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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1939-10-26, Page 6F 81., 81., NEW S PARADE _.. THE WAR: WEEK BY WEEK At the beginning of its sixth week, Europe's big war could scar- cely be said to have got going yet. The powers in conflict appeared to be hesitating in the midst of hostilities before taking the final plunge, while peace talk took pre- cedence everywhere over war talk. Even after Premiers Daladier of Fr ance and Chamberlain of Great Britain had come out flatly in re- jection of Hitler's proposals for an armistice, the world continued to look for further peace offers to come from some quarter (from President Roosevelt, Mussolini or Queen Wilhelmina, perhaps) - offers which both sides could ac- cept without too much loss of face. The war was indeed an unwelcome baby on every doorstep, Hitler or no Hitler. The world had time to ask itself questions: What was the war about? Would it come to an end with the fall of Hitler's regime? What sort of government could follow Hitler's, with Germany in its present state of semi -collapse? How were the Allies to restore Poland in toto without going to war against Russia, too? Where did Italy fit into this jig -saw puz- zle? Had the Rome -Berlin Axis been split in two by the signing of the Nazi -Soviet pact? What would happen to Norway and Sweden if Russia gained control of the Gulf of Finland? With Hitler defeat - ea in the east already, what could he do in the west? Almost Quiet On Western Front On the Western Front the war hung fire. Some activity was seen in. the northeastern sector from the Moselle to the Rhine, and in the Saar area and 30,000 British troops moved into action. But no major push carne. As one wit re- marked: "Soldiers said they knew it was a war because the cooties were biting." But was it the calm before the storm? Did the train- loads of heavy artillery moving up behind the Siegfried Line mean that Hitler was shortly to launch a `Blitzkrieg" should his "peace offensive" fail? Were the Allies waiting for colder weather to come? A whole winter on the economic front might see Ger- many crack at home under the strain. But war or no war, towards the end of the week things began to happen on the sea and in the air. ..-'rhe. Allies ,sealsexaral. Ge:ma.'n__. submarines, which cost millions of dollars apiece. Germany launched new submarine attacks on Allied and neutral shipping and air at- tacks on naval bases. Biggest news stories of the week featured the sinking of the British battle- ship Royal Oak with a loss of 370 lives; and the air battle over Scot- land in which German planes were driven off three times. Ger- man propaganda reports of Allied battleships sunk or crippled in many seas were far from reality but continued to alarm the popu- lace. A Terrible Price Events moved swiftest, by para- dox, in the east, where the war wasn't. Conferences between neu- tral nations assumed a significance great enough to draw the eyes of the world away from the activities of the warring powers -to watch Russia and Finland, Russia and Turkey, Russia and the Balkan states engage in diplomatic con- tests the outcome of which will affect Europe far into the future. People began to understand the terrific price Hitler was having to pay for promised economic aid from the U.S.SSR. 1939. Soldiers Are Getting More Pay Canadian Private in Infantry Is Paid $1.30 a Day on Ac- tive Service The increased skill demanded of the modern soldier as well as the higher cost of living. compared to 1914 have resulted in the Canadian Government being far more gener- ous to the men of the Canadian Active Service Force in the matter of pay than to the old Canadian Expeditionary Force. Whereas an infantry private re- ceived a dollar a day in 1914 plus ten cents "field allowance," today hs receives $1.30 per day, an in- crease of nearly 20 per cent. Of- ficer ranks also will be consider- ably better in this war than the last, as the following comparison reveals: Comparison With 1914 (Includes field allowances) 1914 1939 $7.50 $10.50 6.25 10.00 5.00 7.75 3.75 6.50 2.60 5.00 Colonel Lt. -Colonel Major Captain Lieutenant 2nd . Lieutenant ....,. --- 4.25 The following are the compari- sons for warrant officer, non-com- missioned officer and private' ranks 1914 1939 Warrant Off (R.S.M: s) $2.30 $4,20 (All other class 1 W.O.'s Quartermaster Sergeants. R.Q.M.S. S.Q.M.S. int) 2.00 3.10 Company S.M. 1.80 3.00 (W. O,'s class 3) 2.75 Coy. Q.M. Sergts. 1.70 2.50 Sergeants 1.50 2.20 Corporals 1.20 1.70 Lance Corporals 1.15 1.50 Privates, troopers, etc 1.10 1.30 C.P.R. Passenger Agent Transferrer) To Toronto The quantity of leather foot- wear manufactured in Canada for the six-month period ended June 30, 1939, totalled 11,249,771 pairs, compared with 10,946,853 pairs for the corresponding period in 1938. VOICE or the PRESS BAD COMBINATION Night driving is a hazard when highways are not lit and drivers are. -Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph TIME ON THEIR HANDS With no buttons to shine and no puttees to roll, the soldier lads •ti1S,e0 . n y11na erfWn... Harold C. James, assistant general passenger agent, Canadian Paci- fic Railway, Montreal, who has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. C. B. Andrews as assistant general passenger agent at Tor- onto, Mr, James joined the com- pany at Saint John, N.B., in 