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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) WPA published every week- as 1a Spent. prion de at Oshawa, Can- ada, by The Times Publishing Co. of Oshawa, Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres; A R. Alloway. Managing Director. he Oshawa Daily Times is a member A Daily Newspapers Association the On- tario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of C SUBSCRIFTION RATES carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs Delivered NY 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) $135 for three months, '$2325 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in advance. By mail to US. subscribers, $6.00 per year. payable strictly ip advance. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1940 Budgeting to Obliterate Europe's Gangsters Canada's supplementary war budget in- 'troduced in the House of Commons on Mon- day, designed primarily to effect a saving in sterling exchange, will perhaps disturb the domestic life of most Canadians and also affect certain lines of business adverse- ly, but on the whole will not entail too much sacrifice. Prohibition of imports of luxury goods from United States, restrictions on other lines, imposition of excise taxes on certain manufactured goods and letting down the bars for the importation of other lines from the United Kingdom sums up in brief the terms of the new budget. These measures were obviously necessary and not unexpected on the part of the Can- adian public, who from time to time have been warned what to expect. With activi- ties on the battlefront becoming intensified and the tempo of industrial activity step- ped up to meet this launching of a great war offensive, the need for greater pur- chasing power of war essentials on the part of Canada is of prime importance. The main objective is to save foreign exchange, which, through the new budget clauses, the finance minister estimates at five to six millions monthly. Instead of this amount going into non-essentials, the amount will be released for war purchases, rather than being obtained by borrowing or by taxation. In order to save domestic funds Mr Ilsley proposes a 25 per cent excise tax on Canadian-made radios, phonographs, elec- trical appliances of any kind and on cameras. This step is taken to prevent manufacturers from meeting the extra de- mand which might be caused by the ban on the importation of these articles. The effect may be to reduce Canadian purchases and thus set the money free for such necessi- ties as war loans and new taxation. Excise taxes on new automobiles, a tax imposed in the last budget, are raised from 10 to 20 per cent on the manufacturers' price on cars up to $700, most of which are in the low-priced and popular makes of cars this year. The ban on imported cars affects such models as Nash, Studebaker, Graham and Packard, sales of which con- stitute about 14 per cent of total sales in Canada. Only two General Motors cars are affected, Oldsmobile "8" and Pontiac "8", few of which were imported this year. However if the motoring public keep on purchasing new cars at the same rate they did in 1940, Canadian car makers stand to increase their sales due to the ban on the imported variety. There is no home, no individual but who will find it impossible to escape the know- ledge that there is a war on. Some of ue will have to tighten our belts, perhaps, but any hardships imposed will be light compared with what the people in the bombed areas of England are experiencing. There is little cause for grievance because we either have to do without or pay more for some things, which perhaps after all we might be better without. Our forefathers did not have them and we still refer to that period as the "good old days." After all the main object is to obliterate Europe's gangsters. Let's do the job thoroughly. State Control Better Than . Dictatorship Proponents of a new social order and state control must be chuckling these days at their antagonists of a few years ago, when they add up what has taken place during the past year and proposals for fur- ther orders-in-council to come. The war has awakened the nation to the realization that control of many things, so that all activities will harmonize for the winning of the war, is an absolute necesitsy. Among the necessary projects under- taken by the government and its various services have been the setting up of a foreign exchange board, the war time prices and {rade board, the pegging of rents in some municipalities, the prohibition of ex port of Canadian currency, restrictions of | visits to United States, the*banning of new model cars, refrigerators, etc., steps to peg wages, set prices on bacon, and last week to lengthen the work week and this week to curtail the consumption of luxuries. We are reminded that Attorney-General the Hon. G. D. Conant, K.C., in an address in Oshawa not so long ago, told the people here that we must expect to lose