The Lucknow Sentinel, 1939-10-26, Page 7Resources Of
Canada's Youth
Being Wasted
.Director ofPhysicalPhysical Education
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1939 ;Solders .Are
Getting More Pay
Canadian Priv ate in -Infantry
Is Paid $1.30 a Day 'on Ac-
' .. •ca1Improvement of ., Youth ' THE'WA:R:
. is To Blame WEEK BY WEEK
the ginxt
The achievement of hut little in weekAt, Europbee's big
ninwgarof couldits ssicarh-
improving .the physical .unfitrieps cely be said to,`have gat going yet.,
of 'Canadian youth was blamed by' ' • The , powers in..conflict appeared•
Dr: A..S. Lamb, director of pbysl• tobe hesitating in the midst of
cal education at McGill Oniversity, hostilities _b.efore taki the -final
for the 'great waste in human re- . g
'.rsources, in an address ,at the an plunge,' while. peace talk took' pre
nasi meeting of'the Provincial As cedence everywhere over war talk,
Even after Premiers Daladier of.'
, soeation of Protestant, Teachers at p r Mtge, and Chamberlain of Great
,,Queb.ec,,He• said that the manpovv i ' 1$r main':1tad"come but flatly in re
• . err, oR 'the• Domfnionti was •now being , ,
calor Hitler's r 'osals fen'
a of .II o . f
• --evaluated, • and •• thinking , people p
an 'armistice, the .world centinued,
would be amazed when the results ' to' loon for' fustier. peace offers
• were • made. known:
"The a ath : indifference•• and" .
to Come from some ;quai*tes (from .,
A y+•- "President Roosevelt,: Musaolini.'or.%
r}egleet ot School Boards and other.—
responslble officials rust. be blain -
offers
hick l.min3r, Perhaps)."
offers which both sides .could ac -
,ed for .what.,doubtless will be some •
surprising revelations, he declot The without•tao much loss 'of face.,
ed.."1Jhe inclusion; of health ,and The war was indeed' an unwelcome
baby
physical education as • one of .rhe. on every' doorstep, Hitler or
• cardinal' principles of education, is no .H•itler.
known to all, and the question is The world had titre to ask itself`
not •whether we can: afford an edit- • questions: What •was the war .
cited, healthy, happy population, ..,about? Would it'come toan end
but whether we can afford to have: with the •fall •of Hitler's .regime
• an uneducated, unhealthy and un-,. What sort -of government' could ..
happy population•," ' . follow Hitler's, with Germany in •
its .present state of semi coalapse? :
H h Al
Remembrance
s Rites Planned
Canada -To Mo irn,Dead.of The..
Previous War on November 11
•
• ;In the midst of war ' efforts,
Canada will. pause again November,
11 to pay tribute to the memory
of i-hosemoo dies-•ia-t Ie •fit-av
Remernbr•ancg Day, for "many
years observed as Armistice • Day
after the''end of 'the last, war r',lo-
vember 11;:1918, isincluded t" the,
list of statutory holidays, though
not observed by the .general cloy-,
ing down of .bu'siness and industry
1 a' a ' is the. case
'for •the whole d s
to w
y
with 'other statutory • holidays.
Solemn Note Willi .Predominate
Across Canada . this year people
will pause' for a miriute'•s' silence at
11 a,nr, A n:ore'solemn. note than
ever will predominate as ,pebple
will , remember that at .stake ,again
is• the thing. for 'which clied those.
they honor.•
ow • were t • e ' lies to restore
Poland •in toto without going to.'
war, again t Russia too? Where
did Italy fio. this jig -saw . puz-
zle? ,:Had •the ; Rome -Berlin Axis
been split in two by.the signing of
• the Nazi -Soviet pact? What would
happen .to. Norway arid Sweden if
Russia gained control of: the Gulf
of'Finland ? With Hitler defeat-
ea
efeat ea in; the east alread.y,'what could'
he do in the west?
