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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-08-22, Page 2ori . s Largest Ex ositi n it 4, tin ss - 1940 Canadian National Exhibition Fills A filloare Ilmnortant Rolle ire Promoting Empire Trade Than It Did in Peacetime — Agri- cultural Show This Year of Prime Significance -- Royal Air Force Quarters Can. Be Seen on the Grounds When the Canadian National Exhibition established a x ecoril in 1939 for vacating the buildings which had housed every branch of its exhibits, administration. and entertainments, to make way for arrival of thousands e3 newly -recruited soldiers, speculation euirrrovnded its future. And, as 140 got under way, the question became even more audible: "Is the 91 - year -old unbroken pattern to be interrupted?" One glance at the big exhibition now would answer any question. To- ttery, leadership established in peace time has suddenly become leadership to wartime. British exhibitors, eager to reach the eyes and ears of C'aned- iau industries and the Canadian public,, have been represented to a greater extent than ever before. Governmeut officials proved eager to see t+ho lbrusiness as usual" sign; Canadian industry and commerce are giving leadership through the exhibition's facilities. R,C.A.F. QUARTERS THERE Fortunately, the program of train. , ing of Canadian soldiers, which had recruited the wide resources of Ex- ; hirbition Park, provided that men in training should not spend the i summer season in the Toronto area. 'Oven before war broke out last rear, in the middle of the exhibi- tion's program, officials of the De- partment of Defence had held con- ferences with the exhibition direc- tors, had outlined their needs, had I received in return the assurance of she exhibition officials that the en- tire Park and its big buildings 'would be emptied for their use. And at that time the Department's officers stated that they preferred e have no men in the park in sum- mer, but would be moving out to ether camps. As a result, plans for the exhibi- tion this year fit into the program of the military. Royal Canadian Air )Ponce quarters alone now remain In the park, and this is being seiz- ed by that colorful branch of the service as an opportunity to show hew airmen are trained, It forma an important exhibit or display of Vie exhibition roster of wartime presentations. Elsewhere, although rendered sombre by the times, the show follows the usual patterns. Much of it is seeking to present to the public the importance of war- time economies and methods of eenforming to wartime regulations and practices. EXCHANGE OF FARM IDEAS As an economic factor, the exhl- bcibion will 3111 a more important Sole than it did, probably, in peace- time, This is reflected most vividly In the livestock and agricultural epberes. Entries for hundreds of Masses (in fact, every class) are ahead of previous years and en- quiry reveals that this is because agriculture faces new standards j ,.j Q k4 BEE HI 1� 'j �° and new requirements caused by I �' 6a9A� revision of overseas demands. In racontype hogs, for instance, buy- ing of purebred animals promises to be heavy, with study of types of Slog -raisers rousing more interest than in any other year. Thus the ,Nxhibdtion serves as an exchange df ideas and materials which affect Canada's war effort. In countless tisther departments the same prin- giple is plainly seen. INTRA-EIVIPIRE TRADE Most important, however, le be exhibition's role as a focus through which. Empire plans and ideas and methods can be seen by Empire citizens, Empire trade has become more vital to Britain's ex- istence. Foreign trade means valu- able exchange for purchasing war needs. This has been the theme of British exhibitors in their discus- , Mons with exhibition officials, and it is obviously their goal in the quickened interest they have now ib'bown in the exhibition this year. To exhibition officials and direc- tors 1940 has become a year for greater service. They hope the ex- Iaiibition will play its greatest role alis year. EXHIBITION PROGRAt' 1'1 23rd FRIDAY—Opening Day -- First official public appear- ance of Earl of Athlone. 