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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., APRIL 6, 1944 If! THIS Child Has a Cold Don't take needless chances •with untried remedies. Relieve miseries this home-proved, double-action * penetrates f to upper breathing "-m*? / passages with medi- \' cinal vapors. / » stimulates /" 1 \ chest and back sur- / ! >>. faces like a warm- f % % ing poultice. If' Now to get all the benefits of this combined PENETRATING-STIMULATING action as shown above, just rub throat, chest and back with Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. Then ... see how this family standby goes to work instantly -2waysatonce-to relieve coughing spasms, ease muscular soreness or tightness--bring grand relief from distress! Its soothing medication invites restful, c™1-forting sleep-and often by mi \gone. Try it tonight. yicKs VOICE OF THE PRESS INEBRIATED AT LEAST Earl Winterton told the British Commons that female crooners Over the BBC sound like inebriated cockatoos. We've never heard an inebriated cockatoo, but we're sure he's dead right. --Ottawa Journal. POOR PA! Pa is worried about all the formalities of new postwar electrical gadgets for the home. Ht hopes that Ma won't be so busy pressing buttons that she can't sew one on, --Ryan in Boston Herald. IT'S A HARD LIFE These are difficult times when W* have to do without the things our parents never had. --Wall Street Journal. PROOF NEEDED When women dominate the political scene and start throwing their hats in the ring, how will we know they're hats? --Ottawa Citizen. NEW NAME FOR JAPS The Aussies have a name for the japs they've been battling and exterminating in the South Sea Islands. They call them New Guinea Pigs. --St. Thomas Times-Journal. QUITE A DIFFERENCE The Royal Navy's idea is to seek out and destroy. The Nazi warships try to sneak out and decamp. It is hoped that this yea will produce enough rut satisfy not only her own d needs, but those ol the Brit American forces in India. THE WAR • WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Naval War Won, Allies Must Win Air War Before Invasion Launched The air war over Nazi Europe is still growing in scope and intensity, comments the New York Times. Every passing day establishe-s new records tor the number of Allied planes that roam the Nazi skies, for the weight of bombs and incendiaries dropped on Nazi targets, for the number of Nazi planes des-stroyed, and for the relentless frequency of the attacks. In fact, in both numbers of men and amounts of materiel employed the air war has assumed proportions which place it in a special category of its own. It has finally taken the airplane out of the category of auxiliary weapon and made the air arm a major branch of the armed forces. The air war itself has become more than a mere prelude to the main event-- the invasion. It has become a special phase of a three-dimensional war which demands victory in every phase, and which thereby forces a revision of all past calculations of powc, especially as thev applv to countries like Great Britain and the United States. "Those Few ......" It has been an axiom since Ma-han's day that sea power is the decisive factor in shaping world his- For naval power, by commanding the seas, also commands the resources of the world, and above all sea-borne troops. But the modern three-dimensional war is demon- not enough. There is no doubt that without her naval power Britain could scarcely survive. But it is also true that she could not have survived without those few to whom so many owed so much--the British Air Force, which was as instrumental as the British Navy in frustrating Hitler's invasion plans. Now the same thing applies to the Allies. The Second Phase For naval power alone can no longer safeguard the communication lines of au invading force. To assemble the necessary invasion force the Allies had to win the naval war as the first phase of the total war, and even in that phase the airplane played an almost decisive role in defeating the U-boat menace. Now they must win the air war as the second phase before the actual invasion can be launched. in battle on the ground, which marks its final phase. But without victory in the two preceding phases torious ground battle, and therefore Combined Operation It is undoubtedly considerations such as these which prompted Prime Minister Churchill to lay continued emphasis on the air war in his latest speech, and also to point out to Marshal Stalin the difficulties of large-scale amphibious operations as compared with purely military operations in great land spaces. When the Russian armies met defeat in the initial stages of the war they could retreat for some 900 miles into the interior and, after organizing the full resources of an even vaster hinterland, resume the battle with greater chances of success. There was no such retreat for the Anglo-French army, and there will he no such retreat for the .Allied armies of invasion. Thev must advance from the moment they set foot on the Continent in order to deploy all their forces. They must be certain that their communication lines remain intact and that the way in front of them has been blasted open. That cannot be done by the navy alone. It will require a combined operation in three dimensions which would risk disaster unless air victory had been achieved first. Even then, Germany ' with her interior lines and excellent land communications might still be able to concentrate an overwhelming superiority at any invasion point unless her whole war potential has been seriously reduced. The Russian armies have been accomplishing this reduction at a tremendous pace, and so has the air and naval war which, as the Russians themselves testify today, contributed so substantially to the Things To Keep In Mind These are some of the things to keep in mind when relative accomplishments in the war are meas-used by the Russian ground victories on the one hand and the Allied stalemate at Cassino on the other It is necessary to keep in mind that the American Air Force alone, though scattered on various front* numbers nearly two and a half million men, or more perhaps than the number of Germans fighting on the Russian front. And the concentrated British Air Force must be at least half as large again. It must be kept in mind that the destruction of German war production wrought by the air war is far greater than could have been achieved by any other kind of bombardment. And it must be kept in mind that at the present rate of losses German air power, on which Hitler depended for victory, is being eliminated as surely as was Westminster Hall One of a shower of German fire bombs which ,,-ere dropped recently in the grounds of the British Houses of