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J ie i Be i ee oe ee FOR IER 1a - of 7 " EL 3 i » 4 = FUSER Ft | Ao | t | a Be 3 Be Bh ee he Bn Be ee eB eR Be Bn : Canadian Soldier Tells All He Knows By The Marquess of 'Done- gal in the London Sunday Despatch 'The following story comes from a Government official's letter to me, I know him personally, and he is not given to writing letters to thé press for fun: "At 'a daytime cantéen in a small resort in the south of Eng- land, Mrs. P., who Is a voluntary worker therein, was addressed as follows by a Canadian soldier; , "Well, 'ma'am, we've' been wait. ing long enough for action. Now we've got it; we're not going to take Jerry's pants down at Dieppe tomorrow morning, we're going to take them right off. Yes, we hop off from here at tomorrow morning!" "Mrs. P. presumed he was jok- fng. She 'kidded him along' by saying that moybe he had got a personal invasidn of Berlin all fixed, too. But the soldier insist. ed. that what ho was saying was papers, ma'am', he said as he walk- ed out of the canteen. "Mrs, P. thought no more about it and went on with her work ot serving in the canteen. But ima- gine how she blamed herself for not taking the soldler's name when, on opening her newspaper, she did read about the Dieppe raid." B } Well, the fact of the matter is that a lot of Canadians who left that little resort did not return. I do not say that they were all kill ed or that tho talking of that pare ticular soldier was responsible. We are officially told that warning was given to thé Germans from fishing boats off the French coast. "I doubt_very much if such a last. minute warning could have en- abled them to niuster so concen- "trated a resistance round Dieppe. Of course, it only so happens that the soldier concerned was a Canadian. But being Irish-Canad- ian myself, perhaps I may makes this comment without offence, I think that we Irish and we Can- adians like talking more than the English, the Scots, and the Welsh do. It is, therefore, the more nec essary for us to be on our guard. 10 PER CENTER The Japs may have invaded her Malay homeland, but they can't niake a monkey out of Mabel, She's busy licking war stamps to help win the war. Tide Goes Down In Royal Baths King Takes Leading Part In Fuel-Conservation Plan true "You'lt reat -about it in news. King George, the Royal Family . and everybody else at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle will bathe in no more than five inches of water from now on. "It is part of Britain's fuel-con- servation plan in which the King is taking a leading part. The monarch ordered every bath tub in the royal households painted with a black or red line at the five-inch level and a notice posted calling attention to the ne- cessity. for fuel .conomy, the Bri- tish Press Association disclosed. Likewise, the King directed that not more than one small bulb shall be lighted in a bathroom or in any Palace bedroom and that additional bulbs be removed. No central heating is used at either the Palace or the Castle at resent -and King George has for- . idden lighting of fires. There are to be no fires in any bedroom ex- cept on physician's orders. 7 'The number of boilers at Wind. sor Castle has been go reduced that on four days each week there is'no hot water in some residential parts of the Castle and occupants of those rooms have to obtain it - from the kitchen, Fuel economy measures also "have Been introduced in kitchens and all unessential lights in palace corridors have been removed, vV.0 IC E RRESS VALUE OF A GARDEN It is a little harder but a great deal more serviceable to teach the child at home and elsewhere that the world owes and will give i% nothing-that is not paid for in hon. est labor, The child who is led to . cultivate a garden regularly will very likely be willing to do other helpful work when occasion de- mands, and at the same time will be cultivating a character full of promise for the duties of later years, ' : -- Guelph Mercury a 'AL-CAN' HIGHWAY Official announcement is made that the Alaska Highway, 1,600 miles from Fort St. John in Brit- ish Columbia to Fairbanks in 'Alaska, will be through and ready for Winter use December 1, It is to be known as "Al-Can" Highway --Alaska and Canada. EE ---- THE WILLKIE VERSION "God bless you, and give 'em- hell," says Mr. Wendell L., Willkie to American troops in Egypt. Which is, being interpreted, simply the colorful Willkie version of that other time-honored injune- tion, "Trust in God and keep your powder dry." --Windsor Star --0-- BRIGHT SPOT - The Canadian