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o Es A i .c they have always claimed they ere quite a delicacy. In the United States the same is 'true, but the "name has usually been 5 Gandhi's 21-Day Fast Was Nothing Medical Man Says 80 Day : Fast Is Possible Gandhi's 21 days fast is no sur- prise to medical men, even if he is over 70 years of age, says the St. Thomas Times Journal, "It . was nothing," opines Dr. 'Anton J. Carlson, psychologist at the University of Chicago, who says that a thin person like the Ma. hatma had "a better chance. of coming through than a fat person, Professional fasting men have done 50 days at a stretch, but Dr, Carlson is of opinion the human body could withstand an 80 days fast "under the right conditions. Fruit juices, such as Gandhi took, are a food in themselves, supply- ing the body with certain essen- tials, Gandhi did not exert him- self in any way and was under constant medical observation. But Dr. Carlson once got a man to underteke an experimental fast for 42 days, during which the man walked 10 miles a day. The man only admitted feeling hungry about the 30th day. Dr, Carlson once fasted for 10 days, and ad- mitted he felt a bit weak as he carried on his dufies. But there is no pain in fasting; there never S. r ) Ld * * Harry Wills, the negro boxer, who retired from the ring some 15 years ago, makes an annual fast of 10 days. He began it a few days ago, Fasting is said to be good for everybody, provided they observe certain conditions, It is recom- mended for people who are over- weight, but they soon put on flesh again if they indulge too much in the pleasures of eating. For a remediel fast as long as Gan. dhi's the subject should rest in bed and drink plenty of water with fruit juice. The same pro- cess happens in a human being as in the case of a hibernating bear ~-- the temneiature lowers, the pulse slows down and the rate of metabolism decreases: : Why don't we try it and report? Not us! We're just going home to a steak dinner... . if we can get a steak! 'ROMMEL'S DOUBLE # kis Bull-necked film veteran Erich von Stroheim, above, comes back to the screen after a long ab. sence to portray famed German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Meat Of Muskrat Quite A Delicacy Served As "Marsh Hare" In Big New York Hotel Once again the old subject of eating muskrat meat comes up, and as meat is not too easlly procured, we are sure that this may prove a very live topic, in his area, on accovat of the.thousands. of musk- rats trapped yearly in the lakes and rivers of .this district, says The Peterborough Examiner. On a recent dinner menu in the Bilt. more Hotel, in New York City, there appeared "marsh hare," and the 25 guests present 'found that the delicacy twas much to thelr liking. Now from Louisiana there "#8 coming to the New York market 35,000 of thiése "marsh hares" -dressed and quickly frozen, and. it is expected they will be disposed of without any trouble. The Indians in this district have for years eaten the muskrat and disguised as "swamp hare," "swamp rabbit" or "musk rabbit." The muskrat Is a creature of very clean habits - according to The Brockville Recorder and Times, and like the raccoon it washes all its food before eating It and, as an _aguatic rodent, it #8 constantly in/the water, However, because the word "rat" has been incorpor- ated in its hame people fight shy of it when they are quite willing to eat the meat of other animals. . shoulder. x BS wr i ¥ . 2 i $ HE » NA td Sha i 3 2 . by 3 x pe bf ps a EI LA IANS A -¢ ) ™ » _ mm r-- = Ge ee = --2 Eddie Lee, R.AF. cadet from London now training in Arizona, climbs aboard a pinto pony with assistance of fancy rider Polly Mills - at Phoenix rodeo. { ee THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Two years before the United States was plunged into the war, the British Government was pour- ing millions of cash dollars into American industry--to the makers of aircraft engines and propellers, ordnance, ammunition, machine tools motor vehicles, and ships. The total thus spent since Sep- tember, 1939, has been §3,200,- 000,000. - Most of this considerabla sum went for purchases, but fully $200, 000,000 was spent outright to ex- pand factories and build new ones --the-very factories which today are leading producers of America's arsenal of democracy. The airplane industry may be taken as an example. . . ., While American capacity for construct- ing airplane frames was