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VOICE or THE PRESS v VALUE OF A GARDEN tt h a little harder but grwu 4al man Mrvieeable to teach th Mid at horn* and elsewhere that ' the world owes and will give ft ' . nothing that i> not paid for in hon- . eat labor. The child who i* led to . cultivate a garden regularly will . f*ry lOutf be willing to do other helpful work when occasion ie- * mauda, and at the same time will be cultivating a character full of . promise for the duties of .at*r Guelph Mercury AL-CAN' HIGHWAY Official announcement la mad* that the Alaska Highway, 1,600 vile* from Fort St. John in Brit- . kh Columbia to Fairbanks in Alaska, win be through and ready for Winter use December 1. It is t* be known as "Al-Can" Highway Alaska and Canada. Vancouver Sun THE WILLK1E VERSION "God bless you, and give 'em lell," Bays Mr. Wendell L. Willkls . to American troops id Egypt. Which is, beir.g interpreted, simply . the eolorfnl Willkie version at that other time-honored ir.jun- , tton, "Trust in God and keep your powder dry." Windsor Star BRIGHT SPOT . The Canadian Navy has lost more ships in the last few weeks than it comprised at the outset. And tt still is a great lighting force. The way the navy has been built op is one of the bright spots hi Canada's war effort. St. Thoitas Times-Journal USE FOR JEEPS A thought is that the jeep will sake a dandy post-war baby car- riage, for the kind of tough baby ur posterity will have to be. Stratford Beacon-Herald THEN COMES HIS CHANCE Armed with the trusty stiletto, there- wonld still be nothing for the DM* to do until someone op- ened a second back. Winnipeg Tribune FASHIONABLE NOW A reader wants to know what to do with an old felt hat. The answer is: Wear it. That's what we're doing. Owen Sound Snn-Times WOMEN'S RAIMENT A Chicago lecturer contends the average woman wears better than the average man. But not so much. Chatham News NO TELLING Perhaps they will be putting an amusement tax on the few hours we bold our wages. Brandon Sun 110 Million Pounds Sugar From Alberta The beet experts say. according to the Lethbrtdge Herald, we can look forward to something like 160.00* tone of beets this harvest, and on that basis we may expect to extract some 110.000.000 poundi of sugar besides considerable mol- asses. The molasses, a low grade product, will mostly go to the manufacture of alcohol for the war effort. But it I* In tbe sugar that a rationed Canada Is Interested. Th sugar ration Is halt a pound per person per week. That means that the 800.000 people of Alberta will consume some 21.000.000 pounds In a year. Saskatchewan will require about S5.000.000 pounds. We will be able to supply these two provinces with their ration requirements, give Manito- ba 10.000.000 pounds, and still have 64. 000.000 pounds left to supply general requirements and to ship to the people of Ontario where we are already shipping the surplus sugar of last year's crop. HERE'S HOW IT STARTED Blackout S. Shore | Of St. Lawrence A Fedaral Order-ln-CounclI has bee paused calling for a complete blackout of the south shore of the 8t. Lawrence which will go Into effect at once. The blackout will be effective from Vlsle. Verte, 40 miles up- ! river from Riniouskl. down through tlw entire coastline of the Gaspe peninsula bordering on the St. Lawrence, and around the Bay Chaleur *hon> as far as Douglas- town. The darkened <uv.i will extend Inland for five mil^s The announcement said '. blackout had been ordered "to guard against the posstolllty of bombardment by enemy submar- ines." The new reguhtioiw will require a total blackout of street lights and Illuminations, and will pi-event Interior Hirhts from betas visible from the outside. Train and auto- mobile lights in t*,> :o- i \\ill he shaded. THE WAR WEEK Commentary on Current Events ""TURN OF WAR TIDE SEEN IN END OF 80-DAY PERIOD this fourth World Series game at Yankee Stadium, 9-6. NDIVIDUAL MMKKE A " IRAV'IN \ A Weekly Column About Thia and That in Oar Canadian Arm? Not v-r;. much has appeared in these columns about the Army Pay Coxpt which organization, ot ourse, performs one of the most important functions in the Indl- Tidna! Citiien's Army; and in this ease when I say individual citi- i-'- army I mean Uie army of fighting Canadiani of all agee who probably bear the word Canada on their shoulders. The charge is sometimes level- led that the headquarters organ- isations fight "a paper war." Too little consideration Is given to the Inescapable documentation that must be done In order that men may be enlisted, equipped, out- fitted, fed, housed, paid, trans- ported and supplied once they are part of the army. Too often we take it