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Lumber Jills Free Jacks For Service Lumber Jills, members -of the newly formed British Women's h : Timber Corps, now work with husky lumberjacks as part of Bri. tain's all-out war effort, The Timber Coips, an offshoot / of the Women's Land Army, fells trees and saws and measures tim- ber for. ship-building, aircraft con- struction, pit props and other . % work vital in (reat Britain's war production. They do the same tasks as their, male counterparts, freeing the fen for active service in the armed forces, . Women fell and strip trécs, trim and saw the big 'logs, 'They straighten logs with hand .- 8aws, and remove bark -with four. pound axes, Gangs of sawyers fix logs on racks, placing them In correct position, and, complete sawing, ) There are 120 girls in the month's course. On arrival, théy are taken around the forests and lectured on the need for timber and the 'importance of the job. The following four days are given to tractor driving, felling, meas- uring, and saw mill work. Then the women choose which of these types of work is best suited to them and. undergo full training in it, After their tralning they are enrolled as members of the Women's Timber Corps and sent ¢ out to production work where there is urgent need. The rate of pay for a 47-hour week 18 $9.20 for women over 19, The rate increases, where neces- sary ,to provide $3.60 clear when VOICE [+] THE IN AIRCRAFT OF 1919 At long last a memorial com. memorating the pioneer trans-At- lantic flight of Alcock and Brown in 1919 is to be erected at the spot in Newfoundland whence they 'took off in their Vickers Vimy bomber, If flights by Ferry /Command require real. courage nowadays, they were feats of al- most superhuman endurance ..in the rickety aircraft of 1919, and Alcock and Brown deserve all the 'recognition and commemoration that it is possible to giye them, --Brockville Recorder and Times ER THE MEN GOT OFF When the U.S.S, Lexington was known to be beyond hope, there was no exciting bawling out of orders and commands, Instead, Rear Admiral Aubrey Fitch leaned over. the bridge and quietly satd to his friend, Captain Frederick "Sherman: ' "Let's get the men off, Fred." And, so efficiently was the order executed, not a single man was lost in abandoning the big aircraft carrier, . --Windsor Star . i DINNER IN A BALL Dehydration has achieved a. new high in Britain, Farm pro- ducts are being refined into 'green baseballs." In central plants, cabbage and beets, spin. ach and a carrot or two, with cel- ery and onions for flavor, are . rolled into one and reduced in billetings are paid, MEXICAN BOMBS bulk so that a "baseball" contains leafy food for an average family dinner. It provides a new method of sending 'vitamins to the troops. --Vancouver Sun ---- - VIRTUE'S REWARD <The Man Down the Street, who has cut two new holes in his belt, wants to know where he can get a cent a pound for the "spare tire" he is taking off by walking to work. . --Christian Science Monitor --_--0-- THE DISAPPEARING TRICK And there was the Indian ropes trick performer who was discharg- ed from the navy because every time- he climbed the rigging he disappeared, --Guelph Mercury --_--0-- CHAIR WARMER? Berlin is asking all Germans to > Bomb crew in Mexico-at-war loads up a plane for coastal pa- trol in" co-operation with U. 8. air forces. -- * Alberta Teacher Honored By King In a lonely little rural school- house, thirteen miles west of Air- drie, there was great excitement last Thursday among pupils who -- + had--learned--that--their teacher, Mrs. Frances Walsh, was Can- _ ada's first woman winner of the King's award--the George Medal, says The Calgary Herald. > * . * . It was a bleak, wet, cold day, {and -many-of the Big Springs school's thirty pupils were not able to get to the school. Those who were able to attend, however, realized that their teach- er had become a national heroine. They all recalled the exciting day last November when a plane had crashed and burned in the schoolyard. Many of the pupils had run out of the classroom with their teacher whén she had pullea the pilét~from the blazing plane. Mrs, Walsh herself was startled and amazed to learn she had been singled out by the King in his birthday honors list for the part she had played in the. rescue. "For goodness sake," she said when informed of the award, "I "don't know what to say . . . you certainly took my breath away." * . 