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" a é . » 4 ?AGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931 je Oshawa Daily Times THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Establisted 1871) independent newspaper publislicd every after. oe except Sundays and legal holidays at Osh- am, Canady by Ee Es bani: Frosttors x of Oshawa, Chas. M. Mundy, President A PB. Alloway. Managing Director. Osha fly Times i mber of The Cana Re a a Newspapers Asso- ciation, the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the "+ Audit Bureau of Circulations. oh SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12¢. 3 N il in Canada (outside Oshawa car- ' a, Ws eg $300 a year. United States 003 year ORONTO OFFICE 18 Bond Building, 65 Temperance Street. Telephone "Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1931. Next Year's Council As never before, Oshawa has need of a an strong city council for 1932. The present situation in civic affairs is not a particularly happy one. The 1931 council has had a 4 difficult situation to face, and, under all circumstances, it has done well. But there are conditions prevalent which need to be dealt with with the utmost of care and * intelligence, and in a manner befitting the magnitude of the issues at stake. The mayoralty is all-important, and so far Mayor Ernie Marks has not definitely announced whether he will or will not be a candidate. As The Times has already is stated, his work in meeting the difficult situations of 1931 warrant giving him a second term, if he feels disposed to accept it. Failing him, some outstanding citizen of wide municipal experience, should be persuaded to get back into harness and offer himself as a candidate for the mayor's z ; chair, 8 The mayor, however, is not the whole council, and it is imperative that Oshawa i. * have a strong business council next year. Without casting any reflection on the men who have given so freely of their time and Be effort as aldermen for this year, we believe | . that the time is ripe for some of the out- "standing business men of the city, men _ accustomed to dealing with business in a large way, to come forward as candidates. The city needs their services as never before, and since they owe much to Oshawa, this provides an opportunity for them to discharge their obligations of citizenship. Nomination day will soon be here. Before that time, those citizens who are really interested in the welfare of Oshawa should give some very serious consideration to the problem of securing candidates of the best business type, and persuading them that it ~ is their duty to stand for election, in order that the council of 1932 may be filled with men well equipped to transact the city's usiness in a business-like way. High Hopes for Success Hopes for the success of the coming Im- perial Economic Conference at Ottawa are high. The announcement made in the House of Commons by the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas indicates that the British Govern- ment is determined to do its part towards reaching an economic agreement between the component parts of the Empire. The * decision of the British Government to fix a quota of wheat for the Empire in its imports paves the way for reciprocal agreements between the motherland and the overseas Dominions. 'The last Imperial Economic Conference, held at London, failed because there was no preliminary spadework, because there was no preparation of the ground for success- ful negotiation. The British Government was different from what it was today. It was opposed to any system of tariffs, and «+ therefore could not grant preferences, Mr. ne re "Pros og ' Bennett, Canada's prime minister, made a definite preference proposal to the other 'countries of the Empire, but there had been no previous preparation for the announce- "ment, and it did not bring the result which he had desired. This time, conditions are different, There "is a new government in Britain, a govern- ment which has already set up a system of tariffs, and has given the Empire complete exemption from the duties set up. It has agreed to a plan whereby Canada and the other wheat-growing nations of the Empire will have a definite preference in the British market. These are great forward steps to- wards an Empire economic union, and should go a long way towards producing an agreement at the Ottawa Conference. p - ¢ In return, however, Mr. Bennett must be spared to grant real preferences to the other country. There must be quid pro quo in any agreement which is reached, and while the old policy of Canada first might still remain foremost in the mind of the prime minister, he must recognize that to give this country the benefit of any British Diefcfence, it is necessary to give something return. If Mr. Bennett and his cabinet and prepare them- 'Ottawa conference will go down into history as the beginning "a new era of Empire progress and LL hai nth? uf ia mls Hae Ee - . United Forces The Progressives and Liberals of Ontario have at last seen that their paths lie in the same diréction. A truce has been de- clared. The Progressive leader, Hon, H. C. Nixon; the sole surviving member of the Drury cabinet to remain in the legislature, and