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" THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930 (Eitablished 1871) As independent newspaper published every afterneoe except Sundays and legal! holidays, st Oshawe Canada by Mundy Printing Company. Limited: Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, See retary. se he Cshaws Daily Times is a member of the Cana: Jiao Press, the Canadien Daily N ds As 'sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the "Audit Buresv of Ci ! : SUBSCPIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 5c s week By mail ip Canade ide Osh: carrier delivery limits), $400 » vear; United States. $5.00 a year TORONTO OFFICE Brad Building, 68 Temp S P Adelaide 0107 H. D Tresidder. representative } REPRESEN1ATIVES IN U. 8. Powers and Stone, Inc. New York and Chicage. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930 aml " THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE The Speech from the Throne delivered at the open- ing of the Legislature yesterday indicated an un- sually extensive and varied program of legislation §6f the coming session. That is, if one may assume that all of the matters touched upon are to be dealt ith in a thorough manner. Every department of government. is affected by one or more items of pro- posed legislation and the present session should wit- ness the strengthening of present laws and the pass- ing of new ones that will be of real benefit to the people of this province. * Northern Ontarié development, quite rightly, is to Be assisted. Road and railway building are announ- ced. The establishment of an iron mining industry i§ito be encouraged and the placing of a bounty on ;Canadian iron ore should help materially to this end. Profiting by recent experiences, more teeth are to be put in the Security Frauds Prevention Act. It is 10) be hoped the oppositions suggestions will be given careful consideration in connection with this as well as other proposed legislation. Amendments to the Liquor Control Act are mooted but no. details are given. There is room for tight- ening up the sale, particularly with reference to drunken automobile drivers. Social legislation is expected to follow the report of 'the Royal Commission, which it is presumed will beiready during the present session. There is much scope for useful work here, parteiularly in the di- F8etion of making proper provision for the feeble- minded, who, as a class, are now a terrible menace to themselves and society at large. Hydro development is to continue and farmers are 40 be assisted with loans for making installations and by a lowering of service charges for electric power. An interim report. of the Royal Commission ap- pointed to investigate automobile insurance rates is expected and compulsory auto insurance is mentioned a§ a possibility. Other new and amended legislation is proposed of which no details are given but all in all it would appear that the government is determined to make good «usc of the opportunity it has of bringing into being some of the measures that have been advocated for' a considerable time. Certainly few, if any pre- wibus governments in this province have ever enjoy- ed the confidence of the electorate to a greater de- grec and if wisdom prevails in ministerial and depart- mental 'counsels great care will be exercised to sce that such confidence is not abused. Ii the present session is not onc of the most useful in the history of the Ontario Legislature it will not be because the government hag not coniplete opportunity to carry out its plans and policies. CAN PROHIBITION BE ENFORCED? ~The Gestion of whether & prohibitory liquor law cah pe enforced has had a prominent place in pub- lic, dis¢ussions in Canada for some years. On that question was based the appeal to the people of On- tagio that resulted in the rejection of the Ontario Temperance Act and the creation of a system of government sale of liquor. It was freely asserted that prohibition could not be enforced, and on that argument it was rejected. Yet it is possible to obtain positive proor that pro- eon can be made effective. We found it, for instance in Atlantic City, a city which, not long ago, was denounced 4s having a wide-open liguor traffic. Whether such a condition ever did exist in Atlantic City or not, we arc hardly prepared to say But we arc prepared to say that in a visit there of some or five days, we found that prohibition could be and was being made effective, This opinion is not based on observation alone, put on the authority of men in a position to know -- hotel officials, hotel employees, prominent citizens, Solice "officials 'and others. Observation, in various pes of places, on the boardwalk and up through city, provided not a particle of evidence of bi- or any type of vice that might be associated with the liquor traffic. These ing fae vations rad "deliber ately, and they brought the conviction vi 0 has no place in the community. Not a i gingle person was seen who fight, in even the slight- t sueasure, be termed under the influence of liquor, i and restatrants; inquiries