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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930 The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An independent newspaper published every after noon except Sundays and Jegal holidays at Osh- awa, Canada, by The Times Publishing Company, of py Limited, Chas, M, Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Managing Director, 4 The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana- dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Asso- ciation, the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, in Oshawa and suburbs, 12¢ a week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $3.00 a year; United States, $4.00 a car, y TORONTO OFFICE 518 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone Adelaide 0107, H, D, Tresidder, representative. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1930 A CANNING FACTORY IN OSHAWA As if in answer to the hopes of a large number of farmers living in close proximity. to the city of Oshawa, it was announced on Saturday that a canning factory is to be es- tablished on the northern boundary of the city, in East Whitby township, It would be misleading to suggest that this announce- ment was made possible as a result of an editorial which appeared in these columns only a few days ago, because the plans for the canning factory have, apparently, been under way for some time, -But it shows that there have been men in the city who were seized with the possibilities of a canning in- dustry for Oshawa and who are prepared to back their ideas by establishing such an in- dustry. As The Times pointed out the other day, an industry of this kind will benefit both the city and the country the city by pro- viding employment for men and women, and the country by providing a ready cash mar- ket close at hand, for canning crops grown by farmers of the surrounding community. 1t will be some time, of course, before a fac- tory of this kind, can be put into operation, but The Times sees in it, not only a welcome addition to the city's industries, but a pro- ject for which it can wish only the greatest of success, SMALL HOLDINGS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED There is some good common sense in the suggestion of F. L, Fowke, former M.P,, to the effect that steps ought to be taken to place unemployed men and their families on small farms, where they could at least sup- ply their families with the necessities of life by keeping a cow, a few chickens, and raising fruit and vegetable crops. This is just another form of trying to induce men to leave the overcrowded cities and go back to the land, where, if they are willing to work faithfully, they can at least he sure that they will have food and shelter for themselves and their families. Every unemployed man could not, of course, take advantage of such a proposal, To be a truck gardener on even a small scale requires some knowledge of the principles of agriculture and horticulture, and some prac- tical experience in the successful growing of crops. But there are many men with such knowledge and experience who are today walking the streets of the cities, men who might, with some assistance, be able to earn quite a comfortable living if they had "five acres of land, a cow and a few chickens," The chief difficulty in setting such a scheme in motion lies in the initial financing of the project. Men who have been unem- ployed for some time have not the means to secure the land, the cow, or the chickens. But if, as Mr, Fowke suggests, a scheme of government assistance in this direction could be evolved, with provision for repayment and eventual purchase, it is more than likely that a large number of men would be will- ing to take advantage of it. It is too late, of course, to do anything about putting a scheme of this kind into operation before next spring, but the winter months ought to provide opportunity for giving it careful con- sideration, and bringing forward a practical plan which might be workable. KEEPING DOWN COMMUNISM Many citizens of Oshawa will not agree with many of the things said and done by "Eddie" McDonald, who has been called the spokesman of the unemployed of Oshawa, They feel that he has a tendency to attack public men and public servants without be- ing in possession of the full facts of the is- sue on which he attacks them, and they re- sent this. Yet, in one respect he has per- formed a useful service in holding meetings of the unemployed and conducting them as . he has done, ; In Port Arthur, the unemployed workers took a different attitude. They allowed themselves to be drawn into the ranks of Communism. Communist agitators took full advantage of the situation there, and arpus- ed the unemployed workers to join them in lawlessness. and rioting. This took on such a serious form that it has become necessary to organize special police forces in order to, cope with the