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Zurich Herald, 1943-01-21, Page 2JOIN THE NAVY AND B -R -R -R € Somewhere in Alaskan waters, a Navy photographer shot thin view of a hlg PRY patrol bomber being walked into a land berth by -- its Navy ground erew-a?p to their waists in lee -speckled, freezing water Keep Both Eyes On Winning War On August 4, 1917, Lloyd Gecrge Spoke as as Follows: While the Army is fighting so valiantly, let the nation behind it be patient, he strong, and, above all, united. The strain is great on nations and on individuals, and when men get over -strained temp- ers get ragged, and small griev- ances a -re exaggerated, and small misunderstandings and mistakes swell into mountains. `Long wars, like long voyages and long joins, neyCare very trying to the temp- er, aeel wise nten keep watch on on .4 and make allowances for it. There • are some who are more concerned about eliding the war than about winning it; and_ plans which lead to victory, if they pro- long the conflict, have their dis- approval, and the people who are responsible tor such plans have their condemnation, Let us keep our eye steadily on the winning of the wee. May I say ee. cast in their eye, and while one eye is fixed truly on victory, the ether is wandering around to oth- er issues or staring stonily at some pet or partisan project of their own. Beware of becoming cross- eyed! Ieeep both eyes on victory. Look neither to the right nor to the left. That is the way we shall win. If any one promotes national distrust or disunion at this hour, he is helping the enemy and hurt- ing urting his native land. And it makes no difference whether he is for or against the war. As a matter of fact, the hurt is deeper if be Is for the war, because whatever the pure pacifist says is discount- ed, and, as far as the war Is con- cerned, discredited. Let there be one thought ht every head. If you sow distrust, discontent, disunion in the nation we shall reap defeat. lf, on the other hand, we sow the seeds of patience, confidence, and unity, we shall garner in victory and its fruits. The last ridges of a climb are always the most trying to the nerves and to the heart, but the real test of great endurance and *enrage is the last few hundreds or scores of feet in a climb up- wards. The climber who turns back when he is almost there never becomes a 'great mountain- eer, and the nation that turns back and falters before it reaches its aearpose never becomes a great people, You hare all had exper- ience in climbing, no doubt—per- baps in Wales. Any Mountaineer can start; any sort of mountaineer can go part of the way; and very often the poorer the mountain- eer, the greater is his ardor when he does start; but fatigue and danger wear out all but the stout- est hearts, and even the most stout-hearted sometimes fail when they conte to the last slippery precipice. )3ut if they do turn back and afterwards Iook up and see how near they had got to the top5. how they curse the faint-hearted- ness which bade then give 'up when they were so near the goal! Britons To Draw Belts Still Tighter Britons are going to be asked to tighten their belts a few more notches, the Food Ministry said in announcing, that reductions will be nia:le in fond rations, but added that the process will be so gradual it may not be noticeable for some time. Reductions will begin Jan, 11 and will be spread over sis months. Extent of the reduction was not, announced im- niediatele. The clove will make more shipeieg spare available for the War materials, Britain Takes War Work To Workers Small war factories are operat- ing in many tunable -down buildings in Britain, and thousands more may be opened soon in empty shops, barns and cowsheds, dere- lict churches, mission halls, and garages. The Ministry of Supply, Labor and Production, in London. plan to give work to 750,000 married women able to do part-time tasks of a simple kind -near their homes. Part-time work is now done by 250,000 women and a million more are needed. The obstacle is that most of those who want part -rime work Live in rural and urban areas away from factories. The plan is to take the factories to the workers. Navy To Have New R tion Kit Emergency Food Containers for All Life Rafts A better chance of survival for shipwrecked sailors huddled on life rafts was held out not long ago, thanks to a food -holding de- vice evolved through research work carried out by officers of the Royal Canadian Navy. Naval headquarters announced' that a new "emergency ration con- tainer" has been devised and adopt- ed. It is regarded so favorably that United States and