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Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, hh ef Re TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1928 \ A "BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU" ' FOR ONTARIO | i It is encouraging to note that the "Better Business Bureau Movement," which has gained widespread favour in the United States, is spreading to Canada, Bureaus have now been formed in both Quebec and On- tario, with headquarters at Montreal and Toronto respectively, The Attorney-Gener- al of Ontario has officially welcomed the or- ganization of a Bureau in this province, C, L. Burton, who addressed the Oshawa Cham. ber of Commerce a short time ago, has been glected Chairman of the Ontario Bureau, The Better Business Bureau Movement has been influential in raising the standard of merchandising, preventing false adver- tising and unethical business practices, re- sulting in greater confidence between buyer and seller as well as in the protection of in- vestors from the activities of those individ- . uals who prey upon the public in the offer. ing of securities of doubtful value and in many cases very little or no value at all, These individuals are very versatile in their method of operation, and in the use of high pressure methods, and have robbed trusting investors of many hundreds of millions of dollars during the past few years. The Bet- ter Business Bureaus have been instrument. al in curbing to a marked degree the opera tions of these doubtful individuals, and in sending many of them to jail, while many others have been forced to close their offices and cease operations in the districts where the Better Business Bureaus have been ac. tive, . All will agree that there is ample scope for the operation of a Better Business Bu- reau in Ontario and under such auspices as those mentioned its success should be as- sured, CANADA'S FUTURE BRIGHT Most of us are convinced that "good times" are in store for this country and that everyone should plan for an era of sane and substantial progress. It. is encouraging, however, to find that such renowned authori- ties as Babson's Statistical Organization and The Sherman Corporation agree that all signs point to good business conditions in Canada, as these brief quotations indicate: "Apprehensions of even a slight set- * back during the next few months are ' groundless,"--Babson's Statistical Or- ' Ine, "Canada now is in for at least a quar- ter of a century of uninterrupted pros- . perity," -- The Sherman Corporation Canada, Limited, The Sherman report goes on to say that "Canada today is vibrant with the realiza- of her own powers and potentialities h an extent as to more than justify that no matter what happens United States, Canada is in for at quarter of a century of uninterrupt- prosperity." does not mean that Canada is not in- )i in the "but impossible of accomplishment, What the future has in store for Canada no one can say, but it is not hard for those who believe in their country to accept even the more optimistic of the statements quoted. In fact we might take the still longer view that: "this is Canada's Century," The slo- gan today to the young men might be: "Go 'West, go East, as you like, but stay in Can- ada." The future is bright with promise for those who have just a little vision and a will to work. INDUSTRIAL WARFARE One of those distressing situations that occasionally occurs to interrupt the pleasant relations between employer and employee is reported from Manchester where a half mil. lion workers may be affected by a lock-out involving the closing of some 700 mills, And, according to the report, it all started over one man! The employees of one mill went on strike some time ago in an effort to force the own. ers to discharge one hand, who, having allow- ed his membership in the union to lapse, re. fused later to abide by the union rules under which he could rejoin as a new member, los- ing many of the privileges of his original m ship, The Federation of Master Spinners in a 16-minute session endorsed its committee's recommendation that a lock-out be called in support of the directors of the mill directly affected. In a circular to the trade, the sec- retary of the Federation declared that the mill hand concerned had offered to pay all arrears in union dues, The spinners there. fore felt that they should not be called upon to discharge a workman who had given sat- isfaction because of a quarrel to which they were not parties. It does seem altogether too bad that quar. rels of this kind cannot be settled amicably without, loss and often suffering to workers and their families, It is time that strikes and lock-outs were made illegal, at least un» til all efforts at conciliation have been made and have proven unsuccessful. Industrial war is as unnecessary and as wasteful in its way as international warfare and no effort should be spared to prevent it, EDITORIAL NOTES Men who write books about themselves are full of their subjects, Many a man calls his wife the better half, when she is about 90 per cent, of the fam. ily, Wearing old clothes is all right if you know you don't have to, Many a woman who never looked inside a volume of Blackstone is able to lay down the law, Bit of Verse WHY THEY KEEP AT GOLF He topped his drive from number one, Resulting in a roller; And dubbed his mashie to the green-- Took seven ere he holed 'er, And though, mayhap he cussed a bit, It only made him bolder! .On number two he tore a slice Into a swampy thicket; The ball fell in a hollow log From whence he had to pick it; And e'en while growling at his luck He vowed that he could lick