Navy has lost more ships in the last few weeks than it comprised at the outset. And- it still is a great fighting force. The way the navy has been built up is one of the bright spots in Canada's war effort. --St. Thomas Times-Journal lyons USE FOR JEEFS A thought is that the jeep will make a dandy post-war baby car- - - ringe for the kind of tough baby our posterity will have to be. --Stratford Beacon-Herald J ga THEN COMES HIS CHANCE Armed with the trusty stiletto, there would still be nothing for the Duce to do until someone op- ened a second back, : --Winnipeg Tribune --0-- FASHIONABLE NOW A reader wants to know what to do with an old felt hat. The answer is: Wear it. That's what ve're doing. --Owen Sound Sun-Times -- --0-- To WOMEN'S RAIMENT A Chicago lecturer contends the average woman wears better than the average man. But not s0 much. --Chatham News --_--0-- NO TELLING Perhaps they will be putting an __ | damusenent tax oh the few hours we hold our wages. --Brandon Sun 110 Million Pounds Sugar From Alberta The beet experts say, according to the Lethbridge Herald, we can look forward to something like 350,000 tons of beets this harvest, and on that basis we may expect to extract some 110,000,000 pounds of sugar besides considerable m#l- asses. The molasses, a low grade -product, will mostly go to the manufacture of alcohol tor the war effort. But it is in the sugar that a rationed Canada is Interested. The sugar ration Is half a pound per person per week. That means that the 800,000 people of Alberta will consume some 21,000,000 pounds in a year. Saskatchewan will require about 25000000 pounds. We will be able to supply these two provinces with their _ ration requirements, give Manito- ba 10,000,000 pounds, and still have 54,000,000 pounds left to supply -- general requirements and to ship to the people of Ontario where we are already shipping the surplus sugar of last year's crop. : Blackout S. Shore . Of St. Lawrence A Federal Order-in-Council has been passed calling for a complete blackout of the south shore of the St. Lawrence which will go into effect at once: The blackout will be effective from Isle Verte, 40 miles up- . river from Rimouski, down through the entire coastline of the (dspe peninsula bordering on the St. Lawrence, and. around the Bay Chaleur shore as far as Douglas "town, rm rn The darkened area will extend inland for five miles, The andonncenferit sald the blackout had heen ordéred "to guard against the possibility of bombardment by énemy submar ines." . The. new regulations will require a total blackout of street lights and flluminatlons, and will prevent interior lights from being visible from the outside. Train and auto- mobile lights in the area will be shaded. y --Vancouver Sun See the ball right by the base? ] slide into third safely on W. Cooper's single to centre. i ! stage was set for the 4th inning, 6-run. blasting that followed Kurowski's single. this fourth World Series game at Yankee Stadium, 9-6, Yankee Red Rolfe dropped it--enabling Cardinal Sam Musial to With Musial on third, and Cooper on first, the Cards finally won ALAN MAURICE TINY" ens. A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army Not very much has appeared in these columns about the Army Pay Corps which organization, ot course, performs one-of the most important functions in the Indl vidual Citizen's- Army; and inthis case when I say individual citi. "zen's army [ mean the army of fighting Canadians of all ages who probably bear the word Canada on their shoulders. The charge is sometimes level led that the headquarters organ- jzations fight "a paper war." Too little, consideration is given to the inescapable documentation that must be done in order that men may be enlisted, equipped, out. fitted, fed, housed, paid, trans. ported and suppliéd once they are part of the army. Too often we take it entirely for granted that a man's pay will reach him no matter on what front he serves; that his aaslgned pay, separation' allowance and depend- ents' allowance will be paid regu- larly regardless of how often the family moves or how often he moves, It must he remembered too, that other Individual Citizen's Army, taxpayers like you and me, are entitled --to get mir accounting of all the moneys that are spent for us by our government. Today thero are hundreds ot thousands of Johnny Canucks in khaki each getting his $1.30 a day --or more according to their rank --and the translation of these in- dividual sums into Battalions, ' Brigades, Divisions, Army Corps and Armies, calls for the opera- tion of an accounting