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TEI SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: 100 & week. mail: a yor ciacwhere In CARAS, a year; Bhited dates, $6.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE; 40% Bend Building, 66 Temperance Streak, Teitutone Adelaide 0107. D. Tresidder, - : REPRESENTATIVES IN USa ~~ Pawers and Stone, Inc. New Vork and Chicago. MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1927 PROGRESS Friday night's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce committee of citizens and Coun- , cil members was in point of attendance and interest an additional guarantee of the move- ment's entire success. The meeting took sev. eral important steps with regard to the fu- ture, 'One being the appointing of a commit. tee to airange for a membership drive and to emplay a permanent secretary. And in ar- ranging to send a delegation to Ottawa to. seek Government co-operation in the comple. tion of Oshawa's harbor, the Chamber of Commerce even in its embryo stage is ren- dering city-building service to Oshawa. The decision not to call in outside profes. sional assistance in launching the local drive for members was a wise one and reflected the committee's considered thought in the matter, However, D, M, Tod's earnest state- ment that Oshawa cannot afford to let the Chamber of Commorce movement die through lack of initial momentum was a timely warn- ing, There is no doubt that Oshawa is more than qualified to stage its own campaign and get more members than it would under out. side direction, however efficient ; but the Will that made Oshawa what it is must be arous- ed to put the effort across, It is evident, However, that a virile com- munity spirit exists in this city and tnat it is only awaiting an opportunity such as or- ganizing a result-getting Chamber of Com- merce to express itself, The Rotary Club has given the movement its unanimous endorsation, and as stated by speakers it is certain that the organizing committee can look to it for the fullest meas- ure of co-operation, Further, the organization of the Chamber of Commerce is not merely a matter of se- curing 500 or more members, In a sense, everyone in Oshawa having a stake in the community---no matter how small -- would be an associate member in 8 very real sense, .. The coming campaign should be organized not only to seek members but to create a re- serve of public good will and interest that would be the Chamber of Commerce's high est assurance of success, DIME NOVELS AND CRIME A youth sentenced in the Oshawa police magistrate's court on Saturday to a year's imprisonment. in the Ontario reform school, traced his downfall to reading of dime nov- els. The young man's excuse may be smiled at by numbers of people who find such volumes of lurid literature the world's best humor, but the real root of his downfall lies in ex- gctly what he indicated but could not fully explain, One of Bacon's most quoted essays tells how reading affects the character; but be- fore one can read the books which the father of modern philosophy recommends there must be, first, 8 mind to appreciate them, Back of this young man's stated downfall through reading trash was one of two things, namely: an undeveloped mind or 8 misdeveloped mind. Appreciation of the "~good in literature is an acquired thing, The schools of the nation serve mo higher pur. "pose than to introduce the young to those well-worn paths which lead to the world of honorable books, To love good literature is an insurance pgainst an unclean mind. The man who ean enjoy the hesrt-gripping novels of Dickens has no room for mental filthiness, Good books are a ments! sntiseptic. It cannot prevent exposure to the gross snd sordid but it can and does prevent infection. POACHING The role of science has often been to shat- ter illusions. In fact, the exercise of doubt has brought to science some of its greatest . achievements. But timid souls are occasion- ally appalled at the ruthlessness with which Iss ail] s-K RE] THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JANUARY 16,1928 ~ as their publicity agents who had spread among Greeks the legend that there were no men whereby scientists, on their part, will agree not to invade the field of poetry and myth? Some such an armistice might well be de- Thompson, of Chicago; and the schools, and between all members of society as to mind- ing one's business to the exclusion of the other fellow's. WHAT MAKES A NEWSPAPER A mistaken idea with some people is that the newspaper is an individual proposition. If they don't like the editor, they feel they. must knock the paper and stand in the way of its success whenever possible, They do not realize that the local paper