The Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-06-13, Page 3SEE IT IN. PRINT
jt doesn't pay to, believe • every-'
• offing you hear. .Wait until you
read it. — (Chatham Mews)
HOUSE O•F UNCOMMON$
Ndt one 'member of the Canadian
, _Mouse of CBmmons is named.
• Smith;, 'Brown or Jones.. And yet
they call,' it a democratic organiza-''
Ilion. = '(W-indsor Star)' •
;GIVE THA HARD„''
y� Canadian, --authors are said . to • •
7 eufer from lack ot originality„ A.
'great. 'malty' of •: them. ai§q , suffer • .
afrom lackofeneouragement.
.(London'Free . Rress)'
' ' ,SCRAP IRON CHANCELLOR •
t.Bisanarck was knownas ' Ger:
Inany's iron chancellor. , Glancing
over Hitler's birthday presents, •we
See the Fuehrer is destined to be•
• .eon'. the '"scrap iron. chancellor."
(Guelph Mercury)•
FOR UNIFORM TIME
The small towns'of .Western Ont-
ario ate not given to reactionary
oppositioit'to Daylight Saving .time.
It is probable that most people in,.
these, towns really 'favor it.; But
they are opposed to the silly mer-
ry-go-round of eccentric clock'sche-
' doles now in force.. •When this.
loose cog in the time-pieca has
been adjusted Daylight Saving may
come into its own. —. !Brantford
.Expositor).
Gardening ....
GRASS 'PATI$'
Grass' paths .are not good in wet
'Weather and are hard to . care for;
but' they are employed more gener-
ally than any other type because
they add so much to .the garden.
Green is. Nature's awn • background.
Grass paths aremade in . several
• ways,; the flower beds may be -eut.
int& the: lawn; leaving the grass be—
tween; the paths may be narrow
and straight with, rather deep bor-
dering, gntte.rs; they may be edged -,
in various • ways; or they . may' be
irregular,wide strips places
whereone may loiter aridadmire
the fiowers' in .the beds.
• BRICK PAT.H'S
' Where' stones are not available;,.
bricks make fine paths. ,There are
;'several ways of using them. No,
matter hoar laid, • bricks. are Mire
pree-ise than ' stones can seer .bo:
Brick paths' usually have •straight •
:edges, but the path itself may be'i
curving or winding •in direction.
The brick May -be laid on side, flat
face; narrotiv edge or in block de:,
Sign a che4kerboard. Bricks.' '
too,. often form the bindings for ,
sand. cinder, pebble, ashes, grass
or. 'hard -packed .dirt paths. They .
are then l.aid'on. end, on their sides,
g`ryi'ng'a rick -rack design to the bor•
der:. iBrieks placed crosswise .side
by side make. -narrow paths 'which
scarcely show between ' plants,. bat
are very. useful•whether it is desir
• able to get to some far -back part
of the flower beds.
A six-inch layer of ashes makes
'a good path. if one can have' pa
tience• while it is, getting packed
down enough not to track into the.
' boese, •
• iWoe.
SOPHISTICATED
FORMALITY•
Era .^:..
This is evident in this •coiffure
created for. Rose Hobart for her role
in "Susan and God." The curls are
btzushed" into rolls tlt'at' graduate up
the side of the head.
Swastika Will
Retain Name
Residents of Swastika, Ont,, six
.miles west of Kirkland Lake, axe
proud of `their town's name and no
movement Is afoot there to change
it, it,e•eve lt• J, Carter,; of Neck
_. sslta£Ia;�tu
tlio matter was considered last Pall
and It was decided then that Styes -
,
tie was named "long .before the,
Word became connected with nit.
lerrsm." Old residents of the to)vn
believe the word is of Indian origin.
Are We Likely
To Be Invaded?
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• We Are Not Inaccessible • ---
Far From It' Says Jean -Chaff.
