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?HURDAYAPRI 24 194 PAG FIV TH CANDIANSTAeSAIBWAVLE NAO soldiers Write 'Barb' "Barb"l Pefhick, known officiai- ly as F. C. Pethicli, vceeran bar- ber ai Bawmanville, really start- cd samething. He waa flic firstta town ta stant a "iag iund" fan tlie boys overseas. He put a littie tmn box up in hi.slihop witli Uic prlnted invitation ta drap any add Sch ange in if wifli whicli ta buy amokes ion soidiens. Weil, ta make the sfory short, Ie lias now sent aven 10,000 ciÈar- 'Utes ta clicer the men and abaut 500 razor blades ta keep their china happy. Mr. Pethick'a initia- tive ta nof aniy unusual but cx- tremcly pratsewartliy and leie l 7. giad ta know that those wha have receivcd flic giita have been moat appreciative. Sa say the lettens lie kindiy lent ta The Stafesman. We'll leftlihem fell the story: Prom Gnr. Mac Hart, England: * Hello Barb: Just a line ta say thanka a million ion thc cigarettes you sa kindiy sent me. Thene isn'f a great deal hap- * pening around wlicre we are. Thcy came aven Sunday and gave London quite a gotag over. One af aur aificers was in Uic raid and gat seriausly hurt. Seems like a hlcl ai a way ta flght a war, dacsn't it? Outsi.de ai things like that and Uic amazing way the rain keeps coming dawn there lsn't mucli ta mention. The beer can't hold a candie with ours but wc still drink it. i say 'so long' now - and if aid Dick Greenla still cames in ta listen ta Anios an' Andy give lima my regards; and thanks again for remcmbcring me. Prom Gnr. E. S. Harndcn, Eng- land: Receivcd Uic cigarettes and thanks a million. I don't know what news I can give you that would be afiInterest as there la far'mare ncws in the Toronta papers than we get over here. I am always glad ta get the Daily Star from home. 1 get The States- man also and thougli it's usually' a month aId it's tl news ta e I saw an item in Uic iast anc teIl- ing how you had put up a -box for spare pennies for smakcs for Uic baya - good idea, Barb. Kcep up the good work. Old Frltzle hasn't bothered us here <mucli), just T&iýÀ PLOW EVERYDAY PRICES BLA eui 7a MARMALADE naore PORK & EANS ATLMERt DOMESTIE HRTNN A p LlESunnyfi Frsi rouni o012 CUL, BOKAR mu IE COFFE E GATS Vigoron ag o uuES.u ns .39 MUFT MATCESe FiG SOAF CHISO OXYOL U:~20C w.22C Primo Bib ROAST lb 25c au.530 ': 22d 3 '220 2 Ibo. 27C ield Pure2 Iba. 15C 3E IL.23,c MSE IL. 9c 48-os J Quaker 2 Pl,& 19c MapleLeal 3 M1?23,c Bakery Producta CROCOLATZ m"E5MALLOW RoUis Ea. 1 5c Dhuiio leots-lb. 20 c <GUUe 0hor- lib'ROAST J.2 Vomil&egs sS lb. 25,c renéer Cooked - Ready ta serne Un.".'o nmoms MU*lEaor b.3 1c 25C Douohnuts Doz l12c Angel Cake 16-oz. Cake 2.9c Freiah Fru*teand Vegtabloa BARAKAS WuLL 11umOu OU>D mu 3 i6S. Zsc s If C urIy LUI:f2. Ibm. g3c CUBAGE Fresli Green Ibo. lc GIJPERIITLarge Siz. 80'sZ for IL ASPARAGUS Fresh Tenderi«l CELERY HEATS MUR CV! Zfr zic MUoSEROGES Ontario Fresh Cut, lb.3 c A P FOOD TORlE] For only 10 day. .very year in NARVO s old cct the« r.dtueed prIcWa Don't delay, et your S8ring rre ments at once. ave81.0 agadllo 30 bâtruiul colon to choose from Rmmer, NABVO in neither pahrt, enamel nor lacquer but combines the good quaitie. lci Uthr.e. Tough cm rubb«r. Hard acm.lony. Covers, lunone cout. Flowul freely from the buah. dries quicl d nl odorlea. ma&e 1> the Makexa of Murphy Poant A E.McGegor& CMpnyOnt shakes things up once ini a whiie. He goes over here evcry night, but I guess aur blackouts are to good for him. I reaiiy mean blackouts and many a bump I have had irom telephone pales, iamp posts, fences and what nat,' and I won't mention the curbs. They shot a nice Heinie bomber down near here yesterday. How Is thc aid Dodge. running? I sure miss Uic cars aiter piaying araund with Uiem for 20 years. Give my regards toalal the boys and thanka again. From LJCpi. A. F. Dcnsem, Engiand: Received your cigarettes O.K. You could not s8nd anything bet- ter. Ail I can say is 'Thanks Barb.' Some day I hope ta be able ta repay you by getting the old German. We have nat done much s0 far - aur stay was nat long in France but the boys gat their iirst German :Plane ±ust the same. Wish you could have been there. Seventeén Bren guns apened up ail at anc time and he neyer had a chance ta drap