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--_-- The Oshawa Baily Times THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) independent newspaper published every afternoon "ude and legal holidays, at Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Printing Company, Limited: Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Secre tary. Fhe Oshawa Daily Times 1a a Member af the (eas dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES livered by carrier: 1Uc a week. By mail: in the De, Ontario, Durham and Northumberland, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $6.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE: 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance treet, Telephone Adelaide 0107. H. D, Tresldder, representative, REPRESENTATIVES IN USa Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago UA i - THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1928 A GOOD TIMES ARE AHEAD ~The fact that man has a happy faculty . of forgetting evil times and of harboring . to the end the pleasant event of a lifetime probably accounts for the sighing of old- timers for the good old times, There is no other valid excuse for it. For some few things the present can envy the past but the advantages of the present so overwhelmingly outnumber those of the dead yesterday that those who mourn the past can not be taken seriously. There is more romantic retrospection than sound reasoning in their sighs and Jamen- tations. Memories of lower costs of living are spoiled by recollections of correspondingly low wages, lower salaries and still lower industrial and commercial profits, The homely comforts of fifty years ago served the simple life, but who would surrender the electric light, steam heat, overstuffed furniture, running hot and cold water, the bathtub and hundreds of other modern con- veniences and comforts for the wood-pile and the well of the good old times? "The forefathers got along very nicely without automobiles, safety razors, barber shops, the telephone, the radio, moving pic- tures, hard-surfaced roads, paved streets, window-glass, and many other things which are considered by modernity as the bare necessities of life. But the fore- fathers often dreamed of the days when they would have all of those things. Today will be yesterday tomorrow when new comforts will console mankind, Life is bettering itself thus rapidly, Instead of sighing for the things of the past, the old- timers and their descendants would profit more by reading the history of the progress of world invention and discovery in the newspaper advertisements, Science is un- ceasingly busy with evolving new comforts for man so that the discomforts of today will be unknown to the future, ONLY IN SPAIN Since primitive man discovered fire and its 'happy effect upon food man has devel- oped a skill in culnary accomplishments that appreciative souls have come to regard as an art fit to take its place beside the masterpieces of oil and canvas, marble and bronze and the frozen music of architec- ture. The idea of associating the cook in his. laboratory with the mechanic in his shop, the laborer at his pick and shovel is abhorrent to sensitive natures, But now look what Spanish cooks have gone and done; Forgetful of their high es- tate, their artistic eminence, they lower themselves to the level of unskilled labor end clamor for an exclusion act to rescue them from alien competition, Imagine portrait painters doing a thing like that} Imagine any class of artists setting up any other standard of competition than excel- lence! Well it wouldn't have happened in France, Such a thing hasn't even happened in the United States. But in Spain--well, it must be easy to cook Spanish onions, DUTY OF SOCIETY In the early history of this country--in fact, up to within two generations--par- ents appeared to feel a real responsibility for the discipline and conduct of their chil- dren. Many modern parents seem to hold to the belief that the schools and society should take from them the obligation of child training. Many children lack at home the disci- pline and training that is necessary for the building of stable character, and if they are not taught helpful precepts for their carly years by the schools and the church- es, they are left to acquire the usually THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, harmful knowledge that is picked up on the streets. Today the responsibility for the training of the youth seems to have been placed upon society, thereby making it possible for many parents to escape the obligations that are theirs by right and to a large extent are considered so by law. Organized society has made it possible for many parents to evade their duties in raising their children. The weakest government is usually the one which has assumed a paternalistic at- titude towards its pepple. Looking to the government and the smaller unities of so- ciety for help has always had the effect of breaking down the morale of the indivi. dual, for many persons are not willing to acquire by their own effort what they can secure for nothing. --' Society is trying to improve its methods of educating and caring for its individuals, but it is not responsible for the minds and the emotions put into them by nature. It voluntarily does its share, but if the indi- viduals get into trouble society has not ne- glected its duty. KING NICOTINE The vogue of tobacco and its centuries. old persistence are not easily explained and for that reason, perhaps, the "weed" is the more irritating to those who take life with deep seriousness and would ban everything that is pleasant and not useful, There is Biblical authority for taking a little wine "for the stomach's sake" and, prohibition notwithstanding, there are some worldly souls who still contend a hot toddy is essen- tial