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Ltmttett Britain's Eighth Army Passes Into History Jc Journal Company MONDAY, AUGUST pired, dark thoughts about the future possibili a atomic oomo. au tnese are as ih Landon Dally MalL viewed in the mellow mood which result of the epicurean delight Fpr, the Ottawa of the The Dominion Government the cob. 1 for the seeming neglect -in telling A council has taken two important steps to the of corn on the cob may be found it is common to all provinces. end that the National Capital ed in" an orderly dandy of the vegetable king They Blame Mussolini in Naive Italy A ieMtch Ktmt E4la A. LSey Chlcst Dally Kcwt.

QUR Italian friends' and co-belligerents have a remarkable detachment in the face of situations that might disturb the sensibilities of other people. The opera last night was an open al- performance, with the stage set amid the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, and a bright Summer moon shone' down upon the gay Italian audience. The only sour note for me was this the opera was which deals with the conquest of Ethiopia (now known as Abyssinia). I doubt that 11 single one of the 6,000 or 7,000 Italians In the audience realized the grim inappro- priateness of the theme. It was A 1 L.A.

I grown in the Maritimes, in Central In the first place the Government designates an area of some 900 square miles as the district of the National Capital and authorizes the Federal District Commission to discuss with Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, all but the most biased will ad rich soil and vigorous climate of Valley combine to produce the finest anywhere. But, common though on the cob is not to be taken A food fit for the which may enjoy, it is truly something any of the sundry municipal authorities or plans for development, improvement, beautificatkm or hew construction This authority does not' go beyond advice and -c consultation. Another order givs the Federal District Commission control of building construction -uithin this area by any department or branch of the Dominion Government. No building, says the orderor other work; shall be erected, altered or extended" by the Government on this property, or by anyone on any property within the area owned by the Government, except n-ith the Commission's approval. From the de-risions of the Federal District Commission under this order there is the right of appeal to the Cabinet.

-The second order may be of more use than the first, because the power to advise and consult, without any authority Jto compel, or to share costs, may turn out to be more theoretical than practical. But we are making progress when we declare that no Government branch, neither Works nor Research nor. the Services, may build or alter a building in this 900-square-inile block without getting the consent of! the Federal District Commission. There-is significance, too, in the formal setting out'of the boundaries of this enlarged Federal area, because it is natural to suppose that if and when a Federal District is created on the Washington plan (with modifications) it will follow; in the main these limits now established. "What we have now a measure of Federal control, or at least supervision, over a development on botl! banks of the Ottawa river for a 40-mile stretch from Fitiroy Harbor to Cumberland, its width including Gatineau Park and, south of Ottawa, a considerable part of Gloucester township.

This action by the Government implements In part the recommendations made some months ago by the joint committee of the Houses of Parliament presumably other recommendations having to do with the expenditure of money will be dealt with by Parliament at the coming session. They include the increase in the Ottawa grant to $300,000 a year from the pres-ent $100,000, and the suggestion that the Government share with the city the cost of certain essential public services. However these two orders do mark a step forward, and are especially encouraging as 'indicating that the Government proposes to move without delay to make effective, the Prime Ministers advanced ideas 20, 1945. Future." by order-in that is corn on One reason "may be develop mit that the for granted. apart.

of those he Times. was converted tive stalwarts" Lords on Mr. the King. Had 11 he couldn't eral stalwart nothing of a A. A J.

ues oz xoe nothing when is the, inevitable of the goodness in the fact that No temperamental dora, porn is the though the Ottawa corn found it may be, corn all mortals Britain's Writing from the Chicago repercussions in the He points out delighted to operated within and that a moral right industries and themselves are Argentina is of the British at more than a controlling transportation heavy investments and public Brazilian Traction. The treni of State ownership lesser extent same time, we the significance of paraphrase that King's First and Rewards Following concurring, the by Mr. and prime minister Senate and to this before an permit him to as Mr, Churchill To illustrate, rewards until been defeated have made his General, to Mr. Unquestionably an urbanity of is perhaps an but to which at In this honors Foreign Holdings. Panama City, Ernit Hill of Daily News sees possible far-reaching of the recent British elections countries below the Rio Grande.

that Latin America is frequently take over industries successfully their bounds by foreign interests, some countries will feel they have to nationalize British-owned coal transportation, as the British doing at home. considering the nationalization railroads there which are valued billion dollars, and Britons have 1 i interest in other coal, power, and industries. Canada, has in South American resources utilities, best known of which is the times is undeniably towards of public utilities and to a of other key industries. At the can't help thinking that some of Latin-American countries overestimate the the change at Westminster. To Winston.

