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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1941-07-31, Page 7.r Our Solliers Help. On Englid ' Farms . These Canadiane.Are-a Great AId to Farmers at This Time land. Get Usefti' Expe.rienc.,e of Plans!) Methods Shouldering pitchforks in • place nod. rifles; and handling scythes -in- stead of Tommy guns, hundreds o1; Canadian troops are .working :in.: the:•ha•rvest''gelds ofl England. ' One danadian divieion inttrated' a. r; farm, help scheme, sending 50 Feel Otero every htwo weeps to farxne in. *any. Parts oaf .England. _Canadian firmeiesoldters pitehT,hay la_Shrop- .eh,ire and, Sussex, milk; cows,t and , do. Choses in the 'Midlands Iran ' e'ashire, and- tend i;i nit, ; oreliards Devon or hop flields' in Kent. All' the work es voluntary. Grate. !al 'farmers always' give • the men their meals end,look after sleeping accommodation. SOLDIERS GIVEN BOARD • Maj.-deneral Victor 'Odium ,has taken an interest in the farm -aid 'plan. hit is aiding'our men of the Sec and Division to get an .understand- ing of the difficulties English. far- mers are up against in waf•time," be.. said. "I am very anxious that. ' our ' farmer -soldiers help the farm - era here and that they make new ' friends in circles .where they will: be_.understood and appreciated. "I hope .'that 'thia. will help: de- •elop a greater exchange of farm• ing ideas .bet"weeh tHe"Ei�glis"�i'` aril '- Canadians after; the war." Hes Newly Appointed to _Atlantic Command . Commodore George.. Clarence Zones; R.C.N., • one of Canada's ` finest "Sea -Dogs," has been ap- pointed as of February 12th, 1941, Officer Commanding of the'At- lantic Command: Jones is : a $luenose, as his parents' 'and all his grandparents were before him, born. in Halifax 45 years ago.' The first two years of this war have. been a brilliant chapter :for the Commander. ' As "Captain, D" he commanded 'our Destroyer Flotilla' .operating on. the Atlantic Coast,. and has, been responsible for the safe convoy of merchant and droop ships out of ' Atlantic ports in conjunction with the British Navy across the Atlantic to all the' Al- lied ports..: This is' the biggest 'transport and shipping' convoy system ever seen in the world's history. Mov;eg Are Used To 'Train 'Army VOICE OF THE •PRESS WASTED YOUTH We- are in receipt of many strange questions,but the reader who asks, "How can I produce .a bole in .a .pane .of glass?" must have had en unusually strict up- bringing. • —Ottawa Citizen 45, 4 • SAFE AGE -.A i31^itish Columbia.'' woman' thinks elle parliamentarians. should be; married by the tune. they .are:' 45 years old;- or else eliould retire a 'from ,politics,. ' Which would, be •' ...one drastic *Ay .of weeding, out , Mr. King'sgovenntent majority.:. Stratford Beacon -Herald. _o; 'LOV1N•G AND HATING : Therank and' file .of the people• in Germany and. Italy --must.- be --- having a difficult time while try- ing to follow their leaders. A man may go to sleep with hatred of all Communists in his .heart and, "when he wakes up, he hears. over his radio that Stalin . is to be regarded as a dear friend., A little later : he, has to swallow his opinions and go back to the or- iginal hatred. Who is to be loved arid who. is to be hated. can .only be discovered by those who keep: strictly up to the ,minute. ]'.ort Wlliagi•} Times -Journal.,_ THEY' WENT TO 'CHURCH' A mother of an enlisted young se ier from my 'Church, told me she had', received, just.recently,•, a letter from the boy, who was at a place 'in Quebec -,province with his •eeriipany: of fifty, He said 'Suri - day morning came, and eleven 'of ' them were' United Church 'fellows, and they talked 'together''about' going to church..They, found out • ' that there: Was 'a church••.of their .persuasion four, miles -down a .—Co�nt��-xoacl.;-'aro-this...little aural. church they, .walked end attended the service. One 'can imagine. the joy of the preacher and congre- gation to. have these boys -come in unexpectedly upon them. They had a great reception. '. We, who stay -home, meet ..match 'so' splen.; did a''thingg as that.. • United Church Observer. e Bork ,'hell "RESTLESS ARE THE SAILS" By 'Evelyn .1 ators Following , . the; extraordinary success of her .best-seller on.early Canadian„ life, "Quietly My Cap-; thin Waits," Evelyn Eaton, Can- adian writer who currently ranks as.., tops in her isphere, now pre-' setits us with a'distinguished new historical novel of the' early. French settlers on this continent. "Restless Are The 'Sails" centres, its action about the capture Kot Abe French. str nghold of Louis bourg, N.5., in•745. . A rousing .adventure yarn, Miss. •Eaton's second • book skil •'. fully combines historical fact with romantic fancy.