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PAGE FOUR MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930 Ey A pe @shmns Baily Cimes Succeeding |THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER § "0 (Established 1871) Av independent newspaper published every fsisernoon except Sundays, and legal holis days ot Qshaws, Canada, by The Times Printing Company, limited, Chas, M, " Mundy, President; A, R. Alloway, Sec. tetary ' Oras Daily Times is a member of the . Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Naws. hi papers Association, the Ontario Provincia) i 'Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations fo SUBSCRIPTION RATES Jolivered u carrier, 15¢ oa week, By mail "in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery % limits) $4.00 a year; United States, $5 00 | 8 year, " TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, # Telephone Adelaide 0107, H, D, Tresidder, | representative, 3 REPRESENTATIVES IN 1).8. wers and Stone Inc, New York and Chicago MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930 USING VACANT PROPERTY ] # An Interesting suggestion has been made By one of the aldermen of the city of Strat- ford, a suggestion that might, with good results, be given some thought by the Osh. awa City Council, His proposal is that some of the vacant property owned by the city be turned over to persons: who are out of work and in needy circumstances, so that they might cultivate them as gardens, and pro. duce vegetables to help with the family larder, This is rather a good idea In times of de- pression such as are at present being ex perlenced, Even should those men who are now employed, and who have been unem- ployed for some time, be able to secure work, the advent of daylight saving would make it possible for very effective work to he done on 'these sections of vacant property, A man who has any skill at all in garden work could grow a lot of produge on hall an acre or #80 of land, and the produce from these plots would go a long way towards keeping these needy families in foodstuffs during pext fall and winter. "The proposal is not exactly new, It was followed out with splendid results in Great Britain during the war, when practically every foot of vacant land was turned into garden plots, known as allotments, on which en unable to enlist in the army, and women nd children as well, grew potatoes and oth- er on a large scale, This system helped to safeguard Britain's food supply during the most serious days of the ruthless submarine campaign of 1917, and was found vary effective in keeping the poorer classes of people from starvation, here is no reason why this plan should not be'tried in Oshawa, There are hun dredsof men who would jump at the chance of being allowed to use a piece of vacant property as a vegetable garden plot, and would be very thankful of this opportunity of providing the basis for the food supply of the fall and winter months, THE ELECTION DATE The people of Canadn.khow iy federal election is coming'soon, but as fs always the case before elections "are announced, they are getting tired of the efforts of would-be ~ prophets to guess the date on which the ap- peal to the people will be made, Various dates have heen suggested, the latest claim being that there would be an election in Juns, following dissolution of parliament soon after the budget is brought down fol. lowing the Easter recoss, A June election would not be very popular with the masses of the people. That would be crowding it on a little too soon, It would, of course, have the advantage of getting the thing out of the way before the holiddy season started, because, once that starts, it would not 'be possible to have anything like a repr tive vote until September,' There is another reason why it would be inadvisable: to have the parliament of Can- ada diss in time to have a June elec: loki Th fore the business of the present séason pleted, It would mean that the i Jmportant legislation of the session, that re- - : ng pensions and returned soldiers' pro. } Jiechi could not be passed by parliament, thus leaving the whole unsatisfactory mess unsolved, 'That would be nothing short of [disnatrous for those who are hoping and ing for Jiler from -- at Gan of ol ent, and @ people Canada are on that gubjest to such an ie t any party w was 0 for preventing the required new on from Sommin intoseftecty could Topline from the voting people of however, that there will before fall, The government d it will,'as Premier Fer. , 0 to the country, when wood==for the Liberal party, and @ then. FOR BUSINESS AND SAFETY "The proposal of automobile manufacturs srs to have sot aside the sum of $15,000,000 to be expended in scrapping 400,000 unsafe would mean a forced Sisbclution. cars now seen on our highways or In gar- ages is one which, If carried out, will be a valuable contributing factor to public safe- ty, while on the other hand it will be good for business in that it will create a demand for new cars. Many accidents are known to have been caused by cars of anclent vintage, some of them purchased for a song or fished out of perap heaps, being allowed to navigate the highways, menacing the safety not only of the occupants but also that of other mo- torists driving cars of the safe variety. If the