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PAGE FOUR --. 4 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1929 Kir Oshawa Baily Times Busceeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1071) Ao independent newspaper published every alterneos oncept Bundays and legs) holidays, st Oshawe Canada, by Mundy Printing Company, Limited Chas. M, Mundy, President; A R. Alloway, Bos rétary, The Oshawa Daily Times ls oa member of the Cane dine Press, the Canadian Dally Newspapers' Ae: sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Cireulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 186 0 week By mall in Canade (outside Oshaws carrier delivery Nmits), $4.00 o vear; United States, $5.00 » year TORONTO OFFICE #7 Bind Building, 00 omperanse Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107 MH. D Tresidder. representative REPRESENTATIVES IN UV. §. Povers and Stone, Ine. New York and Chicago. ES CI AS SA EE TR I FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1929 RE A YETERAN STATESMAN AND LIQUOR Slr George Foster stands out as one of the greatest of Canada's living statesmen, From his vantage point of over cighty years of life, he can look back a long why along the history of Canada, and can at the seme time, take a retrospect view of a life that Haw Deer full of service to Me country of the most exhausting type. Sir George, too, Is looked upon as & man whose Judgment Is valued for its sane con- , clusions, From that standpoint, it is Interesting to note the very decided views which Sir George Foster has res garding the liguor traffic, His personal testimony Is worth quoting at a time like the present when statemenys and counter-statements on this very question are being thrown out'to a bewildered pubs lle. His viewpoint Is a considered one, and one thut can be passed on, without further comment, for the study of a people interested In thelr own welfare and the welfare of thelr country, Here it Is: "I have never shirked hard work, I have led an exceedingly active life, calling for con~ stant-and exhausting physica and mental ex+ ertion; have travelled as many miles, faced as many audiences, and done as much organs ization and administrative work as perhaps uny man now living in Canada; and have done this witheut the ald of intoxicants of any sort, 'Yen, says a friend, 'but what a lot of fun you have missed! My reply Is, 'May= be, but then what a lot of headaches 1 have missed, what i lot of chances to make a fool of myself, to lose my self-respect, and maybe to become a victim myself of the degrading drink habit! For have not you, my friend, as have 1, in mind and memory many fine youths who started life with endowments and yesources equal or superior to our own, and who have fallen vietims to drink and wrecked their own careers beside bringing untold suf« fering to thelr families? "Therefore my conclusion from personal experience is (1) that alcoholic liquors are not necessary to bodily or mental exertion even of the severest kind; and (2) that as 1 have journeyed along my life's pathway of sib years 1 have never known an instance when man of woman was made stronger in body, more alert in mind or purer in spirit by the beverage use of intoxicants: while all along that pathway I have seen numberless men and women degraded, wrecked and ruined by it." THE UNFORTUNATE DABBLER The crash of prices on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges in the last few days has been a dis. astrous affair for many people who could ill afford to lose their money, There may be some deep~ seated season behind this periodical slump in prices, but every time it comes along, it catches the unfors tunate dabbler in stocks, and, in many cases, leaves him high and dey: It is noticeable that even those who are by no means novices on the stock market have suffered heavy losses in the manipulation of the market, They have slmply been caught in the downward rush of prices, and have lost tremendously, And when men who are experienced in market conditions are caught in this way, what hope can there be for the small speculator, who buys stocks on margin in the hope of quick and substantial profits, only to have his holdings wiped out, and his money lost for all time, It Is unfortunate that in these slumps losses are often incurred by people who cannot afford to lose. The fault, of corse, is entirely their own, for the man who cannot afford to loge should keep out of the market, The only safe principle for any man to follow ls never to gamble in stocks unless the money sot aside for that purpose can be lost without its 1084 being felt, The unfortunate part about it is that © 90 many people entirely overlook that essential fea- = ture of dabbling in stocks, VOTE EARLY, IF YOU CAN, BUT VOTE The provisions which have been made for the hold« ing of the provincial election on October 30 leave very little room for excuses on the part of those who neglect to exercise their franchise. The poling hours are from 8 am, to 7 pm, thus affording work- ing people of all classes an ample opportunity