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im ® Prcporing Tor Wmtcr _ Onions in Strong Lead at _ $ Mo_r_ntrealr Fruft 'Permml ‘_‘""_."-z" t hy .«h”- mo *‘‘Gays is more a matter of service, mVIC d Ul OA VIULC, _ P | the mere selliny of goods. Merchml QOutline of Alms and Purâ€" iqet me o maw poses and Biforts of the the onions, more thn 7,500,000. pounds strong, that zo through the Montreal Fruit Terminal in a year. Less than 8,000,000 pounds of potatees are reâ€" eelved and despatched, according to the manager of the terminal, which is a subsidiary of the Canadian National Rallways. And there is only half as much spinach as potatoes. Esimated individually instead of by the pound, there are more than 10,600,â€" 000 radishes, nearly 7,500,000 shallots, more than 35,000,000 carrots; 2,800,000 heads of cabbage, nearly three times as mapy: heads of lettuoce. In the terminal there are 16 ripening rooms:for the convenience of the 16,+ day »ow winter may settle down for the season. Be ready for it. Watch health, comfort, safety, as well as fashâ€" in winter clothes. These pages ate designed to give some useful‘ hints and suggestions along this line. Look well! be well!l Feel well!l in a new, comâ€" fortable, fashionable winter garbh! _ Montreal, October 18. â€"All the potaâ€" toes, sweet potatoes, peas and ‘beans and spinach put together cannot equa.l anow,.jloe and subâ€"zero temperaturesâ€" impose new demands on your car, it is imperative that it be conditioned to resist these hazards. Having it done now, will prevent serious delay and damage LATER! PLAY SAFE! Today, local Service Stations. and Crarages officially opened the "Get Ready for Winter‘"‘ campaign to adâ€" vise every motorist of the need for winterâ€"proofing their cars. 000,000 pounds of tomatos t.hat are received every year. Winterâ€"Proof Y our Car for Safety and for Convenience â€" Modern clothing has taken most of the disadvantazes out of winter. The man who likes to dress weli may be as fashionable in winter as in spring, sumâ€" mer or fall. Still more, he can be as Action Now* Will Prevent Damage and Delay. All Can be Aszssured of Uptoâ€"date and Attractive Clothing Prevents Damage and Delay Because severe winter conditionsâ€" for Winter in Clothes as in Homes. 1 Can be Assured of Uptoâ€"date and Altractive Liothing Warm and Comf. . â€" Just‘as Nmry: Prepare CHECKâ€"UP EXPERTS! Avoid the Danger Of Expensive Repairs Andâ€"Serious Mishaps! a Den‘t pay the penalty of dead hatâ€" \ . teries . . . cracked radiators and TER _ water iackets . dangerous skids . sccidents and possible injury‘! Let our experts get YOUR car ready for Winter! Our Guaranteed Service and Supâ€" plies are the economical way to safe winter driving. tains its organization for emergency action in event of disastors, and also: maintains farâ€"flung services such as qutâ€"post hospitals. home nursing deâ€" ipartments, etc.,. it possesses the ready. machinery of Organization at the outâ€" break of war. So prepared, in fact, is this machinery, that the Canadian Red Cross Society entered the sphere of international action before CGanada had declared a state of war on Baepâ€" tember 10, 1939, by cabling $10,000 to. Britain for relief of Athenia survivers, and by having ready at hand the hosâ€" pital, nursing and medical facilities to Convention and by international agreeâ€" ment as the sole body which becomes in war time Aan auxiliary of the Army Medical Corps. As such, it is the agent to which reguests for supplies, materials and assistance are directed by the Corps which cares for the sitk and rm of theâ€"national i Through a permanent international committee, with offices in Geneva, it remsins in war time the communicaâ€" tory chanmel through which information about missing persons, prisoners 0# war and other natienals in foreign belligerâ€" ent states are located, identified, supâ€" plies with food. clothing and other supâ€" severence of diplomatic relations. PFor instange, the Prisoners of War Departâ€" ment in the last war manned by Red Cross voluntary workers, was offielally autharized to handle and care for prisoners in Germanyâ€"after this deâ€" partment had bheen createdâ€" by: Red Cross and had launched the work. Anâ€" ether instance is that all exchanges of prisoners were necotiated through Red CGGross‘ international office. R It is a volunteer organization seekâ€" ing to .coâ€"0o te the efforts of all persons who ertake volunary war work,. such as â€" the manufacture Oof hospital supplies, the knitting of garâ€" ments, the packaging of this material, and the shipment of these packages to the depots from which they are disâ€" tributed by His Majesty‘s forces. Beâ€" cause of its automatic appointment to the official position of an army auxiliâ€" ary by a declaration of war, it is the regcipient of the official information as to