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ii . ~--. =¥ A TA NS RE RR ai Te eR NS, if | ig) 1 it a | ie | i i ' 1 | a it ; t | : Hi Hi Ht lt ia en ) ll i ie iy A cae RE SO ee ORR i A EN = ale ENR NR RRM eee RR a Ee a aE = eee we ea *% Page 4 TENE ik OE hao OE, he Se ERNE CR aS Knechtel Fuel _and Supply Co. STRATFORD Announces that it has taken over the IMPERIAL SERVICE STATION (St. Patrick and Wellington) The usual high standards of motor service will be maintained. Phone 939 DALE'S Radio Service 208 Nile Street For Reliable Service Harry Smythe Plumbing and Heating Engineer Get our prices on your next plumbing job. Tel. 388 244 Mornington Brown were the Stratford goal-getters. Bobby Hales scored the only goal for Chatham, on Lou Sadlier's rebound. the most work, other teams have been Monday night's win in Detroit was one of the most pleasant surprises that have been provided for Stratford hockey fans in a long time. In five previous trips to the Olympia in De- troit, the Majors had been unable to win a game. On their last scheduled game, they finally hit their stride, and they were given a big ovation by the crowd of more than twelve thousand Detroit fans. bd * * Although the Majors are not playing tonight, there are games which will have an important bearing on Strat- ford's play-off position. If London loses in Windsor, then the London club is out of the running. Similarly, if Chatham should suffer a home ice loss to Pontiacs, the Maroons would be out of the running. The Maroons, however, are expected to defeat Pon- tiacs and maintain their mathematical chance of catching up with the Majors. * * The game that did a lot of damage to Chatham's chances was the one here on Wednesday night,.in which the Majors hung up a 3-1 victory. It was the third victory in six days. Spike McLeod, Bob Smythe and Adam ei ee & While the Majors have been doing active during the week. The Cana- diens, who are representing this city in the Midget play-downs, had their first game of*the season on Wednes- day night, and suffered a 5-3 defeat at the hands o fLondon. The London team was heavier and seemed to have more power thah the locals. Strat- ford made a strong come-back in the last period, but were unable to tie the score, * * * The junior 'B' Mites are waiting for Woodstock and Kitchener to settle the group semi-finals. After that, the Mites will meet the winner. It now appears that Stratford will have to meet Kitchener, as the Greenshirts have a three-goal lead which they took right in Woodstock. The Mites are now under a new coach. Because of the pressure of refereeing duties, Jack McCully has. stepped down in favor of Bord Norfolk. * * * Cumming's Aces, Stratford's hope in home shcedule by trouncing Galt Grads on Tuesday night. The Aces have another game away from home. In the meantime, however, they are preparing themselves . for the inter- mediate 'A' play-downs. Their first game will be against the Niagara Dis- trict champions on March 1. * * * Tom Brown is the new president of the C.N.R. Recreation Association. He succeeds Lance Bexon im that po- sition. Mr. Bexon; who has given much valuable service to the Associa- tion was honored with a life member- ship when he retired from office on Monday night. HERE'S HOW: 31, 1939 65-91 Erie Street Buy A Used Car - - WRITE AN ESSAY... WIN A NEW CAR! 1. Purchase from Us during the Contest A Used Car for $400.00 or more. 2. Use Contest Application Form, and in 150 words or less, write "Your Reason For Buying This Used Car From Us" 8. Complete Contest Application and submit to our Sales Manager on or before March 4, Purchaser who submits winning essay will turn back the USED CAR purchased ing the Contest to us and receive a NEW CAR. purchased dur (A) A new 1939 Chevrolet Coach, Model 12-11, will be given to the winner, if used car purchase price was $400.00 or over, but not exceeding $800.00. (B) A new 1939 Oldsmobile Coach, model 35-11, will be given to the winner if tee used car he purchased was priced at $800.00 or more. (C) Should there be any unpaid balance against the used car at the time of winning the new car, this unpaid balance will be transferred against the new car. 5. In the event of two or more contestants submitting the same winning essay, the one received first will be given preference. Contest applications will be judged by G. N. EDWARDS, B.A., B. Paed., M. A. E. NEL- SON, Public School Inspectors; MISS R. J. McQUEEN, Stratford Collegiate Staff. THIS CONTEST IS SPONSORED BY - PERTH MOTOR CO. L. E. NESBITT, Manager the basketball world, wound up their } Saturday Night Game There's something new for Strat- ford sport