a> aN

js intended to fly for
‘ound with a cargo of

aM target, and its errors
Hof its mark.

fexample, a drop in speed
¢ 200 m.p-h would mean
rate ( plane dives 20 miles

anae, target 100 miles away.
ive j "yly easy to regulate the

i | a2 plane automatically
Hottle. But this means
4 never fly at the maxi-
led possible for its en-=

“gunners on-the’ ground
Ute ! Jair besides having a
Us teral error from wind.

| is therefore an easier

© I should guess (whether
rightly or not I don’t know)
that the error in range was a
g6od deal greater than that in
line. That is to say, Supposine
planes are aimed at a given tar=
get, they are more likely to fall
ten miles short or over it than
ten miles to the right or left. No
doubt our staff lmows by now
whether this is so.

OG IMILARLY the heights can be
regulated by an aneroid baro-
meter so that if the plane rises,
and the pressure falls, the ver-
tical rudder in the tail is lowered
to make it fall again. This is all
very well if it is flying at several
thousand feet. But if it is flyine
low to dodge our fighters and

igs of the Beachheads

'N FRANCIS

shousand dockers dashed

Sengers.

fagerness in the days of
s due to fear of being
bs now it is their eager=
st on with the job which
ad to their feet.

inf them on emergency
‘torkings ten and 11 hours
® seven days a week.

find we would be pre-
» work even longer if
said Sid Gabwtaith. __

ie Sense the quiet enthusi-.
ul these Iondon’ dockers,
Wiiie in the achievements

vasion army and their
|4@ielisation of what was

asa = Lesponsibility.- =

Mm te with 22 years of dock
2 behind him. After re—

leer he went on to say:
*e can’t wait for the

* news, it won't be lons.

1b that destroyed
left) are shown
(Right) Prime

#» road to answer the call

from group. to group

f 2n I met Wood, who is

conversation with the-

22 port, although, judg—-

Last night when I was listening
to the 9 o’cloeck news I heard them
Saying that 1,000 tons of cargo
had been landed on one of the
beachheads in one day,” he said.

With the skilled man’s pride in:

his job —and the London docker
has the reputation of being the

fastest in the world—he turned

to his mates with a gleam in his
eye. “A mere fleabite to us, eh
lads?” and the lads agreed.

Wood then made a suggestion
that is worthy of immediate con=

‘Sideration by the proper autho-
ities.

“Why can’t we chaps who load
the invasion ships sail with the
carge and unload it at the other
end?” he asked with the approv-

ing nods of his colleagues.

“We are all experienced dock-
ers and with all due respects to
those lads out yonder, who have
achieved marvels, we could do the
job im half the time. Besides,
this would give those chaps a
well-earned rest.”

fhe Robot Bomb

- flak, a fall of a tenth of an inch

in the barometer between France
and Hngland will force it down
100 feet. .

The design of instruments for
automatic control is extremely
tricky. If they answer too well,
a deviation of say 100 feet up-
wards is answered by a swerve
200 feet downwards, and so on

till control is lost. If they answer

too slowly, large errors of course
may accumulate.

Essentially the same problems
occur In designing the awtoma-
tic control of the temperature of
a furnace or the speed of a
dynamo. These problems can
be answered roughly by caleula-
tion. But it is a curious fact
that where great accuracy is
needed we have to use a special
type of calculating machine
called a differential analyzer.

HE IDEAL pilotless plane
would automatically dodge
out of its course from time, to
time, and come back to it again.
Perhaps the sound of anti-air-
eraft guns would automatically
cause it to do do. WHortunately
the German inventors have not
been able to achieve this, but
if may well be possible in fu-
ture wars if we allow them to
happen.

So long as a plane flies in a
Straight line or a fairly steady
Speed its position half a minute
thence can ibe predicted. The suc-
cess of our anti-aircraft guns in
bringing down a proportion of
tthe pilotless planes depends on
the, efficiency of the predictors
which do the equivalent of sev-
eral hours calculation in a

fraction of a second.

The prediction is of much less
value against piloted planes,
which can take evasive action,
though a dense barrage will bring
them down. Today your life de-
pends more than ever before on
the efficiency of the craftsmen

who make the predictors and the ~

girls who work them.

Minister Winston Churchill trains his binoculars on British
fighter planes in operation against the robot bombs. With him
is Mrs. Churchill and their daughter, Subaltern Mary.

ea:

“or Orientals, is only a beginning. From there

SHORT JABS

_ by OF Bill

“* 1 Knew Him When’ Club

DY? you ever hear of the “I knew him when” club?

it has functioned
here in Canada and in the United States, time out of mind. Its
members pay no dues, accept no responsibilities nor accept any form

Hach is a law unto himself.

