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Prisoners Of War Need Garden Seed Troops Held by Axis Sup- plement Prison Rations --de Having recently launched a suo- oessful campalgn for the collection of thousands of books for Canadian prisoners of war, the Prisoners of War Relatives' Association has now been asked by the Royal Ag- ricultural Soclety of Britain to undertake, during the remaining weeks of the present months, to collect as many garden seeds as possible for next spring's gardens among the prison camps. The prisoners grow these for their own use exclusively. Last year- the. association sent . $100 worth of seeds to the soclety, which forwarded them {in bulk form to camps scattered through. out Germany, Italy and other oec- cupled territory, with the result that spaces surrounding the huts and quarters were put to practical use in the growing of vegetables which supplemented the scanty diet of Canadian war prisoners. The food parcels supplied by the Canadian Red Cross provide much substantial assistance, but there is need for fresh vegetables, assocla- tion officials point out, to maintain the health of the prisoners. An appeal has already been made to the seed houses across Canala, but the response so far has been far from encouraging, with the result' that the associa- tion has now taken its appgal into the field of the Individual. Anyone wishing to make a con- tribution of seeds, either vegetable or flowers, or who desires to make "a cash donation for the purchase of seeds may send their gifts to the national headquarters of the Can. adian Prisoners of War Relatives Association, 718 Sun Life Building, Montreal. Shaping A Shroud For Adolph Hitler A sailmaker is not a sailmaker In these days of war, but his stiletto-like ncedles and- waxed twine are busy shaping a shroud for Hitler, Sail lofts are now humming with an activity that was notice ably lacking before the war. Then the craftsmen were reduced to fashioning canvas for pleasure boats, the 'reign of the clipper ships and the square riggers with their yards and yards of canvas long past. Story of the business' trans. formation, however, is best told by. I." C. Johnson of Montreal, a sailmaker -who learned his trade in England .and acw operates a loft at Halifax. "Business," he claims, "is good. We make cvery- thing under the sun but sails." A look at_his loft. backs his claim. Six employees -- including two women -- work in the long, low room in the top storey of a building parked so close to the waterfront here it practically rocks. All are busy stitching and shaping canvas into cones and squares and rectangles and ."ev- erything under the sun but sails." * * * True to tradition, these weird- looking bits of canvas go .to sea, their 'tough hides acting as pro- tectors for the many delicate in- struments on Canadian men of war. On these fight ships they will serve as binnacle covers, gun covers, signal cones, signal balls, life raft tents and as a hundred- and-one other things. Each destroyer in the Cana- dian navy has 300 such uses for the sailmakers' art, while the smaller corvettes can use at least 200 such appliances. That adds up to an imposing total and keeps the sailmakers humming. Horse May Prove .. Useful In Army The horse is getting a chance to work for the Canadian army again after three years of horse- less military transportation, He is on trial so far and whether he stays in the army or not depends on a report from Petawawa military camp en how mitch saving of oil, gasoline and tires i§ possible. Officials in the Department of National Defence said recently the purchase of ten medium- weight draught horses for Peta- wawa presages a new policy under which horse-drawn vehicles . may be used for transportation pur. poses 'in the army in Canada. So far there is no suggestion that horses be used for battle purposes, such as hauling guns or carrying fighting men, as they ware in the first Great War and in previous conflicts. The tnotor truck, tank, armored car and motorcycle seem to have definit- ely pushed the horse into the non- combatant class. Military authorities believe, however, that for hauling jobs around army camps limited use of horses 'in place of motors may make possible a considerable sav.' ing in tires and fuel: TWILIGHT OF ANOTHER RISING SUN Jap plane as it floats in the Pacific a fight over the Solomons. iin Smita eo A Bp me Pend -sun emblem' on the ving in ia whatt all that's lett of this t er being shot down 1 in a dog- Germany Drains Italy's Manpower As the Nazis drive toward Rus. sla"s oil, the toll of machines and materials is reflected In reports that Germany Is moving Italy's industrial plants into the Relch and draining Italian manpower to staff factories in the Reich. An obvious weakness of the Ger. man-Italian alliance is Italy's lack of