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Recruiting of the first two continâ€" gents of Palestinian Jews for the Bufls (Royal East Kent Regiment) has been completed. <(They are the first Palesâ€" tine fighting uriits of the British Army. An Industrial Production Advisory Board has been formed to develop inâ€" dustry in Paléstine for warâ€"time conâ€" ditions. The first steel foundry .in the Near East has been started at HMHaifa. Other new enterprises include a diamond polishing factory and a facâ€" tory producing rubber tubes. Te EoE en chased the whole of the cocos crops in the Goid Coast and Nigeria. A West African Control Board is being set up to administer the scheme. _ Plans are ~being made to develop shipyards at Lagos (Nigeria) and Preeâ€" town (Bierra Leone). The yards will undertake all normal repairs to ships. Shipyards at Hong Kong are buildâ€" ing naval craft fpr the Admiralty. Over ©5,000 ‘vyolunteers from Cyprus Are serving with the British Army, mostly with the Middle Eastern forces. rate of 20,000 beef is used to feed East Africa. ritish Government has purâ€" factory <is canning beef at t The in 36 ,. y _A from The May be arranged at no extra cost. j PINE ST. N. PHONE 212 L. Halperin Registered OQOptometrist Always in attendance. Better \Vision Optical Dept. CA lad h J aal A o6 on B me | fad Seeing is the Most Precious Faculty you Possess. Guard Your Eyes Carcfully Give them the Care and Atâ€" tention they Deserve. Have Your Eyes Examined Now at Credit Terms 25 USE OF STEMMING IS VERY IMPORTANT «: DRANCH OFFICES FOR BEST BLASTING RESULTS USE C.â€"Iâ€"L EXPLOSIVES AND ACCESSORIES AND FOLLOW APPROVED METHODS The increased efficiency obtained from explosives through the use of stemming frequently makes it possible to reduce the size of the charges. It is also generally recognized that the use of stemâ€" ming results in safer blasting practice. f It has often been shown in the field that greater economy, increased efficiency, and extra safety are achieved through properly stemming boreholes. The importance of stemming cannot be over emphasized. A large proportion of the explosive force may be dissipated if boreholes are left unstemmed. NFLD.: ~OTTAWA KIRKLAND LAKK . CE C OPm CE EOmE _ HEAD OFFICE â€" MONTREAL BISTRICT OFFICES:â€" MALIFAX ‘TORONTO WINNIPEG VANCOUVER EXPLOSIVES DIVISIO N field That is forever Englandâ€" For us, Rupert Brooke has alwavs had a special appeal apart from his glorious sonnets. A well remembered friend of ours, the late Rufus Hathâ€" away, an authority on English poetry, 'once met Brooke who, as a youth, made an all but forgotten visit to Toronto. This meeting, Mr. Hathaway more than fonce described to us in fascinating deâ€" I tail. ' _ Shelley, alas, did not live to celeâ€" brate the liberation of Greeca. Nor did Keats or Byron, also dwelling beâ€" ,side the Mediterranean to find inspirâ€" iat.ion in the glory that was Greece. , "Mr. Brooks" In Toronto â€" _ It is an amazing fact that thess three among the mighty ones of Engâ€" lish poetry should have perished beside that blue sea within a few months oi each otherâ€"Keats jn 1821, Shelley in 1822, Byron in 1824. _ Inevitably, thoughts about the passâ€" ing of these young poets recalls. a brilliant name of more recent years â€"Rupert Brookeâ€"who died at Skyros in the Aegean Sea during the first Great War. ‘Brooke, it will be rememâ€" bered, wrote that immortal sonne‘, ‘"The Soldier," with the familiar linges: If I should die, think only this of me, That there‘s some corner of a foreign That the great naval victory in the | Mediterraneon will play its own good ) part in the successful termination of thewarboerwn says a writer in The Toronto Telegram. Of its heartening â€"effect on the gallant Greeks there is | excellent â€" evidence. It was a naval fight in 1827 that was the decisive , factor in the liberation of the Greeks from Turkish rule. On the 