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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-09-19, Page 2ISaving Ontario's Natural Resources No. 8 (By G. C. Toner) BACKING THE PROJECT Conservation of our wild life ldepends on the maintenance of the soil and the waters. Destruc- tion of either one should not be permitted and where this has oc••• curved in the past means should be taken to restore conditions *a soon as possible. Luther swamp #s of vital concern to everyone in southwestern Ontario. We can all help in the work of conserva- tion by backing the project for the restoration of this area to its original condition. The Ontario Federation of Anglers is vitally interested in This whole project which we told you about in our column of last week A committee appointed under the chairmanship of Dr. N. C. Douglas, Owen Sound, re- cently inspected the swamp and the drainage ditches. This com- mittee reports that the construc- tion of an eight foot dam across the • Black river would restore the water levels of the swamp. Education Under Nazis Declines Girls Are No Longer Allowed Higher Education In Czeeho- Stovakia—In More Recently Occupied Lands, Sehoot-Life Is Disrupted Doeumentary files kept in Paris before the French.surrender show- ed that in the first year of German occupation in Czecho-Slovakia 60,- 000 Czech and 40,000 Moravian and Slovak youths, many of them uni- versity students of medicine, law and philosophy, were sent into Ger- many to work on the land. Thous - sada of others left their schools to escape to France and then to Eng- land. Some of them, at 17 years be- came air pilots to fight against Ger- many. GIRLS RESTRICTED Girls no longer are allowed high- er education in Czecho-Slovakia. In a country which had 80 women members of parliament, 1,500 wo- men doctorsseveral women and senators, in which girls might even 'become judges and ambassadors, girls may no longer attend high school. So too in Poland where the great university of Cracow, one of the oldest in the world, functions only en part. Of its professors some 160 were put in concentration camps and the student body was scatter- ed. Armies of them till the soil at Nazi bidding. In Hex .ur.•f, Belgium, Denmark and have been de - systems dis- rr :,$i. i_:.- -,?.a'.'ete7s ...-_ve_ into es- t=. . r:.- . t : tee! '.enetch:»::.-L the einielpt,7.+e tad have 'men en:i;,-tet vacs d+, ease.... :f ezz etnr:'3 L'E'.:i L.iil ... 'ne '"'. iza. :'oa'ni .n1 111:`T":uw. :Waxer :if .;=-e :eiu zator •• t: . =a i * : v= :-7 for nun.- rr' `ai14?7 11Aul' wtr't n. '•8<3 .. r...-• °.. X11►ti rtt ttevo.••.t?' ",3: 'rt^:C+:., ". Inc ::a.. a new 'headquarters for the Boy Scouts Association of Wa_sacs, Poland, completed shortly befcre the German invas- ion, is now occupied as a head- quarters by the infamous Ger- man Gesnapo. * :z As in Canada, Great Britain and elsewhere throughout the Empire, the Boy Scouts of India are busy at many kinds of war- time service. Patrols of Bombay Scouts are attached to air raid posts throughout the city, and a further 100 Scout cyclists are constantly standing by for any emergency calls for messengers. * * * The Boy Scout woodcraft cook- ing competition held at the Can- adian National Exhibition, and open to Scout Troops throughout the province, was won by a pa- trol of the 14th Toronto Troop. Second place went to the lst Huntsville Troop, followed in or- der by three Toronto Troops, the 26th, 68th and 06th. The cook- ing was judged by the head chefs from the Royal York Hotel and Eaton's Georgian Room and the incidental woodcraft features by Scout Field Secretaries A. E. Paddon and Herbert Greenway. The young outdoor chefs were required to prepare a camp meal for six persons the menu com- prising broiled beefsteak, boiled potatoes, a fresh vegetable, stewed fresh fruit and coffee. Fireplaces ' were to be built of logs or stones, and various camp kitchen gadgets used at Scout camps were permitted, It is plan- ned to make the competition an annual event. FORTY.ONE PILOTS RECEIVE WINGS AT CAMP BORDEN CEREMONY ;ti`oi•iieeee:eie94. elei ;.r , :,te ii. The annual sports day of No. 1 Service Flying Training School at Camp Borden was climaxed by the presentation of wings to 41 gradu- ates of the intermediate training squadron. The graduating. class is sh own, UPPER RIGHT, and a general view of the presentation scene is shown, LOWER RIGHT. C. L. T. Swale, of Edmonton, is pictured, LE FT, as Group Captain A. T. N, Cowley, 0.C. of the training school, pinned the coveted wings on his breast - THE WAR -WEE K ---Commentary on Current Events "Come All Against Her, England Yet Shall Stand" The final death struggle be- tween Britain and Germany ap- peared last week to have begun. The German Air Force was throwing its colossal strength into an "all-out" attack against the British Isles, with three main objectives: the destruction of the fighting power of the Royal Air Force; paralysis of Britain's sup- ply system by sea and by land; the shattering of civilian nerves, the breaking of the people's mor- ale in the face of an imminent invasion. Great Britain, shuddering through the most soul-destroying experience in her history, held