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"intends one section of the work, - bomb, ' . ; . Ee ---- : Men Of Dover, Heroes Of War Skilled and Bombed Clvillan Workmen Bulld Coastal Defenses Among the heroes of 'the war are the civilian workmen who bave been building coastal des fences on the cliffs of Dover. - They have been shelled, bombed * end machine gunned, but they have stuck to their task, They had no shelters; and all they could do when "trouble" came was to scatter, : * Mr, H. J, Marshall, who supers gays; "I have an average of fifty men under me and we have not. missed a working day since the outbreak of war. ' "Although in' other sectiona they have not been so lucky, up to the present we have not had a casualty. / Mr, Marshall said the gangs, by leng experience, had reduced shell and machine gun bullet dodging to a fine art. "When they hear the scream of a shell, the whistle of a fal ling bomb or the roar of a diving aircraft, they just drop their picks and shovels, fling=themselves flat until after the 'bump', and then return placidly to their work. "Irom where my men are at work they can see the {flashes of the long-range guns on- the French, coast. "The [shells take just over sev- _enty seconds to reach England, and the lads have come to be able to judge seventy seconds as accurately as though they had a stop watch." "CUTEST 'CHUTIST Marine paratroopers at San Diego certainly had the situation well-in--hand--when they named _ Actress Joan Leslie as "Cutest 'Chutist," and the girl they would like most to be marooned with on a cloud. Farmers In Canada Meet War Problems If the war does nothing else for Canada, says The Owen Sound Sun-Times, it will have produced a much more strongly organized farming . industry, éne which knows its own problems, and has. the ability to meet them effic~ iently. An all-out war effort on the part of Canada must, of necessity, embrace agricultural industry. Farmers throughout Canada, and particularly in Grey and Bruce Counties, are meeting the problems which war has 'brought them with resolution and courage. Help is scarce. Rates of pay for farm help show a wide dif- ference as compared to pay ob- tainuble in other industries. The farm produce is badly needed. Yet feed is high. Implements are hard to get, Ceiling prices impose restrictions which are ade _ most crippling. The farmers complain. Who 'can blame them? - But-do- they go on strike? They do not; They go right ahead producing the food which Canada, Britai + and the United Nations must Wave'if they are to be victorious, They work long hours, they produce grain, and feed and cattle, sometimes at a loss, But the important thing is they continue to produce. They have faith that eventually the importance of the agricultural industry will be recognized. In the meantime, the farmers of Grey and Bruce are doing "everything -in their-power to im- v- prove their stock, make, their fields more productive, and to: up - to - date introduce more methods, When a British bomber returns ed home from a raid in France a foot-long piece of telegraph 'dents, D, C. Coleman the latest "400,000, -- Buffalo Courier-Ex- _ ton"s return to England was typ- they are not pleasure-driving-- VOICE PRESS ONLY FIVE PRESIDENTS The C.P.R. has been in exist. ence since 1881 and in all that time it has had only five presi- 2 of them. All his predecesso have been great men. and great Canadians--Lord Mount Stephen, Sir William Van Horne, Lord Shaughnessy and Sir Edward Beatty.--Port Arthur New Chronjele. ; C---- HOW NEW ORDER WORKS If Hitler wonders why Euro. eans don't react more enthusias. tically to his New Order, he may find that the Nazis have looted conquered countries of $36,000, 000,000 in cash and goods and that the total in victims for Naz firing squads has reached nearly press, -- -- USELESS PURCHASE Goering is reported to be put. ting his money into Italian paint- ings and other art treasures. It's rather a silly performance. Where he's going after the war is over, there won't be any spase for hanging such things. -- Windsor Star, --O-- LIGHT COMMENT The "Oxford Mail" of England publishes blackout and lighting- up time on its front page. ' After giving the hours, there is this comment: "Your safety depends on your blackout, don't make light of it."--Woodstock Sentinel- Review, ' ---- REAL "VICTORY GARDEN" A Californian was digging in his backyard last week when he unearthed a tin can. . Inside was . more than $1,000, --The finder bought defence bonds. That was a real Victory Garden.--Brant- ford Expositor. JN a SIGHTS AND SIGHTS Uncle Sam's foresight is better that his hindsight as he rounds up spies who might acquire an insight into the bombsight.