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PROLIFIC COW
What is probably a provincial
seecord for calf production on
Bp a few days ago by purebred "
Shorthorn cow, belonging to
Charles S. Atkinson of Anderson.
,bout this time last year the
Journal -Argus announced that in
Vs* space of five years this cow
had produced 10 calves. To this
numerous family twins were
added last week, bringing the
®cup's total for six years up to
ea even dozen.
—St. Marys Journal -Argus
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SCRAP STEEL
The proprietor of au 800 -room
New York hotel has recovered
10,604 used razor blades weigh -
g 800 pounds behind the dis-
posal slits of bathrooms and esti-
Mates there are 100,000,000
blades resting in all U.S. hotels.
Donated to salvage this amount of
high-grade steel should help to
give the axis a trimming.
—Edmonton Journal
THAT FISHING FEELING
When you feel the urge to go
$fishing, and you'll never go fish-
ing unless you go fishing, head
your carback into the country
and pull up alongside some field
where a farmer and his family
are working. Park your rod and
bait in a corner of the fence .and
ask for a hay fork. And, brother,
you'll come back home at night
and feel better than a two-year-
old.
—Trenton Courier -Advocate
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RATIONED OUT OF
EXISTENCE
In case you are grumbling
",bout the gasoline allowance,
this is to remind your that from
July 1 the gasoline ration of six
gallons a month to owners of
pleasure ears in the British Isles
will be entirely eliminated. Every
private car, therefore, will be
acked up till the end of the war.
—St. Thomas Times -Journal
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HOSPITALITY
"Grain Elevators Bulging With
1941 Wheat Carryover; Farmers
Storing Record Harvest in Homes,
Garages," says a Kansas City
headline. Next we'll hear the
famous farmer saying to the
equally celebrated traveling sales-
man, "Yes, you can spend the
night here — if you don't mind
sleeping with a sack of oats."
—Windsor Star
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CAPITAL COURTESY
According to the Washington
newspapers it will soon become
necessary to remove all seats
from buses and street cars to
facilitate transportation in the
nation's capital. Looks like the
nen will have to stand up right
beside the women now.
—Keene Sentinel
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NOT RATIONING — WEANING
Gasoline rations have been cut
from five gallons to four, and
may soon be reduced still further.
That's not rationing; that's wean-
ing.
—Peterborough Examiner
Four Weeks Limit
Of Harvest Leave
All soldiers pay and allowances
will be cancelled for the duration
of harvest leave, which in no case
will exceed four weeks and the
leave may be cancelled at any
dine, it was revealed last week
in the House of Commons.
Only soldiers having experi-
ence in farm work will be allowed
harvest leave and it will be lim-
ited strictly for the purpose which
ita name implies. Soldiers on
harvest leave will not be entitled
to medical or dental attention,
hospitalization or compensation
due to illness, injury or death
arising out of this leave.
All personnel granted harvest
leave will be required to report
back to their units not later than
October 31, 1942.
The grant of harvest leave will
be limited, as already intimated by
Defence Minister J. L. Ralston in
the House, to the following for-
mations and units:
1. Home War Establishment of
depots:
2. Veterans Guards of Canada,
less personnel employed in opera-
tional units.
3. Surplus personnel at depots,
less those awaiting despatch to
training centres or awaiting dis-
posal after completing advanced
or trade trainings.
Need Storage For
Big Western Crop
Present crop prospects on the
Canadian prairies are so good the
Western farmers will have to
erect additional storage on their
farms for more than 200,000,000
bushels of grain, "even allowing
for heavy deterioration between
now and harvest," Western Retail
Lumbermen's Association said in
a statement issued last week.
The statement said farmers
face a serious shortage of lumber
supplies for grain storage and
barns to house '"the steadily in-
creasing livestock population,"
and estimated lumber require -
merits for grain storage alone at
more than 200,000,000 feet.
Wire -Trailing Rocket
Wire -trailing rockets were dis-
closed officially last week as one
of Britain's newest weapons of
defence against aerial raiders.
The weapon, which has been
in use to protect merchant ship-
ping for more than a year, was
described as an apparatus which
shoots a projectile that opens into
a parachute from which long
wires dangle.
The rockets, fired up as planes
swoop to attack, often force them
to veer off course or risk engage-
ment in the wires.
THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Currenf Events
War May Last For Many Years
if Asia Falls To Axis Powers
The magnitude of this war hao
been indicated in the titles given
t•o its encounters: The Bette of
France, the Battle of Britain, the
Battle of the .Atlantic. An even
vaster concept is beginning to
take shape: The Siege of Asia.
If Asia holds out the United Na-
tions can win a Blear -cut and con-
clusive victory, says the Now York
Times. If- Asia falls the United
Nations will not lose the war in
the sense that they will surrender
to the Axis Powers: when peace
is worse than any form of war,
as a Hitler peace would be, there
will be no surrender. But if Asia
falls to the Axis war will simply
become chronic, the chief occu-
pation of mankind for horrible,
endless years.
