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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times . Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) An mdependent newspaper Osha Dally Times is » member of the Fhe Wa Association the On- Canadian Daily Newspapers tario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Ci SUBSCRIPTION RATES carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs Divot By weeks; $325 for six months, or $6.50 per year if paid in advance. mail anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa' : oy delivery limits) $135 for three months, $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in advance. @y mall to US. subscribers, $6.00 per year. payable strictly ip advance. or FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940 p-- The Question of Rent Control Several weeks ago a proposal was made $0 "freeze" rents in Oshawa. The sugges- . gion was made that this city be included among those municipalities where rent con- grol is enforced. It is hoped that before any definite steps are taken to "freeze" gents here the entire issue will be thor- pughly investigated. Landlords who have #taken the rap" during the depression gears should at least be accorded that much consideration. For ten years real property in Oshawa, @s elsewhere, has been at the lowest ebb in distory or the country. It has been recog- mized by most people that for many years peal estate has borne too large a proportion of the general taxes, yet it is now pro- posed that this state of affairs shall con- #inue, and the property owner shall be com- pelled by law-to contribute to the mainten- gnce of his tenant. Tenants have become piecustomed to abnormally low rents, and Boday, as employment improves and land- fords propose to raise rents to cover normal sarrying charges, loud protests are made . By many tenants, who in some cases are making better incomes than they did at any other time during the last decade. We are not suggesting that excessive gents be sanctioned, but it is only fair and just that a landlord should receive enough pent to make at least a small profit on his fnvestment. Not many landlords have been making this small profit during the past Pew years. And what about the house owners when Phe war is over? Will property values sink Po the low level of a few years ago, or will fhe government then protect owners mgainst loss as it now prevents their profit- eering? Generally speaking, rents in Oshawa are pot excessive although there may be isolat- od cases. If they were, it would be time pnough for rent control. Tenants should pot clamour for rent control when they are merely asked to pay a fair rental for a fouse which has probably been a loss to phe landlord for many a year. Origin of "Watered Stock" Behind the term "watered stock" is an Interesting story. The Wall Street opera- Pors of great-grandfather's day were more #rooked than they are now--much more, I should say--and the "Great Bear' of them ll was Daniel Drew. "Uncle Dan'l." you gemember, mismanaged the Erie Railroad #bout 70 years ago in partnership with Jay @ould and Jim Fiske. Drew was so un- perupuous that even the wily Mr. Gould paid: "His touch is death." Before ventur- fng into finance and railroading, Uncle Pan'l had been a drover. On one occasion he bought a large herd of starved cattle gheaply and arranged to sell to John Jacob Astor's brother, Henry, who was a New York butcher. Drew drove his cattle to pasture, emptied sacks of salt over the grass, and would not let the thirst-madden- ed animals drink until just before Henry Astor's arrival. Then they gorged them- selves on water so they looked fat and heavy. Astor paid a good price for them. When the truth came out, Wall Street éhuckled at John Jacob's brother and coin- ed the term "watered stock."--Railway Magazine. The Annual Advice --Shop Early "Do your Christmas Shopping Early" has been said over and over again until it sounds like a sing-song without meaning and doesn't register on the average mind. Yet, if 'heeded and acted on will greatly benefit a large n of persons and re- duce the strain the Yuletide season while increasing its satisfaction and joys. Who is there that n't get satisfaction and pleasure out of it? ' The merchants have placed their Christ- ghas offerings on sale. The stocks are fresh and there is opportunity for wide selection. Salespeople are ready to help and advise the early shoppers. The mails are not yet clogged, as they most likely will be later. And there is no necessity to try and crowd your shopping into an hour or two, resulting in hasty decisions and unsat- isfactory purchases. The shopper who puts it off until the last few days before