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the georgetown herald wednesday july 22 1942 r i r the georgetown herald kmm at c html oka wtkw tawlstiit lhslluaw hirhasfse u4 svavw tutt subsoripttom rates canada tad tie unitsd state two s year stags oopiw to awverahtag rale sb w ihw ea ssshmhisi how wartime bermuda aids in the de of the empire walter c nttjtn publisher mary m bizhn editor taxntowea baa k sum alineld i uooilvrav p u- alia ollisorf bruce oolllns utobti el the canadian weekly knwa gtenrtirlfln and tte oourloquebee drrmon f tfce awjul altnole ko fire editors corner yes you can take your wife to town many misunderstandings have arisen from an order issued in april by the wartime prices and trade board this order prohibited truck from carrying anyone other than the driver and any assistant or a- istants necessary to load or unload goods which the truck transported most rural residents interpreted this as mean ing they would no longer be able to take a passenger along to town in the cab of a truck transporting goodi even if there was room this would of course be just like biting off your nose to spite your face in these days when we are forced to conserve rubber gasoline and money in every possible way it was to dear up this misunderstanding that james stewart services administrator of the wartime prices and trade board announced on july 4 that trucks which are loaded with any products or ma terials may carry as many as two passengers in the cab in addition to the driver individual permits can be issued by th regional and subregional offices of the prices board to farmers and other rural residents to use their trucks to carry themselves their families em ployees or neighbours on trips for essential purposes when other means of transportation are not available such trips include journeys to attend church and trips of reasonable frequency for shopping at the near est market town a matter of the utmost public concern this was an inquiry conducted for the people of canada whose sons are bearing arms for our de fense it was an inquiry into matters of the utmost public concern it is not enough for the commissioner to say that he is satisfied it is for the people of can ada to be satisfied that those who showed themselves incapable of handling this small forre will not stil be in positions of responsibility when the time comes to move thousands of canndians into the field of battle these are the words of lieutenantcolone george a drew they were prompted by prime minister mackenzie kings refusal to reveal to the house of commons the contents of the letter sent him by col drew a letter of the utmost public concern in that it contained his criticism of the report of the duff royal commission on the hong kong inquiry this excerpt from colonel drews statement contains in our opinion the essence of the principles of democracy for which our parliament has hitherto been the symbol we are not well enough versed in the techni calities of politics to appreciate whether or not colonel drew was legally correct in wishing to reveal certain aspects of the hong kong investigation but we do know that the way in which our government has hand led the whole affair must be providing many a juicy morsel for digestion in the nazi propaganda machine when the government first decided to prose cute lieutcol drew public opinion was open to hear both sides of the question if the case could stand the searchlight of publicity the government must surely have some justification for the charges laid even tho mass sympathy was with drew the abrupt manner in which the case was dismissed without even giving the defendant a chance to utter one word in his own justification most certainly carries with it the impli cation that the whole prosecution was a blunder the face of our government must have been very red the excuse for the withdrawal of the case was indeed a lame one in the light of later events it was done so they said in order that parliament would be free to discuss the hong kong report at time of writing the prime minister has backed down on this promise too after telling the house he would grant die request of the ccf house leader m j cold- well to table col drews letter and after the letter bad been released to the canadian press and the brit ish united press for pubication he obtained the advice of a lawyer from montreal this man who was in terested in the inquiry backed him in his decision to withhold the facts from the public on the grounds that it would violate the order of secrecy under which the proceedings of the royal commission were conducted after such shillyshallying methods the gener al public supporters and nonsupporters of the liber- 1 government finds itself hard pressed to view with any measure of toleration further suppression of facts which it is entitled to know colonel drew says the closure of the truth definitely would not help the enemy and the withdrawal of his caw from the comb was ample proof if proof were needed that lila atticisms spring from a pure desire to help can da only thus in our opinion it will help the enemy by hugh tempun the position of bermuda makes it extreme important it u the only group o t land in all that pan of he western auamlc about 600 mile trom florida about 970 from new york ard t20 trom llalllai the out er west indies are about the ume dutancc away it la a though ber muda u the centre of a iamldrcle o coast line from porto itlea to nora beotia it that group of islands brlongrd to qermany or any other of the aals powers it would make a most iffli situation for all the atlantic coastline of north america tht- old seafarers who picked up all these odd biu of land for the urliuh lanplre did us a great service bermuda uied to be a fat our le hangout for pirate- and i suspect that some of the unsltrr islsnds may be named after pirates uvxigh that may be incorrect but name like uorgans island raise suspicions and olbbet island leetra tome i thing to the imagination it la for tunate that it lint in the hands of the plralea of today a year or more ago wtille the united btatee was u1u uneasily neutral britain made a deal rsrhan- gtng aome w old destroyer for a chain of naval bases on brttuh ter ritory bermuda is one of the most important there is already a treat ontuh naval base there and pro bably has been one for years- the dorrelt island baic a here the clip per lands is realty an imperial air ways base when i was in bermuda before the united statea had coma officially into the star thrrr seemed to be few if any british naval units at bermuda but there were plenty of american naval vessels already at work apparently convoying shipping clesel a aa aircraft carrier the raont interesting of these ships was un aircraft carrier of the largest type thcc are probably the most auabr ships in the woild today in all navies japan haa counted hear uy on them for many of hrr succeves borne of the british aircraft carriers notably the ulumrlou and the ark royal the latter now sunk became