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A1RCR.AFT OF 1919
At long last a memorial com-
memorating the pioneer trans-At-
lantio flight of Alcock and Brown
in 1919 is to be erected at the
sot in Newfoundland whence
they took off in their 'Vickers
Nino bomber. If flights by Ferry
Command require real courage
nowadays, they were feats of al-
most superhuman endurance in
the rickety aircraft of 1919, and
Alcock and Brown deserve all the .
recognition and commemoration
that it is possible to give then).
-•--Brockville Recorder and Times
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THE MEN GOT OFF
When the U.S.S. Lexington was
known to be beyond hope, there
was no exciting bawling out of
orders and commands. Instead,
Rear Admiral Aubrey Fitch leaned
over the bridge and quietly said
to his friend, Captain Frederick
elierman :
"Let's get the men off, Fred."
And, so efficiently was the
order executed, not a single man
was lost in abandoning the big
aircraft carrier.
-Windsor Star
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DINNER IN A BALL
Dehydration has achieved a
new high in Britain. Farm pro-
ducts are being refined into
44green baseballs." In central
plants, cabbage and beets, spin-
Mh and a carrot or two, with eel-
ary and onions for flavor, are
Vaned into one and reduced in
balk so that a "baseball" contains
leafy food for an average family
dinner. It provides a new method
e asending vitamins to the troops.
-Vancouver Sun
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VIRTUE'S REWARD
The Man Down the Street, who
has cut two new holes in. his belt,
wants to know where he can get
a cent a pound for the "spare
{Aral" he is taking off by walking
o work.
-Christian Science Monitor
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THE DISAPPEARING TRICK
And there was the Indian rope
brick performer who was discharg-
ed from the navy because every
time he climbed the rigging he
disappeared.
-Guelph Mercury
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CHAIR WARMER?
Berlin is asking all Germans to
give used clothing to the army
because so many clothes are be-
ing worn out in the east. That's
odd. Ours usually wear out in
the south.
-Kitchener Record
ND1VIDUAL
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AN NiAtIRIC
A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army
"Pass, Grand Rounds, all's
well)" I suppose, along with "hate
training", that sonorous "O.K."
from a sentry facing his lonely
beat has gone into the discard
now.
It seems a pity that dome of the
glamour can't be left whether it
be in the Army, the Navy or the
Air Force. Of course the latter,
even if it is a lusty infant, is the
baby of the uniformed services
and has hardly had long enough
to build any tradition except that
of daring and bravery.
There is something about the
maintenance of old forms and fine
phrases in this day of streamlining
Fake Gods Vanish,
Real Values Remain
Principal R. C. Wallace of
Queen's University, Kingston, de-
clared the war will be of no avail
unless "at the end of it we can
continue a world of social justice,
where men may be free to develop
their highest powers for the high-
est good."
Speaking at University of Buf-
falo's commencement recently, Dr.
Wallace said "we have learned
but little in this day of strife and
conflict if we have not learned
some simple elemental truths
about life and its values".
"We learned them in the days
when Britain was on the eve of
disaster after France fell," he
added. "Those who remember the
tension of those fateful days ..
know in a way that we shall never
forget that property, and wealth
and possessions and rank count
for nothing.
"Courage and fortitude and de-
cency and honor and a sense of
the eternal are all that matter.
Our false gods disappeared before
eur eyes, and the real values re-
mained."
U.S. Pupils Will
Study Aviation
About 500,000 boys and girls in
the United States --- between 16
and 18 years years old - will
study aviation as well as history
and geography when they return
in high school in September.
Meteorology, air navigation,
communications, aerodynamics,
engine design and structure are
some of the subjects that will ab-
sorb the young minds of America.
Pre-flight training for second -
soy school consumption is part
of a nation-wide program spon-
sored by the .Air Training Corps
of America. This organization,
working in conjunction with the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
and the U.S. Office of Adminis-
tration, will grant college credits
to those boys who join ATCA.
emits.
