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HE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928 a ee pe aes Sev stn Osha Canada, by Mundy Printing Comper. wa, Limited; Chas, M, Mundy, President; A. Alloway, Secretary, 1 a ily the Canadian Dally whi i As N J sociation, The Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carvier;: 0c a week, mall (out side Oshawa carrier delivery 1): tn the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumbers land, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE 407 Hond Building, 4a Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaide 0107, H, D, Tresidder, repre. sentative, REPRESENTATIVES IN 0.8, Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928 SCHOOLING Most Americans get their schooling be- tween the ages of 6 and 16, says Prof, Dallas L, Sharp, of Boston University, That is true, But most of us do not begin to get our real education until we leave school, Experience remains the greatest teacher, When a school graduate strikes gut in the world for himself, one of the first things he has to do is unlearn a good deal of what he has been taught, The delusion that takes most time to get out of the head is youth's inflated conception of the possibilities of success, STATESMANSHIP What is a statesman? An American edi- torial writer defines his as "a politician who has read a book," Elsewhere he has been variously described as a politician in a high hat, a ward healer with a passport and a generous campaign contributor, A new definition has been added to the list by Gustav Stresemann, German Foreign Minister, When a London paper called one of his speeches 'the most tedious in the annals of the German reichstag," he said; "Gustav, you are making amazing pro- gress, You have emerged from mere poli- tician to statesman, The gift of being tedi- ous is the essence of great statesmanship," True, the leading statesmen of today are inordinately tedious and dull, but a moment's reflection will show the fallacy of Herr Stresemann's epigram, His obvious error was in that he chose the wrong models from which to measure great statesmanship, The truly great statesmen of the past were ev- erything but tedious, Today the gift of being tedious is shared by the statesman with the politician, the holiday orator, the moral uplifter, the pro- fessional reformer and the luncheon club speaker, The statesman can not depend up- on the ability to bore to distinguish him from others, LOYALTY IN SERVICE The character of the individual may be very largely gauged by the measure of loy- he exercises toward the person or insti. that provides him with employment, ingrate is the person who is disloyal one to whom he owes the obligation cause it is committed by a group rather than by an individual, There are persons who feel under certain obligations to be loyal to an individual who is their employer, though they have no such feeling when their employer is a corporation, It is the same idea that rules the man who believes he is honest but would ride free on a public conveyance if he could, Many manufacturers and other employers complain that they are paying the highest wages in the history of their business, but they say that production has not increased and that the quality of work, if anything, has deteriorated, It is plain that there is need of a return to the principle of "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay," Any person who takes wages without an effort to give ade- quate return should not profess to consider himself in the class of honest men, JOYS OF LIVING Who has not wished that he had lived in some remote and happy time? The mag- nificence of Rome, the glory of Greece, the golden chariots, the alabaster vases and the ivory chairs of Tutankhamen fascinate and enthrall, Looking about upon a sick and weary world, nerve-shattered and hungry, it is not difficult to imagine how pleasant life must have been in an easier, golden day. Yet, if we had been living in the days of the pampered Pharaohs, the vast majority of us would have been digging the irrigation ditches, sweating over the great stones that went into the pyramids, or--if we had been particularly clever--perhaps hammering the gold that went into the ubiquitous statues of the king, The comforts of life were only at the top in 1500 B,C, and even the hope for improvement had not percolated to the bot- tom, There may be some consolation for the dissatisfied man of today in this thought --that his lot would have been infinitely worse 3,000 or more years ago, It's easier to live today than ever before, Nearly all the woes from which the world suffers might have been prevented, But when an ancient civilization was overrun by a savage horde, or when plague or famine decimated the population of the fairest cities, the wisest of those peoples couldn't help themselves, Migratory tribes have since heen pretty well billeted and ticketed, railroads and steamships have conquered famine, and in- telligent sanitation and magnificently brave and curious medicine is less respectful of disease with each passing year, EDITORIAL NOTES A red nose is no longer a sign of drink, He may have a girl who uses rouge, Utopia is a place where no one feels inclin- ed to amass enough of it to become a philan- thropist, The meek may inherit the earth, but the rent they now pay would indicate that they are buying it on the instalment plan, Fred Douglas, an employe of ROP CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER 'f'oronto Driver Faces Trial for Negligence in Death of Mrs, Symons Cobourg, Nov. 8.