HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-05-07, Page 3zecho - Slovaks
Make Good Here
Fled Their Homeland to On-
. tariq and Succeed in •Venture
•
Canadians are made as well as
born and in the vicinity of the
Southwestern Ontario village of
Alvinston; new citizens—and good
ones --are graduating daily from
the schogl of. toil close to the earth
of their • adopted country.
There's a story of•. achievement
• ,here,, a story .that had its begin -
fling only .a, •few years ago When.
the ,hard. -working peasants of the,
little ' Republic of Czecho-Slovakia
..saw the handwriting on the wall
in the .Munich appeasement,, 'deal
- arid, fled their .country hefere'the
,echo of the goosestep • rang through •
their ,city streets'. • They fled to
Canada, the' "lane' of opportunity,'` •
they cal): it, • and they • bay.e made'
just -that.
None .of the.2450.,Czecl s and. Slo-_
yaks in the area' has been in 'Can-
ada more than six' yeara,and many .
Of •them have been here for ' only ,
four, but those' years represent
.'steady march forward.. Some. have
•bou•ght , • their. second •.!arm since
arrival; others who were able
to obtain' enough money ,for bare
necessities when 'they. arrived arrived no
have automobiles, farm machinery
(work was dine •by hand at first),
and more luxurious homes..
,They have learned, 'too, the Can-
adian• way of life and the - language.:
of"their ,atd`tiPted Vrd,, many., 'of
these .Prom their children who are
-attending' sehool. •:
Although, they • had• to start from
scratch in the New World, the new
Canadians are by .no Means back-
ward in their farming: methods Lo-
- day., Their farms stand out among
the better -producing acres in the
district. • . '
..There's• a, bili of Central Europe
left in the colony, of, course, and a
natural pride in the homeland..
That. Czecho-Slovak' slogan, "We'
shall be 'free; again," Ts''a byword
. here, but •the `people like le look.
.upon'themseiVes as' Cailad%hs: Oii'
-Sunday, however„'*they don the
•mn1i.:,co red finery of the home-
. land and at the• Dozinky '(autumn
ha.rvest festival) costumes are par-
` ticularly gay.
First• to arrive in •the Alvinston}
area was Stefan.•Huzevka, who was
to'become a sort of unofficial' ad-
vi'ser ;to. his countrymen. Mr.• Huze-
• vka aided new arrivals in pur-
: chasing land, implemenj;s and other
necessities because .by .the time.
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BOOST FOR MOTHER-IN-LAW
,Who steps into, the • breach' and
brings order out of chaos when
the wife is sick, the maid has left,
the .husband has extra work to do
at the office; Tittle Mary has the
sniffles and Johnny .mashed his
toe, there is nothing fit to eat in
the house and three days' dishes
stacked in the sink? 'Who can al-
ways•dig dolvn in her, pocket and
•'find a little money to help out
with the bills when times are •
-Wild? Who teaches the children'
Bible stories and instills in their
infant minds• about all' the, intro
,duction they ever get in, old=fash-
cc Toned moralities? • . Isn't ''.it ; the
• mother inaaw'f You said it. '
.=-Leamington Post' arid News
WASHING FOR JAPS
'Chine -Se laundry staffs hive had
to be increased in Northern. On-
tario in the district where Japan-'
ese . laborers, - moved .from. • the
Pacific Coast, have been estab-
lished.. If itching powder shows
n in ;some of the shirts, the cue-
tomers won't have to look far for
the cause. .
-Windsor Star
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PRINTER'S ERROR
According to the old gag, if a
doctor makes a mistake; he buries
it; if a lawyer makes one he col-
-_lects <mare_ --fees for the appeal;
if a judge makes one it eventu-
ally becomes a -precedent; if. a
.clergyman. makes one he doesn't
find out until: he's in the * next. ,
World. But let a - printer make
one—ye gods!.. '
.Owen' Sound Sun,;timea
,EXTENDING LIVES
A 40 -mile -an -hour' speed limit
throughout ' all province's of Can-
ada
will not only extend •the life '•
of rubber tires but will extend the.
