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April 1, 1940.

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As Air Raid Precautions have

now become a permanent! part of the Colony's defences, so also must they now have their permanent place every home.

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by Mrs. G. ATKINSON GRIN AND BEAR IT

HOUSE

WIVES

To women this will seem a very grim necessity, but it has become just as Important". as is regular fire drill, or boat drill in liners. There may never be any necessity to put into practice the lessons

learnt, but. . so long as there in any "but" prepara- tions to avoid disaster and injury must be made.

The question of A.R.I', in the home becomes almost entirely n woman's affair. The main effort of preparation and adaptation will fall upon her shoulders, a will the question of how the family exche- quer can be stretched to include

་་་ these necessary preparations,

So here are certain points which she must consider carefully: where lle the greatest dangers, what pro- tection may be had against then and how such protection can be provided.

High-explosive bombs are, as they have always been, the most formidable weapon which coul be used against us from the air. and added to them we now have

incendiary bombs and possibly

So, if it is possible, a refuge against high explosive must be pre- pared for the family..

Women with common sense will prefer a refuge within the bounds of the home. They will realise the dangers to which they and their family might be exposed by leaving cover when an air rald warning has been given.

Such a refuge in the home is possible if the house is solidly con- structed, if the walls of the house measure at least 13in. In thick- ness, and if there is basement sufficiently." selur or

AND

A.R.P.

inents. Here steel has certainly come into its own. These stecl shelters can be erected with -ense, and if sunk sufficiently in the ground and covered with earth con be made into quite an attractive addition to the garden by planting on them rock or climbing plants,

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THEN there is yet another

type of shelter which must be considered-the trench type.

In the outskirts particularly this kind of refuge will be practical and popular. Here again the camoa-

age of a rock garden can be

used If this but type of shelter is to be built it must be considered serious- ly. Accidents are very able to occur when such trenches are built in an amateur way. Technical ad- be obtained before should vice they are started.

The trench must be lined to pre- to nc-

the De vent

sides from falling in. commodate the whole family.

And when counting the numbers who will want to use the room, pets must not be forgotten, Apart from any personal feeling on the subject, these might become a danger to the family if allowed to roam during or Immediately after an air raid in which gas had been used.

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PUT the ownership of such a BUT

room is not chough; it must be prepared-the walls must be strengthened by means of sand-bags filled with carth or, preferably, sand, or boxes of earth.

The windows must be protected, the celling must be shored up so as to be able to bear the weight of the house should it collapse, and the whole room must be prepared to exclude the possible entry of gas.

drains must be provided, and thought must be given to proper framing, reinforcement, and many other points. If a trench shelter is to be permanent and thoroughly satisfactory it should be concrete lined. This will ensare that it does not collapse or fill with water. There are several types to choose from, and the new "egg" shaped trench lining sheet will make this work easier to carry out.

But the provision and prepara» tion of a household refuge is not all. The housewife must also con- sider the question of what articles and stores she must provide for the shelter, should it ever be used. A first-aid box is really a necessity In every household, and particularly no should we ever be involved in another crisis.

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* TINNED food, toys and games for the children, In protecting the walls by

mattresses or chairs, rugs, means of sandbags it is as well to remember that greater protection perhaps gramophone or

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will be obtained if partition - wireless, books, sanitary uten- -walls-are-strengthened-in-this-silk, etc., should all be borne

way.

As regards the showing for the ceiling, it is wise to obtain technical advice as to the strength of shoring necessary. Steel, as well as wood, can be used for this purpose-and, if the finance question is satisfac- tory, even more protection can be obtained by means of steel sheeting above as a protection against fre.

Doubtless there are numbers of buseholds who will prefer to multe their own arrangements as regards shelter, and in these days it is not a difficult matter to find a type of refuge which will All all require

1940

YEAR

OULD you find in all his

Co

tory a year of greater wonders than 1940-early as it still is?

Alrendy It has recorded a dis- astrous earthquake, the greatest cold spell for a century, and the worst snowfall.

This Leap Year is anyhow re- three markable since Lent fell days off the earliest possible date. That cannot happen again this century. England made the year more remarkable still with the earliest coming of Summer Time.

Three ware have raged, and each of them has gone so wildly against everything ever expected or cal

culated that either, by Itself, would make 1940 immortal in the history

of man.

One has hung fire for six months as no war ever did before. In aa- other, a people of three anions held off a people of

inillions 150 for so long that, Finland will live for all time as the proof, in the great Age of Dictators, that

опе

free man will always be equal to ten slaves. The war in China, ex- pected to last, a hundred days, is to-day 1.000 days old.