some of our personal liberties before this war is . These personal liberties are being lost through state control, but the least pat- riotic will admit it is for the purpose of winning the war. And if we do not win the war what will personal liberty be worth. State control is a necessary part of the war and might be looked upon at the pre- sent time as controlled democracy. Canada is all out to help Britain win the war and if this can be accomplished by state control or any other method, all of which the peo- ple agree to then let us have it rather than a Nazi or Fascist state under a dictator. Let the Socialists chuckle, their an- tagonists don't mind. The winning of this war has brought us all to one level, one ambition--to defeat the dictators. As Hunger Strikes Europe Herbert Hoover, ex-president of United States, who during the last war did much to bring relief to starving people in Europe, is not meeting much success in his proposal to have the British blockade lifted so that a limited supply of food may be admitted to the countries which have been conquered or occupied by Hitler's armies. Premier Churchill argues that it is the responsibility of Germany to take care of the people she has brought under her dom- ination. "If the Germans use these com- modities to help them bomb women and children, rather than to feed the popula- tions who produce them," he says, "we may be sure that any imported food would go the same way, directly or indirectly, or be employed to relieve the enemy of the responsibilities he has assumed." Mr. Hoover urges that something be done immediately before winter sets in, suggest- ing "one ship at a time," such transport to be provided by the country benefitted, which would also be required to pay the cost of the cargo. In an editorial summing up the situation the Christian Science Monitor describes the situation as already serious and daily growing worse, yet believes that the Brit- ish people should have the principle voice in determining at what hour and by what means freedom and food can both be offer- ed the people of Europe. Mail For Troops Lost At Sea There are sure to be some disappoint- ments over the non-delivery of mail to the soldiers overseas this Christmas, or even before that, owing to the sinking of ships in the Atlantic by the Germans. In fact complaints have been pouring in to the postal department, but investigation will show that the postal authorities are not in any way to blame for what has happened. A striking example has come to hand, which we pass on without infringing on the rights of the newspaper censor. Our read- ers will recall the press reports concerning the sinking of the C.P.R. freighter "Bea- verbrook"--this steamer being one of a convoy recently sunk by the enemy in the Atlantic. a What is not generally known, however, is that this steamer carried a large volume of Canadian. mail, including mail for over- seas troops, parcels of tobacco, etc.,, was lost through the sinking of the vessel. The anxiety of thousands of people over the fate of their mail can only be imagined, but these people and all others will readily see that the postal department can do noth- ing about the matter, which must be ac- cepted as one of the hazards of war and numbered among the war sacrifices we are called upon to make. Canadians should co- operate with the postal authorities in mak- ing sure their letters and parcels to sol- diers are properly addressed. A WONDERFUL SONG,--IF THE BRITISH WIN That Body Of Yours By James W, Barton, M.D. INFECTIONS In former days physicians con- | sidered the chief work of the nose to be an entrance for air to the lungs. Thus if any obstruction were present, an operation to remove the obstruction was and patients were sent to nose and throat specialists to have the ob- struction removed so that, there would be ample room fof J enter the lungs. 'binate, bone or other defect---often | the specialist likewise had the same idea in mind and much of the lin- | ing tissue of the nose was removed or destroyed. Now that sinusitis, inflammation «of the sinuses adjoining the nose, i Freceiving attention by physicians many of these patients are being referred to nose specialists to have | | these sinuses drained and obtain | better ventilation, as good ventila- | tion should prevent any congestion or inflammation of the lining of the | | sinus. In the opinion of many nose spe= cialists there has been in the past, too much damage to the lining of nose and sinuses in the surgical treatment of chronic sinus trouble. They believe that some of the symptoms are caused in some cases by conditjons of the body that have nothing to do with the sinus itself One of these conditions is allergy-- being sensitive to certain substances dust and others. Other conditions causing sinus symptoms are aden- oids and infected tonsils, the re- | moval of which makcs surgical | freatment of a sinus or sinuses un- necessary. Dr. J. Mackenzie Brown, Los An- geles, in the Journal of