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CLITHEEOE ADVERTISER AND TIMES, FRIDAYl AUGUST. 29, 1941. - l i - R S A V I N G S C A M P A I G N is simpli i | e


I uvit to m e regulatlp but p tM tiaf-duiks ' ■•■vhy bu^.-' '^hal shoidd I dp If '■,


YoU’shbiiid join a Saeet Saving Group. W h a i i s ^ f f ' ; , I


l ot s ^ y o r in^ei^bouOTg streets, who : themselves for-saving to ™ war.


; i You buy from him as many National H$tamp$ as'youlcah.


15 I r


ny number of people who live in the same village orguiise


How mtt that helpmeet : The Group S ^ t ^ will ca// on you e v ^ , week,


Savings


wiiai ^ Ido with'fhose simps? You use them in any of Ae following wayk:


j .,'.'> S a v in p Bank or in » Tru stee Savings'JWhk;^^^ j V there IS 5/ -worth o f stamps (or more) in t ie book."


J : ( i) . T o b u y « IS a y ly t tC « r t if ic « t e at a Po^ ' -Trustee Savings Bank when 'there is .15/ 'stamps in .the boo


: (c) To buy 4 3% "Defence Bond at a Post


Trustee Savings Bank when there is £$ straps in'ithe book.


How can IJmd.out more dbout Savings Groups?


Get ip touch irith'.the Hofr. Secretary Local Savings Committee. telLyott^hiaiaddtess.


Your Post OiBioe will of your (a) .1^ make a deposit in youraccount in the] ’ost OfSce


Office or worth of


Office or worth of


I5


‘Blackpool Services, 151 for 7| Chorley, ■..173;


‘Uyland, 75 for 4; Blackpool, ’ll. •Darwen,' 103; • Great Harwood, 100. •Cherry Tree, 121 for 7 (dec.);; 1;: burn Ht- Jamesis, 80 for 7 1


i SATURDAY’S RESULT^; I


Black-


•Bamoldswlck, 124 for 3; 'Wnalley, 187 for 6 (dec)


j', BATTING


Garratt, 'Whalley .............. 106x O. Brooks. Clitheroe . . . . . . . . . . 72 W. 'Whalley, Chorley ................


BOWLING


S. Petty, Bamoldswlck . ^ I t h , Great Harwood . S..J. i: Metcalf. Leyland.......


6 for 45 5 for 31 5 lor 41


CLITHEROE HELD TO A DRAW IN “DERBY” GAME WANDERERS.


WITH For the second time this seamti Cll-


theroe were unable to 'reach a demlte decision in their encounter with Ribbles- dale Wanderers. At Chatburn-road, on


Saturday..-the' home team topped the double century but did not leave them­


selves sufficient time In which - t o th e i r ; opponents out, the Wanderers,


get


though far in arrears, .having a-couple of wickets in hand when-tWie expired. 1 Chief feature of the home Jlnnings was a superb first wicket hartneimp of 110 between C. O. Brobks land A. Robinson; The.v Batted with such con­ fidence on a comparatively dead wicket as to pave the way for a blgjtotai... Rob-


, 1 ' ImidlyffieHaimal Savings Commttu,


mson, who was given 1 when he lofted the baj


a "Ifffe" early ( .11 neajr to Water- i^rn, started well


on, iWeaver It adds dignity to your cohiesi


-Windows for quality.——Ready in 6. MAiUCRT PLACE, CLITHEROE. -


a iw « a pM 4 » 4 » w a u a : i« n ^ j> a ia ie y a r» a «M r , ,


nicb.^ See' [- one hour, j ■ TeL 407.&


CANDID j COMMENTS] ON TOPICAL EVENTS


GOSSIP i 1 1 ' M l — — ^»i!^Ei|lfcagiw. iL a L a am ■Interest in;- the struggle for


. held to a draw on Satutday by Chorley. Gdinlng a comp(iratively easy victory iover Blackpopl, Ley- land drew level with the Headers. On the other hand, Whalley, also


championship honours In the Rlb- blesdale League has been main­ tained to the end of the' season;' The Services would have made sure of the distinction had they hot been


ABOUT


PLAYBRS-By “ SNIPE.?’ - i I ,


^— u w a a b


Leyland which [was as remarkable as It was/unexpected, their last five wickets falling' without adding a solitary run. [Everything,consid­ ered, they were doing quite well In collecting 71 for half their wickets, TTien R. Taylor and Metcalf got to work with such deadly effect fhat, to paraphrase; a- song, the score "stopped right:there;”


Blackpool suffered a collapse at


i close competitors;- might have gone ' ahead of both these clubs, had they won their two remaining matches.


As It was, their chance wept awry when Bamoldswlck forced an inde­ cisive result; And so,“If Whalley should win their last match with Great Harwood, they will be a tioint behind the; joint leaders. “ I


1 Thus a play-off is necessary be­


tween the Services and Leyland, and Stanley Park, Blackpool, will he to-morrow’s venue of this Important meeting between the-tb.amk. T h e question of: ground was, settled over


th e telephohel when Mr. p. ; Duck­ worth, Leyiand’s skipper,“ guessed the side ofl a coin which was spun by Mr, J. H; Ramsbottpm, president of the League. He guessed incor­ rectly. Neutral umpires ypll have


.charge of Oie-game w h i c h , a t all possible, will be played to,,a finish.


For their .charity game -y^ith Mr.


. ly compelled to” decline tl^e invita­ tion that was extended to 1 them.


