The Lucknow Sentinel, 1941-09-25, Page 3•
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Germans Plant
Acoustic Mires
Churchill Reveals' New Mine
Menace Overcome bygScience
and Hard Work
• The British Government kept
secret for more than a year '.its
knowledge that • G•erman planes
were playing acoustic mines in the
waters around'Britain, to prevent
the Nazis from knowing -the Royal
,Navy had found an effective ans-
wer. .
Prime •Minister 'Churchill broke
the secret :when he told' the House
,of Commons the mine problem had
been "largely mastered." . He 'said
that mines, "with oil . tli.eir, ingen-
ious• variations," ,wase- being ..laid
nightly in . British :waters b,y: 3Q t9
40. . Nazi planes. °
The. acoustic : mikes are saki to
be touched •off by sound • waves
from the :propellers ;.of passing..
ships, ,but ,exactly how they • have
been. toaster is a. secret:
..A.hint-of how-ef-feetiwe•-the-ne
.mines• were at first was given in
an article by .the naval corres-
pondent of 'the Daily Herald,
He_ deo-bared- thre guetic mine •
had.• been mastered but' said that '
"every day 'of •.the week ships were
blowing up from , no apparent
cause around our coasts."
Stating that scientists had de-
cided the 'explosions must have
been caused by an acoustic mime;,
the col respondent wrote:
"Ordinary.• .'sweeping methods
were useless apd hopeless, 'so dare-
:dovil5" of" th'e"N'aitT' VoTunteei ed'"tia
combat it. They ,well knew 'they :
Might die in the. process, ` • , .
'rhe..y vier the pioneers -There
wasno shortage of :volunteers:ail
the days we it by. Later, by fur-.
ther• tests, • scientists discovered
. then.titl-ste:'o-
Hirohito Takes Over Jap,
Army
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In a drastic move to surmount
the crisis facing. Japan, Emperor
Hirohito, ' above, took' '•command
of the army, his direct rule super-
seding previous General Staff
control '
.
Scotch Thrift -
Scores Again
Factory , Dust, Helps Solve
Serious Shortage in Nickel
Fifty thousand pounds of factory
dust saved by a Scotchinan has
helped solve a serious shortage in.
nicker,,!' vital 'essential of ,the de-
fence program,
Enough Bickel has beets recover-
ed from the 'dust to supply 20 -per-
...emit of...tile need s'at.the .Gee .eral
Electric plant in West Lynn, Masd.,
.for the manufacture of tiny" mag-
nets in -electrical meters in air-.
planes and other instruments. .
• These .inagnet.s are the smallest
and most itowei'ful in the world.
When°the Magnets are• ground,
the grindings form a black, sboty-
looking dust,, partly grinditig. ma-
terial, partly nickel and other met-.
abs. It is swept out and • pdifred
into barrels.
It has been going to the scrap
,pile; in charge...of Charley Stevens.
Believing the metal In this dust
ought to firing a price from. some
sprap• dealer, Stevens hoarded the
• soot, until he had 50,000 pounds
• piled aft, but. no customers, '
A few months ago, Jack Sinver,
a metallurgist of the General Elec.
ti'ic Company, decided he' could
recover the nickel in the dust.
Ills chef, 'Jimmy .Goss, obtained
itn a.ppropiiation of stoop to com-
plete the experiments. They work-
ed, and the dust was 'used as a
snooty for an important `fraction.
of the precious nickel. Now, in-
stead.of going to the scrap, all the
'picket. dust goes„ to the foundry.
THE DECLINE OF WALKING
In Exigland, as in .Ireland and
Scotland; walking is a tradition,
has not been, checked by the
motor car. People think nothing
of walking twenty or thirty miles
a day The 'late Lord Tweedsmuir -
once" told us that he had walked
75 miles in a single .day; a feat
which., almost incredible to. Cana- ..
diens, was by no .means extraor-
dinary for the Old Country. in
his "Prophets, Priests and Kings,"
• Mr. A. G. Gardiner -told how the
late Lord .Greyhad once walked'.
25 miles in a driving rain_. across
the moor to cover a bird's nest
,fr fl- the, 'Acorn., ' Andthen, of
course, .there are thesetales of '
-thedelights of Walking by writ-
ers like Hilaire Peiloc.
