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the georgetown herald wednesday evening march 26th 1941 the editors corner never was so much owed for the first time in georgetown the auditors report the 1940 edition of which is juat off the press includes a detailed list of tax and water rate arrears the reason for making this information public is we should judge twofold primarily it is probably meant to shame people who can well afford to settle up their bills into making payment on their arrears it is a sad but none the less true fact thatsome individuals need more than one reminder of their obligations this method while not the most pleasant will no doubt get its share of results which is after all what the town officials want the otherreason and one with which we can have no quarrel is to give every taxpayer an idea ofwhere he stands in relation to his fellow citizens it should be tne right of every one to know what citizens are not bearing their share of municipal expenses in some cases we can sympathize with citizens who for one reason or another have not been able to make tax pay ments and have got behind we know that it is not always through any fault of their own that this situa tion arises publication of their difficulties will add only another grief to that which they already own but it is not possible for discrimination to be made when such a list is published and they will have no grounds for complaint we must realize that our duty lies first to our country and if that country is to be upheld and if it is to prosper and grow it is up tp us to do our share to make this possible paying our taxes is one of the ways we can help and before we spend one cent on personal pleasure we should settle our debts to the municipality never was so much owed by so many to so few said prime minister winston churchill speaking of the r a f glancing at georgetowns lengthv list of tax arrears we wonder if that historic phrase does not apply in a totally different sense to our town all clear on radios an important change in radio station location takes place at 4 am d s t march 29th when nearly every radio station on the continent will be changed to a different channel by means of an international agreement between canada the united states cuba and mexico the changes have been made so that little or no interference will occur between stations as it has in the past the technical problem of reallocation of broad cast channels has been worked out satisfactorily to the interest of all four countries and listeners wilt no longer be troubled with the unharmonious blending of two or three programs into one discordant noise of the 106 channels canada mil enjoy 1 4 clear channels in place of the present 6 and will share 47 regional channels on a signal strength basis the revised ontario frequencies with the pres ent frequencies in brackets are ojkx ktrkund lake 560 unchanged ckph port arthur 560 0 unchanged ckpk port atuiux dou unchanged ofoo chatham 630 uncha okol toronto 660 toronto lot unchanged ofoo chatham 630 uncnangeoj ukjuu itraivo oov unchanged cby toronto 1010 1400 okso sudbury 790 760 ohml hamilton 900 1010 ckoo hamilton 1160 1130 obo ottawa 910 8b0 ctpoh nor bay 1330 930 cknx wlngham 1330 1300 ckmo cobalt 1240 1210 cjos stratford 1240 1310 ckoo ottawa 1340 1010 okfc brantford 1360 930 ctos omen sound 1400 1370 okoa kenora 1450 1420 oflo preacott 1450 930 ok0b tunmtns 1470 1440 ok0r waterloo 1490 u510 cfrc kingston 1490 1510 cj1c sault st marie 1490 1500 cm london 1570 750 okob st catharines 1230 1300 humour in the newspapers its human nature to get a laugh out of other peoples mistakes and we get many a hearty laugh from items which appear in newspapers we remem ber a couple of times in the herald last year whefctwo quite innocent headings when run together combined to make an unintentionally amusing sentence one was better late than never which head ed an account of a meeting which had been handed in several weeks before and had been mislaid in the files an item which ran alongside was titled staff change at bank of montreal another time we remember a headline inspec tor presents report and underneath commenting on the death of the late minister of education was the caption minister of education passes topping all typographical errors was this one which appeared recently in the chesley enterprise john w rogers of the maple hill section brant has a sow that gave birth to seven calves in four years another item which gave us a chuckle- comes in the clinton newsrecord which reports that j w jowett bayfield brought into mis office last week a blooming dandelion which he found on his lawn j then again we learn of a strange repast in the s forest confederate which says the pretty table was decorated with pink and white carnations t pink candles in silyejcholderc and tea was served ol friends of the bridetobe when premier paul raynaud dur ing the last days ot the french re public headed for olouda of planes from the united states bo save france he revealed the belief prevailing in the united states and elsewhere that the worlds most highly industrlalled country was in a position immediately to turn out vast quantities ot planea in may of 1940 president roosevelt had said that his country could pro duce 50000 planes a year conse quently there was disappointment in december last when mr knudsen of the defence commission revealed that production was behind schedule that only 799 military planes were produc ed in december compared with ger manys estimated monthly production of between 2000 and 3000 there have been many obstacles to the mass production of planes when henry ford said that he could turn out 1000 planes a day he