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N() COURAGE IN ESCAPISM
"No; escapism at this time is
not good enough. Let us by all
means keep as long as we can
whatever joys are left in life;
keep our sense of humor and all
of the love and kindliness that
should exist in human comrade-
ships and within homes and fami-
lies; and keep as well our ideas
of justice and sportsmanship and
fair play, and our inherited in-
stincts of compassion . rid mercy
and pity. But, holding fast to
these things, refusing to abandon
ourselves to sombre nightmares of
gloom, let us not try to create
within or among ourselves a false
psychology of escape from this
war. Courage, the great need of
the hour, cannot be born of that.
—Ottawa Journal
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DANGEROUS BB RIFLES
A strong campaign is being
started against the use of BB
rifles in the hands of small boys.
In Brantford, still another boy
has lost the sight of one eye and
many complaints are coming in
from all parts of the province.
One doctor in Brantford tells of
treating three cases of wounding
by BB guns in one week. There
should be far greater restrictions
on the sale of BB guns and am-
munition to minors and it is to
be hoped the recent shootings in
various parts of Ontario will bring
such restrictions into being.
—Niagara Falls Review.
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HUTS FROM HOLLAND
A shipment of 25,000 hate re-
cently arrived on the Russian
front from Holland. Each hut
could house 25 Nazis and each-
but was fitted out comfortably.
That is only one indication of
the way Hitler is using the oceu-
-eied countries to further his cam-
paigns. —Windsor Star
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THE LITTLE DARLINGS
One effect of the sugar ration-
ing, as reported by a Toronto
grocer, is that many customers
who previously had only one of
:two children slow come ia't and
brag about their large families.
Trying to kid him!
—Ottawa Citizen.
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.WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE LII ;
WOMEN
1. They are thinner than they
used to be.
2. There is a bold face type.
3. Back numbers are not in de-
mand.
4. They have a great deal of
influence.
5. Every man should have one
el his own and not chase after
his neighbor's.
St. Thomas Times-J'ournale
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INCONSISTENT
The odd thing about Mr. Eamon
de Valera, Premier of Eire, is
that, while he will not allow Brit-
ish ships the use of Eire's bases,
he is perfectly content to allow
British ships to convoy goods
from the U. S. to Eire.
--Brantford Expositor.
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IT DOES THE JOB
Toxoid treatment does prevent
diphtheria. This has been proved
to the hilt in scores and hundreds
of cities. The moral is clear. No
parent should dare to allow any
child of his to go without immuni- •
i.ation against diphtheria.
Edmonton Journal.
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GREATEST OMELET
If there was any point to it,
the world's greatest omelet could
be made from the 3,311,000,000
eggs which were laid by 368,000,-
000 hens in the United States in
the month of January last.
—Woodstock Sentinel -Review.
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WHAT A.R.P. MEANS
It still seems in effect that
most of the argument about
A.R.P. conies down to whether
those letters stand for air raid
perhaps or air raid probably.
—Vancouver Province.
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AUTOMOBILE PROGRESS
1940—No running beards.
1941—No gear shifts.
1942—No tires.
1943—No cars. —Grit.
Huge Food Orders
For Great Britain.
The British Food Ministry has
intimated through the Minister of
Agriculture at Ottawa that it will
be in the market this year for
10,000 long tons of Canadian
beans. This information is being
passed along to the bean growing
centres. Price quotations are
Nought.
Canada will be sending a lot of
flood over this year, if it all gets
there. The campaign of sinking&
ie being much intensified and the
new risk they suggest is not over-
looked.
The bacon order is over 600,-
000,000 pounds and the wheat
order 175,000,000 bushels,
?Slillians of pounds of cheese,
hitter, prepared meats and fruits
,fatter into the food consignment,
A 150,000 UPSET
Pictured above is an upset for turf history books. It shows The Rhymer, Greentree Stables' "un-
known," 15 -to -1- shot, pounding across the line, Jockey Arearo tip, in the seventh running of the
$50,000 Widener Cup Race at Miami's Hialeah Park. The favorite, Market Wise, and all the name
nags like Mioland, Attention and Challedon, finished 'way back in the field of 17 starters. Best Seller
was second and Olympus third.
