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Pare Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, 1945 NORTHUMBERLAND 9th VICTORY LOAN With total subscriptions of $1,867-350 during the first two weeks of the Ninth Victory Loan campaign, the County of Northumberland had 84.S per cent of its $2,200,000 objective, This is a new record for Northumberland. All over the County large numbers of subscriptions came in d ing the second week of the c: paign. Headquarters at Cobourg ported an excess of subscriptions. On one day $290,000 was reported. - At the beginning, of the week, Colborne, Hastings and Percy were over the top. Several districts are now in the race for the Honour Shield to be awarded to the District in the County which gets the highest percentage over its allotted objective. Colborne has won three shields past campaigns, and is well on its way to winning a fourth shield. Colborne has a record in winning shields, unsurpassed by any village in tario. Campaign workers report that not only are farmers buying more bonds for cash but many are using Deferred Payment Plan to increase their purchase of Ninth Victory Loan Bonds. An interesting feature of the Northumberland campaign is the tendency of many people to increase their usual subscriptions. Whether or not this is due to fact there may not be another Victory Loan campaign a matter of opinion. Some people feel this will be the last of the three per cent issues and consequently are buying heavily of this Victory Loan. The Hamilton Township Mutual Insce. Co. who have supported all Victory Loans recently made a substantial purchase of Victory Bonds. This is, of course, credited to Northumberland. Excellent reports are coming in from the Payroll Canvass of factory workers in the County. Quality Poultry By trapnesting, pedigree breeding, progeny testing, and individual and family selection, poultry flocks of high quality have been built by the Poultry Division, Experimental Farms Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture at Ottawa and branch farms throughout Canada. Breeding stock of this quality is distributed every year among farmers and poultry keepers at reasonable prices and gradually the quality of poultry in Canada is being improved. United Church, Colborne Rev. Geo. D. Campbell Minister Mr. Floyd Edwards ............. Organist Mrs. C. McMullen Choir Leader Sunday, November 11th-- 10.00 a.m.-^Sunday School. 11.00 a.m.--Morning Worship Subject--"Lest We Forget" 7.00 p.m.--Service withdrawn on account of St. Andrew's Anniversary Monday-- 7.30 p.m --Young People's Union Tuesday-- 4.20 p.m.--Mission Band. 8.00 p.m.--Prayer Service. Thursday-- 8.00 p.m.--Choir Practice. Salem United Church 2.00 p.m.--Sunday School 3.00 p.m.--Remembrance Service, All are welcome. Trinity Church, Colborne Rev. R. E. Lemon, L.Th., Rector Sunday, November 11th-- 10.00 a.m.--Church School 11.00 a.m.--Morning Prayer St. Peter's Church, 3.00 p.m.--Service Old St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Colborne Rev. A. N. Reid, M. A., Minister Sunday, November 11th-- 10.00 a.m.--Church School. 11.00 a.m.--Morning Worship St. Paul's Church, Lakeport-- 3.00 p.m.--Service. Messages and music you will want to hear. A warm welcome to all. Baptist Church, Colborne Rev. T. J. H. Rich. Minister Sunday, November 11th-- 2.00 p.m.--Sunday School 3.00 p.m.--Remembrance -Day Service. Members of the Local Branch of the Canadian Legion will attend this service. Monday-- 8.00 p.m Tuesday-- 7.30 p.m . Y. P. U. meeting -Prayer Service, Bible Study. Mennonite Brethren In Christ Church Rev. C. Berry, Minister Sunday, November 11th-- Sunday School--10.00 a.m. Services--11.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. Wednesday-- Prayer Meeting--8.00 p.m. Friday-- Junior Meeting--4.30 p.m. Come and Worship! PRICES AND PROGRESS By R. J. Deachman In the United States from 1923 to 1925 the average wage of the factory worker was $25.36. By 1939 this had fallen to $24.58--down 78c, a reduction of 3%. But here's the happy note so far as the worker is concerned: 81c m 1939 would buy as- much as a dollar in the average of the three years 1923 to 1925. So the $24.58 of 1939 was, in purchasing power, equal lo $30.46 of the kind of money the workers earned from 1923 to 1925-- an increase in real wages of 24%. We are peculiar that way. When prices go up we raise a howl--when they decline we are mum as an oyster. A library has been written on what is called "full employment". The solution can be put in one sentence: Progress consists of lowering the cost of production by new methods, new machines, passing the savings so gained to the consumers in price reductions. There would be relatively little unemployment if this were done. Normally, price reductions are a synonym for progress. We welcome new machines which reduce the amount of effort necessary to accomplish a purpose then ask for legislation to wipe out the gains, force us to pay higher prices than existed before the change. Startling? No! Merely obvious. WE LIKE TO GET THE NEWS The main aim of the weekly newspaper is to give news of its own district. It may have other aims, such as to give the merchants a chance to tell of their goods in its columns or to try to influence public oponion through its editorial columns; or to amuse or instruct; but