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inland as
troops near Salerno • move
they drive back the enemy to
clear 'a beachhead for succeeding waves of inviniow
in the first clash on the Italian mainland.
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• Everybody is thinking a great deal
about the future these days . . . planning
. . . getting ready for the period to follow
the war. All realize that the war may
bring surprises—but the tide is turning
in our favour.
`Chemists and engineers, producing things
needed for war, are making diScoveries
which will mean comforts and con-
veniences for all Of us when peace comes.
New methods of making things, new
processes, new materials, now being
filed away in blue prints and formulae,
will bring us many new and useful
articles. Many things not available now
will be replaced by better models
and designs.
You may have plans for a new home,
remodelling your present home, new
home, furnishings. If you are a farmer
you will need new and improved equip-
ment and machinery.
Now, while you are thinking and plan-
ning, you can do something to insure
that your plans can be carried out.
Victory Bonds—which can be bought
on convenient instalments, with money
as you get it—provide a means of keep-
ing your savings intact, earmarked for
things you want.
Most Canadians are saving money.
Most of us are buying Victory
Bonds and when we buy Victory
Bonds we are helping to win the war.
We are helping to speed the day of
victory and we are doing something
that will benefit ourselves.
WHAT IS A VICTORY BOND?
A VICTORY BOND is the promise of the
Dominion of Canada to repay in cash the face
value of the Bond on the date of maturity with
half-yearly interest until that time. A Victory
Bond is the safest investment in Canada backed
by the entire resources of the Dominion. Canada
has been issuing bonds for 75 years, and has
never failed to pay every dollar of principal and
interest when due, A Victory Bond is an asset
readily marketable at any time.
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into a useful product. (Owing to the
labour involved and the large amount
of water needed in the process it is
obvious that the method of manure-
•, making is not practicable on the great
Majority of farms."
.4.1MAGING Tiff XNRMY CON ITAIJAN BEACH
Retreading Of Passenger Car
Tires Permitted -
Ottawa—Munitions Minister Howe
announced that all passenger car own-
ers now may have their tires retreaded
with passenger type camelback without
.a tire ration permit,
The new order does not affect the
conditions governing the sale of new
tires for essential passenger cars. Ap-
plicants must continue to certify that
their tires or tubes are completely un-
usable and cannot possibly be repaired
and kept in•service.
Ontario Studying Plan For ,
Sickness Insurance
Kitchener—Dr. R. P. Vivian, Ont-
ario of Health, said that he hoped
through some form of lowcost sick-
ness insurance "every citizen of the
province would be able to obtain med-
ical and surgical care and hospitaliza-
tion."
"The Government of Ontario intends
to investigate the sickness insurance
field," he told the annual 'meeting of
'the North Waterloo Medical Society.
A "reorganization of the functions of
the Department of Health" was one
of the "broad principles of policy of
the Provincial Government."
Premier Drew 'Delivered
Radio Address
Toronto—Premier Drew, called upon
last month to head a Progressive Con-
servative Administration iii Ontario,
when 38 members of his party were
elected compared with 34 for the C. C.
F., said in a radio address Friday night
the new Government will introduce
legislation "just as we . would have
done if we possessed a very large
majority,"
It then will rest with the legislature
whether the . legislation is to be sup-
ported Premier Drew said in an ad-
dress over a regional network of the
CBC, embracing 23 Ontario stations,
assure you we have no thought
of temporizing, and we are quite pre-
pared to face the consequences of
standing by what we said we would
do," said the premier, "I prefer to be-
lieve that a substantial majority of the
members of the Legislature will cast
their votes in accordance with what
,they believe to be in the best: interests
of the people of Ontario,
Germans Evacuate Smolensk
London—Smolensk ,greatest German
base on the Russian central front for
more than two years, has been evactt.
ated and left open for the encircling
Soviet army to otter without further
delay, Berlin said,
Evacuation of the city 210 miles
northeast of threatened Kiev, was an-
mouriced in a DNB broadcast recorded
by Reuters News Agency.
Fall of 'the bastion, once the head-
qttarters front which Hitler person-
ally directed the futile Nazi thrust at
Moscow, would constitute, one• of the
most disastrous defeats suffered by
German forces in the current Russian
offensive,
Wheat Prices May,Soar
To 0.25 A 13usliel
'Winnipeg—Prairie farmers are go-
to have that lingle,jarIgle feeling
this Pall—cash hi their purses in eon.
trust with empty potkets in many pre-
War years.
,Speeding farm work to• bring %n Vital
war crops before wintry days halt the
field operations, farmers have had opti-
mistic news on the home front.