falrly adequate to meet the increased needs, there was hardly any air- plane engine and propeller indus: try at all. It had to be built from the ground up... . The British began furnishing the money for plant expansion and construction, and a tbtal of $89, 000,000 has gone into capital as- sistance :-- which means land, buildings, and, most important, machine tools. Six famous Ameri- can corporations received the bulk of this assistance. = American Advantagé But this fs only a drop In the bucket. Altogether British expendi- tures with the American aircraft Industry total some $1,750,000,000. While tiis may not seem a stag- gering sum in 'the light of subse- quent~ Congressional appropria- tlons, it means that America had an airplane industry built up and operating when she realized her perll--an industry that would have taken a much longer time to Reveals Secrets Of Self-Defence "Chin Jab" _Efféctive When Delivered By a Tiny Woman Major W. E. Fairburn, the Brit {sh Commando who for many years instructed the Shanghai Municipal _ Police in the. arts of mayhem, re: veals some extraordinarily force- ful secrets of gelfdefence for women In his new book "Hands Of!" says "Your Lite" Magazine. For instance, there is the "chin jab." This is a blow delivered with the base or heel of tig band, iuite capable of knocking @ man uncon- scious even when delivered by a tiny woman. The right arm fs bent at the elbow, palm open 'arward, much as it you were taking tle oath in court. Then the palm is bent backward as far as' possible, fingers and thumbs open, _Some- thing like claws. Now you're ready to sock him---alm to cpack him un- der the chin with the heel of your palm, delivering a rock-crushing blow with follow-through from the Amazivg, the. force a mite of a woman can deliver with this blow! And if it happens to miss the chin, those open clawing fingers "will 'gouge: the onemy's eyes should tho situation become. that 'drastic, - Suppose somebody-seizes you by the throat with two hands, forcing you back against a wall." Roll up the whites of your eyes (that will "put him oft guard), then suddenly ..8hoot up -both- your hands' inside his arms in a double chin jab, and" call the ambulance. Another use. 'ful weapdén when someone solzes you around the walst in an unwel. - come bear hug is the human head. 'Bkulls notoriously vary fn solldity, . but the dainty head of a woman is entirely capable of™~redlstributing an assallant's features when bang- od into his. face. Use your head-- "as a battering ram, Over 27 tons of rabbit skins were sold in Dunedin, New Zea- land, in a recent week, H 'Britain Poured Millions Of Cash Dollars Into American Industry By Lord Halifax In The American Magazine build up had it not been for Bri. tain's earlier agsistance. . . . Or let us consider tanks. The United Nations today have the finest tank in the world--the 28. ton General Sherman. It is- the custom In both armies to think of this General Sherman as an American product, and so In one sense {t is, but in another ft is a joint Anglo-American enterprise. The forerunner of the General Sherman was a tank the Ameri- cans called the General Lee. It was slightly lighter. We in Brit. ain had the Mark VI, which we believed to be a match for any likely opponent until Jt went against the Germans in the Battle of France and was decisively beat. en. We stopped making the Mark VI at once and sent our experienc. ed veterans to the United States to buy quantities of the General Lee. Perhaps you can imagine our dismay in those dark weeks alter Dunkirk to discover that the Gen- eral Lee had all the faults and weaknesses of the Mark VI. There was no time to build an entirely néw tank. British and American engineers sat down: to- gether with our men who had been in France and made changes in the Ceneral Lee. Even while they were making preliminary sketches British money was being spent to rebuild American face. torfes and equip-them with new tools. Out of this surge of effort came the first General Grant, which proved adequate to hold the Germans in North Africa in 1940. But still it was not good enough, Pulling Together In the ensuing weeks national ities were forgotten; Americans, inglishmen, Canadians, Scotsmen worked side by side designing, testing, - discarding. American money and British money went over the same counters. And out of this came the new General Sherman, which, as every one knows, was a potent factor in the British 8th Army's brilliant vie. tory over Rommel's vaunted Afrl- ka Korps, . . . 