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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1942-7-29, Page 2TARGET OF AXIS DRIVE Street sat-ne in great Soviet city of Stalingrad, now menaced by axis armies. VOICE OF 1 E PRESS PROLIFIC COW What is probably a provincial' record for calf production was set np a few days ago by a purebred Shorthorn cow, belonging to Charles S. Atkinson of Anderson. About this time last year the Journal -Argus announced that in the space of five years this cow had produced 10 calves. To this numerous family twins were added last week, bringing the cow's total for six years up to an even dozen. —St. Marys Journal -Argus —o— SCRAP STEEL The proprietor of an 800 -room New York hotel has recovered 10,604 used razor blades weigh- ing 800 pounds behind the dis- posal slits of bathrooms and esti- mates there are 100,000,000 blades resting in all U.S. hotels. Donated to salvage this amount of high-grade steel should help to give the axis a trimming. —Edmonton Journal —o— THAT FISHING FEELING When you feel the urge to go mg, and you'll never go fish - g unless you go fishing, head your car back into the country and pull up alongside some field where a farmer and his family are working. Park your rod and bait in a corner of the fence and ask for a hay fork, And, brother, you'll come back home at night and feel better than a two-year- old. —Trenton Courier -Advocate —0— RATIONED OUT OF EXISTENCE In case you are grumbling about the gasoline allowance, this is to remind your that from July 1 the gasoline ration of six gallons a month to owners of pleasure cars in the British Isles will beentirely eliminated, Every private ear, therefore, will be jacked up till the end of the war. —St. Thomas Times -Journal —o— HOSPITALITY "Grain Elevators Bulging With 1,841 Wheat Carryover; Farmers Storing Record Harvest in Homes, Garages," says a, Kansas City headline, Next we'll hear the famous farmer saying to the equally celebrated traveling sales- man, "Yes, you can spend the night here — if you don't mind sleeping with a sack of oats." —Windsor Star —0— CAPITAL COURTESY According to the Washington newspapers it will soon become necessary to remove all seats from buses and street cars to facilitate transportation in the nation's capital. Looks like the men will have to stand up right beside the women now. —Keene Sentinel —0— NOT RATIONING — WEANING Gasoline rations have been cut from five gallons to four, and may soon be reduced still further. That's not rationing; that's wean- ing. —Peterborough Examiner Need Storage For Big Western Crop Present crop prospects on the Canadian prairies are so good the Western fanners will have to erect additional storage on their farms for more than 200,000,000 bushels of grain, "even allowing for heavy deterioration between now and harvest," Western Retail Lumbermen's Association said in a statement issued last week, The statement said farmers flee a serious shortage of lumber supplies for grain storage and barns to house "the steadily in- ereasing livestock population," and estimated lumber require- ments for grain storage alone at more than 200,000,000 feet, Four Weeks Limit Of Harvest Leave All soldiers pay and allowances will be cancelled for the duration of harvest leave, which in no ease will exceed four weeks and the leave may be cancelled at any time, it was revealed last week in the House of Commons. Only soldiers having experi- ence in farm work will be allowed harvest leave and it will be lim- ited strictly for the purpose which its name implies. Soldiers on harvest leave will not be entitled to medical or dental attention, hospitalization or compensation due to illness, injury or death arising out of this leave. All personnel granted harvest leave will be required to report back to their units not later than October 81, 1942. The grant of harvest leave will be limited, as already intimated by Defence Minister J. L. Ralston in the House, to the following for- mations and units: 1. Home War Establishment of depots. 2. Veterans Guards of Canada, less personnel employed in opera- tional units. 3. Surplus personnel at depots, less those awaiting despatch to training centres or awaiting dis- posal after completing advanced or trade trainings. Wire -Trailing Rocket Wire -trailing rockets were dis- closed officially last week as one of 'Britain's newest weapons of defence against aerial raiders. The weapon, which Inas been in use to protect merchant ship- ping for more than a year, was described as an apparatus which shoots a projectile that opens into a parachute from which long wires dangle. The rockets, fired up as planes swoop to attack, often force them to veer off course or risk engage- ment in the wires. THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events War May Last For Many Years If Asi:, Falls To Axis Powers The magnitude of thie war has been indicated In the titles given to its encounters: The Bette of Fsanoe, the Battle of Britain, 'the Battle of the Atlantic, An even vaster concept is beginning to take shape: Tho Siege of Asia. If Asia holds out the United Na- tions can win a clean' -cut and con- clusive victory, gays the New York Times, If Asia falls the United Nations will not lose the war in the sense that they will surrender to the Axis Powers: when peace le worse than any form of war, as a Hitler peace would be, there will be no surrender. But if Asia falls to the Axis war will simply become chronic, the obief occu- pation of mankind for horrible, endless years. Battle of Asia In the war of 1014-18 