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PAGE FOU. An excep Ghani. Sunes, Frosiont AR. Mawey, x t soclation, Audit Bureau x Oshawa Daily Times is a member of the Cana mo the Dally Newaprpore' Ae - Ontario Dailies and the of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: 10¢c a week. By mail: In the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumberland, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a yearn "TORONTO 07 Bond 66 Adelaide 0307." H, D, T dder, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. - Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1927 "DO YOUR CHRISTMAS MAILING EARLY Owing to the fact that while enlargement "of the Oshawa post office's facilities for serv. ing the public are to be increased in the + near future but not in time for the Christmas season rush, citizens are earnestly asked by "the Post Office Department to do what they | can to prevent congestion on the eve of the "year's holiday of remembrance and good will, Presents can be quite easily despatched to prospective recipients with the warning "Do not open until Christmas," There may be a few misguided souls who would cheat them- | gelves of Christmas' particular joy by opens " ing them ahead of time, yet the vast majority ; consider such warnings as a sealed lock which only the coming of the happy morning can break, The local post office, which has worked all through this busy year under handicaps, is entitled to special consideration by citizens because, despite those handicaps, it has given unexceptionable service on the whole, The postmaster hopes, as far as possible, 'that all outgoing mail for Christmas delivery . will be in his hands some few days, at least, i before Christmas Eve, patched, his staff of permanent work - volunteers will be left free to handlé' With such mail dis- g and e ex- pected rush of incoming parcels and mail, IMPROVING LAKEVIEW PARK The Parks Board has begun a fine bit o" improvement work at Lakeview Park where- : by, eventually, the whole. of the waterfront's low cliffs will be replaced by an incline lead. ing from the higher level down to the beach, jam enviable record of achievement, 'beauty of Alexandra, Central and Lakeview Already, it has been announced, some 300 feet have been treated in. this manner which "will add very much to the Park's many at- + tractions, The Parks Board 1s closing its year with The Parks during the past summer and well into the autumn was 'creditable alike to the city . and to the Board responsible for them, No _ investment of taxes in Oshawa brings such «quick and apparent generous returns as that i 'entrusted to the Parks Board, Part of that is due, of course, to Canadian natgre that requires very little in the way of encourage- "ment to transform unsightliness into beauty. Yet the commissioners themselves and their staff are to be earnestly commended. The economy with which the city's parks system is operated is gratifying so long as the annual tax rate is kept in mind, How- ever, the statutes of Ontario provide gener- ously for parks purposes where Boards see fit to demand their legal share of the city's income, The time is close at hand when Oshawa will be well advised to make a heavier annual investment in park upkeep and development, for the growth of the city not only demands beauty to adorn it but open places where children may play in safety. RUSSIA'S NEW ROLE The Union of Soviet Republic is certainly ~ successful in what seems to be consuming ambition to startle the world. Its represen- tatives appear at Geneva with olive branch- es instead of bombs and calmly propose a program of general disarmament that, had it been presented by any other first rate . power, would have thrown civilization into - rapturous expectation of the millenium. Unfortunately for world peace, the Soviet f emissiaries come into 2 prejudiced court. The regeneration intimated is - too sudden, the change of heart too absclute to be view ed otherwise than with suspicion. a 'Yet, knowing that there have been miracles on a national scale, the Geneva conference is giving the Russian delegation's proposals serious consideration. For aside from the fanciful hope that Moscow means what it © says, the lesser object is to reclaim Russia to the community of eivilization, . The Empire ruled from Moseow fis enviab- = Jy placed so for as world politics are con- cerned. The centuries have demonstrated thet it is unconguerable. Its resources are | TA Lin g Telephone - om a A hs Mi ri ii priictically scheme of cynical utopianism and given the sanity of really democratic government, _Ruasia would soon become prosperous and, | "with it, the world's commerce would expand to the blessing of every home on earth that : | forth to labor' in mine, at fact ory, or behind the plow. «First, however, Russia must learn to at- to its business; and give evidence of day comes, civilization will receive Russia in- to fellowship again--but not before if civili- zation has any ambition to survive, % GUARDING PUBLIC HEALTH In order to minimize the danger of a'émall- pox epidemic in Oshawa, the Board of Health 'has sent out a questionaire to the local in- dustries with the object of ascertaining their views on the matter of vaccination, Timely emphasis is laid on the matter of demanding vaccination or record of recent immunization as a condition of employment, The threat of smallpox is undoubtedly one which should cause Oshawa grave concern, The outbreak here has so far, been restricted to two cases, but as pointed out by Dr, Mc Kay the growth of the city makes it all the _ more vulnerable to outside infection, Despite the campaign against vaccination, the weight of public opinion favours the use of what history and statistics both agree in showing is the only effective method of com- batting the scourge---for scourge it remains despite the years' apparent weakening of its