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" PACE TWO - + THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1926 eo ---- a --- ---- - The Oshawa Daily Reformer | (ETABLISHED IN 1871) An independent newspaper published every afternoon except Sundays al _holi- days, at Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Print- ing Company, imited, Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Secretary, shay Daily Ruomet is a member of Canadian the Canadian D; A dionarion. the Ontario lly yierh a Phities and the Audit Bureau of Sarculatious, . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: fevered ered by HE Oshawa, Te Sinaia ory Counties Li a , Durh year. United States sub- ; LTE to t a te: Conmuiep of Gniaria gd Bur Yar, kh) a year. Single copies, 3c. a : Joong OFFICE Bui france Street, bth dns ofr. "HD "Hremader, representnative. » TUBSDAY, AUGUST 1%, 1926 ; 3 The Fire Truck ---- . Sometimes ' one receives a gift that one doesn't need and doesn't giiite know how to use. Of course, one is in such cases grateful for the kindness of the doner but one's feel- ings leave something to be desired. However, when a gift is present- ell' that exactly fits a need of long standing, when the' gift is exactly 'Something that one has been wishing f6r and exactly what one had hoped to buy a8 soon as one could afford it, why "in that case joy knows no bounds. That is exactly how Oshawa feels about the fire truck presented by General Motors through R. S. Mec- Laughlin. The City Fathers have planning and scheming for trying to select and pur- "pumper,"' been mhohths, chase 'a nfuch-needed hoping that "it could be without making too great an addi- tion to the taxes--and here comes, on Saturday, in a blaze of noise and glory, a magnificent fire-truck as a free gift expressive of the apprecia- tion of General Motors. Seems like a fairy story, almost too good to be true. The purchase which the City Council felt it necessary to make would probably have added nearly two mills, certainly more than one mill, in the long run, to every tax bill in Oshawa. The fire-truck pre- sented is exactly what was required and the gift relieves to an appreci- able extent, every tax-payer in Osh- secured awa. More thai that. Now that Osh- awa is provided with adequate fire protection, it may be possible to se- cure from the underwriters lower But the protection consideration. insurance rates. the main Fortunotely, Oshawa has an alert fire brigade and in recent years, in- cipient fires have not been able to hiake mueh headway before the fire: fighters swooped down upon them. But the finest fire brigade in the world cannot always have such good luck ond the former equipment was itself is by no means sufficient to cope with a 'big fire that had got under way as such fires sometimes do. Now Oshawa has the apparatus to take Earle of practically any fire that may happen, though, of course, we all fibpe that @uch an emergency will not arise. This splendid gift cements more Sirongly than ever, if that were pos- sible, the cordial relations existing between the Cify of Oshawa and its 'greatest industry. In the time of trouble, not so many weeks ago, all stood together for the welfare of Oshawa and (General Motors, be: cauke the interests of those two are indéparably linked. Now General Motors has, by means of this gen- éfbus and appropriate gift," told the city that its co-opération at that time highly regarded. Another in- sance of the harmony and good feel- ing that éxists in this sommualry. The Credulous Public was The "Kitchener" story seems at this distance to be a hoax on a more ress unsuspecting public. The coffin' was found to be empty, but éne nfan has réceiyed pages of pub- ficity 'The "summerless year" has given a summer with a real kick in it, but * undaunted, the meteorologist postpones | His prophesied disaster whtil 1927; ' He has his reward-- publicity. And there are stories' of dragons and stories of a wonderful sea-ser- or us pent, even so close as our own Bri- fish Columbia; and all softs of yarns ahout all sorts of incredible things. But, remember that this is August |. and that the big sensational news- pipers must have Some food to throw to their public. In August not mueh happens, as a rulé, but newspaper ¢orrespondents must live. How can they eat if sensational events are not occurring? So their vivid imaginations come to the res- cue, and a thumping story of some kind is the result. Even a Canadian election does not furnish sufficient news for some papers and a newspaper cannot al- ways be filled with political gossip. The cure is to invent a story evea if it must be denied the next day. The public, or some part of it, will believe anything at all. PEE AST WHAT OTHERS SAY PURPOSE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION (Kingston Whig) "To be able to "read, writé and speak correctly" is the most essen- tial thing in public school educa- tion, is the conviction of thé Lon- don, Ont., Board of Education, and such