NEARLY three hundred years ngo Dryden wrote прост which he called "The Year of Wanders

Annus Mirabilis,”

in mind.

If the refuge is in the house there will probably be electric light, but we must not forget the danger of unshaded lights, and there should be some kind of dark shade which will throw the light down and yet prevent the possibility of its slow- ing in any way outside.

The same applies to all lights It must not throughout the house. be forgotten alan that the electric light might fail in an emergency.

possibility night Such panic, so portable battery-operated

IS

He was thinking of the great year 1000, when a London already. stricken by the worst (and the Inst) of its great plagues was inld

Cause

lamps shount also be provided.

Where It is not possible to pro- vide a refuge within the bounds of the home, there is much which the house wife can do to protect her home,

Incendiary bombs may be used, and I, when the fire-fighting ser- vlees enter the house to put out some small fire caused by such a bomb, they and improvised fire- fighting materials already provided, their work is going to be made much easier and quicker.

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IT is possible for every home

to have such equipment, containers of earth or sand, shovels fitted with long handles, and rakes, also con- tainers already filled with water and placed on each floor of the house-all this is pos- sible if it is prepared before- hand; it could not be done at the last moment.

A form of air raid drill might be inaugurated in every home, duties delegated beforehand to avold con- fusion and panic.

There should be a proper routine arranged for

for leaving the house if

this Is necessary. A little thought

and organisation along these lines would well repay any woman re- ponsible for a household. As I said before, I may never be necessary, but, if the emergency does arise, let it find us well prepared in the small things which matter so much as well as those which are arranged for us.

Schwe

By Lichty

"Somebody should tip off the sucker ho can't beat that machine-besides who's ho think he is, monopolising it all avching?"

ENTERTAINMENTS

STRIP-TEASE

by STAGE DOOR SINGER IS

YEAR'S FIRST FILM STAR

FIRST new star of 1940 is

Mary Martin, Mary made her Broadway name in one night singing "My Heart Be- longs to Daddy." She sang it as a strip-tease number, ended up wrapped in a big fur coxt.

It is not surprising, therefore, that Hollywood should wrap her slim legs, her slender hips in the voluminous fashions of 1800 for her starring role, The Great Victor Herbert." She

Wears the frills, Turbelows, Ospreys, bustles and illows of that coy era without showing a sign of wanting to shed a thing.

This fortunate young women possesses, in addition to her own tulents, a strong facial resem- blance-to-Claudette Colbert--The chubby cheeks, the eyes, the look of arch surprise, even the bang. And also the cute cornerake voice of Jean Arthur.

While to herself she hugs # little bubble, of good humour,

So pleased are her employers with her that they simply can't make up their minds whether to stor her next in Clare Boothe's satire on "Gone With The Wind" called "Kiss the Boys Goodbye"

ALREADY

OF WONDERS

in ruins by a fire so mighty that we still talk of it as the Great

Fire.

It was 11 wonder that the com- ing of that year was proclaimed by a comet.

But the greatest wonder of this Year of Wonders was that the starved and neglected Navy of Britain fought the combined lleels of France, Derunaik and Holland, and beat the lot.

We became mistress of the seas for the Orst time, a place we have hung on ta ever since,

So 1660 was a year of wonders, but was it the year of wonders?

When Daniel Defoe, the author

WHAT about 1703, for Jnstance,

of "Robinson Crusoe," stood in the plilory and the worst storm ever just rolled up leaden roofs like Turkey carpets.

We were at war that year. It

first of wus the

war that ob- stinately refused to begin on the Western Front, so that the Duke of Marlborough was.constrained to point out that "If you have a mind to speedy end of the war you must do something for it."

That war produced one revolu- tion la France and another in. ilungury.

AND there was 1740, of the hard

winter when the frost lasted nino weeks and they lived in tents on the frozen Thames, where they roasted sheep and called It Lapland

mption.

A

Britain went to war that year, after twenty-five years of peace, when Frederick the Great became King of Prussla, and started by falling trencherously upon-Aus- iria.

And 1700. That was a year of many wonders.

A new reign began, destined to Inst for sixty years, and there- never were so many victorles. We conquered India and we conquered Canada,

THAT

M

HAT year, too, begna with a comet which "appeared to the naked eve ilke Jupiter in A

fou," and followed it up with a frost, that, cut 100 ships from their moorings along our coasts.

And 1848 was a Wonder Year, There was a portent 100-й кса serpent, solemnly vouched for by the captain and officers of H.M.S. Daedalus who saw it for twenty minutes. There

was revolution France, a revolution in Austria, civil war in Hungary, twenty re- volutions in Germany and ten in

ส

In

Italy.