in the treatment of colds and pneumonia, but no one has ever claimed any therapeutic powers for tobacco unless it be those centen- arians who ascribe their longevity to the use of tobacco in corncob or cud form, In view of the fact that so many millions obtain so much pleasure from tobacco and that its use is at least not beneficial to the health, is expensive and often filthy, it is not surprising that the war on Demon Nicotine has been waging ever since white men ac- quired the tobacco habit, Sir Walter Ra- leigh was censured for introducing the weed into Europe, the Puritans of the Massachu- setts Bay colony prohibited its use and anti- cigarette laws have been passed and repeal- ed in many states, It would seem that the net result of these centuries of protest, prohibition and repres- sion has been an enormous increase in the use of tobacco, especially in the form of ci- garettes, One . American manufacturer makes 100,000,000 cigarettes a day and there are hundreds of factories in the business of preparing tobacco for smokers, Perhaps the candid addict explained the situation when he expressed this sentiment: Tobacco is a dirty weed, J I like it, It satisfies no normal neea, I like it, - It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean, It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen, I like it, | Bit of Verse COMING mm I hear the wild geese honking From out the misty night-- A sound of moving armies Onsweeping in their might; The river ice is drifting Beneath their northward flight, I hear the bluebird plaintive From out the morning sky, Or see his wings atwinkle That with the azure vie; No other bird more welcome No more prophetic cry, I hear the sparrow's ditty, Anear my study door; A simple song of gladness That winter days are o'er; My heart is singing with him, I love him more and more, I hear the starling fluting His liquid "O-ka-lee"; I hear the downy drumming Her vernal reveille; From out the maple orchard The nuthatch calls to me O spring is surely coming. Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare: I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair. --John Burroughs What Others Say (Chicago Daily News) It is sometimes better to have loved and lost than to be the otmer fellow. S-- A PEARL OF GREAT PRICE (Kitchener Record) The right kind of girl for a fel- low to marry is the sort you ean grow to love after you've stopped being in love. Seemm-- OTHERS FALL, TOO (Toronto Star) Those who remark upon the fact that the Prince of Wales somefimes takes a tumble when his horse goes down in a steeplechase or at the hunt should note the fact that of forty-four horscz that ran in the Grand National yesterday forty-two went down and only two finished. WOULDN'T HE DISTURBED (London Daily Express) The following preciously preserv- ed extract from a love letter writ- ten home to his wife by a soldier on active service will evoke tender memories in thousands of our for- mer service men, "Don't send me na more nagging letter, Lettie, They don't do no good. I'm three thou- sand miles away from home, and I want to enjoy this war in peace." SENSE OF SPEED (From the Barrie Examiner) It has been rather well estab- lished that laws which arbitrarily fix speed limits for automrobiles are little protection against acci- dents, The speed at which one may safely drive depends upon the road and trafic conditions involved. A high executive of one of the leading automobile manufacturing companies, who has made a close study of speed in its relations to accidents declares that fifty or even sixty miles an hour over good open roads in the eountry may be safer than fifteen miles an hour in cut- ting corners in town. The safe driver is not necessar- ily the slow driver, but one who uses common sense whether driving fast or slow. Careless driving while turning corners, passing pedestri- ans and other cars, crossing rail- road tracks and manoeuvering in congested traffic {is the greatest menace to life and limb. Sense, not speed," is the impor- tant factor in determining whether a driver is safe or unsafe. THE BIGGER BILL (From the New York Times) It must have been with envious admiration that the biggest assem- bly of bell-ringers ever held in England gathered at Croydon early this month to hear the booimng of the biggest hell ever forged in their country, It is to have its perma- nent abode in the new Baptist Church on Riverside Drive. 300 feet above the Hudson, It is not the biggest bell, though it is half as heavy again as Big Ben of the Westminster Clock Tower. There are still three or four that are big- ger; the great bell at Moscow, which, up to the Bolshevist regime at any rate was used ag a chapel instead of a bell; the second Mos- cow bell, which is the largest bell that is still a hell; the 90-ton hell which hangs in a pagoda in Bur- mah, and the Peking hell of 53 tons, There are great bells in Nanking and Vienna approaching it in size, and there is the bell of "| Notre Dame, which will go on ring- ing wherever Victor Hugo is read and the Great Peter at York Mins- ster, America will mow have a voice to mateh in depth and reach those from across the seas. It is stated that its note will carry ten miles, and with the aid of the radio it should carry across the continent, CAN YOU TRUST MEN? (From the Pittshurgh Press) You don't know whom you ean trust these days, do you? Every fel- low out for himself, willing to cut under you for his own personal gain. Well, let's get out of here, Go somewhere where you can trust your fellowman., But it's a bad night to go out, Dark, stormy and windy, What, the big line overhead? Oh, merely a high-tension wire with thousands of volts of electricity in it. But you didn't think anything of walking under it. You knew the line- man had made it safe. Now we'll get in a taxi and ride to the