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THURS., OCTOBER 7th, 1943 THE CNADIN STAESMA, BOWAN VLLE. NTARO fPAGElr T'flft' r. We should strive to reach the Horeb height where God is re- vealed; and the corner-stone of ail spiritual building is purity. -ýMary Baker Eddy. You Can't Beat Bowmanville Dairy MiIk'! Your table may be short of certain food items becausç of rationing, but you can have plenty of high quality milk from Bowmanville Dairy. Vitamins for body building, calcium for energy, thls milk helpi you keep nutrition values. Bowm anville Daîry 'PHONE 446 By Capt. El! YOU? F A DDI I(Brighten a Sailor's Christ- Imas-Fill a Ditty Bag) ~KFOR ONE AT .. . iry League Headquarters I Formerly IJohnston's Bookstore IA llst of many suggested articles ls attached to each. Bowmanville's« Quota 500. DITTY BAGS To be filled and shipped by Nov. lSth' Bowmanville Navy Loague Committee IINN DRINKICE ëzCO LD' TRA DE-MARK12 PICKS APRIL 7, 1944 AS VICTORY DAY A World-Famous Rabbi Makes a queer guesi: That the war in Europe will be over on April 12, 1944. I do flot know by what strange proceis o! reasoning Dr. Wise ar- rives ait the exact date. But in my opinion it is not too bad. Just for fun, p i ck April *7q~iK 1944, as the date-~ for the end o Hitler's war. Looking back on:':,' my files, I see:!j that the above. ,-' is not muchdf ferent from;.;, what I wrote i this column i the first months ::'..*k o! this war. But « I must admit ' that I did think,~ lait s, umm er, , 11942, that there was an. ouide : chance that the war could have Dbeen ended in that very year. And I certainly think that the war could be ended this year, 1943, if Our allied plans had been conceived on a sufficiently bold basis. But apparently they have not been. Nobody now tries to pretend that we were not caught flat- footed by our own succesi againît Mussolini. We lost a golden op- portunity to strike a master itroke against the Axis because we were totally unprepared for the swift- nesi and extent of our own suc- ccii. We are losing an evéon greater opportunity right now.ç The Success Won By The Soviet this year has caught our leaders as much by surprise as it has caught our enemies. Once again the democratic chieftainî have g r o s sly underestimated the îtrength o! Russia. Otherwise it is completely inconceivable that they would flot have opened the Second Front in western Europe in time to exploit it when the Rus- sians were in the crucial fight at the Dnieper River. It could be that, even yet, the Second Front will be opened this year. But I doubt that now. The best season o! the year is already paît. Landings across the Channel would be highly risky. The cen- sor will not let us write about Allied experience to date in losses on landing operations in this war. But we can sajy that when there is too rough a sea the losses from upset bargeis are likely to be as serious as those from enemy action. So while I hope I am wrong- while I still hope to hear that the Second Front has been opened somewhere between Denmark and Spain-I am afraid that the attack will be delayed till next year. That is, of qourse, unleis the unpredictable Red armiesE have gone so fait and so fan that our men could-crosi the ChannelE unoppoîed. General Montgomery Has Bet an American newîpaperman that the war in Europe will flot be over by the end o! this present year.i Of course, Montgomery could be as wrong as was Sir Douglas Haig on September 1, 1918, when he said that World War I would laitI casures about 800 m-ileês,and-ha's f o natural advantages. Ahso ci leanwhîhe the democracies could f ttack the Balkans anywhere rn ound a coastline o! 1200 miles. c; 'ey could quickhy force Ger- T1 iany to fight a 2100-mile, two- t] ront wan, even in the Balkans. t] The plain truth i that unlessi g ither holds the Dnieper line he r -4 1 îeelEt.. more Philpoti another one or two years. (Il lasted just two more months.) Which reminds me that I would like to make a little bet o! my own. I