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Ta LE BY URL 2 SV ee re pc MAILAZ TIAATO AAO > EAA epi om AV DEOCAMDED 20 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1929 shawa Baily Times HAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An indepeaderit newspaper published every afternsor except Sundays and legal bolidays, st Oshawa Canada by Mundy Printing Company. Limited: Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Sec: retary. \ The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Cane: dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As-- sociation. The Ontario Provincial Dailies sad the Audit Bureau of CTlrculations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, [5c » week By mail in Canads (outside Osbaws carrier delivery limits), $4.00 » vear; United States, $5.00 » year TORONTO OFFICE 497 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0102 H. D Tresidder, representative REPRESEN1ATIVES IN U. S. Poxers and Stone, Inc. New York aad Chicage. MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1929 SUNDAY OBSERVANCE Is Oshawa in danger of becoming known as a city where the Lord's Day Act is a dead letter? Do the, people of this city--ihe rank and file of the citizens--approve of Sunday labor when it suits the whims or the greed of employers of labor? Is there any necessity for an Oshawa store em- ploying clerks most of Sunday to do work that other merchants find ample time for on the six other days of .the week? Is there any excuse for a building contractor work- ig his men on the Lord's Day as was done yester- day and has been done on a number of previous oc- casions ? ) Is there any real need for much of the factory work: that has been winked at in this city from time to time? : These arc questions for the Lord's Day Alliance, Oshawa Branch, if it exists for any other purpose than the raising of campaign funds for the -central organization, These arc questions for the Police Department, which should be as much concérned about the pro- tection of public morals as it is about the protection of public property, These are questions for every right thinking Osh- 4wa citizen, who stands for law observance and the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath, SALARIES FOR ALDERMEN On Monday next the people of Oshawa will vote on the* question of whether or not the aldermen clected to the city council are to be paid salaries, Or are to continue to give their services gratuitously. The Times has on previglis occasions pointed out that, on the principle that the laborer is worthy of his hire, there is some merit in this suggestion, but has contended that no decision should be made by any city council on it without a definite mandate 'from the citizens, That mandate is now being sought and the people arc asked for authority to pay the aldermen a sum of five dollars per meeting for their services. The principle of payment of salaries to aldermen is one to which little or no exception can be taken. The amount of money which each member of the city council will receive will not be a large one. It will represent merely some recompense for the time and energy devoted to the conduct of the affairs of the city, and service as an alderman does represent a considerable sacrifice of time and energy. It is a fact, too, that members of the city council have calls made upon their pockets which other citizens do not have, and in many cases these calls are so heavy that it is doubtful if the amount of salary it is proposed to pay will be enough to meet the bare out-of-pocket cxpenses of the average alderman, Looking at the question from the broader stand- point of the responsibility of the citizens to pay for services rendered, there is also much to be said in favor of the principle. Oshawa has become an ini~ portant city, and the duties of its aldermen have mul- tiplied during the last few yars. It is hardly fair of the citizens to expect that fifteen of their fellows should undertake this work without receiving some tangible recognition of their efforts, True, there is some honor attached to the position, but Oshawa can afford to add something to. that, and can afford to at least provide for recompense for the time spent at meetings held in the interests of the city. There is nothing new in the proposal. Many other cities have already adopted it, and Oshawa should be big enough and progressive enough to vote in favor of aldermanic salaries by an overwhelming majority. THE WIDE APPEAL OF THE PRESS One of the outstanding features of the appeal of the modern press to the people, the appeal which makes newspapers the most valuable medium in ex- istence for advertising, is to be found in the wide spread character of the reader public of the news- papers. Magazines of various types have their ap- peal to limited fields, according to the reading tastes of various classes of people. But the same cannot be said of the daily newspaper, which, by its very na- ture, by its day to day presentations of the doings of the whole world in general, and the community in which it is published in particular, has become some- thing' of a necessity in everyday life. There is no class distinction so far as newspaper readers are concerned. Business and professional men, factory workers, clerks in offices and in stores, artizans and mechanics, alike are numbered among newspaper readers, and, most important of all, there is scarcely a housewife who does not look forward to the appearance of the daily newspaper, not alone for its wealth of informative reading, but also for its advertisements, from