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» THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1931 The Oshawa Daily Times ; 8 ; ueceeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Establisted 1871) blisl.cd every after- Sunda pro holidays at Osh- The Tass Publishin, ny. I} g 4] M. Mundy, Presidert y, Managing Director. EA 4 Pimes i ber of The Cana. Boer, toe Canadian But Nespas Abo the Ontario Provincial Dailies and the ureay of Cireulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered in Osha: d suburbs, 12¢. 3 week. 4 are amt totiside Oshawa car- vier delivery limits) $300 a vear. United States $4.00 3 year, TORONTO OFFICE : § , Teleph 38, Bond Balding, 00, Remnerance Sereicntatme. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9th, 1931 v Idle Dollars t bank report gives the amazing ? Br, that, during the last year, in spite of all the unemployment, the people of Canada have added $44,000,000 to their ~ savings in the chartered banks of Canada. In the same period commercial loans made by the banks have declined by $168,000,- 000. Business is not using the money which is lying in the banks of Canada to hing like thé same extent as before. Ld is a splendid thing, but idle dol- lars are a menace second only to an idle e. Government aid can do no more than relieve those who are out of work. It . cannot effect any permanent solution of the unemployment problem, The first step in that solution must be to put the idle dollars 'to work. Piling up savings in the bank while hundreds of thousands are out of work because money is not circulating is a poor way of helping to bring back prosper- ity. The money that is lying idle should be in cireulation, buying 'goods so as to give men employment in making them. In that way alone, can industry in this country en- joy a real revival. A Use for the Buffalo An interesting dispatch from Montreal says that Canada's buffalo herd at Wain- wright Park has become so numerous that 1,500 animals are to be slaughtered in the late fall or early winter, in order to'stop over-crowding. It is suggested that the buffalo meat which is procured by this slaughter will be available for distribution. 1t should not be necessary to go far to find a place which this buffalo meat can be put to good fise. One will presume, of course, that it is government property, and, that being the case, the powers that be might very well consider the possibility of shipping it down to the burnt-out districts of Saskatchewan, for distribution to the fa- milies which are hard pressed to find suffi- cient food to sustain life. This is not the first time that it has been found necessary to reduce the Wainwright herd. On previous occasions, large num- bers of animals have been slaughtered and their products have been marketed, provid- buffalo delicacies for many Canadians. . This time, however, the government can do more good by handing this buffalo meat out to starving families than by placing it in the open market for sale in competition with the products of the farms of Ontario, d we would suggest that serious consider- ation be given to this method of distribu- Ying the products of the slaughtered buff- oes. Unreasoning Pessimism . Thomas W. Lamont, of the banking house of J. P. Morgan and Company, has issued _& timely statement on the unreasoning pes- simism which is prevalent at the present time. In a recent address, he said that "the _ eurrent pessimism is being carried to un- reasoning and fantastic depths, where fear is leading to unnecessary sacrifice of values in almost every field of saving and invest- ment." He went on to say that elements of business and industrial improvement are ly in sight, but will not come 'in a of unreasonable apprehension or fear." This statement fits the present condi- very accurdtely. It is unfortunate Ds ry is not greater confidence in the recovery of business, and that too consideration 'is given, in the minds 'people who have not themselves suffered, 0 the condition of depression. Instead of thinking so much about the dumber of peo- 4 gle who are unemployed, it would be better 3 : employed, who are earning os and salaries, and are in a position to on normal business relations, to spend just as before. These people have n their hands he one stroke, but the first essential ntly is that thgy get rid of their un- oning fear of spending money. CN em -- te Bowmanville Boys" Training School example of what can be | n outstanding with boys termed incorrigible, and any son who is not already sold on the idea t the best way to correct the present rowing crime rate is