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. PAGE FOUR The Ospina B Baily ines THE OSHAWA ppd REFORMER (Established 1871) dependent newspaper published every afternoon a Sundays and .legal holidays, at Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Fro Company, Limited; Chas. 8 Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Secre tary. The Ushawa Dally mes 1a 4 membar of the (ais dian Press, the Canadian Dally Newspapers' As a a I'he Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: iV a week. Hy mail: ia the Counties of Untarie, Durham and Northumberland, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE; 407 Bond Bullding, 66 l'emperance Street, Tel Adelaide 0107. H. D, Thesidder, representative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers aud Stome, Inc, New York and Chicago Rs, lt i WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1928 ES WOMEN NOT ADMITTED According to the Supreme Court of Can- ada no women are to be admitted as mem- bers of the Senate, or perhaps we should say, no more women are to be admitted, for, "according to some critics, there are already a number of "old ladies" now occupying seats in the red chamber, From the standpoint of the Government, which quite probably would very much pre- fer to confine the office of senator to the male sex, the question is a troublesome one. And it cannot be considered settled even by the decision of the Supreme Court, For that decision will only serve to stir up the right- eous wrath of womankind in every part of Canada and what a lot of trouble women can make even for a government when they become real "het up." Our own theory is that the women of Canada, with the powers of persuasion they possess and backed by the suffrage they now enjoy, will not rest until they have conquer- ed this new dragon and removed this newly discovered stigma from their fair name, It may be true that women are not missing much in being excluded from the Senate but that will not deter them from any deter- mination to obtain equality with their hus- bands and fathers in all matters pertaining to the government of the country, One thing is sure, in the meantime, wo- men orators have now a new theme for satirical thrusts or witty references, as oc- casion may require, ONE LIGHT MENACE It *is to be hoped the Minister of High- ways of Ontario, Hon, George 8S. Henry, meant what he said when addressing the banquet of the Ontario Truck Owners' As- gociation at the King Edward Hotel last night with reference to "one-light drivers," The Minister is reported as saying that "the one-light driver, so far as the Depart- ment is concerned, will be driven from the roads of the Province," This is good news indeed, Up to the present it would appear that the Department has been somewhat indifferent to this very real menace to safe motoring, One cannot drive between Oshawa and Toronto any night in the week without almost invariably meeting cars or trucks with only one light burning and indeed it is not an uncommon thing to meet cars or trucks with no lights at all Yet prosecutions for these offences appear to be very rare. Evidently the highway traffic officers in this district have not been seized with the importance of putting a stop to this dangerous practice, The Hon. Mr, Henry has called a meeting of all interested in highway safety for May 2nd and it is hoped that enforcement of the regulations regarding lights on cars will be one of the subjects discussed at'that time. The announced policy of the Department is one thing, but enforcement by its officers is ancther. TO PROHIBIT ADVERTISING SIGNS According to a despatch from Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, the highways of that province are to be kept clear of ad- vertising signs and other obstructions which detract from the natural scenic beauty of the countryside and tend to confuse the mo- toring public in many ways. A bill, which has been introduced in the : Legislature by Hon. D. A. Stewart, Minister of Public Works, marks another advanced step in provincial highways adminstration. It prohibits the erection of any signs or ad- vertising matter of any kind along the high- ways of the province, There has been pro- vision in the Highway Act to prohibit the erection of signs on curves and approaches thereto, but further action became necessary when the provincial Department of Public Works embarked upon its extensive pro- gram for the numbering of the highways and the erection of a complete system of "direction dgns, It is felt that advertising signs along the highways would not only detract from the value of the official high- way markings, but it is recognized that they take the attention of drivers of metor ve- hicles away from their duties as well as mar- ring the roadside beauty. The bill consists of a brief preamble and the following to become Section 80 of the New Brunswick Highways Act: "No person shall post, erect, display or maintain, or cause to be posted, erect- ed, displayed or maintained, any sign, bill board, panel, placard, poster, notice or other advertisement, (a), in, upon or above any portion of any highway; (b), or so situated with respect to