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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1928 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1928 a =r HELPING THE NEW CANADIAN Baha A few days ago, an item appeared in The Times describing the evening classes at the Collegiate Institute, which are this year more popular than ever before. In every department, an increased registration has been noted, and as new classes are added to the curriculum, they are accepted readily by pupils of the city. One course on the evening school list that should prove of especial benefit not only to the pupils themselves, but also to the city - and even the Dominion is the "English for New Canadians" course that is being taught in an increasing number of collegiate night schools in Ontario. It is one of the most ef- fective methods of teaching British ideals to the newcomers to our country, for when they . can both speak and write English readily, it is much easier to develop in them the viewpoint and customs of the British race, It i= +. 2n foreign-born people keep in a little clique, speaking their mother tongue, living their life as in the old land, that they are a potential menace in the midst of British law and order, In this English class at the Oshawa Col. legiate there are several pupils who are now taking their third year's work, and they are becoming quite proficient in both reading and writing the language of their adopted coun- try, Many of them came to the school know- ing not a word of English, but they prove without exception apt and regular pupils, and seem to be making an honest effort to fit in to the life of this community and Do- minion, Each year new groups of foreign born people settle in Oshawa, as is inevitable in a city undergoing the industrial expansion of this community, There are a number of these whose knowledge of the English lan- guage is limited or elementary, and would be greatly benefited by attendance at this course in the evening classes of the Collegiate, To call their attention to it would be a kindly act, and citizens who know of such new Canadians would be helping them to feel at home in this city, and would be rendering them a neighborly service by placing before them this opportunity, And, seeing it from the larger vision, we would be helping Can- ada by assisting in the assimilation of her immigrants from foreign shores, AIR TRAFFIC PROBLEM Twenty-five or thirty years ago people stood around and discussed the automobile, When one was parked at the curb it drew a crowd, There were predictions that such 8 thing would never prove practicable, Be- fore they realized what had happened there was an automobile traffic problem, The time does not seem far distant when preferential air lanes will command the same consideration 8s stop streets and boulevards do today, If we recall how rapidly the auto. mobiles increased and what confusion came from lack of regulations we can visualize what Lindbergh says must happen in the sir, Colonel Lindbergh is the author of the statement that congestion of air traffic al- ready is a fact and must have consideration, The location and maintenance of training fields for aviators near major airports has been barred in some communities for the reason that student aviators interfere with - the regular gir traffic One can picture a student aviator, somewhat nervous, making 8 left turn in the air just in time to crash into the through plane flying between Los Angeles and New York, or coming near This situation must be taken into consid- in connection with the location of in the future and more particular- connection with the establishment schools. Such schools must be a considerable distance from the in order to avoid congestion A Chicago banker has found that if the "window's mite," assuming it to be a cent, $563,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, Now the banker or no other person would say that the widow ought to have invested her mite rather than give it to the cause she did, but every person will point to it as an illustration of the tremendous expansion a small sum of money will experience if placed at compound interest. The banker gives a more practical ex- ample of his point, when he says that $50 a month placed in a savings bank paying 8 per cent. will net the saver in thirty years the surprising sum of $29,113, or if invested at 8 per cent, in bonds. will become $41,609 in the same period of time, Any school boy can catch the lesson. of thrift which these examples teach, Thrift as an abstraction may not have much of an appeal for youth, but in such terms as the Chicago banker uses, the subject becomes practical and interesting and illustrates that habits of industry and thrift bring their reward, AVOIDING THE EXTREME The extremist is never with a large fol- lowing, There are two extremes in all things, but the multitude will always be found half way between the two, In such a humble occupation as housekeeping there are two extremes and the happy medium, The housekeeper who is excessively tidy and immaculate fails as completely in her pur. pose as does the slovenly housewife, The good housekeeper, who is not without honour even in her own country, is the one who fol lows the middle course between the slattern and the eternal dust-chaser, Everyone knows that an untidy house is the cause of all sorts of wrong living on the part of husbands, wives and children, And yet household tidiness can be carried to ex- cess. A home that is neat, and clean, and tastefully arranged is one thing, but a home where everything is so prim that the mem- bers of the family