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Fine Cattle Raised "of beet from Mr. In The Aleutians Cattle Business Booms When Hungry Yanks "Invade" ° Aleutian Island Although the largest herds of sheep that ranged on the Aleu. tian Islands have been removed because of the war, Jack McCord, who ranches on Chirikof and Sitk. alldad Islands near the larger fis. laud of Kodiak, has found the war to be booming his cattle bus. iness, Mr, McCord was 'specializing in sheep, because of remoteness from markets for dalry products ot beef, when war brought thousands of hungry fighting men literally into his back yard. Then he be- gan increasing his. sturdy range: cattle, the descendants of Shorts horns Introduced in the district in 1888, 10 years before the big gold rush to Alaska began. Two Army authorities recently flew "out to check on the cattle for beef purposes and pronounced them first class in all ways, the finest range cattle seen in all the west, : Green Grass All Year Mr. McCord, who leased the Is. lands from the Government for '20 years after proving in the first five years that he coild produce good wool and wholesome cattle, says he does not need to give his stock winter feed, water, or shel. ter. The islands are surrounded by salt water, are protected from the wind and produce green grass the year around, Nearness to the sea keeps the climate even--I seldom. dips---to below 15 or above zero--and regular make the grass grow. The Navy hought: $23; year. This from - Seattle after provide - the Army pounds of beef, Farmers in other Alaskan areas have been writing to Mr. McCord for breeding stock, 300,000 CANADIAN MEMORIAL IN SICILY ian. denn . Shown here at the top of this $3] aR broad' gravelled path is the Me- ; near the mountain town of Agira to Canadians who were killed in action during the Sicilian cam. paign, The Memorial was. fashion. ed by Italian craftsmen out of Syracuse white limestone, with a 2 superimposed crusader's sword, and will be a part of the Cana. dian cemetery in: Sicily. One side faces toward the battlefield near Regatbuto, the other towards Agira, in' which three, western Canada infantry units disting- uished: themselves before its cap- ture, * R.C.AF. With RAF. At Bases: es! In Azores "N : *___Many Canad fliers _are_ops: erating with A fo" based on , the Azores from which shatter. "ing. blows against submarines in the. Atlantic are being delivered, R.C.AF.. licadquarters announced last week, ; The Canadians arrived at the 'Azores with the first RAF, squadrons sent to the new bases made available by the Portuguese. Government recently, The an- nouncement. said the anti-sub_ marine campaign was greatly. ine tensified' with acquisition of the 3 Any Then They ~ Run Fo For Shelter ry is it going the rounds eople of' Berlin< have w. way to tell their es from those of tha morial which has been erected: 4 A hole blasted' in a hill-to soldier a vantage point from whic while men of his unit move into a new position, rik dd Sd (11d SID RER BAHL, HATS wall in Italy gives this Canadian h to observe any enemy movements morning of December r a gray winter sky, the gentemde of a military tribunal was executed on three German war criminals and a Russian traitor. The gallows at Kharkov, where these four men have been hanged after conviction of war crimes against the Russian people, throws a dark, shadow across any hopes Nazl war criminals: may have entertained as to their future, shys the Christian Science Monitor. The "mills of the gods are grinding as fine as ever, but not so- slowly. For war criminals ° who had counted on a repetition of history to. save them from justice, Khar- kov is a grim spectacle Indeed. It alters the usual concept of war -- guilt trials- which envisaged these as an exclusively postwar func- tion. To Avold Post-War Conditions Trials and executions like this at -Kharkov lessen the possibility of war criminals' escaping because of a general postwar reaction among the peoples: a let-down from war tensions, a willingness to let bygones be bygones, an eagerness to forget the war, or apathy in the face of so great and protracted an agony as the trial and executions of thousands of human beings. The dispatch with which . the Russians have punished persons convicted of atrocities is inspired in part by determination to avoid some ~of - the postwar conditions which might militate against re- tribution. The Russians can re- member as well as