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41gL"Y °. .', 1942.
'reacher alka
(aeageetied *roil rage 2)
eeriug for 'a losing Member of the
school board were disrlissed by the
new 'board, I teach In a town where
there has .(been considerable labor
irrouble within the past •few years. We
• teachers are strongly advleed to keep
our opinions to ourselves,.
As a matter of fact, soon after I
(began teaching I concluded that to
express an opinion on any subject,
either in -the classroom or outside,
Was 'daugerous. Most tsaclhers• find
that students are grossly inaccurate
in repeating what their teachers have
to say. Few citizens 'bother to distil]-
gash between liberal opinion and, the
most radical, Is in any wonder, then,
that schools are criticized for side-
stepping 'some of the main issues of
• our complex civilization, thereby fail-
ing to teach life as it really is?
Well, 'all this makes me stop to
(Sake a look at myself. What has hap-
pened to Mme in the seven years I
have taught 'school? Have I become
schoolteach•erish?
I look about me and°see teachers
who have become sour, Who are warp-
ed through lack of contact with peo-
Isle outside the .profession, who have
grown uninteresting, who have lost
poise. '
I do not want to become like that,
and yet I realize that unpleasant
things have happened to me. The
(constant strain of discipline has made
.me nervous.. I have ceased to have,
vigorous opinions and ideas. 'My mind
kas grown slovenly. If I am' invited
eut, I now lack social poise.
j,Vfy case, 1 believe, is' not unique.
What, then, are to be the social con-
sequences when large numbers of
small-town teachers are subjected to
similar restraints
Well; , one thing that happens is
that many intellectually vigorous,
worth -while men and women shun
the teaching profession' entirely.
These are the very people who ought
to teach, if the schools are totrain
youhg 'people for good citizenship and
tfruitfal living. Still others wlho re-
fuse to lose their individuality go to
the cities, shunning the small, towns
which they could- help most if it were
not for these ridiculous taboos.
I cannot truly interpret modern life
to my students if I am •forced to live
as an outsider who may not be per-
mitted to share • the normal life of
the, community. I cannot deal intel-
ligently with the problems of a ebang-
png world if I am afraid to expound
any ideas less than 50 years old. I
cannot win the respect of the young,
)whop I ought to lead, if I s,m a Mere
ea'mby-panaby.
I believe, then, that citizens defeat
•
Oana,dian soldiers send their sturdy Canadian -built carrier flying over the brow of a knoll during man-
oeuvres at Camp Borden. With expert service crews to keep them rolling, machines are not spared
in training nnen for the toughest brand of modern warfare. When these boys come up against the en-
emy .they'll be the equal of the toughest battle -scarred warriors. •
Malta: Most Bombed Spot
On Earth
(Condensed from Life in Reader's
Digest) •
The most heavily bombed spot in
the world is a little island in mild=
Mediterranean. Malta, eight miles
eveiale and 17 miles long, has been at-
tacked more than 2,'000 times. Ev-
ery day for days at a time, from 150
to 200 Axis planes strike at this Brit-
ish carbuncle in Mussolini's sea. Ev-
en the goats on the rocky hills have
learned to crouch in a ditch when
the bombs 'begin to fall.
The attack began on June 11, 1940,
the day after Italy entered ''the war.
Malta was .not ready.. It had no fight-
er planes and no properly defended
airports. However, there were four
sea (Gladiotors in a dockyard store-
house. There were also four seaplane
pilots. They had never flown fighter
planes. But they took,on the defense
of Malta.
°'a -The four met wave after wave 'of
their own ends when they force my
colleagues and me to become school-
teacherish.
HITLER chose "Guns instead of butter."
So the Nazis have guns-! We must catch up'- _
. , and beat them.
They tortured people to make them save.
We must save willingly.
So it's up to us,each one of us, to econo-
mize of our own free will ... to "economize
and buy War Savings Stamps so that we
can outstrip our enemies with planes and
tanks and guns and ships ... so that our
soldiers may be better equipped than the
enemy they have to conquer,
Women must help by economizing in the
kitchen, • by patching and darning, by
shopping carefully and cutting out waste.
Make up your mind now to buy one, two,
fiveor more ..War. Savings Stamps -every
week. You can. You must! ,
Huy War • Savings Stamps from banks,
post oftiices, telephone offices, department
stores, druggists, groders, -tobacconists,
book stores and other retail stores.
National War Finance Cotn>initteo
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bombers. They fought all day. They
came down only -to refuel, repair and
take on ammunition. One Gladiator
was shot down; the other' three
fought on for three months, some-
times grappling with forces ten times
their number. The 'Maltese called
them "Faith, Hope:and Charity." '
Now, two years later, Malta has
great numbers of Hurricanes• and
Spitfires, long-range bombersand
Abe heaviest concentration of anti-
aircraft guns in the world. It has be-
come a bottomless drain down which
Germany and Italy., pour valuable
planes and crews. No dive bomber
squadron can stay on the job, the
British say, for more than a very
short time. Their nerve falls. Cap
tured German pilots have revealed
that new Nazi squadrons brought to
Italy are not allowed:- to mix with
battered ones.so they do not'hear be-
forehand what faces them.
