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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-03-14, Page 6NEWS PARADE As the seventh mouth of the war between Germany and the Allies got under way, the long-awaited spring offensive was still in the offing . , , but events were speed- ing up, and the lines of conflict tautening ... German troops were repotted massing a'.ong the Swiss border, men poured into the West - wall .. , the Ec:'gian-Germau, the Dutch.u.rinan :'rontiels were order- ed closed . . inensas-td patrol act- ivity stepped up A:lied vigilance on the Weet.vrn Front . glass flightA of Costner Dienes took plese over all parts et France . and when Sumner Welles, V. S. Under - see rota: y o Sate, ealling on Hitler and von Rh b n_'-'oe in Berlin, he was told Ove heard semi -officially) that she en Alvan army was already proise.I for a Jeelsive blow "that will put in the shade all previous ideas of mliit..'y penetration and passer." WHENCE THE BLOW Whether the blow would come in the form of crushing military, ac- tion tin the West, in Scandinavia te the Near Bast); of bombing raids on civilian centres; or an un- restricted air and submarine cam- paign against Allied shipping, we Were still in ignorance at week's and, The fate of Finland continued to be in doubt ... it was reliably re- ported that Russia had submitted definite terms for ending the unde- elared war ... Chicago News cor- respondent, E. Mowrer, cabled that heavy German pressure on Fin - end had blocked Allied plans to end an expedition via Norway .. Germany, he reported, threatened to assist Russia in conquering Finland, should the Finns make formal application to Britain and France for the dispatch of troops. WHITHER ITALY? A. showdown on German coal ex- ports to Italy came during the week With what future results, it remain- ed a matter for conjecture ... the most serious, of course, would be 'the antagonizing ot Mussolini to the extent that he might enter the war on. the aide of Germany V rginio Gayda, frequently the Duce's mouthpiece, said in an in- terview that Italy would enter the war if it spread to the Balkans. During the same week, France man rationing oil, alcohol, and Certain foodstuffs ... J•apanese dip- lomacy made gestures showing wil- lingness to come to an understand- ing with Britain and Fiance . ramors of an early shake -UP in the rrltish Cabinet gained credence . . . Norway protested to Germany th.e sinking of 50 merchant vessels abide the war began . • . Pope Pius made a new plea for peace ... the British steamer Domala was bomb- ed by a German Heinkel flying over the Channel , . , a shipment of oil from Russia to Germany passed. through Bulgaria .•. the Finns withdrew to new defensive noel - tions ... Russia prepared to sign a non -aggression pact with Ruman- ia , .. the "Queen Elizabeth made suprise erossing of the Atlantic, In Ontario, movie -going residents Woke up to the fact that they would have to travel down to Quebec pro- vince, or out to Manitoba to see the "March ot Time" film on Canada's war effort. Eastern Snowbirds Entrain For Western Ski -ins Masa :n,aav Montreal ,keened its Ski hopes G„ tu.s leh,i'eseLLLL \e group of Eastern Snowbirds, shown above in Windsor Station just before en• training for Banff, Alberta, where they .successfully competed in the Dominion Ski Championships. They were joined en route by a group of Toronto participants. The above group includes: (L to R) Lorna Meagher, Jimmy Houghton, Dorothy Michaels, Punch Bott, Madeleine St. Amour, Frank Reiffenstein, Alex. Casgrain, Walter Houghton.. Miss Dorothy Michaels was crowned queen of• the Senior Ladies' division while "Punch" Bott finished second in '`combined" results, and third in men's open downhill. __C,p.R. Photo. Exhibition Will Emphasize Music C. N. E. This Award The Sum of $1,500 in Cash in Vocal, Violin and Piano Competitions Cultural and ednoational phases of the Canadian National l xhibi- Ilion will be given further empha- sae this year especially in the music competitions. The Exhibition man- agement has decided to award the sum of $1,500 in cash in vocal, vio- lin and piano classes. $500 EA.011 In each of the aforementioned classes the sum of $500 will be awarded to the most outstanding contestant. The tuition for those scholarships may be secured from any accredited teacher approved by the Canadian National Eabile tion. Competitors for the scholar - chaps shall be selected in the course of the ordinary competitions and the tests for the respective 4600 awards will be conducted at Os) conclusion of the regular class - ,ata. Special outside adjudicators will be engaged for the scholar- ships. Of the total of each of the $600 awards the Canadian National Illzhibition may allocate an amount not exrf'eciing $1.50 fox living and - expenses while securing the i(siliue. . -' +'nr the winners. tuition proviaru ._. ,.reers Gold medallists of former in voice, violin and pisno at the I:ri• bi+bitiou will be eligible to compete for the ou'lholaxships but they must compete In the regular elasses in the general compet.ii'on:s to receive eonsidloratimu as sr,.holarsliip ci+1) I. *.al,.c• Year Wlli WORTH POLITICALLY 14c Chemically a man's body is worth 90 cents. Politically it is rated at 24 cents, seven cents for each of the enumerators. -= Kitchens•: