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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1943-3-3, Page 7it will ed na- ter the will be ngc of hope." tg that ;d by ,tation,. :ion to• y not mercy- If ercyrf bre- at has ory? Ft " raft latest pilots. trtment springs tits the means carbon IPelieve echfast 'Noneyliadi Imola, ads. r externally ,olive, sea- Greaselest, apeinteasn r Wit, Aale CaIPTION: rs 3ARR1 od price. Ottawa, tOUGI-1 Hall ,PS perfectly, only 22e. servleo ERVICE %Ju S 8TNR11Th British t MOIL Years, 82 1,,A NTF, D, alters, 82 -Branch, shortage. Oe While payment shipment. . Ldwords, ES INVITED train for Cornwall ,vall, Ont. n ) AIIOTOIR , Ontario. tin ( SUMint. ally Moor Jointed in come the a air ex- lad Welt Totoly, re- , enormous without ser, Please are is the a. written Da - 1 Da- not in Lien, T'roe (8th year 0 St., To• S i WV AN11D t tractors,,. or Sootily, loner, Out. VOICE O F 7' H E PRESS THE SAME BREED 'Phlrty per cent of ('(nttliaais, according to 'a .Gallup Poll sur- vey, haven't heard of John Brack- en. It must he that this thirty per cent is made up of the peo- ple who are called on to answer questions on radio "quiz" pro- grams. Few o1 thein roan to have heard of anybody or anything at all. -Ottawa Citizen. "DO UNTO OTHERS The appeal for books for the Men of the services .is still im- portant. But remember that the men want the sort of books that most of us at home want --books that you hesitate to part ivith- and not the old, dry -as -dust vol- umes in .which you havo no furth- sr interest, -Ottawa Citizen. PARENTAL PROBLEMS Life holds little but worries for parents nowadays. What with trying to convince the bus driver that little Willie is under 5, and the Ration Board that he is over 12, it hardly seems worth while trying to raise 2 lamely.-1�Tind- ear Star. TAXED FOR THE PRIVILEGE In this country people are priv- ileged to ]Halle money for them- selves -some more than others. All privileges must be paid for, and taxes merely repay the man - try for the privilege of earning money and possessing it, -Chatham. News. BETTER THAN FICTION Amazing man, Churchill. Had some novelist put a character in a book who would do the things and make the flights all over that he' cakes, the reading public would have said: "Pooh! Just fic- tion." -Kingston ,Whig -Standard. COLLABORATION There was something • eminent- ly pleasing in the radio quip: "Hitler's tenth anniversary radio speech was written by Goebbels, dcliVered by Goering, and punc- tuated by the R. �.F."--Stratford Beacon -Herald. MOSTLY TONGUES Gossips have a habit of going at it haunter and tongues.-7-- Kitchener ongues.-Kitchener Record, . , NAME CHOSEN Maybe Hitler's next book Will be "Mein Decamp,•." - Brandon Sun, Use of Helicopter In Anti -Sub Fight New York Times Cites Pos.. affinities As Auxitary Weapon• Again the question must be raised whether the Navy has fully exploited the possibilities of the helicopter as an auxiliary weapon in anti-submarine warfare. It seems particularly important that these possibilities should be stud- ied now when there is a desperate shortage of escort vessels. A form of aircraft that can rise ver- tically even from a stationary ship, and that can land in an area hardly bigger than itself, either on a stationary or a moving ship, is not a mere inventor's dream, It exists in the helicopter as de- veloped by the noted airplane de- signer, Igor Sikorsky. Reconnaissance Service Light helicopters might be built for a fraction of the cost even of pursuit airplanes. They could be turned out very quickly. ,A, heli- copter on every merchant. ship or small escort vessel, or at least one or two helicopters to accompany a eonvoy, could perform invaluable ,reconnaissance service in detect- ing the approach or presence of submarines:. Heliopters can' go several times as fast as the fast- est destroyer, with infinitely leas consumption of fuel. If built in larger sizes they could carry bombs -if not ' large enough to lceep it under the surface. Our counter-measures against sub- marines have not been distinguish- ed so far by novelty or imagine - :live 'boldness. Why not try the helicopter? Spread of Religion In Baltic States A growing religious feeling is sweeping the Baltic Stites, and twice the present number of 'churches is needed to minister to th crowds seeking entrance ac- cording to !charts malting Stork - holm. The rapidly mounting interest in religion credited to the oppres- sion being suffered by the Baltic Peoples, has resulted in a serious Bible shortage, The Duple in one Lettic village have eroded a slloov chapel to ac- coninsodate 1.00 persons. Worshir services are hod without benefit Of beat in order to lmevelL the church ,rola melting: AMERICAN GUARDS LINE UP GERMAN SUB CREW PRISONERS Tile entire crew of a German U-boat, captur ed after beaching their sub, is lined up under the watchful eyes of thea American guards before th ey are sent off to an internment camp, The sub- marine was badly damaged by British depth charg es off the North African Coast. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Currenl Events To -day Germans No Longer Fight For Conquest But For Survival However' this war may end in detail, and however difficult and possibly circuitous our road to -Vic- ' tory. may still be, this much has already been decided: Another and perhaps the most formidable at- tempt in history by any one man or nation to conquer the rest .o1 the world has again ended in failure. Prom the Persians and the Isiedes to the Germans, front Darius to hiller, one conqueror after another bestrode the earth Ile knew, left behind him a trail of blood and destruction, and dis- .aippeared. Hitler is the latest of •them, and Hitler is also on the. way out. His dreams of world con- quest lie buried beneath the snows of Russia, and the shadows 'are closing in on him and his deluded nation. Today the Nazis no longer fight. for cduquest.but for survival, and the !tope of even' that is be-, ing drowned out by the thunder of the 'approaching gnus and. the Diu+sting' .bombs. already falling in their nii.dst, says the New York Times. Plan For Conquest Like every 'would-be conqueror in the past, Hitler also thought that he alone had found the key to victory, which in his case beats the name of 'total war -war • l every field and with superior weapons and technique, not only on the battlefield but also in the realm of economy and ideas, Pac- ing the world in which Anglo- An.erican sea power was the de- cisive arni of law and order, he and his collaborators dievoioped new military tactics based on air power, a new strategy based an a "geopolitics," a new economy based on German science, and a new propaganda based on racial hatreds and bite right of might. Air power was to conquer sea power; land conquest of the Bur- asien "heartland" was to deprive Sea power of its bases and there- with drive. it front the seas; and the submarine was to 'nullify sea power even in the supply of its' hone lands. But German science, producing synthetic products from available materials, was to de- prive sea power of its most im- portant weapon, the blockade. Ger- man regimentation was to replace gold with "labor" and thereby nullify the, ancient anxiom that Morley constitutes the 5)11e5's of w:a.r. And the new propaganda was to soften up .the democratic op- ponents through "Fifth Columns" and erect a hierarchical inter. national ,structure dominated by the German 'master race" to pro- vide the new world conqueror with cannon fodder, slaves, food and ammunition. Pian Close To Success Never before had a plan for world conquest been worked out with such. scientific precision, nor was one ever before carried out with such savage ruthlessness. In comparison, even the undertakings of. Alexander, Napoleon and Wil- liam 1I look almost improvised and amateurish. Never before had it quite covered so mach territory. And, one shudders to realize in retrospect, never 'before had one come quite so olose to success, Free World United And yet it faileii. It failed be- . cause this, like all previous similar attempts,' was based on contempt for the unconquerable human spirit that 110 ma.teri^' power Can emelt. It failed because in their extremity the British and the Rus "slaps found hidden wells of strength that enabled them to turn the tables, on the conquerors. I1 -failed because in the conquered countries resistance could not be crushed completely, - and therefore not only required dispersal of the conqueror's forces bat also sapped their moral stamina. ft failed be- cause of the fallacy of the idea that any one. nation has a mon &poly on energy, tar knowledge, or courage; and the Nazis' under- estimation of ;Amer'ica's own pro- duction -and fighting spirit was the most fateful among .their ninny miscalculatious. It failed, above . all, because the world hos learned this much at least, that a common