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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER . (Established 1871) lished K- ie Batinday AL Oshawa, GAD. Co. of Oshawa, A. R. Alloway. A eerie day a by The Times Publishing Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres. Osha ; of th wa Daily Times is a member } a Daily Newspapers Association the On- tario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIFTION RATES vered Ly carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs it for id weeks: $3.35 for six months, or $6.50 per year if paid in advance. mail anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa By an delivery limits) $1.35 for three months, $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in advance. By mail to U.S. subscribers, $6.00 per year. payable strictly ip advance. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1940 Tax vn Luxury Buying It was the wise man and woman who did his or her Christmas shopping early this year, for according to advices from Ottawa there are certain articles which will be classed as luxuries and which will bear a luxury tax effective at once. Just what this "luxury list" will include is not known at time of writing, but indications are that they will be mostly imported articles com- ing from United States. The imposition of the tax, of course, is for the purpose of curtailing the purchase of what the govern- ment feels are non-essentials at the present time. Apart from this angle to Christmas buv- ing, shoppers usually can buy to better ad- vantage early in the season as the stores are not so crowded, the purchaser has more leisure to inspect goods, uninterrupted and lines are more complete. The earlier shop- per usually finds it more pleasant, the re- cipient of the gift more pleased, and the merchant and his clerks not worn to a frazzle the last few days before Christmas. Just three weeks and two days to Christ- mas. Shop early. Purchasing Our Freedom The members of the three service clubs who attend the joint meeting of the Kiwanis, Kinsmen and Rotary clubs this evening at the Genosh Hotel will probably hear that the cost of winning a war is tre- mendous and that the cost of losing one is far greater. J. G. Parker, a member of the National Advisory Committee, who is also general manager of the Imperial Life In- surance Company, .is to address the joint meeting. : Mr. Parker is to speak on the need for greater sales of war savings stamps and certificates and will probably tell the mem- bers of the clubs that the sale of these two items help toward the salvation of the democratic way of life. The ordinary citizen by sacrificial saving can "buy into" the national economy. As one man explains, it is better to loan our money at interest thgn to have the govern- ment take it away from us in taxes. The man, woman or child who buys war savings stamps and certificates has a stake in the future and "My Country" has a real mean- ing for them. Scarcity of Homes Apparent Dwellings, flats and aparments at rental prices the ordinary workman can afford to pay are becoming like the proverbial Hen"s teeth--rather scarce. This fact was brought to the attention of The Times last week when one of the tenants now occupying a house on the right-of-way of the new four- lane highway in Oshawa, spent several days scouring the city and district for a suitable home to rent. The tenants in the homes taken over by the Highways Department have been given notice to vacate their premises on or before January 1, 1940. Just where they are going to find places to move to is a problem they are going to have difficulty in solving. Four homes, one apartment and several rooms were advertised for rent in a recent edition of The Times. But that number is not sufficient to take care of the thirteen families who will have to vacate the De- partment of Highways houses on the dual highway right-of-way. The old Y.M.C.A. building on Simcoe street south, taken over by the Federal Government as part of the site for the new post office, if and when it will be erected, might be fitted up to take care of four or five small families, but that would be only a makeshift. Oshawa is short of houses and has been for some time. A few new homes were erected this summer under the Do- minion housing scheme but many more could be used right now if they were available. Seems to us that some const tion company could do a good stroke of business by coming to Oshawa and erecting a few hundred homes which would rent at a reasonable price. The Times has been in- formed that there are over 800 sub-tenants. in the city at the present time and this number will likely go over 900 before an- other six months. This means that there are two or more familes living in homes in- tended for only one family. Such conditions are not ideal. Other cities are having the same housing problem, the reason for which is obvious. More people are coming to the cities from rural areas to work in factories which have gone into full-time production on war ma- terials, and more young people have mar. ried and are demanding