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1 . . - i ¥ . ' ' 1] sa THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY. §, 1930 THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) Ap independent néwspaper puklished every afterueos except Sundays and legal holidays st Oshaws Canada by Mundy Printing Company. Limited: Chas M Mundy, President; A R Alloway. Seo retary planted "for this achievement, and the powers will. have five years to think these points over before the next conference is held. In the meantime, it is hoped; further progress will be made along the path to permanent world peace, and the nearer that ob- jective comes within the next five years, the closer will it be possible for the powers to approach, total disarmament, THE WHEAT SITUATION Some anxiety. is growing out of the situation with which the Canadian wheat pool is faced. The price of wheat having dropped to low levels within the last few weeks, the banks are becoming anxious, and are demanding that the pool and the wheat elevator companies put up funds to cover any further shrink- age in the value of the huge crop that is now lying in storage in this country, To save the situation, the provincial governments of the western provinces have had to go to the rescue, and have had to give guarantees pending the marketing of the crop. It"is believed in some quarters that a boycott has been established in Great Britain against Canadian wheat on account of the action of the poo! in re- {fusing to sell pt at its own price. Wheat from The Oshowa Daily Times is a member of the Cans diss Press. the Conadian Daily N As cociation The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the "Audit, Bureav or Cireslations SUBSCPIPTION RATES " Delivered by carrier 15c o week By mail in Canads (outside Oshaws carrier delivery Gimits). $4.90 o vear; United States $5.00 o year TORONTO OFFICE other countries is being purchased in preference to the Canadian article, and there are, as yet, sufficient supplies in the world market, outside of the Canadian crop, to meet the needs of consumers, The attitude of the wheat pool officials is based on the claim that there is an actual world shortage of wheat at the present time, and that before long the Canadian surplus will be the only wheat avail- $07 Bend Building, 66 Temp Street, Teloph Adelaide 0107 H D Tresidder, representative REPRESEN1ATIVES IN U. 8. Povers and Stone, Inc. New York end Chicago "the most terrible of scourges. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1930 IMMUNIZATION AGAINST DISEASE Oshawa, for a considerable time past, has been re- markably free from contagious and infectious dis eases. This is due, to a large extent, to the work of the public health department, through the medical health officer, Dr. T. W. G. McKay and his staff of public health nurses. The result of their work is seen to best advantage, perhaps, in the absence of diphtheria from the re- ports of the department. This is a disease which, aot so many years ago, was looked upon as one of Yet, thanks to the advance of medical science, and the growth of pre- _ wentive methods, it has, so far as Oshawa is con- cerned, become very rare, The process of immunization against this disease fas now become recognized as an effective preventa- tive, and it is gratifying to note that rapid progress 'is being made in rendering the school children of © the city the city immune to it, and to another serious disease, scarlet fever. According to the report presented to the board of health by Miss Harris, the senior public health nurse, immunization against these two dis- eases is now complete in six of the public schools of Before very long, all the public school children will have been given protection against them, and another great step in discase prevention in Osh- awa will have been completed. This is a work the value of which cannot be mea- stired indollars 'and cents; One has only te think back a decade or two to realize the remarkable change which has taken place so far as contagious and infectious diseases are concerned and to realize the great value of the work which can be done by & modern civic public health department, A CREDITABLE RECORD Much attention has been given in the press of On- tario recently to long records of service by publie servants. In this respect, John Gibsén, chairman of the Oshawa Board of Health, is deserving of recog- nition, for he has been elected as chairman of that body for the fifteenth consecutive year In all, he has completed ecightcen years as a member of the board. . | While there may be many others who can boast of longer periods of service to their communities, " "Ur. Gibson's service to Oshawa is highly creditable. He has served Oshawa as-a small town, and has served it during a period of intensive growth to the status of a progressive city. In his term of office, there has been growth in all departments of the city's life; and particularly in that departmerit which comes under the jurisdiction of the body of which he is chairman. It'is a tribute to Mr, Gibson that the city's health department is modelled along the most modern and approved lines and is, indeed, a model for the rest of the provigce. He is to be warmly congratulated on once again being given the fullest measure of confidence by his colleagues on the board: of health by his re-appointment as chairman of the board. PARITY ACHIEVED The naval conference is