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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 195% dF E170 Ne 'The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER ~ (Establisted 1871) every aites- : blisi.ed independent, mead lea) holidays st Oshe Limes Chas. M. Mundy. t anaging Director. e Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana Canadian Ni pes Assos tario as Baty | Ds es nd the nreau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES we carrier in Oshawa and suburbs, » i Oshawa car- mall In Ca suiside Dita States B er delivery limits) $3.00 a vear, $4003 YT ORONTO OFFICE 2 1ding, 66 Temperance Street. Telephone 8 Bond 7 HD. Tresidder. represantative. "TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22nd, 1931, There's a Reason mparisons are invidious, but the other 3 | aphgh a conversation in which i" the chief theme of discussion was the part | taken by service club members in the muni- cipal affairs of Oshawa. It was pointed out that while these service club members took but little part in the work of the city coun- cil, they. were quite keenly interested in the Board of Education, there being several club members in that body. For years, the personnel of the Board of Education has been of a very high stan- dard, prominent business and professional men having no hesitation in offering their services for that body. Yet, under the pre- gent system of municipal elections it has not been possible ® secure men of that type city council. oe or for this is not far to seek. The men who are willing to stand for elec- "tion in a citywide vote are averse to tak- ing part in aldermanic elections fought out "7 on the narrow ward basis. Should the ald- ermanic election system be changed as a re- sult of the bylaws which are now before the electors, and a citywide vote be taken © for council, it is safe to assume that a better © type of candidate will be available for the council. In making this statement, we do not in any way disparage those who have _ given good service as aldermen. We simply "make a statement of fact, a statement that : should be obvious to every thinking citizen. Yn spite of the Board of Education being E gelected by citywide vote, the south half of . © the city is almost evenly represented with | the north half. Four of the school trustees live south of King Street and five north of King Street, which is about as even a division as could possibly be made. This shows that, under a general vote of the sity, it is quite possible to have even re- resentation, providing the type of men standing for election is sufficiently good to to all classes of citizens. That is the aim of those who are support- ing the bylaws on which the electors will vote on January 4, and who believe that it necessary that they should be carried in r to give the city a more businesslike and efficient administration. The Australian Election £ idle Labor government in Autralia has iy She same way as the Labor govern- nt in Great Britain, In the general elec- n of last Saturday, it suffered a crushing efeat, and was thrown out of power by the mass effort of the electors. In its place there arises a coalition government, headed v the leader of the United Australian arty, a party. which came into being be- eause 074 realization that a union of forces was necessary in order to guide the Aus- an Commonwealth through a critical iod in its history. The defeat of the Labor government in stralia is even more significant than that the British Labor government. Labor s been well entrenched 2 a political force in Australia. It has been in power on sev- joa jons, and has largely controlled stralian politics. : The significance of this election, as of at in Britain, is that sectionalism cannot eu ceed when a crisis appears. Class gov- ernment must then give way to National overnment. That is what happened in cases. Parties which refused to co- s with other parties for the welfare e whole country have been told in no takable terms that their policies are , and their united opponents have en given the place of power and respon- Siblility. & ; 5 Th iN worthy of more than a passing hought by the government of this coun- vy. Canada can well offord to have a ent critical period in its history. But, h the federal government at Ottawa sed of a strong majority, there is » liklihood that any suggestions along ine would be acceptable. Yet it is not » much to say that a great many people this country are urging a combining of BR Me... by the two great political parties,. er giving the country the er ar of both om an onal government, to tide it through the "From garden And tattered tags of thei But as we were abou : turned Canada's Highway Bill Too Large A note of warning against exeessive highway building in Canada was sounded by Sir Alexander Gibb, Britain's noted engineer, in an address at the Empire Club luncheon in Toronto recently, : With the exception of air transportation, highway trucking was the most expensive way of moving goods when the subsidizing of highways was considered, the speaker said. Referring to the trans-Canada highway, he stated: "Some highways are justified when they are pioneer highways and opening up new sections of the country: but when they be- come parrallel to other means of trans- portation you are piling up a huge debt which your children and your children's children will have to pay." "If 1 have any criticism to offer," he said, "and it is in a kindly spirit that I offer it, you have overspent yourselves. Your facilities are far in advance of your means. Your first great expansion is be- hind you, You can not depend on the same rapid progress that you made in the first thirty years