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PEE SE ET Io LE Pb oh ten 8] re dai hs THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1930 PAGE ELEVEN HUGE FARM LOSS ON BASIC CROPS TOLD IN REPORT U.S. Secretary Claims Live stock Producers Have Lost $500,000,000 Washington, D.C~The 1930 re- t of the secretary of agriculture 8 #8 chronicle of farm losses runnivg through almost the entire category of agricultural enterprises. Livestock producers are estimated to have lost more than $500,000000 and cotton growers more than $400,000,000, While he set no figures for the to tal loss on wheat, Secretary Hyde pointed out that the August price 'was 37 cents a bushel less than a year ago at the same time, Even the po- tato crop, which is expected to be the smallest since 1925, sold in Au- st at $1.09 a bushel compared with 1.39 for a larger crop last year, Estimated at $9,950,000000 or 10 per cent, below that of 1929, the ag- gregate gross income from 1930 pro- duction is expected to be the lowest for any season since 1921, As a fur- ther blow to the farmer, the whole- sale prices of farm products have bal- len off 21 per cent. while the prices of non-agricultural commodities, which inclurde the things the farmer buys, dropped only 10 per cent, Exports of agricultural commodities in the ear ended June 30, 193), were the owest since 1915, Farm real estate taxes, to rise, now equal the interest whi farmers would pay at 0 per cent, a mortgage indebtedness amounting to 25 per cent. of the full value « real estate, as compared with about 11 per cent in 1913, . The average de- cline in value per acre of real es- tate for the entire country was 1 per cent, The borrowing power of the farm- er was much reduced in 1930 ch on | | | 1 By Mr, Sinclair. Lewis part they are willing to spend it, and oY, Recently enlightened people have been urging that the County Health Unit Plan of Federal and Provincial financial support of rural full-time Medical Healih Departments, or "Units" be adopted universally in Canada, Quebec, starting off with the assistance of the Rockfellers three or four years ago, has started nineteen of these units, and enthus- iastically recognizes the fact that they have saved hundreds of lives already. Meanwhile, in most other parts of Canada, the slaughter of thé inno cents go unchecked, Perhaps some day the County Health Unit plan will be appreciated and put into effect, After all, the telephone has become accepted, so perhaps we should not despaid too soon, SHAW DECLARES AMFRIGANS LIKE 10 BE RIDICULED Says Sinclair Lewis Adopted Right Attitude in His Speech at Stockholm Dee, 22--The printed t New he New York, York Times yesterday following from London: A New York Times correspondent asked George Bernard Shaw for his opinion of Sinclair Lewis' address at Stockholm, in which the Nobel prize winner attacked present literary stan- dards in America, This is Mr. Shaw's reply as delivered in his own hand- ring "As far as T am qualified to judge, o right way to the and as his own They will not resent it, he flattered but far their flatter right thir Swedish countrymen They expect to from being grateful to Bank | erg, they accept the tribute as a mats loans based on the shrinking secur- | tor' of course, just as they accept the ity of tarmers' equities in their land were difficult to liquidate, More than 4,000 banking institutions in the agricultural areas have closed their | yndving devot doors since the post way began, The total farm mortgage debt of the United States now represents about 22 per cent of the value of all farms, compared to only 10 per cent, in 1910, Who Kn Here is a news-item, 69 years old Tt is taken froma New York news- paper; "A man about forty-six years of age, giving the name of Joshua Coppersmith, has been arrested for attempting to extort funds from ig- norant and superstitious people, by exhibiting a device which, he says, will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by listeners at the other end He calls the instrument a "telephone," which is obviously intended to imi- tate telegraph and win the confidence of those who know the success of the latter instrument without u standing the principles on which is based, Well-informed prople ku that it is impossible to transmit the human 'voice over wires, as may be done with dots and dashes and sig» f epres depresj ¢ eI { ier it wl | clear | al osary i | | | | | pean by-word. ows 2 ing of their boots at a hotel "T's rouse their eager interest, their distinguished consideration and their jon, all that is neces- old them up to the ridi- of the unwerse to | cule the ic by merciless projections of typical Americans as windbags, swindles and ASKASSINA, "Mr, Sinclair Lewis has knocked Washington off his pedestal and sub stituted Babbitt who is now a Euro- Thereby he has be- come so indisputably America's lead- author that at the carly age of je has been marked out for the Nobel prize "I myself have of rest been particularly careful never to say a civil word te the United States. | have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of vil. lagers. 