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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 Succeeding OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) 1 dent newspaper published every after- n = and holidays at Osh- 'Oshawa, Chas. M. Mundy, Presidest. R. Alloway, Managing Director. . 2 Oshay Dally Times fs 8 member of The-Cans- on, the Ontario Provincial tt mae the Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES red hy carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. a BY mah in Canada (outside Oshawa carrier a. | imits) $3.00 a year, United States $4.00 a , Bont Bo Yrs TiC Sirtet, Telgphone i em 'elep! { 0107, BL D. Tresidder. representative. SATURDAY, MAY 16th, 1931 JUST WHAT WAS WANTED The solution of the harbor problem as pro- pounded by Engineer Wilson of the depart- ment of public works, and accepted by rep- resentatives of the Oshawa Chamber of F* Commerce and City Council, can be regarded | as very satisfactory from all angles. It was known that completion of the whole harbor 'scheme this year was impossible, but the : plan adopted provides for the work following : sive lines which will fit into the larg- Vo conception of the completed harbor daheme. : nf The provision of a freight warehouse will satisfy the package freight shippers who 'have found the harbor of practically no use | $0 them since it became blocked with coal. The laying of a permanent roadway to pro- Wide for transportation of freight will help serially along the same line. The dis- posal of the coal situation by providing for n entirely new coal area, removed from the freight wharfage may for a time sause some grief to coal merchants who 'have large piles of coal to move, but it will 'ultimately work But to the best interests of all concerned. Most. important is the enlargement of the rhor turning basin by extending the pre- t northern wharf west by two hundred st. and then turning north at an active angle with another 170 feet of wharf, This | anak keeping with the major development scheme, and calls for the dredging of a wide area which at present is dry land. So while ie plans provide for speedy relief, they go n farther than that. They ensure that, the desire to solve an immediate problem, ght has not been lost of the bigger picture, the ultimate development of the Oshawa or that is to be. v A PATRIOTIC SERVICE afternoon the Ontario Regiment is being given its annual inspection. It is 3 out at its full authorized strength of four companies, two from Oshawa, one from itby and one from Port Perry and Can- ington. It is parading as only a shadow Fhaps, of its former glory, but, neverthe- , a glorious shadow, a small body of of- 8 and men who have devoted themselves militia service, not because of any ma- al gain, for there is none, but because of desire to render a patriotic service to their antry, to discharge a responsibility which feel is theirs in maintaining a militia ge in this part of Canada. The need for economy in federal expendi- 'tures has played havoc with the funds avail- g for this year for militia training. In g of this, the officers and other ranks stood by the old regiment, have kept ip to strength by purely voluntary service, nd have made every effort to attain a stan- d of efficiency that would reflect credit on regiment on its day of inspection. The r did not matter. They did not care h whether they would draw any train- pay. There were traditions to be main- ined, sir. There was a history of seventy years of service to be kept alive, sir. So the Dntario stuck to their guns, did their train- ing, and today, small in numbers but mighty n spirit, they pass before the eye of the in- necting officers. will not always be lean, we hope, for will come when the Ontario will arch along, fifty-score strong" rising eir former glories because of the patient erificial service of the regiment of to- STREET LIGHTING® The suggestion of Mayor Marks that the y's street lighting should be improved is indeed a timely one. Although the initiative must be taken in this matter by the city it also concerns the public utilities pission and the latter body has empha- ly declared itself in favor of a better ght municipality. It is encouraging to x that as tar as the city council is con- erned, Mayor Marks has promised action Although most progressive in many re- gpects, Oshawa has lagged behind other fies and towns in the lighting of its streets. he beauty of Oshawa's thoroughfares is red by the ugly wooden poles, upon though its populations is very much smaller. Mayor Marks originally suggested that ornamental lights be placed in the business section, but the utilities commission would like to go much farther. It considers that King