y / SAGE FOUR i § THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929 Che Oshaws Bally Times . 1 "THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1971) Ap independent newspaper published every afterneor except Sundayn and (aga) holidays #0 Oshawd Canada by Mundy Printing Company. Limited: Chess M Mundy, Presidents A R , Bes The Oshows Daily Times is « member of the Canp dise Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers As sociation. The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Buresv or Cfculations SUBSCPIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier. 16c o week By mall in Canade (outside Oshaws carrier delivery limits) $4.00 » vear; United States $5.00 o year © TORONTO OFFICE #97 Bind' Building 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107 © H D Trepidder. representative REPRESENTATIVES IN U. 8, Pevers and Stone, Inc. New York end Chisago FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929 THE NEED OF THRIFT ---------- In the appeals which are being made to the Ase sociated Welfare Societies for help by needy families in the city, there arc indications that some of those who are now in need are learning the bitter lesson of the disastrous results of the lack of thrift, In many cases, little thought had been given to the future by those who were carning substantial wages, They were carning,~and they were spending == sometimes foolishly and sometimes wisely, 'But the one thing they were not doing was suving, saving for just such a time as that which came later, when the bread winner was thrown out of work, We are fot referring to those people who invested their surplus earnings in home comforts and furnish People are not to be blamed ings, and pleasures, But there are so for wishing to have these things, many people who seem almost tafally unable to save money, people who, no matter how much they are tarning, spend it all, and never think of the days that lie ahead, The present situation is teaching many of these people a bitter lesson, the lesson that thrift, econor my and saving are virtues which are worth cultivating pecause in them is found the means of making pros vision for the days of unemployment, If the lesson can be learned at all, there should be a big improves ment in conditions in Qshawa before another winter rolls around, for those who are now suffefing because of their spendthrift tendencies, will surely have enough commen sense to make every effort to save as much money as they can while employment condis tions are good, $0 a# to carry them over any seasonal period of slackness, Striking evidence of the faith which big business men and concerns have in the 'actual dollars and cents value of advertising is found in the statement issued by the president bf the Association of National Advertisers regarding the appropriations made fur 1930. According to his figures, 242 national adver- tisers have fixed their appropriations for next year's campaigns, and they will spend a total of $20,000,000 more for advertising in 1930 than they have done in 1929, These men have alrcady 'proven the value of ads vertising in bringing them the results they desired, In 1929, they spent $186,000,000 on it, and so well satisfied are they that it pays that they are planning to spend $206,000,000 for the same purpose next year, If this means anything, it means that they are sa tisfied that their faith in advertising rests on a solid foundation, thut they believe that every cent they spend on advertising will be returned to them an hundred fold, 'so that it will increase the prosperity of the businesses with which they are associated, What is sound business poliey for them is sound policy for all men in buiness, whether on a largg scale or small scale, These men are winning success because of their faith in advertising, and the man who does not think it worth while to follow their example is not wide awake to the possibilities of development in his own business, TEACHING DRIVERS TO BE CAREFUL Aun interesting plan has Leen adopted by Judge Levi Hall of the Minucapalis traffic court for deals ing: with careless automobile drivers who are between the uges of 18 and 25, Acting. on the basis that these drivers are carcless because they do not know any better, he Hus opened up w safety school for offenders, and those who are found guiltyof careless or peckless driving are given the option of paying a fink of $25.00 of attending this school, which gives u cotrse of five weeks training, congisting of two hours of legtures and demonstrations cach week, And at the end of the term, the student Must Pass an exams ination on the traffic. cade, safety rules, and the mes chamleal control of an automobile. This is an idea which has in it wide possiblities for uso! development, It might be worth while to saggeat that such courses of instruction on safe drive ing might be made open, not only to these who have been found guilty of offences, but to all those who are learning to drive an automobile, so that, by this instruction, they can be started on the tight track ad motor drivers, There are doubtless