1 have defined the 100 per cent American as per cent an idiot. And they just adore me and will go on adoring me until in a me ment of senile sentimentality I say something nice about them, when they will at once begin to suspect me of being only a cheap skate after all and drop me like a hot potato, 'Most of the things | say of them are obviously true of all peoples that on earth do dwell but as the Ameri. cans can never helievc that other na- tions could possibly resemble them, | get them every time, just as Mr, Sin clair Lewis does "I hope he will keep pegging away at them. Otherwise there will be no nals of the Morse Code, and that, | holding them" were it even possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value," It is hard to get people to do any thing new; human beings are morc often pushed by necessity than pulled by ambition, tell us that we are fifty years behind | . | post Claims that practicaily all good fMlice appointments are going to | Belfast men has caused heated feel Competent authorities | ing in Ulster, At a recent meeting of the Northern Ireland District Counell of the Union of Post Office the times in our health-management, | Workers, held in Derry, it was point ) § | ed out that since the establishment Diphtheria and typhoid fever are two examples of absolutely preventable discases, yet between the two of them, they make over 20,000 Cana- digns seriously and expensively sick every year, and of that number, kill around 2,300, No longer is the country a healthier place in which to live than the city, To-day the reverse is true. Typhoid kills a far Higher per- centage of our rural, than our urban population, Big cities have money to pay for competent full-time public Leth «lepartments, and for the most of the Northern Government only one Class 3 provincial overseer had received promotion to head postmas tership, The head postmasterships of Armagh, Ballymena, Coleraine, Cookstown, Derry, Omagh, Portrush, Bangor, Holywood, Newcastle and Strabane dre all held by men from Belfast, In addition other Belfast men were promoted to he assistant postmasters, Delegates to the meet. ing sald that all claims of local men were ignored, GIFT PERFUMES Appealing Perfumes with their charming odors, imported and domestic, are presented in a rare holiday display here. Here you are certain to find her favorite brand, all available at reason- able prices. Two suggestions: Shari 150.590 Myrurgia i he Rexall Stores JUR: & LOVELL King St. Phone 28 "imcoe St. S, I'hone 68 has said just the | kens won them to him forever | have heen beea | | FLOOR SWEEPER GIVEN FORTUNE Proprietress of Shop Leaves Business and $500,000 to Employee Boston, Mass--The story of Cinderella who began work at the age of 13, running 'errands and sweeping floors, was unfolded here when it became known that after ninteen years' service in the wo men's specialty shop of Madame Driscoll, Mrs. Flizabeth Cunning ham Riley, 28, had been left the Boylston Street business as well as half of the residue of her employ- er's fortune, approximately $500,000, Once known as the fastest errand girl in the Boylston Street section, Mrs. Riley finally became Chief As line, whose fashionable Back Day modiste's shop has catered to Bos ton society women for half a century, Mrs, Riley is the wife of John A, Riley, Boston clothing salesman, They have three children, ed work In the modiste shop nine teen years ago, her salary was $2.00 per week. During the preceding five years, after the death of her father, she had done her share In providing {for the maintenance of the family, | and when she heard a casual remark that the famous Madame Driscoll needed a stock girl, she seized opportunity. Executors of the estate will age the women's shop for one and then turn it