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independent newspaper published every y except Sundays and legal holidays, at. Canada, by Mundy Printing Company, Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Secs retary. The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Canae dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' Ase sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RAYE Comile Delivered by carrier, 10c a week. By Oshawa carrier delivery limits), in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumberland, $3.00 'a year; elsewhere in Canada, $400 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107, H. D. Tresidder, representative. REPRESENTATIVES IN U. S. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929 A HANDICAP TO PROGRESS There is much of interest to the people of Oshawa in an address that was delivered by Dr. Horace L. Brittain, director of the bureau of municipal research, at a banquet this week. Speaking on the personnel problem of municipal corporations, he uttered a strong indictment (of the ward system of electing municipal councils, and declared that that system was a heavy handicap to rapidly progressing cities, His speech contained several points which have a direct reference to: the situation as it is in Oshawa, where, owing to the fact that last year's council re- fused to act of, a properly signed and presented pe- tition asking for a change, the ward system is still in vogue. Some: extracts from the speech are sig- nificant, as follows: "The chief duty of city councils is to decide mat- ters of policy, and they should be so elected as not to handicap them in such decisions. The usual method of election by wards does result! in such handicaps. Policies should be decided on from a consideration of the needs of the city as a whole. "The ward method naturally emphasizes district needs; aldermen are apt to be clected on the basis of their ability to get things done in 'their wards at the general expense. Decisions are. therefore not al- ways based on thé needs ofthe city but on the needs of ward aldermen who wish to be re-elected. One reason for tHe patchy development®and high local improvement debt of many Canadian cities is the ward system, "The great weakness of the ward system, however, is the fact that it tends to produce the type known as the ward politician. As election to the higher positions is usually confined to those who have had experience as aldermen, the 'ward' mentality becomes predominant throughout. In large cities, where wards may in themselves have a very large population, the result may not beso serious as in smaller cities, "In old citie§ Which are practically 'finished' so far as large improvements are concerned, the effect of the ward systém may not be bad. In countries where there are long traditions of public service in many families the disadvantagés may not be very impor- tant; but in new countries, where most are interested in developing the country and earning a living, where cities are in a stdte of rapid growth and change, the ward system is a heavy handicap. "A third handicap to the efficiency of city councils is too large a membership. This promotes talking ta the gallery and lengthy specch-making, Talk is not cheap; in reality it is extremely expensive. A city council, at least in a new country, will secure a near- er approach to efficiency of discussion on the basis of real community needs if the membership is suf- ficiently small to"be able to sit around a board table. This promotes 'discussion and makes orating ridicu- lous if not impossible." These quotations speak for themselves, and need little comment, It might be said, however, that they could not have been pointed any more directly at conditions in Oshawa even if Dr, Brittain had been speaking to an audience in this city. He knows the problems whereof he speaks, and his words are well worth taking to heart by the people of this com- munity. . CONGRATULATIONS Although John Dryden, son of W. A. Dryden, of Brooklin, and student of the Oshawa Collegiata Institute, did not win the Ontario School Student's Oratorical championship, he brought honor to himself, to his home district, and to the collegiate he attends, by coming third in the final contest in Toronto the other night. It was no mean achieve- ment to reach that place of eminence, for the siz-. teen young orators who competed represented the best in Ontario, winners in local and district com- petitions in their own districts. Training in oratory is worth while, for there are lamentably few men, even in public life, who have acquired the art of self-expression to any 'degree of perfection. It is likely, however, that the future will produce its full share of orators, for the intensive training being received in that sub- Ject by so many of the young people is sure to bear fruit. . ? , John Dryden has every reason to feel proud of his