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Zurich Herald, 1942-03-26, Page 6Becomes General Manager J. J. Gibbons Limited HARRY M. TEDMAN newly appointed General Manager of J. J. Gibbons Limited, Adver- tising Agency. Mr. Tedman was a life-long associate of the late John 3. Gibbons, founder of the business. Mrs. J. J. Gibbons becomes Presi- dent, and Ralph A. Barfard and R. B. Pattinson, Toronto, become directors. Other Officers and Dir- ectors are: Harry M. Tedman and R. A. Stapelis, vice-presidents, To- ronto; Walter H. Hoare, secretary- treasurer and director, Toronto; Harold M. Reid, vice-president, Montreal; Gordon E. Hunter, vice- president, Winnipeg; Ewart G. -- Maepherson, vice-president, Re- gina; Reg. G. Smith, vice-president, Calgary; D. N. Crawford, vice- president, Vancouver. VOICE OF THE PRESS ONCE HOOTED DUKE OF WELLINGTON London despatches telling that three months may see Prime Min- ister Churchill supplanted by Sir Stafford Cripps should perhaps be accepted with caution. The odd thing, nevertheless, is that such tales should come at all, with their indication that Churchill's pres- tige, at its zenith a few short months ago, has begun to wane. The public is like that. Fickle in its loyalties and its worship- ping, it is all too apt to turn upon its heroes and stone them, Thus it was that the Duke of Wellington, the man who broke Napoleon, was hooted by the mob on an annivess- ery of Waterloo, had to have iron shutters placed upon his London home. Churchill did a nighty thing fear Britain and liberty after the fall os Dunkirk. But it may be there was too much of pure emotion in the terrific build-up that was given him after that; a build-up which brought expectations of things beyond the power of any man. —Ottawa Journal. ---o— OLD HANDS AT IT To say that the Japanese. are mere imitators of Hitler's treach- ery is to flatter Hitler and libel Japan. The Japanese didn't have to imitate anyone. They were mas- ters of betrayal when Hitler was painting barns, We owe the Japan- ese an apology. —Vancouver Sun. —o— FASHION NOTE Canada will use more women in war work to fill the breaches made in industry and on the farms when men are called to service. And when the ladies don slacks, as many of them do in war work, they will also be filling the breeches." —St. Thomas Times -Journal, —o -- LIVING DANGEROUSLY New restrictions un the use of metals in Canada make wooden. bathtubs a possibility. To the danger of stepping on the soap this would add another hazard--epliu- ters. —Windsor Star. WHILE IT LASTS As to the matter of robber the old-time pedestrian may reflect that after all there's nothing like leather—as long as we've got leather, —Vancouver Province, ---o— WHAT OPINION? Dr. Goebbels says that the re- cent R. A. F, raids on ,France are very irritating to German public opinion. We didn't know that the German public had an opinion, ...Peterborough Examiner, —•o-- WEAK STUFF Next to having the doorknob conge off in the hand, the emptiest feeling is leaning on moral support when you need guns. —St. Catharines Standard, —'0 — TOO LIBERAL Too often wo get what we ask for. Thus, there is the Toronto Uric versity student who wrote the folks for money to buy a study lamp, They sent the lamp. ---Stratford'Beacon-Herald. ---o•-- OR CAN YOU? Being au A, It. P. warden has ate advantages. You can stay out as late as you like at night and call it a military secret. —Ottawa Citizen. WAKE UP, AMERICA ..rr IT'S LATE I The following editorial from The New York World -Telegram might well apply to Canada: The nation needs to awaken to the full gravity et the peril that confronts it. It needs to appreciate haw badly we hays been defeated in three months of war. It needs to understand that it Is possible for the United Nations and the United States to lose the war and suffer the fate of France —and that this possibility may be- come a probability it the present tide does not change. It needs to realize that there is grave chance of the Japanese push- ing through India and the Germans driving through the Near East, eo join their armies and resources In an almost unbeatable combination. It needs to get away, once and for all, from the comforting feeling that while we may lose at the start we are bound to win in the end. Only when fully aware of existing perils will the United States do its utmost. Pray God that awareness will not come too late, as it did, in Frauce! Production Director Donald Nel- son appeals for vastly increased industrial output on a 24-hour, seven-day basis -168 hours a week. Maximum production, in short. Can we got it? Not on the present basis --not under the psychology of recent • years. Not until we quit thinking in terzus of less work for more money, Not while there is greater con- cern about overtime pay than over- time production. Not while fanner politicians are more interested in higher prices than raising move essentials. Not while government bureaus -- created to meet a depression emer- gency that is ended—continue to grab for themselves money needed for armainents, Not while an army of federal press agents clamors to promote and perpetuate activities that have no present need or value, Not while Congressmen try to put over useless canals and river schemes and take up the time