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Phe Oshawa Sines [ Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Tuesday, February 9, 1928 Modest Amount Devoted To Arctic, Sea Research It is a good thing that the federal government, while planning to cut costs in several departments, intends to put a greater effort into Arctic exploration and, research. Budget estimates tabled by Finance Minister Fleming last week indicate that the government will go shead with its exploration of the con- tinental shelf in the Arctic and will set up a hydrographic and oceanographic station at New Bedford, N.S. A start is also expected on the construction of an $8 million oceanographic research ship. The National Research Council will also receive $2.3 million more. The appropriation for the polar con- -tifiental shelf project will be $1,134,000, still quite a modest sum when one con- siders the work that must be done. The previous appropriation was $567,000, which 'proved to be wholly inadequate, and about $918,000 will have been spent by March of this year. The full- time staff of the northern undertaking will be increased from 28 to 35. The Hydrographic Service is earmarking $3.5 million more for construction of buildings, acquisition of land and equip- ment, and so on, and this will allow the Service to expand into the field of oceanography. Canada has lagged badly both in Arctic research and oceanography, and the increased budgets for these purposes are ericouraging signs that an effort is being made to make up for the omis- sions of the past. But as the amounts in the estimate indicate, it is still a very modest effort. Canada, with great oceans on three sides and a huge fresh-water system along a good part of the fourth, has a great and abiding interest in and de- pendence on the water about it, whether we acknowledge that interest or not. If we do not, we will suffer for it. The Arctic and sub-Arctic cover a considerable part of the Canadian land mass--a mass that will become more and more important as the world's population grows and its known resources diminish. We cannot afford any longer to dawdle in adding to our knowledge of our resources. Cats On Pelee Island There is an Alice -in- Wonderland quality to the story of the cats of Pelee Island. The news columns have told how eats, abandoned by cottage owners, trip- pers and residents, have become a plague on the island. They have been getting their protein by killing and consuming pheasants -- and the annual Pelee pheasant hunt, which draws sportsmen from far afield makes a substantial contribution to the island's economy. The islanders therefore pro- posed to hunt the cats, but Humane Society officials and cat-lovers made a fuss about the shooting of cats, and it was decided to try traps. But the wily island cats merely twitch their whiskers at the humane traps ---- and keep on killing pheasants. : Do pheasants have a lower "threshold of pain" than cats? It must be so, since Scaring The Life might be a lot easier for us all, the London Daily Mail suggests, if the medical world concentrated more on curing the sick and less on scaring the wits out of the healthy. Seven hundred business executives sat glumly in London's Festival Hall . .. listening to talk about the crippling penalties of doing too much work. Coronary thrombosis is waiting to pounce, warned Sir Daniel Davies, an eminent physician. Don't work at week- ends, don't take your brief case home, don't take telephone calls during lunch... The list of things prohibited was long and unnerving. Even if the high-pressure life did not attack the heart, they were warned, it would finally get at the stomach or the intestines. The Daily Mail continues: "We trust that this unhappy 700 went home invigorated and refreshed. We hope that they have now been insulated against any of the clinical catastrophies they have been told about. We fear very much that they won't have been. "For nothing, it has been established, is more likely to make a man suffer from a particular illness than anxiety over the fact that he might. Worry is the great menace to health. The Oshawa Times The {established 1871) ona the Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted) Members ot Canadian Daily Newspopers Publishers Association, The Canodion Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue Toronto, Ontario. 