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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, EOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE THREE By Capt. Elmore Philpott TIDE AT TURNING This war is not the same as that of 1914-1918 for many reas- ons. But in some o! its miiitary aspects it is similar. LGermany is tbe core and centre K ft~ menace. If Germany wins we U~ lose. If Germany loses we can win all-not all at once, but reasonably soon. That is wby I arn more hopeful o! the world outlook than I bave been at any time in the past ten years. For right now the tide it at the turn. Tbe war is at about the same stage as it was in the spring o! 1918. Germany may be able to make one more desper- ate off ensive...... ceivabiy be able 'ta sweep every. thing before beri: for a time-just a s Ludenderf's armies d id i n that other year ,o f destiny. But the odds against, her are far heav- ier now than., they were then. That is why 1 foresee -aGer-, ' man c o11a pset even more swift and compiete than took place in 1918. It just migbt take place this year. And in my opinion it sureiy wili take place this year if the United Nations play as a team. HOLD FAST: HIT HARD The only way that Hitler couid win this war would be ta get the Russian armies out o! the war. For however be migbt succeed locally elsewbere be could flot ,hope ta win the war as long as the piacier-like pressure from the Soviet presses against hlm on his eastern front. Germany migbt possibiy push through Libya into Egypt and take the gates o! the Suez. Ger- many migbt even conceivabiy at- tempt an air-born invasion o! Britain. But with the millions o! Russians facing bis armies in the east even victories in other areas ,o! war mîght prove short-cuts to complete and catastraphie defeat in Germany itself. Tbere is no evidence to, mdi- cate that the Russian armies ae not as good as Beaverbrook, Harry Hopkins, Anthony Eden and other outside eye-witnesses say tbey are. There is pienty o! evidence ta suggest tbat the Rus- sian armies are almost as good as the Soviet propaganda bureau has claimed. There is excellent ground for believing that the German armies, weakened by the terrible winter in Russia, may neyer be ab*lçoa auncb as weli organized an î age an attack as in other yei. Whichýeans tbat the time bas camne ta bit at Germany fromn -,wherever she can be bit. CANADA FIRSTt The Canadian army has under- gone a reai ordeal in this war. The everlasting waiting shakes the spirits o! the best o! men. Ourt men bad aiso ta suffer the sight o! the slaugber o! innocent wamenE and cbiidren in embattied Britain. t One told me yesterday baw hek saw a wbole building literaiiy dis- solve under the blast a! a bamb -that out o! the smoke and dust came running a iittle girl witb bath hands blawn dlean off. That is why aur men in Britain are iiteraily straining at the ieash. I believe that British and Amer- ican armies wîll land somewbere in north western Europe witbin the next few montbs; and that wben they do aur awn Canadian armny iii write as fine a cbapter in the bistory o! freedom as was ever written in the last or any other war.j For now is the time ta get set ta bit. Now is tbe time ta take chances. Now is the time ta at- tack. Our cue is the ability of the Russians ta bold. If tbey boid we sbouid hit. JAP JINX The pessimists wiil say: Sup pose Germany sbould crumbk' witbin the next year? That stili leaves us with Japan. This is true. But Japan is first, iast and ahl the time a by-product o! the Nazi menace insafar as fighting this war is concerned. Consider exactly what has bap- pened ta date in this Pacific war. The Japanese have made what gains tbey have made by a pro- cess as simple as ABC. They bave made their gains one by one on1 land by getting cantrai o! the sea approaches ta tbese lands-and so landing iocaliy superior farces in« each case. And they have gained that con- trai o! the sea in two ways-oniy one o! wbicb we are allawed ta write fully about as yet. The Japs have, tili recentiy had complete local air supremacy at ail decisive points. Suppose then that Germany is knacked out a! the war. The Unit- ed Nations wiii certainly not re- take one by one fram