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AND THAT IS THAT
We see where a farmer, under
some. slight misapprehension, has
been quoted on the issue of the
'48-hour week. "Except in the
harvest season," he says, "and
Possibly at the height of the
spring sowing, forty hours a day
-is enough for any pian to work—
and by jiggers I won't stand for
forty-eight!" —Ottawa Citizen
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BACK TO BUSINESS
After a bomb had damaged a
cinema in a Northeast Scots town
following a recent raid, the man-
agement intimated the reopening
of the cinema with posters dis-
playing the following announce -
went --"This blasted cinema will
open tonight."
• —Glasgow Herald
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WE'RE NOT INFERIOR
Canada, it is reported, produeed
guns worth $225,000,000 last
year, We hope the people who
said before the war that this
country could not possibly manu-
facture guns will realize the ex-
tent of their .error..
—Brockville Recorder and Times
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MR. EDEN'S ADVICE
Anthony Eden, speaking in Ot-
tawa gave wise advice against
under -estimating the enemy and
quoted an apposite old Turkish
proverb Which goes this way:
"Though thine enemy be an ant,
imagine that he is an elephant."
—Niagara Falls Review
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MASTER THIEVES, ALSO
How Hitler continues to finance
iiie war machine is revealed in the
statement two billion dollars have
been stolen in Norway during a
three-year occupation period.
—St. Thomas Times -Journal
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INCOMPLETE INFORMATION
Learned anthropologists who
come out every so often with
word that the blonde type is pass-
ing are of little help. They never
say which way she went.
Expositor
—Brantford Ex p
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SHORT AND SWEET
A cablegram addressed to .a
London mother by her son in
Tunisia today read: "Dear Mum:
Lote of fun. Got a Hun. Your lov-
ing son."
VICTORY BONDS BUY MUNITIONS OF WAR
—Sault Daily Star
STUDY IN SHAKING
Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle
and Giraud shook 'hands. Hitler,
Benito and Tejo just shook.
—Stratford Beacon -Herald
We Must Send
Meat To Britain
Some of the Reasons for the
Rationing of Meat
Not to increase but merely to
maintain the present low meat
ration in the United kingdom,
Canada must, if possible, send even,
more meat overseas, the Wartime
Prices and Trade Board stated Iast
week, citing some of the seasons
for the rationing of meat which
will become effective in May. The
additional supplies for Britain are
needed because of unavoidable re-
ductions in shipments from other
sources.
"In 1943 Canada's supply of meat,.
after allowing for existing export
contracts, will be no greater than
in 1942 and may- be a little less,"
officers of the foods administration
exlplained.
'A flow of supplies must "keep
going overseas to the British Min-
istry of Supply which feeds not
ostler civilians hut the Canadian
troops overseas.
"Consumer'demand in Canada
to almost certain to be greater
than in the past year, with more
people working and more pay
envelopes filled than ever before."
Without rationing, they explain-
ed, the local • shortages which
occurred in 1942 would probably
become more widespread and pro-
longed in 1943. Rationing will be
employed so that everyone will get
fair share.
Un the eve of the big Canadian National Railways meetings
throughout the Central Region to organize ion fortihee e gict dynt and Loan
Campaign, Major F. L. C. Bond, D.S.O., regal p
general manager, (centre) inspected the way that •Canada's varied
supplies and munitions are rushed from factory
y to oilt at a 'Gort. eorgian
He
is
here shown looking over shipments pontoons
Bay port. He was accompanied by G. A. Stokes, general superin-
tendent Southern Ontario District (left), in�cadge , f tbeal
Loan Campaign for that territory, and J.
super-
intendent W. of transportation (right), of the regional campaign com-
mittee. Major Bond, in a message urging all Canadian National men
to buy Victory Bonds to the fullest possible extent, pointed out that
more than any other body of workers, the railway leen knew from
observation and experience Canada's tremendous war contribution
for they were called upon to move it daily on the first leg of the
trip to the world's fighting fronts.
