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PAGE FOUR ° MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, The Oshawa Daily Times I 8 "* THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER ., + = (Establisked 1871) published every after- s and holidays at Osh- by The Times Publishing Company mited. Chas. M. Mundy, President y, Managing lo Director. # Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana lian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspaper: Asso- cia the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the ~ Asdit Bureau of Circulations. bi * SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Osbawa and suburbs, 12c. 5 week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa car- 00 a" nm exdept delivery limits) $300 a vear. United States 8 year, rg TORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone _ Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative. ~ MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1931 A Duty to the Public Newspapers and public men alike owe a duty to the public, to keep the people in- formed as to what is transpiring in the con- duct of public business. In pursuance of that duty, The Times, in spite of the fact that Mayor Marks refused information, pub- lished a report of what happened when a eity council deputation interviewed officials of the provincial department of health last Thursday, in connection with the proposed Oshawa sewage disposal plant. At a meeting of the city council, in com- mittee of the whole, questions were raised as to how The Times secured its report. In the course of the discussion, Alderman Morris hit the nail on the head when, com- menting on the effort to withhold informa- tion from the press, he said: "It is not fair to the public nor to the press. They should obtain any an- nouncement of that sort from the may- or. or from some other authorized per- son," : That was very nicely said. But, when the mayor refuses to give any information to be passed on to the ratepayers of the city, on an important question, then the news- r is bound to use its initiative to se- cure the statement from other sources, and, if the people should by any chance be mis- informed, then the mayor must bear his share of the responsibility. The Times wishes to reiterate the stand it has taken on many previous occasions, that the citizens of Oshawa, who are pro- viding the finances, have a right to know exactly what their representatives are do- . The maintenance of an attitude of of- i "cial secrecy in connection with matters of . ce to the city means depriving the people of information which they, as tax- , Jpayers, are entitled to have. _ The people of Oshawa have shown that hey can be trusted, and, in return, are en- 'titled to the confidence of those who are municipal representatives. The excuse has been put forward that the press is not entitled to publish news of "public affairs until after they have been . {placed before the council. Where that idea 'originated is hard to understand. Af- ter all, the members of the council are "the servants, not the masters, of the people, and when matters of such importance as "the plans for the sewage disposal plant are "involved, one would expect that the mayor 'would make them available for publication at the earliest possible moment, without "waiting for a meeting of the city cofineil. . The Times would respectfully suggest 'that the advice of Alderman Morris be ta- 2 to heart by the mayor, and by other blic men who are serving the public, and t they adopt the policy "of co-operating "with the press in fulfilling the public duty "of keeping the people well-informed on all 'that is being done in connection with the _ municipal affairs of the city. : et An Inspiring Convention The convention of the Bay of Quinte Young People's Conference of the United wrch, which closed here last night, will be remembered by all of those who privileged to take part in it, and to all or any of its sessions. It was pn inspiration to see these young people, wn from all over Eastern and Central ario, and to watth their keenness in ening to the discussions of the problems ich-were before them. It was an inspira- to join with them in some of their so- functions, and to realize that these were me of the young people on whom the fu- Lrenc nly "On re of this country and of the church to . sh they belong, depends. It was an in-- g tion to hear the addresses of the dis- tinguished church leaders 'who were in the ity for the occasion, and to hear them, om the wells of ripe experience, point out the young people before them the way to stian service and Christian leadership. 'It was a rare and a profitable occasion for )shawa. That was evident from the large ndances in all the churches in which hese distinguished visitors were preaching esterday. One must mention particularly splendid old veteran of the ministry nm Manitoba, Rev. J. G. Stephens His story of the work of the 'that section of : ripping the attention of his audi- his sermon on the essentials e Lian fai) left a message which will long in the minds of his hearers. t mention, too, the'stirring call to of Rev, Dr. Edmund H. Oliver, ct The road of a was fas- moderator of the United Church, the story of the growth of Christianity in Japan from the lips of Rev. A. R. Stone, a missionary from that country, and the breezy evange- lism of Rev. Archer Wallace. One could go on stressing vital features of this conference of young people. For them, it was an oceasion to be valued. It set before them new standards for Chris- tian service, and held up before them the great example of the Man of Galilee in a manner which must have appealed to their youthful