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: FOUR peat THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1931 od A Oshawa Daily Times, " THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) blishied 'every after p! and holidays at Osh: by The Times Publishing Company. President y. Managing Director. Chas. M. Mundy. wa Daily Times is a member of The Cana: ss, the Canadian Daily Newspape:. Asso- ; the Ontario. Provincial Dailies and the Judit Bureau of Circul : . % SUBSCR! ON RATES igh TLR er ag se Bp : fr dotvery limits) $3.00 a vear. United States ® : yo. TORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone faide 0107. H. D. Tresidder. representative. i TUESDAY, AUGUST 11th, 1951 ' AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SERVICE fn his address to the Oshawa Rotary Club yesterday, Reg. Terrett, the well: | known Oshawa scout leader, placed before his hearers, and through them, before the men of the community in general, an op- srtunity for worth-while service to the community. The upbuilding of hoy life in ba community is one of the finest tasks which any man can undertake, and wroiigh the Boy Scout movement this is ng done in a remarkable way, not only Oshawa and throughout Canada, but in orty-five countries in the world. In Oshawa, at the present time, the 7 pat need is for leadership. Of the six i. Joeal troops, three have this year lost their L scout-masters by reason of departure from the city. One other troop is temporarily without its leader, who has gone elsewhere seek employment, and a fifth is also out employment, and may have to leave this weity. From the standpoint of giving lead- i ip in what is a splendid character- ilding organization, this situation is ser- *dous, and calls for the sympathetic thought ; consideration of every man whose ncies lie along this line. The leadership of a troop of Boy Scouts 8 more of a pleasure than it is a task. e, there are responsibilities which can- not be evaded, but the bearing of these responsibilities merely adds to the zest of Lserving in this worthy cause. The Osh- : Boy Scout Association would welcome bffers from any men who feel they would te to serve their community in this cap- , for the need is great and the work- but fcw. , TO-MORROW'S FLOWER SHOW 'To-morrow all Oshawa lovers of the should find their way to the Hotel the -re-organized Oshawa 3 = i ] tting for an event of this kind, well imagine the eolorful scerie be depicted there when the hun- "exhibits of the best of the gardens wa are placed in position. Keen in- 8 being shown by. the society mem- "in this exhibition, and, with a favor- A ng season such as this has been, ns of summer should be seen at horticultural society has done much organization to induce citizens: bodies to take up the work of fication. One has only to view of the Ritson Road school, for i the Collegiate and Vocational stitute, or the North Simcoe Street school : lize how powerful the influence of an ve horticultural society can be in a com- nity. Tomorrow's flower show ought to n eke a further influence for good 7 showing how the most beautiful of flow- : be grown in the most humble back- ard garden. The society, in promoting w is to be commended, and it is such a show id fo be hoped that the attendance of citizens vill be a8 to give the organization r encouragement to go on with its good Fig Te ro ds or WASTING ITS TIME onto Globe is pounding away in d for a Royal Commission to in- the affairs of the Beauharnois <eontributions: $0; of this kind, he sticks ving in mind the C ion, and' ha in i a ou in about, ten days time. Why ten more are required to announce what should have been settled weeks or months ago, is hard to fathom. In all probability, these policies are known now, and the only ~ reason-for withholding announcement of - them is the desire of the federal ad pro- vincial governments to delay as long as possible the granting of assistance to municipalities in taking care of their un- employed. Surely the provincial and federal govern- ments that every day means much to the unemployed, and that a delay of ten days more means that much more hardship add- &d to the sum of what they have suffered while the two 'governments were making up their minds as to what they would do. It is a relief to know that an announcement is going to be made in about ten days, but what the unemployed men and their fam- ilies want to know is why this was not done two or three months ago. PAGE