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"+ THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY: FEBRUARY 9, 1931 'he Oshawa Daily Times - THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) independent newspaper ere » «Chas. M. y \ R. All tio Dicer Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana. fh Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Asso- n, the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the it Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES vered by Satis in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. a k. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier ery limits) $3.00 a year. United States $4.00 a BN 5 TORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, & Temperance Street. Telephone aide 0107, D. Tresidder, representative. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 1931 ¢ SOME PLAIN TALK t.-Col. B. J. McCormack, secretary of the wa Chamber of Commerce and indus- commissioner for the city, spoke right in meeting to the people of Oshawa the other day. Citing two instances .of well es blished English textile manufacturers * Bo had located elsewhere, after voluminous spondence with his office, simply be- 2g Oshawa had no vacant factories in wh h they could locate, he pointed out the on in which lies Oshawa's only hope immediate industrial expansion by the acquisition of new industries. This is not the first time that this truth has been expounded to the people of Osh- 3 awa. It was behind the organization of the Oshawa Industrial Foundation two years ago, the idea of that company being to pro- vide buildings for industries. In season and out of season it has been driven home by 'The Times as one of the essentials of in- dustrial growth for the city. - Industries have turned away from Oshawa because of the lack of a factory building, in cases in which success would have been possible had the city been able to offer anything in this line. On the other hand, the provision of a fac- tory building for the Coulter Manufacturing Company, after a tremendous effort to raise the necessary finances, has made possible the locating here of what is expected to be a substantial addition to the city's industrial . fabric. This fact proves that industries will come where buildings can be provided, and cities which are fortunate enough to have * buildings have a great advantage over Osh-' awa. "The only remedy to this situation is plain. If there are no empty factories in Oshawa for industries, then buildings must be erect- ed. That is the aim of both the Chamber of Commerce and the Oshawa Industrial Foundation. But it is a simpler matter, ap- parently, to say that factories should be built than it is to build them. The whole \ plan of the Oshawa Industrial Foundation is based on a promise of co-operative effort by 'the citizens of Oshawa. Through it, the citi- zens are given an opportunity of investing in the future of their city, of doing their bit to create a greater industrial diversity, by making possible the erection of factories, to be occupied by diversified industries. The plan and procedure are simple to ex- . A manufacturing company is im- pressed with Oshayva's possibilities as an in- dustrial location. It wants to come here, but 'wants a factory in which to locate. It is will- ing to lease or buy a factory, but there is none available, It goes to the Oshawa Indus- . trial Foundation, which submits the propo- 'sition to a searching investigation. If it is approved, the foundation in turn appeals to 'the citizens to subscribe the necessary funds to erect the factory. That was the plan fol- lowed when the Coulter Company's proposi: tion was accepted. . It succeeded eventually, but the citizens of unaware of how close it came to Had it not been for the tremendous LU ffort of G. D, Conant, president of the mber of Commerce, and a group of men p worked along with him, it would have n a failure. It seems almost tragic to to confess this, yet it is the truth. The of Oshawa, the business men and hants, are not yet impressed with the ty for co-operative effort to build up ghawa industrially, They realize, possibly, t they will prosper only as Oshawa grows, | that before this can come, new indus- CAAA ct buildings for new industries. i the whole story. There are indus- ; now to come to Oshawa if a daly bo erected Tor then Bll the 1 th rience in mind, cannot. be | med for be. a little doubtful about signing agree-. , factory buildings, when there is dor sufficient evidence that the citi- will back such 'with their .of the facts in. except Sun nd En : a avs a ve, Cana Sanday Times hing Comoant. : growth to a realization of the responsibility which rests on them for Oshawa's failure to secure more new industries than have yet been brought here. ! 