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7 ~The Oshawa Daily Times 3 S i ; Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Establisted 1871) ------ i lisl.cd every An independent newspaper pub! ui vo : 'Imes g Compan Gime hha President "The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of The Cana dian Press, the Canadian Y ciation, the Ontario Proviucial Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Deliv by carrier in Oshawa and y P ag By mail in Canada (outside Oshawa ori! 7 fier delivery limits) $3.00 a vear. United #003 year ORONTO OFFICE Bond Building, 64 Temperance Street. Telephone : 18 Bond Buide. Tresidder, representative. 3 "MONDAY, DECEMBER 28th, 1931. North and South Those who are opposed to having aldermen of Oshawa elected by gen- eral vote of the whole city, instead of by ; | i *.. the ward system, are not putting up Vel ts. They seem to have © eonvincing argumen a feeling, however, that should the alder- men be elected by general vote, the south half of the city would fare badly, and would be somewhat neglected by municipal islators. ; Jogi we have already pointed out, there is little foundation for that fear. We are in- clined to the belief that the right type of candidates will meet with general support, no matter which part of the city happens to be their home. The board of education = 3 has four of its nine members living in-the "= southern half of the city, so that a fairly even division can quite easily be attained. From the work of the 'board of educa- tion, too, it i8 possible to show that the . south half of Oshawa does not suffer be- cause of election by a general vote. In the two years, 1930 and 1931, the board of education spent $15,487.46 on permanent i repairs and -improvements to the city H schools. Of this amount, $12,067.13 were spent on the schools lying south of King . Street, which is the dividing line between north and south, while only $3,420.33 were spent on the schools lying north of that line. That does not look as if the southern half of the city were being neglected sim- ply because the board had been elected by a general vote. After all, the aim of this reform is to have men elected who are big enough to have the confidence of the whole city, and not merely of one single ward. Such men will look at every problem from the stand- point of the city's needs as a whole, no matter in what section of the city the need may exist. That is the type of council Osh- awa needs, and that is the type of council which can only be secured when the system of city-wide voting for aldermen prevails, - Care of Cemeterie In recent months, newspapers have been devoting considerable 'attention to ceme- teries which have been allowed to fall into a disreputable state, which have been sad- "ly neglected. It is worth while, however, to : point to the other side of the picture, and to show that there are many cemeteries "in Ontario which are places of beauty, not only in the large centres, but also in the rural places. The Toronto Globe, for instance, pub- lishes an article praising the beautiful bur- ial grounds of the Maple United Cemetery. . We could mention several others which ap- pear like a beautiful well-kept park. We _might call attention to the Union Cemetery at Oshawa, but that, of course, is the bur- ial ground. for a large city, and might be expected to have an unusually fine ap- pearance. Bat there are others. There is a cemetery at Whitevale, in Ontario county, which is a place of beauty. There is an- other on the provincial highway at Wick- low, just east of Grafton, which attracts much attention because of its beauty and ell-kept appearance. And so one could go on, enumerating burial places which are a - source of delight to the eye. That fact that thege are such cemeteries, to act as models for the rest of the prov- 'ince, emphasizes all the more those which 'are not given the best of care. They set a standard up to which all cemeteries might, by a little care, by a little sympathetic in- terest, be brought. Those places which ve set the example can well be pardoned for "which have fallen short, can do a splendid ork by seeking to follow that example. Accidents Persist Despite the lessening of automobile trat- fic, owing to the end of the tourist season, motor accidents on the highways of On- tario remained at a high level during the "month of November, according to the re- port of the department of highways. In ovember there were 55 fatalities on On- after- Osh- | i Asso Daily Newsiape: of og the plan of . pride in their burial places; those' as a result of automobile sho (s that congestion of traffic is not al- wayd responsible for highway accidents, . but that there are other major considera- tions which enter into them. For instance, it is shown that more fatal