anyone the Allted" promises - criminals of World War One, the strange aftermath in which the German authorities and peoples joined in declaring that program of: punishment to he merely a frenzy of hatred against Germany and the sequel in which only the merest handiful were convicted. Moreover, the Russians seem intent upon establishing a direct connection between the crimes committed on the fleld and the policies of the Nazi regime, This would help to explain the other- wise curlously detailed and dra- matic confessions obtained from those convicted, reminiscent in some respects of confessions which appeared in the mass trials some years ago. { Precedents Set ¢ ..--These-statements show the con victed as immediate agents of atrocities 'approved and even dir actly ordéred from above. The Kharkov executions thus seem tntended to set precedents for dealing with war criminals: thefr trials need not await the end of _the war, and the execution of those: directly nvolved will not absolve others seem lesd direct but whose policies dlétated ' brutal methods of' war- fare against innocent populations. Whether they restrain' further brutalities 'or not, the hangings 'at Kharkov will be grimly noted not only among Nazi officers on' 'the fighting fronts but by their superiors in Berlin, "First Realization" The Moscow News déclated that the Kharkov war criminals' trial . was "the first realization" of the statement by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister. Winston Chure- hill and Premier Joseph Stalin on war oriminals, and added that it "lg significant fn that It 1s the initial act in the judgement that "will be held in the countries of liberated Europe." The "long arm of the freedom -to- punish the- hose: responsibility may: . od THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Four War Criminals Pay Price Crimes Against Russian People loving peoples will pursue those gullty to the ends of the earth," it continued, and "will deliver them to be places where they com. mitted thelr crimes; they will be trled according to the laws of the countries whose citizens fell vle- tim to the Hitlerite terror." "Irrefutable documents leave no doubt that all these crimes were and are being committed by the Hitlerites at direct instructions ot the German Government and the High Command of the German Army," the Moscow News editorial declared. "SCOUTING ... "His Excellency the Governor. General, Chief Scout for Canada has' approved of the week of Feb- ruary 20-26 as Boy Scout Week In Canada. ~ . * . Boy Scout leaders in Windsor, Ontarlo, have prepared a brief suggesting means of overcoming the increase In juvenile: delln- quency in Ontarlo. . . Six hundred and titty Boy Scout leaders. in Toronto have enlisted - since the outbreak of war, Thirty ot these have been killed, a num- ber have been decorated, and 1% per cent have earned commlssions. . It has been revealed that the "first 'British pilot to drop an 8,000 1b. bomb on enemy territory was - Rover Scout Peter Merrall, D.F., M., who was posthumously award- ~ed the D.F.C. * L . For more than 20 years of ser. vice to the Boy Scout Movement, Louis L. Lang of. Kitchener, Ont. "President of the Mutual Life As- surance Co., a former President of the' Canadian Manufacturers' Assn, and a director of the Can. adlan Pacific Railway has been awarded the Silver Wolt by the (Qovernor-General, ' _. * LB -- Gilt Crosses for Gallantry have been awarded by the Governor- General to Scout Herbert Held- man of the 1st kville, Ont. Troop for the rescue a boy who had fallen from the pler at Oak- ville, and to Patrol Leader Al bert John Lee, 15, of the 79th Toronto Troop for rescuing a boy "who liad fallen nto the Grenadter- Pond. Let's back Canada by living like Canadians. Canadians are honest, unselfish, neighborly, clean, frea and united. Are we? All of the time? -ot Nations, OTTAWA REPORTS That Canadian Ministers To United States, Russia, China, Brazil Have Been Elevated To The Rank of Ambassadors. In the elevation of Canadian Ministers to the United States, Russia, China and Brazil to the rank of Ambassadors Canada is taking steps designed to guard her interests In a post war world where even the most widely sep. argted natlons will be "neighbors", at a distance of a mere couple ot days air travel, The guarding of Canada's fn. terests means much more than the mere protection of her econ. omic concerns or the "preserva. tion of her rights