Vt doi-t you think the vitput on a Prtltjr g00d ,how ea'urday -what with the re 'i t-u and bun later tn , ; nali' And what buna, it ' is 'ar. what they call hi v -' e Ta-aues" rich round ;,', "iv and all sort of eooklM ACTIVITIES OF V.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. (By iiorothy Garbutl) . ,,f rnnki. Then the I';', '' I .: the evening! x cmuih .it siot having a current t id but from all aoounU o a tand finish to a grand And t! d you see the Sea Cadets the rowing race? ,,Xie .:. Ut in )f r Woodside -was their ooxa-a d according to very okt j,V, jdi'i.in at the end of the . ,-. f::.- winning coxswain gets v dumped in the cokl. cold by the members of htt ;cd crew and Jerry . tipcd. Ills mother, oar 1'IIONE 6S1 . . . j - Mi , vi. .jfaiac. raa a lew -oro I a . ubout that, bat what's a c ::.cr agarnst Navy tradliton? We :.ave had ourselves quite t . kisxl at the "Y." First of trr ie Malstre came baek f.imily circle after scr- , :kv furlough. Ureen Mel-a, left YM.CA. War Ser-, - rk entirely awl is atart-UJ1.C extension work In . .. in with the Oo -opera -E ' . ' at ion Draneh. Arthur k went on his holidays t O )iawa and ealher Be- ":; Cafeteria went homt .i Jut vit via Vancouver. We Ureen very much :.s him luck tn bia new -k !! iu been up here torn .: the exception of - --Mis in Victoria. In fact u I cam to the "Y" the o U;. Auguat . 1941. Oil, ; t.me ago a toe crow w Anthony, the old wmt back on no and -. t l ave not been found. A ' '.lid anybody aee an R.C. AT wj. ct. blue leather, with f al K. V D. on It It seems to have got up and walked out of the ladies' Dowder rmm aU by itself the other day. I aee too that Bruce Macln-tyre, YJit.CA. supervisor at the Navy, has returned from holiday, looking fit as a fiddle. They come, and they go. Which reminds me, 111 soon be off mv- sK. I guess young people of today have forgotten that there ever WM a Canadian nalinml an. them other than "O Canada." Ilut when I was a kid going to school In Selkirk we used to chant In youthful trebles The Maple Leaf Forever." And It wasn't until some time during the tost war that "O Canada" took first place. And back In England "Land W I lope and Olory" Is sunc more often than "Rule Britannia" and I venture to say almost as often as "Ood Save The Klrw I used to love "The Maple Leaf Forever.'' It calls up so many Victoria and Dominion Day celebrations. Let's sec how doss It go . . . "In days of yore. From Britain's shore, Wolfe the daunties. hero came, And planted firm, Britannia's flag. On Canada's fair domain, llere may It wave. Our pride and joy, And Join in tov together. The Illy, thistle, shamrock, rote, And maple leaf forever, chorus) The ma pie leaf, Our emblem dar. The maple leaf forever. Ood save our King, And Heaven bJews, The mmpte leaf for ever!" Grand old song; teat It? 8TAOE TO BEACHHEAD BRIOHTON, Eng. Leas than 14 hours after he was on an operaUonal flight over the Allied beachhead In France. Robin Allen, a Brighton ser-( geant engineer In the R.A-F.' competed at Brighton's Musical PesUal and won a silver challenge cup for soto singing. Then he returned to his flying. AUTO REPAIR DEPT. CLOSED TEMPORARILY We wish to inform our customers that commencing Tuesnlny, July our Auto Hepair Department will, be closed for a period of two weeks, to allow us to make alterations and install now equipment. During this period wo will continue to service auto porta, tiro, bnttoriuf,, oil and gasoline. Long Motors IMIONK 52 General Motors Healer Goodyear Tires Home Gasoline 7d77Z Old lung Coal. . A in err ir old soul, Mndlmalte iflmt'ront pole to pole CSft Now is the time for all good men to come to . a i it f riuipott, Kvitt fc u. and order their winter supply of Coal. Don't wait too long and be sorry for the rest of the winter. Order your Coal now. I'OOTIIII.I.S LUMP. i:OG and NUT. ItUMtl.CY VALLEY LUMP PHILPOTT EVITT & CO. LTD. PHONE 652 WOMEN FILL VITAL ROLES By MARGARET ECKER CanadUn frtu SUM Writer LONDON, July 3 W - The talk In the women's world here theae days is the Invasion and women's role in the big show. TIIE DAILY NEWS A.TJ3, girls work with the Royal Corps of Signals, handling messages that tell of victories or defeats. Other A.TJ3. members work In secret headquarters where the movements of enemy ships, aircraft and reserves are plotted. Very few of the 212.000 wearers of khaki