virulence, The question of vaccination is deeply in. terwoven into the problem of industrial efficiency. A serious outbreak in any com- munity such as Oshawa would probably mean closing departments or entire plants, The effort of the Board of Health to anticipate such an outbreak deserves careful thought and such co-operation as the gravity of the threat from other infected centres may war- rant, COLLEGIATE SCHOLALRSHIPS The campaign launched by the Board of Education to increase its list of scholarships and awards for student merit at the Colleg- iate Institute should meet with a most gen. erous response, Secondary education is the backbone of national wu. ure, For every man or woman that acquires a university degree there are ten who.complete high school. From the lat- ter come the great body of leadership in every walk of life not limited by profession- al qualifications, The high school graduate forms the bulk of the teaching profession; municipal government throughout Canada is overwhelmingly in his hands; and upon him rests the challenge of progress in the fields of commerce, finance and industry, Because secondary education is largely supported by taxes, the public grows to re- gard it without the interest which its im- portance should arouse, It is therefore all the more necessary that scholarship in the high school field should be recognized both by those rewards of merit which merely dis- tinguish, such as medals and prizes; and by scholarships which show the ambitious but ° handicapped student that wherever there is ability and ambition, a .way can be found to further the latter by developing the former, The campaign committee working on be- half of the Oshawa Collegiate Institute consists of Chairman T, B. Mitchell of the Board, Trustee Alex W, Bell, Trustee A, W. Drew, and Principal O'Neill. They are men who do not lightly enter into any publie endeavor, and their connection with this work is but another guarantee both of the need and soundness of the plan devised fill it. EDITORIAL NOTES. Opportunity is a knocker but it doesn't use a hammer, There is only one thing that a Want-Ad can't find and that's a lost opportunity. Good-Town-But is the permanent address of the man who thinks the world owes him a living, Criticism should be like a doctor's diag- nosis. He tells what's wrong with you and then writes a prescription. "Bawling out" is en art. And the art con- sists in making sure that for one such ont- break oceasion is found to commend twice. Good salesmanship is the art of letting the customer do the selling. It takes some men 25 years and three receiverships to learn that lesson. , Therc's no reason in the world why men shouldn't wear more flowers than they do. This is said With eve to empty buttonholes in every business stit in Canada--and flor- ist's profits, DE a [ook ser Wins cp § Orillia Support est from those who heard him is evident from an editorial in The Orillia "Packet and Times," un- der date of December 2, which was as follows: © "Dr, Kaiser's address to the Oril- lia Canadian Club made two things reasonably plain, One was that there is every likelihood that in the long run Alberta's vast re- sources of lignite coal will be made available for all Canada in the form of oil mot only for fuel but as gasoline and lubricating ofl. The other was that this revo- lution is not lkely to take place in the immediate future, as the process has yet to be perfected and adapted to Canadian condi- tions, Dr. Kaiser was justified in criticiging the standpat attitude of the Minister of the Interior. "The . Bergius process has evi- dently gone far emough to justify the Government in getting the best a --" | Canadian brains at work develop Ang Jit, so as to make its benefits available at as early a date as pos- sible. Moreover, - it is desirable that the Canadian process, when it' does come, should be a national possession, ta be applied to the ad- vantage of the gemeral public, and not exploited for private gain. The latter would mean large for- tunes for the few, made out of the national resources, and no relief for the many who find the present cost of fuel a real problem at present prices, "Meantime, the Government railways should be the more ready to assist in bringing coal from the west to Ontario, since it 1s clear that they will only be rve- quired to do so for a limited period, and not as a permanent policy. The discussion over the Railway Com. mission's report has left little doubt in the lay mind that the rallways ean bring coal to Ontario at $7 a ton if they want to, with- out being out of pocket." WhatOthers Say -- ONLY T00 TRUER (Life) She I: "Did he really mean It when he sald he wouldn't pet?" She II: "Yes, he was as good as his word." WITH THE OTHERS (Chicago Daily News) Man: "I bought another set of Shakespeare today and, believe me, it's a beauty, Hand-tooled leather covers, good edges, velvet finished paper stock, classic typography, steel engraved illustrations; a beau- ty, I tell you." Wife: "Well, I'll try to find room for it in the basement." ABOUT HIT THE MARK (St. Catharines Standard) The unkindest cut of all to Ag- nes MacPhail, M.P,, 1s to have her crusades in Canada likened to the | crazy performance of the Mayor of Chicago. M., F. Hepburn, M. P., for West Elgin took that view of Miss MacPhail's outbursts and he just about hit the mark, FIRST U. 8. RATBROAD IN '26 der the Hudson river hetween New York and Jersey City cost the states of New York and New Jer- sey $48,000 000, It was a vast sum to evnend on a great experi- ment, Aside from the doubts en+ tertained by many that the engl- neerina problems ennnected with its construction could all he satis- factorily solved. particularly that of proner ventilation, there was a question as to whether the tunnel eonld he mada to pay for its cost of construction and expense of operation and maintenance, Now that traffic through