anything. Tell the girls who started up the canteen ta kecp up the goad work. Bob Hayes is araund, I sec him every day. Spencer i. fine and is wel likcd by ail the boys in his campany. I was in London again Tuesday and it is stili gaing strong. Yau can't put in words how well al the people stick it out - you have ta 'sec it yourself. Wednesday we went on a jaunt and got back Friday. My face was 50 sore I couldn't shave, what with the dust, wind ýnd sun. There were 14 motarcycles and only three ai us finishcd. We can't sec at niglit with aur goggles an and that is when we do most ai aur riding. Our night figlter planes Qot anc Friday * night; I saw anecocmej down and ail that was leit was scrap - it came down ini ilames. Remember me ta al Uic boys and Chas. Heal and Bill Caverly. -Denny. Prom Pte. Walter L. Payne: Just a lie in appreciation for the cigarettes which were s0 pleasant a surprise. The smoking prablem is quite a headache here.i It ia just like pay-day ta receive a parcel ai cigarettes. We are *al wel preparcd for whatever threatens ta menace the British Isies. Preparatians and Uic usual necessities are second ta nane. I arn proud -ta have a chance ta do my part in aucli a trying moment. The people here do their best ta make you feel right at home; it la wonderful ta sce their courage. We have had a few minor raids close ta us here and really it is a crime ta sec people's homes ruined beyond re- pair. There is a grim determina- tian and courage in thc Empirc and the thaught tliat some day Uic ymay have a chance ta meet he enemy hand ta hand. It is nat a,very brave enedny Uiat h as caour- ý'te# eniùh To drap bambs an people that have no chance ta de- tend themacîves. My relatives in Bowmanviile have ail been very klnd ta us here. I have changed unita ta lst Carp. Petrol Park, R.C.A.S.C., C.AS.F. ENIJHLUET Broometield, Clieadle Huirne, Cheshire, England Dear Mrs. Burrus:, Your aunt, Mrs. Maoses has giv- en me your moat generaus parcel ai beautiful knitted garments for the bambed children and an be- half ai Uiose who have rcceived Uiem I shauld like ta send aur mait grateful Uianks. The g arments nave gane ta those who have bast everythlng and wards cannat express Uic Uiariks ai ail concerned. The great need is for chldren's warm ciotli- ing and stockinga. It la a colossal task fttting out Uic thousands wha have been rendered homciess, but their needs are being supplied by such kindness as you have sliawn. It is just impassible ta describe the destruction and desolatian that these raids are causing, but the people ai Britain just get more determined every day ta carry an. Margaret Lockhart. (Miss Lockhart is a scliaal tea- cher ta wliam the Bowmanviile people mentioned in the above letter iorwarded clothes for dis- tribution.) Somewhere ta Engiand Dear Sirs: Juctsa few lunes ft tlink you miglit say that cigarettes are aur main weakncus and I'm quiite sure that Uic boys and myseli are al- ways ready ta appreciate a iew Sweet Caps. Pte. L. Austin, B. & P. E. Regt. 4464 A. Co Obituary Joseph Owen Edgerton The death af Joseph Owen Ed- gertan an April ilth, 1941, came suddenly and as a great sliock ta, his many friends and relatives iýxl Bowmanviile and vicinity. Hav- ing iived in New Toronto and been -cmployed at the Goodycar, Tire and Rubber Ca. ever since the plant was establishcd there, Mr. Edgertan had become wel known and carned himscif a hlgh reputatian as a lover ai sport and good friend. He was farty-ane years ai age. Born in London, England, on November 2, 1899, lic was brouglit ta Canada by lits parents, Herbent Edgerton and the late Isabelle Edgerton, at an cariy age. They took up residence near Hampton and his carly scliaoling was re- ccived there and ister in Bow- manville High. Schoal. Leaving schooi he joined thel Goodyear witli the tire division, whiie it was ta Bowmanville.: It was then hi. taterest in Scautlng and in outdoor sparts was at itS height, an intcrest which he al- ways maintataed. Twa brothers and two isters arc surviving, Charles ai Detroit, Jack ai Orangeville and formcerly ai Whitby, Mrs. S. Pallock, Osh- awa, and Mrs. John Living, -Bow- manville. Mr. Edgerton had neyer married. .The funeral was licld from St. John's Anglican Churcli, Bow- manville, on Apriil 5th, with Rev. Canon C. R. Spencer conducttag the service. At thc argon Mrs. John Gunn played the favorite hymn ai Mr. Edgerton, "Abidé With Me." Those wlia bore hlm totae lest resting place were five fellow workers fram flic New-Ta- nanto Goodyear plant and a cou- sin,' Charles Randaîl, Windsor. Many former assaciate warkens in Bowmanville attended. In addition ta the many iavely floral tributes from a hast ai friends the Recreation Club and Depta. 