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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928 Alloway, Secretary. . Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Cana~ I on Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As- sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES vered by carrier: 0c a week. By mail (out~ Pie ro Bo carrier delivery lmits): in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumber- land, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Teles "WL So Adelaide 0107. H. D. 'fresidder, repre. sentative. REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928 THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY In the life of a community, as in that of an individual, it is essential to efficient functioning to have a sound mind and a sound body, One is complementary to the other. So it is that intelligent people recog- nize the importance of devoting more and more attention to factors of public health. Dr. McKay reviewed this subject in a mas- terly and interesting style in our Greater Oshawa Edition, showing how the practical recognition of public health matters had come about as a process of evolution, As the author of this article pointed out, the public is slow in its acceptance of new measures. It clings to old traditions, old cus- toms. The less-informed are apt to be too easily contented with what was good enough for their fathers, It is reassuring, however, to find that such tendencies are on the decline in live, progres- sive communities, The antithesis of stagna- tion is found in New York, where it is said that the completion of any one construction is at once followed by preliminary plans for tearing it down and replacing it with some- thing bigger and better. The problems incidental to public health are the natural outcome of the growth of population and industry. It is not sufficient to meet the needs as they arise; such needs must bé anticipated. And the penalty of neglect is retrogression, A single epidemic can undo all the progress that has been made during a period of many years, History af- fords endless examples of such calamities, Dr. McKay recalls how the citizens of Osh- awa were awakened to their need of a sup- ply of pure water by a visitation of typhoid, with its attendant distress and loss of life-- a tragic example of disastrous delay, Within the scope of this brief article it is not possible to review Dr, McKay's article in detail, neither is it necessary to do so. The article itself is available for the perusal and reflection of all, At the same time, reference may be made to a single section--Sewerage and Sewage Disposal--and to the urgency of the requirements which have arisen out of the development of the Greater Oshawa of today. Dr. McKay calls attention to the serious- ness of the situation when he points out that little or no alteration has ever been made in the original method of disposing of our domestic sewage. Here is a significant pas- sage in Dr. McKay's article. We are steadily increasing the amount of our sewage discharge into Lake Ontario, and dilution is a problem which varies in character with storm, rain and prevailing winds, Sufficient is now known concerning our own civic problem to allow us to hope that the time is not far distant when we shall have installed a modern sewage disposal system, embracing methods of sewage treatment which will meet the demands of expert sanitar- ians, allow fully for further growth of our city, and meet for all time the requirements necessary fully to safeguard our civic water supply at its source. Un a result bas been reached Oshawa will have failed in one of her most im- t ideals. The financial responsibilities will be heavy, but will be compensated to some extent by the real- jzation of a most important and necessary job well done. It is hinted that harbor development awaits our attempt at 2 solution of our problems of sewage disposal. on Those competent to express an opinion say that advancing knowledge in science is mow able to offer a solution of our problem. that that solution is at hand. There is not a person in this city who is not vitally concerned in the health of the pommunity. It is important that the most Let us hope rigid sanitary regulations should have force, not only here, but in every city throughout this country; for epidemics of disease can be kept to a minimum: they are the greatest wasters of life. A pre-war estimate by a leading sanitarian places the average value of a human life at $3,600, and the average cost of medical at- tention and nursing care for each case of ty- phoid fever, for instance, at $200. On this basis, in one small town epidemic, 55 cases of typhoid cost $11,000 and in addition the loss of vital capital because of six deaths was $21,600. ion That is a great deal of money to be taken out of a small community, Apart from the humanitarian standpoint, it is not good bus- iness policy to let such things happen, Pub- lic health is purchasable. Within natural limits every community can determine its own death rate. Modern health methods include infant wel- fare, child