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1/ \ ^'^ imF/rifCOLD THRMERS liso This 3- PURPOSE Modicine At the very first stiiffle, sneeze, or sign of a cold put iust a few drops of Vlcka Va-tro-nol up each nostril. If used In time, Va-tro-nol's stimulating action actually helps prevent many colds from developing. , . . . And remember this, when a head cold makes you miserable, or transient congestion "fills up" nose at night, Bpoilssleep-3-purposeVa-tro-iiol gives valuable help as it (1) sbrinJu swollen membranes, (2) relieves Irritation, <3) helps flush out nasal passages, _,--„- clearing clogging VICU mucus. Enjoy the -__ -.^^ ujki reUef It brings, VA'TRO'NOli Some Great. Men Spsak for Bible When His Majesty the King Bays of the Bible that "it behoves us in these momentous days to turn with renewed faith to this Divin« source of comfort and inspiration"; when President Roosevelt speaks of It as "now and always an aid in attaining tlie highest aspirations of the soul"; when Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek tells us that, in reading it, ''the greatness and love of Christ bursts upon me with new Inspiration, increasing my strength to struggle against evil, to over- come temptation, and to uphold rigliteousness"; when General Smuts calls it "the most precious docu- ment in the history of our humaa race"; when Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham describes it as "our unfailing strength and consola- tion"; when General Montgomery exclaims to his staff, "Gentlemen, I read my Bible every day, and I recommend you to do the same"; and, last but not least, when Mr. Churchill in every speech he makes shows his indebtedness both to its language and its governing ideas â€" then indeed we have food for thought. â€" The Rev. John A. Pat- ten. M.C., in the Spectator. DIAMOND DRILLS NOW ON WAY TO MYLAMAQUE MINES LIMITED Th« shares of thit out- standing tpeculativs de- velopment should be bought NOW, through us or your own broker. BREWIS & WHITE Mcmberi Oatsrio Hrcarity Dralera' Assn. 67 YONGE ST. - TOROMO ELGIN 7281-2 Without obligiitlftii 8ont1 me advance IntarmatioB and complet« imrdculara rcKardlnr ilYLAMAltVE MINES LIMITKD. Name . Addresa (Please Print) "NV.U J THE WAR • WEEK â€" Commentary on Current Events U-Boat Menace To Bridge of Ships Across Atlantic Has Been Defeated With hundreds of thousands of soldiers and billions of dollars' worth of supplies streaming to Europe over a bridge of ships, it is both welcome and important news to hear how safe that bridge has become and how thoroughly the one grave menace to it, the German submarine, has been de- feated. According to the First Lord of the Admiralty, A. V. Alexander, Allied convoy losses are now less than one ship in every thousand, and so far as is known only one major troop transport of the many thousands sent abroad has been sunk throughout the entire war. Considering the needs of the battlefronts, every loss is grievous, but the rate of loss has become so small that its reduction to the present level represents a great victory and one of the decisive factors in the whole war says. The New York Times. Hitler's Victory Weapon For in Hitler's calculations the submarine, more than any other weapon, was to be the weapon of victory. It was to isolate western Europe, Great Britain and Russia from outside help so that he could conquer them one by one by means of his armed legions, his tanks and planes. And if his submar- rines had lived up to his calcul- ations, who can say he would not have succeeded? In fact, in those dark days when Britain stood alone and when the Germans boasted of submarine tolls exceeding a million tons a month, borne in the main by British shipping, German hopes of starving out the island fortress were flying high, and may have contributed to Hitler's decision to turn against Russia first. The/ were still flying high when Ger- man submarines operated directly off the American east coast and Japanese submarines started to shell the west coast. How des- perately Hitler tried to cut the Allied life-line is indicated by the fict that he sent his best and cost- liest battleships and cruisers on lone raiding expeditions even at the risk of their annihilation. Hitler's Miscalculation But, as in every other case. Hitler again miscalculated. The bridge of ships remained intact, and convoy losses which still amounted to one in every 181 ships in 1941 dropped to one m every 233 the following year and to one in every 344 for the whole of 1943. The submarine "wolt packs" were the last challenge, but after their de- feat tlie rate could be kept below one in very thousand throughout the whole second half of last year. As a result America was able to send more than 2,000,000 troops and their supplies across the Atlantic, and in addition to supply allies with more than .$20,000,000,000 worth of war materials of all kinds of which a good part went to Russia. Even on that dangerous route 88 per cent of the supplies went through. Both Mr. Alex- ander and Secretary Knox warn that Germany has .