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& "The "shava Maly Tmes Succeeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER - (Extablihed LTD) Ghaa, 3h. Mundy, President; i Pope le St mh oy SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pm Sr BE Sel $hi0 & Teas; cltewiare 1h Cunadsy ot & Jouny TORONTO OFFICE: . #01 Bond 66 Temperance Street, Adelaide 0107, EH. D, Tresidder, bX a REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers aud Stone, Ing, New York and Chicago SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928 SILLY STATISTICS There are many atatisticians, some of whom are professionalls and others amateurs, but it is difficult to see what good they are, They use their propensity for figures to satisfy their own curiosity, and are never curious about the things others veally want to know about, A contemporary statistician declares that a man who has reached the age of three score and ten has spent a total of twenty- five years at sleeping, three years at dress. ing and undressing and three years and six months at eating, Furthermore, he has ¢on- sumed the equivalent of 150 cattle, 226 lambs, 810 pigs, 2,400 chickens and the har- vest from twenty-six acres of wheat and fifty acres of fruit orchards, Another statistician with nothing better to do has computed that if all the freight and passenger cars in the world were placed end to end on a single straight track, that line of cars would extend 14,827 miles; if all the newspapers printed in a year were placed in one stack the top would be 8,746,002 miles from the ground; if all the old tomato cans discarded by housewives in a year were gathered they would make a pile as high and broad as the basa of Pike's Peak, and if all the flies swatted in New York state in one year were reincarnated in a single fly, it would be a horsefly with exactly the same dimensions of Barnum's famous elephant "Jumbo," Someone has characterized statistics of this kind by remarking that if all statistic. ians were placed end to end in & row they would look silly, They would be innocuous if their talents were not used so frequently to prove something that could not happen, - THE PEDESTRIAN '* The pedestrian is at last to be recognized 8s a creature with traffic rights, Heretofore the chief regulations of traffic have been in the interest of chauffeurs, Everything has been done to expedite motor traffic, and the pedestrian has been left to save his own skin--or break his neck--when it came to getting across the street, " Here and there states and communities gre putting into effect new regulations giv- ing mere walkers the right of way over motors where no police officer is present and po traffic control system is in operation, Drivers are required to slow down, or even stop, in order to permit pedestrians to cross jn safety. This is a victory for the principle that walkers also are human beings, pay taxes snd have an equal right to the use of the public highways, If the new rules can be enforced, taxi drivers will no longer be able to bear down on innocent pedestrians with ferocious glee and force them to lesp like kangaroos in order to escape death or mutil- ation, The principle remaining danger for walk. ers fis, therefore, at those corners protected by policemen who control the movement of trafic. There are still some drivers who dash forward on the amber before the ped- estrians have had time to regain the curb, snd pedestrian lives and limbs are in danger from the driver who, having the straight through signal, turns swiftly to left or right through pedestrian streams crossing with We grees. menace to the pedestrian is his own foolhardiness in crossing on the "red" and in the middle of the block. CLEAN UP! There is no "sure sign" of spring, but spring should be 8 "sure sign" of the arrival of that time for the community to clean up. There is no superstition or prophesying «bout this clean-up sign. When warm weather has come to stay (until cold weather returns in the autumn) every owner of property and tenant should instinctively feel it his duty to remove the evidences of winter's ravages and fo aid and holders, If there ever were excuses for un- cleanliness they were removed long ago. What is the compensation of a commun. ity-wide clean-up campaign? It improves general health of the community by re- town is a better place in which to one that is unsanitary and unsight- the best community advertising is the appearance of being "cleaned-up, paint- ed-up and planted-up." DO WE HAVE THE COURAGE? Do we have the courage, or the sense, to face our own shortcomings to admit to our. selves and to all concerned our errors and mistakes? : If we do not have, there is little chance that we shall ever be nfich better equipped to fight our battles tnan 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 loose 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 unalterable fact, of fine causes lost by en- thusiasts who clung tenanciously 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- sire, 