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5 YE Paul uur THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929 Ee @shawa Baily Times : Succeeding + # THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER An independent newspaper published every noon except Sundays and legal holidays, at Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Printing Co 3 Limited; Chas, M, Mundy, President; A. Alloway, Secretary, The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Canae dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As. sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dallies and the ; Audit Bureau of Circulations, ! wUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered carrier; 30c o week. By mall (out side by carrier delivery limits): In the Counties of Ontario, Durham end Nofthumber. , land, $8.00 a year; elsewhere in Canads, $4.00 # year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICR 407 Bond Building, 64 Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaido 0107, H. D, Tresidder, repre. sentative, REPRESENTATIVES IN U.8. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929 ---TEES THE ENIGMA OF CHINA For ages the Western World has been ask- ing "Why is it that China has outlasted so many other nations and civilizations?" So many solid reasons for China's stability have been adduced that in the end the matter ap- pears extremely simple, The geographical position of China, the fertility of her soil and the intensive agri- cultural methods employed have been her strength. Furthermore, the equality in the distribution of wealth--due to the influence of the family on the ownership of land, to household industry and to the close union between employer and artisan--has relieved the country's social organization from many of the*perplexities that have vexed Europe. Since Shih Huang Ti about 250 B.C, or- dered all books in the Chinese empire to be burned except those dealing with divination, medicine 'and agriculture there has been no agrarian problem, no class war, not a-single religious war in China; instead, there has been a vast number of persons on a dead le- vel of mediocrity lulled into contentment by 'Confucian ethics and ruled by the heads of the families--that is to say, by conservative old men to whose interest it was to preserve the prevailing state of affairs. NUMERICAL EQUALITY Tradition would back up the statement in a" Dublin dispatch that Ireland is an ideal country for women, but not for the specific reason adduced by the correspondent. . Quoting rather hastily from a government report, the ditspatch declared that in the Irish Free State, according to the latest cen- sus, there are 1,465,103 females to 2,971,992 males. The figure cited for the male popula- tion was really the total population. The correct male population would be 1,506,889, and the excess of men over women about 40,000. - Were is true, as erroneously stated, that women in the Irish Free State are outnum- ' bered more than two to one by men, Irish . women would be enjoying an ascendency the . world has never known. Instead of entering 'the professions and trades, women would be exclusively wives and homemakers, with two suitors for every woman to choose from. Everywhere and at all times nature has seen to it that boys and girls are born equal- ly, numerically. Where a disparity arises, 2s notably in England, where the 1921 cen- sus showed 2,000,000 more females than males, it is due to heavy emigration and war. A BAFFLING SCOURGE . With every recurrence of influenza in epi- demic form the medical profession redoubles its efforts to discover the cause of and pre- " wentive for the disease. It is doing this now, but it is frankly without much hope of suc- cess. , - Influenza still remains one of the few enig- mas of medical science. It is 2 profound my- stery, defying solution. Whether its origin is related to electrical influences, as Noah Webster believed, or to sun spots, as 2 Rus- sian investigator recently suggested, or to the so-called Pfeiffer's bacillus, there is mo definite proof for any theory so far propound- od. ; While the specific cause of the disease re- mains unknown, its history has been analy- zed until it is now possible to forecast the 'modus operandi of an epidemic with some } degree of certainty. It has been determined that the disease appears periodically, and runs its course in two or three cycles, So health authorities and the public can, to a degree, take preventive measures. Through the epidemics of 1918 and 