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Delivered by carrier: 100 a week. By mail: EE EL Gb i 4 er TORONTO OFFICE: 0 a oioh a Fretoot repressive. REPRESENTATIVES IN US, Powers and Stome, Inc, New York 'and Chicago. ce PRP VLA, Sree : ; FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928 = 5 {x EXTREMISTS BOTH "It is the sorry fate of eyery human in- stitution to be finally coxrupted by a curious conspiracy between its crities and its friends," says Reinhold Niebuhr, Critics are apt to see only the weaknesses of an institution, and its friends are always blind to its shortcomings and failings, The ~great temptation of the critic is to surrender to a wholeloaf-arvsioné philosophy, whereas that of the loyalist is'to surrender to my- country-right-opswrong, love-is-blind philas gophy. The loyalist loathes the critic wha condemns the' institugion that helds the loyalists devotion; On the othey' hand, the critic has only 'contempt for the loyalist who blindly clings to 'the institution that! has aroused the critic's «doubt; + The critic who has nb capacity for loyalty and the loyalist who 'Ras no: capacity for criticism are . poles apart, yet they un- consciously join in a dangerous partnership, 1t is difficult to say which most menaces the institution, Perhaps one is as bad an in- fluence ax the other, - Consider the' community and its boosters and knockers, It needs both, and if fortun- ate if its citizens are loyally critical, Those who find nothing wrong or lacking in their city or town will never be the inspiration for progress, The critic may show the way to improvement, but lacking a sense of loyalty, he invariably deserts the community instead - of remaining to help make it bette, DEPLETION OF THE STREAMS Many a fisherman has wondered why he did not get more bites, He has blamed the weather, the direction 'of the wind, his bait, At one time he decides he has the wrong kind of tackle, and at another he blames the stage of the water, Again, he settles down to belief that old-timers who prate about catching them as long as their arms and as fast as they could reel them in are tall talk- ers with little regard for truth, There may or may not be congglation to him in the conclusion 'reached by federal agents that the streams have' been over- fished, \ Ten million people in Canada and the United States go fishing at least once a year, ° And, due to accessibility of fishing streams by automobile, a large percentage of that number are pretty constantly on the job dur- ing the fishing season, The consequence is that they are taking fish faster than nature, helped by the government, can replenish the on an "help meet" for'him, We don't know wheth b "Dorothy Dix" is 'Or ever Was 1g she poses as a sort .or oracle on all questions of sex-relations of wn sex with those of the other, ished her analysis of why 1,200 women had never married, Her analy- sis may be all right but her conclusion is one of the most pessimistic we have ever seen, Here it is, oo "If half the old maids regret that they haven't husbands, that is as near as we ever come to being satisfied with any condition in life, And half of the Women who have husbands wish!that they 't have them." One is puzzled 'to know what has so changed her mind, For years past she has been boosting the marriéd life to all the girl readers of her voluminous dissertations on love and marriage, Of course eonditions in the U.S.A, are bad and the 1,200 who have never married, whose views 'she analyzed, have all sought to justify their decision to continue to plow their lone furrows. But if half who haven't are glad and thankful they have who haven't are glad and thankful they didn't, And there you are, That's what Dorothy says, Fortunately, however, for social life and unborn generations and the survival of the fittest, most of the best girls will hark back to the Creator's conclusion that it is not good for the méh to be alone, and to the natural instincts, which happily survive all sorts of "human theories and illusions and as soon as the man of their choice presses them to set the day will not long delay to make the great adventure, and most of them will not regret it if they play the game and make the best of the man they take for better or worse, But they'll make a mistake if they follow the example of Mrs, Jiggs, Men are men, and most of them are hard to bring up after they've been brought up, Better choose one who has been well brought up, and one who is a good son and brother, That kind make the best of husbands, if they get anything | like a fair deal, NEWS What is "news?" The act of a man biting a dog? Yes, but in a larger sense what is it? No doubt 'there are many newspaper readers who wonder just what it is that is commonly known rather vaguely as "news." An eastern editor answers them in this man- ner: "News is synthetic food, delivered for the purpose of satisfying a great human hunger, "News is a revelation of things which a few people know about, made for the benefit of millions who would not otherwise know about those things, "News is an unrhetorical essay of life, It is poetry without form and mrt without artistic intention, "News is a record of the good and the bad, but hardly ever of the indifferent, "News is an implement wielded by a pro- fession Which is no respecter of persons, but tries to be a respecter of human conventions, according to the standards of a given time," He might have concluded his definition with the confession that so vast an institu- tion is "news" that it is beyond the power of human mind to define it, Perhaps the great body of newspaper read- ers will choose to define it as that which bi . | v This old world we're living in It mighty hard to beat-- You get a thorn with every rose But aren't the Toss sweet? » Tis true indeed. 