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> = aS iP Eis Loa a: I S-- Sa ~ As) -- < GE ; Wii ae 3 A, nT ET Sorkin? - backyards .and gardens. Chinese and Jap Strains Different Some People Have Trouble Distinguishing Between The Chinese and Japanese It must seem queer to a Chifese that Americans can fell the differ- .ence between: an Iallan and a Bwede--or. think they can---but . have some trouble in distinguishing between a Chinese and a Japa, nege, observes The. New York Times. Yet this does seem to be' the case, and: Chinese in the Unit. ed States have taken to 'wearing buttons to ¢stablish thelr fdentity. The truth is that the various Chinese strains are at least as dif. ferent from the Japanese as any one European race is from any other European race. The Chinese vary a great deal as one ranges from the comparatively short and stocky people in the south to the tall folk of the north. Hkewise a shift as one goes from east to west. But none of the Chinese, in their own eyes or In the eyes of those who know them best, bear much resemblance to the stock now living in Japan, The Jap- anese are. supposedly part Ainu, part Malay, part of a mingling of races driven off the mainland of Asla. They are no purer in blood than the rest of us, but time has - miade them distinct. Of course, the careless - Western glance sees an Oriental as an Orlental, that and no more or less. MMe oid supérsutton of (ne "Fellow Peril" rested on the fantastic be- Met that all "Orientals" not only looked alike but were alike. Heaven knows this fen't true. Pick at ran- dom one of China's "teeming mil- Hons" he will-be-unique. In Japan the same thing will happen. It is the uniqueness of the individual that makes one hope democracy can take hold east of Suez and West of Midway. Meanwhile many of us may con- tinue to have difficulty distinguish. ing between our Chinese friends and our Japanesé antagonists. The best solutlon for that problem Is to behave courteously toward, any law-abiding. foreigner,. whatever the slant of his eyes. It 18 the slant of the heart that counts--and that 18 no matter for offhand judgment. Succeeds Gandhi 3 Jawaharlal Nehru js the new leader of the All-India Congress Party, appointed' by retiring Ma- hatma. Gandhi. : Monday Wash Day War Or No War NJThere are.a number of things that increase one's optimism in these days. One of them is the sight of the washing hanging from the line in an infinite num-_ _ ber of back gardens every Mon- day . . . Whatever be the explan- ation, the sight ofthat inevitable Monday washing always did me good -- as much good, say, as a small whiskey and soda. One of the things that make for cheerful. ness is a sense for the continu- ance of normal life, and in ab- normal times that sense is stren- gthened by the spectacle of all that family washing in all those There are pessimists who believe that ci- vilization™ will collapse one of these days. I will never believe in the possibility of this till. English- women cease to hang out their washing in full view of the tra- welling public on Monday. The day on which it will be possible to tra. vel from Dorking to London on 8 Monday and gee not a single' shirt or suit of pyjamas waving in the gardén of any little bungalow or villa -- on that day.I shall cer- tainly succumb ~~ temporarily, at t, -- to despair. ;- Girl Conscripts tain's first women con- ~~ seripts registered for national ' service recently, Girls of the 1021 ak als, they numbered about 860,- EY dak IS "a nd will be 'called to the ~ merices probably in a few weeks. There is. VOICE OF THE PRESS FUTURE EGG MARKET - Chnadian poultry farmers have the opportunity now to 'make their . future secure, if they will accept the "advice offered 'by Mr, Fred Bray," Chairman of the Canadian - Poultry Industry Committee, The present demand for eggs in. Brit- "ain, he pointed out, makes, condi- tions favorable for farmers in this country, and this situation will continue for two. years after the war, From then on, Canada will have to compete with the world, and production costs. must b brought down if this is to be do successfully. The wise farmer is the one who will not wait until that necessity arises. He will begin at once to study methods whereby he may reduce costs. By doing so at once --and Mr, Bray assures thdt it can be done--a permanent mar- ket can be guaranteed, --Windsor Star J --0-- A LOAN, NOT A GIFT Notwithstanding all that has been said many people apparently, - look upon money used for pur- chase of war saving certificates as a gift to the government, The plan is more nearly a gift to the people. The money is merely loaned to the government, which pays the buyer of a certificate a highar then ugrmal interest. A war savings certificate is as sure of redemption by the government as a bank bill or note is sure of redemption by the bank; more so, if anything. Moreover the money is likely to be particularly 'useful in days after the war when there may be depression, --Port Arthur News-Chronicle ---- t FLOODS OF CONSCIENCE MONEY So Suppose all public officers and employees guilty of loafing on the job should emulate the: example | set by the nurse who recently sent | a cheque for $1,678 to the Fed- "eral 'conscience fund" saying that it represented a year's sal- ary, with interest. She