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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932 The Oshawa Daily Time. Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY PEFORMER (Established 1871) ---- #2 independent newspaper published every after- noun except Sundays and legal holidays at Osb- awa, Capada, by The Times Publishing Com- pany of Oshawa, Limited. Chas, NM. Mundy, President, A, F. Alloway, Managing Director, The Oshawa Daily Timez is a member of The Canadian Press, the Capadian Daily News- paper Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES a bath livered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, Baie oo. By mali] in Canada (outside Osh- awa carrier delivery limits) $2.00 a year. Un'ted States $4.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE 18 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Tele- phooe Adelaide 0107. HH. DI, Tresidder, repre- sentative. SATURDAY, APRIL 23rd, 1982. A Difficult Task The meeting of citizens called to discuss the situation in Oshawa arising out of un- employment was productive of some good. It brought forth a number of practical suggestions whereby conditions, so far as looking after the workless and their families are concerned, could be improved. Those who expressed their views spoke in a serious vein, fully realizing that it was no light problem that had to be solved, and all showed a desire to help in its solution. It was significant that time and again * the view was reiterated that greater help would have to be forthcoming from the provincial and federal governments before 7. the situation could be met in a satisfactory manner. The problem has, apparently, gone beyond the power of the city to handle it alone, for the financial require- ments would be tremendous. Financial aid in a large measure is necessary, and, since the municipalities are finding the burden too great for them to bear, it is plainly incumbent upon the governments, with their greater powers of raising money, to come to their assistance in a more gener- ous manner than has been done so far. Oshawa is not alone in this problem, and it is likely that other cities and towns will be making their requests to the govern- ment for greater aid. The chief part of the problem for which aid is required is that of providing shelter for.the unemploy- + ed and their families, and if the govern- ment would include expenditures for relief in the purposes for which they are willing to give aid, the situation would be greatly simplified. The net result of the meeting--the appointment of a committee to dig into the situation and suggest ways and means of handling it was as much as could be expected. The committee itself is a splen- did one, composed of men with consider- able business and municipal experience, It should be able to devise some practical suggestions for dealing with the conditions which exist. But one must not be too optimistic, about what it will be able te do. The task which lies ahead of the committee is a difficult one, and it will tax the best brains of the community to deal w?+: it. One can only hope that, by Will concentrating attention on the more serious phases of the local problem, it will be possi= ble to produce some remedies which will make life at least a little brighter for those unfortunate people who are suffering because of lack of work. Ferguson And Campaign Funds At the Orde Commission inquiry into the hydro-electric affairs of Ontario, former &= Premier Ferguson blandly, but neverthe- "= less emphatically, informed the commission o that he had no knowledge of who was £2 responsible for the collection of the Con- : gervative party funds in the 1929 general election campaign." He knew there was == a fund, but where it came from and who . was responsible for raising it, he claimed, "= were matters entirely foreign to him. To i. him, it was just like Topsy, it "growed up." It seems difficult to swallow statements = of that kind. One hates to doubt Mr. Ferguson's veracity, but it seems quite == fllogical to believe that the head of a great political party would know nothing of who * was in charge of its finances. We give Mr. Ferguson credit for being too shrewed a politician and too keen a business man to remain ignorant very long of the source 'of the money with which election bills were paid. ) The whole truth of the matter is that = there is some sort of a conspiracy to keep J secret all dealings in connection with politi- cal party funds and contributions to them. No one is willing to admit having had any- =. thing to do with them, except those already ". incriminated by evidence given at other inquiries. And so long as that attitude + is maintained, very little of the real truth on this subject will become known. 