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--_ Airmen From U.S. Alr Training-8cools of Can. ada Can Handle More Re: cruits = - While the possibility of American aircrews receiving training service with the United States forces}in Canadian alr training schools fis under consideration, as yet the entrance. of the United States into "the war has resulted in no change. in the British Commonwealth Air' Training Plan or Its operations. Under that plan Canada operates a system of alr training establish. meuts stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific in which pilots, ob- servers and wireless operator-air gunner recrults from the United Kingdom, Australia and New /Zea- land, as well as this country, te- ceive their training. The schools comprising the plan number about ninety. Opening of the last projected school took place last autumn and all these establishments are now staffed and In operation, Air Min. ister Power said in a recent inter- view that the system naw pro- vides a nucleus which can be ex- panded or stepped up, Serious Problem My, Power has sald that the air training plan schools could handle American recruits it the United States wished to send any here for training but he also sald that he understood the United States was expanding its own training faclll- ties and might not be interested. It is known some discussions have been carried on at Washington on this point. } The actual monthly intake of new trainees and output of trained air. craw of the Canadian schools is a closely guarded secret, but it is known to be so substantial as to be likely to make the problem of 'securing sufiiéient recruits a serious one in the not-distant future. Owing to the shipping sitbation in the Pacific it is considered un- likely more Australian and New Zealand recruits will come to Can- ada for training and the entrance of the United States into the war cuts off a considerable flow of American volunteers into. the schools. * More Recruits Needed It the establishment Is to keep "going ab capacity either Canadian recruits must be enlisted in larger numbers than in the past or the schools must be used to train more men from the United Kingdom or some men for the United States forces. i : _.The recently anndunced plan for repatriating American volunteers who enlisted in Canadian forces prior to the entrance of the United States into the war is not expected to affect the scheme, . Of some 6,000 Americans enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force by far the larger number passed through the training establishment and into operational units overseps. A considerable number of Ameri. cans are employed as instructors, technical officers and ground crew in_the training establishment fit- self. They came when the scheme was building up its staff but now the staff is complete and others are being trained. Officials say that they can be replaced without dit. flculty if they want to take advan. tage of the opportunity to join the forces of their own country. Millions Of 'Fish : For Great Lakes On March 17, writes the St. Thomas - Times-Journal, = 3,000,000 young whitefish were put into Lake - Erie,' the water being clear and the temperature right. Three mil- lion seems a tremendous quantity, but a certain percentage will not, for various reasons, grow to ma- turity. Many millions more will be slipped into the Great Lakes this spring fn order to preserve com- mercial fishing. also contributes heavily to this. enterprise, more than 26,000,000 - trout "having been planted In the spawning beds 20 miles off-shore from Waukegan, Lake Michigan, "recently. . oh s ¢ Artiticial 'stocking of the lakes and seas, including the salmon areas, 1s ofie of. the greatest boons to mankind and the fishing Indus-- try. Without that process the + fishing ~grounds- would - soon* 'be = . 