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The Brussels Post, 1942-1-28, Page 2VOICE OF THE PRESS FUTURE EGG MARKET Canadian poultry farmers have the opportunity now to make their future secure, if they will accept the advice offered by Mr. Fred Bray, Chairman of the Canadian Poultry Industry Committee. The present demand for eggs in Brit- alp, he pointed out, makes condi- tions favorable for farmers in this country, and this situation will continue for two years after the war. From then on, Canada will have to compete with the world, and production costs must be brought down if this is to be done successfully. The wise fanner lithe one who will not wait until that necessity arises. Ho will begin at once to study methods whereby he may reduce costs. By doing so at once —and Mr. Bray assures that it can be done—a permanent mar- ket can be guaranteed. —Windsor Star —o— A LOAN, NOT A GIFT Notwithstanding all that has been said many people apparently, look upon money used for pur- chase of war saving certificates , as a gift to the government. The plan is more nearly a gift to the people. The money is merely loaned is the gavaknnnent, which pays the buyer of a certificate a higher than, normal interest. A war savings certificate is as sure of redemption by the government as a bank bill or note is sure of redemption by the bank; more so, if anything. Moreover the money is likely to be particularly useful in days after the war when there may be depression. —Port Arthur News -Chronicle —0— FLOODS OF CONSCIENCE MONEY Suppose all public officers and employees guilty of loafing on the Job should emulate the example set by the nurse who recently sent a cheque for $1,678 to the Fed- eral "conscience fund" saying that it represented a year's sal- ary, with interest. She received this amount while in a Govern- ment department, but, she ex- plained she idled away the year and didn't earn her money. Un- less appearances are dreadfully - awry, the receipts accruing from a general fever of confession and repayment by other penitents would build a flock of battle -planes and balance many a lop- sided state and municipal budget. —Detroit Free Press —0— CHRISTMAS TREES IN • PERPETUITY Protests are heard occasionally against the destruction and waste of so many young evergreens each year from the forests. It is reassuring, however, to know that Canada's growing Christmas tree trade offers no serious threat to our forests, as under proper management the present cut could be produced in perpetu- ity ebn an area of less than two hundred square miles. —Canadian National Revenue Review. —O— • JAP — HUN — WOP Mr. Churchill told reporters in Ottawa he didn't like the word "Tap'' -it "seemed too familiar." 7foo - intimate and friendly he meant. But three -letter words are indispensable to headline writers. It should be understood, however, that until a better midget name is found the word "Jap" is in- tended to convey all the contempt that attaches to "Hun" and —Windsor Star —O— CLINGING TO LIFE London business men are chuck- ling over this letter which is cir- culating throughout the financial district: "The Collector of Taxes, Dear Sir -For the following .reasons I am unable to meet your demand note for income tax: "I have been bombed, blasted, burnt, sandbagged, walked upon, sat upon, held up, held down, flattened out and squeezed by in- come tax, super tax, tobacco tax, purchase tax, beer tax, spirit tax, motor tax. "The only reason I am cling- ing to life at all is t� see what is going to happen next." —Peterborough Examiner —e_ ICELANDIC WEATHER The name Iceland connotes frigidity. Yet we are told that its lowest temperature at its capi- tal in winter is only six below zero. It was named ages ago by a disgruntled Viking who had landed there with some cattle, struck an abnormal winter, lost the animals, and returned home to call the place Iceland. Kitchener ,Record —sr— OTHER THINGS NEEDED One license plate instead of -two is expected to be the order in Oa - Serie nest year. But even that's. one to many—if you haven't a car to put it en, or have a ear bout gasoline, St, Thomas Timesr,Tonrnal "THE ISSUE IS QLEARLY DRAWN ... • Appealing for hemispheric unity, Under Secretary of State Sum- ner Welles, above, tells delegates at the Pan-American Conference of Foreign Ministers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; that "the issue is clearly drawn" and the "free peoples of the Americas must do their duty to restore freedom to