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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1941-12-04, Page 6VOICE OF THE PRESS COST TREMENDOUS If you have ever stood and look- ed at the two big bridges built in recent yeaa's at San Francisco, mei then gone en farther south and east to look at Bowdler Dam, You must have been struck by the tremendous cost of these strove tines hnilt for the use of man. Tae cost wss. tremendous, too, It totalled $278.000.000. Reit filet is S24,000.000 less than the RR (10,000,000 cost of the 98 -day peelfie Coast maritime strike in 1986 which resulted in practically tattling San Francisco out of busi- npa as a shirring port. Ro 'a*hen you are wondering how we are going to pay for some of the hire proiects on this continent, just remember that if peple will go to work the cost can soon be made up. —Lethbridge Herald. —v— WORLD'S WORST CHEATERS In Canadian sentiment, there Is no batred of the Japanese as a nation. There is opprobrium even now, and for a long time past. They are just little gangsters alongside their Hun friends and bullies. As a nation they are also the greatest *heaters this Earth bas ever been encumbered with. The story must be recalled at this writing, how they ordered waw'- e'hlns from a Scottish sbiuyard of world renown. How they got a first delivery and then cancelled the order, because they thought they had the blueprints of design. They had blueprints, and when they built their own . ships on what they got, those ships turn- ed turtle. It was certainly retri- bution for the oheaters, the am- ateue. imitators, which the Japs are known to be. —St. Catharines Standard. —v -- MILADY'S LOCKS MUST GO! Six thousand hatrdressers can't be wrong. And 6,000 of them in convention assembled recently in New York passed a decree which means that milady will have to see the beauty parlor she patron- izes Strewn with long clippings from her cherished tresses. She may have taken months to let her hair grow to the 'right length. She may have spent many. eimoleoas to have an expert give her just the right long hair -do covering her ears. But now the inexorable 6,000 have given this form of hair dressing its death warrant. They have heaped scorn upon this style. It Is "Hollywood shrub- bery." It Is "Iike wet spaniel ears." It gives a woman a "drippy look." No woman could brave those ep- ithets. The locks will have to go. —Timmins Daily Press. —v— CHEERS FOR CUCUJI1 It's a nuisance for many of use livery month we get one of those pesky bills for electric current. Al - moat makes a fellow want to move down to the balmy shores of Mexi- eo facing the big gulf. For we are reliably informed that electric light bills are totally unknown • down there. All the lucky folks have to do is go out in their gar- den and capture a handful of cu auji. Never heard of them? Well, they are a sort of greenish - black beetle that produces a phos- phorescent light. Put half a dozen of them in a little bamboo cage and they will give as much light as a 15 -watt electric -bulb. Ho, hum, let's turn out the cur evil beetles and go to sleep. —Kitchener Record. MINERS LEARN STRIKE IS OVER wemeteetteasemeeseeseassesee.a. Smiles greet the news as these miners learn from accepted President Roosevelt's plan for arbitration of work pending settlement. This scene, repeated all over Co. mine at Gary, W. Va. their newspai.r that the United Mine Workers the closed slop dispute and would go back to the east's eft Ifie1ds, is at U. S. Coal & Coke 6 OR THEIR SHIRTS Trouser cafe may be done away with in Italy as a "waste of good material." Italians will be lucky if they don't lose their pants. Kitchener Record. —v— RUMOR EXPLANATION Yapaneoe typewriters have 3,000 keys, which explains some of the conflicting rumors coming out of. the Land of the Rising 'Sun these days. Stratford Beacon -Herald. —v— AND SO ON This winter folk will plan to cave money next Summer — the same money they planned last stammer to save this winter. —Guelph Mercury. —v— NAPLES' FIFTH COLUMN The great Italian seaport and commercial city of Naples is in danger. The menace is a fifth column more