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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931 EE typ SAU The 'Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER 5 (Established 1871) 'An independent newspaper published every aiter- 'noon except Sundays and legal holidays at Osh- : Canada, by The Times Publishing Company, of Guba. imited. Chas. M. Mundy, President, A. loway, Managing Director. [he Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana- dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Asso- tion, the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. ah y SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. a week: By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $3.00 a year. United States $4.00 a year, J TORONTO OFFICE 66 Temperance Street.: Telephone D. Tresidder, representative. 518 Bond Buildin . Adelaide 0107. H. FRIDAY, JANUARY T%, 1931 A HOPE FOR BETTER TIMES "We are ready to take advantage of every improvement in business, and we expect that 1931 will see a marked in- crease over last year." In the above sentence, F. C. Barker, sales motion manager of the General Motors of A Limited, speaking at the tonvention of Oldsmobile dealers and salesmen the other day, expressed the policy of the company. He 'expressed a hope which will find an echo in 'the heart of every citizen of Oshawa, a hope ~. that there will be such an improvement in business generally throughout the country ~ that the automobile industry will find itself + going into larger production than has been the case since the spring of 1929, and thus providing more employment for the working men of Oshawa. . One of the encouraging signs is the manner in which the General Motors of Canada has * been paving the way for better times by © strengthening its sales organization so as to ~ secure as large a share of the available auto- mobile business as possible. The expansion = of sales forces and the addition of hundreds of new dealers to the lists marks a policy of ~ expansion which ought to bring results. At any rate, it demonstrates that the executives of the company are doing all in their power to improve business, toeincrease the con- sumption of automobiles, and, at the same « time, increase the. volume of employment available for the working men of Oshawa. There is a ring of confidence in the words of Mr. Barker that is encouraging, and one can- not but hope that this confidence may be fully justified by the results of the next few months. . HOW A SMALL INDUSTRY CAN GROW A few months ago the Plate Lock Battery Manufacturing Co., Limited, located in Osh- awa, in a small plant on Ritson Road North. Since then ,the prospects of the company for business have improved to such an extent ~ that the management is already considering the necessity of adding an extension of the "plant, and arrangements have been made to- wards this end with the owner of the build- "ing. This expansion is the result of the ag- gressiveness of the company in enlarging its force of dealers, and striving for a share of ~ the markets in Ontario towns and cities for its products. This industry, at the present time, is but a small one. It is, however, showing cheering . signs of development. It is showing that sometimes from small beginnings large in- dustries will grow. That has been the ex- 'perience in certain other Oshawa plants, and there is a possibility that this industry may yet rise to important proportions. This in- dicates that even the smallest of industries should be encouraged to locate in Oshawa, for while they may not, at the outset, pro- vide employment for a large number of workers, yet each has in it the potentiali- ties of future growth and development. BRITAIN'S LABOR TROUBLES As if trade and industrial conditions in Britain were nct already in a sérious enough « condition, matters over there have been greatly aggravated by an outbreak of indus- trial strikes. The coal miners in South " Wales are on strike as a result of a dispute with the mine owners over working hours and wages, while in Lancashire an even more _"gerious situation has arisen, since there is both a strike and a lockout in effect. The weavers in the cotton mills flatly refused to a change in conditions, by which they would have to take charge of eight looms instead of four, because, while it meant an increase in wages for those remaining at work, it would mean throwing a large number of weavers out of employment. This is the ural result of most mechanical improve- ments in industry, but the Lancashire weav- ers tly feel themselves sufficiently strong to withdraw such demands. It is unfortunate that these strikes ould come to hinder British industry at a y when it is making a gallant fight to recover its former position. One can sym- atti hize' with the Lancashire weavers in try- 'ing to retain employment for as many work- ers as possible, but in this country the work- their joLs taken away by im- ve a avast 1 Toe Leable 'absolutely ing about it. e cashire : , 'with, their union