THE STRATFORD MIRROR pti. ras) CR os ae ne 1 FORTUNATE You are, indeed, to be living in an or- derly community like Stratford ! ACCOUNTANT FRANK P. GIBBS CHARTERED AcCOUNTANT Established 1923 Beacon-Herald Building -- BAKERS T. V. B. BREAD CO. A. H. Zurbrigg 56 Huron St. Pheon 2345 -- BOOKS, STATIONERY SGHOGL SUPPLIBS, GIFTS GREETING CARDS Patterson Bookstore Wellington at St. Patrick Phone 711 ---- BOOTS and SHOES Phone 1580 LINCOLN SHOE STORES Ltd. |. Men's and Women's Shoes. 93 Ontario St. Phone 125. BOND CLOTHES SHOP NEW SPRING SAMPLES JUST ARRIVED--FOR LADIES and MEN STRICTLY MADE-TO-MBASURB 38 Ontario St. Phone 1437 CLEANERS JARMAIN'S (STRATFORD) LIMITED > Exper Cleaners Dresses, Suits Where To Go For It Aind How To Win Cash Prizes spelled words. one word of the slogan: 23, 1946. of the slogan: be awarded for the month. have been asked not to give week, the many replies. Contest Interest Growing Throughout the advertisements in this issue there are mis- The wrongly placed letters would make up BENNINGTON ELECTRIC CO., LTD. Oil Burners, Stokers, Stoves, Washing Machines Pick out the advertisements having these misspelled words and send the list to The Mirror Office on, or before, January _ Remember, the incorrect letters would make up one word BENNINGTON ELECTRIC CO., LTD. Oil Burners, Stokers, Stoves, Washing Machines The replies received having the correct answers will be put in a box and a draw made therefrom. The lucky one will receive a ONE DOLLAR BILL. In addition all those sending in correct answers for the month of January will have another chance. Three prizes (1) Two Dollars, (2) One Dollar, and (3) Fifty Cents, will Members of the Mirror Staff are not to enter the contest and might be to the advantage of one contestant over another. One person only in each home can enter the contest each LAST WEEK'S WINNER MRS. I. CADWELL, 93 Rebecis St. The prize of one dollar offered in last week's Where To Go For It Contest was won by Mrs. I. Cadwell, 93 Rebecca St. The Mirror staff sorted out the correct answers from among They put the correct answers in a box. Then the Mirror had one of its advertisers, Mr. Smith. of The Music Shop, make the draw. : : If the winner will come to The Mirror office for identity, the out any information which PROUD You are of the place your country has won in world affairs ! FUNERAL DIRECTORS eral Bervice. Telephone 1760. OVER FIFTY YEARS FURS A. WILKIE Furrier and Deisgner 299 Ontario St. GROCERS BANNISTER BROS. FAMILY GROCERS / Who Give Personal Service 153 Nile St. Phone 989 =a CHARLES BAKER THE NEW CRONER GROCER MACHINIST . Lathe Wor General Repairs MUSIC Phonograph Recoeds and A>> scores THE MUSIC SHOP 83 Downie St. Phone 289| authority will be given to collect the prize. ie Onbice Gt Phone 2458 on ntario * 0 DRESSES DRUGGIST ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES JEAN FERGUSON LADIES' WEAR -- Exclusive in Strat- ford for DEJA Dresses. € 26 Wellington St. Phone 471 The quality of any I. D.A. Product is guaranteed by K. KALBFLEISCH 75 Ontario St. Phone 306 BENNINGTON ELECTRIC Co. LTD. Oil Burners, Stokers, Stoves, Washing Machines. 92 Ontario St. Phone §95 TAXI Ed. Herr's Cab Office--Cor. Erie and Ontario 24-HOUR SERVICE PHONE 1917 ELEPHANTS WEAR TAIL LIGHTS Elephants are becoming a serious problem to traffic authorities of Col- ombo. 1 __Many motorists complain that ele- 'phants suddenly appear in crowded thoroughfares on dark nights with- out warning and serious collisions are avoided only by the greatest of good luck, It has now been decided that in future all elephants in Colombo shall rank as motor lories and shall carry a white light in front and a red light behind. es CHINA HALL oem GIFTS of CHINA and GLASSWARE FOR ALL OCCASIONS J. L. BRADSHAW Phone 179 | CUTTING TAXES Governments that want to become popular can always achieve that ob- jective by effecting some reduction in the taxes of the people. It is doubtful if in all the pages of history there exists a record to show that the general public willingly or enthusiastically welcomed the im- position of taxes, no matter for what cause levied. _ War is a common cause of taxa- tion. Money is necessary if fighting must be done, and to get the money taxation is the method adopted. The World War has left a legacy of taxes that will not soon be forgotten. For more than half a century all the for- mer belligerent nations will be sav- ing up, in order to meet the instal- ments that fall due yearly. President Truman is getting credit for the reduction of the heavy taxes of the United States. The strain on the pockets of the Americans will be easier from now on. governmental expenditures and fur- ther exemptions in the levies here. There is a general feeling that con- © cessions are necessary if the com- ~~ plainings of the people are to be stilled. Not only the income taxes -- but several forms of business taxes and some that have come to be dub- bed "nuisance taxes" are considered due for reduction by a large section of the public. FIGURES SHOW GROWTH OF T.C.A. REMARKABLE Winnipeg, Jan. 25.