Japan the islands last one by one. They wili obviously do twa things: They wil strik e directiy at Japanese sea power-and then witb aver- whelming air supremacy. And they will do an a marnmotb scale what tbey have already started ta do in the feeler raids: Strike directly at Japan itself. AIR THE KEY Air supremacy is the key ta the winning of the war against Japan even mare than it is the key ta the winning a! the war against Germany. That is wby the world picture is, at this moment, brigbter than it bas been in a decade. For we have at least equality now and we wiii bave increasing supremacy with each month. The fact is that Questions 19 the rubber situation rcally seriaus? Answer: The shortage of rubber is so grave that any citizen hoarding rubber or using it unnecessarily is cammitting an act of disloyalty. t is now illegal ta destroy any rubber article. Question., Of what use is reclaimed rubber? Answer: Old rubber is processed sa that the rubber content is reclaimed. This reclaimed rubber is used i the manufacture of essential articles for aur war effort, thus replacing crude rubber. Question: How much scrap rubber is needed? Answers. Fifty Million Pounds. This is a large quantity, but it MUST be found. Every old piece of rubber in Canada, no matter how Uaal, is needed, QUICKLY.. Questions Should I turn in any usable rubber articles as well as worn out anesP Answer. Absolutely flot 1 By no menans discard anything that is stUll useful and that might have ta be replaced. On the other hand, rubber tires used as boat bumpers, swings, etc., should be turned in for war uses. ý"ýO DOlm 01 TURN Ein The school boys and girls of Canada are being organized, through the sehool authorities, to act as Officiai Collectors of Scrap Rubber. The school nearest you is, therefore, your best Collection Depot. You may dispose of your scrap rubber in any one of the following four ways: ~uI 4/ Question: What kind of scrap rubber is needed? Answer : Every ah-rubber or part-rubber article must be salvaged. Here are a few of the articles you must turn la: Old Tires a! every kind Rubbers Old limer Tubes Oversboes Rubber Boots, Hats, Coats, Aprons, Pants, Gloves, Tubing, Matting, Toys Sport Sboes (crepe soles are especially gaod) Garden Hase Hot Water Botties Stair Treads Bathing Caps and many other articles Question: What happens ta tihe scrap rubber collected? Answor: The scrap is sorted, baled and as- sembled into carload lots and is then purchased by the Government at fixed prices tbrougbout Canada. The Government pays forwarding transportation charges on these carload lots, and is responsible for their allocation. You may be sure that every pound will be used directly or indirectly la the war effort. Question: How do I go about saving scrap rubber? Answe. Start hunting for it TODAY. Clean out your cellars, attics, garages and sheds right away. You will find more rubber articles than you expect. Start them ail on theirway ta the battlefront. MY SCIRALP RUDDEIR? 1. Give it ta the children for their school collection. 2. Give it ta your local National Salvage Com- mittee. 3. Leave it with any Service Station or Tire Dealer where you see tihe sign; 'Voluntary Scrap Rubber Receiving Depot." 4. Seli it ta a junk collector. ail tbe events of the bistory o! re- cent years bave added up together ta unify and solidify the Englisb- speaking warld; and to give thai Englisb speaking part of the world tbe decisive voice in world affairs, outside tbe spbere o! di- rect Soviet influence. Only now bave planes started ta roll off the production uines o! United States factories like Model T Fords used ta roll off when the woril stili thought mass produc- tion some sort of marvel. The production curve has just started really ta rise swiftly. Up tîli now it bas been a matter o! getting set. Witbjn a year the United Nations should bave suf- ficient air power completely to dominate the skies wherever they can establisb air bases or maintain aircraft carriers. Over and over again, in this war, it has been sbown that air- craf t alane cannot win batties. Sea power stili plays its historic role -the only difference being tbat aircraft are tbe chief factor in sea power. On land too