Harvey, 'Edito'r of Le Jour
• At a time when the real war s.es-
pion of the .ting Government is
sitting and when Germany is hurl-
ing•' allher forces of destruction
against our allies, France and Eng -
lead, after having violated the netP.
trality of all the small nationsalong
the. Baltic and the North. Sea, we
believe we express the.wish, of an.
immense majority •of . Canadians.
• w:hen we ask the leaders of the
country to•take all thenecessaxy
measures in , order ' to- 'ensure the
,security of our people and our in-:
$titutions;. writes . Jean -Charles; Har-
vey,' editor of LeaJobr (Montreal).
IJast year, in' these,' vary •columns
;We, wrote that Canada was. net ex;.
entpt .from the danger" .of 'invasion.
,Sonfe sceptics laughed in our faces
.and held Us up to ridicule. Days
and• months .have passed. Septem-
ber came with the declaration of
war. Ewen then, our pacifist' know-
' it -alts declared that Canada would
not be directly concerned ,With the'
blgody adventuee..Even the most'
ardent supporters. :of participation
did not. dream for a•second'of the
Possibility of the invasion of Can-
ada by . the .bTazi forces. The' Gov-
,erninent; the very: one that declar.-.
'ed war, did not seem ,to be aware
of. ,'the immediate peril that the
country might run. ,It believed in.
the danger, yes, but like millions
of Canadians, it d'd not imagine
that the ,day would •conte when our
shores, our ' cities, . (kir industrial
centres,', might' be 'attacked• and
blood spilled. • •,
A WARNING TO US
/That which is now 'happening in
,Europe sh`oiiid nevertheless be a
tragic warning to us. What will the
morrow. bring? Nobody :knows. And
what we do know is that we• have
to, do with an .implacable enemy.,
.who hast already laid,. ,to 'waste 'a .
•• portion. of Europe, an enemy, who.
respects 'nothing and wlio was, a.t
least. in the beginning, 'infinitely
better prepared to destroy and to
torquer than .any other country
' in the ' World, an enemy who has
shown, c.learl'y' enough hes deter-
' urination to dominate the r.iiverse.
• President Roose4'elt himself said •
so, in a moving spee•ehrecently be-
fore the Members of the' pan -Amer-
ican Scientific' Congress. And for
the first time in the history of this,
Conti'nen)a President of the great=
est A-meri art powar expressed the
fear of arty invasion, of the two
• Arnei:icas. 'r
Our prophets declared, • at .the
beginning of last .summaer,• when
the conflict appeared imminent,
'that there was no danger whatso-
Ever for Canada, • it being:Under-,
stood that, should' a defeat' of the
'allies take place; the United .States
would defend us; but this large re-
public,. would have to look 'after its
own defence and we know that it •
,we' Wanted to save .ourselves, we
would•also have to look out for our-
selves. After what has happened in
the .Netherlands• and in Belgium,'
• we know that the United' States,
with its present armaments alone,
cannot„ by itself, 'fightto advan-
•
tage against, the combined• forces
of an all powierful Gerrhany, and an
aggressive and war-like,Japan.
FORESIGHT IS NECESSARY
' Tlr4 is, our position. No one can
denye his disconcerting reality. Wp
aro not inaccessible, far from iti
To govern is to fofesee.- If ever
there were a timewhen foresight
'was tragically necessary, now is
, that time. We shall need every '
ounce of our intelligence,`our Cour-
'age and our energy to perform acts
essential to the safety of pur insti-
tuti'ons, .our: peace, {fur culture and
our liberties. '
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Canadian: Active' Service Corps Go To Summer Canip
After a winter ofpreliminary. training at Exhibition Park 'in To-
ronto troops are pictured here taking their departure' for summer en-
campments. Included in theseven thousand. men who occupied several
of the big buildings are many former residents of countries over -run
by Hitler's hordes. The Canadian corps' impatiently await the' call that
will bring them to' grips with the Hun. The Federal' getcernment has
stated that it( will have' no use' for Exhibition Park during the summer
months. The sixty= second . consecutive. Canadian National Exhibition
will be held- before the:Department. of 'National Defence • takes over
again in the fall.
