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! Ebr | 1} _ armies and navies. AGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1936 @shawa. Baily Times : Succeeding Rr THE OSHAWA As ind paper puklished every afternson except Sundays and tegal holidays, st Oshawa Canada by Mundy Printing Company, Limited: Chas. M. Mundy, President: A. R. Alloway, Sec: retary. & 53 The Cahewa Daily Times is a member of the Casa: Cian Press, the Canadian Diily Newspapers' As «ociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureav or Clreulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 15¢'a week' By mail in Canads (outside Osbawe. carrier delivery limits). $4.00 o vear; United States. $5.00 o year TORON1O OFFICE 487 Bend Buiiding, 66 emp Strest, Tel Adelaide 0107 H. D Tresidder, representative REPRESENTATIVES IN U. 8. Powers and Stone, Inc. New York and Chicago. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930 WHERE BRITAIN LEADS 0% Greet Britain, by her practical measures of naval limitation, and by her desire to bring about naval disarmament, has given leadership to the rest of the world in reducing the great burdens oi keeping up large mavies. 'So far as naval shipbuilding is coi cerned, the British government has cut down Its program. to an absolute minimum, irrespective of what other nations are willing to do. 'There is another kind of shipbuilding, however, in which Great Britain leads the world. This is in commercial shipbuilding. Out of 2793210 tons of shipping built last year, well over half, or 1,522,623 tons, were built in Great Britain and Ireland. Ger- many came second, with 249,077 tons, showing just how far in the lead of the world are Great Britain and Ireland in this important respect. Britain's world power has not always depended on Her merchantmen, sailing the seven seas, taking British products in British ships to all parts of the world, and bringing back necessi- ties for the British people, have established a mari- time supremacy of which the people of Britain can well be proud. There is much more satisfaction in "knowing that the British mercantile marine is mak- ing the old slogan, "Britannia Rules the Waves come true in that respect, that there would be in the old type of naval building race in which the chief sowers of the world formerly engaged. CABINET MINISTERS' SALARIES It is proposed that at the present session of the Ontario Legislature, the salaries of cabinet ministers will_be increased to $10,000. This, in addition to the $2,000 atlowed to all members for sessional indem- nity, will give them a total remuncration of $12,000 @ year. It is six years since the last increase in the salarics of ministers and the 3essional indemnitics of legislature members. In 1924, the ministers' salaries were raised from $6,000 to $8,000 a ycar, and it is now proposed to make a similar increase. There is likely to be some criticism, as there al- ways must be when public representatives take upon theniselves the responsibility of increasing their own salaries. Yet, taking into consideration the important nature oi the dutics they have to perform, and the fact that they are debarred, by their tasks, from un- dertaking any other work, it cannot be said that, even with the ncw scale, they would be overpaid. In fact, the new rate of salaries is probably much fess than the majority of them could earn were they to follow their professions in private life. There have been many examples lately of men w ho have devoted their lives to public service, and have died coinparatively poor, because the rewards of public service financially, have never been great. Men who occupy the" positions of cabinet ministers must be placed in a position, financially, to have no wor- sies /as to their ability to meet the heavy expenses they have to meet. The new salary rate may seem like a lot of nioney, but 'it is well earned by any minister who is doing his job conscientiously and wells, : FAITH IN THE WEST "Years before the western section of Canada was deally ready for it, the Canadian Pacific Railway was Blazing the trail of steel through to the Pacific Coast. 1t had faith in the west, and in the years that have lapsed since then, the faith has been abundantly justified. \ : Now, in the year 1930, the Canadian Pacific Rail- wity is again demonstrating its faith in the west, Although, as a result of the. lack of grain movement, the fast year has been a bad one for the railways, the C.P.R. has prepared a new program for the con- struction of branch lines in Alberta and Saskatche- wan. Four mew scctions of line, one in Alberta and three in Saskatchewan, are planned, at a cost of iillions of dollars of new money to be invested in planning for a new era of western devclopment. {The C.P.R, has faith in the west, and is backing gp that faith with dollars and cents, That is an at- jitude which should provide some encouragement for ihe rest of the country, at a time when men's minds are filled to a certain extent with doubts and fears. The west may be suffering from a temporary set- pack, but there is another crop coming, and beyond {hat many more Crops, destined to justify all the . Iaith that can possibly be placed in the 'western pro- HOW ACCIDENTS HAPPEN The type of automobile accident which causes most y Lis. that svbich occurs at railway crossings, ac- tidents in which, as 4 rule one or more human lives "ire lost. This is because these accidents are so un- aecessary. This is shown in the latest bulletin of the Board of Railway Commissioners, covering the pe- yiod from August 1 to October 31 of last year In that three months