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© THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SRR The @shawa Baily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) . An Independent newspaper published every afer noon except Sundays and legal holidays, at Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Printing Company, Limited; Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. RB. Alloway, Secretary, } "The Oshawa Daily Times 1s a member of the Cann. dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' Ae sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dalles and the Audit Burcan of Circulation, » SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier; "Wc o week, By mall (out side Ushawa carrier delivery limite): in the Counties of Ontario, Durham snd NoPthumber- tand, $8.00 a year; elsewhere in ('anads, 84.00 8 year; United States, $5.00 8 year, TORONTO OFFICE 607 Bond Building, ua Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaide 0107. H, D. Tresidder, repre sentative. REPRESENTATIVES IN 0.8, Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. -_ MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929 A COMMON FAILING 5 What the country needs is not a good 5- cent cigar or a new law, but a formula or device which would make it impossible to write 1928 now that is it passed, For such mistakes 2s this erasers were placed on pen- cils, but the economic waste in wearing out s0 many erasers and rubbing out so much ink and lead is staggering. If the flood of plain, fancy and assorted calendars with which all are deluged on or about January 1 would prevent this writing of the old year for the new, the economic waste involved in the annual calendar sur- plus could be overlooked. But the careful and methodical man who surrounds himself with new calendars invariably dates his mail a year back. That's everybody's weakness now. There's a reason why editorial writers no longer write in bright and inspiring terms of the New Year as a new beginning, a fresh start and a reawakening. Such flights of poetic fancy ceased when the custom of buy- ing in December and paying in January be- gan. Economically and financially the new year begins about March 1, all of January's and February's surplus earnings being re- quired to settle in full with the old year. The hope the new year brings is the hope for solvency before Easter, spring housecleaning and vacation time. BILLBOARDS SHOULD BE RESTRICTED Oshawa's 1929 City Council, whoever may compose it, can make no mistake in taking a strong stand against the erection of bill- boards in locations where they will be of- fensive to the eye and tend to increase the fire hazard or otherwise affect adversely ad- joining properties. The owner of a billboard located on the * complied with the request of the city to stop work on the erection of the new board and . have since removed their materials from the Bok. ow 2 squash Jie bree sade to the Coun- cil for permission to erect a large sign board on the roof of a building at the corner of Athol and Simcoe the pub- s zns cheapen by Gouact from the legitimate business of maccaants who have places of business in 'gaz vicinity. acre was a time when people took hill- . for granted. They were looked upon . mand the by : {he mnnuel convention of the American As- wall sociation of State of at least 500 feet from the rights-of-way on the highways was passed. "This whole campaign has been something like a spon- taneous uprising throughout the country," says the New York Times. "From the mo- ment when the opponents of the disfiguring billboards first raised their voices their pleas were echoed from all corners of the land, People had suffered under the nui. sance for years. They had resented the un- pleasing signs, They had been repelled rather than attracted by the blandishments thus forced upon them." NEWSPAPER IDEALS Frequently one hears opinions expressed by newspaper readers 'that a newspaper should do thus and so, or should refrain from doing or saying something, or that it is in- fluenced by some mercenary consideration or biased or prejudiced for or against a cause or an individual, Such opinions and statements may occa- sionally be true or partly true, but in our opinion, and we know hundreds of newspa- per editors and publishers personally they are generally false, Charges against the good faith and integrity of Canadian newspapers generally originate in the minds of those making such charges, Of course, newspaper editors, like all other members of the human family, may err in their judgment, perhaps err seriously, but we are speaking of their sincerity of purpose and their desire to serve the public in a fair and unbiassed manner, Here is a "journalist's creed," written by Dean Walter Williams, of the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, that