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
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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
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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.