The Winnipeg Grain Exchange,
which early in the year attracted little
attention, once again is in the front:-
line of farmers' news interest,
Wheat prices are the highest in
open market trading since 1937, and
with increased export demand, $1.25 a
bushel wheat is talked of,
Picks Greater .Of
Two Evils
Hartford—Lou Cohen, theatre man-
ager, reported that a woman who
planked down $375 for a United States
war bond told hint she had been sav-
ing the money to get a divorce, but
that she hated Hitler worse than she
did her husband.
Have Liberated 20,000
Prisoners In Italy
London—The Morocco radio, in a
broadcast recorded by The Associated
Press, said 20,000 British and Ameri-
can prisoners had been liberated by
the Italians and have joined Italian
patri.ots despite Field Marshall Erwin
Rommel's „offer of 1,800' lire reward for
each prisoner handed over to the Ger-
mans, The Morocco broadcast added
that.i recently 3,000 prisoners crossed
into'Switzerland.
Must Surrender In The Nude
Pittsburg, Cal—The Japanese soldier
who wants to surrender to Allied
troops in the Pacific must first -take
off all his clothing and advance in the
nude, says Pte, Albert S. Vedovelli, a
veteran of Guadalcanal. Vedovelli,
under treatment for shrapnel wounds,
explained why; "U. S. soldiers have
been fooled by treacherous Japs who
feign surrender and then blow them-
selves and their captors to bits, with
hidden hand grenades,"
Six-Point Peace Offered By Hess
London—Rudolf Hess, Germany's
deputy Feuhrer, sitting now in deject-
obscurity in Britain as a . prisoner of
war brought with him six specific pro-
posals for peace on his weird flight to
Scotland May 10th, 1941.
He proclaimed that Hitler wanted
"to stop fighting," but was prepared
to smash Britain' and put her in per-
petual bondage unless she took the op-
portunity of calling off the war,
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
told the story in the House of Com-
mons after two years of official silence.
To Draft U. S. Citizens After
Three Months' Residence
Ottawa—Labor Minister Mitchell
announced a, change in procedure for
dealing with citizens of the United
States under mobilization regulations
in Canada whereby an American citi-
zen after three months' residence in
the Dominion 'will be required to re-
port for service either with the Can-
adian or American armed forces if he
is in category liable to compulsory
military service in Canada.
OVERSEAS PARCELS
MUST BE MAILED .
BEFORE NOVEMBER
A parcel on Christmas Day is worth.
a couple of parcels.the .day after, To
keep Christmas from being a day of
disappointment for Canada's men and
women in uniform overseas, the Post
Office Department has sent out a few
reminders to those at home who will
be packing' Christmas parcels,
First of all, parcels must be mailed
early—before November 1st. Some of
the parcels have a long' way to go this
year and shipment of war supplies !ha-
its cargo space If parcels are mailed
late, reaching the Post Office on Nov.
ember 1st. or after, there may, not be
any shipping space available and the
parcels will be delayed. Post Office
authorities say that it is Wise to mail
early in October- to keep away from
'the deadline rush,
Parcels must not contain jams or
syrups unless they are in sealed con-
tairters (not giasi bottles) , with the
container surrounded by absorbent
material 'and, the whole securely tied
in strong corrugated cardboard. Art.
ides that may spoil or be damaged
should never be included and any in-
flammable substances are strictly pro-
hibited by law. Parcels should be
Packed compactly in a sturdy box,
wrapped in heavy wrapping paper and
securely tied with strong cord, Re-
member—in travelling there may be a
ton of weight on the parcels.
The address on parcels must be as
complete as possible, and written clear-
ly in ink. A return address should be
on the cover and a slip enclosed in the
parcel bearing the return address as
well as the address on the cover. Mail-
ing charges must be prepaid correctly.
The maximum allowed weight is 11
pounds for a parcel going to a man or
woman in the armed services but the
postal authorities are asking that par-
cels be lighter and as compact as pos-
sible this year, so that the greatest
number can be shipped in the space
available.
ARTIFICIAL MANURE
Shortly after the Great War, Messrs.
Richards and Mitchinson of the Roth-
amsted Experimental Station devised
a method of converting straw and
other vegetable matter into a material
which they called "Artificial Manure,"
In this process there is added to the
wetted raw material a fertilizer con-
taining nitrogen and phosphoric acid
which nourish the bacteria instrumen-
tal in rotting the vegetable matter.
The necessary bacteria being present
in the•air do not have- to be supplied
in a culture. To prevent excessive
acidity which would tend to restrain
the activity of these bacteria, some
carbonate of lime (limestone) is also
added. 'The fertilizer and limestone
mixture is used at the rate of about
7% pounds to 100 pounds of dry straw
or other vegetable matter. The total
weight of water used is about three
and a .half times that of the straw,
and the rotting process takes from
three to six months.