1919 and the present epidemic the public has ac- quired enough respect for the' virulence of the disease to make a serious effort to avoid it, This in itself is a potent weapon against the scourge, for nothing so spreads disease as public carelessness and indifference in time of real danger of epidemic. «» FORGOTTEN TRADES The village smithy no longer stands "under a spreading chestnut tree;" the gar- age has taken its place; and the blacksmiths of today are so few that when one of them passes away it is a matter for comment, But horse-shoeing is not the only pictur- esque occupation that has disappeared or is disappearing, In these days of machin- ery, few now make shoes by hand, although the "shoemaker" is still applied to cobblers who only mend them, The country has no '"cradlemaker," nor the town a cooper who makes barrels by hand, though the word still persists as a surname. These sur- names offer a most convenient method of recalling forgotten trades, Who would guess that Thacker or Thackeray was the man who thatched the roof with straw; that Tyler was the one who tiled it, or Slater, he who roofed with slate? A few other names, as Collier, the charcoal burner; Chandler, the candlemaker, and Fuller the cloth cleaner, will show how numerous were the ancient crafts. Blacksmith has no equiv- alent among English family names, unless it be the abbreviated Smith, though, in Ger- man, there is Klingensmith, the "clanging smith." But the horseshoer was a Farrier, dropped in our dictionaries but retained in the directories, But with the passing of thé old, new crafts are finding a place. Beside mechanics we now have mechanicians and beside under- takers, morticians, Modern life is more complex than that of the past and calls for specialists, THE MODERN ATLAS Atlas no longer supports the civilized world, Rather, the burden rests upon the supple shoulders of a flexible-muscled young giant; a tawny-haired, swiftly-moving youth known as Electricity. He stands with feet firmly planted at the opposite poles while coursing through his body, from negative to positive, flows the greatest force known to mankind today. Some call it white coal; some call it a natural phenomenon; others call it indefin- able force, . Call it what one will, it is the thing today which hurls voices and music around the world; which turns the motors of the indus- tries throughout this Dominion; pulls long trains of cars laden with human freight and valuable merchandise; lights the greatest city and the smallest hamlet. It is the thing which is taking drudgery out of the housewife's daily tasks. It is the thing which enables science to see the in- side of the human body. It is the power which courses through the veins of the world today, every bit as necessary as the red blood which flows through the circula- tory system of the human body. No one catastrophe could befall the world today which would be more paralyzing or "more devastating in its effect than the sud- den loss of the natural phenomenon called electricity. Man can hardly conceive of modern civilization continuing without this benevolent force. EDITORIAL NOTES Those not on the level are undermining so- At times you enjoy beautiful things, and at others there is a guide along to explain them. French are building houses with straw. Peasants who live in straw houses should not keep cows. Notwithstanding the fact that half the world doesn't know how the other half lives it doesn't want to live that way. It is the blowhard who usually gets the harpoon. The whale would be all right if it didn't come up to spout. A grand scheme is now projected for the beautification of Essex County, from Stony Point on Lake St. Clair to Wheatley on Lake Erie. Twenty-six cifies, towns and town- ships are co-operating in the scheme, for which the approval of the Dominion Parlia- ment will be asked shortly. By James W. Barton, M.D. THE MUSCULAR POWER OF STOMACH IMPORTANT In my student days at medical col. legg the whole thought in a test meal was the way the stomach was secret: ing or manufacturing the digestive or gastric juice, Accordingly a test meal was glyen which varied somewhat with the re- search man, The Leube meal was a plate of soup, beefsteak, a roll, and a glass of water, Six or seven hours afterwards any of this meal that was left was removed by the stomach tube. Rigel's meal was a good half pint of beef broth, a third of a pound of peclateak, some mashed potato and a roll, ! ; The Ewald test breakfast consists of 1% slices of stale bread, and 