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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1928 { eociation, { Audit Bureau of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: 30c & week, By mail (outs side Oshawa carvier delivery limits): in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumber- land, $8.00 a year; e\sewhere in Canada, §4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Tele» phone Adelaide 0107, H. D. 'Cresiddev, repre. sentative, \ REPRESENTATIVES IN US.' Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1928 Bal ihbB TEE TEAMWORK AT THE FAIR Last night the good fairies, guided by the patron saint of little children, stopped off at Oshawa, clapped their hands, waved their magic wands, and transformed the heart of the city into a bit of their own kingdom, They erected a playground of their own, be- decked the streets with flags and all manner of gaily-colored bunting, played games and music, distributéd goodies, souvenirs and uséful articles of wearing apparel, gladden- ed the hearts of one and all, and then gathered up their playground and departed as quietly and as suddenly as they had come, This morning the good people of Oshawa turned over, rubbed their eyes and wondered whether they had dreamed the events of the night before; accepted as proof of reality the substantial sum which had been raised for a Kiddies' Park; arose to resume life's prosalc business; went on their way rejoic- ing. There are occasions when mere words are en ineffectual instrument of gratitude for public service. This was one of them, The pnly way in which we can reward those who give their time and energy and substance to puch good works is to follow in their foot- pteps, and by lending consistent effort to gheir constructive purposes help to raise the ptructure of a greater Oshawa upon the foundation which has been so well and truly aida structure which will be an ornament to the country and a lasting memorial to our gay and generation, 7 The promotion of child welfare is the worthiest object in the calendar, and the most farsighted. Every day we are getting 'pearer the time when the administration ; which it is now our duty and privilege to fulfil must pass to the children we are train- Ing for the enlarged responsibilities and op- portunities of the future, For the efficient discharge of those duties our children will need sound minds, sound bodies, and all the other advantages we can give them. Nothing within our power must be omitted; no sacri- fiee of immediate pleasurer can be made in vein. That is the spirit which actuates the splendid work of the Rotarians: that is the spirit which illuminated last night's carnival, The whole hearted manner in which ev- erybody entered into the occasion was an example of an entire community united in the furtherance of a single object of public welfare, In unity there is strength, Such a force is irresistible, The Rotary Club is a shining example of the possibilities of teamwork. It enlists the and active support of every man, woman and child, giving to each an oppor- unity for service commensurate with his talents and advantages. Everybody is gath- ped in. All can share in the good work, 1 er their station, whatever their re- gources. The spirit of giving rewards the widow who contributes her mite equally with those of wealth and substance--possibly "The development of teamwork fis the t factor in the promotion of the best interests of the community. One recalls Kipling's lines: "It ain't the individual, Nor the army as a whole, But the everlasting teamwork . Of every bloomin' soul."' "To the Rotary Club the thanks of the peo- ple; to the people, congratulations on their ready to the call of duty and pri- Sos} 10 the shildeen, and hopes id A our love TRAFFIC KEEEPS MOVING WITH NEW LIGHT SYSTEM Worthy of note is one of the largest, in- stallations of new type traffic signals using the synchronous control system for the pro- gressive flow of traffic which has been in- stalled on one street in Schenectady, -N.Y, By this system the signal changes at each "intersection are so timed that a green or "GO" signal shows progressively up and down the street, allowing a vehicle to main- , tain an average speed of twenty miles an hour without being stopped at any intersec- tion. The equipment was furnished by the General Electric Company. There are seven. teen intersections on the street and two other intersections on a boulevard crossing the street, all of which are timed to form one uniform synchronous system. This system not only controls traffic so that vehicles will be regulated on the main and cross streets, but also provides a left turn signal so that vehicles may turn left without crossing