Almost Quiet ,Ori Western ,'Front
• On the Western Front the• var.
'hung, fire. Some 'activity was 'seen '
in the northeastern sector from
thevMeselle• to•,the •Rhine, and in
the Saar' area and 30,0.00' British
troops :moved into' action. • .But no
major push came`. As one wit
marked "Soldiers' Soldiers• said •they kne s?
'it was 'a,war• because, the cooties
were biting:" . But i"a; it the calm
before the storm?. !.r ' ne train--
,: loads of heavy jrtillery :roving up .
behind the' Siegfried" Sie fri • • L e a
in o mean.
.
`that Hitler was shortly to launch
Ia "Blitzkrieg" should his •"peace
bfl'ensive" •fail?, Were the Allies
waiting for c31der weather • •to
come? A. whole winter on the
'Canadian is Seen . . e d'nomic front . might . see Ger-
many . crack at :home • un•der. • the' •
strain:
But war or no war, towards the
end of the week things' began td
happen on ,the ;sea and in the air.
The Allies sank several • German
submarines, which cost millions of
dollars apiece. Germany launched
new submarine attacks on Allied
and neutral shipping and air at-
tacks on. naval bases. Biggest,
news' stories of the week featured
the sinking of the British . battle-
ship Royal Oak with a loss'of 370
lives.; and the air battle over Scot-
land . in which. German planes
were driven off three times. Ger-
man propaganda reports of Allied
battleships sunk or crippled in
many seas • were far from reality
but ;continued to alarm the popu-
lace. '
A Terrible Price
'Events -Moved ' swiftest, by para-
dox, in, the east, where the tear,
Wasn't"'Confe'r°enees between"neu="`
tral nations assumed a significance
great enough to draw the eyes .of
the world away from the activities
of the warring powers—to watch
Russia . and Finland, • Russia •and,
In Prison Movie
Penetang ' i.'outh' is Identified in ,
'Film of German Prison
Camp
Two British airmen—one ,a Can-
adian—who were reported by the
•.Air Ministry as "missing, believed
to lie prisoners of War," have been
recognized in a news -reel taken in
a German interment .camp.
They are Pilot Officer 'Alfred
Burke Thompson ' of Penetauguish
eiie, Ont., and'Squadron: Leader• S.
S. Murray. •
The manager pi ''a cinema at
York; 'England, aid a non -commis
sioned . officer `belonging 'to the.
same 'squadron as Thompson and
Murray , thought • he • recognized
them on the screen. .With Mur -
ray's wife and Thempson's fiancee
he vistied the cinematwice again.,
The` three: then's"aid they "'were •ter='
fain about the '.identity of their
men.
Identified Beyond Doubt
The theatre manager . cut the•
'picture, from the' newsreel' an for-
warded an enlargement. to the
squadron. I ater the wing - com-
mander•ot the squadron Wrote the
manager: "This has settled the
matter beyond all 'dispute. Your
action in supplying irrefutable 'evi-
dence' is much appreciated by my-
self and officers of the squadron."
In Camp Near Hamburg
The ' newsreel (Paramount)
.shows the airrnen looking fairly
cheerful In the company of Nazi,
air ' tree •officers: The curly-haired
:Thompson at the microphone de•
scribes bold well they were being
treated., The' picture I . said to have
been taken at an interment camp
near. Hamburg.
Petty -Nagging
Is Responsible
For Many Scenes of Domestic
Discord -- May Lead to Di-•
• vorce
Petty nagging, arising largely
out of money .troubles, has t ecome
-peril ps principal'=• :ase•' a-•
niestic discord, say Dr. Clinton C.
Cox, a• Presbyterian minister . in
Chicago.'
He obtained confidential reports
from several hundred couples 'in
his search for what's behind fam-
ily fracases and divorce:'•
Mother-in-law? . Ile said she
runs a poor second these days as
a cause of maritta explosions.,
Turkey,Russia and the Balkan
states' engage in diplomatic .con-;
testa the outcome of which - will
affect Europe .far• into the future.