141-142 ai New Toronto Goodyear sent tokens ai their es.- temr as did flic men ai Sf. Jahn'af Club in Bawmanville. The inter- ment was made ini Bowmanville Cemetery. The Goodyear Magazine "Thp Wingioot Clan" also has this t say about Mr. Edgerton: a The suddcn dcath ai Joe Edger'- tan ccrtainiy came as a shock tai ail hla friends, and UicY are iegion. There was probabiy neyer a marc popular workman ever cmploycd by Goodyear thon 30e Edgcrton. He was Uioroughiy trusted by his supervision, respcctcd by lits fek- low workiman, and lovcd by al Uic childrcn wha ever came in contact with hlm. He neyer said an unkind word about anyone.' When things ere slack, and cm- playeca were on short tinue, aihd some marnicd men wth familles were about ta be laid off, Joe went ta lis foremian and said, II amn single; 1 y me off in prefer- thdë*to -som; 6f *Uic narried' me with familles." Jac's long service centifled hlm ta remain, but h» toqk Uic volunfary loy-off. And aIl lita savings were gone before he gat back ta work. The going wap tougli for hlm far awhiie, but Uiaf's thec ktad ai a idilow Joe was, and anc af the reasons lic was loved by ail. Joc was a persan who enjoycd oufdoor lie and fook a keen ta- feresfta Ic heboy scouts, and sports ofa aiknds. Hec always was doing somethlng for others even riglit up ta UicetUme aiflits death. AU durlng theic *nteir.montha lie bouglif hockeyf tickets for boys and ither sent them ta Uic garneés wlien lie was worktag niglit shif t, or accepniddUiem wlen on day ahuit Here la what oppeared about hlm in Uic "Clan" 11 years aga, and if la jusf as truc naw as if was then: "Joe is tiç ktad aif dlaow who ta worth lyis weight in gald f0 any communify or country, for lie i. a character buiden, and sacrifices the vulgar prizes ai life, because lie, toa, ta a Scout and a Scaut's reward is nof goid but the sun- shine aifliappincss from giving unselfishly ta others." Joe's lufelias been an example for others. If there wcre more like hima in thiÊ world if would indecd be a hiappy anc. lis con- tributions ta flic "Clan" will be missed, and we -have ail last a real iiend and clienful pal. CANADIAN CLUJB <Contlnued from page 1) reacli the same ghastiy fatal. The stood perhops bettr ian anyort7;e in Canada. The efiecta ai extreme neutrai- ify are both suicidai and absurd, sald Uic speaker. "The neutral F> copies enclrclingW Gernany like a die preserver, profccting lier from Frnrce but not France from Ger- many, decreased the hopes of France."1 IatoeaaiWeskue.e "The fesarful blood.leftng ai ieWorld War wouid have re- -àuired at least twa generatians to *tdeem. The French dead had ;fumbered twice the loss af the UJnited Kingdom. Those who ,.Iight have been political and iilitary leaders iay buried be- beath the sod. No nation can en- Ouce twa such biaad-baths in one leneration. By the time Itaiy en- ,red this war the French iighting men were outnumbered 1 ta 4. A Respectable State of Mind "France had become gradualiy Jrmeated by a spirit af pacifism. or many years after the World War,' the Anglo-Saxon worid, with the exception af Churchill and a lew kindred spirits, had neyer :ceased ta biame her for keepmng aiàive her wartime mentaiity ta- Wards her German neighbour, but tt bottomn what kept the French troops in the Rhineiand was flot itnperialism but fear. The Ger- man probiem was permanent even if Nazisni is transient. "But by the timne Hitler finaily Ebarged into the demilitarized Rhneland, the Locarno powers and the Council ai the League re- fused even ta endorse French Mlobilization ta drive him out. ,iow France has no chance but ta be on friendly terms with her gi- gKantic neighbour. "At the same time there was '-trouble on the econormci ront. _French social legisiation wag gvolving an a new Uine, excellent 11n