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1 VOICE OF THE PRESS IN AIRCRAFT OF 1919 At long ii.-i a memorial com- memorating the pioneer trans-At- lantic flight of Alcock and Brown IB 1919 is to be erected at th pot in Newfoundland whence they took off in their Vickcrs .Vimy bomber. If flights by Terry Command require real courage owadays, they were feats of al- most superhuman endurance in the rickety aircraft of 191!), and Alrock and Brown deserve all the recognition and commemoration that it is possible to give them. > Brockville Recorder and Times THE MEN GOT OFF When the U.S.S. Lexington was known to be beyond hope, there was no exciting bawling out of orders and' commands. Instead, Hear Admiral Aubrey Fitch leaned ?er the bridge and quietly said to his friend, Captain Frederick Sherman : "Let's get the men off, Fred." And, so efficiently was the exder executed, not a single man was in.- 1 in abandoning the big aircraft carrier. Windsor Star o DINNER IN A BALL Dehydration has achieved mew high in Britain. Farm pro- ducts are being refined into "jreen baseballs." In central plant-, cabbage and beets, .spin- ach and a carrot or two, with cel- ery and onions for flavor, are rolled into one and reduced in bulk so that a "baseball" contains leafy food for an average family dinner. It provides a new method f sending vitamins to the troops. Vancouver Sun VIRTUE'S REWARD The Man tk>wn the Street, who has cut two new holes in his belt, wants to know where he can get a cent a pound for the "spare tbe" he is taking off by walking to work. Christian Science Monitdr o THE DISAPPEARING TRICK And there was the Indian rope trick performer who was discharg- ed from 'the navy because every time he climbed the rigging he disappeared. Guclph Mercury o CHAIR WARMER? Berlin is asking all Germans to five used clothing to the army because so many clothes are be- ing worn out in the east. That's odd. Ours usually wear out in the south. Kitchener Uecord Fake Gods Vanish, [e&\ Values Remain Principal H. C. Wallace of Queen's University, Kingston, de- clared the war will be of no avail UN. i "at the end of it we can continue a world of social justice, where men may lie free to develop their highest powers for the high- est good." Speaking at University of Buf- falo's commencement recently, Dr. Wallace said We have learned but little in this day of strife and conflict if we have not learned ome .simple elemental truths about life and its values". "We learned them in the days when Britain was on the eve of disaster after France fell," he added. "Thu.se who remember the tension of those fateful days . . . know in u way that we shall never forget that property, and wealth and possessions and rank count for imlliin:- "Courage and fortitude and de- cency and honor and a sense of the eternal arc all that matter. Our false gol.i disappeared before enr eyes, and the real values re- mained." U.S. Pupils Will Study Aviation About 500,000 boys and girls in the United States between 16 nd IX years years old - - will t study aviation as well as history nd geography when they return high school in September. ^Meteorology, air navigation, ^nmu mentions, aerodynamics, k'ini- ill-Men and structure are me of the subjects that will ab- r M>rb the young minds of America, Pro-flight training for second- ary school consumption is part f a nation-wide program spon- sored by the Air Training Corps ef America. This organization, working in conjunction with the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the I'.S. Office of Adminis- tration, will grant college credits to those boys who join ATOA MrffaK I Fundamental Aviation is so new In high school curricula that even the touchers have to learn about it i Teacher.