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THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 071) reas aah Headn a. 'loway, Seer wa Daily fimes 16 & member of the Cana Tay the Canadian Laily Newspupers As Unatarfo Provincial Dailies and the Sait Brean of Circulations. RATES ' Buitvared bp carrier; . week. Hy mail: fm the of Untariy, Durbam and Northumberland, ; oy : elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; ted States, 36.00 a year, ¢ 40] Sait \ Dv Tresidder, representative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. TORONTO OFFICE: : SATURDAY, FEQRUARY 11, 1928 66 Temperance Street, Telephone MOUNTING CRIME IN US. * . While not so pronounced in Canada both "this country and the United States have ex- perienced an enormous increase in crime, especially among juveniles, during recent ! years, . The crime bill of the United States has . grown until it is now estimated at $16,000, $00,000 a year, The criminal population, in Jail and out, is said to be 2,000,000, About - $00,000 police and guards are employed to _ keep watch and ward over the criminal, Am- _ prican murders total about 12,500 a year. One cannot point to any one thing as . responsible for this condition, But parents have much for which they must answer, While the machinery of the law does not al- ways hold them responsible, nevertheless their responsibility is direct and may not be svaded or ignored, The home may be chang- od, the environment of life may be vastly different, but the eternal verities remain the . same, Those finer influences which guide and shape the lives of youth need and must _ not disappear, .. And if the Canadian home, as we once " kmew it and gloried in it, is greatly changed, all the more reason for giving more and more attention to the problem of child- hood and youth, There is hardly anything + fn life, after all, that is more important. In- ' herent human faults and frailties, unchecked by wise firmness and family discipline, may be the forerunners of crime and delinquen- + oF, HAVING "A GOOD FRONT" rrr "Run down at the heél"--it speaks loud- ly; your character is judged largely by it; your whole fortune may depend upon it; so, young man, young woman, start in right, and never be "run down at the heel." All of us owe it to ourselves, our families an our friends to dress well, This is not an pdvertisement for the clothing merchant, or any other merchant; it is a plea for better dress and for what it means, Better dress does not mean that we shall "flower out" in 8 brand new suit every time fashion de- crees 8 change; we can dress well by dress- ing neatly and not fadishly, and we can dress well without expensive clothing, We can be neat in appearance without a new suit; we ean be clean; our shoes can be clean--and not run down at the heel--and ' our hat can reflect good taste. "The first thing I notice about a woman is her hat and then I look at her shoes," is . the observation of an Oshawa 'man, who dresses well, but not expensively, and whose wife dresses well, but not expensively, "A good front" gets one by; ii carries an introduction by itself; it inspires confidence; it brings business; it is an ambassador of commercial progress; it is vital to a young man or 8 young woman; it is vital to the * middle aged; it is decidedly pleasing in peo- ple of old age, We--all of us--like to meet folks with "a good front," We ought to cul- tivate the habit of always having "a good front." ; : "A good front" will put a man or a woman to the front of the community, and "a good front" is never "down at the heel." "A "good front" is slang for being well dressed. THE MIGRATORY INSTINCT That ancient and world-wide sun god, one of whose names survives for the comfort of "makers of cross-word puzzles, has had an- other honor from modern science. The sun "js responsible, it appears, for that mystery 4 has kept so many scientists awake at the mystery of migrating birds. To number of hours of sun- in the opinion of at least day is a constant astro- phenomenon quite unrelated to variations or to other accidental dif- may glands which have been observed to enlarge or shrink under a stimulus imparted by the hours of t. Many laymen are not interested in a scientific reason why birds go South in win. ter.and North in summer, but even they de- tect an interesting connection between man. "kind and the gland and light theory. That the seasons affect man's feelings is a com monplace with poets, if not with scientists, Is it improbable that some obscure stimulus of the lengthening days of spring is behind the wanderlust? Is there any connection between modern illumination and the fact that many, who formerly felt the lust for wandering only in the spring, now must re. sist it the whole year through if they can- not afford to submit to it? ANALYZING GENIUS Few human beings fail to suspect them- selves, at some period of their lives, of being " geniuses, Although the idea languishes with time, as many genial illusions are likely to do, enough of it survives to excite curiosity about what this thing called genius really is and about why it happens, It has been called an infinite capacity for taking pains, but a scientist, who is threat- ened with the title, deems it just the reverse of this, Genius may be, he thinks, an abil- ity to know when no pains should be taken at all, Certainly there is in genius the much rarer capacity for not taking pains or wast- ing time over lines of thought that lead no- where, the capacity of choosing the right course by a clear vision emanating from sound knowledge, There are some nine billion little gray cells in that marvelous one-sixth-inch layer on the surface of man's cerebral hemisphere in which takes place what is called thought. Tu use these gray cells to take pains is a no: unusual ability, There are many person: who have busied themselves for a lifetim. training their little gray cells to be perfect ly certain of something, only to discover tha. the something is unimportant, The far more' important and far rarer ability of leaping through all the mass of fact and possibility which the brain cells have recorded to that one possibility which is worth the taking of more pains--that, perhaps, is the essence of genius, It is a mystery how the brain cells d this, or if it is that they do it at all, Bu. the fact that it can happen is one of th hopeful things about the human race, EDITORIAL NOTES Marriages are made in Heaven, divorce: are made in haste, The ideal man, it seems, is always mar- ried to some other woman, Srem---- Any pedestrian knows the exact percent: BEY of boneheads who are driving automo- es, Bit of Verse ON DUTY fhe great world's heart is aching, aching tiercely in the nignt, And God s.one can heal it, and God alone give light; And the men to bear that message, and to speak the living word, Are you and I, my brothers, and the millions that have heard. 