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FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1931 he Oshawa Daily Times THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) ind ished every after: ependent newspaper publ hol diva her. 3 imes Company . M. Hy President. ctor. ber of The Cana- Newspapers Asso- 'Dailies and the Daily Times is a n Press, the the Provi au of lations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES d by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. a week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier 'delivery limits) $3.00 a year. United States $4.00 a year. ¢ "TORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone Adelaide 0107, Ti. D. Tresidder, representative. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931 NO. 100,000 On the front page of Wednesday night's sue of The Times there appeared the photo- graph of Chevrolet Six Engine No. 100,000, roduced at the General Motors plant at . Walkerville. Along with it there appeared a photograph of the body room of the plant 'at Oshawa, showing the close relationship 'between the 100,000 engines produced at 'Walkerville, and the bodies into which these engines were fitted, produced in Oshawa. It is quite a record that in the last two years of production the General Motors of Er , Limited, has produced that number of Chevrolet cars into which the engines were fitted. That has meant employment for a large number of men. It has meant the spending of a good deal of money in wages and materials. That, however, is of the past. Of more * interest to Oshawa, and to the working men of Oshawa, is not the first 100,000, but the gecond 100,000. On the time in which it is possible to reach that goal will depend the amount of employment which will be avail- "able for the workers of Oshawa. So Oshawa _ folks can be sincere in hoping that the sec- ~ ond 100,000 is reached in record time. No . matter what present prospects may be, there can be no disguising the fact that it would be a fine thing for this community were No. 200,000 to be reached in.the not too distant * future, not alone because of what it would mean to the General Motors Company, but rather because of what it would mean to the working men of the city. MAY HELP CANADA The fact that the United Stdtes has vir- ually 'placed 4 ban on pulp/wood entering ~ that country from Wavie be a great help to the €anadian pulpwood in- dustry. = Last fall, it seemed as if imports into the United States from Russia would rob Canada of part of its greatest market for this product, and in a way which constituted unfair competition. : : : The point in the United States ban is worth noting. Russian pulpwood is being kept out because the United States has rea- son to believe that is produced and shipped by convict labor, which ne country with de- cent standards of living can compete. If this same standard were applied to all pro- ducts sent out of Russia, and the same ati- tude to be adopted towards them it might be "possible to meet the Russian menace, for it is a menace to the prosperity of the whole world when Russia undersells every other country because of low living standards, and floods the markets of the world with goods 'produced by forced and convict labor for which no adequate return is given. In the final analysis, of course, it rests with the nations of the world to defeat Rus- sia's plan of ruining commerce and industry . everywhere. Russian industry is attempting La reorganizzation, with the aid of American and British engineers, and by putting her products in the market at far less than a fair competitive price. Let the nations of the world refuse to buy from Russia, and let the British and American engineers be with- drawn from Russia, and the whole fantastic scheme would collapse. Perhaps that is ask- ing too much, but nevertheless, it provides the sure remedy, and the time may come when, for self-protection, the other nations will be forced to adopt some such scheme. S TOO MUCH MILE--YET PEOPLE WANT IT the big cities comes the informa- thor tos milk igh plentiful this winter that com is unusually keen in getting rid of it. Commenting on this fact the Picker- News of last Weck bas this to soy A ~ "Dairymen throug e country ui » 8 problem on their hands to get rid of milk supply. The widespread business on is forcing people to economize in yssible way. As a result they are t using so much milk as they usually do nd in consequence the city dairies are com- tled to cut down their supplies. In Toron- / the milk dealers have been compelled £0 ask the farmers to hold back the milk one, "two or three days a week. To utilize this surplus is a difficult question for the farmers to deal with. In some cases the cheese fac- 4 have come to their aid and are manu- ion in it into cheese, for which there