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COST TREMENDOUS
If you have ever stood and look-
ed at the two big bridges built
in recent yeaa's at San Francisco,
mei then gone en farther south
and east to look at Bowdler Dam,
You must have been struck by the
tremendous cost of these strove
tines hnilt for the use of man.
Tae cost wss. tremendous, too, It
totalled $278.000.000.
Reit filet is S24,000.000 less than
the RR (10,000,000 cost of the 98 -day
peelfie Coast maritime strike in
1986 which resulted in practically
tattling San Francisco out of busi-
npa as a shirring port.
Ro 'a*hen you are wondering how
we are going to pay for some of
the hire proiects on this continent,
just remember that if peple will
go to work the cost can soon be
made up.
—Lethbridge Herald.
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WORLD'S WORST CHEATERS
In Canadian sentiment, there Is
no batred of the Japanese as a
nation. There is opprobrium even
now, and for a long time past.
They are just little gangsters
alongside their Hun friends and
bullies. As a nation they are also
the greatest *heaters this Earth
bas ever been encumbered with.
The story must be recalled at this
writing, how they ordered waw'-
e'hlns from a Scottish sbiuyard of
world renown. How they got a
first delivery and then cancelled
the order, because they thought
they had the blueprints of design.
They had blueprints, and when
they built their own . ships on
what they got, those ships turn-
ed turtle. It was certainly retri-
bution for the oheaters, the am-
ateue. imitators, which the Japs
are known to be.
—St. Catharines Standard.
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MILADY'S LOCKS MUST GO!
Six thousand hatrdressers can't
be wrong. And 6,000 of them in
convention assembled recently in
New York passed a decree which
means that milady will have to
see the beauty parlor she patron-
izes Strewn with long clippings
from her cherished tresses.
She may have taken months to
let her hair grow to the 'right
length. She may have spent many.
eimoleoas to have an expert give
her just the right long hair -do
covering her ears. But now the
inexorable 6,000 have given this
form of hair dressing its death
warrant.
They have heaped scorn upon
this style. It Is "Hollywood shrub-
bery." It Is "Iike wet spaniel ears."
It gives a woman a "drippy look."
No woman could brave those ep-
ithets.
The locks will have to go.
—Timmins Daily Press.
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CHEERS FOR CUCUJI1
It's a nuisance for many of use
livery month we get one of those
pesky bills for electric current. Al -
moat makes a fellow want to move
down to the balmy shores of Mexi-
eo facing the big gulf. For we are
reliably informed that electric
light bills are totally unknown •
down there. All the lucky folks
have to do is go out in their gar-
den and capture a handful of cu
auji.
Never heard of them?
Well, they are a sort of greenish -
black beetle that produces a phos-
phorescent light. Put half a dozen
of them in a little bamboo cage
and they will give as much light
as a 15 -watt electric -bulb.
Ho, hum, let's turn out the cur
evil beetles and go to sleep.
—Kitchener Record.
MINERS LEARN STRIKE IS OVER
wemeteetteasemeeseeseassesee.a.
Smiles greet the news as these miners learn from
accepted President Roosevelt's plan for arbitration of
work pending settlement. This scene, repeated all over
Co. mine at Gary, W. Va.
their newspai.r that the United Mine Workers
the closed slop dispute and would go back to
the east's eft Ifie1ds, is at U. S. Coal & Coke
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OR THEIR SHIRTS
Trouser cafe may be done away
with in Italy as a "waste of good
material." Italians will be lucky
if they don't lose their pants.
Kitchener Record.
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RUMOR EXPLANATION
Yapaneoe typewriters have 3,000
keys, which explains some of the
conflicting rumors coming out of.
the Land of the Rising 'Sun these
days.
Stratford Beacon -Herald.
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AND SO ON
This winter folk will plan to
cave money next Summer — the
same money they planned last
stammer to save this winter.
—Guelph Mercury.
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NAPLES' FIFTH COLUMN
The great Italian seaport and
commercial city of Naples is in
danger. The menace is a fifth
column more damaging than any
Italy's ally, Hitler, ever planted.
Night after night it guides Bri-
tish bombers to the city. With
brazen openness it flaunts a light
the questing British airmen can-
not fail to see.
