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_PAGE TWO - OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1922 The Ontario Reformer (Established in 1871) A independent DOWARMDST published every other day {Tiesddy, Thursday and Saturday afternoons) at Osh- awa, Canada, by The Reformer Printing and Publish- ng Company Limited, J. ©. Rosé J, Ewart MacKay Geo, A, Martin SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by Carrier In Oshawa or by mail anywhere in Canada $3.00 a year. United States subscription $1.50 extra to cover postage, Single copies. 5c, President Treasurer Editor OSHAWA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1922 === ey OUR ANNUAL ASH HEAP Some few years ago a prominent American gifted with vision and a desire to conserve the wealth of his. ebuntry, commenced to send out appeals to the public to prevent fire waste, For years his well-meant efforts went for naught. His articles dealing with fire waste and the con- sequent economic drain on the wealth of the nation went unheeded, Editors promptly threw them into the waste paper basket. Legislators, Fire Chiefs and others having to do with the conservation of the nation's resources turned deaf ears to his appeals, Finally, one day an editor in a New England town read every one of his appeals and decided it was good *'copy." He printed it in his paper and backed it up with editorial comment. Others did likewise, and then in an increditably short space of time, the whole country enthused with the idea of eliminating fire waste, To-day the widest possible publicity is given to every effort to stamp out fire waste, although there is still an immense annual loss due to carelessness and indifference, A young country like Canada eannot afford to waste her wealth by means of the Fire Fiend. lessening our loss from fire should be taken. DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND COMPLEX COAL SITUATION Although the anthracite coal strike is settled, and the miners have been back at work for more than two weeks, the average consumer, to use a slang ex- Of only one thing is he certain, and that is that he has to have coal But whether he should pay $20 a ton now, if he can get fuel at that price, or whether he should try and hold out for a couple of months by the use of substitutes, in the hope of getting coal for $16 or $17 a ton, he hardly This is not surprising in view of the econ- flicting statements which daily come over the wives, » pression, is still "up in the air.' before many more weeks elapse. knows. first from one source and then from another. The Mail and Empire, Toronto, carried a New [ork despatch yesterday, which would indicate that the Coal Commissions which are supposed to be fix- ing the prices of coal in the hard coal States are not succeeding. This despatch stated that although pro- | duction costs on domestic sizes of anthracite ave approximately 35 cents a ton less than before the strike, "company " operators ave charging slightly more than they did previously, while the ** independ. ents' have raised their prices to a point from $125 to $5 above the prices of last winter, depending on how big a premium they can secure. It is further stated that whereas the companies claimed production last week was only 65 per cent. of mormal, reports from the mines show the daily average for the last five days of the week was 12 per cent. higher than the daily average for September, 1921. Various operators have stated, too, that the public has a perfect right to recoup them, by in- creased prives, for the losses they sustained because of the strike. Henry Ford also gave an interview, which ap- peared in yesterday 's papers, in which he stated that he bought all the coal he needed at $3.50 a ton, and that he could have bought it at $2.50 a ton had he signed a year's contract. "Buy as little coal as possible now because coal prices ave tumbling" is the advice of the richest man in the world. Ten days ago Ford told an interviewer that the money trust was vespomsible for the coal strike, and that the strike was a conspiracy to keep the price up by keep- ing production down. Now it has transpived that the Harriman National Bank of New York and the Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis each loaned the United Mine Workers and its officers $100,000 to help carry on the strike. While this is not sufficien evidence to say that a money trust was vesponsible . for starting the strike, it shows financiers were not averse to ing to continue the tie-up. Perhaps Ford was right in placing the responsibility at the door of the money trust. If he was right them, it is more than probable that he knows what he is talking about when he declaves ©0al prices will tumble before the winter is over. During a court case at Montreal last week it was #tated that the drug evil in Canada was growing rapidly, and that most of the drugs being smuggled into the country weve coming from (iermany. The League of Nations has secured approval by its mem- Germany is not a member of the League, and is | therefore without the law sponsored hy the associa- gion of nathons. X . We have an immense debt piled on top of us, yet we go on our way blithely burning from $25,000,000 to $40,000,000 worth of created wealth each year. Our per capita fire loss is between $4 and $5 per annum in contrast to a rate of 30¢ to 40¢ for a number of European countries. As at least 75% of fires are preventable, the above figures show the need of atten- tion in regard to fire prevention. It is a worth while work, and any steps that ean be taken