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JAP BOMBER ALL BROKEN UP Big Jap bomber, iu fuselage lmot ntirely demolished, was brought down by U. 8. anti-aircraft In Battl* of Coral Sa. (OffMal U. 8. Navy photo from NBA.) VOICE OF THE PRESS DON'T CASH THEM IN Hi* volume of certificates tun. iB would seem to indicate- that people have been cashing in COTtificaUs for reasons not aHof*thr serious. The desire for MW coat or suit or a vacation fci Mt an adequate excuse for re- daaming war savings certificate*. rnry certificate redeemed makes ft >it a little harder for the Qovwnmtnt to finance our war <4fort and It makes the operation tt th war effort more expen- +r*. To handle the redemption bat ha* been going on requires ID* Mrvicem of a large number W alrke whose work is a dead tpM a far an winning the war is sssernd. Winnipeg Free Press HOME-GROWN VEGETABLES entire British supply of vegetables is now being In the United Kingdom, .inhering that before the war i,6bO,000 tons of such THr*taible were Imported each F*ar, we can measure the war- fkn* development of British agri- eoMure, which has also increased Iks production of cereals by 60 Mr ent. and that of potatoes by TO p*r cent. Brockville Recorder and Times EXTINGUISHING BOMBS Playing a jet of water on an SDcendiar>' bomb has now been fourvd to be the best way of ex- tbirniihinp it. There are still, tx>wvr, the people who deal with the matter by saying, "Bogh! M can't happen here," and then oln*- out for a nice long ride in ne ear. Windsor Star o NEW COINS NEEDED Biaee soft drinks now eoit MVMI cents and chocolate bars 1st, how about the minister of ftoaiice ordering the minting of even-cent and six-cent pieces? Aa R Is now, so many coppers in kane* are jeopardizing the War- time Prices and Trade Board's effort* along the line of pante- oket conservation. Brentford Expositor o EASILY SATISFIED The Nazi mind ie fairly illus- by the German officer who he was captured by the Russians declared: "It's all the tome to me whom we fight. It k war itself that satisfies me." Stratford Beacon-Herald o KNOWS HIS STUFF The columnist who said it want real summer until the air eemt up when you did, fcaew something about the humid- ity around this locality. St. Thomas Times-Journal U. S. Broadcasts Encourage Danes Specially- diiwctcd short wave broadcast* from the United States re being heard by 30,000 people b> Denmark, it was revealed by a Danish announcer-writer of the fereifn language division of an Anifr o. broadcasting company. He Is on an unofficial visit dur- k( which he visited Little Nor- way camp of the Royal Nor- wegian Air Force. The broadcasting representa- tive, who did not wish his identity nvaaled because of his family still in Nazi-controlled Denmark, said his land was only one of many hearing broadcasts sent out dally In more thun a dozen lang- uages. The broadcasts give cour- age to millions who are ready to Jd the Allies should the signal be given, and form the basis of secretly mimeographed newspap- ers, which, before the United States entcrc-d the war, reached bis aide of the water regularly, fee said. King Christian of Denmark has the texts of all broadcasts, taken down in shorthand, placed on his desk daily, he said. Liverpool's docks contnin nearly forty miles of quays. ^DIVIDUAL Itizen's MAN MAURICE 7) IRWIN A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army Tl,< present critical situation la India developed by progressive stepe following the inability of the mlsaion headed by Sir Stafford Cripps to reach an agreement with Indian leaders last spring. The major milestones are listed by the Christian Science Monitor as follows: Hie Grippe mission offered India Dominion status after the war and a gradually expanding voice in the direction of its af- fair* during the period of hostili- ties. The proposal was rejected be/ all major groups. The All- India Congress Party asked full independence at once. The All- India Moslem League refused to agree to any plan which gave a proportional majority to the pre- dominately Hindu Congress Party and sought establishment of a separate Moslem state in North- ern India. Congress. Party leaden* contin- ued to agitate for immediate in- dependence as Japanese expanded the4r conquests in Asia. Late in July the Working Com- mittee of the Congress Party acted to bring the situation to a head by passing a resolution, drawn up by Mohandas K. Gand- hi, calling for a civil