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‘"Are they interested in the niceties of sport» t they believe that some fatuous idiot at the Air Ministry conâ€" siders that their safety comes second to playing thg game and honoring the rule of .scho;fl and club? "But theyâ€"may wonder whether the people who issued this unctuous stateâ€" ment are conducting war or siport." Beyond Sportsmanship The question of sportsmanship by R. A. F. pilots was raisd recently by the Sunday Dispatch <which reproâ€" duced in a frontâ€"page editorial an Air Ministry â€" news bulletin relating the story of the pilot of a British bomber who, during a patrol flight, spotted a German Heinkel resting on the sea near Borkum. "The Germans would have been easy prey, but the British crew thcught it unsporting to atiack a ‘siting bind‘," the bulletin said. The British plane dived twize on the Nazi, with headlights on, to invite it to come up and fight. The CGerman did so, and was destroyed. "Some hhve seen their homes bown to extinction, Some have seen their relatives and their friends left in form that numbs the heart and turns the st@mach sick. ‘ "They are a kindly and generous and appreciative They would not criticize ‘ British gentlemen who are figzshting for them. They would not ask the obvious questionâ€"whether the Air Ministry _ approves of British pilots inâ€" viting Nazi defenses to shoot first beâ€" fore they are bombed, or warning Krupps to be on the alert because they are about taike attacked. The Dispatch calls this "sittingâ€"bird" tradition "sheer insanity in the sort of war we are fighting now." The paper adds that the vast maâ€" jority of Britain‘s 40,000,000 people have ‘"not been to a public school and do not care a damn about the etiquette of pheasantâ€"shooting." The people know only, the paper continues, of the bitter facts of the struggle for existence., Will Fight Grimly "About this war they know one thing â€"that we have to fight it grimly, reâ€" lentlessly, and even unscrupulously. "They are humbly content to know that the Royal Air Force is fighting for them with=a bravery excelling even their own. "When we go after wasps we don‘t content ourflelveq with, a few slaps at the wa‘ps, that attack us. We go out and burg the.nost. That‘s the way to deal with Hltl"x and Mussolini. Go for their nests." spirit among our leaders . . . Defense alone ... can never win a war." He conâ€" tends to "achieve victory we must strike down Germany in Germany and Ttaly in Italy." "We are still too much obsessed v.ith the defense of our coastâ€"line. We s{a0rld be fighting the Battle of Britain in Germany. That is the only place where the kncockout can. get home. all very well but it is the solar punch that ends the fight. The writer says that when Germany begins to whine under the whipping by the Royal â€"Air Force "I hope there will be no sentimental nonsense this time about mercy for the poor, deluded Germansowho never really wanted the war, but were. just misled." Must Pay the Price "For every bomb dropped upon the 31l of Britain, we shall, before this war is finished, drop ten bombs into the heart of" Germany. For every innocent civilian slaughtored to satâ€" isfy theblood lust of Hitler, a hunâ€" dred Germans who now exhort their Fuchrer to greater and greater infamies shall pay the price." John Gordon wrote in a Sunday Expre$ artitle recen‘tly that "in my view thare,; no way of instilling sense and sanity into Germans at this moment ‘by killing them." He adds the Germansla‘m missionary work, that they have "gons back to the Gordon finds it hneartening to "see signs of a return to the old offensive spirit among our leaders . . . Defense alone ... can never win a war." He conâ€" tends to "achieve victory we must strike down Germany in Germany and "It was the German pesple not Hitler alone, who made this war. They made it a war not of soldiers against sjldiers, but of people against people. As they made it, <o they shall have it. They who ksasted that they were withâ€" gGut mer;y deserve no mercy. Justice is all they need. Let us see that justice is what they get." Germaq that the jungle a "Only Good German is a Dead German," Says One Writer. British Newspapers Urge Total Air War Against Germany ig: REDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1 y brush aside in their Nazt Germany and