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JORGNTY OFFICE: 40' Rond or emperance Street, Telephone "acide o B per representative, = rr WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1927 OSHAWA'S ASSESSMENT Return of the city assessment rolls by Com- missioner James on Tueadny, the first of No- vember, was marked by a rt that normal growth had increased the le wealth of the city by nearly a million and quarter dollars, This total was reached despite a loss of nearly $200,000 through increased income tax exemp- tions, Mr, James and his staff or done a fine piece of 'work in'getting 'their rolls down on schedula despite the unprecedented character of this year's building expansion totglling, as it does, over $4,600,000 and with mj ch building. yet to be begun, Analysis of the assessment deures show that while Dshawa's population increased 3,288, the basis for taxation advanced only $1,238,035, This works out at an average increase of some- thing over $383 for each new resident, The general average, however, is higher, The city's population this year is said to be 20,609, The total assessment is $18,431,435, The average, then, is over $651 for each inhabi- tant, ' The discrepancy between the general average and the specific average of the gain of new resi- dents during 'the past years is due to several factors that. invite special attention, One of these is the city's policy of raising revehue by a high tax rate on a low assessment as opposed to the somewhat devious method, widely prac- ticed, of hiding civic expenditure under high assessment accompanied with a more or less moderate tax rate, Oshawa's system has stood the test of ex- perience and met this year's special challenge without breaking down, Its value seems to be fairly well proved, THIS LATE OCTOBER Now that November of the alleged melan- choly days merely carries on the beneficent reign of its predecessor, everyone should pause a little and be grateful for the most glorious months that has yet blessed the memory of living resi- dents of Central Ontario, Let poets sing of rich June's maiden splendor, or advance the pure grace of May when lilacs first scent the air, These are months entitled to all the love that humanity gives them, but after all and at their best, they merely live up to what is expected of them, October is another matter, It is one of the frontier months, a sentinel set by the season at the borders of summer, The years record that October usually manages to stand fast, but time knows that it sometimes suffers de- feat. Then it stands in autumn's tattered finery while the heavens weep above its misery, Dull clouds weizh upon such October's hilltops with an expression of dull misery, even the robins--those red tunicked campaigners--fly about complainingly and leave before their time for more indulgent climes, But not this October that has just passed! Was there one day of its jewelled thirty and one that did not write some new joy of a Can- adian autumn. When, before, ware the woods so gorgeously liveried; what other month had such nights of splendor--nights of silver magic and skies of purple; Nighis o of omy shot with led out and upward to the pageant of the hills, EAST WHITBY'S PROBLEMS points the way to 8 solution of the question of city services to citizens living out- e the municipal area was evolved. That solution, stated in its simplest terms, is that those who live in the township and get such services shall pay for them. The converse, howevor, is even more impor- --_------ a St 56 at Crlawn ons lf On the city * ME estimate, the applica- tion of this principle as regards water mains should not mean prohibitive costs to suburban residents, Thus, apparently, the new basis of agreement in the matter of suburban service extensions will operate to the general advantage of all concerned, The taxpayers at large will be protected both in current and capital accounts; due restraint will be placed on real estate de- velopment outside the city to the detriment of growth actually within the city; and yet nec- essary suburban growth will not be given too great a handicap. The Water Commission meeting was marked by evident expectancy of suburban residents that the extensions of Oshawa's city limits to 'the east and west will not be long delayed. It is worthy the best thought of the city if the time has not come to take the preliminary steps in this matter at least, HIGHWAY COMPLAINT BUREAU The general campaign being staged by the Ontario ministry of highways to build up pub- lic co-operation in the matter of safe driving as opposed to the reckless sort that, this year, has reached a new peak of wanton destructive- ness, is proving effective and worthy of the widest possible support, In that connection, Hon, George 8. Henry announces that he proposes to establish a "Bureau of Complaints" to which citizens may send information, without assuming direct re- sponsibility, regarding reckless or otherwise objectionable driving, This proposed bureau should prove of im- mense value in checking those--the cowardly or brutal or both--in whose hands a motor car is the chief of deadly weapons, Incidentally, if a Bureau of Complaints for the whole province