streams of traffic coming from the other direction. If a vehicle enters the controlled zone at a time later than or before the period of progression, it may be stopped at one inter< section, On starting up again, however, and maintaining a speed of twenty miles an hour, it will be able to continue throughout the controlled zone without further interrup- tion, This is true regardless of whether a vehicle enters the controlled zone on the main street or from a cross street. The innovation is of interest to Oshawa and other civic centres whose adaptability to improved methods is not precluded by costly installations and congested areas. ' FIFTY YEARS AN EDITOR The Times extends hearty congratulations to Mr. M, A. James, Senior Editor of The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, on the occasion of completing a full half century in the editor's chair, These felicitations are none the less sincere because slightly delay- ed by reason of the étreme pressure at- tached to getting out the Greater Oshawa Edition of The Times, Mr, James is a man whom all his fellow editors who know him---and most of them do--delight to honour, His wise counsel, backed by his own consistent life, have en. deared him to Statesman readers for many, many years, Only eternity itself will reveal the extent to which his influence for good has extended. Our best wish for the veteran editor on this jubilee occasion is that the evening of his life may be filled with sunny hours and happy recollections, made possible by the 'consciousness of a life devoted to the service of others and the satisfaction that his belov- ed newspaper will be ably carried on by George and Norman, both worthy sons of a worthy father, PLAYGROUNDS MEAN SAFETY FOR CHILDREN To us it is as plain as day that modern traffic requirements make jt necessary to reserve the streets for traffic, alone, The more leisurely anti-motor car days when children could play in the streets with more or less safety are gone for ever. It should not be hard to impress the public mind with that fact, But it is just as plain that chil. dren cannot be kept-out of the streets un- less playgrounds are supplied for them ade- quately, And we are not willing to accept as reasonable the contention of some that funds for adequate playgrounds are not available. We do not believe that any city, able to provide streets for motor vehicles, is so impoverished that it cannot provide play- grounds for children, ° --Buffalo Courier Express, Bit of Verse GOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (By Theodocia Pearce) God--Thou hast made the world so beauti- ful: A flock of birds on pinions fleet and strong, Then--tho' it were not yet enough to soar-- Gave to them song. God---Thoy hast made the world so beauti- A bower of green with roses gay abloom, Then--+tho' it were not yet enough to grow--- Gave them perfume, i hast made the world so beauti- A million beings, souls their priceless gem, Then--tho' it were not yet enough to live --- Gave love to them, ; 14 | At a Glance Not being Scotch, I am at a loss to account for the apparent decrease in the material whith goes up to ill my pocket book, which occurred since the beginning of the street fair yes- terday. Oh, well, I suppose 1 have as much right to have the consola- tion that it was for a good cause, like hundreds of others. Being unmar- tied, 1 don't see what the Rotary Park will do to help me out. Did you see Ernie Marks? He cer- tainly looked like a "King of Kar- ni last night. a So far as we have heard, w pickpockets took antage the opportunity to relieve some of their momey. * 58 They are using fire in the south- west to smother the forest fires rag- ' | ing there. Which doesn't necessarily say that one may use water to save a drowning man from keeping on drowning. $s If more common sense and a little human research work were intermingled in this police court "tuff" a great deal of law would follow naturally in minds that are inclined to break it. Teo many "dealers in law" want to adhere so strictly to the ritual set be- fore them, and it is within their power to use a little ingenuity and display some originality ia dealing out sentences, which obvi- ously, in some cases, have no back te warrant it. By the look of the sheet the Times brought out yesterday, one would think we were going into a perman- ent display of pictures. No, it isn't that, no~now I wonder just what the reason was. * * So Oshawa is poorly equipped for tourist accommodation. That's what one tourist says, Hmmm. Well, if anyone doesn't care to stop in our fair city, we would suggest, perhaps, Harmony or Courtice as possible con» testants to the larger cities for tours ist accommodation, : And it came to