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FEEL POWER OF THE PRESS
WANTED—Employment for two young, attractive women in
early twenties; A.B. degrees, intelligent, attractive, whimsical, ambi-
tious, literary, poverty-stricken. Can act, model, dance, sing, act,
knit, sew, paint, decorate, act, sell, ride horseback, read to invalids,
swim, act, play hockey, walk dogs, play bridge, teach, speak French,
German, Greek, . Russian, Latin, fence, act, direct, design, construct,
act, cook, mix drinks, play piano and ukulele, compose, act, wash dogs,
parachute ftump, play tennis, hook rugs, mind children, act, psycho-
analyse, debate, garden, photograph. and act. Phone Chelsea 3-3059
between 5.30 and 9 p.m.
When Gay Churchill, left, and Bartan Lowell advertised thusly
in a New York paper they received what appeared to be 10 genuine
job offers, 16 invitations to dinner, a bottle of scotch and many
proposals the first day. Girls who really w .ut to be actresses, are
shown with pet dog and Stuffed goose.
VOICE
OF THE
PRESSTHE
PRESS
SEA HARVEST
When we think of our potenti-
alities for feeding the Empire, we
should not forget our fisheries.
Reports that some 65,000 men in
Canada are still engaged in this
industry stress the importance,
which has grown even greater since
the war began, of this source of
food.
Here is a field in which we excel,
On both our ocean coasts are great
supplies of fish, healthful and
nourishing, and to be had for the
effort of taking them from the
water. This is no mean eftort,
at- ec arse,. and • our fishermen... are
among our hardiest and bravest .•
citizens. They have always faced
the dangers of rough waters and
winds and today they cheerfully
go out to meet still another men-
ace, which is a very real one, be-
cause enemy air and naval craft
have demonstrated that they are
only too eager to prey on the fish-
ing boats.
Our men, however, oarry on, and
they continue to contribute impor-
tantly to our great food produc-
tion, Windsor Daily Star.
BRITAIN'S FACTORIES KEEP
GOING
There came in the mail from
London this week three little an-
nouncements of Britain's export
trade, each relatively unimpotart,
bat they tell strikingly of how
England is carrying on its role as
world manufacturer at the same
time that it is serving as Civiliza-
tion's beleaguered fortress.
A shipment of 2,700 airplane
models to Singapore for enthusi-
asts who make model -flying their
hobby. During the first six months
of 1941 the value of pianos shipped
from Britain overseas was half as
much again as it was in the same
period of 1940—$355,000 as against
e225,000. Up to August in this
year Britain has exported $3,669,-
330
3,669;330 worth of locomotives, tenders
and freight cars to Turkey.
It isn't business as usual—but
it is the usual amount of business
under the most unuual of difficul-
ties and hardships,
—Ottawa Evening Journal.
GOOD NEIGHBORS
It is in the rural districts that
one appreciates the value of good
neighbors. The family "next door"
may live a mile away but the rural
dweller knows that they stand
ready to lend a helping hand in any
emergency. They will be there to
comfort one in bereavement, to
lend kindly aid in the sick -room,
to lend a willing hand at the sew-
ing bee or the harvest. One may
not have many friends or neigh.
hors in the country, but they are
tried and true. The happiest mo-
ments of farm life are those spent
in the company of the folks trent
the next farm or the next conces-
sion. A farmer once explained his
philosophy of life: "1 have always
lived in'the country, I have a good
farm, a contented wife and good
neighbors. My neighbors are my
best friends. 1 know that when
I am in need they will help nee,
They have stood by me in the past,
and l have stood by them. I still
have neighbors; will still have
pienty. Stirling Nows-Argas.
A MEMBER'S THINKING
Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, unity them,
her of Parliament for North 13at-
tlefortl, apparently does her think-
ing in air -tight compartments.
In her address in Lethbridge the
other evening, she called for all-
out aid to Russia.
In another part of her address
she defended slow -down strikes 1n
the Maritime coal fields, and drew
a picture of what she called slum
conditions &in the mining camps.
Mrs. Nielsen didn't stop to tell
us how we could have all-out aid
to Russia and slow -down strikes at
the same time. Nor did she ex-
plain what would happen to slow-
down strikers in Russia.
—Lethbridge Herald.
CANADIAN STARTED THIS
It has been announced that the
whole of the British sugar ration
is now produced by British farm-
ers, principally from sugar beet
growing. And it is interesting to •
know that. the man who intro-
duced the sugar beet industry in
Britain after the last war was a.
Canadian Kent county man, Cap-
tain James N. Mowbray.
—Chatham News.
FATIGUE PRODUCERS
An American naval officer has
developed a "death ray" which is
said to cause fatigue 1n persons
who stand close to the machine.
They lose their ability to do math-
ematical problems. Teachers are
already becoming suspicious that
some of their youthful charges
must have leaned against the gad-
get during the summer holidays.
