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vi seventyfourth year jf publication wednesday evening february 12th 1941 150 per annum in advance 200 to usa whole town saddened by sudden death of jack stewart hy many friends in town s greatly chocked on tuesday morning to hear at tee sudden destth of jack stewart popular main street business- u nan which oocurred shortly alter straight on monday the young- man a enjoyed an evening curling wlbh mb local curling club which had en- tertained a group of vistors from toronto becoming 111 near the close of the evenmg one of the members throve him to his home a few minutes after entering ethe house he collapsed and died almost instantly alack who was in his 28th year came to town about five years ago to enter abe furniture and undertaking bust- ncss with harold mcclure previous to tills he had worked with his bro- ther in sarnia for phillips brothers he married a local girl the former margaret kentner and had made many friends m town he had recently joined the curling dub and twas attached to the lome soots pd fe h regiment he was member of st georges church of england he is survived by his wife and two- yearold daughter barbara his par- ents mr and mrs w h stewart live in tilbury and he leaves three bro- then harry and jim at home and bol who is a funeral director in sar- nla and a slater mrs harold patter- son marjoiie in tilbury the funeral will be held from the home of harold mcclure tomorrow afternoon with service in st georges church at 3 pm burial wiy be in greenwood cemetery georgetown sign your pledge at the post office for the convenience ol district citi zens who wish to sign war savings pledge forms these lorms are avail able at the georgetown post office postmaster cousens who is chairman of the district committee will be glad to answer any questions concerning the campaign and the pledges may be dintohim at the post office the weather last week gave us more variety in weather than any so far this winter on saturday we had the only real blizzard as yet this winter a gale of forty or fifty miles an hour all day but fortunately there was not enough new snow to cause the serious drifts that tied up traffic in many other parts of the country twice during the week the mercury dropped below aero otherwise the day time temperature hasbeen moderate far three days there was little or no sunshine and onlhree other days we enjoyed bright sunshine without a cloud in the sky here are the records for the week date h and l snow- temp fall mon feb 3 20 12 tues feb 4 27 5 wed feb 5 29 4 thurs feb 6 33 10 in fri feb 7 29 28 mi in sat feb 8 23 18 sun feb 9 26 11 mon feb 10 30 7 jz6 foe war victims fund the loyal true blue lodge no 393 were able to forward 26 to the even ing telegrams british war victims fund the entire proceeds of a suc cessful euchre held last thursday evening in the arena there were nineteen tables competing and the four prizes for high scores were won by norman mcdonald mrs sld hulme mrs c parton and harold campbell j and the lucky number door prize by mrs w smith norval 7 the norval monarchy hockey team soundly trounced the georgetown pirates by five to two at acton arena on monday night this game leaves norval on top of the league with ten points out of a possible twelve come out on friday night at 8 pm dst and see the local team meet the ac tonlome scots fighting against tyranny itself says ross k cameron tyranny is a weed which grows in all soils declared rev ross k oam- ion lecturing in knox presbyterian church last friday evening we are not fighting against this or that sped- flc tyranny but against tyranny it- self he declared in a ringing ad- dress on demooracy mr cameron pastor of dovercourt presbyterian church toronto and a former georgetown boy inaugurated a series of lectures which will be spon- sored by the countess of strathmore chapter xojje choosing as his sub- ject the case for britain be con- treated democracy with the three forms 4j totalttarlanisniooinmunlam fss clam and naxlism the world today is menaced by more than war he stated the greatest menace is the dancer of the decay of principles of freedom and jlberty which have been built up over the centuries- 1 he described the period of 19181039 as one of world unrest when the whole world was in a perpetual state of fear during this period totalitarianism came to the forefront both com- munism and fascism are built on myth- ology but the latter is not so lntel- jectual the fascist believes in an in spired leader who can do no wrong and from this develops the belief that the state is god because god can do no wrong it follows that the state can do no wrong he described the german national socialist as a strange combination of savagery and sensitiveness hitler has only one aim and that is worldwide oonunatton no matter what the method ta coat in his way stands the bri tish empire with its long tradition of democracy the glory of our democratic life lis the diversity of opinion which ex- tin it sad mr cameron though ths has been of necessity curtailed dur- rumc it is and will be our privilege in future years all beauty disappears when standardisation and jghnentauon takes the place of the iree expression of public opinion mr cameron believes that the people in the democracies must safeguard galnst three things we must not count money aa the basis of every thing we must be ready to change with