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RETURN OF THE NATIVE Back to their homes, from which they tied during fighting between AUied invasion troops and Ger- man forces, trudge French peasants in photo above.Along with them march American reinforcenients tor frontline units. CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM =1^ By Gwendoline P. Clarke How is your head feeling these <bjrs? Ij it slightly addled and have you been wondering what other tricks the government may have up its legislative sleeve for your particular enjoyment? Or are you one of the few who have not yet been requested to file income tax returns? If that is so don't worry about it â€" your turn will come. .\nd don't say I iidn't wirr. you. Remember? â€" I told you ionic time ago that farmers would be required to fill out some kind of income tax form sometime in file near future and that it might be a good idea to get your accounts in order. Apparently some farmers have been requested to send in returns, while others have not. If you have received such a request for goodness sake do something about it. Don't put it on one side and think it doesn't matter When the government has your number you can lay your hand to your heart it has you earmarked and pigeon-holed and will inquire into your movements as assiduously M an anxious father follows the movements of an erring off-spring. « « « And after all, what have we to JAPINAZI The youi'.g Jap, above, in Nazi uniform, pictured as he was in- terrogated after his capture in France, looks none too happy at being one of Hitler's "honorary Aryans." complain about supposing we do have to file returns every year? Farming is a business just as is anj- other means of earning a livelihood. The butch*., the baker and the hardware merchant all have to keep some kind of busi- ness record â€" then why not the farmer? .\fter all if a married man on i*' farm has a net inconvs of less than $1200 â€" and I venture to say that up to and including 1943 there were many with less than that amount â€" then he has nothing to pay. If he has more, then be must pay just th« same as any other business man. « • * As for the forms themselves they are surprisingly easy to under- stand â€" or at least they seem so compared with what I remember of the questions that were asked farmers in the 1941 census. But it doesn't do to read th-e entire form and try to remember every- thing at once. That way madness lies. Concentrate on one question at a time and thus avoid confusion of though! Incidentally, you might keep track of the aspirin you use and charge it up as a farm e.xpend- iture. • • • Did you get any of that nice little wind-storm that swept through Ontario last week? W« thought when we heard that ter- rible wind that there must be an awful gale blowing somewhere so We were not surprised when we heard of the damage that had been done in some districts. .\ wind- storm is such a frightening thing. We have e.xperienced two in our time â€" and that was enough. .\iter this wind we looked around next tnoniing but could n«t see that any damage had been done. But then Partner went over to the driving-shed and got quite a sur- prise. The outside was all right but the inside was a shambles. Half the driving-shed has timbers across the top like the straw loft in a barn. .Vcross these timbers Part- ner has been in the habit of storing used lumber, odds and ends of ntachinery, spare tongues and other stuff that seems to accumu- late around a farm and is generally used for repair Vork so'me time. Imagine Partner's surprise to find this grand collection scattered all over the driving-shed floor. One of the timbers had broken in the middle and let everything down. We suppose the wind rocked the bu'lJ'ng and the timber, which al- thoiish it looked all right on the outside must have been rotten through and through just gave 'WELCOME TO FRANCE' ^owering over them, six-foot, three-inch G«n. Charles Uc UaulU- to greeted by citixens of Bayeux. first French town to be Uborated by Allied invasion forces in Nornnandy. Girl he's shabnti hands with wears brassard with Cross oi Lorraine, symbol of I>« GUuUe's F1«hting French. up the struggle and collapsed. And Partner was walking on top of it the other day! « » • Well it's nice haying weather we're having isn't it? Is your hay cut and still out in the fieldf Ours is in that condition but we are hoping to get some in on Mon- day as the weather really does show signs of being a little more settled. Shortage of help is bad enctigh but add to that unsettled weather in haying time and it real- ly puts one on the spot. .And do you know the barley is in head already â€" that is, there are a few heads here and there, proof that the whole field will be 'aeaded out in less than a week. V « « I have just come up from getting the mail and did I wish I had had a camera with me. .\ bob-o-link and a meadow lark were perched on two separate stalks of chicory for a friendly chat and S!".g-5ong. SU N DA Y SCHOOL L £S50 N July 16. SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF ISRAEL Jud^jes 8:1 â€" 3:7. PRINTED TEXT, Judges 2 :«-!«. GOLDEN TEXT. â€" Righteous- ness exalteth a nation; but sin is « reproach to aay people. Proverb* 14:34. Memory Verse: Oil givs thanks u:;to Jehovah; for he is good. Psalm lot>:I. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time. â€" The events of our les- son occurred subsequently to the death of Joshua, approximately, 1375-1350 B. C. Place. â€" The narrative of our lesson is not centered in any one place, with the single exception of Bochim, on a mountain west of Gilgal â€" the exact location has not yet been definitely ascertained. Successes o{ Israel "Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went, every man unto his inherit- ance to possess the land." The peo- ple entered into a covenant with Joshua to be true to God and His commandments, and departed to possess the inheritance allotted to them. â- '.Vnd the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua. . . and they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash." The people remained true to their cos-enant not only during the remainder of Joshua's life, but during tlie lifetime of all the elders who survived hiai. The faithfulness and Godliness c>f Joshua left tl;eir mark en the Children of Israel. The Neur Generation "A:id also a'l that j;e!ieration were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, tliat knew not Jehovah, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel." Uptess thert is a strong spiritual movement in the land through preachers and holy mcti, a spiritual decline always follows, .-\fter the death of Joshua no one seemed to be able to keep the people together in an earnest worship of God, and to insi>tre theut to o'h'v tiie !:iw of God. Failures of Israel "And. the children ot Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served Baalim." Fearful licentionsness in the wor- ship of this deity was not only sanctioned by its followers, but formed part of the worship. ",\nd they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and foMowed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about thetn, and bowed thentselves down unto them: and they provoked Je- hovah to anger. .\nd they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the .\shtaroth." Man must follow some god and when he forsakes the true God he follows after false gCKl*. gods who can profit him no- f'ing The Anger of Jehovuh ".\i>d the anger of Jehovah was THE WAR • WEEK â€" Commentary on Current Events How Long Will Final Phase Of Waur Against Germzoiy Last? We may be sure that .-Vllied plans for the invasion included ample preparations for repairs to Cher- bourg's harbor facilities, says the Christian Science Monitor. Great convoys may be unloaded there in as little as two or three days. Then th« liberation of Europe will pro- ceed at accelerated pace. That the British, .A.merican, and Russian generals have planned a blitz seems evidenced by the lateness in the season of their attack. It is interesting that the Am.eri- can-British-Canadians copied Rus- sian tactics at Cherbourg. First they snipped its supply lines, then they pocketed it, leaving the Ger- mans to defend a bastion cut off from reinforcements and supplies. Such was the strategy ot Stalin- grad, such is the present pattern of Vitebsk, Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlo- btn, and Bobruisk. Strategy In Pacific It is the strateg;.- in :ae Pacific, too, where strikes at the Bonins isolated the Marianas from the sea and air lane down the island chain from Japan. At Cberhonrg, air po- wer was used to blast rails and highways and concentrations of troops being rushed to a counter- attack. In the Marianas, air power, too, blasted the Japanese effort at counterattack, inflicting, according to the latest word from Admiral Ximitz, the. heaviest air loss yet suffered in a single operation by ani? participant in this war. Indeed, Admiral Ximitz's summa- ry of 747 Japanese plane? des- troyed, 30 ships sunk, and 51 dam- aged paints a new picture of the frantic Japanese effort to save the Marianas. It would almost suggest tiiat the .\Uies are further advanced in the Pacific than we have hereto- fore supposed. Supply Line Battlijss Yet cold assessment te'.is us that the situation in the Faciilc is in a broad and general way just about as it was in the European war w'n-en the' Battle of the Atlantic was at its height. That was a sup- ply line battle, too. Without it, the -\llies could not have mounted the strength that is being poured into this final phase of the war against Germany. With- out secure supply lines to the Far East, the .\llies cannot hope to m^unt the power that will sweep over Japa.iese land forces. We have spoken of a blitz and of the final phase of the war against Germany. How long will this phase last? The answer to that is only part- ly physical. War Li made against the troops and sometimes they may fight, as many did in Cherbourg, until their ammunition is gone. But in a larger sense the war is waged against the will to resist. kindled against Israel. . . .tnd tiiey were sore distressed." Israel was completely humiliated, for after conquering the stoutest of their foes they were defeated and be- came completely subject to their enemies. God had warned Israel of their danger, and they went into sin with full knowledge of the cala- mities which would follow. If man sins persistently he can no longer stand up against it: it becomes his master and he i:* a'^jec. slave. The Lord Hears Israel ".