The Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-02-05, Page 6Is Confident
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Breaking Japan
file cold,, philosophical calm
wltl which the : Chinese view Jas
'e
,Iresamptio of the offensive
n many parts . of their country
lr aatonahing evidence of their
breakable'-apiriit and of their.
new determination to crush Japan
1st 'anycost. --The more supplies
and :lives. Japan 'wastes on these
enterprises, ,the„ less will ^she . have
to use . elsewhere, Of course, at
wll eost•China•inany'lives to take
those Japanese.:••Iivea; but Chino
San afford them, while others can-.
' notaf f ordathcrn, least of • ail Ja-
: That is the gist of the coma
. t, • :Aanatian..:.w,ith -Mess ing l..
stamina might :have' hoped, , that,
with Japan . busy:• elsewhere, their
awn, towns and;field- would have
been spared -lot aa, tithe the :cruel
ravages -of' invasion A '.war -.weary
.,pe,ople might have .been tempted.
to let. the Japanese on their soil
lit'1O , a; truce if`they wanted 'one.:
Not so the- . Chinese. ' . They have
deliberately foieed:Japan .to..give ._
thein fiery: attention, and are. grim-;
jy pleasedo remark ' that they
have provoked ' A general: offen-
' A little while ao.: the Chinese
were just• -•determined- to hold.'�on '
aid on; with vague hopes of a
turn ;,in. • their ,fortunes Now,,
• • they are suave Alt Wei are .fight-
k�
'
"`Teak • 1�Ivv
;iin>tp-•b'rea...Japan, S .
- Hera`Id TaaliuninS
"Tomake .way for a 'younger ,
,Bran," Mie A chbishop. of Centers:—
bury; 'the Most • Reverisnd .• and
Right ''Honorable Cosmo. Lang,
„,-head of- theoburch--of Engla id,
, hoer, resigned..
WHY YOUNG MEN ARE UNFIT
Fifty per cent, of United States . •
young plena offering to • enlist •
were found 'upon'hnedical examin
atippn to be physically unfit for
mTlitaryr service, so' says Gene
Tunnety, one=time heavyweight
champion, The reason, he gives,
is the refusal -to telie the exercise
necessary to 'the . development of
muscle, . Young men prefer the
' automollile to walking; '•if they
seek 'reereeation, they go to. a pic-
ture show, listen .to the 'radio, or
at . best;. play badminton.: Isn't it
true -to a certain extent in Cans
ad_a...
.-Brampton Conservator •
DE GAULLE''S• FORCES
General de ' Gaulle's ' forces of
Free .k'r:"anee now include an army
of 1:00,0.00 men,.'.a• fleet of forty
warships and .105 merchant ships
and tankers. Numbered among
• his army are 2,000 trained avia-
tors. Despite Petaia. ,and Dalian,
•de Gaulle and his men are pre-
ting the. 'emblem . 'of France
from being trailedin the dust..
Hamilton. Spectator
• --o--
CAN'T BE BLAMED
-People- in County Kerry, Eire,
mistook a Nazi sergeant for. ,at
neral,-'tv:•hen _a_planeraannadesa a_
forced landingatheree They 'could
hardly=: be blamed, Of daurse, see-
ing thatthe Germstt seapie'-:the --
selves • are mistaking a . corporal
r
for commander-in-chief 'of all
"7'j11 • e'ear. forces..
---Stratford Beacon -Herald -
WHEAT' SEEDED W( EIRE,
Faced w tli a 'oc a e of sorts,
Eire.stepped pp wheat production
to ari estimated ' 300,000 •tons..
This leaves 80,000, tons to, be im-
ported.
