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*ssued mm _ . cation, z IM’ from s mm hm'dmine' is never afraid of a o flhfi Ti BE . EA "“T‘mm Bubscriptionâ€"£2.00 THE EPIC OF FREE ENTERPRISE This is an age of synthetics. We have synthetic rubber and any number of artificial materials which science has developed to take the place of the natural product, and we mtddthatmnyofthemmjmum as, if not better than, the real thing, writes Lewis Milligan. These and numerous other inventions are the products of hnmp inâ€" tennitynndentapflu.ntimu}“bymdu- The motor car, the radio, airplanes, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing maâ€" chines and a host of modern mechanical apâ€" pliances were invented and gradually brought to their present degree of perfection by the urge of competition and salesmanship. The incentive behind it all was the desire and the opportunity to produce something better than the product that was the market â€" to outmode the other fellow‘s product and to capture the business. That kept the other fellow from sitting back and enjoying a monopoly and urged him to try to go one better still. F e Râ€" That is free ew.erprise, and without it we would still be in the horseâ€"andâ€"buggey days. Many of our inventions were in the nntpheemudedummenrionifiuand scientific playthings. It was not until some entqpfiningbuineumenndkedthdrw'- sibilities as profitable selling propositions that those playthings of science were deâ€" velopedandintmdneedutheueuli‘huof modern life. They created the demand by adâ€" vertising and salesmanship â€"â€" highâ€"pressure, if you like; but there is no progress without mmW" youth of the mfin‘filh’ mafl“’ amples of i eorded 49 The Grimsby Indenanyo e Grimsby Independent Whmthc*‘:toryo{themtfltyym ofmlontbeNorth American Continâ€" eng.eomelwbewritten.it-mbea great epcoffneema-pflle- It is beyond all quesâ€" tionthemoctnmninzperiodinhmnhik tory Anditmapuiodinwhichhnmm b'oaunpnnfleduitneverhadpuvdhd before. Itvunolflopil.ndiupewlehnd nothouhtofaubli-hintapufectndd and economic order. They were too busy mdpnoecnyiedwiththeinteuityofliviu and mfi: the best of the order in which they 1 themselves. ~"They had no time nd themnse®"""* |/__ C sing and planâ€" E0 capma they found themselves for revoluticw or for ing for the 1 n=ze. 7 injunction of Le peopl Eo. Aincssmaly CV OC amnlfle'ndmxd'“’ that the government 0we# m‘t”'d‘w: n .-":-tnd ‘W. PF Tersities of life were 2 eb courage, ingenuity and , '“.wu\dldf- 4 .W“M ho reg.mentation, and to Y« In the world‘s broud f In the bivoust of Bewmdnmb.dfl" pude 2 ze n the § FACTS & FANCIES »0 near is grandeur to our dust Wce oer wieari o Sione mas pers » ou m The youth replies, I can! So near i zs ® rrilous m y (eg@t: CLEnommning, President, ndividualists. WILERED m. LAWSsON, Viceâ€"Presigent * J. ORLON LIvVINGsTon, Secretary, se and Editor Theose i2 resoluticw or for theontn§ M 1 j ‘Tor the : n=se. ‘They obeved the mSnD netion of : e people‘s poet, Longfellow,â€" Trusi »~ future, howe‘er pleasantl, I, the d-dfiwtm“‘ y Actâ€"a‘t in the living present! Hen: wm.fin.fl.flmf"""h“d! o atdrâ€"car touk wnif Witine over the JOHN w ‘-..l!-fi” w ncots 6. "_ _ *414CDEMGent | ®ushave been a great many more of which Mm.... never know TOL.LH & _ _-_W wem _ t P us ights, :h.!. n:llyu, 539 ‘“ Cmmmmmmmmntinn: us mzl.nn-rE.N.T PUBLISHING c in Canada and $2.50 ’.”"“?“;""fll&.m hop#o ey ; d:d not â€"ng ",pdlnl =° ‘"individual i individual he l"nnkhlrborn,ln ines of Lon£:C°0" _ sorn and trite with ! ; nineteenth cent«i*? o inga world thes hero i2 most perfect independence. the J J initiative. heroism hs Mt war, Acllow may have .,,bntto‘ yw y'efe'd o. ManYy e been and t have 16 there the out today is, "Trust the @vernment â€" the poliâ€" ticians: they will m.:lre of yg:‘nfron;fth: cradle to the grave." y the 0 Thak coward and an idier would vibrate fiddle-ltflng.. Ki ~ doot EARLY HOLIDAY mILING es mfig”wmwunm““d ar, so +ey Imullw peace. But it mst be a to‘mngwtto fear. It was not the fear but courage that urgedour forefathers and mothers to cross ts sas and endure the hardships of pioneer life. If they had been afraid of the future thy would scver