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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1929 a, She Oshawa Baily Times wa, Limited; Chas, M. Mund Alloway, Secrelary. The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Cana. dian Press, the Canadian Dally Newspapers' As. sociation, The Ontario Provincial and the Audit Bureau of Circulations; ol sUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: 300 & week. side. Ushaws carrier delivery Oounties of Ontario, Durham land, $8.00 a year; elsewhere in a year; United States, $5.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, ta Temperance Street, Tele repre. phone Adelaido 0107, H. D, Tresidder, sentative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York ak Chicago, mail (outs )s in the $4.00 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1929 GIVING ONLY ONE SIDE The Toronto newspapers yesterday morning took another opportunity of having a slap at Oshawa through the medium of a despatch from Brantford, charging Oshawa with getting rid of 'its unemployed workers by shipping them out, fare and freight paid, to some Other city, It was stated that o penniless veteran had been shipped to Brantford, where he had to appeal to charity as soon as he had landed, It sounded like a disgraceful thing for Oshawa to 'do, were the facts correct, But, unfortunately, the story was incomplete, It gave one sid2 only, and it was once again left to the Oshawa Times to give the correct and complete details, The truth 'is that the man would not have been sent out of Oshawa at all had he not appealed for assist- ance in reaching Brantford, where, he said, a job was waiting for hign, It was at his own earnest ' golicitation that the city authorities, feeling that they were doing him a good turn, paid his fdre and the cost of sending his few belongings, to another city where he would be able to start work, But even that is not the whole story, The whole story shows that for a month he was being kept entirely by relief organizations in this, city, "or by individuals who provided him with furnish- ings, food and other necessities, out of thelr own funds, What more could the man expect of any community, under similar circumstances? Instead of going to Brantford and condemning Oshawa, I te should have been only too anxious to achnowl- {edge the assistance given him in this city, In view of all the facts in. the case, surely it I' would have been a wise policy on the part of the Toronto newspapers to investigate both sides of 'the case, instead of rushing into print with one side only. But then, as has been pointed out be- i. fore, the Toronto newspapers have no real interest in Oshawa, and are content to malign the com- J munity at every opportunity that offers itself. Ea. CSHAWA'S HARBOR DEVELOPMENT The people of Oshawa will watch with the keen- "est concern the impression made upon the do. minion government by the deputation from the City. Counell and the Chamber of Commerce which i goes to Ottawa to place before the minister of _ public works the claims of the Oshawa harbor for "development, There is no single phase of the life of Oshawa which means quite so much to the future of the city as its harbor and its growta. It does not require a great deal of vision to realize what it would mean to this city were the .Barbor developed to the extent that it could be . used for the shipment of cargoes to and from the e¢ity by large sized freighters, With the high record of production of the factories of this city, a harbor that could be used for the receiving of (Taw materials and the shipping of finished prod- 'ues would be an asset of inestimable value, since it would permit the city's industries to benefit: by 'the low water freight rates, which are much less . 