A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army
Once upon a time the cockiest
looking soldier you would encoun-
ter was the Highlander, character-
ized by the swing of his kilt and
his glistening white spats.
Today kilts are very seldom
seen and the palm for cockiness
has to he awarded to the Tank
Corps man who wears a beret at a
cocky angle and walks the streets
with an air reminiscent of Kip.
ling's cat to whom all places are
alike.
And all places are alike to him.
From the steel -walled turret of
his tank he looks at everything
he encounters with the unbiased,
unembarrassed and unworried
look of a man who known he can
brush aside any barrier, surmount
any obstacle.
In the interests of the readers,
of this column I made an investi-
gation into what makes a "tanker"
tick a few days ago.
Because I am not as young aa
I used to be and, therefore, a mite
on the clumsy side I have a few
assorted bruises to report that the
young, fit, well-trained tank man
would not.
Perhaps I'd better begin at the
beginning.
The Commandant of the Train-
ing Centre said — his eyes may
have been twinkling, I couldn't
see because of the shine on his
glasses — "we'll have a tank
brought round for you to look at."
That was all right. But it
didn't stop at that. When the
tank arrived—all 30 tons of it—
a helpful sergeant poked his head
out of the driver's hatch and said:
"Shall I take the gentlemen for
a ride, air?"
Bow Bowman of the C.B.C.,
was the reason for the plural. We
looked at each other. We .lookea
at the sergeant. There was no
mistake about the twinkle in his
eye.
We climbed in. By the time
I had hoisted a middle-aged leg
over the rim of the gun turret 1
seemed an awful distance from
the ground.
A slightly hysterical major,
who roared with laughter from
start to finish of the ride, advised
me to stand on the gunner's stool
with my head and shoulders in the
open. "You'll ' see more from
there." I felt more, too. And
every time I looked inside during
the quarter of an hour that we
careeerd up hill and down dale
there was the major, wedged in a
corner of the gun turret, cackling
horribly at my wild attempts to
lessen the force of the buffets
delivered by the plunging iron
hippopotamus.
The tank man, to judge by my
reactions, has a sense of power
and invincibility as he advances
steadily with a disregard for any-
thing confronting him that no
other soldier feels. Certainly I
never felt it in France a quarter
of a century ago.
Once you have safely clambered
out of the tank after your first
trip you realize that you have
never had such a feeling of safety
in any mode of travel before. It
didn't seem quite the same when
the driver put on speed, hurtled
down a steep bank, rolled a few
boulders aside, took a ditch in
stride, climbed the side slope of
a hill, turned in his tracks and
charged down it again and headed
straight for a tall and very thick -
looking tree.
After the first tree it was dif-
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred Neher
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ferent. You don't dodge any
more and you get that feeling
that it doesn't matter what stands
in your way.
Then you have time to realize
that your mobile fortress is giv-
ing you a degree of safety you
didn't know existed. Instead of
a copse of saplings such as we
ploughed through you imagine a
woods full of hostile machine -
gunners and you know that their
bullets will spatter harmlessly on
the steel hull of your tank.
You know, too, that the crew
of well-trained "tankers" under
battle conditions will be spraying
the ground ahead of them with
shells and machine-gun bullets at
a far faster rate than the best
fire-power concentrated in any
attacks in other wars.
It all adds up to a feeling of
jauntiness and by the time your
first ride conies to an end you
feel like tipping your hat to one
side a: d "walking with an air."
But that jauntiness is an as-
sured and sensible one, not a
"devil-may-care" attitude. Tanks
and the myriad other cross-coun-
try vehicles our boys are driving
in the individual citizen's army of
today are not tuaning them into
reckless drivers when they get on
to the road in civilian cars.
The effect is almost opposite.
Once you get back into an auto-
mobile you think to yourself,
"this thing isn't armoured and un-
hurtable like that tank I was just
in' --I've got to handle this more
carefully!"
Yes, they're a cocky lot—these
"tankers!" And they have a right
to be. They spend their fighting
hours in cramped, hot, noisy quar-
ters and feel like stretching when
they get out.
They have an exhilarating job.