Battle of Asia
In the war of 1914-18 the Cen-
tral Powers fought inside a circle.
They still do so, though they have
pushed back the circumference. In
this -war there Is a huger circle,
inside of which are the great land
masses of Russia, China and India,
containing more than a billion hu-
man beings. Rommel in Egypt,
the whole Nazi Army on the Rue -
elan front, the Japanese in the
Aleutian Islands and all the way
down the coaet and through the
islands to New Guinea, are bat-
tering at this enormous fortifica-
tion. The rest of the war, no mat-
ter how widespread, is an attompt
to lift the siege. The armies .of
the British Commonwealth and of
the United States may be thought
of as relieving forces. When and
it the Russians and the Chinese
are strong enough to make per-
manent reoocwpations of lost ter-
ritory these advances will • be
sorties in force.
Our fest task Is to see that the
beleaguered city of Asia, with its
billion inhabitants, does not fall.
Our second task is to raise the,
siege, and in this task tanks,
planes and guns sent inside the
friendly lines play a part equally
with the hoped-for second front.
Second Front
Remembering that the urging of
a second front in Western Europe
goes back to the summer of 1941.
it is easy to understand the im-
patience of the layman in Britain
and America as he sees the Nazis
driving close to Stalingrad. Yet
we may be sure that United Na-
tions strategy has not overlooked
the importance of keeping the
Russian front alive. We must hope
that Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roose-
velt will give the order for in-
vasion In the West before the
Germans can split Russia.
Air Control Necessary
Undoubtedly, according to the
Christian Science Monitor, the
riaks of landing a British -American
force in France or Norway have
been `carefully calculated. One key
to them is in the air, literally and
figuratively. For the, clearest pre-
requisite of any invasion attempt
is an umbrella of air power. How
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REO'LAR FELLERS—Fair
LET'S PLAY 'THAT SAME WITH
YOUR HANDS OVER YOUR EARS
LIKE THIS AN' YOU HAVE To
guess WHAT THE OTHER
FELLERS ARE SAYIN' ABOUT
YOU! YOU'RE IT!
fax over the Continent the air
front can be nrtaint.ained is the
most vital question. Brita'n
couldn't hold Norway because her
short-range fighter planes based in
England couldn't protect her land
and sea forces there, while the
Germans, with short -hop land com-
munications could base both
bombers and fighters in Norway.
One secret of Dunkirk was that
there the RAF controlled the air.
It le well to remember that it re-
quired a week to take 335,000 men
across the Channel from Dunkirk
--without equipment. With im-
proved air protection and prior
organization of transport, hun-
dreds of thousands of men with
equipment could be landed in
France in a few hours.
invasion Risks
It is such control that British -
American forces need for crossing
the Channel and opening a sec-
ond front on the Continent. The
RAF and the American air force
in still undisclosed size now or-
ganizing at Irish and English bases
probably would be able to place
an umbrella over a crossing and
even extend it inland for fifty to
a hundred miles under present
conditions. But would they be able
to hold it and blast German mech-
anized forces moving up to a sec-
ond front should Nazi air power
be concentrated in the West?
That is the big question in
Wlashington and London when the
risks are calculated. Clearly, the
longer British -American air power
le built up and the farther East
the Nazis are drawn, the smaller
are the risks in the West. We
trust equal attention is being giv-
en to the risks of waiting too long.
To realize how important it is to
keep the Russian front alive, one
only needs to try to estimate the
situation with that 2,000 -mile sap-
per of Nazi strength immobilized.
That danger might come quickly.
Military experts are agreed that
Japan is only waiting for the
most favorable moment to give
Moscow a second front.
Berlin's Nightmare
We truet, too, that London and
Washington are thinking not only
of risks but of potential advan-
tages from a second front. It has
always been Berlin's nightmare.
it would help not only the Rus -
dans, who undoubtedly would
counterattack simultaneously if
Nazi air power moved West, but
the Allies in Egypt. And visible
evidence of help near at hand.
ahould double and redouble the
strength of revolt and sabotage on
the Continent. Calculations are
necessary to avoid ' raising false
hopes, or making futile sacrifices,
but wars are won by imagination.
R.A.F Raids Danzig
The Second World War began at
Danzig, the free city on the Bal-
tic at the head of the Polish Cor-
ridor, on Sept. 1, 1939. Last week
the war returned to Danzig when
British four -motored bombers div-
ed through a Summer thunder
storm in broad daylight to raid
the city at house -top altitude. The
Taid—a 1,600 -mile round trip—was
significant of Britain's mounting
air power. Of more significance
was the desperate need of the Un-
ited Nations that made the raid
necessary.
The British fliers over Danzig
had orders to attack one target—
the submarine building yards. The
mounting toll of ships sunk by
submarines far away in the At-
lantic had made it vitally neces-
sary for the United Nations to
whip the U-boat, and over the
oceans from Danzig to the Gulf
of Mexico a far-flung campaign
was under way to that end.
