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PAGE TWO OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1922 A Turkish Style Co The @utario Reforyyer (Bstablished in 1871) An independent newspaper published every other day (Tuesday, Thurdday and Saturday afternoons) at Osh. awa, Canada, 14 The Reformer Printing and Publish- fo Company Limited, "15.70. Rosa + . J. Ewart MacKay . Geo. A. Martin = + - . . + re SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by Carpler in Oshawa or by mall anywhere in Canada #800 & year, 'United States subscription $1.60 éxtra to cover postage, Single coples bec, President Treasurer Editor EC ---------------- OSHAWA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1922 CHANGING THE DATE OF THE MUNICIPAL pet *' ELECTIONS J As was to be expected, members of the Town Coun- cil interviewed by The Reformer as to the advis- ability of changing the date of the municipal elee- tions are not of one mind, A change of this kind, as proposed, upsetting as it would an established custom, is bound to he looked at differently by different people, ! : he Municipal Act, as amended at the last session of the Legislature, enables councils, by passing a by-law, to bring on the elections during the first week in December, Those councillors spoken to by The Reformer who are in favor of getting away from New Year's Day voting favor holding the election at a later date, probably about February 1. "There are several reasons why New Year's Day is not a good time to hold an election. Many people are out of town because of it being a holiday, while many more are participating in family gatherings and, unless there is some big issue, won't bother breaking up the festivities to go to the poll, Another reason, which The Reformer submits is more im- portant than these, is that with the great rush always existing around Christmas, insufficient attention is given to securing good eandidates to stand for public office, Storekeepers and their staffs are busy work- ing nights before Christmas; the rest of us are busy doing Yuletide shopping. The result is that the municipal election pot doesn't start to boil until after Christmas, and by that time the nominations are closed. The objections mentioned in the foregoing could be overcome just as well by holding the elections in February as December. The amended Act, however, provides for the advancing of the date, but it does not provide for postponing it. If, then, the majority of councillors believe the date should be changed, why ean they not get together and act under the Act as it now stands? It is true the town's financial statement would not be complete for the year. How- ever, it is not eomplete now, as it has to be compiled up until December 15, Why could it not be compiled up until November 15, so that the elections conld be held the first week in December ? PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE It would be well if some ways and means could be devised for impressing upon the boys and girls of, the 'teen age the importance of making the most of their time at school. In a very few years they will be face to face with the stern reality of life-- that of making a living. To a surprising extent their future suceess depends upon their present devotion to the duties of the day. Too often parents take but a passing interest in the edueation of their children. They fail to impress the growing boy or girl with the importance of a good 'mental training, an equipment that will stand the possessor in good stead when all else fails. This lack of interest is perhaps due to pressure of other duties and partly to the faet that we are not suffi- ciently alive to the importance and dignity of work. All work is honorable, and if approached in the proper spirit is a means to an end. But what strange patterns we weave and work into this patebwork quilt ealled life! What contrasting eolors we intro- duce! Here and there a dash of searlet passion, then brown doubt and pale green ennui. Most of ug, however, have to fall back on the dull drab of work to fill out the spaces, but thank God for it, beesinse work well done brings rewards unnumbered. Then let us tell our boys and girls to make the most of the fleeting years, to build strong and broad and deep the foundations upon whic they will rear their life's strueture. Let them build upon the things that last--charaeter, good moral prineiples, 2 good healthy body and a well-trained mind. In many respeets the action of the Federal Govern- ment in regard to the Turkish question demonstrates the truth of the claim that we live under a regime of publig opinion. 'The newspapers of 'the nation have said ""There must be no war without the ealling together of the people's representatives--they are the keepers of the mations."" Premier King and his Cabinet have aceepted this view. for the sleeping sickness. If he had only given it to the Kaiser early in 1914 it might have awakened that individual from his dream of world conquest. Premier King and Ex-Premier Meighen are earry- ing op 8 controversy about the Sevres Treaty. One says we ratified, the other says we didn't. 