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ae RN a5 ANE wy pi LF od 5 t "3 6 NE. A Bx 4 4 . . » ' } * it : . } Without Mercy, Children Lost -+ Qutlook Black For Future Génerations Under Nazi Rule Cecily Hamilton, author and literary critic, in a broadcast ad: dress. from London, England; said, that "National Socialism hag sin-- ned against the children of Ger- many just as muchas it' against children of conque, countries." 4 Miss Hamilton. was speaking on. "the British Broadcasting Corporas _ who might have become tion's "Britain: Speaks" feature, "Under the Nazi rule children nt citizens are inptead bla. ok-liearted villains. because they ag been "taught that mercy is the failing - - of the weak and. the foolish," she said. .. The - atrocities committed by « these yoyng Germans, after. their . had heir training: in merciless dut; gladdendd the "hearts of: - leaders. Parents were forced: to 'stand by and watch. their children. trained in. this merciless creed, knowing~ they. would be inflicted with' the "yirus of a moral dis- ease." "Once when I. was: in: Poland T saw Polish men and. women; with, their half-frozen, half-dead: child- ren pyit into unheated cattle cars | in 20 below zero weather," Miss Hamilton said. "The Nazis, with their creed of cruelty, have committed no worse against these little Polish since war's start to take over the __of Information, succeeding Alfred children, with their tears frozen on their faces,' than, they have against their - own children, - for without mercy they are lost." : New Information Head f _Brendan Bracken, above, Prime, . Minister Winstop. Churchill's pri- vate Parliamentary secretary. re- cently became the fourth man much-criticized post of Minister Duff Cooper, Cooper becomes: co-.. ordinator of Britain's war effort in the Far East. Quebec Is Rich Jn Odd Legends Saguenzy River Area Holds Strange Stories Of Early Canada + Fishermen of the Saguenay Riv. er, descendants of the sturdy Bre- ton seafarers who braved the perils of the Atlantle long before Jacques Cartier officially discovered Can. ada In 1534, have long had as thelr spiritual guardian the Virgin Mary. 'MYSTERIOUS STATUE High on Cape Trinity, towering 1,800 * feet above the Saguenay River, i8 a wooden statue of the Virgin. Beautifully carved, and "with a" wealth of detatl fhe statue looks dowr benignly on the dark, -awirling waters of the fjord-lika Saguenay. * How the 35-foot statue was plac- ed In its lofty niche, by whom, and when, is a story in feh fact and legend are closely woven. Popu- lar belief 1s that in 18656 a French. Canadian business man was_ lost in the Saguenay wilds w!"e on a hunting trip. He promised that if - - he -wére rescued he would build $ « < pris © . ~ nt) a 2 a 3 2% i bo | ~~ " - _ - wie g ' 7 43 . ¥ 2d OA a. statue to the Virgin as a sign of his gratitude. Another story relates that a group -of fishermen were .caught _ in a storm that capsized thelr tiny eraft and plunged them into the river. Asking the Intercession of the Virgin they vowed to construct a statue in her honor, Still" another 'legend tells of a French-Canadian -doctor_who, while answoring .a sick call crossed the river between St. Catherine's Bay and-Tadoussae, It wag early in the | spring and the ice was rotting, A storm came up while he was cross. ing and he wandered off the mark. ed route and broke through into "the cy waters, He called on the Virgin for aid, promising to con. struct a statue it he was saved, Homo other travellers heard him and rescued him, and, hearing of his vow, ofteréd to dssist him in the falfilment of it. cut its speed limit to forty miles " bomber until: he has been out of ' tension, .this indicates why many ; &_husband. has never been -able . charm, cocobark, wineblush, aero- rhythm. . time, too. 1 shades. mow in use, addressing -the Shorthorn breed- "predicted that the old horse would "|I' next few years as a source of i able, 'but it was contended they* ' gon and daughter, to the Colonies VOICE PRESS || .NEW SPEED LIMIT? . Ontario is said to be ready to per hour, Splendid: But don't do it unless backed by the intens tion toienforee it. ~St. Thomas Timsgelourosls . ---- "EARLY RISING HAZARD A noted physician says that