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ar Snes ens Sr a SHIR ILH 0 SAIC HRY SY China Is Confident Of Breaking Japan The cold, philosophical calm with which the Chiness view Ja- 's resumption of the offensive many paris of their country fo astonishing evidence .of their unbreakable spirit and of their new determination to crush Japan at any cost. © The more supplies and lives Japan wastes on these enterprises, the less will she have fo use elsewhere. - Of course, it will cost China many lives to take those Japancse lives; but China ean afford them, while others can- not afford them, least of all Ja- pan, That is the gist of the ¢fm- ment, A nation with less moral | - stamina might have hoped that, with Japan busy elsewhere, their own towns and fields would have Yon spared for a time the cruel vages of invasion, A war-weary people might 'have been tempted to let the Japanese on their soil have a truce if they wanted one, Not so the Chinese, They have deliberately forced Japan to give them her attention, and are grim- ly pleased to yemark that they have provoked a general offen- sive. A little while ,ugo the Chinese were just determined to hold on and on, with vague hopes of a turn in their fortunes. Now, they are sure that they are fight- ing to break Japan. -- New York Herald-Tribune, ARCHBISHOP QUITS "To make way for a younger | man,' the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the Most Revérend and Right, Honorable -Cosmo Lang, head of the Church of England, has resigned. Patriotic "Biddy" Lays Doubleheaders There is no doubt that if a cer- tain Plymouth Rock hen belong- ing to John J. Kavanagh of Stitts- ville keeps on the way she's go- ing, she is going to revolutionize the egg laying industry, The other day when Mr. Kava- -2,000_ years, January, -- "French Possessions onial possessions in the Western Hemisphere is due to the strate- gic importance of the group, ra- ther than their value as a source of vital raw material, as is the case in Dutch Guiana, recently occupied by force. tion of sugar and rum -- there 4H. VOICE PRES'S WHY YOUNG MEN ARE UNFIT Fifty per cent. of United States young men offering to enlist were found upon medical examin- ation to be physically unfit for military service, so says Gene Tunney, one-time heavyweight champion, © The reason, he gives, is the refusal to take the exercise necessary to the development of muscle. Young men prefer the automobile to walking; if they seck recrdation, they go to a pie- ture. show, listen to the radio, or at best, play badminton.' Isn't it true to a certain extent in Can- ade. : . © s--Brampton Conservator 05 DE GAULLE'S FORCES General de Gaulle's forces of Free France now include an army of 100,000 men, a fleet of forty warships and 105 merchant ships and tankers, Numbered among his army are 2,000 trained avia- tors. Despite Petain and Darlan, de Gaulle and his men are pre- venting the emblem of France from being trailed in the dust, -- Hamilton" Spectator J CAN'T BE BLAMED People ig, County Kerry, Eire, mistook a- Nazi sergeant for a general, when a plane made a forced landing there, They could hardly be blamed, of course, see- ing that the German people them- eclves are mistaking a corporal for acommander-in-chief of all the Reicl's forces. Brigadier. General Arnold | FF 5 Ay 4 YAR NTT A SEL RAD a £, They're chieftains of the closely co-erdinated land-sea-air forces that stand watch over America's poptilous Atlantic seaboard. Shown at one of théir frequent conferences are Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drunr (centre), famed commander of the Eastern Army Forces; N. Krogstad (left), commander of the First Air Force; and Rear Admiral Adlophus Andrews (right), com- mander of the North Atlantic Naval Coastal Frontier, secret, joint headquarters somewhere in the New York metropolitan area, where they map defensive-offensive operations. They share a --- Stratford Beacon-Hérald Fi Goins . WHEAT NEEDED BY EIRE Faced with a blockade of sorts, Eire stepped up wheat production to an estimated 300,000 tons. This leaves 80,000 tons to be im- ported. - - Now, if Eife would let us use the naval bases, it woulu be easier to make sure that grain got to Ontario Pupils To Nine Thousand Schools in The Province Will Take Part in Pageant a ) Nine thousand public schools in Eire. the province of Qntario have been : --0-- asked to participate in a histori- DIDN'T EXPLODE eal musical pageant in the peviod The heaviest German. bomb of the forthcoming Second Cana- dropped on London, which evi- dian Victory Loan Campaign. dently did not explode, measured 18 feet three inches in length, cation is interested in the pro- two feet three inches in diameter, ject. The Minister himself, the and weighed two tons. Why not "Hon. D, McArthur, has written fix it up for remailing and drop personal letters to secretaries of it over the decad-letter office in school hoards and boards of edu- Berlin? cation and to every school prin- -- Hamilton Spectator |. cipal urging that some