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PAGE FOUR A AWA DAILY T ES, FRIDAY, DE BER 20, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times Se Succeeding "THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) ependent newspaper published every week- - Sw except Saturday at Oshawa, - % by The Times Publishing Co. of Oshawa, "Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres; A. R. Alloway. % a Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Daily Newspapers Association the On- Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of ulations. { y SUBSCRIPTION RATES i by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs "@5e for two weeks; $3.25 for six months, or $6.50 . per year if paid tn advance. . p mail anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $125 for three months, + $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in 3 advance. By mall to U.S. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable .atrictly ip advance. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1940 : Congratulations, Oshawa 4 Students . 'The Times offers its hearty congratula- tions to the students of the Oshawa Colle- giate and Vocational Institute who were awarded scholarships, medals, prizes and also to those who received diplomas at the annual commencement exercises at the school yesterday afternoon. Perhaps the honors accorded Miss Dorcas Beaton and Roger Conant on being selected the out- standing girl and boy student of the school ranks as the foremost award of them all, for it is one that comes only once in a life- _ time during the academic years of any student in those particular halls of learn- ing. And we are quite certain that in this age of frankness and freedom of thought and action the honors bestowed were well merited. The annual commencement exercises at the O.C.V.I. in 1940 will never be forgotten by those who shared in the awards. To most of them it meant hard work, perhaps some sacrifices. They are beginning to learn that there is no royal road to learn- ing, and the success of any venture de- pends on the earnest and honest endeavor that is put into the task. Then, too, the interest that public spirit- ed people, past and present, have taken in education and in the progress of the stu- dents in Oshawa, deserves commendation. Through their generous gifts they have encouraged the students and their presence at the commencement exercises shows their personal interest in the young men and young women who are to be our future statesmen, business leaders and home- makers. Much could be said concerning the teachers, instructors and principal of this school which ranks high in every way. It is they who help mould the characters of the rising generation and it must be gratifying to.them to see these young men and women progressing in their studies, some, perhaps, preparing for higher education which will fit them for professional and business life ad they come from universities. We say well done, Oshawa students. May you continue to win awards in the larger field of studies which you may enter. For Health Only The Foreign Exchange Control Board is regidly inspecting every application for foreign exchange required by Canadians to spend the winter in the southern United States resorts. The health of the applicant is' the only consideration and fewer than 1,000 applications have been granted. This number is only fractional of the thousands of Canadians who in the past have made the annual hegira. In this part of the Do- minion, the trip has been mostly to Flor- ida: in the West, California has had the call. A veritable colony of Cenalek has long been established in certain Florida communities, and the absence this year of so many will be felt. Exchange is really a sinew of wan, equiv- alent to munitions. And it is being brought home to a great many people on/this side of the border as never before. M Buy Christmas Seals It is at 'this sel hearts are attune Christmas its» readers * that jhey Christmas segl campaign. clerk ina : ceived the a decoratiye means offrai tuberculofié mated thi been save States w tion for It is mps ling an Ak o this plan has been in opera- any years, BEAT the year when our Egughifying to leary tha sinco the Christmas seal campaign was inaug- urated in Canada 18 years ago, the tuber- culosis death rate has decreased from 82 per 10,000 to 52 per 10,000 in 1989. Ap- proximately two million dollars have been raised by the sale of the stamps and the money has been spent on preventive work. We have a duty to.perform towards this most excellent cause. Buy the seals and affix them to Christmas letters and pack- ages. Help keep alive the Christmas spirit. Turning Pots Into Planes A community-wide drive for the collec- tion of old aluminum ware, for conversion into war use, got under way here today, an editorial in Monday's issue of the Brant- ford Expositor states. The campaign un- dertaken by the Brantford Council of Women will bring to fruition a suggestion made by the Expositor months ago, at which time reference was made to the sal- vage work of similar character being car- ried on in Britain. The idea of transforming pots into planes--and many other armament neces- sities--is a logical one, and a similar collec- tion effort, if tried in Oshawa could