minds. One need have little fear of the future of this country when so large, and so splendid a body of young people can be assembled, for two and a half days, to discuss means whereby they can help to ex- tend the kingdom of God among men, and who carry away with them, deeply imprint- ed on their hearts and minds, such stirring and inspiring messages as have been deliv- ered to them in the United Churches of Oshawa in the course of the last three days. A Lead Worth Following The members of the Oshawa fire depart- ment are making a remarkable contribution to the task of taking care of the needy fami- lies of Oshawa during the coming winter. Some time ago, they announced that they would contribute five per cent of their sala- ries to the relief funds of the city. Living up to the old proverb that he who gives quickly gives twice, they are not satisfied with that contribution. They have now raised a fund among themselves, and this is being used to purchase farm produce which will be distributed, through the co- operation of the Associated Welfare Socie- ties, to families which require such assist- ance. Through this fund which they have raised, the firemen have already purchased 300 bags of potatoes, 60 dozen cabbages, 50 bushels of potatoes, 50 bags of carrots, 10 bushels of beans, and a quantity of apples and other produce. This will go a long way towards feeding hungry families in the months that lie ahead, and the firemen are giving a splendid lead in exemplifying the motto which should be in the minds of many people today,--*Share--, and be glad you can." Editorial Notes Hearty congratulations to Mike's Place softball team, junior champions of 'the pro- vince of Ontario. The slogan, "A fair day's pay for a fair day's work," never intended that the day's pay should be in groceries, meat or fuel. Although Canada is now practically off the gold standard, that does not mean that a return to the days of 'barter is justified. The ratepayers of East Whitby are to discuss the gas franchise bylaw this even- ing. After the example which has been set by Oshawa and other municipalities, this bylaw should be carried by a large majority on Friday. | Other Editor's Comments FOOD GROWN AT A LOSS (Quebec Soleil) It is difficult to understand why provisions, a ne cessity for everybody, have fallen in price so enor mously. With cotton, building materials, etg, it i different ; you can put off buying a suit or alter the plans of a house, but you cannot go a single day without eating. The consumption of food 1s practi- cally the same as it was in 1929, If it is truc that the law of supply and demand must always govern the market, there is no reason why the products of the soil should be selling below cost price. They naturally had to fall like other commodities, but, ac- cording to the natural course of things and the laws of economics, they should be, in: proportion, much more dear than manufactured products, BITS OF HUMOR A PROMOTER A small boy called on the doctor one evening, and 'said: "Doctor, I've got the measles, but I can keep it quiet," The doctor looked up, puzzled, and asked the boy what he meant. "Oh!" suggested the small patient, "What'll you give me to go to school and scatter it among all the rest of the kids?" Jodge--Did you know the defendant, Rastus? astus--Ah had a logical "quaintance wid him, Jedge. Judge--What do you mean by a logical acquaint ance ? Rastus--"Well, both of us belong to de same ledge. BITS OF VERSE . TO MAKE GREAT SCHOOLS We need great Buildings for great schools, Wa hat wil lls t. stand till time is old, Made of such stone, laid with such tools, That every sill and beam will hold, And science here must bring her best, Her newest knowledge, latest lore; But still they may not stand the test-- Great schools must have one great thing more, We 'need great souls to make great schools, all our walls were laid in vain. Youth asks for reasons, not for rules; There's more than Latin to make plain. The road of life lies just at the dawn; | of life is here to tread-- We need great souls to lead youth on, Or We need great hearts to e great schools, Who speak the truth Laake I: and pt Not doubting cynics, shouting fools, But noble women and clean men. e must have teachers who will teach, But law and justice, right, not rules, _Havever high our roofs may reach, (1 need great souls to make great schools, ~Douglas Malloch, by C. H. Tuck, Opt, D, (Copyright, 1938) hd v The Child and Its Development Nutrition end Mal-Nutrition Part 9 Dull or supposedly subnormal cas- es have been assisted wonderfully in life by recognition of physical de- fects and defects of vision, This again will affect cases right down the line, from school life to mature life, and will be the means of in- creasing man's cfficiency, Many a man is found unfit for work on ac- count of his eyes. The type of er- ror is supposedly developed during school life and remains as a handi- cap through early life to be detected only by an efficiency test in mature life. It is really possible to enjoy' youthful sight in middle life, even though your eyesight is weakened. Science keeps pace with the chang- ing conditions in devising means of relieving strain on the eyes and eye muscles, some of these conditions being bad enough to affect other parts of the system It is said that "knowledge is power', so the business man who is equipped with comprehensive knowledge of people's customs and wants is apersistent news. paper advertiser, and by so doing enjoys a good business, The persistént advertiser realizes that. good will contributes to busi- ness success and that it can be ob- tained only by dépendable and sat- isfactory service When trade is poor the tnotto of every firm that has something to sell should be ADVERTISING and MORE ADVERTISING. Economy to be cconomy when it 1s applied to the money that should be put aside for newspaper advertising, The wise business man knows this and intensifies his ad- vertising in a manner calculated to appeal to the widest possible num ber of potential customers, THIS CAN BE DONE ONLY BY NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING! ceases BORDER CITIES OPEN CAMPAIGN FOR RELIEF FUND Seek to Take Advantage of Government's Offer of Dollar for Dollar Windsor, Oct. 26.