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f i 5 5 EE gr Pag Britain To Survey ~ All Farm Holdings Listing - Will Shbw Where Improvements Can Be Made The immediate importance of extracting frem England ounce of 'food and the necessity of preparing now for<a post-war egriculture «policy, has led the Ministor of Agriculture to initiate a National Farm Survey. British fgrms have not heen reviewed 80 tGorqughly since - the Domesday Book of 1083. 4 ) In England and Wales 300,000 holdings of five acres and upward are included in this survey. It includes a vecord of every farm conditions of tenure and" occupation, natural state of farm, ts fertility, equipment, its ade.' quacy of watey and electricity sup- plies, management, condition of farm and its wartime plowing-up vecord, It will be possible for the Min- {ster of Agriculture to see ex- actly where improvements can be made, which farms require super- vision, where bad farmers must be replaced, where drainage must be improved aud where the use of fertilizers must be increased. ' Post-War Planning The Farm Survey Is also de scribed as a "blueprint for post. war agricultural planning" which will show exactly where farm - workers' cottages are most ure gently needed, where rebuilding of old homesteads i3 necessary, where water and electricity are essential. Each farm is to be mapped, showing boundaries and-its fields. This work will reveal what land must be reserved and protected from building _ development; and ~ ghow those farms which have been rendered uneconomic becausa they are cut up into too many pieces. . i This vast body of information and statistics will demonstrate clearly to the post-war govern ment problems to be solved, and remedies to be adopted. [4 Come Josephine I ' My Flying Machine Engineer Predicts Every Family Will Have An "Airmobile" Can you imagine backing your plastic helicopter out of the garage some Sunday morning, taking your family for a spin above the coun- tryside, and then, on_ your way home, stopping at a "roadside" stand to eat hot dogs? It sounds like a dream, especlally now, when the family jalopy stays "fn the garage_most of the time. However," William Z. Safka, de- sign engineer on plastics of the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company, predicts that "someday a plastle helicopter will be in every garage." After the war, of course. To Cost About $1,200 Here's his idea of the "family plane" of the post-war era: - This *"airmobile" will be con- structed largely of plastic mate- rials one-fifth as heavy as the ma- terials used in present-day passen- ger planes, but will have a {ensile strength greater than steel. You will he able to order your helicopter in any color and shade your wife selects, and it will be fade, rust and dent-proof. It will cost about $1,200 and fly for six miles on a gallon of gasoline. tl will be more manoeuverable + than present-day. automobiles. It will contain safety devices making it practically foolproof. The size of an automobile, the helicopter will be able to park in any space an automobile can back into. I Mr. Safka's prediction comes true, the old melody "Come Jose- phine in My Flying Machine" may become the theme song of the post-war generation. a "Help War Effort By Keeping Bonds After bonds have been bought - through payroll deductions, thers is always the temptation to sell the bond and use the cash at once, says The Windsor Star, In the enthusiasm of drives through factories, many men contract to buy bonds nad pay for them by regular déductions from their pay checks, Then, as soon as the last payment has heen made 'and the bond delivered, the man goes to the bank and cashes his loan, That i8 neither building up a reserve fund for after the war nor helping the war effort as much as would be done by keep- ing the bond. It is false patriotism that lends the money - through + whit is sometimes said to amount to compulsion and then. take the cash as'soon as possible. I There are times when. people 'need to cash their bonds to meet oxpenses that weré not anticipat- ed in the general run, That is un- fortunate, but the bonds can be sold. It is when they are sold for other. than necessities that it is not so good, ; every ry dy Say | PRESIDENT'S SURPRISE VISIT TO at saath amt fe Shu sue Ra £ . Standing rigidly at attention, and totally unaware that the rev American soldiers in French Morocco were astonished as a jeep passe Commander-in-Chicf, the President of the United States. ¢ "saluted the colors while the small car moved past thé men of an armored unit: U. S. TROOPS IN AFRICA x jew was such an historic occasion, d in front of them bearing their Here you see the scene as Mr. Roosevelt Behind the Presi. dent, in centre, is Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, Commander of the U, S. Fifth Army, SCOUTING... A recent strip survey conducted by Dominion Headquarters of the Boy Scouts Association reveals that upwards of 100,000 members of the Canadian Navy, Army and Air Force are former Boy Scouts. An unusually large proportion of this number hold commissions and many have been decorated by His Majesty for gallantry. More than 200 have already lost their lives. Col. M. F. Gregg, Commandant of the Officers' Training Centre at Brockville - said recently that