over Mrs | MEN BLAMED FOR SLO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING Washington Dec, 17--1t's the la gard male footsteps that slow th Christmas Shopping, was the pronouncement of the Re fers' Na- tional Council, based on a study of statistics garnered a city centre in last year's las rush, The council disc mas Eve found motheg with their gifts al Father and the b The ouncil use " men amateurs, at shopping. TONGUE TWISTER | TESTS SOBRIETY | Clay Cross, England-~Just becaus a "tongue twist man Veur Riley wvered that Chri and the gil ing |a man can't repeat ler" it doesn't mean that he her, a Derbyshire judge has held. He dismissed a drunkenness - charge against Hubert Watson, a truck driv- er, who couldn't say "The Leith po- lice dismisseth us" when the police asked him to, LABOR DESIRES SERVANT VOTE Consider That Hold Balance of Power in Adverse Districts London, --Mobilization of the Bri tis) servants class into an effective political unit is planned by the Labor party This vast wealth of ballots estimat ed at more than a million, is seen by leaders as controlling the balance of power in districts generally averse to labor candidate A manifesto to be used in propaganda work among this section of the electorate denounces the "long working day," pointing out that early morning tea and late din. ner make: for extraordinarily long hours, The proposal suggests six sight hours as a weckly time limit Ultra-Violet Light Valuable for Rickets days of Albany, N.Y.~Two hours of sun- shine daily in June equals one min- ute of a 70-volt ultra-violet light three feet away in curing rickets, Or it equals 20 milligrams a day of Ligh grade cod liver oil. These findings of comparative val- ues of various remedies for rickets are reported to the American Chemi cal Society by Arthur Knudson of Albany Medical College. Ricket cure by sunshine in took one hour daily longer than in June, SKELETON OF SCOT WITHOUT TEETH St. Andrews, Scotland. A skeleton | of a Scot who never had teeth has been found close to the foreshore near the Rock and Spindle at St, An- drews, the famous Scottish golf head quarters, I'rofessor Waterson of St. Andrews University gave it as his pinion that the skeleton was more han 200 years old, The jawbone re- vealed absence of dentition. y U.E.L. ASSOCIATION ELECTS OFFICERS 42 ~~Major V, Maclean Howard was re-elected aresident of the United Empira Loyalists Association at a meeting at Sherbourne Ilousc, - Other of- flcers were named ag follows: Vice-presidents, Mrs, Li, I, Reburn, PC, Baker, J. R. Roat, K.C., W. C., Mikel, K.C.,, and Major M. 8S. Boehm; corresponding secretary, Capt, H, H, Van Wart; treasurer, W. KE. Cusler; recording secretary, H, K. Thompson, W C, Mikel, K.C,, Mrg Jeffrey and Senator KE. D, Smith. were made lite members of the associu- tion and 10 new members were admitted, Mrs, J, Harvey gave an address on the Hamilton settler, Robert Land, and Miss ALG, Gil kison showed copies of paintings of United Empire Loyallet {nels dents, Toronto, Dec, 1] a sistant to Mme, Driscoll, in private | lite Mrs, Mary A. Dolan, of Brook- | When "Lizzie" Cunningham start iis Domestics we May | URING glad to plen CANADIAN WORLD'S GCREATEST Traver BY TRAIN ON YOUR WDuletide Trip the present Holiday Season, the convenient and comforsbls 3! services of the Canadien Pacific will be ad- equetely supplemented by extra trains and equipment, snd your local agent will be your trip. PACIFIC TRAVEL SYSTEM Alcohol 1ts G reat Ally BEER By A. H. LYLE Field Superintendent, Royal Templars of Temperance hat the expression, "Buy- poke," originated from wus frequently worked rs in England le of 8 1a fy h the | 1th puke Greater Hoax | But a greater s being perpet rated ey men and wo beer a hoax i ery da he t { | | n are enc [a healthful beverage bec courage 10 use 4 ause food valu , see the number and mes vho patronize | brewery wi ouses in our city that not a few imbued with the od for then nize the fact 1¢ effect upon ether take men er, a glass of wine whiskey, It is a t ucmands ever-in reasing quantities' of itself to satisf the craving it creates Food Value of Beer | One of the | about beer is in tl outstanding delusions king it 1s a foo will tell you that beer | ing as beefsteak. at to obtain the amour ou ishmient contained in one glas milk would have to drink thir- teen glasses of beer, W. Richardson, ome men | nouri ith is t | 1c 1 s daily need of forming sub | he the body