situation, In times of acute depression, and of wide- spread unemployment, there is always the that Communism will secure the up- per hand. This might have been a danger in Oshawa, had not "Eddie" McDonald and those associated with him provided the un- i erican Iron and Steel Institute, employed of the community with an outlet for their feelings, with a safety-valve, as it were, The Communists have been making strong efforts to secure a following in this city, but without success, and it is not say- ing too much to give at least part of the credit for their failure to the meetings which have been held under the leadership of Mr, McDonald, and the manner in which they have been conducted, As we stated at the outget, there are many citizens who do not agree with all that Mr, McDonald has been saying and doing, The Times has, on various occasions, questioned his attitude to public servants, But his meetings have, by keeping down the Com- munist elements, served a very useful pur- pose to this community, AWAY DOWN SOUTH They have had a very nice little revolu- tion down in Brazil, No one knows very much of what it is all about, but it is re- ported that the revolutionary forces have been successful in overthrowing the govern- ment, They have a habit of doing that kind of thing away down south in South America, and it causes quite a flurry for a while, Then things quieten down, and the rebels become the government, to remain in office until some other fellow takes it into his head to start another revolution to kick the govern. ment out, To folks who are accustomed to democratic institutions of government, and to constitu. tional methods of changing governments, this seems like a strange and unnecessary way of doing things. But the people down south must have something to break the monotony .of their existence, and to them a revolution is as good a way as any other, There is nothing about it to cause any alarm, It won't have any effect on the price of Bra- zilian Traction stock, and so long as that is all right, we folks up here have nothing much to worry about. BETTER TIMES COMING Predictions of a rapid and large scale revival of business and industry in the near future are featured in reports of the pro ceedings of the annual meeting of the Am. The speak- ers making these predictions were Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and John J. Raskob, director of the General Motors Corporation, Statements of this kind, coming from men in such po- sitions of authority are bound to make an impression, because these are men in a posi- tion to know whereof they speak. Of particular interest to Oshawa was the statement of Mr, Raskob predicting an early revival of the automobile industry. Mr, Raskob was emphatic in his assertion that in the last six or eight weeks the bottom of the industry was reached, and that there is now & very definite upward trend which pro- mised to continue until normal levels have been reached. The people of Oshawa, and of the whole of Canada and the United States for that matter, have been waiting anxiously for that that return to normal conditions, and it is to be hoped that the predictions of these men of high positions in finance and industry will speedily be realized, EDITORIAL NOTES We wonder if the hens would go on strike if they knew how much men received for laying bricks, A young woman was one of the competi. tors in the provincial plowing match. A girl with ability in that line is not likely to plow a lonely furrow very long. An expert has said that worms in apples do not detract from the quality, Neverthe- less, we prefer them without the worms, A report from Moscow says the five-year plan for building industry is succeeding be- yond expectations. But another report shows that the people are living on a scale akin to the direct poverty, with their food .and other provisions doled out to them in small rations, and without receiving any- thing like adequate returns for their labor, That does not read much like the result of a successful industrial policy. Only two weeks left to give a man a job before Thanksgiving, A Labor newspaper in Britain.says tariff protection is "the clumsy device of a by. gone age," Strange, however, that modern nations are unanimous in adopting it, with the exception of Britain, The slogan, "Five Acres and a Cow," sounds strangely reminiscent of election cries in Great Britain a quarter of a cen. tury ago. Large heaps of apples can be seen going to waste in the orchards of Eastern Ontario. They would be a Godsend to the unemployed folks in the cities, Direct taxation has passed far beyond its useful limits, and has been enmeshed in the law of diminishing returns, -- Sir Basil Blackett. Girls, if you are educated and intelligent, hide it from men.