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sol di ENT ----_-- ._ restriction would take effect but . Montreal and New York but said .more bus services between points Czecho - Slovaks Make Good Here Fled Their Homeland to On: tario and Succeed in Venture Ll Canadians are made gs well as born and' in the vicinity of the Southwestern Ontario village of Alvinston, new citizens--and . good ones--are graduating daily from the school of toil close to the earth of theft adopted country. There's a story of achievement here, a story that had its begin. ning only a few years ago when the hard-working peasants of the little Republic of Czecho-Slovakla saw the handwriting on the wall in the Munich appeasement deal and fled their country before the - echo of the goosestep rang through their city streets. They fled to Canada, the "land of opportunity," they call it, and they have made it just that, * * * None of the 450 Czechs and Slo. vaks in the area has been in Can. ada more than six years and many of them have been here for only four, but those years represent a steady march forward. Some "have bought their second farm since arrival; others who were able to obtain enough money for bare necessities when they arrived now have automobiles, farm machinery (work was done by hand at' first), and more luxurious. homes. They have learned, too, the Can- adlan way of life and the language of their adopted land, many of them from their children who are attending school. Although they had to start from scratch in the New World, the new Canadians are by no means back. ward in their farming methods to- day. Their farms stand out among the better-producing acres in the district, 4 . There's a bit of Central Europe left in the colony, of course, and a natural pride in the homeland. That = Czecho-Slovak slogan, "We shall be free again," is a byword here, but the people like to look upon themselves as Canadians. On Sunday, however, they don the multi-colored finery of the home- land and at the Dozinky (autumn harvest festival) costumes are par- ticularly' gay. i First to arrivé In the Alvinston area was Stefan Huzevka, who was to become a sort of unofficial ad- viser to his countrymen. Mr. Huze- vka aided new arrivals in pur. chasing land, implements and other necessities because 'by the time the last group arrived he had learned the English language faire ly well. J Shortage of Teak For Building Ships Teak has joined rubber, alum- inum-and nickel-on the "war es- sentials" list. Use of the limited supply. in the United States re- cently has been restricted. tothe navy's shipbuilding program by the War Production Board. Teak outranks oak, mahogany and all other hardwoods for ship- building. It is tough and dur- able. One of its outstanding advantages over other woods is that iron will not rust when in contact with it, because it con- tains a soapy oil. This has made teak important in building rail- road coaches and ships, according to the National Geographic So- ciety. Teak is native to and most plentiful in the hot jungles of Burma and Thailand. It also grows in Central India, Java and Africa. The teak that reaches Europe and America comes most- ly. from Burma. Most of it is used for construction in-the/ Far East. 1here are original teak beams in" good condition in Ori- ental buildings estimated to be a thousand years old. Canadi To Curtail Highway Bus Travel In an anouncement from the office of Transit Controller G. 8. Gray, it was stated. that it "will be necessary to eliminate bus services in Canada which dup- licate 'rail' lines, particularly those engaged in long hauls", The an- nouncement did not say when the it was implied that adjustments 'would be made to bus schedules as soon as possible, A spokesman for the Transit Controller's office did not enlarge on the announcement except to say that any surplus of buses existing after the restrictions had been enforced would be distribu- ted to "local services" now badly in need of augmentation, ; He could not say how the re- strictions would affect interna- tional services between points like ° that the announcement meant no like Montreal and Toronto, if He said that many details re: mained to be worked out and that an announcement containing ful: ler information would probably be made "at a later date, dnto water storage tanks, Concrete VOICE PRESS BOOST FOR 'MOTHER-IN-LAW Who steps into the breach and brings order out of chaos when the wife is sick, the maid has left, at the office; little Mary has the sniffles and: Johnny mashed h toe, there is nothing fit to eat in the house and three days' dishes 'stacked in the sink? Who can al- find a little money: to help out with 'the bills when times are hard?. Who teaches the children Bible stories and instills in their infant 'minds about all the intro- duction they ever get in old-fash- toned moralities? Isn't it the mother-in-law? You said it. -- Leamington Post and News --Q-- Lr WASHING FOR JAPS Chinese laundry staffs have had to be increased in Northern On- tario in the district where Japan- ese laborers, moved from the Pacific Coast, have been estab- lished, If itching powder shows up in some of the shirts, the cus- tomers won't have to look far for the cause. ! i --Windsor Star Lt --0-- PRINTER'S ERROR . According to the old gag, if a doctor makes a mistake, he buries it; 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 - clergyman makes one he doesn't find out until he's in the next world, But let a printer make one--ye gods! --Owen Sound Sun-times od