needs, and of instructions as to packâ€" Red Cross is a permanent tlan .of national societiese with more than â€"15,000,000 adult rs in 86 eountries resognizsed under the Geneva meet first arrivals at Halifax. In this instance, it is noted, this action folâ€" lowed intimation from the Canadian Govemmmt that need existed. In other: words, Red Cross was the one agency to which the guvemmeat mm-z,] e;l for immediate action. :. . ‘Red Cros§ organization . is erected on sging, shipment and distributinn provides ~that a national ccmmittee xahst exist, to represemt it in internaâ€" tional rélations. ‘Under this national committee, provincial divisions, self adâ€" ministrative,‘ function as a close tieâ€"up with district committees.â€" ‘The latter municipal . branches. ‘The whole is . a demooratic ‘based en principles analagous to the British Commonwealth of Nations.: § Within 2¢ hours after Canada deâ€" clared war, representatives of the Proâ€" vincial Divisions met in Nationâ€"Council in Ottawa.~ Within another 24 hours, a national war council had been formed. Details were. simuitanequsly arranged for the formation of provincial, district and local war councils. ‘The incentive for the farmation .of the latter rests largely in the hangs of citizensâ€"in ether words, their willin‘:nmess. to coâ€" aperate. It was the desire, or objective, that al groups giving voluntary assistâ€" ance along lines similar to those of the Through this strust is being promntly diss vincial divisions . and and thence to the ws affords a swift means how mate ~and. 81 is being promntly dissempated to proâ€" vincial divisions . and local branches, and thence 4to the war. councils. It affords a swift means Of determining. how mate and. suppnes shall be transported . and distributed, because official requests can be complied with rough the advices released by the naâ€" tional office. ' Red Cross first. came into existence when a ‘conference of representatives of 16 nations met in October, 1863, in Geneva and there laid down the funâ€" damental: bases which have governed the organization ever since. A short and simple draft was accepted which provided for the formation of national committees in each country, to act s auxiliqries. of . the army, medical ster-vices ni."m: eative .goverhine} o ummoning of" is (m)!ét'enaet@il'clf‘g}g lowed the publication of a ‘book entitled. "A Seuyenir of Solferino"‘, by . Hem'i facilities, official poaltlon, information and experienqe‘ Dunant, after he had visited the battleâ€" field of SaHerinp and seen wounded and gying men lying unattended. â€" He outlized his ige@} for "some internaâ€", tional prineciple formulated in terms of a coanvention and recognized as inâ€". viclable, whigeh, enee agreed upon and. activity af: societies for . the relief : of the wounded in different countries in experience.‘ The Geneva Convention Europe." With this abject in view, M. Gustaye Meymier, president of the Genevere Societe d‘Utilite Publique, summaned the mem of the 16 naâ€" tions. Themmltwfihcmmsmmefm; ous Genevea Conventian, the spirit of This oon!m siso Jlaid down the estabiished basis that a red eross on a white ground ssould be used not only ofmmm«mvm When s0ldiers get "trimmed". it isn‘t usually as ~waÂ¥ to the Frenchâ€"frant, and the operation is painless mleaaly. ad this. ‘These French poilus are getting as tÂ¥ officlal French photograph shows. | »ipped, literally; in an openâ€"air barber shop on the * ql: ; R " P strusture, information . and to be free for local, or w ouch d buth. As: ence, and iby the very faot that this ‘personnel functions durtng peace time as an efficient, competent orgamzatiqn ut * WXA A ing services." f Red Cross is an efficient organizaâ€" tion, with leading finâ€" anciers, newspapermen and members of other professions on its executive comâ€" mittees. It is operated"in‘a businessâ€" like way, with ever} ‘#étion passing under the scrutiny ‘of these voluntary active executives. â€" Its ddministrat‘ve personnel has been trainelt by experiâ€" ping and manning them, purchasing and operating ambulance units, etc. ‘The finest hospital in France, accordâ€" ing to army medical authorities, was the Red Gross hospital built and equipâ€" ped by Canada at Vincennes, near Paris. complished only by the good‘will of the Canadian people, the willingness of other organizations to coâ€"cperate with the Red Cross and eliminate confusion overlapping and duplication, and the izenerosity of donations from rich and Through its efforts, $9,073,4856 was raised for its purposes, in addition to $6,250,000 for the British Red Cross. Supplies tota.lling a value of mpptroxi- mately $20,000,0006 were sent overseas, in addition to the funds devoted to financing hospitals, equipâ€" con it s is > PÂ¥ It enlists voluntdry assistance for every purpose. The‘‘offices maintainâ€" ed overseas