he considered Scout training as excellent for those later coming to Brockville to train for com- misions. . . . . Miss Agnes Baden-Powell, sls- ter of the founder of the Boy Scout Movement, ILord Baden- Powell, recently celebrated her 84th birthday in Great Britain, Miss Baden-Powell ras the first Girl Guide leader in England, having led a company of Ginl Guides in 1908, before the Move- ment was officially organized. - * . » . _ (W " Boy Scouts of Pendelton, Ore. recently dedicated the "Chapel of Sir Galahad" in their Scout head- quarters, to the memory of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement and Daniel Car- ter Beard, pioneer Boy Scout worker in the United States. The chapel is believed to be the only chapel located in a Boy Scout headquasters in the United States." - * - The town of Blenheim, Ont. had a splendid record in 1942 with not one case of juvenile de- linquency. The Town Council by resolution praised the Scout Movement for this condition. In- cidentally, the Boy Scouts 4a Blenheim are under the leader- ship of Scoutmaster W. T. Fen- ton, who is Chief of Police of Blenheim. Toronto is the first city in Can- ada to have a full time Wolf Cub Field Secretary in the person-of Miss Ruby Brown, formerly of Windsor. Miss Brown has heen identified with the Boy Scout Movement for many years, and is - . "busily 'engaged now in organizing new Cub Packs and training lead- ers for this important work among the Junior Scouts, - * Ld * _ Two Chief Scouts will broad- cast to the Boy Scouts of Canada during Boy Scout Week, Febru- ary 21-27. On Sunday, Febru- ary 21st, His Excellency the Gov- ernor-General, Chief Scout for Canada will speak over a national network, and on Tuesday, Febru- ary 23rd, the Lord Somers, Chief "Scout of the British Empire will be heard speaking from London, Sort Out Flyers By, Glider Training _ Canadian Afr Cadets may fly In © gliders this summer if gliders can ho obtained and If proposals now under conskleration meet with official approval, 3 Gliding is considered - an excel lent means of sorting out per' sons who are potential flyers from those who can never ha flyers, before they enter flying (raining schools, Gliding has been used. in the A training>of British afr cadets and Germany has led the world In glider training, usnig it to interest many of the men now serving in the Luftwaffe in flying while they were still too young for actual fly ing training. fo. As the main function of the alr cadets 8 (0 get boys interested in afr training and give them {nstruc- tion which will help them In the future it they enter the R.C.A.F., it 13 felt gliders can play a use- ful role in the work of the league. $225,000 Worth Of Clothing On Way To Comfort Russians By GREGORY CLARK The goods are' on the way, Al- ready baled and en route to the people of Russia are .$225,949 worth of clothing purchased by the Canadian Aid to Russia fund. Thus, while the campaign for the fund consumes the energies of district committees from coast to coast in Canada, one quarter of a million dollars' worth of ma- terial is in transit, At prices never higher than manufacturers' prices, far below wholesale, specially. granted for this particu'ar and worthy cause, the Canadian Aid to Russia fund has been able to send Russia, as the first consignment bought from the fund, a wholesale con- signmerg of clothing that will be a godsei® to Leningrad and other cities freed from siege. ~ First in order come blankets, of which 10,103 are in these first bales en route. and coats, 46,492; 5,798 pairs of shoes; 679 children's overcoats; 30,166 suits of underwear; wo- men's dresses, 1,010, In the shipment also were 114,- 107 miscellaneous items, which included 30,000 cap comforters, ~.20,000 pairs of woollen gloves, 20,000 woollen pairs of socks. y In addition to the 10,000 blan- kets there were 16,957 sheets. Among the extraordinary items were some 4,000 winter union 'suits, a special. consignment of extremely heavy pullover gar- ments made for a special purpose "no longer required and which will be of incomparable use in extreme northern districts of Russia. Woollen shirts, 20,000; jersey pullovers, 20,000; sweaters, 20,- 000; socks, 50,000 pairs; pillow slips, 10,000; berets, mitts, doublets, winter melton caps, jackets, drawers, and even puttees, the shipment of Canada's first goodwill offering from its Look out for Trouble from Sluggish KIDNEYS mufflers, 50,000 Try the Original "Dutch Drops" ~ . It is poisonous waste that your kidneys should be filtering out of your blood that may cause backache, dizzy spells, leg cramps, restless, sleep-broken nights, and smarting and burning. For relief usg the remedy that has won the grateful thanks of thousands for many years--GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Qil Capsules. This effective diuretic and kidney stimu- lant is the original and genuine Dutch Drops in carefully measured amisiiiits in tasteless Capsules. It is one of the most | favorably known remedies for relieving "congested kidneys and irritated bladder. It works swiftly, helping the delicate filters of yout kidney to purify the blood. Be sure you get the original and genuine-- cked 'in Canada. [Insist on getting GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. 