have entered upon that trilous adventure, They were selfâ€"reliant Emerson, in his essay on "Selfâ€"Reliâ€" ance," struck the keyfi"f American proâ€" gress,when he said: st thyself: every heart vibrates to thatiron string." The cry Tt is important tpt you do your Chri mas mailing as early as possible. The folh'g who ordinarly wait â€"itil a week or two beâ€" fore Christmas bef~ â€"buying and sending gifts and groetings, ,.ll cause great congesâ€" tion of postal work if they adhere to this habit this yeer, Atime of labor shortage is one in which it will be hard to get mail hanâ€" died and delivereq promptly. _ Some people have always bought their gifts at a late date because, as they said, they did not have the money to buy the things before. This ;ear, with natiunal inâ€" T en mh mat railg so m i many # should be easier to buy earlier. One would think most people could as well get their Christmas gifts within a very short time, and get them off promptily. Hard worked postal people would look at such a change as a godsend. T.IE CIRCUS ERA The cireus era, as far as this of tariohmaned.mmtopf:nlg: way away. Away back to the horseâ€"andâ€" buggy days in fact, says The Seaforth Exâ€" And, if memory has not completely failâ€" ed, a good many can still remember the thrill of seeing the glaring posters so lavishly disâ€" phyelt’laovt;rtheeo:fntrydde.ndg:t:fillre- mem e thrill of anticipation 3 ineveryboy’lmindandeunpletdyatm is thoughts." : / _ . . ~.; positor. But anyone over midd‘!e age can still remember the lure of a cireus. Can still remember when at least one travelling circus would set up the Big Top: in three or four of the largest towns in every country. _ _ Memory, too, will lead them back to one of the great mysteries of that age. When theymedtow.ondernesfly why fathers could be so easily convinced that attendance at the cireusâ€"including the whole familyâ€" was an educational ani social feature of such magnitude that it should not be neglected. It Roland Butler, Sheral preas representaâ€" tive, said the circus $74 performances W 27 cities, compared to performances | in was, it seemed, the oaly time in the year, hstfnthmwerevw.mdoftmmto sacrifice their time and money to give the But while that era has passed us by in this part of America, the circus lure is apâ€" parently, just as stroig as ever in the coun try south of the line. Because we noticed the other day that the Rigling Broz. and Barnâ€" um and Bailey Circus wound up a ; 433 mile tour at Tampa, Floriir, before going into winter quarters in the same State, after playing to a record Aldience this year of 4,â€" 270.0009"’*.- # # # neari; one hundred Cties last year, when some 4,000,009 peop} saw the Big Tops in uperation. And.mtda-inf.tht gas reâ€" strictions are more &vere in a great many American States tharnin Cansda, and transâ€" portation facilities Jt as hard to obtrin, these figures speakvolumes for the strength of the cireus bug inthe human system. Mr. Butler #lso etimated that the cireus animals consumed 1,86 tons of hay and 17,â€" 810 bushels of onts Yhile on tour. The eleâ€" phants, he said, drar 535,000 gallons of water. The amount f pink lemonade conâ€" sumed by the circus pectators is not given. But 2 are toppe© wOMEN PLAYING A MAJOR ROLE With so many things happening so q‘wytbmdnnfvmmo;wm Mm,.nyw'mmm- mhmmd(-&n&theymddu. really grand job. ere are now approxiâ€" mately 30,000 womelin uniform. It seems .mmflleflt\"?bbmnnllmnidtthe 255,000 engaged diectly or indirectly in war industries, .nd alther 400,000 doing work of a high prioritinature, _ TD it 210000 fatin womeh who THE â€"GRIMS BYCâ€"INXKDEPENDEN T m\aflifi‘thehuduto!dlforthcmdon and for men they have sent overseas. Ever since their husbands, brothers or sons left the plows and donned uniforms they have been in long hours doing all Mofhm%uumvhmhdphu been all too scarce. All along the line with manpower shortâ€" ages growing ever more acute, women have been filling in, and are proving how well they can work. Now for the first time in the hisâ€" tory of any army in the world Canadian woâ€" men are staff officers and on an equal footâ€" ting with men. In the CWAC‘s they are trades. In