--Eyidence re- garding the finding of a balf-filled bottle of liquor a few yards from the scene of an automobile acef- dent on the provincial highway west of Port Hope, on Sept. 17, in which Mrs. A, E. Symons lost her life, featured Wednesday's sittings of Supreme Court, at which John L. Corkum, Toronto, driver of the ear, faces trial on a charge of erim- fpal negligence. Corkum was ori- ginally charged with manslaughter and committed for trial on that count. A. E. Symons, husband of the vie- tim, related how he had been driv- ing east on the provincial highway near Morrish, Sept. 17, with his wife and little daughter. A horse which he had purchased in the af- ternoon, was being led behind the bueev. at the right side and entire- Iv off the pavement, He was gyre the lantern, equipped with red lences was hung at the left side of fhe rig and was lighted. On eom- fn" on to the provineial highway from a side road some distance sr ct of the scene of the accident *r. Svmons declared. he stonped »s horse apd pscured himseil thet t=» road wes clear before proceed- ing, Symons, testified that the lantern on the buggy was lighted and in its proper place when he hitched up the horse a few minutes before the accident, Hearing of the accident later in the evening, he hurried to the scene and saw the body of Mrs, Symons lying on the pavement and theb uggy in the ditch, He saw a car against a fence on the oppo- site glide of the road, He picked up the broken buggy lamp and found it was still warm, "When I saw Corkum be Was in my house speaking to Mr, Symons," Richard Uglow told the court, "He was telling Mr, Symons, 'You had no light, Mr, Symons," A few minutes later, Stanley Rowe found a bottle in my garden, a few yards from the fence. It was a bottle of London Dry Gin half full." " Uglow stated that several per- sons tasted the liquid in the bottle. He knew it to be gin. Miss BENNETT TO ATTEND CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION Toronto, Nov, 8.--Miss Mildred Bennett, sister of Hon. R. B. Ben- nett will attend the annual con- {vention of the Ontario Conserva- tive Association, to be held bere November 21 and 22 Mr. John R. MacNicol, president, received word yesterday from Ottawa tbat Miss Bennett, who is at present in Van- couver, will be here for the ga'h- ering. Especial attention is to be given at this year's sessions to the (interests of women, and adnounc:- mept that Miss Bennett will attend was received with gratification by officers of the association. and was about | LATUQUE MAN ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Prosecution Opens Case Against Gonzague Gil bert at Quebec Quebec, Noy. 8.~The last murder trial of the present term of the Court of King's Bench opened Mon- day, when the case of the King vs. Gonzague Gilbert, of La Tuque, was started, Gilbert, who is 21 years old, is charged with murdering his mother in October, 1927, by the administration of strychnine, According to the Crown it was young Gilbert's intention to poison his father, It was customary for the accused's father to drink a glass of ale or por- ter during the night, and on the might in question, Gonzague Gilbert had gone to his father's oe early in the evening and had offered him a bottle of porter. His father had refused to drink, but had told his son to help himself to a glass and leave the rest in the kitchen. The accused is then supposed to have retired, but later in the even- ing, the Crown Prosecutor claimed, placed strychnine in the bottle which he had left on the kitchen table. At 2 o'clock his father had arisen and had helped himself to some of the porter from the bottle on the table. A few minutes later he was violently ill, and was removed to where he recovered. GREATEST BULL MARKET FOLLOWS U.S. ELECTIONS Nearly Five Million Shares Traded in on the N. Y, Stock Exchange New York, Nov. 8--Wall * Street, none too enthusiastic in its affection for Herbert Hoover a few months ago, folder the president-elect to its financial heart Nr ay in the greatest "bull session" the Stock Ex- change has ever known. The term "Coolidge bull market," made familiar by four years of reit- erations, slipped in the limbo of for. gotten things even 'before Tuesday's final returns were in. Having said it with votes, optimistic thousands repeated it with dollars, hey bought the same old favorites for the same old reason of faith in continued prosperity, but from the opening gong they referred to it by unanim.us consent as "Hoover Pros- perity." Over thousands of miles of tele- graph wire, by radio from ships at sea and by cable and wireless from abroad, a veritable avalanche of buy- ing orders converged upon the brok- erage firms in the street. Scores of stocks opened with over night gains ranging from $1 to $5 a share, and the appearance of huge blocks of shares on the tape show- ed unmistakably that at least some "big operators" are as confidently hopeful as the speculative public. Some gentlemen with a fat pocket- book, for example, seemed to think that the election of Hoover made Standard Oil of New Jersey worth just $2.50 a share more than it had closed at on Monday, for the initial transaction in this issue was a block of 20300 shares at the record price of $52.50, the purchase amounting to $1,005,750, exclusive of the broker's "kitty." And some one else put $1,796,000 into 8,000 shares of General Motors at a jump of $3.50 a share. The tick- er, falling steadily behind the frantic rush of business of the floor, spelled out a constant tattoo of rising quo- tations, SUNDAY SPORTS SCORE VICTORY Massachusetts Votes to Le. galize Most Athletic Contests --California for Boxing Boston, Nov, 8.