to begin with the ad- tion of the young péople, should take the portunity they get to visit this re- Institution nd dug OpY ahis give thought to the far greater to improve business condi- |- Local Rotarians were the guests of the Government at a dinner last Friday night, The splendid buildings, equipment, and manner in which the school is organized was a source of admiration to the visitors, but what impressed them most were the boys themselves, Here were boys who had been placed in the school because they were considered "bad boys." To the visitors it was hard to connect the clean smiling faces with the hardened countenances of the eri- minal, They appeared cheerful and happy in their surroundings. When the Rotarians took up their song books and began to sing, the boys strove to get a glimpse of the words and joined in the singing; their faces reflecting the enjoyment they experi- enced, Surely there is some good. in minds that enjoy music? Tt is to bring out the good in these young minds, to train them to fill their places as good citizens that the Bowmanville School was organized, How well the plan is suc- ceeding is evidenced by the fact that nine- ty per cent of the boys who graduate turn out "good boys."--Cobourg Sentinel Star. Editorial Notes In this glorious country any hoy can fight his way upward to success unless his father leaves him too much spending money, -- Kingston Whig-Standard. Looks as though France and Germany have huried the hatchet, But the question remains--Have they forgotten where they buried it 7--Kitchener Record. Wherever it is that flies go in the winter time we wish they would hurry their de- parture. For pertinacity they can't be beaten.--Sarnia Canadian Observer. The spirit of optimism with which the British people are said to have become im- bued during the past week or so is the best guarantee of prosperity. -- Port Arthur News-Chronicle, It costs $4,400,000 to save one life by level crossing elimination, according to a gpeaker at the good roads convention, This sounds like a good argument for advocates of military disarmament.--Woodstock Sen- tinel-Review, Since New York critics are one in saying a revue opening there the other night is a nice clean show, some feel it should have been kept out of town until it had been whipped into shape for Broadway.--Detroit News, Other Editor's Comments THE VALUE OF GOLD (From the Northern Miner) What is the United States going to do with its five billion dollars' worth of gold? We shall see, When other countries of the world have squared away their internal situations and cut out some of the army and navy activities so distasteful to uncle Sam, and when the American presidential and gen- eral political situation is ripe for it, the United Sta- tes (with France) will use jts golden hoard as a ba: sis for vast loans to other countries, announcing in all probability, a war-debt reduction scheme. When one stops to think about it, there would not he much hope of restoring the world to health ir the only medicine, gold, were destroyed, . f people could only see it, the situation is all to the good for gold mines and their owners. And keep in mind that the various crises which the world is passing through in this long-to-be remembered year of 1931 may well he correction-points in the business depression, in that they bring to a head the forces and evils that have undermined confi- dence and caused bad psychology, BITS OF HUMOR Golfer (to member ahead) "Pardon, but would you mind if I played through? I've just heard that my wife has been taken dangerously ill." ------------ A young man in charge of a lighthouse on a lonely island in the South Seas got married and had his wife to come and live with him, The young wife, however, soon found life on the island very monotonous, and so her husband orders ed a piano for her, The young couple waited tor its coming very hap pily, and at last the island boat appeared. But where was the piano," When the boat got near enough for hailing, the lighthouse-keeper yelled: "Hello, there! Haven't you brought the piano?" "Yes, sir," came from one of the islanders, we've got it all right. We're towing her." Light-fingered Bill: "Did yon ever study geome- try, Ned?" Nimble Ned: "I did." LigHt-fingered Bill: "Good! I wish you'd tell me how to square a straight policeman *"" . "Now, ladies and gentlemen," said the hawker, "my next line is socks, warranted to serve, wear, and wash well, "Smart enough for a city clerk, cheap enough for a bricklayer in his Sunday best. Government famped wool, and a pleasure to draw on the feet, The kind of articlés what steam laundries 'ate 'cos they wear aut the machinery." 