RINE EXTENDING LIVES A 40-mile-an-hour "speed limit throughout all provinces of Can.' ada will not only extend the life of rubber tires but will extend the life of many a motorist, --Almonte Gazette A al JAP PIC-NIC When it isn't raining in New Guinea, they say the country is alive with ants. Our thoughts are with the Jap in any picnic he has arranged. --=Stratford Beacon-Herald AE PERFECT ALIBI When he read an article advis- ing people. to study astronomy, his wife said it was just another excuse for staying out nights. --St. Thomas Times-Journal yn HITLER QUIZ "What should be done with Hitler?" asks a Toronto paper. What's the use of starting a quiz like that, when you can't print all the answers? --Ottawa Citizen See THEY DON'T KNOW Who told the income "tax de- signers children-over-21- were not dependents? B . --Brandon Sun, G.B. Uses Concrete In War Purposes Twenty - thousand silos for cat- tle fodder is the -latest contribu. tion of Britain's concrete makers to the war effort They are now at work upon this colossal contract. Farmers all over Britain have already put. up silos; manufac- turers of preserves are following suit with silos to store theft waste materials and turn them into feed- ing stuffs to relieve the strain on Empire's shipping. Today more concrete is being used on Britain's farms than ever" before. Bujldings in it, from barns to, poultry houses, are being run up, and it is being used for water tanks, fence-posts, flooring, cattle troughs, guards and stalls, as well as asghestos cement for roofing sheds, rabbit hutches and even buckets, The concrete Industry {s also "helping the war effort with "aerodfome runways, some of which need 60,000 square yards of ma- terial at a time, and thousands of concrete huts are-being set up for the service departments and for the housing of war workers and the homeless, ; ; All constructional repair work on railway and water tunnels is carrled out. in - concrete, - some. times. with complete pre-cast archés. Cellars of damaged houses - have been concreted and made - railway sleepers and pit props for coal mines are replacing imported timber, Hollow concrete blocks are being. used not only for building but for afr rald protection, The. upper. works of ships have also been given concrete protec- tion and following upon the econ- struction of 100 concrete barges by the Admiralty, the first ocean- going "liner of 2,000 tons dead. weight has been successfully launched, £ y Machine' gun posts, air rald shelters, oil storage tanks, defence barriers, telegraph poles; groynes, buyos #nd sinkera for moorings and even anchors are all bolog Bee the huSband has extra work to do ways dig down in her pocket and . } Borrowing a fountain pen from a bystander, Princess Elizabeth, above, heir presumptive to the British throne, registers for war work in the National Training Service Program in London just like any other 16-year-old girl. J > 6 Abie ATTY 8 A Weekly Cetin 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 his 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-swingers" fellow soldiers are full of scorn and contempt for him, They realize that in addi- tion to putting one over the Medi- cal Officer he is putting onc 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 unnce- essarily. . This morning as 1 came down to 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 we should save our gasoline for. There is nothing very jaunty looking about a soldier who has been taken prisoner or killed. 1 _ know--so do many of you--1I 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? is. But that war is to us. Sure it is how close the One extra joy-ride LIFE'S LIKE THAT By F red Neher Zo 2 Aisa. 9-30 bill afi ath if hi f 0 dated News Fepturs "We "don't like our new neighbors, they're too. quiet. ."+ + Mom 'makes us keep still all-the time so she can hear what they're sayin' 1 1" & © a long expericnee with sieges. The or one trip by car that could have been carried out afoot may mean the hair's breadth that sep- arates life and death for the men in uniform, So; walking to work, even ,walk- ing to the movies, can be a form of war work, a form of soldiering in the Individual Citizen's Army. . And observing food and price regulation is another way of serv ing. At "Basic' and Advanced Train: ing Centres, 'in camp 'and on act- ive service soldiers and sailors put in-long hours at strenuouh work, Their training simulates actual fighting--and actual ~~ fighting burns up energy. « To replace that encrgy food, hearty -meals must -be supplied. That's where the careful! observer of the food regulations cdtes in. Every time the houscholder pri- vates use a little less than their sugar ration or bake a cake with a substitute for tugar, they are releasing that much energy for Canada's "Men at Arms", And the housewife Lance Corp- oral---or is 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 this 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 cup; honey, one cup; cane syrup, 112 cups; corn syrup, two cups? That's what the Individual Cit- izens'" 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 8. 