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Page Two A Home For Aged Provision of an old people's home in this area has reached a point of necessity which leaves no margin for delay. The problem has been developing for some years, but so long as there were private homes and home owners who were physically able and willing to accept the burden of caring for the infirm, the need for providing a more uniform and permanent method of care has not been considered pressing to the point of requiring action. Now the prospect is that the time honored method is rather suddenly passing out of the picture, and immediate action in providing a home for the aged and infirm has become necessary. The problem is certainly not beyond the means and the power of the township and city working jointly. In fact there are practical advantages in the local circumstances.

The problem is increasing and will continue to do so, and the sooner the district, as a whole, conies to grips with it in a practical and long term fashion, the better it will be for all Improving We note that the speed of logging trucks passing through the Five Corners has been diminished considerably this week. On some loads at least two steel chains, not one, are being used now to hold the logs in place. Reduced speed in particular is a real improvement, and the operators of these vehicles are to be commended on the prompt heed paid to recent comment in this column that there was potential danger in the way the vehicles were being brought through town. Chilliwack is close to a flourishing logging industry and is glad to see it active and prosperous. If city streets must be used in this type of transport, however, there is every reason for taking extreme care that safety is not forgotten.

This quip came from the Friday address of E. V. Ablett, truck control officer, to members of the Kinsmen club: "When a plumber makes a mistake he charges for it. When a lawyer makes a mistake it's just what he wanted because he has a chance to try the case all over again. When a doctor makes a mistake he buries it.

When a judge makes a mistake it becomes the law of the land. When a preacher makes a mistake nobody knows the difference. But if a government official makes a mistake good light!" i OTHER VIEWPOINTS Answering Our Own Prayers By Dorothy Thompson, in The Sun King George said over the radio that we pray, not that God will do our will, but that we will do the will of God. Our leaders speak of our "Crusade." A crusade is not a battle for power. It is a fight against evil.

It is a battle for God. It is a struggle to bring good to pass in the world in the immortal words of Lincoln a struggle with "firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right." But when we pray for guidance we assume obligation. If, in our moments of greatest concentration, in which we summon before God the best in our natures, we receive intimation of truth, our prayer is unanswered unless we accept that truth. For God made men free, and that freedom includes even the freedom to betray him. Thus, every man must answer his own prayer as best he can.

If, therefore, we pray for our sons, we must work for them. The thousands of persons who rushed, as the news of the invasion broke, to be blood donors were answering their own prayers. Every man who, praying for speedy victory and an end of slaughter, increases his output at the work bench or assembly line is answering his own prayer. Everyone who, pleading for a purer and more unified nation, lays aside old prejudices, is answering his own prayer. The Invasion Country As a Former Citizen Of Chill iwack Knew It On this day so much anticipated, I June 6, 1914, we awoke to the knowledge that Allied Invasion forces had made landings on the coast of France, and were swiftly moving inland.

Immediately the i stirring realization that this wished for but terrible action had begun superseded all other thoughts in our minds, and whole cities, whole nations the whole of the Allied world knelt unani mously to God in prayer for the success of the greatest invasion i known to man. Nor was it at the ill starred northern coast, by Dunkirk or Dieppe, that landings were made, but on the beaches between Cher bourg and Le Havre, in the fair land of Normandy, surely one of the loveliest and most fertile spots to be found anywhere. When, as a student, I attended I the University of Caen in the nineteen twenties, a city bred girl from the smoky city of Leeds in the industrial part of Yorkshire, I marvelled at the luxuriant beauty of apple orchards in bloom, at the leafy, shaded banks of peaceful rivers where we rowed, and where "blanchisseuses" could still wash their household linen and enjoy a friendly gossip, and at the old world, rural charm of thatched cottages and prosperous farm houses. As I look again at the pictures I collected of rural parts of Calvados (the department of France where the invasion is actually In progress) especially the postcards of Caen, where the fiercest fighting Is now raging, I find myself contrasting forcibly the then peaceful country with the war torn scenes which this day will have brought. The detailed, large size THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS Est.

1891 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription: J2 a Year In Advance; U.S.A. 2.50 Published by The C. A. Barber Press Ltd. A Canada Class 'A' Newspaper And everyone who, praying that our arms be truly blest of God, concentrates his hatred upon the real evil, not merely against large sections of mankind as such, is answering his own prayer.

God has no chosen people. He has only the people who choose Him. The justice of a cause is fluid before the perfect justice. It can not be established once and for all. It must be re established and reaffirmed by daily actions and decisions.

