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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1932 e Oshawa Daily Times : Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) : An independent newspaper published every after- . noun except Sundays and legal holidays at Osh- 'awa, Canada, by The Times Publishing Com~ pany of Oshawa, Limited. Chas, M. Mundy, President, A. R. Alloway, Managing Director. . The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The ED in Press, the Canadian Daily News- per Association, the Ontario Provincial ies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RAT { by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 1%¢'s week. By mail in Canada (outside Osh- awa carrier delivery limits) $8.00 a year. United States $4.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE "18 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Tele- phone Adelaide 0107. H. D, Tresidder, repre- sentative, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 1982, Shall Oshawa Go Backward or Forward? These are serious times, Oshawa, in common with all other communities in Canada, is undergoing a time of testing: The decisions which men make in these days will have an important bearing on the whole future life of this community. Decisions made in these days will deter- mine whether this city is to go backward to recede into the state of just an average small city in Ontario, or whether it is to go forward to that greater future for which it has been marked by its natural advantages. * * * 0% In the next three days, the manufactur- ers, the business and professional men of the city are having placed fairly and squarely before them, "Shall Oshawa go backward or forward?" It is for them to answer that question by their actions in the reorganization campaign which is be- ing conducted on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday by the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce. * LJ] LJ * The Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, in the four years of its existence, has, as its record has shown, done a great deal to lay the foundations for a greater and a stronger Oshawa. Through its able and self-sacrifing officers, men of vision and public spirit who have labored unceasingly to further the city's interests, have made progress such as will have its full effect "in the years to come--but only if their work is continued. » LJ w* * One can hardly visualize the future of Oshawa without a Chamber of Commerce. It would be a city without a vital spark, a city with nobody through which its hun- dreds of public spirited citizens could find expression for their desires to help build up the city. In the fight for new and diversi- fied industries, Oshawa would fade into the background without a Chamber of Com- merce to take the initiative in this work. It would fall behind in the race for pro- | "gress, and its civic spirit would slowly but surely die. Without a Chamber of Com- merce Oshawa would no longer take its place among the progressive cities of On- tario. L * * * The Oshawa Chamber of Commerce has already shown its value as a community- building force. Its record of achievement, made possible through the community spirit which it has engendered, is one of which the citizens can be proud. It has set the feet of the city in the right path towards future progress and prosperity. It ved the way for further building, .. has given leadership in every movement for community betterment, and has added substantially to the industria] fabric of the city. I * 0» * » I + Oshawa must go forward not backward. | These are serious times, but they cannot * last for ever. Oshawa must be equipped to take advantage of the tide of progress when it sets in. Oshawa must have a virile and aggressive Chamber of Com- i merce, ready to take full advantage of ~ every possible avenue for greater civic development, industrially and in every other respect. LJ] Ld * * It rests with the people of Oshawa to make the city go forward. The Chamber. . of Commerce campaign gives them their ; 'opportunity to equip the city with a fight- . ing force ready and able to place it in the . vanguard of the growth and development which is bound to come to this young country. Every individual citizen stands to benefit by this development. Support- ing the Chamber of Commerce is every- body's business, for through that organi- zation the city can look forward to a more assured and stable future, in which all of dts citizens will have their share, LJ » * * Starting tomorrow, the Chamber of ommerce workers will be appealing to citizens of all classes to support this com- munity asset. They are sponsoring a worthy cause, for it involves the whole future of Oshawa, Every citizen who is in a position to support the Chamber of Commerce has a definite responsibility to himself and to the city. There should be ' no holding back. The Chamber of Com- merce will give full returns for the money invested in it. The Chamber of Commerce is needed in Oshawa more than any other organization. Let it not be said that the people of this city failed to measure up to their responsibilites |in giving it their whole-hearted support. An Outlaw Nation Over in China, the greatest battle since the world