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aE ro ------ i THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 193i The Oshawa Daily Times 31 Succeeding ' THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER ©, (Establisted 1871) - an bes Led every after. oo Sens Sune od ie yi : : ite, Chas. M. Mundy, Soatier A Alloway, Managing Director. . / Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana: Press, Canadian Dai'y N 2s Asso- AE Ea TR Audit uw of Circulations. 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES a Delivered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12¢. » week. in Canada (outside Oshawa cas- rier Radog HN $300 a year. United States EE ir We Bond Building, 6; T at, Do rg Toveidier, representative re a atte ar TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1931 Bringing Sunshine to the Valleys The Associated Welfare Societies cam- for funds was sent off to a splendid i. start last night at the workers' dinner in she Hotel Genosha. The workers them- selves started it off well by each man mak- ng his owl personal contribution, and thus qualifying to wear the button which says "ve Given." Today the canvass started, and for the next two days the workers will 'pe_doing the job that has been entrusted nto their hands, in the raising of the money which means so much to the needy 'ind suffering families of Oshawa. Already prosperity is showing signs of | {4 seturning to Canada. The first rays of the : % jun are striking on the hilltops. But down "In the valley there are still clouds and gloom. And down in the valley, amidst the swamps and darkness, are those who are looking to the citizens of Oshawa to bring to them the sunshine. It will be many months before the sun of prosperity rises 'high in the heavens, to illumine even the darkest places down there in the gleam, so {__ to the people of Oshawa is presented an Ea me unity to reach down to these unfor- £- tunate sufferers, to lift them up to the hill. 2% tops, so that they may feel the benignant +. warmth of the sunshine which is even now in the sky. : "To those to whom the appeal is made, * "that gleam of sunshine should be signifi- eant.. It should show them that the golden rays of the dawn of a new and brighter r are showing over the horizon, and that { 'can afford to open their pursestrings just a little wider, and give just a little _ 'more generously, so that the coffers of the 0 od Welfare Societies may be filled . to overflowing, and so that sunshine may be brought to those who, deep in the valley, are faced with only the desolation of des- litution. Inspiration from the North * In another column of today's issue of The Times appears an article giving impressions of a trip through Northern Ontario. This article tells of actual conditions found in a pumber of communities, widely separated . In point of distance, yet all of them having "much the same story to tell. Up in that north country there is in- |. spiration to be found for those Canadians "who are looking for signs of approaching prosperity. There is little unemployment "up there. Developments in mining and in electric power, on a large scale, increased activity in the paper mills, and in the lum- areas, have provided means of em. 'ployment for thousands of men from these i rm towns and cities, and in them * there is a feeling of optimism and confi- dence that is exhilarating. : These things are all signs that point to * the better day that is now: approaching. can prosperity, advancing to put to rout the of gloom and pessimism which have retained their hold on the minds of of Canada. In mining, lumber- g and power development, we have pri- ich are leading the way, BE If we can but catch the inspiration which is brought to us by we developments, we will go a long way Jowards restoring a healthier attitude to- vards the days that are to come. Congratulations : Hearty congratulations are due to Major B. Smith on his appointment to com- nd of the Ontario Regiment, as succes. : op Lt.-Col. a We odgins. There are y who come to the command of iment with a finer record of service n Mae 'Smith, = whose appointment more popular, aad eer listing in the ranks of the old 34th some 27 years ago, Major,--and to be Lieut.