JIM CURRAN A great opportunity for that veteran wolf-hunter, Jim Curran of Sault Ste. Marie, is waiting for him in Victoria county. The Provincial Game Committee of the On- tario legislature, in making an investiga- tion at Fenelon Falls, was met with a com- plaint that the district is being depleted of deer by reason of the ravages of the wolves. To the folks of Victoria County, that is a serious situation but jt should present no great problem to the wolf-hunter from the Soo, who knows all the wolves by their first names, and would no doubt, if called upon, speedily bring them into a state of subjec- tion. EDITORIAL NOTES Fourteen days in jail is a nice reminder of the wisdom and truth of the saying that gasoline and liquor do not mix. The Legion's service of remembrance on Sunday was an impressive function, but it is regrettably noticeable that the general public take very little interest in an event of this kind. Are memories so short that sacrifices of the kind made during the war are so quickly forgotten? The visit of Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh to Canada's Arctic regions constituted a real good will visit for the isolated people up in the north. : Perhaps the unemployed will be en- couraged by the fact that in about ten more days the government plans for unemploy- ment relief will be announced. The fund raised on Saturday should be a blessing to some of the unemployed who are not eligible for city relief. Most of the problems of our American students arise from unwise or stupid use of i leisure time. -- Dr. Clarence Cook e. : i" Other Editor's Comments DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL (London Morning Post, Cons.) Democracy is everywhere on its trial. In many countries it has already succumbed to the "tyranny," or, in ern parlance, dictatorship, which Plato long 260 foresaw was its ultimate end, It is when liberty is perverted into licence that demogracy falls an easy prey to some strong man, who will impose upon it the order and the discipline which it could not achieve for itself. 'The full-blooded "rule by the people" which we know in this country today is still in its infancy ; with centuries of political train- ing to reinforce the native good sense of the British ' character, we still believe' that our democracy will follies that have destroyed so many of its predeces- sors. But the descent is so facile that neither lead- ers nor followers can afford to take risks. We live in a testing time, which may make or mar opr Young democracy ; let the nation brace itself up hed nd now. BITS OF HUMOR + Angry Widow, (after learning her 'husband had left her nothing)--I want you to take 'Rest in Peace' off that tombstone I ordered yesterday. Stonecutter=~I'm sorry, madam, I can't do that, but I ean put something underneath. Widow=All right, put "Till I Come.' They had met and were now on their way to the ? See you got your tuxedo on time. . James--I didn"t ask you how you got your even= 'ing I? : TE ca 8 irk--That Jady over there wants to know if 3 hi en underwear will shrink. What shall I : Manager--Does it fit her? Clerk--No, its too large for h Manager--Tell her certainly it ------ ; Fool, what do you mean by boiling that There will be an accident. B Heck, its a good thing everyone isn't as ef. will shrink. Jose benzine Pe superstitious as you are. reach a healthy adolescence and triumph over the Bye. Care and Eye Strain by C. H. Tuck, Ops, D. " (Copyright, 1923) ------- YOUR CHILD AND THE EYES Part 18 It was thought at one time that eye strain was chiefly a mat- ter of advancing age. It is proven however that more than half of the defects have nothing to do with either old age or even riddle age but are due to defects common to the eyes and may be found in the eyes of the child as in the eyes of those of more ma- ture years. A common early sign of defec- tive vision or eyestrain showing even where the vision is good is a prevalence of headaches in the brows, temples or back of the head. ™ Inability to see in the distance a fading away or running to- gether of print are so obivious as signs of something wrong with the vision that no one will ne- glect them. But when it comes to tiredness, biliousness, neuralgia and nervousness and soreness of the eyes these symptoms are not so easily recognized as applying to some uncorrected defect of the eyes. (To be continued) Written in San Francisco. I am stopping in the new twenty-eight story William Taylor Hptel