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CANADIAN SOLDIER ON GUARD
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A hole blasted in a hill -top wall in Italy gives this Canadian
soldier a vantage point from which to observe any enemy movements
while men of his unit move into a new position.
THE WAR • WEEK, — Commentary on Current Events
Four War Criminals Pay Price
Of Crimes Against Russian People
On the morning of December
19, under a gray winter sky, the
sentence of a military tribunal
was executed on three German war
criminals and a Russian traitor.
The gallows at Kharkov, where
'these four men have been hanged
after conviction of war crimes
against the Russian people, throws
a dark shadow across any hopes
Nazi war criminals may have.
entertained as to their future, says
the Christian Science Monitor. The
mills of the gods are grinding as
fine as ever, but not so slowly.
For war criminals who had.
counted on a repetition of history
to save them from justice, Khar-
kov is a grim spectacle indeed.
It alters the usual concept of war -
guilt trials which envisaged these
as an exclusively postwar func-
tion.
To Avoid Post -War Conditions
Trials and executions like this
at Kharkov lessen the possibility
of war criminals' escaping because
of a general postwar 'reaction
among the peoples: a let -down
from war tensions, a willingness
to .let bygones be bygones, an
eagerness to forget the war, or
apathy in the face of so great and
protracted an agony as the trial
and executions of thousands of
human *beings.
The dispatch with which the
.Russians have punished persons
convicted of atrocities is inspired
In part- by determination to avoid
some of the' postwar conditions
'which might militate against re-
tribution. The Russians can re-
member as well as anyone the
Allied promises to punish the
criminals of World War One, the
strange aftermath in which the
German authorities and peoples
joined in declaring that program
of punishment to be merely a
frenzy of hatred° against Germany
and the sequel in which only the
merest handiful were convicted.
Moreover, the Russians seem
Intent upon establishing a direct
.connection between the crimes
committed on the field and the
policies of the Nazi regime. This
would help to explain the other-
wise curiously detailed and dra-
matic confessions obtained from
those convicted, reminiscent in
tome respects of confessions which
appeared in the mass trials some
years ago.
Precedents .Set
These statements show the eon-
victecl as immediate agents of
atrocities approved and even dir-
ectly ordered from above. The
iiliarkov• executions thus seem
intended to set precedents for
dealing with war criminals: their
trials need not await the end of
the war, and the execution of thos6
directly involved will not absolve
others whose responsibility may
seem less direct but whose policies
dictated brutal methods of war-
fare against innocent populations.
Whether they restrain further
brutalities or not, the hangings
at Kharkov will be grimly noted
not only among Nazi officers on
the fighting front S but by their
• superiors in Berlin.
• "F 'rat Real izat ion"
The MonoNews declared that
the Kharkov war criminals' trial
was "the first realization" of the
• statement by President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Winston Myra.
hill and Premier Joseph Stalin on
vvar criminals, and added that its
"Is significant in that It IS the
initial act in the judgement that
Will be held in the countries of
liberated Europe."
The "long arm of. the freedeuis
loving peoples will pursue those
guilty to the ends of the earth,"
it continued, and "will deliver
them to be places where they com-
mitted their crimes; they will be
tried according to the laws of the
countries whose citizens fell vic-
tim to the Hitlerite terror."
"Irrefutable documents leave no
doubt that all these crimes were
and are being committed by the
Hitlerites at direct instructions of
the German Government and the
High Command of the German
Army," the Moscow News editorial
declared.
SCOUTING ...
His Excellency the Governor-
General, Chief Scout for Canada
has approved of the week of Feb-
ruary 20-28 as Boy Scout Week
in Canada.
* * *
Boy Scout leaders in Windsor,.
Ontario, have prepared a brief
suggesting means of overcoming
the increase in juvenile delin-
quency in Ontario.
• * *
Sik hundred and fifty Boy Scout
leaders in Toronto have enlisted
since the outbreak of war. Thirty
of these have been killed, a num-
ber have been decorated, and 12
per cent have earned cdmmissions.
• *
It has been revealed that the
first British pilot to drop an 8,000
lb. bomb on enemy territory was
Rover Scout Peter Merrell, D.F.
M., who was posthumously award-
ed the D.F.C.
* * *
For more than 20 years of ser-
vice to the Boy Scout Movement,
Louis L. Lang of Kitchener, Ont.,
President of the Mutual Life As-
surance Co., a former President
of .the Canadian. Manufacturers'
Assn., and a director of the Can-
adian Pacific Railway has• been
awarded the Silver Wolf by the
Governor-General.
*
Gilt Crosses for Gallantry have
been awarded by the Governor-
General to Scout Herbert Held-
man of the 1st Oakville, Ont.