-Colonel--Smith, has d the ladder steadily, passing h all the ranks of his unit on the up. His record of war service in the of trial from 1914 to 1918 also places im in a position to give inspired leader- p to the men under his command, and tes him a worthy successor to the long ie. of distinguished men who have pre- | him in this high position. One cannc from mentioning, too, Major th is a worthy son of an s father, and a member of a f be regarded as the advance guard . ' t has given freely of itself in the ser- * vice of Canada. His father, who passed months ago at a ripe old age, also, in his younger days, an officer in regiment which his son now commands, and had he lived, he would have been proud to see his son leading the old Ontario's as he himself did in days of old. We con- gratulate Major Smith on his appointment, and also congratulate the Ontario Regiment on its new commanding officer. . Editorial Notes Share--and be glad you can, If the League of Nations can now stop the war between Japan and China, it will have accomplished what seems like the impossible. Hunters are returning from the north with_their full quota of deer. Apparently game still abounds in Canada's great northland. Will it be "Mike" or will it be the Mayor who will push the wheelbarrow this even- ing? The Welfare Fund canvassers all made their contributions to the fund last night, They will thus be doubly armed for the task which lies ahead of them. "If the League cannot prevent war, there is nothing that can."--Newton D. Baker. "A hundred or' two hundred millionaires cannot bring prosperity; it's what the average man earns that counts."--Edward A. Filene. "This world ang all life is a chain of cause and effect, the effect perhaps in turn becoming another cause."--Clarence Dar- row. "Industry has come to believe that the laborer is worthy of his hire."--Gerard Swope, "War is not only ruinously costly, but as a reliable means of settling international differences, is a failure."--Sir William Rob- ertson, "The trend of a country's advertising may be regarded as a commentary on the mentality of its public,"--Fannie Hurst. "To ignore the' present crisis is not op- timism; it is idiocy."--H. G. Wells. | Other Editor's Comments THE RAILWAY PROBLEM ' (Quebec Soleil) What is the solution? No one seems to have found it. It seems to us that the salvation of the railroads lies in the strictest possible eceonomy in all departments, and in a new conception of the means of transport. Old methods have become too expensive, The locomotives and trains in use these days are absolutely incapable of meeting the com- jstision of motor vehicles. They cost too much, If one wished to maintain them as they are today, it would mean a rearguard action against constantly declining revenues, leading to eventual bankruptcy. as soon as the bankruptcy has been brought about, we should see the governments forced to as- sume the burden and to maintain white elephants with taxes which we should have to pay. Therein lies the danger. WORK AND WEALTH (Sydney Bulletin) In the years that have passed our capacity to pay depended largely upon our foreign loans. They ave stopped absolutely now, and now our capacity to pay epends upon what we can get for what we can dig or coax out of the soil and the sea. We may rebel; we may protest that this means lowering our standard of living; but there is no escape. We may be very sorry for the man who, used to a two- shilling meal, finds only eighteenpence in his pocket ; but we know that he must be content now with an eighteenpenny meal. And what is true of one man is true of a million. Printing bits of paper will not add one farthing to our wealth. We can hum- bug ourselves that way for a time; but it only means piling up our difficulties still higher, just as our loan policy did. BITS OF HUMOR Wife--That new maid of ours must be from New York. She speaks of the nursery as the "noisery." Husband--Well, I rather think that's the way it should be pranounced. PROOF 1S IN THE EATING "Mummie, if baby eats beetles will he be able to crawl up walls like they do?" "Good gracious, child, no! ' They'd kill him!" "But they haven't!" THE BLAME "Poets are born and not made." "Yes, blame it on the parents! blame for everything else." MOTHER'S BOY "I'm going out for a little while and I want you to be good till I come back," said Mother, "T'll be good for a nickel," piped up the youngs- \ They get the ter, "Now, see here, Billy. I want you to understand ~ that you can never be a real son of mine unless you are good for nothing." MAKING IT CLEAR A clever old gentleman in dictating an indignant letter said: "Sir, my Stellograbher being a lady, can- not take down what I think of you; I, being a gentleman, cannot express it; but yon, being neither can readily divine it." BITS OF VERSE PRODIGAL : I shall come back when dogwood flowers are goin And passing drakes are honking toward th a th eager necks; I shall come back knowing