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JM ---------- THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940 PAGE FOUR ~ Sa dependent newspaper published every week- hg afternoon except Satu wi Osawa Suns I "Pres; A R Alloway. ais Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the ida dia Daily Newspapers Association the On- sario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Ey SUBSCRIFTION RATES "*' Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs " 25¢c for two weeks; $3.25 for six months, or $6.50 "© per year if paid in advance. 3 mall anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa BY delivery limits) $135 for three months, $3325 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in re dard ""' By 'mail to US. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable wo strictly ip advance. MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940 I 1} o se Oshawa Shares in the Victory "The capture of thousands of Italian "troops in Egypt while other thousands are fleeing into Libya has caused Premier 5:0 Churchill to declare the victory one of the ."" first magnitude and to say that the Suez ~~ Canal is safe. This news coupled with the © guccess of the Greeks in Albania has caus- "** ed appreciation, if not jubilation through- ... out the Empire and a great sense of pride and satisfaction on the part of General "i= Motors of Canada and their employees who .... for months have been manufacturing and shipping mechanized units to Egypt. © "In the report from Cairo was one signi- """ ficant paragraph, "lightning methods, in which mechanized units played an impor- tant part, were said to have been a big ~-- factor in the drive. Credit for the success of the British drive was given here to 59- year-old Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wil- . son, the first man in the British Army to »« gommand a completely mechanized unit and "who has organized his forces into a swift- "striking army." It is well known here that mechanized units manufactured by General Motors, to- gether with other units made by Ford Motors Co. of Canada, have been shipped to Egypt in anticipation of and preparation for this drive which has met with such success. Why Gen. Graziani, commanding the Italian forces in Libya delayed his at- tack on Cairo and Alexandria will perhaps ' ... never be known, but the fact that he allow- ed the British time to pour in men, muni- tions and mechanized units, has meant serious reverses for the Fascists and a ma- jor victory for the British. Work on these mechanized units in the local plant has been pushed since early in _ the year, with employees working day and night. After the units were assembled and ready for the road, they were given ex- haustive tests to prove their strength and durability and to see if they were suitable to stand such strains and abuse they would later be put to in the drive against the enemy. That the success of that drive is attributed to the mechanized units--to the fine materials and excellent workmanship which went into them--is due to the ex- ¥ = acting care with which they were designed, # the sweat and toil of Canadian men who did a thorough job with the idea that their efforts in what might be termed "the se- , cond line of defence," should help win the 4 war. ; It surely must be a source of gratifica- tion to them that their hard work has ac- complished much that was intended. The . " Times fully appreciates all that the motor plants mean to the Empire and the big part they are playing in this war. Then, to, . 7 it must be recognized that the loyal em- ~ "= ployees in the plants as well as those in the theatre of war are all working for one pur- ™ pose, primarily, to defend democracy, de- feat the dictators that the world might have peace. . New Wing for the Hospital { The people of the city and community 3. who are aware of the handicap under # which the Oshawa General Hespital has i 3: been operating for some time, principally | 25. lack of accommodation, will'rejoice with . the Board of Trustees and Hospital Aux- fliary that a new wing is now in the course " of construction and will be completed in | 1941. / : The. board this gummer found it neces- sary to erect a3 temporary addition to care | for the overflow of patients, the intention .. being to delay the building of a larger . wing, but infreasing demand for accom- i, modation afid the present overcrowded i condition njade the building of the new \ wing impegtive. i On Saturflay at the laying of the founda- i tion stone fof the new wing, to be known {i as the Syls Memorial Wing, chairman of i! the board fF. K. Creighton, made it known | that the géw addition was made possible through the kindness and thoughtfulness i of the lat@ Mrs, Albert Sykes