accidents oc- curred on straight roads and between street Injetuections than at any other loca- tions combined. This shows that motorists may Be careful on the curves, and at Street crossings, but that, when on the straight- away, they take more chances, and so there are more accidents. As has been said on many occasions, the human element is the cause of the great majority of these accidents. Carelessness, even for a moment, is liable to produce a fatal accident: Surely, with the record of accidents remaining at a high level, it is time that motorists realized the part which carelessness plays in such mishaps, and determined, each and every one, to make safety, care and caution the foundation principles of their driving. Editorial Notes Critics of the proposal to have aldermen elected by city-wide vote should remember that under the present system they have a say in the election of only one-fifth of the city council. The new system would give them a voice in the election of the whole council. The year 1981 has not been as bright as we hoped for a year ago, but the coming of 1932 will cause fresh hope to spring in the human heart. One worth-while resolution would be a re- solve to vote at the municipal election on January 4. Empire fruit is growing popular in Osh- awa. Since Oshawa has many products to sell to the rest of the empire, this is only sound common-sense. According to a scientific writer, our jun- gle ancestors sprang from lions, tigers, and other ferocious beasts. Well who wouldn't? --The Humorist. A new Canadian wheat called Reliance, is said to be an improvement over Marquis wheat. By the way, what happened to Garnet wheat ?>--Ottawa Journal. Other Editor's Comments | BROADCAST CONTROL (Winnipeg Tribune) ~----Canadians, reflecting on the theft of one of their wavelengths by a Mexican station, will be able to draw some very clear conclusions about the merits of various methods of radio control. A quack doctor who had been operating for some years in a small way in a Kansas village, built himself a broadcasting station several years ago. Corn-belt yokels scribbled their symptoms, the doc- tor diagnosed from pencil scrawls, and prescribed over ,the radio--anybody in Canada can hear the line any night: "Be sure and take the liver and kidney medicine, also the stomach medicine, cut out eating starch and fats and all meat except fish or fowl." He prospered; built a bigger station, advised all his hearers to keep away from the regular doctors. The American Medical Association outlawed the man, pleaded with the Radio Commission to cancel his broadeast license. All this took time; a Gov- ernment commission, engaged in locking the stable after the bull has escaped, regards a year or two as but a moment. Meantime the doctor throve like the green bay tree, and when his license was finally cancelled, he thumbed his nose at the commission, crossed the Rio Grande and dignified the Villa Acuna, a hot- tamale stand, with the most powerful broadcast station in North America. Under national control such as exists in Great Britain this quack would never have got a start. An onnce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, BITS OF HUMOR Harry--Yaws, I always travel in the best™eircles. Eloise---Oh, that's the reason for the dizzy look ---- A cultured young woman was trying to make conversation. "Do you care for 'Crabbe's Tales?' " she asked. . "I never ate any," replied the breezy girl, but I'm very fond of lobsters!" THE TROUBLE A man was fixing his automobile. "Trouble ?" asked a bystander. "Rather!" was the answer. "What power is it?" asked the stranger. "Forty horse," came the answer. "What seems to be the matter with it?" queried the stranger. "Well, irom the way she acts, T should say that thirty-nine of the horses are dead." BITS OF VERSE i WORD 9, ing, like a fire, Te ied your cheeks to red, ' Lit by the sudden flame Of a word I said. Roge-petal o'er a lily, It lies across your face; What branded lines of fire A word can trace! Men burned themselves like lamps If Helen's lips but stirred, Mak a sacrifice thing 2 altar of her word. And I might w indeed With all my dreaming set On 3 lovely English word With tears--like violet, ~-John Durkan, in The Glasgow Herald. li oy C. TH During it y te THA] wish visits frequé business. The way advert perfec Moder advert sell the that gi prosper. There is THE IER TO NESS, OF ADV turkeys--; cultural Bay, tells stepped i cial type The val and will farmers, island is with this to a film to decide quire my after me. grunted "Well," plan." concerns ¥ .