'fished -ont- and the public would be deprived of a valuable source _of sustenance and health, In the natural way more spawn is de- stroyed than reaches maturity, and without "the hatcheries fishing would become extinct. : EE) The Dominion Government pre serves the fishing in the lakes, in. . cluding waters which have no out- let to the eea, by means of regula tions--and hatcheries, There are ¢ 13 main hatcherles, six rearing stations, seven salmon-retalning .ponds and several egg collecting _ stations In Canada. ©. Altogether, the fishing industry of Canada, fncluding the. fishing banks at sea, produce from $40, 000,000 to $60,000,000 worth of fish a year, according to the prevailing prices, Could Train More | The United States * "VOICE OF THE PRESS CHOICE IN SLAVERY Deploring the strikes and slow- downs in war industry, an Amer- ican workman, writing to the Buf- falo News, says: "I would rather slave for my country than become a slave to the conqueror," He has said something there that all free * people might well take to heart.: No 'one bias 'better expressed the will to yictory that should prevail 1 on the home fronts of all the de- mocracies. : N -~--Haniilton Spectator, Ord ; NO NEED TO WORRY Under a War Production Board .ruling at Washington, cellophane may no_ longer be used for window envelopes--the kind that invoices and bifls come in. Bi we can assure the people of the URited States that there is no cause to either worry"or rejoice. Cellophane or no cellopliane, the bills will still come in. --Hufon Expositor, Seaforth, ee THE USE OF TIRES An advertisement in this paper today shows that the percentage of wear on motor tires has a vari- ation, dependent upon how they are used, from 12 to 38 per cent. The motorist who strives for 12 per cent. will be riding when the fellow who hits the 38 per cent. will be walking. . --=St. Catharines Standard, ee ANOTHER PROBLEM It is obvious that, eventually, the ban on tires will. put an end to motoring. And the return of the h.-and-b. era may not be as carefree as some people think, What are we going to do, for in- stance, if the steel controller says Dobbin can't have another set of shoes? --Ottawa Citizen. , BAD TIMES AHEAD Bad times for the -young also lie ahead. On a tandem bicycle a girl rides a yard or so in front of her male escort, and experi- ments show that from that posi- tion it is practically impossible to get her head on his shoulder. --Sudbury Star, SA . HEROES OF THE SEA Who is a greater hero than the man_in the engine room, or for that matter, on the deck of a tanker carrying a hundred thous- and barrels of gasoline and oi. through a submarine-infested sea? --Saturday Evening Post. le LOVE EM TO DEATH The Japanese maintain that the _ Allies 'are waging a war of hate. . Whereas the Japs just want to love everybody to death. : ---Peterborcugh Examiner, --_---- PASTORAL WISDOM A collar button has been found in the stomach of a late Okla- - homa cow, It affirms the wisdom, we suppose, of not letting cattle .graze under the dresser. ' ---Stratford Beacon-Herald. ol : A WARNING "It's a great life if your tires don't weaken, Watch your tread, brother! --S8t. Thomas Times-Journal, --0-- IGNORANCE 1S BLISS Its a good thing hens don't know how much masons get for laying bricks, 7 --Kitchener Record. Output In Britain Raised 40 Per Cent 'Mr. Ralph Assheton, Parliamen- tary Secretary to the Minister of "Supply, said that war production figures had increased more than 40 per cent since last September, but the Ministry of Supply "al- ready sees a way to go far beyond this." "The Government will not be satisfied with anything less than the very greatest volume of pro- duction of which we are capable," _.he_told fhe Commons, B : He said the period of great physical. expansion was past its peak and that "our task Is to make the fullest possible use of our capacity." ~~ More "than "1,000,000 persons are working for. the Ministry of Supply if the manufacture of en- gines alone, he said. . 3 . "In more than 40 ordnance fag- tories, 300,000 workers are er- ployed while 20,000 are employea in smaller factories. 4 The vast majority of the work- ters of every class, he said, are "doing their job magnificently." Personal Delivery Tony Amarai, 27, of Boston, decided he would rather deliver, than manufacture bullets, so he resigned his job in an ammuni- tion factory and joined the navy. "While I was making bullets," he said, "I got the feeling I want. ed to deliver them to the Japs © and Huns = ° ? napping, e-- SE Ye BV BR Si - Jap raid was smashed when CEYLON--WHERE JAPANESE "SURPRISE" BACKFIRED Great swarms of Japanese planes attempted to attack Colombo, capital snd main seaport of Ceylom Its important harbor is shown above, least 32 Panes and riddled 256 more, ritish defenders shot down at The Japanes e, apparently thinking they could catch the defenders illed a "few-citizens" with bombs but met with "utter failure" from a military point of view, spokesmen said, Ceylon, famous for its tea, is only 60 miles south of India and could serve as a spring- board for a United Nations' offensive agains cut off