--The Windsor Star. * ip TYPICAL OF GENERAL The maner of Gen. McNaugh- ical--he went on a troopship with his men, taking whatever risks they took.--OQttawa Journal, Ded SERIOUS FACES Have you noticed how serious week-end motorists look, to prove Stratford Beacon-Herald. IN ACCIDENT NEWS In a collision at a nearby in- tersection last evening, two tires hurt.--Detroit News, JE co OPTIMIST DEFINED An optimist is a man who plants a garden and throws away his wife's can opener.--Kitchener Record.: Select Airmen By I. Q. Tests High Standard of Education Not Necessary Now Intelligence tests Instead of education standards are now used by the United States army air force In selecting men for alr crew training, Hon. Robert Lovett, assistant . secretary of war for air, and Maj-Gen. Barton KX. Yount, chief of . the air force training command, said at a re- cent press conference at Ottawa. Applicants for air crew duty are given a "screening" test which Ity ,and suitability regardless of their education, General Yount said, Formerly the alr arm re- quired a man to have the equiv- alent of two years In college be- foro he would be accepted for alr crew training. "Now we don't ask a man what his education is. We find out," ~ sald the general: - . _ (Applicants for erilistment as air crew In Canada must have com- "tiom.) ~~~ 3 New System Accurate "The "test is surprisingly accur- ato," said Mr. Lovett. "I believe we are now getting men of the most unusual competence and giv- ing everybody a fair break." ~ Under the old system, said Mr, Lovett, a man who played foot. ball in college for two years and perhaps took a 'course in animal husbandry and agronomy to qual ity for football could get into the alr force, while a man with a keen mind, a desire for knowledge and perhaps a lot of experience tinkering with motors would not get in, despite the fact the foot. ball player might have "as much water on the brain as water -on the knee." * EYE aly The new system recognized the fact that education ahd intelli gence wore not necessarily the _. --s Turbaned, shorts-clad sons of menaced Mother India learn a modern form of warfare from an Rpt ah INDIA TRAINS PARACHUTISTS TO DEFEND HER SOIL R.AF. instructor shown giving a "dragging" demonstration to his parachute battalion. and one passenger were reported determines their intelligence, abil. pleted their high school educa- A Weekly Colin About This and That in The Canadian Army Ono of .the hardest things any old soldier has to do is to learn not only to keep his mouth shut question but to keep his thoughts in order It is fatally casy to look at a strapping fellow in civilian and wonder blanketty-blank he isn't in khaki." It is not so easy to marshal your thoughts and reasons that may exist. I suppose the principal reason "that such thought control is neces- sary is the fact thay very few men you see wearing C.R.F. but. today It has been brought out in the House of Commons time and again that the number of conscripted soldiers who -reached France in 1917-1018 was a very small pro- portion of the Canadian Expedi- tionary Force. One great unfairness' in public thinking and jals, it seems to me, is the con- stant direction of blasts at youth. Grant that this is a young man's Grant, that some steps are being taken in the direction of thinning out the older -officers-- you still don't see Generals in their thirties. . And I don't think you should. Nevertheless, it is still a matter for comment when a man in his twenties is on the as well. clothes tons war, late Major. Let's have the emphasis on the younger man--not Let's fill our administrative and training staffs with older, but not aging men. of enlistment "why the weigh the many were conscripts. port newspaper cditor- promoted to the youth. us? We are not being fair to the man who was too young to do his bit in 1914-1918, because of youth. this one because he's "too old." Too old to fight, that is. Maybe none of us will be too old to fight! In the meantime if anyone is to lose his present opportunities for a space let's give some con- sideration estabished. go back to. and will pick up the threads again when he goes back. Besides, can be useful in the Army. He can do a real job in administrative, quartermaster, and these jobs hie can release some of the youny, fit men doing that kind of work in headquerters today. Sure it's a young man's war--- a war that can use, and use well, men in their middie twenties; a war, -to judge by the pictures' of Russian, guerrillas, that can find the right niche for a young man of any age. So let's not look too askance at the young fellow of 19-23. Per- . haps they will