Churchill, it seems unlikely Clement Attlee has become. the Minister to liquidate British industries investments in foreign lands. Before and After. precedent and with Mr. Attlee King has honored a list submitted Churchill of his political supT-porters personal assistants.

In Canada a makes his own awards to the posts in the Government service i Alexander Cllfrar in gRITAIN'S glorious 8th Army has died. Amid a shower of stirring and congratulatory mes sages, it has been officially dis solved. i But if any British army ever earned immortality, it was this one. For years to come its exploits will be relived in English pubs, and round firesides throughout the Empire. The men of the igntn are probably the most dangerous club and pub bores of the future.

But they have plenty to remember. Very properly, the Eighth was born before it was christened. Its Amy original nucleus campaigned for a full year before it attained the dignity of an army. It was known casually as the Western Desert Force later as the Army of the Nile. That was in 1940: when Britain, too, was having I her finest and darkest hour.

Then you i will remember, Wavell's little force, to its own wide-eyed astonishment, went careering through Libya rounding up and capturing one Italian army corps after another. Those were wild, exciting, piraticat days; but they were scarcely adult, warfare. The future 8th Army was little more than a raiding force. It eot its name finally in the Autumn Vtf 1941 anri nrt nn thought anything of it. It was a convenient label, but it meant nothing special.

THE words contained none of that richness Ji of experience which they do when you hear them now. And, almost at once, the new Eighth embafked on a puzzling bitter-sweet campaign which they never properly knew whether they had win or lost. They- attacked Rommel in Libya with hlRh hopes and plenty of ballyhoo. They had air super iority for the first time in British history, and everything looked fine. i And then It turned things went wrong, out that our tanks were inferiof to those of the Ger-mans.

The 8th Army's commander was relieved of his command. It 'suddenly seemed as though the battle was lost. And then, just as suddenly, it seemed to be won. Rommel started to retreat, and the garrison which 'had been stewing in Tobruk all Summer broke out. We got to Benghazi and be yond.

And then Rommel counterattacked and, drove us more than halfway back again. "pHE 8th Army hardly knew whether it had done well or not. Certainly jit, had not yet achieved that extraordinary corporate spirit that it had later. And In the following Summer it came perilously near to losing everything it had got. mat was, wnen jttommei at tacked and we thought we had him trapped in the cauldron round Knightsbridge.

But suddenly turned the. tables on us, took Tobruk and sent us scram bling far, far back into Egypt. That was the Eighth's dark est hour of all. And that was when it became a greatyarmy. in tnat oarK nour, wun tne situation precariously restored, Montgomery Icame; new troops and fine new weapons came.

In July, 1942, the Eighth was as good as thrashed. In October it won its greatest victory. Alamein was almost a dull battle. It jiitt was the logical fruition of everything that had gone before. The Eighth had learned war the hard wsy, and now it' was getting the.

dividends. This time it was simply1 the better army all round, and therefore it won. Rommel, fled, and then came the endless chase through the un changing desert. IT IS hard to excitement ing in Tripol forget the bubbling of that first morn- -the dusty, dirty, travel-worn, and ipfinitely experienced troops staring at the sparkling white city which, had been their goal and! their ambition for three Winters! And it was there the Eighth MOPSY-i suddenly found out about itself. Mr.

Churchill told. us. We had found the desert chase a weary, thankless, comfortless business; but he talked to us in Tripoli and made the whole thing sound incredibly thrilling and romantic. He told the Eighth that the world regarded it as a very great army. Jt.

was a very special army by then. It was mimed very brown but its clothe were shockingly unorthodox and shabby. It had evolved its own jargon and a complete set of peculiar habits. It had seen almost no other human beings for 1,500 miles. It had gone through this long tunnel of separate experience and been quite out of touch with the world.

And it had achieved- a sort of fellowship not often achieved because all its divisions had had exactly the same experience. They had fought in the same places and the same conditions. All their problems were the same and all their triumphs. So it went on from Tripoli, self-conscious army with some thing of a superiority complex. Certainly the 1st- Army re sented its attitude when they first met.