first of all, it must give news. Some of this news is not easily obtained and no editor can cover it without assistance. Therefore, we ask our readers' assitance. Especially is it true when you have visitors. Many of the ladies think that personals are the whole paper. Your visitors naturally are glad to have their names printed. So send them in. Sometimes people come in and give the impression that they are asking a favour when they want us to insert the names of their friends who have been spending a few days with them. No person need fell that way who has an item of real news Tender to the average man a choice between 100% increase in wage rates with a doubled cost of living or, in the alternative, the present wage rate with a 50% cut in the cost of living and not 3% would vote for the latter. Perhaps, in time we may stop blaming others for our troubles, examine, more carefully, the workings of the only mind we know fairly well, the one which functions under our hats. DO YOU KNOW? Forty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-nine Canadians were paid passengers in aeroplane flights in July of this year . . . Restrictions on the manufacture of book, writing, and specialty papers will come ofr March 31, 1946, W.P.T.B. has announced . . . Country general store sales in Canada went up 4% in September, 1945, over September, 1944. . . . Major John F. Shaw, of Halifax, has been appointed Enforcement Counsel for the Prices Board in the Province of Nova Scotia . . . Annual salary rates for teachers in the publicly controlled schools of eight provinces have gone up an average of $250 since 1939 . . . Shortages of malleable castings and sheet metal are now the limiting factors in farm machinery production . . . Uniforms of the three services turned in at equipment centres are sent to a cental depot where they are purchased in quantity by UNRRA and other organizations . . . From the reports of a large number of companies there were 23,820 fewer persons employed on September 1st than on August 1st of this year . . . Meat slaughterers reports covering the period from the inception of meat rationing to October 31st, inclusive, were required by the Ration Administration, W.P. T.B., on or before November 5th . . . The apple crop this year is 57% smaller than last season. A SURPRISE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER How about sending a weekly reminder to that relative or friend who has left town? You are too busy to write an occasional letter, let alone a weekly one. The home town paper will be sent regularly each week anywhere in Canada or the British Empire for $1.50 a year--less than 3 cents a week. $2,00 a year to the United States. THE COLBORNE EXPRESS "Don't go Outside Your Home Town for Things Your Own Merchants Supply" Magazine Subscriptions We are Subscription Agents for all i EADING CANADIAN, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PERIODICALS Also Foreign Ones most likely to be asked for GET OUR CLUBBING OFFERS ! Reduced Rates on Any Combination of Magazines THE EXPRESS Frinrms Office Jo 'Lpunq 9%>i/rje^KBHH whose problem is caring for a Bahy NO-ONE but a mother can know the tremendous amount of work involved in satisfying the needs of an infant or a young child, for even one day. Attending a sick or injured child for a day in the Hospital for Sick Children demands still greater effort . . . painstaking . . . patient . . . alert . . . ever-watchful. In addition, it requires the greatest pos* sible degree of medical skill and nursing efficiency. Multiply this one-day effort by 17, which is the average number of days each Public Ward patient is treated. Then multiply by 8,200, which is the number of patients admitted to the Hospital during one year. The result is a staggering total, measuring as eloquently as cold figures can,, the tremendous volume of personal effort demanded from the Hospital Staff. Despite the fact that the treatment and nursing of children requires such a high degree of proficiency from every angle, the costs of the Hospital for Sick Children are kept at very low levels. Even so, the Pro« vincial and Municipal grants and all other revenue are inadequate to meet the cost. Unfortunately, too, we have no large group of patients who pay high fees--400 of our 420 beds being in Public Wards. An annual deficit cannot be avoided if proper care and attention is to be given needy little ones. It is because we believe you would not want us to turn away any child, broken in health or body, that we appeal annually to the public to make up the deficit. This year, we must raise $70,000.00. 4 We appeal to you for a donation -- a* large as your circumstances permit -- 25c, $1.00, $2.00, $5.00, $10.00 -- no amount it too great ... none too small. Why not send along your donation now? All you need is a piece of paper and an envelope. Write your name on the paper, pin cheque or banknotes to it and fold silver inside. Acknowledgment of all subscriptions, large or small, is made in the c " of The Evening Telegram. SEND YOUR DONATION TO THE APPEAL SECRETARY We do not share in the funds collected by the Toronto federation for Community Service because we admit patients from all parts of the Province. HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDRfD 67 COLL child koocks in vain" STREET TOROnTO.2