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T he Grimsby Independent uwuâ€"uu?mummw per year in United States, payable True independence is never afraid of appearâ€" ing dependent. and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. HOW SAFE ARE OUR HALLS? That terrible catastrophe in Hamilton last week, when ten lives were lost in a flash fire that swept the Moose hall, should make us all sto» and take stock of our own situaâ€" Could such a terrible thing happen in Grimsby? Positively yes. QOther than Moore‘s Theatre there is not one public place of assembly in the town that is by any means safe, from a fire hazard, unless it might be the auditorium of the High School. Main street, with a turn and a narrow door at the top. There is of course a rear door that is wide enough, but just how strong and how safe is that old runway and set of woodâ€" en steps that lead down to the ground. It is my opinion that they would not carry too much weight in their present conditi<n. In the next place to get to that rear door you pass down a narrow corridor and through other doors. The Temple building halls are the safest of them all and aw that there is only one enâ€" trance and one exit, but it is a good wide one, although the one door at the bottom of the stairs is always locked. The Masonic lodge room has a door opening out at the »zar of the building, but if you step out there you would just float through space. There is no stairway leading down from it. In event of fire in the front portion of the building this rear door would not be accessible to the pubâ€" lic. Trinity hall is absolutely a fire trap. It is an old ‘suilding and would burn inside like tinder. The entrances and exits are very narrow and awkward to get at and in case of a ire the panic stricken people would just jam up and deaths would result. No one knows this better than Go:?allo r Erwin Phelps, who is on the Board Management of the hall, for on more than one occasion he has taken steps to try and alleviate this situation, particularly at the times when the hall was crowded with little children at the y Time Music Festival t Quring the past three years rire Cmicl TLePage has certainly not been derelict in is duty, Heis constantly visiting the different halls and schools in the town and township and on more than one occasion nas compelled locked doors to be opened. He has been sovâ€" erely criticized by certain people in certain spots for his action, this being especially so when he visited the 1948 music festival and forced certain measures t..o be finken. it is a fact. It is quite possible, in case of & flash flreorabulnre,fornhrgennmherof people to either drown or suffocate in the ;ymnuium ut the Migh School. This gym is in a secondâ€"like basement and the gyin floor is reached by a very steep and narrow stairâ€" way, Ths halcony is reached by a door leadâ€" ing from the basement proper und there is no straiway down to the gym f:oor. A real fire in the main basement would cut off exit from either the balcony or the gym and if the firemen vere using lots of water the gym would soon iill up. _ _ _ _ 1F there HAPPENED to be a ladder in g:‘fymiteouldbeuudtorsehthezmnd windows 5d exit zaade in that manner, but how about the people on the baleony. There should be a covered outside exit from the gym on the south end of the building and a stairway from the balecony to the gym floor. i rkzre o t k FACTS & FANCIES JOHN W, GLENDINNING, President, WILEFRBD M. LAVSON, Viceâ€"President ‘ J. ORLON LIVINCSSTON, Secrstary, and Editor Hawke‘s hall is definitely muot safe. It is rvaw ctairway that londe ta the hall fram Member Canadian Weekiv Newspaper "Lincoin County‘s Leading Weekly" This one may sourld strange to you, but we very same : people that were criticâ€" Fire Chief izing Chie? LePage for doing his duty are the very same people that would ery to high heaven for his scaip, if he did not do his duty and as a result a catastrophe occurred. thin CANADA ISs THE POORER (Hamilton Spectator) Surgeonâ€"Lieutenant Clarence E. Irvine, R.N.V.R., of Grimsby, was on an errand of mercy aboard H.M.C.S. Valleyfield when a German torpedo struck the frigate. He reâ€" mained with a sick seaman, where he felt his duty lay, and was never seen again after the ship was hit. . $ x* # Canada .s proud of such noble and selfâ€" less devotior, but Canada and the world are poorer for the loss of the young men of his heroic mould. They caught the gleam of something beyond price. _ i If peace and