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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGOST 2, 1920 The Oshawa Daily Times ia a member of the Cana- dian Press, the Canadian Dally Newspapers, At { sociation, The Ontario Provincial and the "| Audit Bureau of Circulations, HUBRSORIPTION RATES i Pelivered carrier: ¥¢ a week, side a cartier delivery ): In the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumber- {| land, 300» Jour; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 | & year; United States, $5.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICR 407 Bond Building, 6@ Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaide 0107, H, D. 'fresidder, repre. sentative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US, Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicage, Ee---- TUESDAY, ASGUST 21, 1928 $S8655i- ht J MILLIONS FOR HIGHWAYS h Once it was the great system of roads built by the Romans to which the modern world looked with awe and admiration. Those ancient systems, extensive and durable as they were, are dwarfed in comparison with the highways constructed on the North 'American continent--mainly within the last ten years, Future generations will point with amazement to what has been accomplished in this respect, At the present time Canada is spending many millions each year in creating new and improved highways throughout the land, 'And each year sees a more ambitious pro- gramme undertaken, There is no longer need for argument re- garding the necessity for good roads. The most reactionary woodsman has been con- verte to good roads, By co-operation be- tween local, provincial and federal govern- ments we have made advances that are little short of wonderful, And with the extension of these roads there has come an improve- ment in their quality. PETERBOROUGH IN THE LIMELIGHT: AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN ! CIVIC IMPROVEMENT An extensive programme of street-lighting fmprovement which will make the city of Peterborough one of the most efficiently lighted cities in Canada ts the subject of careful observation by no less a luminary fn the field of civic progress than "The American City." The details are worthy of comment, "Few people fully realize the importance pnd the purposes of street lighting, but every motorist knows the evil caused by bright automobile headlights, and the annoying ef- fect of dazzling lights, Tt is true that the eye is perhaps the most accommodating organ of the human body, for in a fraction of a second it can ad- Just itself to the most extreme conditions, from long-range vision to close work, from extreme light to extreme darkness. Because it can stand a good deal of abuse without complaint, the eye is often permanently weakened by long and repeated exposure of bright light and insufficientd light; and yet, this is the least danger that lurks in dark ptreets. This danger and all other dangers can be corrected on main arteries and resi- dential streets by installing scientific and ef- fective overhead street lighting as shown at Peterborough, whose system embodies many of the modern methods of overhead street lighting. In residential streets a novel method of puspension is being employed, by swinging the lighting units above the centre of the street and street intersections by means of a wire. The units are hung at intervals of 200 to 250 feet, on a mounting height of 22 feet, thus insuring good visibility, good sppearance, economy of installation and , and reduced obstruction of light by trees. The lighting units are equipped with two-way refractors at the intersections, thus insuring lateral distribution of light in the most economical and effective manner. The lighting units are also equipped with ex- ternal terminal bushings to which the feed- er wires are run through insulators mounted on the span wire. The main arterial streets are lighted by a similar type of lighting unit, mounted on a 4 by 11 inch bracket, 22 feet high, with a 225-foot spacing between poles. The fixtures pre internally wired through the brackets, pad are equipped with refractors, thus re- fracting a portion of the light which would ordinarily be directed on building fronts and sidewalks and distibuting it over the street surface where it is most useful, These light- ing units, as well as those on the residential streets, are equipped with 300-watt lamps, and the electric current is supplied from the domestic lighting feeders. Consequently, a great amount of copper is saved and the load factor and power factor of the distribdution system are improved. The high intensities of illumination pro- duced on the street are the result of the cor- rect design of this system, It is quite safe to say that the cost of the system, based on the light delivered to the street surface, is much less than in the majority of Canadian street-lighting installations; and yet, the major purposes of street-lighting, according to the Street Lighting Committee of the Il- luminating Engineering Society, are fulfilled, namely: '1, To promote safety and convenience in the streets at night through adequate visi- bility. 2. To enhance the community value of the street, 8. To accomplish the illumination of streets with the greatest practical promotion of the esthetic qualities of the street and of the street-lighting equipment, ~ ENDURING LITERARY WORKS Literary uplifters who are inclined to be- wail what seems to them to be a trend to- ward "litter" in present-day literature may derive a crumb of comfort from a survey of "best sellers" compiled for a New York newspaper, The survey answers this ques- tion of the compiler: "What books sell en- duringly, unaffected by the winds of chang- ing markets? What titles have yielded un- flagging satisfaction through the years, un- bounded by geographical reasons?" Each year produces a number of novels and other books that enjoy a wide reading, but their popularity is short-lived. The "best seller" of all ages is the Bible, Since John Gutenburg first put it in print some four hunderd and fifty years ago, 675 million copies have been sold, The second "best seller" is "Pilgrim's Progress." It was first published in its complete form in 1684, since when 150 million copies have found buyers. Sales of the "Analectics of Confucius" have exceeded one million copies since the author's death in 478 B.C, leading to the conclusion that it ranks as the third most popular book, The sale of the works of Charles Dickens have passed the thirty million mark, but since 1925 the demand for them has been exceeded by the market for Kipling"s writ- ings, Dumas, Zola, Hugo, Flaubert, and Tolstoy are in the same company of inter- national writers of permanence. General Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur" has sold five mil- lion copies, Other "best sellers" are "Gul- liver's Travels" and "Robinson Crusoe." Why worry about meretricious