principie but dangerous in practice, because across the Rhine ,fhe new Reich was taking a dia- pnetricaiiy opposed direction. In beVery way thcy grassly under- estimated their foc. "Howcver, the truth is that these errors of judgment arase ,from the cammendabie fact that thc British and French peoples detested the idea ai gaing ta war twice in a lifetime. They had no- thing ta avenge or ask ai former advcrsaries, na sense ai humiliat- ing defeat, no autraged national pride. Not until March 1940 was Yrance's industry reaiiy in war- time production, but by then it ~was toa late. I well remember what the might ai the German army did ta France in the days ai June 2th-22nd. I was there. Mlitary Doctrine, at Fault "There was an easy-going slackness aiong with the pacifism already mentioned combined with the individualistie indiscipline ai half a century ai fatherlcss chil- ~dren which had undcrmined the 'military ppiicy ai France. That spirit if cmbodied in the quip: "In Engiand everything that is flot exprcssiy farbidden is per- n'iitted; in Germnany cverything that is not expressly permitted is forbidden; in France cverything that is cxprcssly iorbidden is per- * tted." Obviausiy a military d1ctrine ai the offensive would have been unpaiatabie ta such a people but the Maginot Line cx- actly responded ta, their politicai outiook. Thcy« got "Maginitis" .énd thue malady grew during the e~resome winter ai 39-40. Bitter Fruits of Deteat ITouching now a point on which ~we bave beencanstantly informed copirarywise, Dr. Eastman declar- ed that it was aniy ater, and not before, the debacle ai France that disunlon and the iifth calumn be- cameé important - only then was it scen how praiaundiy minds had been divided over the wisdom ai malng war upan Hitler for thc apparent defense ai Poiand ater the more popular Czechosiovakia had been abandoncd. "blarshall Petain," the speaker delrdIlk most niilitary cam- manders, despised the-inefficiency aund turmoil ai political Party rule. ThLeomplets facilitica of Uic Depait- ment aa e Ucdimpacalofiloca cammunlty organisations ta MaintamakLug tir Salvage Campaigu a a uccea. %ona ths Campalgn starta ila 70?? commuuity, vs aak Ihatyou gpve iyau= unquailled suppor. Iaaued by authority of I4onoutohk.--Jem*G,. Gaîdiner, Micister DEP~iA iTMi TuOFuNAIONAL WAR SERVi 1I ES~ and yearncd far discipline ta Uic iaftonal 111e. In Uic opposite camp thc extreme Leitists bitteriy ac- cused Uic "reactionaries" aifliav- ing sold out ta the Nazis. Haw- ever lad Uic river Meuse been as wide as the Straits ai Doyen if wauld have aflowed for a rally 0nta f a rout and ehp there mighf be a different story ta fell." Concluding, Dr. Eastmnan dcalt with France's refusai ta acccpt Churchffls generous affer for a Franco-British Union. "Tley ne- iused because if was too lofe; if carne intheficmidsf ai chaos and confusion wlicn Uic devoted fr1- ends ai democracy lad lait con- trai ai Uic Frenchi Ship ai State. The proposai came toc late."1 *Put Thoni Out Carefully *They Wii SOoIIootod *They WUlSe Bs *sd mous EHýOLDEËRS ietN*ESEMEYOIIà?j WARWEAPONS We canmet&U ânarch Into baffle-but vs eauma mrc ati a icteielam 6"u dSte-awayplaces in aur homes. 'aieeare var veapons lanthes aes-sud ln yaur houaeholdw , v atvhch ma be turnd itt a valuable contribution to Cmaada'.ar productioan sd ito a "ta L und a inauliaryServices. Many local volunteer organisations have ahready completed plans for a Salvage Cam- palgu ia their districts. More viii follov. Quickly, vo hope, alilCanada viii bu arganlzcd ta "aieau ent sud aiea. up on Hitier" EvezY day ofa vcey cek utia ar ia van, evez7 a o f matedal bch ea be prolitably salvaged ta thc area ta vhlch you live muai' be aaved, callcctcd and turaed itt var production material and maacy. A careful atudy sud aurvey la bclng made tbroughout Canada by IisDeparinient as ta the type sud clama of salvaga vhich wilrmalUic h groatest retmn lu your comunity. Il "hi nIormatLýn Io not nov ta the banda ci yaur local Salvage Con2niite or y=u Municipal Couacil, havetOem ommun!- I cala vifI Uic Supervima, National sel EVERT SCRAP 00OTlS vge caniPalgaNewSuPreecourt PAGE FIVE TRMDAY, APRIL 24, 1941 -, 'l ;o-. THE CANADIAN STATEMAX BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO