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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1943-08-27, Page 5'9., 4 4 1 t 1 A or .., ►ta°wa '. (By Ja]nOthienblat) As ale 1s. written 'Ottawa Is being: lipped. 1neanicured and waved and � r' fo Pr side e t Roo t ,decoratedm s vel e s visit. There 'le intense interest gn' •tyle part of usually blase officials and (certainly the Multitude of civil sor- t/tante, temporary Ducar -jobbers and the thousands of others who make this `capital. Churchill, Eden, Madame Chi- ang Kai-Shek; Gli and and now, the (very .popular F.D.R. 'himself. It will Ibe an historic occasion, one of the lever increasing evidences of U.S: Can- .edian friendship and inter -nation co- ordination. The vast concourse of beautifully kept' lawn,. in front of the p'e'ace Tower, where Mr. Roosevelt will speak from, will i• is estimated :Accommodate 20,000 people. The S. R.O. sign will • surely be out early. * * * We hear a lot about manpower, but 'what about Canadian womanpower? Well, there are 4,2400000 women over 14 years of age in Canada. Here are some interesting figures about them. As of January 30, 1943,.of this num- ber there were 1,152,000 in industry and 255,000 directly or indirectly' in war industry. Farm women number ted" 830,000; women students 309,000. There Were more than 31,367 in the armed services (and that figure must be eensidotaply ' ilncr 049ldared ,4 , 'bY t1 t1 ie) r .OQkO09 are cpas94130r .ployablQr . • , * ' Canada's vegetable oil industry le one of - Chose. revolutionised, in a cense, by the rieceseities 'of this .Ph bal war. 'his industry is, o1 course, agricultural. g al. Take tiaxseed,, of which 53 per cent. of that used was import- ed in 1939. In 1942, however, all of the 3,388,195 . bushels aged were of domestic origin. Our acreage object- tive for 1943 is 2,492,000 or an as- tounding increase over the previous year of 67 per cent, All these c'horiP- ing phases having to do with our ag- ricultural and industrial economy will be part of the post-war •problem. s ..• Is it all 'right to lend your ration book to your farmer friend who uses' a great deal of tea, while you use very little? The Prices Board says po, and Thelma Craig of the informa- tion, branch answered me this way: "Rationing is for the equal sharing of certain commodities which are in short supply. It -..does ,not mean that Granny, just because she like the ex- tra pot of tea, should .be,able to have double the ration of the woman next door, nor does it provide for the swapping of tea and sugar by two neighbors Who live across the road from each other." Fact of the matter is the whole rationing system is set up on the basis that the majority will conserve their use of rationed ,tae aiiteeeeiseehe ACE NEXT L BE WINTER ! O Prepare your home now for adequate warmth with smaller fuel consumption TO SAVE COAL CHECK THESE POINTS IV HOW TO GET MORE HEAT Pipes and furnaces must be dean, and grates in good order. If one or two rooms are hard to heat, you are wasting fuel. A minor adjustment can probably remedy this.. Have a competent man check your heating system, and make necessary repairs: Insulate your furnace and pipes when' necessary. Y HOW TO AVOID HEAT LOSSES, - Storm windows and doors must fit snugly and - be weat>gerstripped. Lack of storm windows can cause as much as 20% heat loss."Caulking should be done around windows, doors and in cracks in brick work (some hardware stores have caulking guns for rent). Broken glass should be replaced, and loose panes puttied. Small expenditures on such work will save much fuel. , HOW TO SAVE STILL MORE rr ' You can save fuel and money by having your ° home properly insulated. It is a proven fact that in many homes lack of adequate insolation cluding storm windows) results)* unnecessary consumption • of fuel --gip toy„ s •" uch as 50%. Watch'for later instructions ori how to fire your furnace properly. NAVE YOUR HOME INSPECTED tOR, HEATING AND. INSULATION DEFECTS Get advice now! Skilled workmen and supplies are scarce: If you delay in getting your home ready for winter you may not be able to get the services you need. . avelMtiot MS10W THE,;,, DEPARTMENT OF MUNITiONS ANb SUPPLY HON, C. D. HOWE, ►viinister Part of T.C.A.'s War Effort As a swift trie§sefiteT, dt'rryin' pas engers, mall-afrd a rif hese acr ire, Canada frail St;: Jahn s, Newfoundland', to Vidor* .