is There are various sugges- tions to deal with the difficulty, one is to reduce the price of milk and thus create ket. Another suggestion is to a wiler mah poorest cows and fatten them Russia should ' for the market. It is also suggested that the government and organizations advertise the great food value of milk. Instead of it being one of the first commoditids to be dropped from the lists of food it should be the last. So many look upon milk as a drink only and not as a food. Thousands in the cities, especi- fally children, are suffering from the lack of milk, when there is such a great surplus in the country, a sad condition to exist. EDITORIAL NOTES Oshawa's new knitting industry may not be a large concern, but we can heartily wish it success and growth. If the gas plant question comes up at the city council meeting on Monday, it will pro- vide ample ammunition for a blow-up. Spring is going to be very dry, says the Owen Sound Sage. This gives us some hope that the summer crop of mosquitoes will be a failure, The Conservatives are pleased with the by-election results; the Liberals are delight- ed, so all's well that ends well. Just the same, we would like to know the real opinions of the party leaders. The Peterborough Examiner objects to having the city's name spelt Peterboro, yet it has no hesitation about publishing a big headline spelling the new governor-general's name as Bessboro. Does Hepburn believe in Price cutting 7-- Kitchener Record. Money goes further than it did, experts claim. It also stays away longer.--Illinois Star-Register. It's getting so that a girl thinks she's modest if part of her skirt touches her ankles.--Brandon Sun. The young lady should remember that . the fellow who drives up in front of her home and honks for her to come out will honk for everything else in life after he's married. -- Kitchener Record. Washington voted $30,000,000 to moder- nize battleships and $45,000,000 to help its starving farmers. The naval guns we sup- pose can be used to shoot the wolf that sits on the farmer's doorstep.--Stratford Bea- con-Herald. |Other Editors' Comment | BRITISH IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA (Ottawa Journal) s Just for the present this country needs immigrants about as much as it needs more wheat, and it may .be a long time before there will be wisdom in our resorting to the kind of talk used on immigration platforms and in immigration pamphlets throughout the British Isles in the years past. A little less of that sort of thing in days gone by might have landed fewer immigrants at our ports, but might have meant just as many, perhaps more, on our lai®; and it would have saved us a lot of bad advertising from the disillusioned and misled. . SLAYING THE PHILISTINES (Border Cities Star) Luncheon speaker declares that the man who would be a business success nowadays must have backbone and wishbone. How, then, do so many of 'em get ahead with nothing but a jawbone? TIMES HAVE CHANGED (St. Mary's Journal-Argus) A farmer complained to us the other day that it took him over half an hour to drive to town with a cutter, now that the sideroads are not open for motor traffic. That man's grandfather originally came into this district on foot through the bush from Wood- stock and was a proud man when he had his first team of oxen. The world do move! BITS OF VERSE GIVE THANKS, Just home and love! the words are small, Four little letters in each; : And yet you will not find in all The wide and gracious range of speech Two more so tenderly complete: When angels talk in heaven above, I'm sure they have no words more sweet Than Home and Love. Just home and love! "Tis hard to guess Which of the two were best to gain; Home without love is bitterness; Love without home is often pain, No! each alone will seldom do; Somehow they travel hand in glove: If you win you must have two, Both Home and Love. And if you have both, well, then I'm sure 'You ought to sing the whole day long; It doesn't matter if you're poor With these to make divine your song. d so I praisefully repeat, When angels talk in heaven above, There are no words more simply sweet, Home and Love, . ~--Robert Service, ~Contributed by Marcella, BITS OF HUMOR | Fond Mothér: "What do you think baby will be when he grows up?" : Exasperated Father (fed up): "I don't know. Town crier, most likely." "Julia has invited me to her golden wedding." "Her golden wedding?" "Yes, she is marrying a millionaire." "Where's Atoms?" asked my small son, "Do you mean Athens?" "No, Daddy--Atoms, the place where people get blown to." ( | Mit is impossible to keep a 'slender figure indefin- itely," There is a destiny that ends our shapes. | ! § t0 WAITE THAT ADVERTISING IS THE ONE BIG BUSINESS GETTER. ADVERTISE! Advertisng brings in the customers. It takes quality, Paice and service