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He has a wonderful helpmate in Mrs. "Pep", who some 20 years ago gave up the task of teaching the "Three R's" in the Little Red School House. She has a son Somewhere in The Skies Over The Allied Fronts. In last Monday morning's blizzard, with the family car locked in the garage for the duration, she walked the three miles from Beamsville to the Lower Thirty School to "fill in". The "Old Croek" had come to town to a Legion meeting and having a half hour on his hands came to visit The Independent. I am glad he did. When he came in I was at zero. . When he went out I was 140 in the shade. He just lifted me right out of the dumps. _ A "Pep" is just one of those Old Veterans that never quit. He put four years in "over there" putting the Kaiser in his place and he is still battling. The door flew open and the wind blew in. It blew in with it the one and only George "Pep" Sheppard of Beamsville. The writer was low, might low in vitality and mentality. News was scarce, job work was scarcer and advertising was nil. The Bank Manager had said NO, and Bailiff Harstone was casting nasty looks. _ "Pep" squatted himself in the one and only chair that the Sanctum possesses and proceeded to "Pep". Boy if I had the carload of natural efferveseenee that "Pepperenus" has, I would be the happiest man in the world. The writer sat in his Sanctum Sanctor- um. Eventide had fallen and Hydro Power that should not have been used was being burned. From what I observe, there is no more reason for it than there is for a eat to have two sets of nine lives. JUST WHAT THE NAME IMPLIES It is not to be expected that thedruit grower or the farmer from the township should be in the bank in the morning. But I would like to know why the businessman cannot do his banking in the morning and re- lieve a congestion that he alone is causing? Main street businessmen are the worst offenders. They are all doing business within a stone's throw of the bank. Why do they wait until the last minute TO crowd in there to do their daily business? I have been watching a situation in Grimsby for over two months and instead of it getting better, I believe that it is getting worse. That is the jamming of the public into the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the afternoons. There is a largexand efficient staff in this bank taking care of the business of two banks, but why do the public let this staff sit around from ten o'eloek in the morning until one or one-thirty in the afternoon twiddling their thumbs and then all rush in and try and do six hours business in an hour and a half. From observation, I have come to the conclusion that it is the workingman who has the real "Banker's Hours" and the bank staffs have the workingmen's hours. .'62milmaillmimrmaijirrvaimiit:roiaamtauoiiamttiaamaamiro For years and years, whenever a work- ingman was luck enough to land a soft job, everybody told him he was "Working Bank.. er's Hours." '6mmmirmimrmiitiiitarotmatiir: 'attttoftttnIiaottomiotmtatigtit, "WORKING BANKER'S HOURS" True independence is never afraid of appear- ing dependent, and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. Subscription-Shoo per year in Canada and $2.50 per year in United States, payable in advance. Issued every Thursday from office of publi- cation, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby. Telephone 36 Nights, Sunday, Holidays, 539 The Grimsby Independent Facts And Fancies Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. “Lincoln County's Leading Weekly" ROBERT GLENDIN N ING J. ORLON LIVINGSTON Publisher (on Active Service) Frank Fairborn, Jr. Established 1885 Editor “CHRISTMAS, 1942, will be Britain's austerity Christmas, Christmas shorn of its trappings, Christ- mas from which the stern demands of war have wrenched nearly all its traditions. The smallest com- parison between the Christmas the British celebrated in 1938, and that whereto they look forward to-day, It all makes one stop and wonder if the people of this country have yet realized that they are in a war, other than from a bond buying' and war service financial effort. When we think of all that we had at the Yuletide season, let us give a thought to the people of Britain. Read what the Ministry of Information in Lon- don, published Just previous to the Christmas season: Fowl and meats were plentiful for every- body. Vegetables fresh and canned, and canned fruits were in abundance. Despite the sugar rationing there were puddings, pies, cakes, cookies and other goodies to satisfy everyone. V a king. There is no doubt in my mind that every dinner table in Canada carried more luscious foodstuffs by far than decorated the table of the Royal Family. Canada from Coast to Coast had a bounteous Christmas and New Year's because its fables were laden with viands fit for Canadians as a whole had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's. There were voids in thousands of homes due to sons and daughters being on Active Service, but in the