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WEDNESDAY, mzc. 29. I943

The Rocket Bomb

Again this tuck the RAF mill Lllllwfl Slam?’ hottihers were reported to ltarc struck at uiys: tcriotis targets iii the Pas de Lalais area_0i France, blasting for the fourth 0r fifth ttttie a strip of territory now termed the “ROClfCI tjun Coast" in tlte belief that it harbours tn< Mhltntiott. of tlte taunted new Mill 303ml weapon" According to a Lreriiititr report, ruc- ket guns ltaye actually been used tn a Chattnel duet between a [iffrlllafl convoy and British lottg-rziiige ltzitteries.

'l‘|iere is ntucli speculatlitni lll lllllilllllll “W7 tl.c l'llllI<It'L’\l \\t‘ill)tlll. Scientific experts are usu- ally divided in opinion, and the ballistic experts are m, QxL-plylitqp 'l‘l1ey do not agree as to the

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“hptiiqt or not the Lierniaiis hate actially de- veloped an effectite long-range rocket bomb. sitch development is highly probable at some tiine or other. The rocket bomb is propelled llltlll it.» oun tail. so to sitczik, and the view is that stitii propulsion tuay gain uuineuse nio~ ttienttiut and therefore distance, as the fvfihel bomb attains stratospheric altitude. \\e are told a rocket motor weighing four ottnccs, and nu lti-r-ret‘ than an egg, could send a l.t lb. bumli :0 tuiles in less lllilll 70 seconds. One Utétiilfll‘ scientist claimed before the trar to have con- structed a rocket motor which developed 200 h.p. This might send s 50o lb. bomb 2o miles.

But Uertuanfs problem is how to propel a to-mn bomb 130 miles. lt might be dotte, but with wltat degree of _aiin is uttcertaiti. \\'hat is certain is that it has not yet been P059515- Otherwise the Get-mans would have done more than talk about it.

Closer Empire Relations

Practically every CaniidilflJlYl Pl" Flmllclal Post, will agree with the contention of Lord Bennett, that the revolutionary Changes lllal hnve taken place in the world of transporta- tion and communications, call for consideration q} prepent Empire governing machinery. Up to the present official contact between Britflm and the Dominions has largely depcndfid Oii periodical Empire conferences and occasional visits of high officials.

With Ottawa new loss than I4 _ll°\l_l'l lwm [moon pd g corresponding reduction in travel- ling time with the other dUlTIlIIIOIlI and colonies, Lord Bennett srgues that the Old Pl'°¢°_d“" l5 pot flexible nor speedy erwiixh w COP: with P"- ssot problems.

Recently the Post salted a If“? °l l'°l>1’"°ll' htive Canadians vdriether they fpvored the "nomination of s representative body to fortitu- lute British Commonwealth policies on rnattcis of common interest.” While the matority re- plied that more frequent consultation between member's of the Empire was not only desirable but now quite feasible, several believed that ex- isting machinery, namely the parliaments of the various countries and parliamentary committees could and should handle that work. _

It is a fact, though not always recognized, @1131 git present means of transportation and CflllllillllllCallflflS, the calling together 0f a {Irwin of latnpire statesmen, in London or elsewhere, involves less physical difficulty than that of s provincial caucus 50 year! IKO- And 1f W! R0 back s little over a. century, we would find that sunte members of a. cottntrv council lost more tizue ionrncyitig to their littk: tneettngs than would their grandsons today in flying to Lon- do'1—0r to Ottawa, Pretoria, Wellington, Carl-

berra, since the Commonwealth has more than one capital, Conlrolliitg [he Locust

People of the Middle East had for cen- ttirzeg accepted locust depredations as fatalisti- " lr a~ ~T\ll(l\liJl'lllS and (lrottghls. ltt the lilnt Ptlllbl cycle, i930. an estimated 53.750000 dint age was done to Middle East crops and people wcre ltroitgltt to starvation. Discovered by Bri tisli scirrtttists, those cycles move in a series of decades; therefore, i940, when the British Mme/l a Middle Eastermcampaign, was thl beginning of a new swarming cycle. Hithertd the countries of the Middle East took purely local action against locusts, but locusts havl no respect for national boundaries. The area nrer which the locust swarms must be treated as .1 u-hnle: the British therefore are able til bring advantages never before known. Th1 brain of world anti-locust work is Anti-Locust Centre. London, where the wrorld’: expert! forecast lncttst tnm-etttrtit. Under London d3 rection MESC set up tuobilc anti-locust units London forecast chief locttst breeding areas as Arabia and Baluchistan. British locust of- ficers inimediatelv proceeded to Bahrein 0n Persian Gulf, jedda on Red Sea, and Central

Arabia, to most inaccessible districts, where cars had never penetrated. R.A.F. recon- naissance, and Army Camel Corps showed

where locusts were breeding; their directions were followed by Pioneer Corps who by rush- ing military transports to danger areas with poisoned bait destroyed untold millions of lo- custs. British authorities spent £30,000 in lncitst destruction in Persia, Arabia, Ethiopia, in addition to local government expenditure and saved crops worth millions. The locust can be. permanently defeated if international organ- ization is undertaken. This has been started bv m; Rritish with rraiottal conferences in Cairo, Tlhflflfl lfld Nairobi» ‘mghhngh _, ,.