on grimly with three -fold hope: that the blockade :against Ger- ' many would soon become serious enough to cripple the Nazi war machine; that the relentless at - teaks of the R.A.F. could disrupt German industrial and commer- cial life, ward off an invasion; that the Nazi air effort would exhaust itself before British en- durance came to an end. A "50-50 Chance" In Berlin, high-ranking Nazis declared that new waves of Ger- man bombers flying against Lon- don would carry out remorseless and incessant warfare until (ac- cording to a United Press dis- patch), "the smoking ruins of in- dustrial and military objectives, decimation of the British Air Force and shattered morale of the British people bring into rower a government that will se - reps German terms." The teras were regarded as uncondition 1 .capitulation. %. S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox last week gave Bele iz, a "better than 50-50 Chan' e`° ere hold out. He declared that tlee ex- istence of the British fleet c, fehed up the German navy and that :he Nazis had been unable to estai,:.sh. sufficient air supremacy to maks; surface invasion of England foas- ible . . Lieutenant -General Sir Ronald Adam, General Officer Com- manding the Northern Command in Great Britain, told the people that the next fifteen days would show them "what is to happen" with re- gard to a Nazi invasion. It the R, A. P. could retain mastery of the air until September 21, he intim- ated, Britons could then prepare for a great offensive against Germ- any.... Meantime the world knew that enormous help would be com- ing to Britain from the United States In the form of planes, am- munition and other war material. Our 1=x -Allies Three important leaders of old France were arrested during the week, former Premiers Edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, and the former Commander of the Al- lied Forces, Gen. Marie -Gustave. Gamelin. Their detention was or- dered under authority olf a decree law drawn up by' Daladier him- self when war broke out September 3, 1939, providing for internment of persons considered dangerous to the national defence and public security ... Word -ame from Vichy that a new Cabinet had been form- ed under Marshal Petain, It includ- ed Pierre Laval as vice -premier and General Charles Euntzinger as the new minister of war. Marshal Petain took over the office of chief of state and Gen. Maxims Wegand was designated to go to North Af- rica in charge of all political and military matters. Armed Peace In Balkans Out of the spotlight for the time being, the Balkans were neverthe- less still seething. King Carol, ac- companied by his sweetheart Ma- dame Lupescu and riding in a bul- let -pocked train, had escaped into exile, leaving his country in a state of turmoil. The Rumanian masses, under the heel of Antonescu's itary dictatorship, were already in a state of near -revolt, while relig- ious persecution campaigts corn- ered thousands of hapless individ- uals ... German troops moved up to police the Rumanian border with the Soviet Union -- a United Press dispatch estimated that 1,000,000 German soldiers faced -the Red Army along a line from Norway to the Black Sea , .. A military move against Yugoslavia appeared in the offing --- the magazine "Newsweek" Voted from highly -placed diplo- matic sources that the Axis has pre;,are d complete plans for.: sud- den occupation by Italian troops t;4 the Dalmatian coast; 2, simul- taneous German move across the r:roatian border; and overthrow of Pritee Paul's regency, establishing in its plane a puppet Axis govern- 1Ti-rt... Brewing In The Mediterranean Italy was defin ely up to some- thing big in the Mediterranean bas- in meanwhile — either the long- threatened drive against the Suez Canal; or an early attempt to oc- cupy French -mandated Syria. As- soeiated Press correspondent Ed- ward E. Bomar expressed the opin- ion that in view of Italy's limited resources in oil and other muni- tions, the restlessness of the It- alian public, something more de- cisive than the odd air raid on British bases or convoys was on the books . . , Ready to deal with any new action in the war's south- ern theatre, Britain was busy re- inforcing her Near Bast fighting forces with thousands •of troops landed in Egypt, to be despatched immediately to fronts "somewhere in the Middle East." $3,861,053,312 Contract In Washington last week the United States placed orders for 201 warships involving an outlay of $3,861,053,312 — the largest defence contract ever let in American his- tory, The order followed a few hours after President Roosevelt's signature of the $5,251,000,000 de- fense appropriation bill at Hyde Park. The United States' gigantic preparedness program was moving ahead, U. S. After World Supremacy Commenting on domestic affairs, the U. S, columnist, Raymond Clap- per, wrote last week: "Our role is to seize world naval and air sup- remacy , .. Our role is to be hard- headed and shrewd and to play with cold calculation for the stakes that are within our grasp , .. Our role is to assist the British to hold out so that they can preserve their sea power . We must solidify the western hemisphere." . . Birdmen