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_ THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1940 PAGE SEVEN Ralston States Four-Months Period of Military Training Is Being Given Consideration Future Officers Must Pass] Through Ranks Before Receiving Appointments Ottawa, Nov. 18. -- Extension of compulsory military training from thirty days to four months will like- ly be made effective early in the new year, Defense Minister J. L. Ralston told the House of Commons today. Final decision has been left over - until after the Minister and his ad- . visers consult with military and in- dustrial autiorities in Great Brit- ain, In the meantime, Colonel Rals- ton stated, there will be at least two more thirty-day training periods, the one opening Nov. 22 and the third starting in January. The Minister announced three other important developments: 1, Every candidate for an officer's commission in the Canadian Army. active or reserve, must first pass through the ranks. 2. Subject to the proper safe- guards, the army has agreed to con- sider granting extended leave to en- listed men in Canada who can be spared and whose services are re- quegted by their former employers in connection with wartime produc- tion. 3. For the first time in history, Canadian soldiers are to be trained on skis and snowshoes. Certain units have been selected for this special * To Relieve Coast Units Colonel Ralston indicated at least temporary relief for the infantry units now on coast defense garrison duty. It was planned, he said, to re- place them with units now at train- ing camps. To make this policy of interchange more 'feasible it was proposed, he stated, to organize all coast defense infantry battalions in future on the basis of field war establishments. Turning equipment, Colonel Ralston said: 'e still have to face the fact of a serious shortage In equipment and armament, and we still have to face that fact for pros ably a good while yet in many in- stances." Turning to more specific details, the Minister indicated production of rifles at the new Long Branch plant by the middle of 1941. Canada had procured in the United States just a few thousand more rifles than had been furnished Great Britain at the time of the emergency. "The staff is now satisfied," Colonel Ralston continued, "that we are for the present in a position adequately to meet the situation for active service requirements and for training." In regard to Bren guns Colonel Ralston said that "by the end of the first year of production we expect to have three times as many guns de- livered as were called for by the contract." Replying to Conservative Leader Hanson, the Minister said there were sufficient field guns available to equip the third and fourth di- visions, Equipment was now ready for issue to about one-third the N.P.AM. units. Production of the new 25-pound- ers in Canada would not be as early as expected, Colonel Ralston admitted, but the Minister of Mu- nitions anticipated that a "consid- erable number will be forthcoming in 1941." Signal equipment shortages were being met and deliveries of the system of exemptions or extended postponements in order to meet the | necessitates of wartime production Studies had already been made, he said, of the most practical methods of working this out. BEGINNER'S LUCK London (CP)--A child sleeping in a pram in the hallway of a house here was untouched when a bomb hit the house. Parts of the bomb were found by the pram, Nixon Gets Partridge And Deer On Holiday Toronto, Nov. 18. (CP)-- Hon. H. C. Nixon, provincial secretary and Minister of Game and Fisheries, re- turned to Toronto during the week- end from his annual hunting trip to the Wanapitei River district, near Sudbury. He reported a satisfactory quantity of partridge and deer, During the trip, Mr. Nixon in- spected the Burwash Reformatory. He said the institution had had a good year--good crops and no trouble, Among those making the trip were W. J. Taylor, deputy minister of Game and Fisheries; C. F. Nee- lands, deputy Provincial Secretary; Dr. W. H. Avery of the Department of Health; Richard Coulter, chair- man of the Municipal Board, and Dr. J. D. Heaslip, superintendent ot the Guelph Reformatory. WAR INCREASES ALL ACTIVITIES OF AID SOCIETY Expenses For Year at Port Hope Were $15,000, Report Shows Port Hope, Nov. 18--Activities of the Northumberland and Durham Counties Children's Aid Society at Port Hope are including new duties occasioned by the present war, it was revealed at the annual meeting. Besides selecting homes for Brit- ish child guests throughout the county, the society is doing another war service in co-operation with the Dependents' Allowance Board of the Department of National Defense. These duties deal with investigating and correcting complaints received from soldiers overseas of conditions in their homes which they felt re- quired adjusting. Expenses for the year just ended were $15,000, the report of K. Hod- gert, the superintendent revealed. It cost $4,000 to keep up Hillcrest Lodge, and the boarding of children in private homes cost the society $6,000; clothing amounted to $1,000, doctors' and hospital bills, $800. 