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Zurich Herald, 1942-06-04, Page 2L�. voicE of THE .P .R E S S ONLY FIVE PRESIDENTS The C.P.R. has been in exist - mice since 1881 and in all that tinge it has had only five tarot - dents, D. C. Coleman the latest of them, .A11 his predecessors have been great men and great Canadiabs—Lord Mount Stephen, Sir Williams Van Horne, Lord Shaughnessy and Sir Edward B e at t y .•--Port Aatliur News - Chronicle. --0— HOW NEW ORDER WORKS If Hitler wonders why Euro- sans don't react more enthusias•• tically to his New Order, he may find that the Nazis have looted conquered countries of $36,000,- 900,000 in each and goods and that the total in vietims for Nazi firing squads has reached nearly 400,000. — Buffalo Courier -Ex- press. `o— USELESS PURCHASE Goering is reported to be put- ting his money into Italian paint- ings and other art treasures. It's rather a silly performance. Where he's going after the war is over, there won't be any spase for hanging such things. — Windsor Star. — 0— LIGHT COMMENT ,.The "Oxford Mail" of England publishes blackout and lighting- up time on its front page. After giving the hours, there is this comment: "Your safety depends on your blackout, don't make light of it "--Woodstock Sentinel Review. REAL "VICTO- RY GARDEN" A Californian was digging in bis backyard last week when he anearthed a tin can. Inside was More than $1,000. The finder bought defence bonds. That was a real Victory Garden.—Brant- lord Expositor. SIGHTS AN- D SIGHTS Uncle Sam's foresight is better than his hindsight as he rounds up spies who might acquire an Insight into the borrnbeight.--The Windsor Star. —0— TYPICAL OF GENERAL The manes of Gen. McNaugh- ton's return to England was typ- ical—he went on a troopslyip with his men, taking whatever risks they took.—Ottawa Journal. _0_ SERIOUS FACES Have you noticed how serious week -end motorists look, to prove they are not. pleasure -driving --- Stratford Beacon -Herald. _0_ ACCIDENT NEWS In a collision at a nearby in- tersection last evening, two tires. and one passenger were reported brut,—Detroit News. _0_ OPTIMIST DEFINED An optimist is a man who plants a garden and throws away his wife's can opener.—Kitchener Record. Select Airmen By L Q. Tests High Standard of Education Not Necessary Now Intelligence tests instead of education standards are now used by the United States army air i<orce in selecting men for air erew training, Hon. Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war for air, and Maj. -Gen. - Barton K. Yount, chief of the air force training command, said at a re- cent press conference at Ottawa. Applicants for air crew duty are given a "screening" test which determines their intelligence, abil- ity ,and suitability regardless of their educatiou, General Yount. said. Formerly the air arm re - %aired a man to have the egtriv- alent of two years in college be- fore he would be accepted for air crew training, "Now we don't ask a man what his education is. We find out," said the general. (Applicants for enlistment as air crew In Canada must have com- pleted their bigh school educa- tion.) New System Accurate "The test is surprisingly accur- ate," said Mr. Lovett. "I believe are are now getting men of the most unusual competence and giv- ing everybody a fair break" Under the old system, said Mr. • Lovett, a. man who played foot- ball in college for two years and perhaps took a course in animal husbandry and agronomy to qual- ify for football could get into the air force, while a. mai with a keen mind, a dewire for knowledge and perhaps a lot of experience tinkering with motors would not get in, despite the fact the foot- ball player might have "as much water an the brain as water on the knee," The new system recognized the fact that education and int ell a gence were riot iw ossarily the sante thing. INDIA TRAINS PARACHUTISTS TO DEFEND HER SOIL • J a •, :'c•, h h\F\i i1 ,y -��L\ ,�, >I sin �'l e \ \.�'.k: '\'�\'�rw.. �x 4\ �: {e '��''�ttr�v;�.�° gyp•... Turbaned, shorts -clad sons of menaced Mother India learn a modern form of warfare from an R.A.F. instructor shown giving a "dragging" dem onstration to his parachute battalion. LAN cMi AURICE r A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army One of the hardest things any olid soldier has to do is to learn not only to keep his mouth shut on the question of enlistment but to keep his thoughts in order as well. It is fatally easy to look at a strapping fellow in civilian clothes and wonder "why the bianketty-blank he isn't in khaki." It is not so easy to marshal your thoughts and weigh the many reasons that may exist. I suppose the principal reason that such thought control is necea- sary is the fact that very few men you see wearing C.R.F. but- tons today were conscripts. II has been brought out in the House of Commons time and again that the number of conscripted soldiers who reached France in 1917-1918 was a very small• pro- portion of the Canadian. Expedi- tionary Force. One great unfairness in public thinking and newspaper editor- ials, it seems to me, is the con- • stant direction of blasts at youth. Grant that this is a young man's war. Grant that some, steps are being taken in the 'direction of thinning out the older officers you still don't see Generals in their thirties. And I