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"amy an A REALE A » a --1 -_ Se ------------ U. S. Praises Our Price Control Law New York Financial House Complimentary, Says Galt Reporter" ' : Even if there are some features of which they do not quite ap- prove, . Canadians generally en- dorse the government's price con- trol system. It is of intetest to learn that "this appreciation is shared by those who know something about. finance in New York City, This is what the' Guaranty Trust Com« pany of New York, in its monthly publication, says: "No other fea- ture of the Canadian wartime regulation of the national econs omy, perhaps, is so widely com- mended by competent observers' within and without the Dominion as is the new yenture in compre- - hensive price control, This pion- , eering measure evidences recog- nition of the inevitable lameness of any general attempt to control commodity prices _ directly "it ' changes in pertinent labor costs are left unrestricted, as they are now in the United States" In another place, the publica _ tion says: "Increasingly, it ap- . pears, opinion in the United States manifests a conviction that, not only in the field of price control but in others as well, our Cana- dian neighbors, repeatedly revis- ing procedures in the light of ex- . Derience, are learning practical lessons that we can profit by in the organization of our own war effort alongside theirs, QUEEN'S BROTHER David Bowes-Lyon, brother of + England's Queen. Elizabeth, ar- tives by clipper as a representa- tive .of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare. , Britain Boosting Farm Production : 6,000,000 More Acres Under Production Than Before War Robert Hudson, Minister of Ag- riculture, said in 'the House of Commons that when this year's ploughing is completed the United Kingdom will have approximately 6,000,000 more acres under cplti- vation than before the war "The harvest of 1942 might well be a critical factor in the future history not only of this country but of the world," Mr. Hudson declared. - He said tens of thousands of small farmers whose land did not - exceed 150 acres, constituting 80 per cent of Britain's farms, are "working as +hard as anyone in the country, many of them making »~ little more than, if as much, as a farm laborer." - The Minister said the present number of vegetable garden al- lotments is nearly 1,760,000, or almost double the pre-war figure, and said that "at a very conserv- ative estimate they can produce vegetables to the valuo of $44, 500,000. . Mr. Hudson gavé these 1941 acreage figures for the country 'as compared with 1988 and pre- "dicted "a further increase in" them "all this year: potatoes more than :1,000,000 compared with 700,000; vegetables ~ 4,000,000 compared with 2,600,000; oats " 4,000,000 compared with 2,600,000. He said the country is aiming at a record of 405,000. acres of -sugar--beets this year, $ "We have now, taking the country as a whole," he went on, "pretty well reached the limit of tillage acreage that wa can man- age with such supplies of labor, machinery and fertilizers that are in sight. "Our main task from now on is the much more difficult one of improving the general manage. ment of farms and increasing the yield of existing arable and re- maining grass." FA 'Hg sald the United States has oY Sl se t/ over a draifale expert to 3 e etqroMne what technical machin. ry Késistance could be given, - He j--4---_ announced that plans have been made for using on farms all pos- sible supplementary help, includ . ing school boys and girls, more Italian prisoners as they become available, and voluntary land club members, , total population_.of England and shooting down six Japanese bomb- PBY-5, . 8, who has failed to be thrilled by ~ Whirlwind, Spitfire or Defiant "but, we VOICE . PRESS. THE OFFENSIVE INS When Hannibal's anhies were at the very gates of Rome the ~Romans sent an expeditionary force against his homeland of Carthage, And Rome won the war, When 'the infidel Turk threatened all Christendom, the West did not wait for him to come and conquer,' The crusaders ad- vanced to the Golden Horn, de- feated the Turk and threw him out of Huropd. At the first bat. tle of the Marne Foch despatched to' the indecisive Joffre this mes- "age: "My right is exposed, my left is heavily 'attacked, my cen- tre is unable to hold its position. I cannot redistribute my forces. The situation is excellent. 1 shall attack." -- Kitchener Record. -- HE'S ONLY HUMAN . To no one more than to Gen. Douglas MacArthur himself must many of these references to him seem a bit overdone, He is a good. soldier, a capable leader who has done a good job in the Philippines, and, we hope, will lead the United Nations forces in the Pacific to victory. But he's only. human; he can't perform miracles, And putting him forth as a superman isn't fair to him or to the cause, --~St. Thomas Times-Journal, sO WHY QUIBBLE? C.L.O. protests to the National War Labor Board that wage rates set for shipyard workers at King- ston, Collingwood and Midland are lower than those in effect at Toronto and Port Arthur. And, .by the same token, a bit better than those at Plymouth, where whele night' shifts have been rub- bed out while putting in 16 hours without overtime, TT --Windsor Star. 0m PROPAGANDA "The dark meat of -a-- chicken contains about twice as much vitamin B as the light meat." Slick bit of propaganda by father, who doesn't go for vitamins Him- self, to make the rest of