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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1943-07-29, Page 6*di OTTAWA REPORTS That Thereis to 131;,` Substans flat increase In Farm Machinery Quotas Next Year Some of the best news of the year for Canadian farmers comes in the announcement from the Ad- ininietrator of Fenn Machinery for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Herbert H. Bloom, that the tfarm machinery quotas for the next year are to be very much higher than they have beeu for the paet eighteen months. * * While the new order establish- ing increased quotas is a produc- ton order only, and the extent of its ensuing advantages is depend- ent on supplies of materials, Otta- wa authorities who have studied the whole problem are extremely hopeful of real results, even though there cannot be any large quantities of completed machines available under the new quotas until late this fall. The order provides for a supply of farm equipment equal in ton- nage to approximately 77 per cent, of the average of 1940-41 output and represents an increase of about 130 per cent. over supplies provided by the previous farm ma- chinery control oruer, Repair pro- visions are eetablished on the basis of 156 per cent, of the 1940 and 1941 average output. The total program provides for approximate- ly 90 per cent. of the average total weight of machine, repairs and at- tachments supplied in the 1940 and 1941 period. * Rationing of farm machinery, which was put into effect last Oc- tober. is to he continued as a means of ensuring fair distribu- tion and the maximum use of every piece of new equipment. Tha order has been worked out after the most careful consideration. and In consultation with authorities intimately acquainted with the needs of the Canadian farmer, whose food production task e of the present year are regarded as vital to the Allied war etfort. Substantial increases in quotas on the present year's p r o - gram were announced in May, and the quotas established in May will remain in effect until October 1 of this year, and will be additional to the new quotas now established. In other words, farm machluerY Importers and manufacturers will be permitted to complete their quotas for this year, If possible, before Oct. 1, and will be permit- ted also to take advantage of the new quotas whcih come into effect e.t once. The administrator is ;given power to distribute ma- ehinery where most needed. * * The new order approximately doubles the number of various kinde of machinery and equip - merit which may be manufactured, although only the most essential 'units will be produced or Import- ed. Additions to the production schedule for Eastern Canada, Brit- ish Columbia atid the irrigated districts of the Prairie Provinces include 11 -run grain. drills, two - row potato planters, 10 -foot cut traitor grain binders, aerated or surface type milk coolers, power potato sprayers and dusters. Ma- chinery and equipment requiring rubber tires may not be made on permit, but a limited number of rubber tire tractors and combines will be made and farm equipment eat ion ing officers *ill release them when necessary. * * * Additionally, certain types of small equipment such as bee hives, hog troughs, poultry and livestock feeders and milk stools are ex- empted from the production re- etrictions provided they are made of eon -critical materials. Attach - teems are subject to the same per- centages as the type of machine tfor which they are intended, but manufacturers and importers have the option of producing or import - Ing a total of 75 per cent. of the weight of all attachments made or 4alr1Oried in the average of 1940- 41 instead of producing the speci- fic percentages ot each type ot a tta.ehment. France's Great Colonial Empire France's colonial empire is far greater than meet people imagine, says The St, Thomas Times -Jour- nal. In 1936 "Statistique Gen- eral de France" states officially that the population of the empire stood at over 60,000,000, distri- buted as follows: Algeria, 6,550,000; Tunisia, 2,200,000; 1Vlorocco, 4,300,000; French West Africa, 14,270,000; Equatorial Africa, 8,000,000; Maagascar, Reunion and Isles, 3,950,000; Indo Chine, 21,000,- 00 (occupied adversely by :apart); Caribbean Islands, 450,- 000; Guiana, 50,000; Pacific.; Is- lands, 100,000; Syria and Libya, 3,000,000; Togo and Cameroons, 2,500,000. Those figures will give one a better understanding of the im- portance of the French Empire to the United Nations. THREE IN ONE Saucer holding three yolks front one egg proves Mrs. F. E. Williams', Amarillo, Texas, claim that her hens are in high -gear war