Troop for the rescue of a boy who
had fallen from the pier at Oak-
ville, and to Patrol Leader Al-
bert John Lee, 15, of the 79th
Toronto Troopfor rescuing a boy
who had fallen into the Grenadier
Pond.
Let's back Canada by livinr;
like Canadians. Canadians are
honest, unselfish, neighborly,
clean, free and united. Are we?
All of the time?
OTTAWA REPORT
• That Canadian Ministers T
• United States, RUSSia, China
Brazil Have Been Elevated
To The Rank of Ambassadors
Ia , the elevation of Canadi
Ministers to the United Stat
Russia, China and Brazit to t
rank of Ambassadors Canada.
taking„ steps designed to gua
her interests in a post war wor
where even the most widely s
arated nations will be "neighbor
at a distance of a mere couple
days air travel,
The gtuirdhlg of Canada's 1
terests means much, more tli
the mere protection of her •eco
oinic concerns or the presery
tion of her rights to this or th
Item of commercial value,
means also the creation of undo
standing, so far as possible,
the Canadian people, their pos
tion in the British Commonwealt
of Nations, their manner of 11
Mg, their liking for fair play, an
their peace -loving nature all we
as their wartime accompliehrhen
in the commercial sphere. 0
course it means as •well the di
semination of ,knowledge of wha
Canada, can produce from her so
and from her factonies, and ,ottl
she is. prepared to trade with dh
world on a fair -basis and
integrity and justice.
111 If one wa 0 , o consider'lh
advisability • o 4Canada takin
steps to present her viewpoin
with full dignity abroad one 'ha
only to ponder on the extent t
which international lack of under
standing of other peoples•poin
of view has been responsible to
friction and strife and stalemat
among the peoples of the world
in the past. International goodwil
is almost inevitably paved with
understanding and appreciation.
It was perfectly natural that
Canada's first embassy should b
created in the capital of her sniw-
erful and peaceloving neighbor,
the United States of America. It
is apparent that the importance
of Anglo Saxon understanding
rests to no small degree upon the
continuance for all time of the
goodwill which has marked Can-
adian -American relations.
That embassies should follow
quickly in Russia and China is
also no surprise, and the eleva-
tion of our Brazilian legation to
the rank of an Embassy only un-
derlines the amazing speed with
'which Canadian friendship with
the Latin Americas is being ce-
mented. Canada's friendly interest
in the Latin Americas has Increas-
ed enormously since the outbreak
of war and links of understand-
ing are being forged which are
important to the future.
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One of the most striking fea-
tures of the year at Ottawa has
been the constant stream of Lat-
in Americau visitors •coming to
gain at first hand a better knowl-
edge of the people of this Domin-
ion. The Wartime Information
Board Department, dealing with
Latin American relations, reports •
that no fewer than seventy Chil-
eans alone have officially visited
Ottawa in various capacities dur-
ing the past year. Onegroup came
to study our Royal Canadian
Mounted Police System; others ,to
note our war effort; others came
in important capacities to ex-
change goodwill and promote nat-
tual understanding.
The extension of Canadian rep-
resentation throughout the na-
tions of•the world means, not that
Canada is lessening or weakening
her ties with the great Common-
wealth of which she is a part.
Canada already has assumed a
leading role in the settlement of
postwar problems, notably food '
relief, and has to "grow up" ae-
cordingly.
Ten -Week Town
• In ten weeks a small group of
officers of the Royal Engineers
have transformed 200 acres of
cornfields, pastures, trees and
hedges into a vast supply depot
for the American Army in 13r1-
tain. "Ten -week town" is now.
a vast conglomeration of tower-
ing tarred sheds set in a network
of concrete roads. There are 14
miles of railways and seven miles
of roads. In peacetime this work
would have taken upwards of a
year to complete.
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F 1 H E
P RESS
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LOSING ITS FRANCHISE
Over rnost of Europe there are
neither elections nor voting. The
people have no say as to who gov-
ern them, or how. It is their lot
to obey orders from higher -up --
or else, But, given the opportun-
ity which is ours,' to vot,P freely
and by secret ballot, would 60
per cent, of them si,ay at home?
We think nOt.
Like good health, the franchise
is never so highly regarded as
when it is lost.
—Fort Erie Times -Review,
• AN OLD •GERMAN CUSTOM
Nazi troops displayed a white
flag, then shot down a Canadian
platoon that came to take the
enemy prisoner.
It was not Hitler who did that,
it was German soldiers. They
were repeating an old German• *
custom. Ihey were proving the
axiom that the German people
cannot be trusted.
—Windsor Star.
OLSO BABY HUMANS
A scientist informs us that baby
goldfishes are so unlike their par-
• ents that they a.re often mistaken
for another species. Baby humans,
too, professor, and fortunately.
