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Po Con Es ETT 2" eo Le = Moni LI WG AS " Women Of Russia In War Factories Make Up More Than 70 Per cent of Labor Force Soviet war production which has forged ahead despite tremen- dous handicaps, is now manned mostly by women, In one Moscow electrical plant, 74 per cent of the new workers are women, and 48 per cent are under 21 ycars' of age. In the Uzal steel works, 50 per cent. of the labor is made up of women and 64 per cent of young people. Russia has always utilized its womanpower to a greater extent f than any other country, Hence wartime demands found many worien 'ready for the increasing demands upon them. i Their successful integration into the labor ficld has been made possible by (1) the extensive net- work of nurseries and kindergar- tens, community laundries, tailor shops and restaurants, all of which cut down on houschold work; (2) the high degree of me- chanization; and (3) the principle of equal pay for equal work. Some Work Part Time In 1938 women made up 46.4 per cent of all workers and office employees and 40.5 per cent of industrial workers. Women have been in a majority in industry for more than a year, and they now make up between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of the total labor force, The U. S. S. R.. because of its existing nurseries and its long experience with woman power, has been able to. miobilize its re- serves of women more rapidly than any other country. Women who are unable to put in a full week in the factories ave being given part-time work and home work. g So far work at home is done on a large scale only in the needle trades, but it is being extended. to categories of light manufactaring, The Coal Miners Union of the Kuzbass Basin has recently ve céived national attention foi a scheme for using the part-time labor of housewives in the mines. Under the union plan, women with family problems which prevent them from working a regular schedule, now put in from 16 to 20 working days a month. . ' The "Sea-Mule" New Tool Of War Potable Mains Tractor Us- ed To "Push Around" Un- powered Water Craft Urgency of war has brought, many strange-appearing vehicles and instruments ouf of Détroit factories, and right at the top of, the list is Chrysler Corporation's latest unit, the marine tractor. Portable Plant This "sea-mule" is a portable power plant for scows and other unpowered water craft. Some 20 feet long and abolit six feet wide, it serves as a propulsion unit, or outboard. motor, for anything that needs to be "pushed around" in water too shallow for cargo ves- gels to navigate or in deep water where tugs are not available. --> The unit is not designed to pro- pel itself, it has to be hooked on to the scow or other immobile eraft, er A_ steel, box-like device, the vehicle houses its cight-cylinder marine engine in a welded, water. tight compartment. On top is a steering wheel and a kind of tur- ret with a few instruments in it, The front end is blunt to fit flush against the rear of the craft to be propelled. At the rear is a pro- peller and a rudder. Both can be raised or lowered as desired so they will be above the keel line of the tractor in shallow water. Carried on Ships One or more of the propulsion units' can_be carried by a cargo ship; each requires less space than a lifeboat." It can be lifted into the water or out by the ship's hoisting apparatus. The. power is transmitted through a reduction gear to a large slow-speed propeller, Chrysler engineers assert that a whole fleet of the craft can be maintained for less than the cost of one tughoat. They are about one-tenth the.size of an average tug. Only one man is required to operate one of them. Where necessary, for heavy loads, such as a number of tanks on a sCOW, two of the units can be attached to the rear of the ship-to-shore vehicle. The pusherscraft has been in production for many months, Hundreds already have been ship= ped to various war areas for use by the United. States Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard - and by forces of the Allied Na- tions, : Dead Letters Over 8,000,000" letters rocelved ot the British Dead Letter Office in London in the last year are to. help win the war. Hitherto they have been burned, now they will bo sent to make. cartridge wade, ammunition and mines, \ amous for flavour since 1892 -- the 'Salada' name assures you of a uniform blend of quality teas. "SALADA I" EA ® SERIAL STORY LUCKY PENNY BY GLORIA KAYE A TRIP TO KANSAS CHAPTER XII The campaign for an honest city government was a triumph for the Courier. Never had/there been such interest in an election, Jim worked endlessly, tirelessly. Absorbed in the campaign, Jim found little time to check activi- tics on the plateau above Kirk- town. Steam shovels were