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pr 5 : | i . speed is a good thing. those who believe that there is just a little PAGE FOUR 2 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1931 The Oshawa Daily Times ; Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) _éAn independent newspaper published every after- " noon except Sundays and legal holidays at Osh- Ea Canada, by The Times Publishing Company. a Limited, Chas. M. Mundy, President A. R. Alloway, Managing Director. "The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana- dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspape: Asso- ciation, the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Delivered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa car- rier delivery limits) $300 a year. United States © $4.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE 18 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone Adelaide 0107, H. D. Tresidder, representative. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th, 1931 Who is to Blame ? The Amputations Association of Canada, composed of men who lost limbs in the ser- | vice of their country and Empire during the great war, has been holding its annual convention in Toronto. Like the recent £ Provincial and Dominion conventions of the ® Canadian Legion, this convention has been ® marked by keen discussions of the manner in which the pensions legislation of Canada ¥ is being administered. The concensus of £ opinion of those in a position to know, at all ® three conventions, is that the Canadian & pensions act, as it stands, is the finest in © the world, but that the manner in which it { is. being administered is turning it into a £ farce. Instead of a sympathetic adininis- ® tration, such as was intended by parlia- ® ment, it is being administered in the strict | letter of the phraseology of the legislation, ® and the spirit of parliament, which desire to deal generously and sympathetically with ® those who have suffered disability as a re- & sult of their services to their country, is = being ignored. Sir Arthur Currie, in his message to the Dominion convention of the Canadian Le- gion at Niagara Falls recently, hit the nail on the head when he said "somebody is putting sand in the machinery." The trou- ble is to find out whose are the hands that are dealing out the sand. The passing of legislation is the function of parliament, and parliament did well in the revised pen- sion act of 1930. But the administration of that legislation is a responsibility of the government of the day, and if the govern- ment and its minister in charge of the de- partment are not administering the legis- lation fairly, then these must take the blame for its failure. What is needed more than anything else is a minister of pensions and national health who will not allow him- \ self to be ruled by bureaucrats who have too long enjoyed the fruits of appointed of- fices. The department of 'pensions and na- tional health needs a strong man, and if Mr. Bennett wishes to save his party and government from shouldering the blame for the breaking-down of the world's finest pen- sions act, then he should lose no time in appointing such a man to this responsibile position. Not so Slow With the winning of the Schneider tro- . phy, without competition from other coun- tries, and the setting of a new speed for aeroplanes, Britain now holds most of the Ee speed records in the world of modern ma- ~chinery. In addition to the aeroplane re- "cord of 404 miles an hour, Britain has the automobile speed record of the world, the fastest motorboat ever made, and now, in "the last few days, she has added the honor "of having the world's fastest train. "For a country which is traditionally sup- .+ posed to be slow and easy-going, this is not It is not always admitted that In fact, there are so bad. too much of it in the world today. But the holding of these records means more than | a mere seeking after speed. It means per- i fection of engineering and workmanship on | the part of British designers and mechan- ies, It means nerve and daring on the part of British pilots and drivers. It means that old Mother Country is not so slow after all, but that in those things which require the exercise of brains and nerve, she is still the leader of the world. Not a Lost Art ---- Bn i In these days when all kinds of mechani- aids are being placed at the disposal of the er, it is interesting to note' that the national plowing match of the On. tario Plowmen's Association is still one