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en em = er et ee ® = men gh Che Oshawa Daily (ESTABLISHED IN i871) = An ind d pape blished every afternoon except Sundays and legal holi- days, at Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Print- ing Company, Limited, Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Secretary. The Oshawa Daily Reformer is a member of The Canadian Pies, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association, the Ontario Pro- vincial Dailies and 'the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier boy in Oshawa, Whitby. or Bowmanville, or by mail anywhere iu Canada outside the Counties of Ontario and url seript ml, $1.50 Jextra to cdver: postage. . By wikil in the Counties of Ontario and Dur ham, $4.00 a year. Single copies, 3c. ne i TORONTO OFFICE pit 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidde:, representative. MONDAY, DEC. 27, 1926 The Surplus The Council and Mayor Preston are to he congratuldted on the sur- plus of approximately five thousand dollars which was announced at the final session Tuesday evening. All departments of the Council kept their expenditures within their esti- on mates during the year and for that action all concerned ded. to spend commendable are to he commen It is not al- ways easy less . than ' has been estimated and it is equally al- ways easy, very easy, to spend more, but to do so is not good financing, The surplus of five thousand dol- lars represents about one-half a mili of taxation on Oshawa"s assessment and so the care that has been exer- cised during this year will ultimately have its effect on the tax bills, There is no reason why efficient government should not also be eco- There no nomical government, is reason why those in charge of the citizens' money should not be just as careful with those funds as if they were their own, an ex- It is to be hoped that this will be regarded The City Council has set cellent example this yéar. as a precedent and that future city councils will follow this lead. Under the Mistletoe Connected with the celebration of Christmas there are some quaint old customs which survive throughout the generations and, while old, are One man ever new. of these is the tra- dition that a is at liberty to kiss any girl whom he finds standing the In the old: days when young under mistletoe time, bashful today, men were much more shy than most of them are this was a privilege of which many a swain teok advantage and which gave him a 'looked-for opportunity to the first campaign, It provided also, on oc- fire gun in his courtship (& maiden to extend a perfectly legiti- mate. form of encouragement to the young man of her choice. We have not heard so much about the mistletoe in recent years, per- haps because we are getting old, but | the custom seems to us much prefer- ablé'to that of the present. day which we hear of as "petting parties" or, less elegantly, 'necking parties'. "The old order changeth, giving place to new", but in some cases the new does not seem 'to be an improvement on the old. The old custom in which the mis- tletoe figured so prominently was a harmless and delightful one and had its origin away. back in pre-historic | days, originating it is said, in Scan- dinavia. In Saxon England the find- ing of the mistletoe growing from the oak tree was great rejoicing; fered to it, and it was placed in the In an occasion for sacrifices were of- temple as an object of worship. these days it is sometimes popular to scorn old traditions and customs but they had their place and served a useful purpese. Farm Conditions to the Dominion = Minister of Agriculture and the Ontario Minister of Agri- * culture, farm conditions this autumn According reports of the h ve k~en about as bad as they could be. This i3 not news to the 'farmer nor, indeed, is it Everybody knows that, this A good deal of grain is still in the any of us. from the farmer's viewpoint, autumn has been simply awful. fields and in many cases the grain that was harvested gave poor re- turns. .00 a years United States sub. | at Christmas | and | sions, a pretext for some demure | news to THE OSHAWA DAIL: REFORMER, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27.1926 7 SRE in RRR, I However, the farmers may be dis- appointed but they are not discou:- Hed evéii tholigh Very tow or them have 'been able to show a profit on the year's operations, They are no. discouraged because, while condi- tong time before another could possibly be as bad as the on» | just passed has heen. Hon. John |S. Martin points out that it has been: a [all the goad that can be said about it. : : Hon. W. R. Motherwell points out one encouraging feature ag follows: | |] | "Canadian, trade in farm produc: (on the British market has admitted. |ly made marked growth in recen | years under our present system oi! I grading and standardization. But in the light of some recent develop: | ments. in Canada's overseas expor. {trade in cattle, hacop, butter, id | and as a result of conditions arisinz out of trade wars in beef, cpal strikes, lowered consumption and higher ocean rates, what would ap- pear as one, if not the most im- | portant question confronting many | farmers - today is the increasingly | obvious necessity of securing more favorable access to the United State; market