organization be- md ther, probably feel that they can resist the inroads of mechanical improvements into the field of labor, but they are runniig their heads against a stone wall. Hard as it may seem~for the individual in many cases; in- ventive science keeps moving ahead, and the human element has to adjust itself to the new conditions created ! pry In the coal mine strike, there is a more hopeful situation. The only points at dis- pute are those of readjusting wages and hours to meet the new systems which have been created in the hope 'of rebuilding the coal industry. The issues at stake are not large, since they involve only an hour or two of work in each two weeks, and they have been .amicably settled in the coal mines in other parts of Great Britain. So there is some hope that before long the miners will be back at work. In a highly industrialized country, like Britain, prolonged strikes are serious, not only for the industries involved, but for the the strikers themselves. They lose so much while on strike that it is doubtful if they can ever make it up. And the country as a whole suffers to some extent, and particu- larly from the standpoint that industrial strikes are bound to act as a clog on the wheels of progress, and to delay still farther the recovery for which all interests in Bri- tain are striving with much earnestness. EDITORIAL NOTES If you buy out of town and I buy out of town, and all our neighbours buy out of town, what is to become of our town? Just think this over. There are two sides to every question-- yours and the silly one. Conditions are gradually improving, and they will improve even more if money earned in Oshawa is spent in Oshawa. Those who are concerned over the birth of constitutional government in India should remember that things did not go smoothly right from the start of that system in Can- ada. It is hard to please everyone these days. The ice man, the lumberman and the coal man are praying for cold weather and frost, the farmers are asking for rain and soft water, while the man who has to shovel coal into his furnace would like it a lot warmer. Although Henry Ford declares woman's place is in the home, he does quite a lot to take her out of it. : . If the time wasted in talking about hard times were used in improving them, a lot of folks would be better off. Milk up in the Hudson Bay country will sell at about 50 cents a quart. Perhaps we had better be satisfied with Oshawa, after all. Other Editors' Comment RIGHTS OF PEDESTRIANS (Brantford Expositor) Chief Justice Greenshields of the Quebec Superior court, in awarding $1,000 damages to the father of a child hit by a truck when the youngster was playing on a public street, made some strong comments with regard to the fact that pedestrians had as much right on thoroughfares as vehicles. He pointed out that under present circumstances the foot passenger was constantly forced to be on the lookout and was al- ways in danger and vigorously advocated nteasures for the greater protection of those "who are unfor- tunate enough, or perhaps lucky enough, to use their feet as a mode of focomotion." His remarks cannot be regarded as otherwise than fully warranted, VULGARIZING RELIGION (Detroit Free Press) The action of the Buffalo Evangelical synod's ministerial association in formally and emphatically dissociating itself from the pseudo - religious cam- paign of bombast, ballyhoo and overwrought emotion- alism" that William A. ("Billy") Sunday is conducting in its city is understandable. Certain organized denominations lean heavily on the emotional appeal of religion; but they do not cheapen or vulgarize it. Sunday dissociates religion completely from the intellect and makes it altogether a matter of emotion; and he does it with a crudiiy that is offensive to intelligent people. Whether or not there is a type of sinner that esn be reached gnly by making a sane and noble religion ridiculous is at least debatable. Certainly most people whether ot not they live up to the teachings of their church, are conscious of a feeling that religion should not be made vulgar. No self-respecting church can desire to have its doctrines or methods confused in the public mind with antics and nonsense. BITS OF VERSE MY CREED Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults of those about me Let me praise a little more Let me be when I am weary, Just a little bit more cheery Let me serve a little better those That I am striving for. Let me be a little braver when Temptation bids me waver t me strive a little harder to all I should be Let Yme be a little mecker th the brother that is weaker, Let me think more of my neighbor And a little less of me. . ---Anonymous. BITS OF HUMOR < Grandmother, impatiently : "Dorothy, I do wish you would keep quiet for a little while!" Dorothy: "I'll try, grandma, but please don't scold me. Just remem. ber that if it wasn't for me you wouldn't be a grand. ma at all!" "Happiness," said a pompous man, is only the pur- suit of something, not the catching of