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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930 a The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An independent papar published every after. noon except Sundays and legal holidays at Osh. awa, Canada, by The Times Publishing Company of Oshawa, Limited. Chas. M Mundy, Presid A. R. Alloway, Managing Director. The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana. dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Asso ciation, the * Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Cireulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, in Oshawa and suburbs, 12 a " week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $3.00 a year: United States, $400 a year, TORONTO OFFICE 518 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone Adelaide 0107. D. Tresidder, representative. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930 THE CHEVROLET MEETINGS ent : These are busy days for the executives of the General Motors of Canada, Limited. Starting with the gatherings in Oshawa, they are organizing meetings of Chevrolet dealers and agents all over Canada, prepara- tory to the introduction of the 1931 models, which are said to be the greatest of this make of car éver introduced. The preview of the car, we are told, has been received with enthusiasm, salesmen and dealers are keyed up to a high pitch of enthusiasm, and are just waiting for the word to go out and make new history in the sale of these Osh- awa-made cars. That is the important part of it--these Oshawa-made cars." Oshawa people are des- perately interested in these dealer meetings, and in the results which accrue from them. They read of the salesmen getting ready, and their hearts, too, are hopeful. They are hopeful that the new cars will meet with such a response that the wheels of the Osh- awa factory will be set in motion again at a speed which has not been known here for many months. They are looking for the re- sults of these meetings to provide them with work and their families with bread and but- ter. 1t is small wonder then, that the men in the street in Oshawa is interested in these gatherings of executives and dealers. He may not know much about what is going on at the meetings, but he knows that all goes well, the results wil mean work for him, and that, after all, is his chief concern. So no one can blame him for hoping, as he does, that the 1981 models "will go over in big style" so that he can look for a year of nor- mal employment to put him back on his feet again, ; A CURIOUS MIXTURE Qut in Manitoba, the farmers are burning barley for fuel in place of coal and wood. They are doing this because they find it pro- vides satisfactory firing, and because they feel it is cheaper than either of the other commodities, Sn Alberta there are miners who are out of work because Canadian markets are lack- ing for the products of their mines, and their families are hard pressed to buy the grain which is produced by the farmers. Down here, in Ontario, millions of tons of coal are being brought in from the other side of the international boundary, thus pro- viding millions of dollars in wages for miners in the United States. And in Ontario, too, hundugds of families would be mighty glad to * have a few bushels of that barley which the Manitoba farmers are burning up. It's a peculiar situation. What a differ- ence it would make it these millions of tons of coal burned in Ontario were secured from Alberta, and those millions of dollars paid in " wages to Alberta miners instead of to miners across the border. These Alberta miners and their families would then be able to buy more and more of the Manitoba grain. The trans- portation of the coal would provide work for hundreds of railway employees, and they, in turn, ould be able to buy mere grain and grain products. And then the price which could be secured by the Manitoba farmer might very logically be expected to rise, so that it would once again be possible for him to buy coal instead of burning grain. Don't you see how it works. The great- est secret in bringing back good times for all of Canada lies in the use which Canadians make of their own resources, in the manner in which they use Canadian products in pre- ference to those imported from other coun- tries. There is a great deal of difference between grain and coal, but yet, looked at from the standpoint of creating employment by an interchange of commodities, they are very closely related to each other. ELECTORS AND MOTOR CARS An interesting discussion took place in the British House of Commons the other day, when two Labor members urged strongly that in the new electoral reform act, a clause should be included prohibiting the use of automobiles in taking electors to the polls, except