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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1942-3-18, Page 6VOICE OF THE PRESS GRANDMA KNEW THAT One of the jokes that killed vaudeville was the one about how married Hien don't really live longer than single men it just seems longer. It wasn't a very good joke at Nest, and now comes the awful re- velation that it wasn't even true. A large life insurance firm has just completed a study which de- monstrates that married men ac- tually do live longer. They aro also less likely to commit suicide, drink themselves to death, and get themselves killed in accidents. The statisticians.. came to the conclusion that the favorable bal- ance toward longevity came from living "a fluidal family life," which ::anybody could have told them anyway. Little by little science is creep- ing up on common folk knowl- edge, and one of these days we'll have chapter and book for every one of those little things grend- ma knew so well without a static - tie to guide her- ICingst6n Whig -Standard —.e -- DIVE IDEA COPIED Dive bombing is a new science in . the present war, but duck hawks and other species of birds use this dive method for destroy- ing their prey. According to a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin, duck hawks, are, the fastest flying birds re- ported. "One of these hawks," says the bulletin, "diving on; its victim flew 165 to 180" miles an. hour when timed with a'stop watch. Diving at a flock of ducks, at a velocity of nearly 175 miles' an Stour, an aviator reports that a hawk, presentably a duck hawk, passed him as though the plane were standing still and struck one of the ducks." Man has copied the . dive idea but ,has • -surpassed even the -duck hawk -in --speed, the velocity of his descent being al- most three times as fast. ]Brockville: Recorder and Times SO HITLER THINKS Some 40 buildings owned by Norwegians who returned to Eng- land with raiding British ` com- mandos have been burned by the Nazis, all their other' property, has. been; seized and 100 of their male relatives have, been sent to Ger- roan concentration camps. Other- wise Hitler has everything under sontvol, almost: Windsor Star —o— KEY AS -•SALVAGE Grim humor often' appears in England Not long, ago a man senta key to" the Salvage office' of at'British railway company with the message "The house belong-'; ing to this key has been bombed. Please accept for salvage." Ch tha a m News HELPFUL! Scientists •say that a rubber substance may be extracted from dandelions, Well, we know sev- eral lawns that would provide' plenty of few material any Spring. --Stratford Beacon -Herald -e— OUT OP ORDER Such past sayings as "nothing down and the rest when you catch me," are out of order now. withthe new buying restrictions. —St. Thomas Times -Journal -o-- REMEMBER EIRE It isn't quite a world war yet. Don't think there are no neutral countries left. Remember, there's always Eire. -Windsor Star Windowless Plant Permits of Blackout Completely windowless, yet containing more glass than any other ..such ,structure, .a building that is.. as long. as 12 New.York City`blocks (its area is 4,000 .by 820 feet); and as high as a five storey ',blinding, has been dedi- eated by -the . United States Army at Fprt•Worth, Texas, relates The Toronto Telegram. it is for use in• the construction of $250,000 bombing planes; it liar cost $25;000,000; ' it has a huge assembly - room without a single pillar or obstruetion: It is without windows so • as to permit of complete blackout, and to pros mote .efficient air conditioning. The glass that is used is in the form of spun glass wool, used' in the steel walls (27,500 tons of. structural steel were required in the building), arid which will not only provide insulation but absorb from 65 to 75 percent of the lac- tory noises. It has been estimated that the four -inch glass -staffed steel walls of the assembly plant have the same heat and cold in- sulating properties of an ordinary brick wall thirty inches thick. The plant will employ 16,000 men. Great Britain expeets to obtain between 4,500 000,000 and 5,000,- 000,000 pounds of tnillc front the United Statesin the coming year, SHE HAD A HISTORIC ANCESTOR All set for. her Feb. .16th launching against America''s: Axis foes is the $80,000,000, 35,000 -ton super -dreadnaught Alabama, pictured above on the ways at Portsmouth, Va. She's the fourth naval vessel to bear the name, but one of the most picturesque of the Alabamas never flew the Stars and Stripes. ,She, was the famous Confederate , cruiser that ravaged Union shipping until sunk off Cherbourg, France, in the historic battle with the U.S.S. Kearsarg'e, - WINTER CONVOY : By Lieut. E. H. Bartlett, R.C.N.V.R. , - The fleet was at sea. Behind us were the days when Naval Control Service officers had sent out coded signals, moving our ships from berth to berth and port to port until the moment arrived when the ships were assembled, ready for their sailing into the war areas. Behindus, too, was the convoy conference, in which our commodores and our captains had discussed their final strdtegies in readiness; to face the enemy. Now the .fleet was' at sea. From the grey shore line we had left behind, to the far horizon to which we -were steaming ships Sloughed their solemn way through the waves. We were proceeding in "line ahead," for this