They charge across country un-
daunted by obstacles. They carry
the battle to, through and beyond
the enemy. That sort of thing calls
for light-hearted efficiency—and
that same light-hearted efficiency
guarantees a cocky bearing and a
jaunty stride:
But middle-aged' newspapermen,
though they catch the enthusiasm
wind experience the exhilaration,
don't quite manage the jaunty
stride when they laboriously climb
out—they are too busy feeling
for the bruises that the youngster
doesn't get.
• No wonder the major was
slightly hysterical—he knew what
we would look like when we
climbed down.
Air Force Needs
Radio Mechanics
The Royal Canadian Air Force
needs radio mechanics who have
had some„university training for
work with the radio detector—
the secret instrument which de-
tects enemy aircraft.
Men enlisting for duty as radio
detector operators will be requir-
ed to sign on for attachment
to either the Royal Canadian
Navy or the Canadian Ariny.
This is a new requirement. Re-
gardless of the atta:_hment, to
either the navy or army, the per-
sonnel will remain members of
the air force.
Operation of radio detectors is
a highly specialized work and a
mighty dangerous g.ouncl job.
Detector personnel is just as im-
portant to the ground forces as
air crew is to the flying personnel
xor they play an important part
in the protection of the land units.
THE WAR - WEEK — Commentary on Current Events
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
Urges Full Support From India
On Feb. 21 Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek, in a message addressed to
the Indian people on the eve of
his return' to China, called for their
"utmost exertion” in :the cause of
freedom and asked Britain to grant
India "real political power" Immed-
iately. The text of the message fol-
lows:
During my two weeks' stay in
India 1 had the ,ppportunity of dis-
cussing very frankly with the high-
est civil and military authorities
as well as with my Indian friends
questions concerning joint plans
against aggression and the objective
of OUT coronion efforts. I was hap-
py to find that there was full sym-
pathy and general understanding
between us.
My mission is now drawing to a
close. On the eve of my departure
I wish to bid farewell to all my
friends in India and to thank you
for the many kindnesses shower-
ed upon Mille. Chiang and myself.
The briefness of my stay has,
not permitted me to tell the In-
dian people all that I wished to
say. I avail myself of this oppor-
tunity to address to them this
farewell message. It is an expres-
sion of my high and warm regard
and of long cherished hopes for
India. It comes from the. depth
of my heart.
iSiuce my arrival in this country
I foma•cl to nay great satisfaction
that there exists among the peo-
ple of India a unanimous deter-
mination to oppose aggression.
China and India
China and India comprise one-
half of the world's population.
Their common frontier extends
3,000 kilometers. In the 2,000 years'
history of their intercourse, which
has been of a purely cultural and
commercial character, there has
never been any armed conflict.
Indeed, nowhere else can one find
so long a period of uninterrupted
peace between two neighboring
countries.
This is irrefutable proof that
our two peoples are peace -loving
by nature. Today they have not
only identical interests but also
the same destiny. For this reason
they are duty bound to side with
anti -aggression countries and to
-fight ,shoulder to shoulder in order
to secure. real peace for the whole
world.
Moreover, our two peoples have
an outstanding virtue in common
—namely, the noble spirit of self-
sacrifice for the sake of justice
and righteousness. It is this tra-
ditional spirit which should move
them toward self -negation for the
salvation of mankind. It arms
against aggression and in it is also
this spirit which- prompted China
to be the first to take up the
present war to ally herself un-
• hestitatingly with other anti -
aggression countries not merely
for the purpose of securing her
own freedom but also for the pur-
pose of seouring justice and free-
dom for all.
I venture to suggest to my
brethren people of India at this
most critical moment in the his-
tory of civilization that our two
peoples should exert themselves to
the utmost in the cause of freedom
of all mankind, for only in a free
world could the Chinese and In-
dian peoples Obtain their freedom.
Furthermore, should freedom be
denied to either China or India,
there could be no real international
peace.
A World Divided
The present international situa-
tin divides the world into two
camps, the aggression camp and
the anti -aggression camp. All those
who opposed aggression by striv-
ing for the freedom of their coun-
try and of other countries should
join the anti -aggression camp.
There is no middle course and
there is no time to wait for de-
velopments.
