The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-02-27, Page 7i|i,H^IIII| II .. .......
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by Alma S. Wittlin
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PERSONALITY PARADE
by Lawrence Hilbert
Thursday, February 27, 1941
ONTARIO LEGISLATURE OPENED
3.WINGHAM. ADVANCE-TIMES
Lieutenant-governor Matthews takes the salute pt I lature of Ontario. . Standing directly behind the
the «■’ ‘-ntieth
HITLER’S GUNS USE
THE PEOPLE’S FOOD
. This is total war all right. It is be
ing fought everywhere — in your kit-*
.. -chen, for instance, whether you live
in Buenos Aires or Vancouver, or
'Singapore or Sydney.
As a woman, I feel that any woman
■anywhere who can look at a well-
stacked pantry should thank heaven
for two things. She should be grate- '
ful that the essential articles of the
family diet have come her way and,
in the second place, she should be
glad' that they have not gone to Hitler.
For if Hitler had them, they would'
1>e used, not for food, merely, but im
many cases for the manufacture of
weapons of destruction.
In Nazi Germany parts of aeroplan
es are made of milk, the fuel for some
of these aeroplanes is provided by al
cohol extracted from potatoes, and
"butter is made into explosives.
This may sound somewhat fantastic,
but the whole development of the Ger
man ‘‘substitute" industry and the
Nazis’ exploitation of the most unlike
ly materials for the manufacture of
armaments by means of which they;
hope to gain the mastery of the world I
is even more fantastic than that.
In countries with a democratic and
humane outlook it would be thought
shameful to convert foods essential to
the health of the population ' into
bombing aeroplanes and explosives. A
very, different morality, however, ob
tains in Nazi Germany.
Those people who are concerned
just now lest the civil population of
Europe should be reduced to starva
tion as the result of the British block
ade should bear in mind that Hitler
is using only a part of the food sup
plies available to him to feed the peo
ples of the subject countries, and is us
ing the remainder as raw material for
his armaments industry. This, more- [
over, has been his practice over a per
iod of several years.
They Go Short to Make Wai-
Tl^e shortage of foodstuffs in Ger
many began to make itself felt as
early as 1933, when the National Soc
ialists came into power and began
their preparations for a world war.
For nearly eight years now the Ger
man housewife has been fighting a los
ing battle against malnutrition on be-
‘ THE purest form in which
TOBACCO! CAN BE SMOKED/’
Let me show ydu the proof.
Then place your order through
me.No writing. No money or
ders* No bother. Personal at-
tention—prompt delivery.
At C* Adams Wingham
CHICKS ON DISPLAY
half of her family. She has had -to put [’
1 up with meatless days, to go short of
fats and to make do with skim-milk.
Ever since 1934 uniformed and arm
ed Nazis have gone round inspecting
the kitchens of private households in
order to ensure that no more than the
prescribed amount of food is being j
prepared,
On “one-dish Sundays” restaurants
might serve only one-course meals*
The hungry customers were told for
their consolation that 30% of what
they paid for their scanty meal went
to provide food for the poor.
“ The truth is that the German people
have been kept short of food on s-uch
pretexts for years now.
There were several reasons.
The reduction of the meat and fit
rations set a. Jimit to expenditure on
-food and increased the capacity of the
population to pay taxes which were
used to pay for the manufacture of
armaments.
By refraining from importing such
commodities as* tea and coffee the
Nazis were able to use their foreign
currency for importing raw materials
for the manufacture of armaments.
Moreover, the' actual foodstuffs
which the population was made to do
without were utilised as raw materials
for armaments.
So the various reason for stinting
the people all boiled down to one —
preparing for war.
How It Is Done
Let us look a little more closely at
the technique of this modern witches’
cauldron. First, let us take that home
ly article of food, the potato. Power
alcohol, which is used for the internal
combustion engine in place of petrol
can be distilled from it. Ten tons of
potatoes make about a ton of alcohol,
which can be mixed with petrol in the
proportion of at least 20:80. Thus the
300,000 tons of potatoes removed from
Norway into Germany will enable
120,000 tons of petrol to be increased
to 150,000.
Or, again, let us take milk. Butter
is made out of milk, and an essential
component of explosives such as glyc
erine out of the butter. Even skimmed
milk is converted into plastics which
are of great use in the manufacture of
‘aircraft. Whale oil, which might be
used for making margerine, supplies
oil for U-boats.
