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FOUR ¢ Oshawa Daily Time cceeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER ! (Established 1871) An indepetident - newspaper published everv after fioon t Lunda s and fo holidavs at Osh by The Times ishing Company ited. Chas, M. Mundy, President Managing Director : " ber of The Cana. Fie Ovkowa | Cand hy Bally "News apers Asso Sinton, the, Ontatio rovinglal Dailies and the udit Bureadl of Cireulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ; by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. @ Delvand fino in Canada (otitside Oshawa earrier : hg Tints) $300 a year, United States $4.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 618 1 d Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone 88 Pina 0107 fi D. Tresidder, representative, MONDAY, MARCH 2nd, 191 A WORTH-WHILE PAYROLL ' Away: A A payroll of $3,500 a week is worth a good deal to a community at a time when condi. Lions are depressed. When that payroll is being paid to men who would otherwise be unemployed, and without an income to pro- vide the necessities of life for their families, it becomes even more important. That is what the relief work payroll has been to Oshawa. For many weeks, a sum of between $3,000 and $3,600 has been hand- ed out by the city treasurer for payment of wages in connection with relief employment, made possible by the co-operation of the pro- vincial and federal governments. Thus, no matter what criticisms may be di- vected at the Bennett government in discus- sing unemployment from a political angle, the premier and his colleagues must be given full credit for what they have done in this respect, by making funds available for use to assist in providing emergency employment for the workless. That weekly payroll of over $3,000 has been a great boon to hun- dreds of Oshawa families, who have, been helped through a winter that would other. wise have been a very cheerless season. * A-COURAGEQUS STAND . The Bennett government is not to be bribed ' or bluffed. Following closely on the heels 'of an announcement that Russia was willing . fo buy $10,000,000 worth of Canadian agri- 'cultural implements, in return for the pur. "chase by Canada of $3,600,000 worth of Rus- sian coal, the government, through the min. ister of national revenue, boldly declared a complete ban on all products from Soviet 'Russia. Even the suggestion that Russia 'might be willing to make a bargain regard. dng wheat dumping was fot enough to dis- 'sudde the government from its course. © It was quite a temptation for a country which is seeking markets for manufactured i products to have an offer like this held up before its eyes. It would have meant in- ; employment in certain factories, and 'that is what the country needs today. But the fact that behind*it all was the sinister figure of Communisih, seeking to strangle 'the civilization of the world, and that was sufficient to keep the government of Canada 'on the straight course, taking the only ac- 'tion. which a self-respecting government of : Canada could take. Even although the Soviet government has . since repudiated the offer which was an. snounced a few days before, the fact remains : that it was placed before the government by "a Canadian who claimed to be representing © the Soviet government, and it required cour- « #ge, in the face of expressions of approval + from interested manufacturers, to shut the "door In' Russia's face. Canadi has given leadership to, the world in dealing courage- «ously with the Soviet menace, and if every other country would do exactly the same, * Russia would have very little further oppor- tunity of digorganizing the world's markets. SMOKE STILL GOES UPWARD The St. Mary's Journal Argus does not * believe that the actual routine or conditions ~ on the farms of Ontario have changed much, even if city papers picture them as highly 'organized and governed by reports, ete. Our contemporary says: . "To the casual reader of the newspapers it must seem that farming has become en- tirely a matter of official proceedings. A committee reports, A board is to be appoint- ed. A conference will take up the question, An organization has adopted resolutions, A program will be outlined. This is about the only guise in which farming appears in the public view nowadays. So far as the printed 'record goes, there isn't much else to it any "more. But out in the country things some- how Sums se I np rn a oe es still arises in the farm Kitchen, thanks to the giftéd farm wife 'The cows and the shoats are still receiving their daily rations from the farmer's own hand. The farm boy still goes whistling ~ about his chores is maybe feeding a pig or a calf of his own. Old Rover is still incline ed to chase an occasiongl unwary rabbit, Life n the farm still seems