meet with a thoroughly worth-while success. The Brantford Expositor goes on to ex- plain that the plans laid out by the Salvage Committee of the Local Council of Women appear to be comprehensive and, having the support of the City Council, the Board of Education, the theatre managers and the merchants, the arrangements should be assured of satisfactory results. The ap- peal will no doubt bring ready response from the citizens, thus enabling a homely, simple, but valuable contribution to the war effort. Based on Brantford's experience with the Victory Bag salvage collections, and now on the supplementary aluminum cam- paign, the newly organized Directorate of Material Resources could do far worse than apply the same principle on a fully-orgén- ized, country-wide scale. Editorial Notes es be" there are many living east and west of t centre of the city who were thankful tha busses replaced the street cars. The minister of finance very kindly left ~itrus fruits on the free list of imports into Canada. But there are a lot of people who still like good juicy Canadian apples. yk Japan accuses the United States 8fymed- dling in its affairs. Japan, of course, is not "meddling" in China--merely trying to bomb the Chinese people into submission. Alrcraft production in the United States, according to William Knudsen, is 30 per cent below schedule. They have no bombing raids over there to interfere with their work, either. Oshawa shoppers are taking advantage of the evening shopping service extended by the merchants. The well lighted and at- ractively decorated shop windows, together with the extra lights on the down town streets, would appear to be paying divi dends. Gyping the Germans. The St. Catharines Standard puts it this way: Every worker in Germany was once promised a motor car on the instalment plan of five marks per week out of his pay. The prospect was about five years for him to get delivery. All the marks contributed went to make tanks and not one model car was built. In what other country in the world could such a "gyp" business go over so well ? A Bit of Verse LONELY TREES A dark and drear November night, The streets are washed with rain; The dripping trees are standing near Our glistening window-pane. They seem to beg for comfort; To share our lighted room; To come inside--with us abide-- From .out the dark and gloom. oe «In silent misery they stand, Leafless and gaunt and bare; ' " Gone are their golden and crimson robes, Jost is their raiment fair. 1 often think as I view their plight 'Of life's e'er-changing way; * "The gay and happy days of youth "Like budding leaves in May. "But when the autumn days have come "And birds no longer sing, .Like lonely trees devoid 'of leaves 'We await the heavenly spring. ok --MARIE KIRKPATRICK. A Bible Thought for Today GREAT OPPORTUNITIES DO NOT ANNOUNCE THEIR COMING SO BE READY ALWAYS: They that were ready went in with him to the marriag. Teast ~-Matt. 26:10, During those days of precarious walking, WD) i) J J &. "Published by the courtesy of the Chica Tribune" 'London In War Time What about food in Great Bri- tain today? Milo M. Thompson discusses marketing in this, the fifth of his series of 12 stories on life in that country. By MILO M. THOMPSON Associated Press Staff Writer New York, Dec. 20. (AP)--Sup- pose we take a market basket and shopping district of London today, ride that in prewar days was a penny. the tennis courts, cricket pitch, bowling green and golf club of the neighborhood and note people seri- ously at the work of "keeping fit." We pass many brick houses with pleasant gardens. Some of the houses are not so tidy as they once were, due to broken glass, but no heap of wreck- age stares at us on this particular ride. lent of the "five and "Thruppence and sixpence" store. There is always something one needs in such a place. This crowd- ed store has its food counters, too. They are full <f canned soups, fruits, gelantines, fish such as sar- dines and kipper snacks, malted milk, packaged cheese, jellies, self- rising flour, dried fruits and the like. 'There is plenty of tea cakes and candy. No ration cards here and no shortage for the fellow who has six pence. But we are after more sturdy stuff and go out again to the meat markets. It is early in the day and we find in the windows, below the roasting and stewing cuts of strict- ly rationed beef, mutton and veal ranging on their silver hooks, trays of unrationed "Edible Offals." .. . Half and Half Sausages There are hearts, kidneys, liver, tripe and the like, and sausages which are half meat and half bread crumbs, the meat content of sausages being prescribed by law. One has to snap these things up quickly if one wants them, be- cause the day's supply does not last many hours. But you can shop for offals where you please, whereas you must go for bacon, butter, sugar, cooking fats and fresh meat to the store at which you are regis- tered. One leg of lamb, or its equival- ent, is all the fresh meat we are entitled to for the week. It has already been ordered. So we pick up some liver to gO with the slim allowance of bacon we shall pick up at our own store along with the week's butter and sugar portion. It is not big but will serve amply. Next comes the bakery. There is certainly no sign of want here. rye, whole wheat, raisin, malt rey, whole wheat, raisin, malt (which is dark, sweet and excellent with tea)--and even twisted seed loaves. 