Zurich Herald, 1942-01-22, Page 2VOICE
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SAVINGS FOR THE FUTURE
It la a great tribute to the sta-
Silky of the Canadian people that
wren In. the millet at Was they
ntinue to take thought for the
anteire.
Mr. George W. Bourke, press•
Sent of the Canadian Life Maur-
slope
naur-
s io® Ot tcare' Association, stated
the other day that life insurance
iaa force at the end of 1941 reach-
ed an all-time high of $7,500,000,-
004, and that new sales in 1941
were 10 percent higher than in
1140, pour million Canadian poliey-
boldens are united in this co -aper -
alive pool, and out of their ravings
$175,000,000 already has been in-
veeted in the Canadian war loans.
Life ineurance 1,e a vital factor
tat the econorzie atrengt'h of the
elation ae it 1e in the economics os
indiv1th L
—Ottawa Journal.
STYLE. IN INDUSTRY
• Were may be some male sniff-
les over reports that a -costume
1n a been designed for women
•srkers in war industry that com-
bines "allure" with utility. Tbere
Stiou1d not be. That allure will
1p win the wax.
No woman does her best when
see does not feel that she is look -
her best. The consciousness oi'
beings smaxtly and attractively at -
tared, even among factory mach -
lase, will distinctly add to the en -
Cadency of the fair wlarkers.
—Windsor Star,
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"POINTED" RECEPTION
lin the Iaut•eh East Indies the in-
laegbitants are netting up ;sharpen-
ed stakes et bamboo in all the
*bearings in the islands so that
any parachute attackers will be
impaled ale if they attempt a land -
• The natives don't welcome
visitors of tbat kind and. they
°sant to make sure no person will
be so dull that he won't vee the
�nCiixtt.
- -Peterborough. Examiner.
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"THIS IS LIVING"
$ssyobologist has estimated
Seat the average seventy -year life
consists of twenty-five year of
work, twenty year of sleep, seven
seams of sporte and walking, five
• e of ehaving and dressing,
seven years' pleasure, three years
tea waiting, two year eating, one
eats telephoning, thirty hours an -
smelly looking in mirrors, and. four
IUt5 annually wiping one's nose.
—St. Catharines Standard.
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MORE POWER TO THEM
Eyrapafihette words, uttered by
"Sweater Steelier," Chicago news
tolumnist: "The kids Who were
'Whittling model planes only yes-
terday, to t1ie great confusion of
the tidy householder, are now fly-
leg real ones for 'Uncle Sam, and
all is forgiven."
—Stratford Beacon -Herald.
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WON'T WORK
Admiral Yamamoto wrote to a
Mead that he would dictate peace
i the White ITouse. The plan Is
not sound. White House steno-
Suphers do not understand a
vet of Japanese.
--Welland Tribune.
MODERN SEE -SAW
"Jags See -Sawing Down hlalay-
an Coasts." It's a long teeter-
totter, however, that has no bumps.
--Windsor Star.
Russians Get Booty
From German Army
The Soviet Information Bureau,
es if to refute Germany's claim
of an orderly withdrawal to a
'winter line in Russia, issued an
imposing list of material captur-
ed between Dec. 26 and 31 on
the central front.
The list follows:
Sixty tanks, 11 armored cars,
287 field guns, 91 minethrowers,
4181 machine-guns, 309 automatic
rifles, 2,211 ordinary rifles, 938
'trucks, 249 motorcycles, 1,448 bi-
sycles, 30 tractors, seven wireless
stations, 226 carts, 40 locomo-
tives, 425 railway cars, one train-
load of clothing, several railway
carloads of equipment for signal
troops, 14 carloads of provisions,
1144 carloads of aviation bombs,
mines and shells, nine carloads of
sheepskins, three carloads of per -
tonal effects t,f officers and sol-
diers, nine carloads of motorcy-
cles, one carload of bicycles.
"Captured' ammunition dumps,
according to preliminary esti-
mates," said the Information
Rvreau, "contained 20,360 shells
and 1,190 cases of shells and 12,-
910 mines, 6,193,000 cartridges."
