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it] PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times : . Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER 2 (Established 1871) n independent newspaper published every week- A day mad except Saturday at Oshawa, Can- ada, by The Times Pubtishing Co. of Oshawa, Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres.; A. R. Alloway. Managing Director The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association the On- tario Provincial Dailies and tie Audit Bureau ot Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs 10 cents per week; $2.60 tor six months, or $5.20 per year if paid in advance. By mail anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $1.25 for three months, $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in advance. By mail to U.S. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable strictly in advance. - WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1940 Let Us See and Hedr More of Our Bands The popularity of some of the newer and some of the older patriotic songs was evi- denced on J}onday night at Oshawa Theatres during the special programmes, when upwards of three thousand people were in attendance. Probably the most popular of the more recent songs was "There'll Always Be An England." Then "Rule Britannia," "Keep the Home Fires Burning" and "We'll Never Let the Old Flag Fall" found an enthusiastic response as well. The bands and the music which were. so popular and which cheered the hearts of the people in the last Great War are to be revived, a report from England states. There is something stirring about martial music for it seems to fit the tempo of our thoughts at the moment. Today, with nations at war in a titanic struggle, there has been less stressing of the value of the . bands and the band music in maintaining the morale of the troops and the people. Now it begins to look as if military bands are to be revived and lend their inspiration to the war effort of the Motherland and the Empire. British patriotic songs or such anthems as the music of "Land of Hope and Glory" and many regimental marches cannot fail to inspire all classes from soldiers to the worker on war effort and to the citizen who produces the essentials, including food and munitions, and those who keep the wheels of the nation moving. Bring on the bands. Oshawa has plenty of musicians. Let us hear more of them. It's Hay Fever Time Again Hay-fever days are stealing closer, and everywhere victims of the malady are pre- paring to flee to piney woods and salty seas--or to sit at home and sneeze out the season once more. But that doesn't solve the problem. Neither, says Botanist Roger P. Wodehouse in thé current Rotarian Magazine, does a direct attack on ragweed, chief. producer of the irritating pollen, solve it. " But there is a cure for the ragweed evil, he writes. It is soil conservation. Ragweed flourishes in vacant lots where ashes, rubbish, earth and stones have been dumped. It is the boon companion of tin cans, discarded automobile tires, and old bedsprings. You see it where subsoil, earth, stones, and clay have been dumped; it does not need rich topsoil like rose gardens. You see it along the sides of dirt roads where the scraper was drawn over to shape them in the springtime. Where isn't there ragweed? There is none deep in the city where naught but the human animal can survive. Nor do you find it in the gardens of the suburbs with their nicely cut lawns, flower beds and shrubbery. If you go along the park- flanked highways, you still see none. Even far out into the country in the uncut woods or unbroken prairie there is no ragweed. The challenge is obvious. Take over the vacant lots; remove the cans and rubbish and, incidentally, the weeds; level off the ground, fertilize it. Plant grasses, "the overseers of the soil," and convert the plot into playgrounds for the children who now risk their lives on the streets and seriously interfere with traffic. Or use the soil for subsistence gardens. You'll get support from your Department of Health. Civic pride will grow faster than ragweed, once it takes root. A Warning About Swimming Officials of the Health League of Canada have issued a note of warning to children who propose to become swimmers during the summer months. While not commending the extreme cau- tion of the small hoy who declared he would never enter the water until he knew how to swim, they point out that good preliminary practice may be obtained by lying across the top of a music stool and going through the motions of swim- ming. If this is done for about ten minutes each day, the motions become mechanical and are performed unconsciously