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rn tv A A Rg A FETS v * PAGE TWO" * The Ontario Reformer (Bstablished in 1871, An independent newspaper pub. lished every other day (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons) at Oshawa, Canada, by The Reformer Printing end Publishing Company Limited, Charles M. Mundy, Presi- dent, Managing Director and Treas- urer; A. R. Alloway, Assistant Man- ager. GEO, the restaurants. The Ontario Mun- icipal Act, Section 417, sub-section 4, provides that by-laws may be passed by the councils of towns "for limiting the number of and licensing and regulating victualing houses, ...and houses where fruit, fish, oysters, clams or victuals are sold to be eaten therein, Under that section it is apparent tie Council has authority to license Editor {Yestaurants located within its bound- aries, Inasmuch as the Council can withhold licenses, it should follow that they can impose certain condi- tions on which they will grant the licenses. It has been held, how- ever, that if the condition is unreas- onable so as to impose practically prohibition, the bill may be quashed. But surely no court would so inter- pret that law to mean that a by-law restricting white girls from working in Chinese restaurants was unreas- onable, A. MARTIN SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 'elivered by Carrier in Oshawa 'or by mail anywhere in Canada $3.00 a year, United States subscriptions $1.60 extra to cover postage. Single copies b cents, ipa OSHAWA. SATURDAY, MAY 6. : 4 Emam a a " FITTING _ MEMORIAL "The announcement made last night at the citizens' banquet to Messrs. R. S. and Geo. W. Me- Laughlin that to honor and per- petuate the memory of their be- loved father, the late Robert Mc- Laughlin, these two worthy sons had decided to erect a maternity The people of the nickel town were wing to the Oshawa Hospital, is|aroused at the revelations in court one of the most important to!in connection with éonditions in : : Chinese restaurants employing white Oshawa and community in many "0 Crown Councillors were years. It will not only solve for| . angered that they ordercd the the Hospital Board a problem that | licenses to be cancelled within one has confronted them for years and | week if the restaurants did not dis- has been very close to the heart | charge the girls. When the Chinese i |appealed to TPoronto they obtained of the veteran president, Mr. J. D. ian injunction preventing cancella- Storie, but it will provide a com-| jon of their Hcenses on the ground munity need that has long existed | that 30 days notice of such action It was stated at the meeting of the Town Council that a Toronto judge had ruled in a case at Sudbury that the Council had no power to prevent restaurants employing Chinese also employing white girls. The situa- tion there came about in this way. and has been pointed out for many | should have been given. A settle- years by medical "men, hospital | officials and many citizens who have watched with interest and anxiety also the growth of the; sphere of service of Oshawa Hos- pital. No more fitting memorial to the late Robert McLaughlin could be conceived of, and no memorial could be built that will better per- petuate for the citizens of Oshawa and the community as a whole the great ideal of service that was ever in the mind and heart of the great philanthropist and citizen. It is fitting indeed that a memorial for the dead should be something that will be an everlasting benefit to the living of today and to unborn geperations. And because it is essential to the building of a great manhood an wo wood in Canada that . hers should be provided with .very facility and comfort to bring their children into the world, the value of the gift of the McLaughlins will be more fully realized. RESTAURANTS SHOULD BE CONTROLLED BY TOWN COUNCIL Although tie question of barring white girls from working in Chinese restaurants has been discussed by the Town Counell, there is no indic- ation that the prayer of the Local Council of Women, that a stop be put to this undesirable practise, is to be heeded. The brief discussion on the subject by the Town Council- lors clearly leaves the impression that they think they have no power to act, and evidently they are not inclined to find out what authority they bave under the law. : The situation as it exists locally is most unsatisfaetory. The Coun- cil at present exercises no authority over the restaurants. They are not required to take out amy license as is the case in many municipalities. When 2 man desires to open a res- taurant here he is only asked to pay the business tax, the same as a man opening any kind of a store. No offer is made to supervise these eating places, other than that given by the police in the general mature of their duty. Several years ago, The Reformer understands, some sort of by-law governing restaurants + was passed by Council. At the time some ob- jection was taken to it. and the Council of the day evidently follow- ed the line of least resistance and did not enforce it. Since that time this by-law has been a dead letter. No effort has been made to enforce it, or amend it to meet conditions which may be different than when it was enacted. Nor are the rest- auwranteurs licensed. it is all wrong for the members of Council to side-step this question until they have a scandal occur to rouse the whole town, as recently happened in Sudbury. it may be seid that few girls are employed in local restaurants. . That is probably true, but should these few mot be protected? Just last week it was re- ported to the Beard of Health that a 14 year old gifl had been Working in a local restaurant. Is that a state of afipics - that members of Council endorse? Would members