the armor- ed corps and infantry must still be tbere to do wbat the horse ah'd feet soldiers did in ail previous wars. But over ail and above ail is air power. It is because we are on the verge of attaining air supremacy that I believe we sbould be able to beat Germany witbin a year-and Japan not too long afterwards. Kirkwood Advises Buy Now What You ReaIIy Need (By J. C. Kirkwood) Buy NOW tbose endurîng goots i and services whicb the law per- mits you to buy. Buy furniture and furnishings, clotbes, and other enduring things wbicb soon- er or later you will be needing. Have your house painted NOW. Have its inner walls papered NOW. Have tbe roof repaired or reneWîed NOW. Put in new beat- ing equipments and kitchen equipments NOW. Mend fences NOW. Mend broken cement walks NOW. Use present purchasing NOW to bave and do legitimate and necessary tbinigs. Later on it is going to be impossible to get and do mucb that is possible now. We know that there are two opinions in regard to this matter of foresighted buying and doing. Some urge the public to conserve money-whicb is good advice at ail times. Some declare that it is wrong to consume NOW goods and services which may later on be hard, if not impossible, ta get. Just the samne, our counsel is: Buy and do NOW wbat the law permits you to buy and do now. Do what you can to maintain trade, for trade is a nation's and a community's iifeblood. Keep in good employment ail willing workers. By doing NOW many things needing doing shortly if not presently, we make ourselves better able to endure the harder times which may be ahead. It is prudence to build up reservoirs of strength. Sa, if you can afford ta do so, buy and do enduring tbings NOW. Divine Love always has met and always will meet every bu- -anneed.-Mary Baker Eddy. ir C( E ti ti 0 m v h a il tl il ti a S a V v 0 q t, r è v SIý r L f t E t 1 C t 1 t t ki t Soldiers' Letters Somewbere in England Marcb 20, 1942 Dear Mr. James: Just a uine to let you know how mucb I've enjoyed The Statesman this winter. Altbough the news is oid by your standards when At reaches bere it is ail new to me and you can imagine wbat that connecting lînk between the old home town and mysel! means to me. The Statesman brings me news that mother and dad don't tbink o! putting into their letters although their letters bave been coming tbrougb quite regularly since the late fali. As mother and dad bave prob- ably told you I amn stationed in z military bospital whicb deals ex- clusively with neurological prob- lems cbiefly head injuries and their effects. Our bospital is the centre for such cases for Great Britain and consequently we have patients from a large area. A number o! themn are fiown by air ambulance from Ireland and Scot- land. I consider myseif quite lucky to bave landed bere but it was only tbrougb the intervention o! one o! the Canadian Neurosur- geons in Toronto, Dr. McKenzieý that 1 was posted to this bospital.1 The haspitai is in one o! the oie I girls' colleges o! Oxford and wlth the erection o! a few new wards it adapts itseif admirabiy to its new purpose. Our mess is separate from the hospital, being simply a large bar- ren bouse. Unfortunately we bave had a long coid winter and tbe fuel situation bas been none too good so we bave bad no fîres. In addition to that o! course tbe win- dows have been all open practical- iy tbroughout the winter. Wben anyone asks me ta compare Can- adian and Engiish weather 1 say, that tbey are just about tbe same except that in Canada we keep the weatber outside. I am attacbed ta a British unit and tbus have no Canadian friends in the neigbbourbood. However the Engiish feiiows bave treated me weil and we bave got along 50 far quite amicably. There is a new American hospital about tbree or four miles away and I bave pedailed down on my bicycle two or three times. There are two men witb the unit that I knew in Torantao50 iA was quite a home------------- oming. Fort Erie, April 20, 1942 Sa far I bave seen very little a! Dear Mr. James: Engand one reason being that I appreciate very much the ransportation is sa difficuit and thought that prompted you ta give he ather that I have spent most me ail the publicity you did in of my