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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1941-10-30, Page 2!t' r 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. - Current � THE 'WAR - WEEK Commentary on Events J -at=�tle �-1nited< Statest"tssteeY er Greer, but missed..One week later President Roosevelt issued his mo- mentons "shoot first order to the navy. 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Limited, Port Credit,., • • 61D 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. {\' O _ ..; 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' THE SLIP! inateratimusattsmaralvl By GENE BYRNES ir•e.• •I 4 • 1111 ir111,ilhttllriuIr t vJ� p,r I..a, P", ars u,_ Qre ,..•, ,•p .