the fa- mily take a leg and lay off the breast, --Ottawa Citizen, ---- WIFE TORTURE Get appointed an air warden, and blow in at 8 a.m. with the announcement, - "Sorry, dear -- that's military inférmation." -----Winnipeg Tribune. Sn, __ AND SHIRT TOO People who think they can't get by without a two-trousér suit should give some thought to what it would feel like if we had the pants beaten right off us. - --Ottawa . Citizen.' So TIMELY WARNING A Toronto baby ate her father's gasoline coupons, He'd better watch his spare tire--if any. ~--Stratford Beacon-Herald. Predicts Drop In ~ Britain's Population Great Britain will be populated by "old folks" after the war, ac- cording to Sir Henry Bracken- bury, writing in the British Medi- cal Journal. "Nothing can prevent this dur- ing the next thirty or forty years," Brackenburg's arficle said, "Unless etfecti 1 ive measures can be taken to increase the number of births and the size of families, similar results will follow during the subsequent gencration." It has been estimated that the Wales will decline by "3,640,000 by 1965. British Call Planes By Fighting Names We trust it is not unpatriotic to say that in the matter of find- ing good names for fighing planes the British have it all over us of the United States. According to newspaper accounts, General Knudsen arrived in. Des Moines in a "2l-passenger army trans. port." The same issue carried a story about Lieut. E, H, O'Hare ers in his "fighter plane." ~The British, on the other hand, have given nantes to their plane types. We refer'to one plane as a Lockhead P-88; the British call it the "Lightning," A plane which we call Consolidated B-24, they call "Liberator," They say "Catalina" for our Consolidated As for British-made machine the mere sotnd of Tonal Must we battle for freedom and * human rights in Consolidated: PBY-537 : It {5 probably x small matter, should like "Knockouts," "Cyclones" and "Fagles" better. ~~months a VICHY LEGION: DISTINCTION OR EXTINCTION AT SOT IAIN SEN CTT Vir # wey Dnt 1 abt war, WE Rr without benefit of appurtenances of modern war, a unit of the French Legion fighting for They fight to win for France a place of distinction.in the New Order. Their Churchill's Pre-War Rhetoric (A Syndicated Article in United States Newspapers, hy . Tom Treanor.) The political wolves are alter Mr. Churchill. . The accusations are being made that he hypnotized England with rhetoric and drugged her with phrases. I have no axe to grind for Mr. Churchill. I have never met him, nor have 1 visited England since the war, nor am I a particular ad- mirer of- the English, However, if England had per- . Initted herself to be hypnotized by ° Mr. Churchill's rhetoric a little gooner, it she had drugged herself with his phrases 10 years earlier, she would not be where she is now. It is obvious to anyone with a grain of sense that England's de- feats at Singapore, Crete, Norway and Dunkirk wero not due to lack of planning by Mr. Churchill, They were due to England's fail- ure to take his perfectly extra- ordinary warnings during the 10 years before he came to power. He has only fuherited the vast load of failure against which he warned Englang so vigorously year after year in the face of abuse and' ridicule, ' It must make "him laugh, if a "man can laugh at a time like this, that he, Winston Churchill, is be- fng blamed for the defeats. Those to blame have gone and in going they passed their load of failure on to this gallant old man who told them again and again what would happen. And it has happened with a ven- geance, . * . Surely no reader believes for one instant that Mr. Churchill was 80 stupid that he did not think to protect Singapore with aircraft. Not, the Mr. Churchill who preached for 10 long lonely years the dominant role that' aircraft would play in war. Not the Mr. Churchill who knew before any of us what aircraft meant. - He didu't get aircraft to Singa-- pore because he couldn't. He was too busy repairing the damage which his political enemies did many years ago when he had no power and when he was treated with cold disdain as an unwanted outsider. ' As he sald, during the past he has had Germany at his throat and Italy at his belly. He was hard 'put not to lose North Africa: : © As "he said, it took him four months to get a ship to Egypt and back, carrying planes. How long would It take then to get them to Singapore? And where was he to get the ships? The longer the trip to Libya took, the fewer ships he had to spare for Singapore. As to the stupidities and the failure in the actual defence ot Singdyore. those are mot Mr. Chdrchill's, "Those are the inevit- ablo conséquences of a hopeless sltnation, Demoralization precedes the cer- tainty of disgraceful defeat, . Ld * . I will give you a few samples of Mr, Churchill's "rhetoric," prior to the war. This word "rhetoric" was used by his detractors in the sense of hollow phiases. Sée how hollow this phrase is: "For all these reasons we wo ought to decide now to main- tain, at all costs, in the next 10 years, an air force substan. tially - stronger than ' Germany, and that It should be considered a high crime against the state, whatever government is in pow- er, if that force is allowed, even for a month, to! fall substan- tially below *the potential force which may be possessed by that country abroad." For - whieh," or for similar re marks, he was attacked in this veln by his exponents: his political adversaries beat him . three or four times