2 N £¥ A HEARTRENDING DISASTER The hearts of all Britishers have throbbed with sympathy in the last few days for the sufferers from the New Zealand earthquake disaster. At this distance, it is quite impos- sible to comprehend what it all means. Can- ada has been fortunate in its freedom from disasters of" this nature, but, nevertheless, whenever there has been suffering humanity in distress and need, the heart of Canada has beaten in sympathy with these sufferings. That feeling must be uppermost in the minds of all those who have been reading of the death and destruction which have been dealt out with a cruel hand in the earthquake which rocked a large area in New Zealand, took over a thousand lives, injured many thousands more, destroyed flourishing towns and cities and left all their inhabitants home- less. Blood is thicker than water, and British hearts beat beneath the breasts of the vie- tims of that terrible catastrophe. So Cana- dians, in common with all Britishers every- where, will feel the deepest pangs of regret that such a thing should have happened in a sister Dominion, and will extend to that younger member of the Empire family the heartfelt sympathy of a whole nation. EDITORIAL NOTES The weather man did his worst over the weekend, and--for the sake of the coal bin-- let us hope it is the worst he will try to do this winter. Cheaper water, cheaper light, Make the housewife's outlook bright. The only difference between the average motorist and Captain Malcolm Campbell is about two hundred miles per hour, And who suggested that the British were slow? "Mr. Ferguson has arrived," says a news- paper headline. But isn't it just a little bit early to make such emphatic assertions. Other Editors' Comment REIMBURSE CLIENTS (Niagara Falls Review) Apart altogether from politics, there is reason and force in favor of the arguments to compel restitution of moneys illegally lost by clients of brokers. The tremendous fines paid in some cases prove that these men are by no means penniless and it is unfair that they should be able to enjoy all the luxuries of life while their unlucky customers are ruined. Every possible effort should be made to compel re- imbursement of such losses. GANDHI (Ottawa Journal) Nor is it easy to have respect for Gandhi sittin, on a stone floor and toying with a spinning whee while giving cunning interviews to newspapermen that he knows will go round the world. That, to us, looks too much like posturing and play-acting for effect. History prohibits too much confidence that a peo- ple like those of India, to a large extent illiterate, will not be fooled--at least for some time, and to some extent--by even obviously theatrical nonsense; and there is nothing 80 easy in the world as to pose as a mystic. people will long continue to suffer and sacrifice their ives and a wide measure of freedom for the sake of the mumblings and incantations and postures of a man who, no matter what many may believe of him, appears to be the last man in the world to achidve really worthwhile things for India. \ Yet it is difficult to think that any BITS OF VERSE WINTER WINDOW When I look out of my window In Winter, | can see Roofs that the green of Summer Will hide away from me. There are lines of snow on the mountains, The hills are far and blue-- If you live dong by the mountains ey call to and answer you! When T look out of my window I see where the long road lies, It goes from city to city, An 6ld road and wise. It has lived so long by the river, And known so many men, It says the same thing over And over again: The road says-- You who sit by the window, you who follow me, : If simple beauty can make you glad, Happy rnd bleut are Yarden Grace." BITS OF HUMOR ; THE OLD STORY Fred=Why all the bandages around your head? 