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Our theory is this and it is very simple: It finds its genesis on the baseball diamonds, the football fields and in all the great outâ€" doors of sport competition. There is nothâ€" ing rule book about it. The Germans, of course, depend upon military precept. In the last war, they were so overâ€"disciplined that they could not think for themselves. They are better in this war, in that respect, but they have a long way to go yet to attain the flexibility, the ability to see and take opporâ€" tunities staring them in the face as it were. In essence, it is all the difference beâ€" tween a free people and a people regimented, What can be expected of Yanks, and Canadians too, of course, many of whom, born on the wrong side of the tracks, go in there "pitching"? Why the initiative? Why that adroitness and celerity of mind? Why the body that responds to the impetus of the brain ? The New York Sun carries a fine editorâ€" ial on those ten minutes to spare, wasted by the Germans when they failed to blow up the bridge at Remagen. It may never be known why they failed, but it is known now that quick thinking and quick acting by one Amâ€" erican company are credited with shortening the war and its great wastage of life. The Sun says : "TEN MINUTES" Those who keep on sneering at British Imperialism have something to think about in the Churchill declaration. He added : "Without freedom there is no foundation for our Empire. Without empire, there is no safeguard for our freedom." He described the British Empire in these stirring words: "This astounding union of communities and races spread around the globe, springing, not from legal or physical obligations, but from the mysterious, unfathâ€" omable upliftings of the soul of man, raised our worldâ€"wide association to heights never never attained, nor even dreamt of, by any empire of the past." Three years ago, he told the world that he had no intention of becoming the First Minister of His Majesty to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Last week he said : "We have no need to seek the advice of even our honored Allies as to how we should conduct ourselves with regard to our own affairs." Prime Minister Churchill, speaking to his own Conservative party family used the word "Empire" in its broadest and most inâ€" telligible sense, in a speech of eloquence that will ring around the world. "Great shifts in history often do hang upon the developments of minutes. Americans know, and the enemy has learned, that given the least opportunity, American soldiers are quick to seize any break and exploit it to the fullest. The men who, in face of scattered fire and the great threat of the bridge blowing up under them, raced across and cut the wires, have materially shortened a struggle in which every minute means lost lives. To all who utilized that ten minutes so advantageously goes the deepest gratiâ€" tude this country can bestow." CHURCHILL‘S ORATORY Grimsby Blood Clinic, next Wednesday, March 28th. "One thing is certain â€"more lives are saved at the critical moment by serum than surgery." These lines were written by a young Ontario doctor serving with a hospital unit in Normandy. "We haven‘t any blood serum to waste and on a beachâ€"head such as this replenishment of stock is always probâ€" lematical. How many lives are saved by serum is impossible to say. We seldom have the heartâ€"breaking experience of seeing a man die while we stand about helplessly. a Frank Fairborn, Jr. o 5.“”.””.””-””.””.Hfln””.””.“”.””.||”.m|!im.m’,.l”i-||||.l|h§: MORE SAVED BY SERUM THAN SURGERY N True independence is never afraid of appearâ€" ing dependent, and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. Issued every Thursday from office of publiâ€" cation, Main and Oak Sts., Grimsby, by Subscriptionâ€"$2.00 per year in Canada and $2.50 per year in United States, payable ‘ in advance. |L omm 11 mm e 1 m 1 c m 1 e e 1 e e c e e e e The Grimsby Independent FACTS & FANCIES LIVINGSTON and LAWSON, Publishers Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Telephone 36 Nights, Sundays, Holidays, 539 "Lincoln County‘s Leading Weekly Established 1885 J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor A medico says the insane live a dream world. No one worries them about making out government blanks. We would at least know that the money was being used for the purpose intended, and we would save the pennyworth of candles. It is claimed that the bonuses will enable parents to give their children a better educaâ€" tion, but there are education departments and numerous school boards, universities, etc., in all the provinces, and it would be much less costly if the bonuses were given directly to these institutions for the higher education of "needy‘" families. There is an old Aberdeen story about a Scotsman who, having dropped a halfpenny in the dark, burnt a pennyâ€"worth of candles hunting for it. This story came to mind the other day when we were reading a statement regarding the cost of administering the ‘"baby bonuses.