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PAGE FOUR ' THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times 3 Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER . (Established 1871) . t newspa| published every week- An_ independent ent Saturday at Oshaws, Cane Publishing Co. of Oshawa, Daily Thnes is a member of the an Dally Newspapers Association the On- jo Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs Ted OF week: $360 for six months, or $530 per year if paid in advance. mail anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $1.35 for three months, $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year it paid in advance. By mail to UL. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable strictly ip advance. MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1940 Drive Goes Forward Towards Objective With subscriptions totalling $69,677.78 received up to Saturday evening in the Oshawa Win-the-War and Community Fund campaign, the committee is now con- fident that the objective of $85,000 will be exceeded when the canvassers turn in their final reports some time this week. There is much to be done yet before the drive is completed, and for this reason the date of closing has been extended for a few days. The canvassers report that the work has been a pleasure and they have .been met with a generous and spontaneous response wherever they went. The cam- paign has been well named "Enlist for Humanity." The war services part has sounded the dominant note which has found a sympathetic people ready and willing to give as they have never given before. While the campaign was intended to run for one week--October 1-7--it has been found impossible to cover the ground in the seven days. There are a few factories to be heard from and some canvassing to be completed. When this has been finished and all returns in, there is every reason to believe that the objective will be reached if not oversubscribed. If a larger sum than the objective of $85,000 is reached, the bal- ance may be used as a nest-egg for the 'next annual drive or to meet some unfore- seen Red Cross emergency. The repre- sentative committee in charge of the Fund may be depended upon to deal wisely and fairly in the distribution of the Fund and The Times has been assured that a com- plete detailed report will be published in due course. so While the complete list of names of sub- scribers up to Saturday night shows a total of $69,677.78 in their givings, it was found impossible to publish all the names in to- day's issue. The bulk of these will be found on pages 2 and 6 today and the bal- ance will be published tomorrow. - + Pass Up Jobs at Back Door Attracted by reported high wages in local industrial plants, over one hundred young men from the agricultural districts within a radius of fifteen miles of Oshawa have flocked into the city looking for jobs since the harvesting season is over. How- ever right now there is a keen demand for apple pickers in the Durham county apple section and while these former harvest workers have been offered jobs at apple picking they refuse to handle apples and say they would sooner handle a monkey wrench, a hammer and chisel, an electric drill or a blow torch. ! The labor situation is unique in this sense, that while young men come here from the country looking for jobs in indus- trial plants, there are plenty of odd jobs ~ they could do at home. In fact, from re- liable information, it is learned that a num- ber passed up jobs at their back doors to come to Oshawa in the hope of securing work at high pay. This creates a situation in which the city unemployed are asked to work in the farming districts while the dgrarian unemployed are looking for jobs in the eity. It's the same old story of "far off fields are green." Seems to us that a half a loaf is better than none, or a "bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." 'Make the Home Safe From Fire i* This is fire prevention week--a week during which we might with profit take an inventory of the fire hazards around jour properties and eliminate them. A few simple suggestions of the Dominion Fire Commissioner, if followed by everyone in the family, will make the home safe from ire. Here they are: i Put lighted matches and smokes out be- fore you throw them away. Keep matches where small'children cannot reach them. Never smoke in the garage, barn, or attic nor in bed. Remove rubbish, waste papers and all un- necessary combustible materials. Provide metal ash and trash cans. Burn rubbish only in a safely covered brick or metal in- cinerator. Watch the fire. Examine all stoves, furnaces, and smoke- pipes to make sure they are safe and well away from woodwork and other burnable materials, Have needed repairs made at once. : Value the advice of your fire chief who says that many fires are caused by dirty or defective chimneys. Have the chimney