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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An independent newspaper published every week- day afternoon except Saturday at Oshawa, Can- ada, by The Times Publishing 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 the Audit Bureau of 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 inp advance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940 That Fifth Column Fifth column tactics have been with us since the world began. The only difference is that it has appeared under various guises. It reminds us of a restaurant in Montreal in those earlier days. Every midday meal they had a special dessert; known by various names. Sometimes they called it Mexican pudding, another day as Californian Delight and if the luckless eater got stung on the first attempt he was almost bound to be bitten on the next. These fancy names always referred to some concoction, of bread pudding that was dish- ed up. The only reason why the customers indulged in it was because of its alluring designation. There were fifth columnists when the spies brought back their individual report to the elders of Israel. So alarming was the story told by the ten which referred to the giants that had to be faced, that the whole multitude were bent on returning to Egypt. If it had not been for the allaying of these fears by Joshua and Caleb the Israelites would have revolted. Goliath the bully was causing the per- spiration to roll off the timorous foreheads of the nation every time he 'hurled his taunting jibes until young David with his sling and stones hit him so quickly that the giant did not even know what had taken place. Today a couple of armed thugs parade European countries. For the most part they have caused consternation galore and fear and trembling is on every hand. Now they are brought to a standstill. They are by their bloodthirsty appearance asking Britons: "Why are you not afraid?" The very fact that these cut throats have had the inhabitants of that stout little island "call their bluff" has caused the cold spells in rapid succession to run up and down their chilling backs. One wonders why they have gained such an ascendency over the greater part of Europe. This is the secret. We got it in a pamphlet we read last week. There we learned that the reason the central powers were beaten in the great war was because their soldiers were beaten on the home front. The central powers learned the secret that if the morale of the civilian population is kept up there is no need for alarm when its soldiers face the enemy. In fact the loss of morale is their most insidious foe. Apparnetly the Allies over- looked this fact but the Axis Powers at once took advantage of it, and by means, mostly foul, have sought to undermine the resistance of the foes they expect to van- quish; so that by using much treachery and striking fear into the hearts of their enemies they were able to overcome, in most cases, without the firing of a shot. We have seen how fifth column manoeu- - vres work in national life. How do they _ operate in individual cases? They are very * evident when some one desires to make * progress. He receives nothing but ridicule "and contempt for his pains so that he is - often tempted to abandon his chosen career, * especially if it is at all unusual. His per- secutors will taunt him, continually chal- lenging him and saying how impossible it : is for him to attain his desired success. . Suppose, however, he does manage to steel himself against their discouragements and knocks and in spite of all obstacles does manage to reach his goal. Then im- mediately his tormentors turn their ridi- cule into envy and jealousy. Then their comments are that his success was only achieved -because of his crookedness or double dealing. So that Fifth. Column tricks are not an unknown factor, are very evident even in individual lives, but appear- ing in forms of some kind or another. It must not be forgotten however, that our national Fifth Column adversaries are strongly entrenched. They have been pre- paring for this conflict "De Tag" for the past twenty years. They have been sub- stituting guns for butter and turning hard working labouring men into slaves. They have promised them an impossible Utopia in order that these gangsters may ride roughshod over all Europe. But who are these tyrants? Hitler, a paperhanger got trimmed by a bunch of Jews and he has had it in for the Israelitish race and every one else ever since. Mus- solini was that organ grinder that once came round our streets with the bar I organ and 'da monk." He lost his monk and is now in league with the raving maniac of Europe. Hitler has taught Mussolini that by playing Fifth Column tricks which is by striking fear into the hearts of honest men by treachery and undermining the confidence of other na- tions he will be able to put it over the rest of us until their "bluff is called" but they have overlooked the latest slogan, "There'll always be an England." -- Rev. Joseph Denny. Pay As You Go, The Proper