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FLT, Pa 1 0) 3 4 * df on A -- ~ elaim mastéry over his less fort- "js the same philosophy that ex- old toothpaste tubes have cone "Into the , + William Knightley, "and also save ~ the kind of tinfoil that comes on _ cheese and yeast cakes, on cos- x cs and medicated ointments. 1941 May Be Last - Good Old Christmas Christmas, 1941, may well be remembered as the last festival of "the good old days," a review by the Munitions and Supply De: partment indicates. . "In a summary of Japanese war effects on Canada, the Depart ment said bluntly: "By next. Christmas there will be no more ice "skates or roller skates, tricycles, -joyeycles, and many 'electrical appliances, "And as time goes on it will become hardé- and lgrder to buy metal beds and metal furniture 'for- the home and the office. « Brass doorbells, knockers. and many other brass articles will be obtainable only from gecond-hand shops, and electrical refrigera- tors, sewing machines, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, toast- ers, grills, and scores of other ap- pliances will become very scarce." As against its forecast of res- trictions in goods Canadians may buy, the Department gave the as- surance, that, for the present, there is enough tin to keep on . canning peas, tomatoes, corn, sal- + mon and other foodstuffs regard-« ed as essential, and enough rub- ber to keep Canadians properly shod on rainy and slushy days. But, said the Department; col- ored rubbers will disappear from' the market. AT DUTCH HELM The man who has- been sue- cessfully directing Dutch East Indies subs and phinés against Japanese aggressors is Vice Ad- miral EE. Helfrich, commander of the Netherlands East Indies sea and air forces, Hitler's Philosophy Denies Brotherhood Wilbur Laroe, -Jr.,, member of the District of Columbia Bd. of Indeterminate Sentence and Pa- role, writing in the Yearbook of the National' Probation Associa- tion, denounces Adolf Hitler for the latter's assault upon the dig- nity of human personality. "Hitler's 'cardinal sin,"'; writes Mr, LaRoe, "is not" the wifking of war or the conquest of nations; his crime is the denial of human worth -- the brazen assumption that one man is naturally super- for to another, that one type of blood entitles its possessor to unate fellows. "Hitler's outstanding erime against society 'is the denial of | human brotherhood. It is this | heathen philosophy that explains why, in the nations under the, domination of this international felon, man is a mere cog in a great super-state machine; and-it- plains race persecution on a scale hitherto unknown in the history "of the world. "Men, women and children by | the millions are 'suffering the ut- most cruelty, not so much because of war--for nien can stand the physical hardships of war--as be- cause of a false philosophy which denied to men an honorable place among their fellow mien» Tinfeil and Tubes Required For War Those tortured looking things-- | ° air own, They are wanted | for the war effort. No longer will thay ignominiously end their days on the city dump but.instead will be rejuvenated in Canada's munition factories. "Save tubes of all kinds," says the National Directortof Salvage, wants it all." : As 76 per cent of the world's put of tin comes from Malay, 'its shipment {s threatened by: Yar in the. Pacific, every bit of Ainfoll ¥ust be saved to meet war sdording to the Salvage Direc: pr, the difficulty. of reclaiming small. amount of tin used -in lled tin cans, as well as frans-' makes it Im- By R. C. Vaughan, During the year 1941 the man 'agement of the Canadian Nationa objective the continual iniprove --ment of 'railway services to mee Canada's whole productive egon time basis, traffic which. became transported by the system, in the - essential thoroughly established, To meet the increase- of traffic handled by the National Railways, which since the outbreak of war has risen. ninety-five percent, has called for careful planning to make the best. use of railway equipment and facilities, It has been necessary to improve and expand railway facilities in a number of 'districts, = It Has 'also been necessary to obtain addi- - tional equipment and this expuan- -| -sion has required special efforts on the part of all throughout the system. War Effort First employees _management in all