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Oshawa Daily Times, 13 Sep 1927, p. 2

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. (Established 1871) An independent newspaper published every afternoon except Sundays hy PT holidays a Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Printin Company, L i M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Secretary, The shave Daily Tunes sn a Remhér of he Canadian ress, the Ca ewspaper' Association, 3 Ontario Provine | Dailies and the Audit Burean of Circulations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: b, jer: 10c a week. By mail: in the yi A A rerio, Durham and Northumberland ae a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; Unite tes, $3.00 a year, : TORONTO OFFICE; 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107, i) D, Tresidder, representative, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927 "FIRST SERVANTS OF THE STATE" Undoubtedly Canada's "best seller" in Jubi- lee Year is the "The Canadian Mother's Book," by Dr, Helen MacMurchy, chief of the division of Child Welfare of the Federal Department 'of Health, This splendid book, revised for Can- ada's sixtieth birthday by the addition of new material and pictures, has reached its six hundred thousandth copy. The term 'Best Seller," however, is a misnomer, It is one of "The Little Blue Book" series which may be obtained for the asking merely by sending a request to the Deputy Minister, Department of Health, Ottawa. "The Canadian Mother's Book" deals 'with the beautiful miracle of motherhood in a way that is at the same time practical and inspiring, interesting and illuminating, The presence of this book in Canadian homes cannot help but reduce infant mortality's alarmingly high rate, and give each homemaker that reads it a new sense of dignity in that high calling. While written particularly for mothers, para- graphs for the special attention of the Canadian father are as noble as they are important, 'Dealing as it does with one of the most inti mate experiences of life, the book is absorb. ingly interesting and any reader must lay it down with a feeling of reverence, There is something about it that places the chapters, by mental association, with the tenderest mem- ories of childhood, and leaves the mind obsessed with something akin to a breath of lavender from memory's most sacred gardens, "The Canadian Mother's Book" should be in every home in Oshawa where there are child- ren or where children are expected, It has, even, an appeal to the childless home which is worthy of emphatic quotation: iy "There are homes in Canada where children would be welcomed, and where they were ex- pected, to which children have never come, But these Childless Homes could find a Home- less Child, 'If we give our best thought and work to National Child Welfare, the time should come when there will he no Canadian child who never had a home," The volume's imperative reminder is "No Baby--No Nation," It is dedicated to Cana- dian mothers -- "The first servants of the State," A PRIZE-WINNING EDITORIAL » "Canada Has Achieved the Impossible" is the keynote of the editorial written by D. A. McGregor, editor of the Vancouver "Province" for which he was awarded the gold medal of- fered by the National Executive for the Cele- bration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confedera- tion. The judges were the Abbe Emile Begin, professor of French Literature at Laval Uni- versity, Charles Holmes of Montreal, and George Herbert Clarke, professor of English Literature at Queen's University. Mr. Me- Gregor's editorial, captioned "What is this Canada?" follows :-- There is color in all the streets of Canada to-day : there is music in the air and a fecling of elation and expectancy. 'To-morrow is the great day. Fifty years we waited to celebrate our jubilee, and when the time came we were too busy with a grim task that would not wait. So 'we toiled along ten years more. And tomorrow, at last, we are to celebrate. There is nothing in the way, this time, and we have made great prepara- tions. The country is swept and tidy, holiday dress is on, and across three thousand miles of woodland, farm and mountain we expect to split the welkin to-morrow, with our carillons and bands and carronades. To-night, with every ready to the last flower and motto and the" ultimate bit of Lunfing, would it try our patience too much if someone suggested that we pause for a moment and ask what it is all ? What is this jubilee we are Felgbrating 2 What is this Canada that i Ihaking such 2 to about her sixti birthday? Whence has she