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Holland PeatBog
Could Supply- Fuel
BROMPAINT SHARK TEETH ON AMERICAN PLANE • .
Canada';e' ` P Hogs Have
• Estimated Fuel Content of
113,513,000 Tons
•
Siiould;a shortage of coal become
acute he'Canada,' expe'ts say . that
resort wmild be ;ntader- to large peat
deposits in Ontario, says the, Cbels-
tian' Science. . Monist;✓. •
• Less` than 30 ;miles from, Toronto
is Dile. of the great deposits-
Dominion; ;the : Rolland, peat bog, .
' _eypaljler. of tgrning out an este
ed,. 8,000,000 tens . lin' till ;Cada
has ,107, peat, •bogs, 45 #n. Ontario,
w#th : ati' estifeefed fuel -Content arf
113,513,0011 • .tank;' Workable !1
bogs.'wlthin. I pp1S distance' 'ot.
Teronto are shimmed to :.be `of'
• some 26,500,000 tons Sapa61t9•
e ' Siace. 180, .attempts pare beei'
made • • from, • time. to time_ to de=•
*elder this ,potential source of• fuel
't Or heating and coi:4E11 but with •
little; result' to date. 'Canadian rail-
way engines used' it decades. ego,
as •;an alternative. 'fuel, and' iY' b
again Ioo/nix; '. large, on . the Indus -
'trial front, with a --possible.. short-
age: of°,transPortation facilities and
exchange difficulties between the .
' United 'States and Canada to be•
-
-.. -1 re-
ntlre
oat e y
• Feat is ••now aim .
moved by meshfilery; butt *tali.:
. Ynot be produced in winter .months.
• ,k ton of '.peat yields, 770 ,pounds
di -peat •:✓oke, an.�efficient._cl9_niestie'
fuel, and other .by-products, as
.light and ;heavy .oils, .paraffin- 'and
timet y1 .eleohel. •
BUOY QTS OIRI;
FALSE .ECONQMY .•
One .of the watehirvords of the
day. is "economy.'"
But there is false economy also
• and this is what 'we must guard
against:
Let us put our feet down on
false ,economy: "Going shabby"
by those' of us who habitually
dross welt ..and can , afford it, Is
not going to help make •more One:,
and aminunitloii: " if • •everybody
who- dresses• ).well ..begins to wear
•
out ' old ,clothes; :he" is 'helping . to
throw thousands out ,of •work; he
helping to bring suffering upon
manufacturers and • merchants,-
-uporr--factory-hands and store, ern-',
- plbyeeseethroughout the --country..-.
Don't be over -enthusiastic for.
economy.
Don't gut a -'stick in the fly;
Wheel of. legitimate, sure prosper-'
its by injudicious economy., That
is what the' Washington Post- has
tc, say about the matter:. • '
"Let's have economy.. But =let's
have .it with sanity, ''with Cool
judgment,, with a vision• -that '
shows, us clearly what the
effect
t
of this economy' will be. •
"Let's not waste products
Which are scarce-,- and. replaced.
i -h . ;i•-ficulti- . _ _-�:.,......•..
"tea' conserve our food sup-
,`ple;; 'and •grow ;more foodstuffs
than ever..bef'ore .
As thousands gape, Agnes Mil-
ler ends -ride In breeches bUoy
from • third -Veer window of plant
at Camden, , T .J.;' during deni'on-
• `stration • of ILS. Coast Guard'
equipment. '
Men Of Norway
vachigig-Britaitt
They. Steal Awey To Join
• Their Brothers In Arms
9 /
As*•
esshown above,. 'are' American Tomahawks ' .fighting for the
The planes with the terrifying noses,
British somewhere in Africa. A British artist' -pain ted on the oshark's head. -
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Japan's 's Attitude Less Peaceful
•
'IUnited States LooksLooksFor Trouble
Interest, apart from Russia's mag between Japanese •requnements, of
nifieent defense of ,14loscow, is liow the materials
SoutheandPacthficeir
ts sources ed in'
'centred on the political upheaval in
Japan and the..attack on the United: " British fleet. .