is just as much a part of the community as the schools, churches or anything else. The newspaper is different from any other business, it is a community afiair, It exists to serve the people and not for any selfish object, You may not like the editor and the editor may not love you any too well--but the pa- per he is responsible for does just as much for you as the service rendered others, There is nothing personal with it; it is here for a purpose and that purpose is to do what good it can in every way it can and the greater the support of those it undertakes to serve the better service it can render. It takes the people to make a good newspaper and with- out the help of the people no one can run a successful newspaper, It requires money to operate any kind of business--even the churches and the papers are no exception and for this reason they must have the finan. cial support of the business interest as well as the good will, Few newspaper publishers make more than a comfortable living and scarcely one is reported wealthy from money made in the newspaper business, They deserve to be trusted and to be understood by the people-- it is the editor and not the plant that makes a newspaper useful in a community, though a liberal patronage is necessary if the paper is to be a credit to the town, EDITORIAL NOTES All the world loves a listener, It takés a girl with dreamy eyes to keep the men awake. Dancing is fine exercise for everything ex- cept the head, The autoist who emulates the hare gets bumped. Time is money, but it hasn't anything on gasoline, The only res! relief for a bad cold seems to be cussing, A small town is one in which it is hard to get a $10 bill changed. A cynic is one who associates the fact that people are living longer than they used to with the saying that the good die young. Bit of Verse A WINTER SONG Up in the morning's no' for me, A Up in the morning early; When a' the hills are cover'd wi' snaw I'm sure it's winter fairly, Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west, The drift is driving sairly' Sae loud and shrill's I hear the blast I'm sure it's winter fairly. g The birds sit chittering in the thorn, A' day they fare but sparely; And lang's the night frae ¢'en to morn; Pm sure it's winter fairly. bi ~--Burns, -jonly knew that they didn't :|thig sort of people, on -- -- - What the By Hon. French Canadian L. A. Taschereau, K.C., MLA, Prime Minister and Attorney General of Quebec, as Told to Leslie M. Roberts in Maclean's Magasine Wants been handed other of the grows to dlans living together with Mberly, equality war that is better than me neutrality, We are living together berty, Equal- | in harmony, with all tL-t the mean- ty. you have omega, «he be all and end all of what beats .a the heart of the Krench-Cana- dian, and the answer to the ever- ed question, 'What does the Srench-Canadlan want?' | You may say, therefore, that the riddle is solved, and, speaking broadly, you will be right. The ! "rench-Canadian has liberty, the Jberty that is the heritage of all of ug in this land and under this dag. Equality he shares with all good citizens of this Dominion. Ho' ,enjoye the Fraternity of broad minded men and women every where, | |. But liberty, equality and fra- ternity wiil fall to the ground um- |.288, first, you have understanding. {Jo let us loo: into the question aere closely, for the promotion of anderstand.ng between our people! a a subject near to the hiarts of Il fair thinking men and wuaen a1 Canada. Unlegs we can umder- iand each other ad draw wore 'osely together with the years, .Berty, equality and [raternity--or ny other labels which tag our na 'onal aspirations- -can be moth- ag but catchwords, Lack of undersiand!ng has been our greatcst drawback and stumb- ilng block to harmony in Canaad. dere, sectionallsm hes reared Its Jgly head; there, Interracial jeal- oucies have festcred and grown sore for want of the wise surgeon's knife. In late years, p rhaps, we have dome better, striving to learn to know each other better, east and 7est, French and English, But wa "ould be closcr to each other than are; a cond't'on possib'e of alevement + !y when each of us proaches the particular subject of zoncern in a spiri. of unselfishness, understanding and willingness to give and take, The ghost of bigotry must be laid if these t. o races are to know each other as they should and love and admire .ach other as hey ought and as, in the broad anception of things, they do, * The French-speaking Canadian's anse of irrite'lon--Ielt very keenly mn more than one occasion in the )ast--has bcen caused, Invariably, by people whe neither knew nor understood the sace against which they fulminated Always he has felt that he was being traduced out of ignorance b people who would not take the trcuble to understand, little men of bias who fumed and fretted without knowing why, ot © French-Canadians, In England they have an expressive phrase for dismisging them with a laconic: "They're talk- ing through their hats?" Headgear Oratory Talking through hats has done a lot of damage in this country, vn every occasion wher there has ~.