fans this week: a Saturday night hockey game. It is not often that games are played here on Satur- day night, but tomorrow night's game should be one of the best of the sea- son, since it brings the strong Holz baugh-Ford team of Detroit to play against the Majors. Holzbaughs are the team which the Majors defeated 5-1, in Detroit last Monday night. Naturally, the Detroit team will be out to get revenge if possible by defeating the Majors on their own ice. The game is decidedly important to the Majors, who have League championship, now that they have succeeded in breaking their long slump. | Here and There We would like to know who the local boy was who invited a Normalite to a skating party and also invited several of her friends. Anyhow the young lady lent her skates to one of the other girls for the evening and our shoe salesman was out of luck. * * * Congratulations to the pupils and teachers who presented the outstand- ing public school talent programme" at the city hall on Tuesday evening. It was an admirable part of the edu- cation week programme, ter tenee We understand that a valentine is a fancy love letter. Some of the val- entines we have seen lately are hardly love letters -- or is it the kind of love that says, "This hurts me more than it does you:";?: 7. :? * * * We noticed a well known young business man going down the street balancing a jug in his hand. He in- formed us that he was taking a drink to a friend. Investigation revealed that it was a quart of gas for his car. It's more convenient to push Lizzie to the gas pump, Ben. : * * * From the first of March on into the middle of April Stratford will be sup- plied with plenty of amateur plays. We know of at least six at the present time. ae * * Not ,until last week did we know that Stratford was supplied with 4 number of dainty fairies. After the play at the Normal At-Home we no- ticed several of our younger men look- ing for them. Had we known: what was in store we might have joined the search. Your Co-Operation Will Be Appreciated Should you for any reason be missing your copy of The Mirror kindly let us know. Our staff of around half a hundred young people give our office and our read- ers wonderful service. Judging from the liberal tips you gave them Christmas, you have shown how gratefully this service is acknow- ledged. However, with the cover- age of such a large territory and Phone 740 the delivery of so many papers, there is the possibility of someone_ being missed. If you happen to be that one, phone 115. We. want every citizen to be one of our read ers. Thanking you in anticipation of your co-operation, we remain yours for even better service. THE MIRROR Something New Here a) Ei their eyes on the Michigan-Ontario 9 iq -_. a # f _ fit to these power crazy leaders of the BEHIN D THE Ottawa HEADLINES A Copyrighted Mirror Feature | What will Canada do to counteract the inroads of foreign philosophies which tend to destroy civil and relig- ious freedom and those other spiritual 'values that have been sacrificed in the totalitarian states under the old pre- tense that such.a policy offers a super- ior ability to bring material benefits through state union and control of capital and labor? In other words, what are the spiritual defences in Canada against dictatorships or ideol- ogies of foreign origin? These are extremely important questions at the present time and it is known along Parliament Hill that the legislators 'will not approve any apathetic or totally indifferent attitude towards this subject since it is clear in official and unofficial circles in the Capital that the representatives of the people of Canada are determined to unite and strengthen the forces of a new mili- tant democracy in order to be in tune with the other great democratic na- tions of the world who are accepting the boisterous challenge of the dicta- torships. In the first two articles of this ser- ies, it was explained in these columns that authoritative information dis- closes conclusively that economic con- ditions in the totalitarian states are growing from bad to worse in all re- cent reports and in face of the govern- ment-controlled propaganda which pic- _ tures the glories of life under a regime of Fascism, Nazism or Communism, paralysis and chaos marks the eco- nomic life of such governments. His- tory of governments where absolute power rests in the hands of a few men discloses that starvation, degradation, enslavement, and even death is the fate of the common man who does not fight against the arrogance of power, who does not defend tolerance and charity towards his neighbours, who allows irrational prejudice