reading when that which is trash of modern writings seldom sells beyond one hundred thousand copies and is quickly forgotten! HIGHER LIVING STANDARDS The Carnegie endowment for international peace finds the standard of living among the working classes of Europe higher than be- fore the war. The improvement, it is point- ed out, is not because of the war but in spite of it, It has been brought about largely by better business methods, increased technical skill, mass production, and scientific man- agement. There have been contributing causes, in- cluding various forms of social insurance, better educational facilities, shorter working hours, improved housing, better health stan- dards and the like, But these would not have been possible without the better business methods and other industrial advances, All is not yet well in Europe by far, but a substantial measure of prosperity has been restored, and the governments are becoming increasingly stable, If it is true that conditions in Europe have improved not because of the war but in spite of it, it can also be said with equal truth that conditions have improved not be- cause of socialism and communism but in spite of them, One of the effects of the im- provement has been a vastly decreased in- terest in socialism. On this side of the water workers long ago learned what their European brothers only now reslize; that neither capital nor labor can triumph at the expense of the other, Per- haps this accounts for the higher standard of living of our working classes, If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the part of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be in- jurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.--Darwin. $ | At a Glance The city hg to en fete al- ready for the Rotary She Fair to- WOrrow. the looks of the ele- ments, it seems as if it were trying to rain most of the day. There's on- Ir one thing which we wish for and that is that it pours today, and not tomorrow. It TEE seems umber of our foo . ry have west, young - west," Sea swwatey of golden Now that Fall fairs, and expositions are inning to operate in a rather extensive manner, the road associa- tions and other companies meaning ell by the cities, have taken it upon henative fo commence Tipping up the roads in and around the cities and towns. Did you ever see it fail? CE N for - not parvinlars anyone eles is to aither i tet or to him [y B , one these 1] there! an ae: cident someone will be killed through this fooling. "as There are even localities in this civilized world of ours in which it is not safe to be, for fear of being boiled in soup by cannibals. The gov- ernmant ought to take steps to have this section of the country made as free from the nuisance as possible. sn The thing in this modern age doesn't seem to be the desive to live to be a hundred, but rather to live and die naturally. Not That Kind Sailor (who has fallen over-board) --Ahoy, there, drop me a line. Tourist, on deck--All right, what's your address going to be. Some people say on the other hand they are going to live to be a hun. dred or JA in the attempt. - husband le awake "Yes, and he tells them in his sleep, too." By Old Ben Now, I've been livin' in this hyar town fer nigh on to eighty years, an' | in all that time, 1 haven't seen any- thing like a Fair fer fun an' frolk, an' such. In the days past, God bless em, we used to turn out fer the fair, an' that would be the day of days. We'd get up early an' go down to the cattle sheds, an' there we'd watch them milk the cows, and fix the cat- tle up for showin'. I tell you, it was certainly a thing to visit a Fair. But generally they held the Fair 'way out in the country, an' we'd near spend most of the day gettin' there. Now they hold it right in the cen- tre of the city, and close traffic an' everything else fer the ol' thing. 1 uess it is worth it. Anyway, | spect to be goin' and p'raps 1 might even gamble a little. One never ap- preciates them things till one grows old anyway. But 1 don't feel so old either, and ef I show a little injinoo- ity I don't see why I can't win a doll er sumthin' to take home and set on me dresser. Oh, no, you wouldn't catch me stayin' home from that there Fair at no price. I cat up 4 newspapers already for confetti an' p'raps 1 won't make some of the girls. mad, I'll Jay 5 will, Isn't it disconcerting when you are walking down the street with another lady friend, and you meet the "permanent" who said she was going away for two weeks? One by one the. bookstores are placing the signs in their windows, "Headquarters for school supplies." x % % Why do such people have to take the joy out of life, says the barefooted youngster. * * * Rotary Is holding Its annual Street Fair On Wednesday If you're not a There it will Be all your Own fault, so Patronize home Industries first. re Fair-ever on the street. ' --By Renrut. What Others Say GET THIS RIGHT (Fredericton Gleaner) The fool marries the girl he loves; the wise man loves the girl he mar- ries. IMPROVE OLYMPIAD (Toronto Telegram) The Olympiad of 1928 is over, but the world is still echoing with the jangling, protests and dissatisfaction the so-called "sports" practiced. It almost seems as if the 1928 mect A) quarrels of four years ago have been mellowed by time. But anyway it must be admitted that sames which leave a bad taste for the day after are of doubtful value. If more Olympiads are to be held why not put them in charge of the Le que ot Nations and require com- peting nations to sign the Kellogg peace pact as a preliminary? RARE GOLF STROKE: (Ottawa Journal) A golf ball being played on a West- ern links was hit by lightning and carried over 400 yards. There are lots of players who wouldn't mind getting a stroke like that. WOULD'NT STAND FOR IT (Buffalo Courier Express) Thre men, arrested in the province has set a new record as a creator of | of Quebec for robbing a tavern, were discord. That may be because the jon their way to prison five hours later. Our criminals would not put up with such speedy justice. THE LATEST CASE OF IT (Christian Science Monitor) The latest adaption of the turn- ing of swords into plowshares is found in the use by Idaho farmers. of 1 500,000 pounds of high explosive manufactured during the war to clear 6,000 acres of land of stumps. MOST ENDEARING ACP (Hamilton Herald) Nothing will endear Percy Wil- liams more to his fellow country- men than the story from Vancou- ver which his mother tells, When he was away he wished to have her birthday observed, and he con. cealed a sum of money in their homre and then wrote so that she got the letter in time to tell her where to look. ~of pure natural "Tipped with Cork Viceroy's cork tips are but one of many reasons why so many discriminating smokers have swung over to this new and better cigarette. CIGARETTES CORK TIPS ~ DO NOT STICK TO THE LIPS 20 for 25 ¢ / growth THE NEW AND BETTER BLENDED CIGARETTE