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Page 4 WHY I AM OFF TO AMERICA By Commander Stephen King-Hall, M.P. a7e Savior Taw arras tiee meting problems. JSCO2.III Tows. When you read these words I shall be on the other side of the Atlantic. I have crossed the Atlantic for a few weeks for a variety of reasons, one of the most Important of which Is that I hold it to be of the utmost importance for as many British Members of Parliament as possible to make themselves acquainted at first hand with American and Canadian trends of thought.

The same remark is true of American Congressmen and Canadian M.P.s. URGENT NEED This need of understanding between the legislators of the three countries becomes even more urgent as the war progresses towards its military conclusion, and approaches the period when political problems will become of vital importance. I have many friends on the other side and, incidentally, an office which I've never seen, 90 I have no doubt that I shall soon be able to and out what I want to know. One of the things we all want to know is what are the prospects of American help and support in the post-war years. Of course, the Japanese war will hold us together until victory is achieved in the east, but what will happen then? This is a practical question affecting the lives of every one of us and so far as I am concerned I shall seize every opportunity to preach the gospel of Anglo- American comradeship in peace as well as in war.

It must not be an exclusive partnership. Anyone who Ignores Russia is just being silly. I It is to be hoped that before many months have passed it will 'be possible to record that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin have been in conference in order to reach agreement about post-war problems. It looks as if the religious question will cause controversy when the House discusses the forthcoming Education Bill. It is easy for both sides in this matter to state a case which is unanswerable.

What I hope we shall avoid is a state of affairs which gives point to the gibe of the Roman pagan who wrote: "See how these Christians love each other." These notes will necessarily be Irregular in their appearance during my absence, but I look forward to coming to the Division on my return and, if it can be arranged, holding some meetings at which to report to you my impression" of the outlook for that Anglo- American co-operation without which I see little hope for a peaceful world. Constituency cases should be forwarded as usual addressed to me at the House of Commons. I have arranged for them to be dealt with during my EbEEHEE. STEPHEN KING-HALL. IN YOUR GARDEN THIS WEEK By Walter Glanm grarawrne4 THERE has been a tendency for leeks to mend up flower spikes this season.

I Ms spike should be removed from ere base as soon as noticed, otherwise the leek will become so to. as not to be fit for table use. To guard against the flowering tendency keep the soil well hoed, and to promote growth, give a weekly feed of liquid manure. Trim leaf tips that trail, to prevent leaf-tip disease. Pay attention to Brussels sprouts.

Early sprouts are now buttoning, and it is necessary to remove the lomer leaves to prevent the forming buttons being attacked by rot. It is essential that the plants get a good circulation of air. This is why spacing should at least be two feet between plants. I have been asked by puzzled readers what treatment should be I I given tree onions. It is usual practice not to allow the plants to remain in the same station for more than three or four The reason is that the constitution of the plants appears to decline if left longer.

If your plants have been in so long, now Is a good opportunity to divide the bulbs, or you may leave the job until March. Present division has this advantage, that by spring there will be better root action than if division took place then. There may be anything up to a 1 dozen bulbs in a clump, joined at the base, and the bulbs should be separated carefully, a keen-edged knife being best for the purpose. Better results will be obtained if three or four bulbs are allowed to each division, for there will be greater reproduction of bulbs next year than if single bulbs are planted. Incidentally, if you use March as the planting month, it invariably happens that the divisions develop one large bulb each, like an ordlnary onion, and do not reproduce bulblets that season.

It is better to use a fresh site for re-planting, and this should be well manured, in view of the long period without prospective disturbance. The distance between divisions is 15 inches, and the bulbs should have a covering of three inches of soil. Be careful to preserve this planting depth. Parsley sown a month ago will be showing good growth. It may require transplanting.

Leave at least nine inches between plants. See that the soil is well limed, and to ensure healthy growth, an application of lime to the surface once a week is the only treatment necessary. "Cannot Lend By Proxy" Representatives of the Formby Local Savings Committee were present at the N.W. Region, Liverpool Area Conference on Tuesday, when Lord the President of the National Savings Movement, did some straight talking. He said it was incredible that people should hesitate to offer their money when so many were offering their lives.