20th of October of that year, the fleets of Britain, France and Russia, upder Sir tEdward Codrington, ‘ attackeq and 'Egypt, in the Grecian Bay of Navaâ€" and at a time when the whole world sesmed to be in league against Greece. Yet, as Shelley‘s wife wrote: "Almost against reason, as it appeared to him, he resolved to believe that Greece would prove triumphant, and in this spiritâ€"he composed his drama." A thrill was experienced the other evening when we tuned in unexpectedâ€" ly on the radio recital by Sir Phillip Merivale and supporters of the lyrical drama Hellas, among the last and perâ€" haps the most beautiful of Shelley‘s dramatic works. It was written in 1882 a few months before the poet‘s death, Brooks Died Beside the > â€" Mediterranean. Shelley, Byron, Keats, and ‘] Quetec, Montreal and Ottawa, arrived in Toronto late in July, 1913. Like a Grecian God ‘| â€" To the capital he had carried a ~Hletter of introduction from John Maseâ€" "|field to the Canadian poet, Duncan Campbell Scott; a poem by whom, by the way, the poetâ€"laureate has pubâ€" [ licly confessed, spurred him to a literâ€" ary careor. Scott in turn gavs Brookse a letter to his artist friend Edmond Morris of Toronto. At the Arts and |Letters Club, thon located in the old country building on Adelaide street ‘JLeast, and reached by "dodging up a lane around the rear of Court sireet j police station," Morris entertaineqg the ) youthful English poet, and it was there |that Mr. Hathaway met him. . He described Brooke as beautifulâ€" "the most beautiful youth that I had ever seen"â€"and is careful to explain that the word was not used extravaâ€" gantly, but advisedly.s â€""Rather above medium height," he continues, "straight slim, with remarkably well cut feaâ€". tures. clear blue syes, the colouring a girl, and a mass of fine, goldenâ€"brown hair worn rather long, he looked the veritable picture of a young Greek god â€"Oof Apollo himself."~ And the modern| Apollo worse a dark grey suit and a wideâ€"brimmed, soft ~felt hat, both bearingz evidence of long service, Eager To Know Canada . _ Of the poet‘s conversation whils in Toronto, Mr. Hathaway is able to reâ€" ‘cora. but* little,; since. Brooke,; despite lhis brilliant mind and keen wit, was TMM!NS Peaceful, snowâ€"covered meadows, apparently devoid of life to the ob- server a few hundred yards away, suddenly disgorge lines of charging men as ski troops practice winter manoeuvres in m‘imi" pfart‘si of the Eiii’axiii countryside. Days and nights in the snow harden these winter warriors BRANCH OFFICES CANADIAN. SOLDIERS.PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR.B ATTLE ANYWHERE In the ground the grass and flowers, That slept all winter round, Are waking with the sun and showers, Are pushing from the ground. The trees that once seemedâ€"dull and grey, Their windâ€"bent branches growing, Are covered with green buds so gay Glad it has finished snowing. Spring is in the air once more And with it comes the rain, All the things that once seemed dead Have come to life again. In 1913, he was all unknown to fame. Yet this local admirer had recognized the spark of genius glowing within that first slim book of poems, and had preâ€" dicted great things for the "modest, freshâ€"faced lad." _ It is more than probable that the first appreciation of Brooke in print was written by Mr. Hathaway; and from farâ€"away Piji, where the poet had arrived on his journey aroung the world in the interâ€" ests of the Westminster Gazette, came to him a letter of thanks for "that kind, that too kind article on me that appeared in the Toronto paper." in the catalogue of an English book dealer, in which the offer was made to the editor of a London periodical to write an article on â€"Wilfred Campbell‘s anthology, ‘"The Oxford Book of Canâ€" adian â€"Versse.