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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-11-05, Page 3✓ OICE OF THE P RESS VALUE OF A GARDEN It is a little harder but a great deal more serviceable to teach the child at home and elsewhere that the world owes and will give it nothing that is not paid for in hon» est labor. The child who is led to cultivate a garden regularly will very likely be willing to do other helpful work when occasion de- mands, and at the same time will be cultivating a character full of promise for the duties of later rears. —Guelph Mercury —0— 'AL-CAN' HIGHWAY Official announcement is made that the Alaska Highway, 1,600 miles from Tort St. John in Brit- ish Columbia to Fairbanks in Alaska, will be through and ready for Winter use December 1. It Is to be known as "Al -Cans' Highway —Alaska and Canada. —Vancouver Sun THE WILLKIE VERSION "God bless you, and give 'ern hell," says Mr. Wendell L. Willkie to American troops in Egypt. ;Which is, being interpreted, simply the colorful Willkie version of that other time-honored injune- tion, "Trust in God and keep your powder dry." —Windsor Star —0 --- BRIGHT SPOT The Canadian Navy has lost more ships in the last few weeks than it comprised at the outset. And it still is a great fighting force. The way the navy has been built up is one of the bright spots In Canada's war effort. —St. Thomas Times -Journal —0— USE FOR JEEPS A thought is that the jeep will make a dandy post-war baby car- riage for the kind of tough baby our posterity will have to be. —Stratford Beacon -Herald —0— THEN COMES HIS CHANCE Armed with the trusty stiletto, there would still be nothing for the Duce to do until someone op- ened a second back. —Winnipeg Tribune FASHIONABLE NOW A reader wants to know what to do with an old felt hat. The answer is: Wear it. That's what we're doing. —Owen Sound Sun -Times —0 -- WOMEN'S RAIMENT A Chicago lecturer contends the average woman wears better than the average man. But not to much. —Chatham News —o— NO TELLING Perhaps they will be putting an amusement tax on the few hours we hold our wages. —Brandon Sun 11 ! Million Pounds Sugar From Alberta The beet experts say, according to -the Lethbridge Herald, we, can look forward to something like 850,000 tons of beets this harvest, and on that basis we may expect to extract some 110,000,000 pounds of sugar besides considerable mol- asses. The molasses, a low grade product, will mostly go to the manufacture of alcohol for the war effort. But it is in the sugar that a rationed Canada Is interested. The, sugar ration is half a pound per person per week. 'That means that the 800,000 people of Alberta will consume some 21,000,000 pounds in a year. Saskatchewan will require a b out 25,000,000 pounds. We will be able to supply these two provinces with their ration requirements, give Manito- ba 10,000,000 pounds, and still have 54,000,000 pounds left to supply general requirements and to ship to the people of Ontario where we are already shipping the surplus sugar of last year's Crap, lackout S. Shore Of St, Lawrence A Federal Order -in -Council has been passed calling for a complete blackout of the south shore of the St. Lawrence which will go into effect at once. The blackout will be effective from 1'Isle Verte, 40 milee up- river from Rimouski, down through the. entire coastline of the Gaspe peninsula bordering on the St. Lawrence, and around the Bay Chaleur shore' as far as Douglas - town. The darkened area will extend inland for five miles, The announcement said the blackout had been ordered "to guard against the possibility of bombardment by enemy submar- Ines," The new regulations will require a total blackout of street. lights and illuminations, and will prevent interior lights front being visible from the outside. Train and ante - mobile lights in the meet will 1)0 shad ocl, HERE'S HOW IT TARTEl See the ball right by the base? Yankee Red Rolfe dropped it—enabling Cardinal Sam Musial to slide into third safely on W. Cooper's single to centre. With Musial on third, and Cooper on first, the stage was set for the 4th inning, 6 -run blasting that followed Kurowski's single. Cards finally won this fourth World Series game at Yankee Stadium, 9-6. A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army' Not very much has appeared in these columns about the Army Pay Corps which organization, of course, performs one of the most Important functions in the Indi- vidual Citizen's Army; and in this case when I say individual citi- zen's army I mean the army of fighting Canadirans of all ages who probably beam the word Canada on their shoulders. The charge is sometimes level- led that the headquarters organ- isations fight "a paper war." Too little consideration is given to the inescapable documentation that must be done in order that men may be