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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1943-03-04, Page 7VO1!'E OF 7 HE PRESS THE SAME BREED Thirty per cent of Canadians, according to a Gallup Poll sur- vey, haven't heard of Jolla Brack- en. It, must be that this thirty per cent is made up of the peo- sale who are called on to answer questions on radio "quiz" pro- grams. Few or them seem to have heard of anybody or anything at all. _--Ottawa Citizen. "DO UNTO OTHERS . " The appeal for books for the 3ne1i of the services is still im-' portant. But remember that the men want the sort of books that most of us at home want—books that you hesitate to part with and not the old, dry -ass -dust vol- umess in which you have no Anth- er interest.—Ottawa Citizen. PARENTAL PROBLEMS Life holds little but worries for parents nowadays. What with trying to convince the bus driver that little Willie is under 5, and the Ration Board that he is over 12, it. hardly seems worth while trying to raise a family,—Wind- sar Star. TAXED FOR THE PRIVILEGE In this country people are priv- ileged to make money for them- selves --sone more than others. All privileges must be paid for, and taxes merely repay the coun- try for the privilege of earning money and possessing it. —Chatham News. • BETTER THAN FICTION Amazing man, Churchill. Had some novelist put a diameter in a book who would do the things and make the flights all over that he makes, the reading public would have said: "Pooh! Just fic- tion." —Kingston Whig -Standard. COLLABORATION There was something eminent- ly pleasing in the radio quip: "Hitler's tenth anniversary radio speech was written by Goebbels, delivered. by Goering, and punc- tuated by the R.A.F."—Stratford Beacon -Herald. MOSTLY TONGUES Gossips have a habit of going at it hammer. and tongues.— Kitchener Record. NAME CHOSEN Maybe Hitler's next book will be "Mein Decampf." — Brandon Sun. Use of Helicopter In. Anti -Sub Fight New York Times Cites Pos. sibilities As Auxllary.Weapon AMERICAN GUARDS LINE UP GERMAN SUB CREW PRISONERS u- ...,.-..... ...... r g is lined up The ul entire crew, of�a German U-boat, beforeur ed they areesentaoffnte ani internment camp. underTlesub- watchful eyes of their American guards marine was badly damaged by British depth charg es off the North African Coast. — THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events Today Germans No Langer Fight For Conquest But For Survival However this ivar may end in detail, and however difficult and possibly circuitous our road to vic- tory may still be, this much has already been decided: Another and perhaps the most formidable at- tempt in history by .any one man or nation to conquer the rest of the world has again ended failure. From the Persians and the Mecles to the Germans, from Darius to Hitler, one conqueror after another bestrode the earth he knew, left behind hint a trail of blood .and destauction, and dis- appeared. Hitler is the latest of them, and Hitler 'is also on the way out, His dreams of world con- quest lie buried beneath the snows of Russia, and the shadows are closing in on him and his deluded nation. Today the Nazis no longer fight for conquest but for survival, and the hope of even that is be- ing drowned out by the thunder of the approaching guns and the bursting bombs already falling in their midst, says the New York Times. Plan For Conquest Like every would-be . conclueror, in the past, Hitler also thought that he alone had found the key to victory; which in his case bears the name of total war—war in every field and with, superior weapons and tecbnique, not only on the battlefield but also in the realm of economy and ideas. Fac- ing the world in which Angle - American sea power was the de- cisive arm of law and order, he and his collaborators developed new military tactics based on air power, a new strategy based on a "geopolitics," a new economy based on German science, and a new propaganda based on racial hatreds and the right of might. • Air power was to conquer sea power; land conquest of the Eur- asian "heartland" was to deprive sea power of its bases and there- with drive it from the seas; and the submarine was to nullify sea power even in the supply of its hone lands. But German science, producing synthetic products from available materials, was to de- prive sea power of its most im- portant weapon, the blockade, Ger- man regimentation was to replace gold with "labor" and thereby nullify the ancient anxion that money eousiitates the sinews of wear. And the new pr'opatsanda was to soften up the deruoeratic op- ponents through "Fifth Columns" and erect a ltierarrllical inter- national structure dominated by the German 'master race" to pro- vide the new world conqueror with cannon fodder, slaves, food and ammunition. Plan Close To Success • Never before. had a plan for world conquest bean 'worked out with sued' scientific precision, nor was one ever before carried out with suelt savago ruthlessnees. In comparison, even the undertakings of Aiexander, Na-iiclleon. and Wil- liam IT. look-ttlinost improvised Again. the question must be raised whether the Navy has fully exploited the possibilities of the helicopter as an auxiliary weapon lin anti-submarine warfare. It seems particularly important that these possibilities should be stud- ied now when there is a desperate shortage of escort vessels. A form of aircraft that can rise ver- tically even from a stationary' ship, and that can land in an area hardly bigger than itself, either on a stationary or a moving ship, is not a mere inventor's