and callers feel ill at ease is quite another thing, It often happens that women who strive to be good housekeepers forget about the comfort and contentment of the family, Collecting all sorts of odds and ends that seem valueless to mother or rather is a trait of all normal children, The bits of colored glass, or the gay magazine clippings, or the brokén toy that an over-neat mother may destroy may cause unhappy pangs to the child, Likewise, father's old pipe, or the disreputable pair of fishing shoes have a value to him far above mere nousehold tidi- ness, After all, the only purpose of household tidiness is to make the home comfortable to the family and presentable to visitors, EDITORIAL NOTES Patriotism consists in cussing the alien who cusses the country, Make war a crime, a retired army officer urges, Isn't it already? Ethics forbid a lot of things, but taking a profit isn't one of them, Bit of Verse WHITE FROST Hoar frost crept down the hills as quietly As shadow-lengthened sleep, Star shod he came Marauding dusk; his torch a cold-white flame To blaze his way in fine-spun filigree Of ghostly radiance, Invincibly He trailed the valley, eager to reclaim His heritage; to trace his ancient name On Autumn's gold and crimson witchery. Bewildered dusk, transfigured, held her bresth As heart-beats crystalized. A riding moon Swung low, its rebel brightness taunting In mirrored waters of the dark lagoon, No faintest link of Winter's spur was heard When frost slipped down as lightly as a bird, ~--Anne M. Robinson a AFTERMATH OF MAIL ROBBRY IN ASSIZE COURT Graphic Description of Hold- up Events Given By' John W. Farrow Toronto, Oct. 30.--The after math of the big mail robbery of June 19 18 now being 'enacted in the Assize Court. Therey esterday, appeared Find. lay Mcleod, Sr, Everett McKib- bon, John Brown (alias Sullivan) and Ray Boven, charged with rob- bery while armed, and Alexander Mcleod and Mrs. Francis Boven, charged with receiving. Accomp- anied by a squad of counsel, the al- leged principals in the affair slose- ly guarded by police officers, filed into court to face their trial, Counsel for the accused al! sought separate trials, The Crown acquiesced. Trial Under Way And so now the trial of Findlay McLeod, Sr., is under way, and it will be probably a fortnight before the final decision is returned in this series of associated cases. All the accused yesterday enter- ed a plea of "not guilty." While mueh of yesterday morn- ing was taken up with legal argu- ment, and then the presentation of the case, the review of the nrail robbery by the Crown, and while in the early afternoon witnesses told of the layout of the Union Station where the robbery was staged, and the movements of mail, and iden- tified the stolen bags, there came late in the afterngon a "first hand" story of the robbery, John M. Farrow, head mail clerk on the car that was robbed, and a mail clerk of 47 years' ex- perience, told of the hold-up, Story Calmly Told His reeital of the sensational happenings was not garnished by any emotional vocal inflection. In fact he spoke in such a calm tone that when he quietly told what a gun-wielding bandit had growled at him the Crown counsel inter- jected: "Surely he didn't say it us gently as that?" The mail bage, sald Farrow, had been loaded into the car, He was at the back of the ear sorting out- going letters, "Hands up," came an order, "And that," said Farrow to the court, "was the first 1 heard." Then he went on to tell the court of the next events, as fol- lows: He looked, and there, close by, was a man with a sawed-off shot- gun. "Are you the registered mail clerk?" said the bandit, "IT am," sald Farrow, "T want the registered mail" said theb andit, "And so," Farrow testified, 'I handed him the registerad bag. And I though he'd go. But he said: "I want four bags," and so, after a little persuasion, I gave him an- other," "I Want the Money" Farrow said a bag without any registered mail in it fell over, and so he handed that to the bandit. And then he told the gunman, "That's four," but the bandit re- torted, 'No it isn't, I want the money," and stuck the gun in the mail clerk's ribs, Then, Farrow told the court, the bandit ordered, 'Hurry up now, I'm going to count, One--two-- Just then, Farrow continued in his evidence, another man whom he called Allen came down the car and shouted, "on"t do that!" and the bandit retorted, "Shut your mouth," 80, he continued, with the ban- dit counting and holding the gun against him, he kicked a bat at his feet and sald: "There it is." The bandit grabbed it and threw it be hind him to another gunman, Questioned as to the identity of the man who had held him up, Far- row sald he was sure it was Sul- livan, Another "Hands Up!" Then he went on to tell what next happened, Sullivan, said he, had turned around as if to leave the car, but then spun hack with another order of "Hands up!" "Ten," sald Farrow, "he swore at me and said: "I've a good mind to give you one anyway." He stood looking at me for a minute and then he went away. According to Farrow's notation of the bags taken by Sullivan, they were No. 1, containing small bags of regular mail; No, 2, registered mail bag; No, 3, ordinary mail; No. 4, money bag containing fif- teen parcels, Farrow told the court that dur- ing ther obbery he had seen noth- ing of McLeod, nor had he seen 'window in the car at the fleeing gunmen, "HARRY DEVLIN" IMPOSTOR WITH POLICE RECORD IN US. Pueblo, Colo.,, Oct. 30.