form of entertainment be given: in each school to provide a background for campaign speakers. } _ The musical pageant "Caval- cade of Canada" devised by F. R. Fenwick, Mus, Bac. of the De- partment of Education is one of several musical plays proposed for general use during the period of the campaign. Two others--"Blue a INFANT PRODIGY A professor in the University of California contends that Mother Goose' rhymes can be traced back Oh, Doe, how could she have written all those jingles 'way back in 58 B.C. when she was & mere slip of a gosling? . --Ottawa Citizen ---- : Boots" for junior grades and STRAWBERRY JUICE KILLS, | "Builders of Canada" a. musical TYPHUS play for intermediate grades, both written by Mary Grannan (Just Mary) have been suggested as alternative productions. The "Cavalcade of Canada" re- lates the history of Cdnada in music, song and dance. It begins with an opening episode illus- trating in dance the manner in which early Indian settlers of Can- ada celebrated their festive oceca- sions with song and dance. Epi- sode No. 2 dramatises in the form of - French' Canadian folk songs the life of the early French set- ters, the first white settlers in Canada, before the advent of the British, The coming of the British with the arrival in Canada of the famous explorers of that day, Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson and William Baffin. is marked by an individual episode in an ap- propriate setting and expressed by The deadly typhus germ can exist for only a few hours in fresh strawberry juice. ] But, let the Nazis try to find fresh strawberries in Russia in Of Strategic Value Allied interest in France's col- 2 United States Except for their vast produc- Aid Victory' Loan The Provincial Ministry of Kdu- - and, incidentally, for their orator- ical eloquence, will be imperson- ated by the youthful singing of "Men of Harlech." Canada, it is pointed out in the foreword of the musical pageant, "Cavalcade of Canada," is com- posed of men and women of many racial origins, More than 5,000,- "000 are citizens of British stock or stock originating in the British Isles; three and a half million are derived from French stock and something "over 2,000,000 from stock of other European nations alities. : Those ~ European nationalities arc therefore to be suitably repre- sented in this pageant, as will be, of course, the United States of America. ence to Allies or to Associated Dutch Canadians will -.derive pleasure from the number dedi- cated to the years of expansion of their homeland as expressed in song; Belgium will be remembered by the singing or recitation of the immortal words of John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" in tri- bute to the 60,000 Canadians who lie buried in that ill-starred land today. { p Scandinavian countries will be dramatised by the singing in ap- propriate stage 'setting and cos- tume. arrangement of Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish national songs. Poland, the stalwart little Baltic nation that gave Joseph Conrad in literature and. Chopin .and Paderewski in music will re- ceive duc 'recognition by the sing- ing by fhe pupils of appropriate Polish anthems. SEE , Russia will be given a place in the colourful panorama in recog- nition of her valiant role in this war. Pupils wearing Ukrainian costumes will sing Ukrainian and Russian songs in tribute, particu- larly, to Ukrainia known through the ages for its contributions to music, poetry and the arts, The Doukhobors of whom it has: been said that "music is their breath of life" will be included in the Rus- sian portrayal, 5 Many other European nation- - Children of London Give Their Pennies |- with a gift of five shillings and _of dollars to British organizations ) poetry. the first occasion in any province in Canada upon which ever school child in the province--or any province--has been impressed into a useful place in a national drive of this kind, For this rea- serve with interest the results of the provincial campaign in On- tario; the results from that par- ticular angle or in that particular sphere of campaign activity, /.. Inclusion: of the schools, school teachers and pupils alike, on such * the campaigners is a tribute to the growing - influence. of the school authority and. the school in the local community, It is an in- "fluence often felt but seldom ade- quately recogiised. The forth- coming campaign should illustrate to, what extent that influence is a potent factor in the lives of Canadian families. "You Can Fight for Canada!' from "the patriotic review "Pull Together Canada" has been' ad- opted as a theme song for this province by the Provincial Public Relations Committee of the Sec- ond Victory Loan Drive, The opening words of the song/ epitomise its spirit. They are: "Ships and guns and planes we need, our country to defend-- "But we must arm the hearts of- men to win out in the end!" . sheets has been circularised to all of the sixty four territorial com- mittees now hard at-work--pre- paratory