epitonizes the aim and ambition of the great majority of newspapers with which we are acquainted and we have no hesitation in saying that this newspaper and its editor and publishers are in hearty accord with it in every detail: The Journalist's Creed I believe in the proiession of journalism. I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of lesser ser- vice than the public service is betrayal of this trust. I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and fairness, sre funda- mental to good journalism, I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true. I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible. I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentle- man; that bribery by one's own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual re- sponsibility may not be escaped by pleading another's instructions or another's dividends. I believe that advertising, news and edi- torial columns should alike serve the best in- terests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that the supreme test of good journ- alism is the measure of its public service. dependent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, al- ways respectful of its readers, but always unafraid; is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every Any man who makes the best of things she doesn't look it. Better to have worked and lost than never to have worked at all. : A fruit tree bears better if it's mear the 9 ---- : ton rosricting bibeares icin dtsoce | FORMER PREMIER MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929 OF NOVA SCOTIA DIES, MONTREAL Hon. George H. Murray Suc cumbs to Pneumonia After Three Days' lliness Montreal, Jan, 7.--Hon. George H, Murray, whose record-breaking period in office as Premier and leader of the Liberal party in Nova Scotia ended only on his vol. untary retirement in 1928, died here at 8.30 Sunday night at his residence, 488 Mount Pleasant Ave- nue, He had been {ll only three days, of pneumonia, Former Premier Murray, who held that office in Nova Scotia from 1806 to 1923, was in his 68th year, Shortly after resigning his port. folio in the Nova Scotia Govern. ment, and his seat in Victoria County, which he had held through. out his long tenure as Premier, Hon, Mr, Murray came to Mont. real where he established perman- ent residence but making frequent long visits to Nova Scotia each summer, Yost a Leg During the latter year of his occupancy of the Premiership of Nova Scotia he suffered a severe fliness which resulted in the loss of a leg, During his residence in Montreal Hon, Mr. Murray had lived in retirement so far as business was concerned but remained active physically and maintained an in- terest in all public affairs, par. ticularly those of his native prov- ince, He was stricken only three days ago and death came almost before it was realized that his con- dition was critical. He was born June 7, 1861, at Grand Narrows, N.8, The funeral will be held a. the residence, Mount Pleasant Avenue, at 2,30 Tuesday afternoon (or at an hour to be announced later) and the remains wi.l then be conveyed to North Sydney, N.S. where the final rites will take place Thursday, Refused Knizhthood Hon. George Henry Murray might have been & "Sir" on at least two occasions. In 1911 Earl Grey offered him a title and in 1914, after he had rendered signal ser- vice in marshalling the forces of the province for the effort of war, the Duke of Connought repeated the Earl's suggestion. Mr. Murray refused both offers and locked the papers in his private safe where .hey probably are yet. He married Grace E. Moore, of North Sydney, in 1889. They had three sons, Wilfrid Laurier, Huzh Allen and George Belcher. Hugh is an fuvalid, Wilfrid and George went overseas when the Great V'» broke out and distinguished t.em- selves in the army. BUFFALD POLICE HOLD "RED DUKE", Is Wanted in Toronto for Attempted Murder of Clerk at Loblaw's Toronto, Jan. 7.--Wanted here on charges of attempted murder and armed robbery, and also want- ed in connection wi h robbery of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Hamiiton, Clinton Jomes alias "Red Duke" has been captured in Buffalo and held by request of the Toronto police. The Toronto charge against him arises out of his a.leged participa- groceteria, 511 Danforth Avenue, on Chris. mas eve, 1927, when Wil- liam Arrowsmith, a clerk, was shot Captured Jones was found walking in crowded Main Street, Buffalo, near the place at which he had been rooming. He was fully armed, LIFE'S MYSTERIES--0O Lord, why hast thon made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart irom thy fear? Return for thy ser- vant's sake, the tribes of thine in- heri sah 63:17. tion in the hold-up of Loblaws! : By Jakes W. Barton, M.D. POTATOES AND WHEAT With a tremendous wheat crop the past year