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^m * I ft' Mlfitary Survey Shows World's Troubled Spots Nearly two ye«ri after VJ-D«y, almott 19,000,000 men «re under am* throughout the world and about 40 nations are ipcnding at leait $27,400,000,000 a year on arma- nenti, It has been revealed by Han- ton W. Baldwin, military expert of the New York Times, as the result of a world military survey conducted ky that newspaper. The aurvey reminds us that in this iecond year of "peace," three large- icale colonial or civil wars, involving nillionf of men, are raging in the world, and at least 2,000,000 troops are occupying or garrisoning terri- tory outside their own national borders, says the Sault Daily Star. CivU War In China The great civil war in China in- tolvei 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 men on the Nationalist side and 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 on a Communist side, in . addition to millions of civilians caught tip in the bitter strife, Gen. Baldwin estimates. And as an un- happy corollary, it is estimated that 80 per cent of impoverished China's national budget is devoted to the militaryâ€" a percentage far exceeding that of any other nation in the world. In Indo-China, the Vict Nam has a force of about 100,000 in the field â€"chiefly of guerilla nature, but with tome artillery and backed by perhaps 1,000,000 irregulars and a "Self De- fense Corps." Seeking to crush the Vict Namcse are 90,000 to flO,000 French troops. Small French forces in Madagascar also arc struggling against the guerilla attacks of island insurgcnt.s. In the Netherlands Indies 100,000 men of the Indonesian Republican Government's army, hacked up by perhaps 250,(100 native guerillas and irregulars, oppose somdhing over 100,000 t7oops of the Ndherlands army. ^ Other Troubled Spots The survey lists blhtr troubled spots. Several regiments of troops arc involved in a rcvolutiun in Para- guay. In India 87,000 British troops plus perhaps 1,000,000 men of the ^njiai} Axiiiyâ€" tjie latter rapidly be- ing demoliHi/edâ€" are attem'pting to Weep order. Palestine is garrisoned by about 6.^,000 harassed British troops. In the Philippines several thousand insurgent Hukbalahaps are battling some of the 25,000 military police who are the first unit of a new Philippine army. Russian armed forces, according lo the survey, remain the largest in the world, except for the ill-armed Chinese masses. But even small na- tions, bowed beneath crushing taxa- tion and many of them wrecked liy the war and struggling under major economic burdens, are shown to be allocating major parts of their bud- gets to military expenditures and at- tempting to maintain large military Jorces â€" ev»-n thtpugh these could do Kttle against the strength of any major power New Weapon of War The surviy indicates that the na- tions arc spending perhaps $10,000,- 000,000 more on armaments than they did on the eve of war in 1938, and pr«>bably lia\e more men in uni- form than they did then, although part of the incrcaseel cost is a "paper" one. More disturliingly, the statistics In- dicate a parallel between the present era and the posl-World War 1 era of 1919 22, when an armaments race threatened. Then, however, the race centred on naval construction. To- day, Gen. Baldwin estimates, mil- lions, perhaps billions of dollars in concealed fundsâ€" only jiart of them .» Indicated in the surveyâ€" are being tpent on research and development In connection with the atomic bomb, bacteriological warfare, guided mis- •iles, jet planes and other new weapons. Obviously, no nation feels it has attained the security which was its goal in World War II; and it is bard to see any immediate proba- bility of an assurance of security which would relieve the world of the crushing burden revealed by this nirvcy. More People Needed To Open Up Canada There has been some talk of hold- ing down on immigration until every bsl person in Canaila Is working or â- ntil we have what some so glibly define as "full employment." Wheth- er such a thing is possible, outside a slave ttate, is highly doubtful, but «ven reasonably close to it is simply out of the (|uestion so long as our country remains only partly dcvel- •ped. Until we open up far more â- lints, land, fisheries and other Mtural wealth and build the second- ary industry to go with it we will have no idea of how many people this Hominion can employ. â€" Finan- cial Post. Army's New Tractor Landing Gear May Outmode Airports â€" The newly unveiled tractor landing gear seen on the bomber pictured at left, above, will eliminate pilots' present worries over landing on ground that is soft, rough or deep sand, according