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| § THE OSHAWA DAILY. TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930. \ . fectively as Mr. Lavender did on this occasion. farm Cine Oshawa Baily Times Sacceeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) Ab independ aper petlished every afterncow except Sundays and legal holidays, ct Oshawa 'Canada by Mundy Printing Company, Limited: Chas. M. Mundy, President; A R. Alloway, Sec: retary. The Cshawa Daily Times is a member of the Cana: Jinn Press, the Canadien Daily Newspapers' As: sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureav of Tlrculations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 15¢ a week By mail in Canade (outside, Oshawe carrier delivery Emits), $4.00 » vear; United States, $5.00 & year. TORONTO OFFICE 407 Baad Buiiding, 66 Temp Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107 H. D Tresidder, representative REPRESEN1ATIVES IN U. S. Pcuers and Stone, Inc. New York asd Chicago. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930 COMMENDABLE PRESENCE OF MIND A public debt of gratitude is owing to James Lav- ender, night watd®man in the plant of the Pedlar People, Limited, for the prompt action by which he made it possible, on Saturday morning, for the po- lice to arrest two burglars in the act of robbing a local store. His presence of mind, and the promp- titude with which he notified the police, were alone responsible for placing within the arms of the law two men who might otherwise have committed many robberies without being caught. While it is the duty of every citizen to co-operate with the. poilceg authorities in the prevention of crime, and in the apprehension of offenders against the law, this is not always recognized. And it is not every citizen who would act as quickly and as ef- The Times feels that the people of Oshawa should be grateful to him for having prevented a robbery and having made the arrest of the burglars possible, and this newspaper joins in commending him for the fine spirit of public duty which he, as a private citi- zen, showed in doing so. BIRDS AND BIRD STUDY There is the germ of a worth-while endeavor in the announcement which was made in Saturday's issue of The Times regarding a contest to be held for the building of bird-houses by the boys and girls of Osh- awa. . This contest, it is observed, is a phase of a movement to create a greater interest in the study of bird life, one of the most fascinating of subjects, and one which affords great possibilities for a better understanding, by the young people, of the wonders of nature. To most boys and girls, birds are just birds and nothing clse. The fascination of being able to recog- nize various species of birds from their appedrance and their songs does not mean anything to the great majority. Yet there is a fascination in bird study-- in being able to go out into the open country and study their habits and their songs, and to admire the beauty of the coverings given to them by nature. It brings boys and girls closer to nature to undertake a study of this kind, and leads them to a wholesome attitude towards bird life, The day is past, or should be, when the sight of a bird means, to a boy, simply an opportunity of testing his skill in throwing stones. Bird study gives an understanding of the fact that the birds, be they beautiful or drab in ap- pearance, are a part of God's plan for the world, and of the part which they play in the preservation 4 of many of the things which are essential to daily life, Those who arc sponsoring the bird study move- ment and the hird house 'contest in Oshawa are de- scrving of commendation for their interest in bring- ing the boys and girls in touch with that wonderful field of nature study. THE WAR ON WEEDS "Phere is no single menace so great to ' Canada 2s that of the weed. It is one of the greatest problems that agriculturists and farmers arc facing today." This statement from the Hon. Duncan Marshall, made at the annual convention of the Ontario As- sociation of Fairs and Lxhibitions in Toronto, pro- vides the keynote for a campaign that is to be Jagnched in the near future, The seriousness of the "weed situation has attracted widespread attention, for Mr. Marshall announced that the Imperial Oil 'Co. Ltd, is prepared to spend $50,000 towards an educational campaign to aid the farmers of Ontario in the eradication of weeds ' . This is not the first time that attempts have been made to clean up the weed situation. Legislation passed at the last session of the Ontario Legislature provided for a thorough system of inspection, so as to enable a check to be made on farmers' who were persistently careless in cleaning up their fatms.