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VOICE OF THE PRESS WASTED YOUTH W are In receipt of many strange questions, but the reader who asks, "How can I produce a kole in a pane of glass?" must have had an unusually strict up- bringing. Ottawa Citizen o 45, A SAFE AGE A British Columbia woman thinks all parliamentarians should b married by the time they are 41 years old, or else should retire from politics. Which would be one drastic way of weeding out Mr. King's government majority. Stratford Beacon-Herald. LOVING AND HATING The rank and file of the people In Germany and Italy must be having a difficult time while try- inf to follow their leaders. A man may go to sleep with hatred erf all Communists in his heart and, when he wakes up, he hears Ter hia radio that Stalin is to be regarded as a dear friend. A Httle later he has to swallow his opinions and go back to the or- iginal hatred. Who is to be loved and who ii to bo hated can only bo discovered by those who keep strictly up to the minute. Port William Times-Journal o THEY WENT TO CHURCH A mother of an enlisted young soldier from my church told me he had received, just recently, a Utter from the boy, who was at a place In Quebec province with his oompany of fifty. He said Sun- day morning came, and eleven of Aeon were United Church fellows, and they talked tog-ether abont foing to church. They found out that there was a church of their persuasion four miles down a oountry rosd. To this little rural aburch they walked and attended tike service. One can imagine the Joy of the preacher and congre- gation to have these boys come fa unexpectedly upon them. They had a great reception. We, who jrtar home, mus$ match to splen- dW a thing as that. United Church Observer. The Book Shelf "RESTLESS ARE THE SAILS" By Evelyn Eaton Following the extraordinary success of her best-seller on early Canadian life, "Quietly My Cap- tain Waits," Evelyn Eaton, Can- adian writer who currently ranks a* tops in her sphere, now pre- swnta us with a distinguished new historical novel of the early French settlers on this continent. "Restless Are The Sails" centres 1U action about the capture of the French stronghold of Louis- bourg, N.S., in 1745. A rousing adventure yarn, Miss Eaton's second book skil- fully combines historical fact with romantic fancy. The general at- mosphere is excellent: Indians, privateering, the etiquette of colonial court and particularly conditions of navigation in over- crowded vessels. The pathetic fend terrible story of the siege of Louisbourg is thrilling as it is authentic. How it affects Paul do Morpain the hero, who turns fugitive, then pirate, what befalls bU Indian wife, how he at last fulfills his destiny, completes a story of unusual interest. "Reiiln. Are The Sail*" . . . by Evelyn Eaton . . . Toronto! Mutton Book Company . . . $2.75. Reindeer Herds Fast Increasing More Eskimoi Are Needed to Help Herd Animals In Rapid- ly Expanding Industry of North West Territories further enlargement of Canada's feat-expending reindeer Industry was disclosed recently by th De- partment of Mines and Resources. Reindeer berde In the Northwest Territories, the department re- ported, have Increased to more than 8,000 head, compared with the original herd of 2,370 delivered fron Alaska six years ago. The department estimated that ttd* year's fawning has Increased flxe main herd on the Government reserve east of Mackenzie Delta by MOO head. "Substantial increase* aleo are zvected In the two herds under MttlTe management near the An- derson and Horton Rivers, about 00 miles east of the reserve," the department added. Bxpanslon of the Industry has resulted In training of more young Aiklmos as apprentice herders. LeXer they will be entrusted with management of herds under Gov- ernment supervision, and may eventually obtain herds of their o*wu. "In this manner the reindeer en- terprise Is gradually extending over a large area for the benefit of the nnilve mm Intlon." the department Soviet Anti-Tank Gun Crew on Guard Germany's road to Moscow U defended by Soviet anti-tank gun frewa like this one, pictured in action somewhere along the broad Ruaso-German front. Radiophoto was flashed from Moscow as Nazis claimed the way to the Soviet capital was "open." THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events Britain And Her Allies Prepared To Block Japan i Ob In (ve foreign office spokes- last week said that Premier Konuye of Japan had formed "water bird cabinet" which is a Japanese phrase meaning a calm surface concealing great activity underneath. Recent events In Japan Indicat- ed that the national leaders we<re feellnc Uiat the time had come to drive the white man out of the Orient Britain, the U. S. and the Netherlands had made It plain that they would not be driven out. Their flnct move to render Japan helpless would be a blockade of the sea entrances from the Indian Ocean Into the Pacific. It was not thought likely that Japan could break this blockade. The Battle of the Pacific would be on IB earnest. Expansion Southward Japan had her eye on French Indo-Ohlna which would give her, besides valuable naval bases, much needed Iron and rubber. She would need these bases Lf sin- were to move against Singapore and the Dutch Bast Indies. The Australian radio quoted a message from Batavla, Dutch East Indies, la."