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& - al Ww by he Be ©shawa 'Baily Times TAG ¢ ~~ wr THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1929 THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Rstablished 1871) E Ap Independent newspaper published every ater gy poon except Sundays and legal holidays, at 'Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Printing Company, Limited; Chas, M, Mundy, President; A. R Alloway, Secretary. "he Oshawa Dally Times is a member of the Cana: dian Press, the Canadian Dally Newspapers' As sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dallies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier; 30c » week, By mall (out side Oshawa carrier delivery limits); In the Counties of Untario, Durham snd NoPthumber- land, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in ('anads, 84.00 ® year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 607 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaide 0107. H. D, Tresidder, repre sentative. REPRESENTATIVES IN 0.8. Powers and Stone, Inc, New Xork and Chicago, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1929 TRE A GOOD YEAR'S WORK As usual the Hospital Auxiliary has given a good account of itself, as indicated by the reports presented at the annual meeting and published in The Times yesterday, 'The banner year" the President, Mrs, R. 8, Mec- Laughlin, called 1928, in her address, The Oshawa General Hospital is being helped in a score of ways by the energetic group of ladies who compose the "Auxiliary." NOW WANT BEER BY THE GLASS It is reported that a section of the Inter- national 'I'rade Union movement is in favor of the sale of beer by the glass, The argu- ment advanced is that the present arrange- ment has encouraged the sale of whiskies and spirits and promoted drinking in the home, also that it has discouraged the sale of beer, The fact is that the sale of any kind of liguor is likely to get the Government or any- one else engaged in it, into trouble. If beer parlors and bar-yooms are prohibited then home drinking is encouraged; if they are pernijtted then complaint is heard that hus- bands stay out instead of coming home. So there you are. The prohibitionist may be an extremist but his scheme of absolute discontinuance of the manufacture and sale is the only one that is fair all round. As it is now the liquor interests are scheming to get back the rest of the ground they lost. PROTECT THE QUAIL Jack Miner, whose sanctuary for wild geese is famed far and near, and who is known as an authority on birds and their habits, has recently been directing his ef- forts on behalf of the quail, the miniature partridge, known as Bob White, whose mel- odious whistling of "Bob White, Bob White" is heard in the evening hours of the summer and fall. Quail have become very scarce in this pro- vince and in the other provinces of the Do- minion, and, in his efforts to protect this bird, Jack Miner would have him placed on the insectiverous bird list which means "No shooting." As a friend of the hunter as well as a friend of the birds Jack Miner would give the hunter a substitute by importing Hun- garian partridge, which, after being held a while, would be liberated to give the hunter the sport he had shooting quail. Years agoJack Miner succeeded in having the mourning dove placed on the song and insectiverous list, and since that time, when hunting the mourning dove was made illegal, their numbers greatly increased. : This action was brought about by point- ing out to the authorities that the mourning _ dove was of great assistance to the farmer, inasmuch as it devoured great quantites of roxicus weods and harmful insects, and in- vestigation along the same lines convinces I incr that the quail is also a farmers' friend £4 assistant, though to a greater extent 1' -n his mate, the mourning 'dove. A Jdecad mourning dove, found by Mr. Min- <= Ta front of his home last summer was zt to the Royal Museux of Zoology in Tor- cxto, and when its crop was dissected there were found S535 sceds of {hé ibree-sceded } mercury weed seed, 30 seeds of ragwood, and three small grovel, In the crop of a dead quail sent to the same institution for examination were found one small spider, a harvest spider, a leaf hop- per, a plant bug, a cricket, two moth cater- pillars, a nymph bug, a small beetle, two hymenopterous insects, 2 ants, many insect eggs, 80 small grovel, 456 seeds of three- seeded mercury, 288 seeds of black night- shade, 28 seeds of green foxtail, 8 seeds of old witch grass and 38 other unidentified .weed seeds. All this in the crop of one quail,~--and Jack Miner points out the great asset to the farmer if the quail were allowed to increase. Jack Miner is making a test of the foods of birds and by these tests he is determining the most valuable birds to the farmer and the country as a whole. Coming from Miner, friend of the hunter and friend of the birds his recommendations should receive an attentive ear. TOO MANY NEW ONES With all the agitation over grade crossing perils and all the millions spent for their elimination grade crossings actually increase. in number in the United States from year to year. The fact is brought out at a recent joint meeting of the American Railway En- gineering Association and the engineering division of the American Railway Associa- tion. It is a surprising bit of information, and may call for