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- farms of a community, a state or a : _'.__ _Sussions have. 'been held bout | wcivilian industries, - Scotch Tape, a name that bids " manufacture' a _ of adhesive foil across 'best that™is obtainable. Open for. Many Uses Found For Scotch Tape Was Developed In 1927 by Minnesota Manufacturing Co. "Scotch" or - industrial tape, used 'so much for wrapping, seal. ing and tagging, is now being , used for masking, protecting. holding, trimming 'and /identify- ing in a thousand defénce -and A lattice of pressure sensifive tape on 'wine dows minimizes flying glass, 'said to be the chief cause of air.raid injuries. England's Ministry of Home Defence has used 10,000,- 000 yards. Last month OPM re- commended for this purpose the | "ordinary gum, industrial = or Scotch tape". Use of surgical adhesive tape for mon-surgicat purposes is frowned on by OPM"s health supply section as "not only wasteful but unpatriotic, becauss such tape has a high content of critical materials--cloth, zine and rubber, Used For Masking /Bach in 1927, a Minnesota manufacturing company, then con- centrating on abrasives, develop- ed, patented and trademarked fair to pass into the language as a generic term like "phono. graph" and "zipper" before it. OPM spells it without capitaliza- tion. In 1931, two medical sup. ply houses discovered that a lot of their comparatively. expensive surgical tape was being used by autcmobile builders for "mask- ing" bright work during spray painting operations, ana began to r paper masking tape wheih would do the job more economically, f Aiplane practice is taking a leaf from-the autoniobile produc. tion book. Paper backed masking tape defines edges and protects areas not to be painted, such as wing markings and insignia. Nar- row lines emerge sharp and spot- less when the tape is peeled off, Wartime Applications Customers devise new uses. A munitions maker sent photographs showing machine gun bullets mov- ing on an assembly conveyor made of scotch tape lo which they stick until they are removed, Unofficial reports say that pres- Bure sensitive tape is even use in the boudoir--ladies who uti. lize sledping time to smooth out wrinkles and restore sagging fa- cial contours apply strips of the transparent kind, thus avoiding the mummylike appearance given by older aparatus, ; Most important, however, are rountless wartime applications different colored tapes to identify tirplane wiring circuits; seals for guarding bomber flares against the effects of moist, salty.ocean air; adhesive covers for para- chute release springs to protect thin fabrics from tearing and ab.' rasion; bakelite backed tape to protect airplanes and tanks dur- Ing trans-oceanic shipment; a tip 1 ~the busi ness end of an airplane machine gun to protect the inside of the barrel against corrosion until the moment of firing, The Farm To-Day Is A Family Matter Many air castles have been built, by those who thought that the nation could be united vider. one directing organization, Often .a cooperative store or creamery has heen started; but the . farmers never gave it the whole. hearted support that they gave their labors upon the farm. The farm today is, as it always has been.in this country, a family matter. Farms and the farming carried on upon them are known to any community by the personality which individual families put Into them, - Farm bureau programs and farm- ers' institutes have given out_fn- formation that js recognized as the |- ums have been held in which dis- everything from mustard seed to purebred cattle, The information has been liber- ally ext®nded to all farmers alike, both as individuals and in groups, "The results from this inform. ation, whether it came from the | latest research of the great agri cultural sohools, or from practical experience, are not received by any two farmers alike. The advice is taken home, discussed within the family farm circle, and then accepted in part or as.a whole by thé investment protected within cording to the combined knowl. . edge of the family, The results produced upon a |. farm are a family matter, more so than in any other industry as a whole, : t ~ Problems great and 'small are discussed and settled within the family circle. Father, mother and the grown children have a voice in the final decision, ASI GORCIUSIOne. "beans, This information iy ~~ VOICE OF THE PRESS NO COURAGE IN ESCAPISM "No; escapism at this time is not good enough. Let us by all means keep as long as we can whatever joys are left in life; keep our sense of humor