1 have mentioned machine tools. « + +» The normal volume of the American machlne-tool; industry is $250,000,000 a year. Long before the United States began its arma. ment program, Great Britain launched a program of "float or- ders" In the American factories . . . the effect of which was to form a pool of standard machine tools from which both British and , American firms could draw. By mid-1940 this pool was an accom- plished reality--and the volume of the Industry had been raised to 350,000,000, - . By the time of Pearl Harbor the annual volume had risen to $760, 000,000, three times its pre-war 'size. But far more important was " the fact that indispensable ma- chine tools were on hand to make : Boe te overnight conversion of mai}*factories to wartime ends. _fense. I have been told that the output of machine tools in America 1s expected to reach $1,500,000,000 next year--a growth which could hardly have been achieved with- out Initial British fmpetus, Concerning Ships Before we leave the industrial phase of Britain's cooperative war effort, let us examine the matter of ships. Some people would be surprised to learn that the Lib. erty ship being turned out in the United States today is basically of British design, and that two of the shipyards now achieving produc- tion miracles wero bullt-with Brit. ish money. The story begins in September, 1940, when the British Merchant Shipbuilding Mission: came to the United States to place orders for 60. cargo vessels. After surveying the field, they could find no ship- yard or Froup of shipyards capa- ble of building them rapidly. They decided, therefore, to build the yards. oC Sites were selected and purchase. ed at Richmond, Cal, and Port. land, Ore. Two brand-new Amerl- can companies were formed to build the yards and the ships. One of these, the Todd-California Ship. building corporation, at Richmond, had for its president Mr. lenry Kaiser, who unt" that moment had never built a ship. It is hardly necessary to speak of Mr.. Kaiser's exploits. He built the shipyard and 30 ships in ap- proximately 18 months. Less well known, but hardly less spectacular, was the achievement of tho new shipbuilding company at Portland, which accomplished a simila* feat in .22 months. The entire project cost the British $125,000,000, The most recent figures [ am able to find show that Great Brit. ain's war production per head of population is still greater than that of any other nation on earth. That doesti't sound like husiness as usual. . . Populations Compared Britain has a population of 33,- 000,000 between the ages of 14 and 65. Of these, 22,000,000 are works ing full time in either industry, the armed forces, ov civilian de- This is -equivalent to the mohilization of about 60,000,000 people in the United States. Women between the ages of 20 and 30 are 1iable to conscription in the armed services, and while all women between 19 and 45 have been registered for cmployment, those belween 18 and 20 may only } be engaged through the offices of the employment exchanges. . , . Nor can {t be said with any truth that Britain is building up stock- piles of surplus materials of war while continuing to take what she can from the United States. Im 1941 wo exported four times as many aircraft as we received from other countries, and sent out 15 times as many tanks as we took fn. . .. And thus wo arrive at the moot question of lease-lend. What some Americans often for- get is that lease-lend is reciprocal. It works both ways. Supplies fur- nished to the American troops prior to and during the invasion of North Africa may be cited as an example. During the last six months of 1942 these supplies rep- resented approximately 1,125,000 ships' tons, of a value which can- not be estimated. They ranged from airplanes and assault boats to candy and beehives. An Important Gift Typical of the spirit of lease- < lend, I think, {3 an incident which occurred In the last few. days be- fore the (invasfol, when American fliers discovered they needed radio equipment of a new type. They had. no such equipment among their supplies, but the R.A.F. had some. Without an instant's argu- ment, R.A.F. fliers stripped their own planes and helped Install their apparatus "in the Ameridan machines. Beside thls it scems al- most ridiculous to mention that British lease-lend supplied Amerli- can troops with 2,000,000 blankets, 2,000,000 - sets of