'BITS OF VERSE ONLY A MOTHER -------- She was a poet; all summer long She joyed in the rain and the sun, and the dew; And all winter long telt the wild winds blowing. Piled the coals higher, as wild grew the storm. Watching the seasons---~coming and going, Watching the rain, and the sun, and the snaw, Thinking of all things, tender and beautiful, Finding no time from the tasks-that were binding To write down the deep, tender things in her heart, Spending the moments, mending and darning. Caring for all the dear ones in the home. But life is so fleeting, and loved ones passing, Children go forth, but they never return; Yet, while she was mixing, mending, and fixing, She wrote in their hearts, with indelible love, A poem that will meet her in Heaven above. HANNA E, AKITT, | Strange as may seem, the class o e Ca and Eye Strain by C. BH, Tuck, Ope, D, (Copyright, 1938) THE CHILD AND ITS DE- VELOPMENT BABY'S EYES(3CHOOL AGE) art How are you to know? How can your children "see clearly? we boast of our systems and our institutions for the welfare of the future generation when many things are taken for granted or are not discovered until well developed ? The answer to the above is not always to be found in the action of these institutions but in the ac- tion of the public in failing in its duty to those dependent upon them by neglecting opportunities early in life and only waking up to the fact that something is wrong when it is pointed out to them--too late, We should not be satisfied to stop at slight accomplishments, Can we safely say that we'are doing all we can to protect the eyes of youth ? The solution rests with cach individual just as much as it rests clsewhere, If you see that those dependent upon you are given proper periodical examinations and are confident in the ability of the one giving the examination you are doing your part, Every child should be examined periodically and should not enter school before a preliminary eye examination has been made, (To be continued) THAT one of the claims made by people who still cling to the old tra- ditions is that the increase of radi- cal propaganda is largely due to the activities of a lot of front-page pol iticians and others who are doing their best to keep business upset and to change the order of things so our government will be forced to follow the Russian plan of the gov ernment running all business, politicians who make the most noise the ones who try their best to ap- pear to the eyes of the public as Heaven-sent, are just common mor tals, as you and I. Thy are simply as God in His goodness made them | They are not super-men-~far from Then we have another bunch of vis lonarres among our politicians ; the fellows who pose as wise men, the prophets who talk blithely of pros- perity that is to come and how they could bring back prosperity by some special legislation in spite of the fact that npt many people believe in the power of legislation to better business . Lots of men in the days of long ago have tried the same game, they | were overwhelmed, were effaced in such a way that they became so small in the eyes of the people that nowadays we would need to probe finely to find their names. THE FACT 1S THAT THE AT- TEMPTED HANDLING OF BUS- INESS BY LEGISLATION HAS PROVIDED THE PEOPLE WITH CRUSHING EVIDENCE OF THEIR UTTER INCAPABIL.- xs OF BENEFITING BUSI- LABOR FEDERATION DIVIDED ON POLICY Building Tradesmen Seek To Coerce Recalcitrant Colleagues Vancouver, B.C.,-- (C.P,) -- Internal squabbles in the Ameri- can Federatjon of Labor came to the fore in the third day of its 51et annual convention here with the presentation of resolution by the building trades department, which was intended as a slap at recaleitrant crafts, The resolution, which was spon- sored hy M. J, Cassidy, 8t, Lows, was debated hotly in the build- ing trades departmental conven- tion last week before being adop- ted for presentation to the A.F.L. Three crafts, the carpenters, bricklayers and electrical work- ars, which have withdrawn from the departmental organization, are the targets of the resolution ST JAMES 109-13 WEST 48th STREET | ed for an end to what he deseri- | | Henator which calls for amendment of the A. F. L. constitution to force the crafts into the building trades department, or out of the Fed- eration, Jurisdictional disputes between these erafts and the department led to their withdrawal, Resolutions by the dozen pour- ed into the committee in charge, which considered them in secret sessions last night and today be- tween