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I" PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEM The Oshawa Duily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER "By mail anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa "7 carrier delivery limits) $135 for three months, ; 313 fof ax manthe, Sr $4.00 Por year f paid In "By mall to U.S. subscribers, $6.00 per year. payable 4 strictly in advance. (Established 1871) newspaper published every week- | SUBSCRIFTION RATES Delivered Ly carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs 25c for two weeks; $3.25 for six months, or $6.50 per year if paid tn advance. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1940 An Historic Year Passing As we approach the year end Cana- dians; in common with British people . everywhere, will be looking back upon one of the most tremendous and world-shaking years in human history--a year that saw the collapse of democracy in the continent of Europe and its gallant remnants from 'the enslaved countries rallying to the one stardard that still flies for freedom, the Union Jack, symbol of the old Empire that fools thought was decadent and disinteg- rating. A year that started with too much self- eonfidence, even in England herself, and then was suddenly darkened by the swift swoop of a mighty German war-machine which roared into the low countries. Then came the dark days of May and headlines that told of a British Expeditionary Force encircled in Flanders. And then the Great Retreat--the heart-stirring story of how outnumbered and outgunned battalions fought their way to the sea through land and air alive with the enemy and how a protecting mist and a still Channel guided their passage back to England. And then a new menace. The total air war of the Luftwaffe on London. The drums rolled in the four corners of the little island as in the days of the Armada. Englishmen, high and low, young and old, rich and poor, girded for the battle in which all were in the front line. France . surrendered, the Italian puppet declaved war, dark and dire predictions were heard on both sides of the Atlantic. And then the invincible "Spirit of Dun- kirk" flamed in the heart of the humblest Englishman. Factory worker and A.R.P. warden, A.T.S. girls and London firemen placed themselves besides their comrades of the Air Force, Army and Navy. A new marching song--unlike the Hun's hymn of hate and strangely reminiscent of the French Marseillaise -- swept the island. #There'll Always Be an England." "Citizens, to arms." The song and the beat of the drums resounded in the farthest outpost of Empire. Dominions and free colonies that had already placed themselves | at England's side redoubled their efforts. Mass air raids on England and the R.A.F. soaring into the blue to meet and beat the raiders. Churchill, the old Lion of Eng- Jand, at the helm and the bombing of London, Tragedy and the unsung heroism of the Air Raid warden and the man in the street. The beloved King and Queen of a free people and a free Empire ming- ling with the humblest in the land to com- fort and encourage while they themselves braved danger. ! The bombing of German industrial cities England hits back and hits harder and harder as the flow of war materials start across the Atlantic. Convoy and the lepics of the Rawalpindi and the Jervis Bay. Late in 1940 and England allies with Greece in the "push" on Italy. Heroic Evzones smashing deeper and deeper into Albania as a hard-hitting and well prepared British force sweeps the Dago from North Africa. America awake at last. "Short of war aid to the Allies." Canada on guard as dozens of Air Training Schools open throughout the Dominion. Sorrow in Canadian hearts at the news of our airmen, killed both at home and overseas, the gallant seamen lost in our destroyers, tne casualties--few though they may be -- in the C.AS.F. A new war spirlt throughout the Empire. These are the landmarks of 1940 in re- trospect. Soldief and civilian will cele- brate on NewfYear's, Let us not forget in the midst fof our celebrations that each and every gi of us has a grave respon- gibility, each a duty to perform, be it what it may. s resolve to prove worthy of those who year to up must hold During { much talk of dn." Too mu he torch was never realized. Today we talk less of that aim--perhaps because it is now deep in men's hearts rather than on their lips. It has been stated simply in the words of that master phrase-maker Winston Churchill--"to restore the stature of Man." Freedom for all and the right of equal op- portunity for all--that is, after all, the very foundation stone of this