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VOICE OF THE PRESS DRIED APPLES Owing to war condition! It la an- pu>uncfil that dried applet may Into popularity again. While If may not uslier In the old-time baring bee, It will recall to old- tiiiiTs the delicious uroma miian- fcting from quartered apples Hl.ruuf IB many a kitchen for drying pur- poses. l>:ir(l apples hare a ttpeclal flavor of their own, and require o containers, either metal or .V - U'-iifrow Mureurjr. o WE PAY OFF Realization must be dawning veu on the Axis that we- pay our debts with Interest. For Dunkirk, we paid off at Bizerte. We took Cur Coventry, and came right back *'. Cologne. Now, for Malta, there U Pantellerla. Windsor Star. FAST TRIP BACK "It took millions of year* for monkeys to became men," gays a dentist. Several men we know oan do the return trip In a split econd. Peterborough Examiner. o THE ANSWER Anybody wondering what be- came of the canned salmon we used to enjoy? Well, last year we hipped to the United Kln>lom 73.851. KOO pound* of it. --Ottawa Journal o WORKS BOTH WAYS No fewer than 104 Canadian tfrls have married British airmen t one Alberta centre. Good going! Those British girls can't grab off our follows oversea* and get away without retaliation. Ottawa Citizen. o WHAT'S UP? WEEDS! It an>one should give us the friendly old salutation, "What's up?" we think we'd say, "Weeds, mostly!" -Oit.twa Citizen. SAFETY HINT You're more likely to get there eafe and sound if you limit your peed rather than spent! your lim- it. Kitchener llertird. THE BOOR SHELF DRESS REHEARSAL (The Story of Dieppe) By Quentin Reynolds Wlion Quentin Reynolds was In- vltod to breakfast al 10 o'clock one fine Knglish morning by Major Jock Lawrence, aide to the Com- mandf-'in-l'hlef of Combined Op- erations, hord Louis Mountbatten, ha n-fiisKl bluntly. Rut when Ma- jor Lawrence quietly ordered Mr. Reynolds to report for breakfast with bin war correspondent's uni- form packfd In a bag. lie rcai-ii-tl like a racehorse at the barrier. The casual but persistent Invitation to broakfast turned out to bo the pre- lude to tile biggest scoup In Quen tin Reynolds' amazing caroer. Not until he was on shipboard, being Introduced to the Canadian General Roberts, did Reynolds know that he was to be an eye- witness to the historic raid on Dieppe. With his grat ability to transform a mathematically cal- culated military operation into a vivid human drama, the battle for Dieppe, aa recorded In these pagus, bocomec an unforgettable action picture. Mr. Reynolds proves ill this book that the Dieppe raid was, in every ense. a dress rehearsal for the Rrand invasion of every Nazi stronghold. It Hiitlclpattyl the North Africau campaign and es- tablished the pattern for the ul- timate invasion of the European continent. Dress Rehearsal ... by Quentin Reynold! . . . The MacMHIan Co. of Canada . . . Price $2.75. A Field Marshal Without A Baton Ixird (jort, now back in Malta, U a Field Marshal without a baton, despite the fact that sinct; his promotion he has been received by the King. He has dispensed with the baton in order to save labor and materials. The baton of a British l-'ielt! Marshal ia a choice work of art, one of the finest expressions of the goldsmith'* craft. In these days, jrold must be safpffuardwl, and so it was docidied to hold over the actual fashioning of tin- baton until after the war. More- over, most of the expert (fold fmilhs are enfraped In th< forces or in war factories. The baton remains the personal proj>erty of the owner, and U n rftort Slav* symbolically decor t'i-i in gold, and surmount*'! with an effigy of St. (!orit bout tu slay the dragon. Raton* of Royal Plaid Marshall ilo-wn th ages hv been carefully p>r Mrved, and in ilm armorjr f Wnidsor ' a.-ttU tit* visitor can till the baton* carried by & Duki of Yorlc and .Cambria,;*. When 'i,.-y war* oommandcr*-in- Wef In * l!Mi c*ntorjr. BATTL E WO U N D S M A Ilf AN aM AlC O H O L .-.;: HIRAM WALKER GOODERHAM & WORTS LIMITED -'-.