HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1944-01-06, Page 2SHIS t CURIOUS WORLD BY gUSOrt 1
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ONE"or the best kpnwn groups of stare in the heavens is the
Pleiades, which frequently is erloneoUsly called the "little clipper."
These "Seven Sisters" figured p eminently in ancient celebrations
of the beginning of spring, since they once marked the sun's place
in the heavens as it crossed the equator traveling north.
NEXT: xylem red hail fell.
OTTAWA REPORTS
That New Regulations Will
Tighten Control On Purchase
Of Farm.Machinery
Farm machinery production and
use is being watched, anxiously
by the Government these days.
Ottawa is very conscious of the
fact that vital food production
may be affected by any miscaleu-
rations of the requirement of the
farmers in this direction.
In spite of the fact that quotas
for manufacture of farm equip -
went have been very considerably
enlarged during reeent months,.
new equipment is still difficult to
obtain compared with normal
times. It is still necessary to ra-
tion a wide variety of items of
farm machinery and equipment
and to otherwise control the sale
of these goods, and the Adminis-
trator of Farm Machinery for the
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
has announced .some new regu-
lations which tighten the control
over conditions under which new
farm machinery is sold.
War material must come first
and implement plants both in Can-
ada and the United States are
stilt engaged on war orders. The
supply of metal, although improv-
ed. is not yet nearly adequate.
this respect that. arrangements
Have been made by Mr. Bloom,
the Fart* Machinery Administra-
tor, with the United States War
Production Board for the release
of greater supplies of metal for
use in *raking farm machinery..
* * 5
The new regulations now an-
nounced and included in a gen-
eral c0nsolidatlou of the farm
machinery rationing order, con-
cern the sales of machinery. One
prohibits a dealer from putting
to his own use machinery that
he has obtained for re -sale to
eustanters, unless hehas proper
Permission from the Board to do
so, Another provision is designed
to :preventfarmers from selling
used equipment *merely for the
purpose of obtaining new. From
now on, no application for new
equipment will be considered in
these cases unless the farmer has
previously filed with the Board's
representativea statement de-
scribing the used equipment lie
sold, giving his reasons for sell-
ing it, and a description of the
neW machinery be intends to
buy, It is useless for bion to try
to proceed wil.]r his purchase en-
less he has a notice from the
Board's representative that. his
application for the new equipment
will he given consideration,
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Another . provision has been
made which le designed to pre-
vent :rat'rners, who have already
beet refused application for new
machinery, from repealing their
application through relatives, The
Board now requires that applies-
tions for new machinery must
come only from those who have
i+leasehold or freehold interest
in the property on which the new
machinery is to be used.
Uowever itis seine help to know
that: repairs for farm equipment
are not on the rationed flet, and
that there are some thirty items
of new etinipnteut which are not
Tat ttonei7,
Coe! for Poultry Breeders
Two announcements issued re-
cently will be good news to pout -
try lii'eeders across the country.
The Department of Agriculture
has announced that additional sup-
plies of anthracite coal will be
imported from the United States
for the exclusive use of poultry
breeders and hatcheries. This
will apply to the districts where
this Inel is customarily used.
The other announcement comes
from tate Wartime Prices and
Trade Board and places a ceiling
on the prices of both soluble and
insoluble types of poultry grit.
The ceiling prices which went in-
to effect on December 16, affect
manufacturers, importers, whole-
salers and retailers.
VOICE
OF PRESS
KNOWS HOW
Dunnville Chronicle would like
to know: "Why do people spend
money they have not got to buy
things they don't need to impress
people they don't like?" All we
can suggest is the standard wo-
man's reason --because.
--Owen Sound Sun Times,
MAKES HIM SQUIRM
1•iitier must find it a pain in the
neck to read the handwriting on
the wall when his back Is almost
against the same.
---Kitchener Record.
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EACH GOT HIS DESERTS
A Canadian soldier paid Li for
a bottle of whisky in an Edin-
burgh pub. The Canadian got cold
tea instead of whisky, and the
pub owner got 80 days. Neither
got what be wanted, but what
each got was good for him.
—Ottawa Journal.
FAR .BELOW CANINE LEVEL
Detroit police arrested a group
of professional dog fight fans. A
dog fight promoter is a man eev-
eral degrees below a dog.
—Detroit Free Press,
A NIGGER IN THAT WOODPILE
Ask some consumers about coal,
and they shout: "For peat's sake
don't: .mention it!"
Idarnition Spectator.
WHAT? AGAIN?
Newspapers, line ladies, have to
he careful When there's a letdown
their slip shows.
-Ottawa Ciitieen,
THE WAR • WEEK — Commen'tary on Current Events
Eisenhower To Direct Western
Assault Into Heart of Germany
4k three -front lend offensive. to
be =l a ii o oh e' d simultaneously
against Germany from Russia,
from Italy aur from Britain across
the Channel, with Gen, Dwight
D, Eisenhower in supreme corn -
mend of the Anglo-American in-
vasion army, was disclosed by
President Roosevelt in his Christ-
mas Day ru.clioeasl to tate nation-
and to the armed forces in every
theater of the globe, writes a Or: -
respondent of The Christian Sci-
ence Monitor,
The Cairo and Teheran, Iran,
conferences with Marshal Joseph
Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill brought.. the President
announced, agreement "ou every
Pettit oencoi'ned with the launch-
ing of a gigantic attack upon Cer-
nlatry,',
1\lr, .Roosevelt revealed the bread
Pattern of the climatic operations
now in the making. •
Campaign High 'Lights
He evidently felt it would be
The Book Shelf
Forges of Freedom
By Franklin Davey McDowell
Like a tapestry cm to to life
this novel of fourteenth century
England presents a vivid panor-
ama of life in tint romantic and
turbulent age when the roads of
England were the meeting -place .
of knights and minstrels, mevele
ants and pedlars. outlaws and
coespil'ELfors.
Mr, McDowell re-creates brit -
Bantle the medieral scene and the
pattern of life in England when,
after tlu'ee hundred years of Nor-
man occupation, Englishmen front
every walk of life drew their
swords or forged them to fight
for freedom.
There are many dramatic meet-
ings in this novel, pictured in all
the pageantry of the period: the
meeting of John of Gaunt and the
"Grossers"; the march on London
when 'Watt Tyler met the Ring
and his followers with Sir John
de Redeware, Lord William de
Rose and their partisans.
Forges of Freedom tells the
story of that critical period of
o
David Franklin McDowell
5 * r,
Anglo-Saxon political development
when the English first appeared
as a nation,
Mr. McDowell is the author of
The Champlain Road, an histor-
ical romance of Ancient Fluronia,
in Ontario's Georgian Bay Dis-
trict, which won the Governor.
General's Award for Fiction in
1989.
Identified for many years with
the Canadian National Railways
as Publicity Representative for
the Central Region, Mr, McDowell
is one of the Many faction writers
trained by practical journalism.
Widely known among press and
magazine writers, his early years
were spent as a reporter and fee,.
tare writer, and he worked for a
period in the United Kingdom.
Forges of Freedom . . By
Franklin Davey McDowell . .
The Macmillan Company , ,
Price $3,60.
nn help to the enemy to make
known:
Thal the :Russian :Army will
continue -its stern offensives on
Germany's Eastern Front. •
That the Allied armies' in Italy
and Africa will bring relentless
pressure on Germany from the
son th.
And that the encirclement win
be complete as great American and ,
1!ritislr forces attack Froin other
points of the compass.
The (President explained that
Clenere Eisenhower was selected.
to ..1551 the combined attack from
these other points because "his
performances fn Africa, Sicily and
laxly have been brilliant" and be-
cause "lie knows by practical and
suecessfnl experience the way to
co-ortlinate air, sea, and land
power',"
Shifts In Commanders
:foadon revealed that General
Eison homer's assistant will be
Clea. Sir 'Reruard L. Maotgoinery,
the famed COM Minder of Lritain's
Eighth Army, that Ceti. Sir Henry
Maitland Wilson will succeed
(len. Eisenhower in the Medtter-
r:nrenn with an American general
essisl ng trim, and that Gen. Sir
Ilarold Alexander will command
the Allied forces in Italy.
A British officer, to be an-
nounced by Y rime Minister
Churchill• will succeed General
lSisiuhn war in the Mediterranean
and both the new commander's
will have American and British
subordinate. emu menders.
The choice of an American for
the Channel operation was dic-
tated by the proportion of the
burden to be borne there by Am-
erican forces, The Mediterranean
is to become largely a British un-
dertaking. British troops have
from the beginning carried most
of the load and now provide near-
ly three fourths of the troops op•
erating in Italy.