191.4, and is one of the most popular of- ficial of the railway, and anchor, -Kitchener Record. British Air Mission Is Here to Organize "Finishing $chool" For Empire Pilots In a sense Canada is now the "Air Capital of the Emp Lord Riverdale are members of the British Air Missio pilots from Australia, New Zealand and, of course, C too for "finishing," Lord Riverdale indicated. Left mission members boarded their C.P;R. special car for 0 D.F.C., F. R. Howard, Group Captain J. M. Robb, D.S. C.B.E., D.S.O., Lord Riverdale, beside whom is Group C who returned to Canada with the mission, Miss M. A. J. R. Smyth, A. D. Hayward and Group Captain A. Gr yet arrived in Canada are Air Chief Marshall Sir Rob A.F.C., F. T. Searle and Captain Paul Balfour. ire," as the above picture testifies. Grouped around n, here to organize a "finishing school" for Air Force anada. Pilots from Britain herself may be sent here to right in the group taken at Quebec just before the ttawa are: Group Captain L. N. Hollinghurst, O.B.E., 0., D.F,C., Air Marshal Sar C. L. Courtney, K.C.B., aptain A. E. Godfrey, of the Royal Canadian Air Force Wright and Miss V. M. Bennett, shorthand secretaries, ay, M.C. Other members of the mission who have not ert Brooke -Popham, G.C.V,O., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S:0:, Canada Made Air Centre For Empire Advanced Air Training Will Be Centralized Here - Aircraft Industry Mobilized for The War PROPHESIES HIS OWN DOOM "Thus the fact of the conclusion of a treaty with Russia embodies the declaration of the .next war. Its outcome would be the end of Germany." (Mein Kampf, by Ad- olf Hitler, page 959, Reynal & Hitchcock edition). WHY BARNS RED? Perhaps barns are usually paint- ed red because of some economic or scientific reason and research might establish the fact that after all red isn't merely a man's choice of colors. If science and paint manufacturers could only give us a choice of colors, durable under outdoor conditions, their names would be praised. -Farmer's Ad- vocate. WE'LL HAVE TO FACE OUR OWN YOUTH Whatever you and we may think about Hitler and Hitlerism, we must recognize that the man is the idol of millions of young Ger- mans, the institution is the shrine at which they worship, and they will not be easily disillusioned. Therefore, democracy's task on the home front during the war years is to prepare a house in order; one they will instantly re- cognize as something infinitely bet- ter than the democracy their Hit- ler strove to overthrow. Indeed, we shall have to prepare to face our own youth. If the only de- mocracy we are able to show them after the war is the same old pre- war model with all its poverty and unemployment and insecurity, the generation will have some right to ask what we went to war for? - Calgary Albertan. Aircraft manufacturing and air training schools in Canada will be called upon to play a larger part in the Empire's war effort in light of the announcement and in London that .dvanced air train- ing will be centralized in Canada and steps will be taken to speed production. Canadian fraining Efficient The announcement that Empire fliers from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand will be given advanced training in Can- ada is interpreted in aviation cir- cles as a tribute to the efficiency of the Canadian training. The statement issued by Prime Minister MacKenzie King indicates the completion of long -considered plans for mobilizing the Canadian aircraft industry and air training facilities for the service of the Empire in the war. Greatly Advanced In connection with training, Canada is one of the most advanc- ed countries in the, world in so far as civil aviation is concerned and. .. the facilities for braining civilian .a pilots may be utilized in the war scheme, `--"nr%vatYy Lfie ivi7yizi'vuiiz�uiuT'n�'� Force is using 22 Canadian flying clubs to provide the preliminary training for its fliers. The inter- mediate training is given at Camp Borden and the advanced train- ing at Trenton. Kilt Attracts Greeks, Irish • Russian Jew and Man of Ger- man Descent Also Join Sea- forths in Vancouver From Vancouver comes the news that Yampolsky, Quovadis, Costello and Zorn are all good Scots in the Seaforth Highlanders now. Maxie Yampolsky, Jewish re- cruit, whose parents came from Russia, said he joined up because . the kilted regiment "is the smart-' est outfit in town." George Quova- dis, of Greek descent, grinned: "I don't know, I guess I liked the uni- form." There are two Costellos 'in the Seaforths, unrelated but both with some Spanish blood. W. E. Cos- tello said: "The regiment's got the best record of any in Canada," and A. P. Costello explained: "The gang's all here." In Arnold Elmer Zorn the Sea- forths claim the only man listed under "Z" in Vancouver units. Zorn, of German stock, said he joined on account of his friends. All were born in British Colum- bia. The six commonest surnames in England and Wales are Smith, Jones, Williams, Taylor, Davis, and Brown. N TAR 10 UTDOO S By VIC BAKER NEW SKEET TITLE Canada's thousands of skeet shooters have a new mark to aim at now that a new Canadian ama- teur long run skeet record has just been established by Arthur C. Donner, one of the best known shotgun shooters in the Dominion. Breaking a string of 219 con- secutive regulation clay -pigeon skeet targets, the Montreal Skeet Club marksman set a new mark recently which shatters the former Dominion recorr of 117 set in 1937 by Robert E. Branch of the St. Catharines Trap and Gun Club of Ontario, it was announced re- cently from the head -quarters of the Dominion Marksmen organiza- tion in Montreal. Donner, who set the new record on the layout of the Montreal Skeet Club, was also a member of the five -man team from Montreal's Grand Trunk Riverside Gun Club, which captured the Dominion trap team title in the recent national skeet and trap shooting champion- ships. Aerial Shooting Expert Known by shooters in almost all of Canada's shotgun clubs, Don- ner's brilliant marksmanship it by no means confined to shattering the swift -flying clay -pigeons. For many years Iv has been known as o 'e'of e ountry's "leading. 