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool Dunborton, Orono Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont Columbus Fairport Begch, Greenwood Kinsale, Raglan, Blaockstcck, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope Pontypool and Newcastle not over 45c per week By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per year Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times Whitby Gazette and gunton, Tyrone, Enniskillen, there is no great outcry against the shooting of pheasants. Which is the more cruel, the shooting of a cat or the killing of a pheasant by a cat? Anyone who has seen a cat play with a mouse or a small bird would venture that the claws are more terrible than the gun. And to wander a bit further afield, how many of the cat-lovers believe in capital punishment, or think that wars are justified? If there are more humane ways than shooting of getting rid of cats that have reverted to a more or less wild state, then by all means let's use them. But it should not be forgotten that cats can do an enormous amount of damage to bird life. They make wonderful pets, but they become monsters when left to shift for themselves. The real blame, of course, lies with the thoughtless people who leave the animals to survive as best they can. Healthy "It is in America (where Sir Daniel got his list of "don'ts," he tells us) that this process has got really out of hand. They are suffering from what could almost be called an epidemic of hypo- chondria... "This, we hasten to say, does not appear to have resulted in people re- maining any healthier. Quite the reverse. It has gone so far that ulcers are looked upon as an accepted symbol of success "We must at all costs prevent this happening here, It would not be so bad if the pronouncements of the medical men were consistent. But they vary from month to month. - "Last August a New York doctor told the world that it was the monotony of shift-work which was responsible for ulcers, not the stress, strain, and respon- sibility of the executive life. "This contradicted an article in the Family Doctor last June which stated firmly that high-pressure executives are more prone to ulcers and heart attacks than any other group. And that it is not hard work but unfinished business nagging in the background that does the damage... "What are we to do, then? Whom are we to believe? "Perhaps we should take note of the view of Sir Winston Churchill, whe put down his ability to weather extra- ordinary strain and responsibility to "the management of a good wife." Bible Thoughts In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.--Ecclesiastes 1:1.8. But that's worth it -- if wisdom and knowledge are of the right kind and sorrow is mingled with sympathy. A well-trained mind and 'a loving heart increase the effectiveness of a helping hand. The God of love and peace shall be with you~II Corinthians 13::11. And so love and peace shall be with you. Both of thess we sorely need in a world of hatred and strife. But only that love and peace which come from God are genuine. IN HIS OWN BACKYARD QUEEN'S PARK Marked Improvement In Liberal Leader By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Liberal Leader Wintermeyer made his most ef- fective speech to date in the House in the throne debate. There was a most marked im- provement over last year. The Liberal leader had an as- surance he has not displayed be- fore. His speech was also better or- ganized than usual and he was making his points sharply and effectively. MORE EXPERIENCE Partial credit for this probably goes to the larger contingent of 21 members backing him up this year. But also there has been a pro- nounced development in Mr. Win- termeyer himself. The test of an election and the modest vote of confidence given him, plus a full year in office and intensive study of provincial problems has given him a better grasp of his job and the strength that goes with it It was almost startling, in fact, to see him standing up to Pre. mier Frost and not letting him take the play away. Mr, Frost, of course, is a master of house strategy. And one of his most expert strata- gems is interrupting an opposi- tion speaker But the Liberal leader now ap- parently has learned how to han- dle this . When the premier would rise to interject he would increase the REPORT FROM UK. Canada Displaying Products For Home By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- For the first time, Canada will this year be repre- sented by an elaborate display of the products of its factories, forests and farms at the mam- moth annual 'deal Home Exhibi- tion held at tthe Olympia in Lon- don. The Canadian exhibits will be featured in three separate sec- tions of this exhibition, which will be open to the public from March 1 to March 26. General products will be featured in the gallery of the Empire Hall. Food products will be shown in the gal- lery of the National Hall. A Can- ada Trend House, built complete in every detail will be featured on the ground floor of the Nat- ional Hall, GENERAL SECTION The object of the general pro- ducts section is to familiarize the. British public with the wide variety' of manufactured goods produced in Canadian factories. Canada's raw materials, -- timber, newsprint, wheat and other natural products are al- ready well known in the United Kingdom. But the wide range of manufactured goods available from Canada is