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The Oshawa Daily Time. Succkeding THE OSHAWA DAILY PEFORMER (Established 1871) . An independent newspapey published every after- noun except Sundays and legal holidays at Osb- awa, Canada, by The Times Publishing Com- pany of Oshawa, Limited. Chas, M. Mundy, President, A. PB. Alloway, Mapaging Director. The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily News Association, the Ontario Provincia) Ijes and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12¢ & week. By mail in Canada (outside Osh- awa carrier delivery limits) $3.00 a 7vear. United States $4.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE 18 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaide 0107, H. D, Tres/dder, repre- sentative, SATURDAY, MAY 7th, 1982, Prices and Prosperity It is becoming more and more apparent, from the statements of financiers and others qualified to speak on economic questions, that one of the chief essentials to an early return of better times is a scaling upwards of commodity prices. Dr. G. I. Christie, in a recent speech in Oshawa stressed this point. It appears again in the latest monthly report speech of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. And it was emphasized in the address of the chairman of the Ontario Division of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association at the conven- tion held here on Thursday, At a time when the consuming public is benefitting greatly from lower commodity prices, which means reduced living costs, this is an interesting point to raise. Yet there is much merit in the idea that prices must rise before there can be better times, Low prices are of little benefit to the man who has no income, because he is not work- ing. He would be far better off if prices were higher and he were earning money with which to buy. In the field of agricultural products, the value of higher prices is at once apparent. The farmers today are not securing profit- able prices for their products. They have no surplus earnings with which to buy the products of industry. Were the prices of farm products to increase to a substantial extent, their purchasing power would immediately return, and they would be- * come a substantial factor in accelerating the wheels of industry. The result would be an increase in the purchasing power of the masses of the people in the cities, a greater consumption of the products of both field and factory, and a return to a measure of prosperity which would be very satisfactory in comparison to the present conditions. To secure higher commodity prices, however, is not as simple as it seems. Too fixed in the world market, in accordance to be sold on an export basis, with prices much of the products of this country have with what that market can absorb, Wheat, butter, eggs, hams and bacon, cheese and other farm commodities are all on this . basis, and until world conditions become i « such as to induce higher export prices, it is difficult to see how domestic prices can be increased. Many international problems are mixed up in this question, and until these are settled, as we hope they will be at the Lausanne conference in June, or, until the shortage of world supplies causes a sharp upturn in values, economists will have to continue racking their brains for a solution of Canada's problem. Sports for the Unemployed A week or two ago, in these columns, we threw out the suggestion that a good work could be done in maintaining the . morale of the unemployed by providing them with opganized sports activities to fill in their out-of-work hours. This sug- gestion has been taken iw), not hy -any ~ "organization in the city, but by the unem- ployed themselves, and they are making an effort to establish a regular series of football games, with unemployed men tak- ing part. Naturally, we are delighted that the unemployed themselves have been the first to see the value of this suggestion, We believe, however, that they should be given ~~ gome assistance and encouragement in placing their sports activities on an or- iized basis. There are organizations of men in 'the city which might well take some leadership in this respect, and might even go so far as to assist the unemployed in securing the necessary equipment for their games. We again out the suggestion that some such ations come forward and take the dership in this worth-while task. ~ Bread and butter are important to men out of work, but from the standpoint of 'maintaining morale by encouragement of ve participation in sports we are still a way behind old England. What we doing is merely placing before those 0 should be interested an opportunity of ing England's example, The most important aspect of business iterment has been the widespread return the banks to more normal operating conditions,.