The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

The Sntario Reformer An independent newspaper published every other day ay and Saturday afternoons) at Osh- (Tuesday, ' a nada, The. Reformer Printing and Publish. iE Company dite. J € Ross - - - - President and Editor. J. Bwart MacKay Vice-President and Treasurer. SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Delivered by Carrier in Oshawa or by mall anywhere in Canada $3.00 a year. United States subscription $1.50 extya to cover postage. Single copies Ge. SAM N TR De OSHAWA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1922 ARMISTICE DAY AND WHAT IT MEANS Tt is most fitting and proper that we should pause for two minutes on Armistice Day in order to think them 'brings home forcibly the present shortage of the commonest books in the public libraries. There is something pathetic in the description given of the disappointed children and grown-ups thronging the libraries in search of knowledge, edu- cation or entertainment, and being again and again told that the books which they want are out. It would be bad enough if this were true only of new books. The library naturally eannot keep a suffi. cient supply to nieet the demand for expensive re- cent publications of great popularity, That there should be forty or fifty on the waiting list for books of the type of Well's ""Outline" and Van Loon's "Story of Mankind" is regrettable, but understand- able, There should, of course, be more copies avail- able if the Library had sufficient funds, but unfort- unately the funds are so limited that the proportion of the brave hoys who rest through all eternity | because of their sacrifice for us, Four years ago to-day the guns "ceased five' the Western Front, Peace prevailed after many long years of the bitterest kind of warfare. From millions of war-wearied soldiers, from patient wives and mothers, from worn munition workers and tired doctors and nurses went up a pean of praise that the strife had ended. Then came thoughts for those who had fallen. Memorial services were held throughout the length on and breadth of the land, hospitals and institutions | established to care for the maimed and broken, and nmotiuments erected in honor of the brave dead, A year later came this annual Armistice Day, when the whole nation gives pause in order that it may take heed of what has taken place. ' "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." From many churches scattered throurhout our | land ihe decp-toned inessaze of ministers, the i of those blend in voices of ehoirs, and the pravers s ones sleep in far-off Flanders t that is} part pride and part sorrow--pride in agnificent performances and sorrow that they nore send 1s the south of the land. For the most ralivei 10 1 coful prrstiis to uphold the tradi- thers and the impire of which they MN en in the Di fied witn the virihiy and vision of wen in a new land, boys from farm and factory, counting-house and eollege, fought and fell on the blood-stained | Ilow nobly they fought, how bravely | battlefields. {hey died will live while the nation lasts! . And so, in these memorial services, while the organ peals forth the magnificent strains of Handel's i"iineral March, the imagination of the worshipper is tirred. and when the song of triumph, "O Death, ere is thy sting?" finally peals forth, we know that those who died did not die in vain, We. picture the sodden fields of strife, the murderous attack of the foe, the heroic resistance of our men, the grim upturned faces of the dead soldiers with hands grip- | ping rifle barrels, and the eold sightless eyes that never faltered nor looked back, and our hearts swell in tenderness for those who have gone, and with | "Out of the | sympathy for those they left behind. depths, O Lord, out of the depths," we involuntarily ery. Canada has been at war and has paid the price in the blood of sixty thousand of her bravest and best. the Lest ye breed" was nobly | e profession of arms, | laid out in new books is necessarily small, | But that the copies of the '""old-timers" like | "David Copperfield" and "Tom Sawyer" and 'Huckleberry Finn" ave practically never on the shelves and are torn and soiled beyond deseription { from overuse is indeed a veflection on the city's educational policy, New York, the biggest and rich- est city in the country, pays only 35 cents, where Bridgeport pays yearly $1.28 per capita for library appropriations and where the average in thirty-six of the more important cities is 65 cents, No possible good ean come of the present policy of starving the libravies, BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and {in which missionaries carry on their | GIVING AND, GETTING :--Give, and it shall he | OF WORK AMONG PEOPLE OF JAPAN i Problem is Too Great for Forty Workers, Declares Miss E. Lackner MANY MORE NEEDED Sunday School Class Stages Interesting Pageant in Aid of Missions Declaring that the Japanese prob- lem was too gread for the forty Can- adian missionaries to cope with and that the solution of tnig important work rested with the people of this country, Miss E, Lackner, returned miseionary from Japan, spoke to a| fairly large audience in the audi-| torium of Simcoe Street Methodist | Snuday School Thursday evening. | Her narrative regarding the customs of the Japanese race and the manner | | work successfully was indeed inter- esting. Her address will no doubt | create a new interest in missionary | work here, Miss Lackner appealed | Lo parents to not hinder their daugh- | ters from entering the missionary | field as there was an urgent need for more workers in that foreign into your bosom, For with the same measure that ve mete withal it shall be measured to you again. Luke 6: 38, | A LITTLE NONSENSE A little lad was desperately ill, but refused to take the wedicive the doctor prescribed. His mother | finally gave up. 'Oh, my boy will die, my boy will die!"' Presently a voice piped up from the bed: "Dnt ery, Mother, Father'll be home soon, and he'll make me take it."' she sobbed, ae of life, lads | Roy Simpscn, nezro laborer, was putting in his | first day with a construction gang whose foreman | was known for getting the maximum amount of labor out of his men. Simpson was helping in the task of moving the right-of-way, and all day long | he carried heavy timbers and ties until at the close | of the day he was completely tired out. Came quit- | ting time. Before he went he approached the boss | and said : "Mister, you sure you got me down on the pay- roll 2"? The foreman looked over the list of names he held. [ ""Yes,"" he said, finally, "here you are--Simpson- Roy Simpson. That's right, isn't it?' ""Yaas suh, boss,"' | T thought mebbe you had me down as Samson." | -- Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati). HER OWN Out of the mists he comes, 'nnamed, unknown, To the hushed sob of drums, Back to his own, shaken together, and running over, shall men give said the negro, "dass right. To that dear island home for which he fell. The splendid vietors here shall bear his pall And King and people do him reverence, The members of the Oshawa Hunt Club never dreamed that they had so many friends in town as greeted them this week, The sight of sixteen deer | For him the bugle sounds the last, sad call, and a hundred or more partridges may have had | Yet of his passing hence something to do with the friendly spirit shown, but | We nothing know and of his warlike deeds again it may be all due to the endearing qualities of | No tongue may ever tell. the Hunt Club members themselves, At any rate, ! those on the "'inside" declare that venison steak is | Enough it is that this is one '"de-lish-us,"' while roasted partridge '* just melts in | Of that great Army of our glorious dead { Who surely thouzh by mortal eyes unseen, ! Follow with ghostly tread,- | Rank upon rank, our unknown warrior's bier, ! And every prayer for him, and every tear | That falls, are theirs, and theirs the undying fame | AUTOS AND GOOD ROADS (Christian Seience Monitor) One of thie most interesting developments of the last ten or fifteen years has been the complete re- habilitation of the road, in its age-long role as one ; This was a simple shepherd of the hills, of the chief means of communication. The years This was a hewer in the deepest mine, that intervened between the coming of the railways | A toiler in the elamor of the mills, and the coming of the motor car saw a great silenee | A scion of an old and honored line. and a great quiet settle down over vast numbers of : A lad whose eager feet were seareely set the world's highways. The motor ear, howdver, has | On manhood's threshold and a warrior grim, changed all that, and to-day states and countries ' Scarred in a hundred fights, who left his home are vying with one another in the matter of road | In that dark hour nor knew one vain regret building; as to both quantity and quality. For all that he had yielded. Yea, in him Few modern developments are more interesting | Each mother knows her son, each widow knows to the student of history than the way in which | jfer long-mourned husband, and the maid unwed roads aré coming into their own again. For the fier lover. So when reverent hands shall elose last seventy years of last century, the tremendous | That narrow yet that all-embracing grave : ev lopment of the railway tended more and more yy; the dim, pillared