cases to place the interests of the war effort first and to maintain the capacity of the railway to meet these es- sential demands, War transport- "|" ation needs consist not only in the movement of hundreds of thous- * vast quantities of munitions and supplies, but also in the carriage of raw material and of semi-fin- ished products which are moved in all parts of the country, This war traffic had of necessity to be added to the volume of normal business traffic. The measures which have been taken to 'enable the Canadian National Railways to deal with this constantly in- has been moved to destination ex- peditiously and the quality of tained. , ; Financial Results The effect of the increased vol- ume of traffic is reflected in the financial results of the system, While the audited revenue and operating expense figures for the month of December are not. yet available, estimated results for that month added to the known figures for the first eleven months of the year indicate that 1941 operating revenues will total $308,000,000. The net revenue for 1941, estimated at $66,000,-_ 000, after meeting all expenses including equipment depreciation -will be the largest in the system's history. Taxes and fixed charges including interest amount to $62,- 000,000 for 1941, therefore, it is expected that operating revenues will yield" a surplus over and above all operating expenses, taxes and interest. We are, how- ever, facing in 1942 many mil. lions of uncontrollable increased expenditure for wages and mater- ials," and there-has bee no cor- -responding increase in_the price passengers and goods. The capital improvements made during the year nearly all arose fromthe necessity of improving facilities on various lines of the railway 'which have now become strategic routes for the handling, of actual and prospective war traffic. This work-- consisted. of improving yards, terminals, shops, enginchouses, the construction of additional passing tracks and sid- ings and thé installation of sig- nals, ' Undelivered Orders Orders had - been placed for various - types of equipment, in- cluding locomotives- and freight -cars,but__conditions imposed by. war priorities presented difficul- ties for the builders who thus were unable to complete these or- ders. However, during the year we_received 10 locomotives and 1,136 cars. There are on order sundelivered 70 -locomotives and . 8,830 cars, ! , In addition to furnithing trans- portation service, the railway has assisted in Canada's war effort by making available to the Govern. ment the services of special de- partments of the railway, and by furnishing trained personnel to special Government branches. i The management is proud to report that nearly 4,000 employ- 68 have been granted leave of absence to enlist for active ser- vice in thé navy, the army and the air, forée, ! Pr duet! of Muniti It is also a matter ot e to salvage them at pre: state that the Canadian National Canadian National Has Record Year President, Can. Nat, Railways Railways has had as its primary the needs of the ever ingroasing industrial output whigh /has re- sulted from the turning over of omy from a peacetime to a .var- The 'upward . trend of railway manifest immediately upon the outbreak of ° war has continued and resulted in 1941 in a physical volume of traf. fic higher: than any previously Al. ready in this war period demands made upon railway transpoptation in Canada have exceeded those of the last war by sixty percent, The dominant role which railways play transportation needs of this country has been It has been the policy of the" ands of military personnel and of _ creasing volume of traffic have ""béen- effcctiver Traffic offered service has been constantly 'main- - of our services for transporting | 1 t The lu even better FRENCH SEA QUEEN CHANGES HER NAME gry liner Normandie is losing her good \name for an ne, Workmen remove lettering from sity vessel taken over by the U. S. Navy and renamed Lafayette. of French Railways has directly participated jn the mobilization of Canadian industry for war purposes. We have constructed, under a finan- cial arrangement with the Gov- ernment, a building measuring b11 feet by 516 feet with an area of over 263,600 square feet for the National Railways Munitions Limited and this plant has been In operation for some time. that plant and elsewhere