From Canada At home in Canada, the deputy - minister of defence for air, James S. Duncan, announced that thous- ands of fighting pilots, air gunners and observers trained in Canada would "soon" start streaming to- ward England to fight with the R, A. F. "Our task," he said, "is to provide the United Kingdom with an ever-increasing flow of air crews, whose arrival overseas is to coincide with ever-increasing supply of aircraft from British and American sources." . . The Canadian -American joint de- fense board sat in Washington dis- cussing air and navel bases, stra- tegic highways, military supplies for Canada. As a result of its de- cision, it was expected (as one Can- adian writer expressed it) that "Be- fore long the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes will fly together over Canadian strongholds on At- lantic and Pacific coast ... Before long Canadian pilots will fly over American soil and American pilots over Canadian soil." . 534,000,000 Bushels It the war had not been going on, the bumper crop in the Canad- ian West (more buniper even than last year) would have been head- line news every dty of the week . and the problem of what to do with 534,000,000 bushels of 1940 wheat would have occupied the main field of attention ... Never- theless the government was busy on a plan whereby cash might be advanced to farmers for the wheat they must keep at home -- there would be no room to store it in the elevators. Lives in a Fish Probably the only person in the world to own a private sub- marine is Mr. Barney Connett, of Chicago, who has a home-made affair which resembles a huge fish, complete with mouth, eye fins, tail, 'and scales. It is 11 ft. long, 37 ins. high, and 23 ins. REQ'LA.R FELLERS — The Cloak Room 1 at the widest point. The interior is fitted with submarine equip- ment, blowers, oxygen apparatus, air pump, respirator, and storage batteries. Already Mr. Connett has made 300 trips in his queer fish, and has travelled as far as fourteen miles under water in a single journey. As his periscope is only four feet long, he usually runs at' a depth of three feet below the waves, but he has been down to thirty. Aluminum Goes Into Aircraft Rationed For Dominion Now —Being Diverted From Cook- ing Utensils to Plane Manu- facture The most ruthless rationing Can• adians encounter in this war has just been initiated in the case of aluminium, says a story in the Toronto Globe and Mail. It will be gradual in some cases, abrupt in others, depending on the time in- dustry takes to complete articles now in process of manufacture. Aluminum cooking utensils are on the prohibited list and as soon as present factory production is completed not another aluminum dish will be made in Canada until airDlain reeuirements are filled. During the last session of Parlia- ment Munitions Minister C. D. Howe forecast the restrictions, but the present rationing system has been put into effect with the full VOICE OF THE PRESS THE RIGHT WORD FOR IT We scarcely know what to make of the situation between Italy and Greece, but the Greeks likely have a word for it. —Kingston Whig -Standard. NOT ALL PLEASURE Hitler and.. the headaches of his new Europe bring to mind the widow who was having so much trouble with the estate she almost wished her husband hadn't died. —Winnipeg Tribune. EMPHASIS ON "DO" That quaint and friendly ex- pression of the West, "pleased to meet you," has almost disap- peared. It was a stereotyped, if Sometimes insineere greeting, and has been replaced by the old time formala, "how do you do," which is more e:an.ventiona.l and. which commits its usez t: noth- ing. —Victoria Daily r'olonist A CITIZEN'S PRIVILEGE Ottawa would do well to en- courage the expression of in- formed criticism,, even when this is directed at military measures, provided it is not helpful to the enemy. This is not the Government's private war. It is the people's war. They are going to pay for it — in life, in health and in treasure. They have a right to be curious about policies adopted and steps taken, They have a right to make suggestions and of- fer constructive eriticisnt. That is the privilege of citi,erahip in a democracy. —Edrnonton Journal co-operation of the industry with- out a public announeement. There is just about euou.gil aI- uninitm used in cooking utensils every year in Canada to make a thousand airplane". • CANADA TOP ALUMINUM PRODUCER Canada produces more aluminum per capita than any other coun- try in the world and is climbing rapidly toward the top in total pro- duction. British plane factories are relying more and more on Canad- ian aluminum and action to control its use in non-essential products has been taken in time to keep pace with the needs, officials say. Canadian National Railways Revenues The gross revenues of the all- inclusive Canadian National Rail- ways System for the week ending September 7, 1940, were $4,696,182 as compared Witt 4,1,65,511 for the corresponding period of 1939, an in- crease of ....... . .... . $ 530,671 or 12,7% LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher `—And stay out until 1 get my housecleaning done ! !" 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