Re- cord. WASTED SCHOOL -DAYS Nowadays, we wish we had spent more time learning geography and less throwing wads around ,the school -room. -- Quebec Chronicler Teegraph. THE ONLY INDEPENDENT The farmer is the only independ- ent worker in Canada today. lie may not have a great deal of cash to show for his labor, but he does not have to call any man his boss, nor go through his days witb. an in- feriority complex — Bowmanville Canadian Statesman. WHAT PEOPLE WANT Possibly some day our politicians will discover that what the people are longing for in public men who will keep closely in touch with pub- lic feeling and public interests — not merely public as centres about party questions, but public feeling towards matters that have no ref- erence to party politics whatever. -w Guelph Mercury. DOGS AND SHEEP There are several obvious rea- sons why sheep -raising has not so great an appeal for the Canadian farmer as the raising of swine. One reason was stressed recently by the department of agriculture. It is the menace of the prowling dog. Many sheep breeders in Canada are of the opinion that it is practic- ally impossible to raise sheep prof- itably on account of the large num- ber of dogs which are allowed to run at large. As a result of the menace from dogs there bas been a reduction of 75 per cent. in the number ot sheep raised in. one district in which. the eheep are regarded as the best pay- ing class of Iiveetoci. • Drury Asks Right To `Shoo' Hunters A private property' owner should be given complete. jurisdic- tion over his property so far as wild life and fish are concerned. So E. C. Drury, former Ontario premier, told the Ontario Anglers' Association convention in Toronto recently. Under the present system, .he said, a property owner quid "shoo any ordinary person off or sue him for trespassing. But,"•• he added, "if the `trespasser' car- ried a gun or fishing rod he could say 'go chase yourself' if told there were no placards up—and yon couldn't do a thing about it." NTARIO BY VIC BAKER CRACK RIFLEMEN Only a small number of expert rifle shooters in Canada have ever accomplished the feat of scoring the required number of points to attain the coveted Dominion Marksmen Expert Shield Award, but Ontario can boast having. 23 crack riflemen who have captur- ed this prized award in the last year. It requires outstanding . marks- manship to post a score better than 5860 points out of a pos- sible 6000 in this competition .in which each marksman must shoot 20 targets from each of the stand- ing, sitting 'and prone positions. To gain the expert shield the shooter must shoot twenty pos- sibles, that is a perfect score, in the prone position, and twenty 98's or better in the kneeling or sitting position, and twenty 95's or.better in the standing offhand; stance. This is no easy job ander the best of circumstances, yet all. 23 Ontario marksmen shot above 5900 in the competition and the highest scorer on& dropped 58 points to end with 5947 out of a possible 6000. The honour of the highest in- dividual score went to the well- known Ontario rifleman, Ellwood Epps of the Clinton Rifle Club of Clinton while the largest num- ber of expert awards was won by shooters from Toronto. The Only Woman The only woman among the 2a expert winners was Miss M. 3. S. Aldham of the Ormond Marksmen Club of Ormond. She not only placed fourth in scoring among the men but is the only woman in the province of Ontario to have captured this coveted prize which means so much to the outstand- ing shooter. Windsor and Port Hope had the next largest representation among the group of experts, each of them claiming three winners. C. N. R. Revenues Up 36 Per Cent The gross revenues of the all,. inclusive Canadian National Real - ways System for the 8 -day period, ending February 29, 1940, were $4,854,995 as compared with 3,547,323 for the corresponding period of 1339, an in- crease of 1,307,672 or 86,9% Tractor Trains, ains, Planks Serve Gold Fields New Gold -Mining Area North of Transcontinental Railway Gets Freight by Modern Methods This winter is proving to be a bumper season for the freighting business in Canada's new gold -min - 31 Nations Plan Showing At Fair Thirty-one nations, including Finland, have accepted President, Roosevelt's invitation to partici- pate in the 1940 New York World's Fair, Grover Whalen, President of the Fair, has • announced. Last year there were 61. An acceptance also', has been reeeived from tile- Czechoslovakian Minister in Washington. Participation of Turkey, Lithu- ania, Siam, and the French Man- date, Lebanon, is doubtful, he said. Argentinia, Albania, Chile, Denmark, the Netherlands, Rus- sia, and 3ugoslavia have with- drawn, ing area north of the 'tlans-centro- ental railway line, says the Chris- tian Science Monitor. Aerial transport operators report • one of their best years, and now tractor trains are running across the frozen lakes, 'freighting thous- ands of tons of mining machinery to properties which have proven to be worthy of development. Hudson, Sioux Lookout, and Ken" ora on the railway lino in northern Ontario are the starting points of the air and tractor freight trains. MACHINERY FLOWN IN Here the heavy machinery and hundreds of toes of other supplies needed at alining camps are unload- ' ed from the freight cars onto heavy sleds, and powerful tractors hitelh the sleds together into strings of three or more, then tie on in front, .and start their run of several 111ur- dred. miles over frozen lake- and suowcovered busllla .Airplanes are aese raying in con- siderable freight, mail and express, as well as passengers, to the camps syhich remain in operation all win- ter. Northern Canada is seeing -a busy winter, with the transport companies busiest of all. MAPLE LEAFS o CANADIENS RANGERS. Slta.iINSe AMERICANS SLACK HAWKS e RED WINGS I MILL. crests like the? big-time hoelsey teams wear—they're durable— the colors aro fast! They look smart on a junket or 'westrr. You can oau as many as you like abso- lutr.