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* 4 + " : not write it he did, somehow, - THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1930 YES! and the bedpost was his swan. The bed was his own, the room was-his own. Best and hap- piest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in! "IL will live In the Past, phe Prose ent, and the Future" Scrooge ro- peated as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. O Jacob Marley! Heaven and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob; on my knees!" He was so flustered and so glow- ing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely an- swer to his call, He had been sob- bing violently in his eonfliet with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears. "They are not torn down," cried | Scrooge, folding one of his ned- curtains jn his arms. "They arc not torn down, rings and all, They are here--I am here----tnhe shadows of the things that would have buen may be dispelled. They will te. I know they will!" His hands were busy witn his garments all this time: turning them {inside out, putting them cn upside down, tearing them, mis- laying them ,making them pariies to every kind of extravagance, "I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath, and making 2 perfect Laocoon of himself with Dis' stockings. '"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, | I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am | as giddy as a drunken man, A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the worid! | Hdllo here! Whoop! Hallo!" | .. He Dad frisked into the siiting- room, and was now standing ther», perfectly. winded. "Irnere's the saucepan that tce gruel was inl" cried Scrooge, start-| ing off again, and going round tho fireplace. "There's the door ULy| which the Ghost of Jacod Marler | entered! There's the corner where, the Ghost of Christmas Present sat! There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits! It's all right, it's al! true, it all hap ened. | Ha, ha, bal" 1. Really .for a man who had beed out of practice for 0° many 'years, | it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious Jugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs! | "1 don't know what day of sha | month it is," sald Scrooge. "I don't! know how long I have been among | the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. "| don't care. I'd rather be a baby.) Hallo! Whoop! Hallo here!" He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he Clash, clash, hammer; ding, dong, peli! 'Bell, dong, ding; hammer, | clang, clash! Oh, glorious, glorl- | 1 ous! JRunning to the widow, he| ed it, and put out his head. No. 108. "no mist: clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold: cold, piping | for the blood to dance to; golden sunlight; heavenly sky; sweet fresh, air; merry bells, Ob, glorious: orious! Ol What's today?" cried Scrooge, ealling downward to a boy In Sun- day clothes, who perhaps 22d Joitered in to look about him. : "Ph? returned the boy with all ht of wonder. = or today, my fine fellow? ~ Berooge. : a oday replied the boy. "Why, CHRISTMA Y." pe Day!" sald to himself, "I haven't "It's Christmas i we The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do any thing they like. Of course they ean. Of course they can. Hallo, fine fellow!" gallo!" returned the boy. \ "Dg you know the poulterer's in the next street but one. at the core mer?" Scrooge inquired. "1 shoul§ hope I did, d. By intelligent boy!" sald] Scrooge. "A remarkable boy! Do kdow whether they've soid the turkey that was hanging up here?--Not the little prize turkey: big ane?" = he what! the one as big as ma? ned the boy. ; pio a delightful boy!" said Scrooge. "It's a pleasure to talk to i: XY my buck!" . : ba nanging there now," repil- lh Scrooge. "Go and buy it." v "Walk-ER!" exclaimed the PY. "No, said Scrooge. "1 am Go and buy it, and tell that 1 may i | replied e It. -back- : ou 8 shilling. Come ad TN in less than five minutes, and I'll give you hait-a- " boy was off like a shot. Be ar pad a steady hand al 2 who could have got a shot i51ed down y h a joke as fs 'will bei" which he wrote the i a steady one: but open the street-door, coming of the poul- As he stood there, the knocker downstairs to ready for the 's man, wilting His. 71a), eye. shall love it as long as 1 ered Scrooge, patting it +f "I scarcely ever What an hoB- has In its face! rl--Here's oop! How as!" it derful X turkey. Hello! Tos 8 turkey! He never could hifs legs, that bird. sion Bor 'em short the hie | which he sat down breathless in Lis had ever heard.) t| hew's house. J \ stmas Carol) By Charles Dickens L =n EY "It's I. Your Uncle Scrooge. Will you let me in, Fred?" | off in a minute, like sticks of seal- ing-wax. "Why, it's impossible to cary that to Camden Town," 3 Scrooge. 