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vo. three nations... «Pipeline To Supply Oil For Refineries Bullt From Portland, Maine, to Montreal, to Release Tan- kers for Britain A pipeline across the border, stretching 237 miles across the in. tervening country between Port. land, Maine, and Montreal, will be put into full operation soon to sup- ply oil to the refingries in Mont. veal and theréby overcome the lack of delivery by oil tankers. through the freeze-yp-.of the St. Lawrence River: AE The newly-installed pipeline was .only completed about pwp weeks. ago, and 1s at present in "opera: tion from Portland, the oll creep- 'tng through at the rate of 3.47 miles an hour, or 83.28 miles a day. When the oil line is in full operation it will supply at least 50,000 barrels of oil per day to the refineries at Montreal, Basically, the pipeline has been built for two reasons, first, to re lease tankers for Britain, and, sec and, to insure requirements of the Navy, Afr Force, Army, and war Industry, Much Time Saved A large portion of the crude ofl eoming into Canada originates in Colombia and Venezuela, Some comes from Texas, and the haul to Portland, or to Montreal is pretty much the same by sea from any of these points. The! distance to be -covered from any of these points into Casco Bay, which forms the harbor at Portland, Maine, can be broadly estimated at 2,000 nauti- cal miles. It is a nine-day haul for a tan- ker, or an 18-day turnaround, but when the tanker continues on past Portland swinging around Nova Scotia and up the Gulf of St. Lawrence into the river and up to - Montreal, another 2,000 miles must be added, and the average turn- around for that trip is a matter: of 30 days. With the construction of tho pipe line, it Is estimated that 12 days' steaming for each loaded tanker 43 saved by the operation of the pipeline, which means that by the time the ship would have reached its berth at Montreal East and started discharging its oil, it is now going to be better than half- way back lo its reloading point. MOUSE IS A MAN 1 Lucky, fortunate the fortitudinous Petersburg, Fla. Al explains that Lady likes Lucky because he's a _ field mouse, not the ordinary city-dwelling house pest. " 10-Month Voyage From Lithuania In search of a home, free from | the threat of invasion, eight travel-weary Lithuanian refugees --one of them a two-year-old girl Lpassed through Edmonton re- //eently on the last lap of a 10- month voyage that has taken them half way round the world en route to Montreal. They left their home in Kaunas, Lithuania, January 28, following the Russian annexation of their eountry, - Since then they have been in seven countries, have spent three months hopping .from port to port in the Pacific, and have traveled on the vessels of They lande in Vs over set out for Montreal where they will make their new home. Included in the group were Mr. item: Al and' mouse, makes friends with Lady, usually fierce mouser belonging to Al Furen of St. Vancouver : ~ Monday and after a brief stop-' VOICE OF THE PRESS FRENCH HIT BOTTOM The shades of Marshal Foch, Lafayette, Zola and even Louis * Napoleon must be shrouded in even blacker garb today. The heroes who rushed in taxicabs to' save Paris at the first Battle of the Marne -must feel their pride was "Somewhere in Poland is a camp over which flew the German flag, the swastika, and the French ti olor, French: volunteers, clad in German uniforms, took the oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler as supreme head of the German arm- ies and made ready to join the - Germans on the fighting front, The French commander of the vol- unteers said theik, force was a symbol of the unity of Europe." "Seems to be a new low -in de- gradation even for the Vichy French. -- Guelph Mercury. : SiGe RIDES FOR SOLDIER BOYS "When driving along our high- ways "give our soldier boys a ride," says an Ontario Govern- ment advertisement, which also informs the people that 1942 motor vehicle permits and driv- ers' licenses go on sale on De- cember 1, When the "boys have 48 hours leave, they can travel long dis- tances without paying railroad fare, if people pick them up on the ° roads. The soldiers are grateful for every ride and it also makes them feel the people appreciate what the troops are doing for Can- ada, --Windsor Daily Star. --lfee HISTORIG MESSAGES "The eyes of all nations are upon you. All our hearts are with you. May God uphold the right." Winston Churchill's message -to the Army of the Western Desert ought to go down in history as the equal to two other famous messages by great commanders to 'their troops. Napoleon's, Egypt: 3 "Soldiers. Forty centuries are looking down on you." " King Henry's, before Harfleur: "Cry 'God for Harry, England to his army in and Saint George." = --Toronto Telegram ee NAZI HONOR One of the Nazi prisoners of war permitted recently