to go to the polling station to cast their ballots, « Only by having a full and representative vote can any elec tion truly indicate the will of the electorate, and there is no reason why a record vote should not be It has been apparent all through the campaign, of course, that there is no real driving issue to stimu: late that interest which brings out a heavy vote, Nevertheless, the government of Ontario for the next four years is at stake, and surely that is important enough to make oyery person whose name appears on the voters' lst wish to cast a ballet, There a a danger that, with the polling booths pen until seven o'clock, the majority of people will ut off voting until the last hour, thus creating cons gestion at the polling stations, In order to aveld this, those whd can possibly do so should cast their ballots carly In the day, thus leaving the last hour for those who find it Impossible to vote at any other time. But, éven If It Is not possible for all to vote early, every person on the list should vote, so that the 1929 provincial election will glve a full expression of the will of the people of Ontario so far as thelr provinelal government is concerned, THE SAFEST CITY Rochester, New York, has won an enviable dis- tinction, In a nation-wide contest conducted by the National Safety Association, that city has been awarded the banner as the safest city in the United States, That is a worthwhile honor, for it means that Rochester had the lowest number of accidents and fatalities In proportion to its population than any other city In the United States in the last twelve months, At one period of the year Rochester went sixty-two days without a single motor fatality, This honer is a worthy distinction, and one which any city might be proud to carry off. In fact, even were there no contest, nor any banner to be won, it would be interesting to have the cities of both Canada and the United States competing with each other for the honor of having the fewest automobile nccidents, Rochester won the award, it was stated at the convention in Chicago st which the official re sult was announced, by strict law enforcement, arous ing public Interest in the need of greater safety and the co-operation of various organizations and agen. cles in bringing about the much-desired low sccident record, These are essentials which should be followed and copled by every community, The safety of hyman life should become a first consideration, and those steps which have been found so successful in Roches- ter can be applied with equally good results in any community, NARCOTICS AND THE LEAGUE One phase of this year's activities at the Assem- bly of the League of Nations which has not re colved the attention which Its Importance warrants was the quite drastic proposal in regard to the lime Itatlon of the manufacture of narcotic drugs, For more than nine years the League has been working Industriously on this great problem and has made some real progress, There Is of course a big opposition particularly in Eastern countries to any limitation, as such would mean a big loss in revenue, The Assembly got close to an evéntual settlement of the question when Jt decided to hold a conference of all the manufacturing and some of the consuming countries with the idea of framing an agreement for reducing the manufacture of opium and other nar- cotics to the amount required for medical and scien. tific purposes, In framing this resolution which will be taken up this year its sponsors had in view a real and con- certed attack on the illicit drug traffic, This traffic is one of the most deadly and wide- spread of social evils, From central European head. quarters directly in touch with agents in the East narcotics In huge quantities ure spread throughout the world and as there are immense profits in the trade it has flourished for many years dispite the constant efforts of the regular and secret police, If the League formulates & plan by which the source of the drugs could be cut off it would be per- forming a major service 'to humanity, Its efforts in this direction call attention to the fact that the League is not only an agency for preventing war, but that it has engaged in an immense co-operative battle against sickness, labor, unrest and problems affecting better trade relations amongst member states, Quietly but effectively the League is not only justifying its existence as man's chief agency to prevent war, but as a great humanitarian medium for the greater security and well being of the world, AGREEMENTS ENDANGERED The defeat of the French government under Pres mier Aristide Briand, and its subsequent resignation, is an unfortunate occurrence. It could not have come at any more inopportune a time for the sake of the important internationgl agreements and: conferences that are pending, . Briand has won for himself a high place in the counsels of international gatherings, He has been a steadfast worker for world peace, and had a large part in the agreement which was reached for the settlement of the reparations question on