rooms, apartments and homes. Those who could build hesitate for various reasons: the prospect of still higher property taxes, a slump after the war with a consequent loss on their invest- ments and the uncertainty as to the future economic state of the country. The whole problem of housing needs a careful study in which municipalities need the co-operation of the Provincial and Federal Governments. We have been told time after time that we are going to lose some of our personal freedom if we are going to win this war. Probably doubling up and tripling up--two and three families in a home--is one of the things we will have to face in the coming months. Editorial Notes Canadian shipbuilding yards are expand- ing for the manufacture of anti-submarine ships and cargo ships. Which means that the Nazi flotilla will contract as a result. Two new enemies have arisen in Europe against the axis powers--hunger and re- volution. The "blood purge' in Rumania may have a reaction that will be trouble- some. The world's heaviest bombers, 26 .of which the United States are releasing to Britain will, added to the present effective bombers of the R.A.F., make Hitler realize even more than at present that there are two sides to a bombing war. Jewish scientists, doctors and experts in heavy industries are being sought and in- vited to return to Germany. It is hardly likely, remembering what happened to them in previous years, that few German Jews will accept the invitation. What could be more ridiculous than the existence of numerous agencies of the Ger- man State Railways in the United States at the present time when there is no pos- sibility of tourist travel in that country. They are, of course, centres of propaganda that should have no place in North Amer- ica. Greek women dared the dangers of the battle front against 'the Italians. And ac- cording to reports hurled rocks down the mountain on top of the invaders with tell- ing effect. Women in the British Empire are doing their bit in various ways but these "Greek Goddesses" are right in the front line. That's the spirit which will chase the Hun out of Europe and perhaps out of the world. A Bit of Verse IF ENGLAND DIE! If England Die? Our thought refuses it, As something gross, impossible to hear! # For at her death dies honest justice, too; The strength that held and made the world more fair; A breed of men earth's womb may no more bear, To bless a callous world that let her die. Should England die, the world will feel a void! A something will be missed from heart and mind That not sll creeds nor culture can replace-- Finding none other fit to play her role: The sum and substance of this earth's fair scroll Shall crumble to decay--if England die. Should England die--the noble stream that feeds The lovely delta where our fate is cast Dries!--and we wither, as the seeds Meant to renew the world from out her past: He laws, her wisdom and her soul, at last, We shall revere and prize--too late! --if England die. If England die--wé plunge into the night, Where tyranny and hate--twin bandits--stand, Knowing no urge but greed, no right but might, No culture but a sword in blood-drenched hand: And all the sapling framework of this land-- Robbe of its promised frultage--fades!--if England e. If England die? But this may never be, While there is red blood in the veins of men! While there are hearts and minds of noble build! Whilst God--within His Heaven--cares! For then None can mistake the road! None wonder when To strike--for freedom and the heritage of men!-- ere England dle. HAROLD GOZE. A Bible Thought for Today { | OUR BURDEN BEARER: Oust thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.--Psalm 55:3, » 'A WONDERFUL SONG,~IF THE BRITISH WIN That Body Of Yours By James W. Barton, M.D. SLEEPINESS AND WAKEFUL- NESS ARE NOT NORMAL CONDITIONS One of my came to me one evening and invit- ed me to go fishing next morning 1 was unable to go and he was much disappointed. I then asked him about Bill Blank who usually accompanied him on his trips. "Oh, Bill has no time to go fish- ing any more. He scems to sleep &l1 night and wants to sleep all day." "What about Jack Blank?" "Jack says he wakes up about 3/ o'clock every morning, can't get to sleep for hours, and dreams so much he is not rested in the morn- ing and so doesn't feel like going fishing so early in the morning." Why did Bill want to sleep all the time and Jack have to lie awake for hours every night? Bill had a number of infected teeth covered with crowns and bridgework and because they caus- ed no pain did not visit his dentist regularly. He had never had an X- ray examination of his teeth. By the time this infection was dis- covered, it was too late to save his life. He died of heart disease. Jack's wakefulness was due to his. overeating at the evening meal, especially large fat or starchy des serts, About 8 hour: our physiologists inform us, the liver is doing its hardest work. It is thus at this time--about 8 hours o'clock in the morning that dis- comfort, though often very slight, is enough to disturb sleep and cause wakefulness. An