received this amount while in a Govern- ment department, 'but, she ex- plained she idled away the year and didn't earn her money. Un- less appearances are dreadfully "awry, the receipts accruing from a general fever of confession and repayment by other penitents would build a flock of battle planes and balance many a lop- sided state and municipal budget. --Detroit Free Press ol CHRISTMAS TREES IN ( PERPETUITY Protests are heard occasiorally against the destruction and waste of so many young evergreens each year from the forests. It is reassuring, however, to know that Canada's growing Christmas tree trade offers no serious threat to our forests, as under proper management the -present "cut could be produced in perpetu- ity on an 'area of less than two hundred square miles. --Canadian National Review. pis JAP -- HUN -- WOP Mr. Churchill told reporters in Ottawa he didn't like the word "Jap"--it "seemed too familiar." Too intimate and friendly he - meant. But three-letter words are indispensable to headline writers. "It should be understood, however, that until a better midget name is found the word "Jap" is in- tended to convey all the contempt that attaches to "Hun" and- "Wop." *--Windsor Star --_---- Revenue CLINGING TO LIFE London business men are chuck- ling over this letter which is ecir- culating throughout the financial district: ; "The Collector of Taxes, Dear + Sir--For the following reasons I --am unable to meet your demand - note for income tax: ) "I have been bombed, blasted, - burnt, sandbagged, walked upon, sat upon, held up, held. down, flattened out and squeezed by in- come tax, super tax, tobacco tax, purchase tax, beer tax, spirit tax, motor tax. "The only reason I am cling- ing to life at all is to see what is going to happen next." ---Peterborough Examiner ---- ICELANDIC WEATHER The. name Iceland connotes rigidity. Yet we are told that ita lowest temperature at its capi- tal in winter is only six below zero, It was named ages ago by a disgruntled Viking who had landed there with some cattle, struck an abnormal winter, Jost the animals, and returned home to call the place Iceland: . «Kitchener Record a : OTHER THINGS NEEDED One license plate instead of two | ° is expected to be the order in On- tario next year, But even that's one too many--if you haven't-a _ car to put Ht on, or have a car without gasoline, ~-8t, Thomas Times-Journal @. 'coast, Canal nde ISSUE IS CLEARLY DRAWN . " oe 8 Appealing for hemispheric unity, Under Secretary of State Sum- ner Welles above, tells delegates at the Pan-American Conférence of Foreign Ministers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that "the issue is clearly drawn' and the "free peoples of the Americas must do their duty to restore freedom to the whole world." THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Hope For Hemisphere Solidarity At Parley Of American Republics The diplomatic spotlight is cen-, tred on' the Pan American Con- gress at Rio de Janeiro where the nations -of the Western -Heml- sphere are preparing a united front against the Axis powers. One of the outstanding resolu - tions introduced calls for adher- ence to the Atlantic Charter. An- other stresses the set-up of joint efforts for the suppression' through- out Latin America of anti-Ameri- can or Axis. fifth columnists, In southern Brazil there avé an™ estimated 921,000 residents of Ger- man descent. Brazilian authorities claim to have driven underground the Nazi agents and organizations and to have the sitnation well in. hand. It is claimed, however, that a German- airport, complete with radio station, has been establish. ed on the northern plains of the ~ Amazon, about six flying hours from the Panama; that Axis forces control strategic landing fields in Brazil, just .across from Africa; and that they also have built up stocks of aviation gasoline and oil at hide'outs up the Amazon River and at points on Brazil's eastern Tha importance of the Panama must be stressed, There are only two routes by which Un: ited States shipping can move from "the east to 'the west coasts --one through the Straits of Mag- ellan around Cape Horn, the other - through the Panama Canal, Al though the Panama zone'is one of the "best fortified areas In the world, it Is open to a suicide air attack. from the Pacific or from the German air field in Brazil, already mentioned. The Falkland Islands, garrisoned by a small British force, guard the ~ Atlantic entrance to the Straits of - Magellan ~ If Argentina can be persuaded to join the Am- erican front she can be of ald in guarding this important point, Vulnerable Points ----There-is-an---underlying -fear-in-- the country of reprisals by the Axis against the slender sea communications on which South America is almost dependent for its livelihood. Hence the import. ~ance of the proposal to use the 270,000 tons of German, Italian and other shipping now Immobiliz- ed mm South Americah ports, If South America breaks rela- tions with the Axis powers it might not be long before the ap- {pearance in the South Pacific of German and Japanese warcraft, * West coast countries are most vulnerable. Valparaiso, Chili's most important port, is unprotect- LIFE'S LIKE THAT Duk 7 2 2 A S MODERNS® [(Ralesned by Consclidyi ed News Fostsies | 2-19 | | A260 Next) "So young and throwing their lives away like that." Z = = Ze 0 ad ed as ls also Callao, Peru's prin olpal port, and Lima, the capital of Peru is within reach of naval guns. The centre of Argentina's oll industry is on the coast and exposed to attack. The question arises, -would the United States have to send warships to Bouth America, at the cost of weakening its stfength elsewhere, to protect these strategic points? From Argentina 'States wants; (1) The speedy pro-' duction 'of critical materials such as tin and rubber, (2) complete military co-operation with United States fiso of bases at strategic points, and (8) the shutdown of Ggrman business firms "bootleg- "ging" hi materials through the Atlantic blockade. 