The Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-03-18, Page 3.,r
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Are These Women.
Really Dishonest?
.&v Herbert Cranston, 'in the
Midland Free Press. .
Many • years ago 1 ran across a
• sta*tling' statement to the effect'
that women are ,fundamentally
dishenest..I don'.t know just where
it was 'but' I remember that .1
didn't .like - it a bit. I ant.rather
• partial:,to the • fair seX.
• AO. yet olnetimes .lately I have
wondered whethe'r,tiiatiwritar was
not • hiftirfg the nal , Pn-ihe head.
k..
I have come -across P tp ny of our
• : Ywo4nen-folk who.'are doing what"
they can ,to. beat. the rationing .
regulations. They are moat of
them good `church folk too,' women .
from whom, one • would have ex-
• peeted better things. Some are
quite .brazen 'about it. They d'o'
not seem to .Have graslied the pur
- pose•._vftatisming_.-at-_all,.•' or,
•they. have. they do not care if-
, their, greed d nrak'es it, n.ecessaryi_for-•
others,.'to go without, •even those
. , who are fighting and dying for
them.. No Golden 'Rule; let alone j
• common decency, . about 'that.
- I heard :one • woman say' -the
other day . that s+he always had •
'plenty. of tea in her •house. There
• •were two members. of her family •
swho diel-not,-drilik.•ten;-bihtaahe`al
• .,iviays. •got tea' .for 'hetero .onatheir_.-
ration cards. And •another wohan •
..I • know • quite cheerfully made the .
assertion that rationing had made.•
no 'difference to' her.:T•wo:. mem-
•' hers of her family .had gone to •
the U. 'S. A. to work . since the
rationing •laws came in and .she
- was still buying butter and sugar
.on their ration;; cards.. I' .don't•
know by what 'standard 'of morel-.
ity' those ladies justify the put'.
hase_of rationed foods'for people
who will never eat them'! ,
-Whatas it-aboutjtumeresnature
Cast makes many :of the .best. o3'. •
us•resent laws which are .n.a•de for •
. the benefit of all? ' Why should
'anyone think it •fair or< ilecenf� to
.buy. foods for absentees or those
• who .do'•n.ot•. consume. them? Or
perhaus theySdo not -think, .it' so
and do .not care: • •In prohibition ;
. days it was the fashion for .people.'
to ' brag '.about .their bootleggers,:
and .. some folic did ' it who. never .
drank, at':all. , • I' wonder if the
women folk are doing the same
thing today? • Perhaps ,they' are
'sticking closely .to the letter of i
the' law;'l1pt�it are boastirtg..ntruth-.
fully to heir friends 'about how
b ' devilish smart, ihev are in beating
. ' . the law.' It could be. so.
* * *....
I also wander sometimes ,if wo
men are really' fundamentally :die-
.. honest, honest, or whether they haealived
beg_ with_men_^olks• that flies _
do snot know how to get along any
other way. What do you say?'
The •first instance cif. food
i P Jnr iecori a in • ie a ible
'tells ups that when Adam ate the
-.,forbidden 'fruit he .tried to push
theDblame on. Eve. Scarcely hon-
" est was ;it? '
Swedes Get Alcohol
Fria srtake Ovens
•
A •Swedish•.newspaper, "Stock-
' �ol crier •S.c cial ' Dcmokraten," re
contly reported how a large, mod- .
.ern bakery, 'ing Stockholm . has •
•- built into •its •-els tri al • baking
• o' ens an apparatus which- collects
• the - alcoholic ' vapors' occurring
throughout the 'baking process
tuid transfers then,, instantly` bp'
distillation into a iasolinc " alco-
hol,• says. the •;St, Thomas Times-
JOineiY'a'l. By utilizing this •conser-•
vatic* .plan, the Swedish bakery
is'codeelieg and producing ' 15
gallons of '941 per cent:pure ,leo-.. '
• bol for every liakiii;g hour, *enough
to 'operate 21. delivery. trucks,.
'
wit,}i 'iro »attor� fuel needed from
• outside aou•rcca. '
Tt has long been' }mown' in Can-
ada • 'and,, tht ,Un c& • States',that
• dough • fctmenLation ' is an' alto
. bac • transformation With two
• imnoriaril material; loft at 'the
end of the . ferriieniation_ period.
besides :altos' and other products.