'aerial shooting experts. Sportsmer all over Canada have, at one time or another, been thrilled by this anip- er's exhibitions which include such tricks as hitting a pea in mid-air, putting five shots into a falling block of wood with a 30/30 lever action rifle, and smashing up to five clay -pigeons tossed into the air. Mr. Donner's pupil is his wife. Mrs. "Art" Donner is classed as one of the Dominion's best women skeet shots and under her hus- band's guidance has become a suf- ficiently expert shot to think no- thing of tossing golf balls into the air and hitting them with clock- work regularity with her hubby's .30/30 rifle. Camouflage For Storing Places In small houses the tops of wardrobes often have to be util- ised as storing places for suit- cases, dress -boxes or other pack- ages. These cases may be made less noticeable if a cotton or linen cover of a shade matching that of the wall behind is laid over them and neatly tucked in all round. An old window -blind of unbleached linen may be used if the wall is papered or distempered in cream or an old casement curtain may be tinted to whatever shade is re- quired. A cover of this kind not only camouflages the stored pack- ages but also keeps them free from dust. Only women are allowed to do business in a bank. recently open- ed in . Amsterdam, where all the employees are women. REG'LAR FELLERS -Standard Equipment PHOOEY if "------:-.'"-•7.--,----, J-�'.-----.7,. .. f t ..y • Explain Need For Relaxation During Wartime Psychologists, Doctors and Clergymen Agree that En- tertainment, Sports, Other Amusements Should Not Be Curtailed Historian Will Accompany Troops Canada's First Overseas Dirk. ion To Keep Records An official historian will go over- seas with Canada's first division so that, from the start, records will be available from which, istero an authentic story of the Dentin, ion's overseas participation in the war can be written. All Movements Recorded This step is necessary to avoid the difficulties encountered, many decideafter, have an the hntssttorY prepared of Canada's war effort in the great war. In the absence of official records by any appointed Canadian historian, the histories, section of the National Detenoe Department, Under Col. F. A, Do. gut(' as director, experienced great difficulty in preparing the hiatory. Thus far only one volume, with aa appendix volume, has been com- pleted for publication on the last war. Hisitorically, things are to be s lot different in this war since, tri the beginning, an official record will be kept of the :movements, ac- tivities, engagements, ete., of all Canada's overseas forces. Claiming tob e oldest man alive, Greek peasant Rigas Drosos told journalists in his native vil- lage of Katzikart that he was 121 years old. He admitted he was "not so alert" now as he was six months ago, when he was still able to walk the 60 -mile stretch to the town of Drama. He mar- ried his 20 -year-old third wife when he was 80. His youngest child is a girl of 11, his oldest is 75. Toronto psychologists, clergy- men and physicians have agreed that, even though Canada be at war, there should be no suggestion of curtailing entertainment, sports or other forms of amusement eith- er among the troops or the civilian population. Dr. Thomas C. Routley, secret- ary of the Canadi..•• Medical Asso- ciation, added unofficial medical approval of the suggestion, "I believe medical opinion would support the principle of sane liv- ing," he said. "Sane living contem- plates normal living and which liv- ing requires certain amount of diversion to take our minds off problems and allow us to relax." Take Minds Off Problems "In the present situation I would say by all means maintain our re- creation program," said Dr. J. D. IKetchum, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. "And there are times when it might not be advisable, but this is not one." Rev. Gordon A. Cisco, general se- ei'etarr- i`-Pthe r'liiLCtl.... 01111'rbh of ... Canada, said: "At this time of struggle, and taking the whole Ca- nadian situation into account, I believe that normal activities should be carried on as 'ar as pos- sible. War is so abnormal that if the mind is allowed to centre on it exclusively, an unhealthy condition may easily arise." cereal sweetener. WILL -YU M. ////%/ t /i/moi (Oopyright, 1938, by Fred Nsh.r) �•i WI-AT'3 THE MATTER WITH YOU, PINHEAD ? THAT'S THE.TENTH SWELL FISH YOU'VE CHUCKED SACK TODAY f ARE YOU DAFFY ? By GENE BYRN S NAH' I'M PERTIKILER I'M ONEY TRYIN' FOR FISH WITH BOARDS EM DIKE THE ONE MY qR.AN'PA HAS ON THHIS ESOVER F ER • 83,8.1/'301 'Spars 11. 9,'ht. Ottln.. AB rt,hte. e„ ,rved