to this or that ftem of commercial value, It means dlso the creation of under- standing, so 'far as possible, of the Canadian people, their posi. tion in the British Commonwealth their manner of live ing, thelr liking for fair play and their peace-loving nature as well as their wartime accomplishments fn the commercial sphere. Of course it means as well the dls- semination' of knowledge of what Candda can produce from her soll and from her factories, and that she Is prepared to trade with the world on a fair basis and with integrity and justice. LJ . LJ It one wants to consider the advisability of Canada - taking steps to present her viewpolnt with full dignity abroad one has only to ponder on the extent to which international lack of under- standing of other peoples point of view has been responsible for friction and strife and stalemate among the peoples of the "world, in the past. International goodwill fs almost inevitably paved with understanding and appreclation. It was perfectly natural that Canada's first embassy should be created in- the capifal of her pow- erful and peaceloving neighbor, the United States of America. It is apparent that the importance of Anglo Saxon understanding rests to no small degree upon the continuance for all time of the goodwill which has marked Can- adlan-Amerlcan relations, That embassies should follow quickly in*Russia and China is also no surprise, and the eleva- tion of our Brazilian legation to the rank of an Embassy only un. derlines the amazing speed with which Canadian friendship with "the Latin Americas is being ce- - mented. Canada's friendly interest in the Latin Americas has Increas- ed enormously since the 'outbreak of war and links of understand. ing are being forged which are important to the future. Ld * LJ One of the most atriking fea- tures of the year at Ottawa has been tho constant stream of Lat- in American visitors coming to gain at first hand a better knowl- edge of the people of this Domin- fon. The Wartime Information Board Department, dealing with Latin American relations, reports that no fewer than seventy Chil eans alone have officlally visited Ottawa In various capacities dur- ing the past year. One group came to .study our Royal Canadian Mounted Police System; others to note our war effort; others came In important capacities to ex- change goodwill and promote mu- tual understanding. The extension of Canadian rep- resentation throughout the na- tions of the world means, not that Canada fs lessening or weakening her ties with the great Common- wealth of which she fs a. part, Canada already has assumed a leading role In the settlement of postwar problems, notably food rellef, and has to 'grow up" ac- cordingly. TE ¥ Ten-Week Town In ten weeks a small group of officers of the Royal Engineers have transformed 200 acres of cornfields, pastures, trees and hedges into a vast supply depot for the American Army in Bri- "tain; ---"Ten-week--town"- is now-- a vast conglomeration of tower- ing tarred sheds set in a network of concrete roads, There are 14 miles of railways and 'seven miles of roads. In peacetime this work would hive taken upwards of a year to complete, "Ontario through the oyes of our VOICE PRESS LOSING ITS TS FRANCHISE A Over most of Europe there are neither elections nor voting. The people have no say as to who gov ern them, or how, It is their lot to obey orders from higher-up-- or else, But, given the opportun- ity which is ours, to vow freely and by secret ballot, would €0 per cent, of them stay at home? We think not. Like good health, the franchise is never so highly regarded as whey it is lost, --Fort Erie Times-Review. AN OLD GERMAN CUSTOM Nazi troops displayed a white flag, then shot down a Canadian platoon that came to take the enemy prisoner. It was not Hitler who did that, it was German soldiers, They were repeating an old German custom: They were proving the axiom that the German people cannot be trusted. --Windsor Star. OLSO BABY HUMANS A scientist informs us that baby goldfishes are so unlike their par- ents that they are often mistaken for another species. Baby humans, too, professor, and fortunately. --Ottawa Citizen, X FOR EXIT We are amused to hear a bunch of British kids making new use of the R.AF. designation for bombers. They greet each other thusly: "Here comes old B for Bill," and shouts of "Hi, there, P for Percy." We would have stayed around to hear more, but "M for Mabel" passed