-' - .... . . THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events After Two Years of War With Soviet Huns Can't Start Summer Offensive This Is the second anniversary of one of th greatest and most fateful miscalculations In the bin- torr of warfare, says the New York Herald Tribune. Two years ago Hitler and his generals launched tholr "cataract of horrors," as Churchill called it. upon Soviet Russia. Now, two years later, though they have looted and slaughtered their way across an immense territory and piled an In- calculable toll of cruelty and mis- ery upon that of which they were already Kullly, they find them- selves defeated and stalled by one of the greatest, most heroic de- fmisivs ever made by a determined people. Given Six Weeks In those two years they have lost the war. With the megalom- ania of their previous SUCIVSM'S, they planned in tilt) same stroke to crush the Iletl Army and (o di- vidu and paralyze Hie democracies while they were doing so; lhn, with tlu'ir humls freed and with unlimited resource* at their dis- posal they world turn, destroy thoir last opponents and achieve their mastery of the worll. Con- ct>ivably they might havo done so. Even supposedly expert opium" In the democrat-it's, as badly ili-tviv- ed as Hitler hiins If. gavi- Russia. six wtwks at ilu- most to hold out. Many, blinded l>y the traditional fear of Ciinimiinisin, could MM- neither the srixitm ss of tin- peril if Miller SUIT *i Ifl nor tin- ^r. 'til- ness of the opportunity which liis liarl)' rous gamble pr. - ni>'il. Crisis of War There .till s.'.'iii In ! a few who r .in-! sin? it yet. Hut Mr. Cliurrli- i! 1 ir I it wax one of the KI' -il> .t in liii services It) the cau.->i- of ' "dom grasped the situation in- stiintly. The an.ick was in:id lie- I'm- > dawn on June -2; il w;;s Hie . s:t.:i' evening that tilt' I'rimr Mill- i I ! made Ills nn'inorahlr (1 I'M- Ation to Parliament: "We shall Hive whatever help w can to 111 s- sia anil the Russian p oph-. (Hit- ler's* invasion of Rus-la is n< more than a prelude to an attempt ed invasion of the llritish Isles. Tht Russian danger is thoiv.foro our danger and tin- danger of the IJnitnd Static, just as the ran -e of any Russian fighting for his hoarth ami homo Is the raiue of free men In every i|tiarlrr of the Hlobe." On The Defensive Two >i-ar.s as-'D, writes A. C. f'uiu- mliiKs, fjondoii cm-respondent of tlm Ottawa Citizen. Hitler lanm-li ed tho who!* might of the Cci-man army along l.Rftfl miles of the eastern front, certain he would de- feat the Soviet Union In thrix? months anil HUMI turn un<l smash Hrilain. Today li cannot even launch bis long-planned summer offensive In Itiissia brcaust* the Allies, already far inon powerful Ihan thn Germans, are waiting to break In at any point they rhoosii on the outer fringe of !>,0i)0 miles of I0uropi>'s fortified coastline. Thus, contrary to all theories of (lit* practices of warfare, (iermany has to pass to the defensive. The worst blunder In (ieriiiun Stalingrad. Today all that the Nazi commentators can offer by way of excuse is "our military exptirls had no knowledge of tin* enemy's real fighting .slreiiKlh." Lose 4 Millions in Russia The (ienmins havo lost nearly 4,000.000 of their b.-st Iroopo In llussla. Their wr rapacity In the east Is not half what It was. Their satellite armies are deserting thorn. The thought of another win- ter of war In the Russian snows fills them with gloom. At the front Itself desertions are mounting and Nazi military prisons are said to be full of recaptured soldiers awaiting punishment. Not a drop of much-needed oil has rewarded the costly campaign, whereas the Soviet armte>s are as strong as ever and tho Rod air force holds local air supremacy and bombs German communications more heavily than before. Think Only of Victory Indeed, the Russians think only of victory this year. Given sixty British, Canadian and American divisions fighting In western Kur ope-, they say, and the Red Army will do nil that is required of It In the east. This is not boasting. Tlio Soviet army today has been reconstituted and re-equipped, is will supplied with now anil tormldable weap- ons, many of thorn Itrltisli. and abovf* all. feels it Is unbeatable. The Ktxl uir force has received thousands of new machines and Miornious quantities of British equipment. Tl:e Soviet war indus- try lias lai-Ri'ly recovered from thi> setback ilue to its hiir-scale removal behind the I'ral moun- tains, and indeed the only weak- ness Is the food shortage, tint* lo Hie f:-et the (!: rmans still hold th. I'it-li I'kraiim v.