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.. ¥AGE FOUR "She Oshawa Bally Times i /: Succeeding @ THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER _ a retary, The Oshawa A dian Press, | sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and | Audit Bureau of Circulations. : CRIPTION RATES : SUBS mail (outside Delivered by carrier, 10c a week. By | Daily Times is a member of the Cana. States, $500 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative. REPRESENTATIVES IN U. S. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1929 VICTORIA DAY Tomotrow is Victoria Day. There was a time when jt meant something more than a mere holiday, when some real thought was given to the origin of the day. Now, while in the schools a great deal © oe phasis is placed on Empire Day. as leading up to the holiday occasion, little thought is given to its origin It has.become a day of pleasure and picnicking, o sport, and fun, with little consideration given to the emorial significance of the. occasion. ™ Victoria oy is observed as a tribute to the mem- ory of one of the greatest rulers who ever graced the British throne, Queen Victoria, who, in her. reign of nearly sixty-four years, saw the growth of the British Empire to be a mighty force in the world. Imperialism, with all that it has meant to the Em- pire and to the world, saw its birth during her reign, and the development of self-government in the Bri- tish dominions ov and incidents which marked the years she sp throne. BE altogether from the personality of Queen Victoria, transcending cven the sagacity which she showed in the discharge of her obligations, stands the fact %hat, during the sixty-four years of her reign, the foundations were laid for the great Bri- tish: Empire, which in the time of the world's need stood united as a mighty force for freedom and jus- tice, and showed the world that, come what may, the ies binding the British peoples of the world together avere not mythical, but meant loyalty' and allegiance to the point of tremendous sacrifice, : I Many people will be thoroughly enjoying the V ic- 4oria Day holiday. To many, it will be just a holi- day, and nothing more. But we would like to think 'that all might stop for a few moments, ere starting out for the day's pleasure, to ponder over the sig- nificance of the day, and over what the reign of the queen whom it memorializes meant to the British Empire. MORE LOST THAN GAINED ' The people of Whitby may feel that they have had a good turn done to them by the signboard com- pany which has agreed to advertise the town, free of charge, on a large signboard in' the west end of the town. They have not taken into consideration, however, the detrimental effects of all large sign- boards which mar the landscape and hide beauty ppots from. passing motorists,' As The Times pointed out-in this column not long ago, there is a growing belief that all signboards should be banished from the highways and byways of the province, so that visiting motorists might enjoy. the landscape, unhampered by large boards' which cut off from their view the natural beauties of On- tario. Some of the people of Whitby, it is. stated, had this viewpoint, too, and objected to the proposed sign- board that the bill boards constituted an eyesore. This point was worthy of being taken into careful consid- eration, for it is possible that, by allowing large sign- boards on the outskirts of the community, the beauty of this pretty Ontario town will be so marred that more will be lost than can possibly be gained by the! signboard announcement. ent on | A STRANGE SITUATION : Ten years ago, representatives of the allied nations and of Germany sat in the city of Paris discussing the terms of peace which were to bring the great war to an official close. At that great conference, the ullied nations were the dictators, and they presented to Germany the terms which she had to sign, terims, by the way, which included a definite statement of the amount of reparations to be paid by 'the de- feated nation. Just now, another conference of representatives of the same nations is assembled at Paris, striving to reach an agreement as to how much of the original reparations demanded from Germany ten years ago shall be paid by that country. And strange to say, the allied nations seem to have entirely lost their position of supremacy. They have lost control of the situation in that they "are unable to use any sompulsion to force Germany to carry out that part of the peace treaty obligations which they have agreed upon, and that even but a small proportion of the original claim. In fact, to the average outsider, it would seem that Germany is doing the dictating to the allies, instead of vice-versa. Germany is taking the role of being able to tell her creditors that she will not mccept their terms, that any terms to be agreed upon 'must be satisfactory to her, irrespective of what they may think of them. It is rather a peculiar situation when all the cir- Canadian Daily Newspapers' Ase' er the seas sprang from: the events . THE. OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY, 23, 1929 2 pr a--_ sess cumstances that appear on the surface are taken into consideration, for events at the conference at Paris would lead'one to believe that the