The Lucknow Sentinel, 1939-09-19, Page 7•
.s
Expects R • Will
creep All rope
Outbreak of' Epidemic Foria
• cast by. Ottawa Expert, Due
.to War
What may amount to a •'.tubae;
et• ulosis epidendic inEuropean coun'.
' ''trice "is ,bound,' to be one of the
-graver Consequences of their . col-
ilapse. and, disorganizatio't under
Nazi occupation," °Dr. G. J. Wherr-
-.. ett .of .Ottawa; executive + ireetor
Of the Canadian Tuberculosis As-
' abooiatioti, said, late .in A:ugust,.'
:PREVENTIVE WORK. IMPORT-.
;' ° . ANT '• , .
"A.el the contributing •tactors 'ere•:
', there," 'he. said. `' "The .dl's•ruption
- of preventive •service•s' and treat
merit and. th.e famine or `partial• fam •
lee can have only one result. • In�,
. central Europe in '17 and ',18•'the
numbers 'o .. turbereulosis victims •
went sky high --starvation had .a-
- good deal to do with' it." . •
Preventive work and treatment in
Canrada . is. more important, -now
during 'war time than • ever- before,
• ' • he continued. •"Our •experience in
the Great War has cost .the 'gov-
• ernment of. Canada $150,0.00;000 in
the 1'ast•.25 •years to. look after the
4,500• cases which 'd.evelaped in' the
army during. the• four years; Ten
per cent oR•them Never even left '
aCafrada. ,
• MORE CANADIANS'D1E
"During this first year of the
."war. mire an Iai . an 1
have died pf tnbairculosis —less than
.a thousand' have. been killed in the
war.
"Anything -which is going to be a
problem after the war should not
• be. forgotten now; .Indeed itis doing
, t .
tlte.�nost. efficient kIn.o.,f
ysa.r .aa+.prk
because it' is eliminating situations
which • create .terrible difficulties
and, problems after theconflict is
over." ,
•
No. S
(13y G. C. Toner)
BACKING THE .PROJECT
Conservation of our ,wird; life •
depends • on the ,maintenance .qf
t i¢'soii and the waters. Destine -
„,tion ' of . either one should not. be'
permitted and :where,this has oc�
curaied in :tie past :ii?eails should
be, taken to” restore condi'tions_
asnoon as possib': Luther swamp
is off vital ',concernto everyone.
in southwes'ternOntario„ We cap'
.all help in. the. work of cons'ei,va-
tion by hacking the •pr•oje.ct 'for,
the restoration of this area to• its;
original condition.
T6 Ontario Federation of
Anglers isr 'vitally interested in
this, whole project which' we' told,
you about in our column of 'last'
• week A committee appointed
under the chairmanship of Dr.,
N. C. Douglas; Owen Sound, re-
cantly: inspected the swamp and.
the drainage. ditches. ' This com-
mittee • reports that the 'construc-
tion of an eight foot dam across..
the Blacks' river would restore. the
water levels of , the `swamp,.
•
. He' Jumps .for Science
A jump from 33;000 feet in
which, his parachute .won't open. ,
for. 31,000. feet will "be made by
Arthur H. Starnes, 35, ill . the 'in-
terest of science: ' He will carry
equipment to measure . •respira
tion and , pulse during his leap
from the stratosphere. He is ,
shown in a low pressure chamber:
at Northwestern University Medi -
e cal 'school, , Chicago, having his
i•; ise.d re c reactions -testedleeaee ase:,. --e
Folk Dancing
Gaining Favor
Ori' This ,Continent' :Jitter-
bug ,Vogue •'is Going Out—
, Rumba, Conga And Tango In=
Crease In 'Popularity,.' Too
European war and the conse-
quent efforts to create a Western
Hemisphere . solidarity have
greatly popularized • Latin-Ameri-
can dances in the United States,
it was reported at the annual' con-
vention of the Chicago National.'
Association of Dancing. Masters,
Steps' such as the Rhumba,
Conga and Tango have gained
greatly in favor since the first •
• of the year, promising to be
among the best. -liked dances . of
tke , new fall and winter sensor,,
association spokesmen said:
''GROUP DANCING"
The dancing masters said an-
other significant trend was to-
' Ward the '.dance evaluatioes of
America's past . and adaptations
of folk dances of the old world,
Group' -dancing,, they .commented,
Was being featured, in Many ball-
rooms, as Were. waltzes, "which ,
never really *have . lost mach
ground." -
The consensus was, that the jit-
terbug; vogue Was really petering.
out now. Some instructors ob-
served that :`what Interest re-
mains, in that kind • of dancing is
kept alive almost entirely by the
girls;' the `boys do not actuaily
carie for it."
