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PAGE FOUR x THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1940 Y o ° The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An independent newspaper published every week- day en 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 Dally 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, ~ $3326 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in advance. By mail to UE. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable strictly in advance. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1940 The Big Battalions It is a military axiom that Providence is on the side of the big battalions. Ger- many, France, Great Britain have had, or are still raising armies numbering into the millions. President Roosevelt is asking for a front line "blitzkrieg" army of 400,- 000, with about 1,500,000 men in training. In the light of experience in the present war, military experts in London are said to have opined that the President's policy is wrong; that instead of building up a vast army and planning a vast production in order to arm these troops, it would ': better to mechanize the smaller number in the most modern way and leave it at that. They hold it would be more effective, be- sides being obviously much cheaper. In the light of Britain's own immense and growing forces right now this seems contradictory advice, but Britain has to prepare for war on a number of fronts next year or the year after, and she will always require to be on guard against surprise attempts at invasion at a number of points all along the coast. Events of the past few months, however, show that on the only occasion when the armies came to grips it was a highly technical and comparatively small force that won the battle... When the Germans swept across the Meuse owing to French unprepared- ness and ineptitude, it was German planes, tanks and motorcycle corps that literally rolled back the French infantry and pushed the exposed British troops back to the sea. The main German army was scarcely in the battle at all. It was chiefly a battle be- tween a few divisions of the fast armored and motorized soldiers against men who had no such armament. Having got the French army on the run the steady stream of mechanized divisions kept up the pres- sure until the French were forced south of Paris and the battle was won and lost. In the last war there were hundreds of divisions engaged. Only a few divisions were needed by the Germans to conquer Norway, Holland, Begium and France. The great majority of the Nazi forces have not fired a shot. Perhaps they never will, but they are there if needed. The new tech- nique of war is the reason why the British Government has entered into contracts amounting to $2,000,000,000 in the United States alone, over and above the vast expen- diture in the United Kingdom, in Canada, Australia and New Zealand for airplanes, tanks and motorcycles. If and when Britain has to throw all these mechanized resources into a fight or a series of fights, it will be the greatest clash of armed might the world has ever seen. Transportation For Canadian Soldiers Tragic deaths of four Canadian soldiers last week who were given a lift by a kind- hearted motorist, have started an agitation in many papers for the issue of transporta- tion warrants by the government to enlist- ed men. And the suggestions seems to be gaining wide support, for it is inevitable that with such tragedies occurring, motor- ists, no matter how loyal they are and how sympathetic they are to the men of the Canadian army, will be a little hesitant in giving them a ride. Here is a suggestion from the Brampton Conservator which, we think, deals very fairly with the question: "Several weeks ago we commented on the - need for providing transportation for Can- ada's fighting men on leave. It seemed to us that Canada's nationally owned railway system might well handle the task, with the co-operation of other transportation coi- cerns, Since that time some provision has been made and soldiers on active service may now travel at the single fare rate for a return trip. Even this concession is not going far enough. It might work out all right for officers and perhaps N.C.0.s who earn sufficient, but the average private is not being paid a wage which will permit him 0 visit his home if it happens to be some distance from his station. A case in point is the soldiers stationed at Petawawa. They come from all sections of Ontario, with hundreds of them from Toronto. The single fare to Toronto is over $9, which makes it almost prohibitive for the soldier to visit his home often. He is not allowed to thumb his way and must show his return ticket before being permitted to leave camp. We still believe that men who have given up jobs and home life to serve in the forces should be given some consideration. Trains on our railways are seldom more than half full and very little cost would be entailed in providing transportation for soldiers to their homes. It would at least show the appreciation of the government and the people they represent if this provision was made." Register Your Guns Good, patriotic 'citizens should have no hesitation in promptly complying with the law