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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times. Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1071) independent newspaper published every week- an afternoon except Saturday "ho Onive, Can- ada, The Times Publishing Co. Oshawa, fio Chas. M. Mundy, Pres.; A. R. Alloway. Newspapers Association the One Dailies and the Audit Bureau of tario Provincial Olrculations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs 10 cents per week: $2.60 tor six months, or $5.30 per year if paid in advance. By wall snywhers iG Oaths (owiide Ousws carrier very $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. -- co THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940 - ---- National Registration And Why On August 19, 20 and 21 a great army of Canadian people -- all those, male or female, over the age of 16 -- will move out to the points of registration and fill in the cards containing & number of questions. Why is this registration taking place? This country is at war. It must put forth the utmost possible effort to accomplish is purpose. That purpose is the defeat of the enemy. In order to do this it must marshal the full forces of the nation -- all the human, moral, material and spiritual forces of Canada. There can be no slacking. We need more planes, tanks, ammunition. To produce them we need more men, women, materials, money. The nation must produce more, spend less, and -- to be frank about it -- pay more taxes. j Then it is necessary that our young men should be trained for home defence. They will be called up at an early date for a brief period of intensive military training. Yes, we are at war. Registration means simply, organization for greater effort -- for victory. Register early. To answer the questions takes only a few minutes' work if you come prepared to answer. War has always made a heavy demand on the services of the womanhood of the nation. Totalitarian war makes a still greater demand. Modern war involves far more than the fighting forces -- it goes beyond the lines. It involves home defence. It calls for the strengthening of the moral and spiritual forces of the nation, and also an increase not only in the production of war materials but an increase in general production as well. We not only have to produce more so far as war materials are concerned, but we must produce products for export because it is necessary that many war materials must be purchased abroad, and the nation must accumulate the foreign exchange necessary or these purchases. In war conditions the strength of the army in the field must be maintained, but the strength of the army of workers at home must also be increased. It is, there- fore, only natural that more and more wo- men ought to be drawn into the army of production in order to strengthen the na- tion in this time of conflict. The women of Canada can help by filling in the registration card with care and by encouraging others to do the same. Nation- al registration day should produce a clear record of the womanpower of the nation. Farm Jobs for Youths The Department of Labor points out that there is a shortage of farm help, due to enlistments, the speeding up of industrial production and because of other factors existing as a result of the war. To meet this emergency which comes at the harvest season, the On Government has de- cided to delay the re-opening of primary schools until September 15 and of second- ary schools until October 1, thereby mak- ing available for farm help thousands of teen-age boys. In the rural areas this action will permit the boys to help on their own farms; in urban Ontario it will release for farm help many youths, who, while inexperienced, are anxious and willing to aid in this emergency. Details of the scheme are not available as this is written. However the Minister of Labor recognizes the emergency which sxists and is doing what he thinks best to meet the problem. During the\last war similar emergencies arose but in those former. years, every business man who sould spend a day or so, and was able to stand the grind, did their quota of farm work. It might not be a bad idea in the present smergency for business men and others, who can handle a team, load a rack of sheaves or assist in threshing to offer their services. In fact it might help some of them to better understand the farmers' problems and gain first-hand knowledge of how a farm is operated. Combatting Headlight Nuisance s All who are interested in safety on the highways will be pleased to know that the Provincial Police are carrying on a cam- paign to make motorists dim their lights when approaching another car at night. Automobile drivers in this district have been given warning, through the press, that the law requiring that headlights be dimmed when cars approach from the op- posite