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ARMED CANADIAN MERCHANT CRUISER ON PATROL factor in the Empire’s economic war,
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Her decks aftash with the spray of heavy seas, a
Canadian armed merchant cruiser plows along on
patrol duty somewhere in the broad Atlantic. Rows ward.'
of shells can be seen lining the deck, ready to feed
the ship’s guns. Waves of a heavy sea are tossing
the boat as the menacing snout of a gun points' sea-
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The Man Who’ll Beat Hitler
Fifty ygars ago, a youth stood in the
playground of England’s famous Har
row School and exclaimed defiantly to
.a group of his schoolmates: “My fath-
-er is the greatest man in England and
I intend to be greater than he is.” His
•schoolmates laughed —* then.
Today, the most picturesque, versa
tile, adventurous and lion-hearted per
sonality in Britain's long and storied
.. .history, Winston Churchill holds the
j hope of the democratic millions as no
■man has ever done before.
Mr. Churchill is an amazing man,
.and he has lived a life more extraord
inary in its color and scope than any
fictionized romance, He has always
teen unpredictable.
HISSED BY ARISTOCRACY.
The scion of a distinguished and ar
istocratic family, he yet was hissed
.and hooted by the fashionable ladies
and gentlemen of London when, as
Home Secretary, he drove in the Cor
onation procession of the late King
'""George V.
Elected to Parliament as a Conserv
ative when only 26 years of age, his
first, session in the House of Commons
found him vigorously opposing the
Conservative Government, and within
9 months of his election, the chief Lib
eral journalist of the day was writing,
"in the years to come, he should be
Prime Minister.” This, from an Op
position writer in days when party
politicis were bitter and acrimonious
to a degree unknown today.
As a war correspondent in South
Africa, his writing scourged the na
tion for underestimating the Boer
strength. In a fiery appeal to the na
tion’s manhood, he cried: “Are the
gentlemen of England all fox-hunt
ing?” Captured by the Boers, he es
caped and joined a regiment of Light
Horse, fouglit in dozens of engage
ments, then when the Boers were beat
en but still resisting, he turned right
round and advocated a policy of con
ciliation which enraged many of his
colleagues and friends.
TALKS THROUGH THE NOSE.
I
He had a defect in his speech which
would have deterred most men from
speaking in public, yet became one of
the most popular speakers in England.
This defect — a peculiar discordance
of tone which is, to some extent, still
apparent, was noted in a description
of him circulated by the Boei- secret
service after his escape from an intern
ment camp:
“Englishman, 25 years old, about 5
foot, 8 inches high, walks with a slight
stoop, pale, appearance, red brown
hair, small moustache hardly precept-
ible, talks through the nose with a
wheezing sound, cannot pronouned the
letter ’S’ properly,”
Mention of his moustache recalls his
encounter with a lady who was more
pretty than polite, at a public dinner.
OUTWITS A LADY. “Mr. Church
ill,” she remarked, as he took her in
to dinner, “I like your politics as little
as I like your moustache.” Like a rap
ier thrust came his retort: “Madam,
you are not at all likely to come into
contact with either.”
Winston Churchill has* been before
the public for practically all his 66
years, yet not a word of personal
scandal has ever been breathed about
him.
He has never lacked courage, either
moral or physical. As a Cabinet Min
ister during the last War, he made a
visit to France, and an officer remon
strated with him for goitig into the
front line. “It is very dangerous there,
Mr. Churchill,” the officer said.
“Well,” replied Mr, Churchill with a
Puckish grin, “war is a rather danger
ous business, isn’t it?”
Mr. Churchill may be forgiven if he
believes that he ^has been granted
some special dispensation from Des
tiny. 'Certainly, luck and coincidence
have played no small part ip his life.
HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES. As
a boy he fell thirty feet from a tree
into a ditch and escaped with a rup
tured kidney that laid Him up for
months, but from which he complete
ly recovered.