‘ Indeed, he ~was ail eagerness to lcarn everything possible about Canada and affairs Canadian. Hathaway Saw Genuis Undoubtedly, â€" oneâ€" of. the . greatest: thrills of his Canadian visit came with the discovery at the Arts and Letters Club herse, of a member who knew and appreciated his poems. "â€"and, oh, Edâ€" die," he had written home, ‘"one felâ€" Icw actually possessed my poems. Awful triumph." ‘"That fellow,‘"‘ of course, was Mr. Hathaway, and his, a share of the triumph. For the glory which toâ€" day shines about the name of Rupert Brooke, followed the publication of his: immortal .war. sonnets, and his unâ€" timely death in the service of his King. reserved to the point of shyness. He could not be lured into speaking of himself or nis poetry. but answered questions about some of his contemâ€" poraries in England. About Canadian poetry, he admitted that he knew litâ€" tle, but some of the poems of ‘Bliss Carman and others, he said, werei familiar to him, and he liked thom, Howsever, an intimation that he would‘ enlarge his knowledge of Canadian. literary work was sincerely made and apparently .carried through, for an autograph letter of Brooke‘s was listed (By Harold Henry, in "Tisdale Talent," the ipaper issued by the pupils of South Porcupine Public Schooli. man wings. Theseglrlsaredo{ngtheir for the training of empire The kapog used as insulation cold, h ‘"fiying classrooms." Canadian girls are shown above at work on the fabrics of the Norseâ€" Spring The showing. of: Ontario Counties in percentage of their respect.ive quotas is as follows: , . Dufferinâ€"Robt. Lang and Col Fitzâ€" gerald. | Dundasâ€"J. S. Boyd, 37.5%. Durhamâ€"W. R. Strike, 48.5%. Elginâ€"Dr Dobson, 60.0%. â€" Algomaâ€"John J. F‘itzgerald chalr- man, 64.0%. _ Brantâ€"90.0%. . . _ Bruceâ€"Rev. R. S. Skinner, chairâ€" man, . 10.6%. Carletonâ€"D. .P. Cruickshank chair- man, 111.2%.. â€" s Cochraneâ€"J. D. Barrington chairâ€" man, : The proceeds of: theâ€"campaignâ€" wil! be used by six organizations, the YÂ¥.M. C.:A., Salvation Army, Canadian Levion, Knights of Columbus, Â¥.W.CA. and the 1.O.D.E. in carrying on theirâ€" work with the â€"Canadianâ€" forcesâ€" during the ‘curâ€" rent : year. The campaign. also :makes provision for the home: services of the Salvation Army, the YMC A and the YÂ¥.W.CA. > . In Ontario, Toronto has now. secure:] some ~$900,000 of . an ‘objective of â€" $1.â€" 083,000. â€" Counties which have reached or exceeded. their quotaâ€" are:.Carlet n, Cochrane, Essex. :. Haldimar J, Kenora, Lincoln, Middlesex, . â€" Oxfm ‘1, Ontario, Peterboro Rainy River, and Waterloo. . LdL * 'i";: 2 1 At Nat,ional Hoadq to there is every . ex s National objective <of. ?5.%. secured. . Returns to ;April led : $4,272,285, or. 77.5, per. cem{. amount sought,.. “Our .shQ ; Major Gensral A. DA;( C encouraging â€" thab IJr . sers toâ€" renew. their.. s t go forward with: redoubd. Vikbt cause all we need .to PHUSAPDUE: vieat enterprise over: the top is. a whirlwmd â€" "Ontario is:â€"well on its way .tow irds ‘attaining its: objectivb of ©$1,470,200 ‘in the Canadian War Services â€"Fund camâ€" paign and‘I have every reagon to beâ€" lieve that this total will be “reqwed if not exceeded," states Conn. Smythe, Chairman of" the Provincial‘ Camfidm Committee. to . Tuesday, Aprily8th returns from the Province show ’afiotal of : $1,165,508 . or ~79.2 per cent. sof; the Provincial â€"quota. â€"~While, many:: q.o\m- ties have reached â€" or exceeded-, their objective, returnsâ€" are. still gcomh;k in from others and campaigt achs still active in many sectlpnj- ,,f“ theâ€" campaignâ€". was ,,.lafie‘,,i‘ K started. 0000 .l .. ux‘ . e Ontamo Exoects to Reach Objective. _ â€" Cochrane District Well Over Quota in War Service Fund for any type of service and teach them to look after themselves in all conâ€" ditions. Equipment loaded.onâ€"toboggans, skis strapped on their feet, they are ready to start on a threeâ€"day trek., Eachâ€"man carries complete army equipment,:inrcluding respirator.. . °_ _ . . > ns â€" are. still \xmmk in 1 campa'g‘né\isY many sectgpnjy i W%‘s lafi :, ?