'than those for rail freight, + But looking even farther ahead, and visualiz- ing what is likely to happen when the St. Law- , rence Waterway is developed 4s a channel for "ocean steamers, one can readily appreciate what ~ Oshawa's harbor might mean to the city, It "avould not be beyond the realms of possibility , that when that occurs ocean-going vessels would . come to Oshawa with their cargoes of raw ma- # terials for the city's industries, and would depart with their holds fliled with the products of Osha- ¢ was factories, bound for far distant ports in all "«paris of the world, to be borne all the way by © szater transport. ' Perhaps that is looking a long wayj ahead, but © Mo great thing was ever accomplished ut the i vision of what could be dope first having staried in the mind of some one or two men. The whole i future is Oshawa's, and in that future, ®he city § Reeds a harbor to permit the greatest possibilities 1p become realities. OLD AGE PENSIONS ~The debate in the Ontario legislature on old £30 pensions promises to be interesting. Had the © measure been framed in other provinces, with the vince paying fifty per cent. and the federal -X sury the other fifty per cent., there would have "Deen little debate, since the opposition parties last fossion 'committed themselves to the scheme. The Ontarfo measure, however, is going to be difiercnt. The province is not going to per fifty per cent., but is going io load half of that and Northumber., on the shoulders of the municipalities, in propor tion to the amount paid in each community in pemsions,. following somewhat the same system, 'presumably, as in the mothers' allowance scheme, 'Premier Ferguson, of course, has a spacious argument to support his case. He claims that the payment of 'old age pensions will relieve the municipalities of much of the cost of maintaining houses of refuge, and that they should, therefore, pay their share of the pensions' bill, It sounds fairly reasonable, but the difficulty will' be to say with any assurance that the saving to the municipalities will be anything like the amount they will have to pay towards old age pensions. The premier, of course, is anxious to secure all the financial help he can to balance his budget, and when an added liquor surplus of $8,000,000 enables the province to produce a surplus of only $869,000, as was the case last year, there is dire need for bolstering up the provincial treasurer's statements, What most peeple object to, however, is that the provincial government is trying to squeeze the municipalities dry, by making them pay in every conceivable way, while at the same time the government is hanging on to every dollar it can raise, and refusing the claims of the muni- cipalities for a share in some taxes which might well be divided to some extent, The addition of the old age pensions burden to municipal taxes is not what was intended by the federal measure when it was passed, but the people of Ontario will have to put up with it, since Ferguson has a sufficiently large majority to do what he likes and laugh at the opposition, ONE RESULT OF COMMUNISM One of the favorite storjes of Communists is that Russia is the ideal country in which to live. Yet there is one significant factor regarding Rus- sla's economic life which is worth noting. Since the incoming of the Soviet Regime, Russia's pro- duction of wheat has decreased fourteen per cent. At one time, Russia was the world's greatest wheat-producing country, But, with the coming of the Soviet regime, there has been no encourage- ment in production, for the man who produced more than his family could eat, had the surplus confiscated by the Communist commissariat de- partment, In the same period, the wheat production of Canada has increased one hundred per cent; that of Roumania, 42 per cent,; Australia, 75 per cent,; Spain, 85 per cent, and the Argentine, 41 per cent, Burely this is a sound economic argument in favor of the more stable forms of government as opposed to that of the Soviet Union, EDITORIAL NOTES Revolutions in Spain and riots in India seem to indicate that there are still a number of people in the world who believe in the old cure of bleod- letting. A former Chicago magistrate has been sen- tenced to serve 99 years in jail, About the only consolation left to. him is that he is not likely to have to worry about finding another job when his term ends. Those who are helping to build up the British Miners' "und will receive thousands of "Thank yous" from those who are in need in Great Bri- tain, But the thanks would be all the greater if the response were in keeping with' Oshawa"s size and prosperity, There is not much need to worry because the customs receipts for the Oshawa office were lower in January 1929, than in the same month in 1928, Probably the reason is that more materials and goods made in Canada are being used in the local industries, and less being imported from other countries. | « Other Editors' Comment - THE PUBLIC MAN : (Worcester Telegram) The real test of the public man is one of character