street, well lighted from one end to an- other, would prove a splendid advertisement for the city on account of the large number of tourists who are continually passing through, by night as well as by day. The question is' a big one--for instance there is the matter of cost--and it is evident that Oshawa may not be turned into one of the best lighted cities in Canada all within a year. But the city council, meeting with the utilities commission, will be able to make a survey of the whole situation. A plan then might be formulated and a certain amount of work could be undertaken this year. Ultimately, by doing more from year to year, Oshawa would be brightly lighted and its streets adorned with attractive orna- mental standards instead of the unsightly poles of the present. SEEKING INFORMATION The Times has always advocated that the Ratepayers' Associations of Oshawa could render a valuable service to the community by acting as clearing-houses for information on matters of public interest. One of the essentials of sound municipal government is a thoroughly enlightened electorate, and without knowledge, without information as to what public bodies are doing, there can- not be an enlightened and intelligent under- standing of municipal problems. The South-West Ward Ratepayers' Associ- ation is fulfilling one of its functions by a meeting which it has called for next Wed- nesday night, in Centre Street School. Al- though called by this ward association, it is an open meeting, open to all wards and all ratepayers who wish to attend. It is to be a meeting of a highly interesting and in- formative charatcer, for all of the members of the Public Utilities Commission will be present to speak and to give all the informa- tion at their disposal regarding the opera- tions of this important public body. We imagine this will provide much inter- esting discussion. - Every ratepayer ought to be fully informed as to the work of the Public Utilities Commission, and there ean be no better way of securing such informa- tion than by securing it first-hand. as will be possible at this meeting. The South-West Ward Association is to be commended on its enterprise in arranging a meeting for this purpose, and it is hoped that the attendance will be sufficiently large to encourage the holding of further meetings of this charac- ter. EDITORIAL NOTES Gardens wanted for unemployed garden- ers. Phone 1206 to bring them together. Oshawa seems to be popular with tran- sients. Perhaps that is explained by the Mayor of Windsor's estimate of Oshawa's generosity in giving relief. Prevention is better than cure is a phase that comes naturally after reading Dr. Jac' - son's comments on the scarcity of contagiou disease in Oshawa. Begins to look as if the eit ycouncil will have to appoint a city engineer all on its own, without splitting the cost with the Public Utilities Commission. Are you reserving May 25 for the Victoria Day Community Picnic and Field Day at Lakeview Park. Other Editors' Comments SKULLDUGGERY (The New Yorker) The Republican machine may be creaky but has not gone quite to pieces yet; we are sure- of that. A father of a nine-year-old school-boy informs us that the boy came to him the other day and made him swear he would never vote for a Democrat. "Why not-" asked the parent, atter he had taken the oath. "Well, there's a rumor around school," said his son, "that if a Democrat is elected President the c'd be school on Saturdays too. All the guys say so." FIXING THE WEATHER (Kansas City Star) "Tomorrow you may wear your anklets if the weather is all right," a Kansas City 'mother had pro- ' mised her little daughter, who was eagerly awaiting the coming of the anklet sock season. 'But next morning dawned cloudy, and the sides walks were wet. The little girl was astir carly and was the first to seize the morning newspaper for the weather forecast. "I guess they can't decide what the weather's going to be," she announced, "It says unsettled." THE SIMPLE LIFE (New York Times) One out of every four schapl children in Los An- geles has never seen a cow ... As a result there are children in Los Angeles--and every other big Ameri- can city=--who know about cows that jump over the moon, and cows with crumpled horns, and other tem- peramental cows, but have never actually seen a cow in a barn, They know all about the sheep that Bo- Peep lost and the lamb that Mary couldn't lose, but they have still to 'make the acquaintance of a flock of sheep in a meadow. In New York City there must be scores of thousands of children who have stood face to face with tigers and boa constrictors and arm- adillos--in the Central Park Zoo--but have never seen a cow. Eye Care and Eye | om Strain by