period, according to the re- port, there were 167 cases of automobile accidents at protected crossings. These are cases only in which the crc were pr d by watch , by cross- ing gates, or signals, It seems almost inconceivable that, in spite of all the precautions taken to make crossings safe, there are so many people indifferent to the d of crossings. The extent to which the "motorists are themselves responsible for these acci- dents is shown by the causes listed, the following being a few of them:-- "Ignoring warning bell and running by crossing gate," "Automobile going from 30 to 40 miles per hour collided with engine." "Car disobeyed stop signal" "Not looking to see if train approaching before attempting to pass over crossing." And so one could go on down the list, citing cases after cases in which sheer carelessness and indiffer- cence on the part of the motorist caused loss of hu- man life or he mat human beings. Yet crossing lowered accidents are the mast senseless of all, for if motor- ists would only realize that railway tracks are meant to carry trains, and that there is always a possibility of trains going over a crossing, and judge their driving in the light of that knowledge, there would be no more crossing accidents, t CONFIDENCE While recent developments in the Stock Brokerage situation in Toronto and alleged defalcations else- where in Canada will have immediate result in many directions, undoubtedly the indirect results are of even more importance. Such facts as haye already come to light are calculated to destroy confidence without which business is impossible. Confidence in one's broker, banker, doctor, lawyer and in fact with all with whom relationships are constantly occurring must be firmly established or the community or na- tion will suffer. Undoubtedly and in spite of re- cent disclosures and part'zularly among Anglo-Saxon peoples honesty and rair dealing prévail in general and as the usual incident of business, Uniortunately there are always the crring few, who, although not numerous, do incalculable harm for which the inno- cent and honest suffer. A remedy can and must be found so that protec- tion may be afforded against those occuping positions of trust who would violate their trust. The ingenuity of our legislators must be directed towards some form or forms of legislation which will protect the public against the dishonest broker, lawyer, and all others who from time to time are the custodians of funds or valuables for the unsuspecting or unin formed public. STOCK MARKET REFORMS Hon. Mr. Price has done wisely in sempering jus- . tice with mercy, and with good common sense, in permitting the stockbroking firms under surveillance to continue their business. There is more to be con- sidered than the individual interest of the firms in question. Thousands of investors are dependent upon stockbrokers for their information and for their buys and sales. It would be a matter of much inconveni- ence to them were they compelled to forego their business or to have to resort to strange or distant firms for their lawful occasions. There is much to be grateful for should it prove that a meeting of the Provinces can be arranged to bring about joint legislation or at any rate harmon- ious action in the control of stock-broking operations, There is a demand for a cessation of the practice of bucketing. This is undoubtedly the root of most of the evils, and if a practical method can be de- vised by which the purchase of stock can be ar- ranged, and sufficient time allowed for its delivery, or a guarantee given of its deposit in escrow with some reliable trustee, the whole situation might be cleared up and confidence given to investors. There are practices on the part of purchasers which might well be curbed also. One of the great dangers, if it be not a real evil, is that of pyramiding, by which a customer pr on the ad in price of a stock bought on margin, to buy still more of the same stock on the credit of the advanced price. This house of cards is liable to topple over at any moment and sufficiently accounts for the rapidity of the crashes which are precipitated when the mar- ket gets top-heavy. It cannot be expected that the stock market can be made fool proof, but if bucketing could be stop- ped and pyramiding kept within legitimate bounds, two of the real! dangers of stock trading would be ended. -- Hamilton Herald. EDITORIAL NOTES The Chicago of today is now suffering for the sins of the past. They're off in the legislature, but there won't be anything very close about it, The weather man this year must have become very tired of listening to old<timers talk about the grand. old winters they used to have. . Dentists claim that teeth cause the worst of our ills, Without teeth, for instance, there would be no toothache. One thing we have escaped so far is a sale of used aeroplanes. Hon, Peter Heenan has the right idea in saying that a permanent cure must be sought for unemploy- ment. But in the meantime there are jobless men and hungry families which need attention, The Quebec Liquor Commission, like that of On- tario, believes in letting the people drink the province out of debt. The House of Lords has backed down in its quar- rel with the Labor government. Discretion, once again, has proven the better part of valor, Marshall Joffre says he has reached the age of 78 because he took plenty of sleep. Perhaps that is why the average Canadian senator reaches a ripe old age. It is not often that Oshawa can be thankful for the close proximity of Toronto, but the big Shriners convention 'there in June ought to