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PAGE TWO The Ontario Reformer (Established in 1871) An. independent newspaper pub. hed every other day (Tuesday, hursday and Saturday afternoens) at Oshawa, Capada, by The Reformer Printing and | Publishing Company Limited, Charles M, Mundy, Presi. dent, Managing Director and Treas- urer; A. R. Alloway, Assistant Man- ager, ii GEO. A, MARTIN BSditor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: -elivered by Carrier in Oshawa or by mail anywhere in Canada $3.00 a year, United States subscriptions $1.50 extra to cover postage, Single copies 5 cents, OSHAWR, TUESDAY, AURIL 26. WHO PIGEON-HOLED THE BUILDING BY-LAW? Oshawa is in sore need of an up- to-date building by-law. The neces- sity of having such a law has ex- isted for some time, but members of the Council, for some reason not generally known, have not ap- plied tnemserves to the task of meet- ing the need. There are people dwelling in some houses in Oshawa, of which the town has reason to be ashamed. Surely, in a thriving and growing centre such as this, where land is plentiful, there is no need for hu- man beings to be housed under con- ditions revealed in the past few weeks by members of the Sanitacy and Relief Committee. Last year the building by-law was discussed in Council, and the pro- posal was referred to a committee. But that committee did not present a final report, and the question now arises: Who pigeon-holed the by- law last year, and why? The mat- ter was left in an unfinished shape when Engineer Shupe left for Kit chener, but surely that is not suf- ficient cause for the by-law to be dropped permanently. The new en- gineer is known to favor an up-to- date building by-law and other of- ficials share similar views. Oshawa expects, and needs, much building done here to keep pace with | EDITORIAL COMMENT The worst thing about failure, is the kind of sympathy that goes with it, Backbone won't get you far, how- ever, if the knot on the upper end of it is solid hone, The Bolshies are likely to promise almost anything at Genoa, But the world will be much more interested in seeing whether the promises are carried out. | A New York couple were married above the clouds yesterday, Think of the difficulty these young folk will have when finally they come to earth! "Well, I see Oshawa is as dusty as ever," remarked a Toronte trav- veller to a fellow knight of the road when coming up Simcoe St. South yesterday. Not a particularly desir- {able way for the town to be known, is it? The treasurer of the Russian Fam- ine Fund will appreciate your dona- tion, and some starving children in that faraway land will eke out an existence until harvest time if your contribution is large enough. But large or small, your contribution is needed. Lend a hand today. | The railway policy enunciated by { Hon. W. C. Kennedy, if carried out sincerely, should be given the sup- port of every true Canadian. It is a patriotic , duty devolving upon every man, woman and child to help !make the publicly-owned lines a suc- | cess, thus decreasing the heavy i financial load carried by the Domin- | fon. | The St. Catharines Standard sug- | gests that when the Drury Govern ment is at the Commission-naming | business, it might advisedly appoint one to inquire into the expenditures on Biggs' roads. There probably | would be as much, if not more, jus- tification for such an inquiry than there is for the Chi LISTONEL AND GLIB PROMOTERS Town Madé Loan to Industry and Then the Bubble Blew Up Financial Post : When the town of Listowel announced through the Toronto papers. that anyone wishing to establish a manufacturing indus- try there would receive assistance from the municipality, it issued an invitation to the Wallingford clan which was not long ignored. Ap- peared three Americans with ideas plus and cash minus, They modestly proposed to establish a plant to man- ufacture the Perfect Wheel. They had all the necessary drawings and pictures and were strong on descrip- tions of the wonders of their inven- tion, The makers of the Perfect Wheel were received with open arms in Lis- towel. There were big hearts rather than hard heads on the reception committee, A public meeting was called and when the visitors had told all about themselves and what they could do the doubters were silenced, if not conyinced. The next natural step was to submit a by-law to make a loan of $25,000; it carried. A building was secured and fitted up in great style although more money could perhaps have been spent to ad- vantage on machinery and equipment rather than on plumbing and furnish- ings. The next step was to let the kind- hearted citizens in on the proposition. They came to the extent of $29,725. Everything looked rosy-- but not for long ""Soon," writes a prominent citizen, 'it became evident that the patents were worthless; the machines were seized under manufacturers' liens and the bubble blew up." Listowel now has a number of wiser and sadder citizens who have paid the usual market price for their experience. And according to the hard-headed--but