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'TrE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937 FAGE THREE The Whitby Daily Times Advertling, subscriptions and news will be veceived at the Whitly Branch Office at Gasette and Chronicle.~Telephone 23. After A. Hours Phone 358. REPRESENTATIVE--JAMES H. ORMISTON COMEDY GIVEN BY LOGAL TALENT Evening Branch of W. A. Scored Hit at All Saints "The Oxford Affair," was the title of a sparkling comedy in three acts presented in All Saints' Parish Hall on 'Tuesday evening under the au- spices of the Evening Branch of the Wa. The Hall for oh occasion was well filled, and the rector, Rev. E. Ralph Adye, presided, The comedy provoked an abundance of laughter as its intricate plot was laid bare The cast of characters was as fol lows: Mrs, Jack Oxtord--who enjoys her- self in spite of obstacles--Mrs, Jack Toms, Miss Margaret Oxford -- Who is nearly distracted by her duties as cliaperone-=Miss Dorothy Age. . Dorothy Howe == Mrs. Clarence Rice and Phylis Ashton--Mrs, Jack Sawdon=who are enough to distract any shaperone. tiss Sophronia Price--who aspires to Shakespeare--Miss Minnie Hyde, Ellen--who thinks her mistress is elligently fashionable --= Miss Floe Stoneman. Cary--who enjoys a bit of gossip= 'Mrs. Glass. Mrs, Zachariah Barnstable -- who thinks she is a fine lady and uses big words misplaced--=Mrs, F. G. Erskine. In addition to the comedy, there was a musical programme, including the following numbers: Musical sclec- tions by 'T. Henstock and C, Gréen- field; vocal solo, Mrs, C, Trueman; vocal solo, Leonard Richivocal solo, Mrs, Arthur Lynde. These artists and those taking part in the comedy were served with lunch at the close. SPLENDID DANCE BY HOCKEY CLUB Social Event in Town Hall Tuesday to Help Juniors The Town Hall was the scene of a merry gathering on Tuesday evens ing the occasion "beilng the dance under the auspices of the junior hoe- key club, 'The attendance was far from being what it should have been, as the jumors, all local boys, are wor. thy of support. Those who attended, however, enjoyed a most pleasant so- cial evening, ith Clarke's orchestra of Whitby discoursing the music, the dance pro: gramme left nothing to be desired, They are great musicians, these local boys, and with James Rainie at the piano they have wonderful support. All the popular dancing hits of the day were in the programme and those sitting around the benches were casily tempted to embark carly and often upon the dancing floor. Towards midnight a dainty lunch was served with sandwiches, cake and coffee in abundance, The gathering broke up shortly afterwards, Manager I. J. King and his come mittee are deserving of much credit for the work they did to get this dance up, In Memoriam VANCOTT---=In loving memory of Leon VanCott, who departed this life, Feb. 18, 1027, Dearest Leon, thou didst leave us. And thy loss wo deeply feel, It is the Lord who didst bereave us, Of the one we loved so well, Sadly missed by mother, sisters, and brothers, (41a) Coming Events MADAME NEVADA, PALMIST, Ross' Corners. Phone Home till Wednesday, (d0¢) SPECIAL LATE DANCE TO night, Snooker Dance Hall, cor- ner Brock and Division, from § till 2. Admission 30e. Melody Boys' Orchestra, (41a) DANCING THURSDAY NIGHT, Snooker Dance Hall, corner Brock and Diviglon, Melody Boys" Orchestra, (41b) WOMEN'S DAY OF PRAYER ON Friday, Feb, 20th, at 3 p.m, in First Baptist Church, King St, (41D) ROUND AND SQUARE DANCE, St. George's Hall, Albert St, Thursday and Saturday, Admis- slon 25¢. Good orchestra, 2804. |, Oshawa - 20 Years Ago | [News of Interest tinthered from i Old Files of "Ontario | i i | ! Reformer" Week of Friday, Feb, 17, 1011 An enthusiastic meeting of the South Ontario Reform Asoclation was held in Whitby last Saturday. Wm. Purvis was elected ay prosi- dent, if| Le i At a meeting of the Oshawa Board of Trade, on Wednesday, dolegates were appointed to attend the annual banquet of the Ontarlo Boards of Trade to be held In Toronto. Tho local deputation will include Col. Grierson, James Proven, FP. Bull, Geo. W. Me- Laughlin and M, F, Smith, The death occurred recontly at 21 King street west, of Sarah Dun- dag, relict of the late John Smith, in her 81st year, The late Mra. Smith had resided hero since 1850. ------ Mensrs, Jockson and McCutcheon have practically made a new thea- tre out