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THE OAKVILLE RECORD - Thursday, October 15, 1931, ae Oakville Record: Ltd. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association ___ be able to repay it with a hundred bushels of wheat and _ FAIR WARNING ow 130. acres, it was stated could have been-sold- ten “years _ ings for $4500 has a better chance to make it go than ; papers of the province tackling the farmers problems so JOHN ATKINS rene President. GEORGE ATKINS - Manager. Teleph . ones: m Editorial and business office—16_ ~ = Residence, John Atkins—19 r As They See It THE MONSTROSITY. OF THE WORLD SITUATION LETTER TO THE EDITOR Mr. . Editor: The account of the slow motion feotball match played on Saturday, September 12th, given you by some t_reporter is not-a-true-one capitalism has so far failed to evolve a practical technique of exchange and distribution. If we see French banks closing their doors (which is by no means unlikely in the near future) an international gold conference of an en- tirely new kind may be possible, a practical conference. As We See It. PENSIONS AGAIN The pension problem will never be settled until it is possible to secure the right men to put the pensions act into effect. The legislation now in force is the result of the joint efforts of all parties and is agreed to be fair and workable. The job is now to find personnel capable of applying it effectively. not devoted to fine speeches and petty actions, but to business in the spirit of war conferences when action was urgent and decision imperative. There are great op- portunities ahead of us for sane international action: we may really see the falling of tariff barriers and an end to the dead clutch of old indebtedness which now holds back the creative forces of the world. And we are asked as a preliminary, when we have taken a really useful step towards sanity, to jeopardise the whole ad- vance by imposing, without any national-tiecessity’ to justify us, a new set of tariff barriers which can only lead ‘towards retaliation and a new game of beggar-my-neigh- bour.—The New Statesman and Nation. CATTLE TESTS RAISE RUCTIONS Suspense, desperation, mad jealous‘y, ruthless vengeance and retribution are all portrayed in pre-view | flashes of a coming attraction on the screen of an O1-/ tawa theatre last week. After ten minutes of _ hair- raising thrills the audience was left breath! with this descriptive bomb, “A surprise ending that will blast you right out of your seats." Unfortunately we have for- gotten the name of the picture. o THE BOTTOM There is a bottom to every depression despite the fact that many people still suffer from a sinking sen tion im this one, which leads them to believe the has dropped out. When conditions get bad enough heroic measures are taken to right them. And that is what is happening right now. We have not only reached the bottom, we are on the first rung on the way up. Watch wheat, it is our best baromete?. Our- prediction is that before Christmas wheat will indicate “clearing” and fairer weather. PERFECTLY SAFE Because Britain acts, and safeguards free thought and free sper emerge from the pend- ing election perfectly s the hands of whatever party may -be-elected. --Great and radical changes must be brought about by the elected governmett be it National Ment has said, or words to that effect. or Socialist. That these changes will be made by con- stitutional methods, and accepted in a sportsmanlike spirit, is a foregone conclusion. The programs of the various parties are the result of much thinking and con- structive planning. Great Britain will progress under any government. The near future will record the most mo- mentous events. in the as ie of the world's greatest democracy. AND HORSES EAT HAY For profound truth we commend our readers to an editorial in a Toronto newspaper last week which re- lated the fact that an excellent farm property in the Stratford district was bought for $4500. This farm of ago for $10,000. The Stratford Beacon-Herald was quoted as follows: “Farmers are willing to concede that the man who gets 130 acres with fairly good build- the one who paid twice that much for a farm a few years _ago.”” How great is truth. Most farmers would also concede that cows give milk, hens lay eggs, potatoes have eyes, hd, if the income exceeds all expenses a profit is made. It is truly heartening to find the great news- courageously and intelligently. NEVER AGAIN A new basis for money must be found. The gold! Ameri standard has failed in every. major test. It has been manipulated by creditor nations causing distress and col- lapse in debtor nations. The golden calf has again cor- rupted the people and “turned them aside out of the way’ of honest money and fair exchange. It has pre- vented employment and caused starvation in the mide! of plenty. Eminent economists are searching for the means of making produced wealth the basis of money. They be- lieve that prices can be stabilized so that a debtor who contracts a debt equal to a hundred bushels of wheat will not four hundred bushels as is the case today. It is be- A little private revolution is’ going on in lowa over jovhether the government shall or shall not make tuberculin sts ca tattle, Cedar County, Iowa, has been put under martial law and national guardsmen have arrested the alleged leader of the protestant farmers, one J. W. Len- ker, who himself sold his herd rather than submit to the tests. ~ Farmers with pitchforks and mud-balls kept the government testers away from the oi ty or so, but the National Guard with machine-guliSjuthed the tide of battle, and the unprotesting cattle were led, herd| ” and’ fhe officials resent the opinion of your reporter. What actually occurred was that slow motion or walking soccer match was staged with a desire to note the difference and agreement with the class of football played here. f O 1d Clothes Made Like New L adies’ Dresses Cleaned and Pressed L ife Long Resident’ of the Burg E very Job Guaranteed S ervice Prompt. Phone— 588 OLLIE ’S Colborne Street Se. SO Two teams played half hour of slow motion or walking soccer and the re- sult was 2 goals each and by way. of contrast the same two teams played half hour of ordinary soccer with a scoré of nil each. Now this is what observant fans noted: In slow motion the teams gained their objective four times that is 2 goals each, whilst in ordinary soccer. the same teams did not gain/ their objective once proving that the | whole of the time in the latter the ball | was