a new consideration of the old problem, Grade crossing elimination under ordinary circumstances is so expensive that both the railroads and the public authority hesitate to authorize the project, The committee making this study urges that some method be found "that will eliminate a large number of existing crossings at negligible expense as compared with grade separation," No one would object to that, surely; a rich reward may await the discoverer of such a method. Figures of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission of the U.S. show that the number of grade crossings was 2,448 greater at the end of 1927 than the number two years earlier. Taking into consideration the number that must have been eliminated in that period, it must be apparent that the creation of new crossings at grade was a fairly lively in- dustry. EDITORIAL NOTES A stable government is one in which the people will remain hitched. The only time some folks' minds are not on vacation is two weeks out of 52. When the train is coming, the driver who tries to beat it over the crossing is going. A writer says that $800 a year is enough for a family of three to live on. This is too much! Many a man thinks he has an inspiration to work, as long as it is not the kind that produces perspiration. Another sterling instance of inverse ratio is the sense some men put into their busi- nesses and their love letters. Eit of Verse THE SLEIGH BELLS *Tis merry to hear, at evening time, By the blazing hearth the sleigh bells' chime To know the hounding steeds bring near The loved ones to our bosoms dear, Ah, lightly we spring the fire to raise. Till the rafters glow with the ruddy blaze; Those merry sleigh bells, our hearts keep time Responsive to their fairy chime Ding, dong, ding, dong o'er vale and hill, Their welcome notes are trembling still. Our hut is small, and rude our cheer, But love has spread the banquet here; And childhood springs to be caressed By our beloved and welcome guest. With a smiling brow his tale he tells The urchins ring the merry sleigh bells The merry sleigh bells, with chant and song They drag the noisy string along; Ding dong, ding dong, the father's come The gay bells ring his welcome home. From the cedar swamp the gaunt wolves howl, From the oak land whoops the felon owl; The snow storm sweeps in thunder past For forest creaks beneath the blast; No more I list, with boding fear The sleigh bells distant chime to hear; The merry sleigh bells with soothing power Shed gladness on the evening hour Ding dong, ding dong, what rapture swells The music of those joyous bells! Mrs. "M". the fact that the army pay was in By James W. Bartin, M.D. HEART AILMENTS MOST NUMEROUS When a specialist spends all his time, thought, and energy, on one line of work, he should know some- thing about that particular work, Therefore when a heart specialist tells us that one in every fifty of the inhabitants of the United States and Canada is afflicted with heart disease, we do not wonder that heart allments carry off more individuals than any other one ail- ment, Dr, Wm, St, Lawrence says that at different ages the causes and types of heart ailments are differ. ent, He names three age periods in any of which the causes and tyn 8 are likely to be uniform, First, frony birth to thirty five; second, from thirty six to forty five and third from forty six until death. In the first period the organism enters the blood system most com- monly through bad teeth or tonsils. When it gets into the joints ft produces inllammatory rheuma {sm in the brain it causes chorea or St, Vitus dance; in the bones it caus. es "growing pains', in the tonsils a tendency to sore throat, In the second period, thirty six to forty five, the hcart cases are due to the rheumatic organism. WATER DIVERSION REDUCED, GUARD LEVEL OF LAKES Supreme Court Practically 'Declares That Chicago Plan Must Be Stopped Re ------ Washington, Jan, 16.--Diversion of water from Lake Michigan into the Chicago River cannot be authorized as a method of disposing of sewage and the practice must be stopped at the earliest possible date, "This is the effect of a unanimous decision in the Supreme Court of the United States brought down by Chief Justice Wiliam Howard Taft, fn which the court finds that the late Secretary of War Weeks had the right to permit the diversion of wa ter from the Great Lakes watershed to the Mississippi River only as an emergency measure to make naviga- tion possible in Chicago harbor and that the permit was conditioned on the bona fide intention of Chicago to construct sewage disposal works which would make the diversion un- necessary. All other considerations are brushed aside in the voluminous opinion brought down, The neces sity for sewage disposal, water power development or the improvement in the Mississippi River levels do not justify the appropriation by one community of water which would normally flow into the territory of another community, the court's de- cision says in effect, Reappoiniment Charles Evans Hu:jhes, who has Stiffness in the joints In damp weather, In the third period, after forty six years of age, It is just a continuance of the caus:s and con- ditions of previous periods, but because the body is older, overeat- ing, not enough sleep, and little or no exer.!se, the ef ccts of the rhe:- matic organisms are greatly in. creased. Overuse of alcohol, tea, coffee, has a very bad effect upon Scme cases, Now although periodic physical examinations are a& big factor in preventing heart disease, neverthe- less, as Dr. St. Lawrence points out, these examinations will not privent the disease that is already there, However these examinations wil} 'lve the family physician a chance to point out the danger or likeli- hood of heart disease from infected teeth or tonsils, and in those who already have heart ailments he will outlin: treatment that will prolong life, and enable the patient to en- Joy life in safety, So whatever the age let your far ily doctor look you over once a year. (Rigistered in accordance with the Copyright Act.) WESTERLY REFORMS COST AMANULIAH AFGHAN THRONE, King Forced to Flee in Pane --London Says Situation Serious London, Jan. 16.