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
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just delivered a most interesting'„
lecture, and was now conducting a
question session.
A timid little man 'down front
held up Isis hand and was recog-
niied.
"Doctor," he said most respect •
fully, "did I understand you to say
that a good poker player could suc-
cessfully handle any sort`of.-execu-
tive job?"
"That's exactly what I said," was
the confident reply.
"Tell me, - Doctor,:.' asked the -
little man, "what would a good
poker player, want with a job?"
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