by,--Stars and Stripes. SHQRTENING LIFE Man is that foolish; creature who shortens his life by working hard to acquire things that fur- ther shorten his life. --Kitchener Record. The Book Book Shelf Our old Hons Town By F. H. Dobbin Many of these reminiscences will be familiar to old timers, and many more will want to see old hardy forbears. What did the well dressed woman of a hundred years ago wear In Peterborough? How did they fight fires in those days? What about the small city or- chestra? = The reader will tind, In this col- lection of Mr. Dobbin's articles, not only the full flavour of an age that has passed away, but also a witty commentary on the foibles and fashions of early On- tario folk, He will read In this fascinating book how the early elections were held In Peterbor- ough, how whiskey sold at a shill. fg a gallon, and was guaranteed free from headaches, the story of Red Fife wheat, descriptions of Municipal housekeeping a century ago, of these and of many mat- ters,' A' foreword Is sbi by Mr. T. H. Theobald, of The Peter- borough Examiner. . Our Old Home Town ... By F. H. Dobbin . .. J. M. Dent and Sons . . . Price $3.00. -A Million-Dollar- Cape Of Feathers The most expensive garment in all the world is a cape made of feathers, which was worn by King Kamehameha the Great, of Hawaii, writes Juliette Lane in "Our Dumb Animals." The gar- ment is valued at, and insured for $1,000,000. This. remarkable cape is price- less beyond merely monetary value because it is made of tiny, golden feathers no larger than a _ child's fingernail, gathered over a long period of time from the wings of the Hawaiian Mamo, a bird which has been extinct since 1870. As only two of these tiny feathers were taken from the -- Ring Out the Old, Ring in the Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; __Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, ~ .For those .that here we see no more; Ring out ithe feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, "But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of thy land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. bf good. --Lord Tennyson. each bird, it was_neces- obtain. feathers from thousands of the birds in order to assemble this single garment. Morbover, we are in- formed that over 100 years of labor were required and that the completed feather cape repre- sents the highest devlopment in native Hawaiian art. The plumage of the Mamo was at one time equivalent to gold currency in the Hawaiian Islands and it represented the cotindey's greatest treasure. The garment is preserved at wings of sary to countless Big Growth Seen For Dried Foods J The preservation and conden- sation of food will have a tres. mendous postwar growth, hanced 1 by the food needs of cure | rérten; =! rently-"Axis-cccupied* -~ cou: said W. Smallwood of the Cana dian General Electric Company in a recent address in 'Loronto: be- fore the Electric Club. Authori= tics estimate that the food emer- geney will continue for 10 {aa Aa after the war, and dehydration will play an important. part, "he declared. x Dehydrated vegetables in' increased if volume. four : over 1941, said 'thie speaker, adds © ing that 'in 1943 a 16-fol ! "crease is scheduled over 1942, He explained that in North Ameri this will mean neurly- -2,000,000 000 pounds, . Refrigeration solved the probe lem of feeding the Allied toons in invasion of North Africa and Italy in advance on this side of the Atlantic, Mr. Smallwood pointed out when small cold stor- age rooms were individually | constructed, filled with frozen * food, and then put bodily aboard ship, the mechanism in each unis kept the food in that condition the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Diphtheria-Free It was 13 years ago on Nov. 18 that Brantford recorded its last case of diphtheria. This re- markgble record, which is actually without parallel in Canada, or anywhere else, as far as is known, with regard to communities of this size, has been made possible "by toxoid. Brantford was among the first cities in Canada to institute a thoroughgoing diphtheria-preven- tion policy, a fact for which its medical officer of health and suc- cessive health boards and coun- cils deserve grateful credit. THE SPORTING, THING | 2-/4. "1 figured I'd learn to use one first!" 'REG'LAR FELLERS--Over the Top < By GENE BYRNES IPELAALAL ALTE PON o mr FUNNY! NOT A SOUL WORN WAS SOMEWHERE MIXED UP IN THIS ! i \ A