1 Can we close our eyes to duty? Can we folu our hands at ease, While the gates di night stand open to th. pathways of the seas? Can we shut up our compassions?? Can w. leave one prayer unsaid, Till the lands which Hel lhas blasted hav. been quickened from the dead? We grovel among trifles and our spirits fre. And the lips of God x-e saying, "Tell my brothers I have died." sage is sublime; No power of man shal ithwart us, no strong hold shall dismay, When God commands obedience and love has led the way. (Taway Kat) An absolute would be his last d. "And what should I take now?" asked a For a start you might take me and get me something to drink: secondly, you Sight take all your clubs home an up golf; and thirdly you might try throwin' the ball," ---- JOINTS THAT DON'T FREEZER (Los Angeles Examiner) The most prominent joints in any town are the flappers' knees, They really should freeze in cold weather, but apparently do net, even in Winnipeg, where théy have it so cold that the wolves have to wear earmuffs, Somehow, Health Commissioner Kegel of Chicago said there were fourteen girls, or flappers, in Win- nipeg hospitals suffering with frozen knees owing to rolled stock- ings and short skirts, This 1s In. dignantly denied by Mayor Webb of Winnipeg after a quick trip to the hospitals to see the girls. Modern young ladies would make excellent Arctic explorers. A $12.000 set of sables would see them through ap entire campaien, Their knees never freeze, Their hearts, perhaps, but thelr knees, never, THIS MEANS WOMAN'S SHOES (Capper's Weekly) One reason shoes cost so much more than they used to ocst is sense restricts styles in footwear t0 a reasonable number in quality 'some of the styles do not sell. That means a loss, ultimately paid for by the consumer. et WEIGHING THE EARTH (Chicago Evening Post) By means of some complicated fustruments in Washington the earth can be weighed. The long accepted figure for the weight the earth has been 6,660,000,000,- 000,000,000,000 tons. Weighed more recently it is discovered that the earth is lighter than had been supposed. It tips the scales at on- ly 6,6563,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. that mean anything to you? At least you can rest your mind on it when you have been worrying about our income or oth- er small figures. Crisp Comment Atrocities did not end, with the war, as witness some of the war pictures made in Hollywood.--~To- ronto Saturday Night. Our idea of nothing to grieve about is an unpublished sutoblo- graphy by Peaches Browning.-- Kitchener Record, Famous Spanish matador bears the name of Moses, He ought to be thoroughly accustomed to bulls rushes.--Ottawa Journal, Canada should apply for the Nobel peace prize, being the only considerable country which gets along without either an army or a navy.--Hamliiton Herald. He told us his motor car kept him poor but he was not worry- ing about it because he would be poor anyway.--Calt Reporter. The Postmaster General's re- nort states that "Frankling' costs Canada $1,000,000 a year, Worsd than wasted.--Owen Sound Sun- Times, Must keep the postal authori- ties on the jump if they have to forward Lindbergh's mail to his latest address.--Strat srd Beac- n-Herald, that ahouy & thousand styles are made and new ones are constantly beiur created, It is nonsense to say that a cus- | tomer mus; have many styles to select from, but highly expensive nonsense for which he pays and | will continue to pay until common California reports the produc- tion of a seedless lemon, but it seems to be making no prorress at all toward a enu'rtless grape- | fruit,--~Chirago Post, It is the mind thet makes the body rich. Chicago Daily News, -------- we | Private W StoBIE-FORLONG & (© STOCKS BONDS Head Office: Reford Build WELLINGTON STS i S$. F EVERSON, Local Manager ' 11 King Street East, Oshaws Phones 143 and 144 GRAIN ire System == Above C.,P.R. Office * You have ne t condition that in- with the use of his arms, ks going about with damaged hearts, & new word has come la- among namely the carding cripple," or heart custom to have rest as much as ter illnesses, or when the first begins to show signs of fall- ing, this is the best possible treatment. to be rebullt, burt reminds us that MacKensie sald "No heart can regain its full strength if suficleny sleep is not obtained." But there are two things necessary to rebuild the heart, proper food and ex- ercise, Heavy meals can interfere with heart action. Further, foods that are not chewed are apt to cause gas in the stomach and intestine, | and this also interferes with heart action. Chewing the food makes digestion much easier, In resard to exercise, as point- ed out before, this is the ideal method of strengthening the | heart muscle, Light regular exercise is taken two or three times a day, just stopping short of breathlessness and pain, It is not unusual natient walking every day. grad- nally increasing the distance as he finds that he can do so with- out bringing on pain or breath- lessness, Sometimes the patieny walks a certain distance up a hill, grad. urlly increasing this until he is aba to walk to the top without get 'nz out of breath, Where the pat'ent is too weak to take exercise, massage is used, as this helps the return of blood to the heart, thus taking some of the load off the heart, Naturally I wish to emphasize the value of exercise with these heart cripples, but the same ad- vice as to chewing the food and taking regular exercise can be fol- lowed by all of us. 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