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-*' VOICE OF THE PRESS BOOST FOR MOTHER-IN-LAW Who tia into the breah and Wings ortlw oat of chaos when UM wife i lick, the maid ha left, MM hualmuu has extra work to do t the office; little Mary hat th nilflM and Johnny mashed bis to*, ther* ia nothing fit to eat in the> house and three day*' diahee tacked in the link? Who can al- way dig down in her pocket and find a litUe money to help out with the bill* when times are hard! Who t*achs the children Bible toriea and instills in their Infant mind* about all the intro- duction they ever get in old-fash- ioned moralities? Isn't it th Both w-in- law? You said it. Leamington Post and News WASHING FOR JAPS Chinese laundry staffs have had to) b4 increased in Northern On- tario in the district where Japan- *M laborers, moved from the Pacific Coast, have been estab- Ifahed. If itching powder shows p in some of the shirts, the cus- tomers, won't have to look far for eaus. Windsor Star PRINTER'S ERROR According to the old gag, if a doctor makes a mistake, he buries H| If a lawyer makes one he col- lects more fees for the appeal; If a judge makes one it eventu- ally becomes a precedent; If a eUigjutan makes on he doesn't find out until he'a in the next world. But let a printer make ye goda! Owen Sound Sun-times EXTENDING LIVES A. 40-mile-an-hour speed limit Ibroughout all provinces of Can- ada will not only extend the life f rubber tires but will extend the Mf* of many a motorist. Almonte Gazette JAP PIC-NIC When it isn't raining in New Guinea, they say the country is ally* with ants. Our thoughts * with the Jap in any picnic ht IM arranged. Stratford Beacon-Herald PERFECT ALIBI Wfeen h read an article advis- kg people to study astronomy, kit wife said it waa just another MUM for staying out nights. St. Thomas Timei-Journal o HITLER QUIZ "What should b* done with sUUarT" asks a Toronto paper. What's the use of starting a quiz Us.* that, when you can't print all the answers? Ottawa Citizen THEY DON'T KNOW Who toid the Income tax de- eper* children over 21 were not dependents? Brandon Sun GLB. Uses Concrete In War Purposes Twenty thousand silos for cat- Ue fodder la the latest contrlbu- ttasi vt Britain's concrete makers to ibe war ettort Thy are now at work upon till* colossal contract. farmers all over Britain have already put up silo*; manufac- turer* of preeerves are following Nit with silo* to stor* their waste naterlata aod turn them into feed- tag tuff.- to relieve the strain on ehupire's shipping. Today more concrete Is being on Britain's farms than ever Buildings in It, from barns to poultry houses, are being run 9, and K Is being used for water tank*, fence-posts, flooring, cattle trough*, guards ami stalls, as well a* aatbeitos cement for roofing I, rabbit hutches and even s. The concrete Industry Is helping the war effort with aerodrome runway*, some of which ae*d 10,000 square yard* of ma- terial at a time, and thousands of oooreU huts are being set up for Ike Mrvlce departments and for C housing of war workers and li.U, . All . . i Mmetiomtl repair work oa railway and water tunnels is ri*d out In concrete, some- with complete pre-cast arches. Cellam of ilumaKed houiies kav* been concreted and made. into water storage lanks. Concrete railway ileepei-s and pit props for oal mined are replacing Imported timber llnllow concrete blocks are being used not only for building bat for air raid protection. The upper works of slilps have also been given concrete protec- tion and following upon the con- struction of 100 concrete barges by the A linn ally, the first ocean going lim i of 2,000 tons dc. ill- weight lias lit-i'ii -S.KI . .- luih launched. Machine gun pouts, air raid belters, oil stoniM) lanks, (It-fence barrlfin, III Ki'apli poles, groynes, buyos and Hinkoig for mooringH and eve 11 uinhors aru all being of loncrt'ta fur the war. A PRINCESS SIGNS UP Borrowing a fountain pen from a bystander, Princess Elizabeth, above, heir presumptive to the British throne, registers for war work IB the National Training Service Program in London just like any other 16-year-old girl. NDIVIDUAL Itizeits MAURICE A /.RAVIN JH A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army "Lead-swinger", as any old sol- dier knows, means a man who feigns illness to get out of doing hU regular duties. He is looked upon, at first sight, as a smart guy who has "put one over" the Medical Officer. But, as the fair sex points out when referring to the order in which man and woman were cre- ated, second thoughts are best, and it is not very long before the "lead-wingers" fellow soldiers an full of scorn and contempt for him. They realize that in addi- tion to putting one over the Medi- eal Officer he i* putting one over them for someone has to do the duty he shirks. The worst lead-swinger in the Individual Citizen's Army which is all of us today is the man or woman who uses gasoline unnee- sssarily. This morning as I came down t* work I looked, idly at first, and then with mounting indigna- tion, at the stream of cars pas- sing along with only one person in each. I have no doubt that you have felt the same way many a time. Do you think the same way about it when you have an errand to do? Or do you just hop into the car and drive off? Some little time ago one of these columns was devoted to the jaunty soldiers of the Armored Corps. They and the the airmen who bomb Germany and the Phil- ippines; they and the men who man our submarines and motor torpedo boats are the men w*> should save our gasoline for. There is nothing very jaunty looking about a aoldier who haa been taken