‘" The writer pointed out that for every $5 paid out for each child, the Govâ€" ernment will probably have to collect $15 or $20 in taxes from someone else, and maintain an army of officials in doing so. If capitalism can find the solution and do it without the sacrifice of liberty, then it will be beyond challenge, but humanity will never be satisfied until that is done. That is the task of today and tomorrow. It is the greatâ€" est immediate task of modern society. A SCOTCH STORY The task of capitalism, however, still remains unfinished, it is one thing to produce and another to distribute equitably the proâ€" ducts of production. This matter is now reâ€" ceiving consideration. Up to the time of the great depression unemployment was not the vital problem it has since become. It is safe to say that we have had more discussion of unemploymentâ€"its nature and its originâ€"in the last fifteen years, than in all the previous history of mankind on earth. It is carried forward even into the orâ€" ganization of charity. The Red Cross, modâ€" ern hospitalization, medical and health serâ€" vices on a scale such as now exists were wholly unknown a century ago. This is true also of the standard of livâ€" ing of those employed. The citizen of today has a much higher spending power than had his father or grandfatherâ€"many more comâ€" forts and conveniences. Primarily this comes from the adoption of modern machinery and modern methods of doing business. He argues, and there is evidence to supâ€" port it, that the tremendous progress of reâ€" cent years is proof of the triumph of capitalâ€" ism, so far, at least, as production is concernâ€" ed. "Capitalism can yield a higher standard of living than Socialism". That, at least, is the contention made by R. J. Deachman in a recent booklet dealing with the question. It consists of a reprint of an article which first appeared in Toronto "Saturday Night." CAPITALISM AND PRODUCTION The Canadian Red Cross is proud of the service it gives for the Canadian forces, but it is only possible to render this aid in acâ€" cordance with the generosity of our people. On the hospital ship crossing the North Atlantic Red Cross supplies and comforts are available, and when he reaches Canada once more, Red Cross Conducting Officers accomâ€" pany the hospital trains across the country;, sending telegrams to nextâ€"ofâ€"kin and providâ€" ing fresh fruit, newspapers and ice cream. Should he be moved to military hospital in Britain, the Red Cross girls are again at his side. Red Cross service even includes homeâ€"town newspapers, and the girls do shopping for the men in the neighbourhood. After he has received treatment for his wounds, the girls write letters home for him, provide him with reading matter and the litâ€" tle "extras" that mean so much. Thousands ofâ€"letters have reached the Red Cross. exâ€" pressing the gratitude of patients for this serviceée from home. When a casualty enters a field hospital he has already received the blood of a fellow Canadian, because Red Cross blood serum is a basic treatment for shock, which in the last war lessened the chanees for survival for many of the wounded. At the hospital he is met by cheerful girls of the Canadian Red Cross Corps, of which over 500 are now on active service. They give him Canadian cigâ€" arettes, candy and chewing gum. But best of all he has a Canadian girl to talk to. Onee a Canadian soldier becomes a casâ€" alty or a prisoner of war he becomes a ward of the Canadian Red Cross. Thanks to the people of the Dominion, who make the work of the Society possible, our troops know that they are not forgotten by the people back home. a people whose pride and glory are achieveâ€" ment only when they are being kicked and orâ€" dered around.. One has to be a very high and rich optimist if there is thought that this inâ€" grained Germanism is to be destroyed even in this war. RED CROSS ALWAYS THERE THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT Man is the only animal that talks. Thereâ€" fore, other animals are unable to say anyâ€" â€" thing and later eat their words. The only trouble with a dictionary is that one must know how to spell the word in order to be able to look it up. To hold a top position in the state deâ€" partment it seems one must be a dough boy. A woman thinks it‘s social justice when she invites some one to pay back an obligaâ€" tion. A small town is the one where no one gets in a hurry until the fire alarm sounds. After riding in a car