Christmas will find this situation reversed. Stocks in the stores will be picked over and limited, those who serve the public will be worn and tired, parcels mailed late will arrive at their des- tinations at some indefinite time after the holiday season, and the shopper himself will spend Christmas recuperating from his feverish exertions of the days before. "Do your Christmas shopping now" is advice that should be taken seriously and followed. More Money For Booze And Gasoline Whiskey and gasoline don't mix, accord- ing to one slogan launched by safety- conscious citizens. But those twe com- modities have been doing a great job of mixing in the books of Ontario's govern- ment. Despite the war and the drop in American tourist trade this year, the peo- ple of Ontario have been spending more money on gasoline and liquor than they did in 1939. Revenue from the gasoline tax, estimat- ed in the budget at $24,000,000, is likely to exceed this figure by more than $2,000,000. The Government expected a profit from liquor sales of $9,500,000, but it is now anticipated that the figure will be above the ten million mark, due to improved in- come generally. - |" Editorial Notes | Isn't it the truth--"Diamonds are just common lumps of coal that have stuck to their jobs." Uphill work generally gets top results. Keep on climbing. Soon be time to mark those X's. They will not all be kisses, though. No, we haven't heard anyone kicking about the emergency budget. Winter is slipping along but cars and pedestrians have been plowing along-- through the snow. If this is the time of year to do the decor- ating, Mother Nature made a good job of decorating the trees. The importation of comic books has been banned. And there isn't anything funny about it either. It's just plain horse sense. A nice Christmas present would be a five dollar war savings certificate. It might come in mighty handy seven and a half years from now. None are so fond of secrets, as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets, as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.-- (Colton) A Bit of Verse For England I knew a lad who each day went, A little out his 'customed way, To look at Nelson's monument, Where he would stand and quietly say: "Oh, God! to do some glorious deed, For England, in some hour of need, As he did that October day For England, in Trafalgar Bay." Not crazy, just s British lad, Proud of the annals of his race, Keen as a knightly Galahad In bloody van to take his place As Nelson did that fateful day To stauchly stand in flame and stress England, in his manfulness, For England, in Trafalgar Bay. While lads of this heroic breed Still grow in England, there's no need To be afraid our Empire great, Can be destroyed by Hunnish hate; For God and right with banners high, For England, they will win or die, As Nelson did that winter day For England, in Trafalgar Bay. Let monuments of bronze and stone Still stand in park and public place; Not for sculptural worth alone, But to inspire youth of our race, And stir their hearts to patriot flame For England, and to play the game As Nelson did, that long dead day, " Por England, in Trafalgar Bay, A Bible Thought for Today BUT HE SPEAKS TO US EVERY DAY IF WE WILL LISTEN: No man hath seen God at any STAR BOARDER GETS A JOLT That Body Of Yours By James W, Barton. MD, time. --John 1:18. A SCHOOL WHICH HELPS EPILEPTICS There is no denying the fact that there are a great many epileptic children who present a problem to parents and teachers. Fortunately, some epileptic chil- dren by increasing their fat foods and decreasing their starch foods, are able to keep fairly free of at- tacks; also by taking regular doses of phenobarbital or other quieting drugs. These drugs, however, often keep the child too quiet, stupid in fact, and the work of the school teacher is made more difficult. As most epileptic children are too bright to be put in homes for men- tal defectives, yet their attacks may upset their own school life, and that of others, the Detroit public school system in 1934 started "A Social and Medical Study of Epil- epsy" which resulted in the estab- lishment of a special school for eplleptics. Home teaching had been tried, but it was found most im- portant that the child be taken from home surroundings into a school and normal - social life. Before the school for epileptics was opened, a study was made of 200 children and those found®suit- able were placed in this special school on 'the outskirts of Detroit. In describing this school, Dr. O, P. Kimball, Cleveland, in the Merck Report, states, "The location was ideal as it afforded these children opportunities for recreation and play which they could not have in a crowded