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"> Expects T. B, Will Sweep All Europe Outbreak of Epidemic Fore cast by Ottawa Expert, Due to War " What may amount to a tuber- Yblosis epidemic in "European coun. es "Is. bound to be one of the Braver consequences of their cols and disorganization under Nazi occupation," Dr, G, J*Wherr- elt of Ottdwa, executive director pf the Canadian Tuberculosis As- woclation, said late in August, PREVENTIVE WORK IMPORT- ANT {All the contributing factors are there," he said, "The disruptioh of preventive services 'and treat. ment and the famine or partial fam- fne can haye only one result. In central Europe in '17 and '18 the numbers of tuberculosis victims went sky high--starvation had a good deal to do with it." Preventive work and treatment in Canada is more important now during war time than ever before, he continued. "Our experience in the Great War has cost the gov- ernment of Canada $150,000,000 in the last 25 years to look after the 7,500 cases which developed in the army during the four years. Ten per cent of them never even left Canada. MORE CANADIANS DIE "During this first year of the war more than 6,000 Canadians have died of tuberculosis--Iless than a thousand have been killed In the 'war, | "Anything which is going to be a problem after the war should not . be forgotten now, Indeed it is doing the most efficient kind of war work because it is eliminating situations which create terrible difficulties and problems after the conflict is over." "He Jumps for Science A jump from 38,000 feet in which his .parachute won't open for 31,000 feet will be made by . Arthur H. Starnes, 35, in the in- terest of science. He will carry equipment to measure respira- tion and pulse during his leap from the stratosphere. He fis shown in a low pressure chamber at Northwestern University Medi- _..cal school, Chicago, having his reactions tested.' Folk Dancing Gaining Favor "on This Continent--Jitter- bug Vogue Is Going Out-- Rumba, Conga And Tango In- crease In Popularity, Too hg European war and the conse- quent efforts to create a Western Hemisphere solidarity have greatly popularized Latin-Ameri- can dances in the United States, it was reported at the annual con- vention of the Chicago National Association of Dancing Masters. Steps such as the Rhumba, Conga and Tango have gained greatly in favor since the first of the year, promising to be among the best-liked dances of the new fall and winter season, association spokesmen said. "GROUP DANCING" The dancing masters said an- other significant trend was to- ward the dance evaluations of America's past and adaptations of folk dances of the old world. Group dancing, they commented, was being. featured in manygball- rooms, as were waltzes, 'which never really haves lost much ground." ' The consensus was that the jit- ---terbug vogue was really petering out now. Some instructors ob- served that "what Interest re- mains' in that kind of dancing is kept alive almost entirely by the girls; the boys do not actually care' for it." $i There are now more than 115,000,000 sheep in Australia. When soldiers were billeted in a town only a hundred years ago A sergeant, accompanied by a 'drummer, paraded to warn tradesmen not to sell to the troops on credit. - oS ed) a ---- te aA re $ RSG ES AAA Ca et 3 ttt 3 I ONG GES oh {a IEAM AA {Mv CF BRENT RDS Eh 1) SATS a a Natural Resources * +t ee No. 8 ..\ (By G. C. Toner) BACKING THE PROJECT Conservation of our wild life depends on the maintenance of the soil and the waters. Destruc- tion of either one should not be permitted and where this has oc curred in the past means should be taken to restore conditions as soon as possible, Luther swamp is of vita] concern to everyone in southwestern Ontario. We can 8H help in the work of conserva- tion by backing the project for the restoration of this area to its - original condition. The Ontario Federation of Anglers is vitally interested in this. whole project which we told you about in our column of last week A committee appointed under the chairmanship of Dr. N. C. Douglas, Owen Sound, re- cently inspected the swamp and the drainage ditches. This come mittee reports that the construc- tion of an eight foot dam across the Black river would restore the water levels of the swamp. Education Under « Nazis Declines Girls Are No Longer Allowed Higher Education In Czecho- 8lovakia--In More Recently Occupled Lands, School-Life Is Disrupted Documentary files kept In Paris before the French surrender show- ed that in the first year of German occupation In Czecho-Slovakia 60, 000 Czech and 40,000 Moravian and Slovak youths, many of them unl- versity students of medicine, law and philosophy, were sent into Ger- many to work on the land. Thous- ands of others left their schools to escape to France and then to Eng- land. Some of them, at 17 years be- came air pilots to fight against Gor- many, GIRLS RESTRICTED Girls no longer are allowed high- er education in Czecho-Slovakia. In a country which had 80 women members of parliament, 1,500 wo- 'men doctors and several women sonators, in which girls might even become judges and ambassadors, girls may no longer attend high school. 