People began to understand the
terrific price Hitler, was having to
pay for promised ' 'economic aid
from• the U.S.S.R.
Passenger Agent
Transferred To Toronto,
If
I3ritish Air Mission Is Here to Qrganize "Finishing School" For empire Pilots
The increased ;.kill demanded -:of
the modern soldier as well as the.
higher cost u•f living 'eflmpared•to
1914 have resulted in, the Canadian
Government being far more gener-
ous to 'the- •men of the • Canadian,
Active Service Force in the matter.•
.of pay than to the old Canadian •'
Expeditionary Force.
Whereas as infantry private re-
ceived a..d'ollar a: day in '1914 plus •
ten cents "field allowance,"' `b,oday'
he receives '$1.30. per day, all in-
crease .of nearly. 20 percent: Of-•:
' fleet ranks' also Will be `eensider
ably• better in this -mar .•• than' the`
last, as the . following.. conaparraon
reveals:
'• : Comparison With 1914 '
, ' (In•cludes field- aliowanoes):
• 1914:, ` :1939
Colonel,
Lt. -Colonel • • 4.25 10.00'
Major
Captain
Lieutenant
5.00 ' ' 7.75.
3.75 .. 6.ta0
2.60 5.00
2nd' Lieutenant ...:. 4.25
The following are the compari-
sons for• warrants officer, non-com-
missioned'officer and private ranks
1914 1939
Warrant Off (R.S.M.'s) :$2.30 $4,20
(All other class 1 W.O.'s :
Quartermaster Sergeants
R.Q.M.S S.Q.M,S: inc) 2.00 3:10
Company'. S.M. 1.80 : 3.00
(W. O,'s 'class 3:) • 2.75
Coy. Q.M. ' Sergts. ' 1.70 2.50
,Sergeants,., .. . 1.50'. 2,20
.Corporals • 1.20 1.70'
Lance Corporals • 1.15 •'1.50 .
Privatesk:.tr'Oopers, etc' 140 1.30
• The quantity of leather foot-
wear : manufactured in. Canada for
the six-month'peri•o iiia—ft une •'
30, .1939, totalled 11,249.,771, pairs,
compared with . 10;9.46,853pairs:.
for the corresponding .period in•
1938. • •
ICE
of the
PRESS
BAD COMBINATION ,
• • Night driving • is. a hazard when.,
highwaA arenot lit: and drivers
are. -Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph"
TIME ON THEIR HANDS
With ne'biittons to shine and no
puttees to roll, the soldier lads
will have more time to play crown `
and anchor.—Kitchener Record.
PROPHESIES HIS OWN LTOOM
"Thus the fact of the conclusion
of a treatyr •with Russia embodies '
the• declaration . of the next war.
Its outcome would be the end of
Germany." (Mein Kampf, by .Ad-
olf Hitler, page 959, •Reynal &
Hitchcock 'edition).
'WHY BARNS RED?
Perhaps barns are usually paint
ed''red because of some econontic
or scientific reason and research
might establish the'fact that after
all red isn't merely a °man',s choice
of colors: If. science and paint
manufacturers could; only give us
a choice of Colors, tlurrb3•e•i.der•- •
outdoor conditions, their. 'names
' would' be praised.--laar'mer's Ad-
.voeate. '
WE'LL HAV1g TO. FADE OUR
OWN YOUTH' ;
• Whatever you and we may think
about ,Hitler and- Hitlerism, • we
must recognize that the ' man is
the idol of millions of young Ger-
mans, 'the institution is the shrine
et Which they worship, and ,they.
will 'not be easily disillusioned.
Therefore,democracy's task on
the home front during the war
years is to prepare a house in ,
order( one they ri11 instantly re-
cognize as something' infinitely ,bet; •
ter than the democracy their Hit -
,ler' strove to overthrow., Indeed,,
we shall have to prepare to face'
our own youth. •If the only de-
mocracy We are able to show them
after the war is the sar pre-,
war model with all its ty and
unemployment and insy, t
generation will have some righ o
ask what we. went to war 'for?*
Calgary Albertan."