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The January thaw was ahead of scliciliilfl. and now the lengthening thus are witlt us. i U i l!

Mayor Holman is being rcqtiisitiottrd to num- illillt: for a third term at the lif-‘llttlilly ¢lvl¢ election.

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The IZ-sided Canadian nickel of chromium steel, to be issued in i944, will be white and shitty, easily distinguished from copper coins. The previous iz-sidcd nickel, of copper and zinc alloy, resembled a copper coin in all but shape, and was s confounded nuisance to handle.

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Here is Sir Bernard Montgomery's (new Coiutmittder-in-Chief of the Mediterranean) idea of a perfect soldier: "At his best he is be- tween 23 and 30, led by a company commander of about 35 and a brigadier under 4o. He can lire on bully beef and biscuits indefinitely, sleep wet iu ditches or on the moor, march till he drops, then titarclt again. \‘Vheti he is complete- ly exhausted he will again titarclt. And their he will fight."

i i U i The itiistfilie of trio tuany of otir reformers says zi ClllllC|ll]lt\I‘lll'_\'. is their propetisitv to put tlic cart before the ltorst‘, to coitccrn themselves with superstructures instead of with founda- tions. The only foundation for social security —ihe only real forni of social sectirity —is Cllle lll“\‘lll('llll itilis. \\'itltout that. without iueti and women working at the production of itealth, meaning more national income and more pur- chasing power, there can be no social security for anybody. Social security has to be bought llY national income. By the creation of wealth. lillill is why Jobs and work uttist conte first, so- cial secttritv plans afertvards. It is a case simply of there being no magic trick to distribute in- come which does not exi§t_tQ pull ourselves up by our bnotstraps. I i i i The Qttau-a Journal, discussing the proposed chfm-l" l" ll" Kmfl Government descredits the report that Mr. Ian Mackenzie will bewme Clerk of the House,butsayssh0ulditbeso,his successor more than likely will bg D1 Ajqfmm of South Renfrew. “Dr. i\IcCann," it says “has Pee" a 200d member of_Parliament, competent glmflw HOA-tsc gar out of it, and,_besides. he has Ion" G t_ reshold of a Cabinet post for so v t‘! ¢ 8S figuratively wom out the door-ntat. If now, when the storms are gathering, he should get an eleventh-hour promotion, no one scold Objfltf, and no one be hurt. especially if e went to Pensions and Health. But we wouldn't want to bank on it." n: n- ‘: w

St. Catherine's Standard discussing the use of the editorial "we" says inter alia; "The just; fication for the editorial ‘we,’ which can rump. ably be made at times, lies in the fact that lute‘ represents sort of a consultative opinion agreed “PM h.“ (‘Omllflfltlt staff members of a news- Daper when policies are in the balance, and 25C‘: f0 he ‘formulated as a matter of ‘public ser-

lolmlafsf“ ATWQUWY. lfirsonal |Olll’l’l3.ll5ll1. once so virtle m‘ Canada has pfffly “@1120,” out"

WHOM‘ - ~ sllflper is an institution, not a ~ _ Organ, and when, (which is as rarely. iswposstble in _a well-conducted newspaper), the “m o‘; rrnresertts all those of ti... s...“ f! and ultose \‘l(‘\\'S coincide with

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William Ewa ' i born this date iiiogilitssiriiil»grittitshuiitihiiiiani the outset of his career as "the risiniv (hope 2i t.ie §l€l'll'._lllll'JEll(lill_Q Tlsrieg," but me,- became 1i lirce Ilrader and aligned himself with the lvlllgi? 1Y1 I366 he introduced a Reform Bill which was defeated, bitt the succeeding Tory Government, led bv Disraeli, brought in house- hold suffrage which was adorged; shortly afterirard Gladstone resigned the leadership of the Liberal Party, but emerged again to make a protest against the Blllfiflflill ELYOClllQSZ l"! remained in power practically until loseph Chamberlain split the Liberal party. _ over the 11-15}, qucgtiott; remained in opposition utitii 1892 when he becarrgle Ignite hlfinfitciél for_tlite fo rth time; u on t e ousc o 0r 8 111K’ in; his Home lgule Bill he resigned. and dlfll It l-lawarden in i908, being buried in Westminster Abbey; he was described by Arthur J. Balfour, Conservative Leader, as “the greatest nieuiber of the greatest assembly the world has ever seen". m u u a