old Empire of ours. That must be the war aim which, along with the utter overthrow of the enemy, we should carry in our hearts as we embark upon a New Year. Editorial Notes | The running shoe factories in Italy should be doing a good trade these days. Municipal aspirations in Oshawa appear to be just about as flat as the Italian in- vasion of Greece. Hundreds of carloads of Christmas trees went out of Canada to United States and there will still be a 'few millions left for future seasons. The trees provided a fine cash business for the vendors. Hitler has overrun millions of square miles and holds millions of people in sub- jugation, but all he has won is ill will, growing resistance and a consuming pas- sion to strike when the hour comes. Events in Egypt and nightly bombings of Germany must demonstrate to the satis- faction of democratic peoples that Britain's defensive policy has ended and that from now on she is on the offensive and going places. There is a "Free France" movement in Britain and elsewhere, and now a "Free Austria" movement in Canada, but no one seems to have thought of a "Free Ger- many' movement, although Germany needs freedom probably more than any other country. The Empire Air Training Plan will turn out 1,500 fully-trained graduates in each month during 1941. That is a supply of competent airmen which Goering will have difficulty in matching, and these, with their predecessors in the Air Force, will be the boys who will bring Hitler to time. » Motorized transport which Oshawa work- ers helped turn out, and in use by the British army in Egypt, is said to have been geared to travel as low as one mile per hour for the desert. Some of the units have dual transmission for front or back wheels. News reports state that these units. played an important part in the suc- cess of the drive against Mussolini's forces and are still chasing the Italians in Libya. The Christmas edition of the Daily Times-Journal, Fort William, printed in eight sections and containing 100 pages, a copy -of which was received here recently, is one of the finest newspaper editions that has come to this office. Every phase of community, industrial, and municipal acti- vity is thoroughly covered in a comprehen- sive manner. In fact the edition is a regis- ter of progress including not only the city but the area in which the newspaper circulates. It is replete with stories and profusely illustrated and reflects great credit on the publishers and its capable staff. fought and died in the past that we, the living tld War there was' it for heroes to live perhaps, for that aim A Bit of Verse A STAR WILL LEAD THE WAY A silver star in a midnight sky Hung low o'er an Eastern Town; And by the side of a lowly crib; Three mighty kings knelt down, For: well they knew in that lonely spot Was born the King of Kings; And the air above that holy place Breathed the rustle of angel wings. A little Babe . . . but II'll say no more, For the Tale has oft been told; That poignant story of tragic gray Shot through with threads of gold, For the life of Christ at Christmas time, Is in every heart and tongue; And every creed and race unites In adoring the Holy One. And now once more the time draws near, For God to be born again; Amid a world where hatred rules And seethes in the hearts of men. Those holy spots where the Christ-child played, In the streets of Bethlehem Town, By flying bombs of man-made steel, Are ruthlessly tore-down. But the Prince of peace once more will come At the dawn of a Christmas day; And the forces of Right will rule supreme, For a Star will lead the way. PATRICIA HOGAN A Bible Thought for Today BETTER THINGS COME TO HIM WHOIS FAITHFUL IN SMALL THINGS: Pirst the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.--Mar! 4:28, : "IT MUSTA BEEN SO London In War T Hitler's bombers have changed formal life in London, but not so in gM provinces, as Milo M. Th n and wife learned when theg X only slacks, sweaters an@fweeds on a country visit, By MILO'M. THOMPSON Associated Press Staff Writer New York, Dec. 27 (AP)--There was a time when one would no more take a week's holiday in England without packing along the "soup and fish" clothes and party frocks than wear a bathing suit in Westminster Abbey, But when my wife, Patience, and ts, decided to seek / rative respite in nt shire, Patience pack- ed up sturdy slacks and sweaters and I took my oldest, most comfort- able tweeds. We also took along our rations for the current week as a gesture of helpfulness; a joint of mutton, a small package of bacon, a little sack of sugar, six ounces of butter, even a full dozen of eggs to show our pleasure at