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Mackenzie King In Great Britain Canadian Newspaper Com- ment* on Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Can- fds's War Effort Pro and Con ELSIE THE COW TRAVELS IN STATE -For months past there has been mending criticism that Canada's war effort was not being pushed to the fullest degree. In the earll- r days of the war that criticism bad some basil in actual tact, though It was unfair anci unjust when applied to our war effort as a whole," gays the Montreal Star. The Ottawa Journal says: "In London Lord Beaverbrook, re- turned from a visit to Canada find the United States, told inter- viewers that Canada's production ot war supplies is on a much larger scale than during the last war, and that 'probably it compares for pop- latlon with any country in the world," The Montreal Star further i*je that the Canadian war pro- gram i; excellent; that marvellou* revolts have been obtained; and that munitions production in al- rnont all branches is being carried on "That is what the Canadian people want to know; that is what they authorized the present gov- ernment to do when they lent it tack to office, it is encouraging to he4Lr from BO exacting a task- vaster as Lord Beaverbrook that Canada's war effort is so satisfac- tory. "But he doe* not mean that we oaa DOW ret on our oars. He defi- nitely says Britain will never be satisfied with the amount or ma- terial he is getting, because she meeds every possible thing the can get both from Canada and the United State*." **L<t. Gen. McNaughton, comman- der of the Canadian Corpi," ays the Ottawa Journal, "epoke to reporters 'somewhere lu Eng- land,' praised the equipment being ent to Canadian troops. Every- thing, he said, from boots and bat- Uedrees to Bren guns and carriers, liad proved of the highest quality." Tb Montreal Star asks, "I It too much to hope that tills dec- laration, from the one man who to in a better position than any other man living to speak with authority on these matters, will five the quietus once and for all to the lusln.ua,tion.8 wjjjch, though. lot so vocal a formerly, are Mill heard in some political circles, ug- festing that the Canadian soldier to not adequately equipped? Even regarding the battledress, which kas been tno subject of consider- able adverse comment here, Uen. McNaughton says It is unquestion- ably the best fitting, most endur- able, and warmer." The Ottawa Journal goes on to ay "Most of ui have but small realization of the tremendously in- creased tempo of Canadian industry during the past year; know little of the vast plants that have sprung nil clear across the country; of the tremendous quantities of all sorts of munitions and war supplies that are coming from new streamlined factorlee. How many Canadians realize, for example, that up to tome mouths ago this country had the largest automatic gun plant in lio world? Or that Canada had one of the largest chemical plants In the BritiHh Empire? How many know that we are turning out anti- aircraft gun barrels for the United States? How many have much con- ception of the scores of thousands of transport trucks that we h ve hipped overseas? "Thin country, in its war elfort, must not grow complacent. And this country, for the same reason, mutt never surrender its right to criticize. At the same time it Is but just and decent that we be fair and give due credit to those who, compelled to begin from cratch and to work nnder the Inevitable, handicaps of democratic processes, have been providing for Canada a creditable war perform- ance. It would be a poor and nprofitablc- i>rt of party war- fare that would fall in such recog- nition." * The Stratford Beacon-Herald ays "Boos tos*ed at Prime Minis- tor KinK by troops overseas will cho pleasantly to some/ Canad- ians, anil will be heard with In- difference, by others. The reaction, to a large extent, will be determ- ined by where you sit, and what jou want to believe." "It would \>n a mistake," says the Windsor Dally Star, "to mini- mize the significance of the dem- onstration singed at the military port* day. It would be an even worse one, to conclude that terlous trouble IB brewing, and tl.at our armed men are bent on trouble and arc unwilling to llHten to reason." * "Taken all in all, Mr. King's trip to London should be all to the good for our war part," Bays the Ottawa Journal. "When he comes to Parliament in November he will have more prextlKe, more author- ity, more Information. That should enable rarllitrnent to set more <1e- tlslvrly." One of the outstanding features of the Canadian National Exhi- bition was the presence from New York of Borden's famous "Elsie the Cow", and, during the entire fourteen days of the Exhibition, her ladyship was collecting funds in her Victory Chest for the Eve- ning Telegram's British War Victims' Fund. In the picture "Elsie" is seen leaving the Canadian Pacific Ex- press car in which she slept at night, for her special "boudoir" in the Food Products Building, accompanied by her bodyguard, friend and counsellor, Clovia Wells. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events "War Sweeps World Like Black Untethered Wind" Two years ago this month Hitler aid "1 have put on my old sol- difir> coat, and I will not take it off nntll we achieve victory . . . November of 1918 ihall never be repeated' in the history of Germ- any." Even as this declaration waa brought by radio to a tensely waiting world, the German legions were closing in on Poland and the econd World War had begun. Within three weeks the conquest of Poland was complete. Full of oonfldence after this devastating Blitzkrieg success. Hitler offered "friend shtp" to England, declared to the French that he had no "in- terests in the west" and assured Moeoow that the new accord be- tween Russia and Germany ex- eluded "the use of force for all time." Answer To Hitler Britain's reply was an Anglo- French ultimatum to Berlin, de- manding the withdrawal of Ger- man troops from Poland. The Royal Navy was cleared for action. France reported that "everything wae ready." She waa calm and se- oiue behind the fortifications of the Maglnot Line. Th little lands of Europe the Balkans, the Low Countries, Nor- way, Sweden made haste to pro- olalm their neutrality. Italy cau- tiously adhered to her policy of "non-belligerency." Russia remain- ed aloof and Japan watched and waited. In the United States the Labor Day holiday crowds went merrily on their way while Presi- dent Roosevelt anxiously consider- ed the war bulletins and replied "Prime Minister King In England will see: 1. Conscription of men and wo- men, high and low, and their con- secration to the common cause of defeating the tyranny of Hitler. 1. Conscription of labor. He will not witness slow-nown or sit- down strikes in the Kingdom. He will find miners working at high tempo to produce coal, and steve- dores under compulsion to unload ships at any and nil hours neces- sary. 3. Conscription of wealth to a degree In taxation which just about amounts to socialism in our day. 4. Equality of sacrifice, equality of service, the untiy of a great race of people cemented by inspired, far-sighted and aggressive leader- ship in Churchill. 6 A war government not con- fined to one party, but made up of the best men of all partie-s, and the best governing brains of the Kingdom. Those are among the things which Prime Minister King will see or ought to be able to see, so that when be returns, Canada's war effort will be sanctified, re- consecrated and strengthened for the annihilation of those evil torcea now shadowing the whole world." to the question "Can we et y out of it?" by saying "I not only sin- cerely hope so, but I believe we can, and every effort will be made by the Administration to do so." That was the world of Sept. 1, 1939. On Sept. 1, 1941, the scene is vastly changed. The New York Times says, "This Is a war that moves from one point of the com- pass to the other like a black, un- tethered wind. All the belligerent and non-belligerent Powers have tried to limit it, and their efforts have been defeated by the very nature of the struggle. Hitler sought desperately to con- tain it within set bounds, but every dam he erected burst in process of construction and added to the force of the flood that drove him on and on. The British tried to bold It to the seas; the Atlantic and the Mediterranean are their chosen battlefields. Russia strove to build walls against it in the East and in the West. Uy pacts with Berlin and Mos- cow Japan attempted to fend off attacks in two directions while she advanced in another. Before and since the fighting started the United States has act- ed time and again to localize the conflict. But the storm sweeps on with a certain inevitability. No power has yet proved strong enough to wage this battle on its own '.erma either of time or place. The first World War had fixed boundaries; this war jumps frontiers and oceans, not simply because it Is fought In the sky or with mechanized forces, but because It is more universal. It literally shakes the central pillars and the farthest outposts of the whole world. The fighting that flooded the plains of 1'oland on Sept. 1. 