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By CHARLES CORDDRY
United Presi Correspondent
Ottawa UJ.R The No. 2 man
of the Royal Canadian Air Force i
said today it probably vtill be;
"well on toward the end of the ;
'1360s" before intercontinental
ballistic missiles (ICB.M) become
a serious threat tn this continent.
"There is no ICBM today," Air :
Vice Marshal C .R. Dunlap. vice
chief of air staff, told a group of ,
Cana'dian. American and British
newsmen in connection with a :
On The Side
By E. V DURLING
(Distributed bv King Feature!
Syndicate. IncJ
What Is the origin cf the say
ing, "the life of Reilly?" That
Is question long discussed by
the clientele of thii department
but never settled. Some claim
It hat a reference to a hotel keep
er named Feilly. That is an
error. The hotel keeper they are
thinking of was named O'Reilly,
as in the song, "Are You The
O'Reilly that keeps the hotel?"
Others say it has to do with a
man who was very friendly with
certain Mrs. Heilly while her
husband was off on a trip. It
was said of this man that he
"lived the life of Reilly while
Reilly was away.
Cat It Right
Another question inspiring
much difference of opinion
among the customers it "what is
the largest city in the world''"
The answer to that is New York.
If you won't accept my decision
check with Rand, McNally. Then
there is that argument about
Mile. De Leon " The Girl In
Blue." Was she a trapeze artist
or a dancer? The original Mile.
De Leon was definitely a trap
eze artist who tossed garters to
the customers. Jack. Norworth
agrees that this Is correct. Says
he played on the bill with her.
Widow
What Is a "Grass Widow"?
On that there is quite a dif
ou. ference of opinion. I say a "Grass
ialis. Widow' is a married woman
Sot'nose husband is temporarily
lade s-bsent from home. As for ex
with ample, the wife of a traveling
in salesman. The term definitely
does not refer to a divorcee.
That Lily
; Consider the constantly used
term "Gilded Lily." That is one
of the most misquoted terms of
all time. It should be the "Paint
ed Lily." That's what Shakes
peare said. Still many stubborn
fellows insist "Gilded Lily" Is
now correct because of constant
usage. That to me is a rediculous
claim. Here is what Shakespeare
wrote:
"To Gild Refined Gold,
To Paint The Lily
To Throw A Perfume On The
Violet"
A frequently noted error Is
the quoting of that hiblical pass
age as "Money Is The Root Of
All Evil." It should be "The
Love Of Money Is The Foot Of
All Evil." That, of course, has
a very defferent meaning.
Greatest
"Who was the greatest base
ball player of all time?" On
that query it appears sports fans
will never agree. Some say Ty
Cobb. Others Hans- Wagner. I'll
take Hans. That was -John Mc
Graw's opinion. What about the
greatest American rare horse of
the twentieth century? Was it
Man O' War? Most people will
say so. However, mychoice is
Exterminator. Matt Winn had
that opinion, too.
Other Arguments
What is the orgin of the say
ing "O K ?" It is impossible to
get a 100 per cent agreement
on that. I claim it is from the
Choctaw Indian word "OKEH"
meaning "it is as desired." Who
originated the "Monkey On a
Stick" style of riding? The great
majority claims it was Tod
Sloan. I believe it was the great
negro Jockey, Willie Simms.
Please Note
On what date of the year was
George M Cohan horn Most
people will say July 3. 1878.
Here's anotherquestion that is
endlessly disputed: "Who was the
original 'It Girl' of the films?"
The general belief is that is was
Clara Bow. That is erroneous.
It was Aileen Princle. Another
query causing much discussion
is "What is a Turkhen?" Most
people say it is a bird that is a
cross between a Khode Island
red hen and a turkey. Others say
that is wrong. That the Turkhen
Is a bird originally bred In
Persia. I am not sure about the
answer to that myself. What do
you say?
PICTURE TUBES
REJUVENATED
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Most picture tubes can be restore)
to original brightnase at enly
traction ot the cost of replacement,
for further m formation CALL
Electronic Service
tour of the new S170 million
Mid- Canada Warning Line.
The electronic "burglar alarm"
which Canada is building 400
miles north of the United States
and the S400 million Distant
Early Warning (DEW) Line at the
top of the continent, which Amer
ica is building, have come in for
criticism here by some retired
Army officers, publications and
othT sources.
The argument is made that the
warning lines will be obsolete
like the French Maginot Line in
World War II and that they tie
Canadian strategy too closely to
America's. There also has been
some U.S. criticisms, but milder
than here.
Dunlap. an authority on air de
fense, asserted that warning lines
in the North can reduce the pos
sibility of surprise attack to the
point that there may be "little
likelihood" of attack at all on
this continent.
If an enemy could "drive Into
a continent and destroy its means
of retaliation," he said, the pros
! pect would be "tempting." There
j fore, it is "absolutely impera-
tive" to have at least the means
lor limited warning.
Warning lines certainly will
not be obsolete as long as bomb
ers are used, Dunlap said. He
said the Russians are just in the
"early stages" of introducing
long-range jet bombers to replace
their piston-engine copies of the
World War II B-29.
It will take "several years" to
build the Fussian Bison bomber
force, he said, and these bombers
probably won't be in operational
use until the "late 1960s."
The ICBM is still a " big ques
tion mark," Dunlap went on, but
responsible opinion holds that it
will take until the late 1960s to
develop the city-wrecking rocket
into an accurate weapon.
He said the ICBM. which he
described as a 6.000-mile cannon,
probably will be employed for a
time side-by-slde with bombers,
rather than replacing the man
ned aircraft.
Could Be 'Modernised'
While Dunlap did not touch on
the point, the RCAF told news
men in prepared material given
them on the tour that the north
ern warning lines can be "mod
ernized" in the future to become
defense lines against ballistic
missiles.
"Any defense against the
ICBM will require forward de
fense lines so that these installa
tions will not be wasted," the
RCAF said. "They will merely
require to be modernized."
Some criticism of the northern
defense construction projects has
been linked with concern that
Canada's sovereignty may be im
paired by the presence of num
bers of Americans on Canada's
far northern soil. There was pub
lished criticism last spring, after
a Dew Line press tour, that the
American flag was flying at an
RCAF station being used to sup
port the Dew Line project.
An editorial in a Prairie prov
ince newspaper said the other i That may be all right in "strictly I government to watch the matter
day that airmen "are nowadays defense" matters, the paper said, of "sovereignty and civilian gov
essentially a denationalized but it is the job of the Canadian ernment in the North."
crew. They may be Canadian or
they may be American but their
decisions are ruled more from
Washington than from Ottawa."
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