HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1943-05-20, Page 3THE WAR ..• WEEK — Commentary on Current Nvent$
The Germans, Unlike The British,
Are No ' a,ck To -Thee fl Fighter
At the lawmen t tliat Prime 1'litl. ..ate scale on the continent of him'.
litter Churchill was aerivinlg In one, 'Once again -It has been dein•
Washington last week to see Thea onstrated that War Is not a motile -
President,. the Berlin radio 'said matical but a Manua erl.uatlon, and
that Mr, Churchill was ";;atttndiug Coabbels himself has admitted -
a large (wutere1u•e" ill the Mill4110 that German civilian morale is
Past., ilrrlia,l5- with Mr. Roosevelt, worse than German military mor -
The Axis is alistr'ait. ale at the 'trent.
The last shoe the two haulers lers Second Leeson.
talked together w88 at (mid es:eaa, The second lesure hug a milt -
says the New Volt' Times.- - tary axiom, which luc been prnv-
Sluce their the- Avis has been ed again iu North Africa, is that
beeten to plc ee.. -11 Africa_. Times attack is fur more i r r)10 sieg and
have„ chaeged since 14Ir. ('lrurchill, less roll, than .t1 t" i te. Accord -
then, trio, lit 'Washington, rc eeived Ing to Leaden t stile .t: sa, the At-
tlee rte tiii) of • the fall of Tobruk. risen rami,"i *u has cost the Axis
in • June 1912. Out pf that mei l more than , ,lance men and enorm-
ing came plans for the invasion of ons qucintilies of nets sal. The Al -
North Africa, Then the ('asta.l;luaca lied looses are mr.: c fractions of
mme,etin, last January 1118ppecl 1ll(' this terrific toll, teat in the last
1943 oftensives. Conjecture • 1, that phaeos of the email:Lige, counting
that the present eneeti in;; '. ill prisoners, they appear to be less
check over plants for invasion of than one to ten.
Barone. It is enougit that when Last Lesson
these two meet • they plan for ale- The last, and final 1' s:aou is oh -
tory, The Premier's V-sign now vious from the first two. Coming
means uneouditIuuatl Axis surt•eurl- on top of Stalingrad, the Axis
or, cetestroplat in Afr•i:•a has shaken
Hitler's Blue 'Monday alt Europe, causing great concern
Adversity does u t seem to affect within the Axis Powers null their
Adolf Hitler the way it does Win-
satellites, raising new hopes and
stein Churchill. Haver was there new resistance among their vic-
ar sprightlier, more eloquent state.*- tims. This, together with the na-
ve= than Mr. Churchill during tural advantage of attack, makes
the months after Dunkerque. Nev- it imperative that the African
er was there a sadder one than victory sin:add be followed tap • as
Herr Hitler at this.moment. Is- quickly as possible with equally
suing his mandate to the German smashing blows at Hitler's Euro -
people, last Monday, the third an- peat:. "fortress" before the impact
niversary of the invasion of the of this 'victory has worn off. Au.y
Low Countries, to contribute to delay will permit Hitler to steady
the Red Cross Summer campaign. his ranks and make a later attack
he seemed like 11. 1111111 in need of more costly. The watchword of
.sympathy. One could read what the Allies must still be the one
was in, his mind. ,For more than Sounded by Lieut. Gen, ale arney,
a d•ectule he had been abusing
and butchering the innocent, be- deputy chief of staff of the Army,
fraying, first his own countrymen, at the beginning of this year:
then foreigners, and on Monday he "Attacks"
evidently realized that people still
didn't love him.
. In other years he could boast of
victories that bad happened or
were about to happen, but this
year he couldn't. These was no
good news from Russia. Decided-
ly there was uo good news from
Tunisia. There' was, for him and
his friends, no good news from
anywhere. He felt nervous, jittery
and blue. He wasn't having a good
time. lois soldiers weren't having
a good time. German civilians
wereu't having a good time. Al-
lied aviators, disregarding the
Nazi rule that bombing is for ex-
port, not import, had carried the
war "into Germany's - towns, mar-
ket places and villages."
Titis was all that Adolf Hitler
could .say to the. German people.
Their decade • ' of suffei iugs • and
sacrifices had earned them the
prospect of more sufferings and
tbore sacrifices. Herr` Hitler is a,
m•an of moods. He may feel better
next Monday than the felt last Mon-
day. We don't think he will do
Much dancing, even next Monday.
