y TCO sag" ~eikikk "Lincoin County‘s 1 sading Weekly" Established 1885 Cmm Issued Thursday from office of publiâ€" eation, Main and Ook Streets, Grimaby. w 36 mh’ # w w GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT PuBUusrmc JOHN W. GLENDINNING, Presigent. WiSOnegs 14 kAWSON, Viceâ€"Presigent ommz The Grimsby Independent h‘emumdmdm; h‘QGIht.ndtnem < ulways to the most nerfert i-l-â€"‘.;u... Cmm e u1 TtE e SUNDAY BASEBALL TO BE OR XOT TC BE During the past summer the teenâ€"age and older boys of the town have been in the habit of plaving a friendly game of baseball on the public school grounds or Sunday afâ€" ternoon. At various times some citizens raised the question about the boys desecrating the Sabbath and did approach certain officials in an effort to have the boys stopped from pasâ€" timing. Noth ng of any consequence hapâ€" pened, however, until last Wednesday night when a petition was presented to the Beard of Education asking that the grounds kz proâ€" mhibitedfa’hnehlototbuspoflsm&n- Board of Educrtion did pass a motion prohibiting the use of all school properties for any and all kinds of sport on Sundsy. I was not at the Board of Education l&ec '.- are two points that I wish to make clear. First, rightly or wrongly in their decision, tbeBonnr‘Ednutionhnitvithintbar' m,tomtorwohibit.lnyfll“m of activities on school property, whether it be a baseball game, a hula huls dance or a church servic«. of the grounds. Secondly, becarse Mayor Johnson, 3 ww_oftbel'm'mâ€':k_: s romy OS C aake â€" anke There is no !/> m;bervinecoKOD- woï¬ntnystntbonndmenorm e-otï¬ï¬‚'wâ€m football MQC % °CC -mmmâ€m“m@ wï¬ntflent&wmuthmhmmdy- i-n.dounotwthnbovlinzmwd rooms and other private business of a like nattr> can operate. Those forms of enterâ€" +aimment mq_a'ltedeM"'dm key, key, Of 207 "*""" 2 _nd there is no rowdyism. -.g,,i.dn.nedzndfl:euh.m Despite the fact that these ball gsmes have been played on Sunday alie ( mm.tbaehnemmf"“’m' brate. ‘The Mayor received a few. This 02â€" &efldwtmeivemtmmu‘“'w“m b\mlmmt and Eb*ï¬edlhdm‘mmw‘m yors office and this office would. ba¢° fromi O PREEY _ the perigns th ing during mw"""‘"""’e ‘mm s hflmhanzvh""- The boy® Te wdfwtwhnww'““,d‘ oo wmmml e’m- mw standing around i’“’n ab:pheum «o 1 haye 8Ot, . /â€" â€" s"Â¥ey y9 HBNC : »aiXhbhum w0b C â€"~ & s 1 only received one complaint As Somit -nmdn-fl“"""“""“ mmmw&“"’"""“â€m mh-dgl“.s"‘?r # ""Kuy w#*"_h* U s mï¬'lf‘"?"‘"- “Ev’eone!“h‘â€"" AY monions all of a sudden , YoG, $y‘ s2p the Sabbath for over 20 7 my peit * , "'l A FACTS & FanciEs : Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper per year in 1 ean <~â€"n on Sunday. [ o «Hothing." + NCY Frank Faizborn, Jr. of the Chinese eafes and acn 100 per cent free all t year in Cansds and $2.50 he 1 nd become 80 $ ra: have "They AIt Every®* e been ears to day from the day that Deer Park Golf and Country Club was opened, unt"! it was closed a year ago, you never missed playing golf on Sunday, rain or shine, frorm: FEaster until Christmas Gasoline shortage is all that is keeping you from rampaging all over the courtry to play gol? on Sunozy, right now." in That man, if you asked him, would claim that he was a good christian gentieman. Maytbe he is. But to me he is a pure unadulâ€" terated hypocrite. â€" * He and hundreds of others like him can mvwmsmmmmm on Sunday, go fishing, go boating, picnicing, swimming, but Cod help the poor working boy that wants to play baseball, softball, fotball or hockey on Sunday. Just where do thesemen get the special dispensation from the Lop to do what they do and not be deseâ€" crating theSabbath the same as they claim a bailtplayert â€" _ . â€" _ He looked at me fit to kill me, tyrned round and walked away. s If theseboys are * be stopped playing ball, then lets go all out aud stop all deseâ€" cration of ++ Sabbath. We will stop the lu:ge numb» of women in this town and disâ€" trict who