- Before any campaign of weed cradication can be successful, it must be undertaken in an intensive manner. One careless farmer, who takes no tréuble to clear out the weeds on his farm, can ruin the efforts of a score of farmers who have been pains- taking in their endeavors, It has been proven that weed seeds from one farm will infect a whole neigh- _ pourhood, and will undo years of labor on thé part of the man who is anxious to have a clean farm, Thus it is important that whatever activity is undef- taken as a means of weed eradication, it should be sufficiently comprehensive to ensure that the care- fess man, who is the real menace, is dealt with in such. & manner as to make him toc the mark and join {in the (movement for the benefit of his own "and all those in his neighbourhood. Wy. A SHORT SESSION EXPECTED It is stated that the present session of the Legis- lature will be of short duation, The government knows what it wants to do, and it has the power to do it, 80 it is not likely to waste any time in superfluous debate, There should not, of course, be any attempt to railroad through legislation by sheer force of num- bers. All the brains of the province, or of the legis- lature, are not concentrated on the government benghes, and it is quite 'likely that many excellent suggestions may be put forward from the opposition side of the house. There is too great a tendency on the part of governments to consider that sug- gestions from the opposition can never have any merit in them, simply because they come from the opposition, and where the government is in as strong "a position as that of Premier Ferguson, that condi- tion of affairs is likely to be greatly accentuated. There seems little need, however, tor a long ses- sion. That does not necessarily mean that discussion of public affairs should be curtailed unduly: There arc important matters coming before the legislature matters which require careful thought and considera- tion, and ample time must be afforded for their dis- cussion. But it should not be a difficult matter to eliminate much of the wastefulness of words which goes on every gession on matters that' are purely routine, such as the address in reply to the speech from the throne and the debate on. the budget. In past years, it has been customary to waste many days on these | matters, and then rush through im- portant: legislation, involving many millions' of dol- lars, in the dying moments of the session. It would be much more valuable were the useless debates cut down to a minimum and the time thus saved. de voted to the consideration of hc matters that are really worth while. LITTLE SUPPORT FOR BEAVERBROOK Lord Beaverbrook is meeting with little success in his campaign for Empire Free Trade. 'Australia has stated flatly that the idea is impossible, so far as that country 'is concerned. Although no official statement has been made, the same is probably true of Canada. And now Mr, Baldwin, leader of the British Conservatives, whom Beaverbrook hoped to convert to his plan, has rejected it as unworkable, Baldwin is strong for the development of Empire trade, but not by the free trade route which has be- come Beaverbrook's gospel. The chief 'fault with Lord Beaverbrook's plan is that it may be splendid in theory, but it will\hardly work out in practice. If there were no competition for markets between various parts of the Empire, it might be possible to adopt it. But when the vari- ous dominions are in competition with each other for a share of the markets of Great Britain, and when various parts of hte' Empire are anxious to pre- serve home markets for goods which are also pro- duced in other parts, it is easy to see why the 'idea of Empire Free Trade is not likely to win much sym- pathy. One has only to consider Canada's position to real- ize this. While it 'might be a good thing to have the tariffs entirely removed from goods coming in from Australia, New Zealand or even the mother country, that would hav& a disastrous effect on the Canadian industries producing the same articles, and no country is, as yet, prepared to sacrifice its own interests for the sake of adherence to a trade policy which would for many years be largely in the nature of an experiment. A WARNING TO OTHERS The sentence of five years in Portsmouth peniten- tiary imposed on Orlando Heron, well-known To- ronto broker, who pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and theft, while not a severe sentence under the ecir- cumstances, should be a warning to other men in like position as to what they can expect should they be tempted to adopt dishonest methods in their busi- ness. As the judge remarked, the