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3 3 Rs i 345 AR Wo Aa ; EY SIs Er AR ME and AR Si AAI A ¥ ow vid -- . adders Asa a ree eM Ws 00 YER BROT PUPIL ETT Tod RAIN PAu Tos RA I eieledln = Z : 4 LEADING FIGURES IN ARMY COMMAND CHANGE Vo | CE THE WAR. WEEK --- Commentary on Current Events ROYAL BANK'S ASSETS : , 1 d $23 A : sincincy) &. od oi fnces, ang another 20,000 tons are It would he a tragedy If that increased borrowing by the public | ate increase over the figure for expected to finish it as Germany's opportunity presented itself and for. the purchase of the Fifth Vie-| the previous year, From these value asa ton of hard coal, -- industrial capital as well. we were unable to take advantage tory Loan. Apart from this, many | profits dividends amounting to Christian Science Monitor. Results like this, 'achieved in of it. But thero Is a limit to the firms found {it unnecessary to] $£2,100.000 were paid. For the Ee iw the face, and even with the ald, endurance of both men and ma- borrow because of rapid turi-|vensfon fund an appropriation of PROBABLY SO . ot weather conditions which only chines, The time comes when over and prompt settlement of | $370,000 was set aside and $400,000 The psychologists have it all a short year azo would have made planes have to"be taken out of accounts in connection with war] for bank premises. The sum of figured out at great and wordy any raids impossible, are highly action for overhaul and repair, . production, Furthermore Inven- | $556,289 was carried forward to length in learned books, but Mr; impressive. The air enthusiasts and when strained nerves and tories are, generally epeaking, | the balance of profit and loss ace Churchill put jt simply the other still contend that, given time and bodles must be given a chance to lower. - count which now stands at $3. day when he said: "You know, the means, all Germany can be rest. The Luftwaffe learned that Loans outside. Canada show a] 815,487. ' one works better when one has a knocked out from the air alone. in the autumn of 1940, when, in moderate reduction, The annual general meeting will chance "to tnjoy a little leisure However that may bh It is cer- beating down the RAF's gallant Quickly realizable assets equal|be held at the head office Jan, : now and then." -- Brantford Bs tain that the bambers have ereat- defence of Britain, it exhausted 78.09 per cent. of the bank's la-[13, at 11 am. positor, "ed ein a Cg hie itselt and was unable to turn a bilities to the public. There has Profit and loss account figures o: NEA not only helpe the Russias tactical success into a strategic been a marked expansion in lquid | compare wlth those of the preve 2 SAFE PREDICTION achieve their great victories but victory. assets which AN 01 0h -- ar, ending Nov, 30. ns fol 2 True enough. Dr. Hehyi Hslch are also making feasible an invas- More Planes Needed 439, a3 compared with $506,440,230 lows ) £5 of the Chinese Se¢:vice Bureau of fon ot Europe from the wesh It is the fear of Allied air com- i Boston, said the other day the These conditions could be created manders that before the great hid 1043 1942 J day will come when we change only by the air arm, without which land battle opens for the libera- 7 3 $ the spelling of the word "Japa- an invasion would have been im- ton of Europe there will he a Pans eeses 2420.384 Aouniey r . " " : 2 8 " " : These two senior officers of the Canadian Army are leading figures nese" to Jaipondiees, possible. : chance to win it in tho air, but on a lat ns iy b in changes in command of Canada's overseas army announced by TR "Downpour" Figures that fir lack of sppisepieniy.of 3 1,326,289 } Ottawa along with news of the retirement from active command of INCENTIVE TO LAUGH How this was done is illustrat crews and planes they may have Pension Fund "370.000 315,000 fi Gen, McNaughton. At left is Lieut.-Gen. H. D. G. Crerar, former A doctor says that a hearty ed by the figures published at the* | to hold back and give the 'enemy Bank premises 400,000 100,000 Ny chief of the general staff who commands a Canadian Corps fight- laugh does more good - than a turn of the year. They show that | that breathing space which some- EE rd ing in the Mediterranean theatre. At right is Lieut.