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VOICE OF THE PRESS ONLY FIVE PRESIDENTS IJ.o C.F.K. has >,,., in exist- ence HIM'* 1881 and in all that tiniy it has had only five presi- dents, D, C. Coleman the latest ef them. All hU predecessors have been great men and great Canadians Lord Mount Stephen, Sir William Van Horn*, Lord Shauirhnessy and Sir Udward B a 1 1 y . Port Arthur News- Chronicle. HOW NEW ORDER WORKS If Hitler wonders why Euro- tans don't react more enthusias- tically to bis New Order, he may find that the Nazis have looted conquered countries of $36,000,- 000,000 in caah and goods and feat the total in victims for Nazi firing aquade has reached nearly 400,000. Buffalo Courier-Ex- USELESS PURCHASE Goering ia reported to b put- Mag hi* money into Italian paint- ings and other art treasures. It's lather a silly performance. Where be'i going after the war M over, there won't b any spase for hanging luch thing*. Windsor Mar. LIGHT COMMENT 1t "Oxford Mail" of England yabliahe* blackout and lighting- tip time on ita front page. After firing tht hoora, there is this eaaomeaU: "Your safety depends en your blackout, don't make Ufbt of it." Woodstock Sentinel- Uriew. MAL "VICTORY GARDEN" A Oalifornian was digging in Us backyard laet week when he aaearthed a tin can. Inside was man than $1,000. Toe finder bought defence bonds. That waa 9 r*. Victory Garden. Brant- ftrd Expositor. SIGHTS AND SIGHTS Uncle Sam'a foresight is better his hindaiffht aa lie round* V spies who might acquire an iMifbt into the bomheifht. The Wtedewr Sur. TYPICAL OF GENERAL Tb* maner *f Qen. MoNaugh- ton's return to England waa typ- laml he went on a troopahip with Us men, taking whatever riak* they took. Ottawa Journal. SERIOUS FACES Have you noticed how serious week-end motorists look, to prove they are not pleasure-driving Stratford Beacon-Herald. ACCIDENT NEWS In a collision at a nearby in- tersection last evening, two tires and one paaeenger were reported art. Detroit News. o OPTIMIST DEFINED An optimist ia a man who plants a garden and throws away his wife'* can opener. Kitchener Record. Select Airmen By L Q. Tests High Standard of Education Not Necessary Now Intelligence testo instead ot education itandardt are now used by the United States army air fores In selecting men for air crew training, Hon. Robert Lovott, assistant secretary of war for air, and MaJ.-Cen. Barton K. Yount, clilef ot the air force training command, said at a re- cent press conference at Ottawa. Applicant!! for air crew duty are given a "screening" test which determine* their Intelligence, abil- ity ,and suitability regardless of Ihelr education, General Vount said. Formerly the air arm re- quired a man to have the equiv- alent of two -.!,,- in college be- fore be would be accepted for air crew training. "Now we don't ask a man what Is education lc. We find out," said tin- general. (Applicants for onlistment as uir erew In Canada must have com- pleted tlirlr high school educa- tion.) New System Accurate "Tue tent is auiprlslngly accur- ate," MI HI Mr. Lovett. "I believe we are now getting men of the most unusual competence and giv- ing everybody a fair break." Under the old system, said Mr. U>ett, a man who played foot- ball In college for two years and serhaps took a course in animal husbandry and agronomy to qual- ify for foollnill could get Into tlio sir force, while a man with a km mind, H ilivlri; for knowledge and iicrhapH a lot of rxpcnt-nce tinkering wllli motors would not gt In, ili'sjilie the fact the foot- ball player might have "as much water on lliu brain an water on UK- knee." The ill u |) |, in ,, i', 1( ;iii z , ,] t | ie fact Mint I'dnciiiidii ami imelii- gento wi-re not it, n marily the tiling. INDIA TRAINS PARACHUTISTS TO DEFEND HER SOIL NDWIBU ItizenS ^ MAURICE A /) IR3VIN A A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army Turbaned, shorts-clad sons of menaced Mother India learn a modern form of warfare from an H.A.F. instructor shown giving a "dragging" demonstration to hi* parachute battalion. We can stop he-devilling some of our fellow-civiliap> who have undertaken the thzfikless task of trying to teach us to be sensible. We can start making things easier for storekeepers, wholesalers and manufacturers who are getting together and advising the War- time Prices and Trade Board how best it can control their busi- nesses for the common good. We can help to make the most of what Leon Henderson call* "glorious scarcities." There is no more rubber available from our usual sources all right, let's stop running our cars at all. How many of our fathers had ears? It ia not enough just to con- fine your use of sugar to the weekly three-quarters of a pound you are allowed try to get along on eight ounces. That extra quarter pound may put an extra quarter inch of bayonet Into a Nazi or *. Japan- One of the hardest things any eid soldier ha* to do is to learn not only to keep his mouth shut OB the question of enlistment bat to keep his thoughts in order a* well. It is fatally easy to look at a strapping fellow in civilian clothes and wonder "why the bianketty-blank he isn't in khaki." It I* not so easy to marshal your thought* and weigh the many reason* that may exist. I suppose the principal reason that iuc-h thought control is neees- ary i* the fact that very few you see wearing C.K.F. but- today were