don't think you should. Nevertheless, it is still a matter for comment when a man in his late twenties is promoted to Major. Let's have the emphasis on the younger man—not ' the youth. Let's fill our administrative and training staffs with older, but not aging men. We are not being fair to the man who was too young to do hie bit in 1914-1918. He missed that because of youth. He's 'missing this one because he's "too old." Too old to fight, that is. Maybe none of us will be too old to fight! In the meantime if anyone ie. to lose his present opportunities for a space let's give some con- sideration to the man who is estabished. He has something to go back to. He has had a chance and will pick up the threads again when he goes back. Besides, his business training can be useful in the Army. He can do a real job in administrative, port and similar services. At Are ,.quartermaster, ordnance, trans- f Subs . Mother these jobs he can release some of Helping U�B�at8f the young, fit .men doing that kind 11 of work in Ottawa and other headquarters today. Large Undersea Supply Sure it's a young mans war— Boats Would Be Great a war that can use, and use well, Menace men in their middle twenties; a war, to judge by the pictures of Russian, Polish, Yugo - Slavian guerrillas, that can find the right niche for. a young man of any So let's not look -Too askance at the young fellow of 19-23. Per- haps they will be the better sol- diers for a.chance first to appre- ciate that they have a stake in the country, And those of us who are con- demned. to be civilians, what about us? There is plenty for us to do. ' And most of it is easy. That's probably what makes it so hard! We can stop be-devil:7ng some •of our fellow-civiliares who have undertaken the thankless task of trying to teach us to be sensible. We can start making things easier for storekeepers, wholesalers and manufacturer's who are getting together and advising the War- time Prices and Trade Board how best it can control their busi- nesses for the common good. We can help to make the most of what Leon Henderson. calls "glorious scarcities." There is no more rubber available from our usual sources—all right, let's stop running our cars at all. How many of our fathers had cars? It is not enough just to con- fine your use of sugar to the weekly three-quarters of a pound you are allowed try to get along on eight ounces. That extra quarter pound. may put an extra • quarter ineh of bayonet into a Nazi or a Japan- ese. The Individual Citizen's Army fights with its own weapons .on the home front. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher ..as '��'� tcoPr,+�ns 1939. Iv' rr d MVO" "We can divide the weight in half, but what about the fortune?" REC'LAR FELLERS=A. Dirty Trick Germany may be using huge submarines, three times the size of her Deutschland of World W4 1, _to supply her U-boat nests ale the Atlantic coast. There has been talk for years of great, cargo -carrying s u b - marines under construction in. the Reich, but no definite Inform- ation. If Germany has such vessels and is prepared to use then in any number she may introduce a new and important factor into the war. With her 1,000 and 1,500 -ton undersea warcraft operating in packs outside America's harbors,, .such mother craft carrying oil, ammunition and supplies would give her a tremendous increase in striking power. The largest known undersea warcraft was the 2,700 -ton French Surcouf, recent- ly sunk. The smallest are Japan's two-man boats such as were used at Pearl Harbor. Instead of spending two-thirds of their time going and coming from bases hi. Germany and ,oc- • cupied France, the time of a U- boat's operation would be limited only by the necessity of reat for its crew. This problem of crew relief is one of the greatest worries of a submarine fleet commander. Transport submersibles might solve that, also, by providing con- stant rotation, The World War 1 trans- Atlantic cruises of the 2,000 -ton Deutschland, which took 16 days each. way, were startling in the Unitech States at the time, On her first voyage she brought a 750 - ton cargo, Vessels three times her size, vessels half as large as battle cruisers, night keep a submarine fleet operating far from home bases almost indefinitely. THE WAR • WEEK Commentary on Current Events Japan's Violent Attack On China Imperils Cause Of United Nations Along a land front in Daatlerra Asia—some 1,500 miles in length, comparable in its sweep to the Russian battleground•--soldl'arri of Japan and China were marroeuv- ring :and fighting last vf.eck, ac- cording scording to The New Y0112 Trines, The Mikado's general, were tak- ing up the initiative !Fain in the "Incident" hegira 'dt Peiping's Marco Polo Brfeeza almost five years ago; Their objectives were not completely clear, but from Yunnan's ,gorges to the coastal regions below Shanghai the ad- vance r, their columns bore om- inous ,esibiilties for the cause of the United Nations. First Conquer China Abundant testimony has been supplied by the words and actions of Japanese militarists as to the fundamental role of China in their blueprint of aggrandizement. As far back as the sixteenth -century* conqueror Hideyoshi, the. Samurai thought of their sprawling neigh- Ibor as an avenue for armed ex- cursions as distant as .India— . though Hideyoshi was