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Wh The Ont 10 eformer Ea AS ell VOLUME 51--No. 107 Published at Oshawa, os atSuada Tuesday, Thursday and OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1922 Yearly Subscription $3.00 Single Coplse 5 Cents --Second Section BIG WORLD EVENTS: THEIR SIGNIFICANCE. * Jy "William Banks. Sir Henry Thornton, newly ap- pointed President of the government --or rather the publicly owned rail- ways-- of this country, has entered upon his duties following the em- phatic declaration that there is to be no political interference, direct or indirect. Oanada has heard such statements before, and its people are perhaps somewhat cynical in re- spect to them, But there has been an awakening to the fact that if the railways owned by this country are to be successfully operated, strict business considerations must come first, Through 4 sérioug set of cir- cumstances Canada became the pos- Bessor of thousands of miles of rail- way lines which she had never ex- pected to own, The pros and cons of the situation would be out of place here. Actual conditions have to he dealt with and the ability of Sir Henry Thornton or any other man in handling them can only be judged by the results achieved, It is hinted that the Canadian National Railway System may ease the taxpayer'at a much earlier period than most people imagine. The people are also told, in this instance by Sir Joseph Fla- velle, retiring chairman of the Grand Trunk Board, that the combined Na- tional and Grand Trunk systems will not only meet operating charges this year, but will leave a substan- | tial surplus to be applied toward fixed charges. This does not mean that Parliament will not be ecall- ed upon to provide further sums for capital expenditures for the system, But when these are provided and the necessary improvements made, the efficiency of the whole system will be greatly increased. If operating de- ficits had to be faced consistently the accumulated burden would soon be more than the people would care to bear. The statement that there will be a surplus instead of a deficit The claim is advanced for them that they have been successful for short distances and do not consider that it is impossible to send photographs across the Atlantic by this method. Television is the name they apply to 'their discoveries. . About ten or twelve years ago experiments along this line were abandoned as holding out no promise of realization. They have been resumed from a new angle with the result stated, Freo State Rule The 'Irish Free State is now in actual being. The Provisional gov- ernment has passed out of existence and Timothy Healy is the First Governor general of Southern Ire- land, He has been a prominent fig- ure in Irish politics for a great many years and at one time or another was in conflict with most of the | chiefs of the various Irish parties [to which he was himself attached. Healy, however, has great personal charm, wide knowledge of politics at | home and abroad, is prominent in the legal professjon, well stored and a well trained mind | to the office for which he has been selected. Whatever the immediate {outcome of the new condition of af- | fairs in Ireland, there is no gain- {saying the need for peace there, North and south alike must he sick heen in progress for so long. In Bel- fast, alone, up to last week, no less E than three hundred and forty ver- dicts for murder have been returned | Valera and the|- for this year, De |remnant of the Republican forces | have made threats of what they will | do to show the world that the Free | Staite as now constituted does not | meet with the wish of the majority | in the South. But apart from skir- mishes and ambushes, their attempts {at warfare have not been very alarm- ing. Meanwhile the government has |: and brings a|, of the murder campaigns that have |' = this year is therefore doubly wel-! come. Sir Henry Thornton and his Sonfiriied associates bi need the good will the action martials in condemning more men *o death for carrying arms illegally, and these executions place. Krupps Make Implements There are wheels within wheels in some of the undertakings now pro- and practigal cooperation of the people of Canada in the task they are undertaking which, in brief, is to turn the government owned railways | into one of Canada's greatest assets. | If they feel that they have the con- fidence of the people they will be gressing for the regeneration of more than ever determined to give| Russia. The Soviet some time ago the best that is in them for the pub-| made contracts with the famous Ger- lic weal, It is in this spirit that! man firm of armament makers--the the success of the greatest enterprise Krupps--of whom much was heard of its kind, on this continent may | during the war--for the exploita- win to a remarkable success, tion of agricultural areas. The New. - Postal Convention | Krupps recently stated their inability As the result or a conference at|t© fulfil their original contracts on Ottawa, a new postal convention | 2ccount of the fall of the mark. A with the - United States has been |T€Vised agreement is now reported agreed to, It is expected that it will | 10 reveal the fact that less than 75 not only facilitate the carriage of | per cent. of the needed capital was mails and parcels between the two |Secured by Krupps from an agent countries but that it will also result |2Cting for British Banks. The ar- in actual cash savings of consider- | F2hgement is said to be one of the able amounts because of the improve- | MOst unique attempted in Europe. In ments in service that will be pos- | effect it means that the Krupps will ible. The arrangements superseded | CAT™Y out a big soheme of grain by the new agreement have been in arming for the supply of wheat for effect since 1888 and have lately the men of their own vast enter- struck both countries as being too 'Prises and for the Russian people antiquated to be continued. It is a|iB the areas affected. The Soviet tribute to Canada that the confer- | itS€lf has not been noted for its suec- ence was held in this country's capi- | ©©58 in protecting the people against tal and that it was so successful in| the pangs of hunger. so short a time. Indeed thirty diffi- | Greece an Enigma cult problems were disposed of in| i i sessions that lasted but two days and te is 80) an Rbleva for the and it was the view of the partici- | ¢po exe: d pe. elents . utions of former statesmen pants that at least two years would |and soldiers with fervid rsistency. have been required to settle them by | But it is to b ep ey. correspondence, ? s to be noted that