towards ---- Dempsey had better discontinue exhibition bouts and get in some"hard training, Otherwise the world's heavyweight boxing crown will again rest on a colored man's head, There should be a day of mourning throughout Christian nations at the murderous Turks being per. mitted to return to Europe, Georges Carpentier ought to be able to write with much feeling a story entitled "The Fickleness of the Public.' BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY GOD IS GRACIOUS :--Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness,-- Nehemiah 9; 17, FROM OUR EXCHANGES THE SCREW TIGHTENS (Manchester Guardian) There is a process in private establishments which is known as ** pinching and seraping," never a very nice but often a very necessary sequel to extrava- gance, The economy of a nation is in some respects merely the economy of a household, written several million times larger, so that it is not very surprising to find pinching and scraping a fashionable national pursuit after the profusion of the war years. The process is clearly exhibited at Preston, which has just been informed by the revenue authorities that the processions in connection with the famous Guild Week must be regarded as an entertainment under the Finance Act of 1916, so that entertainment tax has to be paid on the sums received for letting win- dows which overlook the route of the processions. THE EDUCATED BENGALI (The Englishman, Calcutta) It has become increasingly patent in recent years that the University degree in India far from equip- ping the student with a career is becoming more and more with the increasing number of students, the 'door through which youths pass to a condition of discontented indolence from where they look back upon their long and arduous studies as s0 much time wasted. So the move that the Bengal government is making towards the encouragement of vocational training is one that will go a long way towards the easing of the somewhat acute conditions of unem- ployment that prevails among the educated Bengalis. CARRYING LIGHTS AT NIGHT (Woodstock Semtimel-Review) Michigan has adopted legislation making compul- sory the carrying of lights at night on all vehicles. With the development of fast motor traffic such a regulation seems wise and necessary. It should not be difficult to convinee anyone in charge of a horse- drawn vehicle of the wisdom of carrying a light at night for his own safety. WHAT ONE QUESTION DOES (Boston Transcript) By asking one question a man gives a woman. the right to ask questions for the rest of her life. IT WORKS, TOO (Houston Post) Beauty contests are schemes that emable many comely young women to unload all the housework upon mother. One traveling man to another in Thompson's restaurant : "What's the matter, Bill? You are only eating orackers and milk. Arve you on a diet?" "No, on commission.' -- The Havrisonion. "Why de fashions?' "We wouldn't dave make the kind of clothes we | | like to wear," answered Miss Cayenne. "'So we pay Paris a little extra for taking the blame." -- Wash- mglon Evening Star. A BIT OF VERSE TELL HIM NOW If with pleasure you ave viewing Any work a man is doing, If you like him or you love him, tell him now; Don't withhold your approbation Till the parson makes oration And he lies with snowy lilies oer his hrow, For no matter how you shout it He wont really cave about it; He won't know how many tear drops you have shed ; If you think some praise is due him Now's the time to slip it to him, ; For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead. we permit Paris to dictate our More than fame and move than money Is the comment kind and sunny, And the hearty, warm approval of a friend; For it gives to life a savor, . And it: makes him stronger, hraver, And it gives him heart and spirit to the end ; If he earns your praise, bestow it; | If wou dike him. let him know it; bers to prevent illicit trade in opium. Other Babit- | Let the words of true encouragement be said ; forming drugs might be included. Unfortunately, | Do not wait till life is over | And he's underneath the clover For he cannot vead his tombstone when he's dead. -- Selected. MONEY MARK ENGLAND IS EASIER Will Have Important Bearing on Money Matters Throughout World "In that Bngland is the most in- fluential country in the money mar- kets of the world today, the action of the Bank of England, the out- standing banking institution of that money mart, in reducing its dis- count rate from three and a half per cent, to three per cent,, will have an important bearing on money mat- ters throughout the world," stated a local bank manager to The Re: former, when questioned as to what reesults could he expected to follow in this country following the action of the "Old Lady of Thread Needle Street," This rate, which has been cut, the manager pointed out, is tho rate charged to banks which bor. row from the Bank of Mngland. In this way the cut is scen to affect more businesses than if it applied only to louns made to companies who deal with the world's premier hank- ing institution, 5 "It is a sign that the money mar- ket is not as tight as it formerly aro the principal hackers of colonial enterprises, such as the British Em- pire Steel Corporation and others, Canadians, along with other inhabi- tunty of dependencies of the United Kingdom, may also look for consid- orabla activity in the near future, When questioned as to whether or not this action of the Bank of Kng- lund would" have any effoct on such large local companies as the General Motors Corporation, with its exten- sive export