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NEW SPEED LIMIT?
Ontario is said to be ready to
tut its speed limit to forty miles
dor hour. Splendid. But don't
it unless backed by the inten-
tion to enforce it.
Thomas Times -Journal.
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EARLY RISING HAZARD
A. noted 'physician says that a
flier should not pilot a dive
bomber until be has been out of
bed at least three hours. By ex-
tension, this indicates why many
a husband has never been able
to operate an electric toaster,
—.St. Catharines Standard,
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SHADES OF VICTORY!.
The eight new shades of hosiery,
the Woman's Page announces, are
brown butter, honeycomb, sun -
charm, cocobark, wineblush, aero -
beige, amokehaze and black
rhythm. And Just in the nick of
time, too. We were beginning to
wonder how we'd worry through
the war with only the 3,468 other
shades now in use.
—Windsor Star.
HORSE WILL COME BACK
In this time of shortage of labor
the horse as a power unit has
been somewhat put in the back-
ground, but Dr. Christie, when
addressing the Shorthorn breed-
ers at the O.A.C., Guelph, on the
occasion of their annual field day,
predicted that the old horse would
come back into prominence in the
next few years as a source of
power. Tractors will be avail-
able, but it was contended they
would be pore or less under regu-
'keen. With the rising cost of
gasoline, oil an -d repair parts,
many may find It necessary to
again turn to the power unit thlt
la reared on the farm and fed on
the crops grown on the farm. A
great many of the horses are get-
ting old, said Dr. Christie, and
he advised breeding more mares
to meet the need for /arm horse
power which he believed would
be required in the near future.
—The Farmer's Advocate.
The Book Shelf
"ENGLAND'S .HOUR"
By Vera Brittain
At the beginning of this book,
Vora Brittain, who is the wife of
Prof. G. E• G. Gales, presents a
picture of her lite in the beautiful,
peaceful countryside of England.
With dramatic suddenness the
scene Is changed to London where
she writes elsewhere, "The Wheel
of Fate has resolved to bring
London this her hour. The eyes of
the whole world are turned upon
her and she nerves herself to face
her long ordeal."
Miss Brittaln's purpose is to pre-
sent, from several angles, this war-
time lite as It bas appeared to the
ordinary London citizen from day
to day."
She describes the evacuation of
the children, among them her own
son and daughter, to the Colonies
and the United States; the pre-
caution taken against air -raids and
life in the shelters. She tells of the
wonder of the people that "this
could happen to them," their
anger, sorrow and courage, and
withal their stoical sense of hu-
mour. The people of England
have adjusted themselves to the
unparalleled mode of life—all in
a country that the German press
insists has lost its morale.
England, to Miss Brittain, means
the England of lovely fields and
lanes and country, and "though
the cities may be destroyed the
villages of the country will be
England forever."
"England's Hour" . by Vera
Brittain —.Published Published by Macmillan
Company of Canada, Toronto .
Price $2.75.
Ontario's Jailing
More Bachelors
Fewer Married Men Are To
Be Found In the Prisons of
the Province
More than Kite as many Bach-
elors are in Ontario prisons as
married men, the recent annual re-
port of Ontario prisons and re-
forozator!es revealed. However,
married women were committed
more often to prison than single
girls.
MARRIED WOMEN OUTNUMBER
SINGLE/
The report shows that 10,887
married men, as compared to 20,-
880 single men, went to prison last
year. A total of 872 married wo-
men were imprisoned compared
with 866 single women.
A test conducted by the Ontario
Reformatory at Guelph allowed
that only 18 of more than 1,000 in-
mates would rank with a college
or university student, The test also
revealed that 867 inmates had the
educational statue of a grade five
peril or lower,
MYRNA LOY IN NEW ROLE
M
ed Peter,
theD r, Loy
her recent
holiday stay at Jasper National
Park, and Peter' approved the
big role in the life of a fawn.
Miss Loy, free of Hollywood
engagements, planned an ex-
tensive vacation in the Cana-
dian Rockies, They visited all jasper beauty spots and were sue-
cesefuhin fishing expeditions to the Maligne River.
—Canadian National Railways.