is commendable, is it not worth while suggesting that the police depart- ments of cities should adapt the idea to their own special needs? It is certain that many things go on in a community such as Oshawa that should be looked into on the principle that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, But if the police wait until citizens at large will risk the rack by making a charge which must be substantiated in a court, then the police will wait, as they do, until this murdered body is discovered, or that ruined life drags its re- proach through the streets of a city that has become alien and aloof, Of course every community has a more or less large percentage of fools, particularly of the type that would welcome this sort of sys- tem for venting a private grudge; but to allow evil to run its disastrous course because of them is simply an admittance of futility, INDIVIDUAL TEACHING Criticism of the result of modern teaching has advanced in England to constructive ex- periment, Once the idea that the prevalent modern method might not be the last word'in teaching gained hold, it was inevitable that other methods should be examined and tried, Individual teaching is one substitute pro- posed in London. Instead of children being grouped by ages, classrooms may have children of all ages, according to their progress in that particular subject. In reading, for example, children are not limited to reading in class by turn, but are allotted certain books and with th= pledge to do a certain amount of reading may do it at pleasure. This system is followed in other subjects. The form rooms are made into laboratories for each subject, and the pupils may elect to divide their time according to their needs, The results are reported to be instructive, One value of the new plan is to develop a sense of personal effort and responsibility much greater than under the competitive class method. But the chief gain is the thorough- ness attained. The children are taken out of the lockstop and liberated for self-advance- ment. y BANNING A HYMN Cardinal O'Donnell of Boston in banning "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" from funeral services in his archdiocese is not the first dis- tinguished man to voice objection to a song that people like very much or don't as the case may be. Woodrow Wilson, either as president of Princeton University or as governor of New Jersey, entered the lists against the lyric which has a pleasing and quite churchly melody, but whose words might just as well refer to the South Sea Islands as to the Elysian Fields. A vast improvement in hymnology is noted by many who can recall the saccharine and often inane religious songs that came off the press prior to 1914. Many of them passed the censorship of good taste only because they invoked the Diety. Without such reference some of them would have made the most utter Tin Can Alley addict blush, two months, THE OSHAWA J..Y TIMES. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21927 FUGITIVE BOY GLAD T0 BE IN PRISON Flees from Murder Charge for Two Months After Red Bank, N.J., Nov. 2.--Josep} Billings, 17, was "happy Monday in | spite of being in jail. Sunday night he crept home to see his mother after two months of wandering, and an hour later was arrested on a charge of man- slaughter. The 17-yeaj-old¢boy 4s charged with causing the death of Raymond Reardon, 5, while playing "'cow- boy." Billings is sald to have las. soed Reardon. A few days 'ater the younger bov died in the hos- THOCARSSTOLEN ONE RECOVERED Auto is Recovered By the To- ronto Police--Both Taken Last Night Two cars, a Ford Coupe and a "| Ghevrolelt Sedan, both owned local- ! lly, were stolen last night. One was recovered through the efforts of the Toronto police, and the other, which was stolen in Toronto, has not yet been recovered. _ The first one reported to the local police department was taken from Albert street between 7 and 9 p.m. It is a Chevrolet Sedan with 1i- cense number 206-434 and is the property of Mr. Easton, 241 Dear- born avenue. The police of Toronto pital, and an autopsy showed his and other towns were notified, and death was due to strangulation | ~aused by a swelling Doctors sald the rope, jerked, had caused the swelling. Billings told Monday how he es- caped the wateh of thie police for wind-pipe playfully , gradual | "When 1 heard of Raymond's death, I slipped away," Billings said. "I went straight for the marshes. The first night 1 came out and met a boy I knew. We de-| cided to flip a nickel to see if I would go back or run away. It was 1ails and 1 left. We went south. In Virginia we worked as farm hands. Then my friend left and I was home sick. "Well, 1 came home and they ar- rested me and 1 feel better now." ABBEY TAPESTRIES | ARE 400 YEARS OLD Jerusalem Chamber Has Price. less Relics of Historic Interest | London. --- Few Londoners know | that tapestries of remarkable beauty and artistic beauty are to be seen in the Jerusaleum Chamber of Westmin- ster Abbey. This chamber is rarely visited by the public, though an apph- | cation to see it is seldom, if ever, refused, ! circumstances, | There are various however, which prevent this historic room from being