~--~The Journal of the American Bankers' Association, - Daylight Saving and Standard : Time Daylight saving which came into effect in Whitby on Sunday, is still looked upon as an innovation and a novelty, But few people realise that the present system of Standard time has not yet been in opera- tion for fifty years. Standard time was the idea of a Canadian, Sir Sandford Fleming. As chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, he was brought into contact with the inconvenience caused by the fact that every town and city had its own local time, based on the sun, A railway time table for a transcontinental railway was therefore well nigh impossible, Back in 1879, he made the suggestion, at a meeting held in Toronto, that the world should be divided into twenty-four sections, one for each hour of the day, and that time within each of these areas should be standard. The idea "caught on", both on this continent and in Europe, Sir Sand- ford's standard system was brought into effect in Canada and the United States in November, 1883. There are still those who can remember when the clocks were moved for- ward seventeen minutes. The next year, Standard time was adopted by the Eu- ropean countries at a conference held in Washington, and the system soon became universal. Sir Sandford Fleming's idea was one of Canada's most striking contribu- tions to science and commerce, In Great Britain and many European countries day- light saving is now as much the accepted _rule as standard time, Editorial Notes In these days of unemployment, it is interesting to note that the plowmen of Oshawa are being kept so busy that there is a real shortage of them, Men who came back from the northern construction camps are said to be hurrying back to them, anxious to take advantage of the new offer made by the government. Probably they feel that any kind of a job is better than none. The opposition in the House of Commons is not gaining any laurels for itself by de- laying the passage of the government's unemployment relief bill, War veterans are wondering when the joint committee to investigate the pensions situation is going to be appointed. They feel that too liberal an interpretation is being placed on the word "immediately." Other Editor's Comments MACHINES AS MAN-HATERS (Manchester Guardian) "Men may be satisfied with their own superiority but machines are not. They prefer girls." Thus spoke Sir Herbert Austin to a London audience re- cently in the course of an address wherein it was lightly suggested that the ultimate division of labour might present the spectacle of more and more men making machines while more and more women were engaged to work them, In some ways it suggests an arrangement as convenient as the one mentioned in the nursery rhyme---Jack Spratt can make the machines while Mrs. Spratt works and watches them, and between them the industrial platter will be kept clean and polished. But there is a more unfortunate side to reflections of this kind as applied to the modern world--what sort of labour will be left tor 'man when he has made all the machines which are required for women to work, \ BITS OF HUMOR "You know, Pat," said the Scot, "some time ago we dug the ruins of a fourteenth century castle in Scotland and found a lot of wire, This proves that telegraphs and telephones were used in Scotlind already in the fourteenth century." "Well," answered Pat, "in Ireland we made a more wonderful discovery. We dug up a prehistoric dwelling, and found no wire at all. That proves that our Irish ancestors in orehistoric times used wireless," "I wish I knew how to make a barrel of money," sighed the Little Man. ; : "That's easy," replied the Big Man. "Spend a half a barrel of money in advertising and you'll soon have a barrel of money." -- "Don't forget it: it takes push to get anywhere." "So you bought a second-hand car, too? BITS OF VERSE EARTH'S GREATEST CHARMS inhi : God made the streams that gurgle down the, purple mountain side; i . He made the gorgeous coloring with which the sunsets dyed, : He made the hills and covered them with glory: and He made . The sparkle on the dewdrops and the flecks of light and shade, Then, knowing all earth needed was a climax for her charms, He made a little woman with a baby in her arms, He made the arching rainbow that is thrown across the sky; : He made the blessed flowers that nod and smile as we zo by; He made the gladsome beauty as she bows with queenly grace: But, sweetest of them all, He made the love-light in the face That bends above a baby, warding off the world's alarms-- A soft pink wrap, embellished with a vine in silken thread: : A filmy snow-white cap upon a downy little head: A dress, 'twould make the winter drift look dusty by its side; '|. Two cheeks, with pure rose-petal tint, two blue eyes wonder-wide ; X And, bending o'er, that mother face embued With heaven's own charms-- God bless the little woman with her baby in her arms! ~Anonymous, Matters over which any contro- versy occurs are generally "taboo" in the column of the Town Crier but he cannot resist the temptation of setting forth some of the argu- ments in favour of a relict