to spread, and who does not combat those forces which seek to take away from him the rights to express his opinion, to prac- tice his religion, to exercise justly his own personal free will and initiative, and to live with a minimum of com- pulsion by the state. Although the authorities in Canada are anxious to preserve complete and absolute freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or other methods of ex- pression, yet it is possible to obsrve that a marked intensification of a campaign against the infiltration of alien ideologies of society and govern- ment may be the result of the' open and furtive activities and missionary- like zeal of foreign propagandists who are trying to bring the bitter world- wide conflict amongst these ideologies to the shores of Canada. Consequent- ly, officials are watching and safe- guarding Canada's population in order to avdéid the people's minds becoming positively poisoned with delusions about alien ideologies or accepting the words of bold and subtle spokesmen _of these ideologies which offer anti- dotes to Communism, Fascism or Nazism. This propaganda arrives in Canada through free news services, free educational materials, and unso- licited radio programmes or greetings from so-called friendly foreign nations who in reality are trying desperately to instill in the Canadian citizen a slight on his own form of government in order to create disunity, stagnation, terror, and abysmal retrogression where all vestiges of civilization are erased. This would eventually turn out to be of direct and indirect bene- totalitarian states. However, the Eng- lish-speaking people of the world have united to combat these alien ideologies and it is obvious. along Parliament Hill that Canada will join in this war on the enemies of democracy, though the methods that will be employed will not be the same as of those of these maddened tyrants who have beliefs, habits and practices that thrive 'in bigotry, hatred, intolerance, oppres- sion, persecution and despotism that turns back the pages of history to the medieval period. All English-speak- ing peoples love constitutional liberty. They fought for it in the 13th century and they won. They have held on to it for centuries, though it has been threatened many times in world crises, particularly in the 18th and 19th cen- turies. They gave its ideals to the rest of the civilized world, especially the idea of parliamentary government, obedience by rulers to the laws of their realm and similar notions of liberal democracy. However, it never really lived in these nations where totalitarianism exists today. It means that the forefathers of the people of Canada fought and died for the rights to be free men and to enjoy free institutions, and there is no doubt that their descendants would do the same. Yet democracy in Canada is not threatened at the present time by military forces. It is a war that is raging through means of industry, science, education, and propaganda, and Canada plans to defend the basic or fundamental principles of democ- racy through a series of laws which will distribute the national wealth more evenly amongst every person in the land, remove the dangers of un- employment, and otherwise advance PHONE 1601 -- WE DELIVER You can enjoy Baby Beef at these special low prices. peer, ib, . 186 | Beer seer, 10Cm12¢ BEEF, Ib. STEAK... & bs. 29 MONT 93 Ontario St. RUMP ROASTS BLADE ROASTS BEEF, Ib. ..... 1 fc Prime Rib Rolls peer, 1...22e PORK SAUSAGE -- 20¢ ana 23C ROASTING CHICKENS, Ib. EITH' MEAT MARKET We Deliver Promptly. Phone 1601 'the social, cultural and economic wel- fare of the people, without resorting to alien ideologies. In other words, it is a scholarly and sane reconstruc- tion and not a fanatical partianship method which tends to divide the people into factions, drive them to ex- treme political ideas, and abolish lib- eralism im our democracy. It is a cultural inheritance that was handed down to Canadians by their forefath- ers and they would rather dies than surrender it. A, statesman who was a giant in comparison to the lilliputs who lead the dictatorships today once said: "You can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but not all the peope all the time." ('This famous saying expresses the real reaction of the Federal Gov- ernment towards the formulation oi the spiritual defence policy of Canada against the infiltration into this land of alien ideologies. GET THE HARWOOD PRESCRIPTION H. M. Harwood, prescription special- ist, 22 Wellington street, Stratford, has adopted a novel means of advertising. 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