a a oe Ce ae ee a ee ee ee a ee ee ee eee en eee te ble ee LCM SE TET TE TL ee ae ee OBS SRR ii sas ch ae aS sai ee eae ae alah e Tue Stratrorp MiRRo . Rudbdished Weekly by the Stratford Mirror Press, 123 Ontario St. -- DAVID RAE, Publisher ary Vol. 24 Circulation 4,200 STRATFORD, NOV. 22, 1946 No. 47 Herbert McClatchey To Head Kinsmen At the annual election of officers of the Stratford Kinsmen Club, held last night at the Old Homestead, Shakespeare, Herbert McClatchey was elected to succeed George Hosie, the retiring president. With him on the new executive will be Jack Kruger, vice-president; Jim Beattie, secretary; Emmerson Wright, treas- urer; Wesley Brown, registrar, and Jack Stubbs, sergeant-at-arms. Present to address the gathering was S. H. "Banty" Bantick, general secretary of the Association of Kins- men Clubs of Canada. Mr. Bantick expressed admiration for the strides made by the local club during its short history and prophesied great things for its immediate future. In the course of his address he brought the Kinsmen up-to-date on the af- fairs of the club throughout the country, tracing the transition from the Milk-For-Britain drive to the Cancer Scholarship fund and the growth of the association from 35 clubs in 1932 to the present roster of 165 clubs in Canada. Indians Meet Mohawks Tonight After their brilliant hockey dis- play in Hamilton on Wednesday night, when they held the champion Tigers to a 1-1 tie in the regular playing time, and only lost the tilt by the close 2-3 count in overtime play, the Stratford Indians are rec- ognized as the team to watch in the senior O.H.A. scramble. There should be no lack of fans to watch their home game with Owen Sound Mohawks at the Classic City Arena tonight. Still badly handicapped by lack of an efficient left winger to replace the injured Barber and the absent Burdett, the Indians would soon drive to the top brackets if they could cover this position. Switching of Bak from his rear-guard post to the left wing spot has helped some, but it leaves too much work for the other defensemen. No man can play 70 minutes of hockey. and not be tir- ing badly at the end, and it was this fact that cost the locals the points in Wednesday night's encounter. Sparks is proving even more ef- fective in the nets this year than last and the Indian's front lines are func- tioning well, with the exception of the left wing weakness. Rumour has is that Secretary Cam Killoran has lined up at least one good prospect to fill this gap, which would place the team in an ideal position for a drive to the top of the standing. BAPTIST BROTHERHOOD TO HOLD LAYMEN'S NIGHT The Men's Brotherhood of Ontario Street Baptist Church will hold its Laymen's Night next Friday evening, November 29, at 7.45 o'clock. All the speakers of the evening will be lay- men, and special music will be pro- vided. Motion pictures and illustrat- ed hymns will also be a part of the program, which will have for its theme The Life of Paul. ---- Ao t SEE IT " BY ELMORE PHILPOTT NEW YORK: AT THE U.N. ASSEMBLY THEY PUT US CAN- adian newspaper and radio people in a hotel in the "Roaring Forties". The British also got sent there, but after 24 hours they raised such a row with their government that they got themselves moved to more tranquil quarters. We didn't get much sleep--for the taxis honked all night, especi- ally around 2 or 3 a.m., when they close the night clubs. There was also some difficulty in snatching forty winks by day, for they had a mass production saxophone school right outside our window. It is not on the eight hour day--ran till after midnight Sunday. Judging by the vibrations emanating from the school, the pupils will require training long enough to get the school over the next depression. * * * ALL AMERICA HAS BEEN SNATCHED FROM THE WILDER- ness. of years, and the wilderness leaps right back at him. Looking over the proposed site of U.N., our Mr. Wilgress got as lost in Westchester County as he could have in the forests of the Soviet, to which he is Canadian Ambassador. * * * All that man has to do is to leave nature alone for a couple WE GOT A REPRIEVE OVER ONE WEEK-END IN NEW York. Just across a few miles of water, on Staten Island, we found ourselves in what was once a Huguenot settlement. It was worth the extra effort to rouse from a dead-to-the-world sleep on Sunday in time to get to the ten o'clock service in the Huguenot