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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1920 Alloway, Secretary. The Oshawa Dally Times 1s a member of the Cana dian Press, the Canadian Dally N pers' Ase sociation, The Ontario Provincial and the Audit Burcau of Circulations, BUBSCRIPTION RATES Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumber- land, $3.00 a year; e\sewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFIOR 4" Bond Building, ua Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaide 0107, H. D. fresidder, repre. sentative, REPRESENTATIVES IN U8, Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, mE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 ad OSHAWA'S HOSPITAL--ONE OF THE HEST Further testimony to the efficiency of the Oshawa General Hospital comes from Bos- ton, Mass., where on Monday at the hospital standardization conference of the American College of Surgeons, the Oshawa Institution was again included in the list of fully ap- proved hospitals of the United States and Canada, There is no higher tribute that can be paid to any hospital, Since 1028, the Oshawa Hospital has been fully standardized, in accordance with the re- qrirements of the American College of Sur- geons, and has been rated "fully approved," by the standardization conference of this body, The local institution is one of 40 hos- pitals in the Province of Ontario that have attained this standard and are listed as fully approved for the year 1928, To Miss E, Mec. Williams, superintendent of the Hospital, and to the officers of the Board of Trustees, of which J, D, Storie is honorary president, G, D, Conant, president, Mrs, R, 8, McLaugh- lin, vice-president and secretary, and C, N, Henry, treasurer, credit is due for the splen- didly efficient work being carried on, An extract of the address of Dr, Franklin H, Martin, Director General of the American College of Surgeons, delivered at the hospital standardization conference in Boston Mon- day, outlines a few of the items of the pro. gress made in scientific medicine in the eleven years since hospital standardization work commenced, Dr, Martin says: "Eleven years ago only 89 or 12.9 per cent, of the hospitals under survey met the mini- mum requirements for hospital service as sponsored by the American College of Sur- geons and now universally accepted. Today, after eleven years of effort 1919 or 69.5 per cent have attained a place on the honor roll ~the official approved list, as announced this morning, Eleven years ago the patient re- mained in the hospital 20 to 24 days, on the average, whereas today he remains only 12 to 14 days in the same hospital for the same condition, Eleven years ago 70 to 90 per- sons per thousand treated in hospital died, whereas today this has been reduced to 20 to 80 on the average in standardized hos- pitals. Eleven years ago 18 persons out of every hundred undergoing major operations died, but today this has dropped to 8 or less, due to more competent surgery, and the de- velopment of new methods of anaesthesia and improved technique and procedures." EVOLUTION OF WORDS Nothing is more interesting than etymo- logy or the origin of words. There is a great deal more to words than their mere use. Study of the origin of the costume vocabulary reveals many curious facts. Of course the panama hat takes its name from the country of its origin. The cap came from "cappa" or cape. The hero of Burns' poem gave his name to the "tam o' shanter." That convenient garment, the jumper, de- rived its suggestive appellation from the fact that its wearer jumped into it. The expression "short skirt" is tautological, since skirt is derived from "skyrta," meaning short. "Knickers" comes from knickerbocker, a name given the peculiar type of trousers or bloomers worn by "Diedrich Knickerbocker," the pretended author of Irving's "History of New York." The petticoat is only a petty or small coat. A garter is that which is placed around the "garet" or shank of the leg. "Spats" is a contraction of "spatter dashes," an eigh- teenth century gaiter. It is clearly seen how "naperon," a cloth or tablecloth, has become "apron" through frequent usage and not too careful articulation. And even the word "costume" is nothing more than a derivative of "custom," a cos- tume being something customarily worn. THE GOOD BOOK An English periodical has received a com- munication from a reader in which he sets forth that after many months of industrious study of the Bible he has discovered that it contains 8,566,480 letters, 810,697 words, 81,1756 verses, that the name of God occurs 46,627 times, that the 21st verse of the sev- enth chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet, and presents much other curious information concerning the Serip- tures. These facts are of little importance in themselves, but are interesting as a revela- tion of the strong hold that the Bible has on the affections of the people. Counting the letters in the Book was manifestly a labor of love on the part of the compiler. It is impossible to conceive of any other volume of like size exercising so powerful a fascina- tion that anyone would want to count the letters, And it should be borne in mind in consid ering the subject that while nobody, per- haps, ever made a compilation of this sort before thousands have studied the Bible just as painstakingly in other ways. There are well authenticated cases of men