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» . PAGE FOUR oh Las Sa poy Ta eat Gi BSE THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929 wld le ls - The Oshawa Baily Times ia ; Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An independent newspaper published every afternoon except Sundays and legal holidays, at Oshawa, Cansda, by Mundy Printing Company, Limited; Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Sec- retary. The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Cana. dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As- sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the « Audit Bureau of Circulations. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 10c 'a week. By: mail. (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits), in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumberland, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 66 Temp Street, Teleph Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative. REPRESENTATIVES IN U. S. 'Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929 WHEAT CROPS AND PRICES The Toronto Globe, in its editorial notes, has a fiote with reference to the fact that United States farmers are increasing their wheat acreage this year. In its comment on this, it says that this is doubt- less in appreciation of President Hoover's plan to make the crop profitable. At the same time, it is also announced that the wheat acreage in Canada will this year be increased by two million acres, 80 that, given favorable conditions, another record crop can be expected. These two facts, taken in conjunction with each 6ther, form an interesting study of the effect of the law of supply and demand on making agriculture profitable. No matter what 'President Hoover may be able to do to relieve the farmers, it is a certainty that he can do nothing to make wheat growing more profitable while the acreage in Canada ahd the Unit- ¢d States is being largely increased. President Hoover can do nothing towards fixing a wheat price for the erops of his country. The law of supply and demand in wheat is not national in its operation. It is mot different in one country from what it is in another. It is world- wide in its operation, and prices on this continent are based entirely on the price in the world's market, which has its centre #t Liverpool, England.' This law of supply and demand works in cycles. When prices are high, farmers grow more wheat, d the excessive supply makes prices come down. Then when the price is low, the farmers become dis- gruntled, 'and grow less, and up goes the price again. And so the cycle goes on. And it will ever continue to be thus, so. long as human nature remains as it is, 4nd neither President Hoover nor anyone else in an or the United States can make it any dif- ferent. TOWNSHIP SCHOOL BOARDS " Premier Ferguson is showing good judgment in Jetting his township school board bill remain in abeyance until such time as the people of Ontario are ready for it. There is still in the province a large body of public opinion strongly opposed to it, in spite of the educational campaigns which have been conducted since it was first mentioned. Per- haps it is a good hill, perhaps it is a mistake. But, in any event, the rural people of Ontario are so strongly divided on it that it would be a highly un- popular measure were it put into effect. There would seem to be considerable merit in its proposals, too. The premier's idea is that it would consolidate the school work of each township, and make for economy of administration and more effi- clency in teaching. But the people of the rural dis- tficts are strongly opposed to anything which savors of the centralization of authority. They have seen many affairs in which théy formerly had the decid- ing voice pass into the hands of the province, and they prefer to keep educational matters. in their own hands, as largely as the law will permit. Premier Ferguson is hopeful that the legislation will yet be passed. But it.is significant that he re- frains from passing it, although he has the power ta do so because of his overwhelming majority in the legislature. His caution is a sure sign that he is not convinced that the people of rural Ontario would give any measure-of support to a government which forced such a scheme on them. THE VETERAN AND FUTURE WARS Does the veteran of the last war look with favo: on the posibility of another great confliet?. This is a question which is often asked. The answer, if the statements of veteran organizations are to be believed, is a very decided negative. Only recently the Ontario' Provincial Command of the Canadian Legion passed a striking resolution which re-affirmed "in the mame of God and fallen comrades" that permanent peace was their major aim and objective and ealling on all branches to sub- scribe to the same doctrine. The Ontario Command further stated that it was behind the policy of goodwill between the nations as established through the efforts of the League of Nations, the Locarno Conference and the Pact of Paris. The memorial closes with these significant words, "Ini advancing this doctrine we propose to résenlist the manhood