Way The Council of the Township of Whitby is to be commended on its decision, as re- corded in these columns last week, to adopt a policy of '"Pay-as-you-go," in connection with municipal expenditures. In striking the tax rate the Council did so with this policy in view, and we predict that it will work out well both for the Council and the taxpayers. At the present time the town- ship is in excellent financial shape, the statement released by the auditors recently reflecting the care taken by Councils of the past few years to give the township good administration. Township's debenture debt is not high, capital expenditures are being avoided as far as possible, and de- ficits will now be unknown under the new policy just put into operation. Other town- ships, and urban places for that matter, might follow this example. Few With Foreign Names Enlist Looking over the list recently of Whitby men who have joined the second Ontario Regiment (infantry) members of the Non-Permanent Militia of Canada, we could not help but observe that names of men of have made their as foreign extraction who homes in Whitby for years, and who have enjoyed British freedom and all that it implies, were conspicuous by their absence. It may that these men of military age, who have failed to enlist, not only in the battalion referred to but many others despite the many calls for voluntary enlist- ment which have been issued, are perfectly loyal and appreciate British freedom and It is not for us to sit in judg- 3ut we do say that in be protection. ment upon them. neglecting (we will not say refusing) they have not given expression to their loyalty as hundreds of other Whitby men have done. The only consolation remaining is that the Compulsory Training plan about to be launched will get some of them. --Whitby Gazette and Chronicle The Word 'Please' Helps In Ottawa the other day, one of Canada's dollar-a-year executives sat down with the vice-president of a big national organiza- tion. They were drafting a wire to Van- couver on a war matter of some urgency. When the vice-president had written what he wanted to say, he handed it to the dollar-a-year man for his approval. Said the latter: "Add the word 'please'." The vice-president thought for a minute then he said: "Yes, T will. I've never done it before in a wire but I think it is a good idea." Said the dollar-a-year man: "I've been carrying 'pleases' in my pock- ets for years. They help a lot, especially in these war days." Editorial Notes The worst kind of "bottle neck" is not 'industrial but intellectual. There should be no shortage of labor on the farms if men in town who are not working full time in local industries are willing to go out in the country and do their bit. Four Corner meetings can wait until the harvest is over. W.M.S. Leaders of the United Church are to meet in Whitby next week end. The task of interesting people in missions, par- ticularly in, foreign lands, must be most difficult in these war days. The women have great courage to carry on. A Bible Thought for Today AS CERTAINLY AS WE SHALL INHERIT ET- ERNAL LIFE: For our light affliction, which is but for a moment. worketh for us a far more ex- ceeding and eternal weight of glory.--2 Corinth" ians 4: 17. 'Germans Change Tactics After Staggering Losses 100 Safe In Bomb Shelter As Building Above Blazes The earth rumbled and some of the 100 refugees in the bomb shelter moved uneasily, but the rumbling men are shown quelling the flames. Individual Enemy Raiders Attack England and Wales But Damage Re- ported Slight -- British Bombs Strike Heavy Blow late «d « cost Wednesday's at- southeast cot raiders also Mic and north- f single the stal areas lands n bomber opped their bombs in on made tar- | anti-aircraft guns and | 3 be- s of planes flyin "perfect" r-both PS. ter Sir Archibald Sin- clair told Parliament that agtual German air losses since the large scale attack began may be as much as double the official British tiaures) of 710 planes. He said that British | pilot estimates of planes shot" down were exceedingly conservative and hat possibly twice as many Ger- planes as were claimed shot | had been listed as "probable )ssible" losses. radius of British | mi down or ' The - growing Pilots Now Me U.S. A dozen Americna pilots whose structors with the R.C.AF, in Bolivia, Mexico, China or in the | stopped and no one was hurt in the shelter itself at Southampton, England. | ter, however, this furniture depository caught fire from Nazi-dropped incendiary bombs and the local fire- Immediately above bombing attacks on Germany and German-occupied territory, coupled it ;y Nazl aerial ac- in London as an wdica that the iative has n cen-from the German air e by RAF. victories over mass- methods nal attacking Smash at Reich little German and alr ac- RAF. rleans, in France, and as , German naval base, imaged by direct bomb also were dropped on Nazi airdrome just outside Paris, oil refineries at Hanover, in the ion of the Rhur, on German centres in north France and Holland and Belgium and in north-west Germany. The greatest damage yesterday s reported from the industrial 1 where several bombs hit y-populated residential and area, killing one woman several others. en were among the dead and injured in one Midlands raid Rescue squads searched the wreck- ds | between mid- | | | | crew of five was killed. down by bomber brought 'The Junkers 88 was an R.AF. fighter Five bombs were South Wales toy ing. The damage and the number | of casualties were not learned Several planes took part in the raid, A number of per ed, some fatall tack Tuesday night on a England town. Some. bon ons were injur- dropped on | esterday morn- | the shel- | | | at- | BRITAIN CHANGES BREN GUN DESIGN TO SPEED OUTPUT London, Aug. 22.