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Ey r 'down,--not turning a wheel. ~ cellars for next fall and winter. ) FOUR - - THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1931 h Oshawa Daily Times 4 Succeeding "TRE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) "An independent newspaper published every after | .moon except Sundave and legal holidays at Osh- awa, Canada, by' The Times Publishing Company 'of Oshawa, Limited. Chas, M. Mundy, President A. R. Alloway, Managing Director. e Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana- dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Asso- ciation, the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES elivered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, -12¢c. a week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $3.0 a year. United States $4.00 a ar. a TORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone ~ Adelaide 0107 EL D. Tresidder. representative. MONDAY, APRIL 27th, 1931 A COMPARISON IN CONDITIONS Here in Oshawa we have had a feeling dur- the last few months that conditions have n bad, that the community has suffered from depression and unemployment more an the great majority of communities in Ontario. Probably conditions have been bad "snough, and it is only recently that there "has been any sppreciably. It is only.by di- "'yect comparisons with other places, however, "that we can judge as ta how hard Oshawa been hit. During the last week, we have had the op- rtunity of visiting some parts of Northern 'Ontario, and our conclusion, as a result of "what we saw and learned there, is that, by "gomparison, Oshawa has not suffered to any- thing like the same extent as have some of these places. About ten days ago, in Sud- bury, there were 1,700 unemployed registered with the employment office, and the muni- cipal authorities were paying out relief wag- "es to about 650 of these. The great Frood "nickel mine, near Sudbury, normally employ- ing about 5,000 men, was working at about 40 per cent of capacity, employing about 2,- 000 men, with the others laid off. At Copper Cliff, the smelters and refineries of the In- ternational Nickel Company were in the same position, working about forty per cent of nor- imal, with the rest of the men of the town, which depends entirely on this industry, out of work. Coniston, where there are other mines and refineries, was in even worse con- dition, for these plants, on which the town depends absolutely, were completely closed At Sturgeon Falls, the paper mills of the Abitibi Company are entirely closed down, and the town has no other sources of employment. At Capreol, the men in the railway shops and yards are working at about one-third of normal, and "scores are not working at all. All {iowah that section of the country there is widespiead distress and unemploy- ment, on a scale far beyond anything which is to be found in Old Ontario. That does not, of course, make things any better here, yet it forced us to the realization that, in com- parison with these morthérn communities, the towns and cities in Old Ontario are for- tunately situated, and have much less to grumble about than their less fortunate bro- thers in the northern section of the province. GROW VEGETABLES It is apparent that, while employment con- ditions in the city have improved, there are still going to be many men out of work in Oshawa this summer, This seems to be in- evitable, and it brings to the fore the mak- . ing of plans to ensure that these men and their families are supplied with sufficient foodstuffs during the months which lie ahead. . Last summer and fall, the suggestion was thrown out that there were many vacant properties in the city which might well be turned over to the unemployed for develop- ment as vegetable gardens. This suggestion can be repeated with greater force today, when the time is ripe for getting such gar- dens into shape, and planting them with ve- getables of a type to help fill up the family ther, it might well be suggested that every . unemployed man ghould cultivate his own ~ backyard ga as intensively as possible, "in order to grow as large a crop of foodstuffs as can be produced on the ground he has .. available, This is a project in which some organized ort would be worth while. The city coun- cil might well explore the possibilities of vacant land at the disposal o the unemployed for vegetable gardens, At least one citizen volunteered the use of his prop- r for this purpose, and it may be that ws would be similarly disposed. ere is also the question of providing 'vegetable seed of various kinds for those not a position