T'H. E W •A R - W E E'K -Commentary on Current .✓vents
. • 1,4. ••.
New Western Front Battle
Is Deciding France's• Fate
• "On June 4 Dunkirk fell .after bit-
ter fighting,- Thee first chapter of
this campaign is ended." 'Official
'communique of the Germs High
C.oinnsan.d). . '
On • June 5 the second chapter in
the ,war to the death' between' Ger-
'many',and; the Allies began.' EVa
dently having decided to settle the
score with Franco first before at-
tempting invasion of • Britain, the'
German army on that.date,laun'eh-
ed a terrific offensive against the
new Weygand line, throwing 600,-
000. men into the fight, • supported
by dive -bombers, _artillery; tanks
and motorized vehicles were. in the
background. 'The 'issues atastake
were tremendous — the . fate of
:France, of. Britain, of .the whole of
• Europe was to be decided. But Hit-
ler 'was evidently gambling every-
thing that he and Germany had in
a .bid. for a .quick -crushing victory.
(Hitler had told 'his troops that
he would rather lose 1,000,000. men
'in a short war'than fewer in a war
dragged out over many months. He
bad told them they would .be "home
by August").
• (gambling All '
. The, outcome.of this super-b'attle
nevertheless Was seen last week•to
depend upon the entry of Italy into
^the war. Were Mussolini to attack
froth :the south;France would be.
ground between an upper and low-
er millstone; should he strike also
• in the Mediterranean, the scope of
•the conflict would be increased act
, include; possibly the 'whole world.
BRITAIN:• in an• epie spilech'.he
fore a hushed House of Commons,
Prime 'Minister Churchill of. Great
Britain declared " that. Britain "will
fight on, if necessary for years —
1f necessary alone," ' to final vie.
tory, despite the "colossal" defeat
in Flanders •in which he said the
British suffered 30,000 casualties,
rescued 335,000: •,
d, "We Will Fight On"
Moving words were hid: "We
shall defend our island whatever
the cost may be. We 'shall fight on
the beaches and the' landing
grounds, is the fie' -3s, in the streets
and on the hills.' We 'shall never
surrender. And even if, which I do
•
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not for a moment believe; this is-
land .or a largeparft of it were sub- •
jugated -.and starving, 'then our ,
• Empire beyond the seas, armedand
guarded by the British • fleet, 'will '
carryon its struggle' until, in God's
good time, the NeweW rld With, all
its •power and might sets forth oto' •
the liberation and 'rescue of the
Oid." •
Although 'theonrmencement. of '
a new battle.on the‘Western Front
removed for the time being from
British hearts the fear of an immin-
ent invasion by Germany, the pee-
. ple of the Old Land • neverthe.less
remained prepared...If it came, they
did not expect -the •invasion via
the Channel ports, but from Dutch
and Belgian ports, from Norwegian
beach -heads, and .perhaps from
•Eire.'Eaiperts expected landing par. '
'ties to concentrate on the `south-
-.east lowlands, of England Kent.
the Tharhes valley. Essex,. Suffolk
and Norfolk — with diversions in .
the Scottish lowlands and in Wales,
for the Germans' main'target would
doubtless be tdie munitions-niaking
Midlande• ,
Invasion Doubted
Hope for 'the. frightened Britons
came, from a voice in the•L'. S. Ad-
para. Harry' Yarnell. retired. ex-
pressed scepticism, `that Germans •
.could invade .England. Said Ad
mural Yarnell: • ,'They can bomb
various points and drop, parachu•
-
tists, but you'need infantry, for an
invasion. And infantry can only bo
transported by, striae() ships. The
British fleet 'will never permit"'
that."
