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i ' The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER 4 (Established 1871) independent newspaper publisl.cd every after. and holidays at Osh- -- | i moon except Sundays of Gaba. rill ig M. Mundy, Foe rd A R. Alloway. Managing Directos. . Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana- Press, the Canadian Daity New 2s Asso. '| ciation, ithe Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Agndit Burean of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, 12¢. & Canada "cate Boro Bady BA An ef $400 a year TORONTO OFFICE 18 Bond Building, 65 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide le Ea i p 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative. * SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1931 a | The Ward System 2 Ra At a time when the question of abolish~ Ing the ward system of electing aldermen __is a live topic in the city, it is interesting i ..4o note that the same question is an issue { «put in Vancouver. In a recent editorial, * "the Vancouver Sun took the stand that the . abolition of the ward system would have "= the effect of improbing the calibre of the "adr + and this is one of the arguments which 4 The Times has frequently put forward in dates offering themselves for election, _ favor of a change of system here. # 'Concluding an editorial comment on the * ubject, the Vancouver Sun says: #'Vancouver can no longer afford the lim- fiations of the ward system with all its little _ feudalistic propensities, The candidates who ean most thoroughly withdraw themselves from the ward system will be those who . receive highest popular acclaim. In her aldermen, Vancouver is looking, not for big toads in little puddles, but for big men capable of handling big jobs." = "These views, from Vancouver, might be applied with equal force to the Oshawa 'pituation. Oshawa needs men in the coun- 'ell who will forget ward politics and will represent the city as a whole, men who are big enough to be elected on a city wide vote, & which is more discriminating than vote by > wards only. Oshawa, at the next municipal slection, will /have the opportunity to wochange the system, and to provide for a 7 general vote for aldermanic elections. It i would be unfortunate if the bylaw provid- a. ERE ------------ -------- a ; ing for this charge were defeated because "there are still too many people willing to iake the small, rather than the large, view of the city's problems, Canada is Doing Well 0 he Canada is doing well in the campaign to . raise a National] Service Loan of $160,000, 000. At the end of the fourth day, the «.ubscriptions for this issue has passed the ne *$100,000,000 mark, and they were still «pouring in to the head office in Montreal in «uch volume that the staff of clerks could not keep up with the task of tabulating p returns. There is little doubt but that the whole "issue of $150,000,000 will be taken up by athe Canadian people. Before another week . Is out, it should be possible for those in tharge to announce that the objective has in passed. Canada has a reputation for ng things of this kind rather well. The fictory Loan campaigns during the war were all magnificently over-subscribed, and jere is every reason to believe that this se-time issue, being made for the pur- of setting the wheels of industry more rapidly in Canada, will be ly guccessful. making this loan a success, Canadian are telling the world that they have in their own country and its resourc- h to d | iow that the people of Canada d to finance their own under- out looking to any other cour Lj AI] rs of Ontario County Council on were paid for six days' at. ice at the November session, which ed Monday afternoon at two o'clock ad finished up shortly after nine o'clock Friday night. Twenty-three members t $30 each, the brief session in the even- ag and the afternoon on Monday, being nted as a day, and one member who was thing for Canada to let show, we believe, that the edst of county administration, Council sessions at least, has been as great this year as in years past. In other words, economy has been a high sounding word which meant very little. ui While the ratepayers of the county are alive to the fact that their burden of taxa- tion is becoming greater from year to year, largely because of road expenditures by county and provincial governments, there is a strong feeling that by speeding up business a great saving could be made in the cost of County Council sessions. The present committee system needs overhaul- ing and a new system installed which will keep the machinery of county government moving continuously while the sessions are in progress. Editdrial Notes The Royal Winter Fair has certainly brought Oshawa and the surrounding dis- trict into the limelight in a favorable way. The attitude of most Oshawa people with regard to the revival of the old Feldspar Glass Company will be that of "Wait and See." It begins to look as if the war which has been going on between China and Japan is going to be declareq "No contest." There is something of the old patriotic spirit behind the evident desire of the peo- ple of this country to make their dollars serve Canada. What is the greatest power in the world ? Public opinion. What creates public opin- ion? Advertising. Is it not time that busi- ness men woke up and realized that adver- tising is not an expense, but the cheapest and quickest way of making a fortune? It is not