Mitchell F. Hepburn, leader of the On- tario Liberal party, have decided to unite their forces to fight the common foe--the Consnervative government, This union of forces has taken a long time to come. After all, it has been re- cognized since 1923 that the Liberals and Conservatives were in reality of one politi- cal faith. The Progressives have been Liberals, but under a different label. In their desire to retain their own identity, they have, in many case. split the forces opposed to the Conservatives, and thereby helpéd their common enemy. That day, apparently, is now past, The two leaders have realized their own weak- ness as individual] party units, and have decided to campaign together in the future. This brings back to Ontario the time- honored two-party system of political fighting, which passed away in 1919 when the U.F.O. party went into power. The experiment of groups in politics has failed completely, and the union of the Progres- sives and Liberals means that, when the next election campaign comes along, we will be back to the good old days, if they can be called such, of the straight fights between the Grits and the Tories. Editorial Notes The death of Mrs. T. Witterick has brought great sorrow to many citizens. She was widely known. throughout the city for 9 her good works. Germany says she cannot continue to pay reparations. We wonder what would have happened in 1871 if France had made the same plea to Prussia. The big question on the streets today is: "Will Ernie run?" And if not, who will? The Ontario Regiment band, at its concert last night, showed that Oshawa has a band of which it has good reason to feel proud. | Other Editor's Comments WHAT WORRY 1S (St. Catharines Standard) Gene Tunney says the pugilist requires the great cst self-restraint to keep from fighting the cone test in imagination for hours before he enters the ring. Imagination is onc of humanity's richest gifts, but an overworked imagination may prove a curse. Worry is the operation of an imagination gone wrong, To prove how futile is most of our worry. ing it is necessary only to remember how manv things we worried about never happened. Most people with sick imaginations are carrying not only their personal worries but a lot of univer- sal fears remotely connected with their own in- terests and welfare. They worry about the end of the world; the possibility of another world war; the depravity of the times; the failure of the for- ests; the menace of communism; race suicide, or the danger of the overpopulation of the world, And unfortunately, the people who do the most worrying about these possible but remote evils, have the least capacity for solving their own immediate problems, How good it would be for all of us if we could grasp the meaning of that old saying, "Sufficient unto the days is the evil thereof." We need very little philosophy to take care of the simple business of living, Those are wisest who refuse to fight until they get into the ring and hear the bell, ! BITS OF HUMOR HELPFUL "I can't remember the words of that new song" said the girl, "That makes it casier," returned her father, who was trying to read. "Now all you've got to do to make home happy is to forget the tune." COLLECTORS "You know Percy Jones? I lent him two pounds a year ago, and 1 simply couldn't get him to pay it back. Last week I heard he had started a debt- collecting agency, so 1 thought it would be a good joke to write asking him to collect the two pounds he owes me." "Well 2" - "Now I've got a letter from him saying that he's collected the two pounds, but it was such hard work that he's reed to charge me a fee of two pounds, two shillings and sixpence." SIDE-SPLITTING Draper--These are specially strong shirts, sir, which can't be damaged by the laundry. They simply laugh at the launderer, ustomer--I know. 1 had some which came back from the laundry with their sides split. BITS OF VERSE % UP, SOUL The dark yields easily To the morning's gray. The gray burns into red In a quiet way. The red pales into blue And the blue warms to gold; Gladly arises forever The new from the old. There is a sad voice In falling leaves; But it is not the voice f one who grieves. There is a strange wailing On marsh and mere. But in that sound there dwells No heart of fear, Shall man be then The one complaining voice ? Up, soul, whatever comes, «Let 8ur hearts rejoice. Hold not the dead truth, But when young truth appears Let the old slip easily .. Down the dark years = THAT "actions speak louder than words." There seems to be quite a bit of careless talk going on by a few careless people about Veterans legislation. Some of these careless fe are self-seekers of publicity, t surely must be for that reason. It couldn't be on account of taxes because, when one stops to think what our taxes would have been if Germany had won the war, the tax is not so much, These same care- less people never wore their conn- try's uniform, and their principal business during the war was talk and make money. Every once in a while you sce one of these careless people breaking out in print challenging the goo faith, good intentions and citizen- ship of veterans, and, with malice aforesight, attempting to defame them. If