C. H. TUCK, Opt.D. (Copyright 1928) ANOMALIES OF OCULAR ACCOMMODATION Part "1" Some of the things to be consider- ed under this heading are, loss of power of one or both eyes. This may show uniformly or may be con- fined to the one eye alone, They are liable to be found in, the eyes of young or old, may be due to a form of paralysis, or paresis of the third nerve and are to be used for close work. Some of the contributary con- ditions causing this condition in chil- dren are; malnutrition, after effects of infantile paralysis, infection due to nasal sinus trouble digestive troub- les and lesions of the nervous sys- tem and St. Vitu Dance. I prefer to consider these as a form of accommodative anomaly; they are in a sense to be considered as forms of premature presbyopia, or in other words old sight, the eyes only having a powers equal to that of a person in well advanced years. I feel more content to differentiate on the cases by placing all premature presbyopic cases in that class where they are considered as a definite oc- ular condition, being rendered so as to follow up to some physical trouble long since cleared away. (To be Continued) oH fever gop EDSONK wAITe Shawnie Okla That it is very important to think about the needs of the home city and what it takes to make it a bigger, better and busier city. It won't even start on the road of better business until plans are first made. There are many ways of improv- ing business in every city. There are many people with many different ideas. They could time. Some of them would not be practical. The best way to get a start is through the right kind of co-opera- tion. People co-operating together can decide on the ideas that will be of the most benefit to all. When that is done, plan together how to convert these ideas into an accomplished fact, then, with the united effort of all, DO IT} Investigation will show that the citles that are moving ahead are operating in this way. GROWING CITIES ATTRACT NEW INDUSTRIES, INVESTORS, HOMESEEKERS AND MANY NEW BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, SOLDIERS' WILLY "hreviated Forms Law (By The Canadian Press) Vancouver, B.C., May 15.-- Wills made out on the abbreviated forms supplied by the government to over- seas troops are still valid in a court of law, according to a ruling of Mr. Justice W. A. MacDonald in the British Columbia supreme court. . The time limit of such wills was set by statute as one years after the cessation of war, but the judge held that when there was no docu- ment to supersede the will made at the front; it should he regarded as an expression of the will maker's desire. The ruling was made in connec- tion with the estate of Herbert James Botten, who left Victoria for service overseas with the 67th Bat- talion Western Scots. Botten died at his home in Victoria in April of this year. The only will that could he found, J. Percival Walls, counsel for Mrs. Botten and the family, told the court, was the will made at the front in the abbreviated form used by soldiers and in which, in a few words, he left everything to his wife and family. The justice pointed out that in cases where there were no other wills, the now unrecognized will made while the man was a soldier during the war assumed importance at it made clear intentfons as to how he desired his property dealt with. He pointed out that soldiers during the war in making these wills were not able to secure legal assistance, so their wills now should be given latitude in regard to interpretation, Mr. Walls applied for adminis- tration of the astate by the widow without bond, so that she would not be put to unnecessary expense. The court granted limited ad- ministration as to the personality but the question of the realty was left in abeyance with liberty to ap- ply. . not all be put into effect at one | hoys who shipped with her for their ARE STILL GOOD Made Out by Overseas Troops Are Still Valid in Court of In the Old Country where people have been dwelling in a more or less civilized state for centries, the are of living has been developed to a fine art. There they must have variety and in the matter of vege- tables just a few lines will not do. Perhaps it is because we have been so sushed in getting our land sett- led here that we have negelected this side of life. As a matter of fact one cannot blame the average rather sparse vegetable garden in Canada on the climate hecause we certainly could grow veriety if we studied our selection of these good things to eat in the same way that we pore over our list of flowers. We should not be content simply with potatoes, "tarrots, corn and a few meals of early peas and neither should we be content with our own lettuce for only