the Ameri- can Medical Association states that in chronic sinusitis a general ex- amination of the patient should be made by the family physician be- fore he is sent to the specialist for examination of the nose and throat. Sometimes there is allergy present together with sinus infection. Na- turally the allergic tendency will increase or prolong the sinusitis. By overcoming the allergic condi- tion the sinus infection may clear up without the need for any surgic- al operation. By avoiding surgery and thus the destruction of much of the lining " Editorial Notes of the nose and sinuses, the other functions of this lining--taste, smell, sound--will not be disturbed. When doing your Christmas shopping be- ware of articles bearing German, Italian and even Japanese labels, Instead, buy goods made within the British Empire, and help win the war. | A Bit of Verse HOME SWEET HOME But every house where Love abides And Friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home, sweet home; For there the heart can rest. ~Henry van Dyke. A Bible Thought for Today TRUST HIM ALWAYS: the Lord; trust also in Him.--Psalm 37: 5. Commit thy way unto ON THIS DATE -- By -- FRED WILLIAMS The devotion of a king's messen- ger to duty following a governor's ex- periment in despatch sending is an incident in Canadian history which falls on this date. In 1760 the brig st. Lawrence was 10st in the Gulf. Behind that bald statement is a record of personal devotion to duty worthy of being told to the present generation. In the previous November Gow- ernor Haldimand decided to send some official dispdtches to Sir Henry Clinton, commander at New York. For some unstated reason he order- ed that the messages should be sent round by sea instead of overland | tiss | , AVOIDING SURGERY IN SINUS | the first thought | to | In removing the! | obstrucon--straightening the. sép- | --tum or removing projedting tur- | such as food, feathers, pollen, house | 1. : : via Lake Champlain, the shortest | route. Two sets of the dispatches were made; they were entrusted to Ensigns Prentiss and Drummond, of the 44th Regiment; they sailedfrom Quebec, each on a separgte ship. | The weather was bad from the start After 10 days those on the St. Law- rence, the ship on which was Pren- saw the other vessel engulfed in the waves with oll on board, in- cluding Ensign Drummond. The St. Lawrence herself was more lucky; she was at least wreck- ed on a beach. Prentiss, who had wrapped the precious dispatches in oilskin and packed them to his body, | took command of the surmivors of the wreck; for a few weeks they managed to live, but one by one the band died off, until only Prentiss and the mate were loft. They made their way to St. Paul's Island, Cape There he was York: to Clinton was taken to Ha : 4 given ship for New livered his dispatches His job was done, "all in the day's work." with-a modesty characteris- tic of British officers and gentle- men all through the ages. He was given a mission to perform; he ac- complished it. That was enough reward for brave Prentiss TRADE TREATIES Tax Changes will Restore Previous Balance Be- tween U.S. and British Imports Ottawa, Dec. '4, -- Tax changes proposed by Finance Minister Ilsley to restrict certain imports from the United States and facilitate imports of certain goods from the United { Kingdom will not alter the status | of Canada's trade treaties with the | United Kingdom and the United | States. . Where the Canadian tariff is to be reduced on commodities from Britain, the items involved are al- ready being supplied in whole or in large part by Britain. In a few cases imports of such items have increased substantially from the United States since the war began, so that this reduction on the Brit- ish goods merely will restore the | previous balance as between the United States and Britain, In any case, it is generally as- sumed here that the changes pro- posed were discussed with the gov- ernments of the United States and Britain before being announced. Breton, whence Prentiss, in March, | ae he de- | JAPANESE IN ARMY MAY VOTE IN BE. Taboo May be Lifted for Orientals in C.A.S.F.-- | |. Legislature Ponders | Problem Vancouver, Dec. 4 --Shall Oriental vouths who have enlisted in the Canadian army in British Colum- | bia be allowed to vote? Preparation for the forthcoming provincial election a year hence has | already run into a snag. | Legislation enacted this session by | the Legislature provides that all members of any of the {fighting | forces in British Columbia even if under the usually required age of {21 shall be granted the ballot. But it now appears that when this | provision. was made in the House the legislators entirely overlooked the fact that not a few of B.C's enlisted men are Japanese. And up to now votes for Japa- | nese in British Columbia have been | taboo, The situation is further aggravat- cd by a widespread demand that the public boycott all Japanese goods, Meanwhile, considerable sympathy | has baen aroused