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PAGE TWO ns ------ OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1922 The Ontario Reformer (Established In 1871) An independent newspaper pub- dished every :other day (Tuesday, 'Thursday and Saturday afternoons) sat Oshawa, Canada, by The Reformer Printing and Publishing Company Limited, Charles M, Mundy, Presi- dent, Managing Director and Treas- urer; A. R, Alloway, Assistant Man- ager, GRO, A, MARTIN =~ - gditor SUBSORIPTION RATES: "Delivered 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 6c, OSHAWA, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1923] WILL BECK QUIT? "Philip Pocock; of f London, Ont., "| prominent hydgo electric -chieftain | of Western Ontario, is quoted as ex- pressing the opinion that "Sir Adam | Beck may throw up the sponge" as head of the Provincial Hydro Com- | mission. Mr. Pocock bases his opin-| ion on the belief that Sir Adam has about reached the limit of human endurance, ! It is more than likely that Pocock is correct in his interpreta- tion of Sir Adam's desires. The! abuse, and earping criticism which | the Hydro knight has had to face for years, intensified smece the ad- | vent of the Drury Government power, and the almost insurmoun: able obstacles which have heen| to] placed in the way of the people's en-| heads, | to| Sir Adam than enough terprises which have been more | have made weaker men quit long ago. | Sir Adam is a fighter. As a servant who has devoted his life to the public weal, often at great personal sacri- fices, Sir with private corporations. In the past he has won these fights because | of the confidence the public placed | in him, and because he was given the| support of the Governments of the| day, although frequently not without | hard fights in the Cabinet room. Since Mr. Drury formed a Govern- ment Sir Adam has not only had to fight the private ownership foe from without, who was bent on torpedo- ing the great hydro enterprises, and | the people's con-| in underminipg fidence in the movement and its chief, but he has had to also with- stand attacks from what should have been the house of friends-- the Government whose servant he is. That rid of Adam Becly/ as chairman of the Commission has been long evi- dent. to shake the confidence the public] has in Sir Adam by publicly attack- fng the commission chairman? Em- ployers in private life, if they be lieve an employee incapable, wreckless or dishonest, dismiss him. They don't shout from the house- tops that the employee is no good and retain him in the same job. Why hasn't Premier Drury the cour age of his convictions? Why doesn't he adopt the same policy as private mployers and dismiss Sir Adam, the man he has several times erit- icized? is The only apparent reason is that And | he desires to further heap, and have | Mr. Drury is playing politics. heaped, criticism, and abuse upon Sir Adam's head in the hope that ere long public comfidence in the Hydro knight will shaken to enable him to remove Sir Adam, without endangering his po- litical ambitions; will voluntarily quit. If Mr. Drury removed Bir Adam now, he is fairly sure of a real fight in the country, in which the hydro forces would unite against him. There doubt that Mr. Drury and his pro- pagandists have made headway in their campaign to destroy the in- fluence of Sir Adam. Rather than quit now, however, Sir Adam should | stick to the Commission Chairman-| ship, thus forcing Mr. Drury either to remove him or wait aatil the next election comes around, which at the § latest will be mext year. It is safe to assert that at the next election there "will be amother political up- heaval in the province. Until Sir Adam sees how things shape up after that fight he owes it to the people, whose trustee he has been!' for a score of years. to stick to the Hydro ship. EDITORIAL COMMENT If you visit Toronto be a window | shopper, but spend your money in| Oshawa. 