The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

VOICE OF THE PRESS THE SAME BREED Thirty per cent of Canadians, according; to a Gallup Poll sur- vey, haven't heard of John Brack- en, it must be tbat this thirty per cent is made up of the peo- ple who are called on to answer questions on radio "quiz" pro- grams. Few 01 them seem to have heard of anybody or anything at all. Ottawa Citizen. "DO UNTO OTHERS . ." The appeal for books for the men of the services is still im- portant. But remember that the men want the sort of books that most of us at home want books that you hesitate to part with and not the old, dry-as-dust vol- umes in which you have no furth- er interest. Ottawa Citizen. PARENTAL PROBLEMS Life holds little but worries for parents nowadays. What with trying to convince the bus driver that little Willie is under 5, and the Ration Board that he is over 12, it harlly seems worth while trying to raise a family. Wind- sor Star. TAXED FOR THE PRIVILEGE In this country people are priv- ileged to make money for them- selves some more than others. AH privileges must be paid for, and taxes merely repay the coun- try for the privilege of earning money and possessing it. Chatham News. BETTER THAN FICTION Amazing man, Churchill. Had gome novelist put a character in a book who would do the things and make the flights all over that he makes, the reading public would have said: "Pooh! Just fic- tion." Kingston Whig-Standard. COLLABORATION There was something eminent- ly pleasing in the radio quip: "Hitler's tenth anniversary radio speech was written by Goebbels, delivered by Gocring, and punc- tuated by the R. A. F." Stratford Beacon-Herald. ONTARIO NOTICE TO TKl CKEBS HALF-LOADIN6 REGULATIONS Oopy of :ui Ordfr-'ri-i'.iuni'il ap- proved by i lie Honourable. fh UMtWMnt-Qoveraor, datd the 23rd day of February, A. IX. 1943. Upon the recommendation of the Honourable the Minister o Hlghwavs and Municipal Affairs, the Committee of Council advise that, pursuant, to itib-scetions :i and 4 or section 35 of the Hinhway Traffic Act i Chapter 288. R.S.O. 1D37). the provisions of the said rab-sertlons he declared to he applicable to the King's Highways described on Schedules A and B attached: st'HKOrtE "A" Highway 4 Hanover to Fleshei ton und Wing- ham to Highway 9 Highway 21 to Tobermory 7 Wlscbetifh to I'arkhlll and from 7 miles east of Peterboro to Perth 7A Manchester to Highway 28 9 Orangevllle to Schomberg 12 Midland to Orlllia and Bcaverton to Brechln 14 Belleville to Marmora 15 Elgin to Smith's Falls J8A Klnesvllle via Lakeshoie Road to Highway 18 J8B ;{uthven to Highway 18 Milvcrton to Trnlee Korest to Owen Sound Mitchell to Elglnflcld Guelph to Orangdvlllc and Shel- hurne to Colllngwood Milton to Acton Dundas St. < Highway 5) to Barrle Amprlor to Smith's Kails Brighton to Havelock Ottawa to MorrisbuiK Gananoque to Highway 15 StlrlinK to Bloomflcld and Plcton to Kingston Hawkesbury to Lancaster Newcastle to Highway 7 Belleville to Actlnollte Cataraqul to Highway 7 Windsor via Belle River to High- way 2 Corunna to U'j miles south Plcton 10 Kalndnr Weslport to Forthton Winchester to Alexandria Qirp to Almonte Oobourg to Norwood Stouffvilk' to Highway 12 Port Bolster to Highway 12 Klelnbei'g to Highway 5O Highway 7 to Highway 9 Caledon to Highway 24 Highway 2 to Peter's Corners and Highway 8 to Highway 97 Duff's Corners to Highway 20 Calnsvilie to Cayuga Hamilton to Highway 53 Blackhcath to Highway 3 Bismarck to Highway 3A Woodstock ID Delhi Atherii-y to Wasnago Dorchester Road to Port Bruce Belmont tn New So rum Wotfonl in Highway 2 via Both- well Alvinslon to Highway 2 Delaware to Grand Bf-ml Port Franks to HlKlway 7 Brewste.' to Russcllrtalc St. Joseph to [lensall Amberley to Highway 7 Blue vale to Harrlflton Bondhcail to Bradford Primrose to Oonkstown Ountroon to Sloyner Klmvale to \Vnsaa Beach Waverley to Highway No. 11 Hlckson' to Freelton Dundas to Highway 24 Tilbury to Blenheim \la Merlin Woodstock to Thnmcsford Thamesford to Highway 7 via Klntore Kgllnlon Avenue. Dawes Road to Scnrborn AMERICAN GUARDS LINE UP GERMAN SUB CREW PRISONERS 19 21 23 24 25 27 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 37 38 .19 40 41 12 43 44 45 47 48 49 50 51 52 S3 H 55 S> 57 s tin 73 74 79 80 81 Kf. 83 84 116 87 8B 8!) 