thrown open in the same general way as, for instance, Henry VIL's Chapel or the Norman Undercroit. The historic interest of the Jerusa- lem Chamber is, however, great, and, further, it contains in the tapestries which adorn its walls some of the best works of 'art of the kind in Europe. These tapestries form a portion of what 1s known as the Abraham series. They were the work of Bernard Van Orley of Brussels, and date from the 5 middle of the sixteenth century. How or when they came into the possession of the Dean and Chapter of West- minster it is difficult tosay. Coronation of James II. A print, however, is in existence re- | presenting the cast end of the Abbey! at the coronation of James Il. It shows! one of these beautiful fabrics suspend- ed from the north side of the Sanc-, Luary. The tapestries, at some time or] other were placed in the Jerusaleum | Chamber in order to adorn the other- | wise bare walls. They suffered ter- ribly in the process, being mercilessly cut about in order to ft their new | positions. They have suffered still | more from the inevitable passage of | time. The dirt which settled on them, | year by year, had the effect of mak- | ing the subjects they represent prac- tically indistinguishable. A remarkable process of cleaning, | mending, and renewal has, however, neen carried througl by the Dean and | Chapter, under the superintendence of | the authorities of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The original colors are now to be seen in all their splen- aor. The work which has been ac- complished is a revelation of unsus- pected beauties. These tapestries can- not be surpassed anywhere in the! world. ARRESTED HERE FOR SCARBORO POLICE Wanted by Scarboro police on a charge of theft, Edgar McFadden was arrested by 'Oshawa officers yesterday and has been taken back wo Scarboro. The charge against McFadden is for hte theft of a New Planet bi- cycle, and the local police officials received a message yesterday after- poon that he was wanted in Scar- boro. Within a few hours McFadden was in custody and he has since been removed to Scarboro by officers who came to Oshawa for him. He was ar- rested on Athol street late yester- day afternoon. DANCES FORBIDDEN Baltimore, Md., Noy. 1.--Roman Catholic priests in this archdiocese are forbidden to attend dances or to assist in organizing them, no matter how laudable the purpose may be. Regulations adopted by the Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 are to be enforced by Archbishop Curley. i late last night a report was received from police headquarters in Toronto ! that it had been recovered hy offi- cers of No. 6 Police Station. John Chaszwiski, 481 Ritson road south, ! Oshawa; Stanley Saramak, 122 Bar- rie street, Oshawa, and three Toron- to boys were in the car at the time, and arrests have been made by the police in connection with the themt. The car was returned to Mr. Easton this morning. The second report of a stolen auta- | mobile was received shortly after ane oclock this morning from A. F. |e Cox, manager of the Universal Mat- or Sales, who reported the theft of a Ford' Coupe owned by that firm. The car was stolen from in front of the Prince George Hotel. Toronto, be- tween ten and twelve o'clock last | night, while it was in charge of an employee of the Universal Motor Sales. The coupe is a 1927 model Tainted black, and has front and and a spre time, It Ontario license number 181-614. The police have heen noti- | fled and are working on the theft. ar bumnere hil TANADA'S OUTLOOK FOR 1928 IS GOOD =; British Trade | Commissioner Says Industrial Situa- tion Excellent London, Nov 2.--Industrial con- ditions in Canada are excellent, and the cutlook for 1928 is good, said I. W. Field, senior British trade commissioner in Canada, on his ar- rival at Liverpool ahoard the Al- bertic Sunday. He emphasized that there was a marked desire for | Dominion creater investment in the on the part cf the United Kingdom. It is probably true to say, con- tinued Mr. Field, that husipness men and investors of the United Kingdom have taken a greater interest in anada this year than in any previ- ous year. The visit of the Prince er ------ Save Regular saving dur- ing the year will make it possible to travel at holiday time, Bank a definite por- tion of your income, and Travel THE C. N. HENRY Local Manager of Wales and Premier Stanley Bald- win, to the Dominion last summer made a deep impression, while the tbur made by members of the Em- pire Mining Congress, brought to the attention of mining men and Empire capitalists the vast mineral resources of Canada. "We had mere calls at Montreal from British manufacturers and merchants than at any time previ- ously," said Mr. Field. He empha- sized that one cannot sell to Can- ada at long range because it is = market above all others, in wiucn the seller must go to the buyer. A Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Noy, 1.--A total of 314 persons perished in the Principessa Mafalda disaster, off the coast of Brazil, it was shown today in final figures made public by the local office of the Navigazione Gen- erale Italiana, owners of the vessel. 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