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PAGE FOUR rE ts... THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES,MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times id rho THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) newspaper published every week- nna i A Tn Saturday at Oshawa, Can- ada, by The Times Publishing Co. of Oshawa, Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres. A R. Alloway. Managing Director. Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the a Daily Newspapers Association the On- sario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. A SUBSCRIFTION RATES vered carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs Poe for ba weeks; $3.25 for six months, or $6.50 per year if paid in advance. By mail anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $125 for three months, . $2.25 for six months, ur $4.00 per year if paid in advance. Py mail to UE. subscribers, $6.00 per year. payable strictly un advance. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1940 Eaod for Britain Tanadian farmers have come into the spot light of the Empire's war effort by the placing of orders here through Hon, James G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of Agriculture, for well over $100,000,000, of food products which Great Britain will re- guire, for its armed forces and civil popu- ation, in 1941. This order, which means yelease during the coming year of about $10 per capita, into the Dominion's stream of monetary circulation, is likely to affect everyone in Canada and bring a share of prosperity, as well as a large share of re- sponsibility, to the Canadian farmer. Highlights of the British food order, which is exclusive of expected wheat pur- phases, include nearly a half billion pounds of bacon and pork by-products. Dairy farm- ors are asked to deliver over 100 million pounds of cheese, and there is a large prder for condensed milk. Maritime provinces, east and west, will penefit through Great Britain's placing an prder for 12 millions dollars worth of fish. his will certainly mean a better Christmas n Nova Scotia and the Gaspe Peninsula fistrict if nowhere else. Canadian fruit and, particularly, honey pre in the big money section of the British Jood orders. Whatever all this may mean in the way pf new fences and repainting barns to say pothing of better stoves in farm kitchens he new home furnishings, the vital point #8 that Britain is relying on Canada for a great deal of its 1941 food supply. Making pure that the food is produced and deliver- ed will be just as important as supplying munitions of war or keeping the Domin- fon's armed forces up to strength suffi- gient to do their share in meeting any mili- Bary emergency of the coming year, Proud Day for Sir William Even if Ontario's Grand Old Man, Sir William Mulock, K.C.M.G., whom all hope will celebrate his 97th birthday on Jan. 19, 1941, was not present last Friday at the University of Toronto, to welcome His Ex- eellency, the Earl of Athlone, K.G., Gover- mor-General of Canada, a splendid growth of his planting was on hand in the 3,800 graduates and undergraduates who are in fraining there for service as commissioned officers or in the ranks of Canada's armed forces. The viceregal guard of honor on Friday, when His Excellency was welcomed to a special convocation where he was made an honorary doctor of laws and literature by the University of Toronto, was selected from the institution's corps d'elite, the Varsity C.0.T.C., now mustering 1,450 students in 12 companies. Other under- graduates under training total 2,350 men. All that began in December 1861, soon after the Trent Affair of the United States' civil war. Union gunboats taking Con- federate States of America envoys from a British merchant vessel, the S.S. "Trent," created great excitement in Canada. One of those who did something about the ex- eitement and the possibility of the British Empire's making war with the United ' States, was a young Newmarket under- graduate who became Sir William Mulock, P.C., K.CMG. : According to Loudon's biography of the Ontario statesman and jurist, young Mr. William Mulock urged college authorities to call a meeting of students desiring pre- paratory military training. As a result, the University Rifle Corps was formed. It had three professors as officers and one bril- liant undergraduate as colour sergeant. William Mulock was a private in the ranks, From that small beginning has grown what is perhaps the largest officer training corps: in the Empire since the University of Toronto ranks first in point of enrol- ment throughout all the British Common- wealths. Its high value was illustriously evident SA 1X and. 0 men PJ who paid life's last full measure of devotion in those years total nearly a battalion. Their names are carved on memorial tablets in the cloister of the noble Univer- sity War Memorial which also preserves, in