enlisted, equipped, out- fitted, fed, housed, paid, trans- ported and supplied once they are part of the army. Too often we take it entirely for granted that a man's pay will reach him no matter on what front be serves; that his assigned pay, separation allowance and depend- ents' allowance will be paid regu- larly regardless of how often the family moves or how often he moves. It must be remembered too, that other Individual Citizen's Army, taxpayers like you and me, are entitled to get an accounting of all the moneys that are spent for us by our government. Today there are hundreds of thousands of Johnny Canucks in khaki each getting his $1.30 a day —or more according to their rank —and the translation of these in- dividual sums into Battalions, Brigades, Divisions, Army Corps and Armies, calls for the opera- tion of an accounting system that might well be expected to stagger even a civilian merchant prince. That, very briefly, is a sketch of some of the work of the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps. It is not by any means the full picture —there are such things for in- stance as advances of pay to men going on leave, deductions to be made from pay for carelessly lost or mislaid equipment, stoppages of pay occasioned by necessary punishment and the provision of monetary allowances in lieu of rations and quarters, when a sol- dier is detailed to a jab of work which doesn't permit him to live in barracks. None of this can be done with- out "a paper war" and most of it is done by men who would be much more highly paid doing the same type of work in their peac- able occupations. Amongst the list of items to be attended to by the Pay Corps, you will remember I listed "assigned pay." Every married man must, and every single man is encour- aged to, assign a proportion of his pay to his wife or his next of kin. Fathers and mothers of improvi- dent youngsters will thoroughly appreciate the wisdom of such a - regulation in fact most of them have tried to do the same thing with varying degrees of success. Right now it would be well for all of us to practice a similar re- gulation upon ourselves. And right now, through the regulations of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, we are actually beginning to practice as sensible a system of economics as that imposed upon the soldiers who defend us on the far-flung frontiers of the fight for civilization. In the lush years we cheerfully mortgaged our pay, sometimes for months and years in advance, to pamper ourselves with such lux- uries as automobiles, washing ma- ohines, radios, pianos, chesterfield suites, rosewood furniture for our bedrooms and a hundred other things that in a more spartan ex- istence we Carl very well do with- out or simplify. Today under the consumer credit regulations such mortgag- ing is on a sounder economic basis, down payments must be greater, the balance which is paid by installments must be cleared more quickly—with the result that much more of the money in our pay cheques is our own. This is just another forma of the assigned pay of the soldier and is one way in which by approxima- ting his conditions we may feel closer to him in the carrying on of our own job of war work — which is to support in every pos- sible way the man in uniform. A few days ago in Montreal there was an excellent example of the civilian equivalent of "pay deduction" when three firms en- gaged in the business of selling goods on the installment ran were convicted of violations of the consumer credit regulations of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Each was fined sums ranging from $300 down to $100 plus the payment of costs—sums not great enough to hurt the pockets of the accused firms, but none the Less a deduction of their pay which formed part of the greater pun- ishment afforded by the publicity that was given to their violation of rules that have been established for the benefit of the whole of Canada. As time goes on there is little doubt that the fight against in- flation — both present and post- war — will put those of us who serve in the Individual Citizen's Army on the hone front much closes' to parity with the soldiers in battle -dress. Let's hope we can serve as cheerfully as they do, re- gardless of what our "pay corps" is compelled to do to us. SCOUTING .. • Two Boy Scouts of the 1st Headstone Troop, Middlesex, Eng- lead, ngland, found a "live" hand gren- ade. One lad remained on guard while the other went immediately to secure a disposal squad to dis- pose of the dangerous weapon be- fore anyone was harmed. • * * Stepping off at Merrickville duce- ing a two-week cruise, member® of the 30th Ottawa Sea Scout Troop arrived on the scene of a serious automobile accident. The boys, headed by their Scoutmaster improvised a stretches from their oars and a groundsheet and