to sell them. ADVERTISE! You should be a self-starter. Don't wait for r business to start you; start NOW--ADVERTISE! A demand for your merchandise is what want. ADVERTISING CREATES A DEMAND. ADVER. Even though you ma public is not. ADVE be asleep, the RTISE| They are always awake to the oppor- tunities offered them through the printed page. ADVERTISE! They read the advertising columns just the same ss they do the news columns. ADVERTISE! They have made tie advertising col- umns their market lace and they ex- ect to find the ads, of the up-to-date i Bh men there. ADVERTISE! They patronize first the business concerns that ADVERTISE Advertising attracts sttention to your business. ADVERTISE! As advertising is an opportunity to get more buisness, why not ADVER- TISE? vertising and If you are already more AD- want more business, VERTISING. | THE BEST WAY. TO COMBAT POOR BUSINESS IS TO ADVER- by €. H. Tuck, Opt. D (Copyright, 1928) Stereoscopic Vision Part Three If the habit was slow in its crea- tion it may be slow to change but it has been found that there is a quick and willing recognition to the correct appearance of things and it is upon the creation of this mental de- sire that success depends because without the proper development step by step certain work is entirely lost There are strain eyes that see no- thing and yet the eye in many re: spects is normal and considered part by part there is no reason why an image is not formed on the retina because actual images can be created and seen there by he observer yet the eye sees nothing, The brain is not seeing because it has not receiv. ed a proper message, If the message received is badly distorted so much so that it does not correspond with those received from other sources which are proven to be more morrect and also does not correspond with out past experi- ences we should expect the message to be suppressed. When this sup- pression becomes habitual it is not only useless but a disadvantage as waste of energy and as the function is dispensed with the eye slowly loses its power of seeing and by slow de- grees deviates from its primary posi- tion. By this means we lose the sense of position and depth two prime fac- tors. in binocular or stereoscopic vis- ion with the true perspective of nor- mal vision, To be continued. WHY ALEXANDRIA SOLD GAS PLANT (Continued from page 1) they were needed and making nec- essary improvements at the works. Cheaper To Sell The Plant It was a robust figure, that totas It was meant to wrestle with af equally robust job. It went before the Council with Lawrence's recom- mendation that the outlay either be approved or bids for the plant be fovited. On the City Council are two bank officers, a railway freight agent, a retired manufacturer and a dealer in coal and supplies. These busi- ness men decided to call in all the evidence. With perhaps a touch of the same canny shrewdness exer- clsed by some of Alexandria's white-wigged forefathers when en- gaged in a horse trade they passed an. ordinance agreeing to receive offers but reserving the right to re- them. Among the several bids forth- coming was that of the Seaboard Investment Trust. Without dissent, the councilmen vote, "Aye." It SOURCE OF TRUE HELP--M help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.~Psalm 121: PRAYER -- Help us, Father, to look upto Thee, the Maker of heaven and earth, for help in every circum- stance of life. "America's villages seem to. be fad- ing out. They are following into ob- livion the high-wheeled buggy, the little red schoolhouse and the quaint custom of bobbing for apples." This is the opinion of John Carlyle, as re- corded in the January issue of "Na- tion's Business," the official organ of the Chamber of Commerce of the United tSates. Mr, Carlyle, quoting from the cen- sus figures of the republic, says that towns under 1,500 are decreasing in population, while somewhat larger towns are increasing. This seems tq be a general trend, but is by no means infallible. "The agricultural population is diminishing in numbers, but growing in per capita dollars and appetites. This seems to be all to the good. But what is the reason for the shrinkage in small towns? "One reason seems to be the gener- al storekeeper." How It Works Mr. Carlyle thereupon quotes a story. told him by a Department of Commerce Investigator. One of the chain stores had been featuring a sock tor 29 cents a pair. It would never wear out, it was claimed. The men operating the village stores cried bitterly against it, declaring they could never compete against prices like that. A wholesaler determined to help these storekeepers, and of- fered an equally good sock. "Sell it at a quarter," he said to his village merchant clients. "You'll not make much money, but you will drive that 29-cent sock off the field. Advertise it. That's