depot or store such as that being estah- lished by the City Council. First, ~there will be an undoubted say- ing to the city treasury, and by means of this saving the city will be in a position to care for a greater number of people without unduly increasing its expenditures. Second,~ people who dig down into their pockets tor subscriptions to- wards welfare work do not expect any-retail merchaht to make thir- ty, twenty, ten, or even five per cent profit when that money is ex- pended for the benefit of the needy, Third, ~there has undoubtedly been overlapping to some extent in the efforts of the different organiza- tions occupied in relief work which should he almost entirely eliminated under the new system. Fourth, and last, -- one or two instances have heen conclusively proved, many he ing suspected, in which orders 101 supplies issued by relief organiza- tions have not been regularly filled, other goods, or even acsh, being handed over to the applicant for relief instead of the goods 1ramed in the actual order, L . PT. Barnum and Charles Lind bergh are both famous men, and both, apparently, have something in common because Barnum is credit- ed with originating the saying that there is a "sucker borin every min ute", Anyway it is a good job the Lindbergh baby was not twins, . . LJ The May Day demonstration stag ed in Oshawa on Monday last people who believed in carrying banners with such slogans as "Lown with the Capitalist System", was unique in the history of Oshawa and very possibly in the history of Ontario-----there were more police than demonstrators, Chief Draper scared unwelcome visitors out of Toronto and Chief Friend did the same thing so far as Oshawa was concerted, where they went to no hody seems to know unless it was Hamilton or Sudbury . 0 by With the Irish Free State abol- ishing the oath of allegiance to the King, the Town Crier presumes that the Free State immediately becomes a "foreign country". so far as the British Empire is concerned. Fol lowing this thought to its logical conclusion the Irish from south of the Ulster Border will no longer be British subjects and, so far as Can- ada is concerned, are in the same class as the Chinese, Italians, Rus- sians, Czecho-Slovakians and people of other nationalities Then. the question arises will they lose their citizenship, franchise, and all that goes with it unless they take out naturalization papers? This prob- lem gets more complicated the fur- ther one follows the line of logic. . vo. The Town Crier was very sur- prised at The Toronto Globe the other day. The Globe is usually a very rational and loyal, dependable newsnaper, but when it uses a head- line "Big Guns Will Boom Today: Kin» May Speak Four Hours". just because Mackenzie King is going to make a speech in Ottawa it gave the author of this column a very decided shock. The Town Crier thought, with many loyal Britishers, that His Majesty King George V was to be given the salute to which he is entitled and then make some important address from the throne Oshawa was always a very inde- pendent place which, for the want of better adjectives could possibly be described, in all kindliness, as "insular" or "provincial" in its out- look, but the city has surely over. stepped the mark during the past few weeks. Just a few years ago, on the motion of Hon. W, F, Nickle the Dominion Parliament passed an Act prohibiting the acceptance of titles in Canada and yet this city hes an entire baseball team come posed of dukes, It is to be suppos- ed that the other teams in the league will revive the old invitation to "put up your dukes." Do you remember the old song "Put Me Among the Girls"? Well, if you like that sort of thing, you should go and spend an hour or two in the women's department of the Government Employment Bur- cay, in charge of Miss Nellie M Robinson, like the Town Crier did the other day. Many different types of women and girls are regular vis- itors to Miss Robinson's office from the experienced business irl to the efficient charwgman. All of them are seeking ehiployment of some sort and all of them are anxious to go to work During this spring- cleaning season many of them are ready to help housewives with the extra work if only for anhour or two and Miss Robinson can pick out just the girl or woman you re- quire. LJ * » While F, W., Watkinson often says many things when speaking in public with which the author of this column disagrees very emphat- ically. (incidentally he is not yet forgiven for referring to the fourth estate as "the great unwashed") he has a great store of picturesque, language, Speaking in the Council Chamber the'other day he pulled off a good one in referring to the at- titude of the old political parties towards labour. In giving his own opinions Mr, Watkinson said "They are hoth wings ol the same bird of prey and vou are the prey", Boy Scout Times office Sea Scouts Last Saturday a number of the Bth Sea Scouts including the skip- per, paid a visit to the Yacht Club boathouse