to buy it. Doubtless this part the problem would be a stumbling block many men unless some means could be de- ed to overcome it, and The Times believes it, in such cases, there should be some ds available to provide the necessary seed. pme citizens who have not felt the pinch of "unemployment mighf, feel inclined- to make 'some contribution to a fund for such a cause, or, on the other hand, the horticultural soci- CINg IF ety might make it one of its efforts for the ; gh within the limits of its finan- whole subject is one on which there be some immediate action, and The mes throws out these suggestions in the ope that they will bear fruit, and invites he comments, or further suggestions of any 6 citizens who feel that this is an object wor- thy of being made the subject of a special campaign. Expressions of opinion, or other views on this matter, will be welcomed, and The Times is willing to co-operate with any citizens or agencies which are willing to take up this project and endeavor to develop it on a scale sufficiently large to make it an important factor in the relieving of distress in the city next fall and winter. CAUSES LANGUAGE PROBLEM Principal Gordon Chisholm of the Preston public school made a statement recently that has occasioned considerable comment. He maintains that the "comic strips,' the radio and possibly the talkies influence the lan- guage of school children adversely. 'In other words they get into the habit of using ex- pressions which are contrary to the correct form taught them at school. Dr. Silcox, principal of the Stratford normal school, has subsequently endorsed Mr. Chisholm's con. tention. The St. Thomas Times Journal comment- ing on the question says that, while grown ups may be immune from infection, children are apt to take the comic strips, the talkies and radio dialogues quite seriously. To them, the Gumps, Jiggs, the Kingfish and many others are almost real people, whose adventures they follow with enthusiasm. And what these characters say, and the way they say it, sinks into the susceptible minds. The chief difficulty is probably with chil- dren of the junior grades who have not stu- died grammar. Usually these pupils are taught to use correct forms as, "It is I," and a host of others by frequent repetition. If they hear expressions to the contrary it tends to nullify the work of their instruc- tors. It is extremely difficult, however, to remedy this condition. The only plan that suggests itself is to discourage the use of incorrect language and to correct the chil dren whenever the opportunity arises.-- Kitchener Record. EDITORIAL NOTES A society for waiters is being formed. A trayed union, no doubt.--The Passing Show. Arthur Hammerstein is bankrupt, but he takes a cheery view of the situation. "I've got," he sings, "five dollars."--The New Yorker. Gainesville, a Florida town, proclaims it- self "the tung oil centre of America." We are a bit vague on tung oil. Is it what Floyd Gibbons uses for a lubricant ?--Detroit News. The French are going to elect a.new Presi- dent for a term of seven years in about three weeks from today, and are almost beginning to discuss candidates.--New York Times. BITS OF HUMOR McNab (who has been abroad a number of years) ~""By the way, McAllister, I hear none of your fine daughters have gone off yet." McAllister--"No, but I'm sure it's not for the want of powder, anyhow!" . The owner of a lucky ticket in the sweepstakes says the money will help him to find his feet, Pro- vided he does not lose his head. Rosemary had been told to play quietly as baby brother was sleeping, Soon she tiptoed in to whisper: ~"Mummy, did you hear how much noise I didn't make?" Secret drinking among scholars is said to be very prevalent in the U.S. Evidently they thirst after nowledge. . Qld Customer--"What's become of that assistant you had, Mr. Parks? Not defunct, I hope." Grocer--"That he has, muni; with every penny 'e could lay his ands on." "My son's letters from 3chool," said a proud father, "always, send me to the dictionary." "My son's letters," said another, "often send me to the bank." BITS OF VERSE Going fur- ENGLAND'S DAY An oversea's chant On this our day of all the year, April the twenty third, We toast our ancient Motherland, But not with boastful word. Wherever Englishmen abide Let each greet each and say, "God save our gracious King & Queen," "On this, St. Georgé's Day." To-day we sing the old old songs, And cheer the flag anew: The flag whose shrine is in our hearts, The dear Red, White and Blue, We talk awhile of men of yore; Of names that beacons 'are: Shakespeare & Shelley, Milton and Nelson, and