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weckage the seven occupants were un
scrambled without a scratch.
Demands Compulsory Service
Dr. Herbert A. Bruce, M.P., Tor
onto, in the Commons at Ottawa
pleaded for a change in policy and the
institution of compulsory service.
Vote To Amend .Neutrality Act
Washington, — The Senate voted
60 to 37 to amend the .Neutrality Act
So that United States 'ships may
mount guns for their protection and
sail through any seas and to any ports
including combat zones and the har
bors of belligerent nations. The meas
ure now goes back to the House of
Representatives for action upon high
ly important and controversial Senate
amendments.
Russia Gets $1,000,000,000 Credit
Washington, — President Roose
velt threw the vast lease-lend coffers
of the United States open to Russia,
granting the Soviets a $1,000,000,000
credit without, interest, to buy weap
ons to battle Hitler. The loan was
announced only a few hours after it
became known that Maxim Litvinov,
former Soviet commissar for foreign
affairs, had been nained ambassador
to the United Spates;
Train
Seven
Seven Dorchester young people had
a brush with death but escaped un
scathed when their car was hit by a
L. & P. S. freight train .as they cross
ed the railway siding to reach a park
ing lot near the corner of Bathurst
and Ttalbot streets, London. The car
was demolished. When the train
smashed the car a hurry-up call was
sent out for ambulances but from the
Crashed Auto,
Escape
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voy, Saburo Kurusu, the foreign of
fice organ, Japan Times and Adcvr-
tiser, warned.
Have Passed Through Darkest Hour
Newcastle, England, — Prime Min
ister Churchill, on an inspection tour
of the Tyneside, declared “we have
passed through the darkest and most
perilous side of this struggle and ar.e
once more masters of our'own des
tiny.”
R. A. F. Units In Australia
Canberra, — Great Britain has
sent an undisclosed number of Beau-
fighter squadrons to ■ Australia as a
first line of defence against any at
tempted air-borne invasion of the
Commonwealth, it was announced
officially. Skilled Royal Air Force
pilots have already arrived in Aus
tralia to train Australians to handle
the planes.
Peg Executive Salaries
Ottawa, — A ceiling on all manag
erial and executive salaries in Can
ada, with no cost-of-living bonus add
ed, will be applied shortly, Finance
Minister Ilsley told the House of
Commons. The finance minister also
forecast establishment of import and
export boards in order to prevent rises
in prices outside Canada from upsett
ing the Canadian price stablization
policy.
FOOD CONTROLLER
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Hon. J. G. Taggart, Regina, has
leen appointed food price control-
er for the federal government’1?
trices, control nrocram.
ease the admittedly “very serious sit
uation" in the Pacific, it was announc
ed. Although Kurusu signed the Axis
treaty he is not considered either
strongly pro-Axis or anti-American.
He has held posts in the United
States and married an American
woman.
Nazis Execute 82,000 Poles
London, — Stanislaw Mikolajczyk,
Polish minister for home affairs and.
deputy prime minister, announced
that 82,000 Poles had been executed
and 30,000 had died in prison camps
since ’Germany occupied Poland. He
said also that 1,000,000 of the coun
try’s best workers had been trans
ferred to Germany for enforced labor.
Seen As Showdown With Tokyo
Washington, — A wave of conjec
ture that the United .‘States is ‘Clear
ing the decks’ against :a possible clash
with Japan followed President Roose
velt’s disclosure that he is considering
the withdrawal of the 970 marines
stationed in China.
Gas Rationings Soon
Ottawa, — Gasoline rationing will
be introduced in Canada shortly,
Munitions Minister Howe announced
in the House of Commons. The rations
will be as liberal .as possible and will
be fixed from month^to month in ac
cordance with tthe -supply situation.
Stalin Gives Hitler .A Year
Moscow, — Premier Joseph Stalin,
gave Hitler '“<May.be a year" before
“Hitlerite Germany must burst under
the weight of her own crimes," an
address on tire 24th anniversary of
the Bolshevik revolution. All Russia
was “a single fighting camp” with in
exhaustible .supplies of man power,
Stalin said, adding . that Germany,
counting on the Red army, cracking
after the first blow., “badly miscalcu
lated."
Japan May Hit At Burma Road
Tokyo, Japan’s patience has “reach
ed the point of exhaustion" and her
army may strike next at the Burma
Road to cut off United States sup
plies to China unless Washington
comc-s to terms with her special eri-
Gen. Odium To Australian Post
Ottawa, — Prime Miinister King
announced in the House of Commons
that Maj.-Gen. Victor W. Odium
commander of the 2nd Division over
seas, has been appointed Canadian
high commissioner in Australia. Mr.
King said that in view of the situation
in the Orient the Government had de
cided the best possible appointment
to the Australian post should be made.
Two Canadians Sea Casualties
Washington, — Two Canadian and
17 American. civilians were listed as
the latest casualties in the war at sea.