The moment the Nazis occupy a
country, strict rationing of foodstuffs
is introduced. Even Denmark and
Holland, countries in which agricul
ture flourishes, are suffering at the
moment from a shortage of bread, po
tatoes and fats. ’
Foodstuffs are all the time export
ed to Germany from all the occupied
countries on a gigantic scale. From
Denmark 20 (o 30,000 head of cattle
are transported to Germany weekly;
from Norway 200 tons of fish daily*
In many -parts of Denmark and
France the entire potato crop has been
purchased for Germany and a potato
is now for the Danes and -the French
a rare delicacy costing six times as
much as it did in peace-time.
The Right Hon. Arthur Blaikie Pur
vis, chief of the British Purchasing
Commission in New York, gives his
services to the Empire free—but he
has to accept 'the cheque to make his,
appointment legal.
Mr. Purvis, who in peace-time is
president and managing director of
Canadian Industries Ltd. (better
known as C.I.L.), and a director of
many other important Canadian firms,
started life 51 years ago with no ‘sil
ver sp.oon’ in his mouth.
Educateuat a Tottenham Grammar
School, he began his career as an of
fice boy with a trading company in
the City of London. Next he went
with Nobels Explosives (since merg
ed with the giant Imperial Chemical
Industries) as a clerk in Glasgow, and ,
won rapid promotion. . -I
TOLD NEVER WOULD WORK (
AGAIN. When war broke out in 1914 (
he ’was only 24, but he was sent to -
An ex-office boy who spent over
$2,S00,060,600 for the British Empire
in the United States last year, recent
ly received his salary cheque for the
entire year it amounted to Otte Dol
lar exactly the weekly salary he re
ceived when he started his business j
career, !
INTERESTING WAR
sidelights!
The people of Manchester are very
p,roud ofoa certain park. Some time
ago all its railings were removed to
make scrap metal for the war, and
now only its massive gates remain
standing . . Believe it or not — every
night at dusk the park-keeper can be
seen locking those gates with great
1 ceremony!
* * *
A lad of 12 was trapped beneath the
debris of a bombed building and when
rescuers reached him he was in great
pain with internal injuries, and had
to be given morphia before they could
extricate him. Just before he lost
consciousness he muttered: “I must be
AT -v 1 T’ jf* ’7° r pretty dirty. Isn’t it lucky this is bath New York to handle munitions deals, nigdit?”
He worked ‘so hard that his health
broke down, and doctors despaired of
his ever being able ito resume business
life.
Mr. Purvis is a determined man,
however, and , he made a complete re
covery. After spending some time in
South America and South Africa, he
was sent to Canada where he has re
mained ever since.
Immediately after the United States
amended its Neutrality Act in Nov
ember 1939, Mr. Purvis flew to New
York to head the Allied Purchasing
Commission and displayed so much
energy and persistence that Americans
were awestruck. ,
“What a guy!” exclaimed one New
Yorker. “He’ll be wanting to buy the
Empire State Building next!” — and
he would — if it were necessary to the
Empire's war effort,
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FORTUNATE ACCIDENTS. It is
amazing how big a part in the life of
nations and individuals is played by
Accident, or Coincidence. Take those
Flying Fortresses we've been hearing
so much of recently; we might not
have had them if one inventor had not
knocked off an admiral’s hat, or an
other crashed in a friend's plane.
Donald Do_uglas, ithe famous Amer
ican plane manufacturer, was keen on
airplanes even as a boy, but his par
ents insisted that he should have a
naval career, and so to Annapolis
Naval Academy he went. But he had
j a hobby — model planes, and one af
ternoon when showing a fellow-cadet
how his latest model worked, it .flew
out of an open window and knocked
off an admiral’s hat.
As a result, Douglas was severely
reprimanded and left the Naval Acad
emy. He got a job with Glenn Martin,
another plane manufacturer, became
the firm’s chief engineer within a few
years, then elected to start' his own
factory. And now his Flying Fortress
es arc being ardently sought by Bri
tain, who cannot get enough of them.
Bill Boeing, who also turns out fly
ing fortresses, made a fortune out of’
the lumbering business before he be
came interested in flying machines.
I One day a friend took him up for a
spiti4J but the plane crashed soon after
leaving die ground, Boeing was not
hurt, but he was so incensed that he
decided he could make a better plane
himself — and he did.
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TOOK GIBRALTAR TO AVOID
SCOLDING, lit is difficult to realise
that Gibraltar, tins mighty fortress that
guards the gateway to the Mediterr
anean, came Into the hands of the Bri
tish because an admiral, on his way.
home to face a severe reprimand,
thought he’d take back an offering to,
placate the gods at the Admiralty in
London.
