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The Seaforth News, 1944-02-10, Page 2Muffins can help keep yof eiegu1ai By eating several every day, and drinking plenty of water, you can get at constipation clue to lack of dietary "bulk"! If this is your trouble, try, • Kellogg's All -Bran Muffins 2 tablespoonsu;, cup milk shortening' i cop sifted Hour ?1 cup sugar gfi teaspoon salt '1 egg 2'ij teaspoons baking 1 cup Kellogg's powder ,Alt -Bran Blend shortening and sugar thorough- ly; add egg and beat well. Stir, In All -Bran and milk; let soak until most of moisture is taken up. Sift flour with salt and baking powder. Add to first mixture and stir onlyuntil flour dis- appears. Pill greased muffin pates two- thirds full and bake in moderately hot oven (400 °3'.) about 30 ntinutes,Yield; 8 large muffins. ALL -BRAN Made by Kellogg's in London, Canada Sick Of It So you're sick of the way the coun- try's run, And you're sick of the way the rationing's clone, And you're sick of standing around in line. You're sick, you say, Well, ain't that fine? For I am dirk of the -sun and the heat, And I am sick of the feel of my aching feet, And sick of the siren's wailing shriek, And I'ni sick of the groans of the wounded and weak. I'm sick' of the slaughter, Tat sick tomy soul, I'm sick of playing the Killer's role, Ar I'm sick of the groans of death and the smell. And I'm sick, damned sick, of my- self as well, But I'm sicker still of a tyrant's rule And conquered lands where the wild beasts drool; And I'm cured damned quick when I think of the day 'When all this heli will be out of the way; When none of this mess will have been in vain .And the lights of the world will blaze again, And the Axis flags will be dipped and furled And God looks dawn on a perfect world. —Sgt. 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BUTT DEFINITELY OTTAWA,REPORTS That In Parliament Last Week A Price Floor Was Proposed For Staple Farm Products Cheering news f o r Canada's farming community caine last week in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the fifth session of Canada's 19th Parlia- nrent, Proposal to introduce pro- vision for a price floor for staple farm` products to ensure stability for agriculture follows an announce- ment made some time ago by the Prime Minister that this measure was under consideration. No group in the .Dominion has contributed more in hard wort, and human en- durance to the winning of the war than the farmer and itis family. The coming season will call for no less effort than in the previous war years. A floor on farm pro- ducts In the future would be an in- centive to meet this call. * *. If you are tempted to use feed grain from the West for seed this year, the advice of Experimental Farm experts is "Don't." While there are several varieties of wheat, oats and barley that do equally well In both Eastern' and Western Canada, as proven in tests made by the Cereal Division, Experimental Farm Service, .Ot- tawa, the only safe seed to buy is Registered seed. Owing to the pos- sibility of a shortage of seed grain this spring, farmers are urged 'to order now. In addition to the pos- sibility of Western feed grain being unsuitable to various localities in the East, attention is called to the danger of wild oats and other nox- ious weeds which re -cleaning is not guaranteed to remove. * * * The farmer who has his own seed and who is doubtful about its germinating qualities due to in- jury by bad harvest conditions, heating or other factors, is advised to test it: Make the test by count- ing out 100 kernels and placing them in a saucer of moist sand ivith another saucer turned over it to help bold the moisture. (It may be necessary to add a very small amount of water each day to keep the sand moist). In a few days sprouts will begin to show and it is then easy to determine what percentage of the seeds will grow. • * * 5, Farmers should place orders for fertilizer not later than March 15 to avoid disappointment, according to the fertilizer administrator, War- time Prices .and Trade Board, Re- garding mixtures containing pot- ash which is in shorter supply than last year, retail distributors have been directed to see that all reg- ular farmer customers are supplied before accepting new. accounts. New customers who are bona fide farmers may be taken on if addi- tional supplies are available. Need for potash supplies has led to re- duction of potash content in sev- eral mixtures and a consequent re- duction in the ceiling price. A more liberal supply of nitrogen and phosphate has led to the approval of mixtures containing only these two elements. A substantial reduc- tion in price has been obtained to encourage the production of am- monium nitrate, a new wartime chemical with 32 percent nitrogen content. A tnininiutn of 60 lbs. of this is now being used in every ton of mixed fertilizer produced, * * * The