a few weeks in the season. True there are some things which. come on very early in the spring or late in fall which they have in England will not thrive in all parts of Canada but on the other hand our climate, generally speaking, is more suited to the pro- duction of the highest quality vege- tables than any other in the world. If there is any doubt simply note potatoes, cabbage, carrotts, spinach, peas and even the more tender squask which are grown. in the Peace River District or Northern Ontario every year. Our season is not long, but our summer days are and it is this extra daylight which OLD SHIP KEEPS TRADITIONS ALIVE | | Full Rigged Boat Maintains the Ancient Traditions of | the Sea | | | S---- | New, York, May 15 Drop aj sentimental tear for vanished clip=| per ships, if you will, but don't ex- | pect an echoing sob from this gal- | lant Tusitala, tied up at the sugar wharf in Brooklyn, | Her flag still flies and her pride | gleams in every flash of her polish- | ed brasswork and lovely white body. | She just made it across the do!drum | belt, in lazy flying-fish weather, | | from Honolulu through the Canal | to New York in 101 days. Even the first voyage out last September are sailor men now, seasoned and able in a way that would curl the libber- ly hair of these hotel bellhop crews that go to sea in a modern liner. In her day, when she first put out from Greenock on the Clyde 48 years ago, she was considered a tall ship. Her main topgallant mast reached upward a into the breezes. Her length, 260 | feet, her tonnage and lines and rig- ing matched the dimensions of those clippers which made the sea's most brilliant history. | rots may he extended in Interesting Information About Vegetable Growing brings things on with a rush when once growth starts. And that is the very condition we must have for good vegetables, the quicker they are grown the more tender they are. The matter of variety is just as much a selection of one within the group, that is getting an early, medium and late maturing kind, as it is of growing a whole string of absoultely different things. For in- stance we should not confine our- selves to simply a short row of leaf lettuce. This must be eaten while it is young and tender and then just as we have developed a taste it is all done. We can string out the crop over the whole season if we make, say three plantings of three different types. There will be the leaf letture first, then the head and latr on during the hot weather the Cos, which comes up to a conical head and is prectically self bleach- ing. Last year the writer had this last named delicacy coming on until frost in the fall. We can supplement our salad material with cress, it grows quickly on any land and come on early, green onions, sown Mt ten day intervals until the first of July so that they will be ready in succession, endives and mustard. By using three types of spinach we can extend the season for this crop by several |! We should in- clude in the ge group, both the red and white and also cauli- flower, Brussel Sprouts and Broc- coli. Using an early, medium and late pea, we will have feats of this, one of the best of all things, for at least a month. In the same way corn, beans, young beets and car- season. Something out of the ordinary will be added by planting Broad geans, egg plants, melons, leeks, small clear 147 feet | Today, of course, through her yellow gpars you behold across the river the dwarfing mass of Empire State~and Chrysler and the whole cluster of modern giants, soar but not go adventuring Tusitala is not of the consider herself a museum About twice a year she brings in her cargo of sandy brown sugar from Hawaii, fills up her erew from a hardy waiting list of lads who aren't afraid to go aloft, and speeds mancing, you'll have to ask some one other than Skipper James P. Barker. She is the last and only full-rig- ged ship under the United States whim of her owner, James A. ¥Far- rell, head of the United States Steel Corporation. But she ig no loafer and no showoff. Here are some things about her which stimulate that pride which animates her stur- dy old heart: She can still do 315 knots in' 24 hours, loaded ship, and 340 light ship. She is the only square-rigger afloat, so asserted a perhaps boast- ful officer, which still carries stuns'ls, those great balloon wings that reach out to the sides for every possible breath of wind in fast weather. When her main lower stuns'l booms are rigged out she has a spread of 133 feet 6 inches, Her crew, at least by the end of a voyage, are smart sailormen, even in these days of 'iron ships and wodden men." Anchoring off Bed- loe's Island recently she sent up five men to stow away her upper spars in order to make the 135- foot clearance of Brooklin Bridge. Widow Asks $20,000 From Circus Owners Montreal, May 16.