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5 aa St SN " a AA x proper RIA / AEE EAA AA RAY als. a a a as endanpaon yell FE A Wartime Angle To Housecleaning . Helpful Hints by William Needham, Wide World News Armed. with nothing more than @& dust mop, a flashlight and a etrong right arm, housewives can help win the war this spring The Ided, the Production Board explaing, is to turn spring Boutecleanhig into a cougtry-wide search for the lang discarded junk --now valuable as scrap for production--piled in attics, cellars and backyards frour coast to cost, A. Tentative List As typical of the old metal orna ments, obsolete plumbing, heating equipment and broker tools. whidh housewives should dig out and sell, WEB made up a tentative list Var Var war of the type of scrap sought and where to look for it, 'Fire suggestions: What to look for fu the attic: Beds made of brass or iron; elec. tric cords (they contain copper wire), electric toasters, irons, heat.' ers, fans, or any electrical equip- ment. Hardware -- door knobs, hinges, keys, locks, trim, springs, etc. Kitchen utensils--old knives, pans, pots, scissors, Lamps and lighting fixtures made of brass, copper, or iron. Ornaments--metal .ash trays, bowls, statues, vases. Porch and garden furniture made of metal, Radios--broken parts containing metal. Screens made of brass or copper. Toys--sleds, ice skates, roller skates. Vacuum cleaners--broken parts made of metal. Old rubber overshoes, rain coals, bathing caps. What to look for in the cellar: Coal stoves that -are worn out. Fireplace equipment -- andirons, grates, pokérs, IPire extinguish. ers. Furnace parts--old grates, doors. Iron and 'nickel parts of old gas stoves." Pipes----pleces of | fron, brass or copper piping. Plumbing fixtures--bath tubs, fau- cets, sinks. Radiators. Refrigera- tor parts--ice trays, inside linings. Tools--all old tools. [ee What to look for in.the garage: Tires, tubes. Automobile parts-- batteries, chaijus, license plates, parts of motors. Bicycles and tri- cycles. Garden tools--lawn mow- ers, hoes, pickaxes, rakes, shovels. What to look for in the yard or on the farm: Old tires, inner tubes, Farm tools. Logging chains. Wire fencing and fence posts. Motors and" motor parts, Playground equipment. Pieces of*old metal-- well handles. Ploughs. Wheel- barrows. Canadians' Diet Gravely Deficient Adequate Food Can Speed Up Canada's War Effort There are grave deficiencies in the normal diet of most Canadians, Miss Nesta Hinton and Mrs. Allén Btevenson of Toronto sald at a meeting of the wartime economy nutrition classes at Kitchener, sponsored hy the Red Cross Socl- -ety, the first of the new nutrition services sponsored by the Govern. ment. | Miss Hinton is field supervisor of the nutrition services, -Depart- ment of Pensions and National Health, and Mrs. Allen Stevenson, superintendent of nutrition of the - Ontario branch of the Red Cross Bociety. Canada loses $75,000 a day. Every day 50,000 wage earners are idle because of illness due to poor nutrition. Illness slows up the production of munitions, guns, and tanks, Forty per cent of thy men in Canada who volunteered for | military service were rejected be- cause of physical defects, the great majority of which could be traced to 'poor nutrition. The Nazis take the study of nutrition it was stated. Lack Vitamin B: These -- far-reaching effects of faulty nutrition can not be Ignored, declared Miss Hinton, who told of surveys In. Edmonton, Toronto, Quebec and Halifax of citizens In the $1,600 a year bracket, The re- sults showed that diets lacked vitamin B, the morale building vitamin to be found in rolléd oats, whole wheat breads and cereals, fruits and vegetables; vitamin C, seriously, _ found in orange and tomato julces; | vitamin A, which improves sight at night, essential to filers or night drivers. Calcium obtained from milk and iron from meat and vegetables were also lacking, A survey of the higher income brac- kets, rather than showing more nutritious diets, revealed:ithe same deficiencies and lack of nutrition, By feeding Canadians adequately Mrs, Stevenson asserted, Canada ean speedsup 'war effort and elimf- mate loss 6f money and time, She $imented thé lack of training in food preparation -glven oung girls, Experimentation--in Bngland revealed that when a nu. fritioys diet was given for six Months to a group of 874 men re- jected for military service, 85 per ~ @ent of them weére so Improved at end of the six months as to eligible for the army, Only five of the forty islands in the Scilly group, are inhabited, _ as he "SALADA TEA © SERIAL STORY , - 'MURDER IN CONVOY BY A.W. O'BRIEN LAST WEEK: At the Court of Investigation, composed of Colonel Stephenson, Captain Murdoch and Lieutenant Miley, witnesses tell what they know of Tees' death. The sentry explains he left his