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t passing through for instance, GE FOUR ° 'THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931 ' Oshawa Daily Times HE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER : {Established 1871) independent newspaper published wa, Ca Sond 3 ro bh hing Company. imes 8! ) f Osh A Chas, M. Mundy, President. . R, Alloway, Managing Director. ; Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana- an Canadian Daily Newspapers Asso- Br rg Bin i A) Dailies and the it Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES red by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. a k. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier very limits) $300 a year. United States $4.00 a TORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone delaide 0107. fo D. Tresidder, representative. FRIDAY, APRIL 24th, 1981 RAILWAY DUPLICATION e suggestion made by Hon. Dr. Robert mion, Minister of Railways, in the house Commons, that the two great railway sys- ms of Canada come to some agreement looking towards the curtailment of the los- "ges being sustained by the systems through duplication of train services, is one that will neal to the students of railway economics. systems are struggling with the prob- of reducing expenditures owing to lower ues, and one of the chief means of re- tion in expenditures is a cancellation of e of the train services. "Tt has always appeared rather needless, for the competing lines to have between Montreal and Toronto various points along the routes within a few minutes of each other. has been very convenient for the travel- their trains "Jer who, finding that he has missed a train _ at one station, could call a cab and rush post- haste to the other one and catch a train go- | "ing to the same point. But, while there was "a surfeit of trains at one time, there were a iods of the day when it was impos- \ sible to get a train on either line. The sched- 'ules of the two railways at Oshawa show that there are periods of as high as eight hours when it is impossible to get a train on either line, this occurring both the eastbound and westbound schedules. Of course, neither railway wants to give ' up the advantages of having trains running certain hours. But the public would be much better served by even a fewer num- ber of trains, if the railways co-operated and arranged their schedules so that the trains ing in each direction were alternated on oy line. : 'The railways, however, have been devot- ing their attention more largely to a very drastic reduction of services on branch lines. This has resulted in a storm of protest across the country, for a very real inconven- jence has been imposed on residents of the districts affected, in many cases. After all, the railways are public services, and they "have an obligatien to the public as well as to the shareholders, even though these 'shareholders are the people in one of the two cases. New developments in transpors tation have made: it possible to handle the lighter traffic of many of the branch lines at a very considerable saving over the steam " train method, and every effort should be " made to give a reasonable transportation "service to these lines, even though they are " small and unimportant units in the great ay systems, CAUSING ALARM IN UNITED STATES Considerable significance is attached to the adverse effect that the Hawley-Smoot tariff is having in the United States. Nine months after the passage of the measure it has become quite evident that the increase of duties on approximately 890 articles is "back-firing" on Uncle Sam. The Carnegie Foundation, having made an independent study of the matter, recently "declared that 45 nations have increased tar- iffs following the example of the United s and that American exports have dropped more than $1,000,000,000 since last July with a similar cut in imports. Increases in Latin-American countries have been par- ticularly marked since sixteen Central and th American countries have altered: du- ties, presumably as a retaliatory gesture. .« What the United States is experiencing d be a guide for other countries wishing retain their status on foreign markets.-- ener Record. TRADE WITH CHINA HOLDS "When this dominion is facing a shrinkage jts export volume to most countries, it 'encouraging to read the statement of the adian trade commissioner to Shanghai, mtly returned to his native land, that de with China is holding up well, and that orts of all Canadian products sent to are maintaining a fairly steady vol- Those who have studied the Chinese sit- uation have repeatedly urged that Canada say more attention to the possibilities of e with this great nation. There is a at market for wheat, for, despite the pop- r belief, rice is available in only certain " gsectfons of the country and the people of the of China are rapidly turning to wheat their daily bread. Manufactured goods om Canadian plants are also found: to be" true that the fall in the price of sil- affected China, its silver stan. money, to aco! i ---- every afters . holidays at Osb- | 2 extent. But | the Nationalist government is making val- iant efforts to overcome this difficulty, and it is now reported that the gold standard may be adopted, thus placing Chinese cur- rency on a simlar level to that of the major countries of the world. The Government is also said to be planning to greatly reduce its expenditures for military operations as soon as the unrest has sufficiently died down, and in this way make provision for debt reduc- mn. The relationship between Canada and China seems to be a very