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HALL‘S g E E grfiy/gw E” You should depend upon Hall’s Service Station gas for a peppy pickup and power showing. Hall’s gas vaporizes fast and gives a fullness of energy and pow- er to your engine and helps “knock out” many an en- gine knock. OPPOSITE ORANGE HOME BUSES LEAVE RICHMOND HILL T0 ORILLIA 9.03 a.m. x 11.28 a.m. 3.03 p.m. x 7.25 p.m. a 9.48 p.m. “Be Ready With Reddy Power” xâ€"through to North Bay aâ€"to Orillia Fri., Sat, Sun. & H01. (Eastern Daylight Saving Time) Tickets and Information at A. HISLOP, Telephone 177 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19th. 1942. LEAVE YOU‘W’CAR‘AT HOME Somebody’s Son in the days to come mrust méet the bitter Test... Somebody’s Man for our Freedom’s plan in a foreign field may rest... .Somebody’s Job is to care for them NOW â€" for on them all our hopes depend... Somebody’s Job is to dig up the cash â€" and that Somebody's YOU, my friend! 00 BY BUS ‘Somebody’s Mother is giving her boy in a Cause that is yours as well. Somebody’s Wife knows a loneliness that only her heart can tell... Somebody’s Mother and- Somefbody’s Wife are doing all they can do... :Somebody prays that some other may care â€" and the answer is up to YOU! and the things that hOmefolk do Somebody’s Son for your Freedom’s sake is preparing himself for War... Somebody’s Son deserves your help â€"â€" for it’s YOU he is fighting for! Somebody’s Son is far from home (By G. L. Creed, Squadron Leader R.C.A.F.) ‘Some'body’s Son has volunteered to rislk his life for you... S OMEB OD Y’S SON mama I received answers from high! and' low. I slirpped‘ away from the group and talked with the English people in their gardens. I got official fig- ures- from Canadian Amnvy Headquar- ters. I talked: with civilians and English soldiers. Before I leftLon- don, I had satisfied myself beyond any doubt. The record is not per- fect, of course, Ibut there were few serious crimes or misdemeanors. I After that, I made it my particular business, wherever I went, to ask about the Canadian boy-s in‘ England» ter said he was coming to the. Savoy the next morning to tell me all about them. I made enquiries, found that the writer was an Australian in Lon- don, not too well thought of himself and a bit of a crank. The English people resented‘ what he had' done. The man turned up next day, but I made suve I was away at the time. Troiops Hav‘e Excellent R‘rcord One of them was a scurrilous post- card. denouncing the conduct of the Canadian troops in Britain. The wri- That brought in, what the radio and movie upeople would call “fan mail.” but which, might more propâ€" erlv have 5been called “letters to the editor." As it turned out, it Wasn’t as bad as it might have been, Ibut my name was spread over Britain as the editor of a great group of weekly map-e‘rs, stretching from coast to coast. The first six editors reached the city late on Saturday night. We were met [by E. D. O’Brien, of the British Council, who steered us through the blackout to the Savoy, got us settled in our rooms and by ten o’clock, had us sitting down to dinner at the table reserved' for us in the grill room. We haidI hardly begun to eat before a reporter edlged himself into the circle, proceededI to order himself a meal at the expense of our hosts, topped it off with a bottle of whiskey and‘ proceeded to “interview” .me because he was be- side ~me. It was an exhibition of nerve such as I had seldom Ibeheld. and I suspect our host seeth-edi in« side, but did not want to say any- thing in front of his guests. As the bottle get lower, I wondered what the interview was going to sound like. A few days after I arrived in, LOn- don, a rather unpleasant incident oc- curred. Actually, it waan’t so easy to find any individual soldier. The Canadian units are scattered over much of the southern part of England, and‘ while I was there, they were taking part in- large-scale manoeuvres, the {bulk of the Canadian 'Conps moving a- round London and up towards the coast to .meet a pretended) invasion. It was interesting to see this large army on the .move, but hard' to lo- cate units or individuals. It was natural that a Canadian on a. visit to Britain should want to see as much: as possible of the Canadian Army overseas. .Some of the Canad.L ian editors had sons or «brothers in the service. Every one had lists of addresses