The Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-07-23, Page 7To Place Returned
Veterans On Land
Settlement Scheme, May Se
in Effect. Next Spring
Possibility that the veteran&
laud settlement scht;am retry be
in operation by• next sprirlg it the
• bill is paasetl by the House of
•,.tlCommons, were seen as the: lit,ui,t,
.land settlern,eut .eorn aittee neared
.'th:t ,e!rd of its deliberations: •
. "thie to uraupower• .dud trans-
• portation ditficu!ties, We. won't be
able to inspect a large number of
farms and get thein ready for.
scattier settlers befor.e'next spring,."
•said Gordon ' Murchison, director,
•of 'soldier settlement. ':Even• then
We may -not be able to deal 'with
•a. large volume. of applications,'
He staled, •however, that the
sinal!•percentage of ..,men eligible
•a,t this•'+time might die' settled:"'
7ft,Ot3t? farhrs AyaliatrFe-•- - •
• Wood associate •deputy'
• minister .of pensions and national .
. • • Health, Said that of the 4'o,000.
, men already ',discharged from the
armed forces, not more than 'a
• "third were eligible., for land set• '
tlentent since they had served.
less than six months in Canada.
• A veteran" to be .eligible must
.41111;41 have, .served at least one year jn
Canada', or .seen, 'service. overseas.
'Therenow are less than 30.0
i`• mei With ilualif.ica•tionn ,who are
pressing claims. 'Another 100 ap
plications • have , been received •
Since the committee began to meet.
• Mr.' WoOds added •that most dis-.
• •charged. men •are being 'absol•bed
__-intG-Wa7 -hrdustttes' ire rese'rrt:-,
Mr. Mur.Chison:said he has ` a
list of •70,000. farina • that could
be •nought for veteran 'settlers. but'
'these nave. not been exargined_for
suitability:Lack of: manpower • and
. iestrictidus .ou gasoline . and ..rub-
ber. made it impossible to carry
, .on the inspectiona,at •great speed'.;
Awarded Decoration
IRON HORSES BOLSTER. INDIA'S DEFENSES
Inunoxffasenrroalin
Natives of menaced i 'india, curiosity overcoming their caution,
---clamber-•opt=er=ta mks-nevitty-•arriuetL'in-"grceatest eenvoy eveito • leave -
Britain for Far .East."
,.O.10E •
V, .
OF 1 H '
PRESS, .
WHAT'S • WRONG?
'We quite often hear the .ques
tion asked: What is wrong with
our educational.. system? ,One
answer was supplied to us re-
�. Gently by a radio broadcaster and.
it is . not' .so . far wrong at that.'
Thtrouble with education, he
stated, is ; that the teachers are
-- atrtrid-o-f rho--pri-nciial, the princ-
ipal is afraid, of the inspector and
the scheol•board,the school. board.
if afraid of the parents,• the par=
ents are afraid of the children and
the children are ,not afraid of
anyone: -Carleton 'Place. ' Caned-
• ian. . '
•
At, the •coact ia. r : a private
dinneer' at , which he Vas, host . to
King Peter of Yugos.avia, W. M, •
Birks, chairman of the Canadian
Friends of Yugoslavia, was invest-
ed by His Mdjesty with the Order
of Saint ..Sava, one ' of Yugo-
nlavia's most ancient and honored.
decorations. Mr. Birks is one of '
IVlo.ittgeal's oir•tstanding citizens,
Policeman Finds
Live Lion In Car
Tipsv Cowboy .and • Friend
. Roped Stray Beast •
Arresting a tipsy co'Wboy,, Poi•
. iceman James Hunter of. Oklahoma ,
made a routine , search of his pris-
oner's automobile.
He raised the lit of, the, trunk
comliartdretit, • peeked• boldly to- .
side, alien juanited bark with a
howl. •
Inside securely tied, was. a big
lion,. alive and growling. • •
"Where did you 'get that thing,"
Hunter demanded. .