In an Indian fronteir campaign, he
stayed a moment in a hot spot to help
an excited Sikh gather up his cart
ridge clips, after retreat had been ord-
dugout had been
and the other of-
ON HIS SIDE.
ered. The rest of the party, moving
away, got caught in a withering blast
of fire; many were killed, but young
Churchill was unscathed,
In France he had several amazing
escapes. Summoned back from his
front-line dug-out by a general who
wanted to have a talk with him, he
found that the general was immersed
In pressing business and couldn’t see
him then, so he returned cursing three
miles through the mud, to find that,
in his absence, his
wrecked by a shell
ficer in it killed.
PROVIDENCE
Again, he made his headquarters in a
ruined cottage which the Germans had
not shelled for several months. One
day they did send a few shells over,
and one of them burst outside Mr.
Churchill’s roorii. A huge piece of
shell whirled in and smashed his chair
—but he wasn't sitting in it; just a
moment before he had gone outside.-
• Mr. Churchill has played .many parts
— soldier, journalist, polo player, or
ator, politician, statesman, writer,
painter, bricklayer (at one time he held
a union card from the Bricklayers’ Un
ion) — but the role he plays now is
the greatest of all.
* *
—The life story of Winston Churchill,
Britain’s Man of Destiny, will ap
pear in this paper, starting next
' week. *
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WITH THE AXIS
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Egypt and in the Sudan, their country
men at home are in action, too, in a
mighty war effort.
Diverse as India’s religious and pol
itical philosophies are, there is not
one of them to which the Axis Powers’
creed of violence is not anathema.
This accounts for the vigour with
which Indians of all races are partici
pating in their country’s great war ef
fort — in active service, in war indus
try and in gifts of money to help the
Allied cause. i
The Indian Army is being expanded
from its peace-,tiime strength of
160,000 to half a millton, and its me
chanical equipment is being increased
from 5,000 vehicles to 62,000.
Men of all races have volunteered
for service in the Army, the Navy and
the young Indian Air Force—as well
as in the R.A.F., where there are a
number of Indian pilots.
Sixty thousand Indian soldiers are
already serving in the Middle East, in
.the Far East, in Malaya, in Aden and
in Great Britain.
The Indian Navy is doing splendid
work in guarding the country’s vast
coast line, and in patrolling the Emp
ire’s sea routes in. the Indian Ocean
and in the Red Sea.
Both Government arid private fact
ories are engaged on munition work;
ithe country is already producing
20,000 out of about 40,000 items which
the modern army requires.
More than £5,000,000 is being spent
on armament factory expansion, and
aircraft£3,750,000 is available for
production.
India can produce 90% of
requirements of war supplies,
contribution to the arming of Demdc-
racy is not confined to her own forces.
She is supplying enormous quantities
of war material to many other count*
ries of the Empire — for instance, al
ready 100,000,000 rounds of ammuni
tion have been sent overseas from In
dian factories and this is only one of
thousands of items,
India’s industry both primary and
secondary, is .throwing a great weight
also into the nori-military side of the
wat effort. As’ a great supplier of
foodstuffs, textiles, and a variety of
manufactured gods, she is a powerful
her own
But her
Life in Poland, in the second winter
of occupation, is of increasing sever
ity, There is little to eat. The only
foodstuffs in shops are bread, potatoes,
linseed oil for cooking. There is nei
ther butter nor margarine. There is
neither fruit nor fish. There is almost
no meat. Yet in spite of all privations
and persecutions, Polish resistance is
growing. Mass executions by the Ges
tapo fail to terrorize,
In Kalisz, a Polish technician was
imprisoned- for publicly talking of
damage by R.A.F. raids on Berlin.
In Lodz, a 17-year-old boy was sen
tenced to 10 years imprisonment on
the charge of insulting a German of
ficial.
In Dortmund, a special tribunal sen
tenced a Pole to death who had left
his work in Germany and resisted ar
rest.
In a village nea;- Magdetburg, Ger
many, three German women were sen
tenced to 18 months imprisonment for
giving food and cigarettes to Polish
prisoners of War.
Several Polish priests have died in
the Oranienburg concentration camp.