whcih she learns to spend the money at her disposal wisely and well, he This unique field of reader interest is what makes the newspaper a valuable advertising adjunct to any kind of business. No matter what appeal has to be made, it can reach the greatest number of people, and cvery class of people, through the mediunr of the daily newspaper. And the fact that large national advertisers are steadily increasing the amount of money they spend in newspaper advertising is con- clusive proof that as a publicity medium, the daily newspaper is proving itself profitable. A SYSTEM THAT HAS FAILED The recent deportation from Canada of some fifty "trainees" who had come from Great Britain to work on Canadian farms leads one to come to the conclu~ sion that this: system of immigration. is not a success, "Trainee" is the term 'applied to those young men who have come to Canada as farm workers after undergoing a period of farm training in the old land. This training is supposed to fit them for farming conditions in this country, but the record so far is such that little can be said. in favor of the plan. The difficulty is that the "trainec" scheme fails to take into consideration the totally different atmos- phere surrounding city life in Great Britain and farm life in Canada, It takes more than a few months of training in farm work to transform a young man who has lived in a city all his life into a successful farmer, for the simple reason that thé conditions which have to be faced in this country 'cannot be truthfully reproduced in the training farms in Britain, The scheme is an expensive one, for not only are these young men provided with free training, but there passage to Canada is" also provided for~them. And when so many of them fail to fit inte the Can- adian picture, and have to be deported, then that money is wasted. And the waste is too great to make it worth while to continue a system that has proven to be a dismal failure, WILL THE CONFERENCE COLLAPSE? The attitude of France regarding the coming naval conference mm London recalls that ill-fated confer- ence which was held in 1927, when representatives of the United States and Great Britain were unable to agree on a common.policy, and dhe conference col- lapsed with no other result than to create much bad feeling between the two nations, The French atii- tude, ag expressed so far, is of such a nature that there is some reason for believing that although thy cortference will be one of the five greatest naval powers of the world, there is little hope of a five power agreement coming from it. One can sympathize to some extent the French desire for security before disarmament, France has more reason than any other nation, per- haps, to seek guarantees of security before agreeing to reduce her naval or military armaments. The memories of 1870 and 1914, and the devastation wrought to the French territory invaded in these wars, cannot be easily blotted out, and France may be forgiven for believing that human nature does not change overnight, and that there is still a possibility that her former enemies will yet seek revenge. With that thought in mind, France is apparently placing. little faith in either the « Locarno treaty, which protects her from aggression, or in the Kel- logg-Briand pact, which outlaws war, France «as has some previous experience of the fate of treaties in the face of expediency, and is willing to trust to might rather than to right to protect her frontiers Thus it is that France is insisting that whatever the coming naval conference may do, its decisions shall 'simply be a forerunner to a general plan of disarmament under the League of Nations, and shall be governed by that section of the League of Na- tions covenant which requires "The reduction of armaments to the lowest point consistent with na- tional safety." And this introduction of the League of Nations into the discussion is sufficient in itself to wreck any hopes for a complete five-power *agree- ment, since the United States is still outside the League, and will not readily consent to be bound by anything which cmanates from that body. There is still some hope, of course, that the I'rench attitude may be modified as the negotiations proceed. The faét that Premier MacDonald and Premier Tar- dieu, the heads of the governments of Great Britain and France, are to have a preliminary conference be- fore the big event opens, in itself gives hope that this may be possible. Premier MacDonald, as the father of the conference, is not likely to sit down and see his hopes wrecked without making some ef- fort for compromise such as will bring complete agreement; and on the success of his efforts to change or modify the French viewpoint will depend the suc- cess of the conference. Meanwhile, the world waits in hope, in anticipation, for some definite work of naval limitation and reduc- tion which will lessen the burdens imposed upon the naval peoples of the world, and will mark apother with " construuétive step in the direction of world peace, EDITORIAL NOTES One touch of the slipper makes a 'dull boy smart, says the Montreal Star, The man who agrees with everything you have to say does so because he lacks any ideas of his own. A Detroit woman was recently awarded $450,000 as a heart balm! She must have had a prodigieus heart to need as much as that, . Hon. William Finlayson says politeness should be taught in the schools. A good parental example would also help some, Just when last week's cold turkey has about done its last turn, along comes another one for New Year's Day. The new