some of the larger centers women military police have been on duty for some One of the newer jobs they have tackled is in the women‘s division of the RCAF where they do escort duty on trains and in large centers. There are women clerks in the RCAF who are keeping a check on the position and course of every aircraft, surface ship and submarine approaching Canada‘s Atlantic coast. So secret is their work that even its exact nature cannot yet be disclosed. By the end of this year there will be 5,000 Wrens replacing various cate..pries of nava‘ personnel, And those in the nursing scrvices must not be forgotten. There are now more than 2500 nurses in war uniforms of whom 170 are with the R.C.A.F. nursing services and 154 Royal Canadian Navy. In one Nova Scotia shipbuilding yard mmmwwkiuumne_omm acetylene welders, electricians, pipe fitters and other jobs. In Toronto in two of the large plants working on war orders 10,841 women are either making all the parts for quick firing weapons or checking and superâ€" Thousands of married women are workâ€" ing in munitions plants. No less than 45,â€" 000 women have been organized for civilian air defense work. And in addition to all all mds worming for The ir Crooe across or the I.O.D.E.und{lm!an‘e. * + FARMERS BEWARE Remember the story of Little Red Ridâ€" ing Hood and the big bad wolf? It might be a good idea to read it again, thinks The Bowâ€" manville Statesman â€"and then look closely about you today. Let us put the case this way : The Cupboard Is Bare! The Coal Bin Is Empty!! The Editor‘s Pocketbook ..___â€"â€"As â€"Flat as a Pancake!!! THE COAL MAN, THE kNEADER CF DOUGH, THE VICTUALERS, ARE ALL HOWLING FOR THEIKk MONEY. YOU CAN HELP US OUT OF THIS PREDICAMENTâ€" llmnztntntufir-mbthh“cmlonlm mr:«wmamo.u.»,-wumu-mm... On All Newsstands Every Thursday Morning at 10 O‘clock BAKER‘S â€"â€" MILLYARDS â€"â€" RUSHTO Halt â€"Aâ€"Dime A Copy f THEN WE CAN SOON GET RELEASED FROM THE CLUTCHEs oF THESE "VULTURES IF COMMERCE» THE INDEPENDENT RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION mk:nhhmmmmu mmdui': mpectofndthboun.l"n'm in good I eommunityetfort.ukl”dflg,m“. times, or bad, puts aside0M® "**‘," huforddmandfln'm.nflm & Individualist" is a farmer®‘t" o has qunu._.ndthenm"mb:,'nd Â¥ won his land by the swee Of Bis NPW 2No who will defend it to his 1# £85P;, _/ got a better definition, thent*0* ) Inthednilym"’fo‘t'fl’lw"e find Shese remarks inthm" of a speeth of E. B. Jolliffe, On@ri0 of the Socialâ€" ist C.LO., C.C.L, C.C.F., before the Electrical Appliance Dealrs‘ Association in Toronto: "Today the ruggd individualist is most likeâ€" ly to end as a raged individualist"â€"and he called farmers to unitewith his 'ef;“:f_,"“{' caueu 1ariuets 10 uinu?"""0 .00 e ites. Mr. Jolliffe was a Rhodes Scholar, is now a laborâ€"lawyer quite unfamiliar . with whiffietrees, stifles, spayies» YOUD» Jad faava get, Bang‘s disease and 1OMDY work. His prophecy for farmers, "raggedy farmers," is the most anazing _ confession ever made by a public man, for, NOTE THIS: he plans to form th: next governâ€" ment in the Province of C * and ‘will deal with "Ragged Individua.cits" In his confession he might have added these facts: "From 1926through 1940, laber and farmers combined, took 74.2& of Canâ€" ada‘s total national inome, lea 25.8% for all other groups." National partners you say? But wait! "Of the 74.2% labor got 62.3% and farmers just 11.9%. Look it up for yourselves in Government releases. Wfll the C.C.F. cut labor to the farmers‘ level? Will labor stand for that raggedy treatâ€" ment? Get hep! The Ottawa Citizen a grave question twfiewm:%y cannot we, too, have more realism in our Three times wounded, The Windsor Star tells of a soldier hit in the same place each time. As an officer he was hit in the abdoâ€" men, as a sergeant he was hit in the stomach, and as a private he was hit in the belly. cannot we, too, have more realiism in our wedding news? Like the Piattsville, Wis., paper‘s description of the bride as "a perfed\, photograph of her father and phonograph 0f‘, her mother." y# An "Idividualist" is & "Oh Grandma, how sharp Penned and Pilfered @U, SHTO : November 24. 1943 who 4 |