busy now, digging foundations, clearing the land for the ambitious project Charlie Jones had undertaken for Penny. Penny helped to tabulate the votes and tq write copy for the Couriers election extra. Their all-night session left them weary and hungry. Arm in arm they walked up the street in search of breakfast, "enjoying the fragrance of the dawn. "Why don't you take a little vacation?" Penny suggested, "You certainly have earned one. Now that the election rush is over, I can_-handle the paper. You really "should take it casy-- for your own geod." + * L] "I wish T could get back to Kansas," Jim chuckled, "Mom would {ill me so full of corn I'd cluck like a chicken. And speak- ings of chicken, Penny, you should taste the ones she fries. Nothing like it in the world." - "Go ahead, Jim," she urged. "Visit your folks. Forget the pa- per. Youll be Iretter for it when you come back. "Penny," Jim said, "I will go back! 1 want to tell the folks about you. This time I'll go alone. Next time, you're coming with me." He babbled happily, ex- ecitedly, about .his folks and the scenes of his childhood. Once he had made up his mind, he couldn't bear the delay of packing and waiting for a train. At the station he poured last- minute instructions to Penny. "I'l miss you, Penny," Jim whispered. © "A month is a long time to be away from you." Yes --a month was a long time, she reflected, as she waved goodby to the fast-receding train. . A glow of pleasure flushed "Penny's checks as she thought of the sarprise in store for Jim on his return. She wondered what he would say when he saw the new Courier building, in the new Kirktown, for the first time. N - 8 * * In the busy weeks that follow- ed, she found time to visit the Kirk offices once more. "My, Stimson," Penny told the execu- tive, "I've come to ask you to accompany me on a trip thrdugh the mills. I want to meet all the men. I want a speaker's platform, and a microphone. T have some- thing to say to them. Can you have everything: ready tomor- row?' Stammering, the surprised Stimson agreed to make the pre- parations she demanded. Daily, Penny drove to the plateau where construction of New Kirktown was progressing with amazing speed. "There'y one building that must be finished within a month," she told Charlie Jones. "That's the Courier building." $2.30 SENDS 1,000 "BRITISH CONSOLS", "LEGION", "MACDONALD'S MENTHOL", "SCOTCH BLENDS" or "EXPORT" Cigarettes 10 any single Military Address Overseas Be pA he Apt) FORCES (Postpaid), Mail Order ond Remittance fo t= OVERSEAS DEPARTMENT W. C. MACDONALD INC. P.O. Box 1929, Place d'Armes; Montreol, Canada THOM ict toy chine Great epsts | . "We'll bave it done," the archi- tect assured her, "well ahead of schedule," Penny arrived at the mills to find the steel workers gathered curiously about the flag-draped platform erected for her. "Fellows," Penny said, I have a confession to make. I'm not Penny Kellogg, Pm Penelope Kirk, I came into the mills the way I did to find out for myself what you're like and to learn what we can do to work together so that everyone will profit and ev- eryone will be happy." Silence filled the room. . N M "I know some of your griev- ances," she continued, "They're going to be corrected. I'm going to have an office right here in the mill. I want you to come in and sce me any timé¢ you have anything on your mind, We're going to work together to make this the swellest steel outfit in the country. What do you say?" They said it, lustily and loudly, . "By the way, boys" Penny added. "Starting this weck, ev- eryone gets a 10 per cent raise." Unanimously Stimson and his ex- ccutives opened their mouths in expressions of grieved surprise, They "looked like fish lined up in a market window, : Penny was happy now, happig than ever before in her life. Thee weeks had passed since Jim left. In another week Jim would re- turn to shar@avith her the pleas- ures she had planned so carefully. She, parked her car in front of the Courier office, late in the afternoon. She was surprised to find the front door open. She walked in. There stood Jim. The look in his eyes hurt her---worse than physical pain. "4Jim," was all that Penny could say, "Jim." She had never seen him like this. Tired. Bitter. His eyes harsh, - * * * For an endless moment he said "nothing. He merely stood there, silent, ominous, tense. "Take a good look, Jim Vickers, sucker. That's me. Look at me and laugh. You've had a good time, haven't you?' His words hurned. "But, Jin," she protested. "You wrote to me every day. You promised to write me about everything that happened in town. What changed your mind®' He didn't wait for an answer. "I know. It would be fun to surprise me. When I came back I'd find Penelope Kirk's name in the mast- head instead of Penny Kellogg's, and a new