who have committed the whole of the New Testament to memory, John Muir, the naturalist, not only learned the New Testament by heart but the greater part of the Old in addition, It is no wonder that a book which is so greatly loved should continue, thousands of years after it was first written, to be the best seller, REY FOOTBALL I8 KING ne When the New York Yankees turned their crutches into baseball bats and swatted the ball to the extent of four straight victories, in almost as many days, over the St. Louis Cardinals, they sang the requiem of baseball for the season of 1928, Baseball and lacrosse have ceased to be the popular sports and from this time till the snow falls, and the playing fields are too rough and hard for play, football will be the king, In sport, as in kingdoms, the cry is "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King." All eyes are now on the gridiron, through college, school and sand-lot diamonds have been converted into gridirons and the crown passes to football, Oshawa has come through the lacrosse season with colors flying and has now the proud title of senior champions of Ontario, and on the same day that this honour has come to this city, the Oshawa Rughy inter mediate team started their long and arduous march to a championship by defeating Guelph by a score of 23 to 1, On the coming Saturday another notch of victory is likely to be added to their string when they meet the Niagara Falls' team here in Alexandra Park, As in Oshawa, so in almost every city of Ontario, Football will be the big attraction during the beautiful weather that marks our Canadian autumn, Every Saturday, durhng the season, monu- mental stadiums and bowls will be jammed to capacity and thousands of less impressive fields and grandstands will be thickly lined with spectators, A sport loving nation is always a virile nation, and the interest in one of these greatest of games--football--shows that Canada can play, as well as scratch a notch for itself in the industrial world, Oshawa has a splendid rugby machine this year--a band of fine, clean athletes, who will take a lot of beating in the race to the peak of the championship ladder. One championship has come to Oshawa in the victory of its lacrosse team on Satur- day, Oshawa plans to be on the map when the curtain rings down on the Rugby season. EDITORIAL NOTES nn, Leading a double life may get you through just twice as quick. No husband likes to be treated like a dog. You can't fee] dignified in 2 woman's lap. You may not astonish the boss with your correspondence-school French, but you can amuse him if he happens to know French. Intellectuals are born, mot made. You can't cultivate the conviction that everything is rotten except yourself. "Entertainment by radio isn't wholly sat- isfactory. It gives people no opportunity to show off their new clothes. (tg Glance) Above is an instrument called years ago and since it was invent od has under a number of cha much better for it. The fact is that ome wouldn't recog- nize the thing in comparison to ite former . It has now be- come a thing of beauty, of o It might even compare with the pink ribbon Aunt Sarah tied around the cat's neck a week ago. In fact so artistically is the tele- hone fashioned that it might even ¢ called superb, and when a thing is called superb, it resembles us closely as anything may resemble the form of a human being. It has a head, which is the speaking appara tus, very much similar to the vocal recording mechanism of the female of the species; not being useful for any other occupation, It has a pedestal taking the place of the human feet, which it stands upon from morn till night, and in some cases half way through the night. There is however, one red THINKS THE LOWLY PEDESTRIAN HAS A FEW RIGHTS Oshawa Citizen Says Motor Cars And School Children Should Be Controlled A resident of Oshawa writes to the Dally Times as follows: Dear Sir:-- "There is a matter I wish very much that you would take up through the columns of your pap- er and I shall briefly outline it in this letter, You may publish this, or take the contents to use editorially, but please take any step that you think most effective in the matter. To-day I feel that I saved the life of & school boy at the noon hour. He, like a great number of his colleagues, was frolicking along the street, and rushing across a side street, mear Simcoe, Just at that moment, I too was going to cross, when 1 saw a motor coming at full speed and turning west, without warning of any kind, on the wrong side of the street. It is a matter difficult to explain but if you will visualize this motor you will see that many motorists are guilty of this same offence. Now, Simcoe Street is a through highway, as we all know, but should that give the motorist the privilege of turning sharply, with- out warning into a side street espec- fally when he sees the sidewalk crowded with school children? T have also seen the same thing done, also without warning, when a drive way has been entered at full speed. While speaking of school children, please allow me to say that there is much room for im- provement in their manners, youth. ful thoughtlessness? Yes, exactly. "But because they are young there is hope that by constant re- minding they may learn that the silewalks are not for their ex- clusive use. It seem to me that manners should be stressed by school teachers quite as much as the acquiring of knowledge. If ev ery day some little hint could be given to them, a daily reminder of the Golden Rule, life would be more agreeable for themselves and their elders. I am no growler again- st the spirit of youth, Exuberance is as natural to the young, as the wonderful rush of growth that each spring fills us with renewed won- der. Exercise, joy, life, even noisy manifestations of happiness awak- en an answering echo im me, but lawlessness and the disregard of other people's privileges certainly have no place in organized society. 