The old unanswered™quesfon on your mouth. When froat is on the monzanita shoots % ogweeds at the spring are turnin, ow There between the interlacing roots iid i With folded arms 1 shall at last co lawn. ; ~Arna Bogtemps. \ For Inspiration -- Go North Impressions of a Trip Through the Northern Section of Ontario Where Men Are Enjoying the Fifst Fruits of Returning Prosperity By M. McINTYRE HOOD A week or so spent in Northern Ontario, among the miners and bush-whackers, the lumber-jacks and the paper-makers, the road- workers and the forest rangers, is a wonderful inspiration to anyone from old Ontario these days. We have just completed such a trip, Leaving Oshawa at a time when the clouds of gloom were just be- ing dispelled by rays of real hope, we have returned with a brighter spirit of optimism,,with an inspira- tion passed on from those northern towns and cities which are going ahead, which are not on speaking terms with the demon of depression, which are free from unemployment problems, and are finding that pros- perity is no 'longer around the corner, but is only a few steps along the streets, We do not mean to give the im- pression that things are booming up there. That would be a mis- take. In some places, there still is a measure of unemployment to be faced, but, for the most part, the men of the north are at work, are carning wages, and their communi- ties are profiting as a result, Our trip took us from Sudbury to Sault Ste Marie, then north on the Al- goma Central Railway to Hearst, and back through Kapuskasing, Cochrane and North Bay to Tor- onto, In the course of our travels we had occasion to speak with men in all walks of life, laboring men, Eye Care and Strain by C. H, Tuck, Opt. BD, (Copyright, 1938) SIGHT SAVING Part 9. The Optometrist specializes en- tirely upon the eye. The practice of optometry embraces a study of anatomy, pathology and physiolo- gy of the eye, This places the op- tometrigt in the position to pre- scribe glasses for vision or as as- sistance to certain muscle condi- tions when necessary and tb know the cases that require medical at- tention for some abnormal condi- tions having eye trouble as a symptom. He is able to recognize a diseased condtion when he finds it and in the interest bf his pro- fession when referring any case for attention other than his own will naturally try to find the best, The oculist differs from the optometrist in that he is a physi- clan specializing on diseases of the eye, with the ear, nose and throat, general rule, Some oculists "till use drugs in the examination of the eye but this method is not »o common now as in the past, Optometrists do not use drugs in their examina- tions. The optician is trained along mechanical lines and is qualified to grind lenses to suit the preé- scription of the optometrist or oculist but unlike either of the above he is not a specialist on the eye and never attempts its exam- ination. also as a (To be continued) The emancipation of women sounded the death-knell of old fashioned chivalry. Chivalry is essentially linked with protection--the defense by the strong of the weak in olden days, and courtesy and consider- ation in more modern times. How can man feel tender or protective towards a woman who goes into business and earns an income perhaps equal to or more than his own? Chivalry did not die a natural death; it was killed by woman's desire for equality of the sexes, which has lessened man's sense of superiority and thereby dead- ened his feelings of consideration for the opposite sex, which is now running neck and neck with him, and in many cases has deprived him of his means of livelihood. WOMAN MUST REMEMBER THAT MOST OF CHIVALRY DIED AT HER HANDS, AND DE- CIDE IF SHE WANTS TO RE- TAIN WHAT REMAINS OF IT, WHEN In TORONTO YOU WILL ENJOY OUR IF YOU PREFER A WELL MEDIUM SIZED T NEXT TIME YOU PLENTY of CURB PARKING SPACE GARAGE ONE MINUTE WALK ny $3.00 Rates oii. 3300 & $500 HOTEL WAVERLEY Spadine Avenue and College Street Deluxe fant Fr a B De " pot or H. skilled workers in industry, busi- ness. men, professional men and manufacturers, Whether it is the atmosphere of the north which breeds a brighter atmosphere in the minds of men, or whether they are just naturally optimists, it was a fine spirit which we found throughout the whole trip, and we have re- turned to Oshawa with a much hap- pier outlook Fo things in general, Sudbury, perhaps, was the hard- est hit of all the communities vis- ited. This city depends to a large extent on the nickel and copper mining industries of the district, and these are still far from capaci- ty