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¢ y ! | ! pe @spawa Baily Times Succeeding | THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER a £ } | i (Established 1871) BUWIPATEL putlishad gvery attaroach and legal holidays, Ushawa. Mundy, President; A. R. Allowaz, Seore tary. member of the Cana Sua Ustawa Dally Times 1s 3 Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As Siistion. Tue (itari Pravingial Dalles 454. the Bureau of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: 10 a week. By mail: in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumberland, $300 & Jon elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; ; tates, $5.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE: 66 Temperance Street, Telephone 407 Bond Bufllding, Adelaide 0107, H, D, Tresidder, representative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, eA a ra MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928 BLIND The human race, a leading expert in opto. metry warns us, will be blind in 200 years if the present rate of defective vision keeps up, That is bad news, and we hope it is exagger- ated, but when we look about us and see the number of folk wearing glasses we are not go sure but what there's truth in it, There are three major causes for this bad sight, They are narcotics, booze and exces- sive tobacco, For posterity's sake, it is up to us to conquer them, Goodness knows, a man likes to stretch out in his arm chair of an evening and light up the old pipe, He stretches, his feet are comfortable in his slippers, end he likes to watch the clouds of smoke, It is really a soothing sensation when his wife scolds him for getting ashes on the carpet, But try an experiment with yourself, Close your eyes and smoke, - Three-fourths of the enjoyment is gone, So it really is largely a mental enjoyment, isn't it? You like the environment with which you habi- tually associate smoking better than the smoke itself, About mocnshine and narcotic drugs there is no great division of opinion among clean people, They want to get rid of both, Smok- ing is not by any means such an evil, It is excessive smoking that hurts the sight, DO WE HAVE THE COURAGE? Do we have the courage, or the sense, to face our own shortcomings, to admit to our- serves and to all concerned our errors and mistakes? If we do not have, there is little chance that we shall ever be much better equipped to fight our battle than we are today. Only obstinacy refuses to confess error and only vanity declines to admit defeat, Obstinacy: and vanity are drags. upon the chariot of progress, Unless we cut them Joose we do not get very far, The same truth holds for the individual, the group, the community, the nation, His- tory is replete with instances of fine heads battered against the impenetrable wall of unaltered fact, of fine causes lost by enthusi- asts who clung tenaciously to original error, of cities stunted because they were too proud to change their habits, of nations wrecked upon the shoals of their selfish de- There is no shame in admitting failure or mistake, either to ourselves or to observers, We cannot long delude those who watch, and they will respect us the more highly if we frankly confess, when we muff the ball, that was our fault, Be oa wo are not too vain to fuce the facts of our conduct there is hope for us, But we will never be useful to our team- mates in life as long as we hypnotize our- selves into belief that we have made a home yun with the bases full after we have just ptruck out, ADVICE TO HUSBANDS Though spring, in man's style calendar, fs still Bh Ae a month away, this is the time of the year when woman calls man up- and, turning from the mirror, solicits his majesty's candid opinion of her new spring bat. Bight then trouble begins for friend husband mutters, "Oh, all right! How much was it?" and then the proud feminine sniffs and complains that husbands never atttention to what their wives wear. pag any ho reply, noncommittally, Those men W "Well, I suppose so," when their wives ask if it isn't becoming, expect to be loved, and obeyed. Just because they won't take the trouble to make an intelligent eriti- cism, they spoil 2 whole shopping excursion ir wives. BoE Yuen wines of fact, intelligent criticism { of @ woman's bat is extremely simple. It consists largely in drawing a long breath and oo something about how chic, or trick, smart, or snappy, or fetching it is. it is diffi for men to get themselves up to using any be accomplished. Any one of much more grateful to a wife's half-muttered "All right." An even more impressive effect may obtained by remarking on the material the color. If the material seems unfamiliar, it can be called cloth, and, if the adjective "beautiful" precedes it, it will delight any wife, Nor should it be forgotten that to give the impression of a true connoisseur one should substitute for the simple colors tan, brown or gray such new names as cham. pagne, atmosphere, beige, almond, parch. ment or royal blue, These terms may be used carelessly, for few women themselves know the distinctions, THE WAR ON INSECT PESTS To fool the hen and to persuade the flower to bloom have been some of the wonders wrought by electricity, An artificial dawn awakes the hen, sets her to pecking earlier that the sunrise, and more food in her giz zard means more eggs for the poultryman, Electrically lighted greenhouses are used to force plants to a quicked, richer blooming than natural light would give, Now the insect world is to be lighted up, to the destruction of some of the pests that infest orchards, fields and gardens, Many & clumsy moth has gone to its death in the flame of a lamp or candle, but never before has wholesale killing been planned through such means, Such creatures are most read- ily attacked, not in the winged stage, but in the cocoon or as larvae, To catch them on the wing will be a triumph for science, A method has been evolved, Electric light traps will be placed in the orchards to lure the female moth before she lays her eggs in the heart of the apple blossom, Success will depend to some extent on the time of day when she emerges from her cocoon and the length of time that elapses between her birth and her egg-lay~ ing, If she does not come out in the full light of day and is attracted by the incan- descent traps, her fate and that of her in- numerable progeny is sealed, Electrocution may halt the destructive march westward of the Japanese beetle, which has already crossed New Jersey and is now wintering its front ranks in Central Pennsylvania, A plan is under consideration to place a chemical, known to attract this voracious insect, in large electrified cages wherever it concentrates, Eventually moths, mosquitoes and other harmful insects will be exterminated by de- vices of man's invention apd the farmer's lot will be easier and life will lose some of its little annoyances, Yael EDITORIAL NOTES No town is big enough for a reckless drivers' convention, Farmer's dollar nearing 100 cents, says a headline, If he has the dollar, of eourse, Cold baths may be fine; but you never hear a cold bather kicking about spring com- ing. Some men can put a lot of enthusiasm into a thing that promises them more than a square deal, Men's clothiers say the Prince of Wales has made men spruce up, And sll the time the flappers supposed they were the cause, Bit of Verse A THOUGHT Little flames, little flames, Dancing in the fire-place Playing roguish, elfin games, With a rainbow grace; In your frocks of grey and yellow, Green and misty blue-- How I watch you glow and mellow Ere you leap with crackling "Hello!" Up the chimney flue, Little flames, little flames, Tell me is it really true That you are, as Science claims, Sunbeams dipped in dew? Dipped and held in dewy bark, Then pressed deep in earth, Till the coal dug from the dark, Kindles by the welcome spark, Gives you all rebirth? Little flames, little flames, ~~ .' That's a very lovely thought If you tiny dancing dames Are old sunbeams caught ; For it bids the weary smile, For our sunbeams fled Are but gone a little while Just a little, little while, Though we thought them dead. of these adjectives but it can | ~--Virginia Coyne. | POLITICIANS ON THE BENCH (Toronto Mail and Empire) Referring to a proposal to in- crease the salaries of judges Hon. R. B, Bennett would like some as- surance that the bench would not be "filled with senile, worn-out politicians." It was not so in the days of Sir John Macdonald, who ded himself on the character of is judicial appointments, NOT EVEN A HOLE (Ottawa Journal) The mining market has had a big drop. This brings to mind the fact that in buying a mining stock one should at least know whether he or she is buying a hole in the ground or something that at least looks like gold, copper, silver or even lead. U, 8, IS CHIEF BACKER (New Westminster British Colum- bian) One thing is clear about the project, St. Lawrence waterway, in the midst of much uncertainty, and that is that the driving force be- hind it is in the United States al- most wholly, The Christian Seience Monitor on one occasion estimated that forty millions of people across the line are interested in St, Law- rence development and less than three million in Canada, WATCH UNITED STATES (London Correspondent) At the British Empire Club I met the Hon, H, H, Stevens, who shook me explosively by the hand, and showed that he richly deserves his reputation as one of the most virile and pushful Canadian politicians of today, He it was who created a sen- sation not long ago by declaring that Canada was being handed, gagged and bound, to America, and, as he was Minister of Trade and Commerce in the Conserva- tive administration, his verdict has some weight, although it was a trifle over-picturesque, *'I am over here to try and stimulate the in- terest of British industrialists in the great poentialities of Canada, and to induce them to take a hand in the development of her ve- sources," he said, "If only that could be done, we would have gone far towards solving many such problems as migration and the re- striction of the American invasion. With regard to the former, British industrial pioneering would un- doubtedly lead to the absorption of more British labor, while, so far as America is concerned, I can assure you that she is simply peur- ing her money and her, people into the country, One camnot blame Canada, who has need of both, The remedy lies with your ows folk here, Now's their opportunity, In another few years it may be too te," § PROFIT AND LOSS (Christian Science Monitor) With a majority