0s Mrs. Walsh, recalling the inci- nt last November 10, said she and the pupils were in. the. school about 11 a.m. on the day when a plane came over from -the north- east, It circled south of the school, very low. Then they heard it-erash in the south end of the schoolyard,-and shortly afterwards it exploded, "We all rushed outside," she recalled. "It was very windy. Most of the children: are very . young and they stood back at a safe distance froy the plane. "When the only "ig boy in the -|- school and I got to the plane it was absolutely in flames," - The student tried to get the pilot out. him and pulled: him out of 'the flames. Then she sent a boy to the nearest telephone to call for help. ' ; "I rolled the burning airman on the ground to extinguish the flames and managed 'to get his burning flying suit "off, Soon aftarwatds help arrived, and we managed-to put out the rest of- the flames on the man's clothes with water," Mrs, Walsh said, - ing worn out in the east. --continue a world of social Mrs. Walsh grabbed - give sused clothing to the army because so many clothes are be- That's odd. Ours usually wear out in the south, . --Kitchener Record Fake Gods Vanish, "Real Values Remain Principal R. C. Wallace of Queen's University, Kingston, de- * clared the war will be of no avail unless "at the end of it we can "justice, where men may be free to develop their highest powers for the high- est good." Speaking at University of Buf- falo's commencement recently, Dr. Wallace said ""we have learned but little in this day of strife and conflict if we have not learned some simple elemental truths about life and its values". "We learned them in the days when Britain was on the eve of disaster after France fell," he added. "Those who remember the 'tension of those fateful days , , . know in a way that we shall never forget that property, and wealth and possessions and rank count for nothing, - : "Courage and fortitude and de- cency and honor and a sense of .the eternal are all that matter. Our false gods disappeared before our eyes, and the real values re- mained." . U.S. Pupils Will Study Aviatioy, About 500,000 boys and girls in the United States -- between 16.- and 18 years years old -- will study aviation as well as history and geography when they return to high school in September, Meteorology, air navigation, communications, aerodynamics, engine design and structure are some of the subjects that will abs forb the young minds of America; "Preflight training for seconds ary school consumption is part of a nation-wide program spon sored by the Air Training Corps of America, This organization, working in conjunction with the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the U.S. Office of Adminis< tration, will grant college credits to those boys who join ATCA, units, Fundamental Aviation is so new in high school curricula that even the teachers have to learn about . Ct > Teachers' College of Columbia University is offering a special series of summer courses for those- who- would instruct Amert- ca's future fliers, A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army Grand Rounds, all's welll" I suppose, along with "hate "Pass, training", . that 'sonerous "0.K." from a sentry facing his lonely beat has gone into the discard now, It seems a pity that some ef the glamour can't be left whether ft be in the Army,/the Navy or the - Air Force, Of course the latter, even if it is a lusty infant, is the baby of the uniformed sorvices and has hardly had long enough to build any tradition excopt that ot daring and bravery, There (8s something about the piaintenance of old forms and fine 'phrases fn this day of streamlining and curt, business-like speech that reminds us that the glorious fu- ture of tomorrow will in its turn become a glorious past, What put this. into my head was the fact that I put:in some time yesterday stores to find out how we Boldiers of the Individual Citizen's Army tioning arders, It was something like visiting eentries on their beats -- but more in the nature of "visiting rounds" than "grand rounds," . a The, result of my tour shows that In the main we are pretty good soldiers. It showed also that on a mortgage on one residence, alternative to t as part of the collected at the source. cent, of their profits as before, $68,000,000 a year. furs and playing carus. "increased; and in others below 60 cents. TABLE ILLUSTRATES EFFECT OF PROPOSED INCOME TAX (Amounts shown in even dollars for simplicity.) i... visiting grocery were behaving about the new ra-. L3 ssi deyBy ou «PS 5°8¢ A504 AR J °F RN E HEY 84 18, 8373 da§ £73 A € asd Ble 3547 8.5h47 {3 EY Hol i et Single Persons, Without Dependents, 700 35 --15 20 20 40 . b7 1 58 58 116 87 5 92 80 172 162 b . 167 100 267 217 30 247 120 367 273 b8 ~ 331 140 471 340 101 441 160 601 475 161 626 200 826 622 202 824 240 1,064 9566 319 1,274 320 1,694 1,332 3986 1,728 400. 2,128 2,400 b70 2,970 600" 3,670 10,000 3,600 712 4,312 '800 5,112 20,000 9,106 1,924 11,029 800 11,8290 30,000 15,082 3,314 18,396 B00 19,196 50,000 28,392 . 6,611 31,903 800 35,703 100,000 64,347 15,990 80,337 800 81,137 500,000 411,720 60,684 472,304 300 473,104 Married Persons, Without Children, . 