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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1941-10-16, Page 2VOICE OF THE PRESS ONLY PARTLY TRUE Miss Dorothy Thompson has glen the American people some- thing' to think about in her state- ment that only the United States can defeat Britain, for "If we Iet England down, we shall break her heart, and that alone could break her spirit." It is, however, true only in part. Miss Thomp- son recognizes the contribution the United States must make if victory is to be won, but she under -estimates the resiliency of the British heart. Undoubtedly, it would be a se- vere blow to Britain's hopes if the promised supply of "tools" failed to materialize. It would be more bitter even than Brit- ain's experiences in the field last year, when the allies on her flanks virtually threw down their ;arms and left the B.E.F. in a trap. It would be harder to take than the defection of France, an lolly turned enemy. But it would not break Britain. When Prime Minister Churchill declared that "We shall go on to the end, alone if necessary," and "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be," he was the voice of the British people. This voice and the spirit behind it have not lost their de- termination. Might can over- power Britain; no emotional re- aetion can beat her to her knees. —Windsor Daily Star. -0- NOT LEARNING ENGLISH With all this drive to have all Oanadians learn to speak French, it would be a splendid idea to have all Canadians also learn to speak English. That phase of the bi-lingual problem is being overlooked in the enthusiasm to teach French to everyone. We were amazed at the num- ber of people we met in New Brunswick and Quebec who could not speak English. Grown-ups could speak only French. We wondered what people not hav- ing some knowledge of French would do in those communities. Many English-speaking Cana- dians are anxious to learn French, and we believe French- epeaking Canadians should also be encouraged to learn English. —Windsor Daily Star. — 0— CANADIAN RICE Our correspondent at Trent River tells of a typical Indian en- campment on SIaughter Island where four tents are pitched for those who are taking off the an - mei crop of rice. The Indians :will go in a canoe, and paddle into the rice beds. There they bend the tops over the canoe and with a stick beat out the rice from the tops. Primitive perhaps, but a very direct way of saving the rice. The Indian perhaps could show his white brother sev- eral things when it conies to pro- viding something on which to sustain life without going to the store and paying for it. —Peterborough Examiner. — o— WHEAT GERM We were told the other day, as a piece of inspired news, that the reason the millers take out so much of the wheat germs from white flour is that "too much would be harmful." Gracious me! As though our ancestors, the pioneers in this country, weren't twice as hardy as we are and got all the wheat germ there was in £h old grist mill process! —Elora Express. —o— NO PULL IN AIR FORCE Doesn't look as though there was much pull or influence used }:a our R.C.A.F. when Air Mar- *hal Bishop's son goes through manning depot with the rating of AC2, which means in army language just a buck private. —Peterborough Examiner. —o— MAGGIE AND JIGGS Make of this what you will: M the Salina (Kansas) fair, a lady won a rolling pin throwing Contest, and in a later event her husband won first prize in the 100 -yard dash. —Brantford Expositor. --o— ADD UNUSUAL PROFESSIONS The new woman, says one of the same, is equally at home in business, in sport and in govern - anent. A few of the truly ver- satile are at home at home. —Winnipeg Tribune. —0— NAVY FOR HAY FEVER Suffer from hay fever? Then"' join the navy. There is no hay fever on the Atlantic. --Kitchener Record. A parr of shells of the Aus- tralian giant clam, used as holy water fonts of St. Sulpice, Paris, weigh 500 lbs. SCHOOLGIRL IN TRAINING London school girls are now being recruited as trainees' for the services, the arms factories and nursing. The new organization eligible for girls of 14 to 18, will be called the Girls' Training Corps, and Is under auspices of Mechanized Training Corps. Above, Miss • ;oy Yielder wears the uniform of the new Corps. The "V" badge on the hat stands for the fifth group of the Corps. THE WAR - WEEK — Commentary on Current Events Across Nazi - Co , quered Eur ,.: pe The Tide of ; evolt is Spreading "In two years of war," says Fred- erick T. Birchall, "Germany has conquered and is aecupyifg nine European countries: Poland, Nor- way, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Ozecho-iSiovakia, Yugosla- via and Greece." Of the nine, Denmark and Czecho-Sloakia, did not resist in - salon. Denmark had an open fron- tier and no army; Czeeho-Slova- kia's defenses had already been sold out and her partition begun at Munich. France is actually oc- cupied only in part but a German dominated government at Vichy bolds down the rest. So the gen- general statement stands. Nazism further dominates and controls five more countries: Aus- tria, already incorporated in the Reich; Italy, the fascist ally whose independence has become a mere myth; Hungary, which half-heart- edly tails along with the conquer- Bulgaria and Rumania which have been