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E13 12} LJ S i> of their subjects. 21. the Parliamentary Guide, one ir will fin - 66 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES "-- Greater Oshawa Edition SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928 :Dr. T. E. Kaiser, a Leader Always in Paving Way For a Greater Oshawa a Practically Every Public Effort Has Name of Local Member of the House of Commons Associated with It--Is Endowed With Real Fighting Spirit-- Comes of United Empire Loyalist Stock. IOGRAPHICAL sketches can lose nothing in value by giving the antecedents Hence, by «turning to a current issue of that "Thomas Erlin bi Kaiser, M.D., M.P,, of Oshawa, A comes of United Empire Loyal- os February 16, 1863 at Edgely, ist Stock. He was born on ns York County, and educated at 1 . the Weston High School and the University of Toronto. His nts were John E, Kaiser, "* Canadian, and Catherine Ir- "vine, Scotch Irish, his wife." The brief summary. given does not, «however, state that Dr. Kaiser -. comes of pioneer stock that has faced the uttermost of privations the North American wilderness twice. The first Kaiser to settle on this Continent did so near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on a grant of land from Queen Anne. It was a reward for gallant service he had rendered the Elector Palatine in the wars of that era, That grant, in the hands of suc- cessive generations, had been made rich and fruitful. Then came the Revolution of the Colonies, and Dr, Kaiser's great-grandfather was given the choice of loosing lands or his British citizenship. Like the other Loyalists, he esteemed wealth a little thing beside his British birthright He came to Canada, as set forth, when there were barely 5,000 British folk in what is now Ontario. Life then was primitive as possible away from the scattered settlements, hard, and even dangerous. ' Dr, Kaiser came to Oshawa on July 18, 1890, the year he received his degree in medicine from the {University of Toronto, Today, some '38 years afterwards, he has won a national position. That he is a dis- tinguished physician is but one of notable facts about his career, He 'fs the sort of man that men like to puzzle their minds with by imagining 'what he might have done or what he might have been under other cir- cumstances. It is vain, however, to make such surmises, One takes such men as Dr, Kaiser as read--and the reading is interesting--and thanks the Deity for their splendid breed, They are, notably, builders of little cities, War- riors ever against the miseries of mankind, they love nobility wherever it may be found, and they keep the ancient faith, Natural Fighter With such a tradition of ancestral courage, Dr. Kaiser is a natural fighter. But he is a purposeful one, Which explains why he has emerged victoriously * from many, and this need not refer to his election and re- election within one year to the Fed- eral Parliament. He is a physician, and the same passion for service that enrolled him in the ranks of the healers has made him valorous against all the diseases--the wrong-- to which men in the mass are sub- ject, Fought Typhoid Conditions His greatest fight, involving the most labor and heart-burning on his own part, began coincident with his arrival in Oshawa 38 years ago. He found a town of 3,500 people where, each year, there were from 150 to 250 cases of typhoid. Such a condition is today unthinkable in Ontario. Those who lived in that era and survived, no doubt regard this general fact--for it was true in similar proportion not only of Osh- awa but of the continent--as of some half-remembered bad dream. The science of sanitation had in those years just begun to win notable converts, As always, it was the younger and the far-secing who ac- cepted its teachings. There were many who refused to believe that cool, thirst-quenching water drawn from deep town wells could possibly be as deadly on occasion as so much poison, Dr, Kaiser's ability as a leader is based on his personal belief that "The Man who is a master of facts is a master of men." He fought typhoid hreeding con- ditions in Oshawa with facts. Finally while going his professional rounds, he obtained a sample of every well water supply in the town of Oshawa. He sent these samples down to the Government anaylyst at Toronto and got reports. { He put up a map of the town in this office and indicated the character of the town's various wells by color- {ed pins. The black pin indicated thomes blighted by a typhoid death due to water. Oshawa looked, criti- |cized, doubted, even laughed. But shawa couldn't get away from facts leven if it wanted to--and refusal to ace facts was never an Oshawa scharacteristic. * The battle was really won on Dr, Kaiser's Typhoid Map. In 1904 he a member of Oshawa's first i d of Water Commissioners ed by the people with supply- harp town with pure water from a That marked the end of the typhoid in this city. Similaz things e happening elsewhere, It wou 'have happening without Dr. Kaiser's 'intervention, And someone would shave discovered America if Colum- bus hadn't had the will to fight on despite what must have seemed to him a conspiracy of men, time, and heaven itself against the