that the resignation of Elliott M. Little as di- rector of National Selective Service is nothing short of an “indictment of our national mobil- izatioii for total war and CXPOSBS llle_5llo<fk"lg fact that our so-called manpower crisis 1s in reality little other than a man wer muddle."

walks of li e, whether it be fsmier. min". fric- tory worker, business executive, shopkeeper, or educationalist, have been perplexed with the policies under which selective service has been organized and administered. Discounting the inevitable tediousness involved in the planning of a democratic people to wage battle Withpa ruthless dictatorial technique, there were still countless questions which the average Canadian citizen could not co-ordinate to his WIMP‘ °i total war. It was almost a. platitude to say that our entire productive capacity must be harnessed in the first instance to the demands of our fighting men and their allies. Indeed, innumerable responsible officials‘ had reiterated that fact. Why, then, the hesitancy and the delay?

estimate" the seriousness of Mr. Little's revela- tions of friction and obstructionism in this con- nection.

ponsilile authorities for the elimination of bick- ering and glaring impotence, and for the ruth- less removal of incompetence and mismanage- ment fiom sop lo bottom of our united effort. ,The people of Canada are only too conscious of the fate which lies in store for those nations which permit themselves to become victims of inexplicable blindness and stupidity. It rests with the government to initiate effective reme- dial action immediately. The people of Canada know the price they must pay for victory but they will not tolerate misguidance or blunder- ing direction of their efforts and their talents."

mons directs attention to the possibilities of an invasion of japan proper. The day is, no doubt, distant when a land attack can be attempted, but recent successes in the Pacific ocean bring that day appreciably nearer than it was. There are three sea routes by which the expeditiOil could proceed-north from New Guinea and the Solomons, west from Purl Harbour, or, in the north, from Dutch Harbour, via the Aleu- tian archipelago. The construction of the Alas- knii highway will greatly facilitate operations in that area, should they be undertaken. _The sit-

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For They Are England

1 ‘ f the Saturday Review d n a rficant lsilgbgd.“ h New York’ there i. a full page pom. and-r the sboiw ‘"h- n-hich has for its text two lines taken from a poem by G. K, CIICSICYIOnZ

For ws arc the pxfle o! mlllmd- “m” "Y" have molt I

sinuestannavassaIII-hitfiwiqlll“ forgot.

The theme of the poem, which is by wall" Odicarn, is the enduring valor of the oildillilfl’ man, with some Easing tribfll" 9° WW8 squires" and to " lg: of a new order who mount the siriu." news" 1110M l" from the middle of the poem and the con- ‘hiding stanza:

“- 1.: e- "am...- '".:..t“:.."“= These ara man Bwodandwatchedwfli-Wmfwwawd" Played darts and studied raclnl "H". "l0 m9" With trips beneath their belts. onlony brevqlh. The common little men of flsh and chips To whom cinema was luxisn‘. Man from the smoke-filled, mo, little towns whemodinqueuessndsrwibladattlwtflblt. These are the man. he common little men, who bawled hymns to their Chapel Deity (and who shall say Ho was not pleased with them?) , and new m poached! and hers are drape"

Whecolwrléhh and when 1M 14-511mm“ m“ Gamekeepcra, navvlas, hawkers, felons wen, Men e1 all trades and none, masters and men. Soft voiced and slow, and others sharp like blades, d

But 1n their ova l» MP0

Andontholr brews flsostampdmllflfi And 1n their hear-ta aha strength of lhizlsnd. Let the invader reading 1t bewflr.

‘Ware the 510W anger of the 17118115111711“.

And having roused 1t, risk 1t. l! he dare. Butourfclkifaicl-tlio I who h last. mlfhaly

would w.» gums and rooftops. h Ins sweets And 1n dark lanes defend their llmslmd-

For these are the bowmen who broke chlvalry. These are the men who sailed with Francis Drake. They are the man who wear the star of Mons. mesa are In main who. with no Playmd‘ 9°14‘ Behind mean, stood their ground at Waterloo. They are the men who alwayl. 1" it!" 9nd- After the muddle was done and the work begun. After the talk was done and the show tinned real. Stood and saved England-and will save 1t. now,

For thl! are Brislandl

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Liberal Press Comment

The Halifax Chronicle (Libfll-l) #10613!"