during the Worid War were manned by volunteets, Who operated numerous senvices suth as ‘Prisoners of War Department, preparation of casuâ€" alty lists, notification to relatives of men arriving in hospitals, and the supplying of these men with any needs, and countless other functions apart from its primary duty of coâ€"operating with the Army Medical: Corps. ofia meace fime oo become an imnortant factor dian life and must be continued. poor The Red Cross again faces a similar task. And this time it faces this dauty: with the added . respomibility Says "Acute Indigestion" . ~â€"Often Used Incorrectly ....... diagnosis. Onethlul;fi athedhdm some heart affecti vated posâ€" sibly by too heavy © , too much tabacco or alcohol. _ ‘The newspapers are, on ceccasion, inclined. to be eharit- able. Perhaps it is as well. (By J. IW. S. McCullough, M.D., D.PH.) ~Acute indigestion is a muchâ€"abused term. Very few die pf, jt. One reads an. important blood. They get their ipep" from a canmon origin, the if one orâ€" stomach, nausesa, voamiting and perâ€" haps. diarrhoca. He has a fecling Of impending death. Occasional cases of this food poisoning fatal in 24 hours. Umwymem'mma day or two. The food poisoning is commonly derived fromm the use of Leods Mummmmum Ail [ i t The record of the last war wWAaASs The heart and stomaoh are close O lail ‘The heart affection most;liable to be ._confused with acute indigestion is the _;me where the blood supply to the heart as bean more or less completely cut off. This blood supply is carried by the coronary arteries.. If one of ‘these vesâ€" sels is plugged up the person has corâ€" ! The soâ€"called acute : indigestion is .often a serious matter. It : oalls for cm'eful medical. exa«mination and atâ€" tention _The symptoms may be due to a heart condition for which : absolute Shakespeare said: ‘‘My grief lies anâ€" ward and my joy behind." Rerhgps enary thromboslis < ‘There is ghastly pa.ln he has nausea, vomiting.and cas. The victim is prostrated. He may die in a few minutes, in an hour â€"or two, or he may survive for‘a year or‘ two unti] the heart‘s blaod supp}y becomes comâ€" pletely shut off. rest is the best remedy. ing is but 2 per cent, that of botuum runs to 50 and 100 per cent. * the poet meant, that it is not safe to everlook one‘s stomachâ€"especially 11 one has heart disease,> â€" emhamss the country in its present (By Anne Ryan) The darkened Abbey throws tonight No shadows, full and deep,â€" And in the stil Trafaigar Square The giant lions sleep. And sharing the uneasy night ‘That liesâ€" on every hand, The men who died in other wars Are® walking through the land. As long as English hearts beat true, § long lives liberty! Freedom that keeps the flav unfurled Triumphant in the sky. . j Angd so we cry, we Enshah dead,â€" OQur graves .on sea or shore,.â€" Are well worth dying for!" They rest in country lanes. They say to us: "Take up the torch, And face: uneasa And pgin ; Small matter‘ what. the fhoughtless They walk the Sussex down in sun, They walk in misty rains; Their spirits pace the Great North , sayâ€"- J . _Â¥ We did not die in vain' You‘ll Want to be in Style This Winter so visit OSTROSSERS ropav: The English Dead Our winter stock of wearâ€" ing appare!l for men and younger men is very comâ€" rise in price and we are passing these values on to you! REMEMBER! That this IT COBTS NO MORE TO WEAR THE BEST ased before the y 0 i c Preparing for Winter â€" For Comifort and Satety For Yourself and Family in permanently is the ideal time to arâ€" range for these special services for the home. > x Here are some suggestionsâ€" Make the house warm and cosy for These pages are a aneocial inviteation to do so. The agvertisers in this isaue are WWWOMWMMpm the matter. ‘They Ahave prenared to MDWDPGMWW Itdsmtammmmdcupm the house, outside and inside, from top ‘to bottom. Check up on the roof! See that it 1s_ in the best condition possible. ~ Warm, Comfortable Residence with the Maximum Safety for the Days When the Honse is Most Used by All. Some Suggestions That May be Helpful. ed. Don‘t allow litter and rubbigh to gather in yards, cellars, attjcs ow elseâ€" where. As for the interlor of the home, what mhout the heating system? Does it peed overhauling, repairs, or is a hnew system really needed? . Examine all windows, Attention to the windows will save fuel bils as well as addinz to comfort. PDoors also may need attention. It is a good idea also to save a thought for paint for the houseâ€"outside and inside. Paint preserves, as well as imâ€" proves appearance. Insulation is always worth considerâ€" ation. It may mean dollars saved. Weatherstripping on doors and winâ€" dows is one branch of insulation that might well be given special note. ~ Of course the safety of the home is against fire risks. 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