any high way as to obstruct clear vision of any curve of the highway, or of any inter- secting highway or highways, or other- wise so situated as to prevent the safe use of any highway ; provided that noth- ing in this section shall apply to signs erected or maintained by or with the approval of the engineers." At the risk of being charged with having ulterior motives we desire to heartily com. mend this progressive move on the part of the New Brunswick Legislature and we sin- cerely hope that the Province of Ontario will not be long in following the example of her sister province down by the sea. As the Ottawa Journal says, in comment- 'ing upon the proposal: "Roadside signs are a general nuisance, For obvious reasons they are invariably placed where they do most harm te the scenery, If advertisers cannot understand that their signs often make more enemies than friends they should be compelled to cease the objectionable prac- tice." In our opinion the day is not far distant when cities and towns will prohibit the "adornment" of vacant lots, roofs of old builaings and other popular sites with ad- vertising signs which contribute nothing useful to the welfare of the community, and whose owners frequently pay little or noth. ing in taxes, EDITORIAL NOTES A man is also judged by the scandals he keeps up with, To secure conservation appears to require a lot of conversation, Modern styles are such that a hairdresser is the person a woman works hardest, , Possession is nine parts of the law and 99 per cent, of what interests the lawyer. Be very careful in trying to understand women, The insane asylum is full of men who were not, Bit of Verse BE BRITISH You tell me that you do not know The reason why we lag, And why our grand Canadian lads Desert the dear old flag? It's up to you! The fault is yours That they should have to roam, For while you buy the foreign goods They have no work at home. The dairy produce from abroad Is dumped upon our shores, The boots from lands of alien flag Are seen within our stores, Have we no cows to give us milk? Do hens refuse to lay? Shall our Canadian boot machines Just idly rust away? We go to others for the fuel Our furnaces to feed, And yet we have in Canada More coal than what we need. Why should the Maple Leaf be scorned? Is patriotism dead? There's something wrong when oft we find Our people needing bread, For Empire's cause buy Empire's wares If we would British be, So link ourselves with far-flung isles By hands across the sea, Thus of ennobled interest We each trade with the other, And form a world-wide family, The pride of little Mother. How splendid it would be, methinks If we were ring-like bound, With England in the centre, Dominions all around, To bond our lands, remote or near, With Paddy, John and Mack, Then pledge ourselves to only buy Goods trademarked "Union Jack." . --Robert T., Redding in Toronto Mail and Empire. w So states the old B.N.A, guess that if women were in the senate, the senators coulda't smoke. They may now retire to their abode in peace and without the necessity of performing ecer- tain operations which are custom- ary in the presence of the weaker gender, . to Talk about your daylight sav- ing, who wants an extra hour to enjoy the beautiful weath- ed with that's going on outside these days. Looks as if the clock should be set back an hour so we could stay in work as long as we can, and utilize the spare day- light to accomplish something of importance, - A stowaway was caught in the tall of a plane before {ts flight, and left at home. ® L LJ On a Stowaway's Ejection On ships which sal} where breezes blow, In search of trade or gold, There often lurks far down be- low Where all is black and cold, A man who has the sailors trick- . od, Some reckless human derelict, Imprisoned In the hold, And now when airplanes go away, On some uncharted trail, Birdmen must seek the stowaway, Deep hidden ,trembling, pale; Before a non-stop flight ye plan, Look sharply for the camera man Who's hidden in the tail! --Telegram, LJ . LJ "Test case on newest slot ma- chine being heard here." -- head- line. Looks very much like there was a broad hint in this passage that beer was going to be sold in slot machines. Anyway, some- body will make some money if they invent a machine which gives a bottle when you drop in the quarter, LJ L . A Galt man who recently houcht a radio says it's all right to listen to, hut the bulbs are not so good to read by. ¥ LJ LJ . Egg-zactly A local man was fined twenty- five dollars and costs last week for not marking the grade on his eggs. Which goes further to em- phasize the need of a bre2d of hens which will grade and mark their own eggs as they lay them. --Woodstock Review, . LJ LJ Starting Young We say this is a fast age, Why, in Seattle, a yongn Jad, three years old, has commen. ed smoking cigars, and it doesn't hurt him, either, so doctors say, . LJ "Alrplane to Aid Orillia in Wip- ing out Mosquitoes." -- headline, It is generally known that a mos- quito makes a droning sound when it is out flying around. We suppose that the hum of the air- plane will glve the mosquitoes the idea that a whole regiment of ene- my mosquitoes are approaching, and will therefore hike for shel- ter. All the plane would have to do in such a case would be to keep on humming. . From chairs to maps, the Canadian Infantry now trav- els, Counsel decides that it had better supply maps of the Mons territory and accord. ingly displays a huge pen and ink drawing of Mons, as it was, as it is, and as it shall be (perhaps). It's a digres- sion, if nothing else, Famous Last Words "I'll cut that Xmas tree my- gelt,""' . * Golfingly yours, * LJ LJ] By Renrut. PAYNE RETAINS 36-MINUTE LEAD IN THE BUNION DERBY Rolla, Mo., April 24.