hundreds of people, older folks as well Bs young people, with a sincere desire to practice safety in their driving, and who would appreciate the opportunity of taking such a course of instruction as the Minneapolis judge. has inaugurated, This is one of the sanest and wisest suggestions yet put forward for curbing the careless and reckless drivers, and we believe it should be heartily com- mended to the Ontario minister of highways as one of the nisthods which might be adopted by his ligh- way safety committee In training a more careful and law-abiding race of drivers, THE PRISON MUTINY IE ------ For the second time In a few months, there has been a serious mutiny of prisoners st the Auburn prison in New York State, with a serious loss of life attached to it, This is the fifth outbreak of its kind in United States prisons in the last six months, and in all of these either guards or convicts or both have been killed, Teo the people of this country, who are aecustomed to having their penal institutions handled In an effi. clent and safe fashion, the whole situation Is puze- ling, They cannot understand how it could he poss sible for inmates of a prisonto so organize thems #plves, to secure possession of large quantities of arms, and finally to make a desperate effort to overs throw constituted authority, It is apparent that there is something radically. wrong with a system under which such things are even possible, far less being of #0 frequent occurrence as they lave been, The whole root of the trouble, of course, les in the potorious laxity which Is shown in the handling of desperate criminals right through the complete chain of the administration of justice, In every one of these five cases of Jail mutiny and attempted es» cape, the eriminals had secured firearms and ammuw nition, and succeeded in temporarily overpowering their keepers, There must have been some one at fault before that could be possible ~ a weak link somewhere in the chain of responsibility, One would have imagined that the very first of these occurs ences would have been sufficient to cause a tighten ing up of conditions in every jail in the country, but Instead of that, it seems as if the habit is spreading, and is likely to again burst out unless there is some radical ehange in the whole system of jail incarceras tion of desperate men, A DIFFERENT STORY An interesting controversy has arisen in letters to the editor of a Toronto newspaper as to the wisdom of educational authorities refusing to allow the school children there to read the famous war story, "All Quiet on the Western Front," on the ground that jt is not fit for children to read, The writers of some of the letters take exception to this, on the ground that it provides a splendid object lesson on the horror of war, and should he read by everyone, Their opinion, however, has been formed, to a large extent, at'ter reading the book in serial form in a newspaper, And in that form the story was entirely different from the original book as it was written, and as it appears In the English edition, The serializas tion, In fact, was a very strictly censaged version ol the United States edition, which was Previously ox purgated before being presented to the American public, So that those people who, read the story as a serial have not really read the book at all, It had been stripped of its crudeness, its vulgarities and obscenities long before it reached the newspaper cols umns, and all of these are left untouched in the Eng lish edition, which is the edition being sold in this country, The version which many people have read is, theres fore, an entirely different story to that which Is available in book form, and while the former version might have little in it to give offense, there are,' in the original version, countless passages which young people' would not be benefited by reading, In fact, the book has been glorified out of all true proportion to its real worth, for, if people were prepared to admit their honest opinion of it, that epinien would be that it is not the type of book a man would give to his wife, his daughter, or a young son, to read WHEN WAR 18 GUILTY Speaking at Milton, Mr, A. E, Padbury, of a Tors onto branch of the Canadian Legion, has uttered some common-sense sentiments in regard to soldiers' pens slons, In brief, he urges that the burden of proof should rest upon the Pensions Department (and not on the soldier) when the Department refuses coms pensation or hospital treatment to ailing veterans, About this point centres the chief present grievance of the soldiers' organizations, There is nothing rads ically wrong with the letter of the present Pensions Act in dealing with disability or disease which is directly attributable to war service, The present complaints concern such cases as follows: Private X, bedridden with rheumatism, which appeared after dis charge=pension refused; Gunner RK, suffering from tuberculosis, treatment pefused in spite of the fact that the battery records show exposure to repeated gas attacks; Corporal B, a "semisburnt-out" case, unable to hold position, shelter