it." "Oh, 1 don't know!" answered his plain friend. "Have you ever chased the last tram-car on a rainy' night?" EDSON ware nen NAW Oke ©. M. BARTLETT, MANAGING EDITOR OF HE MIAMI (OKLA. HOMA) NEWS-RECORD, SAYS: "Did you ever stop to think of the relationship of the newspaper to government? "The average newspaper yields more influence among a greater number of people than any other agency. + The newspapers sway more influence than any other business or profession--a builder of public opinion--in a manner little realized by the average citi. zen. The news and advertising columns of the newspaper are sub- consciously influencing almost every individual or public act. It is the thing that the eyes portray that the mind absorbs either con- sclously or subconsciously. "The press is generally free and unhampered and to a greater ex- defeat or pass any governmental measure through ap aroused pub- lic opinion. It is not the func- tion of the press to control affairs of government, but to report fair. ly and accurately happenings of state and government in that the public may be reliably informed at all times. The reading public rarely analyzes the source of in- formation .on which is based indi- vidual judgment of world, nation, state, city and community affairs. "Without the function of the newspaper there could not exist a stable government--'for the people and by the people'--an enlighten- ed age, an enlightened nation, an onlightened people, what makes this true in fact is the newspaper. No governmental agency, no busi- ness or profession has the power for good or evil as that controlled by the press of America. The ra- dio? "Yes, the radio has become a recognized imstitution in mod- ern life, but the radio is in a sense a vague and impersonal something --a thing outside~--but the news- paper is personal in the home win a contact that nothing will ever replace. "The newspaper has attention each hour, each day, each week, otherwise it would not survive in mind that reacts either favorably to this government policy, or to that civic or community preject." Eye Care and -« Eye Strain by C. H. Tues, Ope. D. (Copyright, 1928) FPROTMROTION Part "a'r Let us speak of a few of the growths more noticeable and recog- nized. All eyes have a fatty formation on the nasel margin of the Iris about a millimeter off the Iris on the white of the eye. This is more noticeable in some eyes than others and more pronounced in color, it is a normal condition called Pingue- cala. This fatty appearance is of a No fear should be felt upon its appearance. It is quite a common thing for people to go well up in years before even noticing its exis- tence. Next week Iwill follow this ar- ticle by referring to growth, the existence of which it is necesary for some attention some fear to be felt but with the proper attention in time relief may be expected. Delay ---and their removal leaves a scar whose ill affects blurr vision as bad- ly .as the original growth. (To be continued) KIND SOLDIERS CARE FOR BABY London, Jan. 16.--"We left the baby on the shorei" was the ridicu- lous song which Corney Grain, of delightful memory, sang round the world. The wife of a soldier, returning from India tn her home in Lanca- shire, handed her six months-old- baby to a party of soldiers who were entraining at Southampton docks, also on the way to Lancashire. The mother went off to attend to her baggage. When she came back she found that the train had also gone off, carrying the soldiers and her baby. The soldiers fed and (2 to London, hoping to catch there an express which would land her at Crewe before the Southampton train. She lost her way in crose- ing London, and missed the express. When she did get to Crewe she found the baby in the care of the station master. An army officer was showing his fair guests about the camp when a bugle sounded. "What's that for:" the fair one inquired. "That's tatoo," the officer explain- cd. 4 "Oh, I understand," she remarked. "I've often seen it on soldier's arms, but I didn't know they had a special time for doing it." CHRIST POR ALL~ALL FOR CHRIST =a 5 ) A 7 iene ome ws my et ST be pol Fo TF: oe BIBLE THOUGHT AND PRAYER 'f parents will have their children wemir- zo the daily Bible selections, it will prove Meritage to them in after years, THE ONLY SAFE TRUST -- Some trust in chariots, and some in, horses: but we will remember the paine of our Lord our God.