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\ 3 f The thi PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1940 The. Oshawa D: Daily Times \ DAILY REFORMER in Canada (outside Oshawa ) $1.25 for three months, & © "(Established 1871) As mdependent newspaper published every week- 'day afternoon except Saturday at Oshawa, Cane _by The Times Publishing Co. of Oshawa, nited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres.; A. R. Alloway. Managing Director. The Oshawa Dally Times is a member of the _ Canadian Daily 'Newspapers Association the On- + dario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs 2bc for two weeks: $3.25 for six months, or $6.50 per year if paid tn advance. . TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1940 A Christmas Message It is always darkest just before the dawn and the first Christmas was ushered in when humanity was in its sorest straits. Palestine. was in the Roman grip and a group of men shepherding on the Bethle- hem hills watched their flocks by night. They needed to be watchful too for at any moment they were in danger of an over- whelming attack from gangs of desperate marauding bands for whom death itself held no terrors. Night after night the shepherds had looked in vain to the neigh- bburing hills from which no help had come. A Prince had been promised who would redeem His enslaved people. But man's extremity is God's opportunity. : Now a herald tells of relief from a most surprising quarter. It did not come with ablare of trumpets from the quarter where they had looked so long in vain for their help. It burst out suddenly over their heads i#f a most unexpected manner. The heavens were opened and a mighty host appeared; and 'one of the Heavenly visitants, more impressive than the rest, came and an- netinced in no.unmistakable terms: "Fear net, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people" and the mighty host then burst out in triumph- ant song: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill to all men." Moday that song is being proclaimed to hiimans weighed down by depression, wars and rumors of wars who fail to hear its reassuring message. Groups of people eperywhere are vainly looking to the hills for help but no help seems to come. There ig only one direction from whence it can come, not around. us, but above us again comes the encouraging message, "fear not". The shepherds when they heard the an- nouncement went to the place where the young Child was born. They found the Holy Family and at the same time the con- fidence of the nation was restored in them. "Once more the message comes not to the rich and powerful but even to the poorest among us whose heart is attuned to receive the message. It comes at a most opportune moment. It means much to the discouraged and burdened, to those who have no helper who have reached the limit of their re- sources and bowed down with a load of care. It promises to turn their sorrow into joy. It bids them lose the fear of man and material things and to replace that fear with a fear for the Eternal, for the more fear and confidence you repose in Him, * the less you will be dismayed for it wi'l be . discovered that "The fear of God is the || beginning of wisdom." For Safety in Driving In a recent bulletin of the Industrial Accident - Prevention Association there were given four rules for safe driving, which, if widely observed, would substan- tially reduce the highway casualties. The idea underlying the rules is to suspect all | other drivers of being reckless. Such an assumption makes for safe driving, as it | eliminates the taking of chances which so often prove fatal. The first rule is to maintain an area of safety in front, behind and on both sides of your car. Too often accidents are caused by drivers neglecting to leave a margin of safety between their own and other cars. The result is that they haven't sufficient space in which to manoeuvre to avoid a crash. 4 . The second rulefis to forget about who has the legal righit-of-way and do the com- monsense thing by keeping out of the way 'of the otherfellow. Frequently, collisions have occuryéd because some drivers have been nettlddl into disputing the habit of other nervy drivers in hogging the road. Ordinarily Jgourteous, they object to the discourtesyl of others, and endeavor to teach them lesson in manners, sometimes with disagiifous results. f rule 18 'to adjust your driving speed to met conditions of road, general traffic and visibility. Surely the need for doing this must be apparent to all, even the most obtuse. Driving, to be safe, must be governed by conditions of weather and road. The fourth rule is to assume that the other driver knows little about traffic laws and that the pedestrian may be deaf or - blind or perhaps just "dumb." This means that the careful driver will put the whole onus for avoiding accidents on himself. He will always drive with extra care, assum- ing that the other drivers and the pedes- trians are careless. Geographies Being Used Those who are following the daily events on the war fronts and the movements of the troops are turning to their geographies and listening to radio broadcasts to secure the location, spelling and pronunciation of place names prominent in the news these days. The Brantford Expositor in a recent editorial says this war is certainly giving people unusual exercises in geography, pronunciation and spelling. For recent ex- amples, take the cases of Sollum and Bug- bug, points along the north African shore. Sollum appears variously as "Salim", "Soloom," and "Zalum," while Bugbug transforms itself on occasions into "Bug- buq," and "Bagbag.'"' Then there is Argyro- kastron, which seems to take just as eas- ily to "Argirocastro." This is all rather reminiscent of the somewhat accentric but still understand- able spelling standards adopted by the late famous Lawrence of Arabia. In his monu- mental literary work, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," he nearly drove publishers and proof-readers alike to distraction by spell- ing one word as many as half a dozen dif- ferent ways in a single chapter. When the printers remonstrated and pointed to the inconsistencies, Lawrence replied with a note to the effect that he considered he had been quite ingenius to devise so many forms . On another occasion he retorted that it was "all the same place, anyway." Since in the instances now current, "it is all the same place, anyway," perhaps the best method would be to adopt a phoretic spelling as nearly equivalent to the native pronunciation as possible. This would get rid of a lot of confusion, such as ensued, for instance, during the Polish campaign, when the town spelled in English news- papers as "Lodz" turned out to be called "Wootch." ----1 Editorial Notes There is now work for everybody fitted to engage in positions needing skilled la- bor. Some who have gone into retirement -are now in demand in certain industries. Some of the Canadian veterans of the former war who were prisoners of Ger- many are not to be found amongst the ad- vocates of too kind treatment being meted out to Nazi prisoners now in our midst. If Hitler thinks he can keep Ireland neu- tral by dropping an occasional bomb over there, he will soon find out that the Irish- men have a temper. And when they start to fight they are just as tenacious as the Englishman. The Vichy government has abolished elections in all centres of more than 2,000 population, which shows how far Petain has already travelled in establishing a dic- tatorship and wiping out the rights of a free people. A list of the most popular Christmas books in Germany has recently been com- piled. It includes such titles as "With Hit- ler on the Western Front," "Hitler at "Home," "Hitler in the Mountains," "The Hitler Nobody Knows." We could add a few more which ought to be popular a few vears from now, such as "With Hitler in St. Helena," "Hitler at Home in Jail," "Hit- ler in the Bottom of the Ocean," and "The Hitler Nobody Wants to Know.""--St. . Catharines Standard. A Bit of Verse * STOUT HEARTS AND MERRY FACES . God keep ye, good sires, good dames, Give you stout hearts and merry faces, Defend your hearts, keep British name Intact on long-loved British places; Strengthen this new-born brotherhood, Child of a common stress and sorrow, Purge men of evil, make us good To build a grand and great tomorrow, With honor reigning--not till then God rest ye merry, gentlemen! --ANNE SUTHERLAND BROOKS. A Bible Thought for Today IT IS SNOBBERY TO DESPISE HUMBLE BE-, GINNINGS: Who hath despised the day of small things.--Zecaariah 4:10, [TT oe PROMINENT*NIGHT SPOT" ¥ ZN --- To All Our Customers and Friends We Extend A Very Merry Christmas SAM H. JACKSON 84 Athol Street East Phone 280 RRB D I PMERRITRIANK ~N After All Has Been Said . . . . » . after all your friends and neighbors have expressed their wishes for this gay season of the year, we hope you will remember that we, too, extend a sincere wish that you may have a very Merry Christmas. Irwin Auto Parts ALEXANDER BLVD PHONE 1094 4 London In War Time Christmas Wares in London Shops Show Little | A picture of the way in which Londoners carry -on under Hitler's bombardment from the sky is given in the following story, one of a series, by Milo Thompson. By MILO THOMPSON (Associated Press Staff Writer) New York, Dec. 4 (AP)--The ad- vertisement headline "Salvage Sale --You Know Why" in a London newspaper means somebody's store has had a bomb visit, but the cen- sors are not yet permitting that bombing to be advertised publicly. If you find it strange that people should be flocking toward the scene of a bombing carrying shopping sf bags, not running away from it car- rying mattresses and the family valuables, there are ten thousand things which would surprise you in London. Right now there are Christmas shopping crowds in Oxford street, Regent Quadrant, Knight's Bridge and Kensington High Street. And the show windows have the same "Santa's coming" look that you will find on any main street in North America. To be sure, there's this difference: Sometimes you have to move up to a little three-hy-five window to get the benefit of the full display, for much of the large plate glass is gone, On the other hand, plenty of it is left, and attention is still paid to trick moving displays and to lighting effects which do their stuff right up to blackout time. You might expect to find inside the stores mostly the warming ap- pliances and shelter conveniences which have been so greatly in de- mand during months of attack. If so you will be amazed to see that delicately wrought Sheffield silver still glistens under the electric lights, that jewellery displays are as alluring and colorful as ever and that pottery, china and glassware in new shapes and colors spreads over whole departments. There is no outward appearance of scarcity in the plece goods. and ready-to-wear departments. It Is cnly when you seek a particular pat- tern or run into clothing materials cheapened by the rationing of wool and silk at the factories that you feel the effect of war, But there are plenty of alternate weaves and patterns and there is still a lot of prewar fabric on the market. Perhaps it should be noted here that the