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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1916-04-06, Page 5Thund'ay, rl l 6ti c r x9 6 Brcad Cakes, Pies; Brun' ars thing, made from. flour.. is best made from, More Bread _ d Better dread arsmommimer 'IRO I1EI JpNAT AN (Knr•wni'a ,so as 4.' Jncle (By Charles', Alexander I;achmond) ` �.. • Dr: Richmond ie well known as the President of Union College, at -Schenectady, New°York: ' The 'following verses; .written in the vein of James Russell Lowell's "Bigelow Papers," were read l?y Dr. iiichmpnd with telling effect at the recent dinner of the Real Estate Board of New York City. -The New York Outlook.i brother Jonathan sat by the kitchen fire, Nursin' bis foot on his knee. "It's a .turrible fight they're havin' out there, But they can't git'over to me." And Jonathan jingled thecoinsin. his .han' ' An' thankedthe good God for the sea. "They'll be wantin' my cattle and hogs and corn An' powder and guns mebbe, But they'll pay on the nail! • Bash down, by gum •! Formal) they git from me.'' An' he smiled kinder slow and jingled the coins, "It's good for business," sez 'ee. "They're kink' !ern off like flies, they say, They: can't blame it onto me: Itain't niy war, yet I do feel bad For them poor Belgiums,". sea 'ee. And he, sent it across the sea. took a few dollars out of his jeans And. A . • ,Then he heard they'd drowned a-thousand.men, And some from Amerikee. . So be said right mit, "If you dd that ag'in You'll.git ine mad" sez 'ee. An' he•kep'.on jinglin'the coins in his han' And' thankin' God for the sea. They did it ag'in and then ag'n, "You quit that• now," sez 'ee, `iI'll give you feller's a pieee-o' my.mind- If`I-gi. hoe_= •- An' he winks one, eye with his tengue in his cheek; ',:,'rn too proud to fight," sez 'ee, Then they, got to,plottin' and blowin': up things An' he sei: "You let me be, . I won't -stand :these furrin' tricks o' youril In this here lan'.o'the free.' And it. got oid,:Jonathan all het up, : - An'.he took his foot from his knee:. • HURON COUNTY NEWS I Mr, and li rs., RielAard Gooier,' of Clinton, recently had a narrow escape from .asphyxiation owing to a defefaiv'e AO ra 1 e kora. o, Mt. Govier fortun- ately woke up h time and was able to get nt-of ieod... _ . .•..•� Arrangetneiata are being made . for all the men of the •161st. 'to assemble', Two o i - • a cruet` disregard cif all nun no. feelings fillips were tcldg0 he ' that the tit Gorrn n t at his long study of.the 0 man\eaval 1 l? n ►nue" has developed, built .previously were ales outela88.e+1.. TiA Sung -Alm FAIL Re said that if Germany ,:could), only It ought not to be forgotten that lin; build enough Dreadnohts to keep step the early days of the submarine warfare with Great Britain she e uld• negleet bey whea ships were being sent to the bottom other fillips, and he :set to work, with the every day, and w en a; .reign of 'terror result thatRin threA:n, 'eaj jap, had built was be;n estreali is ..d on rho higl ._ ae1 ,. 171.)readnou hts, the Brutish However, the Kaiser praIse von Tirp. tz "nhe .announced that far every 13'eeadnought savior of the•Gerniae Empire," .the corn - that Gernneny'built great .Britain: would plirent offered him .a year ago next in Cliuton on April 6, the day of the bulk' two, and this ratio bas ben main- rnontb, a .fortnight or'80 before the I4us- p g f*f tuhe� rntinocaasres to d. Bait -it -happened -that -w manta was 8unic. submarine obl ]3ritned itavy`so�vice: suTimarnne »°olein, and will Clinte put on n the moaning of the great•war began the Glenna° navy was p ' �g-when the ventral world had expressed deny and the ladies of the town churches outclassed .and •German shipping was the utmost horror and indignation at ' havepromised to entertain the visit; swept from 'the sea. Yon Tirpitz knew this.method of warfare, and when the the hopelea9pess oaf sending out. his fleet `Kaiser was directed by von Bethnianb ingraldiece' against the.l3ritisb; sa'he had to turn to. •Hollweg to• contemplate the fact that Joseph liattenbucy, a popular and Oerinans bad.te live in. the world after the submarine. 