Zurich Herald, 1943-08-05, Page 6STREET SCENE .IN SICILY
Sicilians young and old—some with "balcony seats'—turn out to watch the Yanks march through
eapture•d town on road to victory in Sicily.
Side By Side With War Eff'. rt
All k F >ritain Plan For Peace
And The Nation's Health improves
By Sidney Horniblow
Side by side with Britain's
mighty war effort, there is being
evolved a blueprint for the coming
years of peace. And while Britain
as a nation makes plans for the
post.-vcrory era, the individual ap-
proach is not being overlooked.
One small instance of this is
to be found in the fact that 130,
000 cf London's war workers are,
even now, devoting their scanty
leieuse hours to studies at the
Evening Institutes.
Arn ng other things they are
learnir: arts 'and crafts. agricul-
ture and nursing, elementary meq-
£cine and languages—to fit them-
selves for future careers when
there is no further need to en-
gage in munition -making and civil
defefi e duties.
A New Electric Age
Whtle they follow their studies,
varieus organisations announce
their pians for a post-war Britain.
The British Electrical industry,
for example, has many things in
mind to improve the home life
of the people. They include:
Lamps that • will give the home
two -and -a -half times the present
Illumination at no greater con-
sumption of current than now; in-
visible heating of rooms from the
walls: "rationalised" wiring instal-
Ptions, with all meters, main
eitches and fuses in one wail
a r £net containing interchange -
a Ile :uses that even a child eau
handle in safety; radio direct from
the mains; and refrigerators with-
in reach of the family with even
the lowest income.
Home -Made Clothes
Meanwhile, problems of clothing
and food continue to, engage the
attention of Britain's home front.
Economy is the order of the day,
both to save raw materials and
shipping space, and to provide
money for the war chest.
In this, the women play a lead-
ing part. A new tendency, just re -
reeled, is to cut out the purchase
-ady-matte •clothing, and to
Iluy, instead, material from which
elotht's can be made at home. The
development is particularly no-
ticeable in London. The increase
In retail sales of dress materials
in May was three per cent. over
the cafes in May last year, and
that followed a trend which has
been steadily upward in recent
a month:.
Sales of dress materials by one
1pondon store have increased by a
third in the past year, and eight
out of every ten women customers
ask for pattern and dressmaking
Instruction booklets at the same
dime.
Frock From Garden Seat
Ingenuity knows no bounds when
it conies to women's war -time
fashions. Consider the clothes dis-
played at a Home Front Exhibi-
tion in Manchester this week: A
check coat -frock made 'front a fifty-
year -old fishing suit,' a dressing
gown designed from travellers'
samples, and a house frock that
was once the cloth on a garden
seat. The clothes had been made
by pupils of the city's Evening
School of Economy.
Types of Toys Limited
Even children's toys come with-
in the scope of war rationalisation.
To avoid waste of labour and ma-
terials there will be five main
types of toys available in Britain
next Christmas. They will be:
Dolls. soft plush toys including
stuffed .animals and the like, wood-
en engines and trucks, model air-
craft and indoor games.
The roaxinium .controlled price
after October 1 will be 24s.5d. re-
tail. This will mesa that more
costly ta.ys that have not been
sold by that date will lee put into
storage until after the war.
More Vegetables Grown
Total war is changing Britain's
eating habits and for the first time
the value of vegetables is fully
appreciated. People have improv-
ed their methods of cooking and,
better still, have learned to eat a
wide variety of vegetables raw, to
obtain the maximum amount of
vitamins and mineral salts which
are so often lost In careless cook-
ing.
To meet the increased demand,
farmers, market gardeners and the
people themselves, are growing
more vegetables than even before.
The total national production- of
vegetables has grown from three
million to four million tons a year.
Maternal Mortality Falls
}Iow does change of diet affect
the health and general well-being
of Britain's people?
Let the figures speak for them-
selves. Britain's birth rate in the
first quarter of this year was the
highest recorded for 15 years. In
1942 both infant and maternal
mortality rates were at new low
levels. The infant mortality rate
of 49 per thousand live births was
the lowest on record.
In the fourth year of war, moth-
ers and children are being pro-
vided with more health -giving foods
than they were in the habit of tak-
ing for themselves in peace -tine.
And on top of all this both moth-
ers and children are drinking con-
siderably more milk than they
-drank in peace -time.
Expectant Mother and Baby
Still another concession for ex-
pectant mothers is announced this
week. From July 25 the expectant
mother will be entitled to two ra-
tion books. the second, a modified
child's book, will enable her to
obtain supplies of food additional
to her normal adult rations—this,
of course, before baby comes.
Under this new plan the expect-
ant mother will he entitled to a
priority supply of seven pints of
milk a week plus her normal non-
-priority supply. She will get twice
as many eggs, a ration and a half
of meat, oranges as they are avail-
able and orange juice and cod liv-
er oil compound.
Between date of; landing in
North Africa and the middle of
May British troops smoked 450,-
000,000 cigarettes and ate 9,000,-
000 bars of chocolate. Since April
lit 2,500,000 British airgraphs
were dealt with. 25,000 bags of
mall were received from Britain.
Subs S I.; end Third
Of Time Submerged
British submarines on opera-
tions lurk beneath the water about
four months out of twelve, accord-
ing to Commander.. Ben Bryant,
one of the Navy's aces.
About three-fifths of the year
were spent on patrol, he said, "but
generally submarine crews are
happy as the day is long. They
spend their spare time in childish
games, Ludo and cribbage main-
ly„
"There is plenty of laughter,"
he told a BBC audience, "Few of
us would swap our job for any
other. And from acommanding
officer's point of view?itt tracking
down and beating u:p;'fhe enemy
at his doorstep we enjoy what is
to us the finest sport i ;;the world.