speeches by distinguished uchiliates from England, Canada and other counfries, They requested an inquiry in- to the labor policies of firms ask- ing higher tarics; study of world peace moves; advocacy of com- pulsory education; denounced discrimination in employment of teachers and proposing creation of a labor and industrial bourd, All delegates appeared united against a dole, in favor of allo- cation of jobs, shomer working hours and adjustment of Indus- trial Jabor to meet conditions caused by the machine age. Attitude To Beer Whether the federation will go beyond its stand for heer with | n 2.76-per-cent alcoholic content, to urge repeal of the Volstead Act and the 18th aniendment, was discussed in committee rooms here last night, President William Green and members of the excutive council, whose annual report also was be- ing scrutinized fin committee room, contented themselves with edhberence to what has organized labor's settled policy for several yeors, but whether the delegates will go a step farther was a mat- ter of speculation, The international union in which the bartenders once were a force sponsored a resolution | irging repeal of the prohibition | amendment, The Central Labor | Council of Tacoma, Wash,, asked | the A, F, L. to go on record for the repeal of the Volsteal Act, The two prohibition resoiu- tions, together with B62 others, were referred to committees, Del- egates will be permitted to speak toeir views on the convention floor when the committees report either concurrence or non-concur- rence on the resolutions, Senator James J, Davis, Penn- gylvania, former gecretary for | iabor, was vigorously applauded | hy the convention when he plead- | hed ar "cheese-nibbhling" methods of relleving unemployment, Senator Davis expressed uncom- promising opposition to estab- iishment of a dole, which he said, "degtroys individual initiative and ruins the morale of a nation," He sald he was against unemploy- | ment Insurance subsidized by the | (Government, except as a last re- sort when "we are all prepared to go back to living off our seed corn and nibbling at the cheese | of national wealth until both are | gone and civilization is Jost." A means of overcoming fear is America's greatest need today, Davis sald, Fear today of those many mil-' Yonge who are gainfully employed roduces our buying power be- couse they are afraid that they too will join the ranks of the un- employed, Fear of our men of wealth, our bankers, make them call in loans that are being used for productive wealth and pro- gress, "Few loans are being made to- duy, and the laziest thing in Am- erica, today, is the dollar. It, too, is out of work because of fear." senator Davis decried price- cuiting as fully as serious as wage Jeductioys, "How can high wages be paid when prices on goods are down," he queried." Davis lauded organized labor for its restraint in times of dis- tress, citing instances of how workers had controlled their hun- ger in the face of despair, He warned that "when too many wrinkles appear in the stomachs of men, their ears become deaf ty law-observance pleas, and their brains become numb to every other thought but that concern- ing the preservation of the lives of themselves, their children and their wives," ABANDONED FARMS MAY BE COLONIZED Scheme To Place Jobless Families Upon Land Considered Quebhec,--A colonization plan for unemployed men and families who wish to try to make their living out of the land is reported under consideration by the Prov- 'neil Government, although no oflicial announcement has heen made, If the plan is adopted, it is ex- pected that jobless persons will he placed on abandoned farms within the province, These it Is stated number over 2,000, and an inventory of them | is to he made in the near future, #0 that if the scheme is gone whead with the "Government will have sometLivg concrete to act upon, For the greater part, these lots seattered all over the province, are suitable for agricultural pur- roses, far more so than some of tnose In the Lake 8t, John dis- triet, where many colonists are now located, with but small chance of being able to do any- thing but clear the land, with the grants which have heen made to them by the Department of Colo- nization, Game and Fisheries, Premier Taschereau recently stated that he was in favor of the renuest which has been made by n Montreal returned soldier's as- sociation, for the location of nhout 2,000 of its members on the land, and the abandoned lots mny be utilized for this purpose, CREW OF NAUTILUS, HAD HARD VOYAGE Would Make Trip Again if Provided with