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5l5pvv rpagbtwo the tribune stouffviile ont thursday jan 8 1942 i established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to twelve pages average circulation 1500 copies z subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 y in usa 260 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments vv vt-i- r t v vv- u s v plenty of material for public office stouffville didnt have any municipal election this year but there was not a position on the council or on the school board thac went begging excepting perhaps there was no rush for the important position of that held by the reeve on the school board extra men had offered to serve and when a v nolan resigned there were two to take his place the same was the case on the council men had offered to fill the position of any councillor who did not want to go back for another term this shows a quickening inter est in municipal affairs a fine lady gone the death of mrs robert j corson at markham village removes a lady from the life of that community whom all wijl remember as the essence of kindness wife of a veteran newspaper man who for long years directed the business of the markham economist and sun mrs corson was widely known to members of the craft throughout canada she was beloved by all who knew her and will be mourned by many far beyond the confines of her immedi ate family one less paper for ontario county an important change in the newspaper chain in ontariocounty is announced to be effective at once whereby the whitby gazette and chronicle has been amalgamated with the oshawatimes and the new publication to be issu ed twice a week will be known as the timesgazette the s will be published at oshawa but the jvvhitby office will remain open with the same working staff under the new setup the paper hopes to better serve the county of ontario and in their endeavour we bespeak for the proprie tors and editors every success the whitby paper has been among the outstanding weeklies for some years now the change is along the ever increasing trent of the weekly field whereby fewer and better papers are making their debut 5p5 7 compulsory military service the globe and mail came out last week with a full page statement showing that compulsory selective service was favored by 72 rural newspapers six were doubtful and three opposed the tribune answered the globes telegram protesting that it was more or less a trick question in our opinion because of its wording thus if dominion govern- ment decides compulsory selective service without limita- tidns is necessary to maintain our fighting forces at ade quate i strength do you think the people of your district would oppose it provided adequate provisions is made for farm labor requirements and essential war industries our answer after protesting the wording of the question intimated that it appeared to be so worded as to draw the answer the globe desired further we stated that if the government decided compulsory service necessary the people of this district would on the whole support it likewise if the government maintains its present attitude the people of this district would also support the govern ment that in our opinion is the way we feel the pulse of the people many other papers we since learn took a similar stand compulsory service would likely result in smaller output of mechanized equipment it is for the government to inform us which is needed most men or material 1 asks agriculturalists to organize committees in every ontario county believing that community township and county organizations composed of farmers would be of material assistance in furthering the enormous war effort ontario agriculturalists will have to make in 1942 hon pmdewan a ontario minister of agriculture has asked agricultural representatives in the various counties to take the lead in organizing committees for war purposes only when such organization is completed any com- mittees that are formed will be in a position to advise and act regarding local conditions particularly and also advise upon provincial and national problems as required said mr dewan through their local contact they will be able to co- operate with any and all groups and departments interest ed in the production of food products v the agricultural representative will become the active government agency in this work an it will have pre cedence over all other activities in the calls upon his time the department is convinced that the urgency of the situa tion demands this and appeals for the cooperation of all farmersthtoughout the province mr dewan declared war conditions have made imperative gigantic can- adian agricultural production in 1942 with a call for export of 600000000 pounds of bacon 125000000 pounds of cheese mostly from ontario one million cases of eggs and large quantities of processed milk under normal farm labor conditions canadian farmers would not find too much difficulty in filling even these huge contracts but an acute shortage means that all farm mechanized equipment must be put to maximun use as well as proper organization of all available labor i wfly churghk bombed factories escape this is tlio fifth of a merles of articles about conditions in great britain and other coun tries visited by a group of can adian newspaper editors it was written for the weekly news papers of canada by their special representative on the delegation hugh templin of the fergus newsrecord in a previous story i told some thing about the honib damage in loudon the subject of bombing and its results on the people of england is too large to dismiss in a few sen tences it is or has been the most important feature of the war since dunkirk london has been seriously bomb ed the raids on the city began more than a year ago and continued until april or may 1941 when daytime bombing became too costly for the germans the enemy turned to night bombing which cannot be so effec tive in hitting particular targets since