Practical U.S. Sympathy One of the most sralifying pieees of news to bbe found In Brilish newspapers which recently game to, hand ithe story of how people in the United' States have. storied a nationwide eam= Balgn to help the sic and wounded in' Great Britain. one. 'France, 'Rich. business. men. and firn sters-are_ pooling their dollars: farmers: the. middle weet. afe. whipping up' support, women in the small towns sre' making, band? fen, knitting comforts and providing garments for the wounded, while two separate organiza= tions have been formed. in: Washington operate the scheme, one for Great Britain, and the other' for France." A" group. working in Hollywood under Ronald Colman and: Claudette Colbert have as their immediate objective. the Folsing of 100,000 to be converted into woods for shipment to military and civilian hospiats, White Ht Britain wore attacked the organization Would at once' expand' its activities to relieve Uistrese "and suffering. American dotters snd frees: would be sent over to help ente for the injured In' France a large' part of ihe" sup-piles wit go to the American hospital in Parle, {whieh in the last war treated no. fewer, thay 120,000 eases: Immediately the present war, betian, is accommodation was enlarged' to Provide for's00 beds Supplementing it will bee base Hospital with 1800 beds. It fs Feported thatthe Scheme was" vst mooted by bes Bulli. US. 'Ambassador' to. Franco, and' his suggestion as been taken ip' with' typical 'American one thusiasm It te mows. such as this which particularly" gratifying es" demonstrating the very practical sympathy which prevails in the United "States Yor me' cause' for which" the {Alien are ahting. 1t will be remembered. that during the fast war the people of the 'United Slater' wera just a5 Yeady to extend help Airicken Surope, and that very substantial Hiot was extended to Germany herself after the tonelusion of the hoslliles under the control a Mz. Hoover, and the readiness of the Amer fan public to respond to the cil of the suffer ing fe'again being shown ina Manner with which "the' world is' becoming increasingly A Good Move 'The unification of the British alr fore in France under one command is the "latest development which has been announced, and one which will be heartily welcomed.' The officer commanding-in-chief will be responsible, consultation with the army commanders-in-chief concerned, for ensuring the complete lective support, by. the Brith alt forees of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Armies on the western front, He will also be Fesponsible for co-ordinating the operations of the British and French air forees. Involving no change in the principles governing the relationship between the army and air force, this new departure should ensure all round' efficiency fand make it certain that the best results. shall bbe obtained by the allied forces in the air, The runiting. of the various allied arms into' one compact unit for the purpose of carrying on the war, and placing each arm under a single command Is a wise move, for It gives {0 the Allies just that same unity of control as that Which is vested in the German high command. With the enormous accession of strength which being made almost daily to the allied alr forces it is believed that parity with the German air strength has been gained and passed. There is all the evidence in the world to show that the British and French machines are. in every way as good as, If not better than, the German, while in certain classes. the former have machines which completely outclass the Germans. The rapid development of the alr farms, and that mainly through machines of the atest "design must-mean" that sooner or later the Allies will be in a position to make that bid for complete supremacy, in the alr which is Imperatively necessary before movements on land. can. be initiated with any" prospects of success. In this connection, time has doubtedly been In favour of the Allies, and the fact thai they have been making food use of their opportunities 1s the best possible augury for their success when all that has been done of recent years Is put to the test of war, Beauty Treatment It is announced that the mud of Southend fon-sea at the mouth of the Thames, known for over a century for its health-giving properties, and Tater as a beauty treatment Is going to be used for the purpose of defeating Herr Hitler. Not along the lines of throwing the stuff at him or the Germans, for the pleasant tittle cupation of mud-slinging is best lett to the fenomy who appear to delight in it, but it hay been announced that chemists have' found that from this mud and the seawarer they can ex-react one of the most vital metal elements in armament "construction. 'Those familiar with the 'Thames' estuary will remember. that large stretch of mud exposed at low tide from Shoe-buryness all the way to Canvey Island, and at Southend-on-sea anything up {o a mile. wide. Tt fs not stated what particular element that huge deposit is rich in, but it Is apparent that vast quantities of the mud are available to be had simply for the dredging, Well over a con~ tury ayo Royalty visited the town for the purpose of reaping benefit from the ozone which It Was. said emanated from the vast expanse of slimy" black mud. Ailing children have gone thers to paddle out on it and recover from the ils that flict them, and of recent years it has been sated that beauty. specialists have been treating their clients with packs made. from the alluvial deposit of old Father 'Thames, Which only goes to show that women in search fof beauty' will stop at nothing. Southend mud has an odorous quality entirely its own which only foes to show that none but the brave deserve to be fair. Tt is something of an trony that' a cosmetic for milady's boudoir should now be mobilized for the grim arbitrament of War, and yet on the other hand so completely appropriate, if what is cing on in Europe is regarded as something in the nature of a beauty treatment, removing from the German complexion that blotch which is) the Hitlerian system,
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