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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940

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Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday, October 16, 1940

Area in Danger of Losing Another Sport

Interested in the progress of the sport in the MSA Area
for a double reason, the Advisory Board of the MSA Eduea-
tional Area at its regular meeting on Friday night advanced
the suggestion that badminton fans get together in the immedi-
ate future for the good of the popular winter game. It was
more than a suggestion, it was ar ommendation and was giv-
en after some deliberation on the subject.

The interest of the Advisory Board comes first from its
support of Junior Badminton and desire to see that the young-
sters who have done so well and given the Area a province-
wide, it not Dominion-wide name, will be able to continue their
game as they graduate from the ranks of the juniors. The sec-
ond reason for the Advisory Board to study the merits of the
game takes the form of another application for use of the audi-
torium facilities one night a week by an “intermediata’’ group
of MSA players. A Sumas club, lacking a suitable hall in its
portion of the Area, already has a one-night-a-week privilege
at the auditorium, and a similar privilege is enjoyed by the
MSA teaching staff.

Junior badminton has made remarkable progress and the
Area has become. the Mecea of the Jeading younger play-
who compete here annually

MSA
ers from all parts of the province
for provincial honors. Credit for the success of the Junior Club
has been given. There has been no one, however, to weld the
Intermediate and, if any, senior players into a co-operative
playing organization. The result has been chaos, disagreement
and confusion for several years, despite the private and publie
hall facilities that are more or less available.

If the members of the several groups concerned are sin-
eerely interested in the progress of the sport, they will respond
to the recommendation of the Advisory Board, call a meeting
of all interested, either on their own or appeal to the Abbots-
ford & District Athletic Association to do so, thrash out their
problems and form an organization which can deal with the
existing situation and also meet the Advisory Board and other
bodies as a representative unit. Failure to do so means a con-
tinuation of the unsatisfactory conditions of recent seasons
which surely will result in the game passing from the MSA
picture for the same reason other once-flourishing sports have

ed in this Area—failure of those interested to co-operate
with consequent loss of public interest and support.
Re

“<The front line runs through the factories.’’—Winston
Churchill.

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Abbotsford Tells The World
(The Chilliwack Progr
Generous support by Abbotsford’s

) )

civic authorities, busi-

nessmen, and Coast distributors made possible the publication
of an 18-page issue of the Abbotsford, Sumas and Matsqui

News, on the occasion of the opening of J. S. Daly’s new hard-
ware and drygoods store.

Daly, a Great War pensioner, from Edmonton, introdue-
ed himself to Abbotsford following the war by operating a
-*Mill Store’’ at the lumber plant. With the closing of the mill
he opened a grocery store in the village, later disposing of it
to enter the hardware and drygoods trade, His business has
grown until now it is housed in what the News states is the
**Valley’s Most Modern Store.’”

Mr. Daly is to be congratulated on his success ; Abbots"
ford on having among, its businessmen a man of the progres-
sive instincts of Mr. Daly, and the News and its young pub-
lisher, Lang. Sands, and the businessmen who united with him
in marking a fellow-citizen’s achievement in such a fashion.

Abbotsford believes in investing something to tell the
world of its success. And it pays. Had Abbotsford not done so
in this instance there would have been no occasion to write
this editorial.

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us, they are wasting
B. Priestley.

“If the Nazis intend to terrorize
men, machines and high explosives.” —

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A Precious Privilege

Is it that the fight for a free way of life in Europe and
China has shown our‘young people what a precious privilege
they have in the vote? Something has, declares the Comox Ar-
gus of Courtenay. Year after year appeals @ave been 1 ade for
licenee holders and poll tax payers in Courtenay to reg
that they could have a vote at the municipal election. The 1
_two or three names. But this
there will be sixty people who
in the municipal elec
something that will

sponse has usually been meagre
year over sixty have applied
never voted before to take an interest
tions. That is a healthy state of
help make democracy work.

affairs

“Tf ever I am tempted to indulge in a mental slump, I
immediately think of uhat Canada is doing and going to do.”’
—Herbert Morrison, British Ministry of Supply.

Isolationists. Take Note

In the backwash from Berlin’s addition of Japan to the
Axis, one tremendous fact stands disclosed, states The C. 5
Monitor of U.S.A. It is that Reiebsfuhrer Hitler has
openly made his first major and open strategie move against
the United States of America.
Hitlerism is not safe while

soston,

the democratic United States

exists. Berlin now openly admits this fact. American isolation
therefore becomes untenable. The Nation’s decision in months
ahead ist now be not whether, but when. how, and under
what conditions assume its long-avoided respons!-

America will

as a world pow

bilities

The Nazi Bluff...a myth exploded

By “ Runnymede”

“The ‘invincibility of the German might’ is the most colossal fake,
the most gigantic piece of Teutonic four-flushing that ever dazzled
a world which has allowed itself to be frightened into the role of
the hysterical spinster, paralyzed with horrible imaginings of a
wicked man under the bed, And that statement is made with a full
realization of all that has befallen Europe, and all of Hitler's tanks,
planes, ships and sokilers,”

(Reprinted from The Legionary, magazine of the Canadian Legion)

CONCLUSION think, The Fifth Columnist isn’t
a fellow who travels around wear-
ing false whiskers and looking
like a stage assassin. Even, loyal,
patriotic and sincere citizens can
be the most potent agents of the
Fifh Column by yielding to depres-
sion and giving voice to apprehen-
sion, repeating rumors and gossip.