¢n & hue and cry against the French-speaking race, this mode of speech has been the vogue, the man who does the loudest talking always being the last c~2 to stop to investigate or think belore he speaks, Then, when .ues and cries have died away and political experiency has been sery:l, or its ends deefated, a rag tag and bobtail of opinion has been left in the minds of yeople who do not thing! for themselves, the general effect' of which has been to draw the two, '| |races apart; men 4nd women who form snap judgiient based on the I' st thing they hear or read, ple-| t re the Fk .ench-Canad an as a species of ogre & very dangerous influence in national life, uttering entirely false statements as to bis views, desires and modes of thought. Fortunately, this is a8 fault, that we appear to be overcoming; | certainly, it is one to be avoided it we are to have understanding and harmony in this country, where interects are go diverse, sec: ional and raelal, Some of the expressed opinions about the Province of Quebec 'have been weirdly funny, but altogeth- er too pathetic for laughter. In some schools of opinion, one might almost glean the view that Quebec is a sort of buge reservation, al- most uncultivated and inhabited by 8 quasi-aboriginal race, which makes up for what it lacks in; civilization, euiture or education by i the rabid quality of its views and' opinions, Perhaps this will have the ring of gross exaggeration to the reader, but it Is, nevertheless, an accurate summing up of the so- called viewpoint of that charming fellow, the non-thinking bigot. It used to be proclaimed by these zealots--perhaps it {is still pro- claimed--that the English-speaking minority in the Province of Quebec lives in a condition bordering on persecution. For this statement, too, your man-of-the-world will have 8 broad smile, branding the yarn 8 pure canard. Nevertheless, in deys gone by, it was a fairly eral view amongst the bigots, bigotry was never born in the! womb of thoug!t, Let us consider the day-to-day: life of the two races, French and English, in Quebec, where the for- mer is in the majority, where the Provipeial Legislature largely French-speaking, and where al- most every city, tows apd village bas 8 preponderance of French-: LS citizens pois, Inter-racial . We its rights or privileges are tam- pered with, for the majority is meticulougly careful over | ogo e , in- . three ing of living together implies and signifies. From this picture It 1a uot & far French-Canadan has a co: ilal dlg- Jke for hyphens, The use of the | hyphen in welerring to Canadians of French origin is a matter of usage anc certainly is not prompt- ed by a desire of the French-speak- ing citizer to be mentioned as a member of a pace apart from all other races in Canada. This is not the country for French-Canadians, English-Canadians, = or for ans hyphenated form of Canadianism, It people of this Domiilion ara to be worthy of their salt, they must be Canadlani, not class'fications, My quarrel is not with the phrase #0 much as with the condition of mind which has brought these phrases into being, Amon7st these people who insist on rac'al deziguations and hyphens, aprarentl; scme pecullar views are held 'They speak of French-Cana- d'an dom!natio' of this and of that, of 'blocs,' of what the West wants to eram down the throat of the last and of all manner of things het eonld never exist f we ruled out hyphens and grozaphical con- siderat'nn;., Only recently I was ngked If it ls not true that it ia 'mpeg-ible fur Canada's immigra- tion progra to ba eatended and 'or new opulation to be brou:ht into the 'ountry "ecause of the dom!n'on of the so-called 'French- Cancd'an bloe' or 'Quebee bloc' in Ottawa, wh'ch, my informant al. leged, decried immigration because to fill up *he West wou'd mean the declire of French « Can~d'an nrest'ze ir the Ea-~t, presumably in the Fed-ral Covernment, 'No Question of Domination' The quest'on of 'domination' or 'control' may be dismiesed at once, If it ex!sts it is the first that [ have henrd of other han in the ranks of ron .uinking t'gotry. The other theory is fallacious, for the simple reason that the French- speaking race is not o posed to imm'gration, On the contrary, we feel thot Canada needs population but what we do want to sce Is a claes of good immigrants who will become an asset