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thursday january oh 14 the acton phee press page toms oar gordon beatty of fetawawa was home for knr years mas ftancea hunt or was home for the holmaya mr and mia r b arnold vlatted in ttoraato over lh hauoajn n mr harry kcmstn apat nw years with brampton irk mr w j hall spent tow itou- jayt with gxprctowa friend pc chrlec ewlna of slmcoa call- d on acton mentis this week mr george murray was home from toronto or the christmas holidays cpl g boulton was home from port albert for the new year holi day miss mabel harris milton spent the holiday weekend at her home here mrs c arnason visited with mr and mrs k thoraiinaon over tlw weekend miss pearl hamilton or rockwood spent sunday with mr and mrs karl lambert miss nellie hall hai returned to toronto after spending the holidays at her home here mr and mrs u ii elliott ceors jane and shirley spent new yeart holidays at comber mr and mrs bert crewson and son kenny spent new years in hes- peler with relatives miss jean graham of chicago iii visited during the week with her fath er mr w k graham miss helen moeachern has return ed to markstay after spending tho holidays at her home hore mlga lie ml co held of guelph und mr and mrs austin reld of stratford were home over the holiday mr and mrs g a dills miss frnii- ces dills and david and jamei spent new years visiting in toronto mrs peter smith nnd miss inrl smith spent new years with mm slbett and family in toronto tpr hugh graham hai returned to camp borden after spending now years leave at his home here mr and mrs herbert lambert of guelph spent sunday at tho home ol mr and mrs nelson lambort miss margaret brown of toronto spent now years with mr and mrs vv d barber bafholmo farm mrs d c uussoll and miss josslo russoll spent now yoars with mr and mrs s s ilussoll in oakvlllo mrs noltum v moo iv upotit new years with her niece mn and mr frtl reevi and family klroeuvlllt mr norhnm wilds ami kon doug las of vine a ml hitcltt tin holiday week wltli mr and mrs james wilds nnd friends miss- gladys huffman of toronto mr bill huffman billy nnd ivan cf georgetown spent new years with mrs huffman mr w w gurney wlngham and master jlmmte mckinney of tor onto visited with mm george mur ray during the week dr nnd mrs k m- morrow and mlsssylvnoftrostoni snentthe christmas weekend at the home of mvj and mm james moore lac william husolo who has been stationed in newfoundland for a year spent the weekend ut the home of mr and mrs w j hulledc mr and mrs harry milium and little daughter susan of hamilton spent new years with their imtvnts mr and mrs t h mavou main street mr und mrs m c ft and merle of toronto spent titw years with mr and mrs r l johnston and attended a family gathering at mr l o johnstons mr and mrs w howe and jean mrs metcalfe mr und mrs h raw- cllffe and shirley all of toronto welcomed in the new year at the home of mr- and mrs h boulton colonel and mrs ballentinosaxa- fraga mr and mrs c a barber of sea forth and miss s e barber of georgetown spent new years with mr and mrs w d barber and fam ily mrs angus mcdonald and mr sandy mcttonald of dolly varden and mr kenneth mcdonald of sneyslde spent sunday with mrs roht currl and mrs edwin currie nnd bobby at milton heights visitors at the home of mr and mrs ivan harris were mr and mrs morley harris marte phyllis and shirley of freelton mr and mrs john lyons jr joyce and ann of waterdown mr roy and miss id el la harris of freelton lac bui ar- chibold stationed at guelph hallott member predicts big tax cat alter war floatwar tax cm be m ffcr ceaav haarfcaa cbawer postwar taxea can be reduced by mor4 than 60 per cent so long aa canadas national income is maiu- talned hughes cleaver liberal m p for llalton chairman of the special committee of th house of co on war expenditures estimated thur sday at a lions club luncheon in to ronto- canadian debt on march 31st 1944 will be something more than nine billion dollars and if the war lasts un til december 31st 1044 the net nat ional debt of canada will stand at ap proximately twelve trillion dollars said mr cleaver at three per cent it will take 270000000 annually to pay the in terest charges on the increase in the debt we will have an increased pen sions bill of perhaps another 40 to so millions he said adding increased interest charges war pensions and the federal share of the itropiahed health ervlces can ada at the end of the war may be faced with an annual budget o be tween nine hundred and one thousand millions double our prewar budget while the postwar period will de mand the most skilful handling and is no job for amateurs yet the picture has its bright side mr cleaver de clared adding his estimate concern ing to reduction with the qualific ation that tlie key to the whole pro blem is mil employment canada as the result of the gov ernments war policy of high taxation payasyougo price ceilings control and rationing will enter the postwar jwrlod with all the necesary factors to ensure a period after the war more prosperous than we have yet enjoy ed he sold our increased production facilities will jkermlt us to increase our standard of living at leant double what wo en joy today mr cleaver said canada faces four major poutwar problems ho titled the four