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'PAGE FOUR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1930 1 Tee ceeding : THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER ; (Established 1871) Printing Company, Limited. Mundy, President; A. R. The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the: Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily News- , Association, the Ontario Provincial and the Audit Bureau of Circulations "SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 15c a week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $4.00 a year; United States, $5 00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE $07 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative, REPRESENTATIVES IN U.S. Powers and Stone Inc., New York and Chicago MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1930 WHERE REDUCTION IS NEEDED Interesting figures with regard -to the strength of the navies of the five countries taking part in the naval conference at Lone don were issued by the French delegation a day or two ago, They show that, in com- parison with the naval strength 'of '1914, the United States and Japan have increased their navies substantially, while those: of Great Britain, France and Italy have been reduced. These figures, as cabled from Lon- don by The Canadian Press, are as follows, in tons :-- 1980 1,296,396 1,349,902 681,808 646,000 853,382 686,812 360,479 The figures in the above table enable even the most casual observer to note the trend of naval building. The United States, from being third in the list in 1914, now stands first, having increased its navy by nearly 400,000 tons since 1914, In the same per- iod, Great Britain cut her navy almost in half, thereby giving the whole world the lead in disarmament of a practical type. There has been a great deal of talk of allowing the United States parity with Great Britain in naval strength, but in respect to total ton- nage, it would appear that that perity had been more than accomplished. 1914 2,476,326 964,500 1,139,306 Great Britain .. United States .. EXAMINATIONS FOR STUDENTS The authorities of Western University at London are apparently not satisfied that ex- aminations form the best means of testing the ability of their students. Before taking final action on twenty art students who failed to measure up to the standard in the January examinations, they are to submit these students to intelligence tests, with a view to finding out just why they failed. By the use of scientific tests, it is hoped that they will be able to tell whether the failure was due to nervousness or to subnor- maley. These tests should be useful. There are large numbers of people who have no faith in: the examination method of testing a child's capability for acquiring knowledge. Their objections are largely based on the theory that examinations prove so great a strain for the child of a nervous tempera- ment that they fail to give of their best, even although they may be, throughout the term, the most brilliant students in their classes. This is the theory which it is proposed to test at London, and the results should be interesting, since they may prove that the students who fail to pass their examina- - tions, may in reality, be just as good stud- ae ents in every other respect as those who are successful. IS SPANKING NECESSARY? The case of the Hanover school principal who was brought before the school board, and was exonerated of any wrong-doing in connection with the application of corporal * + punishment to twenty-one of the pupils un- ) revived the old controversy to whether or not corporal punishment 18 necessary or advisable in the schools. ~..Those of who went to school twenty years ago or more can well remember the freedom which the schoolmasters and school- As Principal Cannon remarked in a Rotary Club address, more punish- used to be administered in a school in of that day "administered the _ one day then than in a whole month now. ere has been a tendency to adopt other punishments, and there is always many minds as to whether the methods are as good as the old. a new school of thought, of is totally opposed to any form } has aroused considerable in- . subject, and any arguments about with the person favoring cor- punishment maintaining that since it any harm, but a great deal good, it should have the same effect on present generation of youngsters. THE R-100 COMING le of Canada will take a deep in- e coming visit to this country of , Great Britain's giant dirigible, according to the announcement made t'week, will be crossnig the At- e spring. Already a great moor- ; been erected at the St. Hu- d, near Montreal, for the re- monster airship. t, if successful to the same ex- the trans-Atlantic flights of Zeppelin, the