the Cen- tral Powers fought inside a circle. They still do so, though they have laughed back the cireunsterence. In this war there is a huger circle, inside of which are the great land masses of Russia, China and India, containing more than a billion hu- man beings. Rommel in Egypt, the whole Nazi .Army on the Rus- sian front, the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands and all the way down the coast and through the islands to New Guinea, are bat- tering at this enormous fortifica- tion• The rest of the war, no mat- ter how widespread, is an attempt to lift the siege. The armies of the British Commonwealth and of the United States may be thought of as relieving forces. When and if the Russians and the Chinese are strong enough to make per- manent reoeoupations of lost ter- ritory - these advances will be sorties in force. Our first task is to see that the beleaguered city of Asia, with its billion inhabitants, does not fall. Our second task is to raise the siege, and in this task tanks, planes and guns sent inside the friendly lines play a part equally with the hoped-for second front. Second Front Remembering that the urging of a second front in Western Europe goes back to the summer of 1941, it is easy to understand the 'im- patience of the layman In Britain and America as he sees the Nazia driving close to Stalingrad. Yet we may Ire sure that United Na- tions strategy has not overlooked the importance of keeping the Russian front alive. We must hope that Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roose- velt will give the order for in- vasion In the West before the Germans can split Russia. Alr Control Necessary Undoubtedly, according to the Christian Science Monitor, the risks of landing a British. -American force in France or Norway have been carefully calculated. One key to them is in the air, literally and figuratively. For the clearest pre- requisite of any invasion attempt 1s an umbrella of air power, How LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Nelaer, /iii��ii/ii/iii- pow INV /. • • ................................. t�: � i NEY�E. 3-44 v '••j'.10eP�.Itt). `C SGS Lee "She doesn't know we're takin' her to the D -E -N -T -I -S -T." far over the Continent the air front can bo nrtaintalned is the most vital question. Britain couldn't hold Norway because her shoat -range fighter planes based in England couldn't protect her land and sea forces there, while the Germans, with short -hop land com- munications could base both bombers and fighters in Norway. One secret of Dunkirk was that there the RAF controlled the air. It is well to remember that it re- quired a week to time 385,000 men across the Channel from Dunkirk —'without equipment. With lin- proved air protection and prior organization of transport, hun- dreds of thousands of men with equipment could be landed in Franco in a few hours. Invasion Risks It is such control that British - American forces need for crossing the Channel and opening a sec- ond front on the Continent. The RAF and the American air force in still undisclosed size now or- gauizing at Irish and English bases probably would be able to place an umbrella over a crossing and even extend it inland far fifty to a hundred miles under present conditions. But would they be able to ]told it and blast German mech- anized forces moving up to a sec- ond front should Nazi air power be concentrated in the West? That is the big question in Washington and London when the risks are calculated. Clearly, the longer British -American air power is built up and the farther East the Nazis are drawn, the smaller. are the risks in the West. We trust equal attention is being giv- en to the risks of waiting too long. To realize how important it is to keep the Russian front alive, one only needs to try to estimate the situation with that 2,000 -mile sap- per of Nazi strength immobilized. That danger might come quickly. Military experts are agreed that Japan 1s only waiting for the most favoralble moment to give Moscow a second front. Berlin's Nightmare We trust, too, that London and Washington are thinking not only of risks but of potential' advan- tages from a second front. It has always been Berlin's nightmare. It would help not only the Rns- aians, who undoubtedly would oounterattack simultaneously if Nazi air power moved West, but the Allies in Egypt. And visible evidence of help near at hand should double and redouble the strength of revolt and sabotage on the Continent. Calculations are necessary to avoid raising false !topes, or making futile sacrifices, but wars are won by imagination. R.A.F Raids Danzig The second World War began at Danzig, the free city on the Bal- ite at the head of the Polish Cor- ridor, on Sept. 1, 1939. Last week the war returned to Danzig when British four -motored bombers div- ed through a Summer thunder storm in broad daylight to raid the city at house=top altitude, The raid—a 1,600 -mile round trip—was significant of Britain's mounting air power. Of more significance was the desperate need of the Un- ited Nations that made the raid necessary. The British fliers over Danzig had orders to attack one target— the submarine building yards. The mounting toll of ships sunk by submarines far away in the At- lantic had made it vitally neces- sery dor the United Nations to whip the U-boat, and over the oceans from Danzig to the Gulf of Mexico a far-flung campaign was under way to that end. _ U -Boat Toll There were some good signs in the battle. The submarines that had operated freely off America's shores in the early months