of "Céungil 'who have daughters, de- sire that their daughters be servitors of Ghinese? - 3 The Relormer believes, with the Local Council of Women, that the town has ample authority to govern ment of the Sudbury rumpus was reached by compromise, because the barring of white girls from rest- aurants was only one of the demands made on the restauranteurs. of side-stepping on this question, which is most important even if only affecting a few, the Town Council should take steps to ascertain what authority it has and then see that whatever by-law is necessary is passed and enforced. Instead -- A SPEAKER WITH A PUNCH Any person who heard Dr. Barker in any of his lectures here Thursday was given much food for thought. Dr. Barker, in his addresses through- out the United States and Canada, is waging an uphill crusade against prudery, and a variety of ¢vils which have e¢fisted as a tesall of it for generations. These ills, which have been gnawing at the very roots of civilization, have flourished like the TA TA RA RO pe gt ) OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1922 lived in was shown to be all wrong by this vigorous champion of im- parting knowledge to comlat the evils resulting from ignorance of sex. The Rotary Club desired to be of service in bringing Dr. Barker here, And they achieved their pur- pose. Few people in Oshawa have ever heard such plain-speaking as indulged in by Dr. Barker, Such straight-from-the-shoulder lectures should have a most beneficial influ- ence on everyone who heard them, It is safe to say that cvery parent who heard him went liome with a new idea of his or her responsibility to the young people, The people of Oshawa have reason to be deeply grateful to the Rotar- ians for making it possible for them to hear this international authority on such vital subjects, EDITORIAL COMMENT The request of the executive of the Board of Trade and of the Town Council to the Dominion Government that the development of Oshawa harbor, stopped during the war, should be continued, is one which will have the suport of all people having the interests of the town at heart, The longer this work is de- ferred the more the present pier and buildings will decay and fall into disrepair. The circulation of books from the library is increasing, and this is at- tributed to the fact that several new volumes have been placed on the shelves in recent months, The pub- lic are not slow to show their ap- preciation of the library being ex- tended, and this should encourage the Board to further efforts along this line. The Mother of Parliaments man- things than world polities and the Irish situation. Just now it has be- fore it the recommendations of a committee favoring placing a check on the performance of so-called trained animals, particularly tigers and big apes. That is a step which might well be followed by parliaments elsewhere. Garis' Bedtime Stories paper Syndicate (By Howard, R, Garis) "Is there anything you want me ed Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy one day as she gave Uncle Wiggily his break- fast in the hollow stump bungalow. "Oh, are you going out?" asked the bunny gentleman. "Just to call on Mrs. Twistytail, the pig lady," was the answer, "But UH return before lunch. I suppose you'll go out looking for an adven- ture?" "Yes," said Mr. Longears. 14 { think I sha!l, That is, unless one comes to the bungalow here," And that is just what happened, Listen and I'll tell you all about it, Uncle Wiggily finished his break- fast and then began to get ready to dress to go out adventuring. He wag | putting on a pair of socks on account {of having gotten his feet wet earlier | chat morning by shoveling a little ate snow off the walk, when he hap- pened to notice that one of his socks had a hole in, "Oh my goodness me sukes alive and a darning needle!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "It would never do to go out with a hole in my sock. I must mend it. Let me see, how does Nurse Jane mend socks?" Then he happened to think that his muskrat lady housekeeper had a thing she called a "sock mender" It was shaped like a lemon with a handle on, only it was made wood. This mender went down side the sock and then, with neeile and yarn, Nurse Jane mended the hole. "I must find Nurse Jane's sock mender," said Uncle Wiggily wheh he had managed to pick-up a reedla and thread out of the muskrat lady housekeeper's sewing basket. the sock mender--the thing iike lemon with a handle--cou'1 rot he found. | "Let me | gily to himself Wig- Uncle g else, said "Anything see," ages to give some. thought to other shaped like a lemon, will be just as | | good. Ha! I have it! An egg, only there isn't any handle to an egg. But | | {I'll put an egg inside my sock and then I can stretch the hole over the round part and put in the stitche:." | There were eggs in the hollow lions, {stump bungalow, and Uncle Wiggily | ' soon slipped one inside his sock at the place where the hole needed | mending. Gethering the sock, with | the egg inside, up in his paw, Un- from each hen. The right management will get 1,000 eggs The right management will get 1,000 cents from each $7.00. The green bay tree, due to the mock modesty of the majority of people. Dr. Barker did not mince words. He did not speak in half truths. He tore away the film 'which many of | his hearers have allowed to come | before their eyes, so that they have | not realized the dangers surround- ing the young people. This false { security, which many parents have | | London Life Insurance Company "Policies Godd as Gold" HEAD OFFICES LONDON, CANADA Agencies in all principal cities H. L. RUTHIG, Dist. Representative, 22'; Simcoe St. i E-------------------------------------- EN T slow agonies of s money, enable