News of the brilliant success in forcing the unconditional surrender of Italy should give added point to this contention. In view of the numerous and large deposit accounts said to be held in Formby banks, the local representatives were particularly Interested in Lord Kindersley's comments on this position. He was astounded to find how many people argued: "If we keep our money in the bank the bank can lend it to the Government and lend It at a cheaper rate than 3 per so the Government will have the advantage." What the Chancellor wanted was that the public should lend their money for long twenty or thirty years. He wanted a transfer of our purchasing power, to help him and to help the soldier at the front. "Remember," said Lord Kindersley, "when a bank lends money to the Government it cannot bind a single depositor in that bank.

I am inclined to think that there are a lot of people who fall back upon this fallacy because it is so plausible. It avoids making any sacrifice, but you cannot lend by proxy. It Is the individual effort that counts." CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES Substance' is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist. Sunday, September 12th. The Golden Text is.

"The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." (I Corinthians The following( passage is included in the selections from the Bible: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth or rust doth corrupt. and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6: 21. a a). Also included Is the following from the Christian Science Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: To ascertain our progress, we must learn where our affections are placed and whom we acknowledge and obey as God. If divine Love is becoming nearer, dearer, and more real to us, matter is then submitting to Spirit.

The objects we pursue and the spirit we manifest reveal our standpoint and show what we are winning." (P. 226). Frnmon Ininfeed, USE YOUR GRESOLVENT SPARINGLY The MOW 0 had Pow FORMBY SINCE ITS EARLIEST DAYS SAND ONCE ASSAILED AND DESTROYED THE TOWN rIIHERE are grass lanes leading down to the shore with brook running on one side, where, in summer, bare-legged children paddle and fish for tadpoles. Where the sweet blue forget-me-not blooms in a sheltered corner and the meadowsweet and marsh-marigold in their turn, adorn the waterside." You feel the urge to pack a bag and hurry off to this idyllic spot? No? Well how about this? "On a summer day, to lie in these lanes and listen to the hum of countless insects, to the song of the lark as he soars away in the blue vault of heaven, is solitude and restfulness idealised. "When the sun dips down in the sea and throws up rays Illuminating sand dune and pine wood with a light that never was on land or Bathed in rich red and gold, the tops of the pine-trees stand out like brass-helmeted 'sentinels, and fantastic figures gather round the dunes, making one think that the days of the elves and fairies are not yet past." Say That sounds curiously like Formby." Say Curiously enough it Is" THIS lush description found its way into the pages of a "Guide to Formby." published some time between 1910 and 1920.

Oh! the air of Formby, exults this pen-wielder. "Winds bringing with them a healthgiving and pleasure-promoting atmosphere." Formby away-from-homes have been known to entertain similar thoughts although Formby gardeners have other Ideas about what the wind brings with R. "Formby," continues our indefatigable friend, "has a history going back a thousand years, and a native people who maintain the character of their forebears for rude honesty." And if you are not quite sure about your thousand-years-old forebears we might well ask, what kind of a people do you think you were?" these forebears of ours were running round in skins and the woad business was booming, we had visitors from across the Romans. Like the trippers and campers in more recent years they left various things lying around such as coins and a road from Formby to Warrington. According to Ptolemy, a Roman geographer of the second century, the coastline was rather different In those days, while a forest, traces of which were discovered around the middle of the nineteenth century in Altcar, stretched from the Ribble to the Mersey.

PUBLICITY CONTRIBUTION A contribution of £5 10s. to the Central Publicity Fund of the I Lancashire Book Recovery and Salvage Drive was sanctioned by Formby Urban District Council on Monday. ENTER THE DANES But the Danes were the first to make any lasting influence on this part of the world. The name Formby itself is of Danish origin and the Formby's of Formby were originally Danes who landed here during the Danish invasion of our coast. The village and family are mentioned in the Domesday Book (1087).

The Formby, have lived at Formby Hall in a direct line from father to son since 1110 with only one break, when a cousin entered the line. Had you lived in those days your staple diet would have been BA caught in the meres, and wild fowl, direct from the moss to stew-pot. The Parish of Ravenmeols existed in those days. All that remains to-day is Ravenmeols Lane. The orchards, and buried beneath the drifting sands.

