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PAGE TWO a ---- ' OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1922 The Ontario Reformer (Ratablished in 1871) © An independent niéwspaper published every other .day ( web Juusday 3 'and Saturday afternoons) at Osh- oy * he Reformer Printing and Publish- fig pana, Limited, MacKay; 'Treavuror: + C, Ross, President, J. Ewart ' jE GRO. A. MARTIN SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by Carrier in Oshawa or by mail anywhere a '$3.00 a' year. 'Unhed Btatés subséription a. 50 eat te tover Postage, Single copies dc. Editor perry ONT, SATURDAY, SEPT. 2, 1922 dame = AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MEN The Canadian Standard Efficiency Tests, com- prising the four-fold development plan of training adopted some years ago by Y.M.C.A. and other re- ligous' Jéaders, are to be carried on with renewed vigor at Oshawa Y.M.C.A, this fall and winter, The programs announced by officials of the local insti. tution in Thursday 's and to-day's issues are evidence of this, While summer activities have been carried on, the holiday season does mot permit of that in tensified effort being put forth that is possible dur- ing the remainder of the year, Great care and much thought were exercised in planning the Standard Efficiency Tests, While it is * a good thing for a man to have the social side, the spiritual side, the mental side or the physical side of his life developed, the founders of these tests realized that to be a success a man must have all those 'sides of him developed, The program was drafted therefore to provide for a graded develop- ment in each of these directions, The fall and win- ter's work outlined by the local *'Y" officials will be seen to be sufficiently comprehensive to 'cover thoroughly this four-fold program. Oshawa Y.M.C.A, is fortunate at present in having as secretaries men who have been in the work for many years, and who have made a success of it else- where, They have drawn up a strong program, and are anxious to be of real assistance to the boys and men and of service to the community, To do this they require the support of the community as a whole. Merely believing that such an institution as the Y.M.C.A, is needed in the town--and none can doubt that it is, particularly now with so many . young men working here who are away from their homes--is not enough. Support must be given by taking a real interest in the work, by being a mem- ber, and by being a booster. The Young Men's Christian Association, with a program such as outlined, offers an opportunity to all men to improve themselves and to help one another, A DESIRABLE CHANGE Frequently during the last few weeks The Re- former has been asked why it is that in Oshawa all Senior Fourth pupils must write on the High School entrance examinations, whereas such is not the case in some cities, particularly Toronto. The explan- ation as given by Mr. R, A, Hutchinson, Inspector of Public Schools, as set forth in Thursday's Re- former, is that up to the present this innovation has not been recommended by the Entrance Board. Mr. Hutchinson stated that the recommendation system of permitting pupils to pass from the public to the high schools was not feasible in the rural schools. This seems reasonable, because as the in- spector states the teachers in the country schools change frequently. It is true that there are many changes i in the teaching staffs in the cities and towns too, but these are not so often among the prineipals, and the latter are usually the teachers of the entrance classes, It is pleasing to know that Inspector Hutchinson believes the system now in foree in Toronto, and in two or, three other cities might be safely introduced in Oshawa schools. It is gratifying to learn that the inspeetor has such confidence in the prineipals of Oshawa schools as to personally favor the change. The views of the other members of Entrance Board, Mr. A. E. Garbutt, Supervising Prineipal of Oshawa Public Schools; Mr. J. G. Althouse, Principal, and r. Stephenson, of the Oshawa High School, on the subjeet are not known, but The Reformer believes it is voicing the wishes of its readers in expressing the hope that they will see their way elear to recommend this innovation in time for the promotions next year. The teacher, if conscientious, it seems to us, is the best one to decide whether a child is sufficiently advanced in his work to justify being promoted. Examinations frequently are a hardship, partieu- larly on children of nervous