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| PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, The ®shata Baily Times THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) eqs p 3 An indep Bap paper p every af except Sundays and legal holidays, at Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Printing Company, Limited; Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Sec- retary. The Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Cana- dian Press, the Canadian Daily N s' As sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier, 10c a week. By mail (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits), in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumberland, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative. REPRESENTATIVES IN U. S. : Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. pap WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1929 EDUCATIONAL MATTERS Two matters of particular importance were before the board of education at its meeting on Monday evening, matters which should make for the better- ment of the education of the boys and girls of the community. They were subjects, too, which have been urged in the editorial columns of The Times from time to time, and it is particularly pleasing to note that the action recommended by this newspaper has been put into effect. * % XX * One of these questions is that of the status of children living just outside the city with reference to the Adolescent School Act. It was recently pointed out that while the act compelled city children to attend school until they had reached the age of six- teen unless they secured permits from the school attendance officer, this did not apply to the section outside the city, for which the age limit is fourteen. At. that time, The Times suggested that the rural sections be placed on an exactly equal basis with those of the urban communities. This has been done. By a ruling of the depart- ment of education, children under sixteen years of age, irrespective of where they live, cannot accept employment unless they have secured a permit from the school attendance officer. This is as it should be. It is grossly unfair to the children inside the city limits to have to observe one regulation, while those who may live on the opposite side of the street, but outside the city limits, are bound by entirely different rulings. The minister of education has ap- parently seen the mistake in this situation, and he is to be commended for taking action to remedy it. * Xx %x Xx The other question which was discussed was that of giving greater opportunities for advancement to boys and girls who show particular aptitude for ac- quiring academic knowledge. Classes for sub-normal scholars are no rarity, but little attention has so far been paid to those scholars who are far above the average, but who have to remain behind with those who cannot learn as quickly as they can. The action of the board of education in recogniz- ing the existence of this class of pupils shows com- mendable foresight. The survey which has . been asked for should be made within the next three months, so that its results will be available for ac- tion when the schools reopen after the summer va- cation. It has been found in schools such as Ridley Col- Yege, Upper Canada College, and Trinity College Bchool, that exceptionally clever pupils can be saved' mt least a year in their educational period by the provision of special classes, by teaching in the pre- paratory departments subjects which normally are not taught until the collegiate institute or high school Is reached. The application of this principle to the public schools would make similar advantages avail- able for all children who have the capacity to under- take extra work, and would help them to make the progress which they are capable of making in their education. THE BUS LINE PURCHASES The approval by the Toronto City Council of a Commission to purchase the Del-Ray and Collacutt bus lines from Toronto to Oshawa is likely to mean much to Oshawa in the way of more intensive bus service. The T.T.C, since it was established in Tor- onto, has been very active and energetic in pushing its services out to all points likely to be productive of substantial traffic, and this may be the case with the Oshawa service. ; But cven if there is no difference in the service as at present, the decision to buy these lines is a re- cognition of the growing importance of Oshawa to the Central Ontario region. This was voiced in no uncertain manner when the matter was being dis- cussed before the Toronto board of control. T. J. Lennox, K.C., counsel for the commission, had a good word to say for this city when he declared that Osh- awa was one of the most thriving cities between Tor- onto and Montreal. He might have gone even fur- ther, of course, and said that it was "the most thriv- ing city," but the statement as it was made shows