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. (S s 'PAGEFOUR' THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES MONDAY, AUGUST 17,1931 The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER . (Bstablished 1871) blished every after An independent newspa; hod holidays at Osh- noon 'except Sundays and 1 Times Publishing Company. awa, Ca by The of a Chas. M. Mundy, President A. R. Alloway, Managing Director. The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana- . dian Press, the Gapadian Daily Newspape: Asso- ion, the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the t Bureau of Circulations. ' a IPT! RATES by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. a v By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa car- rier delivery limits) $300 a year. United States a year, TORONTO OFFICE 18:Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone Adelaide 0107. H. D, Tresidder, representative. MONDAY, AUGUST 17th, 1931 ROADS THAT WOULD HELP In seeking for ways and means of provid- ing work for the unemployed men of Osh- awa, the city council could do worse than look outside the city boundaries, and seek a means of co-operation with the munici- pality of Ontario county, in the construction of roads leading into Oshawa from the north, northeast, and northwest. Through the suburban road commission, it is quite possible that an arrangement could be made for paving several miles of road, with as- sistance from the provincial and federal governments. These roads would not only provide Kl em- _ ployment. They would be an asset to Osh- awa. - Compared with the towns of Whitby and Bowmanville, Oshawa is in a very un- favorable position so far as roads from the rural districts to the north are concerned. Both of these towns have fine paved high- ways bringing the farm people into them to do their business. Oshawa, however, has nothing but dirt roads connecting the city with the rural sections to the north, north- east and northwest, and loses a good deal of business as a result, since trade follows the paved roads. We believe. the provincial government would be inclined to include a project of this kind in a program of unemployment relief work for Oshawa, and two birds would thus be killed with one stone. Work would be provided for unemployed men, and arteries would be provided whereby trade and commerce would flow into the city, in- stead of going to other and smaller com- munities which are better served than Osh- awa in the matter of roads. Certain it is, too, that the people in the farming commu- nities would appreciate the added facilities for coming into the city, and the net result would be to bring country and city much closer -to each other, with mutual advan- tages to each of them. WELCOME REDUCTIONS . Reductions in living costs are always very welcome, whether they be in food- stuffs, in house rents, or in any of the ser- vice which go to make up life in a modern home. There has been a decided drop, in the last year, in foodstuff costs, and house rents have also fallen off to an appreciable extent. Coming on top of these reductions in living costs, the decrease in the rates . charged for electricity in Oshawa will be very welcome, and will be a worth while factor, in these days of reduced incomes, in helping housekeepers make ends meet. The range of reductions in electrical rates, as announced by the public utilities com- mission, is complete, and takes in all classes of service. According to the figures pub- lished in The Times on Saturday, there is a | substantial 'dollars and cents savings to every consumer in the city, for there are no counter-balancing adjustments of 'ser- vice charges in the new rates. The larger tHe amount of consumption, the greater the _ saving to the consumer, is the rule under the new rates, and not only will domestic consumers save money in the operation of their homes, but manufacturers will find their production costs reduced substantially by the decreases announced. The people of Oshawa can stand a great many announcements of this kind. Next to work which will increase the family income, the most welcome kind of change is that which will lighten the family expenditures. v USE CANADIAN HELP '+A surprising despatch from the town of mcoe appeared in the press the other day. 