of thy Crystal Amusement House, FIRST AERIAL GEODETIC OPERATIONS So far as is known, the first ap- plication of aerial methods to geodetic operations in any coun- try was carried out in Canada by an officer of the Goodetlc Survey 1 of Canada, Department of the Ine terfor, in 1921, in which year the reconnaissance for a net of tri. angulation some 200 miles long was made by aeroplans In the mountainous district eastward from Vancouver, British Columbia, the results being checked by ground visits to all stations, It was not until 1929, however, that this method was applied to less rugged country, COACH or BUSINESS COUPL, 1. O. 8. Windsor, duty only paid performance of any ardless of price. It introduces Super-Six smoothness to the lowest price class. It looks like a far more expensive car, It is bigger, wider and roomier than many cars that sell for hundreds of dollars more. It is the Value Sensation in a year of sensational values, It challenges the six, r and you get RARE ESSEX The Ll IT ROSS, AMES & GARTSHORE CO., LTD @ 135 King Street West RIDING COMFORT BEAUTIFUL SHO OF NEW ZEALAND PIGTURES IN TY Attractive Exhibit in Win: dow of Ward's Store Is Arranged by Canadian Pacific Railway One of the finest showings of plotures seen in the city in some time is at present on display in the window and store of J. C. Ward, This display has been made pos: sible through the efforts of the Canadian Pacific Railway ang the courtesy of the New Zealand gov. ernment. The group consisty of twenty-five natural color plctures depleting scenes and beauty spots In New Zealand, The photographer has indeed caught the color charm of the is land, the smallest Dominion in the British Empire. Every phase and mood of nature, the tropical sug gostion of the scemery, and thu blending and contrast of colors convey in a life-like wanner the true idea of the loveliness and ro. mance of New Zealand, The most beautiful pleture Is 'Miltord Track." Here there ly a conception of the 'Forest Prime- val" with a study in ferns and vrackens; to the left there iy a rustic walk; to the right Is u rugged stream with green blufl. rising from the side and a moun: tain soaring into a sunlit sky. "Walno Road" 1s nore intensive in its picture of underbrush and terns, and is marked by its be. witching hue of green, "Geyser Valley=--Itotorua' shows tho more dismal mood of nature, with its rocky steppe land and numerous small geysers, The grue. some ls portrayed in "Tongariru National Park." It is marked by Colorado scenery; bare rocks and curious shaped boulders; in the background is a snow-capped fulyama; and a sultry atmosphere pervades the whole, However, u more joyful mood is again shown in "Mokau Falls", where a silver stream surface, nearby a jutting ghrub-covered cape, comes dar- imgly near the fore with only a shallow ribbon of water to hold it vaek, "Maori Haka", "Pol Dancers", "Maori Pa', 'Bathing', all of Hoorun, show different scenes of natives. "Gannett's Cape--Kidnap. pers" portrays a Matterhorn. shaped elevation of sand covered with birds; on either side the sea stretches out, It is the weird scenery of "White Island-- Crater' with its red granite rock and Jack ot ver. dure that finally drives us to view the sea. A first glimpse is gained in "Lake Huwea--Otago', on thi right side of which there Is a stee| wooded slope and on whoso left Is a gontle rising, There 1s a wealth of cotoring in the bare buily in the center and In the clouds In the background, In "Lake Walkare moana' one looks from u road on the left through a steep sided valley on to a rim of sea, There are two scenes of "South.east Bay Mayor Island", the first of which fs a fresh water body with cres- cent.shaped shore line and an opening to the ses through a nar- row outlet, and the wocond of which is a view through bare trees to a sunlit expanse of ocean blue "Silver Island----Lake Hawen' ing from the water and separated from the other islands only by narrow lagoons, An eerie picture i» "Lake Paradise' in which is de pleted un elevated lake in the lap of a copper-colored elevation, "Cape Kidnappers', consists of « long narrow arm stretching from the right to the middle, with trans. parent blue water wending up white-caps on to a sandy shore, A similar picture fs that of 'Lake Taupo", only with small islands scattered in the distance, The gand, the wonderfully formed | waves, and the green table land " mark "Trout Fishing--Lake Tau- po'. "Lake Walk!" has deep blus green water with shrubbery on the shore to match and differentiated | tints of mountain according to | their distances from the photo. grapher, Dusk begins to gather, "Kn- trance to Pelorous Sound" has a weirdness in its portrayal of the son and bleak islands, Finally twi. light settles over sickly hued water reflecting the purple mountain be- filnd which is a snow-capped peak in the dim distance, all mark this photograph, Missouri Co-eds Weer Cotton Dresses Again Columbus, Mo,, Feb, 18.