marble, the stern beauty of Col. John McCrae's "In Flanders' Fields." Jervis Bay's Noble Feat The heroic deed of "The Noble 400" in British history finds a counterpart in the epic feat and sacrifice of the Jervis Bay, an armed British liner, whose seamen dar- ed death to save 38 ships being convoyed across the Atlantic. This heroic action will cover a brilliant page in the annals of the Royal Navy. The Jervis Bay, an Australian freighter, had been fitted out as an armed cruiser to patrol the North Atlantic and to act as convoy for British shipping. On November 5, while escorting 38 ships, a heavy German battleship intercepted the convoy, and it will be remembered, Berlin reported the convoy had been destroyed. The Jervis Bay, commanded by Irish- born Acting Captain E. S. Fogarty Fegan, sighting the enemy, swiftly laid a smoke screen to protect her charges and then sail- ed full speed against the battleship. It was suicide; it was certain destruction for their ship, but with that British self-sacrifice and that courage and determination that knows no turning back when once their duty is clear, the gallant men of the Jervis Bay engaged the enemy and during the encounter 35 of the 38 merchant ships made good their escape. The contest was unequal, of course, but the Jervis Bay persisted and she kept on operating until a shell for the raider pene- trated her vitals and she was shattered by an explosion as her guns roared defiance to the last,. This recalls the glorious exploit of the Rawalpindi which tackled a Nazi pocket battleship earlier in the war; the three light cruisers which gave battle to the Graf Spee and of the ships that blasted a num- ber of Nazi destroyers at Narvik. It is such exploits as these, such British bravery, courage and self-sacrifice that the Axis powers have to battle, It is that in- definable will to win, no matter what hap- pens that will bring victory in the end. The story of the great devotion of Captain Fegan and his crew humbles us all. Such courage, such sacrifice will be graven deep- ly in our memories and their glorious ac- tion which saved 35 ships and their crews runs true to British tradition. There is no "let down" in any arm of Britain's fighting . forces. Editorial Notes o- o The Italian boot got a terrible kick on the ankle. And it wasn't in any friendly foot- ball game. A keen observer wonders why men go hunting in the northern woods when there are such cute things in furs to be found right at home. And now they are using loud speakers in military training schemes. But the loud speaker cannot use the gestures of the sergeant-major. Berlin's ideas of an "underworld" now have a new meaning in that Balliwick. The R.AF. flying over has probably made them change their ideas about other things, too. People of United States must have caught a closeup of the dauntless courage of British seamen the other day when the majestic "Queen Elizabeth" sailed out of New York harbor. The Brockville Recorder takes a poke at Toronto in the following note: "Toronto now has the best collection of chimpanzees on the continent, which will not, however, be news to a great many people. The Berlin conference has had its reaction through expressed public opinion in this country. The general impression is that the Axis conference was either to reassure the Jublie or to rescue the bewildered Musso- ini, The discovery that Italian airmen shot down over England were carrying land fighting cquipment, gives one the impres- sion that the Italian fliers, like the Nazis, had been lied to concerning the "battle of Britain." A Bible Thought for Today GUARD YOUR THOUGHTS: ren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are jut whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what- soever things are of good report; if! there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these Finally, breth- Fe or = BC DISCUSSING Gardiner Gave Hint That Smaller Acreage Desir- able When Speaking in House Last Week Ottawa, Nov. 18 (CP)---Possibility of steps to reduce wheat acreage in the Prairie Provinces mext spring is the subject of much private discus- sion on Parliament Hill but today the impression was that the govern- ment will wait until after parlia- ment's Christmas recess before an- nouncing any policy in this connéc. tion. In his speech last week, Agricult- ure Minister Gardiner quoted in the house, figures on which he bases his belief Canada's wheat surplus will be reduced to not more than 100,- 000,00 bushels in the next five years. Then he said: "There is nothing in these figures which should induce Canadian Wheat growers to increase their wheat acreage this year. "As a matter of fact there is much in them upon which to ask farmers at least to go back to the acreage they had in the year previous to the last year, which was 2,000,000 acres lower than the land sowed to grain last year." Trade Minister MacKinnon will discuss the wheat situation when