to be going through its customary round of requirements and compensations, 1 , its own motion. These two pictures of farming don't match up very well. Both of them can hardly be true, But the discrepancy i little to worry about. One picture is the genuine article; the farm. ers it depiets will go itling up his bills and attending to the us- = on getting in the crops | compliment," replied ual business of the land: And, as old Cy Le. land used to say in Kansas, the smoke will go up the chimney." . EDITORIAL NOTES The voters on the gas bylaws should re. member that if Oshawa does not become the headquarters of a great gas distributing sys- tem, some other town or city along the lake- shore will have that distinction, with all the industrial benefits that go along with it. There are times when an old touring car makes just as big a splash as a new limou. sine--especially in a mud puddle, We're all pulling for the Oshawa Juniors in their game at Toronto tonight. : The railway order regarding the Whitby- Lindsay train has turned out to be less of a victory for the municipalities than some people imagined it was going to be. With the steam clauses eliminated from the gas purchase bylaws, there is not nearly 80 much to cause the people to get "steamed up" over the issues. An old dog cannot be taught new tricks. It seems hard for Hon. Justice Hyndman to realize that the Pension Act is different from other statutes in that it gives the benefit of the doubt to the applicant for pension and not to the defendant, which in this case is ,the board of pension commissioners. | Other Editors' Comment | ST. THOMAS MUST SPEAK (Stratford Deacon-Herald) The other day the Oshawa Times, which is pubs lished in the home town of W. E. N. Sinclair, lcader of the Liberals in the Ontario legislature, had this to say of that gentleman: 'Strange that it was only after he resigned from the leadership~of the Ontario Liberal party that W, 1. N. Sinclair learned how much people appreciated him. It is safc to say that right-minded Liberals are fodag more proud of Mr, Sinclair than they are of Mr, Hepburn." Now, of course, that brings up a rather delicate point that need not be argued in the columns of this paper. We are somewhat removed from active pare ticipation in party politics, and can harpbon cither Mr. Sinclair or Mr. Hepburn at will, But the surprising thing is that the St, Thomas Times-Journal, which holds forth right in Mr. Hep. burns bailiwick, published that statement from the Oshawa Times and then never said boo about it. ; If that paper in Oshawa is going to keep on stick- ing up for Mr. Sinclair, and blowing that he's a bet- ter man than Mitch Hepburn ever thought of being, will not the St. Thomas paper have to dip its old goose quill into the ink pot and say that Miteh Hep. burn chn lick Sinclair with one hand tied behind his back, or something like that? Not that this paper is at all keen to disturb the litical peace which seems to have settled on the and since the by-elections in Hamilton and Gren- ville, but when we see that-paper in Oshawa pufling and blowing about its man and saying that he's bet. ter than the St. Thomas breed, it's time for the St. Thomas paper to holler right out and say that Hep- burn can husk more corn or buck more wood in a day than Sinclair can in a week. Anything--any. thing at all to show that the St. Thomas paper is going to stick up for the native son. BITS OF VERSE IF THERE BE TWO I'S OF ME I hear myself tell tales, so false, I who love truth so well, 1 see myself hold rage in sway, And words of passion swell; I watch my pride good sense ocr rule, Desire Salk uncontrolled ; When Love's coals should burst into flame, My heart is stony cold. Yet "tis I who. loathe a lic, To me wrath's waves are vile, Pride misplaced is Pride that's false, And gred a serpent's wile It's my own heart would love all souls, And creatures great and small, There's an 1 that holds its ideals high, There's an 1 that makes them fall, Dut if there be two I's of me, Which T bears my name? Somewhere One knows both 1's of me, And love me just the same, ~Theresa Mary Monts. | BITS OF HUMOR Demon - Rum--Temperance Worker--"\Why don't you fight against your longing for drink? When you are tempted, think of your wife at home," The Vietim="Madam, when thc thirst is I am obsolutely devoid of fear upon me JUST ONE iF Little Nellie, who was staying in the country with her grandma, went 10 the chicken house to see if there were any eggs. She returned in a few mine utes looking very disappointed and said: "No eggs this morning, Grannie, except the one the chickens meastire by."s ? A LIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING "Why did Ellen refuse to marry the vicar?" "She is a bit deaf, and when he asked her to marry him she thought lie wanted a subscription to the organ fund, and told him she had a better usc for her money.""