manufacturers carry out thelr plan, which is scheduled for this year, many old rottle-traps will disappear as they are to be completely demolished, LIVES CUT SHORT Hon, Dr, Manion, speaking before the par- llamentary committee on pensions and re- turned soldiers problems the other day, made 4 statement which is highly significant, He paid that of those men who served in an actual theatre of war between 1914 and 1918, very few will live to reach the age of sixty-five, Being both a physician and a war veteran, Dr, Manion has some Intimate knowledge of the conditions under which men lived during these war years, and of the effect which these conditions had on mind and body, And his considered opinion 8 that few of them will come within five years of reaching the allotted span of three score and ten years of life, This statement. is further amplified by the figures 'quoted by Major Wright of the pen- sions department, His figures showed that 348,904 Canadians reached an actual theatre of war, Of these, some 60,000 were killed in active service, Of those who did return to Canada, however, 20,876 are known to have died since the war, There may be many more who have died and of whose denths there has been no record, but the re- cords available show almost 80,000 deaths in the first ten years after the close of hos. tilities, This is a condition worth pondering over, The war veterans of Canada are dying off at { u great rate, and it is only logical to expect that the rate of mortality will increase ra- ther than decrease during the next decade and the one to follow, Indeed, Major Wright's figures rather support the asser- tion of Dr. Manion that few of the veterans who served in an actual theatre of war will reach the age of sixty-five, This is not a very cheerful outlook,~for the veterans, Yet it Is recognized that war conditions were such as to prematurely age many men, and to rob them of the strength and vitality that would carry them on to the natural span of life, Their lives have been shortened by their service to. their country: Their earning powers have been curtailed because they are growing old in body and mind although not in years, Theirs is a difficult situation, and one in which they merit all the sympathetic consideration that can be given them by a grateful people, BUILT ON ADVERTISING A. W, Gamage, prince of British mer chants, and proprietor of a huge retail and mail order establishment in London, died the other day, The story of his remarkable business career reads like a romance, for from a small beginning in an athletic oufit ting store he developed a business that has few peers in the world, A, W. Gamage succeeded vecause he was un aggressive pioneer, 'He was a pioneer in the mail order business, and he was a plo- neer in advertising on a large scale, In fact, his: whole success was built largely on ad. vertising, He believed in it and practised it to a far greater extent than did his compe- titors in the early days of Wis business, and it made him a huge fortune, He was the first merchant in England to embrace the idea of full-page advertising, and it paid him such handsome returns that his chief com. petitors soon followed his example, and used newspaper space liberally as a business. building investment. A.W. Gamage is not an isolated example of the value of building up a business by advertising, Practically every successful business of the retail type has had the same experience, They started in a small way, and newspaper advertising carried them to the top. And it can do the same thing today for those who have the courage to use it as they. did, EDITORIAL NOTES Opponents of the Ontario divorce court seem to forget that under the present sys- tem the granting of divorces by senate com mittee is a huge farce, Lord Willingdon seems to have an abund- ance of good ideas, but he will keep them to himself if he is to be abused every time he expresses them, New York ministers declare therd con- gregations are increasing as a result of ad- "It is many years ney motion Picture theatres found that ou hk is announced that Canadian mon 'Just oy is d in the United States rd par, 4a Canadian dollar bill in a | Philadelphix shoe shine parlor to. find out that it may be all right in theory and quite different in practice. bth Other Editors' Comment INTERESTING TRIAL (Toronto Globe) Australia's new tariff is an ex- treme experiment which even other high-tariff countries will view with amazement, If our Auvtipo- denn cousins can carry on succes sfully surrounded hy both ocean und an slmost insurmountable wall, it will achieve the unusual, LOVING 7 (From the N World) Under the eaption "Train our Boy to Love the Dentist," the Lit erary Digest reprints an item from Hygoln 0 medical J ibliation, in which it is suggested that the child be introduced to the dentist in a gradual way, Mothers," says the writer, "should plan to make the child's introduction to the dentist a painless one, This may be done by taking him early for exominas tion and cleaning of the teeih, and establishing the habit of repeating the visit every six months," Then it we have the {den correctly, he can be made acquainted with the higher branches and they won't hurt half as mueh, All we can say about this Is that it reminds us of that scene in "I'he