}ffi _ "s"" *#3 Tfeadqi arters., For when the history of this war is written, we think that Britain and all democracies will be found to owe a lot to these two Balkan countries. * â€"For the present, a call comes from great and gallant little peopleâ€"a call that was first sent out nearly two thousand years agoâ€""COME.OVER INâ€" TO MAOEDONIA AND HELIP US." . When looking for emigrants in the future we should remember Greece and Yugoslavia, and put them at the top of the list. Whatever happens in the Balkans, Greece will go down in history as country that defeated one bully bigger than itself and turnea without falterâ€" ing to take on another and bigger bully. For Britain and for the rest of the world, Greek, Serb and Slovak should be hallâ€"marks of courage.. Whatever happens in the Balkans from this point on, Yugoslavia will go down in history as a country that reâ€" fused to be sold out at the topâ€"a disâ€" play of stoutâ€"hearted courage forced on. a government by the people. Come Over Into Macedonia And Help Us Still the Cry (By Thomas Richard Henry) Whatever happens down in the Balâ€" kans, Hitler has a war on his hands that he didn‘t want. Rainy Riverâ€"-Mayor J. ~H. Parker, 126.0%. ; Renfrewâ€"â€"Stanley Hunt, 54.0%. ~â€" Russelâ€"Marshali Rathwell. Simcoeâ€"J. T. Simpson 29.8% . Stormontâ€"Pat Dougall. ‘ Sudburyâ€"-w E. Mason, 69.5%. Thunder Bayâ€"D. R. Harrison R. B. ~Pow, 33.4%, Tlmiskaming-â€"w M. Durrell 41.6%. ~Victoriaâ€"R. I. Moore, 65.5%. ‘â€" Waterlooâ€"A. E. aPequenat W. H. Shaw, 102.0% . Wellandâ€"-N E. Gorham, 36 .8% . Wemngtonâ€"Warden F'red Young, 100. 0% . Went.worthâ€"-s s DuMoulin 72.0% All Counties, 79.2%. (Percentages as at â€"5p.m. April 8th,. 1941). Ontarioâ€"â€"Maj Rey. E. E. Pugsley, 100 0% . Parry Ssoundâ€"Sam. Devlin 40.0% . Oxfordâ€"R. F. Miner, 100.0%. _ Peelâ€"Warden E. D. Maguire, 33.0%. Peterboroâ€"loo 0% . ~ Perthâ€"A. C. McLeod, 28.8%. _ Prescottâ€"Marshall Rathwell. Prince Edwardâ€"Judge E. H. Mcâ€" Lean, 7.0%. _ Rssexâ€"Col. E. S. Wigle, K.C.,128.0%. Frontenacâ€"P. H. Swalm,â€" 77.1%. Glengarry â€"â€" Donald . K.C., â€"34.6% . .. r + " Grenvilleâ€"Jas. B. White, 20.9%. Greyâ€"B. J. Willlams, 100.0%. Haldimandâ€"Jolin Miller, 100.0%. Haliburtonâ€"R. Currie, 10.0%. Haltonâ€"A: E. Armstrong, 35.0%. Hastingsâ€"â€"Judge C. f A.‘ Cameron, 91 0% . * "Huronâ€"J. D; Thomas, 60.0%. ~ Kenoraâ€"A. L. Murray, 128.5%. Kentâ€"Douglas G. Kerr, 43.0%. Lambtonâ€"57.6%. ‘~â€" Lgagnarkâ€"Geo. Doucette, 41.5%. ~Lennox â€" Addmgtonâ€"-Alex Macâ€" Gregor 9.0% - Leedsâ€"J. R MacLaren 94.5%. Lincolnâ€"Dr. H. G. Fox, 100.0%. R. N. Simpson. : Middlesexâ€"â€"E E. Reid, 100.0%. Muskokaâ€"Geo. Pantor. Nipissingâ€"Reg. Harris, 69 8%. Norfolkâ€"46.7%. ‘~Northumberlandâ€"Dr. C. A. Dundas. 62.0%.=â€"° © ing out of the colon or lu?e bowel. For this reason you are:â€"misled into thinking that you are doing all you ‘tan to overcome a constipated and ing out of the time you become a v1ctun c{f chromc eonstipation and po the system which resulf. in cohus ‘or other amom‘g Chronic consupatxon hna to do with the intestine. Unless tbe ] bowel is thorâ€" oughly emptngfie from time to Why Use A "Sissy" ' Laxative? â€" ‘"‘That fellow must live in a very small flat." "How can you tell?" "Why, haven‘t you noticed that his dog wags his tail up and down, inâ€" stead of sideways?"