-Now, if ,Eire .w.ould , let us use
the-aiaval:bases,-it-.wealu be easter
•to make • sure. that 'grain got to
Patriotic :"Biddy
Lays 'Doubleheaders
• There ,is no doubt that if a ser-.
tarn Plymoutle Rock hen belong-
ing to John J. Kavanagh. of Stitts-
ville keeps on the 'way- she's go-
,riga.she •:isagoing._tosrevoiutioniae.
the egg laying industry. ,
The other day when 'Mr. Kava-
nagh went out •to• gather his crop
of eggs he found that this seven-
month -old pioneer had . gone .to
bat and produced .an 'enormous
effort weighing 514 ounces. Fur=
cher investigation . revealed . that
there was more to it than. appear-
ed on the Furface, for -inside the,
huge shell in 'addition to its otvn
yolk and white was another egg of
norinal size. And now to top that •
off she has gone and done it
age in.
We don't snow if it has any-
thing to, .de with the war effort,'
but if Mr, Kavanagh 'can, get his
bird to teach- the trick- to the
'rest of the poultry family, you can
• depend upon an .enlargement in
the egg business:. • •
If Germans -Lose
It's More Than All
"lf. . we • sit,', we •hac'e won ev-
erything; if we lose we. lose. more
than all." • German Propaganda
Minister Paul Goabbeis • told a
meeting of German ' political and
cultural leaders in Hamburg re-
tentiy.- - .
, Again- .Dtr. Gbebbeis referred to'
the "dumb stubbornness" of• the
' Russian armies ns proof of "the
magnitude of .'the danger which
has been hanging over tis;" 'bat
again he expressed con{idenee
that ultimata Ge nien • victory is
caffein.
M1
ii-�:x�•;
DIDN'T EXPLODE
e eavies erma
dropped on, London, which -.evi- a
Y
dentl did'not explode,, measured
,
13 feet 'three ,inches in .length,
'two feet three inches in diameter,
and, weighed ,' two tons: • 'Why' not
fix it up •for•remailing and drop
it overthe• dead -letter office` 'in
Berlin? •
' —Hamilton Spectator
..•s ---t netiNIPPRODIGVia.Sesaaa
A•.. professor in the University' .
of California contends that Mother
Goose rhymes can be traced back
2,00,,yeare. Oh, Doc, haw could
she have written all those Jingles
'way' back in .58• B C when she
was a iniae'slip of a goaliiig?
.aeOttawa Citizen
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STRAWBERRY JUICE KILLS-
. TYPHUS The. germ' •can,
exist Or only a few hoursin fresh
strawberry -juice..
But, let the Nazis try to find•
fresh strawberries in Russia in
January. '
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The i;e. chieftains of the `closely co, ordieated land-sea-a'rrforces
that stand watch. over America's populous Atlantic seaboard. ,Shown.
St-3:-ofatrein fregnent._canferencesaare Lieutenant Gsner-al-Hugb, A.
Druni (centre), famed commander of the' Eastern Army Forces
Brigadier General Arnold• N. Krogstad (left), commander: of the
a-•-FirsV --it -Forces ;and Re'arAdmiral Adlophus--.Ari'drews-(right),-cum..--
,under of the North Atlantic Naval Coastal Frontier. They share a
secret, jointheadquarters soreewhere in the New York metropolitan.
area, where they map defensive -offensive' operations.
Fr. each. Possessions
Of Strategic •Value
Allied interest -in. France's col
onial possessions in: the Western
Herr isphere is .due to the strate-
gic iinportance' of the - group, ra-
ther than their value as a source
of: vital. raw material, as is the
• case in Dutch Guiana, recently
Occupied by a United States
force: •
`Except for their vast Produc-
tion of sugar and ism — there
are 286 distilleries in Martini=
que end'Guadeloupe alone — the
ten islands• anti one piece •of tnain-
land that • make up Vichy's 're-
mainiag •colonies in the West
are comparatively ' poor and ov-
ercrowded. But they occupy lo-
cations that scarcely tan be • ig-
nored.
Martinique, and Gaudeloupe'
and five smaller islands lie • along
a great curving° chain of islands,
that mark the ' eastern gateway
to the Caribbean Sea and the ap-
proaches to the Panama Canal.
