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Issued every Thursday from office of publiâ€" cation, Main and Oak Sts., Grimsby, by True independence is never afraid of appearâ€" ing dependent, and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. I understand that that question came up at the Directors‘ meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last week. I wish them luck. If they can get fruit shipped out of this district by air then I wish them plenty of luck. FRUIT BY AIR I tried it. For weeks and for months I was the most ridiculed, most joked about ches. In March of 1943 I broke the "Ship By Air" idea and I had behind me on the idea such men as the late James A. Aitchison, the best fruit shipping man that ever was in the Fruit Belt, the late James A Wray, who gave me the air travel mile figures and the houragwe, that I am going to reproduce next week. Subgcriptionâ€"$2.50 year in Canada and $3.00 paryouué:'ndmm Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper There is not a doubt in my mind but that 1 can put Grimsby Peaches in behind the "Iron Curtain," on Stalin‘s breakfast table by air, and I think it Stalin had a few feeds of Grimsby Peaches he might change his mind on other things, you never can tell what an underfed man will do. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ACTIVE 1 read by the front page of this paper in last week‘s issue that the directors of the Chagnber of Commerce have taken the "bit in their mouth" and they are going to go ahead and make an attempt to do something forGrimlby.. * i C 1 give them all the credit and will give them all the help in the world. But if they muouuetom-nymcndb‘n'{ greater good than the past C. of C.‘s, have made me disgusted, then they better get out of the picture. _ _ _ 1 think that this C. of C. is going some place for the simple reason that they are mmm.%wcm industrially without a t or a regard fort.hetmit‘mvc.lhnmhtheu- clusion that is the right track. The averâ€" mmmhnfufitmm anybody ever tried to start for his own beneâ€" fit and fought every merchant including The lndependmtb‘eanl:thq;fi‘u.“m& Now the present setâ€"up of the Chamber of Commerce in Grimsby, will help the fruit grower, if he wants to come in and be helped, but primarily the bringing in of industries to Grimsby. A wise move. A logical move. Why spend our time in helping someone that will not even attempt to help himself. 1 have hundreds of illustrations of opâ€" portunities for the Great Grimsby Fruit Belt, that the fruit growers as members, and as nonâ€"members of past defunct Chambers of Commerce turned down. Now Grimsby town isgoingfixhtontonihmand'l‘hcludeâ€" pendent is riding herd_with them. This writer claims no credit for this proâ€" city Gl:lh&:?l:flthmhawyid:{%e I & Â¥ all means let Mrs. Scott have that motor car, the mother who had great stress and strain through it all. BARBARA‘S AUTO (St. Catharines Standard) The wellâ€"wishers of Barbara Ann Scott across Canada, and in the United States, too, of course are legion in number. There has been a feeling almost of sacrilege that one chiselling cheap sport. in the United States, denied the young lady on the technical grounds of amateurism, her use of the motor car given her by Ottawa citizens in tribute tow “:. # # # It is understood that Miss Seott will reâ€" tain her amateur status for some time to come, but has her good mother any amateur status to protect or defend" Why don‘t they hand that motor car to Mrs. Seott, the chapâ€" eron of this glamorous young lady, her spirâ€" itual strength and fortification all during her trials, tests and the final showâ€"down ofâ€"all, supremacy on the ice. _ _ FACTS & FANCIES LIVINGSTON and LAWSON, Publishers. Nights, Sundays, Holidays, 539 "Lincoin County‘s Leading Weekly" Frank Fairboen, Jr¢. The expulsion from essional hockey for life of a New Yorkmw player, beâ€" eaues of his association with thennhlcl# element recalls one of the most infamous epiâ€" sodes in the history of organized baseball in the United States. "Say it ain‘t true, Joe," said an urchin in Chicago to that great dcvnmuni’hltter and player, unschooled, Joe Jackson. He