—Ottawa Citizen.
X FOR EXIT
We -are amused to hear a bunch
of British kids making new use
Of the • R.A.F. ' designation • for
bombers, They greet each other
thusly: "Here conies old B for
• and shouts of "Hi, there,
P for Percy."
We would have stayed around
to hear more, but "M for Mabel"
passed by.—Stars and Stripes.
SHORTENING LIFE
• Man is that foolish creature
who shortens his life by working
hard to acquire things that fur-
ther' shorten his life.
—Kitchener Record.
The Book Shelf
Our Old Home Town
• By F. H. Dobbin
Many of these reminiscences
will be familiar to old timers, and
many more will want to see old
Ontario through the eyes of- our
hardy forbears. What did the well-
dressed woman of a hundred years
ago wear in Peterborough? How
did they fight fires in those days?
• What about the small city or-
chestra?
The reader will find, in this col-
lection of Mr. Dobbin's articles,
not only the full flavour -of an
age, that has passed away, but
also a witty commentary on the
foibles and fashions of early On-
tario folk. He will read in this
fascinating book how the early
elections were held in Peterbor-
ough, how whiskey sold at a shill-
ing a gallon, and was guaranteed
free from headaches, the story of
Red Fife wheat, descriptions of
Municipal housekeeping a century
ago, of these and of many inat-
tars.
A foreword is
T. H. Theobald,
borough Examiner
Our Old Home
F. H. Dobbin . . .
Sons . .. Price $
written by Mr.
of The Peter -
Town . . By
J. M. Dent and
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A Million -Dollar
Cape Of Feathers
The most expensive garment in
all the world is a cape made of
feathers, which was worn by King
Kamehameha the Great, of
Hawaii,' writes Juliette Lane in
"Our Dumb Animals." The gar-
ment is valued at, and insured
for $1,000,000,
This remarkable cape is price-
less beyond merely monetary
.value because it is made of tiny,
golden feathers no larger than a
child's fingernail, gathered over
a long period of time from the
wings of the Hawaiian Mamo, a
1b8ir7d0.whiCh has been extinct since
As only two of these tiny
feathers . were taken from the
REG'LAR FELLERS—Over the Top
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Ring Out the Old,
Ring in the New
• Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let hint go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true,
•
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
• Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
• Ring out a slowly dying cause,
• And ancient forms of party strife
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
• Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness 'of the tirnes;
Ring out, ring out my • mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
• Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring' out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old„
• Rhig in the thousand years of peace.
king in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of thr; land,
• Ring..in the Christ that is to be.
• —Lord Tennyson.
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wings of each bird, it was neces-
sary to obtain feathers from
countless thousands of the birds
in order to assemblethis single
garment. Moreover, we are in-
formed that -over 100 years of
labor were required and that the
completed feather ' cape repre-
sents the highest devlopmenb. in
native Hawaiian art.
The plumage of the Mamo was
at one time . equivalent to gold
currency in the Hawaiian Islands
and it represented the country's
greatest treasure.
The garment is preserved at
theBernice P. Bishop Museum
• in Honolulu.
Diphtheria -Free
It was ,13 years ago on Nov.
18 • that Brantford recorded its
Jest case of diphtheria. This re-
• markable record,swhich is actually
without parallel in Canada, or,
anywhere else, as far as is known,
with - regard to communities of
this size, has been made possible
by toxoid.
• Brantford was among the first
cities in Canada to institute a
thoroughgoing diphtheria -preven-
tion policy, a fact for which its
medical officer of health and suc-
cessive health boards and coun-
cils deserve grateful credit.
Big Growth Seen
For Dried Foods
The preservation and conden-
sation of food will have a tre-
mendous postwar growth; en-
hanced by the food needs of cur-
rently Axis -occupied • countries,
said W. Smallwood of the Cana-
dian General Elctrie Company in
a recent address in Toronto be-
fore the Electric Club. Zuthori-
ties estimate that the food emer-
gency will continue for 10 years
after the war, and dehydration
will play an important part, he
declared. •
Dehydrated vegetables in 1942
increased in volume four times
over 1941, aaid the speaker, add- ,
ing that in 1943 a 16 -fold in-
erease is scheduled over 19,42. He
explained that in North America
this will mean nearly 2,000,000,-
000 pounds.
Refrigeration solved the prob-
lem of feeding the Allied troops
in invasion of North Africa and
Italy in advance on this side of
the Atlantic, Mr. Smallwood
pointed out when small cold stor-
age rooms were individually
constructed, filled with frozen ,
food, and then put bodily aboard
ship, the mechanism in each unit
kept the food in that condition
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