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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930 PAGE THIRTEEN -------------------- POTENS FA - HF sa London. aj ly com: puted that the politeness of can business man c a sins gle firm £5,000 a year in elo, vator costs. ao ey : ied American, when a with women in Pid gs his hat and holds it over his chest. Four Hats &6 Held take up the space of a possible passenger, Nothing can be done about it, since the Ameri- can's attitude to his womenfolk is © prover chivalrous, even where the. almighty dollar is concerned: obseryes: the writer of this article 4p The Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, .; Frenchmen also, in their own way, boast a corresponding respect for ;the, so-called weaker sex, an amusing example of which occurred a year or two ago. A mysterious person in Paris "borrowed" a mo- tor. belonging to a shopkeeper named Parot, returning it a few hourls Jater with this note: "Dear sir:--I was obliged to bor- row your motorcar for an urgent reason as there were no taxicabs in sight. You will find it in good con- dition: I venture to hope that, as you: are a perfect gentleman, you will excuse the liberty I have taken, particularly when you learn that the reputation of a beautiful wo- man, noted in Paris society, was at stake." French politeness has often a touch of acidity, The famous ac- tor-manager, M. Jacques Copeau, has more than once afforded a speci- men of this characteristic quality. He has held up the action of a play in which he was taking. part, and waited quietly while latecomers made their way blushingly to their seats. Only when they were seated would he thank them with grave and formal courtesy and continue the play! ! BEX pitable Spaniard 'Spanlard® are traditionally po- lite, although no doubt they. would beim little disconcerted if their ha- bitual offer to a guest of the house and everything in it were accepted at its face value. Nevertheless, the the 1 fanguage. The Spaniard is really polite and hospitable. - A gentle- man travelling dn 1921, fram Vigo [to Leon, encountered in the rail way carrisge a Spauvish gen of sixty, with whom he chatted pl ly in Spanish till they reached - Orense. / 'ther the Spaniard said: "Now; welll' go and have lunch, Here get the best lunch of any statin n Spain." '| When the meal was over the Eng- '| lishmen offered to pay fer was insistently , but the of- ctéd and the bil paid by the ard, On reaching home, the gratified Eng- e thanking his host for his courtesy. The reply he re- ceived simply said: "I only did what I am quite sure one of your countrymen would have been glad to do for one of mine in the same circumstances." Supreme opti- mism In Germany manners are often, to our thinking, Faygh; (but there is also a genuine desire to help the foreign visitor and make him feel it 'home. This is. not' gonfined to private life but is often evidencea even in official quarters. A Brit- ish engineer had occasion recently to visit Berlin in connection with an invention of his for which he sought patent protection in Ger- many. In order that certain ques- tions might be dealt with prompts ly--thus allowing him 'to return home without loss of time--the German examiner consented to re- ceive certain papers at noon on a Saturday, to take them home with him to study during the week-end and to appoint a "hearing" of the case on the Monday. And this pro: gram was actually carried out! Surprising Japanese In Japan politeness is carried to such an extent that police warn- ings are issued to householders that they should, under all circum- stances, be courteous, even to bur- glars! The householders are ad- vised to give the malefactr tea, during which entertainment care- ful note should be taken of his dress and personal 'appearance, for subsequent identification; but in no case should the burglar be assault ed. Consideration for the burglar, however, does not altogether ex- plain this astonishing advice. The fact is that the Japanese house- breaker is as ready with his knife as the Chicago gangster is with his hman 'wr 1 case of safety first! A curious and amusing case 'of Chinese courtesy happened some years ago when pirates boarded a tradition is not wholly of flowery G TAT needs no" decoration Awhen panelled) al- though. you can 2 paper or plaster it if you + Structurally strong, in- Expensive, easily and y up, Gyproc 39 allboard gis perma- nen; fire protection to the walls, ceilings and pattitions of your home. Your dealer's name is listed below. Ask him for "complete details of this pioneer Canadian safe Gypsum roc Gives PERMANENT PROTECTION ADE from Gypsum M rock, Gyproc Wall- board does not burn. And write for free interesti book,. "Building and Re. modelling with Gyproc." steamer, in the Canton Delta and x tleman | automatic, and extreme courtesy is forcibly removed 3,000 cases of oil, The crew were not molested, the only "incident" being the handing of his personal card by the pirate chiet te the captain of the vessel. The 'mixture of ruthlessness and perfect manners is entirely charac- teristic of the Chinaman. Naturally, this country does not yield the palm for politeness