of defence of]]cials clangoring for fac- tories and contracts as it. war were a great gravy train. Not while WPA, despite a short- age of labor, seeks to carry on pro- jects which it doesn't have the men to perform er the need of performing. Not while CCC and NYA stretch greedy hands for funds to pamper young men who ought to be in the armed forces or the war plants, Not while strikes hamper war production, despite a solemn prom- ise that they would stop. A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army "Form fours, right!" Wrong. They don't form fours any more. But you knew that, didn't you? You have seen columns of sol- diers marching in threes. You have seen mechanized troops rumbling along the roads in a variety of khaki coloured vehicles of strange shapes and sizes. But you still wonder what the Individual Citizen's .Army does in place of the old parade -ground stuff of: "Form fours"; "At the halt, on the left—"; "Pick up that step in the rear rank, there"; "Fix bayonets"; you know the sort of thing. W ell even though they don't "form fours" any more there is still a certain amount of parade ground work to be done. It's something like crawling before you walk. And in this Army of ours, by the time you walk you really walk. Let's take it in stages — from civilian clothes to specialized sol- dier. There are four phases of train- ing for the meohanized specialist, Phase One le basic training which is common to all arias and ser- vices. This teaches the new sol- dier to accustom himself to Army life, trains him in marching and discipline and the use of a num- ger of weapons. Phase Twoto which men are posted if Lir tests show them to have possi- bilities as mechanical specialists, is carried out in Technical Schools and prepares then for Phase Three, specialized a d v a n c ed courses carried out at the Cana- dian Arany Trades School, from which highly competent wood and metal workers, machinists, black- smiths, welders --- and a dozen other types of craftsmen are gra- duated. From Phase Three many men are posted direct to unite to be repair and maintenance ,ben, driver -mechanics, etc. . Last in the ladder of training is Phase Four, the finishing school for tap -notch mechanics such as Armament artificers, instrument -makers and men in such brackets whose high- ly technical qualifications fit thezi for the work of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, We have diseuased Ordnance be- fore in these columns but Ord- nance has so many ramifications that we will probably discuss It again many times before the pie - Lure of the Individual Citizen's Army is complete. In addition to procurement and storage of practically everything the Army needs the Royal Cana- dian Ordnance Corps operates re- pair and replacement units of varying types and sizes according to where the work has to be done. One unit makes repairs under fire,. carrying its workshop, forges, welding sets, etc., right up to file damaged vehicles or guns that have to be fixed up. You'd be surprised to see what can be done by thoroughly trained men with the proper equipment right out in the middle of a field. Other units, larger and more fully equipped, are ready to handle jobs that require more time. These, of course, are based at greater distances from the front to permit full-scale repair and recovery jobs to be carried out efficiently. "Do you mean to say they make mechanics out of ordinary re- cruits?" You might say. Well the answer to that one is yes. It isn't as strange as it sounds. You're not forgetting, are you, that most youngsters nowadays can take the engine of their fath- er's car down, overhaul it azid set it up again. Or that many a boy of High School age knows more about radio than Marconi opera- tors did a few years ago. Out of material like that you can turn out a finished mechanic in a few months' time. Just as you can with former motor me- chanics, garage -men and automo- bile factory machinists, many of whom have already joined the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. in its various phases the trades training programme teaches near- ly 100 trades. This is what yen might call a double-barrelled Joh. Eight now these schools and train- ing centres are supplying special- ists for war. But when the war is success- i fully concluded there will come the question of rehabilitation, That's the other barrel! Ilia young men wase are now being traineu xor war are, actu- ally, being paid while they train for peace. 'lens Army is not go- ing to loose thousands of un- trained young men upon inuusery when reace rs 31gneu—it IS going to maete avazrauae exalted 1.1'.4(.101i^ men WAO can Coruictens y roe their places at bench anu latah and tette up in cavitiaie the Jots ox recovery, and repair they learned in the incivzautet kaitizeres Army. Not while the life-andaeath need for uninterrupted production is used as a weapon to put over the closed shop. Not while double time is demand- ed for Sunday writ which is only part of a 40 -hour week. Not while a man can't be em- ployed on an army project or in a war plant until he pays $20 to $50 or more to a labor racketeer. Not while criminal gangs control employment and allocation of men to work on the Normandie and the other ships along New York's vast waterfront. Not