• The general at- mosphffre is excellent: Indians, privateering, the etiquette of a colonial .-court and particularly conditions of navigation in over- crowded vessels. The 'pathetic and terrible story of the 'siege of Louisbourg' is : thrilling • as 'it is authentic: How 'it affects Paul de Morpain the 'hero, who turns fugitive, then pirate, what befalls his Indian wife, how. he . •at..'. Last,.. .fulfills' his destiny,'• completes a story of• unusual interest. "Restless Are'The Sails" - by. Evelyn Eaton . . Toronto: Musson Bonk Company . - . $2.75. Canada Use's TherrRecruits Wali See Actual Battle. ..Fii.ms- Motion • picture 'films, sound: and Silent, are being used in increasing numbers for training tnn'poses-iii the Canadian army, defence 'head- quarte•rs said.t<as.t weelt. Prints of many films have already been distributed to •be used in the • , standard syllabuses of training and new prints are being added -con- stantly to film libraries.. In .order to have 'up-to-date facili- ties for showing. the latest films produced either in Canada or, by - the y the British. Wp•r Office for training, end, general the, .sound >uiloiceters, have been supplied 'to almost every :training establishment in Canada, and the few remaining centres will Nave them shortly. . The films are, classified in two_ main groups—those of an educa• tional natii•re of interest to ' the • whole army, and inotion pictures of . a''technical . type to' assist the. training seinen in specific arms,isolf the service. , • • . SHOW GERMAN METHODS The range of subjects covered In- cludes actual scenes, of battle such as action in the Mediterranean area and pictures designed for.recruite who are to undergo the training de- picted and which •subsequently gives thein, a. critique against which they tan. measure the standard, they. have attained. Again, some flume a}re designed for' , instructions to ensure . itni�forritity ,in ' teaching Method's. ' , u :Besides standard films sheeting the various phases of military train. ing.-a'tapeeial- picture is being pre-. pared under' the supervision' of the director Of. military training, to hew German methods of warfare. Thie film will be shown every class et recruits during their period 'in training oientree. Soviet Anti -'lank Geun Crew on C yard s. f • Gerneany's'°rosd• eo -Mos-cove is defended 'by Soviet,'antr=tank-•gun' . h-4.-�•= , •� . � , .. - •.' .. , . >.�-•- .. •r- . - :. ctio•r•,- ome-where--:a� • �n ,-s:.tshe=-bro ad- -. crevrs l�ke•�tkns=onp, piat�tr e'd irr�a s 10 g . 'Reese -German front. • 'Radiophoto was flashed from Moscow .as Nazis claimed the way to the Soviet capital was "open."• Remde .'r Herds Fast Increasing More Eskimos Are Needed. to Help Herd Animals,In Rapid- • ly Expandinq, Industry of North-West Territories Ftirt-h•er eniar=geni•ent of Gen.ada'-s . fast -expanding • reindeer • industry was diseloeed recently by the Do - pertinent of Mines and l'h sources.. Reindeer•, herds in the Northwest Territories, .1he department 1•e. ported, Wive ipereased to more than • 8,000 head, eomprtred with the', original herd' of 2.170 delivered free Alaska sis years ago, : • •The department estimated that this year's fawning has increased r the main herd tin the Government reservo e'a!t,of,Mackenzie Delta by 1,500 head. . • ' aSubstantial ` increases also aro • expected. In Ith© two herds under native management,. near the. An derson and Horton .'Rivers, about 200 miles east of the reserve," 1 the departnien•t added. „ Igepanaion of the industry has reesultedin 'training. of more. young Et7kiinos as apprentice 'herders. Later they will be entrusted with. nianagenient of beide under. Gov- ernment supervision, and may eventually: obtain herde of their o�ain. "in this'Matinee the reindeer eh- tarnnrls° *gradually extending overt a large area for the benefit of the native population," the department fid. • THE WAR - WEEK - Commentary on Current, , Events iI .. Britain And -Her Allies Prepared To Block Japan. A Chinese foreign office spokes- , man last week said that. Pt-gter • Konoye o•f Japan had formed a , "water bird• cabinet" -whish is a Japanese . phrase; moaning a calm surface concealing, great activity underneath. Receil,t events 'in Japan indicat- e(:. that the national leaders were • fCeling that