idea of a sound earth and a shorter way to the ies. 4 Service of Health His second battle was for beauty, even here the physician spoke. is beauty he had in mind would be 'to the service of health. He saw the possibilities of farm lands which now form Alexandra Park. His carly vision was clearly stated, but inertia and indifference combined against him. e doctor was not dismayed how- ever. He had seen the future park so clearly that making it come to pass was a detail. Bothersome at times of course, Men to convince, criticism to answer. There was also the matter of law. Town Council's were empowered to buy land for parks, but they could not rent, lease, or in anyway deal for it. Too much opportunity for scandal and graft. here was a Parks Act on the Ontario Statutes empowering munici- palities to appoint a Parks Commis- sion, and such bodies could do almost anything that a Town Council could not. But the conventional idea was that only a big city could have a Parks Commission. Toronto, of course, Hamilton and London, Oshawa was merely a progressive little town. A few thousand inhabitants. Against the spirit of the Parks Act, the ap- pointment of such a body in Oshawa must have seemed a trifle absurd-- like the Wright Brothers' first un- DR T. E. KAISER, M.P. nations. And there is no thinking mind that does not ask: "Oshawa, what mean ye by these stones?" The answer begins in a whisper of reverence but swells in triumphant understanding of the greater means ing. "Peace, world peace, a peace that fools may never more destroy." These 48 stones from Nations and Battlefields, ave the signets of a gainly gliding on and sometimes over the beaches of North Carolina for instance. Beginning of Park However, ghere was no law against it. Oshawa got her Parks Commis- sion, the lease of Alexandra Park and the old Athletic Association's grounds, It was the beginning of the future city's splendid park and play- ground system which is, today, its citizens' boast. Dr. Kaiser has the qualities of a seer, as his fellow citizens know. But he doesn't, necessarily, believe in his own visions. He knows that all the prophets since time began have, now and then, been self-de- ceived. The test he applies to his visions is making converts, "If I can make one convert," he told The Oshawa Daily Times, "I know I can win", This introduces the time he made a convert of every citizen of Oshawa with one letter, published in this Journal then named "The Reformer," and one speech at a public meeting. The war had come and gone. There was the usual ferment of memorial ideas, advanced one day with en- thusiasm to be rejected the next. Move For War Memorial Dr. Kaiser said little except to urge patience in a matter of such in- timate concern to all Oshawa's peo- ple, for there were very few indeed in this patriot town who had not lost someone near and dear by ties of blood or friendship, The late Miss Josephine Kaiser in- herited her father's love of hobbies. Stamp collection was one of her many happy interests, and she had ex- change correspondents in every part of the world, Close to her father in thought as well as affection, she made | his anxiety about the monument her | own. As a result letters were sent out to stamp collectors around the world asking for pictures of war | memorials in their cities and towns. There wés a flood of replies. From Evasham in England came a picture with a living thought. It showed a central pedestal and two supporting wings bearing the names of heroes. At its base and incorpor- ated into 4t was a bit of English earth giving life to English flowers, But this flood of picture postcards and snapshots from the whole world gave birth to another idea. The doc- tor remembered the crossing of the Jordan by the Children of Israel, and the Tribes putting up a cairn of stones, He recalled Joshua's prophetic ad- monition of how children of ages to come would ask "What mean ye by these stones?" Stones Frof Allied Countries That was his inspiration; to build | the War Memorial, as it stands now, | and to incorporate into it a stone from each of the 12 countries that fought with Britain and Britain's Overseas' Sons against the fury of a race that had gone power-mad. The doctor was sure about this vision, He needed no converts and didn't propose to waste valuable time winning them. He knew, if propos- | ed, someone would want to know how | the Memorial Stones would be ob- tained, how much the cost, and there would he not a few "It can't be dones." "Before 1 ever said a thing about the plan," Dr, Kaiser states, "two thirds of the required stones were on the ocean. I wrote away for them to those whom I deemed the proper authorities. The idea was explained, and not one refused." "Wasn't that a rather costly un- dertaking?" he was asked, "I estimated," he replied, "that the total cost would be close to $4,000. As a matter of fact, the final total was $85.50. Every country that | could paid the expense of sending their particular memorial stone, The | $85.50 is due to a certain few nations' exchange difficulties. "The C.P.R.! brought the stones by their ships and | trains from England to Oshawa and | 1efused to accept payment." i The letter to "The Reformer" came then. It was