under special circumstances. This suggestion is so revolutionary in its effect that one can quite understand that it took the breath away from the members of parlia- ment, yet, from the Labor standpoint, it would have its advantages, for as a rule La- bor candidates have not the campaign funds available with which to put large numbers of automobiles into action on election day. The question of the use of automobiles on election days, however, opens up a wide field for discussion. It is one of the sad things which has crept into elections in this country as well as the mother country, even in this city, that a great many voters will not trouble to go to the polls unless an automo- bile calls for them. The candidates and their workers are to a large extent responsible for this, since they go to great pains to arrange for the conveyance of voters, and the party which can muster the most cars has, on the face of it, a considerable advantage. While there are some people who will go to the poll- ing station in a car provided by one candid- ate and then vote for his opponent, they are few, because the party workers claim to know in advance just who are the right people to transport to the polls. It is regrettable that the franchise should be so lightly valued that there are many people who will not vote unless they are driv- en to the polls. There was a time when people used to say that this provided them with their only opportunities to get a ride in an automobile, but that can hardly be true in these days when cars are so plentiful. At the same time the habit seems to have taken hold of the Canadian electorate just as it has done in the motherland, and it would indeed be interesting if legislation were enacted to restrict the use of automobiles on election day in Britain. Who knows but that if it worked well there, some government with real courage might feel disposed to put the same ideas into effect here. THEY ALL COME TO IT Following in the footsteps of the depart- ment of national revenue, and the depart- ment of trade gnd commerce of the federal government, the department of fisheries has decided that its work can be made truly ef- fective by the use of newspaper advertising. It is announced that the minister of fisheries has agreed to spend $25,000 on advertising to increase the consumption of Canadian can- ned salmon, by an agreement in which the canners agree to spend a like sum, dollar for dollar with the government, In a despatch which followed closely on the one referred to above, the information was given that the Onario Retail Druggists' Other Editor's Comments DISCOVERING CANADA ((Sault Daily Star) Canadians are slowly getting ac- quainted with Canada, We have dis- covered in the last 20 years that New Ontario is not "the land of the stunt- ed poplar," that New Ontario is not "covered with several feet of moss which renders it unfit for farming, that garden truck grows well at Moose Factory; that the Peace River district of 400,000,000 acres grows splendid wheat; that the so-called "Barren lands" have more trees than Manitoba; that mayflowers grow on the hillsides in May in the Yukon; that Canada's greatest snowfall is at the U.S. border; and that people who live north of the railways manage to lead comfortable lives. ADVERTISING BY RADIO (Kitchener Record) Experiments in connection with radio and newspaper advertising have shown that for & similar am- ount expended on cach means of arresting public attention newspa.- per advertising proved more satis- factory in results obtained and conerquently less expensive. The value of radio advertising has been greatly overrated. This is indicated in a New York publi. cation which says that the esti- mated number of listeners was us- ually obtained by multiplying the number of sets in the torritory covered by the hroadcasting sta- tion by five or more. Howevar, it THE BETHLEHEM (PA.) GLOBE- has heen discovered that only 76 per cent. of radios are in actual use. from one to 26 per cent. be- ing used during daylight hours on | week.days and 44.6 to 52.6 per | cent. hetwean 9 and 10 o'clock in the evening, which fs regarded it the most popular radio hour | Just how many give the dial a vicious twist at the first evidence | of advertising is difficult to as- | certain, but their number Is legion. | | Bits of Humour | THOSE GOLDEN TONES | ec Buen Humor Madrid) nk why th Association has decided to establish during | the year 1931 a vigorous campaign of news- paper advertising, designed to emphasize the fundamental difference between the drug store and other retail stores. Above are cited only two instances of how newspaper advertising is to be used for ed- ucation and business-building purposes com- bined. The salmon packers of British Col- umbia are being hard pressed to secure