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he Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As. soclation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit, Bureau of Circulations, sUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier; X0c a week. By mail (out side Oshawa carrier delivery: limits): in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumber. land, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 4a Temperance Street, Tele , phone Adelaide 0107, H, D, 'Tresiddev, repre. sentative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, a Ee i FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928 ¢ ABOLISHING LEVEL CROSSINGS While no official announcement has yet been made of the decision of the Dominion Railway Board in the application of the City of Oshawa for a subway under the Canadian National Railway tracks at Simcoe Street it seems fairly certain that the finding will in no way be unfair or unfavourable to the municipality, The City has been ably rep- resented by experienced counsel and the case presented to the Board is an exceedingly strong one, Indeed, it seems entirely reason able, as has been argued by the City's repre. sentatives, that the entire cost of the subway scheme should be divided between the rails ways and the grade crossing fund, Of gourse, the City would be making a valuable contribution to the general scheme by clos. ing Albert Street and relieving the Oshawa Railway Co, of the obligation which now vests upon it to meet all Canadian National trains, That the Railway Board is thoroughly aroused to the importance of eliminating the deadly and costly level crossings on through lines was made clear this week at Regina, where Hon, T, C, Norris, a newly Bppointed member of the Board, speaking on behalf of the Chairman, Mr, Justice Me. Keown, made a statement to the following pffect: 1, That the Board of Railway Commis. ploners will give a broader interpretation to the. act respecting the railway grade cross- ing fund, 2, That by legislative enactment at the fast session of the Dominion Parliament, the Board may utilize 40 per cent, of the total pmount of the fund up to $100,000, 8. That the Board will work in conjunc- tion with all organized bodies interested in the development of good roads and the re- moval of the level crossings, The foregoing statement was made at the Canadian Good Roads Association. Subways and bridges, where needed, are evidently be- ing encouraged rather than discouraged by the Board. The enlargement of the Board's powers with reference to allocation of cost to the grade crossing fund is of special importance with reference to Oshawa's subway, the to- tal cost of which will be quite considerable, WHAT AILS THE CHURCH? The Orillia Packet and Times, one of On- tario's brightest and best weekly newspa- pers, recently published the following re- markably sane editorial under the above heading: Sir Arthur Keith, who has attained suffi- cient eminence in science to be elected Presi- dent of the British Association for the Ad- wancement of Science, has undertaken to de- clare that death ends everything, for human- that the spirit survives after the ceased to function. His declaration will geriously upset those who believe ence has got out of its sphere when with matters of faith. It was Sir whose Presidential declaration that ptory of the discovery of two bones in an English pit, one resembling the skull of » THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928 man, and the other the jaw bone of an ape. Sir Arthur declared that these "had rightly been recognized as belonging to the same in- dividual," and that "we may confidently pre- sume that this individual was representative of the people who inhabited England at this remote date." Surely this is an assumption as hard to prove as that the soul exists after death, and one which gives ground for the suspicion that, like other people, scientists sometimes believe what they want to believe, and what is necessary to their argument. It is not such outside attacks that threaten the Church or disturb the faith of Chris. tians, Christianity has withstood the as« saults of unbelief for nearly two thousand years, But a new and trying situation is created by the undermining of the founda- tions which is going on from within, A fortress cannot hope to stand siege success. fully if those who are supposed to be defend- ing are co-operating with the foes without to overthrow the walls, A learned Bishop of the Church calls for the removal of all "guperstitions" which make belief difficult; and in the same address sets forth theories as to civilization on other worlds which are .at least as visionary as anything in the Book of the Revelation. A leader of a Christian organization working among students refers contemptuously to "the whole supernatural bag of tricks." A popular preacher and writer declares that there is direct and ir- reconcilable antagonism between the theol- ogy of St, Paul and the teachings of the Gospel, When those who might be expect~ ed to join in the defence of that Christian religion are on all sides showing a readiness to compromise with the world, and to aban- don what have been considered the funda- mentals of the faith, what wonder that the Church's appeal is drawing fewer converts