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To Place Returned ed b, Veterans On Land Settlement Scheme May Be In Effect Next Spring Possibility that the veterans' land settlement scheme may be in operation by next spring if the bill is passed by the House of Commons, were seen as the House land settlement committee neared the end of its deliberations. "Due to manpower and trans. portation difficulties, we won't be able to Inspect a large number ot farms and get them ready for soldier settlers before next spring," sald Gordon Murchison, director ot soldier settlement. "Even then we. may not be able to deal with a large volume of applications." He stated, however, . that the small percentage of men eligible at this time might be gottled." ~ 70,000 Farms Available W. 8. Woods, associate deputy minister of pensions and national health, said that of the 40,000 men already discharged from the armed forces, not more than a third were eligible for land set tlement since they had served less than six months in Canada, A veteran to be eligible must have served at least one year in Canada or seen service overseas. There now are less than 300 men with qualifications who are pressing claims. Another 100 ap- plications have been received since the committee began to meet, Mr. Woods added that most dis- charged men are being absorbed into war industries at present. Mr. Murchison said he has a list of 70,000 farms that could be bought tor veteran settlers but these have notebeen examined for sultability., Lack of manpower and restrictions on gasoline and rub- ber made it impossible to carry on the Inspections at great speed. r arded Decoration . Wa wie Aaine At tne conclusiva of a private dinner at which he was host to King Peter of Yugoslavia, W. M, Birks, chairman of the Canadian Friends of Yugoslavia, was invest- His Majesty with the Order of Saint Sava, one of Yugo- glavia's most ancient and honored decorations, ~ Mr, Birks is one of Montreal's outstanding citizens. Policeman Finds. Live Lion In Car Tipsy. Cowboy and Friend Roped Stray Beast Arresting a tipsy cowboy," Pol- fceman James Hunter of Oklahoma _ made a routine search of his pris- oner's automobile. y . He ralsed the lid of the trunk compartment, peeked boldly in- slde, then jumped back with a howl, Le _ Inside securely tied, was a big- lion, alive and growling. "Where did you get that thing?" Hunter demanded, = ee "Why, me and John just roped it down the road." Hunter, who hadn't heard of & lion In these parts since the last circus train went through," snorted. "I'll tell you," he eald, . "You come down to the jall and sleep it off. and tell your story again in the "morning." ME Next day the cowboy took a look' at the lon, turned a little pale, but stuck to his story. "Me and John saw this crit loping down the road last night. prods a __It sure looked like a lion but we tiguréd' that was on account of the stuft we had been drinking." "I got out on the running board and John drove alongside him and 1 got a rope on the sucker, 'When J-reared back that big boy came up and slapped me with his paw and I knew then that 1 had hold of a lion, shore enough, - 'Reckon I'd have been chewed to plece if John hadn't jumped out and got another rope on him and took a hitch around a 'tree Then we tiled him up and pitched him in the-car" Police finally Informed the cow- boy he was free to go on his way," providing he would take the lion «with him, A Asked the whereabouts of John, he replied, thoughtfully: "Now, I wonder where he went to?" - Bowmanville 'em Dying"; LR FAT . Pr RIFF Addin aed ged Natives of menaced India, curiosity overcoming their caution, clamber over tanks newly arrived in "greatest convoy ever to leave Britain for Far East." VOICE OF THE WHAT'S WRONG? We quite often hear the ques- tion asked: What is wrong with our cducdtional system? One answer was supplied to us re- cently by a' radio broadcaster and it is not so far wrong at that. Th trouble with education, he stated, is that the teachers are afraid of the principal, the princ- ipal is afraid of the inspector and the school board, the school board if afraid of the parents, the par- ents are afraid of the children and the children are not afraid of "anyone,--Carleton Place Canad- ian, HELPS THE FARMERS The editor and staff of the Statesman have worked overtime to get their paper "to bed" so that they mm, be free to go out and help at farm work, Not only this, but the paper's farm editor has for two seasons taken a whirl at hay- ing, harvesting and threshing. Well, we'll wager there'll be wigs on the green now, up in Durham County. Congratulations, fellow editors, This is ong time when hay forks and rakes and culti- vators will be mightier than the pen!--Kingston -Whig-Standard, WORRIES EFFICIENTLY Prime Minister Churchill told his friends in Washington that he had so many worries that he had to set up a personal priority sys- tem for them. + To a colleague who was complaining about his minor troubles, Mr. Churchill ex- plained that he had had so many worries for so long now that they had to have a top priority to claim his interest. One day, he ex- plained, Kharkov has A-1A prior- ity; the next day Egypt. In that way he explained jokingly, he could "worry efficiently" WARTIME SLOGANS By their slogans yo shall know them! United 'Nations--"Keep 'em Flying"; Germany--'Keep Italy--*Keep 'em Diving"; Japan--"Keep'em-Flee-- ing"; Vichy France--'Keep "em Lying"; and Hon, J. L. Ilsley-- "Keep 'em Buying".