dream. It exists in the helicopter as de- veloped by the noted airplane de- signer, Igor Sikorsky. Reconnaissance Service ' Light helicopters might be built for a fraction of the cost even of pursuit airplanes. They could be turned out very quickly. A heli-; sopter on every merchant ship or small escort vessel, or at least one or two helicopters to accompany a convoy, could perform invaluable reconnaissance service in detect- ing the approach or presence of submarines. Heliopters can go several times as fast as the fast- est destroyer, with 'infinitely less consumption of fuel. If built in larger sizes they could carry bombs= -if not large enough to keep it under the surface. Our counter-measures against sub- marines have not been distinguish- ed so far by novelty or imagine - live boldness. Why not try the helicopter? Spread of Religion In Baltic States A growing religious feeling is sweeping the Baltic States, and twice the present number of churches is needed to minister to th crowds seeking entrance, ac- cording to reports reaping Stock- holm, The rapidly mounting interest in religion, credited to the .oppres- sion being suffered by the ]Baltic peoples, has resulted in a serious Bible shortage. The people in one 7 attic. village have ereeteth a snow chapel to ac- eoletmo(iate 100 persons. Worship sc:l:vices are held without benefit Of heat in order t6 prevent the church from melting, and amateurish. Never before had it quite covered so =eh territory. And, one shudders to realize in retrospect, never before had one cone quite so close to success. Free World United And yet it failed. It failed be- cause this, like all previous similar attempts, was based on contempt for the unconquerable human spirit that no materi power can crusb. It failed because in their extremity the British and the Rus signs found hidden wells of strength that enabled them to turn the tables on the conquerors. It failed because in the conquered countries resistance could not be crushed completely, and therefore not only required dispersal on the conqueror's forces but also sapped their moral stamina. It failed be- cause of the fallacy of the_ idea tihat any one anatio nen ssleage,mon- opoly on energy, o • courage, and the Nazis' under- estimation of America's own pro- duction and fighting spirit was the most fateful among their many Miscalculations. It failed, above all, because the world ha,s learned this much at least, that a common menace can be met only by a com- mon edfor•t, ,:and the assembly of the United Nations is the demon- stration that in the future, as In the past, the free world will in the end always unite to battle against those who would enslave it. Hitler knows this today, and tomorrow the Japanese will !.now it as well. The China Front The eloquent appeal for greater aid to China made last week by Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek came al- most at the moment when dis- patches from China announced the opening of a new Japanese offensive. Attacks have been launched at widely scattered points in North, Central and South China. Despite their preoccupa- tion in the South. Pacific, the Jap- anese seem to have plenty of ar- tillery and their aircraft is active over most of the front. It remains to be seen if this is the beginning of a coordinated major campaign. This is the sixth year of the war M China. It is a land of hope de- ferred and, 'certainly up to now. the neglected front of this war. China is more completely isolated today than at any time since she took up arms to defend herself. General Wavell's Burma offensive is still only a minor hara"ntent of the enemy. We have Judaea managed to get some planes into action in China. But they are too few and too inadequately serviced to check the Japanese. Now more are promised. But the Chinese know that not even 500 American planes can drive out the enemy while China,, in General' Stilwell's salty phrase, remains "the last stopon the line." Nothing less than o:ienlcg up an adequate supply route and equipping the Chinese Army as a modem fighting force will over- come the Japanese on the front on which they are most vulner- able. But before we can develop an adequate supply route we must first reconquer Burma; to re- conquer Burma we must have suf- ficient sea power in the Bay of Bengal to prevent the landing of Japanese reinforcements at Ran- goon; and to make sea power available for this purpose we must first win the present Battle of the Mediterranean. We come back to the conception of a global war, tt which all fighting fronts are • merely segments of one mighty struggle. ..........amtiommonme.Meastrearsamsiteenmenvotaansalitemscrsta.cmessraleaprOatee 1ue r and Curley of the Anzacs .w..__.._..- ip1 CALLING FOR VOl.0 ER6 1O ( itirtiNE. A IPME.-$ot4B. IT filefli ii ANY SECOND.. E.XpLG�D�. ANY h1tAtilTt...... Chiang and Stalin Not At Conference It's not true that Chiang Kaie shek was invited' to the Roosevelt - Churchill meeting, says News- week. Stalin was asked to attend and, since Chiang is fighting only the nation with which Russia is striving desperately to remain en peaceful terms, obviously. Stalin eouldn't be expected to come to any conference attended by the. Generalissimo. The Red leader's failure to accept the invitation is thoroughly understood in both Washington and London. He is personally directing the counter- offensive against Germany, and it would have been impossible for Vat _ to send a representative, since no one can speak for him on military matters. The hopeful talk of :a "Big Four" strategy board is extremely premre. As long as Russia and Japan manage to remain at peace, China and the Soviet cannot be brought into military talks with the U. S. and Britain. Seeds Of Victory To Sprout Abroad FOR FIRST TIME, GRAPES IN LEAD OVER APPLE CROP Department of AgricultureReport Shows Crapes Most Valuable Fruit Crop in Ontario in 1942 Grapes in 1942 for the first time took the lead e er appmles as the most valuable fruit crop of Ontario according nthly crop report just issued of the Ontario Department of Agrieulture. The cash return to the grape growers of Ontario in 1942 was $1,701,600, an increase of $512,300 over 1941. 