raw materials, says the Nation. al Geographic Society. Before the war Italy depended upon Germany for coal, Normally she looked to Germany for about one-half of her requirements (about 7,000,000 tons a year); to Britain for a fourth. Much of the imported tonnage was water-borne. Brl- tain's blockade put a severe bur- den on Italian facilities for move- ment of German coal by rall. Coal deposits in the Apennines and at the base of the Alps yiglded about 2,000,000 tons a year. With the out- break ot war Germany becams vir- tually Italy's sole source of supply; By subsidies Italy tried come independent of foreign fon sources, This effort failed. Only one-fourth of the. country's needs came from domestic mines, with the Islands of Sardinia and Elba the chief sources. Imports of iron and steel from Germany have kept Italian industry going. German shipments of bars, rods, sheets and manufacturers of iron and steel In a representative year amounted to $15,000,000. From Germany also came machine tools, agricultural and textile machinery, electric gen- erators, motors and other appar- atus to the amount of $25,000,000 in a year. Before the war Italy was second only to Japan in the buying of scrap iron and steel. SCOUTING . . . Lady Baden-Powell, widow ot the founder and late Chief Scout of British Empire Boy Sc returned to London from Kenya, Africa, where she has heen llving for some time, and where Lord Baden-Powell dled, Lady Baden- Powell, who Is world Chiet Girl Guide, said she had come homo 'to urge the Girl Guides in this coun- try to do even more wonderful work than they are doing now." Lord Baden-Powell died in Kenya on January 8th, 1941. - hs L " * Boy Scouts all over Canada are going In for "Commando" Scout- Ing, to toughen themselves for the time when their services ntay be required in the armed forces, Typ- ical of such training is the task set for themselves by two New Toronto Boy Scouts, who made a week-end hike of 42 miles to the Blue Spring Camp reserve near Guelph. They carried full kit and cooked their meals en route, Ld * CF In the recent "Baedeker" raid on Bath, England, a 13year-old Tenderfoot Boy Scout was named as personal guide to, the 0.C. of the military establishment. In writing to the lad's Scoutmaster afterwards the 0.C. stated that the boy had an expert knowledge of every section of_the city, and was able to direct him to any place he desired to go. Despite the fact that Bath appeared to bo among those places unlikely to be bomb- ed, Boy Scouts had trained them- selves to bo prepared for any emer- gency, and were ready when the rald did come, * * Ld Boy Scouts of Cambridge, Eng- land, have. been organised Into a water-carrying group, In the event of the water supply being Inter- rupted due to an alr rald, these boys will know where to eeccure an - auxiliary supply and wlll be wprepared to take it to amy part of the city where it may be required. A . * . . When a Scottish town was blite. - ed a neighboring village was asked to take care of 1,200 evacuees, The village Boy Scouts immediately turned thelr Scout hut into a rest centre and provided sleeping space for 70 people. For ten days they rose at 4.30 am. to light canteen bollers, maintained a day and night messenger &8vice, provided entertainment for their guests in the evenings, and generally acted as off-job men in the community. This work was all accomplished under the leadership of patrol leaders, the troop being without a Scoutmaster, ts, has |-- "Brother," he sald, Gold Miners Move To War Industries Labor Minister Mitchell sald re- cently that Canada Is working "in an evolutionary way toward the same goal" as the United States in transferring workers from gold mines to more essential war pro- duction. He forecast that gradual movement" United States War Production Board to halt all gold mining in the United States. Latest complete figures--for 1941 --show 32,661 employees in the gold mining Industry, It is believed that the present figure is slightly - below the 1941 total. Almost the entire. $200,000,000 annual production of Canadian gold mines goes to the United States but reports have already been made of reduced tonnage because of man- power shortage. Clear the Decks! Two men worked side by side In a War Production Board office In Washington. They never spoke, but each watched the other. One 'man quit work dally at 4 o'clock. The other toiled on _till 6 or later. Some months passed. Then the harder working of the two ap- proached the other.