'Tedd=Rotten bridge. ; . Fred--Break through ? Tedd=No, trupped nry wife's ace. George--Your sister is a telephone operator, isn't she * Henry=Yes! How did you know? George--1 spoke to her and she didn't answer, Fheerichiony wife used to play the piaho a lot, but since the children came she doesn't have time, . Johnstone=Children are a comfort, aren't they? Comtotnerh "Thole Such 1 boneht. b ustomer: e shirts ght from you mail are terrible, 1 wouldn't be seen with one Py in the street." Tf Haberdasher : "But we advertised that one wouldn't wear them out. hate Officer~Hey, you can't make a turn to , the right, W Motorist-=Why not, offices? Traffic Officer=Well, a right turn is wrong here, Tf you want to turn right, turn left, Eye Care and Eye Strain ¥y C, H. Tuek, Opt. D. (Copyright, 1988) CROSS.EYE One of the greatest handicaps to the future happiness and prosperity is to be allowed to grow up with uncor- rected Strabismus or Squint, With this as a handicap it is harder to do business and it is harder to mix in saciety. This cohdition usually commences at the age of two or three years or as soon as the child learns the value of clear vision. The causes are many and various and the result is the normal relation between accommoda- tion and fonvergente being disturbed and the week fusion faulty cannot right the conditions and double vi- sion issues. The eyes may turn up, out or in "and comfortable vision is obtained at the expense of the turning eye and the image in the deviating eye is sup- pressed or disregarded, and may in time be entirely lost through non use. The correction consists in correcting any cxisting error, re-establishing fusion and development of vision in the poor eye. Upon the deeviopment of vision and fusion the correction en- tirely depends, and the earlier the treatment is commenced the better are the prospects of success. Not every case can be corrected in this manner but so many respond readily to treatment when taken in time that it is a great mistake to neglect them. %2 10 €D WAITE THAT some cities have been sliding down the scale in city development for some time. Now is the time to call a halt. No city ever gets very far by adopt- ing a passive attitude and taking what comes. Today is the day of the -getter, A city has to fight to eep what they have and fight to get what they want, The passive city should wake up and learn how to fight. It is the only way to win, These cities must arouse from their lethargic slumber and cc e to enjoy the wonderful possibilities they possess, They should "go to the bat" and put their city in the class where it right- fully belongs. Every citizen should get in the game and work and boost for its complete and overwhelming success. SOME CITIES HAVE ALLOWED OTHER CITIES WITH LESS AD- VANTAGES TO STAY IN THE LEAD TOO LONG. AFRICA"S PEAKS FILMED FROM AIR South African Has Films Showing One Mountain . 19,700 Feet High London, Feb, 9~The first film of the great African mountains Kilimat.- jaro and Kenya taken from the air was shown to members of the Kead- ing and Berkshire Flying Club at Reading recently, The film was tak- en by F. Roy Tuckett, the swung South African who flew in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon, England, to Cape Town, South Africa, «as vear, and had not been shown before in Great Britain, Mr. Tuckett aescribed his experience as the pictures were shown. The aeroplane which Tuckett took to the summit of Kilimanjaro is sup- sed to have a ceiling of 18,000 feet. n this case he reached nearly 20,000 feet, and had to wait near the sun- mit for about two hours until the clouds gave him the opportunity to take the photographs he' He had much difficulty in maifmaining height for so long, because his sew: plane was continually cushioning down in the rarefied air, Lventually he secured excellent pictures of the peak breaking through a mass of clouds below it. He was then less than 300 feet above the summit and ciose gh to show soe of the details of this great crater, The highest k which ne pheto- graphed in this way, is 19790 reet ¢bove sea level, Mr, Tickets als: obtained good pictures of the sunt of Mount Kenya, 17,500 feet hgh, aud all along the route he followed facugh Africa he took fim pheto- wiz phs. CHMISY POR ALL=ALL POR . 7 TT = ILL di a . uy bothers uly - N THE DAY RIGHT Cause me to hear "thy lovin ness in the morning; for in thee do J trust; cansd me to know the way wherein should walk; for 1 lift up re ------------ pF m, i thee ~Psalm 143:8. Y ~ Father, help vs to alk of the day together. ef me from straying. , and NEW STATUE OF HAIG APPROVED '| sculptor, has made another attempt London.