large German diri- probably mark the beginning of in communication between Can- the Mother Country. It is frankly of Great Britain to make an ef- establish regular aerial communica- tions between the various parts of the Em. "pire. So far, Canada, by reason of the dis- tance of open water separating it from Great Britain on the one side and Australia on the other, has been rather out of the pic- ture in this project, because aeroplane routes have not been possible. The coming of the giant dirigible, however, with its tre- mendous power and its wide cruising range, should solve this problem, and should make it possible for Canada to be included as an important link in the chain of Imperial air communication, ? 3 g g 2 8 : | 020 g fii EEC E tht +3 g LACK OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT It is not surprising to find lawlessness and banditry again breaking out in China. In fact, the present outbreak is not really any- thing new. Rather is it a more violent form of the banditry that has been going on con- itinually for years, and that every once in awhile reaches a climax by attacks on for- eigners and foreign property. One can hardly expect anything else in China. The only way in which banditry can be put down is by the repressive activities of a strong and responsible government, one which takes its duties of protecting life, and property seriously. Unfortunately, China has not that kind of government. A govern. ment which secures power by the sword is not likely to be very severe with those who make their living by the same method, and so long as the bandits do nothing to imperil the tenure of the government of office, they will probably be left to do as they please. China has been passing through some trou- blous times, but until there is something in the nature of stability in its government, little else can be expected. EDITORIAL NOTES The British arguments for the abolition of submarines sounded so convincing that it.is hard to understand why they were not unanimously accepted. In view of the conditions elsewhere in Canada, the situation in Oshawa is not so bad as many people imagine. Mr. Bennett has guessed that there will be an early federal election, but Mr. King still has the right answer sealed up. A cynic is a man who believes in love, but lavishes it all on 'himself. Only one thing is worse 'than running into debt. That is running into one's creditors. English bakers are planning an "eat more bread" campaign. This should be a good thing for Canadian wheat. Everybody is still waiting for a long en- ough thaw to halt the process of depletion of the coal supply. Visitors to Chicago are urged to provide themselves with bullet-proof suits. But why visit Chicago at all? Thomas A. Edison has celebrated his 88rd ~ birthday. The achievements of this long life have brought many blessings to hu- manity. , A scientist claims that the sun and earth +}: will collide int 70,000,000 years. By that time «we will all be too old to worry about what happens. . It has yet to be proven whether Mr. Cre- rar was praising or criticizing Hon. C. A. Dunning in referring to him as the man who "built the Hudson Bay Railway." It is welcome news to read that the re- ports of a British boycott on Canadian wheat are untrue. An attitude of that kind on the part of Britain would hardly be con- ducive to the best 'of trade relationships be- "tween this country and the motherland HAROLD N. BECK, EDITOR OF THE OCEANSIDE' (CALI- FORNIA) BLADE - TRIBUNE, 3 "Did you ever stop to think that we cannot do away with schools ALMOST SIXTEEN MILLIONS PAID TO POLICYHOLDERS Metropolitan Life Reports Record Year--Nearly a Bil- lion Dollars Insurance in Force in Canada--Wel- fare and Economic Activities Increasing. Canadians from goast to coast, who have 2,739,358 policies in the Metinpolk tan Life insurance Company will be just because adults are d and can teach . their children the vital things of life; we cannot do away with churches because parents arc.) religious and have Bibles which they could read to their children and train the younger ones in the creeds, do- ing away, thus, with ministers and churches; we cannot do away with banks by loaning money to one an- other, eliminating necessity for finan- cial institutions; wg cannot do away with merchants learning to make home-spun garments, rustic furni- ture and any of the necessities of life which would make it possible .to eliminate large scale manufacturing and retail merchants; we cannot do away with newspapers because ev eryone knows the place where they want to do business, It cannot be done. "Civilization has been built as a result-of a desire for better things, All trade is based on a desire for goods. Necessity js, mostly, an aug- mented desire." "ADVERTISING