MEDITEiRANEAN: Events in
the Mediterranean basin • moved
' fast during the Week. The• Allied
fleet' units off 'Alexandria were fur- • -
ther increased . Egypt sped new
defense measures, closed museums
(the miimmy of $',000 -year-old King
Tutankhamen, snugly wrapped in
cotton wool was removed to the'
'°'basement of the Cairo Museum, to
a secret, bombproofatomb) . the
premier of Tur'key.,warned his peo-
ple that they might, be compelled
to "take up arms" at any mom-,
ent to defend themselves against
attack: ,(Tlarkey, guardian .of, the:
strategic .Dardanelles, .is allied 'to
Britain and France by a mutual
aid i?aet, operating against all en-
emies except Soviet Russia);• and,
the Turkish general staff finished -
Mapping their final defense plans
• . reports had it that General
Franco, of Spain, would shortly
• order his countrymen into the
fight against the Allies; dispatch-
e's from Madrid 'told oaf growing in-
sistenee that tiie British reiingtjish
their hold oil Gibraltar ... . • -
-Balkan Tension Subsides
BALKANS: The .Barkan ' pot
droppect from' boiling -point to just ;
plaixi'. het during the week.. Sov-. ;
let Russia., in 'a ` southeastern .'
peace, move, . withdrew troops'
from the ,Hungarian frontier and •
• Hungary. in, return ' ,suspended,
plane , to Beall more' reservesto'. the.
,army; at the •sattte time Russia. •
opened the way .to':Rumania for
out.-of-eourt ; settlement of•. • the
Betearabiars • question• .(Bessarabia,
a Rumanian Prc vir)ce, was a 'pari.
,of 'Czarist Russia :Seized by Ru-
mania in 191'8 )'. A Soviet an-
noun:eement , in. • London • helped ' •
further: to dissipate -the. Balkan '
tension'' —' that• Russia views her
interests .;n the Black Sea and
the eastern Mediterranean as par=
ahei• with .those of the Allies.
.(Russian sou 'ces also hinted that
in • particular• view of . Italian
pressure there was at least a good -
possibility of diplomatic co -open- -
a'tion• between the Kremlin and
'the Allies in .the Near East).' • •
•FIR. EAST:, A Foreign Offics.
authdrity, in :a radio speech,. to '
his country 'last 'week told the
Japanese people, and incidentally
.let the world • know,. that Japan's
policy of noneinvolvement in the
war 'between Gerinany and the '.
Allies might soon become one of
• itvolvement "in the sense of pre- ,
venting the spread of the Euro-
peen .war - to Asia," i.e., in the
sense • that Japan • would grab the.
rich Netherlands 'East Indies; .and -
possibly Singapore and -'French
Indo-China ff and 'when they be-
came N'veek enough to need ."pro-
tection,"
"South of -"the Border"
UN1TEft 'STATES A,. veritable.
. tvar hysteria was seen sweeping •
• the U. S. during th'e week, 'follow-
ing a wave of reports of Nazi fifth
column activity in South America
and in Mexico ..' . fears' of a Nazi
uprising south of the: border . gave •
'rl4e to the belief that the United'
Staters. might ,have a. War on her
down: doorstep shortly, 'be.fore she
bad a chance to jump in on the side ,
oa the Allies in Europe, or stop
Italy from participating.
Following by' fifteen days his me
iginal emergency request for $1,-
1$2,000,000 for expansion of the na-
tion's • armed forces, President.,
Roosevelt submitted to Congress a
supplementary program ' .boosting
defense expenditures to nearly $4,-
500,000,000.
4,500,00'0,000.
This, :latest :enlargement of .the.
military program was necessitated,
cMr. ,Roosevelt- 'said, because of ''al-
most incredible events''• in the past
two weeks of Europe's war —. 'par-
ticularly as a result of the Use of
aviation: and' 'mechanized e(iuip-
. anent. The one most obvious lesson
taught by 'the conflict raging over- .
seas, • declared . Mr: Roosevelt, ' "is
the value of 'the, factor -of speed."