post for a time because he became sea. sick, and when he came back, he stumbled ov rthe body of Tees. Rollins 1s questioned and admits he saw Tees at about 11.30 and that he was out on the deck. Seek- Ing to protect Joan, he lies and says he was alone. LJ . * : TO THE LIFEBOATS CHAPTER VI Miraculously, the February wind died around nyidday, and by three o'clock, summer sunshine bathed the convoy, now sailing the kindly Gulf Stream. Like statues the of- ficers and men aboard "T' 97 stood in formation around the flag. draped coffin containing the mur dered body of Captain Tees. Only the gentle murmur. of the ocean, swishing along the sides of the liner, could be heard. But the spectacle of the troop- ships, humble freighters and ominous men-of-war, shuffling like clumsy dancers through a zig- zaggy quadrille, held no glamor to young Lieutenant Gregory Rollins sadly listened to the Angli- can padre's burial prayer . . "In the midst of life we are in death." Through the sounding of the lonely Last Post and Reveille came the heavy splash of the weighted coffin hitting the sea. "Oh God! Oh God!" sobbed Rol- lings through tightene. lips. A hand touched his arm, squeezing it gently. ' "You poor, dear boy--I'm dread- fully sorry!" * - * Abruptly he turned his bloodshot eyes from the treacherously invit- ing swell that had just swallowed the body of his friend, For soveral seconds he stared fiercely into her very soul, then shook his head. "You couldn't have .. I'm going crazy ... 1..." = She was plainly puzzled. "What are you talking about, Greg?" In reply, he clasped onc of her hands on the rail and pressed it until she felt like screaming. He talked as he had never talked be- ~ fore--of Syd's grand widowed mo- ther and young sister and his flancee. Those carefree days at McGill; Of gay episodes on skiing weekends in the Laurentians. Their plans for that first leave in London, blitz or no blitz. It was only hours later, as ho lay In his bunk in the lonely cabin, that he found himself wondering -why he hadn't told her of his lie before the Court of Investigation, when he had sajd he was on the the deck that nght. The thought had occurred to him once, but he had 'dismissed it on the grounds that she would think he was put ting on a gallantry act. * * * As is the way with the Atlantic in February, the weather had made another lightning change in early evening. Cold blasts slipped in with the Florida-like zephyrs and overcoats appeared once more, Within an hour a sleet-like snow was lashing the decks and labored groans were coming. from - the ocean greyhound's beams. The roll Have vegetables that will amaze you with thelr size and flavor, larger more fr; flowers and health plants with this high concentrate, N water-soluble chemical plant food sontalning Vitamin BI), Inerpene dive, there's no waste and ne diyiging in. Dissolved in water, it's . peady for instant use. 100 and 25e packets House Plant alze--506 and * $1.00 packeis General Garden Use, . 01.00 packet makes 168 quarts, feeds 3,360 running feet. Of Otel oruncr FERTILIZER Eastern Division THR OLD GARDENER PRODUCTS Cookaville, Ont. ISSUE 18--'42 C night, in zigezagping time beeame so in- tense that the bridge tournament was cancelled for the night, (iver was just as glad. He want- ed to lie back and think, think, think , . . somewhere in the crazy pattern must be a clew that would lead to a solution. The murderer or murderers must be still on the boat: A knock on the door inter rupted him. It was Harry Miley. Ho apologized. for bursting in, but wanted to ask a few questions about Tees' background in the hope some lead would be found, The old man, he added,- seemed gold on the opinlon that some sol. dier-had committed the crime, due | to the nature of the wound. There might have been some man with a gambling or personal jealousy motive or . . . : "Nothing doing there, Harry," Rollins rasped, "Tees lived a clean life and ohly gambled occasionally for a tenth of a cent in bridge, Now supposing yon ask me what . you really came to ask me." of 2 wow ® larey looked at Rolling sharply. "Okay, Greg, if you don't mind me repeating myself. | © You were alone, weren't you, up there on -deck, when Tees found you? Ov were you trying to cover up some- body ut the inquiry this morning?" Rollins swung his feet ont of the bunk. "What are you digging for? Why should 1 want to cover up anybody? Maybe you have soma "idea of whom I'm covering up-- if 1 am?' "Hald your horses!" Miley cut in. "You needn't be so totchy, I've got am investigation job hoved on' me which you should want to as- sist. My purpose in asking that question is simply that the szntry on duty saw an ofiicer standing in the shadow of the lifeboat near the murder scene around midnight, I thought you might have seen .one of the- boys out there when pass- dng with