'Ther° are now more • than
116,000,000 sheep In ,Australia.
When steldie °s were billettvi, in
• -'a, town only a hundred years Age
a sergeant, accompanied by a
drunateer, paraded to warn
t:iadesmen not ' to sell • to the
trdops on credH.
Nazis Declines
Girls Are 'No Longer Allowed
Higher Education in Czech.o-,
9l atria—lir *care
Occu ie Lands School -Life
• p d ,
is Disraipt'ced .
:Documentary files • kept in Paris
before the French surrender, Show-
ed that iii• the- first ;year of':Gernian
'occupation in Czec'ho-Slovakia 60,:
000' Czech and 40,000 Moravian and
Slovak •:youths, many' of themuni-
versi'ty students of Medicine, law
'arid philosophy, were sent into Ger-'
many to work otic the• land; Thous-
ands of .others left their schools to.
.escape to France and then'to' Eng-
land.'Some'o:f them, at 17 years be
came air pilots;to fight against Ger-
mane • „GIRLS •RESTRICTED
• Girls no longer sere allowed high-
er gditcation•in C2e01r0-Slovakia., In"
a ' country ;which had 80 women
• menebe•rs of, parliament, 1;500. `wo-
men:.doctors and. several ' women..
senators., an which girls might even '•
become • judges and ' ambassadore, •
'girls may no longer attend .high
school. .
-.Se too in ,Poland,where the great
' university of Cracow, one ' of -.the
oldest in:' the world, 'functions only .
impar•. Of its p•rOfessors •some 160'
were put 'in concentration 'camps'
and the student body, was.'sentter- -
ed. Armies of them till, the' soil at
Nazi, bidding.
In Holland,' Belgium, Denmark
and Norway schools.. have been de-
stroyed, educational systems • dis-
rupted and teachers driven.ieto ex-
ile. •
en Belgium and Luxembourg the
coliegiates'', and . universities. have'
. been emptied and •thousands' of stu-
dentis have' taken ' •to the refugee •
road's onry bicycles. Many of them
tear their return to their &At coun- "'
try for Germany has announced •'
. they, must work in' the fields, for-
. eats' •and • factories to support the,
• Nail:War .machine. -
1
SCOUTING
4q3
ironically, a .new headquarters.
for • the 'Boy Scouts Association ••
• of Warsaw, Poland, 'completed
shortly before the German' hives- ,
ion, is • now occupied as a head- •
quarters by the infamous Ger-
. man Gestapo. •
Y „ * :k
As in Canada, Great Britain
and elsewhere throughout the
'Empire the Boy •Scouts ofIndia
are- busy at. many kinds of war- '
'thee service. Patrols of Bombay
Stouts are attached t� air raid
posts throughout •the city,`'and a
'further 100 Scout cyclists are
constantly stancl'ing by for any
etitergency calls 'for messengers.
M �
The floe Scout woodcraft cook- •
• •ing competition held et 'the' .Can-..
adian • 'National Exhibition, and
opcn'to' Scant Troops ,throughbft
the. ',province, 'was won •by a pa-
t.rolof the 14th Toronto Troop.
Second ' place went'' to the 1st
Huntsville Troop; 'followed in or-
der, by three Toronto Troops'; the
26th, 68th and 96th.. The . cooK
-iitg was judged, by the head chefs
from the • Royal York. Hotel and
Eaton's Ge orgian Room and • the
incidental woodcraft :features by
. Smut. Field Secretaries A. .E.
• Padden .and 'Iceboat . Greenway.
The ;Young outdoor chefs were
• r"eetiired to l,rel,:ree a camp `steal
or six persons the menet c ant:.
yYy. .t 1. •
• potato' i, to • fresh' • vegetable,
stewed • fresh fruit • and ' •voaffce.
b•i.repltr'cc were 'to be built of
hers or stouts, and variouscarp, .
kit cheat gadget used et Seout'
etenes• wereaeerntit'ttd, it is plan -
nod 'tcr .maatce the : tt pctition an
',annual ,vent.