--Psalm | | | I; | | tent than generally realized by the |the home. reading public. A combined effort on the part of the press could With ATTENTION comes INTEREST and a DESIRE to read and that is ACTION of the yellowish color and becomes more pronounced ~'*h age or exposure to wind and dust. nursed the baby through the 250 mile journey to meantime the mother had travelled the | "strong in the Lord and in the powc: of his might." Crewe. In Providing Greater Value at Lower Cost BECAUSE the automobile is such an impor- tant factor in the lives and prosperity of so many people, the. purpose of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, is something more than the mere manufacture of a motor car. There is no service in simply setting up a machine or a plant and letting it turn out goods. The service extends into every detail of the business -- design, production, the wages paid and the selling price. All are a part of the plan. The Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, looks upon itself as charged with making an automobile that will meet the needs of many thousands of motorists throughout the Dominion -- and providing it at a low price. That is its mission. That is its duty and its obligation to the public. Thesearch for better ways of doing things is never-ending. There is ceaseless effort to find new methods and new machines that will save steps and time in manufacturing. The Ford plants are, in reality, a great mechanical university, dedicated to the advancement of industry. Many manufac- turers come to sec and share the progress made. The greatest progress comes by never standing still. Today's methods, however successful, can never be taken as wholly right. They represent simply the best efforts of the moment. Tomorrow must bring an im- provement in the methods of the day before. The story of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, is the story of greater and greater value at lower price. The first Low Ford Prices There is a Ford car for every need and purpose at an un- usually low price. Appointments and upholstery are in keeping with its mechanical excellence. You may choose from a variety of beautiful body colors. Roadster . . + « + $520 Phaeton . » » « . $530 Tudor Sedan . « « 595 Coupe. « « » 5 « 395 Sport Coupe + « « 630 Fordor Sedan « « 720 Special De Luxe Bodies De Luxe Roadster , $625 Victoria « . » . , $750 De Luxe Coupe . . 655 Convertible Cabriolet 750 De Luxe Phaeton, . 750 Town Sedan . . . 795 All prices F. 0. B, East Windsor, Ontario, plus taxes and spare tire, Bumpers extra except on De Luxe Roadster and De Luxe Phaeton, Easy time payments can be arranged through your Ford dealer, FORD MOTOR COMPANY The Company Behind The Car The Ford Motor Company of Canada, Lim« ited, is one of the largest industrial organiza- The plant at East Windsor, Ontario, covers many acres and gives tions in the Dominion. employment to thousands of men. Assembly branches are maintained at Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver, and sales branches at Saint John, London, Calgary and Regina. All Ford cars for the British Empire, other than for Great Britain and Ireland, are made by the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Lim- ited. Affiliated in its world-wide activities are 'he Ford Motor Company of Australia (Pty.) Limited; Ford Manufacturing Company of Australia (Pty.) Limited; Ford Motor Com- pany of South Africa, Limited; Ford Motor Company of India, Limited, and the Ford Motor Company of Malaya, Limited. Ford two-door sedan in Canada sold for $1150. That was in 1914. It now sells for a list price of only $595, or practically one-half of the 1914 figure. Within the past fourteen months, the price of this car has been reduced $85. Other body types show proportionate decreases. At the same time, thg quality of the Ford has been constantly improved. Large pro- duction and Ford methods of manufacturing have made it possible to put more and more value into the car without extra cost to the purchaser. : That the public appreciates the substan tial worth of the new Ford is shown by its widening use by people in all walks of life. Today the new Ford leads every other car in Canada by a large and constantly increas- ing margin. In many sections between fifty per cent and seventy per cent of all cars sold are Model A Fords. Everywhere you hear enthusiastic praise of its alert, capable per formance, safety, comfort, reliability, econ 'omy and long life. Throughout, the new Ford is an example of fing automobile engineering and crafts- manship in volume production-- a value far above the price you pay. Tus Foro VICTORIA = the newest, latest Ford type The Canadian Car Canadians have the right to feel proud of the Fard car sold throughout this country. It is made almost entirely in Canada, of Cqnadian materials, by Canadian workmen, In the Border Cities alone, purchases by the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, average over $7,000,000 yearly for material and services, excluding wages. More than $4,000,000 is spent in Toronto, $2,500,000 in Ham- ilton, $1,250,000 in Montreal and Winnipeg, $750,000 in Chatham, $350,000 in Sarnia, $250,000 in Niagara Falls and Vancouver, $150,000 in Calgary and Regina, $100,000 in London, and $50,000 in Saint John. Additional cities and towns supplying materials for the manufacture of the Ford car are Almonte, Belleville, Brantford, Galt, Inger soll, Kitchener, Milton, Owen Sound, Peterborough, Rock Island, St. Catharines, 8t. Jokns (Quebdc), Tilbury, Waterloo, Welland, Woodstock and many ¢ . OF CANADA, LIMITED SERRE ass gr 0:7. PRAYER -- Father, make vu: [4 i XT --