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R.C.M.P. Sail Over Top Of America Negétiate Northwest Passage Second Time In History A new chapter was added, to Arctic history recently by eight Bardy Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen who completed the first west-to-east voyage across the top of America 28 months after their 80-ton auxiliary schooner set out from Vancouver, The bearded adventurers sailed quietly into Sydney, NS. to aec- complish In reverse the feat which explorers of a bygone era had at- tempted unsuccessfully. In thelr -. search for the Northwest Passage, Only once in history has the east-to-west passage been sailed-- by Roald Amundsen, the Norweg- lan explorer, and five other men who crossed the North Atlantic in 1903 and emerged Into the Pacifio three years later, Details of the Mounties' voyage were cloaked by official secrecy, the members of the expedition de- eling to disclose their purpose in undertaking the hazardous jour- ney. : During most of the time since they left the West Coast fn June, 1940, the Mounties' only contact with the outside world was by radio. Though they carried a good- ly load of provisions when they got out they were forced to forage for their food during thelr lonely wanderings among the ice floes-- depending partly on seals and fish for subsistence, Commander of the crew was Bergeant Henry Larsen, a Danish seaman. Their vessel, the St. Roch, was designed especially to with- stand the rigors of the Arctic, being heavily timbered. Her hull is sheathed with copper over which is a layef of Australian "iron bark" --the only wood capable of resist ing the grinding effects of ice floes. + ' NAVY'S NEW BOSS IN SOUTH PACIFIC ~ Vice-Admiral William F. Hal- sey, above, commander of the U. S. Navy task force which raided Japan's Marshall and Gilbert Islands last January, was named commander in the South Pacific, replacing Vice-Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, His command includes "Solomon Islands area. British In Desert Steal Nazi Planes Stranded Airmen Return To ~ Base In German Bombers Two British airmen, shot down in the Egyptian desert and faced with a long walk back to thelr own lines, solved the problem by stealing two enemy bombers from a German airfield and flying them back." iia They had already set out from -- the -wreck of their crashed plane and had walked ten miles toward the east when they saw a German bomber coming down to land not far away. An enemy airfield was somewhere near. limbing to the top of a rocky illock, they saw the field, There were no buildings; only a few tents and lorries and these seemed poorly- guarded. There were only a handful of men around. They decided to attempt to steal * an' aircraft, "They waited until nightfall when, they felt sure, their British flying kit wouldn't be rec- ognized In the darkness. One of the airmen spoke German almost As fluently as English, ; ~~ They strolled on to the flying field -and the hombers were sur- rounded py a swarm of ground crow and-sentries.' It Was too late to turn back, so they walked straight to a couple of planes, In his best Prussian ong Briton blustred: "These should be ready by now," adding, "Why weren't -they ready long ago?" . He was hastily assured that the planes were ready. "Right, then, Wo are oft with them to base," the alrman said."A show of hesita- tion Was quelled with a flow of Invectbves and threats. Engines were started up, wheel blocks re- moved and the two Britons were % sway, way --~-- + not complete. _ war effort by Al iid While Japan talks of "severe punishment" for American prisoners and tales of torture of U, S. citizens held by Japanese are heard, U. 8. Marines pass out cookies, cigarettes and soap to well-pleased Japanese prisoners on Guadalcanal. Note prisoners' shoes. A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army Where is that man who referred to me and other writers who look things In_the face as "you alarm. ists"? I'd like to take him on a little motor trip--to the Gaspe Peninsula! That is to say I'd like to take him for that trip but for one thing --It would be a shame to waste gasoline on him. And motor trips. are out--except for the ninnles with their heads buried In the eand who still run thelr cars, "just for a little jaunt on Sundays" "A little jaunt on Sundays." We are fighting a people who would shoot them for that, So, Just because we are not a people who shoot amateur traitors, they blithely disregard signs that even the dullest common man can read, squander life-saving gasoline, wear out 'badly needed rubber and com- placently Increase the spread of the only portion of their anatomy ever likely to be impaled upon a German or Japanese bayonet. "Some of them, on' the long, stra- tegic road that follows the St. Lawrence, even drive with their headlights full on after dark. And all this, mind you, after the " news has been released that enemy submarines have been active In the Gulf of St. Lawrence? A black-out has been ordered on .the banks of the River St. Lawr- --ence-and extending five miles in- ward. This has not been done for fun, it has been done because lights on shore enable a navigator to make his way to the point he desires to reach and equally because lights on the shore silhouette any vessel --even a little fishing boat--be- tween the shore and an enemy raider. 