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PAGE FOUR _' THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1931 ree Bh Oshcowa Daily Times | utges andthe storey general, Not neces IN |B 8 Succeeding iA i Sp it that a jus- PREMIER SCULLIN "THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER FE (Established 1871) ; i dependent newspaper published evel after: on except Sundays and legal holidavs at Osh- Canada, by The Times Publishing 'Company. \ Lined: Chas, M. Mundy, President. R. Alloway, Managing Director. ho | Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana- dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Asso- the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the dit Bureau of Circulations. | i ] SUBSCRIPTION RATES ered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12¢. a k. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier ivery limits) $3.00 a year. United States $4.00 a r bd TORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone Adelaide 0107. fi D. Tresidder, representative. r WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22nd, 1931 % WHY THE SECRECY? or three months now the city council has 'holding carefully guarded and very t meetings over three letters which pe written, at the council's request, con- ing certain charges levelled against the engineer's department, The council agrees that it can come to no conclusion, and : persists in keeping everything dark. A edent was established when ratepayers £ the city and members of the press were ustled out of vue council chamber when the huestion was introduced and discussed at a lar council meeting. "The council used the excuse that it was "to meet in committee of the whole. But the regular meeting had not been adjourned, and tthe press and spectators were excluded des- | Ipite the provision of the Municipal Act, Ch. 1288, sec. 206, which says "The ordinary | meetings of every council shall be open, and no person shall be excluded therefrom except for improper conduct." The Times submits that it is time.that the ople of this city knew where they were at regard to the conduct of the city's busi- s Charges laid against any department Hof civic government cannot help but arouse ertain suspicions, no matter how unfounded hey may be. And until they are cleared up, here cannot help but be an uneasy feeling. othing has ever been said officially even as the nature of the charges levelled, except ~ that it was stated in the letters that pave- * "fients had been laid improperly, and that this had been disproved by the analysis of : "in 4 2 3 0 AES t else has been charged against this tment? And has any evidence been pind by the council to substantiate the harges ? If they have been found to be true, ertainly there should be at least a reorgan- gation of the department involved, and per- haps a judicial investigation. If the charges ve not been substantiated and three aths should certainly be long enough to te whether or not they are true, a lic statement should be made clearing the games of the officials concerned and declar- ig that the charges have been found to be ithout foundation. The action taken by the council, in leaving 8 settlement of this question in abeyance g the outcome of court action which | 4 : will be taken, by other than 6 city. itself, looks very much like the ary method of "passing the buck." Leav- ig the matter unsettled in that fashion is it tending to make for a calm state of mind the part of those residents of Oshawa tho are concerned about their city's welfare, nd certainly is not tending to enhance the tion of the city abroad. PARENTS AS PALS Mhere is food for thought for every father iid mother, in the message given the Osh- wa Kiwanis Club by Dr. B. J. Hazelwood. je speaker stated that no parent should der the relationship between himself his child to be that of master and ser- nt, but that rather a spirit of equality and ipanionship should be cultivated. 4 doetrine of fear is, after all, a most gatisfactory one if lasting resulis are to jobtained, according to leading psycholog-- " The reason for most of the delinquen- her heen entirely indifferent to their child- _or have so, mstilled fear of the razor into theif little minds that Betty and ; pare afraid to confide in their parents on _ any subject. : \ | Being unable to discuss with father or «mother the problems that continually pre- gent themselves, is a serious handicap to any : , and leads to the seeking of advice from companions that more likely than " mot will start him on the downward path. re late parents realize their mistake in not ymaking companions of their children--for the a paadle days are the time to start. JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES it As most followers of collegiate sports know, Harvard and Princeton Universities are not on speaking terms as far as football concerned, It seems that a few years ago gridiron heroes met the crimson gregation wearing, amongst other things, heavy gold seal rings, and what they did to the fair brows of Harvard pig-skin chasers was branded a scandal." At any event, it. Was a branding scandal and they don't speak ymore., ow, from the field of sport .to the cloist- of the Provincial courts is a far cry, but ething- of the same. general unpleasant. | 3 seems to exist between the superior among youth is that the parepts have ° tice, for example, wants to excoriate a police magistrate, such as Miss Margaret Patter- son, of Toronto, or the magaistrate at Lind- say, the chief justice or whoever it may be, promptly expresses himself at length to newspaper. reporters instead of complaining to the Ontario cabinet minister responsible for the police magistrates. Miss Patterson, admittedly, is a woman, and many job-hungry braves in Toronto wig- 'wams have been after her scalp for a long time. But it is safe to say that worse er- rors of judgment have been made in this Province, without reproof, than giving sus- . pended sentence to a Toronto rooming house keeper, which Miss Patterson did. As to the Lindsay magistrate, The Lind- say "Post" editorially declares that the man sentenced by him for threatening to kill his wife, being intoxicated at the time, was giv- en a suspended sentence, instead of a jail sentence, at the wife's earnest request. Fur- ther, he must report to provincial police at regular intervals and otherwise walk fear- fully. In other words, a bread winner has been kept in circulation without any perman- ent affront, so far as The "Post" can see, to the King's peace and dignity. Of course, the superior judges may lay complaints with the attorney general; and if they do and are ignored to a point where the power of the press has to be invoke then there is something rotten in the statc of Denmark. So rotten in fact in that even: that some of their lordships should elaborat¢ on the subject. ; EDITORIAL NOTES America's door of opportunity must be kept open.--Charles M. Schwab. If all the farm organization secretaries were to come to Washington in a body and form into a procession and pass, four abreast in review before the capitol, the parade would be hours in passing.--Alexander Leg- ge, former chairman of the Farm Board. While saying what you would do in case of another, forget not what you should do while in your own.--Ivan Panin. Let me never fall into the vulgar error of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever 1 am eriticized.--R. W. Emerson. Is not it nice to see the grass on the boule- vards turning green all at once. The disease is spreading. Now little Ice- land ig considering a republican form of government, and the king is getting restless. Sir Malcolm Campbell will try to better his own speed record. Thus has many a useful life been snuffed out. Seeding is nearly finished in Durham. Now the farmers will be praying that there is no more frost. | Other Editors' Comment MOTOR KNOCKS (From time) 3 By taking motion pictures through a quartz win- dow in a gasoline motor's combustion chamber and by registering the pressure changes, Lloyd Withrow and 'L. A. Boyd of General Motors were able to tell the American Chemical Society at Indianapolis last week exactly why motors knock. Quality ot gasoline is the cause. With good fuel a pencil of flame darts from the spark plug and ignites all the charge pro- gressively. This ocgurs in 1-250 sec. With knocking gasoline the instant the spark starts ignition the first burned fuel in one sharp blast, before the spark flame can do its comparatively slow duty, Anti-knock compounds obviate the blast, enable the fuel to burn with proper slowness. An observation: gasoline knocks occur after ignition,' not betore as had been generally supposed. THE PROBLEM OF INDIA (London Daily Mail) At the present moment the maintenance of Bri- tish supremacy in India is an even more urgent issue than the futuge of British agriculture. If India were lost, British solvency would vanish and there would be no hope of saving the hard-pressed British farm- ing community, At the forthcoming Round 'lable Conference, Gandhi intends to demand independence and to reject evgry one of those safeguards which Sir John Simon and his colleagues pronounced essential ior the stability of future government in India, aA BITS OF HUMOR The chemistry professor was asked by one of the students if it was injurious to the brain to peroxide the hair, "No," replied the learned man positively. "But I've always been given to understand that it