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' vi « a. WES & | RG Ral ENA SR NE ASU TARE 4 'A New Industry Will Help Canada | Saguenay Red Granite Re- places Foreign Stone and ls Also Being Exported War conditions have brought a new industry to Northern Quebec and Saguenay red granite is now coming on the market as a satls- factory substitute for stone previ ously imported from Russia, Fin- land and Sweden, being shipped across the line to fill orders in the United - States for building. and monument purposes This red gran- ite 1s quarried at Alma Island near Bt. ¢Gedeon, Quebec, situated ap. proximately 276 miles from Mont. real on the Chicoutimi line of the Canadian National Railways, An. American firm has purchased exclusive rights for .the 'sale of Bagvendy red granite in' the Unit- © #1 States, Although the Canadian 'quarry 1s still in development stage the purchasers are satisfied that as the quarrying proceeds the gra- nite will prove equal td the best quality procurablé anywhere In the world, . R A visit to the quarry shows that the area available for this granite j¢ about one mile long by one. halt mile wide. So far it is jm. possible to give the depth of the rock formation, but the site where work 1s In progress has already reached a depth of over twenty. five feet. There is a grain to gran. fté the same as there is to wood and the sides are known as head grain te bottom and top as It, and the ends as rift. This granite 1a shipped on flat cars In blocks welghing from five to fifteen tons, using the Canadian National Rall- ways and the Central Vermont rafl- way lines to the finishing plant at Barre, Vermont. Granite usnally weighs 180 pounds per cubie foot. There is another quarry at St. Gedeon which produces-black pearl granite and is the hest quality to be found anywhere. This quarry has supplied the granite for the fronts of many bulldings In Can- ada. --l ---- : ' on Lt. Gen. B. C. Paget =. who succeeds Gen. Brooke as Commander in Chief of the Home Forces. Silent Rail Car 'Makes Its Debut Sidesway Eliminated As It Takes Curves At High Speed An almost noiseless railway car, whose floor stays level--and con- sequently 1is passengers--even when it takes sharp curves at high ~ speeds, has just made its debut. In appearance conventional, ex- "cept for oblong windows, the coach 1s radically different in its 'method of suspension. Instead of resting on flat springs, as do railroad cars now, this car is hung on its trucks -by four huge coll springs. These springs virtually ellminate sldesway, which only trainmen and + dining walters are able to coun- 'feract gracefully, and absorb much , of jhe vibration picked up from' the roadbed. The suspension, being under instead of over the centre of gravity, is halled by the railroad - officlals as a potent safety factor. The first of these new cars was to be delivered to the Sante Fo Railroad, Hooked on behind .two regular coaches and a fast engine the car was given its final test run at speeds as high as 81 miles an hour. = The coll springs sit in rubber sockets on the trucks. They shake 'Hike jelly, permitting the car to © electrically, ride smoothly even on th@roughest goad "beds. They also help to re- duce the nolse of railroad move: ment, but the entire car has been eoundproofed so that even the moles of passing over cross tracks end switches becomes barely audible, This {8 the tirét rallroad coach to embody the monocoque design principle developed by John K. Northrop, afreraft designer, Com- monly called "stresed- skin con: struction, being made of low-alloy steel, it makes the frame atrong although light In weight. Welded' the exterior of the #teel skin. Js as smooth as a desk VOICE | PRESS COST TREMENDOUS It you have ever stood and 100k- ed at the two big bridges built in recent years at San Francisco, _ and then gone on further south and east to look at: Boudler Dam, you must have been 'struck by the tremendous cost of these struc- tures bullt- for the use of man. The cost was tremendous, too, It totalled $276.000,000, ' But that is $24,000,000 less than Pacific Coast maritime strike in 1936 which resulted in practically putting San Franciscd out: of busl- nes as a shipping port. So when you aré wondering how we -are going to pay for some of the hig projects on this continent, Just remember that if peple will go to work. the cost can soon be "made up. ~--Lethbridge Herald. --V-- i WORLD'S WORST CHEATERS In Canadian sentiment, there 1s no hatred of the Japanese as & nation. There is opprobrium even now, and for a long time past. They are just little gangsters alongside their Hun friends and bullles, As a natlon they are also the greatest cheaters this Earth has ever heen encumbered with, The story must be recalled at this writing, how thev ordered war: shins from a Scottish shipyard of world renown. How they got a first delivery and- then cancelled the order, hecause they thought they had the hluenrints of design. They had blueprints, and when they bullt thelr own ships