•» C,, fehari• Toronto to Nevv Y'ol'k .and Windsor and, between Lethbridge, Cal -,1 gary and Edmonton,' Trans -Canada Air,c'%iines',plhcys a irital t.lrt ii4,a!,. r zt akes er col irlbtitrc'd5 as.,,,weri +i 4ranadas war •effo � 1~'t ,. , � �'� :. , �. ,.,. , . , t e' ho s t'�a a reat deal. tf8 ffii) is 'Witt s g ,, i �. 24 a s a ly. h ti tri>; r. g$1 .and th '� r miC e .. . r txl' o S tenanee' lira eve Yta vit •� !�nreaith Air 'raining Plan. rir • s articles tp aC.tgai ltii 4Tp steeds Harking •bagl rt0.14, Qrde"r txt•tlau i- cii vl'bich u►ade it au ofeziee to senate coal: or heat, owing te. tile" sezioua• fuel situation faging Canada" it; le -In- teresting to know that our normal e e' F ac tzm., a coal needs are about 3:0 million tans. ,This. year, geared to' such 'a . hlgh war tempo, Provide/hi tlmust be made fpr about 47 million tons. Canadians can be selfish as in- dividualso'iand sneak excessive 'heat, more than necessary, or they` can play ball for the good of all InCanada. It's really co-operation' ' for national conservation instead of coerhion that is wanted. * * * Talking with 'a -newspaperman back from Washington the other day, he told of trying out a meat shop right -close to the main drag which adver- tises horse meat—choice stuff from "young wild western horses?'"He bought a roast and thought it quite tasty. Cost less' than half the price of beef. He was afraid, however; that in time they .would be ringing in O18 -year old farm horses," or some- thing. • NORM., -..4.„ The Quebec, conference enhances Canada's status in the eyes of the world. In this connection I' find that in 1937 our .capital city could boast only two legations, foul+ consulates and one • High Commissioner's ' office. Today there are representatives of 22 -nations always in close touch with the Canadian .government, The hous- ing shortage en Ottawa creates prob- lems, too, for , _numerous , commercial and military, attaches and their staffs. A very international flavor is exhuded when one comes across the flags of United Natione in front of various homes and buildings scattered around the city. * * * Recently a. gathering of members of sheep breeders associations at the Centra] Experimental Farm here saw a demonstration, of the .drug pheno- thiazine, in the latest method devis- ed by science for controlling sheep parasites. Dr. W. E. Swales, Science Service of the Department of Agri- culture, showed how the medicine, a two-inch tablet, is plopped ,into the throat of the animal, using ,a tongue depressor. • An expert can do sixty lambs an hour. One reason for the importance of the drug at this time is that parasites destroy the animal's intestines, which are so valuable for the making of surgical sutures need- ed on the battlefield. * * * Having a chat in his office one day recently with Fred McGregor, chief enforcement officer for Canada of the Wartime Prices Board, I load a look at some of the counterfeit gas ration coupons seized when Black Market- cess of 'a ring were roped in. Pretty clever imitation they were, but ev- entually the law caught -up with the racketeers. Enforcement in control legislation is a big job, taken on a na- tion-wide scale. ' * * * When You hear of abandoned farms you' think of former drought areas of Western Canada. Therefore it might jolt far easterners and far • western- ers to know that an official release just out shows that in Eastern Can- ada there are between 12,000 and 13,- 000 farms, covering about a million and a half acres; abandoned, lying idle for some time. Surveys show, paralleling the western causes much the