pass, about the tenth Four, that there came into the region round about the Fair, a clown band, and it was sore peculiar. And there were many members of that band, And they could play musik. And they played musik to the delight of the listeners, And it was unfor- scen that this clown band could play musik, But so well could they play that they should have been awarded a prize if they weren't. And they stayed on the streets till about the twelfth hour, playing and clowning until the fair became out of vogue, But this was just one feature of the Fair, because there were many other features, An' him that stayed home because he didn't wish to visit the Fair, was done out of a particularly good time, And he certainly missed much, But about the cleventh hour, there came into prominence one pony raffle which it did our hearts good to see, and we applauded the raffle, Not when the lucky number was someone elses, then did we weep, for we did not win the pony. We found conso- lation, albeit, in the fact that we would not have Leen able to keep the pon_, it being too large to sleep with. And howsomever we did not weep ov- er the bicycle, because it was too small a bicycle to ride, being fitted out for a child, The gramophone was a musikal instrument, and could be used for 1.any purposes, but we car. ed not fo, it, We did not wish the prizes, so we were wt mad with an- ger when we did not get them, but, methinks, we fain would have taken the prizes home, neversomemore, Cat out of the bag--"Miss Lamb- er-Sylvia, there's a question I've been wanting to ask you for weeks." "Carry on, old thing, the answer's been waiting for months." ~ Everybody's Weekly, On the Harvest ¥ By Old Ben As i set in my pew at church of a Sunday mornin' and hear ol' Mister McDonald preach on the subjik of the harvest, and how glad we ought to be that the Lord is willin' to let us have a good harvest, my mind naturally wanders, whether I want it to or not, to the subjik of harvests, Reverend points out, very pointedly, that the fields of golden grain are God's fields, an' that if it weren't fer Him, then we would be wantin' in grain, Now seein' I like bread, I suppose the subjik interests me 'specially, so I resine myself to my fate, and set there listenen to the ol' preacher reelin' his best sermon off, and makin' me generally miserable at other hour in the same old pew, "Wall," he says, "I emplorrre you, brethren, to give thanks to the Lord fer providin' grain so's we can make bread" An' kep' agoin' an' kep' agoin' fer nigh onto an hour, preach- in' always on this tarnationist idea that we should be proud of our grain fields, that we should 'ppreciate the Lord's goodness, and it suddenly struck me that p'raps he was trying to get some money out of his con- gregation fer an' increase in salary or sumthin', Anyway I got purty disgusted, and when he was goin' well on his second hour, I riz to my feet, I turned aroun' and I muttered un- der my breath that I wished the grain fields would blow up and bust, or sumthin' like it, and stalked out of the door, Jus' as I got outside, I his counter, I mean poolpit, and seemin' inspired by the goodness of the Lord, asked ef the congregashun wouldn't consider makin' him a little raise on the strength uy the fact that there was a 890d harvest. It might once have been, byt now-- ~By Renrut. When daughter remembers to put on the butter knife ded knows the thought of spendin' perhaps an- headed, heard the of' man lean half way over | Scots What Others Say A REAL CHAMPION (Life) "Is he a good salesman?" "Pll say he is. He just sold Tex Rickard a radio set. A TRYING DAY (Louisville Courier-Journal) "Your nurse has a contagious smile." "That is why I keep her in the ante- room," stated the harassed doctor. "It won't hurt some of my patients to I catch it." WITH BIG ALIMONY (Life) She -- 1 suppose you know Alice married money. He -- Oh, yes. They're separated now, aren't they? She--No, just she and her husband are separated. NEARLY PERFECT (London Opinion) : "He says he doesn't smoke, drink or gamble." «hy, he must be nearly perfect." "He would be if he wasn't such a liar." HER STRONGEST APPEAL (Montreal Star) The feature in modern frocks which appeals most to economical young women is that there is abe solutely no waist. The thing in mod- ern frocks which appeals most to young men, however, is the girl. NO COMPETITION ALLOWED (Stratford Beacon-Herald) Toronto motorist was fined $10 and costs for driving his car while five people sat in the front seat. Toronto is determined that if there is any crowding to be done it shall take place inside her street cars, NOT NEW (Los Angeles Examiner) A Cleveland professor, inquiring among college youth, discover that a majority