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ROAD TO LENINGRAD NOT FIT FOR MAN OR BEAST Usually free-wheeling German* find this road toward Leningrad from the northeast a muddy one. Official German photo portrays one of many difficulties encountered by invaders in epic-battle for heroically defended second city of Russia. VOICE OF THE PRESS GERMANY ABOLISHES THE BIBLE The Ottawa Bible Society reveals that sties of Blble in Germany dropped from 250,000 In 1939 to M.OOO in 1940. Brlln and Vienna ere the only cltlei where the dis- tribution of Bibles Is now per- HlUd. Thla U hardly surprising. How eould the Germans display any In eonatotency In their poHclec of Bttl*e and rapine; in their god- IM acts of murder and destruc- tion. The only surprising thing tout it is that Bibles still can be distributed In Berlin and Vi- enna, although no doubt this Is In diminishing numbers. Perhaps fro who receive the Bible* are it oaoe plax>d under suspicion. In the Bible there always Is to te tound something to solace the d at heart to give strength to Oi worried and weary; to glre the r**U meaning to life on earth. The MM!S would not want too many J)R>|e in Germany because It taJsjM lad to greet confusion In the minds of Germans who are still nei convinced that th Nazi creed it tne only one. The Germans, in thlr devilish fetre for world domination, offer in thlr subject* no room (or hope, tor solace, for charity; no room lor persona of good will; for thoao wli'mu minds do not run to the fUxi pattern. So Germany eannot allow tree circulation of the Hihle. People might read there that the way of the unjust, of the trans- gressor, of the cruel and oppres- sive, Is a hard way. They might become doubtful. It would be too bad for Hitler if a great many to Germany became doubtful. Ottawa Evening Journal. FARM EFFICIENCY Plgg is pigs' Is not a good wsr- time motto for farmers. The pres- emt emergency creates an extra- ordinary demand for fodstufts Which rulee out any blind depen- dence on what Providence may ehoote to produce from the fields. It requires a stepping up in pro- duction both in quantity and qual- ity, and this fact U recognized by action taken by governments botn here and in the United States. The Dominion Department ot Agriculture Is engaged on a cam- paign to improve the quality of Canadian eggs. The American De- portment sets out on a house-to- kouiie canvas* of the farms, to put over a campaign having as It* object the fitting of 1942 crops to wartime needs. To the layman, and perhaps to many farmers, an egg Is an egg. But, as the Dominion authorities point out, thore are graduations of quality In such products, Just as llit-M. are fruits and vegetables and grains. With llrltuln appealing for more and more eggs, the govern- ment does well to Issue practical Instructions whereby, through pro- per rearing, housing anil feuding, hens can be niailu to produce a higher quality. There must be more specific planning of farm production. ' 'lie time lias, temporarily at leant, gone by for farmers to gear their out- put to the exigencies of local or district ninrkcls which they can determine by personal observation. They must prepare to serve distant consumers, and tliey must turn <r advice and guidance to I lie authori- ties who are acquainted, through tudy and negotiation, with the needs of Britain. Windsor Dally Star -v HE WENT FOR A WALK William Uallocfier lone Commu- nist member, lout his temper In the llrltlsh House ot Commons the other day. called 1'rlme Minister Churchill A hlackgunrd and arrus- THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events Two Invasion Riddles Considered: Invasion of Europe and England There U very great danger that the Nazis may force their way bito the Caucasus, thus jeopardiz- ing the Allied position In the Mid- dle East and the whole Mediter- ranean zone. The gravity of this situation call* for a major dis- traction to relieve the pressure on the Red armies. Would a general invasion of Western Eur- be the answer? Mr. H. Q. 'elk, the British writer says: "Today, we have command ot ttte sea, we have the submarine problem well in hand, and we have mastc.ry of the air. That means more or leas complete blockade is poMible. But It means some- thing far more effective than that. It means immense and de- eisive striking power. The Ger- man conqueror today U In uu al- most precisely parallel position to ed him of lying, and 't ft the House till fuming. Reports say he went for a walk. Wlhen he returned to the House he apologized to the peaker and the the House and Mked for complete withdrawal of his remarks about the Prime Min- ister. The point in this repeated story is that Mr. Qallaoher went for a walk. There's nothing like going for a walk when a man loses his tem- per and make* a fool of himself. The walk clears his head and brings him back to rationality. >t. Thomas Times-Journal. v EDUCATION KEPT UP IN BRITAIN When the heavy Qerman bomb- ing* of Great Britain destroyed eohools among other buildings, edu- eatlon wa* disrupted for the time being. However, by this time V6 per cent ot the children taking elementary el-asses are receiving full-time instruction. And, satisfactory progress has been made in restoring upper edu- cational facilities. H Is good that the schools are being continued. The children of today will be the men and women of tomorrow and It Is highly