welfare, prevention of communic- able diseases, the sanitation of the commun- ity. a dividend to everybody. A healthful com- munity will not only have more money to spend on the necessities and luxuries of life, but it will attract trade from a wider terri- tory. Health is a business proposition. AFRAID OF THE JOB No man can do full justice to his work if he is afraid of being fired. This fear, often unfounded, has ruined many good workers. Laboring under the delusion that he is liable to be fired momentarily, the worker becomes furtive and nervous, one eye on the boss and the other on his task, his attention divided and wavering, Sometimes this is due to the mental make- up of the worker, but often it is the result of a wrong attitude taken by employers to- ward employees. Some crganization heads have the theory that to keep employees con- stantly on their toes and keyed up to their best it is necessary to hold over them an un- expressed threat of discharge, This may be done simply by a generally cold and un- friendly attitude, Such a situation does not work toward good results in any business organization, Workers should do their best and keep their minds off the boss, If he is going to fire them, all their worrying can't prevent it. The wise employer will realize that this fear is detrimental to the morale of his organi- zation, and will seek to dispel it by friendli- ness, and, once in a while, a word of com- mendation for a task well done, The man afraid of his job is an unhappy creature, indeed, and unhappy men do not make the best employees, So long as we love. we serve. So long as we are loved by others I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.--R, L. Stevenson, It is an instinct with me personally to at- tack every idea which has been full grown for ten years, especially if it claims to be the foundation of all human socety, I am prepared to back human society against any idea, positive or negative, that can be brought into the field against it. --George Bernard Shaw, Young men, life is before you, Two voices are calling you--one coming from the swamps of selfishness and force, where suc- cess means death; and the other from the hilltops of justice and progress, where even failure brings glory, Two lights are seen in your horizon--one the fast fading marsh light of power, and the other the slowly ris- ing sun of human brotherhood, Two ways lie open for you--one leading to an even lower and lower plain, where are heard the cries of despair and the curses of the poor, where manhood shrivels and possession rots down the possessor; and the other leading to the highlands of the morning, where are heard the glad shouts of humanity and where honest effort is rewarded with immortality, ~John P, Altgeld, Bit of Verse STARS Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires--'t is to be forgiven That in our aspirations to be great Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star. --Byron. Money invested in public health pays' At a Glance There's no more reason for be- ing late for work any more. Gen- eral Motors Picnic has beem over for three days. - -. - Didja see me in the picture? Well, I'm there, - LJ LJ "At A Glance" got het wp and swelled out into heading Anyway, we're running the busi- ness here, so there. - LJ Ww We thought we would bring out another special edition yesterday, but when it came near 5.30 o'clock, we decided mot to, and there was all that time lost. - » Ld So much comment has beem circulating about our locally. owned aeroplane that a "pome" on the subject would not be out of order, * Ld I'll change my car for an airy- plane, vy LJ . L 3 The motor bus, It gives you creeps. \ It waddles up, And down the streets. It isn't safe, It isn't sane, I'll advocate An airyplane, ~~ 4 « An airyplane, Is safe an' sound. It doesn't run Along the ground. And bump into Another plane, Like autos do, Mos' all the time. I'm gonna buy, An airyplane, An' wat you say, Is all in vain, I'll fly the clouds, I mean the plane, An' p'raps I won't Come back again, --S8'ynonomous. * . -. The next big event is Christmas, Do your Exmas shopping early. LJ] - * There's one thing. They can't have a guessing contest on the Ro- tary Club's pony which is beng given away on the Four Corners, at the Street Fair this year. Perhaps the pony would object to having a speedometer attached to it. Ld * ® All the newspapers need to do now is reserve a space in their week-end editions for weekly crashes and accidemws, They still continue to mount, * LJ * The Price of Eggs By Old Ben, "Yessir, the wurld"s goin' te the divil, Here I been sittin' right on this here bench in front of this old store for nigh on to sixty years, and let me tell you that I seen cundishions wen they was fairly respectible. Ye cud git a lofe of bred for a nikel, an' enuff butter te make it taste gud fer a dime, An' ye cud live like a king fer $20 a week, Didn't have te ern me own living, 'cause me pap was rich. Then 'e died, But my sister'll tell ye, Here she's been keepin' me at her house for close onto 20 years, I tell ye it ain't right. The wurld's goin' mad, I say, an' I suppose I'll go