leaves with some people The Statesman o! April l6th. I wbo visited with us in Bowman- have been away from Bowman- ville just before the war. Tbey ville se long that I am afraid very have been very kind and have few wili remember me but I know almast adapted me into the fam- a few wbo would be interested. ily. They bave one boy already in I knew your father very well, the Middle East and one is a Pilot also 'your twa brothers, and trust in the R.A.F. Last but flot least is that somne day I may meet you. the fact that these people live .an A. T. Elliott. a farm and seern ta be able ta ____ praduce food wbich reminds me The following letter was re! somewbat o! Canada. cie yteeio rmKn Give my best regards ta Johnny Civdy tmer, !tormeroymaKna- and bis new wife. I haven't yet CitAlefrel aa written ta congratulate tbem, 1 ger o! Waiker Stores bere: regret ta say, but letter writng Dear George: Received The îsn't one o! my strang paints. Statesman in this morning's mail Sincerely, and arn pleased ta be able to Harold Sieman, catch up on Bowmanviile news. Capt. R.C.A.M.C. We are running (Rotary Club) a Hobby Show bere next week and I wonder if we can buy, beg, borraw or steal the cut you used Somewhere in Engiand, for the Lions in this issue. It's a April 1, 1942 natural for a hobby show and I The editor received a letter last can't locate anytbing like it bere. week fromn Pte. Robt. H. Cale, son We slipped inta Bowrnanviile the a! R. M. Cale a! this tawn, and we day after Christmas for an bour quote these extracts frarn bis let- or two and it was nice to see ter: somne o! the folks we knew. Time I bave been over here 3 1/2 was so short we didn't get nearly montbs and bave bad eggs twice. around and naw witb ltires and That is wbat you mentioned. in gas as tbey are it rnay be some The Statesman, but the rnost im- timne before we get down again. partant part yau ie!t out was Guess we'il bave to contiu h MIJTTON wbicb is either roasted, Statesman to keep Up on vns pot boiled or made into stew 6 ____ days out o! the seven. Sa you see we eat just about what they ntid 1851i/2 Sydenham St. in 1914-1918. I used ta wonder Brantford, Ontario. what Gracie Fields meant wnien April 23. 1942 she wauld say over the radia Dear Sirs: "Wiil you like me when l'ni Thank you for the March 19 muttan", but now I knaw. copy of yaur paper witb the item Yau shauld see the way te marked referring ta my father, boys act wben they get a parcel Jas. A. Hewitt. I bave came acros from home. It would be warth somne data since that shows it .your wbiie ta came over on pur- was more likely about 1870 be was pose ta see this welcome even in in Bowmanville. My cousin was the life of a saldier. How I would quite interested in the Orona enjoy one o! those thick steaks News. Tbey iived in Orono about that dad used ta caok wben , 1892-3. Her father, Harvey Van- would go borne on Sunday! derburg, kept a store and ber sis- I enjoyed reading Capt. Harold ter, Ethel, xvorked in the post af- Siemon's letter ta bis parents. ic-f iee. carding ta bis letter he bad a bet- 1 heard your paper referred ta ter place ta sleep than the '2nd b', Andy Clarke on bis "Neigb- Heavy A.A.R.C.A.S.C. which I ouri3r News" broadcast a couple arn a very smail part of. When xve o! weeks ago. ianded in aur first camp we neyer 1 was interested ta see a letteî thought a! putting pyjamas on as froni Gea. McMurtry. wbo was a we anly bad four blankets. We hardware merchant in St. Thomas siept on the mattress, douhied whcn we lived there. tefrttreadthe fourtb one Yours truly, around the three then climbed in- r.HW.Sse ta bed witb aur clothes on and __________ put aur army coats an top o! the blankets. I will back Harold up BIBLE READING wben lie said it is warmer out- EN UR ED Y doors. N O R G D B Well, George, you see I read FARM MAGAZINE your paper from caver ta cave -.1I____ Hope you get an idea how things In these days a! crisîs, !rom are over here from what I have upt alovr hecnry written, and that it is not exactlypupt aiavrtecnry what you see in the adverie Christians are being exborted ta ments. The barracks we are in gv oetagtt atr nowarenicr a wehav stvesspiritual. A Montreal preacher and not firepiaces ta keep