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a independent newspaper published every afternoon A ent Sundays and legal holidays, at Ushawa, da, by Mundy Printing Company, Limited; M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Secre The Ushawa Daily Times is a member of the Uana ™ n yw the Cdn Daily Newspapers' As sation, The Umtario Provincial Dailies and the 'Audit Bureau of Circulation, : i: SUBSCRIPTION RATES vered by carrier: Uc a week. Hy mail: in the nties of Ontario, Durham and Northumberland, 00. a year; elsewhere in Canada, §4.00 a year; 'United States, $5.00 a year, - TORONTO OFFICE: \ : 4 Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone hy dolaide 010, HDT der, representative. REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stone, Iné, New Vork and Chicago. hg) ; WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1928 --- AGAIN FOUND WANTING New Year's Day voting has again been given a trial of sorts and found pitifully wanting so far as Oshawa is concerned, Nine aldermen were elected on Monday 3 by less than 25 per cent, of the qualified voters on the rolls of Ward One, Two and Four. Such a vote makes a farce of demo- eracy no matter the quality of the men re. turned. Something should be dome about it, not only as regards Oshawa but with a view to the preservation of representative govern- ment in all Canada, In view of electoral in- difference in the municipal, provincial and federal fields, it is amazing that Canada and its components get as good government as they do. > Some 'argue that education is the cure, but it is the more educated who are the chief offenders in this matter of non-voting. Others depend upon service clubs to get out the vote. In some cities such organiza- tions spend weeks of preliminary effort in the matter of getting people to the polls, and on election day maintain a fleet of motor cars to give voters free transportation, but the result is usually no more than a deci- mal increase in ballots, Australia put compulsory voting into ef- fect at its recent general election, The re- sult was a 90 per cent, vote and so much less of Antipodean Communism since as to be startling, The Commonwealth imposes a fine for non-voting. The alternative plan is to dis- franchise non-voters for a period of years, The latter is a dangerous policy because it tends to throw government into the hands of the least qualified, However, getting out a vote is not en- tirely dependent upon compulsion, The holi- day election should be done away with and voting carried out on a working week-day, This is already in force in some cities of Ontario, but the system often breaks down because the polls are closed too early in the evening, If it would get more ballots cast, there is no sound argument against keeping a polling booth open until midnight, A few candidates might die of heart-failure in consequence, but that would merely weed out men unfit for the wear and tear of pub- lic service. "A THING OF BEAUTY" It is apparent that 1928 is going to be a bad year for Sales Resistance. Yesterday General Motors put its 1928 Chevrolet on the Canadian market, and today the Dominion is talking about this new car which is more than a new model, more than a great cor- poration's splendid achievement, A few here and there have perhaps won- dered lately. why so little anticipatory her- alding of the new Chevrolet was heard, It is apparent now that each of these new cars carries its own Press Agent. To see one is to want one, and that goes for the millionaire with an eight car garage and for everyone else that feels a surge of happiness merely at seeing something beautiful--a pear tree in bloom, a lovely child, sunset or a rare tapes- try. General Motors is to be sincerely congratu- ated. They have, very wonderfully, inter- preted the soul of this continent in their new car. Not yet for North America and perhaps never the masterpiece that make Europe's maturity illustrious, But a Gothic cathedral is not Beauty's last word no more than it is its first. Renais- gance art was merely the perfection of one period, not necessarily of all time. The motor caf, therefore, that can touch ihe same chords of the spirit as an immortal conz is a contribution to civilization. Coming nearer home, the new Chevrolet means much to Oshawa. It will set up new production totals in the local General Motors' plants, again justifying the vision of the THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1928 ET WIAA ;l ttrlAL companys' executives, once more honoring the craft-skill and service of those that work in the company's