American forces entered that
area originally on the assumption
that the French in Africa would
resist Americans less tenaciously
than they would resist the Bri-
tish. French Africa now being in
the war as an ally, that factor no
longer governs. Amer'ica's land
weight iu Europe therefore shifts
back to England as a base and
an American commander be-
comes logical for that area,
Magnitude of Problem
Indicating the gathering strik-
ing force now available in Britain
and the powerful reserves which
will be ready to follow up the
coming cross -Channel invasion, as
well as other operations, Mr.
Roosevelt said "there are now 8,-
800,000 Wren in the American arm-
ed forces serving overseas and
that by July ibis number will rise
to over 1,000,000.
But with the seining upon Gen-
eral Eisenhower for the invasion
command conies new indications
of the magnitude of his problem,
The time cannot be very far in
the disttuic'. To take the fullest
advantage or the Russian winter
offensive it must conte in the very
early sprlug- -before the spring
thaws in Russia. or net touch
after the beginning of the thaw,
The Germans *rust not be allow-
ed time to more forces from the
Eastern,,;to the Western Fronts.
Element of Haste
That writes an element of ltrg-
eut baste into the preinvasion
bombing schedule. Not only must
maximum damage be done to Ger-
man war industry during the next
two or three months, bet the in-
vasion ,coast itself must be soft-
ened and the primary coast de -
lenses must be reduced to the
minimumpossible effectiveness,
Tise President frankly= warned
that the biggest and costllest bat-
tles are 5101 to be fought, and he
sairi of the planned invasion,
though its seceess was certain,
its cost would be high: and the
time might be long.
Poor Fido
Britain has saved 460 thousand
tons of shipping space in a year
by importing "telescoped" meat.
This is meat from which all hones
have been removed.
CANADIANS IN SICILY
•
These ancient ruins in Sicily, crumbling evidence of a former
civilization; was the setting for this Church of England commotion
being given here to a group of Canadians by Major Sersou Giarke,
of Ottawa; after a recent, church service. (Canadian Army Over-
seas Photo).
Some Kind Words
For Lowly Skunk
The lowly skunk has been given
a lot of most undeserved pub-
licity, according to a man who
claims to know much about these
little animals, says The Trenton
Courier Advocate. This man
tells, us that when a skunk is
trapped, the other skunks will
bring him a bed to lie on. Further
than that, thea will bring him
food. He says he can prove this.
If what this man says is true)
and we are not doubting him a
bit, name any other animal, wild
or tame, that is so considerate
of its own at a time like that.
Newfoundlanders
Doing Full Share
Out of a male population in
Newfoundland of 40,000 between
the ages of 20 and 40, more than
a quarter have volunteered to
serve abroad. Numbers of these
men are with Newfoundland Ar-
tillery Regimei.ts of the United
Kingdom forces; with the Royal
Navy, the Royal Air Force, the
Merchant Marine and the Forestry
Unit. Many have enlisted in the
Canadian armed forces. In this
war as in the former world strug-
gle, the Newfoundlanders are do-
ing their full share of the .fight-
ing.
Still Gets Around
On High -Wheeler
From Regina comes a picture of
a man in his seventies riding a
high -wheel bicycle, relates the
Woodstock Sentinel -Review. Tbie
machine, more than ]calf a ben-
tory old, is used today just as
the ordinary bicycle or automobile
—for the purpose of "getting
around." What a difference in
mechanism and in time and evento
between that high -wheeler and
the latest tank.
The owner of the high -wheeler
is R. J, Ring, a Regina contrac-
tor. He says he "learned to get
on the thing (quite a chore) back
In. Wingliam, Ontario, 50 years
age Mr; Ring said that he "used
to go to work on It back in On-
tarlo--Went a-courtin'- on it, toad"
Not without interest, in the
light of the story and background
of this high -wheeler, is the fact
that it was built in Coventry,
England. The firm wilier built it
waa still malting bicycles when
the war broke out. Probably' the
firm's building was blown to bits
in the infamous Coventry blitz,.
The machine's front *-heel fu
about 4ee feet high. Tires aro
solid rubber. "Sometimes," says
Mr. Ring, "if you lose your bet.
ance, she'll throw you tile a buck-
ing broncho." With no attempt
at lightness, it should be said
that suck news as this heaps alt
to keep their balance in a trout).
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