prisoner or killed. I know so do many of you I have seen them. And men are going to be taken prisoner and killed if their mobile forts whether they be tanks, armored cars, uni- versal carriers, bombers or sub- marines become immobilized for lack of gasoline. A horrible thought? Sure it is. Hut that is how close the war i* to us. One extra joy-rid* LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher 'We don't like our new neighbor*, they're too quiet. . . . Mom u keep still all the time to h can hear what they're eajrin' 1 '' r ne trip by ear that av keen carried out afoot may an the hair's breadth that sep- aratee life and death for the mtm 1st uniform. So, walking to work, even walk- lag to the movies, can be a form f war work, a form of soldiering ! the Individual Citizen's Army. And obaerving food and price regulation is another way of serv- faf. At Basic and Advanced Train- ing Centres, in eatnp and on act- ive service soldiers and sailers put in long hours at strenuouh work. Their training simulates actual fighting and actual fighting burns up energy. To replace that energy food, hearty meals must be supplied. That's where the careful observer of the food regulations comes in. Every time the householder pri- vates use a little less than their sugar ration or bake a oake with a substitute for LUgar, they are releasing that much energy for Canada's "Men at Arms". And the housewife Lance Corp- oral or U she at least a Major in your house? who puts to- gether a tasty mess of shank-bone onions, carrots, a little not too much, please turnip and a sage leaf or two instead of calling up the grocer for a can or two of thi* or that enrols herself in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps by leaving just a little more metal available for arms, ammunition or even tanks. Here's a list of kitchen ammu- nition. One cup of refined white sugar can be replaced by: maple sugar, one cup; maple syrup, one oup; honey, one cup; cane syrup, 1 Vi cups; corn syrup, two cups. That's what the Individual Cit- isena' Army fights for. U.S. Producing Two Ships Daily United States production of merchant shipping will reach a record total of more than 600,000 tons a month this summer, ac- cording to Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, who reveals in The American Magazine that the total for 1942 will reach the unprece- dented figure of 8,000,000 tons. HU plans call for 10,000,000 tons of merchant shipping in 1943, "as a starter on a total program al- ready set at more than 80,000,- 000 tons." "It is hard for the public to grasp the magnitude of these fig- ure*," Admiral Land points out. "Consider just the 8,000,000 tona we are building in 1942. That would amount to eight hundred big ships of 10,000 tons each. It to more steel ships of a similar lie than all the shipyards of the world ever built in one year be- f ore. It Is several times at many ahipa as Germany, Japan and Italy together can turn out this year. "Our active shipbuilding ca- pacity is equal to all the rest of the world combined." Malta Holds Out After 2,000 Raids M.I 1 1 a last Tuesday suffered what was called In dispatches its heaviest air raid of the war. It wa* also Malta's 2,000th air raid since Italy entered the war June 11, 1940. That Is an average of three raids a day. Malta's 2,000th raid attracted about as much attention as t'he rest of the 1,999 a couple of par- agraphs tucked away at the end ot something else. A year ago publishers were turning out books on the bombing of London at such a rate that it seemed Improbable that the experiences of any resi- dent ot that metropolis would es- cape recording In library format, but there is probably not an entry on the Bombing of Malta In any card catalogue, et, the story must be a good one. And Malta holds out. The con- stant pounding the island has re- ceived IMS greatly reduced its value as a Mediterranean naval base, yet it still guards the ap- proaches to Libya. Malta has hail a long experience with sieges. The Knights of Malta beat 'off the Turks In 1565 and NapoU-un didn't fare well there. And the fortifi- cations of 2,000 years seem capable of withstanding 2,000 raids from SUCQ modern gadgets as airplanes. THE WAR WEEK Commentary on Current Events British Bombers Force Hitler To Strengthen Western Front A year ago in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler said: "Again and again I uttered warnings against aerial warfare and I did so for over three and a half months. ... So now Church- Ill has got his air war. . . . We are determined to continue to re- taliate a hundred bombs for every one of his and to go on doing so until the British nation at least gets rid of this criminal and his methods." On April 26 of this year in another speech to the Reichstag he said: "Churchill began this air war in May, 1940. I warned him for four months and waited. . . . My waiting is not weakness. . . . I shall from now on retaliate, blow for blow, until this criminal falls to pieces." Every Hitler speech is recruited from the words of every Hitler speech that went before, says The New York Times. In all but one respect the two passages quoted here are almost identical. Air war . . . Churchill's fault ... My patience . . . Warning of retali- ation . . . Counter attack until "this criminal" is driven out of power. But whereas Hitler is now promising to give "blow for blow" a year ago he was promising "a hundred bombs for every one." The time has arrived when the mounting strength of British and American air power no longer permits him to boast before his own people that Germany rules the air. Coventry In 1940 For an