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My (‘ountry 'Tis of Thee. Sweet Land of Liberty. “'v rm'vivml a ('hristmns card this week from an nlzl t‘rimnl nnw living at Ottnmwa. in lawn. ()ttn Ludwig. whnm we haw not seen since wv wnvml him guml-liyo t'rmn the dock in Cebu. Philippine Islands. mm was bound for the l'. S. A. “'9 hml transt'm'rt‘tl tn the 29th 1’. S. Infantry. and intvntlml to spend more time in the Islands. There are many homes this year that have been saddened by the loss of some member of the family. some relative, or some close friend. Even this, though. cannot stop this Christmas spirit. It may dampen the merxiness, but it am never kill the thought. Despite all the sadness in the world, the fes- tive season now with us should bring out the best in us. and it is to be hoped will have some influenee on our actions during 1945. Otto and the writer hoth served in (‘o. H. of the Nth lnfantrv. and it was an article in the Vational Tribune. ottitial paper ot the -\m- eriean Legion. that brought us together again. It's great to meet inn with old friends. and if this war quits soon and our cash holds out we intend taking: a trip to ()ttinnwa to see this former soldier who served with us in Uncle Samuel's Infantry. ronnnonly known as the m'avei-ernshers. some iii-odd years ago. PAGE 4 Speaking at Saskatoon. $35k. the other night. Mrs. Dorise Nielsen. M.P.. the woman who defeated Cameron MecIntosh. formerly of bomb. in the North Battleford riding. said in a speech there that “oean men in the army had worked in collusion with the Tory Party” mbfiugboutthementcrisisoverthemn. This is Canada’s sixth Christmas under war conditions, but despite all this we cannot refrain from wishing everybody a Merry Christmas. It is an age-old thought, never changes, and from this holiday springs a condition of heart not felt at any other season of the year. comment. It showed 11s 11: at 1‘ W11 down 111 the United States they are teeiins: he pin ch of “ar regulations. Judging from the trahhing up in Canada. we thought we more hearing all the burdens of the war. all the sacrifices. and pay- ing the whole shot. In fact we sometimes be- lieved. listening to the heels that onlv a few of us are d inf: our dutx :11 d being atfected In the numerous rules. regulatio 1s and conditions. At that. there is lots of liberty in both the United States and Canada. 111 what other countries just now could anvone sit down and write a lot of crap like this And in “hat other countries right now could the electors josh and damn their chief executives like they do in the grawi-crushvrs. sumc While in the Phi! tho writvr had quite Aguinaldn in his plat Sam didn': hop as m out. But he didn't. a over again. with Ger command and taking father. who commam Army 40 years ago. was a captain iii the mm uoo Coulee Ween! w meetâ€"Single copies five cents: by men hmuflmpermrmedvmce; 01.00th Imam; 50 cents for three months. To United sates O50 per year; 81.25 for six months: 75 cents for three months (”flee nousâ€"o to 12 o'clock Noon: 1 to 5.30 PM. every‘ day but Thursday. when omce choc: at 13 lam. ‘r gunman _ Weekly Newspaper: Association. May Your Christmas Be AS Merry As Possible. USA. and Canada? We've lots of liberty left yet: only, just now we are being brought to attention by the biggest war in history and will have to fight like the very old heck to re- tain the liberties we have had so long that they are altogether too lightly regarded. Are Canadian Politics Whosoevrr is afraid of submitting any mstirm, aim? or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with the truthâ€"Watson. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1944 MK mm. m and mum ht‘ U-edd years ago. pines. Mr. Ludwig and bit to do in putting old and it is a pity Uncle ii there to keep the Japs 1 how he has to do it all Douglas MacArthur in e place of his illustrious 1 part of the Philippine "Black Jack" Pershing. ’liilippines at that time. {mas ezird had the verse s part of its Christmas I‘_\‘ 'Tis of thee. Sweet :rahbing up in wiring all the» fices. and pay- sometimes beâ€" A Toronto writer recently took the rest of the province to task because. of their criticism of Toronto which, he said, was a kind, nice city, and not deserving of the epithets like “hogâ€"town" hurled at it from all directions. He said the people of Ontario did not understand Toronto citizens. Toronto Not Understood; How Could She Be? We can quite agree with him. We don't un- derstand them. We don't know how we could go about it. We doubt if they understand them- selves. for that matter. anontg' latest non-understundable act was to p: ss 3 bylaw making it a misdemeawr to run to catch a street-car. to pass anyone on the sidewalk on the left sit“. ‘. Fines were provid- ed for these offenses. Agni psdostrizms