Zurich Herald, 1947-06-05, Page 6Military Survey
Shows Wrld's
Troubled Spots
Nearly two years after NU -Day,
almost 19,000,000 men are under
antis throughout the world and
about 40 nations are spending at
least $27,400,000,000 a year on arma-
ments, it has been revealed by Han-
son W. Baldwin, military expert of
the New York Times, as the result
of a world military survey conducted
by that newspaper.
The survey reminds us that in this
second year of "peace," three large-
scale colonial or civil wars, involving
millions of men, are raging in the
world, and at least 2,000,000 troops
are occupying or garrisoning terri-
tory outside their own national
borders, says the Sault Daily Star.
Civil War in China
The great civil war in China in-
volves 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 men on
the Nationalist side and 1,000,Q00 to
1,500,000 on a Communist side, in
addition to millions of civilians
caught up in the bitter strife, Gen.
Baldwin estimates, And as an un-
happy corollary, it is estimated that
80 per cent of impoverished China's
national budget is devoted to the
military—a percentage far exceeding
that of any other nation in the world.
In Indo-China, the Viet Nam has
a force of about 100,000 in the field
—chiefly of guerilla nature, but with
some artillery and backed by perhaps
1,000,000 irregulars and a "Self De-
fense Corps." Seeking to crush the
Viet Namese are 90,000 to 110,000
French troops, Small French forces
in Madagascar also are struggling
against the guerilla attacks of island
insurgents.
In the Netherlands Indies 100,000
men of the Indonesian Republican
Government's army, backed up by
perhaps 250,000 native guerillas and
irregulars, oppose something over.
100,000 troops of the Netherlands
army,
Other Troubled Spots
The survey lists other troubled
° spots, Several regiments of troops
are involved in a revolution in Para-
guay. In India 87,000 British troops
plus perhaps 1,000,000 men of the
Indian Army—the latter rapidly be-
ing demobilized—are attempting to
keep order. Palestine is garrisoned
by about 65,000 harassed British
troops. In the Philippines several
thousand insurgent Hukbalahaps are
battling some of the 25,000 military
police who are the first unit of a
new Philippine army.
Russian armed forces, according
to the survey, remain the largest in
the world, except for the ill -armed
Chinese masses. But even small na-
tions, bowed beneath crushing, taxa:
tion and many of them wrecked by
the war and struggling under major
economic burdens, are shown to be
allocating major parts of their bud-
gets to military expenditures and at-
tempting to maintain large military
forces—even though these could do
little against the strength or any
major power.
New Weapon of War
The survey indicates that the na-
tions are spending perhaps $10,000,-
000,000 more on armaments than
they did on the eve of war•• in 1938,
and probably have more men in uni-
form than they did then, although
part of the increased cost is a
"paper" one,
More disturbingly, the statistics in-
dicate a parallel between the present
era and the post -World War I era of
1919-22, when an armaments race
threatened. Then, however, the race
centred on naval construction. To-
day, Gen. Baldwin estimates,
lions, perhaps billions of dollars in
concealed funds—only part of them
indicated in the survey—are being.
spent on research and development
in connection with the atomic bomb,
bacteriological warfare, guided mis-
siles, jet planes and other new
weapons.
Obviously, no nation feels it has
attained the security which was its
goal in World War II; and it is
hard to see any immediate proba-
bility of an assurance of security
which would relieve the world of the
crushing burden revealed by this
survey.
More People Needed
To Open Up Canada
There has been some talk of hold-
ing down on immigration until every
last person in Canasta is working or
until we have what some so glibly
define as "full employment." Wheth-
er such a thing is possible, outside
a slave state, is highly doubtful, but
even reasonably close to it is simply
out of the question so long as our
country remains only partly devel-
oped. Until we open up far more
mines, land, fisheries and other
natural wealth and build the second-
ary industry to go with it we will
have no idea of how many people
this Dominion can employ. —Finan-
cial Post.
Bees are not the only insects that
nm..'•r honey. Some species of wasps
and the honey.ant also make it.