Why They Rutt
On every front where they have
been engaged in this war, the
Italians have not merely been
thrashed, but thrashed by greatly
inferior numbers. The armies of
I:'asoieet ran away, not because
the Italians are nota brave race,
but because their heart is not in
a l;. ituitoue conflict :foisted on
these by a Iunntlo leadership.
DEFENDERS OF OUR PACJFIC COASTLINE
In grim earnest, American troops man a mach ine gun behind sandbag bank "somewhere on the
west coast." Their job of training to protect our P acifie coastline is no longer just a "war game.'
THE WAR - WEEK — Cominentary on Current Events
Position of Russia and Germany
After Seven Months of Fighting
On Jan. 1, 1941, Hitler boasted
",Soldiers, the year 1941 will
bring consummation of the great -
eat victory in our history." On
Jan. 1, 1942, Hitler hoped "the
year 1942 should — and we
pray God that it may — bring
the decision which will save our
people."
In the first half of the twelve
month period between these two
speeches, the full force of Hit-
ler's Blitzkrieg in England failed
to destroy England or to damage
the morale of the British people.
In the second half of the year
the unparalleled strength of the
Nazi armies and air force failed
utterly to conquer Russia.
Hitler's Plan
Seven months ago it seemed
incredible that Hitler would at-
tack Russia. It was thought by
the Allies that the existing econ-
omic pact between the two • come -
teles would develop into an out-
right military alliance. In retro-
spect it would appear that Hitler
considered Russia to be poten-
tially hostile. Germany could not
launch an .all-out attack upon
England with the menace of the
Bed army in her rear. There-
fore, the Nazi plan was to clean
up the Russians, in a few weeks,
and then finish off England.
Nazi Time -Table
When the Nazi armies invaded
Russia last June, the whole world
had the previous Nazi time -tables
in mind. Hitler had conquered
Poland in three weeks, Holland in
four days, Belgium in two weeks,
France in a month. He had
crushed Ytigoslavia in ten days.
Greece in ten days, and captured
Crete by air in another ten days.
With each conquest he had in-
creased his supplies of food and
materials for war.
Advance in Russia
The almost universal assump-
tion was that Hitler's conquest of
Russia would proceed with thea
usual speed of the Nazi war ma-
chine. For a short time that
speed was maintained. One week
after the invasion had begun the
German High Conunand announc-
ed
nnounceed that, in a sweeping advance,
the German army had inextricably
trapped half a million Russians
and had destroyed vast numbers
of Russian tanks and planes.
All through the summer and
autumn months German successes
continued, until in September the
Supreme German Command an-
nounced the' successful conclusion
east of Kiev, of "the greatest
battle of annihilation of this war
and all history." They claimed:
that in this battle. alone the Ruse
sians had lost • 665,000 prisoners.
Nazi Claims
Hitler's armies • had advanced
along the whole of the 2,000 mile
front and were hammering at the
gates of Leningrad and Moscow
and advancing into the Crimea,
Hitler admitted that "we have
been mistaken about one thing.
We had no idea how gigantic the
preparations of this enemy were."
To the sweeping claims of 2,500,-
000 Russian, prisoners, the cap.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred Neher
"Ruth
lets me
listen to all the Joe Louis fights.
she doesn't mind them."
They're so
short
ture or destruction of 18,000
tanks and 14,500 airplanes, he an-
nounced that "Russia is already
broken and will never rise again."
Nazis Bog Down
Then there appeared signs of the
change that has assumed such tre-
mendous proportions. In places
the Nazi drive began to bog down.
Early in November Dr. Goebbels
issued his revealing warning that
the German people must resign
itself to a "hard and relentless
war." But only a few days later
Hitler was still boasting that the
Soviet had suffered casualties of
at Least 8,000,000 to 10,000,000
:nen, and "from such a blow no
army in the world could recover,
not even the Russians."
Russian Counter Offensive
Then the Russians reorganized
their positions. With the aid of
fresh troops from. the East and
the merciless cold of the Russian
winter they began to push the
Germans westward as far, in some
places, as the lines they occupied
last August. The siege of Lenin-
grad was raised, Moscow was no
longer in danger and the Russian
offensive in the Crimea appeared
to promise the complete eviction
of the Germans from that strate-
gic peninsula.