to march through Bowmanille with a small police escort--because they had given their word they would not try to escape--Ilater escaped from his internment quarters. Ddes anyone suppose naively that a niere word of honor would have stopped this fellow if the oppor- tunity had presented itself in that strect parade? ) --Ottawa Journal, ---- CABINETS COMPARED There is something for Cana- dians to think about in the con- tention of M. Grattan O'Leary, the experienced Ottawa Conserva- tive observer who has recently been in Britain, that the cabinet ministers he met there were cer- tainly not greater men than Messrs. Ralston, Howe, Power, Lapointe, Macdonald or Crerar and perhaps not their equals. When there is so much belittle- ment of Canadian cabinet minis- ters, this is indeed most encour- aging. --Brockville Recorder and Times. me eis MOVE OVER The three R's deserve an im- . portant place in the schools, but it would seem like a good idea to have them move over a bit to make more room for the three C's --citizenship, courtesy and char- acter. / --XKitchener Record. : el Ze MIXING METAPHORS A good example of mixing metaphors up, by The New York Sun: If Hitler thinks he can beard the Brifish lion by making a mouse out of the American Eagle, he is skating on thin ice. ] --St. Catharines Standard. ---- NOT EVEN WAR IN PEACE Russian women are fighting alongside their husbands in this war; which leads a parageapher to'say that in these days a man can't have even a war in peace. ~--Chatham News,- in vain.» Read this news, THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Japan Makes Impossible Demands 'U. S. and Allies Prepare Defenses Ten years ago the Uhited States protested Japanese aggression In Manchuria and ever since that time the Japanese have been en- gaged in driving tho United States out of China, By slowly closing the "open door," the traditional basis of American policy in the Far East, Western economic in terests in China were threatened, The United States has sought many filmes to avoid trouble In the Pacific. United States Government urged Japan to consider the agreement by which the United States was bound not to extend fortifications in the Western Pacific in return for the maintenance of an agreed. upon naval ratio. Japan rejected that proposal, © : Again, four years ago, when the present war between Japan and China started, friendly efforts on the part of the United States to help in effecting a settlement were rejected. "Incidents" involving Western economic interests grew more numerous hut diplomatic protest and small avail. The Rift Widens On the part of the United States, says the New York Times, more vigorors steps began to he taken, starting, in July, 1939, with the announcement that an existing trade treaty with Japan would be allowed to lapse. - Greatér 'aid be- gan to be given by the United States to the embattled Chinese, Japan continued on her course, and her statesmen spoke in loud tones of the "greater East Asia" they were seeking, an East Asia dom- inated by Japan politically, ex- ploited by Japan economically. What might have been only a Pacific dispute was widened to world dimensions a, year ago last Five years ago the' pressure proved of | September when Japan signed in Berlin the Axis Tripartite Pact that seemed to make the empire of the Rising Sun a partner in the Hitler schewe for carving up the earth for the benefit of "have- not" nations. That fact has over: hung ever since every action of Japan. Always there has. beén the possibility that Japan might par. ticipate in a Hitler squeeze-play, might strike jn Fast Agla as a means of involving thé United States In the Pacific' area and lessening American ald to the: Bri tish "and thelr gllies across thé Atlantic. . a Prizes of Conquest : Tnere were, moreovgr, prizes in the Orient that the' Nazis could dangle before the Japanese, The Netherlands Indies, rich in the raw materials for which industrial nations thirst, loomed to the south. Closer at hand was Indo- China, virtually defenseless -after the collapse of France, and into Indo-China the Japanese did move, winning last August French agree- ment to control of the colony that had been building painfully ,since" the days of Napoleon III. For almost every action there has been a counter-action. Japan- ese control of Indo-China -brought American . and British economic sanctions against . their empire. That was a blow felt in Tokyo, for. it shut off Japan from sources of badly needed oil, tin, rubber, fron and copper. It raised for Japan - the spectre of encirclement, econ- omic, perhaps military. Defense Preparations The military aspect ~ assumed steadily graver importance, for the British were openly strengthening Singapore. - The new 35,000 ton Prince of Wales steamed into this naval base last week at the head CAPABLE SCOT GIVEN HEAVY WARTIME JOB DONALD GORDON ) A six foot Highlander with a powerful personality and a knack of getting things done in the bewildering world of finance has just been appointed to the heavy responsibility of guiding his country through an economic sea completely unmarked on the charts of demo- eracy. dG name is Donald Gordon, and at the age of 40 he has been called from his job as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada to the chairmanship of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. It will be his task to put a ceiling over prices, to stop the spiral of disastrous in. flation. Horatio Alger would have liked the rise to his present position of vital importance. 