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ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS

Abbotsford, Sumas and Matsqui News

Established 1922
Published at Abbotsford, British Columbia, Every Wednesday
LANG. SANDS, Editor and Publisher

Subscription Rates: In Canada, $1.20 per year in advance;
United States, $2,00 per year in advance.
Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association and
B.C. Division, Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association.

Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday, June 11, 1941

Dhukhohurs Realize Menace of Hitler

John Verigin, leader and spiritual head of the Doukho-
bors in the Kootenay section of B.C., has personally headed a
list of subscriptions to the 1941 Victory Loan and agreed to
use his influence to persuade others of the Brotherhood to also
lend funds to Canada in this emergency. The Doukhobors, it is
well known, hate war, but they also recognize the evil times that®
would fall on a world dominated by Hitler so their leader de-
liberately violates the tenets of the Doukhobor faith by coun-
selling his people to help Canada wage war on the Hun. This
dramatic announcement from Victory Loan Headquarters pro-
vides food for thought and grounds for immediate similar ac-
tion on the part of all who prefer liberty of life to Hitler
slavedom and have money they can lend to defend our way of
living in Canada.

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Poor Eggs vs. Good Paint

At a time when our Federal Member is questioning the
price of poultry feeds and a prominent feed merchant retorts
that ‘‘there are good and sound reasons’ for present feed
prices, the following editorial in The Financial Post of To-
ronto is of pertinent interest:

““Ex-M.P. Agnes MePhail’s column in the Toronto Globe
and Mail is gaining a large following among city people. She is
interpreting the farmer to city folk. All we need now is some-
one to interpret city folk to the farmers.

“Unhappily, Miss McPhail-is not severely just in her use
of facts. Indeed, she often distorts them beyond recognition.
Last week she told of a farm woman who got 13 to 18 cents a
dozen for her eggs and yet was asked $3 per half gallon for
the quality of paint she wanted.

“Eggs have been fetching considerably mare than 13
to 18 cents in the market, except for the very lowest grades,
which are not fit for human consumption.

“One of the Toronto department stores advertises paint
at $1.69 a galon. The-best quality of house paint can be bought
for $2.60 per half gallon, which includes the newly-imposed tax.

“Is the answer to that farm woman’s problem not this:
that if she wants to buy top grade paint she has to produce bet-
ter than the lowest grade of eggs?’”

Active Listening

When Reichsfuhrer Hitler talks to the German people he
eommandeers his audience from home and office and factory.
He makes it uncomfortable, if not dangerous, for people to
stay away.

The other night Americans listened quietly to their
President. Lamps burned late in every city and suburb, states
The Christian Science Monitor. Theatrical business was *‘off,”’
Broadway reported. Telephone calls fell away to nothing. Ra-
dio exp: estimated more than 70 per cent of the people lis-
tened—voluntarily.

Into the White House and daily press have since poured

_ letters and telegrams from American citizens—adyising, ex-
horting, remonstrating, and agreeing. Democratic America
listens, but, observes The Monitor, with a difference. And
Americans can act, with a difference—with the wisdom and
strength of free people.

‘aie, Seam, °

Goot Neighbors

(Lethbridge Weekly Herald)

Stories by two Herald correspondents in Friday’s paper
helped a bit to restore our faith in humanity at a time when
the nations of the world are flying at each other’s throats. One
told of a dozen or so farmers in the Milk River district who
took their tractors and implements into the fields of two
neighbors who, by reason of sickness or death, could not seed
their own crops and did their seeding for them in a most work-
manlike manner. The other told of a rancher in the High River
district who tied a team to the fence near a mudhole on the
highway so that motorists who might become stuck could pull
themselves out.

How fine it would be if nations learned to live together
as do these neighbors, doing good to each other instead of evil!
It is well that we have these practical examples of the good

neighbor in order that we may keep some of our idealism alive.

Jobless Insurance Stamps

Within the next tw
$2.000 a year or less h pay day in their job-
less insurance book. rt will buy the stamps from the gover-
ment then deduct from the employee's pay somewhat less than half the
cost of the stamps.

With

Do You Remember?

Fifteen Years Ago
Un the MA.B.A. Area

From the A. S. & M. News of
June 10, 1926

IMPORTANT
BROADCASTS

June 6 to
June 17

Perhaps one of the most valued
gifts received by the Aldergrove
B.P.O.E. is a magnificent altar,
carefully constructed even to the

smallest detail, with a polished
top, made and presented by W.
Merryfield.