40c at your druggists, 1 Overcoats, 6,127, |" leather million-dollar Aid to Russia fund is chiefly what Leningrad and those communities now being set free, day by day, will most re- quire after the thieving enemy has looted them -- clothing and bedding. As fast as the funds come in, the goods will go out, this is the undertaking of Clifford Sifton, vice-chairman of the national committee of the fund. "To know that your contribution to the fund is thus coming into physical contact with the Russian people in the very 'midst of their mighty struggle zest to the act. Send your dona- tion without delay to the Cana- dian Aid to Russia fund, 80 King St. W., Toronto. Of Gas For Troops More than 100,000,000 gallons of gasoline were ordered for the armed forces during 1942 by the Munitions and Supply ment, _In addition, the department ordered in' the same period a total of: 3,500,000 gallons of lubricating oils, and thousands of gallons of paints, varnishes and greases, - gives a special - bye" Depart.' VOICE PRESS WHERE THE FIGHTING 18° One of the boys drafted says that even if Canada does have conscription far overseas service, 'hoe cannot be made to fight. All *he army does in a case of th nd is take the young man to wnere the fighting is and let him yse his own judument, Windsor Star '--0-- MAGELLAN'S ERROR Magellan, children, in case you haven't been minding your his- tory teacher (or is it geography), was the shortsighted man who made the Big Mistake of calling it the Pacific acean, Ottawa Citizen ---- FAIR EXCHANGE Looking into the rend estate angle of the peace, ono postwar planner suggests that we shoutd take those mandated islands from the Japanese, and square it nicely by giving back the. beetles. -- Stratford Beacon-Herald ------ MOST PLEASANT "Isn't it a pleasant surprise to put on a suit that you "haven't had on for about a vear, and in one of the pockets find a roll of bills?" asked a columnist. ~ It is if they're veceipted. -- (Galt Reporter -- : WELL, THEY'RE HATS? The hat designer who said that eurrently styled women's hats are pretty much alike is wrong on only three counts, viz: They aren't pretty, 'they aren't much, and they aren't alike. St. Louis Star-Times cel HOW LUCKY WE ARE We will have to start spread- Ing our butter more thinly, but should consider ourselves lucky to be 'able to get all the bread we want, ---- Niagara Falls Review reali Ti WASTING FUEL Much fuel coud he saved at this time of 'vear by cutting out the "wood-bye, good-bye, good- in an open doorway. ----Kitehener Record | ued " TAXLESS GOOD TIMES We shall have to get back to home-made good times, There ave too many taxes on the store bought kind. -- Brandon Sun . --0--- GOING SAME WAY There's one similarity between the German and the Russian armies now--they're=both headed Berlin-wards. Vancouver Province By George Clark [SE Te . h 0 "John never gets a minute off from his work." . Prime certed "to "help" Turkey force. At ji THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events United Nations Seize Political As Well As Military Initiative The communique that told of the historic meeting between Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt concluded with these words: / "Phe President and Prime Min- ister and their combined staffs, having completed théir plans for the qffensive campaigns of 1943, have iow scparated in order to put them into active" and cou- execution." The Prime Minister flew. East to Turkey, the President flew West to Natal in Brazil, each journey -a logical sequel to the North Afyican con- ference, . These were the first steps toward carrying out the plans, azyeed upon in Morocco. Turkey and 'the Allies The surprize meeting between the Turkish President and Prime Minister Churchill is another dra- matic demonstration -that the United Nations have seized not only the military but also the po- litical inltiative and that the two combined are now drawing a noose around Hitler's neck. Just what the practical results of the meeting will be remains to be seen, ard Mr. Churchill warn- ed against speculations which might embarrass the participants. As the main Power of the Middle last and guardian of the Darda. nelles, says The New York Times, Turkey holds a key position of utmost importance to Allied stra- tegy--and to German. According to official Turkish statements Mr. Churchill did not ask Turkey to enter the war, "and the Turkish Government. did not. undertake any such commitment." That leaves a wide latitude for inter- pretation. The British-Turkish military alliance of 1039 provides for "active military co-operation if the war moves to the eastern end of the Mediterranean," and the American and British promise materially - to own general de- security" suggests that treaty is how being given the very least, this implies that Turkey is determined to fight against any" German move toward the Middle Fast, which puts up another bulwark against the Nazis and helps to close the iron ring around them. What is more, it creates ¢ssential safe- pugrds for their flank in case the Allied armies now gathering in Africa should try to invade Furope throuch the ancient gate- way of the Balkans, And the seri- ousness of this threat is indicated Ly the swiden rush of German reinforcements to that rewsion ---- which in turn