The men had enlisted in the British
Civilian Technical Corps for various
kins of noncombatant service in Brit
ain. The ship taking them to the other
side is presumed to have been sunk.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
Bad Fire At Camp Borden
Barrie, — Fire raged through part
of Canada’s largest military .hospital
at Camp B'orden 14 miles from here,
destroying a half-dozen buildings be
fore it was brought under control with
the aid of 20-ton tanks used to level
wooden buildings in the path of the
flames. All patients of the 600-bed
hospital at the huge military camp
were- evacuated safely. Damage was
estimated at $75,(M®.
Increase Ship Building
Ottawa, — Munitions Minister
Howe announced :an expansion of
Canada’s war-time shipbuilding pro
gram with negotiations under way for
construction of an additional '55 cor
vettes, :25 minesweepers, 16 ‘trawlers,
and an additional 150 merchant vessels.
No Limit Of 'Number Of Men
'Ottawa, — (Canada’s army program
for 1942 will be considered by the
war committee of the Cabinet in the
light of a 'preliminary survey of the
country’s 'man power, 'Defence Min
ister Ralston 'told the ’House of Com
mons. Replying direcfly to questions
from Conservatives as ‘to the objective
of Canada’s armed -services the min
ister said no top limit had been set.
His answer was to 'quote Prime Min
ister Mackenzie King’s words at the
lord mayor’s banquet in London,
"Canada is determined to contribute
to the utmost of 'her strength.”
Kurusu On Way To States
Tokyo, —- Saburo Hurusu, the dip
lomat who signed the Axis alliance
for Japan, is flying to the United
States in a new hurry-up effort to
By H. J. Boyle
GOAT TACTICS
Buttinsky, a venerable old goat who
has been the source of • more argu
ments at Lazy Meadows than any
other single thing during the past
three years is about to go. A hired
man who was somewhat addicted to
taking snake-bite oil on every pretense
. . , even when there were no snakes
around, won him playing cards in the
village. My honest opinion is that the
hired man had oiled himself as a pre
caution against the shakes just a trifle
too well . . . with the‘result that the
goat was pawned off on him.
Still suffering from his binge he
went so far as to bring the goat in
the house with him. I awakened early
in the morning to hear a series of
weird noises on the stairs. It seemed
as if the hired man was bringing some
fellow-sufferer up the steps and was
repeatedly telling him in .a buzz-saw
like hoarseness ... to be quiet. My
curiosity grew to the point where I
edged the bedroom .door open just
ever so slightly. It was a .distinct shock
to see two faces .peering up over the
top step.
One of the faces was .that of the
hired man. His hat pushed down over
a distorted face he was laboring with
his task of trying to drag his com
panion up the steps. In .the dim light
I could hardly tell what or who was
with him. And then .the ghostly face
appeared ... a sallow eomplexioned
gentleman with a beard .. . . and won
der of wonders .. .. a set of horns! I
had. heard of men associating with
the devil but I never imagined that
the hired man would go so far as to
bring the devil home with him.I
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He tried to step up on the top step
. . . wavered foi a few minutes and
then both of them went sprawling
down the front steps, The hired man’s
friend had a rather strange voice . . .
more on the* nature of a bleating than
anything. From where I was in the
bedroom he seemed to be hammering
at the front dooi in an effort to get
out, When we got down the hired
man was lying peacefully with his
feet on the stairs and his head on the
floor , . , and his friend proved to be
a goat who sent Mrs. Phil and me
scrambling up the steps out of butting
range.
The hired man asked for his time
next day. Mrs. Phil was very quiet
about the affair. .The goat grazed out
in the orchard. Before leaving, the
hired man asked her if she would
mind if he left the goat at Lazy
Meadows until he got another place
to stay. Her lips pressed tightly into
a thin white line, she said it would
be all right.
Buttinsky stayed on at Lazy Mead
ows, For some time he was very quiet
and other than indulge in a certain
amount of butting practice against
the side of the barn he left us strictly
alone, The hired man through some
oversight didn’t bother coming back
to see us. Buttinsky evidently sensing
.that we had forgotten about the in
cident when he arrived starting warm
ing up. If you turned your back on
him in the barnyard he would step
back a few steps and “Wham."
Needless to say he grew rather un
popular. Suchansuch, our collie pup
worried over the matter for months.
Finally he found a vulnerable spot on
the goat and when Buttinsky found
that there was a chink in his armour
he gave up trying to worry the dog.
Somebody once told us that the
goat looked like a spry old gentleman
with a beard. Dapper dandy that he
is, he has enough animal intelligence
to leave Mrs. Phil alone. Perhaps he
realized that she would exile him at
the first sign of his getting careless
with his butting ability.
Yesterday I was in the horse stable
looking at the sow and litter of pigs
in the end stall. Three planks nailed
across from the stall forms the pen
for the ^>igs. Carelessly I left the
stable door open, forgetting that But
tinsky was in the barnyard.