station, Got to hurry, if we're to catch the train. This fellow cer- tainly knows how to drive. Takes a steady hand to keep out of a crash, but we'll not worry about that. : Bump! Big hole in the street. Ter- rific strain on the springs and the car, But nothing breaks. Sweating men at forge and lathe had done their work well. The others who fastened the nuts and bolts when the car was assembled did their work, Well, here we are at the station. We crawl into our berths and go peacefully to sleep, .The train plows on through the dark and storm, One man at the throttle holds the well- being of hundreds in his hand. Wa- ter streams against the glass through which he peers out at the right of way. One signal missed and destruc- tion awaits. Vet some other man, a nonentity in the cosmic scheme, has seen to it that all signal lights are burning. And other obscure toilers who have repaired the track that day have gauged it in its proper place. And so it goes. Every day we trust our fellowmen in far-off places, men whom we never see, who when in the routine of their breadwinning, are their brothers' keepers. Oh, yes, there are men you can GLORY OR SHAME--The wise "shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of fools.-- Proy. 3:83. PRAYER--Lord, we would turn at thy reproof and seek Thy coun- sel, LAND IN MONTREAL NOT INNEW JERSEY Doubt United States Reports MAST TO BE READY ass o Plans for Initial Flight of R100 in Hands of apt British Officials Ottawa, April 5.--Aerial author- ities here cast strong doubt upon United States reports that the new dirigible R100 will land at the Lakefield, N.J. field, instead of at Montreal when her initial flight is made. Commander Burney who is building the eraft for the British Government, is in the United States service and it is thought here that the report that the Unit- ed States landing field will be selected is due to that faet. Commander Burney, however, is only the builder of the plane and the British Government will have the say as to where the landing place will be. Information is very vague as to when the trip will he made for the ship is not to he completed till towards next fall and after many tests will have to be made to ensure its work-ability. Commander Burney is expected to come to Ottawa hefore returning, Mooring Mast Ready Meanwhile, it is expected the Montreal mooring mast will be ready well in advance of the com pletion of the ship and Ottawa will he greatly surprised, if the land- ing is not made there. The British Government will have the decision but the fact that following the Imperial conference agreement, Canada is building the air terminal, is thought to suggest the improbability of the initia! trip being made to the States. It is believed that Commander Burney has heen talking as though he will have the management of the craft whereas he is simply the contractor for it. GENERAL LORD HORNE RETIRES Famous Army Figure Has Reached Prescribed Age Limit London, (By Mail)--General Lord Horne, G.C.B,, K.C.M.G.,, D, C.L., LLD., having attained the age limit, has ceased to belong to the Regular Army Reserve of Offi- cers Lord Horne was 67 years of age on the 19th of March. He was created a Baron of the United Kingdom in 1919 in recognition of his services in the Great War, The seocnd surviving son of the late Major James Horne, of Stirkoke, Caithness, he was educated at Harrow and Woolwich, and receiv- ed his commission in the Royal Artillery in 1880, He served in the South African War of 1899 to 1902, and was awarded the Queen's medal and five clasps and the King's medal and two clasps. In the Great War he commanded the Artillery First Corps in 1914, and the Second Division in 1015 He went to Egypt for the defence of the Suez Canal, and afterwards, in 1916, commanded the 15th Corps in France, and later in the same year the First Army, heing promot- ed General; mentioned In dls- patches, and created K.C.B. and K.CM.G. From 1919 to 1923 he was General Officer Commanding- in-Chief, Eastern Command, and in 1920 he retired. He was Aide- de-Camp General to the King from 1920 to 1924, and had heen Master Gunner of St. James' Park since 1926, AIRPLANE STOCKS REACH HIGH PEAK Wright Aero Advances $30 in Two Hours on N.Y, Exchange New York, April 5.--Airplane stocks took off on a new altitude flight in trading on the New York stock exchange Tuesday. Wright aero advanced $30 with- in two hours and at 1:30 p.m, was selling at the new high of $130 a share, Curtiss was up more than $25 a share at $90. Several other leading stocks, in- cluding Eastman Kodak, Radio and General Motors, were stropg but otherwise the market was fr- regular. Kodak reached a mew high of $179.75 a share and Radio was up $3 at $190. The volume of trading was less then Monday but total sales prom- ised to exceed 3,000,000 shares. ALL ABE "BOYAL" The Royal Canadian Cat Club met. the other day--in Toronto, of course. Toronto has a Royal Ca- nadian Yacht Club, a Royal Winter Fair, a new hotel is to be called the Royal York, and there are .pre- bably some other concerns in the city that use the royal title, It takes Toronto fo put on "side'"-- even to its cat club. to Aerial Authorities at Ottawa Ap 5) bssible $100 in one year by depositing $ 4.09 twice a month $500 in two years " " $1000in three* * " $5000 in five " " 10.02 twice a month 13.09 twice a month 37.68 twice a month Our substantial rate of interest, 4% on deposits, will 'add considerable impetus to the carning power of your savings, QS § AV @AV\ FAY DN AN AND SAVIN iS ; ( MPANY ST? ODSHAWA BRANCH OFFICE: 23 SIMCOE ST. NORTH TORONTO HEAD OFFICE: Operated Under Government Inspection KING & VICTORIA STS. 02 A SAFE PLACE FOR SAVINGS DIFFERENCE This broken down horse has the same number of bones and muscles as a pedigreed prize winner. 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