same, they were abandoned be- cause land was originally submargin- al for'agricultural purposes;• some be- cause of unsound farm practices, etc. * * * It is amazing the number of people who come in a continual flow, from various parts of Canada and the United States, and visit the Peace Tower. To reach the ,top ,and get that wonderful panorama View •from the baiconyright under the big clock. one has to climb a couple of short series of stairs and.ascend by two different elevators—one slow, the oth- er faster. The attendants everywhere are, I find on every visit, most cour- ;teous. The lifiemoriai Chamber is worth a visit to Ottawa alone, On the. descent one is always given a good view of the fanlight; carillon bells. - Naval Service: Headquarters is pep- per up about ti`.e special "Wren Re- cruiting Day" planned by the W.R.C. N.S. in connection:' with •the' annivers:, ary of one year ',of • servece with the navy, scheduled for .Adger 29th. Ov- er 4,000 of them "'are now in navy, blue with 5,500 being the . number aimed at by March, 1944. New re- cruits wilt shortly find themselves in the newly revised natty uniform. Wrens are to be drafted to the Unit- ed Kingdom and Newfoundland,• and what better hope of adventure is there for- girls interested. The other day' I watched a Second .flagpole be- ing erected atop the Navy Building. It strikes the blue and red field with a large yellow anchor. That's the Naval Board flag, flying, beside,,the us- ual naval" ensign. , * * * They say the cost of diving in Ot- tawa, is really high, but bow does it compare with things out your Way? Here are a few% average prices listed by the Ottawa Citizen the day of this Writing': Sirloin steak, 40.8 db.; round steak, 38.8 lb.; peime rib roils mast, b.' ,ham boiled •67.5 lb.,an med. t. a • §a' bacon, 48.1 ]b.; grade "A" eggs, +'3 edbzen; creamer' . butter,. $8.5; 'Malian cheese, 3501 ,'iti':e ai'atiges., .• #40 ,0011..' 1i niteil States an ltc�3'te tSi�r obai'st.tfd.'ic; ton; v'ag- fetabie shortening, 19.1 db. I do' know., ,l reetaiira'nt 'eating, • Piece by piece, is ,i,f, ^terk Ml's . Yt ` F�at'k ofiY' alwtI'M r, , B •Hollaua Po ' s PBe 'and. Mrs, 'thiols, u eP*0.rtb, vis- ited Mr. arid: 14trsr ;Wap Douglas, Ma'. and Marg`, T, 'Wheeter spent the week -02d ix1 Stratcurt Noss M. Swan. IS vilaitirkk trs Dam, Sr., in Fergus:: Mr. Frank "McKenzie, RI St. Louis, Miss.; is visiting . his 'Mother, Mrs:. Margaret ii icKenaie, Miss G. Smith le visiting in Blue - vale. Miss A. Smith, of Wingiam, is vis- iting her aunt, Mrs. H. Berry. Canning. Corner The ; early varieties of apples .ap- pearing on the market cannot be stor- ed through the winter as the later varieties can. They do can well, how- ever, and may be put up by any of the following methods: Canned Applesauce Prepare an d cook applesauce,. Sweeten to taste when apples are soft or omit sugar altogether. Pack hot•in sterilized sealers— partially sealed and process: Boiling Water Bath Pints -10 minutes Quarts 15 minutes Ovef 275 Degrees F. Pints 15 minutes Quarts 25 minutes Steam Cooker Pints 15 minutes Quarts 20 minutes Pressure Cooker, 5 lbs. Pints and Quarts 5 minutes Complete seal as soon as process- ing time is up. Sugarless Apples For Pies and .Desserts Peel; core and quarter and slice ap- ples into brine of 1 teaspoon salt to 1 quart cold water, to prevent dis- coloration. Drain and cook 5 min- utes in just enough water to prevent burning. Pack solidly in sterilized sealers. Partially seal and process. Boiling Water Bath - 35 minutes 40 minutes Pints Quarts Oven, 275 Degrees F Pints Quarts , Steam Cooker Pints - Quarts�' Pressure Cooker, 5 lbs. Pints and Quarts 10 minutes Complete seal as soon aa process- ing time is up. 55 minutes 65 minutes 40 minutes 45 minutes Apples Canned With Syrup Peel, core and slice into brine. Pre- pare a one to three syrup (1 cup sug- ar to 3 "'cups 'water): •Drain apples from brine and simmer •five niinutee in th esyrup. Pack hot in sterilized sealers., . Partially