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Dm Ti ROAR LOS Difficult To Buy New Motor Car J. H. Berry, Motor Vehicle Controller in the Munitions and Supply Department, said that in future evgn essential automobile users wilk'find it increasingly dif- ficult to buy a new car. , He said the last civilian car left the assembly line about April 1, and-there are now.about 4,000 in the reserve "bank" from which the essential user will be supplied, - Permit For All "These carefully stowed away. by dealers .centrally located all across Can- ada, will be the only new cars available until the end of the "war," the controller said." "Not one car.will be sold without a permit, and no permit will be is- sued unless the buyer can prove his need." Applications for permits soon will be available from automobile dealers throughout Canada. After Aprile 80, the pur- chaser of a car released from the "bank" will be charged, in addition to-its cost, a fixed amount per month to cover . the storage, interest, and in- iurance_ charges on the car while it remained in the "bank." The charge will vary from $12 to $13 a month, depending on the model. No Demonstrations "Every possiblé precaution will be taken to see that the cars in the 'bank' are protected against the elements," he said. "To this end, it has been decided to pro- hibit demonstrations to would-be- buyers." "Because the demand, even from essential users, will greatly exceed the supply, a permit will only be issued to those who can show that their present car is completely beyond repaic soe that the sale of a new car is in the pubic interest." id four thousand cars, GUARDIAN « a It being bathday in the Libyan desert, this pup guards boots --and-rifle while his master enjoys luxury of a mobile -shower unit, At Which Point His Girl Resigned Young Mr. Donald . Henderson - of Boston has lost his girl through too deep an interest in mass pro- duction; but he has certainly lift ed a mighty load off. the shoulders of Codtown's younger matrons. Last week he started a door-to- door - delivery service which in- cludes: (1) the baby's formula, (2) the baby's change of. diapers, -(3) 'the morning papers, (4) the dog's 'dinner, This" genius is only 27 years old and was formerly ant evapor- ated milk salesman--from which line of endeavor he - probably - got the idea of the mechanical cow featured in his ready-to-take baby's formula. The prescription for each baby is placed on a card indicating the amounts of certi- fied milk, evaporated milk, karo -corn syrup, detra-maltose sterile water required. The card then goes into a punched card machine -and- a--8witch-is"thrown" which regulates the flow of the various ingredients from: Mr. Hen. derson's mechanical cow. Includ- ed in_his delivery service is.-an automatic bottle warmer "guar- anteed not to crack bottles at 2 7 {CRORE FE EN FO Queried by the press for the reasons back of his gift to moth- ers, Mr. Henderson explained that he was interested only in the 'production of better babies--ahd' more babies, thing, he said, as a woman having enough babies. It was at this "point that his girl gave him back his engagement ring. Escaped F rom; Java. The bulk of the Netherlands East Indies Air. Force, including Maj.-Gen. L..H. Van Oyen, Com: mander in Chief, has' eseaped. from Java with most of 'the stu- dent pilots, according to Dr. Hu- bertus J. Van Mook, Lieutenant Governor General of the Nether- lands islands. and There was no such * VOICE PRESS WORK WITH FEAR OF DEVIL It would be an excellent thing , it every Canadian were to cut out and place in a prominent po- sition im his home or office Mr. Gordon's declaration / that total war wills remain for/ most of us an empty platitude "until we are seized with the sense of terrible urgency, until we all go to work with the; fear of (the devil him- self driving us forward; until we are ready to sacrifice :in the flame of a true understanding: patriotism all the selfish advant- ages of class, position and prop- erty, Until that time, until we and the other democracies who are still in the fight do that, we shall neither deserve nor achieve . the victory that we so confidently assume must be ours." --Montreal Star BRITONS AT WORK Almost half of Great Britain's 45,000,000 people are either in the armed forces or working on munitions; her war production now equals that of Germany; her construction of new naval ton- nage is four times that of pre- war days; she is building mer- chant ships at the rate of 1,100,- 000 tons a year, and the Royal Air Force now exceeds Germany's