'his despatch stated that American tobac- _co workers were pouring into Canada at the / rate of 100 per day to help harvest the to- ; crops in the fields of 'Norfolk county, of which Simcoe is"the centre. It stated that about two thousand of these workers from the United States would be required th yi t of scale movement 'of workers from the States to Canada, at a time when : "pro p must be profitable work; or 'men would not come from the United States to doit. And since it is profitable, it should be done by Canadian workers, rather than ; to this country; work hem the money earned in Ontario. own country, taking ' y i % It cannot be said that the Rarvesting or "Now in this age when out of cruel oppression "a tobaeeo crop is work of so skilled a nature that Canadians could not be taught to do it | 5 r about to allow this _ Which rae in a very short time. We have seen the in- gathering of a tobacco crop, and we are con-- vinced that it would not take more than an hour or two at the most to get the knack of cutting out the suckers, cutting the to- bacco stalks, splitting them and placing - them on the drying boards. Men of even average intelligence could do it quite easily. . Why, then, should it be necessary to import thousands of workers from the United States to do it. The proper drying and cur- ing of the tobacco might be a job for an expert, but so far as the actual harvesting is concerned, there is nothing expert about it, and we would suggest that the depart- ment of labor and department, of immigra- tion, between them, keep their eye on the situation in Norfolk county, and see that the door is closed against United States workers while there are men walking the streets in the towns and cities of Ontario. WELCOME TO CANADA Canada today welcomes a new citizen,-- the infant son of Their Excellencies Lord Bessborough and the Countess of Bessbor- ough, whose arrival Friday morning has brought congratulations from every quar- ter of the Dominion. The happy news that both child and mother are doing well, time- worn phrase though it be, has been received everywhere with joy. Only once before has a child been born in this Dominion to a | Governor-General of Canada holding office, so that the event has an added interest from an historic viewpoint. The little hostage to fortune whose com- ing has gladdened his parents' hearts to- day is born into a troubled period, but Can- adians everywhere will forget their preoc- cupations long enough to wish him long life and a happy career." Indeed, many will indulge in traditional privilege and hold that his birth among us is an augury of better times to come. It is a hope that will be echoed throughout the land, and that in fu- ture years, when the child of today shall have become the man of tomorrow, he may be able to look back with pride upon his Canadian nationality, is the sincere wish of all loyal citizens. "Long life and happiness to Canada's latest citizen" is the Domin- ion toast today.--Montreal Star. EDITORIAL NOTES Too much attention is being given to the student and not enough to the teacher.-- I. L. Wandel, Professor of education, Col- umbia University. The dethronement of man as the undis- puted head of the family is one of the fac- tors in the breakdown of the familiar, old- style home.--Rev. Harold Holt, Oak Park, IL. In human affairs there is always some- how a slight majority on the side of reason. --Dr. Henry Van Dyke. A research engineer is a man who thinks up ways to make you want some thing you don't need.--Vancouver Sun. Other Editor's Comments HOPE FROM HOOVER (Melbourne Australasian) President Hoover's proposal to the world to sus- pend the payment of inter-Governmental war debts for one year is the first act of wise, clear-minded statesmanship on the part of any responsible na- tional spokesman since the publication of Lord Bal- four's "Note" of August 1, 1922. If President Hoo- ver is great enough in character and wide enough in outlook to realize that the remedy for the ills of the world lies not simply in suspending the pay- ment of war debts for a year, but in a return to the spirit and intention of the Balfour Note of 1922, he will show himself a statesman of the first rank. - BITS OF HUMOR Mother--"Suppose I should say, 'I have went'; that would be wrong, wouldn't it?" Little Son--"Yes, ma'am." Father--"What makes it wrong?" Little Son--~"Because she hasn't went yet." The irate parent stormed up and down the before the nervous-looking young man, "What, sir!" he shouted. "You have the nerve to come to my office to ask for my daughter? Well, I might as well tell you that you could have saved yourself the journey." The suitor sighed wearily. "Well, that's all right, sir," he said. "You see, 7 had another message to deliver in the same build- ing. room Peppery Colonel (to partner on golf links): "Look, what is the present day young girl coming to? Tma- gine her parents allowing her to appear in public in_plus-fours. and Eton crop!" Partner: "That, sir, is my daughter." Peppery Colonel: "Sorry, 1 did not know y were her father." Partner: "I'm not her father; I'm her mother!" BITS OF VERSE : i TO ENGLAND (0) Juighty soul of England, rise in splendour Out of the wrack and turmoil of the night, And.as of old, compassionate and tender, Uphold the 'cause