service. ---------------------- ORPHAN'S SUICIDE The Toronto Globe's Hamilton corvespond- ent wrote a fifty word classic on New Year's holiday. It is worth quoting for its beauty alone and particularly so for the lesson it contains, . : "Adrian Leslie," the writer asserts, "young English boy, and inmate of a local orphanage took his life today, so police stated tonight, The boy had been despond- ent and grieved over the holidays when, it is said, that loneliness which only an orphan can know overwhelmed him, There will likely be an inquest." The lesson lies in that phrase "That lone- liness which only an orphan can know," Its application locally is to the Children's Shelt- er on King Street West, Everything that an institution can do for children is being done for the little ones cared for there, but there are too many empty-hearted adults, too many unused little rooms that should be occupied by children who want to belong to someone to let the Shelter ever be more than a half-way house between "loneliness which only an or- phan can know" and the heaven of a home, The system under which wards of the Children's Aid Society can be placed with those who would welcome them is splendid- ly designed to involve no benefactor in un. due risk, Children can be taken on trial for several months, That allows the prospective foster-parents ample time in which to study the ¢hild and for the child itself to win its artless way into the affections of its new- found friends. ADVERTISING AIDS ALL Newspaper advertising and the automo- bile have combined to bring city shops to the very door of the farm house and the suburban home, - Each day the newspapers bring a complete quotation of what can be bought, where it can be purchased and the prices at which it can be purchased, The sale is actually made through the advertis- ing colums of the newspaper, A visit to the store next day by automobile completes the exchange of money for merchandise, How much more convenient is this con- trivance of modern commercial and indus- trial genius to the inefficient method of our rural forebears who knew only their per- sonal needs, With them there was no alter- native for the slow, tedious and disappoint- ing expedient of going to town by wagon or cart and trusting to diligence and a stout pair of shoes to seek out the shop which sold at which they were in need of and which sold it at an acceptable price, if not at the lowest obtainable price, The merchants in the cities and towns need not have debated over the inroads of the mail order houses before the day of the automobile and of persistent newspaper ad- vertising. The mail order houses provided the rural and suburban buyer with a store --if only on paper--in which to plan his buying. Newspaper advertising is now of- fering the service formerly offered by the catalogues of the mail order houses but in addition is furnishing this service daily in- stead of twice yearly, is giving the buyer the choice of prices and goods of all mer- chants not those of one, and is rendering a valuable twenty-hour hour service in assist- ing the public to determine its wants, ST. THOMAS MAGISTRATE By turning back the files to the date on which a 13 year-old boy from Port Burwell in Elgin County was sentenced to the Mim- ico Industrial School for bootlegging, one might find the name of the police magistrate of St. Thomas, ; This magistrate was not content with sen- tencing a grade school boy to a reformatory, but decided to add something to the glamour of the recent Christmas season by sentenc- ing 80 year-old Joseph Schram, inmate of the Elgin County House of Refuge, to the Portsmouth Penitentiary, Schram's offence was that he bloodied the nose of an attend- ant at the House of Refuge, Schram should not be held up as a hero. He was an irascible old man and probably still is though he is now confined at the Kingston prison. But for a court of justice to take such drastic steps to combat an old man's irritability is to laugh in the face of public decency. Ohne such laugh is permis, sible, from a certain type of magistrate, but to repeat the offence within a few weeks after the first act of contempt--still with the "boy bootlegger's" sentence in mind-- demands exemplary counter action. St. Thomas delights in being known as the "Flower City," a title which its civic passion for gladioli richly earns it. But penitentiary sences for octogenerian bruisers are some- thing in the nature of poisonous weeds. There should be some prompt uprooting, What Other: Sa) A WOMAN'S JEAL( epand it 7 8 kee a busy she hasn't much Rime for anything