of business houses it is possibly a time of re- view of values, for the purpose of ascertaining how much the efforts of the year just ended have result- ed in profit or loss, With many, interest in the annual inventory centres chiefly in the profits mea- sured in the value of material as sets; with some, the interest fis very largely in the indications of an increased service to which the figures of profit bear testimony. With an increasing number, the in- ventory is individually mental, con- sisting in the recognition of a bet- ter understanding of God and His laws, manifested in a truer sense of Christianity and progress, What can there be of profit in vast material holdings if, in amass- ing them, one's spiritual sense be- comes 80 obscured that he rarely thinks of God, and then with little gratitude for His gifts and His con- stant loving kindness and care! One may continue to accumulate stocks, bonds, lands, chattels, and luxuries, but if one does not see that true prosperity comes only through the use of the wisdom, intelligence, and judgment which emanate from God, Divine Mind, can one have a true sense of riches? To Paul's question in Romans, "What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now asham- ed?" comes the instant answer, No profit whatever! True profit is ex- pressed in better character, better thinking, and better conduct, which in turn are expressed in a constant supply of all that is necessary to make human life happy, harmon- ious, and successful, SPARING THE ROD (Stratford Beacon-Herald) It is common knowledge that there is an alarming amount of youthful waywardness, and the fear that it is increasing seems to be substantiated by data furnished to the New York Sun by the New York City Department of Correction. Out of a total prison population of 4,- 406, on a given day, we read, 785 were boys between the ages of 16 and 21. Pricon authorities are said to agree that twenty years ago the proportion of juvenile to the whole number of offenders in pris- on was smaller, Richard C. Pat- terson, Commissioner of Correec- tion, thinks the situation may be due to lack of parental discipline, PRESERVATION and DE- STRUCTION--The Lord preserveth all them that love him; but all the wicked will he destroy.--Psalm 145: 20. PRAYER--Lord, our souls wait on Thee and in Thy word do we gard crime as a form of social disease or social maladjustment. Never in the history of New York were more things done than are now done to alleviate the social handicaps of disease and poverty, housing, schools, grounds, means of recreation, clin- ics, hospitals and welfare accommo dations are to be found in every part of the city, Young children are protected from exploitation in factory, store and sweatshop. "If the theory of sentimentalists is right every stage in social im- provement should produce a decline in juvenile misconduct, Thay the increase of the one is not accom- panied by a recession of the other indicates that the theory is un- sound, Not disease or maladjust- ment but morality appears to be the decisive factor, The sooner parents get their thinking read. justed to this solid foundation the sooner may we expect more reas- suring prison statistics regarding the young man." Now You Tell One DOLLED UP (Corpus Christi (Tex, Paper) The bride wore a becoming cos- tume being a string of pearls. BAFFLED AMBITION (Lite) Janet: "I went to the doctor again today and he sald they wouldn't have to operate after all." Jeanette: "What a pity, my dear, I'm so sorry," BY THE WAY (Progressive Grocer) An absent-minded grocer called on his old friend, the family doctor, one evening, They chatted for a couple of hours, and as the grocer rose to go the doctor asked: "Family all well, I suppose?" "Good heavens!" exclaimed his visitor, "that reminds me, My wife's in a fit," OUR NORTHERN CLIMATE (Financial Post) "I tell you this cold climate is great," *"That sounds nice from you, who generally spends a lot of time at Palm Beach," "That's just it. The cold climate gives me the energy necessary to make money enough to live in a warmer one," Crisp Comment Fame and notoriety are not the same thing, Notoriety lasts longer, --Galt Reporter, Marriage is the only life sen- tence that is suspended by bad be- havior.--Louisville Times, To a housewife the ashes from a dollar cigar are just so much dirt, --Kitcheney Record, A man who goes his own way us- ually gets into some one else's.-- Liverpool Weekly Post, Tell some folks anything and it goes in both ears and comes out at the mouth.--Brandon Sun. It is an awful thought that a reneration is now coming to man- hood that never fed lump sugar to a horse.--Kitchener Record, The sense of hearing is never so acute as when the politician detects a general demand that he rum.-- Chicago Post, A chemist says the first alcohol distilled was Arabian, which may explain those nights. -- Stratford Beacon-Herald, Adam blamed his downfall on an apple, so they teach; but when to- day he gees astray, he's apt to blame a peach.--Montreal Gazette. The Balkans, you'll notice, are doing their spring gardening early. Jugo-Slavia's new premier is nam- ed Radich.--Border Cities Star, Nothing irks a genuine college boy any more than shaking out the envelope from home and finding nothing in it but news and love.