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Thursday, March 11, 1943.
' finally acquired title to the coun
try in’ 1763, the French resident-
were numerous enough to main
tain their own racial integrity
New they comprise one-third of
the population. They live mostly
i in Quebec province. They do not
(This is the third in a series of the Canadian Rockies, has the big lock to France as their mother
articles, giving highlight* in the gest rodeo (they call it a “stamp- : country although Montreal is the
history of the United Nations).
1 ede”) in the world. British Colum- ! second largest French city in the
| bra has a logging industry which world. First and foremost they are
Canada and the United States i rivals our northwest. We even ! Canadians. French Canada is Cath-
In other paits of the world th • ! have the same minorities settled in i jiic.
children have grown up.with the the same areas: Germans in the
The War Effort
certain knowledge that, many of wheat country, Japanese in the
Canada’s war effort ha.i been
their neighbors are not their truck-gardening districts of the studded with achievement records.
friend-, that war will inevitably I west coast.
One of her most spectacular con-
come to them as it has to their
The two countries differ in the t’ibutions is the British Common
fathers for generations. We, who distribution of their population. wealth air training plan. Working
have never known the agony of \\ hereas the United States is now v’ith very limited facilities, Can
instinctively distrusting our fel fairly well settled throughout, the ada now lias the best pilot fac
low men, do not realize how lucky fringe of civilization in Canada tory in the world, capable of turn
we are in having such agreeabl ■ runs in a 300-mile band along the ing out more than 30,000 graduates
neighbor.-. The Canadian-Ame-- United States border. The north a year. By the end of 1940, air
ican relationship is unique in the ern stretches are largely untouch dromes for 65 schools were com
world. Two countries of such sim ed frontier land, vast stillnesses pleted, one more than had Leen or
ilarity in size and natural resourc broken only by the occasional hunt iginally planned for the spring of
es might well have become deadly er or trapper; more recently by the 1942. A thousand miles of tunways
rivals. Instead we have the inspir noise of mine operations in the have been built, 2,000 buddings.
ing spectacle of 4,000 miles of un newly developed radium area. Can
Service blue appears on
fortified frontier.
adian summers are shorter, the streets of every town from Halifax
The v.ar emergency has brought winters longer and colder than
to Vancouver. A steady drone of
the two countries into increasing-1 ours. Children still go to school
training planes fills the air all day
Canada Is Important
Spoke in Allied Wheel
Area. — 3,894,900 square miles (roughly the same size as
the United States including her territories and dependencies).
Population. — 11,419,000 (less than that of New York state).
< apital.
Ottawa, Ontario. Principal cities. — Montreal,
Toron:o, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Quebec, Ottawa. Form
of government. — rhe Dominion of Canada is a self-governing
British nation. Both her federal and nine provincial governments
conform to the British pattern. The- Parliament consists of a
House of Commons, whose membership is elected for five-year
terms, and a Senate whose members are appointed for life. The
present Prime Minister is the Right Honorable William Lyon
Mackenzie King. The representative of the King is a Governor-
General, at present the Earl of Athlone. Provincial premiers
and Igislatures have much the same powers as our state govern
ments. Flag. — Red ground with Union Jack in upper left-hand
corner, Canadian Arms in center.
War contributions (July. J942). — Army, 475,000; navy,
34,000; air force, 120,000. Total volunteers for overseas, 500.000.
Casualties, 5,500 (to the end of June, 1942). Food, 2,000,000,000
pounds (bacon, wheat, flour, cheese, eggs, honey). Raw mate-
rtala, aluminum, nickel, asbestos, zinc, copper, lead, platinum,
mica, ’mtphur. gold, pitchblende, wood pulp. Industrial ^produc
tion, all kinds of munitions and war equipment. With one
eleventh the population and one-sixteenth the national income,
Canada early in 1942 was producing at one-fifth the rate of the
United States. Money, 54 per cent of everyone's income.
ly close cooperation. The first step in 40-below-zero weather. Sleighs
was the permament joint defense anil dog sleds are common winter
board, projected by Prime Minis conveyances.
ter King and President Roosevelt
The People
nt Ogdesnburg, N.Y., in the sum
Canadians show the traces of
nier of 1940. The second imnoitant
both their English heritage and
step was the Hyde Park declur-
American
environment. Canada
rt <.n of 194t which was designed
grew up within the framework of
to gear the economic war effort
the British Empire. English tradi
of both countries. This agreement
tions are her traditions. Politi
paved the way for the joint corn
cally, Canada has remained tied to
mittees on materials, ee« nom ¡CJ,
the mother country.
and war production which have
But the Canadian way of life
subsequently been established.
is really the American way of life.
