HE STRATFORD MiRRO Published Weekly by the Stratford Mirror Press, 123 Ontario St. BENSON JOHNSTON. EDITOR =-- Vol. 23 STRATFORD, AUG. 3, 1945 Welcome To Our\iz No. 31° | eg ae =| |Canada's Mountain a f Returning Forces The published request of His Wor- ship Mayor Monteith that all Strat- ford homes and business places be de- corated "to give outward expression to the gratitude that is in our hearts" to those returning home is one which we will all gladly endorse. While there may be some differences of opinion as to the way we should welcome our loved ones, there will be general approval of the Mayor's re- quest. It will be an outward and gen- eral evidence of our feelings at their return, and a wholehearted display of flags and patriotic emblems will un- doubtedly help to "make their home- coming a more joyous one." There are of course differences of opinion on the method of meeting them on arrival in the city, just as there are naturally different tempera- ments and types among those arriv- ~ing home. We are not all of the same disposition. Some are demonstrative, others whose feelings are just as deep do not show them in the same way. This is probably one reason why dif- ferent services appeal to different people. The Navy is. attractive to some, the Army and Air Force to others. This of course makes it difficult to arrive at any one plan of personally meeting our returned sons and daugh- ters which will be acceptable to all. Most of them, however, would be cheered by a good general display of flags and emblems throughout the city. Let us give Mayor Monteith and his Civic Recognition Committee our hearty support of this timely request. WOMAN She's an angel in truth, a demon in fiction; A woman, the greatest of all contra- diction. She's afraid of a cockroach, she'll scream at a mouse, But she'll tackle a husband as big as a house; She'll take him for better, she'll take him for worse. She'll split his head open, and then be his nurse, And when he is well and can get out of bed, She'll pick up a teapot and throw at his head. She's faithful, deceitful, keensighted and blind. She's crafty, she's simple, she's cruel, she's kind. She'll lift a man up, she'll cast a man down. She'll make him her Hero, her Ruler, her Clown. You fancy she's this; but you find out she's that, For she'll play like a kitten and fight like a cat. In the morning she does, in the even- ing she doesn't, And you are always expecting she will, she won't. "YOU DON'T NEED A VACATION" That's the title of an article in The American Weekly with next Sunday's (August 5) issue of The Detroit Sun- day Times, which gives the opinion of some doctors that the real way for smooth sailing is to get rid of wor- ries, stop wrangling and shouldering other people's problems. Get Sunday's Detroit Times. Stratford Chit-Chat rs Ma SO "No Meat, No Nuthin'.. ." The Misses Tillie and Kate Galla- gher, 279 Albert street, are entertain- ing their niece, Mrs. George Pauley, this week. Mrs. Pauley hails from the "windy city" of the States--Chi- cago. She was telling us how hard it is to get meat at home--a common plaint of most of . our American visitors these days. "The meat shops are only open two days a week and you begin to line up at seven o'clock in the morning," she said. It's a black morn- ing when the amount of meat for sale gives out just when it's getting near your turn. The merchant is only allowed to sell so much when he is open for business. Mrs. Pauley said that, to do the Americans credit, even in the highest class restaurants there is no complaining from the patrons when they can't get a big juicy steak. A good meal costs between two and three dollars. If it takes four cigarette butts to make one cigarette and you smoked four cigarettes, how many butts would you have? One. No joke in the States where your "favorite brand" seems to be non-existent. Mrs. Pauley says she's no smoker herself, but she lines up to get cigars for her husband. This seems to be the 1945 test of wifely devotion. How many hours will your wife stand in a cigar- ette lineup for you? Sugar, too, is hard to get. You may have the coupon but not be able to buy it. In Detroit we were told you can only get so much milk from the milkman, and unless you've always taken cream, from him you can't start to buy it now. * * Parcel Post, Germany-Canada, 6 Days As neighbors will these war sum, mer evenings, Mrs. A. Boon of 275 Albert street, was sitting talking with us on the verandah and showing us the contents