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re REINS SFE S ay r= WL RTA § Lae M / wi 3" British Grouse V 0 I C E / THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events 300,000,000 Trees At War Budget rai LL UR : For Reforestation They Like To Gripe But p R E S S Story Of erican Bombing Three hundred million trees Nevertheless They Will Pay LIVELIEST RAINBIRD Raid On Tokio One Year Ago Tem hiv ons Bg ca WR Another grand ol Jédy has PI li id are ready in the great nurseries When newspapers carrying de- tails of Britain's' new budget tax incregses reached the little people E of Britain tley became very in- ¥ dignant. Their indignation flowed into buses, tubes, tobacconists, Sy theatres, pubs dng the reels. RE . y A tobaccounist, closing up his shop for the night, leaned confid- "ingly across the counter and said: "Things are going to be awful, They will be moaning and groan- "ing everywhere and everybody will stop smoking and drinking and going to the flicks," He shook his head in mock dismay and then added: "for a day at least." A newspaper vendor in Fleet Street took one horrified look at the bare announcement that there would be a new tax on cinema seats and moaned: "I wish my night at the flicks was tonight before the prices go up." "I'm blowed if I'll go every week. Ill go every fortnight and fool them." She thought again and add- ed apologetically: "Egcept this week," and she told about a flick ~ sho wanted to see particularly, 'Tobacconists generally expressed tho opinion the new taxes on cig- arettes and tobacco--Dboosting the price of a package of 20 cigarettes --would not hurt a businessman came into the pub and sald Sir Patrick Hannon, mem- ber of Parliament and president of tho National Union of Mantfactur- ers, said the union welcomes the budget, a pub regular said: "Me, too. I'm going to drink twice as much from now on -- to support the war efiort." The assistant manager of a near- by theatre, when asked what the new taxes would do to his business said: "Just as new taxes always do. Everybody stops coming for -- about a week, then business picks up again. In two weeks they'll hardly remember to gripe aboyt the prices and in two years they will be calling these 'the goed old days." " z But the griping went on far into the night. The British people love to gripe. This, the sixth budget to tack a penny onto the price of their cheapest beer, more to those of more expensive brands, raise the prices of their whisky, wine, cigarettes, tobacco, cinemas communications, gives them the utmost chance. So the griping may go on for days, But the British people are heroes of a remarkable type. They know they will take these taxes and live pretty well as they did before and they know that if any people in the IS Then, in defiance: week, and when |" and - made the headlines and this time she really has something. Mrs. H. Rajnbird,. of Brentwood, Eng, gets up at 7 a.m. and cooks break- fast--and she has just celebrated "$4 her 104th-birthday. And the rest} - of the Rainbirds, we suppose, stay in their nest and let her do it. --Ottawa Citizen rr LONDON'S EXAMPLE London; Eng., in a week in the fourth year of the war, raised $600,000,000 in a "wings-for-vic- tory' campaign to back the RAF, All Canada is being asked to raise $1,100,000,000, half a billion more, in the three weeks in the Fourth Victory Loan. If London blitzed and blighted by German bombs, can do it, there should be no doubt of Canada's answer. --The Lethbridge Herald wy POST-WAR THOUGHT A scientist predicts that some day we will be able to live on air. Be that as it may, we arc hoping for the day when the war ends, and we will be able to walk on it. -- Chatham News = THE RADIO EAR it the average person across the room, yet can't hear the radio from a distance of eight feet if it isn't turned up to hog- calling volume? --3St. Louis Star-Times ------ .CRUMY The new "victory sausage" is to contain various and sundry substances besides meat - marking the first appearance, we- believe, of hash in tights. ---Grit eo. . rer AND THE HARNESS? The renaissance of man's nob- lest friend turns out to be very timely; but after eating the horse, what do we do with the buggy? -- Stratford Beacon-Herald oe . BATH FOR ROMMEL General Montgomery is a pretty decent sort of chap--he's prom- ised to confer the Order of the Bath on Rommel--in the Mediter- ranean. --Woodstock Sentinel-Review ---- ADVICE TO FATTIES Weight makes fat people puff and, if they're smart, the puffing will make them wait. distinctly hear a clock tick" --XKitchener Record | This formidable-looking, German-made tank