1Jooking back upon the the.war was over, the GYerman Emperor ,w011. known hotelkeepei• . of. Clinton, .withered fruit of all his. ears the ma ni- realized thati • y , g his High Admiral badbeen. died after a few days illness; on'Mareh 'ficent Oermaln°Areadnoughts huddled in. ' a failure, So he wasretired under the nth, His®father was the first hotels the harbor, is as'nut surprising that° he preteict that his health had k. en'inpair- ed•, bearing with. him, the Kaiser vainly keeper in !✓)roto», havin commenced .threw hhaself into: the submarine cani,' hopes, rho sins of his count :,�-Mail and P g ry business' there when the future. town paigui with the utmost energy, ,and with Empire, was known asRattenbtiry'ti Corners,•. ' Willian Geo. Mathews, a former well:kgown fanner of Ashfield, died at his home in Goderach un Mardi, 21st Re hadbeen living retired in Goderich fora few years: $4 leave a widow rorwerly ' ,Miss. Tackaberry-:- but., no children: Mr, Mathews was born and grow ,to ,manhood near Ni+e. The MAITT,AND BREAKS. -The break up of the Maitlandriver took place Wednesday evening between 7 and 8 &'clock and the ice quickly piled high at the mouth. For a time_ the water' came over the top of the breakwater in spots and some ice was carried osyer with it, and 'Yesterday the water was still almost- to the top : of the break- water, pouring through, overflowing the railkvay tracks and falling in eas- cades into the harbor. A channel at the mouth was .free, allowing tl)e water to get away but the ice kept blockinrg., Among the timber and debris brought down by the ice was at jeast one green ' 'cedar trunk, sl'iowing that the flood must have been ;pretty strong.-God- erieh Star. ,.. Y An''he.got to thinnkin'.and-thinkin'; hard, Worryin' how it would be, . An' wonderin' what in Sam Hill he'd do . ` If sorne.pesky .nnemy With all them dreadnoughts and submarines, Came a-rippin' across the sea. . • Tirpitz, The War's Most Noted .Failure • BefQLerye cat�,ivatlyapportionsuccess; 6 — and-farlure-t , - .n , an e histdrians must sift the evidence;, but .even now it is possible to pronounce up- on the greatest ,individual failure since` the struggle •hegan.' •The retirement' of Adiniral von. Tirpitz closes his career. Historians, e'en German historians, will he unable and 'unwilling to rescue his,. nanne from -the deep 'disgrace that is ae sociated with it `-.Noll only has he been it failure since the•war began, his whole' ,career has beea a failure, and-ithas hot been an honest. failure.' He retirescarry, ing with him the curses of his country., men, and the contempt of• his s .country' meanies and, neutral•tiations. His name will always be associated with his Cam- paign of "frightfulness," which haa•failed• abjectly, and for the consequences of the failure; 'Germanpeople, will continue to pay: through unborn generations. Apart .from the Kaiser, .von Tirpitz has done more than anyone else to Make, the Ger: pian 'name:' a hissing • and.' a reproach. among :the nations.: ; , . • . FatnEn.oF THE IV'AvV.Y Yoe Tirpiti is 67 years ,old, and 'has been'in the ;German navy ,for more than fifty years, although apparently he never saw :a shot fired in anger. Nevertheless; he was an industrious•student, and the fact that he won rank afterrank in com- petition with officers who were of -far better birth is an indneation•that he had unusual gifts. When he became Minister of Marine he undoubtedly greatly nm- proved the methods that prevailed in the German navy;. he may, indeed, lie. called. the father of that organization.. He