cleaned regularly, and have all defects re- paired. Escape the danger of flammable liquid fires and explosions by keeping no gasoline in the house. Do dry cleaning with safe liquids or send the work to the cleaner. Never start fires with kerosene. Notify the electric company of electrical trouble and the gas company of gas leaks. Replace "blown" fuses with new ones--not pennies. Avoid home-made wiring jobs. Don't look for gas leaks with a match. Teach everyone in the family to be care- ful of fire, to watch stoves, fireplaces, elec- tric irons and all other possible fire causes, and every day to remove old rags, papers and other rubbish. Fireproof your home as far as possible by fire-safe roofing, fire stopping in hol- low walls and partitions to stop the spread of flame, and a non-combustible basement ceiling. Inquire of your fire chief, when buying a fire extinguisher, to be sure of getting the right kind. Don't hesitate to ask your fire- men whenever you have questions on Fire Prevention. Remember always where the nearest fire alarm box is and how to send an alarm. If telephoning, be sure the address is clearly understood. Use a neighbor's phone rather than one in the burning building. Explain to everyone in the house what to do in case of fire, how to put out fire in clothing by wrapping in a rug or blanket, what to do when grease catches fire in the kitchen. Save life and property from needless de- struction by fire by keening the principles of fire prevention always in mind and never taking a chance with fire. Editorial Notes Brandon Sun says youth used to save up for a rainy day. Now it saves up for a wet night, "Dad," said the bright young boy, look- ing up at his father who is a member of the P.U.C., "is waterworks all one word, or do you spell it with a hydrant in the middle?" We hate to mention this, with Christmas less than three months away, but war costs in Canada at the moment means $400 a year to the average family. However it may be interpreted as a premium to insure everything we possess. South Africa has gone into reverse with the rent problem during the war. Unlike Canadian landlords who have been inclined to increase rents, the landlords in South Africa have reduced rents for the duration. Speaking of rent increases in Oshawa we have it on good authority that tenants in one apartment building have had their rent raised $4.00 a month for a three- roomed apartment and a tenant in one duplex states rent has been increased by $10 a month. Many Canadians will welcome the an- nouncement of the Postmaster-General that his earlier order eliminating mail deliveries on the mornings of Mondays which are statutory holidays shall be reversed. The post office is a public service and it is scarcely in accord with that conception of its purpose to have people go without mail from a Saturday morning to a Tuesday morning. A Bit of Verse ENGLAND Safety, security--of sorts-- I find withdrawn within my shell, Uneasy, lest my action thwarts That Power that would have all things well. O'er sea, my kinsfolk, sore bestead, Dogged and grim await the end; Superb, with bloody, unbowed head, They battle on without a. friend. 1, hating war, and pledged to peace, Have left one decent thing to do, If all you stand for has to cease, Il cross the sea and die with you, --W. B. Warner. A Bible Thought for Today MY HELP: I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me; thou art my help and my de- liverance; make no tarrying, O my God --Psalm 40:17. Official Ensign of the R.C.A.F. An R.CAF. ensign has been designed to provide a distinctive flag for the Royal Canadian Air Force The new ensign was designed at R.C.AF. headquarters and will be flown in Canada and overseas any place where the R.C.AF. is stationed, The main part of the flag is sky blue, with the Union Jack in the upper left hand corner. The outside circle is dark blue with a white bull's-eye and a red maple leat in the centre. NAZI PRISONER KILLED TRYING TORUSH GUARD Young Sailor Companion Recaptured -- First Prisoner Killed Ottawa, Oct. 7.--Ernst Nueller, 38, an escaped Nazi seaman war prisoner, was shot and killed when he rushed a northwestern Ontario internment camp guard, who dis covered him in a trapper's shack, in- ternment officials announced Sat- urday. - The shooting occurred, officials said, while the guard was trailing Nueller and Rudolph Rauschenbach, 17, also a German sailor, after the two internees had tried to gain their freedom. Nueller was killed some distance from the camp after he and Rau- schenbach got away about 1.30 p.m, from a fatigue party working in the bush. Both were members of the German merchant marine. Nueller. was decribed as being a giant of a man, six feet three inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, WHENIN. TORONTO VISIT THE St. Regis 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 charge, SALVATION ARMY WORKS AMONG