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The Seaforth News, 1944-02-24, Page 3,.sem.. IT'S FOOLISH TO KEEP O N "DOSIN G"i 9 Why goon dosing another day with harsh, unpleasant purgatives? Discover, as thousands have, that SCLLLOGG'S ALL -BRAN is a far better; far gentler way to help 'correct constip- ation due to lack of dietary "bulk"! KELLOGG'S ALL -BRAN really "gets at" this common cause of con. stipation—supplies "bulk" needed for easy, natural elimination! If this is your trouble—try eating an ounce of ALL -BRAN daily,or several ALL -BRAN muffins, Drink plenty of water. At your grocer's, in 2 con- venient sizes. Made by ICellogg'e in London, Canada, THE WAR • WEEK — Commentary on Current Events Allies' Anzio Beachhead Withstands Repeated eated Heavy German Attacks rrhenfah Jea aali2 . Two Allied battlefields in the maps above ate separated by 50 miles, varying from the mountainous terrain near 'Cassino to the swamp- land south of Rome: Nazi legions are attacking the Anzio-Nettuno beachhead in force, while Allied armies are seeking a break -through in the Cassino bulge., Lower map shows locations in Italy of close-ups shown at top. - Thanks to the valor andeter- d initiation of the American and Brie tlsh soldier the hntnediate danger to the Allied beachhead at Angio ap- pears to have passed. ' With -the return of weather which permits the resuniptiort of air operations the Allies have renewed their offensive. The fighting is still indeterminate,' but the tide seems to isle running in our favor, and if this vied' is correct the Anzio battle has already achieved one important result, It has robbed Hitler of a quick and impressive victory for Which he •tried hard --a victory which was to demonstrate his continued striking' power for the benefit of Germany's own morale and that of her satel- lites, and to impress both Russia and the Western Allies with the hopelessness of any new invasion and a new front. in Europe. What- ever further results the Anzio battle may produce, the frustration of Hitler's calculations will alone jus- tify its cost, says The New 'York Times. But the stubborn resistance which the Germans are putting up, both around Anzio and at Cassino, is a renewed warning that even after store than four years of war Ger- many is still a powerfiil ' enemy. Neither defeats in the field nor the wholesale bombings of German cities and war factories have been able: thus far to break German fighting morale. Nor, judging worn reports from the front, have Gern fan amts diminished either in quantity or in quality, `except for the relative de- crease of German ;lir power. Te fact some German weapons are de- clared to be even superior to our own. And ivitli the approach of spring, wliiclt promisee at least temporary surcease from Russian pressure Nazi hopes for prolong- ing thewar are rising again, Fight from Room to Room The Delete campaign cannot be considered tt•bolly ti pical of what Allied invasion forces would Face in hrancc :For in italy the Allies have been ronironted witi, the sante difficultiee trohich the Geri -tans faced in the. moaattains of the Caucasus and about Stalingrad. Mountains ,are natural fortresses which always favor the defense, and cities which the defender. is Willing to sacrifice ' can be converted into similar strongholds, Chat was shown by Madrid in the Spanish civil war, shown by Leningrad, and in su- picnic 111ea50re. by Stalingrad.'... Though on a smaller scale, it is again being shown by Cassino. For leer as at Stalingrad, the fight is preeecding Irmo building to building and from room to room. „Campaign Lesson Of Nevertheless, the lessons of the Italian campaign and the ascertain- able results of the bombings have been such that a good deal of the unwarranted oitisism of a few months ago, about the war in Europe being "all but over;' liar disappeared. Even military quar- ters are beginning to revise their timetable of victory. - And this adds new emphasis to the quelifi- cation which General Eisenhower attached to his famous prediction: victory is possible this year, but only' if "every man and woman, ail the wry from the front to the remotest hamlet, does his or her full dirty." British Do Real Job of Salvage "All Sorts of Weird Things" Handled In Twelve Huge Warehouses Scattered throughout tile. Brit - !sit Isles aro twelve huge ware• houses filled' with Army,: Navy and:. Air Force clothing and other tna terials, relates the St, Thomas Times -Journal. Samples of these goods fill shelvesof an office of the Ministry of Supply in London where experts decide what can be done with all the stuff. They Ban- elle everything in the textile line, also old ropes -from the Navy, hose pipes, camouflage nets, used pares - chutes, old or obsolete towing tar- gets for the 11,A,F., and, as a TS - cent speaker on tite B.B.C. stated, "all sorts of weird things." In one month, 1,300,000 items of outer clothing were sorted and graded in these depots, A. vast amount of repair work Is done, but what is not repairable is used in a multitude of ways. A great deal of the stuff will be converted to relief of the populations when the occupied countries are liberated. WOrnont battle dresses are re- paired, dyed brown and become suits for prisoners of war, or they may be dyed green for agricultural workers, or for "workers in var- ious war industries, One important wartime discovery has been how to take the shrink- age but o4 socks, The Ministry of Supply has millions of pairs of socks and stockings which had been worn by members of the wo- men's divisions. By a . process known as "defelting," the shrink- age is removed, and the socks and