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"The Osan Baily Times ih ri conve TY meron IE wa Daily EE RS i SR: adit Tig of Circulations Delivered by carrier: 10 a week. Hy mall: fa the Counties of Untario, Durham and $3.00 a year; elpewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. 07 Bond ui, 0 Femara Street, Telephone ' Adelaide 01 D Treatader Tresidder. representative. RE; SENTATIVES IN U3, Powers aud > ¢ Inc, New York and Chicago a Ll A a Le Ei SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928 me Rh ------ DANGER IN LEISURE If BD per cent of all juvenile chime is com. mitted in spare time, it is to the use of spare time, and especially that of youth--since 70 per cent of the inmates of penal institutions are under 25 years of age--that attention 'must be given, As things are in the United States, it is the rare person who is not able to find shelter, lodging, a place te sleep, ' Employment is general and dire want ex- ceptional, But with this economic improve- ment there has come a larger proportion of leisure, Isaac Watts, on whose "How Doth the Busy Bee" older generations were brought up, saw hours of idleness as the first ally of the Evil One; "For Satan finds some mischief still For.idle hands to do," : Although this pious writer of hymns, who could have known little of the temptations of spare time--for he undermined his health by intense study--did speak of "healthful play" along with books and work as desir able, he would imitate the bee in improving every shining hour with labor, Under this industrial and social system, Satan is not to be withstood and overcome by keeping children busy at works of labor and skill, Leisure must find its own defen. ses within its own hours, It must find them in a freedom that has its own inducements and rewards, Growing realization of this has led to local and national efforts to pro. vide playground and recreational opportuni. ties of every sort, Leisure is here to stay and doubtless to Increase, Society must for its own sake prevent what should be the individual's greatest boon from becoming the greatest bane, FORM THE THINK HABIT Fear of making mistakes has made fail ures of as. many men as mistakes have made successes. Failures are awed into retro- gression by the same possibilities-of-mis- takes challenged by the successes among men, A popular adage is "The man who never made a mistake never made a dollar," but a truer statement of fact might be "The man who never made a mistake has not yet lived." Conceding that all men make mistakes, it is manifest that only the same mistake re- peated is unpardonable and the habit, not thé individual mistake is costly, Somebody pays every time somebody blunders and the only way to correct the habit of blundering is to form the habit of doing things right. Form the habit of being careful snd take pains today that you may spare yourself in-- calculable pain tomorrow, Many sre blund- ering on to success by making the most of their blunders. The haunting regret in every mistake is the thought that it could have been averted 'by a little thought, The indolent find sections easier than thought and much of humpnity is indolent. Thinking can be made a habit just as most bodily movements are from force of habit, Cultivate the habit of thinking before act- ing and that bugaboo, the mistake-habit, will decamp for more salubrious foraging, * TAKE-A-CHANCE Take-a-chance drivers are the worst ene- mies of safety, They are on every road snd in every crowded thoroughfare of the city, They are always in a hurry, Every second counts with them. . When traffic is running in double lines and streets are full, Take-a-chance dodges in and out and races the field for the next red light. When everybody else is stopping in obe- dience to signals, he finds opportunity to crowd ahead of two or three and hog a little space. side of the street. The white line down the middle of the Half the time he is on the wrong | thrill bullying the timid out of his ingh at high speed by the thickness of the Police officers both in country and city should make a point of sorting out and gathering in this type of driver. He is a menace to the peace and safety of the motor- ing community, STATISTICS LACKING Research might spare an hour or two from the pursuit of the electron, the microbe, the atom and the causes of industrial unreat and war in order to determine just how many bricks a modern bricklayer does lay in a day, how many times in eight hours the av- erage plumber goes for his tools, how many new disorders an automobile acquires while undergoing garage treatment, and how much time the office boy wastes going for the mail, It would be a move in the interest of social adjustment and the peace of mind of the reading public, No other subjects of contemporary con. 