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PAGE TWO OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1922. - -------- d L go and with a supercilious attitude toward American WwW = The Ontario Reformer books, and Shane Lewis as retorting that American New h ater » py . . . . . : ---- ide Efasluhl 1 1000) ov led Writers are prone to mutual admiration, This is (Continued from page 1) that a roll will have to be prepared | This by-law is one to alter the sys-|January 1. penden ry other day | acrimonious but uneonvineing. Not prejudice or !yna¢ the town will get thousands of | NG & Court of revision held following | op of gegessing the cost of laying PERRI (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons) at Osh- li 3 i . of [the invoking of the act. awa, Canada, by The Reformer Printing and Publish- patriotic leanings, but literary performance, is what [dollars from property that before nev- water mains in Oshawa and by it all If every worker did more than he Upon the third reading being given | who have and will have water mains | is paid to do and every employer ing Company Limited, J. C. Ross, President, J. Ewart | tells in the long run. The best novels in the English [er paid a cent, sonneilior R ; Councillor R. Moffatt rose and remark- will be taxed 7 1-2 cents a foot, fron- | Paid more than he is compelled to MacKay, Treasurer, h ) OBO. A. MARTIN . 3 L Editor | /Anguage are read on both sides; the weaklings do | Councillor W, J. Trick stated that |ed:--""So much do I think this is go- Pay, Wo. wont have. Ho atrilies =n the Local Improvement system of pay- [Ing to be a mess I ask that you take [tage tax. Upon the production of a "= 1 have 1 28. Several Scottish swimmers are to BSO not, as*a rule, survive the passage. Délivered b Bost gh RATES: Spl } pessag : ing for water mains was wrong and |the ayes and nays on this question." | receipt for payment of water rates, the | oo B50 PFO0 Cit BEE RENE D D ered | A aa Jor. In hawa Jr by mal fy where Bat, if one is to compare the fiction output of the |should never have been' started in [Upon the vote being taken the mem: |tax payer will have this amount cred- they Pe ge yo to $1.50 extra to cover postage, Single cop y two countries, it must be admitted that firmness of the Town of Qehawa.. Meston hag In Bere ol cowneil cast their votes as !ieq to him when paying his frontage | who is responsible for their fare 7 ___ |texture and thoroughness of workmanship are more |one almost the same. Councillor R Av : vik BR Hotill. .Aleek tax. If his frontage tax and his water | back.--The Passing Show (Lendon). : Ea : : : 1 . ot es--Trick, Rowe, Hu , Alger, y Je su », though, that it is some ( co 0 - Moffatt then stated that if he could get 4 rates should be equal he will pay no We suppose, though, tha 8 1 OSHAWA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1922 | common in the English-made novel than in our own. oe. | Hawkes, Preston, Brown and Hill The | qroneage tax and it his water rates [comfort to the most abject German pubes. intl Bh : x a seconder he would move that a spec: Ap : The test is not the number of copies sold, but the a) committee, including the nid pi mayor when questioned by the clerk | wore greater than his frontage tax he [to take a few marks out now and THE HOUSING SHORTAGE cillor O. R. Burns seconded this mo- Dep. Reeve F. I; Mason asked to be | hy-law means that ne more water tion, but it was defeated. Dep. Reeve [excused from voting. His request was | mains or extensions will be laid under F, L. Mason drew out the information | granted. the Local Improvements Act after it towns trying out such acts, Coun- interest shown by cultivated readers who care for |the town engineer, be appointed to vis- voted yea, will not pay any frontage tax but pay | then and see how many rubles he re. In a recent issue of The Reformer there appeared Nays--Moffatt and Burns, a letter from a reader' pointing out the necessity of building apartments suitable for men, The point is well taken, Oshawa is woefully short of accommodation, There is an acute hous ing shortage, rooms or apartments are simply not to be had, while even the school principals and trustees are at their wits end to devide ways and means of taking care of the number of children seeking admission, Every day the heads of business concerns are besieged with queries regarding accommodation, The pastors of churches, the Y. M,C.A, secretary, the news- papers and other semi-public bodies are all faced with the same request, One prominent citizen in close touch with the situation told The Reformer one morn- ing reently that he could fill a hundred rooms before night, Others recite a similar tale of famine con- ditions, What is to be done about it? The Housing Com- mission has done wonders but their resources are limited, Some of the larger business concerns, such as the General Motors, have generously pro- vided for their employees, but in spite of all that has been done the cry is for more, It is well known that a large number of men are "commuters" -- living in Bowmanville, Whitby and other near-by towns and coming to work in Oshawa each morning and returning at night. At best this is a makeshift arrangement. A man is better and happier if he can live where he works; especially is this true where conditions are so favor- able gs they are in Oshawa. The Reformer suggests that a committee get to- gether to discuss the housing and rooming shortage. This might be composed of men from the Council, from the Board of Trade, from the Housing Com- missioff and some of the representative heads of our larger industries. It is a situation requiring the careful thought of our best minds. We all want Oshawa to grow and