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pak FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928 The Osama Baily Times « ' THE GAWA DAILY REFORMER + Fhe Oshava Dally Times tn o member of the Con: : aw Provincisl Dallies and the WUBSCRIPTION RA carrier; ¥0¢ a week. Ly mail (out delivery limits): in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumber land, $8.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, §4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year, 1 : TORONTO OFFICE a_i Bond Building, ta Temperance Stree! 1 901, Sa adelaide 0107, H. D, 'Tresiddev, repre- sentative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stone, Inc., New York and Chicago. Si i iihilEL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928 THE LOSS OF THE MANASOO Many theories are abroad as to what caus- ed the Manasoo, formerly' the Macassa, to go down in Georgian Bay with such tragic suddenness and so cruel a loss of precious {human lives. Only 25 miles from Harbour! ' And no one on shore knew of the plight of : 'the men on the raft or of others who may possibly have clung for a time to the life. ' boats, until sixty weary hours had passed, A week ago today at 3 a.m, the ship " floundered. It was 8 o'clock Monday after- noon before the Manitoba, by the merest . chance, picked up the handful of survivors clinging to: life on an oarless and rudder- less raft. Why; in the midst of our boasted modern civilization and scientific progress, did these things need-to be? _- First, the wreck was caused by something that could have been corrected if known in time. If is to determine that cause that the official enquiry will be held, and it is to be hoped the reason for the sinking of the ship will be fully determined, Secondly, the ship was not equipped with wireless. And so those at Owen Sound who became anxious Sunday, and more anxious "Monday, though not knowing just what to do, had no word, as they might have had, of the disaster, No word of the boat's loca- tion; no 8,0,8,; no hint of the terrible Wragedy, We are told the regulations do not re. quire a-ship of the capacity of the Manasoo following its route - to carry wireless. Be that as it may we know now the regula- tions are wrong. There was previous evi- dence that they were wrong, but apparently no action was taken, There is surely no ex- cuse now for not taking action, and we look - forward to the Government, before next "season, greatly extending the scope of the "regulations to cover passengers and crews of many vessels that are at present quite un- protected by this wonderful, modern device, 'wireless, What a blessing that the boat was not crowded with passengers! That, instead of the lower deck and hold being full of cattle, , the cabins were full of passengers! That would have been the case a few weeks earlier, In that case the loss of life might "have been a8 hundred! Our deep sympathy goes out to the mem- 'bers of the families of the men who were 'called so suddenly into eternity. The best 'memorial to them will be steps to prevent Joss of life due to similar causes. in the Huture. PRESENT GAS TAX HIGH ENOUGH It is indeed difficult to see any reason. Bble excuse for the Ontario Government's to raise the tax on gasoline from Shree to five cdhts a gallon, There appears to be much objection to it, and it is to be hoped the Government will reconsider the matter and decide against any increase, Per- haps the matter is one that the newly or- 'ganized Oshawa Motor Club might very wi well stake up. : We do not know of 8 single Co nor state in the Union that has so a tax. In fact Ontario's present tax of three cents is higher by one cent than quite '» good many other provinces and states, If Bhs tam were vaiscd ip Avg cols, What Kind of advertising is that going to be for Om. tario, that is trying by every means to get tourist business? Would not these tourists be inclined to say of Ontario: "That's the place where they have the unusually high gasoline tax." Or, in less refined language: "That's where they soaked us." Then, consider, too, the case of the On- tario car user. We are told the newly paved highways must be paid for, But there are thousands and thousands of car users who very rarely .use those highways, Some, in- deed, never leave their own city streets. Others are never near a paved road. They should not be asked to pay 18 to 20 per cent, extra for their gasoline as a tax to- ward the cost of paved roads. There is a happy medium for everything, and we be- lieve Ontario has that now in three cent tax. Every possible protest should be made against the proposed introduction of a five cent tax. DISADVANTAGES IN BIGNESS There comes a time, regardless of what the boosters say, when continued growth ceases to be an asset to a city and becomes instead a positive menace to much of that which the community holds dear. In such a situation London finds itself today. Year by year the sprawling metropolis of the British Empire bites deeper into adjacent territory, And with every encroachment loss of identity is threatened to some his- toric shrine, to places that for generations have had an individuality and a charm of their own, which largely disappears as they are absorbed by suburban London. In the vicinity of Stoke Poges parish, which, when Gray wrote the famous "Elegy," was some twenty miles from Lon- don, it is the suburbanite and not the plow- man who "homeward plods his weary way" these evenings, A new traffic highway to London threatens the peaceful scene of William Penn's grave, The tooth of time and the claw of the real estate agent have been as ruthless to London's bordering frame of historic places as the North Sea has been to ancient Dunwich, There is food for thought and cause for sobering concern for many other communi- ties in Old London's present emotions, Big- ness for mere bigness' sake is no nobler