HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-07-04, Page 6Along The Roof Of The continent
it is a far cry from the .day
Major Fred Brewster, noted
mountaineer, packed freight
through the Canadian Rockies by
horse as shown in picture (left
above) and the ease with which.
visitora to Jasper National Pari
now cover the old pack train
route over the new Columbia Ice -
field Highway which will be of-
ficially opened July 1. One of
the world's most scenic drives,
the Columbia Icefield Highway
has been open from Jasper Park
Lodge (lower right) to the Ice-
feld, a distance of 75 miles dur-
ing the past two years and has
now been extended south another
75 miles to Banff Park.
From Jasper Park Lodge the
highway leads to the foot of A'ch-
abaska Glacier (right), where is
located the new Columbia Tee -
field chalet. Near by are Snow
Dome, Kitchener and other glac-
iers, all welded into one insep-
arable mass, binding these
11,000 feet skywards. On these
mountains which tower more than
glaciers, unexcelled summer ski-
ing may be enjoyed and it is here
that some of the continent's out-
standing men and women skiers
train for Canadian and inter-
national events.
The completion of the Columbia
Icefield Highway marks another
chapter in the history of Jasper
National Park, 4,200 square
miles in extent. The Canadian
National Railways' Jasper Park
Lodge in this, America's largest
National Park, now offers visitors
every modern luxury where in
the early days explorers,. traders
and trappers, set up their prim-
itive camps.
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THE WAR -WEE K—Commentary on Current Events
France Signs Herself Away;
Budget Brigs Heavy Taxes
A blitzkrieg of taxes struck
hte Dominion last week following
the bringing down of the Budget.
With drastic increases in income
taxation reaching virtually every
earner, almost prohibitive taxes on
automobiles and several new tax-
es, Finance Minister Ralston ask-
ed tremendous sacrifices of the
Canadian people for war purpos-
es. For the first time, the cost of
the war was carried direct to the
pocket -books of every income
group in the country.
Affects Everybody
Highlights of the new taxation:
Income rates increased so sharply
that a married man with no de-
pendents, paying $36 on a sal-
ary of $3,000 under present,
rates, will now pay $195 •
A new tax on automobiles .start-
ing at 10 per cent on manufac-
turers' value up to $700 and
increasing sharply to 80 per cent
on value in excess of $1,200
(used. cars are taxed, too) . .
A new national defense tax of
two per cent flat rate imposed
on all salaries over $600 in the
case of single persons and $1,200
in the case of married persons,
increasing to time per cent for
salaries of single persons abo; e
$1,200. . . a 10 per cent tax
imposed on all imports except
those commodities entered under
British preferential tariff ..
eigaret tax raised from $5 to $ti
per 1,000, manufactured tobacco
from 25 to 35 cents a pound,
cigar taxes doubled, etc.
imposition of ten per cent tax
phonographs, radios, cameras and
radio tubes . . .
The Ontario Government, fac-
ing a possible revenue loss of
$3,000,000 arising from the in-
creased Federal income tax lev-
ies, was expected to make a re"
adjustment of income brackets
some time this year to bring 50,-
00(1 more persons, .hitherto ex-
empt, within the tax-payin.
.category.
Meantime everywhere in Can-
ada rents were going up (due ie
great part to an increase in Boal
prices) . . .Food prices remained
at approximately the same level
as in the past couple of months
but gains were recorded for beef,
bread, canned vegetables, pota-
toes, tea, coffee, onions, pepper
and salt . Clothing was ex -
petted to tise as a result of the
new tax en imports and the di-
version of textiles for war use .' .
Unemployment Insurance
Prorogation of the first session
of the 19th Parliament of Canada
was looked for around July 20
.. The main item remaining last
week for consideration was un-
employment insurance (contrib.
uted to by employers and em-
ployees); but before such a
measure could be brought before
the House, the Parliament of
Great Britain would have to am-
end the B. N. A. Act, transfer-
ring to the Dominion, from the
provinces, authority* over unem-
ployment insurance . .
The people of Canada prepar-
ed last week for the reception of
vast numbers of evacuee children
from Great Britain . . . Thous-
ands of homes were thrown open
.. . placement of children to be
handled by the Provincial Gov-
ernments.. .
Battle of France Ends
"On June 5 the Battle of
France began, the Germans tak-
ing off southward frcin the
Somme -Aisne line; Against all the
material and manpower General
°Teygand could mass, the Ger-
man army under General von
Brauchitsch hurled 40, then 60,
then 120, finally 150 divisions.