advertising that is costly. Tt is ob- livion. Newspaper advertising is the best med- ium for attracting tourists, according to two men who know something about that work. This is just another instance of how newspaper advertising is of great value in building any kind of business. I Other Editor's Comments EDUCATION TOO COSTLY (Farmers' Advocate) The costs of education have increased beyond the bounds of reason and beyond the financial re- sources of many brilliant young pcople who are now at the age where the important decision must be made, A prospective medical student before entering college should sec where he can use from a fund of approximately $10,000 to put him through his years of training and set him up in practice. In these days, that means a tolerably good farm. Thous- ands of farms have been sold or heavily ngortgaged in order to educate rural boys and girls, and a large percentage of the leaders in all professions are men who struggle through while parents toiled, scrimped and sacrificed at home. : Meanwhile costs have mounted higher, not through larger fees and legitimate expenses only, but because of the "standard of living" or the fa- shion established by the smarter set. College organ- izations, fraternities, college life in general must be reduced from the dress-suit standard to one of plain- er living or the youth of the so-called middle classes will be debarred and the stale will find itself in the dangerous position of maintaining seats' of higher learning largely for the benefit of the moneyed class- es, Agricultural colleges throughout Canada should watch this situation and deal courageously with it. A growing percentage of the degree men and two- year graduates must return to the land, and agri- culture will not, cannot stand the cost of frills or high life in education or in anything relating to the arm, The ten years of dizzy spending following the war are well over™ We have learned our lesson, and it will not be forgotten in the next decade. Our agri- cultural schools will serve the farming community "best by maintaining college life at a reasonable level that permits a student to liold his head up and still practice thrift and economv. BITS OF HUMOR Sorority Frosh--"ic is all the world to me. What you advise me to do?" Been There--"Sec a little more of the world, my y--"Oh, look at the rhinoceros." lie--"That ain't no rhinoceros. That's a hip- bapotam us. Can't you see it ain't got no radiator cap First Charlady--*"You know, dear; what do you call those drawings that are all scratched?" . Second Charlady--'You mean itchings, don't you, dearie?" _ BITS OF VERSE SONG OF THE UNRETURNING A ---- Tonight a crimson sun With no attendants by, Goes down in lonely splendor An orange waste of sky. Never in all the years Garbed thus will he go from me: Red is the sea-gull's wing J And blood-red the sea, Never again will the clouds Group in this austere way; Never again will love Be as it is to-day; Never again will the waves Break, as now, on the shore: Nothing _in earth or heaven Comes as it came before. High Beauty will never return n the same hood and gown, Whether the rose grows red, Or the old gak burns brown, Or the blue rain dances swiftly Down the green-aisled sea . Or whether on gray, winding roads "My love walks with me, Wilkos MacDonald | Sixthly, What a lot of talk, and somewhat bitter criticism, could have been avoided if only the W., J. Trick Co. Ltd, had put its reservations in writing when tendering for the fil tration plant. If there is a judicial enquiry, however, the Town Crier is with the majority of citizens in firmly believing that, no matter hat happens, the individual mem- ers of the Public Utilities Comis- sion were (and still are) convinced that they were acting for the best. » Ld LJ A new story is being passed around in which an entirely origin- al racket was worked successtully on a well-known local real estate dealer. A preliminary agreement between the dealer and a prospec tive customer had been entered into, The customer, however, wanted to get out from under and visited the ealer's office asking to see the agreement for the purpose of re- freshing his memory on certain clauses. On getting this document into his hands he ripped off the sig- nature, popped it into his mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it, much to the disgust of the dealer who sincerely hoped that it would give him a bad attack of indigestion. It is a source of never ending wonderment to the Town Crier when members of the City Council, individually and collectively, appear t. take very serious notice of what is said and done at meetings of the different ward ratepayers' associa- tions. Members of the City Coun- cil apparently forget that they have been elected by the majority of el= ectors to transact the city's busi- ness, and to be guided by the opin- fons expressed at sparsely attended meetings of minorities may be log- ically termed a wviblation of the trust imposed in them by the ma- jority, » * M The decision reached by City Council in committee of the whole to go ahead of the Bond Street Bridge is one upon which the Council is to be | commended. Not only will this cre- ate employment but the completed bridge will open up Bond Street as it should have been opened some time ago. The next logical step ap- pears to be for the Council (with the sewage disposal plant temporar- ily shelved) to consider the con- struction of other bridges over the creek on