less well known. The exhibit will feature num- erous products for use in the home or by the family, including electrical appliances, heaters, central heating units, sporting equipment, toys and dolls, foot- wear of various kinds, nursery requisites, outboard motors, hard- ware and tools, handicrafts, plas- tic housewares and fabrics, These Ne will all be items from Canada at competitive prices. The Food Products exhibition will show the British public the wide range of food products which can be secured from Canada. With the import restrictions now removed from practically all food products, it will provide an op- portunity to open up larger mar. kets for some products not im- ported to Britain, so far, in large quantities. The exhibits will ine clude products in which Canada excels -- rich red sockeye sal mon, apples, canned peaches, ap- ricots and tomato juice; various cake mixes, flour and confections -- to name only a few of the items. A Canadian split-level timber house will be built in the sec- tion devoted to housing trends. It is one of the prize-winning houses, details of which were published i British Columbia recently. The structure of the house will be sur- faced in Pacific Coast hemlock. Solid cedar decking will be used for the sweeping, low-pitched roof, and will be exposed a de- corative ceiling in part of the house. Douglas fir, in the forms of Jumber and plywood, and Can- adian maple flooring: will also be seen in the Canadian House at Olympia. The house has been designed as an attractive split. level structure suited for a slop- (ing site. The Canada Exhibition at Olym- pia is being sponsored by the Can- adian Government Exhibition Commission in London, a branch of the department of trade and commerce. FOR BETTER HEALTH Watch Child's Weight As Well As His Hei HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Many parents periodically measure the height of their growing youngsters. I know some who even mark off the rate of growth on the kitchen wall. They make sort of a ceremony of it. While this probably is great fun for theschildren and patents, I do wish all of you fathers and mothers of children betwaoen the ages of, say six and 12 or 13, would show more interest in watching the children's weight than in keeping a check on their height. DON'T COMPARE GROWTH It is useless to compare the growth of your child with the youngster next door and expect to reach some sort of an aver- age. Both family and biological background enter into each case. Thus, gro r do' the parts of the body Blow at a regular or even rate. t the age of six a child's head will be about as big as it is going to get, At this stage of dé velopment, a youngster"s head comprises about one-sixth of his entire body. When he reaches adulthood, the head will be one- eighth of the length of his body. LEGS GROW MOST The legs probably will grow more than any other portion of the body during the period from the age of six to adulthood. As a rule, girls are more ma- ture than boys 'at every age. By the time they are 12 they are about two years ahead of boys of the same age in general dee velopment. jus ut every child emphasis and continue without ! interruption. The Liberal leader still speaks above the heads of at least some They are inclined to dismiss him with the ridicule that is the reason of the unknowing. However, eventually they will catch up. Mr. Wintermeyer, for one thing stresses the theme of restoring individualism and self-respect. Speaking of the civil service, he says the government should have the courtesy to treat its employees as mature men and women and not be "patriarchal." SEEMED "SILLY" To members and politicians thinking in terms of highway contracts and liquor prices this is pretty silly stuff. But it is basic. And from it program points develop. And with all sections of the community admitting we are now in a new era, when the points are developed they probably will be more in tune with the needs of the times than proposals based principally on political expedi- ency. BY-GONE DAYS 22 YEARS AGO Transport Minister Howe an- nounced radio licence fees were to be increased 50 cents to $2.50 commencing April '1. In the annual report presented to the Board of Police Commis- sioners by Chief of Police, O. D. Friend, it was reported that park- ing was presenting a problem and that the streets were unable. to date the ber of cars. He recommended that , traffic lights be installed at busy inter- sections. Property committee recom- mended to council that' parking meters be installed along the south side of King street between Simcoe and Celina streets for a period of three months before a decision was made to equip other streets with the device. Skating carnivals were held at Albert street, South Simcoe and Centre street schools arranged by the Home and School Associa- tions. P. T. Auten, local flyer, claim- ed Oshawa needed an