Germans, and not the allies had been victorious in the struggle of 1914 to 1918, . LOVE OF THE HOME TOWN The neighbouring community of Bowmanville is t be congratulated on falling heir to a bequest which seems likely to met the town treasury' a sum in the neighbourhood of $200,000. There are few communi- ties that have enjoyed such good fortune, and, in a place the size of Bowmanville, a great good can be accomplished with a sum of money of that size if put to proper use. The striking feature of the bequest of the late James McGill to his native town is the.apparent love of home which prompted it. There must be some thing rather fascinating and desirable about one's old home: town to create a feeling of affection such as would inspire so generous a gift to it. Mr. McGill had been many years away from Bow- manville before he died, and had made his fame and fortune in an alien country. Yet to the last he never forgot the town which gave him birth, nor "the associations which he had there, and he ever had .& ready ear to its needs. His munificence in making s0 splendid a bequest to his birthplace could only "have been inspired by a genuing love for the place, and the town that can create such a spirit deserves to be complimented just a little more than the aver- 'age community. THE DROWNING SEASON S---- The. season of drowning fatalities, has apparently started. The newspapers of the last few days have carried reports of many young people losing their lives on the lakes and rivers of Ontario. Every year there is a plethora of such accidents, deplorable be- cause they usually cut off promising young lives, and have prevented the accident. . Drowning accidents. are largely like automobile accidents, in' that most of them could be avoided by the exercise of the maximum of care in the hand- ling of boats and canoes. Just as an automobile, in + the hands of a reckless or inexperienced driver, is a menace to all traffic on the highway, as well as to its occupants, so a canoe or boat, in the hands of a person unskilled "in its use, and laden with people who are unable to swim, can be a deadly menace to those who venture on the water in them, One would imagine that the reports of drowning fatalities would be a sufficient warning against the careless handling of water craft, especially in deep water, but apparently this is not so. But the summer season is now beginning, and those who find much of their pleasure on the water should first make sure of two things, first, that they are able to swim be- fore venturing on the water, and, second, that they observe all the essential rules of care and safety while on the water. EDITORIAL NOTES. | fruits" of blossom week can be numbered in the reports of automobile accidents. RLU Twelve years ago a German Zeppelin would have bad quite 2 different reception in France. In Toronto, plasterers are receiving $1.32%4 an hour, Bie being in Toronto, they probably need it all A newspaper headline says, "Demise of autos due to bad roads." And, in some cases, to bad drivers. i The wonderful thing about making ambitious plans for a vacation is that that part does not cost anything. Even although belated, there may be an oppor- tunity before this week is over to be sincere in call- ing it "The Merry Month of May." _Oshawa's hydro consumers, reading of the reduc- tions in rates for municipally owned systems, must feel like the small boy who has to enjoy a ball game through a knothole in the fence, If Hoover can persuade the United States to join in the sacrifices necessary to settle the reparations problem, he will have! done much to raise his coun- try in the esteem of the world, = Other Editors' Comment ~ FIVE POINTS FOR BRITAIN (London Daily Chronicle) It is certainly a most remarkable fact that at this moment the fastest aircraft in the world (the seaplane which won the Schneider Cup), the fast- est craft on water (Miss England), the fastest motor. car (the Golden Arrow), the fastest passen- ger liner (the Maurentania), and the fastest loco- motive (a G. W. R. express) are British all fivo-- British designed, equipped, and operated. We are glad that the British Government's exhibit at the Toronto National Exhibition this year will show five models to remind the world: of it. THE TAXPAYER PAYS. (London Daily' Mail) There has been far too much of a tendency in the past to accommodate Germany at the cost of the British taxpayer. We have suffered bitterly for this tendency already, and our distress has been increased under the bad debt settlements made by various members of the Government in the past with our Allied debtors or creditors, By these settlements more has been given away than Wwe can afford in order to make things happy and comfortable for everybody else. The British tax- payer has been forgotten; or perhaps he has thought fair game to be "squeezed till the pips squeaked." Brc of Vere "oe | v ONTARIO our. great waterfalls and mountains, Rolling lands and glistening lakes, Fishing, hunting and traditions, Make us love you for their sake. There the scenery-is varied, d the seasons are distinct: Warm in summer, hardy winter, Gives sound bodies, minds that think. 