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PAGEFOUR . . .. THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929 3 She Oshawa Baily Times | THB OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER oy i ' (Established 1871) "An independent newspaper published every afternoon 1!" ezcopt Sundays and legal holidays, at Oshawa. Canada, by Mundy Printing Company, Limited: Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Sec- The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Cana: {77 dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As- "7 sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. ihe ¥ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 10c a week. By mail (outside 7 Oshawa carrier delivery limits), in the Counties | of Ontario, Durham and Northumberland, $3.00 © a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United i States, $5.00 a year. Ln TORONTO OFFICE "7497 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone U7 Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative. th } REPRESENTATIVES IN U. S. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. bE SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929 SHOULD BE SATISFIED "Canadians should be well satisfied with the general standard of living that we have in this country, as it is better than in many other places," The above quotation from an interview given to The Times by City Engineer Smith on his return from a sojourn in Florida and other Eastern points in the United States sums up what is in the minds of many people who travel around this continent, and abroad, and then return to Canada to find that home is the best place after all. 3 Faraway fields, it is said, look green, often to the detriment of the opinion which' people hold of their own country and community, and it is only after observing conditions elsewhere that they rea lize that, after considering all factors, there are few places in the world which can measure up to Canada as a country in which to make a home. 4 Mr. Smith. cited many of his reasons for forming the above opinion, but they are only a few of those which might be given for preferring Canada to any other country. The pity is that so many of our people are unwilling to recognize the benefits of life in the dominion, and are prome to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Some of them succeed, but it is now no uncommon thing to find them returning to their former homes in Canada, convinced that home is the best place after all. PENALTY OF PUBLIC LIFE Does a life of public service' place so great a strain on a man's powers of phyical and mental resistance #6 to make him suspectable to sudden death? This is a question which might very well be askedps a result of the recent deaths of men who have been prominent in the affairs of Can- ada, and in international affairs. For instance, Sir Clifford Sifton, a man who served 'his country well and faithfully, dropped dead in New York. Hon. Dr. J, W. Edwards died suddenly from a heart attack, bringing to a close seventeen years of service as a member of parli- ment. Lord Revelstoke one of Britain's dele- gates to the reparations conference at Paris, died just as suddenly, evidently broken-hearted because of the failure of his efforts there. Dr. C. C. Creel- man, former president of the Ontario agricultural college, also died suddenly a few days ago, after a life of intensive work on behalf of Ontario ag- riculture, . These instances might well lead one to the be- lief that public services make great demands on human physique and mentality, so much as to leave these men suceptible to unusual strain and stress, Perhaps this is one of the penalties which 4 man pays for serving his fellow-men whole-heartedly, but it is one which is very rarely realized and appreciated. AN INVESTIGATION NEEDED It is gratifying to note that the attorney-general of Ontario has ordered a full investigation into the circumstances under which a newly born child died in a jail cell in Hamilton. The mother had been sent to jail only a few hours previously on a liquer charge, and in her moment of greatest need, 'was deprived of that attention and care which is vital. The circumstances of this case must tbe revolt- ing to all people with a spark of humanity in their hearts. Surely the demands of justice in this case were not so drastic that it was necessary to send a"womun in this condition to a prison cell to give "birth to her twin childrén: Ordinary humanity #nd feeling for a woman in her hour of suffering ought to have impelled the hand of the law to be restrained for a time, at least. There must be some blame somewhere, for the governor of the jail admitted that he was aware of the woman's condition when she entered it. No stone should be left unturned to make the investigation thorough enough to have the blame placed where it belongs. BRITAIN'S STAND Lord Cushendun did not waste words in letting the nations of the world know where Britain stands on the question of naval land and alr disarmament. His speech at Gencva on the subject wae clear cut and to the point. Great Britain, he sald, was willing to make great sacrifices in order to #elp the cause of disarmament, and, on land and in the 'air, was but waiting to fall in line with what other nations were willing to do. . By approaching the subject in-that spirit, the British delegate has paved the way for a definite "result of the present deliberations. Britain has ngt only preached disarmament, but has also prac- tised it more than any other nation since the close of the war, It remains to be seen whether the other countries of the world are willing to take up 'the British challenge to disarm, and %o make the work of the League of Nations disarma- ment commission more effective than any other body of this kind has yet been able to accomplish. SUPPORT LACKING It is surprising to find so few people in Oshawa interested in the League of Nations. The an- nouncement of the membership campaign for the League of Nations Society, has brought