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a rr ---- a ------ a T_T FOUR A Oshawa Daily Tim : Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER pic" (Establisted 1871) lished ase lh das Oo Chas, M. Noon Feeaitens A PB. Alloway. Managing Director. een, De Chit Bate Magar. fo prs Asso Gan Press th a ovincal Dailies 40d the Audit Bnreau of Circulations, : } ION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa and subsrbs, 12c. & WA XR vear, is ates $03 yar oRONTO OFFICE ing, 65 Temperance Street, Telephone 18 Bond ie 107" HD, Teesidder, repreeantative, An independent noon except : SATURDAY DECEMBER 12th, 1931. An Opportunity to Help : Oshawa The next two or three weeks, preceding the Christmas season, present to the peo- +. ple of Oshawa a splendid opportunity to show their civic loyalty and patriotism, In ' these weeks, thousands of dollars,--yes,-- "tens of thousands of dollars. will be spent by the people of this city in the purchasing of Christmas 'gifts. In spite of the times through which the city has passed, there are still enough people who have not suf- fered greatly from depression to present a considerable spending force before Decem- her 25. If there could be an assurance that all of this money would be spent in the stores of Oshawa, it would mean a great stimulus to business in the city. In common with other classes, the merchants have come through trying times.' The adoption of a solicy of doing Christmas shopping at home would be a wonderful help to them at pre- sent. But, unfortunately, each year thous- ands of orders go out of the city, to help build up the Christmas business of mer chants everywhere, It is not only a question of civic loyalty that should prompt Oshawa citizens to do their Christmas shopping in Oshawa. We believe that the careful shopper can spend his or her money just as profitably in Osh awa as anywhere else, that the local stores present just as good opportunities for thrifty shopping as those of any other city. From that standpoint, as well as from the standpoint of patriotism to the community, it would be worth while for every citizen to at least see what the local stores have ' offer, without buying elsewhere. If that were done generally, the business of the city would improve tremendously, and economic conditiops in the city generally would be greatly stimulated. The Minister's Statement The statement issued by the minister of pensions and national health, in which he gives the impression that he is well satis- fied with the workings of the amended pen- sion act, and its machinery of administra- tion, shows that he is out of touch with his own department problems. One does not have to ge any further than our city of Oshawa to find abundant proof that the pension act is not being administered fairly, . There are men in this city today, suffer- ing from disabilities which are patently the result of their war service, who have - been unable to secure any satisfaction in heir claims for recognition. There are thers who, having been successful in their applications to the pension tribunal, are now forced to wait for months for satis- faction because the board of pensions com- "missioners is making wholesale appeals against tribunal decisions, ® What is happening in Oshawa is being _duplicited in many other parts of the coun- try. In the larger centres the condition *N is aggravated proportionately. 'Abundant evidence can be produced, and it is being compiled for presentation to parliament, to show that there are innumerable instances of hardship and injustice because Clause 3 of the pensions act, which provides that lie doubt, is being ignored by the pension 'the applicant must be given the benefit of appeal court, It is true, as the minister states, that Canada's annual pension bill has increased by over three and a half million dollars. But we cannot believe that the people of ' Canada would object to paying the extra money required in order that those who suffered disability in defence of their cotm- try should pot suffer from hardship and because of that disability. That is 'all that the veterans themselves are ask- ing. And in asking it, they insist that trusted with administering the s act should ®e instructed by the ponsible minister to perform their duties 'the spirit in which parliament intended. Parliament, in amending the pension act, nt it to be symptheticall e is still a superfluity of red tape still of hair-splitting technicalities, and 'men who ve only the most gener- ous