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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-01-22, Page 2�xxdon.'Hnor . raveCharwomen _Ciean,rq. of i3iita Nights Of- ficiaity...lecogl sed At 'Thea- tre Party Zlhel' colied them 144.ndo0 Pride" :las 'they sat' iz1 'their'simple • *0•17.'' receive•,tiae: ',44.1 Bite. a a Xing, a prince, an admiral: and a • cahinet .. minister for: dming„ their " nrn ' and 'the SAVING. FOS FUT R,E It .a a get tribute to' the ata, btltty of the Canadian people that ' „even in the midst od , war•• they • cont ane to' take, thought for the • elthare. Mr. George W.: Bourke, presi- dent of the Canadian Life Insur- aruce Offibers' Assoeiation, Stated . the other ,day that life inaureanee in wee at the end of 1941 reeola €4 .•an all-time .high • of $7,500,00;0,- • 000, and, that new sales ' in 1.141 ' were 10 per cert'. higher, , than 194.0, ,Four million ' Canadian poli cy- hehleas are united -in this co•ODer- Wye pool, and .cut of their sayings ;175000,000. ahfeady has:• :been' vested' in the Canadian war 1oaas. • I.' Life -insurance is a vital factor in .the eobnomie 'strength of the }nation as its is in Win economics of • thej' individual. • ---Ottawa Journal. gip=- A. • i STYLE tat INDUSTRY -There' may be sone: male., sniff Mg -ever. reports that= 'a costume: .. WI been: •designed, for "women workers n'war industry that com- bines "tallure" with • utility There • • should ' not be. That • allure will help win. the war'. • No woman does her- best • when Che'does• not feel. that 'she is look- ing her best. The consciousness: of • Joint while Loudon b ed and silt and amore and dust of 1,000 flreh • sifted through . every window and a covered every doorstep - .Recognition , - For officials recognition . had, ,come at last to the indomitable charwomen. of . London, "foes of Mit and fad of Hitler," 'w'he were being;, honored in the'same way`, as etl�r" herpes and heroines of 4onibiidg, wardens, firemen,• stretch- oar tretch qr bearers, . first aid 'workers and` poiic,emen, ..had been: honored be- : fore them -• They wet a `Brought together.in a -,°West°End 'eatre:to see -a. show, s musical comedy 'hit f tie sea - 'eon to give them a good time and: '-dell them that people haven't for:. • gotten;. as Koine SSecr'etary Herbert, . Morrison said; that.'"in the`. •thous-. land and one•deeds that have helps ed,to' !aye London, . her charwomen .. Ihave :,played' a •famous gait " Easy'To Work*'? Tllhre were 1,700•of•these, women irhose.' rkeaoh :day:' L5 we"il';under ` the;:, . y,..a .era amen.- 'or way ::begare; g... womnaalr is__.out _of bed .Ohosen by. -'' .. tIQY xepreseir,;tRl"�m'ore than 80,00 r• �GolLeag►tes in' government th ` t!5'to r., • wn4' halls in . • 'ccs and, ° the ,:London Civil` Defence region. Tiley were . guests of ` honor at a *Ai* organized by Admiral' Sir !Id'ward aEvans (Evans: .of the. °- Brooke), London Regional .Commis- ' ed stakes of bamboo in all the r toner. The.., ins, ,with whom; many :clearings in'• the islands so that, a s . a..•_ nd1 ., .vp xd .. _ e io � '11' b -. ! tl ,. ire . Y r slf,.v�.:....� � -r � ..€tv,�- ,�°ura1..i'431kt4�.#:t.aGkerB .. �.f(1 ...... Kiing. :on .01, 1Jorway -'Ths impaled if they;attempt' a land -W Prince was.• his brt, ,Crown Prince • Olay. Tail:' and: short, large—name very '. large -and small; ,beaming. until thein teeth,. br`lack of; teeth, show- ed.( thet howedthey' came for an . afternoon. of fun.'For a few hours they. put down • their, scrubbing brushes` and their parols-aexelianged their aprons and. tsmock•s...ler their' . finest "dresses co being smartly and attractively at - ,_tired _ ev_en antoag factory mach- • .e iE - inea; will�3etinctly-distinctlyto t ficdenoy„ of the fair workers. Windsor. ?Star. J„o,_ "POINTED"RECEPTION In the Datch East Indies the In- habitants axe setting up 'sharpen-, ins.