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.Wednesday, March 25, 1942 THE FU&SHERTON ADVANCE l! ] i \ i THE fLESHERTON ADVANCE Collinjwood W*dn*dajr of *a*> Circulation ore* 1,000. in Cm/ida $2.00 par year, trlMB paid ia adranc* S1.50; in S. A. $2.60 per year, wh paid in advance |2 00 f. 4. THUR8TON, Edit**. NATIONAL MOBILIZATION MANPOWER OF The Government has announced mobilization scheme for Canadian labor that will solve a great need in Canadian industry. Restrictive oc cupation have been declared in whicl physically fit men between 17 and i5 years of age cannot take jobs without permission. There is also exemption from compulsory militar training for essential farm workers and prohibition against farm work tn quitting jobs for non-essentia work. This is a guarantee againe the depletion of available farm labo but is not a guarantee that yum farmers will not be called for com- pulsory military training. Plans are also being made to place women in industry to release men for essent- ial work. More and more women will have to take their place in in- dustry if the needed supplies for the war services are to be secured. Non-essential industries are being closed and the workers will be ab- aorbed in other factories on war work. Many luxuries we nave en- joyed the past few years are dis- appearing and many more will do likewise before the end of hostilit- ies. "We have not yet feK the war in Canada, but we will do so in an Increasing measure during the next year. It is necessary for victory. when the present supply of tires for rivate vehicles i* depleted that no more will be available for the pub- ic. Most of the rubber cornea from Malaya, which was lost recently to the Japs, and even if the war were to stop tomorrow, there would be an interval of a year before new ires could be secured. It is there- lore necessary to save on the wear and bear of your tiree if you wish to continue running your car if you have enough gas also. The gov- ernment has declared a speed limit of 40 miles per hour as a conserva- tion method, and although you will not reach your destination as quick- ly, your tires will last longer. Re- nasmber, when the present supply is done no more tires. NO MORE TIRES The situation of the rubber In dustry in Canada and the United States is very critical at the present time. Hon. Mr. Howe, in a radio address Monday night stated that EDITORIAL NOTES Some farmers have told us they are not tapping their maple trees this year. We believe every bush lo 1 should be used to produce syrup am maple sugar and assist in reducing the amount of cane or beet suga used at the present time. A good market is assured for a first class product. By a strange coincidence al games in the Stanley Cup series on Tuesday night resulted in losses to the clubs winning their first game; and by the goose-egg route. These games sometimes take very strang tracks. Premier M. F. Hepburn stated in the Ontario Legislature on Tuesday that Ontario was $17,000,000 better off than it would have been if the Sirois report had been accepted. Many of the recommendations of the report have been included in the new agreement with the Dominion Government, but were to last only until the close of hostilities and not in perpetuity, as would have been the case of the Sirois report had '>. IT: adopted. 'Canada at War" DOMINION' GROWING SHELL PRODUCTION A friend of our complains that he cannot get a really close shave. He should stand closer to the razor. SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICE EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 5 Owen Sound Flesherton - Toronto For cnvenience of patrone desiring to spend the longest possible Easter Week-End visit with out-of-town friends and be back home at a reasonable hour Sunday night, a Special Train will operate Sunday, April 6, as follows: I > OWEN SOUND 6.00 p.m. Lv. FLESHERTON 7.00 p.m: Ar. Toronto Union Station 10.45 p.m. Consult Agents or current Time Tables for full details Enquire regarding special fares. CANADIAN PACIFIC In the Province are many plants where ammunition and shells are jeing produced. The mother of them all however, is he Dominion Arsenal. Situated in .the heart of Old Canada is a fine old stone building, dating back to the eighteenth cent- ury. The walls are five feet thick, and from this building, the defenders off New France took their stand against the er.emy. For the past thirty years or more this same building has been used in defence of Canada, but instead of being the shelter from which guns are fired, it has became one center in which ammunition for the Canadian Army is made. During the last war, t*iis arsenal employed five to six hundred men and women. To-day, it is producing in 24 hours, more ammunition than in a whole month during the last war. More than a score of large buildings comprise tihe three main plants. One of these is situated in the city, and a special train makes a