- great number of submarines in reserve and will undoubtedly make another try, vhich might come when our forces are fighting on the Continent and are most dependent on a contin- uous flow of supplies and reserves. But with the British fleet stronger now than ever befcie "in relation to the enemy naval strength," and with the American Navy now the largest in world history, the Ger- man submarine has lost the im- portance as a decisive weapon that it once iiosscssed. Britain's Pledge In contrast, American submar- ines, aided y planes and surface vessels, are doing to Japan exactly what Hitler started out to do to Britain and America. They have MARY ANN MINES LTD. Approximately 940 acres in the Kirkland-Larder Lake area. Proposed deep diamond drilling will test important gold vem structura indicated by Wilson Bros, Geophysical Survey. Mary Ann merits investigation. WILLIAM E. SMITH 100 Adelaide St. W. Phone A Del. 9206 TORONTO sunk close to half of the total mer- chant tonnage Japan controlled at the outbreak of the war, and the growing dearth of shipping is al- ready beginning to paralyze the Japanese lunpire and jeopardize its far-flung battlefronts. The First Lord of the Admiralty joins Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Min- ister F.den and other British spokes- men in the pledge that after the European war Britain will join America in full force to crush Japan. This pledge is all the more welcome because, judging from British press publications, the same elements that are trying to organize an underground appeasement senti- ment toward Japa.i in this country are even more boldly active in Great Britain. Only One Answer It would, as the Pope says, be "an undying stain and shame" if Rome were to be torn by bombs. But would it be any more grievous a loss than the destruction already wrought on London; an-i, for that matter, Berlin? There can be no distinction between cities in this all-out war. If the Germans use Rome and historic monuments to shield their forces there can be but one answer. â€" Ottawa lournal VOICE OF THE PRESS Comparing Alaska Alaska lies in the same latitude as Sweeden, Norway and Finland; it exceeds in size the combined areas of these three countries which have a combined population of more than 12,000,000 people. A SOLUTION If you are wondering what to do with that extra day's pay that Leap Year has dropped .in your pocket, the Red Cross offers opportunities to place it where it will do the most innnediate good. â€" Christian Science Monitor â€" o â€" READY FOR NEXT SOUND The burden of the world rests on the sliouldcrs of the average man." says the Guelph Mercury. And though slightly stooped and suffering from saddle-gall, the hardy little sonofagun is still on his feet, but wobbly. â€" Ottawa Citizen. â€" o â€" OUR BLUFF CALLED The Ottawa Journal's editor says 'that the nearest thing to bliss on this earth is to be the editor of a country weekly newspaper." Well Mr. we dare you to buy yourself a country weekly. â€" Renfrew Mercury. â€" o â€" NOTHING LIKE IT "Girls", soothes Dorothy Dix, '"'there's nothing like a good cry to get things out of your sys- tem." Or out of your husband. â€" Windsor Star. WON'T MIND Farmers won't mind if the pro- posed floor under prices of their products heaves in places. ^-Kitchener Record. OR ARE WE? Aren't we all in tlu "task force"? â€" Windsor Star. In Japan, the number "four" is considered unlucky, because it is the same word as "death." JACKPOT FOR SALLY SaUy, Great Dane pet of an RAF Spitfire squadron in Italy, does her bit to provide reinforcements for the mascot brigade. Above she fondly eyes her six new pups, held by Cpl. E. Pickering. Pilot Had Fortune In Little Package Diamonds Lost When Plane Forced Down Found Later On South Sea Beach "How was 1 to know i liad a fortune in iliamonds in that little package?" asked Capt. Ivan Smirn- off, "1 was too busy saving my life.'" It was March 3, 1H41, and the Russian-born Dutch Army pilot was at Batavia, Java, to fly Dutch officials to Australia to escape the advancing Japanese. •Before he took off, an official handed him a small package with instructions to deliver it to the Commonwealth Bank ot Melbourne, Australia, connnentiiig only that it was "valuable.'' Landed In Surf "Seven and a half hours out of llatavia 1 felt two bullets liit my left arm. The same machine-gun blast killed one passenger. Then I saw three Zeros were after us. "f had flown in combat in the last war and kn?w all the tricks I should use but the big DC-ii just wouldn't stand on its head like a P-40. The fuselage began to look like a sieve and 1 knew we'd have to land. "1 headed for the beach. Then one engine caught fire. As I laiideil, i swung into the surf, then ordered everyone into the water and to duck under when the Japs came bark to strafe." Beachcomber's Harvest Later, Captain Smirnoff searched for the "valuable" packet, but didn't find it. lie surmised it had been •wept out of the plane by the sea. When rescue pianos took him to Australia, the captain told Mel- bourne bank officials he didn't know what had happened to