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

| PAGE FOUR The Oshawa B Baily Times JHE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER ocktarg W) every afternoon en hair ot Oakes 3 Mwai reining Goan. Lumet tal Sota in a bar ue Oe ie the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As sociation, Ontario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: 10c a week. By mail: in the Counties of Ontario, Durham and Northumberiand, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year, JORONTY QPPICE: 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107. H., D, Tresidder, representative. REPRESENTATIVES IN US. " Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago. Mice Sundar waa lg Sx Sunda MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1928 ) "ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS" Oshawa citizens will be interested and in- spired by the striking full page advertise. ment of the Department of Trade and Com- merce, Ottawa, appearing in this issue, Under the title "Across the Seven Seas" the Department has set out in concise, read- able form the story of Canada's trade ex- ploits abroad. As a young nation, of neces- sity importing great quantities of manu- factured products from other countries, this Dominion has reason to be proud of its record to date as an exporter of goods turned out from Canadian mills and factories, many of which are "built from the ground up" so to speak, while others are largely made from Canadian grown or mined raw materials, Oshawa is directly interested in two com- modities that are mentioned in the Depart- ment of Trade and Commerce announcement --automobiles and musical instruments, In both classes it will be seen that there is still an immense opportunity for development of export trade, To 23 countries listed, for ex- ample, Canada's exports of automobiles rep- resent about ten per cent, of the total, While this is an excellent showing we hope and believe that the percentage will increase as Canadian made automobiles come to be more fully appreciated in the countries of the world, So with pianos, Many people in Osh- awa may not be aware that the Williams Piano Company of this city is developing a very satisfactory export trade which will undoubtedly increase as time goes on, The Department of Trade and Commerce has rendered a splendid service in making known through attractive display advertis- fng in the daily newspapers of Canada the importance of Canada's trade abroad, in the upbuilding of which the Department, through its Commercial Intelligence Service and Trade Commissioners in foreign coun- tries, is rendering extremely valuable co- operation, A SUCCESSFUL SETTLER Canada has still room for millions who are able and willing to farm and who can make a success of it, The story of Trelle, the Peace River set- tler, who has captured championships at the Chicago International Fair in successive years shows what is possible to brains and initiative and pluck, Less than ten years ago he came back from the war and found himself with noth- ing to do and no job in sight, With a young wife he homesteaded 160 acres in the Peace River District, which he has since increased to 480, off which he sold last year 11,000 bushels of wheat and oats, and took time to select the seed, from which he grew the grain that captured the championship of the world for quality and yield, In seven years he has put his name in the world's list of men of achievement, And he has done more than any other man in the far West and North West to advertise the Peace River Territory as the land of large opportunity, where any one who has health and brain and brawn may not only make a good living but amass wealth, Canada bids all such immigrants welcome and undertakes in every possible way to pro- mote other prosperity, Of those who prefer the bread-line of the cities in winter and chance jobs in summer she has more than plenty, already. FOREST FIRES AND CANADA'S RAIL- WAYS Since 1912, when the Board Railway Com- missioners organized a fire inspection de- partment, protection along the railroads of jorests has been operating as a triangular po-operative organization, including Railway Commission, the Dominion and Provincial Forest Protection Services, and the railways of the County, tu seduce forest fire lossed along the railway lines, Today there are 126 field inspectors throughout the Dominion acting as local officers of the board, In 1,203 miles of line through forest sections, 871 special fire pat- rolmen are engaged, On another 6,214 miles of line through forested territory regular section forces and other employees are