Prince - y Andrew a brother of former King Photos' By Telephone _ |Constantine who was also court mar- It would have been incredibie a tialled has been allowed to live. He few years ago, but we are prepared is degraded and exiled adding one now to hear that scientists believe more to the many royalties who are they can telephone photographs, and resting in countries other than those hear it without jeering at the idea. jin which they were once notable French scientists are actually carry- figures. ing on experiments 'to that end.,Greece is near to a revolution as Perhaps it wasn't Tea that inspired the writing of wcAuld Lang Syne," but SEAL BRAND have taken! |allies in the Near East conferences, | ly well aware that the United States completely derogatory to all that is sane and safe as can. well be im- agined, Optimists on the other hand argue that «the situation is now much clearer and that the people will settle down to realization of the difficulties that confront them and the enormity of the task that the Allies have in saving them from stil! more severe terms than they had dreamed of when the first Turkish demands reached them after their disaster in the Angora campaign. It seems likely that the great migra- tion of Christians, chiefly Greeks, from Asia Minor will now proceed until the 500,000 remaining there a short time ago are all away, and that over three hundred thousand Moslems under the Greek flag must return to lands over which the cres- cent flies, It id impossible for Can- adians to realize what the whole- sale forced migrations of races means, Many of these people are decendants of those who settle in the different countries two or three centuries ago, Now they are fleeing those countries by hundreds of thousands, leaving their material possessions and dying in hundreds by the way. We are fortunate, U.S. Take Strange Position © It may be.that the announced at- titude of the United States has heen | How Not to Catch Cold | To that end, observe the following "Donts" issued by Dr. Charles J. 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J] po THAT some cities are great ing centres, THAT some of them could men made an organized effort to their desks waiting for business. they can't help it, GROWING. DID YOU EVER ATOP TO THINK ] THAT in many of them, heads of concerns sit peacefully at wit retail, jobbing and manufactur. become greater if the business H make them so. 4 THAT in these competitive times you have to go after it, if ' {pox or a mad dog." you would il they had scarlet fever or diphtheria, "Don't go to any public meetings if you have a cold. You had better stay | at home until it is better. You will] save time in doing so, and probably | save others from contracting your | cold, | "Don't stand close to any one with | whom you are conversing if you are | reckless enough to go about when you | have a cold, and do not under any! circumstances shake hands with any | one while you have an acute cold. Re-/ member through the frequent use of, your handkerchief, your hands are al- ways contaminated with the germs of | the disease, Have you ever catechized your hands and fingers with regard to everything they have been in con- tact with in the previous twenty-four hours? One of the surgeons in a mili: | tary camp during the great World War, kept a careful record of the num- | ber of possibilities of contaminating | his hands for a single day, and it | amounted to approximately 120. Don't under any consideration touch any article of food, whether for your- self or for any one else, unless you | have previously thoroughly ciggnsed your hands, 'HAVE YOU WASHED {YOUR HANDS?" would be a valuable | motto to be placed in every dining room, "Hundreds of lives could be saved (and thousands of cases of sickness | | prevented, if people were as much afraid of colds as they are of small- DOOR WINDS THE CLOCK, [chosen by the Jewish kings for the | practice- of théir idolatrous rites. {When Josiah, king of Judah, reator- [ed the national worship he made | Gehenna a place of defilement by | covering it with human bones; after | this it became the cesspool of [the city Fires were kept con- stantly burning there to cone sume the bodies of maleface tors, carcasses of animals and what- ever other offal had been cast out from the city. The word "Gehenna' occurs frequently in the Scriptures, and in the New Testament is often translated "hell," _ 0X0 promotes Nutrition. 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It is a strange position for s0 great a power o take. If Turkey should now or later on decide that she will Tortily the straits regardless of all promises, agreements or threats, the attitude of the United States will be just the same, one Some observers believe that of passive patience. She wants the | | Straits open, but shg is leaving it | to Britain and the "other allies to! | win that privilege for her as well as , themselves, Her . representatives who sit in the various conferences | without taking part in them as allies | or associate allies, take advantage of | everything gained by the allies and | every once) in a while lecture the! latter on their duties, must feel that | they are playing an ignoble par:. The recent exhibition of Ambassador Harvey, Ambassador to Bri- tain, during an address to the Ameri- can Club in London is a case in point, In effect he stated that the United States expected that the allies would pay their debts to her; that the coming parleys should not be conducted on the basis of a hoped for decision by his country to cancel those obligations. No doubt Wash- ington instructed him to make its attitude clear. Britain takes the ground that unless there can be can- cellation of debts all round she can- | | not afford to cancel the debts her! {allies owe her. It becomes more and more apparent that the attitude of the United States is hurrying rather than retarding lapses in Europe. She might spare the na-| tions that are torn with anxiety and | laden with tremendous burdens, her platitudes on their duty. Lioyd George Still Active | Lloyd George is full of life. He was to the fore in the debate on the | address from the Throne in the Bri- | tish House with the view that the question of unemployment 'was something that should be dealt with on a scale that would permit of permanent relief. His view was that it was mo longer a temporary matter in Britain that there would | always be much surplus of labor and | "Don't sneeze or cough except in a handkerchief or a piece of cheese- cloth, and keep well beyond the range of anyone who is coughing or sneezing. 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