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ABLOTSFORD., SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS

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Shopping NOW!
FOR A BOY
AWAY FROM HOME

FURLOUGH BAGS, silk lined
ADDRESS BOOKS
MONEY BELTS, with zipper

PIPES, a variety a
CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO

WALLETS, by Henry Perkins and other well-known makers,
in a variety of styles, leathers, and colors

LEATHER CIGARETTE CASES

WRITING PORTFOLIOS, Army, RCAF

$1 to $5
each $1.50
é each $3
Rea.te 25c to $1.25
each $3.50
$3 to $3.59
up from $1
su. from 75¢

POUCHES .

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Weir’s Rexall Pharmacy

ERIC T. WEIR, Phm. B.

A wholesale grocer at Toronto real restaurateur was fined $100

was fined $225 for selling can-
ned herring, sardines and raisins

for charging more than lawful

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13, 1943
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"Written with Happy Memories of Abbotsford”

Fortress Without Guns

(By Major Dick Diespecker, Canadian Army)

I walked down the long, brown, dusty road,
Winding, lazy in the summer air,

Loud with the symphony of bees,

The shouting of the reckless creek,

And barking dogs on the hillside farms.

This was my land, summer-gentle in the yellow sun,
Green with new grain in the distant fields.

Quiet and friendly,

With the thunder far away in another world.

This was the country of my birth,

The roots of my beginning,

The strength of my body

And the blood of my living veins,

Moulded together in the peaceful dust

Of this winding backwoods road.

And I walked on that day

Until I came to the white-painted shacks . . .

Above their shingles, two bright flags

Hung without motion in the windless air,

And two men stood on their separate porches: '
One in blue and one in olive green .. .

Except for the uniforms they might have been brothers,
They looked a deal alike, those two .. .

Jed Willis and “Harry Martin...

Yes sir, they looked a deal alike,

They stood there in the hot sun,

Watching me walk down the dusty road:

“Hullo Gordon,” Martin said, and smiled,

Slow and lazy, like the day,

“Going across?”

And I answered, “Sure. Going to see my cousin Len.”
“Be back tonight?” asked Harry, and I said “Yes.”
“Taking anything across?” I grinned. “No, just me”.
And Harry laughed, Jed Willis said:

“Don’t stay too late, we’re closing up at twelve.”

I smiled and answered, “I'll be back,”

Passed by the wooden sign

ABBOTSFORD THEATRE

TELEPHONE 223

THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER (4, 15 16
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atinee Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

HEROINES FIRST...BUT WOMEN IN LOVE,

COLBERT GODDAF
0 PROUDLY

jy {MARK SANDRICH rovverion

VERONICA

D- LAKE

—NEWS—

MONDAY and TUESDAY, October 18 and 19
PAT O'BRIEN GEORGE MURPHY
JANE WYATT MAX BAER

THE NAVY COMES THROUGH

The present-day story of the men who
go down to the sea in ships

MUSICAL of
WEDNESDAY ONLY, October

MacDONALD CAREY BETTY RHODES
- and DONA DRAKE in
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SALUTE FOR THREE
RICHARD ARLEN and ARLINE JUDGE in
WILDCAT

Thursday, Friday and Gatarday, October 21, 22, 23
“PITTSBURGH”

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COME EARLY!
© With the influx of many airmen into our community, and
who seek entertainment at this theatre, the management ad-
vises patrons to attend early shows, thus allowing accommo-
dation of a greater number of persons during the evening.
® By attending the seven o’clock showing on Saturdays, and
leaving the theatre at the end of the show, we will be more
able to cope with the greatly increased patronage. This sug-
gestion is for your benefit as well as for others. By coming
early you will be assured of a seat—and so will others.
e The crowd on Saturday nights can further be alleviated by
theatre-goers at i the day perfor and chil-
dren the Saturday afternoon matinees. The management will
greatly appreciate this help that everybody will be able to
see the pictures without waiting for seating space.

above maximum levels. A Mont- prices for meals. That said in big, black letters CANADA-U.S.A.,
And headed down the road for Cousin Len’s. '
And as I walked on through the soft, dry dust,

The same hot sun,.beat down on my back,

The bees sang on their lazy theme,

And the same creek shouted down the hillside.