destroyer is wors- ing for the Allies now, Americans Panzer Division in Central Tunisia, captured it in battle with the 10th Today it bears the star insignia of the U. 8. forces, and its 76-mm, gun will bark back at the Axis, Turn "Parlors" Into War Workshops The authorities are looking kind- ly on the experiment of an Eng- lish housewife who has turned her lounge into a workship whero 40 women neighbors, working part- time, make 2,500 aircraft compon- sents every week, Other housewives are going to do the same, and it Is hoped that the idea will be ---copied--by- women --in -other--resi--- dential areas. - The notion, as often happens when "housewives tackle a thing, is both ingenious and practical. dt also has far-reaching possibil- | itles. It is diflicult for many. busy' housewives to travel to a factory miles away, and a scheme of home work, officially organized and en- couraged, may solve many prob lems. . It may, indeed, be the only alter- native to a drastic call-up which would hit thousands of women very hard, ' + NEW POST Record Of British Overseas Airways "Planes Flew 10,000,000 Miles During Last Year" During 1942 British Overseas Afrways flying "boats and land planes flew about 10,000,000 miles in na aggregate flying timo of about 67,250 hours, carrying ap- ~--proximdtely 43,000 passengers, 850 tons of mall and 2.250 tons of freight, the Ale Ministry reports, The. total passenger-miles flown amounted to approximately 91.- 000,000, and the capacity ton-miles provided were roushly 21,600:4080, compared with 12.587 294 ton-milés' in 1941 and 8,674,972 in 1940, The aircraft fly unarmed frequently they have been through war areas in deliver priority freight, British Airways flying boats are maintaining services between Bal- timore and the United Kingdom, Baltimore and Lagos, to and from Lagos and the Unit d Kinwiom, between Britain and Lishon, across Afriea to the Middle East, and from South Africa to India; and land planes are flying on the re- turn ferry service between Britain and Canada, and maintaining sery- fces between the United Kingdom and Eire, between Britain and West Africa and on to the United States, between the Middle East and Per- sla and Iraq, and between the Middle East and varions parts of Afrlea. In addition, there Is a erervice between Africa and Madagascar,- while three types of land planes are. engaged on what {8 known as and taken order fo passengers or world can--tak c this--kind of thing they can. But they are not going to be the ones to stick their chests and chins out and say: "We'll pay this for the war effort and be glad to." They'll pay all right, but they will stick out their chests and chins and say instead: "It's bloody dis- gusting. Them scoundrels, To hell with them." But they will pay, and that is what counts, Secret of German 'Tank Pin Revealed Wresting Gérman secrets from captured war materiel and solv- ing armament problems of the -- Canadian armed forces ---- two main jobs of the Division of Metallic Minerals of the Canadian £7 r Department of Mines and Re- sources, - A Nazi tank track pin and lik Feather Pillows Quickly Cleaned Pillows As Good As New If -- Washed Carefully After much use, feather pillows get soiled. This does not mean that the. conscientious housewife cannot wash them just as they are, without bothering to trans- fer the feathers to a linen bag. The feather pillow will be as good as new if the following sug- gestions are adopted, First a slit about four inches long should be cut at one end of the pillow. A square of muslin | the slit. the sudsy water in and out. To give the best results, only one pillow "at a time should be Jaced in the washing machine, "This effectively allows r~ has--just--yiclded-itsgceret fo the metallurgists. Serving as trouble shooters, they found out why a Canadian armored vehicle part broke under combat conditions. Then they developed = better alloys which consume less scarce metals and a new process that is expected to double production of the part. Canadians were having a tough time hardening a casting used in making an important war wea- pon. Tests by the Division of Metallic Minerals: revealed that some inside arcas were especially difficult to cool when the casting was dipped into water to harden it. Working for three days with only six hours' sleep, a trouble- shooting scientist devised a spray apparatus which gave war indus- try a method to cool the casting uniformly. > . London Repairs Lighting System "Mighting system is being repaired, 'and Britons wondered why the Ministry of Home Security order- ed lights made ready for imme. diate use. : . The