Oshawa Daily Times, 21 Nov 1929, p. 10

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ron Tf; qh Eh ad O'Connor Reviews Years In Journalism In Last Published Interview November 16 isms of Ndi [] cared an Ahem, Journalists and parliam 9, Two e later, "Lay Bay" had passed to hig reward Thus this article takes on kn interest as a remarkable human dogs ument, published almost on the eve of his death, and Is geproduced he- low, r---- By PRESCOTT DENNETT Pulitger Traveling in Journ~ allem, Columbia University Drift inte Journalism, learn the Journalistic qualities of promptitude and punctuality, profit by & come parison and coordination of American und British newspaper methods, and then cull off u good journalistic stunt tht, in briet, Is the elfeanpraned | explanation of the career of 1, 7, i O'Conner, M, P, "Father" of the House of Commons and ong of the founders of modern British Journal ism who this fall is celebrating his oth anniversary ae a Journalist on | Fleet Bireey, . "Puy Pay/', as he is known wheres ver Fratish Is spoken wind 1, P, as he ds eanlled hy King George, Presi- dept Haover and Kamsay Macon | ail has sat in ian continue Loughe far nearly hill a century and Nav, 24th 1s his 4th anniversary as w member for one constituensy, But it was as a working newspa perman that 1, ¥, received congrats ulations on his Bist birthday last months Phe great genial Irishman seemed for 4 moment the counters irk of the traditignal American man when he candidly ad Mh he thoroughly "hated In the tor wid B inthmatd nor, de | | ou go In for journalism wd your life to live over again?" 1 asked as Tay Pay took an "extra large dose front his famous tors boise shell snuff box, F*Never!" he replied with an em Uphatic shake of his head, "L regard At as a Very precarious underiuking, {lf\s & youth T wanted to join the ( il Merviee, Every educated Tuish lad anted to become a Civil Servant, ut politleal rensons prevented and just drifted inte Journalism, and J aving got in 1 couldn't for out," "Rut of course," he added, "anys {hinge 1 ne say couldn's deter a oung MAR Bent on entering the pros ssion, He 1s bound to enter it, LT wan eighteen and a half when first drifted onto a paper in Ives ndwBaundeors' Newsletter, the most nservative and Orange paper In ublin," I, P. gontinued, "Those ere the days when most of the res orters on Protestant papers were mtholic and the majority an Cath- ie papers Protestant, id "Then one day, 60 years ago when was dl, 1 came over to London ooking for a Job, I spent six weeks ro 'Walking about the streets with o vanishing rempins of the $20 1 me over with, T remember that | ent Christmas Day in bed in Hol Bibrn because | was entirely out of nds und had no place to go, | EVES | No matter how attractive and i utiful you are, your whole ap. pparance will be puine It your byelldy ave oven the ledst inflame ! DR; PETTIT'S BYE BALVE, #90 yoars in effective use, qulekly gorrects inflammation of the lids, t ugly ernst magloaly disappears, Ithy eyelids with luxurious hes oan easily 'he yours, #0e d B00 at Jury & Lovell, Iad, 8 ng BL, KE, or any drugstore, tool my Christmas dinner at a fruit the peny= stall, Yhose Ware the days ny-a-liner in Journal, 've seen a bill from & man who specialized in writing about fires=six lines, six nee, There was a man, too; who oncenteated on bodies found In the hames==he made about & pound » week, etinally, Rot a Job on the Dajly Telegraph, My first salary was $15 » week, Later I thought I was lis treated and went to the London Bux veau of the old New York Herald, And right there is & big point In my gireer =the international ipfucnce ol Journalism, Seeing things through the American angle gave me & new slant [on the profession, and indeed Ame eriean journalism has played a large pars in producing the new Fleet street, Personally, my pleasant Ams erigan associations were climaxed with my last visit to New York eighe teen months ago," I P, explained that the point the Keneral hin didn't vealizge about his career Is that he was 28 or 29 fore he wapired 10 be anything above a shorthand reporter and a hack writer, Then he secured a position as publisher's reader and the publisher suggested that he might gs well write # book himself, Happening in the lis brary one day, he started taking notes on Disraell and after three years published his blography, ""I'his very hostile but well dogus mented work," said Mr, O'Connar, "goming at & propitious