24th SATURDAY --Warriors' Day. 26th MONDAY — Children's Day. 27th TUESDAY—Auternet.ive Day. 28h WEDNESDAY — Food Products & Merchants' Day. 29th THURSDAY — Women's, Music and Art Day. 30th FRIDAY — Press and Graphic Arts Day. 31st SATURDAY—Manufa.ct- exers', Athletic and Floral Day. 2nd MONDAY—Labour Day. 3rd TUESDAY—Internsatianal and Service Clubs, 4th WEDNESDAY — Agricul- turists' Day. 5th THURSDAY—'Transporta- tion and Commercial Travel- lers'' Day. 6th FRIDAY — Livestock Re - 7th 1eSATURDAY — Citizens' Day. Heat Wave Hatched Chick Inside Cabinet Farmer John Start, of Golds- boro, N. S., could not account for the plaintive peeping coming from somewhere in the house and he knew he hadn't any baby chicks. But when he opened a door to a cabinet, out hopped a chick. He says the heat wave hatched one of the eggs stored theme. Earl of Athlone Opens 1940 Exhibition Here is a recent photograph of the Governor-General of Canada, His Excellency the Earl of Athlone, shown with his wife, Princess Alice, shortly before they came to Canada In June. On Friday, August 8rd the Earl makes his first official public appearance in Canada when has declares the 1940 Canadian National Exhibition open. THE WAR -WEE K—Commentary on Current Events "THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN" BEGINS IN REAL EARNEST The Battle of Britain began last week, less than two months ter the capitulation of France. ach day, wave after wave of oerman planes crossed the Chan- nel to bomb England; easy day, hordes of British planes soared to battle with the enemy. Whether or not actual invasion by German land forces was short- ly to follow remained the .big question of the hour. Military experts were in disagreement. Watching the targets at which the German bombs were aimed— advanced bases of the Royal Air Force, and strong British coastal positions — they declared that the Nazis could be planning any- thing from a simile attempt to break British civilian morale; up the scale to an all-out air attack on the country as a whole which would precede or coincide with the attempted invasion by sea. Would Isolate Britain! Several neutral commentators of note expressed the opinion that the Nazis' chief target for -the present was Britain's sea -borne commerce (ports, docks, ship- yards, harbors, ships and convoys were bombed) ; and that the Nazi objective was to blockades` Britain, isolate it, weaken it by destroy- ing its commerce and its con- tacts with the Empire and the world, starve it into submission if :possible, or in any case weak- en it by battering its ports and shores and breaking up its lines of naval communication. "skykrieg" on Britain on a 3 -to -1 basis but also to carry on an extremely effective air offensive on the Continent. Spain On Her Ear No. 3 trouble -maker (Hitler, of course, is No. 1), General Franco, irate at British super- vision over Spanish imports, sent a note to London demanding re- laxation of the blockade on oil, gasoline and other contraband pro- ducts. The Falangist newspaper in Madrid, Arriba, after announc- ing that Spain was now a "moral belligerent", declared that British action in shutting off Spain's sup- plies of gasoline from the United States and Rumania constituted an "aggression and an act of war." Would Drive British Out "The Last Obstacle" Mallory Brown e, Christian Science Monitor correspondent in London, called the new turn of events "a sort of interim phase of the war" during which, while Hitler and Mussolini continue their attempt to organize the con- quered portion of the Continent, they prepare more drastic action against the remaining European obstacle to their domination of the world — Britain and its em - pix e. Farther south, Mussolini ap- peared to be coming into his own as a first-class trouble -maker. All signs pointed to an early grab at Greece's Adriatic coast, and per- haps a try for a slice of Yugo- slavia. (The Italian Government charged that Greece was supply- ing oil, planes and other mater- ial to Great Britain; that it was cruelly oppressing Albanian min- orities in the country). In Africa, Italian forces, spun out from far- off supply bases, moved slowly deeper into British Somaliland, were engaged in sharp conflict with the British defenders of Ber- bera, Somaliland capital. Surprise For Italians That the 1 A. F. could spare sufficient planes to bomb many strategic points in' Italy and to intensify the air attacks on Ger- many, came as an unpleasant sur- prise to Fascists and Nazis alike last week. They were obliged to realize that the R. A. F. was able not only to cope with the German REG'LAR FELLERS—The Racket Buster ..11.1-�Metro....1.30......