who left a 3 generous bequest to the board of trustees. It was also indicated that the Women's Auxiliary, whose work was instrumental in having the hospital erected over 30 years ago, had, through their untiring efforts, kept the hospital operating without appeal to the public for funds. Oshawa is fortunate in having such a splendid body of women who have sup- ported the hospital through the years, and just as fortunate in having as splendid a body of men who have devoted time and energy to all the material and financial problems which have arisen from time to time in an institution of the size and im- portance of the Oshawa General Hospital. It was hinted to The Times that while no public appeal had been made in former years, there was the possibility that public subscriptions would be acceptable for fur- nishing the new wing next year. The people of Oshawa and Ontario County have reason to be proud of their hospital here, which is rated among the best in Ontario, and with the addition of the Sykes Memorial Wing, the accommoda- tion should be ample to take care of all patients desiring admission during the coming years. A Challenge to Canadians A challenge to Canadians to squelch "quislingism" of traitors, fifth columnists and defeatists was sounded during the na- tional network broadcast of the Sunday evening war commentary, "The Legion Views the War." The speaker, presented by the Canadian Legion as the representa- tive voice of ex-service men, charged that one of the supreme tasks of fighting men and civilians alike is to expose the distor- tion of truths inspired by enemy agents. His emphasis on "let us do that job with everything we have," should find a sym- pathetic echo in the heart of every Cana- dian. If we do that all the concentrated fury of the Nazi, the "quislers", and what have you will be destroyed the sooner. It was pointed out how all the countries that have been subjugated by the German heel were diseased first by such traitors who have since become hated by their own people and despised by' those they tried to serve. Such slithery 'methods of selling and stealing a country will never end in per- manent possession and Hitler will never be able to hold his stolen empire. A world order built on fear and lying and brute force contains the seeds of its own destruc- tion. Yes, indeed, let us squelch the traitors, the fifth columnists and defeatists. We have no place for them in Canada. Editorial Notes The longer a war lasts the less a million dollars sounds. "Cut in" often if you wish to "pass out" just once, is "good" advice if you want to pass out that way. The average citizen will probably recog- nize he is living in an age of speed by the rate at which December 25 is approaching. H. G. Wells says this isn't a war but a revolution. He is right. The democracies are revolting against the tyranny of the Axis dictators. The Brockville Recorder and Times says the great enthusiasm for the St. Lawrence scheme expressed by President Roosevelt "and echoed in Northern New York does not seem to have any parallel in eastern On- tario or, indeed, in any important section of Canada. 1 A Bit of Verse A HIT-AND-RUNNER A mot'rist broke my back yard fence, An act for which there's no defence; In fact it was a dirty trick, He knocked off boards a full inch thick. Now did he come to my back door, And say: "Your pardon I implore, I accidentally broke your fence, Tl have it fixed at my expense. "I'll send a carpenter today, To put new boards on right away." You ask did he do that right deed? NO! He drove off at highest speed. A "Hit-and-Runner," coward, too, He did just what a thief would do, For while he did not take my cash, He cost me money with his crash. "His windshield bore a card of red, "With Care and Courtesy" it said. But when he smashed my back yard fence, His "Care and Courtesy" went hence. --RALPH GORDON. A Bible Thought for Today GOOD MEN MISS NO LASTING JOY IN THIS WORLD, AND LOOK FORWARD TO A STILL BETTER: Having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.--1 Timothy 4:8, | | | | | IF_SIGNOR MUSSOLINI IS-HUMAN-L WERE OKAY, BOSS, BUT HOW You tN | London In War Time Bombings Transform Taciturn Scrub Woman Into Mothering Aunt to Her Employer. | A series of 12 stories of what | it means to live under the ever- | present threat of death in Eng- land has been, written by Milo | M Thompson, chief of the Lon- | don Bureau of the Associated Press, who has lived there | throughout the war and now is | in New York on leave. He knows what it means to have his home and office building bombed. This | is the first article. By MILO M. THOMPSON, Associated Press Staff Writer. | New York, Dec. 16. (AP)--Total | war such as London is experiencing | today is not all bad. . Something happens to