Mikado" where Ko-Ko, have ing handed Yum-Yum over to Nan- Ki-Poo, suddenly discovers her and her new sweetheart in the midst of an embrace! KoKo: Go on Nanki-Poo: tressing you, Ko-Ko! Never mind, T must get used to it, Only please do dt by degrees, Begin by putting your arm wround her waist, (Nanki-Poo 'does 80.) There;let me get used to that first, Yum-Yum: Oh, wouldn't you lke to retire? It must pain you to noe us so uffectionste together! Ko-Ko: No, I must learn to bear It, Now oblige me by allowing her head to vest on your shoulder, (He does so ~Ko-Ko much affect od) T am much obliged to you, Now-~kiss her! (He does so-~Ko- Ko writhes with anguish) Thank you-~it's simple torture! However, there is this to he said: Ko-Ko did get used to it, More than that, he recovered from it so well that he was able to marry somebody else, Ho perhaps the thing would work with a dent. ist, Tt might be worth a trial, DENTINT York Evening «don't mind me, I'm afraid we're dis- Bits of Humor FORESIGHT Man: "I would like a bouquet of some kind" Salesgirl: "Roses?" Man: "No something without thorns==there's the possibility that they will be returned--and direct. od violently at my head!" YEAR SAVED "There now," said the suburb. anite to his wife, "you'se ordered flower needs that take Lwo years to bloom," "Well, that's where you're all wrong," she sald, "This 1s last year's catalogue," HER SHARE Benevolent Squire--""Here's two pounds, a bottle of whisky and a pudding for you to take home and share with your wite, Giles." Gilles (artfully) == "Thank 'ee, sur, The missus'll enjoy the pud- don, that she will, sur!" THE ONLY KIND She was lecturing on the wrongs of poor down-trodden woman, Finally she put this question: "In there In this hall a single man who has never spoken an un- kind word to his wife?" At once an old man Jumped up, "I'm that single man," he said, "and 1 mean té remain so." OVERLOOKED THAT Frank--He says you called him a rogues and a liar! Frod--Yes, 1 did, rT ~And did you call him a Fred---No, T forgot that! | Bits of Verse MYSELF I have to live with myself, and so I want to ba fit for myself to know; 1 want to be able as the days go by Always to look myself straight in eye, I don't want to atand with the sett. ing sun And hate a for the things I've 1 don't vant to keep on the closet slie A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself as I come and go Into thinking nobody else will know The kind of person I really am. 1 don't want to cover myself with sham I want ry PY) out with my head erect; I want to deserve the world's re. spect, And In ihe struggle for fame and pe T want to he able to like myself For I never can hide myself from me; T see what others can never see, I know what others can never know So, no Titer what happens, I want to Sell trerpocting and consclence-free, ==Auther Unknown -------------- a sin iy death; b fn ift bi s i but the gift of God is eternal life thro Christ our Lorde=Ronians ile 0 God, for Sey 4 one hat hast el taken the WARES. us to accept the gift with thankfulness. y BY EDSON 1 WAITY, SHAWNEY, OKLAHOMA, HARRIS KLLAWOIVEH, EDITOR OF THE ROSEBURG (OREGON) NEWNREVIEW, BAYH; "When I moved from a city of four hundred thousand souls to this city, which has a population of some seven thousand, my friends all asked me, whan I told thew good«bye, 'what on earth will you do with your spare time in a small place lke that?" 1 wonder! The only time in my life that 1 hove ever had any spave time was when I lived in a city. There Is ten times as much doing in this town, so far as 1 am cons cerned, as there was in the elty from which I moved, Why? Be. eause there are fewer people to do the social and business honors, ate tend luncheon clubs, ete, Like Lon Chaney, the average small city business man has to be several difs ferent persons, "Take this week for instance, ) have been to two banquets, one ecard party, one dinner party, at- tended one luncheon club meeting, one chamber of commerce dinner, practiced with the American Legion gles club, attended a high school basketball game and played gol one afternoon, And I absolutely HAD to do sll of those things or people would ask why not and erit- lelze severely, Small cities are like that,, You got used to it quickly though, and 1 ean say truthfully, having finish ed my ftivst year in this small city come the end of this week, that 1 would not trade back, 1 would not willingly go back to a city to lve, "Why? Simply because you ean live a more rounded life in a small er town, In a small town you have a fling at everything, We have n beautiful private country club In which are practically all of the busi. ness and professional people of the town, We have excellent talking pleture theatres and have an ocean fonal musical event of importance, I ean enjoy wonderful trout fish ing by driving for twenty minutes from my office, 1 ean shoot a deer as enplly, AND I CAN DO ALL OF THESE THINGS IN ONE DAY AND HAVE SOME TIME LEFT THAT WE USED TO PLAN FOR WEEKS AND TAKE BEVERAL DAYS TO DO WHEN I LIVED IN A ary Lenten er Rev es 7 woh 20 Lr Commission on Eng elisen of federal Council of lhe Churches of Gimist in Americas, Cupyropdl 1990 Topie for the Week "COMING TO TERMS WITH RESPONSIBILITY" "Our Unconssious Influence" SCRIPTURE Memory Verse: "That as Peter came