of boys from: home. Canadian Troops in England Make Many Friends, Have Good Record? This is the ninth in the series of articles \written‘ by Hugh Templin, of the Fergus Newsâ€" Record, exclusively for the weak- l'y newspapers of Canada. Mr. Templin flew to Britain as a guest of the British Council and was given an opportunity to see what is being done in' Britain in wartime. They learned that theigirl had just met the Canadian. In fact, it was his first week in England. She invited him to her home an} he ac- cepted. As they neared the place where she was to get out, she be- gan to have doubts. Perhaps he wouldn’t be welcomed. The editor was a good sport. He offered to take the Canadian to his home and that was agreed upon, but as the girl got ready to :go, she changed her mind. She wouldn’t give him up, no matter What her parents said. So he went along with her. I have already mentioned the warm reception given us at Coventry. When He and his wife had! been driving to the country home the previous Sunday. Along the road they caught up to a young courple with their thumbs up. Hitch-hikers are not common in England l'but one had an R.’C.A.F. uniform so they stopped to pick them up. One night, the Lend-on Standard had a cartoon. It showed an En-g- Iish- girl, rather embarrassed, intr'oâ€" dining 3. young R.C.A.F. man to her parents, with the words, “I picked him up along the road.” The next day, I sat beside the editor of the Standard at a luncheon. He told me the story. Waiting for the train in. that sarne station, I talk-ed to three English Aimraiftmen in the RAF. They were loud in‘ their praise of the Can~ adians because of an incident that had just happened. They had ord- ererl lunch at the refreshment coun- "er. Service was slow. An English .\_".*‘,70r came along after their orders were in' and insisted on being served first. The girl at the counter reâ€" fused. A ibit of an argument had arisen till it was settled by an; RC» A.F. officer of high-er ranlk who took the pant of the ‘boys. He had given the Major a. bit of a lecture. “After all,” he concluded, “we are all fight: ing for the same King.” In a. small city near London, friend's called a taxi to take me to the railway 'statign in the blackOut. When the driver arrived) and found I was a Canadian, he asked if I would mind if he went around by his house and ’brought his wife along: she would‘ like to talk to a Canadian. When I left “them; at the station, he would1 not accept a penny from me. Perhaps a few simple stories will illustrate the attitude of the Engâ€" lish people to the Canadians. A Few Actual Incidents The best authority is doubtless the Provost Marshal of the Canadian :Headquarters staff. I had dinner with him one night at the quaint old- East Indies and: Sporting Clu'b in London. He gave me comparative figures. It might be expected that the record of the English Regiments, living near their own homes, would be (better than that of the Canad- ians. Actually, it isn’t. Crime a- monvg‘ the soldiers of the Canadian Corps is only onethird as prevalent in proportion to the number enlist- -ed\, as in the Imperial Forces. In spite of driving conditions that are strange to Canadians, the highway accident records of Canadians is bet- ter in proportion to the number of vehicles. Investigation of accidents showed. that there was a tendency to blame the Canadians for more than their share. For instance, a woman. called up one day to say that a Canadian Army vehicle had damaged her fence. Asked how she knew it was Canadian, she said it had a hippopotamus painted on the side. It was explained to her that the hippopotamus was not a Canad- ian animal; the vehicle [belonged to another Dominion. One day, during manoeuvres at Alâ€" dershot, I went along the street ask- ing the residents what they thought of the Canadians. I asked if they had] any complaints, if there had been any trouble. Almost invariably, they had nothing but (praise. I never heard any criticism of the Second Division, which was in the district at the time, although there was some of another division which had been there earlier. Aldershot has prob- aflaly seen more of the Canadians than any other town. The British people cannot speak too highly of the Canadians. Many of our soldiers are billeted in pri- vate houses, especially east orf Lon- don: in' the villages near the Thames. These boys have \been