or- ganizing to take care of fires starting on the right of way. Annually about one million dollars is being spent by the railways to safeguard Canada's forests along the ninety-seven per cent., of the steam railway mileage in Can- ada under the board's jurisdiction, Instead of railways holding a leading place as cause of forest conflagrations, the records of the four years from 1923 to 1926 inclusive show that only sixteen per cent. of the fires and but five per cent, of the forests are burned are attributable to rail- way origin, Let us compare these results with two States to the south of us, We find that Pennsylvania railways are responsible for thirty to thirty-five per cent. of the number of fires and area burned, Again in the State of New York, fourteen per cent, of the fires and twenty per cent, of the area is attribut- able to railways, In other words, thirty and twenty per cent. as against five per cent. of our Canadian Railways, Railways today are not included in the major causes of forest devastation, The crown goes instead to the travelling public and the settler. Education, and education only, will accomplish what has been done with Canada's railways. LONELIEST Probably the loneliest habitation of man is Tristan de Cunha, an island in the South Atlantic, midway between South America and South Africa, There is evidence that eighteenth century pirates made their head- quarters there and in 1816 the English placed a garrison on the island so it could not become a base for expeditions organized to rescue Napoleon from St, Helena. When the garrison was withdrawn, three men and a woman elected to remain, Ship- wrecks off the island increased the popula- tion of the colony and eventually wives were imported by an obliging ship captain. The present population is 150 and the only com- munication between the inhabitants and the outside world is through the ship that brings supplies twice a year, From this meager description the impres- sion is obtained that the island is a forbid- ding place, unfit for human habitation and devoid of everything that makes life worth living, Tristan de Cunha has no written law, no courts, no politicians, no postoffice, no clubs, no money to earn or spend, no taxes or rent " to pay, no insurance, no radios, no automo- biles, no railroads, no doctors or dentists, no health board, no sewers, no pavements, no aircraft, no strong drink and no prohibition. Neither has it chlorinated water, for na- ture has provided it with a reservoir of pure water 8,000 feet above the settlement, And the islanders do not get appendicitis, tonsil- itis or the other civilized illnesses and di- seases, Set a resident of Oshawa down in the isolated island village and he would be mis- erable and make the other inhabitants as miserable as himself, And yet life on the loneliest island has its advantages. EDITORIAL NOTES There are many gasoline saving devices on the market. A pair of comfortable shoes is the best. It's a great life if you don't believe in everything you see, hear, think or know, It might help to advance peace if the na- tions get to the point where they have to hock their guns to buy meal tickets, Bit of Verse VISION I have not walked on common ground, Nor druk of earthly streams; A shining figure, mailed and crowned, Moves softly through my dreams, fo He makes the air so keen and strange, The stars so fiercely bright; The rocks of time, the tides of change Are nothing in his sight. Death lays no shadow on his smile, Life is a race fore-run; Look in his face a little while, And life and death are one. . Marjorie L. C. Pickthall CHAPTER XX1 PETER MARTIN'S PROBLEM It was not long until the idle workmen began to feel the want envelopes. The grocers dependent upon those pay envelopes as were the workmen themselves, The winter was coming There was a chill in the air, In the homes of the strikers the mothers and their little ones needed not only food but fuel and clothing as well, The crowds at the evening street meetings became more ominous, Through the long, idle days grim, sullen-faced men walk- ed the streets or stood im groups on the corners watching their fel- low citizens and muttei ng in low, guarded tones, Members of th: Mill workers' union were openly branded as cowards and traitors to their clas.s The suffering among the women and childem became acute, But Jake Vodell was a master who demanded of his disciples most heroic loyalty, without a thought of the cost--to them, Meclver put an armed guard about his {actory and boasted that he could liv. without work, The strikers, he declared, could either starve themselves and their families or accept hia terms, The