ministry remained silent about the order, but many. Britons asked it the Government was an. ticipating an early end of the war. London has been blacked out for more tan three and a half years. Local - councils received urgent orders several weeks ago to re. palr or replace All street lights, many of which had been anmshed in bombing raids, London's long - unused street' and pliable, extra heavy luke- warm suds should be used. If the water becomes too dirty, or the bubbles go flat, mix fresh suds. Bad spots on the cover may be rubbed with a brush. After the cover and pillow are clean, rinse three or four times in tepid water, and squeeze out the excess moisture." : The pillow should be hung care- fully by two corners,-and its posi- tion changed during drying to help restore the fluffiness of the feathers. Either Side of Raf Is Right Side Up A catamaran, or double-hulled type of life raft, the Buck-win has 'been designed to be occupied on whatever side comes up after it has been thrown off the deck of a ship. Twenty persons may be accommodated on the raft which is furthermore, a well-deck type, permitting the passengers to sit upright. Thus it helps to relieve fatigee while floating on a highly agitated ocean surface. The catamaran raft has a hatch available from either side, In this hatch: are stored food, blankets, a sail, flares, reading matter, in- eluding a hymn book and a Bible, rudder, signal flag, tarpaulin, sea curtain, and first-aid equipment, The designer's. foresight has even provided the weather tarpau. lin with fixtures permitting rain water to be collected, : ~should-then-he-sewn-seeurely over Ko-that the feathers will he soft | Tho Maioru Shigemitsu, former Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain, new For - Minister in shake-up of Tokio cabinet. Al- ways a leading advocate of Jap- anese co-operation with U. S. and Britain, his appointment suggests that Japs expect eventual Axis defeat and are preparing for negotiated peace. / Glider Takes Off From The Water A glider adapted with floats under. the wing-tips to enable it to take off from the water was successfully flown off from Lake Windermere, England, recently, cessary initinl speed was -- gained by its being towed by a fast speedboat at about 40_m.p.h. The glider was soon airborne' and having cast off its tow it rose to a height of 150 feet and leter made a perfectly good land- ing. As all gliders are dependent _ on finding upward-risiag air cur- rents to keep them flying it may be more difficult to find these over the cool water than over the sun-warmed land. The "idea of these pioncers is to try it out _ under various conditions to test its utility. The enemy fears 2" trench mortar bombs. Your $100 Vie- tory Bond will buy 50 and scare the daylights out of him! the "Desert Servee™" belween Cairo and the Western Desert. 'They Need Homes And Loving Care' Tiny Wards of Children's Aid Society Deserve a Fair Chance In Life Adopting a baby i8 a serious step, so serious that many couples shrink even from considering it, says Tho Windsor Star. Childless people, however, should give thought to thls matter. Therein lies the opportunity for them both to gain much happiness, and also to render & greal---service--to-- humanity. . Tho appeal made by the Chil- dren's Aid Society should stim- ulate interest in this question. The --organizatlon_secks to find homes --from--here? Doolittle _ stead of by night. i One of the exciting tales of the war--the story of the American bombing raid on Tokio one year ago--was told officially one day last week. Next day the grue- some sequel was disclosed: some of eight captured American fly- ers were exceuted by the Japan. ese, despite the fact that they were uniformd prisoners of War, It took about three months to prepare for the raid, says the New York Herald Tribune, Jimny Doolittle did not know at first what the target was to be, but he rounded up 1560 volunteers in Texas and took them and twenty- four North American B-25 medium bombers to Florida to drill, Army bombers had never taken off cn masse from a Navy aircraft car. rier; tho flyers practiced on land how to get into the air in only 800 feet, ai they rehearsed how they would fly low over the un- 'named objectives, The planes were altered; the belly gun which would be useless when flying so low was replaced with a gun atop the fuselage; extra gasoline tanks were installed for a long flight; the Norden bomb sight was re- placed with a 20-cent affair, so no scerets could fall into Japan- "ese hands. --By-the-time-the-flyers-boarded | the aircraft carrier Hornet, still not informed of