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Port Perry Star (1907-), 14 Aug 1941, p. 8

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you drive, the more you save! REMEMBER: The slower Gas bumed up while standing still totals «a staggering gallonage. So never leave your car --even for a few minutes -- with the motor It's just as easy to switch it off and Remember your 50/50 Pledges don't let your motor idle. running, save gasoline. DEATH TO DIVE-BOMBERS Sailors on board a British destroyer on convoy escort duty are seen preparing Anuyion for one of the ship's multiple-barrel pom-pom guns, Thes guns fire a 200. per minute stream of two / pound shells into the path of attacking aircraft, and have been : used with great effect against German dive- bombers, ; Joseph Denny "kngland expects", kKxpects what? Lhat "every man this day will do his auty". And he did and Britain wou AN URGENT APPEAL TO ONTARIO FARMERS Keep your cows milking! Ontario cheese factory patrons did a good job in May and June. They Hieivited ) cheese production by 2,574,772 pounds. Don't let the drought he a tool for Hitler. "Britain must have 112,000,000 pounds of cheese this year, This requires effort on' your part. Drought conditions call for heavier grain feeding Imm dianly. (1) Feed any available grain or silage. (2) Buy Bran-and-Shortsat'the pegged prices from your nearest i ~ Feed Store at a saving of $3.00 pore ton. Prices are now at ' May levels. (3) Feed new grain at once. 9) Don't stint, Milk flow must be maintained. YOU WILL NEED GREEN FEED THIS FALL Work up a stubble field. After the first rain, sow one bushel Rye or Fall Wheat and. two bushels of Oats per acre. This mixture will also provide carly Spring pasture. IRE: § Jo EY -., You will be surprised and pleased at the quick and steady growth. NRE 2-2 biped ONTARIO IS BRITAIN'S "FRONT LINE" PRODUCTS, SO KEEP YOUR COWS MILKING! + Feed the cows to feed: Britain ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE HON. P. M. DEWAN, PAAR {he aay. When you anticipate some- thing of someone else it is only to be expected that something should be promised to look for that something in . "return, '| Let us tor a moment take a look at those men trom whom that duty was expected, Half of that number was a motley crew. Many of them had peen stolen irom. their own homes in sonic pressgang raid. Most of them irom some British seaport town. It 1act it was not safe to be outdoors atter dark if you hoped to get home without molestation and if one were under the influence -of liquor his ¢hances for his safe arrival home were __|greatly diminished. Then (the conditions under which these seamen laboured "were by no means idealistic, ~~ Subjected to the most inhuman treatment, sailing" in some wooden hulk which was often in d- [a leaky condition. ose 'men often Pod knew how, they got there. Still they icld no resentment in_their hearts, "They did not enjoy the benefits of refrigeration as sailors do today. If one travels by the sea these days the conditions under which one's meals ure provided are ideal. One can be a moiith on board and the food is Just as tasty at the end of a month as it was when first put on board. These poor fellows had to exist on FOR DAIRY W. R. REEK, Deputy Minister ~ food and water that might have been \ ROBBED AGAIN -Your telephone says you are busy, but it isn't true! Maybe you are robbed of an even. ing's fun, Pechaps an important business call can't each you. Your telephone is gagged because of the "off the hook" habit. Last year, Bell Telephone repair men found 120,400 trouble calls in the seven largest cities of Ontario and Quebec to be just plain "off the hook" troubles! Is a real menace to efficiency, especially in wartime when tele. Photie service must be fast and de- pendable. You can help by Bah replacing" the telephone care. fully. Let's keep our lines of communi: cation clear! On Active Service Giving Wings ©. ots. ; he 7 oo ) fresh once but that time had often so long clapsed that it was anything but enjoyable when they had- to partake of it. - Lack of fresh vegetables sub- jected these mariners to scurvy, and the meat that had to be in brine prac- CONSERVATIVE LEADER Who will be the new leader of the ~ "ENGLAND EXPECTS" '| a rose by tearing it apart leaf by leaf, jcan Journalists made this fact the subyect of one ot their jeading articles: hey could not understand how a