1% glasses of water, The stomach con: tents are then removed at the end of fifty or sixty minutes; sometimes at the end of two hours. These meals were given and re. moved to give an idea of how far digestion had progressed by the ac- tion of the gastric or digestive juice of the stomach, However our stomach specialists nowadays are more concerned with the ability of the stomach walls to churn up its contents, In other words the actual muscle power of the stomach is considered the most important factor about the stomach, One of the simplest tests for the muscular or motor power of the stomach, showing its ability to get its contents out of the stomach into intestine, is to give the patient a handful of seedless raisins or a sau- cer of stewed prunes twelve hours before the test breakfast (say at o'clock the evening before), The test breakfast is then given, If when it is removed, in say 50 minutes to 2 hours afterward, there is some of the raisins or prunes in what is re- moved frem the stamach then there is something disturbing the motor power of the stomach; something is Wrong. Now while that "something wrong" may be due to stomach or intestinal ulcer, in the majority of cases it is due to a sluggish liver and consti- pation. In other words lack of exer- cise is the big factor in "slowing up" the action of the stomach, You will remember the simple ex- ercise of bending the body from side to side with knees straight, or any bending exercises with knees straight. Exercise makes your stomach do its best possible work. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act) HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SUFFERS FIRE 1058 Blaze Does $750 000 Dam- age to New Sound- Film Stage Hollywood, Calif., Jan. 19.--8ix firemen and four studio employes were injured, when fire destroyed a new $750,000 sound-film stage at the Paramount-Famous Players- Lasky studio here this week. Fireman William A. Catlin, 38, was in a critical condition at a hos- pital here. Physicians sald he may not recover. Catlin suffered con- cussion of the brain and broken ribs when an explosion padded walls of the stage hurled him from a 60-foot ladder. One fireman suffered several in the felt-| GREAT OUTBURST BUYING NICKEL "MARKET IS WILD More Than Three-quarters " of a Million Shares Are Traded in Toronto, Jan, 19.--New York, Montreal and Toronto stock mar- kets witnessed yesterday the most spec.acular movement that has yet taken place in the new Interna. tional Nickel, More than three- quagters of a million shares changed hands, for the broadest gain in any one day since the new stock was listed, The total turnover of shares was 789,970; the gain as recorded in New York was 7% points per share, or on the 13,768,268 shares of common stock an appreciation of $104,006,116--more than a hundred million dollars increase in value in one day, Assets Based upon the high of 64% reached yesterday ,the assets of the company have a total valua- tio not $890,845,405, which ex- ceeds the total assets of some of Canada's largest banks and is only exceeded by one, For instance, the total assets of the Bank of Mont. real, according to its last annual report, ,as at October 31, 1928, amoun.ed to $873,782,623.62, and those of the Royal Bank $909, 896,884.71. In Toronto On the Toronto Stock Exchange the turnover was 126,456 shares the range being as follows: Open, 69%; high, 64%; low, 59; close 64%; net change plus 6%; high for year, 64% low for year, 47. The turnover on the Standard Stock and Mining Exchange was 64,600. In Montreal the market went wild with a turnover of 217, 426, In New York 381,500 shares changed hands, Transactions in Mond were com- paratively light, amounting to only 5,745 shares on the Toront» Stock Exchange, and 5,810 shares on the Standard Mining Exchange. The stock fo.lowed the trend of Internhtional, opening at 55, at- taining a new high of 62, and closing at 61, a net gain of 6 points, The limited amount of tracing was undoubtedly due to the fac. that yesterday was the last day for depositing certificates in connection with the merger ofier, and all dealings were for cash, The striking bulge in trading in International Nickel fol.owed the arrival of Vice-President J. L, Agnew in New York with samples of copper ore recently taken from the Frood Mine, where discovery of very rich ore had been reported, ALLEGE DEATH DU T0 TWILIGHT SLEEP Two Women Officials of | Girls' Home Face Grave Charge Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 19.