which requires us to register all fire- arms in our possession. The regulation has as its object the discovery of weapons in the hands of those people who may be sus- pected of being potential trouble makers-- and is really for the protection of all law- abiding citizens. If you have a rifle or shotgun which you use properly for hunting, you will be left in undisturbed possession of it, unless, of course, exigencies should arise which make it necessary for the Government to call up all such firearms for home defence. The law requires that all firearms be registered with the police by Sept. 15th. As Oshawa Men Go To Camg When members of the Second Battalion, Ontario Regiment, N.P.A.M., parade through the streets next Monday morning en route to entrain for camp at Niagara-on- the Lake, where they will spend two weeks, days of the last war will be recalled by the older citizens when military parades were common. For some reason or another, troops from Canada have moved away quietly, without music of bands or elaborate com- munity farewells, so that the fact that there is a war on has not been so vividly brought home this year as it was over twenty years ago. Next week, too, Oshawa's own will move away quietly, but the fact that so many local homes are represented in the company will bring the lesson of war more closely home. True, these men are not going overseas nor will they be gone long, but they are nevertheless part of the great Canadian Army which might be called upon some day to engage In home defense. It might be, also, that as the need for over- seas troops again looms on the military horizon, many of these men will volunteer to follow in the footsteps of many others who have already gone over. Editorial Notes A Whitby resident calls his neighbor's yowling cat "Air Raid" because it keeps him awake at night. The Vatican's newspaper, Osservatore Romano, may cease after ninety years of publication. It is being slowly suffocated in the atmosphere of Fascism. Prime Minister Churchill had to stamp his cigar underfoot in an underground shelter at Ramsgate. He and his cigar are as inseparable as Lord Baldwin and his cherry pipe used to be. "And now they're telling us that the soy bean is human food, besides being available for plastics, paint, and synthetic clothing. Imagine eating your steering wheel!" com- ments the Christian Science Monitor. Apt to turn your stomach as well as your car. At Winnipeg a man and woman were sentenced to two months imprisonment for failing to register. At Stratford for a simi- lar offence a man was fined $25, with the alternative of 30 days in jail. No doubt many people will be charged. There should be some uniformity of sentences for the same offences. Canada's best markets for automobiles ad parts in 1989, in order of importance, were Australia, British South Africa, New Zealand, British India, British Straits Set- tlements, British West Indies, United Kingdom, Southern Rhodesia and British East Africa. This affords an outstanding example of what Empire trade means to Canada.--Kitchener Record. A Bible Thought for Today BUT DO IT TODAY: Let the wicked forsake. his way. and the unrighteous man. his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abun- dantly pardon.--Isaiah 55: 7 { Minister Ils] A SITUATION nn ATO Fea as 1 REDOLEN Zs &@ je < ONSEQUENCES APPOINT 200 10 LEAD DRIVE ON WAR LOAN Five Recent Finance Minis- ters and Nine Provincial Treasurers Included Ottawa, Sept. 4 -- A national committee of 200 outstanding Cana- dians, including labor leaders and bank presidents, 1s sponsoring Can- ada's second war loan, which will be opened for subscription next Monday. Terms and amount of the new | lcan will be announced late Thurs« | day night, put it is understood the | objective will be between $250,000 | 000 and $300,000,000. The first war loan, issued last January, was for $200,000,000, but applications then greatly exceeded the subscriptions accepted. Heading the campaign is Finance ey, who will serve as chairman of the National Commit- tee. He is assisted by five former Finance Ministers and the nine provincial treasurers who will head the provincial committees, personnel of which was announced last night by Mr. dlsley. The, first five are Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas White, Hon. Sir Henry Drayton, Hon. C. A. Dunning, Hon. E. N, Rhodes and Hon. J. L. Ral- ston, pow Minister of National De- fense.» Mr. Dunning is also chair= man of the National Subscription | Committee, which will deal partic- ularly with large subscriptions. Following is the list of those from Ontario invited to serve on the Na- tional War Loan Committee: -- Hon. Mitchell F. Hepburn, Pro- vincial Treasurer, Toronto; J. E. At- kinson, Toronto; C. Jackson Booth, Ottawa; W. J. Blackburn, London; R. A. Bryce, Toronto; C. L, Burton, Toronto; Peter Campbell, Toronto; W. R. Campbell, Windsor; C. H. Carlisle, Toronto; Col the Hon. H. H. Cockshutt, LL.D., Brantford; W. Rupert Davies, Kingston; George A. Dobbie, Galt; Rt.