while tiftli columnists are pampered and enemy aliens move freely 111 defence areas, Not while the grins job of prepar- ing our home communities against air raids and sabotage is gummed up with a lot of highfalutin, boon- doggling, social service activity, Not while pressure blocks clamor for higher benefits, bounties and pensions, We will not get maximum pro- duction, in short, unless, first, we fully realize our awful peril; and, second, get over the gimmes of recent years, Gimme shorter hours, gimme higher wages, gimme bigger prof- its, gimme more overtime,' gimme less work, gimme more pensions, gimme greater crop benefits, gimme more appropriations and patron- age, gimme plants for my Congres- sioual district, gimme fees and clues to work for Uncle Sam, gimme haze 'n' eggs, gimme share -the - wealth, gimme $30 every Thurs- day. Prance had the gimmes too—had them till the Germans were close to Paris. Then everybody went frantically to work—too late. France has no gimmes today— except gimme toad for my baby, gimme a place to lay my head, gimme death, SC U d l ! W 'G . . boy Scout Leat:ers t-ommended The value to Canada of the training of the Dominion's Boy Scouts by their 8,000 volunteer leaders, and an appeal to older persons to fill the places of the many Scouters who have enlisted, were emphasized in the radio ad- dress of the Hon. J. T. Thorson, Minister of National War Serv- ices, during February Boy Scout Week. Speaking over a national hook- up, as a representative of the Dominion Government, Mr. Thor- son referred to the important hone defense services rendered by the Scouts of Britain, and the similarly valuable work being done by the Scouts of Canada. He continued: "As Minister of National War ServicesI should like to say to every Scout and Cub leader in Canada that I look upon his work as a matter of national import- ance. His status is similar to that of an officer in charge of a train- ing unit or organization. He is doing national service of a high order." 900,000 Boys Trained Mr, Thorson described as re- markable the record of more than 900,000 boys trained in good citizenship by the Boy Scouts As- sociation of Canada since its in- ception in 1908. He spoke of the high percentage of leaders and older Scouts who had enlisted, and paid a tribute to the known 94 who already had paid the supreme sacrifice of patriotism. To help make up this loss Mr. Thorson appealed to "older persons unable to enlist" to offer their help to local Scout organizations. Mr. Thorson paid a tribute to the practical nature of Boy Scout training, and declared that the tests xor the various Scout badges were genuine tests. "The xlnai teat tor the rank of First Class Scout," he said, "was the 24-hour journey to prove the lad'a ability to find his way by compass and map, to bivouac, to camp, to cook, and gl.nerally to live on his own resources." (.onreuence In tioy Scouts Xtu, tnorson re.letied to the fact that President aranictin 1P. Itooseveit was isolierary president of the more than a minion Eloy Scouts o1 tl.mei.ica. -- tie quoteu xronr a recent mule broaucast oz lite - r'eeluen , on tug occasion of ri.uteileail boy ,.,gout YYeea, Widen alter coninrenunzg tue valuable service renuerou., by American scouts, the Presiuerit ueciared sus commence that they would con - THE WAR - WEEK—Commentary on. Current Events Second Phase Of Far East War Opens With Threat To Australia The first phase of the Ear Eastern conflict ended with the fall of Java, the "citadel island," of the last Indies, In estimating Japan's gains, the population in the conquered countries numbers roughly 115,000,000 and the ter- ritory acquired more than 1,000,- 000 square miles. They have cap- tured a treasure -house of essential war supplies and raw materials: rubber, tin, quinine, hemp, oil,- fields, il-fields, foodstuffs, iron, wolfram, manganese and copper deposits which will go a long way toward making Japan self-sufficient. The subjugation of Java has re- leased Japanese forces for an at- tack on Australia and a heavier thrust across the Burma barrier to India. Allies Stance in Burma General Sir Archibald Wavell, British commander in India and Burma stated that the loss of Rangoon and a large part of lower Burma was, in some res- pects, a more serious blow than the loss of Singapore. It brings the war much closer to India and threatens our communications with China. There appears to be little doubt that the Japanese will en- deavor to push their advance into upl5er Burma and to obtain bases from which to attack India. United Nations' air superiority in Burma permits continuous at- tack on Japanese communication lines that will slow and, it is hoped, halt the advance of the Mikado's army. In the jungle swamps the British troops are fighting a delaying action with a two -fold purpose: (1) to hold their position for a few more weeks until the forces of nature in the form of torrential rains make all jungle warfare impos- sible.and (2) to check the Japan- ese advance until the Chinese army marching southward can join them. Naval Disaster It must be admitted that in the Battle of the. Java Sea the United Nations suffered a great naval defeat. The Allied fleet was hope- lessly outnumbered and lacked air support. It is becoming clear now. that