postwar prob lems ns to provide employment for tho 7o000t member of the armed forces and penjdons where required to provide employment for the mil lion workers in war industry to solve agricultural problems nnd to care for war debt concerning employment mr- cleav er wild in my opinion the first re quisite in immediately to remove all the needleiui reutrlctlonu on industry livery rmkidtilo encouragement mukt 1k given to speed up the production of coituunier goads to wupply the post poned domtiiidn of our tveoplo tuxes cun lw hiihutantlnlly reduced iaoternment help needed imvnte initiative will not he en ough and the government lm given iikiuritmv thnt it will enter the field to take up whatever slack iw left in employment mr cleaver rut 1 mated thnt canad ian shortage of mora than 100000 homon and said a wine program giving tax reduct ions on building mntcrlnltj temorary exemption from municipal taxation and money at low interest rate with monthly imyments similar to tho national housing act will provide employment for thousand of people and will provide the much needed homes such a scheme also wilt yield between thirty and forty million of new municipal revenue concerning agricultural problamsr mr cleaver declared i iwllove that floor prices muxt be guaranteed to our farmers wltli respect to the food will fh cuhadlumt consume ttds will yield the cost of production plus a fair profit in reiitect to surplus continued on page four j chronicles of ginger farm m gregory theatre friday janiakv 1 i ijood it red skelton eleanor powell cartoon monkey dtoodle dan dy passing parade nursery rhyme mysteries chapter 9 overland mall saturday january s matinee a s high explosive chester morris jean parker rhythm of the -islands- alan jones jane frazee fox news monday january 10 swing shift maisif ann sothern james craig comedy he was only feudlnv travel talk over the andes cartoon her honor the mayor after over four years ol war isnt u ijaiaaau3 to start a net year with a really definite hope that this is to be the year of victory t oh yea i know wo have hoped that same thins before but we hoped because we were afraid to do anything else but there was very little conviction behind the hope wasnt there t hut now we can feel the end of the european war is in sight anyway the allied forces are ready to strike and i am sure everyone feels that however great the price victory is assured and doesnt that thought spur you on to greater effort t dont you actually feel well what docs this matter or thnt matter so long us i tmve more opportunity to do things to go without thlngmthat will help our boy along and bring tliem iwtnu again that much quicker and just think how mbtlur nature is helping us out and making things so much eamiert no matter how much snow and cold weather we have from now on it cant le as bad as it was last year because it will have started later and how this mild weather has helped the fuel situation sure it is still had enough hut it could be a whole lot worse and it has its funny side too have you ever been in town after any one of the coal dealers has received a cur- land of coalt it was quite funny the other day to watch the trucks buzzing here and then like so many bees around a hive ulg t tucks small trucks or any kind of truck the dealer could get hold of to unload tle car und make coal deliveries to the customers anxlouidy and hoiiefully awaiting their turn down front the station came the trucks with their precious loads one ton half u toil or whatever it might he in a little while tho empty trucks would go rattling by again and up to the sta tion for another load it looked us if the truckdrivers were just us anx ious to get coal to the people as the kople were to get coal and isnt it nice now the huittlo- hustlo of chrltitnms und mew years la over to get down to our ordinary everyday llfet tho mall comes along ut the right time work that wo had put on one sldo until after christ mas can imj brought out again re ceipted hills cun he sorted out uiid put a way for iufi keeping and we might wen take time now to read the dally paper and keep ourselves abreast of the tlmcx we might iiim have time to eujov vkltors and to do our little vltdtlng urfcelves and of eourio we would tnke our knitting along with uu we wouldnt jiiht ult nnd talk mid nothing the way the men do you know i really think knitting wbould be encouraged among our menfolk especially in wartime think what a lot of work could lw done if the men took their knitting along with them to their council and school hoard nieetlngul and nwnklng of visitors wo had a friend staying hero lout week just for n day nnd what a time she had she hail to w taken around to tee the horsos the cows tho poultry and even tho barnyard cots and she wasnt above looking at elmer either she wanted to know how much milk this cow gave and which heifer was thtida ugh torof which -cow- atti -she- was especially interested id old cicelys record cicely is nlnet years old nnd still going kttrong how ever cicely is going out before long w you may meet bl of hor if you buy wome bologna about three months from now then there was the poul tryhow many egg from this pen how ninny from that whero was the garden going to bo thlu year and did ve get that wood off the farm finally