British naval authorities have asked for specifications and may adopt it. All life rafts now will be stock- ed with the new containers which inteude water in specially designed tins which will not rust nor break even at 15 degrees below zero, chocolate 'bars which will stand heat to 212 degrees withoht melt- ing, chocolate tablets, concentrat- ed biscuits. The ration kit is no bigger than a woman% overnight bag and is coated with salt -water -resisting paint. The water can holds 16 ounces of water of a formula which will not cause rust. A. food container to go inside the kit is a little bigger than a sardine can and holds 12 choco- late tablets, each 70 per cent. whole milk; two bars of c'aocolate, enough to last a man two days. All foods are processed to stand up to ster- ilization without spoiling. It is proposed to put four kits on each 10 -man raft and eight on each 20 -man raft, lashed into spe- cial compartments. With 25,000 kits on order the work of re-equip- ping rafts is expected to proceed. ]ila:ch kit contains eight ting of water, eight tins of food and eight packets of extra food in the form of sealed milk tablets. "Eat slowly" is hte only threc. tion given on the container. This is necessary because of the high calorie content of the food. U. S. 1943 Budget 100 ilhion Dollars More Than All Other Bee tigerents Spending In Year The most expensively worded book in History—the United States Budget Which will call for cash spending of more than $100,000,- 000,000 in the next fiseal year. went to press last week, Because it is also one of the big- gest and most complicated books published each year, it will not be ready for public reading until San. 11, when clerks will read the introduction to both houses of Congress. Containing about 1,000 pages of fine type, the annual finaneial blueprint of the Federal Govern- ment overnment will be primarily a bill, ten- dered as part of the price of vic- tory. The doeulneut will contain a few milliou dollars for routine' things like forest conservation or beetle control, but the direct war. costa for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission. Lend -Lease, and simi- lar activities, alone, are about $100.000,000,000. That's about $30,000,00,000 more than is being spent in the current fiscal year. which will end .Tune 30, 1943. It's about four times as much as was spent by the United States in the World War. It's more than I:ugland and Germany, and all the other belligerents are spending. a year, put together. At that, officials said, the only reason the figure wasn't bigger is that it represents the largest sum which the experts believe can be spent in a year, considering the prospective output of United States war factories. Winged Cannon We will some day see aireraft that are simply winged artillery pieces, says Collier's. They will go along with ground troops and armored forces, doing much of the work now handled by big mobile rifles and howitzers. The biggest cannon has a range of twenty miles or so; a smaller piece mounted on a plane has a range equal to that of the plane, plus a little. Hundreds of miles, in other words. The Bell P-39, with a 20 or 37 -millimeter can- non in the nose, is a sample. The Russians have used it to destroy German tanks in quantity. The Russians have another ship of their own which operates iinil- arly. A ropere ..4101 irons a }rl lid' is -Snit as deadly as one fired from the ground, generaIIy speak- ing, and the aerial cannon is much easier to move around. It can go find a tank, rather than wait for a tank to find it. The flying cannon of tomorrow will be stable enough to allow more accurate aiming than is possible now. Hang On Tightly To That Rooster He May Be Needed To Wak- en You At Crack of Dawn If you are still lucky •enougit to pos: ess a rooster, then hang en to him and encourage chanticleer to herald the dawn, says the Ham- ilton Spectator. The disturbing fact is that alarm clocks are be- eoming scarce anti may soon be as rare as a heaping sugar bowl. The rooster that crows may yet be something more titan a neigh- borhood nuisance. Not only are no more civilian alarm clocks being made by, most manufacturers, but the supply of them has been largely exhausted in wholesale and retail circles. Considerable brass and copper went into the production of alarm clocks, and these are now essen- tial war materials. Germany and Japan need to supply the world market with many such clacks, but the last thing the Axis desires to do right now is furnish the democratees with any device that contributes to their alertness and gets the workers to their jobs on time. One company