of ~ the 'major fall events for rural Ontario. This year, the big plowing match is being held at Peterboro, from October 13 to 16, and preparations are being made to take care of a crowd of at least 50,000 people, ~ some of whom will go there to take part in the plowing competition, and others to watch the prowess of those who still.know how to lay a crown and turn a straight fur- TOW. / This annual plowing match is a meeting of giants, of men who walk behind their horses and take pride in their handicraft as plowmen, not only when they are com- peting for trophies, but when they are back on their farms, preparing the soil for seed time and harvest. Men of this type made Ontario what she is today, a province of fer- tile fields and smiling valleys, and they are following worthily in the footsteps of their forefather ancestors who, with their crude implements and their ox-teams, transform. ed the forest wilderness which was Ontario into the bountiful province we now enjoy. Editorial Notes 1f any proof were needed of the large place which George W. Hezzelwood held in the hearts of the people of Oshawa, that proof was provided at his funeral yester- day. Mahatma Gandhi has made a demand for the complete independence of India. If he is not willing to compromise, then he has wasted his time in travelling to London. If you have mot yet been to the Oshawa Fair, do not miss it to-morrow. Have you met those people who say, "Oshawa Fair always has rainy weather." They seem to have very quickly forgotten the glorious weather which greeted the fair in 1929 and 1930. erento The boy scouts of Oshawa are holding their annual jamboree on Saturday after- noon. This will provide the citizens with an excellent opportunity of seeing the re- sults of the splendid training given to boys by this organization. The militia department has expressed a preference for Canadian coke as fuel in its buildings. If that preference becomes gen- eral, there will soon be a definite need for the coking plant which Oshawa has been promised. At the moment there is a sort of hiatus in American letters.--H. L. Mencken. Our theory is that a hoodlum in a penit- entiary on one charge is there just as ef- fectively as on any other.--U. S. District Attorney E. Q. Johnson of Chicago. From the way business is picking up in most of the major industries, I am sure the slump is over and we are getting back to normal.--Julius L. Meier. America unites a powerful idealism with that practical turn of mind that aids the search for solutions.--Premier Laval of France. Other Editor's Comments THE ACID TEST (J. B. Firth in the London Daily Telegraph, While we rejoice at Mr, MacDonald's courage, and at the. rally of the qld parties to his side, the bitter fact remains that virtually the whole Labour Party, so far as the caucus and the machine are concerned, have failed the gountry in its hour of need. Their justification is that they refuse to be sacrified to "a Bankers' Ramp!" Labour is not to be crucified on a cross of gold! Free-born Pro- ietarian Ministers are not to be dictated to by the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, or any other "Money Barons," or "Paladins of High Fin- ance." Yet if the bankers said, as they may well have said, for all the world is saying it, that the acid test of British determination to retrench is a cut in unemployment benefit, they were right, It is the acid test, It has already been proved so When applied it showed who honestly meant real retrenchment and who did not, whose thoughts first flew to another sheep-shearing, and who were con- cerned to enable the sheep to grow another fleece. BITS OF HUMOR Mistress (reading new maid's references) : "What ? You have had six places in a month?" Maid: "Yes, ma'am. The days of the good mis- tresses are over." Devoted Admirer--There are certain advantages in being a bachelor, but there are times when one longs for a bing who regards one as perfect, and whom one can call absolutely one's own. Blanches--If I were in your place I'd get a dog. Tom: "Gladys, on what grounds does your father object to me?" Gladys: "On any grounds within a mile of the house." ' Dean: "Why is it that 'girls like to become en- gaged to several men at once?" Lena: "You know, when you have only one match, it always goes out." "Did you buy that forty-shilling hat you were rav- ing about ?" asked Mrs, Hisser. "Yes," replied Mrs. Potter proudly. "I purchased it yesterday." "What did your husband think of it?" continued Mrs, Hisser. "Why--e-er--he raved about it, too," came