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POI PORT PERRY, RT PERRY STA ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8th, 1042 i TPA a Amin Aho dondd mabe ag ¥ L] subscription expires ¢ 9 9 " 2» $1.60 per year in advance, .. 5 cents a single copy Nie R | EDITORIAL ghia | Canada, America's Problem "Buch Is the patriots beast, wherv'er wo ream: His first, best country ever Is at } NE) . countless lives. for human development. 'ritorrial or otherwise." "expensive national luxury. the peoples concernéd." growth of humanity, - vice to his fellowmen, © women. Ss 8-8 ss Ch timely-- forts unknown to our forefathers. Such accomplishments do not come from an 'en- "slaved people, whose minds are regimented, Free--. - dom of thought, and unhindered opportunity for "research are essential for human progress. . Conquest can destroy human happiness. It is' ,not needed to-day to promote human progress > __~-c- any line--mauterial, Mental, or spiritual,' . WHAT CONSTITUTRS GREATNESS? / By a curious twist in human nature, we have chronicled great battles, great conquests as the 'notable events of history. True these battles and conquests have altered the lives of millions. But they have caused immense destruction, and cost Infinitely 'greater in the progress of humanity and those events which are constructive; which promote wtld wide freedom and * Such an event had for its highlight the speech _of Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Senate Chamber of the United States at Washington, That speech outlined a*program of aggressive unity of free peoples to retain their twn free- dom, and secure, similar freedom for those con- "quered- peoples, whose happiness has been des- "troyed by German greed and ferocity. : First among the eight points that form to-days Magna Carta for all humanity is-- "Their countries seek no aggrandizement, ter- + There is no need for such seeking, and as Nor- _ man 'Angell pointed out years ago, conquest is an ~~ The second point is like unto it-- ~~ ~~ "They desire to see no territorial changes that .do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of . No other principle can govern a free world. No other principles ean permit the untrammeled Every human being has possibilities of ger- Some of the most un. "likely children have grown to be great men and Their genius has transformed the desert, filled the air with music, brought distant . 'lands to our doors through quick travel, abolish- 'ed dread diseases; and filled our homes ~+ >... CONSTRUCTION THE KEY. WORD. The statement and comment here quoted are ta- ken from Toronto Saturday Night, and are most Mr. Churchill, who since we last went to press ) rr termination in unprecedented measure into the 140 million people of this continent, has perhaps no-- where shown his greatness more clearly than in couraged criticism of the Munich appeasers "be- cause if the present crittcizes the past htere is not much hope for the future", That is one of the great sayings of a great epoch in history, We are all of us in lesser or greater measure respon- sible for the past, and none of us can acquit our- selves of that responsibility by anything short of our. utmost effort to build the best possible future, "Recrimination is suicidal; partisan rancor is trea- sonjinternational jealousy between nations aligned in the common cause is insanity, We must leave - all apeasers, isolationists, unconcious fascists and the like to stand in due time before the judgment - seat of public opinion, opportunity + THE MASTER WEAPON. by Norman Sampson, The fight is fought with the clash of arms. - The speedy tank and the battle plane, The air is fraught with the threat of death, _ Cities are given to smoke and flame. But the war is won and the peace is made, By the men who control the printing press, And the minds that can vision and work and dream. Yes, here is the power the printers share, Here is a craft that frames the earth, Transmuting the dross of a million minds, = For the gold that will fashion a world's rebirth. Slow and painful the upward way, with com- k ~~ #7 © Brought knowledge afid skill to light the way, To new horizons and prospects bright. By the magic power of the Printing Press, Slaves have been freed and men made great, And new discoveries brought to bless, . - The lives of men in their kinder fate, & Proud indeed should the printer be; © Of the task that is his, in his daily round, For tie words he sets can make history, And the threats of tyrants, themselves, confound. y ie The good earth goes its appointed way, With all that has been and is yet-to be, But the Printing Press that we feed each day, Is the "Master Weapon" of victory, -By. the mightiest -weapon-the world has seen, ~~ = Till the printers' craft spread the gift of sight, " - | sends another up from her, western coast, and the two ships meet A Paper Read before Port Perry United Church W. A' SHER hy Mrs, R. A, Peel five years Canadian correspondent to the' New York Times. Canada, for the United States, which America knows less. as a country half British, half American, realis and tHe midnight sun, North West Mounted Police, and the Dionne quintuplets. that its existetice makes a fiction of For all these reasons, thought to the great Dom America's problem, a Canada is the third largest country in the world; only Russia and China are larger. She is more than a quarter of the British Empire. Her boundaries are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the United States and the North Pole. 