-l-.rat-iii-lils. Two-front Struggle Tims, two years of w.ir thai was to yield victory ami endless loot in tlirt"> inontlis. is abrnil to liu- i-omi- a Hvo-tVont struggle :i.i!iist wliifli e.-ory (ic-nnan military writer lor the past half century has warned bis fellow-countrymen. All HilT'i 1 i.in do now. as mili- tary ici.iii'.fnlat'irs here si't> it. is to Imiil tl'f eastern furliiied front with a ri'luci'd numbt-r of tlhl- sions. launch local blitz -s ih." M stiillif} ll:e lied Army tiffflisive, shilt wl at troops can be spared to ctMitial Knrope. to lit- held as ro.s, rvt .. to In- lai nclied against the Allied invaders, and if this fulls, to rt'tire insiilc tile inner ring of Germany's deft>nces and mik" a prolongril stinid there. Needs 200 Divisions To hold the coasts from Norway to (iiTi-cc, Hill.-r ui'i'i's L'OO divi- sions. He is fill short. His I. lift- wafl't- is ili'clining. His fleet and that of Mussolini no longer count in comparison with Britain's. Anil bombing has tarried the war to the doorslf.ps of millions of f!or- mans. "Russia upset all our calcula- tions," IMM Hi', (he I'.i'ilin ratlio two years iiftfi- Hitler bad claimt'd the Red Armv was "annlhilateil." German Prisoners Not Safe In Britain The majority of prisoners of war In Canada are Germans. The Italians were found satisfactory for farm work in Great Britain. The Germans were not safo In I'^iiglanil, bocause they would have been froed to fight, If the Nazis had made a landing in tho British Isles. Thousands of German pris- oners In the Unlt'xl Kingdom would be potential fighting o|>- poncnts. If their own side hatl found their prison camps and opened the gates. OTTAWA REPORTS Canadian War-Tim* Co- operation l Bated On Ogdent- burg Agreement of 1940 Recent discussion* regarding future relations between Canada and the United Statea recall the amazing degren of co-operation and accord reached by these two war-time allies, motivated by good will and considerations of mutual id and protection. Long the world-wide example of neighborly understanding and amity, the peoples of the United States and Canada have even teamed up in a Special Service Force, and this group of Cana- dian and American fighters will form the nucleus of a force for unified operation in any defen- sive or offensive operation. * The main machinery for Cana- dian-American war-time co-oper- ation is provided in five commit- tees on which ait representatives of both countries. They are: Permanent Joint Board on De- fence, Materials Coordinating Committee, Joint Economic Com- mittee, Joint War Production Committee and Joint Agricultural Committee. In addition, Canada Is a member of the Combined Production Board with Great Britain and the United States. It was on August 7, 1940, at OirtkMi "lui'K, New York, that Can- "adu and the United States signed tin 1 a^reci.ient on which co-oper- ation is bxsud. This co-operation has resulted in. North American preparedness moves of which few Canaiiuins and Americans are fully av.'are. and the complete story of which may not be fully told until after the war. A.< purl of this vast program of defenc.e, Canada has construct- ed a chain of air bases between Ktimontnn and Alaska and the Air ':a Highway. The air bases were opened to traffic in Septem- ber, I'.'ll, and proved of great a-. ' t nice in the construction of tin' Ahirka Highway by the United. .States in co-operation with th Canadian Government. Th 'ii the -Material* Co-ordinat- ' ing Committee was established, and through sub-committees on fure.U products, copper, zinc and fi'i-ro-i'lliiy.s the movement of primary materials between the two countries is promoted, avail- able supplies increased, and in- for. nation exchanged on raw ma- terial stocks, production and consumption in the United Suites ami Canada. Joint Economic Com- mittees wore formed in June, IP 11, tj act in ar> advisory capac- ity to the trovernments at Ottawa and Washington n "oreijrn ex- change control, economic con- trols, price