„These two ,intent -tent by-products,'
are oxy'go;l and aetlryaleoiiol but'.
are liwall;• lost in- ::teain during
the. lialcina• 07•nce�e, -
•
We 1.hink we. luive made great
• sari;.lc^a. cu v; n'r tonsc+ers atimh. ilt: this
countrt, iint It'reninins for people
like the .Sweden, 'still'a neutral
.,.�.t,0-1;643.1i? .,,Pal rat:t�+,,,•tkl r,t�- ''o!
is the niother of invention.
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THE WAR • WEEK --- Conlrnentary on Current Events
Round -The Clock Mr Raids - •
Mean leo Rest For Germany
Every, day since Feb. 14 .has
seen Allied' airmen over targets"tn
Germany and German-000unied
territory hour after, .hour,' •round
•
:the ,elodk, comments the Nein York
Times.•., The Germans, who 'inrltiat- ,
• ed large-scale bombing of big
.ides,• were being ,blasted :in the
greatest alr.: ass,5 t • is history.
British experts., who, eattiaihate •%e,
weight•• of bomibe :dropped on Eur-*
ope during, 1942' at C000, tons a
month, 'assert that 'maie than 10;
• 000. tons fell in the same area last
month alone.
• The, Opening .Baro
`Behind thia growing fury Were
the signs' of a new purpose: There
were strong prospects of an Allied
inv'asion's of =Europe 1 . 1943 _The
--;very-prospect of- it reflected the.--;very-prospect-.
prevailing .military opinion that air
blows=- alone-wonld- not bring 'Vita
tory. England, despite Oten-month
air • Blitz that shook' iter- to 'the
• core, rallied and held firm. Be-
fore a territory can be won,, in'
the words of Lieut 'Gen: Joseirh
Stilwell, "a manmusty be sent to
stand on ' it." But the battering
bombers have been giving german.:
war ' plan•te, communication can -
__ter* .ancl._,sulsmarinesbases--can .dis
rapt production • and. soften de-
- fences=against-the-'day -of invasion
Last week Captain Harold. Bal- •
four, Par•,liarnentary Under-Secre-
tams for per in Britain, `called •
the bombings ."the opening ,bars
• which• will rise- to the crescendo
of the mareli on Europe."
Arc of Combat. ;
Those; opening bars • were being
' !played .across.. a vast keyboard..
Great • •four• -engined Lancasteiis, •
Starlings and Halifaxes .slave roar
' ed each night across the arc' who
radi.irs extend's , :600 b i:les.-,ati
London, e.ncigsiilg the greater pa
of Germany's war 'tnd•ustries an
• •those• of the "lands the Nazis' ha
Conquered. By day American Fl
• ing Fortresses •and ' Liberator
.have smashed at targets ' Weare
home• bases.'
The nature •of the • targ to se
• acted .by the Allied H•ig1i .Come
mand seemed to set the pattern
for. things 'to `come. First of al
• the assault has bein.,directe
against the submarine, which' lis
provedone of Hitler's most effec
Live ' weepon.s. Sin ;e the ,first of
the year Wilhelmshaven, the marl-
tinhe center whose• .shipyards..,are.
•producing- U-boats, has been bit
hard three times and medieval
Nuremberg, the.._holy� place of the
Nazi party and :Homes • of. Dieser
engine 'plants, once. Lorient, chief
operating baser -for. submarines on
Franee''s. western coast, has been
bombed ten times white• BreSti and._
St. Nazaire' have been • hit • twice
each.
Factory :Centers • Hit •
•Weer- plants aiicI ^i acyl and- road
ne'twgr+ks have also been battered.
Cologne has 'been raided • four
times this year, and • 113' .times
since, they. skart of %the war; Hamm,'
a great rail 'center in Germany,
has been bard 'hit. Essen,' hone
of the' rup;p armameal'ts 'works;
has been attacked. :heavily. Hen-
get., .in the. Netherlands, where.'
factories are ,turning out war aha-.
oriels for the Germans; has been'
plastered 'with bombs. •
• Berlin. A Target .
•
Last week. a' fourth' in• the bur.