treatment at the hands of their coun- are being made to suffer. If the minis- 'of pensions does not know of this, then "| he is ignorant of what is going on in his rh he = a y. administer- 'ed. But under the present administration, Ah no own department. If he does know of it and refuses to admit it, then he has fore- feited the confidence of his parliamentary colleagues, . yo A World Conference Premier MacDonald has announced that a conference of the nations of the world is to be held, for the purpose of discussing the economic ills from which the world is suffering. The idea behind this is that by such a conference it might be possible to link the various governments together in a rea) effort to solve the problems of econ- omic deterioration, and thus give the world a more hopeful outlook. 1t is true that the world needs such an effort. There is now some hope that it might accomplish something. The last few years have shown the world that no nation can stand alone. They have proven how dependent nations are upon each other for their prosperity. They have proven that when one or two nations are suffering from. economic troubles, the whole is seriously affected. : With that realization, there is hope that a 'conference of the nature proposed by Mr, MacDonald might be useful. The day is past when it is possible for nations to stand aloof from each other, Problems of trade and commerce, problems of inter- national debts» which are at the root of most of the economic ills of the present day, need to be approached in an open-minded manner, stripped of every vestige of na- tional jealousy and pride. They need to be faced as ills affecting the whole of the na- tions of the world, and dealt with in a spirit of mutual helpfulness, because, before there can be any permanent solution of these ills, there must be a willingness on the part of some nations to make sacrifices for the common good, Editorial Notes At last we have an admission that the Liberal-Progressives are really progressive Liberals, Any project which will employ labor is interesting at the.present time, For that reason, we hope that the possibility of a new hospital wing soon becomes a reality, With the General Motors plant in pro- duction. and relief work well on the way, it is encouraging to find that the majority of those who were unemployed three months ago are now working at least part of the time, QOshawa's increased payrolls should soon have a very stimulating effect on business generally in the city. [ Py Other Editor's Comments RETRENCHMENT AND DEPRESSION (Culcutta Englishman) A sharp halt to the post-war extravagance of the past decade, common to almost every nation in the world, obviously had to be called, but there is a danger that we are rushing onto the other ex- treme, For the present world-wide depression there 'are probably as many reason advanced as there are economic professors, but all the pundits seem agreed that the outstanding feature of the situation, be it cause, or be it effect, or be it mere symptom, 'has been a catastrophic decline in prices, This decline is going to be accentuated if in the period ahead of us retrenchment is to be a wuni- versal and marked as living beyond our means has been notorious ever since the guns ceased firing in Navember, 1918, BITS OF HUMOR THE VERY THING (The Humorist) Mr, Brown: How do yeu like this house? Shall we buy it? Mrs, Brown: Oh, it's perfectly lovely! The view Jom this balcony is so finz that it leaves me speech« ess, Mr. Brown: Then we'll buy it, SECRET AMBITIONS Ambition of 1870~A gig and a gal. Ambition of 1920--A flivver and a flapper. Ambition of 1950--A plane and a jane. Ambition of 1975-7 ¢ ? t ¢ ? ER hh "The flowers that brighten Life's rugged way Are the things that we do Rest Ye And the things that we wy e concert for the dra- /3. tree, To carol was pare The climax of he tableaux of the cholr sing- labys with Miss soprano soloist, used as the re. "THE FIRST SNOW 1S F. All the hills are purple now, A gold leaf hangs on a still g Over the barn, where a lowi Suckles her first-born calf, By an exquisite silence, we Tonight we shall have the y Cattle nose leeward -and re A few flakes are falling. nder the direction n who brought to Sherbourne Street White on water-hole, wet nto, To him much Mud on road, and mud ons of the evening 1s Winter's unalterable, alterflva Lynch of the The first snow is fallinggity of the College was f the School commit. 