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VOICE OF THE PRESS SAVE A MINUTE Mlnut make hours, hour* *-t days, days make years and ?**rs mke lifetime. So w all in to aave minutes. Some safety wharf hM doped it out. Take a man whose earning car- Mr * 86 y*r to go. That Makes 18,148,640 minute*. (Fig- ex* H out, if you will. W did, Mowing for six leap yean). We e)aah across tiie street against a Mght If we win, we save a min- te. If we lose, we donate up to *hktn million minutes to Death. Kitchener Record. LIGHTHOUSE HEROINE Speaking of heroines, we think Mrs. Harold Eraser, wife of the lighthouse keeper of Ship Harbor, M.S., deserves some recognition. (he has lived on a small island for 88 ears, brought up a family 4 five children there and taught them herself because there is no ehool. And the has just visited the mainland for the first time D ten months.- Brockville Rec- erder and Times. THE REASON WHY Frederick C. Oeschcner, trained y.P. correspondent just out of Germany, says the war can be ended this year by the new phase f war just opened by Britain in the air. In brief, he says, the Germans cannot take it. The Britons did, but they were British. Catharines Standard. OLD-TIME SURGERY Dr. AJlan Dafoe has good to say for the old horse- aad-buggy days. Many a time, ft* says, he had to pull a hair out ef his horse's tail to use for a (read in an operation. He does met recommend these practices, at taya that he often had to ort to it in earlier days. Ham- Spectator. WORKERS IN SLACKS Sound reason dictates the de- eisMm by Premier Hepburn that C Is in the Ontario Civil Service j wear slacks or paint their lags to simulate stockings, if they wish to do so. After all, it li not what these girls wear on their leas that counts, it is what they 4* with their hands and their heads. -Windsor Star. CANADA'S FRONT While the military experts and vtbers talk of the possibilities of a*cond fronts in Europe, there is a front that needs attending to right in. .t in Canada the Farm Front. "Crop Commandos" can nteet the crisis. Brantford Ex- positor. LINGERING FOGS Weather men claim that most togs disappear between 8 and 10 'lock in the morning. But w fcave seen some humans remain "in a fog" until well on in the afternoon. St. Ttoomaa Times- Journal. Chicks Hatching Despite Bombing Though Regularly (helled Farmer Refutes to Lesve fcbkke are hatching, ewes lamb- ns and cowe calvlug on a farm B toe Dover Cliffs which to reg- nm,.-. - .rlled by Hitler's guns, nrjr U miles away. Bbelle have fallen in and round the farmyard, the nearest tu Britain to the Nazi artillery, * barrage balloon over it has been toot down (0 times, and often all fcnj.ii/. have had to shelter under tbetr tractors and implements from machine-gunners In the sky rerliead. Hut the farmer and his people stubbornly refuse to leave. These defiant farmers, Mr. Gil- bert Mitchell, his wife and sister- tn-law, took over Reach Court Farm, St. Margareta-at-Cliffe, near OoTer, a year before the war with * dairy herd of 34 cows. In 1939 hey plowed up a large proportion of toe 120 acres of permanent pasture to grow the feeding stuffs no longer so easily obtainable from oversea*. Defence works were put V all round their farm, but dur- ing th Uuttle of Britain they irteadfastly refused to leave, gath- ering in not only their own bar- Test but rescuing crops on other fitrmi which had to be evacuated. further defence works have upw been erected aud most of ilwii.il Court Farm is being taken over by the military. Hut they are carrying on with what in left, and MI. Mil. i.. i IH managing for tbe Kent War Agrlcultunil Committee an extensive area of minding farmland which would otherwise have borne, no crop this year. His 19-year-old sister-in-law. Miss < ..nil Harrison, has Joined the Women's i..i"'. Army, and is uuw ii nini li-ac-toi'H, while Mrs. Mit- ttiell In hiilciiini? chicks In the i<xt viiliv :';'ble iiiriiiutars In Bri- tain. ROYAL COACH, 1942 MODEL Britain's King George investigates the riding qualities of a U. & Army jeep during a recent visit to American forces in northern Ireland. The jeep i being driven by Kussel F. Mann, of Oxford, la. NDIViDUAL Itlzen's AlANMAtlKICF AT /5 .RAVIN JT\.\ A Weekly Column About Thu and That in Our Canadian Army An ingenious reporter made a Nine times out of ten the person at gasoline stations a few at whom the moral is pointed pay* an demonstrated how no heed to it. And those who do te> tay gasoline without giving up heed It don't need it! A somewhat similar situation arose a few months ago when a racket was uncovered in one Can- adian city. This one was operated by a man who took fearful chances with a drug which be administered to young men who did not want to serve In the army. Reporters who got hold of the story admirably, from a newspap- er's point of view, wanted to get their teeth into the story and un- cover all the details. When, however, it was explained to them that publication of these details not only might encourage other malefactors to start similar rackets but might also result in deaths from ignorant toying with dangerous drugs the whole story dropped from eight. This parallel between what we civilians do, and what happens in the Army gets very strong at B, doesn't 'it? Yes, I mean just that. The deal- Be wrote an article that was featured heavily In hit paper and e lumber of readers (poke of It M a fine public service. T tfce Enforcement Counsel of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board the article looked a little different The/ said: "It would have been s> One public service If the bright young man had brought the In- formation to us so we could act or It instead of telling 200,000 readers how to do it!" A narrow view? It wasn't that the lawyer feared 200,000 people would break the law. But he did know from cad experience that a i>m-j'i. , . would. It's something like those 'Crime Does Not Pay" movies. You Bliow potential gangsters and racketeers how to do aomelhing they hadn't thought of 11 nd then point u moral. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher 1 juit got a hunrh!" er In gasoline who aids a motorist te> evade the gasoline regulations Is every bit as dangerous to the war effort as the low character who aids draft violators to escape their duty. A number of people with whom I have been talking recently have posed an interesting question. It Is: "What is the Reserve Army olng to do about men in rural dletrlcu and smaller centres who want to join but have- no Reserve Army unit near them?" A few days ago I travelled for some time on the same train as "Sam" Browne, Director-General of the Reserve Army, and that wae one of the questions we dis- cussed. At the moment the Reserve Army is so far below strength In the centres in which units are established that the first job to be done is ite recruitment up to strength and the training of men who are handy to the armories. Ehccept In towns where there are armories it is hard to find suit- able headquarters. Eventually, however, plans will be considered to moke reserve- training available to as many men who are not eligible for active service as pos- sible. Major-General Browne was on his way to Montreal to address a meeting of the Recruiting Com- mittee that has set itself the task of raising 10,000 men for the Re- serve Army in that city. He said that similar campaigns In Toronto and the West had been very successful and that they had reached their quotas in a rery hort time. A funny thing cot into the papers a few days ago. U was a story from Ottawa saying that the Army would follow the lead of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board bf prohibiting uniform Uousere with cuffs and pleats. What's funny about that? Just tills, that it has been in the dress regulations for a long time that oUlcers' slacke must not have eufts. They never have had pleats. 80, as a matter of fact, the In- dividual Citizen's Army, in doing without cuffs and pleats on its wH>users is following the Army'e lead, not the other way round. Here's a piece of Citizen's Army lang for a change. This is to be found on In vital icing. U is: ". Y. O.T." or "B.Y.O.C." or "B.Y.O.8." Ttoe meaning? Simple! Bring your own tee, or Bring your own coffee, or Bring your own sugar. And why not? There's a war onl Best of all would be, "Come on jrowr own feet" there's plenty of use for gasoline in the Tank Corps. From Cricket Bats To Gun Furniture A north of England factory which used to make cricket bats has now turned over to produc- ing butts and stocks for Tommy guns and rifles, says The St. Thomas Times-Journal. It occurred to its manager when war broke out that his machines could be adapted for making the wooden "furniture" of guns. The suggestion was pooh-poohed at first; but he won the day and got his contract. Today, the machines, which three years ago were turning out cricket bats, are shaping four slabs of wood into rifle butts in as many minutes. Other machines complete the ninety-two processes which are necessary before the butts and stocks go into the am- monia chamber to mellow. They are then treated with linseed oil. The craftmen who made the cricket bats maintain that today, out of a pile of other rifles, a sea- soned war veteran will still choose their works for its "feel". Cow Helps Soldier To Escape Nazis A French soldier who escaped from a German prison camp in Silesia said that he had led a cow across most of Germany, and had been mistaken by Nazi patrols as a farmhand taking the animal to pasture. He and the bedraggled cow arrived in Amiens four weeks after he left the prison camp. He said the cow had nearly died of fatigue, and they had to rest sev- eral days in the Hhineland. He sold the cow to an Amiens but- cher. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events United Nations In Agreement On Plans For Conducting War Adolf Hitler has said "the de- cision lies in the East," and in that direction last week a grand German bid for advantage ap- peared to be shaping, according to the New York Timee. A long- foreseen pincers drive toward the Middle East the upper prong through the Ukraine and the Crimea, the lower prong across Libya and Egypt seemed to be passing from a preliminary stage. Against the Wehrmacht's steadily mounting pressure the armies ol' the Allies fell back. There was no cheer for the anti-aggressor peoples in the realization that the Nazi aggressor despite a Winter and Spring of setback and stale- mate could still grasp the in- itiative, choose the field of battle. But there was hope that the lines in Russia and North Africa would stiffen, that from Allied high par- leys, capped by the latest confer- ence between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, would emerge a plan and a course of action to turn the tide. Middle Eatt A Nazi conquest of the Middle East roughly the region running from the Caucasus through Asia Minor to the Nile Valley would have far-reaching consequences. It would: (1) gain for the Ger- man military and economic ma- ofaine the petroleum sources on which the Russians and the Anglo- American forces in Africa and Asia depend; (2) win control over the Mediterranean and Red Seas and thereby cut the British Em- pire in two; (8) open an avenue to junction with the Japanese in India or the Indian Ocean; (4) slam the Persian Gulf door of supply to the U.S.S.R. In short, it would spell catastrophe for the United Nations, darken their pros- pect of victory, certainly prolong the war. Stroke Agamii