1939, has poured across Kurope, swept into Africa and Asia, until last week It engulfed the remote and dusty plateau of Iran. More than a score of nations have been in- volved in host ItitU'H almost as many as the greatest number lock- ed In the 1914-18 struggle. Those still nominally neutral, like the United States and Japan, have an increasingly vital stake in the out- come. More than a dozen coun- tries have lost their sovereignty to Nazi military might and within them walks the specter of hunger, unrest and revolt. Cities have been shattered by attack from the air, prosperous countrysides laid waste. Ocean-borne ocinmerce has been disrupted by blockade anil counter- blockade on the hlgli seas. Un- counted millions of lighting men and civilians have perished or suf- fered injury, the slaughter reach- ing a crescendo In the colossal battle of Russia. The Red Army, though beaten back and severely punished, has taken a heavy toll of the Nazi war machine, casting doubts on its re- putation for InTlncibllity. The Roy- al Navy and the H. A. F. have gained the upper kand in the wat- ers of the Atlantic and in the air over Western Europe. Great form- ations of bombers and fighters roar over southern England Juet as they did in the Battle of Bri- tain a year ago. But what an In- describable difference it makes to life in Britain that today they're British planes going toward Ger- many Instead of Nazi planes at- tacking Britain. Hitler was impelled to strike East by his inability to end the conflict on any of the existing fronts. The Nazi advance to the Black Sea Is preliminary to a drive on the Caucasus. The Germans are till a long way' from the oil fields and the back door to the East. At the moment they are blocked in Iran by the occupation of that country by British and Russian troops. The new ferry route from South America to Africa IB the supply line for the most Important of the new battlefields." In his Labor Day broadcast President Roosevelt pledged him- self and the people of bis country to do everything in their power "to crush Hitler and his Nazi forces." Prime Minister Churchill, broad- casting from England after his return from the Atlantic Confer- ence, declared that Japan's south- ward expansion "has got to stop." He said that the United States was "laboring with infinite pa- tience to arrive at a fair and am- icable settlement" with Japan and added that if negotiations failed "we shall of course, range our- selves unhesitatingly at the side of the United States." At the close of the second year of this war "the mighty conflict U not yet spent and the decision still hangs in the balance." SCOUTING . . . AF their contribution to the local salvage campaign, Boy Scouts of Keewatln, Out., have ben concen- trating on a single salvage item each month. In April they collect- ed waste paper to the value of $32, in May rags worth {til and in June metals that brought $67. VA O ,kvirqs,-a,uth ikm in a During an evening aluminum alvage parade at Moocton, N.B., the Boy Scouts gathered pots and pans left by citizens at the street corners. Saint John N.B., Boy Sooufc) made a collection of 10,000 coat- hangers, at the request of Lieu- tenant-Colonel C. Orahain, Secret- ary of the Y. M. C. A. War Ser- vices. The hangers will assist the troops at the various training centres of M.D. No. 7 to keep their uniforms tidy. The country-wide salvage cam- paign has produced many oddities. Undoubtedly the prize goes to an ancient hearse, which was turned over to the Boy Scouts of Ottawa. It was pulled out of retirement by a six-boy team of Scouts, and created something of a sensation as It was pulled through the streets. In demonstration of Scout ingenuity, two of its wheels are again rolling usefully, and pre- sumably more happily, beneath a Scout salvage-collecting trek-cnrt Canadian Boy Scouts are con- tributing regularly to a fund, the "B.-P. Chins Up Fund," for the benefit of Scout war sufferers in Britain. In part the money is used to maintain rest camps for Scouts who have been rendering heroic service In the bombed centres. Two of the biggest camps are located In North Wales and Oxfordshire. One Scout, who had been awarded the Silver Cross for fSallantry In fire-fighting (luring the London raids, wrote from the camp in the Welsh mountains UMliiiK of his en joyment. of sun-bathing in tlip long grass, swimming twlco a day in the pool, boating, lilkliiK over the heather covered slopes and wood- ed valleys, meals under tho shade of a tree and sleeping under th> stars in absolute peace and quiet. The greatest luxury of the camp was the. thought that he couM sleep undisturbed throuKhout each night not to bo awakened with the whisper, "It's your turn for fire-watch," or "Come on, there goes 'Moaning Minnie'." And how good it was to see peo;>lo walking about without tin hats! VOICE OF THE PRESS SIX-MONTHS WAR An amazing number of people have been going about Ottawa in recent days saying that the war Is going to be "over in six months." Why these people think and say such a thing we don't know. We think it is precisely the