-life of many motorist. • —Almonte Gazette
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JAP PIC -NIC
When it isn't raining. in . New
Guinea,. they say the c s—
alive with ants. Our thoughts •
are with the Jap in any picnic he
has arranged.
—Stratford Beacon -Herald
PERFECT ALIBI
When he read ''an article advis-
ing . people to study astronomy,
his wife said, it was just another
-- le it Heti' the MugitSliTla T-g� age -fast
lY weli..
Shortage of Teak
For Building Ships
Teak has joined rubber; alum-'
intim 'and nickel en• the. "war es-
• sentials" list. Use of the limited
supply••. in :the United. States re-
• Gently has been restricted. to .the
navy's shipbuilding , program by
the ,War Production Board.
Teak outranks oak; mahogany
and all other hardwoods for ship-
building. It is, tough and dur-'
able. One. ,of its outstanding
advantages over other woods
that iron will not rust when in
contact with it, because • it • con-'
• tains a soapy oil. •This• has made •
teak important in •building rail-
: road coaches and ships, according.
' to the National .Geographic 'So, •.
cies -
Teak is native, to and most'
plentiful, in 'the hot jungles df
Burma afid Thailand. It also
grows 'in Central India, Java and
Africa.. • The' teak that reaches
Europe and ,America- comes most-
ly from Burma. Most of it -is
Used for 'construction in the 'Far'
East. There are original ' teak
beams ' in. good condition in Ori-
ental buildings e'stimMcd to be a
s thousand years old.
Canada To Curtail '
Highway-- Bus Traver
-aft' aiiotinee'mcn•t- from-- the
office of •Transit Controller G.
8. Gray, _ it was stated' that .it
"will be necessary to eliminate
bus services in Canada which dap:
licate rail lines, particularly those
engaged in long .hauls". The an-
nouncement -did not say when the
restriction would take effect but
it was implied that adjustments
would be made to bus schedules
as soon possible.
,A, . s'pbkestlian 'for the Tran$it
Controller's -office did not.enlar •e-
on ,the-announcentent'.exeept to
say that ;lily surplus of buses
existing after the restrictions hid
been enforce.* would 'be .distribu-
ted to ."local services".now badly
in need of augmentation.
He could not say how- the 're=
strictioiis would. affect interna-
tional services between points like
Montreal and New York hut said
that the announcement meant no
snore- bus services between 'points
like Montreal' and Toronto. .
He • said. that many details 're-
mained to be worked ou't and that
an tienouncem.ent containing' ftil-
ler inforni•ation would probablq'
.be made 4 a later date.
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HITLER QUIZ . •
"What . should be . done With
Hitler?" asks a 1Torento paper.
What's the use of starting, a quiz,
like that; ,,when you can't print
all the answers?
—Ottawa Citizen
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THEY DON'T KNOW
Who told the,,sincome tax de-
signers children over 21' Were not
dependents?
• —Brandon Sun
G.B., Uses Concrete
In War Purposes
Twenty- thousand silos for cat -
tie 'fodder is the latest contribu-
tion of .Britain's concrete makers
to the war effort They are now at ,
work' tilion this colossal cerntract.
Farmers ell over 'Britain have
already , put up' snap; maiiufac- '
turers of preserves are following
Suit with silos to store their waste
materials• and turn then' into feed-
ing stuffs to relieve the strain on
Empire's. shipping.