seal and process. Boiling Water Bath Pints 30 minutes Quarts 35 minutes Oven, 275 Degrees F. - Pints Quarts $team Cooker Pints 35' minutes Quarts 4 minutes Pressure Cooker, 5 lbs. Pints and Quarts 10 minutes Complete seal as soon as process- ing time is up. 50 minutes .1 hour t; After Hitler (Winnipeg Free Press) If Hitler does not blow his brains out, it is inevitable that in" due course he will be unseated and thrown out. This certaintynis prob- akl'y. the only real basis fo ,the new crop of reports that. a . ry coup impends in Germany ai1d t'11'a ;Hitler's leadership is in jeopardly , It is so certain that the prophets'raare quite safe in predicting, at rote:. •,a;is of a month or so, that the col ', s about to• take place. Eveiitua1dy 4hey will be right. They are reasoi01y safe too in predicting that the ,'Cul p, when it comes, will be a militar +coup; al- , though the Officers' Corlfie 'Abe real bosses of Germany, preferr7 fi, politi- cal matters to keep thams.ely, b in the, background, setting up. a ; tnt man to take. -the grief if it de1"itips. If, however, they followItalian example, they will set ups front man one of their own •`kin4,or when Mussolini wsa ushered ge`,1y out, Badoglio, the respected far 'fir chief of the general staff, took lila place. If the Italian precedent`'w follow- ed, ,the most likely success, to Hit- high—'but if one shops around off the main by -ways, it is possible to dine reasonably, even, if not in. fancy sur- roundings. FALL FAIR DATES Blyth Sept.. Kincardine Sept. Stratford ..r-.,, Sept. Bayfield ,.. - Sept. 1 ;towel Sept. Lucknow Sept. SEAFORTH Sept. Harris -toe Sept. Zurich Sept. 14, 15 16, 17 2a-23 21, 22 22, 23 22, 23 23, 24 23, 2h 27, 28 Mitchell . Sept. 28, 29 St, Marys 'Sept. 29, $0 Arthur Sept. 30, Oct, 1 D�yu��n�.gNannon Sept, 30, Oct. 1 Obi",{'xe • t �?et. 1, 2 Te s;water ' x: t 1..., ,... , . flet. 5, 6 Atiwoocl . Oct. 8, 9' Walkerton . `",. rl'ov. 24 09, .Pa a$1►t ,tem rn t71e ; 7�b s colt A ,off ' w a x ln', Nipm.jbla . the q14 ,00 e4.000 ent. d10 rpx t ,e rOpp.to )410 r' 4Pft the'. x 1 wan ;al?gay th .ted [i ler an. , i at 1 p. w uld `be .�rapkaced by ciperiug w , �ca h am-� a rd,'ijig to t ePrattle of the w eers,, wan '"a gentleman." "*C.11,'' More prahablY, however, Hitler ,is-,rrzurdpred, or murders hi self, the Officers' Corps will try repeat the. highly successful pert:. mance- of 1919, viz., the creation an apparently peaceful. gooverzim:e headed •bY peaceful i.?plk. The Corp will try and remain in the backrot} dedicating itself, as "it did in 1918.1 to revenge and the re-creation of Ge many's military power. It is har to believe that . the Allies will fa for this a second time. All this does not mean that Hit- ler has never been anything but a stooge • for ,the Junker officer class. He was their tool, to begin with. His career after the war.began as a spy, and spellbinder . ford the inarticulate officers. As he gained power and rose to become a national _figure, he de- veloped a stronger and stronger or- ganization of his own. But there has never been any, proof that bis regime amounted to anything without' the support and co-operation of that malign and well -organized body com- prising the Officers' Corps which has always been ready to, play ball with. whatever political organization offer- ed a prospect of waging powerful war. This extraordinary body of men has the Counterpart anywherei in the;west- ern world. It emerged front the last war about 44,000 strong. Those who ould not be paced in the strict!