people who, | facing death have put aside all the | normal and petty expectations and | ambitions. | job, house, car or dress on some | tomorrow, but to be alive. Most trivial passions disappear | when one faces as stark reality the possibility that all possessions, all freedom, even one's country, may | no longer be his own in a few short | months. { There is something sublime in British reaction to lightning war. | The lady who wouldn't notice a woman of the "lower clawses" even | through a lorgnette now holds the | slavey"s baby in the shelter. The limousine of the banker from "the city" loads up with Cockney | workmen at a bus stop to speed them home. The maid sits in the mistress' | parlor for her cup of tea at night. | The high and the low find alike they are just people whose knees | can quake, whose hearts leap to | throats, whose kinfolk are equally | precious and whose possessions, | large or small, are slipping. Welcome Closest In the presence of a stalking ter- ror they feel the need of companion- ship and welcome whosoever is closest. And great is their amazement to find that they like this. They find qualities they never suspected in each' other, I have often heard these phen- omena discussed a bit ecstatically at group teas and such things. We have an aging maid-of-all- work whose case, I think, illus- trates one side of what the war is doing tn people. She is on a small government pension, earned by years of clean- ing government offices. She possesses a tiny cottage, a cat, a teakettle, a washtub and a cot. There were a few speaking neigh- bors, but mostly her pre-war life was a lonely one of puttering about house and garden when she was not at her work. And at work she was never talkative, War made her = new existence, With the first wave of bombings she fell heir to part of a family of refugees, two 'teen-age girls from a | windows. | tion came when our Their hope 1s not to have a better | earnestly attacking the hopeless- | could live in our house until win- | bombed-out family of 10 children, She grumbled at first at the disrup- tion of her peaceful existence, but in almost no time at all found her. self as absorbed in that family's scattered affairs as if it were her own. "Hawful 'itler" Suddenly there were things to say beside "Oh, that hawful 'itler ang 'is hairraids." Thickening bombardment event. ally made it undesirable for her to go home to her cottage at nights and she began staying with us dur. ing the night raids. She visited her refugee girls and her house at odd daytime between-raid periods and Sundays. The girls took care of her cottage. She was more nervous than we, starting up in fright even at mere | gunfire or at some queer sound | made by a truck on the highway. | So it hurt our consciences to have | her sitting alone in a corner of the kitchen, or below stairs in. her own | room, while we were before the fire in a strong room with battened We asked her to come in and sit in the same room with us. She began to spruce up her ap- pearance. She showed her appre- ciation in innumerable little help- ful ways. And when time for late night tea came, she was always first to suggest it, quick to rush off to make it and always held back her own cup until she was special- ly invited to have it in the same room. The third step in her regenera- house ' was bombed. It was a horrid night when everything seemed to crash about ones ears and she lay terrified in bed amid debris, unable to find her slippers in order to negotiate the glass-strewn floor, bereft of light | (for the power was gone), freezing | cold as the gale blew through the | gaps where windows and doors had been. But she was the first one to stir at dawn and was found alternately wringing her hands at the appear- ance of devastation upstairs and looking job of achieving a little order in the chaos. To Public Shelters A period followed when no one dow spaces were filled in, doors re- | set, utilities regained, etc. So she | went down the street to spend her nights in one of the public shelters. There she found a new world in which people like herself, talking 'her own language. laid their cots and pallets side by side, list ned to a common radio which drowned out the gunfire, held long conversations about the affairs of the whole neighborhood, traded bits of in- formation about the effect of the bombs, played cards; in fact had a nightly teaparty until lights-out time. After that we could never win her back to staying in the house during the nightly raids. She was almost gay as she packed her little basket and set off in the gloaming to reach the shelter be- fore the siren sounded. At the crack of dawn and after the morning "all clear" she would be back bubbling over with the news she had gleaned and repeat- ing bits