twilight of the nave, 0 ensign the road to the limbo of negleet. Then | yy, shall we call him yet our unknown dead? vame the motor ear, and now the road is entirely | _ yy ohctone in London Daily Mail. (In tribute to reli tated. So the farmers of Illinois are, to-day, | "The Unknown Warrior," found urging the development of 'market roads" | throughout the State. "Bad roads,'"' declared a | prominent member of the Illinois Agricultural As- sociation, the other day, "'add millions of dollars | annually to the eost of producing and marketing farm prodifets in Tinois."" It is the same in many other States and countries besides Illinois. To which his soul is heir, whose very name Is lost in that great glory which they share. THE HERO 1918 The droning of shells, and a nation at prayer; A torn. bleeding Digger ; a woman's sweet eare; Then a sunny verandah; a hospital chair. 1922 Laughter and sunshine on bright Coogee Bay ; A one-legged Digger is trying-to play An organ; and people move slowly away. J -- Erie Fairey. "THE BOOK IS oUT" (Prom the New York Times) The librarian's definition of Utopia as ""the place where there are enough eopjes of Mark Twain, Diek- ens, 0. Henry and Stevenson for those who want New South Wales, country, | Before Miss Lackner was called | fon to address the gathering, a mis-' sionary pageant was presented by Mrs, J. H. MecBain's Sunday School class, entitled "Not Exempt." The | thought contained in the pageant! | Vas that no one was exempt from | contributing to missionary work. It; was of an inspiring nature owing to | the able manner in which it was car-| ried out. Miss Leah Garrow render-| ed a solo very acceptabiy, | Exhibited Curios During the course of her address | Miss Lackner exhibited a number of | | curios which had been brought ffom | Japan and which she described in| detail. Her account of the system used by missionaries in bringing the natives in to the schools established for religious training was probably the most interesting. In the city where the speaker had been sta-! tioned, there are schoo's for sewing | classes, cooking, physical training, | private schools and celleges, Miss Lackner explained tha' very often MISSIONARY TELLS = needs. the every day. The Robert This h In Your Toronto Paper To-night You Will Read where the big Simpson Store has prepared a spread of the most tempting values in personal and household : uge programme crammed as it is, full of desirable, seasonable merchandise, appears every even- ing in the week--with fresh, new offerings of course Oshawa in particular will be intimately concerned, since stands ready to accept promptly and coureously, any order that you care to send over the telephone. The Oshawa office extends a valuable practical service not only to Oshawa but to the surrounding district as well. If vou so desire, goods will be held in the Oshawa office pending your arrival there. ient for customers who do not pass by the local office TELEPHONE, 1280. SIMIPSO This is sometimes conven- Company Limited by drawing one girl into the church others would follow but there were] strong forces working against them. A movement was started by those wishing to give the priests a liveli-| hood. There was no religion attach-| {ed to the movement but an attempt | was made to stop Japanese boys and girls from attending missionary | | schools. As a result severe measure were adopted by the parents to pre-| vent young people from studying the! Bible. However, she said, the work | was continued and the efforts of mis- sionaries are meeting with success, | Received Kind Treatment Speaking of the treatment accord-| ed the missionaries by the Japanese, | Miss Lackner stated that they were! | very kind and were absolutely hon- est. They would never hesitate to | put themselves to any inconvenience | to assist missionaries in finding | | places or in other ways. She ex | plained that missionaries were very | i happy in the work there but there | | was a great need for further work- | ers and she expressed the hope that {in sending missionaries to the | eign field but in a financial way. At the conclusion of her address { Rev, J. H. McBain expressed appre- | cia : a ri [For tre Tote ran say Fs hering { 4 given to them for- | by the speaker and felt sure that | | her remarks would act as an incen- put forth increased efforts in aiding such a worthy cause. Council Rescinds (Continued from page 1) had never been issued. Basing his stand on this ground, he questioned law and felt that it was leave it as it was at present. Councillor Preston disagreed with this idea, pointing out that when the auditors made -theijr report, they placed this debenture issue as a con- tingent liability against