2 ~~ So too in Poland where the great : university of Cracow, one of the oldest in the world, functions only in part. Of its professors some 160 were put in concentration camps and the student body was scatter- ed. Arinles of them till the soll at Nazi bidding, In Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Norway schools have been deo stroyed, educational systems dis- rupted and teachers driven into ex- ile. In Belgium and Luxembourg the collegiates -and universities have been emptied and thousands. of stu- dents have taken to the refugee roads on bicycles. Many of them fear their return to théir own coun- try for Germany has announced they must work in the fields, for- ests and factorles to support the Nazi war machine. SCOUTING . . . Ironically, a new headquarters for the Boy Scouts Association of Warsaw, Poland, completed shortly before the German invas- fon, is fio occupied as a head- quarters by the infamous Ger- man Gestapo. - * As in Canada, Great Britain and elsewhere throughout the Empire, the Boy Scouts of India are busy at many kinds of war- time service. Patrols of Bombay Scouts are attached to air. raid . posts throughout the city, and a further 100 Scout cyclists are constantly standing by for any emergency calls for messengers. Ld * The Boy Scout wopderaft cook- ing competition held at the Can- adian National Exhibition, and open to Scout Troops throughout the province, was won by a pa- trol of the 14th Toronto Troop. Second place went to thex 1st Hfiftsville Troop, followed in or- der by three Toronto Troops, the 26th, 68th and: 96th, The cook- ing was judged by the head chefs from the Royal York Hotel and Eaton's Georgian Room and the incidental woodcraft features by Stout Field , Secfetaries A. E,. Paddon and Herbert Greenway. The young outdoor chefs were required to prepare a camp meal for six persons the menu com- prising broiled Xbeefsteak, boiled potatoes, a fresh = vegetable, « stewed fresh fruit and. coffee. Fireplaces were to be built of logs or stones, and various camp kitchen gadgets used at Scout camps were permitted. It is plan. ned to make the competition an "annual event. v Lg ates of the intermediate training shown, LOWER RIGHT. The annual sports day. of No. 1 uadron, C. L T. pinned the coveted wings on his bre WIN The graduating GS AT CAMP BORDEN C 2 WEIR a 5 g ¥ ¢ EREMONY Service Flying Training School at Cygmp Borden was climaxed by the pre i class is shown, UPPER RIGHT, and a general view of the presentation scene is wale, of Edmonton, is pictured, LE FT, as Group Captain A. T. N. Cowley, 0.C. of the training school, ast. . sentation of wings to 41 gradu- T HE Ww AR -W EE K--Commentary on Current Events The {final death struggle be- tween Britain and Germany ap- peared last week to have begun. The German Air Force was throwing®* its colossal - strength into an "all-out" attack against the British Isles, with three main objectives: the destruction of the fighting power of the Royal Air Force; paralysis of Britain's sup- ply system by sea and by land; the shattering of civilian nerves, the breaking of the people's mor- ale in the face of an imminent invasion, . Great Britain, shuddering through the most soul-destroying experience in her history, held on grimly with a three-fold hope: that the blockade against Ger- many would soon become serious enough to cripple the Nazi war machine; that the relentless at- tacks of the R.A.F. could disrupt German industrial and commer- clal life, ward off an invasion; that the Nazi air effort would © exhaust itself before British en- durance came to an end. A "50-50 Chance" © In Berlin, high-ranking Nazis declared that new waves of Ger- man bombers flying against Lon. don would carry out remorseless and incessant warfare until (ac- cording to a United Press dis- patch), "the smoking ruins of in- dustrial and military objectives, decimation of the British Air Force and shattered morale of power a government that will ac- cept German terms." The terms were regarded as unconditional capitulation, U. 8. Secretary of tho Navy Frank Knox last week gave Britain a "better than 50-50 chance" to hold out. He declared that the ex- istenco of the British fieet bottled up the German navy and that the Nazis had been unable to establish sufficlent air supremacy to make surface invasion of England feas- ible , . Lieatenant-General Sir Ronald Adam, General Officer Com- manding the Northern Command in Great Britain, told the people that the next fifteen days would show them "what is to happen" with re- gard to a Naxl invasion. If the R, A. F. could retain mastery of the alr until September 21, he intim- ated, Britons could then prepare for . a great offensive against Germ- any, , ."