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. A) hs CL ) _._they » L 2.5 + J AE] 1 RAT AE AY 2 % ' » \ Ax o 3 a 3 £2 NaS +o 4. et Ll Le Ll TR 4 J any Ee Adie Rp - -- a v \ . rd 4 a -------- ---- -- 400-Mile Pipe Line To Tap Oil Fields Tube To Carry Norman oil To Alaska Highway To carry oil from the depths ot Canada's Northwest Territory, 400 miles of pipe line will reach out through unexplored wilderness to . meet the new Alaskan Highway, * The work of piping the rich flow of the Norman oil fields to White. horse on the Alaskan Highway in Yukon already has begun. In fact, "it began a thousand miles away at Edmonton, Alberta. Before' it' is completed, great sections of pipe, huge tractors, trucks, and other equipment must be transported through dense, un- <harted forests, across thrashing rivers, around treacherous rapids, over mountains and"Reross lakes, 16-Mile Portage At one point, the United States Army engineers who are in charge "of the project had to build a 16- milo portage road around the dan- gerous Pelican Rapids of thie Slave River. - The going was fairly smooth up to that point. The equipment had been loaded on freight cars at Ed- monton for the 300-mile journey to Fort MeMurray on the Slave River. . There were tractors and trucks, sections of pipe line, and. --other equipment in the long pro- cession of freight that chugged its way to the river port. Here specially constructed barg- es, built by Army engineers, wore In readiness to transport the cargo on the second lap of its journey. The strange flotilla set off up the twisting trail of the Slave --River-------- : Strange "Convoy" At the Pelican Rapids, every- thing had to be unloaded again, and a 16-mile road hacked through __ the wilderness and back to the River agajg above the Rapids. It was a strange "convoy" that plowed its way through to the primitive Tanding at Fort Smith. Added to the trucks and tractors and pipe lines were the barges and boats necessary to complete the river journey to the far-away Norman oil fields. ' At Fort Smith, where the por- tage ended, crude docks were con- structed to get the cargo from shore to ship again. From there shoved off with 800 miles more of wilderness waterways to negoticte hefore the journey was' to end. All this before the 400-mils pipe lino which will carry Canada's "liquid gold" to civilization by way of the Alaskan Highway could even get its start. The Norman oil fields comprise ~ but one of the many oil'rich areas of the Canadian Northwest. Nor are those wildcat wells born. to _Bush unseen. Drilling in some 40 z THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events The Germans, Unlike The British, Are No Back-To-The-Wall Fighters At the moment that Prime Min. {ster Churchill was aryiving fn Washington last week to see the President, the Berlin radio sald that Mr, Churchill was "attending a large conference" in the Middle Kast, perhaps with Mr. Roosevelt. The Axis Is distrait. The last time the two leaders . talked together was at Casablanca, says the New York Times. Since then the. Axis has been beaten to pleces in Africa. Times have changed since Mr, Churchill, then, too, in Washington, received the news of the fall of Tobruk in June, 1942. Out of that meet- ing came plans for the invasion of North Africa, Then the Casablanca . mecting last January mapped the' 1043 offensives. Conjecture i$ that that the present meeting will check over plans for invasion of Europe. It is enough that when these two meet they plan for vle- tory, The Premier's V-sign now means unconditional Axis surrend- er. : Hitler's Blue Monday ' Adversity doesn't seam to atfeot Adolf Hitler the way ft does Win- "ston Churchill. Never was, there a sprightller, more eloquent states- man than Mr, Churchill during the months after Dunkerque. Nev- er was there a sadder one than Herr Hitler at this moment. Is- suing his mandate to the German people, last Monday, the third an- niversary of the invasion of the Low Countries; to contribute to the Red Cross Summer campaign, he seemed like a man in need ot sympathy. One could read what was in dis mind, For more than a decade he had been abusing and butchering the innocent, be- traying, first his own countrymen, then foreigners, and on Monday he evidently realized that people still didn't