"Why, "me and Jahn jw�l robed
it down 'the -road."
• Hunter„who hadn't heard of a
lion' in these parts since the lost
circus train went the In ii, .sno'ted.
• ' "Til •tell you," he said. "You
come down to the jail and sleep it
off and •tell, your story trgain in
•
the -morning."
Next day the cowboy took a look
at the lion. turned a liit:le dale:
but stuck to his story. '
•
"Me and John saw this criritir;
loping down4the road • last
It sures looked'' likit a lion 'but we
figured that: was ou accuunl of
• the stuft we had been drinkinc "
' "l got out on the .i•utinitil:; boerd
and John drove alongside him and
•15(4, a rope' sill the ,fucker.' 41'tien
1< reared back that big boy c:.nite .Ui)
and .lappet the with his paw and
1 knew then that I had hold of
;.a lien, shore enough: .
•
It n I'd litre, bet r+'chewed
to piece it' John hadn't jumped out
On got t.nother tope on hits and
took a hitch 'arouiuL a tree T.icn
we tied, hint up and pitched hint
in the car:"
Police finnally iuforined the cow-
boy he was free to*go on his w=ay,
.providing he would ,take the lion
with him. ••
Asked the when 5l)Ot is of John,
lie 'r'epliet thought'fnllle: "Now, 1
wonder where he went to?"
. .•
I• Open Golf • Meet .
•. • ' ..For Seagram Cup:
. Will history (Irepeat itself? •That'd
the questiou Canadian '.Golf. fans
are. asking,thems• elves,' for if feast
• history' means .anything there'. will .
' be, another playoff ' for :the.. Can- .
. adian Open Golf 'Championship and
the ._Seagram'Gold • Cup at Missis-
sauga on August 11, 7 and 8..
The approaching open' -will be
the •thir'd held at Mississauga and
-in-each. of --tire previaui' sir-uggles=
' there • have: been deadlocks, one
being decided by a thirty-six hole
•playoff and. the other by one. that
went tee ty-seven •holes. • In the
• fouth round in 19$1 Whiter Hagen
had 2$2, after slipping- to: a • bad
74 in the final • round. In the play-
• off the Haig .scored his . only.• •di'c-
-''sa tzrey-alir-t•I'rea-Oanas3iarr;--epenr-s
nuvvt4MAIJINKOPE
A'Weekly Column -About This and That, in Com' Canadian Arany
Hitler must bang! And that Then death, sudden violent.
• • forthright statement. • may be death, bad become so common:
taken as a compound sentence for place•that•'"Casualty Lists" in the
•the, whole 'gang of Nazi leac7era. ' • daily- •paper -s:. occupied raare space ;
.After the fighting finished irf, . , than. the "Sports' Pages" do today
1918 there . was a lot of talk • —and were as • eagerly .scanned..
about bringing the Kaiser. to trial , Today .as much space is given .
•
and demands for .puniishrnent of. • to the .drowning of :two -office
the leaders of the German people cadets in an Army Week display
•-but, as time went on the' ter- •as '.would have • chronicled , the
vour died down, Christian tenets: deaths• in action of :300 men is
•
.were mouthed' by the very people the • 1914-19, war, • •
who , later. 'on were P the apostles What a shame! 'Whit a' •shame
of . disarmament, • and - nothing • that • we. should deed an "Army
.was done:: to 'show ,the German, Week" • to 'focus''our thoughts o'n;
"'people. that it is an evil 'thing to. our.;soldiers...Itis'symptornatic of ..
le
• let .loose the forces .of •evil .on ; -something half-hearted and.lack-• ,
mankind. •adaisical that all over •the •Donun'
Nothing woe done? • Nothing! ion it shenhi be necessary ter stage.