supplies to China and Russia. t the en emy or be used by the Japanese to invade India and Use Elephants To First Shipments Reach China By Substitute Burma Road Carried part way on the backs of elephants which lurched through dense jungle, war mater- jals have started to reach China by one of the two new supply routes from India replacing: the railway from Burma road. Rangoon to the The first shipments along the "jungle trail" were hauled over the mountains from India to Burma and carried by boats be- fore they reached the head of the. Burma road at Lashio, from where Chinese trucks speeded them into Yunnan Province: ] © British and Chinese engineers are rushing construction of a highway to permit through truck hauls from India. that would elim- \ i inate" the many 'transfers . now «nec essary. Officials here exp ect them to finish in several months work which normally would take several years, Simultaneously, Chinese engin- cers are building a second high- way across Northeast the mountains India, part of of the mighty Himalayas. They face tre- mendous engineering probléms that will delay use of this route longer than use of the other high- way. ____ The newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported from Kumming, capital of Yunnan Province, that the pro- vincial government is mustering huge groups of laborers to work on the roads and will send them across Burma to India. Chinese officials are confident that the now roads are far enough north of the war zone in South and Central Burma to be protect- ed indefinitely from the Japanese, One-Third of India Ruled By Princes Whole Of India Does Not Belong To Great Britain It is generally thought in the West, even in England, that the whole of India "belongs to Kng- land," says the Christian Science Monitor. The fact is that nearly one-third of India, including a quarter of the population, has never strictly speaking "belonged to Britain." Nor has it been ruled or ad- ministered by the British Goverh- ment, Its people owe allegiance not to the King-Emperor, but to their own rulers, They are not subjects of King George VI. The rulers of Indian states are sometimes incorrectly described as "under the thumb of a British Resident". Except.in the case of a weak or youthful privce, the Resident confines himself to his prescribed duties The relations between the states and the British Government are based upon distinct and varying treaties. The substance of these, at least in the case of the more important states, is that intern- ally the princes are independent and sovereign rulers but their external policy is vested by agree- ment in the British Government. "Princes Guard Rights Most of the princes are very . jealous of "their rights, They founded the Chamber of Princes specifically to. safeguard their powers and. prorogatives. LIFE'S LIKE THAT IIT /1 US MODER A Vii | / By Fred Neher ."It's_some radio survey. 1)" ++ + They want: to know listening tol" ; . td AR / what we're _monarchies, A The rule of an Indian prince is often condemned because it is autocratic. Yet in India, in- dividual rulership is still the type of government that in many ways best suits the mental, moral and religious condition of India. Men, as distinct from ideas and ideals, are still paramount to the major- ity. Mohandas K. Gandhi means more to the masses than home rule . The ruler of an Indian state, though autocratic, is rarely a ty- rant. Kingshi in India is hedged with restraints or tradition and religion perhaps more binding than those of some constitutional ruler might be incapable or a scoundrel but sooner or later the consequences of his misdeeds will be visited upon him or upon his 'successors. Rulers of the major Indian states rarely do anything definitely dis- pleasing to their subjects. They are more inclined to wish to keep them contented. Some of them have made couspicuous efforts to improve the conditions of their people. ~ Those that have been loath to give their subjects democratic institutions can usu- ally say there is no real demand for them. The average .Indian in the states prefers a "respon- sive" to a "responsible" govern- ment. "Backward Sections There are many backward areas in India's six hundred or so states. Quite a number are mere estates and are probably on their way out... Therg fare some so poverty- stricken that it would scem more merciful to find these princes other jobs, But the major stutes, such as Mysore, Travancore, Kashmir, Ba- roda, Hyderabad are