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Ald 1 N Are These Women Really Dishonest? By Herbert Cranston, in the Midland Free Press - Many years ago I ran across a startling statement to the effect that women are fundamentally dishonest, I don't know just where it was but I remember that I didn't like it a bit. I am rather * partial to the fair sex. And yet sometimes lately I have wondered 'whether that writer was not hitting the nail on the head. I have come across so many of our women-folk who are doing what they can to beat the rationing regulations. They are most of them good church folk too, women from whom one 'would have ex- pected better things. \ Some are quite brazen about it. They do not seem to have grasped the pur- pose of rationing at all, or, it they have, they do not care it their greed makes it necessary for others to go without, even those who are fighting and dying for them. No Golden Rule, let alone common decency, about that, * - . I heard one woman say the - other day that she always had plenty of tea in her house. There were two members of her family who did not drink tea, but she al- ways got tea for them on their - ration cards. And another woman I know quite cheerfully made the assertion that rationing had made no difference to her. Two mem- bers of her family had gone to the U. S. A, to work since the rationing laws came in and she was still buying butter and sugar on their ration cards, 1 don't know by what standard of moral- ity those ladies justify the pur- chase of rationed foods for people: who will never eat them! What is it about human nature that makes many of the best of us resent laws which are nade for the benefit of all? Why should anyone think it fair or decent to buy foods for abscntees or those who do-not consume them? Or perhaps they do-not think it so and' do not care. In prohibition days it was the fashion for people to brag about their bootleggers, and some folk did it who never drank at. all. I wonder if the women folk are doing the same thing today? Perhaps they are sticking closely to the letter of the law, but are boasting untruth- fully to their friends about how devilish smart thev are in beating the law. It could be so. rr * * * I also wonder sometimes if wo- men are really fundamentally dis- honest, or whether they have Tived so long with men folks that they do not know how to get along any other way. What do you say? The first instance of food rationing recorded in the Bible tells vs that when Adam ate the forbidden fruit he tried to push the blame on Eve. Secarcely hon- est was it? " Swedes Get Alcohol From Bake Ovens A Swedish newspaper, "Stock- holmer Social Demokraten," re- cently reported how a large, mod- ern bakery in Stockholm has built into its electrical baking ovens an apparatus which collects the alcoholic vapors occurring throughout the baking process and transfers them instantly bp distillation into a iasoline alco- hol, says the St. Thomas Times. Journal. By utilizing this conser- vation plan, the Swedish bakery is collecting and producing 15 gallons of 96 per cent pure alco- hol for every baking hour, enough to operate 24 delivery trucks, with no motor fucl needed from outside sources. 'It has Tong been known in Can- ada and the United States that dough fermentation is an alco- holic transformation with two imnortant materials left at the end of the fermentation period. besides ashes and 'other products. Those two important by-products are oxygen and acthyalcohol but are usually lost in steam during .the baking process. Loe * We think we have made great strides in war conservation in this country, but it remains for people like the Swedes, still a neutral nation to really prove that nee- esgity is the mother of invention, Great Britain Gains Sanctuary For Jews - Great Britain 'has completed negotiations with the Bulgarian Government for 4,000 Jewish children and 500 adults to leave that country and go to Palestine, says 'Viscount Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, The Britist. ambassador describ- ed this action of his government as a "first step," and added that Britain "has also-undertaken?-to receive in Palestine, if the neces. sary arrangements can be made, up to 29,000 Jewish children with a proportion of adults by March 31, 1944, Great E------------ THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Round The Clock Air Raids - Mean No' Rest For Germany Every day since Feb. 24 has seen Allied airmen over targets in Germany and German-occunied territory hour after hour, round the clock, comments the New York Times. The Germans, who Initiat- ed large-scale bombing of big rolties, were being. blasted in the greatest air assault In history, . British experts, who estimate the weight of pombs dropped on Kur: ope during 1942 at 4,000 tons a month, assert that more than 10, 000_ tons fell in the same area last | month alone. The. Opening Bars - Behind this growing fury were the signs of a new purpose. There were strong prospects of an Allied fnvasion of Europe in 1943. The very prospect of {t reflected the prevailing military opinion that air blows alone would not bring vle- tory. Eugland, despite a ten-month air Blitz that shook her to the core, rallied and held firm. Be- fore a territory can he won, in the words of Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, "a man must he sent to stand on ft." But the battering bombers have been giving German war plants, communication cen- ters and submarine bases can dis- rupt production and soften de- fenses against the day of invasion. Last week Captain Harold Bal. four, Parllamentary Under-Secre- tary for War {in Britain, called the bombings "the opening bars which will