~Will Durant. Other Editor's Comments DONE BY ADVERTISING (Brantford Expositor) The will of the late Hon, P, C Larkin amounted to $3,500,000, the bulk of which was left to his fam- ily, As Mr, Larkin started as a tea merchant in a very humble way, his success is a striking example of what ean be achieved by energy, enterprise and advertising. From practical ob- scurity he left a name that is known throughout the entire world, GROWTH OF ADVERTISING (Detroit News) Once upon a time averting mat. ter in a newspaper was regarded by the public as a sort of waste pro- duct like the pits in the cherries or the husks of the grain, A complete change of public opinion has been effected, It has become an estab lished fact that many newspaper readers who confess, so far as the news matter is concerned to being headline readers only, find their greatest interest and spend the great. er part of their time alloted to read- ing, in a careful study of the adver. tising pages, They find in them both pleasure and profit, This winning of the public favor is directly attributable to the good gense, the technical skill, the artis tic methods and, ahove all, the hon- esty of the advertising. So clever- ly, are the artistic methods exercis- ed that most of the details escape the notice of the readers who are won and held by a combination of potent influences each wholly unob trusive, PEOPLE'S FRIEND (The New Yorker) A clear-eyed young orator, who al- ways gives his political organization a hand in campaign years, addressed a meeting of Harlem voters last Thursday evening, He was presented by a large, black gentleman, with spectacles, who made « lengthy and glowing introductory speech, in which, among other things, he told of the forthcoming speaker's love of the Negro, "ANI ask you to re membah," he said in conclusion, "that though this gentleman's skin may be white, his heart, friends, is as black as yours" THOSE COUNTRY LASSIES (Ed. Howe's Monthly) If there is a particularly good ball plaver in a country town he natural ly drifts to the larger communities 'he same thing is true of a particu~ larly good banker, reporter, preacher, lawyer, mechanic, It is a natual ten- deney; the invariable rule But the best women remain in the country communities And the best women originate in the country communi- ties; it is there they are most natural and womanly, Young men in the city make a mistake, if they do not seck wives in the country, Bit of Humour | HIS TURN Master: Did you throw shoemaker when he came bill? Servant: Yes, sir, but here he is again with a bill for me, 50 now vou throw him out.--~Nagel's Lustige Welt, Berlin, out the with my NO DOUBT WHATEVER Brown: You ought to brace up and show your wife who's running things at your house, Potts (sadly): There's no need She knows.--Montreal Star, FAIR WARNING Tourist (in mining town): Is this a healthy place to settle in? Hotel Proprietor: It is that, sig; but it's @ most unhealthy place if yon don't settle. ~The Humorist, BELIED Customer: Oh, Mr, Wopser, it's the old story--the woman always pays, Storekeeper: Well, if you'd look throuzh my books you'd find that some of them don't.--Passing Show, ON THE OTHER FOOT Jackie: Only that little bit of jam for me? Mother: That is not for you=it is for sister, Jackie: What? All that for her ?-- Pages Gales Yverdon, SEE THE CAPTAIN (Montreal Star) Mother was trying hard to arrange a match between her daughter and the wealthy young landowner, "Beatrice," she said to her daugh-. ter, "if Harold asks you to be his wife tonight, tell him to speak to me." Beatrice nodded and then said: "And if he doesn't ask, Mother?" "In that case," said her mother, "tell him I want to speak to him" IGNORANT Casey (to foreman): I'm tired of carrying this hod. T want to push a wheelbarrow like Flynn does, Foreman: You push a wheelbars row! What do you know about ma. chinery? . Bits of Verse AUTUMN By Ann Sherburne The Lady Autumn is in town, You'll know her by her tawny gown, The berries in her hair; Her arms are filled with goldenrod, And everywhere that she has trod, There's incefise in the air, The pungent smell of brown leaves burning (Only a few are still left turning Upon the naked trees): The last ripe apples on the ground, Mingle thelr scent with asters, found By drowsy golden bees. The birds no longer sing the ae Unceasing songs of Summer's day, But gather for their flight; Fat sparrows gossip in the eaves, A cricket chirps midst fallen leavey, Mig, vella the alsht, Eye by C. H. Tuck, Opt, D. (Copyright, 1928) THE RELATION OF DEFECTIVE EYES TO HEALTH Part "9 Colleges and educational institu tions can educate and graduate pro- fessional men and teachers alike but no man or institution can grade the individual, The making or marring of this success rests with him in the way he uses his education, Some. | thing of this is impressed in the fol lowing extract from Robert J, C | Stead: | "I envy no man what he justly gains, In life's hard battle each must fight | his fight. But some methinks are honored for their sins And some ignored because they do the right Some seem to find their fortune