sentence was in- tended to be a warning, a warning to men of high position in life and otherwise unblemished character that their dealings with their fellow-men in respect to stock brokerage transactions must be honorable and fair, A warning of this kind, apparently, is timely. There has been a good deal of dishonesty in high financial circles in recent months, and the Heron case is only one of a number in which stock brokers and others in allied lines of business have been given penitentiary sentences. Men of that type arc not criminally-minded in the sense that bandits are, so that the penitentiary sentences mean a terrible pun- ishment to them. But they are none the less, just as guilty of robbery as the man who uses a gun to attain his ends, and must be punished accordingly. EDITORIAL NOTES Perhaps if Canada had a real navy there would be more interest here in the naval conference. 1] In arithmetic, zero stands for nothing, but it means a lot on the thermometer, Prince Edward Island has only had one divorce case since 1867. The folks down there must still be the old-fashioned kind. Many people today are wondering if we are really as crude as the modern writers of realistic stories make us out to be. People aren't getting excited over the naval pac- ley, but there is a good deal of silent satisfaction with the progress that is being mdae. Canadian school children have a million dollars on deposit in the penny banks. Unfortunately, none of that money has been saved by Oshawa school chil dren. x Lord Beaverbrook's free trade within the empire policy does not appear to be making friends as quickly ds he would like, With so large a majority behind them, the On- tario cabinet ministers can feel quite safe in asking for an increase in salary. tm ett A third party to fight prohibition in the United States is being urged. Yet we cannot recall that any third party bas ever been of much use in that counky. The fire at Camp Borden will at least save the authorities the trouble of dismantling the buildings that were destroyed, gel Other Editor's Comments GOOD USE FOR WARDEN'S WATCH (From the Fergus News<Record) It is customary in most counties to make a presentation to the retiring warden at the end of the year. The gifts are wsudlly signet rings or sancs or other more or less uscless keepsakes, but Ontario County ¢oun- cillors presented their warden with « wrist watch, Maybe it would be a good idea to present such a gift to the warden at the beginning of the year . It might be a gentle hint to start the sessions on time. FEARLESS EDITOR (Toronto Star) The Soo Star certainly knows how to add insult to injury. The Canadian Soo's chief of police re- cently barred it from his office be- cguse it had printed certain news against his wishes, And in the same issue in which it told of this action it annou:iced the award of its daily fifty-cent prize for a news tip--to the chief of police of the Michigan Soo. Moreover, the news tip had to do with the very case the Canadian Chief is sore about, The Canadian chief had better make his peace. An editor that will go out and tickle wolves under their chins just to hear them chuckle is not going to be beaten by a human being in uniform, RUSSIA FOOLS HERSELF . (From the Hamilton Iwrald) It should be higkly sigmificant to Russia as it is to the rest of the world that Mexico has declined to brook the insults that the Soviet dis- ciples have not hesitated to pour out upon her. Russia should learn that the world is not prepared to distin- guish between the Moscow adminis- tration and those who put into prac- tice the precepts that Moscow pro- claims abroad. The inhability of Russian politicians to understand | what other countries and their peo- ple think of the Russian system, and the refusal of the Russians to believe anything contrary to their own wish- es, is one of the peculiar things about Russian psychology. However, there are many ways of teaching and be- ing taught, and Russia will find out that what she now refuses to accept is in real truth the actual feeling of the rest of the world about her meth- ods. It is much easier to fool one- self than others, and this is what Russia has been doing. | Bits of Humor | SHOPPING INSTINCT (Correct Eating) A young matron in whom the shopping instinct was strong, asked a German butcher the price of ham- burger steak. "I'wenty-five cents a pound," he replied. "But" said she, "the price at the corner store is only twelve cents." "Vell," asked Otto, "V'y you don't puy it down there." "They haven't any," she replied. "Ya, Ya," said the butcher, "Ven I don't have it, I sell it for ten cents only." "What was the idea of all that racket you made in the bathroom?" "I dropped the crash towel." "We have decided that my shall be an artist." "Has he any special talent?" "Yes, he can go a week without food." son Uncle Timseed--I'm goin' to pull up at this waterin' trough and give old nag a drink. Sammy Sittibred--Does dis radia- tor need filling, uncle? Professor (at his evening work, as his two young sons come romping in) Now, now, children, can't you let ihe work in peace? Boys (in chorus)--We just want to say good-night. Professor--Oh, well, couldn't you wait with that till morning ?