- "I beg your pardon," he sald. "Do you mind telling me how you clean up your work every day at 4 o'clock?" "Not at all," said the other man. "When I come to a tough plece of 'Refer to Com.. mander Smith. I figure that in an outfit as large as this, there is sure to be a Commander Smith, And I must be right; none of those papers detail, IT mark it, comes back to me." . The harder worker started to re- 'move his coat. action, I'm Commander Smith." "upwards of 10,000" gold miners will be trans- ferred to base metal mines and other war industries in a "planned, designed to dovetall with the declslon of the 'prepare for Check On Address Of Soldier's Mail News From Home Biggest Thrill For Fighting Men There are 1,100 Canadian Postal Corps men handling nothing but Canadian mail in Britain, The need for more handlers is growing more serious daily. Tons of mail for the armed ser- vices arrive at distribution points for the big job of sorting that Is necessary before the mall reaches field post offices. Mall from home fs still the big- gest thrill Canadian fighting men get. Great ships carry thousands of mail bags on every trip, In ad- dition, there are: the 'mails for polnts' on other fronts. The sorte ing of the malls is a job that Is uever finished. Despite repeated warnings, some are still sending in the mails par- cels which are incorrectly or in- completely addressed. The proced- ure with sich mail is that it Is simply set aside by sorters until such time as more attention can be given it. Often it takes days or even weeks to run it: down, All this causes extra work, extra delay. Anxiety and disappointment follow. Letters' are sent back home Inquiring why mail was not received, thus adding more volume to the already overloaded malls. Hunreds of soldiets, sailors and alrmen every day fail to receive mail because someone at home has been careless in preparing it for overseas. Make sure the address is com. plete and easy to read. French authorities at Vichy have given notice that smuggling ot lot- ters in parcels sent by next-of-kin will result in the prisoner to whom the parcel Is addressed being dls- ciplined accordingly, No registration or insurance can be placed upon parcels sent to prisoners of war, the postal cen- sors advise, Red Cross Ald Quarterly next-of-kin parcels sent to Canadian prisoners of war may include both khaki and blue shirts, also Dboller-suits and overalls, ac- coiding to advice received from the International Red Cross at Geneva, © Switzerland. These supplies are in addition to types of underwear, knitted comforts and other articles next- of-kin have always been able to send prisoners of war. Each parcel may also include chocolate bars not to exceed two pounds in weight. As part of its services to pris oners of war in Kurope the Can. adian Red Cross now is sending over 60,000 food parcels 'every week to British and Canadian pris- oners, Balmoral Castle, private resl- dence of British sovereigns In Scotland, means In Gaelic "the majestic building." VOICE. THE PRESS HOOVER 18" RIGHT That was more than a wisecrack John Edgar Hoover handed Ameri- can police chiefs when he pointed out that if an Augtrian paperhanger named Hitler had not been paroled nearly 20 years ago, millions of lives would have been saved. Hitler, then a relatively obscure agitator, was convicted of "violent and treasonable demonstrations against his.government," and Im- prisoned in Munich. Against the advice of the Bavarian police di- rector, he was paroled, What followed is history, still in the painful making, . -- Kitchener Record. GET IMPLEMENT PARTS NOW Mr, John A, Carroll, superintend- ent of Agricultural and Horticul- tural Societfes for Ontario, farmers to check over their farm machinery and order any necessary parts now, instead of waiting until spring. This is sound advice, In the spring parts will be hata to get. And machinery will be needed more than ever, in view of the manpower shortage. --Brantford Expositor, HEADS WE WIN G. W. Spinney, director of the Victory Loan drive for all Canada, has this little poem to tell how Canada can win or lose the war: The Lord gave us two ends to use, One to think with, one to sit with; Tho war depends on which we choose-- Heads we win and tails we lose, -- Windsor Star, THE LAST STRAW "I don't mind washing dishes for you," wailed the henpecked hus. band. "And I will even sweep the floors, but I ain't gonna run no ribbons through my nightshirt just to fool the baby." Dunnville Chronicle. 