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 it was our fault, As long as we are not too vain to face 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 run with the bases full after we have just struck out. EDITORIAL NOTES Some fellows work their way through school; others work their.parents. Little girls are punished for making faces, But not when they grow up! The average man thinks the only thing that could live on his salary is a germ. All women are more or less vain---few Jour, The grabber gets little sympathy when he overreaches himself in efforts to get more than his share, : Hair restorers being sold now reslly re store hair, according to a beauty adviser. Seeming to prove that some of them are be- ing used externally, [~ Bit of Verse SOME MEN WE'D LIKE TO MEET We'd like to meet the man who lives Some distance down the street, Who when the midnight hour is struck And we're in slumber sweet, Throws wide the windows of his home So all the world may know He's getting San Francisco On his super-Radio, We'd like to meet the dapper cha) Who came to us last spring And offered us in mining stock A "simply certain thing!" He sent us our certificates Embossed in red and gold, He said that he was selling us And now we know we're sold} We're looking for a lot of boys We've met at different times, Who fooled us with pleasant noise And glowing nursery rhymes; Who've sold us books we'll never read Of men of high renown . , , » On some dark street we'd like to meet Those boys who did us brown. --~H. Reginald Hardy, ed something brown derby om us--the busby, for instance. ------ JOKE PROVED SERIOUS (ace Bay, N.S., Gazette) fro on vonng lady Mv- ** Yorke : 'e the R i been operating pre. $5 .ssed in men's Sothing and it was not long before she had a gang of youths chasing her about the fields, But the boys were not in fun; they hurled stones and sticks and sticks at the fleeing figure, and were it not for the fact that the young lady was a second Johnny Miles, the joke might have phe in serious injury to her- self, ' CANADA IN THE AIR (Border Cities Star) The thought should prove a stimulant to flying in Canada. In A few {solated cases commercial flying has made advauass in the dominion, Some of the mining districts are served by airplanes. But generally the flying ability of Canadians lies latent within them. During the war. that tendency to make good in the alr was brought out for the world to see. Since 1919 it has been lying dormant. The world of the future {s to be one in which aircraft will play a dominant part. It is well for Canada to begin to take more in- terest in the possibilities of the airplane, THAT SALES TAX (Toronto Star) Many Ontario papers are repro- ducing the absolutely Ly statement that Premier King has only got the sales tax back to where he found it, and the usual- ly reliable Hamilton Herald even says that Mr, Robb "is gradually reducing it" to what it was when the King Government took office. It is not a question of politics, but of facts, and the facts are these: The tax which Mr. King in- herited was not only # three per cent tax but a series of taxes which were often applied 8 num- 'ber of times to an article before it reached the consumer, so that the aggregate tax on a pair of boots, for instance. might he 8% per cent, Today, instead of a pyramiding series of taxes, there Is a straight tax of thre per cent., and 236 products are exempt from even that, WHAT WON THE WAR? (Brantford Expositor) Mr, C. W, Barron, the eminent Wall Street Journal, maintains that American economist and head of the money won the great War, or, to use his own words, "the Federal Reserve SATURDAY, MARC CHILDLESS WIFE SHUGGLES BABY Husband Seeks Decree Ask: ing Deletion of Birth Certificate CHARGES DECEIT Myron L. Boyer, of Detroit, is Petitioner in Unusual CENTRAL CA Suit 4 Lonsing, Mich.,, Mar. 3.--Th story of a socially prominent but childless wife who smuggled a baby into her home and for several years led her husband to belleve that it was a son naturally born to them was revealed Thursday by a petition filed in Ingham County Circuit Court. The petition pictured husband, for three years lavish- ing affections on his "first born" and heir to a considerablef ortune and then warned by instinct alone that the child was not his. Hisinstinet led to an investiga- tion which, he claimed, uncovered his wife's plot to produce an In- fant that would satisfy his desire for fatherhood, The petition sought a decree ordering state officials to delete the record of the birth of the child as the son of Myron Libby Boyer and Laura M. Boyer. Both are prominent socially in Detroit. Boyer is the son of Joseph Boy- er, chairman of the board of al. rectors of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and a brother of the late Joe Boyer, famous au- tomobhile race driver who was kill- ed a few years ago when he crash- ed at the Altoona, Pa., speedway. Mrs. Boyer before her marriage, was Miss Laura Miller, of Kansas City, Mo. The petition charged that Mrs. Boyer deceived her husband by