and all of the love and kindliness that . should exist in hunian somrsde: ships and within homes and fami. lies; and keep as- well our ideas. of justice and sportsmanship and fair play, and our inherited in- * stincts of compassion nd mercy and pity. But, holding fast to these things, refusing to abandon ourselves to sombre nightmares of gloom, let us not try to create within or among ourselves a false psychology of escape from this war, Courage, the feat need of the hour, eannot be born of that. --Ottawa Journal. rr Ont DANGEROUS BB RIFLES A strong campaign is being started against the use of BB rifles in the hands of small boys. In Brantford, still another boy has lost the sight of one eye and many complaints are coming in from all parts of the province. One doctor in Brantford tells of treating three cases of wounding by BB guns in one week. There should be far greater restrictions on the sale of BB guns and am. munition to minors and it is te be hoped the recent shootings in various parts of Ontario will bring such restrictions into being. --Niagara Falls Review. es Oi? HUTS FROM HOLLAND A shipment of 25,000 huts re. cently arrived on the Russian front from Holland. Each hut could house 25 Nazis and each hut was fitted out comfortably. That is oply one indication of the way Hitler is using the occu. pied countries to further his cam. paigns. --Windsor Star nT THE LITTLE DARLINGS One effect of the sugar ration. ing, "as reported by a Toronto grocer, is that many customers who previously had only one or two children now come in and brag about their large families. Trying to kid him! --Ottawa Citizen. SOs WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE LIKR WOMEN 1. They are thinner than they used to be. 2. There is a bold face type. 3. Back numbers are not in-de- mand. 4. They have a great deal of influence. . 5. Every man should have one of his own and not chase after his neighbor's. St. Thomas Times-Journal, gas _ INCONSISTENT The odd thing about Mr. Eamon de Valera, Premier of Eire, is that, while he will not allow Brit- ish ships the use of Eire's bases, he -is perfectly content to allow British ships to convoy goods front the U. S. to Eire. --Brantford Expositor. _ --0-- IT DOES THE JOB "Toxoid treatment does prevent * diphtheria, This has been proved to the hilt in scores and hundreds of cities. The moral is clear, No parent should dare to allow any child of his to go without immuni- zaticn against diphtheria. --Edmonton Journal. Poo Lr GREATEST OMELET If there was any point to it, the world's greatest omelet could be made from the 8,311,000,000 eggs which were laid by 868,000,- 000 hens in the United States in the month of January last. --Woodstock Sentinel-Review. --) -- -WHAT A.R.P. MEANS. It still seems in effect that most of the argument about A.R.P. comes down to whether those letters stand for air raid perhaps or air raid probably. -- + =Vancouver' Province. y --a AUTOMOBILE PROGRESS '1940--No running boards. 194]--No gear shifts, 1942--No tires. 1943--No cars. Huge Food Orders. : For Great Britain ; The British Food Ministry has intimated through the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa that it' will be in the market this year for 10,000 long tons of Can --Grit. passed along to the bean centres, Price quotatibns are sought, 'oo Canada will be sending \ lot of food over this year, if it AI gets there. The campaign of skkings is being much intensified a new risk they suggest is not 'over- looked, : : The total interest ls divided, and | The bacon order-is-over 600, the family. The land is worked ac--{ The farmer 18 a family, ~ ~~ 000,000 pounds and the wheat order 175,000,000 bushels, Millions of pounds of cheese, "beginning. didn't stop at that. "a helpful sergeant poked his head - "Shall I take the gentlemen for butter, prepared meats and fruits entar into the food consignment. ESS SS known," 15-to-1- shot, poundin $560,000 Widener Cu nags like Mioland, + was second and Olympus third, Pictured above is an upset for turf history books. -< It shows The AER SER Rhymer, Greentree Stables' "une across the line, Jockey Arcaro up, in the seventh running ofthe ace at Miami's Hialeah. Park. The favorite, Market Wise, and all the "name" ttention and Challedon, firfished 'way back in the field of 17 starters. Best Seller A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army Once upon a time the cockiest looking soldier you would encoun. ter was the Highlander, character- ized by the swing of his kilt and his glistening white spats. + Today kilts are very seldom seen and the palm for cockiness has to be awarded to the Tank Corps man who wears a beret at a cocky angle and walks the streets with an air reminiscent of Kip ling's cat to whom all places are alike, And all places are alike to him, From the steel-walled turret of his tank he looks at everything he encounters with the unbiased, unembarrassed and unworried look of a man who knows he can brush aside any barrier, surmount any- obstacle. In the interests of the readers of this column I made an investi. gation into what makes a "tanker" tick a few days ago. 