the basis of the plan proposed by Owen D. Young. In the making of the Kellogg Peace Pact, he had an im- portant part, for it grew out of a proposal which he made to the United States, And in the fortheoming naval conference in London, England, it was hoped that he would represent France with his usual spirit of conciliation and desire to compromise, and thus make a'general agreement possible, The defeat of the Briand ministry, in fact, is lable to endanger much of tha work that has already been done in cleaning up the problems of Europe, It is quite possible that the government which succeeds his will have nothing to do with the Young reparas tions plan, nor with the naval conference, It may follow an entirely different line of approach to these pressing problems, For that reason, the defeat of the Briand ministry has come at a very unfortunate time, and it is to be hoped that his successor will not be too unkindly disposed to the projects which he sponsored while in office, EDITORIAL NOTES Almost as important as the elections on October 30 will be the rejections, The curfew bell has been revived in East Windsor, But it is one thing to ring a bell and another thing to make the young folks pay any attention te it, Unseemly noises must be eliminated from wedding ceremonies in Lopdon, Ontario, There's always someone taking the joy out of life, The present election campaign will be nice training for the municipal elections which will follow in a cous ple of months time, Premier Hertaog of South Africa rebukes his peo. ple for buying motor cars on the instalment plan, Evidently South Africa is where Canada used to be about twenty years ago. One of the Communist candidates in Toronto has been sentenced to serve thirty days in jail, His cone stituents will at least be relieved of the trouble of listening to his speeches, Other Editors' Comments MODEL YOR DISARMAMENT (From the Washington D.C, Post) When Anglo-American foelings are ruffled by passing ineldents it is well for both sides to look for forts, warships and standing arm- fos along the horder between Cane ade and the United Htates. They will not find them, In investigat- ing the reawons why Canada and the United States long sgo ruled out armaments it may be that the secret of successful naval limitation may be found, At any rate, Britons and Americans can see on the bor. der flags of thelr countries flying side by side, symbolizing friendship and peace, THE DANGERS OF GASOLINE (From Peterboro ¥xaminer) Toronto's chief coroner at an in- quest in the death of a man killed in a gasoline explosion took occa~ sin to warn the public of the great danger that exists in the careless use of gnsoline for cleaning pur. poses. Many people forget that gasoline vapor explodes so easily that violent rubbing of material which is being cleansed in this way will generate a spark that will ig- nite the gas and cause an explosion, It eannot be too strongly emphn sized that gasoline should never be used in the household for cleaning purposes. One gallon of gasoline has wtibstantially the power equal to 83 pounds of dynamite, IMPERIAL POLICY (From the Stratfordshire Sentinel) To be successful, Imperial policy must be so formulated that the Pmpire"s resources and needs, its man-power, the distribution of Ita opulation, and all other relevant aotors, are viewed as a whole, Some aproach to this is made at the periodical meetings of the Im- perial Conference, but there | room for a still more thoroughgo- ing application of the idea, Emi. gration, for Instance, can no longer be regarded merely as the overflow of a workless surplus {o one or more of the overseas Dominions It must henceforth be envinnged ns a selentifio distribution of popula. tion for the mowt effective develop- ment of the Empire's resources Bits of Verse | Armen aa ER la hi seh SUMMER NIGHT MUSIO Though the night was heavy, you should have stayed to hear Music descending over the dark heat Day had been weary with sun- lght, dust, and sweat; But at the coming of night there hovered near A shadow like the antidote of fear; Sound cool as any waters you could meet In some green forest-basin, where the feet Of deer have prinked a pattern Your, You lost that erystaline discovery, That rook-cupped music falling on the dusk, With briar, and nightstock, contralto laughter And grateful, whispering breath of musk When the music ceasing, a ment after A giant moon eame gliding up the and with mos- sky. ~=Richard Chureh In the London Observer, THAT for blieity, trust. worthy distribution and service, newapapur advertising brings re sults, THAT newspapers cover the local trade territory like a blanket and ase sure their advertisers a hearing, THAT business concerns that advertise help the public to make up thelr minds as to what they want and where to buy it, THAT people who stop and think aud sea the ads have a faculty of ng the right things at the right by heir ability to think and in vestigation has enabled them to save money. THAT business concerns that bave met with success have built . tation for square dealing. THAT