measurement, Has he moral fibre? Has he mental breadth? Is he upright and honorable, liberal in view, sound of conviction? It is not in his wealth or his poverty. Wealth or poverty are in themselves matters of small consequence, BEANS WERE COLD ; : 3 (Lindsay Post) The Stratford Beacon-Herald has an inspiring plea for homelike kitchens where one can be at ge Personally after two weeks of getting our own meals we think that a kitchen with an automatic meal cooker would be an ideal idea. NEWSPAPER MAN STUFF . (Walter Winchell) It must be sickening to know that you are so un- popular with your colleagues that they celebrate your being fired, Recently one of the lads on a New York newspaper had a row with his chief over the rewriting of a story, and after harsh arguments were swapped the reporter was dismissed. The staff rejoiced over the bouncing and lost little time chip- ping in money to buy the editor a2 watch, upon which was inscribed: "or the outstanding piece of jour- nalism in 1928!" r.xs Bits. of Verse « = ' GET IT DONE! If you have to do 2 job, Get it done! Do not fume and fret and sobg i Get it done! Making boots or making rhyme, There's no sense in wasting time: So, though midnight hour may chime, Get it done! If a habit you would break, Get it done! There's your character at stake; Get it done! Life's too serious for delay; Habits strengthen day by day; Do not balance Yea and Nay: Get it done} If a fellow you can aid Get it done! Friendship's not a thing to trade, Get it done!" All the treasures love counts best Promptness oft makes doubly blest So, beiore you go 10 rest, « Get it done! --Tid Bits. AH! YES 'Tis. even. The rosy tints above do show. All purple on the world below. Day is dying. Night falls. The dark'ning shadows here and there Now Jdreq- the corners' every- where. . u Movement ceases. I wonder. Should the sprites with Pir nt a ron ad ay their pranks on you and me, What to do? b I'd run, I'd find the corners still and bare They wouldn't look for you in there, Until the day. ECR Blackton:. "Does your wife open your letters?" Whitwate: "Only those marked 'private.' x ow Oshawang a jolt yesterday w found they to themselves out from under snow drifts which had piled high around the houses. : * Ww % » Europe at the present time re- sembles closely a disturbed check- erboard. Trouble arising from po- litical struggles, based upon revo- lutionary uprisings have placed the whole country in turmoil and one country after another is becoming mixed up in a puzzle the solution of which is more of 2 conundrum. TO seen Thy face is as fair as mad poet's, dream, Of rose petals mixed with that which I deem A warm glow of ivory so soft and 80 temder, At thy wee fairy feet all my love 1 surrender, ~A, G. Oshawa. LJ LJ [J Most of Oshawa's population was over in Whitby last night it seems. The Times switchboard was quite heated up over the same, It reminded one of electio time--hones' n truth, ' Note--(If the printing of this column isn't very clear in to-day's issue of The Times, we might add by way of explanation that the of- fice cat got to foolin' around with the typewriter ribbon last night and we haven't had it replaced yet), We hate to be pessimistic, but won't it be pleasurable weather when all this raft of snow melts and turns ovr boulevards, lawns, avenues and streets into little splashy lakes and rivulets, . One day more for your contri. butions for the poem *Fashions' to be published in "At A Glance" on Saturday. wow Bye Bye Blackbird LJ L % RENRUT ~ - Bits of Humor « NO RISK AT ALL Nervous Passenger: I don't fell at all safe in this leaky ferry boat. Boy: Don't worry, ma'am, If anything happens to you, I'll take the blame, FITTING ALL RIGAT Husband: Is that woman I saw you talking to a fitting associate for you? Wite: She's ftting, all right, She's my dressmaker! AND THEN ANOTHER "It wags a narrow escape all right; the car turned two somer- saults." "Evidently thought good turn deserves Boston Transcript. INTERNAL INJURIES Motorist (after knocking over a butcher's boy)--Are you hurt, my lad? that one another," -- Boy (picking up contents of his basket): Dunno. Here's me liver and ribs, but where's me kidneys? NEEDED THE SEAT 'Why, gentlemen," thundered a political candidate, "my oppon- ent hasn't a leg to stand on," "All the more reason why he should have a seat," came 2 voice from the back of the hall. ; MUCH EXCITEMENT IN NORANDA