was oné of the chief figures in the Black Sox scandal, which brought Judge Landis into power, with mnthofltgt:vr: baseball than Hitler ever had over his Storm Troops. _ HOCKEY GAMBLING % u?i'n eouidmhoth:'t tens of dt:“on‘:; ands w great delig! from hockey hmu. it is certainly imâ€" mdve on the part of ruling hockey authorâ€" ties to keep the game, like Caesar‘s wife, The public has little idea what the effort mhm“z of the highest trained to keep the race track betâ€" finxehsn:;tinthempectthl:t fixed lar: things cannot happen. In prizeâ€"fighting there is also the "fix." Heaven forfend that it becomes rampant in Canada‘s national game of hockey. _ _ gbovernsfidm.”"r A recent issue of Maclean‘s Magazine carried an article on another form of "fix" reâ€" lating to cards and dice, also roulette wheels. There is not a device for cheaters that canâ€" not be purchased from a Chicago firm, which issues a catalogue on everything crooked. Of all the legitimate forms of free enterprise, Tmeet thepittmare of s But A ie Spen and 6 open above board; the firm advertises its wares for such as they are, and they will manufacâ€" ture on any specifications submitted, guarâ€" anteeing results, which means taking the suckers to the cleaners. S bigper Tie wrentest nmset is publi come % grea pu interest, faith and confidence. Without that million dollar arenas and the greatest teams have nothing at all. _ COURTESY COS8STS NOTHING: Courtesy is the pleasant remark that softens a request, that soothes an irate cusâ€" tomer and that oils the machinery of everyâ€" day buiness and social relations among milâ€" lions of people. It is the cheerfulness and consideration‘ for others and the tolerance which can help smooth a person‘s way through life. | » % 2 "Courtesy costs nothing and takes little extntime.bntitdwnyt:m.l\'evufm to be courteous and you‘ll be surprised how it will help you in dealing with the people you In these days of high prices and housing shortages, a little courtesy often disposes of many minor annoyances because, like virtue, it usually reaps its own reward. It not only helps one to see the other fellow‘s side, but it often earns his goodwill. _ A landlord can complain every time a thtemnt'smllehfldthnmpconfl\efbor:intg us can wage an unpleasant growing bitterness on both m are, however, that the tenant is a reasonable fellow and a courteous reminder with an apâ€" peal for coâ€"operation will bring results with good feeling all round. _ ( Courtesy mends many situations. Try it ontheunrbnthzderkwbhlbvin tying up parcels, on the newsboy who, though conscientious, sometimes misses the porch step when he tosses the paper, or on the teleâ€" phone user who calls you by mistake. They‘ll all try harder next time. c Few will be more grateful for ewrtelymm:mufmotherhnfi. New to Canadian ways and eager to learn, sometimes they may say or do something which could be interpreted by citizens of long standing as a snub or slight. â€" (Christian Science Monitor) In the tavern, the captain carefully opened his sack and took out the letters which were folded sheets without cnvdum sealed with a round blob ‘of red wax. He them on the table, where they would be held until called for. Then the old captain hung his pouch on a peg in the wall and left it there. On his return trip he would carry mail Th;ckrtotheportfmn_:whieh hefhnd:'flod. e fee was one English penny for a ::::‘t letter, or twopenceâ€" for a doufl: Few letters passed between the lonely towns and scattered settlements of the early settlers. These were carried by a private mesâ€" senger or a postâ€"rider on horseback who, with letters safe in his saddlebag, forded the streams and followed the Indian trails through dense forests. He was ‘warned not to "detayne, conceale or open any letters" on his journey. ...« . _ / :_ _ Ars yA The official Colonial Post started in 1691 with a grant from the English Crown to ‘Thomas Neale, to establish a postal system within the Colonies. However, the tion of this service proved to be too en:B;nmd passed directly under the British Post. _ _ The Colonies themselves did not take over the postal system until just before the There were no stamps on our earliest THE FORERUNNERS OF REGULAR POSTAGE STAMPS carmmpemen sw wee sw r=* An old editor used to tell us: Tact and understanding, perhaps a bit THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT 'l‘hoadmuunna.cum:u. # LJ < lpu‘.mm-uon.