if they did not live up to their reputation they would soon gu out of business, BUSINESS CONCERNS DO NOT SPEND THEIR MONEY FOR ADVERTISING UNLESS THEY HAVE GOOD MERCH. ANDISE OR SERVICE TO SWALLOWS ARE SPEEDY Swallows can keep up a speed of $0. miles an hour, Good Tidings of Great Joy--There were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid. And the ange! said unto them, Fear mot; for, behold, 1 bri vou tidings of great joy, which hallcbe to all people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord, Luke 2:8 9.10, 1), : ! Thanks be unto God for His un apeakable gift, Books And Their Authors SUMMER LIGHTNING (By P. G. Wodshouss, Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto.) In the realm of authors of the lightest type of fiction there is no more delightful writer 'than P, G, odchouse, whose latest outburst, "Summer Lightning," is a comedy of errors and intrigue which forms a worthy successor to his many pre- vious books of wholesome and infec tious humor, It is not easy to say, after reading it through, just where the keenest point of its humor lies, Perhaps it is in the pig in the story «10 ordinary pig--of course, but the animal on which Lord Emsworth, u character made famous in previous Wodehouse novels, pinned his hopes of winning a second championship at the district livestock fair, Yes, that pig certainly is an important factor in the atory, because the chief characters, finding their love affairs going astray, hit on the brilliant scheme of kidnapping the valuable porker, hiding it, and then finding fa- vor with its titled owner by mirac- wlously recovering it, In this way, Ronnie Fish hoped to secure permise sion to wed his beloved Sue Brown, musical comedy actress, and Hugo Carmody hoped to find sufficient fa. vor in the eyes of Lord Emsworth to secure the hand of the latter's niece, Millicent, Of course, these pls did not go along very smoothly, They never do in Woodhouse novels, at least, not until the final climax comes, But the devious methods used by the lovers, both female and rule, to achieve their ends create so many confusing and puzzling situations, told in Mr, Wodehouse's best manner, that the story forms w delightful Companion for those hours which the reader de- sires to pass away in the relaxation of a good story well told THIS CANADA OF OURS (By J. 8. Morrison and Maud Morr. ison Stone. Published by the Musson Book Company, Limited, Toronto), Only a year or two there was con- siderable controversy in newspapers regarding the teaching of Canadian history in the schools and colleges of Canada, It was asserted, quite op enly, by students and educationists, that there was little interest taken in the history of Canada, and the blame for this situation was placed on the nature of the text-books on the subject and the manner in which it was taught, But no child could even find Can adian history dull or uninteresting as it is given in this book, "This Can ada of Ours" which has just come off the press, It is unusual in its whole treatment of the history of Canada in that the story is told in pictures rather than in cold type These pictures, starting with the earliest discoveries of the North Am eri®an continent and leading up to the heyday of thg French regime in Canada, ure drawh in somewhat the same style as the cartoon strips of the newspapers, and, being in this form, are calculated to make a di rect and impressive appeal to the youthful mind, And to supplement the pictures are the. written stories of the great men and the great eye ents in the making of Canada, These stories are history, but history give en in a narrative form which makes them read almost like a book of ad. venture, and adventure it is of the most thrilling type. This book is decidely different, and one can say with assurance that the boy or girl who is fortunate enough to pick up the threads of Canada's history from its pages will never find the subject a dry or dull ene, ~ KINSMEN (By Percival J. Cooney. Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto) One of the most colorful chapters in the early history of Ontario, pers haps, is that surrounding the settle. ment of the Ottawa Valley and the lands to the south of it by clansmen from the Highlands of Scotland, These daring ploneers, with their brave-hearted women-folk, brought with them to their new, land much of the life of the old, and it was many years before it became merged in the different type of civilization which they build up for themselves in Ontario, It is a story of the survival, in the early days of Ontario settlement, of the old Highland feudalism of the clan system, that Percival J, Coon ey tells in this picturesque novel, It is the story of The MeNab, chieftain of a great Scottish clan who had brought his followers with them to the wilds of Ontarlo, and who sought in the new land to perpetuate his po- sition of chieftain which he had en joyed in the old, But his methods of doing so were not quite what his clansmen expected, and they savor. ed too much of tyranny to suit the new life. Thus arose