A praying nation is a nation with a mobilized conscience. Prayer does not absolve that conscience. It binds it. The instinct to pray is the instinct to summon aid in calling forth the best in ourselves which, if needed, will give us the only true victory neither conquest nor triumph, but justice and peace. The Invasion The invasion has been reduced to a business like pattern.

So far it is going according to schedule, with deliveries of food one day late on account of bad weather. What length of time will be required before the operation in Normandy can be set down as: 1. An unqualified success? 2. A moderate success? 3. A stalemate? 4.

Or a defeat? The answer, well understood in London and Washington, is five weeks. You will know the approximate result on July 11. Breaching the beaches may have been easy compared with what will follow. Hard, desperate fighting is expected this week. The enemy has 55 to 60 divisions, including six panzer units and 21 of the best fighting elements in the German army.

Rommel's forces, greatly superior in number, must crush the invasion or lose the war. There will be one or more great air battles in which the Luftwaffe may make its last stand. The climax of the fighting may be reached by July 1. Vancouver Sun. The strength of a nation lies in its friendships as much as in its armies.

The Base of Life "I want emphatically to deny the belief which has become far too common that it is right for the primary producer to receive a lower reward for his work and enterprise than those engaged in secondary or other industries. The primary producer is, after all, the base of the pyramid of life sweep him away and civilization would collapse." Rt. Hon. R. Hudson, British Minister of Agriculture.

That Inevitable Milkstand On a cross country trip through the highways and byways of this glorious Eraser Valley one is impressed with the extent and variety of the dairy operations carried out in our midst. It might be an extensive farm in some of the numerous valleys, or on a picturesque hillside setting, and it may be a smaller effort combining other branches of agriculture besides dairy farming. As we pass by the farm, be it large or small, picturesque or otherwise, there is one visable connecting link that leaves an impression (sometimes not so good) between the farm and the consuming public that link is the milk stand where our milk or milk cans are in public view, day after day. That many of these milk stands could be improved in utility and appearance cannot be denied, and these requisites should be serviceable, practical and attractive. 1.

Serviceable strong and accessible to both trucks and the farmer. 2. Practical built in a shady place, if such is not available, evergreens should be planted to give necessary protection from the elements. 3. Attractive neatly built and painted, or rustic effect if you like.

If these ideas are carried out the casual passerby may say, "I hope my milk is shipped from that farm." Bystander, in Butter Fat. We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody amounts for anything except a politician, a society where enterprise gains no reward, and thrift no privilege. Winston Churchill. map of Calvados which served for a guide when we hiked there to the sea (Caen is less than fifteen kilometers or ten miles from the coast) or further inland to the more hilly country known as "La Suisse Normande" this map might now serve a different purpose, as we follow the progress of the invasion. Set in the midst of this rich and abundant country (which has often reminded me of the Fraser Valley, except that it lacks that background of snow capped mountains typical of British Columbia scenery) is the mediaeval city of Caen, memorable especially as the residence and capital of that great Invader of a thousand years past, Guillaume le Conquerant, or William the Conqueror.

The architecturally beautiful Eglise St. Etienne, or Abbaye aux Hommes, bears witness to William's act of penance, required of him by the Pope for having married his cousin german, whom we know as Ma tilda, Duches of Normandy and the first Norman queen of England. Similarly, the church and convent of the Abbaye aux Dames attests to the penitence of Matilda; as also does the Bayeux tapestry to her skill and imagination as a needle woman. Caen is full of Gothic churches, also of splendid "hotels," the homes of noble families of Renaissance times. Nor does the interest of Caen confine itself to these earlier periods.

Its narrow streets with overhanging buildings, where one would never suspect the proximity of fair lawns and colorful gardens, were full of stir where France was seething with revolution during the Reign of Terror. Right over that particular um brella shop (of which there are many in the Rue St. Jean) where I succeeded, with an interested audience of both English and French, in making my first pur chase using the French language right above this small establish ment were the rooms where Char lotte Corday lived just previous to her expedition to Paris In the rumbling "diligence, with fixed intent to rid France of the "Citoyen Marat" of whose death Thomas Carlyle has left us such a lurid and vivid account. So still another city of storied fame is to be added to those already wrecked and disfigured by the ravages of the present war, and the fair plains of Normandy of whom a loyal countryman has sung: J'ai vu les lacs de l'Helvetie Et ses chalets et ses glaciers, J'ai vu le ciel de l'ltalie, Et Venise et ses gandoliers. En saluant chaque patrie, Je me dlsais "Aucun sejour N'est plus beau que ma Nor mandie, C'est le pays qui m' a donne le jour." This land too is to be battle scarred like the fields of Picardy, where the poppies grow a stern reminder of the last war.