1,250 50 --26 20 25 50 1,300 65 --1b b0 50 100 1,600 75 34 109 108 217 1,760 126 36 161 160 321 2,000 176 56 231 200 431 2,250 226 91- 316 226 541 2,600 276 126 401 200 661 3,000 400 184 684 300 884 4,000 675 289 964 400 1,364 5,000 1,000 378 1,378 500 1,878 7,600 > 1,966 656 2,620 750 3,270 10,000 3,080 682 3,762 1,000 4,762 20,000 8,330 1,949 °° 10,279 1,000 11,279 30,000 14,0856 3,361 17,446 1,000 18,446 60,000 26,966 6,688 33,663 1,000 34,563 100,000 61,876 16,112 77,987 1,000 78,987 500,000 ' 401,120 60,834 461,954 1,000 462,904 Married Persons, With Two Children. 1,260 22 --6 16 16 32 1,300 26 --T 18 17 3b 1,400 30 --9 21 21 42 1,500 35 10 25 24 49 1,750 48 b 53 b2 105 2,000 60 47 107 108 216 2,250 73 90 163 162 325 2,600 115 102 217 218 4356 3,000 2156 119 334 334 668 "4,000 450 218 668 480 1,148 ~-5,000 736° 327. 1,062 GOO 1,662 7,500 1,637 b17 2,164 900 3,004 10,000 2,710. 636 3,346 1,200 4,546 20,000 7,890 1,973 9,863 1,200 11,063 30,000 13,621 3,409 17,030 1,200 18,230 50,000 26;437 6,700 33,137 1,200 34,337 100,000 61,299 16,272 77,571 1,200 78,771 500,000 ... 400,408 61,130 461,538 1,200 462,738 NOTE: In calculating the above taxes it has been assumed that all incomes up to $30,0Uv are entirely cared income, and that in. comes of more than $30,000 include carned income or that amount and additional investment income to make up the total. ! made by the taxpayer within the tax year as nct premiums on life _ insurance contracts in force June 23, 1942, or as principal payments Lrayments or as paymenis into a pension fund, ability to turn over funds directly to the treasury inimum savings requirement. : Wherever possible, income and national defence taxes will be In the case of wage and salary earners this means that, beginning next September, employers must deduct from pay envelopes weekly amounts estimated to pay within 12 months the national defence and income taxes of all employees for: 1942, The excess protits tax on corporations is oeing increased irom 76 to 100 per cent, effective July 1st. : along with revised corporation income taxes companies whose protits have not gone up since the start of the war will retain only 60 per retirement. tund gr superannuation fund, will be accepted as an In essence this means that, No matter how much their earnings have expanded during the war, they will be permitted to retain at the most, only 70 per cent. of their normal pre-war profits, a Excess profits taxes on corporations will bring in an additional 1 The budget also puts higher taxes on liquor, wine and beer; cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, cigaretie papers and tubes, soit drinks, 'Lransportation 'taxes, taxes on pullman berths, long distance telephone calls, telegrams and cables are also A whole new range of taxes at the rate of 26 per cent. of the= retail price, is placea on jewelry, glassware, china, 1ountain pens, trunks, suitcases, purses, handbags, clocks and 'watches, do not apply to some of these articles selling in some cases, $1,00 The taxes ' some "lead swingers" amongst us. Do you remember "loadswingers"?! We discussed them In one of these columus back (n the snow-shovelling days and came to the conclusion that they were a pretty low class of hounds who let other soldiers do their work for them, That's the way to describe the "lead-swingers" who/ try to cheat the rest of. us by having no hon- our when it 'comes to rationing. there are Anstead of feeliug that they have "put one over on the Govern: ment" when they buy more than the allotted ration we should real fzo that what they -are doing Is - vastly different. They are 'put. ting one over on -us!" Rationing" is in effect in Can- ada today on tea, coffee and sug- ar, It is rationing In the demo- cratic waunner with each one of us on our honour to use only the amount allowed us by the regula- tions.. The idea behind it is fair and equitable distribution of sup- plies regardless of rank or station. Obviously then, the skunk who tries to get more than his or her share, is not only flouting the laws of the country, he Is stealing from the rest of us, To get back to "visiting rounds". Most grocers reported that there was very little, i any, evidence of increased buying of tea, coffee and sugar, following Donald Gor- don't radio announcement of the rationing. What little there was,/ sald some of them, seemed to be done by "women in cars® who were evidently ashamed enough ot their activities to buy only a proper quantity at thelr own "grocer's but not ashamed enough to go to a strange store for more! Isn't that a sad commentary? The more so when you think that the sons and grandsons of some of these ladies are probably. over- seas in the armed forces. "No more 'hate training' the headline over a recent story from England. Wel, pose the senior officers best, but I remember--and many of you--how much "beat" you could put behind a bayonet lunge if you pretended that the stuffed dummy