it structure stances, fifty pins of beer woul necessary, Sinbad the Sailor «¢ more easily shake off the "Old of the Sea' than the a 1 uuply I yst of Bradford, England, says that t 1 a iol ce the fact lor ] had taken ey mode | in liquor the "dru tion | cme nantes Produces iwobrity y entif [ean emphasizes the effect | fr in a 1" the attr p n 11 In appearar we the pictt h of healt re ancapable I ! | of resisting |} Cube |cold, or a sl {will commonly | ending fatall |inerbriates wh alcohol, he is {more gencrally [¢bservatic 1 that | country | kind of inebrity fich UY, @ severe ok to the body .or mind provoke acute ii Compared with ot 15e different kinds incurable and It 18 our heer-drinking in this Hore diseased sely allied to | criminal insanity. The most danger ruffians in our [large cities heer-drinkers, In [tellectually a stupor, amounting to al st a paraly the hanging all the hig! faculties int {a mere animalism, ser I, | sluggish, varied only with paroxysms lof anger, senseless and brutal" Smothers Ambition |ous classes of are , arrests reason, Last December the tariff board held | n and several well | rat Hamilt manufacturers appeared be the board to ask for hanges in the tariff. Among these was Mr, Bert Hateh, of the Stanley Steel company, had spent stmmer in Germany, Mr, Hatch com- plained of unfair German competition [and th the chairman and Mr, Hatch ensued, is reported in the Herald: I "What are the wages generally paid ir Germany)' asked Chairman Moaoore, { "Many get but 17 to 18 cents a: hour," said Mr, Hatch | "How ean they exist on that?" "Beer is only five cents a glass." Thus you see, the drug effect of al cohol in the beer consumed smothers ambition and creates a condition where men are satisfied with wages ana conditions that otherwise would Ibe repugnant, | Beer and Your Body | When the stronger alcoholic liquors like whiskey or gin, are taken, the body, especially the lungs, put forth every effort to get rid of the alcoh {ol The breath just reeks with the odor of alcohol, In this way the poi- Ison is in contact with the body tissues a shorter time than when alcohol is taken in the diluted form of beer, The beer drinker who consumes a few glasses of his favorite beverage every day, does fot give his body a chance to recover from the harmful effects of the drug, alcohdl, The verments in the beer multiply in the stomach, which prevents the absorp- tion of food and increases the waste matter of the body, This is the caus of the bloated appearance which often mistaken for good health. 1t {is common knowledge that habitual beer drinkers have a very poor chance to recovery when overtaken by such diseases as pneumonia, blood poisoning or typheid fever, Poison from Hops Hops are used extensively in the brewing of beer. 1t is well known by scientists that hops contain an oil known as lupulin, which containg sev- eral substances similar to turpentine and resitt, 'Dr. Edwin F. Bowery, in 1 sittin known ! eral | certait who produces the very lowest | large | elfish, | the | e following dialogue between | oe | Ito think rom wl ously upon the upon the 1bstr its bru alizing effe Think This Over I J about It you dri 1 mir ach ole ik a pint i take fifteen 1 I A year TRADE IN BRAZIL OPEN TO CANADA | Vancouver, Dec. 22,-~Tradn | tween Canada and Brazil could | Improved if Canadlan |ers would establish branch in that country, according to A Bleakney, Canadian trade | stoner at' Rio de Janeiro, lin the eity Germany, Grent ain and United St lorganizations have |tatives in Brazil, the | says, and Canadian {thelr thelr trade in similar manner T LIKE A DOG | A deer F.1.C, city anal: | tator, get il | Man 1 \ dvocates of al- | that | | be manufactur houses comm| present Brit commerefal | represen. commissioner should develop | oven t{ by RICH STAMP Paris, ~The most freakish and one of the most valuable stamp col- jections in France is pasted gn the walls of the cottage of a priest in the Bavoy Alps. Collectors who have found the stamps have bid fabulous prices for the right to steam the collection from the walls, but since church property belongs to the French Government, the stamps must re- main pasted up until they are gpoil- ed by time, The collection was started half a century ago by a young priest who | had no other distraction in the mountain village. The Community is an hour's walk and climb from the nearest road. But the priest re- ceived a great quantity of mail, and