to any other 'without a struggle. It id commonly agreed that our manners on the street and in public general- ly are of as high a standard as can be found in the world today. And where else is -it possible to find: n policeman, on trafic duty, willihz to answer with patient politeness some: sixteen or seventeen ques- 'tions In five minutes? '+ 4: 0 And Ourselves i As for special and noteworthy in. stances of British politeness, they also are not hard to find. There is the case of the aviator whose ma- chine crashed in a Yorkshire field in August and who, knowing the de- licate condition of fields at that time of year, apologized to the far- mer with: 'So sorry, I hope I have. n't damaged your field." A rich crop of extraordinary acts of politeness may be gathered from the daily lives on bus and tram ¢on- ductors. One of the formér not only paid the fare of a woman who boarded his bus, having left her purse behind, but lent her half a crown as well! Probably the question of which nation is the most polite will never reach an agreed answer; but the palm for individual courtesy must surely go to the Papuan murderer who explained his crime to a lady novelist thus: "He wanted me to carry him across the river, but he looked heavy; he was very fat, Of course I could not be so rude as to refuse to carry him; so I thought that the best way out of it was to kill him." MARKETING BOARD 15 HELPING TRADE New Zealand Benefits Great: ly From Efforts of Empire Body Wellington, NZ.--The Empire Marketing Board has been doing a great service to New Zealand and as a result of its' work New Zealand products are being asked for every- d or those two Dominions, so New Zea- | Australia and this Dominion. ¢ ; {Dominions and some definite ac- al ton, in this matter is expected sh 4 ¥ ' der discussion by the New Zealand iva ee under the tariff agree- "I metit with the Commopwealth be 8h ogrent primage duty imposed last ti yr, A where in the British Isles, actord- ing to W. Machin of Christchurch, returning from the Congress of the British Chambers of Commerce re- cently held in London. Mr, Machin believes that the New Zéaland cheese industry will have to be reorganized in order to hold fts place in world markets. The New Zealand cheese obtainable in the British Isles is not up to the high quality of other products and is not so popular, Canadian cheese being much preferred. #1 have no doubt," sail Mr, Ma- chin, "that the British people are keen to buy from the Dominions, and are ready to consider definite proposals for reciprocal trading. FBritain, has, however, an 'enormous foreign trade and any increase in costs or expenses would probably injure that trade." PACT CONSIDERED Australia and New Zealand May Give Preference to Each Other Wellington, NZ.---Just as Aus tralia has been complaining of Can- ada obtaining too large a propor- tion of the trade passing between land is protesting against the un- equal proportions of trade between A reciprocal tariff between New Zealand and Australia is being dis- cussed as a means of improving the rommercial relations of the two ~ Surtaxes and additions to the Australian traiff duties have come into operation since April of this year, and among these is to be noted a primage duty of 2 1.2 per 'went, imposed by the. Common- wealth Government, which has ap- plication: to the products of New Zealand as well as other countries, 'which enter Australia. "THe tariff amendments now un- t propese that the exist- retdined, and these include the two gards importations from : files, the New Zepland Vi oposed to substitute hi JA tion now levied, inquiry' has been made of the troller of Customs' whether the: terms. of the reciprocal tariff are affected by the variations. For-some years the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce have stress- Cou, Ltd., Toronto, Makers of Hawes® Floor ont ing eye Bacula ET : cael wfastits ; ha After illness BOVRIL our of weakness . ed the disparity 'iii trade between the Commonwealth and this Domin- fon, and anything that tends to in- crease the burden of duty upon New Zealand goods entering Aus tralia, and conyersely a lightening of New Zealand duties upon Austra- lian goods entering the Dominion, will have an influence toward in- creasing instead of decreasing the adverse trade balance against New Zealand. PUBLIC SUFFERS FROM HIGH TARIFF Australian © Duties Hurt Small Lumber Dealer in Commonwealth Sydney,; N.S.W.