of justice and of right. Thine was the consecration and 'devotion, The world-wide vision and the world-wide trust, de a pathway of the tides of ocean And fruitful gardens of the desert dust. Thie was thé call to face with dauntless bearing ~All high adventure, all adversity, / Until thy sons by their resistless daring girdled carth with realms from sea to sea. The hearts of men are yearning for release, O Soul of England--England's great possession = : Lead thou mankind into the way of peace. i ~Frederick George Scott, inks, would take her while Ha: ously hunting up the erve Bal n for advice, Eve gets into a taxicab and drives away. Eve thinks it over, disit the idea, but realizes that she eis do something to earn a living until she finds out who she really is. Ivy Las twisied the name of 'Personne' is ® onl SUrnam vi for herself, into "Berson 6 R6ows Eve finds "Jake's" a strange sort of place and the girls who dance there even stranger, though kind to the stranger who is taking Ivy's place. INSTALMENT VIII "After they come we gotta be out there, setting around in our corners. The bunch there now is reg'lars that come early to get good tables, They know each other. It's when the sin- gles begin to wash in, or two or three men comes together, that we get busy." "How do we get bus¥?" "My Gawd!" Miss Morris ex- changed a deeply eloquent glance with Maizie, who was smiling a sharptoothed ophidian smile. The instruciress continued her explana- tion in depressed tones. "We're dancers, and we're Jake's hostesses, too. Bee?" "Our job," Stella added. "is to keep the men from dyin' of homesickness after tey git here." Queenie ignored Stella. "When a man's gettin' alone at a table, or two or three men are to- gether, lookin' like it's Decoration Day an' they're sayin' it with flow- ers, I drift up an' give 'em the glad eye. Nothin' fresh, you understand. Just a kind look to let them know ithere's a live wire near, If they speak, I draw on my hot-air tank 'and find out who they are; and lat- er I introduce them to some of the girls. if they see ary they wania meet. If they don't ree-spond I breeze past like I hadn't seen 'em, and try some others. None of the other girls goes near till I find out who the men are and interduce them. If you seen your own brother at a table you couldn't go to him till I said you could. That's all there is to it, but it's gotta be done with class." To the novice there seemed great deal to it. "If they respond, I suppose we dance with them?" she asked, anx- fous to get a more definite line on her individual duties than Ivy had given her. 2 "Aint's she the clver kid?" Maizle murmuyed. "Got it the very foist time." "Dance with 'em if they want you to." the instructress coldly explained. "If they want you to set down an' igive 'em the story of your life, let {em have it. Only make it snappy. |No sob stuff. Maizie tells 'em she's a Russian princess, an' it goes over igreat, If they wanta talk while you listen, leave 'em do It." va > - ceade ---- f "They tell you how lonesome 'they are," Stella contributed. * s.one- some!" she . "They dwt jopen my faucets with thet dope. The men that comes here is as lone- some as angleworms in a box of bait!" Stella, Eve learned, was a pessi- ist and a black one. She was also a man-haler and freely confessed that she had no use for women. Her speec®, and Queenie's, were usually 'better than those of the other girls; but on occasion they could, and of- ten did, draw on the argot of the gutter. All this Eve grasped later. !At present the lesson of the moment Jwent on. | "There's two things you don't 'stand for," Queenie was sayiny in a | jand you don't drink from pocket- flasks. Jake's rule. See? Men of the dream she was in, but nightmare in the dream was les- . She was intensely interest- led, and she realized that she was like ladies." To Eve the whole experience was the {the girls around thought her. She * had never danced in cabarets; she !was sure of that. She knew nothing 'of their intimate inner workings, or |of the duties of employees. But she myst have knqwn such-places as at lleast an occasional visitor, for the isu cial aspects of this one held for her. no h "What you're really here for, Ber- sbh, 18 'to admire the men," Stella [drawled. "Make 'éem see what great 'big 'wonderful guys you think they "are, and you'll be a wow. # "Now; Berson, if you think you're had enough gasoline to roll out on the floor with, we'll start; and I'll put you wise to the reg'lars an' the Tose-ankle hoys." . "Which are the lose-ankle boys?" . "The .xeglars are the guys that come. every. night an' scatter their ! seen | fOr 8 good time. That's |crisper tone. : "You don't take insults | onmen that come here has got to treat us|ready 'also a trifle more sophisticated than | partn MISS NOBODY FROM NOWHERE by Elizabeth Jordan . ccin. 