--A, F. Hardiman, the on the national memorial to Earl ig, which is to stand in White hall, not far from the Cenotaph. The model of his first effort met with strong disapproval of Lady Haig. Her Ladyship was supported by a considerable body of opiniom. Mr. Hardiman, therefore, made an- other model, and this, with his first effort and a bust of the late Earl Haig, has been on view in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. Whatever the merits may have been of Mr. Hardiman's original creation, there Is not much doubt pd Jue a short time ago at Steen- bras, that he should not kill snakes. that it lent itself to criticism by those who knew perhaps little about art but a fair amount about horses. There was a squatness and stolidi- ty about the original conception which made the distinguished sol- dier look a deal more massive than he ever appeared to those who knew him, and the charger upon which he was mounted appeared to be of the cart-horse kind, The new model, much bigger than the other, includes details of har- ness that were missing, and it shows a Sam Browne belt-----which was not on the first; but it does not show the hat, which, in the earlier model, the Earl clasped lightly in his right hand. The great change is the approach of the horse to realism. It is now a noble-looking beast, of the ultra: hunting type. Previously the horse was squat and broad in neck and chest. The only other statue al- ready erected of Earl Haig adjoins the Parade round of Edinburgh Castle. TONS OF DRYSALTED HERRINGS FOR ORIENT Production of drysalted herring in British: Columbia in the 1930-31 gea- con---October to February--will ap- parently not be as large as in the preceding season but, none the less, there will be many thousands of tons for export to the Orient, the market for this Canadian fish pro- duct, At the end of December, 1930, the pack was approximately 30,300 tons, as reported to the Dominion Depart- ment of Fisheries by its Chief Sup- Town's municipal snake recent opened only a few weeks ago, and it is Intended that the snakes on ex- hibition there shall be uséful as well as attractive. hunter and explorer,( who has been supervising the establishing of the snake park and is greatly interested in the reptiles, told a member of the staff of The Cape Argus, who include black and pink cobras, night adders, preat slangs, egg-eaters and grass snakes and gloriously red and black garter snakes from the desert. known how many of the crawling creatures there are in the collection as It is impossible to round them up. "One box of 17 which was con- signed to ns arrived with 16 fine specimen," ut the opening of the park, "'and the tail of the 17th snake oy protind. ing from the mouth of*h of the party." WILL USE SNAKE VENOM IN MAKING EPILEPTIC CURE | Cape Town Snake Park To Serve Useful Purpose Cape Town, South Africa.--Cape rk is a institution, having been Donald Bain, d mentioned that he had killed "Don't kill them," said Donald Dain, "we want them to extract ve- nom which is needed at the medical institutes for the production of a care for epilepsy. where they will be fed and have their poinnin regularly tapped off at the park." Bring them 1n The snakes in the new park here ringhalg, yellow cobras, berg and gréen boom- It is not remarked Donald Bain glutton "Rate," said Mr. Bain when ask- ed by The Cape Argus representa- tive what food he gave the snakes. "rats and frogs, their natural quar- ry. An arena has been built for the snakes where the public can have a wonderful view of them from the complete safety of a barricade, The snakes are handled and exhibited for the entertainment and informa- tion of the public, and lectures and demonstrations are given at certain intervals. tion to make its gnake park as not: ed as that at Port Elizabeth, which possesses an international fame, It is Cape Town's ambi- ervisor for British Columbia, Major | PILOTS HAVE J A. Motherwell, while at the cor- responding time in 1929 the output | was slightly more than 38,000 tons. Similar catches of herring and less favorable market conditions in the NO SINECURE current season explain the decrease. | Hardy Group Guides Ships The greater part of the production of drysalted herring is on the eas const of Yancomer Sand; for in stance, about four-fiithy of the pack prepared up to the end of last Dec- ember was credited to the east coast. The method of packing in big bins, together with large quantities of salt, and are allowed to remain there for several days. Then they are remov- ed, drained, and packed in boxes for shipment, more salt being added while the boxes are being filled, Vir- tually the entire pack of each season goes to China, though some of the shipments go by way of Japan, and in the calendar year 1929 the export was valued at almost $1,950,000. The shipments are covered bv inspection certificates issued by pickled fish in- spectors on the staff of the Dominion epartment of Fisheries, in and Out of Harbor Re- gardless of Gales, Cold and Fog Boston, Mass. Feb. 9.