examination of the gall bladder and a test of the | ability of the liver to do its work, showed no abnormal condition. The only treatment necessary to prevent this wakefulness was to eat the large meal of the day at noon or evening meal. The point then summer neighbours | wishing | after a meal, | to avoid .rich desserts at the gagement is that while | | prowling wolf, a large select party was assembled at the house of Miss Cooley, where, for the evening, were gathered the "brave and the fair of the whole district. Glad music, the dance and happy song of other days soon chased the short hours away oft-told tale was told again, the pleasing days were again repeated to the joys of the and to add | ing was disturbed - by the knocks of an orderly dragoon who came to summons the officers there | assembled from the tsts of love to the sterner duties of war, had been issued for the army corps | immediately. The parting good-by and the secret squeeze were soon | given." Luckily, there was then no fight- ing and .the uniformed gallants were, most of them, able to return | home for Christmas mansion was Jong Dundas and figured mances--it is said. ei oa CRASH KILLS FRENCH CHIEF INNEAR FAST Killed When Plane Shot Down in Anglo-Italian Sea Battle . government Saturday disclosed the night--when | suddenly the harmony of the meet- | loud | rs . as orders | Nanking, China, Dec. 2 -- Japan, | | to assume the aggressive and march | The old Cooley | : a landmark of | Matic manoeuvring, the treaty was | in other o-| CHINA AFFAIR CHEE WITH TREATY recollections of other | Manchukuo, Occupied China and Nippon Sign Pact Uniting Ali | Manchukuo and occupied China signed a treaty Saturday that | granted Japan virtual control of the Yangtze River valley, North | China and Inner Mongolia, and | | united the three governments in a Joint defense against Communism. | Arranged after months of diplo- signed by Lieut.-Gen. Nobuyuki, special envoy of the Emperor, for | Japan; by Wang Ching-Wei, head f the Japanese-sponsored . regime | in Japanese-Occupied China, and | by Gen. Tsang Shih-Yi, chairman | of the Manchukuan Privy Council, | Manchukuo also is a Japanese- | sponsored state, converted from the former Chinese Province of Man- churia. The treaty officially was termed | a "readjustment of Chinese-Japan- ese relations." It was intended to | make a regional "refugee regime" of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's | Nationalist China Government. It | provided that Japan would be paid full indemnities for its war losses | in China, | The treaty permitted Japanese Vichy, Dec. 2--The Petain-Laval | troops to remain in North China | and Inner Mongolia indefinitely as | death of Jean Chiappe, new High |a& bulwark "against Communism," after the evening meal eaten at six | Commissioner for Syria, in a French ( And gave them the right to stay o'clock or thereabout--that is, two | 8ir transport, which crashed Nov. | elsewhere in China until at least al. Chiappe was a former Prefect of | Paris police, The plane sent out the message: was brought down over the Italian | island of Sardinia and lost with all occupants. An official announcement said Chiappe was killed after the plane was machine-gunned in a naval en- between British and Italian warships. The plane sent ou the message: sleep at night is normal and neces- | "We are being machine-gunned, sary, sleepiness during the day is | not normal and should be investi- | gated. There is always a cause for wake- | fulness at night and this Dpwise | should be investigated. ON THIS DATE | FRED WILLIAMS Canada's history conlains many war romances both under the | French and British regimes. Here is one which corresponds to a fam- | ous incident in European history-- | the ball at Brussels given by the Duchess of Richmond on the eve of Waterloo. Eighteen months pe- fore Waterloo Canada had a pall disrupted by a call to arms, It was after midnight, Dec. 1-2, 1813, The story is thus told by the biographer of Hon. William Hamilton Merritt, the creator of the Welland canal, "On the evening of the 1st of December, 1813, when the rigor of a Canadian winter was felt without, and the sound of the merry sleigh bells tihkled over the frozen roads, which then wound with devious twistings through the partly. cleared forests, whose silence was unbroken save bv the voice of the solitary owl, the harsh park of the | plane on fire, SOS." The Vichy communique claimed that the | transport was machine-gunned in flight by a British fighter plane. ARMS FIRM PLANS $5,000,000 PLANT Will Employ 3,000 -- 21 Buildings to Be Added to R.C.A.F. Depot ----get | Most office | two years after "peace" is restored. The Japanese navy was given un- specified rights bases, "for the re- quired duration," which, it was said, would be determined in future ne- gotiations, The treaty provided for close economic and cultural co-operation among the three regimes. SPAIN SHORTENS LEISURED HOURS Madrid, Dec. 2--(CP) --The gov- ernment has decided, in order to economize on coal and electricity, to make the leisurely Spanish peo- ple change their established