PLAN Quebec, Feb. 8--Corridors of. the Legislature are buzzing with the re- ports that the copper refinery and smelter which Noranda interests are to erect will be on the banks of the St. Lawrence in the vicinity of this city, following a visit which J, Y. Mur- doch, president of Noranda, paid to Premier Taschereau. What has given an even er fillip to the report that $20, would be involved in the scheme, is the fact that a delegation from the Quebec Chamber De Commerce also has been the premier ot the re- finery and smelter subject. M. J. McManamy, president of the Cham- r: A:'C. Picard, second Vice-presi- dent, and H. Loudin, the secretary, formed the delegation. Quebec, ac- cording to many of the conversa- tionalists, is in excellent posture to get the smelter. SIN ACKNOWLEDGED-WE ac- knowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have pimps. | against thee~Jere- miah 14:20. PRAYER-Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul . For Thou art good, and ready to forgive. By James W. Barton, M.D. WHEN RSE FANS LIFE 1 visited a tuberculosis sanitarium some weeks 280 and had a chat with an ex-champion amateur boxer who was a bed patient. He informed me quite calmly that he would be in bed for two years anyway, would thén be an up pati- ent. for some months, and finally would be a "cure" and able to get back home and take up some light form of employment. In other words although fresh air and the best of nourishing food are big factors in curing tuberculosis, rest, absolute rest, is the most im- portant, Because when the condition is ac- tive, although fresh air is beneficial and food gives strength, the absolute rest of the body in the lying down position gives the affected lung a chance to get ahead of the condi- tions, whereas where exercise is tak- en the lung cannot heal. This is the reason that a gas is sometimes in- jected to make pressure against an affected lung, so that it' cannot ex- pand, and thus it must rest and gets a real chance to heal, This method is used on the very serious cases and often saves many months of time in curing the con- dition, . Dr. Rist of Paris compares 759 cases treated by this gas pressure method (artificial pneumothorax), with 168 cases which were in the same condition but refused treat- ment or had adhesions which pre- vented the use of the gas pressure treatment, There were 30 per cent of deaths among those treated cases as com- pared with 54 per cent among those untreated, There were 52 per cent of the treated cases leading normal lives, as against none among those who re- fused the treatment. The lesson of course is that in these lung conditions absolute rest until all active symptoms have sub- sided is the biggest pn of the treat. ment, After this, fresh air is next in importance and Dr. C, H, Vroo- man, of Vancouver, reminds us that results show that cures can be ob- tained just as readily at sea level in England, as in the mountains of Switzerland; that the results in Canada are quite as good as in Cali- fornia, And the other essential--good food --can" be obtained as readily one place as in another, All of which means that if the tuberculosis patient is willing, as was my friend the boxer, to settle his mind to the fact that he had a long slow job ahead of him, that a cure is almost a certainty, (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act.) PAYMENTS ON THE REPARATIONS FOR CANADIANS CUT Ottawa, Feb, 8--There are still further changes in the government's bill to meet reparation claims against Germany, The present bill's provisions, it is understood, call for the payment in full of all claims up to 91.900; from $1,500 to $5,000, a 50 per cent pay- ment; from $5000 to $10,000, 25 per cent; over $10,000 ten per cent, with the limit of $25,000 to be paid on account of any one loss, as in the case of steamship companies which lost several vessels through submar- ine activity, In the case of Canada Steamships, limited, the royal commission award- ed a payment of $300,000 but as they lost three ships the payment would each vessel lost. As the government will receive $5,- 000,000 yearly for 60 years from Ger- many in reparation payments through the Dawes plan, public feeling is that a. more generous settlement should be made through the & sed bill, Virtually all the small claimants, such as the fisher- men, will be paid in full of their awards, but the larger claimants will fall far short