| after it. 3 SINESS IN TELLS/HOW TURKEY Little C "just thrk after them shipped © An actor in demand. "What co! them off on gas company, the electric light com- pany, the company that rents me my flat, ahd me the i on the instalment Eye Care and H. Tuck, Ope. D (Copyright, 1938) E PRICELESS GIFT the Cliristmas scason we are; all brought do a true realization e of God's -greatest ent theatres, at the bar- music stores and 1 : to see Santa , apparently it is only it is the only gift of all ce lost cannot be replaced. is with many of the gifts ision, if once lost may not wed without. the power of by which they were be- es were not cousidered as cheap bargain part of our ofp when we were created, In g an aecount therefore of the lesser things in life bhave a place by itself. it is true that providence j those who help them- ould seem therefore in as we help ourselves fice help us? We get fe what we put into »st business concerns is for more frequent r customers. It takes t frequent visits is to fis and service that give erns who are persistent Bre usually the ones who t in quality--the kind more and better service. ised quality is the kind d acts the part. ess concerns never cut tising to cut down ex- hey increase advertising business. the race for better busi- igh ead by going after busi- sively all the time; they @ any resting periods. No Ban stop advertising and esirable business for those vho go after it and stay LING OF MERCHAN- SERVICE IS 0 AN ORGA F SING MAKES IT EAS DO A VOLUME BU HE DRIVING FORCE RTISING DRIVES BU- USTRY GREW rrent, Ont.--Speaking of ahd who isn't just now -- ! R. L, Cuming, Government agri- epresentative © at Gore f the wild fowl who were yy till the Government nl and. set people to look in incubators, and a spe- breeder house, round, with no comers into which the birds can crowd lug of the turkeys to be will be above $20,000, shared by about 400 very third farm on the rdising turkeys. Ninety per cent off the work in connection if done by women. was applying for a part woducer. "I advise you quickly whether you re- sefvices, because I'm much Several companies are " "I've heard that one before," t sceptical producer. fes are after you?" rdplied the actor, ticking is fingers, "there's the the one that is selling THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1931 University Co-eds Blamed For Slackening Intellect Maurice Hutton, late Principal Emeritus of University College, To- ronto, in his book, "The Sisters Jest and Earnest," says: "A general slackening of intellec- tual keenness, and a general quick- ening of the pulse of social life, and |. . . a large share of that craze for dancing and mild flirtation which is a feature of all modern universi- ties? How can it be otherwise, when a certain percentage of young women frankly enter a university to have a good time and to dance three or four times a week in the pursuit of education; to dance themselves into education. "Some of them at home would have had the dismal prospect of Dorcas socicties, of charitable ba- zaars, of a weekly church service, perhaps of a weekly prayer meet- ing; at the University they can con- trive three or four dances a week, some of them; and all of them can pay to their soul the flattering unc- tion--the most quaint and unfound- ed of all student delusions--that education consists really in social functions and of rubbing off each other's angels in a waltz or fox- trot. The poor thihgs, they have got hold of the truth that educa- tion is not merely reading books, but is often gained by meeting pco- ple unlike oneselt, hearing other theories of life, and have magnified this truth into the palpable non- sense that education is gained by chattering with untrained intelli- gence of their own class and kind . the men are less intellectual than those of the old-fashioned uni- versities before 1885; while the wo- men suffer by developing; quite un- necessarily and prematurely, those gifts of tact and social charm which nature has given them with her own puictual hand, which do not re- quire forcing' or , encouragement; which are better without the preco- cious forcing of a co-educational university. "Men are not half as quigk in thought as women, but théy are more patient and more thorough," he declares. "Many men have been so often beaten by their sisters that they prefer to attend old-fashioned universities like Yale, where women are not admitted. "This delightful Greek Profes- sor, who loves to interpret 'Alice in Wonderland," but who wistfully says: 'They don't care so much for my studies of the Greek and Ro- man--does anyone care for such lecturers nowadays ?' lives in an old house on Prince Arthur Avenue where many still resort. Solly Joel's Treasures of Art Under Auctioneer's Hammer London, Dec. 26.