temperament. The recommendation system has proven satisfactory in Toronto, in Ottawa and in Peterboro, and The Reformer ; believes it would be found satisfaetory here, EMPTY COAL BINS CAUSE ANXIETY & month ago a Fuel Committee of Couneil was appointed to take steps to insure householders of a fuel supply for next winter. Up to the present the committee has not brought any fuel into Oshawa, Mil 362s wl an uder for tan cactond of Asmer'- cai anthracite coal for September delivery. Mem- bers of 'the committee are evidently more optimistic than most coal users, if they expect to be able to hij these ten carloads of coal delivered in Septem- ber at the price quoted. - Some miembers of Council have expressed the opinion that the eoal strike will be over soon and that there will be no great shortage. There have been so many reports that "'a settlement is expected within the next twenty-four hours" that the house- holders with the empty eoal bins have grown weary of the phrase. They want fuel of some kind in their odllars, ""If" the coal strike is settled soon, "'if"' =~ the railway shopmen return to work, and "'if" Can- ada's allotment of coal is not, interfered with--after all these "ifs*' are removed, then will the necessary coal for which local people are clamoring be forth- coming, And by that time there is hound to be a shortage, necessitating the using of something else than 'anthracite in most homes for at least part of next winter, The Ontario Fuel Controller, Mr, J, A, Ellis, has favored the bringing in of Welsh coal, but since there appears to be an aversion among members of Council 'to buying this substitute for the United States article, why not get in an emergency supply of United States bituminous coal or of wood? While the Council Committee has brought no fuel into Oshawa since its appointment, other munici- palities throughout the province have been more active, Whitby has ordered four cars of bituminous coal, Belleville Council has purchased sik carloads of hardwood and have an option on twenty more, and they expect to deliver it to their customers at from $8.50 to $10 a cord, St, Thomas Council is getting in an emergency supply of fuel, as is London. And other councils are similarly taking steps to protect their residents; ~Even if private individuals should bring in a few carloads of wood, the fact that the town also has a supply will prevent any exorbi- tant prices being charged, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine months after the resumption of work before the mines in the anthracite coal field are producing to capacity, Provincial Fuel Controller J, A, Ellis declares that substitutes for hard coal will be re- quired until the middle of December, if not longer, These facts are given by responsible men. They are more than enough to make people anxious to get some fuel in their cellars, Council meets on Tues- day night, and it should not adjourn without author- izing steps to relieve the firston, Manufacturers of bucksaws ought to do a rushing business from now on, with wood aghin coming into its own as fuel. '" Fe Schools re-open on Tuesday, and a contemporary remarks that study should take the place of sport. Rather should study share the place with sport, as the latter is as necessary to a boys or girl's all-round development as the former, the maximum output is reached immediately, wig | Workers of America, has stated that it will be two : W. D. Robb, who hag been appointe ger of the Grand Trunk Railway authority and perform the duties of the road, Mr. Howard G. Kel ley, 4 Vice-President and General Mana- syetem, and who will exercise hitherto performed by the Presiden who has resigned, the Exchange Rates OSHAWA BRANCH : CEDAR DALE BRANCH, BROOKLIN BRANCH, HEN you require information re- garding foreign exchan our nearest branch. In rect wire touch with money markets throughout the world and closely affiliated with financial insti- tutions abroad, this bank is able to quote the closest possible rates on drafts and bills of ex- change, and to negotiate purchases ad sales promptly and satisfactorily. DOMINION BANK - , call at N. HENRY, Manager. Ww. H_ SHEPPARD, Manesor E. CROSS, a ---- Conducted by the Questions and Answers on Forestry. Canadian Forestry Association WHAT I8 MY PINE BUSH WORTH? Ques.