of a full settlement for losses they suffered in the war. In the United States all the smaller claims were paid in full and in the case of the larger ones they were paid in full, but on the instalment plan, HON. J. K. THOMPSON ACCEPTS CLERKSHIP Toronto, Feb, 8--Hon. Joseph E. Thompson, M.P.P. for the St. David division, has accepted the position of clerk of the surrogate court of York county, it is understood, and will resign his seat on the Conser- vative benches of the Legislature, An official announcement of Mr. Thompson's appointment is expected within a few days. i As derk of the surrogate court, Mr. Thomp will d Arthur F. Wallis, one time editor of The Mail and Empire, who died on Jan. 29. BOARD AUTHORIZES LOAN TO WARD LINE Washington, Feb. 8.--The Ship- ping Board authorized a loan of $6,525,000 to the Ward Line for construction of the 20-knot passen- ger cargo ships of 16000 tos for ser- vicebetween New York and Hav- ana. Contracts for building the ves- sels have already been let to the Newport Newe, Va., Shipbuildings and Drydock Company, which will deliver the ships by November 1, 1930, in time to participate in the winter trade of next year. The new ships are expected to be used in competition with the vessels, to the New York-Havana run, be limited to $75,000 or $25,000 for, PREMIER REPLIES TOTHE ATTACKS OF LIBERAL LEADER Alleged Interference With Liquor Control Board Fur- nishes Lively Subject Toronto, Feb. 8.--Premier Fer- guson, taking the floor in the de- bate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne, yesterday, in the legislature, in addition to replying to the excoriations of gov- ernment policy offered by W. E. N. Sinclair as to hydro rates, alleg- ed interference with the Liquor Control Board and on government policies in general, launched a slashing attack on the Liberal Gov- ernment at Ottawa for curtailing ald to agriculture in Ontario. Mr, Ferguson drew a pointed comparison between the present agricultural policy at Ottawa, as he saw it, and that of the Ontario Government. While market gar deners hampmered on the doors of Parliament for more protection, the Federal Government took away the annual $325,000 grant to ag- riculture in Ontarfo and now was withdrawing the aid to vocational school work. The grants to road building also had been withdrawn, The Ontario Government, how- ever, was replacing the agriculture grant out of treasury funds and was carrying on the vocational work, "That's one of the things we have done for agriculture, Mr, Leader of the Liberal party," the premier told Mr, Sinclair." Mr, Sinclair: "Not until you had to. Mr. Ferguson: 'People must prosp:r and the nation must go on, If the people at Ottawa don't ap- preciate their job, we'll take up the burden and do it for them." The prophecy made by Mr, Sin- clair that there would be an elec tion this year was rid'culed by the prime minister, but at the same time he did not offer to lift the veil which so far has hidden his in- tentions in this respect. No hint was left whereupon the Opposition may hinge further pronposticat'on. Laughter swept the Government benches when early in his speech the premier referred to Mr, Sin- clair's address in the debate as in- dizating that where the Liberal leader had suffered last session from a pernicious anemia in politi- cal argument, this year he was af- flicted with an "incipient political paresis.' Replying to the Opposition at- tacks on rural Hydro rates, Mr. 'Ferguson reminded his opponents that the principle of Hydro, was power at cost--and cost always in- cluded the cost of transportation. Accordingly, municipalities distant from the point of production must always pay higher rates than those nearby. He defended attacks on the 'auto license fee with the declaration that New Brunswick was the only province whose charge was lower than Ontario's. He also detailed what the govenment was doing in the promotion of industrial and scientific research, in the advocacy of temperance, and in parole and StoBiE-ForLoNG & @ ao Otic tend suading S. F. EVERSON, Local Manager » Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa -- Abeve C.P.R. Office Phones 143 and 144 A probation work among youthful of- fenders. Opens in Happy Vein A storm of applause welcomed the Premier when he rose to speak and he opened with a reference to the allusion of Mr. Sinclair to "a one-man government." 