to the Air Technical Service officials at Wright Field, Ohio. Preliminary tests, in soft mud and loose land, where a normal plane would have bogged dpwn helplessly, were completely successful. Engineers foresee the tractor gear outmodiiig today's huge airdromes whose surface has to be "just so" to accommodate large, heavy planes. A new era in military aviation is seen, as tractor-equipped planes will not be handicapped by lack of airdromes in reinote areas. At right is a close-up of the revolutionary landing gear. A loaded Douglas A-20 attack bomber, equipped with the' tractor gear, taxied speedily through soft mud, revved up in soft •and, took off in 1100 feet of similar mud-sand terrain and landed under the same conditions. Gear is simply a continuous smooth outer belt rolling on ' - "bogies." fe^e£^liautSc4 ^ic^K ^wMT^dfiv Hees arc not the only insects that ni; ' <• liimi y. Some species of wasps and ihc lioiicy ant also make it. Nice Old Girl By MARGARET COBB When Saliy Carter spied the crisp green of the bill lying against the white of the sidewalk that bordered the engineering building, she dropped the handle of the baby carriage and swooped down upon it. "Look, Ridley, look!" she cried happily to the cheerful bright-eyed boy in the carriage. "A ten-dollar billâ€"a real, brand new ten-dollar bill. I found it mysef, and I can spend it any way I please 1" Turning the carriage briskly to return the way she had come, Sally sped her son back toward the trailer camp that nestled at the foot of the hill, a haven for married student veterans. Once inside her trailer home she hurriedly hung the pinafore in the tiny clothes closet and reached for her best skirt and sweater. "Do you know what I'm going to do with this money first thing, Kichey?" she cried happily. "I'm going to jget you a play pen, so you can stay out in the fresh air all day long and have plenty of room to wiggle around in." Sally dropped the sweater to give the baby a quick, impetuous hug. "We'll get Daddy that pipe he wants, and maybe there'll be enough money left over to get nic some dress material!'' Speeding joyfully across the cam- pus toward town, her hanl^ straying often to the money in her pocket, Sally suddenly slowed her pace, her face sober. "Oh, dear" she thought, "I've been so happy about having some iituiiey all my own that it hadn't even oc- curred lo Hic that it belongs to some- one else. Oh, dear!" Parking the carriage at the door to the engineering building, she entered, hesitated a moment outside a door marked "Office," and went in. The secretary looked up as Sally laid the bill on the desk. "I found this outside the building, Miss Hanson, so I guess it belongs to someone in here." She was talk- ing fast, turning to leave. "Wait a minute, Mrs. Carter," the older woman called. "You may as well keep it. I don't sec how we can ever find out who it belongs to. 'Finders keepers', you know. Now you just run along downtown and see what you can find to buy." * * * "Do her good to have some money all her own," Miss Hanson muttered at the door closed. "Of course I thould have held it a day or two in case anyone atked about it, but that child probably hasn't had a dollar to tpend as the likes lince Richard entered here)" In mid-afternoon, about the time Sally was unwrapping her new pur- chases at home, Kichard Carter was frantically going through his pock- ets. "1 know I brought ft with me," he muttered as he searched one pocket after another. "Good grief, what'll I do? It's all the money we had left for the rest of the month â€" a nice new ten-dollar bill. I must have dropped it when I .opened my billfold sometime today." A moment later, as he was ex- plaining his plight to the secretary, he was relieved to see a quick look of comprehension in her eyes. "You haven't had it turned in, have you?" he finished slowly. "Why, yes," she replied slowly, " I have. At least, a young lady gave me a ten-dollar bill this morn- ing and told me she'd found it out- side. It must have been yours. Wait a minute, I put it in my pocketbook for safekeeping." Reaching into a drawer in the desk, Miss Hanson pulled out a well-worn black bag. After a moment's search she found a bill, tucked away with several one-dollar ones, that was crisp and new and had the numeral "10" in its corner. "Here it is," she said, handing it over with a smile. The boy took tlie money with a gfrateful grin. "Well, thank good- ness â€" we can eat for the rest of the month, anyway," he said as he left the office. "Thanks a mil- lion. Miss Hanson!" Machines Rout *Man With The Hoe' The super-high cost of labor is spreading in epidemic of machine- mindedness among United States farmers. With