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And so, when the Ontario grower is, from his Western vantage point, not interestâ€" ed enough in his own Ontario markets to go after them properly, he does not feel any qualms about invading them himself. Nor should he. He was a bit smarter than local men, though. When he set out to sell his fruit to Canadians all over the Dominion, he didn‘t even bring the dealers in on it. If his fruit was selling well, the dealers would be doing well, and might or might not be more agreeâ€" able to some closer coâ€"operation. But no matâ€" ter, he would still be doing well. He would create a demand for his products by himself. There are men skilled in that sort of work, and he called them in for consulation in the same way that a lawyer would call in a doctor when things are not as they should be with his health. The British Columbia grower is, it is safe to suppose, no different than his conâ€" freres in Ontario. He is interested in their welfare, but that instinct of friendliness is not as great as the instinet of selfâ€"preservaâ€" tion. He probably watched the formation of the Grimsby and District Fruit Growers Asâ€" sociation, and no doubt felt a little pang of sorrow as it bogged down under interminable discussions. He watched the difficulties the promotion of the marketing scheme met with when it reached the dealerâ€"grower discussion stage. The growers went about their task in the right way. They had only one objective in view, the growing of fruit and the selling of it at a fair price which will: enable them to make a living. They decided to cultivate the Canadian market a little more intensively. Each grower contributed a fraction of a cent for each basket he marketed last year, and the result was a fund of sixty thousand dolâ€" lars. In addition to the work of the advertisâ€" ing agency they are going to have a newsâ€" paper man living right in their district to do stories for newspapers and magazines which will help to fortify the campaign by creating interest in the Valley and its people. The fruit growers of British Columbia‘s Okanagan Valley are a selfâ€"reliant lot. They are aware of the serious crimp which is beâ€" ing put into their overseas markets by the war. But they are not taking it lying down. They got together a few weeks ago to see about selling their produce elsewhere, and as a result Canadian newspapers and magazines, including those of Ontario, are about to run an advertising campaign on théir behalf. FOUR Issued every Thursday from office of publiâ€" cation Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby â€" Telephone 36 o This confusion should never have been allowed to arise, and from the above facts it would seem that the very organization which was set up to bring Canadians authentic news of their government‘s activities was as much to blame as anything. Subscriptionâ€"$2.00 per year in Canada and $2.50 per year in United States, payable in advance. On Sunday night, less than twelve hours before registration booths were opened, the popular radio programme "Carry On, Canâ€" ada!"‘, which is presented by the Director of Public Information, gave a little skit illustraâ€" tive on registration in which an elderly woâ€" man who came to the booth was told by the deputy that as she was nearly seventy she need not register. This impression was furâ€" ther heightened in the editorial columns of a widelyâ€"cireulated farm magazine, which statâ€" ed that only those between the ages of sixâ€" teen and sixty were obliged to fill out the forms. But preceding Sunday evening‘s broadâ€" cast of Canadian Press News less than an hour later was an announcement that despite the impression which was current, everybody over the age of sixten, regardless of age, must register. True independence is never afraid of appearâ€" ing dependent, and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. On Sunday night all Canadians over the age of sixteen were aware of the fact, or should have been, that on the first three days of this week it was compulsory that they register. All Canadians, that is, up to the age of sixtyâ€"five. For the many tens of thousands over that age there was a confusâ€" sion which should not have been allowed to exist. Something went wrong, somebody slipâ€" ped, in the office of the Director of Public Information, and as a result thousands of Canadians were given a wrong impression reâ€" garding their status under the National Registration Act. The Grimsby Independent B. C. GROWERS DOING IT RIGHT «"Lincoln County‘s Leading Weekly" Established 1885 NEEDLESS CONFUSION Editorials Then there was the girl who went for a tramp in the woods and got her man. Sadie says she would have registered first thing Monday morning but couldn‘t because she had to go up the line to her uncle‘s farm to find out if she could milk a cow. She says if you ain‘t tried anyâ€" thing you never can tell. While Canada draws closer to her powerâ€" ful southern neighbour in mutual defence, it would be far from correct to read into this actiona retirement from her position with regard to the Mother Country. Canada can only be a useful member of the British Comâ€" monwealth of Nations so long as her terriâ€" tory is inviolate, and every means of defence must be sought and tested before she can say that her position is secure. British leadâ€" ers who have expressed warm commendation of the new agreement realize this. They also realize that Canada and the United States are the stronghold in the Western World of the democratic forms of government which were developed in the British Isles. A group of local women have formed a shooting club. With home baking definitely on the wane some substitute had to be found for the rolling pin. Anyway, girls, keep your powder dry. During the first three days of this week millions of Canadians went to registration booths throughout the Domini®n, where sevâ€" eral thousands of their neighbours were ready to assist them in the task of National Recistration. Note on the war situation: These thousands of . volunteers, who worked through many long and tedious hours, performed a real service by which they saved