changing conditions we must adapt our way of life and form- of government to the needs of the day britain beueres in an abiding peace tolerance and the free exchange of opinion totalitarianism is diametri cally opp to this as it is based on power by force oppre and stan- tardisauon of all things kr life at the rmgtmiiny of the meeting mayor joseph gibbons appealed to l those present to cooperate in the na tional drive for war savings pledges h- the georgetown high school quar tette af ary and betty paul bob barry ball1nafad mrs pickering of belleville spent the week end with mrs vannatter we all hope that mr alvin starret may have a speedy recovery descendants of pioneers and lifelong residents of this district mr and mrs john robson marked their aiifwuwui wedding anniversary on saturday feb 8th with a family reunion and recep tion at their woolwich street home in guelph both are enjoying good health they were married 60 years ago in east garafraxa township near the town of belwood in the same place that mrs robsons parents were married for 12 years they farmed in proton township then returned to garafraxa where they farmed for 39 years midway between the home steads founded by their own parents many years before nine years ago they retired and came to guelph where they are widely known and respected citizens mrs robson who will be 79 years old on march 17th is a daughter of the late fred hill who came from england to found a home stead and who married a daughter of another pioneer mrs robson is in terested in music and during her younger years was a talented organist playing for numerous church gather ings and entertainments mr robson who was 84 on decem ber 5th last still enjoys his daily walk up town and is able to look after i the household chores he is a son of an english tatherrand irish mother mr and mrs george robson who settled in the garafraxa district they had nine children one son died in childhood other members of the family are mrs andrew tul hart garafraxa mrs fred w 8ftorllues- quesing township mrs john ho garth wlwil tyryprrfp- my vto jfn enery georgetown the late mrs harding price etsqueslng township mrs arthur barber guelph township fred robson guelph township and mrs elmer price islington there are 23 grandchildren and five great- grandsons and one greatgranddaugh ter food for hitlers guns by alma b wlttlln this is total war all right it is being fought everywhere in your kitchen for instance whether you live in buenos aires or van couver or singapore or sydney as a woman i feel that any woman anywhere who can look at a well- stocked pantry should thank heaven for two things she should be grate ful that the essential articles of j the family diet have come her way and in the second place she should be glad that they have not gone to hitler for if hitler had them they would be used not for food merely but in many cases for the manufacture of weapons of destruction in nazis germany parts of aero planes are made of milk the fuel for some of these aeroplanes is projdded by alcohol extracted from potatoes and butter is made into explosives this may sound somewhat fantastic but the whole development of the german substitute industry and the nazis exploitation of the most unlike ly materials for the manufacture of armaments by means of which they hope to gain the mastery of the world is even more fantastic than that m countries with a democratic and humane outlook it would be thought shameful to convert foods essential to the health of the population into bombing aeroplanes and explosives a very different morality however ob tains in nazi germany those people who ore concerned just now lest the civil population of europe should be reduced to starvation as the result or the british blockade should bear in mind that hitler is us ing only a part of the food supplies available to him to feed trie peoples of the subject countries and is using the remainder as raw material for his armaments industry this moreover has been his practice over a period of several years they go short to make war the shortage of foodstuffs in ger many began to make itself felt as eariy as 1933 when the national so cialists came into power and began their preparations foca world war for nearly eight yearsrlowlheger man housewife has been fighting a losing battle against malnutrition on behalf of her family she has had to put up with meatless daysrktgo short of fats and to make do with skim- milk ever since 1934 uniformed and armed nazis have gone round inspecting the kitchens of private households in order to ensure that no more than the pre scribed amount of food is being pre pared on onedish sundays restaurants might only serve onecourse meals the hungry customers were told for their consolation that 30 of what they paid for their scanty meal went to provide food for the poor the truth is that the german people have been kept short of food on such pretexts for years now there were several reasons the redudon of the meat and fat rations set a limit to expenditure on food and increased the capacity of tme population to pay taxes which were used to pay for the manufacture of armaments by refraining from importing such commodities as tea and coffee the nazis were able to use their foreign currency for importing raw materials for the manufacture of armaments moreover the actual foodstuffs which the population was made to do without were utilised