prefer in the wife brains to beauty, although willing to have both. It is probably inaccurate to call this a discovery. The preference has always been so. Certainly among young men who themselves have brains, PRINCE AND THE TAILORS (New York Times) London tailors have frequently complained about the clothes of the heir to the British throne, He has been even more indifferent than his grandfather in following their dic- tates. He has holdly defied the most sacred convention by wearing sack suits where a cutaway was clearly required, Now the tailors are shocked to learn that the Prince discarded his vest during the hot weather. This sort of thing simply isn't done, If you are anybody, you cannot be seen in public without a "weskit." As well appear with a soft collar at a formal dinner or ride to the hounds in tennis flannels. The worse of it is that the Prince seems to he tacitly countenancing the practice of Americans, who, of course, cannot be expected to know better. The menace of our horn-rimmed spectacles, and even of chewing gum, has already shaken British customs to their foundations, If, on the top of all that, loyal Englishmen are to appear in public with their trousers not only uncreased but also unbraced save by a belt, the Empire will feel more than ever that it is in danger of Ameri- canization, MEN OF MANY VOWS (From the Overseas Daily Mail) Among the overseas visitors who are at present in London are three Buddhist monks--Dehigaspe, Pannas- ara, Parawchera Vajiranana and Hegoda Nandasara--who make up for their lack of worldly possessions by their many and far-reaching vows. They own nothing more than the plain, saffron-colored cotton robes which they wear and the bowls from which they eat, hut they have sworn, among other deprivations, not to marry, not to eat after noon, not to drink alcoholic liquor, not to smoke, not to sing or whistle or dance, not even to listen to music. By these means they seek to achieve degrees of sanctity and austerity which are beyond the reach of ordinary men. They are Bhikkus from Ceylon, Faced with so many inhibitions there are, of course, many things which they will not see in London. They cannot go to a theatre, a res- taurant, or a concert, but the Zoo- logical Gardens and the Tower of London are sufficiently educative to be permissible, Still, i have look- ed on London and have come to shrewd conclusions with which many of us who own more than one suit of clothes and do not abhor strong waters or the latest revue may well feel inclined to agree. " is too big and too busy to leave the mind free for contemplation," say, "It is Soing to extremes." Per- haps they feel that they attract over- much attention in the street when they sally forth to the air--bare- ellow-robed, shod with san- dals and carrying fans! Their mission is to invite English doctrine of People to study the Si "SCOTCH" COMEDIANS (By lan Bruce, in London Daily ail) In his article entitled "Harry Laud- er--or Will Fyfe?" Mr, illiam Pollock quite erroneously describes the above-mentioned comedians as "Scots." The two artists in question have no hesitation in ing them- selves "Scotch" comedians. There is 2 world of difference. ; Sir Harry Lauder and Mr. Will Fyffe may be perfectly tists in their own sphere. I ha doubt that they are, although per- sonally I am in the position of many theatre goers--I have never seen either Lauder or Fyffe stage, and have mo wi them. Still, I have no believe the glowi sf "Scotch" comedians, their interpretations, However, that may be, readers of the Daily Mail may be interested to know that many ", not Scots, mined Scots, mot religious but decent ordinary Scots. er " comedians to be in very | Jr ---------------------- bad taste. It is extremely interest. ing to mote the vacant seats in a Scottish theatre when a "Scotch" comedian of any description is to appear. Many of those seats are taken r gularly by hardened thea. tre-goers who natu refuse listen to utter trash. ther tha risk a "Scotch" comedian they giv up their seats for that partic Sonic Romenos@ | | S. F. EVERSON, Local Manager i! By . Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa Above C.P.R. Office "4 Phones 143 and 144 oa ulous performances of these com dians are clearly recognized fo what they are worth, while abroa (and by abroad in this instance I include England) they are taken at a little more than face value? Hence the world-wide idea that Scotsmen are red-haired, hairy- kneed whisky drinkers and bagpipe|a Scotsman's o sr-love of money, players, and that they spend most] Is it not a little hard on Scot. of their doddering old age in chas-|land that she should have to suf- ing women. 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