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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1932 4 The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An independent newspaper published every after- noon except Sundays and legal holidays at Oshawa, Canada, by The Times Publishing Company of Oshawa, Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, President, A. R. Alloway, Managing Director, The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily News- paper Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies 2nd the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by Times' own carriers to individual subscribers in Oshawa and suburbs, 10 cents a week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $3.00 a year. In United States $4.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE $18 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, rep resentative. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81st, 1932. Commodity Prices and Prosperity A buoyant upswing in commodity prices has set in. Markets all over the world are bubbling with activity as buyers are com- ing into the field, thus justifying, to a large extent, the recent bullish trend in stock and bond markets. The movement is not confined to this side of the Atlantic. Commodity markets in many parts of the world are soaring upwards, and giving rise to the long-felt hope that days of pros- perity are not far away. It has been the contention of economists that before pros- perity could return, commodity prices must go to higher levels. That is exactly what is happening now, and before long we will know if these predictions are going to come true. In the last day or two, it has been en- couraging to watch market news. In To- ronto, butter, egg and livestock prices have been rising. At Chicago and Winnipeg, Liverpool and Buenos Aires, wheat prices have been jumping. one or two cents at a time, to higher levels. In London and New York, higher quotations have been regis- tered day after day for such commodities as cotton, copper, tin, rubber, hides and wool. In Japan, there has been a buyers' rush in silk, and prices have soared. And a late report states that in the United States here has sprung up an abnormal demand for light motor trucks, far in ad- vance of the usual seasonal rush. These are more than straws showing which way the wind is blowing. They are definite indications of the upswing in busi- ness. They are indications that buyers are coming into the market, that demand for natural and manufactured products is in- creasing. That is exactly what is needed to stabilize conditions and bring back pros- perity. The most encouraging factor is that the upward movement is worldswide. Looking for reasons to justify it, one finds that the law of supply and demand is operating, not because supplies are lower, but because the demand is greater. There is just as much cotton, wheat and other products in the world as before, but people are, for the first time since 1929; finding themselves with money to buy them. Thus we are led to the conclusion that the underlying reason for the burst of activity in commodity buying is that fin- ancial stability is coming back. Govern- ments are balancing their budgets, are adjusting their trade balances, and thus becoming better able to buy commodities. The Lausanne agreements, in spite of the fact that shere has been no settlement with tly: United States, are having their effect on European buying, and are doing exactly what it was hoped they would do. Nations with debts to pay are scurrying around buying gold with which to pay them. And the result of all this is that commodities are slowly but surely coming baék to profitable price levels. In 1929, when the crash came, it came in a spectacular fashion, with prices tumb- ling hourly. Today, as conditions are com- ing back, the rise is again spectacular, but more orderly than was the crash. People who know are watching the situation closely. They are, perhaps, a trifle afraid to look for too much. But they are con- vinced that the upward swing is well on the way, and that, as a result of the ad- justment of commodity prices upwards, economic and business conditions the world over will be improved, and a new era of coming prosperity will soon dawn. A British Strike 'It is rather difficult at this distance to secure a clear conception of the conditions which have caused a strike of serious pro- portions in the cotton mills of Lancashire. One would require to have a clear picture of the conditions under which the striking workers have existed and of the difficulties under which the mill-owners have operat- ed, in order to thoroughly analyse the case. ~ Even at this distance, however, it is possible to see that disastrous results might easily follow a long-drawn out strike of widespread proportions. Coming at a time when British industry is on-the verge of a revival, encouraged by the widening of markets in the overseas Dominions, it is regrettable that a major industrial dis- pute has arisen. These disputes rarely bring good results for either party. The workers lost to much in the course of the