FALLING BOMBS TO CHEER POPULATION London, Oct 4. "Alr-raiders!" "There goes the siren!" It may be in the middle of the night. It may be "in that chill" hour before the dawn, It may be at any hour of the day. Air-raiders are coming and the siren sounds | the alarm. At Salvation Army district head- quarters the staff springs to action, warm uniforms are donned includ- ing the "tin" hats that protect men {rom {falling steel splinters, and out they go-- the Salvation Armywork- ers delegated for duty as visiting chaplains to the alir-raid shelters. For this war is a different sort of war, Last war -- Great War Num- ber One -- was a trench war, a war of attrition, a war of man- power, of guns and bayonets, of shot and shell, This war, as it has de- veloped of recent weeks, is a war of nerves, a war of gperoplanes and bombs dropped upon cities and towns from the air. The casual- ties are chiefly among women and children and men engaged in carry- ing on the vital business. of the country -- civilians. And to these bomb-threatened masses in the shelters and dug-outs of London and other English centers, the Sal- vation Army is carrying comforts and good. cheer just as it did for the soldiers in the trenches, Taking Things Cheerfully Reports reaching Salvation Army headquarters here in Canada show that no praver people could be found anywhere than these British moth- ers and fathers who take their chil- dren from their warm beds in the middle of the night and hurry with them through the darkness to the bomb-shelters to which they have been assigned. There, cramped and crowded into the space of one small | brick cell or steel wigwam, or, it may be, the basement of some large building where a thousand others are seeking refuge -- these families spend long weary hours. But they maintain a wonderful cheerfulness throughout. Overhead the planes drone high in the sky, while the boom of explosions and the crash of falling masonry rumble from perhaps near by, perhaps in the distance. The nature of the shelters provid- ed by the authorities varies. The Salvation Army divides them up among its workers, and by a system of regular rounds endeavour to cover them all, People Bring Blankets Perhaps the first folks to be visited, when the siren scunds its warning and a Salvation Army's air-raid chaplain starts out, is one of several brick shelter huts erected for the purvose in a school yard. It is furnished with concrete seats and the people bring their own cushions, blankets and rugs, ready to make themselves as comfortable as possible for several hours, per- haps for all the rest of the night An oll lamp gives a faint light. The Salvation Army visitor enters and spreads good cheer. Families from the neighborhood are clustered in the same spaces they occupied on previous alarms. There is laughter and good nature. Though the novel- ty has worn off, British hearts are still undaunted. The Salvation Army man is greeted like a friend, Here in this corner a father, moth- er and seven children are ensconced. A baby insists on sitting up to see the visitor. A crippled boy in a wheel chair smiles happily, as he catches sight of the Salvation Army man. A young mother exhibits her baby sleeping in a clothes basket. To all these the Salvation Army chaplain is a cheerful, helpful friend. They are glad to see him, and they say =o, He radiates con- fidence. If there is trouble he is there to help, comfort and aavise Life in Steel Shelters After the school yard the next visit may be to row of steel shelters erected in the street, the entrances protected by sandbags or bricks. Perhaps a candle fixed to a bolt in a girder gives forth light enough to reveal white-washed walls, old couches and chairs, stools and rag mats. Some of these shelters are decorated with flowers. The en- trance may be screened with g cur- tain of sacking or matting. There are rows of such shelters, and the Salvation' Army man visits every one, each containing forty or more persons, Next call may be down in the basement of a big store cleared to accommodate a thousand people. All around the walls they are rest- ing on rugs and pillows, or sitting playing cards, while in a corner the younger element pass time In sing- ing. Everywhere the Salvation Army representatives receive a smiling welcome and cheery salutations. "Gran," aged eighty-eight and now an invalid in a chair, is as bright as the youngest. A young woman has over-exerted herself hurrying to 'the shelter and is now in a faint- ing condition. The Salvation Army | chaplain attends her until she ree covers. "God Biess the Army" And so it goes -- steel shelters, brick shelters, store basements, An- derson shelters, dugout: -- they are all systematically visited in turn by the Salvation Army. Two, signal, "all clear." The raid is over for the time being. Sleepy, dis- hevelled but brave and irrepressibly cheerful, the people stream from their shelters to their homes, carry- ing their children and their cush- | fons and blankets. To the Salva- tion Army chaplain comes many a "God bless you" gs they pass, and many people stop to shake handa. It is a new task assumed by the Salvation Army this of shepherd- ing the civillan population under- going bombardment from the air, It is an addition to the work done for the soldiers. But it is done con- scientiously and systematically and the heroic people of Great Britain, tried as never before, are grateful for it. COINAGE DENAND HEEPS MINT BUSY Production of 5,000,000 Weekly Is Greatest in Country's History Ottawa, Oct. 7.