But the two co-operated finely for that final brilliant assault on Tunis. And there the Eighth's African career ended. INHERE are many who think that the Eighth's career should have stopped altogether in Africa, It would have been such a dazzling record, so complete and rounded off. But the tradition was too good to drop. The Eighth was regrouped "and sent to Sicily.

It fought there and then landed in the toe of Italy. It crossed to the Adriatic coast and took the great Foggia airfields. It fought the bloody battles of the Trigno and Sangro Rivers and came across to the west again for the taking of Monte Cassino It stormed the Gothic Line and found it unexpectedly easy, and then had to fight unexpectedly hard in the plains beyond. Therf came final victory and a little epilogue at Trieste, and re pose in the picture-postcard scenery of Austria. march, through Italy was a gallant, gruelling thing; but somehow I think the desert days will be most remembered.

A few days ago I stood at To bruk and saw the shattered town and the wilderness of Sidi Re- zegh and the slope at El Adem, where Corps Headquarters used to live in a barbed-wire com pound. All was empty and meaning less the desert had reclaimed its own, and no echo of history re mained. i But in cafes in Rome and pubs in England you hear this sort of thing: Remember just how the tea tasted at Tobruk? Remember that sandstorm at Knightsbridge, when the sun looked blue? Remember tyow quiet it was at night and how many stars there were? Remember Old Jock Campbell at; Sidi Rezegh?" And so on endlessly. It is all reniiniscence now. Today there isn't an 8th Army to make any more history.

But in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa1 and Canada it will be talked of, WIND-FLOWER. Most solitary land most white The wind-flower blows upon its stem, i And folded against the verge of night i Makes visible Spring's requiem. For now the dark comes late that gives Its shadow to the slender stalk, And first light early grows and rives The grasses and the graven rock. The fragile and the sturdy bloom Stirs to the casual windy breath, And loyely in the gust of doom, Survives the promise of its death. Franc Frojt in the Ntw Yotrlc Time.

By Gladys Parker desires to and must do for the future of this capital city. These Post-War In 1940 and 1941 this country election because custom does not do it afterwards if he is defeated, was defeated. had Mr. -King postponed his after the election, and had he on June 1 1, he could not; then chief secretary Deputy Postmaster could not have given a senator-ship CftERAR. i British public life possesses WAR BRIDES.

Brockville Recorder and Times, We cannot expect that in every Instance a war bride will be viewed with enthusiastic favor by her new Canadian relatives any more than we can expect the latter to meet with her full and hearty approval. But if there is an effort on the part of both to understand the other and to make due allowances for changed conditions, solution of the inevitable problems and difficulties will be more easily carried, out. TOUGH PROBLEM. Halifax Chronicle Government can do something, it is true, by providing work on public enterprises. Yet governments must not engage too freely in industry, or become in any way the overdone and universal (employer, or private enterprises will be frozen outi of the market for such materials and resources as they themselves need in order to get going again.

The problem is not insoluble. United States authorities, who will be faced with parallel difficulties, believe it can be tackled. But it does demand that plans which once were believed to belong to the future must now be hurried up so that they can be made part of the immediate tomorrow which may now be just around the corner. WAR IS OVER. Toronto Telegram.

News that the war has ended does not seem to have penetrated into the inner circle of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board at Ottawa, for this agency of' civilian controls, instead of announcing a staff reduction, is renewing its advertising for more stenographers. This looks as. if the -WPTB' is digging in for a long peace. Chairman Donald Gordon will have to get in touch with the times. The moment of retaliation is at hand for long-suffering John Public.

He lis getting ready1 to talk back to all those people who have been asking him with mingled disdain and contempt didn't he know there was a war on? For wartime agencies with a peacetime hangover, for the erstwhile haughty clerks behind the counter the pungent question will be don't you know the war is over? DAYLIGHT SAVING TO GO. London Free Press. There will be a wave of rejoicing on every farm in Canada and in every home where -there are small children, when daylight saving ends. During the four years in which the people of Canada were swamped by an apparently endless stream of Government edicts, daylight saving was always a subject of considerable contention. While the farmer was opposed to it on the ground that his work is necessarily-determined by sun time, power and light arthorities urged the plan as a means to saving power.