both in size and quality. John Bull is sweating, but he is far from exhausted. --Hamilton Spectator LAMENT . "A spirit of defeatism "has swept over part of the country since razor blade rationing bob: . bed up among the restrictions that now are being applied or pro- jected. Men who since the start of the war have been fancying themselves as the backbone of the nation are succumbing to a wave of mental depression, and already are mumbling some brave nothings through their anticipated whiskers." --Windsor Star racenae. } ONE: RAY OF HOPE 'An aviation expert says that neither side in this conflict can build warships as fast as avia- tion can destroy them from the skies, Looks as if the day of the ' great navies is gone. The en- couraging part of it is that no country in the world can build planes as fast as the United States when it gets going. . --Chatham News LAUNDRY LANGUAGE "They say Chinese laundrymen on the West coast, north and south, have adopted a scorched shirt policy towards their Jap- anese customers." ~ --Woodstock Sentinel-Review COMPLICATIONS Any incursion of Japs in India would merely complicate the caste system; -as-a-place would have to be found below the untouchables for the ; unspeakables. -- Stratford Beacon-Herald SPRING TIPS * Labeling the garden helps you to remember what it is that isn't coming up. --Ottawa Citizen In The Garden By 'GORDON: L}:--SMITH Big Vegetable Garden A good big vegetable garden is both. patriotic and commonsense in wartime, Provided he is will- ing to devote all "his spare time to it, one person can handle 'a quarter acre of vegetable garden and grow more than 'enough veg- etables to keep a family the year round. But a. quarter of an acre is a big, garden, As a matter of fact, all ex- perienced gardeners advocate a small, well cultivated plot in pref- _erence to one larger and -receiv- If the original dig. ing less care, ging is 'followed promptly and "regularly with from two to four thorough cultivations, about a week: to ten days apart, the aveeds will get discouraged. = ~~ Leava Wet Soil Alone Nothing is to be gained from wotkibg "soil before it is ready. In fact with heavy ground, ae. cording to garden authorities, too early digging is about the worst possible thing one can do. Not only -is it a messy job, in the first" place, but the sticky clay is quite likely to bake. later into hard lumps, suitable perhaps for temporary. building material," but not for growing flowers and veg- etables, J One. should curb the natural impulse to be out digging in early Spring and wait until the surface water has complétely 'disappeared and oné ean walk and work in the garden without getting the shoes muddy, When the soil reaches this | stage it is: fit to ®orly and not before, Good garden soil in the right. working condition crumbles and breaks into fine, tiny picces; it does not pack into lumps, pel' e Hn. Two Los Angeles youngsters demonstrate a bicycle built of wood to meet the shortage of bikes, WHO SAID WE WOODEN HAVE BIKES? Three metal bolts hold the vehicle together and it runs on tires of reclaimed rubber, IRWIN NDIVIDUALgSA) 44 LU CIS. 9 Tm A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army Well, when Col. Ralston got back to Ottawa recently and an- nounced the formation of groups of "Rangers" on the Pacific Coast he rather changed the complexion of this columm.- Or, perhaps it would be more truthfu! to say 'that he set this columnist's think- box . working in a new and less circumscribed channel. The Individual Citizen's Army today isn't all uniformed in khaki. It consists of--or should consist of--all of us. A year ago last Christmas His Majesty, King George, said, "We are all in the front line." At that time, I'm afraid, most of us thought of that statement as be- ing applied Great Britain. chase of War Savings Certificates and Victory Bonds as our front line contribution. Today there are many branches of 'the Individual Citizen's Army in which all of us may serve in oné way or another: men, women and children; old soldiers, young soldiers, men who are exempt "from military service. I don't like that term, "exempt from military service." Not one of us is, or can be, exempt. So, for the purpose of this column let's translate the phrase to mean, , "exempt from legal compulsion to serve." To follow the biblical injunc- tion that, "the last shall be first," let's look at the opportunities for service offering themselves to old soldiers, young soldiers and the legally exempt. For them the Re- serve Army offers the ideal op- portunity to serve