'that ancient recipe of health--keep warm, =hed : Though larger in area than the U.S: Canada has less than one-tenth the population. © "One of the reasons for this sparse settlement is 'a strictly Canadian phenomenon known as the Laurentian' Shield, a deeply eroded, agriculturally useless plateau that includes' most of northern Canada and interposes a thousand- mile gap between her industrial east and her agricultural west, Canada's hard fate. But in the words of the late Lord Tweeds- muir "what was once regarded as a desert, useless to man, is now seen to be the lid of an amazing treasure house." It was the gold and silver, nickel and copper, zinc and platinum of the Laurentian plateau that rescued Canada fromthe great depression; and they are now pushing her frontiers forward. Though a world prepar- ing for war didnot want wheat--the sole product of her western prairies--it did want Dinerls Little could grow in the thin layer of soil that covers the Pre-Cambrian rock, but the world's' fourth 'largest gold deposits lay there for the mining. - Oil has been found on the Mackenzie river. The pitchblende deposits of the Great Bear Lake, discovered only ten years ago, have already cut the world price of radium in half. Gold has been found in the Great Slave Lake area, nickel on the coast of Hudson Bay. In 1885, the spending of half a million: dollars a mile to blast the Canadian Pacific Railway through that rock was called madness, ut-that madness has become the sanity of to-day; thé ore in"a | single mine would pay for the road which taps it. i Inhabitéd Canada is a thin and interupted band parallelling the American border. * North of it the visiting American could find what he has lost in his own country--the frontier. Canada takes her Arctic seriously and annually sends an Eastern Arctic Patrol on a tour of inspection and exploration. = Sometimes she American Neutrality. inion to the 'North; for Canada is your head cool and your feet to perpetuate the tradition of the Northwest passage. - The Arctic interests Canada not only as a source of her weather and a pot- General News Forty-eight miners lost their lives in a coal mine explosion in Staffordshire, England, The cause of the explosion is unknown, : : Se 3 5 @ == Ex Mayor Day was defeated at the polls 'in the Toro New Years Day. Mayor Conboy was 're-elected. . The controllers are-- "Lewis Duncan, R. H. Saunders, W. J. / + Wadsworth, ¥. Hamilton, a ER ret il ha Beek Dr. Gifford was elected Mayor of Oshawa, J, C. Anderson had retired from the civic field. | ; 's $0 * The Christian Science Monitor rec- ently carried a good. cartoon-- "Be- * ware of the Lullaby!" in which Mr, American citizen is pictured listening to war news, such as "Retreat in Lib- . ya"--"German Reverses in Russia"-- ("Nasi Admission of Weéakriess," ete. SEE a BR Tariffs between Canada and the Un- be discontinued, Sy : v2 WERT BUTE JE Plans for opening a new session of ~ civic election on | ited States on War goods will probably | has infused courage, confidence, discipline and de- SH R.A.F. WING IN RUSSIA Wing-Commander H. N. G. Remsbottom Isherwood, A.F.C,, who is in command of the wing of the British R.A.F. now fighting side by side with their comrades of the soviet Air Force on the' Russian Front, against the common enemy, , ential source of coal and minerals, but because it will some day - {be the great aerial short cut between Asia and Europe. By that path Shanghai is 4000 miles nearer London than by the route now being flown from New York across the Pacific. It would avoid the long Water hon.and alloy profitable pay loads to be borne in machines of moderate cost. Already it is being flown as far as | Whitehorse in the Yukon, and its extension awaits only the comn- ing of peace. Meanwhile Canadians are learning much about northern flying. There is an Arctic air-mail; flying in of pros- pectors, miners, and even machinery is an old story. Canada carries more freight by air than any other country in the world, On the Western Canadian Prairie. "Number One Hard" the finest wheat in the world is grown. Of late years, however, grow- ing it has Become a gamble against which nature and man have stacked the cards. But Canada has another valuable crop--her forests. Canada's forest zone stretches across the continent; almost a third of its-land area. This great woodland is not only the basis for an industry, but it provides an immense habitat for game and birds, Jacques Cartier who 'discovered the St. Lawrence, fittingly called it-the "River of Canada". Canada is the result of the St. Lawrence as Egypt is the result of the Nile. Up its mighty -}stream passed in turn the Indians, the French explorers, mission- aries and traders, and the British." Now the ships of all the world breast its current on. their way to Montreal, the world's largest inland sea port. If the St. Lawrence