telling him that a child was to be born to them, and, finally, by of- fering the smuggled infant as the son born to her in the few hours during which she bad sent him out on an errand. Actually, the bill stated, the childe was purchased for a con- siderable sum from a woman in Hotel Dieu, a Windsor, Ont., hos- pital, brought across the borden and hel din readiness for the con- summation of the scheme attri buted to Mrs, Boyer. The latter, it was charged, had legally adopted the child under Canadian laws before bringing it across the border. The child was the son of a woman named Ha- warth, The father was unknown, according to the petition. If the record Is expunged as asked, the 'son' now four years old, cannot benefit under the trust established by Joseph Boyer for a grandson. The amount of the trust was not revealed, hut also a Act" It was that measure, he .in- sists, which went into operation dur- ing the early part of 1915, that ig leased an enormous volume of credit and enabled the United States to loan ten billions to the Allies. "The Federal Reserve Act won the war," he repeats, "and could have sustain- ed America and the Allies in the war some years longer had not Germany collapsed." No one who has a true apprecia- tion of the place of money in carry- Ing on war operations would for a moment take exception to Mr, Bar- heir rons conclusions. But war is, after all, a contest between opposing bod- | ies of men, and, when all gr: contributing to the final issue have been given their value, the tenacity of the British soldier cannot be ex- cluded from the reckoning. Billions of money could not do what courage and the spirit of sacrifice actually did in forcing the Germans into sur- render. And Canada had a noble share in that triumph, THE ROMANCE OF THE TIN CAN (New York World) According to Lord Askwith of Eng- land, the American husband op en- tering the state of matrimony is de- corated with a tin can; and while the noble Lord is a tin magnate interest- ed in the sale of tin, he is concern- ed over the heavy drain on the in- dustry caused by the American wo- man's tendency to feed her husband mostly on canned goods. The tin man finds that this country "is seal- ing itself up in a tin can," and pre- dicts that a failure of the tin supply would cause 25 per cent. of American husbands to go hungry, Perhaps it is not so bad as all that, for whatever may be lacking in tin cans can be, and is, found in the delicatessen stores by the "busy Am- erican housewife." Between these stores and the tin can, millions of American men are fed with compara- tively little effort by devoted wives who must conserve their time--in the kitchen--to meet all the other obli- tions of our complex civilization. he amusements of the afternoon on which our ci e feeds continue too late to it of the cooking of an old-fasl dinner; thus the tin can and the delicatessen stores. The new freedom of the women reacts upon the men, and even the ERT er ers at , an e soil wanders in from the JOY IN THE LORD --Pralse ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens; him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his hosts.--Psalm 148: 1, 2. PRAY ER--Bless the Lord, 0 my Boyer's fortune is estimated at several million dollars. Mrs. Boyer was sald to have attached to her will a letter ad- dressed to "Joseph Boyer, Michi- gan," informing the latter of the facts of his birth so that he could make no claim to the Boyer mil. lions, The wife's motive, the petition indicated, was that of a wife ap- parently unable to bear children, but anxious to consolidate the family tie by the presence of an JUDGE ASSERTS WITNESS MIXED D. L. Mackenzie, LW.W. Worker, Sharply Cross- Examined Sa OSHAWA 23 SIMCOE ST. NORTH ATR YA bv EGR | | On every hand in Oshawa to-day the evidences of progressive enterprise are unmistakable. The new homes, stores and factory units now under construction all lend strength to the view that Oshawa is definitely on its way to bigger things. Service We are glad to be privileged to take part in this forward movement, and it is our constant endeavor, through our Savings, Investment and Mortgage Loan Departments, to render a service consistent with the needs of this growing community, +72:4.. Established back in 1884, and with Stabili ty " resources now of over Ten Million Dollars, the Central Canada, as one of the oldest and strongest companies of its kind in Canada, is well equipped to meet your requirements and re- spectfully solicits your business, Business hours 9 a.m. to & p.m. including Saturday, Operated Under Government Inspection QS 1 VAY @AVNTAYD A [VAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY TORONTO HEAD OFFICE: KING & VICTORIA STS: 08 A SAFE PLACE FOR SAVINGS A -- _----_ checked by Mr. Justice Godsen, the commissioner. Once he was advised to 'restrain' himself, and the second time was informed he had "misled" the court, The lat- ter occasion arose out of a state- ment he had made regarding his attempts to approach George Cole, the mining inspector, after "sev- eral very severe accidents," only to be told by Cole, he said, that the matter was out of bis jurisdic- tion. This evidence was given to Mr. Slaght, but it developed later, when Mr, White again took up the task, that the incident com- plained of occurred during an in- quest at Schumacher, at which Mackenzie declared he had, from the body of the hall, asked Mr. Cole if he might put a few ques- tions to wit The | tor had replied this was a matter for the coroner and out of his juris diction. "That's where you mislead me," Timmins, Mar. 3.