in two ways--- as a soldier preparing himself for home defence if that should be- come necessary, and, you heard what Prime Minister King said on the radio,--as a producing citizen continuing his ordinary ~ tasks. No need to go into detail about this--it haa all been in the daily papers recently--but there is no doubt that onee the new set-up gets well under way the men who jump at the opportunity of spend- ing 46 evenings, 10 week-ends end 16 days (in-canlp) learning the ways of a modern army will . have an. interesting and iseful spare time occupation that will stand them in good stead if it has to become a full time job. A'Sam" Browne, usually known in print as Major-Genéral B, W, Browne, D.S.0., M.C., has been named commander of the Reserve - to the citizens of Somewhat com- placently, too, we laid the flatter- ing unction to our souls that the King also included our little pur- quaintance with the problems of a part time militia. In peace time that is a heart-breaking job --it will be simpler now that authority has been given to equip the Reserve Army with "modern guns, weapons, equipment and training facilities. You know the classes who are cligible? Let's repeat them, Men between 35 and 50, men between 17 and 19 who will thus be able to fit themselves for active ser- vice before they reach service age and men who are not subject to conscription by reason of their occiipations or for other legiti- mate reasons. . Before this column gets too long let's look briefly at the ex- pansion of the Individual Citizen's Army. This is an army now in which abstention from buying an- other pair. of shoes" if half-soles will do is the equivalent of a clip of machine-gun bullets, army we all belong to and in which we can. all fight. It is an army that trons us all to do all we can for the defence of our country or for attack on the Axis. -- It is an army -in-- which the physical training necessitated by "doffing an elastic girdle will re- sult in a stronger race of women who will be ready for any tasks war may impose as well as the conservation of rubber for war purposes. : Not very romantic? War hasn't been romantic since the days of knights in armour -- and if we knew the truth it probably wasn't ~ very romantic then, Solves Gas Problem ) Bill Pinch, Hardgravel Moun- tain farmer, has a solution to gasoline rationing, It's his four- year-old steer, "Bossy," which he hitches to an old-time buggy for the five-mile trip to town. : When someone comnented on the slowness of the rig, Bill re- plied, * 'Bossy'- just acts sedate in town. You should sce him on the way home. He does a good five miles an hour." FO seri ---- Nazis To Conscript Greeks For Service All males in Greece between the ages of 16 and G0 are liable to compulsory military or other service for the German author- ities, an Exchange Telegraph said in a dispatch from the. British island of Cyprus -in the Eastern Mediterranean, It is an. DESTROYER -"RATING™ m, Howard Pugsley Our destroyer carries a proud ship's company. = They have a right to be proud. A yar ago a torpedo ripped into the . forward .part of the. ship's hull, blowing Away the bow, but her crew kept the ship afloat and brought her safely .into port where the damage could be .re- paired, d Then she went back to her convoy job. Recently, this same: destroyer ran 'into a hurricane while home. - ward bound. Battered and leak ing, her boats smashed and her ~life-rafts gone, short of provis- ions.and fuel, and her crew ex- hausted, she still came through and steamed smartly into her base port. Not a man had been lost over- board in the storm, nor even any- one seriously injured. How many of our 0.D.'s (ord- fnary scamen) newly come to the ship and for whom this had been their first introduction to the real meaning of life at sea, how many of them longed for a draft on shore after this experience? Not one. . The complement of a destroyer is about three times that of a corvette or minesweeper. We carried eight officers and "one hundred and sixty-six ratings. Most of the 0.D.a were new in our ship. During the shore refit, many of the old crew, now rated A.B.'s (able-bodied seamen) had been drafted off, some to leaven with their experience "the crews of new. ships just com- missioning, others to take courses to qualify for higher specialist ratings. As replacements, a "jeeps", ordinary had just finished trimming, had aboard. All of these lads were young, keen, willing, enthusiastic, hard- working and ready for anything. Never, even under the most try- ing circumstances -- of which