Now is the crucial moment for
the whole future of mankind. The
issue before us does not concern
the dispute of any one man or
country, nor does it coLacern any
specific questions now pending be-
tween one people and encaner.
Any people therefore which joins
the anti-ale&ession front may be
said to be cooperating, not with
any particular country, but with
the entire front.
This leads us to believe that the
Pacific war is the turning point
in the history of nationalism. The
method, however, by which the
peoples of the world could achieve
their freedom might be different
from what it used to be.
The anti -aggression nations now
expect that In this new era the
people -of India will voluntarily
bear their full share of responsi-
bility in the present struggle for
the survival of a free world, in
which India must play her part.
The vast majority of world opin-
ion is in full sympathy with In-
dia's aspirations for freedom. This
sympathy is so valuable and so
difficult to obtain that it cannot
be appraised in terms of money or
material and should therefore by
all means be retained.
The present -struggle Is one be-
tween freedom and slavery, be-
tween light and darkness, between
good and evil, between resistance
and aggression. Should the anti -
aggression front lose the war,
world civilization would suffer a
setback for at least 100 years and
there would be no end of human
suffering.
Japan's Record In Asia
So far as Asia is concerned, the
cruelties committed by the Japa-
nese
apanese militarists are beyond do-
soriptiou. The suffering and op-
pression, which. have been the
fate of Formosans and Koreane
since their subjugation by Japan,
should serve as a warning.
As regards barbarities com-
mitted by the Japanese Army since
ocr war of resistance, the fall of
Nanking in Decemlber, 1937, is a
case in point. Over 200,000 civilians
were massacred within one week.
For the last five years the civil-
ian population of Free China has
been subjected almost daily to
bombings from the air and bom-
bardments by heavy artillery. In
every place invaded by Japanese
-troops, inen, women and children
were either assaulted or killed,
The young men and the educated
people received their special at-
tention with the. result that men
of intelligence and ideas have been
tortured.
Nor is this all. Institutions of
culture, objects of historical In-
terest .and
nterest.and value and even articles
necessary for livellh000, such as
cooking utensils, plows, tools and
domestic animals have been either
forcibly taken away or destroyed.
In places under Japanese military
occupation rape, rapine, incendiar-
ism, murder are frequent occur-
rences.
Moreover, they have with official
connivance everywhere opened op-
ium dens, gambling houses and
houses of ill -fame in order to
sap the vitality of the people and
destroy their spirit. Such is the
disgraceful conduct of the Japa-
nese, the like of which is not
found in countries invaded by
other aggressor nations. What I
have just said is but an inadequate
desoription of the true state of
affairs as reported by Chinese and
foreign eyewitnesses.
India's Support Urged
In these horrible times of sav-
agery and brute force, the people
of China and their brethren peo-
ple of India should for the sake
of civilization and human free-
dom give their united support to
the principles embodied in' the At.
lantic Charter and in the joint dec-
laration of twenty -sial nations, and
ally themselves with the anti -
aggression front. I hope they will
wholeheartedly join the Allies
namely, China, Great Britain, Am-
erica and the Soviet Union, and
participate in the struggle for the
survival of a free world until com-
pieta victory is achieved and the
duties incident upon them in these
troubled times have been fully
discharged.
Lastly, I sincerely hope and I
confidently believe that our Ally
Great Britain, without waiting for
any demands on the part of. -the
people of India, will as speedily
as possible give them real political
power so that they may be in a
position further to develop their
spiritual and material strength and
thus realize that their participation
in the war is not merely aid to
the anti -aggression nations fot
securing victory but also the turn-
ing point in their struggle for
India's freedom. From the objec-
tive point of view, I am of the
opinion this would be the wisest
policy which will redound to the
credit of. the British Empire.
REG'LAR FELLERS—The Tryout
-YOU'RE GETfIK . TOO FAT,
PUDDINHEAD! YOU BETTER
STOP EATING SO MANY
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THE WILL. POWER TO
WALK R10HT PAST
THE STORE?
`IIEL:L DONE, PUDDINHEAD,
MY 80Y/ YOU CERTAIN Y
DID A FINE JOB 'THAT TIME/
By GENE BYRNES
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