is," went on the student, The professor stared hard at the inquiring youth. "Take it from me, young man," he said, "that any person who peroxides the hair hasn't any brain to injure." THE SURE SIGN Jimmy : 1 bet you didn't have a good time at your birthday party yesterday, Percy: Oh, yes, 1 did. Jimmy: Then why ain't you sick? BITS OF VERSE : EMBLEMS OF SPRING When in the woods 'the small white trillium flower After long seasons of the snow and rain Gleams in the dead moss, and a sudden hour Of light is in thé storm-clouds and again Birds make their nests under the southern eaves, And sun and hail are alternate in the sky, And the apple tree with blossoms hides its leaves, And night is tremulous with the marsh-frog's cry-- Then, by thése signs, men know another spring Has come upon the land, and are content. Winter is now a, gone, forgotten thing As earth awakens to fied merriment. . Earth has no 'memory; the glad birds sing The song of Yast "vears birds, vo catiie "and "went, Arthur Davison Ficke, in Harper's Magazine, # UNITED STATES SENATOR L. J. DICKINSON OR IOWA, SAYS: THAT most of our troubles are imaginary and that our own atti- tude in life is the controlling factor in our progress or our stagnation. Misers may not enjoy spending money but seem to enjoy hoarding it; otherwise they would not do it. Seft denial may be a pleasure to them but a distinct hardship for others. Getting some real pleasure out of life and doing a wee bit for the sake of humanity should be the am- bition of everyone. In this way we learn to appreciate others and force them to appreciate us. "Life's a bully good game with its kicks and its cuffs, Some smile, some laugh, some bluff; > Some carry a load too heavy to ear, While some push on with never a cars, " ut the load will seldom heavy e When I appreciate you and you appreciate me, He who lives by the side of the road And helps to bear his brother's load, May seem to travel lone and long While the world goes by with a merry song, But the heart grows warm and sorrows flee When I appreciate you and yon appreciate me, It's the greatest thought in hea- ven or earth It helps us to know our fellow's worth; There'd be no wars ness, No fear, no hate, no grasping; yes, or bitter vorn free When I appreciate you and yo: | \ppreciate me, "" Eve by C. H. Tuek, Opt, D. (Copyright, 1978) WORRY--PART "1" When we consider that seeing is a 'mental action and that all seeing is done by the brain. That mem- ory is likened to gallary hung with pictures (impressions indelibly impressed upon us from time to' time), it follows that in our per- fect trust in the working order or the normal functioning of the brain and its connections depends our physical as well as our moen- tal action. An imperfect eye will not regis- ter a perfect impression and if ull impressions are received with eof- fort and in a hazy manner the strain will avail little, but a little only and that little at the expense of approximately 50 per cent. of a total nerve power, Healthy eyes claim a legitimate share only 10 to 18 per cent. a wasted nervous energy to the amount of approxi- matoly 35 per cent. 8 per cent. something else besides ord ergy, it may be expressed as ah- normal function. Too much en- bo Li expended for the realized ne- tion, Worry ig an abnormal func. fon and while many of our ances- tors worried, why should we, they were the pioneers who blazed the tral tor us. Let us accept the + i and leave the evil deep- (To be continued) ------------ BUSINESS BUYS NOW TO SAVE ON SALES K Rosivesy in Canada fs ay 3 ecided fillip at the present time n anticipation of an increase in the sales tax, accarding to leading manufacturers, quoted by The Fin- anclal Post, Toronto, Many plants are understood to he working two and three shifts a day to meat this situation, it having heen as- certalned that once goods are hill- ed for delivery prior to a change in the rate of tax, they cannot be burdened with whatever increase is made in the rate, A short time ago it was rumored that the bud- Bet was to be brought down early in May, while later rumors indi- cate that it will he delayed till the end: of that month. Some canny manufacturers go so far as to be- Heve that this latter suggestion may be a ruse on the part of the Government to put husiness oft its guard as there will he an eas- ing up of production in anticipa- tion of an extra month's leeway. At any rate it 18 known that there is feverish activity in the customs and tariff departments at Ottawa, and it is now believed beyond all 'question that the turnover tax is a dead letter at the capital, BIBLE THOUGHT AND PRAYER 14 arents will have their children emo the Bible ' bo priadess ark 5 hom in ase Bars, THE. LORD SUSTAINS :--They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles: they shall run and not be weary: and they shall walk, and not faint,--Isaiah 40: 31. It makes work play and the care ; OF AUSTRALIA RAS HISOWN TROUBLES Extremist Premier of New * South Wales Is a Thorn in His Side j (This is the first of m series of sketches of Australian political leaders, prepared by The Canadian Press, in view of the prospect of an early general election in Aus. tralia.) Once a farmer's boy, James Henry Scullin became prime min- ister of Australia on Oct, 22, 1929, after the Labor Party's victory in the general elections and the de- feat of the Coalition Government of Prime Minister Stanley Bruce. A small man, no more than five feet six inches tall, Mr, Scullin is well-built, with clear features and an attractive head. He is level- headed and sincere and inclined to be a little impetuous. He does not nurse grievances, He has an agree- able and dignified personality, with a direct method of speech, Mr. Scullin has faced many dif- ficult problems since he came into office, The premiership of Austra- lin in these days is a thankless task, Between ill-health and the unflinching manner in which he flung himself into the heart of Australia's troubles, his hair turn- ed white within the first six months of his. appointment. On top of everything cise, he wages unrelenting battle with the ex- tremists of his own party, Mr. Scullin was In ill-health when he left Australia last sum- to attend the Imperial Con- ence. While he was in London the party caucus had been stam- raded into a proposal to postpone ng holders of maturing loans, i a year. Mr. Scullin would have wothi of this, His able lieuten- ' Hon, J. A. 'Lyons, carried th rh with great : success a £140.000,000 conversion loan Iie wpa aver-suhseribed by the Aun allang themselves, When Labor come Into power M iin had 'appointed Hon, B. ( I'h le former prem'er of aud 28 commonwealth and deputy prime minis- te But Mr. Theodore gvas forced to hand in his resignation when the y Quoensland Govern- ment col action against meneed for dimage in connection with the purchase of coal mines by the old Theodore administration. After the Imperial Conference, Mr. Scullin returned to find a powerful array of extremists grouped solidly and aggressively pushing their policies on the La- bor Party as a whole, Trying to | gain some semblance of unity, he took Mr, Theodore back into the cabinet-----and thereby alienated Mr. Lyons and Hon. James Fenton, minister of trade, both of whom resigned, Now Mr. Lyons, con- demning all the government's pro- posals and especially its proposal for an issue of $90,000,000 in fid- uciary notes, is probably Prime Minister Scullin"s most formidable opponent. Early in 1930 Prime Minister Scullin succeeded in removing Hon, Frank Anstey and Hon, John A. Beasley, representing the ex- tremists, from the cabinet. The ex- tremiets promptly established their own little party in the house and hold the balance of power, In fact the Government staved off defeat on many times only with the aid of the extremists. On April 14 last, the government's majority was only two. Undoubtedly the chief thorn in the side of Prime Minister Scullin and his colleagues is the extrem- ist Premier of New South Wales-- Hon. John Thomas Lang, . State and Commonwealth Labor parties are closely related in Australia-- or were until extremism practical- ly swept aside party lines---and Mr, Lang was to all intents and purposes the leader of the Federal as well ad state extremists. Prime Minister Scullin and Premier Lang had many clashes from the begin- ning of the year, especially 'over by-elections in commonwealth di- visions in New South Wales, when Mr. Lang persisted in putting up extremist candidates and the prime minister was forced to find his own candidates. The prime minfster also fought Mr, Lang stubbornly during the conference of premiers in Febru- ary. The Commonwealth Govern- ment's platform of endeavoring to balance the budget in three years at most, of taxing interest pay- ments on government and private loang, and cutting wages, was fin- ally approved by the majority of state governments, But Mr. Lang, after several drastic speeches, left the conference with a warning io the prime minister that New South Wales would follow its own path- way. Born near Ballant on Sept, 18, 1876, Mr. Scullin lived and worked on a farm after a brief period as a grocer's boy. He went to Ballar- at and hecame interested in da- bating societies. He acquired some reputation as a speaker, formed a branch of the Labor Party and in 1906 opposed Rt. Hon. Alfred Deakin, Liberal leader who was three time prime minister, "Mr, Scullin, established his reputation even If he did not get into