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-keenness. i ---- -- ------ . Fluorescent Paint Glows In Blackout A paint that glows in the dark 'is being used for showing up objects in London's blackout, and it foreshadows germless houses in the future, according to The St Thomas Times-Journal, "activate" the paint, ultra-violet rays 'generated by. specially fil. tered filament lamps are thrown upon it, when the object painted o> _ gives out & buleish glow and be- comes. visible. in the dark, system is being: : with in London's West End, staie - risers' bullseye signs and indi. 'cation strips have beéa treated, . and further tests are being car- "ried out at a trolley-bus, depot where a track will be treated to guide the trolley-buses into the dapot. The principle of "fluor- escence" or the generation of light by any substance under ul- traviolet rays, was discovered by an Englishman, Sir John Hers- chel, one hundred years ago. Its wartime application may lead to its extensive use in paint- ing the walls of ums with fluor- escent paint, which, when .acti- vated gives off light The © Approxi- mately three times more effective ) than filament lighting, It can be so arranged that the wave- length of the exciting light not alone. causes the paint to fluor- esce but also kills off bacteria in the atmosphere, If the present blackout experi- ments prove successful, the fluor- escent paint will be made use of in a variety of ways, for example by iluminating the platform steps of buses, edges of railway station platforms and tramway junctions, Already, vhouses have installed the system for lighting entrance halls where - the street doors have to be opén. ed in the" blackout. NO BIKE AD By taking your eyes off the bicycle, you will noticé' at the left pretty young Sally Wads- worth, or why spring is so de- lightful in ot ~A former model, she has a studio stock con- tract. Glass Hone Keeps Razor Blade Sharp Now a word or two "about these "suggestions" for keeping blades sharp by using glassware as hones, says The .Hamliton Spectator. A lot of men are too -skeptical to even put the recom- mendation to a test. But it does work. Even the master barber admits that 'it does, and so do many shavers who agree that an- other "ten or fifteen close shaves. can easily be obtained by this method, even py those who were wont to discard their blades after the third and fourth shave. Simply get a smooth. glass tum- bler; place the blade, single or double edge, lengthwise inside the glass, which can be either "wet or dry. Some shavers suggpst that the blade be moved sideways but - the barber favérs a semi- circular movement with the fore- finger resting on the blade. -A dozen strokes are enough, as these straighten the feather edge and restore the blade's origipal To Protect Shrubs From Cats And Dogs Flowers and shrubs in gar- dens and porches can be pro- tected wgainst damage by cats and dogs by the simple use of a dilute nicotine spray, The spray is harmless but the smell is very " offensive to these animals, even when applied so thinly that per- sons are unaward of its presence. Nicotine sulphate can be pur- chased at any seed or drug store and should be used at the rate of one-half teaspoonful to a gallon of water, The spray evaporates and should be renewed aftet* a rain, In ordinary weather, spray- experimented' many private business --_--_---- > ~ 1c E ESS ve PR TO BE STOPPED From the standpoint .of econ- omy in the use of gasoline, the warning of the Oil Controller against using trucks to carry groups of passengers on Sunday outings is well justified, . Such vehicles are not subject to the strict rationing which applies to passenger cars, and loading them up with holiday-makers is a subtle way of getting around the spirit of the law. There will be scant sympathy for any truck owner who finds his licence can- celled because of such practices. --Windsor Star MARRIAGE DETERRENT The rush of war weddings ap- parently may bring drastic meas- ures to Washington. There the office of price administration has suggested that bakers stop slicing bread. This proposal purportedly is offered as a means of saving time, labor and paper. I 'If the prospective bride is well aware that she may have to slice bread, she will think again about marrying that lad before he goes to war. Why, one of these days they might even ask her to bake it. NO FRIENDS LEFT Belgium, regarded as more or less complaisant since the Ger- man occupation, now is reported aflame with revolt, the people having become sickened with the hehavior of their conquerors, There is not one corner of the occupied lands of Europe where the Nazis can. count any real friends, be oy --Niagata Falls Review "HOME ICE" FINALS Those in a position to do, so, provided they measure up to the physical and age requirements, should join. either the reserve or puts it bluntly, "the playoffs in this war may be on home ice." --Kitchener Record