rea- dy made, And some have missed it how-so-e'er desired, The man's a fool who thinks that he can grade Society by what it has acquired, The noblest souls are oft the least renowned, In humbler homes men are found When some reports we may consider t] in having profited by the mistakes made when visual survey work first started in some large institutions, Certain of these were very unethi cal and the one who made the sur vey used his position to influence ir favor of things not expected from this position, Then, later successful man agement of these affairs was found in the surveys made by an associa. tion or by picked men chosen by an association (To be continued) God's greatest are considered we are blessed THAT local newspapers are great boosters, | at every way possible | They boost the hot opportunit e City and in ever) They boost the churches, the schools, the civic organizations and everything that promotes happines and is for the welfare of the people They boost for better streets for the city and better voads for the country; they know that good roads lessen the distance between city and country, make better business and » better community, They boost to promote friendliness and harmony between all people, | They boost for a square deal for everyone in the home city, | They boost for better business and | for everything that helps to develop | industry, They boost to bring new capital and new industries to the home city, They boost everything possible to help in developing the natural re- sources surrounding their city, which will increase payrolls and bring in- creased population, YOU SHOULD BOOST THE LO- CAL NEWSPAPERS AND GIVE THEM YOUR HEARTY SUP. PORT. THE MORE YOU BOOST YOUR NEWSPAPERS, THE To Wage Earners, DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND COMMERCE OTTAWA, CANADA Everywhere in Canada. Don't be Penny Wise Pound Foolish! -- October 25th, 1930. happen! Has it ever occurred to you that bargains, even honest-to-goodness bargains, are not always an unmixed blessing? Of course many so called bargains are not real bargains at all, Like the rosy apple that is rotten at the core, they appear to be something that they are not. A bargain is only a real bargain when it is offered you at a price less than what the article is really worth. Due to causen that predicate a loss tn some Canadian producer, real bargains are sometimes available to you, And when they are, and you need the articles offered, you would be foolish not to take full advantage of them. For if you don't, someone else willl Meanwhile anyone buying them is doing the Canadiarl producer a good turn by helping him to dispose of merchandise that, for one reason or another, he is compelled to convert into immediate money. "But when the subject of the bargain is a foreign-made article, the whols situation takes on a different aspect. Like as not the foreign producer, whom you would be helping out of a Jam if you purchased his bargain, has a production cost that is far below the Canadian cost of producing the same article. And if you were to instituteenquiries with aview to finding out why his production cost was so much lower, like as not you would find it was because he was paying his employees rates of wages that were away below the scale paid for similar work in this country. In that event, it would be reasonably safe to assume that a much lower standard of living prevails among the workers in his country than pre- vails here. Possibly he requires his employees to work longer hours than iscustomary in Canada. Possibly the laws of hiscountry are not as strict as they are here regarding the employment of child labour. Possibly he is not taxed, as Canadian manufacturers are taxed, to ensure compensa~ tion on a reasonable scale being paid his workmen who suffer injury in the course of their employment. Possibly he is not required to maintain his factory at anything like as high standards of ventilation, of sanita- tion, of heating, of lighting, of protection against fire and accident, as are in force in Canada. In all these matters--hours of labour, rates of wages, standards of living, factory inspection, social legislation and industrial betterment work-- Canada is much more advanced than most of the nations that make products similar to hers, The result js that Canadian wage earners are more fortunately circumstanced in almost every way, than are the wage earners in most other countries. Obviously they can only hope to retain those advantages as long as their employers, the manufacturers of Canada, are able to overcome in the domestic market the competition of foreign-made goods that are produced under longer working hours, lower wage scales, and lower standards of living, For should the time ever come when they can no longer compete, either their Canadian employees must agree to wage reductions and the loss of decent living conditions, or the manufacturers themselves must close up