when the child enters the water. But for some time the youngster's nata- tory exercises should be confined to the school swimming tank or the controlled swimming pool, so that he may be under competent supervision until he has gained proficiency and confidence. Most large cities now provide open-air swimming pools or public swimming baths, or both, and unless parents are satisfied that rivers, ponds and beaches in the neighbourhood are perfectly safe, children should be obliged to avail themselves only of these artificial bathing places. Many drownings each year are attribut- able to the fact that a river with an un- suspectedly swift current, a weed-infested pool, or a beach with a sudden sharp dip was chosen as a bathing-ground. The char- acter of all such waters should be thor- oughly understood before any but the most expert swimmer enters. Pools fed by mountain streams, the water in which is freshly-melted snow, may cause a sudden seizure of cramps because of the excessive coldness, and should be avoided except by the experienced and hardy swimmer. Polluted waters, from whatever source. of course, should be avoided. Lastly, the Health League reminds the public that swimming is an arduous exercise. Children should be encouraged to indulge in it only in moderation. Care, Courtesy and Common Sense With the motoring season now in full swing, a circular on safety published by an insurance company directs timely atten- tion to the fact that care, courtesy and common sense are the three essentials for a safe motor car driver. Here they are: Nnder "Care" are listed the following points: 1. Watch children--Slow down--Sound horn. 2. Look out for pedestrians near street cars. 3. Read and observe all warning signs, especially at railway crossings. 4. Do not stop or park on highway, particularly on a curve or near the .crest of a hill. 5. Keep your car in good mechanical condition, especially brakes, steering, tires, lights and horn. Repair immediately even slight defects. Have your car inspected at least twice a year. Those grouped under "Courtesy" clude: 1. Do not dawdle along the middle of the road. Give all faster-moving traffic right of way. 2.Do not speed up when overtaken by faster- moving traffic. 3. Do not cut in closely ahead of the car you have just passed. 4. Be considerate of all others on the highways. Don't be mean or obstinate. 5. Be considerate of your passengers. In event of a crash, they invariably receive serious injuries than the. driver. Under "Common Sense" we find: 1. Drive at speeds in keeping with safety of others and with your experiences as a driver-- never fast in crowded traffic or on curves or bad roads. 2. Keep on the right when passing. 3. Never pass on blind curves or when nearing the crest of .a hill. Always be sure there is ample time and space. 4. Obey all traffic signals; stop at through streets and highways; go through all intersections slowly and only when way is clear. 5. Give clear signals before turning or stopping in traffic. "It's the man at the wheel who counts," says the circular. If the man at the wheel observes these suggestions he'll saye him- self and others much trouble. in- the more side of the road except Editorial Notes It may be found, after it is over, that the fifth columnist is only our old friend the stool pigeon. The Nazis, by seizing all the food in France, will make sure that the Germans have a little more to eat while the French people go hungry. With more than 10,000 of their fellow- countrymen in the navy, people who have always said that Canadians are not sea- minded must revise their opinions. "Boys to Help British Farmers"--news heading. Substitute the word "Canadian," and you'll have what is needed in Canada right now---emergency help for this coun- try's farmers at a critical time. Ottawa views trips to the United States as a luxury. And so they are when mer- chants and others across the border, if they accept Canadian funds at all, demand a premium 'of 26 per cent. or more. A 'Bible Thought for Today FIDELITY IS REWARDED: And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them thelr portion of meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh Shall Jind 53 doing, Of a truth I say unto you, that 3 ) 7 -- Do ke Him uler over all that he hath. Airmen From US. Newded "CHAIRAAN OF THE BOARD" fr DIMINISHING FOOD WPPrLIES As Production Of Planes Cutstrips R.AF. Pilots | | Brighton School Board Fills Staff Vacancies Brighton, July 17, Brighton Board of Education held a special meeting to consider the applications received for vacancies on both staffs Tom Samson - of Port Burwell Increase in Manpower Ne- 400 miles per hour unless he is ab- | and Wm. Chisholm of Toronto were