the i tion we had re- ceived. Ours was the war complex and the London habit, Londen, except in the night club zone which caters to the ecity-locked hotel crowd, has put aside most ev- ening enterfainments which involve dress. Instead of catertaining at dinner when shells will be bursting and bombs falling, one entertains at lun- cheon. Late at night one is in one's own shelter or at one's post. Night en- tertaining usually extends cnly to such few people as you can put up in your own family shelter -- and that, of course, involves no dressing. And, in London, when you do ac- cept the hospitality of a friend, you take along your rations as a matter of course. Your host and hostess may have all the money and influ- ence of an Indian rajah, but they'll still have only the ounces of ration- ed commodities allotted to two, three or four persons, whatever the num- ber in their family. But, in rural shires, you find Eng- land again--the England which al- ways dresses for dinner, makes '| something like a religious rite of tea and shines resplendently in gala at- tire when the glasses clink round the evening fire. "Look!" exclaimed our hostess with a gesture of her hands as she viewed our eatables. "They have brought a dozen eggs! And there, beyond the garden hedge, are all those laying hens!" "You'll never know," said another guest from Londen, "how much those dozen eggs mean." ; She, too, had been up against the business of arguing with provisioner, dairyman and even fishmonger for two or three eggs at a time. It was while we were chatting in the sitting room before dinner that 1 began to suspect all was not weli with our, equipment. I noticed peo- ple dropping cut of the party to begin to dress. When we, too, re- tired I suggested to Patience, who was in wool skirt and sweater, that perhaps she'd better put on the one dress-up dress she had packed. "Surely that won't be necessary," she sald. "You don't suppose they'd really dress, do you?" "I'm afraid they Will" said I, reaching for the darker of my suits and the only white shirt, And they did. The slacks were never worn, We I, after 'weeks of wearing duty in | t line bombproofs and | They Still Dress for Dinner in Rural En Where Night Life Unchanged saw no women in tro parts. We had a feeling how, they frowned upo The evening festivitie ing to us. Glasses were music played until long past mid- for we were cn the borders of Wales among a singing people. But IT am afraid we sat rather drowsily and were none tco vivacious in the later hours, long past the time when wearied of the racket of war, we would have been abed in our Lon- don shelter, We took to dropping out of the daytime activiti n walks in the gorgeous autumn for- | est, {illing ourselves with black- | berries cold from the season's firs frost which offered 'th Ives all along the hedges the lanes. We drank in the fresh rural air with never a taint of the smoke and dust of Londen, And we stop- ped gaily at wayside inns. They knew about war, these inns for war had stopped the usual stream of forest hikers and cyclists One landlady told us she - hadn't seen a hiker in two months. She was feeding, instead, refugees from London. Otherwise it was all the old Eng- land, the pre-war England, the Eng- land of the song: "There'll Always Be an England." taking long times, in the dark; hear the distant rhythmig¥ beat of German plane motors agd. the sound of far-off anti-aircegft fire, like the whisper- ing memory of a dream of another existence, one could quite forget a war was on. 'ON THIS DATE -- By -- FRED WILLIAMS Today can well be established as the anniversary of the birth of the dual language in Canada. The first legislature of Lewer Canada had met in the Bishop's Palace at Que- bec on Dec. 17. On that occasion the speeches of the deputy gover- ror and of the governor-general were "repeated in French for the benefit of those -who did not un- derstand the English language." This was a mere matter of courtesy, not of the right or privilege claimed by representatives of the people. But 10 days later Mr. Grant, in the legislative assembly, moved that the journals be in the English language as necessary for the ori- ginal record and that a translation be made into French for the use of those who desired them, Mr. Papineau moved an amend- ment to insert after the word "Eng- lish" the words "or French, as it may have been entered in the ori- ginal minutes without drawing into precedent for the future," This was carried 21-14, and thereafter not only were both languages used in the journals and records, but in de- bates. Gradually, as the Protestant representation in the assembly