in car and locomotive shops part of the company's working force, num- bering more than a thousand men, has been actively engaged in the manufacture of several types of munitions, including gun car- 'riages, naval guns and gun mount- ings. At its drydock and ship- building yard the company has beén and is yet constructing mine sweepers and these same facili- ties are also being used in build- ing large cargo vessels for War- time Merchant Shipping Limited. Steamship Companies form a part of the Canadian Na- tional organization have also played their part in 'the Battle of the Atlantic and elsewhere. " An additional wartime responsibility gladly accepted by the company was the management of the Can- 'adian Government Merchant Mar- ine which had been re-established and is operating. Danish, French, Finnish, German and Italian ves- sels seized by the Canadian Gov- ernment, Canadian National Steamships: craft have been trad- ing in distant waters aswell as to ports closer to Canadian shores, so that in addition to our em- ployees who have enlisted in the fighting forces, a large number of our men are actively engaged in war work, Labor Relations labour relations during the year was the stabilization of wages and salaries in accordance . with the Order-in-Council issued by the "Government. The majority of the organized labour groups repre: sented on the 'Canadian National Railways entered into agreements stabilizing wages at the pre-war basis with provision for a cost of living bonus adjusted to the index of the cost of living, Subsequent- ly the voluntary basis agreed to in the "transportation industry be- cane a compulsory one applicable, generall dian 'industry -It is noteworthy eered this development, which is one of the essential elements in a plan for preventing the evil ef- feots of inflation, Other Services Of 'other services operated by the Company the group of hotels records a satisfactory year, These hotels well serve the communities in which they are situated; All - of them have been busy; indeed, at times, some of .the hotels have beén hard pressed to furnish ac- ~~commodation- for the number of guests offering, This "would in- dicate that the hotels have been properly established" to provide service for the travelling public. = _The Canadian National Tele- _ graphs have had an exceptionally At "The steamship companies which A feature. of the company's - 'speaking, to all Cana- . that "tie" railway industry . pion-__ busy year, handling an appreci- able increase in the number of messages despatched, especially for industrial .and° commercial purposes, The Telegraphs. pro- vide an essential service of com- munications within Canada and through their connections provide important and extensive services in the United States and overseas, Largest in North America . During 1941 the Canadian Na- tional Railways niaintained 28, 560 road miles, operating between the two oceans practically two transcontinental lines. The com- pany serves all provinces of the Dominion, some of the neighbor- ing states, and, so far as mileage is concerned, forms the largest railway on the- North American continent and in 'the. British Em- pire. The staff of employees now approaches 100,000 in number, Sales Of Wine Dip 5 Per Cent Profits - Will Be Down "Due to Heavier. Costs Constructive progress was made in 1941 by the Ontario wine in- dustry, according to E. A. Thomas, president of the Wine Producers' Association, J "Formation of the "Wine Pro- ducers' Association," he states, "to which all companies licensed to make wine in Ontario belong, was a forward step for the twen- ty-three wineries in operation throughout the year. A number of the wineries made important improvements in plant and equip- ment, About four million gallons of wine was processed. \ There was a falling off in sales during 1941 due entirely to the increase in price necessitated by increased taxation, which amount- ed to 27 cents per gallon. The total tonnage of wines sold was less by approximately 6 per cent. The profits, before income tax was deducted, were generally maintained at close to the 1940 levels. The net income will, of course, be lower due to increased taxation. " i The "increased cost of the in- ventories added during 1941, re- sulting from increused cast of ma- terials, has not yet materially af- fected profits. 