would like to bet some Canadian newspaper editor or pubhisher one hundred dollars. Il would be about the second front. My bel would say that as early as 1942 many o! the top notch military prof essionali-night on the inner ring o! the British andi American high command - were in favor o! opening the Second Front in western Europe immedi- atehy. It would say that the num- ber o! those who favored a Second Front attack in western Europe in 1943-this recent summer - had grown to an actual majority. Il would 6ay that General Marshall and Lt. Gen. McNaughton belong- cd t0 this ichool o! thought. The Bet Would Be Decided By some mutualhy agrecable judge a year or so after the war. Then.we wihl ahi have accesi f0 the neces- sary documents. The reason I mention publish- ers and editors hs because we couhd now agree on some im- partial referce - some respected professor o! current histony, for instance. The Second Front was flot ar- ranged for 1942 because it was too risky for the ftiajority. But it was flot arranged for 1943 because our democratic strategy was too cau- tious. MY bet is that it was f00 eau- tious for reasons which were es- sentialhy political, and which had hittle to do with the actual mili- tany difficulties o! getting into northern France, or some nearby spot on the continent. HITLER UTTERS HIS OWN EPITAPH? The Latest Hitler Story Rings truc. It comes by way o! Sweden, and is to the effect that the Feuhrer, desperate at the bad news from the caît, made a sur- prise visit to his generals' head quarters on the Russian front. "Hene I am, and here I stay," he is supposed f0 have roared at the professional soldiers who have loathed hlmi from the be- ginning. If this story is truc, that phrase may become immortal. Not in the way the insane despot meant it to have effect. Hitler may well stay where hie is for much longer than the remainder o! this war. His corpie may stay there forever. He has neyer been a good insur- ance risk. But his expectation o! hife has neyer sunk so low as right now. For the time is at hand when the German generals have got t0 choose between having Hitler bumped off or magnifying their imminent defeat to the point o! complete annihilation. My gucîss h that before many months have passed the generals will have the maniacal leader Wiped right o! the face o! the earth. There will be another "ac- cident." Or possibly Hitler will die at the "front" .in some manu- factured episode, which will kill two birds with one stone. Hitler .ill become a legend, and the generals will get back undisputed control o! the military machine, and save what they can from the wreckage. Hitler Is insane, But "Crazy ike a fox," and stili more cunning han the generahs. He knowî that he Dnieper river line muit be held-or that nothing can or will be held for very long on the Eastern front. The generali, on the other hand, know tha.t the Dnieper can- not be hehd for long, which is just another way o! saying that the generals know that Germany is already beaten in this war. Their onhy hope now is f0 stave off complete defeat by cunning and international intrigue. Ail the Nazi talk about "stra-i tegic retreats" is juit 50 much1 face saving. The Germans can, o! course, shorten their front line. 'he funther back they faîl the1 shorter their supply lines will be;i the fewer divisions they will re-1 quire to hold the narrower fronti ne. But geography has played some ueer tricks on Germany in thist war. At the height o! the Stalin-1 grad battle lait year the Russian attlefront ran fnom the Arctic hmost to the Caspian Sea. It measured 2800 miles. O! this the Finnish front accounted for 700 miles. But Hitler can save few What City Executive JLearns While Riding W.Vth Rural Mailman A fine service was recently ren- dered to national advertisers, gov- ernments, country - town mer- tchants, the public generally, and to advertising agencies in 1 particular, when an executive of a y large manufacturing firm in To- eronto took a holiday in