granted from time to time, but ne permanent provision for care To argue that the appalling experiences of the war had no effect on any of these men=and on thous: ands more like themesis to insist upon a plain ab. surdity, In recent months the veil has been sufficient ly lifted trom trench experiences to let the publi know some greater measure of the truth, The least that a just people can do for the survivors of the war is to give them the benefit of the doubt and put the blame upon the war when it comes to deciding whether or not pensions or treatment are to be grants ed, ~Toronte Globe, EDITORIAL NOTES -------- There are few householders these days who have uny cause to complain of lagk of exercise, For the next two weeks, it will be the who will carry the white man's burden, Massachusetts is testing the eyesight plying for drivers' licenses, Tt would be some cases, to test their mentality, postmen of those ap. hetter, in The price of wool is: reported to be drepping, Perhaps because of all the lambs who were fleeced in the stock market debacle, 4 A -------------------- That report in the Toronto press regarding the resignation of \W, E, N° Sinclgir and his appoints ment to a federal cabinet position is on the level as their reports of the Oshawa erime wave, The Guelph Mercury has the right angle an the Toronto reports of a ering wave in Oshawa, for it says: "The City of Oshawa has 'put a ban on the publishing of police news because the Toronto pas pers have grossly exaggerated conditions in thay ity, much to its discredit, - Some Toronto papers spes cialize in giving a black eye to other cities and turn some of the most commonplace offences into huge seandals." Other Editor's Comments A PORPOIBE AND A BOOK (Chesley Enterprise) A big fat porpolse, who would weigh about 250 pounds, called st this office one day last week to sell us a book and was quite surprised when we wouldn't even take time to look at it, We would have had more re. spect for the big fat duffer If we had seen him at one end of a crosscut saw preparing the winter's wood, NOT 80 EABY (Renfrew Mercury) The press Is belig asked to eo-op- erste by publishing sll names of mo- torists who are from now on convict- ed of driving motors while under the influence of liguor, Hon, George 8, Henry, the minister of highways, could never have edited & weekly newspaper or he would know that this Uttle request ls not as easy as it at first appears, ON NEWSPAPER SERVICE (J, L, Garvin in Observer, London) It is utterly false to" suppose that any individual can do Poi. 49 Cone siderable in Journallsm=-the most somplex of all professions = without three conditions, First, a staunch pro~ prietorship, Second, colleagues wha must be individual persons of pith and mark In their own right, and yet prepared to work together, after the manner of Nelson's captains, like a "hand of hLrothers" in the common duty, Third, training must have heen vecelved from great masters of this profession, or thelr example studied and the best of what they knew and wrought must be handed down, MODERN CONVERSATION (From the Winnipeg 'Lribune) Seareely any ol the trash of eon versation In any age survived past bedtime With the result that to. day, lacking any positive evidence ol mstorie twiddle, we are apt to won der i there were ever before such dismal babblers as the chimee age quaintanee of the restaurant or the lady behind us at the theatre, The art of conversation is dead, we say at once, without pausing to reflect that even at the old Chesshire Cheese uniess Doctor Johnson happened to be there, it might often have been difficult to discover two grains of wit In two bushels of boresome chafl Lhe art of conversation, ft Is true, has undergone a change, This Is an Age of specialization; soclety has not the same common interests that |i once had, One has to choose one's conversation more carefully, The man today who talks convinelngly and well at some function of business men might be quite tonguestied in the presence of art lovers, Many a man Is regarded as a conversational dul lard merely because he happens to be a member of 4 group to whieh he does not "belong." He will be lively enough and Interesting enough when he gets back among the regular fel lows whose interests in life are broadly the same as his own, The art of conversation to-day Is not dead; it is more specialized, A ---------- | Bits of Humor | HIS MUSICAL ABILITY "I understand the boss Is very mus CARLY D, BROWN, NATION. AL ADVERTISING MANAGE OF THE SAVE LAKE TRI BUNE, BAYH: THAT national distribution has been accomplished by many manufacturers in a fow months with newspaper nae tional advertising that would have taken ygars under the older wystem, The newspaper organizations have become "'merchandise-mind« ed" and of themselves promote naw distributor connections and ins troduce new merchandise in thelr retail and wholesale trade areas in short periods of time, This rapid action In impossible with any other medium and is a distinet advantage to the national advertis- er, who, alone, could not always socomplish it efficiently at the psychologienl moment