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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1930 ~ PAGEFOUR J | Che Oshawa Baily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER Ao independent newspaper published every afterncor except Sundays and legal holidays, st Oshaws Canada. by Mandy Printing Company. Limited; Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, See- retary. The Oshaws Daily Times is o memberofiihe Cana: dine Press, the Canadian Daily Ne pers' Ase sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Clreulations. SUBSCPIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 15c » week. By mail in Casade (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits), $4.00 » vear; United States, $5.00 » year. TORONTO OFFICE #7 Bond Buiiding, 66 Temp Street, Teleph Adelaide 0107. H. D Tresidder, representative REPRESENTATIVES IN U. 8, Povers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1930 THE BOARD CHAIRMAN The re-appointment of A. W. Bell as chairman of the board of education, to serve a second term in 1930, is a well-deserved tribute to faithful and pains i taking service on behalf of the educational interests of Oshawa. In 1928, great strides were made educa- tionally in Oshawa with the construction of .the new Vocational Institute, and that project made the year & particularly arduous and trying one for the board chairman. Much of the success of the work of the board was due to his wise guidance and leadership, and in following a past custom, and giving him a second term as chairman, the board made no mistake. The importance of the board of education can be judged from the fact that in the year 1929 it ad- ministered over $330000 on the schools of the city, of which sum over $297,000 came out of the pockets of the ratepayers. This in itself indicates the mag- _ mitude of the tasks which face the board of educa- tion, and the necessity of having a board composed of keen-minded, level-headed citizens. The board of 1930 is composed of men of this type, and with Mr, Bell again presiding over its affairs, the citizens can have every confidence in the way in which the edu- cational interests of the city will be safeguarded. ARREARS OF TAXES At the meeting of the city council on' Monday evening a bylaw was passed authorizing the city council to-borrow a sum of $450,000 to carry on the work of the city until the first instalment of the 1930 taxes is collected in June, This is a large amount of money to have to provide, and if it is all required, it will mean a considerable sum in in- terest charges, to be met out of the municipal taxes. It is interesting to note that the necessity for bor- rowing so large a sum arises, partly, from the fact that there is still a sum of $230,000 owing to the city treasury by ratepayers on their 1929 taxes. Had these arrears of taxes been met, the amount to be borrowed would have been more than cut in half, with a consequent saving in interest charges. I is true, of course, that there are some citizens who are unable to mect their tax payments, but in many cases arrears are allowed to accumulate deliberately, This, of course, is a short-sighted policy, since, by compelling the council to borrow a large sum of money to carry on civic business, the interest charges are increased, and in proportion to this it is neces- sary to increase the taxes. So in the long run those who allow their taxes to get into arrears are really adding to their own burdens, and to the burdens of all the other taxpayérs as well. " The city council might well give some cohsidera- tion to ways and nieans of inducing more prompt payment of taxes. It might be worth while, for in- stance, to consider a plan of allowing a discount for prompt or advance payment, as is done in some cities, since this might help to réduce the necessary borrowings. The question is a serious one, and is worthy of being given careful thought and study. EMPIRE MARKETING In view of the many discussions which are taking place these days on the importance of developing ereater trade within the British Empire, considerable taterest is attached to the visit to the city on Friday of this week of W. A. Wilson, the Canadian agri- cultural representative in Great Britain, who is to address a supper meeting in the Hotel Genosha on that day. Mr. Wilson, in addition to being Canada's agricultural representative, is a member of the Em- pire Marketing. Board, a board which exists for the purpose, largely, of stimulating the sale of Empire products within the Empire, and particularly in the British Isles. In view of the positions which he holds, Mr, Wil- son is eminently qualified to speak on subjects which are of interest to all business men, and, in a parti- cular sense, to all farmers, For that reason, it is to be hoped that he will be given a large and re- A audience to address when he speaks at the Hotel Genosha on Friday evening. "ANOTHER BRITISH GESTURE At the naval conicrence which failed in Geneva in 1927, one of the points which caused faliure was the disagreement over the cruiser strength of the British navy. Britain wanted seventy of this type of war vessel, on account of the widespread nature of the Empire, but the United States would not agree to -an understanding on that basis. , "Since 1927, however, there has been a change in conditions, and in an announcement a, few days ago by the first lord of the admiralty, Britain made an- other splendid gesture on behalf of naval limitations, Cutting twenty cruisers from what was, in 1927, con- sidered the minimum needs of her navy, Britain is now willing to agree to cut down her cruiser strength to fifty, thus paving the way for a limitation of that class of warship by all other countries. No matter what part the words of President Hoover may have played in paving the way for a successful naval conference, Britain's deeds have dose even more to create the spirit of disarmament, Time and again, since the Washington disarmament conference in 1922, Britain has cut down her naval building pro- grams, until she stands today much below the stand- ards fixed at Washington. And her declaration, in precise terms, that she is ready and willing to make further drastic reductions in the strength of her navy, is an example which should not be lost on the nations which are to be represented at the confer- ence in