- . Phe'•natives don't . welcome. Visitors' .of that . kind and they , • want to make sure no, person will.: be so: dull. that, he ' won't see the •point. . • :Peterborough Examiner. • • --o-�- "THIS IS • LIVING" A , psydhoiogist has estimated: that the average ,seventy -Year hide ate; -gist o 6wenty five--yeaaseaof n s— work, twenty: Years of 'sleep, seven years of *sports and walking, five yearnof shaving and • dressing,, seven Years' • pieasure,. three years of, waiting, -two ., year's :eating, one year telephoning, thijrty hours an- uually looking in Mirrors, and four' hours: annuelly wiping one's nose. . a.St. Catharines Standard. —o— Rt'b teEava?'lg1At"EE',rv71 'i19iYE,ti3a:�:..- . ',S mpathetie words,• uttered. by Simper"! Y . Chicago news Se�aator . • columnist: "The kids who were whittling model planes • .only' .yes- tetchy,•,to'' the--gree.t.-eenftision of=. • , Her First Time • - • Miss Louisa Dean was tlhere, she. .who had never' been,,, to London:., ..,, be ore, • although in all her ,Year , only. IS She had i•vetl Y s�. �: London Bridge:' Imiles ,' trom . , Game ;,'from Sutton, Surrey, ;where the has'cleaned council offices for 16 Yeah A . • little,., shy—but she• ; " , . i,• , i, E. na in; Haakon Aker :1�' ep M:es x,hers:Ye'lf, • . ur- 7 •,..: ; .' . ee, thank • On' Having : a` lovely time," she said, standing. Up". proudly in , her g' brow; tweed r:� .•�-•�,-�•„- est.::. blue „list, end_ n - . Mrs: •Kent was'tihere too,'Florrie Kent who liedn't been tit-a'theatre since: ,her 'husband died 46 years: ' - ago. With her faded . fiowe ed. hat perched highon her head, her fur - collared •..coat buttoned at the tihroat and her cane 'in hand, she i sat:* •tho front, row of the stalls • mid thought the show a "scream." Misses Bombs 'Florrie•' is 17 . and . was the; oldest cb r there.. ' She met -the , Admiral and; she met the King and had "the 'happiest ;afternoon: in many a Iong • the tidy householder, are now fiy- ,ing. `real_:ones ,..for, Uncle Sam, and all is forgiven. , _Stratford. Deacon ilerald.. --o— • WON'T *WORK. Adahiral Yamamoto wrote to ,a friend that he would dictate peace in the White House. 'Phe plan is not 'sound. White House, steno- graphers• do• not • understand , - a ' word of Japanese: —Welland Tribune. '•1'ud not -412 offiolal -char... now, . . really," she said.;•.."I Went through the Blitz with :the others,' but, I'm retired: I'm getting on a bit fora fall -time job. That's the trouble." She and Admiral Evans had quite • m chat, • "Nice to.meet.you, sir,” she said as. she shook hands, "I hope every- thing in your line oR business is doing nicely.' It •+was the. Admiral . asyured • .her, and asked her how'. 'the cleaning, business was doing: "Not so bir�sy now we haven't those bombs about," she replied. 'stet, it was a proud day for , Louisa Dean and Mrs. Kent and all those other gallant. 'women' who never faltered ..in their jobs and often raised a .ehuckle from the early morning workers in 'those days of bombing as'' they polished the knobs of 'a door' o blasted awhieh ll the, windows had been r shed --down-• .the-'-do,oxsteps _ be a • house whose roof was blown away, Stored 'Axis • Supplies Taken Over 'By U. S. 'Secretary Morgenthau ' announ-', sed that the United States Treas- ury� had turned over to • Vice - President Wallace ' an inventory of 1200,00.0,000' worth of mater- inis useful in wartime which are field in storage places for. for; ,eign owners: • - Morgenthau said much of the lmaterial 'uncovered `had been "lost" either through accident, or, design, and that in many cases the foreign • owner either could not communicate. With the United States or had fail en victim to Axis, invasion. "In• still other, instances," he added, "the axis . powers) through, 'dummies,' actually had bought up, the stocks for their' own use • before the war• or had acquired them later for the express put- posd of , preventing their use the Allied war naef ltte." r' MODERN SEE -SAW '!Jape See -Sawing .fown