--Hamilton Spectator. v EVENING THINGS UP There are always compensations, Little. Willie has been bewailing the ban on the manufacture Bf kids' bicycles, but he gets a lift out of the similar action that has now been taken with respect to lawn mowers,--Windsor Star. ONLY REALIZATION The only times some people realize there is a war in progress is when a budget speech increases their taxation or the Oil Con- troller reduces their- gasoline ra-- tions.--Brockville Recorder and Times, . GOOD IDEA A contemporary says.it would be a good idea to take autos away from all careless drivers, where- upon the streets would become safe, quiet--and almost degerted. --Brantford Expositor, = ORIGIN OF ANTS Scientists find ants existed 60 million years ago--probably they started with the first picnie.-- Kitchener Record. Open Golf Meet For Seagram Cup Will history repeat itself? That's the question Canadian Golt fans are asking themselves, for it past history means anything there will be another playoff for the Can. adian Open Golf Championship and the Seagram Gold Cup at Missis- sauga on August 6, 7 and 8, The approaching open will be the third held at Mississauga and In each of the previous struggles . _there have been deadlocks, one being decided by A thirty-six hole playoff and the other by one that went twenty-seven holes. In" the fouth round In 1931 Walter Hagen had 282, after slipping to a bad .74 In the final round. In'the play- oft the Halg scored hls only vie- tory In the Canadian open. Seven years later Sammy Snead and Harry Cooper tied with a total of 277. In the eighteen hole playoft they both carded brilliant 67's and after a consultation with the -R. C. G. A. officials it was decided to play nine additional holes. On these final holes Cooper slipped badly turning In a 39, while Snead who wag really hot from tce to cup, came in with a 34. Slamming. A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army Hitler must hang! And that forthright statement may be taken as a compound sentence for the whole gang of Nazi leaders. After 'the fighting finished in 1918 there was a lot of talk about bringing the Kaiser to trial and demands for punishment of . the leaders of the German people --but, as time went on the fer- vour died down, Christian tenets were mouthed by the very people who later ¥n/ were the apostles of disarmament, and -- nothing was done to show the German people that it is an evil thing to let loose the forces of evil on mankind, Nothing- was done? Nothing! Oh Yes, a few colonies were put under mandate---the German mind would expect that; reparations were claimed--and partially for- given; and, almost immediately, loans were made to Germany to assist in the rehabilitation of trade! What did the Army think about all that? l-.can speak for only one Sergeant in that army. But [ am sure that what I felt was echoed --and intensified--by the moth- ers of dead sons, the widows, the orphans, What good did the Christian attitude do? Was it really a Christian attitude? Let's answer the second ques- tion first. I don't think it was, I think that was a time when, remembering that Christ said "turn the other cheek," we fore got that the same Christ drove the money-changers out of the Temple! Perhaps you are -where 'the Individual 'Army comes into this, wondering Citizen's Don't _worry, it comes in all right! The Individual Citizen's Army -- that means all of us, don't forget-- is concerned and very deeply con- cerned, with everything that goes on in the world today. There is not a thing that hap- pens that does not concern each ono of us, The death of a U. S. Army aviator somewhere over the Coral Sea is just as important to the whole scheme of things as the loss of a Canadian-made tank in Libya. Death has hardly touched us yet. By the time the "Great War" was as old as this one thousands of Canadians had been killed in battle. There was hardly a home- in.the Dominion that had not been shadowed . by the dark angel's wing. ; And by the samo token there was hardly a home in the whole of Canada that was not straining every sinew to help beat the enemy, _ LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "He thinks it's only fair to give the animals a sporting chance." 77) i WK Jk Wi) yp Vik % TH) hing Then death, sudden 'violent death, had become so common- - place that "Casualty Lists" in the a daily papers occupied more space than the "Sports Pages" do today --and were as eagerly scanned, Today as much space is given 'to the drowning of two office cadets in an Army Week display as would have chronicled the deaths in action of 300 men in | the 1914-19 war, \ What a shame! What a shame that we should need an "Army Week" to focus our thoughts on our soldiers. It is symptomatic of something half-hearted and lack- adaisical that all over the Domin- ion it should be necessary to stage demonstrations to remind us that there is a war going on, - But "Army Week" or "Navy Week" or "Air Force Week" should be every week, We must generate the proper state of mind about this war. It is our war. Not the war of the soldier, the