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# I Rm WL i ~ i ded, "and 'elevator. To Study Bible In Day Schools Many Children Growing Up Without Religious Influence Due probably to the fact that a large percentage of the boys and girls of our country are growing up outside the pale of religlous fnfluences, religlous leaders have been feeling the urge to do some. thing for the children besides what 41s being done in the Sunday schpols and fn the occasional home, says the Lindsay Post. Far be it trom" us to discount -the value of our _ Sunday schools but the fact {is patent to. all that many children never enter the doors of our church schools, Then, too, due to war conditions -- fathers overseas and mothers in war plants, children are being left like Topsy to just "grow up." No- doubt having these factors under consideration, the Lindsay Board of Education a few months ago asked the local Ministerial As- sociation to consider giving 30-min. ute period of Bible instruction to the children of our local public schools. This challenge was gladly accepted by our local ministers . who began this new course on Wednesday morning. As a begin. ning, instruction is being glven only to grades 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Interesting Course The syllabus was prepared by a committee officially representing Anglican," Baptist, Disciples, Evan- gelical, Presbyterian and United Churches, and the Ontario Relig- ious Education Council. It is understood that the course of study being pursued is a splen- did one. Under the general head- ing "Heroes of the Old Testament" the ministers will discuss with the children stories of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Gideon, ete. It is to be hoped that much good will result from this instruc. tion. ' It is said that a movement is now being made to have the Department of Education accept the above course and have ft taught, presume. ably, by the teachers, ------ TREASURE TROVE EXE * Eighteen hundred half dollars and. 17 silver dollars clipked through 'the pipe attached td" this thermos jug which 'Martin Schar- loo, Jersey City shipyard worker, buried 'beneath a bower of 'roses without his wife's 'knowledge. When he finally dug up the buried bank it yielded a $1000 war bond, a fur coat for his wife and extra cash for a "good time." You'd wink, too! Jeep Can Eyen Fly and Swim Into this war has been intro- duced many new types of wea- pons, tactics and vehicles. One of the most talked about and one "of "the most valuable pieces of equipment the Allied armies now use is the small velicle known as a "Jeep." i They can do everything but fly or swim but their drivers will tell you that they can even do that. _ To the uninitiated a jeep.is a miniature car with four eylinder engine, four wheel drive and has a speed that reaches sixty miles an, hour. A steep embankment that- defies a tank can easily be overcome by the jeep. They are 'used to tow anti-tank guns and are so small that four men can lift it with comparative ease out of the mud. Ts Their duties are many and var- Besides the above they can be used on special ocedsions as wireless trucks or fixed up for supplying emergency medical sta tions, ~ Anti-aircraft guns ¢an be set up on these vehicles as can searchlights, 2 In Libya they are used by div isional commanders to scoot back and forth from unit to unit and headquarters, - ~ To ride in one is. to have ridden a combination jackrabbit, mule But notwithstand- ing they are great favourites with the Canadian army. listen in, a Stillwell's Chinese Prepare to Take the Road Back a FF HEE £4 lel ; : : ERR ETRE R BER ER a a oi Somewhere in India Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell's war-weary Chinese army is preparing for a recon- quest of Burma, Driven backward step by step through jungles and over mountains; beset by disease and weakened by lack of rest and food, these men never lost their fighting spirit. Now, tutored by U. S. officers and tec nical advisers, they are learning to use new American fighting equipment. v 0 1c E ~ PRESS A BOY SOLDIER A rosy-checked boy of 12 is a bit young to be serving in the front lines, but there are quite a few in Russia. Leland Stowe tells how he met one little veteran, Petya Kuputoviski, an orphan. The boy escaped baleéfoot from his village after the Germans came. He had seen the- Fascists - burn to death his mother, two younger brothers and two sisters, together with all the Jews and families of guerrillas they could find. ii --New. York Post. --0-- AD INFINITUM Once upon a time the average man could do his own bookkeep- ing. Then he had to hire a secre- tary to keep up with Government forms. Now, with questionnaires and forms to make out for gas and oil and food and pants, he has to hire a secretary for his secretary to keep even with the game. --Stratford -Beacon-Herald a_i AND SO IT GOES Courtship He broadcasts. She listens in, Honeymoon She broadcasts. He listens in. Now They brodacast. The neighbors -- Windsor Star ---- WHY HESS FLED Possibly Rudolf Hess skipped to England to get away from his wife. We don't know the lady; but, from what we know of Ru- dolf, we'd be better able to under- stand it if she had done the skip- ping. oC --~Chatham News Cl ---- JUST TOO BAD! A German correspondent, at the front in Russia, complains in a broadcast: "What