Show 1 0 US U S army mans outposts outpost s j of far flung battle fronts united states assumes military command in area many times as wide as its own borders by BAUKHAGE news alews analyst and commentator service 1343 II if street NW N W washington D C spring has un loosed her fluttering green scurf scarf over the capital the stark pattern of black branches against sullen skies was gone behind the classic portico of the treasury building I 1 could see from rny y imi high window pointed tree tops like ke a jade comb to in a gray dowagers h hair ai that was may in washington as it has looked for nearly early a quarter of a century B but t there was a grim signature in the upper corner or of this s picture framed by my office window that made the whole scene mode modern rn strict strictly li brutally 1942 it was the tha silhouette of a pai parapet apet the top of a tall h hotel 0 tel and on the penthouse roof a black cylinder pointed upward an antiaircraft anti aircraft gun but that did not hold my attention I 1 have seen hundreds tt if not thousands of those guns in the past weeks it was a doughboy under his rounded helmet helmat sitting on the edge of the parapet kicking his heels into space as his watchful young eyes followed the skyline to me he was the symbol of a milli million n men scattered from the tha arctic to the antipodes scanning strange skylines sky lines soon to see them all turn red never in history has a nation sent its sons out to as wide flung a front as that which america is guarding today never in history has such a terrible machine been built by a single people in less than half a year a nation that yesterday spent less on its army than on its movies its autos or its cosmetics has begun to man the outposts of the united na nations t tons gradually the united states has assumed military command in an area ar a ten perhaps 20 times as wide as its own borders boys from florida and texas live in iron huts in iceland under an american commander boys from the dakotas are sweating in asiatic jungles boys from new england are fighting sandstorms sand storms in the african deserts american generals give commands command s in china in the south seas in india and the levant the car is still running though not so far in the east and the northwest wes t pacific we still have at least one teaspoonful of sugar tor for our coffee school begins father goes to the office or the fields there are still dishes to wash shoes to shine umbrellas to mend babies to change it if it tor for these common engrossing things human beings could not carry on while the whole world goes through the excruciating cruc crucia lating ting agony of travail that will bring 1 forth something whose nature no on one e can guess T to survive this ordeal requires th the e dull unthinking indifference of th the e brute or the faith of saints and martyrs canada struggles for financial independence changing its business all around Is one of the biggest jobs this country tr y has today changing the business of a hundred million people is a long hard job we weve e only really got down to cases since pearl harbor but when the president told us about forgetting the creature comforts and the efforts that have been made since april 28 in washington to carry out his seven point cost oi of living program most people began to realize that we are on the way recently I 1 took a specially conducted trip through a section of the territory of our northern neighbor canada where they have beeri been busy changing ever since 1039 from the moment you get oft off at the busy station in montreal filled with uniforms and the folks there to meet them you realize how important canadians are to americans how important americans are to canadians and how vital it is that each of these good american neighbors see eye to eye work together and learn to forget border and breed and birth and to greet each other frankly and freely as brother leans canada is big a little bigger to in square miles than the united states it has a tenth of the people to support and develop this great heritage unlike the united states one third of the canadians are french speaking and two thirds of BRIEFS over latin american youths are receiving aviation training in the united states gling abing all out against the axis one rhess hall at tamp camp roberts calif has baa renamed a popular breakfast dish ish free french toast chester bryant of knoxville tenn suggests that americans and other peoples ot of the united nations in closing all correspondence business i and personal use the words yours for or victory the english speaking mixed with alth a heavy smattering of races drawn from as many different lands as our own population daughter I 1 am in my mother mothers a house but mistress ot of my own wrote kipling of our lady of the snows shows as he called canada w hose wide vistas ot of lakeland pr prairies a iries mountain and forest were too wide for even his facile genius to bring to a single canvas calv now she Is a grownup grown up daughter who can speak to the motherland on equal terms interdependency today bound together in the same cause the united states and canada are more interdependent than ever they must share in th the framing of a new world after th the war canada has never accepted a lend lease arrangement with the united states canadas parliament has voted a free gift of a billion dollars to britain canada dependent on so much of americas output to sustain her war effort is struggling td t maintain financial independence so that she can sit down at the peace table with no debtors shackles on her wrists no burrs on her tongue as an equal counselor among the northerner leans but because the united states is a giant financially and industrially and canada Is small in comparison she Is deeply affected by what america does that is why she Is keenly interested in how the united states works out the program for checking inflation laid down in the presidents message of april 27 canadas war effort depends on the united states tor for certain materials which canada neither grows in her fertile soil nor fabricates in her factories canada has things america needs you cannot go into one of the busy canadian war factories without seeing the name of an american city stamped on some machine american machine tools is an essential which we have furnished canada so that she could equip not only her own army and navy but help britain to equip hers and cabada canada has had a problem she bought much more from us than we from om her american dollars became as scarce north of the border as corn pone and its hard to think of an american product unknown in canada tourist dollars one of the sources of american dollars was the american Amerl can tourist the tourist trade tell fell off with the beginning of the war it has almost disappeared with the rationing of gasoline and tires no canadian can come to the united states and spend his money here reducing canadas dollar exchange without proving his visit is strictly business one of the clauses of the famous hyde park agre agreement ment made by prime minis minister t er mckenzie king and president roosevelt was coordination of price policies today that ordination coordination co has begun I 1 14 months atter after it was laid down for there can be no effective price c control in canada it if there is no control in the states whose products she has to buy it if american prices should soar how could the canadian government force its own merchants to keep prices down on the many things they get from the united states or how could the canadian war budget bear the strain it if the many war products they must haxe have from us gas engines for instance tor for planes and tanks and trucks went up in price canada began to study price controls immediately after her declaration of war with germany in 1939 but it was not until december ter 1941 that maximum price regulation went into effect since then canada has been watching waiting hoping that we would follow suit because there could be no canadian price ceiling unless there was a north american price ceiling it would be a house bouse with less than half a roof on december 1 1941 ca canada nada froze prices and wages allowed tor for um unpreventable preventable rise in the cost of living by granting a bonus in wages it if the cost ot of living went up it has however varied little now it if the presidents program is successfully carried into effect stabilization can be assured we have followed the canadian pattern U 5 influence but some american prices had already affected canada take the typical case of the canadian merchant who either had to sell grapefruit at a loss or stop selling them because the 7 united states was the only source it if all the merchants had stopped selling grapefruit grape truit it would have had a bad effect because it would have meant a gre greater ater strain on the market tor for 0 ther other fruits or vegetables tomatoes for instance which happen to ibe be in great demand tor foi similar vitamin content both at home and in britain |