on behalf of the enlisted Japanese and has crystal- lized in the declaration, "Any man good enough to fight for Canada | is good enough to be granted the | vote." | The problem has been left to a special elections preparation com- mittee of the Legislature. SUPEROR TYPE PLANE ENGINES Already Proving Worth in Spitfires -- Bests Nazis with Greater Alti- tude -- Available for Hurricanes New York, Dzc. 4--Great Britain is pushing preduction of an engine intended to wipe out an advantage enjoyed by German flyers for sev- eral months, and at the same time is making progress with the manu- facture of a two-seater fighting plane of exceptional striking power. Building Activity Greatly Increased Peterboro, Dec. 4 --With a $750,- 000 construction. program at the plant of the Canadian General Electric Company accounting for mere than one-half of the total, building permits issued in Peter- boro up to the end of November have reached a figure more than iwo and one-half times as great as the total for the corresponding period of 1929, according to statis- tics issued at the city hall this week. Permits issued last month amounted to $812,837, bringing the total for the first eleven months of the year up to $1,258,376. In No- vember, 1039, building permits amounted to $48,399, with $407,635 as the total for eleven months, Not since 1930, when permits totalled $787,525 by the end of November, The engine, designed to give a higher "ceiling" and therefore a greater advantage, is one of the "Merlin" family of Rolls Royce air- craft motors. More highly super- charged for altitude flying than its predecessors, it is already in service in "Spitfire" fighters. A recent dispatch from London, recounting the destruction of a German fighting plane by two Spitfira pilots at an altitude above 30,000 feet, mentioned the inability of the Nazi Messerschmitt to climb high enough to elude its enemies. The same engine will be made -veilable to the manufacturers of the "Hurricane" type fighting plane which, with the Spitfire, has car- "ied the brunt of the defense work in the battle of Britain. The two-seater fighter which yroke into the news briefly a few months ago in the employment of the Royal Air Force, and as quick- 'vy disappeared, is the Boulton Paul defiant. Single-engined, it carries a unner's compartment with a pow- | may be her Achilles heel. Power Plants Says Germany's Electric May Prove: To Be Achilles' Heel » 4 New York, Dec. 4.--Nature, Bri- tain's official science journal, says Germany's electric power plants It will have been noticed Nature says, that electrical power stations in Germany frequently are the tar- gets of Royal Air Force bombers. There is a special reason--the fact that Germany more than other European nation relies on electric powei', Nature thinks that Germany's war progress has been intimately tied up with increase in electric power. Nazi economy started in 1933 with about 25,000,000,000 kilowatt hours | of electric power. In 1938 this had | risen to 55,000,000,000, or more than | double in five years. ! No German figures have been available since 1938, but nature cal- culates that with the "ersatz" pro- | gram, which is perhaps more than : ever needed under war conditions, headed for her Oxford, Miss, home Germany will require about 100,000,- 000,600 kilowatts by 1943 to keep up her program. Nature asserts that Germany has | been unable to meet increased de- | mands in the last two years for el- ! cotrical power needed in Germany's | increased production of synthetic | materials. These are declared to require disproportionately large | amounts of electricity, compared | with natural products of the same sort, Germany's great war machine is riding on synthetic rubber. To miake a ton of this rubber, Nature says, requires 40,000 kilowatt hours of electric power. Synthetic gasoline, from coal; tin- der German process, is good enough to fly even military planes, but ton of this fuel takes 3,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. iw Four war materials - alone took two-fifths of Germany's electtic power of two years ago. These were synthetic rubber, synthetic gasoline, & magnesium and aluminum. wd "This indicates," Nature 'corf- cludes, "to what extent German war production relies on electriéity, and how a shortage or an interrap- tion of electricity production is bound to hamper output." " It takes five years, this science journal estimates, to build a large scale electric power plant in Ger- many. Another hampering fact is that five-sixths of Germany's elec- tricity relies on coal; that is; codle fired steam boilers. - Tog Germany before the war avas im- porting from Britain 20,000,000 oe of ccal annually. The Geérma have large coal supplies available, but their need seems to be jumping. Nature declares that Germany now is using lower grades of ore in her iron industry, and this fact alone will soon require a 30 per e2nt in- crease in coal consumption @r the iron furnaces. COLORFUL LIF ONCE CANADIAN