we have gained one day, we must fight for all over again the next day." Now, isn't that just too bad! --Hamilton Spectator ------ EDUCATION . You only get the foundation fo! your education at school, The world gives you the education proper. . --Quebec Chronicle Telegraph Malta Saved By Force of Prayer Malta's long resistance against overwhelming Axis odds was at- tributed directly to the force of prayer, by Sir William Dobbie, former governor of the island, .in a broadcast talk, -- : "During the two years of the siege," said General Dobbie, "1 was very conscious of the good hand of God upon us. 1 am sure that the continued safety of Malta was ultimately due to His divine protection. Dobbie, who held nightly Bible classes on bomb-scarred Malta, is sure that he is not alone in his convictions. "Many others share it with me," he said, "and we are glad to acknowledge it humbly and thankfully." "I am convinced that God does still answer prayer. I believe that rceognition of this fact was the secret of the spirit, endurance and fortitude shown by so many persons in Malta, = "Lessons which we can draw from this epic story are: firstly, a stout heart still produces great results; secondly, co-operation in efforts and a determination. to help each other is vitally import-. ant, especially in times of stress; and thirdly, acknowledgement of God through Christ and trust in Him is now, as ever, the thing which matters most." ] "Plg clubs" .aré supplying the British larder with more than 7,000 tonsa of pork annually, SCOUTING... Boy Scouts of Kingston, On- tario, operated a canteen at their summer camp, and turned over the net proceeds, $13.00 to the B-P Chins-Up Fund to aid British Boy Scouts who have lost their homes and Scout headquarters, * * * Patrol. Leader Alan McRobert, 13-year-old = British Boy Scout, was paddling his boat along the seashore when he saw a Royal Air Force plane crash into the sea with one engine on five, The pilot was able to free himself from the wreckage but lost consciousness. Alan hurried to the rescue, and supporting the pilot on his frail craft he brought him safely to shore. One false move on the Scout's part would have capsized the boat. . Lo. . . * "To aid in the food production program in Great Britain, Scouts of the 1st Lyons Troop, Durham, have all"decided to keep and raise rabbits. » . * Because The Scout official - publication of the Boy Scouts Association of Canada, is included in the ruling forbidding the mailing of newspapers and magazines overseas, a campaign is being inaugurated across Canada to have Boy Scouts write regu- larly to their former leaders now seping with the armed 'services'in Great Britain and on other fronts, . . . Boy Scouts of Richmond, Eng- land, journeyed to their summer camp by boat to. avoid creating further problems for the railways. * * * Boy Scouts of Worcester, Eng- land, make the most of opportun- ities. They have operated a toy shop and have built scores of toys from material salvaged from blitzed buildings in their city. Boy' Leader, : Wood Pulp Used In War Powder Smokeless powder is the pro- pellent that hurls every bullet and shell of modern warfare. In normal times smokeless powder is made from cotton lin. ters, the short fuzz remaining on the cottonseed after the longer, spinnable fibers are removed in the gin. But today's war demands are so great that the cellulose of wood pulp must help out. 1t is coming from the spruces of Maine, the spruces and hemlocks of the Pacific Northwest and the. slash pines of the -South. Much pulp- wood, as well as prepared wood- pulp, also is imported from Can- ada. During the first half of 1942, more than a third of the cellulose going into American military pow- der was from wood-pulp and it is estimated that in 1943 this pro- portion will be 60 per cent. Nazi Losses Said To Be 4,000,000 Four million had been killed or put out of ac- tive service by severe wounds up to the end of August of this year, Eduard Bengs, president of the Czech Government in London, told 'his people in a radio hroad- cast on the eve of Czechoslovakia's Independénce Day. He said these figures had been obtained through 'a "Quisling"' statement direct from Berlin. He described Germany's food position as comparable to that of Imperial Germany in 1917 and said her internal transport was "lamentable and worsening daily." Benes declared that Italy was in the role of the Hapsburg Em- pire during the last Great War, and had become the weakest link LIFE'S LIKE THAT 7 Go 4 7 rf TH i 4 7 Wi "You've got me wrong; Wisden. + « « The ladder is for these climbin' roses!" German soldiers ~ set in. Seventh African Campaign Opens Britain's 8th Army Starts Offensive Action In Libya Grinding their way through the bottleneck that is Egypt's Ala- mein battle line, Britain's cosmo- politan 8th Army has launched the seventh straight campaign of the North African front which has scen blood soaked up by the wind- blown sands of the desert all the way from El Agheila on the Bay of Sirte to within 80 miles of Alexandria, The fluctuating struggle thus "has raced east and west along a straight line of 800 miles, cach succeeding campaign varying only n detail and components from the previous. This time, the Sth Army is confident, and, under Licut-Gen. Bernard Law Mont- gomery's order to "destroy Rom- mel and his army," is aiming