building for the Cour- ier instead of my dumpy bace- ment. "You neglected one thing. You forgot that my folks are on the mailing list. I saw the last jssue of the Courier in spite of your failure to send one to me. I saw the architects' drawings of New Kirktown." He laughed bitterly. "You certainly go a long way to carry out a joke. What fun it will be to tell your friends about the poor sap who wanted a new town and came back from his vacation and there it was. Like a kid getting a present from Santa Claus. "Tell them what a fool J was, I thought you were poor and friendless and wanted love, Tell them T actually made love to you. Tell them the poor sap actually thought you loved him. Good joke, dsn't it?" He turned on "hig. heel and walked out, k . * * Wearily, Penny closed the of- fice door. She slid into her road- ster and drove slowly to the anart- ment she still shared with Midge. She packed her clothes and a few little trinkets. Her luggage she placed in the trunk of her ear. To Midge she wrote a brief, friendly farewell, When she reached the Courier office' the sun had already de- scended, ~ She groped for a light switch, and the bright glare mo- mentarily blinded her.,. As her vision cleared, she stared in as- tonishment, Grotesquely uncomfortable, Jim _ your mom and dad. | Dye-Bath FLANKED NAZIS REY 2% Ba yr mn Bernard Freyberg, a New Zealander whom Germans teported killed in the 1941 battle of Crete, proved himself very much alive by leading the flank- ing attack on El Hamma, Tunisia, that was responsible for rout of Rommel at Gabes. was slumped in the swivel chair he had rescued from the ruins of the old office. His head rolled crazily along the back edge of the chair. On the table in front of him stood an empty whisky bottle, Shocked, Penny stood still, de- bating what to do next. She vee membered his steadfast resolution to refrain from drinking. Once before, drink had ruined his ca- reer, Suddenly the answer she sought dawned on her, "Don't you see?' she asked her- self. "He needs you! -He can't get along without you! You've won him! He's yours!" . LJ . Jim had thrown his ancient va- lise 'in a corner. She carried it out tp his dusty car, placing the heavy grip tenderly. on the back seat. She removed her own lug- gage from the roadster and placed it beside his. She had some diffi- culty in rousing him sufficiently so that he could walk with her, _unsteadily, to the decrepit vehicle he loved so well, "Jim needs me," she repeated over and over again, "He needs me, - He nceds me." Now there was music in Penny's heart, Never had the night seem- ed so glorious. seemed so pleasant. Jim's car ereaked and groaned protesting- ly, but she wouldn't want it other- wise. : . Penny had found herself at last. She belonged in Kirktown, with Jim. Here she could do the most good." Here, with Jim, she could be happiest. = "Okay, Jim," she said so "Just take it easy. You still have another week's vacation .in Kan- sag. coming to you. Remember your promisé? You said you'd take me with you next time you went®to Kansas, I want to meet Besides, I'll need your mother's recipe for fried chicken." THE END y. Mo Ammunition For Casual Hunters - Casual hunters are out of luck for ammunition unless they can show special circumstances plac- ing them in the class of essential users, Prices Board rationing of- ficlals said last week in eclarifii- . cation of a board order. The order rations small arms ammunition and restricts its use to those who can show "essential needs" -- such classes as police, hunters and trappers who depend on game for their livelihood and those who need guns and ammu- nition for protecting livestock. Persons who rely on hunting for their food are adthorized pur- chasers. if "Of course," they added, "all hunters shoot for food but a large bercentage of them don't rely on game for their food. They are so located that food may normally be acquired otherwise than by the shooting of game. They, 'accord- ingly, will not be considered authorized purchasers." ath Matches Up Odd Stockings Everything fsn't as bad as it seems. . Your stocking situation, for 'example. It you have several odq ones cluttering up your draw- ers, get them out and match them In pairs by glving them a dye- bath. _ You can add longer life to faded hosiery the same way. It's as simple as laundering them sinco tinting requires no boiling. Never had a trip | TABLE TALKS SADIE B. CHAMBERS Chart For Vitamins Vitamin A Sources: Milk, butter, cream, cheese, eggs, green and yellow vegetables, liver, apricots, toma- toes, carotene. . Without gufficient A this hap- - pens: Night blindness, abnormal changes-in lining of breathing or- gans and digestive tracts, Vitamin A does this: Prevents night blindness, keeps lining mem- branes of nose, throat, lungs, di- gestive