a work;udnyndnlght in cur factories, frm doing their washing and harnging it oit, as they are doing now . The Surday that the paracular ball game was played that caused the petition, I sat within 100 yards of the bal} field and never knewthere was a game going on until it was over,. That is how much noise the spectators and players were imakizg. Not any more nise than the women who were doing theirwashing. _ _ s So there you are,. If we are going into this Blue law Sabbath business we have a full time job on our hands. _ _ _ On th:tsame Sunday afternoon I obâ€" served oneof Grimsby‘s most energetic inâ€" surance salaemen, stripping the paper off the well: of a cuple of rooms to get them ready for the decarators. Also I witnessed one of our most praninent and most dignified resiâ€" dents diggirg his potato crop. _ The wioile question has got to come to a head. In fat it will come to a head as soon as the waris over. Do not be surprised if a plebiscite is put to the people of Ontario on the question within a year of the cessation of The Freedom 1 refer to does not even eomenndert.be.Fou.rw My Prud‘o- i.l.ï¬'flll.m)' lzmk Manager. Eric Ewing left town on Monday to asâ€" sume his new povition in Ottawa, and Mr. Holder (notice 1 say Mister) of Hamilton has assumed dictatcrial duties in the LONE be~: that serves our 5,000 population. Time has come when the people will not stard for the continuance of making flesh of one andfish of another. If Montmorency wmmpmmâ€" ing, fishing, boating, swimming, golfing, horseback nding on the bridle paths and such like on Sunday, then plain Bill Smith, who slugs all day in a factory, has just as much rightto play ball or hockey or any othâ€" Eric says "Oh, it‘s all right, you are down pretiy l.ov. l?lder.m't. bother you." 1 sez to myseif sez 1 "I‘ll clean the sheet. Evry other bank manager that 1 owed, and they have been legion, went out clean and Erictuton:the:m."' o 1 cleaned her. 1 don‘t owe a bank maunâ€" ager 5 the world a dimeâ€"but 1 owe the «châ€" or TUVÂ¥that J borrowed it from. Th World," Mr. Holder. THE PRICE TS dappear when the parents on, and in Mnfnmt&%d“mm Mhm.hmutbodm:oldb- er places British are fighting, were killed in the first Great War,. â€" COver a million Britons loat their lives in the conflict wh‘sh ended 2% years ago and with their death thousands of families which had besn contributing much to the might of er sport. And the Lord will think just as much of oneas the other. FREEDOM That i: a great word, Freedom. It means liberty inevery thing a man does, as long as he obeys the law. 1 am free because 1 never let my paper lapse.but this was the first time that 1 ever had to tean ap in such a short space of time. Out of 28 neames in the active service dedh list in a recent issue of The London Timesexactly }al" were of only, or last surâ€" dAvib sons. nat means so far as these famâ€" flies &e concerned the line will completely 1#3 luck, Lric. e o "The Biggest Littie *n in THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT ] uctaeugniin Carriage Companyâ€", the forerunâ€" ner of CGeneral Motors of Canadas, Limited, was obâ€" served last week at Oshawa. There was no lei zn in production at Company plents, which have turnpâ€" e4 out bundreds of thousands of vehicles and armorâ€" ed units, sinm» war began. In 1869, the lste Robert McLaughlin founded a carriage shop at Enniskillen, Ontario, with four emâ€" ployees. Today, nearly 15,000 men and women are nmmnwpmuom Motors plants across Canada. Among these workers are men who once built carriages for Robert Mcâ€" Laughlin. ‘They have come out of retirement to apâ€" ply their skill and craftsmanship on the assembly line for Mosquito Bomber fusclages.. ‘This span of years from "buggies to bombers" saw McLaughlin carriages recogmized as the finest in Canada: the introduction of the first McLaughlin car in 1907 . . . the famed Model F . . . ; production