at last getting somewhere. The most important announcements made since it opened on January 21 were those made public yess terday, when it was stated that Britain and the United States had reached an agreement. on all im- portant points, and that parity had been achieved he 16 the satisfaction of these two countries. The viewpoints of Britain and the United States, : as set forth in the statements of their chief dele- . een made; hot only 'fowards naval limitation, but, gates, mark the most important advance that has yet owdrds the actual reduction of navies. It means a complete end to the naval building competition which, ender the Coolidge administration in 'the United States threatened to involve these two great na- fons in an endless controversy. For that reason, sven if it accomplished nothing more, the London _ sonference has justified itself, and has proven that ¢ was a well-timed meeting, There are still many = pojats to be covered, of tours, points which are of vital interest to Japan, France and Italy, the other countries involved in ihe conference. But such progress has alrgddy been nade in reconciling the viewpoints of these countries that there is every likelihood that the next day or nwo will bring' furt! proposals on which they; too, have agreed." 1! « One important factor in the British memorandum s that it makes it very clear thatithe present con- ference does not mean finality in naval disarmament. ft leaves the way clear for another conference in five years time, at which further consideration can 5¢ given to naval reduction. Britain points out her fesires 'to abolish both battleships and submarines, and while it is not likely that this will be achieved' ub theo present: conference, the seeds will have been | ethic annousicements of cofieréte able tor export to the wheat-importing countries, This seems like sound reasoning, if it is based on accurate estimates, but it was thought that by this time the demand for Canadian wheat would have become apparent. Until it does, some $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 worth of wheat will be tied up in storage in this country, causing practically cvery line of business to suffer: For the sake of business in this country, it is to be hoped that the releasing of the wheat crop will not be delayed a great deal longer, and that the ex- pectations of the wheat pool for higher prices will be realized. The pool officials, after all, are engaged in a stupendous gamble, and if it should turn out wrong, then this country will suffer heavily, although it is anticipated that, in any event, the wheat price will be considerably higher than it would have been had. the Canadian crop been placed on the market as soon as harvested, For once, the whole of Canada has its eyes on the wheat market situation, and people in all lines of business and industry are realizing that this coun- try does, after all, depend to a very large extent on the wheat crop for its prosperity. THE SCEPTICS UNCONVINCED The last act in what has, after all, been an amus- ing farce, was enacted this week at the Ryan Art Galleries in Toronto, when a collection of so-called Penn relics was sold at auction. This collection was heralded by one of the Toronto newspapers two or three weeks ago as one of the great discoveries of the age, and was made the subject of a number of imposing feature stories regarding the value of these relics, The exposure, however, was not long in com- ing, for within a few days the whole collection, and the story connected with it as well, were branded as fake, and doubt thrown on their authenticity. The sceptics refused to be deluded by protesta- tions that at least some of the articles in the col- fection were genmine., The result was that when the auction was held, the highest bid for any article was ten dollars, and several paintings, supposed to be genuine works of old masters, were sold for one, two and three dollars, Not even the oratory of the auctioneer nor his appeals to the gambling instincts of the few who were present at the sales could over- come this scepticism, and so the works of art which were heralded with so many glaring headlines passed into the hands of new owners at prices which marked them as next to worthless, The only conclusion which one can reach as a result of this incident is that it pays to be sure of one's ground before coming out with grandiloquent stories of art discoveries. ANOTHER BOOSTER FOR ADVER- TISING s Speaking at the annual mecting of a Holstein Breeders' Club of Western Ontario, Fred W. Lee, president of the Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada, stressed the necessity of newspaper adver- tising by the breeders to make their business pro- fitable. This association has a membership of 4,000 breeders of Holstein cattle in Canada, and these members~do a large business, both in cattle and in dairy products, in this country and the United States. It is a powerful association, with a reserve fund of $100,000 in its treasury to carry on its work, One would hardly imagine that newspaper adver- tising would be of actual benefit' to this class of people, yet the president of the association is a man with a lifetime of experience as one of the leading Holstein breeders on the North American continent, He has bred and sold some of the greatest Holstein cattle ever produced, and has been one of the leaders in attracting United States buyers to