come? Water i cues bi ' What is this Canada? There is a question for Cana- ane ko § ponder. If they can not 3 answer it, who can? na , someone suggests, and thomgh that migh be debated, we are mot in a mood to A. A ill let it go. Canada is a mation, then: but surely some- thing more. Take a walk along St. Lawrence Maia in Montreal; stroll through the "Ward" in Toronto: saunter by the coal docks in Fort William: look about in Wiani- peg's "Little Ukrania;" mix with the crowds on Wate: street in Vancouver: them wisit Strathcona school and study the faces of the children you see there. How many languages have you heard? A couple of dozen. perhaps. And how many racial types have you met? Between a score and two score. A mation. vou say? A league of mations, rather! And you have wisited only a few small comners of Canada. . Yes, Canada is a nation. But she is more. She is an experiment. An experiment in nation-building; an ex- periment in assimilation. About 55 per cent. of our people are of British stock, 28 per cent. ave French and the others come from the ends of the canth. Out of this human alloy we are endeavouring to cast a people which will take the same temper as the British steel itself: - - 'THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 19 We have nd have gone some distance our work---that we shall have here a nation that will be true to British traditions, that willl maintain the British respect for law and order and that will play no unworthy part in the British Commonwealth, Yes, Canada is a nation and something more. And an experiment and something more. She is an achieve- ment. Sixty years ago, working a little in hope and a little in despair, the Fathers founded her, purple haze of romance is growing up between us and the men of '67 and there is a tendency on our part to look on them as giants of intellect, men of prophetic vision who saw far and moulded truly. But the Fathers were far from supermen, hig were very human. They Quarveljed and made up, hesitated and fumbled, were elated and. despaired, The most hopeful of them saw before Canada only two possible destines: on the one side disunion, weakness, discontent, and ultimate ab- sorption in the United States; on the other, through the union they promoted, a nation strong enough to direct its own destiny, to remain attached to the British crown if it wished, to win independence if it chose that part, or, if it decided this was best, to enter the American republic on advantageous terms, The Fathers ordered things so that we might choose between independence and British connection, They never dreamed we could have both, But to-day we are British and our own masters, The independence the men of 1867 feared we might one day covet and the British connection they hoped we might maintain are both ours, Canada has achieved the impossible, Canada is & nation and an experiment and an achieve- ment. And she is something more, She is an inspira- tion, When the Fathers built up the 147 sections of the British North America Act, sixty years ago, they laid the foundations of the first federation within the British Empire. Never before had the federal principle and the British Constitution been linked together and there was some doubt as to whether they would work in unison. But Canadians have made them work, and now the two machines run as one, Not only that, but a number of other British Dominions have borrowed the idea, and the Canadian achievement has become the inspiration of the British family of nations, Canada is an experiment, an achievement, an inspira- tion, She is even more than these, She is a hope, the hope of her sons and daughters, the hope of those who come to her from British and other lands, seeking homes and a competence, She is the hope of the Empire, of which she might almost he called the keystone, since if she should fall away, the Empire would crumble, In a sense, too, she is the hope of civilization, Civilization depends on the maintenance of peace, and two of the most powerful factors for peace are the British Empire and the United States, Canada, as. the link and inter- preter between these two, occupies a strategic position, An experiment, an achievement, an inspiration, the hope of her people, of the Empire and of the nations, whence has Canada come? One might elaborate the answer, but it is easier to put it shortly: up from the day of small things, up rugged and dangerous paths to wide responsibilities and opportunities that make the head swim, And whither is she going? We are only sixty years from the starting point and too far from the goal to see it