--Canada's mint is working 24 hours a day these days turning out more than 5,000,000 coins g week in an effort to meet the greatest demand for coinage in the country's history, the finance department officials said. Ordinarily the mint produces only about 30,000,000 copper and silver pieces in the run of a year or be- tween 500,000 and 600,000 a week. There is always some measure of seasonal step-up in the fall to fill requirements but never before has the present peak been reached. Of- ficlals said they attributed the de- mand for silver and copper money partly to new taxes, such as a cop- per or two on magazines, and in- creased business operations due to the war. Canada experienced ga critical shortage of copper money last Christmas season which resulted in thousands of ' dollars worth of pennies being imported from the United States. 'Car Somersaults 'Wrecks On Tree, But Trio Unhurt Lindsay, Oct, 7 -- One Toronto youth, Arch. Burie, of 152 Welles- ley st, and two Winnipeg young men, Allen McMurtry and Perey Ross, had a miraculous escape from being killed when the car in which they were driving turned over twice, near Janetville, and was wrecked against a fence and tree. The trio were roaming the coun- tryside in quest of groundhogs and rabbits. It is stated by the police that Mc- Murtry was allowing the car to coast down a long hill, when it got out of control, took to the ditch and turned over. The oceupants escaped without a scratch. Provincial Constable MacBrien brought the trio to Lindsay, An in- vestigation is being made, three, | four or more hours pass in this | service, and then at last comes the | 0 0 ON RT I 2 | BE ----] been maintained at a very low rate. province of Ontario. lection instead of the weekly payment basis. Net CTEM ROT EL CT MOE El, ML i a of 18c per week, and in some cases 20c per week. the usual rate is 25¢c per week. $5.20 -- the present rate. A820 TP 0 HE fh first consideration to local news and pictures. representative will call, » an. Announcement. OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO OSHAWA SUBSCRIBER OR some years the subscription price of The Oshawa Daily Times, delivered to the homes of subscribers in Oshawa and suburbs, has In fact, the price of 10c per week is, we believe, at present the lowest rate for a daily newspaper in the It now becomes necessary, owing to generally increased costs of publication, to revise this rate and in doing so, it has been decided in response to many requests to adopt an every-other-week system of cole COMMENCING WITH MONDAY, OCT. 21st, THE RATE FOR HOME DELIVERY WILL BE The first collection under this new arrangement will be made by our carrier boys on November 2nd. This is really only a slight increase over the present rate and still continues to our subscribers a lower rate than those generally in effect throughout the province. the size of Oshawa, daily newspapers are delivered to homes at a rate In western Canada, In order to give present subscribers who desire to do so the op- portunity of taking advantage of the present low rate of 10c per week for a longer period, The Times will accept subscriptions, if paid in ad- vance for one year, up to and. including Saturday, October 19th, at After the date mentioned, the new rate will be in effect to new and old subscribers and will apply whether paid to the carrier boy every other week, or by the year. The yearly rate will then be $6.50, so that those paying $5.20 now in advance for one year will save $1.30. In line with the current trend toward the "five-day-week," The Times will continue to publish each week day, except Saturday, and will endeavour to give its readers a good all round newspaper, giving Subscribers who desire to take advantage of the above offer are asked to send or bring their subscriptions to The Times' office, or tele- phone the Circulation Department, or fill out the coupon below and a (Mail to Times Office or Give to Your Carrier Boy) In many eities CIRCULATION DEPT., THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, OSHAWA, ONT. Name ...... I would like to pay my subscription to The Times (to be de- livered by carrier) for one year in advance, at a cost of $5.20. Will you please have your representative call on me. Address "» 0000 O01 RA: §