told by the King of Korea that Nippon in at- tempting to subjugate China was like. a bee trying to sting a tor- toise. The eonvictions of the modern Samurai have been re- eorded thus by the memorial ascribed to Baron Tanaka in 1927: In order to conquer China we must first Conquer Man- churia and Mongolia. In order to conquer the world, we must first conquer China. If we suc- ceed in conquering China, the rest of the Asiatic countries and the South Sea countries • will fear us and surrender to us. Modern India is divided into nine rnajer religions, 2,400 castes and tribes and speaks 225 lalag- uaees, 77Kk TI-IATZ A SWELL i.00KIN' t a 4 GARDEN YOU'VE_ GOT,. PINHEAD?' V/HATCI-IA GOT PLANTED IN IT 7 Prospective Gains The war against China, it is clear, has been regarded as vital in order to gain: (1) bases on the Asiatic mainland both to pro- tect Japan's real and to provide springboards for further expan- elon; (2) resources, •such as the iron, coal, oil, grain and timber of Manchukuo; (3) control over a people who account for a quar- ter of the world's population and who must be shackled before they "awaken". The campaigns de- veloping last week appeared to some observers to be an effort .to clean up the long -dragging .China incident, perhaps to knock China out of the war and thereby to free the -largest portion of Japan's soldiery and to eliminate the major land front from which an Allied offensive might be launch- ed.: Japan Strikes The blows were aimed in sev- eral sectors: The spearhead of the rapid Jap- anese thrust from Burma into Yunnan, China's wild southwest- ern outhwestern province, encountered stiff resistance on the Burma Road, about halfway between Lashio and Kunming. Chinese veterans demolished bridges' across the steep canyons cut by the Salween and Mekong Rivers, harried the Invaders with guerrilla tactics; prepared to meet •the onslaught of some 100,000 Japanese said to be mussing in Burma, Tbaila•lid and Indo-China. The main Japans ese objective seemed to be the area around Yunnan's capital, Kunming, where the Chiang liar- shek government has eatablisted arms factories carried intend groin the occupied coa,st. Chinese Corridor The provinces between Shang- hai and Canton have never been completely overrun. Thy have • remained a corridor fol• goods brought through blockade to Free China. They harbor airfields which could serve as bases for raids on Japan. It was believed that a land -and -air campaign by some 100,000 Nipponese troops in this segiou was seeking to plug a• break in China's isolation and re- • move the menace of hostile air - d r o m e s, Recently Chungking . claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on a Japanese expedition landed from the sea in the coastal theatre: Japan Drives Inland .A. number of widely separated actions in China's central 'wore inees indicated that the invaders • were trying to destroy important supply and communication centres for Chungking's regulars and guerrillas. An advance began above the Yellow River, app:ar- ently to mop. up resistance in Shansi. Below the Yangtze. n drive seemed under way toward Changsha, where the Japanese have suffered defeat in previous campaigns. The peril. confronting Free China was emphasized by Chung- king hungking spokesmen. It was insisted that the Japanese were concen- trating for a decisive blow against their oldest opponent. The Allies were warned that "China needs all the help our friends can send us with the utmost haste." The aid most urgently requested was: "First bombers and pursuit planes; second, bombers and pur- suit planes; third, bombers and. pursuit planes." Can China Hold Out? The problem of meeting Chang - king's plea was admittedly tough. The arsenals of America and Bri- tain were striving to prepare the fronts over all the world—(:here was some opinion that the new Japanese,. in ',China were still subordinate to drives being shaped against ]atria, Aus- tralia or Siberia. The shipping of the United Nations was strained to the utmost, The hope was that Asia's greatest nation would hold out until its vast reserves of man power could be buttressed with equipment to match the invader's, "Old Man MacLeod" Old Man MacLeod, they called hint affectionately in the famed fishing district of . Stornoway, Scotland,, and when war came he lifted his nets for the last time. The Old Man joined one of Britain's tramps. His son, point- ing out that the salt spray surged in his veins also, sailed with him. Just the other day, the father, Able Seaman Neil MacLeod, was awarded posthumously Lloyd's War Medal for bravery at sea. A member of the British Mer- chant amarine whose ship had been torpedoed, he directed the sail- ing of a lifeboat to land, although in n dying condition. The plc] Man was below decks - when the torpedo struck. The .shock fractured his legs. The ship was sinking as he struggled to climb through a hole to the deck, He fell back but someone threw him a rope. Waving help aside, he reached. the dock, crawled along on hands and knees and lowered himself into a lifeboat. He knew the ways of small craft and believed he could be of service. Then too, his son was in that boat and land was not far away. So the old fisherman sailed th.e boat to land. And all the time he knew he was dying. 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