instruction should be driven into pupils' minds no matter what else is taught. The new gengra- tion, especially, needs to learn the English language. Such subjects as domestic science and manual training hereafter are to be taught only in a school especi- ally adapted to such instruction, with the common schools left free for "essentials." If the boys and girls want higher education, they can go to the college and the university. Or if they want to become carpenters or machinists or dressmakers or cooks or steno- graphers, they can go to the techni- cal school. This all sounds good. The trus- tees are getting back to the days of the three Rs. When these are thoroughly taught and assimilated it will be time' to talk of additional subjects. GC NORTH, YOUNG MAN! (Owen Sound Sun-Times) The tendency to see the hest in what is distant and overlook the best in what is near is so common that it has become proverbial. It is a far too common mistake ot Can- adians. Not long ago, the representative of a large U S.A. insurance company who had recently invested largely in Canadian securities on behalf of the company, remarked to a young Canadian, now seeking his fortune south of the border, that the con- tinental slogan would seon Bééome: "Go North, Young Man!" He pointed out that big business was scrambling for cheap power and raw materials, within reach of cheap transportation. Canada - - possesses immense reserves of these most valuable Jf all assefs. And the frontiers of civilization are being pushed northward in a way that wquld have seemed incredible but a few years ago. The vastness of the mineral wealth of Northern Ontario nnd Quebec has only recently begun to be realized. The same may prove true of the Western provinees, when the prospectors have time to give them the once-over. But, what is already in sight is mrre than the present gemeration will be able to develop and take advantage of. Not to refer to the immense possibilities of the paper and pulp indust'y, on the island of Anticosti, which has just been acquired by a large com- pany which has all plans made for immedité and rapid developments on a large scale. WHEN CAR MEETS COW Tara Leader shows that the late King Solomon was lucky in not hav- ing to decide the folowing case, in which a cow and auto figured: While driving his car at night, Wm. Nickason, of Arran, collided with a cow "belonging 2H pond 2 Robertson of the same 'townshi i and the. outcome was 3: suit fg $70.20 damages to the car, "It wa claimed 'that Robertson wags pasq turing his cattle on the hi Wes. thus violating a township by-law, also that he had promised to stand the 'cost of damage tb car radistor. Robertson was later advised not to pay the damages, and alsp to enter = counter-claim "against ~ Nickason for $60. After hearing the evidence 'the couft ruled that it was A age of negligence by hoth the parties-- | the defendant in not beimg in pro- per charge of HIS cattle and the plaintiff in not applying the brakes | ih time, swerving @ other side "gf the toad,' or doing dnything to avoid hitting the' cow. Crisp Comment About the only reform which the reformers have overlooked is the reform of too much law-making.-- Buffalo Courier-Express. + Loosen up, peaple! No need to be extravagant, but for goodness sake spend some money. -- Mobile Register. Anyway those summerless sum- mer predictions last winter made interesting reading.--Border Cities Stax. If you don't make sure you are registered you shouldn't strut a- round as a thoroughbred citizen.-- Hamilton Spectator, This is -the season when father becomes tHe real head of the house --the family is on holidays.--Peter- boro Examiner. For that matter, the political world makes a beaten path to the door of the fellow who has a little better grade of claptrap.--New- castle Courier. The Soviet Government has re- laxed the rule against foreign gald prospectors. You have to let a fel- low find it before you can take. jt away from him.--American Kin berman. ; There is a danger that many a man may go to the polls on the 14th' of September to vote, only to find that his franchise has been forfeit: el through failure to register -- Chathain News. : Many a man has chaged a girl until she has finally caught him.-- Kitchener Record. Some of those one-piéce bathing suits look as if they might be only half a piece.--Hamilton Herald. Prof, Huxley says _ that making cannot be helped." He might have added except with a spoon.--Brantford Expositor. "Love The man who is afraid to say what he thinks deesn't think any- thing that amounts tp much. -- Brandon Sun. ed h . Prudery, says an exchange, fis now so nearly out of fashion that almost everyone knows that 'limb' is part of a tree.--Galt Reporter. Another test of hlaod, pressure is to watch a man being libéral with the money he owes you --St. Cath- arines Standard. Modern saying: "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may meet 3 bootlegger.