success in oratory. Perhaps it is but natural that he should shine in this field, for his father, W. A. Dryden is noted as a public speaker of mach merit, while his grandfather, the late Hon. John Dryden, one time minister of agriculture for On. tario, was a platform orator of the first rank. Thus it might well be said that the gift is an in- berited as wellfas an acquired one. ' The Times jojus with thé people of Oshawa aud | i THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929 of Whitby Township in offering its sincere con- . gratulations to John Dryden for the able manner in . which he upheld the honor of his county and his school In keen competition with representatives of all the other sections of Ontario, AUTOMOBILE EXPORTS Great significance is attached to the report is- sued by the Dominion bureau of statistics dealing with the exports of automobiles during the month of March. The report shows that the exports of passenger cars were thirty per cent, higher in March than in February, and nearly three times as great in March, 1929, than they were. in the same month last year. Commercial automobiles showed an increase that is even more astonishing, for the exports of these amounted to $2,042,355, as com~ ' pared with $1,211,716 in Februray, and $314,754 in March of 1928. . In this record can be seen the secret of the astounding. progress which is being made by the automotive industry this year, It is all the more satisfactory, too, because of the fact that his busi- ness, being in the nature of exports, brings mil- lions of dollars of new wealth into the country, to be distributed in wages and for materials which go into the manufacture of cars, With domestic consumption of motor vehicles showing substantial increases over past' years, and the export business soaring to mew heights, the "year 1029 should be far ahead of any previous year, And it might well be said that, so far as export business is concerned, this is but at its beginning, and as years pass it will show such development as will enable the automotive indus. try of this country, and particularly of the city of Oshawa, to grow even bigger than it is at present. A. CHECK ON DISHONESTY There is much justice in the appeal made by | the Dominion government by the Hotelmen's As- sociation and the Retail Trade Bureau for a tight- ening of the laws against the issuing of cheques when there are no funds at the bank to meet them. The practice of certain people, in committing this kind of dishonesty, is decidedly reprehensible, and merchants lose large sums of money this year as a result. The law can quite easily be made more drastic without doing harm to any honest person, The petitioners do not propose anything arbitrary fa the matter. They are quite willing to take into account the possibility of a man making a mis- take in issuing a cheque for a greater sum than he has to his credit in the bank, and of giving him a chance to make it good. There are only two alternatives to actions of this kind. A man has either made a mistake or committed a fraud. Those who unknowingly make a mistake will readily make it good, but for those who deliberately perpetrate a fraud, there should be no loophole. Men in business are en- titled to the greatest protection the law can give them in this respect for the promiscuous cheque- giver who in t way defrauds merchanis and others, and causes losses in business, should be dl lowed no way of escape. = Other Editors' Comment ~ NEWSPAPERS AND THE COMMUNITY (Stratford Beacon-Herald) The newspapers are criticized more than they are commended. They are criticized because they print- ed this or failed to print that; because they gave too much space on ene story and toa little to another. But the papers continue on their way knowing that they are filling an increasingly important part in the affairs of the community. They realize that, being hu- man, they commit mistakes, erring in judgment and in fact. They realize, too, that these mistakes while always regrettable and frequently the result of in- sufficient. time, are infrequent, compared with the vast amount of matter which is correctly presented to the reader. TORONTO-OSHAWA BUS SERVICE (Toronto Star) In pursuance of its campaign against public own- ership of bus and coach routes, the Telegram contin- ues to misrepresent the Toronto-to-Oshawa transit situation in its relation to the franchise between these two points which was recently secured by the T.T.C.'s subsidiary, Gray Coach Lines, Limited. The franchise in question (as everyone knew at the time of purchase) did not extend beyond Oshawa and did not confer a monopoly as against buses car- rying passengers beyond Oshawa. If it had extend- ed beyond Oshawa, the Telegram would have been the first to accuse the TTC of buying too many long-distance routes and going too far afield with its coaches. The franchise was and is just what it was claimed to be--an