stroke that, even if they gain their point, they are seldom able to make good their losses. And the mill-owners, dependent on the output of their mills to hold the mar- kets they have established, often find that while the strike has been in progress, com- petitors in other countries have taken these markets away from them, In the long run, a strike is an expensive proceeding for both parties. With past experience behind them, it is hard to un- derstand why the workers and their em- ployers have been unable to settle their differences without this type of industrial warfare. It is a bad thing for Britain to have so large a portion of its industrial fabric disrupted. It will hinder, for an indefinite period, the progress that was anticipated. And, in the last analysis, the only losers will be the working folks who have become victims of the strike. It is to be hoped that this outbreak will not be of long duration. The government has not yet intervened in the dispute. Probably the leaders of the government feel that a settlement is possible without official interference, but, nevertheless, for the sake of the prosperity of the country, they should not wait too long before taking action to get the workers back into the mills. Excluding the Idlers The Kitchener Board of Education is taking a novel step to eliminate over- crowding in its collegiate institute. It is proposing to exclude from the school those who are attending it simply for the pur- pose of "putting in time," without any de- finite object in view, and without the aca- demic qualifications to make a success of any course which the school has to offer. This is a step which is worthy of con- siderable study. Many secondary schools are today over-crowded simply because there are many pupils attending them for the sake of filling in their time. They are not aiming at anything in particular, they have not the capacity to become successful students. Yet they are occupying space in the school rooms and are requiring the services of a teaching staff adequate to their numbers. If tHese idlers could be eliminated from all secondary schools, considerable econ- omies could be achieved. It has taken courage, however, for any board of educa- tion to apply a hard and fast rule for deal- ing with them, and the experiment being tried in Kitchener will be watched with interest. If it works there, it is only rea- sonable to suppose that it will be tried else- where. Editorial Notes It is said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. But when it strikes once, it usually does plenty of damage. Congratulations to the Oshawa Harmon- ica Band members who have added to Oshawa's laurels at the C.N.E. Today the eclipse will darken the sun. But it will seem brighter afterwards. That is why the glimpses of coming prosperity that are now being seen are like bright sunshine after dark clouds. It may cost the city money to provide shelter for the needy, but since most of the money paid by the city and the two governments will come back in the form of taxes, the city will be well ahead on the deal. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. --Harriet Beecher Stowe. | Other Editor's Comments THE BAD OLD TIMES (Daily Telegraph) In these days of depression our pessimists are apt to take a gloomy pleasure in looking back to the brilliant days of forty years azo, when--to use a phrase coined by a later generation--everything in the garden was lovely. In that golden age, they tell us, business was booming and confidence was in the air, life was not an empty dream, and all was for the best in the best of all possible worlds. It is salutary to be !reminded fro mtime to time that, tor all but a favored few, social conditions were far worse in the good old days than they are now, BITS OF VERSE "The city that amounts to some- thing is the city that makes bet- ter business for local concerns i's chief mdustry, LJ » It is said that in ancient China | and even in parts of modern China, the head of the family | only pays the family physician £9 | long as the household remains in | good health, When illness pre- vafls or when a patient dies | there ig no payment. Not a bad | jdea! . ie. | Carrying the gospe] of your city into new fields, as well as re. viving interest in your old ones, | is what this newspaper is doing. * LJ . | When the country was faced with the first chil} winds of the | Economy wave, it was applying the brakes to the wheels of trade. | It is going to take plenty of | newspaper advertising to got them moving again. Every day we hear over the radio some silver-tonguethorato: telling us in ringing tones abou this and that methcd of saving | our country. hausted all the words in his vi- cabulary to describe all the sin: being committed by the opposi tion party against the country he turms to his stock of fairy tales and, skillfully using thicl jayers of blarney, exquisitely ren- ders a picture of his side of the question, They make the mis take of ,not realizing that those who listen to these talks are hu- man; th have ears and minds and they®do mot forget the near past and gotent Ll . » The man that likes everybody is usually