John Street and Louisa Streets. Ld . During the last few days several automobile dealers and manufactur. ers seem to have suffered a drastic reversal of their opinions, For ex- ample if, a few days ago, you had told a Chevrolet dealer that you proposed buying a Ford, his answer would have been "why not buy a car." To-day, however, with the Ontario Government decreeing that license fees will be based on the number of cylinders, that = same Chevrolet dealer will bring up all kinds of arguments to prove that the Ford is just as heavy, covers just as much mileage, tears up just as much road surface, etc, etc, as any six-cylinder car on the market, h well, "every dog has his day." Mayor Ernie Marks and the members of the City Council seldom have, a free evening these days, there being a meeting of some com- mittee or other practically every night and every alderman feels, for some reason, that it is his duty to attend. Whether the Town Crier is recognized as an authority on such matters or not, he cannot help making some criticisms and sug- gestions in this respect. To start with the committees of council are too big, and too unweildy; no com- mittee of council should have more than five members. Secondly, al- though other members of council, non-members of a committee, should be at liberty to attend a committee meeting they should not be permit- ted to talk or enter into any discus- sion regarding any matter being considered by the committee, Third- ly, regular meeting nights should be named by each committee and these nights rigidly adhered to as a mat- ter of routine. Fourthly, each com mittee should be given authority to purchase its own supplies up to a maximum expenditure, say $150, the Purchasing Committee being only a "fifth wheel to the cart." Fifthly, the representative of the local press should be admitted to all committee meetings (with the exception of Finance Committee) so that. the other members of City Council will learn what each committee is do- ing, and the people whom Council is elected to serve will also be in touch with the business transacted. the Finance Committee should be composed of the Mayor as chairman, and the chairmen of all other standing committees. Sev- enthly,~but that is enough for one paragraph, THE TOWN CRIER. COULDN'T HAPPEN IN BOSTON A county judge in North Caro- lina telephoned to a newly ap- pointed patrolman that two negroes were driving on a cer tain road with great recklessness; that they were obviously drunk, and that they were "potential murderers." The patrolman hestened to do his duty and in the excitement of the chase he shot one of the delinquents dod. A little later a friend said to him, "Bill, why did you kill that fellow? He was only a traffic offender." "I know that now," replied the new y "but when the judge phoned me that they were poten- tial murderers I n't stop to look the word up--I thought 'po- tential' was just highbrow for 'damned,' "» . pn a id i with the construction | What Manitoba is Doing to Help Unemployment (The following is the first of a series of three articles dealing with unemployment relief pro- frammes in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan), Winnipeg. ~~ Construction work road-buflding, a back-to- the-land movement and direct re- ilef, all play a part in Manitoba's programme designed to aid un- employed numbering approxi- mately 40,000, according to pro- vincial government registrations. Works costing in the neighbor- hood of $3,000,000 have already been approved by federal, pro- vincial and civic authorities, and proposals for expenditure of an additional $6,000,000 are being studied, Of Great Benefit In one respect, at least, the present emergency is likely to prove of great benefit to the pro- vince. Looking about for ways cf putting its unemployed citi- zens to work, the government is prying attention to the opening of new roads in outlying sections. Some of these roads tap areas of rare scenic beauty which in the pot far distant future may at- tract motor tourists in increasing numbers. + Among the more jmportant road projects in the (frontier areas, which form part of the unemployment relief scheme are Turtle Mountain Forest road, a highway to link The Pas with the southern centres and a road from Pine Falls to Lac du Bunnet. New Bulldings Construction work under way includes a new Science building for the University of Manitoba, in the municipality of Fort Garry, adjoining Winnipeg, at a cost of $700,000, Another large build- ing project going forward is a civic auditorium or. the Mall, in Winnlueg, at an estimated cost of £1,000,000, An addition to the Brandon provincial mental hos- pital, costing about $40,000 is also being proceeded with, Project Approved Federal approval of the con- ttruetion of the Salter street via- duct, in Winnipeg, at an esti- mated cost of $1,200,000 provid- ed work for a large number of skiiled and unskilled men for a considerable pepiod. Further re- lie" to the city's unemployed was made available in a varied pro- gramme of park improvements, 108u construction, sewer and sidewalk laying Completion of the province's part of the Trans-Canada high. way forms a part of the relief programme but does not bulk as jarge as in some other provinces. The reason for this is that a good part of the road is already bullt and on the section remaining the nature of the country does not re- «uire the extensive work of bush entting and rock removal needed in Northern Ontario. Trans-Canada