Seaway project is realized and its execution is only a matter of time--they. will dock at Fort William and Port Arthur, in the very heart of Canada. The St. Lawrence drains a territory of 500,000 square miles "| which contains half of the fresh water in the world. The Miss- £ ~ of-tempo rather than of ¢ uk, Libya, ares. For i "held the 86:milé. perimeter and British armoured and iy M bok inflicted ith noured and: 3 have A A WE eth NE - |its 2000-mile course from fresh water to.salt, it takes one gigantic do. ago in Canada, would, it has been calculated, have half their dex scendents living in the U.S. to-day, Families have flowed across "member. of Prime Minister Mackenzie King's cabinet. halfway up his ba issippi and Hudson together pour no such tribute into the sea. On leap, Niagara, which moves the dymanos and the soul of man, then pauses to play among the emerald-tipped Thousand Islands, and bathes the feet of the Laurentians_ before. galloping white- maned into the gulf that bears its name. In Europe nature has come to be the natural and immemorial setting of man, In Canada she ig scarcely yet aware of him. Canada' is a vast and lonely land, 'gigantically framed and wildly clad. There are rushing rivers and lonely, loon-haunted lakes where no' angler ever yet cast a lure, silent forests where the moose abounds in Gothic majesty and the bear has not learned. to fear the crack of the rifle. : vi Canadians and. Americans are more alike than any two sep- arate peoples in the world, (An average couple married 50 yea: the border and back again, There was a Canadian-born member of President .Wilson's: cabinet, and there. is an American-born Differences between ahadians And Americans are differences {ian fromm the Englighroar 1s far widow 3 aS iyideg the Cans. an from the Englishman is far wider, Take the important mat. ter of pants. "An Englishman calls them trousers, has them cut k, and Canadian, like the American, calls them pants and as often as not belts them tightly just above the hips: [ Given almost any provocation he will discard he I 8 b es his { has become: the most impor- fant country in the world, vet there are fewer countries about They have taken Canada for granted lighted by thé aurora populated partly by Indians, the They forget--or neyer knew--that Canada is greater in area than U.S; itself, that it is a vast reservoir of natural and mineral wealth, that Canada and the United States do the greatest two- country business in the world, and--most challenging fact of all-- Americans must now give seriois She has no trouble in obeying "In this strange, terrible world war there is a place and halt, Service in a thousand forms iggopen, '"There is no room for the illettante, for the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard, The mine, the factory, the dockyard, the salt sea waves, the fields to till, the home, the hospital, the chair of the scientist, the pulpit of the preacher--from the highest to the humblest, the tasks are all of equal honor, All have their part to play."'--Winston Churchill, ; No amount of wishful thinking will win the war. Every day, every hour, we are reminded that it isa grim strug- the near future. Mr. Churchill outlines three periods before the final victory: -- 1 Period of consolidation, combin- ation, and final preparation; +2 Period of liberation. which we must look forward to recov- ery of lost territories; 3 Assault upon citadel homelands of guilty parties. : : iE Soo YY VV One has only to think of the geo- graphy of. the war to realize how diffi- cult to bring the war to a sudden end. Every country in the world is in- volved, directly or indirectly. Air, naval, and war bases are hundreds, and some- times thousands of miles apart. ; While Britain and her Allies are making progress in Russia and Libya, in the main they are still fighting a de- fensive war. oe Such a war is full of emergencies. Great bodies of troops, with immense equipment, have to be transported long distances. The entry of the Japanese into the conflict has accentuated this problem, for distances in the Pacific are enormous. . ke; V.V.y : Anything like prophecy regarding the future of the war must be subject to quick and perhaps drastic revision; but it is quite natural to suppose that Hitler, being balked of victory in Rus- sia; will turn his attention.to the Med- - His fortunes in this area have been control in horthern Africa is increasing rapidly. Of the fate of Crete, Malta, and other points in the Mediterranean, eit is difficult to predict. oy .._The United States has a vary Ohi e sid&able task in guarding th but the suddenness of the J. tack galvanized the Ameri united and determined action. iy 18) { | is waistcoat ch knows as g vest. "He prefers baseball py lik ) Toot Rey ntined Finland is b Wateh your label; it tolls when your =~ | WAR "Canada--America's Problem" is taken from a condensation | of the book by John MacCormac, who is a Canadian, and was for his remark at a luncheon party that he had dis. for every one, man and woman, old and young, hale gle which is not at all likely 'to end in during iterranean, and adjacent territory. mostly misfortunes of late. * British anese at-