-' College of Columbia University is offering a special series of summer courses for those who would instruct Ameri- ca's future fliers. tizen's M At ikJU IR.WIN A Weekly Column About Thi* and That in Our Canadian Army "Pass, Grand Kouudd, all's well!" I suppose, along with "hate training", that louorous "O.K." from a gentry facing his lonely beat has gone into the discard now. It M> in- a pity that eome of Uie Clamour can't be left whether It be in the Army, tin- Navy or the Air Force. Of course the latter, even if It is a lusty Infant, is the baby of the uniformed services and has hardly had long enough to build any tradition except that of daring and bravery. There IB something about the maintenance of old forum aud fine phrases In this day of streamlining and curt, business-like speech that reminds us that tbe glorious fu- ture of tomorrow will in Its turn become a glorious past. What put 'his into my head was tbe fact that I put In come time yesterday viil'iug grocery stores to find out how we soldiers of the Individual Citizen's Army were behaving about tbe new ra- tioning orders. It was something like visiting sentries on their .beats but more in the nature of "visiting rounds" than "grand rounds." The. result of my tour shovs that in the main we are pretty good soldiers. It showed also that TABfcE ILLUSTRATES EFFECT OF PROPOSED INCOME TAX (Amountt fhown in even dollars for simplicity.) IP 6 ti REM HJ >S ^, osZ C 0<h <- 700 850 1,000 1,250 1,500 1,760 2,000 2,500 3,000 4,000 5,000 7,500 10,000 20,000 30,000 50,000 100,000 600,000 1,250 1,300 1,500 1,750 2,000 2,250 2,500 3,000 4,000 5,000 7,500 10,000 20,000 30,000 50,000 100,000 500,000 1,250 1,300 1,1(10 1,500 1,750 2,000 2, Ii50 2,500 3,000 4,000 5,000 7,500 10,0110 20,000 :io,ooo 50,000 100,000 500,000 Single FVrinn,, Will 35 15 57 1 87 5 162 5 217 30 273 58 340 101 475 151 622 202 955 319 1,332 396 2,400 570 3,600 712 it, 105 1,924 15,082 3,314 28,392 6,511 64,347 15,090 411,720 60,684 Without Dependent!. 20 20 58 58 Vi 80 167 100 247 120 331 140 1-H 160 626 200 824 240 1,274 320 1,728 400 2,970 600 4,312 800 11,029 800 18,396 800 34,903 800 80,337 800 472,304 800 Married Pertoni, Without Children. 50 66 75 125 175 225 275 400 (575 1,000 a'.oso 8,330 14,085 2f>,!)(i5 01,87ft 401,120 25 15 34 36 56 91 126 184 2 Sit 378 555 C82 I, '.1-1 it 3.301 (i,5S8 Hi, 112 (10,834 ZD 50 10'J 161 231 816 401 584 964 1,378 2,520 3,762 10,27! 17,44C 33,553 77,!>87 461,1154 i.O 108 160 200 225 250 300 400 500 750 1,000 1,000 1,000 1.000 1,000 1,000 Married ['eron, With Two Children. 25 HO 6 7 y II) 48 (.0 73 115 215 450 735 1,637 2,710 7,K'.iO 13,621 26,437 61,299 400,408 16 IS 21 25 53 107 1(13 217 334 (it;8 1,062 2,154 IU4 '.1,803 17,0110 311,137 77,571 101,53X 16 17 21 24 52 10S 162 218 H34 480 !tOO 1,200 1,200 1,200 1,200 1,200 1,200 40 116 172 267 367 471 601 826 1,064 1,594 2,128 3,570 6,112 11,829 19,196 35,703 81,137 473,104 60 100 217 321 431 541 651 884 1,364 1,878 3,270 4,702 11,27!) 18,446 34,553 78,987 42,l)54 32 35 42 49 105 215 325 435 668 1,118 I ,l>l>2 3,054 4,5'lfi 11,003 18,230 34,337 7S.771 402,738 47 90 102 1 lit 2 IK 327 517 <!36 1,978 3,409 t;,700 10,272 61,130 NOTE: In calculating the above taxes it has been assumed thai all incomes up to $30,000 are entirely earned income, anil that in- comes of more than $30,000 include earned income of that amount and additional investment income to make up the total. Payments made by the taxpayer within the tax year us net premiums on lift insurance contracts in force June 23, 11142, or a,s principal payments on a mortgage on one residence, or us payments into a pension fuiul, retirement tiind or superannuation lund, will be accepted as an alternative to the liability to turn over fun.l.s directly to the treasury as part of the minimum savings requirement. Wherever possible, income and national defence taxes will be collected at the source. In the case of wage and salary earners this means that, beginning next September, employers must deduct from pay envelopes weekly amounts estimated to pay within 12 months the national defence and income taxes of all employees for 1942. The excess profits tax on corporations is being increased tnnn 75 to 100 per cent, effective July 1st. In essence ihis means thut, along with revised corporation income taxes companies whose profits have not gone up since the Mart of the war will retain only 00 per cent, of tneir profits as before. No matter how much their earnings have expanded