Malay'- au Coasts: It's a long teeter- totter, however, that has no bumps. —Windsor Star. Russians' Get Booty ' From German Army The Soviet Information 1# ureau, as if °to refute Germany's claim Of an " •orderly withdrawal • to a winter ' line . in Russia, issued an ' imposing . list of material . captur- ed between Dec. 26 and 31 .on the central front. The list follows: Sixty tanks, 11 armored ears .287 field guns, 91 minethrowers, 461 machine-guns, 309 automatic rifles, 2,211 ordinary rifles, 938 trucks, 24J' motorcycles, 1,448 bi- cycles, ,30 tractors, seven wireless stations, 226 _ carts,. 40 locomo- tives, 425 railway cars, one train- load of clothing, several railway :carloads of equipment for signal troops, 14• carloads of provisions, 54 carloads of • aviation bombs, ' mines and shells, nine carloads of "Ruth lets me listen sheepskins, three'carloadsofper- sonal effects, of officers,,and sol - A D >rND' OF QUR PACIFIC CQ Malik 'In grim 'earnest, American troops• man.' a machine - gun: behind sandbag bank "somewhere on the west:coast;" ' Their job of training to protect our P acific coastline is no longer just a "war game." . THE WAR - WEEK —= Commenfary on• Curre.ni .hvents Russia Position • of ' and Germany. Fighting of :F� iz# or Seven . _1V1o►nths. Aft S� On Jan. 1, 1941; Hitler boasted . France in. , a month He bad .`-Soldiers the year :)1941 : wrl> crushed Yugoslavia in tea days. . . - captured' Tying consumma�ron of the 'great- Greece -in tGYr-d�ayn, and :,apt r est victory in our history." On Crete by air :in another ten days, With�.e oho:;.con'uest_:..he:.had-ansa_ a, q creased his supplies of food and materials for war. Advance in Russia •- The almost universal •assump-' tion• Was that Hitler's conquest of Russia would proceed with the e -ot'the ;meas= mfr -�=uaaat-ape � azz_, chine. . For a short .titrie that. •-speed•was-nt:aintained.' . O.ne week after the invasion had begun the German ;High 'Command • aiinounc- ed that, in . a sweeping. advance, . the --German-. army - had .inextricably. trapped . hglf a million Russians and had destroyed•vast : numbers of Russian tanks .and planes. • All .through the sunirner • and. s��rman successes continued, until in •September the Supreme • •German Command an- 'nopnced the successful conclusion east", of Kiev, of . "the greatest. battle of annihilation of this • war and all. history.". They claimed •that in this 'battle alone • the Rea - gens had lost 665,000 prispr.ers. ' • ` Nazi Claims, Jan. 1;•=•-•1942, 1�I tier • hoped 4 tho year 1942 should ' and ' we pray' God that it `niay —' bring the decision: which will save our people." • In the' first ' half of . the •twelve month ,period between these two speeches, the. rulLfoze of 'lilt= - ler's Blitzkrieg in England failed sty-oy-Engla:nd=or=-to•-damage-- the morale of.the British people. In .thew second nalf of the' . year the unparalleled strength of the. Nazi' armies.- 'and air force --failed:- utterly to .conquer Russia. • . , Hitler's Plan• Seven months ago it seenie • incredible: that Hitler ' would • at- -tack &usaia,: -:. I+ 'W'�asthe-u ht_ _y. -gbt-;_b the' Allies that the' existing.econ- omic pact between .the two noun - tries -would . develop into an out- ' right military alliance. In retro. spect it would appear, that Hitler considered. Russia to be .poten- ,tiaily Hostile. Germany. could. net launch an: all-out attack: upon England with' the menace of the' • -AWL-AMY- Jmer -• rgaawa_rfl e-- up the Russians, in a few weeks,' and then" finish; off ' England: ' ' ' Nazi Time-TaShle When the. Nazi armies invaded 1 ssia last Juneallrewhole: orld,a had the previous Nazi time -tables :' in ' mind...... Hitler ,had, conquered' Poland in. three 'weeks, Holland in ' four days,. Belgium .in. two weeks, ture or 4„estruction of 18,000 tanks and. 14,500 airplanes, he •an- nounced 'that '"Russia is already broken•. and will never rise again.". Nazi. Bog Down ' Then there appeared signs of the e ire-' '.chance that has assumed such t e mendous proportions. .In places 'the -.Nazi drive began to bog- down. Early. in Novomber 'Dr. 