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TOUGHER THAN PICKING A WINNER l-::igli--h rating fan.;, refusing to be stopped by skimpy transportation facilitie.s, travel to New- market on bicycle* They face tougher problem picking steel steed* from jumbled pile parked outside io than picking winners among blooded ones. THE WAR WEEK Commentary on Current bvents German Armies Have Started Third Offensive Against Russia A spe.'ial radio communique from Moscow announces that the German armies have started a third offensive against Russia. As n> the i-;u<e last summer, the new ??nult, says The New York Times, has been launched along the winding 200-mile front from Orel, some 200 miles south of MMMC.\, to Ht'Uorod. just north of Kharkov, where both sides have been concentrating troops for some lime. The Moscow commu- nique leaves no doubt that it is a n .ij<.r effort, into which the enemy has thrown "large forces of tar.ks and infantry, supported by a considerable number of planer." 1943 Strategy TMitwith, the strategy or this year of 1943 has been decided. The Allied victory in Tunisia and the mounting air bombardment appear to have delayed the Ger- many, and the delay may still prove vital, as in the two years past. But neither Tunisia, nor the air war, nor the necessity of providing for an Allied invasion from the west, have apparently been able to cripple Germany, and her generally defensive posi- tion has not prevented her from Imunchnig an eastern offensive after ail. In fact, as Hanson Raid- win jionits out, she appears even to have been able to reinforce Italy to a point which gave Mus- solini the courage and the broM to answer Allied invitations to urrender with the boast that his anwc-r will he cannon fire. German Objective? What the real German purpose and objective in this latent of- fensive are remain to be seen. In the first offensive of 1941 It was Moscow; in the offensive of last year It wa* Stalingrad and the oil of the Caucasus. Sine* the failure of both these efforts, it has been suggested that any Ger- mm. offensive on a similar acale had become impossible, and that if the Germane did undertake another on* it would be more or less a token offensive for the political effect on Germany'* Mtelhtes and the world. The Red Army may well reduce it to such. But the German concentration of ome 200 German, plus 20 to 40 satellite divisions and a large part of the German air strength la Russia, might well be Hitler's last <lpjpi-rate bid for victory. Second Front Appeal All this gives new point to the renewed Russian appeals for a second front on the Continent. It alw> provides the Allies with an opportunity. If, as the Russian communique indicates, the Ger- man* have really engaged thein- selvpc in a major offensive In the east, they will find it difficult to awiti ii any reinforcements from the east to the west. To the ex- tent that our military situation pern. in. this is clearly the time to strike at other points. Russia may be counted upon to fight with the same courage as here- tofore. Hut Russia alone is in>':ip- ble (if defeating Germany. The one strategy that will defeat Ger- many is the strategy she dread* namely, a real two-front war. If that strategy can be made ef- fective by the Allies the new German offensive will indeed be the la.t one. Anniversary in Chin* S.x years ago last week there was a skirmish between Chinese and Japanese troops at a bridge ouUiilc I'eiping. It was the be- ginning of a war that was to devastate a large part of China, the beginning, too, of a war that was to lead directly to 1'oarl Harbor. When the insensate rul- er* of !.(. n get out on their mad adventure in North China they decreed wnr and ruin for all Eastern Asia - - and, by all the portenM now discernible, for Japan an well. Four >.->i> AI..III- Fur more than four years (liii,. bore alone the scourgu of fascist militarist barbarity in its periilia>- and vicious, Japnnf>ne form. Whatever may be Japan'* course in the future, It cannot for gonorntlons expunge from men'* minds the memory of the most dishonorable war ever fought by a nation. That which Kurusu synlbolizes for the Allies was mild compared to what has been perpetrated in China, where loot, mass slaughter, rape and the poisoning opium den have been the normal procedure and the mark of Japanese occupation. For more than four of the six years the world looked on as if it were no concern of its own, as if only two remote alien Asi- atic peoples were involved. We i'li'uve-1 so close to legal neutral- ity that we opened our arsenals of production to both sides, which meant in effect to Japan alone, for China had neither the money nor the means of transportation to benefit. While legally correct, it U now clear that politically Vt was folly. We armed Japan against ourselves as well a* China. China Held Out The Chinese would not fight, the knowledgable said. The Chi- nese could not fight, the expert* said. Japan would consolidate it* victories in six months and the Chinese, congenitally divided among themselves, would accept the inevitable. Six months paa*- ed, then 12, then 24. The Chin*** did not accept Periodically there were renewed rumors of Chinese defeatism, of internal breaking up, of imminent cessation of war mi terms that meant surrender. And China held out: not only held out, but bled more and more of Japan'* troop* and Japan's resources. Yes, We Have No What has New Guinea got that we haven't? Bananas. Take a look at that luscious pile toted by H. i Boga, one of the lads from down under. OTTAWA REPORTS That Control of Prices Hal Sived Canadian! $350.000,000 In Living Costs During 1942. When the history of this war conies to be written, one of the major wonders to be recorded is the way in which the Canadian people, unaccustomed to economic controls and restrictions, buckled down to a new rationed and price-controlled economy. Not many of us understood all the Implications and objective* of It and many of us grumbled, but the fact is that In mid-1943 the free and liberty-loving