'Because I am not as young as I used to be and, therefore, a mite on the clumsy side I have a few assorted bruises to report that the young, fit, well-trained tank man would not. ' : Perhaps I'd better begin at ths The Commandant of the Train- ing Centre said -- his eyes may have been twinkling, I couldn't sce because of the shine on his glasses -- "we'll have a tank brought round for you to look at." That was all right. But it When the tank arrived--all 30 tons of it-- out of the driver's hatch and said: a ride, sir?" . Bow Bowman of the C.B.C., was the reason for the plural. We looked at each other. We lookea at the sergeant. There was no mistake about the twinkle in his eye. . We climbed in. By the time I had hoisted a middle-aged. leg over the rim of the gun turret 1 seemed an awful distance from the ground. A slightly hysterical major, who roared with laughter from start to finish of the ride, advisea me to stand on the gunner's stool with my head and shoulders in the open. "You'll see more from there." I felt more, too. And every time I looked inside during the quarter of an hour that we carceerd up hill and down dale there was the major, wedged in a corner of the gun turret, cackling horribly at my wild attémpts to lessen the force of the buffets delivered by the plunging iron hippopotamus. The tank man, to judge by my reactions, has a sense of power . and invincibility as he advances steadily with a disregard for any- thing confronting him that no other soldier feels. Certainly I never felt it in France a quarter of a century ago. Once you have safely clambered out of the tank after your first trip you realize that you have never had such a feeling of safety in any mode of travel before. It didn't seem quite the same when the driver put on speed, hurtled down a steep bank, rolled a few boulders aside, took a ditch in stride, climbed the side slope of a hill," turned in his tracks and charged down it again and headed straight for a tall and very thick- looking tree. After the first tree it was dif- LIFE'S LIKE THAT "Do you mean you're the guy that ordered this bed? | 1" ferent. You don't dodge any more and you get that feeling that it doesn't matter what stands in your way. Then you have time to realize that your mobile fortress is giv- ing you a degree of safety you didn't know existed. Instead of a copse of saplings such as we ploughed through you imagine a woods full of hostile - gunners and you know that their bullets will spatter harmlessly on the steel hull of your tank. You know, too, that the crew of well-trained "tankers" under battle conditions will be spraying the ground ahead of them with shells and machine-gun bullets at a far faster rate than the best fire-power concentrated in any attacks in other wars. It all adds up to a fecling of jauntiness and by the time your first ride comes to -an-end you feel like tipping your hat to one side a*d "walking with an air." But that jauntiness is an as- sured and sensible one, not =a "devil-may-care" attitude. Tanks and the myriad other cross-coun- try vehicles our boys are driving in the individual citizen's army of today are not turning them into reckless drivers when they get on to the road in civilian cars. * The effect is almost opposite. Once you get back into an auto- mobile you think to yourself, "this thing isn't armoured and un- hurtable like that tank I was just in--I've got to handle this more carefully!" Yes, they're a cocky Ibt--these "tankers!" And they have a right to be. They spend their fighting hours in cramped, hot, noisy-quar- ters and feel like stretching when they get' out. They have an exhilarating job. They charge across country un- daunted by obstacles. They carry the battle to, through and beyond the enemy. That sort of thing calls for light-hearted efficiency--and that same light-hearted efficiency guarantees a cocky bearing and a jaunty stride. But middle-aged newspapermen, though they catch the enthusiasm and - experience-- the exhilaration, don't quite