conscripts, ft aa* been brought out in the Bouse of Commons time and again that the number of conscripted oUier* who reached France in 1917-1918 was a very small pro- portion of the Canadian Expedi- tionary Force. On* great unfairness in public thinking and newspaper editor- ial*^. H. seems to me, is the con- stant direction of blasts at youth. Grant that this is a young man's war. % Grant that some steps are being taken in the direction of thinning out the older officers you stili don't see Generals in their thirties. And I don't think you shoald. Nevertheless, it is still a matter for comment when a man in his late twenties la promoted to Major. Let'* have the emphasis on the younger man not the youth. Let'* fill our administrative and training staffs with older, but not aging men. We are not being fair to the man who was too young to do hi* ' bit in 1914-1918. He missed that because of youth. He's missing this one because he's "too old." Too old to fight, that is. Maybe none of us will be too old to fight! In the meantime if anyone i* to lose his present opportunities for a space let's give some con- sideration to the man who 1* estabished. He has something to go back to. He has had a chance and will pick up the threads again when he goes back. Besides, his business training can be useful in the Army. He can do a real job in administrative, quartermaster, ordnance, trans- port and similar services. At these jobs he can release some of the young, fit men doing that kind of work in Ottawa and other headquarters today. Sure it's a young man's war a war that can use, and use well, men in their middle twenties; a war, to judge by the pictures of Russian, Polish, Yugo - Slavian guerrillas, that can find the right niche for a young man of any age. So let's not look too askance at the young fellow of 19-23. Per- haps they will be the better sol- diers for a chance first to appre- ciate that they have a stake in the country. And those of us who arc con- demned to be civilians, what about us'.' There is plenty for us to do. And most of it is easy. Unit's probably what makes it so hard! LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher We can divide the weight in half, but what about the fortune?" The Individual Citizen's Army fighto with its own weapons en the home front. Are 'Mother' Subs Helping U-Boats? Large Undersea Supply oats Would Be Great Menace Germany may be using huge iiibn.aiini*. three tunes the sise of her Deutsohland of World War 1, to supply her U-boat nests along the Atlantic coast. There has been talk for years of great, cargo-carrying s n b- marines under construction in the Reich, but no definite Inform- ation. If Qermauy has auch vessels and Is prepared to use them In any number she may introduce a new and Important factor Into the war. With her 1,000 and, 1,500-ton undersea wurcraft operating in packs outside America's harbors, such mother craft carrying oil, ammunition and .supplies would give her a tre men dona Increase in striking power. The largest known undersell wurcraft was the 2,700-ton French Surcouf, recent- ly sunk. The smallest are Japan's two-man boats such as were used at Pearl Harbor. Instead of spending two-thirds of their time going and coming from bases in Germany and oc- cupied France, the time of a U- bont's operation would be limited only by the necessity of reist for Its crew. This problem of crew relief is one of the greatest worries of a submarine fleet commander. Transport snbmerslbles might olve that, also, by providing con- stant rotation. The World \Var 1 trans- Atlantic cruises of the 2,000-ton Deiiischluml. which took 16 days each way, were startling in the United States at the time. On her first voyage she brought a 750- ton cargo. Vessels three times her size, vesselH half as large as battle cruisers, might keep 11 submarine fleet operating fur from home ba^es almost 'indefinitely. Modern India is divided into nine majcr religions, 2.-100 castes and tribes and speaks 225 lang- uages. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events Japan's Violent Attack On China Imperils Cause Of United Nations Along a land front In Asia some 1,600 miles In length, comparable In Its sweep t the Russian battleground sold-lavc of Japan and China were manoeuv- ring and fighting last />?k, ac- oordlng to The New TlwA. Times. The Mikado's generate were tak- ing up .the in i tin! iv, '.*M in In the "Incident" begiu> it Peiping's Marco Polo Brfc^<s almost five years ago. Their objectives were not completely clear, but from Yunnan's gorges to the coastal regions below Shanghai the ad- vance .tj their columns- bore om- inous r/..