be the better sol- diers for a chance first to appre- ciate that they have a stake in the "country. = And those of us who are con- demned to be civilians, what about He missed that He's missing to - the man He has something to He has had a chance His business training trans. At ordnance, similar services, other Ottawa and Polish, Yugo - Slavian There is plenty for us to do. And most of it, is easy. probably what makes it so hard! That's LIFE'S LIKE THAT Pr ines] [07 7 By Fred Neher 7] SUGAR "vo SPICE: | Ee=--7, {y az. 7 "We can divide the weight in half, but what about the fortune?" who is - We can stop be-devilling some of our fellow-civilians who have undertaken the thankless task of trying to teach us tobe sensible, We can start making things easier for storekeepers, wholesalers and manufacturers who are getting together and advising the War- time Prices and Trade Board how best it can control their busi- nesses for the common good, We can help to make the most of what Leon Henderson calls "glorious scarcities.," There is no more rubber available from our usual sources--all right, let's stop running our cars at all. How many of our fathers had cars? It is not enough just to con- fine your use of sugar to the wiokly three-quarters of a pound you are allowed--try to get along on eight ounces. That extra quarter pound may put an extra quarter inch of bayonet into a Nazi or a Japan- ese. 'The Individual Citizen's Army fights with its own weapons on the homo front. . 3 Are 'Mother' Subs Helping U-Boats? Large Undersea Supply Boats Would Be Great Menace \ Germany may bu sing huge submarines, thice fimes the size of her Deutschland of World War 1, to supply her U-boat nests along the Atlantic coast. 'hers has been talk for years of great, cargo-carrying sub- 'marines under construction in the Releh, but no definite inform ation. If Germany has such vessels and is prepared to use them in any number she may introduce a -new and important factor into the war. With undersea packs outside her 1,000 and 1,5600-ton warcraft operating In America's harbors, such mother craft carrying oil, ammunition-- and supplies would give her a 'tremendous increase in striking power. The largest -- known undersea warcraft was the 2,700-ton French Surcouf, recent- ly sunk. The smallest are Japan's two-man boats such as were used at Pearl Harbor. Instead of spending two-thirds of thelr time going and coming "from bases in Germany and oc: cupied France, the time of a U- hoat's operation would be limited only by the necessity of rest for its crew. ) This problem of crew relief {is one of the greatest worries of a submarine fleet commander. Transport submersibles might eolve that, also, by providing con- stant rotation. : N The World War 1 trans Atlantic cruises of the 2,000-ton Deutschland, which took 16 days each way, were startling in the United Htates at the time, On her first voyage she brought a 750- ton cargo. Vessels three times her size, vessels half as large as battle cruisers, might keep -a submarine fleet operating far from home © bases Almost indefinitely, Modern India is divided "into nine majcr religions, 2,400 castes and tribes and speaks 226 lang- uages, . 7 THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Along a land front in Eastern Asla--some 1,600' miles in length, comparable in Its sweep to the Russian battleground--soldiers of Japan and China were manoeuv- ving and fighting last week, . ac- cording ta The New York Times. The Mikado's generals were tak. ing up the initiative. again in the "incident" begun at Pelplog's *Marco Polo . Bridge almost five years dgo. Thelr objectives wero not completely clear, but from Yunuan's gorges to the coastal regions below Shanghai the ad. vance of their' columns bore om- inous possibilities for the cause of the United Nations, First Conquer China Abundant testimony has been supplied by the words and actions of Japanese militarists as to the fundameftat role of China in thelr blueprint "of aggrandizement. As far back as the sixteenth-century conqueror Hideyoshi, the Samural thought of their 8prawling neigh. bor as an avenue for armed ex- cursions as distant as. India-- though Hideyoshi was told by the King of Korea that Nippon in at- tempting to subjugate China was like a bee trying to sting a tor- toise. The "convictions of the modern Samurai have been ve- corded thus by the el n'y ascribed to Baron Tanaka in 1927: . In order to conquer China we must first conquer Man- churia and Mongolia. In order to conquer the world, we must first conquer China. If we suc- ceed inh conquering China, the rest of the Asiatic countries and the South Sea countries will fear us and