•,
• Tri-i•seVe Canada is now.'tie"Air, qaral of the tte' obey 'prck
iietestifies. • :Grouped
arRun
Lar 'Riverdale 'are ..members of -the Air Missio,p,,here to organize a"finishing
school for; Air Force
pilots... from Australia, New Zealand •wand, 'Of course,'; C anada, Pilots from Britain: •Iaerself May be sent .here
• too far 'finishing," Lord Riverdale • indicated. • Left : to right'xin: the . •ou. takenat ' uebec just:'before: the
Ba ., p Q
miss"Lon members boarded their' "s cola,` car �or'0'ta'wa are:Group.
DI,. f � 1? ,f t :Captairj L,::. $ollinghur�st;'.O:B.:E.,
.C.;,F: R. Howard, Group 'Captain J. N. Robb,, D.S;•0., .D F.0:, Air Marshal Sir' C..;'L.. Courtney,
C.B.E., D.S.0.;"Lord Riverdale, beside.whom is.Group Captain A. E. 'Godfrey, ,of the Royal' Canadian Air Force
who returned to Canada with the mission, Miss M. A. Wright and Miss V. M.: Bennett, shorthand. secretaries,
J. R. Smyth, A: D. 'Hayward and Group Captain A, Gray, M.C. ' Other members, of the mission, who have not
yet' arrived in Canada are Air Chief Marshall Sir Robert Brooke -Popham, G:C.V.O., K.0:B., -C..M,G•., D.S.O:,
A.F,C.,F. T. Searle and Captain Paul Balfour.
s
Canada Made
Air' . Centre
For Empire
Advanced Air Training Will Be
' Centralized Here. -- Aircraft
Industry' Mobilized for The
War
Aircraft manufacturing and air
training 'schools in Canada will
be called upon to ,play a larger -
part in the Empire's° war 'effort
rn light of the announcement .and
in London that ..dvanced ;air train-
ing will. be. centralized 'in Canada
and steps will be taken to -speed
production..
Canadian 'raining Efficient
: The anno.unceinent that Empire
fliers . from the United-Ii:.ingdom, •
Australia and .New Zealandwill
be given advanced training in (..an
ada is interpreted in aviation cir-
clesas a.•tribute to the efficiency
of. the Canadian training. •"
• The statement issued by Prime
Minister !1aekenzie ,King indicates,
• the coinpletin
n
of long -considered
plans for mobilizing 'the Canadian
aircraft industry and air 'training
facilities far the :service o:-, the
Empire, in the war:
Greatly Advanced
In connection with training,
Canada is one of the most advanc-
ed countries in the'world in so far;
as -civil 'aviation is concerned and:
the facilities for training civilian
pilots may. be ,utilized in'thhe war
•scheme. • • •
Already the' Royal Canadian Air
Force is using 22 Canadian flying
Clubs , to provide ,the preliminary
training for its -fliers. ' 2'iie inter-
mediate training is given at Camp.
Borden ' and ` the . advanced 'train-
ing at, Trenton. ,
• Kilt Attracts
Greeks, Irish.
n
Russ' n Jew and Man of Ger-
man Descent Also Join ' Sea-.
forth• in Vancouver
'From Vancouver comes the
news that. Yampolsky,. Quovadis,
-Costello and an•d Zorn are. all ' good;'
Scots in the Seaforth Highlanders
now.
Maxie Yampolsky, Jewish re-
crult, whose- parents came froni
Russia; said he joined up because.
the kilted regilment "is the smart-
est outfit in. town." George Quoya-
dis, of Greek descent, grinned: "I
don't know, I guess I' liked the uni_
form." •
There are two Costellos in the
Seaforths, unrelated but both with
some Spanish blood. ' 'W. E. Cos-
tello said:, "The regiment's got the
best record of any •in . Canada,"
and A. P. Costello explained: "The
gang's all here."