entirely for granted that a nian'i pay will reach him no matter on what front he serves; that his assigned pay, separation allowance and depend- ents' allowance will be paid regu- larly regardless of how often the family moves or how often he moves. It must be remembered too, that other Individual Citizen's Army, taxpayers like you and me, are entitled to get an accounting of all the moneys that are spent for as by our government. Today there- are hundreds of thousands of Johnny Canucks in khaki each getting his {1.30 a day or more according to their rank and the translation of these in- dividual sums Into Battalions, Brigades. Divisions. Army Corps and Armies, calls for the opera- tion of an accounting system that might well be expected to stagger even a civilian merchant prince. That, very briefly, is a sketch of tome of the work of the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps. It is not by any means the full picture there are such things for In- stance as advances of pay to men going on leave, deductions to be made from pay for carelessly lost or mislaid equipment, stoppages of pay occasioned by necessary punishment and the provision of monetary allowances in lieu of rations and quarters, when a sol- dier Is detailed to a Job of work which diKvn't permit him to live- in barracks. None of this can be done with- out "a paper war" and most of it Is done by men who would be much more hichly paid doing the same type of work in their peae- able occupations. Amonsrst the list of items to be attended to by the Pay Corps, you will remembe-r I listed "assigned pay." Every married man must, and every single man v encour- aged to. assign a proportion of his pay to his wife or his next of kin. Fathers and mothers of improvi- dent youngsters will thoroughly appreciate the wisdom of such a regulation in fact most of them have tried to do the same thing with varying degree* of success. Right now It would be well for all of us to practice a similar re- gulation upon ourselvee. And right now, through the regulations of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, we are actually beginning to practice as sensible a system of economics as that imposed upon the soldiers who defend us on the far-flung frontiers of the fight for civilisation. In the lush years we cheerfully mortgaged our pay, sometimes for months and years in advance, to pamper ourselves with such lux- uries as automobiles, washing ma- chines, radio*, pianos, chesterfield suites, rosewood furniture for our bedrooms and a hundred ether things that in a more spartan ex- istence we can very well do with- out or simplify. Today under the consumer credit regulations such mortgag- ing is on a sounder economic basis, down payments must be greater, the balance which is paid by Installments must be cleared more quickly with the result that much more of the money tn our pay cheques is our own. This is just another form of the assigned pay of the soldier and is one way in which by approxima- ting hie conditions we may feel closer to him In the carrying on of our own job of war work which is to support In every pos- sible way the man In uniform. A few days ago in Montreal there was an excellent example- of the civilian equivalent of "pay deduction" when three firms en- gaged In the business of se'.'/ug goods on the installment .-.r. were convicted of violations o: t.ie consumer credit regulations of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Each was fined sums ranging from J30i) down to $100 plus the- payment of costs sums not great enough to hurt the pockets of the accused firms, but none the less a deduction of their pay which formed part ot the greater pun- ishment afforded by the publicity that wat? given to their violation of rules that have been established for the benefit of the whole ot Canada. As time goes on there is little doubt that the fight against In- flation both present and post- war will put those of us who serve in the- Individual Citiien's Army on the home front much closer to parity with the soldiers in battle-dress. Let's hope we can serve as cheerfully as they do. re- gardless of what our "pay corps" Is compelled to do to us. SCOUTING . . . Two Boy Scouts of the 1st Headstone Troop, Middlesex. Eng- land, found a "live" hand gren- ade. One lad remained on guard while the other went immediately to secure a disposal squad to dis- pose- of the dangerous weapon be- fore anyone was harmed. Stopping off at Merrickvil> dur- ing a two-week cruise, members of the 30rh Ottawa Sea Scout Troop arrived on the scene of a ertoos automobile accident. The boys, headed by their Scoutmaster Improvised a stretcher from their oars and a