prac- tically no fesponse, in spite of the widespread publicity which is given, nearly every day of the year, to the work of the League. The aims and ob- jects of the League of Nations Society are closely allied with the welfare of Canada as a nation, and there should be a ready response to the appeal to the citizens of this community to show their in- terest in it by becoming members at the nominal fee of one dollar a year. POORLY PAID EXPERTS The action of the minister of finance in ap- pointing a commission to make a thorough investi. gation into the scales of salaries paid to techncal experts in the civil service has not come a bit too soon. It has for years been a disgrace to Canada that so many of the technical advisers of the gov- ernment, in many departments, have left the public service to go to the United States, simply because the Canadian government did not pay them any- thing like enough money to prevail upon them to remain in this country. There have been some glaring cases of this. In the entomological branch of the department of agriculture, for instance, there have been experts who have been offered twice as much money in the United States as they were receiving for doing exactly the same work in Canada, The average technical appointments advertised by the civil ser- vice commission provide other examples of the ridiculous salaries which are being offered to uni- versity graduates for highly specialized technical work. There has long been a cry that the best of the university graduates of Canada have been leaving this country. This is not surprising when one considers that even the government does not offer them salaries anywhere near what they can com- mand in the United States. The need for a revi- sion of these salary scales has long been appar- ont, and the wonder is that the minister of fin- ance has taken so long to make up his mind to do something about them. EDITORIAL NOTES Most women prefer a man who is an open book, providing it is a cheque book. If all the European countries ban Leon Trotzky, he might be able to find a welcome in Mexico. An Oklahoma man left his favorite mule a 27 acre plot in his will, It will at least have plenty of 'room to kick. Churchill's budget may have been well meant, but it has not caused nearly so much of a sensation as his last war book. The Globe remarks that the sky is the limit in aviation possibilities. It will be a great many years, then, before the limit is reached. An English girl has broken all records in shooting gt Bisley, But the fair sex always did have a repu- tation for hitting the mark once the target was selected. An official statement says two per cent of the mo- torists cause all the highway trouble in Ontario, but it will be hard to convince any driver that he belongs to that two per cent. The St. Marys Journal-Argus says there are 55,000 chances of making a typographical error in each page of a newspaper. But that does not prevent the average man from grumbling when he finds one. «Other Editors' Comment ~ BE POOR YOUNG MAN (Philadelphia Inquirer) A New York clergyman says it's a great advan- tage for a young man to be poor. The question the young man has to face, tho, is how he can make the most of that advantage. TEACHING CANADIAN HISTORY (Regina Leader.) A suggestion from the Saskatchewan educational association, which has been in annual convention at Moose Jaw, which the department of education may feel merits serious consideration is that calling for more intensive instruction in Canadian history in the final grades of the secondary school course. A NARROW ESCAPE (Milwaukee Journal) Now- it is said to be a historical fact that Chicago originally was intended to be in Wisconsin, But a land clerk at Washington--may he rest in peace-- made a mistake and drew a line which avoided this. To-day Chicago is in Illinois by reason of that carelessness, and we cannot help feeling that the hand of Providence guided the quill of that sleepy or muddled headed clerk. : STANDING THE GAFF (Ottawa Journal) Call it luck, or national stamina, whatever you will, there is something about the British that pulls them through. They are paying more taxes than the average German, 'Frenchman and Ital- fan, put together; they have commitments all over the world, and they have a surplus popula- tion, with tremendous problems of employment and trade. Yet they never quail. - « Bits of Verse - - WEED Love never will give honey for the tongue, Nor perfume for the hair. Love is a weed, bitter and wild and strong-- Not sweetness there, Nor peace, nor mercy. But when it is dead A little wind will rise To spill the silver feathers of that Like sleep upon the eyes. 'wesw. =Margie De L. Welch in Poetry. weed By James W. Barton, M.D. TEACHING CHILDREN TO STAND ERECT It was my privilege for a number of years to lecture to 'teachers in training who were qualifying as high school and public school teachers. I tried to give them a few facts in anatomy and physiology and some suggestions regarding the care and training of the body. In talking about securing the erect carriage of the body for their stu- dents and for themselves, I emphas- ized the value of developing the ab- dominal muscles, I pointed out that the more devel- opment these muscles received the smaller the waist would be. In fact Sandow, the world's strongest man, had a waist that was only one inch larger than his thigh, I pointed out further that although the development of the upper bac muscles, as in the breast stroke in swimming, would pull the shoulders back and help to correct round shoul- ders, the development of the abdom- inal muscles was more important, as the drawing in of the abdomen auto- matically pushed the chest forward and the shoulders back. Now the point back of all this is that you and 1 should remember that when we were made it was intended that the weight of the body should come on the bones. The bones of the spinal column should sustain the weight of the body or hold us erect. What happens if you do not stand erect? The weight of the front