'Goebbe'is• • list: issued his -revealing -•war -Hing t the German people, must resign war. 'Bat only 'a 'few days later Hitler. was, still boasting • that' the Soviet had suffered casualties of ' at. least' 8,.000,000' to'. 1.0,000,0b0' men,. and "from such• a blow no army in the world t could recover, . not. • even -._thee. Russians.'' Russian Counter Offe s ve' • • ThenTthe ussians reorganized • their positions,' With the aid of.' fresh troops from the. East and the Tnerciless. cold of the Russian winter they began to -push.. the' Germans westward as far,,In some' places, as the fines they. occupied last -August. The siege, of, Lenin- grad was raised, Moscow' .was no' longer in danger and• the Russian o " ensrve--in e= rrmea--apPeare tlo .'ptomise the.' complete :.eviction •of the Germans from that strate- gic peninsula.: Generalissimo Hitler - Late in December the. signifi Cant and • sensational announce- ment was made, that Hitler had, removed Field-1Vlarshal . General „ ve JAN MAtJE dOCE !REIN. A Weekly Colutmrt Aboui This and That in The Canadian Army • ' dictum • that "an army marches on its stomach" was oorrect. But Army, even though lE is highly me- . chanized, bone the less still mar- ches ,on its, feet. It marches with precision and this precision is not just do please a drill. instructor. It is''beeause you ?rust have. ease - lute control of a unit 'on the move. You undouptedlY: know of several cases where "tint feet" do not in-' - •'tellers in : the sltgh-test, Wilk; the • .workada aetivitaies..o! .loo tbotive eneineers, , even postmen and men dozep other• • vocations: The reason is that within: the limit's: • tions,' of their .jobs they can choose their :own; time, .go from here to •e . and ',largely control • . the tl0i n , length 'of trine they . cart take 't'o do it. Part one of those men 'in the • Arra 'where he -must be prepared "Why does ..oar army., need re- • Infeicement: when it has not yet done itny fighting?" Itiow. there's a real question• -=a questian that was 'welcomettebY the, Director General of Medical Serv- ices when, hi behalf of the quesa .tioner and ,readers of this column, I posed it to him the other •,day. The reason, believe it or not, is•, traceable _to. owr„bad habit in 'civil- Ian life of not calling in aadoctiar until most - or the damage is done. • You see,lain?* speaking front .ex- ; perienee. in civilian life if you have a stogy Belt ache you balance your. dis•coanfert against the 2 00 or $3.00 a physicians call would cast 4If.,the ,ache .disappears r your' forget all... • about it—if it persists you Call • in the doctor much . later than '.you should have. • But in the Army—that's diger- eat!' Medical attention is free•, and when you "fall in an sick parade” • yon miss a drill •or• so. • Small won der,' then, •that medieal• officers have a chance to find' out incipient 'troubles before' they have a' chance. to develop_into'possible dangerous . illnesses. Oa course, , there Is• an- other- thing:.the.. "MD.". finds,. out • 'at the same tine—`he finds ohtalf you .are "swinging the ,lead,"• in :wlii'eli avant - +this; 'too; ` zeomeea from experience—you... are apt.. to get "2 No. 