122YEAR RECORD Te City of Brantford, happily, 13 nearing the end of its 12th year without a solitary case of diph- therin, This Is a definite and established world record for cities of more than 25,000 population, © Brantford Expositor. TAKING NO CHANCES Owner of 193% Ford would like to correspond with widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send pictures of tires. Marlboro snterprise, Box C. B. --Hudson, Mags, Sun. AWAY BACK WHEN Speaking of treason, we can re- member when dipping a wet spoon - In a sugar bowl was only" a soclal error. --Stratford Beacon-Herald, © Sea Dec. urges THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events New British Battleships Bring Royal Navy To Pre-War Strength Two important announcements were made 'by the British Admlir- Alty last week: (1) The new 35000 ton battle ships - Anson and Howe are now at sea with the Royal Navy, The ships were the last two of the King George class to be complet- ed and their 14-inch guns are sald to have an effective range greater than the 154nch guns of earlier ships. Fifth ship gf the class was the Prince of wal sunk in the China 10 (by Japanese planes. Four older capital ships. have also been sunk, the battleships Royal Oak and Barham and the battle cruisers Hood and Repulse, With four of the Kung George V. class now in service, Britain's battle fleet again numbers 15 cap- ital ships, as it did at the start of the war. The Admiralty disclosed that the Anson is the battleship for which the people of London paid with voluntary contributions, According to the authoritative Jane's Fight- ing Ships the King George V. type of battleships cost about $11,600, 000 each, (2). 530 Axis submarines have been sunk or damaged since the start of the war, Even this figure does not represent a grand total; for it does not include losses in- flicted by Russia, by Frauce before her armistice, or the complete damage done by our own Navy, says the New York Times. It would be foolish to jump to conclusions and assume that the submarine menace has been over come, Admiral Land, who undoubt- edly knew these figures, warned us only the other day that it will never be wholly overcome. More- over, we do not know the Axis rate of replacement and so we cannot establish the comparative enemy loss. We do know that Ger- many especially has concentrated almost her entire shipbuilding cap- acity on submarines. Nevertheless, some comparisons are possible, In the First World War 190 German and twelve Austrian submarines werp sunk. The Axis had more submarines than that when the present war began. Germany in 1939 acknowledged seventy-one completed and thirty building, but probably possessed others. Jane's Fighting Ships in _ 1940 credited Italy with 122 submarines, the largest undersea fleet in the world. . It will be noted that the Ad- miralty figure {8 more than double the submarine fleet possessed "y Italy and Germany at the begin- ning of the war. But it does not separate submarines definitely sunk and those merely damaged. Nor Is it clear whether the figure Includes Japanese . losses. Never- theless, the announced damage te the Axis submarine fleet is cer tainly graver than most of us had guessed. Submarines are more easily replaced than their crews, as the last war proved.. The tre- mendous hazard revealed seems bound to affect the morale of Axis sub-surface eailors at an increas. ing rate. This announcenient Is the most encouraging report yet made from the Battle of the At lantic. In the last week of Septembes only five mnierchant ' ships were sunk fn the Western Atlantle, Foe the moment, even it only for the moment, the submarine mena'e has been checked. The present comparative lull may mean only that the U-boats are seeking new victims in other waters. It may, mean that many are now operate ing directly against our supply lines to England and Russia, It may be that they have withdrawn only to refuel and rearm. tut there is no doubt that Hue wiense against the submarine has itaprove Our merchant shipping is now shielded by escort In con. voy, by watchers in the alr and by swarms of swift, small craft which "we simply did not have when the war started. The list of sinkings stands at 479 since Pearl Harbor, a loss no group of nations could long sustain If such a rate were maintained. It has dropre] oft noticeably in recent wee with the lowest loss registered fa the [atest week. Two other factors in the situation are also hopeful, Our shipyards have managed for some time to replace all losses almost ship for ship and with greater tonnage. And virtually all cargo fleets of the United Natlons now sail within the convoy ays- tem, There have been recent signa - that Hitler has ordered his sub. marines to concentrate on naval convoys. Berlin has repeatedly re- ported such attacks. But the hasz- "ard for the submarine is largest la that particutar field, The enemy may Strike heavy blaws against us there, but he is hound to take Lard blows in return. Nazis Evacuate Million Children The Basler Arleiter Zeitung said not long ago that more than 1,000,000 German children have been evacuated from areas subs jected to intense bombing in ane ticipation of heavy attacks this Winter. About 1,000 special trains were needed to move the children out of the menaced reg- ions, particularly the Rhineland and coastal arcas, the paper an- notnced. oa oe a daddy" 1 ps %\ [CTORY BONDS RIBUITED (BRAN BN ACK HORSI BREWERY Ni (BNQR\Y BREWERY FRONTENAC BREWER i 3 \ A 5 [® .