pool, many a man feels like he has been behind the eight ball. You and the exâ€"Mayor arée right, Mr. Editor,â€" Civics should most certainly be taught and demonâ€" strated in our schools, and Parliamentary Procedure (which is based on courtesy) drilled into the pupils. This would go a long way toward lifting politics out of the disrepute into which its partisans have dragâ€" ged it, and should:â€"encourage citizens of probity and ability to seek public office without being subjected to the vilification (and what may be worse, the inâ€" difference) which plays such a pernicious and disâ€" tressing part in our "democratic‘ system. HOLLIS. School sports I feel are overdone. Much of the time spent on this luxury might be. better used to DRILL AND DISCIPLINE the children in Chrisâ€" tian ethics and good manners. The present musical program might profitably be enlarged. Set to music and dramatized the Three R‘s would take on a new lease of life. While the benefits of a classical education can hardly be overâ€"estimated and our halls of learning must be prepared to offer it, it should be borne in mind that only a small percentage of our school population has "what it takes" to acquire it. But whether or not a student is heading towards an Arts course and the professions, he should be trained to use his hands in making a living. This means that what is now known as High school would become in large part a trades school, a school of craftsmanship, of commerce and industry and thrift. The children should be taught their lessons in both the French and the English language, beginâ€" ning with the primary grades and continuing through the pupil‘s entire school life. To make this effective, half the teaching staff should be Frenchâ€" Canadian. Every inducement to excel in the French language should be offered the children, by means of prizes and in the higher grades perhaps by traâ€" velling scholarships. By the time a child reaches the Eighth Grade he should speak French as fluentâ€" ly as his native English (and doubtless far more corâ€" rectly). How may the curriculum be improved? Well here are a few changes. Quite frankly, to me the High School curriculum. is something of a hodgeâ€"podge,â€" an unfathomable witches‘ brew; in other words, four or five expensive years of wasted time for the average pupil. At the ed many young folks find, to, their chagrin, that they are less fitted to make their way in the world than when they graduated from public school. I would have standardized textâ€"books and standâ€" ardized teaching qualifications from coast to coast. At present each province is childishly isolationist in the realm of education. This might be a good place to begin putting into effect a bit of that Unity which is essential to the wellâ€"being of our Dominâ€" ion. I would eliminate the term High School, and even secondary school. Let our school system ‘be known as The Public School System of Canada, all the way from kindergarten to senior matriculation. Thus the present gap between Public School and High School, considered by so many children as a good place to quit, would cease to exist. But I would not reduce the salaries of the High School staff. Instead I would give them a curriâ€" culum which it would be worth their while to teach and ours to pay for. I feel as you do that the work of the Public School teachers, particularly in the primary grades, is at least as important as that of the High School teachers. The editorial of last weekâ€"Educational Arguâ€" mentâ€"provides at once food for thought and stimuâ€" lus for action. â€" ; To The Independent: I also think you are wrong in the matter of the education of children about Canadian Government. They are being taught from a text book called Canaâ€" dian Civics, and you can purchase a copy at Baker‘s for 25 cents. When these kids get to High school they wil know more of government routine than you & or I do_now. Kids playing marbles. â€" cermateie * *# x # _ I made a test with a sixth grade pupil 13 years § old. This youngster knew all about coIr)xfeder};tion Overcoats I;ave dl:appeared. and British North American Act. I was surprised, y * J but of course there may have been a reason, this kid Pussy Willows decorating store windows. was a pupil of Beach school. â€"If those children who * * * * t were pestering you or the late Mayor, had studied Charlie Clattenburg‘s new, striped barber pole. their book, they could have told you both. _ l * * * 4 Yours, : Sunshine seekers sitting on the verandah of the Jas. A. wRay. Old Club. Her sister working in a store for 52 weeks of nine or ten hour days for the sum of $12.00 per week. I understand the wage is to be increased to $15.00 through the Labor Board. Your public school teachers, are as you say, fillâ€" ing a very important