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: . . .{Mstablished in 1871) An independent newspaper published every other day oh Jenade bby Tao Reformer Printing and Publis: awa, © she tng Company thmiton 4 J. C. Roag °' -President and Editor, J, Ewart ai ay . Vice-President and Treasurer, m SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered arpier in awa or hy mail anywhere fn Canada 33.00 a year, United States subscription $1.50 extra fo cover postage. 'Single copies Sc. (Member Audit Bureau of Cireulations) OSHAWA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1922 Oh A CITIZENS SHOULD VOTE The public are frequently urged to choose good men as their municipal representatives. This is important, but there is a responsibility which lies at the door of each elector, and that is that he should go out and vote, A great many men spend the greater portion of each year complaining about *'the rotten Council," about "the inefficient School Trustees" and other men elected to posts of responsibility, The prob- abilities are that these men who complain so loudly about the men elected to office never took the trouble to go out and cast a vote, If they do not take sufficient interest in their franchise to see that good men are elected, they have no right to complain if the elected representatives are not all they should be, Citizenship implies responsibility, The fan who will not take the trouble to mark his ballot deserves all that is coming to him in the way of inefficient administration, high taxes and whatever else may be his dot. The only way to get good Councillors and good members on the Board of Education is for everyone to take a keen interest in the election, Show your interest in your town by voting, TECHNICAL SCHOOLS FOR OSHAWA? Oshawa cgnld well afford to pay considerable attention to technical education, This is an induos- trial centre, and as such has a special claim for the specialist type of training, There was a time in the history of the world when a person: was not thought to be educated unless he or she were well sehooled in Latin and Greek; a classical education being the **be all" and ""end all' of our schools and colleges of a generation ago, Later people began to realize that men equipped with a knowledge of the dead languages were not in a position to go out and earn their living in com- petition with men trained in the harder school of experience, and as a result there was a modification "of the classical teachings in our schools and colleges, ' To-day, we have a great many technical schools and colleges devoted solely to the task of training boys and girls to go out into the world and earn their living, In Europe these are very prevaley A textile centre will have technical schools d to the textile industry, Steel manufactur, centres will train their young men in mat 3 vs relating to iron and steel, and so on through? the list Oshawa is a great manuf' on ving centre. It is only natural to surmise th the boys and girls grow- ~»ul seek to earn a living in one C many factories located in the town. ould they not receive an education which them to become competent and efficient gon ? It is not necessary that they should give ir publie sehool training, but after a certain grounding a technical training might take the place of a portion of the present secondary eourse. This is a matter whieh is worthy of consideration by the incoming Board of Education and others interested in educational matters. The race is on! A fair field and no favorites. win! May the best wan In the last ten years the Native Christians of In- Alia inereased by 22.7 per eent., and now number 4.- 754,000. This is the largest gain of any religious group and should be satisfactory to advocates of foreign missions, Education pays! Statisties relating to Indiana, Hlinois and Iowa show that farmers with a college education received an average of $463 per year more than men with a high school education and $979 per annum more than the wan with only a A special report issued = the Canadian Manu- faeturers Association on business eonditions fur- wishes considerable ground for encouragement. The report states that "the last six months of 1922 have shown improvement and that there is a disposition to look forward hopefully to 1923." All of this is atistactory to business men. ------ he Rev. Dr. J. J. Sheaver, of the Social Service Council, in a recent bulletin went out. of his way to praise the work of the Toronto Globe in its efforts to suppress race track gambling. It would be hard to imagine anything more foolish than the campaign carried on by the Globe. Race track gambling is Jegalized by the Federal Government, which happens to be Liberal, so the Globe has been attacking the