- Hon. Sir Henry Drayton, K.C, P.C, Toronto; Sir James Dunn, Sault Ste. Marie. Hon. C. A. Dunning, Ottawa; A. E. Dyment, Toronto; R. Y, Eaton, Toronto; Gordon C. Edwards, Ot- tawa; A. L. Ellsworth, Toronto; Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, P.C., K.C,, To- ronto; A. J. Freiman, Ottawa; M. R. Gooderham, Toronto; Hon. George Gordon, North Bay; Rt. Hon. Ged, P, Graham, P.C, LL.D, Brockville; H, A. Graybiel, Windsor; Hon. A. C. Hardy, P.C., Brockville; H. Houson, Chatham; R. G. Ivey, London; J. E. Jeffery, London. PF. L. Kerr, Hamilton, C. O. Knowles, Toronto; John R, Lamb, Toronto; Louis L. Lang, Kitchener; Ray Lawson, London; 8. H. Logan, Toronto; Donald MacAskill, Sud- bury; Hon, R. C. Matthews, P.C, Toronto; Leighton McCarthy, KC, Toronto; Hon. Charles McCrea, K. C., Toronto; C. George McCullagh, Toronto, R, O. McCulloch, Galt; W. D. McGregor, Windsor; J. S, Mec- Lean, Toronto; J. A. McLeod, To- ronto. John McPhail, K.C.,, Sault Ste. Marie; Major-General Hon, S, C. Mewburn, K.C.,, CM.G., Hamilton; 8. J. Moore, Toronto; F. K. Morrow, Toronto; Tom Moore, Ottawa; A. R.. Mosher, Ottawa; Sir William Mulock, K.C,, Toronto; J. Y. Mur- doch, K.C.,, Toronto; Rt. Hon Ar- thur Meighen, P.C., Toronto; Paul J. Myler, Hamilton; N. L. Nathan son, Toronto; M. J O'Brien, O\- tawa; F. Gordon Osler, Toronto; A. E. Phipps, Toronto; Hon. Nor- man Paterson, Fort William; J. H, Stovel, Toxcnt:." P. D. Ross, Ottawa; T. A. Russell, Costing $17,500,000, They | Will Provide Jobs For Thousands of Men ttawa, Sept. 4 -- Munitions Min- ister Howe announced yes lay | at three new plants, costing $17, | 500,000 will be added immediately to Canada's rapidly expanding pro- gram of industrial development to meet war-time demand for guns and chemicals. The plants will be in operation in 1941, employing "a personnel of many thousands," the minister said. They include an $8,000,000 chemical plant, a $7.000,000 gun plant and $2,500,000 rifle plant. The chemical plant, a part of Canada's explosives program, will be located in A ta and the othe er two plants will pe in central Canada. Plan 200 Tons Daily The chemical plant will manufac- ture more than 200 tons daily of ammonium nitrate, using as a raw material the natural available in Alberta, Mr. Howe stated, gas Building 3 More Plants For Canada's War Needs | operated under the supervision of | riage and other equipment neces- | sary in the manufacture of the com= | Ltd., a recently-created government The vroject involves also the con- struction of special tank cars to handle the finished product and op- tions have been taken on much of the machinery for the new plant and the necessary properties have been acquired. The plant will be constructed and the Allied War Supplies Corpora- tion, a Government-owned company. Need Thousands of Men Guns to be produced are rapid acti® anti-aircraft artillery and the gun plant will be located beside the existing facilities which are already producing the barrels of these guns. Several thousand additional men will be required to produce the car= plete gun. Annual output of. the plant will have g value of from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000. Construction work has begun on the rifle plant which is being built |. and will be operated by Small Arms, company which will employ upwards of 500 men in this plant. | Toronto; Hon. E. N. Rhodes, Ot- | tawa; B. K. Sandwell, Toronto; C. W. Sherman, Hamilton; -C, Harrisor Smith, Toronto; Wilson M. South- am, Ottawa; Dan Stauffer, Brig Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas White, : M.G., K.CM.G, Toronto; Sir James W. Woods, Toronto; C. P. Fell, To- ronto; Harmon E. Rice, Hunts- ville; Newton J. Lander, Toronto. (LIFE IN SWEDEN 1S "NOT JOYFUL" Taxes "Awful" for Neutral- ity, Says One-Time Vancouver Girl Vancouver, Sept. 4. -- Life in Stockholm is anything but joyful these days, according to a letter re= | ceived here by Mrs. Matt McGreg= or from her daughter, Dr. Leone McGregor Hellstedt, a one-time Vancouver girl, who lost her citizen- ship when she married a Swedish citizen. Dr. Hellstedt writes: "I haven't come home because the Swedish government (quite rightly) won't allow any Swede to spend one cent outside the country, even to buy tickets to another coun. PLAN JEWISH ARMY try. "If Canada had allowed me to | keep my citizenship after I married I could leave. So remember to vote | for women being able to keep their | citizenship all thelr fives, just like | and South men. All American "The real problem this country faces is economic. "Sweden. lives from Its exports and now there is no access to the Atlantic. You can imagine the busi- ness worries. Now there is exactly enough to live on after we pay our taxes and insurance, "Taxes are awful, cent, of our income. All because we have to keep every man in the country in arms to preserve our neutrality. The town is very quiet. No-gutos can run except a few taxis, so everyone has a bicycle. We haven't been to the theatre, opera or movie since September, nor have we been to a dinner party, but we are mest thankful that it is as quiet about 55 per | American women can. | | | | here as it 1s." \ T0 ASSIST BRITAIN New Zionist Head Expects Force of at Least 100,000 Men London, Sept. 4--Plans for the formation of a Jewish National Army to fight at the side of the Allied forces against Germany and Italy have been disclosed in London. The army's minimum strength, according to A. Abrahams, head of the political