91 ,9* 93 ;97 iS9 Ml roads lying north of the Severn Hlver and north of Highway 7 from Sunderlnnct Corners to Perth and north and wnt of Highways 15 and 29 from Perth to Amprlor. with the exception that this will not apply to Highway 17 from Amprlor to Pembroke. Toronto, Ontario, Feb. 27, 1913. The entire crew of a German U-boat, captured after beaching- their ."lib, is lined up under the watchful eyes of their American guards before they are sent off to an internment camp. The sub- marine was badly damaged by British depth charges off the North African Coast. THE WAR WEEK Conunenlary on Current t vents To-day Germans No Longer Fight For Conquest But For Survival However tins war may eud in detail, mid however difficult aud possibly circuitous our road to vic- tory may still be, this much lias already been decided: Another anil perhaps the most formidable at- tempt in history by any one man, or nation to conquer the rest of the world lias again ended in failure. Prom the Persians and the Medes to the Germans, from Durius to Hitler, one conqueror after another bestrode the earth he knew. >tt behind liim a trail ot blood aud destruction, ami dis- appeared. Hitler is the latest of them, and Hitler is also on the way out. H'a dreams of world eou- ffuest lie buried beneath Hie snows of Russia, aud the shadows are closing in on him aud his deluded nation. Today Uie Na/is no longer fight for conquest but for survival, aud the hope of even that is be- ing drowned out, by the thunder of the approaching guns and the burning; bombs already falling in Iheir midst, says ihu New York Times. Plan For Conquest Like every would-be conqueror in the past, Hitler also thought that he alone bad found the key to victory, which in his case bears the name of total war war in every Held aud with superior weapons and' techuiiiue, not only on the battlefield but also in the realm of economy ,mil ideas. Fac- ing the world in which Anglo- American, sea power was the de- cisive arm of lav and order, he ami his collaborators developed new military tactics based on air power, a now strategy based on a "geopolitics," ;, new economy based iu German science, and a new propaganda based on racial hatreds and tho right of might. Air power was to conquer sea power; land conquest uf tile Eur- asian "heartland" was to deprive sea power of its bases and there- with drive it from the seas; aud the submarine was to nullify sea power even in Mio supply of its home lauds, lint Uerman science, producing synthetic products from available materials, was to de- priro sea power of its most im- portant weapon, the blockade. Ger- man regimentation was to renlace gold with "labor" and thereby nullify the ancient auxiom that money constitutes the sinews of war. And tho now propaganda was to soften up the democratic op- ponents through "Kifth Columns" and erect a. hierarchical inter- national structure- dominated by the German 'muster race" to pro- vide the new world conqueror with cannon fodder, slave- , food and ammunition. Plan Close To Success Xuver beiore had a plan for world conquest been worked out wit.h such scientific precision, nor was one, ever before carried out with such savage I'utlilessness. In comparison, even (lie undertakings of Alexander, Napoleon aud Wil- liam I 1 look almost improvised and amateurish. Never before ha-l it quite covered so mucli territory. And, one shudders to realize in retrospect, never before had one come quite so close to success. Free World United And yet it failed. It failed be- cause tliis, like all previous similar attempts, was based on contempt for tlie unconquerable human spirit that no materl'' i>ower can crush. It failed because iu their extremity the British and tho Pus sians found hidden wells of strength that enabled tlieni to turn the tables on the conquerors. It tailed because in the conquered countries resistance could not he crushed completely, and therefore not only required dispersal of the conqueror's forces but also sappi-d their moral stamina. It failed be- cause of the fallacy of the idea tbat any one nation has a mon- opoly on energy, or knowledge, or courag' 1 . and the Nazis' under- estimation of America's own pro- duction aud fighting spirit was the most fateful among their many miscalculations. It failed, uimvn all, because the world lias learned this much at least, that a common menacw can be met only by a com- mon effort, and the :i~se:'ibly of the United Nations is the