cessary So Training Thoroughness "Will Not Be Sacrificed to Speed London, July 17 Ministry pilots, technicie ators would be Royal Air Force missions that The British Al ald vsterday that UE ad radio oper- lcomed in the 1 graated would not involve co.N1~ loss of U.S. citizenship. | bellef of both British The Air Ministry <aid its invita- tion to U.S. pilots was due to an unprecedented increase in alreraft production that was rapidly out- stripping the number of trained pilots. The Ministry emphasized its policy of training pilots slowly and thoroughly "Better pilots and chines," is the reason for the Royal Air Force's amazing showing against German cr powers, in the and neutral better ma- | experts. | variably sounded | among engineers. | ask, could Bri- 2,700 How else, they tain's air force, estimated at first-line planes at the beginning the war, have fought on even with the Nazi + fleet, tively estimated at 6000 first planes when the Polish began The flying personnel were remarkable for their the feeling of fellowship that through all ranks, for technic education Discusions of their grim trade in- like "shop talk" War was a thing meticulous col youth, ran and their of engine revolutions, calculation and advanced technical theories, rather theta dull horror. Training Reduced It took 18 months to British pllot before the war, mies," as official regulations put it, have cut the period of training. Student pilots must have a pre- liminary eduction equal to high school and two years college. For two months they march like army rookies, study signaling, navigation, gunnery, bombing, photography, telephone construc tion and reconnaissance, in class- rooms. Then they learn to fly. Flying preparitions is a far cry from the "six hours of solo and off to France" of the first Great War. Two months of flying at all times, in all weather, follows. Students get their first taste of actual bombing and machine-gunning. They are divided into pilots, observers, gun- ners, bombers, photogrephers, The few who have the necessary mixture of daring, cold calculation, physical stamina and co-ordination are assigned to fighter squadrons as pilots. : The result is a mass of highly trained, well - seasoned technicians ranging in age from 21 to 25. Germans "Very Young" German air prisoners have been "very young" in recent weeks, with bombers and machine-gunners aged 17, pilots of 19 end 20. British experts also believe the British training system is better in teach- ing. the individual. It never at- tempts to teach in the mass as pro- vided under the German system. The RAF, takes pride in heing democratic. The tradition of heavy drinking has discppeared, mainly because no pilot ean fly modern aircraft at speeds up to more than campaign | in France { train a | Now | "acts of God and the King's ene- engineering, : lutely fit, | Few individual heroic figures em- | erge. Unknown to the public, since | an edict banning the publicizing of | | names, they are the toasts of the | service which privately considers the ¢'my and navy a trifle old-fa- shioned. Here are flyers who have won the Distinguished Service . Order and the Distinguished Flying Cross: Squadron Leafler John _ Scatliff | Dewar; Squadron Leadef John Wil- | lam Oliver, Acting Squadron Lead- er Joseph Robert Kayll, Flight Lieu- | tenant Walter Myers Churchill, | Flight Lieutengnt "Dickie L", Son of Ace A slim blond, smiling youth of 23, one of Britain's top [fighter pilots -- his mates call him "The | Magazine Cover Pilot" -- "Dickie L" (real name censored) has won the Distinguished Service Order and ¢he Distinguished Flying Cross Rib- | bons. "Dickie's" father was an ace of the first Great We, killed in a flying accident in 1919. "Dickie" himself has had experiences that would make a scenario writer leap to the typewriter, Once, flying home to Britain on | leave, he intercepted and shot down [ | two Heinkels. shot down behind the German lines, | | He borrowed clothes from & French peasant, slipped through the Ger- man guard and made his way home | to his squadron, already mourning him as dead. | WINDOWS SMASHED BY HASTINGS HAIL Crops, Gardens and Houses | Damaged by Severe | Storm Hastings, July 17.