'The loose-ankie boys are the or | instructors--the lads Jake hires to dance with the dames that blow in all they gotta do; but Gawd knows it's enough. . Any woman that's got a rea] face c"n make some man bring her to a cabaret an' dance with her. The ones that come alone an' has to . | rely on the boys are the ones Gawd forgot. "Don't pay any attention to the : | loose-ankle lads. They'll come buz- zing round, for they need a change th . | bad, an'ithey'll want to give you the onceover because you're green. But Jake ain't payin' us nickels to dance with them." All the girls were intrigued by new-comer's presence and they showed it in various ways--some by Fignoring the other patrons, Their eyes were tired and their expressions somewhat blase, but they seemed content with their entertainment. "They're the types that go to the theater first, then to supper, and spend the rest of the night rushing from one cabaret to another," Hunt explained. "Quite a lot of them like this place better than the clubs. I think Jake caters to them in var- fous 'ways--drops the cover charge for them and that sort of thing, Hel likes to have them come in, thinks they lend 'class' to his place; and Jake Is strong for 'class' They probably stay here an hour, then leave and visit half a dozen other places before they go home at day- light. In the meantime, we ha another bunch or two like xy Eve knew all this, and didn't know, why she knew it, any more than she, knew why she appreciated the un- usually good music of Jake's jazz. band. ; "Speaking of being here" Hunt went on. "Why are yo u here, real- ly? It's easy enough to see that you don't belong." talking, the rest by close attention | to what was said. Eve followed her with a sinking' heart. What had she let herself in for? But the two young men they approached were wholesome-logking American lads who had fust given an order to a waiter, and who for the present were most interested in having it filled than in the scene around them. Queenie cast a rad- fant smile at them. and one of the voung men returned it with a cheer- ful but impersonal grin. She slow- ed her steps a little distance from the table. checking Eve's swifter movement by a warning pressurs of the arm. / "Look at them settin' there waitin' for bread and milk, with good music goin' to waste," she tentatively ob- served, in a tone designed to reach the ears of the new-comers. The latter looked up. this time with at- tention. The girls were under in- snection now, to be taken or refect- ed. To Eve the moment was hor- rible, "Give us time, girlie, give us time." urged the young man with the grin. "We're hungry, and we've got a palr of rabbits coming. But if we're able to move after the stuff you folks serve here. I'll take you out to the center of the floor later on and make a May-pole of you." "We only ordered two, and I could eat them both," he plaintively ob- served. : "We'll order two more." His friend had been watching Eve. "That goes for me, too," he quietly told her, "Is a date" Queenie agreed, and tactfully started to move on. But the quiet young man spoke again: "Won't the ladies join us and have some of the rabbit?" The young man of the grin frown- ed. As be spoke, the quiet young man drew out for Eve the chair next to him. Miss Morris secured the re- maining empty chair for herself and sat down with a sigh of achieve- ment. "You ain't got the nice manners of your boy friend, Willie," she told the grinning youth. "But if you stick around with him p'raps you'll improve. Got a cigarette?" The grinning youth had, and of- fered his case. Miss Morris helped herself and passed it to Eve, who hesitated an instant and then took a cigarette and lighted it at the match the quiet young man held for her. "My name is Hunt," he told her as he did so. "Here is Miss Berson. She's new to this work. I'm Queenie Morris." Miss Morris made the announce- ment with an air that impelled the grinning youth to get up and bow deeply, and Queenie accepted the burlesque homage with a care-free grin equal to his own. She had lit a cigarette without his assistance,' and, having established it firmly! between her carmined lips, was do-, ing the honors with easy affability.! "Don't mention your name," she advised the grinning youth. "My heart's goin' to tell me what It is, pretty soon." | "You bet it will," sald the grinning, youth, in high good humor. "I'm one| of the sheiks you read about. One| long look into my eyes, girlie, and| you're done for." i "Let's see if I am" Miss Morris suggested with sudden interest, and she made the experiment forthwith. | Hunt turned to Eve, | "You don't exactly belong here, do you?" he asked. "No. Do you?" He laughed, - ! "I'm afraid not," he admitted. *1 don't care much about dancing, and