Oh Ye's,'a, few colonies were put' demonstration's to ,l:ernind;us that
wider mandate-the,German mind there is .a war going• on.
would expect that; "reparations • • But ""Army Week" or "Navy
pimmediately,y .should be every _ F:oree-' •W.eek
were claimed -and antis!! for' Week or A7r•
given; and, almost week.. We'must
loans were made to Germany to .generate the proper state of mind
•aasiat' 'in the rehabilitation .of •about -this 'war. It is our war.
• trade! •• • Not the war r of. the soldier, the
What did the Army think about sailor or. the airman. Aneit will
all •that? I can speak for only one fall , to ' those of us' who 'could
Sergeant -in -that army. But ,I am only help 4n • a very limited way to
sure • that what I felt' was echoed • back up the -.fighting forces when
• sand' intensified -by the moth- their'job is done na see to'..it that
ers of • dead sons, the widows, the •augr m.ret'ribution falls upon -th'e.
• orphans... M ' . • •g' y is nothingsoft about
_ iNJiat 'good did the Christian,' •1 here
• attitude do? ' Was at really a our , Melt- irr,-uniform.
• Christian attitude? Let us see to it .that ;there is'
Let's• answer the second quer nothing soft about •us when the
tion, first. I don't' think it 'Was,'. day. of reckoning comes. ,' Every
I think. that was a, time .when, . lamp post in the tinter•• Den
den• should be a gallows, there'
must: be a gallows- occupied • by
carrion...bait-in every hamlet,'
every village, every town, ever
city in occupied 'territory that
has known the 'weigh't.of the Nazi,
Scourge, the stench of Italy,. the
malarial infectiori • of Japan.' ,
.There is a. •job for 'us privates
in the ,Individual -Citizen's Army..
-a.'jots we will do whole-heart-
edly.as •.we'look-and we. shall
lookupon our €omrades . on -
cr-utches _- r '' fol! • '"Seeing -
Eye"
'
Eye" dogs or as we place flowers
under memorial Windows in 'our
church .yards. • `•
Night new there is another job
to do,,the job'of conserving every-
thing
very
thing that is needed forthe busi-
ness, of waging succesar"ul: 'war.
It is a•shri�ple j'ob. So simple we-
Boivinana "Sta: esni.a,r h a v
• worked ,overtime to get their
paper 'to bed" so that they,' rap.
be' free to go, out;. and help at
. farm work.. Not only ,•this, 'but
the paper's ' farm editor has for
two ,seasons taken a whirl at hay-
ing, harvesting tend threshing.
1Well, we'll wager there'll die wigs
on the green now, up in Durham
• County. 'Congratulations,. fellow
editors. This is one titne when
hay ,forks and rakes and culti-
vators will be mightier ,than, the '
• ,pen! --Kingston Whig -Standard.:
WORRIES EFFICIENTLY •
Prime Minister Churchill tole
his friends in Washington' that he
had so. many worries that he had
to set tip a personal priority Sys\ ,
tent for them. To a colleague
who was. complaining, about his
minor troubles, Mr. Churchill ex-
plained that he had had so many
Worries 'for sq -long now that they
had to have a top priority to claim
his 'interest. One ,day, he .ex-
. plained, Kharkov•has,'A=1A prior-
ity; the next day Egypt. 'In that
way he explained jokingly, he
could "wori•y efficiently".,
WARTIME SLOGANS
By their' slogans 'ye -shell know'
them! United Nations-"I{eep
'em. Flying"; Germiany-•-"Keep
'em Dyiiigt'; . Italy -"Keep 'em
• Diving"; Japan -"Keep 'err Flee-
ing';' Vichy France -"Keep 'em
Lying"; and Hon. J: L. Ilsley-..
' "Keep 'em Buying". -Hamilton
Spectator. '
EVENING ,THINGS UP
There are always compensations.
Little Willie has been bewailing
the ban on, the manufacture of
kids' bicycles, but he gets a lift
out of the similar' action that
has now been taken with respect
to lawn. mowers. Windsor Star.