bring a good share of business here. Other Editor's " Comments ENGLISH SETTLERS (Edmonton Journal) The idea that Englishmen do not make good settlers never had any real basis and there is no longer any excuse for entertaining it. No more is there for assuming that a man must have been previously engaged in agricultural pursuits in order to make a success of them 'here. It is his character: and general intelligence and the love that he develops for his adopted calling that counts, A GREAT TRUTH (Niagara Falls Review) A great truth was expressed at the naval conference in London the oth- er day when it was pointed out that the size of fleets is a relative prop- osition. If, in a wild town, it is the custom to wear: guns, and someone starts the two-gun style, and # is adopted by all, no change has been made; and if they all agrec to stop carrying guns, they are.again on an equality, and the only sufferers would be the makers of revolvers, That principle applies to warships, ATTACKING TRAINS (Toronto Globe) Motorists - who complain of the dangers of level crossnigs are placed somewhat on the offensive by a statement recently issued by the New York Central Railroad. This author- ity declares that, 'while in the past five years, there has beeh a percep- table decrease in' the number of ac- cidents due to trains running into automobiles, there has been an mn- crease of 135 per cent. in accidents duc to automobiles running into trains. The level crossing will al- ways have its dangers. But surely a motorist should be. wise enough and skilful enough not to attack a mov, ing. train, TEACHER AND PUPIL (Mount Forest Confederate) Remarks by A. M, Overholt, prin- cipal of Brantford Collegiate, in an address before the Woodstock Ro- tary Club provides plenty of food for thoyzht on the part of parents as well as teachers." Mr. Overholt ex- presses firm belief that every teacher has a definite responsibility for not only the mental, but the moral and character building characteristics of each student who passes through his class. The instructor who does not admit this, he argues, is not a suc- cess. Mr. Overholt believes that the teacher is shirking duty who takes a position that training of morals and character is the work of the home and the church alone. It would be a fine thing for the country it' every teacher accepted such responsibility and used it worthily, says the Wood- stock Sgntinel-Review. We know of many teachers, who, by example as well as precept, are doing just that. If not all teachers, why not? { Bits of Humor | Passenger: Oh, captain, can you tell me what time the tide rises? I want to close my portholes, Landlady: "Why have you put your coffee on a stool! Lodger: "It was so weak I thought it had better sit down." Goat: "I heard your brother tried to get a political job. What's he doing now?" Sheep: "Nothing. He got the job." He Was Right Teacher: "Johnny, what word in the English language is always pro- nounced wrong?" Johnny: "Wrong." Jonce old man!" "Well 2" "Could you lend me a fiver?" "I don't know. What security can you give me?" "Security ? est man." "That's reasonable. along some time." ALL' IN PRONUNCIATION Old Lady (to druggist): "I want a box of canine pills." Twin City Druggist: "What's the matter with your dog?" Old Lady (indignantly): "I want you to know, sir, that my husband is a Jeatloman, he druggist accepted the rebuke in silence, and without further words, put up some quinine pills, The word of an hon: Bring him Bobby's father' raises purebred cat- tle. One day a woman from the city came to visit. Bobby watched her closely. When his mother went to the kitchen for refreshments Bobb followed her, b! "Mother," he exclaimed excited! "is Mrs. Blank a full-blood?" "What makes you ask such a ques- tion?" his mother demanded. "Well, you look when you go back out there and you will see she has tags in her ears." A teacher was trying to show the snall boy how to read with expres- sion, "Where--are--you---goingt" read Johnny, in a faborious monotone with no expression or accent whatever. "Try that again," said the teach- er. "Read as if you were talking. Don't you see that mark at the end? Johnny - studied the interrogation point. Suddenly an idea dawned on him, Then he read triumphantly: "Where -- are -- you -- going, lit- tle button-hook ?" "The mind of the world has been turned from a backward-looking and a forward-fearing mind to a forward-looking and backward- fearing mind."'--Nicholas Murray Butler. Life Eternal -- This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only God, and Jesus Christ, whom y E. The Chicago trouble over finances has hou hast sentoJoko 17:3. good effect. It has made Big Bill Thoms "Let me live a lifg of faith, his campaign against King George Let me dig Thy people's death," THAT your ciy's business is your s. DON'T LAY DOWN ON THE JOB! You should not expect your live business men to spend all the time and money building your city while you ride along on a free pass. DO YOUR SHARE! your power to stimulate ; shwagthen industries of your city. THEIR SUCCESS MEANS YOUR SUCCESS. Your city should aim to please in appearance and business. You should not criticize' or con- demu the businéss organizations of your city for failure to get the re- sults you desire unlses you have given time, money, thought and ef- fort in getting these results, You should do your share to make your city known the world over as a WIDE-AWAKE and GROWING CITY. You should patiently, earnestly, purposefully and with pluck, energy and perseverancé, keep doing your bit to make your city a better city in which to live