•States destroyer Kearny ' by a Ger- If. , the • American ,Pacific fleet
man submarine. .
Geeman",y s °'ad•yairg'-bat"""1Vlt sauv -^
has no doubt called forth warlike
developments
developments in Japa_n. .Prince
Konoye and his more ' or less
peace -wishing cabinet have resign-:
ed. the warrior, General Eikl:Tojo
and a predominately militarist
cabinet, are now in' power, •The
first public announcemept of the
new premier stated that .the Jap-
aneseare facing a crucial: ,hour
and 'that they must be 'prepared
to. sacrifice everthing in order to.
sirxrgttrxnt ar ;Els•. ailed to> "iron.
° .
`= fenid
0 •
Washingtonanhington was still trampered-
in its effort , to' . get the ,promised
cargoes • to' `the •.British. The Neut-
rality Act prevented' American mer-
chan'tnlent from • sailing into "com-
bat zones" and touching at' ,ports'
of the fighting nations. The act
• *ere-• added-toethat naval gyral pa-__ ,
alo= proYt3lilted -the _ strains of
•4.•ween- 3eapan andel ridensextal Wean-:,. .:--�rmaeleaaee.a.r eeee stet a 1. a
,making ' resources, the 'Japanese , di
Nay.y,. 'whatever its "itch" for war;. ,
•would l find • a ,:fearful barrier. .!'It
•
might.. be not necessary at first •to •
•do march more than join our.. fleet
• to America's on those seas, even
if •Japan ` should•' strike northward
at Siberia in. order to assure that
the Japanese would' soon ,run ,out
of:,. materiatlf. With.. American•' oil
and .other.. exports , also barred„
Japan would be .placed in the di-
lemroar sit]sere.of,--expandi,a<g ,;arab mid
a dz«f3'taiy`'" valthoiiti 'long:term •
fI ;✓harts iltrxraadb
-eneireiement-of Japt'n bYelorei
powers."• It is threatening ' Lang-.
nage and Maltese the situation om-
inous:" '
• • . On the Fence '
.. Prince, Konoye . personally inter -
even ed ''a''ith- President. Roosevelt td
. obtain some; •relaxation of the eco-
, " , ✓rtewhieihere--Lm-
posed, on Japan, a few Months ago.
•There','appeared •to be, however,
. no inclination on the part of Japan
• to give ,up• any part of her "ex-
pansionist program. • • '
It is 'stated in Tokyo that• the
new government will' continue the
negotiations with Washington. At
the sine •time, General ;Toje said
frankly that Japan maintains and'.
Will develope• her membership in,
the`Axis group. Has Japan at last
alip.pad off the fence and joined our
,' enemies in 'all but the last step
'toward War? •
". It is possible- that Hitler is push-
ing • Japan -into a " ';Dating" war •
With the United States . to divert
American naval strength front the
Atlantic to the Pacific .
Where Will Japan 'S'trike? "
What will happen in the named -
late Tutvre' is unpredictable: ' A
Japanese 'attack on 'Siberia, espee
'ally if the Russians are unable to
hold a defensive line' at the Euror.
peau .u'it'3",•.of -the " T;ratis idterlan
Railroad, will make Alaska and
the North Pacific as exposed 'an
area as he the North Atlantic. 'the
danger aright 'perhaps. he greater
• because the .Japanese. Navy , le
much stronger than the. German
Navy..
A Japanese attack "in' the lout
by way of Indo-Chitia and•Thailand,
in„,order. to isoiate China and• sur-
round Singapore, would. he serially
'serious. .Japanese ocet•pation of
Singapore would make simple the
occupation of the tiethr:rlatlds East
Inrll , wenlfi• surround the Philip•
pines and • cut oft' Gmat Britain
from the southern dominions' and
the ea$tern halt of the Empire.