stockings are repaired and made as good as new. British -Warships Rehearse' Battle A little glimpse of the Royal Navy at its deadly games is given in a London despatch which tells of the careful plans made for die- posing of the - German battleship Scharnborst should she come out of hiding and give battle, says the Ottawa Journal. Several tunes the (British war- ships in Northern waters rehearsed lot the big day they hoped would. dome, A British ship represented the Scharnhorst, went through the en tions of attackeeg a convoy, of -runningfor safety, using every protective and defensive device the. enemy Might he expected to bring into play. Most of the ships actually engaged when the Scharn= horst did finally conte out took part in the manoeuvres, and we are toad there was an amazing sinti-, laxity between the atcual action and the telseusals. .11115 11x5 intelligent anticipation of things to conic, and but for tliese careful preparations the Scharnlicrst alight have escaped. Mustang Is Answer To New Nazi Plane The ilritish-Designed, American - built Mustang plane apparently is snore than the answer to the new German rocket -bomb plane, says The Kansas .City 'Times. In their first fifteen missions the Mustangs have destroyed or damaged eighty- seven German planes with the lose of only six Mustangs. These fighter planes have :melt a long radius of" --operations that they have been -able to escort Aittericen bombers to s.ttl in itt', ulil e. t 1 03 even. * * From ofd hose pipes overshoes are made for men loading tankers so that they will not make spades with their deet. These pipes are also made into snowshoes and 'in- to mittens for women handling steel sheets with sharp edges. The cotton from It.A.F, towing targets is made into rain -water catching sheets and the netting from the end of the target is matte into vegetable bags for the Navy and for ice bags. The cotton fabrle of anti -gas capes is de -oiled and vseti for superfine wiping rags. Various kinds of cotton fabric, useless for mailing tip, go back to the services as wiping rags. Three thousand tous of wiping' rags a year are supplied by the disposal department. Oily rags are de -oil- ed and cleaned until they fall to pieces and then they are pulped for paper. Old tentage is used for making a new type of kit bag for the A.T. t type S. and the W.a,A;F's. The old type is awkward for a girl to handle. It Is too heavy- to sling onto her shoulder and too long to carry by _ the string; so "Many of the girls got the habit of dragging them along the ground, The stew type is shaped like a sports bag with two canvas rope handles. It opens lengthways and Is fastened by press studs, * * * The ship's ropes have the worn outer fibre removed and the inner fibres are respell. The worn fibres go to paper manufacturers for a , special kind of paper used In -plas- tics. The A.T.S. girls have a shoulder hag when walking out, and these are now made from the sleeves of firemen's coats, with a zip fastener from a bomber pilot's harness. Glidex' tow ropes are re- modeled to make ropes for boxing rings and for tug-of-war contests. From old charts of blue -prints very fine linen handkerchiefs are made, Many prewar Army uniforms are seat in, and one of the uses to which they are put is to sell them to film companies for old battle scenes. - Another extraordinary job. of salvage has been ,the canvas from blitzed premises and asbestos wool from gas respirators which have been converted into heavily padded suits for the men who train the bull -mastiffs that guard air- dromes: "Waste not, want mot" is an ' old motto'. Britain has learned lessons that will be most valuable after the war, - OTTAWA REPORTS That Discharged Servicemen Ars Advised .to Take Jobs Now` And 'Save For Placement on Farms Later in view of what happened last time, the question of Service then going farming after the war is apt to be looked on with a pretty big ' question mark in 'rural communi- ties, As far back as 10.41, when the Department of Pensions: and Na- tional Health sponsored the Order - in -Council known as "The Post - Discharge Rehabilitation Order," careful consideration has been given to farm settlement as to other phases of re-establishment, and the plans set up seek to avoid pitfalls of the period following 101S. While employment is at its peak men interested in farming who are being currently discharged are ad- vised to take jobs and to save for Pifer investment itt agriculture, ac- cording to officials in charge of re- habilitation. To date very few have been set 'up under the Re- establislnent Order, * Mt * Those eligible must have bad previous satisfactory practical ex- perience in farming, or may quali- fy after serving apprenticeship with a successful farmer in addi- tion to having' served in a theatre of war, or had not less than 12 months' service, or be in receipt of a pension. The Veterans' Land Act 19.2 provides a ntaxitnunt of 84,800 on land, and a maximum of $1,200 on equipment. A tenth of the value of the land, (in the case of 84,800, tite amount would be $480), must be paid for in cash and two-thirds of the property value over- a per- iod of 25 years with interest at eSi%. The cost of equipment Is not repaid, and iso annual instal- ment is over $105 including in- terest. A veteran who has a job and wants to buy a small farming property nearby comes within the same limits as to amount and con- ditions of payment, s * * A veteran who owns a farm may secure through the Veterans' Land Act funds to pay off a mortgage, make necessary iniprovetnettts, or buy additional stock and equip - stent. He may borrow up to 83,- 200 (but not more than 00% of