city. The special school was set up with facilities for home life, school and medical clinic for fifty children. Classes were kept small so that individual attention could be given, A special teacher for recreation after school hours and a day and night nurse were pro- vided. Regular wholesome meals were provided with in-between feedings for undernourished child- ren. Recreation under special instruc- ors, play, hiking trips, baseball, out- of-doors setting up exercises, skat- ing in winter and gardening in the spring provided sufficient exercise and opportunities for learning to live together. Instead of having more attacks because they were kept together it was found that the first group of forty boys, together from Monday morning to Friday evening, had fifty percent fewer attacks per day at school than they had at home over the weekend. What results were obtained by this special school? Over a five year period, twenty percent were able to go back to their regular school after being free of attacks for over a year. All the children improved mentally and physically and got a real understanding of themselves -and the conditions un- der which they must live. Sidetrack War So Skating Fans Can Enjoy Ice Lindsay, Dec. 6--The opening of the skating season in Lindsay Wed. nesday night resulted in the halting of NP.AM. training here for an in- definite time. The 45th Battery and 56th Bat- tery were forced 10 vacate their regular quarters at the Lindsay Arcna, where they have been sta. tioned for the past two months, The Midland Regiment, on active ger vice, moved Wednesday from the curling rink to take up new quar- ters in a factory building, Legion Is Providing Christmas Treat For Canadians Overseas Ottawa, Dec. 6--More than 60,000 pounds of turkeys, the plumpest and most tender in western Canada, will be & 0 Canadian troops in Eng- land as a post-Christmas treat. Back of the campaign to send the turkeys--some 5,000 of them--is Bri- gadier General Alex Ross, of York- ton, Sask. chairman of the Cana- dian Legion War Services. It is ex- pected the birds will reach England in time to be eaten early in the new year, Through zone commanders the Legion has appealed to Legion members who are farmers in Sask- atchewan Alberta and Manitoba to donate a turkey apiece. It is re quested that the birds be killed, plucked and delivered to central ts, When the turkeys have been fro- zen and tagged with the name of the donor they will be boxed and sent to eastern seaports for ship- ment to England. GLANS TRUCK SWUNG DIRECTLY INGAR'S PATH Was on Wrong Side of Highway, Three Wit- nesses Testify -- Woman Killed in Crash Beligville, Dec. 6--As the Crown closed its case against 18-year-old Hubert Harrington on a charge of dangerous driving in County Court Wednesday last, evidence of three passengers in the car struck by the truck driven by the accused was heard. In the accident on August 17, Mrs, Jeseie Allore, of Trenton, was killed. The crash occurred on Highway 62, three miles north Millbridge. Wilbert Hammett, Mrs. Hammett and Mrs. Willlam McPhee, riding with Mrs. Aflore in the car driven by Wiliam McPhee, took the stand. Each testified McPhee had been driving at a moderate speed and was on the right-hand side of the high- way at the time of the crash. Mr. Hammett told the jury he had seen the headlights of the truck approaching and had noticed it swing over directly into the path of the car just before the impact, Both he and his wife received injuries which required medical attention, witness said. Due to the nature of injuries re- ceived in the accident, McPhee, driver of the northbound car, was unable t6 be called by the Crown. Provincial Constable 8. Palmateer, of Bancroft, testified he had been able to follow -the tracks of the car southward from the point where it came to rest after the collision, a distance of from 34 to 40 feet along its right-hand edge of the highway. The provincial constable store the southbound truck, driven by Her- rrington, and owned by Edwin A. Kellaway, of Belleville, also.charged with reckless ariving, dia not have proper warning lights. "According to the regulations, it should have had two green lights at the front left corner of the frame, At this point there was one light socket and a bulb which did rot light because it was badly corroded. It had not been lighted for some time prior to the accident. In ad- dition, the truck should have had three lights in a cluster on the rear, clearance lights on each side facing the rear, and a clearance light on the side at the left rear. ON THIS DATE ----- By --- FRED WILLIAMS Yesterday I told the story of Sir Arthur Willlam Currie as exempli- fying the opportunity which Can- ada offers