It would also sever America from
ths, setarre• of Iridiwtiensahle ;sup
plies. it the Japan' -sr • get posses•
stow of Singapore the way' is Doan
to the Indian Wean, the Red Sea,
the. IV relit errfnatt and 'the Atlan-
tic., win-tr'the (German, Italian and
• Japa Mrs•• beith1- to ae�
together..
Japanese bilemma
It was receritly detinitelY re- •
corded by the British ;Marne Office
that. -clueing. the presen.l'.Sum,mer'
mere.than Iti;rJIJq NorWegia.ns 'tf
military age had reached Britain
•in varioes ways, from Scandinavia,
"and that a: many mor.-:,' had come
from other parts of the • World,
prinr•i;,:>,1v front tits United 5tatel,.
A party of twenty recently •ar•
river! 'in• ti 2Z.fr,ot` motor boat. fly-
ing the Nerwr'glan ila'g. • It tock
them 'fedi; 'd•,ys to navigate the:
, 44n -iniac tri;, from 11.0 peninsula.
A 4*1critrri :'irwegi{ars squadron
'of the It. At. 1' was recently 'form-
ed 'mucin; . principally IllenliPirn '
. botnbart- .and Ifurr:Parrr fighters;.
Tate' air erl,r•rt of 'i'nto Timr's of
t; 'Yr) ahu-:
9'ltis 1!: the 11.:1 'V,,I'K'c•gIaTI
righte, :•1'1a•tr"n fly! other.spr,ad•'•
rr>n ,+r!us ;,,,rt of l'oe sl it flotrrrnand
anti r.rlui:,.Prl nwith itrn •titan-I,diit
1;:rrtrti',;,'1'in:,t-planr•a, which ate' it Jap:rn to t, position to risk ini
•rr;,itnr•rl to or. tiW fai•r,i airy:raft1 ,r ' urians watt'
•f 4t, f;`tr it ty;,' 111 the 1,q Ir1:i. i in addition t., Pip rd tinages which
^
•'• er• r /, ri�ara•r •cru tdrr it e -vert I Ir;�y.r• br•r-n torr,' gilt by. four years•
bar; •a :o i :m V4'. ' . A. 1•'. 'l'he ' rtf f i,rJ. Chine:,e w tr•, hY the float),
pilot:: % re ata• e•!rr r:it ffiPrs rh,1 condition r,f :arta nod by the
and w,r it , tthr"r. in tiir: ,Norwr4;:ian • r.n,,t,.t.;rphie:al. position which places
Alt Fol.".nr -"I'• • comirrc;rela, 1 it t.liii;'lands of mt.lot from -its Axis
befu. 1• r(1r'srnuntry ,4a,i•In• 'i alIlet, Japan nii•st imi,ort most of
• vadetd, '1 hl rnnirtuniiut; ottir•er is i
Hip r• s"uritis of, war -Making.
s Nory:, f• •u1 Alt 1°,p••ee or, I se tewhr, ' ele.rint.the. 1r•thyrinnds intltes•and
r.rra»ert tits thy; Ins,t;to;t the 1'11i1r:dl .Fit tr•s must, be haough'►
I ,
the (,it Shat opo rarer tht Army, the
,The 1oes i,:rthda;' of the tissue-' 7 Novy tat", Air Force, and the fists ,
l;rrl' i n'o'r pact • ,, a observed in tnk !feet. which provides much ot.
American and British fleets, in the -
.
far Pacific.
This ,is and alwa.y, s has been the
• breadest base on which ,is 'faunded
the hope that Japan will never go
•beyond the 'bluffing stage'and• nev-
er, j.ottirmany in...the two -ocean''
squeeze $!ay whcih represents the .
hief 'danger to peace in the Pae
cific. Those who do not find it a
satisfactory base, . however, have .'.
. those. arguments.:_ -
The Japanese , claim to have a
. one-year •. suppiY ('though much is
low -test). ,of gasoline and fuel oil.