All 'of 'us might be better ifthe
habit of walking- should •• come
back `to us; better in healfh and
strength, and better in our 'souls
because of more love and know-
1.edge._of _ the.beai ties_ of -the- coup=_
tryside, True, many of. 'us '.sub
stitute golf for walking—but who
ever. heard .of a golfer stopping
on the fairways to admire..a tree''
Or a bird; or seeing_ anything of
the good earth but his bad lies,?
Ottawa Journal.
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a NOT, PUSHOVERS '
The secretary of state for Scot-
Aa'iid . ,h ..:.�tl��—that,,-.� r. •
as- l3 tam s.-,.:
g l
school' bool4s be purged' of refer-
ences which belittle .Britain's al-
lies. We might also " stop belitt-
ling the -enemy.. The, enemy, is
tough, shrewd, unscrupulous, well ,
equipped, determined and capable.
The -sooner 'we ' Tea:liz this --and-
set . to . work to beat just that type
of enemy' the soonerwill. we be
within sight of victory. .
All too much is heard of the
stupidity of: Nazi soldiers, of the
"inevitable" collapse of German
morale; .of-G-errnnny's iae'k of pptl,
food, rubber and clothing. It has "
been . indisputably- proven. • that
just before the Nazi 'blitzkrieg
into France" Nazi fifth columnists:
spread word among French peas-
ants that the German army was
. dying of undernourishment. And
then, carne the German army.
This enemy is no fool •
Ottawa Journal.:
PLEASANT ADVICE
: A lessen ,that .•small." boys have
been trying; to--itiipress; uipen their-.
ni e i ttikf 'a is • eu fi 2ctlisn
.-";ondon msdiea- ' i thi rity. He
tiniarns-agailist theht'aFsrt f getting
out of ';bed suddenly. in the morn-
ings. ' 'He ,advises: "Lie awake at
least five minutes before arising.
Stretch' every Blob, and a few
minutes; spent in reading is ex-'.
cellent. . ' .
Occasionally . a health speeial-
ist prescribes ' something that can
be performed with pleas
Guelph . Mercury
DRINK "HOME" STUFF
Apple and tomato juices wi11
be available in quantity: for ' Can
adians this Winter. This should
lessen the need for imported cit-
rus fruits and thus conserve ex-
change, while putting the money
into the pockets of Canadian' pro
ducers who have lost 'their over-
seas markets. '
Brantford' Expositor
• CARELESS SMOKERS
So a tossed -away cigarette end
hardly ever starts a fire, eh?
That's what you think!. A state-
ment released by the Canadian
Underwriters' Association de-,
Oakes that , the, carelessness 'of
smokerswas responsible for by
far the" gest percentage of the
46,62 fires which destroyed pro-
perty worth $22,735,264 in 1940.
—Brantford Expositor
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QUEEN GIVES TONE
Nice comment from a para-
grapher
in The New York Sun,
to the effect that Queen Eliza -
'.beth, at 41, is equalled by few
women for charm with less fix-
ing up, and every time Her Majes-
ty' appears -lin a nevus reel,' it lifts
the whole program
—St: Catharines Standard
LI1ICHPlN DEFINED
Prime Minister Churchill, with
his usual. gift of expression, has
called Canada "the linchpin of
. the English-speaking world." A
linchpin is the in passed through
the axle -end to keep the wheel on,'
aa-Vrahtford Expossiter
—o`
VOLUNTARY GIVING
0 only 'the Germahs had a
sense of humor. • They gravely
annoounce that the Winter relief
•drife will open earlier this year;
• with : "voluntary" contributions
being withheld front salaries' and
wages.
—Windsor Star
TROUBLE TALKERS'
Ii` seine people didn't have
trouble,, they'd.. have a'• hard time
•carrying on 'a conversation.
Average cost of the i' iron and
steerin.an 'autei iobile te the man-
ufacturer is 'three cents a pound.
Y+.
Seine from Newest German "Horror" Fihn Release. by British
• ,Nazi_ movie.:camelramen.. who_..taok .this•.picture '91. German.:infantrymen racing past blazing- ruins -of-
a. Soviet• town intended that the finished film,, called "War in the East'''. would be shown in the Reich •
to boost home morale. 'Instead, the film, which previews •.a Nazi "victory,."' over Russians; fell into''Brit-
' ish hands, is now being shown in' Britain as "a masterpiece. of the Nazis' glorification of brutality."
THE ,W A R WE EK—commentary on Current Events .