Parliament, burned a hole in the roof of Westminster Hall. It landed on the slate roofing of that historic building, rolled down to the edge where it set the wookwork aflame, but was quickly extinguished before doing much damage. Westminster Hall was built by, . William Second, son of the Coif*~f qucror, in 1087, and attained its present form, including its famous oaken ceiling in 1399, the last year of the Plantagenet dynasty. From the thirteenth century until 1882j" Westminster Hall was the site of the chief English law courts. It was there that Charles the First was tried and condemned and his son James the Second was deposed. Cromwell was formally installed there as Lord Protector and presented with the Bible and Sword as emblems of his new office. Among the notables condemned to death in the same hall were William Wallace, the Scottish hero, the Earl of Essex, who had enjoyed and later lost the favor of Queen Elizabeth, and Guy Fawkes of "gunpowder plot" fame, who be- OTTAWAREPORTS That Tenant Farmers Are On The 'increase In All Provinces Of Canada Except Quebec In the forty-year period from 1901 to 1941, the number of farmers who own the land they live on has dropped from 87 percent to 75 percent, according to figures of the economist branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. Of the nine provinces, only Quebec is the exception. In that province owner-operated farms increased from 90 percent in 1901 to nearly 93 per >41. and 1 The years betw when farm prices dropped to their lowest level saw the most rapid drop in owner-operated farms across the Dominion. - Of the 550,000 full owners who operated their farms in 1941, less than one-half, or 48 percent, had mortgage indebtedness. The prairie provinces, hit hard in the prev: well £ de- pression, ranked highest in indebt-ness. Ontario stood at the half-way mark, and. Nova Scotia reported Getting package bees away to a 'good start depends on a number of things, according to C. B. Gooderham, Dominion Apiarist at Ottawa. First of all, those expecting package bees should arrange with their nearest express or customs officials for prompt delivery. To house the bees, one hive fitted with 10 drawn combs or full sheets of foundation is needed for each package, and sugar honey is required to feed them. When received the packages should be stood in a cool shady place, and the bees fed by sprinkling a thin solution of sugar and waten* on the screenings of -the packages. Wait for late afternoon or evening to release the bees in their hives unless the weather is cool and cloudy. It the SUPPLIES OF NEW CARTONS ARE RESTRICTED • A Wartime Order limits the quantity of new cartons which a Brewer may purchase. 9 To fulfill quotas each brewer must re-use every carton returned in good condition. • Our customers can assist by: (a) exercising care when opening carton. (b) not exposing a carton to moisture. • When returning empty bottles, please bring back the original containers. BREWING INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) produce the honey crop, the Apiarist points out, but those which can be reared between the time the packages are placed in the hives and the time the clovers sre in bloom. This means that the short of feed at any time. Start feeding as soon as they -are in the hive and keep feeding until they are well established and obtaining enough from the fields for their needs. Their best food is honey but it should never be given unless one is certain that it has been produced by disease-free colonies. White sugar dissolved in water is PIPE THIS Cpl. Ted Goldsmith of the New Zealand army pipes victory march for crew members and fellow soldiers aboard tank landing craft en route to Green Island, captured from Japs by New Zealand and American forces. The island is only 120 miles from big Jap base at Rabaul. King Takes Cover At Invasion 'Battle* Live shells screamed overhead as the Kin- watched liritish troops that at one time His Majesty, with a divisional commander and his As the Royal Engine-is laid a minefield with anti-personnel mines, the King suggested they be called "man-killers.'J In a 300 mile trip by road and rail, ^ the King^saw picked^ troops cides occurs between the ages of the best substitute. Provincial apiarists will supply the necessary permits for sugar for feeding bees on receipt of full name and address, number of packages or colonies to be fed, and the minimum amount of sugar required. There are good prospects that as many fresh apples from Canada in 1944 as .she received from the short crop of last year. But the Dominion Department of Agriculture points out that prospects for this increased trade depend on three If Canada has abundant supplies: If ocean shipping permits; If Canada's position for packages, packing and inland transportation permits. As a result of last fall's campaign in Ontario and Quebec, over 60,000 lbs. of milkweed leaves, and more than 10,000 lbs. of whole milkweed plants have been turned over to the National Research Council where they are being processed, according to Dr. H. A. Senn, Science Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture. It is hoped, Dr. Senn says, that .the large scale experiments now being carried out in milkweed collected by the rural schools of Ontario and Quebec, will confirm the indications of preliminary experiments that the gum from milkweed may be useful .for' blending with synthetic rubber. SCOUTING ... Membership in the Boy Scout Movement in Great Britain showed an increase of 59,000 in 1943. His Excellency the Governor-General, Chief Scout for Canada, will celebrate his 70th birthday on April 14th. A large group of Canadian Scouts, now serving in the armed forces in Britain recently spent a week-end at Hampton Court Palace, where they were entertained by the Dowager Lady Baden-Powell, widow of the founder of the Boy Scout Movement. London, England, is full of strangers these days, and they find their difficulties infinitely greater when one of London's famous "Pea Soup" fogs settle down over the capital. Passengers alighting at a north London station find they are met by the Scouts, who by their knowledge of the district are able to direct tired and bewildered travellers. Famous Scouts in the news recently are, General Sir Oliver Leese, C.B., D.S.O.. the new commander of the 8th Army, who was a Scoutmaster at Hatfield, Herts; Sir Noel Mason MacFarlanc, Deputy President of the Allied Commission in Italv, who is an active member of the Scout Movement, and Squadron Leader J. R. Baldwin, D.F.C. and bar, who led the squadron of Typhoons which chased enemy planes around the Eif-> fel Tower in Paris, is a former Patrol Leader in the 2nd Birchington Boy Scout Troop. 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