J
'ent series • of attacks bit Berlin.
- was . as "thunderbolt" raid, a
short sharp attack in. which the
ull; loads of the attacking planes
were, poured upon the. city in half
n hour. According to Gertnan're-
orts many fearsome four • and
we -ton • block -busters... perhaps
wined at the near -by Potsdam
ailroad, station, fells along Ber-
n's. Untie-. den Linden, the wide
nd` famous avenue that is fltnk-
d by palatial public buildings,
tourist�And shipping offices, motor-
ar showrocsni and jewelers'
hoes. In the raid• leered airmen
romped more 'than 900 tons • of
.rot's, ttt'i e .the liighte9t, amount
he Luftwa e.is estiniated to have'
rapped during'lin all-night raid on.
r1'tain,
in one -twenty-fotu••liour peri
f the "round.. the clock" bombing
ore than 2,000 •operations flights
ere coanple•ted by.. British pilots,
iglits totaling 150,000.000 miles,
these operiitions there .were
Wer p]anes...rh.an-•a ea-r-agfr~-sirit---
ey pearled more boiiilis. •
The• 'German Defenses;4
T1heClermails 1 ave 1
mat.t'hese' attacks, They 'have
rtfilir'craft guns that. rea.eh with
markable aceuracy the 20,000 to
,000 feet altitude froth •which
-stash night bombers make 'their
ns over, targets, .and even 'the
,000 to 35,000 -feet 'from which
merlcan daytime fliers drop their
mbs.German fighter planes,
atrefoils because `cif tl _i1 ?snsi-pe,..
:."„ .�.�•��...v-.-lrvfre%p'ers,::`1Y�'t�i 'die'
aleing.::%ianes.- as-•-Mal.Mal
eir way- to . and from the targets.
There are losses,- The heavy oya
a .tions of •February are edtim-
ed to have cost the Allies 171
ands, twenty of them' Ameriean.
ey , are losses that inust be paid
weakening • Nazi defenses for
e invasion to •conic. But tliey
small• when .conr.pared With the
.61! -growing . reservoir • of 'Allied
strength.
The -exact sive of tin; Allied (dr
forces is a military secret, but
from public statements made. by .'
various officials .some. tints. .can
be gleaned, America eacpects to
have an air force of 2,450,000 men
Farmed with at least- 21,000 planer.
by the end ; of 10'43. American
plane prooduction, agcordiug to. a
report'•last week from Under Sec-
retary .of ' Wa,r Robert Patterson,
• hit • 5•,500 in February, a rate that
Mneans. 66,OQ0 planep ` of all types,
and 42,900 combat 'planes, a year.
These figures may be conserv-
ative, since British , sources have
estimated tthat • America will' pro-
duce. 100,000 planes in 1943 ands
•Britain 35,000. .
• Axis Production
A.gains.t.. this -the Axis, is estltn: �_
aced to have some 20,000 planes •
altogether, of which from 4k000.•,to ...
7,500' are German Combat planes.
• The combined r
odu'ction
P of all.
the Axis nations. ie' estimated at
••2,200 ,a month, This'.figure is ex-
' peeted to slump by June or !earlier
because Gelr•many is taking more
and more men from her factories
for service on the front lines.
Where Is The • Luftwaffe?
Is the Nazl sir. , �.rce-_. s
.fo holt ,of
till car• gas?. asks ,The Providence
• Journal,' • Is. 'It no ' longer- .capable • -
of, putting up a .strong fight? HaS
it, been • forced to scatter ' its
strength, and, thus weaken 'itself,
beoau�se the .•United Nations:are..
now :in a position to lilt at Hitler
• from nerry ,all points, on. the corn-
, pass at the same time? Or can: .
the my0ter of•" ifs recent aapar.,
ent weakness be best explained
by the theory that it has been go-
ing through a period' of reargani-
za�tion .and re-equipping •and that .
se it. 'Ma merely oro:_._ t 3 ,ga;theri.u,g . fresh ,
rt strerrgttr' a5 tiering says,' in order',
to -deliver sur'pri'se, blows at "the •
.d.. eight- ' hour"? But how long can
hay they wait for that hour to come
There 'Caine a Moment in the 'Luft-
waffe•'s blitz:on •Britain when wets
r infori.ned sources Bad good reason
'to believe that the British would
l- collapse if the blitz" continued. only
' , a week or so longer* than' it did..
