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Bh i sa EEE EY ET EEREIRIERIt aa ie sd oR En a 0g FREE EM PAGE FOUR a THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 26. 1931 The Oshawa Daily Times ucceeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An independent newspaper published every after- noon except Sundays and legal holidays at Osh- awa, Canada, by The Times Publishing Company, of Oshawa, Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, President, A, R. Alloway, Managing Director. The 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 Delivered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12c. a week. By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa car- rier delivery limits) $3.00 a year. United States $4.00 a year, ; TORONTO OFFICE 18 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative. TUESDAY, MAY 26th, 1931 FOR THE BLIND The announcement that the Home and School Council of Oshawa is to sponsor a tag day on behalf of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind should strike a re- sponsive chord in the hearts and minds of the people of Oshawa. This organization is performing tasks which no other body is seeking to undertake--the care of those who have been deprived of their sight, and who are thus debarred from many of the joys and privileges of those who are blessed with. normal faculties. It is carrying on this work, partly through the use of funds supplied by the government, but largely through voluntary contributions of munici- palities and individuals. In Oshawa, the city council did not see fit, on account of the need for absolute economy, to make a grant to the institute, and so the Home and School Council has undertaken to raise some funds in the city-to help the society carry on its work. Oshawa has a responsibility in connec- tion with the work of the Canadian Na- tional Institute for the Blind. It is not the practice of the institute or its officers to make public the details of the work it is doing in each community, but there are sev- eral cases in this city in which blind citi- zens have been lifted from the depths of despondency, because of their handicap, and placed on a self-reliant and self-supporting basis by the assistance of the institute. There are, today, in the institute's school at Brantford, Oshawa children who are be- ing taught and trained to overcome their handicap. This makes the appeal for as- sistance for the institute a personal one to the 'people of Oshawa, for the institute re- ceives nothing in return for this service, save what the citizens are willing to give on occasions such as the tag day which is being held on June 6. Workers will be needed to make this tag day a success, and we feel sure that the officials of the Home and School Council will be delighted to have volunteers come forward with offers of assistance. The work required is not arduous, and the cause is one of sufficient importance to draw a ready response from those who can spare a little time and a little effort to help make the tag day the success it deserves to be. ALMOST LIKE FICTION The story of the two bank bandits who robbed a bank at Pontiac, Michigan, made' their escape by aeroplane, made a forced landing near Chatham and continued their flight by train, only to be captured by po- lice at Toronto station, reads like a page from fiction. It might very well have been the theme of a movie scenario, with the climax coming with the arm of the law reaching out and took the criminals into its grasp. : : The incident, however, serves to show how modern inventions are making it easy for criminals to carry out their depreda- tions and make a quick esappe from the scene of their crimes. It shows how the police authorities of today have to be-pre- pared to cope with all kinds of trickery and cunning on the part of criminals, and how necessary it is that the police should be just as well equipped for their work as are 'the bandits. Apparently. it will soon be necessary to have aeroplanes as part of police force equipment, since the criminals are not a bit averse to taking to the air The main lesson from this story, however, is that it is difficult for criminals to escape in this country. The police of Toronto are deserving of great credit for the smart work they performed in the capture of these two daring bandits, who must have had the shock of their lives when they step- ped off the train at Toronto into the arms of the waiting detectives. Like most crooks they made one mistake too many, and that mistake proved their undoing. :They will have a long time in which to regret their actions, and in which to wonder at the po- Vice ingenuity which landed them in jail. RUSSIA'S ONE-SIDED PLAN As we predicted a few days ago, it is not going to be easy for the wheat conference, in London to reach any satisfactory conclu- sions. That prediction has been verified by the attitude which has been adopted by Soviet Russia. The attitude of the Soviet delegates is just what might have been ex~ pected. Russia is not in