'}te-ann:ual sports day --of No: -1- •Seriviee-Flying T-r-aining- School --a
'sites :of the intermediatetraining squadron.'' The graduating•class is sh
shown, LOWER RIGHT. C. L. T Swale,' of Edmonton, is pictured, LE
-t Gam- e Borden— was •. cl-i-maxed-b- - thea •resentation—of-win s-to-..'lt rain-•
p y ,� g ?---g'
dwn, UPPER RIGHT; and a geherai.' yiew of the presentation scene is
VT, as Group Captain A. T. N. Cowley, O.C: of the. training School,
pinned the coveted wings on his :breast: ;
•
THE .WAR -WEE K : Com.men'tary oh Curitent Events
"Came All' ' Against
•n
• '• ' Yet Shall atatie
• The final ,death: struggle be-.
tween Britain and .German` ap•
-
Peared last • w.eek• to 'have 'begun,
• The: 'German Air Force was .
. throwing .. its colossal strength
• into. an "all-out" attack against
the British.Isles, with three `main
objectives.:` the destruction' of the•
fighting powerof the' .Royal.' Air.
''Force; ,paralysis of. Britain's sup-
ply 'system by sea and by :land;
the shatteririg" of civilian , nerves,
the breaking, o.'f 'the people's mor-
• ale in, the' face •of••an imminent. •
• . •.invasion. '
G,neat . • Britain, •ehu'ddering
,through the most ,soul=destroying
experience in her history,, held on
grimly • with a, threefold hope: •
that .'the; ..blockade' against • Ger- .
many, w,oiild. soon become serious
enough. to cripple' the 'Nazi . war
machinc;•'that the relentless at-
taelts 'of- the IR.A.F. ' could disrupt
• German industrial' and •commer-
tial •life, -ward off ;.an "invasion; •
that' the • Nazi air effort: • would•
. exhaust 'itself..before • British en-.
durance .came to an end... .. '
' A ."50.-50 Chance".
In Berlin; high -tanking' Nazis
declared that' new waves of.. Gere•
• , man bombers flying against Lon •
-
don would carry out; remorseless
and incessant 'warfare until (ac-
• cording to a • United Press dis
' patell),, `fthe.'snioking ruins of in-
dustrial and 'r objectives, .,
'decimation o' the Brit's ° Air '
Force and • shattered ' . Ie of.
the... British people. ' bring, 'into
"•power a ` g'overnmen't • that will acs- '
cept German terms." The :terms.
were regarded ' as • unconditional
capitulation. . -
U. S. Secretary of the Navy
"Frank.Kriox.last week, gave Britain •
a • •"better than' .50-50 chance" to.
' hold out. He declared that the ex-
'.isteneo of the British fleet bottled
up the German navy and that the
Nazis.rhad been, unableto establish
sufficient. air supremacy •to make
surface invasion of England ''feas-
imbie .^ Lieutenant -General Sir.
Ronald Adams{, General Officer' Com-
manding the (Northern Command in
'Great 13•ritain,-'tolci the people• -that'
•the next fifteen days would . show
them "what is to happen" with re-
gard to a Naxi invasion. If, the R,
A, F. could .retain mastery of the
air lanai September• 21, he intim-
ated, Beitop-s could then prepare for
a great offensive .against Germ
any, •- . Meantime the world knew
that. enormous help would be com-
ing to• Britain from the United
States in the form of planes,. •am=
munition, and other war materiae.
Our "'Cc -Allies". '
Thr'eo important leaders of 'old
France were arrested during th
-week, former Premiers Edouard.•
i
D'aladier. and Paul ateynaude and
the former •Comman.de•r of the .Ale:
lied Forces, .Gen„ Marie -Gustave
Gaaneli'n, Their detention was or-
'dered under:•au'thority of; a. decree •
• law • 'drawn up by Deledier him-•
self 'then war broke out September..
3', 19'39, proyiding for internment
of persons• considered•dangerous.to
the national •defence - and -public •
•
• security ; , , Word -erne, from Vichy
that anew Cabinet had been 'fornr-
od.. in—
immmediately' tofronts. "somewhere
in the.. Middle East." ,
•, $3,861,053,312 Contract •
In .'Washington ,last' week' the.
United States .placed. orders for 20i
warships involving . an outlay .bf
f�
• 8 1 4 11 b 2..s-, th•e'3-a •esi"d�e �
contract ever;' let in American' his •
-
tory. The order followed a. few, :
hours after. President Roosevelt's
signature of the $5',251,000,000 •de-•
fense ;appropriation ..bill. at Hyde
Perk., The United States' gigantic
preparedness .progrape • Wes moving.
U. S. After World -'Supremacy,
Com,mentinig. on d•opnestic. affairs, ,
the U.'S..columnist, Raymond •Clap-
per?, wrote last 'week: "Our:'sale is
to, seize world naval ..and air sup-..
remacy Om - role is to be harts -
headed and shre'ivd and to play with.