was a mammoth argosy, numbering its ships in scores and waiting until' well clear of shore before forming cruising disposition for the night: "Line ahead" and "cruising dis- position!' — - good naval', term those, but 1t was not a battle fleet to which they were being applied. Our fleet was. .one of merchant ships,' peace time carriers o2 cargo whoto-day were getting out to Tun the gauntlet of torpedoes- and shells and bombs- from : enemy raider! of sea and :sky. • So, :since the first days of war, merchant ship convoys have been leaving Canadian parts. In .their, deep -laden hulls the ships:• have carried thee food supplies, the sin- ews of war, the vital necessitles, ,across the ocean to, the -Island Fortress which is Britain. • Secretly, for in secrecy Iies sale- ty, thoueands- of ships bearing millions of tons of cargo have left -Canada. Our convoy was typical. Purposeful Precision One night the port was' filled with merchant ships, riding lazily to their anchors in the peace of a sheltered harbour. The next day saw a harbour empty. Clanking windlasees'had 'raised the anchors;. churning propellers were driving the fleet on its way across the sea. Freon the bridge of gone of the . fleet's Royal Canadian Navy'a war- ship escorts I had seen the sailing of the fleet - and taad marvelled at thepurposbful precision with which it had been accomplished. In the gt'ey of an Atlantic, morn- ing we started to slip through the • opened, submarine gates which guarded the port. Signal penants,. whipping; in a growing wind which gave promise of a winter storm in the making, identified each .vessel quickly for,tba scurrying -launches which,- Bearing the Naval Control Service Officer .and his staff, were seeing that the sailing- schedule was being maintained. • - "We sail at .9.80' in the 'inorn- ing" had been; the final orders delivered the night before, At 9.90 in the morning, to the minute, the commodore's ship had started moving seaward, in pride of place as first of the Ships form - LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred 'Netter' SECRET :SERVICE EMPL MENT OFFICE,.. to,eJ'Ua conooltrlatoaNava t'calu,aat / ,,jam' Mit ,.�,n ' -27 =?E2. ii!E,r/ "I think qualitled. I'e been married twenty years an' my wife"still think: 1 have a'sick friend." lag "line ahead" "We will pass through the gates at so -many minute intervals" the night -before orders bad continued (and the 'httervele' were marvel lowly smejl.,) „ ' 4.t;the exact staled interval alter Via donlnlodote s ship. had :shown. , her teen• to: the moilen duty *.n. the des'Iiips 'the second shipof his 1eet"\4as•"thruetiitg liar "hew' in bis wake, • • These.: were .riot ships of was;, mark you, practised in fleet turn= oeuvres and &volutions,These. were portly cargo carriers,. their deep -laden hulls thrusting sullenly through the .water which their sis- ters in the fighting service knifed:, cleanly. Sullen or , keen, however, they, kept ,their station and the fleet put to sea on schedule. Pattern of Protection Ahead of it, Sturdy minesweepers had. assured -.a channel- free of possible danger from the: floating deaths which the enemy lets loose Upon the waters, Around •them, Canadian naval escort craft circled in ceaseless, vigilant guard against :submarine attack. Overhead, air- craft formed their share of the protecting screen which is given a fleet at sea, Our sea -most ships were rising. and falling to the Atlantic .swell long before the harbour behind us was emptied of our sisters. Up and down :the long Line of merchant ships the escort vessels steamed in steady patrol, weaving -their ceaseless pattern of protection which would not be relaxed until the convoy was safely in the var- ions harbours to which it was bound, •- • Slowly, . so slowly as to bo a1 most imperceptible; the Bee of ships commenced to alter form- ation.•From the commodore's .ship, at the head 'of the line, -signal. flags had whipped out. Veteran of many crossings, wise in the ways of a fleet et sea, the commodore- was ordering his charges .into shorter, more easily guarded col - mans. His vice and rear conw merlons, working to plans well prepared beforehand, were taking over their own divisions of mer- chantmen; manoeuvering them as skillfully and as 'steadily as, in other days (when they wore their flags in 'Ships 'of the fighting force)' they had manoeuvred ships of war, The; fleet came -into station. The one king eoluann Sniff into several shorter ons and the` size of 'the fleet became apparent. To port- and- starboard, ort•and-starboard, ahead and astern, were ships steadily steaming on- ward. These, were the siiiiih that Hitler boasted he. was going to;-, sweep from the 'seas! And these were from but one port! Supplies Go Through "We ' ploughed on through seas. growing steadily higher, and into, a wind which brought biting cold 1 with it. On our bridge, and in the dizzyingly swaying &row's nest on } our mast, keen -eyed seamen kept constant watch over the waters. ti Onthe bridges of the chips of our fleet, their fellows were sharing the vigil. At, ear -phones in the ships of war highly trained opera- tors were listening incessantly for • the warnings their submarine de- tectors might bring. • The fleet wasat sea, .. a fleet in which 'merchantmen as well as ships of war maintained battle stations. • . The cold became more apparent withthe coming .of night. in the gathering dusk we lost sight of the farther ships.. . or the high funnelled Greek and the newly - painted Norwegian: of the slab sided tanker with her tattered Red Ensign and 'the useful Iooking Dutchman whose captain was so'. proud that he had saved his ship from the Germans so that he could carry on his country's war at spa. They are international fleets sail- ing under the protection of the White Ilnsign these days, with all the flags of all the Free peoples , represented among them. Steadily the darkness blotted out the ships, There were no lights to give us away to the enemy, and keeping station called for anxious watch and constant .alertness, The experience gained in long months of war and hund'reds of such night watches now stood in good stead.