that the growing prosperity and population of Osh- awa are attracting much attention, and are bringing to this city services which would otherwise never be made available. THE POOR CORN BORER A copy has been received at The Times office of a newspaper published in Danville, Illinois, 'and printed on paper produced entirely from cornstalk pulp. This issue of the Illinois newspaper is devoted almost entirely to the glorification of the corn .in- dustry, which now assumes a new status of impor- a tance in the agricultural world of that part of the United States. But what about the poor corn borer? Already harried by entomologists, and persecuted by parasites let loose to prey upon him, his existence has become a precarious one. Now it is even worse. In past days, in the Illinois corn country, he was left inside the corn stalk, and that provided him with excellent 'winter quarters. But those days are gone forever. Corn stalks are becoming precious, and when they go into the pulp machines, the poor little corn borers will go with them, so that it is quite likely that in future years, the farmers will read stories of the extermination of the corn borer, printed on a piece of paper which once upon a time was nothing more or less than one of these destructive little insects, PRESENCE OF MIND REWARDED The minister of highways has sent a cheque for fifty dollars to a young lad who had sufficient presence of mind to take the number of a car which knocked down and killed 2 man near Richmond Hill, and which did not stop to find out what had hap- pened to its victim. The boy's presence of mind re- sulted in the arrest of the man alleged to have been responsible for the accident, and he was, at the time of the inquest, warmly complimented for his action, This boy's astuteness was worthy of reward. And the reward may act as a stimulus to others to keep their wits about them when accidents occur, The hit-and-run species of driver is becoming all too com- mon, and when people learn to make full use of their faculties on such occasions, more of them will be caught. There is quite an imposing list of fatalities that have occurred in the last few years in which the drivers responsible have not been found, simply because there was no one to take the number of the car. But it would not be surprising if the reward to the lad who spotted the number of the car in the accident concerned helped a great deal to make such cases fewer in the future, EDITORIAL NOTES The spring poets will probably find that April showers make a very unpopular theme for the spring of 1929. 4 A white robin has been seen at Windsor. If it stays there very long it will probably be hard to recognize. One of the pertinent questions which might be asked is what Orval Shaw has ever done to warrant the provincial police tracking him down as if he were a murderer. That the railways of Canada have been able to maintain any kind of a service in Ontario during the last few days is evidence of the splendid type of organization they maintain. Mr. Ferguson says he is going to remain in office until he has reformed rural school education. Judg- ing by the reception given his proposal, he is looking forward to a long lease of office. An Oshawa workman who recently became the father of triplets has been granted $25 by the coun- cil of the township of Scarboro, where he resides. He deserves it and will probably need it all. Lord Egmont is finding that a life of ease is not suited to a man accustomed to ranching in Western Canada. But most men become uncomfortable when they are removed from their usual spheres of life. -- ~ Other Editors' Comment ~ ONE TOO MANY (High River Times) There must be too many organization when one of them has to take the name of "The Concatenated Or- der of Hoo Hoos." "BIG NAVY" PROPAGANDA (London Free Press) There was never a sillier or more dangeorus cam- paign than that being waged by "the big navy" ad- vocates in the United States. If the Republic wants the biggest navy in the world that is its own business, byt : drag in England as the excuse is the height of folly. TOBACCO FARMING (Port Rowan News) There are men who can make money out of wheat farming and men who can lose it. It is the same with stock farming and tobacco farming, There was a lot of money lost in the wheat fields of Norfolk last year as well as in the hog pens and tobacco planta- tions. Some of this money was lost by the shortcom- ing of the men, some by the frowning of the elements, and some by manipulation of markets. Men who lack experience and are not strong financially should not increase their tobacco areas rapidly. A VICIOUS PRINCIPLE J (Farmers' Sun) There will be general approval of the assertion of the Prime Minister of Canada that it is vicious in principle for the Dominion to furnish money to be spent by the provinces. That is justification enough for cutting off the Dominion grants to rural education, technical schools and provincial