the reply. ELASTIC PRESCRIPTION (Boston Transcript) Doctor--*"I would advise you, rmadam, to take frequent baths, get plenty of fresh ajr, and dress in cool gowns." : . Patient's husband (an hour later)--"What did the doctor say?" Wife--"He said I ought to go to Palm Beach, and then to the mountains, Also that 1 must get some new light gowns at once." BITS OF VERSE LITTLE ALLEY WASHINGS" Oh, little alley waghings' Hung on my neighbour's line. Criss-crossed above the hot cement, Unblessed by brief sunshine. Oh, ragged alley washings . : (The poor, ah Lord, how Long? . You know my neighbour's calloused hands, er cheerfulness and song, So little shirts and stockings (Grimy; torn and few), You'll never feel the wind from hills Nor sweet baptism of dew ~Nimgod, in The Chicago Tribune. Eye Care and Eve Strain by C. H. Tuck, Opt, D, (Copyright, 1928) - YOUR CHILD AND THE EYES Part 38 There may also be cases of mental trouble arising from eye trouble. Some of these cases only verifying a diagnosis by rea. lizing the relief e#lablished by the correction. Subnormal ac- commodation then whether nor- mal or abnormal is a recognized cause of eyestrain. The glasses worn, however, even though affording relief for the eyestrain when reading or do- ing work at a given close range, are of no value for use further away or for distance. When it is found that certain strain 1s felt at this tfme in the distant seeing as well as in the close-range seeing, two pairs of glasses or the double vision lens is necessary and for certain forms of work even three pairs of glasses are being used. Those cases, accustomed to good distant vision, having low hyperopia or astigmatism that never caused eyestrain in early life, may cause it when the ac- commodation is lowered to only a little more than the error of re- fraction. (To be continued) THAT A CITY NATURAL ADVANTAGES IN CREAT ABUNDANCE MUST HAVE CO-OPERATION ON THE PART OF ITS CITIZENS AND MAKE A PRESENTATION OF THESH ADVANTAGES TO THOSE SEEKING INDUSTRIAL LOCATIONS OR A PLACE TO LIVE. A city needs advertising the sume as any business, Success comes by doing things; failure comes by sleeping at the post, The better a city is advertised, the better it will be known. As a city is known by the way it is advertised, it should always strive to get its advantages be- fore the world in an attractive way. Telling the right things in the right way will attract the right utiention, The right attention will bring the right people and the right in- dustries. No city should count on others to boost it until they boost them- selves. A CITY MUST THE FUTURE ON THE SOLD GROUND OF BETTER BUSI. NESS, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP- MENT AND EXPANSION, BUILD FOR SEES 9,000,000 IDLE IN GERMANY Reduced Working Hours Proposed to Help Out Situation Berlin. --~ In a remarkable speech before the Congress of the General Federation of Sociaiist Trade Unions--a body represent- ing approximately 5,000,000 members--at Frankfort-on-Main, Adam Stegerwald, Centrist Mini- ster of Labor, indicated the mea- gures the German Government 18 preparing to deal with unemploy- ment during the much-dreaded winter ahead. Reducing the number of work- iug hours, and distributing food inetead of paying doles in cash are the outstanding features of the program contemplated by the Government, "Germany is now going through the greatest crisis since the Napoleonic wars, and it seems obvious that at such a time the trade unions want more than the Ctovernment ig able to give," the } Minister of Labor said, adding tnat while during recent years he had to ask a great deal of the German worker, he was certain that none of them in his place could have acted differently. Compulsory social insurance i3 the particular difficulty; and it seems doubtful whether the pres- ent rate of contributions to un- employment insurance, even if gupplemented by the proceeds of the "crisis tax," would prove suf- ficient to carry the unemployed over the winter, Her Heavy Needs With nearly 20 per cent of the basic wages already being seized for social insurance, and the cri- gis tax and other sources of taxa- tion exhausted, the Labor Mini- ster is bound té ask himself how 4.000,000,00 marks which the old social cost, and the 3,600,000,000 m required to maintain the w ployed can be raised, Her erwald said. uniqn's should eral re- rs, which 'ers to in- rkmen, the sized that ed with an sy of forcing at a forty-four ny a case would # increase in the fon, thereby bad- : exports, as of alleviating be diminished 'by a