our veterans haven't proven their citizenship, who has? king, have taken long leases of houses, and apparently are settling down to enjoy the fruits of office in retirement, having been careful to send remittances to Peking, The hordes of minor officials who fled from Manck ria are already feeling the pineh, They cannot find work in Pekirg, where hundreds of officials have been "axed," and there are a dozen men for every political job, Marshal Chang used to find jobs in North China for hundreds, and the revenues paid the salaries, Now he finds his revenues cut off, and he may not be able to retain his power, even if his wish to retire were not well known, There are three candidates for his post at Peking: The former "Chris- tian General" Peng Yu-hsiang, the "model governor of Shansi"; Yen Hsi-shan, the rival and former ally of Feng; and General Han Fu-chu, the governor of Shantung, who also controls Honan, Feng and Yen have been alterna tively rivals and allies half a dozen times in the past eight years, while General Han has fought his former Chief Feng in the last two civil d | wars, STEP T0 RESTRICT Some of these industrious, carcless people seem to have two strings to their bows--one string plays the music to blacken the good names and good intentions of such orga- nizations as the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Dis- abled Veterans; the other string playing a tune, insidious in its whining, at the loyal, patriotic, hon- est members of Congress and peo- ple generally who stand up and say what they think and carry out the obligations of a grateful country to its veterans, Three kinds of people during the World War: Those who were phy- sically fit and wore the uniform un- less engaged in other necessary war work; second, the citizens who raised food and engaged in work so necessary to supply the Army, and the third class--the slackers, the hot air merchants, and the fel- lows who tried to see how much they could make out of the war. WE OFTEN HEAR WHO WON THE WAR. 1 THINK I KNOW WHO WON IT. IT WAS THE MOTHERS, SISTERS, WIVES AND SWEETHEARTS OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE UNITED STATES, CAN- ADA, ENGLAND, FRANCE AND ALL THE ALLIES, FOR IF IT WERE NOT FOR THEM THE SOLDIERS COULD NOT HAVE GONE FAR. THEIR SPIRIT OF FAITH AND LOVE AND SACRI- FICE WAS BEYOND TELLING BY TONGUE OR PEN. I WON- DER IF OUR CARELESS TALK- ERS EVER THINK OF WHAT THE WAR MEANT TO THEM AND WHAT CONSIDERATION THE COUNTRY OWES THEM? WAR LORDS FEAR Personal Fortunes in Mil lion Left Behind at Mukden Peking.--Two Manchurian war lords who have been deposed by the Japanese occupation are wistfully speculating upon the destiny of their personal fortunes, totalling 90,000,000 dollars (roughly £6,750, 000). Marshal Chang Hseuh-liang, ex- Governor of Manchuria, had a for- tune of about-80 million dollars (or £6,000,000), His subordinate, Gen- eral Tang Yulin, war lord of Jehol, amassed 10 million dollars (£750, 000), by selling opium and levying "taxation." Both these Manchurian chieftains, never expecting the drastic action which has followed upon the Japan. ese swoop on Mukden, left great hoards, largely in gold and silver, in their palaces at Mukden, They are wondering whether they will ever see any of it again. General Tang had an unfortunate experience with a bank some years ago, and decided never to entrust money to a bank again, All his pro- fits were put in silver dollars, and the dollars were put in vaults in his Mukden palace, Most of Marshal Chang's fortune was accumulated by his father, Chang Tso-lin, but he has increased his inheritance considerably. Stored in Vault Some of his vast fortune is in gold bars, which were stored in a vault beneath one of several palaces in Mukden owned by Marshal Chang. The gold bars were acquired by old Marshal Chang Tso-lin when the silver dollar was worth more than the gold dollar--85 centssilver buy- ing one dollar gold. This was in 1920. In the 11 years which have elapsed silver has dropped until one gold dollar buys more than four silver dollars. The Marshal's gold hoard is now worth about 32,000,000 silver dollars (£2,400,000). Marshal Chang is not afraid of banks, and must now be regretting titat he did not realise on his gold while before the Japanese occupied Mukden, one of the Marshal's finan- clal advisers tried to persuade him to sell the gold bars at the very favorable rate then prevailing. Besides his store of gold bars and silver money, Marshal Chang has in Mukdén collections of Chinese ans tiques worth millions of dollars. His concubines had jade and other jewels valued at more millions, Treasur®s in Market _ Recently some of these treasures have appeared in the market, much to the perturbation of the Marshal, Nie may now never return to Muk- en. The marshal, of course, will not y . He has a comfortable for. tune in foreign banks, has al. ready intimated that he is tived of Chinese politics, His assoclates predict that he will retire abruptly, Many of the higher officigis of the FOR GOLD HOARDS and transfer the funds. Only a short | b RUM SHIPS SOUGHT | Cancellation Or Revision { of Smuggling Pacts by U.S. Asked Washington, Dee, 12--Action by the United States to secure cancel- lation of