helps to weaken the Gesmans on the Russian front. consolidate her fensive this Brasil and the Allies The President flew Liz return flight from Morocco, President Roosevelt stopped off for another hmportant meeting. fast "week his wiant flying boat immed wontly into the Potengi "at the seaport of Natal, on the "hump" of the Brazilian coast rearvest Afvien. - Here, on an American destroyer, sarrotmdéd hy patrol eraft and ander an um- bella of planes, he held affec- tionate- reanion with "my old friend," Getrlio Vargas, Presi dent of Brazil. The two Presidents reviewed Anerienn fd Brazilian forces west On "stationed at Natal. This little city of 30.000, close to the Equator, has sodden'y hecore a world. © cross-road, for it is the jumping- off yivee for hundreds of planes bound northeast 1.700 miles over the Atlantic to fithting fronts in Africa or, farther east, to Rus sia, India and China. Presidents Roosevelt gas (1) di eid the Casablanca conference and snrveved the future safety of all the Ameri- cas; (2) eorveed thet the coast of West Africa and Dakar should "never again under any circum stances he allowed to become an invasion threat to the two Ameri- cas; (2) declored a common aim of their two countries "to make the Atlantic Ocean safe for all" and President Varsas cave assur. ance of greater Drazitian efforts and Var: to combat the German submarine menace in the Caribbean and South Atlantic; (4) described themselves gs "deeply grateful" for the "alinost unanimous" help which their neighbor ndtions were giving "to the great cause of de mocracy." The words unanimous" were a pointed refer« ence to the second largest South American nation, Argentina, which has not yet broken off dip- lomatic relations with the Axis and has officially resented charges that her territory is a base for Nazi espionage. 3 Anniversary In Berlin On 'the tenth anniversary of Hitler's assumption of -the Chane cellorship the RAF. gave Berlin its first daylight bombing since the war began, The Puelirer himself was ab the front, and for the sccond time the first was in 1938--he had failed to mark the anniversary with a speech, Instead, a proo. laniition from Hitler was read by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goeb- bels. It reflected the seriousness of the time, which made this an< niversary more a day of moura- ing for the dead than a day of celebration, as in years past, The Fuchrer declared that unless his people devoted every ounce of their energy, to the defeat of Rus. sia they were in danger of having their culture destroyed and be coming the slaves of 'Bolsheve ism." Herr Goering's The day's made by Goering. He began after an hour's delay, during which crashes and shouts, supposedly due to the air raid, were heard over the radio, Speech chief address was The man who had promised -the . German people that British bomb. ers would never cross their fron tiers said the LAF. would be repaid "fone da By the pledge of final victory he sought to re- . move the sting of recent defeats, former boasts that Germany's war tools were the best in the world, he said that Russia "had spent the last decads and a half Luilding up the most powerful. mrmaments ever made by any nation." He announced a spring offensive, but warned of further hardships ahead, The impact of the war upon Germany has been a gradual pro. Ith «id not come with the brutal sudenness it did to most of the democratic nations. It started ten years ago when Adolf Hitler came to power and an eco- In place of cess. nomy of "guns, not hutter," was dished. Under it luxuries fram the average Ger- Life. his clothes turned shoddy, & ast week it became evident that all. this was not enough, From Adal Hitler's headquarters came av rder veguiving the registration af all German men between 18 ard 65 and dl German. women botween 17 amd 15. The order sirned to find women men in the factories, services, offices, Since. uns iced women have long since teen called on for work, the order seemed aimed at---such of Ger- mars 12,500,000 married women as coud Betaben from their homes vithout disrupting the nation's cronoiny, var man's seemed de ta replace civil % On tre Down Grade The Nazi order, it seemed cers thin, dd not mean that Hitler's troops would he a weaker foe during 1913, Its significance lay in the indication that Germany hod reached its peak mil'tary - strenath and had started down- ce. In 1639 the Reich was-- imate] ot have 18,000,000 pro ductive wale workers hetween the aces of 18 an 13, More than 0,000,000 of them are now in uniform," soffering losses esti- mated at 1.000.000 a year. This is a rate of los that could not de up by additions from the vanks of women, prisoners of war or "volunteer workers from cap- tive countries" Its effect would be felt in food production, in ware prodycticn wand finally on the firhting fronts, lie n ST Bluev and Curley of the Arians geroRt | LEFT AUSSIE | THOUGHT THE EAST WAS A} SNIFTER * LAND OF SAPPHIRE SEAS SHADY SHORES. SILKS, SPHINX, SONGS. AND SCENTED: SHEILAS.Z "WELL, WHAT PO You RECKON "The Duakening™ By Gurney (Australia) ial NRTRTET JusT A BLINKIN' LAND OF SCORCHING SAND. SUNBURN, 6IN, SKEETERS, SKINNY SHEIKS. AND STINKIN' CIGARETTES / A ti "almost pr Reichmarshal Hermann ro Pe ma cor | IE il 2 a) i 4 yooh % A | FUN HEN