.cold Galculation.for the stakes that •
are within .our. grasp '° 'Our:role
is to assist the, British to hold out
so that they ,can preserve their sea •
power.. :.. We' must solidify the •
western hem'isphere."
• Birdmen `From., Canada •
At borne in Canada, the debut'-
minister• 'of de'ferice,.for ,air, James,•
5. Duncan,.announ.ced'that thous-
ands of fighting 'pilots, air gunners
and observers •trained .in 'Canadae.
would .'"soon" ,start streaming— to-
ward Englandto fight with the .R, •'
A. F. 'tO'ur ta'sit," he said;' Is to-
prov.id'e• the, United• Kingdom with
an . ever-increasing • flow: of air
crews, whose arrival overseas , Is.,
to : ceincide with ever-increasing,
supply of .aircraft froth. British and
American sources."
The Canadian-Anierican joint
' fense: board sat .in • Washington dis-
cussing' air and nava bases, 'stra-
tegic highways, military supplies
for Canada. As a ,result of its de-.
eisioie it was expected (as one Can -
adieu. writer expressed itj -that "Be-
fore• long the Union Jack and the .
Stars and Stripes will .fly. together
over • Canadian strongholds on At
'antic and• Pacific coast :..•'Befoi^e
long Canadian' pilots will fly over
American soil and 'American' pilots
over Canadian soli.
534,000,000 'Bushels" -
• Lf . the 'war had not. 'teen •going
on,' the bumper crop in the . Canad-
ian. West (more l umper even than
last 'year) wotrld have been bead-
-line news every day of the week •
. and' the' problem of what 'to,
do with •534.000.000 bushels of ,1940
wheat would have occupied ' the
main' field of attention .. ,. Never-
theless the government was busy
on a ,plan whereby ' cash might be •
advanced to farmers for the .wire•at
they must 'keep at home• -- there
Would 'be no room to st'ore;it in• the,
(-levelers:
•ed under 'Marshal Petain. It. includ-
ed,.Pierre Laval, as vice -premier
and. General Charles'' H,uiitzinger as
the new minister, of. ware Marshal' •'
Petain took over the office of•.ehlef •
of'state and G'en. 2taxim'e • Wegand
•was desigiiated to go "to North At-
:rice' in, charge 'of all political 'and '
..military matters .
Armed Peace In Balkans
Out of. the spotlight for • the time -
being, the Balkans Were 'neverthe-
less
less .still seething. Xing Carol, ac- -
conmpanied by .iris siveetheart.. Ma•'
dame Lupescu and ei.ding'in a bul;, !
let -.pocked.' train,. had escaped into
exile, leaving: his country' in. a 'state .
'of tunnot'Is'. The Rumanian masses, •
under the heel of `Antonescu's mil-
itary dictatorship, . were already., in
a ; state of neartrevolt, while relige
sous • persecution campaigns corn-
ered thousands of ,hapless .individ- .
ua'ls ..:' German troops moved up
to police the 'Rumanian border with
the Soviet Union a United Press
dispatch estimated that 1,0(10;000 •
• 'German - soldiers faced the , Red•
Army' along a line from Norway to
•;•'the• Black Sea ,:.,:: ,.A military, •move
'against Yugoslavia appeared in 'the
offing —The magazine Newsweek"
quoted from highly-pl ced •diploe
matie sources that • the `Axis • has •
prepared complete plans for:. sud-
den. 'occupation, by Italian troops
of the -Dalmatian coast;'' 2, simul-
taneous German move •acro'ss the
Croatia border; .and overthrow of
Princeaui's regency, establishing
fn' its' place a puppet Axis .govern-
ment...
Brewing In, The Medite'ranean
Italy was defib eiy up to some. -
thing big in the Mediterranean bas-
in meanwhile — either the long -
threatened drive against the Stiez
Canal; or an early attetta.pt -to oc-
' cupy French -mandated '$yria.' As-
sociated Press correspondent Ed-
ward E. Domar expressed the 'opin-
ion that in view of Italy's limited
.resources' in oil and other muni-'
tions, the restlessness of the It=
alien pubile, something more de-
cisive t1tan the odd air raid on
British' base's' or convoys was qn
the -books . . Ready to deal With
-any new action in the war's south-
ern theatre. Britain• was busy ref
inforeitg her ;Near East fighting
forces with thousands of •troops .
•
Lives in a Fish
•
. Probabiy' the. '•only person in
the world ,to own a private. sub-
marine is Mr, ' Barney' Connect,'
of Chicago, who. has a home-niadc
affair which resembles a liege •
fisll,..c'omp.iete with mouth, eyes.
finis, tail, and scales'.•. It is, il' ft.
