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EE a ant me Lie In The Dark And Listen Lie in the dark and listen. It's clear tonight so they're fly- ing high, Hundreds of perhaps, Riding the icy, moonlit sky; Men, machinery, bombs and maps, Altimeters and guns and charts] them, thousands Coffee, sandwiches, fleece-lined boots, * Bones and muscles and minds and hearts, English saplings with English roots Deep in the earth they've left below. Lie in the dark and let them go; Lie in the dark and listen, * Lie in the dark and listen, They're going over in waves and waves High above stréams, Country churches and little graves villages, hills and And little citizens' © worried dreams; : Very soon they'll -have™ reached the sea : And far below: them will lie' the bays And cliffs and: sands where they used to be Taken for summer holidays. Lie in the dark and let them go; Theirs is a world we'll never know. Lie in the dark and listen. Lie in the dark and listen, City magnates and steel contract- ors, - Factory workers "and, politicians, Soft hysterical littlé actors, Ballet dancers, reserved neg cians, 15 Safe in your warm_ civilian beds, Count your profits and count your sheep Life is passing above your heads, Just turn over and try to sleep. Lie in' the dark and,let them go; There's one debt you'll forever owe, | Lie in the dark and listen. --Noel Coward. Who Dares:Not To Lend His Money? John Steinbeck writes from London of the scenes he has witnessed on the war fronts of the world: "The young men. who climb into their planes in the early morning and fly away waving with elaboratt nonchalance and the gap in the mess when they did not come back ..,. The men that go into action: jumping from landing barges to a beach strewn. with the bodies of their. own people. . . The men in the hospitals, leg- less, blind, hands and faces terribly burned, men who faec- ed all the destruction that steel and fire can do to a man's body and mind ... Children hauled out of blasted build- ings, lumps of erpshiad flesh in pinafores. "In God's waite he asks, "what is it for except to get this horrible thing over with as quickly and as thoroughly as possible? "And if this is true, it shouid not be a matter of who will lend his money 'but 'Who dares not to?" Home Soap-Making Against War Effort Home soap-making is an indi- rect blow "at our armies in the field, for they .are utterly de-" pendent upon the steady flow of munitions which, .in turn, depends upon the production of glycerine from salvaged waste fats, accord- vincial supervisor of salvage. Few persons realize shortage of fats might well be as "ing-to-Roger- "Charbonneau --pro-- that a disastrous to our war effort as a. series of major defeats, However vast our manufacture of arma- ments, whatever all-time records of war production we. achieve, all will.be useless, unless we have eriough fats to. make the muni- tions for our weapons. Fats are the source .of most glycerine, and glycerine is a basic essential in the manufacture of mumitions. 'Home soap-making operates against our cause in two evil Ways, It takes waste fats directs ly aut of the Government's fat' salvage campaign, and it also decreases : the manufacture of comniercial soap, which is the lar single source of the _nation's glycerine supply. Naples Plant Built Nazi Air Engines | Allied: troops in Naples. nd | a "completely ' equipped aircraft engine factory in. four of the huge caverns underneath the eity," used to turn out. engines! for Messerschmitt" fighters, the British Radio said October. 9, "In another vast grotto were the main repair shops of the chief technical headquarters of the Italian ait force," said the broad- east. THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Cutrent Events Cracks In Japan's Armor Seen In Weaker Defense Against Allies The critical ~ weaknesses of Japan's ence smooth-running mil- itary machine have become glar- ingly apparent in the wake of the recent raids from Allied carriers in the Cential Pacific," writes Gordon Walker, in Christian Science - Monitor, As pointed out by' military authorities here they are: 1, That the Jabohese fleet is now so unbalanczd by the loss of medium and light warships that it won't be thrown into battle unless it is a last-dite™ defence of the Empire, 2, That Japan's air forces have suffered such staggering losses that there are no longer enough planes-- and skilled pilots -- to go around. 8. That the enemy' submarine warfare--never a_ strong threat --is now virtually non-existent, Wider Gaps to Come These are .the broad eracks in Japan's armor which will widen as the present push against Ja- pan's outer perimeter gains mo- mentum, For -several months the exist ence of thése cracks in_ the Japa- nese armor has been the subject of conjecture. Now on the eve of new blows against Nippon, these weaknesses of the enemy are held'to be a certainty, In the past six weeks the fleet under Admiral Chester, P, Ni- mitz has made thesé¢ daring - in- cursions into the Central. Pacific without meeting opposition, ° The first the raid on Marcus Island "on September 1, might conceivably have 'been to: great a surprise to permit" the bring- ing up of enemy fleet units. "But on the following strikes against the Gilbert Islands and Wake the Japanese naval chief- tains had ample opportunity to contest the bold move had they wanted a fleet engagement. Fleet Tests Avoided The feeling then began to grow that Japan's navy was suffering a greater handicap than former- ly reckoned when it failed to make any large-scale effort to oppose the recent New Georgia drive by the Allies. It is well- known that the naval battles of the past 18 months have cut into the strength