anywhere else but. The point gained by the officials was—slow mo- tion teams far excelled the ordinary by four to nothing. Tt eliminated space of ground; it, eliminated rough play. Coaches may instruct his players where to place the i ball before the play is past. That old | time players may play their game without excessive effort. That four | forwards out of five had not played football for 15 or 20 years and were | beating a young — organized league | team at half time by two to nothing. It shows up the weakness of team play in ordinary soccer. Yours, ALBERT MONEY, ' after herd, into the inclosures where the tests were made. This is by no means the first instance of protest against government methods of disease control, and against the officials who attempt to put the methods into. effect. Farmers pretty generally can be found who believe that tuberculin tests are incompetently made, that cows are left diseased as a result of the serum injection, and that subsequent calyes of testsycows suffer harm. “Moreover, a farmer who baz paid Acveral hundred dollars. for his cow is understandably disgruntled when the government offers him a fourth of that sum for the meat, pronounced diseased, and insists that he take it. | There is enough disagreement among medical experts over the treatment and transmission of tuberculosis to make the farmers’ ob- jections worth taking into account.—The = STARVATION RAMPANT “There shall be no hunger in this land.” the Presi- But in Detroit alone, it has been estimated by medical authorities, at least one person starves to death every seven hours and fteen minutes. A physician at the Receiving Hospital Albany Lakeshore League. | LUMBER GYPROC WALL BOARD SATIN FINISH HARDWOOD FLOORING CEMENT, SEWER TILE UP-TO-DATE FLOOR SANDER All Builders’ Supplies "Diatelsck Brothers RANDAL STREET Oakville Rg gt ee a ee in this city reported recently that four people a day, on the average, are brought to the hospital too far gone fro-n starvation for their lives to be saved. Many others die lonely deaths outside the hospitals. On one day in| September. in Grand Circus Park where the homele<s gather, three workers were found dead. Mayor Frank Murphy has said that some 200.000 persons have been idle for a year: that thousands of children are under- nourished; _ that a great number of suicides are not re- ported in the press: that the psychopathic wards of the hospitals are crowded with people whose minds have b=. come unstrung under the pressure of adversity, _Lasi year the mayor made valiant efforts to provide relief: but the city’s large welfare disbursements caused its financial credit to disappear, and it is well known that | bankers —foreed—a—reduction-in public relief before they would grant further loans. Detroit is especially Vulner- able, because it is A great mass-production center whose industries seem to have collapsed en masse. But it is grim statistics coming from this one source, may We not estimate that about a hundred persons a day are dying of hunger under the American “economic system ?—T he New Republic. SCIENCE IS NOT AN ENEMY OF LABOR fable hostility between the two, that it is an interesting variation to hear Mr. William Green. president of the ican federation of labor, assuring the public in gen- eral and Jabor in particular that science is not necessarily the enemy of labor. True. the advance of science anc! the aise "2 . discoveries have thrown millions of men out of work. But in destroying some occupations, it has created others. In the period of transition and ad- justment, labor may suffer. is is not the fault of science. Tt is because science has not been. scientific enough. Tt has been more concerned about the improve- ment of technical processes than about the welfare of the men who have to carry -on the world’s work whether under new or. old procers-s. Science as applied to in- dustry must consider not merely the economic costs of production but the human casts of all the technical im- provements which it introdtu--} Tt: has not done its whole work until it has adivcted the new precess or the new in- lieved that money ba sed on commodities would maintain an even balance between agricultural and industrial pro- | Part ducts and to a great extent overcome the serious disparity. between rural and urban earnings. ~ It is obvious that gold has failed. It is unlikely that the people will ever agai accept the dictation of the international monéy buc- cancers who have used the geld standard to exact four’ pounds of flesh for every one named in the contract. They have spilt too much blood to get away with their pai 4 dustry to the whole hur-en situation of which itis to he » part, science does all that, it is not hostile to the interests of labor. Ax » rratier of fact, indistrial en- Rineéering s seldom done all that. Tt has been content lo in ucing goods, to cheapen costs of production. and to devise new com- modities which the public could be trained to want, and it has trusted to chance and to the slow and costly pro- cess of gradual adjustment to repair the damage which ix typical of other industrial cities: and if judged by the] + ° protect. calamity. ( | Mutual Life Office ‘ door when the children were born. children she will have to return to her folks. ] ) better off had she never met you.” } If you should die without Insurance would people say this about you’ “You took a good girl from a good home, to love, honor, and She became the mother of your children and went to death's With nothing left for her and the She would have been A decent sized policy in the Mutual Life will ward off such a Remember it's the only certain sum at an uncertain time. -J. B. DUFF - Davis Biock, Oakville Phone 462 ee a ee al Evening rates (7.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. local time) jar ‘neident tothe advance, That is one of the things that — ~ are troubling us now.—The Christian Century. = LOVE LAUGHS | AT TELEPHONE TOLLS Hospital days were lonely. Of course, her friends did all they could to keep her cheerful — her room was a bower of roses — but how she looked forward to evening when Jack could sit by her and talk of his day at the office, ; ; Then came the news that he must leave town on busi- ness...She wondered how she could stand the wait until he came home. But Jack, wise fellow, knew how to called her over Long Distance and told her all the things she wished to hear. Extravagant? . . ..not a bit . . . for night rates are always inexpensive! What could be worth moze for what it cost?