the time had come to drive the white man out of the Orient.:' Britain,, the U. S: and the Netherlands, had made it plain • that they. would not be driven out: Their first move to :render Japan helpless would be a blockade of the sea 'entrances from the. Indian - Oe'ean 'into:. the . Pacific:' It' 'was' not • thought',likely that Japan could break this block de. The Battle of the Pacific would' be on .II in earnest. Expansion Southward Japan had her eye on French.' Indo-Chinaewhich would give her, • :besides• •• • valuable naval 'bases, imurcb needed iron and rubber. She would: need these buses tf she were to move against Singapore, and the' Dutch East Indies. ' The Australian•ratite quoted a message from Batavia, Dutch East ' Indies, last week, as saying that • - British end Dutch defenses in the "Far East'are stronger than 4ver before." The message seemed to. say' that 'the Dutch East Indies was not afraid' of the new Jap- anese cabinet, that not en inch• of soil would, he given up without a fight. - ' Hegemony over the Dutch East Indies would also• give Japan.con- trol Indies the Burma Road, the great marine nets • and 'mines guard: its `harilor. Air laid• enelters have breen built; heavy guns in place. argued the island 'make it a for- midable •fortress. - Field Marshal Lord -' Roberts once said the history of the world would be 'decided at Singapore one day:.` ..And Admiral Lord ,Jellicoe ' recommended its development as a great naval ' base with a strong 'Pacific fleet based . on . 'it. Today, in the tattle of the Pacific, it will. be 'the strength of Singapore that will make victory possible. 'Sings- pore, protecting the pathway to 'Indic, probably can't be success- fully- - attacked:- Its- iinporreere+e; however, is .greater than: that. A war in the Pacific can scarcely belie but be a: war of attacks on trade lanes. Singapore, as one of the great crossrpads oaf the world, can be used to curb effectively Jepa,nese commerce from : the ;south. le. S. Ma •Use It. Like ..Hong Kong,' Singapore is on an island ..which is 28 'miles- long mileslong and 14 miles: wide. Unlike Gibraltar, 'Singapore has superb facilities for afr defence ‚or attack, it 'bas great land batteries includ- ing 18 -inch, guns, but most of all it has dock facilities where battle- , • artery • of • war supplies . to China.. Agilnst`�Siberia? . - t ..A Arivr: into Siberia. was „gee" • • yiewe,d as probable. Bat the Rus- sians were known •to be very` strong in the Itar East and Ja'pan's tinriei eities' �vould...b.e' compara- etively. easy targets for Soviet iii- cendiary bombs. ,Japan might 'find herself, like Ge*rme.ny, with a war on•two fronts. She has, to'•use more than a ',�millioh troops in China to• hold the cities, railways and. reads which her mechanized • div- . inions overran .so easily four 'years ago. Hong Kong anti,, Singapore • Ile across Japan's path to vtctory 'and • she would have to be desperate to 1 i face their strength. Titre Colas ago a noted British strategist said " the. great 'commercial cehtre of Hong Kong would ,fell -within less than a week if •Ta.part attacked it. That isn't true toda:y.• • Hong Kong, .Singapore Ready More than $50,000,000 has since been spent ori its defenses. Sub - scarred warships can be rep warships may come tohfuse Singapore -a valuable asset,, for .Manila, 1,500 miles avi'ay, • is too • small to handle big _ boats,: If Japan could -be rendered-'bel.p- less, • concentration /of II. S. naval and other units, would he released " to,aid Britain in the Battle of the Atlantic. •' .1 * * . Germans Slow Down . •At the outbreak of the 'Russo-. German war, the speed of the Ger- mail advance, was'estirnated, to be. ' ,p,t. the rate of 50' miles. per day. • Last week neutral obsortvers claim- ed that, after tour or more weeks* of war, :the progress ,of the assail- ants had been reduced by 50 per cent or :More.% The stubborn ' re.' sistance of the • Russians had been much more formidable than Hitler expected; Soviet tactical• skill was , 'such that even, the Germans .ac- kno"wiedged• it. • ' The Battle Fronts ..Last 'week .there.: -eared to .be little change in the. position of the warring' forces. along the entire front. In the north •everi Berlin admitted that the Red armies were still intact and fighting. There had been no erillapse under' Fin- nish -Nazi thrusts frond •the,•Arctic' to the Balt1'c: ,' The Russians claim- ed that Sniolensk was still in their 7'kanksgivng Day ,Octaber - Thirteen Canada this year wili obsarve Thanksgiving Day •on October 13, the' second • Monday in Oc- tober. Thia announcement Was made by Hon. P. F. Casgrain, Secret- ary of State, who .said a pro- slamation •naming.,.Ceeeber ,•13 as -a' day • o "general. thanks- 'givieg" would be ;issued emit- ha ort hade; ihut,/Berlin °'reported. that au •enormous •'Russian farce had .been trapped, east', of Smolensk and, ,that " .a` battle of •annihilation, eyes , going on; Drenching rainshad been falling ..in• •the ceittrel.