during the war, they will be permitted to retain at the most, only 70 per cent, of their normal pre-war profits. Excess profits taxes on corporation* will bring in an additional $08,000,000 a year. The budget aLso puls higher taxe.s on liquor, wine and beer; cigarettes, cigar*, tobacco, cigarette papers mul tubes, soft drinks, furs and playing cards. Transportation taxes, taxes on pullmun berths, long distance telephone calls, telegrams and cables are also increased. A whole new range of taxes at the rate of 2a per cent, of the retail price, is placed on jewelry, glassware, china, fountain puns, trunks, suitcases, purse,", handbags, clockj and watches. The taxes do not apply to some of these articles selling in some cases, $1.00 and in others below 50 cents. there are some "lead-swingers" amongst us. Do you remember "leul-s wingers"? We discussed them In one of these columns back In the snow-shovelling days and came to the conclusion that they were a pretty low class of bounds who let other soldiers do their work for them. That's the way to describe the "lead-swingers" who try to cheat tbe rest of us by having no hon- our when it comes to rationing. in. I. .HI of feeling that they nave "put one over on the Govern- ment" when they buy more tbau the allotted ration we should real- ize that what they are doing is vastly different. They are "put- ting one over on us!" Rationing is In effect in Can- ada today on tea, coffee and sug- ar. It is rationing In the demo- cratic manner with each one of us on our honour to use only the amount allowed us by the regula- tions. The idea behind it if, fair and equitable distribution of gup- plies regardless of rank or station. Obviously then, the skuuk who tries to get more than his or her hare, is not only flouting the laws of the country, he ia stealing from tbe rest of us. To get back to "visiting rounds". Most grocers reported that there was very little, If any, evidence >r increased buying of tea, coffee and ugar, following Donald Gor- don't radio announcement of the rationing. What little there was, said some i>f them, seemed to be done by "women In cars" who were jfcVViently ashamed enough of actfW 68 "' '"'-'' ''"'- v * ,,,,;.."'> at their own /grocer's bur ""' ashamed enough to go to arrange store for more! lan't or-'' ' sad commentary T The mca$ ao when you think that the sor 1 and grandsons of some of the-*' ladle* are probably over- seas " in the armed forces. "No more 'hate training' " waa the headline over a recent cabled ti>.> from England. Well, I sup- pose the senior officers know lirst. but I remember and so do many of you how much more "beef" you could put behind a bayonet lunge if you pretended that the ituHed dummy in front of you was "Kaiser Bill"! Perhaps there won't be any more training iu 'bate' but you can't tell one that tbe brother of a Canadian soldier iu Hong Kong Is going to go about making war in a calm and detached manner! Anyway some of us are working up hates at home aud that's a bad thing, we should save it for the enemy. The object of my particu- lar hate is the pleasure driver especially when, as in the case with far too many, he has the manners of a hog. In my little- neck of the woods there is more Sunday driving than ever there was and 1 don't exaggerate when I say that more than half of the drivers are as arrogant as a young Nazi. They honk their horns for pedestrians to get out of their lordly way, they skirt as close to him as they dare, if he doesn't get out of the way quickly enough and geno-rally do everything In their stupid power to raise up a heartfelt cry for a prohihilion of all pleasure driving. And in Malaya, Java, the l'ailii>- pines, bybia, Greece and France their brothers died because there wa< not en-ni^h gasoline. "Hate training"? The soldier do. Mi't need it, but some civilians are requiring it! Air Chief Praises New Canadian Plane Operational flights of a new airplane now being built in Can- ada its well as in Knglmul, show it is better than liny aircraft pos- sessed by the enemy, said Ail V ice-.