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The Commando Ajax Ontario March 1, 1943 Volume 1 No. 12 PAID VACATIONS FOR ALL IS PROSPECT SEE STORY ON PAGE THREE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITIZENS COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNITY OF AJAX (Picture Top Left) TWO Lockheed Hudson Bombers return from a patrol on the West Coast of Canada with an anti-aircraft gun crew at the alert. It's for the continued supply of these bombers and guns that Canadians are asked to subscribe liberally to War Savings Stamps and Certificates. (Article Bottom Left) Free Will This war has been described as a People's War. It's a good name too, for indeed it is. No matter how-much the skeptics may sneer and attempt to dismiss it as a catch-phrase, in the final analysis, it is a war of peoples—of the people of one ideology, pitiless in their pursuit of world dominion, drunk with dreams of empire irrespective of the cost in human misery and human life, and the people of another ideology, our kind of people, whose conception of a way of life is diametrically opposed to all that is the ideology of the other people. And so they war. Both are mighty ideologies, both mighty opponents. But, might alone will not win this war. The other people's ideology—call it Fascism, Nazi-ism or whatever you like—is not just a theory of government. It's a religion, and the zeal with which they champion it is akin to a holy frenzy. Their armies, their navies, their air forces are imbued with it ... as are their people at home. Clever people, it was they who invented Total War, a warfare possible only by Total Effort. Everybody and everything are secondary. They are the people we are fighting. They are our enemies. Our soldiers oppose their soldiers; our seamen, their seamen; our airmen, their airmen . . . our people, their people. But, there is a difference. While the war of the people, which is a war of self-sacrifice as well as a war of production, means factory against factory, lathe versus lathe, man hours against man hours, it means dollars versus mark, lira and yen too. And what they are forced to do by government levy on their wages and capital—a levy enforced by the bayonets of their Secret Police—we have the privilege of doing voluntarily, or, in other words, of our own free will. And isn't that free will one of the things for which we are fighting today? Who will win this war? Will it be the people driven at the point of the bayonet? Or will it be the people of free will? We think it will be the latter. The people who, of their own free will, will support their country's War Effort to the limit of their ability; who will cheerfully suffer the restrictions imposed by its War, and who will help it materially by purchasing War Savings Stamps and Certificates now and regularly. MATERIAL APPEARING IN THIS PUBLICATION MUST NOT BE REPRINTED WITHOUT PERMISSION (Far Right Column From Top To Bottom) (Picture 1) This Universal Carrier, shown going through its paces, costs the government—that's you—about 12,000 War Savings Stamps. (Canadian Army Photo). (Picture 2) A Bren machine gun sweeps the skies at Petawawa, Canada's largest artillery training centre. Its cost is about 1,500 War Savings Stamps. (Public Information Photo). (Picture 3) One of these speedy Corvettes small but potent guardians of our sea-lanes, costs a lot of twenty-five cent War Savings Stamps. Three million, eight hundred thousand of them to be precise. (Canadian Navy Photo). (Picture 4) Fighter planes like these cost anywhere for 150 000 to 200,000 War Savings Stamps. (Picture 5) Brothers-in-Arms aboard a troop transport bound for overseas battle fields take time out for a smoke. Ten War Savings Stamps bought the soldier's "tin hat."