disobedience campaign unless India's freedom was granted at once. The original draft of the reso- lution said the first move of an Independent Indian government probably would be to negotiate with Japan. This remark later was edited out of the original resolution. The revised draft said a freed India would "wholeheart- edly and unreservedly declare It seu on the side of the United Nations, agreeing to meet Japan or any other aggressor with armed resistance." The British Government re- sponded by virtually accusing Mr. Gandhi and other Congress lead- ers with being appeaserg of Japan. The Full Committee of the Congress Party met on Aug. 1 and passed a supplementary and preparatory resolution giving Mr. Gandhi full powers to lead a diso- bedience movement if a demand for freedom were rejected. At the same time Mr. Gandhi appealed to the United States to act "while there is yet time" to bring about Indian independence and permit Indians to "use their liberty In favor of the Allied cause." The following day the Full Committee ratified by an over- whelming majority the Working Committee's revised resolution authorizing the disobedience move- ment. The British Government prompt- ly countered by outlawing the Con. gress Party generally and arrest- ing Mr. Gandhi and some 200 other members of the Working Committee. Shortly after the arrests, dis- turbances developed in Bombay and other cities and police were forced to fire on demonstrators. Blow At Allied Caute In some Allied quarters the action of the Congress party seemed a major blow at the Allied cause, says the New York Times. Mr. Gandhi seemed ready to para- lyse India or to plunge, her into oivil conflict at a time when the Japanese were at the country's gates in Burma. The farms, LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "It'i from f l.i chief of police. . . . He requetU your pretence tomorrow morning at City Hall for illegal parking. . . . Dreti ii informal." oines, factories and van power f tin British Empire's greatest domain a land almost a* larga as the United States with threa times the population are vital to the defense of the Middle Kiurt. India to the great barrier to ati verland junction of the German and Japanese armies. Across it runs the remaining Anglo-Ameri- can supply line to Free China. It lies on the flank of the Anglo- American supply line to Russia via the Fenian Gulf and Iran. The justice of India's claim to freedom was not questioned in Britain and the United States. It was realized that Mr. Gandhi's people had grievances dating bade through centuries of European ex- ploitation, and that redress was due. The timing of the demand, however, stirred doubts as to Mr. Gandhi's "sense of reality" and caiused bitter critics to charge him with imperiling the United Na- tions in one of the war's most crucial theatres. Gandhi's Argument The flare-up in India's long fight for self-government has sprung from the advance of Japan. The Mikado's legions swept through Malaya, the East Indies and Burma; the native populations took hardly any part in their countries' defense, some factions even helping the invad- ers with fifth-column service. A similar situation might prevail in India if the Japanese entered. It is known that Nipponese agents have long promoted contacts with Indian revolutionaries and bom- barded India's masses with anti- British propaganda. The Cripps plan presented an attempt to win full co-operation of the subcon- tinent's masses. It has been Mr. Gandhi's argument that the co- operation wanted by the Allies could never be achieved unless his country was entrusted with Hs own government and defense. Diverir India London's answer supported by Washington is that the issue is complex, that many interests must be considered, that freedom can- aot be rushed through now with- out injustice and chaos in India, thereby leading to a fatal weak- ening of the Allied military posi- tion. It is held particularly that the Moslem minority 80,000,000 in number, compared to 260,- 000,000 Hindus win plunge the country into civil war rather than submit to Hindu administration. Tht British have declared that the Cripps proposal is their final word. Recently Secretary of State Cordell Hull addressed what many regarded as a warning to India's nationalists. He declared that post-war freedom could only be assured to peoples who showed themselves worthy of it. Oivil disobedience campaigns of the past have included boycotts