words of Mayor Johnson, "those homes would not have been as happy, with a war raging, if their sons and daughters were at home, instead of on Active Service." Now that the Holiday Season is over and we are getting squared away into 1943, we can do a little retrospecting. There has been neither absorption nor amalgamation of two parties, but a union of elements, Progressive and Conservative, un- der Hon. John Bracken. And the union has just about the same objective now as Sir John in 1854 said it should aim at, the removal of bureaucracy and the cleansing of the Augean stables. BRITAIN'S AUSTERITY CHRISTMAS "Our aim should be to enlarge the bounds of our party so as to embrace every person desirous of being counted as a 'Pro- gressive Conservative,' and who will join in a series of measures to put an and to the cor- ruption which has ruined the present govern- ment and debauched all its followers." It will be noted that Progressive Con- servative is without a hyphen, and that is the way it should be today. Some thorough student in research has gone into musty political archives of Canada and unearthed a declaration by Sir John A. Macdonald whieh virtually puts the seal of) approval on the new set-up and nomeclature of the party whieh Sir John founded and led for so long in Canada, states the St. Cathar- ines Standard. It was made February 9, 1854, to Cap- tain Strachan, and was an appeal for the broadening out of the party. Sir John said: Now we know why Admiral and Captain of the Prince of Wales were last seen by their men, standing on the bridge, and why Cap- tain Tennant of the Repulse, in the same ae- tion, had to be pushed overboard by his staff officers to make him leave his ship at the very last moment, with all the ratings hav- ing gone overboard before. 90 YEARS AGO "We fear nothing," replied the ship's company, and there was a noticeable em- phasis on the word "nothing." Twice more the captain asked the same question and each time the response came clearly: "We fear nothing." After prayers and a hymn, to the accom- paniment of the Royal Marines band, Captain Woodhouse read the lesson, and then came the bidding, the most ancient part of the ceremony. "What do you fear, seeing that God the Father is with you ll" asked the captain. Of and by such people has this country been built and maintained. Mackenzie King to the contrary. Drop in the Sanctum again. The door is always open, "Pep." was marked with simplicity, dignity and humility before the Divine Throne, in which all took part in accord with the traditions of the Royal Navy. "WE FEAR NOTHING'" In the report in The London Times of the commissioning of that great new battle.. ship, H.M.S. Hewe, the 1yt.tendarrt ceremony "We fear nothing." "Bless our ship," said the captain. "Bless her," replied the ship's company. THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT "Long distance calls, the only means of com- munication between divided families, will be cut. Cheap evening rates for trunk calls will be suspended "Movement even between families and friends living in the same town will be difficult. In many British provincial towns there is a 9 p.m. curfew aft- er which transport stops. In London on Christmas Day buses and trams will cease to run after 4 pan." “FAMILIES ARE DIVIDED. Christmas, 1942, will be no family festival in the usual sense. At the end of 1941 it was estimated that 5,000,000 civilians alone were away from their homes. To this number, increased in 1942, must be added men and women in the forces of home and overseas, and children evacu- ated from target towns." "There are no facilities for Christmas travel. In 1938, 2,500 extra passenger trains were run. This Christmas Day there will be no more than the 110r- mal Sunday service, which has been cut down by 30% since the war. On certain days around Christ- mas travel is forbidden for members of the forces and for civil servants." "The pre-war average weekly consumption per head of sweets and chocolates was 6% ounces. Strict rationing reduced it to 3 ounces-and Christ- mas won't bring one fruit drop extra." "Wines are all but unobtainable. Taxation has almost doubled the price of spirits. In 1938 a bot- tle of whiskey cost 12/6 ($2.75). Today the same bottle costs 23/--($5.06), of which 16/-($3.52) goes to the Exchequer in taxation." “In one week in December, 1938, the kitchens of another London hotel used 9,100 eggs, 700 pounds of sugar, 392 lbs. of butter, and 40 gallons of cream. This December it has no weekly allowance of eggs--- only a casual allocation of eighty. It uses 180 lbs. of sugar weekly, and 77 lbs. of butter. Cream no longer exists." "No GROANING TABLES. Christmas cheer is strictly rationed. Few civilians will eat turkey, or even chicken or goose. The Ministry of Food order forbids serving turkey in restaurants from Decem- ber 20th to December 31st, except on Christmas Day. One of London's largest hotels served between 500 and 750 turkeys on a pre-war Christmas. 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