-Vnd Jehovah raised up judges. who saved them out of the hand of those that despoiled them." In their distress they sought the Lord and He heard them, and raised up men who became their s.tviors and de- liverers. God dealt graciously with the Children of Israel for through them His Divine and eternal pur- poses were to be fulfilled. VOICE OF THE PRESS CONSIDER VICTIMS FIRST We are begniiung again to hear reference to the "'poor German people. " Let us remember first of all the i»or people of all the lands which they have enslaved, who hhve been murdered, tortured, de- spoiled, dispossesed. Let us con- sider the victim.- before we pre- pare to weep for the unirders. â€" Niagara Falls Review FOR BETTER HEALTH I'ttra-violet ray lamps instjllej in Niagara Falls schools are said to h.Tve reduced sickness among pupils by 61,3 percent The idea would seem to be well worth the attention of educational and pub- lic 'icatth authorities elsewhere. â€" Brockville Recorder and I'imes A MENTION ANYWAY rho,<c .\merican radio war com- mentators cannot be accused of dis- loyalty to their own country. But they might give the British, the Canadians and others j«<^ a we;- tiny bit of credit for what they are doing in the fislitins hne. â€" St. rhonias Tin«cs-Jc>urnal Futility o£ German Poaitioa Some day the utter hopelessness and futility of the German position will dawn upon the thought of the German populace. With it may come a crystalLzation of honest doubts about the queer Nazi doc- trine, with its denial of the brother- hood of man, and its fanatical res- trictions. When that moment comes, and the suffering imposed from without is more severe than that which a frenzied leader at home can whip up, the German war will be over. It wiiJl be over even if their troops in the field still have the resource* to stand a bit longer. So predictions cannot be based on physical military factors alone. This is total war that the Nazis have brought upon Germany, and the nature of it is levelled at the mentality behind it, as well as at the arms before it. SMOKE, SIR! We'U 'Let^ Farmers Keep Their Farms! Sc said a C.C.F. Broadcaster Recently to the Faurmers of South Alberta "We will LET the farmers keep iheir farms." A C.C.F. broadcaster gave the farmers of South Alberta that as- surance the other evening over in Aiberta radio station, says the Lethbridge Herald. Nice of aim. wasn't it? When the C.C.F. is regimenting everybody else, "he fanners are to be "let. . . k(yp their farms." It must have struck farm listen- ers as a bit strange that, in this d^ whetj we re fighting dictatQ£- ship, we had arrived at a point ia our political thinking that tiiere should be any question whether or not farmers should be allowed to keep their farms. We're only 30 years from the time when we were appealing to the farmers of the world to come to the prairies and the Government w^ould give them a homestead for $10. • • « The C.C.F. strongly protests that this whole question of wheth- er the C.C.F. will "let'' the farmers own their own farms has been created by their political opponents. They tell the farmers the C.C.F. brain trust never even thought of it. Well, if the farmers will dig back into the files of the summer of 1933 when the preliminary C.C. F. platform was drawn up they will find that it was the fall inten- tion of the founders, including the late J. S. Woods worth, to socialize the farms. The third plank of the provisional platform drawn up at Caliirv at the convention where H Believe it cr :-.»:. ;::is cuts little number is a hard-wcrvng war worker. Shej Jeag Mutch ana she works at MacDonaS Bnjtfaer?. Winnipeg, helping fea make aircrart on which jjen cr^j for barde. This pictuf o was takes when she and the other memben of the plant concert parry, tha "Ansccertes", took time out ta stag* a big show in aid of the Red Cross, seen by thousands of citi- zens. Vital statistics a'oout Jean: â€" • Aged 19, blonde, brown eyes, St* feet seven inches toIL Ker uncles Capt Leslie Mutch, in England with the Cameron Highlanders, ia Federal Member for Winnipeg South. •he C.C.F. name was adopted w«« "security of tenure oi the farmer on his USE LAND." The C.C.F.- ers themselves started all the row about socialization of land. Th«y made the first threat. .\ad a great many of the industrial workers ia the movement still think that far* mers should he told what to do om collective farms owned by the U.S. ARMY INSIGNIA -1 HOKIZONTAL 1 Depicted Insignia of the U. & Artny Corps. 7 Bodies. 14 Implant deep. 16 Puss up. 17 Residents of Aran (Bib.). 13 Immerse. 20 Stupid person 21 Biting remarks. 22 Send * money in payment. 24 Most important. 25 Frozen water. 2t) .\r5ues. 28 Sufltx. 29 New Ha.-np- shire (ahbr.). 30 Set up. 31 ExcUunation. 33 Mountain (a'o'or.). 34 Surrealist painter. 35 Finish. 37 Fatty ittatter. 38 Revise for publication. 40 Location. .Answer to Previous Puzzle 41 Color. VERTICIL 43 Suffix. 1 Interpretation 45 Lair. 2 Make 46 Out ot wealthy. 3 Decorate. 47 Division of 4 Electrified geologie titne particles. (ccmb. form). 5 Kind of 48 Beverage. ' lettuce. 50 .Adorned with 6 Preposition. stars. 8 Pertaining to 55 Suffix. 9 Roman 56 Island. 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