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ONE of the best known groups of stars he the heavens is the
Pleiades, which frequently is erroneously called the "little dipper,"
These "Seven Sisters" figured prominently in ancient celebrations
of the beginning of spring, since they once marked the sun's place
in the heavens as it crossed the equator traveling north,
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OTTAWA REPORTS
That New Regulations Will
Tighten Control On Purchase
Of Farm Machinery
Farm machinery production and
ase is being watched anxiously
by the Government these days.
Ottawa is very conscious of the.
fact that vital food production
may be affected by any miscalcu-
lations of the requirement of the
farmers in this direction.
In spite of the fact that quotas
for manufacture of farm equip-
ment have been very considerably
enlarged during recent months,
new equipment is still difficult to
obtain compared with normal
times. It is still necessary to ra,
Rion a wide variety of Items of
/arm machinery and equipment
and to otherwise control the sale
of these goods, and the Adminiz-
itrator of Farm Machinery for the
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
bast, announced some new rage-
" i'oirs' which tighten the control
over conditions under which new
farm machinery is sold.
War material must come first
and implement plants both in Can-
ada and the United States are
.still engaged on war orders. The
supply of metal, although improv-
ed, is not yet nearly adequate.
this respect that arrangements
have been made by Mr. Bloom,
the Farm Machinery Administra-
tor, with the United States War
Production Board for the release
of greater supplies of metal for
use in making farm machinery.
* * *
The new regulations now an-
nounced and included in a gen-
eral consolidation of the farm
machinery rationing order, con-
cern the sales of machinery. One
prohibits a dealer• from putting
to his own use machinery that
he has obtained for re -sale to
pustomers, unless lie has proper
permission from the Board to do
so. Another provision is designed
to prevent farmers from selling
used equipment merely for the
purpose of obtaining n,ew. From
now on, no application for new
equipment will be considered In
these cases unless the farmer has
previously filed with the Board's
representative, a statement de-
•seribing 'the used equipment he
zolcl, giving his reasons for sell-
ing it, and a description of the
new machinery be intends to
buy. It is useless for him to try
to proceed with his purchase un-
less he has a notice from the
Board's representative that bis
application for the new equipment
will be given consideration.
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Another provision leas been
made which is designed to pre-
vent farmers, who have already
been refused application for new
machinery, from repeating their
application through relatives, The
Board now requires that applica-
tions for new machinery must
come only from those who have
a leasehold or freehold interest
In the property en which the new
machinery is to be used.
However it is some hells to lcno+w .
that repairs for farm equipment
are not oh the rationed list, and
that there are some thirty items.
of new egiiipment which are not
rationed.
Coal for Poultry Breeders
Two announcement% isslred re'
cently will be good now« to pout -
try breeders across the country.'s
The Department of Agriculture
has announced that additional sup-
plies of anthracite coal will be
imported from the United States
for the exclusive use of poultry
breeders and hatcheries. This
will apply to the districts where
this fuel is customarily used.
The other announcement comes
from the Wartime Prices and
Trade Board and places a ceiling
on fihe prices of both soluble and
insoluble types of poultry grit.
The ceiling prices which went In-
to effect on December 16, affect
manufacturers, importers, whole-
salers and retailers.
VOICE
F PRESS
KNOWS HOW
Dunnville Chronicle would like
to know: "Why do people «pend
/honey f'aey have not got to buy
things they don't need to impress
people they don't like?" All we
can suggest Is the standard wo-
man's reason—because.
—Owen Sound Sun -Times.
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MAKES HIM SQUIRM
Hitler must find it a pain In the
neck to read the handwriting on
the wall when his back is almost
against the same.
—Kitchener Record.
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EACH GOT HIS DESERTS
A Canadian soldier paid 21 for
a bottle of whisky in an lOdin
burgh pub. The Canadian got cold
tea instead of whisky, and the
pub owner got 30 days. Neither
got what he wanted, but what
each got was good for him.
—Ottawa Journal.
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FAR 13ELOW CANINE LEVEL
Detroit police arrested a group
of professional dog fight fans. A
dog fight promoter is a man sev-
eral degrees below a dog.
—Detroit Free Press,-
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A NIGGER IN THAT WOODPILE
Ask some co.uslrrnere about coal,
and they shout: 'Tor peat's sake
don't mention it'"
—Hamilton Spectator.
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WHAT? AGAIN?
Newspapers, like ladies, have to
be careful. When there's a letdown
their slip shows.
—Ottawa Citizen.