habits of keeping late hours. The decision, to date limited to a brief announcement that hours will be changed to rearrange the time people eat, work, go to the theatre and sit in cafes, brought widespread public speculation. Spanish life is now geared much later than life in the rest of Europe. work is done in the afternoon and evening. Spaniards eat luncheon at 2.30 or 3 p.m., dine around 10.30 and go to the theatre at 11. They usually are in their Toronto, Dec. 2--The Department | favorite cafes at 2 or-3 a.m. of National Defense has authorized construction of 21 additional build- ings at the R.C.A.F. supply depet on | the waterfront to cost $125,000, ac- cerding to an announcement made by the Toronto Industrial Commis- sion, «Construction of factories in this area is also planned by private firms. Small Arms, Limited, will erect a sant to cost $5,000,000, and it will employ 3,000, An additional plant will be erect- ed by the de Havilland Aircraft of Canada. Canada Wire and Cable Co. will sherily embark on a $75,000 build- ing program, A | | Two Persons Injured As Truck, Car Crash Cobourg;.Dec. 2.--James Smith of Colborne. and 5-year-old Shirley Heagle of Cramahe Township were brought to Cobourg Hospital Satur=- day night after a head-on collision east of Colborne. Smith has chest and internal injuries and the girl is suffering from shock. According to Provincial Constable D. Wilson of Colborne, Smith's car and a cattle truck collided during a snow- storm. The truck was driven by W. Potter of Elmbrook. The truck driver escaped injury. IAPS "SETTLE" All World Is Foe Soviet Army Told Moscow, Dec. 2--Michael Kalanin, head of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and to all effects President of the Soviet Union, has described Russia as a "Besieged fortress" covering . one- sixth of the world while "the other five-sixths of the world are our irreconcilable enemies on principle." He made the declaration in a speech hefore the Lenin Military and Political Academy Sept. 17 which was made public in the organ of the army, Red Star. POLICE FORGES WILL BE ASKED T0 HELP FUND Circulars Being Sent Seeking Contributions to Buy Spitfire Peterborough, Dec. 2 -- Circulars are being sent out from Peter- | borough and Windsor police forces | throughout Canada with the request that contributions to the Canadian Police Spitfire Fund be speeded up. Chief Constable S. Newhall, of | Peterborough, has assumed respon- sibility for all cities and towns from Toronto to Halifax, while Inspector | James Wilkinson, of Windsor, is | mailing the circulars to pclice forces from Toronto west to Vancouver. The original scheme called for a contribution of 50 cents from each of the 50,000 police officers spread across the Dominion. By this me- | thod it was hoped to raise a sum of $25,000, the approximate cost of a Spitfire fighter The Peterborough department, however, went one better. Having obtained permission to raffle off a number of prizes donated by local merchants and manufacturers, the members of the force began an in- tensive ticket-selling campaign, and between Oct. 5 and Nov. 1 contrived to raise a sum of $2,051.64. | In view of this the Canadian Police Spitfire Association decided that Inspector James Reid, of | Peterborough, was the logical | treasurer for the Dominion and he was immediately appointed to the | position. But up to now he has only received a total of $8 from the police of other centres. | "I don't know what these other fellows are doing," he declared. "If we, with a small force were able to | raise more than $2,000 in three | weeks, they can do some- thing. They can sell tickets or hold | a dance or a smoker or a theatre party, or they can give a skating party. There are any number of ways of rai ing money. "I might say," Inspector Reid add- ed, Mr. T. C. Davis, the asso~- clate deputy minister of war ser- | vices, has given his approval to the | suggestion that the police Spitfire, when it is purchased, should be piloted by one of the numerous surely that | police officers now serving with the | Royal Canadian Air Force. But, | first of all, we must get the Spit- | fire, and that is why we want to | see the police getting busy and do- ing something about it." PAGIFICISLES Closer Ties With Free France Possessions Arranged ---- Auckland, N.Z., Dec. 2--(CP) -- The decision of the French posses- sions of Noumea and Tahiti to rally to the cause of General de Gaulle and Free France has resulted in closer ties with British possessions in the Pacific. Following the plebiscite in Tahl- ti, Moorea and the Paumoto Archi- pelego which resulted in an over- whelming vote in favor of General de Gaulle--5564 votes to 18 for the Vichy Government--the New Zea- land government on behalf of other governments of the British Com- monwealth made contact with the new administration. This was done through a. highly placed government officer. He visit- ed Tahiti, where he found the new Governor, M. Edmond Mansard, in office, assisted by members of 'the late Governor's Privy Council, who had been largely responsible for the decision to support