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Oshawa Daily Times, 17 Sep 1940, p. 4

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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 117, 1940 'The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding . THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) 'An inde ndent newspaper published every week- dey Shand except Saturday at Oshawa, Can- The Oshawa Dally Times is a member of the * Canadian Daily Newspapers Association the On- tario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau ot Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered Ly 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 anywherz In Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $1.25 for three months, $2.26 for six months, or $4.00 per year it paid in advance. * 'By mall to U.S. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable ¢ stristly ip advance. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940 Time Is Short Preparations are being pushed ahead as 'fast as possible for Oshawa's Win-the-War and Community Fund campaign for rais- ing approximately $80,000 during the first seven days of October. But time is ex- tremely short for the vast amount of or- ganization work that is necessary in con- nection with a drive of this sort, and many of our busiest citizens are putting in hours of their valuable time on this worthy cause. The point we wish to make today is that many of our readers will be asked soon to help in some capacity or another in this nuge task. We urge them to re- spond cheerfully and promptly to the call when it comes. And we feel certain that this appeal will find the war-time spirit of readiness fully in evidence -- even as never before. This is not a time for anyone in this community to accept such responsibility feeling they are doing something for some- one else, or for the community at large. It's not a question of personal favours--not any more than is the part our boys--sons, brothers, sweethearts, and fathers--are doing over there right now. These men are giving their lives. Any small sacrifice that any one of us may make here, within walking distance of the comfort and safety of our own homes, is small, indeed, by com- parison. In fact, we should deem it a privilege of a free people to be able to voluntarily take part--whether that part from individual circumstance be large or small--to be able to do our share, each of us, in such a cause as this. But again--we repeat--time is short and it is therefore much more imperative that everyone give their best, without delay, friction or hesitation. We must one and cate and accurate international barometer that we possess. The scare about "secret weapons" is only a myth. In glancing through a British paper the other day, it said: "History has told us that never has a so-called "secret weapon" succeeded in winning a war. One of the best known British military experts summed up this lesson in these words: "When tactics fall in decadence, technical perfection grows." In other words, when generals realize they have no hope of win- ning a war they have to turn to "stunts" to extricate them from defeat. These never do--but that is a lesson that Hitler's Ger- many with its talk of "secret weapons", has evidently yet to learn. Our foes seem to have caught an apath- etic Europe napping and having mesmer- ised it have devoured it, just as a reptile fascinates its prey and swallows it. But we have caught a vision of a freed Universe, free from Hunnish thralldom and all the horrors that term implies. It calls to our minds the little Scottish maiden shut up in beleaguered Lucknow, India, and as she places her ear to the ground she catches the strain of the res- cuer's band. She calls out, in glad sur- prise: "Dinna ye hear it, the pipes o' Have- lock sound?" What can be sweeter music at this moment of our Empire's agony than to hear of the fifty destroyers and other assistance that our cousins across the border are about to send to our relief. The news that General Wolfe heard on the Plains of Abraham could not have been more assuring, when the cry came across the field of battle, "They Run, They Run." "Who run?" cries out the dying General. "The French, Sir," is the reply. "Thank God, I die happy." All ready our foes have seen the hand- writing on the wall. They are caught in "the trap they set for others. Calamity tongue-waggers would do well to copy the example of the Grosvenor House elevator man, of London, England, who greets his passengers every morning with "Good morning, another day nearer victory." Editorial Notes Could it be that the melancholy days are here, in respect to the weather? They say that money talks. Let's go one better and say that money fights if invest- ed in the war loan. And don't forget that Oshawa will be putting on a combined drive for war and community services fund the first week in October. Talk of Dusting Off Do- minion's Seat Stored Since 1910 Washington, Sept, 17.