G Morris’s! team i f Chatburn-road, oil September; 13th, Blackpool Ser­ vices will strengthen their eleven by Including other playersidf repute stationed there. Mr. Morris’s side will be made up of players [promin­ ent in the [League, with the assist­ ance of Eddie Paynter (Laiicashlre) and Geo. H. Pope (Derbyshire). An effort Is being made to bring Con­ stantine td|help the cause. Owing to other 1 engagements, .PhlUlpson and Sunnotjcs have been reluctant-


standing all-roundCf and a former Read professional, is the poss^or


Frank Howarth, Blackpool’s out­


of a haridsomelsllver cigarette cqse, given td him by Col. W. Parkinson, presldeht of tlje club, in recogriltlon of excellent work In the match at Stanley Park against Clitheroe, a- month ago. The case Is suitably Inscribed and engraved with Ite owner’s Initial j. Frank has played a bigger part :n the Seaslders’ tiines in the member of thb


^ame than any (jther team.


for-


useful find In [R. McCrea, a young­ ster who has jomplled 246 rubs in


Barrioldswlclc have made a most


hls last five visits to the crease; He hit a half-century agalfist Whalley to prevent th; Abheyltes winning, and; Incidentally, dispelled their ^hamplonship. [


Castle bowllnglgreen last Thursday, when a team i:rom iAccrlngton[-all players were iver .the age of |65—


dream of the It was “Veterans’ Day” at the


met a slmllari team of Clitheronl- ans. The visitors were welcomed by Councillor [J. Wilkinson, and tea was provided In the pavilion fnld- way in the proceedings. Clitheroe won the doubles by one point after a most exciting contest, and the singles by 22 points. Individual scores were ad follows:— |


Clitheree , ■ I ^INGLES '


A new'dmateur battlpg record for Clltherbb for the highest aggre-


_ J . M A A I


total runs ltd 550. ’The preyious best was 537 by W. R. Southworth In 1935. Johinny Pollard,; professional at Chatbdrnfoad In 11928, scored 672 runs, dhd| Brooks hasjmade the nearest approach to these figures. There is still another match to play. His many admirers areihodeful that Oswald will'succeed 111 tdpplng| the ,.600. He has 1


______le Wan------ fdoks,'


tury six tiimei this season, and has an,average of 50. In may be men­ tioned that in 1934 Hdrold WIndle totalled 518 runs for Clitheroe, and in 1932 % E. Wlgglesworth wound up with a total of 536. j


passed the; half-cen­


Garratt, who rattled up 106 at Bar- noldswlck, for Whalley,;on Satur­ day, and carried his bat out. His “bag”! thus!far Is 678^an average of 75.33. lit Is a coincidence that hls previous best effort; this season was 106 (riot dut) against Clitheroe, at Chatburn-road. HC Is well be- 820 runs, an


hii)d hls 1939 record of average of 63.07.


Doyen c f the League i Is George n I V T f . " V E l C V 1


15 J. T. PyejJ. Mr. Butterworth 11 14 W. Crompton .. Mr. Hodgson .7 C. Chatbilrii ......... Mr. Ellis IB J. P. Parkihson .. Mr. Brooks 15 H. Duggap . . . . Mr. Harwood 15 J. Heywood ......... Mr. Hope 7 J. KnowldS ......... Mr. Grime


1 Accrington r


CLITHEROE RURAL DISTRICT i COUNCIL APPEAL.


12 W. Slingelr;......... Mrl Hlnfile 15: G.. Jones f.............Mr] Hindle 15 Mr. Emblev . . . . Mr.' Crellln 15 M. McHale . . . . Mr. Whallby 15 J. J./Thoiipson . . . . Mr. Rose 15 J, EdwarcA .. Mr, Derbyshlfe. 5 B. Windle]. . . . Mr. Lonsdale


14 Mr. Williams . . . . Mr, Wilsoh 15 Mr. Frandand .......Mr Beil


209 Total 3 Duggan,


OUBLES ffindle 15 Pye, Crrapton


I Harwood, Lonsdale 15 :


1 ^ „ Butterworth, Hodgson ■. "


2 Chatbum Parkinson 15 Thompson, Edwards 13 Slmger, Eiabley


15 Franklandj Knowles . to-morrow at


73 Total The returr,


cap bn'the H. Nlghtlngi J. E. Cook (( day night.


Ellis, Brooks 15 (


I


1 Derbyshire, Rose t


Hindle,.Crellin 15 Wilson, Grime 13 Total 72


natch Is to be played Accrington. :


The winner of the singles handl-


Ijitheroe green was W. (1 behind), wha beat bn) by 15-14 bn 'Tues-


Total 187' I


R; Green, Esq., J.P......... J . 5! 0 0 Worston W.V.S................ J . il 5 0 Couh. J. Green, J.P., C.C...I. 10 0 0 Church Collection, Aug. 17 Chipping Parish Church..' Chipping Congregational Church ...................i..


Proceeds of Flag Day. 23rd ! , '"August


.................68i 0 3


Chipping St. Mary’s R.C Church ..................;


Downham Parish Chur()h. Hurst Green St. Peter’s "R.C. Church,............


Chatburn Methodist Church ...................


1 £ ' s. d.


ment securities are announced by the'Chahcellor of; the Exchequer. The present Issue: of 24 per cent. NatlonaliWar Bonds 1946-48 will be dlscoiitlriued as from August 14th, but the |3 per cent. Savlms Bonds 1955-65 will be cphtlnuetf for the time being without any chqnge of substance. The mrixlmum ciirrencj of the 3


Changes In the terms, of Govern­


6. 6 i 0 8 4


Barrow 'Jollle Memorial Congregational Church.. 0| 13' 0


been forwarded to Sir Geo. Ether- ton, the Lord Mayorfs Regional Representative.


I ' ji ,


those who responde-i tO; thie very deserving appeal. FuFther jdona-


The Council wish to thank ail


tloris will be welcomed;' rind should be sent to me at the Coilncll Offices, Church Brow, Clitheroe.


JAMES GREEN, Ohalrman. A cheque for this amount has 111 0 0 Total to date.. n07| 0 3


per cent. Defence Bonds will be Increased from 7 to 10 3 ears, the


theke changes, Inl the House, of Commons added: ‘t l thlric It.rlght to continue to give'the gr iatest en­ couragement to the smallest sav­ ings, and I therefore propose no change In the terms of National Savings 'Certificates.” li is° pointed out [that thb limit of


original [Issue or'the new one, or to both combined In One bol^'—


£1000 will' apply Bonds holdings,


, to all whethei


ding. [ p u t THE GAME, CADS!


. Berlin has officially ci thaf the Russians do not - European rules of strategy'


oh fifter;.they-are clearly lessly beaten!