as to liquor in every instance brought the reply that there was not the test possibility of securing any. Business men vouched Tor the fact that Atlantic City was a city, that the police authorities had, by the a of their' énforceinent methods, effectively stamped qut the llega traffic, 'And in all. these ob- servations aud conversations, the other parties had $0 knowledge that they were speaking 10' a news- Bper pis {or that might. have prevented frank: There is a reason fof this condition, and the rea- son is that the police authorities have been deter mined to stamp out the illegal traffic in liquor, They . tally than those of the United States? have had the first requirement for enforcement, and that is the will to enforce the law, Without asking "themselves questions as to whether or not the law had public support, they 'enforced it, and dried up their city to such an extent that the average man, looking for signs of liquor traffic, or looking for sources of supply, is absolutely unable to find them And surely this, in spite of all theories to the con- trary, is absolute proof that a prohibitory liquor law can be enforced when the officials concerned have the will to enforée it. THE SOUL OF REFORM ---- The world today if seething with reform move- ments. We see them here in this country in tite activities of the various social service and welfare agencies, with their many ramifications and their varied fields of endeavor. We see them in the ef- forts of our legislators to draft laws providing for the amelioration of conditions that are known to be detrimental to the welfare of the people as a whole or as individuals. With all this mass of reform activity, and social service ahd welfare work, it is surprising that ideal conditions have not yet been attained. Progress is being made, but it is a slow and difficult process, and the end is yet afar off. Why it is that progress is so slow, and that oc- casionally there are setbacks to the march towards better conditions of living, such as was experienced in Ontario and other Canadian provinces when the legal and open sale of liquor was introduced? That is a question which must often perturb the minds of those seeking to better social conditions, whether their efforts be political, philanthropic or religious. And the answer is that the solution of social prob- lems is delayed because there is a false viewpoint on the greatest essential of social and reform work if it is to be of a permanent and enduring character, It is good to provide a family with food and cloth- ing when it is in need, but that is only a temporary stop-gap. It is alright to cance! a man's liquor per- mit if he abuses his right to drink liquor, but that does not go to the root of the trouble. Tt is right and proper to enact legislation providing for viola- tions of the social laws, but that does not prevent violations, The great essential of all reform and social service work is that it must, first of all, have a soul. Instead of being dealt with from the viewpoint of political and legislative authority, it should be based, above all, on the authority of spiritual laws. In short, the soul of reform lies in the reform of the soul. Mend- ing broken bodies, feeding hungry mouths, punishing lawbreakers, all have their place. but to make re- form permanent, t& make improper social conditions impossible, a great spiritual cleansing must take first place. In. this alone lies the hope of humanity for a nearer approach to ideal conditions. In the plac- ing of life on a standard of spiritual values, in the realization that the individual soul must first be re- formed before the community or the state can move forward to better things with unhindered progress, should all social and welfare work find -its strong and sure foundation. A CONTRAST IN PEOPLE Are the people of Canada of a higher type men- This is a somewhat broad question to answer, prehaps, yet little experiences often provide a key. One such ex- perience in Atlantic City a few days ago seemed highly significant, and led to the conclusion that there is a difference between the mental outlook of the two peoples. The experience was that of being one of an au- dience of about two thousand attending a presenta- tion of Eugene O'Neill's tremendous drama, "A Strange Interlude" Those who saw thid play in Toronto a few weeks ago will understand the tre- mendous play of emotions which it creates, and the tragic situations which have a place in each of the nine acts. It is a thought-provoking play, a serious drama, presenting a er ergine phase of sex rela- tionships. When this play was presented in Toronto, it was accepted at its true worth--as a serious play. The sordid side was swallowed up in a thoughtful con- sideration. of the viewpoint it expressed. There were serious audiences, realizing that this was not a play for entertainment only, but one revealing the fals- ity of some of the new standards that have been created in recent years. Yet, this Atlantic City audience did not seem to grasp all this. It went right over the heads of the people. At some of the most