of the yeas'had been driven farther to sea. Convoys had• been instituted in the Caribbean and the an- nouncement had been made that soon they would bo organized in the Gulf of Mexico, But mostly the picture remained black, There were long over-wator hauls to every one of the United Nations' battlefronts. England must be fed by sea. And the unofficial total of United Nations vessels sunk by Axis submarines since the first of the year had reached 375, One incident of the weak pohit- REG'LAR FELLERS—Fair Enough LET'S PLAY 'MAT GAME WITH YOUR HANDS OVER YOUR EARS LIKE THIS AN' YOU''HAVE TO 5UE80 WHAT THE arHER FELLERS ARE SAYIN'ABOUT YOU/ YOU'RE Ir / egad It Is Ye7q Ad Y The smiling gentleman is "Slam. ming Sammy" Snead holding the Seagram Gold Cup he won last year at Lambton as Canadian Open Golf Champion, Last year was Snead's third victory in the open and he would like nothing better than a victory this year to tie the record of four open wins now held by Leo Diegel. The defending champion's entry has not yet been received at local golf headquarters, and for a very good reason. Snead is in the United States Navy, and permis- sion must be secured from his superior officers to allow him to take part in this tournament. A request for this permission has been despatched through the pro, per channels and it is confidently expected that Snead will tee off with the field at Mississauga on August 6th in quest of his fourth win. Since the House of Seagram first presented the trophy in 1936, the names of some of America's outstanding golf stars have been inscribed on the parchment roll. First there was Lawson Little, then "Light Horse" Harry Cooper. Snead's victories came, in 1938, 1940 and 1941, with the 1939 crown going to Harold "Jug" Mc- Spaden who is again entered this year. Standing twenty - two inches from base to top, the Seagram Gold Cup is one of the most cov- eted trophies in golfdom. It rests on a massive base of onyx which contains a gold casket within which is the mseribed parchment roll of annual winners. The gold casket is mounted on heavily chased silver feet with a Corin. thian column at each corner. Two beavers act as supporters of this casket and the Canadian coat of awns is beautifully executed on the front. The cup itself is of Grecian design and made of gold. The superlative workmanship and exquiaite design makes this trophy, which was made entirely, in Canada, one of exceptional beauty seldom seen in athletic trophies. The winning players receive a miniature of the cup for perma- nent possession and have their names inscribed on the parchment roll which reposes in the base of the trophy. First prize money in the Cana- dian Open is $1000.00 with an ad- ditional $200.00 if the winner is a Canadian. In all, $3600.00 is al- loted to be divided among the first fifteen. The Canadian Open this year will be held at Mississauga, just outside of Toronto, on August 0th, 7th and 8th, and as in previous years the field will include many famous United States and Cana- dian Golfing stars. The entire net profits of the Royal Canadian Golf Associa- tion's operations for this year will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross Society. ed it all up in very human terms. In an exc'hauge of 'letters Presi- dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Ohurehill had arranged to curtail the flow of individual gifts and relief supplies from America to Britain. There just wasn't enough room in the available ships for all of them, and guns too. To Fly Out Wounded By Big Transports United States War Secretary Henry Stimson announced that the ' Air Transport Command, which,. since June, 1941, has de- livered more than 6,000,000 let- ters and large quantities of sup- plies to soldiers overseas, now is forming an organization to bring the sick and wounded back from combat zones. To be known as the Air Evacua- tion Group (Medical), the new organization will use transport planes equipped as flying hospit- als for surgery, blood transfusions and other treatinent. The planes will be able to carry as many as forty patients. One of the principal features of the Transport Command has been . to deliver bombers to war theatres, and Stimson said the huge planes always go out with a full load, snail being given a high priority rating because let- ters from home are regarded as essential to high morale among troops. An Innovation Parliament at Ottawa witnessed an innovation one day recently when, for the first time in its history, a lady presided over pro- ceedings in committee, says the Toronto Telegram. The honor fell to Mrs, F. C. Casselman, Edmon- ton East. The • compliments she received were apparently well de- served since she -took charge with evident capacity and within half an hour had called Hon, C. G. Power to order, an experience which hoe rarely fallen to him in a long parliamentary career. "I have nevei'," Mr. Fewer admitted, "been called. to order in a man- ner which I appreciate as much ea I do in this case." To Evacuate Poles To African Homes • The- British radio reports that 10,000 Polish women and children, the families of Gen. Sikorski'e 1 olish troops serving in the •dle East, are to be evacuated to Tanganyika and Uganda in Africa, The Polish. women -and children are at present in Persia and .the BBC said that some of them have come through great hardships. Camps will be built for talar in their new homes 'which Will- be- come small Polish townships. . y GENE !:.YRNES els' 0' ee 40 69' 6V e-, T t CAN4Od CN'r eYOUR9'�RpE ONE aerrisioni Ref. U. 9, re4 QfR<> All rig14.,.o"1