Membership is established solely by claiming te have rubbed
shoulders with the great or the near-great, the famous or the notori-
ous, the social benefactors or the hardened criminal, claims which
give to the membership a license to bask in the reflected glory or
infamy of those whose publicity they would share. They offer no
evidence in support of their claims other than their own windy
say-so. As a whole the members) of the club are fit subjects for the
psychiatrist or the mechanical lie-detector. =

One member of the “club” made the headlines last week in Van-
couver. Described as a “doctor” and a minister of one of these
multitudinous religious bodies which have their origin in California—
where anything can happen—this “I knew him when” club member
alleges he was “‘a school day chum of Joseph Stalin.”

I have known personally several members of this “club” who
claimed to have known Stalin at some time or other. All of them I
discovered to be just ordinary, unvarnished, cabbage-patch liars. The
last one was a wood-butcher who took a contract to make some alter-
ations to Hd. Leary’s house. MTeary’s estimate of the man was that
no one who had ever known Stalin could possibly be such a rotten
carpenter, an estimate with which I was in perfect agreement.

Unless this “former schoolmate of Stalin” produces something
more substantial in the way.of evidence than the blather about
“Russia’s probable postwar demands” ascribed to him by the Proy-
ince report, I for one will be compelled to place him in the same
box as all the other claimants to a share in Stalin’s greatness.

“Probable” is the key word in the phrase quoted. Almost all of
the demands he lists as Russian objectives are contrary to the dec-
larations of Soviet spokesmen and agreements made between the
Soviet government and its allies in the war against fascism.

Such a farrago of nonsense as this “I knew him when” club

of discipline.

~member is reported to have uttered, may have satisfied the Kiwanis

to whom he was speaking, but to one who knows anything of Stalin or
the Russian revolution and Soviet history during the past 27 years, it
bears all the hallmarks of profound ignorance.

- Unless-he has’ something better to offer, “Doctor? Beskin will
do well to keep his nose out of politics and Stay with his “Wree Metho-
dist Church of California” at New Westminster.

8
lt Is Happening Here

HEN Senator Bouchard exposed the subversive aims and eactivities

of the Order of Jacques Cartier a few weeks ago, he was denounced
as “a Quebee quisling” by Frederic Dorion, MP for GCharlevois-
Saguenay, who passed himself off as an “Independent.”

_ fhousands of people in British Columbia had never heard of HWred-
eric Dorion until then. Now they learn that anti-semitism is part
of his stock-in-trade and it is well to take note of this, for the foster-
ing of race prejudice is one of the means used by the fascists in their
efforts te destroy democracy.

The parliamentary assistant to Prime Minister Mackenzie King
was compelled to draw the attention of the House of Commons to a
speech made by Dorion in the Quebee election campaign. He is re-
ported to have stated that, “the King Government has turned over
the Bank of Canada, the Film Board and the Wartime Information
Board to Russian Jews.” eee

Senator Bouchard did not make that. speech of his in the Senate
one minute too soon. Dorion’s words resemble nothing so much as

the early harangues of Hitler in the days before the Munich beer-
hall putch. 3

The fostering of race prejudice, whether against Jews, negroes
is is only a short leap
to trade unions and working class and democratic political parties.
On the day that the fascists get power into their hands their imme-
diate attention is turned on these organizations.

There are many workers who bubble over with enthusiasm about
the victories of the Red Army. They speak of Stalin with a tinge
of reverence.
est of statesmen. Unfortunately that is as far as they are pre-
pared to go. They are willing to leave it to Stalin.

They have not learned that fascism is not confined to Germany.
They give little or no thought to defeating fascism here because
they do not recognize it on their own doorstep, or if_they do recognize
it, their. enthusiasm has all been used up in reoting for Stalin so they
make no move to erush it in their own home, even when Duplessis
announces that “when I am elected” Tim’ Buck will not be allowed
to speak in the province of Quebec.

Nor are they convineed that the Labor-Progressive Party’s policy
of seeking allies against fascism where they may be found is a cor-
reet one. They admit that it is okay for Stalin to make agreements
like that concluded at Teheran with Churchill and Roosevelt but
they cannot understand why Tim Buck should ally himself with Mac-
kenzie King—whose policy is in line also with the Teheran agree-
ment.

Our worries are not in Russia with the Red Army or Stalin. They

ean look after themselves. They settled the hash of their native brand
of fascists before the war broke out. If we are to follow their ex

ample, we will make it our job immediately to organize all who wish

to save demecracy from the fate that overtook it in Western Europe,
give up shouting and get down to work.

They call his “Unele Joe”; they consider him the great--