total gross farm value of all the field crops produced on 60,345,600 acres in 1943 was 51,- 104,060,000 compared with 31,179,- 073,000, the estimated value of crops produced on 60,800,200 acres in 1942 according to the latest Canadian Bureau of Statistics fig- ures. The search for new outlets for farm products is of primary im- portance, says the report of the sub -committee of the Advisory Committee on Reconstruction ap- pointed to Study agricultural pol- icy, tabled last week its the House of Commons, A research pro- gramme including such experi- ments as use of plastics from farm waste, paper manufacture from straw, processing of oil seeds, grain alcohol production in local plants and food dehydrators for each farm is suggested, Mount Colima, Mexico, is the highest active volcano lir North America, VOlt: E OF THE PRESS SAVINGS BANKS IN RUSSIA Russia thought it could wipe out the savings banks and did so by closing 15,000 branches of savings, banks during the revolution, Now, however, there are more' than 200,- 000 savings 00,-000savittgs banks iu Russia; The Russians found a lot of fancy ideas did not work, hut there are people in Canada who keep ad- vocating scan( of those theories still --Windsor Star. AND THEY'RE NOT 100 An Englishwoman has just died at the age of 100 without ever'hav- ing been told about the war, There are not a few people on this side who have been told all about it but don't seem to know about it just the same. - Ottawa Citizen —p— PAIR OF THIEVES After stealing his third: car, a Kansas City felon told police it was a habit he couldn't break. There's a fellow over in Europe ivho has the sante habit with Conn - tries, but he's losing it. —Christian Science Monitor. STRAW NEEDLES Owing to the shortage of steel, needles are being made from pres- sed straw, says a science item. Find- ing theta inhaystacks will be more difficult than ever, —Port Arthur News -Chronicle. ANTI-SKID DEVICE Too many persons discover. that one sure thing to stop an auto from skidding is a lamp post. —Kitchener Record. . SOMETHING MISSING A more efficient windshield wiper has been invented—and now all it needs is a mew car to go with it. Orphans Of Blitz Start New Life Nine orphans of the blitz have started a new Life with a new "mother" at iter spacious home in a London suburb, Their identity and their past -is her secret, She has had theta rechristened in her private chapel, all with the same surname -].Cerin. That is the "mother's' name, Miss Dorothy Keriit of Chapel house, Ealing. Of the children whom she has legally adopted she says: "I believe that Gott sent them to ate." CLIP JOINT Corp. halo Di Cicco of Worces- ter, Mass„ has got his hands full if he expect to clip this New Guinea `Fuzzy-\Vuzzy's kinks to G.I. shortness. A. barber for 16 years, Corporal Li Cicco is sta- tioned at South Pacific base, REG'LAR FELLERS --A Bargain WHAT'S THE MATTER LITTLE BOY? w' HES AN' OLE CRYBABY/ HE'S CRY1N' JU5' CAUSE HE FELL DOWN! iT DONUT HURT HIM AT ALL! DURING FROM -TOUR FEBRUARY BUY WAR STAMPS FOOD STORE • Renteniber, every War Savings Stamp' you purchase helps to hasten the hour of Victory. So buy as many as you possibly can; when you are buying food this month. CHRISTIE, BROWN &' COMPANY, °LIMITED Bakeries: TORONTO and WINNIPEG Ti -IE WAR • WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Why The R.A.F. Bomber Command Is Destroying Capital of Germany The attack upon Berlin marks the highest point yet reaclrcd in tlse bomber offensive, says Squad- ron I.eader John Strachey in Lon- don Calling. This attack is a deliberate at- tetitpt to deprive the enemy of time use of his capital ,city. 1 .11,F. Bom- ber Command has set out to wake it impossible for the Nazis to use Berlin. ' For remember, Berlin is today the capital, not simply of Germany, but of Hitler's whole slave empire Berlin is a city in a totally different class to Essen, Dusseldorf, or even Hamburg—or any other of the cities which Bom- ber Command has so far attached, Berlin is the fourth largest city itt the world. It is one of the half dozen or so world capitals round which the life not only of one na- tion but of a whole arca of the world revolves. Berlin contains factories of the highest importance; but its unique significance is that the economic life of Central Europe ea a Whole has been carried on by means of the financial, marketing, administrative, and ' transportation facilities of Berlin. Berlin Not Yet Destroyed We don't know what the effect of the paralysis of such a centre will be. For such a thing has never yet happened. If, however, Bomber Command can effect its purpose, we shall Icnow . . , and within the next few weeks. It may be that the Nazi empire can be carted on without Berlin. I daresay it can be. But the ruin of Berlin -if it can be effected— will take us a long step towards the weakening of Germany to a point where