to any of ite sons to win fame and reputation as a soldier. Today we have the case of ano- ther Canadian who from literally nothing became one of the chief figures in the romance of Canadian journalism and a minister of the crown at Ottawa. It is 60 years today since Frank Oliver and Alexander Taylor first issued the Bulletin at Fort Edmon- ton. Oliver, who had been. born in Peel county, Ontario, in a very simple home, went west in early manhood' dnd started sticking type in the office of the Manitoba Pree Press. At the end of the 70's he de- cided to go farther west and in due course arrived at Fort Edmonton, then one of the most important trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company. There he met Alexander Taylor, in charge of the govern- ment telegraph line, which furnish- ed the citizens with & weekly bul. letin of news. Oliver suggested that the bulle- tins ought to be printed instead of written out en filmsy; Taylor agreed; Oliver went back to Winni- peg, bought two cases of non-pa- reil type, a small press and a quan- tity of newsprint cut to the size to which the press would print. He loaded all this, weighing some 300 pounds, on his Red River cagt, and trekked back to Edmonton. There a shack was secured for an office; it was agreed that Oliver would sup- ply the local news and Taylor the telegrams; but as luck would have it the day when the Bulletin was first issued (Dec. 6, 1880) the 'wires were down" and the sheet designed to be a telegraph bulletin became just a sheet of 100al news. When it was decided that the name of the paper should be The Bulletin, it was found that the type did not permit the setting up of such a title, so Taylor took his jacknife and cut the name out of a wooden block. The first Bulletin lasted only one winter; in the spring Tayler with- drew; but Oliver decided that the paper should be revived and it was to be the motive power which car- ried its editor to the North West Assembly, to the House of Commons and to the privy council of Canada as a minister under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Frank Oliver was a rough dia, mond; but he knew his west, which he loved, and when he died his last request was that his body should be | taken home to the prairie which he cherished so much, Japs Keep Blockade On Shanghai Section Shanghai, Dec, 5.--(AP) -- The Japanese blockade of Shanghai's "badlands," imposed Saturday to facilitate search for a gunman, was extended to the western boundary of the international settlement as a Japanese gendarme, wounded by the gunman, was reported to have died. Inside the barbed-wire network through which nu food supplie? have passed since Saturday thous- ands of Chinese milled about. Many were reported suffering from hunger, Five primary school children were said to be lving without food or heat in their schoolroom. The Japanese announced partial lifting of blockade restrictions af- HASTINGS COUNTY COUNCIL PROTESTS COST OF JUSTICE Would Discontinue Mileage Allowances for Judges and Court Officials Belleville, Dec. 6--Hastings county councillors took the afternoon off to visit Trenton R.C.AF. station Wed- nesday, through the courtesy of Group Captain T. A. Lawrence, O.C., of the station. Before adjourning, council took time to protest the increasing costs of administration of justice in the county. They concurred in a reso- lution forwarded by Bruce County to the effect all allowances, mileage and other expenses to judges, magis. trates and court officials be dis- continued in favor of straight salar ies. The resolution also stipulated that judges be required to contribute to their own pensions on the same basis as other civil service em- ployees. Commenting on the increasing costs during the past four years, Warden J. L. Churcher said, "Ad- ministration of justice costs are as- suming terrific proportions. Some of these costs appear to be unneces- sary." Warden Churcher expressed the opinion there were too many jurors and juries throughout the province. "I do not think juries are entirely unnecessary." he declared, "But I am convinced that six good men can pass equally as good judgment on a criminal as can twemty-four. I think the time has come for a clear-cut decision in this regard. People of this county should be vitally inter- ested in this point, inasmuch as they are a law-abiding people. The sys- tem should be changed throughout Ontario." Administration of justice costs during the first eleven months of 1940 totalled $31,961. an increase of $3,008 over the same period of last year. Other costs which topped last year's figures were the Children's Ald Society and Industrial School, which at $16,505, represented an in- crease of $1,894 over 