was think ing of conditions in the automobile in dustry where standardised types are turned out by automatic machines in large numbers with changes only onoe a year but aircraft is undergoing rapid change of design in spite of efforts bo cut down the number of models the various uses of military aircraft require at least 30 or 40 dif ferent types it would be possible to sacrifice quality and performance to mass produce jn the german manner but the americans like the british feel that then is greater advantage in giving their pilots the latest and the best mass production is also difficult because airplanes must be tailor made the automobile motor may weigh five pounds per horsepower but the plane motor only a little over pound even the perspiration oil mans finger may corrode an air- plane engine enough to render it use- 1 less ford b trying to develop a motor of simpler design and fewer parts but the results of his experiments are not expected for a long time besides serious difficulties in pro curing aluminum magnesium and steel alloys and a shortage of pro pellers the most serious bottleneck in american plane production is the mak ing of engines when the great de fence program was launched last sum mer engine plants were already work ing almost at capacity although there was great room for expansion in the making of frames the chief difficul ty is to increase production of engines having over 1000 horsepower which are necessary for combat planes and which only three companies are at present equipped to produce cer tain automobile manufacturers have however contracted to produce en gines and ford and packard are ex pected to be turning them out by the summer the only present way to increase output is by letting subcon tracts for the making of parts to other ilrms several companies are doing this on a considerable scale the picture looks more promising when one considers the tremendous ex pansion that has taken place in 1939 the united states turned out only slightly over 2000 military planes with the industry at the end of that year working at about 60 per cent capaci ty after the german offensive of last spring expansion began on a large scale productive floor space was virtually doubled with as much again under construction although most of this investment will not bear fruit until the middle of 1941 the number of military planes turned out last herald war victims fund a fund for british war relief has been started by the georgetown herald and interested individuals and organizations may jeave their donations at the her ald office the money will be turned over to the evening telegram fund in toronto at intervals please make cheques payable to the georgetown herald war victims fund the georgetown herald news of georgetown norral glen wuttams umehosse scewarttswn baulnaf m and term cotta subscription rates canada tlso a year united states 200 a year i single copies 3c advertising bates will be quoted on application walter o biehn garfield l mcoilvrat leslie clark reginald broomhead phone no 8 member of the canadian weekly newspaper assoomtioa and the ontarioquebec division of the c wna jumped to 5800 the schedule of pro duction calls for a monthly production of 1250 by january of 1941 1500 by july and 3000 by the spring of js42 during the twoyear period ending july 1042 it is expected that 40000 planes will have been produced of which 14000 are for british orders although a larger proportion will pos sibly be turned over r j recent state that 1002 were actually out in january and approximately 1200 in february of these about half were combat and half training planes the concentration of the industry on expanding facilities has up to now kept output down but henceforward there should be considerable increase as the new plants come into produc tion the modern types being manu factured are on the whole superior to german machines the germans can incorporate new designs but to do so they will have to undertake the lengthy and complicated task of re tooling defence of the dutch east indies therefore could feel safe with the others territory in hostile hands the australians whose soil could be bomb ed from bases on the dutch islands consider the indies their last exter nal line of defence netherlands india is by no means powerless to play a large part in her own defence the greater part of the dutch fleet has always been in the colonies and presumably most of it is now tberewtffc ttie conception ofl those few vessels which were destroy ed during the invasion and those now serving with the british navy in the north sea and elsewhere recently dutch war vessels were reported to be assisting british convoys in the pacific exact figures of naval strenguxiare a secret but the size of the navy in the indies is estimated at 3 cruisers 8 or destroyers 14 to 18 submarines 41 torpedoboats and auxiliary craft it is manned by european and native crews destroyers and minelayers are equip ped to carry planes a feature parti cularly useful for the tremendous task of patrolling so vast an area at the time of the netherlands fall it was officially announced that the indies had 120 of the latest american bombers and 100 firstline modern fighters these numbers have in creased considerably since then with the addition particularly of american planes the united states during the first eleven months of 1940 shipped to the indies over 7000000 worth of war supplies including besides air craft ammunition explosives and firearms the air force includes a good many large flying boats upon which the dutch depend greatly for the prevention of surprise attacks the colonial land army consisted in among the wealthiest of all colonial territories are the