he speaks, probably this week, in the debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne. The marketing of wheat is a responsibil- ity of his department. However, it is expected he will await resumption of the session in February before announcing the government's views about acreage reduction. Meanwhole, prairie province or- ganizations of the Canadian Federa- tion of Agriculture will meet in the west late in December and early in January to discuss wheat acreage reductions, C. G. Coote, the Federa- tion's secretary said today. A na- tional convention of the federation will be held in Toronto in January, By the time the prairie meeting is held the situation will be clarified to some extent. There will be some estimate to what extent the demand for labor for munitions production will entice help away from the farms. This might be a factor in cutilng down wheal acreage be- cause the farmers would not have the help necessary to seed as many acres to wheat as they did this year. On the other hand, while the gov- ernment has guaranteed a fixed price of 70 cents a bushel for wheat, basis No. 1 Northern at Fort Wii- liam or Vancouver, coarse grain prices have been very low and the relative returns of this year's crops might cause farmers to shift from coarse grains to wheat next year, Mr. Coote sald he expected the federation's meeting would study a proposal that acreages seeded to wheat be reduced, the control to be in the hands of an organization run by the farmers themselves. The au- thorities, provincial or dominion, would fix the wheal acreage for a province. The provincial committee of farmers then would decide what each constituency in the province should be allotted. The constituency committee in turn would decide what the district covered by each local shipping point should pe al- lotted and a shipping point commit- tee would fix the amount of wheat each farmer could sow, This would be along the lines adopted in the United States where bonuses are paid to farmers for sofl conservation through summer fal- lowing. ast week in the senate, Senator POSSIBLE CURB ON WHEAT ACREAGE SEEDING Lg One-Way Fare For On Year-End Holiday Otiawa, Nov. 18--All ranks of the C.A.8F. proceeding on leave during Christmas or New Year's will be able to secure a return ticket to their destination at the cost of one-way fare. The duration of the leave will per cent of the strength of any unit, in any rank, will be permitted to be away at one time. The Defence Department expressly stipulates that whether leave can be granted will depend in all cases cn the nature of the service being undertaken by the man concerned, the necessity of having certain types of training completed speedily, and the impor- tance of the service from the point of view of the defence of Canada and of war conditions generally, The Department adds: "The guiding factor in the consid- eration of leave privileges to men on Active Service must be the defence and safety of the country and the obligations we are under by virtue of our war commitments. These have been duly weighed and fully discussed and their influence is to be observed in the decision now communicated." TAKEN BY CAR. OUT OF CGURT "Unstated Amount" Agreed Upon After Five- Day Trial Belleville, Nov. 18 -- After five days examination of witnesses, a suit for $25,000 damages brought by the Canadian National Rallway against George Montgomery, of Frankford, was settled by counsel for an "unstated amount." The court and counsel for both parties refused to make public the terms of the settlement. The abrupt ending to the lengthy litigation came as the case conclud- ed. All evidence had been placed before the jury, when counsel went into conference late Thursday. The action followed an accident on July 5, 1939, when an auto driv- en eastward by George Montgomery is alleged to have struck a north- bound railway gasoline "jigger." In the accident two railway employes, James Fisk and W. Todd, received serious injuries. In dismissing the jury, Hon. Mr. Justice Keiller McKay expressed appeciation to the members of the petit jury for their untiring efforts. "Never in my experience have I encountered such kindly and hearty co-operation from jurles-as at this Assize. "We shall do well always in our judicial, professional and farm life to remember there are times when we dignifv ourselves by honoring and dignifying those institutions which it took a thousand years to develop, and which we regard as our most precious heritage." ---------- ee -------------- John Haig (Con, Manitoba) pro- posed to the government 'that a bonus of $5 an acre be paid to wheat farmers on uncropped land, up tc one-third the area of his normal planting. C.A.S.F. Men on Leave! be six days and no more than 50 | FLAYS CRITICS OF CAMP TERN FOR LABORERS Factory Managers Must Prove Wartime Worth, is Gardiner's Warning Ottawa, Nov, 18. -- There is too much talk in Canada about the lack of