'However, these in creased costs will' show, up in lower opérating profits in future years, 3 : The 1941 grape crop was of unusually fine quality, the sugar content being up by approximat-- ely 20 per cent over the previous year, a-Si . Grape grow 1 the Niagara Peninsula enjoyed | an excellent Phere were about 16,000 acres of - vineyards, The minimum price paid by the wineries was $50" per ton, an increase of $10 per. ton 'turns to the grape growers was approximately $1,000,000, 'about $260,000 more than, 1940, Imports of foreign wines are almost entirely shut off due to the war, nan H CA market both in demand and price, - over 1940, Total commercial re- NN OF T'HE "In Rome, the Colonial tion of Italian Africa, | victory and restore the dandy. tical Volksautos (the 'car which Hitlér collected never * manufactured) future, thing, we "wonder, for plate of real spaghetti? -- The -war--in~ the Paci shipping difficulties there off from supplies of rice! generally known that grown extensively in the States, indeed, included: els in Texas, 11,128,000 els 'n California, the Northern News. He on the bill of fare in a - restaurant this patriotic item: French-Fried Potatoes." Marshal Simyon 'according to an English teacher, is of Welsh ext the trouble a Welshman "then "in the last yar, ~--Windsor the Japanese attack cam kinson, British Labor Home who live in . wooden shouldn's. throw bombs," one. ~ The average family -pa a year for doctor bills, government report. ably will 'be news to mo tors. f Bank of Montreal busine mary 'for the year 1941 that'the ne coyld be expected in its Btagés." advance 'in commodity pri been 'slightly. downward," creasing in variety, algo 'been 'a much heavier for Canadian) Nickel, States consumption havin to more than twosthirds total output as against a lion! pounds annually, * VOICE - PRESS IT'S ALL HYPOTHETICAL Of course those jobs will have to wait for Hitler to win Italy's which doesn't exist. today, That's Now the hypothetical jobholders can pile into hypothe- and go rambling merrily 'off '(hypotheti- cally) into. a purely hypothetical #4 How'll they trade the --Kitehener Record. GROW RICE IN THE US, mean that this continent is cut This vars production 4,074,000 bush-. els in Louisiana, 15,520,000 bush. in 'Arkansas. and 9,660,000 bush- ---Brockville Recorder 'and a Cobalt friend .of his_ who saw in Toronto recently ~-- "Free --Timmins Advance, THOSE WELSH. AGAIN Timoshenko, That will explain many things to the Germans. They will recall all HINT TO JAPANESE The neatest crack of the week on the barbed tongue of Ellen Wil- M.P. and Office official: "People --Stratford Beacon-Heérald. ~ PERHAPS A BUGGY RIDE 1 If the automobile is eventually banned for pleasure in this war, many people will be no worse off than they were during the First Great War when they didn't own --St. Thomas Times-Journal, . NEWS FOR THE DOCTOR This prob- "--Elma Chronicle. Summary Reveals Ceiling Effective Dominjon™ price ceil- ing system "so far has been work- ing 'with as much efficiency as i Discussing Canada's war pro: duction the summary states that it 18 mounting steadily and in- Here has consumption of about one-third, Plays are under way for increas. ing the output by some fifty mil : Rida Nl The glass 'snake -- which ig not a snake but a: lizard -- snaps it- . -| self to pieces when touched. $ Agency is holding .civil. service examina- / fi % tions for jobs in the administra- empire, people's for but. [7 line. -- whole a good fic and do not It is not "fleet owner" rice is United bushels tells of Chinese president, school raction, caused ready trained in civil life or given sometimes hay an intensive course in Army Jack?" Star. Trade Schools--but actually it ap- | plies to every soldier, The e_ from - houses "a specialist. "foot-slogger." ys $76 'A Weekly Col 'Here are some more Army nicknames since last week's few remarks on" that subject, "Daisy" Bell and "Grog" 'Anderson, you know. any more drop me a Have you any idea of the size "of your Canadian Army? best way'to get the picture is to * make a comparison in terms with which we are all familiar, * The Army employs nearly eight , times the entire staff of the Can- adia Pacific Railway, The Army's requirements in gasoline-propelled vehicles, compared with the Do- minion Bureau of Statisties"most recent report on civilian trucks owned in