--I am trying to figure out what a large plantation of white pine on my father's farm is worth to-day. It is approximately 40 years old. Ans. --Canadian estimates are hard to secure. However, a 36-year old New York State white pine plantation sold recently at $500 pdr acre 'on the stump'. Two acres of whote pine near Keene, New Hampshire, were sold be- fore the war for $2,000 on the stump. The total stand was 254 cords. The trees were from 80 to 85 years old. The growth on each acre was about 1000 feet per annum and the gross re- turns about $12.20 per acre per, annum, Wha Can Identify Woods? Ques.--What authority in Canada will identify certain woods submitted to my factory as samples. The ordin- t GETTING OUT FROM UNDER Sandy was the laziest man in the | settlement. He was after a fashion. That is, |and piety can walk together, some people are so cruel as to doubt. Sandy seemed to have in reconciling the two. of the pioneers of an if laziness | He was one Eastern On R. 8S. McLaughlin's fine offer of a site for a new eurling rink is another evidence of the desire of this live, Development of clean sport makes for a better community, as Mr. McLaughlin says, and the curlers should show their appreciation of the gift by quickly raising the necessary money to ereet the rink. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY RULES FOR RIGHT LIVING :--Let all bitter- ness, and wrath, and anger, and elamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, for- giving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.-- Ephesians 4: 31, 32, LN FROM OUR EXCHANGES FACTS ABOUT ADVERTISING RATES (St. Mary's Journal-Argus) Newspaper advertising rates in weekly papers in Ontario are away below those in papers aeross the line. Take the State of New York for instanee, the Adams Journal with a circulation of 1,749 charges 35 cents an inch, the Andover News with 1,115 eir- culation has a rate of 35 cents an inch; the Attie News with 1,294 circulation, 40 cents an inch; the Avon News, with 655 cireulation, 45 cents an ineh; the Bath Courier, 2,460 cireulation, 50 cents an inch, and papers of 1,000 and 400 and 500 eireulation are paid 30 cents an inch, and papers of 1,000 and over not less than 40 and many of them 45 eents. . LILACS (By Harry Lee in The Outlook) The little seamstress Paused before a stall Where lilacs were-- A leafy lane to her, All rainy winds \ And twitterings, 2 And flitting amber light, But food and drink-- And one ean work With such a will -- With misty lilacs AOn the sill-- The little seamstress * Paused before a stall Where lilaes were-- She came » In threadbare gray, but ch-- "& She went | = - In lavender-- ¢ & 5 - - a family to make Oshawa a better place in which to Ih | tario townshi.p (years had passed, in the pioneer stage. had eomfortabe homes, broad fields. | 10g shanty, with tumble-down out- { buildings, in little patches of | clearing cluttered with stumps and | invaded by straggling clumps of young trees. That was because he was incurably lazy. In piety, however, he had flour- ished. He had forsaken the church of his fathers and joined a little sect lin which everybody preached and few listened. Sandy preache much | and prayed more, and was a 3 much his farm was still | great barns, set Bethel. Every once and from grace, especially red up his wrath or his thirst, remnants of a while he "the old man" unregenerate days. These never bothered Sandy very much, as he had a valuable faculty of Get- ting Out From Under. He always made it plain to the Lord and %o his fellowmen that he was not to blame Some one else had tried and tempted him. He was a true son of Adam. Once, a near neighbor, whom wi shall call Scott, an unregenerate old man, but a hard worker, needed hel; at a threshing bee. He sent over to Sandy's for the latter's oldest son, locally known as Johnnie Sandy, who strahge to say, was as industrious as his father was Sandy got the message and scenting good eats, for which he had an enormous capacity, went himself. "Hello, Sandy," said old man Scott. "Where's Johnnie?" "Oh Johnnie's sick and couldn't come," replied Sandy. "That's un- fortunate. I'm badly in need of an- other hand, and I don't know where to et one. I counted on Johunnie." "Well, I have come instead of John- nie." "You! I'd like to know what good you are!" exclaimed the old Scott. "The only place you do any- thing is at the table." Then Sandy's wrath was stirred He forgot his piety and swore pro- miscuously at old man Scott, and all the Scotts of his generation. The next Sunday in the meeting he told the story of his temptation, and ended up by fervently praying the Lord to "forgive old man Scott for making me swear." That was Getting Out From Under. In no way would he blame himself. It was all old man Scott's fault. There are a lot of Sandys in the world. Some of them set themselves on such lofty heights of intellect und virtue that they would doubtless ab ject to being classed with silly Saady, who was a bit of laughing stock in his community. And yet at the bhot- tom they are the same. They are forever shifting the responsibility upon someone else. A professional man of some promi- nence in one of the prairie provinc- es always used to excuse his indiffer- ence to religion and all religious ac- tivities going on about him by saying that he "got too much of it when he was a boy." 