High Vitamin - Value
Of Canadialn Flour
Pensions Minister £Mackenzie
said last week in the House of
Commons. It was the 'opinion of*
the highest nutritional experts in
Britain that high vitamin Cana-
dian. flour made Leine, natural
wheat has a finer nutritive value
than any flour into which extra
vitamin is iutroduced,pyz].thetical
ly" t'';;n • .
He said he. would iic4 be sur-
prised to see the United Kingdom
and United States "reverting" to
the Canadian -type flonr '
SNOOZE TO SICILY
Forty winks before invasion are
caught by this Sicily -bound Al-
lied paratrooper who, like his
comrades, remained calm end re-
laxed until signal for action was
given.
VOICE
OF THE
PRESS
BLACK MARKET CATS
He 'was a dealer in the black
market. He had been selling rab-
bits. One day he was, discovered
trying to sell rabbits with long
tails. It turned out the rabbits
had been cats,
That is one of the risks you take
when you buy black market meat
in any country,
--Windsor Star.
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RAKISH BURGLAR
Householder reported to the
police that a tall, thin burglar,
whom he had encountered in his
garden, struck Mm a violent blow
ou the head. The constable solved
the mystery and captured the as-
sailant by stepping on the rake
too.
—Owen Sound Sun -Times.
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DIFFERENT NOW
There was a time when a tiro
was worn out if the tread had dis-
appeared. Now they ere not aband-
oued until the air begins to show
through.
—Peterborough Examiner.
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"WOPPINO UP" WOPS
Canadian soldiers in Sicily were
supplied with books teaching Ital-
ian conversational phrases. Did
they explain that "wopping up"
means mopping up in English?
—Woodstock Sentinel -Review.
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MENTAL JOURNEY HARD
It is now possible to £ravel. from
Ottawa to Mosco-w in three- days.
Physically, of course; the mental
journey still takes a little longer
than that.
—Peterborough Examiner.
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MAY BE SO
We'll probably forgive the en-
emy—not because we are right-
eous, but because we lack the mor-
al backbone to stay interested,
-alert and tough. ,
—Victoria Times.
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FANCY PA IN SHORTS
Gosh, come to think of it, what
a lot of darning might be saved,
if they painted socks on Pa and
little Willie, too.
—Boston Herald.
t
The k Shelf
COMBINED OPERATIONS
The Official Story of the Com-
mandos with a foreword by Vice -
Admiral 'Lord Louis Mountbatten,
Chief of Combined Operations
This is au astonishing, absolute-
ly absorbing account of the ac-
complishments of those picked
Hien from the Royal Navy, the
British Ariny, and the Royal Air
Force, who work with U.S. Rang-
ers and others of the United Na-
tions in what is known officially
as Combined Operations—or, more
Popularly, the Commandos. So far
as possible, without giving aid to
the enemy, it is the complete
story of the Commandos since the
very beginning of their activities,
commencing with the experimental
attacks on Norwegian islands, and
proceeding with more ambitious
attempts on the Continent. In
quick succession follow highly dra:
nm.tic accounts of the assault on
southern Italy, the evacuation of
Crete, the defeat of the French in
Syria, the daring penetration of
the enemy's line in Libya—culmin-
ating in .the suspenseful stalking
of Rommel's headquarters—the as-;
sault on St. Nazaire, the capture
of Madagascar, the Dieppe raid,
the invasion of North Africa.
The book is utterly without
heroics, and yet is all heroism.
The reader marvels at the terrible
efficiency, the terrible simplicity,
the terrible courage, and the 'awe-
some nonchalance of the British
Royal Navy and Army and R.A.F.
men who participate in these
raids.
Combined Operations - . . The
Macmillan Company of Canada.. .
Price $2.00
There are approximately 1,400
members of the Women'e Timber
Corps 'in Scotland. They aro fell-
ing, cross -cutting, working at saw-
mills and driving tractors and lor-
ries.
British Version
"The superiority of British ale
•crews is largely due to the fact
that the German crews do not
train as a unit."
Scene: Aboard a Junkers over
England,
"Now, Hans, you der target spot
and I der bomberan will drop and
der bangheim make."
"Not so, Karl •;aclimelienhorst----
you de target spot and I der bang -
beim will make. You made her
bangheim on Friday."
"You are a schwein'hund."
"Und yon are ein meanie cat!"
Third voice (hastily) : "Neither
Of you will der bangheim make --
see? because der sergeant der
bombheim in der place forgotten
to put has."
Royal Navy Tugs
The world's largest tugs are
now being built for the Royal
Navy in shipyards in Britain, sev-
eral already being in commisson,
They can tow oyer long dstances
anything up to a battleship or
giant passenger liner, and in ton-
nage they are almost' equal to a
medium-sized' destroyer. One re-
cently towed a ship of 7,000 tons
for 1,400 miles.
At the outbreak of war, Britain
had 25,000 tractors for agricultural ,
work; today there are 125,000 is
use.
rp Y, QF COURSE
Six-shooter at the hip and mili-
tary bearing readily identifies
this figure on the sands of Sicily
. as American Lieut. -Gen. George
S. Patton.
SPIRIT OF C.i?ANADA.
Fit. Sgt. Geo. Calver (left) lost both legs in a raid over Cologne
when flak struck his four engine bomber, damaging the landing gear
and tail. Calver and his crew were able to bring the bomber back
safely. On being fitted for artificial legs George asked that they
be four inches\longer. They compromised by giving him an addition-
al inch. Exactly six months to the day, following his mishap, Flight
Sergeant Calver and Air Marshall Bishop made a public appearance
at De Haviland Aircraft and thanked the workers for the excel-
lent job they were doing. Flight Sergt. Calver hopes to get back
into action soon.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
.Fred Neher
L Ga
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