love him. In other years he could boast of victories that had happened or were aboul to happen, but this year he couldn't. There was no good news from Russia. Decided- ly there was no good news from Tunisia. There was, for him and his friends, no good news from anywhere. He felt nervous, jittery and blue, He wasn't having a good time. His soldiers weren't having a good time. German civilians weren't having a good times Al. lied aviators, disregarding the Nazi rule that bombing is for ex- port, not Import, -had carried the |. § war "into Germany's towns, mar- ket places and villages." This was all that Adolf Hitler could say to the German people. Their decade of sufferings and sacrifices had earned them the prospect of more and 2a Biter msgs ate scale on the continent of Kur- ope. Once agaln it has been dem- onstrated that war is not a mathe matical but a human equation, and Goebbels himself has admitted that German civilian morale Is worse than German military mor- alo at the. front. Second Lesson The second lesson, long a mill tary axiom, which has been prov- od again in North Africa, is that attack is far more promising and less costly than defenso. Accord. lng to London estimates, the Af- rican campaign has cost the Axis wore than 750,000 men and enorm- ous quantities of material, Tho Al lied losses are mere fractions of this terrific toll, and in the last phases of the campaign, counting prisoners, they appear to be less than one to ten. , Last Lesson The last and final lesson is ob- vious from the first two. Coming on .top of Stalingrad, the Axis catastrophe in Africg has shaken all Europe, causing great concern within the Axis Powers and their --satellites; raising new hopes and new resistance among their vie- tims. This, together with the na. tural advantage of attack, makes it imperative that the African victory should be followed up as "quickly as possible with equally smashing blows at Hitler's Kuro- pean "fortress" before the impact of this victory has worn off. Any | delay will permit Hitler to steady his ranks aud make a later attack | more costly. The watchword of. the Allies must still be the on sounded by Lieut. Gen. -McNarney, deputy chief of staff ot the Army, at the beginning of this year: "Attack!" CHINA'S PRESIDENT THE BOOK SHELF SLEEPING ISLAND By P. G. Downes This is the story of one man's' adventuring in the unchartered wilds of the Canadian Northwest »--poling and shooting treacherous rapids that might continue into eternity for all he knew, packing canoo and loads over rocky, mile long portages, blinded and glag- gering, spinufng out yarns of the North country with trappers and tradbrs gathered around the stove in remote Hudson's Bay Company posts, visiting with old friends Downes and his trapper friend, John, made their way up the Coch. rane River, and then over a tor- tuous and poorly marked trail across a chain of lakes to Nueltin, the great Lake of the Sleeping Islands, known still to only a handful of white men, Just why this bare land of rock and dwarl spruce should have such a pull 1s hard to express, but this dialogue between a Dog-Rib Indian amd a priest may offer some clue: ""Tell me, Father, what is this whiteman's Heaven?" "It is the most beautiful place in the world." "Tell me, Father, Is it like the land, of the little trees when the fco has left the lakes? Are the great musk oxen -there? Ave hills covered with flowers? There I loak? Ave the lakes blue with the sky of summer? Is every net full of great, fat whitefish? Is there room for me in this land, like our land, the Barrens? Can I camp anywhers and not find that somcone elsé has camped? --Can--tfeel-the wind and be like "the wind? Father, if your Heaven is not all these, leave me alone in my land, the land of the little sticks." SLEEPING ISLAND . . . By P. G. Downes . . . Longmans, Green & Co... . Price $4.50, | OTTAWA REPORTS That Canada's 1943 Food Pro- duction Drive Will Be Greatest in Our History. As definitely as though we were managing some of. the equip- ment behind Montgomery', army, Canada's agricultural army, in this fourth year of the war, will be a link in the war offensives with which the United Nations hope this spring and summer to route a road to ultimate victory. The perspective for Canada's 1943 "on, to the land" campaign