Fundamental Aviation is so new
in high school curricula that even
jJ.h ,, a teachers have to learn about
Teacher:e" College of Columbia
itTniversity i$offering a special
series of summer courses for
those who would instruct Ameri•
ea's future fliers,
and curt, business -like speech that
reminds us that the glorious fu-
ture of tomorrow will in its turn
become a glorious past.
What put this into my bead
was the fact that I put in some
time yesterday visiting grocery
stores to find out how we soldiers
of the Individual Citizen's Army
were behaving about the new ra-
tioning orders. It was something
like visiting sentries on their
beats -- but more in the nature
of "visiting rounds" than "grand
rounds."
The result of my tour shows
that in the main we are pretty
good soldiers. It showed also that
LE ILLUSTRATES _EFFECT
OFPROPOSED INC VIE T A X
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Single Persons, Without Dependents. 20 40:
700 35 -15 20 20 58 116
850 57 172
1,000 87 5 92 80
1,250 162 5 167 100 267
1,500 217 30 247 120 867
1,750 '273 58 831 140 671
2,000 340 101 441 160 826
626 200
2,00 62 202 824 240 1,064
8,0000 6222 202
4,000 955 819 1,274 820 1,594
,000. 1,332, 896 570 2,970 600 2,128728 400
45015 3 570
$,600 "• '712 4,312 800 5,112
10,000
20,000 - _ 9,105 1,924 11,029 800 11,829
30,000 15,082 8,314 18,396 800 19,196
50,000 28,392 6,511 Sr4,908 800 85,703
100,000 64,347 15,990 80,337 800 81,137
500,000 411,720 60,584 472,304 800 473,104
Married Persons, Without Children. 50
1,250 50 -25 25 25 100
1,300 65 -15 109 108 217
1,500 125 34 161 160 321
1,750 -.000 175 56 231 200 431
22,250 225 91 816 225 651641
2,500 275 126 401 250
884
0 184 584 300
8,000 6759 964 400 1,364
4,000378 1,378 500 1,878
8,500 1,000
'7,500 1,965 555 2,520 750 8,270
10,000 3,080 682 3,762 1,000 4,762
20,000 8,330 1,949 10,279 1,000 11,279
30, 000 - 14,085 3,361 17,446 1,000 14,446
50000 26,965 6,588 33,558 1,000 ,
987 1,000 78,987
100,000 61,875 16,112 77,987
500,000 401,120 60,834 461,954 1,000 462,954
Married Persons, With Two Children. 32
1,250 22 36 -7 16 18
1,400 _c 21 21 42
1,400 30 -10 25 24 49
1,500 35 53 52 105
2,0 l0 45 107 108 215
2,2500 0 50 7 90 163 162 325
2,50002
2, a 155 102 217 218 435
3,000 215 119 334 334 668
450 218 1,148
4,000 735 327. 1,062 900 1,662
7,50Q 517 2,154 900 3,054
7,000 21,717 3,346 1,200 4,546
10,00020 000 7,890636 0 1,913 9,863 1,200 11,063
30,000 13,621 3,409 17,030 1,200 18,230
50,000 26,437 6,700 33,137 1,200 34,337
100,000 61,299 16,272 77,571 1,200 78,771
500,000 400,408 61,130 461,538 1,200 462,738
NOTE: In calculating the above taxes it has been assumed that
all incomes up to $30,000 are entirely earned income, and that in-
comes of more than $30,000 include earned income of that amount
and additional investment income to make up the total. Payments
made by the taxpayer within the tax year as net premiums on life
insurance contracts in force June 23, 1942, or as principal payments
on a mortgage on one residence, or as payments into a pension fund,
retirement fund or superannuation fund, will be accepted as an
alternative to the liability to turn over funds directly to the treasury
as part of the minimum savings requirement.
Wherever possible, income and national defence taxes will be
collected the source. In tember, employcase of wage ers msalustT deduct from
earners this
means that, Se beginning nett p
pay envelopes weekly amounts estimated to pay within 12 months
the national defence and income taxes of all employees for 1942.