St. Lucia, site of ' one of the
• United States' new . leased ile-
fense, bases, is almost in sight of
Martinique.
l renclo Guiana, which contains
Devils -Island penal colony, is on
the northeast coast of South
America; adjoining Dutch Guiana,
• which was occupied with consent
of the Netherlands Government
to guard the United States stipply
of bauxite. Its occupation by an
enemy would present an obvious
• menace.
To the south of Newfoundland
lie the two barren islands of.
Miquelon and St.. Pierre. Their
rbined -area of •. ninety-three
square miles is inhabited by fex•er
than 5,000 persons, who ma:e
their living chiefly from the fish-
ing industries-.
•
Egypt ail) pas a bounty' to
farmers whO grow wheat, barley
or beans on land, `•wnex'y de.
veted to cotton. , s
OntaYio Pupils , To
Aird 'Victory oan
Nine Thousand Schools. .in
`-The Province Wel Take Part
In Pageant ,
• N -ins thousand public schools in.
the province of.'Ontario liave been •
• asked to' .participate in 'a histori-
cal`miisical pageant in the, period •
of L -e fgrtheeri.ing•-Second Cana—
dian :Victory_ Loan Campaign.
The Provincial Ministry of Edu-
-cation 'is interested in, the pro-
ject. The Minister- Himself, the
Hon. D. McArthur, , has written :
personal 'letters to secretaries of
school • 'boards `-and :-boards of'• -edu.
teflon:and to every school prin-
cipal urging that •some , fordn of
sansb akera:;. rrr ml�r:
te•Dtt+9riadl�th� .,. _.. '�..._... . _.._.-
for •,campaign.- speakers. '
The musical :pageant '"Caval -
.,rade, of Canada'' devised by F. R.
• 'Fenwick, ' Mus.,'' Bac. ' of the De-'
partment`of Udttcaoid-ds-enc.=
'several musical plays proposed fur
general use' during the period of
the campaign. ' Two : others—"Blue
Boots" for junior grades and
"Builders. of .' t"•anatiarv' a- - musical,
'play forintermediate grades, both
written by Mary Grannan (Just
Mary) have been suggested •': as
alternative 'productions.
The' "Cavalcade ,of 'Canada" re-,
lates .the history of Canada in
'.music,..song and dance. It begins
with an opening, episode . illus-
trating in dance the Manner in
which early_.Tndiaii settlers of Can-
ada
celebrated ; their festive occa-
• sions with song and dance: ''Epi-
sode No, 2 dramatises in the, form
of French Canadian folksongs
the life of the early French .set;
tai's, the 'first white settlers in
• Canada, before the advent of the,
British. The Boring of the•British
with the arrival in Canada df the
famous explorers of that 'day,
-Martin Frobisher, Henry Htydson
'and William ' Baffin is marked 'by
-an- ivid-ual -e daeede .iii .art
• pr priate setting and e'xpress'ed by
the singing of "Came Lasses 'and
Lads!) and "The King is. •Still hi,
London.' •
Scotsmen who have helped to
• Make Camera great are paid tri-
bute by the incl,gsion 'of a number
dedicated to -Scotland to the ac-
companiment of ' the music. of"
"Scots Wha Hae." . Irislunen who
have contributed their . 'strength
• and talents- to the building of the
country are likewise remembered
•—or will be — when' 'the school
children sing, in tribute to them
—the words of "The Harp That
Once II (I''Through • Tara's Halls!" •
Welshh en, known the World over
for their passion `for good music
4?
J3 h &o•,•
,,(,hi�l
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the first Oenefjan in any province
In Canada upon which every
ech+P.ol child an the province --or
any pro wince—hee been irn,reseed
into a useful place in a national
drive • of this kind. For this reit-
, son all Canada is expected to ob-
serve with interest the results of
the provincial campaign,., On-
tario; the results from4that par-
ticular angle or in that particular
sphere of campaign activity,
Inclusion of the schools, .school.
teachers and pupils alike, en -such
a scale as now contemplated' by
the. campaigners .is a tribute to
the griming influence,•- of lire -.
school authority and the school in
the local Community. It is an in-
fluence often felt but' seldom axle-
quately •recognised; The forth-
coming campaign should illustrate
to what extent that influence is '
a ,potent: factor .in the lives • of
Canadian families. - • • '
"You. Can Fight' for Canada!"