duction of working h should enable emp crease their staff of Lobor Minister em Germany is confrg imperative necess her exports, but t hour week in ma mean a heavy costs of produc ly handieappin Several meg THAT HAS. unemployment, however, wocld be examined, and among these would be short working time, so far as could be done without interfer- ing with exports. Stegerwald told tha assembly. A temporary sub- stituting of unemployed for em- ployed, with the purpose of dis- tributing the burden of unem- ployment more evenly, also fis considered, as well as establishing public kitchens, especially in the iarge cities, and, last but not ienst, a method of relief in kind. Many Out Of Work According to the Labor Mini- ster's estimate, about 2,000,000,- 000 marks will be needed for un- employment and welfare wor until next April, to be raised b the Reich and municipalities, 'I'he problem of tow to meet the precarious situation is primarily a question of how many juhl2ss yrersons will be without support during the winter, Stegerwaid said, While declining to give an es- timate he professes to heing more optimistic than the other mem- Lers of the German Cablget, some of which estimated unem- ployed at 7,000,000. The Mini- ster of Labor, however, estima- ted the requirement for the un- employed for the next seven months at about 2,000,000,000 raarks. If the present rate of unemployed doles is taken as a basis, this would mean the figure of the unemployed would be 4,- 700,000--a figure corresponding with the most favorable estimates of economic authorities, Private estimates run as high as 9,000,- 000. Stegerwald further stated that he was opposed to the changes in the present system of collect- ive bargaining and arbitration in labor conflicts, as well as to fur- ther reductions in wages. A re- solution for the introduction of a 44-hour week which was submit- ted to the Congress by the exe- cutive committee was adopicd with all the votes against one. Bullfighting May Disappear in Spain| Madrid. -- The present bull- fighting season in Spain appears to be destined to be the worst the country has ever experienced, and will be looked upon by history as | the most mediocre, insipid, and financially unsuccessful year the bullfighting fraternity have ever experienced. Strange to relate, the harm has been done appar- ently, by the bullfighters, bull. fighting impressarios and breed- ers themselves, rather than by the general public on account of the very mediocre performances which have heen staged in the principal arenas throughout the country. In the majority of the {mpor- | tant bull-rings in Spain during the present season there have been marked disorders owing to the unusually poor entertainment offered. Where, in the olden days, charming senoritas were wont to tess their jewels into the ring af- ter a thrilling kill, and when the | entire population of the arena went blood-mad with excitement, | it has been necessary this year, | Civil | to call fn the police and Guard in order to protect the ma- tadors and their attendants from the fury of the crowd owing to the poor display. Bottles Thrown Instead of bottles being thrown on to the sand the favorite mis- sles now appears to be a bottle, empty, of course, or even a cu. ghion: On one occasion in Pam- plona recently, it was necessary to ask the Civil Governor him- self to go into the ripg to vpro- tect a matador--anglice, a killer from the too fervent attentions of the spectators, Bulls provided for a fight at Parcelona recently were of such poor size and quality that the furious crowd collected piles of chairs and cushions and set them on fire in an attempt to burn down the bull-ring as a protest, Although it must not be con- cluded that bullfighting in Spain has collapsed Defore the attrac- tion of football,--strong as the fatter is,--yet it T8 certain that interest is on the decline, and that the financial returns to all concerned in the business are much lower this year than usual, Many old-timers, in fact, have declared that should there he even one or two seasons like the present, they will definitely cease to attend the fights, BRIGHT SPOTS ON * STOCK EXCHANGE New York, Sept. 15--Household Finance Corporation declares extra dividend of 6 per cent in stock. Interstate Department Stores sales for' eight months to August 31 totalled $13,738,604, against $13,- 222.202 in like 1930 period. Associated Gas and Electric Sys- tem electric output for week ended September 5 up 11.3 per cent above like 1930 week. Singe Manufacturing Company declares