1 How. long ean`the. Reich stand be-
ing blitzed? What will happen to
d German morale and production .and
a communications' and over-all
= sty to fight if the Allied raids show.
no le'tu'p; but instead ' mount in
severity' day after day,'. night after
night, week after week, for a.m:uch
more protracted period than , the
period of the Lwftwaffe's effort. to •'
grind • England• into. !rubble? •
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SCOUTING
Proof•that Scouts do not cease ,
to• be Scouts when they, join. the
armed forces is seen. by the' num-
ber'wlro • Continue to assist in • op .
erating Boy Scout Troops where •
they'are stationed, and who form.
Rover ,Scout Crews • on their sta- •
- tions. The latest to be' reported
conies from Cairo, Egypt, where •
former Scouts serving there' have
formed .a Rover •Scout . Crew.
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One of the• .most noticeable re
'salts of the recent Natior,al Boy
Scout Week • was increased
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Sanctuary For Jews 30
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,Great , Britain has . completed bo
negotiations with the Bulgarian + o
aa+iris' - a t tetaFl�t�.t, ...r.:1•�seras .lna*•.slMsa ..a..z :°'�'. ala..?4 rias a... •r-•+tt
rhrhhrrr'rrml•-500 ad II f.o lmt'v'e' _,,,ys,tia
1 that couf?try:and 'go, to Palestine, • th
'says Viscount .tialifax, British
anibassador to the "United States. • t er
' The: Britis}..ambassador descr•i'b- - at
ed this action- of his government - pl'
na,a"'"first step;' and' added that 'Th
Britain' "has also tundea•tiken . to in
receive 'in Palestine, if the beteg,. th
sary arrangements • can he made, are
up. to 29,000 Jewish children with e.
-":"1 a prcipartion of adults by March • hit
3t, 1941.
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b.eiship in many. sections. In Ot-
tawa: one 'Cubmaster was amazed
:to find 22 ,recruits ' waiting to •
join -up', when he 'arrived' at his
Scout :Week. meeting,.
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The 6th London Pack of Wolf •'
Cubs, talkie has an enviable: reel;
erd .-of war service does not do
things in a ha.phatard way! Tiie'
group•.11as already anit'ounced its
,plans for 19.43'•war:ser'vice,.. Which •
iriClades donations to• be• made to
Russian Relief, Red. Cross, ,Queen's
Fund, Comniun'ity, Che�at Fund and
'Chins Up. Fund for l3Htirh Scouts. -
Last fear the 'Pack salvaged 23
tons" of wastelta.per', and' . gave'
$111.40 to various, war charities.
Another. British Roy- Scout was
recently awarded the British- Em-
pire• .Medal, •3He is Scout John •
David Gris,, aged.%. Scout Crix,
:dor two nights' during the heavy
air raid's on Norwich. rode his
, bicycle through the 'heavy bonib-,
ing: to carry out his • civil defence
duties, an€3. alsci directed fir�etnen,
their troop;;,, Introducing, •'many
and rescue nettles `thCtZliihe._.
devastated parts ,'of the city,
- • H•ITCH.HIKER OF THE FUTURE
Getting- aboard a Sikorsky 'helicopter is' an easy .matter for -a•
hitch -hiker or a tardy passenger who missed the' take -off. In this •
ademon'stration of the windmill__plane, wh-ieh--eur-re'nfl *-has-been• ere •el -•
oped for .the U.•:,S. Army; the • pilot ,dropped a rope ladder and caused .
the _craft _to hov!er,..nio_tiozrlees, another- n'i i elirobed u:p:
Scouting is playing an import-
ant part in cementing .friendship
between the people of Iceland and
the' American. and "British soldiers
and airinen stationed .there: Amer-
ican Scouts are assisting Icelandic
Scoutmasters in the operation of
novel American 'ideas which are
received with • enthus•
iasm by . the
Iceland • Scouts, .
