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Sidelights On England’s War As Seen Through BWR Letters Letters Sent To New York Office of British War Re. lief Society Show How American Gifts Help Bri tish Relief Workers. Editor’s Note: Printed below are letters re cently received from England by officials of the New York office of the British War Relief Society. Reflecting as they do the appre ciation as well as the spirit of the British people, these letters are here published in the Times so that Roxboro and Person people who are interested in the work being done by the local unit of the Society may gain better un derstanding of the work being accomplished by this chapter and others like it. FROM LONDON Lester E. Grant Esq., The British War Relief Society, Incorporated 730 Fifth Avenue New York. Dear Mr. Grant, I need hardly tell you how greatly we are encouraged by the magnific/ent response your Socity has given to us in so ma ny ways and we are very very grateful. The first complete deliverey c fthe Rescue Boat Equipment for torpedoed survivors has been| made and we are now engaged » in sending the supplemental i A& M Food Shoppe is Continually Changed To Meet Modern Sanitary New Up'To-Date Fixtures, Refrigeration and Arrangements Make Your Shopping A Pleasure. BEST FOOD VALUES IN TOWN DRESSING j£. 23C _ MeatS Milk Fed—Dressed Free Sweet Mixed full |1 Frying Chickens lb. 23c PICKLES qt. If home i|Aki si, C e<r ib. BAKED PIMIVI Boneless ""C Strong Heart J U. S. Government Graded & Branded Dog Food can Western Steer Beef Round T-Bone B s?rl.oin S Chuck FRU,T Qua ' il, » t; fl C 3 ?c 21c Cocktail II Pork Chops Ib. 19c Extra Fancy Scott County Mr Veal Cutlets Ib. 28c TOMATO 4 c 6 /„‘ 1 I SKINLESS WEINERS Ib. IQ r JUICE II Fat Back Ib. lie Good Variety Os Fresh Fish #tTTTCT3 , !I%U Roxboro’s Most *« ll*'illiiHis' Complete Food A & M shoppe Market- supplies and replacements. This ] has meant so much to the poor fellows at the moment of res- i cue and it is through your gen- ; erosity that it has been adquate i and efficient. When we accepted the respon- < sibility for this undertaking we 1 had no idea where the money to ] do it would come from but we ' realized how urgent and neces- 1 sary was the need and we accept- i rd it without hesitation. When I explained the cir- < cumstances to Mrs. Rex Benson, 1 I felt sure the plan would com- : mend itself to your Society and • my bet hopes have been fully justified. By reason of your grants, the whole cost to date ; has been met and this has en- : abled us to carry out the task without any appeal to the pub- ; lie. You are, therefore, fully en titled to say that your Society < has borne the entire cost of the . Rescue Boat Equipment service. I do hope it is possible for your contributors to be informed of cur intense gratitude for their munificence in making possible this special service we have un dertaken and are carrying out ' with your unstinted support. Yours sincerely, (Sgd) Herbert Barker General Secretary YORKSHIRE Catherine Slack School, Halifax, Yorkshire. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N C. Dear Mrs. Cameron Clark, We were ever so glad to re ceive that beautiful pink wool you sent up. We have been knit, ting since May of 1940 and have been making (five-inch cut of oddments. Forty-eight of these squares make a cot blan ket. Eighty make a larger one. When Mrs. Hatch has joined them together it looks like the coat of many colors just like Jacob’s. The pink wool that we got from you has been made in to garments. When we have fin ished these things we make them into parcels and send them to bombed areas. Most of our parcels have gone to London, Bristol and Manchester. All the schools from the infants to the oldest in the top class is knitt ing. We are very grateful to you for sending the wool and I am sure the children are when they get the garment made of it. Yours sincerely, Mavis Bradley CHELSEA CHILDREN 12, Kings Court South Kings Road, Chelsea. Dear Sir, Tc my horror, I learned from Miss Roberson yesterday that you never the letter f wrote to you on March 31st. I feel dreadful that neither you nor Mr. Gilbert received this expression of. my immense gratitude. •, That you should enable me tc give all my time and skill to the children I love without worry a bout my daily bread was luce a miracle to me, for which I thank you every day. To be able to help to do constructional work for the future is wonderful. On the 16th of April I started my new clinic which the Bor ough Council of Lewisham gave to me. I treat 30 - 40 babies and toddlers-there three times a week all day and the children are getting strong and straight. They can sleep and eat again and are rid of all their fears. They lock like red cheeked country childrn and the new ones are coming on. And the mo thers love it. Since then, I have started a new Clinic in Canning Town, where I work with Dr. Prout.. This Clinic is growing and to day I demonstrated to Dr. Camp bell, who enthusiastically offer ed me another Clinic which she says will be a very big one as her children need it so much. So now I have three Clinics run ning and I only wish I had more hands and that the days were longer and the distances short er. May I once mere thank you and the Committee with all my heart for your great generosity. Perhaps one day you will all all come and see what you have done for my children and then mothers. That will be a great 'cay for us, because we are very J grateful to you. Yours truly, Estrid Dane 1 I ; FROM HAMPSHIRE Kalmeston Vicarage : Abresford, Hampshire : Dear Mrs. Cameron Clark, j I write to thank you and the : British War Relief Society for i 1 the beautiful blue wool we have r ’ been sent & hlave given it to : some of the women in the vil lage to be made into children s 1 knickers, which will be given to £ • evacuated children in this area. ~ ‘ We are a small rural area, nine l miles from Winchester but we i get together a party of women i who knit and sew for both the . evacuees and the navy. ■ i Good wool is difficult to get . and it is such a pleasure to nave 1 L tiiis soft good quality to work 1 ' in. Weare most grateful both for * . your thought for us and‘for the c gift itself. c 1 Everyone is completely cer- 1 , tain of the ultimate result of 1 . this war. Do not picture us as s - depressed or uncertain we are * . not. We all have our different * . jobs and get on with them. The : fcod restrictions make one real- • 5 ize that we have up to now eat- : . en far too much and we all learn * - to make the most of what We ■ t have and to waste no more. It is 1 2 easier in the country as we are . all growing quantities of vege- ; tables, and I am just starting a j "Youth Service Squad” to pro- 1 f duce honey, rabbits, etc. ■,! This week three X-Ray mobile /units are given by Mrs- Winant 1 i j from New Hampshire to its -! namesake here and I hope to be present at the giving on Satur- ' ,[day. They will be of great value j when our next blitz comes. We have had a week of quiet : . nights to our surprise and re jl ct but cue of course expects many planes any and every ■ j night. However in the country • i one is thankful if they do drop bombs as they do less dnmagj 1 tnd it saves our great towns. With so many thanks to you ■ [and your c mmittee. Yours sincerely, Olive Carson t A POEM r From Miss Marie Dowdall SO Hobart Road New Milton - Hatns, England I‘m writing this letter to thank ; you. My dear Mrs. Cameron Clark. jYuor wool will be gay and cheer ful For some little child that’s tearful. It will come like a ray of .van ! shine j On a day that is gloomy and 1 dark So I send you a grateful greeting My dear Mrs. Cameron Clark A thin little girl (with pigtails'), Or a fat little girl (with curls) May be wearing you jumper to- When Vou're 1 • r****-., Thirst?. i o T ** ill, beat that thirst with another rtr.ger ... a cool, sparkling drink of 7-UP! It s flavored with the essence of those natural refreshers . . , sun-ripened lemons and limes. You likt 7-UP... it likes you ! merrow j To solace her in her sorrow'. Its a gift that will bring more pleasure Than a necklace of beautiful pearls To a thin little girl (with pigtails) Or a fat little girl (with curls.) LONDON AGAIN 97 Arragon Road East Ham London, E6 Dear Madam: I am writing to you on behalf of an old lady to whom I have given a woolen rug bearing your name and address She is aged about 70, but refuses to leave her home, although it is badly! damaged, and arrangements could be made for her evacuaJ tion. She sleeps in the “Ander- 1 son” shelter-I expect you have seen pictures of them.at the bot tom of her garden, and although' they are very safe, they are not very warm in winter time. Sc your rug, a light blue and Sal omon, so beautifully knitted that I wonder you could bring yourself to send it away, is giv-i ing a good deal of comfort to one, who, although (very poor and helpless is still determined to defy Hitler and the worst hr can do and she is only one of most of us. You will, I think ,be interest . ed to learn what happens to the good things sent to us from what seems to us indeed God's own country. The case in watch was your rug was sent to us through the British legion. \Vt are local government official:/ whose job it is to care for the : me less in this particular area, ■ ■ poor residential one near ■ ome of London's docks. After a night attack the Go:., irons daren't come over in day- C. .t there are always to a great er dr le-ser number, people hornless; those whose homes have been completely demolished, or those whose those can be made , re or less habitable. In the meantime they must be housed and fed in school rooms, church halls, and the like, and it i.. It Pays To - - ...... Advertise In THE TIMES THURSDAY JULY 17, 1941. I quite a task when the numbers r . run into thousands. As you can a visualise, destruction of houses. complete or part, also means dc -1 struction of clothing, and this is an urgent need to be satisfied I only by the provision of actual i clothes. Money cannot help just then. So you can realize that all the good things you send to us are put to good use, and it is surprising the cheering effect that re-clothing has on bereft people. So, in addition to my old lady's gratitude, will you please accept that of many others who have benefited from the generosity you, as an American lady, have shown to our people. Yours very sincerely, j J. R. Scfott o Film’s Research Experts Unearth Surprising Facts ] Among little-known facts un covered by Metro - Goldwyn Mayer research experts in pre- I paring to film “They Met In | Bombay,” costarring Clark Ga , ble and Rosalind Russell at the Palace Theatre Thursday and Friday is that the modern sys tem of fingerprint identifica ; tion had it's origin in Bombay, ‘ India. The fact was pertinent to ’ ; the new picture because of the 1 [ backgrounding of a portion of the picture there, and addition : ally because the police operations j in Bombay figure importantly m the story. Digging for facts, the, resear chers learned that fingerprint identification was first given sc icntific recognition n i3BO, when work dene in India and. Japan simultaneously attracted international attention. It was from these findings that the Galton-Henry system of classi ficaton is rooted, and it was in India that it was first used. Scot land Yard accepted the system in 1901.
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