when mers ghandige Is particularly seasuns able, The national advertiser can plek his pavtienlarly desirable markets with newspaper ads vertising, but has no cholee in magazines of national elvoulins ton and with them must pay for a thin coverage of the ens tire country, The exigencles and emergencies of competition and other condi tions that may vary in different sections of the country ean he overcome hy quick setion in the markels affected, by using newspa- pers In these markets, without the expenses of advertising In other markets, where conditions are sat isfactory or normal The manufacturer who las not learned how to use the machinery of newspaper merchandlaing wer viea provided for national adverts ers has missed something which has made larger 'volume in old markets and distribution in yew territory for his competitors NATIONAL NEWKPAVER AD. VERTINING IK A MIGHTY PFRODUCTIVE VORCKE AND, WHEN COUPLED WITH IN TELLIGENT PROMOTION AND MERCHANDISING OF. FERED BY THE DOMINAT. ING NEWHPAPER IN A MAR. KET, A MONT CONVENIENT, HOONOMICAL MALESIOW. ER, That Body of Pours By James W Barton, M.D Bits of Verse THY VIRST SNOW Not yet. was winter come to earth's wofl, floor, The tidless wave, the warm white road, the shore, serried town whose street tortuously Led darkliog to the dassling sen, The small Not yet to brasthing man, not to his song, Not to his comforted heart; nor to the long Close, Aultivated lands beneath the hill, Bummer was gently with them still, But on the Apennines mustered the cloud; The grappling storm shut down, Aloft, aloud, uled secret tempest pue long day and night, Until apother morning's light, O tender mountaintops and dell cate, Where summerlong the westreing sunlight sate! Within that fastness from the sun, What solitary things were' done, The clouds let go, they rose, they winged away; Bnow-white the altered mountains faced the day, As saints who keep thelr counsel nonled and fast, Thelr anguish over-past, YOUR HOUSE OF HAPPINESS Take what God gives, O heart of mine, Andb ulld your house of hap piness, Perchance some more; But many have been given less, The treasure lying at your feet, Whose values you but faintly HUBER Another bhullder, looking on, Would barter heaven to possess, Have you found work that you can do} Is there a best? Is there a spot somewhere called home, Where, spent and soul may rest? A friendly tree? A book? a song? A dog that loves your hand's Caress' A slore of needs? Oh, build piness! Trust not bring The dreamed-of joy for which you walt; have enough of darkened have been given heart that loves you worn, your health to meet life's your house of hap to-morrow's dawn to You pleasant things To house your soul in Bale) | Tomorrow Time's relentless stream May hear what now you have nway, Si what (od gives, O heart, and | goodly bulld Your home of happiness to-day! 0, ¥Y, Williams, | EA Ct | Srote-ForLone ¢@ Ld ST A 8. F. EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System 17 KING STREET EAST, OSHAWA Phones 143 and 144 | TREATING GALL STONE COLIC | One of the mest paliful conditions | passage ol & same sical?" "So he should be! He's been play | Ing second fiddle to his wife for 10 years, '==Montreal Star, | -------- ! TRULY FRIENDSHIP "Friends Save Man From Pull" Headline And how friends be better ymployed? a man is confronted with an angry bull that is the time when he finds if he has any friends. ~Toronte Mail and Empire, Angry could "What Claude 1" "Well, he last night," "Where was the harm in that!" "My dear, | had accepted him the night before, "=-Muskogea Phoenix made you quarrel with proposed to me again Passerby==What would your moth er say, little boy, if she could hear you swedr like that? Boy==She'd be tickled to death if he could hear ft | Passerby=--How that? Hoy deaf, cap you lie like hat's no lle, She's ston BEYOND HIS MEANS A distinguished but impoverished On beng asked by a fair maiden to buy a rose lor halt! 4 Crown, he re plied, courteously h for me the price 18 too high" Not to be rebuffed, the girl kissed the bloom, "And now!" she said "Alas, no," replied the ever-polite {but telumphant Frenchman, "for now | flower is priceless!" EXPECTANT {The vicar paid a visit to the parish [on and. alter addressing the boys upon various subjects, he asked them by way of encouragement to put any question to him, and promised that i he could not supply a satisfactory an swer he would give the hoy who asks ed it sixpence, says the Edinburgh Scatsman, A smart youty promptly Jumped to his feet, and said "Why am 1 Ke a dead horse, sir?" The vicar promptly confessed his inability to give an answer, and asks ed the boy why he was like a dead horse, "Hecause," the boy answered, "1 am waiting for the tanner!" The Bread of Life--And Jesus sald unto them, 1 am the bread of life, he that cometh to me shall never hus gery and he that believeth on me shall never thirgt=John 6:33, ve "Break Thou, the bread of life, Dear Lord to me" When Frenchman attended a charity bazaar, | regret mueh, mademoiselle, but | known to man is the | gall stone into the intesting tearing of the linmg ob the tube ws | the stone passes Is almost bes [Yop human gndurance, It is to be wondered at therefore that morphine {8 jected not only to {allay the pain but to relax the muss cle in walls of the vessel through whigh the stong is passing However many to use morphing ger of the patient phine habit I heard recently of allowed a patient to elght attacks, lasting from three tu six hours each without giving him any morphine, The patient finally un derwent an and had the stones removed alu g bécause of the dan forming the wer 1 physician who suffer about operation durin the attacks he had it been possible he taken his life rather than pain, His doctor was a might 'become a mor However {says that would have undergo the fraid that he | phine addict [7 Tt 1s with great satisfaction there fore that physicians have learned ol a method developed by a French physician whereby this terrific pain can he coutrolled without the use [of morphine, Just as vour dentist fnjects a local lanaesthetic into the gum surrounding the tooth to be extracted, this phys [afcian injects a local anaesthetic in [to the skin wnmediately over the gall [ bladder, In all cases immediately after the injection, the pain disappeared and the abdominal mugeles relaxed Ugus ally injection was sufficient as the power of the anaesthetic lasted from four to six hours Where there was continuous dull [pain and discomiort in the region ol [the gall bladder, the injection was | repeated daily for from ten to fifteen days, 1 believe you will admit that this simple treatment of injection into the skin will be of great help to the physician who has conscientious obs fections to the use of morphine, (Registered in accordance with Capyright Act), (ST the SUNDAY OBSERVANCE WAR ON So intense has become the 'war over Sunday observance in Scotland that the question is getting into polis ties, The Free Presbyterians in the northern part of the country have united in fighting the encroachments of the sanctity of the day by the des mands for recreation and entertains ment, The Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow, alarmed when a wen: ber of the Glasgow Town Council stated that all municipal courses in the city should be open on Sunday called a meeting and appealed to the neople to vote at eledtians for only those who pledaed support to Sunday abservance, The United Church alse has heen asked to throw its strength at the polls to those who favor quiet Sundays, physicians hesitate | The | | by C.K YUCK a | (Copyright 304) » VISUAL IMPERFECTIONS PART Il | Uy the Workmen's Compensation Act and acts of a similar nature in many provinces and states, a physical standard to which all applicants must "Measure up" has been arrang ed, but few of them until recently saw Nit to measure the eyesight effi. otency of the applicant, Fhe eyes appear to be in fine cons dition, no noticeable trouble ever having been evidenced but in many caves the eyesight of one eye is found to be greatly impaired, These cons ditions are found frequently in studs ents as well as these engaged in ather walks of life, The person may start work or study with apparently normal vision and through continual strain according te the condition aps plying to the use of his eyes may des velop visual weakness, This may be overlooked for some time and later when the proper tests are taken it iy found that one eye has for a long time been deficient in power, Many people possess only a frags tion of normal vislen in one eye, but food vision in the othe.. Some are practically blind in one eye, but have rood vision in the other, "Su pose a slight aceldent obeurs to the deficient eye, an accident serious enough to res Qpire attention, The eyes are tested and it is supposed that all the trouble was due to the accident, Suppose a really serious accident harmless in it self, has proved serious because of the impaired vision of the person not permitting a true understanding of fangen The person with a moderate amount of astigmatism or far sightedness, the student, or the man employed at a machine or bench is compelled to do practically double duty during the ens tire working day due to the condition of his eyes, Ax the day wears en the eyes begin to shirk and must find case hy heing closed or turned away to distant objects for a time, The wearing of the proper correction would not only mean the increase of hig earning capacity and would leave him with sufficient nervous energy te enjoy his evening's rest or recreation after work is done, FLOOD REFUGEES MOVED While acute famine conditions no longer prevail in the flooded districts between Peking und Tientsin, China, it ia possible that more extended re lief may become necessary later in North China, Relief societies are transferring a few thousand refugees ay immigrants to North Manchuria trom Honan and Shantung provinces, Arrangements are being made for their care there until the next plants ing season / "INCOME 177, 1 2/ JOR 10, 15 or 20 years 4 // or for her lifetime, your wife can be assured a stated INCOME through Mutual Life INCOME Insur« ance. 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