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These are testing days for Britain and for all the world. The ferocious attacks upon London and other British centres by the Nazi air bombers is testing the spirit of the people of the Old Land. As expected, they are rising to the oecasion with the magnificent spirit that has made the Empire great. Death and destruction have visited Briâ€" tain, but these devils are greeted with the same high spirit that has conquered fire and flood and famine and pestilence in the last thousand years. An ordinary woman, of London, whose home was in ruins and whose family and friends were separâ€" ated from herâ€"perhaps for ever on this earth, so far as she knew, stood on street with a suitcase ‘in her handâ€"all that life had left to her. "They cannct break our spirit for all their hellishness," was her comment. London is going about its daily duty, so far as is humanly â€"possible, as if the air raids were but a side wsue in the great matter. The dead are being mourned, the damâ€" age regretted, but the time is given to more pressâ€" ing things. The people carry on! Correspondents in London from neutral countries, speak with heartfelt admiration for the morale of the whole British people from the King and Queen down to the humblest of their subjects. The spirit is one of helpfulness to each other, gallant deeds on every hand, heroes and heroines beyond the count, and beneath it all the stern determination to carry on. to make alil sacrifices, to persevere to the end in the firm resolve that the gangster nations shall be defeated and destroyed. London newspapers maintain their sense of proportion. There are headlines, of course, for the death and damage wrought by the Huns, but there are banners, too, of equal size, for the terrific hammering by the Royal Air Force of military objectives in Naziâ€" held territory. . ’ 1 | It is a testing time in Canada, too. There are countless people in this Dominion who have near relatives and dear friends in the peril zones overâ€" seas. In some cases, it has been impossible to learn whether these relatives and friends are safe or not. Thus is anxiety quickened. It is a testâ€" ing time. It is not a time to be given over to mourning or to anxiety, however. There is the noble example of the Old Land to follow. There are duties to do and life to live. There are the noble words of the King for inspiration:â€""Put into your task whatever it may be, all the courâ€" age and purpose of which you are capable. Keep your hearts proud and your resolve unshaken. Let us go forward to that task as one man, a smile on our lips, and our heads held high, and with God‘s help we shall not fail." Months ago The Advance ventured the belief that one of the greatest services the people of Canada could give in this war was the maintainâ€" ing of a high morale. This seems to be a time to repeat that suggestion. There is the duty to press forward "grimly but gaily," as Premier Churchill phrased it. The war will be won by morale. It is a duty to maintain it. Were fire or pestilence threatening Old London, people here would not stop to weepâ€"they would help all they could first. The brave heart always helps to vieâ€" tory. To speak otherwise is to do the dirty work of the gangster nations. There should be no exaggeration of the damage done by the Huns. Britain is standing up gallantly under the vicious assaults and ready to bear even greaterâ€"certain in the final viectory that comes nearer each day. On more than one occasion the weekly and semiâ€"weekly newspapers have combined almost as a body to secure some worthy reform or to right some wrong. There has been no formal organizâ€" ation in these cases, but the move has been in the form of a spontaneous effort, one newspaper after another taking up the cause, until victory was assured in the battle waged. There are two matters at the present moment in which it would appear that the community newspapers of Canâ€" ada could do decided patriotic service if they would bend their voluntary efforts to the work. The one is the matter of inducing Great Britain to drop its green umbrella tactics in reference to the bombing of Germany. Fighting a war with one side making it a "total" war and the other side featuring the idealistic notions of high class private schools in this public world of sin is like a barefooted boxer entering the ring with one hand tied behind his back to face an opponent wearing