by any and every justifiable ! and accessible means at our com-| mand, on the generally accepted priaciple that two markets are al ways better than ome." ' Yes, Canadians may at timeg be! disapointed but they are never dis- couraged and every one looks for- | ward to a better year and better! times. i English Eleetions The bye-election the other day in | Smethwick constituency in England ! provided a good deal of amusement | and, perhaps, has céaused some peo- | ple to wonder at the vagaries of the English mind. The Mosley, { Labour . candidate, Oswald' is man of great wealth! | a and his wife is a daughter of the A] late Marquis Curzon who, during | his life time, was often referred to' 1 2s "a most superior person," that! | | i3, in the socially aristocratic sense. | : | Yet this man was the Labour can- | | didate and his wife assisted him in! | his campaign. They drove about in| {an elaborate limousine while Betty] | | Baldwin, the Prime Minister's daughter, campaigned for the Con- iervative candidate in an open run- thout, though the weather was very Premier Baldwin's zon, how- He pronounced socialist ard ecam- old, wer, was in the labour camp. 5 a | baigns against his father, The :onquest of the Labour party by the The Lahour candidate's father, ridiculed Liberal candidate says that wealthy aristocrats has begun, 1is son's appearance as a labour icader by saying that he had never lone a day's work in hig life. So where could one get such- a comedy of mix-ups as this bye-elec- tion provided? The whole affair hows very clearly that the Labour | party in England has no objection to [ probably wealth or ostentation -- loves both--but is willing to receive | into the fold any citizen who sym- | pathizes with the Labour viewpoint. will that | Perhaps some cynic {the Labour Party welcomes any one say | who appears to sympathize with its viewpoint. | In England they take their politics | soriously but they do not miss dny { | fun that may be connected with | them. And it appears to be clear that good many people in England, outside of the labour ranks, | who are quite certain that there is | something to be said for labour con- tentions and that something must conditions and I | there are a | be done to make standards of living better for those | who are engaged in manual labour. | In this country we scarcely realise what these conditions are in the Old Country, Canada is free from some of England's domestic problems and it is well that she is. " WHAT OTHERS SAY THE LESSER ART (Brockville Recorder and Times) The Unitéd States spends a billion | dollars a year on paint. And the | New York Herald says some of it {goes actually to paint houses. THE DOWNTRODDEN SEX | (Indianapolis News) The man who gave $1,250,000 to found a college where girls might [ be trained for matrimony might eon- tribute a - little something toward | similar education for young men. { ROOM AT THE TOP Heir 'wonder tions could scarcely be worse, the | very fine season: for the growth | fof 'weeds but, apparently, that 1s "trump," | quarter, | among flowers. { (Los Angeles Times) A Frenchman once said that nar- - row miads go together. When the 1s threw a ay thelr' corms they knew what they, were about . No modern maidens are broad- minded. i ' ® --id . HAS AN OMINOUS SOUND (Winaipeg Fribune) "What's full pationhood unless we have a full nation?" Coming, as probabilities are that it will be a |this does as the utterance of an On- season | tario journalistic supporter of Hon. Mr. Ferguson, it may have a suspiei- ous look to some of the very, very drys in that province. of . RR ---------- ' 4 TRUNK OR TRUMP (Owen Sound Sun-Times) Why do Englishspeakiag people perpetuate mistakes in speech made by their ancestors? = Why speak of an elephant's "trunk," when they should say as the French do, because that is its. trum- pet. Some igneramus. long ago got it 'wrong. 1 LIVE AND! LEARN (Ottawa Journal) Youth is 80 very sure of its ground. The atheist of twenty, ut- terly convinced that' his position is sound, is 'likely at forty to be a de- vout church membgr and' reasonably orthodox in his views. He may have his doubts, but he is not nearly 50 sure of anything as he was at half the years. He has lost the fiery zeal of the crusader and is content with 'things as they are--which is unfortunate, perhaps, but the wav things happen. The years have their own way of settling most prob- lems, even the doubts which beset the eager soul of the student. CUT RATES (The Progressive Grocer) A man stepped up to a grocer's cigar counter and hought two 10- cent cigars. A Scotchman who was waiting to he served pushed for- ward. "You sell those cigars three for a don't you?" he asked. "Yes," replied the grocer. "Well," said the Scotchman, producing a nickel, "I'll take the other one." NO SOUVENIRS (New York Times) The English-Speaking Union is makiag arrangements to have Am- erican visitors admitted to "the chief gardens in England." Are they all to be let in and left to their own devices? In this country only Loo many of them cannot be trusted Here they invade private gardens and help them- selves. 