Generaiisaimo Hitler
Late in December the signifi-
cant and sensational announce-
ment was made that Hitler had
removed Field -Marshal General
von Brauchtisch who led the Ger-
man armies into Russia, and that
Hitler himself had assumed the
personal command. of the entire
Gertnan armed forces. The little
corporal of World War 1 was now
Generalissimo of World War 2.
Seeking an explanation for this
move, neutral observers believed
that the German reverses in Rus-
sia—which Berlin discounted as a
strategic withdrawal to winter
holding positions—were so seri-
ous that Hitler had lost faith in
his Army Command, and that a
serious rift had developed be-
tween German .Army Leaders and
Nazi Party chieftans on a ques-
tion of strategy.
Nazi Retreat
We do not know how long the
present remarkable German re-
treat in Russia will continue, It
appears to be Hitler's plan to hold
as much Russian terrain as he can
until the conning of summer;
there is very little spring -time in
Russia. Then, the German propa-
gandists say, the Nazis will un-
dertake a great offensive to
crush the Russians and reach the •
oil fields of the Caucasus.
Even though "Germanys mili-
tary operations have entered an
extremely serious and indeed a
critical phase," the Nazi war ma-
chine is still a :nighty force and
should not be underestimated. On
the other hand, though Russia
may have been gravely weakened,
she is still very much in the war,
Chinese Give Aid
The Australian radio said that
e Chinese labor corps has been
forted in Singapore, attached
to the Australian Imperial Force,
to release all troops for front Iine
duties,
The broadcast said the Chinese
were working three eight-hour
shifts.
INDIVIDUAL
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A Weekly Coiurnoi About This and That in The Canadian Asko
"Why does our army need re-
infercement when it has not yet
done any fighting?"
Now there's a real question—a
question that was welcomed by the
Director General of Medical Serve
ices when, in behalf of the ques-
tioner and readers of this column,
I posed it to him the other day.
The reason. believe it or not, is
traceable to our bad habit in civil-
ian life of not calling in a doctor
until most of the damage Is done.
You see, I, am :speaking from ex-
perience. in civilian life if you have
a stomach-ache you balance your
discomfort against the $2.00 or $3,00
a physician's call would cost. If the
ache disappears you forget all
about it—if it persists you call in
the doctor much later than you
ahouid have.
But in the Army—that's differ-
ent! Medical attention is free and
when you "fall in on siek parade"
. you miss a chill or so. Small won-
der, then, that medical officers
have a chance to find out incipient
troubles before they have a chance
to develop into possible dangerous
illnesses. Of course, there is an-
other thing the "M.O." finds out
rpt the same time -he finds out if
yon are "swinging the lead," in
which event — this, too, comes
from eimerieuce—you are apt to
get "2 No. 's and full duty."
You may be inclined to question,
as I did, the "stomach-aches." The
answer to that question is that
what seems like an ordinary stom-
achs may be an ulcer which caught
early enough ' in civilian life is
capable of control by special dietary
arrangements such, as for instance,
a glass of milk and a biscuit be-
tween breakfast and lunch, and a
cup of tea and some toast between
luncb. and dinner, with possibly the
addition of a slight raid on the re-
frigerator before turning in.
You couldn't do it in my day and
it is no more possible in the in-
dividual citizen's army of this
generation to arrange to call off an
attack or the movement of big guns
or the transfer of troops from one
place to another while you have
a glass of milk or biscuit. hence,
therefore, men whose condition re,
quires such treatment must be
found jobs at the base or, if there
is no rooms there, must return to
civilian life where they will be per-
fectly capable of carrying on.
The stomach. is only one phase
—an impoa•tant one if Napoleon's
dictum that "an army mantel en
its stomach" was eorreet..But the
Army, even though It is highly me-
chanized, gone the less still .ruin
dies on its feet. It macltcs u .til,
precision and this precision Is mot
just to please a drill instruotoir.