of this century. "Transportation is one of the most ur- gent questions in Canada at the present moment, and on it depends the development of your country more than anywhere else in the world." Editorial Notes Only two more shopping days until Christmas. Late shoppers will have to hurry now. A visit to the Oshawa post office this week dispels much of the atmosphere of depression. It does not look a bit like hard times to see the crowds mailing their Christmas parcels. Ontario's civil servants have voluntarily agreed to have their salaries cut for ten months, But we have a suspicion that the voluntary action was taken to forestall compulsory reductions. It would be interesting to know, too, if the cabinet ministers are going to reduce their own salaries. The ratepayers meetings are doing a good work in putting information before the electors. They would be more useful, however, if more of the electors attended. Nomination day is next Monday, and it looks as if a number of surprises are wait- ing for the public. Other Editor's Comments | COMMERCIAL BROADCASTING (Minneapolis JJournal) Radio programs would indicate that we are a nation of morons. Jazz dance music pre-empts the hours when most busy people would like to listen in. This is interspersed with loathly ¢rooning or crude and supposedly comic dialogue. From seven to ten o'clock cach evening one turns the dial in vain hope, getting a different station at every point, and essentially the same stuff from every one of them, One hears a piano and cheers up for an in- stant, only to discover that it is the prelude to anth- er horrible song. And the advertising announcer draws his wordy trail ove~ the whole dial. As the managing editor of a metropolitan daily remarked not long ago "Some day the average man is going to rise up and sock somebody on the nose, and it is going to be some sock!" THE PRICE OF HOGS : (Fort Rowan News) Hogs this week were selling at $4.20 which was a common price during the last ten years of the 19th century, or between the years 1 and 1900. It is twenty dollars less than it was during the third year of the Great War. Ten good hogs in those days would bring a farmer four hundred to five hundred dollars. Now he receives less. than $% for the same number of hogs. Now he can buy a suit of clothes for $25 that would have cost hinr $50 during the war years. But those were abnor- mal times which we do not wish to see again, and these times are abnormally hard, and may nev- er return after the economic organization of the Fepire. BITS OF HUMOR One way to keep a body from becoming a busy- body is to keep a body busy. Who once milked the cow with crumpled horn? Far away in the city is she They now milk the cow by electricity. The old martinet was lecturing his nephew. "Never known such a generation," said the old man. "You modern boys want too much," The boy was tactfully silent. "Do you know what 1 was getting when I married your aunt," asked his uncle. "No," replied the nephew, realizing the time had et you didn't come to end the argument, "and I BITS OF VERSE by C. H. Tuck, Opt. © (Copyright, 1938) RAYS or, LIGHT Centre of force, projecting en- ergy which may emanate in any direction or in all directions. Light is the cause of color be- ing 'entirely reflected by wnite surfaces and absorbed by black. By complete combinations of fight and different wave lengths we get white light. Light of longest wave length is slowest to travel, has longer fre- quency or less vibrations per sec- ond, this is why red is commonly used in signals. It can be seen at ¢ greater distance. The short- est wave length has a higher fre- quency and can be seen for short- est visible distance, this is violet light, the wave lengths of still greater are invisible, travelling too fast to be perceptible. There are still slower wave lengths than red light, rays con- sisiting in invisible energy. Heat may be measured in wave lengths and as the temperature rises the frequency increases until we have light, Without the sun the source of physical light of the whole solar system all the world would be In darkness. Life on earth began with the creation of light. Life will end with its extinction. Blindness, the loss of vision, shuts out from us the beauties of nature, the sunshine flowers and the pleasure of reading next to a garden of roses is the joy of seeing it. (To be continued) FRED J. WALKER, EDITOR OF THE PITTSBURG (CALI FORNIA) POST DISPATCH, SAYS: "The town that grows is the town that deserves to grow. No community can hope to progress it its leaders are not progressive and do not work to improve it, "Population and wealth go where they are welcomed. The best way to attract them is to give them what they want "Humans like to live where life is pleasant; good parks, piay- grounds, hospitals, schools, streets, churches, theatrps and such attractions have intangible values which stimulate civic growth, "Capital flows where it draws interest. Happy the community which makes it possible for in- dustry to live under the same pleasant conditions which are de- wmanded by the average voter, "THE QUICKEST WAY TO ATTRACT NEW MONEY AND NEW BLOOD TO A COMMUNITY IS TO MAKE THE INDIVIDUALS AND DUSINESS HOUSES AL- READY IN THE FIELD AS PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY AS POSSIBLE." MARINERS' EXAMS Trigonometry Is Now Nec- essary -- Montreal School Opens Montreal. --The intricacies of trig- onometry and the mysteries ef ship construction are elements added in the past decade to the task of the mariner in search of a master or mate's sea-going ticket, states Capt. Raymond, principal of the harbor front nautical school, Compared with 11 years ago, when he began to