operations, Since we last visit- ed Sudbury in April of this year, however, there has been a great im- provement, and a much larger force of men is being employed. De- velopmént work at the Falconbridge mine is also going forward rapidly, and has absorbed much of the sur- plus labor of the district. This district, it should be remembered, produces 88 per cent of the world's nickel supply, and the activity in this connection is increasing, there- by helping the employment situa- tion considerably. In addition, work on the Trans-Canada highway has absorbed 150 of the workless men of Sudbury, and has taken away many of those who were pre- viously a burden on the city. Sault Ste. Marie Leaving Sudbury, we journeyed to Sault Ste Marie, where we found a feeling of great optimism. The Sault Ste Marie pulp and paper mill had just taken on 165 extra workers, and we had it from the lips of the Hon, James Lyons that some 1,400 men had been placed in employment on various road pro- jects in the Algoma district. The Algoma Steel Company was not working at capacity, but was much below normal, but officials of this company were more than optimis- tic regarding the future possibili- tics, We had a long talk Curran, newspaper publ specialist in wolf stories. Jie was not talking wolves, however, but was giving his opinions as to busi- ness and industrial conditions, Judg- ing from his viewpoint, Sault Ste Marie is wm a fortunate position, with little unemployment, and with splendid prospects for the future. Forest ranging work, and activities of the Northern Development Board have taken hundreds of surplus workers out of the city into remun- erative employment, and there is a general air of confidence and op- timism to be found everywhere in the community. Going up the Algoma Central Railway to Hearst, we found that this. railway, like all others, had suffered greatly in the last year or two, but the train on which we travelled, a mixed freight and pas- senger, was loaded almost to the capacity of the engine to pull it with freight bound for the north country. with Jim 5 hd Hearst At Hearst, we had the oppor- tunity of talking to some represen- tative citizens, There are no un- cmployed men in Hearst now, The Canadian National Railway, which joins the Algoma Central here, the Northern Development Board, and the Forest Rangers' department, had taken care of all the men, and the result, is that there is little in the way of distress in this com- munity, Kapuskasing At Kapuskasing, conditions were even better, This amazing com- munity, which has grown from a small soldier settlement to a thrive ing industrial town in ten years, is enjoying something of prosperity. The Spruce Falls Power and Paper Mills is the"chief standby of the town. At the present time it is giving employment to 750 men in the mill, five days a week, and is employing 1,000 men out in the bush cutting lumber for the mill, Those men who are not employed in the mill and the bush are finding work with the Northern Development Board and the forestry service, and this far north community is in a most: healthy condition, It has some excellent stores, one large de- partmental store being surprisingly complete for a community so far removed from the large centres. We will have more to say regarding Kapuskasing in a later article. Suf- fice it to say that we left Kapus- kasing feeling that it was one of the brightest spots on the horizon of Northern Ontario. Cochrane Coming down to Cochrane, we found this town in much the same position, Mayor R. R. Mitchell told us that unemployment was practically unknown here. In ad- dition to the work provided by the CNR. and the T.N.O. railway, the Northern Development Board and the forestry service had done much to take care of any surplus labor. But there was a larger factor than that in the situation. Seventy miles north lies the Abitibi Bini where a huge power development scheme is in progress. At the pre- sent time, this project is giving em- Ployment to some 2,200 men, who ave passed through the Cochrane gateway to reach the Canyon, All of those who might otherwise have been out of employment have gone there, and have been provided with work, thus relieving the town of the responsibility of taking care of them, Cochrane, a railroad centre and marketing town sprawled out on the muskeg of the north, cer- tainly has no complaint to make regarding lack of employment for its citizens. orth Bay North Bay, some months ago, was hard hit by the decision of the rail- ways to decrease their working forces. On Monday of this week, however, a change came, and 142 