Road fome work is being carried on fn Manitoba on the Trans-Can- ada highway In the eastern sec- tion towards the Ontario bhoun- diry and is heing done largely under contract. It does not lend ftyelf to the establishment of camps for large bodies of work- ere Recently some 70 or 80 men were put to, work in this section. Relief measures in Manitoba are under the direction of the de- partment of public works and of- firlsls of the department are kept bus; 'keeping the relief ma- chinery In motion and arranging for the launching of new works. Owing to financi 1 conditions Pre- mier John Brackén holds out no ussnrance that everyone will be glven work. It has been esti- mnved that to give half-time work to all workless during the next 33 Months would cost $28,000,- Regarding this expenditure out of the question the province be- gan its discussions with the fed- eral government on a basis of $16.000,000 and presented for epproval a schedule of work ac- tually mapped out, totalling about $9,000,000, Many ftems remain to be approved, but en- ough has been sanctiondd to get the programme well under way, Prompt attention is paid to the cases of actual distress and direct relief in the form of food, fuel and clothing is furnished. The cost of this relief has been found considerably less than that of providing work and, in con- Junction with some of the muni- cipalities, relief of this kind is being provided in return for work done for the municipality, Two Purposes Served In this way two purposes are served. Acute distress is avoid- ed at small cost and the unem- ploved who in most cases are anxious to work have the satis- faction of knowing they are not in receipt of charity, A com- plete list of municipal and public requirements is included in the relief programme. Improvement and extension of sewers, side walks and pavements, schools and other public buildings are being carried on wherever pos- sible. In order to assist in providing work at the same time make fuel more readily available where needed,a scheme of providing freight rebates on cord.wood {= under discussion. This would ald both farmers and others who inve an opportunity to cut and sell wood and provide fuel at a lower cost to those in need, Pro- vision of $50,000 for this pur- pore is proposed, Back-to-the.Land The back-to-the-land move- ment will he watched with great juterest, Under a plan, which has been approved, 200 selected families are to be established on {improved farms. These families will be advanced up to $1,000. About $100.00 will place one fa- nily on the land and remaining advances would cover equipment and food. Proponents of the scheme argue that it would cost less than direct relief and result in establishing these people as solid citizens of a farming com- munity. Expenditure of $90,000 of Joint-relief money for cing ningle men on farms and in forest reserve camps has also heen au- thorized. The sum of five dol- lars per month will be pald to the tarmer taking the man and an equal sum will be paid to the man going on the farm, Work- ers on forest camps will be paid $1.60 daily from which 85 cents ix to be deducted for board. Care and Strain by C. H. Tuck, Opt. D | | A college professor in recent mon- (Copyright, 1928) INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS; AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION Part § These harmful rays are those on the extreme end of the spectrum and more easily seen when the spec- trum rays are taken on a photo- ~raph where the camera adjusted to operate at a higher frequency than the rays of light travels will show on the plate as many more rays as those already seen. It is these invisible rays, travel. ling at a higher frequency than the eve are accustomed to, are found to be dangerous to vision. There is a radiancy of higher fre- quency and as radiant energy of lower frequency that are alike harm- ful to the eyes, these consist in actinic rays and heat. The rays of heat are of lower frequency and may be telt as heat before the higher frequency known as light is attained. e means of protection against heat may be found in head and shoulder covere ing with a visor opening or in such 'protection as may be worked out to be used in connection with the working, conditions. i (To be Continued) MARVIN E. HOLDERNESS, VICE - PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ST. LOUIS, SAYS: THAT whistling is almost a lost art, When you and I were kids everybody whistled. Whistlers were poor, good, better and best, but it was a useful art and everybody practiced it, regardless of age, sex. color or locality, There was the shill oistls 1 used for sianal or all rposes ; tunetu; whistle t! carried perfectly the notes of poou- lar melodies; the short or long ex- clamatory whistle, denoting plea- sure, disappointment, fear, surprise, a note for every sudden change in the gamut of human feeling. Josh Billings once said he could always go down into the dark cellar much more courageously if he whistled his way. We whistled in the sun- shine and we whistled in the dark. Jimmy Jones, as the champion whistler of Dallas County back in the '90's, was just as famous as Dick Daily is today, even if Dick is | captain and quarterback of the For~ | dyce High, Champions of the State. | GOOD OLD WHISTLIN ths wrote a derogatory and decry- ing editorial on the practice of whistling, but, it is doubtful whether anybody took seriously his outburst against the simple and manly art. Surely