--As Canada looks to South America for new trade outlets and develops its mili- tary understanding with the United States, speculation revives in Wash- ington over , the Canada's entering: the Pan-Ameri- can Union of 21 American Republics. The stage props are already here for Canada to play its role in this theatre of Western Hemisphere re- lations. A high-backed mahogany chair inscribed with the word "Canada" and the Dominion's coat of arms has been gathering dust in the basement of the $1,000,000 Pan- American Union building here for 30 years awaiting entry of Canada into the American family of nations. Stored Since 1910 Canada's chair, stored since it was delivered in 1910, is only one indica- tion that statesmen even in the early years of this century, looked to the day when the Dominion would join in solving problems of the Americas. In the patio of Pan-American- ism"s home, built through the gen- erosity of Andrew Carnegie, great protagonist of peace, the Canadian escutcheon hangs beside those of Argentine, Brazil, Chile and the other 18 republics. The name of the French explorer Champlain appears with those of Washington, San Mar- CHAIR IS AWAITING CANADA "AT PAN-AMERICAN UNION possibility of | tin, Bolivar and other national heroes of the Americas, _ Looking down on the oval mahog- any council table in the Board of Governor's room in the building is a panel depicting the historic meet~ ing between Champlain and the Huron and Algonquin Indian chiefs. It holds the most prominent place of six panels in the room. Forecas: hy Carnegie At the time the order for inclusion of the Canadian panel was given, Carnegie said: "I don't expect Can- ada to become a republic but I do expect her to join our family of nations some time." Carnegie's reference to Canada came many years before the Im- perial Conference of 1926 and the 1031 Statute of Westminster gave the Dominion determination of its foreign policy. While the subject of membership in the Union has never been put for- ward officially to Canada, the closer relations which Canada has estab- lished and is establishing with the United States and Latin-American countries have brought about new discussions here of such a possi- bility. Trade Minister MacKinnon is un- derstood in Ottawa to have plans afoot to broaden the commercial in- telligence service in South America and possibly establish consuls and even send ministers to some Latin- American capitals. Markets which have been lost in Europe probably could be replaced in the south, Mr MacKinnon believes, IW ATQUOTA OR SHIPMENTS SOON TOBE SET Expect Export of 3,000,000 and Home 'Consumption of 1,000,000 Bushels Edmonton, Sept. 17.--Hon. James A, MacKinnon, Federal Minister of Trade and Commerce, said here thal assurance has been given by his ad- visers that another general wheat delivery quota could be fixed for the first week in December. "After Dec. 1, providing that the war situation does not get more ser- fous, there will be an export ship- ment from this country of 3,000,000 bushels per week, which with a do- mestic consumption of 1,000,000 bushels a week, will naturally make it possible for further quotas to be established," he said. paver "At the end of the crop year next July 31, so my advisers tell me, the carryover will not ' exceed the amount of the domestic consump- tion for one year. After mentioning the fact that the delivery wheat quota had been raised from five to eight bushels an acre last Friday in a Wheat Board order, Mr. MacKinnon said: "The wheat committee of the Dominion government is proceeding with plans to provide advances against farm stored grain where such are needed and where such loans or advances can be made with reasonable se- curity." | | | | 60 Peterboro Men Return From Camp Peterboro, Sept. 17--8ixty men of the 4th Field Battery, R.C.A. under the command of Lieut.-Col. J. D. Lawrie, returned to Peterboro Sun- day night from Petawawa, where they had undergone 2 weeks' train- ing under canvas. They were wel- comed as they marched from the CPR. station to the armories by a large crowd of homeward bound churchgoers who lined the route. The militiamen were unfortunate in the weather while at camp, but there were no complaints. U5, LINER SAVES BRITISH CREW Message Says Men of Sunk Freighter Landing at Lisbon New York, Sept. 17--The Ameri- can Export liner Exochorda radioed Saturday that she had rescued "all 64 members" of the crew of the 5,199-ton British freighter Saint Agnes, sunk 700 miles west of Lis- bon. Capt. Wenzel Habel's terse mes- sage said: "Rescued all 64 members of crew from 8.8. Saint Agnes. Now proceed- ing direct to Lisbon." Cause of the ship's sinking was not given, but it was presumed by Export Line officials that she had been torpedoed, BLAST PROBERS LOCATE RIFLE AT BUND CAME Subversive Literature / Discovered in Kenvil,, N.J., Powder Plant Kenvil, N.J., Sept. 17--An inv gator for the House of Represen! tives Committee on Unamerican Ac tivities, having searched employee: lockers at the explosion-wreckeq Hercules Powder Co. plant for lin with subversive groups, took h findings to Washington yesterday. While Robert B. Barker, spec investigator for the committee, revealing his check of the pl payroll and of lockers not destroy by Thursday's $1,000,000 mysteriow blasts and fire, Sheriff Quick 18 police chiefs Sunday in a raid oy the German-American Bund's Cam Nordland, ten miles from here. Quick, who said he also soug to check the Herculess payro against a list of persons believed frequent the Bund camp, seizure of subversive literature a rifle equipped with elescop sights. As Kenvil quietly buried its de and nine agencies, including seve: federal groups, probed the bl that killed 48, injured 125 and wipe a score of buildings off the 2,000 acre property, a Hercules compan expert expressed "great surprise" the intensity of the