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Where Men Steal . . . . Their Timid Brides 8trange Customs of Other ~. Lands Are Interesting To Al If you want to attract atten- tion, ride around in a car with some -white ribbon draped from the windscreen to the radiator cap. Everyone will think you're going to or from a wedding and crane their necks as you go by to-see if you're the bride, The interest in marriages is world wide -- only the most cyn- ical look the other way ---- but actually the subject of marriage is even more fascinating than _ the handsomest groom and, the © most beautiful bride: who "ever . walked up the aisle, and it is safe tg say that no other cere- mony ever had so many strange "customs attachee to it. The Hindu taboo, for instance, which forbids a younger brother from 'marrying until his elder brothers have done' so, . has brought about the custom of tree marriage. If a- junior member of the family wants to make him- eelf a husband, but has a bach- elor brother older than himself who lias no such desire, .the latter will obligingly get himself spliced with all_pomp and cere- mony to a trée. The letter of the law having thus been ful- er is free to go ahead. Eskimo Brides ! Amongst many Eskimo "tribes ® the marriage ceremony is the quintessence of simplicity. - The girl takes up a position in the sled of her ¢hosen husband -- and that's all there is to it. But conduct of the Eskimo girl is not 'all that it should be while she is single, once sife has decided to settle down to the life of an ig- loo wife she seldom, if ever, strays from the path of virtue, In Korea things are by no means so easy or pléasant for the bride. She is not even allowed to sce her "husband until two days atter the marriage. In order to insure against the possibility of her cheating, "her eyelids are gummed down on the wedding day and the day following. And what of this: a young man dashes into a tent, carries out the girl of his choice and rides him shouting and waving their weapons, ride the gitl's father and other relations of the quarry, and pursued and pursuct sit down and drink beer. That's all! By the performance of this little comedy-drama the happy pair are considered married. If the bride later wants to di- vorce her husband, all she has to do is to return to the house of her parents. The country where all this happens is Tibet, where a woman may marry three or four men at the same time if she wishes, India's Emissary REIN Sir Girfja Shankar Bajpai, new- p arrived agent-general from In- ia to the U.S, is that British possession's first envoy to this country. , Problem Of Leisure + Is Problem Of Life A plea to youth to make proper use of leisure time was expressed by Cecil L. Snyder, K.C., Deputy =~ Attorney-General of Ontario, to =. te graduating class of Eastern «High School of Commerce in To- remtlo at the annual commence- and t\. exercises, ; Betty, © problem of leisure, or "was fol use leisure, is the prob- ing a s human life, and there is Past. that an education .can do § dress Pad will bless it more for "° "% years than the opportune ,+ The chGiil give you of being your Stand.ompanion," he stated, ; The Snyder told the graduates Bhat the whole world was in front of them, and unless they had . gathered from their school an appreciation of the intangible i Nenuties of the. fine choices of "dite, their education. had not been * complete and. their graduation in the step it ought to be, although, by our standards, the. hell for leather for home, After filled, the amorous younger broth ~ Canada Builds New Airports Get ports New Operational -- Air- Dirclosure that Canada is cone structing airports in Labrador and along the northern British Columbia coast has been made in the House of Commons by Munitions Minigler C. D, Howe. i "Operational airports," said Mr, Howe, "now "are. under way in Newfoundland and Labrador, be- an boundary, and along the north- ern coast of T"writish Columbia, in arcas far from haman habi- eering problems." These new fields," when. com pleted, will provide valuable new links in the chain of air. defenses being' established by Ctnada and the United States. 2 It has been known for some time that 'construction of new bases Svas going ahead-rapidly in Newfoundland and in the North- west. - A chain of - seven airports is being made to Alaska, provid- ing a short-hop route by which Canadian and United States fighting planes could be rushed to the north These northern bases now are in use. "The Air Services Branch of the Department of Transport, which now operates under the dir- ection of the Minister of Muni- tions and Supply, had up to the end of September completed 108 new airports for the use of the RCAF and (British © Common- wealth) air training plan and had 81 additional airports under de- velopment, Mr, Howe said.