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ft**-./*****What Other Papers Sayra£aA 4We used to hear it said that “a die- that the United States possesses it. tat or can never afford to he in the since it is being thrown into the S. wrong, but it seems to have been scale in the struggle for the defence f ^ mere wishful thinking. Of the three of civilization. !Tz big-league dictators now functioning,Stalin and Mussolini have been wrongmore consistently than any other giving them assistance of priceless politicians alive, yet they seem in no value. It is providing the arsenal in ' immediate danger of being pushed out which the weapons of victory are be-ufr. of office.—Montreal Gazette.*i«.Strictly speaking, the United States may not be one of the Allies, but it is.. -UK'ing forged. Whether the United States enters the war or not, it will be entitled to a large share of theGerman bishops, circularizing Catholics in their country to stand fast credit for the preservation of theMe*-*****Sf in the Christian faith, are displaying world’s freedom. And there is no the courage for which an example doubt whatever that the United fig was given them by the early martyrs. States will be right into the fighting Militantly preaching Christianity in if that should become necessary to ggj Germany today is not a safe occupa- the success of the Allied cause.—Win-™ tiOn. The Nazis have unmistakably nipeg Free Press.shown they consider religion a weak- -ening influence, that they want toPda*****An Australian airman, trainingC? paganize the whole Reich, and they near Regina, has written to the^ are not likely to allow this virtual Leader-Post of that city to complaindefiance to pass unnoticed—Windsor about our Canadian gophers. Frank-Star.s13tVly, he is disappointed in them. In Australia he had imagined that aSome kinds of cars, in another kind gopher was an awesome monstrosity, 5Sj of motoring area, were up in the air half fish, half bird, of enormous size so often that they earned endearing and terrifying—something like the §5 nicknames for themselves such as Australian bunyip, which lives 'on puddle-jumper. Years have been lambs and little babies, and lives en-.Spent by engineers determined co keep tirely in the imagination of Austral-^ automobiles on the ground. Shock ab- ians. Coming to Canada, this lad ex-sorbers, coil springs, knee action—all pected to be chased by gophers across L were efforts to curb the family car’s the prairies and probably attacked by gg skyward ambitions.Automobiles had become satisfiedcfPva1lt;m11*13fcIfCathem while flying in his plane. In-'sstead, he saw, one day, a timid little : r.with horizontal progress. But only creature peeking out of a hole in the j tjust. And now comes a prediction by ground and was told that it was a 115p an airplane designer that cars of the gopher. It certainly made him dia- j Ffuture will be equipped with airplane motors. Perhaps anxiety is premature.appointed in Canada. But he says ,c that when someone put a gopher in ! cPerhaps engineers have resources to his bed that night, and he leaped outkeep cars in their place. But is it a with a yell, he began to revise hismatter simply of engineering? And opinion somewhat.is it just imagination that makes us Well, we’re sorry, but that is whatthink our own Old Faithful has begun a gopher is like and we can’t do any-to act a bit flighty the last few days ? —Christian Science Monitor.*thing about it. But if the Australian will come to British Columbia we can show him that mountain-loving crea-Canal’s total national income from ture, the side-hill gouger, and in the . production this year is estimated at Okanagan, our old friend, Ogopogo,pi* billion dollars. The in- and the sea that friendly Victorian, ,e |n the national income of Cadborosaurus. Let us hear no more •'States ’tixia year^is esti-£.1vain boasts about the bunyip. Our 11 Billions—nearly twice gophers may not amount to much, income* We need not be but no one will say that we cannottell as good lies as the Australians.—Vancouver Sun.Of that vast economic strength.cjwi .be very glad indeedcfitIIrt
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