Im- portant that their education be not neglected. VISITING CHICKENS Why does a chicken cross Uio load? Usually to get in the neigh- bor's garden. A Kansas City wo- man was sick of having visiting chickens In her garden. She pushed them Into a taxi and drove off to police headquarters. Police held the chickens until their owner showed up and promised to keep them on the right side of the road. Sault Dully Star. IT WILL NOT Victory will not he won by driv- ing a car 60 or 70 mile an hour with the letter V stuck on the rear window Petrolla Advertiser-Topic. Napoleon at his culmination. He hat spread himself out on an im- mense frontage exposed to our at- tack and he cannot tell from hour to hour where he may not be at- tacked. Germany now enters . upon m new phase in her final war. She will, I gyess, try to dig In on the Russian front. Will the Russian! let her? She may make a last hy- iterical rush at England, but the pincers are closing in on her. Manifestly we ought to have everything planned and prepared. Including a local revolt at every point from the White Sea down and into the Baltic and round the French and Spanish coast where Franco may at any time get off on the German side of the fence and down to Dakar. We ought to have three or four expeditionary forces hovering ready for separ- ate or collective action, embark- ed, ready for a descent at any one of the thirty or forty possible weak points. If this hovering counter-attack U ready for the enemy, what will he be obliged to do in reply? He must detach how many men, how much material, to be ready to meet the coming blow? Far more than we shall need. We can select our point of attack calmly, easily, and we can strike, land and establish ourselves at one place or at several places. Jerry must scurry from one point to another along his Immense front to meet these enquiring thrust*. He must do it in great force. He must maintain forces on his Wes- tern Front as large or larger than those he has entangled in the bear's grip to the east. I do not think that the much talked of invasion of Britain ean happen now. There n,n\ be a raid but I doubt if it will be much of a raid. On the other hand, I cannot believe that all these In- vasion manoeuvres which are go- Ing on over here do not prelude an invasion of the Continent. I am convinced that presently, and the sooner the better, one of these sham-fight manoeuvres will just turn round and strike at the neck of Denmark, or Brest, or Bordeaux, or Trondhjem, or Mur- mansk or Morocco, or, after the Iran fashion, to safeguard us against further fence-sitting, In Spain." Inv**ion of Norway Both the location and the peo- ple of Norway favour a British invasion. Raids have already been successful there becnust the Norwegian Fifth Column is the most daring and best organized in all Nazi held territory. In the north the Norwegians were never benten by the Germans, neither were they discouraged. Their re- sistance to the invailers has been so active that it was necessary for the Germans to import 70,000 men to garrison that region. Invasion of Finland Russo Finnish peace feelers might indicate that the Allies were laying a groundwork of a fifth column in Finland to tie in with a possible landing in North- ern Norway. With the possession of Northern Norway and Petsanao in Northern Finland the way would be cleared for a supply route to Russia around the North Cape, the White Sea ports of Mur- mansk and Archangel. Petsamo is a strategical point for another reason. Near the city is one of the few significant nickel de- posits outside of International Nickel's Sudbury mines which produce 85 per cent, of the world's output of nicke. Invasion of France Heavy raids on the French coast could be made without great risks. It might be possible to establish beachheads in suf- ficient strength to permit of ex- tensive operations. The Germans would then probably be compel- led to divert troops, tanks and war planes from the Eastern front to prevent the raids from developing into major operations. Invasion of England The other invasion question, the invasion of Britain by the Axis powers, might be answered by the fact that Germany has been forced to remove many- troops from France and the oc- cupied countries to the Russian front. There only remain about twenty-five divisions in all the occupied countries and these are made up mostly of raw recruits and older men. It would seem impossible for Germany to re- organize her military machine in time to attempt an invasion of England before the bitter gales of winter have gripped the English Channel and the North Sea. London The Citadel But It should be remembered that the threat of invasion is al- ways present. Britain simply oan- not afford to weaken herself too much. She is the final citadel in this fight for freedom. Lord Beaverbrook said: "I am confi- dent, no matter what happens in Russia and the Russians are giving a superb account of them- selves that Hitler will strike at us. I believe this because he cannot get peace anywhere ex- cept in London. There is no use hie trying to get it elsewhere, and there can be no peace for Hitler as long as London stand*." Saving Ontario's Natural Resources No. 58 Migratory Routes Last week 1 told my readers something of banding and this week I wish to continue. When a bird 1* banded It Is liberated with an aluminum band on Its foot, on whloh