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Zurich Herald, 1943-01-07, Page 3VOICE OF THE PRESS ONLY THE BEGINNING ')Before this war is over it is more than probable that our liv- ing standards will be so drastically changed that not a single person in Canada but will realize what sacrifice really means. We are only just at •the beginning. We have to go a long way yet before we shall catch up with our fellow - citizens in Britain—if, indeed, we ever do. The one fact we have to keep .ever before us, day by day, is that, no matter what sacri- fice we are called upon to make, we must be ready to make it, and willing to face it. That way alone 'Victory lies. —Petrolia Advertiser -Topic —0— WINNING ONE RACE The Italians are reported in the van of the enemy retreat in .. Africa. 'When the British cut off :a section of Marshal Rommel's .arener•, it is understood most of those in the trap were Germans. The Italians had gone on ahead, getting out in front in the race to the rear. The Italians have to show some prowess on the battlefield, so they are running faster than the Roche. —Windsor Star —0— WITH A CAPITAL "M" In Retailers' Bulletin the W. P- T. B. spells it "Schicklegruber"; in a recent Victory Loan adver- tisement the Department of Fi- nance had it "Schickelgruber"; Hitler's ol,i man used to spell it d/Schicklgruber" — but actually the Fuehrer's name is mud. —Fort Erie Times -Review —0— A YOUNG OLD ONE It may be hard to get a boy as a helper here but what must it be In Cardiff, Wales, when this placard was placed outside a shop: "Boy wanted, not over 70"?. —St.' Thomas Times -Journal —0— THE OLD DAYS • We can remember the time when "shortage" only meant that the cashier had skipped out with some funds. —Brandon Sun —0— CHEER UP! Don't let the price of butter upset you. It can be made from grass. All you need is a cow and a. ehuru. —Chatham News S G,AR BORROWING Remember when you could slip In next-door and borrow a cup of eager 't --Stratford Beacon -Herald :- —0— TWO EXTREMES You can't think on a low level and live. on a high plane. —Kitchener Record iifeu d resin Is being produced imp Svraden and will be used in Many ways. WISHFUL WAAC PIGGY -BACK POSSUM The lazy fellow astride his pal's back has had most of Auckland, N. Z., in stitches because he even dines on his favorite pereb so that his fellow opossums cannot snitch his dinner. THE UNCONQUERA "THE DAY IS COMING—" er 1. Danek, for so we shall call him, was a child of the mountains. But as a youth he had developed a mechanical turn, and when 1939 rolled round, the little shepherd boy was no longer recognizable in the city chauffeur, who was then further transformed into an avi- atiou. mechanic. When, after weeks of desperate fighting, the Polish forces had to surrender, Janek be- came a prisoner of the Germans, from whom he escaped to Soviet territory, and then to Warsaw. There personal tragedy awaited him. His home had been bombed to rubble and his family killed. Although not recognized as an escaped prisoner -of -war, his free - dam was shortlived. The Reich had need of laborers. Janek. was strong and excellent for farm work, the Germans judged—though Janek did not tell them so—and soon he found himself hired out as forced labor on a German farm. * * To . the German authorities, the Pole was a serf and they quite overlooked the possibility of his being clever. He laughed as he told the Warsaw lady to whom he had come with a letter from her husband do the Reich, about his "service" to his "employers"; how he, a peasant child, familiar from infancy with farm animals and farm tools, had played the clumsy fool. How he could never remem- ber to feed the cows at the. proper time and ruined the milk supply; '�1tow • he =soked then wagon, and ruined farm tools. Iii short, how he spoiled everything he touched. * * * Thus because of his apparent inability to do anything right and the damage he did, he was pro- nounced worthless and returned to Poland. Back on his native soil, LES he suddenly 'was no longer the rustle, heavy-handed bungler. The light which he had so carefully shielded during his labors in Ger- many, came back in his eyes. So it was that Janek joined the underground army which is making ready for the "day that Is con- ing"—working