--The Australian Government's -fction in increasing the tariff on lumber imported from Canadas and the United States is in direet conflict. with 'the recommen- dations of the tariff board and of forestry experts. The only effect of these increased duties, according to James Corke, secretary of the Sydney and Suber- ban Timber Merchants' Assoclation, will be to increase ¢osts and further restrict building and to give a hand- some profit at the expense of the public to those. who 'gow hold heavy stocks .of duty-paid lumber from the Pacific Northwest, The smaller lumber merchants will be severely hit by the new ta- riff dnd Mr. Corke believes many will be forced to quit business al- together. "There has been a complete som- ersault on the part of the govern- ment," declares Mr. Corke in a spe- cially prepared statement. "To- day in Australia there is quite 50,- 000,000 feetiof the size of lumber drastically affected, and today's du- ties mean about hail a.million dol- lars ih the pockets of those who hold the lumber, While some of these holders will reap a harvest, the public will suffer. Costs must come down in all industries, this in particular; "Fhe whole question was | thoroughly gone into early in the} year and it was found then that if | the duty on Canadian and United States lumber was increased the ad- vantage to the native industry would be insignificant, as only a compardtively small amount of hardwood could be substituted for the imported material. "Without regard to any additi- onal costs, which would be entailed through thé use of hardwoods, it has been shown that the extra cost of the imported lumber would in- volve a total additional impost on the building industry of considera- bly mote than $2,000,000 annually, The. compensation to the communi- ty for this would be the circulation of about $1,000,000 extra wages, which would be earned in the mill- ing of. the additional 40,000,000 super feet of Australian hardwoods. There wotlld also be extra wages earned in sawing down some of the 160,000,000 feet of imported lum- per in view of its importation in larger sizes, but this would be off- sot to a large extent by the loss of wages now paid for all the sawing on the 40,000,000 feet which would not be impaired. "The tariff board considered it inevitable that the increase in the cost of building lumber by $2,000, 000 must tend to check revival of the building industry. The main hope of the sawmill and allied in- dustries lay in the revival of the building trade. An increase in the duty on the raw material of such al labor-employing trade as the build- ing industry was not justified for revenue purposes, Moreover, even when the.extra reenue was added to the estimated extra wages to be earned, the total sum was less than the extra. charge that would fall on the price of lumber." Hon, James BF. Fonton, Minister of Custoffis, says that steps will be taken toward revision of the duties if injustices can he shown 'to exist. «It 1s impossible to. legislate to please everybody," he declared. MINISTERS TO CUT THEIR OWN SALARIES e---- Hobart (Tasmania) -- Tasfharia) is taking gr stic steps, to economize ht #hiending HétAustralian' fingncial crisis. © 7 : i By the provisions of the Bill to be' introduced by the Government during; 'the comilfg sion, all, "ministers, and parliamentary Nofficers are to AE their salaries cut by 5 per cent, ©" Members of Parliament are to have "their payment réduced by 12 1-2 per cent, These decisions follow the ultima- tum delivered to the Australian Fed- eral, Government on behalf of the Bank of England, .. He issued a warning as to the con- sequesiccs if the Stite failed to cut | vants- screamed and called on God to downall expenses and reorganize fi- nasickally, a BE dt Le HOW WIND STORM DESTROYED CITY OF SANTO DOMINGO Observer Describes How- Hurricane Smashed Houses Like Cardboard Saint John, N.B.--~Some details of the horror and ruin created by the recent hurricane in the city of Santo Damingo, Dominican Republic, are contained in an air mail letter re- ceived here from E. Moreland Rob- inson, a member of the Bank of Nova Scotia staff in Santo Domingo. The letter, written under date of Thursday, September 4, said in part: City In Ruins "The city is ruined. The pictures [ sent of our house were just taken in time. Two walls still stand in the bathroom, The rest of the house just "ain't". Our clothes and furni- ture are scattered to the' four winds and here I sit in the office-bare- footed, in a pair of pants and a shirt. Yesterday noon we had warnings, but we thought it was a case of wolf! wolf! At 1 o'clock it was a high wind that uprooted trees and the like. At 1.30 Hump (Humphrey), Johnny and I decided to come down- town and sit it out. We got about three blocks from home and it began to look serious, so we started back. Then the storm broke. Whew! We sought shelter on the veranda of the nearest concrete house and were in vited in. Our host was the editor of our biggest newspaper. Ag.so0u as we left the veranda it blew in. *| "Then the other parts of the build- | ing started to go. From the main | house we sought refuge in the kit- chen-reinforced and topped by a low water tank. As we entered there we heard .a.crash and saw that all | the other walls of the house had fallen. We barricaded the two doors, and three men held each other, while the frightened wife, youngsters, grandmother and ser- deliver them, - Then the window blew in and we barricaded that. Next the back veranda fell and a four- foot square block of concrete smasa- ed one of the doors, but remained there, blocking the entrance. "After about an hour of thig hell, the sun came out and we sallied forth to find that not a single house in Gascu has escaped.