it would always be tbistall fair ybung man the matjths oecsnae years he went bade to the atlantic and she thought him lost forever but he returned explaining that he d taken bis trawler nysr jbecause of the ex tra good fishing then war ha come and after a time sna f one to houms to work in a defense plant and hans was on the east coast she hadnt seen bfan for nearly six months when he d walked into her cousins home in houxna one sunday they d been married the next week and this aft er their all too short honeymoon in new orleans was her homecoming delphine gripped hans fingers tlghteras they turned into tr yard this is rtl she murmured and they frilled at each other mama this is my husband hans olsen she said and waited for the storm we were married last pn jay t hes on leara from camp she fsdsband husband her xastfes said and her brow clouded tr id hard at hans del nhum swthat ha braced bis khaki sta ah dalphine she tm glad yon ettdn mar- m but a good united states like h and dauffa- two stories about childrens aid this is the story of two young on tario women one studying to be a doctor of medicine the other a mem ber of the cwac it will be particu larly interesting to readers of this paper wm last year followed the ser ies of articles telling of the work be ing down by the children a aid socie ties throughout this provinoe for this is the story of two little girls wiotn life knocked down and two ala societies picked up all that children a aid stands for what it is allowed to do to protect children under our ontario laws what lies behind the policy of carefully selected foster home care what can be the fat reaching influence of some thoughtful inspiring personality work ing year after year on a societys staff is exemplified by these two young wo men today nine years ago a little girl whom we shall call peggy was made a ward of a children s aid society of ontario which shall be nameless for obvious reasons peggy was one of seven child dren bom of european parents in canada the father deserted bis la- mily 12 or 14 years ago to return to his native country the mother ut terly failed in her responsibilities and in 1935 the children were made wards of the local society peggy always under the care supervision and kindly guidance of the society went to live with an aunt where she had a goodl clean home and did well at school j she passed her entrance at 13 and the following year stood highest in her i class at the same time making her i own clothes by ims peggy had com pleted her collegiate course with hon j ours and was planning to go through for pharmacy she won a 450 scho larship but aid not learn of this in time to register for the university year hie obstacle only provoked peggy into a more ambitious step man she had yet comtemplated she decided to wait another year earn and save every possible cent avail herself of the scholarship at the end of the year and study medicine jlast summer many people in her community became in terested in this clever and plucky girl and gifts of noney and clothing came generously that peggy no t the university began her first year with a suitable wardrobe s little extra money and the knowledge that she has many interested friends back of her hate ofl to the society probably i some dynamic personality on its staff to that scholarship donor to same nameless teachers to many good people and no least 10 that worthy woman the aunt all were potters irouldlng the wet clay the second stor concerns another little girl io spent nearl all hir life in the care of a society that socle ty because of circuimt w cj which are repeated in thousand of casts which come u the attention ol child rens aid every year applied throjgh the courts tor wardship action wardship action a cold precis legal term what does it really mean what can il be made to mean what can it be made to mean when a so ciety lives up u everj responsibility vested in it it means the society ha the responsibility of being a parent to the children committed to its charge of providing through its staff md foster homes the love and allection which the children have missed in their oh homes and of striving by every means to create and sustain in oie children that sense of security i which is so essential to their normal development and which hsu either bten seriously shaken or mis il i together in their lives many years after the courts had committed a little homeless friendless girl to her local children s aid so ciety thit little girl now i aung wo man ho ding a responslb e position in the cwac could write this letter to the superintendent dear sir for many years now you and your coworkers have been father and mother to me and i know it has s7 lwo years ago eof the house of seagram published this advertisement m tribute to the heroic russian soldier loday we are repeating this message in renewed tribute to the millions of ivans whose courage resourcefulness and fighting skill have now freed russian soil and beaten the enemy back to the ery threshold of berlin the house of seagram blsy bts ntws op jamab1 because of blotktd n tds ind dis agreeable weather this months meet i in was 1k id ui i cik laur than us ual at the home of mrs joseph prank meeting was opened by all repeating the lords pracr li unison nine members answered roll call by hand lng a total of 43 crazy quilt blocks 18 correspondence contained been no easy task helping me for so long i would like to stow you in a small way that i do