road building, These expenditures were authorized, perhaps wisely, at the close of the war, to maintain prosperity while the dis- banded soldiers, were returning to civil o¢cupations. Otherwise, the results have been deplorable, especially in the stimulation of municipal extravagance and the creation of a vast provincial and municipal debt. DRUG ADDICTS (St. Thomas Times Journal) Worse than the surrender of the victim personally is his persistent effort to obtain fresh recruits for his "Regiment of Death." The addict becomes thor- oughly obsessed with the idea that he must reduce all he can to his own horrible and hopeless condition. He is indeed a sorry and pitiful specimen of the depth of degradation into which a human being may sink. Utter distortion of the moral sense, pathetic in- capacity for sound mental effort, loss of all self-con- trol, lead inevitably to bodily collapse and extinction. The wretches who hover in the shadows with drugs for sale are the most cruel and pitiless of humans. They deserve nothing but to be hunted down and punished without mercy. - - Bits of Verse - - SPRING Spring is coming down the strect, Light of heart and light of feet. Can you hear his merry note Echoed in each song-bird's throat? Can't you see his youthful grace Mirrored in the tulip's face? Spring is coming, oh, what gladness! Soring must surely banish sadness. : | By James W. Barton, M.D. TWO KINDS OF ASTHMA That an innocent beloved cat crea- ted unhappi and fi ial loss in a household was amply demonstrated a couple of years ago by one of the health magazines. As soon as the father of the house moved to another city or climate he was free of asthma, but when the family, including the cat, followed him, his attacks returned. Investigation finally showed that the asthmatic attacks were due to "sensitiveness" to "animal" protein. When the cat was removed from the home there were no more atta ks, As you know it is now amply pro- ven that many cases of asthma are due to protein substances either in the air or in the food we eat. Dr. H. K. Detweiler outlines the attack about as follows: --When the patient has been exposed to protein substance to which he is sensitive there is usually a feeling of tightness in the chest, which rapidly grows more and more intense until the breathing becomes little more than a succession of quick gasps, followed by prolonged and wheezy expira- tions (when the air is going out of the lungs). The main difficulty is in getting the air "out" of the lungs. Fortunate- ly, just as it would seem that the pa- tient must suffocate, he coughs up a thick jelly-like material and gets relief. > The attack may last from a half hour to three hours. Between attacks the chest is quite clear and the patient suffers no in- convenience. In the other type of asthma, the kind that follows bronchitis, the patient has difficulty in getting air into his lungs, insteal of getting it out, as in the proteid asthma. And even between attacks the chest will show signs of bronchitis. Further, in the proteid asthma the skin tests for the proteids is always positive, while in the bronchitis type of asthma all skin tests are negative. Another point is that the sputum that is coughed up is clear and jelly- like in the proteid asthma, whereas it is gray or yellowish in the bron- chitis form. Now these little differences may help you to get an idea as to which type your asthma belongs. Adrenalin is the best treatment during an attack. Your doctor will give you the correct dose. Injecting it is more quickly effective than by the mouth, (Registered in accordance with the Copyright 'Act). - Bits of Humor - A woman who frequently went out to spend the day with friends, usu- ally took her six-year-old son with er. Bobby: Tom Gray's been turnea down by three girls in succession. Knobby: By Jove! He'd better look out or his luck will change. Doctor: After a conference with my three colleagues on this case, we each give you a year to live. Patient: Is that sentence to run concurrently or consecutively?-- Judge. - A little girl had been behaving her- self very badly, and her nurse got more and more heated and angry. Suddenly the child had an inspira- tion. "Oh!" she cried, "now I know what a Red Cross nurse is." NOT SO DUMB al want a pair of squeaky slippers, size ten." "Squeaky slippers? Who for?" "Father; so my boy friends can hear him coming down the hall.'-- Answers. DREAMS COME TRUE Vicar--Do you believe in dreams, Willoughby ? Willoughby--I used to, sir, but I don't now. "And why not?" "I married one five years ago."