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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1947-06-05, Page 2Military Survey Shows World's Troubled Spots Nearly two years after VT -Day, almost 19,000,000 men are under arms throughout the world and about 40 nations are spending at .least $27.,400,000,000 a year on asma- ments, it has been revealed by -Han- son W. Baldwin, military expert of the New York Times, as .the result of a world military survey conducted by that newspaper. The survey reminds us that in this second year of "peace," three, large scale colonial or civil wars,involving millions of men, are raging in the world, and, at least 2,000,000 troops are occupying or garrisoning terri- tory outside their own national,_ borders, says the Sault Daily Star, Civil War in China The great civil war in China in- volves 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 men on the Nationalist side and 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 on a Communist side, in addition to millions of civilians caught up in the bitter strife, Gen. Baldwin estimates. And as an un- happy corollary, it is estimated that 80 per of impoverished 'China's national budget is devoted to the military -a percentage far e-cceeding that of any other nation in'the world. In Indo-China, the Viet Natn has a force of about 100,000 in the field —chiefly of guerilla nature, but with some artillery, and backed by perhaps 1,000,000 irregulars and a "Self De- • fense Corps." Seeking to crush the Viet Namese are 90,000 to 110,000 French troops, Small French forces in 1[adagascar also are struggling against the guerilla attacks of island insurgents. In the Netherlands Indies 100;000 men of the Indonesian Republican Government's army, backed up by perhaps 21-0,000 native guerillas and irregulars, oppose something over 100;000 troops of the Netherlands army. Other Troubled Spots The surrey lists other troubled spots. Several regiments of troops are involved in a revolution'in Para- guay. In India 87,000 British troops plus perhaps 1,000,000 men of the Indian Andy—the latter rapidly be- ing demobilized—are attempting to keep order, Palestine is garrisoned by about 65,000 harassed British troops. In the Philippines several thousand insurgent Hukbalahaps are battling some of the 25,000 military police who are the first unit, of a new Philippine army. Russian armed forces, according to the survey, remain the largest in the world, except for the ill -armed Chinese masses. But even small na- tions, bowed beneath crashing taxa- tion and many of them wrecked by the war and struggling under major economic burdens, are shown to be allocating major parts of their bud- gets to military expenditures and at- tempting to maintain large military forces—even thought these could do little against rite strength of any major power. New Weapon of War The, survey indicates that the na- tions are spending perhaps $10,000,-, 000,000 marc on armaments than they did on the eve of tear in 1938, and probably have more men in uni- form than they did then, although part of the increased cost is a "paper" one. Afore disturbingly, the statistics In- dicate a parallel between the present era and the post -World War 1 era of 1919.22, when an armaments ram threatened. Then, however, the race centred on naval construction. To- day, Gen. Baldwin estimates, mil- lions, perhaps billions of dollars in concealed funds—only part of them indicated in the survey—are being spent on research and development in connection with the atomic bomb, 'bacteriological warfare, guided mis- siles, jet planes and other new weapons. Obviously, no nation feels it Lias attained the security which was its goal in World War II; and it is hard to see any immediate proba- bility of an assurance of security which would relieve the world of the crushing burden revealed by this survey. More People Needed To Open Up Canada There has been some talk of hold- ing down on immigration until every last person in Canada is working or until we have what some so glibly define as "full employment" Wheth- er such a thing is possible, outside a slave state, is highly ddubtful, but .even reasonably close to it is simply. out of the question so long as our country remains only partly devel- oped. Until we open up far more mines, land; fisheries and other natural wealth and build the second- ary industry to go with it we will have no idea of how many people this Dominion can employ.