the most superb bargain ever woven." Every last village storekeeper put that sock on sale for from half a dol: larta 75 cents. "It's the first chance we've had to make a little gravy," they said. "Of course," Mr. Carlyle procecds, "the 29-cent sock went on getting the business and the hamlet storekeepers and the hamlets losts." Another Illustration Another illustration is given of a merchant who had always operated a good general store, that had brought trade to the town. Farmers came to buy from him, because they knew he would have what they want- ed, and generally patronized some place else in the hamlet betore they left. But when styles changed, and | Store Keepers Play Big Par In Building Communties, Js Opinion of John Carlyl girls demanded knee-length dresses and $flk stockings, the storekeeper revolted, and declared "I won't sell them, They gotta go somewhere else for those contraptions." They did go elsewhere . And the little town felt their going tremend- ously, Staying in Mud Mr. Carlyle continues: "I am honest in my convictions that incalculable harm has been done the hamlets by merchants who have not gotten out of the mud. When the villagers and those who live nearby begin to drive 20 miles to shop, the hamlet is ruined: "But the right sort of a storekeep- er can keep a village propped on its tottering legs. He can even make it sound again, "Farmer folk do not want to drive into the city for every little purchase. A store Huinped with the conven- iences will hold their trade except for the luxury lines. And the good roavs take city people into the country for part of their shopping. They like to ride if the fresh air and buy vege- tables and eggs at the farm stands. The little stroes can--if their keepers know how to do it,--work up a nice business in ice creams and soft drinks and the lesser marketing." Facts Quoted Certain fact are quoted in the arti- cle to quote this contention. The University of Illinois found that a majority of the small-town storekeep- ers who are offering their custeniers what they want are holding or in- creasing their trade. A survey made for the Retailers' National Courigil notes that the stores of certain towys have been losing business to othdr towns because they did not give ser vice. 'They were dark and poorly arranged. Storekeeper to Blame "This survey stresses the fact that the towns were losing ground because of the faults of the storekeepers. Opinion seems to be fairly general that appeals to local patriotism: stir up no red corpuscles in the buyers' veins, He does not care particularly whether this town or that grows or diminishes. He would not stir a hand to help either process. What he wants to know is how much money he can get for his eggs." was the logical thing to do. We 'ould not make returns equal to 'he interest from proceeds of the sale, plus taxes, plus the saving to citizens because of the lower rate, We sold the works mains and 30-year contract for $750,000 casn. With the pant in private hands, the rate dropped from $145. net per thousand cubis feet down to $1.15. The heating value jumped from 650 British Thermal Units to 600. The terms of the franchise give the quality of gas and the construction of mains, It fis provided that, should the company fall below the prescribed N.T.U., the price to con- sumers will automatically come down at the rate of ome cent per thousand for every 10 B.T.U. re- duction. 60 days from the date of the swap October. 1, 1930 service was to be extended to the lately annexed territory. That's what I am in- clined to call brandishing a& gen- tlemanly big stick. Those were the terms of the sale, The "considerations" involved po much further, however, than this simple arithmetic which in itselt was pretty convincing to us and more than justified the transfer. In the first place, city financing was greatly simplified. The money received from the sale was placed in the custody of five leading busi- ness men as trustees, each serving without compensation and under bend. Seven-elghths of the amount, $656,250, was applied to the retire- ment of bonds. One-eighth, $93,750 was set up as a revolving fund to handle current city expenses at {mes when tax money isn't coming n. Fund Will Save Borrowing , In Alexandria we collect taxes twice a year. The spring revenues include license fees and halt of all real estate taxes except those of cor- porations. The fall collections in- clude the balance due from real estate, all personal property levies and the taxes .from the larger cor- porations. The spring revenues, be- tween 35 and 40 per cent of the year's total, are the sole dependence of the city government for nine ana one-half months. Heretofore, we have borrowed on a short-term basis to tide the city over from one tax period to another. Hencefortn, the new revolving fund will