The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

seer! dali ee. (Established WT1) 5 #8 'rsd o8IGY " a : Street, 1 Bond | 5 Tempore: Teltnhon : REPRESENTATIVES IN USa : Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1928 IMPERIAL COMMISSIONERS The present visit to Canada of the Rt, Hon, Charles Amery, secretary of state for the Dominions in Premier Baldwin's cabinet; is said to be preliminary of British High Commissioners to Canada and the other self- * governing Dominions--another step on the. path to absolute autonomy, Such a step would be in line with the new theory of the Empire enunciated by the re. cent Imperial Conference and ratified by the British and, so far as Canada is concerned, by the Dominion Parliament, The appointment of a British high com- missioner to Canada would be tantamount to the naming of an ambassador from Great Britain to Canada, but the office itself would combine the functions of that office and that of a consul general, One effect of the appointment would be felt within a few years, granting that the present trend towards the forms as well as substance of Canadian autonomy continues, on the office of the Governor General, A British high commissioner to Canada would mean, sooner or later, the appointment of Canadians as viceroys just as Canadians are now appointed lieutenant governors of Pro- 'wyinces, Lord Willingdon is probably the last of the British pro-consuls to Canada, His suc- may be Sir Robert Borden, Dr, F, G, Banting, Sir Arthur Currie or any one of a hundred other Canadians who would be more or less logical candidates for the office, GENERAL MOTORS GREAT YEAR Executives of General Motors of Canada, Limited, reported $70,000,000 of business transacted during 1927--the greatest year in the company's history, But along with that statement statistics were given out of even more vital impor. tance to Canada as 8 whole, combining such announced totals as $27,000,000 spent for Canadian raw materials and nmished pro- ducts, $9,800,00 paid in taxes and customs duties alone, a' payroll of $7,900,000, and plant extensions totalling $8,000,000 shows" is Canadianism at its best. It builds, Canada's snnual wheat crop averages some $400,000,000 in value, The amount ex- e TI THE - of But today the order is a growing menace, them of driving automobiles, Beyond that is mere conjecture, Perhaps they can be cured, It is certain that they respond to vocational training as numbers of special classes in Ontario schools attest, But the real menace is that they marry and their mental deficiencies are repeated in their chil dren or their children's children, The problem, in the interest of society, must be dealt with, The crowded asylums of Ontario and all other countries that main. tain such institutions show how seriously mental diseases are growing, There are some who predict that unless remedial steps are taken, this continent will be given over to insanity and mental immaturity in adults within a century, That may be an alarmist view entirely un. supported by facts, But the situation should be studied and responsibility shouldered as Mr, Alger suggests, INDUSTRIALIST PASSES The death of Robert Williams, founder of the Williams Piano Company in this city, on Thursday will be widely regretted, While he had retired from active business some years ago, the industry which he established has continued to grow until today the product which he first manufactured has an inter- national reputation, Success in this century is commonplace, but there are certain forms of achievement which, more than others, invite enduring public appreciation, One of these lies in bending industry to the service of the arts, ' Por many ages musical instruments were hand-made affairs, Some, such as the great- er violins, cannot be equalled by machines, But in the piano--the instrument which bas brought out the inner soul of music--mach- inery has seemed to delight in making in- struments for the millions such as the great masters of the past never knew, The industry which bears his name is the late Mr, Williams' enduring monument, He saw in that manufacturing field both an op- portunity for success and service. The years justified his vision and honored his efforts, Death, however, has closed his account with life, But it is the passing of such men, the closing of such careers that leaves hu- manity convinced of its inherent immortal- ity, The pioneer souls, the leaders, the dreamers and doers of splendid things must somewhere find enlarged fields for their tal- ents snd higher opportunities for service, Without that belief life is not only meaning- less but an unbearable cruelty, NINETEEN-TWENTY-EIGHT ah XA The world's egg trade last year, according to statistics, exceeded more than 660,000,000 dozen, and that seems to be a fairly conclu: sive answer to the old question, "Why is a hen?" ---- PRESENTS (London Daily Express) Husbands and wives should give each other presents which hold the element of surprise, Many ¢ husband has felt his heart grow warmer as he has gazed on a boy of cigars he could mot be bribe® to smoke, and many a wife ha felt ten years younger with ¢ shawl which she would not wear it the house were on fire, - NEEDED ENCOURAGEMENT HOME INFLUENCE (Brantford Expositor) The Stratford Beacon-Herald re- marks that the parents of both Hickman and his confederate in crime, Welby Hunt, were divore- ed, The point is well taken, Homes of this character are not calculated to hurture exemplary children, The crime against childhood is one of the crying evils of divorces, A little more wisdom and restrain{ on the part of the parents might have in- culcated this in their children, YANKS STAY DRY (Christian Herald) The Associaed Press carried the announcement recently