�> imited army permitted under the Versailles treaty were enlisted in the olice, or in the civil service or is ournalism or business. They were 11 well looked after. Even in the arty days of the Weimar republic hey were able to have their pensions ncreased. Of a detailed list of 1,599 fficers, all drew pensions ranging rom $3,600 to $7,000. Of the total, 6 per cent were absorbed in army ed police functions or were in the. pper business class. The remainder ere in lesser positions in agriculture, ommerce or 'the civil service. None as listed as having sunk into the ower class. In the 20's, it was found tatistically that the 'Corps' composi- ion was even higher in nobility than t had been before the last war. The gures, - cited by Hans Ernest Fried n his book, the Guilt of the German rmy, were as follows: 1913 22.0 p.c. 1921 21.3 p.c. 1932 -27.15 p.c. It was this class organization that omninated Germany after the last ar, aided Hitler to power, and main - as resistance today. It has never een seriously shaken in its grip on ower. Mr. Fried "sums up the situa- on thus: "The army has not only donated its wn military, power to the regime Hitlerism), but in so doing has given ational Socialism an appearance of orderliness" and technical "regular - y." In return it received a, decisive hare of political power, holding a onopoly in all military affairs of a clinical nature and having access to 1 the economic resources of Ger- any and the conquered countries. he high army officers attained the osition of supreme technical execu: vee of the nation in arms. By ac - Ming the role of "bearer of arms" e military hierarchy has become an er more intrinsic part of the re - me. This flatly contradicts the refully propagated notion that this ctrine created a distinction between e army and the party , . , The German army does not merely rry out'orders, with the possibility some day refusing to take ordersm d overthrowing the Nazi govern- ent. The ary command shares e heights of power.with the party. . In a political system so entirely ilitarized, the' "monopoly of arms" ust make the owner of this mon- oly the centre -of the system, Because of this special, peculiar sition of the German army, the Of- ers' Corps and the militaristic ste, very special attention must be id henceforward to attempts inside rmany to create a new political stem designed to make • palatable ✓ swallowing a fake peace such as at which followed the last war. e present rumors suggest that some ch scheme is now being prepared. would be best in the circumstanc- to await. the assassination or Bui- e of Hitler with calm, and then• face his successor, or su Och:e•soes, th thy same .terms as those that. ; day face hie ' unconditional surren- r. m - to o of nt,, nd' 9, r- 11 'Trains On Time (By Bruce Hutchison in Winnpeg Free Press) • In melancholy retrospect it is im- poi'tant to remember that the demo- cratic nations tolerated Mussolini for a long time, and even covertly admir- ed him because he made the trains run on time. That was the phrase al- ways used to explain and defend him —he made the trains run on time, he produced efficiency. It was true that Mussolini was a swaggering vulgarian, a .protuberant posturer who made faces from 'public galleries, leered at women,n kept o harem of abncu ihes and begat large famines di' bastards. Rut, sifter -all, :you, had to adibire the guy. isle, trade thb tkirnir riilki on thee. He brought isl �firti b�hbr�,n idf Our Millinery Dept. is brim full of the Newest Millinery creations for early Fall wear. Make it A' mint #o see these now, while the showing; is complete. FELTS FOR FALL This new showing 'of Felts in wide sailors, off -the -face hats and tur- bans, come in wine, brown, green, navy, black, red, paddy, airforce and turf tan. Sailor ribbon trimmed $2.95 tor$OO tewari sound management into 'a nation where nothing ever ran on time. .It was all untrue, of course. There was no real efficiency and no econom- ic stability in Italy under Mussolini, but what if there had been? What if the trains had really run on time. Would that have been'enough to just- ify the thing known' as Fasciam? We ought to consider this careful- ly, now that the Last pretences of Fascism have collapsed in Italy and the trains no longer run on time and only the armies run on time, or ahead of time. For the delusion about trains running on time is a common delusion with us and represents a deep fault in the structure of our