Their , navy is excellent arid"- has
•
confidence that Germanynand Italy
can .prevent a British -American
Concentration or' strength suffi-
cient to .hold th,far Pacific, • The
army is •arrogant and powerful in
government; the Japanese people.
are desperate for the' fruits of ex-
pansion and 'fatalistic. A sudden ,
• campaign ' of interference with
American shine carrying supplies.
throegh the Pacific to Russia may
force the United 'States to attack
'instead of merely blocking .access'
to the' south. • a'
U..S. Destroyer Attacked
aesAsfew. hours after the attack on
the Kearny' was announced, the
United States House .01 Itepresen-
tatives gave overwhelming approv-.
al. to'the ••rnoentti'i 'of genie on ves-
sels -of the 'merchant marine. Ten
• American ,seamen are missing and
• teri others wounded as a.result of
• the attack 4n the Kearny. Those
are the first casualties in the
American armed forces, resulting
from Cerrhien action.
--Some time -ago Washington. ex-
panded the naval patrol of the At-
lantic' to Iceland's. waters, spotting
Nazi raiders and tircradcasting their
location to the British fleet. The
Nazi U•hoat commanders kept TTit-
ler's proriiise that every' ship that
comes before our torpedo tubes
will be.torpedoed." British Tosses
at sea continued grave and 'Vain-.
able leaso-lend • Cargoes rester' on..
the .-Atlantic floor: German toree•
does also. 'sank, Amrrtcan-ovened -
merchanimen. On Sr;pt•ernbr=r• 40 •
a t.' -boat in Icelandic waters, fired
dent called upon Congress imme -
ately to repeat the armed=ship ban
and later to consider allowing Am-
erica'', rnerchaflt :ships to carry •sup-
pies, directyl to ' beligerent harbors.
U. S. Peace Impossible
Wendell Winkle bolstered Presi-
drrnt. Rooseyelt's- .'all-out stand
against the Berlin•lfpme-Tokyo pact
by. saying: "Letus stop ' deluding
ourselves. Berlin, Rome and Tokyo
...ane„ isietrocably _ lif,ke lag tha day-
t+1•-cen ..uest..
-geraus--tlrea'rix . of wo
Til a imc ie l
•
am?". ...The attendant 'With one
sweeping -glance -at th'P car asked:
"And what .,in equally hot blazes,
do you :think you're driving,: a
Bren gun carrier?"
-tter..
Galt, Rep-
o
o—
OVER THE: TELEPHONE
• This story •ie told of a promin-
ent and busy man, ,who was send
:ing a telegramover the telephone.'
He had great 'difficulty- in- mak-'
' ing the operator understand the
' letter "S" which she interpreted
as "F." Finally she said, "F" as
iu Fred?" "No,", roared the, ex..-
: es iiia ti, " as x
_...asperated ..busln_...�... __
in stupid.": She got itl..
—The Argenaut.
"Let's pronounce• that man a
traitor who
hogs and
hoards
su
-'
plies, • Hoarding
suPP,
'e has
,
in
some instances,' already increases
the high cost of living. .�
"Industrial happiness and• suc-
cess depends upon the free circu-
lation of money, not the hoarding
of it.
is. -not the time_to put on
"sackelatireand- : ashes
-.'_'"w^",'`$"t-'-i'e nettnre--to-t7hrow--out:-,our;,.,.
chests, our' heads; up, and ,work
valiantly, with our faces to the
front, , in a grand cause."
' •
This- is common sense. In . the
hist . analysis true economy, the
kind, that will really niake us a•
frugal: and thrifty people, better ,
able to meet. any eitaation that'
may confront us, Js the, far -see -
nig kind. .In brief, the economy
we need, is simply ^the ,'common
sense . to- distinguish. between. `es
sentials and non -essentials...'
"1�4 :. »carr
erC
:ca++
-. NO BEAUTY '
"Take another • good look : at
Hitler's picture. 'It' is the „lace
that • vl iXl 'have' launched.. 1,41)
i American : merchant ships 'by the
end . of 1943." " An,d it doesn't
'look • much ,like Helen ' of • Troy,
either. '
—The Sault Stay
•
feAL-W-AY-S-ON�A. P1GN.IG
- c cad's,- lerstand.-hoW th'e'
ant' ac2tuired such a reputation
for being' industrious. Nearly all
we ever saw were on a picnic.
e -Kitchener Record.