'There's onl one way to look at life, and tha is at the bright side. Of course there are those mortals who go about doing nothing but try to find what is wrong with the world, and "wax peeved and indignant™ when they aren't successful. \d L At this season of the year, everyone should He commence ing to be happy with another record to live up to, 1927 was a great 'annus' but 1928 will go it one better if this column has anything by do with it. » And King Alfred is dead. "Private showing of "Dawn headline. Never since we learned in school that King Alfred once tried to recede the waves have we seen the like of this, Earthly ma- terial is the limit when it comes to trying to galn an upper hand over it, but when some humans try to monopolize fhe early rising of the sunlight, we draw the line, LJ w L Oh, boys=look==! Don't laugh at her hoys, She may be old and decrepit, her galt wobbly and her breathing uncertain, but half a dozen years ago, when she was new, that car was somebody's pet, Fergus News Record, w Ww LJ Well, well, well; here comes along somebody, and & lawyer at that, who has sufficient public in- terest to bother about correcting a statement made in court. We pub- lic ought to be highly honored to think that for ange, we are thought important enough to know the truth, » LJ * Someone is hound to suffer as a result of this Cobourg li. bel case, You never know when you will he called to the wit. ness stand to prove that the Armistice was signed, EJ » w Tripe seems to he the favorite taxi-drivers' dish in Paris, A floor eaves in at the market and buries all the tripe. Ah, you moaning taxi-drivers, we bear with you in this moment of supreme heart-ache and lonliness, . 8 As the crow flies, Soldigr (After a hard day's tramp)? How far is it to the next village? Native: crow flies. Soldier: Well, how far Is it If Lhe hloomin' crow has to walk and car- ry a rifle and kit? * 0» About five miles as the . Ain't 1t the truth? An arm protruding from the car ahead means that the driver is: aret, ~--Going to turn to the left, Telling a boy to shut up, he won't huy any red pop. ~--Going to turn to the right, --(joing to hack up. --Pointing out a "Kodak as you go." Feeling for rain, } ~Telling his wire, sure, the kit- chen door's locked. ~--Saluting a passing motorist, or going to stop. ' * Ll When men's clothes are cut along sober lines, they'll leave out the hip pockets, * » » Famous last words. "I was detained at the office--" LJ] * LJ Can it be possible---? * LJ » By Renrut, WORLD'S. LARGEST CITIES (From the Ottawa Journal) An Associated Press cable tells that the latest census figures places the population of Greater London at approximately 8,000,000. While the population of inner London, or the administrative area, has re- mained almost at a standstill Knocking the ashes off a cig- ry of the city, the teachers are relating a good story how ome of their Rumber unwittingly ca dozen of his pupils the students w ne 'one 0) er in the examination ro noted one of the boys copying from one of the students ahead of him, This boy had always been honor- able so far as was known, and the teacher did not wish to take too drastic measure 80 he simply an- nounced that he had found one cheating and he requested this one, not naming him, to add the fol- lowing line to his examination pa- per: "I have acted dishonestly and I am very sorry and will not re- peat the offence." "I would wish the pupil who was copying to write this on his paper," the teacher suggested. "I know the pupil, and unless con- fession is made in this way, I will take further steps." This had a startling effect, for when the papers were handed in, the teacher found at least six by as many pupils with the confession attached, HUDSON BAY ROUTH (From St, Paul Ploneer-Press) According to the report of the construction engineer, the Hudeon Bay Rallroad, being built by the Canadian National Railways, gov- ernment-owned, is within 154 miles of its destination, ¥ort Churhill on Hudson Bay. By 1929, grain from the Western Provinces of Canada will be mov- ing over the new route to Europe, The distance from Winnipeg to Fort Church] is 928 miles, This is a greater mileage than was first planned when the terminus was fix+ ed at Port Nelson, some 150 miles further south along the coast, The better harbor facllities at Fort