'cmplalned adhere to hut fight indhope-


Defence of the


change taking effect on £ eptember lst.1 . i: ■ ! ■ ' r . ■ Sir Kingsley Wood in announcing


content to score at a steady pace with­ out; taking undue risks. He waadefln- itely unlucky to be bowled! b y ;Weaver when needing but two runs to complete a half-century. This ended what had promised to be the outstanding partner­ ship of the season. Needing but'22 miis at'thei outset to reach thej 500 mark. Brooks gave one of his very, best dis- ilays, content to plod steadily along, lut puhishine any loose balls. In corn-


ig Dounuary. Afterwards he was


piling a polished 72, he brought his season's total to 550, thus Setting up a new amateiir batting recoird.for the club.; Tile previous best waS attributed to W R. Southworth in 1935, although, in hls professional capaclty| J :MIard h it 672 in season 1928. As Clitheroe have still another match, it fnay well be


that Brooks will have the gbod; fortune-, did nothing spectacular. Mostly they


to reach 600. , , • , ' J. M ^ After the .first break; horne batsmen


were ' out to well-intentioried:; strokes which failed to materialise; All the same, the pace fell away, and | yet one did not expect a delay in declaring be­ fore 200 was signalled, especially; as 10 minutes were lost at the start, arid not many more than 20 mns were .added in me last half-hour of thfe innings.. I t was evident that the (Wanderers


Cornwell, Rlbblesdale Wand rs. 56x Meadows, Cherry Tree,. . . . . . . . 56x ( ^ k , Blackpool Services ..!.. 53 McCrea, Bamoldswlck'............. 52


•Clitheroe, 201 -for 8 (dec).; Ribblesdale' [Wanderers, 84 for 8.


keep.m. :ri t


\ -■ii; •:?tsBIBBiESDALE


ClUheroe D i^ r id M a l ^ ^ ^ e v k ^ LEAGUE.


','V


- , P.: .);W. L. |D. PtS 16( ' l l . .2 . . 3.. 36


Bamoldswlck ....T o - 15.


ll5. ■


Darwen............. Chorley........... Read ................


Clitheroe ........ B’bum St. Jame Cherry Tree ....


16. 7,. . 4.. 5.. 26 15. 15. 15. 15.


15. 1. .10.. 4.. 7 16. 1. .11.. 4.. 7


9. . 1.. 5.. 32 9. . 3.. 3.. 30


16. 2. .8 . . 6.. 12 15.


2. . 9.'. 4.. 10


6. . 5.. 4.. 22 -6. . 6.. 3.. 21 6. . 9.. 0.. 18 5. .7 . . 3.. 18


- N. Waterworth c Thompson b Mar- ‘ gerlson .............................................5


,E. ''Cornwall,' not out . . . : ............ ..; 56 ■ , E; Coupe 0 Hanson b Riddiough . . . .= 5, L. Cowperthwaite b Hanson . . . . . . . . ;4!


F. Holt b Hanson ■■■;.................... 3' '


RIBBLESDALE WANDERERS ' ; ■ ■ '


E. Standring c Cheetham b Robinson 0 J; Smith b Margarison . ; ; . . . . ..........0 T.Nuttallb Hanson............. ........... 1 E. Weaver! b Robinson


J. Briggs, riot o u t .............................. 0 I


THEJ VETERANS BOWLING MATCHES


"DOWLDi O’S a delightful gat Of that there is no doubt.


nter^ttog 'tis to,see ard-(ought friendly bout.


People-to every .walk of life Intfi Its I'anks it draws. ^


Its attrlbu As bach


A tbiic 'till for tired brairis, And I ,toake bold to sqy


........... 6 Extras............. 4


',j Total (8 wickets).. 84 Bowling;


J. Aubin............. J. R. Thoiripson, A1 HansOn......... H. H. Riddiough F.Margeriscm. .. A. Robmsoh......


0. M. R. W. 4 . . 2 . . 6 .. 0 5 . . 1 . . 15 . .


J. Slater ..'....'.......


9 . . 0 . . 21 .. 3 5 . . 0 . . 12 . . 6 . . 2 . . 12 . . 7 . ! 3 . . 3 . i 1 . .


0


8 . .2 6 .. 0


WHALLEY UNABLE TO FORCE 58


VICTORY DESPITE G. GARRATT’S ' ■ CENTURY. [ ' .


if Blackpool services-dropped a point, it was. necessary! for them to' win both their remaining matches to overhaul the league; leaders. !;On current form, it did not seem likely that the Servlcas would - have much difficulty in' over­ coming Chorley, but such proved to be the case, the match ending in a draw, and yet Whalley were unable to take advantage of their golden opportunity, As a matter of fact after wnalley had declared at 187 for the - loss of six wickets, Bamoldswlck had. quite a good chante of winning, but R. Cas­ well'thelr.'lopening batsman, preferred to sit on the splice and make a tame draw -inevitable. One might think th a t Whalley having won tne toss would have done! better to put'Bartoldswick In to: bat. J ' -


W


HALLEY went to Bamoldswlck Jmowing full well .that even


trouble the 'Whalley batsmen was N. S, Petty, who kept a consistently good length and made the ball turn from the leg. In capturing six wickets for 45, Petty achieved q distinctly fine performance on a dead wicket, but hls colleagues .were erratic, receiving heavy punishment, Whalley were given a grand start by G. Garratt and F. Cot- terill, who put on ;56 for the first wicket partnership. After Cotterill’s departure,'M. Walters played another sound innings, but most of the runs, as so often Tias been! the case to the past,] came; from Garratt’s bat. From the very outset, George plMCd with his customary confidence, treaxtog good length deliveries with respect, but hltttog hard through' the covers, and past]point; Hls beautiful placing and perfqct timing made the bowling seem poorer than it was. When a declara­ tion ]was riiade at 187 for six, Garratt had scored 106 not out. exactly equal­ ling hls previous best of the season. He


The only . Bamoldswlck bowler to


has I played many fine innings for 'Whalley this season,'but none better than this. [


|


were intent on a division of points. All the same,! their objective fwould not have been'gained but lor the stubborn­ ness of E. Cornwall, who withstood all the wiles of the attack to Cntice him, and, with 55 to hls credit, rplnained un­ beaten at the close—and that in spite of


the fact that he had worked [through vlous night. No other batsman slda showed equal [confidence.