tract healthy, Vitamin B » Whole, grain-bread, whole-grain cereals, bananas, grapefruit, lemons, pineapples, yeast, wheat germ, eggs, milk, cabbage, lettuce, peas, spinach, string beans, tomatoes, thiamine chloride, ; Without sufficient B this hap- pens: Loss of appetite, retarded growth, disorders of the nervous system, constipation. Vitamin B does this: Stimulates L Sources: . appetite, promotes normal growth and healthy nervous system, aids digestion and elimination, Vitamin C . Sources: Citrus fruits, toma- toes, peppers, raw vegetables, leafy vegetables, paprika, cevi- tamic acid, ' Without sufficient C this hap- pens: Lowered resistance to cer- tain infections, delayed growth, weakened tooth structure and' weakened blood vessels. - Vitamin C does this: Helps maintain noymal gums and teeth, strengthens" blood vessels, builds infections against infections, Vitamin D Sources: Cod-liver oil and other fish-liver oils, irradiated sunshine, ultraviolet light, cod- "liver oil concentrates, irradiated ergosterol, irradiated yeast. ~ Without sufficient D this hap- pens: Retarded growth, soft bones,, poor teeth, abnormal bone structures, Vitamin D does this: Helps body use calcium and phosphorus, helps build normal bone structure, helps prevent tooth decay. Vitamin G > Sources: Whole-grain, bread, potatoes, liver, meat, wheat germ, leafy vegetables, green vegetables, Without sufficient G this hap- pens: Nerve disorders, digestive disturbances, weakness, Vitamin G does this: Promotes growth, helps to maintain normal nervous system, Miss Chamblrs welcomes personnl letters from" Interested readers. She In pleased to recelve suggestions on toples for her column, and is Always ready to listen to your "pet peeves." Requests for recipes or special menus are In order. Address - "Miss Sadle 0. -Chamhers, 73 Wext Adelalde St, Toronto," Send satnmped self-ad- dressed envelope It you wish a reply. VIVID BANDING TRIM your letters to By Anne Adams Choose this enchanting style for your "first cotton of the year!" 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This is 'all right, professionals point out, for a portion of the seed in cach packet. With luck one gets very early vegetables, but most of tne seed should be saved for regular planting and some of it for later on. This ensures safety against early losses throug) weather and, what is more importa, it spreads the harvesting season\over several weeks, with really vegetables coming along steadily for the table instead of a feast i and a famine succession. Precautions against planting seed too close together are based on a genuine desire to save the amateur a lot of work. If seed is properly spaced in the first place, there will be little thin- ning, which in most cases is a bit --of ~@ ~chore. With things like beans, peas, ete., the seed should be planted from three to four inches apart. With smaller seed like that of carrots, beets, let- tuce, etc., it is difficult to space to the two inches the first plants should be apart, but with a little care it can be sown thinly. Sow- ing of very small seed can be aid- ed by mixing the same with a little dry sand, then sowing the whole mixture, Nursery Stock Care Nursery stock is the general name given to hardy perennial shrubs, flowers, vines, trees and roses that are grown for one to three years from sced in a nursery before being sold to gardeners and. fruit growers. a Like sced, it is important to se- cure such stock from a reputable source and onc that is familiar and caters to Canadian conditions, Good stock is pliable, green and shows plenty of live buds, Roots are moist and well wrappea to exclude the ai chy grow readily when pla _ Brittle wood, wrinkled buds .or none. at all and exposed. roots are an in. dication of inferior, usually cheap stock, If it grows at all it will take years to make a real show- ing. . "Bazooka" Shells Knock Out Tanks Development of a new type ot portable and deadly gun--the sol. - diers have named it the "bazooka" --Wwhich can knock olt tanks, pill boxes, or light mechanized = de. fences, wag reported: by the United States War Department recently without details, ; "It 1s revolutionary in design," v CIGARETTES - the department said. "It can be carted aboutina jeep or a peep or Carried by wo men at a dog trot. It hurls a high explosive projectile." The weapon is understood to have proven itself in North Africa and has been reported, unofficially, to have lieen seen on the Russian front. 5 : The army said:#"In addition to penetrating steel armor, the pro- jectile will drive through brick walls and rock masonry with a blast effect. It will shatter -cast steel and such material as bridge girders and railroad rails, and per- form other seeming' miracles. 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