Canada shows that as a your Army not only outranks, many times over, the biggest individual commercial "fleet" but that according to 're- * cen figures for every eight com- mercial vehicles in Canada there is une for the Army. It may seem unusual to use industrial figures to illustrate the size of an army, a chairman of the board and di-- rectors of a holding company which operates a group of affili- ated companies, each With 'its vice - presidents charge of various operations, gen- eral managers, branch managers, purchasing and 'store-keeping or- ganizations, junior foremen and skilled tradesmen. "Skilled Tradesmen," That has ~two meanings." Strictly applied in - Army phraseology it refers to a long list of experts--either ale "P.3:l"--don't ask me to ela- borate on the "B"--as the poor -- ghall we say "blinking"? -- in-- fantiyman was called last time is no longer just a rifle-toter on whom you hang "everything: but the kitchen stove." This time every one in -the Army, from Lieut.-Gen. A. G. L. = McNaughton down to the last- - joined vounteer, is--or will be--, By the time the new private soldier has eompleted his traine ing he is far more than just a He is a trained 'soldier who has passed tests in First Aid, Rifle, Anti-Tank Rifle, Light Machine Gun,. Pistol, Bay. onet Fighting, Anti-aircraft Dg- 2 C If a day, The . a "Specialist." would, anyhow! reasons, Perhaps it is in cer. executives, "over to us, ple. ale, make morale, umn About This and That in The Canadian Army fence, Field-craft, Map; Reading, Mortar, Hand 'and Rifle 3 . "Tommy" gun and Field Engin eering and he can 'march 20 miles -- Now that's a véry brief des- ¢ription of the accomplishments at the disposal of an infantryman, not what the Canadian Army cally > The infantryman Strike At Hearts ; Of German People Even now we do not realize the full importance of - propaganda. "We fought our way .into Abyss- inia with printing presses as well as machine guns, Pamphlets drop- -ped 'on enemy positions brought . thousands of natives and Italians But there are bigger targets . than Iran and Italy. The.Russia have shown Us. 'he ay ito strike at the hearts of 'the German peo- They tell sorrowing- women how their hushands and sons died, That is the way .to break mor- But propaganda can 'alfo of 25 years 'ago would have felt like a full Colorel with about Half of 'that knowledge ---- this on Just by way of a digression, have you any idea how much ad« ded leisure 'today's' volunteer hds compared with the private soldier of my generation? Here are two Before the days of "Battles . Rompers," 'as many of you re- member, we had brass Buttons, metal cap badges, and shoulder. badges, all of which had to be' kept bright. "In addition the web equipment had to be cleaned with - a preparation named and its irinumerable brass tabs had to be polished. All of 'which "Blanco" : Times. unusual, but the analogy is a s , : took up 'a lot of leisure time. So ; 4 good one, Let's carry I further, the vs volunteer can chuckle UP TO DATE The . Individual Citizen's Army | oF "0 Chic there's no One of the month's best sam- is a big business run in a busi brass on battle-dress! 25) ples of war humor was given last ness-like way. The set-up is that Today's - infantryman, not to - y week by the Cobalt reporter for of a huge industrial empire with mention other 'specialists, has plenty. to study in: his spare time. [; And he does study. . Every soldier today has a chance to gain his commission as an offi- Why not? =* How does he do that? He does it the way 'MajoriGeneral "G..'R. Pearkes, V.C,, D.S:0., M.C,, and Major-General C, B. Price, D.S.0,, D.C.M,, did in the Great War, 1914-19, step by step--Private to Lance-Corporal, and on up, By the way, can any old soldier tell me why. 'a Lance-Corporal is nick-named = "Lance- / says a st do¥- + - $5 sum- . reports *} initial The summary says thatthe f. /} HA ces has been checked and the trend has | ; demand i United © 3 7 g risen Po 'of the normal | ' . Kip t¥ vi FLD Neal sini vy ess in nee 7 if :) 1 / ISK], Leo Ns 77 7 LIFES LIKE THAT By Fred Neher wh i 7 : i i. ar ag "I'm content to sit back and wait but my partner is a go-getter!" REG'LAR FELLERS-Efficiency Expert ; CANT LEAVE 4 DESK HERE, ' AD 4 MOVE MOVER THERE | | NO, X- GUESS' : II SEE - "ee . 0 WHEN MOM'S /IN - x 8, I NACo Lu od MOOD" he By GENE BYRNES, pe