Roosevelt Answers Hitler's Threat
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"Whoever believes. he will be
abbe to help,.England must. defin�
itely- know; one. thing:. Every.ship,
whether with or without a convoy,
that comes before our torpedo
''tu. a wflr .e orpe.oe
"No act of violence will keep us
the. occasion of the 8th .anniversary
of the: Nazi accession to power last.
January,. •-
No act •of violence will keep us
from "maintaining intapt two but.
*arks brirefense:- First ,our line
of supply, to,•the enemies'of Hitler,
and, second, 'the freedom of our '•
shipping 'on the high' seas. From
now on, if German or Italian ves-
sels of war"eater the waters the
protection of which' is necessary
for American defense, they .do so
at, their own peril." ' .
So said President° Roosevelt on
the occasion o8 hie' last radio ad -
dress; an occasion. which had arisen
from attacks on American -ships at .
sea. •
Mier. -Roos yeltroy in h3rerapreeem.
ii kt . :,L .gzi ,4i0za tit
said -
• "Thede actsai;internatlenal lain-
lertsness are a manifestation of 'F * *
the Nazi design' to -abolish the free-
dom of the seas and to acquire ab-
solute control * *' * Ofthose seas.
* • * For with control of the' seas
* * * the way can become obviously.
clear for their next step, domina-
tion of. the United States, domina-
tion of the Western. Hemisphere by •
force' of arms:
To be ultimately successful, In
world. mastery, Hitler knows that
he * * * must first destroy the
bridge of •ships which we are build-
ing across the Atlantic, and over
which we shall continue to roll the
implements of war to help destroy
him.
Generation after .generation, Am-:
erica has battled' for the general
policy' of the freedom of ,the seas.
* * *.No nation has the right to
make the broad oceans of the
world, at great distances from the
actual theatre of land war, unsafe
far the eomrherce. of others. •
• 'There has now come a' time when
you and -I, must see ;the cold inex-
orable necessity of saying to these •
* *• * seekers 'of world Conquest
• • • 'tYou shall go no furthtir:" -
* * This is the time for• preven- '`
tion pf attack, * * * Upon our naval
andr;air--patrol * * ,*falls the duty
ofmaintaining therAinerican policy •
of freedom of the -seas—now. * * *
Ourpatrolling '• vessels and planes
w1n protect aTl 'merchant ships
not only, .American ships but ship
of any flag—engaged in commerce.
*- * * It is noact of 'war on our
part when. we decide to protect the
seas that are vital to American de-
fense. 'I he ggression is not ours.
Ours is: soley defense."`
The essential element of the,
new situation cieatetl:hy.the_,B;in_eri-
• can challenge to the axis is in the
North Atlantic: :It is through
those waters that iIritish vital life
lines to Canada 'and the United
States run. And the effect of the,
President's stere order to the navy
is to place ,those life lines.. under
Aiiierican armed protection..
Spitzbergen' Offensive
A British -'Canadian - Norweg-
Ian expedition' crept 'secretely.
araesos'nigarti eszswiese sate i+�'✓' fiti1xt, wpro
_«.',ate ittnr r Yriv&-n1T'n -in4fmrar--th r
Naas _knew_.sxlir�i _was__A#oot.. aJrr-.,;.
tarp's' immediate objective was to
deprive the Nazis of, any value -the
islands might have in strengthen-
ing Hitler's war effort. •
About 1,000 Norwegians were' re-
moved to new homes in England,
Three tinea as many Russians
were taken to•undisclosed destine-
. tions: .
Hugestocks of oil and ;coal. were
fired. Damage done by efficient
Canadian• sappers renders the' 1st
"ands
-
"ands'useless for years. They lie
depopulated in- the Arctic Ocean,
400 Mlles above Norway and 75.0
miles for the North Pole. •
Spitzbergpn meant far more to
Britons than 'a regrettable bit .of
wartime destruction. Those Who
have been 'clamoring for a British
land offensive somewhere against
Nazi -occupied Europe, :saw in Spitz-
bergen a sample of what might be
coming.
As a Norwegian possession, the
Arctic islands brought, dangers of
British, invasion -home to Nazi sen-
sibilities. ',,Berlin has been most
apprehensive"about Norway.' And
witn. reason, judging by recent out-
breaks in that country.
Russia Still Holding
Russia is still the great enigma.