just about cover the need. Another reason our bargain pleases us is that it aligns Alexan. dria with the same aggressive peo- ple who are making merchandising and industrial history just six miles up the Potomac in Washington, It was the president of the Wash- ington Gas Light Company, George A. G. Wood, who put in the bid for Seaboard, Mr. Wood wasn't buy- ing a gas plant so much as he was buying a franchise and a future, His experience in Washington led him to expect ome meter to every five individuals. The Capital City, with half a million population had 111,000 meters. Alexandria, on the other hand showed but 2,700 gas meters to her 25,000 souls. That tossed up to Mr. Wood's ap- praising glance an immediate po tentiality of 2,300 gdditional met- ers, or almost 100 per cent more, But the Seaboard representative saw more than that. He saw deep water a fine rall center already boasting four important lines. He saw a fine character of civic lead- ership. The fundamentals for in- dustrial expansion were there. Alex- andria should grow, he contended, into a city of a quarter of a mil- on. So, walving the matter of plant value, hardly concerned as to whether Seaboard got its immedi- ate money's worth or not, Mr, Wood set forth to prove that the vantage and that, as a purely com- mercial project, an Alexandria gas system could make good. Without delay he sent crews to survey gas needs and determine the placing of mains. At once he open- ed a sales office with a local mana- ger, and put a group of salesmen in the field to educate householders to the advantages of gas. It is natural to suppose that our gag distribution system didn't quite purchase was mot of one-sided ad- Ireep up with the march of progress. city definite power to regulate the | o.toiniy it proved itself inadequ- | | be interested in seeing how home ate to take care of all the demands of the modern household. I shall owners, as well as Industries, re- _|#pond to strong, steady pressure, an ample supply of gas, and higher heating efficiency. 'Striking evidence that Alexan- It was also provided that, within ,ia'g physical equipment wag ob- solete is seen in the necessity Sea board found of sending gas from some other center, in this case Washington, while completing plans for renewing and replacing defec- tive parts. It was cheaper to bring gas in than to make it on the spot. 'Good Gas--And Cheap Tying up to an interconnected system is just one more guarantee of industrial expan Alexau- dria now has at its disposal metro- politan standards of service--good gas at reasonable cost, plenty of {it when and where it is needed, with- out interruption. The prevailing idea--or at least the pelicy of the people who now own the Alexandria franchise--is to take the commodity, gas, wherever it will sell in sufficient volume to vield current bank rates of interest on the capital investment. There seems to be no attempt to get back the principal, the objective being a conservative return on the capital invested by the stockhold- ers. The conscious effort is to win prospects, to make gas so attrac- tive that old customers will {n- crease their use of the fuel and others be educated to its virtues. In this way the company's gas mains are lengthened, capacities en- larged more and more and addition. al money safely put to constructive work. All Set For Growth Alexandria's is a strategic loca- tion. With Washington so generous- ly siplling over, this is the logical city to catch the overflow. Besides having the basic elements for growth and progress, we now have removed the last important barrier|' to development. I think that the lowering of bar- riers has been on an even wider front than would appear to casual eves. To derive the largest good from any utility, whether munies pal or private, the citizens must co- operate. In Alexandria we are more than simply "willing to be shown." 1 think that our gas plant trans- action has served, in conjunction with other happenings, to awaken the people of our city to some of the opportunities they are facing. It has had the effect of gently turn- ing them from contemplation of a revered past to anticipation of a future which promises to make his- tory. ' We're not in & mood merely to give the Alexandria Gas Company a chance. We have greeted it as a new and leading citizen and tax- payer, bid it welcome, and pledsg- ed it our good will and support. We want it to grow, even as we expect to grow with fit. Three things the public has 2a right to expect in gas--reasonable cost, dependability, and availabil- ity. Never again would Alexan- dria be satisfied with less. Under no conditions would she consent to give up her latest ambitions. These ambitions are not at all preposterous. The way to their at- tainment is by the same trails of in- dustrial expansion blazed in other