To-day Ravenmeols Lane leads to the lifeboat house. Once it led To a thriving village perhaps. Nobody knows. In the year 1600 there wasn't a sandhill to be seen at Formby. Around 1700 there was great controversy as to whether the docks should be at Liverpool or Formby.

In 1715 British soldiers, going to quell riots in Scotland, were billeted here and then embarked from Formby pier. Mowen's map of 1720 shows an important-looking road through Wigan and Ormskirk direct to Formby. Yet in 1750 Formby was dead I and deserted. SAND WAS THE FOE lIIHE trouble began in 1690 I when there was a deep channel close to the shore at Formby (and there were still no sandhilis according to one authority). Gradually the channel closed.

The bank approached the shore and became permanently attached to it. The land on which Formby stood was "reduced to the condition of a desert." The people moved inland. They took down their Church (St. Peter's) and re-erected it where it now stands in Green Lane. The Rev.

Robert Cort, then curate of Formby, has recorded that in 1787 he visited a dying man last inhabitant of the deserted town. This man lived In a solitary house on the verge of the former graveyard and declared that, in his youth, his father's house had stood in the centre of the old town of Formby. He remembered, as a boy, jumping from the pier on to the decks of the ships in harbour. The last house in old Formby disappeared in 1840. In 1865 the Rev.

A. Hume was writing: "Nature threatens to destroy cultivation by a slow but sure ingress of sand from the sea. Art, on the other hand, has discovered the remedy, and the star grass not only arrests further injury, but restores to the former the portions remote from the lea. "It was introduced about 1744 and the planting of it made compulsory by Act of Parliament. At Formby it was, until recently, imperative on the country people to plant and attend to it on certain days of the year.

The same arrangements probably still exists." From 1746 to 1859 a pathway through the sandhllls at Formby was known as Church Street, although It led to no church. It had formerly, however, led to the I old church of the burled town. IN OUR OWN DAY TN 1905 Formby became a fully-fledged Urban District and so began to grow the Formby we know to-day. Time and the war have put a stop to quite a few things since then. Gone are Formby Amateur Operatic Society, Formby Strollers and Formby New Hall Dramatic Society.

No longer is Formby a famous flying centre. How many remember Formby Aerial Club? Or the five enterprising airmen," who came from Liverpool and built live hangars at the northern end of the shore near Freshfield Station? A few, perhaps, remember the lighthouse which was burnt down about the beginning of the century. One of its occupants was trapped and burnt to death. To end, one old story which Is regarded as fact. It concerns an old hut by itavenmeols Lane.

A man, his wife and two children it yeti there. Then the man was carried off by the press-gang and killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. His wife went mad. She performed many strange practices, apparenUy, and used a skull from the churchyard as a sugar bowl. The brook where she used to bathe the two children this story was last running merrily near Ravenmeols Luc NAN 9 ze surely ANADIN masters pain! It gives lasting relief, without depressing after-effects, and is widely used in Government factories.

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Colder Or 4 weather is ahead, and soon we will be needing the foods which give .4 iota warmth. Remember, too, haricots, lentils, dried peas, etc, are not only warming but are also valuable protein foods which an replace meat. And they are not AS stodgy if you cook them as described in the new Stork Leaflet No. 46. All recipes are approved by the Ministry of Food.

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You can stop this by taking care at lifting time. 11011 can BURN OFF WITH ACID OR CUT OFF THE TOPS 10 DAYS BEFORE YOU LIFT On large fields contract spraying with sulphuric acid is best. On small fields tops can be cut by hand or mower. or DELAY LIFTING UNTIL THE TOPS HAVE BEEN QUITE DEAD FOR 10 DAYS This is the easiest way to avoid infection from the tops at lifting time and is usually all that is necessary if the rows have been earthed up well and if the tops are dead by the end of September. or ADVANTAGE OF FINE WEATHER TO LIFT WHEN THE TUBERS WILL DRY QUICKLY Vaght infects wet tubers easily.

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115 tad VIEWING THE POLITICAL SCENE THE FORMBY TIMER, SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, 1943.