'i E WAR • WEEK -- commentary on .current Events
Direct Eisenhowersenhower To D_
Ci M �e5ter)C1,
AssaultInto Heart of Germany
A three -front 'land offensive to
be la u n c h e d silnultaneousiy
against Germany from Russia,
from Italy and from Britain across
the Channel, with '"Gena Dwight
•inisenhower in Supreme cone
mend of the Anglo-American in -
Taejon artily, was 'disclosed by,
President Roosevelt In Ills Cliriet-
mas Day' radiocast to the nation
azid to the armed forces in every
theater of the globe, writes a cor-
respondent of The Christian, :Sel
enee Monitor.
The Cairo and Teheran, Iran,
conferences with Maesltal Joseph
Stalin, Generalissimo C1liazig Kai-
shek and Prince Minister Winston
Churchill brought the President
announced, agreernen eseeei , eibee-
point ocncerued with the Ia incli-
ing of a gigantic attach peen'Ger-
nrany,'r
Mr. Roosevelt resrealed the %.broad '
pattern of the climatic operations
now in the making.
Camign HiEi lgbts G '
He evidepantly felth 1t wSiid kr®
The Boor Shwelf
Forges of Freeoii•
By Franklin Davey .1eleD,oeveil
Like a tapestry eoine to life
this novel oe fourteenth.century
England presents a vivid " panor-
ama of life in that romantic and
turbulent age when the roads of
England • were the meeting -place
of knights and minstrels, merch-
ants and pedlars, outlaws and
conspirators.
.Mr. McDowell re-creates bril-
liantly the medieval scene and the
pattern of life in England when,•
after 'three hundred yeare' of Nor-
man occupation, Englishmen from
every walk of life •drew; their
swords or forged them to `fight.;
for freedom,
There are many dr•ama:tie -meet
ings in this novel, pictured:in all
the pageantry of the period: • the
meeting of John of Gaunt and the
"Grossers"; the march on London
when Watt Tyler met the King
and his followers with Sir John
de Redeware, Lord William de
Rose and their partisans.
Forges of Freedom tells the
story -of that critical period of
tee4A etas. d.
David Franklin McDowell
Anglo-Saxon political developrheht'
when the English first appeared
as a nation.
Mr. McDowell is the author of
The Champlain Road, an histor-
ical romance of Ancient Hurontar
in Ontario's Georgian Bay Dis-
trict, which won the Governor -
General's Award for Fiction in
1939, .
O'Identified for many years with
the Canadian National .Railways
as Publicity Representative for
the Central Region, Mr. McDowell
is one of the many fiction writers.
trained by practical journalism -
Widely known among press and
" magazine writers, his early years
were spent as a reporter and fea-
ture writer, and the workedfor a
period in the United Kingdom,
Forges of Freecloin , . ,ay
Franklin Davey McDowell ;
The Mecmiilan Company
Price $3,50.
no heti) to the e! Bile make
known:-""
That the Russian:Az'rlry will
continue • its stern offensives on
Ger'imeny's Eastern Front.
That the Allied armies In Italy
and Africa will bring relentless
Pressure en Cer;nlany from the
South,
And that the encirclement will
be complete as great American and
British forces ratteeic from other
points of the conipasS.
The President explaitted that
General' Eisenhower was selected
to lead the combined attack from
these other points because "his
perfoiallences in Africa, Sicily and
Italy .have been brilliant" and be -
aeon. "he, knows by practical and
succ e'Sful ;ex,perielrce the way to
co-ordinate air,,, sea, and land
grower,"'
5'i EsIn Commatider-s
London revealed':• that General
eElseehower's assasietnt .will be
Gen Dir I3ez iarcl L "'Montgomery,
ti e'iainecl eot/irn,fder of Ilritain's
laighth AI3itye teat gene, Siz;: Iezlry
Meads ncl - *nod' '. Will ' succeed
Glen, )Jisenhowez In" the eielediter-
r•auean with an American general
assisting bene, and that. Gen. Sir
Harold Alexaricler ivill command
the Allied forces 'in Italy.
A ''British' officer, to •be an -
hemmed ,rbyi - Prime Minister
Churchill, will succeed General
Eisenhower in' the Mediterranean
and both the new commanders
will. bave American and British
subordinate commanders.
The choice of an American Area
the Channel operation Na rliett.;
tated by the proeortion ..pg„, the
burden to be borne there bei Am-
erican forces.: Tile Mediterranean
ie to become :,largely a British un-
dertalciii . ',British troops have
from , the beginning carried most
of . the load and now provide near-
ly- three fourths of the troops op-
erating in Italy.
American forces entered that
area originally on the assumption
that the French in Africa would
resist Americans less tenaciously
than they would resist the Bri-
tish. French Africa now being in
the war as an ally, that factor no
longer governs. America's land
weight in• Europe therefore shifts
back to England as a base and
an American commander be-
comes logical for that area.