~Mis- gourl University co-eds this week returned to the styles of yester- year, balloon sleeves and cotton dresses, and, men students selected the most beautiful "old-fashioned sir)" on the campus, The women's Pan-Hellenic Counc! voted to uphold a recent resolution that girls should Wear cotton dresses and hose to aid the southern cottov farmers, "Our action in adopting cotton clothes is not Just a move for pub. lieity." sald Lucey Wilson, president of the Women's Student Govern. ing Association. "We intend carry out the rule all this seme- ster." : "Fraternity men are in favor of the girl's resolution to wear eot- ton," "sald Jules Fogel, president Oshawa i fos oi wih . i g ll i of the Men's Pan-Hellenie Couneil, "It should help our echolgrsbin," CITY AND DISTRICT NEWS COAL PILES DIMINISHING Tho mountainous coal piles at the Oshawa harbor have been grow. ing rapidly smaller during the win. tery conditions of the last few weeks, and there {is little likelihood that much of the fuel will be left when navigation opens again in the spring. SIGN OF SPRING A resident of John street tele. phoned The Times yesterday after non that a large black squirrel was making merry in the trees of Mem. orial Park. The squirrel was jump ing from tree to tree and apparent. ly enjoying itself, This is halled as u sign of approaching spring. SINCLAIR RESUMES SEAT Business of the Ontario Legislature was delayed on Monday owing to the absence from the house of Wi E, N, Sinclair, K.C, M.P.P, Liberal house leader, and member from this riding, eeordin a Canadian Press des patch in in yesterday's morning, pa pors. However, Mr, Sinclair was sui- ciently recovered to resume his scat in the lewisluture yesterday, and he delivered a short but vnpressin dress on the duty of the government toward the farmers SHORE ICE PILING UP The lakefront, especially near the pumping station, is taking on a real wintry apearance. lee is being pil ed to a considerable height along the shore by the coasoless pounding of the waves of Lake Ontario, as it vents its winter fury. ROADWAY MOVED The roadway which rung just in front of the pumping station at the lakefront hug been moved to the eastward, The roadway had been previously been placed quite close to the pumping station and engine er's house, on the city property. Through the kindness of G, D, Con. ant, who has donated a strip of land from his property to the city, the road has been moved to the eastward, outside of the row of fine troes anlong the east limits of the pumping station property. FARMERS OF WEST ARE ORGANIZING Winnipeg, Man, Feb, 18.--Forces of organized farmerdom on the prairies are swelling to the high- wt totals since thelr hey.day a decade ago. Today, more than 60.. 000 agrarians are listed as mem. bers of the farm bodies in Mani toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta and leaders are forocasting higher totals, At the close of the convention of the United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan section) at the end of this month, positions of the prairie organizations will have been delineated. Annual meeting of United Farmers of Alberta was held In January, while United Farmers of Manitoba convened last November, Surprising increase members shown by the Alberta unit offsets a 600-member drop listed for Manitoba and a 1,000- member slide expected in the Saskatchewan convention figures. The foothills. province now has 18,106 farmers on the rolls of its organization, Of these, 7,145 pay on wheat-pool "assignments," or out of the pool's second payment, which has not eveutualized, Membership © decrease among United, Farmers of Manitoba will be wiped out and superceded by a wide advance, according to offic. of 4,600 | What Others Say ann 207 Burk St, Oshawa, Ont, Feb, 