it! He hooked one badly down at three, Then on into the bunker And chipped and dug for fourteen strokes Till finally he "sunk" 'er! All those who saw him as his task Could swear he was no flunker! At four and five the divots flew In manner quite alarming; At six and seven ope would think He was engaged in farming; At eight he missed go many that The sir got quite a warming! ut when on nine, his driver struck Like lightning on the rubber, And on it flew toward the pin As though steered by a rudder! o Three hundred yards--a single stroke! He holed out in another. THE OSHAWA, DAILY, TIMES, TUESDAY. JULY 31, 1928 a DOUBLE SHOCK (Kansas City Star) Dr. Beebe says sharks never at- tack human beings except by aceid- ent when they mistake the moving 0 for food, I the dis- tress of the shark when he finds out his mistake! A « : A -- . STYLES CHANGE IN BUSINESS (Cleveland Daily Metal Trade) Taking a leaf from the experi- ence of the automobile industry right at its doors, almost every lina of Detroit business is estab- lishing for itself a "planning de- partment", Behind closed doors, the planners outline the campaign, lay down the lines and the busi- ness follows those lines. The or- iginal success attained by the auto- mobile planners has wen over the Detroit businessmen generally and now the "planning department" is a8 popular a fetish as the once heavyweight "efficiency expert". Styles change even in commercial and industrial methods. Sometimes for the better as in the case of short skirts and bobbed hair. SOCIALIST MODERATION (Edinburgh Scotsman) The resort to a more constitu- tional policy is one of the strike ing changes in Socialist methods, The change is evidently rather deeper than one of tactics, and some of the principles on which at one time leading Socialists were very emphatic are now being modi- fled, The latest illustration fis afforded by Mr, Ramsay MacDen- ald's attitude to emigration. At one time emigration was denounc- ed as a capitalist device to rid the country of a troublesome lot of workers; now Mr, MacDonald ad- mits that the party recognizes that fluidity of pepulation is necessary. Some people take a long time to discover what others learn in their youth, PEERS AND PRISON (Christian Science Monitor) In the course of some recent delvings into the history of the trials of peers, one or two facts intrigued me considerably, I don't know why peers should be tried by their peers on a matter of hig- amy and not on any other breaking of the law, but that undoubtedly is their right, An outstanding case which thrilled England from end to end during the reign of George III, was that of the Duchess of King- ston. As Elizabeth Chudleigh, a Maid of Honor to Queen Charlotte, she married secretly a naval lieu. tenant related to the Earl of Briss tol, Wearying of this union, she married the Immensely wealthy Duke of Kingston and was had up for higamy before the House of Lords. Read your Horace Wal- pole for the account of the trial. It's just as thrilling as anything you read in the newspapers today. The Duchess was found guilty and ordered to be branded on the hand--one of the penalties for bigamy in those days. But she es- caped that by pleading privilege of peerage. But where that privilege came in I don't understand, seeing that the verdict proved her no peeress at all. The Lords made an order forbidding her to leave the country, but she departed nu. withstanding, and lived a riotous lite on the Continent for years af- terwards on the huge fortune Jeft her by her bigamous husband, the Duke of Kingston, Just within the boundary of our own generation a duchess has gone to prison. This was the second wife of the grandfather of the present Duke of Sutherland, Mary Duchess of Sutherland, She was g Mrs. Blair, the widow of ap officer in the Highland Light Infantry, when the duke married her, Three years after the mar- rigge the duke died, The {inevit- able result followed closely on the heels of the death of the duke, and litigation at once arose over the duke's will between the duchess and her husband's successor. She received an order from the High Court to go through certain pap- ers at Stafford House--now Lan- caster House and the London Mu- seum, but then the town house of the Duke of Sutherland. Her own lawyers and the lawyers of her stepson, the succeeding duke, were present, . It was a cold winter's day, and a2 big fire was blazing in the grate. Suddenly, and before tue astonished people present even realized what was passing through her mind, the duchess, taking a paper from a file of documents, rushed to the fireplace and cast it into the flames. The paper was burnt in an instant. Her action was so sudden, so utterly unexpected, that none of the lawyer people had time to in- terpose. The sequel to her action was that she was had up for cons tempt of court, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment at Hol- loway. Ever after she was known #8 the "Duchess of Holloway." Why she destroyed the paper, what was written upon it, nobody ever knew, Whateyer it was, the "Duchess of Holloway" clearly thought its destruction was worth the six weeks in prison. SE ---------------- Mistaken was the short-sighted young man who ran after a girl with a postage stamp thinking she bad dropped her handkerchief.-- London Sypday Pictorial. GOOD NEWS--As cold waters to @ thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.--Prov. 25:25. PRAYER--O Thou God of love, we bless Thee for the good news STREET CAR MEN REFUSE T0 RENEW J U0 AVREEHENT * De] Toronto, July 31..