the rcountry and reported his find- b ings on how country people get their news. And where they read their news is precisely where ithey look at the advertisements, iboth national and local. Our information in the matter comes from "Marketing," a week- 1ly newspaper for Canadian ad- - vertisers and sales executives, *ably edited by John Love, ably assisted by Miss Margaret Brown as business manager and publish- ed in Toronto by W. A. Lydiatt. tWeekly editors will be particu- 1larly interested in the report. The - Statesman several times has tried to get the real facts, but with a war-depleted staff, it has been 7 impossible to get around to it. 1 The "ad" man pitched in stook- ing grain and after getting "a bunch of aching muscles" he toured the rural routes with the mail man and got an eye-opener on what rural people in Ontario actually read. Here are some ex- tracts o! his report: "Judging by this section of the rural community I would say that any advertiser who wished to reach the. greateit number o! farm readers must use the local paper." And he goes on to tell how they come down to the mail boxes to meet the mail man on the day the weekly paper* is delivered. Then he quotes figures on circulations actually obtained on his two weekî' visit. Here they are: 67 per cent of boxes received the local weekhy; 51 per cent received a leading farm paper; 20 per cent received a stcond farm paper; 13 per cent received a imal city paper; 5 per cent rêceived big city dailies; 3 per cent received one national magazine. He found, too, that many faima homes are not served by radio and many who have themn use battery sets through which they get farm and market reports and then shut them off to save batteries. Other pertinent and interesting obser- vations on farm life were con- tained in his illuminating survey but the above is sufficientfor the purpose of our editorial on the question which appears in this issue. Local Blood Donors At The Oshawa Clinic Wed., Sept. 15-P. R. Cowling, John Brough, Bowmanville, 6th donation; R. S. AIder, Leonard Barton, Elmer Henning, Alfred W. Robinson, Frank Calver, C. H. Greenham, Robert E. Kennett, Ernest Twist, Olaf P. Hertzberg, Leslie Welsh, Bowmanville; D. V. Hall, Enniskillen, 5th donation; Melville Dale, L. A. Parker, Clarence Goodman, Morley Flint- off, J. Dennis Pickard, Matthew Marchant, Bowmanville, 4th do- nation; Gerald R. Purdy, Leo Mutton, W. R. Woo]ley, Bowman- ville; Albert Pearce, H. S. Brit- ton, Ross Dickinson, Lewis Clark, John C. Holmes, W. J. Rowland, Lawrence Gaines, Douglas Lang- man, A. W. Glenney, Alex.Young, Noray Goheen, Newcastle; Nor- man Broome, Hampton, 3rd dona- tion; D. Howard Gibson, Bow- manville; Ross Allin, Earl Walton, Hugh McColl, Clarence Allin, Newcasele, 2nd donation. Fni., Sept. l7th-Harold E. Fos- WHAT 15 A VICTORY BOND? A VICTORY*BOND is the promise of the Dominion of Canada to nepay in cash the face value of the Bond on the date of maturity with half-yearly intencst until that time. A Victory Bond is the safest investment in Canada backed by tlhe entire nesources of the Dominion. Canada has been issuing bonds for 75 years, and has neyer faihed to pay every dollar of principal and interest when due. A Victory Bond is an asset readihy marketable at any lime. rYes, a day will corne. .. when he'11 be back, ready to take his place in a Canada he helped make safe for ail of us. To speed that day is in our power. We at home ... in factories, in offices, on farms.-.work long hours to hurry it along. We go without, and lend our savirlgs to provide what he needs to win quickly. This is the least that anyone can do. And when that day comes - you'1l want to welcome hlm - and 'to help hlm make his hopes corne true. To speed Victo ry, plan to buy as many Victory Bonds as you can. Il I. i ter, W. L. Berry, Bowmanville, 7th donat ion; Rev. H. C. Linstead, Courtice, 6th donation; R. L. Dili- ing, Bowmanville, 5th donation: W. R. Webher, Bert Johnson, Bowmanville, 4th donation; W. Woolner, Bowmanville; E. S. Tuirner, Newcastle, 3rd donation. Mon., Sept. 2th-J. R. Milne, W. E. Fice, Roy Hooper, Bowman- ville, 6th donation; Gilbert Dooey, Bowmanville, 5th donation; E. O. Roach, Bowmanville, 4th dona- tion; Wm. Clarke, Bowmanville, 2nd donation. Wed., Sept. 22-Mrs. Mahel Me- Allister, Courtice; Kenneth But- son, Enniskillen, 4th donation.