as raw materials for armaments so the various reasons for stinting the people all boiled down to one preparing for war how it la done let us look a little more closely at the technique of this modem witches cauldron first let us take that homely article of food the potato power alcohol which is used for the internal combustion engine in place of petrol can be distilled from it ten tons of potatoes make about a ton of alcohol which can be mixed with pet rol in the proportion of at least 2080 thus the 300000 tons of potatoes re moved from norway into germany will enable 130000 tons of petrol to be in creased to 150000 or again let us take milk butter is made out of milk and an essential component of explosives such as glyc erine out of the butter even skimmed milk is converted into plastics which are of great use in the manufacture of aircraft whale oil which might be used for making margarine supplies nil fnr tthnatj war savings committee meets womens institute the february meeting of the wo men institute took the form of a feuohre party at the home of mrs r jt paul last wednesday evening there ire eleven tables playing and prises nt to mrs a lewis and mrs harold atty ofstreetevlue delicious re- nents were served and a vote of extended to the hostess a voluntary silver collection was tak- l at the meeting amounting to 1950 will be given to afund being by institute women through- canada to erect srfnew wing fos th english hospital is 3000 he objective in fishermens patrol doughty utile ship of the fishermens patrol fleet of the royal cajiadlahnavy plows through the heavlnr pacific these small vessels keep cpnstaftt watch over the bays and inlets of the british columbia coast blackout miliaryvdjspiay theatre night will aid campaign the local war savings committee under the chairmanship of odl gordon cousens met last thursday evening in the mcgfcboh block in a store wnich has been loaned to the committee for the month by the mc- olbboii family plans mere laid for the local campaign which is already un der way the- first half of the month will bo devoted to the employeepayroll plan which has been successfully operating in the larger factories in town and which it is now hoped wll be taken up by other local firms tfrnphairtf on the individual pledge campaign will be given during the latter part of the month e h feller who heads the retail rjrvmimtmjm reported that the initial plea to merchants it few months ago to feature war savings displays in their places of business had met with success but since that time enthusi asm had waned and most of the ad vertising material had disappeared from sight w c biehn editor of the herald explained to the oommittee that a leaflet was being mailed to all mer chants and industries in town offer ing a rtmuced rate on all advertise ments run by them during the mon th which featured war savings copy it was noted at the meeting that an organizations in canada have been asked by the war savings committee to curtail activities during the month which might conflict with the war savings campaign the thanks of the committee was expressed to mr and mrs tom grieve for the striking win dow decorations in the store which have drawn much comment along main street fred weaver glen wil liams has contributed some cartoons which add to the interest of the win dow it is planned to hold a theatre night sometime during the month when speakers will be brought from toron to and entertainment provided a town blackout and a military display by the lome scots are also slated dur ing the month in order to draw the attention of townspeople to the cam paign jduced even denmark and hol land countries in which agriculture flourlshesjjire suffering at the moment from shortage of bread potatoes and fats foodstuffs are all the time exported to germany from all the occupied countries on a gigantic scale from denmark 20 to 30000 head of cattle are transported to germany weekly from norway 200 tons of fish daily in many parts of denmark and france the entlrepotato crop has been purcpased for geany and a potato ls now for the danes and the french a rare delicacy costing six times as much as it did in peacetime ashgrove at the piano by mrs r t two wbnbxl selections aftatfthe lee ton afr and lbs cameron were en tertained at an informal lunctaeosf in vie ebxnph basement by members of the ixxdk norval rifle cljb the hulshurg rifle olub visited the norval range on monday night and were defeated by b points the scores arc jksjouowi humburg o bryan 90 x 3 w nod- well mi4 d harknca btil m nodwell 95 x 4 c forbes 99 x 2 n jackson 95 x 2 j slenton m x s c dyer 89 i 1 h sinclair 98 x 4 b nodwell 94 x 0 norval nurse 100 x 9 r w hall 100 x 9 atkinson 100 x 9 meredith 100 x 9 caves 99 x 7 llak 9rx 8 a w wilson 100 x 8 hustler 98 x 4 stack 98 x 4 cantelon 96 x 8 downs 93 x 4 johnson- 99 x 6 g h ball 100 x 9 the moment the nazis occupy a i hymn4xok country strict rationing of foodstuffs u the february meeting of the wmb was held at the home of mrs frank wilson on feb 3rd with mrs w brownridge presiding the roll call was responded to with a verse con taining the thankfulness mrs c b dick conducted a lovely devo tional period including a solo by mrs hector bird the study chapter which outlined the missionary work of miss m mckim and miss m mcklnnon in korea was given by mrs o wilson mrs fred wrigglesworth read a tem perance piece after the closing