\larshal Harold Kdwanls re- cently. Air Vice-Marshal Kdwards has been on a tour of aviation and Allied plums in Canada before re- turning to active duty in Kngland. He came to Canada four weeks ago to attend the I'nited Nations air conference at Ottawa. "Aircraft plains I have visited in Canada are making mo.st useful progress," he said. "VVu couldn't ask for more than they are doing. They are capably turning out sat- isfactorily all they have been asked to. The ingenuity shown in production of articles of war will go a long way toward reaching the end we nil seek." THE WAR WEEK Commentary on Current Events German Pincer Movement In Egypt And Russia Towards Middle East In the seven months that it stood last year, surrounded by Axis forces, and hurled back every assault, Tobruk became a symbol of courage and resistance. lie sud- den fall, coupled with the al- most simultaneous loes of Uardia and Bir El Gobi, is a hard *olow. The explanation of Field Marsbal Erwin Rommel's success repeats the weaknesses which have beset the British forces in Libya from the start. In tanks and guns Ger- many had both numerical and qualitative superiority. Her forces excelled in the rapid repair and servicing of mechanical equipment, In the blitzkrieg technique of us- ing tanks, planes and guns as an Integrated assault team, and in resourcefulness of staff work and generalship. Aibove all, the British again suffered from the great handicap of the United Nations in having to spread their forces too thinly over too many places at i in- ends of long and perilous supply routes in order to meet an enemy free to strike outward from the centre of the circle, says the New York Times. Plncer Movement Presumably the Nazi campaign In Libya is a prelude to a full- scale assault upon Egypt In an effort to drive the British from the Mediterranean and conquer the entire Middle East. The drive may be viewed as one arm of an enormous pincer reaching toward the prize of Middle Eastern oil, the other arm being the German drive in Russia which has driven a wedge in the defenses of Se- vastopol. Thte is a dangerous threat which must be occupying a major place in the discussions now going on between Prime Min- ister Churchill and President Roosevelt. The lose of Tobruk itself is not to important as the circumstanc- es surrounding that loss. The Nazis claim to have captured 25,000 men and large stores of material, in- cluding supplies freshly brought in by the convoy which came through the bottle in the Medi- terranean, if this is true it must mean that Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie's Eighth Army has been eerioudly weakened and that Mar- shal Kommel has been strengthen- ed. Tobruk Is not vital to the defense of Egypt, but Egypt is vital to the defense of the Middle East. The battle which now im- pends will be crucial. It miwt be won at all costs. Anniversary In Russia On the last day of the first year of their campaign in Russia, the German armiee are still fighting far short of the goal they set out to reach at dawn on June 22, 1941. Behind them lie the greatest vic- tories and the severest setbacks ever to come to Hitler's Welir- macht. The Russians have estim- ated upward of 5,600.000 Germans killed, wounded and captured; Berlin four months ago admitted 1,500,UUO casualties. In the initial five months of the year the German soldiers overran 500,000 square miles of territory with 42.- 500.HOO people. In five months of Winter war they lost one-fifth of the conquered area to Russiau counter-attacks. The coming of Spring brought local battles on the southern front; a Russian offens- ive in the Ukraine, launched five weeks ago, forestalled, it was be- lieved, the German plan for resumption of a major drive east- ward toward the Caucasus and oil. Soviet losses, In the first year of war, were likewise enormous. Six months ago. iu an official estimate, Berlin claimed between S.WIO.OOO and 10,000,000 Red Army casualties; Moscow, more recently, has admitted close to 3,OOU,UOO lost. Yet iu those monthd of fight- ing Uiissiiin soldiers found a tech- nique of resistance which, it ap- peared, blunted the Blitzkrieg and forced en tile (.ienuiin