literally forced into partnership, Together the fifteen countries cover an area approximating 750,- 000 square miles containing rough- ly, 150,000,000. They constitute a vast German prison camp of which Hitler is chief jailer. It is the greatest prison camp of all time. Torrent of Unrest In every part of this vast domain is now rising a tide o unrest and disaffection expresed not merely in passive resistance but in active sabotage of the Ger an war plans —strikes, fires in warehouses, ex- plosions in factories, severance of communications, derailment of trains and attacks on German sol- diers and German outposts. Hit- ler's involvement in Russia, entail- ing some weakening of the forces of occupation elsewhere, has pro- vided the opportunity and the in- centive. The defeated have been swift to take advantage: of jt '711,1 The German conquerors : are meeting with a corresponding wave of terrorism and regression. Arrests by the hundreds, 'execu- tions by the score are takingplace wherever the population shows signs of recalcitrancy. Jails and concentration camps are filled to overflowing and emergency tribe- nals meet daily to pass new••.en- tences, yet the sabotage and resist,..; ante continue. Dread of Winter Alongside this situation doubtless responsible in part fol its spread looms a veritably terri- fying prospect of penury and`star- vatton for the subject popula'tienn`6 ; this Winter. Every country doirii-- nated by the German armies b s been looted of its reserves of„d'o mestic supplies to meet German needs. Every country is on strict rations and the rations grow slim- mer as German demands increase. - Another terror threatens as Win--sk; ter approaches. The epidemic dis- eases which are the product ,.of insufficient food and warmth menace the ill -fed and ill -clad cdn- quered peoples. Typhus is one of these diseases. It killed off 12,000,- 000 2,000;000 Russians and one-sixth of the Rumanian population in the last war. Tuberculosis, another prod- uct o3 malnutrition, is on the in- crease and there has been a steady rise in infant mortality throughout Europe. Unrest In Italy The Italians are said to be liv- ing in fear—fear of the Germans;, tear of British air raids; fear of., American intervention and fear of the coining Winter. New string- ent curbs have been placed on food, clothing, metal articles and coal. About 7 ounces•of bread is the daily portion of each Italian. There is a shortage of milk, pota- toes, eggs and cheese, Meat has practically vanished from the mar- ket. Neat (owing to lack of coal once imported from Britain), it was ordered, could only be turned on for forty days this Winter; last year it was permitted for 120 days. Some coal comes from Germany, but it all goes to war industries. Italy's natural insufficiency, the British blockade, the drain of the African campaigns, the failure of Germany to send in promised sup- plies—plus dislike for the Nazis and the lengthening war—were said to be causing serious inter- nal dissatisfaction. Churchill's Warning Mr, Churchill, in his recent speech, warned, that while the enemy was suffering from a very serious shortage in air power, "for the rest he retains the initiative. He has the divisions, the weapons and ample means of transportation in Europe .... and we have not the force to take it from him.” Again the warning note sounds when he says: "But to enaible Rus- sia to remain indefinitely in the field as a war -making Power, sac- rifices of the most serious and ex- treme kind will be necessary by the British people, while enormous conversions of plants will be nec- essary iu the United States-" In his reference to the war on the Atlantic, Mr. Churchill pro- vide•d some reason for optimism. Britain's shipping losses have been cut two-thirds in the past three months, while "the slaughter of Axis shipping is one and one-half times that of the previous months and is increasing by leaps and bounds." There is no despairing word in Mr. Churchill's war review, neither is• there any complacency. There 'is no hint of collapsing German morale or diminishing Nazi sup- plies. The war has still to be won by harder fighting and heavier sacrifices than ever the people of Britain have experienced. avrg Ontario's Natural esources G. C. Toner '{(Ontario Federation of Angiers and Hunters) No. 59 WILD DUCK GROUPS The wild ducks found on this continent are divided into a num- ber of, groups that we shall take in order.: The first group is the surface feeding ducks and the Ontario species' of the group are Vine -winged teal, gred'fi-winged teal, mallard, black duck, bald- -pates wood duck, pintail, gadwall, shoveller and European widgeon. The next group contains the div- ,ing ducks and includes the ring- necked cluck, lesser scaup, greater scaup, redhead, canvassback, gol- den -eye, bufflehead, old squaw, three kinds of eiders, three kinds of scoters and the harlequin duck. The ruddy duck is placed :in `.a group by itself. The final group contains the mergansers and consists of three species. The surface feeding ducks are for the most part northern breed- ing birds and appear in our wat- els as migrants. They might well be called dabblers or tip -ups . :kor they feed along the shore :'either dabbling in the water, or • with upturned tail and head un- 'mersed, probing the