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VOICE OF THE PRESS WOMAN IN THE CHAIR Though it WM accomplished tjuu'tl) and without ceremony, a truly historic occasion took place when Mm. Cora Casselman, M.F. for Edmonton Katt, sat briefly as Chairman of the Committee of tile Whole House at Ottawa. It larked the first time a woman lias ever presided over a sitting of cither House of Parliament in the Dominion Capital. This country has been compara- tively backward in putting wo- men in Parliamentary office. TJii-n are but four of them in the Commons and Senate today. But we are progressing. Mrs. Cassehnan's occupancy of the Chair, brief though it was, demon- strate* bow far we have gone along the road of finally admit- ting that women arc "persons." Wimlsor Star CORSET LORE Discussions as to the possibil- ity of a shortage of feminine form compressors such ae corsets and (Irdlts due to tile, need of co.n- wrving sleel ana rubber for Fir peed* recalls the lines of Samuel Hoffenretin: from * straight lint iki sharply M a woman's curves. Theee are indeed times that putt try the louls of stylish rtouU. Some time ago in Eng- land COMU were rationed be- 4UM of the acute need of steel. ft wa then LouU Shaw wrote: l*e hi>p of state for an even keel, N*d tons and tons of corset tee), die in OM. the fates have written ladies now must bulge for Britain. Dunnville Chronicle LESSON FOR FATTIES Ten eo-ede of the University of Chicago went without sugar in their food and drink for two weeks by way of experiment. At the and of that time they had lost an aggregate of over 25 pounde. This may teach some- thing to men, as well as women, in the fatty forties and fifties. St. Thomas Times-Journal WANTED TO KNOW Someone has reported the text of a telegram sent to railway headquarters in Nairobi, Kast Africa, by H native telegrapher down the lint*. The telegram read: "Three lions on platform. Station muster in water tank. P!cae wire in- tructionf.'' Boston Globe BRIGADIER IN 1ROQUOIS Brigadier O. M. Martin, named to command a brigade in the 7th Canadian Division, is a full- blooded Iroquois. Tecumseli would lx proud of him, especially as he fought overseas during the Great War with the Canadian infantry and the Koyal Flying Corps. Brookville Hecorder and Times TASTE OF BOTH H was Wordsworth's lament Uiat "plain living and lii^h think- ing are no more." But now the plain living is being enforced and we are beginning ome tall think- ing. Kansas City Star NO OIL; NO DUST Why worry? There won't be enough road oil to lay the dust that motorists won't raise anyway. Kitchener Record Tank Fights Duel With Italian Sub What seems to be the first duel Lttween a tank and a submarine t sea was fought just before the Kiitij.ii campaign in Libya opened, ays London Calling. A British fficer, telling the utory in a BBC broadcast, explained how, in inking our preparations for the offensive, we reinforced the To- bruk garrison with heavy infantry tank* Without the Germans suspect- !<: the tanks were taken up to Tcibruk in small barges shallow draft vessels with no great turn f speed. One barge was nosing gently along the coast bound for Tohruk when an Italian submar- ine surfaced near her and opened fire. The crew of the tank were btard and fortunately in their machine when the attack began. The turret of the tank was just frotruding above the gunwale of the barge; it was rapidly swung round and a two-pounder with armor-piercing shot was turned on tin Italian submarine. The Italian got the shock of to p ^ !{!; flsMsttom. ed tUo of a boat suddenly 1 Un- leashed rapid and sustained fire that was altogether too accurate. Thr submarine censed fire and flivci!. The barge *nd cargo went THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST The great task now confronting a liberated America, which more than three -quarters of a century ago fought a four-years war to free the slaves, is to aid in work- ing out the freedom of the whole world from slavery, The Christian Science Board of Directors told Several thousand Christian Sci- entists gathered in annual meet- ing in Boston last week. Meeting in their Mother Church under the world-enveloping shad- ow of what is probably the gravest threat to political and religious freedom since the advent of Christianity, the visitors were re- minded in a report by The Chris- tian Science Board of Lecture- hip that the union of Britain and America was foreseen forty-four years ago by Mary Baker Kddy, Discoverer and Founder of Chris- tian Science, as the instrument through which the rights of free peoples everywhere might