--~The av- erage landsman has only a vague idea of the working existence led by the hardy group of 24 men who. serving as pilots for Boston Bay, keep shipping moving in and out of the harbor day after day, year in and year out, if the wea- ther is stormy, cold, foggy or oth- erwise. Two pilot boats, either the Lib- erty or the Pilot work alternate weeks, and as steamers ending a voyage from Kurope, South Am- erica, the Orient, far away Austra- {waining the roads alread, built, CARR I CANADIAN FISH BY AIRPLANE Whitefish, Trout, Fly To- ward Market From North- atchewan Waters lia and other parts of the world ing sentinel-like in outer Boston harbor, the sight of a pilot hoat fogging about in the vicinity of the lightship is the first to greet the incoming mariner, who al- ways welcomes a view of the blue and white flag flying at the pilot goat's main masthead by day and the red and white masthead lights shown at night, When the stecamer"s lookout spots the pilot boat. he re-lays word back to the bridge. If the ship is a regular visitor, she mere- ly waits for a pilot to come aboard approach Boston Lightship, stand-. Seaplanes have been used to much advantage by tle Dominion Depart- ment ig Fisheries in "atrol work in British Columbia for several years past and now the airplane is being used with apparent success in trans porting Saskatchewan' fish from re- mote waters shipping point, to railway but in the case of a stranger to the port, a pilot jack is raised as a signal that a pilot is wanted. The pilot boat is then manoeuvr- ed to within a quarter mile of the ship, a small boat {s put overboard and two oarsmen row the pilot to his temporary command. cape of an outhound steamer, tho In the Twice daily in recent weeks a plane | pop ig picked up by a small boat operated by a western company has | una conveyed back to 'the pilot been carry 1,600 pounds us whe fish and trout from Lac la Ronge to Prince Albert, a distance of up+ wards of 200 miles, for shipment by rail to Chicago and New York. Re- sults so far are reported satisfactory, The fish are carried from Lac la Range in an unfrozen condition and i diately on reaching Prince Al- bert they are iced and packed for shipment in 50-pound boxes. While airplane transportation has been reported satisfatcory, it was found that increasing demands for the northern fish made necessary an additional means of carriage so two motor tractors, each hauling a heated caboose, wee brought into service, "ach caboose has a carrying capacit of about 7,000 pounds of unfrozen fish and a trip from the lake by the two tractors means approximately suffici- ent fish brought to Prince Albert to make up a carload lot for shipnient. Though this is the first vear in which Hoh have been handled by plane, catches from waters in the more remote 'areas of northern Sask- atchewan and Alberta have been suc- cessfully marketed as fav away as the cities of the United Sutes for several seasons past, Fish from Lake Athabasca, for instance, have won market favour, notwithstanding that man with proven sourcefulness and ability to navi- gate. harbor he goes home for his re- spite and then, under the rotation system, reports back to the shore quarters where ho again waits his turn to go out, killing time by reading, playing cards, listening to radio broadcasts, etc. boat. The pllot, above all, is a sea- courage, re- After roturning from the A pilot's berth would not appear to be particularly attractive. hut usually there is a long waiting list for the positions, despite hardships included in the life of a pilot, es- pecially in winter months, of the appointees serve for years, until death or compulsory retire- ment at the ago of G8 separates them from the service. Most Captains Fred W, Ahlquist and James H, Reed have been guiding ships in and out of Boston har. bor for 856 years. Every foreign ship {8 required to use a pilot and the owners pay a fee based on the tonnage of the hoat handled. Is maintained by this fund. The ni1~t garvice BELIEVES IN CATCHING the distance they have to be carried from the lake to the international boundary alone is some 700 miles, "| Resting Easier gv oA 1. J. Robertson stat- ed that in his opinion it wosild not be necessary to amputate the leg of Mrs, Don Smith who was so seriously injured when an automobile in which she was riding was struck by a train on. 'Wednesday night, A TOURISTS WHILE YOUNG Montreal, Feb, 9.-~George A. McNamee, secretary of the Mon- treal Tourist and Convention Bur- eau, believes in getting his tour sty young. On his desk, lately, were thirty- five letters, written by pupils fo a Brooklyn school; each one an- nounced that the class is studying Canada and that Montreal is to play a Jarge part in the lectures. a DIES 1 KIDNEY Backache Made Me Feel Miserable But Dodd's Kidney Pills Brought Relief "A year numb and cold. My FLONEY EERE Ont. "After taking a box of ney Pills I felt better and could do my own work, I now feel fine." Dodd's kidneys. matter out the Forder todo their work, and RE ye I had an operation and I nervous and would get back would ache and RR Nol, Nixons 0. 