rise to the crescendo of the march on Europe." Arc of Combat Those opening bars were belng played 'across a vast keyboard. four-engined Lancasters, Stirlings and Halifaxes have roar- ed each night across the arc whose radius extends G00 miles from London, enclosing the greater part of Germany's war Industries and those of the lands the Nazis have conquered. By day American Fly- ing Fortresses and Liberators have smashed at targets nearer home bases. The nature. ot the targets sel. ected by the Allied High mand seemed to set the pattern for things to come. First of all the assault has been directed against the submarine, which has proven one of Hitler's most effec- tive weapons. Sine the first of the year Wilhelmshaven, the marl- time center whose shipyards are producing U-boats, has been hit - hard three times and medieval Nuremberg, the holy place of the Nazi party and home of Diesel engine plants, once. Lorient, chlet operating base for submarines on France's western coast, has heen bombed ten times while Brest and St. Nazaire have been hit twice each. Factory Centers Hit War plants and vail and road networks. have also been battered. Cologne has been raided four times this year, and 113 times since the start of the war; Hamm, a great rafl center in Germany, has been hard hit. Essen, home of the Krupp armaments works, has been attacked heavily. Hen- gelo, in the Netherlands, where factories are turning terials for the Germans, has been plastered with bombs. _ Berlin A Target Last week a fourth in the cur- rent series of attacks hit Berlin. It was a "thunderbolt" rald, a short sharp attack in which the full loads of the attacking planes were poured upon the city in half an hour. According to German re- ports many fearsome four and twoton block-busters, . perhaps aimed at the near-by Potsdam railroad station, fell along Ber- lin's Unter den Linden, the wide and famous avenue that is flank- ed by palatial public buildings, tourist and shipping offices, motor. car showrooms and 'jewelers' shops. In the raid Allied airmen dropped more than 900 tons of bombs, twice the hightest amount the Luftwaffe is estimated to have dropped during an all-night raid on Britain, ' : In one twenty-four-hour period of the "round the clock" bombing more/than 2,000 operations flights were 'completed by British. pilots, flights totaling 150,000,000 miles. In_ these operations there were fewer planes than a year ago, but they carried more hombs. The German Defenses The Germans have built defenses against these attacks. They have antiaircraft guns that reach with remarkable accuracy the 20,000 to 30,000 , feet altitude from which British night Bombergidnake their runs over targets, aM#-oven the 30,000 to 35,000 feet from whieh American daytime fliers drop their - bombs. German' fighter planes, - cautious hecause of the defensive power of the bombers, harry the attacking planes as they make their way to and from the targets, There are losses. The heavy op- erations" of, February are estim. ated to have cost the Allies 171 - planes, twenty of them American. They are losses that must be paid In weakening Nazi defenses for the Invasion to come, But they are small when compared with the ever-growing reservoir of Allled air strength, j The exact size of the Allied air _ Journal, Com- "| week or so longer than it did. "period of the Luftwaffe's effort to Ht war ma- forces is a military secret, but from public statements made by various officials some hints can be gleaned. America expects to have an air force of 2,450,000 men armed with at least 21,000 planes by the end of 1943. American plane production, according to a report last week-from Under See- retary 'of War Robert Patterson, hit 5,500 in February, a rate that medns 66,000 planes of all types and 42,900 combat planes a year. Thesg figures may be counsery- ative, since British sources have estimated that America will pro- duce 100,000 planes in 1943 and Britain 35,000, . Axis Production Against this the Axis is estim- ated to have some 20,000 planes altogether, of which from 4,000 to 7,500 are German combat planes. Tho combined production of all the Axis nations is estimated at 2,200 & month, This figure is ex- pected to slump by June or earlier because Germany {is taking more and more men from her factories for service on the front lines, Where Is The Luftwaffe? Is the Nazi air force short of oll or gas? asks The Providence Is it no longer capable of putting up a strong fight? Has it been forced to scatter its strength, and thus weaken itself; - becavse the United Nations are now in a position to hit at Hitler from nearly all points on the com- pass at the same time? Or can the mystery of Its recent appar ent weakness be best explained by the theory that it has been go- Ing through a period of reorgani- zatton and re-equipping afd that it is "merely gathering 'fresh strength," as Goering says, in order to deliver surprise blows at "the right hour"? But how long can they wait for that hour to come There came a moment in the Lauft- wafte's blitz on Britaln when well" informed sources had good reason to believe that the British would collapse If the blitz continued only How long can the Reich stand be- ing blitzed? What will happen to German morale and production and communications and over-all abil ity to fight if the Allied raids show no letup, but instead mount In severity day after day, night after night, week after week. for a much more protracted period than" the grind England into rubble? SCOUTING... Proof that Scouts do not cease to be Scouts when they join the armed forces is seen by the num- ber who continue to assist in op- erating Boy Scout Troops where they are stationed, and who