is quite in keeping with the mon- among Indians and Eskimos. v the- will 1 see the caribou everywhere 2h dy FUNNY BUS i RJ! COPR. 1542 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. T. M. Reo. U. 8. PAY. OFF INESS CAR EP EE 1 3 ¢ 7 [l o Y p , 7 "-17 "You've certainly got the idea, girls! plant has started its night shift, your egg output has doubled!" Since that war clear tion mapped out for this impend- ing national effort. An overall increase of about 20 per cent. is the rough objective, but the in- creases vary in different items. The chief item foo which creased production is sought in 1943 is hogs-- from 6,250,000 in 1942 ta 8,000,000 in 1943, or 28 per cent. This formidable in- crease is necessary to meet not only British demand for 675 mil- lion pounds of Canadian bacon than last year--but our own do- mestic needs "Grow All You Can" A number of special field crops, such as fibre flax, soybeans and larger quantities, while the 1943 objective in eggs is 29 per cent. higher than in 1942 and a 10 per cent. increase in poultry. The flexible program prepared envis- ages also an advance of six per cent. in milk production. Whila the schedule has been systematized down to a statistical program of food produc- - in.' this year---75 million pounds nore - sugar beefs, are wanted in uch country cndorse, states Agricul. ture Minister James G. Gardiner, includes, first, that the needs of the armed forces shall reccive the initial call on the food sup- plies of the nation. Scdondly, that the civilian population shall 'receive a reasonable amount of the food available; and, thirdly, that British food contract require- ments, prisoners of war parcels, dependent countries, such as New- foundland and the West Indics, ships' stpres and the armed forces of the [nlted States in Canada, shall reecive food supplies to the utmost of Canada's ability to sup- ply them. Women Tockle - Big Army Jobs The British Women's Services in the Middle ast are "very much in the picture these days and are taking over more and more jobs in base arcas. releas- the London Radio said. ing soldiers for jobs nthe line} VOICE OF THE PRESS STRETCH YOUR DOLLARS Watch your leftovers. There's a war on, and' there ought to be no leftovers. It 18 surprising the. amount of good food which finds its way into the garbage can, Maasure everything carefully, When you cook a meal for fous people have enough for four--nod for five or six, ad is frequently the case.' The difference is usual ly wasted. . ' Create your own cost of Jing bonus with profit to yourself an the country as well. It can be done! - ! --Stratford Beacou-Herald, Sali WE HELP OUT THE U.S. Canad is reported to be manus facturing $4,000,000,000 worth of WUE Poli] 9) 10) [vlwjear Jes That ought to make some of ow neighbors realize that there is moro to this country than wheat fields, snow-clad mountains, great areas of woodland, fur-trappers, Mounted Policemen and DPlonne quintuplets, --Brockville Reforder and Times, --0-- LONG AGO In our innocence, wa used to think that g ceiling was that thing that when you wero "dolug over" a room the paper kept - falling down around your neck and you wound up by whitewashing it. --Windsor Star, --r - WHAT ABOUT CRABBIEST? "The life span of a crab Is 20 years," according to a scientist. ~phe professor is oft tho beam; many a wife has an old crab who's bee ¢rabbing much longer than that, and is crabbier now than ever ho was. = --Ottawa Citizen. ay REALISTIC Suggestion for Mr. [llsley: At Twin Falls, Idado, a sign greeting taxpayers in tho county treasure's offico reads, "What are you ory- ing about? Nobody's shooting at you!" --Brantford® Expositor, apse SHORTABECAKE? "Ontario Strawberry Growers Ask Higher Prices." What are we going to call it this year--short- _agecake? Windsor Star, --0-- . WHERE ECONOMY IS RIFE ne Faglaud one razor blade has to last two weeks, but that is not considered any hardship fn Scot Lal, ' --Brandon" Sun, ee, nt cepti 1 ¢ diffor 5 H--be--under way this summer, The cost will run up into many millons-of dollars. But the reward of this 'effort will be great, for it will open up a new territory whose richness is far beyond calculation. A Billion Dollars Doesn't Last Long Figures Given by Ottawa Journal on Huge Cost of War In The Air Some people