men were taken back to work in the ghops of the CNR, and T. and N.O, this proving a veritable godsend to the city. This has rought about a return of optimism, ere, too, government works, and ticularly on the Trans-Cana over liabilities to the public of almost five million dollars. CENTRAL IAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY KING AND VICTORIA S78,, TORONTO 23 SIMCOE ST. N., OSHAWA § ESTABLISHED 1884 F Highway, which connects with North Bay, have absorbed all of the unemployed who were seeking work, and have relieved the situation to a large extent, A Fine Spirit This somewhat sketchy account of what we found in the north coun- try does not begin to express the feeling of the people up there, They have come through some hard times. They have seen their ups and downs. But .today they feel that they are sitting on top of the world, are prosperous indeed in comparison with the older and more thickly settled parts of the province. We did not have an opportunity of observing, at first hand, the activity in Iroquois Falls, which is again racing towards prosperity, nor sece- ing the busy mining towns of Tim- mins, Kirkland Lake, and Cobalt, which are, according io information we received from people who ought to know, moving forward in a new tide of progress, and are in the forefront of the advance towards a prosDerity greater than the north- ern empire of Ontario has ever known, FAMILIES REPLACED ON FARMS TOTAL 2,250 Quebec.--~According to figures published in the report of thé Minister of Colonization and Fi- nances, 2,260 families were re- turned to farms from the cities under employment relief plans, and more are expected to be plac- ed this year under the policy an- nounced by the Government in the Speech from the Throne. The Department of Colonization has spent $1,409,174 for the construc- tion of roads and has conceded 1,067 new lots, Germany's annual production of artificial leather is estimated between 1,600,000 and 2,000,000 square yards, NEW ANGLES IN "TITANIC CRASH Chance Event Saves 700, But Prevents Rescue of Others ' New York, N.Y. -- Several en- tirely new aspects concerning the sinking of the British liner Ti- tanic are revealed in Sir Arthur H. Rostron's autobiographical volume, "Home From the Sea." Sir Arthur, now retired com- modore of the Cunard Line, was master of the liner Carpathia, at the time of the Titanic sinking. In his volume just published he rovealed that only the keenness of the Carpathia's wireless oper- ator enabled the latter vessel to receive and answer the Titanic's 8.0.8. broadcast when she struck a gigantic iceberg. Just prior to sailing a sort of amateurish wireless set had been installed on the Carpathia, Only one operator was carried and he generally retired at midnight. On the night of the disaster, how- over, says Sir Arthur, the oper- ator remained at his post until 12.30 o'clock in the morning. He had just made up his mind to retire and was leaning over to untasten his shoes with the ear- phones attached to his head when he heard the faint 8.0.8. and the Titanic's plea for assistance {m- mediately. The Carpathia swung off her course and raced for the scene. Arriving there an hour and a half after the liner had gone down. Some 706 persons were rescued. While it was what Sir Arthur terms a "chanco event," which enabled the Carpathia to arrive in time to save this number, he states it was also a chance event that the Carpathia was not able to save the entire passenger list and crew, been 26 miles nearer the Titanic this could have been accomplish- ed, he says. FIGURES EXCEED OTHER YEARS More Grain Shipped From West Than in 1929 or 1930 Winnipeg, Man, ----- Figures covering the marketing and load* ing of grain during the month of } October along the lines of the Canadian National Railways on the prairies, far exceeded the fig- ures of the previous two years, according to a report issued by If the rescue ship had | da T, P, White, Superintendent of Car Service, recently, To date, marketings for the month total- led 42,242,000 bushels, which is double the 20,054,000 aggregate of October, 1920 and the 22,967,- 000 aggregate of October, 1929. loadings since the first of the month have reached 29,812,000 Lashels in 20,841 cars as com- pared to 15,237,900 bushels in 11,355 cars last year and only 14,344,000 bushels in 10,620 cars 'n 1929. Inspections have like- wisc increased to 17,062 cars tiris month compared to 13,588 in October last year and 13,054 in 1929, > At present, there are 33,689, 000 bushels in store in country elevators on Canadian National Raflways compared to 23,435,000 