-rm.yâ€"fl“lt- + # L Looks like my neightr is done snow shovelling for this year. . l ‘Town workmen are chipping away the ice along the curbs. There is plentyof it, too. ‘There is no doubt abut it, Grimsby is SOME TOWN. Take last Siturdy night for instance. Over 400 people in attendanceat the Ukrainian concert in the High School. TheArena packed to the steel girders..Over 250 people a The Village Inn to greet Donald Novis. No wonderGrimsby is known as ‘"The Biggest Little Town In Th World." When that line of carswas coming down from the Arena on Saturday nght it was impossible to get across Main Street fr 20 minutes or more. of tolerance for a tine will go far toward helping them bridge tir gap. A friendly word of encouragement canturn the trick and will long be remembered. The best thing alout courtesy is that it builds up like a snowlall. One person passes it::itomother.ltanfmu.::finwm; munity or country a y pleasan place in which to work ad live. MUST BOW AGAIN This is a brief pstâ€"war story about a country that has the ame population as the province of Ontario: "By the Armisticeshe lost 18 ':er cent. ofherntioulg:r;ifliyd-{znlm. e;dt:d regions accoun or cent. e eonntry'sluiuflt‘nhndhztfldpndw quarter o harnesed waterâ€"power, oneâ€"third of the fisheres. It can be estimated that 18 per cent. of ler national wealth was tl:‘tbefoundin.tthu;;uiou.‘metmit:l"h: represent, at a bw estimate, a value of a least 300 million preâ€"w:r dollars. "The total loss €¢ men in both wars was 85,000, most of them n their best years, and a further 50,000 weredisabled. The killâ€" ed represented 7.2 per ent. of the total active man power. There vere 450,000 refugees who not only had to be povided with a fresh liveâ€" lihood, but whose mterial losses also had to be compensated. Inrlustrial production was slack, the stocks of aw materials depleted, and the most urgenttask was to turn out goods at the rate of50 million gold dollars ”m"t}”.’d?‘". # All this after ressting the brutal assault 170.000,000 people, Ihilng agminet ternible odds with a heroismthat won it the admir. ation of the world. We should not criticize aman‘s religion, just be dern glad he has one. Now it must bend agin to the iron deâ€" mands of Russian Imperialism. colonial letters. At first here was nothing to show that a letter had pssed through the sLamps are very rare and valuable. "Tly Learn from the of you the forerunners of the regular Unkd can‘t live long m.h mlâ€".n .&mfl_-!n..__-__ s~«*GURE, enough to make them all yourâ€" Government postage stamps wre not isâ€" sued until about sixtyâ€"six yearsafter the Colonies had mthdrlndmdmmd beâ€" come the United States of Americ For two Finland‘s story is a bitter ae. An empty box car makes thenost noise. f "~ i MAIN= S|REET (By MIRLIAM E. OATMAN, in Christian Science Monitor) , flumwummm."-nw mother. "We‘ll need another before Christmas." I mwnna.mnmmdmh mm.mmm-wum.n m!wuml.thflmhrnl.mludm m-nhmm_ppuw_.gmmd r-tmmnlmu I knew that in the céellar were barrels of salt pork, corned beef, hard winter apples, crisp sauerâ€" mmmmmwmm held cucumber pickles, watermelon pickles, sweet red and green peppers stuffed with chopped cabbage and celedy seed, and my mother‘s rich mincement. With another barrel of sugar, we should be ready for the holidays. In the attic were several barrels, turned to other purposes than the guardianship of foodstuffs. One was nearly filled with balls of carpetâ€"rags. (By the next year we should have a new rag carpet in the diningâ€"room.) Another barrel in the attic held "pleces" which would be made up into quilts in the course of time. One was heaped with clothes that might be made over, or perhaps given to the poor. Still another held rags too badly worn for other uses, dedicated to the "ragâ€"man," who paid for them in bright tin dishpans, bread and cake pans, and once even a chining colander. A couple of superâ€" barrels