of British goods and services, resig- nation of Indians from public poets, withdrawal of children from schools, closing of shops. Despite their non-violent inten- tions, they have usually culmin- ated In bloodshed, rioting and ar- rests. The British indicated they were prepared to use force to keei India's nationalists in line. They forbade the closing of shops on pain of fine and imprison- ment. Their army In the sub- continent numbers well over a million and it Is composed largely of Moslems, who might not be. sympathetic to a Hindu masH movement. Mr. Aim-ry Confident Mr. Amery, Secretary for In- dia, declared in a broadcast that "prompt and firm action by the Government of India has, I be- lieve, saved India and the Allied cause from grave disaster." He expressed faith that the majority of "realistic" people in India are behind the Govern- ment's move to scotch "an at- tempt by blackmail and civil dis- turbance to make ordinary gov- ernment of India impossible and to paralyze India's war effort." "No government could accept such a situation," Mr. Amery said. "The Government of India could not wait until the masses got ex- cited, until rioting and bloodshed began. It was necessary to cut off the current, to disconnect Gandhi and other leaders fr.im their followers." In any case, Mr. Amcvy said, the present action "will not de- flect the Government from the broad purpose of providing India as soon as the war is over, with full opportunity under the consti- THE WAR WEEK Commentary on Current Events War Effort Of United Nations Threatened By Crisis In India Yesterday on the street I net g tell, bronzed young man in civilian clothes. His face seemed familiar. He walked with his shoulders back and his head up. Be smiled at me and, automati- cally sine* 1 like smile*, I re- tained the smile. Then I walked OB puzzling slightly M to why the stranger had smiled. Suddenly it struck me. He was iw> stranger 1 He was the Com- pany Sergeant-Major! For two weeks we had been working to- gether, sahiting each other when the occasion arose and comparing notes as to the condition of this recruit's feet, that one's appal- ling habit of drinking ice cold fizzy pop and eating biscuits in- stead of lining up for his meals like a soldier. Bnt It emphasized two things: the difference wrought in a man by the clothes he wears; and the thin veneer that separates soldier from civilian. It is a good thing that the ven- eer i* so thin. Because it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that a sudden change from civil- ian to soldier may become neces- sary for many of us, no, most of us! I said last week that the Re- serve. Army of today is very dif- ferent from the Militia of the "between-war" years. It is, and it must be. It must have the support of every man able to meet the pihysical requirements. Look at what a reserve army has done for Russia. That ie what our Rowtrve Army must do for us. It will make demands heavy demands upon our spare time. ft will call for two or three eve- nings a week for drill, training or special instruction. It will call for ten Sundays. It will call for two weeks in camp every year, the whole totalling fifty-five days of training out of 865. And that, actually, is consider- ably less time than the average citizen wastes on dancing, movies, ball games, hockey-matches and A mighty low-insurance prem- ium to pay, isn't it? Not 10 long ago a man said to me quite seriously, "You people bav* no right to put alarming pieces in the paper about street- fighting in Halifax or Quebec or Montreal or Vancouver. That's alarmist stuff, It lowers morale." It made me boil. He has a "C" classification for his car. He squawks about his high income tax on earnings that are much greater than before the war and he has time and energy available for gxilf. But he couldn't, or wouldn't see the point when I suggested to him that if every-one in Russia had felt the same way about it the Nasis would have been in Mos- cow a year ago! We've really got to put our backs into this war. Knitting a few socks or sweaters, or send- ing cigarettes overseas, or buying war savings regularly isn't enough. It has to be an all out effort! In Hong Kong young Canadians died. In England thousands of young Canadians are champing at the bit while they train for the job they volunteered to do. If it falls to us to defend the land they plan to come back to are we going to fail because the movies or the golf-links