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Zurich Herald, 1942-01-29, Page 6VOICE PRESS FtrruRE 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 fel, eggs in Brit- ain, he pointed out, makes condi•, tions favorable fox farmers in this country, and dais situation will oontinue 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 farmer is the one who will not wait until that necessity arises. He will begin at once to study methods whereby he may reduce costs. By doing so at once —and Mr. Bray assures that it era be done—a permanent mar- ket can be guaranteed. —Windsor Star —0_ 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 to the s ee n ouneut, 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 me of redemption by the bank; more so, if anything. Moreover the money le 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 31,678 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 sha 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 ent could be produced in perpetu- ity on an area of less than two hundred square miles. —Canadian National Revenue Review. _e— JAP — HUN — WOP Mr. Churchill told reporters in Ottawa he didn't like the word "Jap''—it "seemed too familiar." Too 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 "Wop," —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, learnt, sandbagged, walked upon, nit upon, held up, held down, flattened out.and squeezed by in genie 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 'to see what is going to happen next." --Peterborough Examiner —0— ICELANDIC WEATHER The name Iceland connotes frigidity. Yet we are told that $!3s lowest temperature at its capi- tal in winter is only six below sora, 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 —0— OTHER THINGS NEEDED One license plate instead of two le expected to he the order in On- tario next year, But even that's one too many—if you haven't a car to put it on, or have a car without gasoline. it. Thomas Times -Journal, .47 4414 r 477 4 "THS, ISSUE IS CI -EARLY DRAWN ..." Appealing for hemispheric unity, Under Secretary of State Slime nor 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." 43414-77374.141,71774.71 THE WAR - WEEK --- Cormentary on Current Events Hope For Hemisphere Solidarity At Parley 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 or adher- enee 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 he stressed. There are only two routes by which Un- ;ted States shipping can move from the east to the west coasts —one through the Straits of Mag- eIlan. around Cape Horn, 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 oe from • the German air field in Brazil, 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 oouutry of 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 with the Axis powers it might not he long before the ap- pearance in the South Pacific of German and Japanese warcraft. West coast countries are most vulnerable. Valparaiso, C h i's most important port, is unprotect - LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neiuer eseane- g us Mo®ERNis rw "So young and throwing their lives away like that." ao is also Callao, Peru's prin- opal port, and Lima, the capital Peru is within reach of naval guns. The centre of Argentina's oil industry is on the coast and spored to attack. The question arises, would the United States have to send warships to South America, at the,cost od weakening its strength elsewhere, to protect these strategic points? B'rom Argentina the United States wants: (1) The speedy pro- duction of critical materials such as tin and rubber, (2) complete military co-operation with United States use of bases at strategic points, and (3) the shutdown of German business firms "bootleg- ging" war materials through the Atlantic blockade. Besides tin and rubber, the United States needs, and needs them quickly, hemp, in- dustrial diamonds and chemicals. Argentina claimed, just before .the Conference "This America of ours 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 lJho tragic history of what befell them, says the New York Times, end while the Conference at Rio de Janeiro is still in session, the words of Mr, Churchill 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 conven- tions, and that breaches of these laws are only to be expected from the German side. Each 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 coarses 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 through united action. In our own hemi- sphere the common 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 Europe 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 xnaterial, time, space and man- power. The Association said that the President's demand for 125,000 planes and 75,000 tanks in 1943 meant turning out a plane every seven minutes. The President's estimator 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 program would be about 140,- 000,000 square 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. "Sone idea of the size of this program is shown by the fact that to -produce (30,000 airplanes (the number called for by the Presi- dent for 1942) and with plants working 365 days a year and 24 •*hours a day, one plane could be turned out every nine minutes," the Association said, NDIVIDU I SPLWEIN A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Arrog 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 "the greatest mail• order house in the world'' To- day all those claims have gone 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 mis-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" laid 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 yogi need hospital beds? Indent on Or., dnance for them. Have you e)y recruit with out -size feet? Doak your unit need a cobbler's wave skis, snowshoes, a caterpillar tray. tor, spare parts for a 25 -pounder gun, worsted shoulder -badger's stripes for N.C.O.'s? Ask Orae. nance. Ordnance is not just a bi store. Ordnance supplies skilled! tradesmen who maintain the aro moured and other vehicles whits equip the. Army, The wos "master" as applied to the R. , 0. C., is well -applied. Many of itsel Men are master -mechanics. They were before enlistment, or they have beep trained in schools op' erated by Ordnance. In the Great War, 1914.1919 Ordnance supplied the fathers of today's Canadian Army with "G. S. Wagons" and horses. Today it supplies your army with the thou. sands of mechanized vehicles re- quired to wage all-out warfare. To do this and do it rapidly i 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." Thie 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 -wifely as prao.• tised by soldiers of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps today is of a more complicated nature. Do you need a special gadget? Give an Ordnance man a can -op- ener, some 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 automatically as soon as the target is within range. There is nothing especially new. to this method of firing. eliaval guns are fired autoniatie4.;rjy, 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': "Touay the initiative lies with Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Chi- ang liar-Shek 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 .he 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, his own head government, his own cominander-in-chief, . his , own di- rector for foreign Quislings. For he has nowhere to go and no one to see; He has reached the end of the dictatorial road." The '`ook Si elt STORM -By' George R. Stewart All novels are based on varia- tions of a comparatively few fundamental themes, in "Storm" George Stewart has deeelo,'ed an entirely new theme, unless, per. haps, the mythical tale of the Valkyries was his insei -.tion. 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 iii all the scientific aspects of her career and presents her in a laaeuage that is clear to the layman's mind. A junior meteorologi:.t in the California Weather Bureau dis-. covered Maria, a more or less harmless low-pressure area, south- east of Yokohama, Japan. Ceosse- ing the Pacific, Maria ruched California in all the fury of a tempestuous blizzard and down- pour of rain, bringing destrection, damage and death. lint Maria, as is the way of human nateru, 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. "Stern'' is well chosen as the l3ook of the Month for December, Storm ., . by George R. Stewart The Macmillan Company of Canada ... Price X3.00. ATTENTION KNITTERS! Then, there's the si:ory of the fellow who stuck his head inside Red CCioss headquarters and said to the knitting ladies: "Remember Pearl Harbor, and purl harder!" ---Stratford Beacon -Herald REG'LAR FELLERS—Handle With Kid Cloves YOU SIMPLY WILL HAVE To GyET RIO OF 'MAT DOQ OF YOURS M HE'S TO AMBITIOUS r ia, t_,. EVERY TIME L TRY TO FEED HIM 14E SNAP. Ar MY FINGERS f LOOK AT THAT/ I'M SORRY, MOM BUT x'LL, FIX IT So HS WONT HURT, YOU AH MORE �'.L'D HATE to Lose hM/ By GENE BYRNES C3. k. t.MOM ,1US' SLIP THESE ON AN' TRY "IM AGAIN WITH A HUNK OF MEAT A .7. ITN