into the fold than at some other periods; that the Church's influence on life and af- fairs is not so potent as it has sometimes been; and that there are complaints of dim- inishing church attendance, If the Church is going to survive the assaults of criticism, it will have to make up its mind to have some standards of belief for which it is pre- pared to fight, As things are going at pres- ent, even sincere Christians are more and more bewildered and disconcerted, EDITORIAL NOTES More earthquakes are predicted and it is not a bad guess, probably, Faith is belief in things unseen, For in- stance, men believe in the rights of a min- ority, A sophisticated girl is one who can kiss with so little skill as to make it seem the first one, With frost-bitten tobacco crops and hog cholera, the court y of Essex is certainly hard hit, In this country we have nothing that cor- responds to the Balkans, unless it is any village choir, If the bee isn't busy but only looks busy, as now averred, how the bee has been emu- lated all these years! The difference between home and a res- taurant is that at home you recognize the dinner scraps you get for supper. It looks as though Canada will be com- pelled to adopt some sort of quota law if this country is not to be overwhelmed with Europeans who will come out faster than they can possibly be assimilated, The practice of saying "Thank you," which the Telephone Company is now going to put into operation in Toronto seems to have much to condemn it and not very much to recommend it. There has been no de- mand by the subscribers for the change, Bit of Verse DARK WATERS Love bridged the chasm hate hath made Between their lives, Binding the sundered years with silver chains And golden gyves. But in the twilight when the heart Remembers well, They heard far down dark memory's waters toll A warning knell. The sounds that twilight brought grew faint With sunny skies, But what they heard in secret kept them true And made them wise. ~--Arthur Wallace Peach in the New York Times. Ut a Elance Reporter--"Could I speak to Mr. Brown, the boxer?" . Boxer's Wife, (acidly)--"Well, he isn't up yet. Since he has become a professional pugilist he hasn't ever got up before the stroke of ten." 'S the Truth "Summer girl, summer girl, where have you been?" "To the loveliest seaside I've ever seen." "Summer girl, summer girl, what did you do there?" "I got engaged thrice which was thought pretty fair," NEWS OF THE ENVIRONMENT Word is hereby passed around that the local postoffice is not the place for those who have put on red flan- nels to relieve that "prickly feeling." That institution is having it hard en- ough to stand alone 2 it is. - do their motorin' Pu in the 7 on people sleepin' in this cold weather. % % To Whom it May Concern Readers who are plannin' to pay their subscriptions in cordwood are kindly requested to leave same at the back door of the printin' offis instead of dumpin' it down on the sidewalk. Owin' to a pile of wood in front of the window this wk. ye ed missed one runaway, two dogfihts, 8764 pair feet and Doc Pillface discribin' the pro- ortions of a fish he caught at Lake Sa the other day. --Starbeams, To find a diamond in the rough, Is something very rare; We players oft are pleased enough To find a golf ball there, PEE Bert Johnston and Co, spec- ialists in magic, witchery, presti- itation necromancy, sleight of hand (legerdemain) second sight, yp pe ar 8 con. juring and what have you, left this wk, on an extended tour of the Eastern Provinces. Good suc- cess, Bert, and may ye reap a harvest of good ill. LJ * NOTICE (Those miscreants who make it a practice of relieving Mrs, F. Baker's pies from her back window sill short- ly after she finishes bakin' twice a week, are hereby formally emplored to cut it out, What chance have we to taste a good pie once a week when those thieves, yes, I 'say thieves, reach the sill before us. They are unfair, and should be apprehended. Besides, even if they do beat us to it, one pie is quite sufficient at a time.) * x x (Being a continuation of C. J, Caesar's conquest of Gaul during the early BCs Read on if you like. If you don't, see if we care.) * xox CAESAR CONQUERS GAUL As the night drew an apace, or afoot, Caesar knew that he would have to get his beauty sleep, or other- wise he would be in no fit condition to fight the great battle scheduled for nine by the water clock, on the mor- row morning. It was necessary, then, to pitch camp, which Caesar at once began to do. At first it was thought to pitch the camp on this side of the Rhine, but after arguing incessantly for two watches with his superior of- ficers, he decided to have the camp pitched over the river, This com- mand, given in every thought of fi- delity, proved a great draw-back to Caesar's advance into Gaul, for twenty- two and a half tents were destroyed in the pitching process, the water ab- solutely soaking the material with which the tents were made, Caesar was nonplussed, but was happy in the thought that he carried a rubber mat- tress which he blew up with many blows, and ultimately fell asleep. For- tunately he was not a somnambulist, and the evening's rest was quite un- eventful. After the dawn had risen, as thou- sands of dawns had risen in previous years, Caesar was awakened by the roar of a mighty