stolidly, waiting 41mpatiently—hoping for the orders that will say that the moment is at hand. "For," he firmly asserted, "the day is coming when 'they' will lack the iron they hurled at uS and without it they are worth nothing. Then one of us will handle a dozen of them." —Christian Science Monitor. Never Again The "Never Again" Association of Great Britain defines its pro- gram as follows: "Never again must the German people ,be allowed to organize for war; "Never 'Again must we war and lose the peace; "Never again must we sign any Treaty with any German Govern- ment until the German people have proved, that they can honor their pledges and behave as good neighbors; "Never again must the British be caught napping; "Never again must the seeur-• Sty of this country 'and the lives of our children be'jea1 trdised b`e� cause of a mistaken tenderness to brutes; "Never again must we listen to the lies of Germany's friends in our midst; "Never again must we rely •on anything but our own strong aim and that of our proved friends." win a LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher 0 el la it .� t r „ Mfs' i , � +' 4f ,'r no ' t'e r •i, inn t+, , ® r,e, F ,'Ii /I' !,'flat' let/t,,,, t nn:', + Y 1",fdil rl, 1 "Mom caught Trim burying one of her biscuits." Bluey and Curley of the Anzacs THE WAR • WEEK Commentary on Current Events Rising ng Marks in January of Power Of United Nations The T 'ruing Of The Tide 1942 the days the tempo of the silent battle of the underground; June This is the month of drama, though the drama did not burst upon the world until a day in November. In tbe White Rouse at Washington President Roosevelt and Prince Minister Churchill die - cussed "the war, the conduct of the war and the winning of the war." They talked against a grim background, The . Weiirmacbt was battering the last redoubts of Sevastopol and surging toward the Don. The Af- i'iea Corgis took Tobruk and swept deeply into Egypt: Despite hard counterblows—the Red Army's fierce resistance, the R. A. F.'s massive raids on the Rhineland, the American Navy's great victory off Midway—the United Nations were still losing. Such was the cheerless canvas of the global conflict as the two leaders reached a momentous de- cision. They decided on a grand offensive to be launched in 1942. It was designed -to win North Af- rica, Prico as. a prelude to attack on the Axis domain in Europe. In utmost secrecy .orders went out for the start of immense preparations. were dark for the United Nations in the East, nor was there much Omer in the West, says a writer in the New York Times, Tlie wave a comt:est unleashed at Pearl Herber was flowing toward its high-water mark. The Red Army and the terrible Winter of the Steppes were 'beating against the Wehrmaeht, but Marshal Rommel in .Libya and U-hoats in American coastal waters were striking pow- erful blows. Everywhere the Al- lies fought desperately for time— time to mobilize latent power, to co-ordinate separate efforts, to catob up in preparation with their enemies. The outline of the Allied plan took shape. In the military, field the task was to hold basic fronts -- a strong line in 'Russia, a bastion in Britain, a new Pacific defense anchor in Australia. In the pro- duction field a wartime goal was set by President Roosevelt for the world's mightiest industrial ma- ciiine. In the diplomatic field, the informal alliance of the anti -ag- gressor nations became the form- al pact of the United Nations, pledged to common victory. February It was Japan's month again. The dominating event was the fall of Singapore, the mighty anchor of the Allied defense line stretching across the Eastern seas to Pearl Harbor. March The Rising Sun touched the zenith of it conquest in Java, Bur- ma and the Australian islands. In a little more than three months the aggressors In the East had won 1,000;000 square miles of ter- ritory inhabited by more than 100,000,000 people. They held the world's most important sources of rubber, tin, quinine and hemp, as well as rich • oil fields, inexhaust- ible supplies of foodstuffs, valu- able iron, wolfram, manganese and capper deposits. They were bol-, stored now for a long struggle. The Allied world could only hope that the battles in Oceania and Asia