Germany Against the Fuehrer's convic- tion that the decision in World War II lies eastward of the Reich's frontiers stands the conviction of the Anglo-American-Russian team that the decision must be sought in Europe itself by a concentrated stroke against Germany. That belief goes back many months. It was expressed in the Atlantic Charter, which held up Hitlerism as Enemy No. 1. It has been maintained despite the blows de- livered by Japan since Pearl Har- bor and by the need to disperse forces. It has been strengthened in talks between London, Moscow and Washington. An offensive against the Ger- man homeland presumably syn- chronized from the first front, Russia, and a second front in Western Europe would have ob- jectives as grand as those of Hit- ler in the Middle East. It would: (1) squeeze the Wehrmacht in the nutcracker of a two-front- war; (2) put into play the mil- lions of troops and reserves of materiel unused and waiting in the British Isles; (3) relieve pres- sure on Russia and Egypt; (4) encourage revolt among Europe's subjugated millions, the restive "third front." In short, it would be designed to knock Germany out of the war; then forces could be concentrated to deal with Japan. Allied Strategy The translation of the broad Allied plan into action has had to wait on time time to gear rela- tively unprepared economies to total war. In a sense, the military effort of the United Nations ev- erywhere has been a delaying battle until the aggressors' head- start in building armies and arms could be overcome. It seemed clear that last week's weighty dis- cussions in the White House were concerned with whether sufficient time had yet been won, whether delaying tactics must still be the chief Allied strategy or whether the threat to the Middle East could be countered by the opening of the promised second front against Germany. Allied Setbacks The world map has turned a scowling face on the democracies during the past seven days. .North Africa tells of a British disaster; thu Ukraine of a savage Nazi at- tack that has pushed buck the Russian lines; the Western At- lantic of a still unsolved tub- marine problem; the Western Pacific of a JaJpanese threat that hangs over every square mi! .- of land and water from the Aleu- tians to New Guinea and from a point somewhere west of Midway Island to the trampled field* of South China and the rainy whiler- ness of Burma. Defeat lies be- hind the United Nations, despite the magnificent fighting of the Russians and the Chinese, the an raids over Europe and our awn naval victories in the Coral 'Sea and off Midway. We have to be prepared for further setbacks. Well-informed military critics know some of the reasons "or these defeats. The real trouble obviously was that our side did not have enough strength at the right times at the right places. There have been failures in gen- eralship. It may be, also, :hat we have been dealing with physi- cal laws which no general, how- ever gifted, could have overcome in the time so far at our 'disposal. Non-military nations may ha"e a superior material and spirrual strength, but this does not mean that they can easily and quickly bring it to the right point of ;on- tact. To win this war we liave to learn how to do this. Coming Operation* Neither the general public '.ior the newspapers which try to servt* it have enough information tc lay down a strategy for a world 'var. That fearful responsibility the duty to say yes or no to specific plans falls largely on two :nen, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. They must decide how much strength we jaq join to the existing strength <*t China, of Russia and of sevsrai other fronts. These were the questions which they discussed in Washington, and the joint state- ment which they issued recently declares that as a result of thai* discussions the United Nations "have never been in such hearty and detailed agreement on plan's for winning the war as they *r today." China's critical need o> aid received consideration. It * promised that "coming opra.- tions" of the United Nations ' -vjg divert German strength from * attack on Russia." 40,000 Children Died Fleeing Nazi* Free French authorities *id not long ago that 40,000 children died on the roads of France ib June of 1940 in the exodus >f refugees fleeing the Nazi terror. They quoted a statement nu>d to an assembly of the French Ked Cross Society held at Nice in unoccupied France. The newspaper Petit Nicois 'vas quoted as saying that the figures made public at the assembly "leave us dumb with horror 1 ', "40,000 little bodks buried >>y the Red Cross in graves dug fh the fields," the newspaper ex- claimed. "How many others w-^ve killed and buried in unknown graves?" Spitfire Pilots "Take The Cake" Every time Spitfire pilots or*-. tioned at an airfield near Lori Jon shoot down an airplane they lit- erally "take the cake". The Czech mess caterer bak^s * special cake for every successful pilot but not until he has 'in- sured himself that the enemy air- craft was destroyed and not jvmt "winged". Until recently, the Czech, wh>e name most remain secret because his family is still in Czechoslo- vakia, prepared the food for the> pilots of the "ace" ustralian No. 452 Squadron, and two of hit be it cake "customers" have been Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finu- cane anil Squadron Leader Keith "Bluoy" Truscott. Truscott, who has just returned to Australia, took his last cake with him to eat on the journay. "Padily" Finucane who u now leading another squadron basod at the same airfield, received 'lid 37th cake the other day. REG'LAR rELLERS That's a Help By GENE BYRNES THE TEAM HAS IECTED TOM WO TO GO AN 1 ME THE BA3EBAU, QROUND TOO WET TO PLAY 0N 19 AFTERNOON RIQHTO CAPTIN: a- 9