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Zurich Herald, 1943-07-01, Page 6VOICE O F T H E PRESS piilgD APPLES Owing to war conditions .it is Mk, nouueed that dried apples may came into popularity again, While this may not 'usher lit the old-time paring lice, it will recall to tad - timers 1110 delicious aroma eman- ating from quartered apples strung in many a kitchen for 'drying pur- posee. Dried apples have a special flavor of their own, and require no teettainere, either metal or glare-. -Rent rely Mercury. -0- WE PAY OFF Realization must be dawning even on the Axis that WO pay our debts with interest. For Dunkirk, we paid off at Bizerte. We took our Coventry, and came right back at Cologne. Now, for Malta, there 1s Pantelleria. -Windsor Star. -0- FAST TRIP BACK "It took millions of years for monkeys to become men," says a scientist- Several men we know can do the return trip in a split second. -Peterborough Examiner. -•._0- THE ANSWER Anybody wondering what be- came of the canned salmon we used to enjoy? Well, last year we shipped to the United Kins1om 73,851.800 pounds of iL -Ottawa Journal -0-- WORKS BOTH WAYS No fewer than 104 Canadian girls have married British airmen at one Alberta centre. Good going! Those British girls can't grab off our fellows overseas and get away without retaliation- -Ottawa Citizen. -0- WHAT'S UP? WEEDS! If anyone should gh'e us the friendly old salutation, 'What's sup?" -we think we'd say, "Weeds, mostly!" -Ottawa Citizen. -0- SAFETY HINT You're snore likely to get there safe and sound if you limit your speed rather than speed your lim- it. -Kitchener Record. THE BOOK SHELF DRESS REHEARSAL (The Story of Dieppe) By Quentin Reynolds When Quentin Reynolds was in- vited to breakfast at 10 o'clock one fine English morning by Major Jock Lawrence, aide to the Com- mander -in -Chief of Combined Op- erations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, he refused bluntly. But when Ma- jor Lawrence quietly ordered Mr. Reyuolds to report for breakfast with his war -correspondent's uni- form packed in a bag, he reacted like a racehorse at the barrier. The casual but persistent invitation to 'breakfast turned out to be the pre- lude to the biggest scoup in Quen- tin Reynolds' amazing career. Not until he was on shipboard, being introduced to the Canadian General Roberts, did Reynolds know that he was to be an eye- witness to the historic raid on Dieppe. With his great ability to transform a mathematically cal- culated military operation into a vivid human drama, the battle for Dieppe. as recorded in these pages, becomes an unforgettable action picture. Mr. Reynolds proveaein this book that the Dieppe raid was, in every sense, a. dross rehearsal for the grand invasion of every Nazi stronghold. It anticipated the North African campaign and es- tablished the pattern for the ul- timate invasion of the European ontinent. Dress Rehearsal . . by Quentin Reynolds . . . The MacMillan Co. of Canada ... Price $2.75. A Field Marshal Without A Baton Lord Gort, now back in Malta, is a Field Marshal without a baton, despite the fact that since his promotion he has been received by the King. Re has dispensed with the baton in order to save labor and materials. The baton of a British Field Marshal is a choice work of art, one of the finest expressions of -the goldsmith's craft. In these days, gold must be safeguarded, and so it was decided to hold :over the actual fashioning of the baton until after the war. More- over. most of the expert gold- smiths are engaged in the forces or in war factories. The baton remains the personal property of the owner, and is a short stave symbolically decor- ated in gold, and surmounted with an effigy of St. George shout to slay the dragon, Batons of Royal Field Marshals down the ages have been carefully pre- served, and hi the armory of 'Wnidsor Castle the visitor can still see the batons carried by the Dukes of York and Cambridge, hien they were eommandere-in- eitief in the 19'bh century. eti ;. •.. `� � r�`-�"•€• S • LR <^ • Q i I'K • T .S LII T THE WAR _ WEEK •-- Commentary on Current events After Two Yes.; rs ;,,f War With Soviet, Huns Can't Start Summer Offensive This is