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. His plans call for 10,000,000 tons of merchant shipping in 1943, "as a slarter on a total program al- ready set at more than 30,000,- 000 tons." "It is hard for the public to grasp the magnitude of these fig- ures," Admiral Land points out. "Consider just the 8,000,000 tons w¢ are building in 1942. That would amount to cight hundred big ships of 10,000 tons each. It is more steel ships of a similar size than all the shipyards of the world ever built in one year be- fore. It is several times as many ships 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 Malta last Tuesday suffered - what was called in dispatches fits heaviest air rald of the war. It was also Malta's 2,000th air raid since Italy entered the war Juno 11, 1940. That is an average of three raids a day. Malta's 2,000th raid attracted about as much attention as the rest of the 1,999--a couple of par- agraphs tucked away at the end of 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 of 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. |celved has greatly reduced fis value as a Mediterranean naval base, yet it "still guards {he ap. proaches to Libya. Malta has had Knights of Malta beat off the Turks in 1565 and Napoleon didn't fare well there, And the fortiti- cations of 2,000 years scem capable of withstanding 2,000 yaids from THE WAR « WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events A year ago in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler said: "Again ahd again I uefa wariiings 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 80 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. | 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, . 1940 For an understanding of they damage that British bombers are now inflicting upon German cit- ies, it -is helpful to consider the bombing of Coventry in 1940. That assault was described by the "Germans 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 in the successive raids on Ros- tock is more than four times that which devastated Coventry. The present British air raids against vital points deep in the Reich are so massive as to constitute some- thing new in warfare. . Luebeck and Rostock Lucbeck and Rostock are ports on the Baltic 'Sea of vital im- portance to Germany. Through them flow supplies to Hitler's armies in Northern Russia, Fin- land and Norway. Luecbeck is a training centre for submarine crews, a great industrial city and a warchouse centre for mili- tary stores. Rostock is a thriving seaort Coventry In British Bombers Force Hitler To Strengthen Western Front again felt. the full fury of Royal Air Force. Many daylight attacks have been made against enemy aime ports and coastwise Channel ship, ping. In one case, recently, & British attacking unit, accordi to The Associated Press, cove a square mile of "sky. It was said to have been the largest single unit ever to attack France, British Air Policy The British policy is, according to Sir Archibald Sinclair, Aire Minister, "to destroy the enemy capacity to make war by bombing his war factories, means of trans- port and military stores wherever they may be found." An ingrease 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 case the severe strain upon Allied mercantile and naval losses. Hitler's threat of a "blow by blow" retribution on British -cit- ies for RAF, raids on Germany will be difficult of execution without doing exactly what the British air force is trying to goad hin into doing, according to Oli- ver Stewart, London commentator, "They have only a small pro- portion of their bombers in West~ 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 reids 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 sug- ceeded in its purpose. Second Front The western front, which Hit-. ler plainly fears, alveady exists, It did not exist last year when the Germans invaded Russia. [I was impossible* then for the Brit. ish to make large scale air ate 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 force on a front that extends from the north of Norway to the Spanish and industrial Lentre, - Important shipyards are there and a large branch of the great Heinkel air- craft concern, warchouses, 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. Assaults The "huge British flying fleets scem 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, 7 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-clock offensive of the war, British planes bombed Trond- heim, a formidable naval base in Norway. The Tirpitz, belioved to be the most powerful battleship in the world; the: heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, another 10,000-ton cruiser and swarms of destroyers and submarines are lurking in the harbor of Trondheim, They are in a vital position there to raid the Allied supply line to Russia. Cologite, tho" third largest city in Germany, and an important such modern gadgets as airplanes, frontier. Hitler is already" fight- ing on a second front. Hitler Strengthens . Channel Defences se The Germans have put thous- ands of laborers to the task of building new gun emplacements 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 some twenty miles across the Channel. Military informants said that Nazi guns rhassed 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 facing 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 mew works include, in ad- dition to gun bases, a scries of new concrete fortifications and tank barriers extending back sev- eral 'miles from tlic shores, } The work was greatly intensis fied immegliately after the .com- mando raid of March 27-28 on the German submarine base at St. Nazaire, : Stm---------- In Sumatra and Celebes, the wild tribes consider exposing the railway and industrial centre, knee immodest, made of concrete for the war, > '{ REG"LAR FELLERS--Onl y By Invitation NORTH END TRUCKING CORPORATION By GENE BYRNES for Sar