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_ THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY. JANUARY 9, 1932 "THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Establisted 1871) fsa of The Cana N Asso vincla) Dalies $84 the SUBSCRIPTION RATES i carrier in Oshawa snd oid $300 s vear. United States Street. Telephone representative. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9th, 1982. Faithful Service : John Gibson, chairman of the Oshawa pard of Health, fully deserved the con- catulations of his colleagues on that board 'completing twenty-one years of service o the city as one of its members. In a city ike Oshawa, which has undergone consid- ble 'change and transition in the last | twenty-one years, this is a noteworthy 'vecord of faithful public service. This ser- vice has been recognized by the members of the Board of Health, for they have elect- ed Mr. Gibson as their chairman for the last twelve yaers, and will likely continue to do so as long as he is willing and able to serve. . During the twenty-one years for which ° he has been a member of the Board of Health, Mr. Gibson has seen many changes in Oshawa. He has seen great develop- "ment in the work of the board. He has been willing to recognize new needs which "have made themselves apparent, and to keep in the forefront of the marchof pro- gress. It is sometimes said of men of long service on public bodies that they are in- clined to settle into a rut out of which they cannot be moved. That has never 'been true of Mr, Gibson. He has been at the head of the board during its period of greatest development, and has taken dership in giving Oshawa a thoroughly modern health service, one which is the envy of many other cities, Thus he has been a faithfu] servant of the people, and we gladly join in the con-° ~ gratulations which are being extended to him on attaining twenty-one complete of service on one of Oshawa"s most ; Smportant public bodies. i Ae A Significant Case . In the last two weeks an important pen- test case, involving an Oshawa man, been fought and won in Ottawa. Un- the 1930 amendments to the pensions pet, all men who had commuted their pen- "sions ten to twelve years ago, were en- | titled to reinstatement if their disability persisted. Under this law, thousands of disabled men have been placed back on pen- 'sion. Recently, however, the auditor- . general stepped up and said that some 900 men 'were receiving pensions illegally, and pd" that no reinstatement should be unless the degree of disability were jer than, or the same as at the time 'of reinstatement. In this view, he was Supperted by the department of justice. is view, in the opinion of those who * helped to frame the law, was entirely op- posite to what was intended by parliament, d on this basis a test cgse was put for- yard, the argument being that if any dis- ability, even less than before, remained, the man was entitled to reinstatement. The ie has just been completed, and has, ugh the fight made by the Canadian gion, resulted in a complete victory for e pensioners, who will retain their pen- significant thing about this whole the implication which is brought ard by the auditor-general. It seems f, after having gone through all the the auditor-general, Icnin 'early in 1980, when many mem- expressed astonishment should claim any shows, however, the multiplicity of "which are being placed in the * veterans who are disabled re- justice to which they are en- contention, one which was before the special committee of which New Zealand has a large exportable surplus. The chief of these articles is butter. . One Canadian government has already been wrecked on the rock of a New Zealand trade treaty which permitted butter to flow into this country in great quantities. The present government, when in opposi- tion, condemned the old treaty on this ac- count. But it now looks as if that attitude will have to be modified if a new treaty is to be secured, and that Canada will have to be prepared to accept New Zealand but- ter at preferential rates if we are to secure the benefits that are desired in the selling of manufactured products to New Zealand. Editorial Notes Strange it is how certain words beco» prominent in different ages. During 1 war, the words "camouflage" and "propa- ganda" became of very common usage. In the present age, we are hearing the words, "relief" and "economy" more often than ay others. What will the next era pro- uce. The Ukrainian Christmas, as a holy fes- tival, ranks as something more appropriate to the season than the merrymaking in- dulged in by other peoples. Earl Jellicoe's health has compelled him to retire as grand president of the Cana- dian Legion. Like his predecessor, Earl Haig, he has been wearing himself out in the cause of the Empire's war veterans, And still the bandit remains uncaptured. He must have found a splendid hiding- place for the stolen car. Judging by the number of theories and rumors which are prevalent regarding this lone bandit, Oshawa has a large number of private students of Sherlock Holmes. Other Editor's Comments THE WORLD PROBLEM (New York Herald-Tribune) : Strangely enough, everything seems to have got tied into everything else, so that you can't cut off