WINN1FRED D. WlTHKRSPOON, B.A., (Leeds) 236 Seventh Avenue, N.E., Calgary, Alberta. (As Miss Winnifred Rushforth, Mrs. Wltherspoon taught English, French and History at Chilliwack high school from 1929 to 1934 Editor.) Cars Collide A collision Saturday at 5 p.m. between a truck owned by Voth Bros, and a car driven by Oscar Larsen, resulted In $30 damage to the truck, according to B.

C. Police. The accident occurred on a blind corner of the Elk View road when Voth Bros, were returning home. Larsen was coming toward THE CIIILLIWACK PROGRESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1944 Mid Week Thought for Busy People By Rev. John Scott First Baptist Church "THE HEAVY LADEN" Text: Matthew 11: 28 "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will yive you rest." "Ye that labour and are heavy laden." Moffatt translates it: "All who are labouring and burdened." Perhaps the Master, when He used this intensely, significant word was thinking of the figure of a poor beast, carrying too heavy a load, with strength almost spent, and ready to sink.

Here then is the Lord's appeal. All ye that are exhausted, whose strength is almost gone, which are carrying burdens beyond your strength, "Come unto Me and I will give you rest." There are burdens we must bear. "For every man shall bear his own burden or responsibility." But there are burdens we need not carry. May we look at some of these burdens for a moment. There are those who are laboring under the burdening sense of guilt.

Why should we carry the burden of sin, when we know that Christ "loved I on Prairie Central road. i Rev. T. W. Hall, in charge of I On Lower Mainland news letter issued by the provin cial department of agriculture gives the following resume of grow ing and production conditions on the lower mainland: As reported June 10: During the past two weeks there have been a few bright warm days, but for the most part conditions have been overcast and cool with some heavy showers.

Warm, settled weather is needed now. Strawberries are coming into the market in small quantities and picking will be in full swing during the course of the next week. Raspberries and other cane fruits are making excellent growth and crop prospects continue to be favorable. Bush fruits are developing rapidly and gooseberries of fair size are appearing on the market. Cherries and early plums are developing satisfactorily and, on the whole, indicate fair to medium yields.

The brisk demand for vegetables continues, and mixed vegetable cars are going forward steadily. In addition to hothouse tomatoes and cucumbers, spinach, head let tuce and bunch vegetables cab bage and cauliflower are now ready. Early celery Is starting and some early peas have arrived on the market. Early potatoes are being handled and digging will be general within the next two weeks. Crop conditions in general throughout the district give promise of an increased production in many agricultural lines.

CHEAM Mrs. A. 3. Kerr was feted Friday evening when neighbors on McConnell road gathered at her home on the occasion of her birthday. Guest of honor was presented with a gift and birthday cake.

Those present were Mrs. G. Anderson, Mrs. T. Lister, Mrs.

A. W. North graves, Mrs. George Dunn, Mrs. Eric Anderson, Miss Norma Kerr and Miss Esther Kerr.

us and gave Himself for "Behold the Lamb of God who tak eth away the sin of the world." John Bunyan in his matchless allegory, pictures "Christian" finding complete deliverence from the burden of sin at the Cross. "He took his burden and left him with a It is amazing, too, how many make their religion a burden rather than a bridge. Take one example just now. We may make our approach to Sunday merely negative, and miss the real purpose of the Lord's day: a'day of priceless privileges; a day to enrich our minds and souls; a gift from God that we might glorify God and enjoy Him. Not a burden, but through Christ, a bridge to a bright and better world.

There are many burdens we are carrying burdens of doubts and fears. Whatever our burdens are may we all hear the loving voice of Christ our Saviour calling: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Other Days in Chilliwack Valley Taken from Files of The Chilliwack Progress FIFTY YEAKS AGO Waves five feet high rolled in on farm fields in Sumas Prairie district at height of flood. Families and stock moved to mountains. McGillivray home destroyed, all out buildings and fence gone and farm covered with water four to six feet deep. Post office destroyed, shed to church swept away.

Both old and new school houses gone. Part Chester Chadsey home demolished and out buildings damaged. George Chadsey's house full of water, doors and windows broken. William Chadsey's home flooded. Wayne farm under water, logs and debris flowing through young orchard.

Hudson orchard also destroyed. A. Street and T. Irwin farms flooded. On Evans and T.