'And no wild flower, how- ever rare, is safe from them. . Aw- ful are their g¢epredations among the dogwoods, shade bushes and cven apple trees. If thousands of American tourists are iavited into private gardens over there, war be- tween the United States and Great Britain may follow. DANCING IN LONDON (The New Yorker) New York may lead the world in lancing, but London seems to re- 'lect the dancing styles of the whole world. Indeed, in this respect it is a more accurate mirror than is Paris, where style is apt. to be suddenly and gen- erally affected by some momentary craze or passing vogue. London rather slower to take up new dances and innovations, but it is less ready fo relinquish them. The Charleston is still the newet dance to be seen 'n London, but it is looked upon with considerable disfavor in many ballrooms. If the Prince of Wales has ever danced it, he certainly shows mo eagerness to continue. In the main, the familiar fox-trot and waltz--with an occasional tango. and possibly the Charleston--com- nose the dancing program of mest up-to-date places. APPALLING RIVER PISASTER The sinking of the passenger launch Linseed King, with a loss of thirty-three or more lives, is one of the worst disasters of the kind wer recorded for the waters of New York Harbor. The little craft was carrying workmen across the Hudson, to help unload a steamship on the New Jersey side and went down so quickly as to trap many of the vietims in the small cabin, where they were drowned like rats. Others perished from cold and ex- haustion. The raising of the hull may give evidence supporting the Captain's theory that ice or a floating beam had broken in the sheating. But it is (early winter. No very solid chunks of ice have been formed as vet. Survivors say that the ice cakes they reached for broke under their weight. The little craft, more- over, was feeling its way along in the darkness very slowly. The evi- dence so far at hand favors the theory that the boat was too heavily loaded and foundered in the wash of curreat and tide and ice. Anyhow, there is work for the »ublic authorities to do. The case demands the most thorough investi- «ation. Happily for all who are per- sonally responsible, sreed or gain can apparciutly be as- <igned for the overloading, if that was the cause. To get men to their work who greatly wanted work was the reason if it cannot be accepted 26 an exeuse. . A CANDID FRIEND (From the Woodstock Sentinel- bi Review) The Farmers' Sun regrets that the return to office of the Fergu- son government sounds the death kne!l of the Ontario Temperance Act; but it is not -despondent. It believes that Government control will fail after subjection to a prac- tical test, and -then, in due course, it will be possible to.introduce some other temperance legislation with a greater degree of good will behind it. But while regretting the rejection of the O. T. A., The Sun does not hesitate to face the fucts as it sees them. The difficulties of enforcing no motive of. SE A the O. T, A: hae beep increasing, and "the Hlicit trade has grown to Lsuch alarming proportions. of, such a vicious nature that despite the in- creased bappiness and greater sos briety of the people: generally under the O. T. A., the all too evident fact that there existed in our midst such an appalling condition of lawless ness and crime consequent. upon the activities of the bootlegger and his tribe has led to the conviction in the minds of a large number of people that the O.T.A. had sooner or later to zive way to something different." After dealing with other influen- ces that contributed to the defeat of the O. T. A. the Farmers' Sup com- mits | itself, to the frank admission that the various non-political proh;- bition organizations did not enhance their reputation. "The truth is." ac- cording to the Sun's summing up, "the prohibitionists held good cards and played them badly, whereas the wet element, with a poor hand, took every available trick." Howard Fer- guson, politican, first, last and al- ways, '"'outgeneralled the opposing forces," and while the Sun cannot commend his method it gives him eredit for conducting a comparative- ly clean campaign, while his oppor- ents, on the other hand, "dealt too freely in personalities, which prac- tice is always poor tactics." It is not necessary to agree with Phe Sun's explanations and con- clusions. The point is that there is a spirit of frankness and a disposi- tion to face realities, even when they are disagreeable, that are commend able and highly useful. Readers' Views ANSWERS MR. BICKELL Oshawa, Ont., Dee. 27, 1926. Oditor, The Reformer, | Dear Sir: Seeing by your 'valnable paper [after | been one of coatinual decline to that Mr. Bickell was up in the air, because ydu: put my letter in your| columns, F think if he had been a subscriber siice 1906 the same as I, | he would know that your paper | or columns was open to the man] who punches the clock for a living | the same as the one who is always | chasing round for the easy dollar, | 350 let me tell him to buy one of vour papers aad not pick one from | his neighbor's doorstep, but I hope | he is a regular subscriber for I think | he is suffering from a brainstorm | and a good newspaper offsets that complaint. i This man mentioned the Attoraey- (teneral at the Conservative Conyen-! tion at Whitby. Well, I shook hands with Col. Price, not Mr. Ra-! 