—Brantford Expositor.
EFFECTS OF WINKING
A wink takes from one-quarter
to one-half a second, according to
a London scientist. Scientific
knowledge, however, is not re-
quired to know that its conse-
quences can last a lifetime.
Kitchener Record.
THOUGHTS FOR THANKSGIVING
Blessed is a land where a back-
fire makes a nervous man cuss
instead of pray.—Buffalo News.
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THE WAR • WEEK -'.= Commentary on Current Events
Battle Of The Road To Moscow
One Of The Mightiest In History
"This is a sombre hour, dark
with fate. Russia faces the great-
est gathering of savage power the
world has ever known. Finland,
Rumania, Hungary, Italy and' Ger-
many all over, banded together in
murder, theft and arsoo, sneaking
through the world, donquoring and
torturing one nation after another,
until all mankind is broken and
bowed in a martyrdom unparallel'-
ed in history.
Now Russia's armies are in dire
peril, but the morale of them
people is unbroken. There is a.
strong determination that eanno,
be trampled down, an army of
men united under one banner with
ability to defend themselves and'
conquer their enemies. We have;
before us the spectacle of splendid;•',.
sacrifice, hones blasted, bearth
stones torn up, farms devastated;
We will forego food from abroad
if the ships are needed for Rus1•ia7
Shadows we will endure with. then"
and sunshine we will share witk
them.
Stalin must be sustained.
The Soviet Union must be 'en-
abled to enter the spring camp
palgn with adequate supplies of
all munitions of war, over every-
thing, tanks, anti-tank guns, air:
craft and anti-aircraft guns.
These are the promises we made,,:-.
to Stalin in Moscow in your name:; ,
These are the pledges that w•e';;',
shall carry out!"
So spoke Lord Beaverbrook
reporting on the recent Angle
American aid -to -Russia missions iii to
Moscow.
Thrust On Moscow
Last week Moscow was the goal,+;
of the heaviest assault of the 16 -
weeks -old Russo -German w tar.
-What Adolf Hitler had proclaimed !'
as "an operation of gigantic pro
portions" was hammering colossal
blows at the capital's defenses of
men, machines and fortifications..
In a campaign described as the
"mightiest battle in history," some
9,000,000 men were locked in a
sanguinary conflict along a 2,000 -
mile front in a drive on Moscow.
On the approaches to the capital
3,000,000 Germans were said to be
pitted against a slightly less num-
erous army of defenders. Over an
undulating terrain of forest and
plain, muddied by rain and snow,
through gutted towns and villages,
swept the inferno of mechanized.
war. '':
Stakes of War
The stakes were high. In a "sec-
ret" order to his troops just be-
fore the Moscow attack was
launched on Oct. 8, the Fuehrer
had called for "a last mighty blow
that shall crush this opponent be-
fore Winter sets in." In these
words observers saw a desperate
gamble by the German High Com-
mand for a decisive victory before
subfreezing weather and deep
snows bogged down operations ons)r
the Russian front. The main. ere•"
ments of such a victory, it seemed.
clear, would be: (1) destruction
of the Russian force before Mos-,
cow, which Berlin communiques
described as the "last" organized.
unit of the Red Army; and (2) cap
ture of the capital itself; such a
success, it was hoped, would unj
dermine Russian morale and secure
Nazi control over the hub of Sov-
iet • governmental machinery-.
Behind the immediate German
objectives lay the larger ones of
MEN ARE PLACED
BY RADIO COLLEGE
Demands for radio men have resulted in the Radio College
of Canada supplying one large New York corporation with four
different groups of gradxiates, and the college is now lining up
its fifth assignment.
This meant that to several graduating classes of the Radio
College of Canada, long before examination time, lucrative' Mar-
ine positions have been offered those desiring to go to sea.
The men chosen for the New Yorlr Corporation are placed
on the company's pay roll immediately at $80 per month, and
as soon as they sign their articles they are paid $160 per month,
American funds. The graduates selected are flown to New York
from Canada, with all expenses paid.
The college states that there are also many opportunities
with government services throughout Canada for which starting
rate Is $110 per month.
the Russian campaign. Defeat of
the armies of Joseph Stalin would
free Hitler• for a full military drive
against Britain in the West. Seiz-
ure of Soviet resource's would give
the Reich the, materials to beat the
British blockade and keep ahead
of the Anglo-American armament
effort. On the ether hand, a Nazi
failure, might mark the war's turn-
ing point, toward ultimate German
exhaustion and defeat.