time, was the making of my cureer and the best stunt of my life The British world of journalism has changed vastly sinee 4, P, first stood for Parliament back fn 1880, In that decnde Mr, O'Connor founded the Star, the predecessor of the new journalism, as distinet from the pons dorous political papers of the century, Ihe Star contained the modern dri~ matle presentation of news, the insis- tence of the human nete in the tregiment of polities and literature, dramatic and musieal eriticlsm, tos gether with 1, F's awn vivid pletors al style, "Lowes regarded as the most res volutionary spirit in Journalism back in those days," he reminisced, "There wis George Bernard Bhaw, we took him on as a lead writer, Hut, truth to tell, he wasn't a go in that pest and 1 was advised to let hm go, However, | never could bring mysell to five & man although 1 would have had much more money today itl had turned out several, Ho | made Mr, Shaw the music enti of the Star and he siged his eriticlsm with one of his first pom de plumes," In reviewing his Journalistie years T, P, emphasized the twy great quals ities produced hy newspaper train ing-promptitdde and punetuality, These, he added, distinguish the am wtour {ram the professional, He has always vegarded it as & cardinal sin to Jet an editor down on an assign. ed story, "What was my biggest story 1" Mr, O'Connor repeated the question he took another pinch of stuff, "Well, 1 was just about to take part in a grea debate in the House when the editor of the Daily Teles graph arrived to tell me of the death of my old friend, George Wyndham, Irish secretary, and to ask me to write @ long obituary, Then, after 1 had spoken in the debate and had just started on the story, 10 make the 'situation worse, an' old friend came in to remind me of a dinner engagement at elght o'clogk and fram then until the deadline at ten | typed out three and a hall columns of obi (UATY eapy, "My friends sald It was my best work, but I never read it afters wards," T, P, O'Connor confessed to me that he has written up the pre:obits varies of most of the public men now living in Great Britain, These aro all stored ready forireleass in the wa locker of the Daily Telegraph, "There is no profession In my life: ® be See Pa ~thaty the [Answer LAN ABA RI} «sss those are the C. CHURCHLEY STREET OSHAWA her |, THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1929 time, he wdded, "that hay more strides in the: Sitsery [| [ihe than the profession of ile ly 8 ago the reporter's status wae nili now he 1s a vital fores in Ma he oly nesting-plae for the PEANY Winer used to bo nt publ 6 bat, Now al) that 16 revolutionized, "IL wm wise impressed by the wons derlul new advertising force of the modern newspaper, The great display advertisement 1s. modern nnovie tion," But the man who has founded and edited half w dogen important jourie als snd been the timate wf Prime Ministers and Kings refuses to live in journalisn's past, He believes that many ehanges will appesr in tomor- row's newspapers and many present evils be eradicated, He deplored the year's revelations of attempts of the power trust to buy up newspapers, and saw the news: paper trusts themselves as uo danger to Journalism, But he courageously Increased numbers o profgssion, "The vidio snd talkie" he eons eluded, "while never supplanting the press pel, will be Jogrnalism's great wture teachers, probably bringing lu added plotorial matter and fore shadowing # possible change In the size of all newspapers," applauded the women in the "Defeated but not disgraced." Nothing more can be said regard: ing the gallant effort that was pul forth at Barnla yesterday hy our own Blues Devils, ¥aclug a one-point delielr going Into the final game caused no fears in the hespts of the serappy oul ft from Oshawa, They asked no quarter and gave none, IL was # he man's game from the sitar show the white feather, They gave thelr best Lut Ws wae nat quite enough and the wearers of the blue waerg the frst to son gvatitlute the well-balanced Wan derers, To pea vietery santehed fram thelr grasp In the dying moments of a heetlo struggle was the ex. perience of the locals yesterday It sure was a tough thing to see the old game go hut such are the hreaks of football and post-mors lems Te UNNOOSARATY There Is not a fan In" Oshawa who need feel ashamed of his as woolations with the General Motors Rughy Club I know If you eould phieally, feellug that there had to be & vietor