Japanese equipment was far greater in volume and higher in quality tlian,Allied authorities had calculated. At the beginning of the European war the Japanese merchant marine was one of the finest in the world. It is known that it is comparatively simple to convert merchant vessels into air- craft carriers. It follows that the Allies have greatly under -esti- mated the number of plane car- riers in the Japanese navy and explains the extent to which the Japanese have been able to com- bine sea power and air power and to hold control of the air in all their campaigns. Race Against Time Japan's sea superiority in the South Pacific has been increased by her naval victory at Java. She has destroyed the only fleet which could menace her lines of com- munication and is free now to convoy her landing forces to Aus- tralia. The battle will be another race against time,' a race between the enemy's a.dvarice and the landing of reinforcements in Aus- tralia, !Help For Australia Premier Curtin of Australia,in a broadcast to America,, made a flea for full co-operation and warned that "Australia" is the last bastion bete een the west coast of America and the Japan- ese—if Australia goes the Ameri- cas are wide open." Almost coin cident with Premier Curtin's ap- peal came the announcement that General Doaglas MacArthur, the heroic defender of the Philippines, had been appointed to the Su- renie Command of the Allied Forces in the South Western Pacific with headquarters in Aus- tralia, and that heavy reinforce- ments of mere and planes had reached the island. Tough Job For Japs Australia may prove to be the toughest job the Japs have tackled yet, even though they are un- doubtedly prepared to attack with all their power. Ever since the first Geat War, Australian lead- ers have been conscious of the Japanese menace and have been planning the defence of their country. The opening of hostili- ties three months ago emphasized the necessity for speed and the government in Canberra, the Commonwealth's modern capital, worked feverishly to mobilize the country's 7,000,000 people for a •maximum effort in the face of the emergency. The enemy is striving desper- ately to establish air bases north of Australia, so far with, litite success. Presure on Japanese bases to the northeast in New Guinea and New Britain has in- creased noticeably, indicating Australian reinforcements of bombing planes. Japanese Strategy The Japanese plan may be to conquer the country port by port, occupying strategic points and leaving the vast interior to the future. Distance in Australia is enormous. The country is almost the size of the United States. If the Japanese effect land. ings, they will encounter in Aus- tralia more fighting equipment than in , any territory which they have succeeded su far in over- running. Man for man, they will meet better fighters than them- selves and the army of defenders is much larger than any encoun- tered in Malaya or Java. White Man's Land Thus far, in their unchecked march of conquest, the Japanese have invaded countries with over- whelming Asiatic populations which for centuries have been dominated by. Europeans. It was proeed in Malaya and Burma that these natives were in great mea- sure sympathetic to the invader. Australia is different. It is • white man's land with no subject races. The Japanese will have to fight a white man's army, fight. ing for a white man's country to the last ditch. The Japs won't like it. tznue to effectively play their part "in the American programme to preserve our lioercy and bring peace on earth through complete victory over our enemies." Said IVIr. Thorson: "J. express on benalf of the tfoverzmgent ox teanaaa the same confidence and trust in the Boy Scouts of t an- ada, and 1 know that each anu every Scout in this country wili be proud of the part that he has to play as a member of Canada's team to help win the war." Yvan Servace k,1rorts Aa an intimation ox tine purpose of the scout organization to in- crease it possible Its contribution to the Dominion's all-out war, et - t ort, iv.ir. 'Thorson announced the creation of two new Scout bauges. ey the Boy Scouts Association. '1 -nese were a "lie Prepared naug•e," to be awarded scouts ono complete a specified train- ing calculated to prepare them f or any emergency the war may bring, and a "War Service isaube,"' to be granted Scouts who have renuered IVO hours or more of definite war service REG'LAR FELLERS—The Inventor :41 Woolen ,oXcli+ers scare . a1ialri army A British officer just returned from Libya said 60 British artil- lerymen zzau captured o,24b*.ttal- 1ans in the worth African desert With the aid of 2i dummy soldiers arneeu with wooden guns. 'i'he dummies were placed in positions to draw the ttalzan file white tae artiireryn,en advanced xrom anotner• • uirection, declared Lap,t..r. Lz. iiirknl. The ltalialls, thinking they were being outtialuted by a superior xorce, de sans, retreated ill miter Sava lura clown their arms wizen the British pursued. "Cafelite", the invention of United States chemist, will be utilized in transforming 37,000 bags of coffee into plastics thie year at a new plant at Sao Paulo( Brazil. More than 56,000 blankott made of discarded paper machine felt have been sent to Britain. By GENE BYRNES 1 Tx .,;"'N‘\\I