-Gen. Kenneth meal. . So when you run out of during the past year the RAF. times means the difference be. 556,289 50,12 o Stuart, present chief of the general staff who is now appointed fgod coupons, just laugh it off. dropped a total of 155,000 tons on tween victory and defeat. Gen. Prev. bulunce ...... v 3,259,108 3,209,075 i Suet of Safty Canadian Military Headquarters, London, and Acting --Stratford' Beacon Herald, Axis territory, of which 135,000 Arnold issued a solemn warning a SP Hs ommander of the First Canadian Army. They are pictured together wr tell on Germany. The United against permitting any lag in the 3,815,187 3,250,108 i watching Canadian troop manoeuvres in Britain, 'OTTAWA REPORTS fers jectlve 1s unchanged at 16,800,000 Standard. . This makes a combined total for the planes it should have," says 1943 1942 D That Agriculture Is The Most pounds. Its greatest; outlet is in ae © 1943 of 284,000 tons, compared General Arnold. "Every one could : ' § 3 X Important Single Industry of Red Cross parcels fof prisoners of "An Arm Mule with only 14,000 tons in 1949, 33. use double the number it now Capital Steck 35,000,000 35,000,000 i Canadian People war, a pound to each parcel. The y 000 tons in 1941, and some 50,000 possesses. The biggest battles in Sea Jnl : wees 20 RO0.00k 20,000,000 4! ] : oo en oy pri . & ©. balance .. 3,815,488 3,259,198 production of skim milk powder } tons in 1942. In contrast, Germany the air and on land are yet fo be 2S Ee ralanee wS1ban >4,14 According to statistics, agricul- will algo remain- unchanged from | 4 Thenty hes, CE oe has been able to drop only 75,000 | fought. We will nced every plane Dividends merrerreae C1380 Ja 3 116 haa, sed ture in this country employs al- the estimated 24 million pounds po IR a ands : tons on Britain throughout the we can produce." Dn te bank - Ly RAE Replay most 30 per cent of the total gain- | of last year. F a 8 I a woolen grave ) uble wor : Satay NOLS 31 HES ey pe 12851248 kip fully occupled population, and EE I pan According to the calculations of Th B k Letters of cred. LL 35185.037 31156432 about 34 per cent, or over one- Although Canada makes some "Here Lies the Mortal Remains | Pe Dritish IDomber Connnand, e 00 helt Other liabs. 1,831,100 2,127,979 third of the gainfully occupled males. It has been sald that the well' despite tropical heat. For whole milk powder, the 1944 ob- of the finest cheese In the world, the average Canadlan eats com- PRESS RECIPE FOR VICTORY There must be no "half-baked" peace, says Joseph C. Grew, for- mer United States ambassador to " Japan. In other words, the Japa- nese goose must be cooked, and Allied Downpour Of Destruction On Fortress Europa During 1943 The pattern for the Allied alr attack In 1944 is clearly demon- strated by the heavy assaults on ' tion of the Luftwaffe as an effec. tive fighting force." What that would mean can only be estimat- PASS $1; BILLIONS New high records in practically all departments are revealed by the Roval Bank of Canada for the year ended Nov, 30. Total assets, which a year ago reached the high. est point in the bank's history. a year dgo. Included in these lig- uld assets are Dominion and' Pro. vincial = securities amounting to $641,898,620, increase of $122. 000,000. Cash' on hand, deposits with the Bank of Cgnada, other k ! what remains of Berlin within. the ed, but with all Germany at the now stand at $1,609,097.571 as| cash items and ba 1 anything less than that would be tirst week of the new year. As '| mercy of our bombers, "it fis compared with $1,291,615,946 on | stand at Pop Saleen a distinctly raw deal.--Windsor | 4)q capital and nerve centre of, doubtful it the Natis could long Nov. 30, 1942, Deposits likewise | with $261,884475 in . November, Star. ! had : Germany, Berlin has already been sustain their armies in the field reached a new high level, and now | 1942. . . t \ 7 knocked out, says the New York or the morale of their. civilian total $1,380,764,162, an increase of After providing- $2.281,952 for HARD WOODS A% FUEL Times. Some 25,000 tons of bombs population, Certainly the cost of more than $216,000,000, ' Wi Fig aii By increase " Seasoned oak, beech, hard and 'incendiaries dropped or invading Europe and liberating its Curent loans fn Canada are $267,786, and after providing for birch, hickory, rock maple and burned halt of it, driving most conquered peopla would be far over $22,700,000, gt $277,921,237. | bad _ and 'doubtful debts, profits -. black locust have high heating RIGHT OR WRONG Folks who are willing to admit they're all wrong when they are, are all right.