The excess profits tax on corporations is being increase') from
75 to 100 per cent. effective July lst. in essence this means that,
along with revised corporation income taxes companies whose profits
have not gone up since the start of the war will retain only 60 per
cent. of their profits as before. No matter how much their earnings
have expanded during the war, they will be permitted to retain at,
the most, only 70 per cent. of their normal pre-war profits.
Excess profits taxes on corporations will bring in an additional
$58,000,000 a year.
The budget also puts higher taxes on liquor, wine and beer;
cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, cigarette papers and tubes, soft drinks,
furs and playing cards. Transportation taxes, taxes on pullman
berths, long distance telephone calls, telegrams and cables are also
increased.
A whole new range.of taxes at the rate ate, of c25 per cent. ofpthe
retail price, is placed on jewelry,
trunks, suitcases, purses, handbags, clocks and watches, The taxes
do not apply to -some of these articles selling in some cases, $1.00
and in others below 50 cents.
there are some "lead -swingers"
amongst us. Do you remember
"lewd..swingers"? We discussed
them in one of these columns
back in the snow -shovelling days
and came to the conclusion that
they were a pretty low class of
bounds wlio let other soldiers d0
their work for them.
That's the way to describe the
"lead -swingers" who try to cheat
the rest of us by having no hon-
our when it comes to rationing,
Instead of feeling that they have
"slut one over on the Govern-
ment" when they buy more than
the allotted ration we should real-
ize that what they are doing is
vastly different. They are "put-
ting one over on us!"
Rationing is in effect in Can-
ada today on tea, coffee and sug-
ar. It is rationing in the demo-
oratic manner with each one of
us on our honour to use only the
amount allowed us by the regula-
tions. The idea behind it is fair
and equitabledistribution of sup-
plies regardless of rank or station.
Obviously then, the skunk who
tries to get more than his or
her share, is not only floueti g
is
the laws of the country, he
stealing from the rest of us.
To get back to "visiting rounds".
Most grocers reported that there
was very little, if any, evidence
of increased buying of tea, coffee
and sugar, following Donald Gor-
don't radio announcement of the
rationing. What little there was,
;said some of them, seemed to be
done by "women in cars" who
were evidently ashamed enough of
their activities to buy only a
proper quantity at their own
grocer's but not ashamed enough
to go to a strange store for more!
Isn't that a sad commentary?
The mare so when you think that
the sons and grandsons of some
of these ladies are probably over -
asps in the armed forces.
"No more 'hate training' " was
the headline over a recent cabled
story from England. Well, I sup-
pose the senior officers know
best, but I remember -and so d -o
many of you -how muoh more
"beef" you could put behind a
bayonet lunge if you pretended
that the stuffed dummy in front
of you was "Kaiser Bill"!
Perhaps there won't be any
more training in 'hate' but you
csn't tell one that the brother of
s Canadian soldier in Hong Kong
is going to go about making war
in a calm and detached manner!
Anyway some of us are working
up hates at home and that's a bad.
thing, we should save it for the
enemy. The object of my particu-
lar hate is the pleasure driver --
especially when, as in the case
with far too many, he bas the -
manners of a hag.
In my little neck of the woods
there is more Sunday driving
than ever there was and I don't
exaggerate when I say that more
than half of the drivers are as
arrogant as a young Nazi. They
honk their horns for pedestrians
to get out of their lordly way,
they skirt as close to him as they
dare if he doesn't get out of the
way quickly enough and generally
do everything in their stupid
power to raise up a heartfelt cry
for a prohibition of all pleasure
driving.
And in Malaya, Java, the Philip-
pines, Lybia, Greece and France
their brothers died because there
was not enough gasoline.
"Hate training"? The soldier
doesn't need it, but some civilians
are acquiring it!
THE WAR - WEEK --- Commentary on Current Events
German Pincer Movement In Egypt
And Russia Towards Middle Easy
city's defenders ensronceit9i ih
g
limestone hills. Siege .
e.
]ieved larger than the "Bif, Ben"
thas" of the first World Wer, has
s h e 11 ed Sevastol"ol's defenses
which then had been attacker'
repeatedly by tanks and ')o!; sol-
diers. The city's people had lived
out countless air sails itc deep
eaves carved in the cliffs. ''To the
last soul" they had sworn "to die
before surrendering.'