-- The Quest. Banker (telephoning): "Mr. Cohen, do you, know your account is over- drawn $17?" . Mr. Cohen: "Say, Mr, Banker, look up a month ago. How did I stand then? I'll hold the phone." Banker (returning to the phone): "You had a balance of $400." Mr. Cohen: "Vell, did I call you up?" Manager of restaurant (to cus- tomer who has complained that he cannot eat his soup): "I gaanot understand, monsieur; my clients find this soup good and compli- ment me on it." Customer--*I say nothing to the contrary but I have no spoon!" After having presented his fiancee with an engagement ring, an Aber- donian changed his mind and wanted to break off the match. He asked that the ring should be returned to him, but the girl protested that she couldn't get it off her finger, whereupon the Aberdonian changed his mind again and married her.-- The Scotsman. LET US EXAMINE OURSEL- VES--Sow to yourselves in right- eousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain sightequeness upon you.~Hosea 10:1 PRAYER--Be merciful unto us, O God, enable us to turn from sin unto Thee, ABRAMO FREED ON MURDER CHARGE Jury Finds Italian Was Not Guilty of Slaying Wife April 10, -- Frank Hamilton, | Abramo was found not guilty of murdering his wife by a jury at the Assizes last night, and nve minutes after the verdit was re- turned he was removed hastily from the courtroom and whisked away in an automobile, as there were murmurings among his countrymen yesterday that if he was acquitted "things would happen" and Sner- iff Carr was taking no chances. The jury retired at 6.55 o'clock . and reached a verdict two hours later. It was almost 9.30 howev- er, before court was convened, Jus- tice McEvoy then asked Abramo to stand. "The jury," he said, "has taken a merciful view of your case. You and your Creator know who slew your wife. I don't know. The jury has found you didn't do it and you are discharg- edt" Finally Appears Nervous Sheriff's officers then commanu- ed every one to remain seated, and Abramo was Lustled from the room to an automobile outside the court house, There a brother met him and they left hurriedly. Abramo seemed more nervous at this time than at any moment since he was arrested. Abramo, who is a Sicilian fruit merchant, was charged with mur- dering his wife, Mary, in a bedroom at the rear of their fruit store and dwelling at 572 James street north on the morning of March 5. In his statement to police, he said he rose at 6 o'clock that morning when his wife was well and happy, and he left for the market. When he returned at 8.30 o'clock he found his wife done to death in a frightful manner, and protested his innocence, saying that thugs naa murdered her during his absence of a little more than two hours. Crown's Case The Crown Prosecutor was D. A. Swanson of Oshawa, who made tne pivotal points of the Crown's case the evidence of Drs. Deadman and Simpson who gave the opinion that Mrs. Abramo had been murdered about 4 o'clock on the morning of March 5 instead of between 6 and 9.30 o'clock as Abramo said. Much also was made of the evidence of Dominic D'Aurelio, his wife and mother, who lived in an apart- ment above the Abramo dwelling, and who all swore they were uwak- ened about 3.30 o'clock on the morning of March § by screams, banging and the sound of av iolent quarrel which came from the Abramos' living quarters. These sounds prevailed for only ten min- utes, then all was silent. Emphas- is was also laid by Mr. Swanson on the evidence of Constable Vancise who said he patrolled past the Abramo store at 4.20 o'clock and saw a light burning at the rear of the dwelling when Abramo said he and his wife were sound asleep and the place in darkness. Charles W. Bell, K.C., counsel for Abramo, sprang a surprise for the defense when he adduced tes- timony that two unknown men, both foreigners were seen loitering near the Abramo premises 'about 6.20 o'clock on the morning of March 5, after Abramo had left for market. Mr. Bell set forth the theory that these two men were thugs, that they entered the apart- Mrs. Abramo when she tried to make an outcry, It was also Mr. Bell's theory that the screams and sounds of a struggle heard by the D'Aaurelios really occurred at 6.30 and not 3.30. Mr, Bell believed the D'Aurelios heard all they said they did but he sought to establish their timepieces were not accurate. This was the thirteenth murder trial in which Mr. Bell has been counsel for the defense and in ev- ery case he has succeeded in getting an acquittal for his client - TODAY'S LIST OF AUTO ACCIDENTS INJURED IN COLLISION Toronto, April 10.--~The loss of several teeth was among the in- juries sustained yesterday after- noon by Mrs. William Sinclair of Oakville, when two motor cars col- lided on Fleet Street near the base- ball stadium. BOY BADLY INJURED Stratford, April 10.--William Freeman, 12-year-old pupil of Fal- staff school, was badly injured yes- terday at the corner of Huron and Douglas streets, close to his own home. He was on his way to school when he was struck by a car, driv- en by Harry Herman, R.R. No. 5, Stratford, two wheels of the car passing over his legs. BOY CYCLIST INJURED Toronto, April 10.