understanding of the damage that British bombers are now inflicting upon German cit- ies, it is helpful to consider the bombing of Coventry in 1940. That assault waa described by the German* as ''the greatest in aer- ial history", and at the time it was feared that such raids might paralyze British industries. Yet the weight of explosives dropped ia the successive raids on Ros- tock is more than four times that which devastated Coventry. The present British air raids against rltal points deep In the Reich are so massive as to constitute some- thing new In warfare. Luebeck and Rottoek Luebeck and Rostock are ports oa the Baltic Sea of vital im- portance to Germany. Through them flow supplies to Hitler's armies in Northern Russia, Fin- land and Norway. Luebeck is a training centre for submarine ereiws, a great /industrial city and a warehouse centre for mili- tary stores. Rostock is a thriving seaort and industrial centre. Important shipyards are there and a large branch of the great Heinkel air- eraft concern, warehouses, rail and dock facilities. In two of the heaviest raids staged on successive nights car- ried out by British bombers, tons of explosives were dropped on air- craft factories, shipyards and the harbor installations of Rostock. In their concentrated force the at- tacks were said to have surpassed the pounding visited a few weeks before on Luebeck, which laid nearly half that city in waste. Wide R.A.F. Auaulte The huge British flying fleets seem able to roam at will, and in daylight, over occupied territory and beyond the former German frontier to bomb the Skoda works at Pilsen and the Diesel engine plants, which supply German sub- marines, at Augsburg. Their losses, relative to the number of planes employed, have been very small. In the seventh straight night of their largest and biggest round- the-rloek offensive of the war, British planes bombed Trend- hiMiii, a formidable naval base in Norway. The Tirpitz, believed to be the most powerful battleship in the world, the heavy cruiser Prinz Kugen, another 10,000-ton cruiser and swarms of destroyers and submarines are lurking in the harbor of Troiulheim. They are in a vital position there to raid the Allied supply line to Russia. Cologne, the third largest city in Germany, and an important railway and industrial centre, again felt the full fury of t Royal Air Force. Many daylight attacks have been made against enemy air- ports and coastwise Channel ship- ping. In one case, recently, a British attacking unit, according to The Associated Press, covered a square mile of sky. It waa aid to have been the largest single unit ever to attack France. BritUh Air Policy The British policy is, according to Sir Archibald Sinclair, Ail- Minister, "to destroy the enemy capacity to make war by Bombinfj his war factories, means or trans- port and military stores w&erever they may be found." An fncrease in the bombing of German, indust- ry, particularly in the shipbuild- ing sections of the northwest, will reduce Nazi capacity for sub- marine construction, thereby tending to ease the severe strain upon Allied mercantile and naval losses. Hitler's threat of a "blow by blow" retribution on British cit- ies for R.A.F. raids on Germany will be difficult of execution without doing exactly what the British air force ia trying to goad him into doing, according to Oli- ver Stewart, London commentator. "They have only a small pro- portion of their bombers in Wesl> ern Europe," he said. "Most of the rest are split between Russia and Malta. "It might be possible for a short time to continue raiding as they have recently raided Bath and York. But these rsids could not be sustained unless they shift large forces from the Russian or Maltese fronts." If the Germans actually do this, it will mean that the Luft- waffe's pressure in these other two combatant zones will be re- lieved. The R.A.F. will have suc- ceeded in its purpose. Second Front The western front, which Hit- ler plainly fears, already exists. It did not exist last year when the Germans invaded Russia. It was impossible then for the Brit- ish to make large scale air at- tacks. Then the United States was not in the war. The Ger- mans know now that hard attacks from the west will continue to be made. Hitler is not withholding men, planes and equipment from the Russian front, where his po- sition is not secure, to meet an empty threat in the west. Increas- ing Commando raids and air as- saults have had their effect. They have immobilized a large part of the German army and air farce on a front that extends from the north of Norway to the Spanish frontier. Hitler is already fight- ing on a second front. Hitler Strengthens Channel Defences The Germans have put thous- ands of laborers to the task of building new gun emplacement! and strengthening already for- midable defences along the French coast as an added precaution against Allied invasion. The laborers were seen plainly through field glasses gome twenty miles across the Channel. Military informants said that Nazi guns massed along the Chan- nel coast have a total firepower equal to that of a fleet of battle- ships and form a concentrated mass of artillery more .powerful than in any sector of the Ger- man front faciiiir the Russians. They said installation of these defences had been ordered by Hitler as a result of British com- mando raids on the coast and operation of light naval forces in adjacent waters. The new works include, in ad- dition to gun ba.ses, a series of new concrete fortifications and tank barriers extending back sev- eral miles from the shores. 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