THE WAR - WEEK — Commentary on Current Events
New Drives Near In Tunisia,
Russia, Australia, Aleutians
ter days. Executing his plans, Gen -
The war in the West centred
last week in Tunisia, relates The
New York Timer. There the long
African campaigns that had start-
ed with Italy's entrance into the
war in 1940 seemed near their end.
Au army of nearly 200,000 Ger-
mans and Italians was penned in
a strip of ground less than 100
miles long and varying in width
from 100 to less than,. 30 utiles.
Around it -were- gathered strong
Allied armies preparing hammer
blows to drive into the sea this
last Axis force on the African con-
tinent.
Headquarters In Tunisia
Allied headquarters in Tunisia
were located last Reek in one of
the many woods near the front
lines. The huts and tents of the
start' were scattered under the trees
and well camouflaged. The sylvan
setting gave just a touch of peace-
time campiug out, But to anyone
approaching, the grim atmosphere
of war soon made itself apparent.
Military :police in red garrison
oaps were everywhere. No one
without legitimate business Mould
come within two utiles of the site.
From this camp the orders dir-
ecting the operations of the Allied
force ---the British First and Eighth
Armies, the American Second
Corps and the French din*isions—
fiowed be a complicated process
designed to keep the location et
this nerve centre of the armies a
secret. Radio messages were not
likely to be broadcast from head-
gdarters lest German direction find-
ers be at work. Telephone wires
were carefully hidden as they ap-
proached the command post. Dis-
patch riders followed roundabout
trails to confuse those who might
be watching.
No Smoke Rises
From Krupp Plant
A giant Krupp armament
works, one of the mainstays of
Hitler's was machine is almost
senipletely idle aa a result of the
recent shattering 900
and 1,000 -ton bomb raids in l:,s•.
wen, shortly after another big
night attack on Duisburg and
other Ruhr Valley industrial nb-
jeetives.
The Air Ministry said the lat-
.ast evidence of the damage done
the 'Krupp works west obtained int
re'ornta.issanee photographs oaken
two days after the big attack they
eight of April 3-4, They failed
to ,show any sato. rising :from
the lntndracls es factory chimneys,
The photographs were the
clearest ever taken of the 800-
acre 'slant, the Air 'Ministry said,
and '9he "works in fact appear to'
be almost' e+ttirely inactive."
Allied Commander
General Sir Harold R. L Alex-
ander, commander in chief nt the
Allied ground forces, presided ov-
er this camp. He had come to the
African theatre last June wheu
Marshal Erwin Rommel's desert
veterans were threatening Alexan-
dria and Britain's fortunes were
at a low ebb. Britain had called
on Biot la. other desperate hours,
Es was the last general ofiieer to
leave the beaches at Dunkirk. lie
commanded in the retreat in Bur-
ma, Now he laid the basis for bet-
eral Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's
Eighth Army broke the German
grip cm Egypt last November and
chased the Axis forces 1,500 miles,
funneling them between American
and French forces and the sea
into the narrow corner where last
week they stood at bay.
Ge etas Douglas MacArthur had
warned "Japanese naval forces
int great strength, although now
beyond our bomber range, are with•
in easy striping distance of Aus-
trnlia, ' When Secretary of •the
NA:NV Fronk Knox commented that
there •tvaM "110 indication" of a
concentration pointing to an attack
on Australia, a spokesman for
General MacArthur said a great
Japanese combat fleet was being
malntaitaed at Truk, three days'
steaming from New Guinea, and
that there were 250,00 tous of
merchant; shipping le the Rabaul
area, key base in the Solomons-
New Guinea sector. Australian
General Sir Thomas Blaney added
to this report a warning that japan
lard 200,000 .sten in the islands
north of Australia, and with new
air strength was "attempting' to
obtain control of the air prepara-
tory to taking the initiative."
Japan has shown herself a pow-
erful and aggressive enemy who
has had a year since the last
heavy fighting to prepare for a
new stroke. Site .must lir expected
to strike somewhere soon.
There is considerable strength
to the argument advanced by Aus-
tralian statesmen that Japan is
preparing an invasion of Aus-
tralia "with all .tlte savagery- of
which the Japanese mind is capa-
ble." l� For the same t•ettsoll, not
only for the sake of Australia but
also for the sake of tate United
States and all the United Nations.