no red-blooded American wotlld ever concede that whistling voices low mentality or evidences an admission of defeat. We shall have to look further for the decline of the practice. Have the radio and the professional entertainers made us ashamed to "pucker"? Or, are we so materialistic that we are get- ting away from nature's simple, joy- fuul and profitable usages. This is just one study on the sub- ject of living happy lives. The soon- er we cease to strive for the arti- ficial, the sooner shall we be happy. Let us be our real selves over again whistling, singing and dancing an leading the simple life. It isn't necessary for al) of us to get rich, and we don't have to keep up with the Joneses, Back yonder somé of us didn't see any money but once a year, and not very much then, but we had three square meals a day, and a warm place to sleep. * Too many people expect too much now- adays, and don't realize that they could be happy with much less, ACK TO THE LET US HARK BAC DAYS. VIVID STORY OF LIE IN ARGTIC Mrs. L O. Stringer, Wife of Archbishop, Tells Colorful Story Winnipeg, Man.--In the spring of 1805 a young bride set out trom Kincardine, Ont.,, to share with her husband the arduous lite of the missionary in the re- mote stretches of Arctic, Look- ing amazingly young, despite 38 years spent in ministering to her Eskimo "parishioners" Mrs, I. O. . Stringer, wife of the present archbishop of Rupert's Land re- lated ber experiences here recent- ly in a colorful talk here before the Women's Canadian Club, Mrs, Stringer was the first woman to set foot on Herschel Island. At that time the Hudson's Bay company or the Mounted Po- lice had no established posts on the island. Her first home, she related, was a ome-roomed hut of sod. Later the sod hut was re- placed by a house of timber, brought north from San Francis- co, a 2000-mile voyage, It be- came known as "Igloopukk,"-- the biggest house. The First Convert Seventeen years passed, Mrs. Stringer said, before the first convert rewarded their efforts. She told of finding fierce-look- ing chieftains who pierced thelr lips and decked them with huge ornaments, of natives whose sole purpose it was to kill when ane gered of women skilful in stitch- ing and fancy work beyond any civilized people, and of a fine spiritual response--all of which was woven into the fabric of her life through years of service in the Arctic, At first Mrs, Stringer was ter- rifled when stalwart Eskimos with bedecked faces, big head drésses and shaven heads wonld come into her house, brandishing the knives they always carried. She soon learned, however, that it was only curiosity that hrought them, Both men and women are exceedingly clever in making boats without nails and fashion- ing vessels from horns, Ad rs The womenfolk of these "Children of the Arctic' were adept at the dressmaking art, Mr, Stringer sald. Using a queer- curved knife they can fashion a garment with amazing speed. They are sticklers for style, too, she remarked, each garment showing rare and lovely patterns inset with bits of white fur. Worries of housgcleaning--a nightmare to the average house- keeper, have yet to be experi enced by the ladies of the North, Mrs. Stringer remarked. The Eskimo can bulid an igloo in an hour which means that when one house gets uncomfortably dirty the family move into another. Language Barriers Language barriers proved an obstacle to missionary work at first but by degrees the Eskimo took in a little schoo! which was established for their benefit. Later on, other "special schools" were set up on the island where natives are now taught -the rudi ments of education, animal hus- bandry and a determined effort uow is being made to encourage them in remdeer ranching, Mrs. Stringer did not dwell on the hardships of her life in the North but told in passing of her two eldest children who were born on Herschel Island with her husband as doctor, nurse and at- tendant. Her son, Herschel, is a missionary doctor on the Colum- bia river today and her daugh- ter, Mrs. J. Wilkinson, recently returned home from India. In all her vivid tale no feature won more applause than her portrayal of a native war song, chanted to the weird sound of the Eskimo drum which was often heard on dark nights in the far north, Teacher -- What is a creditor, Robert? Young Pupil -- A man who must be told that daddy is not at home, For OVER 47 YEARS A SAFE PLACE FOR SAVINGS. OO CENTRAL ADA IPAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY KING AND YICTORIA STS. . TORONTO 23 SIMCOE BT. N,, OFHAWA 2 ESTABLISHED i884 Be Discussion at Conference In connection with the case, it may be noted that the ourth Im- perial Press Conference (June, 1930) discussed the matter of "lfting" and placed the question before a committee, It was deeid- ed, after delineation of the legal position by solicitors, that the sits uation would best be met by a general appeal to newspaper pro- prietors and editors throughout the Empire. The legal position was noted as "Every article which is an origin- al literary work, and which is first published within the Empire, is the subject of copyright throughout the Empire, x xX Xx X It §8 not necessary for the ownet of the copyright to comply with any formalities to gain protection X x X Xx The only mate~ial excep- tion is that a person moy exercise a fair dealing with the article for the purpose of criticirm, review or newspaper summary. 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