By June 10 they were within 35
miles of Paris, with pincers curv-
ing down from east and west. On
June 14 the pincers met at Paris
and it was surrendered." June 17,
Marshal Petain, newly -elected
French Premier, indicated that
the fight was hopeless, asked for
an armistice. June 21 French
plenipotentiaries met Adolf Hit-
ler in the Forest of Ceinpiegr.e
(in the same railway car where
Marshal Foch in 1915 announced
the terms under which 'Germany
laid down her arms). June 24 the
"cease fire" order came in the
war with Germany. The following
day' France laid down her arias
against Italy, too.
The Armistice
Hitler's object, apparently, in
forcing the particular terns that
he did upon France was to secure
every possible facility foe his
blitzkrieg on Britain. All the
French Channel and Atlantic
Coasts were occupied by German
forces; French warships and -nav-
al equipment were to be turned
Over to Germany for use against
Britain; all military equipment
surrendered, all aircraft ground-
ed; all roads, trains, railways giv-
en up; all radio stations had to
stop operations; all military forc-
es began demobilization with the
exception of troops necessary for
maintaining order. The armistice
was only an expedient, Berlin in-
dicated
mdicated ... final peace talk must
await the Battle of Britain . . .
Mussolini Waits
With Italy, France signed an
armistice granting Mussolini a
small"portion cf territory along
the Alpine frontier. The French
also agreed to demilitarize: 1, a
strip of land thirty-one miles deep
on the Italian border; 2, a strip
of territory in Tunisia on the
.African Mediterranean coast; 8,
a portion of French Algeria boa
tiering on Italian Libya; 4, the
French Somaliland port and rail-
road terminus of Djibouti, key to
Italian Ethiopia. These zones were
to be kept demilitarized for the
duration of the Armistice—until
the end of Germany's and Italy's.
war against England, and until
a formal peace treaty is conclud-
ed to satisfy Italy's territorial
demands against France.
"No One Can Tell"
All the countries of the Medi-
terranean basin were seriously
affected by the collapse of France
and the signing of the two arm-
istices . . . Turkey in particular
was agitated by the thought of a
powerful drive by the Axis in the
eastern Mediterranean (aimed at
cutting off Suez and grabbing
the harbors and rich oil districts
of the Near East), and feared
a Fascist attack on French -man-
dated Syria . In Egypt, resig-
nation of Ali Maher Pasha could
mean the early entry of his coun-
try into the war ... In a message
"to the people of North Africa,"
the French High Commissioner in
French Morocco declared that his
crack Moroccan troops would not
yield one inch of French North
African territory without a fight,
the armistice notwithstanding .
Vernon Barlett, British mem-
ber of Parliament and writer in
the London News Chronicle com-
mented: "The French surrender
involves political changes all over
the world and no one can yet
tell their magnitude."
Britain For It
But all the world knew that
Say- Nighthawks
Like Dive -Bombers
Quite a voinmotion has been
caused in Leamington, Ontario,
during recent nights by night-
hawks that frequent the
town's business section. Sound
of the birds as they dive after
insects has been compared to
that of dive -bombers.
Great Britain was next in line
for a totalitarian attack by Ger-
niany, that the moment Hitler's
preparations
ere the complete,
Isles
blitzkrieg
would begin, proceeding with
bombing, submarine warfare and
an armed invasion. The people of
Britain braced themselves for the
blow.
*
7 ire balance of power on the
sea depended on who obtained
the French navy. It was known
that the addition of the French
fleet to the navies of Germany
and Italy would bring the Axis
to tonnage parity with Britain
and to numerical superiority, with
90 per cent more fighting ves-
sels . Prime Minister Church -
i11, voicing his anger at the
manner in which the Petain regime
had violated its "many solemn
assurances" in ceding sea power
to the Nazis, acknowledged that
the ultimate disposition of the
French fleet would "powerfully
though not decisively affect" Bri-
tain's safety ... In the war with
Italy, Britain was aware that
loss of the French Navy would
seriously endanger her position
throughout a vast 40,000 mile
theatre stretching from Gibraltar
to Aden, because all land forces
involved therein must be supplied
by sea...
Japan In Ascendancy
The effects of the European
war, actual and anticipated, were
seen last week as exercising a
dynamic influence on Japan's in-
ternational policy. A change in
the world balance, Japanese lead-
ers inferred, might mean that
Japan would not only be inter-
ested in an alliance with the
Axis powers, but in making her
po;.ition in the Pacific and the
Far East impregnable.