an ambition than money for money's sake, Many communities are sacrificing their rich» est assets to their mania for greater popu- lation, After it is too late they discover they have traded their heritage for a white elephant, There must be progress, but mere growth in area and population does not spell progress, EDITORIAL NOTES Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and also useful in the conduct of the bank- ing business, Peace: A period during which nations pro- hibit use of the weapons they intend to em- ploy in the next war. | Bit of Vv erse GHOSTS By the Tentmaker There are ghosts that come in the twilight On their little and elfin feet; And they tug and tug at my heartstrings With their hands that are small and sweet, There are ghosts of long ago pleasures, There are ghosts of forgotten pain, And their footsteps rustle about me Like the pattering drops of rain, But there's one that always disturbs me, For in silence it comes and goes, And I hear no noise from its slippers, And no sound from its elfin clo'es, But the tug I feel at my heartstrings, And the wrench at my weary breast-- They are proof enough of its coming, It is stronger than all the rest. "Tis the ghost of words that I said not And of things that I did not do; Of the little kindnesses omitted And the carelessly brief adieu; Of the comfort love might have rendered; Of the tears that I did not dry; "Tis the ghost of duties neglected In the days that are long gone by. As it stands and weeps at my elbow In its silent and ghostly way, I can see them trooping before me, All the words that I failed to say. By the tug I feel at my heartstrings, By the wrench at my weary breast, I have proof their ghost is beside me, It is stronger than all the rest. jo-- 2 _~Orillia Packet and Times. =m _ 72 ames NRUT The So rolled like the "dough" in some pastry, the light: ning flashed like a cop's flashlight, the rain rained like it did 1A the flood, the wind blew like a train whistle, and oytside--outside--in that upheaval of all the elements a crazy goose seemed to revel im flapping its wings and enjoying it all. Far--far better, this thing that 1 did, far--far better for me and mine, this act that 1 commit ted. No more would I suffer from embarrassment at that goose flap- ping its wings in front of my face. Now lies he there. Oh Judgment, though art fled to brutish beasts and men have lost their reasons, but, the heavens forbid, 1 was hungry. CE A fool is known by six things: Anger without cause, Speech without profit. Change without progress. Inquiry without abject, * Putting trust in a stranger and mistaking foes for friends. * % 0% News from the Community Miss Sarah Forkhandle, daugh- ter of the wife who married Hes. peler Forkhandle, sponsor of the great Apple Crate Center to points east flight, is back in town after holidaying in New York and about --five miles outside. vo 4 The odor of mothhalls pers meates the atmosphere as more than a few red flannels maket heir appearance on the back yard clothes lines, x * The whole town was in an up- roar last Saturday night as the clock in the town hall struek 12 when it only should have stricken eight. Nobody could believe their ears, and everyone was just pre- parin" to go to bed. when Hic Ap- plepit came down from the post of- fice and said that all she needed was a good shot of ofl, the clock not having been oiled for the last twenty-one years. . 8 EXTRA, FLIERS CRASH ON UN. KNOWN LAND NEAR NORTH POLE--S80 SLOKUM'S RADIO BEGINS TO WORK. With their supply of gas gone, the "Apple Crate Center' Lap-wind moth aeroplane crashed to the ground, firmly, from an altitude of 21 feet today at four o'clock, came the word hy radio message from the vicinity of the North Pole. So Slokum, without warning or word of any kind, slipped a home-made radio transmitting wes into the aeroplane before taking oft on the Atlantic flight, As a result the world may be informed of the progress of the flight. Apple Crate Center is agog with interest as news of the fliers reaches here. There are eighteen people standing in front of the doors of the "Environment' as the word is broadcast. The flight is being played upon front pages of every paper. Hey, hey, Hush, some more word 'Eek---ee--k--So0 Slokum of Ap- ple Crate Cen--ter--Aeroplane just crashed near North Pole, don't know location--gas gone--send more gus, Come straight north from the Four Corners-- eee eee k island - here small man eating sharks infest help $& @ 7 ££" rrrereer--kk --kkkkkk."" waters BE Above is a photo of one of the man eating sharks as it infests the waters where our filers are stranded, Can't someone get aid to them, Will they be left to die without help on that foreign shore? What will he done, CI Despite our heroic, yessir, our frantic efforts to reach the scene of the sale of the new Canadian Air Mail Stamp there was one be- fore us, and not being satisfied to buy just one stamp he bought two. Troubles never come singly. Just think of the danger to those let- ters while enroute to their destina- tion. They might get killed in the Fall, ' 0» You know, it's not the fall that hurts when your aero. Wake crashes, it's the sudden so» Did we have frost this morn- ing? It won't be long until the leaves on the trees begin to blush with a beautiful pallor as Fall pro- poses to take a journey into the land of the unknown while King Winter holds sway in this land of ours, * Famous Last Words T dreampt that I walked in mar. ble halls, when I really was in bed. And when I fell on those marble stalls, I fell ont nin my head, BLESSED ARE THE MEEK - The lofty looks of man shall be hum- bled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.