1. _ After reading the evidence which Mr. | 1. Ferguson gave at the Senate inquiry into i i Beauharnois affairs, and what he had to . ©. say at the Toronto investigation, one won- . w.ders why he thought it worth while to . & come all the way from England to give his i =. testimony. All that he has contributed, in _ Mo a practical way, can be summed up in the words of an old negro being tried for chicken-stealing, who told the judge, "I don't know nothing about nothing." HE The enquiry so far has been notable just as much for what has been withheld as for what has been revealed, nut political inquiries have a habit of being like that, and no one is expecting that very much of tangible value will come from it. Penalties Of Public Life The whole British Empire, if not the whole world, is looking with sympathy towards Premier Ramsay MacDonald in the affliction which is threatening him. Some time ago, he underwent an operation on one of his eyes, with the object of re- moving a condition which had become troublesome. It now develops that the operation was not a success, and that both eyes are now affected. His physicians have ordered complete rest, but driven by ther compelling urge of public duty, he is stay- ing at his post, even to the extent of going to Geneva for the League of Nations con- ference. Were he relieved of the strain of his public office, it might be possible for Ram- say MacDonald to recover from his afflic- tion. But Great Britain today needs his leadership. His personality has had a tremendous influence on the manner in which the country has struggled through its difficulties. He is today the outstand- ing man in British public life, Yet, for his service, he is paying a heavy penalty. Not naturally a robust man, he is giving every ounce of his physi- cal and nervous energy for his country. And the penalty is his broken health, his threatening blindness. It would be a catastrophe were he to be stricken blind at the height of his career, and British people everywhere will join in a fervent prayer that he may be enabled to take sufficient rest to overcome his affliction and once again regain the strength which is so much needed for the guidance of Britain through the difficult days which still lie ahead. Editorial Notes Britain is doing not so badly in raising her tariffs for a country which has had free trade for many generations, These fine spring days should make it possible for many citizens to give a man a job. Look around and see what work vou can have done now. The Canadian Legion is giving fine leadership to the city in laying out garden land as plots for unemployed veterans. Our suggestions for assistance to the unemployed in providing them with the means of growing their own foodstuffs seems to have fallen on deaf ears so far. It would be a good thing to have this start- ed now, as the weather conditions are just right for gardening. Already it begins todook as if the hydro investigation were fully justified. May Day this year will find millions of laborers the world over without any labor, Things have been so quiet at Ottawa recently that it scems like the calm before a storm. | Other Editor's Comments WHERE GOLD IS NOT WEALTH (St. Th nas Times: Journal) I'here are people in high plices who say there is nobody starviig in the United States, There are Representatives | Senators who play politics with the tax bill which will help put the country back on its ie€t. And there are vaults in the country which are jammed to the doors with gold; more gold than there is in all the other countries in the world put together. Which again shows that gold is not wealth, and that while the politicians prefer that European countries should keep sending them gold and more gold in payment of war debts, and put up prohibitive tariff barriers that shut off trade altogether, Am an citizens hunger and die. BITS OF HUMOR PLATE WAS DIRTY Customer (indignantly)--Surely, waiter, you are not wiping that plate with your handkerchief? rescotr=Timy all right, sir; it's only a dirty plate BITS OF VERSE ig EARLY SPRING Once more the Heavenly Power Makes all things new, And domes the red-plowed hills With loving blue; The blackbirds have their wills, The throstles, too. Opens a door in Heaven, From skies of gliss 'A Jacob's ladder falls On greening grass, And o'er the mountain walls Young angels pass. The woods with living airs, How softly fanned! Light airs from where the deep, All down the sand, Is breathing in his sleep, Heard by the land. 'For now the Heivenly Power Makes all things new, And thaws the cold and fills The flower with dew: The blackbirds have their wills, The poet, tod. --Tennyson, THe Town Crier QlOTE ~The i exprscsed in this each Saturdsy must mot con. strued 88 being those The Osbaws Times. They are independent ions sontributed by The "Crier' uirssell znd must be interpreted ss such, Comments this column should be adiressed he Town Cries," in care of The Oshawe ily Times.) Ii the Town Crier went and placed himself in the mayor's chair a few minutes before the opening of a city council meeting, or if any regular reader of this column did the same thing, what would he na- turally expect to happen? From this question arises a second --Why did it not happen on Monday night? A vacillating, week-kneed aftitude, with a tendency to argue with wrong-doers rather than to promptly put them in their proper place, usually leads to trouble, and such an attitude towards wrong- doers, distuthbers of the peace, and other undesirables will lead to trouble in Oshawa just as certainly "as the sparks fly