cannon. "Heigh ho" he shouted, and in his rush to jump out of bed, he rolled over on his spectacles, oh yes, Caesar wore spectacles for reading in bed. When the spectacles were rolled on, they broke, and a portion of the broken glass wedged into the rubber mat- tress, exploding the same with a loud report, This noise, coming at such short notice, 'served to be a signal for advance to Caesar's men, and with one accord they advanced upon the enemy, now 42 leagues in a nor- therly direction. There was Caesar left sitting on his broken mattress crying his eyes out because his men had left him in the lurch or the rear. However, he quickly piled the dil- ted remnants together and ran after the advancing army, shouting "Wait for Caesar, Caius Julis' Cae- sar, the idol of Rome and would-be emperor of the dominions beyond the Rhine." , = x» he " --Renrut. ABLER MAKING STUDY n OF FARM COXDITIONS Sherbrooke, Que., Sept. 27.-- Having been selected mext Liberal candidate for the County of Stan- stead, in the heart of the Eastern townships, Hon. Herbert Marler, former minister without portfolio in the King government, has gone West for a month to study farm: conditions. The ex-minister is {concentrating on agriculture just now, and has toured his own coun- try talking on this subject. . Rm A PRISONER RELEASED (From Sheffield Dally Telegraph) The glant oramgoutang at the London Zoo is dead, He died of tu- berculosis, probably acquired at Singapore, whence he had been brought with his mate aud baby, from the forests of Somatra, Any- one who saw the patriarchial beast squatting on his bench at Regent's Park immobile, woebegone, and long suffering, must have felt that he had lost the will to live. Home- sickness and the humiliation eof captivity had broken the heart of that strange parody of humanity. To see him try to console his mate was pitiful and when their baby died the pair lost their last hold on life. Marcus--so his keepers called him--will probably be united with mate and child as a stuffed group in a museum where people will marvel again at the old male's five- foot long arms and his huge, flat- tened face with the puzzled eyes. But we trust that no similar fam- ily will again be brought for public exhibition in England to pine away behind bars, A baby orang may prove a merry captive and live long but the cruelty of importing adults fs plain and their dispositions are. too nearly human for any person of ordinary feeling to watch them without regret. We understand that the London Zoological Society does not propose to repeat the experi- ment which came to a tragic end last Sunday, HUGE UNITED STATES EXPORTS OF FINISHED MANUFACTURES (From Toronto Mail and Empire) Opponents of tariff protection thereto that high customs duties are injurious to the sale in foreign markets of the merchandise of The United States has a very high tariff, one that might well be ex- pected to provoke retaliation on the part of other countries, There are, however, few countries of commer- cial importance, except Britain and Canada, whose tariffs are not al- ready very high, so that retaliation on their part might not mend mat- ters, The point we wish to note is that, notwithstanding the ultra- protective character of the Ford- ney-McCumber tariff, the United States finds customers in the world mark:t for an enormous export trade. In the first half of the cur. rent calendar year the United Stat. es exported merchandise of the val- ue of $2,378,000,000, Of course, farm products have to be imported by various countries in Europe, and other natural products of the Unit- ed States are also in demand, but the remarkable feature of the for- eign trade of the United States is the growth of its exports of finish- ed manufactures. In the fiscal year 1027-28 the value of exports of manufactured goods exceeded $2,- 000,000,000, Only in the period of war inflatien, when prices were in many cases a hundred per cent. among those normally prevailing, did the exports, of manufactured products rise to such an amount, Our neighbors' sales of manufae- tured products in the world's mars kets have kept on increasing for some years, What is boasted of as the outstanding development of the United States' distribution of ex- ports is the expansion in Canada's demand, an expansion which has made this Dominion the United States' best customer, If the United States can maintain high tariff pro- tection and at the same time keep gaining ground in the world's mar. kets for manufactured products, ON DUMPING U, 8, FRUIT (From the Hamilton Spectator) The serious effect of lack of pro= | per protection for Canadian indug- tries is seen in the protests of the fruit-growers of British Columbia against the withdrawal of the antl dumping law, It is declared that, as a consequence of this concession to free-trade opinion, Canadian fruit is being sold to consumers in the prairie provinces for, less than cost, Obviously, a continuation of this state of things would lead to the ultimate ruination of the fruit in dustry of the famed Okanagan vall- ey. The facts are well calculated to cause alarm. Since the removal of the protective duties, importa- tions of fruit and vegetables from the United States haye shown a very large increase. To be explicit, po fewer than 4,915 cars entered Canada between April 5 and July 25 