8 assisted by the fac- o students, Miss Clara a8 responsible for ihe { The decorations an Till mountain snows s And ne lands to w were all done by The frst snow is fallji0ol Art Department under ction of Miss Audrey Tay Quietly, n unquiet f° ; ! ackenzle, or darkd entire evening was con- Straits of Juan, Pod one of the most colorful Canada's snow cor ever held in the history of : pllege and it is the intention ead softly, thdla Sehool to make the pageant or the first snoj i . West Summerland, B. LA in fhe Col (Tread softly, then, an Tor the first snow is fi With silent and unhesi i Che Toon Crier ETE iE . and [od » rr se must " ~ a eh Bl Fa Here's an argument that some- body. ean use if they sec fit when advocating the general vote method o electing the city's aldermen ;-- nder existing conditions, with ald- ermen elected from each of the gity's. wards, the Tax Collector is instructed W the Finance Commit- tee of the City Council to "go out and get the money", drastic penal- ties being promised if this unfor- tunate official is not successful in his efforts, On receiving these in- structions the Tax Collector "puts the bailiff in" as an unwelcome vis~ itor at some unfortunate citizen's home. This citizen immediately ap- peals to one, other, or all of the aldermen representing the ward in which he resides, These aldermen 0 to the Tax Collector and say, n effect, "here, Mister, you may have been told to get the money in but don't you get putting the bailiff in on any of the electors in our wartl, Give your attention to some other ward, but not ours," And so the world goes on, taxes remain un- paid, and the poor Tax Collector's gray hairs are brought in sorrow to the grave, Ld »> During the past week the Town Crier has received many requests 'or copies of the original version of The First Noel following his action in drawing attention to the much mutilated version, almost unrecog- nizable and quite '"un-singable", which appears in all modern Cana- dian Hymn Books. The Town Crier himself finds that he is unable to get much further than the end of the second verse of this magnificent old carol, even though he 'taxes his childhood memories to the utter most, but can promise the interest- ed readers of this column that the original version will appear in the columns of The Times (through the co-operation of the editor) in good time before Christmas, . Public bodies -- City Councils, Public Utilities Commissions, and Boards of Education, are usually the targets for more criticism than any other body in any city of the entire world, and yet, after all, evs ery city gets just the council, com- mission and board that i» deserves-- nothing more and nothing less, When citizens indulge in criticism of these bodies they ure criticising themselves. 1f an industrial organ~ ization--a newspaper for instance, gmploy) a man that makes mistakes and gives unsatisfactory service then it is the organization which is to be censured, The man should have never been 'employed and shoyld be fired at the first oppor- tunity, Just the same with civi¢ bod- jes. It is the electors who place them in office and it is the electors who are to blame if things go wrong. The moral of all this is, of course, get the best men to run and elect them, after which let them alone to do the citys business in their own way, There is only one unfortunate circumstance about the whole matter and that is there is no opportunity to fire them until the end of the year. Every man and woman with a vote must bear his or her proportionate share of the responsibility of a good or bad civ- ic government, and if the voters employ inefficient servants then they have only themselves to blame. LJ When the men from Oshawa first w.nt to the construction camps es tablished by the Government as a measure of relief from unemploy~ ment all reports said "cverything in the garden is lovely" Some of these men have now been away The glamour of their surrongg et. is beginning to wey | ig i getting homesick "6 Mlzpan Bene a 1 the school Christe " vacert with Christmas Tree - Yr danta Claus, on Friday, Dec. ' Wi, in the community hall, Mr. Charles Staples, Angus- ville, Man,, recently visited his brother, Mr. Wm, Staples, Mrs. Robt, McCullough, Mrs, Donald Davey and Keith, recent- ly visited Mrs, Ernest Werry, En niskillen, Quite a number enjoyed a dance and social time in the community hall on Wednesday evening. Miss Lola Richards is visiting her sister, Mrs, Howard Findley, Unionville, Mr, and Mrs, A, W, Annis, Miss Adelaide and Mr, Lorne Annis recently visited at