system that might well be expected to stagger even a civilian merchant prince. That, very briefly, is a sketch of some of the work of the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps, It Is" not by any means the full picture --there are such things for in- stance as advances of pay to men going on leave, deductions to be made from pay for carelessly lost or mislaid equipment, stoppages of pay occasioned by necessary punishment and the provision of monetary allowances in lieu of rations and quarters, when a sol dier is detailed to a job of work which doesn't permit him to live in barracks, None of this can be done with. out 'a paper war" and most of it is done by men who would be much more highly paid doing the same type of work in thelr peac- able occupations. Amongst the list of items to be "attended to by the Pay Corps, you will 'remember 1 listed "assigned pay." Every married man must, and every single man is encour aged to, assign a proportion of his pay to his wife or his next of kin. Fathers and mothers of improvi- - bedrooms and a 1 by "installments _ gardless of what our "pay corps" dent youngsters will thoroughly appreciate the wisdom of such a regulation--in fact most of them have tried to do the same thing with varying degrees of success. Right now it would be well for all of us to practice a similar re gulation upon ourselves, Aud right now, through the regulations of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, we are actually beginning to practice as sensible a system of economics as that imposed upon the soldiers who defend us on the far-flung frontiers of the fight for civilization. In the lush years we cheerfully mortgaged our pay, sometimes for months, and years in advance, to pamper ourselves with such luxe uries as automobiles, washing ma- chines, radios, pianos, chesterfield suites, rosewood furniture for our hundred. other things that in a more spartan ex- istence we can very well do with. out or simplify. the consumer Today under credit regulations such mortgag- ing is on a sounder economic basis, down paymente must be greater, the balance which js paid... not nust be cleared more quickly--with the result that much more of the money in our pay cheques is our own. This is just another form of the assigned pay of the soldier and is one way in which by approxima- ting his conditions we may feel closer to him in the carrying on of our own job of war work -- which is to support in every pos- sible way the man in uniform' A few -days ago in Montreal there was an excellent example of the civilian equivalent of "pay deduction" when three firms en- gaged inthe business of selling goods on the - installment plan were convicted of violations of the consumer credit regulations of the Wartime Prices and 'Trade Board. Each was fined sums ranging from $200 down to $100 plus the payment of costs--sums not great enough to hurt the pockets of the accused firms, but none the less a deduction of their pay which formed part of the greater pun- fshment afforded by the publicity that "wea given to their violation of rules that have been established for the benefit of the whole of Canada, As time goes on thero is little doubt that the fight against in- flation -- both present and post. war -- will put those of us who serve in the Individual Citizen's Army on the home front much closer to parity with the soldiers in battle-dress. Let's hope we can serve as cheerfully as they do, re- is compelled to do to us. ---thetr neekerchiefs from" * ] SCOUTING... Two Boy Scouts of the 1st Headstone Troop, Middlesex, Kng- land, found a "live" hand gren- ade, One lad remained on guard while the other went Immediately to socure a disposal squad to dis- pose of the dangerous weapon be- fore anyone was harmed, . . . Stopping off at Merrickville dur Ing a two-week cruise, members of the 30th Ottawa Sea Scout Troop arrived on the scene of a serious automobile accident. The boys, headed by their Scoutmaster improvised a_ stretcher from thoir oars and a groundsheet and re- moved the injured. They gave first aid and expertly treated and bandaged serious lacerations on the faces and arms of the occu- pants of the vehicles until the ar- rival of a doctor. * * . To raise funds to invest in war, bonds, Wolf Cubs of Sheffield, England went in for demestic ser- vice. They organized a group of "boys to go out and scrub floors and do polishing of one kind and "another. The money received was invested in bonds, which after the war will be donated to the Baden- Powell -Memorial Fund. for the erection of B-P House in