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' | 1 RE § | | 1g FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3; 1932 e Oshawa Daily Times Succeedin THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) ---- An independent newspaper pablished every after- * moon except Sundays and legal holidays at Osh- awa, Canada, by The Times Publishing_Com- 'pany of Oshawa, Limited. Chas, M. Mundy, * President, A. R. Alloway, Managing Director, wa Daily Times is a member of The 8 Ost Press, the Canadian Dally News- Association, the Ontario Provincial ilies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES vered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, a week. By mail in Canada (outside Osh- awa carrier delivery limits) $3.00 a year. United States $4.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE . 18 Bond Building, 66 Tempernnce Street. Tele- "phone Adelaide 0107. H. D, Tresidder, repre- sentative, WEDNESDAY, FEBUARY 38rd, 1932. Saving for the City The city council is not favorable to half- | measures in its determination of bringing about an era of economy in civic affairs. After sending pointed notices to all civic spending bodies directing them to reduce expenditures this year, the council had ~ brought into effect a scale of salary re- duetions for all civic employees. The cuts in salary are drastic in their character, ranging from five to fifteen per cent, so as to make an average saving of some ten per cent. over the whole list. It is never a pleasant thing to have to cut salaries. Only the direst of necessity should prompt such a step, and apparently the council feels that such a necessity exists. Civic employees who, during the peak of prosperity, were working long hours for less money being paid for similar services in private enterprise doubtless feel | that it is hardly fair that they should have their salaries reduced in hard times.- There is some justice to that plea. Yet there is a necessity for saving somewhere. The city council is faced with a serious situa- tion. It has a huge amount of taxes un- paid, and there is a general demand that the tax rate be reduced. This can only be done by the exercise of rigid economy, so, just as has been done by a great many private concerns, salary reductions have been ordered. No doubt the civic employees will be dis- turbed over the situation, but, while sym- pathizing with them, we would ask that they think of the hundreds of Oshawa i! families in which the bread-winner has been without regular work for months, It "is in connection with these men that we believe the city council might have acted more leniently. The announcement that all relief works, with the exception of the inlet sewer for the sewage disposal plant, is to be stopped, is a serious matter for the unemployed. We believe the council eould have effected sufficient economy without 'cutting expenditures at the expense of the unemployed. They will have to be given direct relief, in any case, and it would be much better to have continued some of the relief projects which had been approved, and for which the provincial and federal governments were willing to pay a share of the cost. It is fully appreciated that the city council is endeavoring to work in the best interests of the city in its plans for reducing expenses, but it is a far more grave matter to deprive wor kless men of their relief work than it is to reduce the salaries of those who are atleast assured ? job. * Ne Japanese Brutality The world now understands full well that | war is nopick tea affair, that it means ter- rible slaughter and bloodshed. The war of 11914 to 1918 demonstrated that. Yet, if the "reports from China are true, the whole of western civilization must stand aghast at 'the brutality, which is being practised by the Japanese in their strife with China. We read in news despatches from highly authentic sources of Chinese women and "children being butchered, being slain in cold blood, pf¥eivilians, who even in warfare, would be'protected, being ruthlessly killed by the overzealous Japa- nese troops. This is one definite reason why any 'sympathy which might have existed for he Japanese cause is being dissipated as sh day brings fresh reports of atrocities. pan may have been insulted by the Chinese. 