I." stamped a serial number and a return address. If the bird is hot or otherwise killed the shoot- er returns the band to Ottawa or Washington. This Is known as a recovery. On a large map the point of banding and the point of re- covery are marked and a lln drawn between the two points. This line to the approximate mi- gration route of the bird, partic- ularly Important when the recov- ery occurs the same season a* banding. Eventually a great num- ber of recoveries are recorded and the migration route of the species is worked out. With the waterfowl It has been discovered that these migratory routes fall Into four main areas across the country and these have been designated as flyways. Thus migration routes are individual lanes ot bird travel from breeding grounds to winter home, and fly- ways are those broader areas Into which many migration routes blend or come together In a definite re- gion. The Atlantic fly way starts In the north and follows the coast south to Florida. Another migratory route of this flywaj starts at James Bay. crosses Ontario to Luke Ontnrlo ami Lnke Krle, and LATEST R.A.F. PHOTOS FREE! Mail only two Durham Corn Starch labell for each pic- ture deaired or one Bee Hive Syrup UbeL To itart, Mlect from the "Flying Torpedo" "Sky Rocket" "Lightning" "Defiint" "Spitfire" ill "Hurricane' or "Catalina" ... the litt of 30 other p- tu/ci will be lent with your tint request Specify your name, addresa, picture or picture* requested enclose necessary labels and mail to the St. Lawrence Starch Co., Limited, Port Credit, Ont. UD DURHAM^STAREH by two routes reaches the Atlan- tic coast In the vicinity of South Carolina. The Mississippi and Cen- tral flyways start In the Macken- lie Delta and follow down the Great Plains to the Gulf of Mexico. The Pacific Flyway starts in Al- aska and the Mackenzie Delta and follows the Pacific Coast to Mex- ico. Except along the coasts, the boundaries of these flyways can- not always be sharply defined, par- ticularly in the northern part of the Interior, for the reason that broadly creaking all the country from Nebraska north to the Ar- tie coast is one great breeding ground that Is used by many spec- ies of migratory waterfowl. From about latitude 45* southward to the Gulf coast, however, these fly- ways are fairly well marked, and It 1 within this region that most of the sport shooting takes place. The status of the ducks and geese In the different flyways, therefore, U of great Interest not only to naturalists but also to sportsmen. The Book Shelf THE STORY OF BABAR THE TRAVELS OF BABAR BABAR THE KING By Jean de Brunoff Not many books, written for children, give real enjoyment to the older person who, perforce, reads aloud to the rising genera- tion; but the grown-up, with "the heart of a child," will get as much pleasure out of these three stories as will the children for whom they were written. They are the continued story of the elephants Babar and Celeste, all their elephant friends and a dear little old lady who loves elephants. The illustrations, full of homey touches and subtle humour, will gladden the eyes of the grown- ups as well as of the youngsters. The skilful use of clear, flat col- our and *trong line drawing, achieves an amazingly graphic effect, free from confusing de- tail. Such illustrations cannot fail to have a favourable influ- ence on the child's art education* The Story of Babar; The Travel* of Babar; Babar the King . . by Jean de Brunoff . . . The Mao. millan Co. of Canada ... Price each . . . $1.50. SCOUTING . . . Boy Scouts continue to take an important pun in the various drives of the National Salvage Campaign throughout the Dom- inion. On one Saturday some 3,000 Scouts of Montreal and en- virons collected 250 tons, with the proceeds of which was pur- chased a mobile tea canteen for the Salvation Army. The can- teen is now serving military un- its of the district on route march- es, or during field days. * Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts ol Nakina, Ont., gathered a full railroad car load of scrap metal. From the returns they sent $70 to the Toronto Telegram's Fund for British War Sufferers. * * A two days' and a night's fight with a forest fire that threatened the settlement of Five Rivera, N.S., won high commendation for Boy Scouts of the 1st Milton, N.S. Troop. According to the Liverpool Advance, only those on the fire fighting line realized how critical the situation was, but the Scouta carried on throughout the night, and "took it like men." * * * A $2,000 ambulance was pur- chased by the subscriptions of the Boy Scouts of Scotland and pre- sented to St. Andrew's Ambu- lance Association. Like the Boy Scout organiza- tions of other countries overrun by the Nazis, the Germans have now banned the Boy Scouts of Norway. Abyssinia's rulers claim to trace their descent back to King Solo- mon. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "I've been invited out for dinner tonight !" REG'LAR FELLERS Figures Don't Lie By GENE BYRNES f.\ GOT TO GO DOWN TO THE CORNER TO SEE MOW MUCH I WEIGH.' MOM WANTS ME TO GET THIN. SO I WENT ON A DIET.' , 1 1- A / BEIN' ON A DIET IS SUMPTHIN' FIERCE ' 1 OMEX HAD FOUR. ICE CREAM CONES THIS AFTERNOON INSTEAD OF FIVE/ /' MISTER HOCiAN, WILL ( YOU PLEASE HOLD ME ) UP SO I CAN SEE ( HOW MUCH I LOST ' TWO HUNERO^' SIXTT-FOOR pousi I'M COIN' OFF THAT DIET RIGHT THIS MINIT .'