sailor or the airman. And it will fall to those of us who could only help in a very limited way to back up the fighting forces when their job is done and see to it that a grim retribution falls upon the guilty. . There is nothing soft about our men in uniform. Let us sce to it that there is nothing soft about us when the day of reckoning comes. Every lamp post in the Unter Den Lin- den should be a gallows, thére must be a gallows--occupied by carrion bait--in every hamlet, every village, every town, every city in occupied territory that has known the weight of the Nazi scourge, tho stench of Italy, the malarial infection of Japan. There is a job for us privates in the Individual Citizen's Army --a job we will do whole-heart- edly as wo look--and we shall ~look--upon our comrades on crutches or following "Sceing- Lye" dogs or as we place flowers under memorial windows in our church' yards. Right now there is another job to do, the job of conserving every- thing that is needed for the busi- ness of waging successful war, It is a simple job. So simple wa may not think it worthwhile. It involves such things as cutting out joy-riding, carrying parcels from the store, turning last wint- er's coat, giving up smoking, drinking less tea and. coffee, doing without alcoholic beverages, hav- ing shoes repaired even when the uppers are shabby. It involves © reporting infrac- tions of the price 'egjling, orders no matter how abhorrent "snitch- ing" is. None of us would hesi- tate to tackle or report a spy or a saboteur. Neither should we hesitate to report a commercial saboteur--for breaches of the price ceiling are acts of sabotage against the law-abiding. The storekeeper, wholesaler, manufac- turer, landlord or other business man doesn't just break a law-- he 'harms "you. If he gets away with it because you keep silent the spectre of postwar inflation looms closer, if the ceilings are maintained postwar inflation will be averted and we'll have time to sce that the war has not been fought in vain. To Send Clippings Instead of Papers Post office officials last week said a general campaign is being planned to encouragé Canadians to send newspaper clippings rather | "than complete newspapers over- seas. ° The plan has already been pre- sented: to newspaper associations and is being supported by the Canadian Postmasters' Associa- tion. "In most cases clippings are quite sufficient to give the news and would overcome the terrific waste in shipping space which there is at present with thousands of papers being sent overseas," a departmental spokesman said. =curred. THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events German And Japanese Thrusts Menace Russia's Supply Lines ~ The story of Russia's milkary strength is the story of epace, end- less space. Armies that have crowd- ed all rivals oft the face of Hurope have marched {oto Russia and been swallowed up fin the vast brown landscape rolling away to the east, Napoleon learned 130 years ago "that' a battle won fin Russia does not have the same meaning as a battle 'won in Aus. trla; there is always room In Rus- sla. for another battle, Adolt Hit- ~ ler learned last year that each mile forward in Russia, each great fn- dustrial town destroyed, only means another mile to go, another town to destroy. Last week, In battles spaced hundreds of mile apart, Hitler's armed might tried to solve the problem of space, says the New York Times. Germany's Objectives The German effort presumably had two objectives: (1) to take possession of important arteries of traffic by which strength flows from one part ol the Soviet body to another; (2) to block theiroutes over which come war materials from Russia's Allies across the acas, The accomplishment of these objectives would make Soviet transportation problems more dit ficult. It was conceivable that Rus- sia's resistance might be split (uto two parts, cath of which could ob- tain supplies from the other ouly with the utmost difficulty, Drive To The River To win the first and greatest of these prizes the Germans aimed ~ their chief drive at the Don River. Aun announcement from Berlin described the Red Avmy as "de- structively beaten" along 220 miles of the Don front, Moscow reported heavy Soviet counter-attacka de- signed, apparently, to divert the main weight of the German drive from reaching toward Stalingrad and the Caspian, hundreds of miles away, The Wehrmacht's goal seemed to be no less than to cut Marshal Timoshenko's southern army in two, to isolate the whole Caucasug region, Then Hitler could strike for the wells that normally produce 90 per cent of che Soviet supply; he could scek to cut the Allied supply line that runs from Iran up through- the Caspian. Sea Battle In North o To win its second objective Ia the war against space, a German battle squadron skirted Norway's towering North Cape. Once round the cape the German fleet, con- sisting, according to reports from Moscow, of the battleship Tivpitz, the pocket-battlgships Scheer and Luetzow, the heavy cruiser Nipper. and eight destroyers, was. on the main supply route from the de- mocracies of the west and the Red armies. There, guns blazed. Alter the fighting was over con- Uicting claims by some govern- ments, silence "from others, left a confused picture of what had oc- The Germans said that their ships, supported by land based nircraft, fell upon an Allied convoy, sank a heavy American cruiser and destroyed all but six of a thirty-eight-ship flotilla, From - Moscow came the report that the German attack was halted when a Russian submarine torpedoed the Tirpitz tWice and that the German ships" withdew while the convoy sailed on to a Russian port. The Soviet spoke also of heavy -bomb- ing raids on Nazi airfields in Northern Norway and Finland, the bases for the forays against the' Allied supply line in the Arctic. 