skilled labor, said Hon J. G. Gardiner, Minister of National War Services, in a radio address last night in the "Leis Face the Facts" series. He thade it clear that pleas from Canadian factories for exemptions from military serv- | ice for skilled workers would not be | widely granted. "If factory managers could not produce under wartime conditions, said Mr. Gardiner, ther they were not good enough to hold their posi- tions and it might be found neces- sary to replace them. Mr. Gardiner called on Canadians to stop talking "against military training for men who are making planes, munitions. arms and ships, and remember that in one year from now a man will be needed to use every gun, operate avery plane and drive every truck made and in the front line of battle." Cracking down on the critics of his no-exemption rule for compul- sory training, Mr. Gardiner con- tinued: "As Minister of National War Services T would say after see- ing Britain in action, it will take much longer to train a <oldier than it does to train labor for plants." Civilians Held Line "The civilians of London by their fortitude and courage are holding the line in the battle of nerves, but the Battle of Europe will be fought in the field by armies," he said. "We Jo not need much tkilled labor to do these jobs. I inquired in fac- | tories and shipbuilding vards every- where, and was told in every line of industry that not more than § per cent required any skill before coming in to do the job, and in a very short time they could operate the machines and tools in the plant." The stocky little Minister took full advantage of the invitation to go and talk to the British workers. He cited g number of cases. "One girl running a rather important machine said she lived 'n the coun- try. I have seen similar girls milk- ing cows, and I am sure it took much more nerve, imgenuity and skill to sit on a stool aad null teats than it did to operate this inani- mate creation," Mr. Gardiner said. In the House of Commons Friday Deferse Minister J. L, Ralston indi- cated that training of a smaller number of men for a longer period, with new arrengements for exemp- tion of munitions workers. was un- der consideration Mr. Gardiner said Britain is the front line in the defense of democ- racy, and "Britain is depending up- on the North America: Continent more than any other part of the world to sustain her effort "The British Navy is holding the line while we who turned our swords into pruning hooks and olzugh shares at "he end of the last war keat our plough shares and sruning hocks into swords again. "The real Battle of Britain is be- ing won or lest in the factories of the democracies. British factories are working night and day to turn out munitions, arme, tanks. trucks. <lanes and ships. Ouc factories nust do the same." Wilson, N.C.--(CP).--Ulysses 8. Grant and Robert E. Lee got their «agistration numbers side by side vhen they were listed with the draft board here, JOBLESS FUND NOT PREMIO UPONIDLENESS Benefits Under Scheme, While Generous, to Be Much Less Than Wages Ottawa, Nov. 18--Under the na~ tion-wide scheme of uner:ployment insurance soon to come into opera- tion, Canadian workers will pay $23,400,000 annually. Employers will pay a like gmount. The Federal Treasury will contribute 20 per cent of this combined total- -$9.360,000-- and ga further grant of $5,250,000 for administration expenses, In other words, an anual fund of $61,400,000 will be built up for the insurance plan. Eligible to share in it under certain well-defined conditions of unemployment will be 1,100,000 persons--approximately 25 per cent of the worker; of Canada earning less than $2,000 per year. Trifle Apprehensive Because these figures in them- ye are large, Parliament Hill is a trifle apprehensive of the mental | Plcture that the prospect've bene- ficlaries of the legislation may have | conjured up. M.P's of all parties-- since all parties are equally com- mitted to the legislation--share in this measure of anxiety. They iear, for instance, that en- tirely too many workers have jump- ed to the erroneous belief that once they qualify for insurance benefits. they will continue to receive their pay envelopes for a stated time from the Federal fund whenever they lose their jobs. Such an idea, of course, comes close to being a complete miscon- | ception. Insured workers who be- come unemployed will continue, it is true, to receive a pay envelope from the insurance fund. Discourages Malingering But whereas his wage at his em- ployment might have been any- thing up to $38.50 per week, his in- surance benefit will not he more than $12.24 per week if he is sin- gle, or $14.40 per week if he is mar- ried. And it may be as Jittle as $4.08 per week if he is single or $4.80 if he is married. From the standpoint of public po- licy, the fact that the benefits un- der the scheme are substantially be- low normal wages is one of the strongest features