--~The homé of Solly. Joel, well-known millionaire sportsman, is being auctioned and the treasures of art and craft which he accumulated throughout his life are being scattered. Maiden Erlegh is a beautiful house near Reading and it was there that Solly Joel forgot any troubles that he had and staged luxurious house partics. But today the guests are of a different character. . They are sightseers, the women and bargain hunters in their tweed caps who pressed and fought their way into his beautiful drawing-room to bid for his treasures. A number of the women came from the back streets of Reading. They grumbled when the policeman at the gate asked them for a shill- ing for the program which entitled them to see the millionaire's home sold up. But when they squatted on Solly Joel's gilded chairs and feasted their cyes on masterpieces which cost the millionaire thousands of pounds, they must have thought it was worth a shilling. It is hot and stuffy in Solly Joel's drawing-room while his art treas- ures are being knocked down tothe eager buyers. The crystal chande- liers shed a blaze of a hundred dif- ferent lights. Porters force! their way into the room, carrying statutary--statuary for which Solly Joel paid hundreds, perhaps thousands of pounds. One by one these 'masterpieces of the sculptor's art go. i Two women and a man are sitting a little to the right of the auction- cer, listening, watching. "Solly Joel's two daughters, Doris and Eileen, and his son Dudley," is whispered from ear to ear. The crowd stares at them, but they take no notice. Peace and War Forseen in Indian Ascetic's Visions Calcutta, India, Dec. 26.-- From the slopes of Mount Abu, in the Central Provinces, on which the monasteries of the wealthy ascetic Jain monks live comes the promise of peace in in India for next year and of war for the world in 1933. His Holness Gurudeo Shree Shanti- vijaya Maharaj believes that the 1eign of peace began in India in November. The monk believes that India will get 76 per cent of her demands for reforms. There will be complete peace and a final settlement in India in 1932, he says, and by April 29 of that year everybody will be at- tending to his business. As long as there is mo peace in India, however, there will be sporadic outhreaks of war. "On February 1, 1933, a great war will be declared. On January 12, 1934, it will magnify itself into unimaginable natural phe- nomena and catastrophes, spreading havoc and misery all round. The war itself will be without parallel in the history of the world, During this period there will be civil war, in which guns, swords and other weapons will be used and in the end there will even be hand-to-hand fight. Everybody will take part in this war." Finally the Maharaj enjoins that everyone who wants to save himself should remove the feel- ing of war, respect every human being and love every creature and man, even if he be a Govern- ment servant or a Ruling Prince. "Remember, Love's return shall be Love, and even Government wil; act with nobility in granting rights to India." Wolves Kill Soldiers in Siberia as Cold Grips Europe Harder London, Dec. 26.--Winter showed no signs of relaxing its grip on Europe and weather re- ports told of more Snow and frost. Heavy. snowfalls and intense cold prevailed throughout South- ern Siberia and wolves prowled around the towns and villages in search of food, causing great alarm, Two soldiers were killed by wolves and a peasant was killed by a bear. A thick blanket of snow cov- UNIQUE CROSS MISSING Toulouse, France.-- Detectives are scouring France for a thir- teenth century processional Cross which disappeared from the lit- tle church of Saint-Amans, near Muret. The cross, unique of its kind, is of oak with finely wrought fig- ures in gilt copper. At the time of the separation of Church and State it was valued for inven- tory purposes at $60,000. : dan and Tuesday "THE BELOVED | t PAUL LUKAS DOROTHY JORDAN HE AT UI BACHELOR" and CHAS. RUGGLES TICKETS ON SALE FOR ' MIDNIGHT SHOW ered the uplands of Central and Southern Germany and it was unusually cold there. Extraordinarily cold weather prevailed in Southern France with snow at higher altitudes. There was much snow in the Basque Provinces in Spain, and Corsica, which rarely experiences severe cold, Is = hav JeeTe « ing wintry The temperature dro pped sharply in London over it still is not severe, SE RISKY BY Halifax Loses Old Distinction by Citadel Move Halifax, N.S. Dec. 26--Halifax, Kipling's "warden of the honor of the north" has abandoned her re- putation as a garrison city to seek a civil career, "A" company, Royal Canadian Regiment, left the Citadel last week to return to Wellington Barracks; and for the first time the historic fortress, from the ramparts of which one may see the city lying at one's feet in all directions, is unguarded by troops, The rolling hills that encircle the fortress will be handed over to the city by the Canadian Government. ifax was founded in 1749 b Hon, Edward Cornwallis, who, hoi der direction of the British Lords of trade and