communities. £24 SAFETY BER | DEPOSIT BOXES oe liek ar For the safekeeping of Bonds, important papers, and articles of value, the Bank of Montreal, offers the use, at a nominal rental, of Safety Deposit Boxes in specially equipped vaults at its OSHAWA BRANCH R. S. MORPHY, Manager baa] £1] [EEA ch i {0 BANK OF MONTREAL Oven in Washington for instance, we have been witnessing, since the Seaboard Investment Trust took charge there, a thrilling sales cam- paign in gas appliances. Utilities all over the land have watched and applauded as one astonishing rec- ord after another has been hung up by the gas industry in the nation's capital. fA One month shows a 100 per cen® increase over the corresponding month of the preceding year. The next month the gain amounts to 160 per cent. What will that sort of thing mean to Alexandria, I wonder, where there is less of a start and more, proportionately, op- portunity for accomplishment? A Chance For More Selling Vigorous exploitation of gas Is contingent upon having plenty of it to sell. Until October 1, 1930, Alexandria could hardly have af- forded to embarrass herself by ov- erzealous efforts. Such artificial restraint has, happily, been liftea a result of the sale, which con- nkcted ug with other gas plants, the nearest two of them in Wash- ington and Georgetown. Alexandria's power plant was rated at 2&0 horsepower, as con- trasted to the 4,405 horsepsawer of the Washington plant. Capacity is Increased The Alexandria city gas holder capacity was placed at 225,000 cu- bic feet; that of Seaboard's Wash- ington unit, 10,300,000 cuble feet. And so on. An old time sports ad- age has it that "A good big man is better than a good little.man." And when the little man is not so zood as he might be---well, what then? I cannot see why private operu- tion should be any better for a large eity than for a small one. Alexandria is entitled to the best, and 1 believe she's got the hest. Nor do I fear size. I am one of those simple-minded who believe that growth is a result of honesty and vision, as a gencral rule, rather than of mere sharpness. Size in industry is in itself a safe- And there is the comfort of knowing that the people themselves are always bigger than their own creations. I welcome the compet- ency that large-scale success indi- cates. Business never fs without the check-rein of competition, When. ever any concarn cockily presumes to overstep Itself in the thought that it has at last hecome a monop- oly, other concerns may he depend ed upon to quit thelr patronage. Regulation is Effective When "Big Business"---go-called --gnters a community it subjects itself, as in Alexandria, to local reg- ulation which, after all, is more ef- fective and a great deal more sat- guard and assurance to the publ. | isfactory than any less-intimate kind. It is my opinion that business and town government may be de pended upon to get along withou! friction so long as they meet each other in mutual fairness--as busi ness and town. government can dc today. | WINNIPEG MAYOR'S LIFE THREATENED a ~ (Canadian Press Despatch) Winnipeg, Feb, 13.--Lieut.-Col. Ralph Webb, mayor of Winnipeg, who on many occasions has de- nounced Communist activities in the Dominion, has been threatened with death. Speaking at a meet- ing yesterday, Col. Webb said 2 letter declared he would "be shot | to death." He did not disclose its J rent or signature and characteriz- ed it as '"'just another cowardly bluff." He has received similar threats before. Here and There (701) The Nova Scotia fish catch for December last was 12,161,600 1bs., having a landed value of $266,111, as compared with a catch of 10,480,- 700 Ibs. with a value of $329,552, for the corresponding month of the | previous year. Total amount of capital invested in Canada from other countries as at the end of 1930 was $6,375,533, 000, an increase of $229,000,000 as compared with the total at the end | of 1929. Of this outside investment, | 61 per cent. is said to be from the United States; 36 per cent. British; Americans | and 4 per cent, from other coun- | tries. The yield of potatoes in Canada in 193% Totalled 81,933,333 bushels, from 574,600 acres, an average yield of about 142 bushels per acre. In | 1929 the yield was 66,550,000 bush- els from 543,727 acres, or an aver- | age yield of 122 bushels per acre. | Potatoes are grown succesefully in | commercial ' quantities in every | province of the Dominion. | The Canadian Pacific "Railway has announced placing of orders with the Algoma Steel Company of Sault Ste Marie for 30,000 tons of 130 1bs steel rail for spring deliv- ery, representing a value of approx- imately $1,500,000. This unusually - heavy rail will be laid en 150 miles of the company's main line in the Mountain Division of British Col- umbia. 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