mad with it, Now look at this, Twenty years ago, eggs sold at eight cents a dozen, Now they're fifty, Wat caused the drap? They are a necessity, ain't they? Well, if this "ere goverment is goin' te keep things goin' in this way, we'll all jis' dry, up, fade away, and dis- appear, That's wat we'll do. This egg question will sure lead to great catastrofies before my time is up. But I'm abidin' by it, There's won consolation, the girl's is gettin' prettier, yessir, they sure is. * LJ LJ All is not real that glitters, * » . "Gold" is generally but brass. » * Ld And what others think are dia- monds, . LJ > Often are but chunks of glass, LJ > * Famous last Words, .. ha I'll climb up the tree, and shake the nuts down, * ~By Renrut, So he clumb, THE MOVIES DO MOVE (From the New York Telegram) Natural color movies soon to be available to any one who wishes to preserve the antics of little Johnny or Mary, bring us one step closer to the say when past events can be re-crea The scientists of the Eastman Kodak laboratories have added satis- factory and natural color to the ama- teur motion pictures that have be- come as common now as snapshots were in the nineties. : This fall the movie theatres will undergo a revolution and the vocal movies will begin to drive the silent drama from the screen. Already Hol- lywood is feeling the change and in- articulate actresses are worried. Talk- a motion pictures are on the make. esterday the photograph was made to move; today it appears in all the hues of nature; tomorrow it will talk. The day after tomorrow it will take on the depth of perspective, and then the canned past can be reincarnated in order that the future may say:-- "My, how funny folks used to bel" AWFULLY AWED (Pathfinder) "This is the home of Shakes- peare. Are you not awed?" "Certainly! Where can we get post-cards?" What Others Say "4% HRARD IN COURT &% (Detroit News) ! "What is your gross income?" "No gross income. I have a net income. I'm a fish dealer." ACCOMMODATING ™'F% (Toronto Telegram) 4 He: "When is your birthday?" She: "When will it be most con- venient for you?" HOW NEW YORK GIRL DIFFERS (New York Evening World) Miss Kathleen Rice, graduate of the University of Toronto, has made a rich copper strike in North ern Manitoba, and "for the first time in its history," despatches point out, "a woman has made a mineral discovery of major impor- tance. That's where New York has the edge on Manitoba, no day goes by when this town's feminine coveries of major importance, SOME DAY (Chistian Science Monitor) The statement that Thomas A. Edison is on the track of a sub- stitute for rubber makes the day when gasoline may be discarded as a fuel for fotive power seem not so ar distant. At that time it may be possible to 'tune in" the thing- umbob on one's car with the force of a central distributing plant and start of on a day's jaunt with no shadow of a gradual depletion in the tank to mar a driver's pleasure. ONE MORE BASS (Waterbury Republican) Mr. Coolidge says that his chief interest in angling is that it takes him into the open air and that the number of fish he catches doesn't fatter, but when darkness descend- ed upon him on a lake near Brule the other night he remarked that he wanted to catch just one more bass before he went home. A good many other fishermen who "don't care whether they cateh anything or not feel the same way about it when the time for going home ar- rives. ' SPORTS--AS SPORT (Baltimore Sun) After all, a sport do2s not exist solely for the sake of rivalry. If gold-diggers fail to make their dis- |' . Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from having money in a Central Canada Savings Account earning Four Per Cent. interest and withdraw. able by cheque: One Dollar will start you. NTRAL CANADA I9AN AND SAVINGS COMPANY 23 SIMCOE STREET NORTH, OSHAWA "ESTABLISHED 1384 Branch Office; 'OSHAWA/ . » than ever before. Upon them will be centered a wider and more breathless interest. As games we believe' they will match that lav- ishness by an equally lavish de- monstration of what sports are at their best--as sports, THE INVITING DUTCH (From the Toronto Globe) There are two classes among au- tomobile drivers---thosé who have been in the ditch and those who have been almost in. Every driver of a car knows the danger of the open ditch. Whiie many people are "ditched' because of the care- lessnss of other drivers, there are, on the other hand, scores of accl- dents that could easily have been avoided had the open ditch on the side of the road been filled in. For hundreds of miles along the mag- nificent highways that span the province of Ontario are to be found these open ditches, in which the best driver in the world may find himself in the twinkling of an eye. For it is only a matter of a split second from the highway to the ditch when a car is traveling at the speed limit of 35 miles an hour. Some attention should be devot- ed to the elimination of open drains by the Highways Depart- ment. Underground tile drainage could be used to carry off the water, and these huge depressions filled in. 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