Canada. There- fore he speaks authoritatively, and his advice as to the value of newspaper advertising is likely to be accepted by his associates as sound business; Which proves that there are very few fields of business which cannot be helped materially by the proper use of newspapers as a medium for advertising. * EDITORIAL NOTES apes. Observation confirms the theory that 4 child is just 'a stomach entirely surrounded by curiosity. A man with $250 is considered wealthy in Russia, But there arg Shorts in Canada just' mow who would feel wealthy if they had that much money. : i i -- i The presidency of Mexico is' hardly a job' that ,anyone would envy. It is too liable ts be the last job that its deeupant will ever be able to. take. The Communist party in Britain has ) been reduced from 10000 in 1926 t0.2000 in 199. The safety valve method seems to be the best afterall." Now that Britdln'and the 'United'/States have agreed at the navil 'parley, perhaps the other three powers will come to- their 'senses too. Milton has di inued the ringing of the Cur- few bell. Perhaps it did not wish to be considered old-fashioned. Lr] - Ae 'Other Editor's Comments. GOOD SPEAKERS NERVOUS (Brantford Expositor) 1+ Right Hon, Jan. Christian Smuts; war hero and leading statesman, dur- ing a memorable address in 'l'oronto said; "I have never learned in a long political life 'to shake off & certain nervous trepidation when I bave to face my fellowmen in mass formation And 1 am not sure that the political mass formation is not more terrty- ing than the military formation." No doubt, say othet public men could tell 'of similar feelings. Hon. William Patterson, one of the best known campaign speakers in Canada, told a friend with whom he 'was dis- cussing his political 'career, that de. spite his lengthy experience in ad- dressing- public gatherings, it at any meeting just before he arose, some- body had opened a door behind him he would have bolted through the portal, tr MUNICIPAL MEETINGS (Mount Forest Confederate) A writeg in the Owen Sound Sun- Times criticizes public meetings where only five minutes are allowed to each speaker to discuss the vari- ous interests of the municipality. . He submits that there should I's three or four public meetings each year, so that the ratepayers may get informed as to the various doings of municipal bodies. We quite agree that five minutes is too short for any well-informed speaker to review the doings of the whole year. A better plan would be to give a representative of the Town Council, of the County Council, of the Water and Light Commission, of the Board of Education, 10 or 15 or 20 minutes, if desired, to place before the ratepayers the doings of each of these important money-spending branches of our municipal systems, than to give five minutes apiece to others, whether nominated as candi- dates or not, five minutes apiece for remarks or questions, as far as there is time, or as long as the audience will remain. At our last nomination meeting there was no discussion at all of our electric light and waterworks system, nor of our schools and their admin- istration, Of course the commission and Board of Education take it as quite a compliment to have no de- mand for explanations, and to have retiring members re-elected by accla- mation. Al the same it is desirable that the ratepayers should have some knowledge of the business of these two responsible bodies, Bits of Humor | CLASSIFIED The 'speaker was getting tired of being interrupted. "We seem to have a great many fools here to-night, he said, "Wouldn't it be advisable to hear one at a timei" "Yes," said a voice. "Get on with your speech," --Tid-Bits : THREE YEARS OF IT "Your mistréss tells me, Jawe, that you wish to leave us to become at- tendant at a Junatic asyluln of al places! What makes you think you'll like it? What experience have you had?" "Well, sir, I've been years,"--Tid-Bits . HAD OTHER CUSTOMERS Little While: I saw you kiss my sister | Sister's boy friend (hurriedly): Ah --er---here's a couple of dimes. Little Willie: And here's a dime in change, Ong price to all; that's the way I do business.--Answers, HURRAH here htree "I can't remeber the words of that | new song," said the girl, returning] from the show, "That makes it easier," answered her father, "Now all you've got to do to make home happy is to forget the tune."--Tid-Bits. "They say Mr. Destyle is financial- ly embarrassed." "Well, he's hor- ribly in debt, but it would take more fhan that to embarrass him.,""--Tid- ts, Bits of Verse THE TRAVELER By Lowe W. Wren Heeding the sotrm, we shut cabin tgiht, Then in the wind and rain, we heard a shout And drew the door that barred a traveler out, Asking no questions, waving him the right To enter and have shelter for the the night. . And. he would ask a bed, we had no doubt. Yet there he stood still in the storm's wild rout, Cupping a pipe, and only asked a light, Whither he went, and why, there was no sign, Except one found it in his smilling cyes, Dripping and tall, his slicker all a- shine, Blown .off some course the lonely cagle flies, Then, match to pipe, he left our fire and wine Like one who loves the thunder of the skies. Power Promised -- Ye shall re. ceive power, after that the Holy Spirit 18 come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jeru- salem and in all Judea, and in Sa maria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth--Acts 1:8, with * Prayer: id May Thy presence ever be our Power to enable us to witness for Thee faithtully, . TR Facts About Butter (Brockville Recorder'and Times) | The records show that last year, the cows of Canada produced a billion pounds more milk than the year before, Tho, 6 Halifax Chron- {cle says thet this is incomprehen- sible if the story is true, which is often repeated, that the cows of Canada are growing less and grow- less in proportion to the amount of New Zealand butter which is being imported into the country, It is hardly understandable that fewer cows could produce a thou- sand million pounds more milk. Another large cargo of New Zea land butter landed at Halifax this week. Thero is no question about the 'importation of butter; it is coming in jn large quantities in the winter. At the same time it often sells for less than the home butter. For example, butter in Halifax was fifty cents and New Zealand butter forty-five cents. An effort is being made to im- pose a tax on this butter, Whether this is wise or unwise depends on tho study of all the facls. It means that butter will cost more to the mass of the people and that | some of them will have to forego its. use. Other. facts are that. Can- { ada is not supplying its own but- ter needs. It is using milk for many other purposes, Ice cream, powdered milk, condensed mill and fresh milk exported in some areas, aro all avenues in which milk is used, apart from making cheese and butter. Then the aver- age Canadian uss of butter is nearly, if not double that of the United States. In addition, last year Canada had fifteen million tourists--more thin the entire population of the Dominion, and 15,000,000 people, even if they only stay a few days, eat a lot of butter. Add to this the faet that the price of butter in Canada is, and has been for some time, above the world price. That is why but- ter comeg here. Butter comes to Canada because the price is high- er, just as money flowed to New York because the interest rates were greater, Before any action is taken, and there are some bo'iles now press ing for an increased duty, it is only right to gather, not some, I but all the facts. versity, the material to be known as the Forbes D. Sutherland collection. Practically all the articles were made before the arrical of the white manand show the height to which native art had attained in the manu- facture of hunting knives, needles of hunting and fishing by the natives of the far northwest districts, The collection includes a fishnet of willow root, which only, two old Eskimo women in the Mackenzie Delta now know how to make. Three native highly decorated, are bone and horn, bows arrows, har- noons, fish-hooks of bone and horn, ivory models of canoes, pieces of highly decorated skin money used as tokens of payment between Indians and Eskimos and scores of other are ticles used about the home and in also included. Speaking of the Talking Films, i: there any chance of getting the League of Nations to take up the question of Nasal Reduction?--Dub- tin Opinion. : D. L. King and Centre Streets : SCRANTON V. LANDE NOT JUST AS GOOD-BUT THE BEST Not Equal To -- But Superior To All 8 Ww. COAL Phone 58 DID YOU ever stop to Think? ..N RALPH G. BRAY, EDI.OR OF THE MISSION (TEXAS) TIMES, SAYS: THAT the success and failure of small town merchants will be written in the advertising columns of their local newspaper Chain stores have been made out to be a bugaboo to tue smut (Wi anu the feliow that how s the loudast is the merchant who refuses to mod ernize his business and apply the same progressive principles adopted by the chains, Instead of being a liability, tl store 1s Lecon { ar and the old time home-town 1 chant who refuses to sec of a new day in business is the fel- low who is going to close up shop-~ and should close up. Such a mer- chant 1s anything but an asset to a community for he 1 rapid drives trade clse where and every business in the town pays the price. The biggest successes in merchand- izing dur.ng the next few yca:s sre going to be the retail proprietors who inteliigently app.y the most printer's ink, The day of hand-rub- bing and wishing behind a counter are over. | have seen business men in my town go to the wall becausc of a pernicious penny-minded policy of publicity and advertising. They said they could not cope with the chains and blamed the chains for a number of ills. BUT | KNEW THE PRINCIPAL REASON -- IT WAS ADVERTISING -- THE LACK OF IT. -------------------------- That Body of Pours By James W. Barton, M.D. PLAY AND DEFECTIVES Did you know that one in every, fifty persons is more or less lacking in brains, is what is called a mental defective: And yet this one fiftieth produces from 25 to 33 per cent. of the popu-~ lation of our prisons, so as a matter of fact there are many more crim- inals drawn from the mentally defec- tive classes in proportion to their percentage of the general population than from the rest. Now this is certainly a large pers centage but until recently it was thought that the percentage was nearer 60 per cent, that is that two out of cvery three criminals were mentally defective, j This means of course that our prison population is made up of many more persons with normal and superior intellects than with mental defectives. ol Following these investigations fur- ther it has been definitely" shown that many mental defectives are leading good lives, Now why do 1 talk What has this to do with that body of yours? : Simply the fact that the surround- ings of these defectives when they are young has much to do with whether they will enter the criminal class or lead useful lives, And the surroundings aside from about this? health, the home are what cominunities sup«! i ply in the way of playgrounds. 