--Dic Muskete, Vienna, rr ---- Sez Hugh: People who ™ off till tomorrow take on that much more worry ; Sezi: But don't forget to put off putting them off until spring really arrives. 1 _ THE RIGHT INSCRIPTION A motorist touring Wales was struck and sometimes amused by the inscriptions in Welsh which he saw in various parts of the country. » One morning in a hotel when the attendant was showing him to his bath, the visitor paused before the inscription on the mat, "Tam Htab," he mused; for Welcome." "No, sir," said the attendant, "thc bath mat haps pens to be upside down." J NO PERJURER ] 4 seem 10 have plenty of infelligence for a man m "I supposc that's Welsh i position," sneered a barrister, cross-exxamine ing a witness, "If 1 wasn't on cath Ud reiurn the the witness, . | one." RJ. BALL. DITOR OF THE LOVELAN LORADO) RE. PORTER-HER , SAYS: THAT much of ge. success of busi- ness is founded on CONFIDENCE, and confidence in turn depends upon CREDIT. If the masses of the peo- ple would keep their credit good it would give a great impetus to and a vast amount of needed sccurity to business. "CHARGE IT." How simple it is to drive'into the filling station, have your car filled with gas and oil, receive the courteous attention of the employees, and say "CHARGE I'T" as you drive ott. Or to buy something of the mer- chant, receive the services of the doc tor or the lawyer and say "CHARGE IT." And elsewhere you go on your buying rounds you are treated with courtesy and favor and say "CHARGE IT." And you are accorded the pri- vilege of having it "CHARGED." Simple, isn't it--and convenient? But what about your abligation when you have been granted these favors? Jo you regard it as simple and treat it with the same courtesy and favor that has been shown when you say "CHARGE IT?" Or do'you dismiss it from your mind and when you re ceive a statemeht of your account swell up like a poisoned toad and act like you have been insulted? Or maybe you simply deny the account, or if not that, pay no attention to the statements and just let the fel low who has trusted you wait and wait for his pay while you go on spending the money that rightfully belongs to him. The fellow who asks for and receives credit and then does not make every human effort to meet his obligations, and meet them cheerfully and prompt. ly, is not a man, though he have the stature of a Goliath--=he is just a "ninny" and a dead-beat, and all pre- tentions at anything else only make him the more detestable, "CHARGE IT" implies in common honesty "I WILL PAY IT." And there is just one brand of honesty. THERE .1S AN OLD SAYING "MAN IS MADE OF DUST; DUST SETTLES, BE A MAN. VERY TRUE AND QUITE APT. THINK IT OVER Eye Care and Eye Strain by C. H. Tues, Opt. D, (Copyright, 1028) HYPEROPIA Part One Many 'eyes arc imperfectly shaped. Some are too long, some too short and some have imperfect curvature of the cornea, the front covered por- cause impertect vision and a severe tax on the nervous system and the effort put forth to right these irre- gularities lead to such complaints as headaches in the brow, temple, and back of the head, dizziness and indi- gestion, Temporary relief may be had through treating the above symp- toms, but the cure is obtained by treating the cause, The eyes alone, working under nor. mal conditions consume approximate- ly 16 per cent of the total nervous energy. Therefore under strain you can readily see where double or triple the normal amount may be used, When we consider the condition of the eyeball being too short it is meant ifn connection with the power of the eye, The power of the eye may be deficient for the length of the ball or the length may be deficient for the power of the eyes, This condi. ly called far-sightedness. Rays of light entering this eye from an object viewed cauge a blurred im- age on the retina, The image to be perfect is produced by the rays com. ing to a point focus, In the Hyper- opic eye if these rays were extended to this point focus would exist behind the eyeball at a point directly behind the retina, Nature endeavors to overcome this condition by the action of the ciliary muscles which cause the crystalline lens of the eye to increase its cure vature and cause brought out clear with a clear image on the retina, This extra exertion of the ciliary muscle requires more strength than is normally necessary with the eyes seeing and it is the reason for young people requiring glasses for eyestrain, (To Be Continued) Our Latin-American policy, says Secretary Stimson, "has been a noble And like other noble policies of our Government, has required plenty of enforcement officers ~Vir- ginian-Pilot, God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to 3 Shem that trust in him.