Aubin or Thompson might I have been given a second turn with the ball and thereby done the • trick. ' ( The fact remains that the Wahderers|were [out to saVfe a point, and to give nothing, away Aimlessly. | ' .


C. 0. Brooks c Cornwall b Weaver.. 72 A. Robinson b Weaver J. R. Thompson b Briggs 3, Aubin b weaver. . . . . . . . . . N. H;; Sutcliffe c and b Briggs


CLITHEROE ..


J. Swales c Holt b Briggs . j . . . [ ; . i . . J. Slater Ibw b Weaver


H. H. Riddiough, not out . ] ...'.. L.. Extra4...|..L..


. . . . . J


E; Weaver................ 17 .. 1 • N. Waterworth....... 3 .. 0 E. Standring . . . . . . 3 .. 0 E. Coupe' ■'..............■ 3 .. 0 J. Briggs!. . . . . . . . . . . 11 .. 0 E, Cornwall............. 3 . .■ 0


B o w u n o : 1 0. M.


NATIONAL AIR RAID DISTRESS ' :


' FUND. i '


F. Margerlson c Hudson I l b weaveF.! F. CheethamJ not out


. Total j(8 wickets)..201


.......... by judicious sipgles that he got th bulk pf the bowling and gradually wore down the attack. The ichanras were lung;repeatedly iri the hope of the batsman making a slip, but in yaih. Of a total of 84. Cornwall had made 56. Some onlookers there were who'thought


•R. 'NtaCrettiiiwho has batted wim 're­ markable, sqccess to BamoldSwlck’s last half-a^ozen matches went for the hms and'to company ,with Caswell, put on 75 mns in a grand second wicket partnership. Haytag strained'hls back at work during thri previous week, Ernest Smith lacked nis customary sting and should have been given a much earlier rest. I Although Ellis bowled well and was treated with, great caution, Bamoldswlck imptoved their position and at one stage had;a chance of winning, but Caswell lacked enter­ prise and the match [petered'out to a tame draw. Caswell was at the crease for the whole of the Bamoldswlck Inn­ ings,' which lasted'for-two hours and ten minutes, scoring 38 not out.


J. Walker" with only! two runs on the board,''Whalley were in high glee, but


When Stanley Ellis' clean bowled K. ' ■WHALLEY


G. Garratt not out !....... F. Cotterill Ibw. b Petty .. A, Greenwood b P e t ty___ ____ L.B, M. Walters c | Robirisbn Petty


J. Ellis b|; Petty S. Ellis not oiit


R. M. As'pden'b Petty-; . . . ttl^L . GreenTbw b Petty


Extras


S. Smith i .............. 17 .. 0 , K. Robinson 1......... '6 .. 1 , J. Pollard' ............ 19 .. 1 . J ,


N. S. Petty ............ 16 .. 4 . I , BARNOLDSWICK


R, Caswell not out '............ K. J. Walker b Ellis I ............ R. McCrea b Ellis


J. I Pollard: Ibw. b Smith ....... K; Parrington not out ....... !


............ Extras...,


M. Waltei's . . ; .... 2 ...0 A. Greemjood . . . . 2 .. 0


EJ Smith S. Ellis G, Garratt


i


CHAN(3ES IN GOVERNMENT i ^ SECURITIES.


Total for 3 wkts. ., 124 0. M.


... 17 :. 1 , . ; 16 . . 1 . 57 .. 1 R. W.


Tbtal for 6 wickets d:c. .. 187 ,0 . M.


Tj -Fairchild . . . . 17 . .1 ,


. 45 .. 6 . 40 .. 0 . 21 .. 0 . 38 .. 0 . 33 .. 0


R. W.


106 25


2 1


And iauses And frii


I t breeds Among


• Sometimes ..His" " And Also,! Of hls"


ris are manifold, keen bowler knows;


[ I , ByR.^T


It taakes a .fellow.flt, ana strong, And drives dull care away.


es many hearty laughs, endly banter too.


i kindly fellowship 1 he trundling crew,


Jatki rotten [luck” may spout. o win • ,


But ak a n le thb; bowler takes His! llckmg like a .man.


a chap may grumble If :er ” gets knocked out; 1 he fail's t ■


And has done—if he’s not an ass— 'E’er since the gameibegan.


This fact MS deinonstrated when From A( crtogton' there came


A team of To blay


. And plain Thriy’d


haray I veterans a f riendly game.


lolly lot of chaps they were,


no orie will deny. enough it was to see .ome.ro do or die.


• And all' the members on each side Seemed anxious for the fray.


But whetlibr One reajly


Some,' of a nervous tem*p’rament. Maybe felt none too well.


By cannot, tell. this was so or not


But certam 'tis some natures can’t Give of their Very best,,


When thb;^ are called updri to plav In rome important'test;


That all engaged that afternoon Spent q life a happy time.


And here it pleakes one to say. In very simple [rhyme,


For ail the hard-bought games were to ^ A friencily spirit played;


No foul diKordarit sounds were heard. No; rude .remarks were made.


The ones Did neii]


And thos« Did no


And that down


her sti who


There only The oth


■esentirii .ruL u


irwlse was whi


waso:


who weire victorious nor crow,


suffen'€d a defeat lent show.


ine thing that marred fay scene,


en the rain poured And Botoewhat spoiled the green.,


This unejpected Their a '


Of course the missel.


And some ...throan.


And thouifh upon the soaking grass' players had to tramp. circumstance


ifdour d dn’t damp. Imd” was sometimes, vrong pegs”


were


But on ti e whole much skilful play Was by the r 'l“ ’-


vils shown. -


To the g£ y old - My hat I prou


Thev truly are a ■ Arid wclrtby ol


", fly raise, clever crew all praise.