1, Dodd's Kid- SEE Booklets were requested. There was no delay in granting the re- quost. 4 TRINIDAD ROADS NOW OPEN RICH DISTRICT Port-of-Spain, British West indies, tch, 9=Trinidad's road development scheme continues to progress and as a iesult a rich district 18 being open- eu up and marketing on the Island Leng made easy, The moal develip- ment scheme has been under way for lie past turee years and is being con- timued alon "Sg definite lines oy previously, accordin, to Ion. M. A. Murphy, Director of Public \'orks; in an interview with a repre scitative of the Trinidad Guardian, "This is a silent department," Mr. Murphy remarked to the interviewer. However, he cxpatiated on the gond viork being done by the government under his direction, "Our road pre- gramme," he said, "is intended to push wheeled traffic i ites into new vistricts until the entire Island is cou- nected with a network of roads to enable agriculturists to market their | toduce easily, Concuri nt with this taere 1s, of course, the wotlk of maine ! i Our aim is also to assist in relieving un- cuployment." COMPREHENSIVE DISARMAMENT SCHEME PLANNED Great Powers Are Already Preparing for Meeting Next Year Geneva, Feb, 0.--~Representa- tives of the leading world powers will gather in a general conference {or the limitation of land, sea and air armaments on 'Feb, 2, 1932, The chairman is to be selected next May, when the place of meet- ing will be decided upon, with Geneva favored by most partici. pants except Russia. When the delegates grapple once more with the great problem of armament limitation, the basis of the discussions will be the detailed draft report of the League's pre- paratory disarmament commission which was disbanded after this work was completed, Many long discussions were necessary before the commission agreed on this draft report, which is a document of 60 articles laying down the principles upon which limitation or reduction of armaments may be accomplished. The exact extent of the steps to be taken, will of course be the problem for the gen- eral conference itself. A number of article were adopt- ed by majority votes and there are various reservationg by differ. ent States; these no doubt will form the subject of conyersations before the Conference meets. The signatories agree to limit and so far as possible reduce their respective armaments, but the re- port indicates that the representa tives of some governments, while accepting the principle, desired to state that the reduction of all or some of the categories of arma- ments was not possible for them, their present armaments being far from suffficient to guarantee na- tional security. Personnel The average dally effectives in land, sea and air forces and for- mations organized on a military basis gre to Le limited. The tables or land forces are to show the totals of officers and professional soldiers, The German delegation made a general reservation on the ground that there was no provi. sion for limitation of trained re- serves, either directly or by re- duction in the annual contingents of conscript armies, There is to be limitation of the period of service {in conscript forces of land, sea and alr. Material There is to be budgetary lim- itation on the upkeep, purchase and manufacture of war material for land armaments. The German delegation made a general reserva. tion on the ground that there was to be no direct limitation of speci- fic articles and numbers as ap- plied to naval and air armaments; and the United States delegation declared itself unable to aceept Yudgetary limitation, It was pre- pared to apply, so far as the United States was concerned, di- rect limitation provided some prac. tical budgetary method were agreed upon which would consti- tute an effective means of limita- tion. 4 For naval material there is to be limtation by total tonnage; but eeach State fs to show in what way it intends to distribute the total tonnage between categorits, and there are provisions for trans- fers from one category to another ou the condition that before the ship 1s laid down for construction due notice is given, Account must be taken of the special ' cireum- stances of each power and of the classes of ships involved in the transfer. A power whose tonnage does not exceed, say, 100,000 tons (a figure given as an indication '|to an arbitral tribunal. article provides that the Conven- of the size of smaller navies) fs to have full freedom of transfer as regards