is turning out a plastic alarm clock which re- quires only a little steel for its inner nteehanistn, but this product goes only to -the fighting services. Some neighbors' radios can be depended upon to wake up the soundest sleepers at a regular hour every morning; but once it be- comes known that this is viewed as a service of convenience it will no doubt be discontinued prompt- ly. A rain and lusty rooster there- fore appears to he the last hope when your alarm clock finally gives up the ghost and there are no more spare parts available to make it tick.. ' War Tomatoes Replacing Roses In the glasshouses where roses and carnations bloomed in peace time, British flower farmers hope to produce this year 50,000 tons of tomatoes. They are also growing great quantities of out- door food crops. One nursery alone, whose out- put in 1939 was entirely of cut flowers, produced Iast year 950 tons of tomatoes, 125,000 let- tuces, 320 tons of sugarbeets, 100 tons of onions and 76 tons of carrots, all from glasshouses or from land previously planted with flower crops. This year 82% of the nuesery'a total glass area is planted with tomatoes and 80% of its outdoor growth is growing food. crops. Since the war Britain's flower industry has been controlled by horticultural cropping orders and its employees are reserved at the age of 30 only if they are en- gaged on food production. LIFE'S LIKE- THAT By Fred Neher "I have this trouble every winter. . People demand their coffee steaming hot!!" }gluey and Curley of the Anzacs I TAKE. o►rrt)ItIARY ARMY 4550E @AYONET• 50 /!' THE WAR - WEEK --- commentary on Current 9vents Shipments of Fuel To Africa May Be Decisive War Factor Shipment of large aluantities of 4uel to French Africa bas caused drastio restriction in the sale of gasoline in the Eastern States, says The Christ.iaal Science Moni- tor. These measures for the con- servatiou of gasoline hate offic- ially cut pleasure driving and con- siderably hampered economic ac- tivity of large parts of the Ameri- can population. Yet these restrictions have been necessary to stabilize Anglo-Amer- ican conquest of vitally important positions in French North and West Africa. The United States military. administration needs large quantities of material and fuel not only to supply the Anglo- American fighting forces but to ' re-equip disarmed French troops and to restore economic life in these regions. Recent reports from French Af- rica indicate that these large-scale American shipments to Africa may contribute to bring about a com- plete change in the balance of forces in the Mediterranean and in the South Atlantic. French mil- itary and economic power in Af- rica will be increasingly mobil- ized and put into the service of the United Nations. New French Army The most important item in the framework of this mobilization is the organization of a new French army under the command of Gen. Henri Flottore Giraud. Vichy disposed of 130,000 colonial troops in North and West Africa which, however, were poorly equipped. They particularly lacked anti-tank and anti-aircraft gulls, planes, tanks and other modern material. Only a small part of the French army so far has receivers modern American equipment and only some regiments are operat- ing with the Auglo Amerieaus on the Tunisian front. The bu;it of the French Arniy has remained in its cantonments in Algeria and :'lerocco and has to be reorganized and restrained for modern warfare. In the meantime immediate mo- bilization of the classes 193.4-1939 (men from 23 to 29 years) has. been ordered in order to re -enforce the new French army. This means that if sufficient Americana -war material is made available a French army of approximately 200,000 leen will fight side by side with the Anglo-American forces in Africa. More than 1,000•rexper- lenced French war pilots are said to be in North Africa and will be re-trained for service. They are being armed with fast new Ameri- can fighter planes. Yet re -organization and re-train- ing of so large an army, mostly composed of North African and Senegalese troops, takes time. The - Axis is well aware of this diffi- culty and is hurrying men and ma- terial to North Africa. It is likely that Hitler will attempt not only to strengthen his hold on Tunisia, but even to throw the Anglo- Americans out of North Africa be- fore mabilizatioa of the view French army is completed. The struggle for North Africa has just begun. French Naval Units Meanwhile the French naval squadron at Dakar and the rem- nants of the French Fleet in North African ports are likely to operate with the Anglo-American units in the near future. Admiral