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hA aud NN EAL [4 < J AR | i en A i To Mg S000 0 Sk S27 ihn es be ab ne in A ann lt ha by bo BS ibwY ra | {3 3 Transportation of War Ma. terials and Food A Big Task H} RR. The prime function of the rail . ways today is to do thelr part in earrylng. out the war programme, aud thé whole effort of their work: ers will continue to be directed to thelr war "duties, R.- C! Vaughan, President of the Canadian National Rallways, declared in an address which he delivered as guest speak: or to the Canadian Club of Mon . treal, - - "Railways "in Action," "was the title of Mr. Vaughan's address and in stressing the role being. played 'today by Canadian enterprises he sald: "This is a war of transport --transport. on land, transport on sea, transport In the alr. The rail way is a mighty war machine, and war conditions present a chal- lenge to management and to rail way workers which will be met to the full. Wé will not be satisfied until we are certain that Canada will say at the end of the war, no job was better done than that of the rallways. Mr. Vaughan sald that at the outbreak of war Canada had nearly . forty-three thousand miles of steam railway, and of this fifty-one per- cent was operated by the Canadian National. Previously there had been a perlod of nearly ten years of reduced earnings yet the operators of the properties had maintained lines and equipment in good. order and when war came Canada found itself in possession of an asset of incomparable value, railways serve ing every community, large and small, . hetween the Atlantic, and the Pacific. New Industries . "Even the light traffic lines which had long represented a heavy drain on the net revenues of the railway came to have an added value to the nation," "sajd Mr. Vaughan. Great new industries began to take shapo in conmmun- itles where there had been no in- dustry. before; landing fields, schools and depots for the Com- monwealth- Afr. Training - Plan -- more than a hundred in number, and great military camps appeared, many of them situated on vacant or barren land. Each had one re- quirement which had to be met: it must be served by a railway to make its operation possible, Ship- building plants were established or enlarged -- all, again, finding 'the railway essential to bring them the material for their work. Food- stuffs from tens of thousands of farms rolled in refrigerator and other cars to our ports to be dis- patched overseas, and that great gtream continues. B "The natural resources of the . forest and of the mine were re- quired as never before for the new mechanical warfare, and the rail- way with its steel stretching into the so-called wildernesses of Can- ada brought those resources out to be used either in the Dominion, in_Britdin, or elsewhere." "Mr. Vaughan recalled-lines which had beén built for the develops ment of the country and which bad led to the opening of North- » western Quebec and the establish- ment of such a great enterprise as the Noranda Mines, the bulld- "ing of lines in Manitoba which made possible the opening of the ¥lin Flon clajm, now the enormous Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company, and he continued: Adequate Mileage "It was suggested from time to time that practically all of the Na- tloal Transcontinental malin line between Quebec and Moncton should disappear, That line Is now the most vital railway link in the transportation of war material from Canada to Great Britain, Other suggestions included the abandonment of the Canadian Na. tional main lines between Ottawa and Winnipeg, and between To- yonto and Winnipeg, and it would not be difficult to recognize the "effect, particularly at the present time, of such a step had it been taken. I mention those suggestions "to show how fortunate Canada i8- to have available for her wartime needs adequate railway mileage into and through all her immenge territory." Lp Improved © financial conditions were dealt with, Mr, Vaughan find ing these due to fncreased effic- fency and economy. In-1941 the physical volume of traffic on the Canadian National was seventeen percent greater than that handled in 1928, yet the operating expenses fn 1941 were twenty million dol lars; or elght percent less than in 1928, In concluding Mr. Vaughan said: "In the Canadlan active forces today there are some nine thous: and men from the Canadian rall voads, and a large additional num. ber are in the merchant marine. In the shops of both railway .com- panies heavy weapons for the arm- des and navies of the United Na: ons_are being fashioned. In its shipyard at Prince Rupért the Can. adian National Railways is build- A minesweepers, officers from both railways are on loan to Canadian, British 0 ments -to-direet - 'branches of war - A) 5 GRANDMA KNEW THAT Que of the jokes that killed vaudeville was.the one about how married men don't really live longer than single men--it just < seems longer, It wasn't a very good joke at best, and now. comessthe awful re- velation that it wasn't even true. A large life insurance firm' has just completed a study which de- monstrates that married men ac- tually do live longer. They are also less likely to commit suicide, drink