us bsee doae h omto warm. o! a '"sixtb column o! prayer" as at s ve y nie r hee o part a! aur war effort.News- and the grass s getting green.W react ta the pulse o! the times, are supposed ta be in one of th-3 aise are laying greater stress upon most picturesque parts o! Eng: religion and the part it can play land. in lielping us win the war. Wiil close now baping ta sec Notable amang publications you soon as the English people !urthering the cause o! religion, is say the war wiil be aver witlsin tihe Family Herald and Weekly the next five mnonths. Star, a dlean, wholesame, home C3286 te.R. . Clemagazine that bas always gîven C3256 Pt. R.H. Cleits readers a liberal measure o! 2nd Heavy A. A. Regt.regiuredn.Atepest R.C.A.S.C. (A.) Section, eiiu adn.Athprst Serial 80-1, timie this 72-year-old paper is run- Canadian Armny Overseas ning a series o! inspiring mes- sages advocating tbe reading o! The Bible. These messages are creiiting widespread interest and GRATITUDE are no doubt causing many ta re- fresh their minds and strengthen Gratitude is mucb more than a their faitb by re-reading the verbal expression o! tbanks. Ac- scrip)tural passages tbey learned tion expresses more gratitude ta love in their youtb. The Fami- than speech.-Mary Baker Eddy.1 ly Heraid feels that the spiritual It is another's fault if he be strength o! aur nation and aur ungrateful, but it is mine if I do enthusiasm for crusbîng the evil nat give. - To find one tbank!ul farces o! Naziism can be stimu- man, I will oblige a great many lated by a better acquaintance that are flot so.--Seneca. with the Scriptures. DOWN AT THE STATION Why ail this bubbub, why this crowd, Why alI this babble, talking loud? Some pushing, shoving, acting queer, .Some going back some coming flear. The p'licemen do flot seem ta care, They snùle, the crowd shoves everywhere; See thiat old man, be acts hal! mnad, And some are crying, some are glad. See that old woman, wrinkled face, She tries to, get another place, A young man now with out- stretched hands, Shoves through the crowd to vm here she stands. And litts bier really off her feet, ,Her hiappiness is now complete. And that old man who acted mad, Has grabbed some twenty-year- old lad. And now a girl bas grabbed him too, The fellow don't know wbat to do. See that young woman nab that boy, Arms 'round bis neck, tears, kiss- es, joy. A wornan next with baby sweet, Is elhowed nearly off ber feet; Then strong arms reach ber, hug lier tigbt, And kiss bier and that baby mite. And then a man and woman stare, They see a lad with brigbt red bair, The womnan cries: "I know it's him, Our dariing boy, our own dear And then the crowd begins to sing: "Our boys are home, LONG LIVE THE KING." RALPH GORDON 628 Crawford St., Toronto InTeEditor's Mail - *mmmmmC L- 1441 X 'I L YOUR SCRAP RUDEER il nous a sital vat ,natdriti Enemy action in the Far East has caused such an acute shortage of rubber that our whole war effort is in serious danger. Canada and her Allies must have rubber, quickly, for the armeçI forces, forfactories, for ships. The japanese control our source of crude rubber imports-the only other quickly available supply is old scrap rubber, which cari be reclained. Every citizen in Canada must do his part in collecting ail the scrap rubber ini the country and turning it over to the Goverrunent for war purposes. Here is how to do it. TUES Es AN URGENT APPEIL ]FOIR TouR HE&P When you igather up your scrap rubber and dispose of it by one of these xnethods, it will be used by the Government for Canada's War Effort. Do it NOWI Department of Munitions and Supply SCRAP RUBBER DIVISION ROYAL BANK BUILDING, TORONTO This advertisement is iesued in co-operation with The National Salvage Campaign, Department of National War Sorvicea Light and Power plans did flot eall for the removal Canada's War Effort of any water heaters now in ser- Restrictions Coming vice, but that they would be sub- Awekyrvwofdel- To Aid War Work ject ta control during peak hours. m ents on the Homefrdont p Continuing, the Hydro Chair- 16-23, 1942. Electric signs wjîî cease to man said that it would be neces- * omnsrsedAil2 flicker, street lighting may be sary ta ban hot air heaters. The 