the Free French movement, The Governor and his advisers appeared to be firmly in control of the situation and to have the sup- port of the great bulk of the popu- lation. Their co-oepration with the New Zealand representatives was most cordial. It is intended that New Zealand, as closest neighbor of French Ocea- nia, shall maintain contact with the territory. Prime Minister Fraser of New Zealand, stressed that French Oceania was not in any way merely a British protectorate under the su- pervision of New Zcaland. French Oceania was being administered under the authority of General de Gaulle, Mr. Fracer said, through bis appointee, and was freely and of its own desire, co-operating with the British Comonwealth in the present struggle. Efforts are being made in New Zealand to increase trade with Nou- mea (New Caledonia) and shipping companies are making contact with exporters and importers in the French possession. The bulk of New Caledonia' substantial nickel ore output will jl NZ. CONTACTS CANADA'S NO. 2 FIGHTER UNIT PEACE TRAINED New Fliers Organized In Winnipeg in 1934 Winnipeg, Dec. 2 -- (CP) =~ Air= men who prepared for war in peace= time are ready to take their place in the Battle of Britain. They are members of Canada's No. 2 Fighter Squadron of the Royal. Canadian Air Force, and most of the person- nel is made up of Winnipeg and j Manitoba fliers. Men who fought against the Ger- mans in the skies of France in the Pirst Great War, organized and prepared the squadron for battle service overseas. It left Canada in May, after an intensive period of training in Winnipeg and Ottawa, as No. 112 (City of Winnipeg) Co- operation Squadron. Stationed in Southern England, the. squadron, first detailed as an "army eye," now will take its place with No. 1 Fighter Squadron which has written a new page of valor in the history ef the R.C.A.F. | Organized in 1934 } No, 112 Army Co-operation Squadron was organized in Winni- peg in 1934. Many of its pilots got | their wings at the Winnipeg Flying Club, training under direction of , Great War fliers, and with Sgdn.- Ldr. J. A. Sully of Winnipeg as first commander. Later, Sqdn.-Ldr. | P. H. Crabb, now a wing com- | mander at R.C.AF. Headquarters in Ottawa, took charge, and when the squadron moved out of Winni- peg last February it was under the command of Sqdn.-Ldr. R. H. Little, the present officer in charge of the air school at Calgary. When the unit embarked from an Eastern Canadian port late in May, the squadron was under the com- mand of Sqdn.-Ldr. S. L. Hanna of Winnipeg. It carried overseas a battle flag presented by the city of Winnipeg, and recently honored | when Air Marshal W. A. Bishop, V.C., visiting headquarters in Eng- land, unfurled its new R.C.AF. flag. There have been promotions and changes in personnel overseas. The squadron members have made valu- able reconnaissance flights. It also has served as a pool reinforcing squadron for No. 1 Fighter Squad- ron and No. 10 (City of Toronto) Army Co-operation Squadron. Representative Unit When No. 2 Fighter Squadron left the Dominion, its personnel includ- ed airmen from many sections of Eastern and Western Canada. Its officers came from eight provinces | in the Dominion, representing 20 | cities and towns, from the Atlantic | to the Pacific. The larger centres in the Domin- ion, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, | Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton and | Victoria, were all represented. From | the far West was F. E. L. Mus- | grave of Victoria, B.C. From the | eastern provinces was PO. S. A. | Bushel of Canso, N.S. ' 30,000 ARE IDLE AS C.1.O. ARGUES Detroit, Dec. 2 -- The Plymouth plant and the Briggs Manufacturing Company Mack avenue factory were closed for the week-end while their officials and the United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) sought to settle a dispute over a production schedule which made 20.000 workers idle. The Plymouth day and night shifts, totalling 10,000 workers, were sent home when the flow of auto- mobile bodies {rom Briggs was halt- ed. The two shifts at Briggs, total- ling 10,000, were sent home when 17 men in the panel assembly division went on strike against dismissal of three shop stewards. The dispute centred over the num- ber of workers required for a new schedule to turn out 24 side panels. Briggs cfficials charged the stewards had ordered the workers to "slow down" to 16 panels an hour, GIVE TEACHERS MORE LATITUDE Edmonton, Dec. 2-- (CP) -- John W. Barnett, former president of the Canadian Teacher's Federation, fa- vors reform in Canada's education- al methcds. In an interview here he urged a dedrease in regimenta- tion caused by standardized curri- culums and examinations. He thought teachers should be allowed to exveriment: with courses of studies, to gauge and encourage particular talents in their scholars. [GET A 100 LOAN Repay $7.78 a month $20 to $500 Loans -- No Endorsers Loans made on fgrniture or auto. No . credit inquiries of friends or relatives. Money usually the same day. 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