the tunne! has settled down to what may ba considered a normal basis it is found that not only is the daily income sufficient to pay the cost of 1 t tion and to s 1 1ired amount for amortization, but that it {is yielding a profit and above these items. Iipures an eleven-day period, inclu two Sundays and a ho! r, how that the average number of cars, trucks and motorcycles pacsi through the tunnel each day is 26493, Engineers estimated that the gross operating expenses, which in. clude daily operating cost, allow- nd oner wering ling (The Pathfinder) The first railroad In American was a short quarry line built at Quincy, Mass., in 1826, which was | followed by the first track of the | Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1928, This was the nucleus of a railroad system which has develop- ed a net-work of over 420,000 miles, or more than one-third of the world's aggregate mileage, GIRLS AT HOOKEY (Fort Willlam Times-Journal) There is another phase of hockey developing apace here also. The giris 'are out to get into the game; and when they go after anything they usually get pretty close to get- ting there. They are said to have their minds set on getting some re- servation made for them at the rink. It is to be hoped that they and the management. can get to- gether on it. Hockey {is a good game for girls, and, if the girls can manage to organize a league they deserve a little consideration, LUCKY OR SAFE (Toronto Globe) Peace advocates see a cure for everything in disarmament, Some of them would bring this without thoroughly counting cost. Viscount Cecil in a recent ar- ticle in The London Sunday Times, brings forward, as an argument by favor of naval disarmament by Great Britain, the statement that "Britain was lucky in the Great War in being able to bottle up the German fleet, but she might not be 80 lucky in the mext war, when it was very doubtful whether any number of cruisers would save her." It is difficult to see how his Lordship can use that as a plea in support of his views. Burely it shows all the greater reason that Britain should exercise extreme ! caution in the reduction of the size t of her fleet, so that should war! unfortunately again break out, in- stead of being mer~'y "lucky" she | will be safe beyond the shadow of a doubt. WHY GRADUATES LEAVE | (From the Ham!lton Spectator) A little while ago we quoted Sir Robert Falconer's assurance that graduates of Toronto university were mot migrating at any alarni- ing rate to the United States. Sta- tistics furnished by the principal covering the last few years bore | out his statement, and one wonder- | ed whether, after all, too much had not been made of the exodus of Canadian brains across the border. Another member of Toronto uniyer- sity, however, has just been heard from, a demand for higher salaries 4 for science workers in the employ of the government and educational institutions in Canada bavine been advanced im Ottuwa by Professor J C. McLennan, of the University pported Canada. and especially in the gov- ernment service. No country bas a only natural that they should seek | 'careers elsewhere if it is not made about . the | ".\ ¢ room sttrestive aosommo- tions for visvting buyers. to Penn. Station in the ov ok fhocessible to everything! / 50 ABERDEEN HOTEL 37 West 2nd Bt, near 5th Ave, NEW YORK Jobe J. Downey. Managing Divestor one who has mone; a is one who is getting it servative is one who has it. How many times one has seen this worked out in fe. Red hot socialists, coming imte money, become very cautious men of affairs with a great respect for private rights. One's of the performance in the theatre of life depends very much indeed on the location of one's seat, A RAILWAY HORROR (Guelph Mercury) Canada has had comparatively few serious railway collisions in retent years, due to the fact that every modern device for the prevention of accidents is being adopted and put into use all along the entire length of the railway systems. The wreck of one of the fastest passenger trains on the C.P.R. ays. tem recently was the worst of many years, The dead and 'injured were principally immigrants from Poland, bound for Western Ontario points, few of whom can speak the language of this country, which added to their terror when the crash came. Explanations are in order for the calamity, A freight train is said to have overrun the switch and had not sufficient time to give warning to the approaching express, A situation like | 8 this emphasizes the advantage of the block system, which automatically warns trainmen when a section is not clear, There was a time when hand brakes were the only check on a train's speed, but when the air brake was invented all railway systems were compelled to equip their rolling | improved brake, |! stock with the Block systems have demonstrated their efficiency in the matter of pre- |. venting wrecks and are in use on many lines of railway. should ' compel railways, as it did the use of air brakes. It takes much time for such an improvement to be made, and al- 'ready on some sections of the Can- adian railways the block system is being introduced with good effect, The wreck might have been pre- vented had a block system been in use, and several lives would have heen saved and more passengers kept | & from serious injury, The railways are giving splendid service and are adopting every improvement as they have means, but as under present systems the public pay, there. should be a hurrying of the work thr larger loans, for the purpose of mak- ing our railways one hundred per cent, perfect, Legislation |; this system on all || Registered =TONS OF -- Satisfaction Yard--Athol St, East [iI § "3, H. R, LUKE Oshawa Manager At Oshawa | ¢. E EXPECT to meet our friends. We hope to display a op: lines of interest to poultrymen:-- TOU AAP he die J WY Phoae 231 PORTER. 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