policies, tariffs and duties and war planning. * * The Prime Minister of Canada and the President of the United States, aj Hyde Park. New York, on April 20, 1941, agreed "as a general principal that in mobil- izing the resources of this con- tinent, each country should pro- vide the other with the defence articles which it is best able to produce, and, above all, produce quickly and that programs should be co-ordinated to this end." The United States has agreed to Iniy enough Canadian war goods to enable Canada to pay for essential svar materials from the United States. Canada does not use lease-lend accommodation utilized by other United Nations. A detailed list of Canadian- Rate of Wages Paid Farm Laborers By Day and Month In All Provinces The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a sharp increase in th* rate of wages paid to farm help at May 15, 1943, as compared with the same date of 1941 and 1942. The increase, the bureau said, occurred in all provinces, and for th country as a whole the average rate of wages paid to farm labor- ers where the farmer provided the board was $2.39 per day at May 16, 1943, as compared with $1.91 a year previously. Where the employee provided his own board, the average rate of wages for day help was $3.15 per day, compared with $2.67 at May 15, 1942. For men hired by the month, with board provided, the average rate of wages in 1943 was $51.46, against $42.49 in 1942. When no board was provided, tho average monthly rate was $71.78 in 1943, as compared with $58.80 in the previous year. Wage ratea for day help was "uniformly high," but reached the highest mark in Alberta, where the rate with board provided was $2.89> per day. For help paid by the month, with board, the highest rate also was paid in Alberta, where it stood at $61.84 per month. Where no board was provided, the daily average rate was highest in British Columbia, the bureau said. Figures included in the report, the bureau said, were provided by farm correspondents in all provinces of Canada. Since collection of this d i a was begun in 1940, no comparable figure* for previous years are available. DAY AND MONTHLY RATES The first of the following tables lists wage rate* paid farm labor- erg by the day in all Canadian provinces, with and without board, and the second lists the wages paid per month to farm laborers, with and without board, as at May 15, 1941, 1942 and 1943. Prince Edward Is. $ Nova Scotia New Brunswick . Quebec _ _ Ontario .. _ Manitoba _ _. Saskatchewan .. . Alberta British Columbia Canada - 1941 1.21 1.38 1.44 1.31 1.75 1.32 1.39 1.54 l.t>5 1.18 With Board 1942 1943 1941 1.56 $ 1.83 I 1.70 1.79 2.23 1.95 1.98 2.27 1.91 1.66 2.11 1.84 2.18 2.55 2.35 1.82 2.28 1.84 1.86 2.43 1.99 2.03 2.89 2.20 2.09 2.72 2.48 1.91 $ 2.39 I 2.06 With Board Without Board 1942 2.08 2.4S 2.69 2.26 2.89 2.50 2.49 2.79 2.92 2.57 Without Board 1943 2.3& 2.UO 2.92 2.82 3.32 3,04 3.30 3.67 3.84 3.16 Prince Edward I. Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec 1941 125.19 30.57 33.20 28.67 1942 $35.00 42.38 43.48 38.24 1943 $38.45 46.48 56.62 47.88 1941 $39.64 43.96. 45.06 41.80 1942 $49.64 61.06 67.7S 54.44 1943 $53.88 64.84 73.92 67.27 Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan .. _ Alberta 34.84 30.24 31.17 35.42 44.08 42.01 42.33 4.38 50.69 45.58 55.52 61.84 50.03 43.64 45.00 52.18 59.91 57.71 58.59 67.19 71.10 72.38 76.11 7.96 British Columbia.. Canada . 29.97 $31.90 44.09 $42.49 57.20 $51.46 50.46 $46.45 68.67 $58.80 79.g $71.78 American joint activities to, speed the Victory would ba lengthy, and, indeed, unending; the net total and scope of the interna- tional co-operative effort is un- approached in all world history. Ami it all has been accomplished in an atmosphere of respective independence, with bh United State* recognizing complete Can- ada'a part in and Canadta'a devo- tion to the British Empire. E. G. SMITH. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher 'Give my report card to Pop. . . . I'll be in the woodshed.' REG'LAR FELLERS^Allez Oop B COCKERS ARE SWELL DOGS UT THEIR EARS ARE 3O LONG THEY DRAG IN THE Ml/P .' 1 I ORTER T*4\E VOU HOME BUT >OU NEED t THE EXERCISE .'. By GENE BYRNES ^ 1 '