'story of Donald Gordon's He arrived here, a' enniless Scottish immigrant, at the age of 13. At 15 he-started out n the field of finance as a ¢lerk in the Bank of Nova Scotia. At 19 he was a bank inspector, the youngest in Canada. At 29 he was assistant manager of the and at 34 was first secretary of the Bank of Canada. the Bank of Canada's Deputy Governor. Bank of Canada's main office in Toronto At 37 he was Now, at 40, he faces a job that will require every ounce of training and financial ability he has acquired in the steep climb from 'immigrant boy to bank governor. He brings as a blessin and sense of fair play of the to his new job the traditional solidness Scot. He is a realist in a job where wild theories and a tendency to dabble with haphazard experiments might be disastrous. He makes no effort to gloss over the grief involved in the thing he is attempting. He believes it is unavoidable as the grief Canada's fighting-men must bear in serving their country on the sea, the land and in the air. But he is also convinced that it is a means of headin off a worse grief and to this end he has turned the energies which have already made him an outstanding figure on Canada's economic scene. Summed up, Donald Gordon is proof that democracy can summon to its service the highest in brains and devotion; and proof also that fanaticism and cloistered bureaucracy are not necessary in a country which still believes in freedom and the potency of free enterprise. Perhaps it is not without significance that this huge Highlander is first and last a human being, full of sympath and understanding} one who can take his hair down among friends of an evening an 'sing and play Scotland's songs on an old accordeon -- one who under- - stands Chesterton's phrase about "Jaughter's gigantic inspiration." . foredoomed to failure, IT ALL DEPENDS If we each and all of us think this, snd each and'all of us do our utmost, our very utmost, on whatever work we are on, and do It with determination and cheerfulness, then WE SHALL WIN "THIS WAR: < > "ota flofilla of advance units of the Royal Navy's Jastern fleet, Indies were girding against pos- sible attack, alded like the British and the Chinese by the increasing flow of American-made warplanes, newly created - munitions and othef material. The | United States was also making stronger its position in the Philip- pines. Giant bombers were report- ed to have been flown there, bomb- ers able to take off, bomb Japan- eso cities, fly on to Vladivostok, refuel and fly back to repeat the bombing "process, The United States marines were ordered out of China, sa as to leave no hos- tages, If war comes. Great Britain has augmented her garrison at. Hong Kong and has mined the ap- proaches to Malaya and Burma, Conflicting Views The American attitude could be summed up apparently as follows: (1) Japan must expand no farther south; (2) she must cease active co-operation with Germany; (3) she must not seek to acquire and maintain any special position in China. Japan, on the other hand, ap- peared to be Insisting: (1) Ameri: can economic sanctions must be lifted; (2) Japan has a special position in East Asia and must be expected to expand farther to the south, possibly into Thailand, pos- sibly into the Netherlands Indles; (3) Japanese hegemony in China must, be accepted in fact China Will Get Help - There -have been recent indica. tions that Washington is prepared to be generous in the lifting of sanctions if Toyyo dissolves fits partnership with Hitler and Mus- solini_and abandons "its policy of aggresslon.