` There was no slowing of the fleet, Daylight broke on a tumbling, white -crested sea -- with the ships plunging steadily onward through it, The fleet was at sea, and the supplies for the Front Line were going 'through. REG'LAR FELLERS—Gets His' Main PINNEAfjS RUMNIN' A COLLECTION SYSTEM/' WATCH ME HAVE SOME, FUN WIT4''it4 8G -FIST RILEY OWES ME A DIME;/IP itlu CAN COLLECT FROM NIM you CAN KEEP NINE CENTS FeeA YOURSELF / ,,. 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Made by Kelloggs in London, -Canada. 4.wra+0io' 1 NLAN MAURICEE NRAVIIN A Weekly' Column About This and That .in The Canadian Army it's rather a strange. thing that. a country whose eitisons aro able and willing to spend 60 tents of every dollar they receive on tite war effort, should ltnow so little about their Army—the biggest sin- gle item in their 60 cents worth. That: sounds like a sweeping assertion. it is a. sweeping asser- tion, and perhaps, like most gen- eralizations, slightly unfair. It le occasioned by a couple of news- paper clippings which chow that Canadian newspapermen ,are woe- fully Ignorant of Army terms. (They should read this column), Perhaps it is elevating the fourth' estate too highly to judge a coun- try by its Uewspape mep, - so an apology may be in order. The whole thing grows out of two abbreviations-"K.P. and. "A. W. 0. L." Both these terms are used a little too frequently in Can- adian newspaper, columns to please old soldiers this old soldier any way, for neither of them .apply to. the soldiers of the King, "K.P." is the abbreviation for a term current in bhe United Army . "Kitehen. Pollee'—it does not mean sentries placed on „guard duty to protect omrants and other delicacies from - predatory lingers —1t just means men,;,wlio have been detailed to assist in the non-tech- nical work in the kitchen. A tour , of duty on ''Kitchen Police" is sometimes ordered as a mild punishment. But the that that a' man is detailed for a job in the kitchen does not always niean that he has transgressed any Army regu=lations. In the individual Citizen's Army of Canada; work in the kitchen is ane of the regular "fatigues". for which all private soldiers are liable to bb he in detailed. t t ordinary course of events and, since a -kit- chen in your Army is invariably known as a:"cook-house," this duty should properly be referred tb -b� -.newspaper writers and others. as 'coop -house fatigue." (As one -who had his share M cook -house fatigue a quarter of a centary;ago, it Is probably unfair of me to point out teat some Com- manding Officer chance to look at this—that nine' times Out of ten itis a very welcome duty. There are such thingsas extra pieces 02 pie, apples that can 00, snitched, and other delicacies unoificfallp; available to the amateur cook- house staff, which makes the whole - proceeding rather melees as a punishment, even of the mildest variety.) The other abbreviation 1 coin - plain of win Canadian papers -is "A,W.O.L.," again a C.S. Arniy; term, meaning "absent without.ot ficial leave." If the united States Army cares to indulge in such re- dundanoy it is all right with me, but as an ex -soldier of an Arniy, in which leave is referred to pure. ly and simply as "leave," I feel that Canadian • newspapermen should stick to the Army abbrevi- ation of "A, W,L„ ' which means obviously "absent without leave." If a man has leave in your Army it has-been granted by higher:an• thority. Obviously then it does not need.;. to -be- called "Metal leave," there being no such 'thing as an unofficial variety, All the foregoing may seem to be trivial. Actually it • isn't. The Individual Citizeh's • Army is not only the greatest investment ever made by -the Canadian taxpayer it is an investment which spells to him or lier the difference between freedom':; and oppression, between life' and death. So like good in- vestors, .it behooves us to know everything we can shot) g-.plftev -� prise: in which e -.should all be Investing tin o . s 'buoy, o our or y work, oar , tE�, brains nue everything that we have: "The Man Who Relaxes Is Helping the Axis" Ambrose Harle, Galena, Ill., a' munitions bendier at the Army ordnance proving grounds, Sa- vanna, IIL, was commended by the • War Departmentfor sloganhe submitted' for use in manufactur- ing plants—"The man who re - lime isp ei i h ug.: the Axis." The Department said the slogan would be -used in plants working on Army orders. - IDUF COL LEX UN .AENSY Wea By GENE BYRNES YOU LEAVE IT TO US, MR. DUgAN WHAT WE Cid AFTER WE 2 ET •�THA7S MY MOTTO / i .DON'T SEE NO AIR PLAME18,,: 4 r t 511rights . lotve0