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The cheery red and grateful warmth of Canadian Red Cross Society blankets had enâ€" livened the dreary and often dirty shelters during the blitz. ‘"The ‘little people‘ loved them; British women always knew without looking on the outside of the box, who packâ€" ed themâ€"", Miss McGee said of Canadian Red Cross garments. British women rave about Canadian women‘s sewing, too. It is K::hctlcally hard for a British wife under the t cirenmstances to assemble a layette for her baby; and Canadian Red Cross layettes "Clothes were terribly needed, and Canâ€" adian Red Cross clothing was made and packâ€" ed with such a lot of care," Miss Mollice Mcâ€" Gee, noted woman war correspondent told a small luncheon party at the canteen in Torâ€" onto Branch of the Red Cross. Pausing for a brief visit in Toronto enroute to Wuhifl- ton and thence to England liflln. she told some of her experiences in Britain, CANADIAN RED CROSS IN ACTION Men should be measured by their conâ€" tribution to life. The world is impoverished byltspoor.notralurleh. It is a happier and a better wo! because men invented things, wrote good books, painted fine picâ€" tures, or in some way added to the sum total of human pleasure and delightâ€"not all the wealth of the world can be measured in dolâ€" The same applies to all our great invenâ€" tions, the aeroplane, the telephone, the teleâ€" graph, the list is large. A few made money â€"m;ehb.nmy. Wh:ethdou it matter? Lg‘)f. wou poorer, m/ poorer, without the men who tried to do great thingsâ€"and sueâ€" ceeded. They did not bring poverty to the world, they brought opportunity. Henry Ford developed the automobile, made himself one of the richest men in the world, but the world is richer today because of his effort. We made him rich beyond the dreams of avarice, he produced a product we wantedâ€"sold it at a price we could pay. He gave in return an improved system of transâ€" portation, an apportunity to know and enjoy the land we live in. The span of life is short. Intimehlnmdthw‘lll'mnwotherhmdl. The things he gave remain forever, proof of his nrvg-_ to humanity. There are times when I rather like Karl Marx. His was a clear and penetrating mind â€"oceasionally he had a sense of humor. He was not afraid of work, an excellent %u:llty in an age when so many seek ease. t in this statement Karl Marx was wrong. I know that he was, so do you, thus writes R. WEALTH AND POVERTY Score one for the Boy Scouts. When there is high official commendation from the FBI, it means a lot. % & woodcraft and all that, t important thing of all '-mw Boy Scouts are taught many things, woodcraft and all that. Probably the most Here was a case of observation, a little suspicion and then sound conclusion. There* is no telling how far these spies might have got with their nefarious work, if it had not been for the diligence of the Boy Scout. The Boy Scout movement should surely derive a big impetus from the official report of J. Edgar Hoover, that the two German spies were recently nabbed because a Boy Scoutmaster first picked up their trail on the coast of Maine. ONE FOR BOY SCOUTS Issued Thursday from office of publiâ€" tlon, Main and Udk $to, Grimaby, by True independence is never afraid of appearâ€" ing dependent, and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. Said Karl Marx: "An accumulation of wealth at one pole of society indicates an acâ€" ; cumulation of misery and overâ€"work at the The Grimsby Independent LIVINGSTON and LAWSON, Publishers. FACTS & FANCIES "Lincoin County‘s Leading Weekly" Established 1885 Nights, Sund ptionâ€"$2.00 in Canada J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor, Frank Fairborn, Jr. A For mankind there is always a yesterâ€" day and a tomorrow, and that fact is emâ€" Wforulnthe dawn of each New ear. Like Janus, we have two faces, one looking backward upon the year that is past and the other gazing into the future. In looking back we can see the way by which we have come, but the future is veiled in mysâ€" tery, At the beflmln( of 1944 we were tryâ€" ing to foresee what the new year held in store for us, and certain predictions were made by men of authority as to the possible course of the war. These predictions were based upon past experiences and well preparâ€" ed plans for future operations, and the foreâ€" casts were partially