'You must have a cab. The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the turkey, and the chuckle with which he pald for the cab, and the chuckle with which ne recompensed the boy, wefp only to be exceeded by *rith chair again, and chuckled till he cried. Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and shaving requires attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it, But i be h~d cut the end of his nose he would have put a piece of stick- C ing-plaster over it, and been quite! satigfi~d. Ho dressed himself "all In end at last got out into tr The people were by t time pouring forth, as he had seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present; and, walking with Lis hands behind him, Scrooge re- garded every one with a delighted smile. He looked so {irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured- felows sald, "Good-morning, sir! A merdy Christmas to you!™ = And Seroige sald often afterwards that, of al the Mithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears, his 1 'ho He had not gone far when, com- | ing on towards him, he beheld the portly gentleman who walked into his counting-house the day bo- fore, and sald, "Scrooge and' Mar- ley"s, 1 belies?" It sent a pasg across his heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met but he knew what path lay straight before him, and he took fit "My dear sir," sald Scrooge, quickening his pace, and taking Lie old gentleman by both his hands, "how do yot do?-] hope you suc-, ! ceeded yesterday It was very kind of You, A merry Christmas to you, sir!" "Mr. Ssrooge?"' *Yes," sald Sirooge. "That is my name, and I fear it may not be pleasant to you. Allow me to ask your pardon, And will you have the goodness--"" ° Here Ssroope whispered in his ear. "Lord bless me!" cried the gen- tleman, as if his breath were taken away. "My dear Mr. Scrooge, are you serious?" "It you please," sald Scrooge. "Not a farthing less. A great many back-payments are included' in it, I assure you, - Will you do me that favor?" "My dear sir," said the other, shaking hands with him, "I don't know what to say to such munifi--"' "Don't say anything, please," re- torted Scrooge. 'Come and see me. Wil you come and see me?" "1 will!" cried the old genile- man. And it was clear he meant to do it. . "Thankee,'" said Scrooge. "I am much obliged to you. I thank you fifty times. Bless you!" He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and look- " into the kitchens of houses, dnd up to the windows; d found - that everything could 1d him pleasure He had never dreamed that any walk----that any- thing--could give him so much happiness. In the afternoon he turned his steps towards his nap- He . passed the door a dozen times before he had the courage to 0 up knock. But he made a dash and did it. - "Is your master at home, my dear?" said Scrooge to the girl, "Nice girli Very." "Yes, sir." "Where is he, my love " said Scrooge. "He's in the dining-room, fir, along wtih mistress, I'll show jou upstairs, it you please," "Thankee. He knows me," suid Scrooge, with his hand already on [1 4 | tthe dining-room lock. "I'll go iv | here, my dear." | He turned it gently, and sldied | his face in round the door. They | were looking at tlre table (which | was spread out array); ples these young usekeepers are | always pervous on such points, ang like to #ve that eve 1g is right {| "Fred!" sald Scroc { Dear heart al by marriage start Scrooge hud 'forgotten, for the moment, abuut { her sitting In the corner with the { footstool, or he wouldn't have done {it on any account "Why, bless my Fred, "who's that?" "It's I. Your uncle Scrooge. 1 have come to dinner, WIIl you 'et me in, Fred?" Let him ¢ his niece soul!' cried 5 & mercy didn't shake his ar® off. He war at home in five minutes. Nothing i could be heartier. His niece looked just the same, So did Topper 'hen he came. So did the plump sister when she came. ' So did every owe | when they came, Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unani. | mity, wen-der-ful happiness! But he was early at the office | next morning. Oh, he was early {'there!" If he could only be there | first, and cateh Bob Cral hit con- ing late! That was t thing had set his heart upon, And he did; yes, he did! clock struck nine. No Bob. | quarter past, Tre A wide open, that he might see him come into the tank. His hat was off before he opencd the door; his comforter, too, He was on his stool In a Jiffy, driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock "Hallo!" growled Scrooge iu his accustomed voice as near as he could feign it. "What do you mean by coming. here at this time of day?" "I am very sorry, sir," ssid Bab. "I am behind my time." "You are!" repeated "Yes, 1 think you are, way, sir, if you please." "It's only' once a year, sir,' pleaded Bob, appearing from the tank, 'It shall not be repeated. 1 | was making rather merry yesier- | day, sir." | "Now, I'll | triend," sald Scrooge. going to sthnd this sort of thing any longer, And therefore,' he continued, leaping from hls stool, and giving Bob such a dig In the waistcoat that he staggered back into the tank again--'"and there fore 1 am about to ralse your sal ary!" Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler. He had a mo- mentary idea of knoeking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the co:ri for help and a strait-walstcoat "A merry Christmas, Bob!" sa'd Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, clapped him on the back, "A mer- Scrooge. Step his tell you what, my low, than 1 have many a year! I'll ary,and endeavor raise your sal- cuss' your affairs this very after- smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires and buy asiother coal-scuttle before - you dot another I Bob Cratehit!" Scrooge than hls was = better NO He "became as good a friend, ar good a master, and as good a man as the good old City knew, OY any other good old city, town, or bir ough in the good old world. with Spirits, Total-Abstinence Prinéiple of him that he knew how to kecp Christmas well, if any man allve possessed the knowledge. May tha! be truly said of us, and all of vs! And go, as Tiny Tim observed, Go¢ bless Us, Every One! THE END % Br ci he | he No Bob. He was full | {eighteen minutes ind a half behind | his time, Scrooge sat with his door | "l am pot | as he | WARS S PREDICTION 'Armed. Confit. Now in Process of Being Abolished PRR CHARGES ANSWERED | Noted Physicist Discusses Alleged Sins of Science Des Moines, Iowa, Jan, 3,--Pre- dictions that science will save the world from war, its future inhabl- tants from starvation, and present civilization from sensationalism. were made 'to the American Asso- clatlon for the Advancement of Sclence yesterday. The forecasts were given in the annual address of the incoming president, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, world "famous physicist, of Califor- nia Institute of Technology. He talked on alleged sins of science. To all charges, he sald, science re-| plies very quietly: "Find out the facts, we have to live with them anyway." One charge is that eclenc makes war more deadly, more hor rible, less heroic. 'Answering, Dr. Millikan sald: "Primitive man's chief tool were probably arrowheads and tomahawks and his chief industry making and using thom. When the age of bronze replaced the | stone age a multitude of new peaceful arts were horn, "These arts turned men's minds energies and Interests away from wgr 'toward peace, and this has been the consequences of praetic- ally every advance of science since | that time, I think a survey will] show conclusively that every seci- | entific advance finds ten times as | many new, peaceful, constructive uses as destructive ones, Relentless Advance "In my judement war is now in process of being abolished chiefly | by this relentless advance of scl-| ence, Its mest powerful enemy, | | It has existed in spite of religion, | philosephy, the golden rule--simp- | ly because it had survival | value, ' { "It will disappear like the Dino- | sauria only when the conditions | that have given it survival value have disappeared and those condi- tions are rapidly, disappearing now primarily because of changes in the world being brought about by the | growth of modern science.' Answering another alleged sin of causing labor to be "deadened and routinized," Dr. Millikan sald | even 'the most "routinized" hbor today has "far shorter hours than | {the dumb agricultural drudge hoed potatoes for 12 hours a day! through @ll the history _ of the world before the machine age ap- peared." | SHOT DEER FROM OPEN WINDOW has . Ui | Young Boston Woman De- tected Buck While Sitting | At Breakfast Boston; Jan. 2---~Some men tramp the forest for days in search of the | clusive deer. Not so, however, Miss | Esther Gallop. Miss Gallop, clad in her pyjamas, was enjoying a leisure- ly breakfast when a commotion in the front of the house attracted hers attention, There in the front yard | was a 200 pound buck. She immedi- | ately grabbed her father's trusty shot | gun and while her mother held the window open for her brought. him | down with one well "directed shot. | Eight other women have reported | kills this season but none as yet have reported as favorable~tonditions as | Miss Gallop. Reports from the Department of Game and Fisheries for the 1929 deer season indicate a total to date of 2,707 killed, Although the season clo- sed at sundown on Dec. 14, belated | reports are still coming in to the | department. Conditions for the hunt- ers were ideal this year with an a- bundance of snow making the track- ing of deer a comparatively easy task. Two weeks of shooting were allow- ed in all the counties except Ply mouth this year. Two men were tied for the honor of bringing down the largest deer of the season. cach reporting a 377 pound buck, while the smallest re corded was 75 pounds. rier Christmas, Bob, my good fel- | given you fer | to assist your . struggling family, and we will dis- | noon, over a Christmas bowl of ! word, He did it all, and