be per- manently established and protect- ed. This welding together of the two great democracies, under the impact of an international crisis, said the Lecture Board, is the consummation of the fond hope* of all Christian Scientists. The Hoard alluded specifically to * poem written in 1898 by the Leader of this world-wide religi- ous movement, Mrs. Eddy, which reads in part as follows: 'Brave Britain, blest America! Unite your battle-plan; Victorious, all who live it, The love for God and man." INDIVIDUAL Citizen's A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army National unity is a term that has been loosely, often much too loosely, interpreted to mean the interrelation of English and French speaking Canadians. So generally accepted has thi.s inter- pretation become that most of us seem to have forgotten that na- tional unity is non-existent so long as the tribulations of Cana- dians in any of the provinces are not shared by Canadians in the other provinces. What prompts this .sermonizing i.s the recent flurry .over the re- duction of the gasoline- rationing unit in the Maritime Provinces from five nylons to two due to a shortage which by the time this reaches print may have disappear- ed. There was a perlVctly natural feeling down t'.t that it was not fair that Maritimer.s should be on 'Vhort commons" when drivers in the other six provinces ."till could obt:iin their full ration. Ottawa answered by pointing out reasons that fuily justified the reduction. All of this is a preamble to the charge that we are failing to live up to our privilege of scrvinj* in the ranks of the Individual Citi- zen's Army. How? It .should be obvious! Have we in the central and western parts of the country anj moral right to five gallons ol gasoline when because of trans- portation or any other difficul- ties, fellow privates in cur behind the lines army who arc much closer to actual warfare an.l po- tential attack have to be reduc- ed to two gallons? Why, if there is true national unity, do we not spare the public t- mbarrasKUH'Nt of Ministers we employ to govern us by voluntar- ily reducing our consumption of gatiJlinc to the lowest level forced upon any geographical section ol' the Dominion? Citizen* of countries whore "verboten" is a familiar word read garbled accounts of our pro- vincial differences, accounts that are magnified to the point of making some of us appear to be "oppressed minorities," when such storien are published. But the fact that such stories 'are pub- lished i the fault of the citizens who fail to give the lead to those thoy have set in authority. We cheerfully and voluntarily ration ourselves in the use of tea, coffee and supar. Why not ration ourselves in the use of gasoline? If we can drink our fewer cups of tea and coffee unsweetened why can't we walk a mile or two and a\e the gasoline v.-e would have UM d for war uses? Across this country from coast to coast business experts are de- \otin(r their talents to the working out of a system of price and sup- ply control that will .spare us the horrors of inflation and maintain stocks of essential war u'oods for our fighting forces. Some of thtsc men serve without pay, tne other? :i\vay from their normal occupations sacrifice the normal advancement! and promotions they could expect if they stayed in their own jobs. These men don't enjoy restrict- ing iin:l controlling their nei;h- \ o'jr.- it takes a Nazi mentality to enjoy that sort of thiiiK and they welcome action on the part of Canadians that makes their work easier. Why can't w-e then, who are all out to win the war in the best way xve can, make rationing and control unnecessary. Surely we e;:n stint ourselves for the com- mon good ! The soldier who leaves a $150 a month job to volunteer to serve in uniform for (in the case of a single man) a little more than half of that amount has voluntar- ily rationed himself much more j-everely than we have been called, upon. Sugar, tea, coffee, gasoline and tires, as this is written, are the only rationed commodities. It's funny how somj of them tie in with each other. The use of less sugar reduces the "spare tires" some of us carry around. The use of less gasoline increases the life of "spare tires" we cannot re- place. Have you joined the Reserve Army yet? Encouraging si^ns are visible in some parts of the coun- try since this workable body was set up to give those ineligible for active service overseas a chance to train themselves for home de- fence but 1 have not heard any commanding officer say yet that he can't handle any more recruits. That's another branch of the Individual Citizen's Army! Dutch Harbor Dutch Harbor is situated on tiny Amakimk Island in n deep inlet of the northern shore of much larger Unalaska Island, on* t>{ the long chain of Aleutian* which string out in a sweeping arc toward Japan. It is about 2,835 air miles from Tokyo on the Southwest, and 2,345 mile* from San Francisco on the South- Met. It thus form.'