Trafalgar. Of deeds and men from Drake to Haiz, Whose life work calls aloud To surging memories that stir The blood, and make us proud. Proud of our Race and Times: The name of ENGLAND in our hearts, Like bell that sweetly chimes, And we who are long leagues away, Where geass deep divide, Will think awhile upon 'this day, Of England's countryside. Of Cornish glens and Devon lanes: Of Sussex s and dells: Of Yorkshire Moors and Suffolk Wolds, And Lakeland dale and fells, Of drifting sails on Norfolk Broads, With June moon bright above: When youthful hearts had Life ahead, - And and Faith, and Love, f So on this day of all the year, Let's drink a toast and 2 " "God save our own dear Motherland}, "For 'tis St. George's Day." IL --W. 1, KI THAT no one would think of in vesting in or doing business on a large, or even moderate scale, in any section without first making a serious investigation as to the poli- tical, fi ial and busi condi- tion of the section interested in, and nowadays they epectially look. at the political situation. More and more the politicians are trying to dictate to private business what they shall do, what they shall sell, by over taxation, by over regu- lation, and any means to chase cap- ital to cover. Investors are putting their money in foreign securities in. stead of putting their money into industries that use local material and make payrolls so needed in covery community. : Organized politicians raise cain with unorganized business. Some of our politicians should have a change of heart. Capital comes where it is invited and stays where it is treated fairly. No one wants to invest heavily in sections where shifting political and economic conditions" are always linked up with politicians who exer- cise tremendous influence to put them out of business. Without the wage tarners and folks of the tows and citics as con- sumers for products raised by cur farmers, they would go back to the days of long ago when the people raised only enough for their own consumption and what they could trade with their neighbors. WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS MORE PAYROLLS AND LESS POLITIC. TANS. by C. H. Tuck, Opt, D. (Copyright, 1928) WHEN | WAS A CHILD I SAW AS A CHILD -- PART "2" Drowsiness, dullness, nervous irri- tability, headaches, billiousness, styes and inflamed lids are just a few of the additional discomforts that may be remedied but the stooping and curvature formed from habit becomes a position of comfort and is not so easily changed, It is generally early in life when the child is in its formative years that errors are developed and if the proper care and judgment is used at this time much of the trouble of lat- er life will be avoided. It is gener- ally found that defective conditions are found where the greater amount of strain to the eyes exists and as school work is constant eye work it is logical to expect that if we do not properly guard the eyes of youth they will reap the result when they attain to more mature years, If the child or adult is straining in the ef- fort to sec it is obvious that they are not getting as much out of life as their fellows. The nation is not get- ting what it should from its citizens when they are neglecting a feature so important. This will run right down the line of education trade and industry and unless the person is get- Sing a square deal the nation will suf. er. To be continued, MONTREAL WILL HAVE RACING FROM MAY TO SEPTEMBER Montreal, April 27.<Montreal is assured of almost continuous racing during the coming summer. From May to September some track will be in operation here except for the two wecks when the sport is carried on at Connaught Park track, near Ot- tawa, ' For some time it was doubtful if Delormier Park here would have two meets this summer as it is to be re- moved and the land disposed of as building lots. It has been decided, however, to hold two meets there, one in May and the second in. July. The dates for this city and Con- naught Park, Ottawa, follow: Delormier Park, May 23 to May 30, seven days, mutuels, Connaught Park, June 3 to June 10, seven days, mutuels. Blue Bonnets, June 13 to June 20, seven days, mutuels. Dorval, June 24 to July 1, seven days, mutuels, Mount Royal, July 4 to July 11, seven days, mutuels. Delormier Park, July 13 to July 20, seven days, mutuels. King's Park, July 22 to July 29, seven days, mutuels. Mount Royal, August 1 to August 8, scven days, mutuels. Connaught Park, August 13 to August 22, seven days, mutuels. Blue Bonnets, August 29 to Sep- tember 5, seven days, mutuels. Dorval Park, September 7 to tember 14, seven days, mutuels. King's Park, September 