round trip three times a day carry ing 1,500 men and women to work on tiheir respective shifts. The Dominion Arsenal is consid ered the finest plant of its type on the North American continent. Not only is it equipped with the very latest in machines and tools, but the safety devices, and working condi- tions are the best possible. Cartridge cases and bullets are produced from the raw material. The men attending the great cru- cibles have to wear shoes with wood- en soles an inch thick bo protect their feet from the heat. The metal for shell cases is drawn out until and when cooltd is drawn out uutil it is just the fraction of an inch in thickness, and nearly forty feet in length. The long spring-like coil of brass is then fed into a punching machine, from which thimble-like cups are punched out. These are the begining of cartrige cases. They pass through forty peratior.s until the completed cases ^r produced. After the cartridge cases are com- pleted, they are passed to on another plant, where the propellant is put in, the cap fitted, and the metal bullets clamped into place. This plant where the high explosives are hand- led, is one of extraordinary quietness and cleanliness. There is no hustle or bustle here. Everybody wears special ruliber shoes, and when walking about the building, every now and again, one touches a mtal plate set in the wall to ground himself so that tfliere may be no static generated. Situated close to this plant is the proving ground. Here it is that guns made In Canada, using shells the size of a half inch and over, are proved. Not only are Canadian- made pruns proved here, but guns from the American arsenals as well. The proving ground is operated Jointly by the United Kingdom and SUPERIOR STORE For Fresh FRUITS and VEGETABLES-See Us Our turnover enables us to have them always fresh SODAS, fresh 2 Ihs. 25c GINGER COOKIES, real good .... 2 Ibs. 2Sc Tiger SALMON, large 29c REAL GOOD COFFEE ground while U wait ... 39c Ib. HORSE RADISH, fresh jar 2fc Superior No-Alum BAKING POWDER 1 Ib. tin 23c MEATS FRESH and COOKED At mo$t reasonable prices C. J. KENNEDY W* [Mirer. Ont Canadian Governments. A certain number of shells from each batch made are also tested during the proving of the guns. Shells of all types and sizes are into a sand bank. The shell passes through frames strung with fine copper wire electrically connected with very sesitive instruments, sit- uated at some distance from the proving grounds. These instruments record to the split second, the time when the shell passes through the screens, and as the time is then an easy matter to work out the velocity Shells of all types and sizes are being made- in Canada in ever in- creasing numbers in factories in the East and West. The inspection de- partments of some of these factories remind one of huge wood yards. Hundreds of thousands of these shells are produced daily. Tall thin ones to feed the anti-aircraft guns, short stubby fat ones for field guns, ponderous fooking sheila for the guns of the British Navy. Most of the plants hid to swing over from domestic production of one kind or another. In some cases the existing machinery and tools were adaptable to the makint? of shells. In many cases, however, ex- tension had to be built and new machine tools installed before pro- duction could commence. Now the Canadian shell industry is getting into full stride. When we consider that a certain type of anti aircraft gun now being made in thfs country can flre shells at the rate of 160 per minute, we begin to realize the tremendous number of shells necessary to feed all of the guns used by our army, air-force and nary. A lot of work goes into the mak- ing of a shell. Exacting work it is for every, .shell has to be perfect. Out of every lot of 500 shells pro- duced, four are sent to the proving grounds. The record of one factory, which is typical of practically all those producing shells, is that there have been no rejects from the prov- ing grounds. Every shell is checked by Government inspectors for inacc- uracies of any sort, and ttiis factory has a record fr the yetr past of less than .01 per cent rejected by these inspectors. Shell manufacture usually fol- lows what is called straight line pro- duction. In other words, the rough forging starts at one end of the produceion line, and at the other end after a series of processes, emerges, a finished product. The rough forging of a shell to be used in a 25 pound field gun, weighs 29 to 30 pounds mean weight. After passing through various operations necessary to turn the forging into a finished shell case, the weight has been reduced to 20 pounds. 