• Quite pal y. 'and corigenial. Acertogtonians, •


The ifetjerans of Clitheroe, Were thb team, they had to play.


riTHE late; John Buchan, who as iford * ; Tweedsmiiir-was a recent Goverrior- Gerieral bf| Canrida,roust have beriin a- vety fine I man and a very likeable nlan. Anyone' .who likes bip ^p h y and abtor biographb 'will erijoj ' reading Jiohn Buchan’s! book “Memory ' Hold-lhe- Door,” published to 1940 by Hodder and*' Stoughton. ,ijj Buchan was a son of the manse, and


When a few months old was'brought by hls pSrentsIto a little grey manse op' the Fife coas^. His father’s family had wen for the most part lawyers in Edinburgh and to the,little burgh of Peebles, |arifi draers of a small estate to Midlothian; whilst hls mother’s had foV generations been Sherip^farmers bn the conflnris of three shilres—Lanark, Midlothian, japd


Tweeddale. “I-never went to school in the conventional sense,” says Buchan; “ for a boarding school was beyond the narrow means of my family. But I had many “ academics. The first was a dame’s school; where I learned to knit,' and was expelled for upsetting a broth pot on thb kitchen fire.. . . 'Wheri we - mlgratedi to Glasgow I attended 'for several yearn an ancient --Grammar


Hchool on [the south side of the Vlver, from which, at the age of seventeen, I passed'to Glasgow Univerelty.”


Buchan [records 'that hft boyhood IDLE BOYHOOD.


must hayej been one of the Idlest , on record, for! except to the last yedr-.at Glasgow grammar school; he does nqt - think thqt, he ever consciously did! any: work. But he automatically absbrbed the rudiments of grammar and mathe­ matics, arid being a great reader had a surprising p knowledge of things alto­ gether outjside the curriculum. In his last year at school, just before entertog Glasgow University, Buchan found hls first real'I Intellectual Interest to the. Latin!.and|Greek classics. For the'riext three yeara, whilst at the University,' he: was a most diligent, student, mediaeval to hls austerity. Ill hls day, a'Sedttish unlversltj! smacked of the Middle Ages,- the undergraduates, living to lodgings to the cit)!,' and most of them cu ltlv a^ ' the Muset'lon a slender allowance, of oatmeal.Jr '


. , [ . [ , After Glasgow, Buchan went Up' to


Oxford to bit for a scholarship, won It, and entered Brasenose College. Per two years he was very poor and could not afford to dine to hall, but afterithat, what witn [scholarships, prizes and con­ siderable [emoluments from- books and articles, fib became rather rich for [an undergraduate. Always a companion­ able manj he says that he had as 'cath­


olic an acquaintance as any man j of his time.! [ '


- John Brichab's account of his life at


Oxford is most interesting, and incid­ ents aboui d in his narrative concehitag


And furthermo..._____ All were entirriy free.:from silly swank


■iftey pb'ved tiemselves’to be.


I point pf age hey varied like B Those qn the Clitheroe side,


ut all who to Were ini life's


Onb vlsH The aril


But he wool


And w


A vict’ry Oh wn


Clitheroe Byitwei


ids ' 'IS -very


ifer'lhad e of ei sent


nearly-reached ?hty-nve, •


much alive.


h? match took part eventide.


town some splendid 1 i. :


nty po . needlbi Ich they


The finiii Provld3d som>


For after an ej Clitherde just


' The Ifli


But whe , In Until-i


For the And


And a Indeei


Were


I feel onstrata lowlers’


And to The


Hoping Ihey:


11 have team the stogies won


ijntsorraore; - :ss ’tis to say, set great store.


h of the foursomes match ! rare fun,


:jciting “ doo,” ' won by ONE 1


atoazing ' St wood


’Twas trick,


the vi ii matel


tors had to be wasn’t known


to relate— had been thrown I


Bob" vho did the winning


In.whiich the In an iriferval, 'lei


le [loud cool aijii


plaudits won Id very clever way deed was done.


provide i wifi wei come interlude


the players ’ ,£h a tea.


¥ probed to be. For tie'sustel


3nd my next ti


the kinijUy friends who paid totog rood.


3d here to express fratitude.


Without any n 1 Will


ore ado, I now humble lay, ne the rivals meet, a brighter day. J.P.P.


THE I ESSIMIST"


rpHE world does not exist for-man •»■ alone,;-


Its purpose'and its meaning are un­ known;


That they,-poor God


But soms are huit and seem to think it odd,


f 30ls, are not Almighty


To th^en- the unherse is upside down, Md evj'y other n an a stupid clown; Who^v^ shaped the world was -quite


And all must bi destroyed and built agan.


These ip t s complain of winter cry for spring, . , _ 1


'ro thriugh a ebud, ^°°^tslalght^°


Ttoat s & you daily tidings of delight; Lock out upon ;he earth to summer’s human' heart’- with


^ erekt the lau ;hter of the sunUt seas, '


I •


And jqta the lanquet f)I the starlit iw-man t o


^^..ejuntless glories of the ev’ntog light,


poor self a little less; a load of grief and


that ev’rybody shares,' The mrist impor ant In eternity


Tp-moTow provbi •: well.


—Be 1


life is will James


Theie, the art 1


help


IS what we do nc t see, not what we see * To-daV we se^e tfiile , v,iifei™S’ion of a hell;


!s us wrong, for all is E, OXBUEOH."


fiot afraic >worth


creitte


living, and your belief the fact.—-William


my last words to you of life. Believe that


the Mgrant b: eeze amidst the leafy trseSf


® hls distress, MAXIMUM PRICES FOR PLUMS.


rrVHE Miriister of Food has made an .-L Older, which came Into force on August n th , 1941. controlling prices of plums (tocludtog damsons and green­


gages). Varieties are classified in four groups. (Group 1, Yellow Egg. Gis­ borne; 2,1


;grouri3.'8d. per lb.; group 4, lOd; per Tb. There'are perinitted additions to maxlmuiri prices to, cover the provision of I containers and, except on salCg to licensed preservers, to cover the cost of carriage between the grower’s farm and


..M


Bush, Swltehens; 3, Darnsons (Includ­ ing Bullace damsons, Merryweather' damsons,! Prune damsons and Ayles­ bury prunes); 4, all other varieties. The mixing of plumg to any group with those in Any other .group Is forbidden, except under licence. On sale by retail, the :,maxlm"um prices will be Group 1, 61d. per l lb.; group 2, 61d- per lb.;


the • [seller’s premises. All! sellers of


pluins, except retailers are required to keep accurate records of i purchases, stocks and sales. Retailers qre only re­ quired to keep records of purchases ana stocks.