Saviet postmark slogan is "Think before you kiss." Judging by the appearance of the aver- age Russian, it must require a good deal of thinking to screw up courage to do it at all, A feature syndicate writer claims that women are not going in for business life so much now, because they cannot endure being shut up in an office. Nor anywhere else, for that matter, The Chief Constables Association of Canada be- lieves the home is the proper place to correct juvenile delinquents, These men ought at least to have some fairly sound views on the smbject. Toronto is one city which is never allowed to be- come apathetic over its elections. The people read the papers to find out what wallops they have to hand out to cach other, Comments A YOUNG PERSON'S COUNTRY (Lowell Courier-Citizen) Sinclair Weeks, thirty-six years old is hailed as Newton's youngest May- or, thirty-six is young, especially as judged by American standards, Iv Great Britain boys and girls in their twenties without especial . comment are. tlected to all sort of positions, including membership in the House of Commons, but, by comparison with the: United States, England is a young person's country, believe it or not, KNEW WHAT TO DO (Stratford Beacon-Herald) A travelling man from Toronto was in Stratford yesterday and made a call at the liquor store. He produced his permit, about which action there was nothing at all peculiar--most people do that soon atter they go into the store. But this man asked that be cancelled. it taking too much money, and he needed it for other things. The man who knows enough to put the pruning hook through a habit that is costing him too much "moncy will probably get along all rights SMUTS AS A CRITIC (The New Outlook) General Smuts is being criticized for what he had to say in his Oxford Lectures about the work of the Christian missionary in Africa, But if he is a critic of missions in Africa we. will haev to think of him as a friendly critic, surely Among other things he said: "It is difficult to con- ceive what Africa would have been without the efforts of the Christian missions. Mistakes have been made, but the magnitude of the real service is out of all comparison to those in- cidental mistakes. Missionary enter- prise, with its universal Christian message and its vast educative and civilizing effort is and remains for good in Africa" A man whe earned the right to criticize, SUNDAY CLOTHES (Kincardine Review-Reporter) When talking recently about the former days, it was pointed out that do not think the observer actuall in recent years the custom of having special, carefully cared for clothes for | Sunday wear only, was passing. Yes it wasn't so long ago that a man had | his special dark Sunday suit and never thought of appearing that day | unless he perspired freely under stiff collar and well-starched nor did a woman think of going out unless she wore her long gloves. Sun day 2lothes are passing, and the rca- | son for that 1s that people do not pay so much attention to what others are wearing--probably because the styles | have hit about every angle and can't | vary much more. | - - | Bits of Humor ALL WET Scasick Passenger (on friend's yacht)~I say, what about going back: | After you've seen one wave, you've [ seen them all.--Pathhnder. | | | WHY GIRLS STAY HOME "Alice could have married anybody ¢ pleased 44 -Tit | "Then why is she still singl | "She never pleased anybody,' | Bits, BOUQUET FOR DAD Teacher (looking over Teddy's homework)--I1 don't see how it's pos- many mistakes Teddy (proudly)--It isn't a single person, Teacher. Father helped me | =Brooklyn Eagle. A well-known London clergyman who enjoyed my story of Everett Badger (Is it nice?") writes to say that it reminds him of a man who; walking with the late Rev, C, notice, "Smith's Shirt Store." Spurgeon glanced up. "Oh, chap," he exclaimed, "he must have caught it on a naill" It took the other man an hour t discover what he meant, A tale which has been going the rounds tells how an old bacheolr found attached to a pair of socks a note from a factory girl, pining for a soul-mate, He responded, and af- ter waiting with hope for some days, received this note: "Dear Mr. Bach: Your note, ad dressed to my mamma, pleases me very much. I am now 18 years old, It's odd you should have been all this time getting her note, but I sup- pose the merchant from whom you bought the socks did not advertise." SHADOW A young Irishman went in to the minister and told him, with a very i long face, that he had seen a ghost. | "Where and when?" asked the pastor. "Last night," said the timid man. "1 wasypassing by the church, and up against' the wall of it did I, without the shadow of a doubt behold a spectre." quired the pastor, "It appeared in the shape of a don key," replied the man, 'Go home and hold your tongue about it, rejoined the minister. "You are a very timid man and have been frightened by your own shadow." The Law of Life--Verily, verily, 1 say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abid- eth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.