manage the jaunty stride when they laboriously climb out--they are too busy feeling for the bruises that the youngster doesn't get. No wonder the major was slightly hysterical --he knew what we would look like when we climbed down. Air Force Needs Radio Mechanics The Royal Canadian Air Force needs radio mechanics who have had some university training for work with the radio detector-- the secret instrument which de- tects enemy aircraft. Men enlisting for duty as radio detector operators will be requir- ed to sign on for attachment to either the Royal Canadian Navy or the Canadian Army. This is a new requirement. Re- gardless of the attachment, to either the navy or ary, the per- _sonnel will remain members of the air force, . Operation of radio. detectors is a highly specialized work and a mighty dangerous giound job, Detector personnel is just as im- portant to the ground forces as air crew is to the flying personnel for they play an important part in the protection of the land units, machine- THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events On Feb, 21 Generalissimo Ohlang the ludlan people on the eve of fils return to: China, called for thelr "utmost exertion" in the cause of freedom and asked Britain to grant India "real political power" fmmed- lately. The text of the méssage fol lows: + During my two weeks' stay In India I had the opportunity of dis- cussing very frankly with the high. est "civil and military authorities us well as with my Indian friends questions concerning jolut plans against aggression and the objective of our common efforts. I was hap- py to tind that there was full sym- pathy and general understanding between us. My mission is now drawing to a close. On the eve of my departure I wish to bid farewell to all my friends in India and to thank you for the many kindnesses shower- ed upon Mme. Chiang and myself. The bricfuess. of my stay has not permitted me to tell the In- dian people all that 1 wished to say. | avail myself oft this oppor- tunity to address to them this farewell message, It is an expres- slon of my high and warm regard and of long cherished hopes for India. It comes from the depth of my heart. Since my arrival in this country I found to my great satisfaction that there exists among the peo- ple of India 'a unanimous deter- mination to oppose aggression. China and India China and Indla comprise one- halt of the world's population, Their common frontier extends history of their intercourse, which has been of a purely cultural and commercial character, there has never been any armed conflict. Indeed, nowhere else can one find so long a period of uninterrupted peace belween two neighboring countries. This 1s irrefutable proof that our two peoples are peace-loving by nature. Today they have not only Identical Interests but also the same destiny. For this reason they are duty bound to side with anli-aggression countries and to tight shoulder to shoulder iu order to secure real peace for the whole world. Moreover, our two peoples have an outstanding virtue in common --namely, the noble spirit of self- sacrifico for the sake of justice and righteousness. It Is this tra- ditional spirit which should move them toward selt-negation tor the salvation of mankind. It arms against aggression and in it is also this spirit which prompted China to be the first to take up the present war to ally herself un- hestitatingly with other anti- aggression countries. not merély for the purpose of 'securing her own freedom but also for the pur- pose of securing justice and free- "dom for all. I venture to suggest to my brethren people of India at this tory of civilization that our two peoples should éxert themselves to the utmost in thé cause of freedom world could the Chinese and In- dian peoples obtain -their freedom. Furthermore, shoanld freedom be denied to either China or India, there could be no real international peace, A World Divided The present international sltua- tin divides the world into two camps, the aggression camp and the anti-aggression camp. All those who opposed aggression by, striv- ing for the freedom of thei?