agitator was not slow in making capital of Mclver's state- ments. The factory owner depended up- on the suffering of the women and children to force the workmen to yield to him, Jake Vodell, the self- appointed savior of the laboring people, depended upon the suffer- ing of womea and children to drive his followers to the desperate mea- sure that would further his peculiar and personal interecgts. Through all this, the Mill work- ers' union still refused to accept the leadership of this man whose svery interest was anti-American and foreign to the principle of the loyal citizen workman. But the fire of Jake Vodell's oratory and argument was got without kind. ling power, even among John Ward's employees, As the feeling an both sides of the controversy grew more bitter and intolerant, the Mill men felt with increasing iorce the pull of their class, The taunts and jeers of the striking workers were felt, The cries otf "traitor hurt, The suffering of the innocent members of the strik- ers' families appealed strongly to their sympathies, When Meclver's Imperialistic de claration was known, the number who were in favor or supporting Jake Vodell's campaign Increased measurably, Nearly every day now at some hour of the evening or night, Pete and Captain Charlie, with others from among their union comrades, might have been found in the hut on the cliff in earnest talk with the man in the wheel chair, The ac- . tive head of the union was Captain Charlie, as his father had been be- fore him, but it was no secret that the gulding counsel that held th: men of the Mill steady came from the old basket maker, For John Ward the days were mereasingly hard, He could not but sense the feeling of the men, He knew that if Jake Vodell could win them, such disaster as the people of Millshurgh had never seen would result, The interest and sympathy ofl Helen, ths comradeship of Captain Charlie, and the strength of the Interpre- ter gave him courage and hope, But there was nothing that h2 could do. He felt as he had felt sometimes in France when hs was called upon to stand and wait. [t was a relief to help Mary as he could in her work among the suf- ferers, But even this activity of mercy was turned against him hy both McIver and Vodell, Tha fac- tory man blamed him for prolong- ing the strike and thus working in- jury to the general business inter- ests of Millsburgh, The strike lead- er charged him with seeking to win the favor of the working class in order to influence his own em- ployees against, what he called the fight for their industrial free- dom The situation was rapidly ap- proaching a crisis when Peter Mar- late one evening, found the door] of the house locked, The way the two mcn stood fac) ing each other without a word re vealed the tension of their nerves. Captain Charlie's hand shook 80; that his key rattled against the! OR. (lock, But when they were inside and had switched on the light, & note which Mary had left on ne] table for them explained, The young woman had gone to the Flats in answer to a call for help. John was with her, She had left the mote so that her father and brother would not be alarmed; at her absence in case they return: ed home before her, In their relief, the two men laughed. They were a little asham- ed of their unspoken fears. "We might have known," said Pete, and with the words seemed to dismiss the incident from his mind, But Captain Charlie did not ve- cover so easily, While his father found the evening paper and, set- tling himself in an easy-chair by the table, cleaned his glasses and filled and lighthed his pipe, the younger man went restlessly from room to room, turning on the lights, turning them off again--all apparently for no reason whatever, He finished his inspection by re- turning to the table and again picking up Mary's note, When he had re-erad the message he sald, slowly, "I thought John expected to be at the office to- night." Something in his son's voice caused the old workman to look at him steadily, as he answered, "John probably came by on his way to the Mill and dropped in for a few minutes." "I suppose 80," returned Charlie, Then, "Father, do you think it wise for sister to be so much with John?' The old workman laid aside his paper, "Why, I don't know--I hadn't thought much about it, son, It seems natural enough, consider- ing the way you children was all raised together when you was "It's natural enough all right," returned Captain Charlie, aud with a bitterness that was very unlike his usual gelf, he added, "That's the hell of it--it's too natural--too human--too right for this day and age." Pete Martin's mind worked rath er slowly but he was