surface ships; as regards other powers the amount of trans. fers is to be variable in inverse ratio to the amount of their total tonnage. The United States dele- gation said it assumed that the last point was not intended to ap- ply to powers which were signa- tories of the Washington and Lon. don Treaties. The British and Italian delega- tions also declared that the gov erning principle for the applica. tion of transfers should be that 'which provided that account must be taken of the special circume stances of each power and of the class of ship Juvolved. The Italian delegation sald it would oppose transfers from the class of light surface vessels to that of submare ines. The provisions for the limita. tion in tonnage of capital ships, aircraft carriers and submarines, the rules of replacement. ete,, fol- low generally the lines of the Lone don Naval Treaty. There is also to be budgetary limitation of naval armaments, upon which reservations are made by the United States, France and Japan, and Great Britain and Italy explained that their accept. ance depended upon the attitude finally adopted by. other maritime powers, The Italian delegation made a general reservation to the effect that it could not finally agree to any specific method be- fore all the powers had agreed upon the proportions and the lev- els of maximum tonnage. Air Armaments Limitations are to be placed on the number and total horse power of aeroplanes capable of use In war, in commission and in im. mediate reserve, and in the case of dirigibles, the limitation is tu bb on the number, total horse power and total volume, A pro- posal to provide for budgetary limitation of air material was re- Jected. The German delegation made reservations on the ground that reduction and limitation do not apply to the aggregate of war material, thus, in its view, leaving countries free to increase their stock of aircraft not yet put to. gether. Provisions are included to prevent as far as possible the de- velopment of civil aviation for military purposes. Total Expenditure The total annual expenditure on land, air and sea forces and formations organized on a mili- tary basis is to be limited. On this and on other cognate matters in the Draft Convention, a special committee of budgetary experts is preparing & report for the Conference, Detailed provisions are made for the exchange of information, Disarmament Commission A Permanent Disarmament Commission is to be established. Its members are to be appainted by Governments but are not to be representatives of Governments; the Commission is to meet anpual- ly, is to receive all information supplied to the Secretary.General of the League, and is to make a report on such Information and any other information that may reach it from responsible sources regarding the fulfilment of the Convention. It may meet {n extra- ordinary session on the applica- tion of any contracting party, and provision is made for the condi. tions in which complaints shall b considered, and for the publica. tion of the Commission's reports on any complaints; the contracting powers undertakke promptly to advise as to the conclusions of the report. The final chapter contains a number of general provisions, one article of which states that if any dispute arises on the interpreta. tion or application of the Convene tion which cannot be settled di. rectly or by some other method of friendly settlement it shall be submitted, at the request of one of the parties, to a decision of the Permanent Court at The Hague or Another tion shall not affect the provisions of previous treaties in which cer. tain of the contracting parties have agreed to limit their land, air and sea armaments. This was the subject of & reservation by the German delegation which de- scribed it as equivalent to a re- newal of the signature of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. Other delegations {n- sisted upon the article as the basis of any limitation and it was also pointed out that it covered the provisions of the Washington and London Treaties, The German delegation made a general reserva. tion with regard to the convention as a whole on the grounds that it excluded essential elements, Railroaders' Ball Lindsay = With the attendance amounting to something over 400 per- sons, the Annual "At Home" of the Canadian National Railway's em- ployees, held in the beautifully de- corated Armouries was, as usual, a highly successful affair. The Rails roaders' Ball, as it is more widely known, and one that has been held for many years, is, and always has been, one of the most popular of the formal dances each season, A a ANI