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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-05-07, Page 2.r1,17.1 • YO 1C. OI THE PRESS BOOST FOR. MOTHER-IN-LAW Who steps into the breach and brings males,. out of chaos when the wife is sick, the maid has left, the husband has extra work to do at the office; little Mary has the sniffles and Johnny mashed his toe, there is nothing fit to eat in the house and three days' dishes stacked in the sink? Who can al- waya dig; down in her pocket and find a little money to help out with the bills when times are hard? Who teaches the children Bible stories and instills in their infant minds about all the intro- duction they ever get M old-fash- ioned moralities? Isn't it the Mother-in-law? You said it. —Leamington Post and News ---0— WASHING. FOR JAPS Chinese laundry staffs have had to be increased in Northern On- tario in the district where Japan- ese laborers, moved from the Pacific Ceast, have been estab- lished. If itching powder shows up in some of the shirts, the cus- tomers won't have to look far for the cause. —Windsor Star —o— PRINTER'S ERROR According to the old gag, if a doctor makes a mistake, he buries It; if a lawyer makes one he col- lects more fees for the appeal; If a judge makes one it eventu- ally becomes a precedent; if a clergyman makes one he doesn't find out until he's in the next world. But let a printer make one—ye gods! —Owen Sound Sun -times —0— EXTENDING LIVES .A. 40 -mile -an -hour speed limit throughout all provinces of Can- ada will not only extend the life of rubber tires but will extend the life of many. a motorist. —Almonte Gazette —0— JAP PIC -NIC When it isn't raining in New Guinea, they say the country is alive with ants. Our thoughts are with the Jap in any picnic he bas arranged. —Stratford Beacon -Herald —0— PERFECT ALIBI When he read an article advis- ing people to study astronomy, kis wife said it was just another excuse for staying out nights. —St. Thomas Times -Journal —0— HITLER QUIZ "What should be done with Hitler?" asks a Toronto paper. What's the use of starting .a quiz like that, when, you can't print all the answers? —Ottawa Citizen —0 -- THEY DON'T KNOW Who told the income tax de- eigners children over 21 were not dependents? —Brandon Sun G.B. Uses Concrete In War Purposes Twenty thousand silos for cat- tle fodder Is the latest contribu- tion of Paltain's concrete Makers to the war effort They are now at work upon this colossal tontract. Farmers all over Britain have nkeady put up silos; manufac- turers of preserves are following eta with silos to store their waste materials and turn them into feed- ing stuffs to relieve the strain on Empire's shipping. Today more concrete is being used on Britain's farms than ever before. Buildings in it, from barns to poultry houses, are being run up, and it is being used for water tanks, fence -posts, flooring, cattle troughs, gu.ards and stalls, as well as asbestos cement for roofing sheds, rabbit hutches and even buckets. The concrete industry is also helping the war effort with aerodrome runways, some of which need 60,000 square yards of ma- terial at a time, and thousands of concrete huts are being set up for the service departments and for the housing of war workers and the homeless. All constructional repair work on railway and water tunnels is carried out in concrete, some - tines with complete pre -cast arches. Cellars of damaged houses have been concreted and made into water storage tanks. Concrete railway sleepers and pit props for semi mines are replacing imported timber. Hollow concrete blocks are being used not only for building but for air 'raid protection. The upper works of ships have also been given concrete protec- tion and following upon the con- struction of 100 concrete barges by the Admiralty, the first ocean- going liner of 2,000 tons dead- weight has been successfully launched. Machine gun pot, air raid getters, oil storage tanks, defence barriers, telegraph poles, groynes, buyos and sinkers for moorings and even anchore are all being made of concrete for the wan A PRINCESS SIGNS UP Borrowing a fountain pen from a bystander, Princess Elizabeth, above, heir presumptive to the British throne, registers for war work in the National Training Service Program in London just like any other 16 -year-old girl. AN ION IRKE RWN A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army "Lead -swinger", as any old sol- dier knows, means a man who feigns illness to get out of doing his regular duties. He is looked upon, at first sight, as a smart guy who has "put one over" the Medical Officer. But, as the fair sex points out when referring to the order in which man and woman were cre- ated, secbnd thoughts are best, and it is not very long before the "lead -swingers" fellow soldiers are full of scorn and contempt for him. They realize that in addi- tion to putting one over the Medi- cal Officer he ia putting one over them—for someone has to do • the duty he shirks. The worst lead -swinger in the Individual Citizen's Army—which is all of us—today is the man or woman who uses gasoline unnec- essarily. This morning as I came down to work I looked, idly at first, and then with mounting indigna- tion, at the stream of cars pas- sing along with only one person in each. I have no doubt that you have felt the same way many a time. Do you think the same way about it when you have an errand to do? Or do you just hop into the car and drive off? Some little time ago one of these columns was devoted to the jaunty soldiers of the Armored Corps. They and the the airmen who bomb Germany and. the Phil- ippines; they and the men who man. our submarines and motor torpedo boats are the men we should save our gasoline for. There is nothing very jaunty looking about a soldier who has been taken prisoner or killed. know—so do many of