Their bodies were cremated and the
ashes sent to their families.
R.A.F. raids on German industrial
centres have forced the Germans to
transfer industrial factories to Poland.
Germans attempting ttf build an am
munition factory in Skarzysk found
the head engineer dead. The following
day 300 Polish workmen were arrest
ed and, according to advices received
by the Polish Ministry of Information,
were taken to a nearby forest, forced
to dig their own graves and massacred
by machine gun fire.
An uncensored letter received in
London from Poland speaks of unlim
ited German cruelty to Poles. “Germ
ans announce clearly,” the letter con
tinues, “that Poles were born to serve
the German nation; to perform the
hardest labor. The result of such be
haviour is evident. Germans arriving
in Poland from the Reich, are unbe
lievably brutaL They ride in automo
biles in disregard of pedestrians and
cause a large number of accidents. In
case of accident, the injured Pole is
mistreated and subjected to severe re
proach for wasting time. If the auto
mobile i§ damaged or the driver injur
ed in any way, t.he Pole is sent to pri
son. A new regulation in Krakow and
Warsaw forbids Poles to enter parks.”
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HELD CHURCHILL
PRISONER OF WAR
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State,' an interested callei- was “Oom
Jan” Lamprecht.
Forty-one years ago “Oom Jan”
was •fighting on the Boer side in the
South African war. In the same war,
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of
Great Britain, was the war correspon
dent of a London daily. On November
15, ’1899, a Boei- column of which
“Oom Jan” was a member blew up
an armoured train in Natal and took
Mr. Churchill prisoner. Mr. Churchill
was placed in charge of “Oom Jan”
and subsequently escaped.
When ,Mr. Churchill became Prime
Minister, Mr. Lamprecht wrote to
him, reminding-him of that Sunday in
Natal, and expressing the hope that
this time Mr. Churchill would be more
careful.
In reply, Mr. Churchill sent a copy
of his memoirs with the inscription,
“To my old friend, J, D. Lamprecht.”
“It is strange,” Mr. Lamprecht said
in a recent interview "that I should
now be supporting my former foe in
the struggle for freedom. But the
cause for which we are fighting is just.
That is the only thing which matters.”
The “Commando on Wheels”' is a
mechanized convoy three miles long,
touring the Union of South Africa to
show the army to .the country.
factor affecting its composition is the
stage of maturity at which it is cut.
The earlier the hay is cut the higher
will be the percentage of protein, the
lower will be the percentage of fibre,
and the greater will be the digestibil
ity. A reasonable early time for cut
ting is when the crop is one-tenth to
one-half in bloom. If cut before the
bloom shows, the total tonnage is re
duced and the persistence of the stand
will be unfavourably* affected.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J? Boyle
“TEA LEAVES”
usual A. R. K., the editorial
er.
COMPOSITION OF
ALFALFA HAY
(Experimental Farms News)
The qualities which place alfalfa at
•the head of all common hay crops are
high yield, palatability, richness in
protein, an unusually high calcium
content, and its value as a source of
vitamins A and O, states Dr. J. M.
Armstrong, Division of Forage Plants,
Dominion Experimental Farms Serv
ice. The following table which gives
the average return per acre from alf
alfa hay and other crops shows that
alfalfa produces a larger yield of dry
matter per acre than clover, timothy
or mixed timothy and clover, and is
but slightly excelled by silage corn.
Total
As
commentator, has come along to re
fute a statement by so-called learned
men. They have been experimenting
for some time on the theory that tea
leaves can be used over again, by rea
son of a certain process which they
have devised after many years of work.
A. R. K. says folks have been doing
that for years in the country.
Goodness gracious, but the folks in
this township and for that matter in
practically all the other communities
like this one have been using tea leav
es over again for years. It’s a saving
I suppose and besides that they get to
like tea that has been brewed. Offer
one of them tea made from fresh leav
es and they would more or less not
enjoy it, but give them tea that has
been brewed a few times by reason of
a good boiling and they’ll really ap
preciate it.