i particularly famous it will be air craft earners ahlch will bulk largely in attacks on japan and the retak ing of the pacific islands one of ihr moot important fraturea or the recent batur act of uldway island in trie pacsflc was that japan lost two lor three of taut ships when i was in bermuda in brptenv ber i saw one american aircraft oar- i rlrr at a distance rtetumng at the end of october by boat the ensus- bton passed close beside one of these thin vtille arriving and departing i pictures of aircraft carriers are familiar to most readers the ship has a broad bat dark trom wtucl punee go and to which they return itany planes were huddled dose to gether on one end of the bight deck aome of uses with one wing folded up in the air to save storage apex the deck below was open st the tide and many more planes could be seen stored there these plants are raised to the night deck by elevators i threats a sueed haaw 1 bermuda hasnt been attacked yet by plane or ship and t cannot say anything about the defences but it is no secret that the entrance to use arret bound is mlned the s mmwi ms met off tne eastern up or the ulsnrls by a little pilot boat tate pilot proted to be a negro the boat was a bit late and it was getting nearly dark there was aome doubt whether it would be pra stile lo dock in hamilton that ibt- nigbt- taklng g a ship tnrougn a mine flaw pmust be one of the world s most ex citing occupations one ihp and tne uvea of several hundred persons are endangered we stood with a group of young europeans on the uppet deck and watched the progress it was quite dark before the boat got in among the mines apparently there is no straight course through the defence but u winds here end there it is said that enemy eubmartnea can get into a harbour by fodowtng a surface ship that is being piloted in i dont thmfc that could fa done fa bermuda unless the sub attached it self to the rudder of the ship and thrn it would never get out again it was a dirty night in late octo ber six weeks before ivrmiwia hid been so parched that spring water from ualne was being sold for on dollar a bottle now the rainy season had arrived and rain fell continuous ly and heavily there were insignificant sticks is mark the passage through the rains field- the pxrsmhlon would pick up one of them with her searrhngnt and steer directly towards it then stop till the nest stick was round and turning in that direction move ahead again it was a slow process but at last it passed between the tasw rocks that mark the entrance to ha milton harbor and tied up at tne wharf whrre six weeks earlier i had seen one of the canadian na tional line of lady boats tainted in battleship grey but with tne brass letters of the name still showing through the paint i believe that loes- ly ship has since been sunk by aa 1 enemy torpedo tne ceatre et ceatiwhtg tttere la one feature of bermuda in wartime of which lltue is said bug it u decidedly important it u tne foonunued on page 7 a great deal more if the public is not given the true circumstances under which hundreds of our boys went to die in hong kong illequipped and untrained we have a right to know who was at fault so that there can be a much needed shakedown in the canadian military headquarters staff it is too ijch to expect exactly the same group of men to cope with the military problems of a country at wur as with those of a country at peace and during the three years we have been at war this peacetime staff has not undergone any changes its high time the situation was remedied the families of the boys slaughtered at hong kong the families of the boys on active service any where in the empire und every taxpayer in the do minion of canada will not endure a repetition of the hong kong affair in spite of all the prime minister may do the voice of the canadian people can and must make itself heard in halls of their parliament errors in plain print since undertaking the job of editing the her ald we have had our share or maybe even more of typographical errors pointed out to us it makes one feel very foolish when the mistake is so obvious star ing right at us in plain print so far it has all been taken in good part and i guess everyone knows the truth of the old saying that practice makes perfect we came upon the following article in an exchange paper which might help you understand why proof readers have their troubles most typographical errors in a newspaper are discovered after it is published or ao it seems the fort erie timesreview commenting on this claims that proofreaders ore born not made continuing the timesreview says one of our most alert subscribers twitted us the other day about three proofreaders errors he had discovered in a single copy of the timesreview of course no good newspaper is complaisant about typographical errors which despite the utmost vigilence escape detection until afler the paper is printed and published then its too late to make cor rections but the mixtakes this subscriber found were not very serious in fact they were almost trivial albeit they were mistakes guaging the result of their work compels one to conclude that good proofreaders arc born not made they must possess an indifinable innate apti tude for the work without that certain something one con no more become a proficient proofreader than a tonedeaf person can become a virtuoso on the violin the small proportion of printers errors that escapes the watchful eye of a really competant proof reader is n source of wonderment to those less gifted but who have attempted to correct proofs themselves but the best of them will inadvertantly let a mistake slip through once in a long while perhaps this is due to what has been called proofreaders blindness something which offlicts some proofreaders momen tarily from time to time during the brief moment of one of these almost instantanious lapses an error will slip by unnoticed which at any other time would have been caught and how glaring it seems when it is pointed out proofreading demands the most extreme mental concentration and every slip made is record ed in printers ink for all the whole to see it is one of the most exacting vocations in the world yet nearly everyone who ever headed his claw in spelling at school believes he could easily become a firstclass proofreader if you who are now reading these linea believe likewise how many typogrophical and ortho graphical errors can you find in this little pelce there are thirteen that we know about if you cant find them all maybe you have proofreaders blindnesa tool directory i 1 f r- watson dds mda oeorfetovn ocno hours b to s thursday arumoobe dr j burns milne dbjtax sraoeom xsxat oesrgeteww clifford g reid udj8 dba dstntist phone 10 mala street oeorgturam a- m nielsen cttlxopiavcxew- xray drugteas ttseraptst isviy sltniaaa ofivce over rvuntnuwi star geor hours 19 tjo sjs cub c tbarsaay leroy dale kc m sybil benneu ba barrtetm and rteelelters still street geergwtsww 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