'Treaties Up Port Arthur way they are predicting a mild winter because the beaver are not building dams on the Whitefish river. Is the wish father to the thought beeause of the empty eoal bins? If the Turks' military movements will not Touse the French, probably their desire to regulate fashions will, mmission has placed the ban on short skirts, It is little 'wonder the drug evil is increasing in (Canada when a convicted wholesaler gets off in a Toronto court with a fine of $500 and costs or six months, plus six months, "Skating at Brock St. rink to-night" runs an advertisement in the Peterboro Examiner, Sounds reasonable these chilly mernings, too! be their political leanings, will go out to Hon, T. A, Crerar in the death of his nine-year-old daughter. Oshawa is the Flint of Canada, At the Belleville- Peterboro game on Wednesday there were between four and fivd hundred cars in the park. Battling Siki announces he trains on whiskey. United States as a battleground will hardly appeal to him, ; Williams, the Belleville pitcher, certainly had the 'Indian sign" on the Peterbogp players, BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY SAFETY OF THE PERFECT :--Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers,--Job 8: 20, HENRY FORD ON LABOR UNIONS (St, Thomas Times-Journal) Henry Ford has been expressing his opinion about labor unions. Here it is: "It makes me sorry when I read of the loyalty of these strikipg workmen to their unions. These simple men believe they have been organized for their own good by their own kind of men, but I tell you they have been organized by the agents of Wall Street and nobody else, Wall Btreet cannot handle hundreds of thousands of thinking individuals, so it went out and had them organized into unions. Wall Street ean handle the unions because it can and does handle the union leaders," A TIT FOR TAT (""Wadinnil,"' Arabic) H.M. Yacht '"Mahrussa" will convey to Europe a mission headed by Tewfik Nessim Pash charged with presenting to foreign rulers (including King George) the decorations conferred upon them by King Fuad in return for those bestowed upon His Majesty on the oceasion of his proclamation as King of Egypt. Newsboy (on railroad ear, to gentleman ocecu- pant) --"Buy Edgar Guest's latest work, sir?" Gentleman--"No! I am Edgar Guest himself." Newsboy --*' Well, buy 'Man in Lower Ten." You ain't Mary Roberts Rinehart, are you?' --Writer's Monthly. Old Man (browsing in book-store) --** 'Last Days of Pompeii'--what did he die of ?"' Bookseller --"Oh, I dunno--some sort of erup- tion.'" -- London Opinion. ' THE GALLANT PAUPERS Our taxes grind us down, wa say; Poverty knocks at every door; Such is the priee we vietors pay, Sueh is the '"'aftermath" of war. * (I often wish more people knew The meaning of an aftermath. Do you?) And yet how brave a face we wear Under the lingering eurse of Mars! Go where you will to take the air, The roads are stiff with bulging eary; Loud are the lanes with joyous gangs Doing a beano in their eharrybangs. Thousands eonceal their lack of pence Among the high-priced seats at Lord's; And myriads make a fine pretence Of solveney on Sandown's swards, Women, because their eash runs short, Going in rags--but of the gladsome sort. I seek accommodation at Hotels that flank the ocean's marge, Where no one save a plutoerat Could meet (you'd say) the tariff's charge; Here, though it break me, I apply For garret-space contiguous with the sky-- And I am told in every ease That my request is idle talk; That in the billiard-room a brace * Of strangers lie each side of bawlk; Others, embedded in the bath, Mock at the War's eongestive "" aftermath." Much I admire this folk 'That will not bow itd bloody head ; 1 like its nerve when stony broke, I lilh the courage, British-bred (God bless the playing-fields of Bton?), Which never, never knows when it is beaten. ~--0. 8, in Punch. THE LURE OF THE LONG DRIVE By Mr, How is it that every one of us longs to be a good driver, and how it is that all of us would like to be known as a 'long driver"? But let me say, that those who worship at the shrine of the long drive are courting a very fickle mistress. The desire to hit 'em a mile very often leads to disaster. Once let a long driver fail to get his shots away from the tee (and it often hap- pens with the best of them), the rest of his game: is literally torn to shreds. There isn't: a doubt but that long straight driving is of im- mense value, It sets you off on your jourmey with a light heart and exu- herant spirits and generally makes the rest of the game quite simple, awd keeps one trying and striving for every shot and generally results in. a good low score, and just