upward". There is a happy medium somewhere mid- way between that of the "mailed fist" and the "shrinking violet" which city officials and civic bodies must adopt. if trouble is to be avoided. LJ LJ » Once again, futile and unfruitful though it may be, the author of this column, with the coming of spring, would urge upon the Oshawa Police Department that it make a real ef- fort to enforce the Highway Traf- having lights on their machines af- ter dark. Already the streets are being ysed hy men, women, girls and bovs who ride bicycles, and who never by any chance carry a light at night. So far as the law is con- cerned these people, no matter how young or how old they may be, are "outside the pale" should they figure in any collision or accident They would have no redress in any court if they were injured or their property damaged while, on the other hand, they place themselves inary tion where they are defin- ite! ries sustained by 1agkes to other i ar C cumsta ly y they are also liable, under section 9 (5) of the Highway Traffiv Act, to a com paratively severe penalty, . +» At the mecting held on Thursda night in the Genosha Hotel to dis- cuss relief problerss, several! non members of the Property Owners Association called attention to the undoubted fact that landlords, clase, are entitled "to absolutely more consideration than other types of business men when it comes to wavs and means by btain revenue t ot} } considering which they may rates, ver blir It » quite true great necessit that hard to ol Hawkes as city 5 assur [AM and careful guida Council in their deliberations. M or Hawkes has a wide experience municipal affairs gained by many vears of experience, and the alder- men made no mistake in selecting him to succeed ex-Mayor Petes Macdonald on the latter's resigna- tion being received. . » ayor of Oshaw: » for the City Many men of coniparatively smal! means are taced with the task of digging their back gardens during th: next few weeks. For men with "white collar jobs", and for men who are, perhaps, at work as a mechanic or tradesman all day, dig- ging is by no meang an easy job The can easily escape this task, at tlie same time: assist the whol community and still have the job done quickly and properly by apply- ing to the Employment Bureau for one of Oshawa"s unemployed to come and do the actual spade work. Any one of the six or seven hun- dred idle married men in the city will be onlv too glad to help out. . v Have you heard Oshawa"s latest song hit, soon to be placed on sale by all beok stores,--""Let Me Call You Eddie"? THE TOWN CRIER. BAD WINTER IN SWEDEN Stockholm, Sweden. ~The Swedish lumber industry had a bad winter. Scant snowfall and the mild temper- atures hampered logigng and trans- port of lumber, and were it not that the prevailing depression in the in- dustry curtailed operations anyway there might be a serious shortage of lo.s thig year, Heavy gales in July of last year, and later in December and January, arc estimated to have blown down 13,000,000 trees, owners sustaining losses which will be felt for several years. AUSTRALIAN SAINT Melbourne, Australia, -- Aus- tralia, in a few years' dime, is likely to possess a saint of her owu--=St, Mary MecKillbp, tound- er of the order of the Sisters of St. Joseph, according to Father E. Carroll, who has returned to Me'bourne from a visit to Ire- land. Steps for her beatifica- tion were commenced more than u year ago, and it is now likely that she will be canonized. Mary MeKillop was born in Fitzroy in 1542, and founded the order of the Sisters of St. Joséph in a dls- used gtable in Penola, South Aus- tralia, in 1865. A -------- hint. While some people are making mistakes others are making pro- 'gress.--~Brandon Sun, fic Act insorar as it effects cyclists | by €. H. Tusk, Opt. B "Copprignt, 1938), CONICAL CORNEA OR KERATOCONUS Part 6 Accounts of adhesive lenses and their uses has brought certain en- quirieg for information so we con- sidered it timely to repeat on our series of articles entitled Conical Cornea. It is quite true that a lens fully concave and thick at the edges would be impossible to use in any of these cases, The protrusion of the conical part to a point is so great that practical- ly all of these cases are highly my- opic at the point and less myopic as you move in any meridian away from this centre and it is possible in some cases, to find a convex correction on the outer edges. In this then lies the solution of an otherwise physical or mechanical impossibility. The concave centre would con- form to the highly convex cone of the eyeball and the more hyperopic the error to the edge would render the correction proportionally more convex until the edge could be reached with quite a thin edge in place of the thick edge as in a com- pletely or concave correc- tion. myopic (To be Continued) Miami, Florida.