you—I have seen them. And men are going to be taken prisoner and killed if their mobile forts — whether they be tanks, armored cars, uni- versal carriers, bombers or sub- marines become immobilized for lack of gasoline. A horrible thought? Sure it is. But that is how close the war is to us. One extra joy -ride LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "We don't like our new neighbors, they're too quiet.... Motu makes us keep still all the time so she can hear what they're sayin' ! !" or one trip by ear that could have been carried out afoot may mean the hair's breadth that sep- arates life and death for the men in uniform. So, walking to work, even walk- ing to the movies, can be a form of war work, a form of soldiering In the Individual Citizen's Army, And observing food and price regulation is another way of serv- ing. ke Basic and Advanced Train - Ing Centres, in camp and on oat- ive service soldiers and sailors put in long hours at strew:mull work. Their training simulates actual fighting—and actual fighting bums up energy. • To replace that energy food, hearty meals must be supplied. That's where the careful observer of the food regulations comes in. Every time the householder pri- vates use a little less than their sugar ration or bake a cake with a substitute for Lugar, they are releasing that much energy for Canada's "Men at Arms". And the housewife Lance Corp- oral—or is. she at least a Major in your house?—who puts to- gether a tasty mess of shank -bone onions, carrots, a little—not too much, please—turnip and a sage leaf or two instead of calling up the grocer for a can or two of this or that enrols herself in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps by leaving just a little more metal available for arms, ammunition or even tanks. Here's a list of kitchen ammu- nition. One cup of refined white sugar can be replaced by: maple sugar, one cup; maple syrup, one cup; honey, one cup; cane syrup, 11/4 cups; corn syrup, two cups. That's what the Individual Cit- izens' Army fights for, U.S. Producing Two Ships Daily United States production of merchant shipping will reach a record total of more than 600,000 tons a month this summer, ac- cording to Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, who reveals in The American Magazine that the total for 1942 will reach the unprece- dented figure of 8,000,000 tone. His plans call for 10,000,000 tons of merchant shipping in 1943, "as a starter on a total program al- ready set at more than 30,000,- 000 tons." "It is hard for the public to grasp the magnitude of these fig- ures," Admiral Land points out. "Consider just the 8,000,000 tons we are building in 1942. That would amount to eight hundred big shim of 10,000 tons each. It is more steel ships of a similar size than all the shipyards of the world ever built in one year be- fore. It is several times as many ships as Germany, Japan and Italy together can turn. out this year. "Our active shipbuilding ca- pacity is equal to all the rest of the world combined." Malta Holds Out After 2,000 Raids Malta last Tuesday suffered what was called in dispatches its heaviest air raid of the war. It was also Malta's 2,000th air raid since Italy entered the war June 11, 1940, That is an average of three raids a day. Malta's 2,000th raid attracted about as ranch attention as the rest of the 1,999—a couple of par- agraphs tucked away at the end of something else. A year ago publishers were turning out books on the bombing of London at such a rate that it seemed improbable that the experiences of any resi- dent of that metropolis would es- cape recording in library format, but there is probably not an entry on the Bombing of Malta in any card catalogue. et, the story must be a good one. And Malta holds out. The con- stant pounding the island has re- ceived lies greatly reduced its value as a Mediterranean naval base, yet it still guards the ap- proaches to Libya. Malta has had a long experience with sieges. The Knights of Malta beat off the Turks in 1565 and Napoleon didn't fare well there. And the fortifi- cations of 2,000 years seem capable of withstanding 2,000 /adds from suoh modern gadgets as airplaaes. miacsrxr.rniminieweitanwm...zreg REG'LAR FELLERS—Only By Invitation 0.44327 -C -.0.1,17..r. THE WAR • WEEK — Commentary on Current Events British Bombers Force Hitler Western Front To Strengthen A year ago in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler said: "Again and again I uttered Warnings against aerial warfare and I did so for over three and a half months. . . $o now Church- ill has got his air war. . . . We are determinect to continue to re- taliate a hundred bombs for every one of his and to go on doing ao until the British nation at least gets rid of this criminal and his methods." On April 26 of this year in another speech to the Reichstag he said: "Churchill began this air war in May, 1940. I warned him for four months and waited. . . . My waiting is not weakness, . . I shall from now on retaliate, Wow for blow, until this criminal falls to pieces." Every Hitler speech is recruited from the words of every Hitler speech that went before, says The New York Times. In all but one respect the two passages quoted here are almost identical, Air war . . . Churchill's fault . . . My patience . . Warning of retali- ation . . Counter attack until "this criminal" is driven out of power. But whereas Hitler is now promising to give "blow for blow" a year ago he was promising "a hundred bombs for every one." The time has arrived when the mounting strength of British and American air power no lengei. permits him to boast before his own people that Germany rules the air, Coventry In 1940 For an understanding of the damage that British bombers are now inflicting upon German cit- ies, it is helpful to consider the bombing of Coventry in 1940. That