--Border - com- munities, led by a committee of the leading industrialists of Windsor, Sandwich, Walkerville, Ford and Iossex municipalities, have launched a campaign for the creation of a fund to take advantage of the pro- vincial and federal government of- fers to match dollar for dollar all moneys raised by any means for un- employment relief, Hon. Leopold Macaulay, Minister of Highways, discussed the progect with 25 leading border cities finan- ciers and manufacturers who formed a committee immediately. and select- ed Wallace R. Campbell, president of the Ford Company of Canada, as chairman. The committee has al- ready started its campaign to raise funds. The scheme, which follows a simi- lar plan in Brantford, where $93,000 was collected during a drive for $75,- 000, seeks to take the burden of re- lief work as much as possible from the shoulders of 'municipal taxpay- ers, By voluntary subscription the fund is established and maintained without "recourse to the municipal revenues and increased by the pro- vincial and federal grants, MOTORISTS AS GATE CRASHERS A report on grade-crossing accidents shows 10,000 motorists in the United States crashed into the black and white striped bars that are lowered at crossings dur- ing the year 1930, In many cases the motorists were kiHed. THIRD BROADWAY PRODUCER 'BROKE Al H. Woods Files Voluntary Petition in Bankruptcy New York. -- Al H. Woods, perhaps the most colorful theat- rical producer on Broadway, fil- ed a voluntary petition in bank- rauptey recently, joining the Shu- bert brothers in a public avowal of his financial losses. He is the third front-ranking producer to "go broke" in New York during 1931, Arthur Ham- merstein and the Shubert Cor- poration having preceded him. Woods, who arose from the obscurity of a billposter's exist- ence to become one of the most eccentric, yet beloved, of Broad- way's characters; did not sched- ule his liabilities and assets in his petition, A partial report, however, placed his assets at $1,668,359 and liabilities of #$1,- 026,540. He admitted he is un- able to meet present or future obligations. Among the creditors he lists are Al Jolson, $3,329; the Cen- tia) Trust Company of Illinois, $233,000; the Fox Film Corpora- tion," $126,424; the Shubert Theatre Corporation, $150,000; Gilbert Miller, Channing Pollock, Arch Selwyn, Bayard Velller, Max Marcin, Mrs, Leslie Carter and John Colton. Woods has no new play run- ning on Broadway this season. In the many years of his Broad- way successes, Woods was known as the man who called everybody "sweetheart." His office was an institution in itself--where he sat with his feet propped on his desk, a long cigar in his mouth and a sleepy look in his eye. No matter who came in, man or woman, hero or vagrant, his salutation was always the same: 'Hello, Sweetheart!" Another of his traits was his suaden decision to go abroad. He would jump up from his desk in the middle of the day and sometimes with only a toothbrush in his pocket--race for the next boat to safl for Europe. At one time Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chap- lain were working for him. All of them quit when their demands for more money were ignored. Woods wouldn't pay it so Chaplin a week and Charlie wanted $30. Woods owuldn't pay it so Chaplin qait and entered the movies. Woods' first successful play was "The Bowery After Dark." Ho got the idea from some old 1®hographs, took them to a play- wright and told him to base a Arama on them. He produced among famous plays, "The Girl From Rector's," "The Littlest Rebel," "The Green Hat," "The Road to Ruin," "Within the Law," "Song of Songs," and "The Trial of Mary Dugan." other PHILIPPINGS WiLL DRIVE OUT CHINESE Deportation. of. 2,000. is Planned by Customs Bureau Manilla, Philippine Islands--Pres- sure is being brought to bear for the first time in the Philippines on the presence of thousands of Chin- ese residents known to have entered the islands in violation of the im- migration laws. Agitation in the Philippines was started through the bureau of cus- toms. The acting director of the bureau, Guillermo Gomez has been engaged in tightening up on many loose ends in customs law enforce- ment. This bureau is authority for the statement that between 2,000 and 3000: Chinese are now living in the southern islands, mostly in Min- danao and Sulu, who were never ad- mitted by the immigration authori- ties, and presumably were smuggled across the borders of Sulu from Sandakan, Borneo, over a period of twenty years Or more, The customs bureau announced that an intensive drive would be instituted to find these illegal resi- dents and deport them. Actually, the number of Chinese deportees has risen in the last six months about 300 percent over the average number for several years past, The Chinese problem in the Phil- ippines is scrious. Behind all anti- independence talk is the ever-pres- ent reminder that were the United States to' get out of the Philippines, the islands would pass into the hands of the Chinese through econ- omic absorption, provided the Jap- anese did not take over the islands by more direct