Mussolini knows all about it.
Hts firemen are helpless. They
cannot put the light out. His sec-
ret police are beaten by it. No
handcuffs and shackles were over
made that can curb it.
Naples' fifth column Happens to
be Mt. Vesuvius.
—Guelph Mercury.
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A
vA VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION
No fewer than 23,000 farmer-
ettes and young men put in a
toter o4 ten million hours of work
in Ontario this year harvesting
the crops of farms and orcbiirds.
They have made a valuable con-
tribution to the country's war ef-
fort and are deserving of the tri-
butes paid to them.
--Hamilton Spectator.
Tempo of Business
Bewildering Sneed
Canadian production in 1941
nsay exceed the level reached in
1929 by as much as 40 percent.,
according to estimates of the
Royal Bank of Canada released
in the bank's November letter.
Although 1940 production also
'surpassed the 1929 figure, it has
increased so rapidly this year that
£t is expected to advance far be-
yond even the 1940 total, the
bank said. The letter comment d
that all business activity is
pending with "bewildering speed,"
and the official index of the
Physical volume of burn'ess dur-
3ng the iirstu ;
averaged 12.6 percent. higher
than in the corresponding period
of 1940.
Canada's manufacturing capa-
city is now largely occupied with
the production of war materials
with one-half of all manufac-
turing workers directly engaged
A GOOD SIGN
Britain is not claiming to hare
won tiro Battle of the Atlantic;
but it may be significant that
United States Maxine insui•aace
rates on British and Allied ship-
ments ha.vo been reduced, --
-Owen Sound Sun -Times.
THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events 1
Rritain Sh> kgs ill South Africa:
Roosevelt IVIovesihi. South America
Great Britain has .launched he'?,
greatest offensive of the war anis;.;'
her tank are rolling across the k
deserts of Italian Lybia. A secondee
front—long and 'impatiently await,,
ed—has been opened against the.:P,
Axis. This 4s not a hurt ted at•i.
tenrat to assist. Russia by estalise.
Belling a second firont but rather
a carefully weighed plan. It weer,
designed (1) to relieve the Geri
man military pressure , on Rtieaif
by diverting Axis„ .:man '.po.wer ,ride
material; (2) to erase the 41s,
mena"ce" tie ,theSeeotton'aad wheat,l`
resources oaf the Nile,.to. the Suet i
Red Se,a waterway on which ei
pire co ,pmuntcations in the Micldj
Plast depei ( )f
id, 3 • ; to protide bases,
if • it . over -ran Libya,'i.for " an
intensified attack--perhaPse an. *a -
timate land invasion — against
,Italy, the weak tenant in the
Axis' house; (4) to demonstrate a
strength that might eve pause
to the men of Vichy, '',10i .were
aa
moving toward closer collabora
tiii' ^;,with Adolf Hitler, arynollabor
doers: that threatened profoundly
„a;the' aarenas of the Mediteg"ranean
.-and the _ Atlantic. .
The shock of battle •flared sud-
denly and yet it hasebeen knout,'
th,at the . Britisli:.and .Awl's py., r"
ware gifting -Ter a deeisie tri•
in Libya after' a military stMalemµtcf
that has • wasted" for six months
The Libyan battlefield `was des
.:•eribed al a vast triangle': enclosing -
more than 2,000 square miles`, with
its .base as 00 -mile line south front°
Barna) -'s on the:Mediteranean+'
GOOD OMEN FOR THE ARMY
coast, to Maddalena and its apex
at besieged Tobruk, go miles west
of Bardia.,
A yeas ago Egypt and the Suez
had been .in peril, 'says the New
York Times.` Premier Mussolini's
legions motored alone the coastal
highway built for a trousand miles
from Tripoli to the Egyptian bor-
der. Perhaps_ a quarter of a million
mien' marched toward the land of
tlae Pharaohs. ' Outnumbered Bri-
tt h ' forces retired,' stalled the
Italian drive in the desert.
'eSeThe Italians, despite: 'their num-
erical array and their confidence
raethey .brought marble monuments
along to celebrate anticipated
triumphs—showed signs of weak-
ness. In December, the ;Army of
,the Nile led by General Sir Archi-,,
Bald Wavell, probed the Uiascist-
flee in a tentative surprise assault.