shirts haven't some job in the invasion of Europe. Of these 20,000 are cooks, 30,000 office, mess and telephone orderlies; 14,000 are drivers, 10,000 postal clerks, 9,000 storewomen, and others are butchers, bakers, ammunition examiners, ack ack crews, spotters, camouflage modellers. Girls In the A.TJ8. have shared many dangers of war with men soldiers and on the Second Front they will share still more when they move In behind the army as soon as accommodation is provided for them. In secret naval operations headquarters Wrens code and decode vital messages. They also run telephone switchboards and teleprinters linked with Important headquarters of the army, navy and air force. They carry Important messages between departments. Meanwhile news comes of women on other fronts. A.TJ5. , serve In the Mediterranean and practically every theatre of war, and 2,980 have qualified for the African Star. In India, the equivalent of the A.TJ3., the Women's Auxil PAGE TO iary Corps, which does jobs, wear special muslin t as uniforms. From Italy come stories; essential work done by Wi who work on the developing nterpretatlon of bomb dan pictures brought back by I.AJ. Photographic Reconn ance Wing. i Iff j " T ..Mnr unnrUT 1 lUUIiQIflH MuKVS MUKC UKbull , I 1 HlinUlim mr J a ..uiiu Ain i i I if swing Of mm wa ! J I , ... A Message to Ih 1 Ik X" I 'it i Tiiiirin tnif 1 i nun - m ' .1 II rm t A i it 61 IV npHE invasion of Europe has thrown a vast and critical burdcaupun the pcttolcum. resources of the United Nations. In the first eight days of the campaign alone Allied aircraft flew 5(5,000 sorties. Many thousands of-oil-burning warships and landing barges arc shuttling ceaselessly across the Channel. Tanks, trucks, jeeps, mobile arrillcry, tractors, ambulances, by the thousands,arc in action. The driving pou er behind all this activity is petroleum gdioline and fuels drawn from a dwindling crude oil supply. Ilut there is only so much oil. If existing supplies arc to prove adequate, the most stringent economy of gasoline and fuel oil must be practised here at home. Canada is able to produce only 15 of her own gas and oil needs. The remainder must be imported from the common pool of the United Nations and the bulk of this is shipped here by tankers. Critical manpower is needed to produce our gasoline and oil. Precious lives and precious ships must be risked to deliver it to our shores. Invasion, and the difficulties of supply and transportation arc not our only problems. Right here in Canada gas and oil arc needed in enormous quantities for vital war purposes. The Commonwealth Air Training Plan has consumed as much as NO. I OF A SERIES OF ANNOUNCEMENTS ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MUNITIONS AMD SUPPLY, . HONOURABLE C. D. HOWE, MINISTER 548,000 gallons in a single day. Canada's Navy expanded since war began from 1 5 ships to 650 consumes over 2,1 50,000 gallons every week. Army training, war plant operation, food production, essential trucking all are huge consumers of gasoline and petroleum products. Gasoline is ammunition ammunition of which we have all too little. To waste a gallon of it is a crime against our I "fighung men. The "whys" and "wherefores" of the gasoline shortage and the need for rauoning of all petroleum products is a long story a big story, which involves almost astronomical figures a wide story, covering the whole face of the earth. Some of the facts are military secrets. Some are too technical to be easily explained. But in a scries of announcements, of which this is the first, an attempt will be made to show Canadian civilians that the needless use of a single gallon of gasoline robs the common m petroleum pool of the Allied Nations and thus lessens the power of our united drive for victory. ' m W t i I 11 Answering Your Questions about the Gasoline Shortage How much gasoline was consumed during the 54 days of pre-invasion bombing? . . . More than 200,000,000 gallons. How much fuel oil does a battleship lake In one re fueling?... Enough to heat an average house for 350 years. How much fuel does one armoured division consume In every five miles of advance? . . . 10,000 gallons. How many gallons of petroleum products are required to supply the needs of 500,000 European Invasion troops for a week? . . . Over 25,000,000 gallons. in I- II! 15! u : i. , J