'e : and full duty" • • You may -be inclined to question, as I dad, the "stomach-aches." The answer to that question .is that *filet seems like an ordinary storn- 1 e o.ii<Biauehtiseh_vvho'.Ie•dathe_ G,en wastl�� awlovaaa ed�• ,�.. nit.lis,>r'Y33 la'snritimian p•at 3d hire B�tl� urri'�` � orhw > :front and were hammering at the '-'ga`tee' 'of 'Leningrad' 'and"'Moscow"': and. advancing, into:the Cramea. . Hitler, admitted that ' 1"we have be Mistaken boa : n hire s o t n �t a• t g g: We had; no idea . how gigantic the preparatior}s •of this enemy ;were." To• the sweeping claims.of 2,500 000 Russian prisoners, ' the cap- L:IFE'S LIla '.THAT . * By •Fred, Neher. diets, nine carloads of motorcy- • ales, one..carload of bicycles.. "Captured ainmtinition , dumps,: according to preliminary esti-, mates," said the Information Bureau, "contained 20,3.60 shells and 1,190 cases of shells and 910 niines, 6,193,000, cartridges.'' Why They.Run On every front where they shave been' engaged in this ' war, the .. Italians have not Merely been, thrashed, but thrashed by greatly inferior numbers. The armies of -Fascism run away, riot .because the Italians are not a brave race, • but beceuse' their heart is not in a gratuitous e'onflict foisted on them by. a lltnatie leadership. to all the Jee Louis fjg'hts.... They're she doesn't mind them." so short • Hitler hitnself had assumed. the' • ersonal • •commanu• of-• the*• -en ir--e P_ t German armed forces, The little corporal of World War 1 was now n a lissim f . World era, too W d Wa 2.. • Seeking -an .-explanation fm this move, neutral observers believed that 'the German' reversed' in' -Mas - sic -.-which Berlin discounted as a : strategic withdrawal to Winter. holding positions—were so• .seri- ous . that Hitler had lost faith in his Army .Coniinand; _ 'and that a serious rift had developed be- tween German Army Leaders and Nazi Party chieftans • on a ques- tion of strategy. • Nazi Retreat We do. not know how long the present remarkable German . re- treat in Russia will continue. It appears to be Hitler's plan to hold as much' Russian terrain as he can until the coming of ' summer; there is very little spring -time in Russia: Then,` .the German propa- gandists• say, the' Nazis will un- dertake a• great offensive to crush the Russians•and reach the Oil fields of the Caucasus. Even though, "Germany's mili- tary operations have•`entered an •extremely serious and indeed a critical phase," the Nazi war ma- , chine is still a mighty forge and should not he underestimated. On the other hand; though Russia may have been gravely weakened,. she is still very' much in the war. Chinese Give Aid The Australian radio said that a. Chinese labor corps has been formed: lin -Singapore, • .attached - to the Australian Imperial Force, to release all troops for front line duties. • The broadcast said the Chinese were working three eight-hour.' shifts. ta•move with his:runI,t ata moment's. notice, to shay with that unit come' what niay and the disability which was net disability in civilian lffe• Oases another problem for the medical officer. e� arrn d octors _ . Until`.I pestered y. ... • . for the answer to the question, -"Why .do ail need ienrforceinents . y when there is_no fighting?" I Was bre/bred to Airdrie w-it-lr-glee-•-at- the4 patriotic volunteer. who put one • :lloa�l`:d.: n , got e Medical' oyem th, into the Army despite a defect that he 'pew • existed. I have changed my tune now that 'I look at it:fromew- the• point of view of the taxpayer who pays that, man• his $1.30 a day. I have no doubt that • nothing but e -may ae_an ulcer which' caught patriotiaan •underlies'.€he desire to early enough Ili civilian life is outwit a McUieal-Soartl, buT when bya pedal -,dietary-. ' finnily the defe_c1 so�k3l!utty cw- �capabl�oi4 control p. arrangements such, as for. instance, ered.'i becomes apparent the nils- a glass of, milk and a biscuit be, taken pat iot; has cost his fellow tween breakfast and lunch, and• a . 'taxpayers hundreds of dollars and - euip_ogJea,and some-toastbetween; • is himself unable to fulfil the. high ' lunch' an•cl dinner, with possibly the duty of fighting for his country - addition of a slight•raid on the re - .the e Ile is another of the reasons• why frigeratar, before turning in: . the Individual citizen's army' needs: You couldn't do it in my' day and 'reinforcements while th'es`e is no • it Is no more' possible in• the in ' fighting. ' Ei tf __ divi,du,a1; eTt'izen's` slay of ,..._ _: .. ;g,.few paragraphs•' back r 'quoted generatidn to. arrang attack or the movem or . the transfer of tr, 'place to another w a glass of :milk or..b therefore, ;men whose quires . such treat found jobs at •the ba is no room' there, • e to call off`an. the .old 'phrase for a•man who. re- ent of big guns. 