mak- ing a left turn out of th‘ l1 ‘fi'nf traffic wen) supposed to "signal" what :ln-j' were about to do under penalty if they did not. So far as this newspaper is concerned, it is not interested in politics. It is interested only in the full prosecution of the war, the sending of aid to our tr00ps in the fighting line, and af- terwards backing them up with subscriptions to the different war services, the purchase of Victory Bonds, and the dispatching of a suffi- cient supply of blood plasma that lives may be saved on the battlefield. Pte. Ernest Alvia Smith. New Westminster, B.C., is the first Canadian private soldier to win the coveted Victoria Cmss. We were glad when it was announced as we thought the V.C. was pretty much, reserved for officers. The old army story wasn’t far out. The private re- ported sick and complained of a pain in the abdomen. The sergeant looked at him, saying: “You mean you have a pain in your guts; its only officers who have abdomens.” The only amazing thing “1:: one of omis- sion. Why didn't they specify the kind of tail- light to be carried after dark? Laws are funny things. too. A woman on the Canada-United States border owns a parrot. The kitchen is in Quebec and the living-room is is Vermont. It is a breach of US. law to take the parrot into the living-room. people, but in her speech, which denounced the “certain army men” and the Tory Party, she was innocently paying them a compliment. No matter what Mrs. Nielsen may say in an effort to boost her political stock, this same “collusion”, if there was any such thing, has brought results. We don’t hold to the opinion that the gov- ernment should be wholly condemned because of a certain number of “untrained” troops. You will find these in every army. In fact, there are men so constituted that they would never make soldiers. Leaving out the M. P. armyâ€"Fmen, we have yet to hear one good word for the government’s anti-conscription policy. Really, it was not a political matter at all, but a move to send the needed reinforcements overseas to our tired tr00ps who have been carrying the battle most of the summer. Possibly, former Minister of Defence Ralston should also be included in this “collusion” group, for after an inspection of all the battle fronts, he resigned his position rather than carry on under the old system, Which was not only inadequate, but stupid. Toronto got a little snow a ueek ago and yelled her head off. We re getting some sno“ now. and the children can hardly wait until school is out to get out into it. .\'o. it takes a great deal more than a little snow to tie up this part of the province. where business goes on as usual, snow or no snow. Our wishful thinkers and seers who pre- dicted the war would soon be over must have received quite a shock this week when the Ger- man bmke through some :20 miles into Belgium and carried the fight for a day or two. There’s a big kick‘still left. in the German army, and don‘t you forget it. It will not pay to under- estimate Germany’s strength, either. THE DURHAM, ONTARIO, CHRONICLE Here is an interesting incident in the life of one of our great conductors, leading one of our greatest orchestras. The orchestra played about eight phrases of the first movement of a symphony when the conductor tapped his baton on the desk to silence them. (Christian Science Monitor) Vitamin pills had a severe joke play- ed on them at Duke University's School of Medicine recently. So did those who indiscriminately dose themselyes with They went through the composition again and at exactly the same place he stopped them and said more emphati- cally: “The brass a little bit softer.” This happened at least a half-dozen At the request of the Quartermasmr General of the United States Army 200 volunteer medical students and technicians offered themselves as gui- nea pigs for 30 days. They were divided into five groups, four groups being given varving quantities of vitamins. and the fifth group being given nothing but inert pills with no medicinal or vitamin value. Two doctors, who con- ducted the experiment said. at the end of the time, that they found the same beneficial effect on the “pen” and health of the group given the durnmv pills as on those who took Vi- tamins' They added: _ We venture to assume that their findines will not be widely quoted in vitamin advertisements. - “It has been imnlier" that. even when no demonstrable deficiency exists. one's sense of well-being and abilitv to perform work can be improved greatly by the addition of vitamins to the diet . . . . There is at present no conclusive evidence to substantiate this point of view." “That was very nice.” he saio, “but the brass a little bit softer.” “ A BIT SOFTER. PLEASE!” JOKE ON VITARHN PILLS NEW! 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