Some places they didn’t have tea for
breakfast, but in our home they al
ways figured a warming cup of tea
gave you a good start in the day. If
there were fresh leaves used in the
morning, the tea was generally weak.
After breakfast the tea pot would be
pushed back on the warming part of
the stove.
Paw would go
something, and
drifted up on
would find him
the stove with
drinking a cup of tea. The tea pot was
bubbling on the stove and as you took
a cup of tea it was expected of you
that you replace a like amount of wat-
the value of
Yield Digest- Digest-
Dry
Matter
ible
Protein
ible Nu
trients
Alfalfa hay...3,688 432 2,052
Clover hay ...2,601 207 1,536
Timothy, and
timothy-clover
hay ............2,173 90 1,167
Corn silage...3,888 160 2,533
In furnishing protein
alfalfa hay is striking, since it prov
ides twice as much digestible protein
as clover hay, five times as much as
timothy or timothy-cl over, and almost
three times as much as corn silage.
In yield of total digestible nutrients it
is only excelled by corn silage.
Alfalfa hay is exceptionally high in
calcium, containing 1.43 per cent on
the average. This makes it particular
ly valuable for dairy cows and young
growing animals. Its phosphorous con
tent is only fair, averaging < 21 per
cent. Well-cured alfalfa hay is very
rich in vitamin A and is also one of
the best sources of vitamin D.
The composition of alfalfa hay may
vary depending on two factors - how
it is cured and when it is cut. Bright
green hay cured when there is tio rain,
and with little shattering of the leav
es, has the highest feeding value. Ex
posure to rain will leach out a consid
erable portion of the soluble nutrients
and lower the vitamin content. Since
the leaves contain three times as high
a percentage of protein as the stems,
any considerable loss of leaves in hay
making should be avoided. It should
not be allowed to dry out too much
in the swath, but should be raked into
windrows and cocked before the wilt
ing process has proceeded too far.
If curing lias been carried out under
favourable conditions the other chief
[
Along about ten o’clock
up to the house for
by the time the boys
various excuses we
sitting at the back of
a muffin or a biscuit
At dinner time Mother would
sprinkle a little fresh tea on the leaves,
depending on how much usage the
leaves had gotten in the morning.
About four o’clock in the afternoon
if you were working near the house it
was perfectly all right to drop in for
a cup of tea and bite of something to
eat. Usually in the winter-time some
of the neighbours would call and the
old teapot would, be “biled”
spot of tea. /
It usually took a good
supper-time to bring the
standard. It had a bitter,
that you got to like. We had an aunt
from the city who used to always
wrinkle up her nose at it and say,
“Was this tea seasoned with caustic
soda or something?” Knowing that
we all liked the stronger tea, iMa took
to having a little tea pot for the vis
itor and while she sipped at the pale
looking liquid^ we gulped down the
black, strong concoction that somehow
seemed to chase all the chill of a win
ter evening out of your bones.
After supper Ma always filled the
teapot with water and set it up on the
warming closet. It was the general
custom in the winter time to warm the
teapot before going to bed. In the
summer-tithe the cold tea was as good
as any of the soft drinks marketed
now.. Many’s the time I’ve had my
ears cuffed for drinking out of the
spout. Paw used to do the same thing,
but when Ma caught him at it, she’d
just go “Tck . . Tck . . Pa. How do
you expect me to teach the children
good manners if you’re going to do
that?” Paw would just sort of grin in
a funny way and wipe his moustache
off and head up the stairs for bed.
In the morning Ma would dump the
tea leaves out after draining them. At
various times she used to keep them.
In the Spring- and Fall, they were used
for sprinkling on the carpets as they
were supposed to keep the dust down
in sweeping. At one time, they were
supposed to be good for sprinkling
around the henhouse . . . but the hens
continued to scratch themselves just
the same, so the idea was given up.
So many of these people who are
trying to find new ways of saving
could learn so much if they would just
spend a few weeks in a typical farm
community.
up for a
boiling at
tea up to
erby taste
“Ho was at Army Camp for a month — he’s done this ever since!” i