-, the apx for roughly triangular line which might be drawn on the map be- tween the three points. From Seattle, Wash., to Dutch Harbor ) about 1,900 air miles. , The United States has buen building fortifications there since 1940. Their extent has been kept secret Dutch Harbor, which until re- cently was only a village with a trading post, a fuel oil depot, and a naval radio station, reoeiv- d its iiame because of the tradi- tion that a Dutch ship first en- tered its bay, a bulletin from the National Geographic Society points out. Russian navigators, however, early came this way. They knew the then-busy fur- ealing centre by its native Es- kimo name of Udakta. Later, the harbor became a way station for vessels making for the gold rush regions of the Yukon and Nome, Alaska. Dutch Harbor ia 1 % miles long by half a mile in width. Water is deep near the shores and in most parts of the harbor; violent Kales occasionally sweep these waters, when mariners are warned to look out for williwaws, sudden gusts of cold land air, common along mountainous coasts of high latitudes. SCOUTING . . . Scoutmasters, Cubmasters and Commissioners of India last year contributed 10,000 rupees, or 750 pounds, to Britain's War Dis- tressed Scouts Fund for Scout air raid sufferers. Toronto Boy Scout Leaders have been giving cooking instruc- tion to a detachment of fifty girls of the Food Administration Ser- vice of the Canadian Red Cross Corps. The course is being given at the Crooked Creek Boy Scout campsite, and is a feature of pre- parations being made by the Red Cross against any war eventuality which may call for the emergency feeding of large numbers of per- sons. One war service job of Bethnel Green (London) Boy Scouts was the erection recently of 4,000 bunks in local Tube shelters. * War Savings Stamps were the admission tickets sold at the dooi' for a Boy Scout and Girl Guide entertainment at the Noranda High School. Discussing the previous tpare- time training of young recruits for the Imperial Forces, Brig.- General Clark, for over 30 years a training officer of Regular Army and Territorial units, was recently quoted as giving first place to former Boy Scouts. Said General Clark: "A batch of First Class Scouts or King's Scouts would prove more acceptable to a Commanding Officer or a Ser- geant Major as recruits than a similar number of iads ,with any other form of spare-time occupa- tion in their past." * The newest Canadian Boy Scout war service project is the sending of good used Scout uniforms to British Boy ScouUs now unable to secure them. A growing proportion of the men of H. M. Forces who have distinguished themselves in im- portant actions with the enemy are being discovered as former Boy Scouts or Scout leaders. Among the Swordfish pilots who attacked the warships, Gneisenau and Scharnhoivit and gave their lives, was Lieut. Bligh, a mem- ber of the 15!Hh North London Boy Scout Troop. Lieut. David L. Davies, who took a prominent part in the St Nazaire raid, also was a Stout, and the complete job of "quartermastering" for an- other commando raid was handled by a former Scoutmaster. Lord Lovat, leader of the Boulogne Commando raid, is President of the Inverness-shire Boy Scouts Association. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events SbyVlonths After Pearl Harbor Japan Strikes In North Pacific The Japanese military leaders are presented by the New York Times an advantageously sitting in the centre of a circle. Their opponents have had the task of deciding at just what point on that circle they would strike. After the preliminary move against Pearl Ha-bor they moved south. There they strengthened themselves on the rubber and tin of Malya, the oil and rubber and foodstuffs of the Indies. Then It was west into Burma, the gateway to Southern China and India. While their arm- ies laet week marched toward In- <iiii and hammered at the vital central and coastal regions of China, their navy again fought in the North Pacific. Still their lead- ers could choose which of all these moves would be the main blow. Midway Attack The Japanese had done little In the north Pacific eince Pearl Har- bor. Her ships and Zero fighter planes were busy in the