--2 Sam: PRAYER--And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in Thee, LETTERS TO +. ea i A rs THE EDITOR _ SALE OF THE OSHAWA GAS RS . On March 21st, the ratepayers of Oshawa will be called upon to vote for or against the sale of the city gas plant, I was at first op- posed to the idea, knowing from personai experience that under fa- vorable conditions, a gas plant is a paying concern, Oshawa has not got those favorable conditions and never will have. After hearing most of tho facts from Mayor Marks, Mr. Conant and Mr. Mason at the 8. W, Ward ratepayers' meoting, I am fully convinced that they are placing be- fore you a proposition that iseall for the good of the city. It is for you 'to decide, don't miss this op- portunity, I say, vote unhesitat. ingly for the sale of the gas plant to the company named and recom- mended by the Council, What does it matter whother the sald company comes from Britain, U. S.A., China, or Timbuctoo, They have offered a straightforward business proposition. In my opin. lon, the only one the Council could lend an ear to. The gas plant cost the city $210,000. They will pay $214,000 as it stands, they will spond $100,000 the first year, they will pay taxes, they will lay gas mains in the city, also N, BE, amd west of the city, distributing gas to all towns, villages and cities within a radius of many miles and all from thelr main supply in the city of Oshawa. This is a chance we may not have again, The city have proved during the last two years that they can only run the plant at a loss. They are at pres- $8,000 to the bad and avery year would add to the deficit, Even it they spend a large sum of money to put it in working or- der and I understand $25,000 {is required immediately for a new generater, they could not make it pay. The only way is to .nako and sell gas in sufficient quanti ties to make a profit to cover all working and other expenses over and above I should say. The 1,100 #48 consumers. in Oshawa could not use this quantity nor is tip city in a position to runs mains outside the city to ensure a higgor consumption. This company can and will do so and they don't ask the ¢ity to help them, It will re- duce the price of gas per 1000 feet both to Oshawa and the outlying districts, Then comes the building o* a coke plant, Please don't run away with the idea that this is like build- ing a garage or a rabbit hatel, it is a big affair and will employ a lot of labour, not three months In the year, but every day in the year, making gas, coke, lime, tar, chom- cals, dyes and other by-products. with fire brick. you experiencod bricklayers. There will be work at the harber in con- nection with the importation of coal, the exportation of coke and I've not the least doubt but there will bo a reduction in the price of both coke and cecal when gots 'going. payer, but like a good many more I have the city's welfare at heart, I want to, sed Oshawa grow not only in size, number of inhabitants and property, hut I want to see it grow. in prosperity, to see it ex- pand for the good of all eciti- zeus. 1 want to see it boautiful, It was said at the lorticultural meeting Oshawa could be made the Garden City of Ontario as well as the Motor City but before we can devote our time and energies to the beautifying of the city we must first look after the people. We want work to get food, clothes, and to pay our taxes. Work is the key note, work is the key stone, Clive us work and every store will benefit. Look around, north, south, cast and west and note the nbumber of housos and stores to rent, sell or decay. It's wicked, a sin, 1 feel sure a' good many people in Osh- awa don't realize the present dis- tress, not all deserving cases ask for rollef. You have in your midst artisans, mechanics, ete, with good homes (alas, becoming bare) who know what it {a to be without fuel and not much to eat but they can't beg or ask for charity, They want work. we must keep as citizens, We must retain at all costs, every re- spectable family for Canada, They are tho country's best assets. So I say, get new Industries into the city to find employment for these families, to build up the city of Oshawa on right lines. { Vote for the sale of the gas | plant on the 21st and bring {nto tho city an organization that- will bengfit 1s, by employing some of our workless brothers, by reducing the cost of gas, electric light, coal and coke and helping to reduce the ftaxes. It a banquet can ho given the Skinner, Coulter or any other company, I think the same wel: como is just as due to this new power company when they turn the first sod for the now coke plant. Modesty forbids me to give my name, but anyone who desires, or wishes to have a tilt at me can obtain my name and address from the Oshawa Times Office. Yours faithfully, An Unomployed Ratepayer. "1 PRAYER St DAILY