thing Hit- ler and Goebbela would like us to say and thhik. It fits in exactly with their hope that we will slack- en our efforts. Talk about the war ending In six months is nonsense; danger- ous nonsense. This war may end In six months; but nobody knows that, nor has Information enabling him to say that. It might be said Just as reasonably that It will go on for six years. It would be better to argue six years than six months; the first would not be so dangerous. So we had better stop talk that is little more than wishful thinking when It Isn't a species of superstition. Superstition and wishful thinking aren't good war weapons. Ottawa Journal. V WHO'S CRAZY NOW? Fashion i a tunny thing. In the days of peace, when silk tockings were readily obtainable, there were a myriad shades but the most popular were those known as flesh tints. The Idea, mere men were told, was to obtain a stock- Ing the color of flesh so that no- body would know milady was wearing a stocking. Today we are at war. Silk stock- Ings threaten to become scarce. Driven by a patriotic desire to ave silk, some young ladles are reported to be painting their legs to give the Impression they are wearing stockings. The idea, we suppose, is that the flesh must be painted to look like a stocking that looks like flesh. Ladles must pardon the gentle- men if this raises a few chuckles from the male sex. Owen Sound Sun-Times. V THIS SABOT-AGE A long time now have many of us been speculating about the de- rivation of that overworked word of today, "sabotage." The answer Is simply that It is Dutch for toss- ing a monkey wrench into the machinery. Not literally, of course, but producing the same result. Here's the story. A worker in a Dutch windmill is one day sup- posed to have become peeved at omething his boss did or did not do. The hot-headed Hollander yanked off one of his wooden shoes and tossed it spitefully into the works. And everyone knows that a wooden shoe Is a sabot. Hence today's favorite, sabotage. Doubtless the Nazi overlords will have reason to remember that their subject Hollanders Invented the business. Gait Re-porter. GRACE AT MEALS The hop-klp-and-jump tempo ot our life today is probably the prim* cause of the growing neglect of grace at meals. The taking of food has degenerated into a rush job In which even rudimentary conversa- tion has been displaced by speed. Grace has been dropped as a time- taking episode which is all right if you happen to think of it and have mere minutes to spare than usual. Actually the need for a rush >t meals is largely imaginary and grows out of the acceleration in things generally. There are few people who cannot afford the time for grace, and these are days when a little additional thought ot the Deity would be good for men's minds. Niagara Falls Review. V FIGHTING WITH EVERYTHING Englishmen are leading the way in patriotic endeavor in these strenuous war days. Listen to the word of Lord Dulverton of Bristol "Every single penny 1 have to Invest, I have lent to the govern- ment . , . and I have bought only one new s>uit of clothes since the war broke out." Englishmen are fighting with their money as well as their minds and bodies. Chatham New*. V ABOUT WHISKERS . . . And is Churchill lose wice because he is clean shaven? Be- sides, he would probably burn his whiskers- with his cigar. St. Thomas Times-Journal. y ODD BIRD A lark IB something that if you go out 011 you can't get up with. Ottawa Citizen. Eat Sweet Corn The English Way London, England, newspapers have discovered that an Intrepid British farmer is growing 1% acres of swe*t corn, which will go on sale for cob eating at 15 cents per ear, and one writer undertook to explain It this way: "Corn Is a favorite tood In North America where it is grown largely in the Southern States. It is also regarded as a great delicacy by Anglo-Indians throughout the East. "The cob is boiled for IS minutes and served lite a potato in its jacket. The leaves are re- moved, butter or margarine Is spread over the corn and it Is sprinkled with pepper anil salt. "Then, holding it at the end?, you Dibble the corn like a rabbit." Welsh Amazons For Shipyards The government decision to close the tinplate mills in South Wales will transfer to war work the most remarkable mill girls in Britain, the 2,800 "Welsh Ama- zons;" any one of them can easily pick up a hundredweight of steel sheets. The girls probably will go to work in shipyards. LIFE'S LIKE THAT m By Fred Neher "Why .... I didn't know you could cook! ! !" REG'LAR FELLERS Doggone Subtle By GENE BYRNES If I FEEL LIKE { MILLION DOLLARS TODAY, JIMMIE-- HOW DO YOU FEEL? i Li THAT'S A SWELL JOKE .' DIDJA KETCH ON? WITH My FINGERS.' VOU MUST BE AWFUL DUMB NOT TO GET THAT OKIE, PIMHEAD.' EVEN THE DOG CAUGHT ON/