a flier should not - pilot a -dive bed at least three hours. By ex- {to operate. _ an. electives toaster. " --S8t. Catharines Standard, : ar * SHADES OF VICTORY! The eight new shades of-hosiery, the Woman's Page announces, are 'brown' butter, honeycomb, sun- smokehaze and" black: And- just incthe nick of +f We were beginning to) Wonder how we'd worry through the war with only the-8, 408 other . beige, "Windsor Stan Yio - HORSE WILL COME BACK In this time of shortage of labor "the horse as a power unit Has been somewhat put in the baok- ground, but Dr. Christie, when ers at, the 0.A.C., Guelph, on the occasion of their annual field day, come back into prominence in the power. Tractors will be avail. would be more or less under regu- lation. With the rising cost of gasoline, oil and repair parts, many may. find it necessary to. again turn to the power unit thet is reared on the farm and fed on . .the crops grown on the farm, A great many of the horses are get- ting 'old, said Dr. Christie, and he advised breeding more mares to meet the need for farm horse power which he believed would be required in the near future. --The 'Farmer's Advocate. "ENGLAND'S HOUR" ___- By Vera Brittain At the beginning ot this book, Vera Brittain, who is the wife of Prof. G.. E. G. Gates, presents a "picture of her life In the beautiful, peaceful countryside of- "England: With! dramatic. suddenness _the sfene is changed to London 'where she writes elsewhere, "The Wheel of Fate kas resolved -to bring' London this her hour. The eyes of "the whole world 'are turned" upon: her and she nerves herself to face her long ordeal". ~ Miss Brittain's purpose is to pra. - "sent, from several angles, this war- time life as it has appeared to the ordlniry London 'citizen 'trom day to day." She' describes the evaeuition of the children, among them her own and the United States; the pre- caution taken against air-raids and life in the shelters. Slice tells of the - wonder of the people that "this could happen. to them," ~tlieir anger, sorrow and courage, and withal their stoical sense of. hy- mour. The -people of ISngland have adjustéd themselves to the unparalleled mode of life--all in 'a:country that the German press insists has lost its motrale, --- England, to Miss Brittain, means the England of lovely fields and lanes and country, and" "though the citles may be destroyed "tho villages of the country will England- forever." "England's Hour" . . . by Vera Brittain . . . Published by Macmillan _ Company of Canada, Toronto . . . Price $2.75. Ontario's Jailing More Bachelors Fewer Matrled Men Are To Be Found In the Prisons of * © the Province . 1 Tot More than twice as many 'bach. elors are- in Ontarlo 'prisons as married men, the recent annual re- port of Ontarlo- prisons and re- formatories revealed, However,- married .women were committed more often to prison than single + girls, MARRID WOMEN OUTNUMBER : SINGLE Tho Yeport shows that 10,387 married mep, as compared to, 20, single men, went to prison'las "year. A total of '972 married -wo- men were imprisoned compared with 866 aingle women, A test conducted by the Ontarlo Reformatory at Guelph showed that only 18 of more than 1,000 in. mates 'would rank with a collego 'or university student. Tho test also revealed that 857 inmates had the educational status.of a gradé-five pupil or lower. : i rs 1 fast-breaking * this altitude, in momentum." ve |. ° " Myrna 'Loy -adopted "Peter, the Deer, during her recent holiday stay at Jasper National Parks and Peter approved the big role in the life of a fawn.' Miss. Loy, free of Hollywood engagements, planned an ex- tensive vacation in the Cana, dian Rockies. cessfulin fishing. expeditions to the They visited "all Jasper 'beauty spots and were suc' faligne River. «Canadian National Railways, THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events One Headline Sums up News "World In An Awful Mess" n editor of a paper in a Pen- nsylvania town after listing "the international de- velopments, "said: "If you "can think of a better. headline to sum- marize all this, lét us "know: "World In An Awful Mess." Invasion Season At Hand Prime Minister Winston Chur- chill said in the House of -Com-. pions last