British pilots make no bones about
their own hazards. They dive right
through their own murderous bar-
rage to stay on Jerry's tail: Veterans
of both 'battles, 'Malta and Britain,
tell you that Malta is worse than
Britain ever was because the fight-
ing is over a much smaller area: It is
almost impossible to make a forced
landing on the island -' and the
Jerry patrol is on constant watch to
strafe any launch trying to rescue
pilots down in the sea. •
Before the war began,_ Italy_ con-
ducted wigorous propaganda among
the Maltese, giving scholarships to
many students •and cheap travel. fa-
cilities to their parents. When Italy
entered the war women and children
of the English colony were moved in-
to' nayy and army barracks for pro-
tection against any possible disorders
among the natives. It was a need-
-
eed- precaution. the first Italian.
bomb which fell on Malta enraged
the islanders. Recently a British
warship took off a number- of Ger-
man and Italian prisoners. As the
prisoners went aboard, the Maltese
shook their fists and screamed at
them. Nowadays.they chalk up signs
and write to the newspaper urging
the British to bomb .Ronne. Maltese
dockyard workers know that the her
bor area is the b,ottest spot on the
island., yet they come to work day
after day.
There are 10,000 farms on the 95.
square miles of this island — per-
haps the densest Population in' Eur-
ope. Of important assistance to 'its
people in withstanding the non-stop
blitz is the -marvellous system of shel-
ters, hewn out of natural rook., Start-
ed seven years ago during the Eth-
iopian crisis, they now provide for
the bulk of Malta's 270,000 people.
Helpful to swift construetioli was; the.:,
soft limestone of which the island is
!composed.. It is easy to work but
hardens on exposure to aid. Naval
dockyard blacksmiths turned out
thousands of picks and the Maltese
dug tunnels by hand. Later they
were aided by ,power -driven stonecut-
ters.
•Some people .live permanently . in
the .shelters and do not come out ev-
en to have babies. 'Underground
chapels as well as bomes are now
provided. Other people, however, de-
spite government efforts to stop
them, stay out to (watch the raids.
When you see the show the guns of
Malta put on, you understand their
temptation to linger. It is a grip-
ping spectacle.
Many children stay on the' street
during the semi -alert signaled by a
yellow flag. When the red flag is run
up they 'shout into the house, "Mama,
bombs!" and mama leaves off cook-
ing dinner to take -them to the shel-
ter.
Malta's buildings, like the Fhelters,
:are made of rock: Thus there Is no
danger ,of fire from bomb raids. The
enemy's only recourse ,is to drop lr,Ig'h
explosives, and the thick, tough walls
of Malta will stand a lot of pounding.
Tiley do collapse eventually, of
course. In the (past 21 Months 4,200
holies 'have been knocked down. But
inonly a few places do you see dam-
age comparable to that of ,London's
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devastated areas.•
Last ,winter, while Britain held the
Libyan 'coast as far as Bengasi, Bri-
tain could furnish convoys, and Malta
was restocked Now, the' British have
been pushed back and supply ships
from Alexandria must run the gant-
let down the 'bomb alley of attacks,
coming from Crete and Greece on the
north, Africa on the south. Convoys
are carried through only with heavy
risk and at considerable danger to
convoying (warships. ,Stukas, Junkers
88's and Messerselenitts raid them
from 'daylight until dusk—when tor-
pedo planes carryon' by light flares.
But some ships get through with the
food and ammunition which are es-
sential' to the island's defense. What-
ever the cost in blood and steel, hold-
ing Malta is important.
Throughout history 'Malta has been
a .military policeman in the central
Mediterranean. This has been so un-
der Phoenicians, who gave the Mal-
tese their language, under Carthagin-
ians, Romans, Arabs, Spaniards, the
Knights of St. John who repelled a
great Turkish • siege, Napoleon and
finally the English.
No longer, very useful for surface
vessels because of air attacks, Malta
is still valuable as a base' from which
British''s>imarines prey on Axis ship-
ping, and/ mere important, an air
base. Fighteto take off . from rocky,
pocked airfields ,hidde'z 4n the hills
and 'bombers use it as a -relay" point
to refuel and pick up bombs to drop
on Italy. Malta is thepressure spot
close to the heart of Italy, the soft
link' in the Axis armor., The Axis
seems determined to eliminate it, for
,it stands in the way of convoys sup-
plying Romme'l's Libyan, army.