ItE,sistance crumbled, an d the
British ` commander, in a sweep
"ranking as one of the war's most
rbriliiant, raced across Cyrenaica,
L'ibya's eastern province, to Ben-
ezi, some 400 miles from the
anoint of attack. All Libya might
shave fallen, save for two factors;
(1) the Army of the Nile was de-
ieted In order to reinforce the
rriaek Balkanfront for ,an impell
„�_ ' erman thrust, (2')`• the 'Ital ns
asi;9 were stiffened by German
armored forces hurriedly sent
through Italy and across the Med
Great things are in store for men in the Canadian Ariny in only
a few weeks. The women in this picture are only two of many re
emits in the C.W.A.C. They are taking the Canadian 'Woltz -
Army Corps cooking course at the Central Technical School, TorontoasJ•
At the conclusion of their course their jobs will be to feed the fighting
)nen. Recruit Rhea Truckel, RIGHT, is giving; Recruit May Kullick
a taste of her product. Both women are from Hamilton._
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ONIMIIMPAMSM... 1.1,7}11.0.11
iteera.nean, to Libya,
achieve preponderance t3ie Ger-
mans might win.
The British depended in• part
on supplies from the United States
arsenal—Particularly tanks and
Planes—and from India. Their sea
lines were tremendously long, but:
from the Red Sea ports, whore
the freighters unloaded, the land
lines veers comparatively short,
well organized and protected. It
was believed that last week. the
British had several hundred thous-
and men available—drawn from
all corners of the empire—and an
air force exceeding that defending
the home isles in 1940's Battle of
Britain.
Pressure on Vichy
Vichy is being pressed into
The Germans once • Geneiad`
Iorwin Rommel, Panzer ,expert. afd
veteran desert aseelee. took full,,
advantage of the '; ekeletonized;:,r
British.' The Army of the, Tl ltieafari,',
rolled back from Bengazi tora'lfvl?t
3n shorter time than it li.fii3: .
lanced.' Only at Tohril t tlie, bat-
terecl; port 80 miles e o'Libyas
eastern frontier, did a garrison of
empire toops bold old ° Like the
-earlier Italian drive the German
Rush carie to a hala,in Western
Egypt at the end °eat -.precariously
long line. of corntnunications.
Months of`StaleMete
closes, collaboration with Germany,
General Wegand, commander of
the French Africa forces, has been
retired "at the express demand of
Hitler." Although disliking the
British, Wegand has always slated
the Nazis. With him out of the
way, Vichy may be preparing to
bow to the following German
demands:
(1) Use of the. French fleet, still
the strongest in the Mecliterran-
eon after Britain's, to convoy Axis
supplies to North Africa; (2) use
of bases and transit faoilities in
French Tunisia, Algeria and Mor-
occo for Axis troops and material;
(3) a pledge by Vichy to protect
its African Atlantic bases from a
possible "attack" by Britain or
the United States.
From now on, unless evidence
is forthcoming to the contrary,
France must be looked upon as a
potential, if not yet an open and
active, partner of Germany. Her
fleet and her great naval and air
bases in Africa may at any moment
be placed at the disposal of the
Nazis. But until Bizerte, Casa-
blanca and Dakar are taken over
by the Axis there will remain
ground for hope that this second
surrendered of France may not
prove such a catastrophe for the
democratic cause es her first one.
That Is why the British offensive
in Libya is of such great import-
ance, not only to Britain but to
the United States.
British Morale
A quotation from "Mehl Kampf,"
printed on placards in big black
letters, appears everywhere in
the Middle East and India, from
the bomb -shaken dugouts of To-
bruk, through the crowded hotel
4ldbbies of Cairo to Baghdad bar-
racks and the bazaars of Teheran.
The Fuehrer's comment on British
morale reads:
"The spirit of the British nation
'enables it to carry through to vic-
tory any struggle it once enters
upon no matter how long the strug-
gle may last or however great the
sacrifice that may be necessary
or whatever the means which have
to be employed; and all this
Weigh the actual .,equipment at
hand may be utterly inadequate
when compared with that of any
other nation."