damaging than any Italy's ally, Hitler, ever planted. Night after night it guides Bri- tish bombers to the city. With brazen openness it flaunts a light the questing British airmen can- not fail to see. Mussolini knows all about it. Hts firemen are helpless. They cannot put the light out. His sec- ret police are beaten by it. No handcuffs and shackles were over made that can curb it. Naples' fifth column Happens to be Mt. Vesuvius. —Guelph Mercury. —v--- A vA VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION No fewer than 23,000 farmer- ettes and young men put in a toter o4 ten million hours of work in Ontario this year harvesting the crops of farms and orcbiirds. They have made a valuable con- tribution to the country's war ef- fort and are deserving of the tri- butes paid to them. --Hamilton Spectator. Tempo of Business Bewildering Sneed Canadian production in 1941 nsay exceed the level reached in 1929 by as much as 40 percent., according to estimates of the Royal Bank of Canada released in the bank's November letter. Although 1940 production also 'surpassed the 1929 figure, it has increased so rapidly this year that £t is expected to advance far be- yond even the 1940 total, the bank said. The letter comment d that all business activity is pending with "bewildering speed," and the official index of the Physical volume of burn'ess dur- 3ng the iirstu ; averaged 12.6 percent. higher than in the corresponding period of 1940. Canada's manufacturing capa- city is now largely occupied with the production of war materials with one-half of all manufac- turing workers directly engaged A GOOD SIGN Britain is not claiming to hare won tiro Battle of the Atlantic; but it may be significant that United States Maxine insui•aace rates on British and Allied ship- ments ha.vo been reduced, -- -Owen Sound Sun -Times. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events 1 Rritain Sh> kgs ill South Africa: Roosevelt IVIovesihi. South America Great Britain has .launched he'?, greatest offensive of the war anis;.;' her tank are rolling across the k deserts of Italian Lybia. A secondee front—long and 'impatiently await,, ed—has been opened against the.:P, Axis. This 4s not a hurt ted at•i. tenrat to assist. Russia by estalise. Belling a second firont but rather a carefully weighed plan. It weer, designed (1) to relieve the Geri man military pressure , on Rtieaif by diverting Axis„ .:man '.po.wer ,ride material; (2) to erase the 41s, mena"ce" tie ,theSeeotton'aad wheat,l` resources oaf the Nile,.to. the Suet i Red Se,a waterway on which ei pire co ,pmuntcations in the Micldj Plast depei ( )f id, 3 • ; to protide bases, if • it . over -ran Libya,'i.for " an intensified attack--perhaPse an. *a - timate land invasion — against ,Italy, the weak tenant in the Axis' house; (4) to demonstrate a strength that might eve pause to the men of Vichy, '',10i .were aa moving toward closer collabora tiii' ^;,with Adolf Hitler, arynollabor doers: that threatened profoundly „a;the' aarenas of the Mediteg"ranean .-and the _ Atlantic. . The shock of battle •flared sud- denly and yet it hasebeen knout,' th,at the . Britisli:.and .Awl's py., r" ware gifting -Ter a deeisie tri• in Libya after' a military stMalemµtcf that has • wasted" for six months The Libyan battlefield `was des .:•eribed al a vast triangle': enclosing - more than 2,000 square miles`, with its .base as 00 -mile line south front° Barna) -'s on the:Mediteranean+' GOOD OMEN FOR THE ARMY coast, to Maddalena and its apex at besieged Tobruk, go miles west of Bardia., A yeas ago Egypt and the Suez had been .in peril, 'says the New York Times.` Premier Mussolini's legions motored alone the coastal highway built for a trousand miles from Tripoli to the Egyptian bor- der. Perhaps_ a quarter of a million mien' marched toward the land of tlae Pharaohs. ' Outnumbered Bri- tt h ' forces retired,' stalled the Italian drive in the desert. 