THE WAR - WEEK — Commentary on Current Events
One Headline Sums up News
"World In An Awful Mess"
An editor of a paper in a
naylvania town after listing the
fast -breaking international de-
velopments, said; "If you can
think of a better headline to sum-
marize all this, let us know:
"World In An Awful Mess."
Pen- action of Britain and the U. S.
in freezing Japanese funds and
stocks of raw silk, and strength-
ening the defenses of Singapore
and the Philippines, the Nipponese
Government froze all British and
American assets. The U. S. fur-
ther bolstered her defenses by
declaring a national emergency,
moved to authorize the retention
of her soldiers in service for the
duration of the war. Also Jap
vessels were barred from passing
through the Panama Canal,
Fears Trade Strangulation
Japan has for the past few
years been living in constant
dread of a trade embargo, which,
London experts claim, could bring
Japanese industry to its knees
in six months. Her economic
position is already bad, owing to
the long war with China. Last
week Britain revoked her three,
treaties (Britain and Japan, Bur-
ma and Japan, and India and
Japan), through which the Land
of the Rising Sun had been re-
ceiving a large part of its vital
imports. The Netherlands East
Indies cut off oil and tin ship-
ments to Japan, except for speci-
fic and approved transactions.
In spite of these threats of a
concerted blockade of Japan, it'
appeared nevertheless that she in-
tended to continue her vast ex-
pansionist program and establish
a living sphere in French Indo
China, Thailand, Malaya, Burma,
the Netherlands East Indies and
the U. S. Philippines.
Invasion Season At Hand.
Prime Minister Winston Chur-
chill said in the House of Com-
mons last week: "The invasion
season is at hand. All armed
forces have been warned to be at
concert pitch by September and
to maintain the utmost vigilance."
Mr. Churchill rejected demands
that he appoint a' minister of pro-
duction and proceeded to show
that Britain's war production in
all its forms "had gone on steadily
not only in volume but even at
this altitude, in momentum." The
Prime Minister declared that Ger-
many's air superiority had been
broken and that British produc-
tion of planes, exclusive—of im-
porta from the U. S., bad, iii"Clic
last twelve months, doubled the
R. A. F.'s power to bomb Ger-
many at a 1,500-mile•range. He
said that "the battle of the At-
lantic, with the help of the Uni-
ted States, is moving slowly and
ateadily in Britain's favor." More
British ships were being built
now than at any time in the first
wor:d war, and in three months
this year, one thousand more field
guns had been produced than in
the corresponding period a year
ago.
R. A. F. Still Active
Of great importance is the fact
that daily bombings by the R. A.
F. of objectives in German ter-
ritory have continued with in-
creased intensity and destructive
force.
Mediterranean Area
Meanwhile with the conquest of
Syria, consolidation of positions
in Libya, and the withdrawal of
vast Nazi Forces from the Medi-
terranean area, the whole Allied
position throughout this zone had
been strengthened.
Last week a large British con-
voy successfully passed through
the Mediterranean with supplies
for Syria, instead of taking the
longer route around Africa.
Japan's Ambitions
Japan last week moved into
Indo-China "to safeguard the
colony's territorial integrity and
protect both French and Japanese
interests," The Japanese press
claimed that Toyko was forced to
occupy this country because Bri-
tish, Free French and American
interesta threatened to move in.
Japan thereupon took over air
bases, sea bases and landed 40,000
troops at Saigon, the capital of
French Indo-China.
In retaliation for the quick
Where Everybody Fights
Hitler said in "Mein Kampf"
that the bandit was the only fac-
tor that could render a mechan-
ized army impotent. In Russia
every soldier is trained in guer-
illa warfare, and every Commun-
ist man or woman, is trained in
the "art" of sabotage. The whole
Russian nation has had a certain
amount of military training and
at least a quarter of the popula-
tion know how to handle firearms.
Throughout the last twenty years
life has been organized around
the idea of meeting the threat of
war, and the role of each individ-
ual planned for defense. Every
industrial plant has an armed
defense force and its secret muni-
tions depot to be used if there
is need- to sabotage the plant.