one head without cutting off a whole lot of others all the way down the line, ending with your own, very likely. And even the final resource of laying the blame for it on a vague entity known as "Europe" appears to be nothing more than another aspect of ourselves, another part of the same vast machine whereby we all live and in the smoother operation of which we can alone find any help. Axes, which are good only for smashing things, are not of much use when you are trying to rebuild a machine. BITS OF HUMOR "I wish," she sighed, laying dowh the newspaper, "that we lived in a house where everything is done by touching buttons." "I wish," sighed her husband, "that I lived in shirts that had buttons to touch." Two members were talking in the smoking room of the club. . "1 understand your wife thought of taking up law before she married you," remarked one of them to his friend. * "That's right," replied the other. "But now she's content to lay it down." : Smith: "Say, Jones, have you and your sweet wife patched up the quarrels, yet?" Jones: "Patch them up! No nced; we get new ones. BITS OF VERSE GOD'S HAND My furnishings are dull and old-- Quite worn they seem to be; . But _when the sun, like shining gold, Lights up my rooms for mie, , Ob, what care 1, if old or new These furnishings of mine-- I only see the hand of God /ho lets the bright sun shine, And turns my little humble place Into a home so fair, ' With warmth and light and peacefulness Around me everywhere. ; So that my work is. And makes me want to sing The aise: of this Wondrous One ho gives us eveiy} ing-- Who gives us everything we need, Vhose mercies we ; All round about us Everywhere, Lae joy to me A sun of shining gol And whether I am rich or poor, It matters not to me, 1 1s 1 God's han pit 2 ; The Oshaw stich. Comments LW Now that a new Mayor and City Council are all ready to take office the Town Crier has one suggestion to make for their guidance, Or- iginally, like. many other citizens, he had hundreds, but has chosen just this onc by a long process of elimination :--Let the city officials carry out their duties without hav- ing to be continually running to © ttees, and council as a whole, for authority to act. The city has certain well-paid, highly qualified, thoroughly efficient heads of civic departments, if only they were allowed to function half the troubles Jf council would disappear. There was an excellent example o this during the past week. Snow fell fairly heavily on January 1. On January 8, yesterday, the intersec- tions had not been cleaned off, with the exception of those in the down- town business section. Why? Be- cause the City Engineer had no au- thority, the Board of Works had no authority. A special meeting of council would have been necessary to get this work done, and in the meantime school children attended chool with wet feet, pedestrians stayed at home unless it was com- pulsory for them to go out, and in- tersections were flooded hy melting ow. This condition of affairs pre- vailed notwithstanding the fact that about 600. men are idle, unable to find work and also, an alternative, the City Engineer had no authority tu temporarily move any men from the construction of sewers in order that this more urgent work could be performed. What a farce, The whole thing would have been de- lighted in by Gilbert and Sullivan, The President of the United Sta- tes, where a few years ago they were "too proud to fight", 'is re. ported to have recently stated "The attitude of the military countries of the Old World has been serious- ly disappointing. Declarations of peace are ineffective when drowned ort by the clatter of armament." He was, of course, preaching dis- armament but, within a few days, came the announcement that a "United States mavy program for $700,000,000 worth of new warships had been completed." Why did Mr. Hoover include the words "Old World" in his statement when, "the clatter of armament" comes very loudly from his own country? Who is "the Princess of Seren- dip"? An article in Tuesday's is- sue of The Times referred to this hypothetical lady but, the Town Crier believes, it must have been a misprint for "The Princes of Ser- endip", those traditional people who are continually being suprised by ifts and honours, "The Princes of erendip" is a phrasc coined by Walpole many years ago which has become almost a classic of the Eng- lish language, but no person ever heard of these mythical Princes ever being married. - Just .the other day the Town Crier was assisting in arranging the program for a public meeting, choosing speakers and perfecting other details, A debate arose as to the merits of certain platform speakers which resulted in the ques- tion "who is the best public speak- er in Oshawa." The author of this column caused quite a commotion when he promptly answered, with- out any hesitation, Frank W. Wat- kinson. Apart from whether one agrees all the time with all the statements that Mr. Watkinson may make in his public addresses there is no doubt that he is a fine speak- er with a splendid knowledge of human weaknesses. He can "play to the gallery" if necessary, as he himself has admitted, and on the other hand can talk real common- sense with a fluency and graceful