London. . * . Boy Scouts of the Sth llkey Troop, England hadn't enough cou- pons to provide themselves with Troop neckerchiefs, Not to be denied them, the boys secured an old bed sheet, dyed it, and made . . A new edition of "Scouting for Boys," which since the beginning of tho movement has been the handbook of the Boy Scouts, has just been published in Ingland. It is a memorial edition in honour of the author and founder of the Scout movement, Lord ~ Baden- Powell. It is not generally known, but next to the Bible, the hand- book "Scouting for Boys" has had a larger circulation than any other book published in the precent cen- tury. . * B Ll Boy Scout Apple Days which are ustally held all across Canada about the middle of October have made an important contribution to solving the problem of apple mark- eting in Canada, Apple Days have become so numerous that many thousands of bushels of apples are required annually to fill require. ments, and thus a wseful market is found for a fruit which 'has suf- fered much because of export re- strictions due to the war. Britain And Tadley Make Trade Pact BBC said last week Britain has concluded an agreement with Turkey under which it will take a large part of this year's Turkish exports, inclding much copper, hemp, flax, olive oil and dried fruit. In return, Britain will deliver manufactured goods, steel and L~ grain. THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events fixed by Minister of Production Capt, Oliver Lyttleton, Britons ap- pear inclined to agree with him that the war has begun to enter a new phase, writes Mallory Brown fn the Christian Science Monitor. In a speelh at Aldershot on July 18, when the Nazi drive In the Caucasus and on tho Don was getting under way, Captain Lyttle. ton declared "At no time since the Battle of Britain have we stood fn graver peril. It would bo fouy " t6 deny that these 80 days in front of us are some of the gravest that we have ever faced." In another speech at Sheffield, Sopt, 16, Captain Lyttleton again referred to this 80-day period, say- ing, "Nineteen or 20 of these re- main, and at the end of that time, the war definitely begins to enter fnto a new phase" Provided emphasis is put on the word "begins," it is probably cor- rect to say that British opinion ns a whole agrees this is the case today. It is certain most military commentators and editorial writ. ers of leading newspapers and magazines seem to support this conclusion, It is based on the fol- lowing factors: Factors In Conclusion 1. The German attack at Stale ingrad is still being hold, Captain Lyttleton, in predicing the war would enter a new phase at this time, said "We are approaching the breathless moment Russia can hold on te her present positions for a few more weeks, the billante will begin to swing in our direction, and whon the gathering forces of the greatest "alliance which the world has ever seen aro going to give us first evidences of victory." 2. Hitler has apparently failed to achieve any of his major mili. tary objectives fixed for this year's Russian campaign, Military" con- sensus in London is that his time schedule is now completely upset Land that even if Stalingrad even- tually falls, Marchal Semyon Time oshenk armies are still in being and Russian arms still formidable along the entire front, Further more, Axis losses have been en- © ormous and are bound to have weakened the offensive of the German military for this year at least, 3. The prevailing view here 1s that the Nazi offensive launched in Southern Russ this summer was an allout attempt on the part of Ilitler to reduce the Soviet arm- fes to impotence, if not actually to destroy them. He has certainly failed in this so far. machine, 4. Confirmation of this is_seen, ~--Nera in {lites speechics by Foreign Minister Joachim von. Ribbentrop, Richsfuhrer Hitler, and Reichmar- shal Hermann Goring, which sig. nitcantly enough coincide with the closing week of the SO-day peviod outlined by Captain Lyttle- ton. These speeches, especially Hitler's, have been generally in. terpreted in England as evidence that Nazi leaders now acknowledge they must henceforth abandon the offensive and take up a broad de- fensive strategy toward the war as a whole. This, broadly speaking, fs the reasoning that underlies most Bri. tish press comments in the con- clusion of Captain Lyttleton's 80- day pericd. In informed circles, however, certain warnings are to he heard. First is that the situ- ation of Stalingrad itself is still serious and that it remains to be seen just how heavy a blow has been struck at