--John 12:24. Prayer: "Jesus, merciful and nid, Lead me as a helpless child," He found that buying liquor was' Other Editor's | | DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK HENRY W. SHOEMAKER, PUB- LISHER OF THE ALTOONA (PA) TRIBUNE, SAYS: "Whenever I sce a crowd of wonten with baskets standing at a railroad station or bus depot going to some distant town. to shop, it seems to me that they are not only subjecting themselves to great loss of time and inconvenience, but are removing the greatest incentive to local merchants to be progressive or up-to-date, "Why some place at a distance has a harper assortment or latey stylés or better taste or markets is only because the demand at home is not sharpened by local calls. } "Shapping at home is community building .in its most comstructive sense. Lhe home town that has the buying support of its own people be- comes the shopping centre for the district, It becomes celebrated for its progress and its enterprise, and the time and money saved by buy- ing at home creates an invisible sav- ings bank of local wealth and happi ness. | "The effect on a town where the | stream of buying goes ¢lsewhere is gradual retrogression or discourage- ment, Outside enterprise is not at- tracted there, due to the dull ap- pearance of the shops and the de- |serted appearance of the streets. | "BUYING AT HOME IS PROVID- ING A SINKING FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EVERY LOCAL .BUSINESS AND EVERY thinks and talks that way has surely | passing of many of the customs of | even Sunday clothes are passing, We | means the style of clothing, but that | shirt, sible for.a single person to make so | Spurgeon, passed a shop bearing the | poor | "In what shape did it appear?" en- | | CITIZEN the | greatest and most powerful influence That Body of | Be Pours By fames W. Barton, M.D. Some years ago tlic d industrial oig th very lar gan to look into many of his from irk duc He had put on why employees wer to illness efficiency' into all de partments of his tactories, had every- inspected and examined at re tervals so as to do away wit sible thing gul 1 t | waste, and get the st pos | from his machiner) | ment, It more v 1 ind Os machinery calth of h the h aluable than the ¢ : help ward Vh Because on these men res cess or failure of the business, an { good health one's greatest asset, | Accordingly the men were thor- ed ) half meas 1 ts the suc- oughly examined way 1 carciu cmployee a d, and 1 advice to the rest SUres and cxact | cach body, was given care ol his exercise. What + All sorts of serious ailments, such as heart, kidney, and intestinal con- ditions, and serious conditions | such as overweight and underweight, | poor eyesight, poor hearing, defec- | tive teeth and tonsils, flat fect and th amd as found? less faulty habits of life had to do {he | with diet, smoking, exercise, rest, or | | constipation What was the effect at the end of a ycar, and for the years since it be- gan/ | That the time | these same men ha | by 33 per cent, Now what is the lesson This is January Ist, the beginning of a new year, a time when you are thinking of the successes and failures | of the past year and your plans for the new year. : And what is your biggest asset? Your brains? Your ambition? No. Your brains and ambition will only carry you as far as that body of vours will take or carry you. These men mentioned above under- went an examination which took an hour and fifteen minutes, and two days before the examination each man was notified of the time of his appointment and thus given an ope portunity to think over and write down if necessary, the things he wished to tell or ask the examining physician. Why not see vour own physician? lost due to illness in been cut down | [likely to be busy and let him give you a thorough examination, That body of yours should get checked over every year. Why not start the year right? (Registered in accordance with Copyright Act.) the "Has proy ed "Yes, mother your son's college education of any real value?" indeed, it's entirely cured 'his of bragging about him," They were arguing about sex equ- ality, "Well," said the husband, " there is. one good, sweet thing that-a wo- man can never have, and wheih her husband (if she has one) can always possess." "There is not," replied the wife in angry tones. "Oh, yes, there is," quietly -- "a wife. ---- Sixty years ago John DID, Rocke- feller's account was refused 'by a New York bank which considered the oil business as too much of a gamble. Piggly: "Is my face dirty, or is it my imagination?" he remarked Wiggly: "Your face isn't; T don't know about your imagination." president of a zation be- obsent and other equip- urred to him that what was off dis- to live, and rules of {| with | Get him at an hour when he is not | (Vancouv What Makes Canadians Canadians er Sun) Every time an American comes to Canada to live, his sccret determina- tion scems to be to. try and make this country Yankee, Every time an Englishman comes to Canada to live, he wants to make this country Eng- lish, The resisting of these two opposing impulses is a good thing for this country, because it is what makes Canada Canadian. Canadian person- ality is. welded out of the clash be- tween English influences and Amer- scan influences. The American is going too fast. His restless business ambition tend: to make a business machine which has created an astounding. prosper- ity in United States. But have these things added to the richness and fullness of American life? Are the American standards of success based on true and lastin premises? The Englishman, on the other | hand, is going too slow. His indus- trial philosophy is archaic, He de-| votes his time to political philosophy | and economic theories rather thau to practical action. | But the Englishman has a cultural | setting and an aesthetic background | that the American, as a class, lacks. Canada cannot afford to adopt ci- ther English or Americn methods in their entirety. She inust pick the best of each and apply them to her own peculiar problems, | And the sooner Americans and Englishmen in