where, from my room, I look out upon the famous Civic Center, in which are grouped the great City Hall, the Municipal Auditorium, the Public Library, and' the State Building, all facing upon a beautiful park where fountains play and California flow- ers bloom in profusion. Just across .the street frem the William Taylor Hotel is the site of the U. S. Government's new build- ing which will be built immediate~ ly and which will house the Federal offices of this district. This build- ing will cost three million five hun- dred thousand dollars, Just beyond the City" Hall, con- struction is now going forward on the Cieys War Memorial and Civic Opera House; which will seat thirty two hundred persons. : Immediately opposite my window is Leavenworth Street, which will shortly be*converted into a beauti- ful esplanade directly from the Wil- liam Taylor to. Market Street, San Francisco's great thoroughfare. Surrounding thhis beautiful Civic Center is San Francisco's new theatrical district. To my right is the new Fox, the world's finest theatre. Just before me is the Radio Keith Orpheum, and to my left the Paramount, ited Artists, Golden Gate and Lo." Warfield. TO ONE_WHO REMEMBERS THAT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO ALL THIS CITY LAY A MASS OF FIRE-CHARRED WASTE, THE STORY OF SAN FRANCISCO'S CIVIC AREA IS ONE OF AMAZING ROMANCE AND BRILLIANT ACHIEVE. MENTS. ' ANA ' , FIVE DAYS '> EUROPE EMPRESS i BRITAIN FROM MONTREAL To Liverpool hb SesngnSs fi IF BoE L 1 SE ys J § creriaceiae rom VANCOUVER & VICTORIA "*Does 'not call at 'Honolulu. eR ARE] Additic vb ; : h plant oF the Ratha GEE, % bo pany, « who nipeg. of recently visited RY { chasing power of wages increased of Winnipeg, st over | 4 ccordin eho R Sa Isa, Oklahoma, an official of the 30. inmense body of |. LIVING BETTER AND LONGER THAN EVER Tremendous Strength of Britain's Industrial Fabric Revealed by M.P. : iL gp 'in fhe Joant underrat! econom lems we have still to solve, there are certain facts, established and indisputable, that show the tre- m us strength of this coun- try's. industrial fabric, wijten B. Rolffe Thompson in icle in London Tit-Bits. % Strange though it may sound, it is nevertheless .true that in 1929 there were 800,000 more people in employment than in 1913." We do not, indeed, need to go back so far as 1913--though this comparison is useful, since there are plenty of people who cry, longingly for the good old days before the war, when there was no unemployment! As a matter of fAct, those of us who are old enough to remember those days can tell a different tale. We can remember periods when in some districts not more than ten per cent. had any work to do. Things were not all so rosy as they are apt to look in re- trospect. Anyway, for every 100 people employed in 1924 there were 106.9 employed in 1929. Nor was this simply a matter of a tremendous increase in popula- tion. Between these years the population increased by two per cent.--but the volume of produc- tion in this country increased by 11.6 per cent. Nation Sound There is a little more of this basic truth that needs to be told. During this same period the pur- by four to eight per cent. and hours of labor decreased by an average of ten per cent. In ad- dition, social services-- pensions, health services and so on--all combined to raise the standard oi living in this country to a degree that no other country has been able to approach. We need fo remember things like these, for they show that despite an indus- trial and commercial depression that has swept over the whole world, this country has better than any other, not only kept her head above water, but has been steadily forging ahead. "At the end of the nineteenth century," said a great authority recently, "destitution and the possibility of death from starva- tion were still accepted elements in the social order; to-day, though the struggle against poverty and slums is still in its early stages, it can he fairly claimed that a first line of defence against pov- erty has been consolidated. In 1900, infantile mortality statis- tics showed that the deaths under one year of age amounted to 140 per 1,000; in 1913, 86 deaths per 1,000; in 1929, only 76. This, halving of the infantile death rate in thirty years is in itself a great achievement. In 1901, the expectation of life at the age of twenty was 41.5 years for a man, and 44.3 years for a woman, In 1921 this same expectation was 45.8 years for a man and 48.7 