shop. You can see therefore what serious trouble these bargains in foreign made goods may cause you--what serious trouble any foreign-made goods may cause you whether they be bargains or not--if you allow yourself to be persuaded into buying them. Should you say there is nothing harmful in buying them once in a while, you will probably see nothing harmful in buying them every chance you get. And if you buy them every chance you get, you cannot blame others for doing the same thing. Once everybody in Canada starts doing it, you know what will So for the sake of a small immediate saving or merely to satisfy a passing whim, why run the risk of setting in train a movement that in a few years might easily prove your undoing! Wouldn't it be far better for you, and your family, and all your friends, to stand fast by the policy of buying '"Produced-in-Canada," as the surest means of protecting Canadian rates of wages and Canadian standards of living? Very sincerely yours, Minister of Trade and Commerce. Zucas MORE THEY CAN BOOST YOUR By Jomes W Barton, M.D. STIFF JOINTS One of the hard things to make a chronic rheumatic understand is that if he "rests" his joints all the time he is only laying up trouble for hime self as the joints will likely become permanently stitl, Of course in acute rheumatism where the joint is red and swollen, rest is absolutely essential; in fact movement at this time, can cause damage elsewhere in the body, However when the acute condition has passed and there is pain and stiffness in the joints, then despite the soreness and stiffness the joint should be moved from time to time, During and immediately after the war a great deal of attention was given to these stiff joints and heat in all forms-=moist, dry, electrical and so forth was the most important treatment, It was found that the heat and electricity changed the tise sues about the joint, aided the cire culation, and perhaps also changed the distribution of the lime or cals cium, N However owing to "the pain on movement these patients were not ens couraged to move the joints," The result is that to-day many of them have stiff joints--permanently stiff, Now vou may not be able to avail yourself of the electric applications, diathermy, or the electric cabinet, but you can get hot water, and it will be of great help, Put the joint in hot water, or apply other ten minutes, This increases the circulation in the part, softens up the Jelly like fluid of the joint, making it more liquid, Then move the joints in all directions gently at first but gradually using more force, The hot water permits movement without pain, After five minutes of these moving exercises apply the hot water again, for an- which actually helps to move the wastes away from the joint that were manufactured by the movements, In addition to movement of the af- fected joints, all the joints and mus- cles of the body should be moved or exercised, as this promotes the cir- culation of the blood throughout the entire body, It keeps the body lim- ber, and so more walking, or other exercise can be indulged in to the general benefit of the body, Don't rest a stiff joint, ; (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act) POTATOES ARE LEFT TO ROT IN GROUND -- Winnipeg--Mayor Webb, of Win- nipeg, appealing to local market gars deners to permit needy families to dig the potatoes they were leaving in the ground because of low prices, sald: "1 understand there are lots of farmers and market gardeners in the vicinity of the city, who, owing to the low price of potatoes, are leaving acres of them in the ground, Winter will soon be here and then the pota- toes would be frozen in the ground, There are lots of families who would go out and dig them for themselves f owners would give this permis. sion, _ The mayor said he would welcome information as to farmers or market hot towsla for about fen mimgtes. gardeners willing to adopt his sug- £eation, : COSTE PAYS TRIBUTE TO KINGSFORD-SMITH Havre, Oct, 27.~Dieudonne Coste, France's famous aviator who, with Maurice Bellonte, spanned the Atlan. tic in an.east-west flight, paid tribute to another great airman, As the French fliers stepped ashore from an ocean liner on their return to their native country, Coste was asked by newspapermen to name the greatest aviator in the world, His reply was brief and without hesitation : "Kingsford-Smith." |ESKIMOTOR COMPANY PROMOTER "JAILED Toronto, Oct, 27.~John Pentland, local inventor and promoter of a company styled the "Eskimotor Com« pany of Canada," has been 'arrested charged with a breach of the Ontario Security Frauds Prevention .Act, It is alleged Pentland sold stock in the company, which police say, was never incorporated, The fraud' charges ins THE volve $3,500, POPULAR "ALL.YEAR" TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAIN la schedule is to EE font nipey, egina, Calgary and LEAVES TORONTO 9.00 p.m. DALY GREAT N 1 J: PACIFIC RAVEL SYSTEM