of the first Chevrolets: formation of General Motors of Canads and the building of more than a million und a half motor cars, the last in 1942. quent, mong The McLaughlin Carriage Works was founded 75 years ago his week at Enniskilien, near Oshawa, by Rovert MiAmoegolis »A a hanttul of employees (mbove). Out of this village enterprise grew Genâ€" eral Motors of Cunada, Oldâ€"time carriage makers now devote their craftsmanahip to GM‘s production gear. This made the product more attra there was a move to s#till larger premises. B 8. McLaughiin, who with bis brother George had become partners with their father, recognized the possibilitics of the borscless carriege and preâ€" valled upon the Company executives to make th. bir a > ard enter the motor car feld. T «n the Chevrolet ‘4090" was manufactured in Canâ€" ut _ Phe McLaugblin Curriage plant was expanded ayai ; to take care of the instantaneous demoarnd. The carm>ge business was wad in 1915 but mt before 27000) carriages and «leigrs had tbeen manufacierâ€" ed and aobs all over Canada. In 1918. the Molaughâ€" lis Motor Cor companrie were omsolidated into Gerâ€" eral Motors of Canade Tae carnage crafimices Loami themaiives ameriatrd with J lnrges intus trial institution in the woryl. prise produces the greates variety of precusion war equipment in Cunmm. Ts employees ars yroud of mn-t‘u.\dudmmm. mackine guns, Oerlikon gun mounts, antitank yun carriages, the rm.celles and completely equipped fuseâ€" lnges of the Mcomguito bomiber, and a large varuery A Mems, some oA them will on the secrst bnt. Comâ€" pany plants in Oshewa, Windeor and Regina are deâ€" verad ezcumw)y to Yhis varied war rectuction ‘This equipment has beenm in action on battle froute in Â¥rance, laly, North Africa, Indis, Borom aud Malays,. Genmeral Mrtote A Cannim un seut avillean techaical advisors *to Purcge, Africa, Iwte and Austrails to work in cvapaesthm w«ih the armed forces and to a«hre uevice prodteing Wyot. uh-mwo-nyum-ï¬in-“:: trained large numbers of army pereonnel in the use and maistemance (¢ mechanited equipmens. ‘WAY BACK WHEN h wet Proibetion She snteriaisen t â€". _ This fine way of thinking two Many of the war yrotuAon underlaken s way » avutomeIte “-‘;.:l".!b instzance . m." 3 Y?&MM m 75th Anniversary cf the founding Toduy, the miccemort of the amal village exter them the McLaughlin patent buggy J#. war products®5 ,,.,u', e two 488 8 D (p on .no:af’"wu-mmfl wnfldfl"’““.‘w tonls s uenigh ts alloys and ton Plant workers bY* received “"“',...u ?“M mmu""‘"'":amwm . production ing preduction â€" *‘ _iyees nOW iC the armed tae-d(x-dl-n“ v-*:" ,-.â€"IM-.“‘â€w ï¬-â€"â€"if" 7' mnfll work could begin on the Mq.990 wol units from necessary to build more than the ground up inls every year, try whwre there ‘*There hsh-.h-o-h.-buq_-o,u;- o success, Nomlfln..h.yhoolm; #ravour was ever accomffished without hard work &ad sacrifice. of plywood fustlizes for the world‘s fastest bomt»r (Below) (right ), we are alive . _ (24Y* cannot vo, 1f go forever torwaq . **"6 Dackward. I KNOW SOMETHING _ OO0D ABOUT YOU Wouldn‘t this on vl. lflboto&lwoul":am: ma-u%‘*mm“.! Wouldn‘t it be #no * If each handâ€"‘ 200 dandy, c-nuwtmmf:'-muu, Meaes L'MM}@! Wouldn‘t things here be more pleasant w“%mm-hud. gï¬iï¬smb&! i e‘6 fikike the youg waeile we ts We ase! For there‘s such a !=t of goodnass * _ Wouldn‘t it be nite to uractice "When you lool on tss 4 e E. Iâ€"Jemnce, (left) and William J. Drew both ®:tithe Cu.spany since 1898, and Fred (centre) FittinEthe outer skin on the famed M# I know something good about you ‘ 'Pfl # -‘gum"’r AOU!MI"'""M ‘m' + uuvfl!m“m -_.._.hmlm Thursday, â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"_â€" you see what can be done in a courâ€" is incentive and opporturity . a vast output of vital war matsrâ€" rau employee since 1908 ut today‘s September 21, 1944 Uist tue nation Â¥5. If in Canaia 1 Afotors UkeWho/ for (0