the man that every. body likes. . \d Opportunities for great sav ings are found in the advertising columns of this newspaper. | Na by C. K. Tuek, Ope. D (Copyrighs, 1038> DEFECTS OF THE CHILD AND THE PRE-SCHOOL CHILD Part "18" Inefficiency then, no matter where | we find it ,is to a very great extent unnecessary and makes the person's life one of effort, and the strain of their early work unfits them for proper rest, recreation or home life Dull or subnormal | cases wonder- fully in life by recognition of physi- cal defects. . This again will effect cases right down the line, from school life to mature life, and will be the means of increasmg man's efficiency. Knowledge gained to prove. if the condition 1s progressive or station- | ary is checked off by periodic ex- aminations. Knowledge of value is gained to decide the best training suitable to adapt the child to tie work most suited on account of the existing eve or hodily defect. Thus the child Ys enabled to attain to a life of usefulness instead of blund ering through the early periods of life to later find that much valu- able preliminary time and training was lost. supposedly have been assisted Dropping chipped ice on clouds from an airplane is sald to be a certain wav of causing rain. Other and simpler methods are to wash the car, hos. the garden the night before. or organize a moonlight pic- nie,--Ottawa Journal. | There's just that whisper of jauntiness about a hat "by Wolthausen" that sets it aside from most other hats . . . a carefully styled touch that smartly dressed men appreciate. When he has ex-! Here and There Popularity of Canadian apples abroad has notably increased, and last year apple exports to Europe from Western Canada reached a new high record of 1,174,000 boxes, as compared with 560,000 boxes in 1930. Fruit growers are anticipating an even larger crop this year. e R.Y.Daniaud, formerly Travel- ling Passenger Agent, Canadian Pacific Railway, Winnipeg, was appointed District Passenger Agent, Algoma District, North Bay, Ont, effective August 16th. Mr. Daniaud has had a long and successful career with the Come | pany, and is now receiving con- gratulations on his most recent promotion. Numbers of anglers returning through Ottawa and Montreal re- port having experienced exceeds ingly good bass fishing. This was the expression of a group from Cincinnati, Ohio, who recent- ly visited the bases fishing waters of the Gatineau River, north of Maniwaki, according to A. O. Sey- mour, General Tourist Agent, Ca~ nadian Pacific Railway. This is evidently the peak year with partridge, one would judge from the reports emanating from various parts of the Laurentian and Gatineau districts of Quebec, according to A. O. Seymour, Gen- eral Tourist Agent, Canadian Pa- cific Railway. In almost every locality partridge, as the ruffed grouse and Franklin grouse are best known, are very plentiful, Most flocks hatched this year are nearly full grown. New freight rates on live stock with low minimum weights to meet the competition of motor trucks in the transportation of animals to market have been put into effect by the Canadian Paci- fic and Canadian National Rail- ways covering movement from stations within a radius of 150 aniles of Toronto, and these were effective from August 15. The new rates are being tried out as an experiment, and it is expected they will result in a very substan- tial increase in the rail movement of cattle, sheep, and hogs. One of the most interesting passengers arriving in Montreal by the Canadian Pacific 88. Duch- ess of Richmond on August 13 was "Miss England III", the world's fastest tnotor-boat, After the international races with Gar Wood's boat at Detroit, Kaye Don will take "Miss England III" to Toronto, where visitors at the Canadian National Exhibition will be able to see an attempt by the powerful vessel to lower her own or any other new world's record. The big speed boat was accom- panied in the Duchess of Riche mond by R. E. Garner, senior me- chanle, and "mate" to Kaye Don during the races. Two hundred organizations af- fillated with the governing body of the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce, whose seventh annual con- vention will be held at Halifax, September 13-15, will send mem- bers to a pre- and post-conven- tion sea cruise and land tour with the Clarke Steamship Co. the Dominion Atlantic and the Cana- dian Pacfic Railways, scheduled to leave Montreal September 3 and return there September 19, The sea cruise will be on the 8.8. New Northland, calling at Charlottetown, Sydney, St. Pierre- Miquelon, St. John's, Newfound- land, and Halifax, prior to the convention, and will cover the Maritime Provinces after At. Cost of travel to Eastern Que- bec, the Lower St. Lawrence and to resorts in the Maritime Pro- vinces has been deflated this sum- mer in a fare revolution that has never been equalled in the his- tory of the railroads of Canada. This reduction works out at about fare and one-tenth -for the round trip to any one of a score of glorious summer centres on Can- ada's unsurpassed Atlantic sea- board with proportionately re- duced fares to many other des- tinations in eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces which are also in effect from stations in the province of Quebec, Montreal and west, and also in Ontario, Sud- bury, Capreol, Windsor, Sarnia and east. A hr der oyu } FIRE THREATENS "PICKERING HOME ; Blaze Prevented by i Timely Work of Firemen (Miss Jean Clarke, Correspon- i ent) i PICKERING, August 28. -- A | burning scrap of paper from the chimney, blown by a | high wind onto the dry shingles | of the roof, P said to be re- | sponsible for¥a fire at the home I of Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Thompson, Kingston Road East, about twelve o'clock noon, on Sunday. A fire had been burning in the fire place but had been out fir some time, when Mrs. Thompsoz, who was sitting in the front part of the house, gmelt wood burn ing. Upon investigation, she dis- covered the roof to he enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Neighbors and passing motorists who no- ticed the smoke immediately went to the scene and formed a bucket brigade, untij the village fire engine which had been sum- moned, arrived, The timely ar rival of the firemen preventea the blaze from: getting a head- way and it was soon extinguish- ed. Besides damage to the roof, one room upstairs was wrecked by water and chemicals, but tle loss was comparatively light, Mr. Thompson wag at the farther end of the farm but noticed thc smoke, and immediately returned home The excitement rudely in- terrupted church services which wera being heéld in the village at the time, for a number of fire men were in attendance and left rather precipitately when the alarm sounded. AUTHOR TELLS OF HER LIFE IN INDIA Montreal.--To have been one of the few women ever to travel through the Kyber Pass in In- dia, to be recognized interna- tionally as an authority upon In- dian affairs, yet to possess an unusual degree of feminine charm and personality is the for- tune of Mrs. Patricia Kendall, | author of "Come With Me to In- | dia " Mrs, Kendal! passed | through Montreal on ler way to | the United States where she wil! | lecture this fall. She told of her interest in India being aroused | when, as a 15-year-old girl from | Virginia, ghe made her first trip {to that country. At the time she | had been keenly (interested in | history -and the varying people of India intrigued her interest to the extent that for years after [she read everything she could | find upon India history. Not un- | til she travelled through the | country upon 'frequent prolonged [visits did she attempt to put her | impressions in writing. She has Just. completed a 11,000.-mile flight through India. Gandhi, she declared, was a mountebank, the greatest politic jan in the world, the world's best evader of direct issues but | most important of all, he was in- | consistent. He had a sense of | humor, she said, which served |as a weapon to throw his enemies | off guard. Mrs Kendall just ac- cepted an invitation to address the India Committee of the House of Commons in the Urited | Kingdom, a distinction that has never been granted to other than a member except a returning governor or viceroy. RECEIVED SURPRISE | CALL FROM STEAMER Chatham, Ont.--Mrs. Spencer | Stone of this city, was surprised Ito receive a telephone call from { her son, Thomas A. Stone, who | she thought was in Europe, stat- Ing that he was on his way {home for a short vacation. Mr. | Stone called his mother from the Empress of Briatin, then in the Guilt of St. Lawrence, This is be- | lieved to he the first ship<4o- shore telephone message ever re- ceived here. Mr. Stone is second secretary to the Canadian lega- tion at Paris and attended the Lausanne conference. MISS KYDD DELUGED WITH INVITATIONS Montreal. --Invitations from clubs in all parts of Canada to address them have been pouring in upon Miss Winnifred Kydd and as many as possible have been accepted by her. In the early autumn she will fl | visit Loacl Councils of Women and THE THAMES A living thing beneath my window flows; It is both broad and deep, profound and calm; It passes mighty town and country farm And rural hamlets where the willow grows. Full "many a valley green and rich bestows Its English waters on that widening-.arm . Substance and shadow joined in married charm. Motion and station it together knows. See how the borrowed sky inverted low On stillest nights her patterned carpet spreads, When water-wrinkling winds no longer blow, Whereon the moon in stealthy silence treads, And looks about with measured motion slow, And our struck eyes with twofold moonshine weds. ~Romilly. Joh, "Bosms." WHEREVER WELL-DRESSED MEN CONGREGATE A complete price range HATS by WOLTHAUSEN, The BROCK The ST. LAWRENCE The HORTON BROCKVILLE Hatter to Gentlemen for over half a century. (other societies, speaking as one of | the Canadian delegates to the Dis- {armament Conference at Geneva, and describing its achievements and hopes for the future, and will also discuss matters of special interest president of the National Council of Women of Canada. Late in September Miss Kydd will make a short trip to the Maritime Provinces. Lecture enzagements in Montreal will occupy her time for the first three weeks of October, and on the 24th of that month she will go to Ontario, the Prairie Prqvinces and British Columbia, Victoria being the final point on ier itinerary. FILM ON SAFETY Melbourne, Australia.