menace can be met only by a com- mon effort, and the assembly of the United Nations is the demon- stration that 1n the future, as in the past', the free world will iv' the end always write to battle against those who. would enslave it. Hitler knows this today, and tomorrow. the Japanese will know It as well. The China Front The eloquent appeal for greeter aid to China made last week by Mme. Chiang I%ai-Slsek came al= most at the moment when dis- patches from China announced the opening of a new Japanese offensive. Attacks h av e been launched at widely scattered points in North, Central and South China. Despite their preoccupa- tion in the South 'Pacific, the Jap- anese Seem to have plenty of or" tillery and their aircraft is active over most of the front. It remains to bo seen if this is the beginning of a 'coordinated major campaign. This is the sixth year of the war in China. It is a land of hope de- ferred and, certainly up. to now, the neglected front of this war. China Is more completely isolated today than at any time since she tools up arms to detenel herself. General Wavell's Burma offensive is still only a minor harassment of the enemy. Wo have indeed managed to get some planes into action in China. But they are too few and too inadequately serviced to check elle Japanese, Now more are promised. But the Chinese know that not even 500 American planes can drive out the enemy while China, ilr General S•Lilwell's salty phrase, remains "the last stop on the line." Nothing less than opening up au adequate supply route turd oguippiug the Chinese Army as a modern fighting force will over- come the Japanese on the front on .which, they are most vulner- able. But before we can develop an adce:nate supply route we must fh•st reconquer Burma; to re- conquer Burma we must have suf- ficient sea power in the Bay of Bengal to prevent the lauding of Japanese reinforcements at Ran- goon; and to make sea power available for this purpose we must first win the present Battle of the Mediterranean. We come back to the conceptiou of a global war, in which all fighting fronts aro merely segments of one mighty atruggl e. Chiang. and Stalin Not At. Conference. It's'not true that Chiang shek was invited to the• Roosevelt, - Churchill meeting, says News- week. Stalin was asked to attend and, since Chiang is fighting only the nation with which Russia is striving desperately to remain on peaceful terms, obviously Stalin couldn't be expected to come to any conference attended •by the Generalissimo. The Red, leader's failure to accept the invitation is thoroughly understood in_both Washington and London. He is personally directing the counter- offensivo. against Germany, and it would have been impossible for him to "send a representative, since no ono can speak for him on military .natters. The hopeful' talk of a "Big Four" strategy board is extremely premature. As long as Russia and Japan manage to remain at peace, China and the Soliet cannot be brought into military - talks with the U. S. and Britain. Seeds Of Victory To Sprout Abroad 500,000,000 garden Seeds to Be Sent To Allied Nations Springtime Victory Gardens will be sprouting in British, Rus- sian, Chinese and other United Nations soil --this 'year from 500,- 000,000 seeds now being dispatch- ed to these countries by the United States Food Distribution Administration and the British, Russian, Chinese and other war relief societies here. With the United Nations count-. ing heavily on such gardens to alleviate food 'shortages all across the map, housewives and children will be running furrows and drop- ping American -grown "seeds of victory" in British parks and castle moats, in once -ravaged Russian farmlands and even in shell craters, when spring rolls around. Put Up in Kits The Food Distribution Admin- istration is supplying the bulk of the seeds, but is assisted by the relief societies. The British War Relief Society, having fashioned a kit containing sufficient seeds for vegetables for a fancily of five for an entire year, has prepared 125,000 of these and sent hall that number already to the Bri- tish Isles, where they will be dis- Bluey and Curley of the Anza.es. (ht CALLING DOR VOLUNTEERS To ( REMOVE A 1lME-BOMB. 1T num' l E lyLna ANY MINUTE ANY SECONU,// "A hurry -up call." FOR FIRST TIME GRAPES IN LEAD OVER APPLE CROP Department of Agriculture Report $howl Grapes ivIost Valuable Fruit Crop in Ontario in 1942 - Grapes in 1942 for the first time