®oun- try and of other countries should join the antl-aggression camp. There is no middle course and there is no* time to wait for de- velopments, ' Now is the crucial. moment for the whole future of mankind. The "issue before us docs not concern the dispute of any one man or country, nor docs it concern ang specific questions now pending be- tween "Bile people and another. Any people therefore "which joins the anti-aggeession front may be said to be cooperating, not with any particular country, but with the entire: front. a This leads us to believe that the Pacific war is the turning point in the history of nationalism. The Kal-Shek, iu a message addressed to° 3,000 kilometers. In the 2,000 years' : most critical moment in the his- ~ of all mankind, for only in a free - ~ Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Urges Full Support From India method, however, by which the peoplés of the world could achieve thelr freedom might be different from what it used to be. The antl-aggression nations now expect that in this new era the people of India will voluntarily bear thelr full ghare of responsi bility in'_ the survival of & free -world, ia which Fidia must play her part, The vast majority of world opla- jon" fa In full sympathy with In. dia's aspirations for freedom, This sympathy 1s so valuable and se difficult to obtain that it cannot be appralsed in terms of money oe material and should therefore by all means be retained. The present struggle is one be tweens freedom and slavery, tween light and darkness, between good and evil, between resistance and aggression. Should the antl aggression front lose the war, world civilization would suffer a setback for at least 100 years and there would be no end of human suffering. - Japan's Record In Asla So far as Asia is concerned, the cruelties committed by the Japa- nese militarists are beyond de scription. The suffering and op- pression, which have been the fate of Formosans and Koreahs since their subjugation by Japan, should serve as a warning. As regards barbarities com- mitted by the Japanese Army since our war of resistance, the fall of Nankipg in December, 1937, Is a casa in point. Over 200,000, civilians were massacred within one week. For the last five years the civil. fan population of Free China has been subjected almost - daily te bombings from the air and hom- Jbardments by heavy artillery. In every place invaded by Japanese troops, men, women and children were either assaulted or killed, The young men and the educated people received their special at. tention with the result that men of intelligence and ideas have been tortured, Nor is this all. culture, objects of historical in- terest and value and even articles necessary for livellhoou, sueh as cooking utensils, plows, tools and domestic animals have been -elther forcibly taken away or destroyed, In places under Japanese military oceypation rape, rapine, incendiar- ism, murder are frequent occur rences, Moreover, they have with ofticlal connivance everywhere opened op- ium dens, gambling houses and houses of fill-fame in order to sap the vitality of the people and destroy their spirit. Such is the disgraceful conduct of the Japa- 'nese, the like of which Is not found In countries Invaded by other aggressor nations. What I have just said is but an inadequate description of the true state of affairs as reported by Chinese and foreign eyewitnesses. India's Support Urged In these horrible times of sav- agery and brute force, the People of China and their brethren peo- ple of India should for the sake of civilization dom give their united support to the principles embodied in the At- lantic Charter and in the joint deo- "laration of twenty-six nations, and ally themselves with the antl. aggression front. 1 hope they will wholeheartedly join the Allies namely, China, Great Britain, Am- erica and the Soviet Union, and participate in the struggle for the survival of a free world until com. pleto victory is achieved and the duties incident upon them in these troubled times have been fully discharged. Lastly, | sincerely hope and I confidently believe that our Ally Great Britain, without waiting for any demands on the part of the people of India, will as speedily as possible give them real political power so that they may be in a position further to develop their spiritual and material strength and thus realize that their participation in the war is not merely afd _to the anti-aggression nations - for securing victory bat also the tarn- ing point in their struggle for India's freedom. From the objee- tive point of view, I am of the opinfon this would be the wisest policy which will redound to the credit of the British Empire, REG'LAR FELLERS--The Tryout: PUTER IL WONDER |F L 3. THE 'WILL _POWER.TO WALK R PAST THE STORE P By 'GENE BYRNES -- -- Si 2 YELL DONE, PUDDINHEAD, ----MY BOY YOU CERTAINY OID A FINE JOB THAY TIME # Nm ee SAS ur " - . sures LTH HY % sent struggle for be. Institutions of. and _human _ free- a Me REN PPI 4