-;area of.the battle- front and the condition 'of the . roads I was. undoubtedly a • factere in siOeving up the German inachine. Guerilla fighting was 'said' .to be particuterly—intensive—behind the— lines. in this. sector. Columnafter column, of German, mechanized ' material, after having been pushed beyond-the_R.ussianef.Guard Front" had been eut •off from their - tn- Pantry ,support, which they had neer'. 'Counting on for clearing -up . operations in the wake "of " e' ad- vance. Doing a China ? Edgar Snow; noted 'writer on Far Eastern . affairs, last.. week posed a question: "Whatever, vac-' tories.'the German_ entities may ben; li v.' : eathei_r Ruseia:n-.-dclriveean>.: utg--in. even if .they succeed in 'capturing Leningrad and Moscow ;and' in oc= copying the Ukraine and, the Caucasus, are they fated to a protracted guerilla warfare whicb will cause them .continuing .embar•. rassment and interfere with their plans'•oun other. fronts? Are they heading into such a 'situation as' has faced the. Japanese' army in -• ' China since • the war `began there not two but fedi years ago? . .. Time Against Nazis .' 'Time is. the biggest elemen of- risk 'in the Nazi:scheme of con- quest. With . perfect timing, no dream is too fantastic to be re- alized ; without it, the most cite fully laid plan .'bad the most skit= ful improvisation • may fail. It lis ` in this respect that Soviet guerilla resistance may turn out to he a decisive 'factor." • • In the 'smith the Nazis saidthat the German forces were pursuing . .a defeated . enemy in the Ukraine. 11.ussian sources claimed that their • -armies were holding well. Can .Hitler Turn Beck? ; The losses on. both sides • in mon and material were thought.. to be , enormous. The destrtiction of'. German supplies of ail kinds. was • so tremendous that it was esti- • mated;' the Nazis 'would' not be . •able to -make . them 'up in less than •two years. • Hitler's definite objective .ap- peered • to be the destruction of the Red armies—anything less • than that would be reckoned as •a I1,itler defeat. As one Assoeiated Press correspondent put. it: He. Cannot turn backnar 'limit his "crusade" without risking the',ulti- mate disaster,' collapse of the .myth of 'Hitler invincibility 'in Germany itself: Dog Is Gentleman . , Frowns On Slats Chesney, William Baxer's black spaniel, is a "gentlergan" among dogs. Be: lives in Chicago and has been trained to .stand up on his hind legs whenever a woman enters- an •elevator, --but —e when - a young lady stepped into the lift: the other day, Chesney was stead- fast in his refusal to stand up. She /vas iuearieg• slacks. On Fire Watch Duty Prospective fathers v.'th a jittery', desire to pace are doing it in shifts now on the roof of, a. London, Eng- land, suburban maternity ,hospital —and acting as fire wardens at the same time. { The idea °was• •proposed• by. one of the men, who thought such' an Official occupation world be better than pointless. walking through the hospital corridors while waiting the stork.• • "I have shot aria bolt. ' 1 have done my , work. War. or ,no war, my n•uniber is 'Uv.", .—George Bernard Shaw. • 1 Saving , taro's Natural Resources By G. C. Toner (Ontario 'Federation of Anglers • and Hunters) No. 51. ONTARIO'S ICE AGE We have seen how •mountain building and tearing down go on side by side. Sometimes the tear- -ing :d'own is fast as when glaciers do the work. The fee 'nets as' a great rasp, cutting valleys and leveling •hills; as it slides outward 'or' downward..., Glaciers. are res- ponsible for the. 