�.. ..P 1,1,1.0,^1.12,M.,, TN P Q CUM) WILL 'COW OUT Dj' �\ TNATS TWO CENT �� 1 kr( IBI tlERg! � WNAf3 11 415-- A RACKET ii CAN JEST O MAK) . LIWWa7`5 THE MATTER TH THIS DARN AV iVL!Cii, IIV �,-bt,rnr. f}lrird a dr�tg'a . d • The Japanese parliament voted last week in favor of taking all available and effective measures to drive the "British influences" from East Asia . . . following which Britain announced the with- dra val of troops from the Shang- hai area; along with forces from northern China they were sent "elsewhere" (to Hong Kong and Singapore, presumably) . in London Chinese Ambassador Quo Tai-Chai received a sympathetic hearing when he asked for Bri- tish assistance in preventing com- plete penetration of French Indo- China by Japan (Britain fears that once Japan has a strong foothold in Indo-China she can- not be ousted from the French colony, but will instead expand her activities into Siam and pos- sibly into British Burma) . . U. S. Senate Split In the United States Senate de- bate continued on peacetime com- pulsory military training. That body was split on the question, and President Roosevelt's Admin- istration faced the hardest fight since the days of the Supreme Court contest ... The two major political parties were seen warm - nig up for the November elec- tion and clearing the decks for action; the broadcasting compan- ies were preparing to allow Wen- dell L. Willkie to "fireside -chat" as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt .. Disturbed by Japan's "Great- er East Asia" policy, the T.L. S. appeared during the week to be seeking friendlier relations with Soviet Russia, signing a new trade pact;—Moscow, on the other hand had some interesting things to say about the United States: that the U. S. is preparing to occupy the western hemisphere colonies of European nations as a prelude to armed intervention in the war, and that the war in Europe has actually increased A n g 1 o -American cross-purposes with the United States trying to exclude Britain as well as other competitors from South Ameri- can markets and England turn- ing toward compromise with Ja- pan 4400,000,000 Questions Back home in the Dominion, eight million Canadians were get- ting ready to answer four hun- dred million questions during na- tional registration week . members of the House of Com- mons were on holiday, but the Government, among other press- ing matters, was occupied with the problem of Western wheat growers forced by lack of elevat- or space to store on their farms the bulk of this year's harvest (a cash advance to farmers was be- ing considered) , . . Hon, C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply, declared that Canada's output of planes should reach 300 per month by the end of the year . . news came during the week that thousands more Bri- tish children seeking safety from the war zone might be e:.pected to arrive on o'ir shores in the next few months . . . Criticism of the Hepburn pro- gram to place boy students on farms and set back the date of school openings in Ontario to September 16 was so widespread that the provincial government agreed to allow decision on the matter to rest with each individ- ual hoard in the case of second- ary schools. See how the Navy, the Arunn,. the Air Force are being supported by the whole Dominion—industries. sciences, agrlconfture, w oinmen's work. A dramatisation of Canada at t4&'ar. Famed throughout the w+orlld is the bigGokiman Band from the United States. Playing each night from the modern *outdoor Band Shelli yoaa hear it without charge. OITPZ Direct from the San Francisco World''s Fair, end presented through the courtesy of inter- national Business Machines "Art of 7/0 Countries"—an fim- pressive contonrporary show. By GENE BY NES Dube Eli1ngton, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Sammy Kaye, Eddie Duchin, AH and Bob Harvey with their Canadian Coster Nand, head the Hist o7 big-time dance bands that will be featured in this year's vast., cool Dance Pavilion. Don';t ionise thorn A brilliant presentation of latest advances in the automotive in- dustry Including a preview of many 2041 modois. :fv Ono of the most brilliant and daring Morse Shows on the con- tinent. ib1!arayi special' features, harness and heater clauses. Sept. 2- 7th„ Women's War Wi Orlt dramaSeed in a lunge Pied Cross Exhitciit. Learn them hews you too calm help the national effort.