--The ambition of King Amanullah to place Af- ghanistan on a par with the mod- ern industrial and cultural devel- opment of western countries has cost him his throne. A report from Pcshawar, northwest frontier province, India, confirmed in Brit- ish official circles, stated that Am- anullah had abdicated in favor of his brother, Prince Inayatullah and had fled by air to Kandahar. It was culy last June that Am- anullah returned home from his splendid tour of Europe, full of enthusiasm for westernizing his people, as he had seen the Turk- ish people westernized by Mutapha Kemal. While his decrees met with some success in the area around the capital, in the distant part sof the mountain kingdom the nriestly influence, dead azainst re. forms. stirred up a civil war. This e2ined strength largely owing to arrears. Tide Turns The King at first appeared suec- cessful but the tid» finally turned in favor of the rebels. Amanullai then tried to retrace his steps and withdrew the hated decrees. It was too late and the rebels emerg- ed completely victorious. Amanvilah reigned for almost ten years. Prince Inayatullah was horn in October, 1888. and is thus the senior of Amanullah by four vears, Amanvliah's abdication surpris- ed Tondon, thoneh a racent re- port had indicrted that the maleon- temts were making headway against 'he Roval forces. Renorts from Af~hanistan indicated that such a climax as that announced was cleerlv to be exnected. It is evtremely dificult to ob- tain religble news of havpenings in Afehanistan but Winter is now So severe that fi~hting can hardly he cn an ertonsive scale. Well- informed circlee in London regsrd the situation as serious. not so much becanse of danger to for- aieners, but hecause difMeplties are foreseen in the establishment of a stable government. CHRIST FOR ALL~ALL P08 CRIN. ee en A CLEAXSING NEEDED---Though thou wash thee with mitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity 1 is marked before me, saith the d God. --Jeremizh 2:22. PRAYER--Lord, wash me and I pion as" of suitable been special mecster in t':s case, is reappointed to prepare a plan where: iby the diversion of water may be diminished from time to time until | it is reduced to a point which will | not affect lake level or other riparian rirhts of the other states, The decision brings to an end liti gaticn which has been going on for vears between the states along the Great Lakes on the one hand and sippl states on the other, Canada has a stending. protest against the diversion, but was not test has been wajting the outcome of this case, There is considerable speculation here as to what step Canada will tae now that the Dom- inion's attitude in the matter has been vindicated by the highest court in this country. There is scme talk of an action for damages being brouzht by stctes in the East whose rivers and harbors h ve been affect. ed by the diversion. The question is being asked in legal circles whether Canada m'~7ht brinz a similar action for losses in2urred when lake leve's went ¢ wn in lake ports of the Dominion. Chicago's Side Champions cf Chicago's side in the case are claiming the court's deei- sion as a victory. When their per- mit expires on December 31 next, they confidently expeet that it wil' no doubt will have to be made be- cause the sewage disposal works will not be adequate by then to take care of the prcblems, but the court makes it clear that it disapproves of the "inexcusable delays" of which the Chicago authorities have been guilty, and the court also finds that "in, increasing the diversion from 4,167 cubic feet perpsecond to 8,500 the drainage district defied' the au- thority of the National Government, and, insofar as the prior diversion was not for the purpose of maintain- ing navigation in the Chicago River, it was without any legal basis be- cause made for an inadmissable pur- pose." 