Detroit woman has divorced her of getting home late--six months late in 1940 and five months late last year. After all, a woman carr keep 'the plates in the oven just so long. . --Windsor Star TWO GOOD REASONS Lord Beaverbrook says that Russia may settle the war for us this year. Let's hope wo, but in the mnieantime let us also work like blazes to help her settle it and also in case she doesn't. --Kingston Whig-Standard FIRST CONTRACT The coming of war to New Guinea brings to light interior tribes which had no previous con- -tact with -civliization, We hope they like it. ) --Winnipeg Tribune Millions Of Bees o One hundred million bees will travel by train during this year's bee-shipping season, according to officials of the Canadian National Express. The season extends from late April until early July, and 'the value of thé bee-import- ing business this year promises to exceed that of last season, crates of bees passed through border points, Fach crate has three hives, sometifnes called pac- kages, -each of (which contains two and one-half pounds of bees, With five thousand bees to the pound, an éstimated total of 97, 276,000 bees were imported through the Montreal gateway, Of this number, almost ninety per cent were turned over to the Canadian National Express for re. shipment to Quebec Honey Pro- ducers farms, Shipments of certified bees come mostly from Georgia and Mississippi, - although occ#sional lots come from Nevada and Ala- «Ing every two weeks is sufficient, bama, --Guelph Mercury active army, or, as one soldier" IT ISN'T REASONABLE |, "husband because he had a habit Travel By Train. During the 1941 season, 2,694 | "I didn't like the sud . THE WAR « WEEK -- Commentary' on Current Events Message Of Good Cheer Given By Prime Minister Churchill There echoed through Mr, Churchill's grimly measured sen- tences yesterday all of the .old determination, the old force and fire, backed by a new confidence and a new authority, says The New York Herald Tribune, It was the unanswerable authority of ev. ents, Not, perhaps, since his blast.' ing address to th¢ Italian people fn thet last days Of 1940 has the Prime Minister spoken with quite this ring. Dealing with the long intervening succession of periods, dofeats and anxletles, he has not been able to. 3 Through the (wo long years since the collapse of France the British and their Prime Minister have had to speak out of dog- gedness, courage and little be.' sides. But now at last the weapong are coming into their hands; they are partners of a.mighty alllance, and the authority with which Mr. Churchill again adresses the en- emy peoples is au authority which we may all begin to share, Less than ever can 'one doubt that 1942 is" the crucial year, that we are already witnessing -- from the thunders of the artillery over the Coral Sea all around to the crash of super-bombs on western Ger- many--the first stages of the greatest and perhaps the most de- cisive battle in history, and that the next few weeks and months will, as the Australian Premier has put It, shake the world, . . » . At this solemu moment, Mr, Churchill paints a picture of the actual stiuation (far better than - any one, amid the shattering. fall ot the Western World two years ago, could have dreamed that it would be; far Dbettter than one could have hoped a year ago, when we In the United States were still tangled in our confu. sions and experts were predicting the end of Russia in a. space of weeks; better than one feared amid the defeats at Pearl Harbor and in the ensuing,months; better evén at some points than many today suppose. kis promise of a bombing offensive by American as well as British plaves is even more formidable than one had ex- pected; his statement that even yet 'there Is no evidence that the Nazis have succeeded iu massing for a new Russian offensive is sur- prising, and his statement that Hitler has "certainly" expended more lives In Russia already than Germany lost in the wholo course of the first war is startling. LJ * . When these hints are seen against such momentary good news as the initial success in the Coral Sea or the astonishing Te surgence of General Stillwell's' "lost" Chinese army in Burma, it is difficult to doubt that events are at last upon their remorse- less march toward a tremendous climax. One may never for a mo- ment forget that the issue of that - anese people. war in climax is as yet undecided, and can be decided only by the utmost effort and at heavy cost. But the long, , long retreat, at least, 'is ending, Slowly crime, murder and aggression are calling up against themselvés the terrible 'logic of bistoyy, as they have done so often in the past, It was that fact which. Mr Churchill announced to the world, and announced in particu. lar .to the German and the Jap- He showed them that they are already far on the road to a frightful. catastrophe, of which they are the only au- thors .and which can be averted