•lyfree. Ilere's all you &,--scud one 1380 nivel Syrup label along with one Durban). or Ivory Starch labolfor evil -crest desired —specify crest or cresta wanted, your name and address, enclose necessary labels ... mail to the address on the labels. ';EE H VE SYRUP Not 1'n Ace! ent but an Achiovement The REALITY of Canada's unity in this day of. great national effort is a source of dis- may to our enemy — and a factor of 'strength to ourselves and to our Allies . , . What Canadians should realize nost.fully is that their national unity does not exist through accident ... It is the direct. consequence of resourceful, determined and painstaking administration during recent years by an experienced and nationally -minded federal government ... During the past five years the peacetime policies of the Mackenzie King Government --- with respect to both domestic and external affairs — have been designed and executed with one main purpose in view — the strengthening of Can- ada's bonds of nationhood ... Because.those policies were sond;because they thleyi ed in- creased the measure of contentment throughout Canada; because clashes between provinces and races and creeds; because they -were equally considerate of agriculture, industry and labour .... because those policies have been truly national in scope, Canada is today putting forth a great, united, national war effort. These are the sort of things which have contributed to unifying -'our nation:— It Program of Trade Treaties -- lowering Canada's tariff' barriers and opening new market opportunities for citizens of every province . , . achieved by the Liberal ad- ministration in spite of the opposition .of Conservatives, and the indifference of C. C. F. and Social Credit. Development of the Trans -Canada Air- ways —.bringing the people of East and West into over -night contact ., .. created by the Mackenzie King Government from the ashes of the first airway attempt — sabotaged by the Conservatives. Support for the Canadian National Rail- ways System — Liberals have been stead- fast in standing behind this great national enterprise of the Canadian people .. . while Conservatives have worked assidu- ously for destruction of the system. A National Agricultural Policy — a new conception of federal encouragement 'for the farm families of every province. Publicly Owned Central Bank—the Bank of Canada, focal point of our national fin- ancial problems, was changed to public ownership by the Mackenzie King Govern- ment ... reversing the Conservative pol- icy of a central bank owned by private stockholders. Co-operative Action on Unemployment Problem — the Mackenzie King Govern- ment has co-operated willingly and con- tinuously with the provincial govern- ment5 in efforts to overcome the unem- ployment problem • the Conservative policy of denying all federal responsibility in this matter was rejected by the Liber- als.. Parliament's Right to Decide on War — Mackenzie King promised the people of all Canada that the country would not -be committed to war without the sanction of parliament . . , He held to that pledge honorably and steadfastly, in spite of the personal abuse which was heaped upon hini and his government by hot -heads who did not represent the collective views of Canadian people. No Prior Commitments -- the King Gov- ernment — wisely interpreting the wishes of the Canadian people — refused to com- mit this country, in advance, to a policy of fighting wars at unpredictable times, at unknown places ,and for undetermined causes. The Quebec Election -- when certain political opportunists in the province of Quebec attempted to disrupt Canadian un- ity and seriously halt our national war ef- fort the glen of the Mackenzie King Gov- ernment were the: ones who went in and fought to preserve. national solidarity The Conservative national leader remain- ed silent during this crisis --- when his voice should have rung out on behalf of national unity ... Because the courageous action of Mackenzie King and his Quebec ministers helped the electors to keep the only true :issue clearly in mind, Quebec was able to reaffirm her proud position squarely and Ioyally and warmly behind Canada's national war effort. On March 26th show your faith in Canad- ian Unity; Vote for the candidate support- ing Mackenzie King and make sure there can be no break in Canada's Steadfast stand. FORWARDWilli IN MACKENZIE The National Liberal Federation of Canada, Ot;awa, Ontario. .EG' ,AR FELLERS ---Enough Said g BUSTED, NEINBOCKLE WINDER AN' L THINK I -it; TOLD MQI tM T RI'M OT 9U Rr By GENE BYRNES 'LONG r.m e x� A GONG -ME . The, BACK WAY AN' ZEE KNOWele " 0 z.. 6.i