It was always hard to understand why in the middle of Summer, when it is light from five -to ten, daylight saving effected a saving in power used for lighting purposes. Besides, factories were working three shifts in the 24 hours no matter what the light condition business profits: London Economist Even a Socialist Government should realize so long as there are private businessmen, so will prosperity of the country depend upon their activity and enterprise. There is nothing in the jjleast injpn-sisteht'-in a policy which, with one hand, nationalizes a number of industries and, with the other, seeks to smooth the path of private erfterprise in- all other in dustries. Any policy of victimizing the businessman simply because he is a businessman, or of indiscrim inately "soaking the rich," would undo any good that, the nationalization of basic industries might achieve. In overhauling the structure of controls and in reforming the system of taxation, a Labor Government should be as concerned as a Conservative Government to make them as little vexatious and as encouraging to the businessman as is possible.

To put the matter In in epi grammatic nutshell, the object of Labor policy should be to make profits (provided they arise from enterprise and not from restriction) as large as possible if only to have the more to tax. Culbertson today's deal North and South i coiiaooraiea reacning a grand slam contract when a small slam would have been far more comfortable, but South alone was responsible for the unhappy out come. North, dealer. North-South Vulnerable. NORTH A A 6 4 1 I 5 WEST EAST i i V98.S2.

10 4 10 7 4 1 SOUTH 4TU fit AKQ88S AQ The bidding: North East South West 1 heart Pus 3 dlams. Pass 3 spades Pass no-trp. Pass 7 no-trp. pass pass pass South, after announcing a huge hand via his three diamond take out, might have contented him- with a jump to five no trump over North's three spades. North, for all his four honor tricks, might have been warned by his1 sinftleton diamond to accept a mere small slam contract "I had heard that' at Andi-meshk in Persia in summer-tme even the flies die; and when I arrived there, I remember, I ask ed an officer if that was true, or just a story "He looked at me as if I'd aiked him if grass was green.

'Of course it true', he said. 'They either die or go underground. Even the Persians go under ground. Nothing lives and moves above ground except the Britten Freedom For Japs. New York Times.

Freedom of speech under occupied rule will mean for the Japanese that they can hold public meetings to -discuss public questions or present grievances without the hazard that a Japan ese policeman will halt the meeting and arrest its leaders if something is said that displeases him. The policeman had such power in Imperial Japan. Freedom of thought means for the Japanese that no longer can a policeman knock on his door and place him under arrest on the outrageous charge of harboring evil thoughts. Heretofore they have had that power. It will mean that he cannot be arrested, tried and sentenced on the spot by any police man for an alleged breach' of i law.

That happened every day In Imperial Japan. Believe It or Regina Leader-Post. Mr. Average Citizen of Canada has given abundant tribute to his country's system, especially if he has had the time or occasion to contrast it With that of other countries. A case In point recently was the visit to Regina of an Amer ican woman.

She was in a hurry and had only a or two to spare in the city. She tried unsuccessfully to arrange an appointment with a local hairdresser at such short notice. She then reverted to different tactics apparently employed in hefe homeland, and invited the hairdresser to "name her own price" for the appointment, indicating that she was quite used to "paying tips for services'. But the hairdresser was strict ly Canadian in her mode of liv ing. She was I polite but firm.

and informed the would-be customer that "This is Canada, you know. The. price is the same to everyone if we have it. If we heven't, well then money or not doesn't make any BBC Style. Harold Nicolsonj in London Spectator.

The announcers of the BBC have been trained read the" news in a flatrjndnotone: they adopt exactly the same tone whether they be recounting some Far Eastern bombardment or some cricket match at Lord's, whether their theme be international conciliation or domesticstrif e. This is a prudent, regulation; it would be intolerable to the listen ing public were the preferences or the, prejudices of an individual announcer to become apparent from the variations of his expression. I In one only are they allowed to depart from the accustomed monotone and to mark a difference of emphasis by the changed inflexion of their voice; is when they announce some terrible disaster or embark upon an obituary. Suddenly the familiar key will alter and one knows in advance what is coming. "We re ere to announce thev sav: and the attention remains posed for an instant while we wonder who has The name falls finally into a pool of silence.

Germans Work for France. Manchester Guardian. The French Government has plans for the utilization of ,750,000 German prisoners of war, 1,400,000 of them for the clearance and rebuilding of devastated areas. At the beginning of July 000 prisoners were working in France, and by the end of July this figure will have risen to ixxjy in the course oz August ana September other prisoners will be handed over under agreements with the Allies already concluded, leaving the French still about ,300,000 short of the desired totaL It is expected, however, that these will also be available be tween October and July, 1946. Thi top priorities are at present coalmining and (the production of pit props.