‘ [Czars, Purple ershore, Kent SPUNTER-PROOF GREENHOUSt PliN


' •B.AJ'. personnel pf |a North;] London balloon barrage station—all [ keen diggers for victory—have pro- 1


duped a fine crop o | tomatoes to a [ ■greenhouse which they [re-glazeo; crounged:!


with non-spllhter. glass teri froni a' derelict motor carj duinp,


gooc with


Nci man nor any body! of men Is


enough or wise enough to dispense the tonic of criticlsm.-l-Huxley.


. and that and ev’ry- ' “ ‘If*’ . fleeting pleasures


And wjap each precious,blessing to a shr6ud. [ - , ^ .


he became[one of what someone termed “ the aborigtoles of'Brasenose,”- and a happier [fellowship—Buchan says-no man could|desire. IDs college was then, as now, rif sporting [college; but there was no lack of intellectual vigour, and the College which gave Lord Haig jo the British Army,.and. the Lords Car- riock, Bradbury, and,Askwith and Sir Arthur Sglter to the public services, has little cause to bq'^ ashamed of itqelf, Buchan, [ however, made ■ friends throughout the university. “ After the years of [ intellectrial ferment to a Scottish urilverslty, [Oxford was forme a stabilising Influence, but still more was Its mellowing of character-through frlendshipj” says Buchan.


“ gi^Wbo iwerelthen and have since been imous to [all walks of life. Gradually


OljlCE A LAWYER, i Ori lea,ylng Oxford, Buchan read for


the Bar, with John, Andrew Hamilton, the futureiLord SumnCr. “ That was a privilege]”I says Buchan, “for which I shall alwjays be.grateful, for Itgave'me the friendship of a great lawyer, who, to the evenings when the Courfe hgd risen, wpuld discourse cynically and most brilliantly on men and affairs.”. Buchan did not practice at the Bar for very! lonk,!, but he says: - " I 'am con­ vinced that an education to the human­


ities shcjuld be supplemented and cor­ rected by a training in law or to some exact science. Besides, it admits one


to a greatjand loyal brotherhood. Once a laWyeii always a lawyer. Though I soon ceased to practice, for years I read the . law I reports,-first In the morrung paper,, arid: fragments of legal Jargon still tend; to Intrude themselves in' my- literary [style.” iVhllst'a young man' at the Bqr, Buchan made hls first real entry lnto| the society of hls elders; an


excellent thing, he tells us, for to mix with abler men than yourself is to


learn humility. . Then early to August of 1901, rit'the age of twenty-five, he:was suddenW jolted out of hls comfortable rut by afccepttog the invitation of Lord Milner, who was home on leave, to go with] hiiri' to South Africa. I n ' the autumn [of 1906, Buchan -became


.engaged to Susan Charlotte Grosvenor and was iriarried to the following July, thus acquiring a vast new relationship —Grosvenoi's, Wellesleys, Stuart-lVort-


'leys, Lyttletons, Talbots, and above all. So he teljs us, he found the perfect com­ panion to [an incomparable wife. [Just before tos marriage Buchan changed his profession and joined the old estab­ lished publishing firm, of Thomas


Nelson and Sons, of Edinburgh, London and New York.


' BOREDOM OF WAR . Buchan’s book has numerous short


sketches! I and summaries of many famous men active to the last genera­ tion, and] his account of many phaffiB of country! life makes splendid reading. He served [to the Army during the last War . and! hls sidelights on the many people with whom he came to coritact are Uluififaattog. “ I acquired a-bitter detestatiofi of war, less for its horrors than for Its boredom and futility, and contemptjfor its.‘panache.’ To sp4ak of glory 'teemed a hgrrid impiety.” ‘ “It was whilst confined to his bed during the first [months of the last y/ar and with the[ desire to keep his mind offitoo


INGHAM. I tragic realities that John' Buchan


thoug It out' and then wrote his well- kriowri stories of advbture, “The Thirty-Nine Steps,” “Greenmantle” and ^■Mrsi Standfast.” Among Buchan’s scholarly works . are biographies of Montrote, Cromwell and (Augustus,


ivtp., MD LIKED rr. 'Fori eight years Buchan was a Mem­


ber of Parliament and says he enjoyed every moment there. He says: “The customary platitudes about the House of Cotomons happen, to be, true- Indi­ vidual members may bri ill-bred; the House itself has a fine triste and breed­ ing, rad .a sure instinct to matters of


-conduct. I t will always include people who are foolish, hasty, humourless: but collectively, it Is rarely other than patleiit, urbane and wise. I t is nicely


discriminating; for while' it will tolerate an agreeable, buffoon an d . an, honest donkCT, it will not give] Its, coiifldence


except to sterling character arid Securjis jiidlcab ' The flashy platform demagogue has to change his methods if he fs to win its favour. I t demands specific qualities—a certain decency to ' debate arid a certain [respect for itself and i,te ancient ritual,- 'pie sansculotte who refuses; Its demarids Is speedily


-silenced,- for; the House! has lirimense poweii of neglect and disapproval."


can ori this account cast a stone?—and ■ to anjl case the triviality ol- the stakes


kenhekd, Buchan remarks; “No archi­ tect of a career was ever lets Jealous of other builders . . . To some he seemed- to' play the game ol life for common and earthly stakes, but [who among us .


Of P. E;.Smith,-afterwards Lord Bir-


was redeemed by the brilliance, and the' - humailty of the player.’)