knuckleâ€"dusters and lumbermen‘s boots. If the voice of Canada was roused to demand that the lives of British women and children should be set at a hundred times that of the Huns, there might be some results. The other matter in which the community newspapers could give notable assistance is an apparently minor question much nearer home. It is, however, much more vital than it is sometimes TFMMIN®, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association: Class "A" Weekliy Group TWO PHONESâ€"â€"26 and 2020 PublMished Every Monday and Thaorsday by GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Canadaâ€"â€"$3.00 Per Year. United Statesâ€"$§2 5M Per Year PAGE ®PotUn Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Sept. 12th, 1940 'mo"wnmm’m Obe Abuanee It might be well, however, for the British to consider another possible reason for German atâ€" tacks upon hospitals and schools and tenements. The more clearly the innocent and nonâ€"military form of the building is marked the more deterâ€" mined the Huns appear to bomb it. There may be much more than brutality behind all this. In the last war there were proven cases where the Germans used hospitals, schools and Red Cross buildings for storing munitions, for housing troops and for other military purposes. In the present war Red Cross planes were used by the Germans for secouting purposes, and even for carrying bombs. In their many and successful raids on Germamâ€"held territory the Royal Air Force has confined its activities to strictly military objecâ€" tives. Without doubt they have done immense damaée in this war. â€" But it is equally certain that they have not located the chief places of storage of German munitions and supplies. Last week a British airman, on his own initiative, dropâ€" ed a bomb on a spot in an apparently harmless stretch of German forest. The result was an eyeâ€" opener. There was such a tremendous explosion in that forest that the presence of immense quanâ€" tities of munitions there could not be doubted. The Royal Air Force gave more attention to that forest with the result that last week the Germans lost large quantities of munitions and supplies hiddenr beneath the camouflage Oof the trees. There is every reason to believe that the Germans who have consistently shown an utter contempt for all considerations of humanity and decency, as well as of all the requirements of international law, are using hospitals, schools, residental secâ€" tions, for strictly military uses. It is just the sort of thing that their perverted minds would conâ€" sider clever and worthy of the superior German mind. It appears to be about time that the Royal Air Foree used a few bombs to investigate some of the flauntingly innocent appearing structures in Germany that howl to the world that they are nonâ€"military. The very fact that the Huns cenâ€" ‘tre so much on this form of target certainly gives a hint to the thoughtful as to what is in the guilty conscience of the Nazis. It would appear as if the Germans made a speâ€" cial attempt to damage Red Cross buildings, hosâ€" pitais, schools, tenement houses and other places with absolutely no military value. In the recent air raids over London this Nazi tendency has been very apparent. It would almost appear as if the Germans prefer to injure a hundred civilians, rather than take a chance against a thousand soldiers. Of course, a chief reason for this may be the brutalâ€"and hence, cowardlyâ€"disposition of the German. Red Cross buildings, schools, hospitals, churches, tenement buildings are never equipped for defence and so they are comparaâ€" tively safe for attack from the air or otherwise. To degenerate sadists there may be a special satâ€" isfaction in inflicting injury and death on deâ€" fenceless people. It may well be that the Italian son of Hitler‘s bootlicker may have expressed the German temperament when he referred to the bombing of the poor Ethiopian civilians as "great ‘;sport." It may be taken for granted that in selecting targets for their bombs and aerial torâ€" pedoes the Germans also have the idea of terrorâ€" izing the civilian population and thus weakening the national morale. In other countries than Britain, it must be admitted that the Nazi form of bombing did have this effect. It is apparent, however, that this form of terrorization is proving a complete dud so far as British people are conâ€" cerned. The slaughter of women and children, the destruction of hospitals and sehools will but strengthen the British determination to rid the worla of the degenerate Hun and all his works. made to * $% ' : appear involves the very honour of!m’er nofina Canada. It is the treatment given Canadian # :mcts on active service on their leaves. ThefKeem watch In pression has left these young men and thelr‘NO ht’ Da k H families in poor financial position in most cases.