--Spurred on by wind of high velocity, hallstones as large or larger than acorns fell in this district yesterday evening causing unestimated damage to buildings, crops, and vegetable gar- dens. More than a dozen trees were felled here while in the rural sec- tion to the south, telephone com- munication was impossible when trees fell over the lines, It was believed that the storm cut a three-mile wide swath across this section while north of the vil- lage only a moderate amount of rain fell. Hallstones broke several windows in homes in the south section of this village. The duplex house occupied by the Warner and Wellman fami- lles was left with hardlly a room they could seek shelter in after most of the windows were broken. The home of John Sullivan and a home owned by Harry Petersiel had some windows broken, while a huge tree barely missed the Petersiel house on the outskirts of the village. Occupants of some of these houses were forced to make temporary re- pairs while the "wind whipped through . the broken windows at terrific speed. In the middle of the village, chairs and other furniture left on veran- dahs in the south section were tossed abou! like matchwood. re- freshment booth in the community park was picked up .and turned completely over. : en engaged to teach in the high school. They replace Mr. Howard Lindsey who has accented a position at the Kingston Collegiate, and Miss Marion McLean, who has been granted a ye2ars' leave of absence. On the public school staff, Roger Frise was appointed principal to succeed G. S. Langdon, superannu- ated, while Miss Ethel Craig is the new teacher on the staff. "ROUTINE," SHRUGS PILOT VICTOR, AT 23, OVER DEATH BY FIRE, SHELL AND BATTLE oe " Burning * Engines, Bailing Out, Air Conflicts, Wounded Crew and Anti. Aircraft Hits Are Just Interludes in Seven Raids Over Germany London, July 17.--Now we are all jolly together in our fortress island --=a dozen allied nations, wearing a score of different uniforms--we can more easily appreciate each other's gallantry. Yesterday I told the story of the French, writes W. T. Cranfield. To- day, it 1s again the turn of the R.AF. who, with the Royal Navy, are night and day bearing the brunt of the world's wickedest war. Related partly in his own lan- guage and partly from official sources, it is brief epic of the air- man's hazards and indomitable pluck. Picture a young pilot officer re- laxing in a huge wicker chair in a lounge of an east coast bomber sta- tion. Don't grudge him his rest. He has been on raids over enemy territory six nights in succession with one short day raid thrown in. "Just routine", he calls it, as he orders two bottle of beer. "They tell me you once nearly got pinched by the Huns." 3 Bail Out "It was nothing," he said. He was second pilot in a Whitley bomber sent to destroy a bridge over the Oise during the German advance. Bad weather brought the craft down to 300 feet to locate the tar- get. The target was hit, but so was the bomber whose starboard engine caught fire. Near Amiens then in German hands, they had to bail out in the dark. At dawn, he and two others of the crew met and joined a stream of refugees. The fourth also got home safely. But the fifth is still missing. It was nothing! Two weeks later he was promoted and himself led a successful raid over Germany. Then he had au unusual experience. He had just left the base on a second raid when one of the crew accidentally let off a flare inside the fuselage. Think- ing the craft was on fire, he order- ed the crew to jump. Before bail- ing out himself, he had a good look around and found things not so bad as he had imagined. He stayed ahoard, therefore, and landed safe ly with his load of bombs intact. Several successful raids followed Then his luck broke again. "On one raid, one of my engines was hit by anti-aircraft guns and eventually caught fire but we man~ { aged to land all right. A week later, on another raid, my wireless burnt out before we reached the enemy coast so we had to turn back. Hap- pily, the next trip was successful. "But my luck did not hold. We set off the next night to attack & target on the Ruhr, While running up, we were caught in searchlights and had to sheer off to the north towards another target. On the way we were attacked by & Messer schmidt 109 which wounded the wireless operator and observer and. cut our intercommunication set. I didn't know this and continued our run up. "Four minutes later, we were #t- tacked again. I turned sharply to port and saw the Messerschmidt in steep inveried dive. Our rear gun=- ner had got him, "It was a blast furnace we were after. We demolished it with one stick. The remaining bombs we had to jettison as the starboard engine had caught fire. We put it out once with an extinguisher but when we started up later the fire broke out again. : The Crew Decides "Nursing the port engine, we reached the Dutch coast at 2,000 feet. I had to do some quick think- ing. Finally I gave the crew the option of abandoning the aircraft or carrying on, explaining the grave risk of landing in the sea. All de= cided to carry on. They said: ""The last time you told us to jump out you got the machine down safely. 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