--Sunday sports won a decisive victory in Massa- chusetts, according to returns from all hut 392 of the states 1,605 elec- tion precincts, returns from 1,213 precinets ,including the Boston vote complete, gave 577,353 yes votes and 305,738 no on the Sunday sports referendum appearing on the ballot, With only 480,000 yes votes needed to carry the referendum. its safety was assured on the ba- sis of even the incomplete returns, and the way is now cleared for tne passage nf the act, which, among other things, will legalize Sunday haseball hetween the hours of 2 and 6 p.m., in all cities and towns that favor it under loeal option provisions. Define Sports Indoor sports, such as hoxing and arena ice hoekey, will not he allowed under the new act, wul- though hockey may be played out- doors. Automobile and horse-rac- ing and hunting also art not legal- ized; hut all other outdonr ath. letle contests, éither professional or amateur, can now be stared, provided the eity or town in which they are played gives its consent. The effort to legalize Sunday sports, which has met defeat on several occasions both in the Legis- lature in the form of a hill and on the ballot in the form of a referen- dum, has been hacked chiefly by the professional sports promoters of the Statt, while chief opposition has come fronr the Lord's Day Lea- gue and the Massachusetts clergy in general. Prize Fighting Allowed San Francisco, Nov. 8.--By an overwhelming majority, California voters have rejected a move de- signed to outlaw prize fighting. On the basis of incomplete return from every part of the state in the gen- eral election the state has defeated a constitutional amendment which would have done away with ten- round fights and made it illegal for pugilists to fight for *purses." With less than the half vote on amendments totalled that on the boxing law repeal was. Yes, 338,- 830; no, 408,551. - San Francisco, on the basis of complete returns, returned the following vote on the MERA Dt: Yes, 47,909; no, 91,- 9. CHILDREN'S BOOKS SHOULD BE SELECTED WITH GREAT CARE Montreal, Que., Nov, 8. -- "Child- ren in reality lead busy lives and there is not much time for books and reading, therefore it is impor- tant that those provided should be carefully selected," said Mrs. M. D. Carter, assistant director of the McGill Library School, to an aud- lence of women. Mrs. Carter pro- ceeded to show slides of children's libraries in Paris, British Colum- bia and the United States, pointing out that despite the difference in countries the libraries specially set aside for children looked very hospital [preated which much alike, adding that it would be a splendid thing for the future citizens of this city if they could have a special library for their use in the years when impressions were had considerable bearing on their future careers, READERS' VIEWS Editor, "Oshawa Times," Dear Sin-- In this age of civilization and human progress, when we have to (apparently) laboriously search old records for pioneer reminis~ censes, a situation such as exists within five minutes' walk from Simcoe street (Oshawa"s main thoroughfare), seems almost in- credible. On and adjacent to Valencia road, East Whitby township, twen- ty families comprising forty-five adults and fifty children of school age, are practically isolated some- what like the pioneers of old. Re- peated requests for a crossing to Bloor street west, which is only 250 feet from East Whitby limits, have been ignored and these 95 citizens are forced to traverse a mile and a half to reach the cor- [ner of Oxford and Bloor streets, where the demanded crossing would lead to. For nine years the residents here have needed, requested, and have been promised this very nec- essary crossing by Enoch Thomp- son (who sold all this real estate on condition that the crossing would be granted), and also lacka- daisically by the Whitby Council. In fact, Reeve Dearborn emphati- cally states that nothing can be done at all, In wintertime and wet weather it 1s quite an ordeal to trudge this mile and a half, and surely this glaring instance of unconcern of the situation by our local respon- sible guardians of the public wel- fare seems unbélievable, and cer- tainly should be investigated and remedied immediately, Also, parallel to the needed crossing on the C.N.R, a private crossing exists used only by one family of three persons while the 95 continue, through sheer neglect of the situation, to walk a mile and a half, to cover 250 feet if the crossing was granted. Trusting this meets. the eye of those responsible, interested and concerned and that this intolerable situation be speedily relieved after nine years of unnecessary plodding} I remain, vours resnectfully, Alfred Giles, 38 Valencia Road, E. Whit- by, c.0. Cedardale P.O. POISON IS SEIZED IN BIG QUANTITIES Explanation of New York Deaths May Now Be Given -Seizure of some 4,000 gallons denatured alcohol, outward bound, - on liquor export docks at La Salle by Customs pre- ventive officers is believed to have uncovered the trail of poisoned liquor from here to New York, where less than a month ago 40 deaths took place from bad liquor. W. A. Jacques, head of the Cus- toms preventive force for Western Ontario, tonight said he could say noth ug about the seizures, nor of the Windsor man who, gossip among liquor docks has it, is the local agent of the New York hootleg ring whose vile concoctions brought blindness and illness to