The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-14
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20 ANt CORNELIUS
, VANDERBILT. IN.
Canada in Wartime

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Binghampton, NJ. 4. Five hours
after leaving Syracuse. after FIVE
interruptions in the night. immigra-
ton and customs on either side Of
The International line, etc.. descend
ed in Canada's great city. a bit
tired and sleepy
Canada in war is a lot livelier
place than Canada at peace. Streets
scream patriotic banners; soldiers,
sailors, women in uniform, clutter
traffic; bands blare all day, planes
drone all night Newspapers are
crammed with news from the
Mother Country: radio stations
with reports from back home"
Toronto's time is faster than
during peace. The city has its
! own war time" like the daylight
saving time we have, only two hours
faster than the regular time. This
is to conserve electricity. They call
it "war-saving-time."
Shops are even more war-like than
the streets; display apparel for
those in the nations armed forces,
such as shirts, socks, shoes, sweat
ers. underwear and helmets. The
underwear, incidentally, is no longer
two-piece because the British army
requires its soldiers to wear COM
binations. Art stores sell maps, tech
nical army books, compasses, al
tometers, flags, drawing boards,
| heavy crayons.
Quite as many women as men are
in uniform on the streets. They're
jaunty-looking Dozens of different
outfits flourish, among them the
C.D.F. canadian Defense force),
the CATS. Civilian Auxiliary Ter
ritorial service) and the Gro.
Canadian Red Cross). The C.D.F.
has approximately 800 members in
Toronto alone. They drive staff
cars, and the brass hats as visit
ing officials are called. The CATS.
is headed by Ivy Maison, WELL
known spinster who teaches how to
shoot down parachutists, cook, darn
socks, sew on soldiers buttons and
to camouffage helmets with paint.
The GRO. admittedly does the best
all around work. There are 5000
separate Red Cross sewing units in
Canada today Their particular job
is reconditioning clothes worn by
soldiers in training, and making
thousands of diapers, washcloths,
and clothes for youngsters for their
British sisters whose homes have
been wiped out. During the past six
months the Toronto division of the
Red Gross has sent to London AZ
ambulances and more than 10000
blankets. Lady Reading distributes
these gifts when they reacn Eag-
land Hundreds of thousands VI
,emen in England work similarly.
ny Of them fly planes between
airports and factories bringing in
vital plane parts. and arranging
new billets for evacuees. ALI cook
ing and sweeping in English canton
ments is done by WACO. tWon.
ems Auxiliary Civilian corpsl.
Toronto. Ottawa. Montreal, and
Quebec are surrounded by scores of
barracks. training centers, airports.
camps and prison camps. There
are nearly 100. 600 Germans in Cana.
dian prison camps today! Young
draftees used TO guard them. but
escapes became too frequent so old
soldiers from the last war were sta
toned there instead. In one of the
biggest prison camps the German
officers recently struck because
they were forced to eat at the same
table as the enlisted men. Against
the violent protests Of many thou
sands of Canadians. the Canadian
government decided 10 humor the
prisoners and gave them their own
army mess. This babying of the
Nazis is the cause Of much dissatis-
faction on the part of the man in
the street. He wants them TO be put
to work building highways. sewers.
airports, dams and canals.
A couple Of huge camps have be-
come show places Of Toronto lately.
One of them is called Little Nor
way" Here several thousand Nor
wegian youths are being trained by
the R.C.A.F. Royal Canadian Air
forcel. Across a hundred yards or
so OF water they have their own air
port on an island. They own their
own training and lighting planes.
pay their soldiers in their own
currency. These men are out for
blood. Their private motto is Take
no Prisoners"
Thousands of young American
boys are serving in the R-C-A.F to-
day. Some people told me the ng-
ure reached $4,000 They come
from all parts Of the United States,
most Of them hitehhiking. They are
protected by wartime secrecy, and
almost all Of them are given the ioh
Of either training pilots, or working
MS part Of the ground crews.
HEARING THINGS: The open
frankneSx with which Canadians
criticize their prime minister and
their government The number
Of escaped German prisoners stSn as
Target That II takes only ave hours
and ten minutes to AZ from Cana
dian terrliory 10 England today. and