London this month, WHY ARE THEY STARVING? Despatches from China are telling a story awhich has been told many times in recent years. About two million people are faced with death by starva- tion in the interior of that country, In some of the provinces of northern China, hundreds of thousands of the people have died since the last harvest, have perished because they have had nothing to eat. China's plight is enough to make the outside world wonder just why it is that conditions arc, year after year, allowed to get into such a state. China is try- ing more and more to make the other nations of the world keep out of her country and her affairs, yet it is no uncommon thing for the Christian nations of the world to have to come to the succour of the millions of starving Chinese people. Under a stable and ordered administration, China could quite easily produce sufficient foodstuffs for her people. But with civil war almost constantly in progress, and banditry rife, there is little hope for proper production methods, and when crops arc pro- duced, they are usually stolen from those who have a. right to them. The first concern of the warlords is to see that their armies are fed; else they could not carry on their wars, The food supplies which should go to the people are seized, and used by the troops. And whatever is left after that seizure is quickly grabbed up by bandits, so that the millions of peasants, having labored to produce food, are left with none for themselves, and die of starvation. It is a sorry picture, one which gives the impression that China: has not outgrown the need of a guiding hand. The only remedy would be a complete return to peaceful living, and the formation of a govern- ment with sufficient strength to maintain production and see that the foodstuffs produced were distributed in an orderly manner. But even that is just a little too much to ask from China at its present stage of civilization and development. a WHAT PROHIBITION NEEDS The report of the law enforcement commission ap- pointed by President' Hoover to study the enforce- ment of prohibition in the United States has pre- sented a preliminary report, a report in which one factor stands out above all others, It is freely claimed by those opposed to prohibition that this measure has been a failure in the United States, and should, therefore, be abolished. To this assertion, the commission makes the reply that prohibition has never been given a fair trial There have been so many difficulties placed in the way of the proper enforcement of the law that it has not had a real chance to prove its full effectiveness. And the suggestion of the committee, in effect, is that the law be strengthened so that it can be en- forced and so that respect and observance of the law can be promoted With Hoover. at the helm, it is possible that the report of the commission may be translated into ac- tion. Apparently the United States prohibition law is meeting with the same fate as the Ontario Tem- perance Act did in the last two or three years of its existence. It was never given a real chance to be cffective, because its enforcement was not carried out in an efficient manner, certainly not so efficiently as the authoritics have tried to enforce the Liquor Control Act since it came into force. It is grossly unfair to say that any laws is a failure until it has had a fair trial. And to give it a fair trial means more than simply keeping it on the sta- tute books for a certain number of years. Before the trial can be called fair, there must be every ef- fort that can be possibly expended to make it effec. tive, and if that principle were applied to prohibition laws, in the United States or elsewhere, the law could be enforced, and brought to the point where it would also be observed and respected. INSURANCE FOR CROPS The United Farmers of Manitoba have brought forward a suggestion that is very interesting -- namely, that farmers be enabled to take out insur- ance policies against crop failures. There are very few things nowadays that are not insurable risks, A man may insure his life, his car, his home, his furni- ture, his limbs against accident, and what not. In- surance can be taken out as a protection of athletic events or outdoor festivals against rain, but so far, no one has thought of providing insurance against a lack of rain for the farmer's crops. This request, of course, is coming from the west- ern farmers as a result of their experience of 1929, and ig is quite likely that some live insurance experts will figure out a way in which it can be done, and provide a company to do it, There is no reason why it should not be possible to give farmers the pro- tection of insurance against drought, just as easily as it is to provide for insurance against damoge hy wind and other storms. EDITORIAL NOTES The Canadian Legion in Oshawa has made great "progress in the last year, and with the great tasks which lie ahead when parliament meets, in securing proper amendments to the pensions legislation, it should go ahead even more in the year that lies ahead. A Scotsman who had five dollars in his pocket ad« ministered a sound thrashing to two bandits. It was a good thing for them that he did not have five hun~ dred dollars. Philip Snowden secs to have the knack of letting the diplomats of Europe understand that he means what he says, judging from the way in which he brought the German delégation at the Hague 10 time, a, wii - Bits of Humor Other Editor's Comments LOOSE WAYS OF DOING THINGS (Stratford Beacon-Hcrald) Coroner's jury at Guelph brought in a verdict the insane patients hou- sed at the reformatory there should be segregated. 