headed "Say it in Stone." Oshawa read, understood, and was kindled to a noble idea. Unanimously A public meeting was called and the general outline of the memorial idea'was adopted without one dis- | senting vote, without one word of adverse criticism, Of course architects and sculptors | had to translate the idca into stone | and bronze. That it was well done | to the eternal credit of Oshawa is the | witness of everyone who has seen the | monument in Memorial Park. ; It is good, even excellent sculpture, | the bronze figure of the Canadian infantryman is a comrade in cast metal of Col. McRae's "In Flander's | Fields." But above art, as such, is that Memorial's living idea. The! ever-burning lights "are a part of it, | and, most heart-touching of all, the | "Garden of the Unforgotten" who died to live evermore. So much for the Memorial's beauty, fitness and pathos. The eye lingers, finally, on the squarcs of inset stones. Beneath them are the pmames mot of men but of League of Brothers. The blood of their sons have stained the doorposts of earth's destiny. And with that | sign, the destroying angel of man's unnumbered centuries passes over with sheathed sword. "When I see the blood," is the un- voiced promise, "I will pass over you." | Besides these things already out- lined. one hesitates to go further in the catalogue of Dr. Kaiser's services. In 1927 Dr. Kaiser attracted nation- wide interest by proposing the lique- | faction of Alberta lignite coals hy a | process already rendering valuable | service to Germany. Various Fed- eral and Provincial governments and | describe the true inwardness of the | There's no apparent saturation point bureaus are following the trail blazed | Federal Parlaiment is a study in his- | for automobiles, and Oshawa will by ome illuminating letter published | tory, political psychology, and down- i i on the same day by "Mai! and Empire" and The Oshawa | But so far behind his | be doae | Daily Times. prescience of what could ; that they are now assuming airs of having been on the job long before Dr. Kaiser said a word. It was the same with Hydro. Pub- lic cwnership of Canada's water powers was urged by Dr. Kaiser and other citizens of Oshawa in 1898. Another noble interest of Dr. Kaiser is the preservation of pioneer grave stones. His idea, now being widely followed, is to collect these markers of the last resting places of Ontario's founders, from neglectetl or the Toronto | right fun. | abandoned cemeteries and, collecting | them in one place, let them stand as a lasting memorial to the greatest of Canadians. Groveside Cemetery, near Whitby, shows this idea of Dr. Kaiser's splen- didly. The markers have been em- bedded, face upward, in sclid con- crete. Steps have been built in so one may walk between the 1ows of tombstones to read the inscriptions. There is a plain pillar at the head of the memorial bearing only three words "Whitby Township Pioncers." But the reverent patriot removes his hat wher he understands its meaning. Dr. Kaiser has been seeking legis- lation which would make it compul- sory for municipalities to preserve the memorials of their first dead. The idea gains more and more coi- verts, not only in Ontario throughout Canada. His scheme of preserving the pioneer graves' mark- | ers has been adopted in many ceme- but | teries, and more are even now con- | sidering the matter. In behalf of this noble work, Dr. Kaiser has made many lecture tours and special trips. His friends say that he is never more effective as a speaker than when on this subject of patriotic piety. No one, however, should finish all | this with: a feeling that Dr hasn't his lighter side. He has rare humor and a fine wit. To hear him Kaiser | For example: "There are only two ways to gov- orn men," Dr. Kaiser says, "one is to shoot them up occasionally, the other is to let them talk. The British Empire discovered how not to shoot and yet rule. That is, it discovered Parhamcnt, 'the great talking place' of the nation. On this discovery rests all of Britain's power and influence." His hobbies are many. Chess was one in his younger days when he was something of an international cham- pion in that science. In his garage, neatly arranged, are all the markers his cars have used since the first Ontario marker was issued. It is to be doubted if there is any other such collection in Can- ada. And, if one may say it without be- ing guilty of levity, what a pity that someone with as keen a brain as Dr, Kaiser's doesn't tell us what to do with old safety razor blades. The doctor has no use for that instrument, else he would have long since solved the problem. (By the way, there is an editor in Toronto who sends his old blades regularly to Rt. Hon. W. I. McK. King, Premier of Canada. Anonymously, of course, and one wonders il the premier's secretary sees some sort of plot in it.) Finally, Dr. Kaiser believes in this city of Oshawa with all of a strong man's and a great hearted man's faith. "At the present moment," he de- clared, "the development of Oshawa depends entirely on the development of the automobile industry. Thus this citv--following one of the latest urban trends on this continent--is one of a specialized industr This is an old story in