The Central Recruiting Office in London is visited by the Princess Royal who is seen chatting with recruits for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. gave her aluminium teapot with this verse on a label tied on it—
You've made me many a cup of Now bring down a Junker in the s Now there have' been loud protest: from the professional scrap metal merchants, who ask why Lord Beaverbrook is asking for aluminium from householders, when they, the merchants, have loads of the metal in their yards. The official answer i: that the stocks held by the merchants are cast aluminium, and that what is wanted for aeroplane manufacture is the pure aluminium of the saucepan. Of course this does not end the controversy between the merchants and the officials (such controversies by nature being eternal) and meanwhile the collection from the Public goes on briskly. There are 1,650 branches of the Women's Voluntary Services, and every one of theirn daily receives masses of aluminium.
But what a tribute this is to th willingness of the nation to do all it can to fight the Huns, and how little need there is for the apparent official belief that we must be continually preached to, coaxed, and cajoled! In this, as in the Four Years War, the people are far ahead of the Gov ernment at every step. The only thing they fear is irresolution or timidity in high places. There is no fear of this in Mr, Churchill, b like the old Scotch lady, we are "no just sure" of some of the other "Meenisters."
Cupid On the War-path Figures of war-time marriages have beaten all records. Last year there were 437,406 marriages, the highest ever recorded in Great Britain. During July, August and September last there were 304.716 marriages, and in the last three months of the veer 272,510, which was 90,000 above the number in the same quarter in 1938. London had most and Lan shire came next. Even the last war at its best could not come up to these figures.
Delightful as these records will be to the sentimentally minded, it must unkindly be said that many girls marry soldiers with the principal object of getting the husband's allowance while he is fighting. And the experience of the last war unhappily showed how many war marriages, though entered into with plenty of enthusiasm came to grief after the war. It was the usual story of both parties being too young. Again and again we read of girls of 16 coming before magistrates to get leave to be married because their parents refuse consent. The parents' case is always that their daughter, and probably the man as well, are too young to know their own minds. Sometimes the magistrate sides with the parents, but more often than not he gaily encourages the girl to do as she wishes.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.