4 In the garden of God's country, I am glad He placed me there, For the people, scenes and fruitage Cannot be beaten anywhere, As I rove this old world over, In good health or sickening woe, My heart; like the homing pigeon, Turns surely toward Ontario. --B, Merkel. because, in many cases, a little ordinary care would" (Copyright--By The British Labour Party And the General 'Election {1114 Asticle No. 5 THE LABOR PARTY AND SAFEGUARDING. SC by RT. HON. J. R. CLYNES, M.P. Arrangement with Anglo-American Newspaper Service) The Labour outlook on the varied devices for restricting imports in or- der to shield home products against importa- tions from abroad is, strangely enough, stated accurately in Mr, Winston ~~ Chur- chill's Life of his Father. On page 695 of that lively and interesting volume the com- ment i Offered upon the attitude J. R. Caynes I Lord Randolph Churchill towards Free Trade, Mr. Churchill writes: "His objections to Free Trade were not based on principle. They were entirely practical. He cared little for theory. He hated what he used to call 'chopping logic! He was not at all concerned to vindicate Mr. Cobden, and he mocked at 'profes. sors' of all kinds." The view of Lord Randolph, we are told, was that a complicated Tariff would not work, and as a Party manoeuvre it had no value. To the labour mind the element of "Party" does not enter into this question of industrial interests, If we could be assured that we could get good trade and keep it by keeping foreign goods out of this country, Labour would not hesitate to take effective action. But the truer interests of Labour are, we believe, to be found in international action, through which finer human standards can be established. By such meats trade the world over could be made more free, and international interests be thereby established. Restrictions Ineffective Restrictions if made effective by Customs duties would displace more workers than would be absorbed by That Body of Pours By James W . Barton, M.D. TOO MUCH STARCHY FOOD You are the ordinary healthy in- dividual at work every day, and have nothing to complain of from a health standpaint, However you find that you have frequently a pain in the abdomen, which while distressing at. times, is hardly worth a visit to your doctor. r Sometimes the pain seems to be "under the heart," and other times it is at the same point on the other side of the body under the liver. It may also be down on the lower right side of abdomen in the region of the appendix and you quite natur- ally have a little suspicion that it may be appendicitis. Again it may bc on the lower left side of abdomen, or it may even be just under the middle part of ab- domen. There is onc outstanding point about the pair however and that is that it seems to shift about to and from these different points in the ab- domen. Your abdomen fecls tended and there is a considerable amount of "gurgling" which you rightly attribute to gas. Perhaps you will be constipated for a few days and then there will be diarrhoea following this. You are thus unable to figure out whether or not you need a purgative medicine, for just about the time you determine to take a purgative, the diarrhoea commences. Now what is the matter? . Dr. E. S. Emery, Jr. tells us that it is the failure of the digestive ap- paratus to properly digest the starch- es in the food that brings about the above symptoms, Perhaps a few general rules about eating would be of help here, such as:--FEat slowly, chew your food thoroughly. Do not hurry your meals, nor be in a hurry before and after meals. Do not eat when hot or ex- cited. Eat only at regular times and just three times a day. Five to six hours between meals. And the particular treatment is to cut down on your starches such as bread and potatoes and avoid hot rolls, hot biscuits, muffins, waffles, and cakes. If the symptoms are at all severe Dr. 'Emery suggests = that you do without starchy foods entirely for a few days. This results in complete relief of the symptoms. Remember then that much of the pain in the lower abdomen is due to too much starch in so far as your particular body is concerned. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act). greatly dis- CHRIST POR ALL~ALL POR ENON ii a ERO THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD --The people which sat in dark- ness saw great ight; and to them which sat in the region and shad- ow of death light is sprung up, From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. --Matthew 4:16, 17. PRAYER--Lord we rejoice in Thee, The Sun of Righteousness, help us to send out Thy light and Thy truth. the demand for work. Restrictions would raise prices and lower the buying power of wages. If we send back to other countries quantities of goods which they. desire to sell to 'us, we have reduced their power to buy the goods we wish to sell to them, In nearly every instance where we are asked to shield ourselves against foreign imports the case is cited as one of cheap foreign goods produced by low wage standards abroad. Re- striction and protection devices evi- dently 'have not established good conditions of employment 'in these countries. uy There are cases where in thinking of the National interests we allege that certain aliens if admitted here would be a danger to the country. By a stroke of the pen, therefore, we keep them out. If goods admit- ted here from abroad are proven to be a danger to