'A boy, or girl 'also, who gets an opportunity to play with others, in the outdoors, taking his or her part in the various games learns to fit into the scheme of life better than when this opportunity to play does not exist. : ' A judge of a juvenile court told me that when a playground was placed in au community, the number of juvenile offenders brought befoer his 'court immediately 'decreased, Further that the boys who had «| been 'summoned before: him previouss 11y, now expended "their energies in games. In fact some of the worst had become lcaders, captains of teams, and were real influences in' preventing other boys from going wrong and having to appear in court, My thought then is that when the question' of playgrounds and their cost come up for decisoin in a com- muhity that they remember the above facts. ; , odlso, that normal. children, peed the light | these playgrounds, and games also, | if they are going to adjust them- selves to life about them. Strain | by Cc. H. TUCK, Opt.D. (Copyright 1922) COLOR BLIND oS PART "3" When we consider certain nerve | endings being highly sensitive to cer- tain color sensations only, and fol- low down the scale of tints to the lend of the spectrum. Each nerve | tuned to its functional part in the! recognition it is logical to infer that | + (if the nerves lose their power in a certdin part of this function the neighboring nerve endings being just | | | sponse which will be the recognition of a different shade or color. Color blindness may be absolute but is very rarely met with. The most! common condition which is met wit} in only a very small percentage of | the people is that blindness for one or. two colors and if necessary anu Jakes in srly Jife some sense of {color may eveloped TOVi { that the Tr oped provide i 3 ther ways nor« | mal, " Color blindness may be hereditary | but is often acquired. It may be | brought about 'through drugs or {o- | bacco, perhaps as an affer effect of | jaundice these may only be tempor+ ary, certain other conditions may be jmore permanent when caused | through excessive exposure to strong | light and if improperly corrected may lead to the blindness to a cer- {tain tint only, Certain nerve troub- {les. may lead to color blindness, or through certain changes color vision io Fecognize certain colors is met Be 1. WGILL REGFIVFS UNIQUE COLLECTION | Articles Made by Eskimos, | and Indians Centuries | Ago Shown Montreal, Feb. 8~One hundred ar ticles made by the Eskimos and In- dians ,of the Mackenzie River dis- trict have just been given by Miss Yvonne Sutherland and Miss Mar- garet Sutherland to the Strathcona Ethnological Museum at MeGill Uni- slightly affected will show their re- | Waterloo - ()m Annual Statement | of THE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA "The Sixtieth Annual Statement of the Company shows the following progress in the past year: New Assurances Paid for -- $67,359,410. Dividends paid Policyholders-- $4,573,174. Surplus Funds & Special Investment Reserves -- $12,311,529, Surplus Earnings -- $5,043,035. Total Assets-- §107,408,986. Rate of Interest Earned -- 6.30%. Expense Ratio -- 14.45%. Insurance in Force --$461,310,653.00 Financial Scatement as of December 31et, 1929 - Ontario $40,181,456.00 41,637,811.72 433,481.70 1,832,3542.13 18,722,176.51 139,664.94 1,966,828.63 2,493,024.78 $107,408,986.43 LIABILITIES 24,920,524 #1474408 § 14,518,441 107,408,986 192,366 § 13,127,400 a 90,961,0% 11,625,073 461,310,659 dings of the Annual Mesting will CRANK O'MEARN ASSETS Current Cash on hand and in anks.... Accounts Receivable; Balances de on all outstanding stock and commodity accounts. . Securities owned 3 firm (at market value).... 1 Fixed : Office Furniture and Fix. tures ' Exchange Memberships. Investments : El "easeholds, Deferred Charges, ste, Accounts included ia this asset. verified the values of the Exchange been verified by us Toronto, February 4, 1030. Thisgso " Stock Gieeee $10,482.80 3,287,465 .68% 11,789.00 21,488.77 309,600.00 Sundry Club Shares, etc. (nominal).... * Market values of Securities held the Partnership under date of Decem STOCK BROKERS 11 KING STREET WEST TORONTO, ONT. CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET December 3iat, 1029 Current : Balances owing on individuals' stock and commodity accounts Brokers' Accounts (secured) ' $3,315,737.24 831,088.77 1.00 1.00 64,182.59 $3,710,060.60 for vee $5,000,276.00 We certify that, in eur opinion, the above Condensed Balance Sheet, subject to the fact that we have not or Leaseholds, sets forth a true and correct view of the affairs of ber 31, 1020, as shown by the books. The market values of securities have Membershi GUNN, hange wnder the provisions of the Security Sondansag fore af ihe Balance Sheet prepored by the Auditors op ond Mining Bank Loans (secured)... § 604,534.28 Accounts Payable. ..... 13,002.88 Partner's Capital..... Frouds i ee. F. OHEARN & Co. $ 617,027.11 $ 368,506.95 1,688,104.10 ) jon of Furniture and Fixe LUIS sci ennnennones © 1,000,250.81 $3,710,960. 60 Da SES ROBERTS & CO.,, Chartered Accountants. the Standard on Act. ™ - " a ------