mar: kets, so the government is going to help them secure these by the most logical meth- od known, the use of newspaper advertising. The druggist often finds that the profession- al side of his business is overlooked by thoee who simply regard him as a retail merchant, s0, through his association, he proposes to tell the world all about what he has to offer. There is little in common between the can- ner of salmon and the retail druggist. Yet they have this one thing in.common, and which all men in business have in common, that they can be equally benefitted by the use of newspaper advertising. Sooner or later, the business and commercial man who craves success comes to the same conclusion, and decides to adopt the best means known for business advancement, the use of news- paper advertising. NOT TAKING SECOND PLACE When it comes to the building of ships and sailing on the high seas, Britain does not like to take a backwash of any other nation. That spirit can be seen in the decision of the Cunard Company to build a huge ocean liner which will be the greatest and fastest in the world. It will take nearly $30,000,000 to build this monster, which will be over 1000 feet long, but when it is completed it will be the last word in size, speed, beauty and ap- pointments for ocean travel, There is another side to this decision. The building of this huge vessel will give employ- ment in Britain to something like 10,000 to 11,000 men, and in the supplying of materials for its construction, thousands more will be given employment. So the determination that Britain must keep her place of leader- ship as a marine nation is not only going to , win back the honor now held by the Ger- mans, but is going to make a substantial dif- ference to employment conditions in the greatly harassed Clydeside district of Scot- land. EDITORIAL NOTES It is said that Jack Miner proposes to raise bullfrogs. Aren't there enough croakers in Canada now. Premier Bennett has returned to Canada just in time to be given .a hearty welcome by the Ontario Liberal convention. It hardly seems fair to write of the open- ing of the Liberal convention, "The Fight is On." Yet events may prove it to be more truth than poetry. With the kind of a financial statement which will have to be presented next session of parliament, Mr. Bennett may find it hard to get a new minister of finance. The reference of London "Truth" to On- tario's, premier as Mr. Forbes was the un- kindest cut of all, or perhaps it was only the Englishman's way of getting even, (Smites Weekly, Syd: He (with hands over her eyes)- | "If you can't guess who it is in three | guesses I'm going to kiss you." | She~--"Jack -Frust { \ | Santa Claus 50 CHANGED | A novelist was chatting | publisher. "By the way | you get the plot of your | el?" asked the latter. "From the filih version | was the reply RELIGION DIDN'T MATTER Il Street Journal) 1g for posi- advertise- THREE TIMES AND OUT ney Day his did na noy f the first, jees 80 a pusson ¢an cook, what dif- ference does religion make?" SAME DIFFERENCE (Life) Wifie="Newspape very clear, are they!" Hubby--"In what way, my dear?" Wifie--"It's so hard to tell which are the politicians and which are the | gangsters." stories aren't Husband-- From the glimpse I had of her this morning I rather like our new cook. There seems to be plenty of go about her. Wife--Yes, she's gone. MODERN GRANDMOTHERS Boy Scout (to elderly lady)! May I accompany you across the street madam? Old Iady: Certainly sonny. How long have you been waiting here for somebody to take you across 7--Pass- ing Show. WISE TO HIM Husband (on silver wedding anniv- ersary); Well, dearie, all the years have flitted by--and 1 haven't dc- ceived you yet, have I? Wife: No, John, you haven't de- ceived me--but goodness knows you tried hard enough.--~Hummel Ham- burg. Teacher--~Who can tell me why we should always be neat and clean? Cathleen--In case of accident, teacher. | Bits of Verse TO 8IX COMPANIONS We will go back there, seven of us, ghosts, and sit in the shadow of the inn and call our toasts. There will be music again, song and the violin, We will take our wine, the seven of us, till the dark is thin and streaked with the white of day- break. Then, as the wind grows cold, we will go our many ways again, when we are old. ~John Pudney, in the Observer WILLIAM BLAKE'S MOTHER If Blaks's mother had seen these Illuminated autumn trees, She never would have thought it strange That angels came within the range Of his young eyes: or had she sight Of misty-moon-white valleys when bright Entangled stars are spiked among The brittle maple houghs--the ton- . Bue He heard she would surely recog- nize The source of his voices and visions } surmise, ~~ Ruth Langland Holberg, in the ---Christian Science Monitor. H. B. FARQUHAR, EDITOR