InaArnold Ellner Zorn the Sea-
forths claim the only man listed
under "Z" in Vancouver units. '
Zorn, of, German stock, said he
joined on account of his friends.
All were born in British Colltnl-
bis: '
The .six' commonest surnames
in England and Wales are. Smith,
Jones, Williams, Taylor, Davis,
and• Brown.
N TARIO
UTDOORS
By VIC 'BAKER
NEW SKEET TITt.E• ,
Canada's thousands if•.skeet
shooters have a new- mark, to aim
at now that a new Canadian ama-
teur long run skeet ' redord 'has
just been established by :Ar't'hur
C.'• Donner, 'one of';the best known.
shotgun shooters in the Dominion. •
Breaking.'a "string of 219 'con-
rsecutive regulation_clayAligeon
skeet targets, the Montreal' . Skeet
Club marksman Set a new mark
recently which shattersthe former
Dominion retort' of 1171• set in
1937 by Robert. E. Branch of the
St. Catharines Trap and Gun Club
Of, Ontario, it was announcedre-
centiy'from the head-enarters of
the Dominion Marksmen organize-
tionin Montreal. •
Donner, who .set the new record
on •, the {layout of the Montreal
, .Skeet Club,was also a member of
he.fiv -
t e mantteam from Montreal's
Grand Trunk' Riverside Gun Club,
which'captured the Dominion trap •
team, title- it the 'recent national
•skeet. and, `trap shooting champion,
ships.• • • , •
Aerial' Shooting Expert
•• Known 1)51shooters in. almost all
: • of. 'Canada's: shotgun clubs, .Don-
• ner's brilliant marksmanship it by
no. means : confined to shattering
the swift -flying clay -pigeons.' For
many years h, has been known as ,
one of the country's leading aerial
`shooting experts: ' Sportsmer, all'
over Canada have, at one 'ti'tne or
another, been thrilled by this snip-
er's exhibitions which include such
tricks as hitting a pea: in mid-air,
putting . five • shots„into a falling
block of ,wood with a 30/30 . -leer”
action rifle, and smashi.rig up to
five clay;pigeons..tossed into the
air.
Mr. Donner's pupil is 'his wife.
Mrs. "•Art" Donner- -is-Classed--,as
one of the Dominion's'. best women
skeet shots and under her hus-
•:band's guidance•has become a suf-
ficiently expert shot to think 'no-
-thing of tossing golf balls'int`d the
air and hitting then with clock,
..Wer r-reguina t ' with -her.. h:wbby?'s.
• .30/30. rifle.
'Camouflage For
Storing PIaces
• .In , small houses the tops , .of"
wardrobes often have to be util-
ised 'as storing places for suit-
cases, .dress -boxes or other pack-•
ages . These cases may be made '
less noticeable if a cotton or linen
cover ofa shade, matching that of
the wall behind is laid over them
and neatlytucked in all round. An
'old window -blind of. unbleached
•linen may -be used if tilewall is
papered• or distempered, in cream
or an old casement curtain may be
,tinted to • whatever shade is re-
quired. A cover of this kind not
only camouflages the stored pack
ages but also ,keeps them free
from 'dus't. •
•Only women , are allowed to do
business in a bankrecently open-
ed in Amsterdam, where rill the
employees are women.
REG'LAR FELLERS -Standard Equipment
• n
Explain Need
For Relaxation'
During Wartime
Psychologists, Doctors and:
Clergymen Agree 'that En-..
• tertainment, Sports, Other
Amusements Should' Not Be
Curtailed -
Toronto . psychologists, clergy-
men: and physicians have agreed
that, ,even though, Canada be at
•
war, -there should be no suggestion
of.curtailing entertainmen't,•,sports
or, other forms of amusement e.ith=
-ei• among the troops. or the civilian
populatioiy:. : .