church. The little stone chuch was the exact image of many I have seen in France and Belgium -- with a solid stone roof as well as walls. There was quite a line of cars outside -- almost as many as for the Catholic mass further down the road. The Minister was Dutch -- Dutch enough to be picked to christen Princess Juliana's baby in Ottawa. He looked for all the world like the Polish peasant leader, Mikolajyck -- especially as to bald head. He had a loud forthright voice -- not unkindly. But he did rebuke the people for leaving the front row of seats empty. And when one young girl, about ten years old, arrived late, he stopped and said: "You had better come right on up." She dashed to her place in the children's choir, sighing with relief at her easy escape. * * * ALL WEEK I HAD BEEN SAYING TO MYSELF, ABOUT New York, "this IS Babylon." It so happened that the preacher took the fall of ancient Babylon as his text. He told about Belshaz- zar's famous, or infamous, last wild banquet. He told how the king saw the moving finger write on the wall the words of doom: "You (Continued on page 5) laslerle>le>larle> a, DOOOOOOOOOOODOOOODD 1 BIOlY | DIS Gxxeeeereeocees AAAAA DAD Dy) lh bh hb bp tds tpt drdtirdrsdrsdrdlotdrsldlirtioridrtrdster A lalla» DDO POPP PPP FPF PF FFF FFF FFF FOSS YY VI o > GOOD il SHOES properly fitted ! Ne GOOD SHOES PROPERLY FITTED 99 ONTARIO 7 hy Ap > A> he be hp he he bet la de>la> NA A DS he be te be fe jr pr jm jr jr Jr lr lr lr lp lr larhartarrdrdarrtdtrtiorlarkrlerrlrs A. a i a a i w VN Strong Council Needed In 194.7 Election time is here again -- and brings with it this year more than the usual crop of controversial pro- jects. With little apparent prospect of a contest for the mayorality, in- terest is centering on the substantial' money bylaws that will go to the people on December 2. It is to be hoped that in the active campaigning for municipal office that will follow tonight's nomina- tions meeting candidates will give the citizens sufficient information about the state of the city's affairs and their own attitude towards the various problems involved to enable voters to intelligently control their civic business. Talking about things in general is not enough. Only par- ticular information, provided before the election, will enable citizens te: think and act intelligently in the ensuing contests. Stratford will need a strong coun-- cil next year, made up of courageous' men who have a good grasp of bus-- iness administration, for they will be faced with many financial head-- aches. The legacy of years of post- ponement, forced by the depression and World War II, is rapidly falling due. For example, something must soon: be done to improve the sewage dis- | posal system, about which the town-- ship of Downie has protested for" years. A new fire truck is badly needed -- the cost was estimated at $25,000 when the 1946 council re-- gretfully postponed its purchase: earlier this year. The south-end sew-- er is still only partially completed, and it is estimated that another $20,-- 000 will be required to finish the job. Increased wages for civic em- ployees constitute another thorny problem, while the need for new rest rooms in the downtown area is becoming urgent. When all this is added to the $40,-- 000 asked for the new Legion Hall, plus the $1,000,000 for the new hospital, it can be readily seen that civic business in 1947 must be placed in the hands of competent officials. Of the 10,000 voters now on the municipal list, only approximately 2,850 will be qualified, as property owners, to vote on the money by- laws. In other words, any increase in civic taxes in- the coming year must be borne entirely by this small section of the community, unless some relaxation of rental restric- tions is forthcoming, which does not at present seem very likely. 61st ANNUAL POULTRY SHOW STARTS MONDAY With a large entry from all over the district assured, the 61st Annual Show of the Perth County Poultry Association will be held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week in the Market Building. While the affair is of more particular in- terest to chicken and pidgeon fan- ciers, the general public will find much of unusual interest in this ex- hibit. Monday will largely be taken up with the entering of birds and setting up of displays, and Tuesday and Wednesday will be given over to judging and awarding of the heavy prize list. *