In every game and that In this purtienlar ease, though they gommanded the game for fully three periods, the spells of yvietory were (0 be denied them Hyary man was a star in hls own particular department, They work od ke Trojans and helleve me, in the future, Harnia, when the name of Blue Devils Is mentioned, will quiver and qgake remembering only ton well the elose run they were given in the quest for the ORF. U, champlonship of 1829, On the tip home, Mr, Leoky Mr, MacKinnon, Mr, Nicoll and Coach Pound spoke to the hoya and sssured them that they still were more than proud to be as oelated with the boys even though we had lost a hard-fought battle, They'll he in there with thelr tails up when the old game gets going next year and you oan lay to that, \ Good teams have lost hefare look at Varsity and Balmy Beach, But no matter what happens, the old Blue Devil Club 1s the same as ever, full of pep, full of Aght and one hundred per cent, clean sports, We did our heat tor Oshawa and came within an ace of wikuing A ohamplonship, We're sorry, but bet your he A for next year, Until 1930+ n Yours plgakinnily, The Dopester, Cataracts Win First Game Easy Although 1b 1s a long way from here 10 the junior OHA, finals, Niagara Falla ean be selected an & strong favorite for the laurels, on thelr showing last night In the 8, PA. competition, when they won from Newmarket hy a 14 to 1 soove, while Kitehener gave hints of bes ng 4 championship contender als though they play dlsorganized hookey to heat Grimaby & to 2, The ro-season serles In seldom a erie orion on the regular race, ouly one NPA, champion ever winning the OMA, erawn but the Falls gave a brilliant early season diss 1ay last night, thas stamped them © team to heat for the title, The Cataracts are almost a fins shod product although just starts ing the season, moat of tha players being experienced with years of ampatgaiag, hile they have plays od #0 long her that they know almost every move of thelr team mates and swing inte a perfect slug syetem, Paced hy Obs oximer the Falla are fast, while \L) Suse, Fan Hextmer, Shannon, sselting and Kaminsky can also bo classed a8 altars, All work tos Feller, their combination play for 30 early in the year belng wwrvels ous white thay appear in good condition already, and at no tima did the Blue Devils have watched the game you would have heen Just as proud of your team had they won, | ) The hays took defeat philoso. | S ORT SNAPSHOT A Treat for Barpia The Sarnia rughy fans sure got » break when they were given the ghunee to witness a game of sush played yesterday, Only five points they were all singles, Oshawa were ahead by two te nothing for shout ten minutes of the last quarter and it looked as if the Blue Devils The Wanderers, however, never quit trying and their efforts were rewarded, ¥ were going to pull the trick, Ld A Record! The following is & elipping taken from today's Mail and Empires "Memory falls ta recall of sue final we the intermediate elash betkeen Oshawa and Barnis, 16 points were s¢oved in the two won by Baris by ene point, This gives wn ides of how rare think that the rughy fans of Oshawa missed it, ever, Beveral young fellows motored . 0» Teams Evenly Matched twa teams were very evenly matdhed and on The avery single member of both squads owing to the strain and excitemen the game hut when the final whistle blew it was wll forgotten and thy Blue Devils were the first to gongrs ory and alse to wish them success in thelr quest for the Dominlen title, ¥ » Al the Station were met at the station by a number of thelr supporters Ihe boy and they were given a rousing welcome home, tired but they were not downhearted, oul at London apd gave a few college yells and songs ¥ Another Good Point Devils ean be that the Blue to practice tonight Another thing they wan't have the sow drifts \ Adios to the Vid "Dopester" will leave supply of infarmuti however, that h th TRIFTRIT will Le back naan gs only guesswork Blades for Cleats { the gliy will now will get out thelr Fhe athletes pastime, The shoes equipped with skate ing completion, and today's &ib soul be vinging with the gries of the fans ph n " a-------- The Whithy Whithy Beane (Offlee, at Ling Pile Aler Business Hours £48, A That's another one for the hook, w reached is Himit I instead of cleats fall, iL looks us if the "raftery" REFRESENTATIVE---~JAMES H, ORMISTON | high calibre as the ong that was werg seared during the games and w * hh # Jowsssoring home-and-home But games, and bath contests were such a game actually is, And to Not all of them, hows up to Barnia to witness the game, Ld # Wednesday gave everything he had, At times, t, # little hard feeling erept Into tulate the Wanderers on their vii ¥ # The Blue Devils were On the way down, the boys gol wv thankful for 1s that gt five d'eloek up at the park In " . "Dopester" with toda his | hive & sneaking iden, us En BINGE in ou few weeks but ino different mommy part but walt and see W turn thelr attentions to the wint hey duds" and get agt § palr of Withthe arens fast new will | Daily Times | news will be. received at the | otto und Chronicle m=Telephono "Phone HO, | COUNTY COUNCIL | EDUCATION iLL Account for Educating Chil. dren's Shelter Inmates Laid Over Oshawa's socount of the eduea tion of county pupils tn the Ohi dren's Hhelter wan disputed at the meeting of the Ountarie County Connell here yesterday, and Wan Inld over until the next session of the caunoll The Oshawa bill was for approx! mately $4805, whieh fncluded a olatm far fess for all of the pumis in the Children's Bhelter here, Phe county protested this elalm, saying that some of the inmates of the fhelter came originally from Osh awa homes, and that the county | Children's Shelter In making out should not be ealled upon to Pa) the cost of thelr education, The Hoard of Bducation of Osh awa replied that the statutes peo vided that ail Inmates of the Hhel ter heoame wards of the county as #O0N A they were committed to the institution, and that the county was therefore liable, The county pald about $300 on the account, hut lald aver the balance until the January sefblon, for further consid eration, The Report The report of the county coun oil's committee on edueation, whigh wan adopted without amendment, was as follows: "Your committee have axamingd the olaim of Woodville Cantingh- tion Hehool for proportionate cost of non-resident pupils for 190% and find that they are eutitled to 104,44, and that this amount be paid, "Your committee have axamined the olaim of Oshawa Collexiate Ine Is Your Child % Thin and Weak? Metay's Yhhicis Pats on Kleah and wilds Them U In just a few days---guioker than you evap dreamt ofthese wonder ful health hullding, flesh creating tablets called MoCoy's Cod Liver Ratpaot Tablets will start to halp any thin, underweight little one, After alokness and when the ehils dren are exceedingly puny they are especially valuable, All over North and South Amer fon and even in Great Britain and Australia tens of thousands of skinny run down wen and women have put thelr falth in MoCoy'ses and have not heen disappointed, Try these wonderful tablets fee 80 days and If your trail, slokly ohlld doesn't greatly benefit you FOL your money bhaok, Ask Jury & Lovell, T\ B, Mitohs oll, W, WH. Karn, or any draggist for MoCoay's Cod Liver Extract Tablota---a8 easy 10 take as candy and 80 tablets, 40 cents--¥Xconamy stitute Toy POR TIIONALE rm of non-resident puplls for 1088 and find that they are entitled to #8, AT0,71 and that this amount be pad That the agricultural grant due to Whithy High Behool for 1080 Lo the amount of $600 he pald] and that the serioultural grant due Lo Port Perry High Behool for 1030 to the amount of $600 he paid, "That your committee have ex amined the claim of Lindsay Colle plate Institute for proportionate cost of non-resident puplis for IHU and find that thelr elalm of FAAU. MH 18 not correct, Your com mittee have found that $841.88 Is the correct amount and resommend that this amount he paid, "Your committee recommend that the claim for educating coun ty puplla from the Children's Bhak ter he lald aver until next session and that the Huperintendent of the the claim, give the former address os of the ohildren for whom the Young Vsople's Boolely, Wed day, 8 pm, the mid-week services in charge of WME, Addresses will he given on the various tlelds ops oupied hy the Boclety, ¥riday 6,45, Trail Ranger program, 7,45, Tunis program, Bt, John's, Vort Whithy--Res- tor, Rev, D, B, Langtord, Bundsy betore Advent Mov, 24th, Bervices 6 11 am, and 7 pm, Preacher, the rector, # pity Bunday Behool and Adult, Bible Class, Monday, Bbth---=8 pm, AY. FA business meeting, address on the Dominion Conference hy Mr, J, H, Rigs, President of Christ Church Branch, Oshawa, Bes notice elsawhers of annual sale on Des, Bik, Bt, Andrew's Preshylerian Chureh=Hev, Join Lindsey, Vis Lor, Bunday Nov, $4 