as strong as - "He comes forward," said Mr. Herbert Samuel, "and tells the na- tion that we ought straightaway to double and redouble our alr force four times as big as we have now . . , That is rather the lang- uage of a Malay running amok than of a responsible British states- man. It Is rather the language of blind and causeless panic." And they are blaming Chureh- fil that Singapore didn't have en- ough airplanes! Both these statements, Church- I's and Samuel's, were made fn 1934. And 3 the following the sort of phrase that would drug the Bri- tish? "We ave a rich and easy prey. No countty is so vulnerable and , "no country would better repay pillage than our own. With our enormous metropolis here, the greatest target in the world, a kind of tremendous, fat, val uable cow tied up to attract a beast of prey, we are In a posl- tion in which we have never been before, in which no other country in the world is at the _ present time" © © That was also In 1934 He was accused of boing caught unaware. But it wasn't unaware that he was caught. He was caught helpless to act because in "the years 'that the locust hath eaten" back. ' Does the following sound like a man who would be caught nap- ping? "Beware, Germany is a country fertile in military surprises, The great Napoleon in the years after Jena, was completely taken by surprise by the strength of the German ariny which fouglit the War of Liberation, Although he had officers all over the- place, the German army which fought in the campaign of Leipzig was he expected. Similarly, when the Great War broke out- the French general staff had no idea of the reserve divisions which would 'be brought immediately into the field. They expected to be con- fronted by 25 army corps; ac- tually more than 40 came against them. It is never advisable to underrate the military Jaualities of this resourceful and gifted people, nor to underrate the dangers that may be brought against us." / This was in 1925. . . In the same speech he said: "The Lord Presldent asked me and us all not to indulge in panic, I hope we shall not in- dulge in panic. But I wish to say, this: It is very much better sometimes to have a panic be- forehand and then to be quite calm -when things happen, than to be extremely calm beforehand "and to get in a panic when things happen. Nothing has sur- prised me more than--I will not say the (indifference, but the coolness--with which the com- mittee has treated the extraor- dinary revelations of the Gér- * man air strength relative to our - country, For the first time for centuries we are not fully equip- ped to repel or retallate for an invasion. That to an island peo- ple is astonishing. Panic indeed! The position is the other way round. We are the incredulous, indifferent children of centuries of security behiiid the shield of the Royal Navy, not yet able to wake up to the woelully transfornied conditions of the modern world," 3 ptil ~% * » i The only great failure of Mr, Churchill was his inability. to. drive these thoughts through a lot of thick skulls--our own homegrown skulls among the - thickest, ATLANTIC CONVOY By LIEUT. E. H, BARTLETT, R.C.N.V.R. They are "Convoy Conuno- _dores," in whose ranks are ad- mirals who once commanded battle fleets in the Seven Seas, To-day they command fleets of comparatively slow, lumbering merchant ships, Their years of sea experience made them invaluable when war broke out, and the call to service once more brought them gladly from retirement to serve afloat again. Time and again they take their tleets through the danger areas. They sail in merchant ships--but they get their share of gunfire and of action; know what it is to _ see their fighting escorts seek out and engage the enemy; and know, too, the responsibility of man- ocuvring fleets in battle again--- this time the Battle of the At- lantic. : They have no staff officers. "A few, naval signalmen now com- pose their "staff," just enough men to maintain constant signal service to the rest of the fleets from the merchant ships which car" "the commodores. Their quarters are generally cramped, sometimes uncomfortable ---- but the commodores who once paced their Admiral's Walk, ignore their changed roles as they glory .in --their-active-- participation in the war at sea, There were three such .com- uodores "in the mammoth fleet which this writer accompanied, in .an escorting Royal Canadian Navy corvette, to sea. Three commo- dores, for at a certain point the fleet was to divide into separate convoys, cach Wound for their own ports in the war areas, Naval terms followed the com- modores into the merchant fleet. There was the senior commodore, whose ship was to take the head of the line when the fleet set sail. . He had his Vice-Commodore ana the Reur-Commodore, each to lead his own division, Their badges of rank showed no differentiation, 'Each, on his sleeves, bore the broad gold ring of commodore's rank in the Navy. Above the ring was the small circle of criss-crossed braid which denoted the convoy appointments. In the Navy they would have worn the regulation "executive curl" of straight lace. The eriss-crossed lace, the same as that used by the Naval Reserve, gave them yet an- other link with the merchant ser- vice in "which they now sail, The commodore was himself of the Naval Reserve, had command- ed liners 'in peace-time and war- ships in conflict. In the last war he "bagged" a submarine, hut dis- claims any special merit in the feat. "Just chased her into