'Japan may have suffered as a sult. of the economic boycott which has "be imposed by China. Japanese goods may have been destroyed by the Chinese . Japanese lives may have -been bandits in Manchuria. Yet these , in the eyes of people of the western tion, do not justify the campaign of sm which has been instituted by the soldiery. of prisoners world's opinion of Japan has changed 'wery rapidly. The last thirty years have 'seen Japan acquire a certain amount of western civilization. Japan has been given honored place among the great powers the world. But the actions of the Japa- armies, in the last few days, have n suggestive of a rapid descent to the of savagery, have shown that the r of western civilization has been off very quickly, and the Jap is od * municipalities, revealed as a ruthless and savage being. One can understand that the nations of the world do not want to have a general outbreak of warfare, but Japan could be brought low without a single shot being fired by Europe or the United States. A financial and economic Blockade on Japan would be even more effective than a declar- ation of war. So, while understanding why the great powers do not wish to precipitate an armed conflict with Japan, it is difficult to understand why the strongest possible economic pressure is not brought to bear in order to put an end to the campaign of terrorism which has been initiated by the Japanese armed forces. While China suf- fers, the rest of the world is standing by, the protests of the great nations are being flouted by Japan, and the sword of war is being flaunted in the face of the whole civilized world in a spirit of the most ar- rogant bravado. One cannot tell what is going to happen from day to day, but if the yellow man of Nippon is to be brought to his senses, then there must be concerted action of a denfiite character in the very near future. The Economy Wave It is interesting to read reports of meetings of municipal councils all over the province of Ontario. In every meeting the keynote of economy is being sounded. City, town and county councils are concentrating on ways and means of reducing expendi- tures, of lightening the burdens of taxation which weigh so heavily upon the backs of the people. Since it is absolutely essential that the masses of the people be called upon to pay a lesser amount of taxation, this is a healthy sign. It indieates that municipal bodies realize the seriousness of the situation which faces them, that it is their duty to make it as easy as possible for their ratepayers to meet their tax obligations. Individual citizens, in the last two years, have had to tighten up their belts and reduce their spending, because they have not had as much money to spend. Municipal councils, while late in recogniz- ing this factor, are now doing their part in reducing the cost of living. It now remains for the province of Ontario, by lightening the demands made upon the to do its share in cutting public expenditures, and if the government does its part, then it will be possible for the average man to view the prospect of paying his tax-bills with a great deal more ease of mind than has been the case for some years, Editorial Notes Isn't it strange that the great nations like Britain and the United States are allewing Japan to tell them to mind their own business. Salary cuts are always distasteful, but in these days a job is still a job. It is not surprising that a feeling of pessimism existed at the opening of the disarmament conference. One wonders that it has been possible to hold it at all with. the world in such a state of chaos. Why spend money sending a deputation from the city council to St. Catharines when a three cent stamp would bring all the information necessary on the operation of a relief store? | Other Editor's Comments y TREE BUTCHERY (Kingston Whig-Standard) "A Lover of Trees" complains about giant trees having been cut down in the northwest part of the city. It will be interesting to know whether these trees were cut down with the proper author- ity, or whether any serious thought at all was given to this matter, Might we commend to the City Council a more careful guarding of the trees. They are one of Kingston's greatest attractions and greatest assets, It takes a lifetime for a fine tree to come to maturity vet some ruthless servant of an utilitarian corpora- tion can chop it down in an hour. It may be that no tree on any street is cut down without the per- mission of the City Council, If so may we suggest that in the future permission be withheld unless there is a very good reason for it being given. The ht to cut down trees should be entrusted to no Hi HEA official. It should be a matter dealt with ho by the' elected representatives of the people. As Captain Plunkett reminded his hearers in his musical rendering of the well-known poem at "The Dumbells" : "Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree" # BITS OF HUMOR "Drink," said the Irish preacher, "is the greatest curse of the country, It makes ye quarrel with yer neighbors. It makes ye shoot at yer landlord. And it makes ye miss him." 