pray er mrs wilson served lunch mrs frank wilson and mrs walter brownridge attended the presbytery executive held in milton on tuesday feb 4th mrs j mccullough of acton visited with her daughter mrs c wilson dur ing the past week mr and mrs clayton wilson en tertained the euchre club last week mrs h barnes and mr t brown ridge won high scores the ashgrove ypfl held a meet ing at the home of miss isabel wrig- gleaworth on friday february 3rd the meeting was in charge of the missionary convenors jack ruddell and john hunter the topic was taken by rev j o totton on monday evening february 10th the norval yps visited with the ashgrove yfjs after a very interest ing program brought by the visitors ashgrove entertained with games and lunch at the monday night meeting the members of the ashgrove yfs pre- s rul o -with- herald war victims fund a fund for british war relief has been started by the georgetown herald and interested individuals adgrganizationsmay- l thair donationsatmcj aid office the money will be turned over to the evening telegram fund in toronto at intervals please make cheques payableto the georgetown herald war victims fund georgetown public school launches war savings campaign 8825 in slamm purchased by school children on january aoth the public school started a campaign for the purchasing of war savings stamps it was de cided to set aside one day a week for the buying of stamps as a result on the three fridays since january 30th 135 of the puplfe have begun filling out certificates the total value of stamps sold thus far ls 8823 the staff appreciates the coopera tion of the parents inencouraglng the children to sacrifice some of their pleasures in order to do their share however small in helping our govern ment to carry on the fight for free dom limehouse rev and mrs d d davidson enter tained the bible class and teachers and officers of the limehoue presby terian sabbath school at a skating party at their home on friday even ing mr and mrs denis mil and little blake of hamilton visited his parents mr and mrs a hu1 on sunday mr and mrs earl scott and son gerry of malton spent the week end jrith mr and mrs joe scott misses inez scott and grace beer- man were at their respective homes on sunday mr alex wright was home from toronto sunday mr harold scott returned home from long branch saturday after completing his months military train ing nine ladles from the district attend ed the home nursing course meeting at stewarkown on wednesday messrs e sanford and alextmc- donald were home from port albext- on sunday the february meeting of the local womens institute branch was held at the iome of mrs beerman on thurs day with mrs hul taking the chair the ftg opened by s the ortr fnaiowm jrynrftyfrr tlwrrtib sn was answered fayiclh giving i terlstios of an attractive gfcnv mis hul reported that since the war began 339 pairs of socks 96 pull- ovfcrs 9 scarves 9 pair wristlets and a helmets had been handed in it was decided to send a donation to the british war vktthnk and to give whatever we could during feb ruary to the bed cross mrs oowdy otmgratulsted the janu ary finance ccnuntttee on their splen did work fsbruary oonvntttee was mrs oowdy mrs bin acw bob h iwjrton mrajamleaon flam wwb taatd for a euchreat mrs jamlasona home a bingo in the oranas hatt glen moaina and a tea and oaalti sale at mm huts home a mnans of raising money dur ing tbt mont conasptndanbs was read from toe salvation army stating that they coold w good used or maila mm clcthm for rartwrn but not mended olothas cbodran tunnewtu onder- clothtng otifl clothes wen wry aooeptabl too a large carton of madeover and oaedottang- was sent from umehouse branch recently to the salvation army mrs wright read current events for the day mrs nomets paper was entitled milkcmlss shirley wright demon strated settingof a dinner table and explained certain points in table etiquette mrs euerby followed by demon strating setting of a luncheon table and suited it particularly to st val entine day entertaining she then held a contest an old fashioned din- ner which was won by shirley wright the lunch served at the dose car ried out mrs ehlerbys suggestions at the close all joined in the singing of the national anthem i stewarttown mrs w hodge went to toronto last thursday with mrs david hodge and joan to see them off on the train for sussex nb where they have gone to join gunner david hodge mr dick standlah was home from st catharines for the week end ac gilbert hunt of st thomas came home saturday evening he left early sunday evening on account of the bad roads and a possible delay be cause of snow drifts while going down to the mill ana morning last week mr walter taw son saw a deer in stemraruown ik came down the hill and disappeared round the pond the first class of the home nurstoa course was held in the council cham ber last wednesday afternoon aflat malcolmson of toronto a graduat nurse and a graduate in health edu cation was in charge about forty ladies were present and received many helpful suggestion heamh am home nursing this course is pro vided by the department otagrloobv ture under the auspices of the wo mens institute and wffl b oonttttoad through the month of february to other ctamea win be thursday 1mb tuesday 18th friday aiat and th final ciaa wednes asm iv m ad there j no charge mad for to course the classes tfrnrt at t oclock standard time waft ctsttm v