the whole world," • TI -IE WAR - WEEK — Commentary on Current Invents Hope For Hemisphere Solidarity At P raey Of American Republics The diplomatic spotlight is cen- tred on the Pan American Con- gress at Rio de Janeiro where the nations of the Western Hemi- sphere are preparing a united front against the Axis powers, One of the outstanding resolu- tions introduced calls for adher- ence to the Atlantic Charter, An- other stresses the set-up of joint efforts for the suppression through- out Latin America of anti-Ameri- can or Axis fifth. columnists. In southern Brazil there are an estimated 921,000 residents of Ger- man descent. Brazilian authorities claim to have driven underground the Nazi agents and organizations and to have the situation well in hand. It is claimed, however, that a German airport, complete with radio station, has been establish- ed on the northern plains of the Amazon, about six flying hours from the Panama; that Axis forces control strategic landing fields in Brazil, just across from Africa; and that they also have built up stocks of aviation gasoline and oil at hide-outs up the Amazon River and at points on Brazil's eastern coast. The importance of the Panama Canal must be stressed. There are only two routes by which Un- ited States shipping can prove from the east to the west coasts —one through the Straits of Mag- ellan around Cape l: -loin`, the other through the Panama Canal. Al- though the Panama zone is one of the best fortified areas in the world, it is open to a suicide air attack from the Pacific or from the German air field in B.razll, already mentioned. The Falkland Islands, garrisoned by a small British force, guard the Atlantic entrance to the Straits of Magellan, If Argentina can be persuaded to join the Am- erican front she can be of aid in guarding this important point. Vulnerable Points There is • an underlying fear in the country od reprisals by the Axis against the- slender sea communications on which South America is almost dependent for its livelihood. Hence the import- ance of the proposal to use the 270,000 tons of German, Italian and other shipping now immobiliz- ed in South American ports. If South America breaks rela- tions wish the Axis powers it might not be long before the ap- pearance in the South Pacific of German and Japanese warcraft. West coast countries are most vulnerable. Valparaiso, C h it i's most important port, is unprotect - LIFE'S LIKE THAT • LIS MODERNS' By Fred Neher "So young and throwing their lives away like that." ed as is also Callao, Peru's prin. olpal port, and Lima, the capital or Peru is within reach of caval guns. The centre of Argentina's oil industry 1s on the coast and exposed to attack, The question arises, would the United States have to send warships to South America, at the coat of weakening its strength elsewhere, to protect these strategic points? From Argentina the United States wants; (1) 'Phe speedy pro- duction of critical materials such as tin end rubber, (2) complete military co-operation with United States use of bases at atrategio points, and (3) the shutdown ed German business firms "bootleg- ging" war materials through the Atlantic blockade, Besides tin and rubber, the United States needs, and needs them quickly, !temp, in- dustrial diamonds and chemicals. Argentina claimed, just before the Conference "This America of cure must be preserved for peace." There were neutral nations in Europe when the war was young who felt the same and who placed their faith in German promises to protect Their neutrality and who refused to think that their turn would come. In the light of the tragic history et what befell them, says the New York Times, and while the Conderence at Rio de Janeiro is still in session, the words or Mr, Ohur'chiil on Jan. 20, 1940, reviewing the stivation of the neutral nations of Europe are worth recalling. He said: United Action But what would happen if all those neutral nations I have men- tioned—and some others I have not mentioned—were with one spontaneous impulse to do their duty in accordance with the Cov- enant of the League, and were to stand together with the British. and French Empires against ag- gression and wrong? At present their plight is lamentable; and it will become much worse. They bow humbly and in fear to German threats of violence comforting themselves meanwhile with the thought that the Allies will win, that Britain and France will ob- serve all the laws and oonven- tions, and that breaches