were wearing down the Japanese, that the campaign in Russia was sapping German pow-. ere It cried for a shift from de- fensive' to offensive strategy. The c y was premature. America's fac- ies and training camps—the eight that might turn the battle were still mobilizing for total ar, a Tie greatest developments were on America's production front. In the words of Donald Nelson, Am- erica's production chief, "the decks • had been cleared" The auto in- dustry was the symbol. It had come pleted the ripping out of great' peacetime conveyor belts, had in- stalled machines to -make guns, tanks and planes. Now full-scale production was in sight. On the battlefields the Allies held grimly to delaying actions. the delaying ,in the Philippines drew to a close; Bataan fell to the Japanese,,the severest defeat ever suffered by the United States overseas. Only in the air were por- tents bright. Thee bombing of To- kyo and the heavy raids on Germ- anys Baltic shore were evidence of mounting Allied air power. May Both sides were girding for a new phase of the global conflict. The aggressors struck the first blow. A Japanese thrust, aimed either at Australia or the Pacifio supply line between America and the Antipodes, was beaten back sharply in the Coral Sea. But the German thrust took shape as Hit- ler's most , grandiose, a colossal pincers' drive, one arm through Southern Russia, the other through Egypte to- thj, foodstuffs and oil of tbe CaAiiKbus and the Middle Bast. "In.thee East," the Fuehrer had said,. "`dull decision will fall:14 He had to hkrry. The shipyards of America:;; were now launching two vesselsp••day to ferry muni- tions dud-'"rsren to the world's battlefronts. The big bombers Were shuttling over to 'England, *here commanders spoke confi- dently of 1,000 -plane raids on the Reich. The subjugated millions in the Axis realm were stepping up July Not since German canon were heard in Moscow's suburbs had • Russia's peril been so grave. The vanzers rumbled again at Blitz pace. Thirty thousand square miles of fertile steppe were put behind them within the month, and they were rolling hard through the Donside's feather` grass, its rye and wheat, its old Cossack villages, toward the Vol- ga and the Caucasus. if Hitler could command the lower banks of Russia's "Mother River," if he could seize the Caucasus, a ter- rible, perhaps mortal, blow would be inflicted on the Soviet. Major oil resources ,would be last, the southern route of supply from the outer world via Iran and the Cas- pian would be severed. The burden of battle lay still on the broad back of the Red Army, and though the dry went up for a second front to easethe load it was yet in vain. The British were hard 'pressed to stop Rommel some seventy miles from the Nile Delta. The United States needed more time to mobilize. But, be- hind the visible scene, weapons from the American mass -produc- tion lines were moving overseas and with them were going masses of troops, August Most Americans had never heard of Guadalcanal. They Learn- ed quickly, after the marines ar- rived, about Its strategic place in the Southwestern Pacific. An air- field hacked out of its coconut groves by the Japanese could com- mand approaches to Australia and the supply line between the Un- ited States and the smallest con- tinent. When the Americans seiz- ed it, theyblunted the farthest prong of Japan's advances in Oc- eania and changed the tide of battle in one corner df the East. The Solomons action was im- portant, spectacular and hearten- ing, eartening, but the first front was still Russia. And in Russia the focus was Stalingrad. The Wehrmacht pushed toward the key city on the Volga and toward the epic battle that may stand as the Verdun of World War II. Russia, more than ever, wanted a second front. It fell upon Prime Minister Churc- hill to tell Joseph Stalin that an invasion of Europe could not be promised for 1942. Instead, the British and Americans would seek to divert German strength by an attack on North Africa. September To Sieg -healing followers in Ber- lin's Sportspalast the Fuehrer de- elared: "We must hold everything and wait to see who tires soon- est." His words were a significant admission: His grand drive for the East had fallen short. In the