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PAGE" PWO THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926 . 'Che Oshawa Baily Reformer (ESTABLISHED IN 1871) An independent news; published every + ah Sundeys: and ! holi- y al days, at Oshawa, Canada, by 'Mundy Print ing Company, Limited, Chas. M. Mundy. % F 3 A 0 y-. The Oshawa Daily Reformer is a member o! The Canadian Press, the, Capadian Daily Newspapers Association, the Ontario Pro- vincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of + Circulations. = ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: p = Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, or. Bowmanville, or mail anywhere in .* Canada outside the Counties of Oniario and + Durham, $5.00 a year. United States sub- 4 & sctiption, $1.50 extra to cover postage. "By mail in the Counties of Ontario and Dur- ham, $4.00 a year. Single copies, TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107. H. D, Tresidder, representative. - 5 THURSDAY, DEC. 30, 1926 No Short Cuts ro- In this day and generaticn there scems to be a wonderful desire to take 'short cuts, particularly in education. The other day a young man explained | to us that he wishes to beconie a civil engineer but that he does not wish to spend four years at a university in order to accomplish his ambition. He thinks he ought to be able to secure | the knowledge in about a ng¢cessary year. This represents rather a general idea in these days. We have heard some young men who have been working for two years with some industrial firm expressing impatience at not yet reach- ! ing the managership. | There was an old and hoary rom sion worded, "There is no royal road | to learning." This was used so much | and on so many inappropriate occa: | sions that it was thrown into the dis- | card. But the idea it expresses is just as true now as ever though perhaps | some different means of expressing it should be invented. Our boys and girls and our voung | men and young women will have to] learn that, in education that is worth while, there are no short cuts. There to learn today than there ever was in the history any is more of hel world and most of this must be learned in any department of activity before al young man or young woman is equip- - Boys and girls at schoel wonder why ! why they are required to take certain subjects which to theni do not appear to bear any relation to the work that leave they expect to do after they school. But when they get out into the world they find that they need still more of what those despised sub- jeets would have taught them. There dre no short cuts in education and there should be none. Thorough preparation in youth means thorough work in ma- ture age. Oshawa's Finances City Treasurer Blackburn has pre- sented his fourth annual financial statement for the City of Oshawa. In every one of these balance shects he |<curse of his conversation with her he has been' able to show a surplus. It is | 10id her cxactly the same thing about | becoming a habit of his. Of course, it is not the City Treas- urer, but the City Council that makes former must pay out the sums the Council votes. However, a careful and a surplus possible, for the which cconomical Treasurer has influence and can point out to the Council the neces- sity for being cautious in the matter of expenditures. His knowledge is invalu- able to any Council and his guidance It is must frequently be sought. SO int' all progressive cities. For example, City Treasurer Black- | ren are so much greater here that they | burn points out that Oshawa's debt of $200 per capita is regarded as the maximum for a city of this size and, therefore, he advises that no new con- struction in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars should be contempla- ted. Further, he calls attention to the fact that tax arrearages at the present time amount to $173,000 which is a very large sum in proportion to the total and indicates that some people are 'finding the present rate of 'taxation a are very burden. Until tax arrears greatly reduced no unavoidable im- provements should be undertaken. The City's revenue during 1920 ex- ceeded the estimate by a little over fivé thousand dollars, but two of the three sources of this increase do not call for civic rejoicing. Police court fines were much larger in amount than was expected; that is, there was more | crime, possible petty crime, than the icity fathers anticipated. Another crease came from penalties on tax arrearages and no.one would be de- | lighted about _this. The third soutce oi in- | ! increased revenue was sewer connec- tions, which, of course, would seem to indicate progress in sanitation. The City Treasurer hopes for a re- duction of three mills in the rate ot taxation--forty-thrée mills is his fore- a reasonable zeal for economy, thi: should be possible: this reduction will be! helps. If the tax rate can be kept down jor a few years until the total as- sessment has an opportunity to grow as .he City grows, there may never again »¢ any necessity to have a high rate. There will be a small bond issue Every [little farly in 1927 and these bonds will