of the Japanese fleet, particularly cruisers and destroyers, by nearly a half, And it was pointed out that Japan's naval shipbuilding pro- gram, though it was supposed to reach its peak this fall, is still not powerful enough to replace anything but a minor portion of these losses. For this reason, and consider- ing the surprising absence of the enemy's fleet recently in the Central Pacific, it is believed that Japan will continue to ignore any challenge and avoid heavy fleet engagements until stick - times as the United States Fleet tries to penetrate to the heart of the Empire. : Air Strength Depleted _ In the air heavy Japanese losses have been even more notic- | < eable. Over 'Marcus and the Gil- berts there was no trace of air opposition, though these islands aré major air bases. At Wake some 30 Zeros man- aged to get into the air but not one -got back. to tell the story of vastly - superior American naval aircraft and personnel which apparently was able to wipe out all opposition, Allied pilots. in all the Pacific theatres of war concur in bring- ing back reports of inexperienc- ed Japanese pilots, who, they say, are indecisive and unfam- "liar with air combat- tactics; and =] ovens "extremely poor. in the highly skilled art of air gunnery. Like Japan's naval construc- tion its air replacement program has been unable to keep up with the heavy losses. More than 2,000 Japanese planes were shot down in the Solomons' campaign which began last' year and the rate of loss has been steadily mounting, Submarine Action Slight Deterioration of the enemy submarine warfare has not been 80 . noticeable because . Japan never has been very successful in an underwater campaign, , Whether this is because Japan has experimented too much with submarines instead of concen- trating on the mass production of standard types, or whether it is that the Japanese are not phys- jeally suited for underwater pressures, the fact remains that the: United States has sufféred- hardly at all from this threat, has, used ee of- success in' Opportunities Tor raiding on the' long Pacific shipping lanes have been practically ignored. Ocensionally a' submarine will. operate for a few days tc some shipping terminal point, sinking. or damaging one or two ships, is Sndirtedeett probably submarines | = have claimed as many of the Al lied merchant ships as have tor- pedoes. What is far more . significant is the fact that during the course of thousands of miles of cruising through enemy waters in recent weeks not a single torpedo is known to have been fired at the powerful United States naval task forces. . All these weaknesses, it is pointed out here, do not mean that Japan is incapable of hitting back. They do point to the fact that Japan realizes that in order to de- fend its inner holdings it must shortly give up many of its ad- vanced bases. Income tax and saper tax on the largest incomes in Great Britain take 97% per cent of the gross income. Only 80 people in Great Britain now have an in- come, after taxes are paid, of more than £6,000 (about $26,- 000). An old Story Sula recent campaign speeches by C.C.F. candidates for election call to mind a rhyme entitled "The Socialist," which appeared in an English journal many years ago, It runs: Oh, he preached it housetop, And he whispered 't by stealth; He wrote all kinds of stuff about The awful curse of wealth, from the Yes, he spouted 't and shouted it And made the rich "man wince! But an uncle left him money-- And he hasn't shouted.since. --The Printed" Word. Campaign In Africa Costly To Enemy The campaign that began in North Africa last November 11 has cost the Axis more than 6,000 planes up 'to October 1, Allied Air Force Headquarters said re- cently. Of that number, 3,411 were destroyed in the air, Nearly 2,600, mostly wrecked by bomb- ing, were found on captured Axis airfields. The Northwest African Air Force also reported sinking of 86° ships totalling 173,000 tons, VOICE OF THE PRESS GO TO THE WOODPECKER! The woodpecker is a realist, With "it every. knock is a boost. If it looks under a fold of bark it is for due cause. In the spring, it excavates a tidy nest, but only in a softened treé Even. then it will hide the chips just in case predatory eyes were watching. Mostly, it says nothing--and saws - wood.--Victoria Colonist, CONSISTENT Civilization is that state of af- "fairs in which money is collected from women who make up their faces and tint their nails, in order to send missionaries abroad to teach the savages not to do the same.--Montreal Star, he MAROONED AT DOCTOR'S State medicine is again pro- posed. The fellow who has lost his coupon when he goes to the doctor will be out of luck, --Port Arthur News-Chronicle, gr WARMER HERE There is to be no heat this win- ter in any public building in Ger. many except hospitals. That should make most of us feel a MAKE YOUR OWN CIGARETTES WITH MACDONALD'S Fine Cut A MILDER TASTIER TOBACCO ya hy Ti lot better about the relatively painless fuel restrictions that are being imposed in this country, --Brockville Recorder and Times. --0-- STILL THREE FOES We still have three enemies to overcome -- Germany, Japan and Over-Confidence. --Stratford Beacon-Herald. --p R "HENVERSATION" It 1s claimed by a poultry ex- pert that talking to hens will make them lay more eggs. We deem it wise to open the henver- sation with a pleasant eackle, followed by a crow about the work of the flock--and some re- ference to the dumb clucks in the yard next door --Ottawa Citizen, - In Great Britain, he allowance per persor fo shell eggs over the year averages approximately % egg per week, wor "EONT 1d of tomor pI1BUTED ) oing ob now -- ore Yo 9 Png ERI EL \N s { }-. fe