war is raging. Japan has massed her forces against the Chinese defenders of Shanghai, and the two nations are lock- ed in a terrific conflict. True, war has not been formally declared, but that is a hol- low sham and a mockery. There is war,-- war caused by the determination of Japan to crush a sister nation, There can now be no doubt as to the intentions of Japan. Ignoring solemn treaties and pacts which she has signed, in common with other nations of the world, she is conducting a campaign of aggression of the most drastic kind. Already she has taken steps which will, unless there is some intervention, place Manchuria entire- ly under Japanese control. The creation of an independent Manchuria state, al- though there are Chinese figures in that picture, is her method of stealing from China what has always been a integral part of that country. Now she is going even further. Success- ful in Manchuria, she is casting envious eyes on the rich and fertile Yangtse val- ley, and her drive at Shanghai is a definite step towards this objective, The unexpect- ed resistance of the Chinese, in defending their soil to the bitter end, upset Japan's plans, but the extent of the military opera- tions she has undertaken indicates her determination to conquer the Chinese, re- gardless of what it may cost, Japan has outlawed herself in the eyes of the civilized nations of the world. She has proven that her signature, when affixed to solemn international obligations, is not worth the paper on which it is written. She has shown an absolute disregard for all the rules of "humanity. She is the moderw- disciple of the theory that might is right, the principle which in 1914 im- pelled Germany and Austria to bring upon the world the greatest war in history, What the outcome of the present situa- tion will be no ene can as yet foresee. Splendid though their defence has been, the Chinese cannot hope to hold out much longer against the naval and military forc- es of Japan. Will the rest of the world stand by idly and see China plundered to make a Japanese holiday? That is the question which is uppermost in the public mind as Japan continues her work of out- lawry and armed aggression. Statesmen who are charged with the responsibility of answering that question are facing a tre- mendous problem. Naturally, they shrink from plunging their nations into war, But when outlaws are running wild, stern measures are necessary, and it may well be that the great nations of the world will find themselves forced to take drastic steps to curb the outlaw nation in its thirst for conquest. . Editorial Notes Join and Support the Chamber of Com- merce. In 1914, when the Great War began, Bri- tain had troubles in Ireland, disaffection i South Africa, and native uprisings in Indi: Today, when another war threatens, she i faced with somewhat the same situation. As soon as the provincial hydro-electric commission decides what it is going to do, the Oshawa electrical consumers will re- ceive the expected rebate on their power bills, It is good news that work on the Trans- Canada highway is to be continued during the summer. This will provide continued employment on a project that is a national necessity. The Times' cooking school should pro- vide a welcome break in the monotony of afternoon bridge parties. War in Shanghai has crowded the dis- armament conference right out of the leading columns of the newspapers, If De Valera becomes president, how long will there be peace and harmony in the Irish Free State? Out of town people and concerns who are interested in Oshawa are subscribing gen- erously to the Chamber of Commerce cam- paign. Surely the citizens of Oshawa can do no less. BITS OF HUMOR "Before we were married, Charles," said a young wife reproachfully, "you always gave me the most beautiful presents. Do you remember?" "Yes," said Charles, "but, my dear, did you ever hear of a fisherman giving bait to a fish after he had caught it." The same persons who so loudly proclaimed a new era of unlimited prosperity two or three years ago are now equally convinced that the end of civilization is at hand and that while time still re- mains we had better sell the whole country back to the Indians for what it will bring. Eye Care and Eve Strain by C. H. Tuck, Opt. D (Copyright, 1038) YOUR UHILD AND THE EYES Part 27" The physical welfare generally if not kept constantly in view, makes progress very hard aml a big task to some students, It is hard for the individual effects of each of the individuals of a class to be considered. According to the regular routine the brilliant student can read and retain much and place much in the writing of notes, ete, It may be sald that an excessive amount of reading and writing is necessary in the attain- | ing of an education, The conse quences, of course, is that some students may become mere scrib- blers while others may retain thelr free hand in writing through to the end. Vision of the student hag much to do with this, Agdin as I have said before, page after page may be read but very little retained by the stu-| dent, This may be a fault of the | method of teaching or a fault of the child, due to an uncorrected defect, or it may be a faull of both, Check up and correct all de fects and by so doing remove the | obstacleg to the proper growth and development of tho child phy- sically, mentally and moraliy, The | value of the eye examination | measured by the optometrist' knowledge and equipment, Why | should it be free, | (To be Continued) | progri land how it affect | my practical worl | distllusi : people are aware thy st two 0 OW 0! ithe fled. In fact reer per mont antey Wi ides tal pr 1 to a he time, nck of literature pi in the t f huma but {t is t tir no loss | ti ler for a moment not tl but the lag of each prol m. It does not amount to the ame thing for, regarded from t angle, it 1s possible to gee ] respect there is a han the othe oh The wooden gpoon in thi ompetition of problems to be- | come solved has to be awarded to | world economics; for while there | ira grievous disappointient in other fields, in the field of econo- has heen at a and it is only ne 1 of that there to be lems, tandstill or w in sweepin' promises, ismay, optimism al 1 lias heen uny gleaned, It 1s strane indeed that economy, which is merely an arrangement made by men and depending eom- paratively little. on acts of God and unknown forces still hidden from sclence, should have drifted 85 far out of man's control fact the world seems fo ing better progress in more am- bitious fields than that of econo- my. Compared to the profound problems of the universe, ft would be thought that mere mat- ters of buying, selling, produc- tion, consumption and so. forth would be more or less play, BUT EXPERIENCE SEE) TO -BE PROVING OTHERWISE, WHAT OTHERS SAY ELECTRIC REBATE Another open letter, this time addressed to the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission; was tion this morning by I", M, Dafoe, as follows: -- Chairman of the Public Utili- ties Comm, Oshawa, Sir,--I notice with pleasure that there is a possibility of Osh- awa consumers receiving a re- bate of 129% for their past year's electric bill. It is intimated that large pow- er users will receive cheques to cover their rebates, while small consumers will receive coupons, or credit slips, Why not put the small users' coupons in some brand of tobacco or something and collect revenue from possible advertising advantages? Why the continued discrimination against the working-man? F. . DAFOE, * 45 Burke Street, Old Resident Dies Newburgh. -- The village of Newburgh lost a highly esteemed resident last Friday in the person of Miss Elizabeth Cameron, who passed away after a lengthy ill- ness of four months duration. Miss Cameron, who was in her 77th year, was known to practical- ly every resident in the village, and the esteem in which she was held was evidenced last Sunday afternoon, when many friends from Newburgh, Roblin, Selby, Centreville and Wilton gathered at the family residence to add their tributes. Frederick Wilcox, aged 63, who died in St. Austell hospital, Corn- wall, following a colhsion with an- other cyclist, had ridden the same In | he mak- | child's IMS | | handed to The Times for publica- | bicycle 30 years. Here and There The railroads cannot continue to pay a million dollarsa day in taxes; they cannot pay interest on thelr bonds; they cannot buy | mew equipment unless they earn the money. In putting the rail- roads in 8 sound, money-making, position we are aiding the whole country, says the Hormell (N.Y.) Yribune Times. Montreal witnessed an unpre ¢edented invasion from Quebec on the first week-end of Febe ruary, when over 3000 men, wo- men and children, drawn from all ranks and classes, arrived on the three dollar return Canadian Pa~ cific excursion from the Ancient Capital, Four special trains were used. Beated on a glittering fice throne between two huge natural icebergs, Miss Margaret Steven~ son, of Edmontdn, in her role as Carnival Queen and assisted by His Horor Lleutenant-Governor W. L. Walsh, opened the 16th An- nual Banff Winter Sports Carni« val at that Canadian Rockies re sort, this month, The appointment of W, R. Pat- terson to be General Auditor, Canadian Pacific Railway, has been announced, effective Feb- ruary 1, over the signature of E. E. Lloyd, Comptroller, in succes- gion to G. C, Gahan, who died re- cently. Mr, Patterson, who was born in Toronto in 1890, is one of the youngest rallway executives on the continent. Indication of the contribution made and being made to civiliza~ tion by the engineering profession was demonstrated at the 46th annual convention of the Engi- | neering Institute of Canada held | at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, recently. A very wide variety of topics formed the basis of speeches and discussions at the convention at whizh the most out- standing men in the profession were present. A little brown jug left Grand Pre, N.S, recently on a long jour- ney south to the Land of Dixle. Unlike the brown jug of the old song, it did not contain ale, or anything likely to excite the U 8. Customs officials. Just water from the historic well of Evange- line at Grand Pre Memorial Park, site of the birthplace of lLong- fellow's hercine. The water will be used to christen the new 10,000 ton steamer "Acadia" to be operated on the run between New York and Yarmouth, N.S, Ski-ing, the sport that has had the greatest growth of any winter activity in the past decade, reach. ed its peak this year with