there were many--werd they any- thing but cheerful. The "fore lower" is whére you begin your life at sea in a des- troyer. As it is so far for'd and so far down in the hull, the mo- tion of the ship is very pronoun- ced. Because this location is so un- "de luxe", it is reserved for the least important of all ratings, the O.D's. When you've done your nine months, (including the four month: seatime), and can pass professionally in the things a seaman must know, you too will be rated "A.B", and gradu- ate to the more spacious upper mess deck. When I first went on board, I, too, was asigned to the "fore lower", being an ordinary sea- man. The first ten days after [ join- ed-the ship were spent in harbor. During this period we worked about the ship in the morning and afternoons, and were allow- ed ashore two or three nights out of four, depending on how the watches were being run, We turned out each morning at 6.30, lashed and stowed hammocks, sat down' to breakfast at seven, and fell in for work at eight. All the seamen ratings, that is those who worked principally on the upper deck, then mustered in the waist of the ship, along the port and starboard sides, 7 The "Buffer"--a petty officer whose official status was that or Bos'n's Mate--mounted the walk- way over the torpedo tubes, cal- led us to attention and reported us-all present to the First Lieu- tenant, who then gave the Buf- fer any special instructions he might have regarding work he wanted done. Make no mistake, they could always find something for you to do, and when you had done it Fou 'were "sipposed to come back and ask for more. Other- wise you were-liable to be "run in" on a charge of "skulking", that is, not working. Other ships, then on convoy assignments, fregucntly did a month or more at sea, broken only by a day on one side re- flock of seamen who their shore been drafted fuelling and. at most three to four days in port at the other "tions: (1) ALL-BRAN'S "BETTER WAY" HAS BEEN OUR WAY FOR A LONG TIME © Says Mr, Charles Belair, Arvida, * "Better Way' to correct the cause, Quebec: *KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN if you are troubled by constipation has long been a favorite in our home, due to lack of the right kind of Mother used to serve it to us when 'bulk' in your diet? But remember; we were young ., .and since my ALL-BRAN doesn't work like harsh wife started making ALI¢ cathartics. It takes time. Eat it muffing three or four times a week regularly and drink plenty of water, and serving ALL-BRAN as a break. | Get ALL-BRAN at your grocer's, in fast cereal, we have had no more use two. convenient size packages, oc for pills or powders. ALL-BRAN ask for the individual serving keeps us regular . , . naturally." ckage at restaurants, Made by Why dan't you try ALL-BRAN'S cllogg's in London, Canada. THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events LT . . - . . British Mission To India Fails . ", . Nazi Demands Reinstate Laval Indian leaders rejected Great strengthened by the. British loss Britain's plan for self-rule and co- operation in the war effort, The plan brought from England by Sir Stafford Cripps met its defeat on the question of India's deteuce. Great Britain contended that this responsibility - should rest in ex- perienced British hands: the all- Indian Congress leaders held that the responsibility was India's, United Against Invaders It is considered that, although Sir Stafford Cripps' mission to In- dia has failed in {ts main objective, its work has not been wasted. The discussions which were held drow together the various 'units of In- dia, and their leadors oxpressed determination to resist "to the death" the invasion that appeared imminent. Volunteers rushed to join the armed services and work fn Indian munition plants and shipbuilding yards was speeded. _ up. B . Even Mohandas Gandhi, arch Pacitist, pledged himself to com- plete passive re ance against the Japanese and said: "I and my followers will refuse any help, even water, for the Japanese even it it should cost us our lives." Importance of India Great" Britain may make a new declaration of Indian policy soon in the hope of getting India tully aroused to the danger of the Jap- anese menace. lor the United Nations the loss of India would mean the collapse of their defens- es throughout the Far East; for Japan a land road would be open- ed to a possible juncture with Germany in the Middle Kast. India is vital to the United Na- as a barrler to the westward march of the Japanese, and (2) as a growing source of war supplies and