fulfilled. _ But there can be ro cortainty for manâ€" and make plans accord ngly, but we eannot kind as to the future, We cnn detect trends prophesy because we do not know enough. since all the possibilities of development are contained in the newlyâ€"born babe, The poet Spenser says, "For soul is form and doth the body make." The minutest seed in the voxz table kingdom knows exactly what it is ing; it selects the kind of chemicals in the soil which are suited to its development and it knows the season in which it must appear in the earth. Even the flowers have memorâ€" ies, the chick will emerge from the shell and start to pick for food, and the child will seek the mother‘s breast. We may call this inâ€" stinct, but what is instinct but memory carâ€" ried over into a new life? k day." "Jur birth is but a sleep and a forgetâ€" ting", sang Wordsworth in hisâ€"Ode on Imâ€" mortality, which was based on recollections of childhood. ‘The poet derived the idea from Plato‘s theory that all knowledge or the acâ€" quisition of knowledge was reminiscenceâ€" remembering. Every child is born with a cerâ€" tain capacity for learning, which may be deâ€" scribed as a latent memory that is first awakened in wonder. A child, for instance, will stand amazed at the first sight of a flowâ€" er or some object that is quite familiar to us, and then the wonder will gradually grow into mfimâ€"lt remembers, and the sense of "fades into the light of common ‘This appears to disprove the doctrine of personal immortality, for if our identity conâ€" sist solely of cranial memories, than a bullet in the brain would annihilate our personality. Hamlet, in his soliloquy on wkfie. said a man "might his quietus make with a bare bodkin", but that the "thought of something after death . . . . puzzles the will". This thought of something after death has hauntâ€" ed man ever since he made his appearance on this planet, and some religions and ‘some philosophers hold that there was also someâ€" thing before birth. _ _ Someone has said that man is a creature that "looks before and after", and perhaps that is the chief feature that distinguishes man from the lower animals, writes Lewis Milligan. It is true that a dog and other domesticated animals have good memories, and it is said that an elephant never forgets â€"and that is more than can be said of some humans. Physically, I suppose there is little difference between the mental process of memory in man and dog. In both cases memory is a registration of objects, persons or experiences in the cells of the brain, and when those cells are impaired, memory ceases to function and the individual, alâ€" though he may be conscious of the world about him, loses his identity. _ She had seen the Red Cross girls setting un their own tent near number 10 hospital. The corps girls live with the army nurses; share their hard life and the sound of bombs and gunfire is a daily experience for them. They have become very expert in the hanâ€" dling of plaster bandages; make thousands of swabs. "Plaster bandages are like dough boards; actually they‘re piles of cheese cloth rubbed in plaster and dunked in water." Canadian Red Cross surgical dressings are in use at all these base hospitals because British and Canadian supplies are pooled. Red Cross blood serum was instrumental in saving thousands of lives and blood banks were at the casualty clearing stations. NEW YEAR MEDITATIONS Medical men and nurses work hand in hand with corps girls; are grateful for their heln, and corps girls lead a gruelling life, traâ€" velling miles over bumpy roads, working long hours in hospitals, writing letters, shopping in nearby towns for the men. Often after a long hard day in the wards, they go to the canteens to bring a friendly word and to dance with lonely boys. have helped in so many emergencies. The "Th q“il:“ no.;dhlu.d omt;.hab:uo. men. ere so t a patch work quilt!" ___ C )lhal(ecnhulwwflloflflbnu- for the Canadian Red @T members who are working as welfare officers a few miles behind the firing lines. The girl who less than two weeks ago was herself in France said, "The British boys simply canâ€" not believe it" when Red Cross corps girls are on hand at base hospitals in France to give them a comforting cup of ten, a dfll’- ette,â€"and some much needed toilet things after they have lost their own kits between battle lines and casualty