on what they got, those ships turn. ed turtle. Tt was certainly retrl- bution for the cheaters, the am- ateur imitators, which the Japs are known to be, ' : --St. Catharines Standard. --_y-- Six thousand hairdressers can't he wrong. And 6,000 of them In convention assembled recently In New York passed a decree which meas that mllady will have to see the beauty parlor she patron- izes strewn with long clippings from her cherished tresses, She may have taken months to let "her halr grow to the right length, She may have spent many simoleons to have an expert give her just the right long .halr-do covering her ears. Bit now tlie fnexorable 6,000 have given this form of hair dressing its death warrant. They have heaped scorn upon this style. It is "Hollywood shrub- bery." It is "like wet spaniel ears." It gives a woman a "drippy look." No woman could brave those ep: ithets. 3 : The locks will have to go. --Timmins Dally Press, --V-- CHEERS FOR CUCUJI! M's a nuisance for many of us. Fvery month we get one of those pesky bills for electric current. Al- most makes a fellow want to move down to tho balmy shores of Mexi- co facing the big gulf. For we are roliably - informed that electric light bills are totally unknown down there. All the lucky folks cuji. ; . Never heard-of them? Well, they are a gort of greenish black beetle that produces a phos- phorescent light. Put hall a dozen of them jn a little bamboo. cage and they will give as much light as a 15-watt electric bulb. cuji beetles and go to sleep. --Kitchener Record. --y-- NAPLES' FIFTH COLUMN The great Itallan seaport and commercial city of Naples is Ii danger. The menace is a titth column more damaging than any ~ Italy's ally, Hitler, ever planted. Night after night it "guides Bri. tish bombers to the city. With brazen openness it flaunts a light the questing British- alrmen can- not fail to see. Mussolinl knows afl about fit. Hla firemen are helpless, They . cannot put the light out. His sec- ret police are beaten by it. No handcuffs and shackles were yer made that can curb fit. oll Naples' fifth column happens to be Mt. Vesuvius. --Guelph Mercury, a " A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION No fewer than 23,000 farmer- "éftes and young men put In a total of ten million hours of work in Ontario this year harvesting the crops of farms and orchards, They have made a valuable con. ifort and are deserving of the tri. /butes paid to them. : 3 --y-- A GOOD SIGN | Britain 18 not claiming to have 'won: the' Battle of the Atlantic; but it may be significant that -- United States marine Insurance rates on British and Allled ship- ments have been reduced. ~--=Qwen- Sound Sun-Times, MILADY'S LOCKS MUST GO! - have to do 18 go out in their gar- den and capture a handful of cu-' Ho, hum, let's turn out the cu- tribution to the country's war ef- --Hamilton Spectator. ° ba. the $300.000,000 cost of the 98-day -- -- .averaged Smiles greet the news as these miners learn from thelr newspaper that the United Mine Workers accepted President Roosevelt's plan for arbitration of the closed shop dispute 'and would go back to This scene, repeated all over the east's coalfields; is at U,-S, Coal & Coke work pending settlement. } Co. mine at Gary, W, Va. * MINERS LEARN STRIKE IS OVER OR THEIR SHIRTS Trouser cuffs may. be done away with in Italy as a "waste of good material." Italians will be lucky it they don't lose thelr pants, --Kitchener Record. --_---- . RUMOR EXPLANATION Japanese typewriters liave 3,000 keys, which explains some of the conflicting rumors coming out of the Land of the Rising Sun these days, . Stratford Beacon-Herald. -- AND SO ON This winter folk will plan to save money next Summer -- the same money they planned last summer to save this winter, --Guelph Mercury. Tempo of Business -- Bewildering Speed Canadian production in 1941 may exceed the 'level reached in 1929 by as much as 40 percent, according to: estimates of the Royal Bank of Canada released in the bank's November letter, Although 1940 production also surpassed the 1929 figure, it has_| increased so rapidly this year that it-is expected to advance far be- yond' even the 1940. total, the "bank said. The letter commented that all husiness activity is ex- 'panding With "bewildering speed," and the official index of the physical volume of business dur- ing the first eight. months of 1941 12.6 percent. higher than in the corresponding period of 1940. Canada's manufacturing capa- city is now largely occupied with the production of war materials --with one-half of all manufac- turing workers directly engaged THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Great Britain has launched her . greatest offensive of the war and her tanks are rolling across the deserts of Ttalian Lybia. A second tront--long and impatiently await. ed--has been opened against the Ax|s. This is not a hurrled at- tempt tor assist Russia by estab. lishing a second: front but rather a carefully weighed plan. It was designed (1) to relieve the