For man months now dians of all

The Chronicle finds it "impossible to over-

"They represent," it says, “a challenge to res-

uation has been entirely changed Ivy the swift completion of that project. As ct the road is onlyinthepionoarstgigwith latrackand "ugh 80in: it places, but R Ia already ill ill!

tian Science Monitor stresses the great possibil- ities of exploiting this route, in the conquest of Japan and in the bringing of aid to Russia by the air route. “Until this highway was com- pleted,” says the article, “North America was like a man who had put padlock: on all the doors and windows around his house, but left a swinging trap door in the roof, and had not even provided himself with a ladder from his second floor to his attic. He couldn't even get up to the trap door without using a ladder 0n the outside of his house. But any burglar who could creep up with a ladder st night could have dropped down on him from the roof." Now, fortunately, all that has been remedied.

a- EDITORIAL NOTES-

Nsvy Week.

O l O U

This is anti-tuberculosis wcck. l I I l! One half the bureaucrats today do not know what the other half find to do. i I I U Thus did England fight: l And shall not England smite With Drake's strong stroke in battles yst l so be? c n s u i Citizens behind the dehydration plant move- ment niiisi now realize that difficulties are made to be overcome and that where there is a will there is a way. ‘ I U U i 1t was Cicero who declared that "he who has possession of ilie sea must of necessity be master of the situation.” The present war proves dais to be still so. s is s a

Our Fruidi fellow Canadians know how to

year i942 bids fair to go down as a record year for births and marriages in the Province of Quebec, according to figures contained in a six-month provisional report on vital statistics just issued by the Ministry of Health and So- cial Welfare. The report also indicates an ap- preciable drop in deaths which may end the year with a mortality rate of under 1o per 1,000 for the first time in she history of the province. 1 I U F

Twelve Montreal students, including a British evacuee, and the son of a Polish general, who were stranded in Edmonton when their harvest jobs ended have returned home. Transportation was arranged by the government. They were on leave of absence from Strathcona Academy. The boys were stranded when early snows halted harvest operations. Some of the group slept

the boys was Frank Brodie, a British cvaeuee, but the others refused to give their names. One said he was a Polish student and that his father, a general in the Polish army, now is held in a German concentration camp. U U U U

"Canada's effort in this war is as intense as it can be,” Mr, Rene Morin, chairman of the Di- rectors of C.B.C., told the members of Mon- treal junior Board of Trade. "Our part in this effort has been considerable, although to determine it sanely it is necessary to make al- lowance for multiple factors peculiar to our province and our group. Brit - and it is against this that I feel justified to warn y0u— too often we friot, fume and ble while ful- filling our duties toward the tate, with the re- sult that we have permitted creation of the im- pression that we are not heart and soul devot- ed to the cause of the salvation of Canada, our only fatherland. . . . After the war, the econ- omic and bonds between the nations forming the North American umtinent will be tightened more than ever even if the political bonds remain the same,” Mr. Morin held. “North America will form a whole more homo- genous and more solid than in the past, and, in this vast; territory, our ethnical group will only occupy a position proportional to its population and its importance.”

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Sir Roger Newdigatc, English canal and road engineer, antiquarian, died this date, 1806; while he took a practical interest in the improvement and extension of canals and roads, his hobby was ancient archaeology; he was public-spirited too, and sat as member of Parliament for Mid- dlesex from r741 to 1747, and then for Oxford University from r750 to 1780; was a contem- porary friend and admirer of Thomas Gray, and was so impressed with this stanza in his Elegy:

"Full many a of purest ray scram, The dark, unfamed caves of ocean bear: Frill many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air” -

that he instituted what is now known as the Newdigate prise at Oxford for the undergra- duate who axnposes the best English poem on a given subject.