|* lg S F our In addition the methods used in the enlisting and 6y "Bartimes‘ j y s training of these men have left them at considerâ€"| The summer dusk deepened slowly able distances from their homes. This is particuâ€" Over the North Sea as the destrover larly true of the North Land, which has given|COtlla reached itspatrolarca. . in an thousands upon thousands of men to the service.?ou;::a ;:1,1“:1:1:‘:: ; ;‘mf:m‘m When these men are granted leave, many of them!dfirknas- and faded at last. The long are not in position to pay the costs of transportaâ€"| low shupts of. the sMeG tio » through the night like grey woives n to and from th.eir homes. They have been whose hour for hunting had come, and reduced to the expedient of hitchâ€"hiking, or fore~â€"‘presently merged into the darkness. going the visit to home and friends. The newsâ€"|_I" the half light the destrovers had papers should make it plain that the people con-:wd;;fit:?sgt:;gbih:? ffiiycgm sider the situation a shame and a disgrace â€" a| the impression of an almost mechanâ€" sample of the contemptible red tape that curses leal efficiency.. The opders, conveyed this country on occasion. Most of the railways in ?e,,‘ gmn‘i’,‘,‘euj;{e,?o‘,‘i;'?;?Z‘f;e“f: this country are owned by the people. The people flously, and the reports when they would not have their soldiers begging rides on the|"®athed the bridgeâ€"such and sueh a P P gun ready and closed upâ€"searchlights ghway or stea}ing rides on trains. If the simpl€ ong torpedo tubes crews at their statâ€" method of governmentâ€"owned railways being inâ€"|ionsâ€"were made ard acknowledged in structed to honour leave passes for transportation |Undertones pitehed just loud. enough the same way that passes of members of parliaâ€" ,Lzuzzelxén :h;l::)uirdo%i ffiet::a_fa.r}v?; ment and civil servants and friends of those in good," came the low answer to each reâ€" power are honoured is too sensible a procedure,.|P°"*â€" _ - then the people would be quite ready to have the mit YL: ‘fhf;:‘i‘gjn’;;‘f",‘;fi' 632;; f:fi?lfi . . | y L « * tickets purchased in the ordinary way and chargâ€" machinery, every weapon, every officer ed to the people‘s account. In October the mnewsâ€"|and man, the. whole coâ€"ordination of rs are plannin n o+ .. | discipline and efficieney and experience pepe P ning to have a "Newspaper Week | seemed to lock together like a breechâ€" to celebrate the 500th anniversary of printing. block slammed home. They ought to hold a "Soldiers‘ Leave Week" ini ‘On the bridge the flotilla leader the ‘‘captain levered himself on to a high September to force the authorities to quit using| | wooden seat abaft the compass, turned the soldiers of the King no better than tramDs. |im ime collar of his coat and stuck Ever since the war began the Frenzied Fuehrer has been screamtng that this is a "total" war. He has certainly made it so. Few people have any THE PORCUPTINE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO The First Lieutenant unfastened the belt of his goatskin coat and pulled a biscuit and thinking about his goatskin leaning against No. 3 gun nibbling the piscuit and thinkng about his goatskin coat. It was the type of garment worn by Palestine shepherds and had bought it at Alexandria. It smelt like nothing on earth when he bought it, but he hung it in the sun and the wind on board his destroyer "up the straits" and that made it all right. snepherds had probably worn eoats like that in the time of Christ, guarding their flock from wolves on the bleak hills of palesâ€" tme. He felt that there was Ssome sort up ‘the collar of his eoat and stuck an empty pipe into his mouth. All about him were the forms of men motâ€" ionless in the darkness. He was conâ€" scious of them not so much as individâ€" uals but as functions, part of himself as it were. It was as if he woere simulâ€" taneously starimng through halfâ€"aâ€"dozen pairs of eyes into the darkness, listâ€" ening with other ears to the sounds of the sea, calculating the set of curâ€" rents, reading a tiny beam of light flickering