The Pope, the Emperor of Aus- tria and the King of Prussia, and the last King of France were chased out of their capitals. The Chartists gathered at Kennington to march on London,

And gold was found in. Call- fornia.

Amazing years all. Yet this 1040 bids fair to beat the lot.

WHAT'S ON

KING'S: "The Old Maid" MAJESTIC: "The Real Glory.” -

QUEEN'S AND

ALHAMBRA:"

“Balafalka.""

ORIENTAL:

+

Crusoe."

Robinson

(for which they have paid £10,- 000), or whether to put her in the next Bing Crosby, "Miami."

If I were Miss Colbert, I know where I'd put her.

A

RRIVAL of Miss Martin on the scene proves conclusively a theory I have long held--that most lovely women come-from-the State- you Ginger of Texas. I give Rogers, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Ann Sheridan to be getting on with.

second thoughts, I'll take Miss Turner back for a minute. I'd like to congratulate her on her marriage to my favourite swing maestro, Artle Shaw. I hope she'll coax him to start playing again.

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And I hope she goes on with her dancing. Mory Martin makes Claudelte Colbert mod, Lana Tur- is the girl to drive Ginger Rogers to heavy dramatle purts.

Which reminds

10 report that Miss Rogers is shortly to partner Ronald Colman in "Good Luck," adapted from a Sacha Guitry play. It's a far, far better thing she does.

HA

me

KAMMERSMITH Film Produc- tions earn spotlight for their announcement that "Tilly of Bloomsbury" will be followed by a f dealing with the. "Altmork" incident. Mrs. Elizabeth Hiscoll, managing director, approached the Adiniralty and the M. of I. for the necessary facilities, and it has al

been decided that Leslie Hiscott skall direct, Bernard Brown will handle cameras, and that Andrew Mazzel, John Dennis and Fred Wilson will also be the way, engaged. "Tilly," by

ready

is now in its fourth and final week nt Riverside, everything going well despite a short absence tust week on the part of Jean Gille, "Bu" victim.

EORGE BRENT will co-star with Merle Oberon In "The Constant Nymph" for Warner Bros. They were teamed for the Arst time in "We Shall Not Meet Again," which in now completed.

"This Man Reuter" in the title of the picture Warners are basing on the story of the Reuters News Agency, in which that famous news organisation is giving world-wide co-operation. Edward G. Robin- san, who han just finslied "Dr. Erlich's Magic. Bullet," will star.

James Comey, Pat O'Brien, and Ann Sheridan are listed for top- billing in "Torrid Zone," which takes the floor soon; while Jeffrey Lynn lins been assigned a principal

role in "All This and Heaven Too," co-starring Bette Davis and Char- les Boyer. Virginia Weldler has been borrowed from M.-G.-M. for the role of Boyer's daughter In this picture.

one

of the most THE Bat,"

gripping mystery dramas ever produced on the American stage. has been announced as the first Almplay to be made by Globe Pro- ductions, Inc., the $1,000,000 Cor- poration recently organised by James Roosevelt, Hollywood's lat- est independent producer. Roland Kibbee is now at work on a screen treatment.

G

EORGE RAFT met Nonna Shearer at the New York Fair Inst Bummer. They si the Aquacude, did the parachute jump together.

George thought it was fun, being around with the screen's first lady, bought a ticket on the boat so that he could cross to Europe with her.

They did Paris, Cannes together, and when the war broke out they stood in the queue together, wall- ing for the first American ship to take them home.

The friendship wasn't just one of those holiday things.

Metro ore wanting to borrow Geargle from the brothers Warner. They'll put him in with Shearer in a remake of "A Free Soul."

She'll play the part again; he'll have the role that made Clark Cable's name. He'll play gangster,

Spotting The Rank

COMMANDER

The title of Commander dates from 1074, when it was laid down that no officer should command a sixth rate (the smallest type of ship in the Navy) unless he hail passed the examination for Mas- ter at Trinity House. The lite was first Commander and Max- ter, and later Master and Com- mander. Then it became simply Commander.

Not until 1827 were Comman- dern also employed in the post of executive officer, or second- In command, of bigger ships. In the flagship of one of the prin elpal fleets to-day there may be as many as eight Commanders. One of these, referred to as “Ule Commander," is of course the executive officer, responsible for Hie organisation and discipline of the ship.

tho

Another m

navigating officer, and the remaining six are on the staff of the Comman- der-in-Chief (whoso Nag⋅ És car- zied in 1710 ·ship).

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