took the lead over apples as the. most valuable fruit crop of Ontario aecordiug'to the monthly crop report just issued of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. The cash return to the grape growers of Ontario in 1942 was $1,701,000, an increase of $512,300 over 1941. The grape erop WAS of exceptional size 80,000 tans against 22,500 tons the previous Year, In spite of the unusually large • production the satisfactoryaver- age price of 347.27 penton rets obtained by the growers. As evidence of the firm demand was the fact that the average price, obtained was 32.27 over the price of 345.00 per ton paid by the wineries. Each year the price paid by Ontario wineries :s agreed upon between the grape growers and the wine producers and then approved as equitable by the Ontario Liquor Control Board. In 7 out of the last 10 years this agreed upon price hits been higher than the open market price, Tho grape growers also have the additional market protection of the provision' of. the Liquor Control Act that there must be at least the juice of one ton of grapes in each 250 gallons of finished Ontario wine. Of the large 1942 grape crop 70% (25,000 tons) was purchased by the wineries, a striking example of economic importance of the Ontario Wine Industry to the grape growers of the Niagara Peninsula and of the benefits of sound co-operative marketing between grower and processor. • Apples were second in value with a production of 616,950 barrels - valued at 31,040,600. This was 2050 barrels and $445,300 greater than in 1941. The comparative figures (1941-1942) on the balance of the fruit crops are as follows: Fruit Unit Production Value 1941 Cantaloupes bus. 149,200 $ 1.02,000 Cherries bus. .196,300 750,400 Peaches bus. 700,000 1,203,000 Pears bus. '"367,200 240,900 Pimps bus. 143,500 208,600 Raspberries qts. 4,057,700 608,600 Strawberries qts. 6,118,000 550,900 Production Value 1942 142,300 3 138,000 245,600 945,600 795,000 1,309,200 307,900 444,500 125,000 206,900 4,875,000 901,400 5,447,300 671,200 It will be noted that -cantaloupes, plums, raspberries, straw- berries, sweet and sour cherries brought higher prices than 111 1941. Peaches while Iairger in gross returns because of the increased quan- tity produced slightly less in unit value. tributed through the National Al- lotments Association. One million families availed then:selves of this service last year, and the aim is to double the total this Spring. The kits cost the donor $1 and include 17 packets --with 11 kinds of vege- tables such as turnips, onions, beets,. beaus, carrots and parsnips -those readily stored against the - winter. Plenty -For Horne Gardens More than 1,000,000 pounds of seeds are being dispatched to the U. S. S. R. by the Russian War Relief Society. Farm crews will plant these seeds on soil once trod by German invaders and in plots around newly established factories . "beyond the Urals." One arid -western seed dealer do- nated 5,000 pounds of tomato seeds. Chinese families, too, will be assisted by money sent; from United China Relief headquarters rters for . purchase of seeds in that Farms on Malta country. - The United States Department 135 irrigation, intelligent , crop of Agriculture said Americans rotation and terracing, the people needn't fear that this heavy outgo of Malta have over 42,000 acres will - jeopardize American victory under cultivation out of a total gardens. There are still sufficient area of 60,000 acres. seeds at home to promote a do- mestic Victory Garden plan call- ing for garden plots on .the na- tion's 6,000,000 farms and in 12,- 000,000 backyards in cities, towns and villages. Seagull Plane Can Land On the Sea The Curtiss-Wright Corpora- tion .has announced that a new type of plane, the Curtiss Sea- gull, is being delivered to the British Fleet. • The Royal Navy calls the ship the Seamew, tke European naive for seagulls. The plane is design- ed to operate from battleships and cruisers. It is capable of fly- ing long distances. On return it can land on the sea to be picked up by its warship or it can land on a carrier. The Searnew carries two men. • LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher aq,-x> Metered or c„n,„ndetmt rte.. re0ut 'To to11 you the truth about school, Pep, 1 believe 1've started something l can't finish." - yemawybotemoyebroesscaramaymbabig 1 ' LIMIDER THE VIET cANITEEN By Gurney (Australia) WHY INI AtT `You SAY �'J(.CR 'S,) li MICIRT G0 oal, ll 41,