'versation, with the possible exception of Russia and prohibition, reveal such an outstanding clash of data, The modern tale of bricks has gone down in gossip to 200 a day, as against several thousand bricks "formerly" laid by ' the honest mason, Plumbers, auto mechanics and office boys been equally slandered, On such matters the public seems to be a chronic crank, If the modern bricklayer lays fewer bricks than his immediate pre- decessors, it is more than likely due to the more intricate architectural design and or- namental work of the newer buildings, As for the much abused plumber, it should be remembered that modern plumbing requires more than a wrench and a hammer, Yet it ought not to be beyond the resources of an age which has brought research and the questionnaire to perfection to obtain fair, representative and' accurate statistics on these highly controversial matters, If the task is too formidable for the science of research, how is it to be trusted on such complicated matters as mortality tables, birth rates, world trade and the degree of success of law enforcement, EDITORIAL NOTES Being a pedestrian has taken on much more responsibility in recent years, There are reasons to believe a dog can think, but his love for man isn't one.of them, Penal statutes are not supposed to be a shotgun; they are supposed to be a scare- crow, Henvy Ford seems to have a passion for all old-fashioned things except the horse and buggy, There was one good thing about the longer courtship of old times, It resulted in longer . marriage, The mistake many a wife makes is in trying to instruct 8 man instead of flatter- ing him, | Bit of Verse 1 LAUGH A LITTLE BIT Here's 2 motto, just your fit-- -Laugh a little bit. When you think you're trouble hit, Laugh a little bit, Look misfortune in the face Brave the bedlam's rude grimace; Ten to one 'twill yield its place, If you have the wit and grit Just to laugh a little bit, Keep your face with sunshine lit Laugh a little bit. All the shadows off will flit, If you have the grit and wit Just to laugh a little bit, Cherish this as sacred writ, Laugh a little bit. | Keep it with you, sample it, Laugh 2 little bit. Little ill will sure betide you, Fortune may not sit beside you, Men may mock and fame deride you, But youll mind them not a whit If you laugh a little bit. ~Edmund Vance Cooke | At a Glance Well, it ought not to be long now until "Bremen" geaches New York, But of coursé, one has to allow for parties and affairs which the crew have to take in, and by the looks of things they aren't gos ing to bonof & sag nature, It continued travelling by aero. plane across the border from the United States to Canada keepa up, we'll soon have Immigration au thorities up in the alr after some of these filers, it A headline ates that the "Bre. men" will now continue on its last lap to New York, Well, here's one time words were used to advantage. If the "Bremen" isn't yepairved in a hurry it will be in such & condi- tion that it will just roll aver and go to sleep, * . THs Wo | much good in the And 20 much bad in the Devt op 113 earosly behooves any of us To talk about the Tot of us, LJ How happy this old world would be if we minded our own business, and left the other fellow alone, L ] . LJ "Collard got just deserts"----head- line. In reference to the recent "Royal Oak" affair, we wonder if these were included in the banquet on the celebrated ship. LJ That's where, Judge--Where do you live? Tramp--Nowhere, Judge-- (to second tramp)--and u? dy "Me?" Oh, I live on the floor above my pal here." --Regina Leader, 0 On an insuran oii visit, By Stephen in----""Lit~ erary Lapses', To one who detests insurance agents in all forms, and who de- cides to rid himself of them for- ever, i Questlon--What is your age? Answer--I can't think. ~--What is your chest measure- ment? --Nineteen inches. ~--What is your chest expansion? --Hall an inch, --What is your height? --8ix feet five if erect, but less when I walk on all fours. --I8 your grandfather dead? --Practically, --Cause of death, if dead? --Dipsomania, it dead. --I8 your father dead? --~To the world, ~--Cause of death? --Hydrophobia, --Place of feather's residence? --Kentucky, --What illness have you had? --Ag§ a child, consumption, lep- rosy, and water on the knee. As 8 man, whooping cough, stomach, and water on the brain. ~--Have you any brothers? | ~ Thirteen, all nearly dead? ~Are you aware of apy habits or tendencies which might be expected to shorten your lite? --I am aware, I drink, I smoke, 1 take morphine and vaseline. I swal- low grape seeds, and I hate exer- cise, And the agency took him as a first class Fisk, . If you think a soft answer ture- eth away wrath, just say the word "Soft" to a spend cop 28 you hand him the ten dollars, Vancouver Sun. Famons Last Words, "I'll just light a match to see how much gas there Is in this tank," so» Eventually yours-- J J LJ] By Renrut, COURT DECLARES FRANC GAMBLERS ARE CONTEMPTIBLE London, April 19.