Following the erperimental work at
the Rothamsted Experimental Station,
the details of the process and of the
materials, used were placed in 'the
hands of a commercial firm, who un-
dertook to place these materials upon
the market with directions for their
use. This "reagent" is offered for
sale under-the trade name of "Adco."
A somewhat similar method of con,
verting waste vegetable matter to arfi:
ficial manure was tried by this divis-
ion using straw, commercial fertilizers
and ground limestone. The following
procedure was found necessary.
The straw was spread on the ground
to a depth of about 2 feet and thor-
oughly wetted, A fertilizer composed
of
Sulphate of ammonia ......,..,.......40 pounds
Superphosphate - 35
Muriate of potash , 5 tt
Ground limestone 20 "
was distributed as evenly as possible
over the heap at the rate of about 7%
pounds per 100 pounds of dry straw.
Alternate layers of straw (well wet-
ted), and fertilizer were built up to A
convenient height and were well pack-
ed 'by tramping as the pile increased.
In the course of a week the temp-
erature of the mixture rose consider-
ably, showing that totting was pro-
ceeding, From' time to' time water
was added if the outside of the pile
appeared to be dry, At the end of three
months a considerable shrinkage of
the pile had taken place aed an exam-
ination of the material show'ed that
the straw had darkened in colour, was
well broken down and resembled
coarse strawy manure in texture and
was quite suitable for application to
the soil.
A field experiment with potatoes
in which. this artificial manure was
compared: with barnyard manure gave
a field of 247 bushels for the former
and 257 bushels for the latter,
The analysis of the above artificial
manure is compared with that of aver.,
age barnyard manure in the following
,
HAS SMALLEST PET
OF ARMED FORCES
What is perhaps the smallest pet
owned by a member of the Armed
Forces of the United Nations, passed
through' the Canadian National Cent.
ral Station recently with its owner,
LAC. M. A. E, Horsley of London,
England, men-tbe of the Royal Air
Force, training in Canada. It was a
mouse measuring two and a qiiarter
inches, whose living quarters are a
pocket of the airman's tunic.'As LAC,
Horsley was waiting to board "The
Scotian," he had his pet go thruogh
a few tricks he had taught him, much
to the amusement of fellow travellers
and onlookers,
"I have always had a penchant for
mice," he told J, C. Webber, station
master at the Central Station. "I
picked this little fellow "up two years
ago and lie has travelled thousands
of miles ,with me. We • started our
companionship in London, England,
journeying together 'to many parts of
Canada and over the border to De-
troit,"
On one occasion, when in training
near Toronto, LAC. Hordey had to
leave his diminutive pet with the child-
mn of a family he knew in the Queen
City. When he returned for his mouse
later, he found it in fine shak. An-
other time, when on route from Eng-
land, the mouse was lost and it was
not until sonic days later that it was
found.
When. asked how he managed with
feeding arrangements, LAC, Horsley
said he found bread and milk and a
little calcium good diet,
Textile Loss Through
Bleaches Proved Great.
According to experiments carried
out in the Laundry and Dry Cleaning
Laboratory of the National Research
Council, Ottawa, the missuse of Javelle
water, or' sodium hypochlorite solution
as it is known to scientists, is the cause
of a great annual loss of textiles.
Laundry experts have been trying
for years to eliminate over bleaching
with its resultant deterioration of fah-
tic,
Prolonged rubbing of a stain 1.miy
weaken the fibres of a fabric, therefom
when stains become difficult to rp-
move, bleach is often necessary.
Bleach should only be used when Other
efforts are unsuccessful and then in the
proper solution and never at, boiling
temperature, To use less titan the
amount given in manufacturers' in-
structions is better than to use_ more.
Often directions accompanying bleach-
es call for the use of more than 1
really safe for the fabric.
Starvation is Taking
Terrible Toll In India
New Delhi—With the death toll
from, starvation sometimes exceeding
50 a day in Calcutta alone, India's
Food Grains Committee put forward
a new rationing plan designed to bring
some degree of remedy if it can get 11
provinces and a score of big states to
agree. Food rationing in all of India's
several score of cities of more than
100,000 population is proposed.
Move At Washington
To Free Philippines
Wash i ngt o n—An administration-
backed move was launched in Con-
gress to give the Japanese-occupied
Philippines- immediate independence
from the United States.
Phosphoric
Nitrogen Acid Potash
. % % %
Artificial manure ....„ 0.37 0.22 0,10
Barnyard Manure— 0.56 0.25 0,50
Market gardeners who have diffi-
culty in obtaining sufficient manure
and who have 4. great deal of veget-
able waste thouId find this a satisfat-
t6ty method of, converting the latter