parlia- of representatives in 1910 as mem- ber for Coramgamite. He lost this geal threg years later, and became editor of The Ballarat fitho, a La- bor newspaper. He was victorious 4n Yarra in 1922 and has repre- sented that constituency. since, being returned by acclamation in other the. general election 1929, ment, in-a stoutly-fought cam- paign. Mr, 'Seullin entered the houses H.M.S. Queen Mary ahead of her Iwas blown up, and then the. Tiger or-1028 and ftook-her place astern of the Prin-|+ 4s; Interest on Your next pay-day. Saturdays. Oshawa Branch, 23 Simcoe St. North Savings with Safety A generous interest rate and safety go hand in hand in a Central Canada Savings Account. If you already have a Savings Account with us, keep it growing; if you haven't, start one Small deposits, made each pay-day, will soon grow into a substantial amount at our 49, interest rate on savings. More than Twelve Millions of Dollars in Assets, - protect your deposits in Central Canada. Business hours 9 am. to 5 p.m., including - CENTRAL CANADA | IAN ano SAVINGS COMPANY OSHAWA Branch Office : 23 Simcoe St. North F. J. Reddin, Oshaws Branch Manager Established 1584 TORONTO Head Office : King and Victoria Sts. ASSETS OVER TWELVE MILLIONS On the, resignation and death of Matthew Charlton in 1928, Mr. Scullin became leader of the La- bor Party. The results of his lead-|the claim that she was ership were soon apparent, In the November, 1928, general elections, the Labor Party secured more seats than any other group, but Premier Bruce remained in office with a coalition of Nationalist and Country Party members, On Oct. 12, 1929, the Labor Party gecured a comfortable majority over all others combined. This however was cut to dangerously slim gar- gin by defections, by the independs- ence of the extremists with whom Premier Scullin will have no deal- ings, and the withdrawal of Mr. Lyons and Mr. Fenton, Mr. Scullin for 14 years was an adjudicator at the South Street oratorical competitions at Ballar- at. He is fond of musiec-- especi- ally the violin. He gives great credit to his wife, formerly Marie MacNamara of Ballarat, whom he married in 1907. "She has always given me wonderful help and en- couragement in politics, with en- thusiastic and unfailing sym- pathy," he says, Squadron, which 50. ~~ T0 BE SGRAPPED Tiger was hit 21 times, but her cas- ualties were only 24 killed and 37 | ply is that the corporation in ques wounded, which seemed to bear out soundly constructed ship ever built, In recent years she has been the gunnery practice ship at- Portland, until she recommissioned Devonport crew on for service with the Battle Cruiser | Atlantic this, her last commission she spec- ialized in winning the Rodman Cup for racing cutters, the Fleet boxing cup, the King's cup for football, and all the tug-of-war cups, so after she has come under the hammer, she will not be forgotten. 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On the other hand, the company that pays due atten- tion to research will be able, in the ordinary course of events, it is thought, to meet new .competi« tion, new developments, obsolese- ence in its plant or products, and van of successful of such = test for industrial securities by a leading financial organization in- scientific research has come to play in modern industry, It shows that research is a factor in successful continent, stocks considered approximately KARN THE DRUGGIST FOR SERVICE "PHONE 378. NEXT THE POST Battleship Took Part in Sev- eral Engagements During Great War Plymouth, England.--H.M.8. Ti- ger recently returned to Plymouth with the other ships of the Atlantic Fleet and then went up the harbor to Devonport flying a paying-off pennant which marked the end cf her career as a fighting unit of the Navy. She ia to be scrapped. This famous ship was laid down on June 20, 1912, at Clydebank, and, having been launched on Dec. 15, 1913, she was finally completed fn October, 1914, at a cost of $10, 437,466. Her normal displacement fs 28,600 tons, her length over all is 704 ft. 6 in., and her maximum draught 34 ft. She is armed with eight 13.5 in. guns, 12 6 in,, four 4 in. high angles, four 3-pounders, and four 21 in. submerged torpedoes, tubes. Her 85,000 h.p. turbines, the steam for which is supplied by 89 boilers, give her a speed of be- tween 28 and 30 knots, and at this speed she burny about 1,200 tons of oil-fuel a day. Her annual up- keep is $918,400, and since her completion she has had several .re- fits, each costing large sums of mon- éy. During the Great: War she served with Admiral Beatty in the Grand I"leet, taking part in the ac- tion off the Dogger Bank and. in the Battle of Jutland. 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