y â€" ethics ‘ associated Owen Sourd Sunâ€"Times: Italy has | put a curfew on dogs; they must be shut ‘in between 8 p. m. and dawn. But every ‘dog has his day. And in the absence of [statement to the contrary we may asâ€" ‘sume that the cats are still on the night shift. ;Kirkland Woman Hurt as | Car Door Swings Open The casmier glanced up. He took the cheque, examined it, then reached into the change drawer. The tramp entsred tne bank in the ; grand manner. In his grimy hand he held a cheque for sixpence. He apâ€"| proached the cashier‘s window and preâ€" sented the cheque with a flcurish, "Here, my gocd man" he said loftily, "you will kindly cash this for me. And,‘ mind you, I haven‘t all day to wait." i along, the door of the car suddenly swinging open and striking Mrs. Maki Mrs. Adele Maki of Kirkland Lake, was injured in an unusual sort of motor car accident last week. She was standing near the curb when a car cams "How will you have it?" he asked Heads or tails?"â€"Exchange. Mr. and Mrs. Baskin and Mr. and Myrs. Francis Lee, Brookbank Avenue, . were !of the hotsl when two strangers came «in and sat at their table. One of the [two came in first and sat down with |them. Then he beckoned to ancther man at the door who als> came in and sat down. | _ While Lee and Baskin wore away from the table for a while one of the| _strangers is alleged to have acted in an unpleasant manner which resulted in ‘protests by Baskin. According to the in the women‘s beverage rsom | . they could find at that hour without any success. Mr. Baskin‘s injury is not dangerous but is very painful.. ‘ dn un uis in iew t e en | Classified : A Negro woman, asked the ages of | her four children, declared she couldn‘t remember. Pressed, she finally said: "Well, I got one lap child, one creepâ€" _er, one porch child and one yard young ‘un."â€"Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago. Stabbing Follows Argument in Beer Room at Kirkland , are on the lookOut for two men, one of whom stabsed a patron of the Belleâ€" vue Hotel‘s beverage rooms with a pocket knife shortly before on Monday.~ Ira Baskin 145 Poliock Avenue, was the vi:tim of the slashing affray, and wa: taken to hospital where Dr. J. M. LeBlond sewed up the sevenâ€"inch gash, two inches deep, in his thigh. TWelve stit%res were required to close the wound. Unknown Man Sought for Gashing Kirkland Lake Man in Thigh. ' KTIRKTAND LAKE, Sept. 25. â€"Police THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARITO Huntsville Forester: Here‘s a good sample of spirit that has never been broken. An English lady of mature years, was watching the bombing of the town she lived in. An Air Raid Warden ordered her to a bomb shelter, when the lady said: "I didn‘t see the last war, and I‘m too old to ever see another one, so I‘m going to see this one. Go on about your business young man." "Of cour:> you haven‘t," said the test man. "If you had you‘d be much more scared than you are."â€"New Yorkâ€" etr. thrown thing:: a since we were married, sir comp‘l:ainant. "And now, after twenty years you are asking the court‘s protection?" asked the magistrate. "I know I am" said the groom. "But this is a nerveâ€"racking time for me. I‘ve got some excuse . for being frightenâ€" ed, haven‘t 1@ T‘ve never been married before." "Well, sir, her aim‘s Montreal S3tar. The best man was doing his utmost Wally: "Gee, pop, there‘s a man in to make the groom brace up. | the circus who jumps on a horse‘s "Where‘s your nerve, old man?" he back, slips underneath, catches hold asked. "You‘re shaking like a leaf." | of its tail and finishes up on the horse‘s Worse In store Improving me ever said the the circus who jumps on a horse‘s Sense and Nonsense: Culture is what back, slips underneath, catches hold makes a man lower his voice when his of its tail and finishes up on the horse‘s wife says: "Hush, or the neighbours neck." Father: "That‘s nothing. ITdid will hear you cussing." _ Effective, Sunday, September 29th, 1940, there will be a change of time in Passenger and Motor Bus Schedules. For further particulars apply to Local Agents Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway The Nipissing Central Railway Company GENERAL FREIGHT AND PASsSENGER DEPARTUENT N O T IC E. He Could Do It all that and more the first time I ever rode a horss."â€"â€"New Yorker. North Bay, Ontario