Magnitude of Problem
Indicating the gathering strik-
ing force now available in Britain
and' the powerful reserves which
will be ready to follow up the
Corning cross -Channel invasion, as
well as other `I !operations, Mr.
Roosevelt said "there are now 3,-
800,000 men in the American arm-
ed forces serving overseas and
that by July this number will rise
to over 5,000,000.
But with the settling upon Gen-
eral Eisenhower for the invasion
command conies .new indications
of the' magnitude. of his problem.
The time cannot be very far In
the distance. To take the fullest
advantage of the Russian winter
offensive it must come in the very
early spring—before the spring
thaws in Russia, or not much
after the beginning of the thaw.
The Germans must not be allow-
ed time to prove forces from the
Eastern to the Western Fronts.
- Element of Haste
,,Thst writes an element of urg-
ent baste into the preinvasion
bombing schedule. Not only must
maximum damage be done to Ger-
man war industry during the next
two or three months, but the in-
vasion coast itself roust be soft-
ened and the primary coast de-
fenses must be :reduced to the
minimum possible effectiveness.
The President franklyew.arned
that the biggest and costliest bat-
tles are still to be fought, and he
said of the planned invasion,
though its success was certain,
its cost would be high and the
time might be long,
Poor Fido
Britain leas saved 460 thousand
tons oft shipping space in a year
by importing "telescoped" meat,
This is. meat kohl which all belies
have been removed
F.FG'LAR. FELLERS—The Human Trans
WHY ARENT YOU OUT FIGHTING
WITH THE REST OF THE
ARMY, PINS -MAD?
i
NOT Mi,, MOM:I"
I KNOW Wf•lgid
I'M WELL OFF,, .,
SO IM ST,4Y'I .
140,A18'
CANADIANS IN SICILY
These ancient ruins in Sicily, crumbling evidence of a former
civilization, was the setting for this Church of England communion
being given here to a group of Canadians by Major Serson Clarke,
of Ottawa, after a recent church service. (Canadian Army Over-
seas Photo).
Some Kind Words
For Lowly Skunk
The lowly skunk has been given
a lot of most undeserved pub-
licity, according to a man who
claims to know much about these
little animals, says The Trenton
Courier Advocate. This man
tells us that when a skunk is
trapped, the other skunks will
bring him a bed to lie on. Further
than that, they will bring him
food. He says he can prove this.
If what this man says is true,
and we are not doubting hint a
bit, name any other animal, wild
or tame, that is so considerate
of its own at a time like that.
Newfoundlanders
Doing Full Share
Out of a male population in
Newfoundland of 40,000 between
the ages of 20 and 40, more than
a quarter have volunteered to.
serve abroad. • Numbers of these
men are with Newfoundland Ar-
tillery Regiments of the United
Kingdon forces; with the Royal
Navy, the Royal Air Force, the
Merchant Marine and the Forestry
Unit. Many have enlisted in the
Canadian armed forces. In this
war as in the former world strug-
gle, the Newfoundlanders are do-
ing their full share of the fight-
ing.
Stip Gets Around
On .High -Wheeler
From Regina comes a picture of
a man in his seventies riding a
high -wheel bicycle, relates the
Woodstock Sentinel -Review. Tbis
machine, more than half a cen-
tury old, is used today just as
the ordinary bicycle or automobile
—for the purpose of "getting
around," What a difference in
mechanism and in time and events
between that high -wheeler and
the latest tank.
'The owner of the high -wheeler
is It. J. King, a Regina contrac-
tor, He says he "learned to get
on the thing (quite a chore) back
in Wingham, Ontario, 50 yearn
ago." Mr. Ring said that he "used
to go to work on it back In On-
tario—Went a-courtin' on it, too."
Not without interest, in the
light of the story and background
of this high -wheeler, is the fact
that it was built in Coventry,
England. The firm which --built it.
was still making, bicycles• , whe
the war broke out. Probably thea;
firm's building was blown to its •
in the infamous Coventry Mite,
The machine's front wheel is
about etet feet high. Tires are
solid rubber. "Sometimes," says
Mr. Ring, "if you lose your baI.
ance, she'll throw you litre a buck-
ing broncho." 3rith no attempt
at lightness, it should be said
that such news as this helps all
to keep their balance in as troub-
led world.
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ACsA1N AS /MOTHER LAT1-ER DOOR 1S
SHOUTS AFTER JUN- BURST opeN AS
ISiR TO CATCH UP FATHER RUSHES
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AND iREMiND IM DR113F CAse
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MOTHER FiNDS
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BECAUSE HE LEFT
DOOR OPEN AND
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FOR THE MORNING
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(1 hr'
Mi' GOODNESS! THAT' NO WAY
:TO PLAY SOLDIER - TO DESERT IN
`--t TIME OF BATTLE!
By GENE BYR ES
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