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Army's New Tractor Landing Gear May Outmode Airports—The newly un veiled tractor landing gear seen on the bomber pictured at left, above, will
eliminate pilots' present. worries over landing on ground that is soft, rough or deep sand, according to the Air Technical Service officials at. Wright
Field, Ohio, Preliminary tests, in soft mud and loose sand, where a normal plane would have bogged down helplessly,
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Engineers foresee the tractor gear outmoding today's huge airdromes whose surface has to be "just so” to accommoate lr e, heavy planes. Atnewsera
in military aviation is seen, as tractor -equipped planes will not be'handicapped by lack of airdromes in remote areas. At }right heavy
spa close-up of the
revolutionary Ianding gear. A loaded Douglas A-20 attack bomber, equipped with the tractor gear, taxied speedily through soft mud, revved up in soft
sand, took off in 1100 feet of similar mud -sand terrain and landed under the sante conditions. Gear is simply a continuous smooth outer belt rolling on
"bogies."
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MARGARBET COBS
When Sally Carter spied the
crisp green of the bill lying against
the white of the sidewalk that
bordered the engineering building,
she dropped the handle of the baby
carriage and swooped down upon it.
'Zook, Richey, look!" she cried
happily to the cheerful bright-eyed
boy in the carriage. "A ten -dollar
bill—a real, brand new ten -dollar
bill. I found it mysef, and I can
spend it any way I please!"
Turning the carriage briskly to
return the way she had come, Sally
sped her son back toward the
trailer camp that nestled at the foot
of the hill, a haven for married
student veterans.
Once inside her trailer home she
hurriedly hung the pinafore in the
tiny clothes closet and reached for
her best skirt and sweater. "Do
you know what I'm going to do
with this money first thing,
Richey?" she cried happily. "I'm
going to get you a play pen, so you
can stay out in the 'fresh air all
day long and have plenty of room
to wiggle around in."
Sally dropped the sweater to give
the baby a Buick, impetuous hug,
"We'll get Daddy that pipe lie
wants, and maybe there'll be
enough money left over to get me
some dress material!"
Speeding joyfully across the cant -
pus toward town, her hand straying
often to the money in her pocket,
Sally suddenly slowed her pace, her
face sober.
"Oh, dear," she thought, "I've been
so happy about having some money
all my own that it hadn't even oc-
curred to arae that it belongs to some-
one else. Ola, dear!"
Parking the carriage at the doof
to the engineering building, she
entered, hesitated a moment outside
a door marked "Office," and went
in. The secretary looked up as
Sally laid the bill on the desk.
"I found this outside the .building,
Miss Hanson, so I guess it belongs
to someone in here." She was talk-
ing fast, turning to leave,
"Wait a minute, Mrs, Carter," the
• older woman called. "You may as
well keep it. I don't see how we
can ever find out who it belongs
to. `Finders keepers', you know.
Now you just run along downtown
and see what you can find to buy,"
* * . *R
"Do her good to have some
money all her own," Miss Hanson
muttered as the door closed. "Of
course I should have held it a day
or two in case anyone asked about
it, but that child probably hasn't
had a dollar to spend as she likes
since Richard entered here!"
In mid-afternoon, about the time
Sally was unwrapping her newpur-
chases at home, Richard Carter was
frantically going through his pock-
ets.
"I know I brought it with me,"
he muttered as he, . searched one
pocket after another, "Good grief,
what'll I do? It's all the money
we had left for the rest of tltte month
—a nice new ten -dollar bill. I must
have dropped it when I opened my
billfold sometime. today."
A moment later, as he was ex-
plaining his plight to the secretary,
. he was relieved to see a quick look
of comprehension in her eyes; "You
haven't had it turned in, have you?"
he finished slowly,
"Why, yes," she replied. slowly,
" I have. At least, a young lady
gave me a ten -dollar bill this morn-
ing and told me she'd found it out-
side. It must have been yours. Wait
a minute, I put it in my pocketbook
for safekeeping."
Reaching into a drawer, in the
desk, Miss Hanson pulled out a
well-worn black bag. After a
moment's search she found a bill,
tucked away with several one -dollar
ones, that was crisp and new and
had the numeral "10" in its corner.
"Here it is," she said, handing it
over with a smile.
The boy took the money with a
grateful grin. • "Well, thank good-
ness-hwe can eat• for the rest: of
the month, anyway;" he said ';as
he left the office. "Thanks a mil-
lion, Miss Hanson !"