themselves to death, and get themselves killed in accidents, The statisticians came to the conclusion that the favorable bal- ance toward longevity came: from living "a normal family life," which anybody could have told them anyway. Little by little science is creep- ing up on common folk knowl. edge, and one of these days we'll have chapter and book for every one "of those little things grand- ma knew so well without a statiss tic to guide her, -- Kingston Whig-Standard --Ce DIVE IDEA COPIED Dive bombing is a new science in the present war, but duck hawks" and other species of birds use this dive method for destroy- ing their prey. According to a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin, duck hawks are the fastest flying birds re- ported. "One of these hawks," says the bulletin, "diving on its victim flew 160 to 180 miles an hour when timed with a stop watch. Diving at a flock of dugks, at a velocity of nearly 175 miles an hour, an aviator reports that a hawk, presumably a duck hawk, passed him as though the plane were standing 'still and struck one of the ducks." Man has copied the dive idea but has surpassed even the duck hawk in speed, the velocity of his descent being al- most three times 'as fast, -- Brockville Recorder and Times --s SO HITLER THINKS Some 40 buildings owned by Norwegians who returned to Eng- land with raiding British com- mandos have been burned by the Nazis, all their other property has been seized and 100 of their male relatives have been sent to Ger- man concentration camps... Other- wige Hitler has everything under control, almost, : -- Windsor Star JR KEY AS SALVAGE Grim humor often appears in England. Not long ago a man gent a key to the Salvage office of a British railway company with the message "The house belong- ing to this key has been bombed. Please accept for salvage." ---Chatham News osm HELPFUL! Scientists say that a rubber substance may be extracted from dandelions, Well, we know. sev- eral lawns that would provide plenty of raw ~ material any Spring. ; L --Stratford Beacon-Herald salem , "OUT OF ORDER | Such past sayings as "nothing down and the rest when you catch me," are out of order now with the new buying restrictions. --38St.. Thomas Times-Journal pie p REMEMBER EIRE It isn't quite a world war yet. Don't think there are no: neutral countries left. Remember, there's~ always Eire. --Windsor Star Windowless Plant Permits of Blackout Completely windowless, yet containing more glass than any other such structure, a building that is as long as 12 New York _City blocks (its area is 4,000 by 320 feet) and as high as a five- storey building, has been dedi- cated by the United States Army at Fort Worth, Texas, relates The Toronto Telegram, It is for use in the construction of $260,000 bombing planes; it has cost $26,000,000; it has a huge assembly room without a single pillar or obstruction, It is without windows so as to permit of complete. blackout, and to pro- mote efficient air conditioning. 'The glass that is used is in the form of spun glass wool, used in the steel walls (27,500 tons of structural steel were, required in the building), and which will not only provide insulation but absorb from 66 to 76 percent of the fac- tory noises, It has been estimated that the four-inch glass-stuffed . steel walls of the assembly plant have the same heat and cold in- sulating Jroperties 6f an ordinary brick wall thirty inches thick. The plant will employ 16,000 men. 3 Great Britain expects tor obtain '| ~ between 4,600,000,000. and -5,000,-- © 000,000 pounds of milk from the United States in the.coming year. v 0) "All set for her Feb, 16th launching against America's Axis'foes fs the $80,000,000, 35,000-ton super-dreadnaught Alabama, pictured above on the ways at Portsmouth, Va. She's the fourth naval vessel to bear. the name, but one of the most picturesque of the Alabamag never flew the Stars and Stripes. cruiser that ravaged Union shippin J.S. in the historic battle with the She was the famous Confederate until sunk off Cherbourg, France, 5. Kearsarge, ; . WINTER CONVOY By Lieut. E. H. Bartlett, R.C.N.V.R. The fleet 'was at sea. Behind us were the days when Naval Control Service officers had sent out coded signals, moving our ships from berth to berth and port to port until the moment arrived when the ships were assembled, ready for their sailing into -the war areas. Behind us, too, was the convoy conference, in which out' commodores and, our captains had discussed their final strategies in readiness to face the enemy. Now the fleet was at sea. From the grey shore line we had left behind, to the far horizon to which we were steaming, ships ploughed their solemn way through tho waves. We were proceeding in "line ahead," for this mammoth argosy, numbering its ships in scores and waiting until well clear of shore before forming crulsing disposition for the night, "Line ahead" and "cruising dis- position" --- good naval terms those, but it was not a battle fleet to which they were being applied. Our fleet was one of merchant ships, peace time carriers of cargo who to-day were getting out to run the gauntlet of torpedoes and shells and bombs from enemy ralders of sea and sky. So, since. the