1f Oshawa is good enough to fo. isn't it good eancugh your money in? live | t | rash man has enough to fell his fancee "the worst" about himself, she goes through life suspecting all the rest. After a been The report of the tar and feath-/ ering episode at Orangeville con- cluded with the statement that no] prosecution was likely to be launch- | ed. Such incidents savor of Sonth- | ern States mob law and Hon. Mr. Raney should see that the Crown At-| torney for that county, does prose- | cute the ringleaders of the tar and feather brigade . [ea him was a mingle of admiration | Bei Adam has had stiff fights, Mr. Drury would like to be| Otherwise why would he try| be sufficiently or that Sir Adam; to spend | & 'The Week at the Cc apital | + BY TAN DUNELM, (Special Corvespifhdent of The Re- + former) Ottawa May 26, Confronted with the necessity of offering an intelli- gent review of the Budget as it ap- pears from their political point of view, the members of the House are back after a two-day holiday, andd some of them spent most of the day "epamming" on Hansard to try and get a clear view of what Mr, Field ing has dome, The "little grey Nova Sedtian" brought down a budget numerically repleto with change. After eleven years he eame hefore the House to tell a much differerent story to the | Inst one he told in his Budget speech. Then it was a tale of abounding pros- perity, of increasing revenue to such an extent that the increasing ex- penditures were inconsequential. This year it was a story of increased {expenditures far in advance of the revenues available to meet the bills; Mr, Fielding showed no spirit of | jubilation as-he came into the House, with his little black basket full of {papers.. Tha applause which gredt- and sympathy. And for a time it seemed that the load he was carrying had added years to his age and certainly it had added quavers to his voice, Now and again, as he held up a paper to quote figures on this or that, the hand trembled and there was a tremble also in his volce, faint at times which indicated the strain under which he had labored for weeks past |, as he prepared his hudget changes, § | SS y Economy was hig opening theme; | economy in public life and expendi- ture as well as privately, Govern- ments should not be urged to spend money now, he argued, no. matter how urgent the need of public works |! might appear to the people at home, Taxation must be increased in the effort to make both ends meet--and in a short time the Finance Minister told of the increase in the Sales Fax of 50 per cent by which he hoped to secure the extra revenue, The in- crease in the Sales Tax wag one of the features of the Budget for at wipes out mopt of the decreases which Mr. Fielding announced. It will be objected to, of course, but the fact remains that the Sales Tax has been (Continned on puge L BEGIN AUTO SUPPLY | "C0. FORMED HERE | Take Over Exide Battery Service Station--Handle All Lines of Supplies An important business transfer has { been consummated in Oshawa, where- by the Universal Battery Company, | Limited, operating the Exide Battery | Service Station on Bruce Street, has been taken over by the Begin Auto | Supply Company, Limited, the com | pany's personnel comprising a num !ber of prominent Oshawa business (and professional men. The moving spirit in the {tion of the new company is Mr forma- D. R. Sons of England | had never failed, it kept good time, | it never required repairs, -it had iu the past been man's good old servant and man should leave it alone, | Purpose for Every Man in closing the speaker pgidtea out that God had a purpose for every | individual in life, and the man who did not realize this truth would nev-| CONSIDERING-- Mr. Music Lover--That Edison Phonographs, Aeolion Voca- Flalnmend LINO ( TO NIGHT NG 'Creator cf the Famous "Four lions, Columbia Grafonolas are one-priced instruments, what inducement is there for you to buy outside of Oshawa when there is nothing to be gained. When you buy in Oshawa you boost Oshawa. When you buy from our store you get service also. We handle nothing that we cannot stand behind, and firmly believe that good goods and service are important items in our business. We give a gentleman's terms to respon- sible people on Pianos, Phonographs and Sewing Machines. VAUDEVILLE AND PHOTOPLAYS A po------ REX INGRAM, Hcrsemen," Presents "TurntotheRight" FEATERING ALICE TERRY POLITE VAUDEVILLE BILLY THOMAS The Yodling Contortionist Newsboy Extraordinary PATTY MACK REGENT ORCHESTRA LATEST NEWS AND COMEDY COMING WED. & THURS, Lionel Barrymore in "Boomerang Bill " WITH VAUDEVILLE STALTER'S MUSIC STORE Phone 482 23 Simcoe St. N. er accomplish anything. He urged his hearers to think, talk and act suc- cess and believe in God, God had | His purpose for the Sons of ¥ng- land Society and would add to its members and increase its influence | for good in the community and tue world. We favor the open shop that iy | closed to the slave-driver.