18, 1931. Oshawa Dally Times, Dear Mr, Editor: Ro suggestion of the Rallways' Asuoclation of Canada regarding the dates sot by other Canadian cities for Daylight Saving Time, published in yesterday's lssuo, Last year there was some valu able comments published in the Oshawa Daily Times concerning the I effeety, that Daylight Sav Ing Time hand upon the school children, and the mothers of fami Hes, and also the working class prople of thin city, Suggestions are always welcome through your valu able now paper ang 1 venture to ug.ost it in about time the rate payers hand an volee in the matter us ropards to Daylight Saving Time for Oshawa and that a vote be taken by the ratepayers of Osh awa on tho sumo dato as the Osh- awn "Gos Plant purchake" is to be voted on (March 21), and the result of the vote should decid the question whether Oshawa cit cong want Daylight Saving Time, or Kastern Standard Time for thei own convenlence, Our worth members of the Council shoul consider the views of the rate payers before deciding to set thi date for Daylight Saving Time for | Oshawa, Yours sincarely, A. KNOTT, Ratepayer nls, "By injection of a real farm pivit," they belleve, the members will rise from the 4,700-0dd re ited at the last convention, to 0,000, on a par with its peak of wer ten years ago. A drive new members already is In gress, Figures to be announced at the | meeting of the Saskatchewan unit | ure expected to show that the | membership rates close to 28,000, making it still by far the most powerful agrarian organization on | the prairies, despite a drop from the 1929 total, Saskatchewan and Manitoba farm bodles also have a large proportion of tholr members on uncollected pool "assignments." Financial difficulties have been encountered by all three prairie | | for pro- | shows a groen rocky surface rais- | | bodies, due in most part ta the | failure of the "assignments" to vield immediate revenue. Conduct of the affairs of the U.F.A, has heen "exceedingly difficult," df. rectors reported, Manitoba officials recorded the need for drastic economy and the Saskatchewan or. kanization cut down fits staff to the utmost during its most string. ent period, ARTHUR W, COEDY The death took place at moon on Tuesday of Arthur W, Coedy who passed away at his residence, 71 Nassau street in his Afty-Afth year, The late Mr. Coedy was born in the city and had spent his whole life here. He was one of tho veteran employees of the Gen- eral Motors, having heen associat: od with the McLaughlin Carriage | Company, Mr. Coedy retired from active work a year ago last Novem- per. The deceased was a member of Lebanon Lodge, A.V. & AM, and of Simcoe streot United Church, Mr. Coedy is survived by his sorrowing widow, four daughters, Lila, of Toronto, and Mabel, Helen and Mary at home, and one son, Everett of the General Motors, Walkerville, as well as four bro- thers, Edgar and Howard, of De- troit, Herbert of Galt and William of Oshawa, The funeral services will he held on Thursday afternoon at his Iate residence, 71 Nassau stroet, 1In- terment in the Union Cemetery. Rev, E, Harston, pastor of Simcoe street United Church will be In charge of the services. POPULAR WITH CANADIANS Colton Manor, Atlantic City, still appears to be most popular with Canadians os Is altested by the many registrations during the winter and spring months, Each year since is opening Colton Man or has been privileged to have us its guests wany prominent visit. ors from the nearby provinces who find particular comfort in the many advantages offered by this MILD WINTER OF 8-79 RECALLED Old Timer Recalls Unusuel Season Experienced at Fort Garry Regina, Sask.~~The past two months may have set high temps erature records In so far nas meme orfes of tho majority of prairie residonty fire concerned, but In 187870 there wax an milder wine ter, according to Captain W, O, Hugging, 70-year-old game warden of Imperinl Beach, Sask. The In dlans called Jt "Muske-tec-pap- oon-ah,"--the black winter. During the fall of '78 Captain Migeing was living at old Fort Garry, where now wiands the eity of Winnipeg, There was a little snow in the early fall but it went awny and no more fell for the rest of the winter, Stern-wheelors wera plying up and down the Red river tho following spring as ear- ly as the middle of March, Although the winter of 1878-'79 was the mildest he had experi enced In the west, Captain Higging sald the following winter was the most severe, 'Thormomsters rog Intered 68 below on Christman morning and for six weeks thd mercury hung around the 40-helow mark. Tee on the Red River was five foot thick, the captain stated. That winter the first locomotive was brought into Winnipeg cn tracks Inid on the ico across tho river from St. Boniface, POEM RECALLED BY ALLEGED FIND Discovery "of Tecumseh's Bones Recalls Charles . Mair's Epic | Toronto, Ont, Feb, 17.