justice are to prevail in this world, those who shape policy, and those civilians, too, who elect the "shapers," must catch something of the same vision and hold to it in the face of all false beacons or anyâ€" ching that might betray the sacrifice of splendid youth in this war. _ A SOLDILR‘S WATCH This is a little more on that serviceman who kept his watch on "our time," as he put it, so wherever he was he could follow the routine activities of his family home on the farm. ‘The soldier explained that when his watch said five o‘clock in the afternoon he knew Dad was on the way to the barn to "do the chores." Or, if the hands pointed to six o‘ciock, Mom was clanging the dinner bell for the men to come in for supper. As my green old age draws closer 1 am glad I‘m out of debt; as I said to Prune, the gmer,creditilmln'lonebutbot;ueis ahornofhalfitsterrorlifmoldmanhu tii» price; debt is ranked with moral errors which make life as cold as ice. In life‘s hlooming Spring and Sumrer, man should work and save his dimes, as i‘ve said to Pipe, then his neighbour will admire him as a man ofmandthriftandhirdamlelu by the dozen will desire him for a gift. There is alâ€" ways open trackage and an open right of way #or the man who has a puckage in the mothâ€" balls out away. And when comes I‘‘0‘s bitâ€" ter viiter and he‘s tired and long» . »â€" vest, as I‘ve said to Brush, the painter, he .as got his treasure chest. yea he has his keg of shillings which are dripping fron. *» bung, coin he earmned by ceaseless drilli;, s in the days when he was young. And he does not need to shiver with the dread of Charity, he can journey in his flivver with his bank uook on his knee; he car. ea+ » lordly dinner, he can drink from silver bowls; as I‘ve said to Bill the tanner, these is notning like a roll. He didn‘t go into detail but one can asâ€" sume that five o‘clock by his watch means more than just "chore time." It means foamâ€" ing pails of mlk, the warm smell of the barn; the stamping of hoofs, creaking stanâ€" chions, rattle of halters, swish of tails. If it‘s six, there‘s Momn over the big stove, stirringâ€"spoon in hand. Teaâ€"kettle‘s aâ€"singing. Men scuffing from the sink, gropâ€" ing with puckered faces for the roller towel on the buttery door. Mom with starchy apron ladling generous portions of food on crockâ€" ery plates. # *# # L Then comes evening; eight o‘clock, his watch says. Dad‘s in his sagging leather chair, head nodding over the morningâ€"yes, the morningâ€"paper. Mom is knitting and rocking in twoâ€"fourtime. Pal liee on the hearth dreaming doggy dreams. Soldier, you‘ve chosen a wise way of keeping home close to your heart. You know what you‘re fighting for. May your watch never run down! oUT OF DEBT PUSHING THE LAWN muwER The hum of the lawn mower is now heard in (=> Jland. Father and the boys have u steady {~. 1or the summer, The well mowâ€" ed lawn is a thing of beauty. It seems like a carpet of green velvet around the home. It *s the frame of the picture which a dwelling gives, and something more than that, as the deep color of grass is a picture by itself. ‘The mowers will find it does not pay to let the grass grow very long. It takes a lot of pushing to get the mower thmufih overâ€" grown grass. If mowed frequently, the mowâ€" er runs easily. If Father does not do active work through the day, it gives him needed ~xercise, ‘The boys should be told also that it is as developing physically as playing baseâ€" ball or golt. «_ THE â€"GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT BEING AN INDIAN WAS DIFFERENT Oncoupnumu-pnhdn-odmr- lie Blue Goose made a deadfall just below our pasâ€" ture spring. M-lwm.ldmtmlbtd mmnm-.muqmmum ttmmhmwmmwu\nfln black bear in it. He skun out the bear and gave GWMNM“MMM upmequnnmmywthnutmua toboggan. As far as recorded history is concerned that was the last appearance in our pasture of Indians or bears, but I am able to report both have been seen hmwnnnww“â€"mtmm to set the fact dowr. I myself, alone and unassistâ€" ed, once saw 38 braves seated in a circle on the lednbytheockgme,udbymwfldlysbwt (thereby creating the illusion of numbers), I was -bletodlmtehfldthmnndmmm:n headlong flight. I brought their scalps home to -d.onunwumm::uuu-wuâ€"â€"â€"- fashion As be lay in the of his the oak s dashing wildly about . fashion. debris tepee we l(.d”gm” Ms.