USELESS TEST
: 'Imagine testing Hitler tut with -
a lie detector: Youknow which
would choke first. -
-Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph.
rang _. ntario s
Natural
Resources
• No. 61 '
THE EIDER DUCK ,
Continuing the discussion of
the.dg
;vin 'ducksfeel• ,that one
,
1
gioup of this family: should , be
given 'special consideration; even
.though -they • 'are known ,in the
greater part of Ontario only 'frons: ' ' .
- xs'olat'e'cl••-s eermens.-- Aroun(L a:
• Hudson Bay, in Labrador :and oft. ,•
the Arctic islands, the- eider ducks
• are well . known and' familiar crew •
tures.. Over most of Canada they
•are used for •food' only but in
other ,parts of the ,•world. -the. wild ..
eiders
ore. carefully. protected for. ___
they produce . the eiderdown.. of • '
• •commerce. • •
..I have read descriptions of .the .
eiderdown industry, in Iceland .and
•.'have: talked with Dr.. Harrison F.
Lewis of " the National ,"Park
Branch; who is "eride'avourirrg--•to
f'oste'r"'-"'e'iderd`own- trad•e...alang,.:.:-,._.-
the' north St.• Laf ence, shore.' • I:
have • no • figures •at hand' .but I
under'stand that considerable pro-
gress is 'being. made' in the edu-
cation' of • the' natives to ,the value
, of the birds as a sourc...'of •down.
. Like ' Many.,other ducks, the
eiders • pluck the soft' feathers •
from their breasts to make a .coves,
eying for their .eggs when,,they
leave ahem briefly. ....This soft -
c„•rrrv��=tom
�urnei-ur�enuuaa
W1HY;..T.L3E5f EAII _ ta>lxt
""Some ' fal'ks wonder.-wilytheme-c-,.lila.a-kairjfa14;. .: P
. 1• . the ' e.•
debris, such.as straws or grass
..�,, >9ta>,�,�t�; .... _ ;. � ... . - ,. •� , .r'>sr+�
om-inatien • e li-bsrty, t a. PtJ:d Ot• :
democracy.' • '
Wirth, typic'•trealiema, 1VIr-Willkie.
declared thea: Ske -U JS.' "must aban-
don the hope of p .ice." His" rea-
sons are undeniable. "We Ameri-
cane,can ne„more negotiate a peace
.with the war lords cif Tokyo than
-with'
the-conque in,g_s1ietat.o�f oY
Berlin. On any continent, in every
ocean, we meat help to step these
partners in piracy. They are win-
ning now. Unless we ads scion, it
will be too'late, warned. the Re-
publican "leader:
And Mr. Wilikie ' added his pow-
erful'plea' to that of most - other
great Americans when' he called
• for the ending of "the show and
deception of hypocritical neutral•
ity laws." Isolation is . dead. The
United States is in the war.. The
hope for an impossible peace is all
but abandoned—and none too soon.
pntliusdtt<•ni , • ' rvfi•tapan.. From the Untied
rats,r,ri- wrthorat � The { thi-i fowl
•. t:f sin ri,iv..it,t.r•ri hil" for preteeet'r'd tHilitary action. And .-
litti t,rat ; :s = al? the eolt•niarke mates r,t.he r materiaia are needed
11
V....-..+re....nxuvu�F.uY,xiNuta.:LLw,lO
•
Deaths • On Road
Exceed War TOO
IS
Por every person killed in
Britain by, enemy action since the
'Oar began, two,, have lost their
laves in highway accidents, says
•.Colonel John J. Llewellin, joint
parliamentary secretary to the
Ministry of. War 'Transport. -In
the second year of the conflict
10,073 fatalities were reported.
In 1939-40 the figure was 8,35?.
The peace time average was 6,500 '
deaths annually.