form Rover Scout Crews on their sta- tions. The latest to be reported comes. from Cairo, Egypt, where former Scouts serving there have formed a Rover Scout Crew. A. One of the most noticeable re- sults of the recent Natiorhl Boy Scout Week was increased mem- bership ir many sections. In Ot- tawa, one Cubmaster was amazed to find 22 recruits waiting to join up when he arrived at his Scout Week pecting. Rech The 6th London Pack of Wolf Cubs, which has an enviable rec- , ord of war service does noti do. things in a haphazard way. The group has already announced its plans for 1943 war service, which includes donations to be made to Russian Relief, Red Cross, Queen's Fund, Community Chest Fund and Ching Up Fund for British Scouts. Last year the Pack salvag 23 'tons of wastepaper d gave $111.40 to various war charities. Another British Boy Scout was recently awarded the British Em- pire Medal. He is Scout John David Grix, aged 15. Scout Grix, for two nights during the heavy air raids on Norwich, rode his bicycle through the heavy bomb- ing to carry out his civil defence duties, and also directed firemen their troops, introducing many and rescue parties through the . gor » iY £3 J "Abed Getting aboard a Sikorsky helicopter is an easy matter for a hitch-hiker or a tardy passenger who missed the take-off. demonstration of the windmill plane, which currently has been devel- oped for the U. S. Army, the pilot dropped a rope ladder and caused the eraft to hover, motionless, while another man climbed up. ) 4 / In this Scouting is playing an import- ant part in cementing friendship between the people of Iceland and the American and British soldiers and airmen stationed there, Amer- ican Scouts are assisting Icelandic Scoutmasters in the operation of novel American ideas which are received with enthusiasm by the Iceland Scouts, Sweden, one of the few re- maining Furopean countriw not under the Nazi heel is also pros- pering in the field of Scouting. In the past three years, the number of Boy Scouts in the country has increased from 28,000 to 35,000, or 25 per cent. V. 1% ! CE PRESS HARD TO UNDERSTAND It's difficult to understand the attitude of mind of parents who refuse to sign consent forms for their children to undergo physi-~ cal examinations, particularly tu- berculosis tests, in the health pro- gram that is being inaugurated jointly by the Board of Kduca- tion and the Board of Health, Such an attitude suggests that possibly those parents are more urgently in need of examinations than their offspring--mental ex- aminations, ---St. Thomas Times-Journal --0--. APPLE QUESTION Can you remember not so long ago when people were coaxed to help out the apple industry of Canada by purchasing and eating apples? Where are the good apples today at a reasonable price for the household? Oranges brought all the way from Cali- fornia ave in much more popular demand than the Canadian apple. Even the Canadian black "walnut has gone into the luxury class at 70 cents for a six-quart basket. --St. Catharines Standard --_0-- NOT SO BATTY Speaking in St. Thomas,- Dr. H. B. Hitchcock of Western Univer- sity, said bats could fly with their eyes blindfolded and not strike objects, and that they also had a keen homing instinct like the pigeon, Maybe bats are not so batty after all. --3t. hemas Times-Journal 3 FOOTWEAR MYSTERY School pupils in a Chicago sube urb are operating a shoe exe change, to which parents bring shoes which their children have outgrown but not worn oug and receive larger ones in trade Theoretically, it is a fine id but parents around here wou like to know how even the fastesl growing youngster manages have a scrap of soles and toes lef by the time he gets too big fot his shoes. --Windsor Stag' --0-- . HELPING HITLER Steel workers are back at worl but minus the wages they have lost and the wen in the armed forces will also miss the 4,004 tons of steel which would have been made cach 'day the strike was in progress, ---Niagara Falls Review ---- TWA OR THREE PERHAPS "Every U.S. soldier sent ovet sets a book bn how to get along with the English." A man named MacTavish sent this in, with the remark that "they should gie a ~ medal ay well to the mon wha can learn that oot o' one book." --Ottawa Citizen Full Government: To Territories "It would be sheer nonsense -- ignorant, -dangerous nonsense -- to talk about grants of full gov- ernment to many of the depen dent territories for some time to come. In these instances it would be like giving a child of ten a latchkey, a bank account and = shotgu " -- Hébert Morrison, British Home Secretary, devastated parts of the city. INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL IN BATTLE DRESS ~~ MS™® cars become tanks. Luxury liners become troop transports. And ALCOHOL becomes a vital warnecessity. Narrow indeed is the gap between the pleasurable things. of peate and the fighting tools of war. Mixed with the gasoline of fighting aircraft, INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL keeps 'em flying. In the radiators of army trucks, ALCOHOL keeps "em rolling. United with guncotton, ALCOHOL helps to provide stabilized explosives for our shells. And in our hospitals this same versatile product brings comfort and peace to wounded men . . i © ALCOHOL has gone to war, and to provide it in the fabulous quantities needed, the full resources of our mighty plants have been mobilized for the duration. Until peace is won, war is our principal business. HIRAM WALKER & SONS SERVING THE UNITED NATIONS WITH WAR ALCOHOL |. Bluey and Curley of the Anzacs THROWING ouT 2 415 THAT SOUP You'Re TT TASTES THATS WHAT LIKE VERY GOOD SOUP [ sa/ To ME / By Gurney, (Australia) BUT THE COOK Sg SAYS ITS COFFEE