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Issued every Thursday from office of Publi- cation Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby Telephone 36 Subseription--$2.00 per year in Canada and $2.50 per year in United States, payable in advance. grim fact that she has been pillaged and loot- ed in order to feed Germans in Germany seems an almost inescapable conclusion. The conclusion that the same destination would be reached by food and relief from this con- tinent is equally inescapable. True independence is never gfraid_ of appear- aTii%Gdent, and true dependence" leads always to the most perfect independence. The Germans admit that the situation is grave, and that there might be severe suffer- ing in different countries under their domina- tion. Why is it that this severe condition did not prevail before they were overrun? Den- mark, for instance, did not draw her men off the fields and out of the factories in an at- tempt to stem the Nazi hordes. Her internal economic position was sound. Why is she so suddenly faced with a food shortage? The But sympathies for the terrible plight of millions of homeless victims of Nazi heart- lessness should not blind well-meaning people on this side of the Atlantic to the fact that Germany is still ruled by the thugs who do not stop at pillage and murder to ensure their own positions. They hold no scruples at ex- prppriating private property, and despite any protestations which they might make, there is no guarantee that food and materials con- signed to Germany's victims would ever reach their destination. Germany claims to have enough food for her own use during the coming winter, but seems quite insistent that her now "pro- teetorates" are on the verge of starvation. The Nazis claim that their first obligation is towards citizens of the Reich, but are frank in admitting that Northern France and Hol- land especially are feeling the effects of the British blockade of the continent. Britain is taking the view that food sent to these countries "would relieve Hitler of the necessity of providing like relief to the peoples of the countries he has occupied." Germany, on the other hand declares that Britain could "avert a serious food shortage without aiding Germany by lifting the block- As this is being written (Tuesday after- noon), the news from Europe would seem to indicate that the zero hour for the long ex- pected blitzkreig is at hand, and that long days of terror, destruction and death are about to be visited upon Great Britain. Mr. Hoover directed a huge relief pro- gram in Belgium at the close of the last war, and is at present chairman of the American Relief Committee. Through the agency of this committee a sum of fifty million dollars has been made available to relief in Europe by the United States Government. But seri- ous questions are asked regarding the ad- visability of sending aid to these countries which are now living in the shadow of the swastika. The Grimsby Independent British leaders have made no effort to minimize the terrific toll which might be ex- acted by the Nazi invaders, and rightly so. Had they made any effort to conceal from the people just what danger they are in, Bri- tain would suffer the same fate which befell France. _ Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his colleagues in the government have, rath- er, told their people that a tremendous trial awaits them. They have declared that Great Britain must be ready for the worst. They have announced their determination to fight on the shores and in the streets and from barricaded homes. They have told the people to "stand fast". According to former President Herbert Hoover of the United States, some eighteen million people in Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland and France are facing starvation this winter. Most of them, says Mr. Hoover, are women and children. This last suggestion, which appeared in a circular as an "order from your govern- ment", is one which all Canadians should adopt. There is no one but feels a thrill of pride at the manner in which the average Britisher has awaited the blitzkreig. One cannot but sense a thrill of horror at the des- truction and death which is about to be visit- ed.on the British Isles. But we should not give way to a sense of despair. We, thous- ands of miles from Great Britain, have no right to that attitude when the people of Great Britain, a scant 21 miles from the camps of the enemy, do not experience it. A sense of despair is an attitude of defeat, and unless we are defeatists, there is no power in Europe great enough to for 'E its will on us. FOUR _ "r-nr.' '1.“ " "Lincoln County's Leading Weekly" Established 1885 DER TAG APPROACHES Editorials -_ N *" TTC" n DISUI‘JL 1r)ricriestirrv With Ontario facing a shortage of farm labour which the provincial government has termed "acute", arrangements have been made to have the public schools remain closed for two weeks and the high schools for one month after the regular two month summer holiday. The purpose of this move is to make additional assistance available for the harvesting of a crop which, on the whole, is quite good. .. , dt is “any by”. No one will deny the importance of garnering every available bit of food produce which can be harvested at this time. Noth- ing grown in the fields or orchards should be allowed to waste because there was no one to help bring it in. But no farmer will get much assistance from school children of public) school age, or junior high school. Harvest- ing is hard work for husky people, and it re- quires some experience if it is to be done properly. Local fruit growers agree that help is not too plentiful, but they also agree that the school boys which they require range in age from about fifteen to eighteen. Most