were more important? Even in the face of daily stories of repeated reverses on many fronts there still exist too many people who look upon the war as something that is going on "away tution to become a free dominion. as free as any nation could be." In his broadcast Mr. Amery said further that success of the Con- gress party campaign "would then mean the betrayal of China and of Russia." "It would mean the enslave- ment of India herself to the Ja- panese," he said. "That is what, in their reckless, irresponsible de- sire for party dominance, the Congress leaders are prepared to bring about." The Government, he said, had "abundant ground for punitive action," but had confined itself to preventive action. over there." Do they think "It ean't happen her"? For nearly three years w* have been at war now, and in all that time "they haven't stepped on British soil," says your specialist in rote-coloured glasses. He over- looks Hong Kong and Singapore! He doesn't want to take a ruler in his hand and compare the dis- tance between Japan and Malaya with the distance between Norway and Xova Scotia. Try it yourself appallingly close, isn't it? That's why we members of the Individual Citi- zen's Army must play our part whether that part be volunteer- ing for Active Service, enlisting in the Reserve Army or just be- ing good soldiers behind the mea behind the guns. Trained or not, if an invader set his foot upon Canadian soil all of us men, women and chil- dren would set out to do wtiat w could there'i* no doubt of that. Even the man who Illegally in- creases rents, the shop-keeper who raises his prices above the ceiling, the sugar-hoarder, the gasoline cheat even these would take up arms to defend their homes. Why, then, one i bound to wonder, must it be necessary for us to set up a Wartime Prices and Trade Board? What is it that makes war ao remote that pe-opU like that must be brought inta the courts every day to answer to charges of impeding the wai effort? The most disheartening thought about it is that these offender* against regulations set up to pre- serve our economic structure are not only illiterate small traders they include big corporations. Against them, and they are in- vaders of Canada don't forget, we need the private soldiers 01' the Individual Citizen's Army whose duty it is for their own self- preservation to seTui word of in- fractions of the price regulations to the nearest office of the War- time Prices and Trade Board. Inflation is infiltration we must be on our guard! Paratroop Corps To Train In U. S. Canada's new paratroops 'will train at a great military school in Georgia which extends over 150,- 000 acres of flat land, considered ideal geographically ad climati- cally for year-round manoeu - T<? and training programs. This post, to which the Cana- dias have been assigned unti". fa- cilities can be established for paratroop training in Canada, was developed in 1919 ns an infantry school. Often termed the most com- plete army post in the United States, it was the birthplace in 1940 of the American Army para- chute troopls. Their work wan expanded so rapidly that in May this year a highly-specialized paratroop school wa.s formed un- der command of Col. George P. Howell. The parachute course takea five weeks. American graduates of the post have a motto: "We ride to fight; why walk?" Farmers In Russia Save Much Grain A despatch to the government newspaper Izvestia said that the battles south of Rostov were be- ing fought on fields covered by grain stubble, indicating that collective farmers in the Cau- casus had saved much of their crop despite the speed of t,ha German advance. In the Ordzhonikidze region, southeast of these battlefields and nearly 400 miles from Rostov, farmers were h:\stily gathering grain by hand and combine. Krom Moscow numerous civil- ians went out to the woods to chop wood and dig peat for the coming winter, and Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, said that self-sacrifice would he need- ed to supply the nation in tha , coming winter. REG'LAR FELLERS Kitchy-K itchy By GENE BYRNES MX POP BROUGHT ME HOME THIS BIG BAG) OF MARBLES LAS' NKiH't .' LET'S <ET BEANO r,0t tx N 10 SIT DOWN AN' KETCH EM FOR US WHILE. WE PRACTICE 3HOOTN"teM' I DON'T THINK. BEANO FEELS VERY MUCW tlKE SITTIKl' DOWN ON ACCOUNT OF AH EXPERIMENT, HE MADE/ /WHAT KIND OF VN EXPERIMENT? HE TRIED TO FINO OUT V^V^; IF HIS FATHER WAS TICKLISH WHILE HE WAS SHAVIN' /