this country realize | this fact, the sooner will they become good Canadians and make the going | casicr for themselves. Meantime, she pressure from both sides is forming and building up a | distinctive Canadian personality, LIGHENSTEIN 13 VALLEY OF PEACE Only German - Speaking Country That Retains Monarchy Nobody today bothers about the Grand Duchy of Lichtenstein, In 1866 the Prussians forgot to in- clude it in the peace treaty with the other states that Bismarck welded into the German Empire, and it now lies\ buried behind the red rocks of the Arlberg Pass, somewhere at the back of Lake Constance. Lichtenstein is the only German speaking country that retains a mon- archy, and one can walk across it | without undue strain between an carly breakfast and a late luncheon, writes the London Express corres pondent from Lichtenstein. $500,000 DAMAGE IN SASKATOON FIRE J. 1. Case Threshing Com- | pany Warehouse and Stock Destroyed Saskatoon, Dec, 30.--Damage estifhated in the neighborhood of | $500,000 was caused here yester- | day when fire destroyed the J. L Case Threshing company's. ware- house, filled with agricultural im- | SCOTTS- & EMU LSION Vi Beams on babies helps little children' Painted Villages This year a feeling ot great relief | pervades the little painted villages that straggle along the rich green strip of pastureland between mountain walls, | A year ago the Diet (of | members) was found to be mishand- [ling the public funds while the Grand Duke was away in Vienna seeing an eye specialist. It was not until his son, the young Prince, af- ter 'an all-night dash by motor-car to the capital city of Vaduz, assumed | | | the sovereign power pending a new | and calm | election, that confidence were restored, The calm of found. Broken anly (py the jingle of cow- | bells and the tinkle of bicycle bells i Lichtenstein is pro- cles~--she seems to have trapped | peace and bottled it between her mountains that shut away the won- derful world outside, Great dun cows blink, strangers from the sparkling val | streams. No Railways, No Hotels -- lazily embroidered ap stranger haired children in | prons pause to greet the a "Gruss Gott!" | you) as they lead their goats to pas | ture. I'he meadows sparkle with thé am- cthyst Alpine violets and ¢ sapphirc- blue gentians, and the shrill cry of | the marmot pierces the silences of | the woods. tole There are no railways, no hotels, | | and only one second-class road m Lichtenstein, and you meet a cham- | ois if you walk a little way into the | hills. | The duchy covers about | square miles ~-- it would go | timgs into Rutlandshire. | Vaduz, the capital, consists of one | long, hilly street of detached houses | {in the middle of an orchard, and if | includes a church with a tall, white | steeple, an imposing Diet house, a | stone-built school, and two inns pain- | ted in bright blue and yellow. | 3 one side rise the cliffs and the | | mountains. The royal castle, roman- | | tically perched on a steep chff, looks | | down on the place with quite a kind- | ly and protective air. | On the other side of the street, the | orchards and kitchen gardens arc | bounded by a stream, and across the stream stretch the meadows right away to the foot of mountag at the other side of the valley, l At either of the inns you may get an cxcellent omelette, a large glass tankard of beer, and a dish o plums, There is a picture of the grand duke in every cottage window. lis is a curiously paternal monarchy. The grand duke is an austrian no- { ble, and, before the war, the duchy had a Customs unjon with Austria | and the right of appeal to the Aus- trian courts, Then the Austrian Em- | pire broke, No Soldiers, No Policemen | The Duke of Lichtenstein, being | not only an Austrian nobleman, but also a foreign sovereign, retained his estates with his palace in Vienna and his superb gallery of pictures, and the duchy, while maintaining its al- legiance to him, quietly transferred it4 Customs union to the Swiss Con- federation. "Surely," said one of my compan- ions as we passed by picture after picture of royalty in thg remote little mountain town, "this must be Ruri- tania!" But the Ruritania of musi cal comedy always provides a ple- thora of uniforms, Lichtenstein has none. Once, fifty years ago, she had nii- litary service, ' She put ninety-onc riflemen in the field against Bis- marck's iron Prussian battalions in that melancholy six weeks' war of 1866, when all that was easy going and delightful in the German-spcak- ing "world took the field against all that was harsh, brutal and efficient -- and lost. - What became of the Lichtenstein contingent is. rather obscure. N\ Since that disastrous experiment she has never possessed a soldier. In all the country there is no policeman. After all, there would be nothing for onc to do. its | twelve | | fry NOT ALL BEAUTY | --the Lichtensteiners all ride bicy- | Wondering and large-eyed, flaxen- | (God go with | sixty | three | e | { witnessed the | check | 2.40 The origin of the fire Hundreds of ong spectacular blaze, the most serious here in five year battled for hours flames, first noticed at o'clock in the arternoon, but they were fighting impossible odds, A stone which lodged iv the main hydrant. seriously checked the water pressure. Six automobiles, stored in the building, were destroyed, as well as gasoline and tires. The agricul- tural implements destroyed in- cluded a number of combines, plements. unknown. pel I'iremen to the Smiles'n Chuckles (Candies 60c lb. Karn's Drug Store ; life-time. 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