fully aroused ncw---Charlie"s meaning was clear, "What makes you think that Mary and John are thinking of each oth- er in that way, son?" "How could 'they help it?" re. turned Captain Charlle, "Sister is exactly the kind of woman that John would choose for a wife, Don't I know what he thinks ot the light-headed nonpeutities in the set that he is supposed to belong to? Hasn't he demonstrated bis ideas of class distinctions? It would never occur to him that there was any reason why John Ward should not love Mary Mar- tin, As for sister----when you think of the whole story of their childhood teo~ther ,of how John and I were a: through the war, of how he has been in the Mill since we came home, of their seeing eacn other here at the house so much, of the way he has been helping her with her work among the poor in the flats--well, how could apy wo- man like sister belp loving him?" While the older man was consid- ering his gon's presentation of the case, Captain Charlie added, with characteristic loyalty, "God may have made finer men than John Ward, but if He did they don't live around Millsburgh." "Well, then, son," said Peter Martin, with his slow smile, "what about it? Suppose they are think- ing of each other as you say?" Captain Charlie did not answer for a long minute, And the fath- er, watching, saw in that strong young face the shadow of a hurt which the soldier workman eould pot hide, "It is all so helpless," said Charlie, at last, in a tone that told more clearly than words could have done his own hopelessness, *'1 --it don't seem right for Mary to have to bear it, too," (To pe Continued) COUNTESS OF BECTIVE WAS STATELY WOMAN London, March 25. -- The Bystand- er says: An old lady, who in her time was a considerable figure in the world, was saying only a few days before the death of the Countess of Bective was announced, that three of the statelicst women she had ever known were Queen Mary, the late Marchioness of London derry, and the Countess of Bective. With Lady Bective surpassing beauty was added to a gracious state- liness, and as Lady Alice Hill and long after her marriage to the Earl of Bective, stepbrother of the present Marquess of Headfort, she was con- sidered one of the most beautiful wo- men in England. To the last, with her masses of snow-white hair and her finely chiselled features, she was still beautiful and still a most stately and gracious figure. Few women have attracted so many friendships. As somebody once said of her: "Her mind jc as beautiful as her face" There was only a daughter of the marriage, Lady Olivia Taylour, who marricd Lord Henry Bentinck, the a ) Sat Ant 5 gt mato my path. ~Pun THE INCOMPARABLE -- Wis- dom is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared with her. --Prov. 3 = 15. PRAYER--May Thy wisdom, O stepbrother of the Duke of Portland. Lord Bective died a year before his father, Lady Henry inheriting Un- derly Hall, in Westmorland, and the large fortune which had come to Lord Bective from his mother. Lady Bective and daughter were the most devoted friends, and after Lady Henry Bentinck succeeded: to Un- derley Lady Bective settled at Lune- ficld, near by. Both there and at her house in Eaton Place she was sur- rounded by devoted friends whose cares and interests she made her own. There was nobody like Lady Jective, always so kind, so under- standing, Her passing leaves a gap that no one clse can WOMAN REVIVES IN WASHINGTON MORGUE Washington, March 23. -- An un- identified woman was taken from a train here, pronounced dead from poisoning, and removed to a morgue in a hearse. Three hours later she began to breathe and physicians, hur- riedly called in, now hope to save her life. A porter discovered her shortly before reaching Washington from New York. Two vials partially filled with a poison were found by her side, together with a white carnation in an envelope on which was written : "Please bury this with me." Dr. Charles W. Harnsberger, phy- sician for the Washington Terminal company, examined the woman and pronounced her dead "for more than an hour." . He reported that "there was no heart action, the pulse had ceased to beat and the body was fairly rigid." The woman appeared to be about God, enter into our heart and knowledge into our soul, 28 years old, small of feature and five fect, five inches jn height. ; grandson t Friend: ind po the erin. {| already 2" HIS DISADVANTAGE (Glasgow News) badly bruised som): Toades 1 ell You 15 Soult 4 hundred heiots you started Son: "Yes, but Jac! ak told Top only to count fifty." THE UNFAIR SEX (Sydney Bulletin) Lothario: I was nearly married sacs to a widow; but she disappoint- ed m