means, Whether this be true or not cannot be defin- itely stated, but the Filipinos are nevertheless constanly concerned over the Chinese control of the re- tail trade in the Philippines, which is conservatively estimated at per cent of the total under present circumstances, Number Unknown The number of Chingse present in the Philippines is a t ques- tion also, There has been no cen- sus taken in the islands since 1918, and even then the number of un- certain, varying from 100,000 to 150,- 000 in the hands. of various estimat- ors. Some place the figure now as high as 300,000. Chinese sources place the number at under 100,000, The population of the country is about 13,000, There is constant friction in tfade matters between, the Filipinos and the Chinese. The Chamber of Com- merce of the Philippine Islands, a Filipino organization, has from time to time stirred up the issue, mostly in and near Manila, where Chinese have control of the shoe business, the lumber business, the retail food business and many other lines. Al- ways the issue is dro~-~1. after two or three weeks of intensive com- paigning for the people to buy Fili- pino products and to boycott Chin= ese manufacturers, mostly on aes SECURITY - TOTAL ASSETS of - $12,000,000.00 --provide a surplus over liabilities to the public of almost five million dollars. KING AND VICTORIA $T8,, TORONTO 23 SIMCOE ST. N., OSHAWA count of pure inertia and the im- possibility of bucking the solid en- trenchment of Chinese trade. Americans and foreigners are con- vinced that the presence of Chinese in the islands is beneficial to the welfare of the country, rather than detrimental. They point to the re- sults of school tests, showing that persons of mixed Chinese and Fili- pino blood--the mestiza class--show up better in intelligence tests, Mix- ture of the two races has been going on for centuries, and many of the country's most able statesmen and business men have Chinese ances- tors. Occasionally the Filipino-Chinese issue breaks into violence, as when provincial transportation wars over bus routes, sometimes result in strikes and resultory beatings for isolated individuals, usually Chinese, The customs bureau's drive again- st illegal Chinese entry to the Phil- ippines is being carried on with un- remiting fervor, But with thousands of miles of coast line virtually un- protected there is little chance of stopping it altogether, Constant warfare is waged agains smuggling of Chinese in southern {waters. On the island of Sitanki, southernmost of the Philippine (group, is a coast guard station where agents are maintained for the express purpose of catching Chinese who come from Borneo in bancas land Moro wintas under cover of darkness, The adventures of some of these guards who have been long at the station would have been in- teresting reading, The deportation of Chinese who have long been residents of the is- lands, however, is a more difficult i problem. The Chinese consulate has | been busy with propaganda, point- ling out that some of those the {customs bureau would deport have been among the most solid citizens of the country for many years, and | have fought the Filininos' battles | for them time and again. | Want Hydro Service Gananoque. --A movement is on foot ro the property owner and summer cottagers to have elec: tricity installed on Tremont Park A representative of the Hydro, who was in town on Monday, said that | if sixteen subscribers could be se- | cured to guarantee to support it, it | would be supplied at a cost of $25.50 | per year plus consumption, or ap- proximately $30 per year, Half this required number have alread expressed their approval and ther is little doubt: that next season the Park will be lighted by electricity and the current will also likely be used for artificial refrigeration, elec- | el ol | | and cooking, tric pumping, ironing, water heating | lowed to drive Arabia. OYSTER FARMING PLAN IS OUTLINED . Ottawa.--With a view to en- couraging commercial oyster far- ming in Prince Edward Island the Dominion Department. of Fisher- ies is making suitable areas in the provinee available for lease for operations of this kind, Un- der proper conditions such as oc- | cur in Prince Edward Island says a statement issued by the depart- ment commercial oyster culture is as feasible as agriculture, and much more profitable, and oyster farming is now an important in- dustry in different countries. The decision to grant leases for oyster farms follows scientific stu- dy and experiment which have been conducted hy the depgrt- ment in the Malpeque Bay area since 1928, when complete juris- diction over the oyster areas of Prince Edward Island, for pur- poses of administration, wag vest ed in the department under an a- greement made with the Provin- cial Government. These investiga- tions have demonstrated that oys- ter farming can be successfully carried on in Prince Edward Is- land by methods which are neither difficult nor unduly costly. Under the department's . plan leases will he granted in the Mal- peque Bay area and at other ap- | proved points. Each lease will be for a 20-year term and will be re- newable for a further like period. Small rentals per acre will be charged in the first five years each leage is in effect, and as opera- tions should be on a substantial paying basis at the end of that | time, a reasonable royalty on pro- ' duction will also be collected from then onward. MOTORING MOHAMMEDANS Only Molammedans are al- automobiles in Pe nn hd as long as you or your wife live 4 Mh CASHIER VEN when your working days are over, pay days can be continued for you and your family. make you independent. 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