of a parcel which she re- ceived from her son, Gunner Arthur Boon on Monday ... travelling time from Germany to her home, six days. Mrs. Boon received previously from. overseas a blood-stained swastika flag, an S.S. armband and other souvenirs and some of the things which she has just been sent came from the same source, Arthur told her. She is keep- ing the flag carefully, as he wrote telling her "to keep it as there's a story behind it, Mother, I'll tell you when I come home." Mrs. Boon says her son was wounded and she's just wondering if there's any connection. Arthur is part of the occupation forces so she'll have to wait patiently to find out. Monday's parcel contained a fine, black leather belt with a khaki colored metal buckle bearing the inscription "Gott Met Uns." Also a hand-woven belt, couple of leather change purses and a nicely knit pair of gloves made by hand by a Dutch woman in whose home Arthur was billeted. Pte. A. Boon, head of the household, was a guard at the prisoner-of-war (Continued on page 8) At BOYD'S double leather soles. because it is light on your feet, and provides plenty of toe room plus a snug-fitting heel. A good shoe at $5.95 3 DOWNSTAIRS DEPT. Shoe SISMAN Work Boots Black retan Work Boots by Sisman, bellows tongue, Goodyear welted with This is one of | our most popular heavy duty shoes Others Priced At $3.95 $4.45 $4.95 A ag 4 ONTARIO Shop ST: Mountain dwellers may sometimes boast that the pictures on the walls: of their home are superfluous because they have a magnificent alpine view framed within every window. Visit-- ors to Canada's mountain parks must: surely have the same feeling whem: they look out of their windows. The: pictures on the walls of their rooms must seem mediocre by comparisom with those masterpieces of nature for which the parks have become justly famous. Jasper National Park, with its 4,200 square miles of alpine beauty, is @ vast sea of snow-capped peaks. Its glistening glaciers, deep canyons, turb-- ulent rivers, cascading waterfalls, ex-- quisite lakes and peaceful flower-- bedecked valleys make it one of the: greatest mountain playgrounds in the world. Within its wide boundaries roam some of Canada's finest big-- game animals. Through it winds the: Athabaska Trail where once passed @ \ cavaleade of explorers, fur-traders and adventurers in the early days of. travel to the Pacific Coast. Banff National Park is distinguished. not alone for its superb scenic attrac-- tions but because it was the first Can-- adian territory set aside as a national.? park. From an area of 10 square' miles, reserved 60 years ago around the hot mineral springs, the park has been extended until it now contains: 2,585 square miles, stretching from the: rolling foothills on the east to the: continental divide on the west. It con- tains widely-known alpine resorts... Banff and Lake Louise, besides the~ Upper Hot Springs, the Cave and Basin Hot Springs, and many other" features of interest. It is now con- nected with Jasper Park to the north. by one of the greatest scenic high ways on the North American Conti- nent. Waterton Lakes National Park te the southeast and Kootenay, Yoho,. Glacier and Mount Revelstoke Na- tional Parks to the south and east of Banff complete Canada's mountain playgrounds with a combined area of nearly 2,000 square miles. Each has an individuality and appeal distinctly its own, and all are natural wildlife: sanctuaries. They are connected with Banff and Jasper by good motor" roads--except Glacier National Park, which is accessible by railway only- All of these mountain playgrounds have been provided, in varying de- grees, with accommodation and re- creational facilities for the travelling public, and plans for further develop- ment in that direction are merely awaiting a return to normal peacetime conditions before being put into ef- fect. Canada's mountain playgrounds may be expected to provide rest and recreation for an _ ever-increasing volume of tourists in the years that lie immediately ahead. Much of the territory covered by these vast mount- ain parks still remains largely unex- plored. Their extent is so immense: that they could serve as playgrounds for millions, and their beauty so varied that it is forever fresh and breath-taking. It is most desirable that all Cana- dians should be aware of this great national heritage -- their mountain: kingdom. It belongs to all of them. and, as national parks, will be pre- served, ants. inviolate, for their descend- Playgrounds a