REMINDS PEOPLE OF THEIR RE- QUIREMENTS, BUT MORE THAN THAT, ADVERTISING CREATES NEW DESIRES, NEW TRADE, NEW PROSPE. RITY. ADVERTISE AND YOU WILL GROW." Eye Care Eye Strain by C.K. ILCF, Cpt.D. (Copyright 1921) NEURASTHENIA--Part 2, Certain reflex condit'ons may be in evidence as for example the nervous headache may be relieved when some more distant cause is removed or through relief to the eyes some more remote trouble may be relieved. Occasionally we will find those cases that look to be the same as those accompanied by pain and dis- comfort, the weak watery and red- dened look whether accompanied hy pain or not should be relieved the only reason the pain does not exist is no doubt due to the fact that the person is possessed with a high de- gree of accommodation and in this way looks after the strain and puts off the uncomfortable defects until some later day. In summing up what has already been said about cases of this nature we should bear in mind that not all of these cases will find relief in the beginning but some must work to- wards this relief gradually and may also require the assistance to other parts of the body to bring them to a more normal condition, It is gen erally 'considered that about 90% of all headaches are due to the eyes. | Bits of Humor | "Hey," cried the sergeant rifle practice, 'don't you know better than to fire before the range is clear? You just missed me." "I'm awfully sorry, Sergeant," re- sponded the recruit. " - at ay The road show was playing a poor town, It was a tense moment in the second act. "We are alone?" hissed the villain, "Almost," re- joined his accomplice, casting a sad eye at the rows of empty seats, ---Schenectady Union-Star, LJ] LJ LJ "A Boy Scout doesn't procras- tinate."" "No," sald the small wear- er of khaki, "That's why I always do my good deed first thing in the morning and get the thing over with.--American Legion Monthly. LJ L » "How are you getting along with your fiancee's folk?" "Great! Already they're begin- ning to treat me like one of the family, Last night I got bawled out for using a guest towel."'--Life, LJ . LJ "I always encourage my husband to recline in an easy chair and put his feet on top of the radiator." "Why so?" "When he goes to bed there is usually about $4 in small change in the chair."--St, Louis Down- | town Triangle. AM . LJ "And have you a father?" asked the charity worker of .a ragged urchin. x "Nope." he replied, "pa died of exposure," "Poor man! pen?" "Another guy snitched, and they hung him."--Ex, r-- LTT Ten ras] God's Love Perfected -- Unto you first God, having raised up his Son | Jesus, sent him to bless yoy, in turn. ing away every one of you from his iniquities.--Acts 3:26, How did it hap- | Tayer: "He [shared with us, that we might share His joy forevermore." d to know that payments to oldersin Canada in 1929 amounted to $15,992,826, representing an increase of over three mil ion dollar over the preceding year. Insurance in force in Canada ts to almost a billion dollars, being $947927,397. These ures are particularly interesting in view of the fact that the Metropolitan is a mutual company, that is, it has no stockholders but is owned by the policy- holders themselves who are the sole beneficiaries in the company's progress. In the latter part of the past year the soundness of life insurance as an invest- ment, aswell as a protection, was brought home to people and the increasing appre- ciation of this fact is reflected in the eater amount of new insurance issued i 1929, which totalled $232,324,966 an increase of over twenty millions of dol- ars. This total comprises Ordinary, Industrial and Group [olicies, all of which show a substantial increase. HENRY E. NORTH Third Vice-President and Manager for Canadas. Canadian investments of Metropolitan Life continue to increase, having reached $189,300,437, an increase in the twelve months of 'almost eighteen millions, These investments are in Dominion and Provincial Government and Municipal Bonds and Mortgage Loans. Growth of Metropolitan Life is graphically shown in a survey of ten-year periods, Total policies in force at the end 1929 amounted to 44,333,332, coyering $17,933,600,452 insurance, Assetd total $3,010,560,051, Of particular interest in Canada is the attention being paid by the company to welfare and economic activities, The Welfare Division reports a total of 368,310 visits to policyhold- ers, Of this total 206,871, were on Maternity cases, constituting a valuable contribution to the country's child welfare movement Nearly 3,000,000 pamphlets on health subjects were distributed, bringing the total to date to more than 28,000,000. In co-operation with local health boards, Metropolitan articipated in over 50 health campaigns. Durin the year the Metropolitan