LENTEN DEVOTION PREPARED BY THE REV CLARENCE 1. WILSON, BO FOR THE COMMISSION ON EVANGELISM OF THE FEDEML FELLOWSHIP OF tion of the eyeball. These conditions, tion is known as Hyperopla, common | the focus to be vaal mining. COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST. IN AMERICA "The seed is the work of God." Luke 8:11, (Read Luke 8:4-15) Meditation There is a vitality in words, Plant them and they spring into life, grow- ing to immeagurable harvests. Civil- ization, education, religion, they all come from the sowing of words in the fecund soil of the human soul. The turning points in life are where words fitly spoken take root. "In the beginning was the word"~at cvery beginning is the word. Jesus describes Himself as the sower of the word of God. His training of the twelve was spirit. So we are called to our task which is to be sowers of words Many of our words will be wasted, no doubt, sown on rocky soil or among thorns, Dut we are to sow and spare not. Nature is lavish with her sceds, producing and scattering far more than will ever grow, So should we be with words. We do not know where the good ground is, Our mistake is in selecting the likely spots for our sowing, Prayer O God whose word * giveth life, grant unto us that we may be dilis gent and generous, sowing beside all waters, Govern our tongues that the divine gift of speech be not abused, In Jesus' name, Amen, TRANSVAAL MINES REPORT RECORD IN ~ OUTPUT OF GOLD Value of Production in 1930 Computed at $227,673,230 Johannesburg, Bootfi Africa.-~A new record in the gold output in the Transvoal mines was reached in 1930, when the value was com- puted at $227.677,230, according to the Transvaal Chamber of Mines official statistics, including gold production for December. In the past year three new records were 'established in monthly production and thus the 12 months' figures to- talled more than any previous 12 months in the history of Trans- The Transvaal's {otal produetion meme lof gold during 1930 amounted to year 10,719,760 fino ounces, an increase over the previous year's figures of 307,434 ounces. At the standard value of gold, the 1930 output rep- resents a total of $227,673,230, an increase over the 1929 value of no legs than $6,620,490. The 1930 figure brings the Trans voal's production of gold since the commencement of the fields to the to make them expert farmers of the 19 total of 280,163,852 flne ounces, representing (at the standard value which, of course, was supplemented by a "premium' amount to more than $150,000,000 during the war period) of no less than $6,813,- 142,600. BIRTHS INCREASE, DEATHS DECREASE ssn Vital Statistics Show Fine Situation in South Africa Cape Town, Bouth Africa.---Ac- cording to the annual report of the Department of Public Health, the birthrate in the Union for the year 1920 was higher than in the two preceding years; the crude death- rate was the lowest since 1026; the infantile mortality was the lowest so far recorded; and the survival dns higher than it has been since Ve The only unsatisfactory feature of the vital statdstics is that the maternal mortality is higher than in any of the three preceding years, and, as the report phrases it, "cor- tainly very excessivve." The European population 1 1928 based on the censuses of 1921 and 1926 1s estimated at 1,738, 1987; Bantu, 05,277,023, Aslatic, 183,771; mixed and other colored, 577,862; total 7,777,083, The Kuropean birth--rate per thousand of the population was 25.8, which is higher than England and Wales, France, Germeny, New Zealand, Scotland. the United States of Am- erica, Australia, Canada, or South ern Rhodesia, Italy and' Lithuan« fa have birth-rates of 26.1 and 28.8 respectively. The European death. rate in the Union was 10.15 crude and 10.69 corrected for age and sex 'distribution, This is lower than any of the other countries above enumerated with the excep- tion of Southern Rhodesia, The infant mortality rate was 70.40 per thousand births. The rate, the report shows, hag marked- ly improved since the date'of Unfon; 1026. The survival rate or rate of natural inerease was 10,6. This rate is also falling slightly, but is higher than that of any other coun. try except Egypt and Poland. TEOUMSEHS IN DRAW London, Feb, 27,~~London Tecumsohs gained undisputed pos: session of third position in the In- ternational Professional Hockey League race when they battled the league-leading Buffalo Bisons to a goalless draw in a 70 minutes gruelling struggle, played before 8,000. specstators at the London Arena, Sent to Penitentiary Campbellford.