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Women are playing a more important part in the war every day
['here are 1,000 women now taking the place of men at the Aberdeen
proving grounds in Maryland, doing the hard work of driving tanks
testing guns, handling large cranes ad other duties usually done b/
man. Here was see Ruth Gibson as she pops her smiling face out of t
tank at you. Her job is driving tanks around the grounds and she
lust as rood as the man who drove it before her.
LIEUT. J. D. MAITLAND, R.C.N.V.R., ON BRIDGE OF HIS SEA HORNET
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"Thursday, July 23rd., 1942
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ATTRACTIVE to a degree and efficiently modern,
the Canadian Pr cific Railway company's newest
addition to its fleet of dining ears is the Canterbury,
which was especially designed and constructed as an
answer to the heavily increased traffic on the important
Canadian Pacific line between Montreal and Saint John,
N.11, Pour fine pictures of historic Maritime scenes are
displayed in the car, a note of compliment to the district
which the ear will serve.
Soon to go into service on the short line connecting
Canada's Metropolis and the Atlantic Seaboard, the
Canterbury is beautifully finished throughout in nattital
satin finish birth. Tables and chairs are also of nat-
ural finish birch, the chairs also being covered with
bream morocco leather. The heating pipe grilles,
window sills and rods, and the curtain boxes are of
gleaming stainless steel,, the curtain boxes serving both
to cover the teller Curtains and to conceal an individual
light over each table. Comfortably spaced, the tables
are arranged in the customary manner and provide ac-
commodation for thirty diners simultaneously. The
floor of the main room is covered with a rug, brownish
intone, and the floor in the passageways is covered with
red4one marboleam,
' '00 Women travellers Who visit the kitchen Will find It
'IMMEDIATE" MEANS
PLENTY TO OUR
NAVAL OFFICERS
Canadian Officers Ready At Moment's
Notice To Leap Into 'Hornets Of
The Sea'
Wartime needs for security have
prevented much being written about
the deeds of young Canadian officers
serving with the Royal Navy in Brit.-
ish waters, In motor torpedo boats
and gunboats they put out from their
bases "to seek out and engage the,
enemy". German E-boats, minesweep-
ers, destroyers, and even a cruiser and
two battleships have been engaged by
"sea-hornets" in which Canadian of-
filters Are 'serving. Following is a
description of the work of these of-
ficers, showing their instant readiness
to fight ..and how they fight.
By Lieut, E. U. Bartlett,
For one word, it produced an ha-
rilettSe flurry of action.
Three Canadian naval officers were
sitting before a fire in a t000t at an
English naval base, enjoying a before-
bedtime hat They were Lioutonamtg
Y. D. Maitland and J. A. McCutelmon
of VancOtiVer and C.. Burk of lion-
treat.
The chat was broken by a peremp-
tory knock at the door. A girl at the
Women's Royal Naval Service called
out: "Immediate."
Action was instaneous. Two of the
officers, without apology or explan-
ation, bolted from the room to their
own, nearby. The third, the owner of
the ,room, started to strip even before
the door had opened for their depar-
ture. With practised speed'he donned
heavy woollen underwear, thick sweat-
era and, flannel trousers, sea-boot
stockings and wool-lined leather boots.
A canvas coat, reaching to his knees,
and a woollen toque and he was dres-
sed . . dressed for the action with
the enemy which that one word "ire-
mediate" had promised.
Blocking Enemy Ports
In other "cabins" brother officers
had imitated his actions. In a mat-
ter of minutes they were assembling
in the hall of the officers' quarters
ready to operate some of the deadly'
"mosquito craft" which counter the
hit-and-run tactics of the German
boats and share in the task of block.
ing the enemy ports,
"Mosquito craft" is rather an ott.-
of-date title for the' motor torpedo
boats and the motor launches of tide
war. Rather may they be termed ..the
hornets of the sea, for there arc sunk-
en enemy craft to prove. And, like
hornets, they are always, in readiness
to swarm to. the attack.
The word "immediate" set their base
humming like a hornet's nest, While
some of the officers went to their
boats, the commanding officers gath-
ered at the operations room to await
final orders and gain as clear l a pie-
ture as possible of what had called
them into instant readiness,
There was action at sea,
Some of their boats, outnumbered,
were engaging an enemy E-boat unit.
They had reported the fact by wire-
less,
Stich actions are swift and furious,
The sea-hornets are the fastest craft
afloat, and action can spread over
miles of sea in the course of minutes,
Against the possibility that the action
might spread in their direction, and
give them 'a chance to join in, the
boats and their crews were standing
by,
Chance For Action
In the operations room the com-
manding officers were greeted by the
officer in charge.
"Sorry to call you chaps out," said
the operations officer, "but there's an
off-chance we might have a spot of
action."