early summer the night raids on loudon have stopped hitler no longer has the planes to spare the raf has command of the air over britain and around the coasts in land defences are more numerous and better organized air raids con tinue but they are mostly along the eastern and southern coasts i think london looked much as i had expected to find it i did not ex pect to see such a large area east of st pauls cathedral so thoroughly laid waste in two other areas both south of theaiver the damage struck me as terrible in both these cases it was little houses by the score that had suffeied which seemed to me worse than old office buildings or ancient landmarks that was simply because there must have been so much loss of life as for the houses some of them are better gone and the buildings that replace them will improve these districts- why churches are burned i have been asked hundreds of questions about bomb damage per haps other readers would like to know a few of the answers is it true for instance that churches are almost invariably de stroyed and important factories escape it is true it is so obvious to a canadian in england that it seems uncanny until one knows the reasons in london and other badly bomb ed cities it is obvious that most of the damage was done byincendiary bombs they are small and light 1 brought parts of one home with me it is cylindrical not over two inches in diameter and about a foot long something like a fat roman candle the head is flat not pointed like the tip of a high explosive bomb that is the heavy end the tail has fins on it to keep the bomb upright as it falls dropped from a height of- 10- 000 feet orsoan incendiary bomb will penetrate through a slate roof or the fender of a car leaving a small hole it will not go through a brick wall the bomb ignites two minutes after it strikes and develops a flame said to have a temperature of about 5000 degrees a- large bomber might carry thousands of incendiaries and drop them out literally by the ton nowadays the british know how to fight the incendiary bomb volun teer fire watchers are always on the lookout for bombs they have the simple equipment to render bombs harmless before they can develop heat but even yet the churches are not safe the beautiful old buildings de signed by christopher wren and other great architects have slate roofs inside the building- is another false roof often of lead the in cendiary goes through the slate but hasnt force enough to penetrate the second roof before it can be reached it has exploded and started a fire sometimes there was an oak ceiling as well no matter how faithful the watchers at the churces might be it was impossible t rip off the slates and the lead in time to reach the bombs it wasnt that churches were de liberately attacked everything was attacked it was simply v matter of the way the churches were built factories hnvc really escaped the story of the factories and the production of war materials is some thing else again it is literally true that many of the important ones have never been bombed i saw a great aero engine factory in the midlands built since the war started it was undoubtedly the finest factory i ever saw it was built by a large autonfo bile company solely for the product- tion of radial engines of 1500 h p or so it is several miles from the nearest city every precaution has been taken to see that a bomb drop ping nearby wont affect the people inside if one makes a direct hit a series of blast walls will minimize the damage but there has never been a direct hit- twlce i passed the original hurri cane factory this is an older one and stilly makes the famous fighting planes which the rcaf uses it was pointed- out to me by a ferry pilot who was going to the factory to take a new plane to a fighter station above the factory floated a group of barrage balloons an un usual sight away front the large cities i would have known it was an important factory yet the pilot told me that the germans had never found it it sounds mystifying actually it is simple the cartoonists love to show a man or a building so camou flaged that it looks ludicrous that is actually what happens at night these factories literally cannot be found it is impossible to mentionmany of the buildings that have been dam aged tut i might lista few by this time the streets have all been re paired railways are in full operation and there is little or no sign of bomb damage in the railway stations the docks which much have suffer ed are in operation again barges drawn by bugs are continually going up and down the thames at west minster i saw a convoy going out the mouth of the thames one day that i visited the east coast as i said before all the bridges over the thames escaped damage on one of our first days in london the editors were conducted through the houses of parliament by two in teresting and humorous guides lord snell representing the house of lords and sir patrick hamon from the house bfcommons they took us even- into the ibasement rooms where guy fawkes stored the gun powder to blow up parliament cen turies ago and into the underground chapels where cromwell stabled his horses to show his contempt for the institution of parliament the chap els are lovely there is no longer any horsey smell here and there i saw the damage done by bombs in the great west minster hall where the bodies of the kings lie in state workmen were re pairing a broad hole in the roof vhere a bomb came through big ben has almost escaped one corner of the clock tower and one face were damaged but the clock still goes the worst damage is in the house of commons chamber itself it simp ly does not exist any longer there is no roof and only a small pile of rubble and twisted girders marks the spot where many a great debate has taken place yet strangely enough the rooms around it are almost un touched st pauls and westminster abbey it seems impossible that st pauls cathedral should have survived when all thearea- behind it is bare and dreary