extra dividend of $1 on stock. Affiliated Products, Inc, first half net $1.82 a share, against 97 cents a share in 1930 half. Electric Ferries, Inc, net income eight months to August 31 totalled $192,863, againgt "$143,617 in like 1930 period, Electrigifiutput of subsidiaries of Natiogr¥ Electric Power Co, dur- inggMucust up 23 per cent. over Au- st, 1930. Congoleum-Nairn Company and Armstrong Cork Company plan two large linoleum factories to cost §4,- 000,000 at Martinez, California. MAKING UP LOST TIME (The Humorist) (The Humorist) Billy: MN ummie, you said that if I was good for half an hour I could have what I liked. Mother: Wel ? Billy; 1 want to be naughty for two hours. Sez Hugli: Back in the old, old days, women wouldn't even tell their stone age, Sezi: And not even a woman's club can force it out of them in this age. (From the Argonaut, Polar Nuisances San Francisco.) Mayor "Jimmy" Walker of New York and Mayor John C. Porter of Los Angeles stand 'at opposite poles of the conivial world. They have only ona thing in common; they are both tire- rome and they are both nuls- ances. The nation must have felt high- ly honored at the antics of the New Yorker in Europe, Mayor of our greatest city whose finally be- 1g led to water and made to drink a glass of it became a news item worth the expense of cabling to the press associations, His convenient absence from New York City, when threats of pub- lic indignation against gangster- ism and corruption are threaten. to consume the officials under whose laxity both have thrived, has been marked by a series of frivolous appearances in the news which are calculated to make Eu- rope wonder at our peculiar taste in buffoons. Down in Los Angeles Mayor Porter, who acted like an oaf in France, was made ridiculous the other day by Eddie Cantor, emi- nently qualified by profession and training to do it. Cantor pro- rosed a toast to Post and Gatty and the Mayor refused to drink out of the Cantor flask because the liquid was colored, Later it developed that it was innocuous fced tea, Of course the whole thing was framed--but ft snc- ceeded, The Mayor of New York drinks water and everyone is amazed. Tre Mayor of Los Angeles drinks pething but water and everyone is disgusted. As a matter of fact, what either Walker drinks or Porter drinks is of no conse- quence, except that, as of little men we suppose these little things are all that there is to be recorded. But wnat Walker does as May- or and what Porter does as May- or is of great consequence. And one has only to know o' the vices and the crimes that are rampant in both these cities to know that both are being punished for the errors of their electorates. Nei- tner the gay liberal nor the nar- row Puritan has accomplished a less attractive during his term. Neither has put in better case the forces of law and order. The toy¢ of the one and the fanatic- isms of the other are all that they are concerned about, To what depths have we fallen when our greatest cities choose mien like these for their Mayors! FINAL EXAMINATION (Answers) "Why is the boss's son going around looking so pleased?" "A life insurance doctor just ex- amined him and found him O. K." "Well, what of twat?" "It happens to be the only exam- ination he ever passed." ¢ingle thing toward making crime | TRUCK EXHIBITS OUT The truck exhibits and exhibi- tion trucks operated at many peints throughout the Dominion by the Experimental Farms Dranch of the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture are proving both popular and effectiye. This season will see a total of fifteen in operation. Just recently truck exhibits were completed and put in operation at Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Que., Charlottetown, 2 EL, and Lacombe, Alta, They are equipped with, panel features each devoted to an agrieultural problem of special interest or concern in the area in which the truck operates, With some iriicks tents are supplied and in- teresting exhibits pertaining to all the branches of farming activity are included. STIR "KIDNEY 7 VY Pi LLS ® div ALL ARN ; ol° SKIDNE ria Th BlagACKACpLE" Sa ROER TRS Lory iio \ - Z =< EW homes where it is choose Edison famed for soft, Vagabonds every Tuesday even- fia to Gemeral Electric ing over Canade-wide network. MADE IN ELECTRIC CO. ith MAZDA LAMPS have enough light needed. To avoid A eyestrain it is wise to use nothing less than 60 watt lamps wherever you work or read. And be sure to Mazda Lamps -- well-diffused. light. 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