friends gent him stamps to add to his collection. He started pasting stamps on the pare walls in place of wall paper. And then, as the collection grew, he pasted more on top, making Greek | designs out of the issues of various {countries There are nearly 250,000 | old postage stamps on the four walls of the salon, many of them now rare issues much sought after by collectors, The French collection is particu- larly rich, with copies even of the | famous balloon stamps issued for| air mail hy gasbag, when Paris was | being besieged by the Germans in of 1870, "the war { There is u rare triangular stamp | from the Cape of Good Hope, some | {rare vatican stamps of the first is-| ne hefore Italy took over the pon- titieal tertitory, war stamps from | 1870 from Alsace and Lorraine, the | { tirst issues of Norway, the famous | | Greek mercury series, and countless | mhne ASHEURN Ashburn, Dee, 16 Mi | Black | Miss ary Kerr, Mr, I. Richardson spent a few last week in Toronto. | r., and Mrs. C. Figs, Miss Baker, of Glen Major, spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Hop kin. Mrs, | da M Wm. Walker last week with her daughter, Holman in Toronto. Miss Emma Fisher, spent the week-end at | | her ', | | spent Mrs. her home Mr. and Mrs, C pect, spent Tuesday of this week nt the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Par- Parrott, Annual Christmas Tree and Con Burn'e Church Sunday school will be held in the ment of the church on evening, Dec. 19th at 8 p.m. G. Barton will be In charge. Young People met on 'Tuesday ng last under the direction of the missionary convener, | Robt, Heron. The topic was taken y Mrs J. 8. Johnston; rendered by Master Kenneth Rey nold, Vera Leach and Wm. Bur- q No meeting will be held this art, of base Friday {| Heron, Rhoda | 1 spent. the week-end, with A | of Toronto | Wilson, of Pros- | Mr. | Mrs. | solos wore | week owing to the Christmas Con cert, bir. G. W, West bad charge of | the service here last Sunday morn- ing and Mr. GG, Barton in the even- ing. Both addresges were inepir- | ng and helpful, | ch on nd | The service in Burns chu Sunday. Dec, 21st at 11 . 7 p.m. Sabbath School 0H a m, A hearty invitation is extend el to everyone to attend. W. M, 8B. and Women's Guild met in the basement of the church on Wednesday afternoon last, uhou Iz twenty-five belug present Mrs Robt. Duff presided over the M.S. and the following officers wor elected for 1931, President--Mre, Robt , Johnstor 4 PY; treasurer, Grant, Mri. Ashton then took charge and the following of- ficers were elected for Women's Guild for 192 Prosident, Mrs. H. Ashton; vice president, Migs 1). Fisher; secye- tary Miss M. West; treasurer, Mrs H. Doble, A special feature of this meeting | also, was Mrs. Arthur Reynold be. | ing made a life member of W.M.8 Pleased to report Mre. who underwent ation at Little dritain Robt an oper | Le of Natiens may have on Funday last, Is progressing fa vorabl} John West, of Os funday with his br Mr. G, W., West, awa nhc Mr, pient beye, BAND IN INTERNATIONAL MIX Possibility is looming tha the / 10 set tle a dispute over instruments of the smithborough, Ireland, band, The ritish authorities have fzed the after they had been in parish priest of Ross Ferma bh, This was a sequel to idence given in se Beard ar Mo han, from which it appeared that the members of the mithbhorough Band had a dispute, and the instrument taken to igh priest's home, Part of the state and part Island. The . trustees take the instruments mithborough and pay the but the British Cus- horities have them now, and are demanding duty on them, as well a penalty for taking them into Northern Ireland by an unauthorized ute Customs pieces the ca, County the « a were parisly ig in the Free fn Noarthern undertook back 19 cugtonis Long an 0) duty; Hospital | of A FEW LAST MINUTE GiFT SUGGESTIONS THE ARCADE "Genuine" HUDSON BAY BLANKETS 3 point, 814 and 4 here a line of that equalled point, nre pure wool SNankets have never been for all around serviceability, point, They come in Blues led and Brown with contrasting border stripe. Pure IRISH LINENS Household necessities, fancy Ince table runners, dollies, centre pieces, lunch cloths, and serviettes, hand paint. ted table cloths, ete, at 257% discount A FINAL "CLEAN.UP" ON 72 SILK DRESSES The newest styles, colors, etc. yourself one of these smart dresses All sizes for Miss for Christmas. 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