The next are. renfbv- ing land agriculture, work on railway installations, and on hydro-electric 'dams. However, the number that can be used at any given job is limited by the available room to lodge them. Thus there are! at present 15,000 prisoners instead of 40,000 in the mines. Ottawa 1n 1920 i f)R.

CHARLES CAMSELL was feted by. the British Colum bia Division of Mining and Metallurgy on the occasion of his leaving to assume the post of Deputy Minister of Mines at Ottawa. I Heavy road-building machin ery was assembled in Hull for construction of a new and wider road to Aylmer. Lieut-CoL I M. Edwards, D.S.O., was elected president of the Canadian Rifle League, succeeding Sir Percy Sherwood.

The Journal said editorially: "If the Quebec Government succeeds in abolishing toll-gates in theHull district, the last vestige of a pre-hlstoric age will be removed from the environs of Ottawa." i William Barbrick, a Nova Scotia farmer, planned to shoot Niagara Falls in a barrel. Tomatoes were, selling at 30 cents a basket and corn at 25 to 30 cents a Market. dozen on By Ward quality of graciousness, which indication of political maturity any rate we have not attained. list, for example, four "Conserva were elevated to the House of Churchill's recommendation to Mr. King been beaten on June thereafter have named any Lib to a country post office, to say senatorship.

uic conquest oi miopia in JVJd that started the Italians down the long road that led them to their present sorry plight I a matter of fact, I have yet to encounter an Italian who has a proper sense of shame for his contribution to the misery of the world. i They whine about being misled by Mussolini and brutally 1 exploited by Hitler, but it appears never toj occur to them that they betrayed: their; spiritual tradition, sold their souls for a plate of mac-, aroni, and shouted ecstatically while a big meat-head stood on the balcony of the Palazzo Ven-ezia with his chin over the railing, and promised to restore their ancient empire. 1 i (Any 'high school boy studying. Economics 1-A could have pointed out to his parents at the time that the Roman Empire was ere ated in a period when an aggres- sor nation had no need for coal and jQURING a layover in Naples, a pleasant old man, who has been a guide for 50 years, took me and Harry W. Flanneryof the Columbia Broadcasting System around, the ruins of PompeO.

We asked him, as perhaps all tourists do, what he thought about Mussolini. The old' man, whose name was Joseph, ja'unched into a tirade against the late dictator. And what do j. you suppose was his beef? In some vague manner, Mussolini had conducted the affairs" of Italy so that the prices of of wine and of were outrageously high, and the commodities' hard to get. He had nothing else against Musso- Joseph asked us, in addition to his modest fee, for a couple of cigarettes for his soji.

He said his son had been an aviator in the Spanish war. I wanted the courage to tell Joseph to tell his las-i cist son to go without cigarettes, and to think of the women and children of Guernica while he suffered. But like a softhearted sucker, I gave him the To the Editor Of The Journal LACK OF RESPECT. Sir: There was one particmlar aspect of the recent celebrations that certainly could not have struck a happy note in the hearts of many veterans. I refer to the, idea of the coming generation regarding the figures on the War Memorial as a place to hold ob-j.

stacle Personally it represents to me the graves of many ofmy com- raaes, ana now roucn more inten sively must it appeal to' those whose dear ones did not come back. j. i 1 i jl' It hardly seems possible that any explanation? should be necessary to point out that anything but an attitude of respect to the memorial is an: insult to those whose memory it commemorates. I feel sure that many of your readers would welcome an edi torial on this matter. M.

B. Billings' Bridge, Ont. Aug. 17, 1945 i i j. 1 on Bridge However, the aggressive bidding would have turned out excellently if South had used greater vision in the play.

West, 'Choosing the safest apparent lead, opened the spade 10. The king won, and declarer immediately tested the diamond suit When East failed on the third discarding a club, declarer tried to hm the heart suit, cashing the king before leading to dummy. West however, put in the and that was thai! South cashed his ace and queen of clubs and led a spade to the ace, but West could safely let go his diamond, 10 on this trick.l since the play: was being locked in the dummy'. After the diamond break camr to light it would have Jjeen con1 siderably shrewder tdr South to cash his own clubs, then to enter dummy with a spade and cash the club king, discarding a diamond from the closed hand. Obviously, everything would be all right if the hearts broke for five tricks, but why not force all the discards possible from the opponents in case it proved necessary to rely on a squeeze? Actually, the cashing of the club king would have put West hors de combat, forcing him to relinquish the high diamond or nn of his precious hearts Vhil South still had the heart king I to the uses of war.