The Country
Canada has the world's highest
There is a story that some Span standard of living next to ours.
ish explorers who were searching They too are gadget users. There
for geld in Canad finally cried ,n is an automobile and a telephone
disgust "Aca Nada" "There is for every nine people. Sixty-six
nothing here." These men didn't i preent of their homes have elec
stay long enough. Canada is now tricity. They listen to our jazz
the third goki-producing country Use our slang, eat the same food
in the world. Her natural recources They are baseball fans although
are rich although only partly de- hockey is their national sport
vi loped. She has n virtual world They like to sit on the front porch
monopoly of asbestos and nickel. »rd gossip the way we do. They
Meat of the fur coats worn by join the same sort of organica
American women originate in the tions. Their political beliefs p irui-
Canadian forests. So does most of lei ours very closely.
the wood pulp for our newspapers.
Canadians combine British cau
Canada has our same geographic tion with Yankee shrewdness.
regions and the patterns of exist There is less divorce in Canada.
ence in each region arc very simi There is more convention. Reli
lar to ours. Life in the maritime gion plays a stronger part in their
provinces is much like life in Now life than it does here. Canadian
England. Quebec and New York Sundays ere quieter. Canadian
state have dairy industries. Can share the American spirit of en
ada’s manufacturing is centered in terprise With less than one per
Ontario and western Quebec, just cent of the population, Canada has
north of our middle-western indus mad« herself the fifth trading na
trial centers. The* wheat farmers tion in the world.
of Manitoba and Saskatchewan
French Canada
have the same droughts and dust
Canada is the only country in
storms, the same problem* of sur the western hemisphere that has
plus production as our wheat two official languages and two dis- i
farmers of Minnesota anti the Da-! tuict cultures Her earleist settler-- ;
betas. Calgary, in the foothills of » re Freuchuien. When England .
I
and all night. Seven men out of
ten in the air force have been war necessities. Gasoline has re- for discharge prior to May 1. 1943.
Canadians, the rest from Great | cently been severely rationed. The (Commanding officers are author
Britain, Australia, New Zealand, ' famous Mounties (who are now ized to extend the time in cases
and many of the occupied coun- completely mechanized—gone are where the soldier did not have suf
■ tries. Canada has footed most of the days of the hard-riding, two- ficient opportunity to file his ap
(4) lie must present
I the bill, and it is a large one (esti gun heroes of childhood) have seen plication.)
mated at $2,000,000,000). It costs to it that no sabotage has hindered written evidence that, if dis
charged, he will be employed in
1 $21.000 to train a pilot. $22,000 for the production efforts.
' an observer, $8,750 for a wireless
Canada's exports to England an essential industry, including
air gunner. The course averages have doubled in the past two years. agriculture; (5) his release will
180 hours flying time to be com From nothing at all Canada has not seriously affect the efficiency
pleted in 24 weeks. Even then the built a munitions industry which of the organization to which he is
men are only semitrained and must turns out all forms of modern assigned.
be gradually worked into combat weapons. Canada's women are fill
units abroad.
Q. Is it improper to wash the
ing 20 percent of the 800.000 muni
Two Canadian army corps are tions jobs. Canada is really rolling. American flag?
now serving abroad. The Royal Ca
A. Absolutely not. It is no dis
nadian air force has flown with
respect to wash or dry-clean an
the RAF from London to Java.
American flag. It is also proper to
A thousand Canadians took part in
mend the flag when torn, unless,
the Cologne raid. Canada’s navy
it is in such bad condition that it
has jumped from a pre-war total
Q. How much does it cost to would be a discredit to the owner
of 15 ships to more than 400, her train a soldier 12 months?
if displayed.
naval manpower from 1,800 to ov
A. The War Department esti
er 34,000. Canadians, traditionally mates the cost for 12 months of
Aphrodite. Without Nightie
landlubbers, except the men of the full-time training for a soldier in
Evansville, Ind. (CNS) — When
maritime provinces, are now prov the U. S. Army is between $1,500 a “nut house” caught fire several
ing themselves tough, able sea and $2,000—the difference in cost inmates took advantage of their
men. Canadian corvetes and des is largely the difference between unexpected freedom. Two women
troyers are taking an important training a foot soldier and a patients strolled around the area
part in Atlantic convoy duty.
mechanized soldier, the latter be- in the nude while a third, clad
On the home front Canada faced ing costlier.
only in a slip, swiped a bicycle
the issue squarely and put herself
and went for a ride.
rapidly on a complete war footing. . Q. I m over 38 years old. How
The government has complete con- | do I go about getting an honor-
American farmers in 1942 pro
trol over the domestic economy. In ! able discharge from the Army?
duced 20 per cent more food than
December 1941, a price ceiling was
A. Here are the War Depart in 1939, but 13 per cent of it went
placed over all costs including wag ment requirements: fl I The sol- to the United States armed forces
es, rents, public utilities, and ser dier must attain his 38th birthday and to our allies.
vices. Designs on all consumer on or before February 28, 1943;
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goods are frozen to conserve ma (-) he must have enlisted or have | Use of steel-ringed timlier con-
chine tools. Heavy industry is com been inducted into the Army on nectors to increase the strength of
pletely converted to war produc or before February 28. 1943; (3) wood joints saved 400,000 tons of
tion. Building is strictly limited to he must submit a written request steel in 1942.
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