Before Kharkov N. semid , (ler-
man offensive launched <�lavel''s
days ago appeared to 11e ie bees?} •
halted along the Donets River.
The Wehrmaeht's newest drive
had been launched. so o1)-l0rver8
held, to prepare t -he ground torr
an all-out campaign across • the
Donets Basin, with its teeming.
industries, toward Rostov gate`
way to the Caucasus.
Ald From America
This was the threat faced b
the Russian nation as the .R.e$
Army battled at Sevastopol. and
Kharkov. To help in staving oft
the danger direct aid was eolnin3
from the United States. Aniorican.
made tanks and (.lanes were on
the Russian front; to these were
added -'the report came from
Turkey, remains unconiiP5i1ed--,
bombers of the American. Arm)
Air Corps with Americas) drew
which had flown to parttei9ate
in the defense of the Crimean
bastion. From bases in the Middle
East, moreover, four -motored un-
ited States "Liberators" hail taken
off for damaging :aids on. )Nazi
oil fields and supply claws in
Rumania.
When credit for final , actory
in this war is handed out mucl}s
will go to China for he,: stoat
resistance to Japan, beginning, :lei
1937; much to Britain fol. stanm
ing fast after the evacuation. of
Dunkerque; a very great deai tib
Russia for slugging it oat
the Nazis after June 22, 1941, It in
only fair to say that it :via r,h4
Russians, somewhere between tib@
Dnieper and the Don, whc provetit
that the Nazis could be beaten
and that it was the Russia.ula, olio
stinate in retreat, relentless h
attack, who gained for the rsist
of us a decisive period et time
in which to gather strength,
In the seven months that it
stood last year, surrounded by
Axis forces, and hulled back every
assault, Tobruk became a symbol
of courage and resistance. Its sud-
den fall, coupled with the al-
most simultaneous loss of Bardia
and Bir El Gobi, is ahard blow.
The explanation of Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel's success repeats
the weaknesses which have beset
the British forces in Libya from
the start. In tanks and guns Ger-
many had both numerical and
qualitative superiority. Her forces
excelled in the rapid repair and
servicing of mechanical equipment,
in the blitzkrieg technique of us -
Ing tanks, planes and guns as an
integrated assault team, and in
resourcefulness of staff work and
generalship. Above all, the British
again suffered from the great
handicap of the United Nations
in having to spread their forces
too thinly over too many places
at the ends of long and perilous
supply routes in order to meet an
enemy free to strike outward from
the centre of the circle, says the
New York Times.
Pincer Movement
Presumably the Nazi campaign
in Libya is a Prelude to a full-
scale assault upon EgYpt in an
effort to drive the British from
the Mediterranean and conquer
the entire Middle East. The drive
may be viewed as one arm of an
enormous pincer reaching toward'
the prize of Middle .Eastern oil,
the other arm being the German
drive in Russia which has driven
a wedge in. the defenses of Se-
vastopol. This is a dangerous
threat which must be occupying
a major place in the discussions
now going on between Prime Min-
ister Ohm chill a n d President
Roosevelt.
The loss of Tobruk itself is not
co important as the circumstanc-
es surrounding that loss. The Nazis
claim to have captured 25,000 men
and large stores of material, in-
cluding supplies freshly brought
in by the convoy which came
through the bottle in the Medi-
terranean. If this is true it must
mean that Lieut. Gen. Neil M.
. Ritchie's Eighth Army has been
,serioualy weakened and that Mar-
shal Rommel has been strengthen-
ed. Tobruk is not vital to the
defense of Egypt, but Egypt is
vital to the defense of the Midcile
East. 'Phe battle which now im-
pends will be crucial. It must be
WW1 at all costs.
Air Chief Praises
New Canadian Plane
Operational flights of a new
airplane now being built in Can-
ada as well as in England, show
it is better than any, aircraft pose
sensed by the enemy, said Air
Vice -Marshal Harold Edwards re-
cently.