1.CmosruedAil2 curtailed, air heaters will be ban- primary reason for this action, he after Easter recess. ned entirely and the use of water explained, was to eliminate sud- 2. Government Bill introduced heaters now in service, will be den peak loads created when in Commons designed to settie controlled under the power re- thousands of people used their 2500 war veterans on land at strictions whicb will -De introdue- beaters at the samne time during a estimated cost o! $80,000,000. Of ed in Ontario this coming faîl. cold snap in the weather. this amount about $34,000,000 will These restrictions, which will Dr. Hogg intimated that domes- be outright grant to ensure each definitely affect ail domestic, tic consumers would be asked ta settler an equity in bis holding, commercial and non-essential in- give their voluntary co-operation 3. Air Conference representa- dustrial consumers in Southern in restricting the use of power tive of United Nations to be held Ontario, will probably be applied for lighting, cooking and uther in Ottawa in May. throughout the province and re- purposes during certain hours 4. To speed men for active main in effect for the duration of this coming fali and ,vinter. In service, a number o! marching the war. this connection he revealed that and arms orders were dropped Plans for power conservation an educational program would be from Army Training Manuai. are now being worked out by The launched in the near future w ith 5. Wartime Prices and Trade Hydro-Electric Power Commis- the object of enlisting the most 1 oard announce list o! over 40 sion ofcO-taperation effective public co-operation grocery items on which manufac- sihte oiion o!owntrioolf conserving power which is re- turers will be entitled ta subsidy withoe Doinn o wdrtam er C nt- ouired by Ontario's essential war payments if necessary to reduce ptoer inordero t ee n antici- industries. their prices to not more than the pate shrtae o beteen150000 ________________ levels charged during June 1941. and 300,000 horsepower which the Total board outlay on subsidies to province faces this year as a re- POLICY ON GARDENS maintain price ceiling estimated suit of soaring war demands.i at hetween Sl,500,000 and $2,000,- According to Dr. T. H. Hogg. In sa far as home gardens are 0<10. Chairman and Chief Engineer of concerned it is felt that encour- 6. E xcept by permit from Con- the Hydro Commission, it may be agement should be given to ail troller of Supplies, Department possible to save some 150,000 rural communities to be. in so far of Munitions and Supply, no more horsepower under the coming ini-, as possible. self-supporting in1 domestic metal-clad refrigerators tial restrictions. That saving, vegetables, the Agricultural Sup- of any kind will be made in Can- along with additional power from1 plies Board states. Such a pro- ada after April 30. new sources, he believed, would gram would aid materially in 7. Ceiling prices on milk and enable the Commission to meeti limiting unnecessary transporta- dairy products reorganized. Ef- the 1942 shortage. At the samei tien and aid in conserving family fective May 1, milk subsidies time, Dr. Hogg made it clear that purchasing power. dropped; maximum retail prices it was impossible to predict how It is desirable that home can-i for fluid milk established in spe- the ever-changing war picture ning o! fruits and vegetables cified areas; maximum wholesale and new demands might affect: should he undertaken up to the prices for butter; maximum prices the power situation. He indicated limit that proper facilities and for cheese F.O.B. !actory shipping that it was "quite within the equipment will permit, 3tates the point. realm o! possibility" that electri- i Board. Available information in- 8. New agreement concluded cal energy migbt be rationed ac- dicates, however. that there are with British Food Ministry caîl- cording to specific requirements only sufficient new rubber rings ing for delivery o! 125,000.000 during 1943. and ulass jars for normal de- pounds o! cheese in current fiscal Dr. Hogg said that present-.mands. year at 20 cents a pound. THURSDAY, APRIL 30,1942 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE THREE