their mission, | there were only sixteen B-25's, and cighty men. The bombers had so great a wing spread that they had to "be eavvied on the flight deck lashed together, The sixteen tool up so much room that only 500 feet of deck space was left free for the take-off run. Two days out at sea an an- nouncement from Admiral Halsey, commander of the fleet task force, blarcd through the loud speakers: the object of 'this mise | sion is to bomb Tokio. The flyers veheered and heard the detailed plan. Phe carviey would approach to within 400 miles of Japan. The planes would take off at dusk, bomb Tokio by aight, fly on to Chinese -airfickis and land at day- break. Change of Plans On thesmorning of the big day, April 18, a grave hitch developed. At dawn a Japanese trawler hove In sight. An American cruiser sank it immediately, but had the trawler already warned Tokio by radio? Admiral Halsey wig- wagged the problem to Jimmy Dootlittle on the carrier: if we continue, we may run into disas-_ ter; can your planes make Tokio csaid yes, | So nt 8.20 that moming the six- teen planes took off, 800 miles from Tokio instead of 400 miles away, to bomb it by daylight in- At high noon they skimmed the roofs of Tokio. One by one each objective of cach plane was check- ed off---tank factories, shipyards, airplane plants. They could have bombed the imperial palace, but the Emperor was not a military objective and of relatively minor importance. The planes then headed back out to sea for fifty miles to fool the enemy, before turning south and west toward China. By the original plan they would have reached airfields #ii unoccupied China carly in the morning, but | by the enforced change in sche- dule they arrived over China's mountains in pitch dark and could find nowhere to land. They went up to 10,000 fect, distributed to for its tiny wards, children who aro placed in that position by a variety of circumstances, but cér- tainly through no fault of their own. They deserve a fair chance in life, and the nation will have need of them in the years to come, for human lives are our most precious national asset. Only In a home atmospliere can they be de- veloped inte the kind of men and women they should be. Adoption undoubtedly involves great respon- ¢"lility, prehaps considerable solf- s.crifice, but Jt can compensato for all this, in the joy. that chil- dren bring to a home, and in the . satisfaction to be taken from rear- ing them to be a reredit to thelr foster parents and to their com- munity, cach man rations and a map, then jumped in their parachutes into the blackness. The planes, of course; were wrecked--all but one which flew to Siberia and landed safely. Only one flyer was killed in the jump, Most of the men landed in un- occupied China and eventually made their way to Chungking; some now are fighting in North Africa. A few of the flyers, how- -ever, landed in Japapese-occupied China. Two never have been ac- counted for. Eight were captured by the Ji anese, Japan Kills Prisoners Before the war Japan solemnly agreed to abide by the interna- tional Geneva convention on the treatment of war prisoners, But six weeks ago our government learned from Japan, through the medium of the Swiss Minister at "Pokio, that all of the eight cap- tured flyers were sentenced to death; for some the sentence was commuted, and the rest--- possibly three, although the number is not known---were executed. Japan's excuse was that the flyers -had deliberately attacked civilians, They did not do so, the State Department said; they had orders to attack only military objectives and "it is known that they did not deviate therefrom." Tokio insinuated that the men whose death sentences were come muted had admitted having at- tacked non-combatants, The State Department's reply was that there have been "numerous known in- stances in wheih Japanese official agencies have employed brutal and bestial methods in extorting alleged confessions from persons in their power." . of the Forestry: Commission for creating - new woods throughout Britain in the years after the war, : An official of -- the Forestry Commission said that whereas bes fore the war 75,000,000 young trees were raised each year dor afforestation and reforestation purposes it will be necessary in future to raise many more. ; " He revealed that plans to give the nation a total area of forests and woods of 5,000,000 acres ara being considered. There are in the country 16,000,000 acres of rough and waste land. None of it is useful for agricultural pur- poses, and can be planted with trees. 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