friendly one, and it would seem that the trade possibilities would bear closer investigation by Canadian companies. ® EDITORIAL NOTES Britain will not consult the dominions re- garding the proposed wheat quota scheme, because the dominions are admittedly con- sidering their own interests first. Thus self- ishness spreads. The United States needs a few more de- cisions like that of the U. S. Supreme Court, which decreed that there must be no color lines drawn in trying murder cases. False alarms cost the city money. It would be rather a drastic measure to remove the "fire alarm box where most of the fires origin- ate, but it might be an economical move un- less parents of the section educate their children to leave it alone. A spendthrift is usually regarded as a persen who never has a cent--or a care. General. Motors initial broadcast set a good example by the very small amount of advertising material that was mixed up with the program. The "Forward Canada" movement is not for the select few, but is a movement in which all the people of Canada should march forward in step with each other, And now, for the first time, the aeroplane becomes a tool of the census taker. It will make possible the first complete counting of the . Eskimos. Russian papers are gloating over large ad- ditional credits granted the Soviet by Germ- any. Thus do the nations feed the wolf that intends to turn on them later. Wonder if the dancing instructor that re- commends the dance as a divorce preventa- tive, ever pranced up and down the floor with a howling infant at two am.? Other Editors' Comment BRITAIN LEADS (Montreal Star) Even in the darkest days, the state of a nation's key industries affords a very accurate index of its real prosperity or otherwise. Shipbuilding is one of Britain's key industries, Despite the falling-off in de- mand for bottoms from foreign ports and in the face of acute business depression, British shipbuilders have more than held their own. They still lead the world, as they have done for many years past, with the ex- ception of the period of the Great War, Of course there has been a 'general decrease in the number of new ships; but of the total of 359 ocean- going vessels of 2,000 tons or more launched during 1930, Britain constructed 139, while Norway took second place' with 71, and the United States was third with only 15. This gives Britain a total gross tonnage of merchant ships in commission of over 18,000,000 tons, while the United States has less than half that amount as second on the list. These figures ought to tend still further to hearten those who have been fearing that the Old Coun- try was failing to keep her place. The recent figures of exports, which show that manufac- turers are enjoying a steady growth are among the most encouraging signs of the present troubled times. With her merchant fleet still easily in the van, Britain has no need to fear, if the indications of returning prosperity do not fail to mature. BITS OF VERSE MAKING A FIRE Scatter a few cold cinders into the grate; On these lay paper puffed into airy ballool Then kindling wood, parched by the suns of drowsy and sweet; Then coal. A flare: a flame, and a fire: will be burning soon-- Yammer y Antler-tongued and impetuous. But unless you pay ced, It will fall, fade, and grow heatless and ash away out. So is it with anger in heart and in brain; the insen- sate seed ! Of fiery enkindling leaps into horror and rout; But remaining untended, it dies, and the soul! within Is refreshed by the dews of sweet amity, compas- sion's cool rain, Not 95 with the flames Hell has kindled for unasseil- ed sin, As soon as God's mercy would quench them, Love, weeping, lights them again. alter De La Mare, in the New Statesman and ation, 3 BITS OF HUMOR , Two convicts were talking. 4 "You know," said one, "it took John Bunyan all his lite to write a song." "Garn!". was the reply. to do a sentence." A SWEET TIP Porter: I carsied his bag up three flights of stairs, aod at the top, he slipped something sipped. someth) to my hand y ea. Bootblack: And what was it, a dime?" Porter: No, It was a lump of sugar~Answers. ---- : .. POOR THING NOW Wife (with new fur coat): You know, Oswald really can't help feeling sorry for the poor thi "i bby ( on, t ubby (looking at empty pocketbook): ciate your sympathy dear Anwers, ) "It took me ten years A. pretty maid, a crowded car, . Please take my seat'--and there you A crowded. cat, a woman pai "stands 1 = and thers you are aghiad to €D, .\WAITE EDITOR OF (CALIF,) H. G. MOODY, THE REDDING SEARCHLIGHT, BAYS: THAT business men and citizens generally should. not fail to real- ize that newspapers are in the public service; that they are mot parasites living for their own prof- its and that the community needs for a newspaper are such that, should there be no newspapers as a private enterprise, then the pub- lic must for its own good tax itself to provide them. Too often we find business men regarding their .home newspaper paronizingly as an institution that lives off their largess; something that they are privileged to forget if the times are dull and may re- call to mind in those richer days when profits are large. The newspaper is a function, a concordant, reciprocating service in the community it lives in, an integral factor in everything it helps to motivate, hence is as worthy of its hire as the judge in his docket, the sheriff or the tax collector. In fact, as an institu- tion, the newspaper is far more embracing than any or all; it fis the completed expression of the daily round of life, without which we would have to return to