1942 Push Starts Observers in Allied countries were ready to concede thats Hit- "ler's "big push" for 1942 had at last started. It had been long ex- pected; predicted for early Spring, then late Spring. Both on land and. at_sea- it constituted Hitler's attempt to solve the problem that baffled Napoleon--the defeat of Russia. red While the battle along the Don was being fought on a limited front compared to the great bagtles of last Summer and Fall, there were those who saw in its threat to. the Russian internal. transpor- tation system a threat as great as were last year's battles. IC it were not checked, agd if it turned southward toward the' Caucasus, "The it could be the gravest menace yet fn the Wehrmacht's drive toward the Middle East, Others pointed out that space was still on the side of Russia. East of the Don, Jey pointed Out, lles the Volga nd east of the Volga the Urals and beyond that, the wide expanse of Siberia. 4 Battle of Aleutians fn the mist and rain that shroud America's Aleutian fslands on 280 days of the year's 365, a battle relatively small in scale but' sig- nificant In strategy is being fought by Japan and the United States. The action began when the Mik ado's forces raided Dutch Harboe on Juue 3 and shortly thereafter put troops ashore at the tip of the archipelago that thrusts 1,600 miles from Alaska across the North Pacific. The United States hit back at the invader with at- trition tactics, seeking to destroy landing groups and the ships sup- plying them. A report on the pro- grass of the battle was issued not long ago by Washington. Submarines In Action American submarines, it was disclosed, had penetrated the waters around the three western most islands seized by the Japan- eso--Attu, Agattu and Kiska, The fogs that have hampered long- range air bombers helped screem the undersea raiders' movements, ' Two weeks ago their torpedoes sank four enemy destroyers, left a fifth in flames. The toll brought Jupaneso naval losses--mostly In- flicted by Army planes--in Aleu- tian encounters to fifteen vessels sent to the bottom or damaged. United States losses have not been disclosed, save for unspecls fied damage at Dutch Harbor, but it was evident that the Japanese wero extending their grip in the Aleutians, Their castward advance from Attu to Kiska spanned -230 miles, They were surely erecting air and naval stations that could play an important role in the North Pacific theatre. Japanese -Menace Grave From Kiska it is 615 miles te Dutch Harbor. From Attu it Is 695 miles to Russia's Kamchatka defenses and 766 miles to Para- mushir, Japan's northernmost nay- al base. Thus, the Nipponese are in a central position (1) to drive toward the North American con- tinent, (2) to intercept an Allied move across the North Pacitie against Japan, (3) to strike the U.S.S.R. from a new flank, (4) to cut a possible line of supply from Alaska to Siberia. Despite the gravity of the Japanese menace, it was believed, the Allies could not yet spare forces from the many other global theatres for a campaign to regain the far Alou- tians. 1 Gneisenau May Be Out For Duration 26,000-ton German battle ship Gneisenau, which slipped through the English Channel from Brest February 13 despite a heavy British aerjal attack, is anchored in the former Polish port of Gdy- nia with her three 1l-inch gun turrets dismantled, British aerial photographs showed recently, + About 30 feet of the-ship's fore- castle deck also has been removed and the- British expressed the be- lief she had suffered such serious damage that she "may he out for the duration." The Air Ministry said it would be impossible to make the necessary largescale re- pairs on the vessel at Gdynia. The Gneisenau was bombed ro- peatedly while she was tied up at Brest from March, 1941, until the day she slipped out of the French port "with other units of the Ger- man fleet and successfully eluded ¥ thi, British, The Air Ministry said the ship suffered further damage on the flight from Brest. The ministry statement added that the Gneisenau, first taken to Kiel, probably was hit again dur- ing a British raid on Kiel Febru- ary 26, Tho photographs, made in day-' Hght some time after that raid, also showed the German depot ship Monte Olivia.or a liner of the same class burned out and moored near the battleship, 3 SAY WAKE UPS VIMATS THE MATTER WITH "ou 7 00 YoU THINK YOU "REG'LAR FELLERS--Dangerous Practice - By GENE BYRNES OH, BUT I'M TIRED / I WAS UP, TUL TEN AFTER EIGHT LAS NGHT./ nild Ara. i fg ULB Put. Offln, AT rights raved 7 ERE AR YOUR MANNERS DONT You iow WHEN YAWN YOURE SUPPOSED TO HOLD YOUR HAND OVER YOUR MOUTH ? THAT WHEN YOU ) " nN 420 dy 5 = ™ Sra Coa ST A es --. 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