the same no long putt from the edge of the green, no sweetly played mashie shot dead to the pin, no well hit midiron that nicely reaches the green, can ever give one the thrill, that a well hit tee shot, far and ghire, straight down the middle, can do. "Oh boy, you leaned on that one" is sweet music to your ears, fsn"t it? Nothing thrills you more than to he hitting them sweet and clean from the tee; nothing depres- ses or worries you more than to be persistently missing them; and it looks so confoundedly easy to hil the blooming thing, sitting there on | the tee looking up at you. It is | therefore eaey to understand, that every golfer wants to drive well; that most of us want to excel in 'long driving" and this latter ambi- tion is lavgely accountable for so many lamentable failures. We had the pleasure of seeing the mighty Abe Mitchell, sald to be the longest driver in the world, playing with George Duncan against our old friend Geo. 8. Lyon and C. M. Jones, | Mitchell was hitting 'em a mile Dun- | can impressed me as being the better | driver of the two as he was invari- ably straight down the middle and was never more than a few yards behind Mitchell with the exception of the drives from the 12th tee, when Duncan played short of the] creek, then turned and sald "Go for the green Abe" and Mitchell slam- | med into it and drove his hall, not far short of the green. It certainly was a lusty wallop and must have been around 300 yards. It certain- ly thrilled the gallery, to see four such lusty hitters as Mitchell, Dun- can, Lyon and Jones, getting away from tee after tee, such beautiful long straight balls, anywhere from 260 to 300 yards, and yet we have had the pleasure of seeing on our own home course, just as lusty hit- ters as any of them. We had here for a couple of years as our profes- sional Dick Holden, now of Winni- peg, whom Ralph Reville, editor of "Canadian Golfer," says is probably the longest hitting professional in €anada, and I have no doubt he is right, having played quite a lot Robert Henderson, at Scarboro last year, and although | Pleasure in presenting. you with this with Holden while he was here, and af £Y) CY seen him drive some vary long balls, But I'll say this, of all the long driv- ers we ever had on our course, Ly- on, Jones, Holden, and many others, there isn't one could come anywhere near Bob Abbott, of Peterboro., Some of the drives he made on our course wera simply phenomenal. Just fan- cy anyone driving the "Willows; also on the 9th tee, Instead of tak- ing the dog leg route, he drove right over the tall willow trees onto the edge of the green (the green is 800 yards from the tee) and playing the "Plateau" hole he drove past the edge of the green, This hole mea- sures 350 yards, Some drive boys! Now all you would-be "long driv- ers," get out and hit a few sweet ones, for there is a mark or two to shoot at. But don't neglect your putting, Charles Sellock THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE is authorized by the Minister of Finance to exchange free of charge Victory Loan Bonds maturing December 1, 1922 for the new 5 and 10 year Dominion of Canada Bonds, bearing interest at 575%. Bonds should be presented at any branch of this Bank on or before September -30, Presented With Pipe" Mr. Charles S8ellock, 307 Mary Street, was given a surprise party Monday evening by members of Queen 'Mary Lodge No. 97 L.O.B.A., it being the occasion of his hirth- day. A delightful evening was en- joyed in music and games, which were followed by the serving of re- freshments, During the evening Mr, Sellock was presented with a hand- some pipe as a token of best wishes. The gift was accompanied by the following address: Dear Mr. Sellock: We are gathered here this evening on the occasion 'of your birthday and we take this oppor- tunity of wishing you the compli- ments of the day and hope you will enjoy many more. We have much pipe on behalf of the lodge and we thank you for the many things you have done for it. We wish you prosperity and happiness in the days | to come. | Signed Mrs. Simpson, McEvers. Mrs. Ogden, Mrs. | The real fisherman's paradise is | a place where they've crossed the | mosquito with the fish, insufing al bite evedy minute! --Life. | Save Your Coal Lay in a supply of Cord Wood Coal will be scarce this winter. All kinds of dry wood. R. C. Henry & Co. PHONE 931 Yard. 871 Office | Oshawa Cash Grocery 41 N. Simcoe St. : Phone 1199 St. Lawrence Sugar 14 lbs. $1.00 While present stock lasts Keepsweet Cream 15¢ and 25c¢ tin St. Charles or Carnation Milk 8c and 17¢c tin . Reindeer Cocoa or Coffee 30c tin Magic Baking Powder 16¢c and 32c tin Sunflower Salmon 3 Ib. tin 12¢ Thermokept or Chase & Sanborn Coffee 60c Ib. Corn Starch 10¢ pkg. DENTYNE CHEWING GUM Dhitens the Yeeth Or such high quality that it has a definite place in dental and medical practice Campbell's Soups 15¢ tin i Reformer"! Want §Adsi Pay ¢