Advances Recently Halted
When the German armies hurled
onward into Russia last June the
hardest thrust was aimed at Mos-
cow. Smolensk, the traditional
gateway to the Russian capital
through which Napoleon's soldiers
passed in 1812, fell in early Aug-
ust. Somewhere beyond that bomb -
blasted, burned city—roughly 300
miles from the German frontier
and still 200 miles from Moscow—
the blitz was blunted. Strong Rus-
sian counter-attacks held, then roll-
ed back the Panzer forward units,
The Germans increased the
pressure on the north and south
flanks of the battleground. A sweep
up the Baltic shore was directed
at Leningrad, the Soviet's second
city, its foremost Baltic port, a
vital shipbuilding and factory cen-
ter. The advance was halted last
month by fierce resistance on the
city's outskirts, a resistance re-
ported last week to be pushing•
back the Nazi "besiegers."
Most impressive of Nazi gains
were those registered on the south-
ern wing, in the Ukraine, the rich
farming, mining and industrial
region publicly coveted by Hitler.
Having taken Kiev, the Soviet's
third largest city, having overrun
the land west of the Dnieper and
penetrated to the Crimea and the
threshold of the Donets basin,
Nazi forces in the Ukraine appear-
ed to be poised for a further move
toward the strategic .city of Khar-
kov and the Caucasian oil fields.
Action in this vital sector was
overshadowed by the renewed push
toward Moscow. •
A People's War
That battle along the highway
.to Moscow is one of the most am-
azing conflicts of history. The Ger-
man soldiers—youths who have
been trained to the fine edge of
athletes --are sacrificing them-
selves with that courage which al-
ways has characterized the race.
The ' perfection of the., invading
war -machine is amazing.
Even more amazing is the fact
that it can be stopped. And the
manner of its present holding is
an epic, for we find civilians now
fighting side by side with their
soldiers in defense of country and
the soil they love.
The Germans assert that the
Russian war is virtually over—that
the Reds already are crushed. It
may be, indeed, that the Musco-
vites have been so weakened that
they are on the verge of collapse.
Only time will demonstrate that.
It is not believed, however, that
the Reds are beaten. They are ex-
pected to stiffer further reverses.
Moscow may fall, and the whole
Russian line may be driven back
even behind the mighty defenses
of the Ural Mountain chain.
But the only thing that might
knock them clear out of the war,
is a collapse of morale. It would
be difficult to find any signs of
weakening morale in a Red fight-
ing • front in which civilians—
humble folk who know nothing of
the part of war and never have
been far from the little farms
where they were born—are facing
onslaughts which are hard even
for the professional soldier to face.
Russia Draws On Reserve
The Russians report they are
drawing on their great reserve in
man -power to ease the position on
the central front. These troops
cannot be expected to have the
weight of the fully trained vet-
erans already in the line, but they
will ease the Red situation con-
siderably.
There are millions more where
they come from, as the Soviet re-
cently called up the military class
of 1922 nineteen year olds—for
military service. At the same time
there was inaugurated the uni-
versal compulsory military train-
ing program which contemplates
the largest peoples' army in his-
tory, involving all men from 16
to 50.
This doesn't sound as though the
Russians were finished. As a mat-
ter of fact the Germans themselves
appear to have doubts since an
authoritative source in Berlin re-
cently acknowledged that the Reds
might be .able to set up new forces
during the winter, That would
mean a two -front war for Hitler.
It is important not to overlook
the Japanese. They are watching
the German progress intently.
There can be small doubt that
Hitler is doing his utmost in sbow-
manship and diplomacy and strong-
arm pressure to bring the Nip-
ponese into conflict with Britain,
America or Russia. Tokyo doesn't
warm up to the idea of war with
the U. S. A. or England but col-
lapse of the Russian front might
easily result in a Japanese attack
on Siberia.
There are 828,000,000 undefeated
citizens of the British Common-
wealth, the United States and Rus-
sia who, with China's 458,000,000,
are working to bring about the de-
feat of Hitierism. Is it any wonder
that Japan hesitates to cast in her
lot with Hitler against that form-
idable array of man power and the
resources of their mighty coun-
tries?
The Viking Spirit
They tell the story in Norway
about a boy who was looking at
the famous Viking ship in the
Outdoor Museum at Bygd near
Oslo when some German officers
came in to look around. They
were much impressed by the well-
preserved old craft and emitted
many a "Wunderbar!" and "Don-
nerwetter!"
"So you like our Viking ship,
do you?" queried the lad.
"Yes, it is magnificent."
"Well, we used to take Eng-
land every Spring with such
boats."
War Now Brings
"Messengerettes"
Photo—CanSadian National Railways.
one thing to be said about the
"Messengerettes" s er vin g
Canadian National Telegraphs in
many Canadian citiesa is that
they do not whistle. Otherwise
they possess the speed and effi-
ciency of the boys they are re-
placing. The army and war ser-
vices seriously depleted the de-
livery forces of Canadian Na-
tional Telegraphs and girls, such
as the Vancouver lassie here pic-
tured, have proven satisfactory
for the day time distribution of
cables, telegrams and social mes-
sages.
Birds are indirect descendants
of dinosaurs.
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