else. MANY MORE AUTOS WANTED (Los Angeles. Examiner) To replace -0ut motor cars will 'soon a8 9 duction of new cars in the ed States as' we mow make for all purposes, including our rapidly growing export trade. This latter field is taking this year as many cars as: our emtire production a few years ago, and its development has hardly begun, FOUND HIS OPPORTUNITY . (The Outlook) There are more ways than one to serve a summons. When Thurston, the magician, invited a committee from the audience one day a process server who had been trying in vain for days to serve Thurston with a legal pro- cess walked up to the stage and found his opportunity. ---- COUNTRY LIFE STILL ATTRACTS (Sarnia Canadian Observer) During the last decade more and more city folks have gone out into the country, even beyond the suburban sections, to build them- selves year around homes out of loud speaker and player plano distance of the nearest neighbor. The bread winners have no difii- culty in going to and from their work in the eity by electric line, commuters' trains and automo- biles. TRIUMPH OF HOPE (American Legion Weekly) Brown was giving his final bachelor party, and all was going well until a married friend ap- proached him and said: "Let me congratulate you, old man, [I feel sure you will always look back on this day as the hap- piest in your life." "Thanks," replied Brown, but-- er--it's tomorrow that I'm getting married." : "Yes," agreed his friend. know that." , "1 A NEW DANGER IN THE WEST (Calgary Herald) Professor Swanson, of the Uni- versity of Saskatchewan, says thar there is danger of an 'intellectual aristocracy" dominating thought in Western Canada just as Russia hag been enthralled by a political and social aristocracy. 'There are dan- gerous doctrines appearing in the West," the professor says, 'a new tyranny is springing up." All this is interesting but vague. What is the new tyranny? Will he define the dangerous doctrines? Above all, let us be informed about the intellectual aristocracy. The West has been called wild and woolly so long that it is delightful to learn of an intellectual aristocracy even though it be dangerous, YOUTH Dorsey in' Cosmopoli- tan) youths are not necessarily hap- py, yout ig, It means freedom, strength, courage, curiosity, adven ture, growth plasticity, movement, action; disdain of danger and death and indifferenc eto sell; pas- sion to discover life and create it anew. Youth faces the future, champs at the bit, dares greatly, counts no cost, Withou. wisdom it will experiment; without know- ledge it will learn; without adven- ture it will venture, Youth is as remote from infancy as from senility, Ft created hu- man culture and alohe can save the human race. Human immor- tality flowers with youth; endur- ing happiness abides in eternal youth, To be happy is to be young. (George A. WHAT "Toc H" MEANS ("Looker-on" in London Dally Chronicle) : Probably nothing in the way of phrases is more widely known, and yet so little understond as Toc H." A reader asks me to elucidate the mystery. It is described in one of its own publications as 'Merely an affectionate diminutive the sigual ler's trick for saying 'T.H. amid the noise of war." It stands for Talbot House, a memorial "house that love built" at Poperinghe near Ypres, just 12 years ago, and com- memorates young Gilbert Talbot, son of the Bishop of Winchester, and all the flower of manhood ot Allied camp who fell in Flanders fields. The lamps of rememberance in Toc H Chapel--All Hallows-by: the Tower--is to be kept alight fo: all time to effect moral regenera- tion of the whole world. Crisp Comment A fool at 20 may be wise at 40. --Chicago Daily News, Sometimes the less a woman has to complain about the more she complains.--Chicago Daily News. We have discovered a mew use for old and disabled astronomers: let them name Pullman cars.-- Washington Post. So far, every photograph radio- ed from Europe looks as thougp it had encountered a rough crossing. --Arkansas Gazette, Trouble appears to be that a lot of people who are "eager to see money put in circulation" have very little to use in that way.-- Toronto Telegram. Speaking of the horrors of war, U. 8. battleships are now equipped with massive soda fountains -- Brandon Sun. The modern girl, according to a writer, knows twice as much as she ought to. Yes, and not half as much as she should.