-- Finan- cial Pbst. • Pers arc nor the only ; insects that. n•' ' e hone -y. Some species of :wasps and the Loney -ant also main it. Army's New Tractor Landing Gear May Outmode Airports—The newly un veiled tractor landing gear seen on the bomber pictured at' left, above, will eliminate pilots' present worries over landing on ground _'that is soft, rough or deep sand, according to the Air Technical. Service officials at Wright Field; Ohio: Preliminary tests, -in soft mud and loose sand, where a normal plane would have bogged down helplessly, were completely successful. Engineers foresee the tractor gear outmoding today's huge "airdromes whose surface has to be "just so" to.accotnmodatelarge, heavy planes, A -new -;era in military aviation is seen, as tractor -equipped planes will not be handicapped by lack of airdromes in remote areas. At right is a dose -up of the revolutionary landing gear. A loaded Douglas A-20 attack bomber, equipped—with' the tractor gear, taxied speedily through soft mud, revved up in soft ' sand, took off in 1100 feet of similar mud -sand terrain and landed hinder the same conditions, Gear is simply a continuous smooth outer belt rolling on r"bogies: ' Nice Old Girl By - MARGARET COBB When- Sally Carter spied the crisp green of the bill lying against the white of the sidewalk that bordered the engineering building, she dropped the handle of the baby carriage and swooped down upon it. "Look, Richey, look!" she cried happily to the cheerful bright-eyed boy in the carriage. "A ten -dollar bill—a real, brand new ten -dollar bill, I found it ntysef, and I can spend it any way I please!" Turning the carriage briskly to return the way she had come, Sally sped her son back toward the trailer camp that„nestled at the foot of the hill, a haven for married student veterans. Once inside her trailer ,home she hurriedly hung the pinafore in the tiny clothes closet and reached for her 'best skirt and sweater. "Do t Sally was unwrapping. her .new'pur- chases at home, Richard Carter was frantically going through his pock- ets. "I know I brought it with me," Ise stuttered as he searched one pocket after another. "Good grief, what'll I do? It's all the money we had left for the rest of the month —a nice new ten -dollar bill. I must have dropped it when I opened my billfold sometime today." A moment later, as he was ex- plaining his plight t0 the secretary,. he was relieved to see a quick look of comprehension in her eyes. "You haven't had it turned in, have you?" he finished slowly. - "Why, yes," she replied slowly, " I have. At least, a young lady gave me a ten -dollar bill this Morn- ing and told me she'd found it out- side, It most have been yours. Wait a minute, I put it in my pocketbook for safekeeping." Reaching into a drawer in the desk,, Miss Hanson pulled out a well-worn black • bag; After a moment's search she found a bill, tucked away with several one -dollar ones, that was crisp and new and had the numeral "10" in its corner. "Here it is," she said, handing it over with a smile. The boy took the stoney with a grateful grin. "Well, thank good- ness—we can eat for the rest of the ,month, anyway," he said as he left the office. "Thanks a Mil- lion, Miss Hanson I" Machines Rout `Man With The -Ioe' The super -high cost of labor is spreading La epidemic of machine - mindedness among United States farmers, With record and near -record crops corning up, fanners now have an estimated -labor force of only 7.2 million workers—about twomillion less than six years ago. With the "hands" flocking to city jobs, .a Wisconsin farmer itesw - pays 81 an hour for labor he got -at $30 a month plus room and board a decade ago. To meet the rural clamor for machines, new battalions of mech- anical marvels will clank over the country's farms this Summer. They 'will begin the final rout of the man with the hoe. They will round out the job already well started by such'me5hanized labor- saving pioneers as the tractor and the threshing machine. , Spearheading the blitz will be. such relatively new machines as the beet harvester. It has a be- wildering complement .of tools that first snip off the beet's crown and leaves, then- dig down to''bring up the vegetable itself. This machine will harvest -six tons of beets an hour in a field producing+ 20 tons to the acre.. New types of potato harvesting machines lack human discernment. They are apt to mistake rocks for the genuine product. But other- wise they can shame a crewsof sten you know what I'ut going to do with this money first thing, Richey?" she cried happily. "I'm going to get you