- On one f{ssue the United States and Great Britain remain flrm. They will not aban- don China to the tender mercies of a ruthless invader. by withhold: ing further aid to that country which has given them {invaluable ald by holding Japan at bay while the Allles strengthened their posi tion in the Pacific. The United States cannot end its military and economic ald to China because America is now fighting against the world-wide pattern of aggres- slon which endangers the United States itself. Japanese Advantages As against the Allles' prepara tion for defense the Japanese have certain advantages. They are seasoned in war and the United States Is not. They are in desper- ate need of the loot of expansion; thelr dominant war party is sworn to yield no "face" in the Far East and a Far Eastern war would be fought in the home and neighbor- Ang areas of Japan. The Japanese Navy is rated very high, the army only fair and the air services only poor to fair, owing chiefly to in- ferior equipment. h It is reported that German agents are trying to work upon the morale of the Chinese Government in Chungking with promises of a rea- sonable settlement of China's war with Japan, but it is reasonable to belfeve that such a move is Japan On Wrong Road Japan rides the dangerovs road of conquest, ruthlessness and faith. lessness as a nation. It is a path. way which has destroyed countless other ambitious powers. Japan has trled to put Hitler's tactics Into, practice In the Pacific. Its troops have killed, burned and pillaged. Unless the practices of the sword are put aslde Japan, which might have been a threo for progressive: 'ness in the Far East, will make the fatal error of trying American » ~and British p{\ence too far. The Dutch ia their = Banker Emphasizes . Maintenance Huntly Drummond Says Bank Obligations Which of Democracy is: Demanding is Working Half a Year For Governments Through Taxation--Urges Removal of Gov emment Controls After War "With All Possible Speed" Jackson Dodds, Presenting General Managers' Report, Shows' Bank's Assets Over Billion Mark--Warns Against Specious Monetary Reforms in Solution of Post-War Problems "Democracy gives us great privileges, but every privilege has its corresponding duty; to keep the sacrifice everything privileges we must be prépared to except ultimate freedom itself,' declared Huntly « R. Drummond recgptly .before Bank of Montreal shareholders in his residential address, in which he mmensity of the task facing Pointing out that the war is costing Canada some two hundred -million dollars a month, Mr, Drummond dwelt at length on 'the ways and means by which the money was being raised. In discussing the' tax situation, the president gave graphic illus- tration of its tremendous propor- tions" when he said, "Your bgnk pays in ALL taxes as much as it does in dividends. In other words, for the first six months of the year we work for Governments, the last six for ourselves." Government Controls While recognizing the need for Government controls and regula- tions in time of war, the president emphasized the vital importance of removing these restrictions after the war with all possible speed. : "Nothing", he said, "can stifle individual effort more effectively than excessive regulation and high taxation, and no one can under- take new ventures unless permit- ted to retain thé profit which arises from successful effort." General Managers' Report Shows Assets Over Billion Mark Jackson Dodds, O.B.E., report- ing on behalf of himself and his fellow general manager, G. W. Spinney, presented a financial statement which revealed opera- tions of the bank at the highest levels in its long history, reflect- ing the record activity of industry and commerce arising from the war. # Profits for the year, after the deduction of Dominion Govern- ment taxes of $2,243,000 were reported at $3,437,000 as com- pared with. $3,436,000 in 1940, Total assets amounted to $1,- 046,000,000 compared with $961,- 300,000 a year ago. Commercial loans in Canada were reported at $253,600,000, an increase of $36, 000,000. Liquid assets at $706,- emphasized "in plain language th Canada and the Empire in' bringing the present struggle Yo.a successful conclusion, « : Law 000,000 were equal'to 72,78 per BX 'cent. of public liabilities, ~~ Government and public deposits - both showed substantial increases during the year; the former at $76,200,000 ~ rose $19,000,000, while the latter had increased by $64,000,000 and stood at $814,- 100,000. . Warns Against Specious Monetary Reforms in Solution of Post-War * Problems Commenting on the operations of the bank since the outbreak of wat, Mr. Dodds' told shareholders that the most conspicuous feature was the provision of additional credit. While recognizing the Impor- tance of making credit available, those administering the affairs of the bank were, he said, bound to attach even greater importance to more fundamental banking funec- tions. "It is our business, first of all, always to make sure that we keep faith with our note-holders and depositors," said Mr, Dodds. "The plain fact is that our very ability ~ to provide credit rests directly upon the knowledge of every one of our depositors that a deposit in this bank is as good as cash in his pocket." 