'As things are now there is no special provision made for them, and guards find it dangerous for themselves and other prisoners when the desire to do bodily injury seizes one of those n.entally derapg- ed prisoners, The wonder is that a building would ever be erected that did not make provision for the scp- arate housing and proper handling of those of unsound mind, THE HONEST SEARCH (Springfield Union) No person is under any obligation to assume_that all the conclusions of any statesman or publicist, no matter how exalted his distinction or posi- tion, are necessarily right. No man has all the truth or can hope to be right all the time. He may be right in many things, yet wrong in others. Intelligent dissent is the privelege and duty of citizens who have con- victions of their own, The more in- telligent the dissent, the more valu- able it may be. People who doubt that the clock can be turned back for a century are entitled to disagree even with eminent men who argue that it can be done, Qur govern- ments and men most in the public eye are not to be considered so surely right about everything that thoughtful citizens are bound to ac- cept their views. OUTSIDE ITS FUNCTION (Victoria Colonist) The suggestion which crops up now and then that ministers and others church people should "snoop" around their communities to detect violation of law and thus aid law enforcement does not commend itself to broad- minded people, who believe that the church has much more important work to do, The convincing argu- ment against such a course is that the main business of the church lie in a totally different field, MUSEUM ITEM "Why is Mabel so angry? The pa pers gave a full account of her wed* ding.' "Yes, but they put in that Blackfield was married to the well known collector of antiqusec. SEE NO TROUSERS A boy had presented little Cather- ine with a mud turtle, "What's its name?" father. "Nellie," replied Catherine. "Oh," said her father teasingly, inquired her "so that's the kind of a boy it is?" | "It's not a boy," she came back in a tone of childish finality. "Well, I don't see any skirts on it," father persisted. "You don't see any trousers on it, either, daddy," declared Catherine, A REAL FRIEND "Lend me $5, will you?" "I've only got $2.50." "Well, give me that. I'll trust you for the rest."--Tit-Bits, How do bees dispose of their ho- ney? They cell it. He: "I've been lucky today. I've engaged two housemaids for you." She: "Why, John, I need only one." He: "Yes, I know, but you see, one comes tomorrow and the other in about a week." "When Jim tried to kiss me I was so astounded that I nearly---" "Nearly what?" "Nearly stopped him." Father (to Betty, who has laugh. ed at her brother)---'*Well, Betty, are you so sure. yourself that you always know the meaning of some big words you use?" Betty (primly) "I may not know their meaning, but I do know where to use them."--Punch, Bits of Verse I KNOW A SPOT I know a spot atop a sunny hill, Where jangled nerves are soothed and tuned anew; A thousand bird songs clear and sweetly shrill Up there make joy no more a myth, but true. Up there the sky is, ah! so blue, so blue! At times a wool-white cloud hangs there so still, And low above your head, you feel that you With fleecy softness your hand could fill, raised The city's dust, the stench, the numb- ing din, Are things unknown to this place of rest; A homey bungalow, cool, quiet tranquil nest, Welcomes the weary soul and shuts it in From all hut peace as deep, as wide, as free, : As is yon distant, half-glimpsed. dreaming sea. Toronto. : Forwarned--Ye have heard how I said unto you, T go away, and come again unto you, If ye loved me, ye would rejoice because I said 1 go unto the Father, for my Father, is greater that I. And now | I have told you hefore it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass ye might helieve.--John 14:28, 29, rayer: "Keep my heart still true and faithful." Eye Care and Eye Strain (Copyright 1920), When one looks into the eyes with the proper instruments, the furthest he is able to gee is the back wall of the interior of the eye, the Retina. This includes, the optic nerve head and the blood ves- sels the macula lutea the centre of which is known as the Fovea cen- tralis is the most sensitive point of vision. This wall is called scicnti- fically, the fundus. It is at the Fundus, the point most sensitive that light vibrations touch the con- tinuation of the optic nerve which translates them to the brain in terms of vision. It fs through a study of the fundus that we are capable of reading signs of decay that may affect the eye proper. Here also and not seldom are found unsuspected indications of disease assailing more remote parts of the body. If rays from the extreme limits of an object viewed are produced to a point focus and given an in- verted image of that object why does the object not appear {nvert- ed? This is a question sometimes asked, (To Be Continued} {the right ol fround mostly in Miss | ] Pours By [ames W . Barton, M.D. DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE When you read that deficiency ail- | ents (where body tissues do not get | | | | | | KIND OF FOOD YOU EAT | | 1ood stuffs (arc | peopl while very poor also in very rich people tl niddle class are not usually ai- | fected, you wonder just what may. be causing them, In the case of poor persons it is because they have to limit their dict to a monotonous round of cheap foodstufis; while with rich people it is because they are apt to restrict themselves and their children to an cqually monotonous diet. But now a third class is being af. flicted with this deficiency ailment, namely the individuals who are de- Iiberately and mistakenly starving themselves of vitamins and other ne- cessary food stuffs in a misguided at- tempt at dieting. Now what about this eating busi- ness? Is it necessary to know the num- ber of heft calories in each food- stuff you eat? Should you study the | proportion of the different kinds of foodstuffs, proteids, starches, and fats? Should you attempt to classify the vitamins and make certain that you are getting all of them every meal, every day? No, All this is really unnccessagy. If you spend your .time and thought trying to get exactly tne right food, in the exact proportions and amounts then you will become 'picky' about food, will worry when you are placed somewhere, sometime, where you can't get everything exactly right, and this worry and fretting will do you vastly more harm than any little lack of vitamins and calories. Now too much food ean cause trouble -- can cause gout and in- by C. H. TUCK, Opt.D, STABLISHED back in 1884, the Central Dollars, it is one of the oldest and strongest insti- tutions of its kind in the Dominion. We are well equipped to handle your business and respectfully solicit your account. : In our Savings Depart- ment we pay 4% Interest on Deposits, and i Debenture Department we pay 5% on amounts left with us for a period of one year or more. 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