It was expected that Japan
would shortly issue a sweeping
pronouncement amounting to an
"Oriental Monroe Doctrine"
warning all powers against inter-
ference of any kind in all terri-
tories in East Asia. "The dream
of decades — a Far East dom-
inated by Japan—was on the
verge of climbing into the realm.
of action." ("Time," June 2.4).
"The only force which could
turn that dream into a nightmare
has always been the U. S. The
big question taking shape last
Week appeared to be: could the
13. S. summon enough diplomatic
adroitness to make friends with
Japan without: 1. selling out both
China and the Allies in the Far
East; 2. being double-crossed
herself if she attempted too much
appeasement. Failing either al-
ternative, could the United States
risk a war with Japan?"
REG'LAR FELLERS--Very'Consiclerate
Many Materials
For Housecoats
Pique, Sharkskin, Dotted
S.viss MusIin and Printed
Voile
For Better Desserts
Corn tare
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Bagpipe Music
Is Different
A Lot More Spacing and. Few.
er Notes — People Who Do
Not Like It Should Not Be
Condemned
There are lots of people who are
not Scots who say they enjoy hear-
ing the bagpipes, although some
qualify their appreciation by saying
the pipes sound best when the op-
erator is a long distance away.
Others, real Scots perhaps, says the
Stratford Beacon -Herald, think that
there is no grander or more inspir-
ing music than a hundred pipers
an' a' an' a' at close quarters.
We learn, however, that there is
a reason why one likes or dislikes
the pipes. A blind Scottish piper
told a service club recently that al-
though the note scale is similar to
the ordinary scale, the spacing is
sometimes different, so that to
those who have not been brought
up with the sound of the pipes in
their ears the music sounds atroc-
ious. Therefore, he generously add -
Pique, sharkskin, dotted swiss
muslin and printed voile are favor-
ite fabrics for morning housecoats.
Even the most inexpensive seen in
New York are charming in color
and very well styled and cut. A
white pique with wide, squared -oft
collar, cuffs and pocket trimmed
with bright red rickrack braid will
Make any one feel cheerful in the
morning.
ALL WITH FULL SKIRTIS
Swiss muslins, trimmed with del-
icate lace edging, or more tailored
types in sharkskin may be had, not
only in white but in luscious pastel
colors. Almost alt ar, made to fas-
ten with zippers, which keep one
looking.neat no matter how gt:iek-
ly one has dressed, and all have
skims With plenty of room, and
well -cut sleeves, so if there is a
train to be caught after breakfast,
you can fly around comfortably
wbile yeti make toast and coffee...
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HOW MUCH DO X ME TOO
FOR 1111`a WORK i "
At Calgary Convention
IL E. Rice, publisher of the
Huntsville Forester, is President
of the Canadian Weekly News-
papers Association whose con-
vention is being held this week
in the Palliser Hotel, Calgary.
ed, people. who don't like it should
not be condemned.
SKIRL OF THE PIPES
Undoubtedly there is something
"different" about bagpipe music,
and this is the first time we learn-
ed what it is. We hope some of, our
friends who are insultingly critical
will make allowances and adapt
themselves to the skirl of the pipes
and we fear it wouldn't do them
any good anyway if the notatiob
was standardized. You really have
to have Scottish blood in you to en-
joy the full flavour of the national
instrument of Scotland. If you have
not — "that's your misfortune.
The Book :Shelf
"STARS ON THE SEA"
By F. van Wyck Mason
A spunky girl, a fine lad'com-
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Colonists, who, in the face 'of
an all-powerful foe, dared to
flaunt their thirteen stripes and
thirteen stars on the sea. It is
drama, gripping and authentic.
One of the major novels of
the year, the book presents a
new version of the War of In-
dependence as seen in a north
ern colony, a southern colony
and a tropical island colony--
Rhode
olony-Rhode Island, South Carolina
and the Bahamas. Historic char-
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anguish, hope and suffering. No
reader will ever forget Desire
Harmony Bennett of Newport,
Sam Rigsby, the Pennsylvania
rifleman, or scholarly Nat Cof-
fin of Nantucket.
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F. van Wyck Mason . . - To-
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8 -Egg -Per -Day
Hen Wins Note
Mrs. Chris Olsen of Bellevue,
Wash., reported her Rhode Island
Red hen laid eight eggs Thurs-
day, rested Friday, then rallied
with two Saturday and five 'Sun-.
day.
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