Sweden, ane of thee, few re-
maining European codntrit` ,not
udder the Nazi heel is also pros-
pering in the field of Scouting. In
the past: three 'years, the number,
of Boy. Scouts in the country,haa
increased from 2 8,0 00 to 35,040,
"or '25 per cent' ' •
V O 1' `C E
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PRESS
.HARD TQ UNDERSTAND
It's • difficult to understand the
attitude of mind of parents wlio
refuse to sign consent. forms for
their children to ,undergo physi-
cal examinations; particularly tu-
ber-eu3osis tests, in the health pro"
gram that" is.reing inaugurated
jointly, by tihe Board' of Educe-
- and the Board of • Health.
Such an • attitude 'suggests that
.possibly those'. parents, are., more°
:urgently in need of examinations
than their offspring mental ex-
aminations: ' • .
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-St. Tihomas Tines -Journal
4PPLE QUESTION .' . ,
ean"'yaxr "re err b nitoOt so long
age when people were•coaxed to
help out the • apppe- -industry of
Canada by purchasing' and eating
-apples? Where ` are the_ good
apples• today at a reasonable price
• for the .household? '' Oranges
brought all the way from Cali-
fornia mare in Winch more popular
. demand than the Qanadian apple.
Even the Canadianl black walnut
has gone into the" luxury. class at
7,0 cents..fox..a._six_ uart_basket. --
-St.. Catharines Standard .
NOT' SO BATTY
'Speaking in St. Thonmas, Dr. 1 L
B. lditchcock of• Western. Univer-
sity; said bats' could fly with their.
eYes blindfolded 'and not strike
objects,; and that:they also had a
keen, homing instinct like.,the
pigeon. ' Maybe bats are not so
batty after .all:
—St. The rias• T'irnes-Journal
FOOTWEAR MYSTERY
School pupils in a Chicago- aube
urb are ,Operating a shoe exo
change, to which ,rents• may
bring shoes which their children
have outgrown but iiot' worn on*
and` receive.' larges pnes in ,trade.
Theoretically, it is a" fine'• idea;
but parents' around here •woiil
like to: know how even the fastest
growing youngster •manages . to
have a scrap of soles and toes.lisfi
liy,the time he gets too big for
his shoes..
—Windsor • ;Stat
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HELPING••HITLER •
Steel workers are back et' weeI/ - •
but minus the, waSes they .have
lost and the men in the armed
forces will also miss the 4;000.
tons of steel' which would have ` '-
been made each day .the 'strike
was in progress. •
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--Niagara Falls' Revie*
TWA 'OR THREE 'PERHAPS
- "Every U.S. soldier 'sent". .vet
gets' a book on how to. get' along
with the English," A man named
McTavish sent this •in, with the
remark, that "they should gie a
medals" as well to ' the mon wha
can learn „that. cot o''one'book.!'.
' =-Ottawa Citizen
- . .. o ' Territories n
"It would' .be' h nonsense :T
ignorant, dangerous nonsense —
to talk :about grants of full'gov-
erninent to .hnany of the depen-
dent territories' for some time to
come. In these instances it would
be like.giving a;child"of ten a.
latchkey, a, bank ,account and.. ,u
,shotgu• " -- Hebert Morrison,
British 'Home Secretary..
NDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL
. DIIESS 04171E
I'MOTOR cars become tanks. Luxury liners become troop V
transports. And ALCOHOL becomes a' vital • v a war .necessity.
Narrow indeed 'is the gap between the pleasurable things
of peace and the fighting tools of war.
Muted with. the gasoline of�fighting aircraft, INDUSTRIAL
ALCOHOL keeps'em flying. In the radiators '
• of army trucks; ALCOHOL\keeps'em roll'in.-
Urlited with .guncotton, ALCOHOL 'helps to •
provide stabilized explosives. for our'shells..
And in our hospitals this same versatile
product brings 'comfort^ ' and peace to
wounded men
-ALCOHOL' has gone to wai,: and to provide
it in the, fabulous quantities needed, the full
resources of our mighty plants have been •
mobilized for'•the duration.. Until; peace is.
won, war is our principal business. ,
HIRAM WALKER & SONS
LIMITED
• SERVING THE
UNITED NATIONS
WITH WAR ALCOHOL
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1s THAT Scum \OA!ftE.
'THROWING ouT ,?
"Who's. right?"
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