for a woman. The results of the 1931 census will undoubtedly disclose a further rise in both figures." I think this is very important. It means that despite everything we have gone through, despite the problems and the difficulties that we are still facing, we are living better, living more health- {ly and living longer than we have ever done before. Could any ex- cept a virile and sound nation say the same? Is there any other country in the world that can say the same? I doubt it. Let us look at another thing that is always a sure index of the real state of a nation's industrial health----the people's savings. Up By Leaps Between 1913 and 1929, Post Office Savings Bank deposits rose from £187 millions to £2856 mil- lions; Building Societies' assets jumped up from £65 millions to £313 millions; while National Saving Certificates Stood in 1929 at the enormous figure of £470 millions. And since all these sav. ings are largely the savings of those who earn wages, it shows once again how solidly establish- ed is the high standard of life that we have built up and main- tained as compared with other countries. "But," say the pessimists, 'that is all very well. It may all be as you say--but what about our trade? It is falling away all the time." Hard figures do not show this to be the case. If we are falling away in some instances we are going ahead like wildfire in others--and it is the general picture we need to look at, not just one gloomy corned of it. Let us take a few examples from plenty that can be found on every hand. In electrical ma- chinery we are more than holding our own with our competitors. In 1929 we exported moré than six million pounds' worth. America, of which we'hear so much, only exported just over five million I home consumption which shows a pounds' worth. Between 1937 ncreased from thirty- nine million pounds to fifty-three million pounds. In 1925 we ex- ported gramophones and gramo- phone parts to the value of £681, 000; in 1929 the value of these exports was £2,225,000; Gramo- 'phone records tell the same tale. In 1926 the value of those we ex- ported was £762,000; in 1929 the value was £1,130,000. And these figures take mo account of the corresponding. huge increase. In the production of motor-cy- cles we have not only held our own; we have put ourselves be- yond reach of competition. exports of motor-cycles exceed by fifty per cent. the combined ex- ports of America, Germany, France and Belgium, I have only space to mention one other line of advance that proves how definitely we are tack- ling the new problems. Intensive research has been proceeding on fuel, particularly on the possibil- ities of extracting liquid fuel from coal. Already a ton of coal has been so treated as to yield 130 gallons of petrol; and if, as seems likely, the production of petrol from coal becomes a commercial proposition there are no limits to the industrial possibilities. What it all points to is this, Hit as we are, in common with the rest of the world, by the econom- fc upset that has followed the war, We are neither down nor out. We are, in fact, vigorously recov ering lost ground with every week that passes. and 1929 our production of arti- |i Our |» fuel. Step on LJ it," to pass, power that lasts. DISFIGURING OF COUNTRY SEEN IN AR VIEW Hon. Ramsay Mac- Donald Interested in Rural Scenery London. -- The Prime Minister, whose liking for air journeys is well known, described recently what mo- dern disfigurements of the land- scape look like when viewed from an aeroplane, . Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was op- ening an exhibition at Chelmsford organized by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and the Essex Rural Community Coun- cil. The object of the exhibition is to demonstrate typical disfighre- ments and how they can be avoided. Our problem today, said the Pre- mier, was how we could build and spread ourselves out and yet re- tain the natural beauties of our country, "We must build our factories, extend our towns, and bring more and more people into the country. But do not let us think," he said, "that a house is sufficiently built if it is simply a shelter from wind, rain and storm. Do not let us im- agine a street is all right if its sur- face is quite convenient for motor- sts. "One of the essential things for feeding the human mind is the ap- propriate, the beautiful, the entic- ing. If you build a house of mater- ial that does not find for itself a home in