1939; school costs, which were up $3,500, and road Senior) Barton appeared in the role for the 1,800th time. The only member of the original New York cast last night was Edwin Walter. Until last August he hadn't missed a performance; then he ac- cepted a part in "Bangtalls," which ran out of the money, and Walter came back, happy again as the banker foreclasing the mortgage on the Lester farm. Last may "Tobacco Road" pushed ahead of the former marathon champion, "Able's Irish Rose," which retired after 2,328 performances. LABOR PARTY PUTS SUUEEZE ONAUSTRALIA Demands More Benefits and Lighter Taxes or Else It Will Force Country to Another Election Sydney, Dec. 6--Holding office by a slim one-vote majority in the House of Representatives, Prime Minister R. G. Menzies yesterday sought to stave off possible defeat by offering to meet some of Labor's demands which include increasing allowances to soldiers' dependents. Labor is the largest single party in the House, but Menzies holds of- fice by virtue of a coalition of the United Australian and Country parties. Ministers of both parties expressed willingness to increase payments to wheat growers and establish a higher income tax ex- emption, in addition to increasing dependents' allowances, as demand- ed by Labor. Labor has proposed sweeping bud. gel amendmeats which if pressed might bring about Menzies' defeat. The concessions proposed fo Labor would add £5,000,000 (about $18,000,- 000) to the budget and bring its maintenance costs, which increased | $3,000 this year. 'TOBACCO ROAD' | STARTS 8TH YEAR Three Men Play Jeeter Lester in Anniversary Show New York, Dec. 8--' "Tobacco Road" that hardy perennial of the Georgia turnip hills, is in its eighth year to- day--and the end isn't in sight. Already the proud possessor of all records for the longest run of any play, the show served up an added fillip to its 2,971st performance on Broadway by presenting three actors in the star role of Jeeter Lester-- total to more than £280,000,000. One faction of the Labor party insists that Labor should be allowed to form a government and wants to defeat Menzies even if it might lead to another election. John Curtin, Labor leader, following a party caucus, said last night, however, that he would seek further consessions as the price for withdrawing the budget amendments, Labor has refused to join ih a natfonal government. EXPECT BIG INFLUX OFBR. INDUSTRY Minister of Supplies Will Discuss Plan Soon on Visit to England one in each act. Jeeter is.the uncouth ne'er-do- well who drawls out the flavored words that night after night have shocked some, pleased others and broken Broadway's rules and rec- ords. A packed house saw the anniver- sary show last night. Outwardly the play that has grossed almost $5,000,000 hasn't changed much, but there's been wear and tear on "them thar" red clay hills at the Forrest Theatre. The Georgia "crackers" on the stage have eaten 30,000 odd turnips. Seventy thousand gallons of good (New York reservoir) water have been used, but the Lester family still looks mighty dirty, for 70 tons of New Jersey earth is an awful lot of dirt. It's taken that much dirt these seven years to keep the stage look- ing the way it's supposed to. Jeeter in act one was Will Geer, modest about 1t all because he's only been Jeeter 412 times and is the cur- rent star. Charles "Slim" Timblin, who played the part 619 times dur- ing the road show, came next. And in the third act, James (Jeeter, Ottawa, Dec. 6--The prospect of British war industry moving to Can- ada, apart from the development of domestic industry for that purpose, is being visualized here and it is known that this will be among the matters taken up by Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Supplies, during his impending visit to the Old try. Admittedly British industry with out being destroyed by bombings, is being interrupted. While the reso- lute spirit of the British ensures rapid repairs and rebuilding, there is no assurance that the restored structures will not pe bombed again, And so it is suggested that it may be regarded as more economic, im the long run, to transfer to Canada a portion of such industry along with machines and workers, Whether or not there be any sub« stantial migration of British main industry to Canada, authorities here entertain no doubt of the develop- ment, at least, of much industry vhich would be subsidiary in all the 'aried lines of war production. A large influx of capital is rea- onably looked for. RENOVATE. INSULATE... AND BUILT UP ROOFS DONNACONA THESE NLL IHS INS ON PRODUCTS COMPANY INSULATING & HARD BOARD, ETC, LIMITED INSULATED SIDINGS ETC. 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