This is how General Smuts sums tip the pre- sent sitttatioti: We have moved into a strange world, a world such as has not been seen for hundreds of years, perhaps not for 1.000 Years- Ettrope is completely changing. The old Fu- rope has gone. The map is being rolled tip and a new map is unrolling before us. \Ve shall have to do s great deal of fundamental think- ing and scrapping of old points of view before we find our wsy through that new continent which now opens up before us. Just look, for a moment, at what is happening and what will be the state of affairs at the end of this war in littrope. Three of the five great powers ygill have disappeared. That will be s unique e- velopment. France has gone, and if ever she returns it will be a hard and long upward pull for her to emerge again. A nation that has once been overtaken by a catastrophe suclt as she has suffered, reaching to tihe foundations of her nationhood, will not elsily resume her old place again. We may tslk about her as s great power, but talking will not help her much. Wc are dealing with one of tilts greatest and most far-reaching catastrophes in history, the like

will be s bitter and s long one. France has gone and will be gone, in our day and perhaps for many s day. Italy has completely disap- peared and may never be a greet power again. Germany, at the end of this wsr, will have dis- anneared perhaps never to emerge again in the old form. The Germans m a great people with great qualities, and Germany is inherent- ly a great country, but sfter the smllh that will follow this war Germany will be written off the slate in Europe for long, long years, fisftsr thatsuqwogljgsgbsgginn

of which I have never read. The upward climb Into

The Irnduitrlal Front

(Hamilton 9000mm)

As we sir-lute our filming men and women with reverent. pride at. the closs of s yen;- thst; nu brought. us so far along of victory. let us rxanslder, in fit. tint: humility. another army —an army or more than s. million. an army of men and women. of young and old — a nrmy of e industrial front. Theft- uniforms are smock; and overalls, their tn- slgrua the numbered badges of the war plants. Their weapons are calipers and gnugu, pencils and typewriters. Dicks and shovels.

ers and ates. pneumatic drllls and weldfnl torches. Thulr 08111941811! In 1008M 1n the murk of factory srrioke snd the fantas- tic lore of open-hearth furnaces, ln t e swift bustle of the office anti in the Dretznant silence of the laboratory, tn the caverns beneath the earth and in the ahlpyards by the sea. ‘rhelr battle sounds are the clatter of rlvetfnl guns, the htunmlruz of turblnes. the screech of saw. the roaring of mlne skips. the clsngorous din of shops and foundries, the rhythmic pounding of great machines.

This ts the army that mined the ore and felled the timber and harnessed the waters, shaped the sLeel and drew the brass. built the ships and. fabricated the planes. made the Runs and am- munition. swuntz the trucks and carriers down the assembly ltnc. Thls l; the annv that mastered the craft. of KruDD and Vlckers ln a country that. had never made a gun. This is the amiy that. t-ltietted the plates cf naval craft. ln yards that had never sent a fight-lug ship to sen. This ls the army that. concentrated with dell- cate accuracy upon devices so novel 1n creation and so secret in their magic that their very names were famtllar only to the few. This is the army from shop and tarni that mustered the alchemy of explosives hitherto unknown, ln the great shell-filling plants where death was locked ln s drop of liquid and annihilation lay 1m- piisoned ln s. pinch of powder. There was a place and need for eveiiv strength and sklll. for the generalship of shrewd brains. for the power of hrawny droulders and the craft. of nimble fingers. 'I‘here was n place and need for every bound of metal. every foot of timber. every unit. of water- power, every tool, every machine. and every factory that. could be adapted to the manufacture of munitions and supplies or war, Almost every human and ma- terial resource of a Dominion that had found its strength for the first time was drawn and blended into production on a Blzantlc scale.

Its Magnitude

(St! mthsrines Standard)

The official story of the Am- erican Eight Bomber Command for the first. year in Brltalti ls told in a : “Target, Ger- many-" The information given ls a revelation to the layman: the nusiznltude of the effort is lali‘. bare. And this is only the Am- erican contribution on top of a still V0510!’ organization of the RAF_ and the RCAF. It ls prosaic reading. as compared to the hero- lsin of the airmen In combat and tn transit, but it tells of an or- tlanlzntlonal effort never before knotwn in war. Here are some 8C S!