Australia must be held at all cost.
For with the loss of Australia
would go the loss of the war in
the Pacific. There is a difference
of opinion regarding whether
Japan contemplates an "offensive
defensive" or a "defensive offen-
sive." But this match is certian:
Japan's plans and actions will de-
pend to a large eytent on what
we can put in tate Pacific to stop
her.
The global military situation re-
mains unchanged. However mica
we might wish to beat Hitler and
Japan simultaneously, it is still an
axiom of strategy that victory de-
pends on concentration and that
the dispersal of one's forces spells
defeat. Hitler is still our Enemy
r to
Springtime In Russia
in Russia. last weelt,tXvr?. hay
armies awaited the passing of
spring mud. Ony at the far south -
era enol of the 2,000 -mile battieline
was military activity -notable,.
There, in tate Kuban region of
the Caucasus the season was sol-
ftciently advanced to favor attack
and the Red Army- seized another
of the remaining Nazi. strongpoints
guarding the Wehrmacht's bridge-
head beyond the Sea of Azov.
Scene of the struggle was the delta
of the Kuban River and the Nazi
supply road on the narrow Tauten
peninsula. Ground fighting was ac-
companied by big air battles which
'cost scores of German and Soviet
planes. Chief prize at issue was
the City of Novorossiisk, former
Soviet. Black Sea naval base and
malu anchor of the Nazis' stt b-
bornly defended foothold in the
Caucasus. if that paint ,could be
wrested ft'om the enemy, it might
force complete withdrawal of the
'W'ehrmacht to its Crianeata fort-
resses and thus win back one of the
last remaining gains of Hitler's
1942 offensive.
Elsewhere rain and melting snow
virtually immobilized millions of
men. But behind the lines prep-
arations appeared to be under way
for great battles to conte. Russians
and Germans alike mustered re-
inforcements, struggled to bring
up hulks, guns, antmnnition and
'supplies. After 22 months of the
greatest conflict thhttory neither
adversary had achieved marked
superiority. Now in the.lull ;forced
by weather boot girded anew for
another, perhaps decisive test To
military observers they were like
two boxers tensed for the gong.
Pacific Air War
Secretary of War Henry L. Stint -
son last 'week promised eni'ticient
planes to the I'aciile "note only to
replace losses Int•also to build up
our aircraft to counter the incroas-
leg enemy air strength;"
No• 1. It is therefore neeessa y
concentrate all our available forces
against him. We must detach
enough forces from that task to
hold Japan till we can concentrate
on her. But we can do no more.
1 nd gen and plane
For et et y Man
a
diverted frons our first and fore-
most task will make it that much
more clifticult.
Assault On Kiska
T,he• Aleutian Islands, the rocky
chain that almost links Alaska
:and Siberia. is one of the world's
'weather factories." There warm
ocean currents, and cold air pro-
eeeece a thick -broth orf, tog and
cloud. Aviators curse it, none
more so than the pilots, navigators
and bombardiers of the American
Air Force operating out of Alaskan
bases.
Last week better weather and
an apparently increased urgency
took the American bombers out
over the tumbling waters with
greater frequency than ever be-
fore. stepping up an attack that
has been under way for weeks.
Their targets were Attu and Kiska
Islands, where the Japanese have
been laboring for months to build
bomber and fighter strips. Both
army and navy planes took part.
Reconnaissance had shown that
the runways were nearly ready for
action and that "blast revetments"
had been built up to shield planes
on the ground. Six, eight and vp
to in attacks a day were made,
and observers reported that gun
emplacements and runways were
1tit,
Plant May Become
Source OfRubber
Canada to Plant 35 Acres of
pandetion Kok-saghyx Fouts
• This Veer
Enough seed may be obtained
this year to permit commercial
•
production of the • dandelion kok-
aaghyz, a source of natural rub -
bet, the Agricultural. Department
aauttouttced recently. .
From plantings in Canada last
year, plus supplies obtained from.