'BITS OF VERSE HER LIGHT The village street was dark at night That was the reason why In a front window beamed a light, To aid those who went by. This house was where two highways met, -- The years had left it still; But nought could make that dame forget This kindness to fulfil, Though in the tasks of every day She might no longer share, Thus . . . for a little space . Lit up life's thoroughfare, ~Alexandg Louis Fraser, « her ray pers sternly. (Copyright, 1038) YOUR CHILD AND THE EYES Part "3" It was thought at one time that eyestrain was chiefly a matter of advancing age. It is proven how- ever, that more than half the de- fects have nothing to do with either old age or even middle age but are due to defects common tg the cyes and may be found in the eyes of the child as in the eyes of those of more mature years. A common carly sign of defective vision or eyestrain, showing even where the vision is good, is a pre- velance of headaches in the brows, temples, or back of the head. Inability to see in the distance, a fading away or running together of print, are so ohvious as signs of something wrong with the vision, that no one will neglect thet. But when it comes to tiredness, bilious- ness, neuralgia and nervousness, and soreness of the eyes, these symp- toms are not so readily recognized as applying to some uncorrected defect of the eyes. (To be Continued) The Word of God THE CHRISTIAN'S MISSION --Preach, saying, The kingdom of licaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: frecly ye have re- ceived, freely 'give~Matthew 10 E. P. CHASE, EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC (IOWA) DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAPH, SAYS: "It might be well for those who contemplate with alarm the tederal treasury deficit to consider that as long as the way to the public bank- roll is cleared Yor various groups of the country whose members seem to think that Uncle Sam is Santa Claus, a deficit is the logical result "Too many people seem to carry the idea src YS with them that the government has some mysterious way of getting money and that that same government ig a thing apart from themselves. 'Lhe fact is that the United States government has no way of getting money except from its ci tizens and is m up of everyone of thém, It is ne ot Sonic for the United States treasury to be persistently raided and the budget be sustained in a balanced condition, Specifically, the treasury cannot pay out a halt bilhon dollars to a farm marketing program, which scems to have lacked the support of the farmers, and hundreds of millions to this group and that group and the other and not arrive at the time when there is no more money in the treasury. 'There is nothing complicated about the proposition, nothing which the ordinary citizen cannot understand. If the govern- ment pays out all of its money, the time 'can but arrive when there is no more to pay out. It is obvious too, that the raids on the of one sort aad another must cease or our federal finances will be in a sorry mess, Neither a government nor an individual can pay more than it has and remain solvent, 'THE 'PEOPLE. OF THIS COUNTRY WILL SOONER OR LATER FIND IT NECESSARY TO GET THAT FACT FIXED IN THEIR MINDS AND FRAME THEIR ACTIVITIES ACUCORD- INGLY." . During the "rush hour" a femin- ine voice was heatd trom the steps of a crowded car saying, "Oh, get in, dear; someone will give us a seat!" The next moment two la- dies entered. The men in the car were on their mettle, The read pa- Those who had no papers closed their eyes and pre- tended to slumber, The ladies glar- ed down the car in vain. For half a mile the car went on. Then a man alighted. "There's a. seat for one," said the conductor. "Don't take it, dear!" said one of the ladies loudly. "Some man will want it." Take a Luden's and get relief in just 10 sec- onds. LUDEN'S MENTHOL COUGH DROPS by €. H. Tuek, Opt. D treasury | SOVIET PREPARES FOR WAGING WAR Russia Must Be Ready For Defense at Any Minute Moscow, Feb. 2. -- The Red Army and the Russion proletariat are to hold themselves ready dat any minute to defend the Soviet Union. This stirring appeal was made by Premier Viacheslay Molotov, it was learned Sunday, at the open- ing conference of the Communist Party in the gilded St. Andrew's hal' of the Kremlin, Behind locked doors, Molotov accused Japan of waging open put undeclared war on China and warned Communists to beware of peace pacts. "Events in China, especially in Shanghai," he sala, "clearly show that the borderline between war and peace is increasingly difficult to distinguish, Wars begin with- out