only if they change their course. And he spoke with the authority of events, J . . . Prophecy in the midst of a #world struggle of such titanic dl- mensions as this, according to the New York Times, is necessarily perilous, but it may well be that historians, looking back, will place the definite turning point of the' the spring of this year. We are too close to such events of recent days as the British seiz-- ure of Madagascar, the dramatic reversal in the Battle of Burma, or the stunning blow dealt to the Japanese naval forces in the Battle ot the Coral Sea, to be able to estimate clearly their longer significance. Indeed the full score on both sides in Burma or the Coral Sea has yet to be counted, and in neither case is the epl- sode definitely closed. Yet so far as we can judge now the naval action nartheast of Australia was a setback to Japan of the first dimensions. Such a rate of losses, certaildy, could not ba long sus- tained. . , * 3 * With each day that passes, Mr. Churchill seems to be more and more correct in calling Hitler's attack upon Russia last Juna a "fatal blunder." The blood bath through which the Nazi tyrant has already taken the German people is appalling and the end is not in sight, It is not too much to say that Me. Churchill's radio speech was the most confident he | has made since he assumed office, He has been confident, it is true, before; but previously his confi: dence was that of a man who knew only that KEuogland never could he conquered; today it is the positive confidence of a man convinced that Germany can- be and perhaps even now is being de- feated. Mr. Churchill, for example, would never have talked as he did of aerial bomblugs; he would nev- er have taunted Hitler for his failures, as he did, or warned him 80 bluntly against resort to poison gas, unless he were convinced that the United Nations now held at least air equality and would soon hold a growing air mastery. . . * Noty least among the grounds for hope in Mr. Churchill's speesh was his reference to the time ele- ment, Democratic statesmen Ia LIFE'S LIKE THAT 22) [) Je 2s or TEE SA AA i den 'way it ended, . , , | hardly ~ put my shoes on." . - don il § Class: Who may buy: festricting sales of tires, new and used tu S$, an What may be bought: DRASTIC NEW REGULATIONS ew, retreaded, and used retreading services : ARE NOW IN EFFECT Only a limited few, the owners of essential eligible vehicles, may now obtain usable tires or tubes, or retreading services. Apart from salés permitted by the new regulations, no person may buy or sell, borrow or lendl, barter, give away, mortgage, burn, cut, destroy or otherwise dispose of any such tire or tube. Eligible vehicle owners are divided into three classes, on 'this basis: How purchases may be made: id Physicians, New, retreaded, or used tires; 'To buy new tire or tube, retreaded tire = Visiting nurses, new or used tubes; retreading or retreading service, purchaser must Firefighters, services, apply for Ration Permit to the nearest Police, office of Wartime Prices and Trade Certain trucks, ete. ~ Board: (For used tire or used tube, soe Cy Class "C"). "B" War a Retreaded br used tires; used To buy retreaded tire or retreading ser- ' Technicians tubes; retceading services. vices, purchaser must apply for Ration War supply Permit to the nearest office of War- inspectors, time Prices and Trade Board: (For Taxi owners, etc, used tire or used tuoe see below), *"C" Food Used tires, used tubes, A vehicle owner in this class may buy inspectors, only used tires or used tubes. He must Scrap buyers, prove necessity to any authorizd dealer Travelling and fill out with the dedler a Purchase repairmen, Certificate. Classes "A" and "B" may Rural school also buy used tires and tubes under the teachers, eto, same conditions. -FULL DETAILS OF THE NEW ORDER ARE OBTAINABLE } FROM ANY TIRE DEALER ' Very severe penalties will be imposed for any infractions of the new regulations. The tire dealers of Canada are co-operating with the Government in the efficient operation of the order, and in its enforcement. It is their patriotic duty to repair and legally resell all usable tires in their possession, and turn over at once to the nearest salvage agency any scrap rubber they have on hand or receive in the future, including all tires and tubes no longer serviceable. Every person, whether a dealer or not, must report by May 31 to the Tire Rationing Representative at his nearest Wartime Prices and Trade Board office, all tires and tubes in his possession on May 15, which are not scrap, and which are not on the running wheels and one spare rim of each vehicle he owns, sg Department of Munitions and Supply SR i HONOURABLE C. D. HOWE, MINISTER, OTTAWA CONSERVE YOUR TIRES--THEY ARE PROBABLY THE LAST YOU WILL HAVE UNTIL THE WAR IS OVER recent years, and perhaps Mr. sShelldilhing, explosives, and Churchill most of all, have had More Women chemical plants also are