Air Vice -Marshal Edwards has
been on a tour of aviation and
Allied plants in Canada before re-
turning to actite duty in England.
He came to Canada four weeks
ago to attend the United Nations
air conference at Ottawa.
"Aircraft plants I have visited
in Canada are making most useful
progress," he said. "We couldn't
ask for more than they are doing.
They are capably turning out sat-
isfactorily all they have been
asked to. The ingenuity shown in
production of articles' of war will
go a long way toward reaching
the end we all seek."
REG'LAR FELLERS -Pass the Medals
Anniversary In Russia
On the last day of the first year
of their campaign in Russia, the
German armies are still fighting
far short of the goal they set out
to reach at dawn on June 22, 1941.
Behind them lie the greatest vic-
tories and the severest setbacks
ever to come to Hitler's Wehr-
maeht. The Russians have estim-
ated upward of 5,600,000 Germans
killed, wounded and captured;
Berlin four months ago admitted
1,500,000 casualties. In the initial
five months of the year the
German soldiers overran 500,000
square miles of territory with 42,-
500,000 people. In five months of
Winter war they lost one-fifth of
the conquered area to Russian.
counter-attacks. The coming of
Spring brought local battles on the
southern front; a Russian offens-
ive in the Ukraine, launched five
weeks ago, forestalled, it was be-
lieved, the German plan for
resumption of a major drive east-
ward toward the Caucasus and oil.
Soviet losses, in the first year
of war, were likewise enormous.
Sax months ago, in an official
estimate, Berlin claimed between
8,000,000 and 10,000,000 Red Army
casualties; Moscow, more recently,
has admitted close to 3,000,000
lost. Yet in those montbe of fight-
ing Russian soldiers found a tech-
nique of resistance which, it ap-
peared, blunted the Blitzkrieg and
forced on the German Fuebrer an
ever -lengthening war.
Russia's Power
Last week the Soviet soldier's
power of resistance was again
evident in two battles raging in
South Resale. Sevastopol, the
citadel on the southwestern coast
of the Crimea, was still in Russian
hands after more than sev-en
months of siege. For more than
two weeks the Germans had pit-
ted tanks and guns and planes
in an all-out attack against the
Russia's Unity
We are traveling at fighter'-
plane speed toward the war's
critical mouths. Before these
words can appear in inlet the
Nazis may have smashed the Rus-
sian defenses at more thee ones
point. It is possible tha. there
may be another great P.uesian
retreat. Yet the twelve months
now ending make it. safe `.o pre-
dict that though the Ruasia.an may
be pushed back they will not. - be
routed; and that though thy :may
lose men, materials, towns, dries,
farms and factories they will not
lose their fighting spirit,
This much could not be taken.
for granted a year ago. We, did
not then know how much unity
existed among the Rmseian people.
We could not be sure tha: some
of them would not be wiling to
replace Stalin with Killer. We had
no means of testing ibe real state
of public opinion iia Now
we know what it is not 1y any
scientific procese LI "sampling"
but by the splendor• aif a granite-
like resistance of wsieh a lividea
people would have been :incap-
able. -
A Soldier'$ Jerkin
There may be a. L?ta,:kirk tirlt;ish
soldier somewhere new whe niil;lit.
be interested to know that he .and
his greenish oilskin jerkin arc held
in remembrance in k''asader.a, Cal.
)luring that evacuation a cent;nte-
ent of British troupe marched past
a French (or Belgi( ri) la4yt and
her husband who woe., fleeing to
the sea. The husband.all out, ray
by the roadside. One of rbc sol-
(tiers spread his jerkin over hint.
Those lugiti\ es reuela d America
at last; the maul sac. w•nbo,l; ;Jut
months later his to is+env carne to
Pasadena, bringing that get (nigh
oilskin. She gave it to the British
War Relief where it, r.cw hangs as
her tribute not to thee one ;;tidier
alone who, passing 1;,•, hats eared
for her husband, but to him and
all his comrades le the .iritrali
Army.
By GENE BYRNES
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