intensely tragic and dramatic passages, there were outbursts of laughter, almost hysterical. The thoughtful aspect was lost entirely, and only the sordid viewpoint was apparent. There could be no other explanation for the laughter. And this audience might very well be said to have represented a fairly good cross-section of American life. g In Toronto, the reaction of the audience to the play, we have been told, was totally different. There was no unscemly laughter, no expression to show that the minds of the audience revelled in the sordid and ignored the spiritual side of the production. Isn't that a fairly gopd indication of the mental and moral standards of the two peoples? There may be only an invisible boundary line separating them, but in outlook and, viewpoint on matters of norality, a whole world appears to lie between. That is a strong statement, yet it is one which we are forced to make after that five hours' experience in an Atlantic City Theatre. EDITORIAL NOTES Century marks are always interesting. A New York skyscraper of 100 stories is planned and a Toronto church is to celebrate shortly its one hundredth an- niversary. Another barrister has been charged with theft from an estate. Another reason for bonding all law- yers for the protection of the public. The Law So- ciety should take the initiative in this matter and foolish pride or false: ideas of professional etiquette should not dissuade it. A Toronto speaker is reported as saying that Mo. 'hammedans are inspired by Christian ideals. Such talk is sheer nonsense. Christian ideals can only pertain to those who follow the founder of Christian- ity and only be held in sincerity by those who give Christ" His rightful place as Saviour and Lord. © The Mail and Empire, usually staid and most eon- servative, heads an editorial "Prairie Provinces Pre- miers Prop the Pools." Now isn't the old Mail get- ting a bit gddy?"" B The visitor to Dallas, Texas, is impressed first of all, and perhaps most strongly, with the unusual cleanliness of the city. It stands amid its rich and verdapt sur- roundings as spotless as a well kept country home. That is be. cause its factories are blessed with an abundant supply of natural gas and its chimneys are mostly smoke. less. But on a recent visit to this hustling, southwestern city, I re- ceived another salient impression. 1 saw what a great newspaper can do for a city. Dallas was not much of a metro- polis forty-five years ago. A pretty good town for those days to be sure, but southwestern towns then were pretty young, and Dallas was pretty much like the rest of them. In the early 80's a movement be- gan, looking to The Galveston News, established in 1842, dupll- cating itself in Dallas, a distance of 315 miles. The project was consummated on October 1, 1885. It was the first time anything of the kind had been dome in news- paperdom, a unique venture in journalism. As such it was herald- ed all over the country. The fact in itself, and the further fact that The Galveston News had chosen Dallas as its place of duplication, gave that city a wonderful lot of fine advertising. Likewise, it threw tite and ambition {nto the Dallas of that day, with its population of, perhaps, 25,000. The advent of The News on Oc- tober 1 was followed on December 1 by the absarption of the old news- paper of the town, The Dallas Her- ald, started in 1849. The old paper sold out, lock, stock and barrel, to The News, and quit business. The following year the State Fair of Texas started. The advent of The News brought numbers of other in- stitutions and prominent and in- fluential individuals to Dallas and north Texas. The News, coming to Dallas, therefore, and printing for the past forty-five years one of the best and most progressive newspapers of the country, has had a very marked effect on the development of the chief commercial eity of Texas. One of its leading citizens, dating back to 1874, J. T. Trezevant, head of one of the largest general fire Insurance agencies in the world, some time ago made this remark: "DALLAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE FINANCIAL CENTRE OF TEXAS, AND THE THREE PRIN- CTPAL ORGANIZATIONS WHICH MIGHT BE GIVEN INDIVIDUAL CREDIT FOR WORKING TO UP- BUILD THE CITY ARE, IN THE ORDER NAMED, THE DALLAS NEWS, THE STATE FAIR AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK." | Bits of Humor MORE IMPORTANT "Youh Honor," sald the witness, "you may take my statement as being absolutely correct. I have boen wedded to truth since child- hood." "Quite possible," said the judge, "but what the Court wants to know {s how long have you been a Wwi- dower?" SOMETHING WRONG Friends of Mexico's new presi dent who has just been elected by 1,500,000 votes against 12,000 votes are sald to be demanding a recount. They insist there is some- thing wrong in an opposition can- didate getting any votes at all. REAL HELFMATE "Tom, you old loafer," sald Col- onel Smith, "do you think it's right to leave your wife at the washtub while you pass your time fishing?" '""Yassah, Colonel it's all right. Mah wife doan need any watchin.' She'll shorely