Today more concrete is being
used 'on Britain's farms than ever
before. Buildings in it, from barns
to poultry . liouses, are beint run
• lip, and it is being used for water •
tanks. fence -posts, flooring, cattle.
troughs, guards and stalls,•as'well
.'as asbestos cement for roofing
,sheds, rabbit hutches and even
buckets. The concrete industry is
also -helping the war, _effort..With•
aerodfo'ne •runways, some of .which
-:need •4611,000 square. •aids of
terial at a'time, and thousands of
concrete huts .are.•being s'et up for
the service departments and' for. •
the housing of war workers and
the homeless,'
All constructional repair work'
on railway• and water tunnels is
Carried out in concrete, some-
tiMes with complete- pre,:caSt
arches, Cellars of damaged houses
have been concreted and made
into water storage tanks. ,Concrete
railway sleepers and pit 'props for
goal mines are replacing' imported'.
tim.bel': Hollow concrete blocks are
,being used not only for building
but for air raid protection. •
The upper works of ships have
also been given concrete pro'tec-
tion and following 'upon the con-
struction of 100 concrete barges
by the Admiralty, the first ocean-
going liner, of 2,000 tons dead-
welght• Iias• been successfully •
launched.,
Machine gun ' posts, air raid.
shelters, •oil•, storage tanks, defence'
barriers, telegraph poles, groynes,
buyos and 'sinkers for moorings •
and even anchors are all being
made of,'conei•ete tor the war. *"
A P] WNCESS SIGNS UP
Borrowing a fountain pen'from a bystander; Princess Elizabeth,
above, heir presumptive to the British throne, registers for war work
• in the National:. Traitsing,,.Ser' tce. Program 'm Loddon .just_likeany
Other 16 -year-old girl. •
IAN MAURICE
A Weekly Column About . This and That in The Canadian Army
"Lead -swinger", .as any old soli.'
flier knows, means a man who
feigns illness to get out of dobre,y
his regular duties. He is loo.k`ed
upon, at first sight, as a smart
•guy who has "put:one •_over•'" •the
Medical Officer. ' '
B'ut„as the fair 'sex roints ,out
when referring ,to the order in
which .man and woman .were cre-
ated, - second thoughts are .best,
•and •it is' not • very long before
the'"lead-swingers" fellow soldiers.
are'full'of scorn and Contempt for
• him. They realize that in addi-
tion to putting one over the Medi-
-
as: S93i�t4'UlYV' 14c1$- t0:... da;
• the duty he shirks.
'The worst load -swinger in the
Ihdivid-ial-Citizen's •Arrniy- -which-
is all of us --today is the:man .or
woman who uses, gasoline unnec-
essarily. •
This morning as .I •came. down..
to work I looked, idly at 'first,
and then- with mounting indigna-
tion, at• the 'streaiy of cars pas-
sing along wimy one person
Y in' each..•I have no.'doubt that.
,you 'have felt the same way'many
• a time:.
Do you ithiink • the same way
about it when:you have an errand'
to do•?
Or' do yon. just hop into the,
car . and . drive off,?
Some little time ago ..one- o
these colunins was devoted to the
'jaunty soldiers of . the Armored'
Corps. • They,;and the the airmen.
who . bomb Germany and the Phil-.
5ppines; they and the men, who
"man our submarines and motor
torpedo boats ;are. -the men 'We
should save our gasoline for.
s , othin' vel--- ]aunty
orone trip by car that could
have been carried out afoot may
mean the hair's breadth that sep-
arates life a><id death for the men
in uniform.
,So, walking to work, even walk-
ing to the movies, can be a •form
of war work, a form of saldiering
in the Individual Citizen's Army.
And ,observing' food and price
regulation is another way of sere-,
... At Basic and Advanced Train-
ing, Centres, in camp and on act-
ive service soldiers and sailors put
in long hours at strenuouh' work.
• Their 'training simulates actual
fighting—and ,actual. -fighting,
, burns up energy.
To replace that energy food,
hearty meals ni'uat be 'supplied.
That's where the careful observer'
of the food regulations eomes in.