'eSeThe Italians, despite: 'their num- erical array and their confidence raethey .brought marble monuments along to celebrate anticipated triumphs—showed signs of weak- ness. In December, the ;Army of ,the Nile led by General Sir Archi-,, Bald Wavell, probed the Uiascist- flee in a tentative surprise assault. ItE,sistance crumbled, an d the British ` commander, in a sweep "ranking as one of the war's most rbriliiant, raced across Cyrenaica, L'ibya's eastern province, to Ben- ezi, some 400 miles from the anoint of attack. All Libya might shave fallen, save for two factors; (1) the Army of the Nile was de- ieted In order to reinforce the rriaek Balkanfront for ,an impell „�_ ' erman thrust, (2')`• the 'Ital ns asi;9 were stiffened by German armored forces hurriedly sent through Italy and across the Med Great things are in store for men in the Canadian Ariny in only a few weeks. The women in this picture are only two of many re emits in the C.W.A.C. They are taking the Canadian 'Woltz - Army Corps cooking course at the Central Technical School, TorontoasJ• At the conclusion of their course their jobs will be to feed the fighting )nen. Recruit Rhea Truckel, RIGHT, is giving; Recruit May Kullick a taste of her product. Both women are from Hamilton._ .._..mow .a..«.. ONIMIIMPAMSM... 1.1,7}11.0.11 iteera.nean, to Libya, achieve preponderance t3ie Ger- mans might win. The British depended in• part on supplies from the United States arsenal—Particularly tanks and Planes—and from India. Their sea lines were tremendously long, but: from the Red Sea ports, whore the freighters unloaded, the land lines veers comparatively short, well organized and protected. It was believed that last week. the British had several hundred thous- and men available—drawn from all corners of the empire—and an air force exceeding that defending the home isles in 1940's Battle of Britain. Pressure on Vichy Vichy is being pressed into The Germans once • Geneiad` Iorwin Rommel, Panzer ,expert. afd veteran desert aseelee. took full,, advantage of the '; ekeletonized;:,r British.' The Army of the, Tl ltieafari,', rolled back from Bengazi tora'lfvl?t 3n shorter time than it li.fii3: . lanced.' Only at Tohril t tlie, bat- terecl; port 80 miles e o'Libyas eastern frontier, did a garrison of empire toops bold old ° Like the -earlier Italian drive the German Rush carie to a hala,in Western Egypt at the end °eat -.precariously long line. of corntnunications. Months of`StaleMete closes, collaboration with Germany, General Wegand, commander of the French Africa forces, has been retired "at the express demand of Hitler." Although disliking the British, Wegand has always slated the Nazis. With him out of the way, Vichy may be preparing to bow to the following German demands: (1) Use of the. French fleet, still the strongest in the Mecliterran- eon after Britain's, to convoy Axis supplies to North Africa; (2) use of bases and transit faoilities in French Tunisia, Algeria and Mor- occo for Axis troops and material; (3) a pledge by Vichy to protect its African Atlantic bases from a possible "attack" by Britain or the United States. From now on, unless evidence is forthcoming to the contrary, France must be looked upon as a potential, if not yet an open and active, partner of Germany. Her fleet and her great naval and air bases in Africa may at any moment be placed at the disposal of the Nazis. But until Bizerte, Casa- blanca and Dakar are taken over by the Axis there will remain ground for hope that this second surrendered of France may not prove such a catastrophe for the democratic cause es her first one. That Is why the British offensive in Libya is of such great import- ance, not only to Britain but to the United States. British Morale A quotation from "Mehl Kampf," printed on placards in big black letters, appears everywhere in the Middle East and India, from the bomb -shaken dugouts of To- bruk, through the crowded hotel 4ldbbies of Cairo to Baghdad bar- racks and the bazaars of Teheran. The Fuehrer's comment on British morale reads: "The spirit of the British nation 'enables it to carry through to vic- tory any struggle it once enters upon no matter how long the strug- gle may last or however great the sacrifice that may be necessary or whatever the means which have to be employed; and all this Weigh the actual .,equipment at hand may be utterly inadequate when compared with that of any other nation." President Roosevelt Acts President Roosevelt has beaten Hitler to the draw again, says the :::Windsor Daily Star. This time From late Spring ttuntil'last week Axis and, empire. armies faced each other''in al—aim/late. Those months embraced the season of almost unbearable heat and arid- ity, of fierce windstorms, in the sand and limestone wastes of Libya. 