19 to Sep- tember 26, seven days, mutuels, Sep- ITHE CHRISTIAN'S MISSION :~ [get saying. The kingdom of n is at hand. Heal the sick, e the lepers, raise the dead, . put 'devils: freely ve have re- meme frecly give." Matthew 10:7, 8, (PLYMOUTH WILL HONOR THE ASTORS Lord and Lady Astor to Cele- brate Silver Wedding An- niversary Plymoith, England, April 25--Vis- count and Lady Astor will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary on May 3, in this séaport, represented since 1919 by Lady Astor as the first woman to sit in Parliament. The 25th anniversary of their mar- riage will be something of a civic af- fair, Citizens will present them with a silver model of Sir Frances Drake's ship Golden Hind. The model will show the vessel under full sail and will be technically correct in every detail. The Astors are coming here especially for the presentation, but no other plans have been made. Married in 1906, Lord and Lady Astor have four sons and one daugh- ter. He is the son of the first Vis- count Astor and she is the former Nancy Withcer Langhorne, of Green- wood, Virginia, Her first: marriage to Robert Gould Shaw ended in.di- vorce in 1903, FRISSELL WAS HERD OF OUTER COVE SEALERS Tales Told of, Heroism in Viking Disaster Off New- foundland St. John's, Nfld, April 27.--The story of the Viking disaster has been told and retold. It is a tale of hero- ism, endurance and great physical misery. Several of the survivors, not only Master Watch Johnson and the late Captain Kennedy stood out de- servedly as the heroes of the hour, but so far no one has said a word of the hundred odd men who took no prominent part--who lived, somehow, through a ghastly night, without food or drink, many of them without even warm clothing. In some cases boots were lacking, and not a few were without protection for their hands. Indeed something of the real Viking spirit must belong to our sealers, writes B. C, in the St. John's Daily News, to carry so many of them through such an experience. A typical story is told by Michael Kinsella, one of the three Outer Cove men who came safely home, Michael is a veteran sealer at eighteen, though he had not even achieved that mature age when he sailed in the "Viking" on March 9. This was his "second spring to the ice," and was taken joyously because his herd, Mr. Varick Frissell was to be on the same ship. "Last year," le said, "I sailed with him too. He was a grand man. All the boys liked him because he wanted to be with them. He even had his meals in the fore-hold sometimes. He didn't mind sitting on a box and eat- ing out of a pan with three or Tour of us. He liked to talk to us too. I was always glad when he stopped for a bit where I was, It's bad business that he wasn't saved. "It wasn't dark that Sunday night. There was no moon, but the ice made a brightness; and it was clear. I went up to the galley to boil the kettle. That was just before the ex- plosion. Jim Coady lent me his boots. They werc a bit big for me. 1 was glad to change with him when I met him on the ice the next morning. "I was just putting the kettle on when I heard a roar. I saw the stove hit the ceiling and the red coal falling out of it. Then I ran. I couldn't get down to my bunk to get any clothes because of the pack of men coming up, [I heard someone say the boilers would go up next, so I ran to the side and jumped. "I went round to the port side and foupd Captain Kean there. I was glad he was there to tell us what to do. The whole afte® part of the ship was blazing by then. We got the captain into a dory and started for the shore. The ice was pretty bad, By morning we hadn't much strength left. But the captain was with us, so I felt we were alright. Then we met other groups, and I found Jim Coady and got my boots from him. I was wishing I had a coat, too, be- cause the cold feels worse when you're hungry, but there was nothing I could do about that. My mother spent all she could on clothes for me before I left for the ice, but I lost everything, But I was thankful to be alive. 'We didn't reach the island till the afternoon, and at that we were the first to get there." Michael Kinsella is the son of Mrs. James Kinsella, of Outer Cove, whose husband died suddenly last December. Within a month "of her husband's death came the heartbreak- ing news of the death of her son Jou, aged 25, who was fishing out of oston. The days of suspense about her young son's fate were cruel ones for this sorely tried mother, but the joyful news of his safety made every- thing right again. FEEDS FIVE FOR $9.45 PER WEEK Boston, Mass, April 27.