dutch east indies since they were orphaned by the in vasion of holland japan has frequent ly hlhted her intentions of including them in her plans for a greater east asia but the dutch have refused to be treated like the orphaned french in indochina and are declining firm ly japanese demands for concessions the dutch have of course powerful alllct in the british support which indochlna forfeited by remaining lo yal to vich even though their firm faith in neutrality prevented the dutch f j men mostly natives in the past from working out defence u with a total force lol 63000 including reserves this plans with britain they have depended upon singapore as the keystone of their defence the immensely power ful naval and air base of singapore lies ust a few miles across the strait of malacca from dutch suma tra and neither british nor dutch oiiiiiiimiiiaitiiiiiiiiikwmiiiiii directory iiiaiimitniiicihitiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiniiiiiiiiii mitt o fr watson d-ds- mjjs georgetown office hours 9 to 5 except thursday afternoons dr j burns milne dental 8ukmon xkat clifford g reid udjdjja dcmtkst phone 410 mala street oeorgetawn le roy dale kc m sywl bennett ba banlttcn mid skhow mm street ocoroktown phonb u kenneth m lmngdon buiwar muettor notalt pabib pint mortgage monejr to office oregory theatre bmf oll street monuments markebs and ixttekjng pollock ingham gah ont designs on request y phone 2046 inspect our work in greenwood cemetery gray coach lines timetable effective sanaay octeber 6th eastern standard time leave georgetown f 6 14 am 408 pm b 18 am 6 p- ixm am 913 pm- 0 223 pm westbound to london 936 am 000 pm x 1206 pm b 750 pm 2 06 pm dxl03apjn ay 4x6 pm exlljs pm a except sun and hoi b sun and hoi only o saturday only d except sat sun and hol e sat sun and hoi f dally except sun x to kitchener y to stratford w h long fhsne t a m nielsen 1 z6tb tear of practice chiropractor xray drugleas therapist lady attendant office over dominion store georgetown hours 3 5 730 930 pm 1s0w jcooke cement and cinder blocks brick and tile manufactured with uptodate power machine ac slses any quantity z new st phone us burxington number has been considerably creased with compulsory military ser vice extended to all europeans up to the age of 46 but it is stul a very small force with which to prevent landings anywhere in the islands the most vulnerable spot for a sur prise landing would be the sparsely populated island of borneo which is rich with the oil which japan wants large island more exposed to attack than wealthy and populous java although its northern coast is british territory for its defence the dutch depend on their patrols on carefully laid mine fields and on their air- bases some of which are reputedly hidden in the jungles to dissuade the japanese from even trying to seize borneo preparations have been laid to destroy its ollflelds so thoroughly that t would be at least two years before n enemy could use them important contributions to joint de fence in this area are the naval bases in the islands there is a new base on amboma island in the centre of the indies docks near the capital city of batavla and elsewhere many re fuelling depots and the main naval base at surabaya in java surabaya is strategically situated directly be tween singapore and the australian naval base of darwin forming thus the central pillar in what has been called the archway of british naval power in the par east radio repairing we specialize in this work c n r timetable standard time passenger 6j6 am passenger and mall 1003 un ifessenger saturday only 287 pm passenger and mali 646 pm passengerjsunday only 831 pm passenger dally 841 pm toronto and beyond getag west passenger and mafi imim- passenger saturday only 1 16 pm passenger dauy except saturday and sunday 600 pm passenger and mail 646 pm pawing ii saturday and suodaja only uq pj cmag neath passenger and mall 845 am going soath passenger and man 660 pm depot ticket office phone 80 letter from overseas mr and mrs dick ucata recently received the following interesting let ter from oapt jack f girvan whom they knew when he was at the yjt ca camp at norval canadian ymca 17 corfcspew st london england dear mr and mrs ucata you will likely be surprled to hear from me away over here in en i was called upon rather suddenly and didnt have much chance to get around to see my friends before i left i have been here nearly two months now and although it is a war x have found it quite interesting and rather enjoyable of course we havent had any real action as yet i am with the yaioa here serv ing the canadian troops we help with sports recreation entertainment tea car service reading and writing materials etc the men are very ap preciative of what is being done for them and they are a fine group to work with we have excellent quarters and are being fed very well i have a car supplied by the ymca and a oaa van which provides the men with free tea and biscuits on marches or i euvres i spent 5 days in london on leave 9nd had a chance to see the slghta we saw such places as st pauls ca thedral westminister abbey houses of parliament london tower whitehall piccadilly olrcue trafalgar square buckingham palace etc it is a grand sight we also viewed some of the bomb damage a number of building ruined and a few innocent peoples uvea lost but no mltttaiy damage to speak of at all i have been taking groups of oaaa- w soldiers to windsor oastls to see the beautiful btiodfcnfa and sss grounds last bannay m inr tunate enough to set the xing nd queen and fincasi r a walk to tb sack it was a jftws4udb i perhaps the girl woo dssarfbss hhd tag as hugging set to musst mmnjnb to the muatol j a sarsmno m