there is no worry about food throughout the world, but someone asks what would hap pen if the wheat crop falled, In North America we eat more wheat than perhaps any other one article of food, but in Europe one other article of food stands first, and that {s the potato, There has been much discussion about the merits of the potato as a food, What about it? In a former article I spoke about the valuable mineral salts found in Jotatons, which neutralize the acids n the blood, formed when too much meat or protein foods are eaten, The Journal of the American Medical Association in an editorial on the potato says that "an analy. sis shows that the pota o is close wheat in actual food value, but it contains so much water that four times as much potato as wheat must be eaten in order to obtain the same amount of nourishment," Now our overweight friends have been avoiding potatoes because they contain so much starch, However it has been learned that the protein (nitrogen) in potatoes, though small in amount, is of good quality, In Denmark, Great Britain, and Poland, research men have bhoen investigating the food value of the potato, because it may mean much to the people of any country in time of other crop failures, Dr. Hindhede of Denmark re- ports a case of a man living .for nearly a year on 9 pounds of pota- toes daily, with some vegetable margarine, Drs. Kon and Klein, Warsaw, de- scribe an experiment in which two adults, a man and a woman, lived for a period of 167 days in good health on potatoes supplemented with fats and a few fruits. And strange to relate, they did no grow tired of it. : "It is said that deficien~y or wast- ing diseases are not common where the potato enters liberally into the diet." ¥ The thought then is that the low- ly potato should Joonr larger in our minds as a food, and that while bread will likely be more generally eaten, should there be any crop failure in future days, we can rely on the potato to help us out. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act.) HUMAN NATURE (Dame Madge Kendall in Jobn 1 .or's Weekly) Has the race thrown overboard the capac'ty for quiet enjoyment that made the Victorian period the basically sound era that it was? For it was sound, and it produce. many great thickers, many of whom are still wth us. No; be- neath the veneer of modern condi tions, with its hectic race after hap piness, there is in reality, vo change. It is a phase just as duel- ling was a phase, and it will be- come as unfashionable as duelling. ONTARIO PREMIER SUFFERS ATTACK OF INFLUENZA "Flu" Continues to Abate But More Fatalities from Pneumonia' Toronto, Jan. 7.--The 'flu,"" which is no respécter of persons has attacked the Prime Minister of On- tario and the Minister of Health, Generally speaking, it continues throughout the city on a serious scale, though not so extensive as before, Premier Ferguson, who remain. ed home over last week-end on ac- count of a cold expecting to re- turn to his work in a day or two, has been confined to bed for somg days at Alexandra Palace Apart- ments. © : ' " Mr, Godfrey Ill Hon, Forbes Godfrey reached Bermuda in time to a.tend Mrs. McCrea, wife of the Minister of Mines, who was ill in hospital there, but has now recovered, and Dr. Godfrey himself has since suf- fered an attack of "flu," More ha The trend of the situation over the week-end followed pret.y ciose- ly the .predicitions of the Medical Officer, Dr, Hastings, that the "flu" would continue to abate but that there would be increases in dea hs from pneumonia, Deaths re- ported to the Department of Hes.th showed a marked decrease in the classification of "flu" and *"flu"- pneumonia, while there was an io- crease in fatalities from pneu- monia and simi.ar afflictions, The number of mew patients admitted o hospitals during the last two days continued to keep at a low level, there being only 16 admis- sions to nine of the larger institu tions. DUKE NICHOLAS ROMAFOFF HEAD DIES IN FRANCE Antibes, France, Jan. 7.--Granua Duke Nicholas of Russia, regard- ed generally by Royalists as claim: art to the throne of that country, died at hiz villa here shortly sa ter m'dnight Saturday night, fol- lowing an illnss of several weeks' standing. The Grand Duke, who was a sec- ond cousin to the late Czar Nichol- as II of Russia, and who was Cow mander-in-Chief of the Russ'an troops on the Eastern European front duricg the war, had been gravely ill for the past two weeks but a few hours prior to his death it was believed he had passed the cr'sis of his illness. New Year's Day he pad improv- ed so much that he was thought out of danger. Tne long seige ot pneumonia had worn him out, how- ever, and--possibly because of his age, 72--he collapsed and sank rapidly Saturday and shortly after midnight he died. A.L. HUDSON & CO. 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