clearing stations. Thus "the child is father of the man‘", THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT ) cortainty for man« igly, but we cannot » ern detect trends One hundred and twentyâ€"five years of prayer and praise are the unbroken record of St. Andrew‘s Church. ‘There worship in St. Andrew‘s Church toâ€" day descendants of those who served the will of God in their time and whose bodies were buried in peace within its shadow, We give thanks at this sesquiâ€" ‘ but mu':mmny-uu”'mu: most especially ed years given to us by one who steadilyâ€" " . . . allured to brighter worlds and led the Letters to the Editor But we do know that there will be a tomorâ€" mandmt:ltitwill blo:.v;l::do‘ou.:‘ofonrm terday todays. our disapâ€" pointments and fears, Peace will return to Fotere af Sormg, and motieng T i woring in 0| s shall be lost. ‘Those who have fallen in this conflict are in safe keeping, for God has said, "All souls are mine." s The following lines from one of Shakeâ€" spun'nmmubfir&ftousu message of comfort and immortal hope on this threshold of the New Year: Descriptionâ€"Take 2 real heavy planks 18"x16‘ long, tapered to shape. But a timber 6x8x3‘ upright in front end, nailed very firm, so as to raise the hitch as high as desired for team. Run a brace 4x4 from timber to seat board, then take a disc harrow, one that has separate levers for each gang, set one or both in gear, right in the back of your planks, By putting sand bags on the plank the dise will hoid perfect draft, also cutting up the bottom for a reâ€" turn if you wish. So I thank you Mr. Editor for space given me. Yours respectfully, The plank church thereafter built stood in the southwest corner of the present churchyard and in mmlulx.m'oudthlhfln.bâ€"'h surveying the church lotâ€"12 shillings.‘ T from names atached one may surmise that it is the first record of such sales. To the Editor. suggestion real fresh for 1945, A Farmer‘s Snow Plough,. I have made several as follows: Account of money received for the burying ground by John Pettit and Jonathan Pettit. Dear Sir: r :nn.nma and wept, he prayed and felt or "aug + Beyond the Parish, as went on, he achiovâ€" ‘u-m-nlum&mnu year he was the senior priest on the active strength of the Diocese of Niagara. The younger clergy found in him wise, fatherly counsel drawn from ripe exâ€" perience. His contemporaries relied on his extraâ€" ordinary fund ‘of accurate, historical knowledge. ammmm«m?mw ve been accomplishedâ€"always in secrecy licity is anathema to him. ‘The picturesque churchyard of St. Andrew‘s is almost as old as the parish itself. And as nearly as one can ascertain the first mention of it was made on Christmas day, 1800 when a subscription paper was drawn up, stating that ‘a certain spot of Mm'zmdmll-mnu gxdmrl“hnuwflchbu-ul urch.‘ In all this mingling with his fellowâ€"men he had the matchless blessing of a good wife. Mrs. Ballard was loved and trusted by the whole parish and the Rectory had a welcome for all comers, new as well as old. Her capacity for making and hm friends had a unifying influence where before had been discord. A humourous remark or a gay laugh would avert a threatening situation and she I!v«lonn“?yumwluull. It has been said of her in a fel mmmmuhmunumup the whole parish and it in the Rector‘s lap. Worship.â€"But the heart of Mr. Ballard‘s minâ€" istry was St. Andrew‘s Church. Weekly Celebration of Holy Communion, teaching on the observance of inffrom| omm manae Tomgetetninmnts tuary to care a m d&fiu:m.“u.::vuznd.:::amd m to a choir provement dmmnluf::mndmmn&onmus- ed to inform little church with a real spirit of devotion. "You have taught us to worship" was the mmhhwflbnw-fifmm-lmw the People‘s Warden at the lupmuon-l meeting when be bade us his formal he can 2it. and remimmince with, going cover old aays can over m:ooud--llmuflmh- Our ure preserves a portrait ideal country parish priest of two hundred years Those lines Tre today equally texe of Kturse. _ * _ : Pastoral Labours.â€"So the stones have a story loull.ndmu‘nmuwdml-.ul hidden life which quickens also, ‘Two of the most beloved of his predecessors, Rev. G. R. F. Grout and Rev. T. Bolton Read had worked here for :.‘:l‘r"...;‘“.....]'“z"“.:.’".':.m""..m.."'