Europe. We think of Lancaster and cotton, of Sheffield and steclwares, "With the start we have, the future is | out thought of seli-compulsion, seems reasonably safe, The automo- bile is here to stay and, fortunately | for us, the automobile doesn't last as long as a sewing machine. If it did, | Oshawa would still be a village. | expand in direct proportion to the growth of the Dominion of Canada. "One problem for us is that of the automobile workers. They are a special division of labor, entitled to better wages than might, at first glance, seem equitable. Remember, however, that the automobile worker has to foot the bill for 'the city that has to be built for him. "We bring a thousand new workers to a town. They require housing, water, sanitary arrangements, pave- ments, churches, schools. The indus- try doesn't pay those bills. The worker has to pay them. "Oshawa i$ sound financially. It is run with reasonable public economy --that is, without any startling ex- travagance. "And, T am proud to say, Oshawa has been managed throughout its history without any jobbery, Oh, ves, there was one minor case but that is so long ago and so unimport- ant that it may well be ignored. "With the faith of its citizens, its economical administration and sound management, I am confident that Oshawa has a splendid future before it, one of the most splendid in the whole of Canada." Conscientiousness has in many outgrown that stage in which the sense of a compelling power is join- ed with rectitude of action. The truly honest man, here and there to be found, is not only without thought of legal, religious, or social compul- sion, when he discharges an equit- able claim on him: but he is with- He simple does the right thing with a | feeling of satisfaction in doing it, and | is indeed impatient if anything pre- vents him from having the satisfac- tion of doing it.--Herbert Spencer, Be glad to life because it gives vou the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.--Henry Van Dyke, New Martin Theatre to Make Extensive Changes Building to be Remodelled and Enlarged to Accommodate Fifteen Hundred Persons--Notable Features will be an Entirely New Front, Graded Approach to IME was when "the Movies" was considered primarily a form of entertainment for the young- er generation. That wads long ago, however,--back in the limbo of pre- war times--back in the days when a producer could get away with the crudest of presentations--long before the sun had risen upon the costly creations and luxurious appointments of the present day. Now that the cinema stands for the portrayal of the finest artistry in the world; now that the industry has attained national supremacy and its ramifications extend to the four cor- ners of the earth, embracing every form of life, enterprise, emotion and enceavor; now that cinema is ren- dered in the finest environment pos- sible to create, all this has changed. Everybody goes to the movies now, from the great-grandfather to the third and fourth generation. And there is no class distinction: king and commoner enjoy the antics of Felix, and the colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady hold their breath as the hero does his stuff. Today the cinema is one of life's necessities. So it is that the proprictor of a moving picture theatre must never lose sight of the time when his ac- commodation and facilities are whol- ly inadequate to the demands of a later hour, It is just such reflections which have induced Ernie Marks, proprietor of the New Martin Theatre, to plan extensions which will practically double the seating capacity of the present building and provide the people of Oshawa with a modern theatre equipped with the latest im- provements in heating, lighting, vene tilating and personal comfort. The New Martin is to be complete. ly remodelled by the extension of the main body of the building--the audi- torium--to the street and by the pro- vision of an entirely new front with a central entrance, flanked on cither side by steps leading to women's rest rooms and men's wash rooms, Access to a new and enlarged bal- cony will be gained by means of graded corridors, thus eliminating stairways and facilitating movement to all parts of the building. The appointments of the building will be in keeping with the general plan of extensions. Added facilities will give the patrons of the New Martin Theatre a degree of comfort and convenience which cannot fail to reward the enterprise of the pro moter, Inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things ought to belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has happened in all ages of the world that some ave labored, and others, without labor, have enjoved a large proportion of the fruits, This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each la rer the whole pro- duct of his labor as nearly as pos. sible is a worthy object of any good government.--Ahraham Lincoln, --_-- -- | Clothing & Furnishings FOR Men & Young Men Success Is Crowning Our Efforts Our efforts to sell High Grade Clothing and Furnishings at the Lowest Pos- sible Price has met with instant approval by the men and young men of Oshawa and district. 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