evidently not ex- tensive -- element in the community, it is not the first time. Methods change -this was a loan and not a mere bonus which the town put up --but the results are much the same Faith is a wonderful thing but too much of it should not be placed [Wee k at The Capital (Special Correspondent of The Re. ' former.) Ottawa April 22-- The Easter holi- days are over and already most of the members have shaken off that '"morn- ing-after'" feeling and got down to work on the committees and house duties which were awaiting them. There was lots of work ahead, and plenty more in sight, for the com- mittees have only really begun and there are indications that two or three more special committees are yet to be named, Estimates are plodding their more or less chequered way through com- mittee of supply and generally things are moving along with the usual after holiday swing. Members who have been figuratively lying in wait for any particular minister, get their opportunity when that minister's estimates come up for review, and at times take up most of an afternoon lor evening pressing for information and getting an accumulation of material off their chests before they allow the business of the House to proceed further. There will be sever- al more days yet for several of the departments are untouched or prae- tically so Hon. W. C. Kennedy is likely to come up on the carpet with his rail- way estimates early in the coming week and perhaps toward the end of the week he may be able to bring {down his promised statement showing ithe deficit on the Canadian Govern- {ment Merchant Marine. 2 | Just what that deficit will |uncertain. but there is little doubt |that last year provided a deficit, | though there would appear to be hope {for better things in the future. The ! policy of the new government will be | interesting at any rate, though it will {probably be largely a matter of mak- ing the best of a bad job and carry- ing on what had been left on its | hands. Hon. W. 8. Fielding has made his first statement regarding the Budget | --and he made it very much under | protest. Some time between now and {May 10 he will bring down his bud get, and that was the best he could {promise at the present time Mr | Fielding did not like being questioned [in the matter, and said so | While the farmers were away for {their Easter holidays an unpleasant be is in smooth talking strangers who are!gur rise was preparing for them. The | willing to back their wonderful in-|western men wanted reconstit@tion | while some of the western P vention against home-brewed capital. | of the old Canada Wheat Board and were prepared to move heaven and earth to get it, but the committee on agriculture which was dealing with the matter had become afrald of the constitutional aspect of things and wanted first to know if the formation of such a board wag within the legal rights of parliament, The House placed the matter before the law officers of the Crown, and on Wednes- day got its answer. The formation of a compulsory wheat board, as asked by the western farmers would not come within the powers of parlia- ment. The announcement did not come as a great surprise, htt it brought forth an expected outburst from the west. Among the men on the farms the constitutional aspect of things does not always loom as strongly as it does :¢ are almost tearing their hair over the decision against the Wheat Board, there are others who are just as near chuckling among themselves and saying that this lets them out of a bad hole, For some of them are not in favor of the board being re- constituted, from one cause or an- other, and while they did not want to vote or speak against what their constituents were demanding. they are not sorry to be relieved of their trouble. And there is a shrewd sus- picion. that this legal opinion only bears out the information which was already in the hands of It. Hon, Ar thur Meighen, when, as Prime Min- ister, he declined to offer the west a compulsory board but did offér them a voluntary marketing. The government has played safe on the whole thing by putting the onus on the committee, which composed of men from all parties the House, so that it need only car- ry out whatever is recommended in order to keep its own skirts clear, But there should be several intercst- ing hours, both in committee and Iu the House, before the matter is fin- ally disposed of either way. » LJ * Daylight saving has been smitten hip and thigh by almost every mem- ber of the House who hails from a rural constituency, Fred Kay, who hails from Mississquoia, Que.,, pro- (continued on page three) pool system of It's Easier --_-- down here, and there is a tendency to consider such opinions as "law- vers talk." But the production of it means that the Agriculture continues to investigate with a view to appointing a board which is declar- ed illegal before its appointment, so the alternatives must now he taken up. There is still power to name a board without compulsory powers, and while in theory this might work out all right, it is doubtful if it could be made