., Meantime the world knew that enormous help would be com- ing to Britaln from the United States In the form of planes, am- munition and other war material. Our Ex-Allies Threo Important leaders of old France were arrested durlng the week, former Premiers Edouard - the national defence and the British people "bring into "Come All Against Her, England Yet Shall Stand" Daladier and Paul Reynaud, and the former Commander of the Al- lled. Forces, Gen. Marie-Gustave Gamelin, Their 'detention was or- dered under authority of a decree law drawn up by Daladier him- self when war broke out September 3, 1939, providing for internment of persons considered dangerous to public security , .. Word -ame from Vichy that a new Cabinet had been form. ed under Marshal Petain. It includ- el Pierre Laval as vice-premier and General Charles Huntzingor as the new minister of war. Marshal Petain took over the office of chlet of state and Gen. Maxime Wegand was designated to go to North Af- rica in chargo of all political and military matters. Armed Peace In Balkans Out of the spotlight for the time being, the Balkans were neverthe- less still seething. King Carol, ac- companied by his sweetheart Ma- dame Lupescu and riding in a bul- let-pocked - train, had escaped into exile, leaving hig country in a state of turmoil. The Rumanian masses, under the heel of Antonescu's mil- itary dictatorship, were already in a state of near-revolt, while relig- fous persecution campaigns corn- ered thousands of hapless individ: uals . , . German troops moved up to polico the Rumanian border with the Soviet Union --- a United Press dispatch estimated that 1,000,000 German soldiers faced the Red -Army-along-a lino from-Norway to the Black Sea ,.. A military move against Yugoslavia appeared in the offing -- the magazine "Newsweek" quoted from highly-placed diplo- matic sources that the Axis has prepared complete plans for: sud- den occupation by Itallan troops of the Dalmatian coast; 2, simul- tancous German move across the Croatian border; and overthrow of Prince Paul's regency, establishing In its place a puppet Axis govern- ment ... "Brewing In The Mediterranean Italy was defin ely up to some thing big in the Mediterranean bas- in meanwhile -- either the long- threatened drive against the Suez Canal; or an early attempt to oc- cupy French-mandated Syria. As- sociated Press correspondent Ed- ward E. Bomar expressed the _opin- fon that in view of Italy's limited resources in oil ahd other muni- tlons, the restlossnees of the It- allan public, something more de cisive than the odd air raid on British bases or convoys was on tho books . .. Ready to deal with any new action in the war's south- ern theatre, Britain was busy re- Inforcing her Near East fighting forces with thousands of troops landed in Egypt, to be despatched immediately to fronts "somewhere in the Middle East." $3,861,053,312 Contract In Washington last week the United States placed orders for 201 warships involving an outlay of $3,861,053,312 -- the largest defence contract ever let in American his- tory, The order followed a few hours after President Roosevelt's signature of the $5,251,000,000 de- fense appropriation bil at Hyde Park, The United States' gigantic preparedness program was moving ahead. . U. S. After World Supremacy Commenting on domestic affairs, the U. S. columnist, Raymond Clap- per, wrote last week: "Our role is to seize world naval and air sup- remacy . .. Our role is to be hard- headed and shrewd and to play with cold calculation for the stakes that aro within our grasp . .. Our role is to assist the British to hold out so that they can preserve thelr sea power . . . We must solidify tho "western hemisphere." . . . Birdmen From Canada At homo in Canada, the deputy- minister of defence for air, James S. Duncan, announced that thous. ands of fighting pilots, air gunners and observers trained in Canada would "secon" start streaming to- ward England to fight with the R. A. F. "Our task," he said, "Is to provide the United Kingdom with an ever-increasing flow of air crews, whose arrival overseas fs to coincide with over-Increasing supply of aircraft from British and American sources." , . . The Canadian-Amerlcan joint de- fense board sat in Washington dis- cussing air ar avil bases, stra. tegic highways, military supplics for Canada. As a result of its de: cision, it was expected (as ono Can- adian writer expressed it) that "Bé- fore long the. Unlon Jack and the Stars and Stripes will fly together over Canadian strongholds on At- lantic and Pacific coast . , . Before long Canadian pilots will fly over American soil and American pilots over Canadian soil." . , . 