and make a living. Your property will increase in val- ue when the outside world knows your city is WIDE-AWAKE, WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE FINDING FAULT, BEGIN WITH YOURSELF; YOU MAY NEVER HAVE TO GO ANY FARTHER. That Body of Pours 7 By James W . Barton, M.D. HOW THE BODY DOES ITS WORK As a student I was satisfied to learn about the structure of the body; about bones, .nerves, and blood vessels, and about the vari- ous organs, and also how in a gen- eral way all the different parts of the body did their work. learned that the mouth, stom- ach, pancreas, and bile made diges- tive juices; that the liver stored up sugar; that the skin regulated the heat; that the heart pumped the blood "nd the lungs purified fi. And that all these various pro- cesses were governed by the brain and nerves. Now just how these various ac- tione took place, how the body stored water, and gave it out to the tissues when needed; how the su- gar and other necessary materials were maintained in the proper amounts in the body, and numer. ous other processes, were not taught because they were known, But now our patient physiolo- gists are working on these preb- lems In physiology and endeavoring to get at the exact methods by which Nature regulates all our needs in the body. Dr. W. B. Cannon, of Harvard, says that no matter what is going on .about you, the atmosphere, food, clothing, water, the day, the night, the sun, the rain, heat or cold, Nature has to regulate your body, (that is the inside of yom body), so that it cannot be influ enced or injured by any of these things about you. For instance you have to do some hard work and what happens? Sugar must be used up by the muscles and more sugar thus im- mediately given out to the blood by the liver from its storage depot. Perspiration or sweat is poured out by the skin to keep the body from getting too hot. The blood vessels in the lungs enlarge so that the lunge can. take in more air to pur- ify the extra blood needed for the hard work. The blood vessels go- ing to the internal organs actually contract--decrease in size--so asm not to allow the hlood to go there instead of to the muscles and lungs where the blood is needed. The heart beats faster to puntp the extra blood needed by the muscles to do the hard work. The spleen sends out more corpuscles into the blood to make up for the ones be-' ing destroyed in doing the hard work. Just think, all these things are done for you when you work hard, hecause the part of your nervous system, seeing the need, notifies all of these processes to get busy. And this work is just one exam- ple of the reguiation of your pro- cesses hy the nervous system, The next step of course is to find out what interferes with the vari- ous processes and their proper rate of working. Because any intorfer- ence is what you call sickness, ill ness, or disease. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act) BEGS AND THEN DONATES London, Feb. 7-- (By The Can- adian Press)--A well-known resi- dent of Yeadon, Yorkshire, dis- guised himself and went from door to door begging. He collected three pounds odd, half of which he sent to the local Women's Hospital and half to Dr. Barnardo's Homes. "We have created a world in which hardly any wan dare move in any matter on his own respon- sibility.""--Sir Ernest Benh, "The era of the middle-aged act- or is here."'--Fred Niblo. "Dressmaking is the only career that seems to me possible for mod- ern women. --Suzanne Lenglen. not | OSHAWA BRANCH OFFICE! £5 SIMCOE ST. 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His two books, "The Man Nobody Knows," and "The Book Nobody Knows," created quite a sensation, and won for him a repu- tation as a thoughtful and discern- ing writer on subjects worth while, His latest book, "On the Up and Up" is something different. It 1s simply a practical application of the principles of sound living and suc- cess to incidents of everyday life, and applied in small doses. The little sketches, three or four pages in length, are like small doses of a po- tent tonic, useful when applied to the right persons. And in all of them there is no wholesome moral, not pointed out by sermonizing, for Barton never 'is a preacher, but by a quiet and forceful common-sense argument. And it is not altogether an argument. It is rather as if the author were saying to his reaaers, "Now, don't you see that this is how it 'will always work out in the end," and the reader usually agrees with him, The little stories in the book, for one cannot even call them sermon- ettes, are fascinating, because they are so human. One can almost pick out, from daily contacts, the very people to whom Mr, Barton is refer- ring. In fact, the reader can often see hirhself pictured in the story or incident. 'And, like all human docu- ments, it is interesting and worth- while just because it is so human, THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS | (By It.