'long, 37 ins. high, and 23 ins.
REG'LAR FELLERS — The Cloak Rooth
•
athe•w-idest point; The in
is fitted with submarine equip-
' ment, 'blowers, oxygen apparatus;
air •pimp, respirator,., and storage
batteries: "Already •14Ir. Connett
has made. 300' trips in .his queer
fish; and has travelled as far as
fourteen ' utiles under' water in a
single journey. '• As, his, periscope
• is only four feet .long, ;he usually'
'.runs at a depth of ."three feet
below the 'waves, but he has been
down to •thirty.
Alurninuin Goes
Into Aircraft.
Rationed For Dominion Now
—Being Diverted Froni. Cook-
ing 1,ltensils to Plane Manu-
facture •
, The -most ruthless rationing Can-
adians .encounter in this war has•
j.ustbeen initiated- in the case of•
aluminium, says a • Story :in .thee
Toronto Globe end Mail. It will ' be
gradual in some cases,. abrupt in
others,: depending on the time in=
dustry takes to complete articles'
now in (process of manufacture.,.
Aluminum' cooking utensils are
on the prohibited list and as soon
as present factory production is
confpleted' not- another aluminum•
dish will be made in 'Canada, until
airplain requirements are filled.
Durin • the last session of Perlia -
trent Munitions Minister • C. D.
Howe forecast .toe restrictions, but
'the' present rationing system has
been put into effect with 'the full
THE RIGHT ,WORD FOR IT •
We scarcely -know ' what to
make of the • situatimon•. between
Italy and Greece, bit 'the Grec a'
likely ',have .a word . for it,
Kingston'; •Whig„Standard.
NOT ALL PLEASURE '
Hitler and • 'the `headaebes' of . .
new Europe .br-ing" to/ mind
rise ,. widow -who was having so `
much trouble with the ettate,shet`.
al`inost wished :her husband hadn't.
"died:
-,Winnipeg Tribune.
EMPHASIS ON -'"DO"• /
' That quaint and friendly ex-
pression of the West, "p'eased 'to
meet you," has almost. disap-
peared. It Was a stereotyped,; if
sornietim.es , insincere greeting,
and has been replaced by the • old
time •'formala,'- "how 'do you do,"
which is More conventional and
which commits its ' use2 to noth-
-aNietoria• D'a"ily Colonist
-A-CITIZEN'S PRIVILEGE
Ottawa would de. well to en-.
;courage, the expression of • in-
form critacrstri : even w sen• this
is
directed :at military: measures,
• provided it is••not helpful 'to'•th.e
• enemy.
• This isnot” the Gov
',ernment's '
• ople's
•war -: They are .going, to pay for
in ' life, in health • .and in
'treasure. They have" a'' right •to :
be. • curious `about: • policies adopted •
arid iteps taken.. • They have • a:'
right. to make suggestions and. of- •
• 5
d`er.• .-co-nstrn�et-iwar • tritiZiSY[Y.• 'T=h-ai; ._
is the , privilege of eitiZenship •
in a democracy. 1•. '•
' • , -...,-;Edmonton Journal
co -Operation :of the industry
out a. pu.blie .announcement.
There is :5ust about enough al-
uninivan• used 'in: cooking utensils
every year in Canada .to make a.
thousand airplanes.
CANADA 'TOP. AL UM1NUM
:PRODUCEif
Canada produces more ale/Weigh
,per capita than any,' other coun_
` try in, the .world and . is climbing' .:
rapidly toveard the top in total pro-
duction. British plane factories are..
relying more .and mote : on Canad-
' Ian aluminum and action to •control.,.'
ith•. use in non-essential: products
has been • taken in time' to keep.
'pace with the needs, officials say.
Canadianrn National
Railways Revenues
The gross revenues of the .all-
•fnclusive' Canadian National Rail-
ways System for the week 'ending
September 7, 1940, *ere $4.690,182
ascompared with 4,165;511
for . the corresponding
• period of 1939, an' in: .
crease of $ 530,671
• or 12,it',
•
LIFE'S LIKE' .THAT
By Fred Neher
"—And stay out until I get my, housecleaning, ,done i 1"'
GENE " BYRNES
014,90Y) ITS.BEcINNINC4
TO RAIN / LETS HEAD:
FOR A DOORWAY.,
YOU MOS' WILL
HAVE TO BEAT IT/
MY CUSTOMERS
CANT qET EITHER
AN OR OUT!
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