of the legislation. It definitely does not place a pre- mium upon idleness, gnd it defin- itely discourages malingering. The likelihood is that at least seventy-five employment offices will be opened across the Dominion to service the insurance scheme, The network of labor exchang?s that these offices will constitute will form one of the most important ele- ments in the entire plan. For full advantage is to be taken of the principle of labor mobility, under which no worker is to be Jost as a producer and become a charge on the State simply because he hap- pens to be, for example, in Wind- sor, where a temporary slackness had developed instead of in Sarnia, where unfilled jobs exist. The benefits under the Canadian scheme do not place a premium on {ldeness. At the same time, com- pared with similar schemes in other countries, they are thoroughly gen- erous. In fact, Canadian living cost considered, it is doubtful if any other scheme of unemployment in- surance anywhere is more generous to its beneficiaries. MODERN DAIRY PRODUCTS The present-day system of handl- ing milk and dairy products is al- most entirely the result of know- ledge based on research carried out by the Science and Experimental Services, Dominion Department of Agriculture, in co-ordination with other Canadian scientific bodies. The establishment of modern me- thods is based on the painstaking investigation on the physiology of micro-organisms, and the applica- tion of this knowledge to practicai problems. The researches into me- thods of evaluating milk and dairy products have become as important as the hygiene of milk producticn. Bacteriological research has effect- ed a marked change in the concep- tion of food utilization. COLLEGIATE AT BELLEVILLE GOES ON 24-HOUR SHIFT Night School Appropria- tion Used Up, So Teach- ers Volunteer to Work For Nothing Belleville, Nov. 18 -- Within the near future, classes and machinery at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School will he in opera- tion. twenty-four hours a day Plans were detailed at a meeving of the Board of Education last Saturday night whereby the technical shops of the school will be thrown open to the Department of Labor of On- tario and the Department of Edu- cation for all-night classes for war work. Commencement of the scheme will entail installation of increased machinery, . equipment and addi- tional space at the school, and this will mean an expenditure of ape proximately $4,000, the board mem- bers were informed, 0' this sum, the Province of Ontario wi!l pay 75 per cent. under the plan. No addi- tion will be made to ths school, but several partitions are expected to be removed to enlarge the shops and permit of greater ease of movement and increased floor space. New Appointments George A. Ferguson, a memher of the vocational staff of tlie school, and principal of that department, has been named by Department of Labor officials in charge as princi- pal of the new war-work night school. The Board of Education re- commended that Douglas Bows, of the vocational staff, be named su- pervisor of the technical classes re. placing Mr. Ferguson, while C. Hurd will supervise the mechanics' shgps in place of Mr. Bows. Both appointments are on the under- standing the two teachers can pre- sent the required qualifications. The school is expected to attract at least seventy-five pupil: from the Bata Shoe centre at Frankford, ac- cording to information received by the board members. In addition, large numbers of mid 'e-aged men of the district are expected to ate tend the classes and thus turn their utmost efforts toward the prosecu- tion of the war. The new s:hool will continue as long as the war laste, and as long as the need for qualified mechanicians of all types is apparent. The new all-night school will bs separate and distinct from the pre- sent night school classes being con ducted hy the Board of Education. Teachers Work Free With regard to the latter night school classes, P. C. MacLaurin principal of the school. reported to the board Saturday night that in- asmuch as the night school appro- priations made by the Board of Education at beginning of the year, would be entirely used up by the thinl week of November, 'ea- chers of the night school classes had volunteered to continue their work for the remainder of the vear without pay. The coniribution of the teachers affected was heartily commended by the board members. During the meeting, Trustee Dr. J. W. Kinnear acted as chairman. Trustee Russell Wotten was named chairman of the board for the re= mainder of the year, in the ab- sence of Trustee Reg Moncrieff, who has moved from the city due to volunteering his services in gove ernment war work. [GET A 100 LOAN Repay $7.78 a month $20 to $500 Loans -- No Endorsers Loans made on furniture or auto. No credit inquiries of friends or relatives, Money usually the same day. 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