some treaties covering liquor smuggling and revision of others now in force with 16 coun- tries--pacts which were once con- sidered triumphs for the diplomacy and dry cause of this country--has been suggested to the State Depart- ment by the Treasury and Justice Departments, Changes sought would be along lines that are definitely at variance with British and Canadian policies One proposal would establish the one hour's sailing distance from shore, within which seizure of rum smuggling ships is permitted by treaty, at a fixed number of miles, probably 18 or 20, This plan is de- signed to avoid continual disputes over the seizures of rum runners, In the two principal Canadian now at issue, involving the Alone and the Josephine K, the Dominion has contended that the vessels were outside the one-hour limit when seized or sunk, and this point is still controverted in the Josephine K. instance, although the speed of the craft has since been tested. To Extend "Hot Pursuit" The sec | right of "hot pursuit" should be de- finitely extended to the coastguard under the treaty from any point {within the extended treaty limit in- stead of from only within the three- mile limit, | The coastguard has contended | that the existing treaty gives it this right but opposition to this claim is the chief basis of the British and cases I'm Canadian position in the I'm Alone It 1s anticipated that Great Britain will vigorously oppése any revision which would alter her pre- sent position that coastguard craft may engage in "not pursuit" of rum runners only if the chase is started from a point within the international threc-mile limit.. According to indications at the State Department, the demand for treaty revision is largely based upon the desire to put American shipping lines off an equal "drinking" basis with wet forcign lines which have been getting the cream of the trans- atlantic passenger traffic, Foreign Ships Benefited Foreign vessels flying the flags of nations which have rum smuggling treaties with the United States are allowed to enter American ports with liquor under bond, a privilege which is denied to craft belonging to the United States. The foreign ships, therefore, are able to supply an ample store of refreshments for passengers sailing from the United States to Europe, whereas the Ame- rican boats, in theory, are only able to carry liquor on their westward journeys and must throw overboard any of their cxcess stock before putting into port on this side of the Atlantic, Because of these circumstances it is felt that the loss to American commerce through the treaties has been greater than the gain secured through the rum smuggling treaties, YOUNG INDIANS COLLEGE SOUGHT Institution "Would Train Natives for Commissions in Forces Poona, India, -- Negotiations be- tween representatives of the All. India Shivaji Memorial Committee and the Mahratta War Memorial Fund Committee are being carried to a successful conclusion and it is expected that Bombay Presidency will shortly take the lead in India y opening a College for the pre- paration of young Indians for Army and Government careers, The original proposal is that the College be conducted on English lines for Indian youths who desire to enter the Indian Sandhurst, the plans for which are now under con- sideration, and the Cadet College in England with a view to obtaining commissions in the Indian Army, Air Force and Navy. It is also to provide such training as may en- able students to pass the open com- petitive Army and Air Force ene trance examinations. May Enter University The course will also be such as to place students in a favorable pési- tion to enter a University if they should fail in the examinations men tioned, It is also proposed to sup- ply recruits to the Police and For- estry Colleges and Indians States Manchurian Government #-e in Pe. will be given the privilege of send- ing. their nominees tothe College ond suggestion is that the , for training. C The latter proposals provide for an agreement for say a period of 10 years during which the Funds may be managed by the separate committees, the latter to contribute a fixed sum annually towards the expenditure on the College and the former to agree to admit a certain number of students nominated by the latter each year, board charges being extra. The teaching staff would be appointed by mutual agreement and administration would be conducted by a joint committee. soon Boys between the ages of 11 and 12 who have reached the third standard at a High School will Le admitted according to the present proposals. Each boy will then have five to six years' training after which he ought to be in a position to appear for the Army and Air 'Force examinations, the For Bid matriculation examination or senior Cambridge. For such a course a staff of a Principal and five teachers is pro- posed and as discipline will be ope of the first essentials of the course it is proposed to appoint a fairly young Indian Army Colonel who has retired. COSTLY BLESSING London ~--A blessing written in gold on parchment studded with jewels and signed by the Pope was presented to Miss Nora Rix at her wedding at Gateshead to Mr, Hugh P. 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