production. Out sq an average of 38 eggs a day laid by her pul- lets, 30 were double -yolked. SCOUTING . One of the questions asked of 4 every man eulisting in the Fleet 4 Air Arm in Great Britain is, "Have you any service or experience as a Boy Scout?" * * Boy Scouts of Fort Francis, Out.,. have made a specialty of collecting bottle caps as their sal- vage job. In their first drive they collected 580 pounds, or approx- imately 74.850 bottle caps. All pro- ceeds aro turned over to charities. * * Given a reward for extinguish- ing a fire in a. summer cottage at Port Colborne, Ont., five members of the First Colborne Scout Troop sent the $10 to the Chins Up Fund, which is operated by Canadian Scouts for the benefit of British Scouts who have been blitzed. Up to the present time more titan $37,000 has been sent to British Scouts by the Cubs and Scouts of * * * My Scouts of the 3rd Sudbury Troop helped recently to solve the labour probleni for one farmer. Two of the Scouts oa an over- night hike, stopped at a well kept farm operated by an elderly couple, Learning that these aged people could get no help, they re- turned to Sudbury and reported to their Scoutmaster with the sug- gestion he organize help. Thirteen Scout volunteers came to the res- cue, journeyed to the farm and spent their week -end planting in the garden, hoeing root crops, and -cutting several cords of wood with an old. hand operated circular saw. When offered pay for their work they refused. It was th-4r daily good deed. * 4, Taking part, as they have for many year in the city's tree Plant- ing programme, i3oy Scouts of St. Thomas planted 13,000 young pine and European larch on the city gravel farni recently. helicopter and Gyro Not Quite The Same So you don't know the differ- ence between a helicopter and an autogyro? Well, it apparently isn't any- thing to be too concerned about, since the Truman Committee said. the two were frequently confused "even by high naval officials." The helicopter, the committee explained, has no propeller, but relies on its rotor for propulsion and control, as well as or its lift. The autogiro has a rotor also, but is more like the orthodox plane in that it uses a propeller and the rotor serves in place of the con- ventional wing. THE WAR . WEEK — Commentary on Current Events Air Rad On Rome Blasts Italy's - Main Military Railway System The war against Italy entered a new "gloves oft" phase when Rome was bombedfor the first time last week by a very large -force of American heavy and me - dim bombers in the broad day light of morning, severely dean - aging vital Axis rail subs awl hit' ting steel works and chenaleal plants. - Because Rome is the Eternal City, hallowed by memories and endowed with religious and cul- tural associations priceless to the civilized world, the Allied cons' mand does well to emphasize, the elaborate precautions which were taken to avoid indiscriminate. damage in the first air attack oa the Italian capital, The raid was made by daylight, even with the greater risk involved for our own planes, in order to give the Allied pilots a clear view of their tar- gets. The pilots themselves and their crews were especially train- ed men who had memorized the map of Rome to the smallest de- tail during many weeks of train- ing. The attack was accompanied by the distribution of leaflets to the people of the city, warning them that their government would lie to them about the character of the damage done by our attack, which was aimed exclusively at "military objectives — communica- tions, war industries, military in- stallations and airports, all or which are being used for the sole interest of the Germans," Capital of Fascism. it is these military objectives which give it justification. Rome is not only the Eternal City. It is also the Captial of Fascism. It is a city seized and held as hostage by unprincipled adventurers who have deliberately misled thew.ltal- Ian people, recklessly turned thole against their friends and grossly betrayed their interests. In Rome is the centre of authority of the whole Fascist system that has de- clared war to the death on our own democratic way of life. In Rome is the headquarters of the regime that has made power its cult and terror its weapon. From Rome and its great railway yards come guns and tanks that are used to kill Allied troops, many of them young Canadians and Americans of Italian descent who have gone hack to the laud of their- fathers to free it from a tyranny which they detest. Blow Carefully Planned. In an earlier age criminals often .sought to escape justice by run- ning to sanctuary in a church. For more thau"three years Italian