AND THE BAND PLAYED Obi
1'•iow can the. Red armies be power-
ful enough to hold, the Germans. at
bay? fart of the answer may ' be
in the treinendau;"s losses. suffered;
by the .Germans. In men alone the
casualties must be• well. over. a mil- '
..]ion.,: -.in.
equipment Yan-authorata...
live estimate ,of•.forty per' cent is
given. German servicing of 'ad- •
:vanced .knits has daily become
•more dtfflcult and the meebanizeu
forces have found the Russian ter-
rain very costly in fuel' and upkeep.
the rest of the answer --may •be'that
the "encircled" Russians have •re
fused to retreat even though they
have suffered terribly -but so have:
the Ge'rman's- Their air' force, ,ad-
•.mirably handled,' has bad .telling .
striking. power. Russian .railway's
-have •done -an- amazing job,- mainly
due to the high morale of the
workers who Ignore ordinary work-
ing hours- The Germans: h"aveinade .
' two serious miscalculations;-- the
volume of R.ussia's war material
reserves and the fighting power .of
her civilian population: •
Thus far Napoleon's 'ro'ad to Mos-
cow has proved ..tae. tough' for
Hitler. ' The distance that the
French grand 'army ndgofiated in '
80 -Odd days, afoot and with horse,
'Mule andoxen transport, is twice
aa-•• vera tejaaai adds, 9-eaverredsabya -
]F,i'tYlaraa� 'otasiizedi lagra l ,--rola-r
Starts With. Gas
Goes On Kerosene.
Jimmy . Engler, .a • service sta-,
"tion •°operator in New York, has.
solved the gasoline problem so,
far as his personal consumption
of fuel is concerned.
He has ,equipped his car with
a tank for kerosene and a small
auxiliary tank for •gasoline:
' The gasoline, he • says, 'is used
only for, starting the motor. Once
started, the gasoline line is turned
off and the •car operates on kero-
sene.
He says he uses three 'gallons
of kerosene, at 7s cents a gal-
lon,' -to one gallon of'gasoline at
about 20 cents a gallon:
e .Book Shelf
MARRIAGE • iS A PRIVATE
. AFFAIR
' By Judith Kelly
It 'is interesting to read a book
about.' people who • are not too
beautiful, too good, too . clever, .
too abnormal, but who• are just
the average persons, well brought
up, well educated 'and well enough
- endowed with this world's' goods •
for normal arid gracious• living.
,Such ag;e Theo Schofield, and
Tom West in "Marriage Is a Pri-
vate Affair." This 1941 Harper
prize novel' was written by Judith
I{elly, a native of Ontario:
The story deals With the first
four- years _-of. their- married life •__.I
Deeply in love, there .is every
prospect that their lives :will be
• happp, thqugh more 'b'r less con-
ventional. Toni is endowed with.
much common . sense and, • besides
his love, has- a great respect for '
his wife. Theq tries bravely to
live 'up to his ideal of marriage '
but, emotional and youth -loving, . .
finds distraction away from home.
Failing as a wife; she realizes
that , marriage. is a system of
rights and obligations . and that
more than love is'needed to cope
• with its problems. Eventually
they reach their ftill maturity and'
understanding of each other.
This story is a fine example,
•skillfully. handled, 'at essentially
decent' people, adjusting them-
selves to sane .living. e
Marriage 1s a Private Affair .. •
.by Judith ,Kelly . . . Harper &
Brothers.' , , . Price $2.75..
Relieved to have thrived in 'the .
days of:Shakespeare, Shakespeare, a• guni tree
recently felled in looba Forest,
Australia, yieded 1132 railway
ties 'eight feet long.
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Firemen's Tests
Toughest Devised
Would -Be Members in New
York. City's Fire Department
Must Pass Severe Physical
':Test
Appointments :to the New York
Fire Department is the,. .a:mbition
of 5,400 young men who have ,un
dertakea topass qualifying exam-
inations, notes The Toronto Tele --
gram,. The physical• test -stated
by the head •of the Civil Service
Commission, to be "the toughest
ever.: vi esed,
da er- far --=are ,govei:n:ment--.
jolt, civil or. military"—wllI dispose
of at ..least' half of the aspirants.
The.- first ;test -ds- for- co-ordin-
ation;' each man 'sits' in a seat
equipped .with a steering gear and
foot ,hand brakes and iudg-
ed on. his response to signals.
flashed, an a board ahead. Then
be sifts weightswhile lying on his.
back with somedne holding his
feet. To score perfection he "must
rise .to a sitting position, bringing
a sixty-poundweight over lits head.