Pyvis farms every vestage of cultivation obliterated, houses and barns left standing. Nearer Chilliwack, farms of M. Sweetman, Kickbush and Murray under water, while Reece, Mc Cutcheon, Kipp and Branchfiower farms inundated. J. S.

Smith, apiarist, saved bees by placing hives on rafts. Reeve S. Cawley requests all those requiring seed to re sow their land, to give notice immediately. Courser tied up at Harrison House at height of flood, took off number of animals and steamed away where before had been meadows and gardens. Chilliwack Progress printed on salmon colored wrapping paper.

June 2, Reeve Sam Cawley called for volunteers to accompany him to New Westminster for help. Trip made In five hours by the reeve, I. Johnson, James Bruce, Robert Marshall and T. Knight, in small fishing boat, with two sets nam PrnfMirprl ntpampr Olnrivs and I on return trip called at Mission, I left tents for white settlers of Nicomen island congregated on Sumas mountain, joined steamer Courser at Chilliwack in rescue work. FORTY YEARS AGO Public meeting called to organ I ize dyke protection taxation.

Dyke along Fraser river, protection works along Ballam slough and breakwater at Barrow's farm inspected. H. Cooper, Manitoba, purchased M. A. Brett's 100 acre farm at Rosedale.

Stanley Carvolth buys 80 acre Whitaker property Chilliwack and Sardis Methodist churches for four years, transferred to Eburne. THIRTY YEARS AGO Chilliwack and Sardis hospital auxiliaries undertake to furnish whole of new wing at hospital. School population increasing at rate of two rooms annually. William James, Young road south, picked fully matured garden peas June 12. Tenders called for new schools at Atchelitz and on Willis road.

Water and quicksand worry of sewer construction company, since work commenced here five weeks ago. J. T. Henley and Mr. Strong received word that their steamer, "The Vedder," trading in northern waters for the summer, destroyed by fire on Stikene river, 20 miles from Wrangell, Alaska.

TWENTY YEARS AGO Electric lights to be Installed at Cultus Lake park. Valley supplies cottonwood pulp to Washington mills. Harrison mills ship ments average 700 to 900 cars per month. Other shipments from freehold lands being made regularly from Chilliwack and other rail points in Fraser Valley. July 1 set for opening of Sardis picnic and tourist park at corner of Yale, Stevenson and Higginson roads.

Grant of $1200 made by city council to Cultus Lake park board as city's share toward purchase and installation of $3000 delco lighting plant. Revised voters list of Chilliwack district contains 5083 names, increase of 884 over previous list. Hospital auxiliary buys bed costing $285 for case room. TEN YEARS AGO Union library scheme unanimously endorsed by school districts and municipalities in Fraser Valley; to be taken over Nov. 1.

Fruit shipments moving in volume, raspberries peak crop, strawberries still going out, cherries commencing to move June 14. J. P. Robertson, president Chilliwack Canadian Legion; Pat Hall, zone representative; W. Stevenson and Bruce Gleig, delegates, attend annual convention B.

C. command, Canadian Legion, In Portland. Rev. S. Cook, Sardis, elected chairman Westminster presbytery of United Church of Canada.

Powerful logging locomotive added to equipment Vedder River Logging Co. Perfect blooms feature fourth annual rose show. Increased Production In Many Agricultural Lines The fortnightly horticultural Bicycle Safety Ten rules for safe bicycle riding: Obey all traffic regulations, such as red and green lights, one way streets, stop signs, and hand signals. Ride in a straight line. Have a white light in front and a danger signal on rear, for night riding.

Have satisfactory signalling device, such as bell, to warn of approach. Give pedestrians right of way. Look out for cars at crossings and pulling out of parking places. Don't hitch to other vehicles. Don't carry another person on a bicycle.

Keep bicycle In good condition. Rotarians Glimpse Coastal China Something of an Inside story of Shanghai and coastal China was told Rotarians Friday by Fred Gennings, who spent five years in the International city as a radio announcer and engineer. He also did considerable radio Installation work for the Chinese government. He left Shanghai before the Japanese took over. Returning to Canada, he enlisted with trie Royal Canadian Corps of Signallers stationed at Esquimau.

Recently discharged, for medical reasons, Mr. Jennings has joined the staff of CHWK here. Until the Jap invasion, broadcasting made rapid strides in China, there being 90 stations in Shanghai, a city of four million population. Japan on the other hand had the poorest system of any of the larger nations, he said. China welcomed men with technical skill and had automatic telephones in some cities as early as 1933.