80 you see this has not been done for fun. It has been ordered be- cause Canada, whether we like it or not, is in the war zone. It has been ordered because lives have been lost on the broad bosom of the mighty waterway, the banks of which Lady Bessborough once described as "arms that reach out to welcome visitors to Canada." There are some visitors Canada does not welcome--hence the need for a black-out. Shortly after the black-out was. ordered, indignant complaints reached the authorities that it was was fairly simple. Many of the farmers living in the country sur- rounding the river do not read the newspapers, do not listen to radio- and did not understand how close the war has come to Canada's" shores. They understand now be- cause the authorities" quickly de- vised a plan for notifying every villager, every farmer, of the black. . out order and of the reasons for it and the necessity for its obsery- ance. 2 The foregoing paragraph, how- ever, grants no absolution to the motorists who drove along the highway with their headlights on, -- headlights that, every 'time the road rounded a cape, pointed out like twin searchlights across the black waters of the gulf. These wére just careless--if so criminal ° a disregard for the lives of Cana- diane afloat for the protection of Canada can be called careless-- _ motorists who thought more of "their own, safety and more of the sllly "necessity" for speed that would not permit them to dim their lights and proceed at a pace calculated not only to assist the aintaining the darkness but also to assist it by conserving tires and gasoline, © And it is not only in the black- out areas that suoh "careless" motorists mar the otherwise bright THE The answer to this pages that Canada 1s writing In the history of these awful war years. + On the Sunday preceding Thanks- glving Day and on Thanksgiving Day itself, you saw for yourself streams of private automobiles that choked. the highways sur- rounding the larger clties. What you thought about it I can guess, What I thought about it, no news- paper can print. Apparently such selfishness fs something that only public opinlon applied privately can remedy. This column, the forty-second, that has appeared in these pages, brings to an end the serles known as The Individual Citizen's Army. It comes to an end because this Individual citizen no longer wlll have the (ime to write a column a week, As a matter of fact, under King's Regulations and Orders governing the Canadian Army, he wlll not have permission to write for publication, because this "old sweat" puts on the uniform again with Canada on hls shoulders to enable a younger man, who is fit, to move on to one of the fronts on which we all are sure the Cana- dian Army will soon again vle- toriofisly take up the torch thrown to It by falling hands, a quarter of a century ago. BOOK SHELF 8IGNED WITH THEIR HONOUR By James Aldridge John Quayle was a flying officer patrolling a fighter plane in Libya when the fighting command rush- ed air ald to Greece. On the way to the front he met a Greek girl, Helen Stangou, and they fell in love. This was no ordinary love affair born of emotional impulse. Quayle had learned the art of fighting rapidly but he Jearned the other lessons of the war more slowly, for the day-to-day struggle to fight and survive took prece- dence over everything else. So it was partly because 'he came to realize that Helen understood the complexity-of their lives and their relationship to' the war that his love for her was sure and deep--- and the one thing he most needed in tho struggle for survival. The . people of the novel are Greeks, Britishers!and Australians. It is a tale of dog fights in tho air, and retreat by land and by sea, It will be widely read as a tale of excitement and suspense and for {ts love story. It will be rememhered as a significant ex- pression of young men's thoughts and hopes and fears as they fight to live on day by day so that oth- ers may survive to liye as free men in a saner, better world, 8igned With Thelr Honour , . by and Stewart . .. Price $3.00, James Aldridge . . . McClelland - gates." CHRISTIAN NURTURE IN THE ; FAMILY Deuteronomy 6:4.9, 20-2 2 Timothy 3:14, 15 - GOLDEN TEXT.--Train up a child in the way he should go. And even when he is old'he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6, © THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.