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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 21, 1942
Page
1
The Roblin Tennis Club is being revived as a sign of a broader provincial sports resurgence including tennis and golf. Goose Lake offers swimming and fishing while gas and tire restrictions push locals toward home recreation. A nearby incident ends with Joe accidentally shooting a fox and cubs, prompting reflections on town life and sports.
A man named Joe rounds up six fox cubs from Mrs. Fox’s den using two laborers and a long pole. The cubs are placed in a wooden box and then in an old hen house. Joe worries about feeding them and whether to return them to the wild as a letter to the Free Press notes a separate Manitoba case about Mervyn Vant, jailed for a crime he did not commit.
University of Minnesota bulletin announces the second Rose Growers Day on June 23, 1942 in St Paul. F L Skinner of Dropmore Manitoba will discuss Breeding Hardy Garden Roses and attend a dinner as honored guest. He operates a northern nursery and private station 250 miles NW of Winnipeg.
Plans to enroll 3000 Air Cadets in Manitoba were outlined at the Air Cadet League of Canada meeting at the Legislative Buildings in Winnipeg. Units will form in communities with 25 or more interested boys, with provincial support and local cooperation. $25,000 has been subscribed and 1200 Air Cadet uniforms ordered.
Training equipment and instruction are under the supervision of the R C A F with courses for civilian instructors being organized. Cadets may gain valuable training for RC A F service later but enrollment remains voluntary. The expanding civil aviation picture offers strong prep for careers in civilian aviation.
Transplanted and not thriving, the speaker longs for rural peace away from the city. A voice laments missing the quiet countryside where people work side by side, preferring the country over urban joys despite familiar faces. The poem ends with Pil summed sentiment: would rather be there than here.
A series of quoted lines argue that right should govern power and action. It contrasts the saying might makes right with calls to let right prevail, citing Hazlitt Lincoln Eddy Whately and Simmons and urging strength in principle to oppose unholy powers. The message centers on moral authority over force.
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