--Indicative of the tremendous growth of Trans- Canada Air Lines since 1938, the first year the air line carried pas- sengers, are the figures released to- day by W. F. English, vice-president In 1945, T.C.A. carried 180,000 pas- sengers, as compared with 2,086 in 1938. Express grew from 7,806 pounds in 1938 to 921,000 pounds last year, and mail \ Canadians are hoping continually 3,572,000 pounds. GREENWOOD-GILBART Fun- -- 46 Erie Street, -- Phone 103: . Corner Nile and Grange Streets. Acetylene Welding FRED. BAUN 199 Ontarie St. D that there may be some lessening of a from 367,734 pounds to January 25, 1946. THE STRATFORD MIRROR Page 7 irror Short Story Generally Speaking By NADINE HARKINS <> ENERALLY speaking, this is a | daffy war. I mean like Joe O'Brien, for instance. Back in the, States he always groused about the British and poked fun at the lace curtains in Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guard and so forth. Then he joins up and where does the Army send him but straight across the big drink smack into the heart of London. | And in nothing flat Joe's a one- man Chamber of Commerce for the island, a booster-for-Britain de luxe. He gets to attend Queen Mary on a personal tour and winds up think- ing he's the Prince Consort. Now Joe writes he's marrying the sweet- est girl in the world, a little Eng-' lish schoolteacher. I suppose when these shooting galleries empty and we all go home Joe'll be wearing a monocle and calling his pals old boys, old sock, old top. Yeah, daffy war. Take me, for in- stance. Generally speaking, I'm no: dope. I mean a guy's gotta have a little gray matter to get to be a corporal, don't he? So maybe I don't warm up to Attu like Joe does to England. I still don't make no bones about it much, even if it ain't no hot-air furnace. I just want to be a good soldier, wash out these Nippies and get home to Barbara. I am thinking of Barbara that night in the ice-cold foxhole with the stars big as kites and the night so still. She sure is a sweet kid and the best jitterbug in the gang. Gen-: erally speaking, I'm not the com- plaining type, but we've been crouched here too long to suit me, trying to outsmart a Jap trap on the side of the snowy slope below us. Thinking of Barbara sort of warms me up, and when I get warmed up, I get mad. I mean I keep thinking about Barbara and the gang and the good times we had down at the roller-skating rink or the dance palace or Jake's Spa with the juke box moaning a hot Was there ever such a toboggan jive, and I think how a fellow would ant a peach like Barbsie and jnaybe she'll get tired of waiting for me. sa I yank out her snapshot. the one in the batning sult, ana n sort of reassures me. But I kind of shiver for Barbsie and get madder still, because we can't rout out those yellow babies down below us. They're holding up the whole works. I grunt, disgusted. '"'Fine war," I gripe, "when we can't shoot out a nest of yellow baboons. I'm getting sick of this place, anyway; don't like the air conditioning. I'd much prefer being a general. Makes me burn to think of General Farwell over at the base. Why, they say that bird has a superspecial trailer to live in, and he doesn't have to park in no slimy foxhole, neither. That trailer is bombproof and has running water." "What, Simpsie?" quips the kid next to me again. "No neon lights?"' The fellows all laugh, especially this quiet guy in the corner who roars fit to kill. But I'm still burn- ing, so I think of Barbsie again and how we used to go sledding with the gang down hills just lke this one and the idea hits me smack in the cranium. 