drawing to warn their countrymen that increasingly it was getting late. But when Mr. Churchill said, "It is now the tenth of May, aud the days ure passing," ho meant for the first time that Jt was getting late for Hitler. Hitler may strike still, at any moment, and terrifically; but with each day that passes therv is rea- son for growing confidence that what holds him back is not the desire to choose his moment, but the fact that he nas at last lost the power to choose his moment. © ov + In commenting on Mr. Chure- bill's warning to Germany against the uss of poison gas, The Long Daily. Express said: : "Tha last thing in the world the British people want to see is the use of poison 'gas again, They would soouner their victory cost them 20 years of hard fighting than win in one year by the use of gas. * "But it the Germans start the use' of gus then Britain 13 equip- ped to respond. Churchill many times has been right in his warn. ings of events at hand in the war. -No one will ignore his solemn warnings of gas warfare, , . "Tho gangsters who rule Ger- many are desperate. Mayho they will not heed this warning from Britain. Let the German people heed. it." To Ration Candies In Great Britain Food Minister Lord Woolton announced that chocolates and other candies wiil be rationed, starting July 27. - A new per- sonal ration book will be issued to facilitate distribution, Lord Woolton sa'd the decision was the result, of appeals by the public and dealers for more equit- able distribution of available sup- plies. Candy rations for the armed services -will- be dealt with separately and there will be a a » . Be pres 3 LJ - BY In War Work Make Oeclicate (Instruments After Few Weeks of Training 'Canada's army of women dir ectly engaged in war industry now numbers tens of thousands, The proportion of women to men in the various branches of muni- tions varies widely according to the nature of the work; in some instances it is as low as three per cent, in others as high as 60 per cent, In aireraft factories women's" work is growingly essential and significant. Once, in the early days ol the big expansion, they wore used on. "woman's work. only", such as sewing of fabric on airplane wings Now, they do much of the elec- trical wiring, the riveting and welding, and the fitting of sub- assembly work, Women and delicate only a few training. and fuselages. are making fatricate instruments after weeks of iutensive Morte are combining head and hand work in making parachutes, on which the lives of airmen often depend, For cer- tain kinds of work, requiring del: icacy of touch, the hands of waq- © men are defter than men's. Too exhibit greater patience, - too, in operations that demand. accurate and repetitive movements, Ag an example of the opportun- ilies for women in war work, one of the largest automatic gun plants in the world, situated in Ontario, employs women to op- erate "lathes, milling machines, and barvel turning machines, At another factory, established with "Government capital and owned by-- the people, a high percentage of women are working in the ma- chine shop making Lee-Entield rifles. In tig Dominion Arsenals thousands of women and girls aro turning out millions of 1ounds ot special book for. children. smiall- arms ammunition, ons of the most interesting of the publicly-owned enterprises, many women ave working on parts fog and the assembly of tank pers scopes, range finders, and fire control devices, And muiriage is no bar now to temporary Civil Service positions, In one moath alone the Civil Service Commission took on al most equal numbers --322 and 31% respectively of typists amd slene- praphers for employment in and outside of Ottawa, Theve is developing a keen de- mand for university women whe have had advayce training im to fill vacancies with the luspeo- tion Bo: of the United King- women already are employed with this board to inspect gun barrels, gun carriage parts, firo control instruments, explosives, and radio parts. And the demand for womea with technical education and training is steadily increasing. Citizens Of U.S. Get Ration Books Ration books / were issued to individuals last week for the first time in the history of the. United States when registration for sugar allotments began. Made necessary by "a war caused shortage, War Ratiom Book No. 1 insures every man, woman and child an equal amount of sugar. The book also has heen designed for possible ration- ing of other products, The basic ration for the 'im- mediate period is half-pound a week for cach person, although actually each person ill be al. lowed slightly more than that amount in the initial period from May 6 to 16 when stamp No 1 will be good for a pound. Sugae sales to individuals have beem . prohibited since April 28. REG'LAR FELL ARENA Sep 30nd nnn ' By STEE-RIKE THU-REE GENE BYRNES on female. labour, Im, mathematics, chemistry, or radio, "dom and Cauida, Several hundred : 4 sp CX " --