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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
2
A North of England factory that once produced cricket bats now makes rifle butts and stocks for Tommy guns and rifles. The manager accepted the wartime demand, and today four rifle butts are produced in minutes after 92 manufacturing steps, then mellowed in ammonia and finished with linseed oil.
Scrap rubber from tires remains usable even after long outdoor exposure, but inner tubes lose value. The note contrasts tire and inner tube salvage viability for recycling or resale.
Canadians have long felt that Canada is poorly known abroad, especially in England and the United States. The lack of knowledge is seen not as disinterest but as a failure by Canada to publicize itself, causing occasional slights to national pride.
A Canadian survey led by Charles Vining recommends broader publicity in the United States to clarify Canada’s war role. The piece argues Canada, a young nation with vast resources, must broaden national expression and foster international understanding as it joins other United Nations at council tables after the war.
Secretary of State Elihu Root and other cabinet members discuss a very rich man whose brusque manner makes him disliked. A quote notes he never begs for positions for his friends, but the line ends with the possibility that he has no friends.
Hats off to Leeds for starting schemes for badges for war workers to give them priority on buses and trams to and from work. Working women especially needed this consideration to avoid crowding by shoppers and pleasure seekers.
A humorous note from the prairie country reflects a thoughtful editor who favors cows for their milk over saxophones, citing that both make similar sounds but cows provide dairy benefits.
The piece urges a Canadian home front mobilization against submarine threats in the St Lawrence estuary. It praises the Royal Canadian Navy and calls for a broad citizen effort, including a Home Guard, resource conservation, and support to sustain wartime production. It stresses collective duty across farmers, families, and communities.
An economic strategy discusses rationing metals sugar rubber and paper to support the fighting services and calls for voluntary efficiency. A St Lawrence torpedo event is described as a bugle call signaling mobilization. An RAF station in Britain had barbers fees of about 500 dollars paid by the government, disclosed in the Auditor General report.
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