Russia and the United States,
enough roots are Available to al-
low the planting of 35 _acres this
Spring at experimental farms and
stations, and, if the yield is good,
the commercial plantings will be
possible.
• Intensive experiments and tests
are being made in connection with
rubber production from tine plant
by the division of botany, science
service, working in co-operation
with the experimental farms ser-
vice.
Yield Surprisingly High
The National Research Council
has undertaken work in connec-
tion with the extraction of the
natural -rubber front the plant.
The yield of roots per acre in
Canadian plantings last year rang-
ed from 8,100 'pounds at 1 ent-
ville, N.S., to 1,600 pounds at
Winnipeg, with an average of 5,-
100 pounds for five experimental
stations. In Russia, when the crop
is harvested at the end of the
first year, an average of 4,500 to
5,500 pounds of cleaned roots an
acre has been obtained, equal to
150 pounds to 200 pounds of
crude rubber, and 75 to 100
pounds of seed.
If the crop is left for a second
year, the average yield of roots
is from 2,700 to 8,600 pounds,
and from 100 to 150 pounds of
seed an acre.
Examination also is being con-
ducted into the possibility of rub-
ber production from milkweed.
The natural rubber is necessar-
ily employed with synthetic rub-
ber to make the latter usable in
a practical way for certain essen-
tial purpose,>. It was known that
Russia had for some years been
obtaining a supply of natural rub-
ber from the Russian dandelion,
o limited
-- a h z. A litntt
known as seal. s � 3
supply• of kok-saghyz seed was
obtained 'from the United States
• Departnte'nt of Agriculture in the
Spring of 1942 and planted in
quarter -acre plots at Dominion
Experimental Stations across Can-
ada.
Academic Gardening
I've studied many a garden book
On stow to plant the mixtures,
And cultivate them so they'll loolt
Exactly like the pictures;
On how to spray the parasite
And fertilize tate clover;
And stow to treat the vicious blight
That makes plant;: topple over:
On how to trite a walnut tree,
And serve nasturtium salad,
And how to teach a honey bee
To make the pollen valid.
These books I shall not disavow
(larom lettuce to tomatoes):
And yet they haven't taught ra-e
how
To raise French fried potatoes.
---W. L.:Hudson.
Britons Eating
More `Ship -Savers'
The Great Western Railway's
experiment of selliug hot baked
potatoes at Paddiugton Station has
proved so successtul-20,000, were
sold in the first three weeks—
that it has been extended to re-
frehmeut rooms throughout the
whole of its system. A girl put on
REG.'LAR FELLERS—That's Different
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SMOKING'?
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YOU COME WITH
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I'l.t-TEACH YOU TO
tno LEAVE YOUR FATHER'S
PIPE Al -ONE!
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
.
Harry Hosford, onetime Great
Lakes sailor who became a pow-
erful but little-known financial
figure, has quietly purchased
$33,000,000 in War Loan securi-,
ties during the present and pre-
vious bond drives in Cleveland,
trains running between Exeter aura
Plymouth to sell baked potatoes
from an insulated container star•
sold more than 1,000. ' Restaurant
proprietors and the public are re-
sponding well to Lord Woolton's
call for the serving and eating of
victory dishes, composed of "ship -
savers" or such foods as potatoes
aucl other vegetables, dried egg
and cheese.
Hot House Peaches
At$15aDozen
Wartime England was treated
to a few delicacies at its grocery
stores not long ago — thanks to
some hot house production — but
the iit'iees prevented a buying
rush.
Peaches were selling at prices
T li
equivalent to $15 a do,.en, fes
asparagus at $7 per small bundle
and snap beans at $2.50 per
pound.
The 'Ministry of Food relaxed
its ruling against sale of canned
vegetables this week, and can-
ned asparagus of about the same
quantity as the $7 variety can be
had for 69 cents,
Prices of other fresh vegetables
were - more reasonable. Cabbage
dropped from about $1.20 a pound
to $1. Cauliflower and Brussels
sprouts were plentiful.
. Steel helmets - halt shrapnel,
You can buy 42 for $100, Invest
in the new Victory Bonds and
save the lives of Canadian sol-
diers!
By Fred Neh er
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