'The superintendent pointed out it cost the society $1,200 for investigat- ing complaints of children being neglected. Only by contributed funds could thege services be financed as the counties' liability came into being only upon the court commitment of a child to the society's care, every effort being previously made to ad- just matters complained of without recourse to law. GALLANT FIREMEN London (CP).--Fifty officers and men of the London Fire Brigade lost their lives fighting bomb fires during September. More than 500 were injured. Some were members of the auxiliary fire service. WARTIME RHODES Brisbane, Australia (CP).--K. H. Bradshaw of the faculty of engin- eering at the University of Queens- land, has been chosen as Rhodes Scholar for 1941, He is in camp with a militia unit of the Royal Australian Engineers. Roof In Danger With the election past, somethlig still hangs heavy over the heads of members of the United States Congress. Roofs of the Senate and House of Representative chambers, erected 86 years ago, are in danger of collapse. No repairs will be at- tempted until after the next ad- Journment. Here the architect for the Capitol, David Lynn, looks over the roof of the House Chamber, windows. Passengers trapped towns in the state were isolated. The eastbound "Olympian", crack passenger train of the Milwaukee road, is shown as it was snowdrift a quarter of a mile long near Granite Falls, Minn, in places the Crack Pautager 1 Yin Stalled In Winter's Opehite stalled in a er than the car to a local train and taken to Minneapolis after a night aboard the were transferred train. Minnesota was the hardest hit of the states in the severe storms that the US. Many LITTLE BOOK TELLS REASONS CANADA FIGHTS First of Government Pamphlets Contrasts Nazi and Civilized Ways of Life Ottawa, Nov. 18.--The govern- ment is going into pamphlets. The first one, a 28-page booklet, most- ly pictures, will be out soon. It is called "Two Ways of Life" and shows on the smooth shiny paper used in rotogravure magazines, what is the difference between the Canadian concept of life and that of the Nazi. Interviewed by the :Canadian Press, Herbert Lash, director of Public Information, said "The pur- pose of this booklet is to show that the difference between these two ways of life is the sole issue of this war. We have found that there has been a thirst for some basic facts on democracy." The booklet contains four speeches made in. the government's "Face the Facts" radio programs. The speeches illustrate four points of view, the director said. They were made by Dorothy Thompson and Robert Sherwood, citizens of the United States and respectively columnist and play- wright, by James Hilton, the Eng- lish author, and by J. W. Dafoe, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. Brief biographies of the authors are contained in the booklet. Appeals To The Young The publication is designed for use in primary schools and the first two pears in high school. Its aim is to demonstrate the issue in a simple, plain and effective way. It contains little reading matter, There is a brief introduction say- ing that Germany and Italy have declared war upon the Canadian way of life. There follow pages wherein the totalitarian theories are shown on the left hand page and the Canadian way on the right hand page. For example, on page four, ex- tracts from Hitler's Mein Kampf are compared with statements from leaders of democracy, His Majesty the King, Prime Minister Macken- zie King and Justice Minister La- pointe. Pictures illustrate the points of the booklet. Two comparative pic- tures are entitled "Religion De- stroyed" and "Religion Exalted." The one shows churches ruined and the other demonstrates religious tolerance in Canada as among Ro- man Catholics, Protestants and Jews. Family prayers are featur- Untrammelled Tribune Another set of pictures shows the Reichstag burning and a photo- graph of the exterior and interior of Canada's parliament. The inter- jor emphasizes the Opposition, il- lustrating the freedom of Canadian political criticism. Two clippings from the press tell the story of the Canadian way of life. Two other illustrations show how, under Nazi rule, labor is gag- ged, and how the worker enjoys the Canadian freedom of speech. Still another shows the Nazi youth regimented and forced into a mould while the Canadian is allow- @d to develop his own personality in his own way. Fy pictures are briefly explain- in a text which has been made ak supe as possible. Words of one syllable are preferred. In the text French and English are ate given equal prominence and for nefit of foreign language en all captions are translated in German, Italian, Polish, Norwe- gian and Ukrainian, the six largest New Canadian groups. Done After Consultation The information branch of the Department of War Services, be- fore putting out the book, discus. sed the whole matter with 'teachers and experts throughout the Domin- fon and the director says the idea was "enthusiastically received." For the benefit of teachers a short reference list of reading