'There Aare innumerable rolls and buns. What is most allur- ing is the display of tea cookies, cakes and scones. You would think war had had no real effect upon these things if you were making & quick tour, but go looking for food in a suburban | We take a doubledeck bus, pay | three ha"pence (three cents) for the We see the public gardens, | We hop off at the English equiva- | ten" a| ; Marketing in London Unchanged Except for Few Rationed Foods. we who live In London in peace as well as war can point out differ- ences. Bakery confections which took many eggs have diminished in num- ber. The "splendid sugar icings have disappeared from cakes.and buns. There is no longer ne ar- ing whipped cream decor Cream -#illings have given plice to the corn starch kind. And where is the chocolate of yesterday? Cof- fee has taken its place as a flavor- ing. Rich Enough, Sweet Enough One does not think long and wist- | fully about these missing things in | the presence of the current display. | It is too appetizing and one knows | from experience it is rich enough | and sweet enough for any purpose. We choose a loaf of milk bread, a jelly roll, a squarish coffee loaf and a much decorated gateau. We spend the equivalent of half a dol- lar and are on our way to the vegetable and fruit market. It is just round the corner. Here are white stalks of celery, | bundles of fat leeks, heaps of watercress, the first winter crop of radishes. Here are baskets of mushrooms and bins of potatoes. Cabbages and cauliflower and big piles of Brussels sprouts are prom- inent, and one may choose, if one will, fat "Swedes" which belong to the turnip family but are much bigger. We serve them in half- inch slices, boiled and buttered or else mash them, It is getting too late for vege- | table marrow but the market was full of it all summer. It is the popular summer vegetable. Cucumbers a foot long are here and there are still to be had toma- toes grown under glass. The lat- ter would not ordinarily interest us for we have them growing in our cwn hothouse at most times. Just now, however, a bomb has spoiled that. Lemons Scarce On the fruit side are cooking apples, eating apples, dessert plums and big brownish pears. It is late now for the more yellow softer pears. There are still Jaffa oranges from Palestine. But lemons are few and expensive and bananas are disappearing. The green grocer supplies not only the vegetables for the soup and entree but the after-dinner nuts, too. Here they are, walnuts, filberts and big Kent cobs and, strangely enough, lots of Brazil nuts which certainly do not grow in the British Isles. We make our selections and stow away our vegetables nude, for the for the paper shortage does not allow paper sacks; but who cares. Next stop is at the fishmongers. Here we find Dover and lemon sole, plaice, bream, hake, herring and cod. The Scottish salmon is a bit expensive, Fat herring, lightly kippered, used to be always avail- able but it sometimes runs out these days. One can substitute smoked haddock. But we waste time. There'll be guests tomorrow. We have to ob- tain some unrationed main meat dish, so we move along to the poulterers and stand thoughtfully eyeing "his resplendent pheasants, softly colored wood doves, grouse, ducks, geese and chickens. Nearby are hanging large rabbits. Venison Unrationed The choice is hard to make, for fish, fowl and rabbit come on the menu with great frequency these days. We decide to have none of them but make a special trip to ano market district "where we get thick owt steaks to broil. They are not rationed, ex- cept. by their price, and this being | a special occasion; that will not stop us. Our regular grocer, with whom we are registered for the rationed commodities, doles out the bacon, sugar and butter. We pick up some Cheddar, Cheshire and Chil- vern cheese, since one can no long- er get the continental varieties. We also wheedle three precious eggs out of our grocer who does what he can for his registered cus- tomers. Then we return to the bus stop for our three ha'pence ride | back home. Child Fatally Burned As Play Box Ignites Carp, Ont., Dec. 20.--Harvey Silas Boyd, 11-month-old son of Silas and Etta Boyd, burned. to death in a box in which he was playing at his farm home near here yesterday. Sparks from a stove are believed to have set fire to the box. Returning from a neighboring farm house the child's mother dis- covered the box in flames and the child dead. Besides his parents, the baby is survived by a brother John, 3, and a sister Elsie, 2. Coroner J. E. Nelson of near-by Westboro, Ont., investigated. Carp is 25 miles west of Ottawa. | at time of test. | necessary that the patient lie down That Body Of Yours By James W. Barton, M.D. THE QUININE TEST FOR GOITRE When a patient consults his physician because of a rapid neart beat and reports that he has been losing weight, the physician, know= ing that goitre is a very common cause of rapid heart beat and loss of weight, very often has a meta- bolism test made. If goitre is pre- sent, that is an overactive thyroid gland, the meatbolism test will show it. Instead of the body processes working at a set or standard rate of 