department of the New. Zionist organization who discussed its formation at a conference yes- | terday, is to be 100,000 men apart from troops recruited in Palestine. The "first 100,000," he hoped, would be quickly mustered by re- cruiting in all parts of the world. Most recruiting, however, will be carried on in the United States, ac- cording to the Conference's plans. The new army, it is proposed, will be equipped by the British Govern- ment, although an effort will be made to have Jews provide finan- cial support themselves. WHEN IN TORONTO VISIT THE St. Regis HOTEL Sherbourne St. at Carlton One Hundred Modern Rooms with private baths, showers and private telephones. Rooms, single, from $2.00 to $2.50 Rooms, double, from $3.00 to $3.50 and $4.00 Good Food Served at moder- ate price. Dancing Nightly; no cover As Much More Will Be Used in Next 12 Months for Planes, etc, Washington, Sept. 4--Britain has ordered a $2,000,000,000 bill of goods in the United States since she went to war against Hitler a year ago yesterday. British purchasing agents, who gave this figure estimated that an- other $2,000,000,000 in orders would be forthcoming in the second year ahead. Britain has bought nearly every- thing from fire hose to airplanes. The list runs into hundreds of items but with the air war growing more intense, the emphasis has been con- stantly on planes. About $1,200,000,- 000 of the first year's contracts were for aircraft. Probably not more than $500,- 000,000 of the first year's contracts have been filled, however. In many cases new factories--a number of them paid for by Britain--had to be built before a start could be made on the orders. In some cases items had to be standardized with U.S. needs so that a single factory could handle both, and so delay en- sued. Silent on Plane Total Details on just how many planes have been bought or delivered, their types, and similar information about other purchases are not avail- able. Inquiries bring the polite but firm British reply: "Sorry, but you know we are at war." From other sources, however, in- dications are that Britain and the Empire now are getting about ten pew military planes a day off U.S. assembly lines. By next summer they seem to have hopes for about 70 a day. Expressions of doubt that the war will last that long are laughed at. To pay the cash required by the neutrality law for their purchases, Britain has been sending gold here at the rate of about $100,000,000 a week. It comes fresh from the mines of South Africa end Austra- lia, from the bank vaults of London, but most often from Canada, where much was either stored before the war or landed by convoy after- wards. Also Busy on U.S. Orders A new understanding is imminent between the British purchasing mis- sion and the U.S. National Defense Advisory Commission, and army and navy officials here to step up production and delivery of planes and military equipment to the fight- ing forces of the Empire. Some of the war materials will go to Canada to equip the Dominion's expanding army. The United States' own defense program is going to make vast de- mands on U.S. industry, but it was learned from. a reliable source that the British mission, acting for the whole Empire, does not feel that this will interfere materially with the filling of British orders. _.. $2,000,000,000 Is Spent By Great Britain In U.S. During First Year Of War Child On Wagon + Struck By Car Bowmanville, Sept, 4 -- Jean Bond, four years old, had both legs broken and suffered other injuries Sunday when the wagon in which she was playing was struck by a car driven by George Hay, 571 Roy maine st., Peterboro. Chief of Police S. Venton, who investigated the accident, said the Jj child was being pulled along the |i road by Jack, her brother, age six. | At the approach of the car he drop= ped the tongue of the wagon and it ran directly in the path of the car. The child was removed to Bow=- manville hospital under the care of Dr. H. B. Rundle. Her condition is | reported greatly improved. General Motors Invites You « + « See Two Thrilling Movies FREE! ® You've heard about the world- famous "Highways and Horizons" exhibit of General Motors at the New York World's Fair . . . Now, see it for yourself in a thrilling technicolor motion picture, "To New Horizons," at the General Motors display in the Automotive Building atthe "Ex." Also, see the showing of 'Motors on the March"-- featuring the war effort of Canada's motor industry--at Harry Foster's Outdoor Theatre on the grounds. Other fascinating exhibits: the display of General Motors-built mech- anized army vehicles . . . and all the GM Cars and Trucks, including some of the exciting NEW, 1941 MODELS! AUGUST 23 TO SEPTEMBER 7 SMX-TT 4414:7.11 MOTORS | --ar the Ex | JOHN MILLAR resident P E. A HUGHES [2 nager charge. WARTIME INDUSTRIES all; nami; , See a demonstration of Bren Guns, have a look at the grim armoured vehicles turned out by Canadian industry for Empire Troops, see the stage presentation "We Fight for Freedom', in the C.I.L. Theatre. Industries of all kinds are dramatizing their war effort. They are helping to make this the biggest, most dramatic, most important Canadian, National Exhi- bition in history! TORONTO AUG. 23 - SEPT. 7 1940