its surroundings, you are doing a violence to your country. "If you want to see modern dis- figurements of the countryside go into the air. Look down from a thousand feet, or even more, and see the roofs of your houses. Look at the abomination of that new con- traption of cheap roofing which, when seen from the air, looks as though some dyer had emptied an enormous vat of extraordinary bad color across green fields and over beautiful woods. "If you want to be horrified by the broad, straight, brutal road, which if it lasted for 500 yrs. would never agquire a mellow and lovable personality, go into the air. If you want to see bad plotting, the bad placing in fields and open spaces, of so much of the modern extensions of our dwellings, go up and look down from the air, "On the other hand, if you want to see the glorious old twisting and twining roads, if you want to see cqpses and s and large ex- panses of land space, look down up- on them, You will see them from a new angle with a new color value. "If you want to have a.new en- joyment of the beauties of your land and a new horror of the dese- cration being committed upon your land, go and have an air journey." Mr. MacDonald also Eade. val Rt. vulgar advertisement s, ugly petrol pups, and the people who went about thoughtlessly uprooting our wild plants, "those gorgeous jewels which are scattered on every wayside and in every wood in our country." CANADA'S LEAGUE [ E 1 Ine of Beat Lak cent, o ent hich A Head Party of Six. DELEGATES NAMED Hom Hugh Guthrie Will Cites Service--one of the broadcasts Fridays, 8 P. CITIES SERVICKE GASOLE the double" Truck-horse power and ri bined in Cities Service G Service process could p lene as good. Fill your EIR CE EBA! ten M, : including CKGW, To 1 guy fuel fart, Of coy « Gies Lice gaso= CITIES S PURE PETROLEUM= PRODUCTS ia Cities Service Oil Company Limited | Organizations on the It and 37 pink si pe xy ot | Jones. 1850 F last night. Mr, Gutlirie as a member of the Canadian delegation accompanied Right Hon. R. B. Bennett, Prime Minister, to the Imperial Confer- ence which met in London last fall. In 1920, the Minister of Justice re- presented Canada at the Interna- tional Fincancial Conference sum- moned by the League at Brussels in September, 1920; and attended the meeting of the Imperial War Graves Commission which met in London jn the same year. Public Career Senator Beaubien was president of the Canadian section of the In- terparliamentary Union in 1922 and one of the delegates of the Inter- parliamentary Union held at Gen- eva in 1919, in Vienna in 1922, in Washington in 1925, in Paris in 1927 and in Berlin in 1928. Senator Beaubien represented the Dominion on special missions in Erance in 1919, 1920, 1922 and 1923. : Dr. Burrell was Conservative Minister of Agriculture from Octo- ber 16, 1911 to October, 1917. On October 12, 1917, Dr. Burrell as- sumed the portfolio of Secretary of State. For a period during 1920 he served as Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue. Dr. Burrell re- signed from the Cabinet and the House of Commons and accepted the appointment of parliamentary librarian on July 10, 1920. He was Fruit Commissioner and lecturer for the British Columbia Government in England in 1907-1908. Red Cross President Mrs, Plumptre served witly the Canadian Red Cross "headquarters during the Great War and was hon- orary secretary of the Canadian Red Cross Society from 1914-20, From 1919 to 1929, Mrs, Plumtr was president of the Ontario div sion, A prominent member of t Canadian Council of Women, 8 Plumptre has filled the post of Je- cording secretary. She was a mym- ber of the Toronto Board of Edca- tion for a number of years. jars. Plumptre is the wife ot' Rev. finon H. P. Plumptre, Hon. Philippe Roy has agnded revious mectings of the Lekue of ations. A former membefof the Canadian Senate,' Mr. Rgf sat in the Upper Chamber fronf1%06 to 1911 when he resigned gf his ap- pointment as Commissiony. General for Canada at Paris. Mf Roy was promoted to the post J minister plenipotentiary on estafshment of the Canadian legation J¥aris. Dr. Riddell has repfented Can- gue of va, as Can ccredited to ada at meetings of Nations, located at adian advisory offi ¢ the League of Naghp Dr. Riddell was superintendeg/of the Trades and Labor Depgfient of Public Works, Ontario frérnment, in 19- § fect Ca extent, es whic present to perso) pointed tances v tions an The hardships and inequiti- have been found in the a