Tees and didn't want to put him dn an awkward spot by admitting you left him there," - Rollins was relieved but manag. ed to hide it. They chatted on friendly terms for a while before Miley rose to leave, At the cabin door he paused and asked casually: "By the way, Greg, who is the swell nurse you're In- terested in?" Rollins felt his muscles tensa but he-managed to show a grin, "L suppose you'd like to .know, huh?" ' - * Ld Long after Miley left, Greg wat motionless on the side of the sway- ing bunk. - Why the crack shoul the nurse followed the repetitién of the query about his having been alone on deck? Was it accidental 'or baséd upon some knowledge? Rollins stiffened as a thought struck him. That knowledge could have been obtained only from the man at the rail. Or--he paced the floor--could the man have been Miley himself? He shook his head. . No, that wouldn't do. If it had been Miley, _ he wouldn't be trying to focus at- tention on the fact with Rollins who might have seen him. It was an old failing, thought Greg, born --of the habit of" deliberately sus- pecting "the least likely" charac- ter in fiction mystery thrillers, Sleep "tame fitfully. The cabin was terribly stuffy. Greg. opened weary eyes and looked at the port- hole, . Regulations prohibited op- .ening it during hours of darkness, ' but who would know the difference as long-as-he didn't switch on thé - cabin lights? - : He stood on his bunk and un- "| screwed the heavy clamps, - The cold gust of wind and spray fairly took his breath, but # was: grand, He inhaled deeply; then prompted by -some impulse stick his head out of the porthole, He couldn't see very far into the night, The waves were mountain. 'ous and black -- all except for the water beifig cut by the ship ft- self. Little flashes of light came. from the whitecaps, 'That would _be phosphorus, pis Toward the bow, {t seemed not quite so dark. He could clearly make out the side of "thie ship all the way to the" bow and thrilled at ite great strength.and tireless. ness as It plowed through the "vo. Afterwards, he often wondered what mada him look up since # forced him to twist bis head in a very awkward position, espectk: But there wasnt a doubt fo the world about {t--somebody was flashing a small light towards the sea! Rollins felt a surge of excite ment, but fought jt back, He 'must keep his head, / The light was being flashed from "A'" deck, and he could make out a human form bending over it. Apparently the person was holding the 'light on top of the railing and standing in such a way as to hide the light from anybody on the ship. Suddenly - the light- was turned off and thes form turned -from- the railing. Rollins pulled big head back through the porthole. For a gecond lie was frantic, Waat should he do? i Witdly he banged the porthole shut, switched on the cabin light and bégan "throwing on his over cout over his pyjamas. Jamming his feet into his slippers he swore as one refused to receive his foot. He bent down to tug, the slipper and paused, bent Over, every fac. ulty alert. ' From somewhere on the deck above him had come the unmis- takable crack of a rifle. , , Even above the noises. of the ship and the storm the sound was distine- tive to one who had spent long hours on rifle ranges , . Yes, there was another shot! = Rollins 'ran for the door, pulling the service revolver from his pocket as He did so. But with his hand on the door knob an ungodly din shattered the night. , . It was the emergency gong in the pass- ageway madly clanging a lifchoat alarm! i (Continued next week) Women In Britain Give Up Hairpins Women in Britain are going without hairpins and hairgrips so that' the mild steel from which they are made can be turned into barbed wire as a. defence against - the invader. - At present their ration is one fifth of the peace-time hairpin allowance of many millions a month. But hairgrips are in even shorter supply; the number: now being produced each month is only one twentieth of the quantity used before the war, The 1cason is that supplies of the mild steel for hairpins, commonly known as "iron wire," are rather more plentiful than the hardened, tem- pered steel wire for grips. Apart from material, labor © supply limits the output severely, Some Nylon Money - Is In Circulation United States treasury officials disclosed that currency printed on paper containing nylon instead of silk was put into test circulation a few days ago but no one scems to have spotted it. The first batch of the 100 per cent homemade brand of Ameri- can money was distributed by the Philadelphia Reserve Bank as a test to determine whether it wore as well as the old kind. ~-- General -circulation of "the new brand, however, must wait until the stock of silk-thréaded paper is used up. r Secret Service agents doubt whether anything but a chemical