'because his mother com- pelled him to go to church and Sun- day School. It is true that his moth- er's religion was of an old severe type, a type which often produces a reaction in the young people once they are free to do, as they wish. But for a man of middle age, an educated no difficulty | his swearing on old Scott. | His neighbors may take. soothed down | which remained with him from his | lapses | professional man, Ino use for religion because also very pious, | mother's good-intentioned efforts for- is simply a case of whic h | Getting Out From Under. ty years before, It is as tutile as Sandy's putting the blame o man has reached man's estate, le {him take as a man for whatever attitude It to say that he had of his When a | up man's responsibility, | no oe eo oy When two score stand upon his own feet and answer | knowledge that you have starved the he | religious instinct in you till it has is a poor excuse t0 | died. ary manufacturer has no means of verifying these woods. Ans.--The Forest Products Labora- tories, McGill University, Montreal, will be glad to handle all such prob- lems for you without charge, Send your woods to them marking plainly tie country of origin and inj the case of Canadian woods the district of or- igin, : Growing Fuel Wood on the Prairies Ques.--In view of the. coal troubles, is it possible for a prairie farmer to grow fuel wood econemically? Ans.--The Nursery Station at In- dian Head, Saskatchewan, proved that on a small patch of non-agricultural soil they could grow 18 cords of fair firewood in eight years from Russian poplar cuttings. It averages two cords per acre per year. This at eight dollars a cord would give $16 an acre for every year the trees were left growing. There is a good deal of wheat land that does not return that much annually, using religion as a cloak are so small as compared with the responsibilities he would have to assume, that he would be a fool to clothe himself with it. As a matter of fact the man who uses the excuse of hypo- crites in the Church is himself a good deal of a hypocrite. He is not hon- | estly facing the issue. He is simply | getting Out From Under. Man, be a man. Do not put the blame on some one else. If religion does not appeal to you, be honest | about it. Say that you do not pro- bmit to its restraints. Ac- f t! | Stand on your own feet and blame it on a father or mother, who, Sandy still livea in a |though perhaps mistaken in method, { trying to do thei | were honest in Iti pighest duty by their children. | a flagrant case of Getting Out From | | otice to Parents | nothing to do with religion Le If | at all he would realize | hypocrites Any- knows the Church inside is well aware that and a shining light in his particular |the number of people who put on re- Under. | There {| Sandy 18 who says that he will hav of the he thought that there are far more | outside the Church than in it. lone who really | from the hypocrites in the Church. |ligion for a cloak is very small. It i fei! {not sufficiently profitable, The give] if any one stir- | that the average man would make by | also that very common | do not try to put the blame on some one else by Getting Out From Under. This summer Ex-President Taft, now Chief Justice of the United States, was guest of the Bench and Bar of England at a banquet in the ancient hall of The Middle Temple. In his reply to their toasts he said that "English law had insisted that any man who was an adult and in his right mind stood on his own feet and acted for himself." That too is God's law. Are you an adult? Are you in your right mind? Then stand on your own feet, and do not blame your lack of religion on any one else. That wonld be dishonesty and Getting Out From Under. m-- '| e | 8 | Parents wishing their children admitted to the schools | this fall would be well advised in having them report on Tuesday the opening day as our accommodation is limited, A. E. GARBUTT, Sup. Principal. | Bond Ton» oe ss 09-4192 NAVY CUT PLAYER'S CIGARETTES