On the walls of the small room in
which stood his watch,. beflagged
charts were the only decoration. There
was a desk, two telephones, table, with
a few papers. One easy chair before
a small fire, a bed, not slept in that
night and, to complete the furnishings,
a couple of ;hairs. A room not for
comfort, a room as coldly efficient as
the men who use it.
"This is the picture," said the oper-
ations officer, and told of the inter-
ception by "some of our chaps" of a
much larger enemy unit, He gave the
figure. He gave the position where
the 'engagement started.
"So far", the report concluded,
"that's all we know. You'd better sit
down, and we'll get some tea."
A. Canadian officer sidled toward
the bed and, removing his canvas coat,
quickly stretched full length upon it.
He's an experienced campainger and
knows how to make the most of every
moment of rest,
Everyone Relaxes
An English lieutenant stretched
himself in the easy chair. In a mat-
ter of 'moments he was asleep. The
others found their own methods of
relaxation.
The ringing of the telephone, how-
ever, brought them quickly to the
alert. The operations officer took the
message, his face unreadable and his
only comment a "Thank you" as it
concluded.
"Another signal through," he told
them. "It reads, 'Enemy driven south-
ward. Am chasing."
"Good shoW, what?" said the Can-
adian who has gained some of the
English idiom although he has lost
nothing of his own accent,
"They've got a good moon for it,
should get some of them," added the
senior officer of the unit,- a Royal
Navy lieutenant. Square-jawed,
steady eyed, he had shown no sign
of relaxing during the period of wait-
ing.
There was another settling down,
broken once more by the telephone's
ring.
Chased Them Hotrie
"N'o further contacts. :Stopped off
read the signal this tittle, The
port -off which the British eraft had
stopped was an enemy port.
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The English officer murmured com-
mendation: "Chased the so-and-so's
right back home."
"It looks as if you could go home,
too" broke in the operations officer,
"there just isn't going to be any fun
for you to-night,"
The original force, outnumbered as
it had been, had handled the sivation
without need of assistance.
From a Canadian officer, (Lieuten-
ant George F, Duncan, R.C,N.V.R,,
Montreal) came the other view of the
picture, when, on his return to his
base, he told of the action.
Before the war he had been a chart-
ered accountant. Before the war, too,
he had seen the need of preparing for
it and, as an officer in the supple-
mentary reserve in Montreal, had tak-
en preliminary training, In Great Brit-
ain, shortly after the outbreak of war,
that training had been intensified with
special attention to what would fit him
for work with the sea-hornets.
His account of the action was con-
cise to the point of baldness.
They Laid No Mines
"Quite a straightforward affair,"
he declared. "We were out on an
ordinary patrol, and these ferries
came out to lay mines. So we went
into them. Opened up with all we
had and saw one of them burst into
flames, although he got them out
pretty quickly, I must say. It was
a short affair, fotle they turned tail
right away and streaked back for
home. We chased after them, but
couldn't get contact again. There was
quite a bumpy sea, and that didn't
help. However, we know we didn't
do them any good, because we man-
aged to get quite a .few hits. And
what is more, they didn't lay any of
their ruddy mines, either.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
up .. put in P. new kitchen for his
wife, Just like the one he built in the
village. He planned on fencing off the
lawn and keeping it neat and green
and of how be would like to drain
the back twenty-five acres„ He start-
ed boasting about the good soil there
was on the old farm, He rambled on
about an old red hen they used to have
that always used to "set" in the buggy
in the driving shed the leaky
water-trough in the barn-yard and the
way the pigs used to head for the
muddy spot beside it on hot days in
the summer-time,
The plain fact was that Judson
wanted to get back on the farm, He
was lonesome for 'ail the little things
that used to make up his living out
there, He saw all the timings that he
could have done in the days when his
thoughts were occupied with how lie
could get an "easy" job ill the village,.
He wanted quiet evenings in place of
parties , he wanted his boys and
girls to hustle home, down a dusty
country road for the evening chores
„ . and then for himself he wanted
that blessed feeling of tiredness that
can almost be a comfort at the end of
a hard day,
I wouldn't be surpirseed to see Jud-
son back on that farm some of these
days!
Orageville Girl Safe and Well
Mrs. Margaret Lewis, Third Aven-
ue, received a welcome cable when
she was informed through the Can-
adian High Commissioner in London,
Eng., that her daughter, Miss Bessie
Lewis, is safe and well. Miss t ewis,
who had previously spent some years
in Java, went to Tokyo, Japan's capi-
tal city, in 1938 to take, a position
with the British Embassy. This is
the first direct word her mother has
had from her since Japan entered the
war. — Orangeville Banner,
KEEP TAB ON YOUR
INSURANCE BOOK
Although Unemployment Insurance
has now been, operating in Canada for
a year, many' insured workers do not
yet appreciate fully the importance of
their i..surance books, said Mr. R. N.