I -Le• asked for action without delay.
and got it: • '
Parliamentary Battles
•
('ANAbA: The war -week in Carr
ad•a; was featured by the attempted
."blitzkrieg" on the part rf the
Conservative party t•a rn.n Prime''
Minister Mackeniie King, out 'of of-
fice. Fierce Political •}rattles were •
•waged,on the Hoot of ti -o House at
'Ottawa as every verbal weapon per-
mitted by parliani,Ptitery' Procedure
•was used against the, King admin-
istration,' accused of "complacency"
in • the war effort. 'In the midst of
an uproar that had dozens'of
shouting'' ac'ct.sations. Hon: C. G.
Power: minister ot national defence
for air. charged Rodney Adamson
(Con., West York)' across the floor
of the Continons with -"sabotage of
Canada's war effort." Mr.,Power at
white heat declared Rt. Zion. Ern-
est Lapointe, minister' of ,justicle.
should "Intern that • fifth• cohtlnn
over there."
Prime Minister Kingmade an of-
ficial statement to the Houser after
the .atmosphere 'had c'alnred down,
on Canada's part in , the struggle
abroad. Steps had Peen taken, he
said, to place Canadian. military,
naval and air forces at the eom-
,plete disposal of the British Go'v-
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INDIANAPOLIS RACf/W*0N4H
irestong-
FOR THE
sr CONSECUTIVE YEAR
Into:the gruelling 500 miles, over it
. rough, hot, brick '#rack. , at the '
• Indianapolis Speedway, are packed
all the strains and wear of •50,000 '
miles. of . ordinary driving.. Tires
• '.have • to ' • withstand; quarter -ton.
.blows, not only once but hundreds
of times per minute!' • •
•
With this.Proof there :can no longer be
.any. •question , of which tire ,is '.safest.
One tire— and 'only oner-has :the ex-
clusive safety features to withstand pun-
ishment of this kind=Firestone—the
tire 'th'at has. been on. the winning ears
at Indianapolis for 21 consecutive years!'.•
Have the nearest Firestone 'Dealer put • '
Firestone •Champion tires on your 'car
now., Specify Firestone 'when -buying
your. new car..
ernment. Twice, .he declared, .'the
First Canadian Division overseas.
had been ready to embark forser-
vice'on the Continent, but had been
recalled 1)3,7 the Allied- ' general
staff. He anounced that a, contin-
gent of Canadian troops had taken
'over 'garrison duties in the West
Indies;, that, destroyersof the Can-
adian Navy •were operating in Unit-
ed Kingdom watersin co-operation
with the Royal Navy;, that a fighter
squadron of the R.0 F.. was ready
for overseas.
• Heard during the week: that
"••thousands ofEuropean refugee
children were coming to make their
homes in Canada; that the British
Government might ship Nazi pris-
oners of war over here to be intern-
ed; that the possibility of evacuat-
ing British children to Canada and
Australia was under urgent consid-
eration by the Britisl.h government;
that an agreement with the
U. S. was shortly . to be reached re-
garding the St. Lawrence seaway
(whether the project could be pro-
ceeded with during .the' warhad not
been 'decided). ' '
Canada's. Apathy
Towards Poetry
J., Murray Gibbon, of Montreal,,
pleaded, "the case of :the' Canadian
ballad",before the Royal Society of
Canada, deplored Canadian .apathy'
towards poetry and suggested ful-
ler appreciation could be gained if
its teaching were allied with music,
particularly in high schools and un-'
iversit'ies. , " •
Mr. Gibbon, prominent author
and research worker in :folklore
and music. .suggested educational
authorities in charge of schools ,for
teachers could specify that in the
teaching of English literature, the
study of lyric poetry and the. ballad,
'should be. coordinated With a the
study of : the music identified with
the lyrics 'and the ballads. '
SHOULD CO''-VIBINE TWO'
He said such a course might not '.
work out in Great. Britain, : "but
Canada is a pioneering country and
is entitled to makeits owu etrece- -
dents,"
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LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred Neh r
f'If I hit the next'one overthe fence. d"ya mind .if 1 run from third
to second to first base and tlfen home, just to . break the monotony?"
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