Mr, Allen An- nig's, Oshawa. Mrs, Jas, Storie spent a few days at Mr, O, D, Hodgson's, Bowmanville, Mr. Edward Virtue has re- turned home after visiting friends in Toronto and Thornhill, Mr. W, MacDonald and Cath. erine, Cobourg, spent the weeks end at Mr. Willis Stewart's, Glad to report' Mr, Stewart able to he up around after hjs recent accl- dent, i The sympathy of this commun- ity is extended to Mr, Ww. Park, in the death of his mother at Newcastle,on-Tyne, England, Mr, and Mrs, Robt, Hodgson, Mr. James Hodgson, Mr. and Mrs Raymond Clapp, Miss Nina Hodgson, spent Sunday at Mr. ¢ D. Hodgson's, Bowmanville, Mrs, D, K, Fraser, Bethesda re- Safe Speody Relief fis? SCIATICA Polsons along sciatic nerve For uk ra Te 's 60s and 31 at all drugglev from home for three months or so, # JAMES ¥, TAGGART, EDITOR OF THE BRAWLEY (CALIFOR- NIA) NEWS, SAYS: "One of our subscribers wants fo know, in a rather peevish tone, why we print the facts about heat deaths fn Imperial Valley. He says such publication gives Brawley a black eye. He favors suppression-of the news-- to let Rumor tell the story and make Three Black Crows of it, Suppression of the truth always has been favored by long-since- gone apd good-giddance persons, usually despots" who could not stand thé gaff of being looked st by the public save through smoked glasses, We print items ¢hout heat prostrations here in Imperial valley because such items are news ----- home town news, which is 100 per cent news here at home, Heat prostrations in Chicago we quite often throw in the waste hasket; they are not home town news, ' "Printing the news ig the prim- ary function of this newspaper, the same as it' Is with every oth- er real newspaper in America, Many subscribers pay hard cash for the Brawley News, They pay their money for a commodity and in return expect full, standard measure, News is just as much an commodity purchasable as Is sugar at the grocery or gasoline at the service station. The house- wife who is glven short weight in sugar has immediate recourse in the law. The auto driver who Is given inferior gasoline when he asks for and pays for a su- perior brand also has immediate recourse in the law, The news paper that gives short weight in news is not in danger of the written law, but he already Is overtaken by the moral law, And gooner or later the eternal law of compensation, older than Sin- ai's code, wil] overtake that news- paper, when the palsey of suspl- cion at suppression settles upon that publication, "If nowspapers generally were to suppress news, the billions of capital Invested in gathering, preparing and disseminating the news would he, as assets, ahout upon a par with a lot of the war dehts owing ue, Newspapers are not published with the idea, pri- marily, of affording their patrons un record of happenings which may be ideal morally and spirit. ually, viewing the grist of items. Instead the array presented is that which, experience shows, is most interesting to the largest number, And when 43 persons in this valley in a single week- end are victims of heat, people are interested in the fact, judg- ing from talk heard everywhere, "No, the successful newspaper does not afford its readers a mass of information which, perhaps, vould be the best ultimately for their minds and souls, The suc~ cessful newspaper gives its read- ers what they want to read, And such newspapers which would as- sume a school-teacher attitude editorially are headed for bank- ruptey--~or absorption by the newspaper across the street or around the corner that has more buriness sense, FW NELES GROGERY GIVES G00D SERVICE ES + Cap- "Buy at Nelles" lupervised Sl f ot eather work, ogan OFent an enjoyable Waking a variety of tnings in pretty colours, ad as table napkin rings, purses, billfolds, pencil cases, ete, The girls are learning all they can about Nature from Miss K. Hezzelwood, who took some of the Guides for a hike last Satur. day to gather winter buds, 8rd Oshawa Guides There were no dolls left at the Toy Shop for 8rd Company to dress so the girls are mak- ing another rald on all the attics and basements and other places where there is a possibile ity of any used tops hiding, They cantly visited her mother Mrs. W, Little, Messrs, James and Floyd Dud. ley have had thelr house wired for electric lights, Several from here attended the Durham County Liberal meet- ing held at Newcastle on Tues- day evening and heard Mitchell F. Hepburn M.P,, Liberal leader of Ontario, speal:. \ N. OSHAWA NEWS (Mrs, Solomon, Correspondent) North Oshawa, Dec, 8. Church service was held again Sunday evening when Mr, Rich. ard Wilkins conducted the ser- vice. Several young men accom- panied Mr, Wilkins and treated the audience with songs. Mr. and Mrs, Gordon White have the sympathy ot their North Oshawa friends in the death of Mrs, White's father, Mr. Mackle, of Brooklin, The funeral was held Wednesday, The day school is belng decor. ated for the Christmas cohcerts which will be held in each room in the afternoon this year, The 8.8. pupils are practising for their concert which will be held on a date to be announced later, Measles are reported here, Seve eral homes are placarded. We hope it does mot reach the epi- demig stage, = - _ : BRITISH TARIFF NOT BOYCOTT OF OTHER COUNTRY Frank D. Waterman Studies Effect of Campaign For Empire Trade Montreal, Dec, 12~The new Tariff adjustments recently intro- duced and passed by the National Government of Great Britain, are not a boycott aimed at the goods of any particular country, is the opinion of Frank D, Waterman, President of the L, E. Waterman Fountain Pen Company, who was interviewed this evening at the C.P.R, Windsor Street Station, Mr. Waterman: has just returned from a visit to England, where he has been studying the situation brought about by Great Britain's change of policy with regard to her tariff laws, "The 'Buy British' campaign so splendidly endorsed by the Prince of Wales ig sweep ing the country." Mr. Waterman, who has been on a flying visit to Montreal where one of the Waterman Foun- tain Pen Company factories has been located for over twenty-five years, belleveg that the raising of the tariff in Great Britain against goods not manufactured within the British Empire will undoubt- edly be a great help to Canada, He sald that Mr, Bennett, the Prime Minister, had expressed his unbounded faith in the future of Canada and Canadian Industry while we were en route to Eng- land, "I algo have a gimilar faith in this country," Mr, Waterman said, "I believe that if we, the Water~ man Pen Company, continue our present extensive newspaper ade vertising campaign and keep up our high standard of wmanufac- ture, there is a splendid future in Canada for the marketing of our goods. Mr, Waterman then intimated that the Waterman fac- tory at St, Lambert would prob- ably be greatly enlarged in the near future, as all the Company's products for export to Great Brit- ain would he manufactured at this plant, as well ag those which are already being manufactured for export to the British Domine fons. The enlargement will give inereased and steady employment to many Canadians,' "I was very much impressed hy the fact that retail trade in Eng- land appears to be in remarkably good shape," Mr, Waterman also declared, "There is no epidemic of price slashing, nor are they giving away any articles to en- courage the sale of others, That sort of policy newer makes for the bullding up of a business." WHAT OTHERS SAY SECOND-HAND BOOTS 215 Nassau St., Oshawa December 10, 31, To the Editor of The Times: Dear Sir, . Do you not think it a disgrace to ask for discarded boots and rubbers for out-of-work single men, Surely with all the money that has been collected for the Welfare, there is enough to supply the single men, as well as the married men with children, who have all they require and many have work besides, but hoots are the last thing that should be second-hand, thanking you, I am, Yours truly, Ada Morgan, Vegetable Growers Met Kingston.--The annual banquet of th Kingston branch of the Ontario Miwatable Growers' Association was with orgvcen's Cale on Wednes- which 18 to" was a highly success- ernment of there was a large at- force and violdy bers of the assor Radicals Awisitors and those "The reportatiol table included enemies of the cowretary-treasur- tinued, 'requires wmetable Grow- than the case of amitush, Toronto, Their activities are Sjation; Walter such an insidious 19! the Kings- necessary proof is dif\eyes, secre- cover . . . deportat'® Kingston ing are hampered . .