site will not be able to resist the final attack. "If it ca be effected" for dont, let us deceive ourselves for a monist into supposing that Berlin has already been destroyed. Enemy Kept Incasing You can get some idea of the size of the task which Bomber Command has set itself b1 com- paring Berlin with Hamburg. Hamburg was itself a vast city — getting an for twice the sire of any city in Britain outside London. Hamburg had 1,800,000 inhabit- ants and a fully built-up area of 8,382 acres. It is taking a tvltole series of attacks - to render such a city as this useless to the Nazis. Moreover, it will, of course, be impossible for Bomber Command to peg away at Berlin without interruption. The enemy must be kept guessing as to where we are going next, Counter -Counter Measures It isn't too nines to say that the bomber offensive is today the joint product of the brains, the courage, and the grinding hard work of this entire nation. The very success which has been achieved may tend to make some people thinly that the bomber offensive has just been a matter of building a sufficient number of bombers," flying thous over Germany, - dropping the bombs, and., coining t.ome again The fact is that the bomber offensive has only been carried forward by keeping one step ahead of the enemy's continually improving defences 11 would have been IT DOES SO ' P004400, 1 NEARLY GOT KILLED. NEARLY! fatal even to pause The ._counter- measure — the new method of fighter attack against the new form of bomber defence — has never been long in coming We have had to be be ready with the counter — counter measures; and 1ve have been, Pathfinders Mark Targets If, for example we were to at- tack Berlin today with the same aircraft and using the sante methods which we employed only two years ago our bomber force would be massacred in one or two operations. But, equally, if today our Lancasters, Halifaxes, Stir- lings had to meet no more than the defences which existed in 1942 they could destroy every industrial centre in Germany with negligible losses to themselves. Recently, we have been given an account of time work of our Pathfinder Force. The need for someone to find the path to the target is obvious — for naturally that satire darkness which hides the bomber from the defending fighter also tends to hide the tar- get from the bomber. The Pathfinders are narking the target so that intensely concentrated bombing is being achieved, For Germany that's perhaps the most ominous de- velopment of all. For it is the concentration in both time and space that counts — the tons per aminate per acre! Personal discharged from the forces after November 1, 1943, are entitled to a clothing allowance of $65 as part of their discharge grant, Army Beauty Shops Help Men's Morale Applied psychology is being used its the "beauty shops" which are maintained by the American Fifth 'Army in Italy, says the Windsor Star. The establishment of these depots shows the genius which is going intoeffortto main- -in the morale and efficiency of fighting men. Much of the soldier's work makes ft necessary for hint, at ,times, to be dirty and bedraggled. But the majority' of these men do not enjoy being its that condition. They are willing to wade and crawl through stud to win a battle, but once itis over, they want to get cleaned up as quickly as possible. The "revival tents" give them that opportunity. There they are showered, shaved and outfitted with clean new uniforms. in a very real sense, they emerge as new sten. The "beauty shops" are -to be counted among the most valuable agencie for keeping the amen in fighting trim. Hevea Tree Main Source Of Rubber Frosn Ilevea seeds taken from the Western Ilenisplsere in 1676 grew the fields on which the world has depended for ninety percentof its rubber since 1920, says Middle America Bureau, Replanted in Calcutta, Singapore and other posts in the Far East, these wild seed- lings because nine million acres of rubber -producing trees. Today the Hevea tree, the main source of statural rubber, has re- turned to the American tropics, fillions of seeds are being planted in three Middle American count- ries, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama, to become, our rubber plantations of toinorow, SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith COPP, 1911. RV NES 6EatOIOE, INO, Y. Ai. atG, n, s. pAT.OFF. "How can 1 tell any hind -hearted aunt that she's wonder- ful:and 1 need new school supplies and that my father's turned crabby, all in1.0 words?" STOP CRYING AND THE LADY WILL GIVE you A FENNY ALL O'OR YOURSELF r -- By GENE BYRNES 1 AWRIGHT, BUT YOU'RE GETTIN' 11' CHEAP BECAUSE 1 CRIED MORE'N A NICKEL'S WORTH AWREADY! Looks as •though Adonis, wild Grecian' goat at London zoo, got pretty ambitious and' tried to butt a barrage balloon, 'tit it's just the tricky camera 'angle that caught goat and balloon together. j