---The particular passage assigned to us in" Deuteronomy was. written - somewhere about 1460 B.C. Paul wrote his last letter to Timothy about A.D. 66. Place.--All the early chapters of Deuteronomy record discourses by Moses on the plains of Moab, on the eastern side of Jordan. The second Epistle of Paul to Timothy was written from Rome, Timothy being probably at Ephesus. First Commandment 4. "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jchovah.," These "verses, 4 and 6 are referred to by our Lord as 'the first and great commapdment.' 6. "And thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." The demand 'with all thy heart' excuses all half-heart- edness, all division of the heart in its love. The heart is men- tioned first as the seat of the emotions generally and of love in particular; then follows the soul as the centre of personality in man, to depict the love as per- vading the entire self-conscious- ness; and to. this is added 'with all the strength,' that is of body and soul. The Truth Taught 6. "And these words, which IT command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; 7. and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sitteth in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." If the Word of God is in our heart, then it will be the centre of our life, .and it will be inevitable that we shall speak to our children fre- quently of the Word; the age of childhood is the time. for instruc- tion and for molding life. The Truth In Life 8. "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets be- tween thine eyes. 9. And thou shalt write them upon the door- posts of thy house, and upon thy The little metal boxes or skin bags, containing the ten com- mandments or other portions of the law, are hung on the right hand door-post of orthodox Jews even today. Every pious Jew en- tering a home where such are at- tached to the door-post will touch or salute it. The tragedy is that these artificial devices often take the place of real devotion to the Word of Gad, and those who use them find it convenient and take ft to bo sufficient to simply al- Jow these inscribed passages of the . Word of God to come in contact with the arm or the brow, without allowing the actual truth of these passages to enter into and domin- ate the heart itself. Reasons For Obeying God 20. "When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you? 21. then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bond- men in Egypt: and Jchovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 22. and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Phar- ach, and upon all his house, be- fore our eyes; 23. and he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give ys the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24, And Jehovah commanded us to-do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for: our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. 26. And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this com. - mandment before Jehovah , our God, 'as he hath commanded 'us. Why are-the laws of God some- -times so hard to obey? For the Israclite, the great reason was because the God Who gave these commandments had delivered them from the bondage of Egypt, {RADIO REPORTER its mons With gasoline strictly rationed and heavier income taxes, Cana- dians will be making their own amusement more and more as the months roll along. Many church and patriotic groups will be think- ing up new ways of rafsing funds from entertainment in their own localities. Of particular interest therefore in rural Ontario will be » the series "Fireside Fun" heard every Thursday afternoon, 4.18 to. 4.30 over the outléts of the *'C.B.C,, .including CBL, Toronto. Included in these discussions, pre- sented by Fustella Burke Lang- don are such subjects as , . , , "How to run a Sing-Song"; "How to plan a Club party"; "Entertain- ing the troops"; "How to be a home Ventriloquist" , . . and so on. This series of programs should be very helpful both in the plan- ning of home and community en- tertainment. . . . Everyone knows Lionel Barry- more the veteran star of stage and screen, Many radic fans will therefore be gratified to learn of the new series which will feature Lionel Barrymére as the Mayor of Springdale every Wednesday night over the Columbia Broad- casting System and CFRB, Toron- to, 9.30 to 10 p.m. The Mayor of Springdale is a kindly, wise and understanding character, liv- ing in a town described as "not "too large and not too small" . . . a man whose interests are dedi- cated to the democratic way of life . . .. a man who interprets more than any other character on the air the type of personality who represents the friendly, un- derstanding town executive who is _ part and parcel of the life of the rural communities. There are laughs and tears In the story as the Mayor sympathetically