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Breaking a record made in 1915,
the Abbotsford Lumber, Mining &
Development Co. shipped 35 cars
of lumber, mostly to prairie mar-
kets, between the first and seventh

Announcement is made that ad-
ditional CBC broadcasts in con-
junction with the interesting series
being made this month on behalf
of the 1941 Victory Loan and fea-
turing several iaieeaRtictaT ex- Nye gears ee
change broadcasts, will include the B. Sykes has returned from
following important programs, northern B.C. where he has been
a ide for a New York banker,

Thursday, June 12—7:15 to 7:30 whe recat East with an eight-
‘(p.m.. PST. International exchange | foot grizzly skin to his gun.
broadcast, Lord Mayor of Hull, ng Ber et
England and His Worship, Mayor
Raymond Brunet of Hull, Quebec.

Plans are being made for the
holding of the Canadian Legion
inaugural dance in July, proceeds

Friday, June 13—6:00 to 7:00 .
pm. PST. Victory Loan Varley for the yeterens relief fund.
program. Sumas Prairie has attracted a
Saturday, June 14—7:15 to 7:30] Well-known Holstein breeder in

George N. Smith, formerly of Sul-
livan, who has leased 500 acres in
the district) Mr. Smith intends to
build up another herd,

P.m. PST. International exchange
broadcast, the Lord Provost of
Glasgow, Scotland, and His Wor-
ship, Mayor John Queen of Win-
nipeg, Manitoba.

Sunday, June 15—6:00 to 6:15
p.m. PST. International exchange

of the Navy, from Montreal Vic-
tory Loan Rally.

Tuesday, June 17—7:15 to 7:30
broadcast by th 2 .
Banter Baca one Nancent | ty ane omit cramer ene
International exchange broadcast
Monday, June 16—5:00 to 6:00] between Mayor of Banff, Scotland,

p.m. PST (tentative). Address byjand Major T. J. Jennings, Supt.
Col. Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary! of Banff National Park.

speed Canada goes full-out on the war.

CANADA’S WAR EFFORT

A weekly review of developments on the Home Front.

Subscription to Canada’s Third Victory Loan well ahead
of schedule,

AND— Commons Committee on war expenditure recom-
mends greater use of civilian clerks, both officers and other
ranks, for routine work in Defence Departments of the Army,
Navy and Air Force.

AND— Commons Committee to investigate Defence of
Canada Regulations recommends establishment of three-man
advisory committees to replace one-man bodies now nearing ap-
peals of persons taken into custody under the regulations.

AND— Conscientious objectors, Mennonites and Doukhobors
whose compulsory military training has been postponed are to
be required to render three or four months labor service. They
will be subject to such further labor service as may be requir-
ed in the future.

AND— Government price for cheese raised by .6 to 1.6 cents
a pound. On minimum of 112,000,000 pounds to be exported to
United Kingdom in year ending March 31 increase will cost the
government $1,719,000.

AND— Increase announced of 75c a hundredweight in price
payable for bacon at Canadian seaboard. Increase raises price
of Grade A No, 1 sizeable Wiltshire sides to $17.85 cwt.

AND— Increases in minimum wage rates on government
contracts for manufacture of supplies authorized by order-in-
council. Increases raise minimum for men from 30 to 35 cents
an hour; for women, from 20 to 25 cents.

AND— Dominion Bureau of Statistics cést of living index
shows increase of 7.7 per cent. since war began.

AND— National income during April was $434,700,000 com-
pared with $375,300,000 in April, 1940, and $413,300,000 in March
of this year.

AND—- Dollar sales of w trading establish: in
Canada gained 13 per cent. in April over March and were 23
per cent. above the volume of business transacted in April
a@ year ago.

AND— Contracts awarded during the week ended May 23,
by .the Department of Munitions and Supply numbered 2,833
and totalled $64,339,540. U.S. orders for $11,158,465 top the list. ~

Do two jobs at once—invest and protect. Buy Victory Bonds.

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This is Canada’s fight—and YOU are Canada.

are useless without MEN.

The Canadian Active Army requires men for Artillery, Engineers,
Signals, Armoured Cars, Tanks, Infantry, Transport and Supply,
Medical, Ordnance and other branches of the Service.
to train you

prepared to teach many trades, and
handle Canada’s weapons of war.

Go to your nearest District Recruiting Office.
Units; how they work, what they do.

Then join up for ACTION.

APPLY TO NEAREST

DISTRIGT RECRUITING OFFICE

OR ANY LOCAL ARMORY

Get into the battle agains
Hitlerism—Enlist Now!

Everything for which
you have worked and planned—your life, your home—are threatened
by the fiendish attacks of the Huns and though we toil in the factories
to produce weapons with which to crush them, these weapons

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RATES OF PAY IN THE RANKS

$1.30 per Day with Board, Lodg-
ing, Clothing, Medical and Dental
care provided. EXTRA: (1) Rates |
varying from 25¢ to 75¢ per day
for skilled tradesmen while em- |
ployed. (2) Dependent Allowances

in Cash: $35 to wife, $12 each per
month for 2 children — only 3
dependents per soldier.

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‘ DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE
CANADA

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