for the storied shores of Italian Trip- oli, clearing the dark continents northern shores to the border of Vichy-controlled Tunisia, - . - Action first broke out on the desert in the fall of 1910. The French North African army was immobilized after the Petainist capitulation and Italian Marshal Graziani marched across the lightly held Egyptian-Libyan bor. der. Britsih units fell back to Sida - Barvani, on the Paves coast, and there held up the Itald ian advance--and held up, too, the lorries loaded with Mussolini statues which were to be planted as victory mementos. * . » In December of 1940, Gen. Siv Archibald Wavell sent his Army of the Nile into the Italian lines and swept westward around the Libyan coast to Bengasi, a drive of 400 miles. Some quarters feel Wavell might have cleaned up all of North Africa but for two rea- sons, Pirst 'of all, Wavell had to weaken his forces for the ill- fated campaign in the Balkans and the evaporating Fascist col- umns underwent a back-bracing operation with Rommel's appear. ance in the field. * Ll] * During the late winter and early spring, the campaign bogged down. When Rommel's Afrika Korp were ready for battle, he 1 loose with his first famous dri e | they at the end of March, 1941, The 8th Army, such as it was, moved back into Egypt faster than it had gone to Bengasi, then stood fast inside 'the 'Egyptian frontier. Of the Libyan conquest; only Tobruk held as a thorn in Rommel's side... * * * Through the late summer and early fall, the battle-front was static once again and then, at the end of November last year, the revitalized 8th Army struck 'anew with heavy equipment, described in London as putting the armies on an equal basis for the first time. Rommel. suffered his first defeat. He was driven out of Cyrenaica beyond El Agheila on - the 'Bay of Sirte, and the heroic siege of Tobruk was lifted. ® . * The fifth campaign was launch. ed by Rommel.last January after a winter marked only by occas- ional raiding forays. The Afrika Korps hit hard. But the 8th Army still was strong and the enemy drive was held after progressing half way across Cyrenaica, or the "hump" of Libya. The fighting once more apparently had bogged down. R . * But in the heat of late May, Rommel's * mechanized units and armored columns again struck castwards, His tanks hit the Bri- tish flank at a well-defended de- sert position and then swept into Tobruk, where mobile columns had been caught off guard as they pre- pared for a counter-offensive. Losses in man-power and mater- ials were heavy and a fast retreat For 250. more miles. the 8th Army fell back until the nar- row desert strip belween the Qattara Depression and the sea offered an easily defended line, , From July until last Friday, 'the situation once more was a stalemate. Rommel attempted to. break through for Alexandria once during September but his columns were smashed with heavy losses. ass THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events "There Are No New And Easy Roads To Victory In This War After the swift conquest of Po- land, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. many people, says the New York Times, began to assume that Germany Lad eome- how changed the fundamental laws of warfare. They believed that be- cause of the application of the gas "engine to military uses in the, air and on the ground, the great con- flict would be won or lost solely fn terms of German "Blitz." To: day we can recognize that this Is a misconception. Both sides have nower and deadlier weapons than they had in 1939 and 1940. But there are no new and easy roads to victory. Every present fighting front shows that war {is still as costly, as slow and as difficult as ever, The most fluid fighting in this conflict 'has taken place in North Africa. Tanks there have plunged back and forth across a thousand miles of desert in a bewildering complex of manoeuvres, Yet (is patches from the Egyptian front say that the current battle remains "a slow, intense fight like those of the First World War" The attack progresses from slit trench to trench. In Russia, which the Geor- mans first invaded with the same speed that paralyzed Poland, the Nuzi armies have been stalled for more than two months before the single stronghold of Stalingrad. The battle there moves only from house to house. Berlin communt- ques give a conquered street ale most the eame importance that used to give a conquered province. For seven months In the Far East Japan swept overything before her. But since then the op- posing forces have hardly chang- ed position. The rfighting "has in- creased in intensity; planes and ships have been flung in prodigal- ly. But Secretary Knox now calls it a "war of attrition." That ls what the First World War was. The reason, of course, ig because both sides are approaching an equality of -power. That balance will not be quickly upset. But the rate of increase now definitely favors the United Nations. The toughnees of the conflict was conceded by all the men who have met the Japanese in action. Americans have come to revalue the oncedesplsed Japanese fight- ing man as a courageous, resource- ful and thoroughly treacherous foe. He has learned English that he might shout confusing ordens to American troops. He will ex- pose himself to machine-gun fire in order to reveal the location of the machine gun to his