deals with the daily problem. of his office, whether they be those of juvenile sweethearts, or the young wife whose husband has been re- ported missing in air operations. Altogether here is a program, full of human interest and of broad general appeal to every member of the houschold. . -. * Listen boys and girls. Be sure to gather round your radios Sat- urday evening next (November 7th) 6.15 to 5.30 CFRB, Toronto. Santa Claus, that jovial rollicking old fellow with the cheery laugh' and the kindly philosophy will be with you once again. Maybe he'll talk to you right from his ice palace at the North Pole. They tell me he has some big surprises in store for you this year. Better . make surd you get all the errands dope and all the jobs finished for Mother before 5.15 Saturday, and every Tuesday, Thursday and Sat- and, bringing them out from this enslavement, had given them a land flowing with milk and honey, thus revealing Himself to be a God of love, of compassion and of power. The God Who delivered them from Egypt would give such commandments only for their own good, that they might live abun- dantly. Thus they were to obey the law for two reasons: first, because the commandments were given by One to Whom they owed their very freedom, and secondly, because obedience to these com- mandments would always result in the enrichment of their lives, and their own material and spiritual welfare. Early Instruction 14. "But abide Thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15. and that from a babe thou hast known the sacréd writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." This reference to Timothy's early training fol- lows upon a long enumeration of the terrible characteristics that will be manifest in 'mankind gen- erally, at the end of the age. Paul declares they will not mark Timothy's life because ht has been instructed so adequately that by this truth' he will be given vic- tory over all these evil tendencies. In other words, the very roots, if 'properly nurtured and cared for, could only produce, by the power of the Holy Spirit, a life strong ip "purity and unwavering in faith, - urday between now and Christ mas, : « . . ~ And by the way did you know that Santa Claus has a daughter, Moreover she 'is a writer of dis- tinction and a character actress too. 'The daughter of that grand OLD FELLOW. who climaxes the big Christmas pardde in Toronto Is being featured in a series of dramatic sketches * heard every Tuesday evening over CBL, To- ronto, commencing at 9 o'clock. They call the program "John and Judy." You too, 1 think will en- joy helping solve their problems, you'll thrill to their laughter, their romance and the homey atmos- phere which surrounds these radio neighbours of yours, Maybe you'll share their secrets too. Awd as secrets are always associated with Santa Claus, we won't disclose his daughter's name. Not now, at any rate. Later perhaps. . . . You enjoy a bit of light hearted chatter and entertainment, don't you? Everybody does. Well, here's youraprogram. Wednesday evening 9 to 9.30, the Columbia network and CFRB, Toronto. Bob Burns, the "Arkansas traveller" with his colourful stories and Fumorous ancedotes, is equipped with a new guitar to accompany his characteristic folk tunes, and with his old bazooka louder and perhaps just a bit funnier than ever. - Billy Artzt's' eleven piece PY A si band provides such musical back- ground as Bob Burns doesn't pro- vide for himself, I think you'll enjoy this show, and it certainly will help rub a few of the wrinkles off your worried brow, Britain Calls Up Eighteen-Year-Olds Thé King, in the presence of South African Premier' Field Mar- shal Jan C. Smuts and Ernest Bevin, Mipister of Labor and Na- tional Service, signed a proclama- tion at Buckingham Palace recent. ly making 18-year-old youths elig- ible for military service. Bevin, disclosing the action in the House of Commons, empha« sized that the young class would not be required to serve abroad. "We propose to register Nov. 7 those who have reached the age of 18 between July 1 and Sept. 80, inclusive," he said. "They will be medically examined later in the month and called up as re- quired, "Many of them may expect to join the services in December." Bevin hinting at offensive ae- tion, said the nced for the 18- year-olds was urgent, "I will not go into details," he said, "but there are requirements for the three services nceessita- ting this step. The state has now been reached when, in the opinion of the Government, the calling up can no longer be postponed. Indeed, it is urgently necessary." Every man under 60 was liable for militia service in the reign ot William the Conqueror, LISTEN TO- "COUNTRY NEWS" ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS EACH SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. 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