The government, anxious over
this trend,•opened a campaign for
safety and' caution throughout the
United •Kingdom. • Of the 18,000.
highway deaths'since the start of
the war, , 10,0' 0 persons killed',
were pedestriars, one-fifth of
them children; 2,400 were motor
cyclists, 2,800 bicyclists and the,
rest per sons in tsars
Canada's production of pig 'iron,-
in the first half of 1941 amount-
ed to : 62500 tons 'as . against
5.50,000 tons in the first six
months of 1940.
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..; dttillB51
We've become accustomed
the coanmon nicknarne this war
has. produced. Everyone knows
that ant airman calls his life belt
his Mae West, :that an evacuated
citlid is a "vaekie” and •a. lame
duck is a : damaged plane.; But
some -less -familiar eyes are asp
sembled by The Saturday Review
of Literature (thereby • giving
them a dignified place in current
usage that strike our ,fancy.
To be "completely cheesed,"
for example, is to, be fed up with
it all. A ".sewing kit" is a house-
wife; "cuckoos laying their eggs"
are German dive bombers; a
"Paul Pry's is a searchlight, "hay
burners" are' , cavalry, "fat
friends" are balloons, also "fly-',
'Mg' elephants." +; '
Tile power turr t of a plane is.
a "flower pot," a beer saloon is
a "gas '-house," and 'a portable
radio, is as "walkie-talkie."
If it does no !Other 'good, this
war will brighten our language.
Thought el a man excusing him-
'self from a bridge :game by say-
ing he's completely cheesed, opens
up all 'kinds of possibilities.
—Ottawa .Journal.
QUICK COMEBACK
Many ' odd . little incidents have
been occurring these past weeks
at service stations. In fact the
dealers' themselves -could be hav-
ing a lot of fun were it not such '
an expensivepastime discourag-
ing' 'customers. A choke anec-
Vete came to light the other day ...
at a local garage where a uni-
formed army oifi::er_ drove up in.
a private, oovtausly civilian auto-
mobile and. smilingly asked for a
tankful. "Sorry,". eatne the how
familiar answer, "but we can only.
let you' have three gallons. We
have to conserve our gas supply
for the awned forces." That was
a bit irksome to the uniformed'
gentleman Who snapped out in
best '.parade ground manner:
"What in blazes do you fhitik I
--tvyrttt na, . zr-tate
—tlttsoyys
GAMBOL. O1ti.GAMBLE
Lifell is either a gambol or a
gamble, , ,depending on the way
you Play it, ••
—Kitchener Record.
itizen
•
wLine Up Sunda
More'' than 300,004 hive - en-
rolled in a voluntary movement
in northwest England of people
prepared to give up their Sundays,
and go 'anywhere to help after an
air raid. • .
Price. a remare"eider- ay-1aa ` ; :
,enough 'feathers- Ur' -produce -two-- • .
patches of down each 'year but
thg third batch .is usually supplied
by the male. As he has white .
feathers on :his breast his down :
can be readily recognized and :the
careful collector. will leave such •-•
nests alone. if it is taken the
s may "eser heir .nest' nud
no young ducks .will be raised ,to
supply, eiderdown in 'toe follow-
ing 'Oafs; H•ere,, careful con-
servation, based, ona knowledge
of the birds habits, is essential'
to' , the • assurance of ..a cash crop
for the gatherer.
LIFE'S LIKE. THAT By Fred • Neher
MPG. PIPS DIARY,_ . =` ,
a "fir
•
"When I want
your advice,, I'll as is far' its 1"
R.EG'LAR' FELLERS—In Hiding
THi& 15 'THE IDEA
PINHEAD 15 A CROOK
A1.4' IT'S UP TO U5
bETECTIF5 TO
OeleBOY ' I'LL HIDE
'
tel THE BACK • OF
THAT TRUCK' THEY'LL,
NEVER' LOOK FOR
ME IN) THERE.'
WE'VE LOOKED ALL
OVER, CHIEF i I'M
At RAID TRIER
PINHEAD CIA'
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