-- The most ex- pensive thing about a store is a sasey or indifferent clerk. » . " When a city shows signs of progre it {8 usually 1usge the city has a live Cham- ber of Commerce, and not on ae- count of its favorable location, "9. It seems that an essential fea- ture in polities in some sections is that on the part of some to wear down the other side by a continuous. flow of wild storles which no one can overtake, and thereby black is made white and white black. A pipe dream here and there can be counteracted, but there are so many on both s.les--80 many of them that only a few can be answered. If one sido aecuse the other of turn- ing the moon into green chécse irom haga motives, lots of peo- ple would not only believe, but go inte mourning over it, . . . eness, | per adverti | temers and keep the cash register { ringing. Wit! he lectit tt Thomes | this | level-headed | A nlee looking store and stock give a lot of sat a merchant, but it takes ing to'attract the cus- . » . Electrical appliances should be | in every home, They lighten ia- ber; in fact, they are the great- est labor savers in the world for the home, where "ork must be dune every day regardless of sea- son or weather, Worth while lines are advertised, LJ LJ » The day of drawing new indus- tries to a city that does not pre- sent its advantages to the world is past, . LJ LJ Optimism will replace distrust and misunderstanding with con- fidence and faith. Be an opti- mist! » LJ LJ You should always remember that there are two sides to every question. You might be on the wrong side, If so, won't hesitate to get on the right side. . . LJ When your local merchants have special values you can al- ways find them mentioned in thei: ads. Read the advertise- ments! MIND AND BRAIN NOT SYNONYMOUS Cornell University Has Coliection of Brains of Noted People Ithaca, N.Y.--You may have a big mind without having a big brain; at least that is a deductron that might be made after a comparative stud of more than 2000 human cerebrums now in the Burt G. Wild- er collection at Cornell University. The collection, constantly - being enlarged, now contains the brains of such eminent persons as Profes- sors Chauncey Wright and James Oliver, mathematicians; George Knight, physician and poet; Henry A. Ward, collector and traveler; Senator B. G. Ferriss and his wife; and Doctors J. C. Reeves and Daniel S. Lamb, physiologists. The largest of them all, however, and one of the first obtained is that of Edward Rulloff, central figure in one of New York State's most no- torious early murder mysteries, who was hanged at Binghamton in the 19th century, The average weight of the male brain is 48 ounces; Rul- loff"s weighs 10 ounces more. His skull in the thinnest part was three- eights of an inch thick, and nearly all of it was fully an inch thick, of twice ag thick as the average. The late Dr. Wilder, who collects ed most of the cerebrum found: his be- | work hampered by the difficulty of obtaining normal brains, or brains of high mentality. It was through his efforts that a large number of persons willed their brains o the university collection. Dr. Wilder himself made provisions in his will directing that the same disposition be made of his own. He died Janu- ary 22, 1925, NOTED CAFE TO CHANGE HANDS Romano's, in London, Eng- land, Offered for Sale as Going Concern London. -- Romano's is to be sola as a going concern, = Many a man far from London, now staid and grey-headed, will hear the news with more than a flick- er of interest. Thirty or forty years ago Romano's Restaurant in the Strand was perhaps the rreatest Bohemian rendezvous in [.ondon. It had a romantic foundation. Alfonso Romano-- known to everybody as 'the Ro- man" started the place as a little fried fish shop and shooting gal- lery with the savings he nad made a8 a waiter at the Cafe Royal. Good cooking and an at- mosphere of easy-going fellow- ship brought to Rmano"s a crowd of sporting writers, actors, artists, racing men and the like. Naturally these battalions of reg- ular habitues were reinforced by a powerful auxiliary corps of "voung bloods." King Edward as Prince of Wales had a private dining room at Romano's. Ameng less eralt- ed notables to ho found there was Phi! May who #ould cover sheet after sheet wifh hig inimitable black-and-white sketches. Gearge Edwards the creator of musical comedy often brought along a bevy of his beauty chorus from the Gaiety, Not a few of these ladles marrie§ happily into the peerage, Romano died in 1901. That was in the middle of the Boer War and it is sald the 1.0. U.'s Romano held from the ab- sent-minded" of commissioned rank totalled $160,000, Following Roman's death the business was conducted by a CONS The present sale does not nec rily mean that the fa- mous restaurant will be closed. MRS. GARLYLE'S LETTERS SHOW FINE QUALITIES Writings of Wife of Noted Author Have Been Published DEPOSIT BOXES For rent- London, --- Letters from Mrs. Carlyle to her husband's' secre- 33. and up per Annum, tary, Joseph Neuberg, written be- FOR tween 1848-52, have just been SAFE 'KEEPING OF VALUABLE published. "I have a whole- DEEDS, BONDS ETC. some terror of analysis; it has spoiled for me so many beautiful CENTRAL CANADA things in life," she writes. 