Watt, Manager of the District Em-
ployment and Claims Office of the
Unemployment Insurance Commis-
sion. If workers could get the idea
that their insurance books are really
in the nature of a bank account upon
which they draw in periods of mien-1-
ployment, they would much more
likely to see that the books are prop-
erly stamped and taken care of.
Nobody with a bank account, said
Mr. Watt, is careless of his pass book.
He realizes that he is responsible for
taking care of it and that it is his
record of money deposited tb his
credit and available for him to draw.
But the insurance book is even more
important. In the ease of a bank pass
book, the record is always available at
the bank and a lost book can be pre-
pared with comparative ease and com-
plete accuracy. But the insurance
Employment and Claims Office, reg—
isters as unemployed, and deposits his
book in the office. He will be given
a receipt for his book and this he must
keep as long as the book remains in.
the Employment and Claims Office.
When he obtains work his book will
be returned to so that he can
present it to his new employer.
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busine ss
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SamPlestla.bestihils arid
prices ifhpdj- obligations
book is stamped with stamps for
which the employer and employee
have jointly paid, and is the only rec-
ord in existence of contributions which
have been made. Accurate records on
which to prepare a new book may not
be available, and a book once lost
may mean the loss of a large sum in
benefits. Only if are worker is care-
ful of the book and sees that it is ac-
curately and promptly stamped and
kept up-to-date, can he be sure that
the records are as they should be and
that, when unemployment comes, he
he can draw the benefits to which he
is entitled., v
At the opening of the fiscal year
employees under the Unemployment
Insurance Act were re-registered and
new books were issued to them. In
them will be recorded one year's con-
tributions to the Unemployment In-
surance Fund. While a worker is em-
ployed, the employer is responsible for
the recording of contributions by
stamping the book correctly. The
employee has the right to examine his
book at intervals of not more than
twice a month to see that the proper
stamps are being affixed.
If a worker has a new position to
go to, he must turn his book over to
his new employer at once, and stamp
entries will be continued in the same
book where the former employer left
off.
When the employee has no new job
to report to he takes his book to the
It was just after dinner when the
car drove in the lanewaY. It was
Judson Bailey, a young man we know
very well at Laky Meadows. He used
to live over on the Twelfth Conces-
sion but never seemed to be very in-
terested in the farm. In fact we were
not the least bit surprised when he
moved into the vilage and started sell-
ing insurance. He wanted an easier
way of living and a bigger car and all
that.
I've often wondered if Judson was
happy at his new work, That's why
I sort of dallied around and didn't go
out to the field right away to start in
at the haying again. ,I kind of
thought that, Judson; had something on
his mind. He sat on the edge of the
verandah and talked about a whole
lot of thiegs. It was the war .. . and
the new taxes , . . and the insurance
business. He started telling me about
his home and the fine, new kitchen
they have in it and of the advantage
there was for the children in being
able to go to school without having
to walk for a mile to do so.
It seemed to me that Judson was
trying to make explanations for his
way of living. I wasn't arguing but
lie was, He was trying to impress
me that he enjoyed living in the vil-
lage, He wanted me to see the many
advantages there are in a so-called
white-collar job. I just sat amid lis-
tened to him.
I'll never know what there was in-
side me that prompted to say, "Jud-
son, are you as happy in the village as
you were back on the old homestead
on the Twelfth Concession?" It sort
of startled him. He looked at me . —
got red in the face and then sat there
is if he were thinking for a long time,
After what seemed like a long time
he said, "That's what is bothering me
right now,"
Judson started talking again, just
like a fellow who has been away from
home for a long time and then meets
an old friend. It was almost a sad etc.
periencd to hear hint telling about the
different things that took place when
he was the "farmer" in place of the
'village business Matt',
He started' talking about the old
house and how he would like to fix: it '
Newest Canadian Pacific. Diner Serves Maritimes
as bright and clean as their own kitchens at home,
painted light buff and the lower portion a light brown
while the table tops are of mend metal. The kitchen is
30 feet, seven inches by six feet, eight inches, and equip-
ment includes an insulated range, charcoal broiler, re.
frigerator, ice chests, meat trays, storage space, several
sinks and a variety of cupboards. An innovation is that
the overhead lockers are equipped with a device which
locks a complete row with one lock instead of individual
lacks for oath compartment.
An attractive buffet at the entrance to the dining
room is of plain natural birch, while this finish is also
employed in the steward's roomy office at the appetite
end of thecar from the kitchen.
Heating for the co is ttiqmostatiesily controlled.,