! week, as sayitiK that "British and Dutch defenses In the Far East are stronger than ever before." The message seemed to say that the Dutch East Indies w not afraid of the new Jap- anese cabinet, that not an Inch of soil would be given up without a fight Hegemony over the Dutch- East Indie* would also give Japan con- trol of the Burma Road, the (treat rlwry of war supplies to China. Against Siberia? A drive Into Siberia was also rlewed as probable. But the Rus- sians were known to be very strong In the Far East and Japan's tinder cities would be compare lively easy targets for Soviet In- cendiary bombs. Japan might find herself, like Germany, with a war on two fronts. She has to use more Hi* n a million troop* In China to hold the cities, railways and roads which her mechanized div- isions overran go easily four years M. Hong Kong and Singapore He aoroas Japan's path to victory and she would have to be desperate to face their strength. Three years MO noted British strategist said the great commercial centre of Hong Kong would fall within IMS than a week If Japan attacked It. That Isn't true today. Hong Kong, Slngspore Ready liore than $50,000,000 has since been spent on Its defenses. Sub- marine nets and mines guard Its harbor. Air raid shelters have been built; heavy guns in place around the island make It a for- midable fortress. Field Marshal Lord" Roberts once said the history of the world would be decided at Singapore one day. And Admiral I^ord Jelllcoe recommended Its development as a great naval base with a strong Pacific fleet based on It. Today, In the Battle of the Pacific, it will be the strength of Singapore that will make victory possible. Singa- pore, protecting the pathway to India, probably can't be success- fully attacked. Its Importance, however, Is greater than that. A war In the Pacific can scarcely help but be a war of attacks on trade lane. Singapore, at one of the great crossroads of the world, can be used to curb effectively Japanese commerce from the south. U. S. Ma Use It Like Hong Kong, Singapore is on an Island which Is 28 miles long and 14 miles wide. Unlike Gibraltar, Singapore has superb facilities for air defence or attack. It has great land batteries, includ- ing 18-Inch, guns, but most of all It has dock facilities where battle- scarred warships can be repaired. U. S. warships may come to use Singapore a valuable asset, for Manila, 1.600 miles away, Is too email to handle big boats. If Japan could be rendered help- less, concentration of U. S. naval and other units would be released to aid Britain In the Battle of the Atlantic. * * * Germans Slow Down At the outbreak of the RU&KO- Gennan war, the speed of the Ger- man advance was estimated to be at the rate of 60 miles per day. Last week neutral observers claim- ed that, after four or more weeks of war, the progress of the assail- ants had been reduced by 60 per cent or more. The stubborn re- sistance of the Russians had been much more formidable than Hitler expected; Soviet tactical skill was such that even the Germans ac- knowledged It. The Battle Fronts Last week there : : pared to be little change In the position of the warring farces along the entire front. In the north even Berlin admitted that the Red armies were still Intact and fighting. There had been no collapse under Fin- nish-Nazi thrusts from the Arctic to the Baltic. The Russians claim- ed that Smolensk was still In their Thanksgiving Day October Thirteen Canada this year will observe Thanksgiving Day on October 13, the second Monday In Qc- toher. This announcement was made by Hon. P. P. Casgrain, Secret- ary of Ptate, who said a pro- clamation naming October 13 as a day of "general thanks- giving" would be Issued short- ly. hands, but Berlin reported that an enormous Russian force had been trapped east of Smolensk and that a battle of annihilation was going on. Drenching rains had been falling In the central area of the battle- front and the condition of the roods was undoubtedly a factor In slowing up the German machine. Guerilla fighting was said to he particularly Intensive behind the lines In this sector. Column after column of German mechanized material, after having been pushed beyond the Russian "Guard Front" toad been cut off from their In- fantry support, which they had been counting on for clearing-up operations In the wake of ' e ad- ranee. Doing a China 7 Edgar Snow, noted writer on Far Eastern affairs, last week posed a question: "Whatever vic- tories the German armies may be having In their Russian drive, and even If they succeed In capturing Leningrad and Moscow and In oc- cupying the Ukraine and the- Caucasus, are they fated to * protracted guerilla warfare which will cause them continuing embar- rassment and Interfere with their plans on other fronts? Are they heading Into such a situation as hi faced the Japanese army In China since the war began there not two but four years ago? Time Against Nazis "Time is the biggest element of risk In the Nazi scheme of con- que*t. With perfect timing, no dream is too fantastic to be re- alized; without it, the most care- fully laid plan or the most skil- ful Improvisation may fall. It Is In this respect that Soviet guerilla resistance may turn out to be a decisive factor." In the south the Nazis said that the German forcee were pursuing a defeated enemy In the Ukraine. Russian sources claimed that their armies were holding well. Can Hitler Turn Bsck? Tin' losses on both sides In men and material were thought to be enormous. The destruction of German supplies of all kinds was ao tremendous that, It was esti- mated, the Nazis would not be able to make them up In less than two years. Hitler's definite objective ap- peared to be the destruction of the Red armies anything less than that would be reckoned as a Hitler defeat. As one Associated Press correspondent put it: He cannot turn back nor limit his "crusade" without risking the ulti- mate disaster, collapse of the myth of Hitler Invincibility In Germany itself. Dog Is Gentleman Frowns On Slacks Chesney, William