Policyholders' Service Bureau conducted 40 special investigations covering mer- chandising, distribution and manufac- turing problems. One classified indus- trial survey was carried out as well, These activities constitute an invaluable economic service to the business of the country, . | "I took the recipe tor this cake out of the book." "You did right, i slould never have been put in." Epworth Her- ald, Constable--"Did you get his | number?" | Victim (peevishly)--*No, I miss- | ed that. I got the mudguards, the wheels and the avle." } . A writer points out that 8.0.8. | is the greatest signal of distress in the world, but 1.O.U, runs a close second, | certainly will keep limber. ; - { ! + + and you want. lower rate as well, When you are away your bill at home. calls 25 cents ond EVERY BBLL 280ErEONE 18 A LONG You can call by number - - _-- If you want to reverse the charge on a long distance call you do not need to give the name of the per- son you are calling, It is enough now just to give the NUMBER You can now reverse the charge on an "anyone there" -- or "sta- tion-to-station" -- call and get a from home you can get your house or office more quickly and more cheaply in calling by NUMBER and you can still have the call charged to *Reversal privilege applies on now 40 " DISTANCE STATION H. M. BLACK, Manager @hat Body of ; | Bours - A - By James W. Barton. M.D KEEPING YOUNG It is interesting to see the different methods men and women are using in order to keep young. The fact that they want to Keep young is a good sign, but the meth- ods they prefer are those that they think will "bring" youth back to them, instead of adopting the meth- ods that will retain voutn. Someone has said that the way to keep young is to "keep limber, lov- ing,' and a little bit loony." You know of men and women who scem to keep young despite their age and it is because there is still, a little of the boy or girl in them and because they have a love in their hearts for everybody, But what about keepmg limber? There is no question but that if, despite your age, you continue to play the games you have always played--perhaps not foothall--that is, tennis, golf, badminton, soft-ball, handball znd so i vt, ht you may not be as fast or efficient, but you Because after all, heing limber | gives you poise, gives you a good carriage, and the age of a man or woman is rightly gauged by the way Travel The King's Highway they sit, stand, or walk. LE sit in a "slumped" or abso- lutely relaxed position, the chest *-- comes flattened, the shoulders round- and the abdomen strids © © r protrudes. You can readily see that the heart and lun' s do ot proper chance to do their work, and the circul: tion of dominal organs is so slow that these organs become distended. with blood. This blood is needed elsewhere, brain ard on-vwhere else. And thig slumped position sitting is mamtatned by 'many individuals when they stand--shoulders drooped, chest flat, and abdomen protruding. And the walk is a slumped wil: rl-the hent form of age Now you may not care, or have the + play, but vou can sit, | stand, and walk in the erect position. Sitting--lower back against chair, and upper back also, with a space between the "hollow" of th~ "~~ and the chair, knees at the right an- gle, both feet on floor. : Standing--head up, chest out, chin in, abdomen drawn in or backwards hips slightly drawn back, and the weight of the body on the front or balls of the feet. : In these positions, standing or sit- ting, the heart and lungs work prop- erly, and the abdominal organs do not get congested and th-re'nre there are no waste poisons absorbed into the system. It is poison that makes us oll. | TIME'S WHIRLIGIG ("Look«r-Un' in the Daily Chroniel We often hear complaints abo the payment or M.r.s. it 1s sad have "lowered the tone' of House of Commons, made politics Jusiiess, and SO. on. ivearlyy thr hundred years ago, Pepys was recor ing in his diary complaints that t plan ot paying al.r. $s had ve.a } .p. 'The payment had been m then by the constituencies. Wihivu ceased the members were said pay less attention to what their co students wanted, and not to "reps sent" their boroughs or counties pri perly. An amusing instance of t whirligig of time. Phat a good ide though, to make' each -constituen pay 1ts member's salary. Why sho n't we revive it? GOOD WORK (Toronto Globe), Throughout Canada during year 1929 there was a 20 per cel drop in the diabetes mortality It is pointed out by a New York insutance statistician that the cline in this malady was particul marked in Ontario, where there hi been general use of insulin. I Banting's 'discovery appears to doing good work, "Is your wife shy about telling h age? "Very = about ten years shy. 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