--Toronto Tele: gram. - Some of the candidates should wear placards aver their mowths, reading, "Opened by Mistake." -- Sault Star. The price of cranbefries is ex- pected to be so low that everybody can afford one next Thanksgiving. --XKingston Whig: to' send at any branch Montreal: WHEN SENDING MoNEY ORDERS R. S. MORPHY, Manager Qihawa Branch - HEN you have occasion Money : Orders they may be obtained readily 'of: the. Bank. of . . ABITQ VERSE gt-- A SCHOOL PAYS (Union School No. 2 Whitby and + Pickering) The old school days and gone, These days so frée frem care, Ang often when I.think of them It sgems fp me I'm there. have passed Yes, Back among the old school friends, Playing in youthful glee, Usmindful of the precious time That rolled away from me. Some act 1 hich 1 had a part Comes dp fore my view-- Methinks | it Behool days could come k How' different 1 would @o. But Siapging scenes bring back to A new to my flying mind The nieniory of hi] well loved face Whom I have left behind. I cafnot think" of the school as changed, Or filled with stranger faces, 1 always seé the old friends there In their old familiar places. And yet they tell me Death has been And claimed a goodly few, While some have gone to distant lands From among the friends I knew. The teacher, too, a stranger is Whom 1 do not know at all, And mpothing is as it used to be Saving the old brick wall. Yet memory clings to the old friends there As 1 knew them in the past And often 1 think of the old schodl days And wender they could not last. --Minnie Myrtle Leask. "SLEEP ON THE THT -- If you want to be healthy and rest well at night, sleep on the right side, advises Dr. P. M. Sander, of London, * says The Pathfinder. Through scientific tests he claims to have settled the old question of whether it is better to lie on the right or left side at night. He made hospital patients lie on their right side until tests made from time to time showed their stomachs completely empty. Some time later he repeated the tests with the patients. lying on their left sides, These tests show- ed that when lyimg on the right side the stomach takes an average of three and a half hours to empty itself. When lying on the left side this time is increased to six hours This, the doctor explained, bécause ¢he aperture between the stomach and intestine is on the right end of the stomach, It is also healthier to %leep on the right side especially during the first part of the night, he says, because the heart is relieved of the pressure of a full stomach when in that position. Over 54 Years in Oshawa Oshawa was a very small place when The Dominion Bank established its branch here. Since that time Oshawa has grown, has prospered--and has now developed into one of the most important rs industrial centres in Canada. ' Through the years we have kept pace with Oshawa's growth by providing an ever-expanding banking service for the City and surrounding territory. We would appreciate the privilege of serving those who are not already numbered among the Bank's customers. EYESIGHT SPECIALIST EYESIGHT is a priceless gift --the most valued sense that we / A. y possess. Don't delay when at yd i SAHA " ah 3 tention is required. 19 Branches Etat Cia . OSHAWA BRANCH: --KING & SIMCOE STS. C. N. HENRY, Manager. 4516---Phone--1516 Nieney Block - Opposite Past. Office | -- - insignificance dealers and, Canadian-built of Britain flies. Canadian ore, ' From a pinch of living that exultant shout of glory which men call a maple tree. the brain of Robert McLaughlin, afarmlad whittling axe helves for his neighbors, sprang Canada's greatest automotive industry, General Motors of Canada. 'A Canadian institution, founded by a Canadian, staffed by Canadians, em- ploying Canadian workmen and using Canadian materials, General Motors of Canada has been for sixty years a para- mount factor in the Dominion's _pros- perity and progress, It sells to Canadians through Canadian in addition, distributes It uses lumber from Canadian forests and steel made in Canadian mills from GENERAL MOTORS of CANADA, CADILLAC OLDSMOBILE Sixty Years of Service to Canada and Canadians foundrymen. It pur- chases from Canadian sources vast quantities of brass and copper, of wire and glass, of nickel and fabrics, oils, paints and Duco finishes-- and all that heterogeneous mass of ma- terials which enter into the making .of a modern automobile--and which have entered into the building of a total of more than 325,000 General Motors of Canada cars and trucks. springs From Building cars to suit every purse and purpose, to meet every need and condi- tion of Canadian life and travel, General Motors of Canada is gne of the great institutions that is acquiring for Canada a higher and yet higher place at the cars wherever the flag world's council table. Now at the height of its sixty years of service to the Dominion, it is helping to make Canada an evengreatef Canada for Canadians. LIMITED, OSHAWA, ONTARIO 1 1057, etter because Its Canadian Mc¢ LAUGHLIN - BUICK "OARTAND PONTIAC L MOTOR AD A Limited" smelted by Canadian CH EVROLET x