Provincial Government for mot stamping out the evil. The Beformer holds mo brief for the Drury Government, but it at least likes to see fair play, and this the Globe has mot been giving in its attacks wn the Pyaviudiat Legislature for allowing race track pawbling. -- N / He handled affairs running into many millions, He no longer heads a vast organization, a palatial office such as he formerly occupied, he is now to be found in humble quarters, thousands of employees, he is now surrounded by only two or three faithful followers, command millions has gone, him no longer are featured in the financial pages of the newspapers, when he occupied a seat among the mighty, brain is as keen as ever, Yet, where yesterday he sat on a hy fAsiness throne, to-day he wields no scoptre, 7 Th is the same | pay out an additional 60c. impaired, liz "he 1 1020 1 U. 8. eensus diows that six per tonty ol the peeple in the United States are: illiterates. When Unele Sam mustered his soldiers it was found that 25 per. cent, had no practical knowledge of Ww vitten English, Many people confuse Hydro Power with Hy- dro Radials, The former is favored by every- one as it means cheap power for factory, farm and Home, The other means the building of a net work of electric lines competing with the steam roads which we dlready own, The one is a good project; the other is an economic waste, : FROM OUR EXCHANGES < Front Door or Back, (Orillia Packet) To an outsider the quarrel over vadial en- trances into Toronto seems to be over the old question of whether the delivery boy should come to the front door or the back, Evidently some people still hold that Hamilton should de- liver her parcels by the rear entrance, THE VALUE OF ORGANIZATION (Forbes Magazine) No matter how high the pinnacle you have reached, be becomingly humble, Don't feel that you count for so very, very mygh, It isn't so much yourself that invests your position with vast importance; it is the organization associated with you, This thought was driven into my mind the other day when I visited a man of international reputation who was the head and forefront of a mammoth business organization, The world used to take note of his comings and his goings. The activities of the organization he headed stretched into almost very civilized eountry, Thou- sands were ready to do his bidding without question, The whirligig 'of time brought a radical ehange, Instead of Instead of | His power to Decisions reached by | Now, this man is exactly the same person he was | His | His physical vigor is ups: man, vet not the same, , " rr What has wrpneTL ht the change' The los" of the organization that formerly made never | ~ lia any strutting, never became obsessed with false | notions of his own bigness, never contracted a swelled He was just as demoeratic and modest then as reat, This particular man, let me say, head, he is now. him at the head of some titanic organization. he will unquestionably maintain his perspective, Yet how many men are there in high places in the | commereia finaneial, industrial, and mercantile world who imagine that they owe the | railroad, mining, importance they feel. not to the organization behind | them, but solely to themselves? "They forget that | stripped of their oxzanization they would amount to very little. As Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears, Roebuck & Company, once remarked to me, '*No one man ean do very much by himself."" [Look at the Kaiser now that he has lost his organization. Are we not all apt to forget how much we owe to » others' A LITTLE NONSENSE "What broke up the party over at your house | last night?" "Why, old Jones came in, took a | look at some of the ladies standing around in those short skirts they're wearing, and apolo- | { gized for breaking into a children's party."-- Buffalo Commercial. So A well-known Mississippi minister was foud of | One day, while riding with an illiterate negro, the winister began gravely The negro looked wildly at the winister and said nothing. playing pranks, says Judge. to chatter Italian to his brunette driver. Finally the white man. in pretended pique, said: "What's the matter? Why don't you amswer?" "1 dunno what yo'all talkin' 'hout.'" wrong? Haven't you any brains?' ""Yessah. 1 got some brains. all right ; but dey ain' no use to me dow,' ; "A BIT OF VERSE' © (By William Earnest Henley.) Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconguerable soul. In the fell cluteh of circumstance I have mot winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horver of the shade. And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters mot how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. | be returned by acclamation. { | Talking gout mail-order husines- | ses, a recent report from Lindsay experience. | 80 to Ryan but he owed And should circumstances again place | 1! | after the author's death. a What 's Te District Nevo" Peterborough may have a woman councillor next 'year. Ratepayers | % in the North Ward are planning to nominate Miss Hellp Griffith, it be: | ing felt that a woman's assistance on certain of the council committees would be a great benefit. Bowmanville High School is ad- vertising for a sixth teacher for the school, this action being taken fol- lowing the report of the inspector, made recently, in which he stated that an additional teacher would |@ have to be added by January. | 86 (ieorge Sheady, the pvaniciivers 18 -old youth who, with a companion, stole three motors, one in Trenton, | & another in Corbyville and the last | in Picton, has been sent down to the penitentiary at Portsmouth for three years by Magistrate O'Rourke of | : Trenton. " ! * vo -- it: A battle for the reeveship is not anticipated in Port Hope, although | it had heen thought that Deputy | Reeve Holdaway would contest the | seat, Reeve G. A. Smith intends | making a fight for the county-war- | denship and is likely, as a result, to | DO0000C brings fo light what may be consid- | ered a record in the mail-order sale of groceries, A Lindsay grocer has just shipped an order of Bpoceries to | a resident of Prince Albert, B.C, his customer having seen an adve rtise - | ment in a copy of a LAndsay paper, wn | that of theft, DOOOOOOS000000 DC Crime, snblicalarty is on the increase in the counties of Durham and Northumbe riand. This fact was pointed out in Port | Hope Tuesday by Judge Ward, in an address at the opening of the County Court, He stated that in! 1914 but seven criminal cases had! been brought before him; in 1917 there were six; in 1918, twelve; 19- 19, thirteen; 1921, twenty-one; and | ¥ in 1922, twenty-eight. A Port Hope man, plaintiff in a recent suit, had a of unpleasant George Ryan sued Jo- ¥ 50 on an account| He was § seph Ray for $4. outstanding for four years, 1 given judgment and Ray paid $6.6 $4.50 wa YN. wiles and Mr, garnishe ed the | The court; into court. Of course, to terson $2.75 for shi Patterson prompt money , Daas i gl eH were $2.35, total indebtedness to $5.15 so in- PEPY 5 DIARY Ww RITTEN IN SHORTHAND whose famous was a Samuel ' "Diary" is so often quoted, Pepys, period 1632-1703. He saw the Great Plague of London, and his "Diary" (gives a full account of the times in England from 1659 to 1669. It includes almost every phase of pub- lic and social life, Pat-, + bringing Ryan's |# hea] of being $4.50 in he had tom | London citizen who lived through the | | from the gaye- | | ties of the court to the pettiest de- | existence. The shorthand, wntails of every-day hook was written in and | was not discovered until a century | , ciphered and published, Siikovgh in | 2a mutilated form, in 182 {don pagazine said of the "Diary." "Fhe best book of its kind in the language. entertaining ; | stances and amusing expressions. .. .The ablest picture of the age i: in 'which the author lived. and the work of standard importance in Eng- | { lish literature." Ld to $1.00 110a Xmas Stockings 5e¢ | Queen Mary Chocolate/Shop. mm em i | Christmas Greetings COATS | Bubersy Coats Rez. $25.00 Just a Suitable Gift for Xmas $16.50 Fine Velour Coats with Fur Collar and Cuffs. Regular $35.00, Xmas Special $26.00 | SCHWARTZ | Bargain Store | 136-138 Simove St. South Phone 725 It was de- | A Lon- | . 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LADIES' SLIPPERS Black, Red, Grey, Slate Blue, Navy and Brown Felt Juliets--Mock Fur trim. A regular $2.25 value. All sizes ... $L.75 Romeos, Everetis and Operas in Kid and soft Scotch Wools and Felts. Every kind men like. CHILDREN'S SLIPPERS With prices and kinds too numerous to mention we give here one excellent line only. Felt ankle strap Slippers in attrac- tive colors. Misses, 55¢; child's, 45¢. All HOCKEY BOOTS AND SKATES Our assortment in these is the largest in our district and our prices, low as MEN'S SLIPPERS wal. o Giates ii on. Foti. Alligator finish Leather Slippers. Our LEGGINGS AND SPATS special value. All sizes .- $800 For children, ladies or gentlemen. These are , latices or geminal, "Thess Soft Kid Cogles in Black or Brown, pad Leather Cozy Boudoir Slippers with heels in Suede, Kid or Fel , Blue, Brown, Grey, Rose, Purple and Red. All Black and Black Bed trimmed Cozies in all sizes, while they last gifts. Change them after Xomas if they do mot fit. * ' HOSIERY FOR GIFTS If you want a useful and pretentious gift at small expense, walk through our sev- eral departments. The solution may be there on display. SEE OUR WINDOWS The Biirns Company, Ltd. | OSHAWA ~~ rm ----