thou- sands of skiers trekking out to the Laurentians, north of Mont- real, every wcek-end. Speefal trains are put at their disposal by the Canadian Pacific Rall- way. Similar week-end outings are encouraged by this rallway in all the great centres of popu- lation and it takes a major place at all sport meetings across the continent, (322) { ent the salaries for | his wife and himself (pardon us | for putting you last, Geordie) on | his first long iournev MODIFICATION OF SALARY CUT Government will Meet Dues for Superannuation of Civil Servants Ottawa, Feb, 22. -- With the Government assuming payment of their superannuation dues, civil servants earning $1,200 a year or less will suffer a net gal- ary cut of only five per cent, in place of the ten per cent. an- nounced by Premier Bennett. | This concession on the part of | the Government, affecting proh- | ably one-third of the nation's | 50,000 civil servants, was an-| nounced here on Saturday, when the House of Commons order pa~ | per appeared with the formal no tice of a resolution standing in the name of Hon: Edgar N. | Rhodes, Minister of Finance, | Forerunner of what looms as the coming week's most fmport- ant House debate, the resolution, | which presages the hill to enact the wage cut, provides "for pay- ment out of the consolidated rev- | enue fund of all enrrent contri- butions pavahle under provisions of the Civil Service Super: tion Act In respect of the salaries payable during the fiscal veal ending March 31, 1933 of all| employes who receive not more than $1,200 per annum, | Another noteworthy feature of! the resolution is the fact that ft gives the Government power tol the coming | ) fiscal year only, Thus, | if the per cent, cut is to he con- | tinned beyond March 31, 19233, | the Ministry will have to come to Parliament again next with a new bill This may taken a; ample proof that Prem- | fer Re nnett recurd the on'y a temporary measure, ahandoned when busines proves, The Government's di make this concession pald emploves marks a from the polley laid dow + Pe (1432-32 session | be ent to he fm first announced two The Prime Minister then od re a 10 per cent. cut for all eivil servants, Apparently, the wide rot est nzainst a ent tho $600-a-year office rd as ft members of Parlia ment wero shocked to hear that no difference { mada hetween high and low pald elvil servants, Conservative was helne George Bernard Shaw went to Africa, got a driving license, and | nroceeded to smash up his car, | "The Apple Cart," as {ts distingnished anthor now realizes, ig not the only vehi- cle that can be upset. SCRIPT WRITING Signatures No Identification | formation of print-like characters your ANEW PROBLEM When Everyone Writes the Same London, -- Are signatures in seript writing legal? This problem is facing bankers and others who depend on signa- tures. for the authentication. of documents, It may be that not many years hence the finger print will be the ply legal "signature." Seript writing, which is now cenerally taught in elementary Dritish schools, conglsts of the and the {deal is attained when all | thie children copy the example so exactly that there is no differ- cuce between thelr writing, Already this has led to diffi- culties, A girl wishing to make a withdrawal from a post-office avings bank account wrote her me in seript, "The post-office | « clerk declined to accept fit. | ° "This," he sald fu effect, "may « he your name, but it is not your jznature, Anyone could write name in those characters; | : there ig nothing about them." Before she was allowed to draw her money the girl had to emember all she had heen ught her name in old-style writing, An official of the general post- offico says: "Script writing is be- 1 explained tion official, to forget and re-produce | I Paid on Debentures issued for one to five years. CENTRAL CANADA 12AN AND SAVINGS COMPANY KING AND VICTORIA 878., TORONTO 23 SIMCOE ST. N., OSHAWA A ESTABLISHED 1884 J oming universal and it robs signatures' of all distinctive haracter," The new fashion, if maintained by children after they: eave school, i8 likely to open up 1 serious problem for banker digtinctive | and jawyers." "As a child progresses,' it | by a board of educa "what {gs known as join-geript {8 taught, that is, the tters are joined together tead of heing eparate later the writing ome Stn flov he ing. Merge 12 KING EAST MEAT HEADQUARTERS PHONE 1147 Miss Thompson at the Cooking School is demonstrating Dumart's Pure Pork Sausage Tuesday. We carry a com- plete line cf Dumart's cured cuts, meats--sausage and cold TUESDAY SPECIALS Dumart PORK Kitchener Pure SAUSAGE. Ib. 18¢ Sliced BACON Ib. 12Y/2¢ Machine SIDE Buehler Quality WING STEAK Ib. 22¢ Chuck or Shoulder Cuts of BEEF Ib. 10¢ ». 9c Pure BEEF SHANKLESS " 12¢ HAMBURG PICNICS wx SPECIAL fom, Week COFFEE 1b. 23c | RE 70.3 Se Mr EDS Sl PS Sr 3: TE CAMPAIGN DAYS Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Feb. 23, 24, 25 GO OVER A Tas ONTARD, OSHAW xv Naephone = cuAMBES 0. ¢° Oshawa Chamber of Commerce A Community Necessity For Civic Progress TOMORROW, THE WORKERS IN THE RE- ORGANIZATION CAMPAIGN WILL THE TOP Be Ready to Receive Them Courteously and Generously 7 y onrsy pre Join and Support Your Chamber of Com- merce --~It Works for You-- Work for It