Lessons of Tunisia
Though individual German units
continue resistance in Tunisia, the
outstanding feature of the Allied
victory Is the quick collapse of
German fighting morale once the
odd turned and hope of victory
was gone. The last smashing blows
in Tunis and Bizerte, which clear-
ly demonstrated Allied superiority
in men and material, precipitated
a process of German dissolution.
The latest dispatches from the
front provide dramatic proof of
this.
There will be no Bataan on Cap
Bon. There will be no Dunkerque
or Stalingrad either., Though stili
amply armed and equipped, the
Germans a r e surrendc ring in
droves, they and their generals.
Whole companies march in full
discipline to the prison stockades
already' jammed with some hun-
dred thousand of them. The power
of the dreaded Elite Guavas, put.
over the Germans themselves to
see to it that they carry out Hit-
ler's orders and fight to the "last
bullet", is' gone: the troops burn
the bullets but keep the food. The
guards of Allied prisoners readily
turn their guns over to their pris-
oners and change places with
bhenx,
glad to escape that cheaply.
These Germans are members of the
vaunted' Africa Corps, the flower
of the German Army, veteraus of
impressive victories of the .past,
specially picked and oontlitioiled
for desert warfare. But in the fin-
al test, the best specimens of the
"master race" show up no bitter
than the Italians whom they used
to despise. And therein lie some
important lessons for the further
cantata of the war.
i;1i'st Lesson
The first is 'that the Germans.
unlike the British, are 110 baek-to-
the-wall fighters. As long as there
is hope of victory they are as
brave as any solillers, and ilia skill
of their professional military lead-
ers makes them formidable enem-
les. But as soon as the odds turn
againstthein and the chances of
victory, eyen the hope of hording
out, begin to fade they are quiet(
to threw tap their heads, That Is
what happened in 11318. That ie
what is happening in Norlh Afri-
ca. And that is what. is likely to
happen in Germany again, dt's13.11
Hitler's Elite Guards, once the Al-
Ilini perfo1m101(0 in North Africa
eclat be repeated on a liroilcmit0ri-
C1-HNA'S PRESIDENT
Leader of Three China is white -
bearded Lin Sen, 79, for 1.2 years
president of the National Gov-
ernment at Chungking. Gen.
Chiang Kai-shek, as president of
the executive Yuan, occupies a
position like that of a, prime min-
ister.
Workmen Get
Heroism Medals
To eight workmen in a manu-
facturing plant in Gatineau, Que-
bec, came the chance to offer
their lives for others ---an oppor-
tunity whose acceptance earned
them bronze medals from the
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
One after the other, the glen
descended into a tank of wood-
pulp, filled with the lethal fumes
of hydrogen sulphide gas, in an
effort to save a worker who had
been overcome. There they
worked until they, too, were
overcome by fumes and had to
be rescued.
THE BOOK SHELF
SLEEPING ISLAM)
By P, G. Downes
This is the story of one man's
adventuring in the unchartered
Wilds of the Canadian N rthweet
—poling and shooting treacherous
rapids that aright continue into
eternity for all he knew, packing
canoe aud loads over rocky, mile'
long portages, blinded and stag-
gering, spinning out yarns of the
North country with trappers and
traders gathcrea around the stove
in remote IludSon's Bay Company
hosts, 'visiting with old friends
among 111111805 and Eskimos.
Downes unci his trapper friend,
John, 111a(lu 0101' way up the Coale -
vane River, and then over a tor -
'woes and poorly marked trail
across a chain of lakes to Nueltiu,
the great Lake of the Sleeping
Islands, known still to only a
handful of white men. dust why
this bare land of rock and dwarf
spruce should have such a pull is
hard to express, but this dialogue
between a I)og-ilio Indian and a
priest may offer some due:
"Tell me, Father, what is this'
wlliteman's 'leaven?"
"It i$ the most beautiful place
in the world."
"Tell nie, Father, is it like the
land of the little trees when the
ice has left the lakes? Are the
great husk oxen there? Are the
dills covered with flowers? There
will I see the caribou everywhere
I look? Are the lakes blue with
the sky of stunmee? Is every net
full of great, fat whitefish? Is
there room for me in this land,
like our land, the Barrens? Can
I camp anywhere and not find
that someone else has camped?