Infinitaiy | more; and to Tiny Tim, who did | die, he was a second father. | He had no further intercourse ' but lived upom the ever | afterwards; and it was always said | R. L. BURNAP Whose appointment as Vice. President. in Charge "of Traflic, 'unadian National Railways, is an- | nounced. vr. Burnap has been associated with the various lines which now comprise the Canadian | National System during the whole of his railroad carcer bf 36 years, \ SCIENCE WILL STOP! | starring Ralph Ince theatre la | Pringle who | wis | gains 'y GORDON D. CONANT One of the: chief workers in the campaign for the purchase of the Oshawa hydro plant, who is a candidate for election to the Public Utilities Commission, WALL STREET' AT THE NEW MARTIN Tense Action of Orama Is Ably Handled by Ince And Pringle fare the Powerful dramatic is presen ed in "Wall Srteet," 1 | { all-talking drama of love and finance and Aileen Prin- gle, which opened at the t might, New Martin Ihe plot cent McCray,' 1-1 | financier, licy of ruthless elfi d his way to the t fina vordd McCray who had ull worker, is crude and uneducat burt heart of gold Vit "ut meaning he drives "Walter Tabor," a rival financier to suicide, McCray's of forts to make an widow, "Anne," for ved an supply action for Ralph Inc Cray, give a Ince plays his role 1 cftorts to win the of Anne Tabor, mterpr 3 s tinged with pathos, rives a f hed perfor Vo by a p hness star life as a has a 10, wends Con 1 mates Mc- mance istically M and respect ted by Atle M anc 1 Neill the made Cars Menance An . Head-Tine ice the Arkansas American y Industry in Franee France is lucky entire public over Gazette, "Roller | ww of the Labor's | ty | What Others Say TWO CIVIC MATTERS iditor, Oshawa Dally Times, Sir: The proposal to remunerate members of the city couneil is in he opinion of many citizens un- timely and unnecessary. Without being pessimistic, there are condi- 'tions that fully justify judicious care in civic expenditure, The ser- |fously large mmount of unpaid [taxes indicates one result of wide and continued unemployment, This {is certainly not the time for the addition of one needless dollar to pur eity burdens. In view of the lures number of men, presumably qualified, who voluntarily and somewhat zealously seek places in [the city couneil, why the induce- ment, if it is an inducement, of remuneration, The suggestion that compensation would attract better men is probably without any foundation, It is far more likely to appeal to the smaller type of ble for position ever more strenu- ous than at present, Has the time not arrived when the care of the destitute should be- come, at least to a considerable | extent, a civic obligation? | Private and voluntary benevo- [lence has done much, and wil | continue to do many things that a |eity board could not well under- take; but it present conditions are I'not greatly overstated, and there [is no evidence of that, very much more is required to prevent suffer- |ing to which no body of Christian lor even clvilized citizens £an be | indifferent, HELPER. Columbia! HYDRO RATES { Editor of Times: | Dear Sir i= | It was recently announced in The Limes, that a melon in the form of a $50,000 reduction. in local Hydro | rates was to be cut, We regret 0 say that the slic. handed to the | dom consumers especially those | using electric ranges turned out 10 [be a lemon, In order to fully und- | erstand the situation 1 will give Stic office seeker and make the scram-}/ A. 8. McLEESE Who represented the north-east ward as Alderman in 1926 and 1929, and who is again offering his services for this ward. the council of 1929 as managers of the local utility rests the responsib- ility of this unequal imposition, when they failed to protest when the re- vised rates were submitted for their approval or rejection, A careful con- sideration of Hydro rates, by the Utility Commission to be elected on Jan. 6th, will do much to restore the confidence of citizens in the local management of this newly acquired public utility. Yours truly, T. J. LOWRY. Vim CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN 1020 [ briefly the averay, rates in effect in Oshawa before and after the revision in 1927. Domestic Jetore rev, 1927, 23¢c per KHW. [after revision 3.5¢ per K.H.W. | Percentage of increase in 1927, | gx 1929, Percentage of reduction in 89%, | Service charge increase, 1929, | per cent, on ranges. Commercial revision 1922-294 per K. 100 Jefore HW. | After revision 1927--394 per K.H. Percentage of increase in 1927-35 per cent, 'Percentage of reduction in 1929-- 29 per cent, Percentage of increase | rates after 1927 rev. 16%. | Percentage of reduction in power | rates after 1929 rev. 11 per cent. | "A fine of $1.32 for two months im- in power : | posed on users of electric ranges in { the mame of service charge." On @ | low consumption of electric, wipes Tout the alleged reduction of 89% | and in some instances leaves an ac- | tual increase over the 