Every time the. householder
;' va`tes.use:a' little;less. than their
sugar rationor,bake,a cake with
a substitute. for Lugar, they ;are
• releasing ,that .much ' .energy .•for
'Canada's "Men at •Ardis". .
find the•liousewife Lance ,Corp-
oral—or is she, at ,least a Majoi
in your house?—who putsto,
gether a tasty.mess of shank -bone
' onklns, carrots, a little tot too
much, please—turnip and a •sage
leaf; or two instead . of calling nu.
the grocer for. a can or two of •
this or that enrols, herself in the
Royal Canadiaf's Ordnance. Corps
by'leaving just a little more metal
available for arms, • .ammunition
or'even tanks. ,
Here's. _a ,list of kitchen •ammo=
nition. One cup 'of refined white
sugar can be replaced by: • staple,.
strg'ax,—orie Cup; maple -syrup,=one._
Cup; honey, one cup;' cane syrup,
'11/x cups; corn syrup, two cups:
That's what the Individual Cit-
, izens' Army ' fights for..
U.S. Producing
Two Ships Daily
United States production of
'Merchan.t shipping'. will reach a
"record totalof'more than 600,000
•tens a month • this sun -inter; .ac-
cording to Rear ,Admiral EmoryS.
Land, • chairman of the Maritime
Commission,.; who reveals in The
American._M.agazine_ that the total
for 1942 will reach the unpreee-
dented figure' of 8,000,000 tons.
His plans call for 10,000,000 tons
Of merchant shipping in 1943, "as
a'starter on a total program ,al-
ready set, at more. than 30,000,,
000 tons."
"It ishard for the -public, to.
grasp the magnitude of these fig-
pc,MaitaLtLig4,..11%111. out
thus
we are Building in 1942. That
would ,amount to eight hundred
big ship's of 110,000 tons each,
It is more steel ships of,i similar
size than all the shipyards of the
world ever:built in' one year be-
:fore.-,• It_is-seyeral..times ass -many
ships as Germany; Japanand Italy
together can turn out this year.
"Our active `.shipbuilding' ca-
pacity is equal to all ;the ' rest of
the- world -combined.'•'•
been 'taken prisoner or -killed: 'T-
know,so do inany ofyohave •
seen them. Arid men .are ,going
to, be taken • prisoner and killed
if their • mobile forts — Whether .
they, be tanks, armos!'ed• cars, uni- •
• versal:carriers.,•,._bombers or sur$-
• marines become immobilized for
lack of gasoline.
A. horrible 'thought? Sure it
is. But that is 'how close the
war is• to us, • O'ne..extra .joy -ride
LIFE'S LIKE: THAT
By Fred Neher
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SUGAR NSPICE.
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"We don't like our new neighbors, they're too quiet.. . Mom makes
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THE WAR - WEEK — Cominentary on' Curre1 t Events
British Bombers Force Hi er
To Strengthen Western • Front
A year ago in'a s;5eech to the
Reichstag, Hitletr said: •
"Again and again I uttered
warnings against aerial; warfare
and I did so 'for over three and a
half months.... So..now Church-
ill has got his air war. . . We
• 'ar'e •determined to continue to re-
talia'te• a hundred bombs for every
one of his and to go on doing
so until the British nation. at,
• least 'gets rid of this criminal
"and his methods."
On April 26 of this year .in
another speech •to” the Reichstag
he said:
"Churchill' began this air war ,
in May, 1.940.. I warned .hirn
for four monde and waited:',. -
My waiting is not weakness: .
I shall ,from now on retaliate,
blow forblow,, Until this criminal
falls to pieces.”. ,
Every Hitler"speech "is recruited
• from the words .of every, Hitler
.speech. that•went before, says The.,
New York Times, In all but one
respect the two' passages quoted
• here are almost identical. Air ,
war. - .. Churchill's fault .. •.. My
patience, . 'Warning of retali-t
-ation. . . Counter attack until
"this criminal" is driven out•, of
•
.,power. •
But whereas' Hitler • is now
' 'proinising to give "blow for blow"
- a year ago he, was -promising- 4's
• hundred • bombs for • every one,"
The time has arrived when, the
mo.unting stierigtli•of--Brifisli ani"'
American ; air . power .no *longer.
:permits. him to .boast. before. his
, own people • that Germany: ' rules;
the air.