- Included in the above are 18 airports now occupied by the RAF in connection with its train- ing project in Canada. Britain Launches First Concrete Ship It. is reported that Britain is building concrete merchant - ships similar to those built by the Un- ited States during. th¢ World War to meet the shipping short- age. - ' Designed by Sir Owen Wil- liams, the first vessel of 4,000 tons, with a carrying capacity of - 2,000 tons, has been. launched and soon will be ready for ser- vice," : The designer said he had to solve the problem of keeping the ship from cracking in heavy seas--a fault which characteriz- od concrete vessels during the, last war, - Saving Ontario's Natural Resources GC. C. Toner (Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters) No. 65 DEER ARE BROWSERS Last week I spoke of our deer "|: and this week I want to describe - something about them that the average hunter may not know. Game managers who have worked with the deer tell us that each of -{! these animals need so many acres ! of forested land if they are to |! thrive. I have forgotten the exact figures but our purpose will be served if we say that each deer needs twenty acres of Yous, e- member" deer are browsers, they feed on the growing tips and twigs | of the trees and other brushy {-plants; This is limited in amount and if a deer is confined he may | be able to eat the browse in his | pasture faster than it grows. | Thus we can sce that the num- ! ber of deer that can live and find food in any area is limited even {"when conditions are at their best, ! But, imagine conditions that oc- casionally occur in our woods, Deep snow piles up, the deer re- treat to the cedar swamps in num- bers and soon, if the snow con- ' tinues, they have eaten all avail. able food. Starvation is the re- sult, riot because the deer lack food- for nine- tenths of the-year but because-they lack food for a critical period of maybe a month in late February. So, the number of deer is lim. ited by- the numbér of cedar swamps and. their size, This is an important.=point to remember, 'Nearly every -animal has some critical period in its lifetime. And these periods are the limiting fac. tors that prevent the animals from overflowing the whole coun- tryside., In the case of the deer the critical time comes when the: hunter is not in the woods. He gees plenty of food in the fall but he forgets that before spring mdst of this will be covered in deep snow. Yet the deer must eat throughout the year, So, more deer we must have ore winter feeding grounds, ps BATH E Labrador and Far Northwest "tween Edmonton and the Alask- < tation, involving unusual -engin< if the need arose. - CANADIAN TANKMEN VISIT BIRMINGHAM & Ne The first Canadian Army Tank Brigade recently visited the city of Birmingham in England. turning out large Army tanks. Birmingham, whilst inspecting The tour included a visit to a plant In this photo the Lord Mayor of the Canadians, chats with Sgt. Major N. Kirkham of Red Deer, Alberta, THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events | Revision of U.S. Neutrality Act Assures Britain of Arms and Food The United States has passed through a period of. historic: de- cision. Last week Congress gave tinal approval to abolish practically all that remained of the Neutrality Act. The .arming of metrchantmen will now proceed rapidly; guns and trained crews are in readiness. These merchant ships carrying food and war supplies may now sail right into the ports of Great Britain, F ' These ships will no longer have: to stay oul of the combat zones which, under the terms of the 1939 Neutrality Act, prevented - Ameri- can ships from getting into the western approaches to the British Isles, says James B. Reston In the New York Times, . As a result, the British will not only have the advantage of a great number of our ships, but their own convoy system will be much more efficient, Until this weok, and since the President's shootonsight policy, American warships have been convoying Bri- tish merchantmen to the waters off the coast of Iceland, where Brl- tlsh warships have picked them up and protected them the rest of the way into the Western British - ports, This system has been inefficient because, in the first place, the con- voys went out of their way to go 'near the American base at Ice- land; -and- in the second place a great deal of time was .lost at Iceland, where it was difficult for the British and American ships to keep their rendezvous in wintry weather without the use of radio, which the presence of enciny sub- marines made dangerous. Allotment System Eased In the past each nation has used its own ships to the best ad- vantage, but in the future the mer- chant and naval shipping of these two great powers and Norway will be allotted in accordance with whatever is most efficient in car- 1ying out the war aims of the two countries, That more merchant vessels, protected by more warships, will be thrown. into the Battle of the Atlantic by both is obvious, That the addition of American power in the Atlantic will also enable the British to strengthen their position in the Mediterranean and the Pacific is also certain. The half-way convoy system was Jnefticignt because American ships were not permitted to go to Hall- fax, the Nova -Scotian - port from which most convoys started east- ward across the Atlantic. For months British ships had to travel 1,000 'miles out of their way to go to American ports to pick up the lease-lend materials, which can straight from United States ports to the dock-sides in Great Britain, Changes Shipping. Strategy The action of Congress in rovis- ing thre Neutrality Act will change the - Allied shipping strategy all over the world, ! The British now control 16,806,- 878 tons of shipping (ships over 2000 tons) and the United States, 6,794,000 tons. i The American destroyers may help in the Western approaches to Great Britain, more