he"The Rev, Professor MW, Lloyd Marrow, M.A, Ph, D,, of Knex Collegs will ou Gupy the pulpit and preacy "EI, Andrew's Day' wervices, Berviees at the usual hours 11 am, and 7 p.m, Babbath Behool and Bible dludy at 5,50 pm, A hearty wel gome Ig extended to all, All Saints' Churehe=Bunday next before Advent---11 am, morning prayer, 4 p.m, Bunday Behool, 7 wm, Evening prayer, Bermon "Joy in Three Worlds', Holy Com: | munion efter the service, Whithy Baptist Chureh---"1 Pest, pastor, sunday, 10 a.m Bible Behool, Classes for ull, 1) am, Divine worship, HBubjeet, "Son Co Work Today," T pm, Gospel pervies, Hubjeot '"Ksau's Had Bargain," Wiest In 'a series of old testament ehuraeters, The pass tor at all services, Birangers ale ways weleome Monday, 7 pm, Junlgr BY. PU, Monday, § p.m, Henlor BY. PU, Thursday, chicken suppor tonight, Thursday, § p.m Weekly Frayer Meosting, ANGLICAN DIVINE r IS "CANON TEACHER" 1] A ent i thie \ nul Landon, Ving, No gppuint is thut ol Le | J an the | esting Chureh here Camphell as "Canon Teacher I'ils appoint: | Bishop ol Hell, | pasumed the over diocese of Chichester by the Mey, Li } ment has ben made Chichester, the Wy wha has Just siht of the dioees Hi TRL tv Dean of Canterbui I'h Wishop Is expected to exercise wreat mmfuence Anghean ( in the vears to eum His unquestioned Ii his early years Iu wits domesth to Dr, Ran dall Davidson, the former Arehbishop of Canterbury The Ney, R, ] in very well known as a preacher and writes For many years he BK nonseon formist minister and aehieved consid and addresses on what came 1a In erable prominence by his galled "the new Theology," Kven tually Me, Campbell was admitted 1 Holy Orders in the Chureh of Eng land, He ls now viear of Holy Trin ity Chureh, Heighton, which has al "wreanchipw ehureh af Hs most Tamou W. Robertson novel in Weis whi Chaplain Campbell, Wis gern ons ways heen a sinee the days ear, the Rey, F vi ho wy MOTHER, | GET MUCH WHITER CLOTHES THAN YOU, PLEASE TRY RINGO IN YOUR WASHER VILL TRY IT NEXT WASHOAY, JUST TO PLEASE YOU NEXT WASHDAY I NEVER SAW YOUR WASH LOOK BO BNOWY! AND OUT ON THE LINE BO EARLY, TOO MY DAUGHTER TOLD ME ABOUT AWONDERF UL BOAP = RINSO, IT LOOSENS THE DIRT LIKE MAGIC Whi ter clothes nog JS enough to washer or tub the gleaming, ies You sing for fo washed the safe Ringo wavy 'e0ers of clothes n A : NE ind there * 00 hard worl ar al Ng, even insa' ASIN gos ' nso's ; oS ing tai hardest Aug 10 mak ie " h Ireat f "8 say, "Use Rinso | "eo Or tub washir \ Whiter than they can be aruba ks Slothes as well, aves he franulated, apd, yy ti than WO cupfuls of tener Needed | ™ ol Iwith Ringo | are thick and BL ot tx n ¢ hes orp ® granulated ? w rd rid aka diosese, ws a ---- Mr, well will have a sort of roving eom . I. ; | Camp | safe in Chichester As "Canon Teacher | Preacher and teacher, claim Is made," CHARLES HODGE DIES SUDDENLY Whitby Barber Succumbed to Paralytic Stroke This Morning Charles Hodge wall-known Whit ny barber and life-long resident of the town, dled shortly after nine p'olock this morning when he auf fered a stroke, The deceased ha heen in comparatively good health and hig sudden passing has come Al A savers shook to his family and friends, The death occurred at hiw home an Brock street south, The late Mr, Hodge conducted the oldest established barber busi nest in 'he community and he was well-known tn Whithy and diatriet, Phe skill with whieh he applied his profession won for him a large par LrOnARS, Resides his widow he {neurvived hy three sons, Clarence, of Taronte, and Donald and Gordon, at home, The funeral arvangementa will be announced later, EC ---------------------- IN THE CHURCHES OF WHITBY Regular services will he held In Whithy Churches next = Bunday Fall and winter work programs Are ROW in full sawing, as Indicated hy the various notices both for thdag and other daya appearing aw The United Chureh==Miniater Rev, A, L, Richards, BD, Sunday, Nov, S4==11 am, morming wor ship, Story sermon for boys and girls 3 Bw, Sabbath Sohool, © pw, evening worahtp, Third sen mon in # | series of "Maker of Freedom---=John Wealoyw- Free. dom for Spiritual Indifterence", § oh \ Slee $1.00, at all services, Monday, § pw, the Men's and Young Men's Overcoats In the new overchedk designs and hewn vingbone pattems well blue chin ohitln and melion olothy, Nmartly styled and well tatloved we priced (rom $21 WHY NOT LET YOUR CREDIT RUY IT FOR YOU? 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