that 856,000 citizens of the United States cross- ed into Ontario over the Detroit route during a recent brief period The Essex County Automobile Club states that only 5 per cent of the visitors asked for drink permits No American was arrested for driv- ing while drunk, Reporters who, swarmed into Windsor, 'which is directly across from Detroit, and who anticipated lurid tales of the "general American debauch," went back to their city editors without the stories, THE CANADIAN NATION (Vancouver Province) We are laying the found:ction today of the nation that is to be, sand the blood we Introduce But awfully 1 Post, . OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. MUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1928 | -- that "the mo- is disgusting." ~ Liverpool -- Skirts be worn longer. but not, at the present rate of shrink- age, more than a few months long- er.~--Brandon Sum, rr We'll say this for the weather man; he never blames it on the re- porter when he makes a bad break. --Hamilton Herald, 'Wonder what would happen if a man returned a bill and wrote, "I do not choose to pay this."--Strat- ford-Beacon Herald, -- A bachelor is a fellow who gets only half as much mileage as a married man out of a pair of socks.--Montreal Star, Samson was one of the earliest big advertisers and got amazing results by using two columns, -- Florence (Ala.) Herald, New Union Station is correctly named, It unites buying tickets in marble halls with catching trains in a shed.--Toronto Telegram, A quiet evening at home now- adays is Lhe one when the madio battery is away being charged.-- Christian Science Monitor, Every hoy has an idea that if his father had lived at the righ: time he could have thrashed Gol- iath,--Chicago Daily News, Apparently the first thing you do when you get in the new car is to slam the door just as you did in the old one.--Brandon Sun, After dictating to his stenograph- er for seven years, & business man has just married her, It's her turn now!--Liverpool Weekly Post, And now "used radios" may be seen in some stores, We may soon look forward to the 'used plane" market.--Christian Science Moni- or, Now You Tell Ore An American explorer reports that he has been robbed by bandits in the jungles of Brazil, How civil ization spreads! through immigration will be the blood which will strengthen or] contaminate the Canadian race in the centuries shead. All the more reason then, why we should be careful, Canada needs more peo- ple--needs them badly to fill in the great national framework she has constructed. But she does not | need them so badly that she can afford to admit any who will re- dee the vigor of her bloodstream. She has a standard now in the dis- tinetive race she has so far evoly- ed. If she can elevate that stand- ard, so much the better, But she should be very certain that she abates nothing of it, OLD AGE PENSIONS (Manitoba Free Press) It could be plausibly urged that | the care of the indigent aged is the duty of the province, not of the Dominjon; and that the provinces are in luck in that the Dominion is willing to pay half the shot. This was the view of British Columbia which was the first province to take up the Federal offer; and with Manitoba now asserting her adhe- sion to the scheme, the movement to bring in the provinces one after RIEU £ : i I £ § - {for as The Jones family were on: holi- day, and it had rained every day or a week, They were all very ~loomy as they sat in the front room of their boarding-house, Aunt Jane--" When I was your age, Betty, I could name all the lings of England." Little Betty---*Yes, auntie; there weren't then." but 80 many of them "Men are so hard to buy for," complained the sweet young thing. "Yes," sighed the spinster of forty-three, "and I hope you'll ney- er learn how hard it is to get a man to buy for." ' The Irish master had left his "lass with the instruction that they were not to talk. "I can hear you Hoys keeping quiet at the other end of the building," he complained when he returned. Little Jimmy was looking through the window at the down- pour when he exclaimed suddenly, "Oh, look! There's a man carrying a lot of wood! What's he going to do?" Mr, Jones looked up from his paper. "I suppose he's going to build an are!" The only thing getting longer about women's evening gowns arc the shoulder straps. Sympathizing friend (to widow): "Did you love your husband so very dearly?" The Widow: "1 "Yes; but ad Willie: ""Ma, if the baby was to Mother: They'd kill him. Willie: "Well, they didn't." . Presently she . if struck by a bright idea, and "Ob, I suppose, after the pilot eat tadpoles, would it give him a -| big bass voice like a frog?" H as Out -- PREVENTING Free| . wet morning, a '| sleepless. night due to a digontion, you are of the opinion that the world is getting worse, and is hard- ly a fit place in which to live. you ask the first man for the correct time, finally gets your message, perha and you learn the time of day, quite a few folks are afflicted its cause, and the possibility of cure. Fortunately for this old world of the number of these deaf folks, because deafness in children will of many, and prevent the progress of deafness in others, long ago learned that poor eye- sight was responsible for back- wardness in children, This deficl- ency in eyesight . was not diffi- cult to discover, and the young- ster was given a seat near tne blackboard, besides having glasses fitted properly. Deafness, however, is somewhat different in that the child who is hard of hearing doesn't know that he is hard of hearing, until it 1s discovered by the teacher, per- haps accidently, You will remember that our army test consists of having re- cruits try to hear the ticking of a watch, Ingersoll or other loud