week: invasion season is at hand. forces have been warned to be at concert pitch by September and to maintain the utmost vigilance." Mr. Churchill rejected that he appoint a minister of pro- duction and proceeded to show that Britain's war production in "The _all its forms "had gone on steadily not only in volume but even at The Prime Minister declared that Ger- many's air. superiority had been broken--and- that British -produc- tion of planes, exclusive of im- "ports from the U. S., had, in the . last "twelve months, doubled the R. A. Fs power to bomb -Ger- many at a 1,600-mile range. He said that "the battle of the At- . lantic, with the help of the: Uni- ted States, is moving slowly and steadily in Britain's favor." More British ships were being built - now than at anytime in. the first wor a war, and in three months "this year, one thousand more field guns had been produced than in * the corresponding period a year ago. ) R: A. F. Still' Active Of great importance 'is the fact that. daily bombings by the R. A. F. of "abjectives in German .ter- ritory have continued -with in- creased intensity and destructive force. ; Mediterranean Area Meanwhile with the conquest of - Syria, consolidation of -positions--} in Libya, and the withdrawal of vast Nazi Forces from the Medi- terranean area, the whole Allied position throughout this zone bal, been strengthened. Last week a large British cons F voy successfully passed through . "the Mediterrdanean with supplies for Syria; instead of "taking the longer route around Africa, Japan's Ambitions Japan last week moved into Indo-China 'to safeguard the colony's territorial integrity and protect both French and Japanese interests," The Japanese press claimed that Toyko was forced to occupy this country because Bri- tish, Free French and American interests threatened to move in. Japan thereupon took over air bases, sea bases and landed 40,000 troops at Saigon, the capital of French Indo-China, In retaliation for the . quick ~All armed © demands | action of Britain and the U, S. in" freezing Japanese. funds and 'ening the defenses of Singapore andi the Philippines, the Nipponese Government froze all British and American assets. . The U, 8, fur- ther bolstered her defenses by declaring a national emergency, moved to authorize the retention. of her soldiers in service for the duration of the war, through the Panama Canal, 'Fears Trade Strangulation. Japan - has for. the past few years been . living in constant dread of a trade embargo, which, London experts claim, could bring Japanese industry to jts knees in six months. Her economic position is already bad, owing to _the long war with China, Last week Britain. revoked: her three treaties (Britain. and Japan, Bur- ma and Japan, and India Japan), through which the Land of the. Rising Sun had been re- ceiving a large part of its vital imports, The Netherlands Last Indies cut off oil and tin ship- ments to Japan, except for speci- fic. and approved transactions, In spite of these threats of a appeared nevertheless that she in- "tended ~to-continue her -vast ex- a living sphere in French Indo- China, Thailand, Malaya, Burma, the Netherlands East Indies and the U. S. Philippines, - Where Everybody Fights Hitler- said in "Mein Kampf" torn that could render a mechan- ized army impotent. In Russia every soldick is trained in guer- illa warfare, and every Commun- ist man or woman, is trained in the "art" of « sabotage. The whole * amount of military training and at least a quarter of the popula- Throughout the last twenty years life has been organized 'around the idea of meeting the threat of war, and the role of each individ- ual planned for defense, "Every industrial plant has an armed defense force and its secret muni- tions depot to_be used if there is need to sabotage the plant. The attitude of the ordinary work- er in Russia is that the welfare of the Fatherland depends on him tand him alone. War -has strengthened this attitude so that now any Russian may be counted upon at the proper time to risk all he has, even hig life, These are the people who are prepared to wage an unrelenting and pro- longed war of &®ahotage should the Germans drive them deeper into their own land: i stocks of raw silk, and strength-. Also Jap | vessels were barred from passing. and- concerted blockade of Japan, .it- _pansionist program and establish that the bandit was the only fac- Russian nation has had a certiin = tion know how to handle firearms, Nails Slow Dow Guerilla warfare edly been the cause of the slow- bing down of the secqnd German offensive oh the Rusyian front. In guerilla warfare, sigall army units are trained to make them- selves independent of the 'central i off from the main body, of con. * tinuing the battle, Their practice is to fix In advance bases to which they can retreat and where supplies: and ammunition are stor- ed. In. past Nazi campaigns the conquest of a key position was the' | is only the beginning, Kven the German: commentators have ad- mitted that the Russiaks ard mas. ters of retreat and "luring on" tactics. Last week/ the Blifikileg ap: peared to have been stalled. and. turned into' a war of position and endurance, the increasing strain the longer? week no sign of decreased! cos hesion, or-lack of skill, courage or morale. Russia's plentiful oil sup- ply is readily available; Germany's, on account of lengthening lines of communication and the de- struction of vast supplies at the base stores, has hecome an acute problem, Time, too, is on the side of the Russians. The wheat- ficlds of the . Ukraine are no longer green. If the Russians are compelled to retreat eastwards and if they can- not gather the haryest, they. will now be able to burn it. "Annihilated"" The Russians might lose the Ukraine coal ahd fron industries, they might lose Leningrad and its vast industrial facilities; but the dispersal of Soviet armies east- wards would still leave them-ad- equate factories and munitions plants outside the grasp of the ing vaders. The latest" German report as we went to press claimed that the encircled . Russians in the Smo- "lensk area had been virtually an- nihilated. + Moscow claimed that the Germans. had been driven back with heavy losses in this area and also in the Urkaine, The present standing might be sum- med up in the latest story about the Russo-German war: "What is the annihilated Rus- sian army doing today?" 'Qh, it is holding up the cver- advaheing Germans," Russians inkles and Whales Sea- and inland fisheries Canada have a market' value of over - $10,000,000 annually, re- cords__the. Industrial Department of ythe Canadian National Rail "refrigerator cars to handle the sea harvest froin the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. The sea fishes of Canada cover "more than fifty varieties from Alewives and Ant chovies to Winkles and Whales with such intermediate specimens as octopus and swordfish. One by-product of tiie fishing indus- try is the gathering of dulse and green seaweed. Of the former 5,000 hundredweight is gathered annually" for "those who regard cacy, while 11,220 hundredwejght green seaweed furnis able amount of insulation m terial. The Riddle Box What vegetable is anything but agreeable on board ship? A Joon (leak). ' Why does the razor bil raise her bill? ~ To let the sea "urchin yee her chin. ~~ What root arc policciaen most familiar with . The beat route" (beet-root).: America is God's Crucible, the great -Melting-Pot where all the races of Kurope are melting and reforming!-. . . God is making the American. ---Isracl Zangwill, pick SUNY Which side can stand' In the Red' Army, there was last, ! command and are capable; if cut - end. of a battle; in this one it- Who Has The Advantage " * a Harvest Includes' of - ways" which maintains a fleet of In this marine Fegetation as a deli- ~ 103 con- / © posed to haye caused the North _will pile up asain. "such Ice ages took plage. In many parts of "tha world, Alaska and . characteristic + most . Inite and; may he the last traces d 'Kangareo' Tanks Saving Qntario's Natural Resources By G. C. Toner r {Qhwtie Federation. of Anglers and Hunters) NO.. 852 ° A GLACIER'S TRACK In last week's article 1 told of the great glaciers. that once cov- ered' most of Canada, but 1 neg: lected to fed how we know that ee +e Switzerland are examples,, there are great mountain' glaclers, From the study of these we know how. the ice cuts the rocks. - Glaclérs