bottom. They dive but little and when under; water are said to use both feet and wings. They feed upon snails;, crawfish, insects, and roots of aquatic plants. The "gutters" on the sides of their bills act as strainers, and, after probkrig the bottom, the mere act of ,vglosing their bill forces out the mud and water taken in with the,r•,food. This group are good sporting birds,, They are not often found in large flocks, and our waters, seldom exceed fifty birds to the flock. They decoy readily and when surprised spring from the water with a bound, and on whistling wing are soon beyond the wildfowler's reach, Next week I hope to write more about this group. Trumpeter swans are the larg- est migratory waterfowl in North America. w'e'en Party Hermits And eider Hallowe'en parties are always sueh fun that nobody cares a hoot what they have to eat. Simplest stunt is to lay in a stock of apples and nuts and old-fashioned pointy candies with mottoes on them. Then bake a batch of hermits and serve them with ice cold cider. The hermit recipe which follows is simple -- just make sure you have plenty of them, HALLOWE'EN HERMITS 1/3 cup butter 2/3 cup sugar 1 egg 3 tablespoons milk 1/2 cup All -Bran 1 3/4 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cloves 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon mace 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/3 cup chopped seeded raisins Blend butter and sugar thorough- ly; add egg and beat well. Stir in milk and All -Bran, Sift flour, bak• ing powder, salt and spices; add to first mixture with raisins; mix well. Chill. Roll dough to about one-eighth inch thickness; cut and bake on greased baking sheet in moderately hot oven (400'F.) about 12 minutes. When cookies are cool, frost with orange colored confectioner's sugar frosting, with raisins for pumpkin -face. Yield:.2 dozen cookies (2 inches in diameter). Another illionn s Ounds For War The House of Commons re- cently voted a new war credit of £1,000,000,000 — $4,450,000,- 000—asked by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, to meet the rising costs of the war. British war expenditures now are running to £11,000,000 ($48,- • 950,000) a day, the chancellor said. The current expenditures are more than 50 per cent higher than during the peak of the First Great War, when they ran £7,- 500,000 a day. Nazis Building Atlantic "Queen". An ocean liner to be named the Vaterland is being construct- ed by Germany to compete for the ` Atlantic blue ribbon once peace comes, according to Erich Glodachey, naval expert of Hit- ler's newspaper Voelkischer Beo- bachter. A ship of the same name fell into American hands in the First Great War and was renamed the Leviathan. Across The Ocean Inober Plane It Isn't Much Fun But You Will Get There In A Hurry R. K, Carnegie, staff writer of the Canadian Press, does not rec- ommend flying across the Atlantic in a bomber as a pleasure trip. Their chief claim for consideration is that "they will get you across the Atlantic in a terrific hurry." Before the passenger gets on he has to sign a paper, the meaning of which is that if anything goes wrong the passenger has no way of obtaining redress. That is not unusual as reporters have often had to , sign similar papers when going into places where they might get hurt. On ocean lines they will not sell gum in the tuck shops because they do not wish it to .be parkod after- ward beneath chairs and so on. The person going on a bomber is advised to chew it, and to use ear plugs or other material to plug the ears against the roaring of four huge motors. There is also the in- struction to move about as little as possible as there is not much space. Some of the beds are set up high so that those who have to move about can crawl under, and Mr. Carnegie says if a passenger has not crawled for some time he will soon begin doing it on a bomber. Then it is necessary to have a flying suit with a parka on the top which comes over the head. It is a warm and well -stuffed thing, and it is needed because the air is like- ly to be just around the freezing point, and there are no radiators on which one can sit and there is no stove against which one can prop the feet for warmth. Elsewhere there are mattresses on the floor for those who wish to sleep—or try to sleep. Mr. Car- negie says on one trip seven crawl- ing passengers took two trips a- piece over him during the night. No one talks because it would not be possible to hear on account of the roar of the motors. One merely lies on the matress and waits for the end of the trip. But it gets you there in a hurry, and it brings you back the same wa;'. —Peterborough Examiner. Britain Will Get Gangsters' Guns A murderous collection of guns that figured in some of the na- tion's -most sensational -gangster massacres and penthouse murders soon will be shipped to Great Bri- tain for the civilian defence forc- es. About 500 weapons, varying from sawed-off shotguns to sub -machine guns that chattered out death for some big shot criminals, have been collected by the Treasury procure- ment division and will be sent to Britain as part of a Lend-lease shipment. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher ,''.',:''.v"eseete.'''"'�'- 'e;."":'rte:'= _•..'3'. 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