sondine watch, at a distance of 4 feet, This was quite a satisfac 'ory test because you were exam: 'ning recruits one\at a time, However, the new test permits forty children to be eramined at one time. They are seated at desks, provided with pencils, ree- ard sheets, and a "receiver" which 'he child puts over the right ear f'rst. and told to write down the numbers which he hears, in a col- an, Then the left ear is tested. The ones showing mistakes are 'hen checked up again, and tested ind!vidually, Those showing a definite loss f hearing are then examined by the ear specialist and proper treat- ment started, Figures show that about hild in every hundred examined had rome defest in hearing, This work among school child. an Fe'r-at'on for the Hard of Hearing, Incorpor- ated, tion, The amount of good sccomplish- hecause you point to his watch, You begin to realize them that with deafness, and wonder as to of ours there will be a lessening now be discovered early, and early treatment will restore the hearing As you know school teachers one §' en has becn done by the Ameri- | §| of Orgenizations Their work has the endorsation of the American Medical Associa. ed by this splendid work igre StosiE-ForLonG ¢6 STOCKS BONDS GRAIN : Office: BAY AND WELLINGTON 23d Building Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa Phones 143 and 144 S$. F. EVERSON, Local Manager == Above C.P.R, Office -- Rg op ng eset em to estimate. It is just another evidence that the world now cares more for the afflicted that at any time in history. KELLOGG TO PAY VISIT TO OTTAWA Washington, aln. 8.--Secretary of State Frank B, Kellogg will visit Ottawa abot Feb. 5 for three days, and will make the customary of- ficial calls, Having forgotten your watch you, juoet Immediately his hand goes up to his ear and he leans forward to catch your spoken words, He Secretary Kellogg will thus re- trn the courtesy of the visits of the Governor-General, Viscount Willingdon and Lady Willingdon, and Premier Right Hon. W, L. Mackenzie King to Washington. Details of the visit have not been made public as yet, and it is not known who will make up the Secretary's party, but presumably he will be accompanied by naval and military aides, It is consider- ed likely that the Canadian Gov ernment will extend Mr, Kellogg the same military and diplomatic courtesies which were extended to hte Viceregal and Ministerial visit- ors to Washington, Mr, Kellogg will make his home in Ottawa at Lhe residence of the United States Minister to the Do- minion, Willlam Phillips, It is thought probable that the round of courtesies may include a series of social affairs at the residence of the Governor-General, POLICE SUSPECT CRIME IN SAULT WOMAN'S DEATH | § Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 8.--An in- || quest will be held into the death last night of Mrs. Mary Dominick, aged 81 years, wife of Nick Do- |! minick, proprietor of the New On- tario Hotel, as a result o! informa- |' tion turned over to Coroner Dr. A. 8, McCaig by the police, It is be- lieved by the police that Mrs. Da- minick died as the result of ap il- legal operation. Dr. W, H, Dudley, 452 Albert street east, who attended Mrs Dominick from Tuesday to the time of her death, says he diagnosed tie case as peritonitis, RAYS OF SUNPUT TO WORK BY NEW METAL Washington, Jan, 7 -- Science is pdeparing to harness the energy of the sun, the moon and the stars to create electrical power, An 'exhaustive research into the properties of a mineral called molybdenite, which has the prop- erty of transforming long wave light rays into electri energy, were described today by Dr. W. W. Coblentz, astronomer at the U. 8. bureau of standards. By exposure of molybdenite to the rays of the heavenly bodies, Dr. Coblentz has succeeded in gen- erating sufficient electrical force to throw a galvonometer deflector off scale. { "Of course that force is not com- mercially valuable," Coblentz ex- plained. "But if in the study of the eremical composition of molyb- denite. science discovers methods { of predueing this metal in a large | slab, sufficient, say, to generate [two volts, them the commerela) value becomes apparent." Such a generation of power would make possible the energy of a storage battery, or evem, If properly controlled, the operation of a rad'o receiving set directly from the current drawn from the MOTOR CARS We will loan you monles on your motor car, or if you can not meet your present payments we will pay 'off the claims and renew your payments for any term up to twelve months and insure your ear. See Swanson, Geps 'man & McKenzie, 2 King street east, Phone 940, PETE ---------- otice to ' h t; the tele Phone 1082 Coiner Siuce OSHAWA ; Ambulance Service Day or Night, tiie Fublic We are now doing bu:ness mt our new location, corner of Bruce and Celina streets, Oshawa, and hope to be able to ren. der our usual efficient service during alterations. new bublding is wler construction, @ntiance will- be on Bruce number remains the same, 1088, Watch this space for important announcement later, ' Weight Funerzls While our and ('elina Sts, Phone 1083 my Do You Own VourOwn NEW HOUSES for SALE 7 rooms Leslie street. 7 rooms Frederick street. 6 and 8 rooms Oshawa Boule- vard. re terms and prices, We have houses in all parts of write insurance and arrange loans. W. 7. Sulley, Real Estate SULLEY & MAW Auctioneers 9 Celins Street Phone 2580; Res, 716) REAL ESTATE Somes bullt to suit purcossers. R.M, KELLY 610 Simcoe St. N, Phope 1663W ---- CAR1ER'S Real Estate CABTER'S REAL ESTATE, 5 King St. Kk. ------ BRADLEY BROS. Real Estate J.C.YOUNG osha. On TT FOR SALE--8-Room, New, Frame House; lights, water, Only $8,200, £400 cash, Must sell, Horton & French Mundy Bldg, Phone 2696 EEE § H ' H ¥ i i |