. Speiktog of hls own parents, Buchan says'that hls father "had no belief to compromises and a facile ,'iberallsm; he never cherished the illuislon that the '


• Chflstfan life was an easy thing, and on this score he had to | testily against


many false, prophets. He had a com­ plete c Istrust of current fashions and of the wrrship of the ‘voire of the people’


and tire ‘spirit of the' age’ and such fetlshre . . . . But, except as regards dogma, he had little of the conVeritlonaL Calvtofetlc temper . . . My-mother wag marririd at seventeen, and had at once to takb charge of a kirk and a inanse, i to which were soon added a family; A ( Scots minister must be something ol a diplotriat 11 he Is to keep hls congrega- I tion in good temper; • my father had i About ps much diplomacy as a rhtaocer- [ ous, for he was utterly regardless oi i popular opinion, so my mother had to ; be .ce'asele^ly observant, and an habit- : ual smoother of ruffled feathers." [


'


THE AMERICAN SCENE. In his chapter headed “My America," i


Buchan presents the American' (the ! Urilted States) scene as he saw it, and -1 says: “Half the mlsunderstaridtogs be-i tween.Britain and America are due to 1! the fact" that neither will regard the other .as what It Is—to an Important I


I


sense of the word—a foreign country. I i Each thinks of the other as a part of i Itself which has somehow gone off the ' lines.” He speaks of the homeliness, ; '


the sincere and'widespread friendliness, [ the hospitality, and the fundamental i modesty of th? American people. The ! native.genius, to humour, and in many' [ of the public and private relation^ of • life, is for overstatement, a highly- [ coloured, imaglnatlwi, paradoxical ex- 1 travagance. The British gift Is for I


understatement, , Both are legitimate I figures of speech.'. _ / Buchan’s final chapter to thlg book,


:;‘ The Other Side of the Hill,” being Sir ' Walter Scott’s; pleasant phrase ■ for


“Memory Hold-the-Door,” is headed more


mlddle.llfe; Scott called it reaching the ' side of,the hill.; Buchan feus us*: his own life-time has Included


othe; that


------drastic changes in manners and


customs and modes of thought than can I be shown, be thinks, by any similar '1 period in history. Trie mechanical apparatus of living has been trans- '


formbd. Creeds to politics, to teon- ! omlcs, in many brariches of telence |


.have [gone into [the melting-pot, and it ! is nolj yet clear what is to succeed them. ■ The old classes have been levelled down, ' and new clqss distinctions have appeared ■ to mapy lands based on something much ‘ crueller and epayser than the former ta^upiities, - “ I t is an ugly and com­ fortable world,;but it is' a world not ! without hope—a better world'to spite of


its confusion than the one that to des­ pondent moods I have foiseen,’' says Buchan. " The things which we value may be overlaid and obscured] but I do not think they wHl be destroyed at the root.”; His fear was not that the world would return to barbarism; which is civilisation submerged or not yet bom, but de-civilisation, which Is dlvllisation' gone (rotten. I t was not the return to the Dark Ages that he feared, but the 'doming of a too garish age, tehen life would be lived to the glare of Neon lamps and the'spirit'would have no solitude..


I RUDE CHALLENGE, i


civilisation bemused by an opulent mateyialism hag been met by a rude


“But something has happened. A


challenge. The free peoples have been challenged by the serfs; The gutters' have!exuded a poison whipll bids fair- to infect the jyorjd.' The beggsr-on-i


horseback rides.more roughshod oyer! the helpless than the cavalier. A coni-[


btaation of multitudes who] have lost] rtielr! nerve and a Junta of arrogant ' demagogues hag shattered ,thd comity: of nations;" The European traditlbn has been confronted with an Aslktlo, revolt; with its [ historic accompaniment of Janissaries and assassins,' There is in it all, tqo, an ugly pathological [savour, as If a maturp society were betog assailed


.by diseased afad'ticious children, We have beeto shaken out of our sriiug; neffi and warned of a great peril, and to that warning lies our salvation, The dictators have done us a marvellous servile to reminding us of the true, values of life.’’-


l -rR.T.L I irpwo seamen 'walked Into


Rotary Club headquarters, oil Tues­ day, tmd announced that they were


X staSt rkle Arms, the Clitheroe


-annouraeditha't'Seaman E, Atm-; son, of Morecairibe, was going hi on leaw-apfirtaklng wlth;hlm Be; man R;’ W. Blanchard, a NC^ourii lander, ' strict 1 Instruction^ wcL given Itoat they should YlsltlCllthp- roe, search but Rotary headquarters and tender the men’s thanks m a propeF manner.: News soori spifeiid that the men weye here, and within a short time a good many members of the' two clubs fbregatherfed, jcqr- talnly'not to receive thanki butijtb meet land show friendship Wth these >repre.sentatlves of aigallstot crew, -learning:: a little of the! life they lead and finding out-iL t[h^e was, ahythlng'-elsA the Clubs' could do to help them.


. they qaid, because, those sent! last winter were-!Sofwell’made'(and''pf such excellent [material thai,-[m spite of long and hard wegr, [they.


would!not have it that they,heeded any niore attention than-they have been getting. Indeed, they thought ratheii. less :was' required.- Phr Instanbe, no further jerseysi or sea­ men’s [boot stockings were heeded]


,are as good as n e f I •' " We wear, the Jerseys under our top things,) and look,after theri)]” Atkinson 'spiA^ Hls friend confessed to one Rotai- ian that in the depth, of winter, In


trawler adopted' by the Clubs [took part in the ■evacUatlOn 'of Dljhkliik; and the men'; distributed! clgaw sent from "' Clitheroe "amqrilg'* , troops they carried. > .j


I t was' recalled that an earlier , [


' -['■ (WITHOUT having had-anythin'g quite SO exciting as Dunkirk, the present boat has had her tljrllls,


'On,one occasion she was concerned with two other! craft In brlilglng down a Nazi bomber.