appreciate everything you have done i know of no better way for a victory bond to be used than to have it help some other boy or girl have some op portunitles you offered me will you accept this little token of my gratl tude with my best wishes to you and your staff enclosed was a victory bond for 50 only that superintendent knows the history that lies behind this wardship but this is apparent to all at some time a little girl was left quite alone in the world she had neither par ents nor relatives nor friends to care for her and ier whole life lay before her to be msde or marred i there can be statutes there can be the cautious court spelling out the last letter or the law but those are the mere bones of the responsibility vested in children s aid societies and theniofflclals the love the patience the vision that guided helped and influenced this young life were the heart and life blood of a superintend ent and his staff and of some fond consdenuous foster mother can you open our home to soma little girl or boy needing lore sad can and a chance to be a good o an if so will jwjj get m touch with i thankyou for gift sent and a christ you have been mas greeting from an interested couple and a thank you from pte frank allen for cigarettes and christ mas parcel sent oversea financial statement was the lowest of the year due to weather conditions meeting was then opened for quilt discussions eight tops were on hand and were taken by different ladies to be quilted while difficult to get about plans for making of friendship quilt were made white broadcloth lojn dation with rose and green etnbroid ery work a request from township council that we help with funds for installing a large hot plate in brookullc hll wis discussed and the motion was carried that we sell the small owe own ed by the club and add some to make the sum of ho 00 toward this euchre parties were to be held in no 7 school on and from jan 12th every friday evening prizes of first for ladies and 1st for gents were to be provided voluntarily by members everything to be clear money two new names were to be added to the overseas list that of tpr ar thur davenport and pte fred beavia mrs win service offered her home for the february meeting meeting than closed with ood san tot king tod by mrs stan robinson mrs frank served a itmoh tbat had a touch otlfewteafs m a ote of thanks to mrs prank for uie use of her norm and hositnllt a pal urn quilt was quilled on during the da mrs jennk howard mrs stan ro blnstn ind mrs wilfrid kennedy held bi s bee quiltings during the month fo ir progressive euchre parlies were h d in the school which cleared 21 52 ladlea donating prizes were mrs stan robinson mrs w kennedy mrs all allen mrs service mrs alex job mrv joseph frank and mrs sam frank mrs j j kennedy made score cards mrs john wilson donated 1 00 to the club to be used for parcels over seas two sympathy cards and a let tor of cheer to the sick and a gift to a new baby in the club were sent ten boxe were packed and posted for oerreas by the committed which amounted to 50 62 and s30 50 was al lowed for clgs for bovs overseas to be sent by mrs britton during january rfprksentat1vbs of weekly pttsb gave radio addresses on saturday february 17th from 7 45 to 8 00 pm on the cdc canadian network the weekly cbc talks feature entitled this week originated from ottawa and featured two officers of the canadian weekly newspapers as sociation in the capital for tie semi srnual executive meeting they spoke on the part played by the weekly newspapers in canadian life speakers were cwna- president f p oal- brsith editor of red deer alberta advocate and 1st vlcepreaidect hugh twnplln editor of verge oasarlo armoured train engine disguised as box car l omb of the best known diesd locomotives m canada the 9000 of the canadian national railways has just been discharged from military service on the secret list atoce shortly afr the start of the war the 9000 had been completely remodelled m the railwa s transcona shops to furnish the power for an armoured train these shops also converted four all steel canadian national flat cars and three allsteel box cars for this tram wfiich was used in british columbia until the japanese invasion menace disappeared the locomotive was covered tth armour plate and camouflaged to look like a box car making it difficult for the enemy to to spot it in rise of ittack t present i he 0000 13 in the c n r sli ps at point st chirles having its nrmour plate rcmocii and other changes effected ro fit it for passenger sernce all of the cars have been stripped of tier ir dress and arc back in regular fre tht service the canadian national railways pioneered the development of diesel power for railway service in canada this was in june 1925 when it introduced the first oil electric rail xzt this unit the first in north america to make a transcontinealsi i ruo was designed and otnlt ia the i costpeny shops on its trial itish i vs operated rmwn mostrsal aad f vancouver in 67 boors running time by the end of 1928 the 9000 which was canada s first diesel locomotive made its appearance this twin mnt was then the largest and most power ful locomotive of jts kind in tba world later converted to a smgw unit engine the 9000 had been oa va rum passenger and f rctght runs chiefly in tbecentral region of the national system until the ootbreskofthaws when the 9000 went late war- serviob its 12yfiwde eagins 1 nplsoed with a saw vtypa eycle i abovi