groundsheet and re- moved the injured. They jaie first aid and expertly treated and bandaged serious lacerations on the faces and arms of the occu- pant* of the vehicles until the ar- rival of a doctor. To rsi-e funds to Invest in war bonds. Wolf Cobs of Sheffield. Bngland went In for demestic ser- vice.. They organized a group at boys to go oat and scrub floors and do polishing of one kind and another. The money received was invested In bonds. wiiieh tilt* tie war will be donated to the Baden- Powell Memorial Fund for the erection of B-P House in London. Boy Scouts of the Sen llkey Troop. England hadn't enough cou- pons to provide themselves with. Troop neckerchief. Not :o be denied them, the boys secured aa old bed sheet, dyed tt. and made their neckervhiers from it. A new e-lition of "Scouting for Boys," which sine* the beginning o* tie movement ha* been the handbook of the Boy So outs, has just been published ia KcgUnd. It is a memorial edition in honour of the author and founder of the Scout movement. Lord Baden- Powell. It Is not generally known, bat nxt to the Bible, the hand- book "Scouting for Boys" lias had a larger circulation than any other book published in "he pr*-*ent cen- tury. Boy Scout Apple- Dujs which are usually held all across Canada about the middle of October have made an important contribution to solving th^ problem of apple mark- eting in Carad.1. Apple Days have become so numerous that many thousands of bushels of a; "Xes are required annually to fill require- ments, and thus a ireful market Is found for a fruit which has suf- fered muc'j because of export re- strictions due to the war. Britain And Turkey Make Trade Pact BBC saiJ Ust week Britain has concluded an agreement with Turkey under which it will take a large part of thw year's Turkish exports, Including much copper, hemp. Tax. olive oil and dried fruit. In return. Britain will deliver manufacture! good*, steel and grain. At the end of the 10-day period iUe by Minister at Production Capt. Oliver UytUeton, Britons ap- pear inclined to agree with him that the war has began w enter a new phase, write* Mailory Brown to the Christian Science Monitor. hi a sp*ecc at Akiersao'. on My 11. when Uie Naal drive is Ctae Caucasw and on in* Don was getting under way. Captain Lyttie- ton declared 'At ao time sirce tbe Bftitle of Britain have we stood ta graver peril. It would he foliy to deny that tte*e M days tn front of us are som of the gravest :iat we have ever faced." In anode- speech at Sheffield, apt. 16. Captain Littleton again referred to this 80-day period, say- ing, "Nineteen or 10 of these re- main, and at tee *nd of :ha: time, the "ar definitely begins to enter tc to a new phase." Provided fmr'-ia*^ ia ;ut on uie word -bt^-.zs. it is probably cor- rect to say that British opinion as a whole gree* this is the case today. It y certain moat military eommecutors and editorial writ- ers of leading newspaper aod magaiires seem to support this eonclueion. It is based on the fol- lowing factors: Factors In Conclusion 1. The German attack at Stal- ingrad is still being hW. Captain Lyttleton. in predicing the war would enter a new phje at this time, said "We are approaching the breaiess moment when, if RUMU can held on to her ;re?r:i: positions for * few more weets. the balance will begin to swing ta our direction, aad whec th gathering forces of Ui great^-st aUiance whici. the work! has ever ser. ar* going to give \is first evidences of victory." :. Hitler has apparently tailed to achieve any of his major mili- tary objectives fixed for :iis year's Russian campaign. Military con- sensus LZ ix)odon is tiat his time schedule la now completely up*et and that even if Stalingrad even- tually falls. Marshal 8myon Tim- oehecko's armies are still is being aad Russian arms still formiJabl* along the *nt!re front. Further- tore. Axie losses have been ec- oncous j::-: are bound to have weakened the offensive ttrezgth of the German military machin*. for this >-.ir at least. I. The prevailing view hr is that :ae Nazi offeneiv launched tn Southern Russia this suo:aier was an all-o-j: attempt on the part of Hitler to redac* the Scv-.et arm- ies to impotence. U* not actually to destroy them. He ha certainly failed in this sc far. 4. Cocfirm.it.on at this is sen hre in thr^ speeches by Foreign Minister Joachim on Ribbentrop. Rlcaefuhrer H: r .Ir. and Reichmar- shal Hermann Goring, which sig- nificantly enough coincide with the closing week of the SO-day period outlined by Captain Lyttle- ton. These speeches, especially Hitlers, have been generally In- terpreted in England ae evidence that Nazi leaders now acknowledge they must henceforth abandon the offensive