record and near-record crops coming up, farmers now have an estimated labor force of only 7.2 million workers â€" about two million less than six years ago. With the "hands" flocking to city jobs, a Wisconsin farmer now pays $1 .in hour for labor he got at $30 a month plus room and beard a decade ago. To meet the rural clamor for machines, new battalions of mech- anical marvels will clank over the country's farms this Summer. They will begin the final rout of the man with the hoe. They will round out the job already well itarted by such mechanized labor- taving pioneers as the tractor and the threshing machine. Spearheading the blitz will be tuch relatively new machines as the beet harvester. It has a be- wildering complement of tools that first snip off the beet's crown and leaves, then dig down to bring up the vegetable itself. This machine will harvest six tons of beefs an hour in a field producing 20 tons to the acre. New types of potato harvesting machines lack human discernment. They are apt to mistake rocks for the genuine product. But other- wise they can shame a crew of men Canada's. "Orson Welles" â€" \Vinnipi',n-honi 1'' 1 c t c he r Marklc, 26-year-old wriler-actor-prfcducer, has ju.st .sigiicil a 3-}car contract with CILS. Following outstanding radio and movie successes in Toronto, London, New York ami Hollywood, Markle is writing and directing a one-hour dramatic program for CH.S which will replace .'\rlliur Godfrey's "Talent Scouts" and Norman Corwiifs "One World Flight." by the speed with which they dig, partly clean and load spuds. Most of the mechanical "soldiers" being marshaled for the mass in- vasion of U.S. farms aren't entirely new. But they've not been in general use before because the average farmer couldn't afford them. Now, his pockets are bulging with cash realized over the past few years from his high-price crops. And he's getting the equipment for more efficient farming. Such devices as the posthole digger, the corn picker and the hay baler are becoming the property of the run-of-the mill farmer as well as the bigger operators. These machines do mechanically the tasks their names suggest. Another popu- lar machine is the forage cutter. It rolls down a hay field, chops up the feed suitable for the dairy cows and loads it for dehvery to the silo or barn mow â€" all without benefit of human hands. The extent of farm equipment buying was measured in a survey of nine major agricultural areas. It showed that orders are so heavy manufacturers can't promise some types of machinery sooner than three years hence. Voice Of The Press The Dove of Peace It appears that a new type of sitter is now needed, viz: Someone to sit up with a sick dove. â€" Kitchener Record Didn't Need One The famous psychologist had just delivered a most interesting lecture, and was now conducting a question session. A timid httle m^n down front held up his hand and was recog- nized. "Doctor," he said most respect- fully, "did I understand you to say that a good poker player could suc- cessfully handle any sort of execu- tive job?" "That's exactly what I said," was the confident reply. "Tell me, Doctor," asked the httle man, "what would a good poker player want with a job?" In Persia In Persia, during his spouse's spring cleaning, the husband can always take hold of the magic carpet and beat it. â€" QiM;bec Chronicle-Telegram Vna wni CnJo7 Stasias At The St. Regis Hotel TORONTO C BveiT Room With Bath Shower and Telephono- a Slnclr, t2.no npâ€" Doable, 93.80 up A Oood Food. DInlns â- â- ' DSBC- InK HlBhtly Shcrbonrae â- Â« Carltoa Tel. RA. 41S8 BU0.U8 OEACTIFTLLl ruBNisHBu ji 50 up HOTEL METROPOLE NIAOAOA FALLS OPP. â€" C.N.R. STATION Want To Worry? Prominently posted on the wall c' a business cstablisment is this bit of advice: "Work faithfully for eight hours a day, and don't worry; 'then in time you may become boss and work 18 hours a day and have all the worries." â€" Kitchener Record Courage Looking in on the boxing cham- pionships, the thought came that it calls for some unusual kind of courage to travel half way across a ctJntincnt merely to be ininched in the face for three to nine min- utes before taking the train back home. â€" Port .'\rthur News-Chronicle Theatre Need Another thing greatly needed is non-crackling cellophane for those \\\o disrobe confectiouarics in theatres. â€" Kitchener Record W^ DDT RESIDUAL Household Spray A sure end to flies, mosqui- toes, moths in homes, camps, restaurants, etc. One spray- ing properly applied to walls, doors, ceilings, etc., will kili^ insects landing on it for weeks. In addition to DDT contains a quick knock- down agent. 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