The attitude of the ordinary work-
er in Russia is that the welfare
of the Fatherland depends on
him and him alone. War has
strengthened this attitude so that
now any Russian may be counted
upon at the proper time to risk
all he has, even his life. These
are the people who are prepared
to wage an unrelenting and pro-
longed war of sabotage should
the Germans drive them deeper
into their own land.
Nayls Slaw Down
Guerilla warfare had undoubt-
edly been the cause of the slow-
ing down of the second German
offensive on the Russian front,
In guerilla warfare, small army
units are trained to make them-
selves independent of the central
command and are capable, if cut
off from the main body, of con-
tinuing the battle. 'Their practice.
ie to fix in advance bases to
which they can retreat and where
supplies and ammunition are stor-
ed. In past Nazi campaigns the
conquest of a key position was the
end of a battle; in this one it
is only the beginning, Even the
German commentators have ad-
mitted that the Russians are utas-
ters of retreat and "luring on"
tactics.
Who Has The Advantage
Last week the Blitzkrieg ap-
peared to have been stalled and
turned into a war of position and
endurance, Which side can stand
the increasing strain the longer?
In the Red Army, there was last
week no sign of decreased co-
hesion or lack of skill, courage or
morale. Russia's plentiful oil sup-
ply is readily available; Germany's,
on account of lengtheninglines
of communication and the de-
struction of vast supplies at the
base stores, has become an acute
problem.
Time, too, is on the side of the.
Russians. The wheat fields of
the Ukraine are no longer green.
If the Russians are compelled to
retreat eastwards and If they can-
not gather the harvest, they will
now be able to burn it.
"Annihilated" Russians
The Russians might lose the
Ukraine coal and iron industries,
they might lose Leningrad and its
vast industrial facilities; but the
dispersal of Soviet armies east-
wards would still leave them ad-
equate factories and munitions
plants outside the grasp of the in-
vaders.
The latest German report as
we went to press claimed that the
encircled Russians in the'Smo-
lensk area had been virtually an-
nihilated. Moscow claimed that
the Germans had been driven
back with heavy losses in this
area and also in the Urkaine, The
present standing might be sum-
med up in the latest story about
the Russo -German war:
"What is the annihilated Rus-
sian army doing today?"
"Oh, it is holding up the ever -
advancing Germans."
Sea Harvest Includes
Winkles and Whales
Sea and inland fisheries of
Canada have a market value of
over $40,000,000 annually, re-
cords the Industrial Department
of the Canadian National Rail-
ways which maintains a fleet of
refrigerator cars to handle the sea
harvest from the Atlantic and
Pacific Coasts. The sea fishes of
Canada cover more than fifty
varieties from Alewives and An-
chovies to Winkles and Whales
with such intermediate specimens
as octopus and swordfish. One
by-product of the fishing indus-
try is the gathering of dulsa'-and
green seaweed. Of the former
5,000'hundredweight is gathered
annually for those who regard
this marine vegetation as a deli-
cacy, while 11,220 hundredweight
of green seaweed furnielcs a con-
siderable amount of insU]'tion ma-
terial.
The Riddle Box
What vegetable is anything but
agreeable on board ship?
A leek (lea:.).
Why does the razorbill raise her
bill?
To let the sea u:ch!n see her
chin.
What root are policemen most
familiar with .
The :teat route (beet -root).
America is God's Crucible, the
great Melting -pot where all the
races of Europe are melting a)id
reforming! . . , God is -making
the American.—Israel Zangwill.
REG'L. AR FELLERS—The Customer Is Right
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Saving Ontario's
Natural
Resources
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By G, C, Toner
(Ontario Federation of Anglers
and Hunters)
NO. 62
. A GLACIER'S TRACK
In last week's article T told of
the great glaciers that once cov-
ered most of Canada, but I neg-
lected to tell how we know that
such ice ages took place. In many
parts of the world, Alaska and
Switzerland are examples, there
are great mountain glaciers. ligroin
the study of these we know how
the ice eats the crocks. Glaciers
leave a definite track that is quite
characteristic no matter where
found and these tracks, are common
on the glaciated parte of Ontario,
So easily are these marks identified
the geologist ,can now outline al-
most the exact path of the ice
and how far it reached."