the conflict be- tween the Iaird and his people, a conflict which was bitter and desper- ate, and which ended in the new or- der of things prevailing over the old, with the McNab deposed from his self-appointed position of authority, and the clansmen working out their own future as free men and women in thelr new home, Of course, there is romance in the story, the romance of Barclay Craig, a government surveyor who befriends the oppressed clansmen and earns the enmity of the McNab, and Flora Mc Intyre, daughter of one of the great. est sufferers from the tyranny of the laird, The romange follows a devious course, for true love never does run smoothly, but it all ends up happily, The romance, however, is HA ary to the main thought of the no- vel, the thought of the creation in Canada of 4 new race of men who owes no loyalty to any man other than their king, and who has one great aim in lite, that of laying for their children and their children's children the foundations of a great country and nation to be. Their struggles, their sorrows and joys, and their final victory, are pictured so graphically that the story lives as a contribution to the literature of a day in Canada's history that is worth preserving. HEROES OF PEACE (By Archer Wallace, Published by the Musson Book Company, Limit. ed, Toronte), "Peace hath her heroes no less than war," 18 a time-worn old saying, and the truth of it is well demonstrated in this interesting httle volume of biography which Archer Wallnce has produced, It is interesting because the heroes of peace with whom it deals are men whose names are, in nearly every case, household words, and whose deeds have carved for them a place on the scroll of fame, Who has not heard of the achieve- ments of men like Sir Ernest Shack leton, the indomitable Antarctic ex plorer, of Sir George Williams, the tounder of the Young Men's Christ. lan Association, of Sir James Young Simpson, the famous Scottish physi- clan who made operations not only possible but painless, of Benjamin Franklin, the printer-president who began public libraries in the United States, of Col, Lindbergh, William Penn, Alexander Graham Bell, who gave the world the telephone or Louis Pasteur, the famous French physician whose discoveries have re- volutionized the practice of medicine and surgery, These ure a few of the men whos names are known well, even if the details of their lives are shrouded in a haze of ignorance, and whose stor jes are told in this interesting little volume, It is a book which would be an inspiration to any young lad who had the privileges of reading it, and the intensely human and inters esting manner in which Mr, Wallace has told his stories of these heroes of peace but adds to its value, That Body of Pours By James W, Barton, M.D. THE WEATHER AND RHEUMA. TISM You have heard the story of the salesman who tried to sell a baro- meter to an old lady, He explained that it would be possible with the barometer to foretell the coming of a storm, The old lady replied, "What do you think the good Lord gave us rheu- matism for if it wash"t to help us know when the weather is going to change." Is there any truth in the statement that the rheumatic patient can fore tell a change in the weather? You and I have met a number of these cases and we are quite ready to believe that there is some truth in it, However research physicians of the Mayo clinic have been gathering stas tistics on this matter, In the summer of 1927 they made daily records of the condition of rheumatic patients in hospital, Each day the pain of each patient was estimated from the patient's own statement, then the pain of the whole group was estimated for that day, and the average comfort or discoms fort of the group was recorded on the same chart with the pressure of the barometer, the temperature, signs indicating cloudiness, winds or storm with rain or snow. They have made a report on what they observed in a study of 367 pa« tients with rheumatism, or arthritis as it is called, The longest case recorded for any one patient was one: year, and the shortest was two weeks, What did they find? That in some forms of rheumatism or arthritis due to age, to injury, or to gout, the weather did not affect | the patients very much, However in patients whose rheumatism was du to bad teeth, tonsils, sinus or gall bladder trouble, the weather greatly affected their condition, for the pre. sence of a storm was associated with | increased pain, "This held true not only for & when there was rain and snow but also for those days when the weather was definitely cloudy." They tell of one morning durin carly summer when they were all pleaged with the general sense of well-being among the rheumatic pa- tients, The sun was shining bright, no cloud in the sky. Early in the afternoon one patient after another, twelve in all, began to call for some sort of relief from pain, Late that afternoon an electric storm suddenly appeared, What will be the effect of *' «x. periment? OPPOSES PROGRESSIVE hes, HN. 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