-- Border Cities Hickman Denies Guilt With Plea of Insanity Los Angeles Kidnapper-Slay- er Will Be Tried on Janu- ary 24--Young Attorney is Refused Flther Delay in Date of Hearing Los Angeles, Jan. 3--*Not gulity by reason of imsanity"'--that was the long-awaited answer of Wil- liam Edward Hickman to the grand jury indigtinent, charging him with kidnappihig™ and brutal murder of 12-year-old Marian Parker, as de- livered resitatingly by the boy de- fendant himself in Superior Judge Hardy's courtroom this afternoon, "Mr. Hickman, do you not rea- lize that in pleading not guilty by reason of insanity you. are admit- ting the murder?" asked the judge. There was a long pause. "Yes, Your Honor," whispered the eringing youth who once styled himself "The Fox" and hurled de- flance at all law and its upholders. He will go to trial Tuesday, Janu- ary 24. While an unprecedented crowd surged above the Hall of Justice and in the corridors enelrcling tne courtroom, Hickman, guarded by six deputy sheriffs, was brought down to the eighth floor courtroom from the jail atop the building 10 minutes before time for court open- ing. In contrast to his former appear- ance in court, Hickman was iminac- ulately dressed. He wore a newly- pressed blue serge suit and sported a maroon necktie. Previously he had appeared barethroated in court, jailers havin< feared a sul. clde attempt should he be permit- ted to wear a tie. Without the slightest trace of nervousness the young defendant posed for photographers and made jovina remarks to them. This formality over, 50 deputies ~leared the courtroom of all per- sons not hearing proper creden- tials, At 2.10 this was completed, and Judze Hardy took the bench. Hickman and his attorney, Je- rome Walsh, rvemained standing throuzhout the proceedings. leased without notice to the court which committed him and a hear ing. Legal authorities tonight did not agree on what the procedure would be if a person found to have been insane at the time of the crime subsequently made the elaim he again was sane, : While Hickman was being ar- raigned, the County Grand Jury postponed until tomorrow a sched- uled investigation of the holdup and fatal shooting of C. Ivy Thoms. Rosehill druggist, om Christmas Eve, 1926, both Hickman and 16- year-old Welby Hunt have confess ed they staged the hold-up although Hunt has denied it was he who shot the druggist. The bullet, which caused the druggist's death, how- ever, has been identified as of the same calibre as the pistol carried by Hunt. Regardless of which of the two youths fired the shot, un- der California law. each would be equally guilty of the murder. J. W. BATEMAN RETURNED MAYOR TOV'N OF WHITBY Hes Big Majority Over W, H. Kennedy--Polls Vote of 577 REEVES UNOPPOSED Thomas Holgate Re-elected Mayor of Town of Bowmanville J. W. Bateman was returned Mayor of Whithy at Monday' municipal election securing a sub- stantial majority over W. H. Ken- nedy. Mayor Bateman was re- elected with a vote of 577 as com- pared with Kennedy's poll of 181 The latter announced following his "Pertinent Remarls" Attorney Walsh, who entered separately from his client and did not speak to him at any time during | the hearing, asked to he permitted | to make 'pertinent remarks' to the court prior to the entering of the nlea. ; This was denied with the state- ment that Judge Hardy could not 8 is necessity. H 4 Hickman, you have heard indictment; how do you now Bie | on /the charge of kidnap- pin?" first asked the judge, There WpsS a 10-gecond panse, while the defendant steod with rneast byes. a rn he final'y whisper- ed. * - A simi'ar pause occarre) before the murder plea. Walsh then launched * pertinent remarks." : "your honor, while I have no de- aire to delay this ronri 1 deem fit | to be a salutary thing for the en- tire nection if this hoy be proven nnt normal," was the opening sentence "My witnesses are al in Arkan- eas, Illinois and Misso vl." he add ed. "I must have time to go there and get the'r statements' If thr (ourt will allow me 3F days'! pledme mveelf te be back in thi courtroom ready to go on tria! then" "The econrt fedls that thre woeks should be pmp'e time to pre- »are your ease." said Judean RBa-dy, "The case is set for trial! for Jon- vary 24, at 2.30." i H'ckman"s sta!wart zuards hast- ily encircled their charge and hur | ried him back to j2ii by 8 secret 'cute, "I want to plead guilty and throw myself on the mercy of the court, but my lawyer won't let me, was the remark credited to Hick map by Jailer Frank Dewar, one o the six guards. Dewar said Hickman suddenly made this statement ux they were going down from the jail to the courtroom. 