leave a definite track that-is quite no matter where found and these tracks are. common on the glaciated parts of Ontarlo. So easily are these marks {dentified the geologist can now outline al- tha exact" path of the ice and how far it reached. Trcaes of Ice Age | Continental glaclors still exist In Greenland and around the poles Theso are quite distinct and def of the ice age that occurred In the not so distant past. Certainly, they. appear to he,caused. by much the same conditions tnt are sup- American glaciers, a drop of a few ~ degrees In the mean annual tom. perature so that-all the snow that falls in the winter does not melt In the summer. Even, a small amount woul soon® pile up and, would heln to lower the tempera: ture still further, Reason Uncertain Tha ultimate reason for ice ages are still uncertain, Velcanie dust may have lowered the amount of heat from the sun that reached the earth or a change In the com- position of the air may have oc- curred. Whatever was the rea son it happened five times, each followed hy a period when there was a warmer climate. Some geo: logists helieve that we are In an interglacial period now and that in a few thousand vears the lee This, of course, is pure speculation that ean not even be proved by the old adage, "Wait and see." ' « Italia press desnetehes from the wn-Finnish front the other day reported the anpearance of 120 Sov jet "Kangareo" tanks, each earry- Ing three y tanks which ean bo lune hed-Eninst the enemy, The mother tank crashes a hole in the Gorman-Finnish lines. and, once through, relerses the small tanks, the story said. Don't Give Up; Take Your Time 4 _Artificlal Resuscitate Drowned: Person --Follow Simple Rules Care fully Clip out these simple life saving nstructions, paste them on a plece ot cardboard and hang them Mp in a convenlent spot. In an €m-. _ergency, they may help ta save & Ie. Begin work The very moment an uriconscious person 1s taken from the water. i Do not rush the body away, D& not waste time finding a better spot or loosening clothes. Onee started, do not, even for a moment, break the rhythm. Work. "ers should take spells without a ob: missed beat. As to the Schafer méthod of re- suscitation-- Place the victim on a Hard sure' taco. Have head, it possible, slight. ly lower than rest of body. With finger remove false teeth, tobacco or other substance. Lay patient on stomach, Extend ; one drm straight overhead. Bend other arm at elbow. Rest. head on hand or forearm. Turn face so that .noge and mouth are free, Kneel, straddling the patient's thighs, your knees somewhat below his hip bones. Place your palms on the small of his back, fingers on his lbs, your little finger just:touching tha lowest rib, the tips of your fin. gors just out of sight. "Hold your arms stiff. Then swing forward slowly. Bring. weight of your body to bear gradually on pa- tient until your shoulder Is direct- ly over the 'heel of your hand at the swing, Time of this operation, 2 seconds. ~ . "Immediately swing backwards to remove completely the pressure. Wait 2 seconds. Then swing for- ward again. Repeat _ deliberately this double movement of compression and re- lease 12 to 156 times a minute. Above all, do not stop for hours and hours, if necessary. Do not "stop until hrédthing begins or until in. Once artificial respiration has heen_started--while it is going on --tight clothing should bo loosened about the neck, chest and waist, Keep the pdtient-warm, Do not give any liquid of any kind until the patient is conscious, A stimulant may then be given. But da_not_let Wim sit up. should at any time stop breathing. resume artificial, respiration at once. a i. Remember, abserce of lung heart 'action is not necessarily evi- dence of death. A. drowned person may not be dead. Start resuscita- tion and keep at it until life or death has. been proven beyond doubt. Maybe an hour's extra effort, will save a precious life. LIFE'S LIKE THAT "He thought if we got away from . help our fri By F red Neher | nr oust / 7 fous lop NJ =| . | ¢ 1 7 3) A AONE : & 3 FO ES ER oe 5 @ Z, "7" ( ! : Day RESTA a? <& : re) 3 2.9 | so Nene cach other for a while it would endship!". 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