It is because you must have aleam
lute control of a unit on the mo9'e
You undoubtedly know of several
cases where "flat feet" do not tn.
teeters in the sllghteet 'with the
workaday activities of loeomolav$
engineers, even postmen and mete
in a dozen other vocations. MO
reason is that within th.o litnl:tss,.
tions of their jobs they Fran chows.
their own time, go from .here to
there and largely oonteol f.h4
length of time they can take te
it. Put one of those men in the
Amy where be must be prepared.
to move with his unit at'a niomelu.w•'a
notice, to stay with that 'salt coins,
what may anclf the disability whton
was not a disability in civilianelife
poses another problem fir date
medical cancer.
Until I pestered army acetone
for the answer to the tiuestiott,
"Why do you need re1nforeemente
when there is no fighting?" T lues
inclined to chuckle with glee al
the patriotic volunteer Who nut one
over the Medical Board and dolt
into the Ariny despite a +.leafrt that
he knew existed._ I have Changed
my tune now that I look at It front
the point of view of the taxpaa'er
who pays that man. his 81,30 e day.
I hare no doubt that ire:Wng 1) lit
patriotism underlies the .lesire to
outwit a Medical Boatel, ;tut when
flnaily the defect so sk ,t'ully tom
erect up becomes apparent the mis-
taken patriot has cost leis fellow
taxpayers hundreds of duilass and,
is himself unable to fulfil, tho high
duty of lighting for his -count:,.
He is another of the Ft -aeons why
the individual citizen's nate needs
reinforcements while there is uaa
fighting.
A. few paragraphs bark i. quoted
the old phrase for a man Who re-
ports sick when there is notithi,g
wrong with hint—"swin iiig the
lead"—perhaps • some stedent of
military slang can euliglir.en us as
to the meaning of this eine. "Ota
hand, it looks as though itr' origin..
would come from the Senieg Ser taco
but what the connection t,etweeti
ntn in the chains shun=sling tiro
depths of the ocean has T. do wtiit
reporting sicic, I don't know — X10
you?'
Leaders Broadcast
Christmas Messages
Greatest and most moving
thing in the Christmas broadcasts
of His Majesty the King and
Prime Minister Churchill and
President Roosevelt was not in
any art of oratory. It was in
the deep, reverent note struck
by all three of humility and trust
in God.
Said the King:
"If skies before us are still
dark and threatening, there are
stars to guide us on our way.
Never did heroism shine more
brightly than it does now, nor
fortitude, nor sacrifices, nor
sympathy, nor neighborly kind-
nees,
"And with them the brightest
of all stars is our faith in God.
These stars we will follow with
His help until light shall shine
and darkness shall collapse."
Said President Roosevelt:
"Against enemies who preach
the principles of hate and prae-
tisi them we set our faith in hu-
man love and in God's care for
us and all men everywhere,"
Said Mr. Churchill:
"With God's help we shall wits
to security for our children."
Confidently, we can contrast
these words with the torrents of
hate and pompous pride that
come from the lips of our en-
emies. An English winter once
spoke of "the solemn beauty of
the Christian dream which gives
strength to our ,patient power,"
It is that dream, pitted against
paganism and barbarism, that is
our stay today.
Churchill Calls
For Total War
"In this strange, to:•riia,' world
war, there is a place fee e•, eri,
one, man and woman, old and
young, hale and halt. Service in
a thousand forms is epee. There
is no room now for the rhiettant.e,
for the weakling, for the shiiater
or the sluggard. The nano, the
factory-, the dockyard, - ite salt
sea wave, the fields to 1i11, tis
hone, the hospital, the :Mair of
the scientist, the pulpit of the.
preacher — from the highest to
the humblest, the tasks ere all of
equal honor. All have utete Part
to play. The eneniiee ranged.
against us have asked fer total
war. Let us make sure -::slat they
get it."
Fortune In Toys
For Medical Man
~
Alfred Gilbert,who :...feinted
with the degree of ,II.Lt from.
Yale in 1909, made a fertunc- .
but not out of pills, pot:one and
medical advice, relates The Tc..
ronto Telegram.
Crossing a railroad ri,lgc in
New York State one day be was
inspired with the idea of making
structural toys for children, and
borrowed $12,000 to get the buss
ness started, His factoeye which
builds a modernized :form of the
old-time building blocks, .,.,ow ern -
ie
ploys nearly 1,000 men veld wrw-
n.
A. light -weight tank earriee
about four tons of urmo.. platac
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