i visited the cathedral and found only one large hole in the roof made by a high explosive bomb that shattered the altar beneath again it was explained that the roof struc ture supplied the answer the in cendiaries bounced off the great dome and the arched roof fire en gines and fire fighters are massed all the- time in the square in front of the cathedral if westminster abbey was hit the damage must have been repaired although one portion was closed on the sunday afternoon i visited it i fleet street with most of the daily newspaper offices grouped together suffered much yet riot one daily pap er- ever missed a single edition the editor of one of lord beaveibroqks papers told me that 75000 had been spent to protect the two buildings he owns in that area i saw the results the record of the newspapers is re markaible butno more amazing than the attitude of the people at large it is said that it was a great help to moralewhen a householder came to his front door after a night of terror and found both the daily paper and the bottle of milk on thodoorstep at buckingham palace only one small building has been hit but the iron fence is being removed to be used to make munitions many stores on oxford and regent streets have suffered tenants in rich apartments in the west end have lost everything they owned just as thoroughly as the poor in the dock areas though not such a large proportion perhaps it surprised me to find many lon doners still sleeping in airraid shel ters after four months of immunity from bombing i visited the great underground station atpiccadilly circus twice during my stay some 300 people were still sleeping there but they seemed tobe mostly men and women who had been bombed out of their own homes and preferr ed the semiindependence of this life rather than being billeted with strangers coventry has suffered most it wasnt until i visited coventry that i realized how bad a concentrat ed bombing can be coventry was and is ari industrial city about the size of hamilton ontario twice the germans concentrated the full might of their air force on coventry in an attempt to demonstrate just what they could do to some extent they succeeded but they did not stop pro duction to such an extent as they had hoped and they did not terrify the people they did not even kill as many as one would expect we drove from london to coven try one fine september morning the british council supplied us with cars that had canadian ensigns on the radiators i admired the beautiful english countryside and wondered at the patience of the british farmers cutting their second crop of bay in fields doited with plane traps coventrys city hall remains al most untouched on the border of acres of ruins the car in which i was riding was the last to drive up to the door a curious crowd mostly women with market baskets had gathered as i stepped out i heard someone ask who are they i answered canadians the nearest woman with a basket over her arm responded f later i understood mayor mosley welcomed us in a room which had a model tank and a large vegetable marrow on the table symbols of greater production mrs pearl hyde head of the womens voluntary ser vices told me that many of the people of coventry were clothed in canadian garments and they bad been fed for days f roni fleets of mo bile canteens donated to cities around by various canadian war funds canada ranks high in the estimation of coventry a few minutes later i stood amid the rubble in the ruins of coventry cathedral on one side stood mrs hyde and on the other captain s a hector chief of police both i learned later are memocrs of the order of the british empire becauso of heroic services performed major christie- of st john nb moved through the rubble with the provost of the cathedral and laid on an improvised altar a wreath which the editors had brought from lon don imy eyes were moist and i thought the chief wiped away a tear two days later prime minister churchill visited coventry and asked about the wreath he thought it a splendid idea and the next day two more arrived to place beside our own one from winston churchill the oth er from mrs churchill the buildings in the heart of cov entry are literally wiped out in two great raids one in november 1940 and the other in april 74000 houses out of total of 91000 in coventry were damaged it was a beautiful moonlight nightsaid mayor mosley the most beautiful i think i ever saw in my life a visit to covetry now is depres sing here it would seem the ger man luftwaffe really succeeded but they didnt even though they sent over 600 planes to bomb for 11 hours in the moonnight and even though they had immense luck for the large water main was broken by high explosives and three lucky shots hit the canal bank and drained away the secondary water supply the buildings which made up the business section are gone and so are many of tho houses the hospital and the cathedral and the itoman cath olic church are but shells but amaz ingly enough only 1246 persons wore killed in both raids and i saw with my own eyes the war factories going again at full speed that afternoon before we left to visit a bomber station a dainty young lady served tea to a dozen editors i asked if she lived in coventry dur ing the raids she did she wasnt m a shelter either it was her turn that night to be on air raid patrol she travelled through those streets with flames and death all around and the sky full of enemies she was terrified she admitted butshe never thought of taking shelter anyway she had no home to go to that night one of the first bombs got it you cant defeat people like that business directory dental e s barker lds djh honor graduate ot royal colieg of dental surgeons and ot tfce university of toronto office in grubinsjblocfc phone 274 markham every tuesday office la wear block medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office cor obrien and xatat phone 196 coroner for york coaatf 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