exclusive franchise between two neighbor cities (including intermediate points) whose people are constantly travelling back and forward with a resulting riding habit which makes the line extremely profitable. - In face of the fact that the franchise gives Gray Coaches a monopoly of this business, the Telegram says: "The private bus line between Toronto, Osh- awa and points east, operating in. competition with Gray Coach Lines, the bus-running subsidiary of the Toronto transportation commission, is going right after business, and giving its publicly-owned opposi- tion a run for their money." The impression left by this statement is that the private line is competing with Gray Coach Lines for traffic between Toronto and Oshawa. That is abso- lutely not the case. Going east, it cannot carry a passenger unless he is bound for some point beyond Oshawa--and beyond Oshawa the Gray Coach Line does not extend. Coming west, it cannot carry a Jassenger unless it picks him up beyond Oshawa. The oronto-Oshawa and intermediate business is a mon- opoly which public ownership has secured. By James W. Berton, M.D. DIFFERENT CAUSES OF BACK. ACHE Did you know that the ordinary backache, that is pain in the lower back, may need the advice of three or four Specialists before the cause is located Sometimes I think I speak too of- ten about backache--pain in the low er part of the back--but Dr. Geo. L, Lambright, Cleveland, tells us that in chronic ailments there are as many patients complain of backache as there are of headache, In my former article I stated that about 75 percent of the backaches seemed to be from infection or other ailment in the body and the other 25 percent due' to injury of some kind, Now the cause may be due to a stone in the kidney or bladder and the specialist in this work--the urolo- gist-- may have to remove the stone before there is any relief from the backache. perhaps the patient is so thin that he has lost too much of the adipose or fat tissue that helps to hold the kidney in place, and so the kidney pulls forward and causes the back- ache. The treatment here would mean rest, nourishing food, and a support of some kind. Perhaps a growth or some pisplace- ment of some of the lower internal organs is causing a "pull on the lower part of the pack, and the specialist-- the gynecologist--may have to correct this by supports or even surgery. Sometimes it is just general weak- ress and the individual stands with hips and abdomen forward and shoulders rounded, and the whole pull or weight of the body comes on the lower back. Standing and sitting' erect, ab- dominal exercises, ana an abdominal belt is the treatment here. Then there is infection which is responsible for more cases than all the others combined. Infected teeth, tonsils, gall bladder, sinuses, and a lazy intestine are dis- covered by the physician or dentist and after being removed or correct. ed the backache disappears. The backache due to injury is ecor- rected by another specialist--the or- thopedist--by means of a brace, or even surgery. Now backache may not kill you or even put you in bed, but it seriously interferes with all the affairs of life, so why suffer when it is possible to locate the cause and attain a cure in practically all cases. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act). - Bits of Humor - ON MOTHER'S SIDE Small Son: What are diplomatic relations, father? id Wise Parent: There are no such people, my boy.--Answers. GOOD IDEA! Burglar to his wife: I've tried blasting and .I've tried a sledge hammer, but I still can't get this safe open. oe Wife: Don't give up; let the baby play with it.--Life. NECESSARY TO THE SEEDS Blinks: Wait a minute, I'm go- ing to start my garden tonight and I have to stop in the drug store, Jinks -- Huh! You can't buy seeds in there, can you? Binks--It's a porous plaster for my back, not seeds, I buy there. WORSE THAN THAT Wife (of famous actor, on motor tour) I think it would be policy to pull up, dear. Famus Actor: Why, what's the matter? "It's a policeman with an auto- graph book. WOULD BE HANDY Lady of House: No! We don't want no books, nor we don't want no calendars. We don't want no nothing. Hawker: What about a cheap grammar ?--Answers. THE BRINGER OF GOOD TID- INGS--Behold upon the mountain the feet of him that bringeth gooa tidings, that publisheth peace!-- Nahum 1:15, PRAYER--"O holy Ghost, An- ointer, come, Pastor and people fill. Till all the happy tribes of earth shall do His righteous will." he - « Bits of Verse « - THE HEART The mind is too opague To understand the heart ich thrives on other roots Than intellect and art, The mind grows like a pearl, Predestined to be flame, The mind is tossed by change, The heart remains the same, I have no accurate words To dazzle or attract You, who are Jer by truth And tormented by fact, My veins are stirred by things you would not recommend, And so must remain-- Platonic to the end. Stumbling through rhetoric To captivate a smile-- Praying the heart may cease Its poundi a while. ing inal in Palms, ----- : Pan Pete "B" Humble Oil Analysis on request F. 0'HEARN - & COMPANY Members Standard Stock and Mining Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Winnipeg Grain Exchange New York Prodice Ex- c ge (Ass"te) Genogha Hotel, Oshawa lephone 2700 LAKES SWEPT BY TERRIFIC WINDS AND BLIZZARD Shipping in Danger as Lakes Are Lashed Into Fury PORTS SUFFER Trail of Wreckage Left Along Shores the Great Lakes Toronto, May 4.