trade, this Oshawa finan- cial man answered that that was hardly to ho looked for, He point- od out that while the export trade of this local concern is without a doubt large, etill all its financing is done on this side of the water and its prin- cipal money centre is New York in- stead of London, It was also mentioned in the course of the interview, that as money becomes easier to borrow in Englund, there is a correspondingly slight decrease in the rate of interest paid hy the banks to depositors, At the present time the rate is about two and a half per cent, per annum on all deposits, This recent reduction of the of- ficial minimum of the Bank of Eng- land furnished another of the peri- odical surprises which the bank has given the money market, It was an- ticipated a fow weeks back when the Federal Reserve Bank rate in the United States was lowered that the bank rate also would follow suit, but hope for this vanished with the tightening condition in the money was and shows that the purse strings of England are being loosened a lit tle," continued this Oshawa banker. He pointed out that while this ac- tion on the part of the English bank shows that money is easier in the English market, and consequently in the world's money market, it did not, however, imply that money condi tions in Germany, Austria or Russia are coming back to a state of norm- a state of chaos and their money hardly be described as international in their connection with the money rates in the rest of the world. Pre-war Business Returning The easing off of money conditions in England shows that pre-war bus- iness conditions are rapidly coming back and that one may look for an expansion im business in that country such as has not been seen for many years. But as many of the wealthy capitalists of the "Tight Little Isle" E------ alcy, as these countries are now in| questions at the present time can | market and the collapse of mark ex- change, as well as heavy borrowings by the Government from the Bank of | England, | | Saw Dead Rats in Rear of Store | | Residents of Oshawa, as well as showing consider- of good soap is A full-size, full-weight, solid bar "SURPRISE." Best for any and all household use. merchant stated that he had no oe- casion to use the preparation in his store as he had never detected any- thing signifying the presence of these pests, but he had used some of the bait in his cottage at Oshawa-on-the Lake and the bait had disappeared. Residents of the town were no canvassed by Mr. Urry but it is evi- dently the intention of many 'of them to do away with rats in their homes, if possible, as there has been quite a demand for barium carbhon- ate. Whether or not this prepams- | merchants, are able interest in the extermination of rats in this town While quite {2 aumber have purchased quantities of barium carbonate, the mineral jused by E. J. Urry, who conducted a campaign in Oshawa last week, and have baited their cellars with it, they are not prepared to make statements regarding the results. One mer- chant informed The Reformer yes. terday that he had seen several dead rats in the yard back of his and' thought it was probable these were victims of the bait, Another store | tion is better than the old style rat poison, local druggists are not pre- pared to state, However, not a few |are inclined to give it a trial. br. T. W. G. McKay, Medical Of- {ficer of Health, while not prepared to state whether or not the campaign {had been a not having fol {lowed it closely, declared that no permanent results would he obtained | if one resident destroyed the |in his cellar, if. another next door | was molested with the pests and {took no steps to destroy them | SUCCUSS, rats i : American Flags Brought Protest An incident occurred in connee- tion with the midway at the Oshawa fair, which illustrates the need that should taken when amusement companies from across the line vis- he it this country, to see that they show due respect for our National colors. In one of the largest 'tents about cighty per cent. of the flags used to decorate were Stars and Stripes, the Union Jacks being greatly in the minority. Mr. C. Adams, of the Navy League, who was on the grounds at the time, noting the flaunting of the American Flag to the almost total exclusion lof the Canadian or British Flag, spoke to the show manager, pro- {testing strongly at the lack of court- | esy and respect shown by the show- {men from across the line. A few | minutes later most of the American Rugs, particularly the larger ones, {had heen removed. 1 [MON T&L ich Cream for the millionaires table and for all who enjoy real thick cream richest people in Toronto--peopl Na---- the first to use Keepsweet Cream were some of the e who could afford to buy the finest, richest cream, regardless of price. For y --aC le only to the famous is of Old England. they've wanted a cream like Keepsweet so thick and rich and full-flavored that it Devonshire Cream And so they bought Keepsweet Table Cream and found it wonderful :-- It was a real coffee cream---- Delicious on cereals and puddings---- A treat with deep apple pie---- Glorious on sliced peaches---- And surprisingly cheap. A Great Success Soon the mews of Keepsweet Cream spread all over Toronto. Then to other cities and towns. In record-breaking time, there was a sweet Cream from the Atlantic to demand for Keep- the Pacific. Keep- | sweet is the cream everybody has wanted for years. Keepsweet evaporated densed. It is mot chemically treated. It hasn't any Devonshire- taste. t's simply delicious! Its Keepsweet is to have several cans of