Malta may fall, but it has already
written one of the great unsung epics
of this war. •
"Isn't a lawsuit involving a patent
right about the dullest thing imag-
inable," said one barrister to another. •II f
"Not always," was the reply. "I at -b
tended•a case not long ago that was a
really funny. A tall lawyer named
Short, was treading a 6,0010 -word docu- a
ment which :he called "a brief!" ' '
A .Weekly., Review. Of, .Dlevelopm. s.
on. thy .Hams FrR.rit
4., Proela ration. tabled in Goo ansl
maakiag all' Mea. n between the ages of
20 awl 40 years, inclusive, who "were
neither single or childless widowers on
July 15, 1940,. subject to compulsory
military service..
Scope of compulsory military ser-
vice to extend' to Newfoundland and
Labrador.
2. By vote of 158 to 54, House of
Commons gives second reading. tee
Bill enabling Government to' impose
consor-iption for overseas service. -
3. In furtherance of decisions
reached at Ottawa Air Training Con-
ference, changes made in oapacity
and location of many schools' operat-
ed, under British 'Commonwealth Air
Training Plan.
4. Aero Timber Products Ltd., a
new Crown company, incorporated to
develop and increase production of
airplane spruce for 'both Canada ,acid
Great Britain.
5. North American continent run-
ning so•short of raw materials, that
many Canadian manufacturers will be
unable to obtain enough from the
United States'to keep going, reveals
Hon. C. D. Howe, litlinister of Muni-
tions wind Supply. New priorities sys-
tem established at Washington estab-
lishing definite quota far all manu-
facturers using more than $5,000.00
worth of metals in a calendar quar-
ter. '
6. Census to be—completed within
30 days of all'used industrial con-
struction and road maintenance ma-
chinery.
7. Use of Petroleum asphalt for
roads, roofing and certain other in-
dustrial purposes prohibited except
under permit. Purpose; to conserve
fuel oil for navy.
8. To assist in meeting increasing
demand for copper, zinc, d and
other ,strategic metals : an minerals,
arrangement made under' h Can-
adian ,production will - be creased
and the, additional ares or is sup-
plied to the Metals ReserveCorpora-
tion, a wartime company ed by
the United States Government.
9. Regional offices of thei1 Con-
troller throughout Canada k over
on July 2 handling of all a catioy,s
and issuing- of all gasolineration
books.
10. No person may spend, without
license from Controller of Construc-
tion, more than $2,600 for conversion
of his heating or power production
facilities from oil or gas to coal or
other fuel.
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11. Cost of living index ' advances
from, 116.1 at May 1, to 116.7 at June
1, Wartime incrr'se:.15.8 per cent.
12. Special stenographic allowances
ranging from $5 to $15 a month, ac-
cording to proficiency, to be granted
to qualifying Grade 1 employees of
the Ottawa Civil Service. Change
made to meet shortage of stenograph-
ers and typists available for govern-
ment-emplayment;
13. Index of physical volume of bus-
iness on base 1935-1939 was 131.8 in.
May against 140.4 in April.' Standing
for May,. however, nearly 32 ,per cent
above' average for base period.
14. Average rate of wages paid to
arm laborers, . where farmer provides
oard, $1..91 per day at May 15, 1942,
gainst._..$1.48 a year previously,
Where employee, provided own board,
verage rate of wages for day help
was $2.57 per day, compared with
•
Lodge nn1•
weep U' Lxelie
were effe l ively used a� eerYi tto #s,
Koch
:01441:e
ib .e wrens , Si,Qlae 1;0'
kl"' o tiP
sb de eiitered with a ril
shade and; 'was eeTwed. #Y„ a rwi 00
wearing apron an hairitow• of,>tthe.,
same colea. In this ;lovely -, setting,'
.dious tea' wars 'served by trim
Inadies in charge: 'A pies sail] was'
realized. The mern)bers of Morning,
Star Lodge are grateful for lona;
tions. received:—Brussels Post.
$2.06 at May 15, 1941.
15. Wartime Prices $oartl annoulr-
ed subsidy of six cents a pound on
butterfat effective July 6 to stimulate
production and avert threatened
shortage of butter next winter,
16. Some 500 young men and .p-
en, matriculating from secondary
schools, will he aided 'in• entering uni.'
vexsities' thi'a, Fall in certain engineer-
ing and science courses. Students
thus aided will be required to, take
courses acceptable to Director of Na-
tional ,Selective Service.
17.' Formation announced' of Cana.
dian Joint Staff in Washington, com-
prising three senior officers repres-
enting each of the three Canadian,
chiefs of staff.
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Mr. taiene Howey -w:ho h,.
ons the staff, ,of the Mount; FierOst':'
Sehool, Wad who. this .aeceptedll
ten on the Exeter WW1-sq#col
hat epumehased the res.deneet of.
Kestle,: Main ' St:.: 'Exec r !
Advocate.
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inconvenience you in so far as your banking
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Every day more of our customers, in the cities
as well as the country, are using the mails to
do their banking, to make their deposits or to
withdraw cash needed for any purpose.
Deposits are acknowledged by return' mail,
Our nearest Branch is as close as your mail'.
box. Why not let the mail man be your bank
messenger and conserve__time, rubber, and
gasoline. If you value your time DO` YOUR
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