of the fruit of this district has to be picked, sorted (and packed quickly, and it is absurd to ex- l pect a ten or twelve year old to do this work effectively. the part of manlager Clarence Rushton and his crew does not hurt the reputation of the town at all, and they all deserve the congratulations of every citizen. Grimsby has another championship this year. The local boys took the title in the final game of the fruit belt league last night. Such good work on Canada has a crop of "poor little rich children" who have been stranded here after leaving their British homes. No doubt there will be many rich little poor children when many thousands of other children come over under the Government plan. Note on the Balkan situation: The matter is one for long range plan- ning by experts. But certain it is that while seasonal employment will always be with us, there is too much of it. Too few workers are enabled to find work which will be the occu- pation of their lifetime. The more people who do the greater will be the prosperity of our nation. The name is Lindbergh, but his utterances bear a close similarity to product which hlas an odor, too, One thousand farmers are said to pay income tax in Canada. That's even better than most of us thought! With farmers reporting difficulty in obtaining help, one cannot reconcile the small wave of beggers that has hit this district during the past few weeks. V There is something Vichy about those French "war guilt" trials. c. The Unemployment Insurance measure which was before the House of Commons during the session just concluded was a step, faltering as it may seem to some, towards a better social condition in the Dominion. Today is "Der Tag" but so far it is the Nazis who are getting tagged. But admirable as insurance against un- employment is, it cannot be matched with as- surance of employment. Canada, a wide boundless land with a multitude of diversi- fied resources, is possessed of almost every- thing which a planned national economy could desire. Her mines, fields and waters are still in the development stage. / On her bounty a population many times that of Can- ada's could be supported. . p NOW FOR EMPLOYMENT ASSURANCE War Savings Stamps are still on sale THOSE EXTENDED HOLIDAYS If you would maintain peace, You must consider Greece. NOTES AND- COMMENTS ----Old S. E. European saying (A.D. 1940) THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENl RELATIVE OF NORTH GRIMSBY TP. RESIDENT LIVES THROUGH GERMAN WARFARE IN FRANCE (Note-Mrs. Dean, the principal in the following story, is a sister- in-law of Mrs. Gordon Lipsit, of Grimsby.--Ed.) NORWICH - May 17, 1940 will forever stand out as the most eventful and heart reading day in the life of Mrs. Rex Dean, formerly of Lillie, France, who a few days ago arrived at the home of her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Lee, here. On that day, for the third time, she locked the doors of her home and with her husband and two children Orville, 18 and Phyllis, 16, made her way a short ways ahead of the ladvancing hordes of the German) army. Twice before, after Premier Chamberlain's history making trip to Munich and shortly after war was declared in 1939, she had left for a short period and, later, re- turned to her home. This time she expects to be away much longer but still' has faith that she will re- turn again but to what she knows not. During the days that the Dean family was travelling by auto from l Lille to Nantes, then to Bordeaux, they witnessed the methods of the German war machine loosed in all its hellish fiendishness. Nazi air- men flew up and down the roads bombing and machine-gunning the fleeing citizens without mercy. Only by a miracle did the Dean! car escape being hit. Driving a few cars ahead of them was a family whom they knew intimately. In the machine were eight persons, one of whom was Miss Phyllis Dean's music teacher. Their car was hit and two elderly occupants were killed outright; another pas- senger was mortally wounded. The dead just had to be laid aside and‘ left behind, unburied, the wounded man was taken to a house and it is believed he died. Mr. and Mrs. Dean saw one Belgian woman carrying her baby, a child perhaps two years, which had been dead for more than three days. "You can imagine what this, would he like" Mrs. Dean said, "tor it was ex- -,rarario -. - "arm t , ’ the south Wed to Mr. Dean went to France eleven years, and Mrs. Dean and the chil- dren ten years ago. In France Mr. Dean was Assistant Manager of the Massey-Harris plant at Lille, about four miles from the Belgian Screeching bombs seemed to he jfalling everywhere working havoc _ on already frayed nerves. Among l, the refugees were Lithuanians, Bel- gians and French . A better idea of the awful havoc and destruction of life the German beasts could ac- complish is given in the fact that during their thrilling and exciting journey Mr. and Mrs. Dean and their family took more than seven hours by motor to progress one mile. This because the cross roads were as jammed as the main arteries and it was next to impossi- i ble to cross any corner. The farther _ back one traveled the greater the congestion became. Soldiers were trying to keep some semblance of order but people in autos, on foot, or any other way they could move were in such great crowds as to make this an utter impossibility. Excited a nd impatient drivers honked the horns of their machines keeping up an ineessant.din. All efforts to procure food were almost in vain. The Deans would send their children on ahead to the next town or village and there they would search for something to eat. The only food obtained was some baby biscuits and a pot of jam. French Soldiers Trying to make some headway to advance towards the oncoming Ger- mans, on these same roads already over-run with private vehicles and walking people, were the soldiers of France. Mrs. Dean states that their tanks and gun carriers were crowded out to the outsides of the roads and into the ditches. "We heard," she said, "that with utter disregard for human life the on- coming enemy, in their haste ran over everything that was in their path." Mrs. Dean explained that German pilots flew over the towns and villages, dropping pamphlets which warned the civilians to stay in their homes or they would be op- enly machine-gunned on the roadsl “by -.