surrender to ua. __ Prospective Gains The war against China, it {is clear, has been regarded as vital in order to gain: (1) bases on the Asiatic mainland both to pro- "tect Japan's rear and to provide springboards for further expan- sion; (2) resources, such as tho iron, coal, -oil, grain and timber of Manchukuo; (3) control over a people who account for a quar- ter of the world's population and who must be shackled before they "awaken", The campaigns de- veloping last week appeared lo some observers to be an effort to clean up the long-dragging China incident, perhaps to knock China out of the war and thereby to free the largest portion of Japan's soldiery. and to eliminate the major land front from which an Allied offensive might be launch. ed." Japan Strikes The blows were aimed In sev- eral sectors: } The spearhead of the rapid Jap- anese thrust from Burma {into Yunnan, China's wild southwest- ern province, encountered stiff resistance on the Burma Road, about halfway between Lashio Japan's Violent Attack On China Imperils Cause Of United Nations and Kunming. Chinese veterans demolished bridges atross the steep canyons cut by the Salween and Mekong Rivers, harried the invaders with guerrilla tacties; propared to meet the onslaught of .@ome 100,000 Japanese aiid to be massing in Burma, and "Indo-China. The main' Japan. oso objective seemed to be the' .arep around Yunngan's capital Kunming, where the Clilang Kai - shek Hovernment has established ars factories carvied inland fro the occupied coast, . Chinese Corridor The provineds betwesn Shang- hai and Canton have nevef been completely overrun. They have remained "a corridor for goods brought through blockade. fo Free China. They harbor airfields which could scive as bases for raids on Japan, It was believed that a land-and-uir campaign by eome 100,000 Nipponese troops in 'this region was secking to plug a break in China's isolation and res move the menace of hostile air- » dromes. Recently Chungking claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on a Japanese expedition theatre. Japan Drives Inland. . A number of widely separated actions in China's central prov- inces indicated that the invaders were trying to destroy Important supply and communication centres for Chungking's regulars and guerrillas. An advance began above the Yellow River, appar- cently to mop up resistance in Shansi. Below the Yangtze, a drive seemed under way. toward Changsha, where the Japanese have suffered defeat in previous campaigns. The peril confronting Free China was emphasized by Chung- king spokesmen. It was insisted that the Japanese were concen- trating for a decisive blow against their oldest opponent. The Allies were warned that "China needs all the help our friends can send ws with the utmost haste." The aid most urgently requested was: "First bombers and pursult planes; second, bombers and pure suit planes; third, bombers _and pursuit planes." Can China Hold Out? The problem of meeting Chung king's plea was admittedly tough, The arsenals of America and Bri. tain were striving to prepure the fronts over all the world--Lthere was some opinion that the new Japanese campaigns in China were still subordinate to drives being shaped against India, Aus- tralian or Siberia, The shipping of the United Nations was strained to the utmost. The hope was that Asia's greatest nation would hold out until its vast reserves of man * power could be buttressed with equipment to match the invadoer's. "Old Man MacLeod" Old Man Macleod, they called him affectionately in the famed fishing district of Stornoway, Scotland, and when war came he lifted his, nets for the last time. The Old Man joined one of Britain's tramps. His son, point ing out that the salt spray surged in his veins also, sailed with him. Just the other day, the father, Able Seaman Neil Macl.eod, was awarded posthumously Lloyd's War Medal for bravery at sea. A member of the British rer- chant marine whose ship had been torncdoed, he directed the sail- ing of a lifeboat to land, although in a dying condition. The Old Man was below decks when the torpedo struck. The shock fractured his legs. The ship was sinking as he struggled "to climb through a hole to the deck. He fell back but someone threw him a rope. Waving help aside, he reached the deck, crawled along on hands and knees and lowered himself into a lifeboat. He knew the ways of small craft and believed he could be of service. Then tco, his son was in that boat and land was not far away. So the old fisherman sailed the boat to-land. And-all the. time he knew he was dying. Now his con is back at sea again. 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