Sir An- drew Cunningham, United Nations naval commander in North Afri- can waters, disclosed that already several small units of the French Fleet. probably destroyers, are helping Allied warships to convoy supply ships in the Mediterranean. While the restoration of the two big battleships Richelieu and ,Tenn Bart (each of 35,000 tons), both heavily damaged by British and American naval guns and planes, will take long months, a force of three modern cruisers (each of 7,600 tons) at Dakar and two smaller cruisers at Casablanca is probably available at once. So are half a dozen destroyers, 10 to 15 submarines and a large number of supply vessels which had been laying at Dakar and in North Afri- can ports. The disarmed French squadron at Alexandria, comprising the old "Spoiling a good trick" 114E1 6Cee USE. To wot2.14 t.� A cga.C.LIS SLIMY. battleship Lorraine e.22,180.tors), four cruisors, several desfroy ,1rs and submarines, meek alsgebe re- fitted and induced to join fhe ited Nations forces. Allied Ships interned ]t appears, flowerer, Oat the Freneh commanders are not too anxious to bring their larger slaps into the battle line, Not ;ply are they reluctant to put tlaenfeeiives Under British or Americt'n ceni- 111011(1 but, after the sciittli„ng of the bulk of France's naval 1fn•' es at Toulon, they consider i4 their duty to keep at least some ;rem- nants of the once wood T'x•eneh fleet. out of war. Apprehrieles guarantees for replacement Cis' Inst ships o11 the part of the 'lentleol Nations plight dissipate these tlt- preliensions. France had appruxiniatel 710,, 000 to 800,000 tons of 1~'ronO mer- chant, -hipping in the Mediter- ranean which did net fall into Axis hands, Viehy-France, more- over, interned 35 Allied, ships .t2 120,000 tons. Yet in recent irioa%hs the Vichy (iovernmett: leased 41u.- ou0 tons et their shine to Fas:: st ltaly, iu November, 1942, 7I1e inleteed Allied merchant v, reels ,were handed over to the Axis, aeccrd- ing to ae statement of the Beit15ii Ministry for Economic Wailers,. The number of ships opeia''i'r:- under the French b -leg between France and North Africa mail eat- en over by the United Natioes after occupation of Algiers andI Morocco has not been disclosed. Admiral Cunningham. ho'tte"er. has stated that an agreement bad been reached with French' authsr- ities in Africa under which 1"ren th merchant ships in North and e' est Africa would be employed, some directly in Allied service and some to meet the economic: needs. et Fr'enc:h Africa, Shipping Losses "Replaced Allied spokesmen have declae 'i that United Nations lasses ins hi•p- ping since during larelleig opera- tions in North Africa liavee. bean completely replaced by captured French merchant i e cc's. it ie likely that not less :tan 100 eco tons of French merchant• sines have fallen into Allied hands, The United Nations position to North Africa will be artisidera.iity eased if the Americas: High Com- mand succeeds in reorganizing the French transporta'tiin system which has disiutegrate1 since the defeat of France. Reports from American war correspondents in North Africa disclosed 'hat, leren,•h locomotives were worn out and that most of 'tile Freneb cars : e, North Africa had dete iorated• sIti brdken down when uscc. by Albert troops. AugloAmes scan-.. fore ,, therefore. had to rely i linost en- tirely on their own means r2 transportation,4' which .':as Consid- erably delayed their advance into Tunisia. Now, however, sufficient quan- tities_ of vehicles are available and 'United Nations supplies are dispatched over the Morrocau-A1- gerian coastal railway and aver the strategic highways which the Punch had constructed in North Africa. Allied air facilities in •tb.eec regions are also rapidly improving and expanding. Stalin Is Named "Man of the Year" Joseph Stalin was named ,by Time magazine as its "Man of the Year" for 1942. "'Phe choice of any ascan of the year is in no way an accolade or a Nobel Prize for doing good," P. 1:. Prentice, publisher of Time, said in leaking the announcement. "Nor is it a moral judgment." he added. "The two criteria I' the choice are always *.iese: W, had the biggest rise to lame; a:+:1 who did most to chanes- the wows for better (like Stalin this yeas) or for worse (like Stalin, 1939, when his flop to Hitler's lido un- leashed this world-wide war)." Time, which Itas been desig paring a "fan of the leas" sines), 1927; picked President Roosevelt last year and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1040. By Gurney (Australia) GOSH, 1 FORGOT To TELL YEA 1. oP4?WED A '1h4 of RA'T POISDel v1114 'Ti4AT BAYONET' THIS MORNING.. I