°°°k, Re . sistent propaganda ¢& And Alder. of un-American orgay°r'o" ~The American citizens, Th MINE Was stant in their defencq a ota the dealt oting the decline | tion consequent upon Le 5 laws during the past j,i, Charles century, the secrely,;chin of St. the estimate for ch here, Rev, year 1981, is 43,886) A I. Clark with 1,387,318 for vice and the The report furthf, Bishop and that the allen be rénally presents as bright as a 14-yehurch to the school student and tson will have know English befoxregations, St. sworn to citizenship! John's, sixth At present, a forefirist Church, son must reside in five year but there Small Submarine Vessel of Future London, ~~ The submarine Ewordfish, which was launched st Chatham recently, represents sa drastic departure from the policy that has governed British sub- marine construction for many years, Hitherto these boats have shiown a progressive increase in size, Our war-time "E" craft of 700 odd tons were six times as large as the first British subma- rines, and since the peace we have heen building boats twice as hea- vy 8s the "E" class, But in the Swordfish and her sister Sturgeon we bave reverted to small dimensions, Displacing only 640 tons each, they will be lighter than the pre-war type. At froi sight the Admiralty, in de- signing such little craft, would appear to have sacrificed fighting power to economy, but that does not by any means follow, In sur- face warships size is a fairly re- liable index to combatant power, in submarines it is not, A small submarine ig casler to handle, and therefore safer, than i large one, It can navigate shal- iwws where the larger boat would OR OVER 47 YEARS A SAFE PLACE FOR SAVINGS. oO CENTRAL CANAD 1PAN AND SAVING! COMPANY KING AND VICTORIA $75., TO £8 SIMCOE BT, N., OSHAWA [YA ESTABLISHED 1864 JF be as helpless as a stranded whale, It can dive more quick] and manoeuvre under water with greater facllity--two points of capital importance in war, Being armed with torpedoes of equal power, its attack is vo less deadly than that of a big submarine, As for eruising endurance, there is not much to choose between the giant and the dwarf, Moreover, since the handling of on, submarine is essentially a one- man job, there fs a distinct ad- vantage in restricting the ton- nage of the hoat to the lowest practical figure, The captain then has everything under his immedi- ate eye, He has only to glance forward and aft to see what all iis men are doing. He can issue his orders verbally and watch them being carried out, The risk of error is virtually eliminated, and since the slightest mistake may well prove fatal fn subma- vine navigation, this personal su- pervision by the gaptain is one of the best safeguards against disas. ter It cannot, be exercised to the same degree in a large boat, v here part of the crew must per- force be stationed in compart ments beyond the captain's vision and orders have to be mechanical- ly transmitted. In war and peace alike a submarine running below the surface is entirely at the mercy of the captain, Standing at the periscope, he alone is able to see what is happening above, His men, completely shut off from the outer world, can only guess what is going on from the orders he issues. For all they know to the contrary the steel prow of a destroyer ora mer- chanteman may be rushing straight at them, in which case only a swift plunge into the low- er depthg-ean save them from de- struction, It is true that our sudb- marine sailors are trained to meet every emergency, but in such mo- ments they can only obey orders of their captain, whose shoulders must bear the full weight of re- sponsibility for the safety of boat and crew, The fact that the most brilliant submarine exploits of the war wero performed by small boats is no mere coincidence, Subma- rines no larger, and in some cases even smaller, than the Sword broke through the defences of Dardanelles to play hivoe in Sea of Marmora, Others no their way into the Baltle, wh they proved a thorn in the e my's side. Diminutive submarf on each side destroyed great ships. Small submarines offer gre scope for personal enterprise initiative, They are risked m freely than their big sisters, thus achieve better results, they have the additional meri cacapness, "A wee nip changes things" The first nip of cold weal makes washing at hi even less attractive as us Hanging out clothes in ter is no work for a wo when she can use an up the-minute laundry at cost and get even b work done. This laun affords a wide range choice with its eight di ent kinds of family service, The prices on vary according' to the done = all 'are extren reasonable, Phone to-da stop any onc of our cg teous driver-salesmen use our "cash and ca department,' Phone 788 ORM RINTORE z IONE Wa In 4 4 434 Simcoe Street South pi SA + aE SACRED AND EDUCATIONAL CONCERT SPONSORED BY 4 BAND OF THE ONTARIO REGIMENT ASSISTED BY MRS. E. F. 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