~ Mrs. Margaret Hockin, Pauline Deline, Kathleen Toms, New- castle; Mrs. W. P. Hall, Mrs. Kate Newman, Joan Buttonîhaw, Bow- manville, 3rd donation. Eleanor Cronk, Bowmanvihle, 2nd dona- tion. Sidney F. Cornish, Ennis- killen, lit donation. Fni., Sept. 24-Errol M. Brown, Newcastle; Curtis Gearing, Court- ice, 3rd donation. C. Austin Lar- mer, Bowmanville, lit donation. Mon., Sept. 27-T. M. Chant, Hampton; Herbert Rogers, Ccrurt- ice, 7th donation. Malcolm J. P. Moore, Bowmanviljle, 6th dona- tion. Howard Cowle, Bowman- ville, Sth donation. John C. Cook, Bryan W. Cramp, Bowmanville, ist donation. Wed., Sept. 29: Marion Hamm, Bowmanville, Mrs. Betty Brown, Newcastle, 4th donation. Mns. T. W. Enwnight, Reta G. Gordon, Mrs. Althea Laking, Naomi Hon- rocks, Newcastle; Mrs. A. Bar- nett, Bowmanville, 3rd donation. Fnl., Oct. 1: Charlie S. Shaw, Bowmanville, 8th donation. Har- old Webber, Bowmanville, 5th donation. Morley R. Burgess, Bowmanville, 4th donation. Gor- don Nichols, Courtice, 2nd dona- tion. Charles Lowery, Bowman- ville, lit donation. Your Chocolute Coke ; wMl win praise if yona use The Chocolute Cocoa u y(OiREVITORYBONDS National War Finance Comrnitg, Let us serve instead of rule, of human hearts, and allow to ri.ghts and privileges that we knock instead of push at the door 1 each and every one the same dclaim for ourselves. TO THE NOLDERS 0F DOMINiON 0F CANADA 5% BONDS DUE AND PAYABLE AT PAR OCTOBER 15, 1943 AND 4% BONDS DUE OCTOBER 15, 1945 (whioh have been called for puy ment ai par on October 15,1943) Your holdings of these issues conversion moy be arranged may be converted into Fifth during the Victory Loan with Vuctory Laoan Bonds doted or icoyLnslem, November 1, 1943. Bonds ofyorVtryLnsasmn these issues wiII be accepted at with your Bank, Trust or Loon a price of 1001/a % in payment Company from whom details for Fifth Victory Bonds. This ore oaoiloble. DUARTMB« OP NANoE cannot long hold anything east or southeast of Germany. Germany's only other possible line to hold on the eastern front is one running roughly from Dan- zig on the Baltic Sca to Fiume on the Adriatic. It measures 700 miles. And to try and hold it would mean that East Prussia- the home of most of the Generals -was already surrendered; that the allied air bases as well as ground forces were just a stone's throw from the very heart of Ger- many. That is why this latest Hitler story rings true to me. For if the Germans can't hold the Dnie- per they can't long hold anything in this war. Eyesight Education And Efficiency By C. B. Tuck Opt.metrist Eyesight Speciajisé Disney BIdg. <opp. P-0.) Oshawa Phone 1516 - 277 - CONICAL CORNEA AND THE CONTACT LENS Many authoritiqs daimn that the condition of Conical Cornea is lue to defective nutrition o! the ayers of the cornea in its frontal area and nîay not necessarily be central and directly before the pupil. The astigmatism found accompanying this condition is generally regular and flot like the basic error, of different strengths in different parts of a meridian or in different meridians on the frantal surface. This condition is more often found in females of weakened constitution a n d is generally found early in if e. The progress may be considered eratic as few ases show the same progress. This would lead us to, believe that the care and regular hygiene of the patient would govern its .rowth. (To Be Continued) THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO pAr-P TTJPre! -AMTWf-ILL COML-a e~o'e CI * B a-- G U ee tb 0 -111, a da i.11Ur PlceSOUi qartet -an of. 0 UsouT~tU . 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