01d Enough to Hang. Los Angeles, Jan, 3---Rumors that Hi kman might seek to escape the death penalty by claiming he was under 18 years of are, were set at rest by the procedure he' adopted at today's arraignment, In his affidavit asking for time to find insanity witnesses, Attorney Walsh declared that Hickman, al- thou~h under 21, is of an age fhat would permit hanging "to wit, the age of 19 years." | Although Hickman's plea legally | leaves the question of his sanity for the court to decide, authorities connected with the ease sald tne whole story of the gruesome crime | would be unravelled to the jury in | the process of determining tne young slayer's sanity. | | | into his Attorneys pointed out that iu~ burden of proof in his plea of in- sanity rests on the defence, the Cal- ifornia law holding a presumption of sanity. Selection of a jury, which ordin- arily might be expected to require considerable time, may he spece'ed up, according to attorneys, if the Judge takes the advantage of re- ~ently enacted laws which provide that the trial judge may take ime examination of prospective jurors into his own hands. ' New State laws governing insan- ity in criminal cases also may find nomination and qualification that he did not wish to enter the con- test, but his name appeared on the ballot as a formality, Probably the feature of the en- tire Whitby municipal contest was the election of a new member to the council, "J. H. Ormiston, edi- tor of the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle and formerly a member of the staff of The Ontario Daily Reformer, Oshawa. Despite the fact that he has never had any munici- pal experience, Councillor-elect Ormiston polled a vote of 391 and stood third, Councillors E. Bow- man and William Pringle, coming ahead of him with large totals Other councillors elected were: D. Mowat, 292, FP, Threadgold, 291 and C. Broughton, 289. R. J. Underwood was returned deputy reeve, while Reeve A, W. Jackson wes elected by acclama- tion at the recent nomination meeting. Holzate Mayor Again Thomas Holgate was re-elected' Major of Bowmanville] is an in- teresting election with a scant ma- jority of 47, while W. H. Carruth- ers was put in as deputy reeve The results of the race for counci) resulted in Messrs. W, C. Caverly. W. II. Corbett, W. Edcar, M, H, Minors, A, J, Wadhams, and Con hy, being returned. W, H. Thiek- son received the reeveship by ac cla;nation, The results in the other centres fo this district are: Uxbridze Mayor----A, M. St, John. Reeve-- Our fic and iousto give you of their Have you a Problem? If you have a business or financial sult this , COR 0 give you the bene- experience , and to assist in the sound devel. 'opment of Canadian ag- riculture. W. C, Ballard (acclamation) Council--John Lowe, Andrew Page, W. G. Gilfillan, Gordon Mc- Lean, W, Tunstell, 8, H. Wilkin- son, Scott Township Reeve--Byron Stiver. Council-- Thomas Morrison, Herbert J. Pearson, W. J. Rynard and George Walker, Brock Township Reeve--Roy Park, Reeve--Ernest Umprie (acclama- tion). Council-- Stanley Miller, John A. McDonald and Hrary Pur- vis. Deputy West Whithy West Whithy returned lowing members for Reeve--W, 8S. Crozall (accel). Councillors--F, Gerrard, Innis Grant, C. L, MacKey, W. J. Cook. Pickering Township Pickering Township elections to- day resutled as follows: Reeve-- G. M, Forsythe (accl.)). First Dep- uty Reeve--G. L. Middleton de- feated James Todd. Second Deputy Reeve--Chapman defeated John A. White. Councillors-- Allan B. Moore and Robert C. Reesor The defeated : candidate was A, M. Ough. the fol- Couneil: NEW U. 5. CONSUL FOR KINGSTON, ONT. Washington, Jan. 3.--Thomas H. Wilson, Inspector of the Am- erican Foreign Service, has been detailed as a Consul at Kingston, Ont,, succeeding Felix 8. Johnson, who died at his post on Dec, 14 Among the Consular officers transferred are: Harry Campbell, Consul at Iquique, Chile, temporar- ily to Kingston, Ont,, and then to Birmingham, England, and Har- old M. Deane, from Valparaiso, Chile, to Montreal, Canada. BILLIONS IN BUILDINGS Washington, Jan. 8.~~Approxi mately $8,000,000,000 were spent on building activities in the United States during 1927, according © statistics compiled by the Associ ated General Contractors of Amer ica. This, it is claimed, was the greatest volume of construction work ever recorded for a single year? The figures, representing all types of construction activity, showed that 1927 oustripped 1926 by more than 4 per cent, Avoid a Breakdown 3 Melancholy, restlessness and worry are sure pigns of a8 nervous breakdown Don't delay--take -l 1] NILES Sold by: Jury & Lovell, Osh: awa, Ontario, (HE BEST IN RADIOS THE MARCONI SHOP | Cor, King & Celina, Phone 2604 | Felt Bros. 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