of conversation from the friends she had made. For the first time in her life she had become a really social being and, for all her continuing moments of terror, she seemed to grow younger. ; I tell this story, not because it is great drama, but because it is typi- cal. It has been happening all over the London area. It illustrates one of the great gifts war has brought to the populace, The aging maid is almost a mem- ber of our family now, more like a mothering aunt than the taciturn scrublady she used to be. She is also an illustration of that catlike devotion to home sur- roundings which convinced one the London people will die before they are frightened away from their home districts. We have sometimes considered establishing a rest home in the country beyond the London area and urged her, if we did, to go with us. She will not do it. Like the East Enders who, moved from their devastated blocks of . Auto Sales in East 9 At Last Year's Level Sales of passenger autos in east- ern Carad- in October wer almost exactly . par with , 1939, it is indicated by Canadian Automo- tive Trade's report on new passen- ger car registrations. Twelve Leading Makes month: New Passenger Car Registration In Eastern Canada October Year to Date for the 1940 1939 1940 1939 | 9,961 8.904 | 9,051 7,993 | 918 096 887 825 671 197 12,554 9,447 . 281 240 3519 2,502 144 232 2,452 2232 121 276 9,174 8,145 98 107 2,739 2,528 83 141 1718 1,609 58 75 2,268 1973 4,182 3475 206 214 805 749 3715 501 Plymouth Chevrolet McL.-Buick Hudson Ford Oldsmobile Studebaker .... 3,405 3,389 50,004 50.452 ON THIS DATE -- By - FRED WILLIAMS How is it that we hear so little of dramatic clubs among the troops in Canada this year? Can it be, as stated by Sir Thomas Beecham, that "drama is dead" and that only the movies and radio now satisfy the masses? In the last war many of the troops who wintered in Can- ada formed their dramatic clubs and gave creditable productions ot both comedy drama and even some of the "shockers." In that they were following British military tra- dition. From the very first days of the British garrisons in Quebec and Montreal there were weekly theatri- cal performances by the garrison players, some of the shows running two or three nights. Seventy years agc tonight (Dec. 16, 1870) the men of the Ontario and Quebec Rifles in garrison at Fort Garry produced the first of a series of plays which enlivened that long winter. It was "a thrilling melcdrama in seven acts and 16 scenes," and the recorder asserts that the performances lasted well after midnight. i The annals of Windsor, London, Toronto, Kingston, Cobourg and Ottawa could supply much data about military theatricals. They produced two or three actresses who were later stars of the American stage, for, of course, the "society girls" had to share the thespian honors with the officers, Nct a few happy marriages resulted from these military theatricals, We have a long winter ahead and I am sure that if search be made plenty of talent can %e found in the present Canadian army to give us some 'serious stuff" and thus relieve us from the taunt that all the boys want now are girl shows, sing-songs and cheap dances. Somehow as both a former militia- man and once embryo acior, I feel that this is not fair, and that we may soon see a start upon '"gar- rison theatricals" all over Canada, with something worth seeing and listening to, without going to the length of the five-hour perfor- mances of "The Child of Circum- stances" at Fort Garry 70 years ago. don, inevitably filter back to their own broken neighborhoods, she steadfastly insists she is going to tenements to the west end of Lon- stay "'ome," That Body Of Yours By James W, Barton, M.D, A STUDY OF PRISONERS If you had the opportunity to talk to a number of the inmates of a mental institution, you would find a large percentage who could and would talk with you quite sane- ly on many subjects. In fact it is true that the patients of mental institutions have as much brains as those of us outside. Why are they confined to these institutions or why do they enter these institutions of their own free will? They are in these mental institu- tions because they cannot live or behave in a normal manner in their homes, places of employment, or with the public generally, The treatment of mental cases today is the quiet persistent study of why these individuals have such ideas, such behavior symptoms and the showing to them of how these ideas came into their minds and how to get rid of them. Today, 'just as these mental patients are studied to find out why they have such behavior ideas, 50 is there a feeling that prisoners in reformatories, jails, and peniten- tiaries should be likewise studied and investigated so that the cause, the underlying