perhaps than in any other area in the world. It is no secret that the British pro- _ tection of convoys against both submarines and long-range bomb- - ers in this vital area has been less than adequate for some tiie, but these defensive cordons are likely - to -be - strengthened when the redistribution of the two navies is put into effect. The redistribution Is likely to ac- complish four things: (1) reduce the effectiveness of the U-boats in the Atlantic; (2) Increase deliver- eries of essential supplibs to Brit- ain and Russia, (3) strengthen the British position In the Mediterra- nean and the Pacific, and (4) free more warships to protect Allied convoys coming up-from Freetown, Africa, to Britain, The average little man in the "streets of London has never fully understood the extent of American material aid to Britain, He has read in the papers that it was ar; rlying, and he may even have seen one or two of our guns or destroyers. . But none of this has Impressed him as would the arrival of an American ship flying the Stars and Stripes or the actual sight or sound scarcely a town of any size in the whole British Island that is more than sixty miles from the sea: The presence of these American ships will be tangible evidence to a great many people of our avowed. inten- tion to help defeat the Germans. The ships won't convinge anybody that the war has been won, but now be shipped in American ships' of an American seaman, There 18 . they will convince a lot of doubting pedple that it can be won and will be won, National Unity _ The repeal of neutrality, says the New York Times, was just, consistent and wise: just because we shall now risk our own ships in waters where we except other nations, engaged in the same task, to risk theip ships; consistent be- cause otherwise the lease-lend pol icy would become-a-iockery; wise because it enables yp keep the war at a distance, It was an act of natjonal unity, and ought to be erstood as such, both within the country and outside, both among our friends and among those whom we can now without hypocrisy call our enemies, It was a fresh commit: mént to 'an undeviating purpose, and none the less so because of the circumstances which cut, 'the vote in the House of 'Representatives mum, ; Let no one, .and especially no one in Berlin, be misled by the size of the House vote against re- peal, Taken at {ts face'value, this vote might represent an impress. ively large Congressional sentiment 'In favor of the scuttle-and-run, appease-and-compromise, live-with- Hitler-and-like-it policies s0 vigor- Congress, But our enemies will make a mistake if they so interpret the 194 votes cast against repeal. A large though ber of those votes were cast, not against ropeal, but(against a Gov- ernment labor policy which appear. ed to encourage strikes in defense industries. Why, it was contended, endanger ships and crews to de- liver goods In war areas if there were no assurance that the goods would be produced? There are die-hards in American industry and politics who will fight to the last against collective bar- gaining, Their votes, direct and indirect, would not have bulked large in the House that' memor- able day. They were reinforced by the votes of men who know that labor unions are here to stay, who hope that time will give them a sense of responsibility. commem- surate with their strength, and who believe that the vast majority of their members wish them to be honestly, democratically and pa- triotically managed. These men, with the unquestioned backing of a large section of public opinion, demanded an assurance that hence- forth no private group of any kind should .be able to blackmail the pation in its hour of need. Behind our political, industrial and labor leadership stand the great, nameless mass of Awmeri- can men and women, We believe they have accepted the two great decisions of the past week: first, that we shall take our cargoes, under own own guns, wherever they are needed; second, that the goods that make the cargoes shall be produced without interruption. Gi'es A Braw Spiel Cams. Oot Wi His Plaidie, His Kilt, Stick and Sangs A stubby man with a thick body and an inextinguishable gleam in --ing into a Viclory V, moves to-tho front of the stage, and with a mix- ture of merriment, niischief- and serious purpose, rallies his listen- ers: } "We on this island of Britain are beleaguered. D'ye understand what that means? Beleaguered! No- body can leave without an escort of boats or flying machines, Think of that! "Are we going to stand for that? You bet we aren't. What are we to dig down into our jeans and hand over more money, that's what we're going to do. Might just as well do it now. If we don't, the money might not be any good to us later on. Now who's going to be the first to contribute?" Thus does Sir Harry Lauder, now 71, again serve his country in war (ime, rousing people to greater awareness of British needs, and once more entertaining. the troops with the songs and stories long identified, in many lands, with his name, ? . Ata time of life in which he had expected to enjoy absolute repose, a. J to a scemingly dengerous mini. ously advocated by a minority. in indeterminate num-, .uniformed woman' Owd Harry Lauder | his eyes, his doughty legs stiffen. '| going to do about it? We're going - 'Sir Hairy taxes is powers heavily in this