.froni the patriotic' review "Pull
Together. _Canada"' has. been ad-.
opted as a ' theme sone ,for- ,this
province by. the Provincial Public ,
,Relations Committee of the Sec-
on; Victory Doan Drive. . •
The opening- words of.the song
epitomise', its spirit, They are:
"Shiyps and guns and planes we
*need,, Qur,_country:_to defend—__._
"But we must arm the hearts of
• men towin out in the end !"
That song in the form of song
sheets has been circularised to all
,of the sixtyl cu
-t. four.territorial Masa
niittees .now hard at .work—pre-:
ar
- atory _-Work' . in....Ontario._Those
F Y,
committees have ;",reel, asked to
ensure that it is in the hands of
even) st`udent;" envy ..a'e'liooj."'bny.
and girl. in, the ,province, by the
date, the • National -Drive , is' sche-
duled
to 'begin'—on February 16. '
It is expected that -between Feb-
ruary 16 and March 16—the 'per-
iod ' of this . year's drive through •
Carrada;=everybody=vrilla_be.: _sing; -_-
ing it. - _
That song' again • will - be err,
`ployed ;as a prelude to addresses
by competent speakers wlje will
appear it every city, . town and
haliiiet •n Ontario, dur:ing'the per-
, iod of the campaign,: to ,explain
the . importance of 'Victory Bonds
for Victory; Canada's urgent need
of .motley to win this war.
andincidentally, for their 'orator-
,cal eloquence,, will be indperson-'.
"aced by the ":youthful
"Men of Harlech."
Canada, it is pointed out in, the
foreword. of the musical. pageant,
"Cavalcade of Canada," is corm -
posed of men and women of many '
••racial -origins. Mose:. ghat,• 5,000,-
000-
,000,-000-' are citizens of -British stock •
.or stock originating in the British
Isles; three and a half million are '
derived from ;'Frendh stock and
• someiiliitg over 2;013,0T00ti—from
stock of other European' nation
` alities. •
Those , European. nationalities
are therefore to be suitably repre-
sented in this pageant, as will be,
of course, the' United States of
America.
ence to. Allies or to Associated
. Dutch Canadians will derive
:Nem, •-thesanar
ea tc f . tbn° °of 01 raiiai:of
their homeland as expressed in.
song; Belgium will be remembered
by the singing er recitation of the
immortal words of John McCrae's-
in-�•1•di•arlandeo.,s-ltietde'.,.aat tib..-:,:�
.bute to the 60,000 Canadians who
lie buried in, that ill-starred .land
today. '
Scandinavian countries gill be
dramatised' by the singing inap-
propriate stage setting and cos-
tume arrangement of Norwegian,.
'Icelandic ' and Swedish national
songs. • Poland, the stalwart little
Baltic nation that gave Joseph
• Conrad - in literature and Chopin
and PadereWski in music will re-.
ceive due recognition by the sing-.
' ing by the pupils of appropriate •
Polish anthems. •
Russia will . be given a place -in -
the colourful panorama in ,recog-
nition of her .valiant' role in this
war. . Pupils . wearing Ukrainian,
costumes will sing Ukrainian and
Russian songs in tribute,.. particu-
larly, to L-krainia known through
the ' ages for its contributions '' to
music, poetry and the arts. The
Doukhobors of whom it has been
said that "music is their breath of
' life" will be ineluded in the Rus-
•. ,sian portrayal. '
Many other European nation-
alities t the Greeks, Ciochoslo-
vakians, Jugoslavians, Hungarians
, will be interpreted musically as,:
well. The Hebrew population of
Canada will be' included' When
there is sung in tribute . te, their•.
contribution to the allied cause in
this and other wars the anthem
• "Lift Thine Eyes" by the noted
Jewish cornposerd Felix' Mendel-
. sstilin.