Fas- cism has hidden behind the ec- clesiastical and artistic monus znent of Rome. The Axis destroy- ed—often with no military excuse —the most cherished religious and historical treasures of a dozen nations. But taking advantage ot the feeling of millions of people about the Veti.i.3an, those great guardians of religion, Hitler and Mussolini, said, "Oh, no; yott cau't bomb Rome." Now their immunity is ended. superstitious spell they sought to cast while making Rome au ar- senal and barracks is broken. They reckoned without the reso- lution of the Allies -end the train- ing of American fliers in precision bombing. When it became clear that tbe Italian capital was not only a military centre but a bottle- neck for supplies flowing to the Sicilian front, a major blow was carefully planned and rigorously delivered. Tha Allies took serious risks, making , the raid in daylight and issuing a warning. All Allies Approve. What will be the effect? So far there has been virtually complete approval from the peoples at the United Nations, whatever their church connections. Probably the effect on the Italian people will be no worse than the bombing of other cities. Indeed, it may help to bring home the fact that the only escape is to throw out Mita' 8011111 and Diller. Objectives of Raid. Rome was not bombed to demon- strate that it could be done, ' writes Anne O'Hare McCormick, in The New York Times. Italians knew this already; the raids on Ostia and the near -by airfields had already demonstrated to the capital that we are supreme in We skies over Italy, It was not bomb- ed. to force capitulation; the peo- ple know also that this is inevit- able eventually. The only question is when. Therefore the main ob- jectivesmust hare been, first, to save time by cutting off supplies for a delaying action in southern Italy; second, to tell Italians in unmistakable language that they cannot be safe anywhere, and, third, to convince them that the Germans are ,less dangerous ene- mies, commanding less power of destruction than the Allies. VOICE OF THE PRESS A COMEBACK Owing to war conditions it is announced that dried apples may come into popularity again. While this may not usher in the old-time paring bees, it will recall to old- timers the delicious aroma eman- ating from quartered apples strung in many a kitchen for drying pur- poses. Dried apples have a special flavor of their own, and require no containers, either metal or ,gbess. —Renfrew Mercury. —0 -- ONE ANSWER Raymond Clapper, New York World-Telegraxa columnist, asks why, if we can organize such a vast war machine, we can not also organize a machine for prevent- ing war. One answer is that some people steadfastly refuse to even consider fire insurance until the uext-door house starts to burn down. —Brantford Expositor. —0— JEWELS OF THE FIELD One advantage in being a part- time farm worker is that you can see a potato in its native state. If you do good work, the farmer will let you touch one. —Woodstock Sentinel -Review, —0— NE SAD CASE In a year in Britain a corre- spondent has come upon but one ease of genuine war nerves; A Londoner tottering into a pub and calling for bin and jitters. • —Winnipeg Tribunes '—o— TERROR OF PEACE And niw we are, told of a post- war $400 motor car to be sold at every gasoline station. Peace, too, can have its terrors! —Ottawa Journal. —0— NO BALLYHOO We still prefer newspapers. They don't trick you into reading an advertisement by starting off with a. song. —Victoria Times. —0— EFFECT OF SOAP HOARDING Folks who hoard soap because they fear a shortage are doing others dirt, —Chatham News. Invasion An Old Story To Sicilians Occupation of Sicily, even in- vasion of Italy from Sicilian shores, is not new to British sol-. diers and sailors — they did it over 140 years ago, Control of the Mediterranean was as vital then as it is today --- and Napoleon and Nelson both sa, the strategicimportance of Sicily. The British got there first. Early in 1799, Sir John Stuart, answering an appeal from Nel- son, landed in Sicily with two infantry regimenh. Seven years. later, in 1806, when the French had crossed the Italian border and were threatening Sicily from across the Straits of Messina, Stuart launched his invasion of Italy. He defeated Napoleon's General Reynier at the Battle of Maida, and Sicily did not fall into enemy hands. MasseyJ{arrs Company, Lturnitee 61/4% Convertible Preferred Shares Many investors may not reafige the rentatizable progress experienced by this Company during recent years, and the extent to which its finan- cial and earnings position has improved. 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