at the lake and took out the fourteen foot life hoat to look her over, It was decided that with a few coats of paint she 'would be ready for the water, On Wednesday evening at the meeting Mr. Harmer gave his sec- ond lecture on first aid, the sub- ject being arteries and where to stop bleeding from them, The Court of Honour was held af- ter the meeting, Next Tuesday evening the Patrol Leaders will- hold their monthly meeting at the home of T.L. John Chappell, Connaught St. The Patrol contest got off to fine start, the Seagulls being in the lead at the end of the first night The contest was very close among the 5 patrols, There Being only 2 points between the first and the last patrols, The Beavers held a meeting at the home of Monty Cranfield last Saturday night, with Mr, Fry in- structing them in model boat build- ing. They will meet again next Saturday night. We had a fine attendance at our last meeting, there being only one or two members absent, This is very gratifying but we would like News of what the Boy Scouts of Oshawa are doing contributed by th: scout lead- ers. Contributions to this colunin will be welcomed, and should be sent to the " morning each week. (Copgright, 1098) PIGNIFICANCE OF OCULAR SYMPTOMS Part "8" Flashes of light may indicate in some cases that the error of vision is progressive. In this par- ticular case it may be necessary to have the vision re-corrected and perhaps refrain from certain work, which may be an undue strain upon the eyes, As some of these cases may be of a very serious nature they should never he overlooked. The examination that determines the simple case and is the founda- tion of its correction is also the meang of discovering the serious case and may be the means of preventing its progress. The significance of flashes of light coupled with misty vision fs, more serious, Seeing colored rings around light is a gymptom that also should not be neglect- ed, While it may be just due to an overflow of tears at the time, it also may be due to certain cases of very serious origin like some others referred to. The danger is nothing as compared to the cost ot an examination, Don't delay, Even {if it is a simple case you owe it to your family and yourself to know, (To be Continued) "7 . WAITR ---- THAT a whole lot of cities are sleeping, A few dark clouds won't permant- ly darken the horizon of any city, Knockers who claim the home city a dead' one rarely ever help to make it a live one, The growth of any city depends upon the loyalty of its citizens, Selfish people never build=they tear down, h Loyalty to one's home city brings results, It makes a lot of real citi- zens and it takes real citizens to make a real city. In order Yor a city to go ahead, its citizens must have initiative, The great force behind progress is ini- tiative, Initiative is the power to see and start something worth while. Where initiative is used better and bigger cities are built. Where initiative is Villed the building of a city ceases, * Some business men should realize that time spent in civic work is time spent on important work for their business, for what helps their city helps them, WHEN A BIG PORTION OF THE BUSINESS MEN OF A CITY SPEND ALL THEIR TIME MAKING MONEY AND SPEND NO TIME BOOSTING THE HOME CITY, DEVELOPMENT OF THE HOME CITY SLOWS UP, AND SO DOES BUSINESS. and circulated among his congrega- tion, carries the following para- graph under the heading "Jot- tings" :="In ancient days in the Church there were a peculiar class of penitents who to show the sin- cerity of their contrition hired someone to whip them in public, They were called 'Flagellantes', It is apparently not necessary to hire nowadavs as 'The Press' will look after the publicity". If the Town Crier . remembers what he learned in school the "Flagellantes" were in the habit of whipping \or scourging themselves in publig, \but if this less the Press is filling/a long felt The Christ Church Chronicle for May, a monthly publication issued by Rev, R, B. Patterson of this city want, | ASM by C. H. Tusk, Ope. D - happens to be incorfect then doubt- |. Activities not later than Tuesday a real honest to goodness full at- tendance, Try and make it next Wednesday, Don't forget the model sailing races 'toward the end of June, Get your boats started carly or you will be disappointed, Next meeting Wednesday of next week at 7.30 pm. Running shoes required, A debate on Disarmament was won by the negative side who prov- ed that disarmament is impossible, Lawrence Carson and Mounty Cranfield were for the negative while Jack Gillette and "Chuck" Cooper took the affirmative, Rover Sea Scouts Shiver our timbers! but we're right sorry our Mate Harold Cope land was not able to be on deck this week when we hove to in the galley of Christ Church, Thursday evening. However, he'll be out or his hammock ' next week and with us again after his little tonsil oper- ation Registration forms were received and filled in and we trust it will not be long heigre the Shackleton