Can I feel the wind and he like
the wind? Father, if your Heaven
is not all these, leave me alone
la ray laud, the land of the little
sticks."
SLEEPING ISLAND . . By P.
G. Downes ... Longmans, Green
& Co. . . . Price $4.50.
OTTAWA REPORTS
That Canada's 1943 Food Pro-
duction Drive Will Be Greatest
in Our History.
As definitelg as though we
were managing some of the equip-
ment behind Montgomery's army,
Canada's agricultural army, in
this fourth year of the war, will
be a link in the war offensives
with which the United Nations
hope this spring and summer to
route a road to ultimate victory,
The perspective for Canada's
1943 "on to the land" campaign
is quite in keeping with the mon-
ster military, aerial and naval of-
fensives planned for Europe,
.Africa- and . Australasia, fel," 'spree-
these planned.onslaughts, Can-
ada's food production drive will
be the greatest in our history.
20% Overall Increase
Swelling the ranks of the
farmer folk, who, in this, as in
the previous world war, give all-
out effort for Victory production
of food, will be scores of thous-
ands of men and *omen, boys and
girls, :from towns and villages,
factories, offices and workshops,
schools and colleges. Thee is a
FUNNY BUSINESS
-0OP11. 1810 BY 111A SF.88108. INC. T. M. REO. t). e. PAT. 0F8.
"(You've certainly got tete idea, girls! Since that war
plant has started its night shift, your egg output has
doubled 1"
clear program of food produc-
tion mapped" out for this impend-
ing national effort. An overall
increase of about 20 per cent.. is
the rough objective, but the in-
creases vary in different items.
The chief item foe which in-
creased production is sought in
1943 is hogs—from 6,250,000 in
1942 to 8,000,000 in 1943, or 28
per. cent. This formidable in-
crease is necessary to meet not
only British demand for 675 mil-
lion pounds of Canadian bacon
this year -75 million pounds more
than last year—but our own do-
mestic needs.
"Grow All You Can"
A number of special field crops,
such its fibre flax, soybeans and
sugar beets, are wanted in much
larger quantities, while the 1943
objective in eggs is 29 per cent.
higher than in 1912 and a 10
per cent. increase in poultry. The
flexible program prepared envis-
ages also an advance of six per
cent. in milk production.
While the schedule has been
systematized down to a statistical
basis such as is indicated in the
,above . few items, the. stated ob-
jectives are Only relative. The in-
junction to everyone, whether big
farmers or merely Victory gar-
deners in the backyard, is, "Grow
all you can:" There will be ready
markets for all that can be rais-
ed, but particular stress is laid
on meat, animals, eggs, vege-
tables, forage crops and feed
grains.
Farmers Endorse Policy
Broadly, the general food pol-
icy for this Dominion, a policy
which farmers throughout the
CRACKERS 'N' CHEESE!
BY MOLLY O'DALE
There are certain food items
whioh one always thinks of in
association. Who, for instance,
can pronounce the words "Corn-
ed Beef" without instinctively
adding the word "Cabbage." Ham
and egg's is another. Still another
is Crackers and Cheese --one of
the most universally popular diet
combinations on the North Aiuer-
ican continent.
And there's a real scientific
basis for the popularity of crack-
ers and cheese. Soda Crackexn
rank second only to butter in
caloric value, and cheese stands
in .third place. So, when you but-
ter a crisp soda tracker and eat
it with a bit of cheese, you. are,
whether you care or not, eating
the three food items which pos-
sess the largest number of cal-
ories to the pound.
Two factors account for the
high caloric value of Biscuits and
Socia Crackers. First ---their com-
position which includes wheat,
shortening, egg's, milk and other
nutritive food products. Second-
ly—lack of moisture. In the mak-
ing of Soda Crackers, the de-
hydration results in reducing the
moisture to less than 6% of total
weight. How dry this is can be
seen from the *act that fresh
bread contains 36;o moisture! In
a nutshell, a good Soda Crocker
is the "staff of life" dehydrated.
This dehydration results also
in giving the Soda Crackers a
most agreeable taste so that they
can be eaten with enjoyment just
as 'you take them out of the
package. But usually they are
most enjoyed when lightly but-
tered and eaten with cheese,
soup, jam, marmalade, salads,
etc. Ami these various combi-
nations also provide not only for
a high caloric intake, but also
take care of the body's require -
mentis in the way of sugars, car-
bohydrates, proteins and vitamins.