--XKingston Whig- of One Army Mule. He Kicked , . Government offices Into the prov- States Eighth Alr Force dropped 55,000 tons. on Axis territory, and the Northwest African Strategic Air Force more than 74,000 tons. this Allied downpour -of destruc- tion has knocked out twenty-four less. > United States scheduled produec- tion of 145,000 planes in the next tifteen months. "Not one of our air forces has This Increase 1s 'duo largely to x After providing 32,281,052 for tax amounted to $3,126,289, a moder- ($2,014,166 in 1942) and afier appropriations to contingency reserves, out of which pro- vision for bad and doubtful debts LIABIT has been made, ATES 1,500,107,571 1,201,615,948 dairy Industry {s the largest sin- paratively little of it. About three 3 fener) ; German towns, {Including such MEN, WOMEN AND DOGS ASSETS bi gle branch of Canadian agricul | out of every four pounds of chebse Wei 8 ' citles a8 Hamburg, Bremen and By James Thurher : 1943 1942 ture. "| manufactured In Canada "ls ab- 21 Licktentants the whole Ruhr area, and severe . i $ $ . With thls in mind a consider- sorbed by the market in .Gréat NO ite ly damaged twenty more. What No. ig ne has one De Notes and dep. Bank of Can. __.. 121,801,506 101,684,203 able amount of time was given by Britain, For generations Cana- prs & al A fs equally important, the Allled : Elen ' oe oni fithore Other cash amd bank balance 147,888,518 101,291,618 ~ the delegates of the recent Do- dlans have enjoyed the benefit of 8383 oe ov] 1 One Bomb." alr assault has forced Germany to drawings, 0. 1he ntervening ten Cheques on other banks 53,635,964 58,908,754 minlon-Provinclal conference in this British demand for. their § va es--and ne Bomb. concentrate 70 per cent of her Jos his ten Tepmalioh hop oR gel sees, efolen Sip 819,801,345 Ottawa to the 1944 objectives of h nd have continued to hel ; SON tighter strength In the West. Of een pled ETOWIng, " J.8. and British Gov't secs. 00,721,916 46,029,701 cv ma ABTY, gblect i hiring The po 85.000 To 100,000 this tho Eighth Alr Force reports work has been exhibited from oie sd other" secs. .. 42,164,676 48,033,650 "It" was estimated that nearly | ernment requisitions all cheddar A British Hom: 4100 fighters destroyed, oi | Hollywood 'aa Tandon, in New onl a VE i, 25 390.045 334 of every one hundred pounds cheese made in Ontario and Que New Britis omes more probably destroyed and York, San Franclsco, Boston. and OURS CANN D. commun £,710,600 256,335,638 ; ; . many other places. During this Loans to. Prov. Gov't 2,479,528 1,770,648 of milk produced in Canada dur- | bec for export. For 1944 it is es- g 1,821 damaged. The Northwest Af | . Loans to cities, ete. ... 13,472,817 15,961,151 ing 1943 was marketed in concen. | timated that 148,390,000 pounds |, In the first twelve months af- | rican Command reports 3,146 he here has Sesoaiiaic) a Loans outside Canada .. 65.225.771 59,276,982 trated form. During 1944 about will be manufactured This quan- . ter war with ~ Germany ends, planes shot down and 2,426 de- jroasisy of, m2 er 2 4 weanh of Bank prem, ote... .. 14711066 15.733.087 the same proportion and quantity tity 1s 634 per cent below 1943 but British authorities expect to stroyed on the ground. The R.AF. oi A eTialnhs and fancies, from Letters of credit ....... 35,135,037 31,156,432 "of milk production Will also find | 1s at least 20 million pounds | build 86,000 to 100,000 new | reports 232 night fighters de- | WRC 10 a8 Sollcted. aud seb Other 2eeols venoms 4,654,308 4,941,869 its way to the condensing plants. greater than in the average year homes under a program already stroyed and hundreds more dam- ected the drawings In this new EE ---- ------ This will involve the conversion ' well advanced, Government | aged.- This makes a grand total of book. 1,600,007,571 1,291,615,946 of some 600,000,000 pounds of milk into nearly a bllllon pounds of concentrated milk products, Evaporated whole milk is the largest of the concentrated milk products and of the entire 1943 production about 1414 million pounds was exported to the Unit- ed Kingdom, 12 million pounds to the British West Indles and to Newfoundland, while the remain- der was consumed Uy the armed forces and civilians in Canada. The . next largest 'concentrated milk product is condensed whole milk, of-which the 1944 produc- tion goal is set at 24 million pounds, the same as in 1943. Most of this product goes to the Brit- ish West Indles where, with {ts 44 per cent sugar content, It keeps R FEE 'BIG SHOT BOOTE immediately before the war. . . . Present indications are that thére will be less butter manu. factured this year. It eppears that 'about 97 pounds of @reaniery buts ter will-he manufactured In 1944 for every -100 pounds made last year, and the estimated -total is 305 million pounds. Although most of this will be consumed by civil ians, some will be earmarked for the armed forces and for ships' stores, some may be exported to Britain. and some, will be includ- ed in Canadlan Red Cross par- cels, During the year the aver- age civilian wlll eat about 20% pounds of butter, this is making allowance for the -extra portions secured Ti "Festaurants. -Great Britain's Aid To Russia War matreials of all types have * been given to Russia free of cost since Germany declared - war on