direction, will be enforced. Court action has already been instituted in a num- ber of cases in an effort to impress upon motorists that the law in this respect must be obeyed. Even those who offend by failing to dim their lights will agree that the regulation should be enforced--especially against the other fellow. But careless drivers cannot expect to themselves escape the penalty they would like to see applied to others. Powerful headlights are an aid to safe driving when the road is clear. They are a menace to safety in the face of an ap- proaching car. Manufacturers have pro- vided the means for instant adaptation of headlight to driving conditions. People generally will approve of the determination of the provincial traffic authorities to see that the law demanding proper control of headlights is observed. No Sacrifice Here "Serve by Saving." So the government, and quite properly, urges Canadians. Everyone is adjured to make sacrifices in order to speed the war effort. Investors are asked to buy 39 bonds or war savings cer- tificates. Taxation is at the highest level in history. But Ottawa continues to sell government annuities at bargain prices. Not only does the Government pay the costs of admini- stration of the annuity office; but it pays the equivalent of 4% compound interest on the annuities that it sells. Many, if not most, of these annuities are sold to well-to-do people who know a good thing when they see it. This practice may encourage saving but it is saving at a great cost to the general pub- lic. And it is not a sacrifice. It is a gift from a Government hard pressed to pay for the war. --Financial Post. Editorial Notes A gem from "Punch." -- Epitaph for Hitler's grave, "This is the last territorial demand I shall make." "The master of the dyke against world chaos, is you, Churchill,.you gallant, portly little warrior." --Dorothy Thompson. "l used to associate bottlenecks with pleasure, but now the very word means gloom and misery to me." --Lord Beaverbrook. Capone, in Florida, is said to have a blank memory about the Chicago phase of his life. It is a chapter of horror he would much like to forget, but the edge of remorse often refuses to be dulled. Canadians will do well to remember that there are twenty-four illegal organizations in Canada, with a total membership of 80,- 700, most of them probably potential sub- verters of the democratic way of life. After plundering the conquered coun- tries of all the cattle, poultry, grain and other foodstuffs they could find, the Nazis now tell France that Germany will not be responsible for the scarcity which is said to be daily growing more pronounced. Hit- ler will see to it that France's cup of agony is kept filled to the brim, One of the first things you learn on the ball field is that you're only one of nine good men and true. It's the way a team plays as a whole that determines its suc- cess. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. And that carries over into a job. Put the same team play into your job as you do in your baseball and you won't have to go to the boss for a raise. He'll come to you. --George Herman (Babe) Ruth. A Bible Thought for Today HE WILL NOT DISAPPOINT THEM: My soul waiteth fo the Ler more than they that watch for the morning: sey, more than they that watch for the morning ~--Psalm 19: 1, 2, jd ANOTHER "POWDER KEG OF EUROPE" SOLDIERS MUST | FIGHT BOREDOM, ATHIONE WARNS Hours of Recreation Import- ant to Troops In Camp, He Says = ! three monarchs. Camp Petawawa, Aug. 8.--Can- |" . | ada's soldier Governor-General, the | | Barl of Athlone, himself a veteran | of two wens, and his Royal wife, Princess Alice, a granddaughter of | Queen Victoria, inspected phase of training this twelve-mile-square military in the first tour by Their Excellen- every in great camp cies since arriving in the Dominion. | Before beginning the inspection trip, Princess Alice opened a Young | Women's Christian Association hos- tess house in | and the Governor-General opened a Canadian. Legion W Services hut in the camp. During the opening ceremony, tall, tanned Athlone spoke as a typical soldier He did not mention the demanded of Canada by war---the response of young men to the colors, or the glory to be wog in eventual victory over Hitler. These, as a soldier, he took for granted. Rather, he spoke of the necessary care the soldier must take in his recreation hours ead sald: "One of dom. "At. the front the hours of sus- pense are often more trying than actual moments of acute danger. In a training camp such you have long periods without the excitement of fighting. It is, therefore, @!1 the more Im- relieved of boredom," said the Earl. Informal Ceremonies The Governor-General said the last ceremony of the same kind he had officiated «i was at the camp of the Canadian soldiers at Alder- shot, and General A. G. L. Naughton had acted as chairman He praised the C:aadian Legion for | their educational work among sol- Training Plan, No. 2 ne: -by Pembroke, | had | serrifice | | Brig.