r'ut-hrer an ever-k'iiKthcniiiK war. Russia's Power Last week the Soviet soldier's power of resistance was again evident iu two battles raging In South Kiis.'ia. Sevastopol, the iiudt'1 en the southwestern const of Die Crimea, was still iu Russian hands after more than seven months of siege. For more than two weeks the Germans had pit- ted tanks and guns and planes in an all-out attack against the city's defenders ensconced In :ne limestone hilla. Siege funs be- lieved larger than the "Big Bar- thas" of the first VYorJd War had shelled Sevastopol's defenses, which then had been attai ked repeatedly by tanks and foot sol- diers. The city's people had lived out countless air raids in deep caves carved in the cliffs. "To the last soul" they had sworn "to die before surrendering." Before Kharkov a second Ger- man offensive launched eleven days ago appeared to have btjen halted along the Donets River. The Wehrmacht's newest drive had been launched, so observers held, to prepare the ground for an all-out campaign across *.he Donets Basin, with its teenunj} industries, toward Rostov/ .J-.-P- way to the Caucasus. Aid From America This was the threat faced by tbe Russian nation ae the Red Army battled at Sevastopol and Kharkov. To help in staving off the danger direct aid was comiof from the United States. American- made tanks and planes were on the Russian front; to these were added the report came from Turkey, remains unconfirmed bombers of the American Army Air Corps with American ciewi which had flown to participate in the defense of the Crimean bastion. From bases in tbe Millie East, moreover, four-motored Un- ited States "Liberators" had taken off for damaging raids on Nazi oil fields and supply dumps- in Rumania. When credit for final victory in this war is handed out ruu will go to China for her stout resistance to Japan, beginning "in 1937; much to Britain for stand- ing fast after the evacuation of Dunkerque; a very great da! to Russia for slugging it out with the Nazis after June 22, 1941. It is only fair to say that it was :h Russians, somewhere between the Dnieper and the Don, who proved that the Nazis could be -,: and that it was the Russians, oh- stinate in retreat, relentless in attack, who gained for the rest of us a decisive period of time In which to gather strength. Russia's Unity We are traveling at fighter- plane speed toward tbe wjr's critical months. Before these words can appear in print -.he Nazis may have smashed the Rus- sian defenses at more than on point. It Is possible that there may be another great Russian retreat. Yet the twelve months now ending make it safe to ;>n?- dict that though the Russians say tie pushed back they will no: be routed; and that though they may lose men, materials, towns, i-i::e. farms aud factories they will not lose their lighting spirit. This much could not be taken for granted a year ago. We <]id not then know how much ir;ity existed among the Russian pe>.-iyle. We could not be sure that s 'me of them would not be willing to replace Stalin with Hitler. \Ve aad no means of testing the real s-ate of public opinion In Russia. Now we know what it is. not by *ny scientific process of "s:iiup!:.Tg" but by the splendor of a granite- like resistance of which a divvied people would have been incap- able. A Soldier's Jerkin There may be a thmkirK Br ish. soldier somewhere now wiio ni'^ht be interested to know that he jnd his greenish oilskin jerkin are held in remembrance in Pasadena, (.'!. During' that evacuation a conting- ent ot British troops marched \>*sl a French (or Belgian) uiily ind her husband who were f let-in ^ to the sea. The husband, all out, lay by the roadside. One of the sol- <IUTS spa-ail hfs jerkin over hi:n. '1 hose Uijritixus reached America :U hist; the man succumbed; but months later his widow came to i'asadena, bringing that greenish oilskin. She gave it to. the Briish War Keiief where it now hani:> as iier tribute not to that one sol : : er alone who, passing by, hud cared for her husband, but to him and all his comrades in the British Army. REG'LAR FELLERS Pass the Medals By GENE BYRNES i ,