Baxer's black spaniel, is a "gentleman" among dogs. He lives in Chicago and has been trained to stand up on his hind legs whenever a woman enters an elevator, but when a young lady stepped into the lift the other day, Chesney was stead- fast in his refusal to stand up. She was wearing slacks. On Fire Watch Duty Prospective fathers '*h a jittery desire to pace are doing It in shifts now on the roof of a London, Eng- land, suburban maternity hospital and acting as fire wardens at the same time. The Idea was proposed by one of the men, who thought such an official occupation would be better than pointless walking through the hospital corridors while waiting tln> stork. "I have shot my bolt. I have done my work. War or no war. my number Is up." George Bernard Shaw. Saving Ontario's Natural Resources By G. C. Toner (Ontario Federation of Angler* and Hunters) No. 51 ONTARIO'S ICE AGE We have seen how mountain building and tearing down go on side by side. Sometimes the tear- ing down is fast as when glaciers do the work. The ice acts as a great rasp, cutting valleys and leveling hills, as it slides outward or downward. Glaciers are res- ponsible for the shape of most of the countryside of Ontario. Five times in the last million years ontinental glaciers have formed in northern Canada and spread outward. The last of the glacial periods occurred between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago. The centre of the glacier formed was some- where near Hudson Bay and it reached down to, and somewhat beyond, the Great Lakes. As it slid south it gouged out the lake basins of the Pre-Cambrian shield, the rock-rimmed bodies of water that are so common in Muskoka and Haliburton. Further outh it melted leaving great piles of de- bris known as moraines. These re usually gravel or sand hills nd are common along Lake On- tario.' Great boulders were some- times carried by the ice and as it melted these were dropped. They can be seen to-day almost every- where in old Ontario. Return of Animalt The old glaciers had a profound effect on the animals and plants. Of course, nothing could live on the) ice so the animals had to re- treat and if unable to do so per- ished as did the plants. Later when the ice began to melt the nimals and plants came back. This was a slow process, a few miles gained in one summer would be lost -in the winter, but gradually the ice gave way and our familiar animals took over the land. But they were much different from those that lived pre- vious to the ice age, their sojourn In the south had changed many until they were quite different creatures. Wildest Dreams Copies of Monday morning's edition of the London Express are old In Montreal that same after- noon, writes the Hamilton Specta- tor. The wildest dreams of Jules Verne are luaay becoming a com- monplace, and the time may not be distant when the North Pole will be as well-known to summer lr tourists as the Muskoka dis- trict Is now. Women Can Do Work Onj\ircraft Director of the Women'* Bur- eau, Washington, Say* They Are Capable of Some of the Assembly Work arid Other Operations At least one-fourth to one-third of the jobs in U.S. aircraft asembly plants might be filled satisfactorily by women, Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau, at Washington estimated on the basis of a bureau survey. At the doge of the World War, 23 per cent of the employees In 40 airplane factories were women. Office of Education officials, now- engaged In aklng a survey of air- craft course? open to women, report that a disp*oportionately large num- ber of women are learning to fly when the real need of the future will he in the construction end of the Industry. TYPE OP WORK THEY CAN DO Studying each production process separately, the Women's Bureau drew these conclusions: Fuselage manufacture From one-fifth to one-half of the opera- tions could be done by women AssemVly Women can do work ranging from 15 per cent In the final assembly t ) almost all of the Jobs in wing and control surface assembly. Inspection At least one-fourth other than floor Inspecting of com- plicated assemblies couJd be >ion by women and in case of a shortage of male workers, considerably more. In the tool crib, where tools, die* and small parts are issued, women might well be used, tha bureau found. As they become experienced, they could alo be employed In the production and routing depart- ments. Dr. Robert W. Hambrook, Office of Education official, who rBcentlr returned from a study of Britain's wartime educational techniques, ro- ports that women have gona into the Brltie'h aircraft industry with the full approval of organized labor and with the understanding that they will return their Jobs to men after (he war Is over. Her Address A woman was asked her address at a London (Eng.) hospital, says London Daily Sketch. She answer- ed, "Bed No. X, Piccadilly Circus Tube Station." Her only home was the tube shelter where she soes each night. The G. P. O. frequently receives letters directed to public shelters. They are safely dliv<*red by the postman. Canadian flour mills reported the manufacture of 1.660,897 bar- rels of flour In the month of April compared with 1,344,21)3 in the cor- responding month last year LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "How did I know you were still in it tki time of day! '" REG'LAR FELLERS Superhuman By GENE BYRNES IF VOU REALLY WANT TO EARN SOME MONEY I'LL diVf. YOU A DIME JUST FOR DOING THE DISHES , BOX/ THAT'S AN AV/FUL STACK OF CROCKERY, BUT A DIME IS A DIME/ /VESSIR / A NICKEL 3AXS VOU \ ) CAN'T WASH AND PUT AWAY 'THE DISHES INSIDE OF ONE HOUR /WELL, I LOSE.' IT TOOK XA JEST FIFTy- EIQHT MINITS TO DQ THAT PILE.' VOU'RE A MIRACLE MAN/ T