--~Auswering to a charge of being In unlawful pos- session of hens and chickens vale ued at $20.00, the property of Miss Mary Johmston of Seymour Town- ship, on or about January 9, and pleading not guilty, Walter Par- cels, aged 31, of Campbellford, was convicted of the offence, and sentenced to two years in. Ports- mouth Penitentiary by Magistrate The retorts often require relining | Here is a job for this | I am only an unemployed rate- | These are the mon | though it has risen slightly since | VALUABLE ART SHOWN T0 AI HOSPITAL FUND British 'Knight Organizes Fine Exhibit in London London.--'Nobady can organize a loan exhibition for charity better than Sir Philip Sassoon," says the Times, "and that representing the arts of 'The Four Georges,' at hls house, 26 Park Lane, in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital, of which he is honorary treasurer, may be sald to carry success in its uue, As to the exhibition, which opened Feb, 23 and wl clese March 30, the Times says: "Quality rather than quantity is the note of the exhibitfon. Thus, there are only 66 pictures, but they are all of the first importance. One circumstance alone would make the exhibition memorable-- no fewer than 13 pictures are lent from America. The migration of 18th century portraits across the | Atlantic 18 a constant theme of re- gret; it is vory seldom indeed that one of them comes back. J. Pler- pont Morgan lent Gainsborough's 'Miss Linley and Brother," members of the family with which the artist had his happiest relations, human and professional, and J. E. Widen- er his 'Mrs, Graham'--presumably the subject of the skotch in the National Gallery. From Knole Lord. Sackville leuds Gainsborough's. 'Third Duke ot { Dorget'; Lord Spencer sent three first-class examples of Reynolds-- 'Lavinia, Viscountess Althorp,' 'Lady Anne Bingham,' and 'Rich- ard Burkoe'; and one of Laurence's finest works, 'Miss Conyngham with Dog,' is lent by Mrs. Stotesbury. One aim has been to secure ple- tures not merely of, relative to, {the period. Thus, there fs a por- [trait of 'Willlam Beckford,' the cul. [tural soul of the 18th century, by Reynolds, and London views from Richmond House, one of its cultur- al centres by Canaletto." BEAVERBROOK IS STILL ON RAMPAGE Measure, of Victory Accom- plished--Peer Forms Party in Norfolk London, Yeb, 28.-A thorn in the side of the Conservative party for many months, Lord Beaver- brook continues with undiminished energy his Empire free trade cru- sade, After electing one Empire Free Trader and {incidentally de- feating the official Conservative candidate, Lord Beaverbrook had the satisfaction late in February of seeing his Empire free trader, Brig.-General A, C.| Critchley, na- tive of Calgary, poll more votes than the official Conservative in the Enst Islington-by-election, though Labor retained that meat, Lord Beaverbrook recently was {nstrumental in forming in Nor- folk the new Agricultura! Party. This body, wi. ect creatic o the bustling newspaper Laron, is how ever fairly local and it is not ox- poeted that other agriculturists will follow the example of Nore folk--=not at least without consid- erable campaign work, The special correspondent of the Sunday Observer paints an intrie guing picture of the way in which Lord Beaverbrook "organized" the farmers of Norfolk, who forme. ed a new party with this plat- form: "Taxes on foreign foodstuffs, | Involving the acceptance of the | same principle of protection for | agriculture that it is proposed to concedo to manufacturing indus. tries (Taxes on foraign foodstuffs means ull foreign agricultural pro- duce that is competing with the | home producers, as, for instance, | meat, machine skimmed milk, { fruit pulp, bacon, eggs, etc.) "In addition a guaranteed, mar- | ket and price covering the costs of production on the average farm to be given for all wheat under | eultivation. Duty on imported for- | eign barley used for malting and | distilling without reservation. | Preterence for home produced foodstuffs in Navy, Army, and Afr Forco contracts. | "Dominions to get the benefit of thy market for the supplies of foodstuffs needed over and above {the maximum home production | under the provisions of Empire Free Trade. | "By this time they have come | to know him, When there was a | py-election in North Norfolk a few 'months ago he was to be seen | striding over the fields, all burnt | up with fire, energy, and zeal", the Observer says. "Men returning {home from thelr work, often saw {him appealing with outstretched larms to a familiar sceno of sheep | dogs and friends, while a number of philosophical bullocks stared fugubriously in the background, They thought him very nice, de- | elded his black hat was rather odd, and did not put his candidate at the top of the poll How Party Was Formed "Since then Lord Beaverbrook has occasionally flung himselt into Norwich, busied himself mys- terfougly for an hour or two, and has hastily flung Dbimself out again, The farmers thought him nicer and nicer, though still a 1it- tle odd with his black hat und his