Trcaes of Ice' Age
Continental glaciers still exist
in Greenland and around the poles,
These are quite distinct and def-
inite and maybe the last traces
of the lee age that occurred in
the not so distant past. Certainly,
they appear to be caused by much
the same conditions that are sup-
posed to have caused the North
American glaciers, a drop of a -few
degrees in the mean annual tem-
perature so that all the snow that
falls in the winter does not melt
in the summer. Even a small
amount would soon pile up and
would help to lower the tempera-
ture still further.
Reason Uncertain
The ultimate reason for ice ages
are still uncertain. Volcanic dust
may have lowered the amount of
heat from the sun that reached
the earth or a change in the com-
position of the air may have oc-
curred. Whatever was the rea-
son it happened five times, each
followed by a period when there
was a warmer climate. Some geo-
logists believe that we are in an
Interglacial period now and that
in a few thousand years the ice
will pile up again. This, of course,
Is pure speculation, that can not
even be proved by the old adage,
"Walt and see."
`Kangaroo' Tanks
Italian press despatches from the
Russian -Finnish front the other day
reported the appearance of 120 Sov-
iet "Kangaroo" tanks, each carry-
ing three baby tanks which can be
launched against the enemy.
The mother tank crashes a
hole in the German -Finnish lines.
and, once through, releases the
small tanks, the story said. •
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
Don't Give Up;
Take Your Time
Artlflclal Respiration Msy
Resuscitate Drowned Parson
^—Follow simple Rules ¢are
fuilY
Clip out these simple life saving
instructions, paste them on a piece
of cardboard and hang thein' lop
in a convenient spot. In an em-
ergency, they may help to save a
life,
Begin wont the very mo4:nent an
unconscious person is taken from
•the water, sn ;,r
Do not rush the body away, Do
not waste time Sinding a better
spot or loosening clothes.
Office started, do not, even far
moment, break Cho rhythm. Worka.
ere should take spells without a
missed beat.
As to the Sobatea- method of re-
suscitation—
Place the victim on a bard sur -
farce. Have ]lead, if possible, slight-
lY lower than rest of body, With
finger remove false teeth, tobacco
or other substance.
Lay patient on stomach. Extend
one arm straight overhead. Bend
other arm at elbow. Rest bead on
]sand or forearm. Turn face so that
nose and mouth are free.
Kneel, straddling the patient's
thighs, your knees somewhat, below
hie hip bones. Place your palms on
the small'of his back, fingers on his
ribs, your little finger just touching
the lowest rib, the tips of your fin-
gers just out of sight.
Hold your arms stiff. Then swing
forward . slowly. Bring weight of
your body to bear gradually on pa-
tient until your shoulder is direct-
ly over the heel of your hand at
the swing. Time of this operation,
2 seconds.
Immediately swing backwards to -
remove completely the pressure.
Wait 2 seconds. Then awing for-
ward again.
Repeat deliberately this double
movement of compression and re-
lease 12 to 15 tunes a. minute.
Above all, do not stop for hours.
and hours, if necessary, Do not
stop until breathing begins or until
rigor mortis (death stiffening) sets
'in.
Onee as'tifieial respiration has
been started—while it is going on
—tight clothing should be loosened
about the neck, chest and waist.
Keep the patient warm.
Do not give any liquid of airy
kind until the patient is conscious.
A stimulant may then be given.
But de not let hint sit up. If he
should at any time stop ireathing,
resume artificial respiration at
once.
Remember, absence of lung or
heart action is not necessarily evi-
dence of death. A drowned person
may not be dead. Start resuscita-
tion and keep at It until life or
death has been proven beyond
doubt. Maybe an hour's extra effort
will save a precious life.
By Fred Neher
thole/lad b, commute. tie. ,,�, r„new,
"He thought if we got away from each other for a while it n oad
help our friendship!”
SEE. HERE,SONNY./ DOM'T YOU
THINK COMING IN HERE
EIGHT TIMES IN THREE . BAYS
IS A BIT OF A RACKET?
By GENC BYRNES
VERY WELL, MY GOOD
MAN; FOR THAT
CRITICISM I'LL JEST
TAKE ALL MY BUSINESS
TO SOME OTHER BANK
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