declarations and generals' heels crush the independence of great peoples, at the same time that government heads are speechifying on disarmament and peace at solemn conferences. Must All Be Ready We would be fools to take peace resolutions over-seriously. We must all be ready to defend the Soviet, "The White Russian guards in Manchuria and Paris are openly planning a buffer state in Man- churia and interventionists of the 1918 type are astir. It is not accidental that Alexander Keren- sky and M. Miliukov have pro- ceeded to Prague. We know they find well informed provocators there." Molotov alluded, concerning Prague, to Dr, Karl Vanek Czech | third secretary of the diplomatic m'ssion here, who was | expelled on charges of attempting to bring about a Russo-Japanese war by having Japanese Ambagsa- dor Hirota assassinated. Creating Arsenals Berlin, Feb. 2. --Ruesia is ghrding for war, meanwhile maintaining strict neutrality in | Manchuria only because she {is | unwilling and unable to fight Ja- | pan alone, word trickling through the tight Soviet censorship today declared, Reports stated Moscow is pre- raring for any eventuality by or- deyving several apzicultural ma- chinery plants, notably the gigan- tie Selmashstroy and Rostov fac- tories, converted. to the manufac- ture of shells and rifles under | G.P.U, (Soviet Secret Police) | risnagement, | These reports aroused little | more than passing interest ini Berlin, since the German Govern- | ment has already announced its | neutrality. Germany has nothing but indirect interest in the Far East. The Moscow advices fur- ther stated that Russia's sudden reduction of grain exports was prompted by a desire to pile up tood reserves in case of war, German militarists say the Russian Far East army command- ed by General Bleucher, is far superior to the Japanese roreces in Manchuria but that its action weuld be hampered by poor trans-Siberian communications, RECA'LS SPEED OF OLD SHIPS Sailing Vessels Had Won- derful Record for At- lantic Crossing Halifax, N.8.--When column- ists write about clipper ships they should be very careful because in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick there are many old sailors and their descendants who hug the memory of those romantic and colorful vessels of the last cen tury. A recent assertion that the American ship Dreadnaught had made the fastest Atlantic crossing under sail is challenged by Roy Nicholson, 243 Robie Street, Hali- ax, who has written the follow- ing Ly Authorities seem to agree that such a claim has no foundation in fact. 1 quote from "Greyhounds of the Sea' by Carl C, Cutter, (G P. Putnam and Sons, 1930), In his article 'The Dreadnaught of Newburyport," F. B. C. Bradlee cites the occasion when the ship left New York on IPebruaty 27, 1859, and quotes Captain Sam- uel's letter (dictated in 1908) for the statement that she was off Queenstown nine . days and seventeen hours out. "Captain Clark disposes of this claim in seemingly conclusive manner, (p. 246 'Clipper Ship Era") giving the abstract 'of th Dreadnaught"s log showing that when nine daps and twenty-one hours out from Sandy Hook she was more than 400 miles from Queenstown. -In any case the al- 18ged reccrd is not a 'port to nort' one and, in consequence, is of little intergst or significance, After passing Cape Clear for what port was she bound and how long did it take her to get there? "The fastest crossing to the eastward would appear to be that of the McKay clipper "James Raines." made in September 1854, From Boston Light to Rock Light, Liverpool, her time was 12 days, 9 hours (p. 289, "Some Famous Ships and their builder, Dopald McKay") Taking into account the distance travelled the trip of the"Mary Whitridge made in June, 1855--from Baltimore to the Eng- lish Channel in 1214 days is per bsye the fastest crossing on rec- ord, "The 'dock to dock' record of the Red Jacket, New York to Liv- erpool in 13 days one hour and twenty-five minutes would be hard to beat, However the Con- quest of Saint John, N.B., made a dock to dock crossing from that city to Liverpool in 13 days 9 hours during the fifties, The Con- guest wag built at Hopewell, N, B., by Azor Betts for John D. Pur- dy. Her captain was Jacob Brew- er, ('In the Wake of the Wind Ships' Wallace, p. 35). "Close behind this is the rec- ord of another Saint John ship, the White Star, built by W. and R. Wright, at Courtenay Bay and commanded by Captain Richard Wright. She galled from Saint Saint John to Liverpool in 14 days during November, 1854 "Other fast eastward trips are those of the Southampton, New York to Falmouth, June 1850, in 13 days and 12 hours, Also .that of the