scores, in addition to death to forty. ! Somewhere back along the trail, presumably in Montreal, is the Can- adian shipping agent for the ring, and somewhere between the border and New York, and perhaps in New York itself, is an enormous reclaiming plant, in which denaturants, added to make the original grain alcohol un- drinkable, are removed, Down in dockland, however, where for 24 hours daily the rum-runners lay plans in the battle of wits with the United States border patrol on the far side of the Detroit River, word of the seizures has spread like wildfire, and the report is in wide circulation that a charge is pending as a result of the seizures, On just what ground the pending charge can be based is not quite clear. There is no law against the exporta- tion of denatured alcohol, which is used legitimately for industrial pur- poses, nor does the excise tax at- tached to export liquor apply to it. TOY PISTOL BANDIT FOILED BY BANKER Canadian Teller in Detroit Sounds the Police Alarm Windsor, Nov, 8 ol Windsor, Nov, 8.--Dropping to the floor of his cage when a youth- ful bandit pointed a pistol at him, together with a note demanding money, prompt action on the part of Frank McFarlane, 1217 Duf- ferin Place, Windsor, a teller in the First National Bank branch at Michigan and Third Avenue, De- troit, prevented a hold up of the bank at noon Wednesday. Frightened when McFarlane shouted, "Get that fellow!" and at the same gtime reached for the police alarm button, the would-be bandit ran from the bank. John B. Spitiery, manager of the branch, gave chase and caught and dis- armed him as he was about to jump into a taxicab. Et OY WNT WN hy wood lo hp tote my ftom Tih thy God will hold thy right hand, say- ing unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. --Jsa. 41:13, PRAYER--Lord, with our hands and hearts, we raise to Thee, unfail- ing prayer and praise. COURT QUASHES CONVICTION ON MURDER CHARGE Wilbert R, Williams Case a Miscarriage of Judgment, is the Verdict Toronto, Nov. 8.--The conviction has been quashed and a mew trial ordered im the case » Withett B. Willial former science m s who had' been sentenced to be hanged, December 6, on a charge of murdering his wife at Kings. ton. This was the decision given by the First Divisional Court at Os- goode Hall yesterday, after hear- ing argument on the appeal, The court thought that the conviction amounted to a miscarriage of jus- tice. Chief Justice Sir Willlam Mu- lock, in announcing the decision said: "On opening the appeal be- fore us, counsel for the accused stated that at the time of his tri- al the accused was insane, there. upon the question rose whether, if he was then insane within the meaning of Section 967 of the Criminal Code, the trial judge should have directed the trial of an issue as to such insanity befoye his trial of the offence charged." After reading from Section 967, Chief Justice Mulock proceeded: "From the examination of the evl- dence of such insanity, that major- ity of the court are of opinion that at the trial and before verdict, there was evidence which, had the point been taken would of necessity have raised a doubt in the mind of the learned trial judge and so have brought the case within the provisions of this section. The . point, he thought, "should have been brought to the attention of the learned tri- al judge but was not, and in con- sequence resulted in the cause laid down by Section 8967 not hav- ing been adopted. Nevertheless, we are of the opinion that omis- sion of counsel ought not to he al- lowed to deprive the accused of the statutory right given to him by the section. For these reasons, we think this conviction amounted to a miscarriage of justice and ordered." Besides the Chief Justice, the court consisted of Justices Magee, Hodgins, Grant and Orde. W. C. Hodgins and A. E. Day appeared for Willlams and BE. Bayly, K.C., for the Crown. Mr, Hodgins, for the appellant, urged that the con- viction be quashed under Section 1016 of the Criminal Code, which provides that even if a person was guilty of the crime, if he was in- sane at the time, the court could quash the conviction Mr, Bayly sald the judge's charge clearly showed that he did not think the accused was insane. The issues now raised were not mentioned at all, service has boon since 1840. LSS. takes you home NU 218 20a there tn hotest thine for Christmas. Our trans. Atlantic famed mow! Rr Third Cla ase THE ROBERT REFORD 00., LIMITED } Corner Bay & Wellington Sts., Toronto Phone Elgin 8471 STILTS BANNED IN BUILDING WORK -- Toronto, Nov. 8.--City Architect Woolnough warned a well-known contracting firm that it must dis- continue the use of stilts in build- ing operations. The warning follows the protest made recently by General Organizes James Marsh, of the United Broths erhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and Secretary Willlam Varley, of the Building Trades Council, that carpenters were being asked to work on stilts, that they were dange erous, and that men had been diss missed because they would not ae cept the contrivances to assist them in their work. should be quashed and a new trial : A.L. HUDSON & Co. NEW YORK PRODUCE Resident Manager; E-- a] NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE WINNIPEG GRAIN EXCHANGE STANDARD STOCK and MINING EXCHANGR EXCHANGE (Ass'te) NEW YORK CURB MARKET (Ass'te) DIRECT PRIVATR WIRE CONNECTIONS TO ALL PRINCIPAL MARKETS THROUGHOUT CANADA and UNITED STATES Oshawa Oifice a1imes Building Melephone 2700, C, N. 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