--~The Court of Appepl today dismissed the appeal of Mrs. Bradley Dyne from the Judgment in 8 case brought against hep by the brokerage firm of Iron- monger & Co. for £39,000 due on franc speculations. Through original hearing of the cage early this year, the gambling in francs of J. D. Gregory, Assist. ant Under-Secretary for Foreign, Affairs, and other officials in the | Foreign Office, became known, re- sulting in Gregory's dismissal and the censure of the other officials. Mrs. Dyne was Gregory's private secretary at one time. Lord Justice Scry top, in giving .{bls judgment today, declared that the people who indulged in the spe- culations were beneath contempt. They were utterly selfish, and rer gardless of the enormous injury they inflicted on the legitimate trade of the country in whose ex- PRAYER--We would, Lord, ev- er make Thy Word 2 lamp to our feet and a light to our path. What Others Say THEY KNOW NO BETTER (Ottawa Journal) In the recemt presidential else- tions in Argentina 91 per cent. of the voters went to the polls. And yet many North Americans feel themselves superior and civilized, ENEW HIM AT ONCE (Life) Vivian: Is Jack really such a bore? Ethel: Is he? Why, the mo- ment I met him I felt as if I had been tired of him always. . WHY SHOULD THEY? (Toronto Mail and Empire) ry should anybody want to nate the Xing of Italy? The bombing outrage at Milan Was as mysterious as would be an attempt tc destroy the Vice-Pres- ident of the United States. YES, HE MET HIM (Hamilton Spectator) A boy who found $50 returned it to its owner and was rewarded with five cents, shouldn't feel too tadly, It wes worth his trouble to meet the meanest man in the world, SATLS PASS (New Orleans Times-Picayune) It is almost tragic, from an aesthetic point of view, to read that of all the pleasure craft built in the United States last year, that totaled $40,000,000 in value, just a little over one per cent. are propelled by sails exclusively, Thus far has the use of the motor supplanted the winds of heaven, pdb TE Money to Loan Secyred by first mort- gages-->50 per cent. of value--on dwellings-- apartment houses or offices and stores lo- cated In Oshawa, Address correspond. ence to Manager of 'Mortgage Dept, GIBON BROS, 857 Bay Street, TORONTO No Agents RRR RRR RBBB BD 2 2 22 22 2 2s 2 2 2 ss ss sa TTT TT TITTITITTITITereeee sd | | BE I a aa Ra a EB a a Save only for competitive yack ing, the bird float" has a on. PHEASANTS IN ALRERTA (Canada Week by Week) One thousand pheasants, pos- sibly 2,000, will be Lae Inperies this year by the Fish and Game "Protective A and will be set out in selected dis- tricts to the south and southwest of + A number of experi- ménts with this game bird in the southern part of the Province of Alberta have proved very success- ful and an effort will be made to stock a considerable area arjacent to Calagry. EASILY SETTLED (Hamilton Herald) Toronto is buying four pump- ing engines for the fire depart- ment, Only two companies ten- dered for the contract. The rep- resentative of another company told the board of control that his company did not tender because it knew that conditions in Toronto are such that its tender would not receive proper consideration, That made the board mad, but it pro- ceeded to justify the complaint by deciding to accept the highest tender. DECIPHERED IT (Glasgow Herald) A younz man was given a tes- timonial so shockingly written that he was unable to decipher it, A friend suggested that he take it to a chemist to decipher it, for'chemists are skilled men, having spent long lives decoding what doctors call handwritings. So the testimonial was handed to =| a chemist, "What do you make of that?" asked the young man. The chem- ist glanced over it for a moment and then disappeared behind a screen, There was a subdued tink'e of glasses for a couple of minutes and then he emerged. "I think you will find that all right," he sald, handing over a bottle, '"Half-a-crown, please!" SHAKING HANDS AGAIN ( Kingston Whig-Standard) Here it is again, We thought we had done with the question' of shaking hands, but how conld we resist drawing attention to what James , Bennett says in Liberty as follows: "President Coolidge Illkes to shake hands with his many ad- mireres who make the trip to the White House. "When Mr, Coolidge was asked if the Was'er holiday hani-shak- ing .with its record tussle of 1, 420 persons greeted in 28 min- utes, was not wearing on him, he sald: A A Joint Savings Account is a Real Convenience ARTICULARLY as a matter of fam- ily convenience does the joint ac- count demonstrate its value. All funds deposited are subject to withdraw- al at any time by either of the persons in whose names the joint account is opened. In case of the decease of one of the parties holding a joint account, all money may be withdrawn by the other, A joint savings account in the Standard Bank is a real convenience where two people desire access to the same funds, E. C. HODGINS Manager, Oshawa Branch Brook Nowe Port Parry Whith " 'No. hand-shaking. to contact with people lika 3 qualities , , , TORONTO Faster , . 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