Ger- man military pressure on Russia by diverting Axls man power and material; (2) to erase the Axis menace to the cotton and wheat _resources of the Nile, to the Suez--- Red Sea waterway on which em- pire communications In the Middle East depend; (3) to provide bases, it it overran Libya, for an intensified attack--perhaps an' ul- timate land invasion -- against Italy, the weak tenant In the Axis house; (4) to demonstrate a strength that might give pause [to the men of Vichy, who were moving toward closer collabora tlon with Adolf Hitler, a collabor- ation that threatened profoundly the arenas of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The shock of battle flared sud- denly and yet It has been known that the British and Axis powers wore girding for a decisive trial in Libya after a military stalemate that has existed for six months. The Libyan battlefield was des- cribed as a vast triangle enclosing more than 2,000 square miles, with its base a 60-mile line south from Bardia, on the Mediteranean GOOD OMEN FOR THE MY ny Great things are in store for men in the Canadian Army in only « few weeks. The women in this cruits in the C.W.A.C, They are dks the e Army Corps cooking course at the picture'are only two of many re- anadian Women's Central Technical School, Toronto. At the conclusion of their course their jobs will be to feed the fighti men, Recruit Rhea Truckel, RIGHT, is ok iving Recruit May Kullic Britain Strikes In South Africa: 'Roosevelt Moves In South America const, to Maddalena and its apex at hesieged Tobrpk, 80 miles west of Bardia, ' A year ago Egypt and the Suez had been In :peril, says the New - York Times. Premler Mussolini's legions motored along the coastal highway built for a thousand miles from Tripoll to the Egyptian bor der. Perhaps a quarter of a million , men" marched toward the land of the Pharaohs. = Ovtnumbered Bri. fish forces retired, stalled the Italian drive In the desert. The Italians, despite their num. erical array and thelr confidence --they, brought marble monuments , along to celebrate anticipated triumphs--showed signs of weak. ness. In December, the Army of the Nile led by General Sir Archi. bald Wavell, probed the Fascist line In a tentative surprise assault, Resistance crumbled, and the British commander, in a sweep ranking as one of the war's most brilliant, raced across Cyrenaica, . Libya's eastern province, to-Ben-- gazl, some 400 miles from the point of attack. All Libya might have fallen, save.for two factors; (1) the Army of the Nile was de- pleted in order to reinforce the Greek Balkan front for an impend- Ing German thrust; (2) the Ital- fans were stiffened by German armored forces hurriedly sent through Italy and across the Med- iterranean to Libya. The Germans under General Erwin Rommel, Panzer expert and veteran desert warrior, took full advantage of the skeletonized British, The Army of the Nile was rolled back from Bengazl to Egypt in shorter time than it had ad- vanced. Only at Tobruk, the bat- tered port 80 miles from Libya's; eastern frontier, did a garrison of empire toops hold on. Like the earlier Italian drive, the German push came to a halt in Western 'Egypt at the end of a precariously long line of communications. Months of Stalemate From late Spring until last week Axis' and empire armies faced each other in a stalemate. Those - months embraced the season .of almost unbearable heat and arid- ity, oft fierce windstorms, -in the sand and limestone wastes of ~ Libya, Military operations on a large scale were risky, Both sides used the period to build up re- serves for a future test. _ The Axls had the advantage of shorter supply lines from their arsenal in Europe, the disadvan. tage of being exposed. to British naval and aerial power In the Mediterranean, The Royal 'Navy and the R.AF. pounded 'at the overseas line from Naples to Tri poll, chief unloading port fn Libya. Hundreds of thousands of tons of Axis shipping sank beneath the inland sea; with the vessels went "men, equipment, foodstuffs, planes, tanke, ofl, Nevertheless, enough Axis shipping. got through to make ft appear that In the race to ' lines were tremendously long, but ° . Hitler." "bow active, partner of Germany. ' blanca and Dakar are taken over . .the Middle East and Indla, from "enables it to carry through to vlc the American troops are to occupy Dutch Guiana, The action Is as great a blow to Hitler in the South Atlantic as the American occu. pation of Iceland was in the North. Atlantic, ; There are Byitish, Dvtch and French Gulana'all side by side on the edge of Brazil and facing Dakar in Africa. The Nazis had' an eye on French Guiana with a view to gaining a foojhold there. But, with the Americans co-operat- | ing with the Dutch to protect Dutch Gulana from 'dggression, "Hitler's plan Is forestalled. ~ There are bauxite mines ia-- Dutch" Guiana, = The mineral is pr needed to assure a supply of alu. into" Pr gminum for war, production in. the United States. Alrplanés eat up tons "of aluminum