delivery which many so-called orat- ors may well gay. | John Gibson, Chairman of the Board of Health for the past twelve years, a member of that Board for twenty-one years, an ex-M and a public servant of Oshawa for thirty-one consecutive years in some capacity or other, is a man of whom this city may well feel justly proud, Thirty-one Jars in public service, and still holding the entire confidence of citizens generally, is surely a record almost unique in Canada and congratulations to this most able Oshawa citizen would ap- pear to be quite in order. With the resignation of Commis- sioner George C. Alichin from the Public Utilities Commission, it would appear to the Town Crier that the logical man to fill the va- cancy thus created would be the retiring mayor, Ernie Marks, May- or Marks--he is still Mayor until eléven o'clock on Monday morning, --is too valuable a man for this city to allow him to slide into ob- livion all together, and it is very possible that while he feels unable to devote a very reat deal of time to civic business he could be per- suaded to occupy. a seat on the $808 _TOWN CRIER. Under the federal policy of rds which have 1 ins to Ontario iH CO! 8 | ayor, | Seckerel ins ution args. ; pec-, by Captain Roy Eye Care and Eye Strain »y.C. H. Tuck, Opt. D (Copyright, 1938) THE EYES OF A CHILD Many children drop out of school annually because of de- fective vision they cannot keep pace with their fellows and these go out to join the vast army of misfits. They find it hard to concentrate. They tire quickly and when they to think, they are nervous and fritable, all this impairs their efficiency, sending their earning power far below what it ought to be. The correction oZ.visual imper- foctions in such children will benefit all concerned. It will put many a child on bis feet, relieve him of his trouble and handicap and start him on the road to success. It will give him a fair chance to make something of his future and since he will attack his school life with renewed vigor and ambition and will materially lower the cost of education, as all teachers know that much time is wasted in repeating and drill- ing for the sake of the defective child the whole class thus being retarded. The child who sees easily is the child who learns. Are you gending the whole child to gchool? It used to be consider- ed a grave misdemeanor to put giasses on a child, but in this generation it has become suffi- clently common to cause little or no comment though there are still many people who would ra- ther let them suffer than to have them disfigured as they believe, by wearing glasses. Fortunately this class is steadily diminishing and a broader view of the matter is being taken, namely to supply rinsses to children if they need them, and let the child's neces- sity settle the question, cutting pride out altogether. Remember I am the eyes of a child, I may be the eyes of your DONALD H. WILSON, EDI. TOR AND MANAGER OF THE PORT HOPE (ONTARIO) EV. ENING GUIDE, SAYS: That if any part or parts of our modern industrial civilization bruke down, we would be a neip- less people. If the ink or paper makers stopped, the printers would be unable to carry on because they do not know how to make thelr raw materials, The present generation of far- mers would be unable to raise their crops if the present supply of equipment failed, because the younger men could neither sow nor reap by hand as it is a lost art in this country by reason of being long in the discard. With all our learning we are 2 helpless lot of people since we tocame inter-dependent. There fe only one in a thousand who can make for himself the means of a livellhood--raise his own food. light a fire without a match, cook without modern utensils, make clothing or any of the oth- er things which would keep body and soul ogether. This being the case, it seems essential that we study to keep our civilization from failing and strive to see that those we are dependent upon are fairly recom- pensed for their share in our wel- fare. WE MUST SEE THAT THERE IS A MEANS TO CHECK SOME INDIVIDUALS FROM GETTING UNLIMITED WEALTH AND DE- PRIVING OTHERS OF A FAIR RETURN FOR THEIR CONTRI- BUTION TO THE COMMON GOOD, The Word of God GOD 15 LOVE:--Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.--1 Jbhn -------- RADIDBEANS TO FLININATE ALL FIGHT HAZARDS System Being Established For Air Mail Routes in Western Canada Lethbridge, Alta. ~~ Regular air mail flights aeross the Rocky Mountains, lnking Lethbridge and Vancouver via the Crow's Nest Pass, must wait until two- way radio beams have been es- tablished along the route. This was the expressed rown, superin- tendent of the western division, Canadian Airway Limited, after he hi completed a strenuous rir in ¥ bt po abip. ge In a new mail A Baa flying conditions, e ed by many a flier going through the Pass, were met by Ca Brown and his delays were due to atmospheric conditions, "1 learned a lot about the\haz- ards of mountain flying as a re- sult of my first flight through the great Jenkisf related the captain after he brought his ship to a safe landing, For one thing, he esud, it would be impossible to maintain any kind of a sched- ule without the aid of two-way radio beams, These would have to