I'm apt to get sleepy around mid- night, I trie dto persuade Jack to go home after the play, but he wouldn't. and now I'm glad we didn't. "Shall you be here every night af- ter this?" "No," she told him. "I'm here only as a substitute. I don't expect to come again." "Then we must make the most of to-night," he smiled. There was something very nice about his ¥ok and manner. He was like was he like? Probably _he was merely a type she had known well and met often in her former envir- t. "Shall we dance now?" she heard him ask. mie and Jack were al- on the floor. She rose slowly. "I'm not sure I dance very well," she confessed, and caught his look of surprise as he put an arm around her and swung her out among the others, She exhaled the breath she had been holding. He was a good er, "You're an odd girl!" Hunt skil- fully guided her through a rapidly increasing congestion of the danc- ing-floor. "What made you say you weren't sure you could dance well?" "I wasn't," His expression made her amplify the terse statemeny, "I'm not very sure of anything just now," she smilingly admitted, "I'm so new at all this' ' 8 "Well, you can be sure you's: one of the good dancers on the floor to- night," he said comfortably. "That's a tribute, too, for there are a dozen here who know how to step out. That uptown bunch over there has some bully dancers in it." Bhe looked in the dirgction he, indicated. Half a dozen young men, and girls, evidently of good families, were dancing in a close group. They' were keeping to themselves and (To be continued tomorrow) Eye Eye by C. H. Tuck, Opt. D. (Copyright, 1928) - YOUR CHILD AND THE EYES PART "17" Figures on account of their im- pressive appearance when marshall- ed with impressive explanations im- press us perhaps when all other ef- forts fail. When we think of our health and strength as an asset invested in the promotion of our profession and if we have been to a fair degree suc- cessful or even if not, "our experi- ence has surely shown up that in the gaining of "this experience an important asset was our vision, We perhaps realize then that its value cannot be measured in dollars and tents. We would not any of us, be willing to sacrifice vision for any- thing money could buy. If we have good vision we are permitted to use it in seeing and purchasing what we sec. If we have poor vision, the quality of the things purchased may be inferior because we did not have the vision to detect it, To be continued. Written at the Willlam Taylor Hotel in San Francisco. "WhTle strolling around a California town the other day, I stopped in to see a police court in action, Several trafic violators were awaiting trial. There was an atmosphere of tense excitement in the room. The Judge came in, took his seat and hastily moved a bottle of smelling salts from his desk, and wisely too, for in the minds of some ignorant people it might be taken for something else. The Judge squared himself in his seat and said, "Since I have presided over the destinies of this court, and I hope not without honor and distinction, I have made it a strict principle always to give justice to those who appear before me. So despite the enormity of the of- fenses of which you (addressisg the prisoners) have been guilty, I am disposed to treat you as mis- guided people instead of the har- dened criminals that you are." With that he started in with finés from ten to fifty dollars. He soaked them all. I quietly left. I did not want to attract his at- tention, as he might have fined me on general principles, GRAY DENIES HES A "RED" Public Park By Eddie McDonald J. B. Gray, 347 Mitchell Avenue, who at various times in this paper has been described as "Jack Gray" cently denounced as a "Red" with "communistic tendencies" by Eddie McDonald, who publicly "expelled" him from the Unemployed Associa- tion of this city at a public meeting in 'Memorial Park, emphatically denies all the allegations brought against him by McDonald. In a statement made to The Times this morning ,Gray denies that he is a Communist. "I think, as many people do at this time, many of them leaders in different communities, that it is very evident there is something radically wrong with our industrial and economic system," said Mr. Gray, "As for being a 'Red' or a 'Communist' I do not think that these people have the proper remedy for our 'present evils, ¥ "Eddie McDonald, who classes himself as a leader of the unem- Jloyed, is like the blind leading the lind. There are supposed to be fourteen or fifteen: men elected to the executive committee of the Oshawa Unemployed Asséciation, Eddie is secretary, the president, I think, is a man named Dalgleish, an old Scotchman. "To expel a member needs more authority than that of the secre- tary but, apparently, the executive committee * has