work--in Ontario, Those committees have been asked to ensure that it is in the hands of every student, every school boy and girl in the province, by the date' the National Drive is sche- duled to begin--on February 16, It is expected that between Feb- ruary 16 and March 16--the per- iod "of "this year's drive through Canada--everybody will be sing- ing it. That song again will be em- ployed as a prelide to addresses by competent spgake ho Sei appear in every city, town and hamlet in Ontario, during the per- iod of the campaign, to explain for Victory; Canada's urgent need of money to win this war, horribly bombed areas of London recently presented Bertram D. N, the British War Relief Society, nine pence to be 'devoted to the .people of the United States who have suffered from the war. The gift was made up of pen- nies saved by the school children since December 7---the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Har- bor. The presentation was made at the "America Day" celebration af a settlement house in the Ber- nichdesey area. Cruger who has allocated hundreds of thousands in the last 'two years, said .in thanks "This makes one feel that the work of the British War Re- lief Society has been while.". Writes In Verse His Last Bequest Many interesting and unusual wills have been probated in the county of Wentworth, but here Is one contained in four lines of It is that of Charles Robert Hodgson, who bequeathed his en- tire estate of $19,422.86 'to his widow, in this fashion: ~ "All my earthly goods I have in son all Canada is expected to ob-- a scale as now contemplated by | That song in the form of song . the importance of Victory Bonds . - Children of one of the most 3 Cruger, London representative of . worth | Everyone has heard, some time or another, a public speaker men- tion 'the . various arms and ser- vices "of the Army, What does that mean? That's what I asked. I asked the A.G., the C.G.S., thd « DM.O. and 1, and a dozen other ° "high 'ranking officers, + Before we forget I suppose I'd better clear up those 'initials +~ some day, if the editor can spare the-space, we'd better have a glos- Adjutant-General; "C.G.S.", "Chief 0. and 1", Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, There are probably nicknames for these high appointments but at the mo- ment I can't tell you what they are. 2 But to get back to "arms and services", - Here are the distine- tions, 'Arms' are the branches of the Army that carry out the tactical plans of the, commander, They include: Artillery, Engin- eers, Signallers, Armoured Corps and Infantry, "Services" look af- ter the arms; support and supply them, They are: Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, Royal Can- adian rAmy Medical Corps, ete, Don't think for though, that when you refer to the Services, as supporting the arms that you are not referring to fighting soldiers, In the mechan- ized, all-out war of today -- the war that the individual citizen's army is being®so highly trained to fight -- every man in uniform is a fighting man .¥ho was trained first as a fighter before he was trained for or started work at his specialty. : Every officer or man in both Arms and Services starts his sol- diering by taking the. regular ele- mentary training course, A stret- cher-bearer in this war is -as cap» sary of army terms -- "A.G." is: of the General Staff, and "D.M, : a minute, . ~ will they think of next? A-Weekly Cohimn About This and That in The Canadian Army able of assembling a Bren gun from assorted parts in the dark as a Medical Officer. is of carry- \' ing out a/major dperation by the/ light 'of a matoreyele headlamp. The same is true of Ordnance, Army Service Corps -- every ser- vice. No matter what uniform a soldier in your army wears he is a fighting soldier. ABT Here is an interesting note while we are on the subject of all-round training, "The trained mechanic, a. man who is found in great numbers in both "Arms" and "Services", is a qualified "first-aider", Raving passed, as has every combatant soldier, a St. John's Ambulance course dur- ing his elementary training, In March, 1918, the enemy came close to breaking through ani on that occasion cooks, bak- ers, farriors, laundrymen and a host of other necessary, but not necessarily war-like, odds and ends turned to with cleavers, picks and shovels, hammers--any- thing that would serve as a weap- on, They acquitted themselves well, too. . The weapons seemed, archaic. They were, But today, if such a. situation should arise, the men would be ready for it. Today there is a course given to all soldiers in "un-armed combat'. This. course teaches them how to use improvised weapons, such as shrapnel helmets, .fists, knees, boots in a lethal manner, Imagine what 'a man armed with a but- cher's cleaver or. a tailors goose could do with them after learning to take care of himself without any arms, ° A few minutes ago I referred to a shrapnel helmet. Once we used to call them "tin hats", Now you frequently see them referred to as "battle-bowlers" -- what i Good-Morning Mr. Shopkeeper -- Dialogue recently . over- heard in a London shop: "Sweet Young Lady: Have any cigarettes, please? Shopkeeper: No. Sweet Young Lady; Have you any matches? ; : Shopkeeper: No! : 5 you any chocolate? Shopkeeper: Noll Sweet Young Lady: Have you any manners? - Shopkeeper: No!!! Here! What 'are you getting at? Sweet Young Lady: You, Mr. Bhopkeeper. Good morning! Sweet Young Lady: Have you Reform Thy World Beginning With Me The President's informal re- marks to the industry-labor con- ference set an admirable example of the spirit in which we must try to adjust our domestic prob- lems during the period of. the war. If each of his hearers re- cognizes his personal responsi- bility for national unity and na: tional strength, there would be no difficulty in arriving at a prompt agreement. The President cited the prayer of a Chinese Christian: . "Lord,- reform thy world, beginning with me." There could be few more useful prayers for each of us to keep as a guid- ing rule in the present. crisis, LIFE'S LIKE THAT lame By Fred Neher 2 ~~ 7 x are 286 distilleries in Martini. | po gino £ 4c 1 d 3 nagh wen out to gather h 0 . e singing o ome Lasses an alities -- the Greeks, Czochoslo- store : of egys he re that i he Jud Susdgionpe Pang er i Lads" and "The King is Still in vakians, Jugoslavians, Hungarians To my "Jen wife 1 leave for ever month-old pioneer had gone to oN Js Anda any ons biete of mains! | Leridon" will be interpreted musically as more land that make up Vichy's re- maining colonies in the West are comparatively poor and ov- ercrowded. But they occupy lo- cations that scarcely can be ig- nored. Martinique and Gaudeloupe and five smaller islands Jie along a great curving chain: of iklands --that mark the eastern gateway to-the Caribbean Sea and the ap- proaches to the Panama Canal, St. Lucia, site of one of the United States' new lcased de- 3 fense bases, ia almost in sight of of this kind as the Hon.. D. Mec upon which these nectar drinkers Martinique. Asthor has done, Certainly It is depend had not yet appeared. French Guiana,- which contains < al Devil's Island penal colony, is on the northeast coast of South * America, adjoining Dutch Guiana, which was occupied with consent of the Netherlands Government: to guard the United States supply of bauxite, "Its occupation by an enemy would present an obvious . menace. 5 all," © To the sodth of Newfoundland Minister Paul Goebbéls told a lie the two barren islands of meeting of German political and Miquelon and St. Pierre. Their eultural leaders -in Hamburg re- combined area of 'ninety-three ~~ eently, ; square miles is inhabited by fewer | 3 Again Dr, Goebbels referred to |" than 5,000 persons, who make .. the "dumb stubbornness" of the their living chiefly from the fish- © Roman armies as proof of "the | ing industries, Ar magnitude of the danger which: well. The Hebrew population of Canada will" be included when there is sung in. tribute to their contribution to the allied cause in this and other wars the anthem "Lift Thine Eyes' by the noted Jewish composer, Felix Mendel- ssohn, Y This is probably the first occa- sion in the history of this or any other province in Canada upon' which a 'Ministry of Education has stepped into a national campaign bat and produced an enormous effort weighing 5% ounces. Fur- Aher investigation revealed that there was more to'it than appear- ed on the surface, for inside the huge shell in addition to its own yolk and white was another egg of normal size. And now to top that off she has gone and done it again; YE PLAT TE We don't know if it has any- thing to do with the war effort, * but if Mr, Kavanagh can get his bird to teach the trick to the rest of the poultry family, you can depend upon an enlargement in the egg business, Scotsmen who have helped to make Canada great are paid tri- bute by the inclusion of a number dedicated to Scotland to the ac- companiment of the. music of "Scots Wha Hae." Irishmen who have .contributed their strength and talents to the building of the "eountry are likewise remembered --or will be -- when the school children sing, in tribute to them --the words:of "The. Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls!" 'Welshmen, known the world over for their passion for good music, I freely give, no limit do T fix, This is my will, she the oxecu- trix." Mr. Hodgson was a well-known Hannlton florist who died June 19 1941, 'The unusual will was made on April 12, 1927, _ There were no moths or but- terfies during the Great Coal Age, when many other insects flourighed, * because the. flowers Co If Germans Lose It's More Than All "If we win, we have2won ov: erything; if we lose we lose more all," German _ Propaganda TAKE THAT, YOU CROOKS /# © THATS THE TIMEX FOOLED YA ZH Egypt will pay: a bounty to "bas been hanging over us," but R IEE akaly, he expressed confidence | farmers who grow wheat, barley SE "Ultimate German victory Is | or beans on land formerly de: : ~_ eertain, i voted te cotton, ~~