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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., MARCH 23, 1944 If IV ¥I1«^ DO THIS! To relieve discomforts, one of the best things you can do is put a good spoonful of home-tested Vicks VapoRub in a howl of boiling water. Then feel welcome relief come as you breathe in the steaming medicated vapors that penetrate to the cold-congested upper breathing passages! See how this soothes irritation, quiets coughing, and helps clear the head-bringing grand comfort. FOR ADDED RELIEF. . . ruh throat, chest and back with VapoRub at bedtime. Vicks VapoRub works for hours-2 waysatonce-to bring relief from distress.-" x, it's Vicks 1 you want. The Book Shelf Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep By Ludwig Bemelmans The hero of Ludwig Bemelmans' fipst novel is one Leonidas Erosa, a South American general heavy with years and money, residing in Biarritz with his retinue. This includes a paragon of a cook; an Indian to care for his dogs; a fabulous secretary; and the faithful English governess, Miss Graves, who carries her coffin with her when they travel. i This sportive party, at the approach of war, sets out for America. Their adventures in Casablanca, in New York, and finally on the old hacienda in Ecuador, are a saga of life, love, death and birth. Let the reader beware who expects a conventional novel. It's a book that tells a story about some people; but beyond that it's a great many other things, all of them entertaining. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep ... By Ludwig Bemelmans . . . Tha Macmillan Company of Canada .. . Price $3.00. HEMORRHOIDS 2 Special Remedies by the Makers of Mecca Ointment Mecca Pile Remedy No. 1 is for Protruding Bleeding Piles, aud is sold in Tube, with pipe, for internal application. Price 75c. Mecca Pile r in Jar, and is for external use only. Price 50c. 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Sow Grass Early Any work with lawns should be started just as quickly in the spring as possible. This does not mean that the soil should be worked while it is still wet. But once one can walk over the ground without getting his shoes muddy, then the rake can be brought into play. In both new lawns or in patch-ching, the soil should be raked fine and level. Authorities advise sowing only the highest quality of seed mixtures, as thick as directions specify and, of course when there is no wind 1 bwing. Both new and old lawns benefit from rolling while the ground is still soft. Grass, like, any other plant, needs good soil and an annual application of fertilizer is advisable. This pushes growth so that many weeds are crowded out. Layouts The most effective layout of flowers, lawns and shrubbery, for the average gardener, is an informal one. That is, curved paths and borders rather than straight lines. But when we put in these curves, especially in paths, landscape experts say, we must be sure to make a reason for them otherwise the whole effect will be artifical. At the bend in the driveway or path, therefore, it is well to have a tree or a group of shrubs or a flower bed. In screening, it is not necessary nor desirable to cover the whole of fence, wall or garage unless the same is unsightly. Much more pleasing results follow where the shrubbery, vines and flowers merely break the lines of the man-ma > structures behind them, but lea.e enough showing for contrast. VOICE OF THE PRESS ALL HONOR TO 'EM Columnists make much of the fact that a lady in Suffolk has become a chimneysweep because of a shortage of manpower. That doesn't seem any more remarkable than our own courageous little Miss Barsoski, who because her brother donned a uniform, attires herself in a coverall and assists her dad with Arnprior's garbage gathering which^ on ashes-collection day --Arnprior Chronicle. QUESTION FOR THE JUDGE Our esteemed former townsman, Ontario Chief Justice R. S. Robertson, rules that there is no such animal as a blue cow. Whence, then, comes all that "blue" milk? --Stratford Beacon-Herald. SOLVES THE PROBLEM One St. Louis bus driver diplomatically admonishes his passengers with: "Kindly push each other to --Exchange. SIMPLE RULE The whole thing can be reduced to one rule: If she puts it on her head it must be a hat. --Stratford Beacon-Herald. SOMETHING TO REMEMBER No one has mentioned it of late, but Great Britain is onlv 20 miles from the German Army. THE RUSSIAN EMBLEM Apart from their ideological significance, the hammer and the UP OUR ALLEY Germans tried to bowl over the Yanks in Italy by rolling down the hills concrete "bowling balls" like the one displayed above. sickle make an apt emblem for Russia. The sickle is mowing down the Nazis and the hammer is pounding them into defeat. --Hamilton Spectator. SUNDAY, MONDAY OR ALWAYS A Minnesota man is divorcing his wife because she kisses him only when she wants money. Well, isn't that often enough! --Peterborough Examiner. Ontario Maples For Canadian Graves In U.K. Maple trees grown from seedlings provided by the Ontario Forests Department shortly will be planted in English cemeteries where Canadians killed in this war are buried, the 38th anuual convention of the Ontario Horticultural Association was told recently by Secretary J. A. Carroll. Carroll said permission to plant the trees has betn obtained from the Imerpial War Graves Commission. A shipment of seedlings now is en route to Kew Gardens, near London, where they will be grown for a time and then transplanted. THE WAR • WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Britain's Ban On Irish Travel Necessary For Safety Of Troops There was no blood and thunde in the remarks Mr. Churchill mad< last week about the little neutra nation on the other side of the St "George's Channel, says the Nev York Times. Secretary Hull show ed the same moderation in his com ments at his press conference. Pub lie opinion in both countries wil support these spokesmen. Then can be no feeling in the Unitee States or in Britain against the peo pie of Eire. The problem, as Mr. Churchil briefly explained it, is a purely prac tical one. As long as Axis spies with the status of diplomats, re main in Eire, close to the scene of preparation for the invasion o the Continent, the military plans o the United Nations are in danger o: being betrayed. , The Time Has Come Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill said in part: "We have for some time pasl taken a number of measures to minimize the dangers arising from £ substantial disservice to the Allied cause involved in the retention bj Mr. de Yalera's government of the German Minister and Japanese -Consul, with their staffs, in Dublin. "The time has now come wher these" measures must be