the second anniversary of o.ne of the greatest and most fateful miscalculations in the his - torr of warfare, says the New York Herald Tribune. Two years ago Hitler and his generals launched their "cataract of horrors," as Churchill called it, upon Soviet Russia. Now, two years later, though they have looted and slaughtered their *ay across an immense territory and piled an in- calculable toll of cruelty and mis- ery upon that of which they were already guilty, they find them- selves defeated and stalled by one of the greatest, most heroic de- fenses ever made by a determined people. Given Six Weeks In those two years they have lost the war. With the megalom- ania of their previous successes, they planned in the same stroke to crush the Red Army and to di- vide and paralyze the ,democracies while they were doing so; thea, with their hands freed and with unlimited resources at their dis- posal they wot:ld turn, destroy their last opponents and achieve their mastery of the world. Con- ceivably they might have done so. Even supposedly expert opinion in the democracies. as badly deceiv- ed as Hitler himself. gave Russia six weeks at the most to hold out. Many, blinded by the traditional fear of Communism, could see neither the greatness of the peril if Hitler succeeded nor the great- ness of the opportunity which his barbarous gamble presented. Crisis of War There still seem to be a fee. who cat::aot see it yet., But Mr. Church - ii: --and it was one of the greatest of his services to the cause. of freedom -grasped the situation in- stantly. The attack was made be- fore dawn on June 22; it was the same'evening that the Prime Min- ister made his memorable declar- ation to Parliament: "We shall give whatever help we can to Rrs- sia and the Russian people..(Hit- ter's) invasion of Russia is no more than a prelude to au attempt- ed invasion of the British Isles. The Russian danger is therefore our danger and the danger of the Unitech States, just as the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and borne is the cause of free Hien in every quarter of the globe_" On The Defensive Two years ago, writes A. C. Cum- mings, London correspondent of the Ottawa Citizen, Hitler launch- ed the whole might of the Germau army along 1,800 miles of the eastern front, certain he would de- feat the Soviet Union in three months and then turu and smash Britain. Today he cannot even launch his long -planned summer offensive in Russia because the Allies, already far more powerful than the Germans, are waiting to break in at any point they choose on the outer fringe of 0,000 miles of Europe's fortified coastline. Thus, contrary to all theories of the practices of warfare, Germany has to pass to the defensive. The worst blunder in German Stalingrad. Today all that the Nazi commentators can offer by way of excuse is "our military experts had no knowledge of the enemy's real fighting strength." Lose 4 Millions in Russia The Germans have lost nearly 4,000,000 of their best troops in Russia. Their war capacity iu the east Is not half whafl it was. Their satellite armies are deserting them. The thought of another win- ter of war in the Russian snows fills them with gloom. At the front itself desertions are motinifing and Nazi military prisons are said to be full of recaptured soldiers awaiting punishment. Not a drop of much-needed oil has rewarded. the costly campaign, whereas the Soviet armies are as strong As ever and the Red air force holds local air supremacy and bombs German, communications in o r heavily than before. Think Only of Viotory Indeed, the Russians think only of victory this year. Given sixty. British, Canadian and American divisions fighting in western DDu - ope, they say, and the Red Army will do all that is . required of It in the east. This is not boasting. The Soviet army today has been reconstituted and re -equipped, is well supplied with new and formidable weap ons, many of then British, and above all, feels it is unbeatable. The Red air force has received thousands of new machines and enormous quantities of British equipment. The Soviet war indite- try -has largely recovered from the setback due to its big -scale. removal behind the