be | wvailable to Oshawa investors direct. | This will give citizens an opportunity i .0 show their faith in their own City ! and at the same time to invest their avings profitably. The City Treasurer fears an agita- ion for "a loosening of 'the purse strings". There is always a danger of hat as times become better. The Re- of niggardly that Oshawa 'ormer {8 no advocate arsimony. We believe hould pay its way, should conduct its inancial affairs intelligently and should sw no means penalize education or wealth in the name of economy. There we two kinds of economy--real and false. * But those purse strings Mr. Blackburn talks: about should be held tight so thai no funds will pass out of the City's coffers unless full value Extravagance is that .; received for them. sever justified. Oshawa will expect ie members of the new City Council » be just as careful with the City's woney as if it were their own. In his wn home no wise husband and father «ill be niggardly about food, heat, ght, clothing, health and education, but he will be tremendously careful bout expenditures on luxuries. Exact- so is it essential in civic financing that necessities be carefally and econo- i:ically provided and that luxuries he iit for the future to'look after. This , no time for recklessness. Our New Citizens of Canada exert their The charms | iifluence in a peculiar way on those ped for a career. | : - -"' {who come to settle among us, partic- ularly those frem England. The other day a young lady, who had been in this country only since September, cal- led to see us and in the course of the conversation we remarked that most English people "do not care greatly for Canada during their first year here but that, if they remain for about three vears and then pay a visit to the old home across the water, they decide that they would very much rather live in Canada than in England. This young | lady thought. that could not be pos- { sible. Learning that her home was in | Birmingham, we called up a man who I came from there about five years ago the and arranged an interview for | young lady. Strange to say, in the { how English people gradually become j attached to Canada and ultimately feel | that it is the only country in which to | live. Most of | change come over our new citizens. us have seen that same | Canada has a charm of its own and, | whatever it is, it binds people to this country. We have known Englishmen living in Canada who have heen offered { tempting positions in the old land and who have refused them on the ground | that the opportunities for their child- { could not think of returning to Eng- | land to live permanently. | Everyone speaks of the necessity for getting new citizens of the good old | British stock and statesmen in Britain | are beginning to wonder long Canada will remain British if all sorts how & immigrants from countries other titan Britain are brought in here to fill up our open spaces and our cities and towns. One of the lessons for Can- adians is that we must do what we can to make our new citizens from the | British Isles feel at home in Canada. | | COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT PREVENTS DEMONSTRATION San Jose, Costa Rica, Dec. 29.-- President Jiminez, of Costa Rica to- day forbade a public manifestation which was being organized as a pro- test against the attitude of the United States Department of State in the Nicaraguan strife, The Gov- ernment of Costa Rica, he declared, could not permit hostile manifesta- | tion against a friendly Government. Mal: "When did swimming be- come a national sport in Scotiand?" Bal: "Hdrry it along." Mal: "When they erected toll ridges," wpa cast for 1927. If the new Council show: | And what a boon | | WHAT OTHERS SAY A WAY Or EVASION (Clinton News-Record)' If you don't want to pay an in- come tax next year don't advertise. 1 SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT | (Wickham Steed, 'n the Review of |: Reviews) The way Mr, Bruce the Prime Minister of the Australian Common- wealth, has set about British motor car manufacturers has been parti- cularly refreshing. To imagine that vehicles suited to the smooth roads of England are the best for the whole world is just the sort of dull blunder which British manufactur- lers are prone to commit. It is rem- | in'scent of the old days when they ilost the Balkan market for agricul- {tural implements by insisting that | very respectable plough should be {painted red. whereas the benighted peasant of Bulgaria and neighbor- | ng countries thought ploughs should | be painted green. The more the {breezy sons of the Dominions can tnock some imagination into the |torpid wits of stay-at-home Britons, {the better will it be for all concern- red, THE POPCORN BELT (Omaha Bee) North Loup, in Valley county, has just observed its twenty-fourth an- nual "popcorn day," thereby calling ettention to another thing in which Nebraska takes first place--pop- corn production. North Loup producing area in the world. Each vear citizens of North Loup stage a big celebration, to which thousands are attracted. At the recent celebra- t'on more than ten thousand gather- ¢d and consumed