thinking. The theory of making the trains run on time, the theory of„efficiency has been worshipped in America from` the beginning. We have assumed, in fact, that if we could produce effici- ency in all mechanical and economic processes, and equal efficiency in gov- ernment, we would be happy: Not only have we made the trains run on time in America, but we have made everyone run on time, and keep running We have been a continent of people who run all day and a large part of the night. The universal, rhymical sound of America' has been the sound of running feet on concrete pavements. The most familiar sight has been the multitude continually on the move from one inconsequential' appointment to another. The authen- tic folk figure of America has been a little man, pale and haggard, running for a street car or a subway to get to his job at eight a.m. or home at 5.15 p.m. Our ' civilization is like clockwork. But clockwork is never very interest- ing. You never say' anything of note emerge from a clock except a cuckoo and our civilization became as cuckoo as the clockmakers could make it. We a' -e a people who emerge .-from a clock at the appointed.. hour and screech our.` little message to 'an un- eeeding world and then retire, to rush out again exactly on the hour. We run on time. There is nothing in the studies of ornithology to suggest that meohani- cal cuckoos are happy in their clocks. Their life is too dull because it is too reliable. The real cuckoos of England, on the other hand, have a good-time because they do as they please, . keep • no ,..regular hours and never run on time. The Italiaia peeple, in the same,way; used to be very happy because' they never ran on time but always behind time, and fund like a great. jol'e. Anyone who as seen them.at iiome; has -seen the singing in the fields, or sitting aro nd .p on a porch at night sipping a gl ss of bitter red wine, knows how ha. py they are when no one makes them run on time. The Italians' mad the 'mistake of of trying to •copy- s and our great; rushing locomotives,. our fearful ma- chinery, whereas, i this matter, we should have copied hem. • We should learned not. to run on time.,, We should have come out of our own cuckoo clocks at i egular"hours and learned to flit andenjoy ourselves. For the. plain fat, observable by all who have seen tem both, is that the Italian people, before Mussolini got hold of them, were happier than we were in America poorer, more in- efficient, but happi r. America has- not as not been happy for a 1'6ng time. It has been efficient d on time, but pot on time for a p rty, for fun; no, en time for a denti is appointment, or for a grim job o work, or a still grimmer job of labo ious pleasure in a night club. r 0 h m u a p e u n t irregular e c h e an a s f r We have. to le'rn in America what the Italians used to know before Mus- solini taught them our ways. We have to learn, that efficiency is a poor synthetic thing at best, and that the true value of a civilization rests not on its mechanical ability but on the- -freedom, the humanity and the http- piness Of its people. We are a long. way from learning that yet, despite all our protests of superiority. We still worship effici- ency above everything, and still be- lieve that in efficiency, in the men - tory of management and .production, happiness will be found for everyone.. This illusion will persist for a long time and any one who attacks it w'in he labelled as a reactionary and a Fascist„ even though the first Fascist, Mussolini, was the great advocate -of the same illusion. • But in the end we shall learn that it doesn't rnnch Mat- ter atter whether the train of civilization • is exactly on time. What matters is where it is going and whether biter passengers are travelling that way by; their own choice and, are shaving a. good time. Dead and . Disabled Animals REMOVED PROMPTLY PHONE COLLECT SEA, R`EH 1!I •VARJs:,A'ILA'V6 AND CO.' O;!' CAN' - . (1011swititti War ittetiy) ` Ate rr; 1N It