Crew of Rover Sea Scouts receives its registration from headquarters as the first Crew of Rover Scouts in Oshawa Squire J. Perkins led a discussion on the topic of "Civics and Squires" "Chuck" Cooper wave a talk on First Aid, The rest of the: thesis given by the Kincardine Crew was read by the members of the Crew followed - by discussions on and means of doing community ser- vice We had as visitor to our Crew, Syd Hopkins of the 7th I'roop,. We hope he enjoyed our meeting and that he will come again me time A discussion of the Crew Con stitution brought the meeting to a close Next meeting will be held next Thursday at 7.30 p.m. Scouters' Club Meets On Tuesday evening the regular nonthly meeting of the Oshawa wters' Club took place in the ways June, place to be announced through these columns, Several Oshawa Troops participa- ted in the 3rd Anniversary of the 1st Whithy Troop by attending a church parade to All Saint's Church Whitby, where they heard an in- spiring sermon by Rey, Adye, Rec- tor of the Church. The Whithy troop is to be congratulated on their fine progress in the 3 years of their existence and we hope they do as well in the future, Ist Cub Pack Our Cubs azain held their meet- ing outside, We played some of the games learned during the Scouters' Course at Rotary Hall Following the breakaway of the Cubs, came the Scout meeting which was held in the School, We had some drill on Scout signals be- fore we did any work on semaphore and bandaging, Then we tried out some new games with much success, 7th Cub Pack Last Sunday saw about 20 Cubs attending the Churclr parade in Whitby as the guests of the 1st Whithy Pack and Troop. We went to All Saints' Anglican 'Church, At our last meeting the Homecrart Proficiency Badge was presented to Cub A. Hyde, and the First Aider to Cubs E, and B, Pym. We were sorry to learn that Sixer |. Stuart has moved to Windsor permanently, As the Pack is now full, no. more will be admitted, 'Fourth Troop Regular Pack Assembly, 6.30; Troop Assembly, 7.3). Both indoor meetings, Programme ac- cordintz to Schedule adopted April 4th, There wil be a brief Troop Sing-Song during 1! games and contests period \ McMillan will continue as instructor, demonstrating bandaging from 8.05 to 8.20, Unofficial admitted only by. appointment, FRENCH COPYING BRITISH WEEKEND The British week-end" is hecomir rt of French exact equival- t impossible, use the just a noc "and let it 2 Mav 6. Paris rapidly life but to expr French is French newspapers word A nd, 0 DEPOSIT BOXES For rent Ww $3. and up per Annum FOR me DEEDS, BONDS ETC. CENTRAL CANADA IPAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY 23 SIMCOE ST, N., OSHAWA ESTABLISHED 1884 at that, but purists are puzzling their heads to find a real French substitute, "Fin de Semaine," "repos septain- aire" and "la detente" are some of the substitutes suggested by some while others, despairing of finding the exact shade of ineaning in French, suggest French orthography of the English expression produc ing such combinations as "ouik~ ende", "ouiquende" and "vicuende? A 1,000 Franc ptize has been of- fered by a casino for a solution, " " "Why don't she marry you? Ip there another man in the casey "I'm afraid so." "Do you know who he is?' "Yes, her father." City Minister = Do you preach without notes ? Country Minister--Not entirely, 1 get a $5 note once in a while, hoard room of Westmount School meeting The annual Church Parade of the Oshawa Boy Scouts will be held in the morning of Sunday, May 29th, to King St. United Church, The Scouts will meet at Rotary Park at 1015 am. and proceed to the Church, where they will be met by the Girl Guides of the city in con- junction with whom the service will be held Further details were discussed and arranged for the forthcoming Junior leaders' Conference to be held in Rotary Hall on May 24th. A very interesting program is being ar- ranged and we hope that every Pat- rol and Troop Leader will come fully prepared to take an active part in every discussion, Each Scoutmaster has a programme of these discussions in his possession. The Summer Jamboree was dis- cussed and was left in the hands of a committee for recommendation to the local Association The remaining Inter-Troop Con- tests were fully discussed and dates recommended for holding of sante, As there is still a shortage of adult leadership in Oshawa's Scout movement, any gentleman reading these notes and e¥er having had any inclination toward Scouting, it would he highly appreciated if he would communicate with the Scout- ers' Club through the Leadership Committee of the Local Association of which the chairman is D. S, M. Harry Rigg. Mr, Harmer's first aid lecture was greatly appreciated by the members of the Club, The next meeting will be held at 730 pm. on the 1st Tuesday in I'he following are the results of this | BACKACHE is Nature's warning that there is something wrong with your Kidneys. Never neglect it. 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