the Sav with death stuiking thei Hundreds of thousands starvation and negleci; Will you give something yet it means the life of child for 2 month. Save the Children Fund Hon. President: HON. W. L. MACKENZIE KING, CMG. RT. HON. ARTHUR MEIGHEN . The Toll of Death in Russia MILLION CHILDREN in Russia are doomed to die in the tarvation unless the people of Canada awaken in their generosity, and by gifts of food and the Children © Fund to prevent this horror. The famine in the Volga region is the most appalling in recorded history. Whole populations are exterminated. Children ~--fatherless and motherless, homeless, wander r steps- the highways and byways until they creep into some abandoned hovel to die. have died from but millions can be saved if food is dispatched at once. ? Will you save a helpless child from starving to death? What you do give means little to you-- a child! 25¢ will feed a child for a weck. $1.00 will ensure sufficient food for one $500 will establish a kitchen and feed 100 children until the next harvest. Chegues and Money Orders may be forwarded through your Bank or local Commilice or send direct do SirGeorge Burn, Treas., Save the Children Fund, Elgin Bldg. Otiaws OSHAWA LOCAL COMMITTEE Chairman, His Worship Mayor Johu Stacey. Secretary, Rev. Gee. Yule. Treasurer, C. N. Hon. Vice-Presidents: on Two boys brought to the Relief Slalion in Saratoff HON. T. A.CRERAR HON. RODOLPEE LEMIEUX Heury, Dominion Bank. | Copyright, 1921, by McClure News. to do for you before I go out?" ask-! of | in- | But | 'Stuff a| & - cle Wiggily started to take the first stitch, but all' of a sudden some- thing went "Crack." "Oh, my good land! [I've broken (the egg!" cried the bunny gentle- man. "I squeezed it too hard, think- [ing it was Nurse Jane's wooden mender! Oh, dear'! | Well might he say that, for the white and yellow of the egg was run- 'ning out of the sock like' molasses. | "That's bad luck," thought the | bunny. "But I can wash that sock, 'and while it is drying I'll get an | other egg, and mend the hole in my | other sock." He had discovered a hole in each one. Uncle Wiggily took the broken | egg shell out of the one sock, and washed away the sticky white and yellow. Then he hung this s6ck up to dry, and, getting another egg, ha slipped that into the second sock "I'll be careful not to squeeze | this too hard," said the bunny gen-| tleman. He was just taking the first | stitch to mend the hole when the | door of his bungalow opened and | some one came in. "Hello, Nurse Jane!" called the bunny. "Come and see me mend a hole in my sock'! "This isn't Nurse Jane!" cried a voice with a sort of mewing sound. | "I'm the had Wildcat after your | ears!" and in popped a lynx, or wild 'cat, eager to nibble Uncle Wiggily's |ears. "I don't care whether you {mend any holes in your socks or {not!"" snarled the lynx. "Oh, but I care," said th bun- ny. "And really IT think I am quite | {clever to use an egg for a sock men- | der. Here, I'll show you, as you] might want to do the same day." The bunny got up |ehair and walked over, with the in the sock, close to the bad cla and nonsense! I wear socks!" howled the want ears!" some his | from r Neve lynx ig? 1 using is "The only thing about eggs," went on Uncle Wigeily, | that they hreak so easily--Ilike thi | DAYS | TO With that he ralsed up the sock and brought the egg that was in- sido it smack down on the nose of the Wildeat. The egg broke, . and the white and yellow ran all over the face of the bad chap! "Oh, what has happened! The roof must have fallen on rie!" howl- ed the lynx, so frightened that his tail wobbled. And then, all white and yellow as he was, away he .ran, not hurting the bunny at all, "Two eggs broken, but my earn are safe!* said the rabbit uncle, he washed the second sock. "I gue I'll wait for Nurse Jane to do this mending." So the muskrat lady did. But if the ice cream doesn't catch cold by going skating with the bag of salt in the spoon holder, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wig- glly and the sugar cookies. ---- Burglaries N these days when house robberies, hold. ups and petty thefts are so numerous, a Safety Deposit Box is the safest place for Bonds and other valuable Securities, Jewelry, Silverware, etc. Avoid risk of loss by renting one of our Safety Deposit Boxes. Rentals moderate. DOMINION BANK - OSHAWA BRANCH, CEDAR DALE BRANCH, BROOKLIN BRANCH, . C. N. HENRY, Manager. H. SHEPPARD, Manager. F. C. CROSS, Manager. EE a, 'w. aa wo Oshawa HAVE YOl Alpine or Rock Garden? By 'Hock Garden" 18 meant a Rockery In this direction used These Alpine he popular here and are cheap to construct. in ye thility intere BOX W, with You I am engaged in tree pruning evenings at liberty. EVER THOUGHT ; turning an odd corner or bank of your garden into a delightful with stonework placed in natural strata formation, and not the unsightly mound of soil and stone so often formed and termed a 00 different varieties of flowers and shrubs may Gardens are most popular in England, and there is nothing in Canadian climate to prevent them becoming equally They require little attention, no expensive upkeep, Now is the time for building them, and if you are interested in this class of work and have a corner ir garden available, and would like free advice as to suit- of position and probable ting gardens, or other garden matters, write REFORMER and 1 will be glad to make an appointment to discuss the matter Gardens of the opportunity there is for scientifieally arranged structure cost of erecting one of these on a local estate, but have the JOHN A. WEALL (of Derby, England) | | | | | Er Under the most trying conditions men always choose KING GEORGE'S NAVY CHEWING. 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