â€"Exchange. ‘Between," he said, "Calais and Dover!" Defying arrest, the student gave prompt replyâ€" A German soldier stopped a F‘rench student. and in an insolent manner demanded:. "Where is the swtmming bath for German fighters?" There arises out of this latter part, of the discussion, the probability that not evenâ€" the shadow of the truthfulâ€" ness in it has yet darkened upon the bright slumbering dreams of our counâ€" cil member advocatesâ€"of a car parkâ€" ing meter system. Nor yet the remotâ€" est thought entered their mind that such injustices could accrue and conâ€" front citizens of this town. _ ; also arouses the liver and ludneys to activity in filtering poisons from the blood. lmvelg)roven the mmta dneyâ€"Liver Pills Hypothetically, let‘s now look a}; this meter issueâ€"square in the face for a momentâ€"with one hundred car parkâ€" ing meters installed in town zoned rreas. â€"Say one hundred wealthy (moneyed) persons, each having a car, enter Timmins on the morning of any day, or any number of days, ang monoâ€" polize the use of the one hundred meters for the whole day, or days. As a result of such monopoly must the yearâ€"roundâ€"taxpayingâ€"carâ€"owning citiâ€" zens of the town, sacrifice all their present just nights to free parking time in the metered zonesâ€"just so the Corâ€" poration may collec; all day meter taxes from the (moneyed) . "immiâ€" grants‘"‘? Thanking you, Mr. Editor, again for this valuable space in The Advance. Yours very sincerely, William Stewart. â€" not only effects thorough cleansâ€" ing of the colon or large bowel but polsoried condition of the system. Ki'(li‘nay Liwho #fi:w s ‘(/m th's «Liver Pills. appreciate the value of a real 'meg?cine which w This would be where, by virtue of the ‘"‘No parking‘ sign between the band stand and railway station buildâ€" ings, the measures and practices adoptâ€" ed for the safety, and convenience, of the traveling publicâ€"using this "no parking" areaâ€"have so often been violated by cars of the taxi people and some being parked there. And often, at periods, independent of any local train time schedules. Just why these people‘s cars could be enabled to conâ€" tinue such violation of the car parkâ€" ing byâ€"law, without being interrupted by the arm of the law, is beyond this writer‘s comprehension. Could it be that the town‘s authorities and civic "fathers" have quagmireq the existing car parking byâ€"law, and the power to enforce it, in their haste to auction a meter system to the ratepayers? Now, even if the following question appears enshrouded in the denseness of its absurdity the logic or intelligence in it deserves, at least, an intelligent answer:â€"Where, ang how, would council members (who favour a town meter system) have the meters installâ€" ed in the "prohibited parking‘"‘ area between the "No parking" sign, near the band stand, and Timmins railway station? This would be at the same "prohibited parking‘" area where cars owned by taxi people, and cars of others, ‘have often been seen parkedâ€" suiting (the selfish interests of these people. ‘Will the meters be foolproof against the "blind eyes" of favouritism grantâ€" ing privileged personages permission, or "pull,‘" to ignore the demand for the superâ€"tax coinâ€"whenever a meter displays the signal that payment is due? or driver; by common sense of the town‘s police department? Are rateâ€" payers of Timmins willing to have their existing car parking byâ€"lawâ€"and many thousands of their dollars, from their town exchequerâ€"sabotaged for a car parking meter system? _ Surely they shall want to know more about the pro and con and the justices and inâ€" JjJustices of meter system installations! _ Timmins, April 8th, 1941 To the Editor of The Porcupine Advance, Timmins, Ontario. Dear Bir:â€"Recent jottings of busiâ€" ness transacted at Timmins Town Councii meetings, published in The Advance, reveal to Timmins ratepayers that some members of Council are driving with their "throttle" wide open to have Timmins Corporation install car parking meters, within certain town zones. From this are the ratepayers to unâ€" derstand that the existing car parkâ€" ing byâ€"law is so fruitless in common sense that it cannot be applieq in a common sensed manner; to the comâ€" mon sense of the average car owner, ing Meters Ratepayer Would â€" Prefetr Enforcement of Present THE TALE OFP A TAIL JUST THE PLACE PAGE FIVR