10 ounces, 6 jrrams. MAXWELL We are glad to report Rev. Dr. Mercer is recovered from his illness and ramming Us services. Mr. and Mrs. Boy Fenwick spent the week end in Toronto. Messrs. Vern, Tom and Harry Pal<listv of Toronto spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Pallister. Pte. Geo. Ward of Toronto visited over the week en3 with Mrs. Sarah Guy and Jenie. The March meeting of the Wo- men's Institute was held at the hom of Mrs. Geo-. Ross. The ladies spent the afternoon quilting for the Red Cross. After a short business session the hostess served the usual lunch, assisted by Mrs. Gould. LADY BANK CEYLON Sergt.-Major Gordon Micks of Petawawa returned to camp Monday after enjoying a two weeks' furlough with is wife and family. Melville McDermid visited his cou- sin, Cecil McDermid at "The Glen" for the week end. Miss Catharine Stewart, Reg>N., of Owen Sound visited a couple of days last week with her mother, Mrs. Mrs. Archie Stewart, and sister, Mrs. Melville Hogarth. Mrs. Thos. Brady of Toronto visit- ed Mr. and Mrs. J. McMullen last Sunday. The March meeting of the Ladies' Aid is taking the form of a St. Pat- rick social at the home of Mrs. Will Gibson, Mrs. D. Adams being re- sponsible. Social committee: cake, Mrs. Hunt; sandwiches, Mrs, Shaw and Mrs. Adams. The dollar talent money is feeing spread over the months of March, April and May. Mrs. Harvey Griffin of Toronto spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. Catharine Wilcock, and Mr. and Mrs Geo. Cairns. Mrs. Cairns ac- compnnied Mrs. Griffin on her return and will visit her daughter, Mrs. Walter Scrace. Miss Agnes Macphail was a caller in the village on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Montgomery, Miss Florence Hunt, Edwin Barry and David Hunt of Toronto visited over the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hnnt and Mr. George Arrowsmlth. Mrs. A. C. Mnir has returned to her home after being a patient in Toronto hospHal. Mfssest Marion and Frances Coll- inson were in Owen Sound Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. fiecll Alexander and Allan of Toronto have been vMtlng Mrs. Geo. Snell and Isaac. Mrs. Snell accompanied Mr. Alexander on his return and will visit Mr. Snell in Hamilton. KIMBERLEY Mr. and Mrs. Saul Fawcett moved their household effects to Owen Sound on Tuesday. Mr. Buchanan attended the funer- al of Mrs. John Elford on Wednes- day. On account of so much water in the river, they had to come via Kimberley to reach Meaford, over 60 miles in all. Mrs. Ellis Weber and the Quiet Valley pupils did not have school the first three days of the week from the same cause. We extend our sincere sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Young and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cornfield and the El- ford families in the death of their mother, Mrs. John Elford. Mi ... Tena Hutchinson spent the week end with her mother and brother, Milton. Mrs. S. Dobson and Mr. D. L. WtVber and Mrs. R. Chard ar e among the sick this week. NO APPEAL THIS YEAR The government announced last week that it would in future finance the war wont of the Canadian Leg- ion, Knights of Columbus, Salvation Army, Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A.. and the Navy League. The only public appeal for funds will be that of the Red Cross, which will be held in the late spring. By financing the war charities, the government is leaving the field open for Its own appeal for War Savings. A good mixer has a lot of friends if he has anything to mix. greater part of her life at Provi- dence (Lady Bank P.O.). For the past few years she has resided with ler son, Josiah Crawford, Whitby. March is traditionally supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. At present" the two beasts seem to be chasing each other in small circles. School Teacher (assisting a little boy whose coat was difficult to fasten); "Did your mother hook this coat for you?" "No," was the reply, "she bought it." * * V f * 4' i 4 4- a V ' The terrific snow storm which flew over this district "on Sunday die neither feel nor look very much like spring. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Semple an< little daughter of Western spent th week end with Mr. and Mrs. Wm Semple. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Semple an< family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Percy Semple and the former's parents. There are signs of spring ap- proaching. The can and crows are commencing to spin and fly around. The family and relatives of the late Mrs. James Crawford have the sympathy of the entire community. The late Mrs. Crawford spent the BAILEY'S MEAT MARKET Fresh AND Cured Meats PHONE 47 We save you money HARDWARE We will endeavor to keep you supplied in your hardware needs ! Massey-Harris Repairs F. W. DUNCAN HARDWARE FLESHERTON t III >t****l IH M *., 5 I t < * i Clear telephone lines for ALL-OUT PRODUCTION Yow telephone i part of a vut interlocking nvttem now carrying an abnormal wartime load. Don't let needle** delay* hold up menage* on which production efficiency may depend. numoKt TMTKS- t. SPEAK dlstincUy, directly *"to ih mouthpiece. . BE BRIEF. Clear T<" ** for the next call. * * A. ,4 I X X I