OF TIMES, BAYS: -- That Bethlehem has adopted what is sald to be the only method of its kind to cope with the present depression in the mattor of reliev. ing temporary unemployment un- til the wheels of industry begin revolve more steadily, The Chamber of Commerce has been pleased to think of the de- pression in terms of business--not charity. That is, instead of he- coming engaged in raising sums of money to take care of the needy, efforts were put forth to get the people to arrange to do all kinds of improvements to their proper- ty now and they have responded nobly, thus giving employment to many people out of work. The housewife has been importuned and she is having furniture uphol. stered, housecleaning advanced several weeks, stacks of clothing that need it, repaired, etc. As a result of all this, tempor- ary work has becn given to scores. Also, as a result of the Family Welare Association which has the care of the needy, reports that the calls on It for assistance at this writing are only slightly above normal and that if the "promotion of employment" movement is kept up during the winter, the chances are that the people of Bethlehem will not be called upon té dig down deeply into their pockets for money to be devoted to charty. "IF YOU CARE, DO SHARE," IS THE SLOGAN THE DRIVE. YOUR or Eye | Care and Eye Strain by C. H. Tuc, Opt. D. (Copyright, 1028) Some people complain that road. Ing grows dim or the eye of the eye of the needle gets smaller with he passing. years At one time the finest print could be read with ease and the eye of the neédle, however small, was used just the same. It is not necessary to have to give up this work because you have rio needle with the real large eye. It Is not necessary to give up reading just because the print is too small Providing all conditions of gen- eral health normal and no deep-seated disease is in evidence, correct glasses will overcome this annoyance and those complaining may again sew or read with pleas- ure, I have known printers who used a magnifying glass at certain work and yet refused to think of having the eyes examined for glasses and yet those whose vision was nor- mal did not usé¢ a magnifier at their work. are (To be continued) FAMOUS MONTREAL HOUSE TO BE RAZED Kildonan Hall to Make Way for New Presbyterian Church Montreal, Que.--For more than three quarters of a century Kildonan Hall has stood among the trees, well back from Sherbrooke street and now it is being torn down to make way for the new Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul. The house has al- ways been occupied by the Mackays, prominent in this city and in the life of the Dominion. Edward and Joseph Mackay, who were born in Scotland in 1810 and 1813 respectively, came to Canada in the early thirties, Here, in Montreal, they founded a wholesale drygoods business under the name of Joseph Mackay and Brother. In 1850 they began construction of the new house, to be called Kildonan Hall in mem- ory of the Scottish district from which they came. Nephews of these two brothers, Robert, Hugh and James moved to Canada and succeed- ed their uncles in the "new house on the mountain." Robert Mackay, la- ter Senator Mackay, moved into ithe house in the autumn of 1884, The children of Hon, Robert Mac- kay, remember tobogganing on a slide across the street. One of them, Cai- rine, has now become the Hon. Cai- rine Wilson, Canada's first woman senator. The builder of Kildonan Hall is as- sumed to have been an American, but his name is not known. His work, however, has been a landmark for many years, one of the last mansions of the old style to survive on Sher-' brooke street. Set well back from the street and surrounded by green lawns it gathered about itself, as the years passed, an accumulating dig- nity of age. Its contemporaries fell away one by one, leaving it alone to dominate the scene, a romantic dwell- | ing apart and aloof, while the new- comers appeared and edged close to the sidewalk as though clutching at every available square foot of space. After 62 years, the old Presbyter- ian Church of St. Andrew and St. New York, N.Y. Dec. 16--The steady growth of international com merce has been interrupted this year for the first time since 1921 by a net decrease of about eight per cent in the volume of the world's export trade, according to the annual ana- lysis of international trade issucd by the National Foreign Trade Council The Council's statement emphasizes the fact that, in spite of the present downturn, international trade, as ex- pressed in World exports, is still about 16 per cent greater in volume than it was in 1925. About two thirds of this gain in the tonnage of world trade, that had been made since 1925 up to the end of last year, will thus still be retained at the end of 1930 on the basis