1:4 The general manager said it was well to recall such elementary facts at this'time, when the banks are faced with unusually heavy responsibilities, and when there ~~ are already signs that the more specious brands of so-called mone- tary reform are being relabelled with a view to the time when they will be advertised as remedies for Canada's post-war problenis. "It will be clear from what has been said," he observed, 'that peonle who formulate theories concern- ing the use of bank credit but who ignore the underlying fact that banks have to pay cash to their deposifors when they ask for it, are simply bhilding castles in the air upon non-existent founda-. tions." g Saving Ontario's Natural Resources .-&G. C, Toner (Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters" : No. 67 : > DEER IN ARIZONA In northern Arizona there is an area, more or less isolated by mountains and rivers, known as the Kaibab Plateau. In Indian days it was famous as a hunting ground and until a few years ago it supported great numbers of deer. - It also was the range of a number of cattle ranches and ' much domestic stock roamed over it. The cattlemen were bothered by mountain lions, wolves and bears killing, off their stock so they started a campaign, aided by the Government, to eliminate "these predatory animals. The control of the predators was very successful, It was re- ported shortly after the end 'of the campaign that only one or two mountain: lions were left on the whole plateau. For a time the cattle were left alone and the deer herd increased. This in- crease did not stop within a rea- - sonable period, it went right on even when the deer. became so abundant, despite hunting, that the plant food became insuffici- ent. . Deer browse, and as they increased they browsed on the bark and even the wood of all the trees. Finally starvation hit the herd and dead deer were found everywhere, they had eaten them- selves out of the country. The cattlmen found that killing the predators was a_costly. method of control. Formerly they had -lost 'a few cattle annually, now they lost them all in a bunch. Of Jate" years, thé vegetation has ed somewhat and I am told the _ cattlemen have learned their les- son, Lions, bears and wolves are actually protected so that the deer herd will have enough enemies to prevent too great a pqpulation, ; The Book Shelf MUNICH PLAYGROUND by - Ernest R. Pope . Much has been written, partic- ularly by war correspondents, of Germany's political - life, of Nazi- ism's domestic and foreign policy and of the machinery of war. Mr. Pope, however, chooses to deal in - great detail with the lelsure hours of the New Order leaders in Mun- ich, a gay and carefree city In contrast to the grim war-dominat.- ed city of Berlin. © It-1s not a pretty picture, though a revealing one. It tears to pieces the myth of Hitler's asceticism and lays bare the pagan sordiness of his followers. Mr. Pope, though meandering much along the byways of QGer- many's social life, travels exlens- ively the broad highway of pol- itical intrigue. As a keen and competent observer he deald with many political matters and pars ticvlarly with Bayaria's war re- lationship. with Nazi Germany. Munich Playground . . . Thomas Allen, Toronto . . . Price $3.50. Trumpeter Swans Trumpeter swans, in Yellow- stone Park, were threatened with the same fate 'as the passenger pigeon and the dodo, are making a comeback. A census of the magnificent: water-fowl showed 208, compared with 190 in 1940. An old law unearthed in Lon- don' permits the shooting of rab: come back, the deer have increas- bits on Sunday, but not of hares. By GENE BYRNES REG'LAR FELLERS--Not Much! EE rs emaree Ee -------- , ws > " WELL THEN, GIVE LIKE FUN 1 wiLL' "and Mrs. I. Chazenas and their YOU DONT KNOW HALF HOW MUCH | UKE ---- SP __children, Paulina," 11, and Eliza, "HITLER CLASSIFIED : YOU, AGGIE! IF | HAD THE MONEY ID BUY ME YOUR SKATE 'IT'S THE ONEY ONE [4 two; Mr. and Mrs. H. Chazenas, An U.S. ambassador says Hitler \{ YOU TEN YACHTS --THREE HUNERD AUTOMOBILES hE) EY 'CAUSE a | HAVE ' ; A. Anselvicius, The men former- | 1o5ks 'as if he had a malignant TEN THOUSAN' BOXES OF CANDY --A MILLION CARE FOR I LOST MINE ' ! Jy "were manufacturers of flax "and flour, and also owned a brew- ery. .In 1040 the plants were 'taken over by the Russian Gov. ernment. ' Faced with applying for Jobs in what were once their own ef, the three men deter- to take their families and o Canada. 3 % 3 + a small "V" emblem tton hole, Mr. Ansel- id he plans to start a 'near Montreal and if the ate is suitable he will try to disease, My dear sir, He is one, ] ---DBrandon Sun, Sailor. Fish The great sailor fish (Histiop- horus) of the Indian Ocean and 'Mediterranean is a sword fish 256 or 80. feet long with an enormous dorsal fin often '10 feet high, This juts up erect out of the . water, and is used as a sail when. the fish is attacking or merely r travelling quickly in the sea. ee ri . . DOLLARS' WORTHA DOLLS --TWENTY MILLION ° DOLLARS' WORTHA FLOWERS--A HUNERD - .. MILLION FOR YOUR 'MOTHER AN'FIVE HUNERD SKILLION BILLION 'FOR YOURSELF! HONES' .. AN' TRULY | WOULD! ME THAT MUCH?