a ton or more of popcorn, to say nothing of the ever nresent "hot dog' and hamburger. of it is produced in Valley county, it Lrings hundreds of thousands of dollars to the growers and it is an almost sure crop. Nebraska popcorn is munched with delight in practic- ally every city on this continent and rapidly gaining favor in Europe. he American soldiers introduced it broad, just as they did chewing gum. Popcorn production is a grow- |ing Nebraska industry; one that is advertising Nebraska's resources fi broad. . | 7 {a | ee | WILL HE OUIT POLITICS? ! (The Outlook, London) | Rumors of Lord Birkenhead's re- |s'gnation from the Government are, i hear, for the time being pre- i. ature. He is, Lowever, again being pressed by offers to undertake the vore lucrative occupation of author- zip of journalism, indeed, some of b's friends suggest that he may sometime next year give up politics [or the pen. He has an appreci- ative public for, his literary work both here and in America--in gpite of Lord Beaverbrook"s criticism that h's style is like rice pudding--and some handsome proposals have re- cently been made to him which put completely in the shade the £5,000 he receives as Secretary of State for India. His retirement would be a grie- vous loss to the Government. He is undoubtedly one of the small group Qf big men around the Prime Minis- ter, who invariably calls him in, as in the case of the recent coal strike when difficult situations have to be handled. Lord Birkenhead has, how- ever, his limitations like most law- yers--and even journalists. While he possesses all Lord Oxford's almost uncanny faculty for penetrating an- alysis he cannot always, and in this tco, he resembles the Liberal ex- Prime Minister, provided a solution for the problem he has dissected. His brain, in short is analytic rather than synthetic. But his amazing skill in exposing the problem to the view of his colleagues is hone the less valuable because it invariably erables one or other of them to sec the the solution whicl eludes him. CONVICTS ESCAPE AT COLUMBUS, OHIO Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 30. Herbert Smith, alias J. A. Williams. 38, and James D. Reedy, 29, Enolh, Pua., facing terms in Atlanta peniten- tiary, escaped from the federal build- ing here by walking on a perilous icy descending three flights of stairs. With 50 other prisoners, they were in a room on the fourth floor of the building gnarded by a deputy marshall. Other deputies were sta- tioned in thé corridors outside. Gain- in permission to enter an adjoin- ing room, Williams and Reddy lock- ed the door opened the window and escaped. EXCITEMENT REIG OVE RPROSPECTS FOR HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT New York, Dee. 30.--Gene Tun- ney returned yesterday to New York from a ten-day vacation in the Maine woods 'to find the heavy- weight pot boiling from industrious stirring by rival metropolitan pro- moters, Humbert Fugazy and Tex Rickard. Although the heavyweight champ- fon reiterated his assertion that he was "still open to all bidders" for a title mateh, he was slated for a con- ference, nevertheless, with Fugagzy. Fugazy expressed confidence that he would "get down to brass tacks' with the titleholder on his plans to match Tunaey against Jack Delaney, the light heavyweight champion, at the Polo grounds next summer. HOOT MON! Sandy said to his friend, "Noo, McDougal, if I gave ye a hundred pounds what would you do with them?" Mac replied: "I would count them." is in! the center of the greatest popcorn! {ICE SWEEPS GAS | BUOYS OUT TO SEA I Quebec, Dee. 30. -- Around 60 buoys, some 25 of which were gas ' buoys, have been carried away by j ice during the course of the past month in the lower St. Lawrence, and in consequence they will have to be replaced next spring, for the opening of navigation. Some of the missing buoys are be- lieved to have been carried out to sea," while others are reported to 'have been cast up on the beaches. TERM REPORT OF EAST WHITBY NO. 11 Term report of ,senior room of S. S. No. 11, East Whitby is as fol- lows: (Names in order of merit), * denotes honors. Sr. 1V.--Hazel Pogson*, Frances Barrett®, Marjorie Gerry®*, Edythe Rouston?, Clifford Splomon, Berta Howlett, Elsie Chinn, Bessie Meyer, Ethel Wheeler, Jr. IV.--Minnie Rodesky*, Ever- ett Pogson*, Edith Farrow, Mary Rodesky, Viola Knox, Alma Nortn- cott, John Knox, David Sykes, Flor ence Pallant. Sr. IIl.--Clarence Ross*, Percy Taylor, Muriel Phillips, Wilbur Bur- rows, Grace Farrow, Jessic Rouston, Fred Lindsay, Jr. IIl.--Douglas Brock, Fred Wil son, Mildred Brock, Winnie Smith, Albert Phillips, - Howard Poweli, Irene Parker, Anna Meyer, Lloya Young, Arthur Moffatt, Margare! Tattersall, Florence Scott, Oscar Pallant, Albert Wheeler. Sr. II--Gladys -Rodesky, Chinn, Kathleen Northcott, Burrows, Margaret Hamilton, nice Fuller, Fred Parker. Jesse Arnott, Teacher Mary Fred Ber- Mr. Tippler: a New Year resolution not to drink any more." Mrs, Tippler: that. You couldn't any more." "What's the 'use of possibly drink Young people are so silly, unless you are one of them. 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