Perfection .in lifting dunibbel.ls. 18
with those who lift eighty -pound
weights hi .each hand. .Then the
aspirant has to: carry a dummy
weighing i70 • pounds up eight
steps.
After which ' 'he is required 'to
take a ten -foot broad jump, hurdle
a th.ree:and-a-half-foot trail, dodge
through. •barriers, climb a' ladder
ten feet high.-'alnd swing across a
ladder for•fifteen feet, ',jump or
drop trona an-�,iglit-foot wall, vault
a box four and a half feet high' and
�,.dishalfa- oiiagATdriaatirne tlkaataafosd, ,
fifteen -minute 'les com
l�evii York Men -
`Train For Raids
Managers of skyscrapers, apart-
ment houses and ]oft buildings in
New York• City have, trained 50,-
000
0,000 men in dile Tast'tliree months
to con?•b'at incendiary air ,attacks .
and bombing• raids• on. the city if
they should come. This army of
private fire , fighters and salvage
will total 200;000 men with-
in a few months, according to B. ,
H. Belknap, head 'of the manage- •
ment division •of the Real .Estate .
Hoard of New York, The. work is
being 'done, under the supervision .
--�'of-•••MayaryF`: H::L-aGua'rdia; ;C1•vlian'-
Defenee.' Director, Mr. Belknap's
statenie'nt•'was- the first .inkling
. that- New -York - or any- other -At-,
!antic• 1Seaboard city, , ' ae, prepar-
ing 'for eventualities that might
come out • of strained ,relations •with . • '
the Axis powers. • •
After 50,000 key men 'ire , fully
trained •they will instruct others
so • that the 'private • fire brigade
will total .200,&00 highly efficient
' men who -will not only knpvw •.how
to:.pnt' out 'fires,: -salvage sections, • .
-but' 'al'so' handle sabotageaiid :all'
• forms of. subversive . activity. '
• The 'fire brigade. is -being taught
the significance 'of different colors
'of smoke and how'•to• fight the fire. '
behind the smoke:, The incendiary
bomb,,' he explained, heats to • 3,4.00
degrees When the ,boinb explodes,
. throwing spark's in. every 'direction
• and 'getting ,fire •to ,.eve•i•y'thing'
• within` many yards of the: missile„,
I• •
Sound. Ethic,
a mile_
Educational requirements . In-
clude matriculation standing . in,
high, School, . " •
The 'young fireman,.. after six
months' probation service, starts
at $2,000 a' year. The department,
, with more than 10,000 'men, is on ,
the three -platoon system.
Sell Gas In Can
To, Domestic User
Gasoline -May be sold in cans or'
other containers . providing it is • .
•.for use in lamps, stoves, -washing
_machines,, or • for domestic pur- .
poses, 'Oil Controller G. R. Cot-
trelle stated recently in a wire
to a Midland washing niachine
agency. -
The agency asked for a ruling
and reported 'to the oil controller
. that gasoline station: operators
had • refused to sell gasoline in
containers under any condition,
-and that domestic consuiriers were
srwffering, • • '
"Prohibitions only apply to,
gasoline :for . use in private pas-
senger. vehicles," stated the wire.
it _ _-°, : --s,,
'iii;,. 'Q�
• Labor Minister McLarty Says
�
in war industries,
r McLarty° said re-
,
"It is toped that • parents and
• teachers will discourage 'boys and •
girls who are makipg progress &t
school. from taking jobs,'' 'said Mr.
MeLarty. '
"Our most pressing concern is,
of course, to further war produc' -
tion but we must not lose sight of
the 'problems that are bound • to •
arise after the war and among
these will be some measure of un'
' employment, due to an inevitable'
dislocation in industry, Workers
with the: least education -and the
least training are sure to be anis,
ong the first to be let out. and
the' last to be taken on."
The Minister said' that sound
education and training gave the
best foundation for permanent era- '
ployment.
'Youths Under Sixteen Not
Needed in industry
Children under 16 years of ago
are not needed
Labor.' Ministe
.ceintly. in a statement em,phasiz-
ing the importance of youngpeople • ..
continuing at school as long as
. 'possible and "as long as they cau
.profit from • such attendance."
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred Neher
(Bemused 6, C.nMI(dnted No..* ,•.voce,
"I -low many 'times must 1 tell ,ybp never to bother me when
workin'! 1 i"