first days of war, merchant ship convoys have heen leaving Canadian ports. In their deep-laden hulls the ships-~have carrled the food supplies, the sin- ews of war, the vital necessities, across the ocean to the Island ES was a . Fortress which is Britain. Secretly, for in secrecy lies safe- ty, thousands of ships bearing millions of tons of cargo have left Canada, Our convoy was typical. Purposeful Precision | One night the port was filled with merchant ships, riding lazily to their anchors in the peace of a sheltered harbour, The next day gaw a harbour empty. Clanking windlasses had raised the anchors, churning propellers were driving the fleet on its way across the Bea. From the bridge of one of the fleet's Royal Canadian Navy's war. ship escorts T had seen 'the ailing of the fleet -- and had marvelled at the 'purposeful precision with which it had been accomplished. In the grey of an Atlantic morn. Ing we started to slip through the opgned submarine gates which guarded the port. Signal penants, whipping_in a growing wind which gave promise of a winter storm in the making, identified each vessel quickly for the scurrying launches which, bearing 'the Naval Control Service Officer and his staff, were seeing that the sailing schedule was being maintained, "We sail at 9.30 in the morn. ing" had been tha final erders delivered the night before. 'At 9.30 In the morning, to the minute, the commodore's ship had started moving seaward, in pride of place as first of the ships form. LIFE'S LIKE THAT _ By Fred Neher. t 2), 9-21 SHED Nett? Released by Ceasctidated News Features) ot 7 > ee 7 i "J think I'm qualified. . «+ I've been married twenty years an' my wife still thinks I have a sick friend. A : "in - steady _ stations, / Railway Has Part | . VO ICE SHE HAD A HISTORIC ANCESTOR ve wil pss tous the Jaies ar Program ON 3, fours) asia herria" si Ww RE g P R E S S -t hy elo 8 Sri had saiinied lously small.) At the exact stated interval after the commodore's ship had shown her stern to the men on duty in the gateshjps, the sdeond ship of his fleet was thrusting her bow in Nis wake," "These were not ships of war, "mark you, practised in fleet mdn- oeuvres , and evolutions. 'These were. portly cargo carriers, their deep-laden hulls thrusting sullenly through the water which. their sis- "ters in the fighting service knifed © cleanly, Sullen or keen, however, they kept their station and: thes fleet put to sea*on schedule. Pattern of Protection Ahead of it, sturay minesweepers had assured a channel free of possible danger from the floating deaths which the enemy. lets loose upon the waters, Avound them, Canadian naval escort craft circled in ceaseless, vigilant guard against submarine attack, Overhead, air- craft formed thelr share of the protecting screen which is given a fleet at sea. Our sea-most ships were rising and falling to the Atlantic swell _ long before the harbour. behind us was emptied of our sisters, Up and down the long line of merchant ships the escort vessels steamed patrol, weaving their ceaseless pattern of protection which would not be relaxed until the convoy was safely in the var- fous harbours te which it was bound. Slowly, so slowly as to be al most imperceptible, the line of ships commenced to alter form- ation." From the commodore's ship, at the head of the line, signal flags had whipped out. Veteran ot many crossings, wise in the ways of a fleet at sea, the commodore was ordering his charges into shorter, more easily guarded col umns. His vice and rear com- modores, working to plans well prepared beforehand, were taking over their own divisions of mer- chantmen, manoeuvering them as skillfully. and as steadily as, In other days (when they wore their flags in ships -of--the--fighting- force) they had manoeuvred ships of war. 0 Hops _ The fleet came into statjon. The' one long column split into several shorter ones and the slze of the fleet became apparent. To port and starboard, ahead and. astern,..|- "were ships steadily steaming on- ward, These were the ships that Hitler boasted he was going to sweep from the seas! And these were from but. one port! Suppties Go Through We ploughed on through seas growing steadily higher, and .into a wind which brought biting cold with it. On our bridge, and in the dizzyingly swaying crow's nest on our mast, keen-eyed seamen kept constant watch over the waters. On the bridges of the ships of our fleet, their fellows were sharing the vigil. At _ear-phones in the ships of war highly-trained opera- tors were listening incessantly for the warnings their subniarine de- tectors might bring, x The fleet was at sea . . jn which merchantmen as well as ships of war maintained battle The cold became more apparent with the coniing of night. In the gathering dusk we lost sight of the farther ships . . . of the high- funnelled Greek and the newly- painted Norwegian; of the slab- _ slded tanker with her tattered Red Ensign: and the useful looking Dutchman whose captain was 80 proud that he had saved his ship from the Germans go that he could carry on his country's war at sea. They are international fleets sail- ing under the protection of the White Ensign these days, with all the flags of all the Free peoples