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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 14, 1944
Page
2
In wartime Canada the education system is urged to concentrate on the Allied victory effort. Public resources have been redirected, curtailing many peace time services. Some reductions affect luxury items, while others hit essential services, creating urgent and complex challenges for the nation.
Wartime Information Board in Ottawa released a survey on Canadian schools and universities during wartime. It notes many teachers joined armed forces or war industries and many potential teachers joined war service, alarmingly reducing qualified staff and lowering educational standards nationwide.
A survey shows wartime teacher shortages led provinces to relax diploma requirements for the 1943 44 year. Over 100000 students were taught by under qualified teachers, with more than 5000 stopgap instructors hired and 635 classrooms closed. Salaries rose since 1942, but since July 1943 teachers were frozen in the profession, highlighting a serious impact on education.
Service members prefer family pictures in home settings over studio portraits. Y M C A branches act as order offices, collecting applications to London, then 1500 amateur photographers visit servicemen homes to take snapshots. General Montgomery has used the program, sending a shot from his son's school upon request.
The Versailles palace remains structurally sound but its gardens are overgrown and the building shows serious neglect. German forces did not damage the palace during the period referenced, and earlier rumors of a fire in the west wing are unfounded.
In courtship, grebes and divers present weeds to their mates, penguins, stones, herons, sticks, warblers, twigs or leaves. In all such gestures the birds exchange offerings as part of mating rituals.
The Montreal Gazette notes Britain will rely on youth and extensive educational reforms to lead globally in literacy and general education after the war. It argues Britain will emerge with a smaller population and must maximize its human capital, while postwar reforms may differ yet aim for the highest education level.
Tests by the grain research laboratory show prairie wheat averaged 3.6 percent protein, down 3 percent from last year after 646 samples. Manitoba had 93 samples at 12.5 percent, Saskatchewan 494 at 13.6, Alberta 59 at 14.9, versus last year Saskatchewan 14.0 and Alberta 14.7.
British authorities revealed the 41 ton Churchill Crocodile flame thrower tank capable of projecting fire 450 feet and around corners. Used on D day aftermath at Normandy to clear Hitler's Atlantic wall, the weapon touted as the world’s most powerful flamethrower and designed to save infantry by burning pill boxes and trenches, with fuel stored in an armored trailer and jettisonable.
A report claims Nazi leaders stored vast funds in neutral countries after World War II. It cites Joseph Goebbels with 1.5 million pounds in South America and Japan, Heinrich Himmler with 0.5 million pounds in South America, and Rudolf Ribben trop with 1.4 million pounds in Geneva, The Hague, and Madrid.
The piece notes global savagery as seen in gifts such as a paper cutter from a Japanese soldier’s shoulderbone refused by President Roosevelt and recalls Queen Victoria being offered an inkwell from a shriveled African chief’s head.
Readers are advised on how to handle ration books and coupons. Guidance covers name and address requirements, returning lost books, applying in person, and using non rationed Blackstrap molasses for livestock. Citizens are urged to contact Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices for Consumers' News and Blue Book pamphlets.
Time reports a sensational pen invention by Hungarian newsman L. J. Biro called Stratopen. The device uses a rolling ink bearing fed by a coiled tube and instant-drying gelatinous ink, claiming no leakage at high altitudes. Argentines have bought 20,000 units in three months and the US Army is considering production.
Canadian Red Cross Society leaflet offers iron and protein rich diet guidance for all readers. Emphasizes three meals daily with iron sources like liver kidney eggs cereals and legumes. Recommends protein from meat fish eggs cheese milk and beans.
Advice urging careful use of time cautions against sharing an hour with a person who won't commit to the moment. It frames time as a precious resource best used with engaged company and mutual effort.
The United Nations Information Organization warned Axis powers intend to use slave labor to fuel future wars. The 10,000 word London release cites up to 7,000,000 enslaved in Germany and 5,000,000 North Chinese forced labor in Manchuria or Japan by 1942. It notes mass deportations, penalties for resistance, and enslaved Poles, Dutch, Belgians, Czechs, Ukrainians, Norwegians, and others, with POWs and civilians shipped to German industry and sold to citizens.
A Naval spokesman said no steps have been taken to train an all-Canadian Fleet Air Arm. Canadians train at Kingston, Pensacola, and other Royal Navy stations, but upon completion join the Royal Navy, not the RCN. Some may serve on RN light carriers, while the RCN awaits its own flattops.
At a temperature of zero Fahrenheit sound waves propagate at 1000 feet per second. This value appears as an isolated measurement with no additional context or supporting sources.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies approves an advisory African Provincial Council in each Nyasaland province. Comprised of chiefs and African members, led by the Provincial Commissioner, the councils aim to improve government consultation, express African opinion, and foster political responsibility. A United Protectorate council may follow once provincial councils prove capable and experienced.
A collection of quotes on the value of aphorisms and maxims from Ramsay Johnson Tillotson Sir Henry Sidney Tryon Edwards and Mary Baker Eddy. The passages stress memory retention, principled action, and the universal underscoring of order as a guiding law.
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