analysis would show the differ- ence between the new and the old. . k a Eggs keep fresh longer if they are stood with the smaller ends down. : Trailers Solving Housing Problem Boom times have come back to the manufacturers of trailers in the United 'States and they are producing these homes on wheels on a large scale, not for'use on the roads, but as dwellings for workers. in way' plants, says The Hamilton Spe€tator, The devel- opment is another instance of the strange pressures that war hrings in "its train" when world markets anil sohrces of raw materials are disturbed, ii3 Government officials in. Wash-, ingtog estimate that the industry will turn out at least, 50,000 of - these house "trailers this year, which is wlmost -ten times the volume produced in 1941, and will swell the number of trailers in the Knited States to 250,000, 'scattepéd in two thousand set- tlements throughout the nation, All trailers made this year, how- ever, must be sold only to workers in defence arcas and must also be of simple design in order to conserve supplies, They cost the government a little over $1,000, including un- derground services and utility buildings established in trailer settlements. They are placed fifty to the acre, are heated with gasoline stoves and supplied with electric current. They accommo. date four persons and rent at from six to cight dollars a month, Trailers enjoyed quite a vogue several years ago, then there was a slump until the American Fed- eral Security Admihistration be- gan to establish trailer towns for migratory farm workers on the Pacific coast. They are favored for war workers as a temporary type of dwelling in districts where the winters are mild and a hous- ing shortage prevails. They have the advantage, teir sponsors say, of not creating "ghost towns" ond can easily be removed when a-need for them no longer exists. But what about the. rubber shortage? It is being met in this way: The American War Produe- tion Board has allocated four thousand tires and tubes to the manufacturers of the trailers, These can be used only for de- _livering the trailers to the work- ers' settlements where the wheel ed dwellings are placd on wooden blocks, the tires removed and re- turned to the manufacturer for successive deliveries, Fy * a The ban on tires is compelling thousands of American war work- crs to migrate from the rural and suburban districts to urban centres to get close to their em- ployment, Trailer settlements have, therefore, become the only ready solution to an acute hous- ing problem. It is a condition that arises from the war and is likely to pass when the conflict ends. ---- --- Aluminum It has been estimated that war- , Planes on the average need about seven and -one-half tons of alum- inum. A big four-moter bomber may take over fifteen tons. In other words, 60,000 planes a year will require over 900,000,000 pounds of aluminum. Next year's announced objective is 125,000 planes. To avoid #lto-infection: "Put slip covers on the seats and change them frequently and always drive with the windows open." _ This 1s the first o ome to' U.S, from Australia, eut. Gen, George Brett {righ n ally with the ship tossing about, ' 3 1} . the Allied Forces, on arrival GENERAL MACARTHUR AND HIS AIDE inal photokraph of Douglas Hina & Hi MacArthur (left) and h g! Deputy Suprem ellie an Astral Commander of L] ar or 4 TABLE TALKS By SADIE B. CHAMBERS ONIONS AS A SAVOURY DISH Fresh » or cooked, mild or strong, onions all have a place." They can be prepared without creating tears or leaving an odor "on the. hands, 3 Do_.you know" your onions? Sling expression as that may seem to be, it is one all homemakers would do well to think over for the onion family is a large and varied one, There are those that are so mild that they scarcely - rise above a whisper, and some sa strong that they.scem to take the top right off one's head. Whenever onions' are mentioned immediately the recipes do not "meet the approval of all, I just had a lefter enquiring if this reader of our column could use "garlic" as a substitute. To this we would make the reply: garlic, chives and leeks all are members of the same gencral seasoning family, but they should not be used interchangeably, It is well to -know what purpose you wish to. satisfy when you make, your selection. For eating raw, we generally use the carly dspring 'onions or the mild sweet Bermuda onion. The yellow skinned onion or the red _ skinned are usually quite strong. When boiling if you do not wish the strong choose the milder; it is better than boiling in two or three waters, where you may be losing some of the vitamins in the pouring. ~ Cream of Onion Soup medium onions '1% cups water 2 cups medium white sauce Cheese Cook onions, sliced, in the water until tender. Rub through a sieve and add to white sauce, Pour into