airport. He said industries would be at- tracted to the city if a municipal airport was operating here. New dial phone system in Whitby was being installed and scheduled for completion Feb. 15. Oshawa Male Voice Choir recently received three diplomas as a result of successes at the CNE during the years 1933, 1936 and 1937. Officers were R. Walkey, president; F. Cooper, vice-presi- dent; G. W. Wealer, secretary; J. Wiltshire, treasurer and James Hurst, conductor. The direct relief expenditures for Oshawa in 1937 was $224,638.69 compared with $337,580.91 the preceding year, with the city's share being $80,617.06, Food, shel- ter and fuel were the three main items of expenditure, Chief librarian Mrs. Dorothy Schofield reported the circulation of library books number 12,740 in January. "The Citadel" and "The Rains Came" were among the most popular books. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "Wanted to exchange: fine silk underwear for typewriter." -- Classified Ad. Watch the confes- sion magazines for a hot story. "The taxpayer should be given a breathing spell," says an edi- tor. Yes, indeed, is there a pul- motor in the place? "When you're in love, you're nine feet tall".--Title of song. That's a rather low cloud to have one's head in. Reckless motorists kill far more people per passenger-miles travelled than planes do, and they do it on their own without resorting to the use of bombs. READERS' VIEWS Letter Recalls Life Tn Oshawa Dear Sir: When I was making prepar: tions to come to Canada in 1946, a relative gave me a letter which my great-grandmother had received from her brother who had emigrated to Canada with his wife and family, This letter was apparently written before the days of postage stamps, but some juvenile vandal had been allowed to tear off the seal for his stamp collection, removing also the part of the letter which had the date on it, and a cor- responding part qu the reverse side of the paper! Thus I can't tell the exact date, but it must have been written in the middle part of the nineteenth century. My great grandmother was born about 1810, and it is likely that her brother, Robert Dempster, was born within a few years of that. The minister, Mr. Thorn- ton, mentioned in the letter, is, I am sure, the one after whom Thornton's Corners was named. in a foundry this two years and getting along very well, better than ever I have done since I about ten shillings sterling or two dollars and fifty cents of our money and I get one dollar fif per day at the foundry, but pro. visions is very dear and house rent very high. Potatoes high as 3 skillings the pork 7 dollars the h beef six dollars, but good deal lower than it Our family is all at home Robert and Margaret she got married and has a nice little boy a year old name is John. Robert is w at Markham a village abou ty miles from us. Marion with us and does sewing when she can get it. Sarah is at serv. ice. George and Jessie and lias is at school. We have plenty of free schools and churches of all denominations, and flour mills lle factories but no paper At that time, rated Te- cruiting drives were going on in Scotland to prevail upon suitable families to emigrate to Canada. My great-grandfather was one of those who helped to enlist re- cruits, and as a sort of reward he received title to a parcel of land in Prince Edward Island, but although he persuaded his brother-in-law to go to Canada, he never formally claimed his own reward, and I suppose it re- verted to the Crown. My aunt still has the document, This is the letter which is beautifully written and was ad- dressed to Mr. and Mrs. William Buchanan, Strathyre, Perthshire, Scotland: "We are all in good health, mills. Wood is getting very high here but a great many families is burning coals which is a little cheaper. Mr. Thornton and fam- ily are all well. We attend his church and our children goes to his Sunday School. Mr. Burnet has got married again and him and me has been working to- gether this sometime. I have no more to say at present but hoping you will write when you receive this. The family all sends their kind love to you all and accept of the same from your sister and brother. Lillias and Robert Dempster Oshawa, Ontario, Canada." CATHERINE ST, JOHN RR 2, Hornby, Ont. thank God for His gi hop ing this will find you and your family all enjoying the same blessing. I have wrote you since 1 received your last letter with the likenesses and have received no answer and my son Robert wrote and he received mo an- swer. I should like very much you would write when you re- ceive this, to let us know how you all are. I have removed to Oshawa and I have been working FORMER JUDGE DIES LONDON, (Reuters)--Sir Nore man George Armstrong Edgley, 71, former judge in and in British-occupied Germany, died suddenlv here Thursday, it was announced Friday. 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