na- uon composed 01 49,000,000 could stand agamst a hellish host €équipped with all the latest instruments of des struction wmist practically almost every other Jsuropean nation that had been attacked fell like nine- pins even peiore a blow had hardly been struck. vhe surprising thing is - that the womenfolk are just as pugnacious as the men in defending their Britsh rights when attacked by their dastard- ly foes, 'Lhe British people thernsglves gu not appear to understand this admir- able characteristic that they possess, People can' no more understand that than one can learn. the charm of 'I'he beauty is there so long as it ard-and-hardly today -by-sea,- land: and air still retain) Conservatives is now becoming a live question in federal political circles. An energetic and 'really - resourceful Opposition chief could exert a tre-| mendous influence on the war effort] He would make the government more tically the whole period of the voyage did 'not -appedl to delicate appetites and glad enough were they to return home that they might enjoy the com- forts of home. life once more. Yet there was in these sailors a alert, wipe off a lot of camouflage | doglike devotion to, their superiors in that now serves as protective colour- | spite of . the constant hardships to ing. It would be good fo) the war|which they were continually exposed. effort, good for the country, good for| This devotion appears to be one of the the government and, incidentally, | chief - characteristics of the British good. for the decimated Conservative race. It is a matter of comment of party. There are many applicants |friend and foe. No wonder 'ofie day fr the. job. George Drew is quite |last week some of the leading Amer- ready to try it, as ard many of the remains intact but. after it is torn apart the beauty is is Jost and one never learns the secret of its delicious -ap- peal. The warriors who protect our lives AEEEE---- "HONOUR FOR BRITAIN'S HOME GUARD Members of the British Home Guard, who took over guard duty :at Buckingham Palace on the first birthday anniversary of the - force, are seen' receiving instructions from a non- -commissioned "officer? / - those characteristics for which the British have always been noted. Only today, they fight under different cir- cumstances. In the past they did not Appear to be appreciated, today they | are. Yesterday - we read of their chivalrous exploits, today deeds of daring are commonplace. - Hardly 'a day passes but that we read of some feat of daring, or Rindly act per- formed that makes. us .more proud than ever of opr gallant protectors. These men have taught our foes that they can manfully fight to main- tain the prestige of the Empiré, still be gentlemen. - They have achieved that enviable position not by under. hand methods employed by our en- emies. They can still endure the severest punishment and carry no spite and in every way carry out the most arduous duty, under most ad- verse conditions that might be im- posed upon them. The message that Nelson' SR to float on the breeze on that Trafalgar Day still holds good today and when the Empire calls: "England expects every mans this day to do his duty." |$ She can dépend upon it that each man will respond to the best of his ability |# and do all that is required. present elected members: in the House, but the popular choice would be Murs dock MacPherson, prominent Regina lawyer, widely known veteran of the last, war, a vigorous debater, winning in personal contact. George Drew has played around too much with Premier Hepburn to break away into an effect-| ive party job.--Canadian Business, = Hd PU ot ALE ' CENSORSHIP Many British naval units are being | repaired, Pefitted, ete, .in American ports. The newspapers of the United States; even those of the ports con- cerned, respect the offigial request not to public the names of' such' vessels, But the arrival of such vessels, with their large crews, is always the sub- |. ject of much excitement in the ship- CHALMERS = 'LAND CONDITIONER FOR BETTER GROWTH _ in Fall Wheat at $32. 0% per ton DELLVERED TS A soil builder, and real crop insurance. One ton covers 28; acres, 70 Ibs per acre, Manufactured in two grades--fine for fertilizer drill and coarse for other drills, Order from hej & Lytle, Port Perry, or Walter J. Sau ers, District Sales Agent, : Shelburne R. R. 1, Ontarto. 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