prov- ed himself: to be not only a competent. adniiniistrator, but a remarkable politic-: ian, • and 'the greatest press agent that. ever occupied a high position in the Ger- man Enipiro. He: made .the. navypoptt- •ler;.eventually.lie..made4t .the passion.. of the Gernian ,people,' He' organized. the, Navy League, Which.hadas itssobject. Ani bethought _of the army he rvnshedr he had,- An' he reckoned up. his navy • • • "I guess I've set here long enough,. , I'll have to get busy," sez 'ee. • But•the last I saw he As`a-settin' there yit An' strokin' his long goatee. -It ain't ntz tin to be. settin' round, I kin tell ye -no sirree. • He better: be gittin'-up out e' that cheer outdoors-and see, , An' do his chores an' fix things up ' Tlie way they oughter "be. • He night be,helpin'•them,cousins•o' his» • To fight:fer.liberty, I An' he -might git in a few •licks •hisself ties' for humanity.. Anyhow, I wish he'd quit jinglin' them coins An' thankin' God fer the sea. FARMERS, . 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At onetime this league had more than a•million and a halt..stip porters in the Glerman Empire -and ;in other parts' of the .world. 13:ttr.itrn'.iwTATE DenArn OUtirrr 'Tirpitz _worked. with the masses an 1 with -thealitrcians€- Tle-whie p die- d mini -herr Of 'fire lleichstag: or he threatened - -there, • according to their` "dispositions. He intro'baced the navythroughthe moving pictureliquses of Gern any. He inIuced'tho, railroads' to give cleap fares Troia inland *points 'to ports ;where t1e people might 'see the German'warships at anchor. • He- inspired tie professors And authors who ,taught the German people that their vast foreign trade was absolutely. ilepandent•':upo»'a .powerful navy;' that it Weald crumble to dust un: less the navy was ineraased, and that the. :British Etupire ,rias jealrius of Germany's growth; and .would attack her unless she ;had a powerful navy,. '111, 1400: he had succeeded PO well that he told hi,i friends that in two yeare more he would have his navy so strong that it need not fear that of Great Britain. Then Britain ii. woke, and answered. the German threat by-prodticing the Dreadnought; which otitelassed all the. ships is ,the Gernhan fleet, and caused von Tirptlz for the ,anon cnt The Bus'.:. - H velar' PHONE civ wif paver Your order ao Sooai 4.e we.ReeciiVe It I • JustAkTived4 Fre Barrel' to Oftt h No.:C' C unlit IGNITO bfjf c ;'J • Mcqregor of Ford ilRAL Ic I1 Obey etanUP cAN�tDIA>d 'r'0tiOtJTo.araT. itteries bAratcr:a 'Ltd is the 8toati--£°'cdrasbras. { r i. rht•, t en errs is Nolo_c.tr: xa le 1 rn:,d rejtta .: / �k L , �i t : C - t 'rflrrtt CII (,,.F (Ir: 1111 it er r' i it t!*j tQr-Icer.oiyoc to_, nev or v -v, ar0l'1•t: .-n tr., InTr0 k fro. Avg v,:! a 1'1 rt cE1o6c•.t by tt.r 7ery-t,:e,e tic • l.u(ter, ttacror,,1,1, tit y. sect every Lnttery m.cu, •@ . Fahncyto, h eprin.^.rrp bind .in.t,wytpvn,.a ok,, —pater!" •` RECENTLY ONE' OF OUR FRIENDS AWN/ ACROSS the line was standing on the sidewalk in one of our larger Canadian ' cities :viewing a march past .of some of• our soldier boys. ' The Kitties were going by. • ',How typically Canadian are the kilties," he remarked. "We, on our side of the big pond associate the . Highland uniform as much With Canada a' -with Scotland. Why is it? - The reply was to the effect that it was because the Scotch had contributed so largely to the settlement ' and upbuilding of• the Dominion and so many Canadians of Scottish -ancestry had' made themselves worthy of high ranks in the history of Canada. • • Among these Canadians of Scotch parentage who have' won a place among Canada's great builders of industry we must reckon Gordon' M. McGregor of Ford, Ont., • • About the ,year 1850 Mr. McGregor's grandparents set out from Gl'asgo'w, ' Scotland to settle -in what was then a new and far , away