wuk jes' as hard as ef Ah was dere." TAKING NO CHANCES Young Mrs. Hubbard she went to the cupboard To fetch the mince ple nice and hot, But whon she got there the cup- Bits of Verse TO CERTAIN FISH My shadow crossed the pool: O silver arrows, you shot so in- visibly swift, Now stand so invisibly still, Set in 8 crystal universe-- Unwincing tail and spine and rigid lips-- Questioning, doubtless, ternal will Incomprehensibly was pleased to shift The high heaven-raging sun into eclipse, What wandering world, aerial god, what fool, What shadow crossed your pool? ~--Desmond Harmsworth in The Irish Statesman, NOT AS THE CROW FLIES Not as the crow flies, but in by- ways winding I breathe life's fragrance, and am ever finding Beauty afresh round just ong other bend Each morn new vision . journeys' end! what -ex- . . 80 to Each night a corner! Just beyond the turning The dew of sparkling joy, or the slow burning Of some deep purging pain to make me wise By devious wanderings, not as the crow flies. I journey home; tide "Round just one other bend!" and * so confide In things unseen. God disdains . . . . The fruit of life is plucked in wind- ing lanes. praying each even- A straight road That Body of Pours By Jomes W. Barton, M.D. Of the 17,335 deaths from acute appendicitis in 1926, Drs. J, C. Bower, and J. H. Clark of Phila- delphia, estimate that 11,680 died | as a result of taking laxatives be- | fore the operation. This is nearly 70 per cent, died because they endeavored to relieve the pain with a laxative, Drs. Tan- ner and Camb of Addenbroke's Hospital, Cambridge, England, be- lieve that castor-oil causes acute appendicitis to take a more violent course than it otherwise would, and they report some cases in the Brit- ieh Lancet. They point out that in a series of fiifty patients, eight had been given castor-oil, and in all of these cases the appendix was gangren- ous. The reasons given for the harmful effects of castor oil upon acute appendictis are that the oll further {irritates the already in- flamed and irritated intestine, and thus actually hurries or increases the destructive changes taking place in the tissues. Also, giving the castor oll gen- erally delays the operation as the patient waits to see what results the ofl will have, Now as most pain in the abdomen and in the region of the appendix also, is due to gas formation, and castor oil is a na- tural! remedy to use in removing same, it is not surprising that fit is used so often, and no bad effects follow its use, However, in view of the figures quoted above from the United States and Great Britain, and they apply everywhere, the general use of castor oil for abdominal pain will have to be carefully watched, if the great yearly number of deaths from appendicitis is to be lossened, y It the pain shifts about from place to place it is not usually ap- pendicitis, If the pain starts in the middle of the abdomen, shifts down to the right side and stays there, it is usually appendicitis. If you feel that the pain must be shifted in some manner, then the use an enema or injection will 'oftef be sufficient to relieve pain, Remember then the damage and frequent deaths that follow the use of castor ofl or other purgative in appendicitis. The figures quoted above is my reason for speaking about 'this matter so often. board was bare, For hubby rad buried the lot. SUSPICIOUS Uncle Eli (on shoping excursion in city) :"I'm lookin' for suthin' as a present to bring back to my wife." Clerk: "How about this pair ot . candlesticks? They're genuine an- tiques." second-hand to me!" Hubby---"Isn't Christmas due in | a day or two?" Wife: "What makes you think 80, John?" Hubby--"I'm down to my last | tie and 'garter."--Chicago Daily News, Men don't have to paint their lips. Enough rubs off to take care of that. Peace Assured -- These things 1 have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be' of good cheer; T have overcome the world.--John 16:33. ° Prayer: "Let the whole race of creatures bog, . And pay their praise to Thee." "Maybe they are, but they look | "sorbtion and reflection Eye Care and Eye Strain | by Cc. H. TUCK, Opt. D. (Copyright 192%) COLOR BLINDNESS PART "2" To demonstrate the fact that the retina in its sensitivity recognizes color through its complimentary image being conveyed to the brain, may be proven if we fix for a few minutes on a colored object or a row of colored objects say red for exaniple then we suddegly transfer out gaze to a white Surface the after image of these objects wil remain before our eyes still but will appear green instead of red and after a few scconds will die away entirely. If we keep this in mind there will be différent op- portunities come to us all to dem- onstrate tlie truth of this in var- fous ways. It is by tho recognition of ab- of light that we are enabled to interprei the different colors of objects. LE. An object that absorbs green and reflects red appears red, while if it absorbs the red it reflects the green, it appears green. Red is considered the most fatigueing ot all colors to tho eye, and green the least trying. There is more