ideas in their mind that drives them to commit crimes may be found. In other words, these individuals may be criminals but in many cases they are really patients who need treatment. The Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania has recommended the formation of an organization made up of the members of the Philadelphia County Medical Society and the Philadelphia Bar (law) As- sociation, to study prisoners right in the prisons and jails. An editor- ial in the American Medical Assoc- fation Journal states that this Joint medicolegal committee recognizes the need for education of physicians studying the criminal, as well as the restoring of the criminal to civil life again. The committee's plan inceades, (a) the creation of fellowships which enables physicians or medical students to devote their whole time for a certain period to the study of criminology, (b) the use of jails and penitentiaries to study prison- ers, and (c), tying up these fellow- ships to some institution of learning which will give this study the dig- nity it deserves. It Is not hard to see that not only will prisoners be helped, but there will develop a better under- standing between physicians and lawyers when a case is being tried in the court room. GUARD AGAINST TYPHOID Southampton--(CP) -- Clinics at which people can be inoculated against typhoid as the result of bomb-damaged water services, have been started in Southampton, TUBE RAILWAY'S JUBILEE London. (CP)--The world's first tube railway and Great Britain's first electrified railway, which has just passed its 50th birthday, still operates today as part of the vast underground network of the Lon- don Passenger Transport Board. The original line, known as the City and South London Railway, constructed in 1890 ran from King William St. in the City of London to Stockwell. FRENGH CANADA. SOLIDLY BACKING NATION'S EFFORT Madame Casgrain Feels Country's Unity Never Greater Than Today Montreal, Dec. 16.--Canadians of French origin are "unanimously behind their Government in these times of labor and sacrifice," Mme, Pierre Casgrain, wife of the Secre- tary of State for Canada, declared in a broadcast address last night. "My people are loyal to Canada," Mme. Casgrain said, "but they wish to maintain their racial integrity in the political setup of Confedera- tion." : Mme, Casgrain, one of the best- known leaders of women's activities in Quebec, spoke in the "Let's Face the Facts" series. "In a country like ours where two great nationalities live togeth- er it sometimes takes & crisis to revive a spirit of sincere co-opera- tion, and to silence the voice of racial sectionalism," she said. "I am happy to say that Canada has never been more united than che is today in the midst of our war effort. Still Admire France "For the English-speaking Canae dian, England is a spiritual metro- polis. We French-Canadians un- derstand and respect this irresist- ible sympathy on their part for the country of Shakespeare, Byron and Shelley. "We ourselves admire England as one of the greatest nations of the world. Tn return we expect our fel low Canadians to understand our love and admiration for the land of our ancestors, unhappy France, abd to realize that we ourselves suffer from her wounds. "Only an observance of mutual understanding will keep intact the solidarity of the Canadian people. The spirit of co-operation between different nationalities is one of the ideals of democracy we have been too inclined to forget in the past. "By applying now, in Canada we will work together in perfect hare mony toward one ultimate goal-- winning the war. Recognize Shortcomings "The war has forced democracies to undertake a more lucid analysis of their own weaknesses. Only the timid or the blind may be shocked by this frank--if tardy--admission cf negligence by democracies of the world," said Madame Casgrain. "The greatest error of all would be to condemn democracy on these grounds, Democracy has not falled as a form of government. Basically, it is neither obsclete nor inade- quate in relation to our present needs. It has not proved inferior to the dictatorial concept of the State. "The simbla truth is that we have failed democracy. While en- jcying all individual, social and na- tional liberties we forgot a principle cld as the world itself--no privilege is without a duty, no authority without an obligation, no freedom without a responsibility. "It is for us to see that a distort ed picture of political freedom is not permitted to obliterate from our hearts the jdeals of true democ- racy." Inside, outside, light up the home this Christmas with cheerful, colorful, pre- tested Edison Mazda Lamps. They give better light and stay brighter longer. 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