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eee eee == 'Some People Like Horses On Farm By John Gould, In The Christian Science Monitor at . Some 'people like horses, and this affection or preference over. weighs all the sensible objections mechanized agriculture. can mus. ter. After using machinery for seve" eral years, I wouldn't have a ryorse on the place today; but my Mmearest ueighbor agrees wtih all my reasons and continues to keep a team, He likes horses. This Spring, which was the wettest since Noah was 600, gave my neighbor comfort he never expects ed--and the gasoline famine plck- ed up where the rain left off. My néighbor knows very well that I can hop onto my tractor and plow quite a piece while he's har- nessing his team. He knows I can yard out a cord of wood while he's waltifé for Nell and Dickie to finish their oats. He knows I can. pull-out the key and 'forget all - about the tractor for weeks at a time, while his horses continue to eat and eat and eat. He knows all this--but he likes horses. 1 {re- quently point out these consider- ations to him, whereupon he nods his head but says, "But I like to have a pair on the place." .. . * This Spring he enjoyed himself considerably at my expense, and 1 tried. to let on I didn't notice it. Tractors, you see, are not much good in the glutinous gurry we were trying to farm earlier this year. Wheels spin and the.ribbed tires dig in deoper until the whole contrivance is next to lost forever. But thjs Spring we had to work land that was too wet or not work at-all, and I was stuck in the mud oftener than not. i . Ordinarily it would be easy to scoot across the street and ask my, neighbor to hitch up his team and yank me out. This recuperative measure seemed lost to mo in view of my frequently stated opinions about horses. Naturally he was watching me all the time, and - waiting. for me to 'come and ask his help. His happy contemplation and possible remarks occupied him as much asimy_ determination _ that he should not utter them oc- _ cupied me. N . * . Our soil is on the blue clay sido -filled with productive elements when properly worked. In time of continued drought it bakes down into a good grade of chalcedony. In wet seasons it grows butler. like-and is bottomless. This Spring I'd be driving along checzrily, turn- ing a deep 16-inch furrow and re- flecting ori the beauties of the unk verse when the tractor would ' settle down. Before I could. throw=-- out the clutch the wheels would spin merrily and clear a hole out from under her--and the. tractor would sit there on top of nothing at all and defy me. Many people have never been stuck in our mud, and know noth- ing of the horrors of the exper- fence. A helpless feeling accom- panies you down off the seat. You walk around .the expensive but now impotent engine, wondering how best to tackle things. You reflect - that time is running on and there are still five acres to do. It's then that'I think that my. neighbor might come over and pull me out. My neighbor, however, is gayly plowing in his own field across the road, calling and cheering his horses, and although he knows very well how [ am faring he pre- tends to be engrossed in his own industry, and - is ostentatiously proving that hofses-are a far better investment than any tractor. So L in turn, -appear to ho perfectly contented and I bring rocks from the wall and poles from the wood- pile, and I pry and dig and push and lift. And still appearing to be highly amused, I get. back on the seat and find I'm still stuck, So I pry and lift and fit in rocks, and thus far I've always got out under my own 22 horsepower-and dealt my hopeful neighbor a dismal blow. ! : aE As 1 say, gasoline has added to the affair. When tickets are slow in ¢oming from the ration board, "or gasoline is slow in 'coming to the pumps, I have been inaétive while my neighbor went ahead with his work--plowing and har- rowing and sowing and calling en- dearing names _at his team in a voice that seemed necdlessly dis- tinct. } Ei * * a 2 He knows perfectly well that in the long run his horses are no match for, high-speed * farm ma- chinery. It is unfair of him to capitalize on circumstances be- yond my control. Yet I know how futile are all comparisons as we respectively till our adjacent acres, because my neighbor happens to like horses. I'll probably never ~ hear the end of fit. Slightly Changed v cp . The magazine Answers of Lon don 'says thap restricted service and the resultant overcrowding of buses, trams And underground trains 'has 'brought forth the new "motto: "The Public Be Jammed." 2S de on Ves yoy .A package of MACDONALD'S FINE CUT TOBACCO con. tains enough smooth, mild "Bright Virginia" » make 44 standard cigareues--at a cost of only 19¢ plus papers. 