4 tons thThe e previe crop uo years of exceptional size 36,000 tons against 22,500 In spite of the unusually large production the satisfactory aver- age price of $47.27 per ton was obtained by the growers. As evidence of the over dem p i the $45.00 tper�tont 1e paid nage by theice wineries.e Each eover the price of year the price paid by Ontario wineries is agreed upon between the grape growers and the wine producers and then approved as e10 yeaquitable by the Ontario Liquor Control Board. In 7 out ofh lamatel p ears this agreed upon price has been higher than the open The grape growers also have the additional market protection of the the juice)ofione tonof e of grapes uor Cin each 2501galionsrof finished Ontantrol Act tat thee must be at rio wine. 500,000,000 Garden Seeds To Be Sent To Allied Nations Springtime Victory Gardens will be sprouting in British, Rus- sian, Chinese and other United Nations soil this year from 500,- 000,000 seeds now being dispatch- ed to these countries by the United States Food Distribution Administration and the British, Russian, Chinese and other war relief societies here. With the United Nations count- ing heavily on such gardens to alleviate food shortages all across the map, housewives and children will be running furrows and drop- ping American -grown "seeds of victory" in British parks and castle moats, in once -ravaged Russian farmlands and even in shell craters, when spring rolls around. Put Up In Kits The Food Distribution Admin- istration is supplying the bulk of the seeds, but is assisted by the relief societies. The British War Relief Society, having fashioned a !cit containing sufficient seeds for vegetables for a family of five for an entire year, has prepared 125,000 of these and sent half that number already to the Bri- "To tell you the truth cab ba t sschoo ,t fi op, 1 beliee tish Isles, where they will be dis- I _ _. .... _. _ .,,,�„�a..�.m.w.m.. ..,.�.""� y Gurney (Australia) Of the large 1942 grape crop 70% (25,000 tons) was purchased by the wineries, a striking example of ; e o of the Niagara Peninsula, ortance of the Ontario Wine Industry to the grape g' and of the benefits of sound co-operative marketing between grower and processor. Apples were second in value with a production of 616,95 Bates els valued at $1,640,600. This was 2050 barrels and $ 445,300 than in 1941. The comparative figures (1941-1942) on the balance of the fruit crops are as follows: . Fruit Unit Production941Value Produetion942Value 1Cantaloupes bus. 149,200 $ 102,600 142,360 $ 135,000 Cherries bus. 196,300 750,400 245,600 Peaches bus. 700;000 1,203,000 795,000 1,949 600 ,r Pears bus. 167,200 240,900 307,900 444,500 Plums bus. 143,500 208,600 125,000 206,900 Raspberries qts. 4,057,700 6 ,68,900 4, 76,000 00 901,400 Strawberries qts. 6,118,000 It will be notedsour cherriesbroughthigher'pricesbth ansinstraw- berries, sweet andPeaches while larger in gross returns because of the increased quan- tity produced slightly less in unit value. seeds at home to promote a do- mestic Victory Garden plan call- ing for garden plots on the na- tion's 6,000,000 farms and in 12,- 000,000 backyards in cities, towns and villages. tributed through the National Al- lotments Association. One Million families availed themselves of this service last year, and the aim is double the total this Spring. The kitscost the donor $1 and include 17 packets with 11 kinds of vege- tables such as turnips, onions, beets, beans, carrots and parsnips —those readily stored against the winter. Plenty For Home Gardens More than 1,000,000 pounds of seeds are being dispatched to the U. S. S. R. by the Russian War Relief Society. Farm crews will plant these seeds on soil ones trod by German invaders and in plots around newly established factories "beyond the Urals." One midwestern seed dealer do- nate(' 5,000 pounds of tomato seeds. Chinese families, too, will be assisted by money sent from United Caine Relief headquarters for purchase of seeds in that country. The United States Department of Agriculture said Americans needn't fear that this heavy outgo will jeopardize American victory gardens. There are still sufficient LIEAILIFE'S THAT Seagull Plane Can Land On the Sea The Curtiss-Wright Corpora- tion has announced that a new type of plane, the Curtiss Sea- gull, is being delivered to the British Fleet. The Royal Navy calls the ship the Seamew, the European name for seagulls. The plane is design- ed to operate from battleships and cruisers. It is capable of fly- ing long distances. On return it can land on the sea to be picked up by its warship or it can land on a carrier. The Seamew carries two. men. Farms on Malta By irrigation, intelligent crop rotation and terracing, . the people of Malta have over 42,000 acres under cultivation out of a total area of 60,000 acres. By Fred Neher I've rtartecl A hurry -up call.: ON %EAR, WHt 2E t'S VT' ANYWAY ? 1i 5 UNIDER 114E. WET CAMEEN NARY Dibl1T 'tau ik\( $o e' rt. MicliiT CRI?E ) or,tr rr • ia ) t