on the whole forces for good. They make their contribution to the well-being of India. If India cannot be a uni- tary country like England, it can certainly be a union. Some of the princes have been less than adequate, but the ma- pority have been unten of culture and wisdom. The late Maharaja of Baroda was a thinter and a scholar of no mean repute; and the Jam of Nawanagar, of cricket fame, held a high reputation as a statesman at Geneva. The Nizam of Hyderabad is a genuine statesman, + perhaps the shrewdest to be found -in"dlt=In: dia. He has done a lot for his state. The foundation of the Osmania University---where Hindustani is the chief meduim of instruction-- will do much to unite the various castes and creeds in the state. Even the leftist Congress Party has to admit that the rulers of Mysore and. of men of breadth and Vision. Church Plays, Part For the first time since the Middle Ages, Salisbury Cathedral was used -for a secular purpose when a Ministry of Information. meeting was held 'here, The dean said he felt the church "must play its part in this war". The average length of a sugar "stalk is twelve feet. Travancore -are | THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Japanese At The Gates Of India Aid To Russia Must Be Maintained Str Stafford Cripps, in the fol. lowing words, outlined the new goal for India: "The object is. the creation of a new Ifidian 'union which 'shall constitute .a dominion assoclat- ed with the United Kingdom and other dominions by a com- mon allegiance to the Crown but equal to them In every re- spoet, in no way subordinate in any aspect of its domestic and: _ external affairs." ' In this plan is foreseen full in. dependence for India after thg war. Great Britain has offered to India: . (1) the basis of a consti tution upon which all groups in India may (ind agreement; (2) Bri. tish defense of India from Japan and Germany while details of the constitution are being worked out, India Divided The plan went far toward meet. ing the demands of the I[odian leaders, says the New York Times. It was backed by the public opinion of the United Nations which fur. ther guaranteed its sincerity. Sir Stafford was known to be India's friend, who had fought long for the subcontinent's independence. But there remained many ditficul- ties. India was raclally and relig- iously divided; her masses were traditionally suspicious of British rule. Over four centuries of Euro- pean exploitation, two centuries of domination by the British ecrled silently to Indian leaders and the people. ' In more than 2,000 years of thelr - history tho people of India had seen the rise_and fall of many dynasties, had. felt repeated waves of immigration and invasion. Budd. hist, Hindu, Moslem and numer ous other faiths had forwed their religious creeds, Strict systems of caste divided the people; the suc- cessions of conquest by native princes loft deep-seated animosi ties in the masses. "Many Difficulties The plan proposed by Sir Stat ford Cripps in New Delhi was Bri tain's -- answer to the tide ot nationalism which grew In India under the Empire's rule. Sir Stafford's plan met with no immediate acceptance by the Indian leaders. The principal objection ap- peared to bs Britain's retention of the responsibility for India's de- fonse; it was contended by the country's leaders that this duty should be in India's hands. On other points the parties differed widely: the Hindu majority de manded immediate self-govern- ment; the Moslems, comprising one-fourth of the subcontinent's population, feared Hindu domin- ation in a self-vuled dominion, Other minorities turned down the plan. For example, the Sikhs, who make the greatest contribution to Britain's Indian" armies, voiced the fear that they would be oppressed by the Moslem majority of 13,500, 000 in their native Punjahs Hopes For Compromise To solve these difficulties--it a solution were possible--Sir Staf- ford held repeated conferences with Indian leaders, and Sir Archl bald Wavell, It was hoped that a compromise solution of the defense problem might be evolved. The possibility that President Roose- velt might lend his efforts to press for settlement was also discussed in diplomatic elreles, The outlogk for India was dark + it Sir Stafford failed in his mission. Although Japan had sounded tha ory of "India for the Indians" there conquest of the country would mean another lengthy period of sub - jugation. If Britain's plan were re- jected Internal dissension might "make India an easy prey for the invader. " y i India Is Attacked Toe imminence of the danger was clearly evident fn' the advance of Japanese. troops on the Burma front and a strong naval and alr attack on the Island of Ceylon, The attack in Ceylon was repulsed with heavy losses to the Japanese but * had it succeeded the Allied lines of commuuication to Calcutta would have been severed, Later the Japanest made an attack oa the East coast of India 600 miles north of Ceylon, The [Indian leaders appear to have been stirred by the instincts of self-preservation and have ap-- poaled to the United States to induce Britain to yield more ground on the question of control of India's defense. Britain is making an honest of- fort to give India a fair deal. Thera © would be no difficulty over the problem if the people were united. But India is not one country; it is many countries, each of which seeks It 'own advantage. The prob- lom is grave and time presses-- the enemy is already at the gatea ot India. oe Russia And Japan Military experts in London con- sider it wholly improbable .that Japan will sit still while Russia is heavily engaged in. the . West. A collision between Rugsia and Japan appears to be inevitable. The Japanese are ready to strike. They have probably not used more than 500,000 of their 4 to 5 million' troops in their South Pacific oper- ations and few of these have been of thelr best. Their finest soldiers, it is believed, are mobilized in Manchukuo and are ready for am attack on Vladivostok, one of the most powerful fortifications in the world. Aid To Russia The Japanese forces in Man- chukuo are probably greater and better equipped than the Russian Siberian army. Russia has been forced to transfer some troops and matérial from the Siberian front tor use in the winter campaign against Hitler. It is clear, there, fore, that aid to Russia is of para- mount importance, Qutstanding military experts believe that the war can be won on the two Russian' fronts; one would afford a base whence "Berlin could be bombed; the other similar base for the bombing of Tokyo. Can the United Nations, espeo- fally the United States, deliver sufficient supplies to Russia .om two fronts, by way of the Pacifie and Atlantic, while they are--at- the same time making deliveries through Persia and in the Middle Kast, as well as to Australia and india? On the answer to this ques: tion everything may depend, Overtime Work Here Headache To Hitler Giving up rest periods of thirty minutes during which they usually smoke, one hundred workers on the midnight shift at Plant No, 7 of the Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation, Detroit, speeded up shell production as a tribute to General MacArthur and worked eight and a half hours instead of eight. After Finishing theic work, the men collected money ana sent a telegram to MacArthur telling of their contribution. "We pledge ourseives behind you and swear that shoulder-to- shoulder, the forces of democracy will be victorious," their telegram informed MacArthur, The men will continue, over- production whenever they can, Edward Krizuk, UAW, - CLO. shop steward, said. : 38 The "swastika is generally in. ~Canny Scot Gets Some Easy Money During the victorious march against the Italians in Libya, the commanding officer of a Scottish unit was concerned because his men were not capturing as many Italians as the Australians. Ap- pealing to uphold the honor of Scotland, he offered a veward of 2s 6d a hundred for all the pris- oncrs brought in. Next morning, éne'sf the Scot- ties presented himself with eight hundred prisoners, and, surprised, ard delighted the colonel paid £1. As the man was leaving, the colonel asked him how. he had managed to capture, single-hand- ed, 800 Italians, ; . "1 didn't," replied the Scottie, "I bought them from an Aussie at a bob a hundred." The scientific name for the mocking. bird, mimus polyglotios,- terpreted as a symbol of the sun. means many-tongued- mimic. - v (A REG'LAR FELLERS--A Bad Break J TOO BAD, PINHEAD! THIS GAME IS TOO WELL,1 GUESS I'M OUTA LUCK! NOT A MARBLE ANYWHERE! AN' I'M BUSTED! NO, MA'AM, MIS' DUFFY = AH DIDN' SEE THEM ANYWHERE WHEN AH SET DAT TABLE' WAS IT A LARGE BOTTLE? 3 Sh ¥i ? KH Ha a Fe ALN CXS rs ~ x x Ty! \ 1 \ AY Lh 0 d CYA Jv y AS iY Tg BIR KA TN Ge 18 : EE and © FY A bs By GENE BYRNES | WANNA GET HOME WITH THESE OLIVES IN TIME FOR SUPPER' tt es " FAST/ ; seemed little. doubt that Japaness . ' i} SPR Se oes Fe ey 2 on A > Ca