-- Jody until forced by authorities to give it up. Bloodshed was everywhere, bodies of dead and dying persons, young and old were strewn at random along the roads. Husbands and wives were struck down at each other's side. Children were wounded and killed at their parents' feet. In France Eleven Years Fleeing Citizens frontier. When Lille was captured the Massey-Harris factory was working 24 hours a day on French munition work and now the Ger- mans have ordered all workmen back at their posts. Mrs. Dean expects to remain here and with her sisters: Mrs. E. Stevenson, Union Street, and Mrs. C. McWebb, McCall Street, Sim- coe, and Mrs. Homer Stevenson, Brantford Township, Brant County, until Mr. Dean's arrival home. Arriving at Nantes the family were pble to obtain lodging for one night in a hotel; the next night friends had arranged for them. Most of the refugees traveled until through utter exhaustion they drop- ped along side the roads, in hay- stacks, or wherever they were for short rests. In a few days, after a tedious journey they arrived at Bordeaux. Mrs. Dean and the children stayed for a few days until passage could be arranged to England. They crossed, by way of Ireland, and landed at Glasgow, Scotland. This trip took one week. Had they been able to gain passage from Dunkirk, a few miles from their Lille home, they could have arrived in Eng- land in one hour and a half. Eng- lish fighting planes accompanied the transport ship through the zone that was considered dangerous. In England, Mrs. Dean and the) family remained at Liverpool from where they sailed for Canada. Eleven days later they arrived safely in this country. "If you want to know how thoroughly Bri- tain rules the waves you should travel in wartime," Mrs. Dean said. "When you are on the water you would never know that Germany existed." During the past winter the' French people were confident that the Germans would never he able to invade France because of the Maginot Line, Mrs. Dean said. "We were definitely uneasy because Bel- gium and Holland were bound to maintain their neutrality; we wish- ed they would invite France and England to secure their countries for them but , "ere eonfident that, once attacked, r.setd'./am "wou1fi'iaCe their end of the line.) We felt quite safe until the Belgiums under the orders of King Leopold oapitulated. Then things began to move with lightning speed. At noon on May 17, Mr. Dean suggested to his wife that a truck from the Massey- Harris Company would be around the next morning to take what it could of their personal [belongings and they would be away. He sug- gested she pack what she most de- sired. However, instead of the over- (Continued on Page 7) yt didn't thtnk we'd get on! of the fire olive" Landed At Glasgow Thursday, August 15th, 1940. These are days when one feels a thrill of pride in British citizenship. Sternly and methodically, if some- times slowly, the vast might of the Empire is being mobilized and Hit- ler and his jackal, Mussolini, are facing what will eventually be the knell of their hopes of world dom- ination. --. The Press, Winchester, England. A skipper came ashore to report that his ship had been attacked try two Nazi planes in the Channel. "What happened to them?" "Oh, they were both shot down at once with one shell by 'Snorty," the ship's gunner." "Snorty," it ap- peared, was refused enlistment in this war because he lost a leg in the last one. "But Iumme," says "Snorty," " I can still shoot." So "Snorty" went as gunner of the Freighter. - The Vancouver Prov- ince. In "Mein Kampf", Adolf Hitler complained of the inability of im- perial Germany to comprehend British character. That inability would seem to have remained a. legacy to the Third Reich. For, fac- ed with Britain's refusal to be frightened or bought off by Herr Hitler's "peace threats," some pub- licists in Germany are attempting to trace British resistance to spec- ial encouragement by President Roosevelt. Most Americans will feel that the reasons for British firmness are clear enough without "inside" analysis along diplomatic lines. The German deductions thus "ocus attention chiefly on Ger- many's continuing lack of capacity for understanding the British point of view. This is a deficiency that Herr Hitler once wrote down as a cause of grave mistakes in German policy. CI The Boston Christian Science Monitor. The career of lay teaching does not exist among us. Most men and women having easily arrested their diploma from the Normal School, give themselves over to education, where they remain for only a short time, in general, three or four years. Is this not deplorable? One deo om these facts that only reTrgidvs' iiiiariricr"e%rt"r"1tfPPd, province, because it alone is stable. Lay teachers will never do any- thing worth while in this domain so long as the school will not give them a means of livelihood That is basic common sense It is essen- tial that our people should be edu- cated more by lay people, that is to say, by men and women who are in direct contact with practical life and who alone can teach French- language Canadian children how to become prepared f o r business careers-te Jour, Montreal. "Yes, Yes, we're ‘lucky the boss hat a telephone" THER NNI0t0i l (