--New | Begin, who over a year ago, when {the Universal Battery Company, of | Hamilton, decided fo locate a branch | in Oshawa to give a better servic patrons in Eastern Ontario, here to manage the branch. Sin that time there has been a rapid and | steady expansion of the business, | with' the result thac recently ing possibilities of tol still further ex- panison in the wide territory served, | and was | { Mr. Begin took steps to {largely instrumental in | the new company. The Begin Lid. is today the only wholesale {supply house between Toronto | Kingston, a territory a noith as Peterboro and Lindsay, latter ces, included in addition to handling exclusively { the wail known Exide Battery in this jextensive and promising battery used in the cguipment of | McLaughlin cars, will handle jof auto supplies, so that it will not bt negessary for garage men and do {ers to send to Toronto for parts et company contemplates other n organizing far the serving policies in connection with their busi- | ness that will make their establi {ment one of the best between Toro: {to and Montreal Wouldn't Tell Who Supplied Liquor; Gets Extra Term | After spending a second night in| the Oshawa lock-up William Osko- bernik changed his mind and pleaded | guilty to being intoxicated on a pub- | lic street early Monday morning but | it was not sufficient to refresh has | memory to such an extent that Mag- | tistrate Hind was at all satisfied with | ithe story which he told in Police Court this mcruning. Besides being | given the minimum penalty, a fine | of $10 and costs or thirty. days in| Whitby jail. a further two montas | for not disclosing the name ® the | man from whom he obtained the lig- | (wor was infiicted The two moniars term will commence at the expiration of the thirty days, Oskobernik de ciding not to pay the fine for into ication. , forsee | Auto Supply Company, auto | The company, ! terrmtory, a | all | all lines} (© RAND)| | The best Obtainable Saturday Mutt & Jeff Comedy The Vacuum Cleaner FOX NEWS-- TOPICS OF THE PAY William Fox / ¢ LY SHIRL! MASON mn, The lamp- 4 iphier BY MARIA SUSANNA cummins \ DIRECTED BY \ HOWARD M MITCHELL. 4) Thursday, Friday, and | JEW MARTI - THEATRE - E. MARKS Lessee A Jazzy Syncopation High-tone Adventure, Starning GLADYS COMEDY BRAY PICTOGRAPH NEWS VAUDEVILLE MAYO AND GLENN Harmony Singing and Dancing "Playing With Fire" B.C. FURLONG or Myself, Fellows" "1 " 'I'm proud of you, Frank! It shows you are manly "and independent, and not afraid of work.' GOT a job delivering parcels after school, and paid for the bicycle myself. It was lots of fun, too. My father was tickled to death. He said: "He told me many big business men had got their start delivering parcels or telegrams or newspapers. Lots of them used bicycles, too." "Gee! "So you can, Jerry. There are always lots of Jobs for Boys at the number of factories and offices senger boys with bicycles. And the drugeists and coafectioners, and fruit stores and hardwares, and grocers and heaps of other stores that want boys with bicycles to do light delivering. "Why, Jerry, there are 'Want Ads' in the paper most every day for boys with bicycles. I wish I could earn a bike, too, Frank." with Bicycles "Well, you fellows sure are away behind the times. "Look that need mcs "Why, the Triplex is a three-piece hanger, made as accurately as a watch. "It gives you power to burn. It makes your bike run so smoothly and easily you'd almost think you were riding down grade. ell, so long, boys. I have to breeze along. Any C. C. M. dealer will tell you all about the Tri- plex Hanger, the sparkling nickelling and glisten- ing enameliing, the new Hercules Brake, and lots of other features of C. C. M. Bicycles. "Yes, and ask him about the C. C. M. 18-inch, Curved Bar Model -- thc bike a boy won't outgrow. It's equally good for a lad of nine or a youth of twenty." C-CM: Bicycles COLUMBIA--RED BIRD--PERFECT . MASSEY--CLEVELAND "The Bicycles |With The C.C.M. Triplex Hanger" Canada Cycle & Motor Company, Limited Montreal, Toronto, WESTON, ONT., Winnipeg, Vancouver "You go and get a job, and then hike down to the C. C. M. dealer's. He will likely let you have a bike by paying so much a week or month. "Boys are paid preity high wages now, and it. won't take you long to pay for it. "Gee! You fellows don't know what you're missing, doing without a bike. And specially this onc with the Triplex Crank Hanger." "What's the Triplex, Frank?" of Floppen Love and WALTON SERVICE wm. The Bicycle season is here definitely. Remember we have the most up-to-date and complete workshop in town for Bicycle Repairs, and our mechanies are here to give you service and a job we guarantee. , OSHAWA AGENTS FOR CLEVELAND AND RED BIRD BICYCLES Dingman & Mason 8 CHURCH ST. PHONE 930W