cause, : When war broke out Sir Harry , forsook the tranquility of his new home, Lauder Ha, to béguile the soldiers and help raise funds, He has been ow the go ever since. Im recent months he has given as many as four concerts a week, besides other personal appearance es, -. It 18 clear, as one watches the re- sponse ta his showmanship, that there still is magic in the name of Harry Lauder, Lauder" Ha Latder Ha, thé "hall" or "big house" into which Sir Harry moved nearly five years ago, is the realiz- ation of the home he started -to build in his dreams 25° years ago. Today'it is a laudmark. Few per- sons visit the region without hear- fog of the handsome stone house with its spacious rooms, tasteful furnishings, pergonal museum, painting and statutary, musical at- mosphere, and conveniences of the owner's' inventiveness, 2 From thé tiniest gadget designed to avoid needles exertion, to the selection of a site, 700 feet above sea level, ennobled by proud and historic vistas, Lauder Ha is; in Sir Harry's words, "the way 1 think a house should be." Strolling amid the natural and man-created beauties of Lauder Ha and its surroundings, Sir Harry asserted: "You'll get something it you work for it. If you don't work, you'll get nothing, nothing at least that really matters. The ~ person who expects something for noth- ing is a poor citizen." They Hustle Junk For U. S, Defense All a New York housewife needs to 'do is pick up her tele- phone, ask information for the wastepaper consumer conservation committee, call, and as like as not next thing she knows there will be a handsomely with ~ social connections at the door, driving a broken down junk waggon. If the woman happens to be M. Alletta Crump she won't say, "Good morning." After she's said "whoa to her horse, she'll pick up a megaphone and shout: "Anti waste, anti waste Learn to save Better make haste," ) That's what Miss Crump said to Mrs: Herbert H. Lehman, wife of the Governor of New York, recently - when dozen other women and a horse and a cart went to the Lehman's Park Avenue 'apartment to pick up about 76 cents worth of paper (average price is 40 cents a hun-' dredweight). bad Mrs, Lehman, hoisting the big bundle of paper: herself while the doorman stood by waving his hands in a dither, grunted, "Uh-- 1 hope this is enough." . Mrs, Lehman donated her paper to the American Women's Volun- tary Services, whose members are volunteer collectors for the waste paper committee. industries she and a bhalf-_ "The Book Shelf "BIRDS OF AMERICA" By John James Audubon Audubon was the greatest pains ter of Birds the, world has ever known, He spent his lifetime studying them in their native haunts, He was a great artist and a master-colorist, and in his draw- ings even a tyro will realize that he is looking at a reproduction of life. A hundred years: ago Audubon , made four hundred and thirty-five drawings of the birds bf America. He then colored some two hundred sets by hand, which were published in London at a cost of a thousand dollars each. is That was a century ago. Foic years 'ago through the marvel of - modern 'Lithography the Macmil® lan Company of Canada, published a perfect reproduction' of this art. ist's life's work for $15.00, Now Messrs, Macmillan offer the fdentical book, which was 8old for $16.00 four years ago for the. still more amazingly small sum of $5.95, this having been made possible by the development of the four-color lithographic process which enabled the plates to be printed at a. single run instead of having to be run twice through a two-color press, The quality .of these reproductions! of Audubon's color-drawings is {dentical with that of the 1937 edi tion, This new edition also con: tains the text attaching to the pre- vious one by William Vogt, admit. tedly the greatest living authority on birds, who wrote it specially for the first reproduced set. The paintings which it offers represent 16 years of travel and exploration along America's] fron- tiers of a century and more ago by the great naturalist, who prided himself on having taken ornithol ogy out of the museum's glass showcases (he refused to paint stuffed birds) and - with having made it living and dynamic. His paintings also "have an historical value, immortalizing as they do some species now extinct, such as the Carolina parrakeet, which used * to range north as far as Lake On- tario.-- - : > Bird lovers, art connoisseurs and fanciers of fine printing all will cherish this volume. i . "BIRDS OF AMERICA" . . Published by The Macmillan Co. of Canada . .. PFice $5.95. The committee reports it .gets about 2,700 ealls a day om . wastepaper-rich citizens in Man- hattan, and twice as many calls from Brooklynites. - Similar committees operate in 84 United States cities east of: the Rockies. It's for defence. Parents of a New York baby lave. a shortwave radio hooked up to the infant's crib, and when they go out for the evening they carry a receiving set which picks, up any of its cries. No doubt a "pleasant time would be had by alll - '/ LIFE'S LIKE THAT 1, tl IE Nit it) & By Fred Neher pe "All the men with the black jerseys are your friends--all those with the white are your enemies--get that straight!!! emer OH, MISTER x NOODLENADDLE! APPLESAUCE" IM BUSY JI APPLESAUCE' IS IN THAT' ROW OF PEAS YOU'VE _ BEEN STACKIN' up THE (k. LAS' TEN MINITS / Hd ol Ty LS J; ALY 4 7 Al