This is Probably the first occa-
sion in the history of this or any
other province in Canada upon
which a Ministry of •Educationnhas
• stepped into a national campaign
of this, kind as the )ion: D. Mc-
Arthur has done. Certainly it, is
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A Weekly' Column
NEtwiN
h�9A(Jf ICE
About This and That in The Canadian. Army
Everyone has heard, 'some 'time
;or another, 'a public speaker men-
tion 'the .various arms and serer
vices" of the Army. What ..d.aes
'that mean? That's what I asked.
tasked the A.G., the 'C.C.S-,. the
D.M.O..an(1I:, and a dozen other .
high ranking officers.
T3efore we forget I suppose I'd
better'.Blear up• those •'initials
sortie.: day,` if the editor; •can, spare
th1e, space, we'd Iietter li.ave a gloss
nary of 'army terms s`!A:G." is,
aAdjutant-General;.".C.C.S.", Chief
:of the. General Staff, and "D.M.-
�' O. and I", Directdr, , of : Military
cOperations and. Intelligence. There •'
are • probably nicknames• for these
high appointments" but at the ane- •
ment I can't' tell you what they
are,
But to get back to "arms end
.services". Here • are the 'distinc-
�_tiQns.. "Arms" are the: branche •
of the... Army that carry out the
• tactical, plans of the, commander.•
They include: • Artillery, Engin-
eers, Signallers, •Armoured Corps
And '.l'.nfantry. "Services" look , af-
ter the arms, support ,and -supply
- -them,.. They_...aret Jt y_1il..Caijadian.
-Ordnance'ores, oft Yal--Canadian
• .Army ServiceCorps, 'Royal. Can-.
". adi$ri rA.my Medd ed -Corps; etc,
• ' .• Don't • think . for a minute,
though, that when you refer ' to .
..the Services, as: supporting•I the
arms that. y'ou 'are not referring to
fighting soldiers. In the mechan-
• ized', all-out .war 'of today — the
'.' war•-t#raphe7in•d-ividua lsseitizen'e _.,
army is being so highly trained to
fight '—*.every mars in- uniform is
' asF' fighting _ 'p•.ian who was trained
first as, a fighter before he 'was
trained for, or 'started work at his
:ecialtx.
Every officer ,or man in both
Arno: and Services. starts his sol-
•diering by taking- the regular .ele-
mentary, training course. •A stret-
cher=bearer-inthis-war-is, as -•cap
Child, London
ndo
• n
Give Their Pennies
Children, of . one of the most
horribly bombed areas of London
recently presented Bertrand D. N.
Cd.'uger, London .representative of
a tvitFf 'a giwft of • fiae�' isil' & audea
'nine peiice to be devoted to the ,
people off•the. United' States who •
have suffered froin the war.
The_ gift was made up, of . pen-
, _ ._ ..
pes-
saries- _ajadThy the-sdhoet-children
since December 7—the date of 'the
Japanese attack oil Pearl - Har-
` bor_ The presentation was made
at the "America Day" celebration
at a settlement, house in the Ber-
mondesey area. Cruger. who has
allocated, hundreds of thousands
of dollars to British organizations
in the last ' two years, said in
thanks "This makes one' feel that
the work of the British War Re -
%lief Society • has been worth
while." •
Writes In Verse
His , Last Bequest
Many interesting and unusual
wills have been probated in the
cou.nty•of •Wentworth, but here is
one' contained in , four lines of
poetry:
It. ui tbat 'of Charles Robert
Hodgson, Who bequeathed his en-
tire estate of 518,422,86 • to •hit
widow, in this fashion : r•
"All' my ear'Jdl'S goods I have ' in
• store,
To my dear wife •I leave for ever-
more
I freely give, no limit do ,T fix,
This is my will,, she. the exec;:-
Mr. Hodgson was a welh'enowr,
Harniten florist who died<June la
194?. The unusual will was made
• on April 12, 1921. • , •
There were no moths or but-
t.erfies during the Great Coal
Age, when ' many other insects
flourished, because theflowers
upon which these nectar drinkers
.depend had not yet appeared.