-Col. W. G. MacKendrick, D.S.E., published by the Common- wealth Publishers, Ltd, Toronto.) This is a book which . has, at least, the merit of being timely, | for it deals with a subject that is ocenpying the attention of the whole world at the present time, the subject of naval disarmament, It 1s a book for students of affairs, one with which they may or may not agree, according to their views on the subject of naval strength. Col. MacKendrick is well-known as a writer of books and treatises on the general subject of the des- tiny of the nations of the naval question. He looks at it from a new and original angle, the angle of the divinely appointed places of Great Britain and the United States as naval powers, and, by liberal quotations from Holy Serip- ture, he leads one on through a maze of reasoning to the deduc- tion that destiny will without its own plan for the readjustment of navies, since Britain is destined to remain the world's greatest sea ~ power, and that the proper place of the United States in the world is that of co-operating with Britain in keeping the oceans free. He sees, as the ultimate destiny of the world, the merging of the two great navies into one for world service, rather than any fight for parity one with the other. Whether one agrees with. Col MacKendrick's reasoning or not, his treatment of the subject is in- teresting, His deductions, in places are apt to become labored and 'tiresome, which is perhaps natur- al in a work of this type, but they offer a decidedly novel contribu- tion to the discussion of how the world can be relieved from its tre- mendous hurdens of naval competi- tion. ADVENTURES IN SERVICE (By George CO. F. Pringle, publish ed by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ont., Price $2) Here is a book with a real hu- man touch, a book of experiences of a man who has gone down into the depths of life, has come up smiling, who was, himself, as much of a hero as he went up and down the shores of Northern British Columbia as he was when he tend- ed the wounded under fire on the battlefields of France and Belgium, The writer of this volume of ad- ventures was, in days of war, one of the most beloved of the chap- lains of the Canadian Corps He really got under the surface of the men at the front, and there are few who came in contact with him who did not have a high regard for "Scotty" Pringle, as he was called by thousands of the men of the rank and file of the Canadian Army. On his return from war, he was assigned a difficult task, a task calling for high courage and forti- tude, that of ministering to the men in the lumber camps of the Pacific Coast, and to the people living on the lonely inlands along that shore. As he admits in his opening chapter, it was discouraging work. More than once he felt like throw- ing it all up, but with that same courage that characterised his ser- vice in France, he carried on, and won through to success. But here we are telling all about the author, which is only natural for one who in these days of war, and neglecting his book. Yet that is the same as telling about the hook, for the hook is himself. I gives his own stories of the lives of the lonely people, far from towns and cities, in remote logging camps, on island settlements, and on the frozen hillsides ' of the Klondike, It is not a connected story, Rather is it a series of pic- tures, painted by the touch of a master, pictures of adventure of the highest type, and pictures that reveal the truth that there is much of good in the worst of us. Interspersed with his stories of the British Columbia coast are a few gems from his wartime ex- perience, gems which serve to show up the quality of the manhood that made the name of Canada resound throughout the world. There are no mock heroics----only plain, straightforward narrative, told simply, but with effective simpli- city, so that the volume isa whole some one to read. ZERO HOUR y George Grabenhorst, Publiched by McC and Stewart, Torente. . The last year has seen a reaction in favor of war stories of the geal- istic type, probably owing te the widespread publicity given te that remarkable book "All Quiet on the Western Front." This has pesulted too, in the translation of sewers! German war books into ish, in the hope, probably, of. finding an- other book to merit the phenomenal success which attended Remarque's loathsome story as a best seller. "Zero Hour" is one of these, but it will not have the popular appeal of the story of Remarque, The au- thor, Georg Grabenhorst, served in the German army as an officer-candi- date until, buried by a collapsed trench, he suffered an affliction to his eyesight, and returned home. Grabenhorst is more of an idealist than Remarque. His outlook on army life is more wholesome, and he has been less affected by the bes- tiality which seems, to Remarque, to have been a besetting sin of his com- rades. For that reason, the story "Zero Hour" seems like a truer pic- ture, It is the story of the youth who enters the army with his eyes unopened to the coarser things of life, and manages to retain'that at- tribute in spite of the temptations which may have assailed him. He is typical of the many who, in spite of everything, maintained their ideals of honor and clean living, and were ° torn, mentally, by some of the things they saw going on around them. While Remarque apparently glories in the baser side of the life of some soldiers, Grabenhorst recoils from it, and shows that clean minds could re- main unsullied even under the stress of wartime conditions. So far as its actual war scenes are concerned, they are not so convinc- ing in their dramatic intensity as those of "All Quiet on the Western Front," yet they seem more real. And the author, drawing on his own per- sonal experiences, gives a striking picture of the young officer who, knowing that his physical capabilities are ebbing, yet strives by sheer men- tal effort to remain at the post of 3 duty. "Zero Hour" is riot likely to be as popular as "All Quiet on the Western Front," because it is more subdued, but 1t is, nevertheless, a contribution to the later list of war books that will help to awaken its | readers to the realities of war, and will act as a wholesome influence in the cause of peace, kof