vast manpower. Without India the war iffay well be prolonged for years. . Epic of Bataan The wholes world of free men will join in paying tribute to the magnificent stand made by Am- erican--and Filipino -troops-- in the Philippine Islands. They have written a chapter of stubborn heroism that will never be for- gotten, = Tho delaying action in the Philippines has been of the ut- most importance to the Allles and may liave altered the whole course of the Pacific War, It has kept a large force of Japanese assault troops tied up which might have been used for striking at Austra- lia before the defenses there were. ready. / But the fall of Bitaan means that now the enemy will be able "ed. For of two battle cruisers and an afr. craft carrier off India's Bast (Coast. : Laval Reinstated The sudden dramatic shift that brings Pierri Laval back Into pow- or as "Chief of the Government of France", can only mean, accord- ing to the New York Times, that Hitler 1s through with halfway measures and ready to take per. sonal command, Petain remains as "Chief of State", but there can- not be much doubt that he now becomes a figurehead, Laval is a traitor to France and is Hitler's creature and his accession to pow- er is the opening signal for Hit ler's Spring offensive, - Hitler is about to make a su- preme effort too win the, war In an albout drive for victory, and for that drive he must have all the power he can muster among the conquered nations of Kuropa. Ie evidently expects to get from Laval that aid which Petain had refused to give. i . Game With France Ended Hitler's tong and cruel game ot cat-and-mouse with France is end- nearly two years--with intrigue, bribery, cajolery, displays of German military power---Hitlor has. sought to win over the people of France. (n (haf effort he haa failed and failed so utterly that In order to achieve his will Ia France he h put into power a renegade Frenchman who is hated and despised by his own country- men. The proof is clear ~ that France has rejected Hitler. U. S. Attitude It will become Necessary now for the government of the United States to consider. whether It will still attempt to maintain relations with Petain's successor or whether it will break off those relations. Much is at stake. Not only is the status of the French fleet and French bases uncertain, but there would be deep concern it France should turn over Madagascar to the Japanese and permit the use of her colonial bases by Axis sub- marines, French Control Gone With Hitler's new agent fa power it becomes impossible to believe that any part of continen- tal France will remain under the . eftective control of French author- ities. No'one can be better aware of this than the great masses of the French people, the Times says. Through two long years of bit- ter misery and Immense danger thoy have rejected Hitler's ad- vances, only to have Hitler's crea- ture forced upon them in the end. to divert a large body of troops That they hope passionately for to the Battle of Barma and to the Hitler's destruction we may be projected attack on India. The sure. 'That we shall fight until wa Japanese position is thus mater. have achieved his destruction ially improved and is further they may be certain, side while waiting for another current throughout Canada and convoy, Sometimes they didn't will "depict Canada's war effort get more than a day at either end of the trip--and only a few hours shore leave, If you were unlucky enough to be duty that night, you just didn't get ashore at all--some- body had to stay and each must take his turn. JT i Canada To Issue War Time Stamps Canada will soon have. an en- tirely new sect of postage stamps illustrating her part in the war.. "These stamps are in necessary replacement of those at present and the contribution being made by this country to the cause of the United Nations," Hon. W. P. Muiock, Postmaster-General, said, The few stamps are expected to be available sometime in July but Post Office officials mean- tinie ask that philatelists refrain from = sending ii requests for them. : ' _ Details of the designs will be announced shortly, officials said, Some oft the stamps, it is un- derstood, will bear new portraits of King George, in uniform. On others will be pictures illustrative of various phases of Canada's part in the war, Army and he has had a long ac. : 1 {THERE'S A MAN UP 2 THE STREET WITH REG'LAR FELLERS--A Bad Break A MOTORCYCLE AN' HE WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU CAN FIX HIS BRAKES RIGHT AWAY ? THATS HIM/ HES GONE / By GENE BYRNES