ONLY •R A-IZAT1ON
•
The .Only times some '•people
realize there is a war in progress
-'is when a -budget, speech increases
theiauataxation or the Oil Con-
troller reduces their gasoline ra-
' tions. -Brockville Recorder and
•
'l'ime's.
GOOD IDEA
ro r•ary-s sit s--it-wo a iIcl
be a good idea to take autos away
from all careless drivers, s here-
upon the streets 'would become
safe, quiet --and, almost• deserted.
--Brantford Expositor. •
remembering that Christ said
"turn the other cheek," we for-
got '(that the Same Christ drove
the ' money -changers , out of the
Temple!' •. , • •
Perhaps' you are wondering.,
where the Individual Citizen's
Army comes. ,into -this. Don't
worry, it comes inall right! The
Individual Citizen's Armley - that
means all of us, don't forgets--
is
orget-is concernedand_veiy deeply con-
' cerned, with everything that goes
on rn the world tirday..
There is not a thing that hap-
pens that dbes notconcern each
oneof us. The death df a U. S
Army aviator somewhere over the
Coral Sea is just as important to
the whole • scheme of things as the
loss of a Canadian -made tank in
Libya. • ,•
—S'`a MID-�j] a, --site;. at y.A a i.eq.
tied with a total of 277. In the
eighteen . !role playoff they both
carded brilliant 67's" and after a
consultation with the R. C. G. A.
officials . it was decided to play.
nine additional holes. On these
filial. Holes Cooper slipped badly
turning in a '39, whileSnead who
was really hot from tee- to cop,.
came in with a 34.
• ORIGIN, OF ANTS
/Scientists find ants. existed 60
million years ago -probably they
.started With the first pienic.-
e
THE WAR - WEEK —_ Commentary,. on Current Events'
German And Japanese Thrusts
•
•' Menace Russia's Supply Lines
• The story of Russia's military
strength is'the story of space, end-
less space. Armies that have •.crowd-
ed all rivals off the face of Europe
have 'marched into Russia and
been. swallowed -up in the vast
brown landscape rolling' away to
the east. Napoleon learned 130
years ago that a battle Won in
Russia' does, .not have the seine
meaning as a battle won in , ,Ana
tria; there is always room in Itus-
ata for another ' battle. Adolf lilt-,
ler learned last. year that each, mile
forward in Russia, each .great• in-
dustrial town destroyed,, only'
means another' mile to go, • another •
town to destroy. Last week; in
battles spaced hundreds of miles
apart. Hitler s.ia1d might tried''
to' collie the problem of. space, says'.
she-. Neyv York• Times, .
' 'Germany's Objectives .
The „Uei-man ' effort presuniabry
had two objectives: . (1)'' to •take,
porsessiou , of important arteries
of traffic by which strength flows
from ou.e part •of the Soviet body
to another; (2) to block the routes '
over which • come war . materials
;from Russia's Allies across .the -
seas. The accomplishment' of these
objectives would make. Soviet
transportation problems more .d'if-
ficult. It was conceivable that Rua-
sia's' resistance might. be split into
two parts, each of which could ob-
tain supplies from the other •only
with the utmost difficulty.
Drive To • The River
b rovrn t first a'hd-gre'a%estasof
these prizes the Gentians aimed ',
their chief. drive at the -Don liver.
An announcement • 'from Berlin
described the Red Army as "de-
structively beaten'. along G20 miles
of the Don front. Moscow reported
heavy . Soviet counter-attacks de-
signed; apPar•ently,. to'. divert• the•
main weight -of the German' drive
• front _reaching toward Stalingrad
and the Caspian, hundreds of miles
away.' • . The, , Wehrmacht's goal
seemed to be no less than to cut
Marshal • TiMeslienko's souththi-
army in two, to insulate, the whole
Caucasus.: region: Then Hitler. 'could
strike for the wells that nol•mally •
it could be the gravest menace yet
in the Wehrmaeht's . drive toward
the Middle East. Others pointed
out that apace was 'still on the
side of Russia. East of the Doer;
• they pointed' out, lies the 'Volga '
and east of the Volga the Urals
and beyond that, the wide expanse
-of. Siberia.