-Gen. the worst things about war is bore- | as this | of work | | gullies in. wooded portant that the hours off duty be ! | of sight to the diers, so necessary for the modern | | ) Service Flying Training School, the Earl of Athlone, LEFT, as three fast Harvard over the aerodrome of the new training school, RIGHT, soldier who has to think for him- self and often master the intri- cacies of complicated machinery. The ceremony at the hut was | most informal. A small bend played, | but there was no guard of honor, | and soldiers grouped about on a grassy slope at the foot of the Gov- ernor-General's stand Athlone was | dressed in his uniform of Comman- | der-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Canad, and his epaulettes were marked with the insignia of the late George V, the former Edward VIII | and the present King, to signify the Earl had served as ADC. to the At the Y.W.C.A. ceremony Prin- cess Alice spoke briefly and infor- y. She was dressed in a blue- | grey printed dress, with & blue hat with a flowered front and a veil She wore brown and white shoes with blue heels, elbow length white gloves. Her only jewels were dia- mond earrings The gathering grouped around the lawn of the hostess house was a cross.section of Canadica life, with mothers and | children, and a few men in shirt. sleeves who had left their offices to stand in the sun near the Princess. Camp Inspected Athlone, a brother of Queen Mary, showed a keen interest in the train- ing being taken by the 7,800 men in camp here. After lunch he and Princess Alice, sa:companied by Eric McCualg, CM.G., D.S.0, V.D, Camp Commandant, and Brigadier Logie Armstrong, dis- trict officer commanding, drove over | the camp's dirt roads for a full dress | Inspection. The Earl watched closely as the men went through the routine of the grim game of war. He wawhed camouflaged trucks rcar over a bumpy terrain, unhitch their guns and rush back to cover in near-by woods, He saw signalling, drilling, 'anti-tank and _anti-gas | warfare. He se'w bridges thrown over country, light pontoons flung across streams and a hundred men, with bayonets fixed and helmets covered with under- brush, dash after an imaginary enemy. The Fourth Canadian Field Regi- | ment, the 21st Army Field Regiment and the 2nd Canadian. Medium | Regiment carried out the attack. Me- | Guns were hidden in the woods, out casual observer. Anti-aircraft guns blazed at "enemy planes" (red balloons) and trans- ports dashed into line with their | enemy. CANADIAN TROOPS eighteen-pounders to repel the tank attack, First the eighteen-pounders open- ed fire (using real shells, as did all the guns used in the operations) and blew up the ammunition dump in the enemy village at a range of 2,000 yards. Next the anti-aircraft fire opened and repelled the in- vader. The tank attack then began. Two tanks were drawn on a cable across the range of the guns, one at 500 yards smd the other at 2,000 yards. Both were blown to bits. A counter- attack then completely routed the IN HEAVY DRILL Ottawa, Aug. 8 -- Canadian troops are winning the good will of Ice- landers, whose island they now guard against Nazi invasion, accord- ing to Arni Eggertsson of Winnipeg, who passed through here Monday night on his way home after a visit to his native Iceland. Conversation between the troops and Icelanders has been facilitated by a booklet, "Icelandic for Sol- diers," issued to troops by the Can- adian Legion. Eggertscon also sald German "scientists" had been making survey expeditions to the island for several years but it was discovered only recently that the expeditions were sent from the German war office. Port Hope Mayor To Join Regiment Port Hope, Aug. 8.--Believed to Lindsay Recruits R.C.A. Batteries Lindsay, Aug. 8--Under the com- mand of Capt. R. C. Wansbrough, two batteries of the R.C.A. will' be required here immediately as non- permanent active militis units. The units will be recruited to a strength of 143 per battery, and training mn musketry and infantry drill will commence next week with speciali- zation later. The batteries will be known as the 45th and 56th, NP.AM., arid will be brigexed with 4th Peterboro, 14th and 22nd Cobourg, under Col. T. P. Peterson, V.D., R.C.A. There will be a permanent officer, instructor and sergeant clerk. Classes to qualify men as officers, N.C.O0.s and instructors in the Can- adian Militia will commence im- mediately. Training will teike two nights each week for & period of 60 days. Part of each battery will go to camp: for two weeks of advanced training on Sept. 1. SEVEN INJURED IN AUTO CRASH NEAR LINDSAY Three Cars Figure in Mixup on Highway 36--One Mo- tor Overturns in Ditch Lindsay, Aug. 