the town. The town solicitor, on the other hand, had given the opinion that the issue could not be regarded as a liability | in any sense of the word. Touching on thé mayor's defer-| ence Lo acting contrary to the ex-| pressed will of the people, Reeve | Morris stated that the sanction of | the original by-law given some years ago could not be taken as any criter- | ion of the will of the people at the | present time and under the present | circumstances. He believed that as the issue stood today, the money, could be collected, were steps taken | to do so. He favored the rescinding | of the old by-law. ! While not raised in Council, an-| other point has been brought out by | ratepayers of the town, who are won- | best to | dering whether the Council's action | is legal in as mueh as the town of | Oshawa is but one party to a general | agreement made by the various! municipalities affected. Business | men who have interested themselves, | in the matter are inclined to feel that | once having committed themselves | the people of Oshawa are bound to | stand or fall by the general action of all the municipalities. " The new by-law, reseinding the] old one, was finally passed. Other | by-laws given their final readings! included the by-law authorizing the agreement between the munieipality ! an¥l Robert Dixon, in the matter of certain lands required for the ex- tending of a proposed street, and! ene authorizing the imposing of pen- alties upon persons marketing goods of light: weight, short measuremocnt or count. { he had not taken the matter entire- | tion. Oshawa would do her part not only | tive to Oshawa mission workers to | the advisability of rescinding the by- | Mayor's Actions Continued from page 1) Replying, the mayor stated. that ly in his own hands and added that three members of the hoard of works were present, in addition to the Town Engineer, when the cheque was issued and that all of these gentle- men were in accord with the sugges- It was a straight business proposition the mayor stated, and the account was long overdue, "The money has heen paid now but there is still about $700 owing to Mr. Carrol and that is the question with which the council has to deal," said the mayor. Councillor Trick, replying, said: "You say the money was long over- due. Mr, Carrol had been requested by the hoard of works to complete one of the sidewalks and has not | done so. 1 want this council to in- | vestigate both the Brennan and Car- | rol affairs. The mayor had no right to authorize this payment." "You are out of order,' mayor. : "I am not," replied Councillor | Trick, who kept right on talking. "How about the three members of | the board who were present when |the transaction transpired?" asked Councillor Stanton. "Surely that | was-done in a business-like way," he added, Councillor Burns arose and stated that he was one of the members who had given authority to issue the | cheque. "The man received our | promise that we would pay up," he said. The bill owing to him was for said the | | $4,000 and Mr. Carrol agreed to leave | $1,000 behind to cover any faults in | the work. The engineer was agree- | able to this, estimating the work to he done at $300. Councillor Preston averred that the matter was poor husiness. "I want the matter laid on the table until the board of works makes an investigation dnd I move a mo- tion to that effect," said Councillor Trick. Councillor Preston seconded it. The 'motion carried. Ritson Road Councillor Hawkes brought up the | question of a cinder path for resi- dents in the vieinity of Ritson Road. Deputy Reeve Hill thought that these people's wants should be at- tended to immediately. The matter was referred to the Board of Works with power to act. Ottawa coal dealers refuse to be dictated to by the fuel controller placing the price at $16 per ton. Now what's to he done in a case like that? ~--Hamilton Spectator. Irish want the "Stone of Destiny' in Westminister Abbey, but should be first compelled to state at what they intend to throw it.--Toronto Teiegram. Finish the Season with a dependable tire. We have some good seconds on sale 30 x 31 for $7.00 and $8.00 These are just what you need for the rough Oshawa Auto Laundry and Livery 161 King St. W. Fitted in widths Ato D Spats and Overgaiters widths, LET US FIT A PAIR ON FOR YOU Prices Range in Pure Wool Felt $1.75 $2.00, $2.25 and $3.00 in English Broadcloth and Box Cloths $4.00 and Nothing will go to Make or Mar that new Fall Costume or Coat like a poor fitting Spat. Many Ladies who have refused to enjoy the comfort and warmth of Spats because they were so rid- iculous in regard to Fit, will no doubt welcome the announcement that we fit our spatsin $4.50