• Dr.' Thomas • 'C. Routley, • s.ecre•t-'
ary otth.e Cariadie.•^ Medical Assts..
elation, added' uriofficiai medi'ca1
..approval of the sugge•stiou,
:"I belie" -e medical; opinion*' would
support the principle of sane liv-
'he said. "Sane. llving.contem-. •
plates norinalliving .and which liv-
• ing requires.' •certain amount, of
diversion ,to take our minds. off' `.
, 'problems 'and allow 'us .to relax:".
Take Miinds Off '.roblems
' ''•1n the present situation. I'would
say by all means.' maintain' our re.
creation ,program,", :said Dr.,. J. D.
Ketc(rum, • professor ..of psychology •
at the •University of Toronto. "And
there are times when it• might not
be advisable, but• this 'is' not
Rev. Gordon A. Risco,, general se
cretary of, the ,United. Church of
Canada, • Said: .'"At this-.: •time of
stru°•gle, and. taking tbe whole Ca-
nadian situation into ,account, .1
believe... that itormal •activities
should be carried'on as Far as pos
sible; War is' 'sq. abnormal• that if
the mind is allowed• to centre.on it
exclusively, an unhealthy condition
may easily arise.." • . •, '
HistorianVY.I
Accompany
Troops
F`:F�ws•
x '.r•M t'.'..i`-•`r•MM,m•,... „F'.+`i,-P•:.+n.rr.:« r,.- "-•"R.m.
/On To Keep'Records •
An official historian will go over-
seas' with
ver-seas•'with Canada's first division
.. se that, -from the start, records,
will be availabi from .which, later,
vn. • authentic story gf -the Delphi -
ion's overseas participation in''the•
' war can be.written.
Alf Movements ' Recorded
This step is necessary to,.avoid
• the difficulties, -encountered . many,
••years;'after, when 'the Cxoyeramca;t
decided to have•„an,' official• history. •
prepared of Canada's' *dr effort in '•
•
,the,' great war,,In'.`the` absence ' of
official records ..by any appointed -
Canadian historian;the historical..
section of, thea 'National, :Defence
D Pa
-e rt 1 ent 'under•''tol. u. F. A.' D
guid-as `direetor, experienced great
difficulty in preparing the history.
Thus far only one -volume, with an
appendix volume, has been eori-
• pleted ,for pwblication „oil the last •
. Hisltorically, things are to be a
lot different, in this war since, from
the beginning, an',;gfficial record
•'will be kept of the movements, ac•
tivities, engagements, etc., .of all
Canada's :overseas, forces.
•
Claiming to be• the oldest' man •
alive, Greek peasant Rigas Drosos
•_fold I'paurir.allsts:In his native vii• „
lege of Katzikart that. 'he was ' 121
years old.. He admitted • he •yeas
"not so alert", now as 'he was six
months ' ago,' when he was still
'able to. walk the • GO -mile stretch
to the .town Of', Drama. He mar-
rie.d his 20 -year-old third „wife
• when he was •80. His.:youngest.
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ehait3•-1b 'a ale
75. •• 4.'
Yes, Sir .
BEE HIVE Syrup
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is „my
morning
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sweetener
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VII-IAT'S THE MATTER��
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if CHUCKED BACK TODAY �
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By. GENE BYRNES
NAH r'M PERTIKILER, j`'
t -M ONE'' TiSYiNS FOi
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ONE MY 4FoAN:PA HAS
ON THE WALL OVER
HIS DESK.,
Harold C: James, assistant general
passenger agent, Canadian Paci-
fic Railway, Montreal, w ''o has:
been appointed' to succeed the late
Mr. C. B. Andrews as assistant.
neralr'Pass.�Wem�y�e�+,rr agent at •=Tota•
`
pany at ;Saint John, N.B., hi 19!4,
acid is one of the most popular 'of-
ficial of the railway,
Britain are '.estimated .to pay one-
fifth, or one-sixth oftheir incomes
in rent. -
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