'shape of most of the :eoviitryside, of Ontario. - Five times ..in the last million years continental glaciers have formed :dm. northern Canada_. and._ spread outward.: • • The last of the glacial periods occurred b'etween.. .5-0,0.00 and: 100,000 years- ago. The centre .of • the glacier formed was •some- where near Hudson Bay and it reached • down to, and somewhat beyond, the Great ,Lakes: As .it slid south it gouged out the lake basins of the -Pre -Cambrian shield, the rock -rimmed bodies of water. that are' so common" in Muskoka' and Haliburton. Further south melted leaving great piles of "de- bris • -known as Moraines.,These usually gravel or `'sand Mire `- 'and are common along Lake On- tarhy "hereat houldersawere some- times,• carried by the ice and as it melted these :were 'dropped. They can be seen to -day almost . every- where in .old Ontario. - Return •pf Animals. The old glaciers had a profound effect .on the animals and,: plants. Of course, nothing could live on the ice •se the animals had to 're- treat and if unable to . do so per-; ished ;as de the plants. Later when the ice began 'to melt the 'animals and ' plants , came back. This was a slow process, •a few miles : gained • in one . summer would .be l'o'st in the winter, but gradually the ice gave' way and our familiar auj imals took over the.'land. But they were: much different from those that lived pre- ' vious. to the ire age, their sojourn. in the south had changed many until, they •. were quite different creatures. : _ Wildest Di -earn - :Copies. of Monday` mor'ning's edition of 'the' London Express are • sold in ,Montreal that same after- noon, writes the Hamilton 'S.pecta- tor: The wildest dreains bf Jules. Verne are today becoming a cont.- monplace, and ,the time may not - ;be distant when . tier iiioi'. ' Pole, will be as well-known to summer air tourists, as tile' Muskoka dis- trict is now. . Women Can Do Work 'On Aircraft Directo of the Vitomen!s Bute eau, Washington, .Says They' Are Capable of Sortie of the ' . Assembly Work and Other Operations • • At least, one-fourth to one•tbird of the fobs ILS. eiroraft asembly, plants.might be filled .satisfactori.ly' by women, 'Mise, Mary Anderson,. director• of the Women's Bureau; at VWashington' estimated on • the •basis,'of a bureau suryeY. - Ai -the 'close •of the .World War,., 23 per cent of the . employees in 40 , airplane . fa�etories ` were women., Office of Education officials;•riow` engaged•, in, Education a survey of air- craft courses'open to. women; -report • that a disproportionately large num , ber of ,w.otnen are• learning• to fly when the real'ue'ed. of the future will , :bb' -the -construction-' eine of- the industry: TYPE OF WORK THEY CAN DO' ' - Studying, each, production process ,separately, :the • Women's Bureau drew, these conelueions: , 'Fuselage. manufacture — From one-fifth to one-half of the •' opew}, •a Cons could be done by women. Assembly -Women. can do work ranging from 15 ^per cent in the 'final assembly is almost all of the jobs in wing and control surface assembly. • rispe�ction A least one-fourth other than. floor •inspecting' of coin - •plicated assemblies: could be done. by women and in case of. a -shortage ,of male • workers, considerably In ,the tool ctib, where tools, dies and small parts are 'issued,' wons.et' might well be used, the• bureau '.. found. As they •beeonie' experienced,' they could also.be employed in tire.. • production and routing depart -rt menta. ' . Dr. Rpbert- W. Hambrook;. Office oar Education, official, .who' recentlw'' • returned fro.official,. a study' of Britain's wartime educational techniques, re- ports that, women have • gone into the , British aircraft'ih��dustry tvit't the full . approval et. organized labor ,and with the .understanding that they will return their jobs to men after tb'e war is over. HerAddress A woman was asked her address. .' at a London (Eng.) hospital,. says .. London Daily 'Sketch. She answer - q.. ".Bed. No. X', Piccadiiiy-:Circus .. ' • Tube; Station.";Her only home wag,. the•. tube shelter where she 'goes each, 'night:. The G. P.. O: frequently receives letters directed to public. shelters. They are safely delivered by the,-. postman, Canadian flour mill's reported the manufacture of 1,660,597 ' bsr- reis of fiber in the- month of April compared with' 1,344,293 in° the Cor- responding month last yea4. LIFE'S LIKE THAT B,r Fred . Neher IBalawa c� Cora' 1aa,.6 N .. Feat5 ) heyeehei 'hetes feefe' ;Cts f4 e w i vr,,Ot,i'• r„ • a •''OW' 1 5 ,. • "How din lgtnow you were stilt in it• this time of day! '1" REG LAR FELLERS—Superhuman IF YOU REALLY WANT TO EARN SOME MONEY I'LL GIVE YOU A DIME JUST FOR DOIN1a`THE DISHES By GENE BY. RNES• OH, BOY! THAT'S AN • AWFUL- STACK OF • CROCKERY, BUT A DIME 15, A DIME' YESSIIZ;,' A NICKEL SAYS' YOU CAN'T `WASH AND PUT AWAY THE DISHES INSIDE OF ONE HOUR WELL, ;f LOSE! . IT TOOK YA JEST 'FIFTY `EIONT . MINITS TO DO THAT PILE! YbU RE A MIRACLE •MAN' �. „/' rte4_V, A'Pau Of (Ito. AliHO. P.A.....