'Besides tin and ~ rubber, the Upited States. needs, and needs them quickly, hemp, in- dustrial diamonds and chemicals. Argentina claimed, just before the Conference "This America of ours must be preserved for peace." There were 'neutral nations in Burope when the war was young who felt the same and who placed their faith in German promises to protect their neutrality. and who refused to think that their turn would come. In the light of the tragic history of what befell them, says the New. York Times, and while the Conference at Rio de Janeiro is still in session, the words of Mr, Churchill on Jan, 20, - 1940, reviewing the stiuation 'of the neutral nations of Europe are worth recalling. He said: United Actlon But what would happen if all those neutral nations I have men- tioned--and some others I have not mentjoned--were with one spontaneous impulse to- do their duty in accordance with the Cov-~ enant of tho League, and were to -stand together with the British and - French Empires against ag- gression and wrong? At present their plight is lamentable; and it wlll become much worse, They bow humbly and in fear to German threats of violence comforting themselves meanwhile with the * thought that' the Allles wlll Win, that Britain and France will ob- 'sefve all the laws and conven- tlons, and that breaches of these laws are only to be expected from the German side. Each one hopes "that If he feeds the crocodile ~~enough- the-crocodfle will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear J 'fear- greatly--the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely, It will - spread to the south; it will spread to the north. There is no 'chance of a speedy end, except through united action. The storm did not pass and there is no more chance now than then of a speedy end, except through united action. In our own hemi- sphere the common interest of all cries out for united action. The . smellest Latin-American nation can the little countries of Europe that trusted Hitler. Gigantic War Task : For United States The National Assceiation -of Manufacturers, translating jito everyday terms the war produec- tion schedule called for by Presi- dent Roosevelt, disclosed the enor- mous scope of the program in material, time, space and man. ° power. The Association said that the President's demand for 125,000 bs planes and 75,000. tanks in 1943 meant turning out. a plane every seven ininutes. The President estimated: need of 8,000,000 dead-weight tons of ~ merchant shippigg in 1942--and an. additional 10,000,000 tons in 1943--would require a sustained rate of about two ships a day. . For aircraft production alone, according to the Association, the floor space needed for the gigan- tic program would be about 140,- 000,000 square feet in 1943; the equivalent of more than ' 1,000 city blocks, or an area equal to a third of Manhattan Island in New York. lio 4 "Some idea of the size of this --_program-is shown by-the fact that to produce' 60,000 airplanes (the number. called for by the Presi- dent for 1942) and with plants working 3656 days a year and 24 hours a day, one plane could he- turned out every nine minutes," the Association said. FL : the United read a. tragic lesson in the fate of -- RICE © When' there was great rivalry between the. ndherents of the various mail-order houses claims used to be made that this one or: that one was 'the greatest mail- order house in the world.' To- - day all'\those claims have gone by the board. The greatest mail order house in Canada today is the M.G.0.s branch of the indi- vidual citizen's army. M. G. 0.7 Master-General of the Ordnance, a fine old-fashioned title for the head of -a fine but far from old-fashioned service, The Royal Canadian Ordnance 'Corps, ~ ; : i 'Ordnance in its time has had several meanings, An American, for instance, will tell you that you have mis-spelléd the Ameri-. can word for by-law -- ordinance. In the. time of Wellington and Nelson Ordnance was a sort of general term for artillery, You must have seen it many a time yourself, something like this: -- "The brigade was supported by so many pieces of ordnance." Actually, the American's reac- tion comes close to the origin of the title, "Master-General of the Ordnance." As far back as 1290 a "Keeper of the King's Ward- robe" was appointed. His assist- ants were known as "Ordnance Officers" and it was their job to see that the armed followers of the feudal barons were equipped according "to 'the "ordinances" laid down. The elision respon- sible for many of our words through the centuries got in its - fell work and the present spelling was the result. What has all this to do with department stores? 