-- "How to Avoid Accidents with Elee- 'riety in the Home" is the sub- isot of a film shown by the Na- tional Safety Council of the Young Women's Christian As- sociation. It takes some time to convince the Australian house- wife that electrical equipment has not many fearful hidden dangers. MEN NOT KEEN ON BEAUTY PARLORS Winnipeg.--~The editor of the Free Press women's page has dis- covered that Winnipeg men--a few of them--do go to beauty q shops for treatment, but you can't find out much about it. This was revealed in a canvhss of the various beauty parlors and hairdressing stores in the city, when one after another as- sistant in charge shook her head. The subject grew more and more embarrassing until the very opening of the door into & well- known establishment seemed like going for a clandestine appoint- ment. The fact is, you just don't talk about men having beauty aids, not in Winnipeg. In other cities, reports state that men are men and unafraid to enter the fril- liest prettiest 'beauty shoppe' in existence. But Winnipeg men are passing through the experimental stage; the conventions still have high barriers; the public isn't educated up to seeing a man en- ter a feminine shop without raising its public and, undoubt- edly unplucked, brows. One beauty specialist did reveal that the odd male does enter its doors, mostly for scalp treat- ments. But it appears that most men of Winnipeg will sacrifice personal appearance rather than face the woman's realm of the beauty specialist. Women Lawyers Not Popular in France Montreal.--I do not think women will ever mount the bench--at least not in France," said R. Grasse; Appeal Court Lawyer of Nancy, France, who is holidaying in Canada and spent a short time in Montreal. "In the smaller centres women lawyers do hardly anything at all, while one or two have met with some success in Paris. These few, however, I think 1 may say, have succeeded only because they have become attached to some large and influential firm or have been pushed by some political man of the house." | WORK OF MONTREAL CHILDREN TO BE SHOWN IN TORONTO Montreal.-- Ontario children will have a chance to see what their Quebec neighbors are doing in the Daily Vacation Bible School Classes during the sum- mer months. Selected specimens of work done by Montreal child- ren have been sent to t secre- tary of the National Council of Daily Vacation Bible Schools in Toronto, Miss Ne Fannis Sem- mens, who will take them to var- fos centres in Ontario for ex- hibition. Along with other ar- ticles the selection consists of needlework, including a decor- ated tray set, butterfly pot-hold- ers, a play apron, a clown baby, and a serapbook of unbleached linen full of pictures, Chinaman Finds People Are Doing Their Own Washing Hundreds Hamilton, -- of people who used to send laundry to be washed away from home are doing it themselves. And so, in the queer way of reactions, a Chinese, the first Chinese resi- dent of this city to ask for civic aid, has had to do ihis. Proprietor of a laundry establishment, the singular native of tl'e Far Eat hat found businczs to be so poor 'hat Le has asked to be relieved of 3 rertion of his lusiness tax. He is the father of five child- ren. 1one of whom is more than 12 years of age. Instead of grant. ing the applicant's request, it is understood that the board of control agreed to extend the time for payment of his obligation. Times Classified Ads. get results. PROVIDE for your future-- Build a Savings Account KING AND VICTORIA ST8,, TORONTO 23 SIMCOE ST. N., OSHAWA HONEYMOON TRIP BY AEROPLANE OVER THE ROCKIES Vernon, B.C. -- An aeroplane trip over the RoNiies for her honeymoon is the experience of Mrs. Lowell Dunsmore, formerly Miss Jessie Langstaff, who was married at Enderby to the popu- lar aeroplane pilot who has been operating a flying school at Vernon for the past two years. The wadding was solemnized at the home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. J. Laforge, of Enderby, fol- lowing which the couple went to the Vernon airport by motor, and took off at once. WATER-SKI-ING NEW SPORT Oxford, England.--A group of women undergraduates have in- troduced water-ski-ing as a sport to the University. The skis, which are between five feet and six feet long, and six inches wide, have slots in the middle for the feet, and the ski-ers propel them- selves by means of double-bladed paddles with long handles. Hen, one Block to Ocean. Breathe Deep the Bracing Ocean Air. Cours tesy, Politeness and Service are Yours for Less Than You Think. Write now. Record Low Fares td Toronto Exhibition August 26 to September 10 $1.45 Going 25 and Sep Se 8 ob $1.1 Zs don 0 rant fo | Going Sept. 8, return CANADIAN PACIFIC CANADIAN NATIONAL Men's BLUE SERGE With Extra Trousers || Tailored in 18 os. pure | wool botany serge, highest quality linings and made in two models. Young men and the more conservative styles. Sizes 35 to 44. \ en Johnston's