'You are familiar, I am sure, in the first place, with my warm personal ap- preciation of the only compliment that has been paid to me by my friend from West Middlesex, "May I say that my friend from West Middlesex, I think, has been known to give serious considera- tion to every problem under dis- cussion in this House, and, I he- lieve, expresses what he believes is his sincere duty, While I give him credit for his candor, I must decline to accept without question many of the thoughts that are in- volved beneath that benevolent old dome." TODAY'S LIST OF ~ AUTv AC IDENTS | PEDESTRIAN INJURED Toronto, Feb, 8.--When a colli- gion between two automobiles sent one of them up orto the sidewalk at Bathurst and Ulster strects lnst evening, Harry Orgun'k, Borden street, was strucl ard had his right foot fractured. He was admitted to the Western hospital, SEVEN HURT IN BUS CRASH Hamilton, Feb, 8.-- Seven passen- gers on a Toronto-Hamilton Gray Coach Lires bus were painfully hurt last night when the biz ma- chine in cher~e of M, C. McMahon, skidded off the hizhway at Fil- man's Curve two miles out of Dur. lington, and crashed into the ditch. Passengers were thrown about and showere1 with broken glass when the windows on one side of the machine were smashed. AGED MAN KILLED Toronto, Feb. 8.--Henry Thomp- son, aged 75, of 30 Pearson aven- ue, who was nun down by an un- known motorist at 6.30 o'lock Wednesday evening at Fuller and Pearson avenues, died yesterday afternoon from his injuries in St. Joseph's Hospital, At the time of his removal to the hospital it was announced that his chances of recovery were slim, as he had sos: tained an extensive skull fracture, The police of Cowan avenue divi- sion are carrying on a vigorous search for the callous motorist who sped away after the accident, 65, 204 | CALENDAR REFORM 1S NOW GENERAL Committee is Appointed to Study the Matter at Annual Meeting Ottawa, Feb, 8--A committee to give further study to suggested re- form of the modern calendar was appointed at yesterday's session of the Dominion surveyor's copvention Election of T. I. Bartley of Ottawa, as president, and review of land set- tlement surveys, were other high lights of the deliberations. "The error of the Gregorian Cal- endar,or that used by the world to- day amounts to only one day in four thousand years," said F, DD. Hender- son, presenting the report of calens dar reform. "Nevertheless, though the present calendar is remarkably accurate and has been in use in England and Do- minions for one hundred and seven- ty-flve years, and in most European countries since the 16th century, there are very important reasons for considerihg its reform," stated Mr, Henderson, "The League of Nations has taken the lead in calendar re- form" pointed out the spraker, "With a view to later having an in- ternational conference where united action might be taken for the sim- plification of the calendar." Says Canadian Ports Have No Advantage Washington, Feb, 8 -- Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, author of the resolution of last session making inquiry as to diversion of commerce to Canadian ports, secured an order in the Senate yesterday for the publication, as a senate document, of a pamphlet on "Transportation Charges in the United States and Canada," prepared for the associa- tion of railway executives of the United States. The pamphlet, Senator Walsh said, contained a report "far Super- jor" to the governmental reports lately made to the Senate. A COLD NIGHT "Johnny," sald the minister, "I'm shocked to hear you swearing, It is a very naughty habit, = Why, every time I hear a person swear, a cold chill goes down my _ "Well," said Johnny *if you'd been at our house last night when pop jammed his finger in the door I guess you'd have been troze to death." DOUBLING Each 4 Years insurance in Force 1918 = 17 Millions 1919 - 21 Millions 1920 - 25 Millions 1921 - 29 Millions 1922 - 34 Millions 1923 - 42 Millions 50 Millions 60 Millions 72 Millions 87 Millions LA H i Cro This Company has enjoyed another banner year. Its steady and healthy advance has never wavered." --From President's Address a8 Annual Mesting, 1927 $26,780,177 Insurance Issued 1928 $29,613,383 Insurance in Force $87,877,013 $105,705,236 Assets $10,383,194 SL1L,277,544 Surpius Earnings Largest Ever Copy of Annual Report RY » 4 EY i ROW! Rt.Hon.Sir Robert L. Borden President _HOME OFFICE; TORONTO, CANADA rd HE Stephenson oar. 7