demon- stration that in the future, as In the past, the free world will in the end always unite to battle against those who would enslave it. Hitler kno-s this today, and tomorrow the .Uipancse will know it as well. The China Front The eloquent, iiptjii :tl for jjre.iifi' aid to China made last week by Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek came al- most at the moment when dis- patches from (.Mi ina announced the opening of a new Japanese offensive. Attacks have been launched at widely sratt.MtM) points in North, Central and South China. Despite their preoccupa- tion in the South Pacific, the Jap- anese seem to have plenty of ar- tillery and their aircraft is active over most of tho front. It remains to be seen if this is the beginning of a coordinated major campaign. This is the sixth year of tho war in China. It is a land of hope de- ferred and, certainly up to now. the neglected front of this war. China is more completely isolated today than at any time since she took tip arms to defend liersi If. General Wavell's Burma offensive is still only a minor harassment o the enemy. \Ve have indued managed to get some planes into action in China. But they art; too few and too inadequately serviced to check the Japanese. Now moro are promised. But t.he Chinese know that not even 500 American planes can drive out tJie enemy while China, in General Stihvell's sally phrase, rrmains "the last stop on the line." Nothing less than opening up an adequate supply route aud equipping tile Chinese Army as a moiltni l'i;-;!)tiHK force will over- come the Japanese on the front on which they are most vulner- able. Hut uefore we can develop an adequate supply route we must first reconquer Burma; to re- conquer Burma we must have suf- ficient sea power iu the Bay of Bengal to prevent the landing of Japanese reinforcements at ttan- goon; and to make sea power available for this purpose we must first win the present Battle of the Mediterranean. We come back- to the conception of a global war, in which all fighting fronts are merely segments of one mighty struggle. Chiang and Stalin Not At Conference It's not true that Chiang Ivai- shek was invited to the Koosevclt- Churchill meeting, says News- week. Stalin was asked to attend and, since Chiang is fighting only the nation with which Russia is striving desperately to remain on peaceful terms, obviously Stalin couldn't be expected to come to any conference attended by the U'eneralissimo. The Red leader's failure to accept the invitation is thoroughly understood in both Washington and London. He is personally directing the counter- offensive against Germany, and it would have been impossible for him to send a representative! since no one can speak for him on military matters. The hopeful talk of :i "Big Four" strategy board is extremely premature. As long as Russia and Japan manage to remain at peace, China and the Soviet cannot be brought into military talks with the U. S. and Britain. Seeds Of Victory To Sprout Abroad 500,000,000 Garden Seeds To Be Sent To Allied Nations FOR FIRST TIME GRAPES IN LEAD OVER APPLE CROP Springtime Victory Gardens will be sprouting in British, Rus- sian, Chinese and other United Nations so;l this year from 500,- 000,000 seeds now being dispatch- ed to these countries by the United States Food Distribution Administratic ' and the British, Russian, Cli!.u'?e and other war relief societies here. With the United Nations count- ing heavily on such gardens to alleviate food shortages all across the map, housewives and children will be running furrows and drop- ping American-grown "seeds of victory" in British parks and castle moats, in once-ravaged Russian farmlands ami even in shell craters, when spring rolls around. Put Up In Kits The Food Distribution Admin- istration is supplying the hulk of the seeds, but is assisted by the relief societies. The British Wai- Relief Society, having fashioned a kit containing sufficient seeds for vegetables for a family of five for an entire year, lias prepared 125.000 of these and sent halt that number already to the Bri- Department of Agriculture Report Shows Grapes Most Valuable Fruit Crop in Ontario in 1942 Grapes in liM2 for the first time took the lead over apples as the most valuable fruit crop of Ontario according to the monthly crop report just issued of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. The cash return to the grape growers of Ontario in 1942 was $1,701,1)00, an increase of $512,300 over 1U41. The grape crop was of exceptional size 30,000 tons against 22,500 tons the previous year. In spite of the unusually large pro.