“" e ‘m yearsâ€" more than a thi dlhe-llur{i. has been the happy experience of children of parâ€" ents whom he had in their baptizedâ€"the mu;mudmm“ seven «â€" marrying young people whose parents he had also married. His name is loved and revered whereverâ€"far beyond Grimsbyâ€" parishioners have found their way. His dry, someâ€" times caustic, wit has been a tomic as bracing as his tender a mmnlf'”"*km’f”’h"iu- glnll::-l:::’llm ves. u-un:-n Hospital, he follows us to Jail, he finds work for the unemployed and sheiter for ‘the homeless, Not a child in the parish but gets a pat on its head and is ‘The following list of lot sales bears no«late but Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfelt to a confined doom. ‘The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured, And the sad augurs mock their own presage; In certainties now crown themselves assured, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. As Winter is here with all its fury, bere is a ‘WAVY BACK WHEN THE REVEREND J. ALLAN BALLARD Frank Fairborn, Jr. FARMER‘S SNOW PLOW THE CHURCHYARD Geo. D, Olmatend, Grimaby, Father Kogut from the Basillian Fathers and Dignified businessmen trying to do two things at once. Start their car and hold their temper, Supt. of Works Lawrie looking ruefully at snow piles and praying for a touch of August weather. Horses and cutters. ‘Teams and bobâ€"sleighs. The Street hasn‘t seen the like since the storm of ‘08. Russell Terry all smiles, ‘The mountain top farmers fought their way through with the milk Residents from the Fairview Lake Front dis trict, doing their shopping on snowshoes and taking lo.-mhcupllhhuu. Two below zero and High school pupiis running around bareheaded. Mnybe there is a reason why they dont catch their Jâ€"ath of cold. "Wooden" be Mayor Jack Puddicombe of Winona in town for the first time, after three weeks of being barricaded behind the snowbanks. Had half of Winona in his Jack Fulford, the South Grimsby agriculturist and dairy herdsman, telling the boys about the 14â€" foot snow drift on the Grimsby Centre road, and watching jack rabbits hurdling it. Big Rushton telling the heat customers in the tonsorial parlor about the terrific storms and the gigantic snow banks arcand Tara, when he was a kid. Our present snow banks are only mole hills in John 8. Pettit _£ 12 6 Andrew Pettit .. 1 0 0 John Wilson ... 12 6 John Pottit ... 1 5 0 Silas Smith _ 12 6 Allen Nixon ... 1 5 0 Andrew Hunter. 12 6 Jonathan Pettit .. 1 12 0 Alex. Milmine _ 1 2 6 Isaac Smith _ 12 6 Samuel Dean __ 12 6 Andrew Muir ..... 12 6 Peter DesJordans 1 2 6 John Barns ... 1 2 6 4 m J‘thn Woolverton 1 5 0 Hx, C. £14 76 Stephen Coon .. 12 6 Likewise the second list is undated but it conâ€" tains the name of the Rev. A. N. Bethune and should set the date somewhere between 1823â€"1827. C e mt PRRUCE ToR TORl, Accounts of money received for the 1 mn{wmh-nm â€"4 12 6 John Marbelus .. William Nelles . 1 56 Adam Abraham Nelles. 1 5 6 Simmermon ... Jacob Nelles .. 12 6 Paul Marlatt ___ Charles Anderson _ 12 6 Leverette Pitcher William Crooks . 1 5 0 Mathins Henry Hixon . 5 0 ‘Thomas Walker_ 1 12 6 Daniel Paimer ... 12 6 Siteemcecies llnllhq:u&« 10 0 lad H:.s.tolll.n nummmummdm log, plank, and stone church, lie in the quiet churchâ€" T eÂ¥ s e t o e e e Eit with simple white stones their restâ€" gphu. mummm-ung- e n hi mmentty sad Lopntans o onte service and faith. hmhfl*mmgmu mm congregation for worship in his mary of Audrow Patit, Bore in Sutoem to the memory of Pettit. Born in Easton, Penn., U.S8., 22nd March, 1756. He was a resident GIMOo..NnJOmy.Iw.l’l"ynnmw there and settled in Grimaby, 1787. Died May 12th, 1819, And to Sarah, his wife, born in Germantown, Penn., 6th of Nov., 1758. Died 17th Oct., 1841." To his second wifeâ€""In memory of Maria Jane, wife of Robert Nelles, Eng. Born in England, May Oth, 1783, who departed this life 1848." Mhflhndkohtfl“mm um,lmau.mwxu.mdmwâ€" "In memory of Lt.â€"Col. Wil Nelles, Born 17th August, 1769, in Palatine on the Mohawk River, State of New York. Died 20th April, 1850, !l“ omnby.nmrnmldtmdllyunllm Aldtohh'llo-â€"-“!llflfl',d'lrfufl‘ll. wife of William Nelles. Born November 13th, 1771. Died November 18, 1853." * ‘Those treacherous Post Office steps. Slippery And to bis wifeâ€" MAIN= STREET Thursday, January 11th, 1945 James Glover ... 12 6 John Wilson ... 12 6 Silas Smith ... 12 6 Andrew Hunter .. 12 6 Alex. Milmine ... 1 2 6 Samucl Dean ... 12 6 Peter DesJordans 1 2 6 pania Cana i 11 8 ‘Thomas Walker 1 12 6 > Hx. C fis1072 12 6 12 6