1ey, a man who employed a minister to shoot a fellow creature and let him get away with it, and he told] 'ne that this campaign was going to "e the filthiest one that was ever ["nown and T asked Mr. Bickell if hat was not so; and he furthermore | | i 'aid that ministers and trustees who | Wllowed this for they are the THff slowed this for they are responsible should be put in jail 'for turning he house of Gospel inte the Liberal "ommittee Rooms simply as a 'moke Bereen te attack Alte Govern- nent candi@itd and' alser'w Govern- nent that 'és given Ontario the "est legislation' it ever had. But I am wondering 'what is to secomé of the church that Mr. Bick- '11 attends for did mot his colleague, Mr. Eveson, tell us in his ravings 'hat if G.C. earried our children would be sent to school neglected, | 'he parents unable to pay . their] hills so I guess we will not want any estate dealers for we shall be 'oo drunk to sign the deeds but | ye needs to be pretty sober especi-1 ly when dealing with estate deal- | Ts so if we are all drunks we| | shall not meed a church | "han't he able to reach there and as | "his division. No. 6, eave the tem-| ! yerance candidate, Mr. Stacey. the | *reatest majority, why we are roing | o be hit very hard. but why did Mr. | | Bickell allow the innocent children | vho attends his church to so scan-| { alized without raising his voice but | [1 guess some Methodists are allowed that privilege but of course there are good and bad. They are not all alike. Mr. Bickell states that the] O.T.A. supporters will come out; into the open and fight. What does he call the open? Telling the small traders that their business would be | ruined if they voted for the Govern- ment candidate, why did this man who is preaching peace and good will, allow all this filth if he is such | 1 goody-goody person. Voters were seared and I think that intimidation of voters was carried out as near as | possible, so I guess they need to be 'out in the open and cleanse them- selves from the filth they used in the late campaign. But if Mr. Alger, as president of the O.T.A. is not to be criticized, why should Mr. Sta- cey have been scandalized, for I defy you, Mr. Alger, or any of your cligue, to say that but what Mr. Stacey isa"t a true temperance man. I guess vou have done business with nim at times, for he has done more for the real estate dealers in the way of building up this city than any other man I know, but I guess you, like many others ia this campaign are very fond of biting the hand that feeds you. } Now, Mr. Editor, I thank you very kindly for publishing the last letter and if vou see fit to publish this I shall be further under an obligation to you, and as I am not inlany busi- negs I don't have to advertise my business by publishing my mame. Yours ete. A Staunch Conservative. Driving an automobile requires only a quick eye, a cool head and firm, but not too firm foot, Officer Cooper of the Bureau of Public Safety de- jeclared recently. ! Women are as well equipped as men | in these particulars and make as good | drivers, he declared, citing records to show that, proportionately, they have | no more accidents. "If women drivers would keep to the I right so men could do all the reckless frivine they wish, opinions detrimen- {in operating eosts. tal to women drivers would not be formed," he said, : WHITBY UPTOWN EXPRESS OFFICE (LOSES FEB, | Truck Competition Decreases Revenue--Council is Advised Whithy, Dec. 24i.- .rhe uptown branch of the Canadian Nationa! Express Company 'which has served Wekitby for many years will be elos- ed on February 1, i927, and there- all express business wili- "he transacted from the station at the Junetion. The. ticket office operated in eoanection with the express busi ness will also close, but it is under- stood that this department will be taken over by Mr. Edward Bowman and will be carried on at his of- fice on Dundas street east. At the final meeting of the Town Council on Monday evening a letter was read by the towa clerk from the general manager of the C.N.R. Express Co., in reply to Council's request that the office be kept open if possible, stating that it was with reluctance that the Company found itself ia the position of having to carry out this proposed arrangement, due to force of circumstances, such as increasing volume of motor truck competition, together with the expedited L.C.L. freight the revenue of Whitby office has the the un- says extent that operations under present conditions are entirely profitablel. The manager further: The Decline in Revenue "During the year 1923 the ratio of expenses to revenue was 26.50 per cent, In 7924 the revenue drop- ped to a point where the expenses represented 36.65 per cent., and in 1925 it had amounted to 46.69 per cent., while for the ten months, January to October 31, this year, it has reached 51.88 pér cent. Service Not Impaired From the figures just quoted you will 'readily appreciate as much as we might desire to continue our re- presentation ia the Town of Whitby, we cannot economically do so, and in this connection I desire to point out that in transferring our opera- tions to the station at the Junction no actual loss of service to the com- munity will result, as the same de- livery and pick up service will still be continued from the Junction which may result in expediting the service to our patrons rather than otherwise without the same disparity The