of these laws Inc only to be expected from the German side, Bach one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured, But I fear —I fear greatly—the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely. It will spread to the south; it will spread to the north. There is no chance of a ,speedy end, except through united action. The storm did not pass and there is no more chance now than then of a speedy end, except t rougn united action. In our own 'here - sphere the coronion interest of all cries out for united action. The smallest Latin-American nation can read a tragic lesson in the fate of the little countries of lOurope that trusted Hitler. Gigantic War Task For United States The National Association of Manufacturers, translating into everyday terms the war produc- tion schedule called for by Presi- dent Roosevelt, disclosed the enor- mous scope of the program in material, time, space and man- power. The Association said that the President's demand for 125,000 planes and 75,000 tanks in 1043 meant turning out a plane every seven minutes. The President's estimated need of 8;000,000 dead-weight tons of merchant shipping in 1942—and an additional 10,000,000 tons in 1943—would require a sustained rate of about two ships a day. For aircraft production alone, according to the Association, the floor space needed for the gigan- tic,iTg:ogram would be about 140,- 000,000 agnate feet in 1943, the equivalent of more than 1,000 city blocks, or an area equal to a third of Manhattan Island in New York. -. "Some idea of the size of this program is shown by the fact that to produce 00,000 airplanes (the number called for by the Presi- dent for 1942) and with plants working 865 days a year ,and 24 hours a day, one plane could be turned out every- nine minutes,"' the Aasociation said, NDIVILJUAL 1 e•�-' 9 hv�,4lu (1) AN RW Nc rill A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army' When there was great rivalry between the adherents of the various mail-order houses claims used to be made that this one or that one was "tine greatest mail- order house in the world," To- day all those claims have gond by the board, The. greatest mail order house in Canada today is the M,G.O.'s branch of the indi- vidual citizen's army. M. G. 0.? Master -General of the Ordnance, a fine old-fashioned title for the head of a fine but far from old-fashioned service, The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. Ordnance in its time has had several meanings. An American, for instance, will tell you that you have cis -spelled the Ameri- can word for by-law — ordinance, In the time of Wellington and Nelson Ordnance was a sort of general term for artillery. You must have seen it many a time yourself, something like this:— "The brigade was supported by so many pieces of ordnance," • Actually, the American's reac- tion comes close to the origin of the title, "Master -General of the Ordnance." As far back as 1290 a "Keeper of the King's Ward- robe" was appointed. His assist- ants were known as "Ordnance Officers" and it was their job to see that the armed followers of the feudal barons were equipped according to the "ordinances" )aid down. The elision respon- sible for many of our words through the centuries got in its fell work and the present spelling was the result. What has all this to do with department stores? Plenty! We'won't stop to trace the or- igin of the title, Master -.General for the Ordnance, through the cen- turies — what we are concerned with is the job of storekeeping and procurement done today by this big department of the army under the direction of its civil- ian head. For all the military sound of that title it is a civilian, Victor Sifton, who heads Canada's big- gest department store. Do you; need hospital beds? Indent on Or- dnance for them. Have you a recruit with out -size feet? Peek your unit need a cobbler's wax, skis, snowshoes, a caterpillar trac- tor, spare parts for a 25 -pounder gun, worsted shoulder -badges, stripes for N,C.O,'s? Ask Ord• nance. Ordnance is not just a big store. Ordnance supplies skilled tradesmen who maintain the ar• moured and other vehicles which equip the Arniy, The word. "master" as applied to the R. C. 0. 