teach, examinations-are getting harder every year, he point- ed out, and the period nceded for study has been lengthened as a con- sequence by at least two months. nother of the problems added to the list of those facing students con- cerns plotting a shop's position. Time was, Capt. Raymond said, when an ordinary chart was deemed sufficient for this purpose but now the budding ship's master has to learn how to construct a Mercetor chart. Nature closes up the St. Lawrence in the winter months but during this time of quictness on the harbor front these nautical students are meeting each day in the Montreal Sailors' Institute preparing-to navi- gale the great waterway when the ron grip of winter is unclasped. They commenced their work this month, . Higher Standard / In spite of the depression dnd the scarcity of work, only two less are taking instruction at the school than either," FROST IN THE NIGHT Last night before the third cock crew, the flowers Began to marshal on the broad highway, nook and field they came for hours And formed their ranks in colorful 'array; Till just before the dawn blushed in the East That sprightly host in gor s pagdpntry Took up its march, unseen by man or beast, t to warmer wind and sunnifr sky. And all that we could find at break pf day Were bivouacs untenanted and lorn, }. r pavillions gay, bout to grieve and jnourn A Be ol bar: Jo We heard the words, -borne, backl" 7 "Charles Greptville 'Wilson, e will come | BECOMING HARDER this time a year ago. Some may fail once but they win through at the second attempt, Capt. Raymond asserted. The standard of training and intelligence is higher than when he taugie first, he said, and the genera education of the men is roader and more comprehensive. The students sit at desks around the room or work at a large central table. The contents of the big table is an indication of the nature of their work. For cxample, there are wooden models for er the rules of the road, there are charts to display the international code of signalling, there are models of | square riggers and there is a schoo- ner and, of course, there is a sex. tant. The proportion of French to Eng- lish Canadian students is 60 per cent, BANANAS GHILS ARE INVESTIGATED Empire Marketing Board Experts Report on Transporting Fruit London, -- Bananas chills, This scientific fact is re- vealed in the Empire Marketing Boards new report on "The Trans'- port and Storage of Bananas," by two Professors at the Imperial Col. lege of Tropical Agriculture at Trin. idad. The object of the inquiry, which the board is supporting, is to help the trade by working out the best methods of transport for Empire bananas. In their last report, Drs. Wardlaw and McGuire, the authors, recommended that bananas kept best if they cooled rapidly as soon as possible after harvesting. Some people thought that there- might be a danger of the bananas catching chills if the temperature fell too sharply. This impression, however, is quite unfounded. ¢Chilling is a cumula- tive effect of duration of exposure, and not the result of rapid cooling," the authors say. "Storage trials car- ried out at 51-52 degrees fahren- heit have corroborated strikingly our earlier recommendations that this temperature is definitely not inimical, no matter how quickly it is reached." "On the other hand," the scigntists continue, "we have obtaitied chill effects by exposure of 14 days at 52 degrees and by exposure of 9 days at 51 degrees." Like Human Beings Chills 'in banas have points in common with «hills in human be- ings. One symptom is "the as- sumption of a dull yellow colour in- stead of d healthy bright one" Here, however, the resemblance ends. Further symptoms are de- layed ripening, in which "the dull yellow is replaced entirely by a dull russet color." Now that it is established that bananas can be. chilled without catching chills, improvements may be expected which will eliminate part of the wastage which naturally occurs in the transport of delicate and perishable objects such as ban- anas, Special cold storage chambers have been built at Trinidad for re- search on West Indian bananas and as a result the quality is steadily improving. Jamaica bananas are now marketed by a co-opérative so- ciety of growers established a few years ago. A subsidiary shipping company was formed to bring the bananas direct to this country. The linc started with three boats; now there arc nine. Next week, a regular weekly service of fast boats will be put into operation between Jamaica and London, and a fort- nightly service will be run as well. LOCARNO OF SEAS NEW SUGGESTION Private Shipowners in Eur- | ope Favor Construc- tion Truce can catch Paris.--A "Locarno of the Seas" or another Washington Pact for mercantile marine fleets is bein, proposed by many private firms ol ship-owners in Europe. The French Government is inclined to favour such a building truce until trans- atlantic and tourist travel revives. The Depeche Coloniale, an impor- tant French newspaper, suggests that the Governments of the world should confer and agree to limit tonnage construction. This is put at 30,000 for North Atlantic ships, 20,000 tons for the South Atlantic and 15,000 tons for the Far East. Shipping companies agree that the giant liners of all nations are running at a loss between New York and Europe. But it is pointed out that competition is still so keen that such liners as the Bremen, Europa and lle de France will soon be sur- assed by the new British and rench liners nearing completion. When the "super" Ile de France was laid down it was to beat any- thing on the sea, but cven before being launched this liner is surpas- sed by the new giant Cunard liner being built on the Clyde. BRITISH RAPIDLY RAISE $150,000 FOR RELIEF FUND London, Dec, 21.