534,000,000 Bushels If the war had not been going on, the bumper crop .in the Canad- fan West (moro bumper even than last year) would have been head- line news every day of the week . . . and tho problem of what to do with 534,000,000 bushels of 1940 wheat would have occupied the main field of attention'. . . Never- theless the government was busy on a plan whereby cash might be advanced to farmers for the wheat they must keep at home -- there would be no room to store it in the elevators, Lives. in 4 Fish Probably the only person in the world to own a private sub- marine is Mr. Barney Connett, of Chicago, who has a home-made affair which resembles a huge fish, complete with mouth, eyes, fink, tail, and scales. It is 11 ft. long, 37 ins: high, and 28 ins. at the widest point. The interior is fitted with submarine equip- ment, blowers, oxygen apparatus, air pump, respirator, and storage batteries. Already Mr. Connett has made 800 trips in his queer fish, and has travelled as far as fourteen miles under water in a singie journey. As his periscope - is only four feet long, he usually runs at a depth of three feet below the waves, but he has been down to thirty. Aluminum Goes Into Aircraft Rationed For Dominion Now --Being Diverted From Cook- Ing Utensils to Plane Manu facture ' Tho most ruthless rationing Can- adians encounter in this war has just Leen initiated in the caso ot aluminium, says a story in the Toronto Globe and Mail. It" will be gradual in some cases, abrupt in athers, dépending on the time in- dustry takes to complote articles now in process of manufacture, Aluminum cooking utensils are on the prohibited list-apd as soon ag present factory production is completed not another aluminum dish will be made In Canada until airplain requirements are filled. During the jast session of Parlia- ment Munitions Minister C. D. Howe forecast the restrictions, but the present rationing system hag been put into effect with the full VOICE THE PRESS THE RIGHT WORD FOR IT We scarcely know what to make of the situation between Italy and Greece, but the Grec likely have a word for it. . -- Kingston Whig-Standard. NOT ALL FLEASURE Hitler and the headaches of his new Europe bring to mind the widow who! was having so much trouble with the estate she almost wished her husband hadn't died. ) -Winnipeg Tribune, EMPHASIS ON "DO" That quaint and friendly ex- pression of the West, "pNeased to meet you," has almost disap- peared. It was a stereotyped, if sometimes insincere © greeting, and has been replaced by the old time formaia, "how do you do," which is more conventional and which commits its user to noth- ing. ---Victoria Daily Colonist A CITIZEN'S PRIVILEGE Ottawa would do well to en- courage the expression of © in- formed criticism, even when- this is directed at military measures, provided it is not helpful to the enemy, . This is not the Government's private war. It is the people's war. They are going to pay for it -- in life, in health and in treasure. They have a right to be curious about policies adopted and steps taken. They have a right to make suggestions and of- fer constructive criticism. That is the privilege of citizenship in a democracy. --Edmonton Journal + cooperation of the industry -with- out a public announcement, There is just about enough al- uninum "used in cooking utenslis every year In Canada to make a thousand airplanes, . CANADA TOP ALUMINUM ~ PRODUCER Canada produces more aluminum per-capita than any try In the world and is climbing rapidly toward the top-in total pro- duction. British plane factories are - relying more and more on Canad- fan aluminum' and action. to control its use In non-essential products has been taken in time to keep pace with the needs, officials say. Canadian National Railways Revenues The gross revenues of tho all- Inclusive "Canadian National Rail- ways System for the week ending September 7, 1940, wero $1,606,182 sas compared with |... 4,155,511 for the" corresponding period of 1939, an .in- Crease of wins § 530,671 or 12.74, LIFE'S LIKE THAT . 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