soup dishes and sprinkle with cheese (grated). Devilled Onions 6 large onions 3 hard cooked cggs 12 teaspoon salt % teaspoon mustard 1% tablespoons chopped parsley 1 cup medium thick white sauce . Buttered crumbs Boil the onions until tender and chop fine. Add the mashed egg yolks, finely chopped whites, salt, mustard, parsley and white sauce, ; Turn into greased ramekins and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Brown under medium broiler or bake a few minutes until. brown in medium oven, Peanut Butter and Onion - * Sandwiches 1 cup peanut butter % cup mayonnaise Bermuda onion Beat peanut butter and mayon- naise together and spread on lightly ~ buttered whole wheat bread. Slice onion very thin and put a layer over peanut butter before adding second slice of bread. Misa Chaniliers swwelcomen personal letters from Interested venders. She Is "pleased to receive suggestions on toples for her column, nnd (a vn ready to listen to your - sipet peeves," Requests for recipes or specinl menus are In order. Address your letters to "Miss Sndle B. Cham. bers, 73 Went Adelaide Street,, To- ronto," Send stamped self-nddressed envelope If you wish a reply. Ban On Travel Is Given Denial Thomas C.-Lockwood, Dominion transport controller, in an inter- view. recently said reports that restrictions on railway passenger traffic were imminent were "abso. lutely without confirmation." The controller said railways had made no request to him that passenger travel be reduced and said he had no intimation that such a request was _likely--in- the immediate fut- ure. : = He said that .reports about travel restrictions had been cir- culating in recent weeks, Ah Mr. Lockwood said that Cana- - dian railways were in "an excep- tionally good position to handle heavy war traffic." 'But-he added that present conditions were con-. tingent upon war developments. - - He said that passenger travel need not be restricted" until such time as freight movements 'were "delayed because of shortage of - equipment or lack of 'accommoda- tion on. Tail lines, - he : 'Many Old Notions Shattered | By War Government Not Confined to ; the" Educated 'or the Great Out in India an English Soclalist lawyer and a little bow-legged In- dian dressed in a loincloth sit down to mako decisions that may alter the destiny of an empire, perhaps of the world, says The Ottawa Journal, What a leveller of old notions 1s war! y ; Ges "ee on Most of us used to Imagine that government belonged to the few, to the educated and great, to men who bad been schooled in tradi Ax RP mi co tn i. At AN A Caught by a string: she was carrying to Duild nest, this robin finally was rescued by Chicago Humane Society members, tion. Today we see it'In the hands of people who have been thrown up from nowhere. An Austrian paperhanger rules the continent of Europe, threatens the whole world, A fourth-rate underworld journal ist - holds sway over 70,000,000 Italians. A Russian who was a fugitive in the days of the Czars Is one of the mightiest figures in a struggle for world freedom. A man who, five years ago, got out a catalogue for a Chicago mail- _ order house, is the supreme dictat- or of United States war produc- tion, . LIE And so all down the line. Every- where proof that human brains, human greatness, or even capacity for great human evil, have little to do with any class os race or partic- ular tradition, Everywhere proof, too, that the, assumptior of racial superiority is as. foolish as it is dangerous. If that proof is not enough for us; if we cannot learn from a Stalin ana the demonstrat. "ed greatness of Russia, or from the greatness of a Chiang Kai-shek and the patient glory of China; then we are incapable of learning. Defeat For every apathetic American, Hans Habe writes in The Ameri- can Mercury,- there is an Euro- pean or Asiatic in the hell of de- feat as a warning. For every American woman who believes that "life goes on as usual", there. is an European mother, sister or lover who. has--1no. more tears to weep. Americans have. no excuse for not knowing. The plague of de- feat is spread under their eyes, They have no excuse for the de- lusion that defeat is a national catastrophe. It is a personal - catastrophe, When it strikes, you cannot speak as before, nor listen to What you would like to hear. You can neithér write nor read except what the slaveholder com- mands. You cannot manufacture or trade as was your: lifelong wont. You dare not choose the profession or the place of resi- dence or ideas which. suit you best. You must educate your children according to alien pre- cepts. Your most cherished tra- ditions, your heroes and stirring childhood songs are revised and huniiliated. You may no longer eat, drink or breathe 'like a free human being, 3 And this is defeat! Toronto and the LORD El inOt { awa GIN § ~~ dragon