--Leth- bridge Herald. | Bits of Verse THE EDITOR'S SONG If you huve a tale to tell, Boil it down! Write it out and write it well, Being caretul how you spell; Send the kernel, keep the shell; Boil it dewn! Boil it down! If you want the world to know Boil it dewn! If you hove good cause to crow, If you'd tcl how churches grow, Whence you came or where you go, Boil it down! Boil it down! Then, when all the job is done, Boil it down : If you want to share our jun, Know just how a paper's run, Day by Gey from sun to sun, Boil it down! Boil it down. When theie"s not a word to spare "Boil it down! Boil it down! Heave a sigh and lift a prayer, Stamp your foot and tear your hair, Then Ltegin again with care -- Boil ic down! Boil it down! When, all done, you send it in, We'll boil it down, Where you end there we begin; This is our besetting sin; With a scow! or with a grin, : We'll boil it down; boil it down, ~The Presbyterian Advance, Life for a Call -- It shall come to pass, that whogoever shall call on the name of -the Lord shall be saved. --Acts 2:21 Prayer: "Thou art coming to a King, Large petitions with thee bring." . E. S. LONGSTREET, JR. MANAGING EDITOR OF THE ASBURY PARK (NJ) PRESS, : "Did you ever stop to think that people do not stop to think? "The majority of us are too busy or too lazy to form our own opinions and take ready-méde, hand-me-down misfits until our intellectual arms and legs are either thrusting forth from elbow or. knee length garments or are cntirely obscured by flopping loose ends. "It would seem there is an un written Amendment ag thinking, especially by the com- mon people. Of course, there are a few self-constituted leaders fairly capable of doing all the thinking necessary for the safety of the Nation, The priestcraft as- sumed the job for the common people in former ages. They have been followed in more or less successful fashion by many news- papers. Wo are supposed to take, and do take, the mental pap they provide. "Any original thinker, any protest- ant against#fhe established order of things is immediately crucified by sonorous voiced 'Bass Drum' advo- cates of Things-as-They-Are, or pro- phetic pulpit pounders or hysterical patriotic societies whose watchword is the thoroughly acceptable Ameri- canized version of 'Deutchland Uber Alles.' "It matters nothing whether a man is right or wrong in his opinions if he shall have thought them out for himself by a process or reasoning free from hysteria, envy, malice, pre- judice and kindred evils. "LET US STOP TO THINK-- The All-Revealing Ad. (Port Arthur News-Chronicle) AIRCRAFT AUTHORITY TO VISIT CANADA New York, N.Y. Feb, 10--Count Henri de Ja Vaulx, founder and president of the Federat A A ury from now a fiile of the advepti pages of the newspaper and magazine of today would provide a complete history of the customs and characteristics of the period. These advertisements record what the people are wearing, the problems of the day, current thought and the traits of the generation. : Pick up any issue of the family newspaper and there in word and pic- ture is the story of the day, Pre- ferve that issue and posterity a, cen- tury from now can tell what the men and women of this generation wore, what their mode 'of transportation was, how they were amused and en- tertained. ' The advertisements have made the past an open book. Picture of a man in the year 2030 chancing upon a file of this news- paper for the year 1930. Turning to the 'advertising pages, he would sce arrayed before his eyes the styles in wearing apparel for men, women and children of one hundred years ago. He would see the types of automo- biles in use, and from the number of automobile advertisements he would deduce that the automobile was in ggeat favor and universal use. By the same 'reasoning he would learn that the radio was in great de- mand, even cxceeding in popularity the phonograph and player piano. Training in the art of sleuthing would not be necessary for this read- er of advertisements of the past to inform himself, for the cancer-cure ads, that cancer was a menace to the generation and, from other ads, that obesity and exceeding thinness con- | cerned the public ds greatly as the malignant cancer. The advertisements are also a re- cord of economic conditions, reveal- ing market prices and estimating the supply and demand, For the discerning contemporary reader, the newspaper advertisements afford more interesting and valuable information than he can preserve for posterity, tique Internationale, world governing body for aircraft contests, will make an extensive tour of North and South America next month, He will do most of his travelling by air. Whilc his itinerary has not been completed it' includes a flight to Toronto and visits to most of the countries of South America. 