'The Times Literary Supplement IPAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY thinks that "her two letters of 23 SIMCOE ST. N., OSHAWA distraction from 5 Cheyne Row, written in time of houseclean- ing and renovation, should not be missed." And in others she managers to portray herself characteristically. ESTABLISHED 1884 Ea inmate of the room; 'to see an ancient article in use. I began to think of the number of peo- ple who had used it -- and I didn't sleep well that night)" Here are her humor and irrita- bility, her vivacity and contrar- fety, expressed in her undressed MINISTERS WIFE IS NOTED PREACHER strle of dashes and exlamations and utderlinings. She is emo- tional and '"'snappish"; solicitous about Carlyle and ready to quizz his oddities, as though he were a stranger observed from without. She has her tearful fits, not knowing why, or particularly caring to know. "Neuberg's foreign effusiveness and respectful gallantry evident- iy amused her, and provoked rdajllery," said the Times. "Pos- sibly, also, he may have bored her with his seriousness, his 'neaviness,'" as she once termed it. But he had captured her by send- ing her straighway valued mem- orizls of his dead wife, and hy remembering her birthdays. La- vish in attentions, he assists her in the handling of manuscripts | thrust upon her; plays chess with | lier: organizes little walks and parties, She could not but ack- nowledge the transparently gen- eroug nature of Neuberg, and almost allowed herself to be con- vinced that he was moved by personal kindness towards her end regarded her as something more than 'Mr. Carlyle's wife." London. -- Mrs. J. B. Binns, wife of the Congregational min- ister at Markham-square, Chel~ sea, is as much a preacher as her hushand. After taking her de- gree in Scotland she cut adrift from the early religious teaching L Scottish home. Her hus- L) e fo ved similar lines. Bu! along wNh her husband she later "'enlisted) for the adventure of Christian service" through the preaching and influence of Maude Royden. As .a trained speaker, Mrs. Binns makes a strong appeal to women workerg and also to the average congregations. She has [requently deputized for Dr. Maude Royden at Ecclestone- square Guildhouse. FENCING DANGEROUS BRE Li 1dbergh crossed the Atlantic WAS MARRIED IN HISTORIC House) London. -- A feminine corres- pordent of the News-Chronicle writes: "I was much {interested and not a little flurried at the rapid passage of the years, when I read in your paper a few days uzo that 'the first wedding-*at the Friends' Meeting House, Jor- dang, for 80 years, took place there on Easter Monday." To niake sure 1 have not been spend- ing some 60 years in dreamless sleep, T have looked up a printed record, and find that I was in- deed married at the same house faction to | newspa- | on February 12, 1913. I under- stand, then, that our wedding was the first celebrated there for 100 Tn any case na heen by a stream of weddings world valley." years. followed | MODERN HAWAII CHANGED PLACE Famous Beach at Waikiki Is Compared to Coney Island Montreal, Que. -- In Honolulu you won't see Hula maidens swaying in straw skirts to the strumming of ukeleles. Miss V. M. Dominus, from the Hawalian Taiands, sald when interviewed here, enroute to England: "There are very few palms to give myth- fea] shelter to the youths who are supposed to sit beneath them strumming sweet music for the maidens, Of course there can be seen hula dances, put on by the tourist bureau for the delecta- tion of the visitor, but it is not the real Hawaii. Much publicity bas been given to the famous beach of Waikiki, on Oahu Island, but it is more like Coney Island than anything else I can think of. Modern Honolulu is a big city with buildings and trams much like those in your own city." 3 SAYS ANNOUNCERS VOICES ARE WEIRD Toronto, Ont.--"' Bride Broder," says in Mail and Empire: 'This world is full of mysteries and one of them is the perplexing ques- tfon of why, with better material to choose from, so many radio an- nouncers seem to have heen se- lected beeause of their weird pronunciations and still weirder voices. Hundreds of pleasant volces are, as you might say, kicking round, looking for a job. But do the radio moguls pick them up? They do not, They seem to comb the combable area for gome young thing who ought to be kept in school till his voice has ceased breaking, and till he has acquired sense enough to know that the sounds which issue from the lowest grade talkies are not the ne plus ultra of linguistic per fection. Things have been bad enough in the past what with pub. lic school teachers allowing 'wah. ter' and 'dahter' and 'slahter' and all the rest of it, and sometimes committing these atrocities thom. solves, But where, oh, where, will our English language be when the raucons young radio announc- er is allowed to set the fashion in voice culture?" i archery and fencing might be dan- in that delightful old- | Toronto, Ont. -- Fears that |a)| alone by plane, but Uncle Sam's racketeers do -cro in serous lines of sport to be al | Lethbridge Fauhie tFossed dim, lowed in Toronto schools were - : yoiced at a meeting of the school | Ng girl should marry i uanagement committee. Trus- | they've tried to pick out 2 an tee Minerva Reld asked whether (together. --Brandon Sun fencing was a recognized part of eer Thins the sport programme. 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