any mood to temp- orize, to make agreements with the rest of the world, on a fair basis, Under present _are sold at prices bel conditions, she holds the whip-hand, and she does mot propose to let it go. It would be absurd to expect the other wheat-exporting countries, and particularly Canada and Australia. to accept the terms proposed by Russia. The plan for fixing an export quota for wheat, based on pre-war figures, which would allow Russia double the exports of any other country, and place Canada far down in the list, is simply a brazen announcement to the world that Russia proposes to follow her own road, and to make every pessible effort to flood the world's market with wheat. The proposal that would bar Canada and Australia from making a separate agreement with. Britain or any other country in the Empire means the serving of notice that Russia will again try to dump as much wheat as she can into Great Britain. In short, acceptance of the Russian proposals: would mean that the hands of every other country would be tied, and Russia would be left in a dominating position in the world's wheat markets. Russia's plan, cannot, 'of course, be ac cepted, and that means the breakdown of the conference. case of every nation for itself, with Russia as the enemy of 'all others. No matter what the other countries may 'do, the shadow of the bear will remain over the wheat-marketing situation, and it will be the duty of Canada, and every other coun- try as well, to make its own plans and take its own course to combat the competition which is sure to come from the Soviet union, EDITORIAL NOTES Now, perhaps, we can admit that summer is really here. Victoria Day was well celebrated here yesterday--even by those who spent the day ie putting the final touches to their gar- ens. A Hamilton school trustee refuses to sing the National Anthem. Perhaps she does not want anyone to know how bad her singing voice really is. Modern business life is hard, says the Pope. But he has not had enough first- hand experience to let him know just how hard it is. Thanks to the splendid support of the citizens, the Legion can now go ahead and complete its plans for the August conven- tion, Yesterday may have been a holiday-- but don't tell that to the newspaper report- ers. BITS OF HUMOR SHE MEANT WELL A teacher in the East End sent a small girl for sixpennyworth of plums, giving her a basket and telling her to be snre and pinch one or two to see if they were ripe. The child returned with the basket full, and said :--'Ere, teacher, 'ere's yer sixpence. The man wasn't lookin' so 1 pinched the lot. HASTY "I tell"'you, I "won't have this roem," pretested the old lady to the boy in buttons at the hotel. "L ain't going to pay my money for a pig-sty with a measly little folding bed in it. If you think that just because I'm from the country--" Profoundly disgusted, the boy cut her short. "Get in, mum, get in." he ordered. "This ain't yer room. This is the lift." | BITS OF VERSE THE GLORY OF GOD IN CREATION Thou are O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we sec; Its glow by day, its smile by night Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine And all things fair and bright are thine. When day with farewell beam delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze Through opening vistas into heaven, Those hues that make the sun's decline So soft, so radiant, Lord are thine, When night with wings of starry gloom, O'ershadows all the earth and skies, Like some darke beauteous bird, whose plume Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes, That sacred gloom, those fires divine, So grand, so countless, Lord, are thine. When youthful spring around us breathes, ' Thy spirit warms her fragrant sigh, And cvery flower that summer wreathes Is born beneath thy kindling eye; Where'er we turn, thy glories shine And all things fair and bright are thine. --Thomas Moore. | Other Editors'Comments RED ECONOMIC WAR (London Daily Telegraph) Already Russian products are being sold here at prices from 25 to 60 per cent below the. possible cost of production in this country, and the output ting rate." ey of them is "increasing at a start s roduction in Russia, whic markets the cost The Government monopoly them need not and does not consider the question of profit or loss; all that concerns it is the ambition to industrialize Russia, to put an increasing flood of its products into the world markets, and to ren- r impossible competition conducted on the ordin- atyconmcrlal basis, That, in' the view of the rulers, of Russia, would be worth whatever loss it might involve, when exports on that basis are bal- anced against the indispensable imports purchased at commercial prices. But it is time that other Governments woke up to the importance of this "serious attack on the commercial system of the whole world," -- - ~ - . ~-- It looks as if it will be a. Eye Care and Eye Strain dy C. N. TUCK, Opt.D : (Copyright 1923) THE EYES OF CHILDREN PART "J" It is estimated that at least 50 per cent of industrial