--Andrew Payne, of Claremore, Olka., retain- ed a 36-minute lead over Peter Ga- "vuzzi, England, in the transcontin- ental foot race when they tied with two other runners for tenth place in today's run of 32.4 miles from Waynesville to Rolla, the fifty-sec- ond control, Their time was 5.37. 50. Phillip Granville, Hamilton, the Dominion's walking champion, re- tained fourth place by running 8 dead heat with Ed. Garner, Seattle negro in 4.39.37. His time for the 1,969.3 miles from Los Angeles is 370.55.42, Andrew Constantinoff, Toronto Siberian, was sixteenth for the day in 5.69.24, 416.15.51, and other Ca- nadian competitors as follows: Thomas Ellis, Hamilton, 7.03.83 --549.20.04. John Cronick, Saskatoon, 6.27.58 ~--382.37.06. George Liebergall, Belleyue, Ont. 7.27.40--425.06.05. 8S. Stevano, Calgary, 7.36.52-- 524.53.45. THE BLESSED -- Now there- fore hearken unto me, O ye child- ren: for blessed are they that keep my ways.--FProv. 8:32. PRAYER--O Lord, our help is in Thee. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1928 What Others. Say ROME MAY BE CATLESS (New York Herald Tribune) The Mayor of Rome, Italy, has de- creed that all its cats must be abol- ished in the interest of health. It will be a catless city if the decree is car- ried out, How often have we seen cats walking about in food stores or in among grain later to be ground into flour! The apology is always that they are necessary to keep down the rafs and mice, but there are more t ways of doing this. BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY (London Daily Chronicle) In terms df food supply, we in this island draw 60 per" cent of our wheat and flour from home and Empire sources, 40 per cent from foreign. For beef, the per- centage from foreign sources is 47, All the foreign supplies could be replaced by Imperial and with the world's growing demand they will have to be, if food prices are not to soar beyond reason. 21,000,000 FEWER BIRTHS (Ottawa Journal) A study of the cost of the World War in human lives has just been issued bythe League of Nations, For all the nations involved the loss in lives is placed at 37,000,000, this en- ormous figure, being obtained by in- cluding the decrease in births as a result of war, amounting to 21,000, 000, and also 6,000,000 civilian deaths induced by war privations, In the light of such awful figures the folly of war becomes so pitiful, its conse- quences so terriblé that no individual or nation should ever again do any- thing tending toward the weakening of peace. COSTES AND LE BRIX (New York Herald Tribune) In the acclaim accorded the Ger- man fliers and their assistant pi- lot, the Irishman Fitzmaurice, for being the first to cross the Atlantic. from east to west, two gallant Frenchmen, Costes and Le Brix must not be forgotten, It seems but a few weeks since they were welcomed at the City Hall af- ter their flight from Paris to New York, via the south Pacific. Now they have reached Paris, fly- ing all the way from Tokio, 10,370 miles, in a week They made 7 stops, sleeping net more than four hours in any one night. Flying over land will in the future be as important as flying over oceans. Costes and Le Brix wisely decided to ask the aid of water naviga- tion to carry them across the broad Pacific, which they might well have spanned by short spurts from one Pacific island to another. But the problem they set out to solve was that of the ability of the airplane to earry on till it had circumnavigated the earth, This they did, and without effort or great risk, The reception they re- ceived in Paris was well merited, Not since Lindbergh's achievement has there been such an important feat in the history of aviation, TRUE TO A STERN CODE (From the New York Sun) The hara-kari of Captain Miz- uki of the Japanese Navy was in accord with the code of the man's ancestral faith; although to West- ern minds it was a pitjitul and un- necessary sacrifice, it is not diffi- cult to understand. Most of his colleagues in the naval service ap- plaud his act and his own father .akes melancholy pride in it, Captain Mizuki was in command of a cruiser which in naval maneu- /ers rammed and sank a destroyer, I'rom that day on he kept in se- clusion either in his cabin abroad ship or in his home, A court- martial was convoked. When the evidence was all in and nothing re- malped but the verdict of the Judges, the Captain went quietly into his room and ended his life with a razor. Next day the verdict was returned, It exonerated him from all responsibility for the col- lision, His wife, his father, his bro- ther officers, the Vice-Admiral