dwindled away through lack of interest among the Refutes Charges Made In or "Harry Gray" and who was re- are two I was interested which for a time 4 overshadow Eddic's le was afraj person would usurp his nd Som : 0 ed expulsion from the 3%50ck. Cran because of this" said Mr, Mr. Gray has been a i Oshawa for the past dant of is a carpenter by trade and well known 10 citizens with whom he has been in daily contact, Beinn leaving The Times office he Shon repeated his emphatic denials of = ing a communist or re : "Eddie McDonald's about me, made in 1} given a lot of publi Gray, "and I think it 18 « that my-denial of th. should be given simi. p am not a 'Red and 1h, will be--you @n maj strong as you like" state ts 1 itements I never make that liduitry More People Tha, in 1924 London --Speaking at the an tish General Electric Company §; Hugo Hirst, chairman, go vi 3 tc general conditions in the following sure you will admit that the Teport | ¢ not at all bad and inspires us with new hope for the future. I admit some of our shops and departments ch. he \ deplore the poor state of trade to- | in spite of it, we are more people in industry today than we did in 1924, the best post-war year for employment. We are not down and out; hear)--we are depressed by the ei- fects of free imports--(hear, hear) --we suffer from the apathy and de- pression which permeates the whole world at the present moment; but things are not irreparable The Outlook "On the whole, we can compare favorably today with any country in the world. An effort of greater economy, abolition of abuse of th dole--(hear, hear)--security of ous home market, would enable us td balance things at home, and if something were to happen to give new hope to this, dispirited world, enterprise would get a fillip, we might even march on the road to prosperity--perhaps the Hoover de- claration will prove But whatever happens, we electrical people have no reason to be down- hearted. (Hear, hear.) Electricity has ceased to be a luxury; current and commodities are getting cheap- er, and the electrical industry can even gather strength in. times of depression when the world looks for cheaper means of production and application. Our field lies to- MANY GOO $iGvs =! INGREATSRITAIY Now Employing : meeting of shareholders of the B,;.| on Ka terms: "Generally speaking | anf r of our activities during the year js | that in 2 have been badly hit through the|servic stagnation in the basic industries | quick a: but, in the meanwhile, we must rea, | and pas} lize that however we regret the state|as high of these industries, however moh |post-wa we may sympathize with their pre.!tain a J sent position, there are a great num. {the scl 9 ber of new industries existing ami|tionaliz; constantly in the making which of.|amount fer a great field to the electricalll' years people of this country. While weit dj day, many of us do not realize that, |% employing | we are depressed |? through heavy taxation -- (hear, | al If you suffer fr om LE or there Riis nothipeng bett *er than i) & =) ore in the off © fay dm and the wor 2 the palace. 1 ss@lat cheap electri nufacturers aim + and mass { AWor a generation sgble. (Hear, hear.) | Wdhave previous fort to help us t i and its succes wed if the rece: ny Electrification i ear, hear.) way Electrification no desire or qua ising our pres t there is ample « world in which eve the time has come t s problem, and I ar sonally that only ¢ an give this elast d frequent service « Sengers in this cot pressure 1 time demand ray can be found sider t d , 1s one which t If we c 00 million for unemj we can find 1 ployment. (He joint I want to make ay electrification ed in the Weir Re atter affecting the e, but it affects cver his country. Cheap Electricity CBy pooling the electr for the railways wi glectricity supply, we will be « to supply the unit of ele icheaply as, or cheaper tl country | lly supplied w ter power. € the benefit of G the industrial part of the but to every part "of t The uses of electricity on t cr such a fillip. |i are increasing daily, and if riculture is to be helped, and Ii pout of its present helpless p electricity will play a great pa s development, By spreadin {rid, with the help of o every part of the cc tricity can be taps this country. e will become a reali Industries car rithout driving people owded towns, and : alize a position cr enable us to 1 ain for industrial s biliovr--snes } ! i indig@fstio) | ills" A) cr i while others follow. PROOF CELLOPHANE. Leadership fis ever Challenged i Only a title-holder is challenged for leadership; others aspire to win his laurels, but true merit keeps .PEG TOP in first place, *"PEG TOP' has maintained leadership for fifty years, FIRST in quality and FIRST TO SEAL THAT QUALITY IN MOISTURE- I mamhare. I myself have noticed