5 : The federation was organized in 1905 and shortly after that the Count paid his last visit to this continent. All world records in aviation must be conformed by the federation before they are officially accepted. "A change of air often does harm to a piano," says a writer, Perhaps that is why the young lady next door has kept to the same one for the last six months.--The Hum- orist, Rastus: "Ef yo' says anything ter me Ah'll make yo' eat yo words, man." : Exodus: "Chicken dumplings, hot biscuits and watermelon!" -- The Pathfinder. evening r AND THINK." by C. H. TUCK, Opt.D. (Copyright 1923) DIPLOPIA, PART "1" This is a condition of double sight where in the two eyes cannot fix the same object at the same time. This is due to insufficicnt power in the | This in-| motor muscles of the eyes. , sufficient power may be due to faul- ty nerve innervation. Both eyer are concerned in vision to such an ex- tent that the image of an object fo- cussed on the retina of the eyes 1s fused by the brain into a single men- tal impression. If this act of fusion becomes lost the person secs double and the eyes must deviate. The ambunt of deviation or di- plopia is dependant upon the insur ficiency of the weak muscle. This condifion may be rccognized as ver- tical or hirizontal diplopia, vertical] diplopia being the condition where the objects sgen double appear - one above the other and horizontal being where the objects appear on the horizontal line. The irregularities that contribute to this condition may be simple as in a difficrence of the vision of one eye as compared to that of the other cye and this difference may be the cause of imperfect images being formed in the eyes or of one imper- fect image in one eye being so wide- ly different to the perfect image in the other that the brain refuses to recognize it. IROQUOIS JAR WAS FOUND BY HUNTER Earthenware Vessel Thought To Be Centuries Old Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 10--Cen. turies ago some Iroquois squaw turn- ed an earthenware jar upside down in a cave in a mountainside in the Susquehanna Valley and left the cave for the day. What happened to her, no one knows, but that simple act of good housekeeping, designed to keep dirt and animals from the interior of the jar, served the further purpose of preserving the ancient vessel from the action of water and ice, through out the centuries that have elapsed since. then. Chester D. Mallory of Windsor went hunting coons recently and found the jar, said to be the largest Iroquois Indian pottery jar in exist- esce. He reported his discovery to Dr. Arthur C, Parker, director ot the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sci ences, and the jar was added to the collection in that institution, According ot Dr. Parker, jars of Iroquois manufacture are exceeding- ly rare, and only six have been found in caves. "Many Algonquin pots have been found along the Susquehanna," said Dr. aPrker, "but few of the smaller Iroquois vessels." This specimen evi- dently was left in the cave from 350 to 600 years ago. "American Indian pottery is one of the principal means of tracing mi- grations and of fixing the identity of unknown sites, The New York Iroquoian pottery is unlike that from any other gegion," station) calls begin now at you money. world from your telephone | Erving -- EVERY BELL TELEPHONE 18S A LONG DISTANCE STATION Call at 7.00.... F you want to cut your long distance tele- phone bills -- watch for 7.00 o'clock. The lower evening rates on "anyone" (station-to- Between 7.00 pm. and 8.30 p.m., the rate is |. about twenty-five per cent off the day rate. And from 8.30 p.m. until 4.30 a.m. the rate is about one-half the day rate.* Long distance service'is constantly improving. You can tajk to the next town or across the clearly -- more cheaply than ever before. It { | is still cheaper when you take advantage of the lower cvening rates at 7.00 o'clock. ¢Minimum reduced rates ic Night -- 25e ater 7.00 and they save -- quickly -- H. M. BLACK, Manager. The T. 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