their country hundreds of thousâ€" ands of dollars. For many of them it must have seemed boring; certainly there were times when it was onerous and difficult. The United States, while faced with the same difficulties in a lesser degree, has zo other defences than mobile unitese which could be rushed to positions of action should an invasion of the republic be attempterd from Canada. There are no forts, no strong guns, no battleships on the Great Lakes from which a defensive stand might be takâ€" en. The successful invasion of either Canâ€" ada or the United States would leave the othâ€" er country dangerously vulnerable. _/ Thanks are hereby tendered to radio station CKOC, Hamilton, for the following bit of philosophy: But the job was carried off without a hitch. Sick people were visited in hospitals and at their homes New Canadians who had difficulty arising from their lack of knowâ€" ledge of the English language were patiently helped. Many who spoke English were in doubt as to how some of the questions should be answered, especially the qgerry regarding racial origin. As the deputy registrars ansâ€" wered the same questions again and again they had every excuse to sometimes appear abrupt or snappy. For the most part, howâ€" ever, they didn‘t, and as a result of their good offices, the whole project was carried throuch smoothly. Canadians everywhere owe these patriotic citizens a hearty vote of thanks. They gave their time and energy unâ€" stintingly. Canadian defence is inseparably tied up with that of the United States. Canada, posâ€" sessed of a population slightly in excess of eleven million, is, for the most part, populatâ€" ed along a four thousand mile fringe of unâ€" guarded border. An attack on Canada would require the immediate shifting of troops to a concentration at the point of entry. To do this and still maintain adequate military proâ€" tection along the Dominion borders at the same time would require one of the greatest standin# armies the world has ever known. It would be an impossibility for Canada‘s manâ€"power. It must have been maddening for those ladies who took the usual few years off their ages at regisâ€" tration to have to fill in the date of their birth in the very next quesion. Swatting Wops, says a British flier, is lots of fun. As good sport as gunning Huns? Problems of Canadian and United States defence, which have been puzzling many peoâ€" ple on both sides of the border, were partially answered by the epochâ€"making announceâ€" ment of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King and President Franklin D. Roosevelt that a joint defence committee would be set up immediately by both countries. CANADIANS SHOULD BE GRATEFUL The German people must be getting their fill Of British fiiers and Winston Churchill. IN DEFENCE OF DEMOCRACY Count the day lost, / Whose low descending sun Sees prices shot to hell, NOTES AND COMMENTS And business done for fun. T HE . GRIMSB C INDGE PE NDE N T There have been rumours in Fleet Street that a number of inâ€" fluential men in Government circles are pressing for the adoption of a scheme as a result of which the present variety of _ newspapers would disappear and a single naâ€" tional newspaper would take their place. This, if it happened, would be pooling with a@ vengeance. Even in Germany the papers are allowed to look different ,though, of course, they all have to say the same thing. In England I believe the abolition of a free and independent Pres®. has nothing to be said for it. During the General Strike, it will be remembered, the strikers sucâ€" ceeded in closing down the newsâ€" papers for a short period, and a uovernment newspaper took their place. It was not a happy experiâ€" ment. Apart from this, the Governâ€" ment of the day was not itself in favour of the singleâ€"newspaper idea, and, even during the strike, the ordinary newspapers began quickly to reappear in diminutive form, printed by blackleg labour. After all, every paper has a perâ€" sonality, and it is to this personaliâ€" ty that the reader responds as people respond to the personality of Mr. Churchill or Gracie Fields. To attempt to reduce all newspapers to a single composite newspaper would ‘be as hopeless as to try to make a composite personality of Mr. Churchill and Gracie Fields. No one would like such a composite personality. It would damp the spirits of the most enthusiastic folâ€" lowers of both these persons of genius. At present, the newspapers help to maintain the confidence of the vast majority of the people, ‘beâ€" cause, even under a warâ€"time censorship, they retain a great deal of liberty and exercise it. They are the spokesmen of the people. Engâ€" lishmen are free to read any paper they want to read, and their choice of a daily paper is as significant and important as the votes they cast at a General Electionâ€"perâ€" haps more so. A newspaper is the ordinary man‘s representative. It may be The Times or the Daily Exâ€" press or the News Chronicle; but if these three were amalgamated into a single newspaper, hundreds of thousands of readers would feel, not only that they were being given a newspaper they did not like, but that their point of view was no longer being represented in the Press. Well, for one thing, the parties in the House of Commons, though coâ€"operating for the purpose of winning the war, still retain their separate existence, and members of the House of Commons remain free to criticize the authorities. There is no such stifling of freedom of criticism as would take place if only one newspaper were allowed to be published in England. How dead the House of Commons would become if Members of Parliament were forbidden to ask questions As for the official newspaper of the time, one thing can be said of it for certain: it did not inspire confidenceâ€"at least, it did not inâ€" spire anything like universal conâ€" fidence. And I am sure the same distrust would be felt of any paper that set out to be the sole voice of the British public toâ€"day. Even if it were left in the hands of the Newspaper Proprietors‘ Associaâ€" tion and the National Union of Journalists, it would be looked on as an official