thrive, but we cannot expect people to come to our town if they cannot find a roof to shelter them. The Reformer will gladly open its columns for a discussion of this problem. Perhaps many of our readers will be able to offer construct ugges- tions. In doing this we ask that the letters be made as brief a® possible. A NEW BUILDING BY-LAW Decision of the Town Council on Tuesday night to have 100 copies of the existing but out of date building by-law printed, primarily to enable Coun- cillors each to have a copy, it is hoped may prove the first step toward bringing the regulations up to date. That the by-law needs re-drafting was realized by members of Council two years ago, and that members of Counail this yetr are of the same opinion was shown by the tenor of the discussion Tuesday night. Building has been earried on locally virtually with- out supervision of any kind. True, a permit is neces- sary before the building ean be erected, but what purpose does it serve? It was suggested Tuesday night that if a by-law is to be rigidly enforced two inspectors may be required. Most places as large as Oshawa, and many even larger, have found that only one such official is necessary. The money in- volved in the appointment of such an official will be well spent if a competent man is secured, and the bylaw is sufficiently modernized to prevent firetraps or unsanitary structures being erected. Now that they admit the need of new regulations, members of Couneil will be delinquent in their duty if they do not see to it that the new by-law is in foree in time for the building season of 1923. Next week is Oshawa Fair week. Let us unite in making it the best in the history of the town. Fresh cider is now-available for the thirsty. Mix- ing ingredients with it to give it a kick will be the popular pastime of home brew specialists. The ex-Kaiser may marry a wealthy German widow. Preventing him returning to Germany on his honeymoon will be a new task for his guards. Water in excess is an intoxicant says the Science News Bulletin. That will be cheerful news to many who have been bemoaning what they regard- od as the kickless nature of water. FROM OUR EXCHANGES ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NOVELS (The Outlook, New York) There has heen lately in the London ""Times,"' the "American "' Bookman," and other periodicals discus- sion about American novels in England and English novels in America. It has been petty rather than enlightening, because it has turned on alleged dis- crimination by publishers and crities from sup- posedly patriotic prejudice. Thus Mr. Sinclair Lewis in represented as saying in effect that the English writers are an effete crew lacking pep and the art of; fiction writing rather than for temporary amusement or excitement, Of course there have been, and still are, American writers whose work is finished with care, whose characters stand out as solid persons and not sketchy types, whose central situations are vital and commanding, Hawthorne and Howells are examples in the past; to-day Edith Wharton, Winston Churchill, Booth Tarkington, Mrs, Deland, and a few others have just these attributes, But if we look over the American novels of a decade or so and compare them as a whole with what has come from the pens of Galsworthy, Conrad, Wells, Walpole, De Morgan, Locke, Merrick, and a dozen other recognized English masters of the art, the reader who wants fiction that has quality will find the greater achievement abroad, And this superiority of finish and leisurely com- pleteness exists in English studies of single char- acters, and even in sensational novels as well as in those that go deeper into life, Where in American fiction of the last year or two, for instance, shall we find such clever pieces of work as Mrs. Kaye-Smith's '""Joanna Godden," or Mr, Hutchinson's 'If Winter Comes,'"' or Sabbatini's "Scaramouche," or Mr. Milne's detective stories--the list might be extended indefinitely. The point is that, allowing for excep- tions and for divergent tastes, our English friends score in their thoroughness of execution, while too many of our books are scamped, hurried, and sketchy. Why is this so? Partly because the tradition of English novel-writing has grown up steadily and gradually ; that branch of literature has in England been practiced longer and in a more professional way than it has been here, The American novel of to-day is the offspring of the Sunday School book and the dime novel ; some of us can remember the time when a novel without a didactic or moral purpose was looked at askance by truly good people. So our fiction has developed spasmodically and has tended unduly to stories with a purpose or (for the un- godly). tales of pirates, Indians, and the Wild West. Again, English society is more compact, its civiliza- tion is more homogeneous ; even in its class divisions a'd the novelist in balaneing his major and minor cuaracters, England is small, and London has been its one great literary centre from time immemorial. The novel has developed in an orderly, progressive fashion. Standards of workmanship and literary craft have become recognized in novel building, A type of English novel that is neither French nor American has evolved in which situation, character, incident, and humor play freely within a certain unity of design. In short, without being arbitrary or sweeping in judgment, one finds that the English novel is, on the average, more likely to be well rival. After all, however, there is no rigid nationality in genius, Schools of fiction may arise and fall, erities may bicker about the purpose of novel writing and weigh realism against romance, as they will, but once let a work of genius appear and theories are for- gotten. The art of story-telling is a gift as well as an accomplishment. From Homer's day to ours he who can wave the enchanted wand will ever find enthralled followers. "A LITTLE NONSENSE" Visiting Aunt (as reported by "'Punch")-- "You've been a naughty little girl to-day, Pamela.' Pamela--*" Well, you shouldn't come on a Mon- day ; that's my bad day." Wealthy Unele (as reported by the "' Purple Cow" of Williams) --'You are extravagant, sir. These cigars are a lot better than I smoked at your age.' Collegiate Nephew (coolly) --"They're a lot bet- ter than you smoke now."' ~ A BIT OF VERSE THE VILLAGE MASTER Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well and every truant knew . . Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was at fault; The village all declared how much he knew, Twas certain he could write and cypher too; Lands he ¢ould measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran--that he could gauge: In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For ¢'en though vanguish'd, he could argue still With words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rusties ranged around ; And still they. gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head eould carry all he knew. ," Oliver Goldsmitl thought out and carefully written than its American | the water rates, The passing of this | ceives for them. --New York Tribune. EE ------------------------------ EDMONTON - JASPER PARK - YELLOW HEAD PASS - KAMLOOPS - VICTORIA Edmonton to Victoria, via Jasper Park, Yellow Head Pass and Kamloops. Never before June 17, 1922, had an automobile crossed the Canadian Rocky Mountains. This trail has always been considered impassable for any vehicle. Ford Car Piloted by George Gordon Makes Fast Time to the Coast and Gets Gold Medal. (From the Edmonton Journal, July 15th) Made Trip of Seventeen Hund- red Miles Over Rocky Mountains in Eight Days Without Repairs or Change of Tires. The recent pathfinding tour from Edmonton to Victoria, B.C., brought further laurels to the Ford car and it demonstrated that this popular car can be oper- ated successfully under the most severe conditions. When the city of Victoria of- fered a gold medal to the driver of the first car to blaze a trail from Edmonton to Victoria via Jasper Pass, Yellowhead Pass and Kam- loops, it was considered an almost impossible feat, and if accomplish- ed the trip would take from three to five weeks and the car would be almost a wreck. The city of Victoria offered this medal during the recent conven- tion of the Canadian Good Roads' Association which was held in that city. A motor road between Ed- monton and Vietoria has been the dream of western Canadians and to that date an automobile had never crossed the Rocky Moun- tains and to the first pathfinding Remarkable, Yes! dreds of Fords blaze new trails, do the impossible. performances of the Ford. given to the unbelievable Ford Cars, Ford Trucks, Fordson Tractors, on exhibition at Oshawa Fair next week. Call CHADBURN MOTOR COMPANY | car this trip presented almost in- surmountable difficulties, Such an adventurous journey appealed to several citizens and on Saturday, June 17, the first car set out from Edmonton and eight days later Mr. Geo. F. Gordon fol- lowed with his Ford roadster. Four days after starting Mr. Gor- don caught up to the first starter at Albreda. When this news came through to this city it was pre- sumed that the Ford car had taken advantage of the road-mak- ing that was done by the drivers of the other car, but this was not the case as Gordon traveled over a different route altogether from Edmonton to Edson and from that point to Albreda no road-making was done as there is a passable trail between these two points. From Albreda the Ford took the lead and was never at any time headed by the other car and ar- rived in Victoria, July 4, 24 hours ahead of his rival. Gordon Gives Ford Credit Mr. Gordon returned to the city on Tuesday morning by train, as he left his car in Vancouver on dis- play at the Ford showrooms in that city and it will be freighted back to this city and placed on show at the Dominion Motors, Limited, the local Ford dealers. Mr. Gordon gives unstinted praise to the Ford car and he says: CORNER KING AND PRINCE STS. "FORD" CAR Wins Gold Medals as Pathfinder of the Canadian Rockies "When I first took the notion of making this trip I decided to take a Ford, as from past experience I knew that if any car got through in reasonable time it would be the Ford and to back my own faith in this car I purchased a new Ford roadster, I did not ask or take any financial assistance from the Ford dealer or any other person as I knew that the car would not lose any of its value from the trip unless we went over a precipice or some such accident. We took with us approximately $60 worth of spare parts and tires and we ac- complished this trip with no fur- ther damage than a broken spring leaf, and never used any of the spare parts. Pleasure to Drive "It was a pleasure to drive this car as we knew that it was cap- able of overcoming any difficulties and as long as there was a place for four wheels to go through or over we went. We traveled ap- proximately 1,700 miles and we never had the slightest trouble with the engine, and we found it both economical on tires and gas. The tires are at present on show at the Vancouver office of the Gregory Tire Company and do not show any wear at all; neither did we have a puncture. If I should ever have the occasion to take a similar trip I would take a Ford." Unusual, No! Every day on the ragged edge of civilization, hun- Sufficient publicity has not been Orchard Ploughs and Cultivators will be and see them and have them demon- PHONE 1160