coatemplat- od change will take effect on TFebru- gry 1. Reeve Jackson: reported that he had taken the matter up personally with Dr. T. E. Kaiser, M.P., who had promised to do what he could and had wired that the office would not be closed. The letter from the Gen- eral: Manager of the Express Co., however, appeared to be final. Council decided to file the letter, as it appeared as if there was noth- ing else it could do in the matter. Additional playérs to join the ranks of those in the Metropolitan picture, | "Na Control" now in production der the direction of Scott Sidney, ar E. J. Ratelific and Toby Claude, REFORMER WANT ADS PAY service, | : | or-Car | . record of | 36 | pany { since | | the OSHAWA MEN OF LONG SERVICE NGM. PLANT J. Rinneard is Youngest "Old" Employee, Has Spent 36 _ Years in Factory STABLE MANAGEMENT D. Haversond and J. Gibson Jecined McLaughlin Co. In 1885 Automobilés are such a'ecompara- tively modern product that few firms which manufacture them ean show any long-service records oa the part of their employees. Therefore when the Olds Motor Works of Lansing, Michigan, published figures which showed - that there were among the present Oldsmobile employees 22 men who had been coatinuously em- ployed for a total of 454 years it looked as if their experience might be unique. Now, however, comes the state- ment from General Motors of Cana- da that the 23 oldest employees in their Oshawa plant--ivhich was first the McLaughlin Carriage Com- pany and later the McLaughlin Mot- Company--have hung up a 827 years service, or an average of practically years apiece. These craftsmen have 'been with that now General Motors the 5 when as. the Me- Laughlin firm it made carriages for elite of "the gay nineties." The eompany did not turn out first automobile until 1908, but the com- Mr. R. 8. McLaughlin, now President of | | General Motors of Canada, and more | 0lie Church, died in | today, | after a lengthy illne than 100 of the present employees vere already old hands before that date. Typical of the men who 'arried the carriagemakers' ions of quality and pride of work- nanship into the automotive indus- y, isd. oungest have "old" employee, who 'eady spent 26 years in the Oshawa 'actory. Two other men, D. Haver- son and J. Gibson, each of whom 'oined the McLaughlin company in 1885, have the longest record of "ontinuous service but there are 29 mployees who have spent more than 'hirty years building road vehicles, nd 61 whose record is more than '5 years. The oldest employee Miss Mary Drimeombe, now 76 years f age, who has beea employed in he faetory since 1897. Stability of management is exem- lified in General Motors of Cana- la whose President will in 1927 omplete his fortieth year in the usiness, while the Secretary, Gener- 11 Sales Manager, and Factory Mana- will have served twenty-five vears or more. is er PRIEST DIES AT OTTAWA AFTER LENGTHY SERVICE Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 26.--Rev "anon Antoine Plantin, after 52 vears of service in the Roman Cath- a loeal hospital Death ¢ame aged 77 ve: Born at Vivieres, France, in 1849, he was ordained to the at the age of 25. He came to Can- ada in 1877 and lived in Montreal 'for several years before coming to Ottawa in 1884. He was successive- ly parish priest at Notre Dame, St. Joseph and St. James' Parishes in Montreal. A BIT o VERSE WOOBLAWN CHRISTMAS HYMN The following Christmas Hymn was written by the late Percy H. Punshkon and set to music by Mrs. Lillie Lister Vipond and sung every Christmas at the Woodlawn Christ- mas gatherings. 'THE Never homestead hearth was bright- er, As we sing our Christmas song, Shouts are hushed and hearts grow lighter, As the music sweeps along; Dear ones who have gone before us, Looking down with eyes of love, Listen to our happy chorus, And re-echo it above, Chorus Christmas, time of Christ's appear- ing Happiest day of all the year; Sing aloud of Christmas glories, Christ and Christmas both are here, 2. Years roll on and still they find us, Hand in hand and side by side; | "Tis | Oh what joyous thoughts of gladness of continuous | | Thoughtless wor Ak he its | Golden memories will bind us To this merry Christmas tide: Memories dear but not of sadness, with mirth the rafters ring, Crowd around us while 'we sing. veteran | 3. Though our circle now is broken; Let us all tonight anew, Grasp each others hands in token, That our hearts are strong and true; are all forgiven, S0 our lives begin again your voices ap to heayen, Let the angels hear the strain. PUT OUT TOO SOON (Judge) An entire stock of Christmas ci- gars has been threatened by fire in a Chicago warehouse. The blaze tradi | however, was extinguished before it could do any real good. 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The saving habit is like other habits--it must have a beginning. It is easier to begin it with a *'wind- fall" like a Christmas cheque than in any other way. Savings Account, if I only re- a decent beginning." Now's your chance! You've said, perhaps: "| would like to 'start a had the means to make A Copy of our latest Booklet, entitled "How We Can Serve You," glady mailed on request CENTRAL CANADA JPAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY 2% SIMCOE ST.NORTH, OSHAWA Operated Under Government Inspection. oo Established 1884