the chaos of disorganized society, Such facts are recognized by advanced persons but sometimes ignored by the ignorant or the in- different. .They aim to keep the newspaper 'in its place" by with. holding a just tribute. They have their own inferiority .complex to deal with and their only object Is a kind of self satisfaction that comes from retarding the wheels of progress. These opponents of printed en- lightenment usually demonstrate that they need the inoculation of the very spirit that makes a news- paper. While they are keeping the newspaper in fits place they are keeping themselves there alsa. Their backwardness will be in- dicated by their tenacious cling- ing to outworn practices, outmod- ed establishments, slow concep- tions of competitive requirements. LET THE COMMUNITY THAT WISHES TO STEP AHEAD MAKE ITS NEWPAPERS THE STAUNCHLY SUPPORTED BAN- NER CARRIERS OF ITS FOR- 'WARD MOVEMENT, THE NEWS- PAPER - GLADLY UNDERTAKES THE CHALLENGE TO LEADER- SHIP AND INVARIABLY WILL PUSH ONWARD AGAINST EVERY OBSTACLE. THE ONLY TIME THE NEWSPAPER WEAKENS IS WHEN THOSE IT SERVES ARE WEAK. Eye Care and Eve Strain by C. H. Tuek, Ope. D. (Copyright, 1928) Life a thief in the dark our rest is gone because we worried. We have acquired the habit but even babits can be broken. After a nums- ber of years of this habit we will find it a very great effort to replace that which was taken from us be- cause worry is a thief who is hard to catch. "Many diseases of the nervous system are really due to worry." The very flapping of a window shade and panic seized her--panic as if real burglars were at hand. "What can be the matter with my nerves?" She knew of no intruders yet continuous thievery of her most prized possessions had been going on for months. Thievery is some- times easy to detect. But it was her shock of nerve energy which dwind. led week by week. "Such thievery is always hard to detect." There is one sure way to prevent your eyes from stealing sway your health. One sure way and only one. ECONOMY CAMPAIGN OF ONE FAMILY FOR PROCEEDS IN KENYA Nairobi, Kenya, April 23.--Fac- 6d with the prospect of a reduction of revenue of at least $690,000, the government of Kenya is overhauling departmental expenditure with the object of reducing it by $750,000. The task, which was begun by the acting Governor, has now been tak- en over by Sir Joseph Byrne, the new Governor, in consultation with ti departmental heads. The rail- ways and harbors are also $2,160,- 000 below the revenue expected last year, and an economy campaign is proceeding in these services. The general manager announces a cyr- tailment of the train and lake trenchments representing a reduc- tion of $1,150,000 in current ex- penditure. 1. CORNY D'S WONDERFUL WORKS: y, O Lord my God, are the ul "works which thou hast 78 | would declare and speak they are more than can hy pra than can be steamer services and staff, the re-1 CRITICS PLEASED AT REVIVAL OF PLAY 'SAINT JOAN' Sybil Thorndike's Portrayal 'of Joan of Arc a Compell ing Performance London, April 24--*"As fresh, as compelling as on the night the play was first produced," says The Times' theatre critic with regard to Miss Sybil Thordike's portrayal of the role of Joan of Arc in George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," recently revi. ved at His Majesty's Theatre here. "Miss Thorndike"s performance. whether or not as many-sided as the part requires, is at any rate one which we can see for the fourth time within a few years and yet wish to see it again," he continues. "It is certainly as many-sided as the actress's own very strong per- sonality permits. This personality emphasizes what is most human, amusing, and touching in the Maid; brings out the tragedy of a peasant girl betrayed by the forces that have made her their instrument; but sometimes seems to get in the way of that conflict between religi- ous inspiration and the authority, of tradition which in this play is of greater importance than any of the personalities engaged in it. "That the part allows a wide lati. tude of interpretation is evident from the performance of Mme. Lud- milla Pitoeff in the French version of St. Jean. Mme Pitoeff lays the lightest possible stress on the home- ly traits of the Maid. She keeps her whole performance 'low," as the painters say, sacrificing the exciting effects which Miss Thorndike achieves by the way, so that its to- tal impression may be in harmony with M. Pitoeff's very individual rendering of the piece as the story of a saint. But Miss Thorndike's way still seems more satisfying, cer. tainly more Shavian, than Mme. Pitoeff"s. Her vigor, her assurance, and the alertness of her intelli- gence impose themselves. Only once in the trial scene, when she is re- plying to her judges, does she seem obviously at variance with Mr. Shaw, for here he has written dialo- gue that implies a spiritual quality which Miss Thorndike does little to bring out. "Almost without exception, the newcomers to the cast fit into the old framework admirably. George Curzon's Earl of Warwick is more self-conscious and less self-reliant than Lyall Swete's earlier version, but the character remains one of the most striking in the piece. The fanatical Bishop of Beauvais re- ceives justice at the hands of Lewin Mannering, and Robert Donal is an excellent Dunois." SOUTH AFRICA HOPES FOR GOOD ORANGE SEASON Empire Fruit Supplants Cali- fornia Crop in England Cape Town, South Africa, April 23 --Writing in the Commercial and In- dustrial Gazette on the growing trade in Great Britain of South African oranges, J. H. Dimond, Trade Com- missioner in London, for the Union of South Africa, says: "The 1930 citrus season has worked out very fortunately for South Afri- can growers, although some appear not to think so. The wave of Cali- fornia competition which surged from 169,820 cases in 1928 to 1,303,367 cases in 1929, receded to 49,900 cases dur- ing the present season. This remov- ed the most potent and effective com- petitor at an extremely opportune time. 