of present figures cover ing about Lalf the world's commerce. World export trade for 1930, ac- cording to figures up to December 1 for nations carrying on aboup half of the world's comunerce indicate that the export trade of the 101 nations of the world will be about 22% bil lion dollars for 1930. The total cx- ports of these 101 nations for 1929 were $24,427,000,000, both figures be- ing reduced to the common index of 1913 prices. A notable fact of the year's busi ness is that European export trade has been less affected by the present depression than that of any other section of the world. The actual vol- ume of Europe's export business has remained very close to what it wa in 1929. Though its trade than last ycar's in ues, this is almost e: fall in prices. In 1929 the export trade of the 27 European na tions had at least reached cent of its 1913 volume. The reported by the vari us. government i 1s less | current dollar val- | tirely due to the | aggregate | 99 per | firsyes | place the 1929 total at $11,985000.000, | material, called Cleveland stone, wi stone quarried quence the pieces are all to be again in a new Lor Catho! Church in the parish of Peres Saint Croix, in St. Laurent nore « locally When the CNR. bought the burch it wy « i the stained g new church, ¢ e these same 1 ained plats wine ave heen nr 1 1 serve Tlie pulpit and the baptisthal font hay alsa been kept and so has the organ the latter. It is not just one org it is the better parts of two orgar and when the instrument is re-a semhbled in the ur parts of both or mito one comple ginally, the c! and St. Panl wi mer as St. Andrew's Church of Scot land stood on Beaver Hall Hill on t! present site of the Dell Tel Building instrument irches of St, A re separate. The for buff sand- There is a story in the history of | yall those | mle {1 World Exports Are Down But World Prices Lower adjusted to the 1913 dollar, compared with the $12,086,000,000 actually re- ported by these nations for 1913, The outstanding element in this progress has been the rehabilitation of Germany, whose export trade has made up arrears from its 1913 vol- ume, of practically 40 per cent, since its present growth began to get under way in 1925. Great Britain came in 1929 within 5 per cent of its 1913 ex- port volume and all the other na- tions of western Europe, with the exception of Holland, have a substan- tially increased volume of exports over the prewar year, In. 1930, France, Russia, the Frish Free State and a number of other European na- tions have actually gained ground in the volume of their exports. Ger- many is within onc or two per cent of her 1929 export volume, while British exports, in spite of heavy losses carly in the year, are only about 10 per cent less than 1929, Canada's Position The decreases in the world's ¢x- port trade this year have' been al- most entirely in the counties whicl chiefly produce raw materials. both Canada and Japan, second and third to the United States in the amount of foreign trade gained since the war, have suffered losses, as compared with last year, in excess of 10 per cent. Such American exports, not- ably those of Argentina and Brazil, have decreased mm volume this year | by a like amount, and the nations of |] Latin America in general continued te sze a diminution of exports which, with few exceptions, had already ap- peared in 1929. Latin America, how- ever, is still selling. its products abroad in fully 20 per cent greater volume than before the war, and in an amount about gqual to its business in 1926, World Prices Lower World prices are lower, meanwhile, than at any time since the war; even lower than in 1921. They have de- creased since this time last year by fully 15 per cent, approximating, as an index of present world export values, a figure of less than $1.20 as related to current dollar values in 1913. The recession since 1925 has been from a corresponding world ex- port index price of $1.56, on the 1913 dollar, or a drop of almost 25 per cent in the past five years, The most constructive factor of the present years is, however, that manu- facturing industry, particularly in Eu- rope and the United States, though reflecting the general reductions of prices, has not substantially reduced the volume of its products entering international trade, The single ex- the automotive industry whose exports, almost 9% per cent of which come from the United States, have dropped. off during the present year almast by half from its 1929 re- cord ception is GRACIOUSLY INTIMATE The easiest way to arrange that hot day visit--those gay little par- ties---is by Long Distance. The tele- phone means a reply on the spot and {8 a convenient way to offer in- formation. And it {is graciously intimate, toast? now. 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