Better Submarine EE -- New York--Eleven undersecas sail- ors, back from two months of suf- fering and some "grumbling" smil- ed bravely and chorused that if some one would give them a better submarine they would try again to reach the North Pole, They were half of the crew of the old Nautilus, once a navy submer- sible, now a battered wreck ready to be sunk in the North Sea, Under the command of Sir Hubert Wil- kins, who with other members of the crew will return to this country later, they conquered cold, sickness and many breakdowns in mechani- cal equipment to drive their craft to within 350 miles of the pole, The fury of oncoming winter then drove them back, Although there were divergent statements as to how the strength- sapping experience had reacted on the morale of the crew, a spirit of camaraderie prevailed yesterday as | the man greeted relatives after dik- embarking from the liner American | Banker.* "There was some grumblin, We had a lot to contend with," said Chief Engineer Ralph D, Shaw, who comes front Bridgeport and who has "The spirit among us was splen- did," said Ray Meyers, of Phila- delphia, chiet radio man, who was praised for sleepless vigils while the submarine was pushing its nose along the ice cakes of the far north Harrowing Ordeal The voyage eastward across the Atlantic was the most harrowing ordeal in Shaw's carcer, A com- bination of bad air and sickening | rolling "motion made most of the men ill as the engines broke down, | and the batteries went low, Tle | | men shivered inside as a quarter | of inch of ice formed on the lining | of the craft, When they got into | the Arctic after being towed to Ireland by a battleship, the diving | rudder went bad, They went under the ice several times, but Shaw said | he was unable to estimate the ex- | act mileage covered in this way. | Despite all the hardships, he said, he would be glad to go again win | better equipment Frank Crilley, modest hero who was chief diver of the expedition | and went down among the collid- | ing ice cakes to look at the dam- | aged rudder, said "After the second inspection I was | convinced it was hopelessly out of gear, So we decided to return, Even | with the rudder gone we had to do | some diving to dodge the surface ice." "All of us, provided we had a bet- been in submarine work since 1910, |[N ter boat, would be " declared Dixie clectrician, Ice cakes crashing against the submarine, which acted like 2a sounding board, almost made him deaf, he said, lad to go again" Holland, assistant They had returned from their holidays abroad and he was looking through his morning post, Suddenly he gave an exclamation of surprise, "Gracious, Maric," he said to his wife, "do you remember that couple we met on the Channel boat and took a violent fancy to? mean the couple we invited to visit 5," she replied. "You don't mean to say--"' "Yes," he groaned, "the idiots are actually coming," "Wedding rings Trme as they used to" a contemporary declares, Well, generally speaking, they don't have to, CANADIAN PACIFIC 4 FIVE DAYS 4 /» EUROPE Ay EMPRESS * BRITAIN FROM MONTREAL To Belfast-Glasgow Liverpool terriers Duciiess of York Duchess of Richmond Duchess of Atholl ov, 6 p Montclare TO HAVRE-LONDON-ANTWERP ov, 12 trons Montrose FROM QUEBEC To Cherbourg & Oct, 14 Oct, 25 Southampton Empress of Britain Apply Local Agents or J. BLACK MACKAY, General Agent, Canadian Pacific Bldg, Toronte A FEW DAYS AWAY FROM HOME Wil. DO YOU GOOD AND RE. TURN YOU BETTER FITTED FOR THE DAILY ROUTINE. MAKE UP A PARTY FOR NEXT WEEKEND, Cheerful, comfortable rooms; Vesty food, Restlul surroundings PLENTY OF CURB PARKING SPACE GARAGE ONE MINUTE WALK "4 Single $1.50 to $3.00 Rates oo. $350 « $6.00 Hote. WAVERLEY Spedine Avenue ond College Street wo Wok fo folder +o . . . are lower still, Evening rates (7.00 pm. 20 8.30 pm. local time) - are considerably lower than day rates on "any one" calls. "Night rates" (8.30 pm. to 4.30 am.) Hospital days were lonely. Of course, her friends did all they could to keep her cheerful -- her room was a bower of roses -- but how she looked forward to evening when Jack could sit by her and talk of his day at the office. business, LOVE LAUGHS AT TELEPHONE TOLLS Then came the news that he must leave town on She wondered how she could stand the wait until he came home. But Jack, wise fellow, knew how to bridge the gap. Promptly each even- ing at nine he called her over Long Distance and told her all the things she wished to hear. Extravagant? , , . not a bit . . . for night rates are always inexpensive! What could be worth more for what it cost?