comrades. He will use a flag of truce to lure his foes into ambush. He has risk- ed valuable ships . in peacetime manoeuvres, sending them chas- ing each other blacked out In nighttime seas, that they might learn to fight in the dark. To beat him calls for the best in American fighting rien. The Japanese thrust Guadalcanal had beon with such strength as to suggest that its real objective was to go beyond the Solomons. No longer were the chief stakes an airfield on Guadalcanal and a harbor at Tulagi, from which Japanese planes and submarines 'could men- ace convoys bound for Australia, to regain pinos on launched *| from which America could launch future offensives. The Japanese ap- peared to be striving for a breach In the United Natlons' Pacltie frontier. . That frontier, anchored in Ak aska's Aleutiah Islands In the norton, comes down 2,300 miles te Hawall with an outpdst at Midway, Thence, moving south-west, it runs through the American bases {n the South Seas -the Fiji Islands, New Caledonia and New Guinea, with forward positions in*the New Heb- rides and the Solomons. It is a long, loosely guarded frontler, Submarines can slip through # easily, but beyond its principal strong points large Japanese fleets cannot move in safety, Thus # stands effective guard over Aus. tralia and New Zealand, the coasts of North and South Amerlea, while the fighting along its length helps drain some of the Japanese strength aimed at India and China, If the Jupinese, by a decisive victory in the Solomons area and a push farther to overrun Amerts c's dslawd bases in the South Pao- ific, can puncture this frontier, their rewards will be great, Auas- tralia and New Zealand will stand isolated and in mortal danger. The coasts of South America will lle open to Nipponese raiders. It will become immeasurably more dig cult for the United Nations to sup- port India and China in the tests to come. These were the objectives for which Japan eacrificed ships and men as the tenth month of the Pa- cific war ran out. For Japan it was the opening of a now phase, one in which they were seeking to re- gain the initiative they had held in their firs? five months of rich victories. That initial phase had been followed by five months In which setbacks and stalemate had stopped the Japanese rush, -Starting with the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the sinking of the British ships Repulse and Prince of Wales off Singapore, the atory for the United Nations was one of retreat and defeat. There was herolé- delaying action in #t the defense of Wake Island by the Marines, the long and bitter re- sistance of the Americans and Fil Bataan. But the initial momentum of the Japanese and the lack of preparation by the United Nations were too unbalanced. Im Malaya, Burma, the Java Sea and in - the Philippines the Japanese overcame all opposition. For the United Nations only time was gained to fight new battles. The Japanese won a rich world. _ When the aggrecsor's forces came to a halt. they were spread over more than a quarter of the globe. Through most of the second plinse of the struggle the Japanese still held the offensive, but this 7 time the results wore different. Im the Coral Sea and at Midway Is lands, Japanese efforts to extend their conquests were decisively defeated In sea-and-alr battles fought over hundreds of miles of blue water. In June the Nipponese gained a foothold in the far Aleu- tians. In August United Natlons forces took the offensive and lodge ed themselves in the .! southern. most Solomons. Fascists Celebrate 20th Anniversary Italy's Fascist regime celebrat- ed the 20th anniversary of ity rise to power on Oct. 28, and as it did so all the ingredients of a first-class . revolution were at hand. The Italian record was not im- pressive in two and one half years of conflict. With the death of Gen, Orst on the Egyptian front Oct. 18, the Italian Army has lost 82 gen- erals since the outbreak of war. The Italian Air Force, once heralded as among the - best in Europe, has lost at least 4,000 planes. Present production bare- ly reaches 500 outmoded "planes a month. The submarine fleet, which re- portedly had more than 150 craft at the start of war, has lost at least one fourth of its original strength, Warships lacking oil and in need of repair stay in port because of British naval and air superiority. Hitler's Plans For . World After War Vernon Bartlett, speaking at the British Broadcasting Corporation's overseas microphone recently, said: "1 expect most of you have read about the documents captured in Libya from the Germans, which explaing to senior officers in the Reichswehr how' Hitler envisages the future: A large German army kept entirely for use against. what he calls the exterior enemies of the Reich and a large private army "for use against the Germans and non-Germans inside the Reich, A private "police ary consisting of men very carefully chosen zo that they will never--in the words of the document ---- fraternize with the proletariat. A world always at war. A world in which millions of ordinary simple folk, Germans and non-Germans, would be kept in order by slave-drivers whom the Londo Times calls the cream of the scum." : REG'LAR FELLERS-OIld Stuff 1 T 1 " | ; \ T THE THEATRE Cow GT YMAT DIOJA IR IT WAS Come ouT WIT A . 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