Ural moon- tains, and indeed the only weak- ness is the food shortage, due -to the fest the Germans still hold the rich Ukraine wheat -fields. Two front Struggle Thus, two years of war that was to yield victory and endless loo in three months, is about to b come a two -front struggle again' which every German milita writer for the past half cent* has warned his fellow-countee-in' All Hitler can doenow; tart' commentators here see .i to hold the eastern fortified firth with a reduced number of sions. launch local blitzes there t4 stultify the -Ted Army offensive, shift what troops can be sparer to central Europe, to be held as reserves to be lat.uched, against the Allied invaders, and if this fails, to retire inside the intteti,' ring of Germany's defences ant make a prolonged stand there. Needs 200 Divisions To hold the coasts from Norway, to Greece, Hitler• nears 200 divi- sions. He is 60 short. His Luft waffe is declining. His fleet and,!, that of Mussolini no longer count in comparison with Britain's. And. bombing has carried the war to,' the doorsteps of millions of Gere! mans. "Russia upset all our calcula-gym tions," moans the Berlin radio two years after Hitler had claimed the Red Army was "annihilated_" German Prisoners Not Safe In Britain The majority of prisoners of war in Canada are Germans. The Italians were found satisfactory for farm work in Great Britain. The Germans were not safe in England, because they would have been freed to fight, if the Nazis ltad made a landing in the British Isles. Thousands of German pris- oners in the United Kingdom would be potential fighting op- ponents, if their own side had found their prison camps and opened the gates. OTTAWA REPORTS That Canadian War -Time Co- operation Is Based On Ogdens- burg Agreement of 1940, Recent discussions regarding future relations between Canada and the United States recall the amazing degree of co-operation and accord reached by these two war -time allies, motivated by good will and considerations of mutual aid and protection. Long the world-wide example of neighborly understanding and amity, the peoples of the United States and Canada have even teamed up in a Special Service Force, and this group of Cana- dian and American fighters will form the nucleus of a force for unified operation in any defen- sive or offensi -e operation. * * The main machinery for Cana- dian -American war -time co -.oper- ation is provided in five commit- tees on which sit representatives of both countries. They are; Permanent Joint Board on De- fence, Materials Co-ordinating Committee, Joint Economic Com- mittee, Joint War Production Committee and Joint Agricultural Committee. In addition, Canada is a member of the Combined Production Board with Great Britain and the United States. It was on August 7, 1940, at Ogdensburg, New York, that Can- ada and the United States signed , the agreement on which co-oper- ation is based. This co-operation has resulted in North American preparedness moves of which few Canadians and Americans are fully aware, and the complete story of which may not be fully told until after the war. * * As part of this vast program of defence, Canada has construct- ed a chain of air bases between Ecbmonton and Alaska and the ,:Alas?:a. Highway. The air bases oyere opened to traffic in Septem- - her, 19.41,, and proved of great onsistance in the construction of the Alaska Highway by the United ' States in co-operation with the Canadian Govertunent. Then the Materials Co-ordinat- ing Committee was established, and through sub -committees on forest products, copper, zinc and ferro-alloys, the movement of primary materials between the two countries is promoted, avail- able supplies increased, and in- formation exchanged on raw ma- terial stocks, production and consumption in the United States and Canada. Joint Economic Com- mittees were formed in June, 1941, t., act in an advisory capac- ity to the governments at Ottawa and Washington on foreign ex- change control, economic con- trols, price policies, tariffs and duties and war planning. * * * The Prime Minister of Canada and the President of the United States, at Hyde Park, New York, on April 20, 1941, agreed "as a