0., is well -applied. Many of ite men are master -mechanics, They were before enlistment, or they have been trained in schools op. erated by Ordnance. In the Great War, 1914-1919 Ordnance supplied the fathers of today's Canadian Army with "G. 5, Wagons" and horses. Today it supplies your ariny with the thou- sands of mechanized vehicles re- quired to wage all-out warfare. To do this and do it rapidly it has adopted the tried practices o modern business and adapted them to the special requirements of the times. Ordnance even supplies each soldier with a "housewife." This word is sometimes pronounced— and maybe spelled "huzzif". It means, excuse me please you old soldiers, a folding hold -all fitted with needels and thread, pins, spare buttons. This homely interpretation of the duty of a wife would seem to indicate that the "housewife" (Army issue) is of almost as long a standing• as the title of the boss of Canada's biggest mail-order store—not even the Master -Gen- eral for the Ordnance would dare to invent such a tern today. Besides, house-wifery as prac- tised by soldiers of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps today is of a more complicated nature. Do you need a special gadget? Girl an Ordnance man a can -op- ener, seine wire, a couple of pieces of string and you'll get it. What's more, in the meantime someone will stock up on the real thing, even if he has to invent it! Anti -Aircraft Fire Blind But Accurate The Nazis have a new anti-air- craft gun which is aimed by de- tector devices, says the Windsor Star. The gunner does not need to see the target and the firing is blind, but accurate. The gun is co-ordinated with the detecting in- strument in such a manner that the firing is done autocratically as soon as the target is within range, There is nothing especially new to this method of firing. Naval guns are fired automatically, when the target is in range. The intricate device' is so linked with the firing mechanism that the charge is sent on its way at the proper moment. If this were not so, even the most accurate gun- ners could hardly allow for the pitch and heave Of the warship on the waves. But, the perfection- by which the guns can be fired so accur- ately at a blind target is some- thing new. Hitler Now Travels The "Lonely Road" "Today the initiative lies with Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Chi- ang Kai-Shelc and the representa- tives of the Dutch and other gov- ernments in exile," the Kansas City Star said recently in an edi- torial. "They are the ones who do -lie travelling now. With what emotions Hitler' must watch this steady and inexorable grouping of forces for his extinction as he sits alone somewhere in Germany, ins own head governllient, his own eotmnmrder-in-chief, his own di- rector for foreign Quislings. For he has nowhere to go and no one to see, Ile has reached the end of the dictatorial road:" The Book Shelf STORM By George R. Stewart All novels are based on varia- tions of a comparatively few fundamental themes, In "Storm" George Stewart has developed an entirely new theme, unless, per- haps, the mythical tale of the Valkyries was his inspiration. At any rate his treatment of a scientific subject through the medium of fiction is unique. Mr. Stewart presents Maria, the Storm, to his readers in all the scientific aspects of her career ,and presents her in a language that is clear to the layman's mind. A junior meteorologist in the California Weather •Bureau dis- covered Maria, a - more or less harmless low-pressure area, south- east of Yokohama, Japan. Cross- ing the Pacific, Maria reached California in all the fury of a tempestuous blizzard and down- pour of rain, bringing destruction, damage and death. But Maria, as is the way of human nature, was not all bad for her rains brought moisture to the parched lands of California and saved millions of dollars in crops. The birth, life and death of the storm, and the human reactions to nature in all its violence is told by Mr. Stewart with great power. "Storm" is well chosen as the Book of the Month for December. • Storm ... by George R. Stewart The Macmillan Company of Canada ... Price $3.00. ATTENTION KNITTERS! • Then, there's the story of the fellow who ,stuck his head inside Red Cross headquarters Mid said to the knitting ladies: "Remember Pearl Harbor, and purl harder!" —Stratford I3eacon-Herald. REG'LAR FELLERS—Handle With Kid Gloves YOU SIMPLY WILL HAVE TO DIET RIO OF THAT DOG OF YOURS - NE'S TO AMBITIOUS EVERY TIME i TRY TO FEED HIM HE SNAPS AT MY FINGERS. I Lock AT THAT!' By GENE BYRNES i'M SORRY, MOM 13UT' I'LL"FIX IT SO Ha WONT HURT YOU ANY MORE .f ZDNATE' TO LOSE 1IM O. IC, MOM e- JUS' SLIP THESE ON AN' TRY 'IM AGAIN WITH A HUNk OF MEAT/ A.214k11,1,11,0110.11.1.1.1Wraf AY"'