2 Plenty! ---- We won't stop to trace the or- igin of the title, Master-General "for the Ordnance, through the cen- | | turies_-- what we are concerned with is the job of storekeeping and procurement done today by this big departfient of the army 'under the direction of ifs civil- ian head. For all the military sound of that title it is a civilian, Victor Sifton, who heads Canada's big- A Weeldy Column About This and That in The Canadian Army ( gest Jopartinedt store. Do you need 'hospital beds? Indent on Ore dnance for them, Have you & "recruit with out-size feet? . Does Hur unit need a cobbler's wax, 'skis, snowshoes, a caterpillar trae- tor, spare parts for a 26-pounder gun, worsted - shoulder-badges; stripes for N.C.0.'s? Ask Ord. nance. Ordnance is mot just a big store. * Ordnance supplies. skilled ' tradesmen who maintain the ar- moured and other vehicles which: equip the Army. The word '"'master" as applied to the R. C, 0, C., is well-applied. Many of its men are master-mechanics. They were before enlistment, or they have been trained in schools op- erated by Ordnance. ASL "In the Great War, 1914-19019, Ordnance supplied the fathers of today's Canadian Army with "G. S. Wagons" and horses. Today it supplies your army with the thou sands of mechanized vehicles re- quired to wage all-out warfare. To do this and do it rapidly it has adopted the tried practices of: modern business and adapted them to the special requirements of the times. Ordnance even supplies "each soldier with a "housewife," This word is sometimes pronounced-- and maybe spelled -- "huzzif", It means, excuse me please you .old soldiers, a folding hold-all fitted with- needels and thread, pins, spare buttons, vd This homely interpretation 'of the duty of a wife would seem to indicate that the 'housewife' (Army issue) is of almost as long a standing as the title of the boss of Canada's biggest mail-order store--not even the Master-Gen- eral for the Ordnance would dare to invent such a term today. ._ Besides, _house-wifery as prac- = tised by soldiers of.-the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps today is of a more complicated nature. "Do you need a special gadget? _ Give an Ordnance man a can-op- - ener, some wire, a couple of pieces of string and you'll get it. What's rmiore, in the meantime someone will stock up on the real' thing, even if he has to invent it! Anti-Aircraft Fire Blind But Accurate | The Nazis have a new anti-air- craft gun which is aimed by de- tector devices, says the Windsor Star. The gunner does not need to sec the target and the firing is blind, but accurate. The gun is co-ordinated with the detecting in- strument in such a manner that _|-_the firing is done autoinatically as' soon as the target is within range. There ig nothing especially new to this method of firing, Naval .guns are fired automatically, when the target is 'in range, The intricate device is so linked with the firing mechanism that the charge is gent on its way at .the proper moment. If this were not 80, even the most accurate gun- ners could hardly allow for the "pitch atid heave of the warship | on the waves. But, the perfection by "which the guns can be fired so accur- ately at a blind 'target is some- thing new. Hitler Now Travels The "Lonely Road" "Today the initiative lies with Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Chi- ang Kai-Shek and the representa- tives of the Dutch and other gov- ernments in exile," the Kansas City Star said recently in an edi- : torial. "They are the ones who do .he travelling now. With what emotions Hitler must watch this steady and inexorable grouping ° of forces for his extinction as he | sits alone somewhere in Germany, his own head government, his own commander-in-chief, his own di- ° rector for foreign Quislings,. For he has nowhere to go and no one to see, He has reached the :end "of the dictatorial road." The Book Shelf STORM By George R. Stewart © All novels are based on varia- tions of a comparatively few / Alien a ~ fundamental themes, In "Storm" George Stewart has developed an entirely new theme, unless, per- haps, the mythical tale 'of the Valkyries was his inspiration, . 2*At any rate his treatnféent of a scientific medium of fiction is unique. Mr. Stewart presents Maria, the Storm, to his readers in 'all the scientific aspects of her career and presents' her in a language that is clear to the layman's mind. A junior meteorologist in the California Weather Bureau dis- covered: Maria, a more or less harmless low-pressure area, south- "east of Yokohama; Japan, Cross~ ing the Pacific, Maria reached California in ~all the fury of a tempestuous blizzard and down- pour of rain, bringing destruction, damage and death. 'But Maria, as is the way of human nature, was not all bad for her rains brought moisture to the parched lands of California and: saved millions of dollars in crops. The birth, life and death of the storm, and the human reactions to nature in all its violence is told by Mr, Stewart with great power. "Storm" is well chosen as the |. Book of the Month for December. Storm .. . by George R. Stewart + + + The Maemillan Company of Canada . . . 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