adopted as members of the families. learned little bad) aniitxgnuchr' good. The one definite episod‘e‘inl which a group of Canadian soldiers took part rather amused me, though perhaps I should have been, shodked. THE LIBERAL, “RICHMQN-D'7'HiLL,' ONTARIO PEP, VIM, VIGOiR, Subnormal? Want normal pep, vim, vigor, vital- ity? Try Ostrex Tonic Tablets. Con- tains tonios, stimulants, oyster ele- mentsâ€"aids to normal pep after 30, 40 or 50. Get a special introductory size for only 35c. Try this aid to normal pep and‘ vim today. For sale at all good drug stores. Illustrated magazines, such as Life, are heavy to send, [but are most wel- come. Send a‘ few of them to your soldiers, or to Mr. A. Savaard, Can~ adian Army Headquarters, Codkspur Street, London. But remember, letters are [best all. There can’t ‘be too many them. Parcels are appreciated, of course. The troops are adequately fed', but they get few luxuries. Rem-ember that when you send parcels. Some thin-gs are luxuries in England that are plentiful here. Candi-es are most welcome. I saw candies only twice in England and they were really cone fectio-ns, not real candies. I would- have given much for some real ones. Send potted fancy meats angl cheese, marmalade and jams in tin-s (not glasses), braces and garters and! razor blades. MEN of 30, 40, 50 From the soldier’s point of view, I believe loneliness plays a part. The ‘boys don’t get enough letters from home. Perhaps they get ‘plentyqrat first but the numlber falls off. ‘S-‘b-me don‘t get any. They want the news from home, [but even more, they want to think that they haven’t been for- gotten. They need letters even more than they need parcels â€" newsy, gossip‘y letters telling what people at home are doing. And they like the home town newspapers, which pass from hand to hand}. Councils or service clubs would be doing good acts if they would subscribe for the local paper for all ‘boys from their tdwns who are overseas. I think there is a more practical side to it than that. The English ’believe we live in a land» of plenty and wealth. Just now, when we eat much they can’t get, that idea. spreads. A Canadian is considered a “catch”, and. from what I saw on the streets and elsewhere, English girls are out to “get their man‘” in wartime. Now that is something that Can- adian relatives of soldiers and Ip-arti- cularly Canadian girls, should not overlook. B. K. Sandwell, who was with me, believes that a certain "glamour" surrounds Canadians in Britain! He ascribes that in part to the movies and novels. Perhaps he is right. At a ‘big aircraft factory, I saw a girl sitting at a table read- ing a, paper covered novel. entitled “Love in the North.” On the cover was a huge Canadian youth dressed in fur parka, hugging a {beautiful girl, while the aurma iborealis made a brilliant 'backgroundi. Bishop Ren- isron who has spent much of his life in the North, was much amused. Actually, every person I. met had high praise for Canada and‘ Canadp ians â€" and it was sincere, not mere- ly a polite gesture. Many of them ‘had visited Canada. There was Lord ‘Riverdale, head of a. great steel company, who knew my own town of Fergus; Sir Harry Britbain, who asked particularly about Acton, On- tario, because he had' visited: there, his home being in Acton, England; Winston Churchill, who promised to visit Canada again 'as soon as he could, a promise since carried out. James Bone, [London editor of the Manchester Guardian, who lost his clothes when his boat was torpedoed as he returned from Canada; and the taxi driver who used to work at Jasper Park and lbelieved it was the most beautiful spot on earth. Canadian Soldieu's and English Girls Many Canadian soldiers are marry- ing English girls. That is not sur- prising, but few in Canada realize how many weddings there have been» The commanding officer of a West- ern Ontario battalion told me that 106 of his men had married Eng- lish and: Scottish girls. He said they were good girls, of the ‘best types, for he insisted on interviewing ev- ery one before he gave his permis- sion for the marriage to take rplace. ‘a large part of.that city was wiped out, most residents escaped with their lives but little else. Canadian garments clothed the people; Canad- ianu travelling kitchens fed them; Canadian medical supplies were used to ease their pain. 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