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Now on\ Display * w r — ( 1 * i Greatest Triumph with even Greater%ilues At the highest pinnacle of Essex popularity—with the record breaking sales of all time—with stocks swept clean, and thousands upon thousands of unfilled orders—we abruptly stopped the largest production in our history, to give this Greater Essex right of way. The industry does not record a ' like decision. Yet one glance— one ride in the New Essex Super Six reveals the startling reasons that prompted it. If thousands praised the former Essex, then tens of thousands must applaud the new. If all sales records were surpassed by the former Essex, then even higher marks must reward the new. No previous car — no previous > value — gives anything by which to judge it. It is the greatest achievement in Essex history. We are now showing this Greater Essex Super-Six. We could say it is longer, roomier, more luxurious, with greater power and perform ance—yet that does not express it. We do say: “See it and ride in it with greater expecta tion of fine things than you ever held for any but the costliest cars". You will not be disappointed. Only by ordering promptly can you insure delivery ahead of in creasing thousands who want it. 2-Pass. Speedabout $790; 4-Pass. Speedster $835; Coach $735; * Coupe $735; Sedan $835 ; Y AM prices f. a. & Detroit, pius war excise tax. \ i Roomier, Finer Interiors G Canada Is Now Celebrating Her Diamond Jubilee; &OBGE Stephen, , i Loro *CXWT , Ctepuew ... ■ ^ M ■■■■■■■■■■ P DOMALD SMITH, LOCO f STCATHOOMA, 0RIVIH6 LAST j SPIKE, C-PC. ►Sir Johm MacDomald On July 1. Dominion Day, Canada l began the celebration of her sixtieth birthday as a united Dominion. This Diamond Jubilee of Confederation has unique significance in modern -history as being In effect a tribute to the Importance of rail communi cation. The world readily ac'.titowl j edges today that railways greatly help in uniting a scattered and far-flung ' population. But Canada’s case is ' unique because Its first transconi. - uental railway alone made complete confederation a reality Instead of a ' mere desirable policy. Canada’s confederation began with ithe passage of the British North America Act on July 1. 1867. the I members at that time comprising Upp«y Canada. Lower Canada. Nova (Scotia and New Brunswick. In 1868 jan Imperial Order in Council gave Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories to the Hedging Dominion. Manitoba entered Confederation m 1870, followed by British Columbia in 1871. The latter, however, had written Into the Terms of Union a clause binding Canada to build with in ten years a railway "to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada.’ The Canadian government first at tempted to build the railway; then Premier Sir John Macdonald ap proached George 3tephen (afterwards Lord Mount Stephen), a Montreal banker, who In October of 1880 or ganized the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and Agreed to complete the railway by May 1. 1891. Despite colossal obstacles, the Can adian Pacific completed the railway In 4 years and 6 months Instead of I 0 ■ ^ v> ^S^kATHCOMA I the allowed ten years. British Colt:in-' bia was Indissolubly linked to her sister provinces, and the most critical period of Canadian history bad »' happy ending. On Nov. 7, 1885, Don ald A. Smith (afterwards Lord Strath-1 cona), drove the last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway, uniting, the rails stretching westward from’ the Atlantic Ocean and those east-, ward from the Pacific at Cralgel-' lachle. British Columbia, and mak-r lng Canada's Confederation an ao- ‘ compllshed fart. Jessie Estelle James |[Ayroo.^fcgG Grand-daughter of the notorious Jesse James is now in Los Angeles to play the part 01 her f-.re;it r.T a mi mother, or the mother of \ i jnrnes brothers, in mov;r oi i• • of the West’s tamed had mca, Big Interests Join Forces ' To Construct Dec\' Waterway: THOMP50M Governors ol a dozen states neai and far. two cabinet members sent by President Coolldge. Rep L J UlcKtn son. leader of the farm bloc In Con gress. mayors of many large cities and hundreds of civilian leaders in busl oeas finance and railroading Joined in eupporung tbs greet deep water vayi >nd flood control conference beta 41 Chicago under the direction 0 U+rtm WUUaa) Hsl# Pv.fr p- n lev cost r/?M$Po$iAnQfJ "i.\t ni'ti* l’ s**d ti.ates will ben efit mntet tally from rhe step- te’-c • to rr->ke i g'lways r! cur grci.: w;Hc» courses a:.<1 to cctn at the r u.eo. of this year's terrible floods." com mented Mayor Thompson. "The con ference was not of importance simply to the Mississippi Valley.” What perfecting of the great In!:.no* water highways will mean to citueae of the United States was told Mayor Thompson in a statement by C U Williams of Bloomington. 111., presi dent of rhe largest otl-buaner com pany in the United States "We recently shipped an Oll-O Matlc nurner from Bloomington Ur Providence R I.. by rail." he eald On the same day we started another o Providence from San Francisco by water It reached Its destination three days ahead of the one sent by rail, and the cost was three dollars less Doing an international busi ness we are able to ship cur burnc.* from New York to foreign branches for less money than it costs us to get them to New York from the fs. v>' y. Deep waterways, and lower transpor tation charges, will mean u. ic‘ u> consximers everywhere " This statement was typical of many oti.-r» nhowtng tbs economic value of wa'erw** 1»'*lePRltOl Vacation Brings New Risks . ’ ! i4s Danger Lurks in Streets i * _i Nearly $30,000,000 was spent last 'year on organised recreation for chil dren In the United States, but more ‘than 30,000 under the age of IS years were killed In preventable accidents, nevertheless. Most of them died from Injuries received while playing .in streets and highways. ‘If the papers tomorrow should announce that the whole populatloo •of Coming, N. Y, or Alliance. O.. Galesburg, DU Fargo, N. D„ Sedalla. >Mo, Ardmore, Okla, Key West, Fla., or Riverside. Cal, had been wiped out the world would be aghast at the news of the tragedy," eald J. W. Meeker, general manager of the Cy i clone Pence Company, of Waukegan, m. "And yet a similar tragedy passes every year because we do •not mink of this ‘slaughter of the Issinr- - m Ms entirety. UNSAFE School Yard _ 9kAiTl^EL VAH6e*6 mothers and fathers when they their children's rccreattan la safe condition*. “Playing place# am Almost 800 dtlaa 10,000 separate recreation and • Of them. Hi w but in many i dran are la m when OMf mM You Just Know He’s Glad * By Albert T. Reid Hey.' Cy.'/N 6Y CRACKY./ I’m Glad to > set You Oack7 GIODAP I cTT • ^ _ _