-- Two women officials of the Girls' Welfare home here, alleged to have caused the death of Helen Haskew, aged 18, by - starvation and "Twilight Sleep" injections will be charged with manslaugh- | ter, A coroner's verdict that the Haskew girl died from the effects broken ribs when struck by a plank. Two others were overcome by smoke, cne was burned and a sixth sustained a broken leg. Four studio employes were in- jured. Two were overcome by smoke and were removed to hos- pitals. Two others suffered brok- en bones. The fire, one of the most spec tacular in Hollywood's history, broke out early in the night. Six companies battled the flames ror nearly four hours before it was brought under control. In a statement issued by the studio, Jesse L. Lasky placea wae damage at $400,000 covered by insurance. He announced that productions which were to Lave been started in the new building Monday after installation of eguip- ment would be transferred to oth- er stages. A celebration was to have been held on the mew stage Saturday nizht for officials and stars of the studio, Lasky said. A throng of 50,000 watched the conflagration. ee ---- UNSPEAKABLE BRUTALITY (New York Evening World) Murder in the first degree with- Su recommendation of merey, such 8 e verdict of a Jersey City jury against the Polish wagrant who kidnapped Joseph Storelli of this city and then the poor little fellow in the coldest possible blood. No other verdict is think- THE INTEGRITY The' Lord liveth, in truth, in judg- ment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless tf es in him, and in him shall they glory.--Jere- miah 4:2. PRAYER--"Give to God immontal praise; Mercy and truth are all His ways. of mistreatment, wi. form .toe basis of charges by District At- | torney Eugene Lujan against Miss Bertha Lips, superintendent, and Dr. Evelyn Frisbie, home physic- fan. Witnesses testified that the giri | was administered a three day diet of bread and water and "Twilight Sleep" injections as punishment for an attempt to escape from the fnstitution. Miss Haskew died Sun- day. Five girls . who escaped with Miss Haskew testified they also were given a bread and water die. and said the water given them con- tained so much saltpetre that it was undrinkable, Miss Haskew rebelled ONE KILLED AND MANY INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK (Continued from Page 1) minutes later of heart failure in a railway shanty, His brother, Hugh Sweeney, Dominion Immigration Agent here, was with him, Torrential rains that sent tor- rents pouring down the mountain- side and sweeping over the tracks, caused a washout of some 30 feet on the only part of the railway in this section that is not'laid on solid rock, The fireman met instant death under the engine, The engineer escaped with two broken legs, Bag- gagemen and expressmen escaped, though the baggage car was broken in two, and helped to hold the ex- press car and following smoker from crashing down the mountain, Pullmans on Track All the Pullman cars stayed on the track although some of the passengers in them were injurey. In the pitch blackness with the rain pouring dawn, rescuers fought a gallant battle to attend the fn- jured, For a few minutes the wild- est confusion reigned. It was believed for a time that the death toll was heavy, It was thought thec ars had pitched the full length of the mountain drop. It was reported that one passenger coach was submerged in a January flood at the base of the mountain. Officials of the Toronto, Hamil ton and Buffalo Rallway notified Hamilton hospitals to prepare for scores of injured. . All medica] as- sistance in the district was mobil- ized, Powerless to Aid Within sight of the wreck, al- most within hearing of the groans of the Injured and the screams of thef richtened res'dents of the vil- powerless to aid. edge of the mountain, a mile awuy, rails, following the crash of the wreck, Then lanterns move down the slope, Between the village wheck the mountain presented an impassable obstacle on a stormy nizht, Grimsby firemen with ropes ana Indders speeded 10 miles over flond- ed hichway to bring ald but founa, like the villarers, that the moun- tain barred their progress. could only wait and wateh, imag. 