British trade, the remedy is not to admit those goods .on a plan that will make them dearer to ourselves, but to prohibit their entry altogether. Desperate Conditions Recent demands for = inquiry into the facts concerning Iron and Steel, Woollen goods, and certain other in- dustries have been prompted by the desperate conditions of unemploy- ment in these trades. Unemployment clearly is due less to effective compe- tition than to all those melancholy and unmistakable causes arising from the War and from Peace policy which followed it, Goods produced by Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century came earliest into the international market and in our prosperous exporting phase a Free Trade policy seemed inevitable for us, whatever the prac- tice of other nations. Some of these other nations, who in earlier days had imposed 'tariffs on their imports from us with the initial purpose of raising revenue, gradually altered the object of those duties and increased their amount, and developing comparable industries of their own, began to manufacture goods hitherto supplied by us. British goods had the advan- tage of an established position in their markets, quality and cheapness; these advantages the increasing duties were designed to offset by causing our goods to go up in price. So long as we were net extensively importing manufactured artciles; any discussion of proposals to tax im- ported manufactured articles seemed always unreal. Proposals to tax im- ported raw materials or foodstuffs were met by instant and profound general hostility. Astounding Energy The manufacturing energies of other countries, European, as well as Oriental and American, have as- toundingly developed in the past quarter of a century, and Great Bri- tain has suffered trebly by the en- suing intensified competition. Coun- tries which, once bought goods from us now produce for themselves, they stand as new and successful rivals in the international export market, and finally, they are ats: to sell cheaply enough to pour certain of their goods into England at prices which we our- selves cannot easily compete with, These changes are potent contribu« tors to our unemployment problem. Even the demands recently made in Bradford for some degree of Safes guard in certain Dress Goods cons tained the admission that foreign and Yorkshire materials were different, and that the effectiveness of foreign competition was in part the fault of our manufacturers, who had failed to equip themselves with the necessary plant for the purpose of making a comparable cloth. No Revenue safe« guards can shield any industry against such conditions, though it may well be that some wage-ecarners --harassed by fear of wage reduc- tions on the one hand or unemploy- ment on the other--consent to sup- port any line of redress now suggest- ed to them. A Serious Menace Labour sees in too hasty action a serious menace, and takes a cautious view. Redticed trade--whether ex- port or import--means unemployment in shipping and transport, lost over- seas markets, and greater difficulty in paying for our imports, which are chiefly food and the raw materials of industry. Now the appeal sounds from in« fluential industrial quarters that our woollen-textile industry and our great steel industry must be safe- guarded, Pressure is put upon Trade Unionists in the woollen industry by a scarcely veiled threat of wage re- ductions as the alternative to give their support to his policy--a new application of an old weapon. In the steel industry our great mass of un- employed workers is quoted as in- ducement to try the experiment. We are getting away from gass-mantles and tableware; this begins to touch the serious industries of the nation. Who can say where we shall end if a 33 1/3 per cent, safeguarding duty is put upon steel imported into Great Britain ? will keep out foreign steel, and that accomplished, our home steel will be produced in greater quantities and cheaper than before? High Products Costs Our quality advantage is often outweighed by our relatively high production costs. Wages are none too high in this' country. I have worked many strenuous years in bringing about wage' increases and fighting against attempts at redue- tion; yet many of our foreign com- petitors produce at much less. cost than we, owing to lower rents, sal- aries, wages . and cheaper working conditions. In some instances Bri- tish manufacturers have found" it profitable to reduce or cease produc- tion of certain goods in Great Bri- Are we to believe that it) tain and have not scrupled to trans- fer their capital and enterprises overseas to countries where labour is extremely cheap, sending the pro- 'ducts 'of these new overseas indus- fries to us as imports. This process put thousands 'of our workmen on the uneniployed list. Even during this present period of desperate international commercial competition nearly one quarter of our home, 'product is exported, a very high proportion, and a high aggre- gate, when Great Britain's immense producing power is fully grasped. What Is To Be Done? What is to be done to meet .in- creasing pressure? Clearly Great Britain can no longer take for gran- ted--as once--that, either abroad or at home, her goods will sell against all others. Can she in the interna- tional market