in front was cabled [ sup- know so do more of you was "Kuiser Bill"! Perhaps thers won't be any more training in 'hate' but you can't tell ono that tho brother ot a Canadian soldier in Hong Kong is going to go about - making war - In a calm and detached manner! Anyway some of us are working up hates at home and that's a bad thing, we should save it for the enemy. The object of my particu- lar hato Is the pleasure driver -- especially when, aa in the case with far too many, he has the manners of a hog, In my little neck of the woods there 18 more Sunday driving than ever there was and I don't exaggerate when I say that more than halt of the drivers are as arrogant as a young Nazi, "They honk their horns for pedestrians to get out of their lordly way, they skirt as close to him as they dare if "he doesn't get out of the way quickly enough and generally do everything in their stdpid TTPOWET Io raise up a heartfelt cry for a prohibition of all driving. And in Malaya, Java, the Philip- pines, Lybia, Greeco and France their brothers died because there wis not enough gasoline. "Hate training"? The soldier - doesn't need it, but some civilians ave aequiring it! pleasure Air Chief Praises 'New Canadian Plane Operational flights of a new airplane now being built in Can- ada as well as in England, show it is bet.er than any aircrait pos- sessed by 'he enemy, said Air Vice-ularshal Harold tdwards re- cently. Air Vice-Maishal Edwards hak been on a tour of aviation and Allied plans in Canada before re- turning to active duty in England, He came to Canada four weeks azo to attend the United Nations air conterence at Ottawa, "Aircraft plants 1 have visited + in Canada are making most useful progress," he said. "We couldn't _ask fpr more than they are doing. They are capably turning out sat- isfactorily all they have been asked to. ~ The ingenuity shown in , production of articles of war will go a long way toward reaching the end' we all seek." ~~ 4 THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events In the seven months that ft 8tood last year, surrounded by assault, Tobruk became a symbol of courage and resistance, Its sud- den fall, coupled with the al- most simultaneous loss of Bardia and Bir El Gobi, is a hard blow, The explanation of Field Marshal Erwin Rommél's success repeals the weaknesses which have beset the British forces in Libya from the start, In tanks and guus Ger- many had both - numerical and servicing of mechanical equipment, in the blitzkrieg technique of us- ing tuuks, planes and guns as an integrated assault team, aod in resourcefulness of staff work and generalship. Above all, the British again suffered from the great handicap of the United Nations In having to spread their forces too thinly over too many places at the ends of long and perilous supply routes in order to meet an enemy free to strike outward from the centre of the circle, says the New York Times. Pincer Movement Presumably the Nazi campaign in Libya is a prelude to a full scale assault upon Egypt in an effort to drive the British from the Mediterranean and conquer the entire Middle East. The drive may be viewed as one arm of an enormous pincer reaching toward the prize of Middle Eastern oll, the other arm being the Gorman drive in Russia which has driven a wedge in the defenses of Se- vastopol. This is a dangerous threat which must be _oceupying a mijor place in the discussions now going on between rime Min: ister Churchill and Prestdoent Roosevelt. ' The loss of Tobruk itself is not 60 important as the circumstane- es surrotmding that loss. The Nazi claim to have captured 25,000 men and largo sfores of material, fa- cluding supplies freshly brought in by the convoy which came through the bottle in the Medi- terranean, If this is true jt must mean that Licut. Gen, Neil M. Ritchie's Eighth Army has been seriously weakened and that Mar- ed. Tobruk is not vital to the defense of Egypt, but Egypt Is vital to the defense of the Middle pends will be crucial. it must be won at all "costs, 3 Anniversary In Russia On the lust day of tho first year of their campaign in Russia, the Gorman armies are still fighting far short of the goal they set out to reach at dawn on June 22, 1941. Behind them lie the greatest vie- tories and the severest setbacks ever to come to Hitler's \Wohr- macht. The Russians have estim- ated upward of 5,600,000 Germans killed, wounded and captured; Berlin four mouths ago admitted TT L500,000 casualties, In the initial five. months of the year the German soldiers overran 500,000 square miles of territory with 42,- 500,000 people. In five months of Winter war they lost one-fifth of the conquered area to Russia counterattacks. The coming of Spring brought local battles on the southern front; a Russian offens- ive in the Ukraine, launched five weeks ago, forastalled, jt was be- lieved, the German plan for ward toward the Caucasus and oil, Soviet losses, in the first year of war, were likewise enormous. Six months ago, in an official estimate, Berlin claimed between 8.000.000 and 10,000,000 Red Army casualties; Moscow, more recently, has admitted close to 3.000,000 lost. Yet in those months of fight- ing Russian soldiers found a tech- nique of resistance which, it ap- peared, blunted the Blitzkrieg and forced cn the German Fuehrer an everlengthening war, Russia's Power Last week the Soviet soldier's Dower of resistance' was again evident in two battles raging in South Russia, Sevastopol, the reltadel on the southwestern coast of the Crimea, was still fu Russian hands after more than geven montha of siege. 