- It was the most desolate looking scene you could imagine. Everyone homeless, and in most houses people were tear- ing at the debris looking for their dead, Storm Returned "We delivered our 'host' and fam- ily into the care of a friend who had a hurricane cellar and looked around to see how our other friends had fared. The manager's house, "the mansion" had lost only one side of the roof and were all safe, 'Hump' and I started for home to see how we had fared. I {found our family picture floating in two feet of water and . rescued it along with' some clothes, and put all in4 my frunk. Then the storm came back. "We sought the bathtoom, where the neighbors and their seryants had gathered and crouched down, Gee, what a blow! All the walls started to fall one by on¢ and the air was full of 'telephone poles, trees and sheets of galvanized iron. 'Hump' ventured into the draft and 'was car- ried by the' wind 100 yards away where he fell behind 'a horizontal telephone pole. He lay'in a foot of water dodging 'everything for two hottrs 'while I tried to pacify the negroes in"the bathroom, The walls were bulging and leaning with every gist, of wind ard sitely thought I'd caten my last meal.' | "I'he negroes were all frantic-- paying to God and to: me fo save them "so I' didn't 'have a chance to show how scared I wasi. When the storm slowed up a bit we, waded and swam over to where the rest of the colony (bank) had gathefed and I found 'them' if a concrete kitchen-- all' windows blown. in; and two feet of water on the floor 'but, atherwise intact while the rest of the house had fallen. We were. about 20 there including two babies; Nothing to eat or drink and ome table in the middle of the room. We spent the night there after boarding up all windows. We slept on our feet. Luckily we salvaged. some coal from a ruined house across" the street and had a fire part of the night, It was the longest night Td ever dived through; Then we started out at dawn, If was raining hard and there was nothing insight but boards tin -- iron -- clothes -- furniture and such like=-no houses, Many Wounded "We went to our own house and found things as we had left them, the bathroom alone standing. We salvaged a few knick-knacks and a can of tobacco---wet but worth a lot to us. We then came 'down town--' what a sight! Everyone with gap- ing wounds with maybe a shirt tied around them, and a steady parade in the centre of the street of dead be- a Be ing carried on beds--doors=«anything, Everyone screaming and crying. Militia picking the dead {from the ruins and. everyone scurrying to find food, . "I got a bit sick with the smell-- battlefield smell, I guess can classify it. In the suburbs the houses are completely demolished. ' Absolutely. nothing left. In' the city some of the older houses and churches stood, the 'walls, I meant--mbst "of the roofs were gone--and are filled with hurt and dying people. Our' office here escaped. fairly well and we are living here now. Trying to get along until a, relict ship. arrives with food | and clothing. They burned 280 bod- ies mear here last 'night, Couldn't bury them and those that aré being buried 'are being piled in 8 find 10 to a grave, [I think the dead will total at least 1,000, "Friday. The steamboat (mail) escaped .to Porto Rico and a couple of relief men agrived last night by plane, They say we 'ace the, only city hit. - A warship: with nurses and doctors 'is on its way and' will arrive maybe tonight. "We slept in the office last night-- four of us. Martial law was pro- claimed. Anyone going on the street after 6 did so at his own risk. The shooting by the: guards on this cor- ner and frequent challenging by them kept us awake all night. You knew newspapers do keep the cold out." The houses of 'all' Europeans and "foreigners are demolished and all are living in. all sorts of places-- garages, 'offices and churches. The new English é&hdrch--almost com- pleted-- fell, burying quite a few negroes, We haven't the slightest idea how many. Everything is like that, The only bodies recovered CLARENS INVINCIBLE CX PUDDING, Package has 2 separate bags. One pintquantity in each bag. No waste, 0s haye . been those exposed in the ruins. "We're surely glad to be alive to- day. The sun 1s out and people are trying to dry their clothes. The conversation is--the family; then comes the number hurt and thanks to God for the number saved" Mr, Jones had just returned. from the office and was introduced tothe new nurse, who was astonishingly pretty. - "She is sensible and scientific, too," said Mrs. Jones, "and she says she will allow no. one to kiss the baby while she is near." "No one would want to, Mr." Jones. ' "Indeed!" snapped the fond moth- replied er. "I. mean, not while she is near," faltered the' father, trying to make things better. The nurse did not stay long: band is always willing to A FREE HINT ; "How is it, Mary, that your hus- get you such' beautiful clothes?" "I burn holes ini dresses with a . cigarette, and he thinks he Bas done it. To comfort me, he buys 'me a finer frock."--Kikeriki, Viena. IT'S THE MOUTH: - Lady--Your French rolls are really far too small. I can put a whole oye into my mouth at once, Baker -- I can quite believe that, madam, but. it's not the fault of the bread.~Rolig Haly Timma,. 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