Soviet military strength by the Nazi's territorial gains, which include some of Rur- sia's richest mineral, industrial, and agricultural districts. A second warning is that it would be unwise to overestimate the significance of speeches by Nazi leaders. Hitler has proved he is a past master at veing speeches as part of a propaganda smoke screen intending to mislead op- ponents as to his real intentions, Third, in well-informed military circles it is emphasized that the new phase has at the most only begun, It would be a mistake to expect to see at once any of the "first evidences of victory" refer- red to by Captain Lyttleton, TURN OF WAR TIDE SEEN IN END OF 80-DAY PERIOD At the end of the 80-day period ° when, if strength What can be sald, in the opinion of these military observers, is that the past 80 days have witnessed the failure of Hitler's best chance to score a'major strategic success fn the war by carrying throught "this year destruction of the Sovied Armies in the south and in the vast pincer movement centered om the Suez Canal, No Longer Imminent Righty days ago it looked as he had a good chance'of carrying é out, both these aims, Today, ad though the potential threat to Suez still exists' both from the Caucasus and in North Afcica, the general feeling here is that nelths er of these threats is any longer foiminent. It Is now considered unlikely Hitler will be able to force hi: way through the passes _in the Caucasus mountains before --- winter; and in Egypt there are sivns the initiative is no longer In the hands of General Field Mars shal Brwin Rommel, Meanwhile, the weight of armor and munitions, particularly tanke and planes from the United States, is piling vp on the side of the United Nations. Thus there are une doubtedly grounds for hoping that Russian resistance, especially at Stalingrad, in the past 80 days has won for the Allies the respite they needed In order to build up, equip, and concentrate thelr forces on bhig-scale offensive action In the future. Whether this future is to be Ime + mediate or much more remote re- mains the éecret of the United Na tions General Staffs. Premier Stalin's statement to the Moscow correspondent in Moscow emphasizing the importance of a second front has "aroused intense Interest in England. but, has. not altered the prevailing view of military experts that the ultimate decision as to the time and place of a second front must be left with nelitary and political chiefs, who alone have full knowledge of Unitdd Nations resources. A} Beef Exports Drop Sharply Canadian beef cattle exports to the United States have dropped sharply in recent weeks, mainly due to Government action to maintain home supplies, according to the Agriculture Department's livestock market review. \ In the week ending "September 10 only 63 head of beef cattle crossed the border against 4,864 in the same period last year. From exports were 21,396 "head against 49,661 in 1941, Heavy shipments across the border in the carly months of the 'year made the 1942 total of ship- ments higher than in 1941, with the 1942 figure 120,466 head against 99,860, Under preferred buying ar- rangements with the United States, about 200,000 Canadian beef cattle are -allowed to cross the border annually, with certain numbers allocated for quarterly periods. The last quarter quota will open on October 1 and if they are available about cattle may be shipped at the pre- ferred rates. "PLENTY OF COAL AVAILABLE" Says G. C. Cooke, President of "Blue Coal" In a recent broadeant, Gordon C. Cooke, president of D. L. & W. Coal Co.,-producers of "blue coal", said: "In this coal crisis we must share and share alike. If you don't receive all the coal you order at the ono time, the reason is that your dealer {3 trying to put son ~ coal in every bin and can onl partially fill your order at present. So be patient. You'll get all the coal you need. There's enough coal to keep every home warm this winter." - Remember, when ordering coal, to make sure it's "blue coal" , . the coal you can.depend on for greater comfort and heating satis faction all winter, 'REG'LAR FELLERS-- Correct GENE BYRNES I'M BRUSHIN' UP ON IF YOU READ SOME OF THIS STUFF IN THIS BOOK YOU WOULDN' THINK GRAMMAR WAS SO EASY! SURE, I wouLp! HERES ONE / WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS SENTENCE -* THE TOAST WAS DRANK IN SILENCE " THATS EASY! Al a J) v v ; § TW v } i ATT s % ad h a » i : 3 AEA y , kad ¥ LTS 00 | ok PER Ek SIRNCR REN Gira) . hia ' 1k ig § aero FIRS PRIETO CER GY Ln PIAS PLR BL YAEL SRR Ni Xi tember 10 this year 50,000 beef ay