44 ready-made cigarettes would cost you twice as much, Isn't that an easy way to enjoy the finest 'tobacco you can put in _a cigarette and save more than. half of your cigarette money? Start to-day--roll your own with MACDONALD'S FINE CUT TOBACCO, INVEST WHAT YOU SAVE 19¢ (INCLUDING YAX) TN WAR SAVINGS STAMPS 10M THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events" Russians Have Used Artillery Arm Effectively In Most Of Their Wars Within the walls of Moscow's Kremlin stands a giant tube ot ornamented metal weighing many tons. It was cast in 1586, just two years alter the death of Ivan the Terrible. For conturies it has been called the "Uzar's cannon" in tribute to its size. Today it is a re- minder - that Russians have long counted on the artillery arm and have used it to effect in most of their wars. i The present struggle is no ex- ~ ception, says The New York Times. Russian reliance on artil- _lery as one of the answers to Nazi Blitzkrieg has proved well founded. Among the Soviet weap- ons praised by military men are a 45mm. anti-tank gun, the Putilov 76.2mm. field piece, a double-pur- pose anti-aircraft and anti-tank - gun, of the same caliber, and a big 152mm. (six-inch) gun mounted on a b2-ton tank chassis. Used in con- junction with aircraft, tanks and the- tactic of defence in depth, smash many a Panzer spearhead. Through much of the war their prilmry 'role has been defensive. Red Pincers Tightening Last week Russian artillery was being used to good effect offen- sively. It was playing an increas- ingly important part in the great Sovet drive on Orel, major Nazi supply base and hinge between the invader's central and southern fronts. For twenty months Ger-' " mans had been digging in around the city, creating a maze of trenches, = pillbodes and strong 'points miles in depth. To blast a way through the interminable bar. ricade massed Russian batteries laid down drumfire reminiscent ot World War I. With their aid the Red pincers slowly tightened, closing in on Orel from the north, the east and the south. After near- ly three weeks of _feroclous fight. ing, Soviet legions were within a few miles of their gial. 'An esti- mated 250,000 German troops were in danger of entrapment. Descriptions of the battle by Moscow correspondents pictured enemy reserves being hurled in fruitless counter-attacks against Russian tank and infantry units. The Germns. were ordered to fight to the death. Thousands of them did. Their resperate defence ap parently was slowing the advance of the Red "Army. Nevertheless, the Russians pushed nearer to the vital rail line running west to Bryansk, seized strategic heights north of Orel, 'crosséd the Oka River to the north and south of the city. Red cavalry entered the struggle, . seeking to exploit a breach opened by troops pressing up the failway from Kursk. Widespread Fighting Activities elsewhere on tho long Rastern front were overshadowed by the struggle for Orel. Fighting was reported southeast of Lenin. grad, where the Red "Army ap: peared to be trying to widen the corridor to the Soviot Union's "second largest city, Local clashes continued near Belgorod, where tho Nazis' summer drive had como to grief. Moscow .communiques told of fresh enemy attacks in the Donbass, evidently aimed at ro leving the pressure on Orel, 350 miles to the north. Behind these vast operations on the Russian front some observers glimpsed the outlines of a now German strategy. It appeared to be a strategy of defence, born of necessity, One of its symptoms was the presence in the Orel sec- tor of a defence weapon Russians have nicknamed "the fron crab"--.* a mobile armored pillbox for ma- chine gunners 'that, car 'be trans- ported by truck and 'brried dn the ground wherever needed. The Nazis wero also laying vast mine fields. From such signs it might be deduced that henceforth the German General Staff intends to husband its dwindling manpower against the day when it must de- fend Fortress Kurope on every side. = Hamburg Under -Fire Target No. 1 for last week was Hamburg--Germany's second larg- est city, its greatest port, a vital gentre of coastal and inland ship- 'ping," home of many industries. sight times In six days British and American bombers swarmed over the sprawling city on the Elbe. Observers estimated that 8,000 tons of bombs were dropped in 'those 144 lhours--a weight greater (Han---that the Luftwaffe loosed over England in the eleven- month "blitz" of September, 1940, to July, 1941. At times the bombs came down at.a rate of almost a ton a second---a drumfiro of huge oxploslans. Under the impact, docks, ships, barges, cranes, fac. tories and warehouses shuddered into ruins then burst into flames. Clouds of smoke towered five miles" into the sky from fires ap- parently beyond the control of sleepless firefighters Yet this was not + all. Wilhelmshaven, Kiel, Wesermuende, Warnemunde and . Wuestrow, all industrial and ship- ping centres, some of them im- portant U-boat bases -- were hit. Inland cities" of Hanover, Kassel and Oschersleben--turning out guns, planes and tanks -- heard "the thunder of planes . and the crash of bombs, - What can remain of Hamburg under such repeated and heavy blows only reconnaisance photo- graphs can tell. 