--Thrown from his bicycle when it was struck by an automobile on Church street at McGill yesterday, James Murray, 15 years old, of 383 Ontario street, suffered injuries to the head and back. He was taken to St. Mich- ael's hospital. No charge has been laid against John Morrison of 167 Lappin avenue, driver of the car involved in the crash. NUN FATALLY INJURED Montreal, 'April 10.--Sister Pi- erre Edmond, a member of the Or- der of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary, died here today, the result of injuries sustained when she was struck by a motor truck yesterday.- Another nun, victim of a serious accident, was critically ill in hos- pital here today. . The nun, Sister St. Ubald of the Congregation of Notre Dame, was also struck by a truck near = Windsor Mills, Que., and brought to Montreal for treat- ment. La -- ment by the rear end and killed | Oshawa Branch: 23 Simcoe St. North Oshawa OSHAWA BRANCH OFFICE: 23 SIMCOE ST. 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Why, I am used to eat with three times a day, and if I am not kept clean the food I chew will not be clean, and no one wants to have unclean food going into one's stomach. Why, the dish- es that are used at breakfast, the plates, knives, forks and spoons are all washed clean to be ready for lunch. What would the boys and girls say if they came home from school at noon and sat down to a table with the dirty breakfast dishes before them, to be used again? What would they think of Mother? How much more then should I--a tooth--be cleaned! Just because I am hidden in the mouth and some of my brother and sister teeth at the back of my mouth are seldom seen is no ex- cuse to neglect me. Besides, if I am not kept clean, bits of food will stick to me, and eventually, where the food stays, will be a hole of decay in my coat of enamel. "Everyone - knows how I ache and pain ag the hole grows larger and larger, until at last, if T am not repaired by my dentist, I have to be pulled out and thrown away." The mechanical purpose of teeth is to cut down food into minute particles, at the same time in- corporating saliva into the mass. This is the first step in digestion, therefore the most important of the procedure which takes place in the alimentary canal. From 250 to 300 pounds per square inch of muscular power is exerted in cut- ting down or masticating food where healthy teeth are all pres- ent, The normal tooth has two- thirds of itself rooted in the bone, making a solid foundation which readily withstands the pressure. When a tooth is lost the socket fills in with bone substance, and is covered over by the gums. It is a well known principle of mechanics that if a great pressure is to be withstood, a firm founda- tion is required, Thus, it is found when a plate is inserted in the mouth, the poor support afforded by the soft tissues will only with- stand a pressure, of about 30 pounds. per square inch when it becomes painful to bear. This is just one-tenth of that tolerated by the natural teeth. Thus, one healthy tooth .in the mouth is. worth ten on a plate, Just as surely as a bad spot in an apple spreads until the whole ap- ple is destroyed, so a bad spot in a tooth grows until the whole tooth is destroyed. In the tooth, as in the apple, when germs get a foot- hold they multiply and invade the good part adjoining. Food and warmth are kindly provided, as well as a comfortable home, in the 2 shelter of the hard enamel or out- er layer of the tooth. No wonder, then, that the germs do well un- der these conditions. No wonder that, sooner or later, they pene- trate to the pulp or nerve of the tooth. The alarm signal has probably been rung more than once before this, to warn the owner of the tooth of his danger. Irequently these small signals are not heard or heeded, and they do not waken the owner of the tooth. When the general alarm rings, and the siren whistles in that tooth, the sleeper awakes. It is then too late, except in a few cases, to save the tooth. Even though this is done and the tooth made useful and com- fortable again, it must always be considered as a very possible source of infection. And it may become a very serious menace to the general health. Yes, a bad tooth, uncared for, constantly gets worse. Pioneer Dies Picton.--Paul C. Haight, an old and respected citizen of Wellington, died at the age of 82 years. Deceased was | born in the Township of Hillier in 1846 and had resided in this vicinity all his life. He was a direct descend- ant of five of Prince Edward Coun- ty's most prominent pioneer families --the Haight, Slapp, Dorland, Noxon and Van Horn families. Cae BE NINA cial matters. i 2 FARM FINANCE The business of farming under present day conditions requires considerable knowledge of finan. Consult the manager of the near est branch of The Dominion Bank, who is always willing to discuss your problems with yous THE | DOMINION BANK Oshawa Branch L. W, JOYCE, Mgr. StoBiE-FORLONG &@ STOCKS BONDS ead Office: Reford Bu AND WELLINGTON STS. S. F. EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa -- Above C.P.R. Office. Phones 143 and 144 GRAIN