Typhoon, Portsmouth, N. H., to Liverpool, in the same time during May, 1851. "For the westward crossing, 1 can find no record to equal that of the "Howard D. Troop" of Saint Jchn, N.B. Under the command of Captain Raymond Parker this steel ship is credited with a pas- sage of 14 days from Greenock te New York, February, 1892, The trip from Tory Island (North of Ireland) to anchorage in New York harbor was made in 13 days, 2 hours (p. 172, "In the Wake of the Wind ah ). "The record for wooden ships fs probably held by the famouse clipper ship Andrew Jac kson, Liv- erpool to New York in 15 days during November, 1860. This is the ship which is said to have broken the record of the Flying Cloud, on the New York to San Francisco run. "The picture of the Dread- naught as published shows her to he more of the 'packet' than of the 'extreme clipper' build, I he- lieve that the first six crossings averaged only 2414 days, Also that during her long career her rreatest day's run was 345 miles, This figure has been exceeded by a good many Canadian ships. "The Howard I. Troop is cred- ited with 351 miles in September 21, 1909, when comparatively an id ship. Ly he famous McKay clip- ner ships Lightning and Donald MeKay, Sovereign of the md James Batnes, are credited vith runs of 436, 421 430 and 123 miles respectively, "Apparently it took a 'grey- hound of the seas' to cross the Atlantic in thirteen days even In the 'Golden Age of Sail' Such heing the case, the Dreadnanght's record will stand a lot of 'prove ng.» INXIFTY FELT FOR CANADIAN ">urna'ist From Domi-ion Missi~e From Sh-nghai Settlement fais, Shanghai, Feb, 2. -- was felt today whereabouts of Henry Beénson Currie, described as a Canadian journalist, who entereds the bat- 'le-rearred Chapel area of Shang- hal Sunday, carrying a Union Jack, to bring out the mother of i Chinese friend, He hag been misging since Sunday, ! After venturing into Chapei section and bringing back his wife and two children, as wel as his Chinese acquaintance, Cur- rie returned for the mother of the Chinese, Many were killed in the area into which Currie has vanished. Currie carried a slip of paper 'vseribed in Chinese characters: "You must follow me out, I am a British subject, and your son asked me to fetch you." DIN NOT APPOINT NEW COMMITTEE Purchasing Committee of Council To Be Con- sidered Later The matter of re-appointing a 'urchasing Committee as a stand- ng committees of the City Coun- cil was referred to the Finance Committee at last night's meet- ma The question was Introduced by Ald. Boddy who moved that the Purchasing Committee he ap- rointed, and be composed of the chairmen of the four standing committees, This . resolution, however, did not meet with the complete ap- rroval of the council, and on the motion of Ald. Jackson, seconded hy Ald. Bunker, the matter was reterred to the Finance Commit Anxiety i regarding the CAT ATTENDED | SOCIAL EVENT Was Guest at Literary Lunch Held Recently in London Winnipeg, Man.--A cat at the' table of a literary lunch, The shade of the creator of 'Alice in Wonderland" might have smiled whimsieally if he had been pres- ent at a luncheon given at Foyles Boonshop in London to literary people, at which Elinor Glyn was | present and brought her cat *'in order to train it to be polite." H, Wade told this story of what he had geen and heard when in London sumetime ago, address- ing the monthly dinner of the Winnipeg Authors' Association, He told also of being present at Arnold Bennett's funeral, on the strength of his membership in the Association. After the dinner Rev. Dr. Gor- "ym---Ralph Connor--gave de- lightful reminiscences, worthy of wider audience. Hig topic was the magic of association. While in London he had John Burns, M.P,, for cicerone, (The latter is, by the way, a military authority firmly convinced that he should have been Minister of Militia dur- ing the war), He knows London in every aspect, having a wonderful library on the city. They drove to sce it, being assured it would take 20 minutes to get there. Three-quarters of an hour later they reached the place. "I do not remember one thing in the libra- y,"! declared Dr, Gordon, "but 1 shall never forget that I lecture on the city's associations, which I received from John Burns as we made leisurely progress, look- ing at each building, grey with past memories," GREENHORN PLAYS TRICK ON CALVES Calgary, Alta, -- Tales of the greenhorn on the farm are many and. varied but a Gleichen, Alta,, farmer comes forward with one that should head the list. The farmer related how he instructed his hired lad to "salt a calf in the pasture." 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