8--Seven people escaped serious injury Tuesday night when two cars collided on Highway 36, eight miles north of Lindsey. Miss Margaret Sootherzm of Chap- leau and Miss Peggy Gravestock of | Lindsay suffered cuts about the | face, and Wilbur Winter of Lind- | say received a gash on the head when. the car in which they were riding, driven by Harry Stinson of Lindsay collided with a southbound car driven by Mrs. W. F. Bell, Lind- say, R.R. 6, which was turning into a sideroad. The Stinson car over- turned in the ditch, while the im- pact threw the Bell car into the path of another southbound car driven by Gordon Mayes of Lindsay, inflicting light damages on the letter vehicle, but leaving the oc- cupants uninjured. Mrs. Bell and her two children, Bruce and Beryl, suffered minor cuts and bruises. Provincial Traffic Officer Gordon Broughton of Lindsay, investigated. QUEBEC TESTED ON HOUDE CASE BEFORE ARE Political Scout Sent Out k Ottawa Before Internmen of Mayor Was Ordered rt -- Ottawa, Aug, 8~--~Quebec's reac tion was thoroughly tested befo the Mackenzie King Gove: moved to intern Mayor m Houde of Montreal, it became here yesterday. As soon as it became known th publicity had been ' given to th Houde statement, Hon, C. G. Powe: Minister of Defense for Air, an who is said to be rivalling Rt. Hon Ernest Lapointe as a Quebec der] was despatched to his province feel the pulse of iis people. At thi same time Mr. Lapointe was hur riedly recalled from his summel residence, whence he had gone thre weeks ago for a rest cure and fron which he had not expected to re. turn before the end of the session. Whatever discussions preceded action, it became known yesterda that at six p.m. Monday, Mr. pointe actually signed the order tq intern the Montreal mayor. Oth courses were open. It could ha been possible to proceed again Houde either under the Natio Registration Regulations, which im pose a penalty for counsellin szainst registration, or under sec tion 39 of the Defense of Canad Regulations. It is true that Houde still has the right of appeal to a tribunal, bul the sessions are neld in camera and the R.C.M.P. have only to satisty thé judge that the offense justifies Houde"s confinement for the dura tion of war. He is in no sense serv: ing a penal term. When the Houde statement firs! gained publicity, it is under: the disposition among at least some members of the Government Jas to ignore the matter af least tmtil after registration, in case against Houde should arouse any general antagonism to the registra< tion scheme. But it quickly became apparent that prompt action essential. It is impossible to tell wheth Houde has an appreciable following but it is understood that any pers suasion he has achleved has been offset by instructions to the clergy from the Cardinal, that the churen should co-operate in every possible way in facilitating the registration. tion be Canada's youngest mayor, 30- year-old H. R. 8. Ryun of this town, | Tuesday night tendered his resig- | nation to council in order to carry on military duties. He is a second lieutenant in Headquarters' Com- pany, 1st Battalion of the Midland Regiment, stationed in Lindsay. Council granted him leave of ab- sence for the remainder of his term, and empowered Reeve 8. Gifford to act as mayor. Entering town council in 1937, Mr, Ryan again was re-elected the fol- lowing year. In 1039 he was elected deputy reeve by acclamation. This year he was acclaimed mayor. Governor-General Opens New Flying School One of the largest flying training schools to be opened under the British Commonwealth Joint Air near Ottawa, was officially opened by trainers salute His Excellency in a formation flight His Excellency "Gratefully speaking..." "It's a good habit." Mr. Picobac spoke slowly. He had stopped the car and was gazing over a field of broad, green leaves. "What is?" asked his young daughter-in-law from the back seat. "Saying grace!" said Mr. Picobac. "Doesn't hurt to remember how much we've got to be thankful for." "Especially for a mild, cool, daughter-in-law. sweet smoke?" laughed his "Right!" declared Mr, Picobac. "That's why I'm staring at that field. It's Burley tobacco. The farmer has worked on that, so has his hired help. I'm being grateful to them. And Government experts have worked on it -- worked for years to make it as good as men can make it. 'But men alone couldn't make that field of Burley. No . .\ I'm, well, I'm just being grateful." And Mr. Picobac stared at his pipe and said nothing for quite a long while. Have you tried Picobac lately? You should! For it's the very pick of Canada's Burley crop which the growers, working with government experts, have made better than ever. Buy a pouch today. "It DOES taste good ina pipe!" HANDY SEAL-TIGHT POUCH - 15¢ 14-LB. "LOK-TOP" TIN - 65¢ also packed in Pocket Tins icobac GROWN IN SUNNY, SOUPHERN ONTARIO