and take op a broad de- fecsive- strategy toward the war as a whole. This, "voadiy speaiiag. i* the ra*oniag that underlies most Bri- tish press comments tn the con- clusion of Captain Lyttleton's SO- day pe-ic.?. In informed circles. however, certain warning* are to b hear'.! Kirtst that the situ- ation of Stalingrad itself is still seriou* anj tha- it remains to be seen jast how heavy a blow has been <truck at Soviet mil'.ta~y strength by the Nazi's territorial gains, which include some ot Rur- sia's richoit mineral. indu<t--a'. aad agricultural districts. A seooi:d warning is that it o: '. be unwise to overestimate the significance of speeches by Nazi leaders. Hitler has proved he is a pa>: m.ister at ueing sp-xv'-.es as part of a propaganda smoke screen intending to mislead op- ponents as to his real inte:v Third, in well-informed military circles it is emphasised that the new phase hits at the met; only beguu. It would be a mistake to expect to see .it once any of the "first evidences of victory" refer- red to hy Cantata Lyttleton. What can be said, in the opinjoa of these military observers, is that ta past 80 days have witnessed the fall-are of Hitler's beat chance to ecore a major strategic success ta the war by carrying through thia year destruction of the Soviet armies in the south and ta the vast piaeer movement centered om die Sues Canal. No Longer fmminent Eigaty days ago k looked as J* he had a good chance ot carrying eot both these aims Today, al- though the potential threat t* Suez ftill extets both *om the Caucasus and in North AMca. the general feeling here Is that neith- er of these threats is as; longer Imminent. It is now considered unlikely Hitler will be able ta force hie way through the paasee In the Caucasus mountains before) winter: aztd in Egypt there ar igas the Initiative is no longer fas the hands of General Fteld Mar- shal Erwin Rommel Meanwhile, the weight of armor and munitions, particularly tank* and places from the United State*. 1 piling T^ on the tide of the> Tnited Nations. Thus there are na- doabtedly grounds for hoping that Russian resistance, especially at 5- -.grad. in the past fO days haa won for the Alliee the respite tiiey needed In order to build up. equip. and concentrate their forces oa big-scale offecsi-e action tn the) future. Whether this future ie to be im- mediate or mtich ajore remote re* mains the- eecret of the United Na- tion* General Staffs. Premier Stalin's statement to the Moscow correspondent in Moscow emphasizing the Importance of a second front has aroused iatecs* Interest in England bat has not akered the prevailing view of military experts t*3At the ultimate dexr*ion as to "i- om and place o/ a second front must be left with military and political chiefs. who alone have full knowledge of United Nation* re*ouree. Beef Exports Drop Sharply Canadian bee: cattle exports to the United States have dropped sharply in recent weeks, mainly due to Goverrwtent action to tnatr.tain ho:r.e up c j. accord-tig to the AgTtc-'.rare Derartment'a livestock market review. In the week ending Setstetrber 10 on'.y 63 head of beef cattle crossed the border against 4.S64 in the same period last year. From July 1 to September 10 this year beef cattle erports were 21.395 head against 49.661 in 1941. Heavy shipments across the border in the earir months of the year made the 1942 total of ship- ments higher than in 1941. with the 1942 figure 120,466 head against 9?. $60. Under preferred buying ar- rangements with the United States, about 200.000 Canadian beef cattle are allowed to cross the border annual!;.-, with certain rs allocated for quarterly periods. The last quarter quota will open on October 1 and if they are available abou: 50.000 beef cattle may be shipped at the pre- ferred rates. "PLENTY OF COAL AVAILABLE" Sa>$ G. C. Cook?. President of "Blue Coal- In a recent '5ro^i;a^t. i- C. Cooke. president of D. L. * \V. Coal Co.. prod;: said: 'In this coal c.-i<is wt ke. It' you don't receive i . vc-a order at the one time. .- -. -- iealer is t : - -,> put coal in eve.-v bin and c.m only I it present. So be ;.-.-. ,.-t s". the coa'. yen v.eed. There's trtcugh Coal to keep every f-ome warm this winter." Re::: lerinj CsU. to make t - . ... the coal you can : for - f. ict ion all wi- REG'LAR FELLERS Correct By GENE BYRNES V I* BRU5HIN' UP ON |\ MX qRAW^AR FOR / NEX'TEKM.' I WANNA H BE THE SMARTES' IN N-^JHt CLASS.' ^ 7 C'MON, LET'S HAVE A KETCH INSTLAU 1 r XX- READ SOME OF THS STUFF IN TWS BOOK >OU 'THINK WAS SO EASX.' i tuouirV rwu PONT AEEVE rr < JU'ASK ME ^ A HVVD ONE' HEJKSCWC.' WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS SENTENCE -'THE DRANK IN SILENCE 9 "