i I Did she jilt yer? Lothario: Practically. She had a good job in the laundry and she gave it up." VIRTUE OF LIGHTER DRESS (London Sunday Pictorial) I know two brothers, who at the beginning of the winter vowed they would wear only summer clothes throughout it. They tell me that for the first winter in their recollection they have not had colds. QUICK RESPONSE (The Passing Show) Newspaper canvasser: "You adver- tised in our paper for a night-watch- man. Did you get any results, sir?" Shopkeeper: "I most certainly did. The advertisement appeared yester- day morning and I was burgled last night." NOBODY COMPLAINS (London. Sunday. Pictorial) Ladies tell me that sports skirts are to be a little longer this year, evening gowns, however, are to be down to the knees as before. It is odd to remember that in Georgian times, ankles were displayed but nothing else. Queen Victoria favored dresses cut very low in front; but any display of ankles in her reign would have been shocking. Now women show their knees and nobody complains, NOT FOR PUBLICATION (Tatler, London) A certain lecturer in Aberdeen told a reporter who was present at few more engagements in the and he did not wish him to publish The next day he was horrified read in the papers: an excellent lecture in the U. F. Church Hall. He gave some very good stories, but unfortunately they cannot be printed." THE LIGHTNING MACHINE (New York World) Why on earth are the General Electric Company sO proud of their achievement in inventing a machine which will produce a lightning flash of 3,000,000 volts? It has always seemed to us that the world had a prodigious oversupply of lightning. Indeed, in another month there will be many people who grow a little nervous contemplating those summer afternoons which inevitably must come; those afternoons when the sky will go black as ink, when a hot wind comes down through the swaying skyscrapers, and every three or four minutes the welkin is riven by an awful flash and roar, Such spectacles, we submit, are a little more than unsettling. If the gentle- men would invent a_ machine to stop lightning, that would be quite a dif- ferent thing. No More Piles Pile sufferers can only get quick, safe and lasting relief by removing the cause--bad blood circulation in the lower bowel. Cutting and salves can't do this--an internal remedy must he used. Dr, Leonhardt's Hem-Roid, a harmless tablet, suc- ceeds because it relieves this blood congestion and strengthens the af- fected parts, Hem-Roid has a won- derful record for quick, safe and lasting relief to Pile sufferers, It will do the same for you or money back. Jury & Lovell Ltd., and drug- gists anywhere sell Hem-Roid with this guarantee. one of his meetings that he had a City, anything of the lecture, as it might spoil the attendance at the others, to "Mr, --delivercd By-Product Make Your Home Comfortable by using the Famous P. & R. Coal and Hamilton Sold to Hundreds of Satisfied Customers by the McLaughlin Coal & i Supplies Ltd. West -- Phone 1246 COAL, COKE, WOOD and I. DERS' ACCESSORIES Coke -- STOCKS StoBIE-FORLONG &(© BONDS ead Office: Reford Buil AND WELLINGTON STS. TOR! S. F. EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa -- Phones 143 and 144 GRAIN Above C.P.R. Omce STAIN [a ---- SALESMEN WANTED Oakland Park subdivision want some salesmen and salesladies to sell the most desirable building lots in Oshawa. This is a splendid op- portunity to those that will give their full time in a systematic selling program, venture you have yet tried. Office on the property at 402 King St. East, Come and see us, first class It may be the hest or two E Potatoes: PHONE 8 RED CLOVER, ALFALFA, ALSIKE SWEET CLOVER, TIMOTHY SEED All Government Tested and graded No. 1, Garden Seeds and Lawn Seed of highest quality, Feeds are going up in price. Get your requirement in Bran, Shorts, Cotton Seed, Oilcake, Hominy, Gluten, now. Choice Table Potatoes and Certified Cobbler - Seed Potatoes. Cooper-Smith Co. 16 CELINA STREET Just South of Post Office Do You Own Your Own oe a Sh a a 2 aa a a Rn CARTER'S ry REAL ESTATE Homes built to suit purchasers. R. M. KELLY 610 Simcoe St. N. ue o> - we We have your home. Let us prove it. Style, size, location and price. Our listings are so varied that from them you can select just the location and price which suits you the best. URIAH JON § Phone 2067 Cor Bond and Sim. American automobiles were dis- played at the recent agricultural exposition held at Auckland, N. Z. ELGIN ST.6 ROOM NEW BRICK Bungalow, hardwoo chestnut trim. [ session. Price Terms to suit, HORTON & FRENCH Mundy Bldg., Phone 2696 only $4,500. Ea a i LOANS i BRADLEY BROS. i