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Can Reach 400,000,000 Per- ~ sons; Cannot Be Jamumed The war of words, chief differ- ence between the first and second great wars, gathers force almost daily as speech-makers and radio announcers of belligerents clutter . the ether with a babel of prop- agandist tongues. Co Among this confusion. rise the _voicgs of British Broadcasting Cor- poration announétrs, 'speaking in 12 languages of Europe and the Near East, soberly broadcasting news, «as it is reported by the world's great news-gathering ag- enciés, or setting forth authorita- ive British views on world év- nts. 5 "Twice Daily News Bulletins 'News bulletins are put out in_ French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and six lang- uages added since the war start. ed: Czech, Serbo-Croat, Rumanian, Magyar, Polish and Greek, The former news bulletin in Afrikaans =' bas become a twice-daily feature, Before the war it was estimated 150,000,000 persons were able to hear B.B.C. broadcasts. Since hos- tilities began the number of reach. able persons has increased to 400, .000,000; B.B.C. engineers say their facilities are so good that they cannot be jammed off the air. Canadian Honey Popular Abroad Since Tariff Lifted, There's A Continuous Flow of It to the United Kingdom Canadian honey is flowing rap- idly to the United Kingdom market since import restrictions on -the Canadian product were lifted in November, Dominion agriculture department. officials report. While it is too early to give fig- ures for the export because of the > slowness of return of customs cer- tificates, it is estimated that ex- ports will be "considerably high- er" than last year, when honey from. producers in Quebec, .On- tario and Manitoba provided 4, 500,000 pounds of honey consum- ed in'the United Kingdem, about 26 per cent of the total. -Average Yield This Year Canada's 1938 honey production set a new record at 37,000,000 pounds, but this year's yield is ex- pected to be about avercra at from 25,000,000 to pounds. SF Price of the Canadian honey on British market has advanced about -- 16 shillings for: each -112_pounds, ~compared with prices. current- about the same time last year. Finds Radium 'Worth $40,000 In Last Four Years Machine Saves Ontario Government $8,000 Per Year in" Insur- ance } More than $40,000 worth of lost radium has been found in the last four years by a little machine made by Dr. John D. Leitch, the young physician revealed in an 'address before the Royal Canadian Institute, In addition the detec- tor has saved the Ontario govern- ment at' least $8,000 annually in insurance premiums, he said. Lost In Garbage Sometimes With his instrument -Dr. Leitch has found radium; lost in. Ontario on several occasions, other scien- 'tiets recalled 'following the address. Radium has been lost in bandages more than once, and has been tak- -en away in garbage, to be recov- ered later from a dump. __ Candida' Leading Minerals Listed Asbestos, Coal, Copper, Gold, Gypsum, Lead, Petroleum, ~ Silver, Zinc Are Chief Pro- iducts in 1939 The Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics has issued the following alpha-. betical list showing the production of Canada's leading minerals dur- ing the nine months endéd Sep. tember, with figures for 1038 (in 'brackets; asbestos, 246,888 (208,- 632) tons; cement, 4,426,680 (4,284,238) barrels; . clay ,pro- ducts, $3,124,639 ($321,877); coal, 10,685,930 (9,887,283) tons; copper, 451,410,179 (428,876,638 pounds; . feldspar, 7,468 (10,438 + tons; gold, 8,808,202 (3,464,398) «fine ounces; gypsum, 907,130 . (784,289) tons; lead, 283,981,661 (819,400,741) pounds; lime, 868, 842 (865,626) tons; natural gas 25,074,482,000 (Zhe 207000). cubic feet; nickel, 170,161)71 (160,097,102) pounds; petroleum, 5,787,117 (5,341,669) barrels; commercial salt, 176,667 (188, 045) 'tons; silver, 17,687,308 (17, 071,816) fine ounces; zinc, 801, 930,009 (285,575:229) pounds, 27,0 4,000 5 PARADE ... Wars used to be comparaiively. shuple affairs in the old days when two countries got mad at each oth. er, went to war with tangible wea. pons, fought on actual fields of bat ment, and who was likely to come twentieth century, with the intro- duction of the -economig - battle ground and high-powered propagaus da weapons, warfare has become & thing of infinite complexity, fought with ideas, threats, diplomatic coups = and few can understand and interpret the course It takes. Small wonder then, that, as the second Great War came to the close of its fourth month, nobody knew which side -- Germany or the Allleg ~-- was winning. . 