workers are affected by defective vision but to me this seems to be a very low es- timate when we consider that some factories have had a visual survey which was the means of proving that 85 per cent. was nearer to the truth. But when we search for the reason and find that the cause in the majority of cases is being traced to the condition that existed in pub- lic school life it is indeed startling. When we consider that the acts formulated to mould our present standards of education were but the foundation for us to build upon it is plain to be seen that the duty of conserving or protecting the eye- sight of 'today rests with us entire- ly. The strain upon the eyes to- day is a condition brought about by the growth, progress and evolution of our modern civilization trom the viewpoint of our own welfare, the welfare of those in touch with us, is a condition of the efficiency of all concerned, it is obviously up to us and up to us alone to take care of the growing conditions as they may arise, Ta be continued. GAULT MacGOWAN, MANAG- ING EDITOR OF TUL TRINI- DAD GUARDIAN, (BRITS WEST INDIES), SAYS: "Did you ever stop to think what Pharoah would have charged to let you carve your name on one of his pyramids? Could you have got a square foot of space for the price of a dinner? You could not, "The pyramids were there for a pur- posc--some say calendars for his- tory--others just a personal adver- tisement--others a death notice, Whatever it was, none of the Pha- roahs ever sold any space on_their pyramids at bargain rates. hen they told the world, they did not be- lieve in telling them for nothing. If they could have put up a pyra- mid for a song, they wouldn't have done it. They .valued those pyra- . | mids highly. They hadn't any news. papers, "Newspapers are the modern pyra- mids, monuments many of them to the sweat of thousands of dead and gone craftsmen. Newspapers that sell their space too cheaply are go- ing back on self-respect, but it sac- rifices the self-respect of the com- munity. Teo cheap advertising means that the editorial service is cheap--an empty pyramid bedecked with handbills. The community is deprived of a progressively improv- ing news service, it cannot have the pictures of local events to which it is entitled, and the newspaper can- not afford to pay its editor well enough to travel far afield on his annual vacation. And if the editor cannot take a regular vacation far afield, the community is deprived of an incentive to progress. "The greatest stimulus to enterprise is the knowledeg that the other fel- low who started level in the race of life is forging ahead of you, And the only man who finds out what the other fellow is doing, and does- n't keep it a secret, is your local editor, "Business firms who cry-down ad- vertising rates are crying down the progress of their city. Some of the big stores are often the worst of- fenders in pressing for too-cheap advertising. Department heads who, are getting ' the top search the newspaper columns every day for new ideas on how to sell. But when it comes to buying space, some of them forget the service they expect to have thrown in with it, NEWS: PAPER SPACE IS A QUALITY PRODUCT. EVERY INCH THAT : REPRESENTS THE NITE GENERATIONS OF 'MEN IN SHIRT SLEEVES HAVE CARVED O OF NOTHING. AND IF YOU HADN'T GOT A NEWSPAPER YOU'D HAVE TO TAKE A WALK OUT TO YOUR LOCAL PYRAMIDS EVERY TIME YOU WANTED AN IN- DEX FINGER ON THE WAY TO THE STARS." GOVERNOR OF MALTA London, May 26.--It is officially announced that Gen. Sir John Philip du Cane, Governor of Malta during the long religious controversy which is now under investigation by' royal eC ission has resigned his post, effective June 30 and that the King has accepted the resignation. The announcement said the gov- army. Incorporated Sales Managers' Asso- ciation the story of an Eton boy, who, when asked what he would like to. be, replied: "A retired bank- er. r A' reader's tephew, aged six, going to 8 , It ran; "Dear Mum,--I went to chapel yesterday and 1 went to chapel to- day, and will you please send me some I ernor had applied for permission tof - - resign and also to retire from the Sir Francis Goodenough ald the wrote hig first letter home, after |' NEW STEAMSHIP LINE I5 PROPOSED Philadelphia Group Is Or- ganized to Finance Enterprise Philadelphia, Pa., May 26.-- Definite steps toward the fin- ancing of the proposed steam- ship service between Philadel- phia and Liverpool, Manchester and probably Continental Eu- rope, sponsored by General W. 'W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, have been taken in the appointment of a committee of Philadelphia busi- ness, finance and industrial lcad.