--"Recent despatches concerning the discovery of what might he the bones of Te- cumsel, on the famous battleground of 1812, Interest me mainly on ae- count of my old felend, Charles Male, whose dramatic poem'Tecum- gel' Is the greatest production or ig kind in our Canadian literature," writes Dr, R. G. McBeth of Vancou- ver in the Globe. "1 knew Mr, Mair fn my boyhood days on the Red River. Later met him in Prince Albert, the Poaco River country In Lethbridge, at Fort Steele in the Columbia Val ley, and in his closing years in Van. couver and Victorian, In Victoria, where he died a few years ago, | used to visit him frequently in the private Home Hospital, , "When I visited Mr, Mair at Fort Steele, in Dritieh Columbia, he had retired from active work in the Cive Il Servico and was living in a how or«clud cottage with his daughter, with the glory of mountains and lakes within sight everywhere, , Maid had been living so quietly in the Columbia Valley there that hia existence was almost forgotten by many, and he told me Jocularly that day how a member of the House of Commons had referred to 'the late Charles Mair,' In his gen: orotts way Mair used to assert that nnoartiele written on my visit to him at Fort Steele brought him be- fore the public again. Later on the splendid volume of Malr's com plete works, lssned by John W. tarvin, came to preserve the record of this great Canadian writer, For. tunately this volume wae published a few monthy before Malr's death | Te had It fn his hands when 1 last visited him in Victoria, It was a great joy to the veteran, then in his ninetieth year, not because of him- golf, hut because It would remain to be of service to his beloved Canada. "Mr. Mair often repeated to me portions of 'Tecumseh.' He had made a very profound study of that war period, and, as an son of Ontar- fo, knew his ground in a personal { way. His interise appreciation of | 'he services of this great Indian | Chef deepened with the years. In vr. Mair's 'notes' he quotes ap. [provingly from Colonel = Coffin'e Chronleles of the War of 1812, vhore, referring to Tecumseh, the 'Wlonel vayn: "Hix death shed a 19 on 0 much-nbused and departs race May tho people of Brits 1 and thelr deecendants in Cane 1a never forget the noble sacrifice ior the racred obligations it ims It whovld be held as the fn py envenant: and as " 1 to David, "The Lord ! nd me, and he. my weed fore ¢ udda: "Those mech never reveals burial place, re onted for many to explore the hattle, fur his Hkely that his be recovered, but fathers were {the friends of his race, there ree {mains the of perpetunting his | memory, here 1s not in all his | tory a nobler eoemple of true mans | hood and patriotism,' 2 | "At the clote of the great poem Malr gives ug to hear Colonel Baby {wny: 'I mourn the death of one n soldler-a savage, if you will nhle and honorable, valiant, pure over graced the annals of the earth, General Harrison of the American Army unys: You menn Tecumseh, being made for him. 1 hope to give him fitting burial' Then a poldjer enters to say: "Tecumseh's body eannot he found; 'twas borne away and hurled by faithful friends, who would not name the place {f they were tortured. And Mair closes the poem with the fine words he heard General Harrison say! "Bleep well, Tecumseh, in thy unknown grave, mighty savage, and hrave, Thou master and strong spirit of the woods, Unsheltored traveller in sad soli- tudes, Yearner over Wvandot and Che- rokee, Couldnt tell us now what been and shall be, " Too Late To Classify COMIPORTABLE ROOM AND board at 110 Athol ¥, Kindly ap- ply evenings or phone 1861J, tiem Int not ver whose mm of hi | rave It f bone will [to Canadians Beareh 1s Thou resolute have (GREAT CANADIAN |GIVEN CHEAP FIDDLE BOY MADE BETTER ONE FOR HIMSELF Halifax Later Took Up, Violin Making As His Life Work Halifax, N.8,, Feb, 18."They