has decreased, there are days when little English.'is spoken, save in the pro forma resolutions. But the right is there, and any English-speaking MIL.A. can use his mother tongue just as freely as the first French- Canadian legislators claimed their 'ights in 1792. It may not be generally known night. There was great singing, too, | If one did not meet truckleads of | soldiers on the highroads and some- | use b legis- Canada, mrs, the mem- anada had con- € British government that hey could not be coerced, and in 847 Lord Elgin read the speech | from the throne in both lagguages, |and from that date the dual lan. |guages has been officially 'recog- nized. The right of free speech in their own tongue won by the people of Lower Canada in 1847 vas con- {vi o t | 1 | {firmed 20 years later in' the*British | North America Act. Speeches in French have been made in the New | Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and | Alberta assemblies, but these were | only as a courtesy. The only places where the use of the dual language is compulsory is in the Senate and House of Commons and in the two houses of the Quebec legislature. US. PROVIDES RADON PLANT 'FOR BRITONS War Relief Society Cables $25,000 to Make Up Deficiency in Radium \ New York, Dec. 27.--The British War Relief Society has cabled $25,- 000 to London to establish a sub- terranean plant for the production of a gas called radon. The American-sponscred unit will provide radium treatment for the 50 per cent. of the cancer patients in Great Britain who have been un- able to have that aid since the Nazis launched their "all out" aerial war on the nation. Radon is an emanation product of radium that can be effectively used as a substitute for it, but which re- tains its destructive powers: for only a few days. Thus, if some of it were destroyed in an air raid, the menace of the released particles would be brief; also, the loss would not diminish the: small: world-stock of the precious mother-element. Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of the hoard of the Chase National Bank and head of the British. War Relief Society, said that the plant would be set up far from the reach of bombs and would be under the direction of Professor Sidney Russ, chief of the department of bio physics at the Middlesex (Hospital Medical Schoel and head physicist ' of Middlesex Hospital, "The British War Relief Society cabled funds to estabiisi: the radon plant under Professor Russ at the urgent request of the British Hos- pitals = Association, backed by 2 cable from Dr. Cuthbert Wallace, former president of the Royal Col- lege of Surgecns," Mr, Aldrich said, "We were advised that Professor Russ had one small radon plant 1a operation and that this plant was supplying half of England. The new plant, we expect, will be able to make up the difference and assure an adequate supply. Mrs. Rex Benson, the society's representative in London, told us in her cable on behalf of the British Hospitals Association that ordinary methods of radium treatment are DYAL BANK OF CANADA al Statement, 30th November, 1940 LIABILITIES AIP aaa swannnisi iiss $ 35,000,000.00 ... $ 20,000,000.00 3,198,146.37 $ 23,198,146.37 29.000.19 700,000.00 23,927,146.56 $ 58,927,146.56 ern $ 20,462,766.89 ... _15,065,374.51 . 399,085,368.54 . 405,521,189.16 215,956.83 nd balances due to banks and banking a dents in the United intries . 12,047,560.38 ere $107,027,366.30 $ 29,171,678.91 2,832.62 70,389,511.25 -------- 99 564,022.78 Ind Provincial Government direct and ped securit d et value maturing within two years, 201,132,212.09 on and Provincial Government direct anteed securities, not exceeding market 110,700,89.66 7,314,892.51 9,421,620.56 $1,185,514.18 Eas, ceeding 38 'da not ex da on Bebentuses, ot ties of @ sufficient marketa i short (not exceeding 30 days) loa 1 e than in Canada . bon Ay s and other securities of a sufficient market= 10,243,943.89 value to cover loans and discounts in Canada, not other provided for... included, estimacied loss Provincial Governments o cities, towns, municipalities and icts, provided 7,394,239.19 $584,954,407.72 .. $229,451,217.53 saamers 999,795.25 school 18,374,596.5¢ ent loans and discounts elsewhere than in Canada, pot otherwise included, estimated loss OF seca iananssrancsonsssnis Non-current loans, estimated ioss provided for. +... . remises, at not more than cost, less amounts written off . | Bank pr Real estate other than bank premises | Mortgages on real es:ate pies . 79,277,395.82 1,783,249.36 329,886,254.50 | Liabilities of s under | per contra | Shares of and loans to controlled com | Deposit with the Mini of Fi or .. 