,Sir George Rooke* a very capable
admiral, tried in vain to break through
I the combined Spanish and French
fleets and reach the town of Cadiz,
On his way home on a summer morn
ing in 1704, he was dejectedly con
templating the ire of the Admiralty,
when the saw the Rock of Gibraltar
towdring into the mist,
His nimble mind toyed with the no
tion that maybe the Lords of the Ad
miralty wotild overlook his previous
failure if he were to capture the rock,
regarded as impregnable. The idea ap
pealed to him —• and three days later
British sailors climbed the steep cliffs
before dawn and fell on ithe unsuspect
ing Spanish with cutlasses.
It took but a few minutes to over
come the enemy, and Gabraltar has re
mained British the long years since,
despite being in grave danger.o'n many
occasions. However, it is sad to re
late that the gallant admiral did not
escape reproof when he reached Lon
don.
Now that perhaps its greatest test
looms ahead, it is interesting to recall
that Gibraltar withstood its longest
siege when the French and Spanish
forces blockaded and assaulted it for
nearly four years, from June 1779 to
March 1783,
Shortage of food was the greatest
problem and at one period the gov
ernor of the Rock gave his last re- _______________________ ____
maining food stores ito his men and ~
himself subsisted on thistles, picked fortresses built out in the sea. There. of the sitove .
from,the Rock itself and boiled by his are many of them and 4*^ simply | it’s five
cook. ’ bristle with guns and machinery, ,
PHIL OSIFER OF
AMERICANS WITH CANADIAN WINGS
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Two young American boys, now ready for over- Uplands, air station vuawa. rney are Leading
seas service, who received their Royal Canadian Air ?•* Ma£’jjre< LEFT, of East Orange,
„ . . . x. N.J., and Leading r« - -■tuice wings at a wings presentation ceremony at Kansas
near Ottawa. _They are Leading
...... _. ... Maguire, LLF±, ui r.ast orange, N.J., and Leading Aircraftmen G. C. Daniel, of Strong
City, Kansas,
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A faint “burr burr”
the debris of a wrecked house in a
London suburb. A policeman, investi
gating, found the telephone receiver
dangling over a chasm into the cellar,
and when he put the receiver to his
ear, he heard the operator say: “Will
you please replace the receiver?”'The
went on to explain that regulations
dictated her action and .the rules made
no mention of receivers removed by
bombs 1
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Fifth .Column note — in reverse:
When a squadron of British planes
bombed an oil depot in Denmark, they
destroyed two storage tanks, but left
a third unitouched. The third one was
the only one that was empty!
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Part of Britain’s defences against 1
invasion consist of steel and concrete <
. . and in the afternoon
o’clock when the sun hits that
bare, worn spot in front of the side
board. She has variations for the time
of year and on dull days, you can al-
LAZY MEADOWS 'vays d?en,d on -?e, ?a“T ' T'
because he has prided himself on be-
ing at our box at a quarter of 'three
every fine day for the past thirteen
years. "
Have you ever watched a man plow
ing on a cold, Fall day? He’ll tramp
’ back and forth . . back and forth . .
: with his head bent to escape the driv
ing force of a cold, Fall rain . . and
then you’ll see him sitop . . at the end
of a furrow . . pull out his watch whe
ther it’s going or not . . look at the
horses . . take his hat partly off, and
scratch his head, and then make one
or two more furrows more as the case
may be, and unhitch. He’ll waiter the
horses, feed them . . stop to wash in
the back woodshed and be in the house
at the stroke of twelve.
! Telling time when you’re doing
chories is largely from force of habit.
You usually get to the .barn at .the 1
same time each morning . . and per- j
form much the same work every day.
By the time you get through pul.piqg
the turnips or putting down the hay
or feeding the hens or some other job,
you know that the time has • rolled
around to the point where it’s dinner- j
time.
Telling the time is a combination
of what y’our inner man and the out
er man have ito say on the subject.
The inner man is clamouring for “vit-
tles” and the outer man watches for
the signs.
My Grandfather carried a watch ev
ery day of his life. He had a little key
in a pocket on the bib of his overalls
and he used to religiously wind the
watch every night when he went to
•bed. T' * __
him and say, “What time is it?” He
=21 of his head, take the watch out and)
By Harry J. Boyle
“TELLING TIME”
Country people are never much to
go by clocks.. In fact, I’ve ^ound that
few clocks in farm homes ever work,
and the majority of watches carried
by farmers are the machinery type
■that come at a dollar and a quarter
delivered and itell time in a general
i sort of way. It’s quite an interesting
: experiment to watch the way folks in
. the country tell time.