Battle of• Aleutians
In the mist and rain. that shroud
America's Aleutian islands on 280
days of the, year's 365, a. battle
relatively •'small in scale but .sig-
nificant in strategy is, being fought
by.,3apan�._atid the United States.
The action began when the Mik
•ad.o's •forces',raided Dutch harbor
on .June 3 and shortly thereafter
*put. troops ashoie at the tip of the
archipelago that. thrusts 1,600
miles .from i,laska • 'across the
'North Pacific.-' The 'United, 'States
hit Back at the invader with at-
trition 'tactics, .seeking ,to 'destroy
landing, groans and the sliips" sup-
plying them. A : report on . the pro-
gress of the battle was issued not
long ago by Washington.
Submarines In Action
American submarines, ' it was
disclosed, had penetrated the
waters' around the three western-
most islands seized by 'the Japan--,
ese-Attu, Agattu and Kiska. The
fogs that have hampered long- -
range air .bombers heltfed screen. •
the undersea. raiders', movements, •
Two weeks' ego their torpedoes
sank • four ^ enemy destroyers, lett
a • •fifth • in flames.. The. toll brought
Japanese 'naval losses -mostly '"iQ=t----T--'-
Bided by' Army planes -in: Alen-
tian'encounters to fifteen vessels
sent to. the bottom.•ors•damaged.
United States losses have•not
been disclosed, save. for tunspeci-• • .•
fled damage at Dutch Harbor; but.
it was evident that the .Japapese
were extending their grip in the
Aleutians. Their eastward advance"
.from Attu to Kiska • spanned , 230
miles. 'They 'were surely erecting
ais and nasal stations that 'could
_play an im-portan�t , role in . the
North Pacific theatre..
Japanese Menace 'Grave
From Kiska . it is 615 miles to
owing SeeingDntt li . Harbor. Front '. Attu ;it it
ps-90"-9. "n per-cen.t_of_:rhe Sevier -X95-i Y1 t Russia`s-i�aurchatks-=-
t -e-us---'inev-net -t•1 ink -;it• -worth wh1
was as' old as this one•tliaitsands.
of Canadians had been killed in
battle. • There was hardly a home
in the Dominion that had not been
shadowed • by • the.,dark angel's
wing..
. And by the same token there
was hardly a Koine in ,the :whale
of Canada "that was not 'straining
`every sinew to help ,beat the
enemy..
LIFE'S •LIKE THAT
By, 'Fred Neher.•
/4//%//
: :' J /// //Af//
1:7,s -as
'
"He thinks it's
only
O
Oopy4y,6t. 12119,•by ? X be)
fair to give tho animals a porting chance."
supply; he could seek to .cut. the . defenses and• 7p5miles to Para-,
Allied' supply line that runs from mushii, Japan's northernmost ' nav-
Iran up through tile, Caspian. , • al base. Thus, the Nipponese are
in a central POsition (1) to drive •
--toWeritagallorthaflane_Once round
•
fret -a the store, turning last Wint-
eel 'coat, giving hp.. shasking„
.'drinking less tea and coffee, tieing, ,
without :alcoholic beverages, hav-
ing shoes repaired even. when the
'. • It involves reporting • infrac-
tions of the price ;ceiling erders •
no matter .how abhorrentaltan,itch-
tate to thekle or report a spy or
a saboteur, Neither ,should we
,hesitate to report a commercial
saboteur -for .• breaches •-of the'
price ceiling are acts of sabotage.
against the law-abiding. •. The a,
tares, landlord or other business
Man doesn't just break a law -
he harms you. • he,' gets away
with it because yoe keep silent •
the spectre of pestwar ninflation.
