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the georgetown herald wednesday evening april 2nd 1941 the editors corner one phase of the campaign the canadian war services campaign is under way with a 5500000 objective to be leached in the drive under chairman alex maclaren and vice chairman fred mccartney a number of canvassers are making housetohouse calls in georgetown to ask for contributions to georgetowns quota of 2500 in georgetowh he only organization function ing of the six which are making this joint appeal for funds is the canadian legion and as some of our read ers have been asking just how this money is to be spent we will give you a brief sketch of the legion s war activities canadian legion war services inc was estab lished by dominion charter a little over a year ago since that time it has done notable work among the troops m training both m canada and overseas and it ia planning an even fuller program in this year to come just one example of the work performed can be seen in the total of 2 million cigarettes distributed to hospitalized sol diers in england one phase of the war service effort which has been shouldered entirely by the legion is education the legion s plan makes it possible for men on active service to enroll for public and high school studies lead ing to matriculation to learn useful trades such as mec hamcs automotive engineering secretarial work radio engineering text books papers and qualified lnsruc tors are supplied all free of charge to date 23 263 students have enrolled for instruction the worth of the plan is inestimable the legion is looking beyond the present time of war to the future when the soldiers of today will return to civilian life and is trying to equip the men to take their places- in peace time society as a means of preventing monotony and bore dom the legion entertainment service is of the great est importance supervisors and entertainment officers are on duty in all the large camps and arrange concerts moving pictures sing songs and other forms of enter tamment for the enjoyment of the officers and men a total of 25 dry canteens are being opera d by the legion in canada milk soft drinks tea coffee and sandwiches flashlights shave cream razor blades and tooth paste are just a few of the numerous items stocked for the convenience of the men the legion receives no financial gam whatsoever from the oper ation of these canteens 5 r of all receipts are paid to the officers commanding for the benefit of the men of the units where the canteens are operated all profits above this go to the receiver general of canada to be held in trust for the canteen board appointed by the dominion government to disburse these funds for the benefit of the men and their dependents realizing the importance of maintaining corres pondence between the men and their folks at home the legion has distributed free of charge 4 800000 sheets of notepaper and 2100000 envelopes to canadian for ces at home and abroad these are but a few of the services undertaken by the canadian legion war services multiply it by j six and you have some idea of where your 5 million dollars will go and how it will be spent we agree with mr clevje we agree with mr harold cleave georgetown reeve in his opposition to the 300 grant given at the last county council meeting jto the halton federation of agriculture mr cleave does not believe that the general taxpayer should be forced to support an organi zation for the entire benefit of the farmer neither do we the question of granting public funds to such an organization has absolutely nothing to do with the worth of the principle involved h farmers want to or ganize in their efforts to establish a decent scale of prices for their produce and get a square deal from big business it is their privilege to do so that they haven t done so long before this has always been a mystery lo us but we think that the farmers should not only do their own organizing but should bear the costs of this organization suppose mat representatives of a labour union were to approach the county council and ask for a money grant to further the work of the union how far would they get with their request the answer would probably be that the council did not feel it could spend general public funds to further the work of a purely urban organization mr cleave is a farmer and as such he is in terested in anything which is working for the benefit of his chosen business at the same time he display a singularly open mind when he objects to county ynoney being spent for his benefit apparently the other members of the county council who are also far mers have put their own interests ahead of their un biased judgment tfc bp kn dcpcwdltow appeal fund halton presbyterial elects officers sided greetings were received from the presbytery and slater societies ol acton churches mrs taylor was the speaker the officers of the presbyter- lal are as follows president mrs earl wilson first vicepresident mrs f mc- nlven second vice president mrs w a shane third vice president mrs geo fox fourth vice president mrs o annual meeting in acton- mrs g ag new guest speaker the annual meeting of halton pres b mrial of the woman missionary society of the united church was held readhead in acton united ch irch on march 14 recording secretary mrs i mrs charles readtuud presided at plckard the morning session and mrs frank corresponding secretary i mcnuen for the a nrnnon the pos lor parade by tht secretaries of de arimenls and he ppnrt of the treas urer were satlkfactorj mrs gordon agntv ft ho returned from china in aug ist as the guest ptaker at the afternoon session an impressive in mimoriam ser vice wis held b mrs arthur speight i the open forum and the lnstalla i tton of offloer was conducted by mrs hugh taylor foreign missionary se cretarj of the dominion board i at tht supprr meeting the preay terial president mrs earl wilson pre mrs brow nrldge treasurer mrs ross segsworth secretaries of departments chris tlan stewardship mrs a o boswell circles mrs j w chapman cojt mrs h cleaver mission bands mrs f wilson baby bands miss e mc kav helpers mrs w ounby supply mrs w n brownridge community friendship miss hawthorne litera ture mrs w b clements mission ary monthlj mrs g w tunis tern pcrance and christian citizenship mrs h calojweu press miss a mar shall the georgetown herald news at georgetown nerval glen wllhams hsiihsnsb stvumttmnfc bahinafad and terra coasa subscription batob canada 91 50 a year dotted states fjmmfc yea single copies 3a advertising