'ports sic{c when there is nothing' cops from one • wrong with him—"swinging the „�.. have � • ., • - Some student of hila •you lead —perhaps so e iscui . Hence," military slang can. enlighten us as condition re- • to the meaning of thin one. Off tment. ; must be hand,, it looks as though its Origin se' ar„ 1# there' . would come from the Senior Service must return to but what the .connection between a .>:�Fi3ansel li�friatbP.-•.•,,,,: r ei�3"3nc•�n�rfes'a�$�c't`laC�.i.•��` ti , ea, able or carrying. on.. j d'eptl'rs. of the aeean- liar to d'o •wtih E'en Y . p, , .. h se — one reporting si k Ido ' w _ .__..do . , nI a t kn a h: iso o R o, The stow G ,X p Po' .h' , ,• —an important one if Napoleon's you? ; .Leaders- Broadcast= ` Chrl'stmas: M . s , g I Greatest • and. most moving. thing in; the 'Christmas broadcasts of His Majesty the .King ' and Prime • . Minister 'Churchill' ' and President Roosevelt . was ,net 'in any art of oratory. • It was in the deep, reverent, note struck by all three of humility and trast in Gori.• Said the King: • • . "If skies before us are still ' dark and threatening, there are stars to .guide us on. our way. Never did heroism . shine more brightly than it does now, nor ' fortitude, nor sacrifices, • nor.' sympathy,.. nor neighborly •kind nese. "And' with . them the brightest of all stars is our faith in ,God. These. stars we will follow with His. help until light shall shine and .darkness shall collapse,"• _Said 'President 'Roosevelt: "Against ;e •►envies " who preach the principles of hate 'and prac- tise them wev+set .our faith .in hu- man -love and in God's care for us and all men everyyhere." ' Said Mr. Churchill: „ With Gods• help we shall ,win to security for our children." Confidently, we can ' contrast these . words • with the torrents of haV and pompous pride that come from the lips of our en- emresa-••:•sn••-Englrsh-.,writer once - spoke of •"the solemn beauty of the 'Christian dream 'which gives strength to our patient power." It is that dream, pitted against paganism and barbarism, that is • our stay today. -T Churchill- Calls . , . .For Total Washy "In this strange, 'terrible world. war, there is la place • for every one, man and woman; old and young, hale and halt: Service in a thousand forms is open. There is, no room now for the dilettante, for the weakling, for the shirker l or the sluggard. The mine, the factory, the dockyard, the salt sea wave, the fields to till, the home, the 'hospital, "the . chair of the - scientist, the pulpit of , the preacher -, from the , highest to .the humblest; the tasks are ,all of equal honor. Al. have their part . to play. The enemies ranged against us have asked for. total war. • Let as:make sure that they • get it." Fortune In Toys • For' Medical Man • Alfred Gilbert; vyho .graduated with the degree of .11I.D. , from Yale in. 1909,. made a .fortune--- Mut not out of pills, potions' and • medical advice, relates The To- ronto ,Telegram. Crossing a railroad, bridge ,in New York' State one day he was inspired with the idea of making structural toys for children, and borrowed $1.4,000 to get the •busi- ness started. His factory, which ' •bumlds •-a mo'dernizeI fdrm • of " the ; ' old -time building ,blocks, now em- ploys .nearly 1,000, men and wo- men. • A !light -weight tank • carries about 'four' tons of armour' plate. REG'LAR FELLERS—The Perfect' Host THAT LIFEGUARD WHO' SAVED YOU AT `THE BEACH LAST SUMMER IS CALLIN4 t 'Ni Ht /NOW BE VERY \\\ t \� POLITE • 70 HIM/ • THIS is A. HECk QF' A PLACE TO ENr RTAIN Ailigh111\ By GENE .BYRNES wadi- YOU ¢1AVE A 1•%u, SEAT) MR • SEAFOANI P > 'Nay aa•aa •