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Roof’: Trap Door

The American naval victory in the Solo-

The Stars and Stripes were first flown 0n an American man-of-war yesterday's date, 1777, by Paul Jones, the Scotsman, who founded that

lutions in June: "That the Flag of the United blue field, representing a new constellation. Resolved that Captain John Paul Jones be ap-

pointed to command the ship Ranger." When the new flag was sent to him in Philadelphia,

same womb of Destiny. We cannot be parted

in life O1’ death. S0 long as we can float, we shall float together. If we must sink, we shall go down together as one." The design of the new flag was suggested by the coat-of-armg of

joiies hoisted it on board the Ranger on 22nd

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Novcnber, 1777.

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and affording a practical method of taking tlnually rounding supplies up to that important strategic outpost. genus P05‘ NW 1 In an interesting historical review, the Chris- yo

“rm: casammutrowu cussing

IIDTES DY TIIE YIAY

lit Illllnlllvan, who ls acn- up members of who happen to

here, was actlve

l$ 3 grin ho sarvad liih w

imllstmaria h Oanah. as a f

llnstrisctnrlsbackherc now an

dnterestlngatory. Ha ssysthatsoma

tlmca-gohnwasordeiedtotake

a plane to Hailfpxhalh S“? Pig! 11811 . -

353"“ “earns. “Mia

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not not to h]! with hfln. Illva

hunky. Australians were 1n of t.

fill-N’! prisoner and one of them

told lhe pilot he was Rudolf Hess.

"A man must have one

prided himself 1n the fact that his ceremonial coat had served hlsn for some 85 seasons. w tall-coat boats his by several lengths, for l1 was built a Chinsman, "m. Tom," 1n kyo, more than 30 years ago and though it. ls at present having a well-earned rest. I hope still to be wearing it 20

an: hence Tom," who I hops ii still living, had this real Chira- marrs pride in hrls craft, and I doubt f any tailor 1n the world could Drovlde such cloth 8s he did. _Licnt-Co1onc1lDmurid Walter 1n the London Times.

One o! Whitehall‘: blunt orna- mema 1e to be uwvod. I h a moon's tread, walghlng. I am told, halfabomaridearryfingasfxfeait span of antlers It. belonged to the lute Dr H LIWhlSfAJXIG, a Canad- ian, who was formerly Director

stone Medical services and forJaas-s occupied s considerable part In room Recently n Canadlan air

for a night ii the jail at Bashsw, Alta. One of 11m

be said for giving ii man s ‘-

squadron decided they mun" have a moose head for their headquarters. They advertised; got 1n tmich wlflh Liuhtstonds executors, and are

now relieving the Mmfilstry n1 what "° had become s very large whips alo- phamlfiroltn-lly (Alderafwt)

Awaywftlififorsalvan,lacm-

i] ' m‘ ' rnandecl sourly, with an urifrfendly bu d up the population of the D0 inion. The (‘ye upon ma ambumw‘ It held too miiriy r101. y, sleeples memories, anyhow, for my liking. Yet Ya was cisrloua to note that no soorner had we decided to part than the aged chariot began to acquire s11 manner of valuable characteristics, Some- one observed that the wheels were sound arid wheels are scarce n-"iwn- days, so off crime the wheels W these amputations. the peramhnla. , awaited the salvage loirry But long ‘ before the lorry came 1' had dlscov- ered that the padded seats had

obvious uses ‘Iliey were priceless. 1n fact, and they were removed with the utmost cure Ard these uvder-

springs clearly, they were aledica irons. and 1t was unthinkable the

should become s/riiyflifng else. Eventually, there was the wooden txidiwmk, and little else, aiwnlting collection I managed to suppress the thmiiihit that lt would make

first-Tube firewnrd There ls a moral

sometimes-e here. if I could only It. —lbeeds Yofkdifre Post.