Ioome• diver, it the ceilings .are
maintained postwar inflation will
be aaerted and *we'll have time to
spe' that the: War has not been
.To Send Clippings
'Instead of Papers
said ,a general campaign is being
• planned to - encourage. Canadians
to mind newspaper clippfngs rather
than complete newspapers over -
The plat! has nlready ,been pre -
and is being supported by the
Canadian Postmasters' As.socia-
"In most cases clippings are
:quite suffitient to give the newa
and would overcome the terrific
• waste in .shipping 'space which
.there ts at present with thousands
of papers' being• sent overseas," -
a 'departmental snolte-man Said.
REGTAR FELLERS—Dangerous Practice
MATTER WITH YOU? DO YOU
you'Re NOME IN BED?
TILL 'TEN AFTEfeElql4T„IAINigstr,
Masco*, of the hattlesaip Tiridtz;
and. eight:destroyers, was on • the
moeracies of, the weSt and the Red '
'After the fighting WaS Over -eon.:
mentsi 'silence. trots', others, left .a -
confused. picture of What had oc-
.curred: . The Gentians said that
their ships, supported by land- '
based aircraft, fell upon an Allied .
convoy• •sank heavy American
. Cruiser and destroYed .all bat six
of a thirty-eigItt-ship flotilla. Prom
' • Motcow came the report that the.
• Russian submarine' torpedoed the
Ttrpiti twice and, that the Gernian
ships Withdew while the, eonvoy
eafto a .Russian port.. The
,Soviet spoke also of h.eavy bomb;
ing raids. on Nazi airfields hi
Northern Norway and Finland, the
bases for the fotays against the
Allied supply line in the Arctic.
Observera-, 'Allied countries
were' ready to concede that
ler,'S "big push" for 1942 hed at
then late . Spring.. Both on laid •
• and at sea if constithted BMW's
attempt to solve the piOblem that
baffled Napoleona-the defeat ot
While the battle aloag the Don ,
• was being fought, on a limited
..fsent compared. to the great battles
, ei last Summer and Pall, . there
'as were last year's battle, If it
were not checktal. aad 11 it turned,
southward iowat•d the Caucasus,
as a. e -eater espi
,gravity of! the Japanese menace,
.it was' believed; the Aillies ,could.
. net • -y-et --spare .-' forces -from • the .
many ',other global theatres foraa
Gr.ieisenau- Pol;r.Be •
Out :uration
The 26,000 -ton German hatfle-
ship Gneisenau, which slipped
through'the 'English Channel froni '•
British aerial attack,: is anchored ,
In the foresee Polish' port of Gdy-
nia with het three 11 -inch „gun
turrets dioinantled, .British. aerial .
photographs shovied recently. •
castle de& Mao has been remoyed
and the British expressed the be-
. lief she had sufferedasueh serious
sage that. she "may _be, out' for
ti e duration." The Air Mihistry
• make the necessary large-scale re-
• . The Gneisenau was bombed. re-,
peatedly while she was tied up at •
•Brest from March, 1941, the
day she slipped out.of the Preneh •
•• port with •other Units of the Ger, .
man .fleet and' successfUlly eluded•
the British. "The- Air Ministry said
the ship suffered further damage
on the flight from Brest. • •
The •ministry sta•tement• added'
that thF Gneisenau, fired taken to
Kiel, probably was hit again dur-
ing a. British raid ota.Kiel Fehrta
The pliotegraphs, made in day-
•. also shoaed tat. ,German depet
Ship Mente or a liner of the •
• same class borne,: out and moored
near the hattlesitip.
V/I-IERE ;ARE YOUR MANNERS ?
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT VJNEN YOU
YAWN YOu'RE supPoseb To
YOUR MOLM-I?
•
By GENE I3YRNES
I. DID TI-1.AT oNCE
AN' 401 IBOV,
meagre
atssiew
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