post, but she or he is not sufâ€" fering for want of anything. Your normal school student, without any experience is getting $1,000.00 for 40 wegks‘ teaching, 8 weeks vacation in midsumâ€" mer, two weeks at Christmas and two weeks at Easter. This all amounts to $25 per week of five days of approximately nine hours each. Facts and fancies in your issue of March 8th were very interesting but to my ideas, not well conâ€" sidered. Letters to the Editor Editor, Grimsby Independent Dear Sir: Penned and Pilfered March 13th, 1945. Grimsby Beach. Let no one think, however, that the corncob pipe is a museum piece. Many a man with his rack of expensive English briers will turn to the old blackened corncob even to this day when he has a particularly difficult problem to meet or an especialâ€" ly important decision to make. Harry Tibbe may be a forgotten man but the Missouri meerschaum has achieved immortality. The corncob pipe was invented in 1874, just 65 years ago. Its heyâ€"day was probably reached durâ€" ing the first decade of the present century when the corncob pipe suddenly became fashionable. From the fields, it spread to the college campuses. Manuâ€" facturers devoted themselves to turning out cornâ€" cob pipes of superior quality and appearance. Some went so far as to provide vulcanized rubber and even amber stems. It was a far cry from the glorified article of the early 1900‘s to the homemade pipe of Harry Tibbe. Since then the corncob pipe, it must be conâ€" fessed, has lost much of its old popularity. It came into being, the creature of necessity, when brier pipes were expensive and the old time clay pipe hard to handle. When the time came that a fairly good ‘brier pipe could be ‘bought for a quarter and even less, the decline of the old corncob started. Last week the historic little community of Washington, Missouri, observed its centennial. Orâ€" dinarily this would attract no more attention than any centennial observance by a comparatively obâ€" scure community. Washington, Missouri, however, has a claim to fame in that it was the place where the corncob pipe was invented. Harry Tibbe, a scissors grinder, is credited with being the inventor. He hollowed out a cob and twig, joined them and exhibited the result at the Franklin county fair. It was apparent almost immediately that Tibbee "had something." One farmer after another adopted the idea. The fame of the corncob pipe spread until the ‘‘Missouri meerschaum" became known from one end of the country to another. No. 999 roared into Buffalo on time to the dot and the telegraph wires flashed news of a new world‘s record. Engineer Hogan, rich in honors, has just died; but that record run of his in No. 999 is still fixed in the country‘s memory. Perhaps it is because the alâ€" literative numerals are so easy to remember, Perâ€" haps it is because the old record stood for almost a decade, well into another century. In its day the run was a railroad epic. The train from New York to Syracuse was hopelessly late. Some say it was intended to be. But No. 999, new and shining, was waiting on a siding to pick it up. Passengers in the coaches grew nervous when the telegraph poles started to clatter by like slats in a picket fence. But Hogan pulled his cap down and kept his throttle open while Fireman Ike O‘Dell plied his coal shovel. ;fl.l!IHIHIIIHHIHHIHIIIHIIIIIHIIHIIIIHIIIHIIIHIIHIIIIIiIHHIHHIHHIHHg Even the Gay Nineties, sedate though they seem in retrospect, had their bursts of speed. In a day when the horse and buggy were still kings of the road, velocity which would not excite much comment in the world of toâ€"day really stood out. The fastest thing on wheels in the world of 1893 was Engine No. 999. On May 10, with "Uncle Charlie" Hogan at the throttle, it whizzed along the stretch of New York Central tracks between Batavia and Buffalo at the then incredible rate of 112.5 miles an hour. gll!lIHHIIII!lllllIII|IIlII|IlIH.IIIIIIlll.IIIIIHHIHH.IIIiIIIHIIIIII!IIII!IHI’Q George Smye, the last man on the street to shovel snow. Friday was a June day, but George was clearing out the last of the great bank of snow that packed the alleyway between the Hotel Grimsâ€" by and The Quality Meat Market. John Kee Kow, three times his new ‘"black marble" store fro in Grimsby. Norm Harris telling Bob Bourne how hard he is working, trimming his English walnut tree. Those smart weekend designs in the window of the Dominion store. Capt. Battersby and his faithful dog Twink, taking their daily constitutionals. Have you made your contribution to the Cross? Butcher shops closing at nine nights. â€" ‘WAY BACK WHEN Cars and trucks parked every way. That be all over. Frank Fairborn, Jr. MAIN= [ REET Thursday, March 22nd, 1945. es a day, wiping off front. Proudest man o‘clock Saturday vegetable