green in nature and perhaps this is the reason vision is accustomed to it down through the ages, It also ap- pears quite certain that color per ception can be developed and may also be lost. The increasing number of shades and tints and their recos- nition marks the development and the lack of recognition, may be loss of perception of color, color ignorance or it may be a real de fect known as Color Blindness. Other Editor's Comments WAR'S STAGGERING BURDEN (Halifax Chronicle) The tremendous drain upon the nations for the upkeep of military and naval armaments was CoOu- cretely shown by Dr, H. F. Munro in discussing the coming naval conference. When it is realized that the United States since the civil war, has had only compara- tively trifling wars, such as the brush with Spain, unti} the coming of the world war, and yet that to- day the United States is paying three-quarters of every dolldr of its revenues either for war prepar- edness or for the results of past wars, the truth is driven home, Britain, with her staggering bur- den of debt and her multitude of unemployed, is yet spending vast amounts on armaments. Were these vast expenditures turned. in- to productive or educational chan- nels, there is hardly any program which, would not be carried out. PAYMENT OF ALDERMEN OOMES A LIVE ISSUE (Niagara Falls Review) In Oshawa, at the fecent muni- cipal election there, the people vot and, as a result, quite a discussion has been started among Ontario newspapers. In some quarters it is claimed that payment of alder men' results in many more special meetings than used to be the case, at which the aldermen receive five dollars apiece In Niagara Falls, not 50 many years ago, it was quite common ~ practice, when calling meetings, to state "without remun- eration." That was long ago! NOT BRAINY--JUST DUMB (Kitchener Record) We have a fictipn that really big gangsters--the aristocrats, so to speak of the underworld--are very clever, brilliant men. But ones in Ja while something happens that makes one wonder if these lawless big shots aren't pretty dumb. There is for instance Fred Burke, who lived in a mansion in 8t. Jo- seph, Mich., as a millionaire busi- ness man. No one there dreathed of suepecting him. He had $300.- 000 in cold cash at hiz disposal, Here was Burke with all this, driv- ing along = street in his sutomo- bile. A traffic officer stopped him for some minor traffic law viola- tion. And what did Burke the "brainy" gangster do, but draw his gun and shoot the policeman, to death! 'Then, of course, every- thing came out. He had to flee The police went to his house and the whole story became known. He lost that super-perfect position of his, lost his $300,000, lost his headquarters--lost, in fact, every- thing that he had. The under- world kings aren't the brainy chaps we suppose. 'They are subnorma! in intelligence. Burke's fiasco nroves it. AN IDEA WORTH COPYING (Letter to the New York Evening Post) ganization in the United States for about every ill with which the other fellow is afflicted, one more is dir- ectly needed. We might call it "The American Association for Providir Transportation to Russia for Ameri- can Residents Preferring the Soviet | Form of Government." Such an as-| sociation would find financial support from a majority of the American peo- ple. FINANCIAL FOLLY (London Times) Praliament seems of late to have forgotten the fundamental principle that taxation is and necessarily must be a handicap to wealth production. Capital levies, whether in the form ot death duties or in some other, re- duced the reservoir from which en- Lerprise is financed and the necessary replenishment of capital invested in industry provided. Other taxation raises the cost of living and dimin- ishes the prospects of réward which make commercial undertakings at- tractive. Wealth taken by the State 1s not available to fructify industrial euterprise. Largesse distributed to the peonle merely adds to consump- tion without increasing wealth pro- duction; under a system of freé im- ports it is largely spent on foreign mershandise. TELLING THE PEOPLE (Guelph Mercury) In the last few years the largest advertisers in the world have recog- nized that the newspaper is the me- dium that gets nearest 'to the mind and heart of the mass of the people, at the time when they have time to read and studv while digesting their supper, after the labors of the day. What all these have discovered may well be accented as sufficiently prov- ed for all others. Advertising is sowing the seed, and when nourished with follow-up advertising, it sprngs up with an shindance of fruit for the advertise who 'has pleased the purchaser with good values. Speed in advertising is as essens tial as speed in motor cars, and the newsnapers - of. the whole continent get the message over within the space of 24 hours, "Advertising in newspaners isn't comething tricky, Tt's just plain com mon sense, and its being universally or Fred Dane, the Chicago gangster | I feel that while we have an or- | It Is Not the Quantity You Eat . 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