at the Maizuru naval base all expect- ed Captain Mizuki to take the course he did take. The wife's last ,| words to him when she found him dying were: "You have suffered long, but now you may rest in peace," His father said: "I am glad my son has seen fit to com- mit suicide because of his sense of responsibility for the naval ac- cident." A stern code, one which seems too stern to the Occidental mind. This man possessed the confidence of his superior officers and his crew after the accident as well as before it; there was nothing to show the collision was due to negligence on his part. But the inflexible law of his class and the custom of the country demgnded that he should die by his own hand. DOES CANADA'S GOVERNMENT WANT MORE BRITISH SETTLERS? (From the Toronto Mail and Empire) In an address upon immigration before the Canadian Club of Mon- treal, Hon. Charles Stewart, Minis- ter of the Interior, sounded a note of warning against the "wide open" idea. He did not think that Canadi- ans wanted to bring in people less intelligent, less energetic and less desirous of building up the country than native sons and those now here. With that statement there will be general agreement. But he went on to deprecate the idea that Canada needs any great increase in popula- tion, and made the surprising state- ment that only one utility would benefit by increased population, and that was the Canadian National Rail- ways. Even if this were correct it would surely be to the advantage of the country to have the earnings of the mational railway system fin- creased. Increased traffic for this systme would signify increased de- velopments in many directions. But Mr. Stewart ignores the fact that new developments would increase the de- mand for labor, as others have done in the past, and give an additional stimulus to business. The Minister said he could mot agree with the idea that imcreased population would solve all ------ but we doubt whether well-informed persons ever said so. The turn of the phrase, 'however, indicates the reluctance of the Government to bring to this country the immigration which it does need. Mr. Stewart claimed that the Gov- ernment was making every effort to recruit British settlers, but appar ently its efforts are not appreciated in the Old Country. At a recent meeting of the Agriculture Commit- tee of the House of Commons on the subject of immigration, Mr. W. J. Black, director of colonization for the Canadian National Railways, made a number of recommendations, with the significant preface "that since the public of Great Britain ap- pears to be of opinion that Canada is not anxious to encourage British- ers to come to this country a special effort be made to convince them to the contrary." It remains to be seen what the committee will do with these recommendations. OTTAWA'S EMBELLISHMENT (From the Quebec Chronicle- Telegraph) 'When Bytown, which became Ot- tawa, was chosen to be the capital of Canada, no plan along which its growth could be made was laid out for it by competent hands, Whether this is to be regretted or not may be questioned. Ottawa, like Topsy, has "just growed," but it has grown into a beautiful city. It lacks the formality of the American Capital, with its squares, circles and mall, but it has its own striking and at- tractive individuality, It possesses great advantages in its site, Its hills command views that stretch past the Ottawa River and the Chau- diere t othe misty Laurtentian hills of the North, and at all seasons of the year the space between the hills and the city is beautiful. The municipality of Ottawa could not, from its own resources, spend the sums that would be required to protect these vistas and to increase the loveliness of the Capital. Nor should Ottawa he evno~ted to do this alone. Ottawa belongs to Canada as well as to 11s owa citizens, and the country should join in this task. It has been doing so for some years. The Government has now provided for an extension of this aid over a period of 30 years. An annual grant of $350,000 to the Federal District Commission for that period of time has been set aside for this purpose. It is work that will be heartily commended by the Dominion in gen- eral, tal of their country are proud of it, and will approve of all reasonable Federal expenditure for its further embellishment, In the same way, too, Quebecers trust that the Pro- vineial' Government will at least ac- tively co-operate with this muniei- pality towards the embellishment of the Ancient Capital and the preserva- tion of its historic landmarks in ac- cordance with some definite, care- fully pren-red scheme. SURE CURE (Chicago Daily News) What to do for that run-down feeling--Buy a car yourself! Established 1871 Oshawa Branch 1 Ww. JOYCE, Manager = J ALBERT WESTATE TR.AL Adams, of St. Vital, near here, STILL FURTHER ADJOURNED | was remanded again today, when Winnipeg, April 24. -- Albert | he appeared in Police Court for Westgate, charged with the mur-| preliminary hearing. Illness of der of Lottie Adams, wife of J, |two Crown witnesses caused the Canadians who know the Capi- A. L. HUDSON & CO. 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