-- Isa. 2:11, PRAYER--We would bring to Thee, O Lord, only. broken and con- trite hearts. J help-- help |, Nation Building Inflow and Outflow. (Article 5.) By George Exton Lloyd, Bishop of Saskatchewan The immediate objective of all good loyal Canadians should be the abrogation of the Railway Agree ment by which the country is being flooded with "unpreferred" Contin- entals. There are others also who, while placed upon the "preferred list by the Department of Immigra- tion are really as undesirable as the so-called '"'unpreferred." The Immigration Investigation Committee at Ottawa made it abun- dantly clear that they did not like the "Agreement," amd expressed the opinion that it should not be renewed at least in its present form, Premier King in his Brandon speech announced his intention of following the advice of the Investi- gation Committee. But is that suf- ficient? Are we to have a deluge of these unsatisfactory Continentals for another two years and a half, simply to make the railways pay? Why should the Canadian Pacifle and the National Railway be allow- ed to go on with this work of Nat- fonal demoralization when all the evidence says this Continental flood should be stopped at once. Apparently the railways will not give up that "Railway Agreement" until they are compelled to do so by the force of public opinion. In spite of the adverse judgment of the Ottawa Investigation Com- mittee the Railway companies are still dumping in their flood of un- desirable Continentals. The official figures show that during the four months of April, May, June and July just passed we have had no less than 52,535 foreigners brought into this country, while only 27,082 Old Country British managed to get through the restrictive regula- tions, These 52,000 foreigners were made up of no less than forty-two different nations, a regular hodge- podge out of which no reasonable man could think of making a hom- ogeneous nation. The second objective of all good Canadians should be to stop the outflow of good Canadian blood go- ing over the horder to the United States. A large portion of those who are crossing the line to he South are our own Canadian boys who are being elbowed out by this influx of undercutting, work- snatching flood of Jews, Ttalians, Poles, Greeks, Ukranians, ete, Most of this OUTFLOW will automatically cease as soon as we turers, mine owners and rallway contractors will be compelled to look to the resident population of Canada for their man power in- stead of cozening the Minister of Immigration for "permits' to bring in cheap labour for their private work. This cheap labour does not stay cheap very long, and {thus every year a mew stream has to be brought im. The blood of the country is being cheapened and our own good mat- erial is being drivem to the U.S.A. by this system. In the long run it is better for Canada to ke:) her own boys at home, and pay them forty dollars a month rather than let them be turned adrift because a Galician or a Pole can be had for fifteen or twenty dollars a month. When our cities are filled with Continentals who will sleep twenty in a room on the floor, the Cana- dian worker is soon driven out, Such cut-throat competition should not be, and every Canadian shares the guilt for allowing it to go on. The outflow will cease when the Continental inflow is stopped by the abrogation of the Railway Agreement and the adoption uf a Quota Law similar to the U.S.A. For the National Association of Canada, Box 70, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. What Others Say WHY GENE WENT OVER (St. Catharines Standard) Perhaps, according to cable des- patches, Gene Tuney went over to Europe for some of the popularity he misssd in America. HIS RATE (Passing Show) Nervous Suitor: "I say, I believe yohr brother saw me kiss you, What shall T give him to make him keep silent?" Girl: 'His usual price pence." fs six THE THINKER'S (Toronto Mail and Empire) Both Lloyd George and Winston Churchill "can only think talking," according to an entry in Asquith's diary. Other men, as he observed, can only think writing, while the salt of the earth 'can think inside and the bulk of mankind cannot think at all." It would be less tedi- ous to live with one of the last kind than one of the first, INVITING TROUBLE (Buffalo Courier Express) Another girl has been picked up on the pavements, bruised, battered and broken. Apparently she had been thrown or had jumped from apply a Quota law to these undesir- able Continentals. When once the Quota has heen applied, manufac- | 1 motor car. It is getting to be an old, old story. And it is never a nice story. OFFICES AT: TORONTO, ONT, BUFFALO, N.Y. OSHAWA, ONT. SARNIA, ONT. OWEN SOUND, ONT, A.L. HUDSON & Co. MEMBERS i STANDARD STOCK and MINING EXCHANGE NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE (Asse) NEW YORK CURB MARKET (Aw'te) Oshawa Office Times Buildiag Telephone 2700. Resident Manager: C N. HENRY learned long since that when they accept invitations of strange men for automobile rides they are mere- ly inviting trouble. A MAXIM FOR DR. STRATON (Cincinnati Times-Star) Herbert Hoover does not need the support of John Roach Stra- ton the well-known: pblueity-hound of New York City, who happens to occupy a pulpit. Mr. Straton is out to get all the notoriety from the present campaign that he can. He likes free advertising and he gets it, Unfortunately it is an ap- petite that grows with what it feeds on. Mr. Straton's latest con- tribution is the suggestion that the rain which forced the Smith notifi- cation proceeding indoors was a vote by the Diety is built, Manager, But girls should have Ropgsen 0 B C Judge a Bank by he Clients it Keeps URING more than Fifty Years of constructive banking prac- tice the Standard Bank of Canada has established a loyal clientele from Coast to Coast, factorily to serve these clients year in and year out is the foundation upon which our continued progress Our ability satis- THE STANDARD BANK OF CANADA TABLISHED 1873 HODGINS Oshawa Branch Brenche alto "fin. 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