production of cheapened fabrics does not extend to the export trade, The home, folks are accepting less wool to the yard so that quality can be kept up for sale abroad to win the. dollars and other foreign currencies which in turn will help win the war, One thing which interests me greatly is the way the sports goods departments keep going. Whether you want, a set of golf clubs, a bil- liard table, a soccer football, shiny new cricket wickets, a tournament chery target or a canvas Canoe for the Thames, 1t is all spread out be- fore you. And I have seen no Very notice- able change in the art materials de- partments. You can buy a sketch- ing chair complete With easel as easily as you can buy an extra blan- ket to use in your ¢ shelter, They are still making and selling the elaborate hand-carved frames for your finished picture, refusing in the British manner to use plaster and composition substitutes, You might think the recurrent croquet set: of selected woods, an ar- Change Under Air War. rain of fragments out of doors would discourage the sale of garden fur- niture, but you would be mistaken. You can get teakwood benches and tables made from old ship's wood as you always could, along with bird baths, stone gnomes, fountains and prefabricated rose arbors. All of England is not in the bomb- torn areas and gardens are as much loved as ever, even in London. The rose which withstands months of bombing is valued more than ever. The departments devoted to knit- ting wools are larger than usual and just as colorful, though prices are higher. Yarn supplies are -' ed among the stores only salter enough is laid aside for the service: departments. Knitting goes on everywhere and Sister Susie still sews socks for soldiers notwithstanding she may live in the frontline trenches of this war while the soldiers are in peace- ful rural areas. She also knits shel- terwear for herself, in between the socks, scarves and Balaclava hel- mets, I suppose it seems shocking to some that a London woman should be in a pet shop seeking a showy toy for her pekinese while, several blocks away, in a 'rubbish pile that was yesterday a sturdy bullding, grim ARP. workers and army en- gineers seek for bodies of the dead. But it is all part of the stubborn determination to carry on as usual and let Hitler terrorism upset no more of the usual procedures than is necessary. No good would be served by the woman with the Peke getting in the way of the methodical work- ers, wringing her hands and becom- ing a nervous wreck, and she'll pro- bably be doing her stint in a'can- teen, driving an official car or re- porting to her first aid post or am- bulance station by night. That Body Of Yours By James W, Barton, M.D. WOMAN'S BLOOD IS AS WARM AS MAN'S Heating engineers state that the "double standard" of temperatude for men and women complicates the problem of the engineer and increases the expense of heating and cooling office buildings. When a man and woman engage in a game of bridge at home or at the home of a friend, either the woman is comfortable and the man uncomfortably hot, or the woman feels "chilly" and throws some- thing over her shoulders and the man is quite comfortable. It is this difference in what men and women call comfort that has led many to believe that women are not so warm blooded as men. Is this true? An editorial in the American Medical Association Jour- nal states that women prefer high- er temperatures than men not so much' because of any difference in constitution as for the clothing they wear. Thus experience showed that the temperature of the skin of women under ordinary. ecircum- stances in a room of 71.5 Fahren- heit and 30 percent humidity, with the movement of the alr in the room 20 feet per minute was 2 de- grees lower than that of men. The feet and hands of women averaged 5 degrees cooler than the men's while the trunk was only half a degree cooler than men's. When 1 most of the men in a room were { comfortable, the women generally were cold. To make the women comfortable the room temperature | | had to be raised to 76 F., then the | men began to complain. When the men and women were dressed alike they were comfortable at about the same temperature, "Men were dress sed summer clothing: then manded a temp grees, whicl | preferred by wv ed. Women we winter clothes; able air temperatur down to 70.5, or a degree lower than that preferred by the men wearing the game clothes. In almost all in- stances both men and women were comfortable when the temperature of their skin was from 91.5 to 93 F., they for them went room, the amount of clothing, and | the season of the year.' ed out by the edjtorial, is that- if of men, stead of 76 degrees. lars in summer, buildings would not have to be cooled below 85 degrees instead of 76 to 80. NO DRESSING Brisbane, Australia -- Supreme Court on the bench ROOM Justis> aprvared improperly saying he had been unable to find a room vacant in the courthouse where he could don wig and gown. The Red Wings meet the first- place Toronto Maple Leafs here Christmas night. in women's de- en the comfort | regardless of the temperature of the | The lesson from the above, point- women would dress in winter in | clothes similar in' warmth to those | they would be comfortable | in a temperature of 70 degrees in- | If men would | take off their coats, vests, and col- | (CP) -- A! attired | here and apologized to the public, | A To All Our | CUSTOMERS FRIENDS! Cliy FUELS, 5 15 QUEEN STREET PEERY For joyous days and happy hearts, we wish you and your family A Merry Christmas CCOK MOTOR SAL Plymouth e Chrysler eo Fargo NEW ADDRESS 139 KING WEST PHONE