clearly, In forty more years, perhaps, or in ninety, it may be possible to answer, Meanwhile, one can only indicate the direction, The Fathers set the course for us when they decreed union and progress and bequeathed us a task that would try our mettle and develop all our nation-building ca- pacities, They left us high standards, material and spiritual; they left us great resources, They left us a way of discharging responsibilities and assuming greater ones, And if the wisdom of the Fathers has descended with the other things they have devised, it is so we shall go on, maintaining our standards, conserving our re- sources, faithfully carrying out the tasks that fall to us, We look back with pride on the work of our founders and on certain of the work we ourselves have accomp- lished as their heirs, We have an equal right to look forward with confidence, We have all the advantages the Fathers had, and more. We are of the same race and heirs of the same general form of government, We have their experience to guide us and we have been born to the federal system they had to hammer out for ourselves, Where they succeeded so triumphantly there is no reason why their children should fall. We have a sound basis for our confidence, a reason for courage and hope. But with our hope must be associated a re- solution to be worthy of our great destiny, to earn it by industry and economy, and to deserve it by prudence in prosperity and fortitude in the face of trial. Looking backward with pride and forward with confi- dence, and having sound reasons for both, why shouldn't Canada celebrate? DRESSING TO PLEASE A few days ago much space was given in the news of the claim that styles and cuts in feminine raiment are largely controlled by men. Now it appears that, to a large extent, women select and buy men's attire for store trade. That makes it about fifty-fifty--an ad- mirable arrangement ? As a rule the object of fastidious feminine dressers is at least to pass muster with the male element at reviewing stations, and with the masculine peacocks it is the feminine ob- server whose praise is sought. The matter standing thus, it is a logical arrangement for women to wear clothes that men have designed and for men to deck themselves in raiment that women have selected. EDITORIAL NOTES The annual turkey shortage has just been announced. The most dangerous word in this language of ours is "yes." Entirely too many girls get married to keep from being old maids. Bit of Verse THE BLUSHING BRIDE That Body of Pours B Jenn W, Berton, MA By Jas, W. Barton, M.D, (Registered in Accordance with the Copyright Act) WHAT SLEEP DOES When Lindbergh was making his wonderful flight from New York to Paris, the point that was on the minds of practically everybody was whether or not he would, be able to keep awake the thirty to forty hours during the trip. Now, as a matter of fact, under severe stress of circumstances in- --- 27 MOFFATS i the ATR Gold Medal Electric , Over 80000in daily use throughout the dividuals have been able to keep awake for as long as three to four days, | While the whirl of his propeller, | and the purring of his engine might | get monotonous enough to induce sleep. nevertheless the steering of | the plane, keeping it on its right course, watching the instrument Moffat's Electric Ranges for sale by the ELECTRIC SHOP Simcoe Street North Oshawa, Ontario which showed his height from earth, | would keep him alert and watchful, because sleep would mean the non- fulfillment of his wonderful task. | And yet this very alterness, oll: | FUNERAL Ing as it does on the brain for con- | stant effort, tires the hrain centres, | brings on a sense of fatigue, sleep ensues, What is sleep? What causes it? and | 8 Simcoe St Successor to DISNEY FUNERAL SERVIC Wright Funerals A. WRIGHT DIRECTOR AND EM: BALMER E hone 1082 a a Service Davidson & Samells A Simcoe St, Ny, Phone 887 "For Better Shoe Values" No one has been able to show the exact cause of sleep, A soclety hah | heenorganized whose object is the Investigation of the cause of sleep, #0 that means, other than drugs, | may he found to Induce sleep in those Individuals who suffer from insomnia or sleeplessness, | One theory held for a time was that sleep, being a natural thing | Nature sends less blood to the brain at regular times, and as there I8 thus less activity there, sleep is induced>™ | It has been proven that there inl not less blood in the brain during' sleep, Another theory Is that after the! work of the day, physical and ment al, that poisons are created, and it Is these poisons In the blood that, cause us to hecome