Coventry .1n 1940 •
For an understanding of the ,
damage that British bombers. are •
now inflicting' upon •Geran .cit -
`m
les, 'it is helpful, to Consider the
bombing :of Coventry in. 1.940.
That'assault was described by the,
Germans as "the greatest . in aer-
ial history", turd at' the time , it ,
was feared that'such raid's *night
paralyze'• British industries. Yet
• the weight of 'explosives dropped
. in, the successive 'raids .on Ros-
tockia more than four times that
which , devastated, Coventry. The
present. British air raids against
• vital points deep in the ReiCi are
so sisassive as to 'constitute some-
-thing new . in warfare.
• Luebeck and Rostock
Luebeck and'.Rostock •,are ports
'on • the• Baltic.' Sea of vital. im-
ou.oh
. again .felt the full fury of t1
Royal Air Force, -
'Many daylight attacks lievp •
been made against enetny cies•
ports and coastwise 'Channel ship!
'ping. "In one, caner recently,,, *
, British attacking unit, accord
to . The Associated Press; cover _
a square mile • of •sky. It w.an
aaid to have been„the largest single
"'Unit• ever to 'attack France.: •
British !Air 'Policy
• The British policy 'is, according
to Sir Archibald Sinclair, • Air
Minister, "to',destroy the ,enemy
• ,capacity :tol make wax .by' bombing..
his war. factories, Means of trans-.
port 'and .military stores wherever,
” they,may, be found." An increase•.
-in the-bornbii}g oit Gentian indust=
-y, particularly, itt the ahipbni1d.
ing •se,etions-of the "noYthwest, will
;reduce Nazi •cal3acity, for'. s#uti
marine • . construction, • thereby •
tending to:. eas.e.,the severe strain
upon Allied mercantile and naval
losses -
Hitler's' threat of. a ."blow •bY
blow" retribution on •Briti h sib-, .
ies for'R.A.F. raids on German
will be difficult.. of execution
without doing `exactly . what the'
British air, force is trying to goad
hi -it into doing, according to Oli-
ver Stewart; London commentator.
• •"They. have only. a small pro-,
porton of their: bomber's' int- est-
ern- Europe,''.', he said. "Most of...
'the rest are , split .between Russia
:the
Malta. '
f`It might be possible • for a •
short ,time , to • continue. raiding •tis • •
they have . recently' raided . °Bath
and -York: But these. 'raids Could
not be sustained, unless they shift "
large forces from.'t.he• Russian ,or
Maltese .fronts."
If '•the `Gernlians'' • actually ',do.:
this,' it will mean that: the Luft-
. waffe't ' pressure in these other
two combatant zones 'will be re-
• lieved.• : The R.A.F. will have sun,
.ceeded in its. purpose.
' Second Front• ,
. The • western front, which •>Eiit-
ler plainly ,fears, already exists.
It did not exist last year when
the Germans • invaded Russia. ' It
was impossible then for the !Brit-
ish to make large scale air at,.
tacks. Then the United States
was not: in he war. The Ger-
mans know now that hard attaeks
from the west will" continue to be
made.. Hitler is not withholding
Men, . plane's and equipment from
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Malta Holds Out '
After 2,000 Raids
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Matta, last •Tuesday: suffered
what was•, called in dispatches its
heaviest a4i1t;raid of the war. It
was also Malta's 2,000th 'air raid
since Italy entered the war June •
11, 1940. That is 'an average of
three raids a day: s �.
• Malta's 2•,000tIn: raid attracted
a -lout --'as much .(l'Untion• as the
rest of the 1,999—a couple of par-
, agraphs tucked away at •the end
of something 'else: • A ' year ago
• publishers welt turning oat 'books
. on the bombing of London. at sueli
a :rate than it seemed improbable
that the experiences', Of„ any, rest -
.
est• dent •i4 that metropolis• would es-
cape • recording,, in; library .format,
but there is probably not an entry.
on 'the Bombing of Malta id any
•card catalogue. et, the* stol•y must
be a good. one.