--Wind, rain and resulting floods for the second time within a month left their trail of damage through Ontario yesterday and the end is not yet. The great lakes, in the throes of a 60-mile gale, accompanied hy a blinding snow blizzard in the north and torrential rain in the south, presented a menace to ship- ping which kept the majority of vessels stormbound in port while those which were forced to brave the gale were tossed about like match-wood by the heavy seas. At least, one casualty and possible disaster has been added, it is fear- ed, to the toll of shipping fatalities on the lakes, though last night no reports had been received to aid in the identity of the mass of wreckage found floating on Lake Huron. Seamen on the shore of Lake Huron last night declared that the seas during the day had been heav- fer than had been seen for the past decade on the lake. Lake Erie was again on the rampage with the gale piling up the waters against the dykes at Erieau and hundreds of acres of land menaced. Reinforced by thousands of hastily procured sandbags the shoreline last night was holding its own against the terrific onslaught, but unless the wind drops it is not thought pos- sible that they would hold wnntil morning. If they break the result will be nothing short of disaster. Trail of Wreckage At Riverside. and along the shoreline of Lake St, Clair the water had receded last night leav- ing a trail of wrecked homes, washed-out roads and piled drift- wood on the land to tell the tale of the worst flood which the com- munity of Riverside has ever ex- perienced. On the upper lakes the blinding snow storm made navigation all but impossible and at the Sault a long line of vessels lay at anchor- age waiting an abatement of the fury. The same conditions obtained at Sarnia and the Welland canal ports and the delay will add stili further, it is believed, to the grain congestion, Eastern Province Suffers The waters of Lake Ontario were beating the shoreline of the east- ern province with great fury and heavy losses were réported from ports and towns all along the line. At Kingston the loss is estimated at well over $80,000, with the wreckage of boathouses and. sum- mer cottages adding to the toll of flooded industrial buildings ag the waves battered down all barfier:. At Prescott the yacht club building was rent in twain by the waters and is reported as almost a total loss. For the first time in many years the upper St. Lawrence went on the rampage, overflowing its banks and adding to the toll, while the high waters of the upper Niagara river swept all before them leav- ing railway lines a tangled mass of steel which cannot be repaired for many days to come. Apparently dividing its force as it approached Toronto, the stor:n missed -entirely the greater metro- politan area, Kippendavie avenue, customarily affected by wind-swept waters, swas untouched, and the bluffs at Scarboro suffered no added erosion from inshore waves. Life-savers, who spent 24 hours on the alert, failed to receive a single call. T.& NO. RE AY HAVE EXTENSION Negotiations in Progress with Hollinger Mines, Report Declares Toronto, May 4.--Negotiations involving an extension of the T. & N.O. railway into the Kamiscotia district are in progress between the Ontario government and Hollinger Gold Mines, Ltd., Premier Fergu- son confirmed last night, upon learning of an announcement by N. A. Timmins, president of the Hollinger at that company's annual meeting yesterday in Montreal. Mr. Timmins stated the company was prepared to build a concen- trator and resume operations at STOCKS TOBIE-FORLONG Head Office: Reford Buil BAY AND WELLINGTON STS. TOR S. F. EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System 17 KING STREET EAST, OSHAWA . 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He believed the railway ex- tension not only would open up a promising new minicg fie:d ut would be of value as a coloniza- tion road, Premier Ferguson stated that the proposed extension was being dis- cussed by the government and represen atives f the Hollinger. "It is a matter of terms," he said, when he was asked if a decision wag near. "It ig a matter of what and the people may be assured an adequate return on their invest. ment." If a man is crazy and does'nt know it it's because he is a bach elor.--Chicago Dally Star. 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