Brftona, at oonrao, have hr months now seen the reduction on an increasing scale of their trains- portatlon facilities. Now there 1s no Llrisollrie for ia-lva-te cars arid our!- oius makeahlf are rwported froim time to time. The Manchester Guardian recounted one of these the other day At a recent wedding party turned up a double-decked street car specially chartered for the occasion. One does not: know whether t Qiinndian transit con- troller wuud approve of til-ifs, cannot. be chartered. but ft. mews at aziy rate a certain spirit of flllllplfdblllty for winch Britons in war-time have become noted. The article does not relate whether the pprty deported from the cercmony the same vehicle, 1t. could not very well waft without blocking all the system 1m the tfishrl/ct, or“; 1t 111d come bat-k whether it was by that time stills-lily decorated with old shoes and tlii cans, r‘ ‘bless, however, the salvage system might make this somewhat. difficult But The Guardian thrilu that the tame I'M! tome when wan the n-anioar may be out. It hints that tn time ever less dignified vehicles may

functions. It suggests that the bride and lier father mny be found driv- u 1n a horse-drawn coal lorry wlh e groom andbest men ar- riving "looking exquisitely ridicul- Olis 1n n tandem cycle 1n wedding regallii " No. the Rolls-Royce which ivus the hallmark of the "stylish mar-rinse" ls out 1n England rind eve-n the "lowest priced‘ car may be out 1n Canada one of tlhese days Obviously brides had better ace they are led to the altar 1n summertime, Ifefllllfe they may have tn walk —Sa.i-.kntoou Star- Phoenix.

A lmlll white hon made a long trip on a precarious perch last week-end according to a report v-

rnus by '1‘ W Aylett Mr Ay ett

ivsis n err-w member of a trnln lenv- ins! Miriiiedosri Sun-tiny morning

The car next the engine contained mull-icy. and when the min reacti- ed Xe

loo the crew discovered the

hen perched on the brake rod un-

derneath tthe ear ‘The ear was load- rd at Oxbow Friday night, and had

been tn Braden, Portage and Min- 1160511. and was destined for Bred- enbiiry a trlp of 9M miles when

the hen was still petrified on the md. moving around ovary time he Makes weir-u applied rind released.- Mlnnedcoa Man.) Trtbirne.

There seems to he something In

M“! mill-ll"! hlm on his honor Of the 106 prisoners given tldtet of leave friom Ontariok IIlggdf-‘IIDIOF! to navy; Congress had passed the following reso- -f,'1'§“gnf_fly" “Ifgrfgfiz, t‘; fig” ‘Fmfla

' ' cmeanours rnip n a and they were it lpyvczilyded (1)1: urn!- States be thirteen stripes, sltemate red and _ __R I M p

white; that the Union be Thirteen Stars in a “’°

lnOlla booheller

was noth- iinded for not giving “The Boo! About Qiifsllmz" the preferred pos- ltlon 1n his wndlrvw Next dav tthe gpolgseller hm only three books on

so iiv

In the centre was "Ric

Faul jffnes wrloée in his diary, "That Flag and 13.2fm Quislnig." Mon 97min- S l‘ 0 i W11! I Q l" "ll". rn in the same hour from the "HM q“? Mm mwPvewbody Wm“ ed to Mirder."

It Is shocking to think that be-

fWP"I'I i031 and 195v. no fewer than 70.0110 Cninrilan babies less than one spar o‘d were lost in this; eoiintrv the Washington: of Siilgrave, Northaniptonsliirc .25“? "can; ,.,°,1‘.,',,';,,.,§.,,,,,,‘ the ancestors of the famous George, Paul 0f llfilllh rtlucnfidri h this Dom-

lnlnn. wliert- we still have an ao- piillrvzlv high Infant mortality mte. -.Brodrv'|fle

Recorder and Three.

EOVEMB 23, 1 —~~-~ . .

PUBLIC FORUM

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The prisoner and his five guards were flown to a certain place 1n Carmela where there h l. in: riso

all ts on the Government aide but. one tlilrd of the seats lgiown and adml

coat," said Colonel Newcome, and,

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that any Liberal would exceed that llinlt to any ax- tent; would be considered 1n Parlia- ment nothlng short of a fool.

But Mr. Hanson thinks d trfas to tahe advantage o! it, that people who have never been members o!

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