'Naval Objectives To many, however, it seemed during the sixteenth week that . Germany was losing out dn the sea, The scuttling of the Columbus and the Graf Spee, the sinking of a large number of - submarines, un- doubtedly weakened Germany as a gea power, But let us look at the situation in the light of the bellig-~ erents' naval objectives: The Al. lles ard working for the complete domination of the seas, cutting off all traffic by sea, to and from Ger- many -- an ambitious undertaking; Germany's naval objective -- the crippling of the British mercantile marine and the intimidation of neutral ships-to the end that sup- lies reaching Great Britain by sea may be seriously curtailed -- 1s more modest, but' {ts attainment would be no less damaging to the Allies than attainment of the Allied objective would be to Germany, be- cause of the greater dependence of the British Isles on sedborne traf- fic. 3 In the alr, too, nothing conclus- ive had been proven up to the end of 1939, Alr operations on both sides have been defensive; or used as an aid in obtaining ndval objec- tives; or in reconnaissance. How long would .the war last? Highly-placed staff officers of the French army ventured a prediction that it would continue another 18 months, (the Germans, they said, must make some spectacular move, probably in the spring, to keep up the Nazi morale, "They will make some blunder and the war will be over"). On the Western Front, per- haps, yes, But.should the conflict become wider, assume new shape and scope, who could guess when it might end? "On Christmas Day In the morn- ing," King George spoke to the Empire . .. Helsingfors was bomb. ed again . .. Canadian troops woke up in hospitable British households .. . Prime Minister de Valera of Eire urged a peace conference now, instead of at the end of an exhaust. ing war ... . all leaves were cancel- led from the Norwegian army , .. . Itallans throughout Italy thronged churches giving thanks for peace in their own country ... Pope Pius XII read a letter from President Roosevelt, pledging his aid in early peace moves . . , Stalin formally 'thanked Hitler for birthday con- gratulations received. ... ns Loni In Ottawa, preparations were un- der way for the opening of the Par- lfamentary session, January '26, when a program: of taxation to'fin- . ance Canada's war effort will be in- troduced. 'A war loan' will be launched, but in addition increased rise in the sales tax and in income tax rates, from restoration of the old sugar tax, levylng of "nuisance" and luxury taxes that were employ: : Li Gap Small Number Many More Technicians Are Necessary 'There's more to the flying game than pilots. This is being well ill- ustrated as intensive training of men in the Royal Canadian Air, Force swings into high gear. As a * tual airmen in the force is a def- nite minority. . The R. C.A. F., to put men in fighting 'planes, needs hundreds of , skilled tradesmen. Just a fof of the types that go to make 4p the force are acro engine mech. anics, airframe 'mechanics, arma- ment artificers, clerks, cooks, diss ciplinarians, electricians, fabric % workerg and tailors, Ld .* «Many! Never Off Ground 'Many of these .aircraftsmen have never. been off the ground, "Many: of theni never will be. Fly- jng- is the job of the pilot. Their "work is to make: this job possible, hese men are {being drilled, put into fine physichl shape, given elementary training {nd then move i -ed' to air bases in gther Ontario centres for instrwotlon that will bring them to a highpoint of af- ficiency, : - tle. In. those days you could tell | which side had won which engage. out on top'in the end. But in the | -.revenue wlll have to come from 8 - "ed in the last war. 0s ~~ Actual Fliers matter of fact, the number of ac- ER & 2 p Skint my ep iad yn nada's first division are shown as they . stepped ashore, The ships that carried them slipped into their docks and the Canucks disembarked: ; news of their arrival was made public, Py nd hs aes betete sa Thinking Lags Behind Science McGill - Expert Urges World New Scientific Developments Hope for Civilization Lies In Knowledge ; "One of the reasons for the troubles of the world today is that we are living 'in a scientific civibzation think scientifically in it,"' Prof, C. Leonard Huskins, head of the de- partment of genetics at McGill University, teral audience. He urged that there should be a more general adoption of the scientific attitude and a wider ap- preciation science as a method of training, a means of obtaining knowledge, and as an eid a balanced Implications Clear Quoting Professor Huskins said that "The view that science is the discovery and study of natural facts without regard to the social impli- cations of can no longer be maintained. It is being ~ widely recognized that science cannot be divorced from rightly absolve itsel from the human responsibilities i : the application of its discoverie ethics, or peace." The to Catch Up With himself, Man Should . man to destructive purposes in war ov economic disturbances in times of Know Himself Whatever hope there is for the future of civilization, he said, lies in knowledge, the _gcientific meth- od of getting it, and particularly in biological science which ultimately teach will to know MICKIE SAYS and we don't live or last week told a Mon- of the value of pure to the development of philosophy of life. Sir Richard Gregory, the sole function of and principles the knowledge gained, SHUCKS! TH' BOSS IS SETTIN' THERE, LOOKIN AT ASTACK OF BILLS FER PAPER, INK, TYPE 'N EVRNTHING 2 IF TH" FOLKS WHO ONE HIM ~ Army's Biggest Feet Located In Montreal A claim of having the soldier with the bigwest feet in" the Can- adian army has passed from To- ronto to Montreal, The new record holder is Cpl C. A. Mallette of the Canadian Dental Corps. He has been in the army nearly two months, and a uniform to fit him has yet to be found, He was especially measur- ed for his boots--size 15, Sapper Robert Barnes of the Royal Can- adian Engincers, at Toronto, took. a mere 141; Freak Accidents Cause Laughter U. S. Safety Council g Qdd Cases Fach year -the Notional Safely Council of the United States makes a round-up of odd, but not fatal, accidents and publishes them in its magazine, "Public Safety," This year brought the usual bump. "or crop of freak accidents, Here are sone samples. Joseph Fayder, Jersey City, N. J., scrubbed his teeth so enthus- Reports iastically one day that he swal-- lowed hard in sheer exhaustion. Suddenly he discovered the tooth brush was missing. Hospital X-rays revealed the regulation-size brush reposing. in his stomach. An Embarrassing Experience Then there was the embarrass- ing experience" of Frank Miska, A detachment of Finnish s these men of .the first photos to reach to London Finland's Ski Warriors A C4) and radioed to New York. ki troops is shown: so Canada from the war zo méwhere in northern Finland as they wait, the call for action against the Red invader. Armed with light machine-guns, Zafid-fire pistols and deadly hunting knives, have spread terror and confusion in, their swift and deadly raids on Russian: patrols, This is one ne near the Arctic circle, It was flown: from Helsingfors r iL pair and all was well, Temple, Tex. As he stepped off the curb to cross the street, a car whizzed by and brushed him off, -M took inventory, He didn't suffer a scratch, but there he was standing in his long underwear, The car had ripped his pants off. P.8, The driver provided a new New Radium Mine In Ontario Is Rich Will Soon Be Producing In The Wilbérforce 'Area pn Canada is soon to have anoth. - er producing mine. Definite inti- mation that a miye in the Wilber- force area of Ontario, will soon be, producing the world's richest element was given in Toronto last week, Construction of a 100-ton mill building is completed and the bal- ance of the crushing equipment is being installed with the least pos- sible delay. The company has been informed that the separation un- it, which employs the electro- chemical process for breaking down the ore and extracting the various metals and oxides in com- - mercial form, is rapidly nearing completion, «Other Rare Elements Laboratory tests and analyses on samples from the property it is reported reveal the presence of tantalum, beryllium, gold, tung- sten, and some of the other rare clements, as well as uranium, the maternal ancestor of radium, The Book Shelf "LAND BELOW THE WIND" By Agnes Newton Keith Agnes Keith is the American wife of an English official in one of the furthest outposts of the Bri. tish Empire. The story of her life in that. Far Country, Borneo, is" told in her prize-winning autobio- graphy, "Land Below the Wind." She has lived in Sandakan, the capital, she has accompanied her. husband on his expeditions deep into the jungle and far up the riv- ers. In -this book sho makes her readers enjoy the timeless days, the exotic. nights of Borneo, We see her house in the beauty of a, tropieal moonlight and also when?" it is drenched and leaking in a mensoon. We see her compound with its Chincse cooks, its Murut houseboys, and its assortment of monkeys and mongooses. We see what the jungle can do to break down the fortitude of a woman who is both curious and courag- cous, Nora Waln (famous author of - "Resching for the Stars," "House of Exile") says: "Land Below the Wind" is one of those happenings that make life worth while. 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