18,003,678.07 ies eprend "- 3,482,865.20 0 HE RR POUR SR ah ae | © Other assets not included under the foregoing heads. ales 'enna 1,340,000.00 629,989.58 $955,570,326.28 Rh i A hh J 3. NOTE: --The assets and liabilities of The Royal Bank of Canada (France) are not included in the above General Statement. | M.W, WILSON, F and M gi Dir: S.G. DOBSON, | General Manager.' 'e have ined e .- year have also Bank. The al of the Bank . Montieal, Canada, December 23, 1940. providing £. Rost & Sens W. GARTH THOMSON, CA., of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Profits for the year ended 30th November, 1940, aft Fb Dominion and Provincial ho ment taxes amounting to $1,823,950.19 and after Ti i a : AUDITORS' REPORT To Taz Suanzmoivgns, Tux Rovai Bank or Caxana: i the al $ of Liabilities and Assets as at 30th November, 1 with the books and accounts of The Royal Bank of Canada at Head Office and with the certifi returns {rom the branches. We have checked the cash and the securities representing the Bank's investments held at the Head Office at the close of the fiscal year, and at various dates during the c ed the cash and investment securities at several of the important branches. We have obtained all the information and explanations that we have required, and in"our opinion the transactions of the Bank, which have come under our notice, have been within the powers of the ve statement is in our opinion properly drawn up #0 2s to di : at 30th November, 1940, and it is as shown by the Books of the Bank. JAS. G. of P. the true condition ROSS, CA, } on PROFIT AND LOSS AOCOUNT Balance of Profit and Loss Account, 30th November, i) RR Ce RE ee $ 309.252.24 Reserves, APPROPRIATED AS FOLLOWS: 'Dividend No. Dividend No. Dividend No. Dividend No. iation for Bank Premises M. W. WILSON, Di aj out of which Gut of wich Reserves provision for all bad and Montreal, December 23, 1940 3,526,894.16 -- § 6,623,146.39 a bh Contribution to the Pension Fund Society . ce of Profit and Loss carried forward, - That Body Of Yours By James W. Barton, M.D. NOISE LESSENS OUR WORKING ABILITY One by one the elevated railways of New York are being removed, the trains being replaced by. almost noiseless busses. We are told by some authorities that people lving on these streets with the elevated trains soon learn to disregard them, sleep and eat well, and enjoy just as good health as those ving on streets with- no elevated railways. While there is no question but that we can all get used to even loud noises 'when we know exactly what is causing them, there is also no question but that some damage is done to the nervous system by noise, even noise that is familiar, Getting accustomed to noise costs something in nervous energy, the amount of energy expended differin, of course, with differen: individuals. 'There has.peen an increased in- terest in nofse or sounds lately be- cause the hard of hearing have been looking and. hoping for something that would restore sufficient hearing to enable them to enjoy the com- pany of others, concerts, theatre and radio. It was found that for the hard. of hearing, noise very loud sounds, could bother or upset them just as these sounds bothered those with normal hearing. This has re- sulted in the invention of machines to measure the amount and type of hard of hearing present in any would permit the hearing of sounds of the right pitch and right amouni "virtually suspenced in Great Brit- ain because of the bombings." for individual cases. It can be seen that by studying individual, and of hearing aids that | noise, it quality and quantity, some- thing can be done to prevent noises of a type that is irritating and dis- turbing to the human ear. The in- vention of the muffler for motor cars and for most motor boats has made cars and motor boats a source of pleasure and comfort to the users and others. Dr. A, H. Davis, Principal Scienti- fic Officer, Physics Department of the National Physical Laboratory in his book "Noise" says that the rust- lings of trees; drills for break- burst rudely on and stir our re- § and nerves. feres with men work. Dec. 27. 1915 -- B ed the sinking of sels by submarine acl of 80 lives on one. tieres railroad shelle fect by allied t troops announced @ France for undiscle Winnipeg, Dec. 25.-- present amounting te $13,600 was the answei ployees of the = West Canadian National Railw suggestion sent out a '$hort time #go that some thing speaial be done to help the work of the Bord Mayor of London's General Fund. This money was raised in @ quick cam- paign and already § been cabled to the old country §6 that use may / be made of it at ghce. 4 \