- ers to organize and obtain the $4,000,000 to be contributed by Philadelphians toward the en- terprise. dent of the Commercial Ex- change, is chairman of the com- mittee which was appointed by General Atterbury. Others on the committee are Alfred J. Ball, general freight agent of the Penna R. R. who is in charge of foreign freight shipments; Ar- thur C. Dorrance, vice president and general manager of Camp- boll's Soup Company, Camden; J. W. Van Dyke, chairman of the Board of Directors, of the Atlan- tic Refining Company; John M. Franklin, vice president of tha Roosgvelt Steamship Company; Samuel S. Fels, president of Fels and Company, soap manufac- turers; Philip H. Gadsen, presi- dent of the Chamber of Com- merce and vice-prosident of the United Gas Improvement Com- pany; Ellis A. Gimbpel, vice-presi- dent of Gimbel Brothers; J. 8. W. Holton, president of the Mar- itime Exchange; A. Atwater Kent, president of the Atwater Hubert J. Horan, former presi- | Kent Company; Howard A. Loeb, chairman of the Tradesmen's Na- tional Bank and Trust Company; Harvey C. Miller, president of the Southern Steamship Company and the chain of Tidewater Ter- minals at New York, Philadel- phia, and Norfolk and J. Howard Pew, president of the Sun Oil Company and vice-president of the Sun Shipbuilding Company. Chairmanship of the committee has been accepted by Mr. Horan. Other members are expected to accept their appointment within the next few days. Montreal Girl Found Ill On Car In Seeking Free Trip from West Winnipeg, May 26.--Pretty, young, homesick and broke, a girl, who says she is Lucille Lambert, trud- ged the . streets of Winnipeg on Thursday evening and wondered how she could get to Montreal and her family. So in her thin and threadbare coat Lucille joined 30 men freight- jumpers in the Canadian Pacific yards and swung aboard a lurching box-car., She clambered aloft to the gangplank on top and looked down the long train. Then cold, vertigo, and hunger took their toll. Lucille became faint. She had the presence of mind to throw herself down on her face and grip the footplank, Two hours later the train swung into Molson in the dark. Some one noticed a "boy" inertly clinging up there in the bitter cold. Investiga- tion revealed Lucille. Knees, hands, and face were bruised, freezing and bleeding. She was semi-delirious and wanted to get back to Mon- treal. She was brought to a hospi- tal in Winnipeg and put to bed "suffering considerably from expo- sure and under-nourishment." Now Lucille faces a charge of riding a train without paying a fare, but friends who heard her story will see that she travels home in comfort. Nothing strange about many smart women never having married. That's why they are smart. It is estimated that in a pack of playing cards there. are 635,013,559,- 600 different whist hands. Readers must verify these figures for them- selves. SPANISH ROYALTY WORTH $8,837,313 Former King's Investments Chiefly in Foreign Companies Madrid, May 26--The Republi- can Government, which has ordered seizure of the property of former King Alfonso in Spain, announced that the total private wealth of the former Royal Family was estimated at $8,837,313, on December 31, 1929, The statement, issued by the Min- istry of Finance, said the former King's investments were chiefly in foreign companies, stocks and bonds, deposited in the banks of France, | England, Helland and Switzerland The total included the estate of the late Queen Mother Maria Cris- tina, which was estimated in 1928 at 34,197,665 peseta:. Alfonso's wealth was estimated at 26,188,850 pesetas, of which 14,338,225 pesetas is invested in foreign securities, The property of the former Queen was estimated at 2372972 pesetas ($237,300), of which two-thirds is in- vested abroad. The wealth of the Prince of Asturias was estimated at about 12,988,672 pesctas ($1,300,- 000). The Ministry of Finance an- nouncement said it was difficult to estimate the weaith of the Royal Family accurately because the book keeping had becn incomplete singe December 31, 1921. Since that date only provisional estimates of the fortune had been made at the cnd of cach year, the announcement said, and real estate was listed at far below its actual value. Only 1,000,000 pcsetas (about $100,000) were invested in Spanish and national city bonds. "From the figures shown, it can be appreciated that he who reigned in Spain until April 14, finds himself far from the danger of poverty as some foreign writers wished to pice ture him," the announcement said. "Furthermore the public may judge for itself the conduct of high per- sonalties who always invoked the necessity of defending the high in- terest of the nation--yet invested great portions of the funds which the nation gave them in foreign se- curities, thus positively injuring our wealth and our monetary unit," She was all mystery--her slim Body, her mind, her glance, her pout ; He wondered what she thought of him He out, married her--and he found An' Aberdonian was on a visit to Canada. There he met a Canadian, who asked him = where he came from. "Scotland," replied the Aberdon- ian Give me vour hand," said the stranger, "And what town do you "Aberdeen," replied the Scot. .. G mé both your hands" said the Canadian hurriedly. "The last man I met from Aberdeen pinched my watch," "Live A Dream Come True Not 80 many years ago a man had a dream. 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