the packet Then they told hiui it contained diamonds and was worth more tha"; $230,000. A searching party went back to the heacli. . Tht packet was found in tiie plane, empty. Then a beachcom- ber turned up with some diamonds, saying he found them on the beach. A native found a film container and an old match box, both filled with diamonds. A chinese arrived at Perth, on the south-west coast, with more than $5,i.OO worth of gems. Tiioujjli most of the gems have been located, the beach still is un- dergoing a constant searching. Furthermore, legend now has it that several million of dollars in the gems are knocking around the sands. Shoveller ducks fly from Alaska to the Hawaiian Islands every fall, covering a distance of 2,000 miles. FATS FOR JAPS If everybody saves waste kitchen fats and greases, the stream of fat being poured in the photo above will swell to a mighty river flowing Tokyaward in the form of b'.ockb .!!,'. r bon»b:' and sliehs for the big jjuns. Pruritis-lntense Itching Relieved quickly by this Medicinal Ointment There aro two forms of itching wliich are especially distressmg. First pnu'itis vulvae â€" from wliich only women suffer and second priuitia ani â€" itching at the rectum from pile% pin womas or varicose veins. The causes of both these forms of intense itching are often difflcult to locate but what you <£) want, at once, ia relief from the severe and depressing itching. Then let Dr. Chase's OINTMENT help you for it brings relief almost as quickly aa appUed. Once used it will always be kept at hand for quick use when the need arises. 60 cts. a box. Economy size Jar $2.00. Dr. Chase's Ointment OTTflWOEPORTS That The Greatest Food Needs Of Britain Are Livestock and Dairy Products While the war across the Atlan- tic approaches its zenith and the lengthening days at home herald the approach of a new growing season, the need for the greatest production in history beckons every Canadian on the -land to continue doing his utmost to meet Allied food needs. * * • Col. J. J. Llewellyn, Britain's fool minister who attended the Domin- ion-Provincial conference in Ottaw^a not long ago, it reported in the British press as saying that Britons will not be able to resume a plenti- ful diet of meat and dairy products before 1950. "We're going to be very short for a considerable num- ber of years after this war is won," he is quoted as saying. * ♦ * Dr. W. H. Barton, Dominion De- puty Minister of Agriculture and Chairman of the Agricultural Food Board, points out that during the war the position of food has been transferred from one of compara- tively low priority to one of press- ing neel. Dairy and livestock pro- ducts. Dr. Barton says, are in great- est demand and if supplies of these are to be maintained, and if pos- sible, increased, assured supplies of feed grain will be necessary. * * * III addition to the record Can- adian demand for food, Can.i'la's Armed Porces must be fed and the need of the United Kingdom for pork, cheese, eggs, milk, wheat and flour niet. Required for the 100,000 Red Cross parcels for prisoners-of-war packed each week, are 1 00,000 lbs. each of butter and dried milk an'l 25,000 lbs. of cheese. Armed Forces can- teens overseas receive special al- locations from Canada. Convoy, warships, and other vessels need huge quantities of food when they are re-victualled in Canadian ports, while Empire outposts and other United \ations have a claim on the food that Canada can spare. The challenge to the Canadian farm family is a heavy one. * « ♦ There'll be enough of everything the gardener needs to plant a gar- den this year, according to offic- ials of the Department of Agricul- ture â€" plenty of all kinds of vege- table seeds, enough garden tools, adequate supplies of fertilizer, and some pressure cookers. * * * From the Agricultural Supplies Board comes word that although livestock producers in Eastern Can- ada were handicapped by the poor grain harvest in 1043, the overall position with respect to feed sup- plies is still favorable, due to large reserves in the West. This means that the livestock program planiiel for ia4t should not suffer because of insufficient supplies of feed grain. * * * The only accurate method of grading lambs is rail grading, ac- cording to J. W. Graham, Dominion Department of .\griculture Super- vising Livestock Fieldman for Kew Brunswick and Xova Scotia where rail grading has been in operation for several years. As for the mar- ket quality of lambs, it has shown a steady improvement ever since rail grading was introduced. Good farmers are all for it, Mr. Graham says. Trained Bat Maker Good Thermometer Franz Johnston, the famous Canadian artist, is the proud pos- sesor of a trained bat which acts as themometer and helps him keep his fuel bill down. Franz (as everyone knows, lives in what was formerly the Com- munity Hall at Wycbridgc. He and Mrs. Johnston have transformed it into one of the most attractive homes to be found in all Xortli Sinicoc. But that has nothing to do with his trained bat. 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