rates will be walter c biehn leslie clark qoojm u application garfield l mpoelvray reginald brcjqmbead phone nol s member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and i jontarioquebec dhrlston of the owjmjl it didnt happen what other papers say one morning i was coming down the poll mall in a rickety old taxi just as we got in front of buckingham palace the car stopped after 10 min utes delay x asked the bewhlakered driver what the trouble was dont know sir he said the officer ahead on point duty has not given the go sign x looked out as far as the eye could see there were motor oars lit erally massed as though parked for some big football game i figured there must be a parade ahead or per haps an accident and i paid off my driver and hurried up to the crossing and here x found the strangest reason for a traffic jam ever to be recorded one of the royal ducks in the buckingham palace gardens had hatched a brood of little duckling fluffy yellow mites about 10 at them they had heard the call of the water from across the mall in onsen park and had started over the wide road way to the big lake the traffic officer saw them start and held up all traffic until they could get across it was a strange sight here was the mother duck herding them along as undisturbed as though she were on some quiet farm a little fellow would pause to peck at something in the road and she would shoo him back into the fold finally she had them all across the last little yellow puff ball whisked bis tall through the iron grating of green park and the officer blew his whistle for traffic to be resumed again not a word of protest over the long de lay everybody smiling and enjoying the joke not one hom was sounded extract from a herald montreal correspondents letter in iimiinoutniiiiii aroiii i i tiuiiunmicnirtaiituaunuuituaiiuiiuiiiionnumtiicniiiimth aiiiuimiuauiiiimiitaminifflnnuiit ti i am iiatiii i n ai in nmnii i ii iiinuuiinannin directory idmuraunomiiuimoimuiiuiikiuuicmmmiiminiii iihiuoii ininmniiuiuiiuioi f r watson dds md8 georgetown office hours ii to 5 except thursday afternoons dr j burns milne dental svbokon xeay clifford g reid ld8- dd8 dentist phone 410 main street georgetown le roy dale kc m sybil bennett ba wu btrert obobonown pboin ti monuments mabkebs and ixllvbxno pollock ingham gait ont designs on request phone 3048 inspect our work in greenwood cemetery gray coach lines timetable eff eottve sanaay eastern standard 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mpumthiuiimiuamauimuiuuuifm animals under ftjbe one of our own cocrespondenu acra gordon brown formerly of town onu has been working in bombed areas of jfrigjaikl in the ani mal welfare centres for the knghn as any one would know da not aban don their pets in time of stress xa answei to a query mrs brown tell us a little more about her work and mentions in manchester a woman of 70 years or more who stuck to her poet throughout the whole terrible blitz repeiting stray and injured on and dogs and other small animals and birds in spite of the fact that tba windows were shattered and incendiary bombs were failing all around ser only sons sons are all in uniform in manchester alone during tbo blitz the number of cats rescued in way or other was about 00000 almost incredible the num ber of dogs was somewhat smaller but not much it is surprising how few casualties we have among the ani mals they seem to have an uncanny sense to do the right thing to illus trate this i may say that- recently a home was bombed and all within kill ed but the family klttenrwas found uninjured under a table big and little things these mrs brown says are a great people they stand up to the big things in the war but do not for get the little things such as the houae- nold cat or dog or the parrot na turally in some cases they are so terri fied that they escape to be rescued later by the rj3pca or najljjicr royal society for the prevention of cruelty to animals and national air- raid precaution animal centres we suppose they all have a disc at tached to them so we can soon get the animals back to their homes the registration side of the najelp ac sees to the registering of all ani mals other things about this work are told us by our own local association for the protection of purbearing ani mals which is organizing a bridge next saturday at sherboume house club in aid of the warbombed ani mals of england many people they say forced to evacuate their homes and neighborhoods are obliged to leave their pets behind them and are great ly relieved to know that the rjpjojl is looking after them placing them in now homes wherever generally providing for their comfort animals too are often of actual value to a country at war air raids and constant artillery fire radically ef fect means oc communication and dogs are found to be trustworthy mes sengers they can go sometimes where men and machines cannot the story was recently told of a dog which being buried in the debris of a bomb- i i ed house with his mistress and her children tunnelled his way out ran to get assistance and led the rescuers back to the burled family oats too are proving very useful because of the serious rat menace among ourselves column in the toronto globe and mail jcooke cement and cinder poetry to harvey lloyd 1note the recent death in toronto of harvey lloyd brought to a cloas the life of a concert entertainer well known to thousands alt over the pro vince he was actively engaged in that profession over 60 years and mad many friends where ever he appear ed numbers of the younger enter tainers were greatly inspired and help ed by his advice and counsel and kind ly interest in their advancement ha was active in masonic and other frai temal circles- the following poem ralph gordon was read at nil funeral service by c leroy also an entertainer dear harvey its so hard to kx that you are lying here so still and quiet peacefully you good old friend so dear your job is done you did it weu to hundreds you were friend to thousands you brought hope snd cheer and now youve reached the end well miss you boy well arias yon mtnd scores and aeons will too to know you was to love you dear and now your wotfc is tahrougti weu hear that rtngtaa votes sons and jest and c youve reached the end of lifes loaf lane but memory holds yon dear ralph oondoh 0m orawford 8t toronto toe beauty hate bi motherhood uprorea both fact and j figure says bmnttnun dc vise woman today to welooi ntty as means of entwictnc olswal 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