people of the Dominion are marching along in self-disciplined fashion with an experiment in controlled living which Prime Minister Mackenzie Kng described at Its outset as, "hitherto untried by the will and consent of any free people any- where." One of the most interesting dis- cussions to date In the present session of Parliament is Finance Minister James L. Ilsley's exposi- tion of results from the operation of the Wartime Prices and Trade H<> u<l, a vast new organization set up to operate the price controls. He calculated that control of prices had saved the Canadian buying public $350,000.000 In living costs during 1942, and. should prices remain stabilized through- out 1943, an additional $850,000- 000 will be saved. In arriving at those figure* the Minister based bis calculation! upon present prices, as held down by the various "ceilings." and at compared with the prices of com- modities which prevailed through- out a corresponding period of th last war, when price* were un- checked. Reviewing the history of pries control in Canada, th* Flnano* Minister admitted that evon in Si government there v u no one at Mi outset who could tie entirely confident that a general price cell Ing was the right answer to threat- ened inflatlo'u. But the govern- ment, he said, did recognize the "terrible consequences" timt In- flation would hav* for the Cana- dian economy, both during and after the war, and was determined to prevent It If :.l all possible. The decision^ he told the Cana- dian people, had been justified. If thr* had boe*i compromise or de- lay Canada would be faced with "an extremely confused and well- nigh uncontrollable situation The best evidence as to what would have happened Is to be found here In Canada. We have only to oberve the eagerness with which scarce goods are purchased when they appear on the store shelves; we have only to follow the action of prices of the few commodities whid. for variou* reasons it was necessary to take out from under the ceiling; we have only to watch the scramble for housing accommodation in con- gested ariMs; we havo only to ox- porlonce Ihfi difficulties of secur- ing transportation by rail or bus to realize how quickly prices and ronts would have soured If at the time when shortages boRan to b folt we had not takc'ii steps to control virtually all prices at levels them prevailing. HIDDEN TREASURE Modern version of the guy who's well off. u. lias five tons of coal In the collar and a sack of pota- tOM, Windsor Star. VOICE Of THE PRESS IN THE DAILY FIELD The News-Journal of Mansfield, Ohio, reflects that "time was when throe bushels of potatoes were ex- changed for a year's subscription to the country weekly newspaper" and adds, "lint right now the New York Times would prohahly be In- terested In such a proposition." What's more the Times would not be alone in that class. Urantford Expositor. a BANK STAFFS SERVE It Is estimated that out of 14,- 433 experienced men In the service of Canada's chartered banks, more than 5,000 have joined the armed forces. That explains why women are now so numerous In banks, and it also explains why it Is not always possible for those bank* to give a continuation ot their pre- war type of service. Brockville Recorder & Times. o FOR THE ITALIANS No matter how anxious the Ital- ians may be to get out of the war, they can't get out of it until they get what's coming to them for getting into it! Ottawa Citizen. _< TOO GOOD TO LAST Wartime has made some of the summer styles so sensible they probably won't last long. Kitchener Record. THOSE SCOTTISH JOKES A Scottish woman writes to ihe press complaining of jokes against Scots and says the Scots are weary INFORMATION On a company owning 2,450 acres in the heart of the famous Steep Rock Iron Country. ADJOINING STEEP ROCK IRON MINES U. S. STEEL AND SUBSIDIARIES BUTLER BROTHERS OF MINNESOTA This issue Is actively traded on the market. We believe it has excellent speculative PROFIT-MAKING POSSIBILITIES A 12" x 5" map showing location with Informa- tion Bulletin available on request. Send for it TODAY. Hudson Securities, 45 Richmond Street West, TORONTO, CANADA Please send me the map and Information Bulletin on the above Company. Name PLRASl. PUINT YOUR NAME AND ADDUES3 CLJ5AHL.T ot them. We don't belle /e It. Tho man w know who best enjoys a Joke, whether against his race or not, is a Scotsman and there are lots more like him. Guelph Mercury." NOT MUCH OF A PRIZE? We're told that the meek will * Inherit the earth. But U may not * be muchbf a prize after the as- . have finished with it. Owen Sound Sun Time*. \ ' THOUSANDS of years ago, the Chinese used a form of gunpowder *a flaming chemical of defence dumped over battle- ments upoa .in invading enemy. And from this age-old beginning has evolved smokeless powder made from high- proof alcohol. Like the airplane, it has done much to further the progress of mankind but in evil hands it has meant tyranny and enslavement. As the tempo of this war for liberty increases and our armed forces in all parts of the world swing to the offensive, more smokeless powder for our shells, bombs, Alcohol far \Var ii olo uud in the manu/actiire i>/ S)nfhefu: Rubber, Drug< ami Photographic Film, l^ic^uen and Varmjhej, Drawing InJ^j, Cinf>ajje ami other .\ /mtriimrntj, Pliutici, Shatterproof GLus ami many other firouWti. Every Seagram plain in C '.iM.ul.1 ami the Unite J States u engaged JOO'.'c in the production vf high-proof Alcohol far War. THE HOUSE OF SEAGRAM depth charges and torpedoes is a rltal necessity. And because we have vast fields of grata and the facilities to convert them into high-proof alcohol, the United Nations shall have an overwhelming superiority of fire-power to pulverize the enemy into unconditional surrender. Thus, China's primitive powder of defence has finally developed into the weapon to drive tyranny forever from this earth. In a way, it is the hand of ancient China reaching out in defence of freo men everywhere. REG'LAR FELLERS Perilous Times 1.5-13 By GENE BYRNES