mat- ter is contained in the booklet. The back pages are blank with the heading "notes" so that pupils will be able to write in their own ex- planations and comments, The booklet is expected to be ready by the middle of the month, "If we are successful with this booklet and another in for primary schools," Lash said, "we will pursue the idea and put out booklets whenever it seems advis- able." Biscuits and Hot Tea Greet Troops Home From England Montreal -- Canadian soldiers retuming to this country from the overseas forces are finding there is more than the bright lights of Montreal to welcome them home. In Bonaventure Station, through which a large proportion of the men pass after leaving troop- trains, the Canadian Legion War Services' is operating a special mobile tea wagon from which hot tea and biscuits are served free of charge. The wagon, the recent gift of the Empire Tea Bureau, is virtually on 24-hour duty with married women operating it during the day and single business girls during the night. Similar wagons are a familiar sight in many English railway sta- tions during both peace-time and wartime, As far as is known, the | wagon in Montreal is the only one | of its kind in Canada. COMMON DUTY SEEN FOR LABOR AND EMPLOYERS Tom Moore Urges Full Co-operation in War by All Classes in Nation Toronto, Nov. 18.--"The duty of all workers, employers and Govern. ment is clear," Tom Moore, presi- dent of the Trades and Labor Con- gress of Canada and member of the National Labor Supply Council at Ottawa, declared to the Toronto Ro- tary Club meeting Friday. "We must strain every nerve to maintain all the freedom we can and seek by every means to achieve our objec- tives by agreement and voluntary co-operation. To the extent we suc- ceed will we preserve the democracy we are fighting vo save and will our war effort be strengthened." Show- ing no inclination to mince words in defense of organized labor's war effort, Mr. Moore said: "We have arbitration in the Industrial Dis- putes Investigation Act, which work. ed well during the last war and would do now if freed from inter- ference by some Government offic- ers--outside the Labor Department --and resistance on technicalities by some employers. In fact, it was on labor's initiative a year ago last October that this splendid piece of conciliation machinery was extend- ed to all war industries and pro- jects." "Labor has sought representation on wartime boards, but of the whole lot set up we are only recognized on the stepchild of the Labor De- partment, the National Labor Sup- ply Council," he added. Compares Record He claimed that workers, frus- trated in their efforts to co-operate, are denied a fair opportunity to as. sist as they would like in the war effort, and are "forced in self-de- fense to protect themselves and the democracy in which they so pas- sionately believe." :Mr. Moore drew nods of approval from many listeners when he de clared: "Labor might be wrong ai times, but its record can't be worse than the batting average of those economists, experts and industrial captains who gave us the ten-year depression and allowed the world to come to its present state." The great responsibility placed by the war upon the British trade unions and the valiant part they are playing has increased interest in the labor. movement here, he said. "We in Canada are just as determined to crush nazism and fascism as they are and to face up and accept our responsibilities to achieve victory over all forms of dictatorships." It was labor, he said, which met the brunt of totalitarian attack when Fascist and Nazi forces de- stroyed the trades union movements of their countries. "It was realized then that their success meant the doom of free- dom," Mr. Moore continued. "I as- sure you it was not labor that nursed these forces to their present strength, Because of these things, labor needs no other motive to give the greatest possible production than that of winning the war." Challenges Employers He stated that' freedom and se- curity, which also forms the basis of Democracy, have been the aims of the Labor movement, "But," he challenged "how many employers have Gh: ed their policiss toward Labor sf war started? For God's sake, v up and let us all co-operate to the war!" Mr. Moore quoted Ernest Be new British Minister of Lalor, ' enemies: of the concentration camp, and feax We work on the basis of confiden and freedom. Wages are regulate by our enemies by decree from top; pay is cut without as much by your leave. In our case we ha maintained the joint machin which existed in peacetime . the evidence goes to show that ou System. Is Giving heuer Yess of Canada's fighting forces wh they return from overseas, and | the trades union will ready to render what help it can. Belfast (CP)--Walter Rusk, Ulster motorcyéle racer, known the "Blond Bombshell," has Mb killed on active service with th Royal Air Force. RHEUMATIC © Aches and Pains If just one bottle of Ru-Ma dos not show you the quick, easy to get real relief from rheumatid aches and pains, it costs you nos thing. 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