by, at least his shadow might overshadow some one eof them" (Acts 8:15), Read: Acts §:12-16, MEDITATION This beautiful stogy is perhaps the best tribute ever paid to Peter, Peo- ple believed that there was healing in his very shadow, He was all un- conscious of this influence, as most men are, Our unconscious influence is usually our greatest influence, Life spreads as light spreads, as flame goes from candle to candle, It was sald of Disraeli that he was not only brilliant in himself but that he made others brillante Our lives cannot be quarantined, Our uncon: scious influence for good or ill may well fill us with awe, This lies bo. hind Stevenson's remark: "There 'is one person whom it is my duty to Take food. and that is myself," "Once more a new day lies before us, our Father, As we go out among men to do our work, touch. ing the hands and lives of cur fel lows, help us to cheer the. suffering by our sympathy, to rreshen the drab by our wholesomeness, and to strengthen in all the wholesome sense of health and the joy of life, Amen,"--=Walter Rauschenbusch, ------ Eye Care and Eye Strain| by C. H. TUCK, (Copyright 1038) i - THE EYES OF EN Part A) Physical examination of ohildren should be interpreted to include oye examination and if the exam- finer is not competent or has not the time to spend when he considers the time taken on the other part of the examination let every ohild at Maat have a complete eye examin. ation, In speaking on "Care of the Eye sight" the President Fy the United ge has exp himselt = ities i : to so ld, ta footions, but pers feation 1s 10 tricia "This i standard of present day accomplish- Opt.D. | person be aple to perform a certain operation, it must be well perform. od, when it Is understood thet the clearness of mental operations de- pends upon the clearness of percep tion, it tollows that unless there he clear vision there cannot be clear judgement, To lack the senses is to lack intelligence, The clear re. wult of a defective vision 1s in the first, plage, inability to perform the mechanical operations in the vars fous trades and walks of life suc- cessfully, and, in the second piece, in ability to daveions the reasoning powers to thelr full capacity, It Is no aecident that in early languages to Wes was to know, A person and a nation which makes for progress MONTREAL LANDMARK DESTROYED BY FIRE of was Montreal, April 12, «= One mtreal's ancient landmarks destroyed by fire yesterday, In 1760 Vaudreuil built a Docks house on St, Helen's Island, in Mon- treal harbour, to assist in his unsuc. cessful attempt io present the Brits ish from takin ontresl following thelr capture of Quebec, During the British occupation, the blockhouse was carefully preserved; It was this old = structure which edught fire from burning grass and was destroyed, It was eon. structed of old cedar and was about must he able to see,' 25 feet square, BUDGET EXPECTED SOON AFTER EASTEF Ottawa, April i 12 - ~~ The budget will be brought down in the House of Commons very soon after the Easter recess, Hon, C. A, Dunning, Minister of finance, stated in the House, He assured the members it would not be the first day after the recess or the second hut he was in hopes It would be during the first week, Mr, Dunning's statement wat in answer to a question by Sh George Perley, "Cones Argenteuil), ------------ Admirer: "What do you econ- sider your best plece of fiction?" ' Author: "My Inst Income tax re urn,' RED CLOVER BANNER OATS 54 Church Street Clover Seeds TIMOTHY ALSIKE SWEET CLOVER Seed Grain COLORADO WHEAT 2-ROWED BARLEY, MARQUIS WHEAT, 6.ROWED BARLEY All Seeds and Seed Grain Government Tested HOGG & LYTLE, Limited SPRING RYE ALFALFA Phone 203 Where Income Tax Inspectors are Located Oly Baliding P19 Campbell Strot ams Building fi ty ELI S ET FORT VIAL, ONT: HON, W. D, EULER, mont," It iv not enough that a Dominion of Canada Income Tax Returns DUE APRIL 30th ACT PROMPTLY~-- Accept the help offered by Income Tax Inspectors and Avoid Penalties Every person who during the year 1929 had an income, from any source, of as much as $1,500, if single, or $3,000 if married or supporting a family, is required to make an income tax return. If you are situated as above described, failure to make this return by midnight, April 30th; to. gether with cheque or cash for at leas 25% of amount of tax, will render you liable to a penalty of the total tax payable.' (Limit of equal to 5% penalty $500.) To avoid incurring this penalty, obtain NOW, from your postmaster, or from the Inspector of Income Tax in your district, the necessary forms and make your returns dt once. These forms are as follows: Form T1 For Individuals other than Farmers and Ranchers. Form T1A For Farmers and Ranchers only. Form TS For Corporations and Joint Stock Companies. Each form contains in itself instructions for filling out. By making your return by April 30th you gain in two ways: First, you avoid penalties for delay. Second, you qualify yourself for the privilege of paying in instalments: INCOME TAX INSPECTOR WILL HELP YOU ; MAKE OUT YOUR RETURNS If there ls anything in the income tax return which you do notwadetsnd, way Tncome Tex Inspector will be alad to explain what is required: 'Minister of National Revenue The Department of National Revenue Income Tax Division OTTAWA