drowsy and] sleepy, . ! Now, until such time as thoy find | out what causes sleep, we'll have to content ourselves with just doing | A, G, BROOMFIELD tatrerios, Electrio and Supplies Auto Accessories ! Oshawa Ba | #7 King St, W, Repatre Service Phone 1184 Buy at the DOMINION CLOTHING STORE and Save Money 68 King St, W, Phone 2141 -- md -- - Radio Electric 1b Prince St. Phone 2477 S. COWELL, Prop. Beach Ranges Hurley Washers Estimate given on wiring jobs, Radio parts and sets in stock, Full line of fixtures in stock. ahem -------------- r---------- TT : Do You I ---- Own Your Own what instinet and experience tell us| 2 must he done, and that is to get seven to nine hours sleep at night ! according to our individual needs, | We may not know the cause of sleep, but we certainly know what It does for us. It repairs worn bodies and minds. Sleep Is like disconnecting the battery of your car and getting it recharged. | By sleeping you stop giving out | energy, as you do when awake, and | store up energy for the next day. | MAJ. GEN. MacBRIEN TO | REVIEW VETERANS Major General MacBrien, C.B.-C M.G.-D.S.0., who is to open the! South Ontario Agricultural Society 1927 fair on Thursday evening Sept, 18th, has expressed a wish throygh Major Bob Smith, President of this years show, to meet the don veterans. The veterans are asked tol meet at the Old Market Place, fall! in at 7.30 p.m, C.S.M. Wu. Cooper | in command, preceded by Post 42 Canadian legion Pipe Band which | expects to parade complete for this! occasion, something new for the | local fair,and an occasion for Major General McBrien to meet those who served under him in years gone by. It has always been an occasion ol | happy memories revived, when Com rade Bob Smith meets those who wore the uniform with him, and he is hoping for a remewal of that kindly feeling on the occasion of the pening of this year's fair, when he | will consider himself responsible fo: | its success. The enthusiasm express- ed for our band a shorl time ago] does not seem to lose anything with | rgpetition, and they are out to give 3 Desirab le Home Six rooms, summer kitchen, bathroom, garage and three apartament bungalow at rear, double lot, modern convenionces, one block from Highway. 36 Park Rd. So., Phone 1373W. 8 Ne . C. YOUNG 42 Prince St. 0 W. J. TRICK CO, Limited IE, CONTRACT. BUILDERS SUP. PLIES 25 Albert St, REAL EST ING AND Phuae 230 Real Estate and Insurance Money to loan om First Mortgages Phone 871 or G8TW. Regent Theatre Block V. A. Henry, Insur- ance and Loans 113 SIMOOE ST. 8. Phones: 1198W --Ofice 1838) -- Residence their best om this occasion. Here's hoping for a big parade of veter-! Ans. ! The following invitation has been received by the Legion from Major R. B. Smith, President of the South Ontario Agricultural Society: Oshawa, Sept. 12, 1927 To the Veterams of Oshawa: (Post 43) $1,500 with small payment down buys S-Roomed Frame House om lot 30 x 113; alse extra lot 40 x 100 included. On the occasion of the visit of Major Gem. J. H. MacBrien. C.B.. C. M. G., DS.O.. a native of our own County, who comes to Oshawa on Sept. 15th. to formally open the South Omtarie Agricultural Society Fair the Directors of the Fair and myself would he greatly favored if vour Post would pay Gem. MacBrien the compliment of being presemt in as large numbers as possible. The members of the Post would take their place in front of the Oholoe Building Lots for sale cheap with small payments. W. 4. Salley, Real Estate, 35% King St. East. Upstairs. SULLEY & MAW Auctioneers ---- Phone 2580 Coand Stand at T pam. for insp tion. T might add that I would con- sider the presence of your Post, at this function. a personal favor. R. BR Sawith, President South Ontarie Agriowtanal Society CHMACAGO SW CARTERS Real Estate S King St. East Phone 1380 Res, 1828W BLIERS IN RECORD usar RRMA Chicage, Sept. 12.-- This was the | hottest September 12 in the history of Chicago. Starting at AT shortly after midnight the temperature | steadily advanced watil iy registered | 52 at 3 ololeck this afternoon. A slight breeze them shang wp, tem-| poring the heat somewhat, buy the, velief is only temporary. However | the fanmers over the corm helt ave chuckling. This hot weather is rap- Mr ssa ng Ailions SE hushals ot would caught hy frost, a |} | | | { | LAST YOUR REAL ESTATE MERE Real Estate and Insurance DISNEY PHONE 1550 Aly S3200 with small dopesit for your dheice of these 6 ream brick howsos, all medorm convonionoces, with fiooplace. French doors, oak floors, in geed soction dese to tactevicos. Apply WNW. 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