-- Detroit News, Stratford is to have a moving picture film taken illustrating the life of the city. It will be a slow motion picture, it is presumed.-- Peterboro Examiner, St. Thomas refuses to provide a motor car for its police department. St. Thomas ought to be a good town for crooks who travel in mo- tor cars.--Hamilton Herald, Think what a testimonial to our climate Senator Dessaulles is. He has lived through a hundred Cana- dian winters and looks forward to more.--~Ottawa Citizen, The "good old days" were when a kiss tasted like "her," not like a drugstore.-- Border Cities Star. Anyway boys are not teased for hiding behind their mother's skirts A iia ed Whig-Stand- ard. You have seem a person under- going an attack of asthma, and you have perhaps wondered why medi- cal science has mot succeeded in combatting this distressing allment. And you remember that the an- clent Greeks and Romans suffered from asthma, you have likely felt that no cure was possible. However, by means of 'team work, whereby the physician, the surgeon, the laboratory worker and others, have put their findings to- gether, it is now agreed that asth- ma is not a disease, but a symptom which may be due to a number of causes, And so the latest method of get- ting at these causes is to place the patient in hospital for a few days. A complete history of the case is then taken, as to patient's habits, home environment, his occupation, food, and whether the attacks oc- cur at certain times in the day, certain seasons of the year, wheth- er he has had frequent colds, at- tacks of bronchitis, influenza, or other nose, throat, or chest condi- tion. An X-ray of the sinuses about the nose and also of the chest is taken, and a thorough examination of the nose and throat is made by a nose and throat specialist, Finally a "skin" test is made whereby the patient is tested in some hospitals with from 125 to 200 different food stuffs and pol- lens from plants, And finally the amount of cal- cium or lime in the blood fis thought to have an effect in the causation of asthma, What does all this mean? That asthma can really be due to any of these causes, because asthe ma is really only a symptom of some condition that affects the bronchial tubes. So if your doctor wants to spend a few days trying to locate the cause of your asthma, do not grow impatient, Remember all the conditions about the nose and throat that may be causing it, and the 200 known proteld substances that have al- ready been found, with more likely to be discovered in the days to come, COLDWATER MAN OWNS VIOVIN BELIEVED REAL STRADIVARIUS Coldwater, Feb, 19.--What is be- lieved to be a genuine Stradivarius violin is in the possession of Char- les Laughlin of this district, He has owned it for over fifty years, An item in a recent newspaper, which described another Stradi- varius, caused Mr, Laughlin - to bring forth his violin. Inside the body of the violin is a strip of whitep aper, on which, in black ink, is roughly printed the legend "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonen- sis, Facia bat Anno 1736," after which there is a double circle, en- closing the monogram *A.T.8." EDISON MAZDA ACESS LAMDS = A CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC PRODUCT 20 SIMCOE ST, SOUTH Cleve Fox Hardware 15 SIMCOE ST, NORTH 35 GIBB STREET C. B. DeGuerre PHONE 923 148 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH Oshawa Electric Service PHONE 2530 -_ STOCKS StoBIE-FORLONG &(0 BONDS Head Office: Reford Build BAY AND WELLINGTON STS TORONTO S. F. EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa Phones 143 and 144 GRAIN == Above C.P.R, Office Real Estate and Insurance DISNEY Until further notice on account of illness, W. J. SULLEY Real Estate Insurance Auctioneer Phone 716-J for Information New Rug Brick, six rooms, oak floors, chestnut trim, electric fix- tures installed. Possession at once. Price $4,500--Cash $500.00. We have five new houses for sale with $200 cash payment. Horton & French Mundy Block Phone 2696 Better Houses For S ale CARTER'S Real Estate 5 King St. E. $6 ,000 Brick house, 8 rooms, bot water heating, on paved street, 5 minutes rrom four corners; very suitable for rooming bouse. Reasonable cash payment will take this. $4 2 New brick house, 7 ] rooms, oak floors, all conveniences, French doors. Casa $650. $1 mediate possession. balance monthly. BRADLEY BROS. 29 Simcoe St. 8. Phone 169 4 room frame Cottage, new, well finished, im $200 down, Warren Ave.--Attractive new rull brick five roomed house. Hard wood floors and trim, French doors, electric fire place, lighting fixtures installed. Wide deep lot, .,.. , $4,900 Warren Ave. -- Another nice new bouse with all of the featured above described. Six 000 ROOMIB: 5s50sss ' $5 Warren Ave. -- Still another of these very distinctive $5 100 ' dwellings, 6 rooms. ,. CUTLER & PRESTON 64 King St. West Phone 574 EE OAKLAND PARK The Beauty Spot of Oshawa Get the Facts about the Finest Sub-division ever opened in Oshawa. Just far enough away from the factories to be permanent first class residential erty, yet within dipner tance. Act now to get full benefit of the lowest prices these lots will ever be sold. Office on the property, King Street East. HARRY P. BULL Manager Other Selling Agents Bradley Bros. Bertrand Realty REAL ESTATE