--In ga letter from the United States De- partment of Justice yesterday, Pue- blo police were advised that the man recently held here as Harry Devlin and later identified as Rus- sell Wilson of Canada, had been identified as Roy Brady through fingerprint records of the Depart- ment of Justice, GREAT IS THE LORD--For the d is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our King; he will save us--Isa, 33:22. PRAYER--Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name, hinr wen later he peered out of a MOTORIST IS REMANDED AGAIN London, Omt., Oct. 30.--Arthur Ward, held on a nominal charge of vag in tion with the death of William Galloway, killea on Springbank Drive last March by SMITH MONEY 13 BEING KEPT FOR HEAVIEST ODDS Opinion is That Odds Will Tighten as Election Day Draws Nearer New York, Oct. 30.--With the election just a week distant, wager- ing gentlemen are reported to be staking large bankrolls--at odds of 4 1-2 to 1 -- that Herbert Hoover will defeat Governor Smith for the presidency. But half a dozen betting commls- sioners interviewed today were un- animously of the opinion that these odds would tighten, Within the next forty-eight hours, several of them anticipated the odds against Governor Swith would shorten to 3 1-2 to 1 or to 3 to 1, Here are some of the odds quot- ed by local betting houses: Hoover to carry New Jersey--2 to 1, Smith to carry Ilinois--1 to 4. Smith to carry 8 out of 10 Southern States--even money. Smith to carry New York--even money, Smith to carry Massachusetts-- 7 and 6 to 6, Hoover to carry Maryland--av- en money, Hoover to carry Pennsylvania-- 5 and 4 to 1. Smith to carry Kentucky---Even money. The betting situation was con- fusing. One house insisted that large sums of money had been cov ered. Yet an old-time commission er, who should know whergof he spoke, sought to deflate the claims, "That's a lot of hooey," he sald, "Smith money has been kept in the old sock, waiting for 4 1-2 and 5 to 1 from the Hoover people; But it hasn't been forthcoming Smith hackers are lucky to get 4 to 1 and fu won't be long before the odds will drop." BE a PROBING ROMANCE BEGUN IN TORONTO Mother of Girl Who Eloped With 'Prince' Demands an Investigation Detroit, Oct, 30.--Mrs., Arthur Berghotf, of Detroit, Monday wired St. Louis, Mo., police to investigate the reported marriage of her daughter, Helen Quigley, aged 17, to a man who claimed to be Prince Alexis N, Gagarin, former Russion nobleman and later a university student in the U.S, and a dancing instructor in Toronto, Ont, Mrs, Berghoff revealed she had received a telegram frony her daughter an- nounding her elopement with and marriage to the so-called prince, formerly her dancing instructor, and asking that her clothing be sent to St, Louis in care of Mrs, Edward Hussey, The mother clothing, but instead, did not send the sald she vestigation to determine whether Gagarin was an impostor. Gagarin now is said to he conducting a class in dancing in St, Louis, Year-Old Romance The romance between the Prinee and Miss Quigley began a year ago cided to attend his dancing school, When she returned to Detroit, Gagarin followed her, A few days later he 'was arrested at the re- charge of failing to pay rent on a studio there. He was released following an investigation in which he was held to be legally in this arin told remarkable stories claim- ing among other things to be a son of the late Czar of Russia. He told the family she said that when the imperial family was taken by revolutionjsts, he fled, later served in the Cossack squadron and then came to the United States with the aid of President Masaryk of Czecho- slovakia, Doubt About Him He ptudied at the University of Nebraska, he said, and later went to Toronto where he began his career as a dancing instructor, Mrs, Berghoff said she had for- bidden her daughter to have any thing more to do with the prince. Gagarin came here early in 192, and later opened a dancing school on Yopge street between King and Adelaide. His name was frequent- ly in print during his comparative- ly brief y in this city. He and Prince lkonsky, another expatri- ated Russian who fs at present in New York, were on anything but friendly terms, Volkonsky claiming that Gagarin was an impostor and that the credentials he carried L would insist upon a thorough in- |g quest of Toronto authorities on a |X country, Mrs, Berghoff eaid Gag-|# AGED 68, BANKER ATTENDS LECTURES William L. Benedict, Retired This Year, Works for Degree Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 30.--Wil- liam Leonard Benedict, former Beston and New York banker, who is 68 years old, is a junior at Har- vard University this year. He is completing work for a degree that he started at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology more than 50 years ago. He was a member of the class of 1880 at Technology but left the school at the end of his second year to enter the employ of Kid- der, Peabody & Company, banners, In 1910 he was nrade a president partner of the firm. He retired at the beginning of this year, Now he is attending lectures at Harvard with the object of gaining a degree of bachelor of science. He says he feels no older than dur- ing his earlier student days and that his books and lectures are fully as Interesting as they were fifty years ago, 100 SUCCESSFUL JUMPS CREDITED TO SILK PARACHUTE Washington, D.C,, Oct. 30.--The product of the little silk worm has saved the lives of 96 American airmen in 100 successful jumps from disabled aireraft in fli~ht, The War Department announced today that the parachute jump made Tuesday at San Dievo, Calif., by Lieut. Roger V, Willlams of Spokane, Washington, when his airplane collided with one piloted by Lieut, W. L. 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