'For more than two weeks the Germans had pit- ted tanks and guns and planes in an all-out attack against the Axis forces, and hurled back every . 'qualitative superiority, Her forces' excelled in the vrapid repair and / shal Rommel hag been. strengthen-- Kast. The battle which now im. - resumption of a major drive east-- German Pincer Movement In Egypt And Russia Towards Middle East olty's defenders ensconced in the limestone hills. - Siege guns bee loved larger than the "Blg Bees thas" of the first World War had shelled Sevastopol's delens .which then had been attack: 'repeatedly. by thnks and foot sol diers, The city's people had lived out countless air: ralds in deep. caves carved in the cliffs. "To the last soul" they had sworn "to dle before surrendering." : Befora Kharkov a second Cee man offensive lannched elovea days ago-appeared to have been halted along the Donets River, The Wehrmacht's newest drive had been launched, so observers held, to prepare. the ground for an allout campaign across the Donets Basin, with its teeming industries, toward Rostov, gate way to the Caucasus, Ald From America This was the threat faced by the Russian nation as the Red Army battled at Sevastopol and Kharkov. To help In stavingsoft the danger direct aid was coming from the United States, Amerlcan- made tanks and planes were on the Russian front; to these were added --the report came from Turkey, remains unconfirmed-- bombors of the American Army Air Corps with American crews which had flown to participate in the defense of the Crimean bastion. From bases In the Middle last, moreover, four-motored Un- {ted States "Liberators" had taken oft for damaging raids on Nasl Qi fields and supply dumps fn Rumania. ~ When credit for tinal victory in this war is handed out much will go to China for her slout resistance to Japan, beginning 1a 1937; much to Britain for stand. ing fast after the evacuation of Dunkerque; a very great deal to Russia for slugging it out with the Nazis after June 22, 1041 It ts only fair to.say that it waa the Russians, somewhere between the Dnieper and the Don, who proved that thy Nuzis conld be beateng and that, it was the Russians, ob- stinato in retreat, relentless in attack, who--gained for the rost of us a decisive period. of time In which to gather strength, Russia's Unity Wo are traveling at tighter plane speed toward tho war's critical months. Before those words can appear in print the Nazis may have smashed the Rus. sian defenses at more than one point, "1t is possible that there may be another great Russian retreat. Yet 'the twelve months now ending make it safe to pre- dict that though the Russiang may bo pushed buck they will not be routed; and that though they may lose men, materials, towns, cities, farms and factories they will not lose their tighting spirit. This much could not be takea tor granted a year ago. We did not then know how much unity existed among (he Russian people, We could not be sure that some of them would not be willing to replaco Stalin with Hitler, We had no means of testing the real state of public opinion in Russia, Now - we know what it is, not by any scientific process of "sampling" but by the splendor of a granite. like resistance of which a divided people would have been incape able, | There may be a Dunkirk British soldier somewhere now who might - be interested to know that he and his greenish oilskin jerkin are held in remembrance in Pasadena, Cal, During that evacuation a conting- ent or British troops marched past a French (or Belgian) "lady and hier husband who were fleecing to the sea, 'The husband, all out, lay by the roadside. One of the sol- diers spread his jerkin over him. These fugitives reached America at last; the man succumbed; but months later his widow gine to Pasadena, bringing thi ach oilskin, She gave it to the Hritish War Relief where it now hangs as her tribute not to that one soldier alone who, passing by, had cared for her husband, but to him and all his comrades in the British Army, REG'LAR FELLERS--Pass the Medals "By GENE BYRNES Sime <THume coll] Rog U8 PL Ocficn AN Aghte remnrvel ey a WRT LN on AT } FNS L NGYE --y