Wham! I was picked up with the
force of a rocket and thrown clear into
the pen. Disgruntled, the Berkshire
looked up surprised to find me sprawl
ing in with the little pigs. She grunted
and I . . .well, I looked up to see the
whiskers cf that impudent goat drap
ed over the edge of the planks as he
looked over his damage.
Buttinsky is leaving in the morning.
WILL SHOW ONTARIO
GRAIN AT CHICAGO
Ont. Dept. Of Agriculture Offering
Special Prizes To Ont. Winners
At International Show
Ontario grain and seed growers who
in the past have gained an enviable
reputation in the United States by
their winnings at the International
Grain and Flay Show at Chicago, will
again be represented at the big Chi
cago show being held this year from
November 29 to December 6.
To encourage Ontario seed growers
to exhibit at Chicago, the Ontario
Dept, of Agriculture will give an add
ed prize of $15. to each exhibitor
winning a. first prize and $5. each to
exhibitors winning highest awards in
the various classes providing such ex
hibitors did not win a first prize in
the same class.
Growers interested in showing at
Chicago may obtain a list of the class
es and prizes offered by writing John
D. MacLeod, Crops, Seeds and Weeds
Branch, Parliament Buildings, Toron
to. Mr, MacLeod points out that crops
in southern Ontario were harvested
under excellent weather conditions
this year and many growers have grain
and seed from which it should be
possible to produce a prize winning
sample,
OUR FOOD SUPPLY
Written Specially for C.W.N.A. News
papers
By John Atkins, Farmer-Journalist
No. 1—Free Food Period Ends
Every fourth mouthful of food eaten
in Canadian towns and cities has been
donated to those who ate’ it
farmers who grew it, for
twenty years.
Vast quantities of food,
should have gone to feed the people
of Europe, had depressed prices and
enabled urban families to feed them
selves at less than cost. This surplus
fool piled up in Canada and other
food-producing countries because Hit
ler had decided that Europe must quit
peaceful trading and prepare for war.
While urban Canadians were able to
buy their food at less than cost they
were indifferent to what was happen
ing to rural Canadians. Although they
should have realized that their own
by the
almost
which
TELEPHONE TIPS FROM
A FIGHTER PILOT
A fighter pilot must keep 48 basic factors
in mind. These are technical flying mat
ters, apart from battle tactics.
And he must also remember other things
—for instance how to talk on Iris aircraft
telephone; he always "speaks clearly and
concisely.
With telephone lines carrying an extra
heavy load directly concerned with
Canada’s war effort, you can help tele
phone workers maintain good service by
adopting fighter pilot telephone technique.
When your telephone rings, answer
promptly, and don’t waste time by saying
“hello"—instead give your name imme
diately. Speak distinctly, directly into the
mouthpiece, and be sure to replace the
receiver on the book when you have
finished your conversation.
Your co-operation
will help us to
provide fast, ac
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service for a
nation at war.
well-being and security depended upon
a sound Canadian agriculture, they
were quite content to’let the farmers
do all the worrying. Unfair conditions
against which urban people rebel and
strike, made a gigantic sweatshop of
the agriculture,irdustry.
During this prolonged agriculture
depression all Canada suffered, but
urban people suffered much less than
farm people. For the ten years follow
ing 1930 the one-third of Canada’s
people who live on farms received
less than one-tenth of the total income
of all Canadians. Farm people could
not take proper care of themselves nor
of their plant and equipment When
the war broke out farmers as a class
had not the health and strength nor
the capital that they needed to carry
on and produce all the food that we
new require.
Now, the farm problem, our food
supply problem, has caught up with
Canadians and we all must face it.
Our surpluses of food melted away
as more and more food was required
by Great Britain, by our allies, by our
forces, by our own people for harder
work, and by the hungry in other
lands. Our wheat surplus, which seem
ed to be a dead weight on our econ
omy, is now a live source of comfort
when we are being asked to go easy
on the use of pork and cheese and
live
are
are,
our
other foods that Great Britain needs.
All good Canadians will gladly change
their diet for the sake of those who
need these foods. It is a little more
difficult to make ourselves see the
necessity of paying more for our food
to ensure the production of it.
/After years of getting one-quarter
of our food free it is hard to give up
the idea that we can continue to
at the expense of farmers. If we
fair and reasonable, as most of us
we will see that we are insuring
own food supply by giving the food
grower a square deal. If we refuse
to see the wisdom and justice of pay
ing farmers at least the cost of produc
tion, the average farmer will not be
able to grow the food we need.
Canada’s farmers have filled every
British food quota since the war be
gan. They might have produced en
ough to supply fully Canada’s dom
estic needs as well if their advice had
been taken in the first place. But that
is another story. The simple hard fact
that underlies our whole food supply
is that farmers cannot grow food for
less than it costs them to grow It •*
Prices that will enable the average
farm family to carry on, and enough
help to grow the food, are the twin
solutions of our food supply problem,
our farm problem, for the duration of
the war.
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