--The first real flare-up in the proceedings before the Royal Commission investigat- | ing the Hollinger Mine disaster, took place at the sitting here Wed- | counsel for the company in the enzle, formerly prominent in {n- dependent workers of the world circles in the camp, but not at any time an employe of the mine, to a sharp cross-examination on statenrents he had made in answer to Peter White, K.C., appearing for the commission. Mackenzie expressed little faith in the crown attorney or the mining inspector, so far as getting any action on the conditions he alleges had ex- isted in the mine and had been drawn to the official attention. He was skeptical of the company's in-! tentions in the matter and hel thought that while the remedy was to get the workers to organ- | ize for their own protection, ft! was dificult to get support from the men themselves. Mackenzie twice had to be NOTICE is Sy givea that a Dividend of 13/7, on the 7%, Comulative Prctcence Stock of this Compa ay has been de- clared payab i 1st. 1928, to the olders of record at nesday, when A. G. Slaght, K.C., said the commissioner, 'because I naturally wondered why Cole should make such a silly remark |I probably will have to make a finding against some person anid I do not want to be misled." During the day five more wit nesses testified they had dumped enquiry, subjected David L. Mack- | =~ oo ce from the thaw house into stope 55-A, in which the fatal fire occurred on February 10. O° these, Norman John said he had "followed routine" and though* the plare seemed all right. Wasy' .Duchuk had been shown how br W. Leblanc, who testified. Die' Guidice did so under orders, Lorn MacLaren had been instructed b- 'Guidice and "no boss ever tol me," and Murdock McLeod ha been given his orders by Cap! William Curtis. McLeod, who dr clared - he had been "fired" fror the mine when he was caugh asleep after dinner, was compli mented by the commissioner, who told him that, in the circumstances, | he had spoken "fairly and honestly and decently." In the course of the afternoon commissioner and counsel visited the underground workings at the mine, adjourning early for the purpose. It is not likely the pro- ceedings will be completed this week, although Mr. Justice God- son expressed the view that they wight "see daylight" by today. EARLY RECOVERY FORECAST FOR NOVA SCOTIA INDUSTRY | Halifax, March 2.--That the steel-coal industry of Nova Scotia could be placed on a self-support- {ing basis within five years if the | Federal, Provincial, municipal and | labor interests involved co-operated | to the full with the manmagement, | was the view expressed by C. B. Mec- | the close of business February 25th. 1928. By order of the Board. wh, Jorn Ranxan ag igs Sec. Treas. soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Naught, President of the British | Empire Steel Coroporation, and J. | H. Gundy, a director, following a conference with members of the Provincial Government held here | today, according to Hon. G. S. Har- | rington, Minister of Mines. NEW BRANTFORD POLICE CHIEF IS DETECTIVE HARRY STANLEY Brantford, Feb. 29.-- Detective Harry Stanley was appointed Chief of Police here today, succeeding the late Chief Donnelly. The new Chief has been 16 years with the present force and two years with the City of London, England, po- lice before that. He has a good war record as Sergeant-Major of the 15th and 49th Battalions, The position carries with it a salary, to commence, of $2,200. Chief Stanley is a very popular official, and well known for his conscientious work, being especi- ally interested in fingerprint work. Motorists running through Califor- nia with lights in violation of . the California vehicle act must appear within 24 hours with lights properly adjusted. The Personal Element in Banking Affairs B ETWEEN the curtness and cold- ness of printed bank forms and the buman element for whose use they are designed, sre yast oppor- tunities for the banker to give valu- able personal assistance, The Standard Bank through the members of its staff, is anxious to use any opportunity that arises to demonstrate its value in of- fering personal advice on (financial matters. The local manager of the Standard Bank will be glad to give in- timate counsel upon money matters nertaining to your business. THE STANDARD BANK OF CANADA E. C. HODGINS Manager, Oshawa Branch Branche also at Bowmanville. Brooklin, Newcastle, Port Perry, Whithy Oshawa Office Dimes Building Tele phone 2700. er ------------