'Come on, wise guy,' I yell to my buddy, all excited-like. "Tear down that canvas shelter half." The little quiet guy comes over then. "What are you men planning?'"' "Get back to barracks,' I fling at him, spreading the canvas on the snow and sitting on it. The little guy starts to sputter but my buddy. catches on quick and gives me a good swift push. Thanks, Barbsie, hold on tight, here we go to glory or the grave! Was there ever such a toboggan ride with the feel of the hand grenade hard and sure, my heart pounding against my ribs and my mind clicking like a time bomb? Merrily down the slope I travel, very fast and very close to the Japs' holes. Going by, I toss the grenade for a perfect basket right in the monkeys' startled faces. Yeah, daffy war. Bécause next day I have a date in that air-condi- tioned trailer over at the base. Seems the quiet guy in the corner was Major General Farwell and he wanted to do a little coasting him- self that night. He's a swell egg, and my promotion is first-rate and the shiny medal a little bit of O.K., too. Barbsie will like that and, gen~ erally speaking, I never thought I'd wind up speaking to the general! Good Producers According. to figures compiled at Michigan State college, three good cows can produce more butterfat at less feed cost than would be required to keep five average cows, regard- less of extra work. A cow produc- ing 5,000 pounds of milk, with 204 pounds of butterfat a year, would consume about $69 worth of feed and would earn only $39 a year over her feed cost. Yet cows that turn out 8,400 pounds of milk with 349 pounds of butterfat a year would produce milk worth $91 over the feed cost, Read The Mirror 'Ads'. By GEORGE LILLEY sat NEW YORK, N. Y.--Claudette Colbert (with Ray Milland in "Practically Yours") gets the honor of opening August 27 the 12th season of CBS's Monday night. "Radio Theater," the air's No. 1 (34 mil- lion listeners) dramatic pro- gram. Clau- dette is: the lady who, dis- liking a _ pro- file with which no one else ean find fault, never exposes @ the right side : g of her face to ... pretty habit On the air French born Claudette (Paris, 1905) likes to wrap her legs tightly around a tall stool. A» number of the "Radio Theater' guests have strange mike habits. Paul Muni listens to violin music before the broadcast. Don Ameche and William Powell gulp a pint of milk, Joan Crawford and Bar- bara Stanwyck kick off their shoes. Ray Milland must play gin rummy. ' JERSEY CITY NOBLEMAt. Like Fred Waring, Ozzie (Os- wald George) Nelson couldn't make his college glee club. Oz- zie--with wife Harriet Hilliard now turned comedian for the second season (home-wacky '"Oz- zie & Harriet," Sunday eve- nings, CBS) -- took part in about every- thing at Rut- gers except music (All- East quarter- back, college welterwei g ht champ, poetry, varsity _swim- ming, art edit- ing). He's pos- sibly the only Pm comedian-bandleader who can claim nobility. His fatuer was a Swedish nobleman. Thirty-eight, Oz was born in Jersey City, where, in preference to Holly- wood, he, Harriet and _ sons (David Ozzie, 8; Eric Hilliard, 5) -spent this summer's vacation-- 'first for them in seven years. @ Ozzie Nelson ... him and Fred Little Lhings' about HL, STARS. DEAN OF RELIGIOUS ROLES Dean Jagger, 42, acting success. This husky (6-2, 200 pounds) ex- Ohio farm boy has highlighted his entire. career with ministerial roles. He first played profes- sionally with a traveling cha- een 'tauqua in "Shepherd of the Hills." In the movies his top. successes have been "Sign of the Cross" and "Brigham Young." On the radio he's cur- rently: (Dr, Wea del a aiim Spence," a small - town minister in the popular ABC (Blue) network Thursday night serial, "One Foot In Heaven." At 20 Jagger met evangelist Billy Sunday. So im- pressed was Sunday with the young actor's voice and person- ality, he offered to send Jagger to an evangelist school--if he'd join Sunday's outfit upon gradua- tion! VERY LITTLE THINGS Swooner Johnnie Johnston (NBC "Supper Club") won't go to bed (3 a.m.) without a plate of kippered snacks. Kate Smith always has a cup of tea before bedtime. Sammy Kaye a chicken sandwich and twa cups of coffee. Jay Jos- t yh Ae ae, D.A.," Wednes- day nights, NBC), a glass OL: Bley a Brown, pro- ducer - director of "Inner Sanc- Dean Jagger impressed Billy tum" (resum- ing Tuesday ; nights, CBS, Hi Brown August 28), re- ... high man cently 'directed his 15,000th broadcast. One year he had on the air 35 shows of his' own. ... Asice from Bob, there a.e six other Hope boys, none, famous or in possession of an un-: usual sense of humor. Bob Burns'! brother Bub, two years Bob's| senior (51), talks and acts like} Bob. 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