System apply in particular ns from Europe, it has been yith resulting family separa- rd suffering, It had = been indicated that Labor Secretar lly William N, Doak will make a , heated reply to the report which, ign effect, reflects upon his departm went, Althotgugh all the reports of the Wickerspshant Commission have been marked ptby a high measure of can- dor, thips is the only one in which criticisnph has been directed at an department, and which issued over the protest of rtment inyolved. from the other disturbing e of the report, the Labor Secretalky is declared to have been particu! arly upset by the commis- sion fihding that "the foreign-born 1 United States can be defi- nitely Rexonerated from the charge that tiley have been responsible for a di iproportiogate share of the crimef current in the country." Doajk, in defending the deporta« fiects which are attacked by the cmmission, has always assert- broughf under control through th effortd of his department, 4 . GERMAN DUMPING POLICY FEARED Non-Repayment of Foreign Short-Term Credits On Schedule Planned proportk n of the criminal element and thag "gangsterism" would be Berlin, Aug. 11, = The German Government was understood Thurs- day night to be ready to initiate a policy of economic and trade recon- struction which is likely to arouse severe criticism abroad, i The policy would provide for non- repayment of foreign short-term credits as scheduled, . Germany would also cut down her imports from foreign countries to a point where she would practically cease to be an importer. Furthermore, the nation would attempt to increase her exports to a great extent to bring foreign money into Germany. It was said the increase of exports might be so great that it would be tantamount pi oo umping" Koods abroad in an 0 improve Germany' - omic position, Ys Seon Coal Question 16 and subseque came Ontar- io Minister of pore ie was ap- inted chief offTicultural service, nternational Office, League: of Nations, 19/Dr. Riddell resign- ed in Janua , to accept his present pos WAN)IGHTENING OFAMIGRATION of Wickershan-- Brings Sugges- For Improvements MEET NEXT MONTH | Toronto is Only Wom Ottawa, Aug. 11.-Canada's' d J | gates to the Assembly of the 3 of mee in G gus in In ¢ no ¥ t Congressional si t - Mrs. H P Plumptre Of foward enactment RS 2 Jock; bservance and En Pp embers residing in states where ere is a large alien population. ne. tor, Aes drafting a oi es Rn port and/is confident it can be en- | Despite the fact that sons Pons | were deported ta hat ad anne 'the st fiscal year, the second largest hington, D.C, Aug. Sig. recommendations made in the n especially affect Great Britain not: adjus! port competition must continue in- definitely to enable Germany to meet, payments. : The necessity. of forcin g e rts from Germany was described Pe most serious and important part of the new policy, For instance, it was Jointed out that sale of some 15- ,000 tons oi coal by German topesed, would cause intense ier ational competition, which would eliable sources said that Chan- cellor Heinri i oe BH rich Bruening was faced polic worl payments must be reduced or abol- ished after the end of the hor 5 IN STATES: task of conducting such a with a view to convincing the that the German reparations -months war debt payments 'mor- atorium under the Hoover P| If the reparations a yments it was sald are intense ex- E--_---- RR, "Aren't you ashamed to be seen--four of you hit doy? y ting one "It is quite all right--he told us to go and steal a ut of an orchard, and 'we od Biving port on enforceme f . " io as Hg A fhe i him his share of what we got.' peared yesterday, is dy as- ed, since the conditions protested ve long been under fire from |q Eastern started | ° from lin the ré- an e eady did I learn today?" get nation, exceeded! fthe first six months Willie--Please teacher, what Teacher~"What a peculiar > uestion |" ERE Capi "Well, they'll ask mie when I home." ' The opening of Slave Falls pow er plant, near Winni i i st i r+ Winnipeg, which will wer supply, has b - Joes opi y, has been s€t for Sep: 90,000 horsepower to the City's. Tax collections in Winnipeg for of 'this year p sent 10' 4 HE ete $384,000 in excess of the same Yat B36. A FE aa a) nada to a relatively small of ce~horse speed «i re 4 double-duty js > and feel Tyourcarre- : spond : i « gives power fo s y] 1 0 Ir hay fog th 'out, who are sent long dis- | in lon tren Wi | no i led i ed th&t aliens comprised a high (ed § SHEE