and the metal is required for other war purposes. It is not only the bauxite that needs the. guardianship of the United States, It is the teritory "{tseM. HM the Nazis had made a thrust across the South Atlantic from Dakary which is the French base on the bulge on the Atlantic coast of Africa, fit. would. have meant a German threat not" only . to Dutch Guiana, but also to Bri. tish and- French Guiana, as well as Brazil And It - would have brought the Nazls within striking distance of the Panama Canal.' Aid To Greece 7d Si Left Libya Weak Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, com- mander-in-chief in India, "has shouldered resnonsibility for the achleve preponderance the Ger- mans 'might win, A The British depended Jn part on supplies from the United States argenal-=particularly tanks and planes--and from India, Thelr sea from the Red Sea ports, where the freighters unloaded, the land lines were comparatively short, well organized and protected, It was believed that last week the British had several hundred thous. and men available--drawn from all corners of the empire--and an alr force exceeding that defending the home isles in 1940's Battle of Britain, gy x Pressure on Vichy o.Vichy 1s "being pressed closer collaboratipn with. Germany. General Wegand, commander -of the Frénch Africa forces, has been retired "at the express.demand of Although disliking the British, Wegand has always hated the Naeis." With him out of the way, Vichy may' be preparing to to .the following German demands: (1) Use of the French fleet, still the strongest' in the Mediterran- ean after Britain's, to convoy Axis supplies to North Africa; (2) use of bases and transit facilities in French Tunisla, Algeria and Mor occo for Axis troops and material; (3) a pledge by Vichy to.pyotect its African Atlantic bases from a possible "attack" by- Britain or . the United States. E s From now on, unless evidence 18 forthcoming to the contrary, France must be looked upon as a potential, If: not yet an open and Her fleet and her great naval and air | British setback last 'spring in bases in Africa may at any moment | Tibva by acknowledging that the 2 Germans counter-attacked at be placed at the disposal of the Nazis. But until Bizerte, Casa- | least'a month earlier than he had expected. . Gen.. Wavell, who was com- mander-in-chief in the Middle Fast at the time of the Libyan cam- paign and has since exchanged positions with Gen, Sir Claude Auchinleck, reviewed the African operations. in a council of state here. - : He said that after an appeal from the Greek government, - i. which was under attack by both Germany and Italy, practically all the trained and equipped troops in the Middle. East were ordered to Greece. Ln "Our 'conquests in Cyrenaica were left to be held by a garri-' ~ gon of partly-trained and nartly- equipped troops," he said. "I - made a miscalculation there. "I did not expect the enemy to counter-attack before the end of April at the earliest --"by, which® * time I had hoped to have back at ~~ "K+ least' part of a seasoned Indian division from Italian West. Africa by the Axis there will remain ground for hope that this second surrendered of France may not prove such a catastrophe. for the democratic cause a3 her first one. That is why the British offensive in Libya is of such great import. | ance, not only to Britaln but to' the United States. : British Morale A quotation from "Mein Kampf," printed on placards in big black letters, appears everywhere in the bomb-shaken dugouts of To- bruk, through the crowded hotel lobbles of Cairo to Baghdad bar- racks and the bazaars of Teheran. The Fuehrer's comment on British morale reads: F "The spirit of the British/hatlon. tory any struggle it .once enters upon no matter how long the strug- gle may last or however great the sacrifice that may be necessary and to have completed the equip- i i or whatever the means which have ment of troops' left in Cyrenalca it cy - to be employed; and all this which consisted 'of a British ar- 3 though the actual equipment at mored brigade,.an Australian di- hand may be utterly' inadequate visien and an Indian motor bri- when compared with that: of any gade. - 3 oo i; "All these were short of equip- ment, transport and training. Un- i pe | fortunately, the enemy attacked at least a month before I had ex- * "pected it to be possible." other nation." President Roosevelt Acts President Roosevelt hag beaten Hitler to the draw again, says the - Windsor Daily Star. .This time ---- LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher ea Tove By CotnolTiated Kens Peateets A ED Neier m resigning," Chief. , , . This suspense waiting for alarms le 5 _ getting me down!!!" "pe, a taste of her product. Both women are from Hamilton, - / MY MOM 15 ON A) "DIET AN SHE LOST TWO POUNS / REG'LAR FELLERS--A Big Loss ee MY AUNT_WAS ON A 1 Epes ; By GENE BYRNES : | ' * MY BIG SISTER WAS ~~ ON A DIET ONCET AN'LOST A HUNERD 'N' EIGHTY - "SHE DID 80,700. SHES] LOST HER BOY FREN' NAMED ELMER!