Yes, indeed, our old friend
"Crackers 'n' Cheese" fits in well
with a health -building diet.
REG'LAR FELLERS—A Private Army
PRIVATE HUFFY,
THERE'LL BE A
REVIEW OT THE
ARMY THIS
AFTERNOON
•
OKAY!
aal«N'RlL15SOMO
DUGAN!
NOTIFY LOOTENANT
GE4'Rll. HUPS0i3,FIEL3
MARSHAL PUDDlNHEAD,
BRIGADIER GIIP.i'RIL
15AG6Y SCANLON AW
THE WHOLE GE1'Ril,.
STAFF
country- endorse, states Agrieul-'
titre ainlister James G. Gardiner,
includes, first, that the needs of
the armed ioreea shall receive
the initial call on the food sup-
plies of the nation. Secondly,
that the civilian population shall
receive a reasonable amount of
the food available; and, thirdly,
that British food contract require-
ments, prisoners of war parcels,
dependent countries, such as New-
foundland and the West Indies.
ships' stores and the armed fore se
of the United States in Cannt'a,
shall receive food supplies to the
utmost of Canada's ability to see -
ply them.
Women Tackle
Big Army Jana
The British Women's Serv'i-'"
is the Middle East are "vt't'
much in the picture these days
and are taking over more and
more jobs in base areas reletve
ing soldiers for jobs in the line.
the London Radio said.
"It is not merely a questing:
of doing office jobs. It ie a
.Co uiion thing to see women at
the wheels of motor ears amt
trucks, and driving tractors and
_heavy vehicles of that kind. They
convoy army lorries from yeee
to delivery stations, ready :eta'
collection by the army men wee
take them on from there."
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•PRESS
STRETCH YOUR .DOLLARS
Waboh your left -overs. newels
war on, and there ought to be
leaf leftovers. It is surprising Chas
amount of good food which Bride
Its way into the ,garbage cart.,
Measure everything carefully.
V."hen you took a meal for four
people have enough for four—not •
for five or tax, 003 is fregaently
the C:te. The difference 'Is. usual-
ly v: at.ted.
Create your own cost of living
boon, with profit to yourself and
lisle country as well. it can be
done!
_Stratford I3ra tcon-Ileraltl.
WE HELP OUT THE U.S.
Canada 3s reported to be maria.
fracturing $4,000,000,000 worth of
z•,: (e, 3 ,, itta one .10; it:l.vayeut .riga.
That ought to matte some of our
neighbore realize that there is
more to tills-criuutr•y than wheat
fields, snow -clad mountains, great
arc„,; of woodland, fur-trapl')er3,
?.'1,)L:11“..41 Puliicemc n and Dionne
quuttep1 i-.
:,rev 1, i'i8 Recorder and Times,
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LONG AGO
In our innocence, we used to
;.!tisk that a ceiling was that thing
that when you were "doing over”
r0011l the paper kept falling
down around your neck and you
vowel up by whitewashing it.
--Windsor Star,
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WHAT ABOUT CRABBIEST?
"Tire life span of a crab is 20
years," according to a scientist.
s111d processor is off the beam;
many a wife has an old crab who's
been crabbing much longer than
that. and is crabbier now titan
ever he was.
—Ottawa Citizen.
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REALiSTiC
Suggestion for Mr. Ilsley-: At
'l'win Falls, Idado, a sign greeting
ia(xpayers in the county treasure's
office reads, "What are you ery-
;ag abnnt? Nobody's shooting at
you:"
—Brantford Expositor,
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SHORTAGECAKE?
'Ontario Strawberry Growers
Ask Higher Prices." What are we
:=•oing to call it this year—sllort-
egeealte?
---Windsor Star,.
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WHERE ECONOMY IS RIFE
!rt England one razor blade has
!g) last two weeks, but that is not.
considered any hardship in Scot-
lend.
cotLind.
—Brandon Sun.
Washing Rai Mats
If a rag rug has been washed.,
ie will remain clean longer if it
is dipped into heavy starch. By
doing this it will also stay in a
iietter position on the floor.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
WILL -"IUM
By Fred Neher
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"Sure it's a dandy. . . it's a grade 'A' apple!"
By GENE BYRNES
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