strengthened, and the restrictions on travel tc Ireland announced in the press are the first step in a policy designee to isolate Great Britain from Southern Ireland and also to isolate Southern Ireland from the outei World during the critical period which now is approaching." Affect On Union This isolation of Southern Ireland is being undertaken in order to safeguard United Nations troops Specifically, it must be intended to keep the Germans from knowing where, when, in what force and by what means we shall attempt to land on the European coast. Coun-less lives might be lost if the Germans knew the answers. There would be bitter resentment if the answer came from Dublin. Irishmen themselves, "large numbers" of whom, as the Prime Minister says, "are fighting so bravely" in the British forces, would die on the beaches. The union of all Ireland, which the majority of the island's inhabitants undoubtedly desire, would be postponed. All the old wounds would bleed afresh. Further Action Possible The travel ban is warmly approved in Britain as was the Amen- -- NEW RAIL BLOCK SYSTEM Signal standards at the C^P.R.'s White River yard form part of the continent's biggest wartime installation of electric automatic block safety equipment. The system is wheel-rail activated and features familiar red-yellow-green lights. . It brings safer, speedier operation of 30 trains daily to end a bottleneck on 250 miles of single track between the Ontario Algoma rail towns of Chapleau and Schreiber on main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. can move aimed at ending Axis spy activities in Eire, writes the London correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor. For the British people have found it hard to tolerate a situation in which Eire has given a privileged position to Axis spies, notwithstanding the fact that Eire's very existence as a free nation depends on an Allied UThey B ritish Goi against it's state-iderations have forced the latest move to seal off Eire has increased a sense of strained expectation which predominates in Britain today as preparations for invasion dominate all spheres of daily li: Further Allied Eire are being del such as closing of the border between Ulster and Eire. Nor is it felt that the South Irish people can expect much help from Britain and the United States in their present acute shorage of sufch necessities as coai and gasoline. Some Limited Permits All travel to and from Ireland won't cease immediately, as existing short-term permits will still be valid. But in future only the highest priority and special compas- across -the Irish Canncl. Thousands of Irish- men and women serving in the forces and working in British factories will be for the time being cut off from home. Mail and phone communications' will remain, but a tightening up of censorship is expected as there have been some laxities in these Hope For Settlement Nevertheless so long as German and Japanese representatives remain in Dublin, the Axis has an advantage for espionage. Mr. de Valera said he turned down an American request for Eire to break diplomatic relations with the Axis because the Dublin Government couldn't do so "without a complete betrayal of their demo- In some quarters it is still hoped that Governments of Mr. de Valera and Britain and the United States may yet find some way round the impasse and that better Irish feeling for Britain, engendered by British toleration .of Eire's neutrality, won't suffer a setback. Farm Cash Income At New High Level Acording to official estimates, the"' cash income of Canadian farmers reached a new high level in 1943 when the estimated returns from the sale of farm products totalled $1,397 million. This represents an increase of $282 million, or 25 per cent, over 1942. and is up $674 million or 93 per cent, over 1939. Higher income is reported from ail provinces and with few exceptions the increase is common to all The greatest percentage occurred in the Prairie Provinces where, despite a reduced harvest, sales from the previous year's crop were substantial. The returns from live stock were also substantially greater in the Prairie Provinces, particularly in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Poor crops in the Eastern Provinces resulted in a reduction in cash income froni the sale of grains in these provinces but the declines were offset by greater income from the sale of live stock and live stock products. Super-Cleaners On Their Honor One hundred trusted women do their work admist the secrets of the Second Front--they are the cleaners at Invasion Headquarters, "super-cleaners (who) are on their honor to say not a word about what they may see or hear as thev scrub and polish." They even have a password, "Who goes there?" a sentry demands. The magic ans- At least 300 enemy supply ships rere sunk by British submarines in he first three years of war. Do your worries often keep you awake at night? And does this restlessness make you feel "all in" the next day? Noise, anxiety, overdoing things or working under pressure can affect the nerves ... may make you sleepless, cranky, restless .. . cause nervous headache or nervous fears. Dr. Miles Nervine helps relieve nervous tension because it is a mild sedative. Take it according to directions to help calm your nerves and to improve your sleep. Effervescing Nervine Tablets are 35c and 75c. Nervine Liquid is 25c and SI .00. NERVINE Nazis Had Invasion Force' In Greenland The Germans once had an invasion force in Greenland and flew plrnes within bomber range of North American shores, Col. Bernt Balchen, famed flier, and Corey Ford declare in a recent issue of Collier's. They added that Nazi submarines had been refueled in Greenland. "You did not know--the facts could not be revealed until no*' -- that the Nazis had actually established a foothold on this side of the Atlantic. "You did not know, all last year, that their planes were flying within bombing distance of the shores of North America. Their submarines, refueling in Greenland's silent fiords, were striking at will at our convoys to England and Murmansk. "Their well-jquipped weather station, on the Island's undefended east coast, was in daily radio communication with Berlin." Messrs. Balchen and Ford said weather information from Greenland "enabled the trapped Scharn-horst (German battleship since destroyed in a sea battle) and Gneisenau to slip out of harbor, under cover of heavy fog, and pass unmolested within 15 miles of the Dover Coast." Heavy Waterproof Coverall (TARPAULINS) Height 6'--Width 9'--Depth 3 Practically new, never having been used. Quite the handiest weather and waterproof protee- PRICE $6.25, plus $2 for floor. F.O.B. 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