The patriotic impulse, the sheer demands of national and personal sur-'- Trral, spurred us on to a degree of industriali-l ration for war which' made Canada a great 'arsenal of There was work for everyone, wages were high, and the war demanded all our energy, Now we have to convert back to peace, and rithout that same urgent and driving impetus. There are bound to be lay-offs of men and women, some inevitable confusion and uncer-. tainty, but the officials tell us there is still work 1 for everyone. That work, however, is not so concentrated, and no doubt some people will have to find new homes where the jobs are. With efficient management of our employ- snent problem we should come through this i difficult time speedily and triumphantly if workers and employers give the great problem their full co-operation and understanding.

There' is an enormous market in Canada and everywhere for all kinds" of goods, from cloth leg to tractors, from refrigerators to houses ana, "barns. The accumulated demand for goods assures an industrial activity in peace produc-tion which should match that of. war and which should give us full employment for many "aonthsl i Petain Is Not to Die. General -de Gaulle has-commuted to life imprisonment, the sentence of death passed on Marshal Petain by a Paris jury. There is grim irony in this application of mercy once the Vichy courts in his absence sentenced de Gaulle to death because he was a patriot and was fight ing the Germans, i old man, and it does not now the world whether he lives or he dies at the hands of the when his span of life is important, however, that the head regime should be punished for of France to the Germans.

co-operation with the, enemy clearly a desire to placate them and needless suffering he obviously that the Germans had won theit philosophy was sound, and should get on the band-wagon time. that Petain be tried and Petain is an executioner or while there was appear into the lost everything democracy. It was the much matter to dies, whether It was highly of the Vichy his eager betrayal Petains went far beyond spare the French -was convinced the war. that thSf France Justice demanded convicted; mercy of his once-great name shame and of Verdun has Notes With 500 British wives of problem of iy. opened the way to the commutation sentence.

He should now dis oblivion he has earned. A has been brought low in humiliation; the fame of the hero been wiped out in infamy. Petain when he lost his faith in Parking Meters Again. Some years, ago Ottawa considered metered parking on down-town streets, and eventually decided against the scheme although it offered advantages a more efficient use of limited parking space, and a considerable latterly the parking-meter idea has revived in some other Canadian cities, notably tn Van-j eouver, which looks with envy-on the revenue the machines are producing elsewhere. The Vancouver Sim tells us, for example, that Long Beach, California, took in $160,000 from 900 meters in two years for a profit of $110,000 after paying off the purchase price; that Port- land.

Oregon, paid for 1,415 meters in a few jnonths "and had the rest of the take as The collection of nickels quickly adds up to real money. The main objection to the parking meter is, mt course, that it constitutes another tlx on motorists and that it is discriminatory. To that it is answered by those who favor meters that the street is designed for moving traffic and is for the use of all the people, that anyone who wants to use it for is temporary storage, is asking a special privilege and should expecttb pay for that privilege. We are likely to hear a good deal more from time to time about parking meters, and it is -improbable that the subject is dead in Ottawa. Vancouver is in th mood for an experiment, as soon as the meters can be secured, and we an learn from its experience, i and Comment.

children born each month to the Canadian soldiers here is a repatriation which grows constant- i' benevolent intention of the Japs to dictate peace terms in Washington White House. Instead of that they go humbly to Manila, under orders, to be told what they must gracious I DON'T LOOK NOW, MY HAIR'S A 1 i If meat rationing is abandoned in the United States we may be sure it will not long be imposed in Canada if it ever is resumed. But apparently Washington has come to no decision in the matter. o-i Nine hundred square miles now, by Government order, make up the "District of the National thus giving us an adequate setting of imposing; possibilities for a bigger and better Ottawa. A Tokyo newspaper warns the Japanese people that under Allied occupation they must "preserve If they had done that eariie had kept the peace, they would have been saved much embarrassment.

Corn on the Gob. Com on the The phrase donjures up happy memories; memories of tender, golden kernels on a cob almost too hot to hold in the lingers. Almost but not A dash of salt and a pat of the sweet, 'rich butter for which the Ottawa-Valley famous, and then a feast to please the veriest of gourmets. August is the month for corn on the cob and fa the'enjoyment which it brings, the heat of fliis last Summer month is for the time being Sorfeftea. So, too, are the cares and worries for entry, 4.