--Supply Minis- ter Herbert Morrison announced yesterday that changes in design of the Bren machine gun would short- ly speed the output by 20 per cent. Changes in the Bren gun are only one part of the arms speed-up, Mr. Morrison said. In some cases, he said, cutting out "all unnecessary refinements" reduced the number of man-hours required to produce weapons by from 10 to 50 per cent. ADAPTING VESSELS FOR USE OF NAVY Many Ships Have Been Converted and Armed, Mu- nitions Minister Reports Ottawa, Aug. 22--In addition to the well advanced naval construction program involving the building of 92 vessels, of which a portion now were afloat, the Canadian ship con- version program, in progress since the outbreak of war, was proceed- ing ahead of schedule, Munitions Minister Howe announced Wed- nesday night. The statement also said that many vessels which had been strengthened armed and converted to meet naval requirements in Canadian shipyards had completed their trials and now | were in service on the high seas with the. Royal Canadian Navy. Details of the snip conversion pro- gram and the resulting additions to the Royal Canadian Navy naturally had never been made public, but this division of the naval construc- tion program was continuing and ships 'designed for peacetime uses were being rapidly converted into ships of war, he said. German plane crashed in Eire Tuesday an hour or two before the arrival from Newfoundland of the hwest | Eritish flying boat Clare at Foynes, s fell in| Eire, only 50 miles from the scene a public park and others damaged of the crash near Cloghane, County houses near a | Beven German down Tuesday railway station planes were shot ranged as far. ege of four houses for further vic- | tims. were damaged, Children playing in a public park ran for an air-raid shelter at the gates when the alarm gpundad. Waiting under cover, they made so much noise with their singing that they failed to hear the all-clear signal when the raid was over. Half a dozen other buildings | Late in the day a lone raider at- | tacked a town in the southwest and dropped a bomb which destroyed a house, causing three casualties, in- cluding one fatality In a dog fight over the town the mbers of R.C.A.F. ES flying experience totals 150 years | are at Manning Depot of the R.C.A.F., at Toronte, training to be in- 1 Their experience ranges up to 7,000 hours | flying for some and some of them are real war veterans, having fought hg! first world war. Among the U.S. pilots, all of whom are now flying officers of the R.C.AF., are, LEFT to RIGHT, BOTTOM ROW, P, T, Burton, New York; Michael N. W. Me¢- Coy, Los Angeles; R. D. H. R. Montgomery, Hollywood, Calif; Toltschin, Pasadena, Calif.; MIDDLE ROW, | H. W. Olaham, Los Angeles; A. D. Rhodes, North Carolina; G. (. DeBaud, Los Angeles; BACK ROW, C. E: | Manhart, Los Angeles; G. L, Shelton, Los Angeles; William V, Mudra, | Los Angeles; W. R. Swanson, Long Beach, Calif. | oe gh 3 PAcEA "Auq23 : JOHN MILLAR, President Kerry. German planes also attacked two ships off the Irish Coast, machine- The Dally Mall reported that a| gunning the crews. | $200,000 LOSS IN BIG FIRE AT BRANTFORI National Canned Good Factory Destroyed; Two Firemen Injured Brantford, Aug. 22.--Damage of $200,000 resulted and two fireme were injured when an early-morn ing blaze on Tuesday destroyed thd factory of National Canned Food Limited on the highway just out side Brantford. The factory was aflame when alarm was received and all avail able fire-fighting equipment wa rushed from Brantford, 'The found the interior of the plant mass of flames, and after the roo had burned through the flame leaped high in the air, sending showers of sparks over the neigh. borhood. : A row of houses nearby was en dangered as several small =~ fired | started but these were quickly | checked by volunteers. | Fireman John Bye of Brantford | suffered a back injury in a fa and will be confined to his hom | for several days. Another fireman | Arthur Saddeky, had a narrow es cape when a section of the wal | collapsed. As he ran for safety 4 | fiying brick split his helmet but h was not seriously hurt. Firemen expected to be at thd scene for the rest of the day work ing ower the smouldering ruins Nothing was saved from the fac tory and the scene was a hugd mound of debris after the wall collapsed. 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