south. Ship-plane teams won control of the Macassar Strait from Ameri- can forces operating with the Dutch and British, defeated a Un- ited Nations fleet in the Java 8a. Not until Japan reached the Coral Sea did her string of vic- tories end. There, supported by hmd-based aircraft, a United Na- tions fleet drove a strong Japan- ese task force north Into her newly conquered Islands, though there wa no thought tbat that tlctory for the United Nations was final. Last week exactly six months after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan again tried her Inck In the north. Raiding parties of Japanese aircraft hit at Dutch Harbor in Alaska's Aleutian Is- lands. Southward 1,900 miles, an- other heavier attack was directed against Midway Island, American outpost between Pearl Harbor and Tokyo. This time the Japanese did not find American planes lined ui> on the ground, so many easy targets for Japanese bombers. They were in the air and fighting. Japanese airplane carriers, battle- chips, cruisers and transport* suffered heavy damage, damage far out of proportion, it Is report- ed, to that suffered by the defend- ers. The Midway area not only remained In American hands but the Japanese force appeared to limp off after a bad mauling by Army, Navy and Marine Corps fliers. Keystone Of Pacific Both points attacked by the Jap- anee were shrewdly chosen to draw the concerned attention of American military chieftains. Their military value to America was great. Dutch Harbor, a small island of matted grass and five trees, stands near the base of the Aleutians that arc out 1,500 miles toward Japan, it it H. place of rain and snow and fog and hard winds, and there the United States has a baee which may oas (toy be the springboard for an -uUek straight at the heart of Jap'ri. De- fensively it stands guard .> n- the Alaskan territory which has corns to have Increased strategic value with the increased military valne of airplanes. From Alas'/c* the wide reaches of the Politic grow small, come within the operating range of aircraft: the 5,13" milng from Tokyo to San Franc i-<x> be- come 2,345 from Dutch Harbor. As long ;igo as 1920 Alaska wan called "The keystone <<:' thi Pac- ific axch". Effect Undetermined Midway Island, the necouj ob- jective of the Japanese forsa, .a an atoll of two tiny it Ian .U nur- rounded by shoals and vofrfs. Guarded heavily by Army, Navy and Marine forces, it constitutes almost an outer defence for Paarl Harbor, J.300 milee away, Ameri- ca's bastion in the mid-Pacific. In Japanese hands it could .- tlie base for harrying attacks : m. the big ships berthed at -'earl Harbor. The Japanese bavj -aid. it constant attention. .>'.:... it at leaet once each mou~h ex- cepting for April since th; itart of the war. But the attack,, .tn.au been light, by occasional airplanes or submarines. Carriers and battle- ships operating near Midwi- laat week were attacking force" at a different order. It seems quite conclusive MOW that the Japanese rau into .< '.fit at Midway Island and tha ibey were badly stung. But the f-il ei- tent of the damage thty h;; !rf- fered and its effect upon p .*;. riiit future Japanese operation: ra- mains to be determined. u S. Strategic Succei* Olher operations, pcruapr aeon another attack on Hawaii or an offensive against Hi;-i ... may have been dependent upt 1 ; th success of the Midway ;..:. tuur the mysterious happenings KMT Dutch Harbor. And in re; rising the Japanese. The Pacific Ploet may well have dealt tlie ec-'iiy & cevere blow in the Eaut. 3'Jt ft would seem too early to cei;!tKle that the J.ipanese defeat it- -. Jln- aster. In all probability, tbe Ja;rmoBe possess sufficient eta -*L i air strength, even after the M.uway losses are subtracted, to a"*.Mupt either new offensive actions ar to put up strong resistance alumni. any operations undertaken '>y the. United Nations. Nevertheless, in preventing 'Je Japanese from gaining . ..-inn of Midway, American fcrce* Jave achieved a strategic succ-.-- of no mean importance. Fror.: Mid- way, the Japanese could have raided Pearl Harbor ainl p&:<il))y could have launched a iuuj;i Pa- cific offensive with (tie .Vet Coast and the Panama 'aii' M ultimate objectives. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher 'Why do you lwayi avoid me?!!" REG'LAR FELLERS What's in a Name? By GENE BYRNES SEE HERE, XOU XOUNG. SCALAWAG.' STOP BOUNCING THAT BA^EDAL '. AGAINST THIS WALL .' AW, BE A SPORT, MISTER.' IT'S THE BEST WALL IN CONFOUND IT, BOX.' HOW CAN A PERSON REST WITH THAT ETERNAL THUMPING COIWG OH? >i NOW, GO AWAY.' ^ SWAlslK AVl. M'KLUTKC CLU15