a message on the bridge of the next astern: and at the same time he was estimating his fue!l requirements when he returned to harbour, wishing hne could smoke, and hoping he could somehow keep at bay for the next six hours a longing for sleep. For the first few hours nobody talked very much. The sky held a pale diffusâ€" ed light with patches of star alternately cbscured and revealed in the shifting ceiling of thin clouds. This light sulâ€" ficed to show the dark shadows of the waves as they curved and broke in sleams of grey foam. Occasionally a lookâ€"out gave tongue. Once a floating mine was reported and avoided, and the warining flashed astern to the flotilla Once the ark outline of a convoy glided past, under guard of its escort, silent and dark as ghost ships. At midnight fannies of hot cocoa arâ€" rived from the gallery. Men stirred themselves and drank, grateful for the warmth of the thick sweet brew, and lapsed into their thoughts again. It was in truthvery good.. The flotilla illa, the ships themselves, every bit of machinery, every weapon, every officer and man, the whole coâ€"ordination of discipline and efficieney and experience seemed to lock together like a breechâ€" block slammed. home. In the half light the destroyers had gone to action stations. Theéir crews had done it all so often that.they gave the impression of an almost mechanâ€" ical efficiency.. The orders, conveyed in peace time by pipe and shouting, were given in undertonses, almost superâ€" flously, and the reports when they reached the bridgeâ€"such and stch a gun ready and closed upâ€"searchlights and torpedo tubes crews at their statâ€" ionsâ€"were made ard acknowledged in undertcnes pitched just loud enough to overcome the drone of the fan exâ€" hause and the sound of the sea. "Very good," came the low answer to each reâ€" doubt as to the eventual victory of the British, even if the present unequal battle is continued. But it should be recognized that the battle will be long prolonged, and needless lives will be lost and preventable damage done, if the Germans are permitted to continue their "total" form of war, while Britain jogs along with a "half" war and a "halt" sentimental drivel about ethics and morals and ideals. The very fact that the Germans hope to undermine the British morale by the slaughter of women and children and the damage of nonâ€" military places is surely suggestive of the probâ€" ability that a little "total" war turned on them would soon have the cowardly brutes in a panic. In the last war, the German people escaped the horrors of war that were visited by them on the civilians of other nations. That is one cf the chief causes of the present war. Are the Gerâ€" mans again to be allowed to escape all traces of the brutalities they visit upon others? It has been shown that the German disposition has no appreciation for kindness, or consideration or chivalry. They look upon the British as stupid fools to be held back by ideals and the ethics of rivate schools for aristocrats. Pleading not guilty to the charge is not enough, and proving that it is the right attitude in such a war appears an almost impossible task. With all the vital issues at stake in this war, the only thought should be whether or not the "total" annihilation of the gangster nationsâ€"â€"men, women and chilâ€" drenâ€"would not save the lives of many good British peoples. GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER § uis ns ns n L 0 EC l i oc cce . iess ds ts e Ti . ds ce ce ie t ce T: P stt c The spirit of the people of Britain was evidentâ€" ed in odd way in one town in the Old Land this week. At the town hall a number of people were gathered to fulfil their patriotic duty of paying municipal rates. "Rates" in the Old Country are the same as "taxes" in this land â€" only much higher. The air alarm sounded and the collector of connection between him and the The leader of the foremost gun had toothache. He‘d been a foolâ€"to drink hot eccoa because that made it worse. He wanted to bang his head against the gun shield.: He wondered how anyâ€" body could be so unhappy who hadn‘t got toothache. The world was composâ€" ed of two lots of people, those. who had toothache and those who didn‘t. The cnes who hadn‘t out to go dancing and bashing cymbals together like the Salvation Army and shouting "I haven‘t got tcothache! Hurrah! I haven‘t got toothache! Hallelujah!"