re- moved the injured. They gave first aid and expertly treated and bandaged serious lacerations on the faces and arms of the occu- pants of the vehicles until the ar- rival of a doctor. * * To raise funds to invest in war bonds, Wolf Cubs of Sheffield, England went in for demestic ser- vice. They organized a group of boys to go out and scrub floors and do polishing of one kind and anotlher. The money received was invested in bonds, which after the war will be donated to the Baden- Powell Memorial Fund for the erection of B -P House in London. * * * Boy Scouts of the 8th Ilkey Troop, England hadn't enough cou- pons to provide themselves with Troop neckerchiefs. Not to be denied them, the boys secured an old bed sheet, dyed it, and made their neckerchiefs from it. * * ,, A new edition of "Scouting for Boys," which since the beginning of the movement has been the handbook of the Boy Scouts, has just been published in England. It is a memorial edition in honour of the author and founder of the Scout movement, Lord Baden- Powell. It is not generally known, but next to the Bible, the hand- book "Scouting for Boys" has had a larger circulation than any other book published in the present cen- tury. * * * Boy Scout Apple Days which are usually held all across Canada about the middle of October have made an important contribution to solving the problem of apple mark- eting in Canada. Apple Days have become so numerous that many thousands of bushels of apples are required annually to fill require- ments, and thus a i scful market is found for a fruit which has suf- fered much because of export re- strictions dee to the war. Britain And Turkey Make Trade ' act BBC said last week Britain has Concluded an agreement with Turkey under which it will take a large part of this year's Turkish exports, including much copper, hemp, flax, olive oil and dried fruit. In return, Britain will deliver manufactured goods, steel and grain, THE WAR - WEEK — Commentary on Current Events TURN OF WAR TIDE SEEN IN END OF 8O DAY PERIOD At the end of the 80 -day period blued by Minister of Production Cleat. Oliver Lyttleton, Britons ap- pear inclined to agree with him that the war has begun to enter a new phase, writes Mallory Brown in the Christian Steience Monitor. In a speech at Aldershot on Italy 18, when the Nazi drive in the Caucasus and on the Don was getting under way, Captain Lyttle- ton declared "At no time since the Battle of Britain have we stood in graver peril. It would be folly to deny that these 80 days in front of us are some of the gravest that we have ever faced." In another speech at Sheffield, Sept. 16, Captain Lyttleton again referred to this 80 -day period, say- ing, "Nineteen or 20 of these re- main, and at the end of that time, the war definitely begins to enter into a new phase." Provided emphasis is put on the word "begins," it is probably cor- rect to say that British opinion as a whole agrees this is the case today. It is certain most military commentators and editorial writ- ers of leading newspapers and magazines seem to support this conclusion. it is based on the fol- lowing factors: Factors In Conclusion 1. The German attack at Stal- ingrad is still being held. Captain Lyttleton, in predieing the war would enter a new phase at this time, said "We are approaching the breathless moment when, if Russia can hold on to her present positions for a few more weeks, the balance will begin to swing in our direction, and when the gathering forces of the greatest alliance which the world has ever seen are going to give us first evidences of victory." 2. Hitler has apparently failed to achieve any of his major mili- tary objectives fixed for this year's Russian campaign. Military con- sensus in London is that his time schedule is now completely upset and that even if Stalingrad even- tually falls, Marshal Semyon Tim- oshenko's armies are still in being and Russian arms still formidable along the entire front. Further- more, Axis losses have been en- ormous and are bound to have weakened the offensive strength of the German military machine, for this year at least. 3. The prevailing view here is that the Nazi offensive launch ed in Southern Russia this summer was an all-out attempt on the part of Hitler to reduce the Soviet arm- ies to impotence, if not actually to destroy them. He has certainly failed in this so fax. 4. Confirmation of this is seen here in three speeches by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Richsfuhrer Hitler, and Relchmar- shal Hermann Goring, which sig- nilIcantly enough coincide with the closing week of the SO -day pea'iod outlined by Captain Lyttle- ton. These speeches, especially Hitler's, have been generally in- terpreted in England as evidence that Nazi leaders now acknowledge they must henceforth abandon the offensive and take up a broad