her in 1941. Among many other things, 4,600 aircraft had been sources in London say. Private enterprise will shoulder the heav- jest part of the task from that _point. LE EAST BOSS SERN * MIDD a around 12,000 German planes put out of action during the year, which is probably equal to Ger- many's total production In that category. "Technical Advances These results have been achiev- ed In part as a result of technical advances which have converted the clouds hanging over Germany from a handicap into" an asset, forcing from Hitler the reluctant admission that "in the sphere of technical Inventions the scales in 1943 were possibly tilted in -favor ot our enemies." What these in- ventions are is, of course, a scc- ret. But the pathfinder planes which unerringly find their tar. gets, and ring these targets with flares for the following homb- vrs, glve a suggestion of what ~ Hitler means. laving lost__the - naval war, Germany has also lost the air war. And the loss of these two wars spells her doom in the and war as well. _ Cruclal Period for Reich . In Europe the US. Eighth Alr Force co-operating with the RAF and the RCAF has stretched the Among the important and familiar - series, reproduced here In book form for the first time, is the com. plete chronicle of his famous War Between Men and Women. These and the hundreds of other draw- ings make a volume representing an unrivalled Thurber decade. Men, Women and Dogs . . . By James Thurber. George J. McLeod, Limited . . Price $3.75. Yaflunza Exidemis An Ancient Enemy The first recorded epidemic of influenza is believed to be that described by Hippocrates in 412 B.C., states the New York Her- ald Tribune. By the Middle Ages medical descriptions had become sufficiently standardized so that the epidemic of 1173 could be definitely authenticated as _ in- fluenza. ' The epidemic of 1918-19 came in three waves, the first and last 'of which were relatively light in respect ot fatalities in most coun- LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher sent from Britain to Russia by a & Luftwaffe to the breaking point, | tries. For a time during the "the -endgof May, 1943, | Goods to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Bernard C.. T. Lieutenant Gemeral Arnold, chiet World Wear influenza and the : the value of #£170,000,000 have | Paget, above, commander-in- | of United States Army Alr Forces, | Various diseases that followed it, : » been sent to Russia. This figure chief of British. Home Forces foresees the time in the near fu- such as pneumonia ,took higher \ does not include the -veky large expense involved in openi and maintaining supply routes through Persia and arourid the North Cape, nor the unassessable cost in ships and men in convoys which have. carried supplies. Growing Cucumber has been named chief of Allied forces in the Middle East. He succeeds and will operate under" Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson recently: named supreme Allie commander in the Mediterran- ean theatre, . ture when the battle attrition of enemy planes, together with the destruction of factories building fighter planes and parts, will bring "a cruéial period which may 'determine the survival or destruec- toll on the battlefields than did bullets. The total deaths thréigh- out the world from influenza and the discases to which it contrib- uted in 1918-19 was estimated to be as high as 25,000,000, Z. imitans vy Mom, if Harvey calls, I'm out . . . if it's Robert, I'm horie and if it's Billy, you'll have to look and see." xl a" By GENE BYRNES 2 ee i | REG'LAR FELLERS--The Disappearing LJ * Br HENS - RF 1 DID'H KMow i Under Arctic Ice At Russian polar stations in the } BORROWED IT FROM MY Lit THATS A PEACH . OF A HOCKEY STK Arefic, cucumbers and salad t Tic NED greens are grown underneath the Pus 8 Sivonen BRenLR SM I LOOK WHAT . ice, writes Hazel H. Adler in THe BOTTOM B f HAPPENED TO MY "Coronet" Magazine, The beds YOURS 1tAS PALL » SLED! are - heated electrically and . lighted by 800-candlepower bulbs . from current produced by wind % ' mills erected above the, ice, 5 Hons ., - wo thereby putting the Arctic bliz- ! 2 zards to the service of man and expanding the habitable area of the globe." ? Alr Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder who as= deputy supreme Allied commander will 'play a n r role when the big invasion Ke off, 3 2 af Europe kicks. eps 33 It 4s the man who stops learn- tim by kicking off ina football ) ( " match between: officers and m ing, whether he is twenty 'or , t a British orth 'African camp, eighty, who is really old.--Henry 23 = : 3 Pag 0.8 fr '0t AY gba wired | av, & nlisted men won, & to 0, Ford, : : ' ; < * 4 L "v saa aes hea se T SARA : Se eel