sheet, hiding every piece of truth and criticism which it might ‘be inconvenient to the authorities for the public to know. And, in the nature of things, it would become an official sheet, just as during the General Strike the B.B.C. became an official instruâ€" ment to such an extent that a broadcast from the moderateâ€"mindâ€" ed Archbishop of Canterbury was at the last moment forbidden. In such circumstances, Englishmen, having lost faith in what they read in their solitary newspaper, would become an easy prey to every senâ€" sational rumour and the chatterbug would take the place of the jourâ€" nalist as a recorder of events and a commentator on them. At present, fortunately, there is a Press with a Conservative perâ€" sonality which helps to keep up the moral of Conservative men and woâ€" men, a Press with a Liberal perâ€" sonality which does the same thing for Liberals, and a Press with a Labour personality which does it for followers of the Labour party. It may be asked, however, why, if all parties can unite to form a Naâ€" tional Government, all papers should not unite to form a national newspaper. NEWSPAPERS IN WARâ€"TIME Spokesmen of The People Freedom of Criticism The Single Voice By ROBERT LYND and â€"offer~ criticisms! â€"~And â€" how dead the Government would be in danger of becoming if it were not kept continually on the alert in orâ€" der to be able to justify itself in the face of ‘any ‘criticism . that might come! In democratic countries, I am sure, a free Press is a source, not of embarrassment, but of strength to a wise Government. It is, I adâ€" mit, a nuisance to a weak Governâ€" ments, but weak Governments ought not to be allowed to exist. If Mr. Churchill is at present Prime Minister, this is due in a large measure to the fact that a section of the Press made itself a nuisance to the Government of Mr. Chamâ€" berlain. Iimagine that nine out of ten Englishmen and women are glad â€" even overjoyed â€" that Mr. Churchill, and not Mr. Chamberâ€" lain, is now Prime Minister. Consider, then, what the situaâ€" tion might have been if at the outâ€" break of the war all the newspapâ€" ers had been abolished and a single official organ had taken their place. How could this organ have done anything except assure the people that all was well and that they were living under the best of all possible Governments? They would have been told that there was no need to worryâ€"that the supply of aeroplanes was getting better and better every day, that there were good reasons for refusing ableâ€" bodied recruits for the Army and for leaving a vast part of the popuâ€" lation idle and large areas of land idle in the midst of ‘a total war. ‘"Trust the Government," th ey would have been told, and, if they had taken the advice, who doubts that they would have been brought to the edge of disaster ? Threatened With Ruin There are only two instruments for getting rid of a weak Governâ€" ment in a democracy : one is a free Parliament. If England at the beginning of the war had possessed I believe that the British Press is at present the indispensable ally of any Government that sets out to use the energies of the people, spiritual and material, to the utâ€" most. The very crticisms in the Press should be regarded as helpâ€" ful, as, for example, in the recent (Continued on page 7) a Parliament exclusively composed of yesâ€"men, and had possessed only a single newspaper edited by a yesâ€" man, she might, it seems to me, have been brought nearer to ruin than at any previous time in her long history. Fortunately, she had both a free Press and a body of inâ€" dependent Members of Parliament to create an energy that the Govâ€" ernment could not supplyâ€"to force the Government to make way, inâ€" deed, for a Government that would become a channel for the energetic resolve of the whole nation. GLEDHILL and INGLEHART 55â€"57 Main St., E. Te A Source of Strength GRIMSBY GARAGE Thursday, August 22nd, 1940 Again the Lincoln and Welland Regiment is establishing a record in recruiting. In the Great War it provided a total of 6,800 men for the Canadian Expeditionary Force. In fact, between 1914 and 1918 it was the second largest recruiting unit in Canada, being headed only by the Queen‘s Own Rifles of Torâ€" onto. Now the regiment is raising its second ‘battalion of the Nonâ€" Permanent Active Militia. Reprinted from The Globe and Mail, Toronto .« The record is even better than that. ‘A‘year ago "the regiment was called out for protection of the Welland Canal and, being on guard duty, was not included as a unit in the first or second active service divisions. When, on the close of navigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police assumed guardianâ€" ship of the canal, the Lincolnâ€"Welâ€" land unit was disbanded . Many of its officers and men transferred to active service units and some 400 of these now are overseas with the two Canadian divisions. Prosperous in peacetime, when danger threatens the people of Linâ€" coln and Welland are quick to ansâ€" wer the call to arms; which is proved by their recruiting record in two wars. This is patriotism in its most effective form. The regiment then mobilized a complete C. A. S. F. unit, now in training at Niagara Camp, and ia second ‘battalion is about completâ€" ed. Thus actually three battalions have been raised in the counties. This evidence of patriotism is easily explained. The Niagara disâ€" trict, storehouse of history, is popuâ€" lated chiefly by people of the British stock. Early settlers were Loyalists from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania who, folâ€" lowing the Revolutionary War, sought residence under the Union Jack. These left on the district the imprint of their loyalty, which has remained unchanged through the years. The saddest thing is to be endowâ€" ed with liberty to do as we please, and then to please to do the wrong thing.â€"Rollins. The counties have the further distinction of being part of "The Garden of Canada," and 4r€ noted for scenic beauty and for the splenâ€" did variety of soil production. Fruitful farms ard orchards reveal careful cultivation. A Proud Record T HER PINIO NS Telephone 220