we settled down in the living room idio with her quilt blockti und i with my knitting und i think we both had a very enjoyable time you ue our visitor was a retired farm woman nnd i guens to a person who hii been born nnd raised on a farm there it nothing he or she llkeg bet ter than to get back if only for a few hours to all the things that they knew and layed in the past that ii if they did love rarm life there are others of coureborn on a farm who would do anything rather than go back to it the sunday school lesson monday january 1m4 hi persians title to weekly editor toronto cp weekly editors in canada will appreciate the achieve ment of editor h w garrett of the doerun ca courier who la taking a few days rest after publishing a 28- page christmas edition many editors have published 28- page supplements but garrett prob ably is the only one who did such a job without any help he sold all the advertising wrote the news and editorials and set them in typo by hand he made up the forms read the proofs ntd operated the press then he s wrapped address- ed and mailed the newspapers he ha been publishing the courier a- weekly for 24 years jesus busy with hul ministry of uovk golden test s must wot th works of him that seat me while it is day the night obmeth when no man can work jno 9i 4 lesson teat mk 1 a2ts time a d- 28 plaoe caper naum etcpoaltlon i jesus iww over sickness 3234 here we luive jesus in ttte home thestamlly invited jesus to dinner and well were they repaid it always pays to invite jesus to our horn malt 25 37 40 there was sick ness in tills home and they did the wisest thing that can be done in sick ness they tell him of her v 30j jesus would liave us today act to ward illru just as the disciples did uiien he was here on earth heul3 he would liave felt hurt if peter had run off for a doctor instead of coming first to him there was nu delay in telllpg jesus straightway v 3 note what jesus did l he ume jesus could lical at u distance ijtio 4 mtm but he loved to come right to the afflicted one today there is too mu h trying to minister to the sick nnd suffering and sinning at a dltan 2k vile took her by tlie hand it is the liandgrasp of a strong well hand thnt tlie olck need it is tlw liandgrasp of a holy strong hand that the sinful and weak need tills taking by the hand religion u much needed in many of our churches today n ho raised her up people need to ho lifted it is not enough to say arise then it wttn the fever left her sickness van ishes when jesus comcs she at once begun to use her nw found strength in ministering to her healer many who uro helped forget to do this a wonderful scene follows vs xi cm the tteople wuit until tho uh- luith dom ot sunbet then from wery corner of capernaum they bring to jesus all the demon tosseatei and tho sick they had hod proof of his power to deliver ami heal would that wo who huve so much more proof would bring all our devil tormented and sick ones to him uut then people were very like us they werf not so eager for spiritual blessings uu for healing but jesus healed every one of them luko 440 ttioso great blessings und wonderful mani festations of the divine power jf jesus did not reuult in a splrltuui re generation of tho pluco mutt 11 21 24 ii jcmuu alone with god 331h jeuuu hcullng work coxt him some thing the strain upon his intensely uymimthutlf nature and tho drain up on his vital forces were fur beyond what we nrdlnnrlly think uo needed letd after that eventful day in cajur- imiim but there wan u place of re freshment that brought moro lasting relief to ihh burdened heart und n lulcker restoration to his exhausted energies and a largor incremont of liowcr for the work yet to be done than the boftcut couch ho needed rest but he needed god more mk t u4i after wearying days and in anticipation of coming events jeaus always wpent long hours in prayer uike a 12 jno g is luke 22 30411 many a follower of ills has learned the same secrot of refreshment after fnu nnd preparation for coming effort ills eholro of tho time nnd place to pray is full of suggest i venous and se verely condemns the following of thojjy who think they fm do nil tho nucessarypraylngwhlloattheld work and can pray equally well at nil times nnd all placet the man who would help men by intimate fellowship with them muut cultivate a still more in timate fellowhhlp with god simon aiul they thnt were with him fol lowed illm ndt to imitate his wluo example but to get him to do what they thought wine jesus lias many such followers their thought wnf a great revival in in tho air nnd jesus must not wokic time out there in the desert in prayer to jesuit thotio hurrying crovwu were tho reason for hurraing away from and vot back to capernaum iii ijeuus power to cleanse the ieper 4045 this leiver would have tied from a rahbl he lees to jesus the leper had no precedent for his act but faith does not uik a precedent there is nothing like a sense of our need and of our utter ruin without christ to mako us forget all our difficulties and cast all doubts to the winds and i to get right to his feet in v 40 we find faith in jesus divine power but j questioning concerning the greatness of his divine love note well the word compassion in v ol his miracles were the simplefipontnneous expression