to Canada, We feel that a very carcful selection should be made and that all immi- grants with Bolshevist Ideals or who are feeble-minded should be refused entry to our country, 1 hope this will dispose of anoth- er erroneous impression of 'French-Canadi*r wants,' These imrrecs'ons on'y grow in the soil of h"nhenation and lack of under. standing, But one hears all man- ner of epinicns such as these, The word 'domination' {is one that seers to be peculiarly dear to the birot, Cons'der another angle of the 'dem"rat'on theory' that has been nut to me, ¥ was asked {If the growth of French-Canadian settle- ments in the Northwest does not ~ignify the poesibility o* predomin- ance of the French-Speaking race in other provinces as well as in Quehec; 12 1t Is not true that these northwer-terly geltlements are imazinary base: whence in the years to come, the French-Cana- dian horde will swoop down, quite peacefully, of erurse, on the south. erly portions of the western pro- v'nres enti] *hey become the racial a~d linguistic overlords of Can- ada, I smiled broadly, T confess, at this new poser. The French-Cana~ dian race is one of te large eles ments which make up the Cane dian race of today, and Canada, I take it, belongs to all Canadians, There {8 no reason, therefore, why they should be confined to the Province of Quebec, and I believe that the settlement of French- Caandians in the West is not hostile to the other races, but is the re- sult, merely, of our expansion, I do not think the: any mas who will rerson and study the con- ditions of the country will believe that the French-Canadians who have settled in the West, or who are going to the Prairie Provinces, wish ultimately to dominate these provinces, They simply want to be good Canadians, living as they have lived In the Province of Quebee, in harmony and concord with their .ellow eitizens of other races, In the question 'ss posed trere is the suggestion of organized and concerted activity and plan. Noth'ng could .e farther from the truth, It is perfectly morm=) that such questions as these should be asgk- ed, for this mode of thinking is one of the heritages o' our past in Canada and we have to settle thess various points of thinking when they arise in order to reach amity and understanding. But let us be careful, always, that our a the statement that the ! fraternity a8 in Canada | watehworde. We are lag some-| 'We Are All Canadians' Retura.ag, for a moment to the Subject of the bioader Canadian ism, it we are to have hy saderitunding Of ouss there must be an eo ever to peity les Bho Ae dca of. vae tongue against those Of tae otacr. MB.aseu people, for sasauce, nave oien declaimed as sact Laat tuese ig little or no oppor Jdaity tor an koglish-speaking eit~ «en in the bus..ess wosld, poiitl- cal lise or social enjoyments of the &roviuce of Quebec, That thiy is fal.acy makes it no less dangerous Wien sp.ead hither and yom thry Canada by wosd of moutn, though -t Luda complete re.utation as one Podils to the contentment and Prosperity of the Baglish-speak.ng people in Quebec, On this point the traducers' whole structure of faurication tumbles, but not before falsehood has done much harm, It We are all Canadians in truth and in fact, opoprtunity awaits the Euglab-speak.ng cit.sen in 'Fregeh Quebec' just as surely as it awaits tae French-Canadian in British Columb.a, If our Canadianigm ig of other texture than this, we had bet ter entrench ourselves in bur ditch ringed Islands of provinces and ad mit, forever our insularity, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. There is no room .n this countr) fer biases ol section, race or creed, From east and fron. west, from prairie and geaboard, English and French, we are all Canadians, men who may meet an). here on common ground as citizens of Canada Only by drawing apart and keeping to ourselves can we fall to under stand each other, The Real French-Canadian In closing, a pleture of the French-Canadian at home for those who do not know him apd for the benefit of such critics as remain. He is thrifty and industrious, His lite is centred om his family eirele and he educates his sons and daughters well, Devout in the practice of his owa faith, he has no' quarrel with the beliefs of others, He Is a sober mam, and of open mind, willing to grant all men the right to their own opinions, but asking, in return, the equal right to those which he holds, He wants to like and to be liked, to respect and to be respected, and he wants to thrive and to prosper as a Cana dians amongst Canadians, He wants to understand and to be un- derstood by his meighbors, for only by mutual understanding, liking and respect (or each other an he hope to achieve Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, those