'During a period when commo- dity prices were falling cataclysmical- v and in the midst of the most pro- ound depression, South African or- anges made prices which returned a good payable yield to the grower. "Apart from the absence of com- petition, the market benefited from the 1928 season, when the consump- CANADIAN PACIFIC 4. CANADAS '~» GREATEST __~ STEAMSHIP are EMPRESS EMPRESS of BRITAIN [TER BN LVN 42,000 TONS PARC RV FROM MONTREAL To Liverpool Apr. 30 ......Duchess of Atholl May 9 . Duchess of Bedford May 15 .. Duchess of York «ess. To Beltast-Glasgow APF. 30 si ecee.ersne.s. Melita May 9 ......Duchess of Bedford Minnedosa + «Duchess of York To Havre-London-Antwerp May 7 ..oeee-veeesess Montcalm May 21 .cee.ueqsseseo Montrose To Havre-London-Hamburg May 74 seee:%.000.00.Montelare June 4 ....Montcalm FROM QUEBEC To Cherbourg and Southampton Apr. 28 .......Emress of France May 23 ......Empress of France May 30 ....Empress of Australia FROM NEW YORK To Bermuda Duchess of York Every Saturday PACIFIC SAILINGS To Honolulu-Japan-China- Philippines *May 9 ........Empress of Asia May 23 .....Empress of Canada June 38 .....Empress of Russia June 20 .....Empress of Japan *Does not call at Honolulu, Apply Local Agents or J. BLACK MACEAY, . General Agent, Eons HN fae iid hy tion of summer oranges widened ma- terially--this is a factor which should not be overlooked. The abundance of summer oranges in 1928 at low prices had a propaganda value for this fruit not to bec despised, . "An effective and intelligent dis- tribution this season also lent its aid and South African oranges were en- abled to dig themselyes in pretty thoroughly, both in the United King- dom and on the Continent. As far as the former is concerned, I have never seen anything like the --ide distribution of this season. They could be found in practically every village in the country. This also ap- plies in a lesser degree to Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. "An outstanding feature of the past season--important in its bearing on prices--is the decrease in imports of oranges from California. For 13 weeks South Africa supplied over 70 per cent. of the total imports of or- anges into Great Britain each week, and of these the percentage for five weeks was over per cent. each week. As far as actual quantities are concerned therefore, South African oranges held almost undisputed sway over the British market during near- ly half the season. We must not lose sight of the fact, however, that this predominance was an unusual occur- rence due very largely to the failure of the Californian crop." WINDSOR ASSUMES FIRST PLAGE AS TOURIST POINT Over 1,600,000 Automobiles Entered Canada at that Port Last Year Detroit, Mich.,April 24--The Can- ada of a few years ago, inaccessible to motor cars, mud-bound and travel restricted, is recalled by veteran mo- torists in the announcement just is- sued by T. P, Pinckard, general man- ager of the Detroit and Windsor tun- nel, that during the past twelve months 1,649,053 automobiles entered Canada through the Windsor port which, tor the first time, has assumed first place as a tourist point of entry into Canada. Seven years ago a few threads of good travel roads radiated out of Windsor for a distance of a few mi- les. In those days rarely did an au- tomobile cross the ferry and just a few years previously, the red tape in: volved in taking an automobile into Canada for a day's outing was more involved than now on a journey through Europe. Then in 1925 Ontario began its in- tensive road building campaign.' To- day the red tape is gone, the visitor for a day has only to deposit his ownership registration card at the customs office while conerete ribbons criss-cross Ontario. Ed. Matheson, manager of the De- troit Automobile Club touring depart- ment, who made the first official road log in Canada when he travelled the then mud road between Windsor and Niagara Falls recalls how residents of Detroit who desired to drive to Windsor had to buy Ontario automo- bile licenses and how various acces- sories on cars, spare tires and other things that were on the trip were bonded or the duty paid on them. With the great increase in travel between Windsor and Detroit, during a period of financial depression, indi- cations are that the coming tourist season will see an ever greater in. crease in international communica- tion. "When Ontario began to build con- crete roads, motorists began to flock to Canada," said Matheson "The au- tomobile clubs and various tourist as- sociations gradually caused abolish- ment of the red tape that prevented You will agree that Salada Orange Pekoe is the finest Aa A 'Fresh from the gardens' tourists from visiting Canada. And those terrible clay roads of Ontario that were impassable whenever it rained. Until a few years aro an old motor bus made the 100 mile round trip once a dav between Chatham and Windsor -- except when it rained. From travelling the old 'hog-baked' clay road, the bus had become so lop-sided that when it travelled on level ground, it appeared to be fall- ing over." "Not until four years ago were *"» roads to Buffalo or Toronto paved. 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