Technical men are highly paid, while In normal times living costs are a third of what they are here. Unskilled labor is cheap. Water, he said, Is bottled and is only a cent cheaper than beer. In native areas of large cities there is no sanitation and epidemics of cholera and other tropical diseases flourish. In one instance 60,000 people died in Shanghai in seven days, according to the speaker.

One of the greatest barriers to unity and advancement in China Is the fact that some 70 languages are spoken, while each province issues its own currency. Bribery is an accepted practice in all business dealings. The war, Mr. Jennings predicted, will bring some semblance of unity to China; the Japs will be absorbed, then the Far East will offer a large and growing market for the products of industry from countries bordering on the Pacific. The speaker was introduced by Casey Wells and thanked by Herb Weeden.

Subsidy On Jam Berries The agriculture department announced Thursday that subsidies to producers of berries manufactured into jam have been renewed for 1944. The subsidy rate will be continued at three cents a pound for raspberries, loganberries, boysen berries, gooseberries and currants, the department said. The strawberry subsidy will be con tinued at three cents a pound in Eastern Canada and six cents a pound in British Columbia, where production has declined sharply since removal in 1942 of Japanese farmers from the coast area. The subsidies will be added to the price paid by the jam manufacturers buying the fruit and will be recoverable on all fruit processed into jam and, in the case of raspberries, on fruit owned. The department explained that the purpose of the subsidies was to encourage increased production of small fruits and to improve the jam manufacturers' position in competing with keen fresh market demands.

Marketing Board Elected Leslie Gilmore, Richmond; Arthur Swenson, Ladner, and R. N. Mangles, Courtenay, representing Vancouver Island, were elected members of the B. C. Coast Vegetable Marketing board when returns from voting were tabulated Wednesday.

DECORATION DAY SERVICE will be held by EXCELSIOR LODGE No. 7, I.O.O.F. on Sunday, June 18 Members will meet at the hall at 2 p.m., and at the cemetery at 2 :30 p. m. A cordial invitation is extended to all Brothers and Sisters to participate in the service.

FLOYD BRADSHAW, Noble Grand. JAMES TURVEY, Recording Secretary. Have you got your tickets yet for ondike Rites HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM June 29 and 30 The proceeds are for Kinsmen Projects, and we are happy to request your support. 179 Transcanada Highway E. ELECTRIC HATCHERIES Chilliwack, B.

C. SUMAS PRAIRIE Mr. and Mrs. F. P.

Zink and Maurice Zink were visitors In Vancouver last week. Mr. and Mrs. F. C.

Arnold and Mrs. E. Hill, Vancouver, visited relatives in the, district Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.

W. A. Allen were visitors in New Westminster Thursday. Mrs. O.

Nilson and children, who have been visiting here, returned home with them. Mrs. F. Arnold was a visitor in Vancouver Monday. 4 Friends are sorry to hear Mrs.

McBlaln has been laid up at her home. KM MOTE: High School Auditorium JUNE 29 and 30 7:30 p.m. till 2 a.m. TWO FLOORS OF FUN AND FROLIC Costume Prizes for Ladies and Gents Each Night! Dancing to the Music of Neale Unruh and His Orchestra STAR STUDDED FLOOR SHOW GAMES PHONEY MONEY Admission 25c Tickets available from any Kinsman CALLISTER PARK, VANCOUVER June 14 to 24 Thrills Spills Comedy Entries or information from West Coast Rodeo, 1013A Robson Vancouver, B.C. Cultus )ances at the popular Lake Pavilion WEDNESDAy SATURDAy Wednesday Dances 9 till 1 Music by Ted Bradley's Orchestra Come and Enjoy Yourself Roller Rink Open Wednesday, Friday, Saturday Evenings from 7:30 to 11, weather permitting Excelsior Lodge 3 No.

7, I. 0. 0. F. DANCE, Atchelitz Hall Friday, June 23 In aid of I.O.O.F.

Hospital Fund Dancing 9 till 2 Music by Sandy and His Serenaders Admission 50c Refreshments available CHILLIWACK CITY CHAMPIONSHIP Meadowlands Golf Club 36 Holes Medal Play Sunday, June 18 City Championship Cup to low gross score. Frizes to low net; also low net each 18 holes. Entry fee $1.00. GYMKHANA FAIR GROUNDS Saturday, July 1 Adults 40c Children 25c Grandstand 25c extra A meeting of the Chilliwack Liberal Association will be held in the Elks Hall Friday, June 16 at 8 p.m. Election of Officers aad other important business.

EVERYONE WELCOME.