still ask why thls war costs so much more than the ----war---of 1914-1318, One answer {3 found in the trade journal Can- adlan Aviation: ~ "An elementary trainer is valued at abput $12,000. A- single-engined advanced trainer costs about '$30, 000. A twin-engined advanced train- er costs about $50,000. A bombing and gunnery trainer costs about $76,000. A single-engined transport costs ahout $40,000. A fighter costs _Arom $35,000 to $50,000. A dive bomber costs from $50,000 to $76, 000. An amphibian patrol bomber costs $200,000. A .four-engined long-range homber costs $400,000 to $500,000." ' $300,000,000 Raid That is, when 600 heavy homb- ers set out from Britain to attack German war plants in Europe the equipment actually put into the air from - has cost close to $300,000,000. More scores of millions have gone into airports, hangarg and ground in- stallations. By comparison aircraft used fn the Great War'were small, cheap, and 'of course not nearly so numerous. y And it is not only in the air that this war consumes money in such prodigious sums, All the appurten- ances of battle are costly. Armies move nowadays by mechanized transport. Tanks are counted by thousands, guns by tons of thous- ands, shells by millions, ships by numbers that would have seemed incredible a few years ago. In' such a war a billion dollars doesn't last very long--but when the alternative is subjection to the Huns money is a minor thing, ' Pipe Cleaners A use can Pe found for pipe ¢léaners other than cleaning pipes. They hold the stems of vines and plants in inside win- ~dow boxes firm and close trellis. without harm, to a more sacrifices. Herr Hitler is a man of moods. Hae may feel better next Monday-than he felt last Mon. day. We don't think he will do much dancing, even next Monday, Lessons of Tunisla Though individual German units continue resistance in Tunisia, the outstanding feature of the Allied - victory is the quick collapso of - German fighting morale once the odd turned and hope of victory was gone. The last smashing blows in Tunis and Bizerte, which" clear- ly demonstrated Allied superiority In men and material, precipitated a process of German dissolution. The latest dispatches from . the front provide dramatic proof of - Ltader of Free Ch.na is white- bearded Lin Sen, 79, for 12 years __president of the National Gov- -- this; There will be no Bataan on Cap Bon. There will he no Dunkerque or Stalingrad elther. Though still amply armed and equipped; the Germans are surrendering fin droves, they and their generals. Whole companies march in full discipline to the prison stockades already jammed with some hun- dred thousand of them. The power of the dreaded Elite Guards, put over the Germans themselves to seo to it that they carry out Hit. - ler's orders 'and fight to the "last" bullet", Is gone: the troops burn the bullets but keep the food. The guards of Allled prisoners readily turn their guns over to thelr pris- .oners and chango places with them, glad to escape that cheaply. These Germans dre members of the __vaunted Africa Corps, the flower of 'the (jerman Army, veterans of impressive victories of the 'past, specially picked and conditioned for desert warfare. But In the fin- al test, the best specimens of the 'master race" show up no better than the Italians whom they used to despise, And therein lle some important lessons for the further conduct of the war, ; First Lesson ' The' first is that the. Germans, unlike the British, are no back-to- tha-wajl fighters. As long as there is hope of victory they are as brave as any soldfers, and the skill of their professional military lead- ers makes them formidable enem: fes. But as soon as the odds turn against them and the chances of victory, even tha hope of holding out, begin to fade they are quick to throw up their hands. That is what happened In 1918. That fs what is happening in North Atel. ca, And that is what {a likely to happen in Germany again, despite Hitler's Elite Guards, once the Al led performance in North 'Africa can bs repeated on a proportion- ernment at Chungking. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, as president of the executive Yuan, occupies a position like that of a prime. min- ister. Workmen Get Heroism Medals > To eight workmen in a manu-- facturing plant in Gatineau, Que- bec, came the chance to offer their lives for others--an oppor- tunity whose acceptance earned them bronze medals from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. One after the other, the men descended into a tank of wood- pulp, filled with the lethal fumes _of hydrogen sulphide gas, in.an | effort to save a worker who had been overcome. There they worked until they, too, were overcome by fumes and had to be rescued. ' farmer folk, who, in this, as in the previous world war, out effort for Victory production of food, will be scores of thous- ands of men and women, bovs and girls, from towns and villages, factories, offices and workshops, schools and colleges. There is a give all- ed, but particular stress fs" laid on meat, animals, eggs, vege- tables, forage crops and feed grains, Farmers Endorse Policy Broadly, the general food pol- fey for this Dominion, a policy * which farmers throughout the There are certain food items __ which one always thinks of in association. Who,__ for instance, can pronounce the words "Corn- ed Beef" without instinctively adding the word "Cabbage." Ham and eggs is another. Still another is Crackers and Cheese--one of the most universally popular diet combinations on the North Amer- ican continent, Pp And there's a real scientific basis for the popularity of crack- ers and cheeses . Soda Crackers rank sccond only to butter in caloric value, and cheese stands' in- third place. So, when you but- ter a crisp soda cracker and eat it with a bit 'of cheese, you are, whether you care or not, cating "the three food items which pos- sess the largest number of cal- ories to the pound, Two factors account for the - high caloric value of Biscuits and Soda Crackers. First--their com- position which includes wheat, shortening, eggs, milk and other CRACKERS 'N' CHEESE! BY MOLLY O'DALE nutritive food products. Second- ly--Ilack of moisture. In the mak- ing of Soda Crackers, the de- hydration results in reducing the moisture to less than 69% of tolal weight. How dry this is can be seen from the fact that fresh bread contains 36% moisture! In a nutshell, a good Soda Cracker is the "staff of life" dehydrated. This dehydration results also in giving the Soda Crackers a most agrecable taste so that they can be caten with enjoyment just as you take them out of the package. But usually they are most enjoyed when lightly but. tered and™ eaten with cheese, soup, jam, marmalade, salads, ete. And these various combi- nations also provide not only for a high caloric intake, but also take care of the body's require- ments in the way of sugars, car- | bohydrates, proteins and vitamins, Yes, indeed, our old friend "Crackers 'n' Cheese" fits in well vith a health-building diet. collection by the army men who take them on from there." " ste ili : acrial & Ww ; Se etl It is not merely a question Stor miliary, acrial and naval of - basis such as i3 indicated in the of doing office Jobs x is a rma ar---- Prag Pe Logos above few items, the stated eb. common thing to sce women at Bia 2 riea ane Australas n. for, ke jectives are only relative. The in-- the wheels of motor cars and Washing Rag Mats these planned onslaughts, Can- junction to evervone, whether big Ur ualer. rairdi doin ne et eee ttnd : " gt food rol muey re witt farmers or merely Victory gar- heavy "vehicles of that kind. They If a rag rug has been washed, be the greatest in our history. eners i backyard, is, "Gr sha ia eo z ol , N 20¢; Overall Increase | A 5 hhh fend convoy army lorries from ports | it will remain clean longer if it 0 "ou can. ere w we oread li nr wks - - 3 H H i 10av star, 3 2 Hdivery stations 3 for is dipped into heavy stare B Swelling the ranks of the markets for all that can be rais- to delivery stations, ready ipped jeavy starch. _ By doing this it will also stay in a better position on the floor, LIFE'S LIKE THAT 7-10 By Fred Neher LED Aerial = g | "Sure it's a dandy. .. . It's a grade 'A' apple!" ED PRIVATE DUFFY; THERE'LL BE A REVIEW OF THE ARMY THIS AFTERNOON AT GENRILISSOMO DUGAN! OKAY, ! NOTIFY LOOTENANT GEN'RIL HUDSON, FIEL' f MARSHAL PUDDINHEAD, BRIGADIER GEN'RIL | BAGGY SCANLON AN' : THE WHOLE GEN'RIL TAFF | By GENE BYRNES . REVIEWIN STAND [i D OFFICERS oY (Ree 0.8 rar on a gna sheet PICT TET PPPS IY ol, [ Jot NL. Tg