And • Maalt'a holds out.. The 'con-
stant pounding the island has re-
ceived has grvtly rejuced its
calve as a . Mediterranean naval '..
bale, • yet it still guards the ap-•
preaches to Libya. Malta has. had'
.a long experience, with sieges. The +._
Knights of Malta, beat of the
Turks in 1565 and Napoleon didn't
fare well there. • And the fortifi-
cations of 2,009 years seem capable
of withstanding '2.00o. raids • front
Stich niodeskt gadgets as airpirues.
�eeatsitla -Err c A.�
armies in •Northern Russia, "Fin-
land- and Norway.Luebeck ' is a,
training centre for' Sub Marine, -
crew's, a great"-';iridustrial city
and a warehouse' centre for _mil.i-
tary stores: • ;
$.ostock.,,.is -a thcixing seaort'.
and' industrial ;centre. ' Itnpos-tailt
shipyards are there and a. large
branch of the great Heinitel air-.
craft • concern, warehouses, rail,'
• and .doclt •• faeilitles • •
• •• In two of the • heaviest raids—
staged' on successive nights'—car
- died out 'by British bombers, tons
of explosives were dropped on air-
craft factories, shipyards and the
'harbor installations of Rostock. In
their caneentrated force the at-
tacks were said to have.surilassed
the pounding visited a few weeks
before •on Luebeck, • which' laid
nearly •half that city in waste.
Wide R.A.F. Assaults
The huge British flying fleets
see ut ab -Le to roam. -a.t- will, . and in
daylight, over occupied territory'
and beyond the •former• German •
frontier to bomb tale Skoda works
at Pilsen and 'the Diesel engine
planus-, which supply German suh-
mai•iihes, at Augsburg.. Their
losses, relative to the ntiiitherof
planes employed; 'have been very
small,
In • the .seventh straight, night
of their laigest anal'li?ggc-t round-
the -clock offensive of- the .war.'
British` planes bombed Trond•
heir , a 'formidable• naval base in
Norway The Tirpitz, believed to
bet (he most powerful .battleship
inithc world;• the' heavy cruiser
Prinz Eugen, another. 10,600 -ton
cruiser and 'swarms of destroyers
and submarines are •lurking 'in - the '
harbor of Trondheim. • They are
in
a vital position there to raid
• the Allied supply line 'to 'Russia:
Cologne, the third largest city
in Germany, and an important
railway and industrial centre.
empty threat in'the west. Increas-
ing Commando raids and air as-
saults have had their effect. They.
have 'immobilized a large part of
the German , army and air force
on a front that extends from the
north of. Norway to the Spanish
frontier. . Hitler is already fight-
ing on a second front.
Hitler Strengthens
Channel Defences
The Germans_ have ,put.. thousr
• ands of laborers to the task of .
building, new gun emplacements
and • strengthening already ' for-
midable defences along the French
.coast 'as an added precaution
against Allied invasion.,. '
he.. laborers were seen plainly
rough field glasses some twenty .
: miles across the ,Channel.
•Military; informants said that'
• ti -.•i z i guns ma-sse.dalong. the -Chan- _
Wel coast have a total firepower
equal to'that of a fleet of battle-
ships and form a ,.concentrated •
mass of artillery more powerful
than in' any sector of• the Ger-
man front• facing the Russians.
They said. installation of •these
defences had been ordered by,.
Hitlei as a 'result of British com-
Mande . raids en the coast and
operation of• light naval forces
in adjacent w iters:,
The new works include, in . ad
• dition to gun bases, a• series of„
new concrete fortifications and
tank barriers extending back sev-
eraal miles from, the shores:;'
'The work Was, greatly intensi-
, fied„ immediately',.af ter ,the com-
mando. raid of March 27-28 •on
the, german submarine base at
;t, Nazaiie.
Iii Sumatra anti Celebes, the
wild tribes consider eposing thi
. knee immodest. '
R.EG'LAR FELLERS -Only By Invitation
By GENE
BYRNES