the value of his property), to pay off a mortgage, or up to 82,500 (but not more than 50% of the value), to pay for equipment. The loan is secured by mortgage at 3,% pay- able over 25 years. Available to those buying farms are properties bought by the Gov- ertsnentfor soldier rehabilitation, or properties chosen individually so long as these are approved and set fit the' price limits . comewith by the \'etet•ans' Land Act• An estimate that Japanese fac- tories are turtling out aircraft at a rate of 1,200 or more a month caste from high quarters, coupled with a report that the Japanese—like the Germans—are concentrating signi- ficantly on defensive types. For Faster Relief of CHEST COLDS Muscular Aches & Pains Tired Burning Feet MASSAGE WELL WITH ma t:OC and 500 at ALL Orug8ise9 For several weeks pariltases of bacon for the United Kingdom have averaged over 20,000,000 pounds, an average of which 1f kept up for fifty weeks out of the HEMI SAGE WHERE'S YOUR SIMARD'S SOLDIERS RUB OUT TIRED ACHES • year would. mean 1,000',000,000 pounds of bacon, Hon, J. G. Gar- diner, Minister of Agriculture told the House of Comports recently. Tor. Gardiner said little value should be attached to rumors of a meat shortage when replying to J. H, Blacknnore, Social Credit leader hi the Federal House as to whether there Wright .he a beef shortage next year, Explaining the present surplus, he saki this was due to lack of shipping and steps have been taken to divert addi- tional ships to Canadian ports not only to handle additional bacon stocks, but also to lift surplus quantities of beef and nnuttpn, and recently •tile Meat Board was able to accept immediate shipment of some seven million pounds of beef, The Minister felt there is every reason to believe that in future all shrplus beef available will be handled and lifted as offered for export. With plans in hand to ex- port also accumulated stocks of mutton and lamb, a better market for this class of livestock is in sight. - Reinforcements The Marietta, Georgia, Rotary Club publishes a weekly newspaper called Rotalight. The following appeared ina recent issue: QUICK WORK IN a ACTS. ' • 1. Australia—MacArthur . appeals for reinforcements, 2. Quebec , — Roosevelt a nd Churchill promise reinforcements. 8, Eleanor arrives in Australia. —Magazine Digest The Reason Why Malta Is British Malta has a wartime history that goes back to the time of the great Phoenician traders,. says the Ot- tawa Citizen, As the island of Mal- ta, of course, it has its place in Bible history, for it is the island converted to Christianity by St. Paul,• who was shipwrecked upon it while a prisoner' of the Ro- nsans. During the Crusades the Knights of St. John were granted Malta and they held it tltroeghout the great siege against the Turks, . As the centuries passed, the knightly order fell into disrepute. With the coming of the French Revolution, by which time the pre- ihts • ponderance of the French Knights within the order had upset the in- ternational equilibrium, conditions became hopelessly dtsrapted. Later when Napoleon set out to conquer Europe he took posses- sion of the island, Native Maltese patriots, however, resisted the French, and in the knowledge of the presence of the English fleet under Nelson in the Mediterran- ean, the Maltese, under Canon Caruana, appeared to the adiniral to take possession of the island in the name of I•lis Majesty. The British Empire has grown in many strange ways. But Malta is British because . it wanted to be. And now; as Malta, G.C„ the George Cross having been award- ed by the King in recognition of the stand of the island against an- other enemy, it is -doubtless still content to remain so, Approximately $10,000,000 worth of gold is contained in a cubic mile of sea water, . There's plenty these days to make • people nervous. And overtaxed nerves can turn nights and daysinto misery! If you suffer in this way, try the soothing, quieting effect of Dr. Miles Nervine which contains well-known nerve sedatives. Take Nervine according to directions for help in general nervousness, sleep- lessness, hysterical conditions, ner- vous fears; also to help headache and irritability due to nervousness. In the meantime, eat more natural food ... get your vitamins and take sufficient rest. Effervescing Nervine Tablets are 35c and 75c. Nervine Liquid: 25c and $1.00. The new deans r::::.zso.agc:nst color, grspe and bronchitis is to build Immunity with VltaVax—o small tasteless capsule combinInp COLD VACCINE plus VITAMINS If catching cold, tdke VitaVax to reduce severity and speed recovery. 11 you've lust had a cold, take VitaVaK. N overcome fatigue and increase vitality. For scientific precautions against future colds, grippe and bronchitis, protect all the family with VitaVaa Capsules. Only 82.50 for one to two months r average requirements: Ask your druggist, or for details write to -- Roberts Biological Laboratory Toronto ARl a DAY i.', AX. COLD VACCINE isd VITAMINS What a Prompt Return of Empty Bottles Means to Us • A normal turnover enables a brewer to re -use small standard domestic beer bottles 8 times -a year. • A -carton containing 24 small bottles remaining in a • residence for three months means a loss to a brewer of 2 x 24, or 48 small bottles, and in 12 months' time a loss of 8 x 24, or 192 small bottles. • It is difficult to secure new bottles to replace those which consumers do not return prompty. • Our pick-up system for recovering empties is re-, stricted. Please help us maintain a steady volume of return by taking your empties, in the original container, to the nearest Brewers' Retail Store. BREWING INDUSTRY (ONTARIO).