de- fensive strategy toward the war as a whole. This, broadly speaking, • is the reasoning that underlies most Bri- tish press comments In the con- clusion of Captain Lyttletou's 80 - day period. In informed circles, however, certain warnings are to be heard. First is that the situ- ation of Stalingrad itself is still serious and that it remains to be seen just how heavy a blow has been struck at Soviet military strength by the, Nazi's territorial ga.ins, which include some of Rur- sia's richest mineral, industrial, and agricultural districts. A second warning is that it would be unwise to overestimate the significance of speeches by Nazi leaders. Hitler has proved he is a past master at using spreehes as part of a propaganda smoke screen intending to mislead op- ponents as to his real intentions. Third, in well-informed military circles it is emphasized that the new phase has at the most only begun. It would be a mistake to expect to see at once any of the "first evidences of victory" refer- red to by Captain. Lyttleton. What oan be said, ea the opinion of these militrary observers, is that the past 80 days have witnessed the failure of Hitler's best Chance to ecore a major strategic success In the war by carrying through this year destruction of the Soviet armies in the south and in the vast pincer movement centered en the Suez Canal, No Longer Imminent Eighty days ago it looked as if be had a good chance of carrying out both these aims. Today, al- though the potential threat to Suez still exiests both from the Caucasus and in North Afeioa, the general feeling here is that neith- er of these threats is any longer imminent. It is now considered unlikely Hitler will be able to force his way through the passes in the Caucasus mountains before winter; and in Egypt there are signs the initiative is no longer in the hands of General Field Mar- shal Erwin Rommel. Meanwhile, the weight of armor and munitions, particularly tanks, and planes from the United States, is piling up on the side of the United Nations, Thus there are un- doubtedly grounds for hoping that Russian resistance, especially at Stalingrad, in the past 8.0 days has won for the Allies the respite they, needed in order to build up, equip, and concentrate their forces on big -scale offensive action in the future. Whether this future is to be im- mediate or much more remote re- mains the secret of the United Ne. - tions General Staffs. Premier Stalin's statement to the Moscow correspondent in Moscow emphasizing the importance of a second front has aroused intense interest in England bait has not altered the prevailing view of military experts that the ultimate decision as to the time and place of a second front must be left with military and political chiefs, who alone have full knowledge of United Nations resouroes. Beef Exports Drop Sharply Canadian beef cattle exports to the United States have dropped sharply in recent weeks, mainly due to Government action to maintain home supplies, according to the Agriculture Department's livestock market review. In the week ending September 10 only 63 head of beef cattle crossed the border against 4,864 in the same period last year. From July 1 to September 10 this year beef cattle exports were 21,395 head against 49,661 in 1941. Heavy shipments across the border in the early months of the year made the 1942 total of ship- ments higher than in 1941, with the 1942 figure 120,466 head against 99,860. Under preferred buying ar- rangements with the United States, about 200,000 Canadian beef cattle are allowed to cross the border annually, with certain numbers allocated for quarterly periods. The last quarter quota will open on October 1 and if they are available about 50,000 beef cattle may be shipped at the pre- ferred rates. "PLENTY OF COAL AVAILABLE" Says G. C. Cooke, President of "Blue Coal" In a recent broadr.a=t, Gordon C. C'ooke, president of D. L. & W. Coal Co., producers of "blue coal", said: "In this coal crisis we must share and share alike. If you don't receive all the coal you order at the one time, the reason is that your dealer is trying to put some coal in every bin and can only partially fill your order at present. So be patient. You'll get all the coal you need. There's enough coal to keep every home warm this winter." Remember. when ordering i sal, to make sure it's "blue, coal" . . the coal you can depend on for greater comfort and heating .itis - faction all winter. REG'LAR FELLERS—Correct I'M BRUSHIN' UP 014 MY GRAMMAR Felt NEX' TERM! 1 WAIdNA sl T!-1 sMARTEs' Il4 THE CLASS!. IF )IIU READ SOME OF THIS STUFF.INJ THIS BOOK YOU WOULDN' 'THINK GRAMMAR WAS SO 1rASY! MERE'S ONE WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS SENTENCE `THE TOAST, WAS DRANK IN SILENCE?' • eed a,:_omatemshatemeeta. By GENE BYRNES TWITS E,MSY "THE TOAST WAS UT IN SIL{:NCEf