. Here at Lazy Meadows our kitchen
clock has been a “hit and miss” affair'
for ages. Some days it runs fine, and
some days it stops and starts and runs
fast or slow depending a good deal on
the way it feels. But Mrs. Phil has!
time.
In the morning she always knows
when it’s ten o’clock by the telephone.
Just as regular as can be the telephone |
1 rings three longs and two shorts as
Tabitha Maby calls up' Mrs. Higgins
for the gossip of the neighbourhood.
Of course that’s the general call for
folks on our line to all pick up the
receivers and listen. It makes you
laugh to see the way.'they always care
fully place one hand over, ithe mouth
piece and then slip the receiver off the
hook, so’s no one will know they are
listening. Yet, everybody on the line
knows that everybody else listens.
That’s only one example of the ways
to tell the time. In ithe summertime
it's gauged by the way the sunlight
comes in the windows. It’s twelve
o’clock when it hits the rug in front
emanated from long ceased to depend on the clock for
| for depreciation; from this amount
I there was set aside a reserve of $568,-
524.72 for depreciation of buildings
and equipment, leaving the net profit,
as shown above. '
“A comparison of the operations for
1940 with those of 1939 shows that al
though tljere was a substantial in
crease in sales for the year just ended,
there was a reduction on the average
in the margin of profit, with the re
sult that after making provision for in
creased income taxes and for the ex
cess profits tax, the net profits as re
flected in the Consolidated Balance
Sheet were less than in 1939 by $260,-
988.36.
The net earnings for the year were
equivalent to $4.25 per share on the
257,260 shares of common stock out
standing, as compared with $5.25 a
share in 1939; $7.49 a share in 1938;
$4.14 per share in 1937, and $4.73 per
share in 1936.
“The total amount of all taxes paid
or to be paid by or through the year
1940, amounted to $2,503,188 in com
parison with $1,291,563 in 1939—an in
crease of $1,211,625,
ANSWERS TO
THIS WEEK’S QUIZ
1. Australia was originally known as
New Holland.
2. Tenno. (Mikado only means the
occupant of a palace).
3. Queen Victoria.
4. Nelson, for whom British sailors
wear black scarves.
5. Franklin.
6. Italy, in 1869.
| Men give counsel; but thejf give not
the wisdom to profit by it. To ask
wisdom of God, is the beginning of
MORE HUDSON BOMBERS FOR BRITAIN
Here is a scene of activity on the btoduction line of the Lockheed 0
Aircraft Co. nt Burbank; Califs where the celebrated British Hudson
bombers mentioned in frequent dispatches from overseas are born. Al
though builders ate expanding the Lockheed factory al a furious rate*
production ft outstripping buildlrist snaco.
,, —. vw 1-----------'i '-"-'u, is me DegI’ve often seen someone stop wisdom.—Mary Baker Eddy.
anA eav “iXZU-i- k?” I*v
■ would look at the sky, scratch the side
of his head, take the watz-n
squint at it for a long moment and
then he would tell the time. I never
thought anything about it, until one |
day I noticed that when he told the
'time there was five minutes difference
in what he said and what the watch
told. I asked him and he laughed and,
said, “Heck, Phil, I never could tell
what a watch tells. I've never been|
able to read time from a watch in my
life. I can tell it within five minutes,
but people don't believe you unless
they see you looking at a watch.”
GOODYEAR SALES
UP IN 1940
Earnings Equivalent to $4.25 Per
Share i
■
A..1.
Temptations are sure to ring your
door-bell, but it’s your fault if you
ask them to stay.
They that know God will be hum
ble; they that know themselves can
not be proud.—Flavel.
YOUR EYES NEED
ATTENTION
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ation enables us to give you
Clear, Comfortable Vision
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Optometrist
Phone 118 Harriston
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At the Annual meeting of the Good
year Tire and Rubber Company of
Canada Limited, the report of the Dir
ectors showed that the company has
experienced an increase in sales and
had earned a net profit of $1,391,513.
The most important change in the
company balance sheet as compared
1 to a year ago is a reduction of approx
imately $2,300,000 in the total amount
of the cash and government bonds and
the investment of this money in stocks
of raw materials, goods in process and
finished material, thus the inventories
show an increase of $2,400,000 over
1930.
In presenting the above facts, Mr.
A. G. Partridge, president of the com
pany also said: — “The operations of
the combined companies for the year
resulted in a profit of $1,960,638,49 af
ter charging all manufacturing, selling
and administrative expenses^ income
and other taxes, but before providing
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