*lbllitie* tor the cause of the United Nations. First Conquer China Abundant testimony has been eupplied by the words and actions of Japanese militarists as to the fundamental role of China in their blueprint of aggrandizement. As tar back as the sixteenth-century conqueror Hldeyoshi, the Samurai thought of their sprawling neigh- bor as an avenue for armed ex- cursions as distant as India though Hldeyoshi was told by the King of Korea that Nippon in at- tempting to subjugate China was like a bee trying to sting a tor- toise. The convictions of the modern Samurai have been re- oorded thus by the memorial aecrtbed to Baron Tanaka in 1M7: In order to conquer China we must first conquer Man- ehuria and Mongolia. In order to conquer the world, we must first conquer China. If we suc- ceed In conquering China, the reel of the- Asiatic countries and the South Sea countries will fear us and surrender to uc. Prospective Gains The war againet China, It is clear, has been regarded as vital In order to gain: (1) bases on the Asiatic mainland both to pro- tect Japan'e rear and to provide springboards for further expan- sion; (8) resources, such as the iron, coal, oil, grain and timber f Manchukao; (S) control over a people who account for a quar- ter of the world's population and who must he shackled before they ''waken". The campaigns de- Teloping laet week appeared to some observers to be an effort to clean up the long-dragging China Incident, perhaps to knock China out of the war and thereby to free the largest portion of Japan's oldlery and to eliminate the major land front from which an Allied offensive might be launch- ed. Japan Strikes The blows were aimed in sev- eral aectors: The spearhead of the rapid Jap- anese thrust from Burma Into Yunnan, China's wild .southwest- ern province, encountered stiff resistance on the Burma Road, about halfway between Lashlo and Kunming. Chinese veteran* demolished bridges across the steep canyons cut by the Salween and Mekong Rivers, harried the invaders with guerrilla tactics, prepared to meet the onslaught of eome 100,000 Japanese said to be massing in Burma, Thailand and Indo-C'hiua. The main Japan- ese objective seemed to be the area around Yunnan's capital, ' Kunming', where the Chiang Kai- shek government has established arms factories carried Inland from the occupied coaet. Chinese Corridor The provinces between Shang- hai and Canton have never, been completely overrun. They have remained a corridor for goods brought through blockade to Free China. They harbor airfields which could serve as bases for raids on Japan. It was believed that a land-and-air campaign by eome 100,000 Nipponese troops In this region was seeking to plug a break in China's isolation and re- move the menace of hostile alr- dromes. Recently Chungking claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on a Japanese expeditiou landed from the sea in the coastal theatre. Japan Drives Inland _ "A number of widely separated actions in China's central prov- inces indicated that the invaders were trying to destroy important eupply and communication centres for Chungking's regulars and guerrillas. An advance began above the Yellow River, appar- ently to mop up resistance in Shansi. Below the Yangtze, a drive seemed tinder way toward . Changsha, where the Japanese have suffered defeat in previous campaign*.. The peril confronting Free China wa emphasized by Chung- king spokesmen. It was insisted that the Japanese were concen- trating for a decisive blow against their oldest opponent. The Alliee were warned that "China nedo all the help our friends can send us with the utmost haste." The aid most urgently requested was: "First bombers and pursuit planes; second, bombers and pur- suit planes; third, bombers and pursuit planes." Can China Hold Out? "The problem of meeting Caving- king'fc plea was admittedly tough. The arsenals of America and Bri- tain were striving to prepare the fronts over all the world there was some opinion that the new Jai'.i!K .-.. campaigns in China were still subordinate to drives being shaped against India, Au- tralia or Siberia. The chipping ot the United Nations was strained to the utmoct. The hope was that Asia's greatest nation would bold out until its vast reserves of man power could be buttressed with equipment to match the invader'*. "Old Man MacLeod" Old Man MacLeod, they called him affectionately in the famed fishing district of Stornoway. Scotland, and when war came he lifted his nets for the last time. The Old Man joined one of Britain's tramps. His son, point- ing out that the salt spray surged in his veins alto, sailed with him. Just the other day, the father, Able Seaman Neil MacLeod, was awarded posthumously Lloyd's War Medal for bravery at sea. A member of the British mer- chant marine whose ship had been tunn <!, IT, i, he directed the sail- ing of a lifeboat to land, although in n dying condition. The Old .Man was below decks when the torpedo struck. The shock fractured his legs. The ship -was sinking as he struggled to climb through a hole to the deck. He fell back but someone threw him a rgpe. Waving help aside, he reached the lied;, crawled along on hands and knees and lowered himself into a lifeboat. He knew the ways nf small craft and believed he i mild be of service. Then too, his son was in that boat and land was not far away. So the old fisherman sailed the boat to land. And all the time lie knew he was dying. Now his son is back at sea again. Tne citation read: "While lying in tlie boiU he handled the fore- sheet and halyards and advised the officer in charge about sail- ing. When rescued he smoked a pipe and joked with the doctor. He showed great courage and a fine spirit although he knew he had not long to live." No Coupons Needed There is only one place in Bri- tain to buy clothes withoyt turn- ing in clothes rations coupons. It is the pawnbrokers. REG'LAR FELLERS-A Dirty Trick By GENE BYRNES NUTHIM, JJMMIE ./ THE REAL. CARDCN IS OVER AMONG, ALL THOSE OLE CANS AN' JUNK THATS A SWELL LOOKIN GARDEN YOU'VE PINHEAD/ V/HATCHA PLANTED IN IT ? "~T~ FIXED THIS PLACE UP TO