1927 rates. A | glance at the above figures should | dispel any doubts as to who von the rate war. It was certainly not the unorganizéd domestic consumers. On HIGHER THAN 1928 (Interesting Statistics Given | for 1929 and Last Month by P.U.C. The amount of water delivered from the Waterwork's Pumping Station to the town mains during month of Decenber, 1929, was 12,- 718100 imperial! gallons, which fs at the average rate of 410,261 gallons per d°v The greatest amrunt pumped any one day was on Monday, Dec. 9, viz., 449, 500; the least was on Christmas da$, viz.,, 352 600. A yea ago, the record stood at 11,769,300, which equals an average rate of 379, #53 per day. In 1927, it averaged 372,081 per day. The total amount of water handled during .the year 192% kas 155,745,300 gallons, which is 11.427,700 gallons more than in "92°, The BilHng k were: *ds for Decem- P wer Light Water ..1690.45 4309.90 905.60 1508.26 4074.02 972.37 Light and Power The "peak'" demand for the month of December, 19", appears 1928 1929 4rd, 'at 5.40 par, and amounteo to 745 H.P, The K.P.H, consump- tion for the month was 252,480. In 1928 the record shows a peak demand of 900 "".P. with a K.W.H, consumption of 284,080. This fall- ing off of 100 H.P, in demand and the loss in K.'W.H, copsump- tion is over 90 per cent, 4s attribut- able to one customer, who reducen lis load on thé town distributor system by considerably over 100 H.P. This is not anticipated to be a rermanent red ction in power demand, GIVEN A YEAR IN GAOL ON CHARGE OF SHOOTING FARMER Magistrate Lenient With Farm Laborer Whot Shot at Wm. Guthrie Convicted a weck ago of shooting with intent to maim William Guth- rie, well known Whitby Township farmer. Paul Peneczik, farm laborer, was sentenced this afternoon to one year in gaol by ' Magistrate J. E. Willis. The accused on the night of November 24th. entered Guthric's barn "situated near the village of Audley and the Crown alleged that as he was fleecing from the place he fired twice at Guthrie, wounding him badly in both legs. The defense was that the gun went off accidentally on both occasions. In passing the sentence Magistrate Willis told Penezik that he might have been given a life term for shooting to maim, His Worship could not believe that the gun was acci- dentally discharged on two occasions. The fact that accused was reputed to be a good workman, had never seen in trouble before, and has a wife and family in the old couptry, was taken into. consideration in im- posing the light sentence which dates from the day of his arrest, Accus- ed was fold that as this was his first offense he might make applicaflon to the Parole Board for a reduction of his sentence. Louis S. Hyman of Oshawa, ap- peared for accused and made the plea for leniency, while Crown Attorney J. A. McGibbon represented the Crown, ------------------ ---- . WHITBY TOWNSHIP ELECTION Interest in municipal affairs in the Township of Whitby is very much in evidence by the fact that there will be a contest for the reeveship .and for council on Mon- day next, On Monday night at 9 o'clock the present reeve, W, 8, Croxall, had filed his papers to run for a thira term. His ovponent will be C.L. Mackie, who has been in the coun- cil and is well-known in the town- ship. ; There are cight in the field for the council, with four to be elect- ed. The candidates are: Joseph Johnston, Henry Jones, W. J. Cook, Lorne Kemp, Roy F. Lick, Sidney Lockycar, Percy Stover, Walter Weir. . The expc.ditures of the past year on roads, bridges and culverts are being mude the main issues in the election, A contest for the reeveship was very uncertain until late in the af- ternoon, when Mr, Croxall an- n-unced his intention to stand. - of General Motors Auditorium MARY ST. Saturday January 4th 1.30 p.m. -- Cars on View 2.30 p.m. -- Moving Picture 7.30 p.m. -- Cars on View 8.30 p.m. ~ Moving Picture First Public Showing the NEW CHEVROLET SIX \ Auditorium. The New Chevrolet EST Chevrolet. Don't miss this one-day Showing. As an added feature a remarkable Canadian moving picture time. The picture depicts the many widely diverse operations necessary to build this phenomena} car. It tells in stirring fashion how the resources of forest, mine and river are utilized in the manufacture of the Chevrolet Six. Be sure to see this picture. In the Auditorium you will have opportunity and leisure to inspect the Greatest . Chevrolet in Chevrolet History -- in the fill array of its excep- tional new features. Come, Ne CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED Subsidiary of General Motors of Canada, Limited OSHAWA ONT, The public of Oshawa are cordially invited to attend the First Public Showing of the Greatest Chevrolet in Chevrolet History--the New Chevrolet Six. A complete range of the striking new models will be on view tomorrow in the General Motors of is definitely the GREAT. First will be shown for the first have occurred ou Tuesday, Dec, PEPPER OWEIET TY