a mine- field, you know," he explains, with a rather diffident smile. "Heard her blow up, and that's all there was to it. Only proh- lem was not to get too close to the mines ourselves, tricky things they are." Tt is on record that he "bagged" two submarines this war, before he was transferred from his fighting ship to sail with the merchant fleets. But of these two he tells nothing, as is the way of the Silent Service. When it comes to talking of the merchant ship captains, then it-is a different matter, He holds them in the highest esteem, and does not hesitate to say so. There is a Norwegian captain ~for--whom "he has an especially high regard. He tells of how this captain, in a tanker full: of fue! oil, kept his ship in line although two torpedoes had struck home. One, hitting amidships, had set L_ protection, to me 'well, it looks as if you will her afire. The other, hitting her stern, should have--but did not --send her to the bottom. An es- cort ship stood and helped the tanker fight her fire, and then escorted her as she struggled back into position in the convoy. "I signalled to find out whether the tanker could keep up," the 'commodore recalls, "and was told that she could, but she 'couldn't stand any weather," I should jolly well think she could not. Why, her bulkheads were going one by one and [ don't know how she managed even to reach port." "You know," he added, "that captain must have been very much of & man, His ship was spreading a slick of oil from her leaking tanks, and he signalled me to ask if he should leave the convoy us he was afraid the oil would give away our position to the submar- ines. Of course, | refused to let him go, he would have been sunk as sure as fate if he had left our But just think of it ---two torpedoes already and. he was ready to go off and commit suicide -in - order not to bring danger to us." The convoy commodore could see how the Norwegian captain "was quite a man." He did not seem to think that his own decis- ion--to keep the ship under his protection in itself told a tale! He has a sense of humour which, however, rather deserted him one day when, having brought through a large convoy which had been under incessant attack, and which had seen eight ships tor. pedoed, five of which had been sunk, he was ordered to Gibraltar, He told his wife, vaguely, the general direction in which his new dutics would take him. "You know," he siys, "she said be in the thick of it, now." ""In the thick of it", he re- peated. wonder what she thought that last convoy was?" With his sense of humour is an understanding of his fellow-men which makes him many friends, We escorted him to his ship, a stub-nosed cargo-carrier whose captain was waiting at the top of the gangway to receive him. - There were no shrilling pipes or sideboys in ceremonial salute. Instead there was the greeting of two friends, a broadly smiling welcome from the ship's captais, and a firm hand-shake. "Not a very comfortable bunk for you, commodore," the captaim warned, "Don't worry, old man, I nevee take my clothes off on this job anyway," was the reply. "Let's jast get on with it." a His signalmen made their w, to the bridge, and a flaghoist ross on the halliards. gave a brusque order or two, and the anchor windlass clanked inte diction, In a matter of minutes the ship was under weigh--the commodore and his fleet .were "getting on with it." The Vice and Rear Commodores were similarly engaged, The Vice (he had been an admiral) was rather proud of the fact that he had "drawn" an oil tanker for his Atlantic crossing. "Most comfortable ships these, you know" he had drawled. "Very good accommodation, it's a pleas- ure to sail in 'em," > "Most comfortable"--*"good ae- , commodation"--yes, but his sig- nalmen tell, "too, that their "old man' doesn't take his clothes off when he secks his bunk or settes for his sleep. At any minute of the day or night he is ready for instant action, which is another good naval trait, They are "too old" to command fighting ships, now, but still they take their ships into the fight, Once they hoisted their flags in mammoth battleships, and direct- ed fleets"df fighting craft. Now they aire pleased when they "draw" a- tanker, and their skill is bent toward shepherding lum- bering cargo carriers. And, in the experience they gained in fighting ships, and the skill they have brought to direct- ing merchant ships, lie one of the reasons why the convoys are "get- ting through." Which is all these 'commodores; who once were admirals, ask, Red Rains Follow Raging Dust Storms When dust storms have been raging in Australin's dust bowl, which takes in most of the inland area, red rain is common----rain which falls through the dust pall overhanging the country, When a really big storm blows up inland, 11,000,000 tons of valu- able top soil is swept into the air, experts estimate, Some of it comes down on the coast, some settles in the Tasman Sed and helpsito thicken the red sediment which coats part of the seabed there, while some carries on and paints a pink- tinge on the snow of the New Zealand™ Alps: Wind erosion has affected 10,- 000,000 acres of Victoria alone. The State Rivers Commission . spends £100,000 a year on clear- ing sand out of its irrigation channels, trains are derailed and- roads covered, But the dust goes on piling up. ivity is estimated a year. at £500,000 - LIFE'S LIKE THAT 2 TZ \! B o ANNO CRUNRRN Vaur Honor . 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