thres words in which lies our assurance of con« cord and amity, which is the rock on which our life, as & nation be founded, : "Sag MARIAN PARKER XIDNAPPING (Letter in Detroit News) To the Editor: If common sense Judgment had exercised at the sc..0ol which Marian Parker ate tended she could mot have been kidnapped from school in that manner. Why should a pupil, es- pecially a 13-year-old . girl, "be banded over without investigation to any strasuger who should coms tlong in a motor ear? At spy rate such a person should have a write | ten order from one of her parents, snd the order should then be verl- : fied over the phone, If school teachers act so thoughtiessly as In the Parker case, ately forged about 40 had no trouble spparently in ing a parole from the are rooted im thought and not in snap judgments bon of bigotries thet are a century old. The French-Capadian seems to be disliked by some people because he speaks French. That is always the cry of the man who is the _super-patriot of words, who will tell you that, if the French-Canad- ian is s0 lozal a subject of Canada and of the crown he should forfeit the language of his forefathers and speak omly Englich, To such gen- tlemen 1 charter of British liberty which the super-patriot pretends to hold so dear. The French tongue is one two | that are 'offical' occur, merely to indicate t e error would ip this Domin'on It was the Frer~h-Copadian's heritage before , bring about .s immediate repair. the dys of Corfeieration, before ary.ody ecompla'ning In Quebec, we are simply Cans- there were transcontinental rall- price of silk stockings or fur coats. | STRENGTHENING RESISTANCE TO HEART AILMENTS All over the world just now a real fight. is being made by re- search men against tha great in- crease in deaths from heart ail- ments. And as usual, the first cause of these heart affections is being investigated. They have found that many of these cases in middle aged folks give a his- tory of childhood ailments in which the recovery was slower than usual, with extreme weak- ness for a considerable time after the acute trouble had passed, Accordingly the heart societies throughout the world are making a determined effort to have ex- treme care taken to guard the heart in children. afllicted with diphtheria, scarlet fever, rheuma- tism, or other. infectious ailments, And then after the child is ap- parently well, a regular routine for developing the child's resis- tance to rheumatism is preseribed. The three tissues that are streng- thened are the muscles, includ- ing the heart muscle, the skin, nose and throat. Unfortunately, after the child recovers, the par- ents ara naturglly anxious to be ,eareful and it is ust here that they make the mistake. The child is kept indoors, is coaxed to eat, and Is not allowed to play. And yet the. natural, the most effective wa yto strengthen mus- cles including the heart, the skin, Jand the mucous membranes, is to encourage the play outdoors. Playing develops all the muscles of the body, and as the heart has to pump blood to all these active muscles, the heart is bound to grow stronger, In fact, this is the only way the heart can grow strong. Box- ers always get outdoors to "tough- en' the skin, so that it will not cut or tear easily when struck with the boxing glove. And the mucous membranes of the nose, throat, and bronchial tubes are exposed directly to the alr when the youngster is out- 'doors, and thus get hardened and strengthened. $9 it 'your youngster has been fll, and your (amily doctor says "8 F 'and the mucous membranes of | ERA "A renaezvows for = the best™ these woe seh Now You Tell One A ltttle giv] wis taught to close her evening te ry absence of her father day." It sounded very sweet; but the" mother's amazement may be ime agined-when the child added: "And you'd better keep an eye on mummy, too." "It is the apirly of hurry and Whistle that keeps us alive," fe- marks a doctor, I am therefore obliged to prophesy a lingering death for the office messenger. Life is a grind-stgne, and whe ther it grinds a man down or pol- ishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. member that this {is chance to. strengthen : his 'body against heart afiments. In fact, see that your young. sters get outdoors every day to We will loan you monfes on your motor car, or if you can not meet your present payments we will pay off the cinims and renew your payments for any term up to twelve months and insure your car. 56g Swanson, Gers man & McKensle, 8 King street east, Phone 940, 4 Hardwood Floors Laid, Machine Sended and Polished The Better Way 014 Floors Machine Sanded and Finished W. J. TRICK €0. 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