' In the .vicinity,! and naturally . .we were all; keyed- up at the thought of having i oraok'at Jeifry] Oiir lead­


• four bombs wete droppedJbu; ill fell wide of any-target.. One stl- vlvor of . the bomber, was picked ui and he said'that the first burst pf gunfire—actually ■ three ships: were in action, but bur’s was thcT first


very proud of out; part in the incid­ ent; and of the bfflclal congratuir tlons which-we received later,”; I am


.— .. ... . J .


chard have been! In the Na% months. They Ibbk exceedlpgly fit, and quite definitely Itoe i|he]llfe. On seven occasions thpy have been subjected to machine gun fire from enemy ’planes, but the crew have been fortunate to escape casualtlAs. The only ihjury sustained bjf any [bf the men was. a cut "" " ' by a Splinter frbm by bullets.


Both Seameh |ltklnqbn arid^ai-


trip, to .Clitheroe, and their hopts were delighted to welcome- the: The visit forged a new link betjyepn the Clubs and the men of tt ler, and an added note of ship will mark the future relatlo


Both these-seamen enjoyed th a r h- ship. ' jjc''


PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT . every rhemberi of the ship’s Cojn-'


gare


pany of HM.S. “(Prince of| Wale ” a box contalnliig 200 qlgar^t s,


- on this new, British battleshlpjl# week, and now further letters haye reached hls parents.


Churchill on board,'this mbrning,” Beaman Grlndley wrotq on the l8th. " I consider myself very lucky|si Iqg all the big men In one go. American sailors were excplleiit us, and we soon palled up them. During the ybyage [I nla[.. aged to. take a few photographs, but I was not allowed' to snaprtn' President and the Prime Mlnisti ■Wfien Mr. ChurchlU left the jst this morning, he gave a speech which he praised the ship, ani . .. hls leaving the captain called I for three cheers. The Prime .Minister replied by waving hls hat arid sm tag one of hls traditional sinlles,


“We returned to Britain lvlth|Mr. .! 1


bn 'I-


of petty: theft now In evidence |ls m the pUferlrig of produce from a|ldt-


AND now from the sea|to! land; About the foulest fpL..


ents. Clitheroe has evidently its


full quota of these miserable thieves who.sneak about the plots aftpr dark.- From all quarters of the to' lam he'arlng stories of onions being rifted. In one case, the tops were pushed back, into the [ground, Cayrots. cabbages. Indeed eypry^ott


of handy vegetables have been pu! - lolhed and damage:done to groydi|g crops in the. process.


f


historic Atlantic . corifererice. Mr.i Roosevelt had with Mr. Cnurdhlll, who voyaged to “the rendezous Sh th e P r in c e ' of Wales,” and] iriy news of. the gift comes [from [a Clitheroe imlember of the crew, Sea­ man, Ed." c. Orlndley] son- of [Mr, arid Mrs. G. Grlndley;'Of 52i Turner street. -I mentioned hls presence


apples, oranges. And cheese. That was In the course of tie


llp—this catisAd „


a funnel st|;upk I;


ing seaman recognised the mark­ ings on the ’plane as It broke through' the "clouds, and with! a shout, ‘Here she comesP opened fire at once.. ,We hfliuBdlatelv smoke Issuing from the' bon then she' burst Into flames, gradually, went, out of sight, found that she:had crashro.'ii sea, half-a-mliri away., Ttor£_ ,


crash warning sounded and at once manned^ the guns,”; Seaman Atkin­ son said. ‘.‘ The -crash iwarrilrig. indicates" that enemy aircraft'. a)re


! “ We were in dock at the ramqthei , t -1; J Seaihen Atkinson, and Blanchard, . ; [ | .


membCTS of; the crew of[' L--Jr TYawley Now this Is the I oat “adopted” by the' meihbers[,or(the Rqtary Club arih the, Inner lWhepl Club,'and the tvfo seatoen hrid been sent to express'personal , thanks! for the woollen comforts .clgare^tqs, sweets, writing materials and so ofi;. which have been regularly suppned., Thanks had been sent already In letters, but the crew wanted a more direct message, I Thus,, when It [was


the


.thlevesl but thJ march F where. I public heavily I


p One<arasitd astonlsd if the their


, 7V sea twhatevl


'time;:’ whpiihi


mbtei'rln


traffic'I 'werit sa, 'and! yel ■WhAUejf Accrlhg visit !G)1 Harwoo and fro| roe, 1


j'ofbthell one seel wa4 wlT s arrived!


-walkedl the flv Grlndte t queuehere . and I j


'utmost'] -Aeethin'i “ the bus!


eratobi scnimF


V - if '■'K


[bus bail where? therofe*-,!


■ Arctic [waters, he wore three Jerseys, and needed therii! Smokes) siyeets and cakes are always'welcome, [pf coursel


.Accrlngl 'thequef two bud to flnisq le-Moon


■from.Sl there,:


;hqd be, 'ateClltfl


-Ingenui BUrnlejf


h a d '- f ^


(Shorten - k Blal got asj]


.than-Lr from C| p.to.”


talkle-£ have oil Which


■ 7^ , wh :to!cohd|


tiing nbr idimAi course,, way: or l many s | are' bell and ' thi


“ jiAN(^


On a ’b ^ wet day


open up--kllled: the.pilot find set — the en^ne on fire.- iWe .werb 111


atula- '■ ”1 I-'


'-^M r J i himself,I PeabodjT entertqll


Terrltorf has a f(j who con of! life occupatll The r wenlt! to mrike'E j know r indtheeturn 1ing toflndjil .“ Porr


ame.


" MEMORY iTO THE LATE Jo:m


” BUCHAN.


IN A N D AND


him.”TTie PI t t so pleasahe'drivi


appeared B.B,C..ltl s him, anf


o keep! guv’ney Ij aid: ' ’I


console; as If by I crumbled


XX grea l says: “Seldfj enjoyed] fldence. [ bollc.! ! wrong,, was toi l v " If a j


isit f roll


a bharwl *’E’8 so l m ’e takek 4adam.’|


the quell a KetteJ works b] that ma] two. ls:a| family . redlicedi , “ IttoA


A PA the L


ly threaq perAoiis:


M S


unhappy] because vlce-vers that.,.


(Ctonttal


at my sq ”Tt meal for'eVer T h em ,


“ Bebal lng[to*-h|


“ I Can’tL ' , “ “Whyl


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