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Machines Klett 'Man With The Hoe'
The super -high cost of labor is
spreading an epidemic of machine -
mindedness among United States
farmers.
With record and near -record crops
coming up, farmers now have an
estimated labor force of only 7.2
million workers—about two million
less than six years ago. With the
"hands" flocking to city jobs, a
Wisconsin farmer now pays $1 an
hour for labor he got at $30 a month
plus room and board a decade ago.
To meet the rural clamor for
machines, new battalions of mech-
anical marvels will clank over the
country's farms this Summer.
They will begin the final rout
of the man with the hoe. They
will round out the job already well
started by such mechanized labor-
saving pioneers as the tractor and
the. threshing machine.
Spearheading the blitz will be
such relatively new . machines as
the beet harvester. It has a be-
wildering complement of tools that
first snip off the beet's crown and
leaves, then dig down to bring up
the vegetable itself. This machine
will harvest six tons of beets an
hour in a field producing 20 tons
to the acre.
New types of potato harvesting
machines lack human discernment.
They are apt to mistake rocks for
the genuine product. But other-
wise they can shame a crew of men
Canada's "Orson Welles"----1Vinnipcg-born 1.1 et cher
Markle; 26 -year-old writer -actor -producer, has just signed
a 3 -year contract with CBS. Following outstanding radio
and movie successes in Toronto, London, New''York and
Hollywood, Markle is writing and: directing a one-hour
dramatic program for CBS which will replace Arthur
Godfrey's "Talent Scouts" and Norman Coi vin's "One
World Flight."
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by the speed with which they dig,.
partly clean and load spuds.,,
Most of the mechanical "soldiers"
being marshaled for the mass in-
vasion of U,S. farms aren't entirely
new. But they've not been in
general use before because the
average farmer couldn't afford
them, Now, his pockets are bulging
with cash realized over the past few'
years from his high -price crops.
And he's getting the equipment
for more efficient farming. '
Such devices as the posthole
digger, the corn picker and the hay
baler are becoming the property
of the run -of -the mill farmer as
well as the bigger operators. These
machines do mechanically the tasks
their names suggest. Another popu-
lar machine is the forage cutter,
It rolls down a hay field, chops up
the feed 'suitable for the dairy cows
and loads it for delivery to the silo
or barn mow—all without benefit
of human hands.
The extent of farm equipment
buying was measured in a survey
of nine major agricultural areas.
It showed that orders are so heavy
manufacturers can't promise some
types of machinery Sooner than
three years hence.
Voice Of The Press
The Dove of Peace ,
It appears that a new type of
sitter is now needed, viz: Someone
to sit up with a sick dove.
—Kitchener Record
In Persia
In Persia, 'luring his spouse's
spring cleaning, the husband can
always take hold of the magic
carpet and beat it.
—Quebec Chronicle -Telegram
Want To Worry?
Prominently posted on the wail
o: a business cstablisnient is this bit
of advice: 'Work faithfully for eight
hours •a day and don't worry; then
in time you may become boss and
work 18 hours a day and have all
the worries."
—Kitchener Record
Courage
Looking in on the boxing cham-
pionships, the thought came that
it calls for some unusual kind. of
courage to travel half way across
a continent merely to be punched
in the face for three to nine min-
utes before taking the train back
home,
—Port Arthur News -Chronicle
Theatre Need
Another thing greatly needed is
non -crackling cellophane for those
,'ho disrobe confectionaries in
theatres.
—Kitchener Record
French Exports
France. like Britain, has been en-
-gaged in a great drive to increase
exports, and -.like Britain has
achieved a great measure of suc-
cess. At the end of 1040, it, has been
announced, French exports stood
at 61 per cent of her imports, a
figure nearly as good as the 60
per cent average in 1038,
—Ottawa Citizen
Didn't Need One
The famous psychologist' had
just delivered a most interesting'
lecture, and was now conducting a
question session.
A timid little -ratan down front
held "up' his hand and was recog-
nized.
"Doctor," he said most respect-
fully, "did I understand you _to say
that a good poker player could Suc-
cessfully handle any sort of execu-
tive job?",
"That's exactly what I said," was
the confident reply,
"Tell me, Doctor," asked the
little • man, "what would a good,
poker player want with a job?"
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