general principal that in mobil- izing the resources of this con- tinent, each country should pro- vide the other with the defence articles which it is best able to produce, and, above all, produce quickly and that programs should be co-ordinated to this end." The United States has agreed to buy enough Canadian war • goods to enable Canada to pay for essential war materials from the United States. Canada does not; use lease -lend accommodation utilized by other United Nations. A detailed list of Canadian - Rate of Wages Paid Farm Laborers By Day and aonth In All 1' rovinlces The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a sharp increase in the rate of wages paid to farm help at May 15, 1943, as compared with the same date of 1941 and 1942. ' The increase, the bureau said, occurred in all provinces, and for the country as a whole the average rate of wages paid to farm labor- ers where the farmer provided the board was $2.39 per day at May 15, 1943, as compared with $1.91 a year previously. Where the employee provided his own board, the average rate of wages for day help was $3.15 per day, compared with $2.57 at May 15, 1942. For men hired by the month, with board provided, the average rate of wages in 1943 was $51.46, against $42.49 in 1942. • When no board was provided, the average monthly rate was $71.78 in 1943, as compared with $58.80 in the previous year. Wage rates for day help was "uniformly high," but reached the highest mark in Alberta, where the rate with board provided was $2.89 per day. ' For help paid by the month, with board, the highest rate also was paid in Alberta, where it stood at $61.84 per month. Where no board was provided, the daily average rate was highest in British Columbia, the bureau said. Figures included in the report, the bureau said, were provided by farm correspondents in all provinces of Canada. Since collection of this data was begun in 1940, no eeomparable figures for previous years are available. DAY AND MONTHLY RATES. The first of the following tables lists wage rates paid farm labor- ers by the day in all Canadian provinces, with and without board, and the second lists the wages paid per month to farm laborers, with and without board, as at May 15, 1941, 1942 and 1943. • With Board 1941 1942 1943 Prince Edward Is. $ 1.21 $ 1.56 $ 1.83 Nova Scotia 1.38 1.79 2.23 New Brunswick _.__ 1.44 1.98 2.27 Quebec _ _._ 1.31 1.66 2.11 Ontario __ 1.75 2.18 2.55 Manitoba- __ 1.32 1.82 2.28 Saskatchewan -- ___- 1.39 1.86 2.43 Alberta _- 1.54 2.08 2.89 British Columbia -_ 1.65 .2.09 2,72 Canada - $ 1.48 $ 1.91 $ 2.39 With Board 1941 1942 1843 Prince Edward Is. $25.19 $35.00 Nova Scotia 30.57 42.38 New Brunswick ._ 33.20 43.48 Quebec .. 28.67 38.24 Ontario __ 34.84 44.08 Manitoba __ 30.24 42.01 Saskatchewan 31.17 42.83 Alberta __ 35.42 46.38 British Columbia__ 29.97 44.09 Canada __ $31.90 $42.49 $38.45 46.48 56.62 47.88 50.69 45.58 55.52 61.84 57,20 $51.46 Without Board 1941 1942 1943 $ 1.70 $ 2.08 $ 2.36 1.95 2.46 2.90 1.94 2.59 2.92 1.84 2.26 2.82 2.35 2.89 3.32 1.84 2.50 3.04 1.99 2.49 3.30 2.20 2.79 3.67 2.48 2.92 3.84 $ 2.06 $ 2.57 $ 3.15 Without Board 1941 $39.64 43.96 45.06 41.80 50.03 43.64 45.00 52.18 50.46 $46.45 1942 1943 $49.64 $53.86 61.06 64.84 57.73 73.92 54.44 67.2.7 59.91 71.10• 57.71 72.38 58.59 76.11 67.19 87.96 68.57 '79.93 $58.80 $71..78, American joint activities to speed the Victory would be lengthy, and,. indeed, unending; the net total and scope of the interna- tional co-operative effort is un - approached in all world `history. And it all has been accomplished in an atmosphere of respective independence, with the United States recognizing complete Can- ada's part in and Canada's devo- tion to the British Empire. -E. G. SMITH. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher• Rtes., 0,1 41.1% •, y s I;Vt, , „s tool , s , al I +Iiti hu 'let tam ' Give my report card to Pop. ir,avwommofflorgImmimmea,rte ✓s� cR . 1'11 be in the woodshed. REG'LAR FELLERS -Allen Oop COCKERS ARE SWELL DOGS I ORTER TAKE YOU BUT THEIR, EARS ARE SO LONG HOME BUT YOU NEED -� THEY DRAG Hi THE MUD t THE EXERCISE By GENE BYRNE S • e5 ] ,44,01 tx% +%.141 t + fixer • - 4. ft .1 r A, r.., amt a j, ,.•, •••