represented among them. Steadily the darkness blotted out the ships. There were no lights to give us away to the enemy, and keeping station called for anxious watch and constant alertness. The -- experfence-gained--in-long-months-- of war and hundreds of such night watches now stood in good stead. There was no slowing of the fleet. Daylight broke op, a tumbling, white-crested sea -- with the ships plunging steadily onward through The fleet was at sea, and the supplies for the Front Line were going through, : . a fleet Says Mrs. William Brady, Pardee, +. Ontario: "We have no niore use for 'harsh. cathartics! When we found out about ALL-BRAN we knew we'd never go back to pills or pou ders any more. KELLOGG'S 'A BRAN. is certainly the 'Better ? Try ,ALL-BRAN'S NO MORE PILLS AND POWDERS FOR US..WE'VE/ Do "Better Way" to correct the cause of constipation due to lack of the of "bulk" in your diet. york like gathartiss, It takés time. t ALL-BRAN at your grocer" -in two convenient size 3 oF ask for the individual serving pack." . restaurants. Made © by don't you buy KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN oy © Kellogg's in' London, Canada. NMAURICE IRWIN ens TI A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army 1t's rather a strange thing that a country whose citizens are able and willing to spend 6U cents ot every dollar they receive on the war effort, should know so little about their Army--the biggest sin- gle item in their 60 cents worth. - That sounds like a sweeping assertion, It is a sweeping asser- tion; and perhaps, like most gen. eralizations, slightly unfair. It is occasioned by a couple of news- paper clippings which show that Canadian newspapermen are woe- fully ignorant of Army terms. (They should read this columu), Perhaps it is elevating the fourth estate too highly to judge a coun- try by its newspapermen, so an apology may be in order, The whole thing grows out of two. abbreviafions -- "K.P." and "A. W, 0. L.," Both these terms are uséd a little too frequently in Can- adian newspaper columns to please old soldiers--this old- soldier any-. way, for..neither of them apply to - the soldiers of the King, "K.P." js the abbreviation - for a term current in the United Army --""Kitchen Police"--it does not mean sentries placed, on guard duty to protect currants and other delicacies from predatory fingers .--I1t just-means men who have béen detailed to assist in the non-tech- nical work in the kitchen, A tour of duty on "Kitchén Police" is sometimes ordered as a" mild punishment, But the fact that a man is detailea for 'a job in' the kitchen does not always mean that he has transgressed any Army regulations, « In the Individual Citizen's Army of Canada, work in the kitchen fis one of the regular "fatigues" for which all private soldiers are liable to be .detailed in the ordinary course of events and, since a kit- chen --in--your Army is-- invariably known as a "cook-house," this duty should properly be referred to by newspaper writers and others as "'cook-house fatigue." £ (As one who had his share of cook-house fatigue a quarter of a century ago, it is probably unfair -of-me-to-point-out--Ilest some come -- manding Officer chance to look at _ this--that "nine times out of ten it is a very welcome duty. are such things as extra pieces of ple, apples that can be snitched, and other delicacips unofficially available "to the amateur cook- house staff, which makes the whole proceeding rather useless as a - punishment, -even- of the mildest * variety.) The other abbreviation 1 com plain of in Canadian papers js "A.W.O.L,"" again a US. Army term, meaning "absent without of- ficial leave." If the United States Army cares to indulge in such re.' dundancy it is all right with me, but as an ex-soldier of an Army in which leave is referred to pure- ly and simply as "leave," 1 feel that Canadian © newspapérmen - should stick to the Army abbrevi- ation of "A. W.L.," which means ° obviously 'absent without leave." If a man has leave in your Army it has been granted by. higher au- thority. - Obviously ~then not need to be called "official leave," 'there being no such thing as .an unofficial variety, All the foregoing may seem' to 'be trivial, Actually it isn't, The Individual Citizen's, Army is not only the greatest investment ever made 'by the Canadian taxpayer, it js an investment which spells to him or her the difference between freedom and oppression, between life and death. So like good in. vestors, it behooves us to know everything we can-about the enter- prise in which we should all be investing our money, our work, our _ brains and everything that we ~ have. "The Man Who. Relaxes Is Helping the Axis" Ambrose Harle, Galena, 1, [3 munitions handler at the Army ordnance proving (grounds, Sa- \ PY, vanna, Ill, was commended by the War Department for a slogan. he submitted: for use in manufactur- ing plants--"The man who<re- laxen is helping the Axis." The Department said the slogan would! be used" in plants working on Army orders. 0 | REG'LAR PINHEAD'S RUNNIN' ~~ WATCH ME HAVE FELLERS--Gets His Man A COLLECTION SYSTEM / | 8 BiG FIST RILEY OWES : ME A DIME /1F YOU SOME FUN WITH MZ § | COLLEXUN AGENSY a There | it--does-