of the nation represented by our veterans in the nobler program of constructive citizenship and thus ensure the effective permanence of the Empire Service League." * » These service men and thousands of others in all parts of the world belicve that if all the ex- service men of the best type were banded together standing behind the statesmen, a way would be found to meet the first. waves of discord and bring continuous peace between the nations. The 'standpoint of Canada's veterans is but an- other indication of the truth that the finest soldier is always an advocate of peace, These men are de- termined that their children and their children's children will never have to face the horrors, filth and misery that were their lot in those terrible years 'from 1914 to 1918. MUSSOLINTI'S VICTORY Mussolini has won another overwhelming victory 'in the Italidn 'general election. He and his followers were returned to power by a majority of over 8,000, 000 votes to 136,000, surely enough to satisfy even the most grandiose dictator. It is interesting, however, to notice how he ac- complished it. He told the people plainly that they had to vote for him or suffer the consequences, and when Mussolini 'speaks in Italy he is obeyed. The penalties for disobedience are so drastic that it is surprising that even 136,000 people had the temerity to vote against him. Another factor in the election was the manner in which it was conducted. The people were not given alternative candidates for whom to vote. Mussolini presented his own ticket for the whole of the Italian parliament, and the people were told to vote for them in a block, by marking their ballots simply "Yes" or "No." The ticket could not be divided, and certain candidates favored and others rejected. It was a case of taking the whole slate or none of it, and since there were no alternative candidates for whom the people could vote, they naturally voted "Yes." 'Tha is quite an object lesson in how dictatorships are carried on. Such a system could not live for a moment in this country, where the people in the various districts demand and enjoy freedom of action in the selection of their representatives. But the fact that it has succeeded in Italy is an indication of the power that can be secured by a dictator when he pursues methods which will not brook opposition. A SERVANT OF THE FARMERS George Publow, the chief dairy instructor for East- ern Ontario, is retiring from active work after having "spent some S55 years as a dairyman, The dairy farm- ers of Eastern Ontario, and of a much wider area, will learn with regret of his decision, for in their ranks he was numbered as one of the outstanding leaders, and as a man who made a worthwhile con- tribution to. the progress of the dairy industry, The life-long effort of Mr. Publow has been to so raise the standards of Ontario cheese that it would rank with the best the world could produce. That he has remained in the industry long enough to see that ambition realized is vouched for by the recent report that Canadian cheese now tops the British cheese market for quality, and as a result, for price. The services of Mr. Publow in this connection are best known to the men who have been associated with him as dairymen, but it is not too much to say that he has for the last half century been a valu- able servant of the farmers of the province, in that he has striven, whole-heartedly, and with zeal to raise the standards of dairying and so make for the greater prosperity of the agricultural industry. EDITORIAL NOTES China is again in the throes of civil war. That is just another name for spring fever in the Orient. Those people who like to "say it with flowers" in sending Easter greetings can't afford to say very much. The government has started selling its weather reports. If it could guarantee their accuracy, then they would be worth something. The Montreal Star says that insanity is decreas- ing. Perhaps that is because some things that used to be considered crazy are now the height of fashion. Whitby thieves were tracked by the cigarettes they left behind them. Another argument has thus been supplied to the wife who insists on her husband smoking a pipe. The New York Telegram says that seven seconds is the average time a train takes to go over a crossing. 'The Telegram apparently never timed the trains on the Simcoe Street south crossing. « Other Editors' Comment ~ ON THE DOTTED LINE , (Detroit News) Then there is the case of the fellow with no sales resistance, who ran into a lot of dotted lines in a French novel and absent-mindedly signed his name on one. USING UP JOY El : (Toronto Globe) Miss' Agnes Macphail urges all trade unions and other organizations to get copies of Hansard regular- ly and read them. Surely she doesn't want to take all the joy out of life. SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLE (Hamilton Spectator) It has been figured that the cost of old-age pen- sions fo Hamiltonians will be 22 cents per $1,000 of assessment. - Offhand, we can't recall so much having been bought for so little before. TOBACCO FARMING ; (Port Rowan News) gq There are men who can make money out of wheat farming and men