ENDED BY BOMB Prairie Court Clerk Gained Fame and For- tune in S. Africa and | Australia | By DOUGLAS AMARON { Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Dec. 4 -- (CP). -- Hugh | Sewell Kingdon, whose adventurous career carried him to the four | quarters of the globe--and through [ three fortunes--is dead, victim of a | Nazi air raid. | Notice of his death gained little attention in the London news- | papers, although during his life- | time of some 60 years Kingdon was | | one of the Empire's most romantic | characters. Once controller of pro- perty valued later at £1,000,000 ($4,- 450,000), he was a humble clerk in | a suburban town when killed by a | bomb. | Canadians probably won't remem- | ber Kingdon but at the age of 15 | he was clerk to a court of summary | jurisdiction in Saskatchewan. The | following year he toiled as a re- | porter in Manitoba. Two years pre- viously he had gone to Alaska in a | gold rush. t Outside of his fellow countrymen. South - Africans probably knew | Kingdon best. He went there after leaving Canada to fight in the Boer | war and stayed to become, at the | age of 20, one of the largest rea! | estate men in the Transvaal. | South African Magnate Later he became right-hand man | of an American insurance and | theatrical magnate in South Africa and returned to England with a considerable fortune. He lost this | in unfortunate deals. | Speculating again with the rem- | nants of his wealth, he started an | ambitious scheme for the emigra- tion of British settlers to South | African orange groves, Two suc- cessive droughts ruined the crops, the scheme crashed and Kingdon again was a poor man. Still in England, he launched his biggest venture with a £5 ($2225) { | of Georgian houses in undeveloped Streatham Hill and inspired, de- signed and built an undertaking valued later at nearly £1,000,000 note. He took an option on a row | first consideration become part of the national' effort. Sends $100 Cheque to Bombed-Out Londoner Ottawa, Dec. 4.--French Canada's admiration for the wonderful resis- tance displayed by Londoners against the Nazi onslaught is ex- pressed in the follcwing letter, sent to Rt. Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Mine ister of Justice, by a Quebec agri- culturist who insists on not having his identity divulged. A cheque for $100 accompanied the letter. Here is the letter: 5 "Would you be so kind as to. for= ward the enclosed cheque for: $100 to the British Government, in Lon- don. "I would like the British Govera- ment to give my humble contribu- tion to one of the poor London fam- ilies that had to suffer the most from the barbarous cruelty of.the Nazis, BRITAIN TO TAKE ® INTERNEES BACK FOR BOMB WORK Administrative Offices Now in Canada Selecting Suitable Candidaies for' Pioneer Corps London, Dec. 4.--Home Secretary He:rveri Morrison told the House f Commons on Monday that an Ade ministrative officer is in Canada to select suitable candidates amongst internees from Britain held there to serve in the Pioneer Corps, which cleans up bomb wreckage and en= gages in salvage work. Morrison explained that "Prison- er of War, Class Two" was the of ficial wording used in the Canadian defense regulations to describe cive fiian internees and that it was dif- ficult to alter a description which applied to civilianns interned by Canada in addition to those frogy the United Kingdom. The minister said 19,500 aliens age still interned by the United King- dom. Of these 4000 are classifiad as unfriendly and the others are being dealt with as fast as possible. He said skilled werkers would have for reléRe fo first consideration fo rrelease' to war ($4,450,000), But he lost all his in- terests in the venture he created and for several years worked in a small office position. Another of his licrative exploits followed a sudden decision during a tour of the United States to buy the filming rights of a world cham- pionship fight. He took the film to Australia, carrying it by hand in a box, exhibited it throughout the Commonwealth and made £10,000 ($44,500) in 10 weeks. Kingdon was a colorful and some times flamboyant character. In his prosperous days he smoked 12 ex- pensive cigars a day, one before breakfast, which consisted of whis- key and cream. He professed social- ism. Even in his palmiest days he enjoved a game of darts in the tap room. Woman Rainmaker Brings Needed Rain Lakeland, Fla, Dec. 4.--(AP)-- Miss Lillie Stoate, who claims she can bring rain by sitting on the shore of a boly of water, was today, after Lakeland had had its best shower in weeks. The "rainmaker" ended an eight- day vigil besi e Mirror yester- day. Aside fromv the farewell show- ers, there was .07 inch of rain a few days ago. Miss Stoate said she had kept her promise. to the berry-growers of the Plant City section who brought her AT YOUR HYDRO SHOP here. Heavy rains were reported has the present figure been ap- proached. er-operated turret amidships. yesterday in the Plant City area. wi