'It "secmed clear that important parts of it must be blackened ruins. It was clear also that another objective of the Al lies was being realized--the dis- organization and extension of the Reich's sorely taxed defences. Pilots on the later raids to Ham- burg encountered more planes and heavier fiak, apparently drawn' from other sections. But that they were not enough was indicated by reports that in the five days, In all raids, 200 German fighter - planes were shot down by the - Americans alone. The R.AF. re ported its bomber losses were running to only 3 per cent. Rubber for War Medium-sized tanks require 500 pounds' of rubber, and pontoon- bridge sections gver 1,000 pounds, The gasoline tank alone of a Fly- ing Fortress uses 500 pounds of bullet-sealing rubber, while large bombers require -over 1,200 pounds, Excavation trucks used by the army with tire diameters of 93% feet require about 3,500 pounds, "OTTAWA REPORTS That Farm Living and Operat- Ing costs Have Not Risen As Much as Selling Price Donald Gordon, Chairman of the Wartime Prices yand Trade Board Has analyzed in the most interest- ing fashion the Canadian farm ec- onomic picture and reinforced with 'facts and figures the warn- ings issugd by national leaders against the dangers of inflation. Canada's own dose of inflation after the last war, ho said, was small as compared to. Germany's, but the benefits conferred on Can- adian farmers were equally trans- tory. Although farm prices in Can- ada as a whole had more than. doubled in the period 1913 to 1920 the apparent improvement in the farmer's position was largely an illusion because farm living cost and opérating expenses rose near- ly as much, Tha slump. in, farm *orices s tart. ed in 1920 and gained momentum rapidly. In three years they had dropped 50 per cent. But the prices of all those things the farmers had to buy had not fallen as rapidly and faxes and mortgage costs had remained fixed. And by 1923 the farmer had discovered that the relation between farm prices and farm costs had been less favor- able than before inflation began. "And so it will be again," said Mr. Gordon, "if we aro foolish en- - ough to let inflation take hold." Tho Wartime Prices and Trade Board Chairman declared; "The real interest of agriculture Is best sorved by along period of stable prices. I have no quarrel with those who contend that the farm- ers of Canada were not receiving a proper return for their labors and who say that--notwithstand- ing the improvement of the last few years--their position is still not all that it might be. But to- day we have not the goods and services available to increase the staudard of living, or even main- tain it. Our resources are pledged fn a war for survival -the most costly of all wars." - . - Paying tribute to the farmers for the magnificent job they wore doing in wartime food production, Mr. Gordon told the Alberta Fed- eration of Agriculture that "the agonf of war is no time for any ngony of war is no time for any more than that, it is shortsighted to believe that concessions extract. ed from the community by virtuo of wartime shortages could be, maintained. Intelligent agricultur- al leadership will make neither of these mistakes. It would vathor study and press for action which will insuro stability now and postwar." After praising Canadian farm: ers for the increase in volume of "food production by more than 25 ast year despite man- tion of the farmer today. The of- ficial index. showed, he said, that farm prices had risen 43 per cent since 1939, and it wheat were left put, prices, on the average were 60 per cent higher, aside from sub- sidies. The Wartime Prices Board, he said, had not frozen agricultural prices at a relatively low level as some critics had declared. Not only had there been the improve- ment in prices referred to, but, he added, there had been more adjustments in prices for farm products than for anything. else the Board had dealt with, Agreeing that farmers' expenses had gone up also, he declared that "taken as a whole, farm living . and farm operating costs have not - risen nearly as much as the sell ing price. The margin between in- come and expenses is almost double.the pre-war figure." . tha economic posi KRISPIES A ao (Ls 0 4 N12 Crap? 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