REG LAR FELLERS—The Hero
Fri► ! A BAN ROBBERY/
-tVE QOT No Calm ON Me!
a a. fat Cd.o. nr r Bis ItIvektat
Rp
able of assembling A Bren gun
from assorted parts in the hark
as a Medical- Officer is .of carry-
ing' o.ut a major operation' by the
light of n 'motorcycle hea'dlam'p:
The same is true of .Ordeanee,.
Army Service. Corps — every ser-
vice. Na matter what uniform a
. •saldier in. your array wears he is
' a fighting soldier. stit! note
Here is - an:. intore
... g,
While we are'on the subject of
aU:round training. 'The- trained
mechanic, a' man who' is found in'
great :numbers .. in.: • both ",Arms"
acid "Services", is a qualified
"first -aider''„ having. 'passed,,; as.
has' •every• conoliatant soldier, a
St. John's Ambulance course' dur-
ing his elementary training.
In March, ;,1018., the. enemy.
came, close' to breaking.. through
awl. on that occasion cooks, • bak-
ers, farriers, laundrymen and a .
host or other neceasaryHmt -not
necessarily war -like, odds • and' .
ends turned ' to With cleavers, .
picks and shovels, hammers=any-
thing that would serve as a -weep-
They acquitted; themselves-
well,
hemselves well, too.
._..._ -._ . _.
The-weapo-ns--Baited archaic
They,. were. Bet .todas, if such 'a'
-situation -should -arise, the meq. '
would 'be: 'read'y'. for it. Today...-...
there is a course given _to all
soldiers in "un -armed combat".
This .course:teaches them how to
use iniprovised weapons, such as
shrapnel helmets,, fists, knees,
boots in_a lethal manner. Ina gine '
what a man •aimed with a
=cheit's cleaver. or. a tailor's goose.
could do with them after learning,
to take care •.of himself without
any arms.
A few minutes ago I referred to
a shrapnel ,helmet."Onee eie used..
to • call them, ".tin . • hats".:' Now •
you frequently see .then', referred • . .
to ••as. "battle -bowleg".• what
o . next?' •
Good-Morni<ng
Mr. Shopkeeper
-- Dialogue recently . over-
heard in a London. sholr: •
Sweet•., Young Lady:' Have • you
any eigarettes,,•::pleaseta
S k'•
it
PTeeeI r
Sweet Young Lady: Have y�u
' any matches? •
Shopkeeper: No!
Sweet Young Lady-; Have you
any ehtrcelate?. '
Shopkeeper: No!!
Sweet Young Lady: Have you
•any manners?
Shopkeeper: No!!! Here! What'
are you getting at?'
• Sweet -Young Lady: You, Mr.
Shopkeeper.,, Good morning!
-'Reform Thy Wort
Beg><nning Witri! Me
The President's informal re-
'' marks to .the industry -labor eon-
ference. set an admirable example
_.._ _ ch we must - •
• of the, spiLit•, =paasiaaaasaaar
ixt.. which
leas s duseineethesaperin e o ;, ,she as a.,,
war. If each of his hearers re-
cognizes • his personal: responsi
• bility for national unity and nes
tional strength, there would be .
no difficulty in atriving---at--
promist agreement. The President ' • ,
cited . the • prayer -sof- :a 'Chinese ':
Christian "Lord, reform thy
world, beginning with .me." There
could be few more useful prayers
for each of. us to: keep as a guid-
ing rule in the present, crisis. _ • '
LIFE'S 'LIKE THAT
By Fred Neher
• TAKE ITWATs`tO0 CROOKS
THAT'S THE . TIME I PSOLED TA!
By GENE BYRNES
MEY !' wAKE 'UP / ..
WHATSA IDEA' OF BELTHN''NIE
,WITH THAT PILLER, ?