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the georgetown herald wednesday may i oth 144 read this utter and then go out and buy more sixth victory loan bonds i- tbe writer has since been killed in aotkm in italy mere was his duty to be done and he did it mb thought ot glory to be won there was his duty to be done and he did it yn wmotions are stirred by this thoujji pride gratitude humility commingled as we think of the countless number whom these llntes describe and yet some may question why so many canadians have left borne and loved ones to serve across the broad atlantic an answer aptly and adequately expressed is given in tfce following letter written by an on alio soldier lance bombadler samuel kmcald on december 24 1943 to bis tx yearold son tt is christmas eve and though far amy your daddys thoughts are with his little boy tonight i know you will be wondering about many things as i write this hoping that some day you win understand what i shall try to tell jou you will be six years old now sammy and as your mother tells me oie same lovable little fellow of three pears ago when we were all together the happiest trio on earth it is my fervent wish that the sig nificance of the contents of this letter may be brought to you in later years by your mother and i and not by the circumstances which prompt me to write it taking thought of eventuali ties as it were for the present this to you will be a letter all to yourself from your daddy and i can picture your de- ght when you receive it haw you will ml orandma and granddad the neighborhood kids perhaps even mrs scott at sunday school i do hope that may be all the letter will ever mean to you you are wondering i know why your daddy and so many more canadians have come to europe as soldiers you will wonder why so many of us having all we could wish for at home have done this at home there was food a quiet place to sleep in our sweethearts wives and mothers while here there is hardship hlood and sweat and many will die you ask yourself why w have done this and i want to tell you my belief and the belief as i know it of our canadian soldiers pood sleep and love are among the fundamental necessities of life and if this were all we should have stayed in our homes on our farms and in our job as you grow older sammy you will meet many peple who will tell you lifes importance ends with these inn damentals but i know that when you feel the first strange quickening of your heart as a man the first restless ness with material things you will ask yourself as i did whether man fullest stature is equal only to his material surroundings you will discover mans spirit and how marvellously its stature grows where men are free we canadians are free men by chance by hard work and by our inheritance and it is our wish that you too may be free in this way you will have inherited the lot of bri tons as we did and our fathers be fore us you will receive the right to speak your mind to go where you will and to follow the desires of your spi rit every age must defend its freedom sammy inour time a tyrant is trying to bend all men to bis will he is mak ing a mockery of freedom and the dig nity of man he believes that some men are born to be masters and others t slaves that isnt our way of life it leaves no place for christianity the bank act gives aid to farmers modernization and electrification of farm homes should be one of ca nadas major postwar objectives hon j l nsley minister of finance told the house of commons as he intro duced amendments to the bank act among the changes la an amend ment to permit chartered banks to fi nance farm improvements such as new implements modernization of farm homes drainage and fencing pro grams to encourage banks to make loans for this purpose he said the govern ment will guarantee the loans maxi mum interest rate is five per cent sim ple interest through this new procedure mr hsley said we shall be making a real contribution to the reduction in the one hope we have of universal bro therhood and salvation and so when the time comes that you will ask yourself why the men of canada went willingly to europe and died there you will know that they did so in the firm belief that they brought nearer the day when the masters of the earth will be servants of the people its been a long time sammy since i saw my little boy but jl havent forgotten him even for a moment and i know that he thinks of his daddy too soon the war will be over and the three klncalds will be together once more and we will nave lots of fun like we used to until then i know that as you say your prayers each night you wont forget the daddy who misses his little boy so much give that nice mother of yours a hug and a kiss for me and ten hex it wont be long now jean and now it go to sleep and pray that you will have a grand christmas tomorrow sammy let us keep the faith let us not fall our men overseas let us go out and purchase all the sixth victory loan bonds we possibly can price of farm machinery and to the economical cond of the farming industry mr haley said fishermen also have suffered from a lack of this form of credit and similar legislation designed to aid them will be passed at a later date in the meantime other changes will make it easier for fishermen to get loans would bednos small loan bate answering in advance co j de mands for nationalization of banks mr daley revealed that over the past is years the average income of all canadian banks has resulted in total net income to shareholders of only 5 00 per cent of the total shareholders equity the government also proposes re vision of the act to permit banks to participate in small personal in stallment loans at an interest rate less than half that of present small loan companies the house of commons may wish to consider and revise the central mortgage bank act he said this act was passed just before the war but suspended because of the war mr haley described the amendments as part of a series of reforms we ex pect to carry much farther during the present session of parliament they are he said designed to aid the government in its determination that this young country shall make great strides to bigger and better things z6 cents per found fald for cheese canada has started the task of sup plying 125 million pounds of cheese to britain under a contract that started may 1 with the contract price of 20 cents a pound and with federal and provincial subsidies farmers will get 36 cents a pound for their cheese at the factory camp is staffed in beeord time hon humphrey mitchell minister of labor in bis review of the work of selective barrice pointed oat some thing that an teteran parliament hill observers know that it is the com plaints that make the front pages and seldom do the stories of the successes of a department sends telegram to 94000 workerr in one easy lesson and less to protect us all from the rising cost of living and the disaster of inflation atclbabk jddreesed to wjooo railway workers has been sent over