'This refers to the original action prior to 1900 of Chicago in taking the water without permission. Later Authorized It was later authorized as an emer- gency measure because the conges- tion of sewage in the sluggish stream made the harbor unnavigable. This part of the court's decision will make it dificult for the Federal Gov- ernment to authorize any long ex- tension of the permit and the imme- diate reduction in the volume divert- ed to 4,167 feet is implied. "The sanitary district authorities, relying on the argument with refer- ence to the health of its people, have much too long delayed the needed drainage lants as a means of avoiding the diversion in the future. Therefore, they cannot now complain if an im- mediately heavy burden is placed upon the district because of their at- titude and course. The situation re- methods for providing sufficient mo- ney to construct and put into opera- tion with all reasonable expedition adequate plants for the disposal of the sewage through other means than the lake diversion," says the decision, which eoncludes by ap- pointing Charles Evans Hughes again as special master. He will be authorized and directed "to hear witnesses presented by each of the parties and to call wit nesses of his own selection should he deem necessary to do so and then with all convenient speed ip make report of his conclusions of a form In the case, which has been in controversy for 10 years and in which millions of words of testi- mony have beep takem, the court acted without a dissenting opinion. Review Ss Case The opinion made 19 printed pages. Much of it was devoted to historical statement of the ot ments which led up to the suit brought by the Government and fin- ally decided in January, 1925, and March 3, 1925. "The fact that Congress had failed to act after this permit had been brought to its attention by reports from the secretary of war was open to the construction, the court stated, that Congress in 2 negative way had shall be whiter than snow. on Your savings with A generous interest rate and safety go hand in hand in a Central Canada Savings account, If you already have a Savings Account with us, keep it growing; if you haven't, start one next pay-day. Small deposits, made each pay-day will soon grow into | substantial amount at our 4% in- terest rate on savings, More than Ten Millions of Dollars in Resour- ces, protect your deposits in Central Canada, the State of Illinois and the Missis- a party to this cage. Canada's pro- | Business hours 9 a.m, to 5 p.m,, including Saturday, | OSHAWA BRANCH OFFICE; be renewed. Some sort of renewc; 23 SIMCOE ST, NORTH Operated Under Government Inspection ENTRAL CANADA AN AND SAVINGS COMPANY TORONTO HEAD OFFICE - KING & vicTORIASTS V7 A SAFE PLACE FOR SAVINGS naturally within the executive fune- tions of that officer. The court's previcus ruling in the Government case had decided, the opinion added, that ccngress had conferred upon the secretary of w.r, authority to determine when the navigability of the Great Lakes was being unlawfully injured. The court states it approved the findings of Mr. Hughes to the ellect that the diversion could not be sus- tained as an aid to navigation nor for the development of water power. It also sustained his view that Con- gress in aiding the lakes to the gulf waterway had not authorized the diversion and the further finding that the widening 2nd deepening of the Chicago River had not commit- ted Congress to the diversion. There was nothing in any act of Congress, the court, however, said, which justified Illinois and the sani- tary district diverting from Lake Michigan such volume of water as it might desire. Suit Started in 1908 It had been the object of the vari- ous secretaries of war and chief of army engineers to maintain and im- prove navigation on the Great Lakes and it was for that reason, the court added, the Government had started its suit in 1908, which ultimately was decided in 1925. Had it not been quires the district to devise proper Lake cago's efforts to preserve the health of her people at the expense of an Sg negligible lowering of lake Mr. Elmore said it appeared that "the court has confirmed the findings of Special Master Charles Evans ughes. "Jt would seem that with this de- cision and with the inclusion of the rivers and harbor bill passed by the last Congress of a provision to that such a decision was compensating works in the channel of the Gre:t I~" es, and a provision in the same bill for a nine- {.ot waterway in the Mizsiss ppl, cur 20-year eccniroversy is at an end. At last the dream of a water- way from the Great Lal.es to the Gulf of Mexico will be realizel. On this account the succez= ul culmina- tion of the litigation is not only 2a triumph for Chicago end Iliinols, but constitutes a signal victory for the entire middle West." Mr. Elmore s2id the "surprising feature" of the controversy was the "bitterness with which certain secc- tions of our neighboring states fought against this slight lowering of lake levels, which hes worked them no particular injury." DR, R. F. PRESTON, M.P., I$ "SLIGHTLY IMPROVED" Carleton' Place, Ont. Jan. 16.-- The condition of Dr. R. F, Preston, member of parliament for Lan- ark, was described as "slightly im- proved" in a bulletin fissuéd by his physicians Monday. Dr. Pres- ton was stricken with pneumonia about twe weeks ago while re- sponding to a midnight call to at- Quebzc Broadcasting Saaion to Ignore Federal Restriction Prers Gallery, Que., Jan, 16.-- The Government's radio broadcast- ing station will be a business-like proposition, wherever its site, and will be run by the Quebec Govern ment strictly in accordance with its own ideas, St. Hyacinthe is consid ered to be in view as the probable lo cation for the plant, which will be available for private broadcasts when not in us: by the authorities. he province intends to operate without any restriction by either Ot- tawa or Washington, and regardless of what share it may take of the eight per cent. of the broadcasting allotment, which Canada is supposed to get according to United States nates, based on strength of popu ation. 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