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Is Growing In England
Britain Wonders
What Will Come
Biter The War
Destruction Of Hitler
Not Enough, Post's
Correspondent Reports
(In this week’s letter from
England, Mr. Amps, editor of
The Ilford Recorder, tells Post
readers what Englishmen are
thinking about the eventual
armistice.)
By BASIL E. H. AMPS
Ilford, England
EXCLUSIVE I
this town the burden of the
war is most pronounced be-
cause it is an evacuation area.
The departure of at least a
third of the population (many
of whom have since returned,
but not all) meant a great loss
to the trading community and
also a heavy loss in rates and
taxes to the Town Council.
Those of us who are left will
have to find the rates and tax-
es those who departed failed to
pay and obviously, as trade
has decreased, those who are
left have less to pay with. A
large number of men who
were earning upwards of five
pounds a week found their jobs
slide from under them at the out-
break of war and all the lucky
ones among them can get now is
the three pounds a week payable
to full-time air raid wardens and
firemen. Some more have found
$3 a week jobs in connection with
Food Control. As most of them have
homes on which they have heavy
mortgages, three pounds a week
does not go far, especially as many
necessary articles have risen steep-
ly in price.
Iford’s position, however, is not
typical of the whole country. I was
in Reading, 40 miles west of Lon-
don, the other week and found that
so many people had gone out of
London to live there that the town
was enjoying an unprecedented
prosperity boom with work for all.
odd war.
No School Since July
One oddity which is giving local
Idea Of European Union
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also one of the foremost economists
in the land.
In the absence of much war news
I think it would be true to say that
we are more concerned with specul-
ation about the kind of peace we
are going to get than with the war
itself. That is not to say that the
vast majority of people do not
realise that the war has to be won
first but it is probably symptomatic
of the general confidence in the
eventual outcome that so many
people are looking ahead. It is al-
most as if the end of the war was in
sight already. There are some who
believe it is. They are looking for
a revolt of the military and indus-
trial classes in Germany before very
long.
The public remain, at this writ- |
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parents great concern is the lack
of schooling for the children who
remain here.
These children have not been to
school since July and they are find-
ing time hanging heavily on their
hands. The local authority has now
devise;l a Home Education Service.
The children are gathered in small
groups in houses of parents willing
to accommodate them for an hour
each day and the teachers go from
house to house setting lessons for
the children to do during the rest
of the day. Even this sketchy ex-
pedient is welcomed by harassed
parents who don’t know what to do
with their children.
So much for what we may call
the outward or visible signs of war.
What of the average attitude to-
wagds it?
Well, practically everyone con-
siders Hitler to be the villain of
the piece but the average man is be-
ginning to feel that the destruction
of Hitlerism is not a sufficient end
in itself and there is now discern-
ible a rapidly spreading growth of
idealism which I consider a most
hopeful auguary for the future.
What Will Peace Be?
Men-in-the-street are talking,
gropingly for the most part, about
the kind of peace they would like
to see and the kind of Europe they
feel ought to develop. Though the!
idea of a Federated Europe, some-
what on the lines of the U. S. A,
has not been actively promulgated
for more than a few months (a
society with that ewd in view began
activities soon after your Clarence
Street published his book “Union
Now’) it is now being discussed in
most of the National papers. Many
of these have pleaded for a state-
ment of the Government's aims and
one, the News-Chronicle,
across two pages last week a con-
structive peace plan devised by its
editor, Sir Walter Layton, who is
printed | §
ing, very puzzled about Russia but
| the belief is now beginning to]
| spread that Russia will not join in
| for the very good reason that she |
can do herself more good by re-;
maining out to get what she can |
while the going is good.
trality Act was received warmly by
all over here and the evident sym- |
pathy of America is now appreci- |
ated although you will still find |
some stern critics who condemn |
America for remaining out in order, |
as they believe, to make money |
out of the war. This feeling persists |
mainly among the older generation |
who still hold the opinion that |
America remained out of the last
war until the opportunity of making |
money had gone.
U. S. May Be Adjudicator
You see, what a great many peo-
ple here cannot begin to realize is
that America is not a kind of off-
shoot of Britain. They believe that
because the same language is
spoken in each country there is of
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sorrowing relatives and friends.
Trucksville Cemetery.
Pallbearers were George
‘Bunt Becky’ Monk
Thanks Friends
“Aunt Becky” Monk, who has
bene seriously ill, has asked The
Post to help her in thanking all
the people who visited her or re-
membered to send sympathetic
The volume of cards,
lowers and gifts which descended
pon the beloved old lady during
her sickness were proof of the es-
seem in which she is held. Her
ondition is much better now.
Johnson.
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messages. and Evelyn.
Kirk McCarty Visits
Old Friends In Town
Genial Kirk McCarty,
The funeral of A. Dana Rice,
widely known Jackson Township
Rev. Lynn H. Brown, pastor of
Moosic Methodist Church and a for-|J
mer pastor at Lehman, officiated.
Interment was in the family plot in
Rice, i
Dennis Bonning, George Bond, Her-|
bert Miers, L. U. Case and Thomas
Mr. Rice, who died on Wednesday
on his farm in Jackson Township,
had served several
terms as a school director in the
township. Surviving are his widow,
Emma, amd two daughters, Caroline
old-time
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At Huntsville Once
William A. Waters, 83, brother of
Mrs. Mary Gates and of the late
James L. Waters of Dallas, died
farmer, was held on Saturday from | November 22 at the home of his
his home, amidst a large throng of | daughter,
Mrs. Samuel White,
| Eatontown, N. J. The funeral was
held at Eatontown on Saturday,
with interment at Woodbridge, N.
Mr. Waters was born at Plymouth
April 25, 1856, the eldest son of
Daniel S. Waters and Sarah M.
Segraves. He lived for many years
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He is survived 'by his wife, the
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Tunkhannock ‘Democrat’
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B. M. Van Dyke, publisher of the
79-year-old Wyoming Democrat of
Tunkhannock, has announced that
the name of his newspaper will be
changed soon. The publisher, who
has decided upon the new name,
has invited subscribers to guess
what the newspaper will be called
after the change.
ville; a son, D. Vaughn Waters of
Orange, N. J., a daughter, Mrs.
Samuel White of Eatontown, N. J.;
and three grandchildren, a sister,
Mrs. Mary Gates of Dallas, and a
brother, Andrew C. Waters of Wil-
kes-Barre.
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Everything in a newspaper is
news, particularly the want ads.
;00, that President Roosevelt, now
1e has got his Neutrality Act
hrough, may quite likely take some
step to bring the belligerents to the
onference table and so shorten the
ronflict. I feel that no one else can,
Dallas resident and now a farmer in
Lehman, was in Dallas on Thanks-
giving Day, renewing old friend-
ships. Mr. McCarty was once one of
the most successful exhibitors at the
Dallas fair and recalls that on the
last year of that exposition he won
lo that service for us. These, I1| nearly $400 in awards.
should add, are not general opinions |
rertain unconsidered trifles that, confuse Lehman with Dallas.
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One thing you do learn in war is|
to watch for the obscure paragraphs
for the really vital news and so take
office.
[ best to keep it on.”
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know that Lehman has its own post
“They're doing their best
to put Lehman off the map,” says
Mr. McCarty, “and I'm doing my
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