sell at her competi- tors' prices or less, and in her home market safeguard her position by ex- cluding or restricting foreign com- petitive goods? : The further query presents itself-- "Must she sell abroad at a loss?" but with this overseas aspect of our trading problems, inevitably linked as it is with our home marketing, I may not deal here, except to consider how it might be affected by safe- guarding or protection. It is to that three-fourths of our goods consumed at home that we must devote more attentiion, in considering safeguard- ing, and only that proportion of the three-fourths which has to meet the unfair competition of imported arti~ cles of a similar character, Some Results In the nine industries so far selec- ted (lace, gas-mantles, leather gloves, fabric gloves, packing-paper, cut- lery, translucent pottery table-ware, buttons, and enamelled hollow-ware) the results cannot be said to show a consistent justification of the experi- ment. In the lace industry, our im- portant re-export trade seems to have been destroyed, and exports al- together have fallen heavily, whilst no corresponding increase in home consumption can be traced. Over 2,000 lace workers out of the 20,350 employed before the imposition of the duty (July, 1924) are now unem- ployed. We find no better consola- tion in a survey of the packing- paper, gas mantle, and glove indus- tries. The cutlery position seems more encouraging, and exports show some increase--though not a sub- stantial one--since the industry was safeguarded. Motor-cars, protected by a 33 1/3 per cent. McKenna duty, are being produced and exported at an increasing pace, at the same time foreign cars paying the duty are be- ing increasingly imported. More than twice as many foreign cars as in 1926 were imported--despite duty --in 1927, Many of the changes in import-and-cxport figures used by safeguarding protagonists might have been brought about by forces other than safeguarding, forces themselves not much to be modified by the im- position or change of tariffs, Period Too Short These safeguarding experiments have been made upon secondary or incidental industries, and the period they have covered is too short for us to conclude they point clearly in one direction. or another, Labour feels that perhaps too much specs ious play is being made on both sides with figures, Figures readily induce the risky habit of looking at industries separately; attention may be drawn from the complexity of industry as a whole. Prosperity to one industry can spell disaster to gardless of forces affecting other branches of production or transport seeks to gain its own specific ad- vantage through legislation, import- ant considerations of policy may be aroused, in which the factors are not all arithmetical. Labour's Greatest Fear Labour's greatest fear about these mercial struggle, and that as each nation increases difficulties of trade for its competitors so the next world war is brought nearer. Many means of reducing this danger might be utilised through the existing machin- ery of the League of Nations and the International Labour Office, and much might be done to improve conditions in sweated labour countries; but Great Britain has been the bete noire of the IL.®rather than (as she might well have been) the force inspiring and speeding up the work of improvement overseas. Labour in Great Britain has far more faith in international co-operation--which can casily be brought about if a forceful lead is given--than it has in the piling up of petty imposts which cause irritation, evasion, and are the opportunity of the exploiter, WEYHOUTH SKIPPER SAILS SEA 60 YEARS Was Master of | Full Rigged Ship at the Age of Twenty-Four Winthrop, Mass., May 23--After three score yearg of adventurous routine the world over, Captain Timothy Brooks, of Weymouth, Nova Scotia who was master of a full rigged ship at the age of 24, is quietly spending the evening of his career with his son a Boston steamship official who lives in Win- throp. Noted for his swift trips to Eur- ope ports, Captain Brooks is one of the most famous of the living craft to the ports of the world while steam was in its infancy. His fastest voyage was a nineteen- day Atlantic crossing, in the Helen Campbell, remarkable time for a sailing vessel. For six years Cap- tain Brooks commanded the Helen Campbell for the founders of the Warren line. Thig was in civil war days when there was one Cunarder a month. During his career as Master mariner Captain Brooks command- ed eight vessels, all of them square riggers except the last, the Fannie, a schooner rigged ship from which he retired in 1908. He had hut one wreck while a master, when he was struck by a Forida hurriéane and forced to beach his vessle to save the crew. He never lost a man. duties is that they must intensify the | bitterness of the international com- | another, and when one industry re-{ | What "Carry On" Income would your family have? QTOCKS, bonds, bank balance -- figure them all up. What is your business worth to your family? What is your real estate equity? Five per cent. of the total represents the in- come your family would have to carry on the business of life. Is it enough? The problem is rather a stunner to most men. 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