bushels of grain at this time last year, A total of 52,799,000 bush- els of grain are in store at all elevators at the Lakehead and Vancouver elevators contain 12,- 524,000 bushels. Shipments to Vancouver since August 1st 1931, now total 3,620 cars and ship- ments to Prince Rupert have also commenced for the season with 113 cars en route to the Northern Port on the Pacific, LUMBER OUTPUT NEARLY RECORD This Year's Production Not Far Below That of 1911 Statistics for the production of lumber, lath, and shingles for 1929, compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, in co-opera- tion with the Forest Service, De- partment of the Interior, uaa recently published, show a total production for the year of '¢,741,- 941,000 feet, board measure. This figure falls only a little short of the year 1911, which was 4,918,202,000 feet board measure. This latter year (1911) shows the greatest cut of any year since the collection of official annual statistics regard- ing the lumber industry was be- gun in 1908. Subsequent to 1911 the cut fell off, with some fluctuations, until 1921, when it was only 2,869,307,000 feet, and since that time the annual in- (rease was pretty steady up to 1949. A device has been invented to be screwed into the spark plug open- ing of an automobile cylinder to convert the cylinder into a pump that compresses air for inflating tires and other uses. Camel caravans are used to trans- nort knocked down automobiles in India and Australia and mules carry the Parts over mountain roads to interior towns in Colombia where they are to be used, ROWENARIDES THE RUMBLE (Continued from page 2) saw some of humour in the situa. tion and they made great sport of their predicament. They laughed over the flowery telegraphic con- gratulations and dispatched flip- pant answers collect. They called the Rackruff salesrooms by long distance telephone to thank them for the lovely thought and Mr. Rack was so pleased that he had the charges for the call reversed. They tossed a coin for the cocktail shaker which Peter won, consider. ably to Rowena's regret, for she was sure she could have ral enough on it to make sure of the new suit which she needed for the reception that afternoon, (Continued) ERECT MEMORIAL T0 GEOGRAPHER Cairn in Honor of David Thompson Placed in Alberta An attractive cairn with suitably en~raved tablet situated at the ap~ proach to the Athabaska River bridge in the Jasper National Park, Alberta, commemorates the accomplishments and exploits of Dayid Thompson, one of the most skilled geographers the continent has known, First attached to the Hudson's Bay Company he later, in 1797, became an employee of. the Northwest Company, where his ef- forts to obtain exact knowledge of the country were encouraged. His surveys and explorations from 1789 to 1812 took him over 50,000 miles of trail by horseback, canoe, and on foot. With imperfect instru- ments he located main routes of travel in 1,200( square miles in Canada and 500,000 square miles in the United States. His maps--since checked by outstanding geograph« ers--have been found to be remark= ably accurate. During 1810-11, Thompson discovered the Athabas= ka pass which became a regular trade route through the = Rocky Mountains until the advent 'of rail« way communication, An Indiana inventor has de- veloped a Diesel engined autbmo- bile that can be run 1200 miles on a single tankful of oil, A company in Buenos Aires has begun the manufacturc of a coms bined harvesting and threshing machine that moves about under its own power. My laundress, I regret to say, Has gone on strike for higher pay, Which will compel me, like as not, To iron while the strike is hot, -- Travel the King's Highway ROYAL WINTER FAIR TORONTO November 18th to November 26th Reduced Fare Proportionately reduced $1.30 Round Trip return fares from all points on Gray Coach Lines routes, LEAVE OSHAWA AM. P, Eastern WM. Standard Time LEAVE TORONTO 1,30 10.30 anday and Holidays only, PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY MAPLE LEAF GARDENS, TORONTO : Combination COACH and HOCKEY Reserved Seat Tickets During the current season combination tickets, including motor coach fare to and from Toronto and reserved seats for the Toronto Maple Leafs' home games in the new Maple Leaf Gardens, will be on sale at Gray Coach Lines agency. = Tickets and information at GRAY COACH LINES Genosha Hotel OSHAWA Phone 2828 LIFE INSURANCE IS TRULY--"THE LOVE THAT NEVER DIES" \ J. W. McCLELLAN ' District Manager, Alger INSURANCE O.T, Building, Oshawa, Ont. 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