of his compassionate love t mot 14 14 so far from being at this stage of his ministry credentials to which he wished to refer they were rather hindrances rfridhe strove t to keep thenh from observation as far as possiblo tv 43 but love was more than prudence to jesus and where suffering came to him for help he could no more keep from help ing them than the sun can koepj from shining upon everything in its path touching tho leper made jesus ceremonially unclean but it made the leper clean 2 cor 9 21- if we would heal the leprosy that shuts the leper out from society of the clean we must come as near to th drunk ard and rumseuer and tlie harlot a jesus did and stretch out tlie tiand of love and touch them i will said jesus be thou clean t are tlw words of a fanatic a arla- ton or of god gen i 3 pa 33 9 mk 4 39 s 4 lieb 1 3 miss jane mccraxaoa miss jane mcgregor w waa burled last thursday in acton cemetery fol lowing a funeral service thursday morning at the home of iter niece miss flora mccallum wlngham the serviotf was conducted by rev w a ueecroft a service waa held in acton at tlie johnstone a itumley funeral home miss mcgregor was born in llalton county khe spent her early life in acton and was a member of knos presbyterian church wiujam y gicay following tui llltteus of u few weeks tlte result of a paralytic stroke will iam y giuy iwkawd sway at guelph cwteruf hospital oil wednesday december 22 1043 in hi kmh year a sou of tit tut frunk gray and his wife jane king lie was bora in erin township and sjient his life in tlie local community engaged in agriculture until the last few years on april 7 1hh3 he united hi mar riage with isabella orr who prede ceased hlni oil february g 1941 he was a member of the halted chur h and took un at tlve interest in bur h uitivltles he is suivlvatl by one umi wesley of delhi ontario und one daughter mrs llumi johiinton of at ton and four grutidt hlldren the f unei al took plu o it mil t lie home of his son nt delhi oti sunday followed by a service at krln united church at 3 pm when hit puktoj lv t j ite4s eondmttsl the obw- luleu fiurlug the service mrs clay ton juuthv wuig a solo interment wuu made ut krln cemetery the uilllmaierm were nephews holuit ihutty wtn gray orrlo iimb win orr norman orr frunk hoot erin township red crosb nefa8 the following letter has been le- oelved from overseas acitnuwledging a christmas parcel december 14 43 dear mrs reynolds it is with my alooerest thanks that i take this opportunity of thanking you for the very lovely paroel i re ceived yesterday it 4rmm9 very un expectedly byt had i only taken a moment to think i would have aurelr realised tliat the fled cross never lets us boys down f would also like to exjrw my appreciation of he work being done by you ladies in connec tion with tlie ited cross it is indeed a job to be proud of and much reclated by us all lyianking you once again and wish ing you and your district every sur- ccsk in 11m new year itk v h ghaff anyone knowing tlie address of ww arrivals overseas from frin town ship please forward to mrs iteynolds hlllsuurgh leclved for boys oversea fund mimosa inultute s1uo mr- m- ktwry and campbell sxi mrs i j hint hair f3 mrs urkwry anl atiiplell jkhki lllnktimin hirti sir xi womens ashocmiton ot itnited qtfltatch at mua cxeavffl home the regular monthly toisiness meet ing of the womens association of the jnlted ciiurch was held at the hoaaa of mrs f cleave on tueaday srlth mrs d rfeautfdson frslding tha devotional period was taken by mra k t theaacd tbe ladles are ar ranging to provide lunch for tfco annual meeting january 36th plana are to he made for the work of tha ionltuf year mrs cjeav assisted by mra r allan mrs k jennings and uttte marie lambert served a vvy dainty lunch and a social time waa spent a vwry hearty vote of thanks was given to mrs cleave for tier home and hospitality also tier assistants whats reuartee fadt itepariee my boy is wliat a i thinks of on ttie way home men 30 4050 hi hr ms wt nsm oamataa mtab v aaurtumelhmt4hwiaama tail i mrwt h i hdntamma hi sfllml 1 j ne b office of the oel controller aiamilton ontario thlt naw ntium tm balna epnd ca ptfortda mm amu alant to u of matov aa ualj fat tha followlii0 oauatuaf ssant uncoim watcuoo haummand ikmkxk wh1ano ha1ton oxfoko wbumotom wemfmkmth i avsw baaqr u iw as mmiilli i devastmemt ot mum1ti0hs smd lllfflt uomouiuble o d home mram presenting soup stock a fouract musical comedy with an all local cast of 25 music comedy singing dancing orchestra 25 songs old and new town hall acton january 12 13 14 15 wednesday thursday friday and saturday next doors open at 730 curtain 815 sharp proceeds for acton and vicinity war service league reserved seal sale opens saturday at 10 ajn at hassards drug store reserved seats 50c all other seats 35c if you like good entertainment pun sonsa of forty years ago and songs of today youll want to see this big local show not one night but more- most of the stars from the 1943 victory minstrels and many new ones with new names and new parte in a show thats different from any other event ever presented in acton a local play a musical potpourri all rolled into one big show and the proceeds all going to help war service league get your tickets early dont be disappointed 25c2 wc