explosions. The following letter was received by the Minister of Finance. Permission to publish it bas been granted providing the writer's name be withheld. Honourable J. L. Ilslev. Minister of Finance. Ottawa. Dear Sir: "My son has gone to war..." Toronto, Canada, September 13, 1940. Wendell Willkie is reported as being back- ed by Henry Ford as candidate for Presi- dent of the United States, and no doubt is crossing his fingers lest he attract also the support of Col. Chas. Lindbergh. The bombing of Buckingham Palace, the London home of their Majesties, said to have been done to drive King George out of the metropolis and calculated to drive a wedge between him and his people, is hav- ing just the opposite effect the Nazis in- tended by their brutality. My son has gone to war. In that he is no different from thousands of other young men; but naturally, his mother and I are proud of him. Before he enlisted we talked it over . . ., for he was at the threshold of his career ---a junior partner in this business -- with "all the flame of his bright youth unspent." "God knows, Dad," he said, "I hate war . . . I have read and heard of what the last war meant to you and to others, But there's a job to be done and my job is to help to do it." "You have all ensure the complete success of the cam- paign which in the final analysis is another big smack at Herr Hitler. Seers of Visions Dreamers At one time in sacred writ it states: "There was no open vision." This would infer that there was no moral nor spiritual uplift left in the nation. At another time it says: "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Later on we read that a day is coming when our sons and daugh- ters would prophesy, our young men see 'visions and our old men dream dreams. How true it is that when one is content to live in the past or in the immediate present he appears to make little or no pro- gress. Let one aim at nothing and he will surely hit it; and even though he aims too high he is most likely to miss it but he will cer- tainly arrive somewhere. Better aim at something than nothing. Even beyond the desperate days in which we live we can see a silver lining to the black clouds. For many years we have waited for the storm to burst, and now it has come in all its fury. It is not so bad as it might have been. Every day finds us better prepared and more able to meet its onslaught. It is true the Hun has made <r many a lightning stroke but the lightning conductor was waiting for him so that | his blows, were not so damaging as they might have been, for he found Britain ready for him. Our enemy has been boasting of his "secret weapons." Just a few days. ago one paper stated that this "secret weapon" was about to strike but in the same paper was another announcement to the effect that Lloyd's had reduced Insurance rates on shipping in the Mediterranean. The first statement was propaganda, the second a plain simple truth. The first item was to sell the paper the second a fact that could not be denied. If you would know the truth don't be carried away by glaring headlines, but see what the world finan- ciers have to say about it. The "Ticker" always tells the story and the condition of world affairs as told by it is the most deli- "How about trying for a commission?" I asked. the qualifications." "No, ™ he answered, "I'm not going to wait for a commission. If I earn it, all right, but I'm enlisting as a Private." Which he did. He is now a Sergeant. If such men as these are not worth backing to the limit, when it comes to investing in Canada's Second War Loan, there's something tragically wrong with the Spirit of Canada. At any rate, my last dollar, and all that I can borrow from my bankers has been invested in Second War Loan Bonds. I was in Germany and Italy last year. I know both countries well. I've seen what it means to men to be deprived of free= dom . . . sometimes I wonder whether we in Canada prize freedom as we should. It is not often that Oshawa has two dis- tinguished visitors such as General E. J. Higgins and Commissioner B. Orames of the Salvation Army visit them at one and the same time. It was a happy co-incidence for the Oshawa Rotary Club, the members of which heard two fine and appropriate addresses on Monday. Work at Oshawa airport is well under way at present. The present activity is . confined to levelling the huge area for run- ways. Just when the contract for the sev- eral buildings will be let is not known. When building operations commence this will require an army of carpenters and skilled workmen in other lines of the build- ing trade. A Bit of Verse i a TO CANADA : t i BER What else need be said to those who are able = and who should = but who have not yet done their duty and bought Canada's Second War Loan Bonds? Yours very trulyg A Signature We're glad when our neighbors have prospered; We rejoice when they're happy and gay . . - We don't covet their soil or the fruit of their toil, For friends aren't built that way, But just let some foreign Invader Attempt to storm Canada's shore, And over that line to our neighbour's defense America's fighters will pour! =-By Nick Kenny, Radio Editor of The New York Mirror. Repro- duced with permission. A Bible Thought for Today t REPAY GOOD BUT NOT EVIL: Say not thou, will recompense evil: but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.--Proverbs 20:22.

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