Plantations, undertook to carve out of the wilderness "a permanent British settlement and military station on the Atlantic coast of the peninsula as the only effectual means of preserving Bri- tish authority." Down through the years -- through the war .with France, the American War of in- dependence, the War of 1812, 13 and 14 and the Great War, the strongly fortified city served this purpose, LJ LJ But the Great War emphasized the importance of the port and harbor of Halifax to Canada and the Empire. Now, Halifax wishes to take advantage of her position on "the long wharf of America" as she did during four years when she afforded shelter, safety and ac- commodation for all classes of ship- ping that carried millions of tons of fre' ht and hundreds of thous- ands of soldiers to and fro across the sea. Jutting out into the Atlantic ocean, the peninsula of Nova Scotia is 70 miles nearer Europe than the port of New York. Men of vision see Halifax as a national port through which the commerce of a great hinterland rolls to the sea; they see Halitax as a great airdrome from which fleets of air- liners carry mails and passencers of ships to the commerical centres of Canada and the United States: they see Halifax as "the warden of the honor of the north" in peace as in war. Port facilities have been improv- ed and a campaign for grain traffic is in full swing. Air service, car- ried on between Halifax and Bos- ton last year as an experiment, will be continued. ABROGATION OF FRENGH TREATY - 15 PERPLEXING Canada's Action Is Severe Blow to Silk Ex- Montreal. -- Somewhat perplexed about the reason why Canada js breaking off its trade .treaty with France, P. Chagny, silk merchant of Lyons, France, is in the Mount Royal Hotel, waiting for the next move on, the part of the Canadian Government. Mr. Chagny admitted frankly his inability to understand why anada is cancelling the treaty. "During the past year, our ex- ports of silk materials to Canada have fallén off by 50 per cent due to the economic depression in this country," he said. "I do not know what the figures are for the past two months, but I imagine that the fall will have been even more severe since the Cana- dian dollar started to depreciate. At this very moment Canada has an additional tariff barrier of 20 rer cent agaist all goods of French manufacture due to the de- preciation of the Canadian dollar. That surely is more protection than Canadian industries would have had if the Dominion had had no trade treaty at all with France while the Canadian dollar remained at par." Sees New Pact Mr. Chagny is inclined to look upon the abrogation of the trade treaty as a 'preliminary to the drawing up of a new agreement. "There 1s the matter of wheat," he said. 'I understand, of course. that you wish to sell wheat to France. It may be that it is in- tended to make another agreement by which France will take more of Load OR OVER 47 YEARS A SAFE PLACE FOR SAVINGS. oo CENTRAL CANADA | IPAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY KING AND VICTORIA STS., TORONTO 23 SIMCOE ST. N., OSHAWA "24 ESTABLISHED 1884 Ji i your wheat." 3ut French industries have, # the meantime, suffered Partic larly have they suffered since Bi tain dropped off the gold stand and the currencies of the Domi ions and all other countries fini cially linked to Britain followed downward course of the pound; "Many big factories have had be closed in Lyons because of #4 depreciation of the money in H 4 land," said Mr. Chagny. °* factories had suffered before cause of the industrial depress Now they have to face the that three are practically no m kets lett open for them with currencies, except. the Uni States, and there tariffs are ® high." ; Unemployment is increasing 1 idl- in France and according the latest figures is in the nej borhood of the 1,000,000 mark, "It has had the one effect halting the drift from the farms the cities," said Mr. Chagny,"§a in that respect may be of wd, | i to France, which has to maint herself as much as possible a self-sufficing unit." On the question of war debt reparations cancellation Mr. C nv refused to express himself finitely. "No real tsand on this has as heen taken by the industrialists France," he said. "Some are the cancellation, and others are posed." SMOKING BAN TRKS MEMBE London.-- Members of House of Commons are compl ing because they do not ex the privilege of smoking. Smoking 1s strictly fcybidd in the lobbies and corridors the "mother of parliaments', Bi intransigeant members frequen ly violate the regulations, nece sitating the placing of specia squads of policemen to check thi practice. Here's the man who final} solved the traffic problem--Hhi sold his automobile, Girl's Father: "Young man are you able to support a fam ily?" 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