-luction the satisfactory aver* age price of $47.27 per ton was obtained by the growers. As evidence of the firm demand was the fact that the average price obtained was $2.27 over the price of 1J45.00 per ton paid by the wineries. Kach year the price paid by Ontario wineries is agreed upon between the grape growers and the wine producers and then approved as equitable by the Ontario Liquor Control Board. In 7 out of the last 10 years this agreed upon price has been higher than the open market price. The grape growers also have the additional market protection of the provision of the Liquor Control Act that there must be at least the juice of one ton of grapes in each 250 gallons of finished Ontario wine. Of the large 11*12 grape crop 70% (25,000 tons) was purchased by the wineries, a striking example of economic importance of the. Ontario Wine Industry to the grape growers of the Niagara feninsula and of the benefits of sound co-operative marketing between grower 'and processor. Apples were second in value with a production of <UG,'J50 barrels valued at $1,640,600. This was 2050 barrels and 445,300 greater than in 1941. The comparative figures (1941-1942) on the balance of the fruit are as follows: Fruit Cantaloupes Cherries Peaches Pears Plums Raspberries Strawberries Unit Production Value 11*41 bus. 14<J,200 .> 102,600 bus. l'JG.300 750,400 bus. 700,000 1,203,000 bus. 167,200 240,1)00 bus. 143,500 20X.IJOO qts. 4,057,700 <i(i,(JOO <|ts. 0,118,000 050,'JOO Production Value 1942 142,300 $ 138,000 24:., coo 795,000 307,900 125,000 4,375,000 5,447,300 945,600 1, 309,200 444,500 206,900 901,400 071,200 It will be noted that cantaloupes, plums, raspberries, straw- berries, sweet and sour cherries brought higher prices than in 1941. Peaclu-s while larger in gross returns because of the increased quan- tity produced slightly less in unit value. tish Isles, where they will be dis- 'tributed through the National Al- lotments Association. One million families availed themselves of this service last year, and the aim is to double the total this .Spring. The kits cost the donor $1 and include 17 packets with 11 kinds of vege- tables such as turnips, onions, beets, beans, carrots and parsnips those readily stored against the winter. Plenty For Home Garcient More than t, 000,000 pounds of seeds are being dispatched to the U. S. S. K. by the Russian War Keiii'f Society. Farm crews will plant these seeds on soil once trod by German invaders and in plots around newly established Mcturies "beyond the Urals." One mid-western seed dealer do- nated ."'.Olid pounds of tomato seeds. Chinese families, ton, will be .!..:>U"I by money s ent from United '.. nina Relief headquarters fin- purchase of seeds in that lountry. The United -States Department of Agriculture said Americans needn't fear that this heavy outgo will jeopardize American victory gardens. There are still sufficient seeds at home to promote a do- mestic Victory Garden plan call- ing for garden plots on the na- tion's ,000,000 farms and in 12,- 000,000 backyards in cities, towns and villages. Seagull Plane Can Land On the Sea The Cuniss-Wright Corpora- tion has announced that a new type of plane, the Curtiss .Sea- gull, is being delivered to th British Fleet. The Hoyal Navy calls the ship the Seamew, the European name for seagulls. The plane is design- ed to operate from battleships and cruisers It is capable of fly- ing long distances. On return it can land on the sea to be picked up by its warship or it c'an land on a carrier. The Seaim -v i-arries two men. By irrigation, InU-liigent crup rotation and terracing, Ilie people of Malta have over '12,000 acres under cultivation out of a total area of 00,000 acre?. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "To tell you tile tiuth about school, Pop, I believe I've started lomcthing 1 can't finish." Bluey and Curley of the Anzacs 'A hurry-up call.' By Gurney (Australia) ( IM CALLING FOR VOLlWfeEfcS To ^\ / OH VEAH, A TIME- BOMB. IT MlbHT ) ( WHERE 17 ANY MINUTE ANY SECOAJO." / 1 MJVWAY ? ^-W'-' # ...... p\ "T'-^' q/f- S\ " V/ lJ&Ma! VJET CANTEEM # t - ' > INT ^ llij4