With that in mind, our own job
simplifies itself. We have simply
got to view this think as another
arm of warfare; and we have to
organize an efficient weapon of
our own to combat it. No man
can in justice be critical of the
Government or governmental au- The derisive pérson who “knows
thorities for having failed to} Nazi propaganda when he sees it”
grasp the enormous importance of|is not so well armoured as the
it before now, It is a waste of] person who makes no such claims,
nsental and physical energy to em-| but who is resolved not to become
bark on a civil war between the| infected by it.

past and the present. The business DON’T LET YOUR MEN DOWN
a is = a
of Canada is to concentrate on The civilian population have a

the situation as it presents itself moat important duty t {
now in order to ensure the victory 5 Leaks Pate sr
Ot the: cuGure in this war, and that is to keep
= their courage as high as that of

That being so, the suggestion is|the fighting troops.

advanced, in a spirit of goodwill, Wal io Canada have not. ted
that the organization of the effic- much experience of wars; but {
ient weapon to counter the Fifth|i,. few we were in ee aie
Column be placed on exactly the men made a very excellent job te
same footing as our Navy, ATMY|their end of things. And it can

andh Airy Roce: : certainly be said that they didn’t
It is thoroughly appreciated that|jet their home folks down.
an excellent cutting edge of that

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weapon is the Royal Canadian OCG Macey CS he

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Be adi! Bolles cami, wuounted (Loi wae, ger eae Sane
have done, and continue to do Jeaving notice, undene. aide.

y ‘|bauch and demoralize the home

a fine, workmanlike job. But al-
though the Mounted can intern
enemy aliens, they cannot intern
enemy alien ideas and rumors.
Propaganda has to be met with
counter - propaganda — no matter
how distasteful the word sounds

folk. Knowing that, and remem-
bering that the job of our sailors,
our soldiers and our airmen needs
Fifth Column are not quite so
easy to recognize as most people
all their concentration on the task

FOUND CANADIAN

= ere Be —— 5
LED ICELAND RESCUE

Major Brian S. McCool is the be-
lieved leader of the, search party
which located a Canadian flight
lieutenant and a colonel of the
British general staff forced dowa
in the rugged interior of Iceland,
The flight lieutenant, a graduate
of St. John’s college in Winnipeg,
and the colonel, took off from their
base for Iceland’s north coast. After
they were unreported for many
hours, an aerial search party went
out and located the lost plane
among the rocks at the foot of a
gigantic mountain ice cap.

ot hand, the very least they have
a right to expect from you Js that,
in your turn, you don’t let your
fighting men down. \

You don’t belong to the breed
which lets itself be icked by

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the bluster and the bragging and
the bogey-man threats of these
teutonic tin-men, scarecrows and
cowardly lions, by the hysterical
sereeches of beer-hall Napoleons.

You have got lots of stuff that
the Nazis don’t have. The main
element of that is Liberty. Fight
to retain it—and you will.

GILLIES’
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in our ears. We must remember
that the 4000 miles of undefended
frontier can be a weakness as
well as a strength, and that south
of it is a vast republic which is
tolerating the operations of the
Fifth Column; and, without know-
ing it, many of the influential
citizens of that republic have ac-
tually fallen victim to it.

South of that republic are other
repubics, within which the Nazis
are working night and day. Their
machine never stops. And we,
whose responsibiity it is to com-
bat it, are doing nothing at all.
YOUR SURE SHIELD

For the Canadian citizen the
combatting of the Fifth Column
is a definite duty. Your surest

shield against it is your own,
sound, commonsense.
Don’t attempt to see in the

“Mother: “Tell me, dear, which is your blue-pencil sergeant-major?”

—Humorist

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grandiloquent claims of the Nazis
any more than that commonsense
tells you is true. Don't magnify
them. Hitler and his running-mates
do that sort of thing much better
than you can. They operate a
tremendously expensive organiza-
tion just for that alone; and they
are not governed by any consid-
erations of modesty. When there
are bigger and better lies to be
told, “Doktor Goebbels will (ell
them. He doesn’t need your help.

Of course the operations of the

Do You Remember?

Fifteen Years Ago
Ju the M.B.A. Area

From the A. S. & M. News of
October 15, 1925

At the monthly meeting of the
Board of Trade the following com-
mittee we appointed to organize
a more elaborate district agricul-
tural display in the provincial ex-

hibition: M, Fadden, M. Murphy,
J. F. Cook and C. Yanwood.

Two accidents occurred in the

fog on Wednesday: The govern-
ment truck driven by W. Knox
was run into by a bug, opposite

the residence of J. B. Bolster, and
a car driven by Mr. Millard of
Huntingdon met in a head-on col-
lision near the Huntingdon school.
Little damage was done and no
one was hurt.

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The Sumas & Oj) Co. has
purchased the equipment of the
Utility well at Aldergrove. At pre-
sent the gas burns freely, and
has been piped to Mr, Kennedy's
house where it is used for cook-
ing purposes,

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