100, in goitre the processes will be working much faster, that is at a rate of 120 (plus 20) or even 140 (plus 40), In the metabolism test the patient does without his breakfast so that a period of about 14 hours has passed before test is made. This means that no digestion is going on In this test it is quietly and breathe naturally if a true working knowledge of the rate at which his body processes are working is to be gained. Should he be nervous, excited or worried about himself or about the test, | he will not rest as quietly nor will | he breathe naturally with the re- sult that the body processes will work so rapidly that a goitre is suspected. Knowing that the patient is nerv- ous, the physician may have more metabolism tests made so that the patient may not be so nervous as | further tests are made. As some patients cannot seem to get over their nervousness, what is known as the Brahm quinine test for goitre is used by some physi- cians. I have mentioned this test of Dr. I. Brahm, Philadelphia, be- fore. The method outlined in the Medical World is as follows: The patient is given 12 capsules, each containing 10 grains of quin- ine, with instructions to take a capsule three times a day. If after four days the quinine has caused no symptoms --- fullness, roaring in the head, deafness -- it is evi dent that goitre is present. In those who do not have goitre, that is normal individuals or those whose thyroid gland is not ac- tive enough, there will be the above symptoms fullness, roaring, deafness -- and sometimes dizzi- ness, headache, stomach and blad- der symptoms. If, however, the person is suffering with goitre, the daily dose of 30 grains of quinine can be continued for months with- out causing symptoms. It can be seen that even if the patient is of the nervous type, it cannot affect the quinine test as in the me sm test. While th a simple method of testing for¥goitre, quinine in such dosage should be give! ly under a physician's supervisio AUTO INDUSTRY 1 SEES NECESSITY | | OF 7-DAY WEEK Prepared For Defence Production Push if Added Costs Paid Detroit, Dec. 20 -- The autome- tive industry will adopt a seven-day work week for national defense production on two conditions, re- presentatives of the industry said. Factory and shop production will be pushed to the limit to fulfil pro- duction, Chief William 8. Knud- sen's plea for "speed and more speed," automotive leaders said, if the government readjusts contracts to allow for the added costs and if unions permit extensive overtime work. Longer working hours would speed production in lagging mach- ine tool and die shops which are the principal bottlenecks, but the workers themselves must make the decision, Ford P., Lamb, executive secretary of the American Society of Tool Engineers, said. "The machine equipment we have has not been running full capaeity, but there is no reason it can't," Lamb said. "However, operation of the machines on week-ends would send workers far over their regular hours, and labor has not yet con- ceded that it owes anything to the government." Lamb said it would be impossible to place the machine tool industry on a 24-hour, three-shift day, seven-day week because of the shortage in skilled mechanics and tool and die makers. He disclosed that the 37 soclety chapters throughout the .country soon would submit to local school boards a program for training skill- ed workers in high schools and col- leges, but added it was of such long range it would not help in the p-e- sent emergency. "The best' thing we can do right now is work longer hours," he said. "I don't know how it is going to be done. It's in the hands of the union group and the government. All the major manufacturers are willing to go to the limit." : Chester Cahn, secretary of the Automotive Tool and Die Manufac- turers' Association, revealed that a survey just completed showed a majority of 225 tool and die shops in the automotive area were work- ing two 10-hour shifts five days a week. About 70 per cent of their production is for national defense, he said. WAR--25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Canadian Press © DEC. 20, 1915--British casualties resulting fr Salonika expendition placed at 1,298 killed and wounded. French War Cross conferred on Fleld Marshal Viscount French by General Joffre. COME to TORONTO fo: the HOLIDAYS Why not e to the city for a pts smh i > oyous, ear's, with the tmas and New York as your host? Royal ¢ntertainment and good cheer include a snd family dinner party Christmas night, with tradi. tional Boar's Head Procession, beautiful music, magician for the children and dancing. $3 per person inclusive, children half price. And a New Year's Eve party thas 1941 will never forget. Sup and dancing wit , entertainment Horace Lapp's orchestra of funmakers, $7.50 per rson. Also special New Year's y dinner, and regular Rightly supper dance. Rooms from $ Make Reservations at Torsate's Social Headquarters Now Convenient budget terms make a G-E Hotpoint easy . to buy. 10 models ~ abo There's nothing fi a GE mas. better, tastier cooking. Give Mother 3 GE H ¢ Ip m " DON CHRISTIN ELEC 38 Simcoe St. N. - OpenEvenings - Phone 84 - 74 ing r than a otpoint r ote Mother vill ent it for its h , Father te its economy and ily will enjoy its nd have ADA OD-140