assault was described by the Germans as "the greatest in aer- ial history", and at the time it was feared that such raids might paralyze British industries. Yet the weight of explosives dropped in the successive raids on Ros- tock is more .than four times that which devastated Coventry. The present British air raids against vital points deep in the Reich are so massive as to constitute some- thing new in warfare. Luebeck and Rostock Luebeck and Rostock are ports on the Baltic Sea of vital im- portance to Germany. Through them flow supplies to Hitler's armies in Northern Russia, Fin- land and Norway. Luebeck is a training centre for submarine crews, a great ;industrial city and a warehouse centre for mili- tary stores. Rostock is a thriving seaort and industrial centre. Important shipyards are there and a large branch of the great Heinkel air- craft concern, warehouses, rail and dock facilities. In two of the heaviest raids— staged on successive nights—car- ried out by British bombers, tons of explosives were dropped on air- craft factories, shipyards and the harbor installations of Rostock. In their concentrated force the at- tacks were .said to have surpassed the pounding visited a few weeks before on Luebeck, which laid nearly half that city in waste. Wide R.A.F. Assaults The huge British flying fleets seem able to roam at will, and in daylight, over occupied territory and beyond the former Germau frontier to bomb the Skoda works at Pilsen and the Diesel engine. plants, which supply German sub- marines, at Augsburg. Their losses, relative to the number of planes employed, have been very In the seventh straight night of their largest and biggest round- the-clock offensive of the war, British planes bombed Trond- heim, a formidable naval base in Norway. The Tirpitz, believed to be the most powerful battleship in the world, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, another 10,000 -ton cruiser and swarms of destroyers and submarines are lurking in the harbor of Trondheim. They are in a vital position there to raid the Allied supply line to Russia. Cologne, the third largest city in Germany, and an important railway and industrial centre, again felt the full fury of the Royal Ab., Force, Many daylight attacks have been made against enemy. air- ports and coastwise Channel ship- ping. In one case, recently, a British attacking unit, according •to The Associated Press, povered a square mile of sky. ,h was Said to have been the largest single unit ever to attack France. British Air Policy The British policy is, according to Sir Archibald Sinclair, Air ' Minister, "to destroy the enemy capacity to•nia.ke war by bombing his war factories, means of ,ftana- port and military stores whoever they may be found." An !teemse in the bombing of German ibdust- ry, particularly in the shhabuild. ing sections of the aorthweal, will reduce Nazi capacity for snb-. marine construction, thereby tending to ease the severe strain upon Allied mercantile and naval losses. Hitler's threat of a "blow by blow" retribution on British cit- ies for R.A.F. raids on Germany will be difficult of execution without doing exactly what the British air force is trying to goad him into doing, according .to Oli- ver Stewart, London commentator. "They have only a small pro- portion of their bombers in West- • ern Europe," he said. "Most of the rest are split between Russia and Malta. "It might be possible for a short time to continue raiding as they have recently raided Bath and York. But these raids could not be .sustained unless they shift large forces from the Russian or Maltese fronts." If the Germans actually do this, it. will mean that the Luft- waffe's pressure in these other' two combatant zones will be re- lieved. The R.A.F. will have suc- ceeded in its purpose. Second Front The western front, which Hit- ler plainly fears, already exists. It did not exist last year when the Germans invaded Russia. It was impossible then for the Brit- ish to make large scale air at- tacks. Then the United States was not in the war. The Ger- mans know now that hard attacks from the west will continue to be made. Hitler is not withholding men, planes and equipment from the Russian front, where his po- sition is not secure, to meet an empty threat in the west. Increas- ing Commando raids and air as- saults have had their effect. They have immobilized a large part of the German army and air force on a front that extends from the north of Norway to the Spanish frontier. Hitler is already fight- ing on a second front. Hitler Strengthens Channel Defences The Germans have put thous- ands of laborers to the task of building new gun emplacements and strengthening already for- midable defences along the French coast as an added precaution against Allied invasion. The laborers were seen plainly through field glasses sonic twenty miles across the Channel. Military informants said that Nazi guns massed along the Chan- nel coast have a total firepower equal to that of a fleet of battle- ships and form a concentrated mass of artillery more powerful than in any sector of the Gor- man front facing the Russians. They said installation of these defences had been ordered by Hitler as a result of British com- mando raids on. the coast and operation of light naval forces in adjacent waters. The new works include, in ad- dition to gun bases, a series of new concrete fertifications and tank .barriers extending back sev- eral miles from the shores. The work was greatly intensi- fied immediately after the com- mando raid of March 27-28 on the German submarine bran at St. Nazairc. In Sumatre, and Celebes, the wild tribes consider exposing the knee. immo d est. ••••1111003. w=savartmesslumMatVaslaii•Obie•MEIreueaeln, By GENE BYRNES H0;1.1%4 ESAD TRUCKINQ CORPORATION ..a11001 1) •• arm es Office, MI riselot ,rt( IklyentaVocatiraMy t