who can lose it. It is the same with stock farming and tobacco farming. There was a lot of money lost in the wheat fields of Norfolk last year as well as in the hog pens and tobacco plan- tations. Some of this money was lost by the short- coming of the men, some by the frowning of the elements, and some by manipulation of markets. Men who lack experience and are not strong financially should not increase their tobacco areas rapidly, . + Bits of Verse - - That Body of Pours By James W Barton, M.D. FLU CAN CAUSE MENTAL DISORDERS The Flu has now about passed away, and that as a people we were better prepared to meet the 1928 epi- demic than that of 1918, must be admitted, despite the large number who' unfortunately did not recover. However, although we were some- what better prepared to meet it, many have been a little thoughtless about looking after themselves after an attack of Flu, Sometime ago I spoke about the health officer of Montreal reporting that the Flu had so weakened the physical and mental state of former inmates of mental hospitals that a number of them, who had been living at their homes and working at for- mer occupations, had to return to the mental hospital for further treat- ment and care. Now while this is dislieartening to these folks, to their relatives, and to thosc in charge of these mental hospitals, there is another factor now presenting itself that calls for the earnest care and thought of every- body. And that is that influenza has been causing many normal people to be- conic patients in our mental hospi- tals. Sir George Savage has been quot- ed as having considered influenza as most likely of all infectious diseases to be followed by mental disorder. Dr. T. C. Graves tells us that there are two main groups in which in- fluenza was known to be a factor in the causation of the mental illness. The first group consisted of those cases of influenza which were fol- lowed immediately by the mental condition. The second grcup is where there is an interval between the influenza infection and the de- velopment of the mental disorder, in which the patient will be in a low or poor state of health for some time after the influenza, before the men- tal trouble ensues. Dr. Graves is most emphatic in Urging that patient and doctor Jlook most carefully for infections of ears, tonsils, and sin- uses. It would appear that chronic in- fection of ears, tonsils, sinuses, all in the head you'll remember, are made more severe and active by the influenza, and mental disturbance develops. Now the point is that just as we are learning how to meet influenza when it comes, by immediately going to bed and giving the heart its best chance to pull us through, so also should we learn how to protect our- selves after influenza. First, by remaining quietly at home, or taking things very easily for days, even weeks, after the attack is over. It may even mean a month or two of holidays. Second, by seeing that teeth, ton- sils, sinuses, and ears are free from any chronic infection. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act). - Bits of Humor - Peasant: "This suit doesn't fit-- the sleeves are too long and wide and the legs too short and tight." Village tailor to assistant: '""Yon fool, you have put the legs in the coat and the sleeves in the trous- ers." She: "Let's go dear.I can't stand that actor, He's such a conceited fellow." He: 'Conceited! I snomd think he is. Why, every time he hears a clap of thunder at home he runs to the window and bows." "Did you notice that man with his' hat down over his nose?" "Yes, it makes it easer for him to talk through both at once."-- Christian Science Monitor. The young man was sitting on the hotel veranda. Close by him sat a young, pretty widow, with her six-year-old son. Presently the lit- tle fellow ran up to the man, wno patted him on the head. "What's your name?" the little boy asked. "William Brown." "Is you married?" "No, I am not." The child paused a momen, then turning to his mother, said: "What else must I ask him, mum- mie?" "What is there about betting on horse races that is so bad for the health?" said young Mrs. Brown, "I never heard of anything," answered the visitor. "Didn't you? Every time Char- ley makes a bet he comes home and says there's something wrong with his system." Freddie: "Well, girls, I've come to say good-bye. I sail for Ameri- ca tomorrow!" Girls (in chorus) -- 'How per- fectly lovely!" "Ersr--for you--or for me?" Young Man (growing impatient) --*"How long will it be before Dor- is makes her appearance?" Girl's Brother: 'She's upstairs making it now." THE END OF MARCH I knew at dawn 'twas the end of March, With a heart as light as a buoy on the billow. A bird sang clear from the top of the larch: "Stir up, stir up from your sleepy pillow, For Spring must follow the end of March." O dull, mild day of the end of March, With the muddy roads and the budding willow; I knew it was spring~--that the rainbow's arch And the kildeer's call and the flooded hollow Were sure to follow the end of March. ~Gordon Stace Smith, in the Chatelaine. HUMILITY REWARDED -- Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the dia- dem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.