Pacific the initiative also seemed to be slipping from Japa- nese hands. October Powerful Allied action—in the Solomone, aeross Egypt—held the stage. On the battlegrounds the most cheering news came from the Solo - mons, where a formidable Japes nese fleet' was repulsed by the American Navy. Reports were fav» orahle, too, from Alamein, where the British were batterhig Roan- mel's fortifications. Nm The whole coovempleberxion war changed. As the Americans splashed ashore in North Africa, the mo- mentous decision taken In the White Souse in June, the great secret preparations of Summer and Fall,were revealed. A major diversion had been created to re- lieve Russia, a ring of steel w'e being forged around Germany. The crucial turn in World War II seem- ed at hand. Hitler's reaction was strgpg and, essentially defensive. He dispatch- ed troops to Tunisia, key to the Central Mediterranean. He occu- pied all France and snatched for the fleet at Toulon, only to see it go down, self -scuttled. Ile and the Duce had to put aside the dream of a march to the Nile. December Everywhere .the United Dations were on the move or dealing ef- fective ffective blows—in North Afrion, In Russia, in the air over Germany, in Oceania and in Burma. They were activating overseas France for a powerful role. They were un- dermining Italian resistance with bombs and propaganda. Germany, and Japan weise far from beaten; it seemed certain that they were girding to wrest back the initia- tive, But they were much nearer to being beaten than at the,year's start. of the SCOUTING One of Canada's busiest men, Jackson Dodds, has retired as Gen- eral Manager of the Bank of Montreal. Although holding one of the most important administra- tive banking positions in the conn- try, Mr. Dodds has always found time for an active interest in the Boy Scouts Association, being chairman of the finance commit- tee of the Canadian General Coun- cil. Mr. Dodds will continue to take an active interest in the Boy Scouts. , * Former Scout leaders, now on active service, continue to give service to Scouting. The Nova Scotia Provincial Council reports that Don Lopees of the R.C.A.F., former Scoutmaster of St. Cath- arines, gives six nights a week to assisting troops in the Maritimes, while Pat Evans, a former Que- bec leader, has made 13 visits to Maritime Troops., The twp •'airmen also ' conducted a leaders'' ..caining cotixse; at' :dney7: L`T. S. Boy Scouts of Great Britain played no small part in producing the greatest harvest in British history this past summer. Boy Scout Troops all over the nation operated "Dig for Victory" gar- dens, and raised thousands of tons of vegetables for home consump- tion. Canadian Scouts supplied them with,1,000 pounds of garden seeds. * * * Boy Scouts of the Punjab; .I'n- dia, are mourning the tragic"death of one of the world's greatest Scouts, Wing Commander H. W. Hogg, C.I.E., O.B.E., Commis- sioner for the State of. Punjab. Commissioner Hogg. built up the organization in that state from a few thousand boys to more than 100,000. Re was killed by dis- gruntled Ghandi followers, tot gether with his son, while journey- ing to his Air Force post. Com- missioner Hogg did as much as any man in India to break down the barriers of caste, and scores of his Boy Scout Troops had a mem- bership composed of boys oil all castes. * * * Dr. George L Christie, Presi- dent of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, told a recent rally of Boy Scout leaders in To- ronto that the war has roembed Canada of ninny of its brightest young men, and thus it becomes essential that the Boy Scouts be adequately trained to shoulder the heavy burdens that lie ahead. Facing a salt shortage, South Africa is making it from bring pumped from shellow pita. "Tough on the Dog" DO You STILL FEED IR' MASCOT ON t OG ' Bt6CGitT5 , BLUE 11 MAK tT DOWN, `iE CAN'T AFFORD DOCS BtscurrS PNY Mcrae By Gurney (Awqraiia) t1E S GOT 10 EAT AkA /lA taiFiA1 WEAi NOW d \N\ T el There's something about a so - Clete oven a feminine env, Mrs, %ur:na Lee Tnylor evidently fig tared. Police say she got her: e s trim -looking uniform and went about impersonating a WAAC, ;ho'S shown "alx'r in custody ni Atlanta, where 111,1ori :i �!;: etre holding! herd for investigetione