tried to mako a farmer out of me, but I bought a fiddle for three dollars, It was so bad I decided to build one, A treatise in an old magazine provided the directions, and the necessary wood was pro. curable. I've heen making violins ever since." Thus does H, W, Sang- stor describe hig initiation into the craft he has followed for the last twenty years or so, first as a hob- by, but for many years now as a profession, Laying aside a bow he had just straightened for some aspiring virtuoso--"someone seein to have heen tending goal with it," he remearked, Mr, Sangstor told bow he literally "grew up into" the craft he now plies in a little shop on Granville street, He 1s a native of Falmouth, in the Anna- polis Valley, and worked in New Jersey music shops for years, "My father purchased a violin more than sixty years ugo, tor twenty-five dollars," he sald, "This was tho instrument my brother Billy used when we played for country dances at Falmouth, It was go much better than the cheap fiddle I war able to buy that | Just had to mako one, It wag n pretty fair job, too," he mused. "You know, all violing, old und news, cheap and expensive, are constructed of the same material: spruce top and maple back, ribs traded it in for a mandolin, and neck, Age, tone, workmanship, finish, these are some of things that make the difference between a good violin and an in- different one or a 'dud.' "The study of wood {x almost a profession In itself, Spruce must be aged, away from the rain and sun, for at least six years before you touch it with a tool, Ten years make a better job. Then there's finish, I took mo ten yoars to learn the fino point of putting on var. nish properly, An instrament can be put together in two weeks, but It takes six for a proper applica- tion of varnish, "Players shun a new violin, The right sort of handling over a pers 10d of years Imparts something to an instrument that isn't in the making, "Repairing, of tourse," he con tinued, "Is what keeps me going. Making violins Is simply a hobby 1 follow for the love of the thing. the | In tho lust twenty years I've made about fifty; that one ih the wine dow was started two or three months ago. "Dut any man. who can't go to i tree with a rip-saw and construct iis instrument from beginning to end has no business repairing & good violin, Expert repairing 18 wore difficult than the actual make ing. It requires years of exberls once, "All sorts of things go into the { making of one of these==he touche od un untinished lnstrument--"and even with everything possible fore seen, there's a big. element of chance in the result, One thing ia sure, though---you may look for» only one tree in five thousand thag the right kind of wood and find Is suitable. Spruce has to be cut, in this country, dn December op January, when the sap is dead, "I wish I had that old first fide dle back again as a souvenir, sighed H, W. Sangster, "But I ) Just then a lady customer came in to purchase a G string. Judge, to prisoner, who pleaded that he wax led {ito crime through drinking adulterated spirits: "You Bly you were tempted to tuste this whisky?" Prisoner: "Yes, my lord's Judge: "Now, are you sure you could tell the difference between good and bad whicky" Prisoner: "Well, I don't quite know that K could exactly, mae lord"--with a knowing smile--"for ye geo I'm nog un judge!" KARN THE DRUGGIST FOR SERVICE PHONE 378, NEXT THE POST OFFIC ---- Sb -------- Died on Tuesday, Feb, 17th ARTHUR WW. COEDY in his 35th year Members of Lebanon Lodge, No. 1801, are requested to attend the funeral on Thurs day, February 10th at his late residence, 71 . Nassau Street at 2 p.m. Interment at the Union Cemetery, In again...... Out Again. .., Fun again..... and again in this Fox Ey Movietone comedy sensation with SPENCER TRACY CLAIRE LUCE and a dozen other great comedians TI 2 New Martin THURSDAY - FRIDAY ~~TONIGHT -- "THE EYES OF THE WOR (41a) hotel and judging from the res- ervations which are heing made for the coming months many Cana- disns will be entertgiped, Starts THURSDAY Monster Fun Show* General gloom surrenders us these riotous nit-wits drop a Yatrage of joy g out how gay Paree got that way BERT WHEELER ROBT. WOOLSEY In the Comedy Bombshell "Half Shot Venture at Added GEORGE JESSEL "It Might Mave Been Worse" DANCE OF PAPER DOLLS Color Ravue at Sunrise" J10-740-9.36 -- es SEE TT -- wy