-- Ezekiel 21:26. PRAYER-Blessed are the meck for they shall inherit the earth, RUTHENIAN HOME IN EDMONTON OPENED CITY'S INSPECTION Edmonton, Alta., April 2.--To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the Ruthenian Girls' home the women of the Ed- monton Presbytery of the United Church were at home at that insti- tution recently to welcome more than 500 men and women who call- ed to examine the building and in- spect the exquisite handiwork of the students. The mayor brought greetings from the city and J. K. Smith and Rev. Mr, Pingle of the Pacific Coast mission gave interest- ing reviews of the educational work being acgomplished at the Edmonton home and many other similar institutions throughout the west. All speakers commented on the success of the former inmates, many of whom are holding impor- tant posts as teachers. ADVISES TELLING THE TRUTH WHETHER IT HURTS OR NOT London, April 2.--Should a doc- tor tell--more particularly when cancer is the trouble? Some inter- esting observations upon this were i given by Dr. Cecil Rowntree, sur. geon to the London Cancer Hospi- tal. speaking at Leeds, The relatives of a cancer patient should be taken fully into the doc- [tor's confidence, urged Dr. Rown- tree. The general public congider- ed it cruel to tell an incurable pa- tient what was the matter | him, and yet when individual mem- ! bers of the public became patients Ithey were insistent that they should be told the truth. "When we doctors consult our legal or financial advisers", said Dr. Rowntree, "We expect the truth, and I think we always get it, unpleasant as it may be. think we owe an equal duty to our patients. There is no need to be brutal about it. We need not tell the whole truth, We may be wrong--we always hope we are." Discussing the prevention of can- cer, Dr. Rowntree touched on what he described as the controversial matter of periodical medical exam- ination, "Why it should be con- troversial," he said. "I cannot im- agine. We go to the dentist at regular intervals; many of us are examined regularly for life insur- ance; some of us have our drains or electric wiring periodically in- spected. Why not follow this out logically, and submit ourselves and our patients to periodical medical examinations?" 17TH CENTURY HOUSE AGAIN CHANGES HANDS London, April 2--Swakeleys, the beautiul 17th century house at Ic- kenham, near Uxbridge, has been acquired, with 30 acres of land, by the Foreign Office Sports Associa- tion as a centre for its athletic and social activities. Pepys, the famous diarist, had pleasant memories of the house, which he visited during the Great Plague. Swakeleys was bought in 1665 by Sir Robert Viner, Chief Fi- nancial Agent of Charles II, and Lord Mayor of London in 1674. This was the Lord Mayor 6f whom Steele relates, as an eye-witness, that when King Charles was slip- ping away from his sumptuous m..yoral banquet Sir Robert "pur- sued him hastily, and catching him fast by the hand cry'd out with a vehement oath and accent, 'Sir, you shall stay and take t'other bot- tle." marking with a smile and graceful air, "he that's drunk is as great as a king." Now Sir Robert's famous house and grounds, 'not very moderne in the garden nor house, but most uniforme," as Pepys said, has pass- ed into the possession of the For- eign Office Sports Association, largely through the instrumental- ity of its honorary treasurer, Mer- vyn Herbert, and at the suggestion of Lord Gerald Wellesley. The Association, whose present president is Sir Hubert Montgom- ery, was created in 1925 and one of its principal objects was to form a connecting link between the dif- ferent grades of the service at home, and also to provide an oc- casion of contact between the home and foreign staffs, FIRST VOLUMES . OF ANGLO-SWEDISH SOCIETY PUBLISHED Stockholm, April 2.--The Anglo- Swedish Literary J'oundation, en- dowed by the Nobel Prize money donated by George Bernard Shaw in 19256 for new translations into English of the. works of famous Swedish authors, has now issued its first volumes under the imprint of Jonathan Cape, of London. The initial offering consists of four plays by August Strindberg: "Eas- ter", translated by E. Classen, "The Dance of Death", in two parts, rendered into English by C, D. Locock, "The Spook Sonata," '| translated by J. B. Fagan and Bar- on Erik Palmerstierna, Sweden's Minister to England, who has tak- en a lively interest in the work of the Foundation, and "The Dream Play", translated by Locock. The books have been enthusias- tically received in Sweden, Thus QOesterling, one of Sweden's most famoug poets and a mémber of the Swedish Academy, which anmnbnally distributes the Nobel Literature Prize, has written a flattering re- vue about them . in the Svenska Dagbladet, a Stockholm daily. He feels that the free verse parts in the "Dream Play' sound even bet- ter in English than in original. The Government of Ontario has decided upon an annual award of $1,- 000 to the man responsible for the most outstanding agricultural work nouncement made by Hon. John S. Martin. minister of agriculture. MIGRATION OF BOYS MUCH INCREASED More Than 200 Per Cent. Gain Shown in Recruit- ment for Canada in Britain Montreal, April 2.