this year, as compared with 3,343 cars during the correspond- ing period of 1927, an increase of 1,672 cars, There is no complaint against fair competition from Am- erican growers, but it is maintain- ed, and surely with complete justi- fication, that the sort of competi- tion now prevailing is absolutely unfair and subversive of the legiti- mate interests of Canadian grows ers, Some instructive figures are pub- lished in the Vernon News, of Ver- pon B. C., which reveal why it is that American growers are eble to ship their produce into Canada and sell it to consumers at give-away prices. The estimated apple crop of the states of Washington aud Ore- gon this year is given as 40,000 cars, "most of which can rol wigh- out tariff interference to prarkets serving 117,000,000 people." {4 profitable prices ean be secured from these, it matters not wha- he- comes of the surplus so long as it is disposed of. In order to keep up price this surplus js sent into Can- ada at any figure it can fetch, re- gardless of cost. "Just so there is no surplus to crash the UU. 8. prices, they are indifferent. Six per cent. of their crop supplies the entire de- mand of the prairie provinces, while the dumping of even two per cent. means ruination to Cana- dian growers." The latter are com- pelled to eut down prices to the be- low-cost level to compete with these imports. The only alterna- tive is to let the fruit rot on the trees, which would be a still more disastrous policy. All the exp highways for the conditipns of ten Tana NY ANY WAN Interest on your Savings-~ Are you working just for present needs and with no thought of the future? Your present income should provide for your non-earning years, Make your plan a Central Canada Savings Account. Our attractive interest rate will materially help to make your savings grow, I Ey time you will have enough; if you desire you can again accelerate your earning power by means of a sound investment. Our cll times, experienced counsel is available a¢ Resources over Ten Million Dollars. QI FAR @A AY DN PALTV DIA CAO I ANB § OSHAWA BRANCH OFFICE: 23 SIMCOE ST. NORTH " Operated Under Government Inspection TORONTO HEAD OFFICE : KING & VICTORIA STS. A SAFE PLACE FOR SAVINGS be suffering a loss of about 26 on every hox of fruit sold to the consumer, Ontario growers are vitally in- terested in the plight of their wes- tern confrers. Similar conditions prevail here, in respect of various kinds of fruit and vegetables with which the products of the United States compete. To impose the anti- dumping duties is not to keep out produce needed by Canadian con- sumers which cannot be obtained from native sources, There Is no objection to the importation of pro- duce in seasons when it is not mar- keted in Canada; but when our growers are ready with their crops, it is a reasonable demand that they should be protected from the crush- ing effects of the dumping of for- eign produce. It is to be haped that the vigorous action of the British Columbian growers will serve to open the eyes of short-sighted poli- ticlans, GASOLINE TAX (Hamilton Spectator) There is a trite phrase that {in this busy existence "one gets what one pays for." When, after January 1, motorists making use of Ontario's far-famed good roads are called upon to pay a tax of 5 cents a gallon on i a------------ P---- pi ------ -- BONDS S. F, EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System Phones 143 and 144 OUR SPECIALTY It your Watch is not giving satisfaction we cam make it tell the correct time D. J. BROWN THE JEWELER Official Watch inspector for Canadian Naticpal awa Railroads. : ----] StoBIE-FOR LONG &(J GRAIN aed Office: Retord Building 11 King Street East, Oshaws = Above C.P.R. Office REPAIRING WATCHES == repair and and Osh- gasoline, they may find consolation in the quoted axiom. Ontario's highway system, unequaled in the world, cost a sizeable lot of money to construct and the annual mainten- ance bill is breath-taking in its enor- mity. Originally, highway costs were apportioned among all classes, without regard to the amount of use to which these classes put the roads. It was recognized a few years ago, however, that the revenue from mo- tor licenses was inadequate and that pon-users of the highways or those who used the concrete ribbons but geldom could not be looked to for further finaneial aid. A tax on gaso- line was hit upon as being the most equitable arrangement, the basic fdea being that motorists would pay in proportion to the use they gave the highways. A start was made with a tax of 3 cents a gallon and some of the sting of the impost was taken out by a reduction in the cost of license fees, the province's gift to individual motorists being 5. Loath to bring the license fee back to its old standard, but urgently in need of funds with which to carry on its highway program, the govern- ment has found it necessary to in- crease the tax and the majority of motorists, we think, will pay it with- out a whimper. There isn't a motor- ist who would exchange present-day years ago. The government has reached the absolute limit it can go in the imposition of gasoline tax. It is announced that a further compen- sating reduction in the cost of li- cense plates will be effective on the 1929 issue.. 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