'Military operations on a latge acele •were risky. Both sides used the ,period to build up re• serves for a future test. 'Phe Axis hacl the advantage of shorter supply lines from their arsenal in Europe, the disa.dvan tag* of beteg exposed to British naval and °aerial power in the Mediterranean. The Royal NavY find the R.A.F. roundel at the overseas line from Naples to Tri• poli, chief unloading port in Libya, Hundreds of thousands of tons of Axis shipping sank beneath the inland sea: with the vessels went men, equipment, foodstuffs, planes. tanks, oil. Nevertheless, enough Axis, Shipping got thro.it h to make it .. appear that in the race to REG'L.AR FELLERS—A Big Loss MY MOM IS ON A sic MY AUNT WAS b434, DIET ALJ' SHE LOST t, Di' (*CET AN' LOST TWO POUNS : NINE POUN'S ! ii ai'i, / the American troops are to oec1.w..r Dutch Guiana. The action is ask great a blow to Hitler in the Soutle Atlantic as the American 000* pation .of Iceland was In the North Atlantic, There are British, Dutch and French Guiana all side by aide off, the edge of Brazil and farm Dakar in Africa, The Nazis ba an eye on French Guiana with et view to gaining a foothold there. But with the A•merieans toe:Tama, ing with the Duch to protect Dutch Guiana from aegee•sslon, Hitler's plan is forestalled. There are bauxite mines in Dutch Guiana, The mineeal t needed to assure a supply of alu. minuni for war production in the United States, Airplanes eat up tons of aluminum and the metal is retiuired for other war purposes. It is not only the bauxite that needs the guardianship of the United States, It is the teritory itself. It the Nazis had made thrust across the South Atlantid from Dakar, which is the French base on the bulge on the Atlantle coast of Africa, it would have meant a German threat not onlek to Dutch Guiana, but also to Brlp tisb and French Guiana, as welt as Brazil And it would havt brought distance the of Nazis within st the Panama Canal, Aid To Greece Left Urctali Gen. Sir Archibald Waveil, coma mander-in-chief in India, hail shouldered responsibility for thai British setback last spring to Libya by acknowledging that the Germans counter -attacked a Least a month earlier than he iia expected. Gen. Wavrell, who was eomo, manner -in -chief in the Middle East at the time of the Libyan eamp paign and has since exchanged positions with Gen. Sir Clauda Auchinleck, reviewed the African operations in a council of data here. He said that after an appeal from the Greek government which was under attack by botlti Germany and Italy, practically all the trained and equipped troops in the Middle East were ordered to Greece. "Our conquests in Cyrenaica were left to be held by a garri- son of partly -trained and partly equipped troops," he said, "t made a miscalculation there. "I did not expect the enemy to counter-attack before the oi'i3 of April at the earliest — by whic li time I had hoped to have back at least part of a seasoned Indian division from Italian West Africa and to have completed the equip- ment of troops left in Cyrenaica which consisted of a British ar• moved brigade, an Australian dt. vision and an Indian motor gade. "All these were short of equip- ment, transport and training. Un77 fortunately, the enemy attacked' at least a month before I had ex- pected it to be possible." LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neter 41-•'r�u.,.... P: : 6...• we [levet. iluu�.-....�.w...owN we Fe kia.k "I m resigning, Chief. This suspense; waiting for 11.1 WC 'le getting me down! !" MY BIG SISTER WAS ON A DIET ONCET ANS LOST A I4UNERD'N'EIGHTY- SEVEN POUN'S! GWAN . SBALONEY By GENE BYRNES SHE DiD SO, TOO' SHE LOST HER BOY FRENS NAMED. ELMER! 0-35. All rfgM, Mgerved .,110.1,,