be established all the way along the route which extends around 500 miles. Just how many stations would be required he did not estimate. Captain Brown left Vancouver alone. Everything went well un- til he was over Hope Mountain, where a strong Lead-wind was encountered, Poor visibility de- veloped and he was forced to head south, making an emerg- ency landing in the state of Washington. He took off again and reached Grand Forks, B.C., before nightfall. After being grounded in Grand Forks for two days, he took off for Lethbridge with Mayor E. C. Henninger, of Grapd Forks, as passenger. Al- though forced to fly low , he piloted the 'plane from Grand Forks to Lethbridge in a little over three hours, landing on the air field here 15 minutes before 28 snow storm started. PLASKETT'S SON ALSO HONORED Gold Medal Award to Son || of Canada's Great Astronomer Victoria, B.C. -- While Dr. J. 8. Plaskett, director of the Do- minjon astrophysical observatory here, was being awarded the gold medal of the Royal Society of Canada recently, his son, Prof. Harry H. Plaskett was preparing to accept further honors in the same fleld of astronomy and as- trophysics. Barry Plaskett, barely thirty years of age, has been elected to succeed Prof. Herbert Hall Tur- ner to the Savillian chair of as- tronomy at Oxford University ob- servatory. This is one of the three highest astronomical posts in England and Prof. Plaskett's attainment of it at such an early age is regarded as a singular compliment td his ability. A native of Ottawa and edu- cated at the University of Toron- to, Prof, Plaskett served under his father on the staff of the ob- servatory here for a few years. During the last three years he has held the chair of astrophysics in Harvard University. COMPLAIN OF U.S. SHIP COMPETITION Sydney, NS.W, -- L. L. Cun- uningham, federal assistant minis ter of transportation, recently re- celved a deputation of employees of various shipping companies who complained of the competi- tion of heavily subsidized United States steamships. The deputation declared that as a result of the heavy subsidies granted by the United States povernment, American vessels had been able to capture Pacific trade from Australian, New Zealand, Cavadian agd British shipowners. Reference was made to the ser- jouer inroads recently made by the Matoon Line, Enactment of retaliatory legis- ation in New Zealand was urged, and the government, which takes a serious view of the situation, 18 makipg a thorough survey of the question, Demands Recount Arnprior.-- Ex-Mayor S. R. Rudd, of Arnprior, who, after a tie vote of 711 ballots in the recent municipal elections, was deprived of his seat by the poll- ing clerk's cating vote in fayor of C. A. Mulivill, his opponent, announced that he woulq make a definite application for a recount. afety Deposit Boxes For the sum of $300 and up per annum, you can rent a box in our modem Safety Deposit Vault and place therein your Bonds Stocks, Mortgages Deeds Insurance Policies, Jewellery and other valuables where they will be protected against fire, theft and misplacement We invite you to call and Established 1884 personally inspect our safekeeping facilities CENTRAL IPAN axp SAVINGS COMPANY 23 Simcoe Street North OSHAWA NADA Head Office TORONTO ASSETS OVER TWELVE MILLIONS Farmers Held Mceting Spencerville.--The farmers of Grenville County were fairly well represented at a meeting held in the Town Hall, Spencerville, to discuss items of business of in- terest to the farming community. Esrom Adams, of Shanly, was appointed chairman, snd Arnold L Goodwin secretary of the meet- ing. Police Officer Haun!s a tavern. A sort of inn-spectre, DO YOU REMEMBER? Decals} igi IN OSHA EE ER Rr subsdribers have instructed MR.JOHN MoGILL, Auctioneer, to offer for sale, on the premises, 1 At One nclock, pm. Lhose excellent Building Lots, forming part of the ITURDAL, JONE 5. 87 KARR shiewn on Lhe (ollowing diagram == ar STATE Whe VAIL TROT 1 3 These Luts are situsted just Southcenst "he Oshawa reel. They are LU o few rods of King S 1 : Birpet Factory and n © most desirable Lots ir LHD mark Terms say and made kuown at sale or on application to the undusigned WILLIAM MoG: R. McGIE, TH. Executora A RELIC OF 56 YEARS AGO The other day, while poking around amongst some old type and plates, one of the employees of The Times fished up the platy of tl he above advertisement, which, it will be noted, is over 56 years old. [It will be observed that it offers for sale a section of what is now the downtown district of Oshawa, and is the property now occupied by the Mercury Service Station and garage. Other blocks included in the plan are oce cupied by buildings of the General Motors of Canada, Limited, TO SAVE A LIFE at mght, a child seriously ill with pneumonia was threatened with an paralysis. The family doctor immediately telephoned to the London Institute stating that if he could obtain the serum that night the child's life might be saved. Sepuali] ta bf Long Distance telephone, and the tafa at London an the comes were * Before dawn in Seaforth the London doctor arrived. The Long Distance telephoni of night from the child's bedside, the prompt action of the London doctor, and the reaq sompan y uadotibtedly saved a life