--~An increase of more than 200 per cent in the recruitment of youthful Britons as farm workers in Canada is shown by a report from Dan M. Johnson, European Colonization Manager, to Dr. W. J. Black, Director of Agri- culture and Colonization of the Ca- nadian Nationl Railways. To date this year some 200 boys have been sent to Canada under the, auspices of the Candian National Railways and the British Immigration and Colonization Association, Montreal. "The. increase," Mr. Johnson states, "may be attributed to sev- eral factors. One of the most im- portant is that the age limit for juveniles eligible for free passages has been rajsed to 19 years, so that any healthy lad hetween 14 and 19 may apply. Another important rea- son, I believe, is the education of parents, who are just becoming fa- miliar with the admirable scheme of juvenile immigration, which has beén worked out with the B.I.C.A. by our company. We have been King Charles complied re-4 during the year, according to an an- ization in Capada for three years and of the 2,600 boys who have | been sent forward, 97 per cent have been successful." ; SAYS SICKNESS CAUSE OF WORLD'S POVERTY Montreal. April, 2.--John A. Lapp, LL.D., professor of social | sciences at Marquette University, Milwaukee, in the course of a lec- ture on the causes of poverty said: '"The primary and greatest cause of poverty is sickness It occurs in a thousand ways, its re- + "ta are felt by the youngest child, who loses opportunities w +.u would otherwise be his. Sick- ness can be prevented by social means." Dr. Lapp explained that i when he wanted to restock his sup- ply of optimism he consulted the statistics of death because he found when action had been taken results | were achieved. In Montreal alone six thousand people were living to- day who would not be alive if the conditions existent here nine years ago were still prevalent. He advo- cated adoption of a Health Insur- ance plan so that when sickness with | destroy families, The speaker strongly urged a payment of public pensions for old people, stating many saved consci- entiously for their old age, invest- ing their money in some strong had failed International Typing Contest Is Scheduled For September 28 Toronto, April 2.--For the first time on record the international typewriting contest will be held in Canada this year. It will be under the direction of J. N, Kimball of New York and will be held in Mase sey Hall, Sept. 28. Seventy-five of the fastest typists in the world will enter the contest, Irma Wright, Canadian cham- pion of 1925 and international champion in the amateur class 1a the contests held in Sacramento last year, will defend her title and Wilma McBride, of Calgary, who won the school novice crown last year with a record of 87 words per minute, will be a contestant. ' Ale bert Tangora, Paterson, 'N.' J., world professional champion, George L. Mossfield, Paterson. N. J., second in this class with 152 and 131 words respectively, and Anna Safer, Jacksonville. Fla., whe was second in the novice class with 82 words, will be among the en. trants. Miss Wright made a rate of 116 words and Miss Lucy Hard ing, who came third, and will en: ter this year's competition, made 108 words per minute, Chester Soucek, Corapolis, Pa., second fin Miss Wright's class with 113 words; Hazel Reuther, Norfolk Neb., third in the novice class and Parney Stapert, Paterson, N, J. third in thegprofessional class, will probably enter the contests, The Canadian championships will be contested for April 6. JUST Tk all-round protection. ~~BENEFITS-- 2 POLICY FORYou The Excel policy gives exceptional working with this voluntary organ-' $3,000 for death from natural causes. $6,000 for accidental death. $30 per month and $3,000 at death for total and permanent disability--no pre- miums payable during disability. 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The Ontario Highway Traffic Act contains provisions designed to protect these highways. What the Law Says The Highway Traffic Act declares that during March and April, on roads outside cities and towns: Solid tired trucks and trailers shall be limited to half Pneumatic tired trucks and trailers, with a carrying capacity exceeding three tons, shall be limited to half a load; Horse drawn vehicles with a carrying capacity exceeding one ton shall be limited to half a load. j Speed limits all the year round are: 15 miles an hour for solid tired vehicles and 20 miles an hour for pneumatic tired vehicles of more than 6 tons gross. : Protect the Road Investment The Department of Highways desires to impress upon truck and team owners and drivers the provisions of the law. It seeks their co-operation in seeing that the law is obeyed in all circumstances. Ontario's investment in good roads, now amounting to many millions of dollars, must be protected. The penalty for overloading during March and April is a fine, imprisonment or both. Licenses also may be suspended. Highway traffic officers have been directed to be especially vigilant in apprehending all who disobey. : Ontario Department of Highways The HON. GEORGE 8S. HENRY, Minister