the wires from the office of the canadian national telegraphs in montreal it was from it c vaughan chairman and president of the cana dian national railways and was addressed to all employees of the national system in canada asking their complete cooperation in put ting victory first bo that the sixth victory loan will be successful this message as earned through a special setup by which the companys tele printers were linked by relay from coast to coast to receive the presidents tetacram despatched from montreal the employees of the national system and affiliated companies have gone over the top in each of the five previous victory loans and m the present campaign they are out to but- i pass their previous high record of 8599600 subscribed in the fifth loan the photograph shows mr vaughan f in the main office of the canadian national telegraphs watching hia message take form under the deft and sure touch of miss beatrice tilley i one of the most expert of the com- ponys automatic telegraph operators this national he told how the edmonton office of the atlantic in the european theatre selective service received a call on saturday morning from an american contractor for men to staff a complete 250man construction camp fifty hours later the entire camp was en route to the north with superinten- tendent laborers cooks foreman and carpenters true yardsticks for measuring a manpower policy are results he said and in canada 57 per cent of all per sons 14 and over are working the armed forces are at a record level yet production is on an unprededenied scale a possible pattern for the financing of low cost housing ib seen in a plan being worked out between the federal government and a group of montreal businessmen to spend 3000000 on 900 housing units in montreal the businessmen would provide an interestfree loan of onetenth the programs cost the government loan ing the rest when the loans are re paid the housing units would be given to the city in our mail bag saturday april 15th 144 in closing i again thank you and those responsible for the continued flow of heralds and to capt h c mc- clure i send my best wishes for the one work he has accomplished in building up a strong detachment of youth and men in the reserve army thanking you i remain b80684 sgt hunter f r sgts quarters rcasc capo no 10 ca af canadian army overseas a37669 pte marchment j w support coy p p c l l canadian army overseas central mediterranean force to the editor georgetown herald dear madam guess it is about time that i dropped you a few more lines to let you know that i sti receive the j georgetown herald and want you to know that i always look forward to re- cevlng it and i wish to thank you and your staff very much while i have been here in italy and also during the sicilian campaign i have met quite a number of the georgetown boys and also from glen wulhuns and must say that not one of them look any the worse for the ordeal they have been through since coming out here while on leave a couple of months ago at bari i spent a very enjoyable time with oord james of townand i must say i was very pleasecmomeet him and to be able to talk over differ ent subjeots about our town and the people who are doing so much for the boys who are overseas well i guess i will have to bring this to a close for ihis time as duty calls once more i must thank you very much for the herald cherrio and all the best yours sincerely welburn marchment ed note beaumonts employees are sendfng the herald to welbum mnrchmenu thursday march 30th 1944 dear editor one of my greatest sources of re laxation is reading the herald since being posted in this isolation i have received the local news regularly and it very gratifying and deeply appre ciated have been on active service here nearly ten months aside from atlantic command du ties i am supt of no 2 field bakery my job is making bread for the armed forces of the canadian army rcajf a f and united states army air force in the near future i expect my promotion to staff sgt 1c have read many accounts of george town boys in the services and decided to let you know i am quite well and the wide experience here is most bene ficial it is my wish that this brief letter be published to all my friends m the community i extend best greetings able baaman victor miliar and myself have been corresponding for almost two years vic is on hjacit athabaskan soldiers comforts comm send semiannual shipment the soldiers comforts committee made their semiannual shipment of chocolates cigarettes and tobacco last week to men and women in the service overseas thirtythree boxes of choco lates were sent to nonsmokers 240 boxes containing 300 sweet caporal cigarettes for men and women overseas mho smoke and one pound of tobacco to each of the three georgetown men who are prisoners of war in germany hepresident mrs a reeve the se cretary mrs w v grant and trea surer mrs s c mackenzie have had a tremendous task in getting an up- todate list of addresses of all servlc men and women overseas watch tha paper closely for the next shipment they send because if you want your boy or girl overseas to receve his or her parcel it is imperative that the com mittee have the correct address it was encouraging for the committee to learn that it now takes only a maxi mum of 66 days for such parcels w they send to reach italy many letters have been received and are still being received from boys who received their candy or cigarettes hv november last italy april 3rd dear friend received with utmost pleasure your lovely gift of cigs i cant begin to thank you all enough for your und though tf illness during the last frftfff years away from home canada so- many kind friends have remembered me andi this thought alone is sufficient to compensate for what has been our lot over here this indeed would be a dun world for the boys here had they not the muchlookedforwardto mafl from dear old canada so always keep in mind dear friends that whenever you folks back there pen letters or send something no matter how great or small you are stimulating the mo- nile of some lonely soldier over her and by this very act of kindness jm are in your own little way endeavour ing to bring this nasty business of war to an end no doubt dear friends you will have observed a change m my address as having twice been wounded and now at a reinforcement unit once again may i acknowledge my thanks for your kindness and in clos ing i trust these few lines find you one and all enjoying life to its fullest accompanied by good healtte and good fortune per a abesso amid arrivederd sincerely j b graham out of twts world en reno bv inez sobs the fantastic story of lire and the pursuit of alimony m ameri cas dtesy divorce capital read in the american weekly with this ban- days may 14 issue of the detroit sunday time lam bobtrs ng story of the tvn antics of warns divorce seekers who are new too young or too old to cry ther mefc with krve atln get the detroit i 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