Churchill is given as reason for the change, Work on the line will he pressed this summer and preparatory work in forwarding supplies for construc- tion has been going on all winter, much muskeg swamp land is to be huilt this summer, For construe- tion on this surface large quanti- ties of brush is cut and will be laid as a basis of the grade. The effect on Canada's attitude toward the St. Lawrence waterway can only be surmised, but if the Hudson Bay route proves as feas- ible as is claimed the pressure of some of the Western Provinces for a route to the sea by the canal will not be so great as at present, The Dominion Bureau of Statis- ties has announced that American tourists spent $105,771,000 in Can- ada last year, and eved Pussyfoot Johnson would have to admit there aren't that many postcardg in Cane ada. --N York Evening Post, Tine A dificult section of the line over |- | Jyh 29 | fehogury Will 04 . THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928 i mn SPELLS BOARD OF DIRECTORS VICE-PRESIDENTS H. C. COX G. A. MORROW President C. a Lif Assurance President Life Assurance LEIGHTON Mc¢CARTHY, K.C, SiMe Ent nin, ene, A, B, FISHER W, G, MORROW Estafe x Vio Em i Yoho pug Se W, 8, HODGENS E. T, MALONE, K.C. - GE A. H, COX Fs ¥ Vice-President Toronto General Trusts Corporation President Provident Investment Com) pany -- OFFICERS -- A, B, FISHER Assistant Manager FRANK J, REDDIN Manager Oshawa Branch TNTRAL CANADA [VAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY G, A, MORROW W. J, HASTIE Managing Director Secretary OSHAWA ? TORONTO KING 8 VICTORIA 87S. 0) FOR. SAVINGS Stop RoRungs wl CELLS Who VERSON, Private Wire System '1 King Street East, Oshawa «== Above C.P.R, Office WELD URw, "DIRECTLY FACING THB 3A". a Phones 143 snd 144 - | | The Apex AILANTIC CITY some want with their breakfast rolls and |2round 4,500,000 in the last 28 supply, " Federal, state and private hatcheries are turning out an average of 1,100,000,000 young fish annually, This should be enough to give every one of the ten million anglers plenty of sport. That it does not is due to the fact that the infant mortality rate is high among the young fish because ofglack of food and their natural enemies, § Something should be done about it, fish- ing being among the inalienable rights of the citizen. But few fishermen are willing to surrender a season or so to give the game fish a chance to multiply, and if the govern- ment closes streams to all fishing for a year or so it forfeits that revenue from fishing licenses which has been used to stock the streams, If all fishermen would comply with the fish laws of our country it would help a great deal. The object of the Anglers' Club re- cently formed in Oshawa is to help enforce the fish laws of the land and thus help pre- went the wonton destruction of the game fish of our streams and lakes. 70 MARRY OR NOT T0 MARRY This must be a very hard question for the young folks of today to decide; if they give serious thought to it. So much has been written pro and con and most of them have read it. They must be very sensible indeed others want on the ride to and from work, which is a welcome friend at the evening fireside which holds a universal appeal for the literate. Bit of Verse SOUL AND BODY | Poor Soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Press'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? is that thy body's end? Then, Soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross. Within be fed, without be rich no more:-- So shalt thou fged on death, that feeds on men, And death once dead, there's no more dying then. --William Shakespeare. years, that of Greater London has | increased from 6,581.402 in 1901 | to 7,805,870 in 1926, with the growth on the outskirts showing an even more marked increase dur- ing the past two years. With a population of 8,000,000, London easily leads New York, the | latest estimate of Greater New | York's population being 7,000,000. The latest United States census figures. (1920) placed the figures at 5,620,048. : Twenty-one other cities in the world have a population over one willioh. They are: Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Tokio, Vienna, Philadel- | phia, Buenos Aires, Osaka, Peking, | Calcutta, Canton, Bombay, Rio de Janeiro, Glasgow, Constantinople, Detroit, Hamburg, Sydney, Buda- pest, Birmingham and Warsaw. One auto firm declares. "We stand back of every auto we sell," which is safer than the frout end, of course.--St. Catharines Stan- A GREAT PLEDGE -- Bind them (the commandments) con- tinually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep; and when thou wakest, it shall talk with thee.--Prov. 6:21, 22. PRAYER -- O Lord, Thy prom- ises ave sure. Grant us power Lo | | obey. J Electrophonic ---interprets the very - soul of music Models Priced from $115.00 to $365.00 ' THE COMPO COMPANY, LIMITED, LACKINE, MONTREAL Ontario Distributors: --THE SUN RECORD 00, TORONTO, ONT. eink Colamble Distributors: THE JANCOUVER BECORD OO, "A rendezvom for thos woe sech r--t 9 Ad a GAIA AR NRE i a A