a practical success, The danger will be that individual farm- ers will sell enough of their wheat through other sources to take the cream off the board's business and thus cause a loss to the whole coun- try. . | Henry W. Wood, the Alberta far {mer leader, broke into print {mediately the finding was announced | to declare that "that showed that the west could not expect anything lin the way of help or co-operation | from the east." Mr. Wood talked | rather largely of taking the bull by the horns and forming an interpro- vincial board, which, it would ap pear, would be in danger of being just as illegal as one formed by tli federal government. However, Mr Wood's pronouncements were not "e ceived with any great elation by the western men who do not happen Alberta Some of them | even expressed the opinion that | vas foolish. | to hail from rogres- com- | mittee is simply wasting time if it| im- | The amusing part of it all is that | | ; ~--to shine them with | "Nugget." produces a brilliant polish. | A 'NUGGET i= Shoe Polish BLACK--TAN--TONEY RED DARK BROWN AND WHITE A little rub Co-operation is the watchword of the world The | today. Insurance is the dipthong in that word. Investigate ours. London Life | HEAD OFFICES Insurance Company "Policies Good as Gold" LONDON, CANADA Agencies in all principal cities | | H. L. RUTHIG, Dist. Representative, 22'; Simcoe St. ppawa probe. the progress the d That being so it that all buildings should comply with restrictions in keeping with conditions of the present, and not with what may have existed when | THE PATH OF LABOR the ancient by-law still in force was Never in a costly palace did I rest enacted. If members of the Town | on golden bed, Council haven't the time to attend Never in a hermit's cavern have to this most importaht piece Fr idle bread, within a lowly stable where the work, they might delegate the] cattle round me stood, task to the Town Planning Com- | Trained a carpenter in Nagareth 1 THE U. 5. AND THE WAR. } mission or tv a committee of muni- have toiled and found it good. Hamilton Herald: Rev. Campbell cipal officials They who tread the path of labor | Morgan tells us that the United Sta- . j follow where | tes entered the war to save threaten- My feet have trod, {ed humanity because American con-| They who work without complain- ceptions of life are rooted in Biblic-! ing do the holy will of God. {al literature. And all this time we Where the many toil together, there | have thought that tae records were i am I amongst My own, true, and that the United States en-! There have been rumors during|ywhere the tired workman sleepeth,|tered the war because the Imperial the last fortnight, which may be re-| there am [ with him alone, German government ordered the Am-! garded as feelers, that am effort wilt] 1 the peace that passeth knowledge, | erican merchant marine off the seas, ! WAGES AND THRIFT | Chicago Journal of Commerce: | | Better, far better, would it be for the | striking miners to receive what the operators would be glad to give | them, and subject themselves to the | laws of thrift, than for them to get| double what they demand and comn-| tinue the almost universal habit coal | miners have of spending every last dollar they earn as soon as they get to the stores with them. town is making. | is most desirable | A BIT O' VERSE I mad . | dwell amid the daily strife, all except two ships which, to pro-| he ie by some members of thel the bread of Heaven, am broken in the sacrament of life. --Heary Van Dyke, Legislature to secure another bos) this session. The agitation is said to have been started among the Drury Government's own support ers. | Those members who are pressing | for another $609 bonus this year are said to base their appeal on the length of the session. There is no doubt that most members are tired of sitting in the House while time is wasted week after week, and there is likewise no doubi waa: many are disgusted with the Cabinet for al- lowing things to drift as they have. There have been more rows in the Legislature this and last session than there would be in half a dozen prior to the coming of the Drury Government. Personalities too, are indulged ian now as mever before, and while members are forced to Te- tract, much time is wasted. Speaker Parliament has had 2 mighty difi- cult job trying to keep the members in their places, and while hie has had trouble with opposition members, he has likewise been given many try- ing moments by Premier Drury and other members of the Cabinet. In| wiew of the rows to which Mr. Drury |" and some of his colleagues have been parties, it is folly for all blame to be saddled on the Opposition for delaying the House. The Government is primarily to blame for the waste of time, and dil- iy dallying this session. A much bet~ ter showing was made during the first session of the present Legisla- tuve than has been made since. Why, therefore since it is not the country is to blame for the drawn-out THIEN H (1 I tect them from sibmarine attack, had to be painted like a bangers pole. | ama ------ aa NN Saas