--The British pub- lic is as ready as ever to respond to the ery of the stricken, even in these so-called "hard times." Less than a month after the colliery dis. aster at Beatle near Doncaster, when 40 miners lost their lives, the $130,000 needed for relief for the widows and fatherless children was . | subscribed. One of the last subscriptions re ceived was an anonymous gift. of $715 in clean, crips Ss pou notes of jhe Bist issue: of 1914, when the outbre: of the war prompted the to pi OrGe of smaller size ine fps currency : Discount on Canadian Dollar Helps Goods (Toronto Telegram The present adverse ratc of exchange on Canadian funds in New York presents one of the most extraordinary complica- tions in the history of the coun- ry. United States merchants and manufacturers were never more anxious to do business with Can- ada than at the present time. While the adverse rate of ex- change Is aunoying and at times costly to Canadians, it is not proving nearly so embarrassing as it is to the United States, This is made manifest in two ways. First, by a determined effort on the part of United States financial authorities to facilitate the equalizing of American and Cana- dian funds as speedily as pos- sible; second, by the vractice of a great many United States busl- ness ipstitutions of accepting Canadian funds at par. Financiers tell us that the rate of exchange is governed by the law of supply and demand, In other words, Canadian money is to some extent a commodity on the New York market and be- cause of excess supply and dimin- {shied demand for Canadian funds ths Capadian currency is at a Over Tariff Wall discount, The most obvious way of ratifying such a situation is to ship gold to New York and re- deem the Canadian funds, But the most satisfactory way ol sol- ving the problem is by selling Canadian merchandise in the United States, which, although it might be paid for in U.S. cur- rency, would be exchanged into Canadian dollars, thus eliminat- ing the excess supply in New York. Eventually the righting of the exchange will be normally brought about by the Increase of exports to the U.S.A. and a de- crease of imports from that coun- try. At the present time the big discount on the Canadian dollar makes it almost prohibitive for Canada to buy American goods and on the other hand makes Cavadian goods attractive in the United States markets, The pre- sent exchange rate practically gives the American purchasers on the Canadian market a discount of 20 per cent. v The situation 1s, of course, complicated by tariff barriers and SECURITY TOTAL ASSETS of $12.000,000.00 ~provide a surplus over liabilities to the public of almost five million dollars. IPAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY KING AND VICTORIA 8TS,, TORONTO 23 SIMCOE ST. N., OSHAWA ST csrapusneo 1864 Jp the payment of interest on bonds and maturities held in New York which may delay the natural so- lution of this economical problem. The World's Most Quoted | Christmas Editorial It is considered in the newgpa~ per world that the most-frequent- ly quoted editorial is one headed f1s there a Santa Claus?" The article appeared in the New York Sun in 1897, and it was not until some years later that announce- ment was made of its authorship. It happened this way: A letter was written to the Sun by Vir- ginia O'Hanlon, a child of eight, asking if there were a Santa Claus. The letter was turned over to Francis Chureh, an editorial writer on the paper, and when he looked at it he "bristled and pooh-poohed, and finally turned to his desk with an air of resig- nation," and proceeded to write. He died in 1906, and not until the day following his passing did the Sun announce that it was he who had penned the Santa Claus editorial, which had by that time become recognized as a classic among newspapers. We publish it here, knowing that it has appear- must be remembered that it is still the most-printed article after an existence of 34 years: "We tako pleasure in answer- ing at once and thus prominently the communication below, ex- pressing at the same time our great gratification that its faith- ful author is numbered among the friends of the Sun: Dear Editor--I am eight years old. Some of my little friends says there is no Santa Claus, Papa says, 'If you see it in the Sun it's 80." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus VIRGINIA O'HANLON. Virginja, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All mindg, Vir. ginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasp- 'ng the whole of truth and knowl- edge. "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion oxist, and you know that they a- bound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world ir there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were n'o Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. "Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus com- ing down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus, The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever gee fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can comceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and un- seeable in the world. "You tear apart the baby's rat- tle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil cover- ing the unseen world which not | the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strong- i est men that ever lived could tear | apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, | love, romance can push aside | that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory be- yond. Ig it all real? 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