speed and the majestic sweep of his ideas. Parties of them occa sionally went up to Lendon and began to feel somebody cared for ngriculture after all. They started going to Conservative gatherings and with great {innocence asked questions about the quota that Floyd of Cobourg, here. the candidate found it impossible 'Housemaid" to answer. Things began to look ups An horizon that had hitherto appeared lowering and uncertain seomed sdudenly {lluminted and expansive, And then the big and purposeful Bentley would arrive again, and Lord Beaverbrook would pop out, hurry into a hall, pop into the Bentley again, and drive away home, waving that mysterious black hat to his new friends, "So they formed the new party last week. Lord Beaverbrook burst into Norwich, was photographed leaning eagerly forward ds'it he were about to jump into the came era, and then disappeared behind locked doors, The disappointed reporters sat on the doorstep and listened to tho ringing echoes of his volce. At the end of the meet ing, when Lord Beaverbrook asked those who agreed with him to put up thelr hands, only three out ot a gathering of four hundred refused to do so. "Thus the Norfolk Farmers Party became a triumphant fact, Lord Beaverbrook told them about his negotiations with the Conservatives and about hig new policy. 'Hitherto,' he sald, 'wa have been elephants trumpeting in the jungle; now we are going to be tigers rushing out on the une wary heathen. Ie wus golng to 'apoil the Egyptians' at the by« elections. The « Norfolk farmers liked the programme very muck, especially the idea of a4 fight te tho lagt. Their headquarters in London were not so pleased, The ofticlals sald they had been getting on very nicely with Mr. Baldwin, very nicely indeed, and this new party was going to be confounded ly awkward, "Norfolk is basically arable, and her needs cannot have very much interest, say, for the dairy farmers of Cheshire, Ove is not oven at all sure if new party will go down very guccossfully in Nor. folk. Perhaps we shall notesee any farmers' candidates after all. The new party is obviously out to scare the local Conservative candidates, and that ought not to be particul: arly diftienlt, "Lord Beaverbrook eould not, of course, have made the Norfolk farmers politically coneclous uns less the times had been very hard. They say here there Were more more failures last Michaelmas than over before. One gots a sense of foreboding when one passes, on the way down from London, that great streteh of Thetford Heath as grey and forbidding as anclent Egdon, that was one long ago cultivated, but is now a wilderness 'of fern and bracken. "That foreboding becomes «© certainty if one makes a tour of the county. There is an estate of 30,000 acres near Norwich where all the tenants have given notice. One young man who now wrings a precarious living from the soll | started 10 years ago with a capl« tal of $200,000, and is now in debt to the banks. A 10,000 acre farm near Fakenham which used to employ 43 men has been put down to grass, and now employe but four. The face of Norfolk, that once used to be so delightful in its variety of brown and Free, and that reminded one go often © Crome and Cotman, is being total- ly changed. Men are being forced to go in for the prairie farm. Evon so, the failures still go on accums« utating. Some of tho farmers can< not even afford their modest sub- geriptions to the National Farmers Union." ---------------------- WHEN JUNIOR TAKES HIS PEN IN HAND People go about Venice in Gore gonzolas, A polygon many wives. A brunette is a young bear. Ambiguity means baving wives living at the same time. Doctors say that fatal discases are the worst, A figure of speech Is a. way of talking or writing by which you say what you don't mean und yet meayg what you say. A circle §s a line which mects its other end without endinz. The Normans introduced the Frugal System, Laconiec Doctor: "My dear mae dam, I can do nothing whatever for you." Lady: "Gracious! What is the matter with me?" Doctor: "Nothing." Lawyer--'Don't you think you are straining & point In your ex planation?" Witness--"Mayhe, 1 am sure, you often have to strain things to make them clear." Patient: "But doctor a year ago you advised me not to drink while eating." Doctor: "Oh, everything is different now. My present advice is not to eat while drinking." AWAIT BIOGRAT'H Paris.--Literary circles in Paris are looking forward to the publica- tion soon of a biography of Emile Zola by his daughter, Mme. Denise Leblond-Zola, The book will be an intimate story of the protagonist of the real- fstic school in fletion and flery poles mist of the Dreyfus affaly, It will mark the debut of his daughter as a writer under her own name, As Denise Aubert, she has written nu merous short stories for children, = {s a man who haz two