a .play pen, so you can stay out in the fresh air all day long and have plenty of roost to wiggle around in," Sally dropped the sweater to give the baby a quick, impetuous hug, "We'll get. Daddy that pipe be wants, and maybe there'll be enough money left over to get me some dress material!" Speeding joyfully across the cam- pus toward town, her hand•sfraying often to the moeey in her pocket, Sally suddenly slowed her pace, her face sober. "Oh, dear," she though!, "I've been so happy about having some money all my own that it hadn't even oc- curred to c-curred'to nae that ft belongs toVOW- oneelse. Oh, dear!" Parking the carriageat the door to the engineering building, she entered, hesitated a moment outside a door marked "Office," and went in. The secretary looked up as Sally laid the hill on the desk. "I found this outside the building, Miss'Hanson, so I guess it belongs to someone in hare," She was talk- ing fast, turning to leave. "Wait a minute, Mrs. Carter," the older woman called. "You uaay as well keep it. l don't see how we can ever find out who it belongs to. 'Finders keepers', you know. Now you just run along downtown and see what you can find to buy"' * "Do her good to have .some money all her own," Iyliss Hanson muttered as the door closed. "Of course I should have held it a day or two in anyone asked about it, but that child probably hasn't had a dollar to spend as she likes since Richard entered herel" In :mid-afternoon, about the time Canada's "Orson Welles'-Winnipeg-born h l e t c her Markle, 26 -year-old writer -actor -producer, has jut 6.eseed a 3 -year contract with C13S. Following outstanding radio and movie successes in Toronto, London, New York avid Hollywood., Markle' is writing and directing a one-hour dramatic, proglraln for CBS which will replace As sbus Godfrey's 'Talent Scouts:' and Norman Corn°in's "One World Flight." , by the speed with Which they dig, partly clean and load spuds. Most of .the -mechanical ."soldiers" being marshaled. for the mass In- vasion of U.S. farms aren't entirely new. But they've ,not been in general use before because the - average farmer couldn't afford them. Now, itis pockets are bulging with cash -realized over the past few years from his. high -price crops. And he's getting the equipment for more efficient farming. Such devices as the - posthole digger, the corn picker and the -hay baler are becoming tyle', property of the run -of -the mill farmer as well as the bigger operators. These machines do mechanically the tasks their names suggest. Another popu- lar machine is the forage cutter. It rolls down a hay field, chops up the feed suitable for the dairy cows. and loads it for delivery to the silo or barn .-mow—all without benefit of human hands. 'The extent of farm equipment buying was0 measured in a survey of nine -major agricultural areas. It showed that 'orders are so heavy manufacturers can't promise some types,. of.. Machinery sooner than three years hence. Voice Of The Press The Dove of Peace It appears that a new type of sitter is now needed, viz: Someone to sit up with :a sick dove. —Kitchener Record In Persia In Persia, during his spouse's spring cleaning, the husband can always take hold of the magic Carpet and beat it. ' —..Q.uebec Chronicle -Telegram Want To Worry? Prominently posted. ;p •the wall o: a business bstabhsaiten 1s this bit of advice "lerorjeeRiUM for eight hours a clay and'dbn't"lvorry; then in time you may become boss and work 18 hours a day and have all the worries." Kitchener_ Record Courage Looking in on the boxing cham- pionships, the thought came that it calls fdr some unusual kind of courage' to travel half ivay across a continent merely to be punched in the face for three to nine min- utes before taking the train back home. • —Port Arthur News -Chronicle Theatre Need Another thing greatly deeded is non -crackling cellophane for those disrobe confectionaries in theatres. -Kitchener Record' French Exports France, like Britain, ,has been en- gaged in a great drive to increase exports, 'find like Britain Inas achieved a great measure of suc- cess. .At the end of 1916, it has been announced, PITO ell exports stood at 61 per cent of her imports, a figure nearly as good as the 66 percent average in 15118. —Ottawa Citizen ' POP --Something to A -Door you HAVE A , HEAD L,ttGF A Doo R. IGNoe, Didn't Need One The . famous psychologist had just delivered a most interesting'„ lecture, and was now conducting a question session. 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