‘n&.nmmb,dmnxm could bardly see him for burdock leaves, But he able to dispatch 27 of them and put the others :0 was & galant brave, all the same, and we spoke headlong flight. I brought their scalps home to â€" mighly of his courage and stealth, Then we all want provelt.ubelngwdlmmmmtum u.e to supper. like burdock leavesâ€"especially if dried in greena‘ider ha *# *# # smoke. :m.mmt«mmm Well, I went back and finished pruning the tree, must have burned three cords of alder twigs that and dwelt thoughtfully on this and that, and decided summer before I eliminated (a) all the Indians, and I wouldn‘t be « Jap either. (b)llltbeb\mb.AMouth:::flmu. c Snd threatened by the discovery that rhubarb also makes Danned and Pilfered good-euplu.munvwlynmudbynmm felt Indians could be simulated but rhubarb couldn‘t. Thus I was saved from another long trip into Canâ€" ada after women and children, and had the time for hunting bears. Every time I hunted bears the cry came from the kitchen that the cows were falling off i= ineir milkâ€"a quaint nonâ€"sequitur that never was wholly cleared up, because cows, can‘t talk and I didn‘t. When other boys joined with me we had grand fun. We chose up sides and half of us were Indians. o stigma went with being an Indian. For one reuson, the Indians used murderous scalping hatchets made from a shingie tied inside a willow. as settiers were restricted to urearms named Betsy and Nancy. Not only that, Indians could prow! uround wit"sut any CiOVNes On, Sut sSELDETS HME NC remain respectably dressed. We prowled and howlâ€" ed and sowled all througa the woods, occasionally had massacres, and usually the mrdogqcmd When some boy refused to accept his lot and arguâ€" ed spiritedly that he hadn‘t been sia‘n after all. Times have changed. I heard a hullabaloo over the wall while I was pruning a tree ara walked up ‘WAY BACK WHEN I New "Hospital On Wheels" Now In Service Oh! To Be A Kid Again @"Ir 1 definitely the last word in 'I h-fil cars and !hk"nw Golonel, The Hon: "3.':. L. h"“":l CMG., D.8.0., K.C., Ministor Nofio& D.luael when he and a mh&mfiofln Ottawa of the fourth hospital car built by the Cnadian National Railways. The airâ€"conditioned "hospital on wheels" was later released +o ulw R.C.A. M.C. for service. % * va‘t Raileate ‘daltrored the fimt hoomtal wm‘nr.ndncb succeeding car included improvements aud new lentures so that the fourth type Colonel Ralston to say: P oarlninly mot maingle thing fras have C0i ‘m M 2o tho Conadine Nationg!®*‘ Frank Fairborn, Jw. to 1 tigate. umm.‘hh this: ‘The woods are now a Pacific jungle infested with Japanese snipers and United States Marines, ‘The Marines are real, but the snipers are imaginary f ummwdmmmm Luw.).p. If the Indian, while a nuisâ€" "B © C000 OGGiusuwakhia shovranter the Cies: Aincsalis tm DPofip hA PCP h ..a,mmm.wuom.m :nnmnommumwm«uy- thing their own way and shot great quantities of ammunition into the trees at close raage. They al~ numwmummo. of sterile eggs out of somebody‘s incubstorâ€"a deâ€" vice just as The battle I watched was terrific and employâ€" ed considerable language an old Indian fighter like me couldn‘t understass. I did notice that nonâ€"exisâ€" u-t.upmmunmm real Indians, Womdmmtumfww-‘mm his warrioss, but today Japs come right out in the open. Japs don‘t cause the Marines much trouble, either, but Chief Pig Horse used to give us a lacing once in a while, burn our homes and carry off our wamen and children During the Manishquitock Massacre, Little White Heron scaiped me seven times. He used to scream and life the scalp with his teeth and then dance. He bit the dust in awful have a Ghost writer. A woman who can hurry through a deâ€" partment store aisle 18 inches wide without b:ushing against the piledâ€"up glassware, and then drive home and knock one of the doors off a 12â€"foot garage. Canada‘s Ghost Army surely ought to As we journey down the road, Let us share each other‘s load ; Let‘s be kind Going whither? None can say! We are comrades on the way ; Long the night; but while it‘s day Let‘s be kind. ‘At the best the road is steep, And a little cheer is cheap; Pass it out, it helps a heap: Let‘s be kind. Penned and Pilfered Let‘s Be Kind D:W(lm- erat) Cland esn en ¢p Dowd, Chie! Medical Officer, C.N Râ€" Mhmm&-mm sion cord for the call «â€"=*â€"m for cas of the bods in the airâ€"e« rditisned Mr. »u(.l. + "ward." (Lower right)â€"As the "hos pital on M% out ol *\ P tg C Kn President: G. F. McCoy, assistant “m. 1“___“" 1944. chief of car equipment; and 14.â€"Col. 8. District Medical Olfoor, . Mr. MceCoy is of beds, which have the drop side salcty guards for upper Army); Col. E. L. Btone; im Dagte B 7. 6.