--A renewed demand for arbitration as the means of settling the dispute be tween the Toronto Transportation Commission and Division 113 ef the International - Street Railway Employes' Union was the outcome of the vote taken yesterday by circularizing ballots among the men as they reported at the barns. The number of votes cast total: led 2,310, which represents practie- ally 75 per cent, of the union's membership, It is believed that the Commission will accept as satis. factory and final this vote, which was a repeat canvass taken in con- sequence of the Commission's in- sistence that a previous vote did not represent the full sentiment of the union. Officials eof the union agreed to ask the men a seeand time if they wauted te accept the Commission's offer to remew last year's working contract, on the un- derstanding that if the men voted adversely the Commission would proceed promptly with arbitration, The men voted on one question: "Are you in favor of renewing the present agreement, togetlier with the adjustments referred to (in a bulletin accompanying the ballot) "until March 31, 1930?" A total of 1,633 men voted "No" on this question, and 677 men were dis- posed to accept the offer of the Commission, Appointment of its representa- tive an the Arbitration Board and oarrying out of other arrangements to inaugurate the arbitration pro- ceedings at an early date, will be attended to at the regular meeting of the Commission today, it was intimated last night. Commission officials, while somewhpt disap- pointed at the result of the vote, accept the figures as a genuine cross section of opinion within the union, A Reprecentative Vote "There is no question of its being a representative vote," sald D. W, Harvey, general manager for the Commission. "An exceptionally large number of the men seem to have voted and expressed their re- actions to the offer of the Com- mission, The matter of choosing an arbitrator and going aliead with the adjudication of the men's re- quests probably will be taken up at today's meeting of the Commis- sion in accordance with our agree- ment with the union officials last week." This agreement ig outlined in the bulletin attached to the ballots dis- tributed yesterday, It reads: "Your megotiating committee has discussed with the Commission and its officials the results of the vote taken at the mass meeting held in Massey Hall en July 17, 1928, at which a total of only 665 votes was cast. This is enly a small proportion of the members an- titled to vote on the {important matters under consideration, and therefore the Commission is of the opinion that it is desirable that a full expression of opinion from all the members on such niatters be obtained, "At the meeting above referred to, your committee reported on the results of its negotiations with the Commission, and recommended to the meeting that, subject to the adjustments and modifications (as per schedule posted on notice hoard) which your committee have obtained as a result of its meeting with the Commission, the present agreement be renewed for a further period of two years from March 31st, 1928, "The foregoing adjustments and modifications would all date hack to March 31st, 1928. "A vote of 'No' will mean that you are in favor of all present wages and working conditiohs beipg thrown open and determined by a board of arbitration, the award of which will be binding on both par- ties. "You are therefore asked to vote op the following question; "Are you in favor of renewing the present agreement, together with the adjustmens above refer- red to, until March 31st, 1830?" The medifications referred to consisted of minor altergtions in the ageement which increased the wages of certain classes of em- ployes. The increases involved an expansion of the payroll amounting to about $5,000, To Arbitrate Dispute It was agreed between the Com- mission and the union committes that in return for the repeated vote, the Commission would eon- sent to arbitrate if the men turned down the offer of the amenden working contract. This the Com- mission had steadfastly refused to do, even after the appointment sev- eral weeks ago of James Simpson, of Toronto, vice-president eof the Trades and Labor Congress of Can- ada, as representative of the union on the arbitration board, A dead- lock arose after the disputed vote in Massey Hall, and was only brokeh bysthe understanding reach- ed last week and the vote last might. The commission is now prepared to select its arbitrator and go shead with the proposed board, in view of the comprehensive vote cast yes- terday, according to P. W. Ellis, chairman of the commission, Iie was not prepared to comment on the result of the vote or to fore- cast the probable course of arbi- tration. Mr. Ellis also was nom- committal on the subject of the chairman of the arbitration board, the choice of whim other thorny topic. The commission so far has urged BRITAIN, FRANCE REACH AGREEMENT Compromise dn the Issue of Naval Disarmament, Cham. berlain Announces London, July 30.--Expressing the hope that the Kellogg pact by which war would be outlawed as a national policy, will be "a most valuable se- curity to peace," Sir J. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, today reviewed in the House of Commons the progress of disarmament. He also discussed the British policy in Egypt and China, The secretary said he had hoped to keep the disarmament question en- tirely separate from the Kellogg pact although he admitted that this treaty undoubedly would be a factor which would be taken into account. Then he announced that the Gov- ernment has had successful conver- sations with France respecting dif- ferences which had arisen between the two governments over the naval disarmament, He said that he was about to submit to the other principal naval powers the compromise agree- ment which had been reached, hop- ing thereby to remove obstacles to the progress of the disarmament idea. Until this has been done, he said, he could give not details, but he stated that the compromise was on naval issues which had arisen in the previous disarmament conference, Sir Austen indicated that the first open discussion of a compromise would probably be by the Prepara- tory Disarmament Commission, He then took up the British reser- vations in the recent note sent to Secretary Kellogg and said that they compared with the Monroe Doctrine of the United States, He said that no doctrine of aggression was con- tained in the British reservations but that they constituted a measure of self-defense necessitated by the geo- graphical conditions of the Empire, The British note reserved freedom of action in certain fields of its Em- pire and this is understood to apply esplcially to Egypt, the Sudan and India. Mr. Chamberlain defended himself from adverse criticisms respecting the seeming delay in formulation of the British reply. He said this delay had net been unduly long and that he hoped it would be his good fortune to go to Paris next month and par- ticipate in the signing of the pact, "This pact," said Mr. Chamberlain, that the chairman be appointed by Mayor McBride and declined to countenance the union's suggestion that the Dominion Minister of La- bor select him. Mr. Ellis, however, believes that this difficulty can be ironed out without any trouble, and hinted that the cominission might not insist too strongly on the functioning of the Mayor, "I think everybody will be satis- fied if the chairman is thoroughly impartial and has a working' knowledge of business and of the problems involved in the enmploy- ment of large numbers of men na a wage basis," Mr, Ellis remarked, "Ave you afraid of danger?" evr new employer demanded of iss Brown, pretty stenographer. "The werk you do for me may change your entiye life, bring you adventure, intrigue, romance, ou may even have to hide, "Will you risk it?" Right then and there Miss rown shut the door on her drab ife of youtine and stepped into a world of breathless living, her exciting adventures in our latest serial by "The Prince of Story Tellers" which SppeaAT-- Eoon in this paper "is a recognition of the horror of war and the fact that war is something which should be only a last resort, How much more the treaty will be will, in my opinion, depend not ou any engagements taken by the Uni- ted States Government, but on how the rest of the world thinks the Uni- ted States is going to judge the ac- tion of an aggressor and whether that Government is going to help or hinder him in his aggression, "If American opinion ranges itself behind its own treaty, then indeed, the treaty will be a most formidable deterrent to war and an additional and most valuable security to peace, This is what His Majesty's Govern- ment hopes it will be." Relations With China Turning to British relations with China, Sir Austen said that Britain had no territorial ambitions in China and only desired to sec a peaceful and stable administration, Once China had settled the Nanking inci- dent with Great Britain as satisfac- torily as with America, he said, the Government was quite prepared to negotiate a commercial treaty grant- ing tariff ".eedom. Further friendly negotiations for a transition frem the old treaty system to a new system liberally meeting Chinese aspirations would follow, he declared, as China progressed toward stable conditions. The British Government regards built -- subject TWIST. Cords. 99 Simcoe St. S. For service sake, Ontario Motor Sales, OSHAWA to standard warranty--built of SUPER- i Phone buy at home StoBie-FORLONG ad Office: Reford Bu ad 533 Office: Reford IR S. F. EVERSON, Local Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa -- Above C.P.R. 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He expressed the belief that if So- viet Russia were invited to sign the pact the invitation would be accepted, adding that it was important that Russia be brought in, for as long as that country was outside the comity of nations there was always the dan- ger that engagements like the Kel- logg pact would be frustrated by the outbreak of quarrels and conflicts, NUN ACCUSED OF URGING SLAYER TO MURDER OBREGON Mexico City, July 80--Jose de Leon Toral ,slayer of General Al- varo Obregon was incited to his crime by a helief that he could, hy killing the President-elect, solve the religous problems of Mexico, police declared in a formal state- ment today. That belief was fostered by a nun, Concepcion Acebedo de Ja Lata, and a ¢.2n named Manuel Trejo, who fled after the assasin- ation, the statement declared. The nun is alleged to have declar- ed in Toral's presence that the dif- ficulties of Catholics could be solv- ed by the deaths of President Calles, General Obregon, and the Patriarch of the so-called Mexican Catholic Church. Trejo, by Tor- al's own admission furnished the gun with which General Obregon was killed and taught the slayer how to use fit, Other persons not named are also declared to have, by sugges- tion, worked Toral"s mind into a religious frenzy that made him be- lieve that the killing was neces- sary. The youthful assassin, in 8 con- fession to newspapermen today, as- serted that no one else was respon- sible, and practically absolved Luis Morones and othsr Labor leaders from the least blame, g &@ BONDS GRAIN For Tire Quality... at a price PATHFINDER MADE to meet the quality ¥ '% of most tires, but remark- ably low in price. Goodyear