President Roosevelt Acts
President Roosevelt has beaten
Hitler to the draw again, says the
:::Windsor Daily Star. This time
From late Spring ttuntil'last week
Axis and, empire. armies faced
each other''in al—aim/late. Those
months embraced the season of
almost unbearable heat and arid-
ity, of fierce windstorms, in the
sand and limestone wastes of
Libya. 'Military operations on a
latge acele •were risky. Both sides
used the ,period to build up re•
serves for a future test.
'Phe Axis hacl the advantage of
shorter supply lines from their
arsenal in Europe, the disa.dvan
tag* of beteg exposed to British
naval and °aerial power in the
Mediterranean. The Royal NavY
find the R.A.F. roundel at the
overseas line from Naples to Tri•
poli, chief unloading port in Libya,
Hundreds of thousands of tons of
Axis shipping sank beneath the
inland sea: with the vessels went
men, equipment, foodstuffs, planes.
tanks, oil. Nevertheless, enough
Axis, Shipping got thro.it h to make
it .. appear that in the race to
REG'L.AR FELLERS—A Big Loss
MY MOM IS ON A sic MY AUNT WAS b434,
DIET ALJ' SHE LOST t, Di' (*CET AN' LOST
TWO POUNS : NINE POUN'S !
ii ai'i, /
the American troops are to oec1.w..r
Dutch Guiana. The action is ask
great a blow to Hitler in the Soutle
Atlantic as the American 000*
pation .of Iceland was In the North
Atlantic,
There are British, Dutch and
French Guiana all side by aide off,
the edge of Brazil and farm
Dakar in Africa, The Nazis ba
an eye on French Guiana with et
view to gaining a foothold there.
But with the A•merieans toe:Tama,
ing with the Duch to protect
Dutch Guiana from aegee•sslon,
Hitler's plan is forestalled.
There are bauxite mines in
Dutch Guiana, The mineeal t
needed to assure a supply of alu.
minuni for war production in the
United States, Airplanes eat up
tons of aluminum and the metal
is retiuired for other war purposes.
It is not only the bauxite that
needs the guardianship of the
United States, It is the teritory
itself. It the Nazis had made
thrust across the South Atlantid
from Dakar, which is the French
base on the bulge on the Atlantle
coast of Africa, it would have
meant a German threat not onlek
to Dutch Guiana, but also to Brlp
tisb and French Guiana, as welt
as Brazil And it would havt
brought distance the of Nazis within st
the Panama Canal,
Aid To Greece
Left Urctali
Gen. Sir Archibald Waveil, coma
mander-in-chief in India, hail
shouldered responsibility for thai
British setback last spring to
Libya by acknowledging that the
Germans counter -attacked a
Least a month earlier than he iia
expected.
Gen. Wavrell, who was eomo,
manner -in -chief in the Middle East
at the time of the Libyan eamp
paign and has since exchanged
positions with Gen. Sir Clauda
Auchinleck, reviewed the African
operations in a council of data
here.
He said that after an appeal
from the Greek government
which was under attack by botlti
Germany and Italy, practically
all the trained and equipped
troops in the Middle East were
ordered to Greece.
"Our conquests in Cyrenaica
were left to be held by a garri-
son of partly -trained and partly
equipped troops," he said, "t
made a miscalculation there.
"I did not expect the enemy to
counter-attack before the oi'i3 of
April at the earliest — by whic
li
time I had hoped to have back at
least part of a seasoned Indian
division from Italian West Africa
and to have completed the equip-
ment of troops left in Cyrenaica
which consisted of a British ar•
moved brigade, an Australian dt.
vision and an Indian motor
gade.
"All these were short of equip-
ment, transport and training. Un77
fortunately, the enemy attacked'
at least a month before I had ex-
pected it to be possible."
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred Neter
41-•'r�u.,.... P: : 6...• we [levet. iluu�.-....�.w...owN we Fe kia.k
"I m resigning, Chief. This suspense; waiting for 11.1 WC 'le
getting me down! !"
MY BIG SISTER WAS
ON A DIET ONCET ANS LOST
A I4UNERD'N'EIGHTY-
SEVEN POUN'S!
GWAN .
SBALONEY
By GENE BYRNES
SHE DiD SO, TOO' SHE
LOST HER BOY FRENS
NAMED. ELMER!
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