U -Boat Toll
There were some good signs
in the battle. The submarines that
had operated freely off America's
shores in the early months of the
year had been driven farther to
sea. Convoys had been instituted
in the Caribbean and the an-
nouncement had been made that
soon they *would be organized in
the Gulf of Mexico. But mostly the
picture remained black. There
were long over -Water hauls to
every one of the United Nations'
battlefronts. England must be fed
by sea. And the unofficial total
of United Nations vessels sunk by
Axis submarines since the first
of the year had leached 375.
One incident of the week point -
Will He Defend It This ' etl
The smiling gentleman is "Slam.
ming Sammy" Snead holding the
Seagram Gold Cup he won last
year at Lambton as Canadian
Open Golf Champion. Last year
was Snead's third victory in the
open and he would like nothing
better than a victory this year to
tie the record of four open wins
now held by Leo Diegel.
The defending champion's entry
has not yet been received at local
golf headquarters, and for a very
ood reason. Snead is in the
United States Navy, and permis-
sion must be secured from his
superior officers to allow him to
take part in this tournament. A
request for this permission has
been despatched through the pro-
per channels and it is confidently
expected that Snead will tee ofi'
with the field at Mississauga on
August 6th in quest of his fourth
win.
Since the House of Seagram
first presented the trophy in 1936,
the names of some of America's
outstanding golf stars have been
inscribed on the parchment roll.
]i'irat there was Lawson Little,
then "Light Horse" Harry Cooper.
Snead's victories came in 1938,
1940 and 1941, with the 1939
crown going to Harold "Jug" Mc-
Spaden who is again entered this
year.
Standing twenty - two inches
from base to top, the Seagram
Gold Cup is one of the most cov-
eted trophies in golfdom. It rests
on a massive base of onyx which
ed it all up in very human terms.
In an excran.ge of letters Presi-
dant Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill had arranged to curtail
the flow of individual gifts and
relief supplies from America to
Britain. There just wasn't enough
Toom in the availaible ships for all
of them, and guns too.
To Fly Out Wounded
By Big Transports
United States War Secretary
Henry Stimson announced that
the Air Transport Command,
which, since June, 1941, has de-
livered more than 6,000,000 let-
ters and large quantities of sup-
plies to soldiers overseas, now is
forming an organization to bring
the sick and wounded back from
combat zones.
To be known as the Air Evacua-
tion Group (Medical), the new
organization will use transport
planes equipped as flying hospit-
als for surgery, blood transfusions
and other treatment. The planes
will be able to carry as many as
forty patients.
One of the principal features
of the Transport Command has
been to deliver bombers to war
theatres, and Stimson said the
huge planes always go out with
a full load, mail being given a
high priority rating because let-
ters from home are regarded as
essential to high morale among
troops.
contains a gold casket within
which is the inscribed parchment
roll of annual winners. The gold
casket is mounted on heavily
chased silver feet with a Corin-
thian column at each corner. Two
beavers act as supporters of this
casket and the Canadian coat of
arms is beautifully executed on
the front. The cup itself is of
Grecian design and made of gold.
The superlative workmanship and
exquisite design makes this
trophy, which was made entirely
in Canada, one of exceptional
beauty seldom seen in athletic
trophies. .
The winning players receive a
miniature of the cup for perma-
nent possession and have their
names inscribed on the parchment
roll which reposes in the base of
the trophy.
First prize money in the Cana-
dian Open is $1000.00 with an ad-
ditional $200.00 if the winner is a
Canadian. In all, $3600.00 is al-
loted to be divided among the first
fifteen. •
The Canadian Open this year
will be held at Mississauga, just
outside of Toronto, on August 6th,
7th and 8th, and as in previous
years the field will include many
famous United States and Cana-
dian Golfing stars.
The entire net profits of the
Royal Canadian Golf Associa-
tion's operations for this year will
be donated to the Canadian Red
Cross Society.
An Innovation
Parliament at Ottawa witnessed
an innovation one day recently
when, for the first time in its
history, a lady presided over pro-
ceedings in committee,. says the
Toronto Telegram. The honor fell
to Mrs. F. C. Casselman, Edmon-
ton East. The compliments she
received were apparently well de-
served since she took charge with
evident capacity and within half
an hour had called Hon. C. G.
Power to order, an experience
which has rarely fallen to him in
a long parliamentary career. "I
have never," Mr. Power admitted,
"been called to order in a man-
ner which I appreciate as much
as I do in this case."
To Evacuate Poles
To African Homes
The British radio reports that
10,000 Polish women and children,
the families of Gen. Sikorski's
Polish troops serving in the Mid-
dle East, are to be evacuated to
Tanganyika and Uganda in Africa.
The Polish women and children
are at present in Persia and the
BBC said that some of them have
come through great hardships.
Camps will be built for them in
their new homes which will be-
come small Polish townships.
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