--Claiming that the death of her husband on a circus lot here last summer was due to an assault by an employe of the circus company, Mrs. Valmore Perreault, widow, is suing the Sells- Floto Circus Company for $20,000 on behalf of herself and four minor children, in an action in the Sup erion Court The fatality occurred on June 8, 1930, when Perreault with a num- ber of other persons was watching the employes of the circus company placing the tents in position and preparing for the performance, acc- ording to the declaration of the wi- How To Swiftly Get Rid of Joint Agony Out goes the pain--down goes the which | modern | spirit, admittedly. Neither does she | piece. | about her business. If you want ro- | flag. Her very existence is due to a | and that is quite a sweep of canvas. | dow. At a certain time, Perreault found himself in a tent with other spectators and was ordered out by an employe of the company. He started to obey the order but be- fore he had reached the wall of the tent he was man named George I'rench, a circus eui- ploye, the widow contends. Arrived at the wall of the tent, Perreault stopped to lift the flap and while standing: with his head lowered was again attacked the wi- dow declares. From the blow he fell unconscious on the ground and died a few minutes later, it is claimed. In suing the elrcus company for the amount of the damages, the widow contends that the company is liable for the acts of an employe committed in the course of his work She asks for herself $10,000 and for her four minor children' now ranging from four to eight years, a similar amount. 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Treating Lawns Lime is not the cure-all lawn n which many are believe. /{ a matter of should be used rather sparingly, ofter an acid soil, which the lime tends to correct, actually discour- ages the growth of dandelion and plantain, two weeds which are a very eommon pest in most parts of the Dominion. A rick soil, however 18 necessary to nromote he 3 bag ML th and the dark green fine swarc we. are after. Good drainage is also important and su rht for most types of grass, though if our loca- tion is shaded we can secure special erass which will do well under these conditions. Fertilizers of the com- mercial variety, relatively high in nitrogen, or of soda alone give good sheep manure will supply beth nourishment and humus and un- like ordinary manure this will not fill the grass with a lot of weed seeds as the sheep manure has been steamed during the pulverising pro- cess to kill anything of this kind. Plants and Shrubs There is no object to be gained and often losses result where one sends half way across the continent for plants, shrubbery and trees. Purchasing from the nearest reli- able source is best as then we are sure of getting something adapted to our section of the country. When this stock arrives if we are not ready to plant immediately open the parcel, spread out the roots in a shallow trench and cover firmly with damp soil. Above all things do not let the roots be exposed to sun or wind and if the plants are very dry on arrival bury stems and all for a day or two. Employs New Carburetor An entirely new carburetor has been developed for the 1931 Willys results, One shou g in wate or aplying just beforea heavy er or watering is the safest w An be careful in ap- r to prevent| Six. In the 40 or 50 mile speed first | range this carburetor is about two miles to the gallon more economic. al, while re-designing of the float mechanism guards against leaks. of pulverised ERMANENT ONCRETE CANADA CEMENT CONCRETE FOR PERMANENCE A WELCOME SIGHT to the motorist A smooth yet gritty surface that tires grip and hold on curves, grades or straight stretches. A surface that treats tires kindly and reduces fuel consumption materially, A surface that offers better visibility at night and less hazard by day. No wonder motorists map their trips as far as possible on concrete highways and greet each stretch as a well-tried friend. Concrete paving is permanent. It stands up under constant heavy traffic. 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Advocate concrete for YOUR community, BITS OF VERSE THE WISEST "1EN The wisest men that ever you knew _ Have never deemed it treason To rest a bit, and jest a bit, And balance up their reason; To laugh a bit, and chaff a big And joke a bit in seasom, . Seek ye first the kingdom of God, [J gnd his righteousness; and all these y things shail be added unto you.-- | olin - ase . 2 te \ "It's the little it costs to maintain that makes concrete paving economical" Matt. 6: 33%