underwear, and 4,000,000 pairs of wool socks. . . , But perhaps the story can be summed to most comprehensively in the language of dollars and cents. In the last war the United States War Department alone spent more than $2,000,000,000 for supplies in. Great Britain and France. This time, up to -Decem- ber, 1942, all United States forces together spent only about $1,000, 000. : Londoners 'Mail' Bombs To Adolf Savings Stamps Bought and Plastered on 800-Pounders Thousands of Londoners, and Canadian 'and American soldiers, too, from a crowd of about 1,000, 000 pushing through Trafalgar Square, bought savings stamps and plastered them on two 500-pound bombs in the square "for delivery to Hitler." The biggest London crowds since the Coronation packed the square in a great rally to buy savings stamps and certificates In the second day of the capltal's "Wings For Victory" week. The (lovern- ment hopes to raise £150,000,000 in the week. At one time an estimated 100, 000 jammed into the square in which a big Lancaster bothber, veteran of many raids on Ger- many, had been set vp. The lions at the root of Nelson's column dis- appeared under the swarm of humanity, 'With Love To Hitler" Speakers urged the crowds to buy more certificates and stamps, and to spend less upon themselves. Londoners lined up to buy stamps, and then stood in line again to stick them on the bombs set be- neath the Lancaster, Soon the bombs were covered with stamps, six thick in places, They ranged in value from gix- tence to five shillings and the purchasers cancelled them with such messages as "with love lo Hitler." The Government prom- LIFE'S LIKE THAT ~~ . By Fred Neher F777% N SION = Z "Are you sure I'm getting the best grade of gas? I'm not having much success with my cooking." ised that the stamps would be de- livered along with the bombs to Gemany. - - The Government's "take" fn Trafalgar Square and other Lon- bétieved to have been a recond, £30,000,000 worth of stumps and certificates wore sold during the first of the campalgn. to Britain. and scenic electric resources. War demands on our industries and agriculture, and our increasing «participation in the Navy, Merchant Marine, Air Force, Army, and Women's Auxiliary Services, are absorbing all our man and woman power. Québec supports to the limit every war and Victory Loan and every war campaign for funds, overtopping all objectives. Education is making great strides and is now focussed on war needs. Québec is keeping faith! "We warmly wolcome all our fellow Canadians whose business brings them to Québec Province. Though our people toil night and day for our common Victory, our hospitality to visilors is as warm as of old while the quaint charm beauty of Québec remain unchanged. Wo cordially invite «our friends in Onlario and elsewhere in Canada to visit us again when oe Victory has been won. - Like our sister provinces, Québec has loyally geared all her energies and resources io furthering Canada's war effort. Québec is delivering tho goods, in quality and quanlity, promptly and efficiently. Her sons and daughters are distinguishing themselves by fighting, serving, working in 4lt phases of the Allied battle of combat, convoy, and production. Québec is a vital factor in the production of war material and weapons. She produces 409 of the United Rk total supply of asbestos, 25%, of the world's newsprint (70% of all newspapers in the Americas depend on her for paper). Lumbering and mining for war purposes have reached vast proportions in French Canada. This Province supplies enormous quantities of food ations volume of aluminum, 909 of the stuffs to the United Nations, especially Merchant ships and war vessels, tanks, artillery, shells, aircraft; parachutes, supplies for the forces, ammunition of all kinds, depth charges, innumerable and textile war products, chemicals, explosives, are major items of our output from a vast manufacturing complex powered by enormous hydro- Enquiries promptly ottended to ot THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC TOURIST AND PUBLICITY BUREAU, 200 Bay Street, Toronto, or Québec City. 'Bluey and Curley of the Anzacs "Which is yours, Fritz?" By Gurney, (Australia) BLIMEY, You SHOULD AVE SEEN THAT FRITZ GO CROOK WHEN '| PINCHED "HIS BLOOMW ORF LY YER GWE IT BACK To 'mm? . ALL, IT PROBABLY MEANS A LOT TO WELL, WHY DONT AFTER HEY YouZ COME AND Pick YOUR RON CROSS oul v OF Ts LITE LOT.Z 4 - ' ---- don centres during the day was | 0 od TL WL SA,