with wellâ€"fitted heads supplemented the chests that held our winter clothes and bedding in summer and our summer dresses in winter. , . In every bedroom. there was a chair made from a barrel, well padded and flounced. Two of these chairs stood in the sewing corner of the kitchen. My father had done the necessary carpentry, and my mother had worked the miracles of upholstery that made these barreiâ€"chairs luxurious. In the kitâ€" chen also was a barrel covered with chintz inside and outside, bearing a padded chitnz pinâ€"andâ€"needle cushion on its wooden cover. This contained mother‘s sewingâ€"sheets and towels, shirts for father, dresses for herself and me. Just before Christmas there was always a doll hidden under everything, to be dressed in scraps of former "I supposed to know this. ___ Outside the house, barrels stood at every corner, with ra‘nâ€"pipes leading into them. We had the luxâ€" ury of a good well and a pump actually in the kitâ€" chen; but mother liked to use rainâ€"water for bathâ€" tug and snabing IusiE. " . _ _ . 0 C n l ooo On each side of the front door stood a halfâ€"barâ€" re! filled with earth, and planted in summer with red and white geraniums. The geraniums were now mpmm-umwmummm I was planning to use the halfâ€"barrels as bases for small Christmas trees holding suet and crumbs for In summer, two hammocks of rope and barrelâ€" staves hung under the trees in the back yard. Alâ€" though I had heard that barrelâ€"staves were someâ€" times used to chastise naughty boys, I looked on umu-wn@:mmyufi times a great van drove by our house, conspicuously marked ‘"Brown‘s Better Barrelled Beer." In that van were barrels which any mother, who had once shaken hands with Frances Willard and who wore a white ribbon bow at all times, called "liquid sin." It was sad to think that barrels could be so misused. But., on the other hand, consider the barrels sent out by the missionary societies‘ Our church had two of these organizations, and my mother belonged to both. In the spring, the Foreign Missionary Society sent out barrels to heathen lands; in the winter, the reis.of which I hdvny knowledge were useful and his anvil. Many people employed halfâ€"barrels as bathtubs or laundry tubs; but my mother said that they were too heavy to be handled, and she had bright galvanized tubs, instead. Halfâ€"barrels were sunk in springs to collect water, or used in farmâ€" yards as drinking troughs for stock. Sometimes T visited the shop where Mr. Philâ€" lips, the cooper, was at work. He made barrels and mud.mewwmwy:mmhm village and from the farms near by who needed such containers for brine or vinegar or cider or other WWWGIM(M“ Mr. Phillips was a prosperous man, and a kind man He was never too busy "dickering" with my father to whittle me a rough but adequate wooden doll. mmmmu-nmu-m.,,u there is no cooper‘s shop in town today. ‘The barrel had its social values, too. How often !hnmnwuu“mwm‘.m fit of the underpaid, struggling minister! Everyone who came to the party was expected to drop in the barrel a pound of something useful. A:nddlw..lhnddm-ll barrel eudymthulhfludmw mmmummm-.wu- maamummnnmnu m.Andnochm“mhl"wumm out a barrel of bran in which were hidden many -mnmm.nuntlnoruonum.u hflmmammummuw h-mu.mraew-unnmm-w mbumumm:mmxu mmmmzuanmtn.mm. mnma‘-myuuvm Whmnlueourtuymflumton thth“eurt"thomwmermflumnton e "cuss," C ‘WAY BACK WHEN i&Mmmmm,l-g- But this was a long time ago > Thursday, March 18th, 1948. didn‘t have to worry about breakâ€" ing some law. MAIN ST. W. / GRIMSBY 42 Main. W. Made to order from original keys. Geo. F. Warner BARRISTER, soucicrron, Smssc @5 Main Street, West 1200 _ GAIMSBY . £. A. BUCKENHAM all sizes of concrete blocks ._REAL ESTATE and all kinds of INSURANCE J. B. McCAUSLAND BSUN LIFE OF CANADA Mours #â€"4 _ HAROLD B. MATCHETT Dr. D. R. COPELAND Store in The Bruit Belt" BULOVA, ELGIN, Elco :'Amu GEORGE 1. GEDDES CI PW wo flicar ced A..““. Open Wednesday Mw“:.".. phone burlington 624 Mours 9:00â€"12:00 1:30â€"5:00 Watch Clock And For An Appointment 12 Main St. W GRIMSBY HALLIDAY (Vision Specialist) OPTOMETRIST ‘Telephone 680 INSUVRANCE DENTisT Saturdays 9â€"12 ETC. P a