of 'the body pulls your spinal column for- tvard, and the ligaments, that bind your bones together, get a good deal of the weight thrown on them; hence the pain in the back, so frequently suffered. This pain can be in the neck, in the upper back, in the lower back, or right down where the end bone of the spine joins the two large hip bones. Your muscles get tired hold- ing up a weight that should have been held up by the bones of the spine, not by the soft tissues. As you know, any exercise that brings the thighs on abdomen or ab- domen on thighs, knees straight, will develop the abdominal muscles. Lying on the back and raising the legs with the knees straight. Trying to touch your toes with your fingers, knees straight. Keeping abdomen drawn in when you are sitting, standing, or walking, will help to keep your spine straight and prevent pain in the back. (Registered in Accordance with the Copyright Act.) - Bits of Humor - DANGEROUS NUT (Glasgow Herald) Myrtle: "What is the most dan- gerous part of an automobile?" Grace: "The nut that holds the steering wheel." Fair Maid -- "I wonder what causes the flight of time?" Young Man -- "It is probably urged on by the spur of the mo- ment." KIND TRAFFIC OFFICERS "Did you find a place to park your car in the city?" "Did 1." They let me park ft right in the middle of a busy street." "You don't say. For how long?" "Until the green light went on." "So you want a divorce, Ras- tus?" "Yes suh, jedge, yo' honah--Ah sho'ly does." "What's the trouble?' "Count ob ma wife makin' an ironical remark." "An {ironical remark?" "Yes, suh--she says if you don't go to work, I'll hit you with this flat-iron."" CHAIST POR ALL-ALL POR Cle CEs PRIDE AND DESTRUCTION--- The. pride of thine heart hath de- hal thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou exalt thyself as the cagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.--Obadiah 1:3, 4. PRAYER--Enable us Lord ever to remember that pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit be- fore a fall. Lake Shore a F. GHEARN 'Members Standard Stock and Mining Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Winnipeg Grain Exchange New York Produce Ex- change (Ass'te) GENOSHA HOTEL, OSHAWA TELEPHONE 2700 BRITAIN PREPARES FOR FUTURE WAR War Office Plans Outlined in Important Official Book London, April 20.--Britain's new Army is steadily coming into being. The war vision of the future is one of fast-spceding armoured cars fir- ing rapid guns as they move, of sur- prise movements conceived and put in operation while the enemy is still a hundred miles away, An important book on mechanised warfare--a work at first designed to be kept entirely sccret--has just been issued officially to responsible offi- cers of the various units of the Army. It gives in detail particulars of the great reform that is being instituted by the Army Council, The new fighting force of the Bri- tish Army is summarized as follows: Armored Fighting Vehicles (A. I. V.s.). Armored Carriers, Unarmored Carriers, Transport Vehicles and Tractors, "These," said Major-General Bon- ham-Carter, director of staff duties, to a reporter recently, "will, of course, all be much improved in the next ten years, but we do actually possess ve- hicles which can carry out these vari- ous roles. The characteristics of Armored Fighting Vehicles are great mobility, combined with a considerable degree of invulnerability under fire, togeth- er with great firc-powder in move- ment, "We have something that is ncither cavalry, not artillery, but a combina- tion of the (wo, Its tactics will not, of course, differ in principle from those of the past, but we shall find that as time goes on, and "we get more experience, methods will vary enormously, possibly to such an ex- tent that we shall hardly recognize them. "We know of no possible enemy in possession of the same thing." BERLINTO BAGDAD | ARWAY PLANNED Will Be Linked With Brit. ish London to Karachi Service Berlin, 'April 19.--Germany made a decisive move recently tow- ards realizing in an airplane route the old plan for a Berlin to Bagdad rallway, which has been advanced as one of the factors leading to the world war, and which was frustrated by the outbreak of the conflict in 1914. The Deutsch Persische Luftahrt- gesellschaft, a German company operating in PerPsia, obtained a concession for direct alr mail ser- vice to Teheran, Persia. The line will be linked with the British service from London to Karachi, India. The granting of the concession means than an all-German airplane route will be established from Berlin to Bagdad. The route will stretch from Berlin via Moscow, Baku, Pakhlevi to Teheran, .and thence on to Bagdad. Only Junkers Dornier airplanes will be used on the line, except for the section [rom Moscow to Baku, which the Soviet Govern- ment controls. German capital, however, will have interests in the entire route. The new air route will be much faster than the old plan for a rail road line, Passengers and mail will be carried from Berlin to Bagdad in approximately four days. The present train and boat services re- quire 12 days for the trip. The new line will compete only irdirecty with the British service through Genoa, Rome, Naples and Cairo to Bagdad, and actual riv- alry will be averted through the connection of the Berlin-Bagdad line with the London-Karachi ser- vice, The extension lines throughout German air world has of the STOCKS StoBIE-FORLONG &(G BONDS Head Office: Reford Bu eto S. F. EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa -- Above C.P.R. Office Phones 143 and 144 GRAIN 1s Dominion and United States Income Taxes , May Ist is the last day for Canadians to claim a refund of United States income tax paid when cashing coupons of bonds of American corpor- ations in 1928. Forms upon which to make a claim for the refund of such taxes and illus. trations indicating the method of filling out such forms will be furnished on request. Dominion income tax returns must be made by April 30th. 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