1 often stand my ground, when these young hooligans emerge from school, because they monopolize the sidewalk and would have those walking in the opposite direction step off onto grass or mud for them. This surely is not as it ought to be, "Motorists their rights, school-children theirs, but the every-day pedestrian should surely be allowed a few privileges too." have COMRADES WORK FOUR HOURS IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE LIFE St. Catharines, Oct, 11.--Howard Marshall, 22 MeGhie vtreet, fore- man of the maintenance gang of the public utilities commission, was electrocuted while at work in Louth township when he came in contact with 2,200 volts while en- gaged in alding with the changing Come On Sale Friday Morning at 8.30 Largest Size FLANNELETTE | BLANKETS (Pacific | White, with pink or Blue border. Size 70 x 84 inches. $1.9 No Phone Orders accepted. Not more than two pairs to a customer. of transformers. Fellow workers tried artificial respiration for four hours efore giving up hope of re- viving life. TORONTO GIRL STUDENT WEDS DOCOR IN NEW YORK New York, Oct. 11.--Miss Cora M. Bosworth, aged 21, a student, of oronto, formerly of Wetaskiwin, Alta. and Thomas E. Briant, aged 28, a surgeon, of Welland, Ont., obtained a license to wed here, Miss Bosworth was born in Wetask« win, the daughter of Thomas G. and Alice Calkins Bosworth, Dr, Briant was born in Toronto, the son of Thomas A. and Jennie Mca Cullough Briant. ing feature of the instrument cal. lod a telephone. You may talk to it as long as you like; you may call it a you wish, but it never talks back; instead there is only that faint little ring when the operator at the other end of the line wishes to summon you to speak to the grocer, or the but. cher, or the tailor, or the hair. dresser about that bill which is still unpaid, There is also one feature in which the telephone is very much unlike the human frame, It has a tail. Wound around its feet the tail stretches to its ear, and it is on account of this tail that sometimes the populace be- comes frantic, such as becoming twisted and turned, wrapped and worn, and it requires a physical ef- fort in some cases to loose the "ear" from hock, I mean hook, A telephone is the centre of interest in the home; it is alse centre of operations in the home. The following may be a suitable explanation of the above statement: Dad and Mother are getting ready for the theatre; Madge and Bob are also preparing; the telephone rings, No effort is made to answer it so it rings again. A step is heard in Madge's room which is traced over to the door; then it turns back and stillness reigns, The telephone rings again. A door opens, and a voice calls; "Bobbie, will you answer the tele- phone please?" "Aw, Mother, I've just got my shirt on, how can I go down there?" The telephone rings again. "Madge, you can answer the "phone about as good as anybody, you're nearest." --Dad, Bob--"Go on, Madge, sweetie, ans- wer the little phone for pop." Dad--"Robert, that will be enough from you." The telephone rings again, Mother--"Father, who's going to answer that telephone?" Dad--"0h, alright, if it's going to make that much difference, I'll go down myself," And with thet he opens the door and slams it after him, Madge and Bob feel that the evening might not turn out as well as expected, so they both rush out and down the stairs. In the scramble, Mother decides as head of the house she will answer the 'phone herself, and as a result the whole family is trooping down the long stairs in file, The telephone rings for the fifth time, Dad reaches the instrument first, followed quickly by Madge and Bob and finally Mother. They all maks a grasp for the receiver but Dad casts an authoritive glance around, and the other members of the family stand back in embarrassment, Dad picks wp the receiver: "Hello--hello--no, this is Mr. Blank speaking--number ? --why yes, 1224-- no, this isn't Uncle Highhat--no, I'm sorry, youve got the wrong number --good-bye." "Well, if that isn't the blank-blankiest thing I ever heard of" Mother and daughter giggle, Bob laughs outright, and the whole family starts up the stairs. The tele- phone rings again, but the parade maintains its steady gait, and when the top is reached Bob turns on the radio to drown the ringing of the hone, ~--Renrut. hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy im his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall --Isa. 25:4. PRAYER--God is our refuge and Breas h, a very present help jn PRODUCT OF GENZRAL Mu. 0nd You Are Invited to Attend the SPECIAL OF THE NEW OLYMPIC SERIES to be held at the - AUDIT ORIUM Former Office Building MARY AND RICHMOND STREETS 2H FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12t) 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Presentation will be Accompanied by a Musical Programme PRE' SHOWING OAKLAND SIX NEW GENERAL MOTORS OSHAWA