‘ Most people didn‘t know when they were well off, and that was a fact. He wondered what the ecaptain would say if the ship‘s company started beating tamâ€" of job and .they were both wearing the same sort of. coat, and itâ€"was good coat for,.keeping wateh in, once you got cout of it. shepherds although it was. a far cry from Palestine to the North Sea. Anyâ€" how they both had much the same sort The war will end by Nov. 15 with a resounding British vietory if C. QMS. R. H. Horstead‘s reading of the stars is correct. Horstead who comes from Windsor and is now overseas with a Scottish regiment, claims to have foretold the beginâ€" ning and end of the last wor. . He has checked his zodiac charts sevâ€" eral times and always gets the same results he says. Sees Victory in Stars SECOND WAR LOAN IMPERIAL BANkKk OF CANADA Italian newspapers approve of Germany‘s atâ€" tacks on nonâ€"military places in Britain and the slaughter of civilians, especially women and chilâ€" dreéen. As the son of Mussolini said on another | occasion "it‘s great sport." i | | Police at London, Ontario, arrested an Indian! on the charge of being drunk while operating a motor car. When asked his name the Indian seemed to reply:â€""King George." "Yes," re-‘ sponded the police officer, "and I‘m Napoleon! | But what‘s your name?" Again the Indian reâ€"| plied, "Keen George!" Once more the police offiâ€" cer made the retort that in such a case he was Napoleon, and adding:â€"*"Now spell it!" The Inâ€" dian complied in courteous way. "Kâ€"eâ€"nâ€"eâ€"n Gâ€"eâ€"0oâ€"râ€"gâ€"e," he spelled. "That‘s different!" said the officer, "and I‘m not Napoleon anymore!" The police were satisfied for the time, but the, next morning the magistrate sentenced "Keen| George" to fourteen days in jail and suspended his driver‘s license for six months. What a magâ€" nificent opportunity for the liar, Goebells. All he| has to do is to take the story as it appears, leave' out the humour about Napoleon, and the wordi Ontario from the date line, and he can make it appear that King George was convicted in Oldi London and will not be able to drive a car for six months. The story would be more veracious than most of the inventions the German propaganda‘ minister feeds his flock. l [ i It may not be out of place to repeat what The iAdvance suggested months agoâ€"that the Rouâ€" manian Carol is Noellâ€"if you pronounce it rightâ€" ly. of taxes being an air warden had to leave for deâ€" fence duty. The mayor of the town at once asâ€" sumed the duty of taking in the taxes, and despite the falling of bombs nearby, the whole group waited until they secured their receipts. And it wasn‘t in Scotland, either. Subscriptions received at all Branches and loans made to assist in the purchase of these bourmies and shouting > "Hurrah"! beâ€" cause they hadn‘t got toothache., He wished they would go into action and then perhaps a shell would come along and blow his Read of. iThat was about the only thing that would cure him. The second hand of the signal watch was thinking about his bed at home. His home was a farm in Hampshire. There was lavender_ growing in the front garden. His mother dried the flowers and put them in muslin bags in her linen cupboard. His pillow and the sheets smelt faintly of lavender. A down prillow. Your head sank into it and the scent of lavender went over you in a soft wave. He tried to stop thinking about it, nodding where he‘ stocd. 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"Down with Wa‘ll Street!" he persisted, and passersby kept going without giv=â€" ing him a tumnble . ..‘"Down with America!" he bellowed, and nobody touched him . . . Finally, he said: "The Brooklyn Dodgers stink!"â€"ard someâ€" body slugged him.â€"Walter Winchell. Geraldton Times: Florida fears tyâ€" phoons, but Hitler hates hurricanes. Rrampton Expositor: Now they are telling us that shaking hands is a relic of barbarism. In proof of the assertion it is claimed that it became customary in the days when everyone carried a dagger in his belt, and when one friend meeting another thought it necessary to attest the peacefulness of his intenâ€" tions by extending an open palm. 14 Pine st. N. 100% Havana Filler,; REAL ESTATE 21 Pine Street North It was hard to understand. He stemed ssmart as a whip n â€"everything but school work. One day, however, hts teacher noticed that his work improved whenever he sat near the front of the room, where he was closer to the bplackboard. 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