This was Len’s country now,

This was the land that bore and gave him shape...
And suddenly, as I looked at the grain,

And the maple trees, and the clapboard farms,

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The weathered pasture gates

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and LABOU RERS I saw shadows behind them, faint and shifting;
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Shadows of other generations

Plowing these fields with their muskets in their hands,
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And powder horns hanging from their rawhide belts.
AND BONUS

I saw them with their muskets in their hands, fighting,
Experienced loggers and common labour required

And the plows idle in the fields...
for aircraft spruce’camps on Queen Charlotte Islands.

I saw flame and flood, storm and drought,
Sweeping the fields into blackened ash;
Bonus of one-third over regular wages if employee
works one hundred days or more.

Drowning them in downsweeping torrents;
Grinding them into hot brown dust;
But the shadows returned, gaunt and indomitable,
Quiet with rage and strong with the breath of Freedom,
And they knelt in the desolate fields
And prayed with the hard, ferocious words
Of men who live with Death, but will not die.
‘Then they stood, rock-like under the enormous sky,
One-way free if Ploy Picked up their weapons and their plows,
job three months. Fresh-hewn from the ravaged trees,
And set their aching bodies to the task before them.
Now I see the fields, rich again with waving stalks,
And the hills mantled with the trees, 4
And the meadows, sweet with clover under the sun.
Freedom is here} wrested from the relentless years;
Liberty is here, born in the blood of generations;
Pride, nurtured by the sweat of hard, clean work;
Laughter from tears;
Songs from fierce, whispered prayers;
The glad shout of morning that follows the night of sorrow, ~
And light after the darkness of great struggle;
I turned slowly in the dusty road,
Searching the hills along my backward track .. .
And they were the same.
There too, the Martins and the Barrs;
The Flints, Mackenzies and the Moores
Had won the selfsame fight, beside my cousin’s folk.
Here where I stood, Willis and Cooper and Pike;
Hadley and Parker and Stark
Locked with me across the line that is not there. . .
Eternal fortress without guns,
Catalyst of two living streams
That holds without binding
Knitting the threads of our living,
Soft as a summer shower and strong as steel.
And in that moment I knew
That the border was Freedom,
Won together and cherished together. .
I filled my hand with dust of the road,
Held it a moment, sun-warm against my flesh,
Watched it slip, silent through my fingers
Back into the grains of its beginning;
And when it had fallen into the road again,

stays on

Pp free if ploy stays on

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job six months.
Applications frbm men working in essential war
industries will not be considered.
Apply No. 908/55847 at your nearest National Selective
Service Office, or to—

National Selective Service
300 West Pender Sireet
Vancouver, B.C,

Wood &

Sawdust

PAUL BROTHERS -- MISSION

Phone Mission 125

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The Hotel Atangard

Completely Renovated

LOUNGE REDECORATED — ROOMS REFURNISHED

I could not tell where,

From all the dust on that friendly path, it lay.
Even so, brothers and neighbors, are we,
A unity of millions, on the road of Freedom,

To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gilmore,
with kindest regards and
happy memories of Abbots-
ford and your hospitality.

—Dick Diespecker

WEEKLY EDITOR

(Continued from Page Two)

nel of the armed forces. Accord-
ing to the Department of Pen-
sions and National Health, these
centres will prepare those, who
are not fully fit, for employment.
Centres may e at or near
Ottawa. Toronto, Montreal, Lon-
don, Ont., and Vancouver. It is
hoped to have one ready by next
spring. That is planning in the
right direction for @ problem
which must be faced.

20 per cent of the mercury. Our
aluminum production is now six
times that of 1939 and equals
the entire world production of
that year.

Where does all Canada’s war
production go, is something folks
might be interested in. Well,
about 30% is delivered directly
to the Canadian armed forces at
home and abroad. The rest gaes

to Britain, the United States,
India, Africa, Russia, China,
Australia, New Zealand and to

the South Pacifie—in short to all

Gasoline Won’t Stretch!

One of the important differences between gasoline
and rubber is that gasoline won’t stretch. A
given supply drives a bus a definite number of
miles—and no more.

To conserve gasoline for vital war purposes, the
transit controller has ordered curtailment of
mileage on the Vancouver-New Westminster and
Fraser Valley trips of Pacific Stage Lines.

But it is comforting to know that every gallon
of gasoline saved brings us nearer victory.

We know you'll continue to co-operate.

PS13-43

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