~Thousands of families are living on a healthful diet costing only 27 cents a day for each person, Miss Blanche F. Di- mond, nutrition supervisor of the Boston Community Health Associa- tion, told the Association's committee on nutrition. "A family of five could be fed for a week on a grocery order costing $9.45, she said. This figure repre- serited the average prices at different gradé stores and could be reduced by careful shopping. It also repre- sented family, and not quantity, buy- ing. Provision for a small amount of meat was included. : Food 'monéy should be divided into fifths, stated Miss Dimond: one part for vegetables and fruit, one-fifth or more fof milk and cheese, ope-fiith OF" 1¢¥8 Tor micat, 'fis! and eggy, one- '| fifth for fats, sugar and other gro- fifth for bread and cereals, and one- ceries. -------- ---- CONSIDER AUTO DEMERIT SYSTEN Measure Considered in Mass- achusetts Would Replace Compulsory Insurance She Was Able to Resume Her Work DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS By Giving Dodd's Kidney Pills a Trial "I work quite a lot out of doors and any heavy lifting seems to pull the backbone apart," writes Mrs. Boyles, R.R. No. 1 avan, Ont, "About seven years ago 1 suffered terribly. I couldn't bend to pick up anything. Liniments did not seem to do any good so I remembered my father had used Dodd's Kidney Pills for his Lumbago and I tried them and it is hardly necessary to say I found relief. A few weeks ago I felt my back strained and could not do any work until I pur. chased some Dodd's Kidney Pills." Law Boston, Mass, April 27--With se- ven members dissenting, the Legisla- tive Committee on Insurance has re- ported a bill providing for a demerit rating system of automobile insur- ance to replace the present compulsory Insurance law in Massachusetts. The new law would come into force on December 31 of this year. Under the terms of the measure a board of inquiry consisting of the milk, Mix the dry ingredients well and sition. The town readily accepted [sift them into mixing bow]. Chop the cight dollar bid. NUT BREAD | Three-quarters cup sugar, 3 cups |dry ingredients stirring as little as flour. 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped nut- meats, 1 egg (if liked), 13 cups and add the nutmeats. "Beat the egg, if you are using one, and add to the milk; add the liguid to the possible in doing so; turn into a well-greased bread pan and allow to stand in ordinary room-tempera- ture for half an hour; bake in mod. erate oven for one hour. registrar of motor vehicles, the com- missioner of insurance, and the at- torney general, or their representa- tives, would be created. In the event that a motorist he- came involved in an accident from which a claim for personal injury was advanced, he would be required to prove to the board that he was finan- cially able to' meet judgment, in which case it would be unnecessary for him to take out insurance, He would still be subject, however, to the laws and regulations governing motor vehicles. If he could not prove financial responsibility, his resigna- tion would be suspended and the board would determine his fitness to operate with an insurance policy, If thefaccident were of a minor nature, the motorist would be classified and required to pay a slight increase in ordinary premitm, the demerit pre- mium being increased should the ac- cident be more serious, The premiums would be on a basis of 10, 25, and 50 per cent of the or- dinary premium charged by the in- surance companies. Incidentally, the premium would be fixed by the com- panies as in the casc of fire, theft and similar premiums, instead of being set by the insurance commissioner under the provisions of the existing com- pulsory insurance law. Premiums fixed by the companies in accordance with the proposed statue would not be effective without the approval of the insurance commissioner. 16 ROOM COLONIAL HOUSE BRINGS $8 Townsend, Mass., April 27.--A six- teen-room Colonial house, dating from 1827, was sold herc the other day for eight dollars, fireplaces and all. Frank Bennett of Ashby bought the house at an auction held by the town, John McLean purchased a barn for one dollar; and Martin Dudley acquired a summer house for $3.50. No sudden depreciation in values has taken place in Townsend, but the community wanted the ground as a school site, and the buildings had to be moved. Prospective buyers were few, because a large chimney run- ning through the centre of the house made moving a difficult propo- VIA CANADIAN PACIFIC r>ne-1Z0oX OTTAWA THE ROYAL YORK Leaves Oshawa 4.19 p.m. (ES.T.) Arrives Ottawa 9.15 p.m. (E.S.T.) 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