'ng from what they saw a disaster of magnitude, At Fruitland. the crowd grew to hundreds standing fn th- torrential rain, Rallway eeirch liches prav- »d on the scene ahove, They could ~atch glimpses of escaning steam. Nature's Obstacles Nature's obstacles, which kept the crowd a mile away, hamp red the work of rescue. Winona, who scrambled up a less stecp portion of the escarpment and walked along the tracks, told thas it was almost impossible to realize that gnyone in the derailea wars had escaped. With other doctors brought bv clectriz battery cars from Hamil- ton, he scrambled down the em- bankment to reah the injured and in the rain and darkness render what first aid was poss'ble. Col. G. Rennie, chief of the med- ical service of the rallway, said 'hat it was impossible to describe the scene. was po panic, he said. Entirely Unnrecedented George C. Mertin, General Traf- fic Manager, said that the situation was entirely unprecedented. Like the others. he found ft hard to tively light. lage of Fruitland found themselves | High up on the they could see coaches stil] on the | | and the They | Dr, Steele, of | It was a tribute to rail, | waymen and passen~ers that there realize that the toll was compars- | A.L. HUDSON & CoO. CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE WINNIPEG GRAIN EXCHANGE STANDARD STOCK and MINING EXCHANGE NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE (Ass'te) o : DIRECT PRIVATE SORONTO, ONT. WIRE. CONNECTIONS h, UNITED STATES 11 KING ST. WEST, TORONTO TELEPHONE: ELGIN 1104 GUELPH DOCTORS REMOVE utes after its exact location was COIN FROM THROAT OF LAD | determined by means of the X-ray, Guelph, Jan. 19.~--Performing 8 | This afternoon he was able to delicate operation on Bruce Feet, | leave the institution little the worse three-year-old Palmerston boy, | for his experience. Guelph doctors were successful in | ci ------------------ removing a copper from the throat WHAT AILS IT of the patient, Rushed to the; Scientists now think the earth General hospital shortly after his is fully a billion years old--double mother discovered that he had [the former estimate, This is pretty | swallowed the coin, the little chap | old, so probably what aus it is sec- jwas given relief within a few min- |ond childhood, = hi ad aod Office: Retord Bulding 8. F. EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshaws -- Above C.P.R. Office Phones 143 and 144 Dominion and Provincial Government Bonds Municipal Bonds Public Utility and Industrial Financing Foreign Issues Quoted i mm---- 1| Dominion SeEcuRITIES CORPORATION LIMITED WINNIPEG VANCOUVER Established 1901 E R. Wood, President Head Offices TORONTO, 26 King 52. E PA REE Bonin pop -------- MONTREAL LONDON, ENG, LIMITED. Months Operating against the diet, they tes.ified, and the superintendent and home doctor administered "Twilight Sleep" to quiet her. She died 18 hours later. DRURY MAY SEEK COMMONS SEAT] Ottawa, Jan. 19.--E. C. Drury, Standard Royalties Limited Hereunder is a detailed report of the shares sold and the actual income re- ceived for the first Ten Months of the operations of STANDARD ROYALTIES Preferred Shares Issued Report January 1st., 1929 Monthly Surplus $ 9434.81 10,515.78 10,926.75 12,575.83 , 13,319.86 19,922.86 19 031.14 22 268.83 25,938.01 9,859.51 40,140.49 Dividends 19 Monthly $ 2,226.50 2,584.20 3,142.50 4,136.74 4,682.65 5,326.02 7,041.42 8,533.77 9,312.71 Actual Monthly Income Received $ 11,661.31 13,099.98 14,069.25 16,712.57 18.002.51 25,248.88 26,073.56 30,822.60 35,250.72 50,000.00 In $2,410.00 on account of The Company's share of Oil and Gas produced an Income of $50,000.00 dur- giving a of 15 of 1% a month on the issued Capital is being deposited The Imperial Trusts Company of Canada, as provided in the Charter. The 2-3 Surplus Profits Invested and to be Reinvested in New Royalties amount ing December, thereby Sinking Fund regularly with to $101,000.00. The remaining 1-3 Surplus Profits (earmarked by the Charter for Dividends on Common Stock) and deposited in January lst the Company had on hand for Investment in sum of $112,000.00. On A. the J. Jackson, addition to the above Income. the Company STANDARD ROYALTIES now own 98 Royalty Interests on 4.915 acres with 457 Producing Wells, giving an approximate production of 125,000 barrels of Oil per day and 20,000,000 feet of gas. : 180 New Wells are yet to be drilled on the Leases upon which the Company own $56,866.02 $184,075.36 received during December Deferred Payments and Oil in Storage. $240,941.38 substantial increase over the previous month. the Bank, now amounts to $49,677.95: New Producing J. M. C. Hom, Secretary All shaves of Standard Royalties Limited have been subscribed for, and mo further stock available for subscription. ' information will be mow being furnished on request on the New Oil Royalty Company which MID-CONTINENT BOND CORP.