country -Canada. , A .few years later we find them located at' Sarnia, Ontario, ' where a•son, Williarn,\was born.. • . . • When still a young man William McGregor took a very active interest in the business and political life of the country and was elected a member' of the., Domnnlon- s set out from Glasgow, • 'Scotland and his district well and faithfully for twenty years. Gordon McGregor about whom this is, written was the son of William McGregor and was born at Windsor, Ont. ' As Gordon , McGregor 'grew to manhood he capably assumed much of the business cares of his father. `• • • William McGregor eventually became' interested in the Walklrrville Wagon Co., at Walkerville, Ontario, and, shortly after, his; son'Gordon McGregor, was made manager of the firm. Here the son.bega<n to_,sliow that hiisiness'foresight-that has•inade him he-of-the--promincrrt-figureri ii the`business` world oUCana• a. '-A:bout: this time ani ent'.took place in the carriage and wagon •',• industrythat•caused the greatest concern.. This wags the advent and the establishment of the automobile as a practical vehicle. Sonie dealers and builders were so .alarmed that they thought their business.would go to immediaterack and ruin and thw the auto would supersede ;horse-drawn vehicles Others ' were cool-headed enough to see the advantages .that this, new industry afforded and governed themselves accordingly. • Arnong the I atter'vbas Gordon McGregor, who believed that. - he could successfully enter upon' the 'business of•manufacturing automobiles and looked about him for wisemethods of doing this. ,'He get in touch with many.manufacturers and looked over .many,makes of cars. Finally, he decided on one make and. effected - -arrangerzients for its production:in this country. • The car he chose was the Ford. •• • - Be then tried to -induce sortie of his• friends. in Canada to 'invest in the project and encountered all the usual cold, disheart- ening,difficulties attendant upon the organization. of a new and un - • tried ,proposition: If they could have but looked ten . or eleven ' years ahead he would hay..•e'had. no worries over the organization of a compan -;even double or quadruple the size. • ' R . No stock was offeredfor, sale outside of the Dominion until all Canadians had been given an opportunity subscribe. • Finally, in August 1904, they organized the company' with a • capital of $125,000., Then came the' difficulties of manufacture and for three: years • ft was'•a' constant- struggle to win success. ` • • -• ' But success camearid a greater success than the founders. ever dreamedof-a success abounding in truly marvelous .facts • . and figures.. _ _ . And this is the story of Gordon McGregor of Ford, Ontario, • and \of the establishment of the,Ford, Motor Company of Canada, ' Limited. . • Today, hall -the population of four towns depend•upon the Ford Company .of Canada for their earnings. These are Ford •City,.Walkerville, Windsor and ,Sandwich. • ' . . ' The last census states that the average family consists of five persons. As. there are over 3;000.;.eniployees in .the •towns mentioned above whose work is devoted to the manufacture of Ford cars, this official census figure shows that - there•are over 15;000 people that look, to the Ford Company for their support. This does not include. the nine cities in Galatia in which. Ford'branches are established, which would add -over -8,000 more., •• . _ And Ford employes are paid three times as Well as the average as shown by • government wage r"eport;s. - . . In April 1915, a time when most Canadian manufacturers were following" a policy of retrenchment, the present Ford schedule of wages was adopted' by‘,. which the company virtuallyhhandedtoits employees, $50,000amonth increased wages and reduced the working Hours from nine to eight per day;: • Surely, this is,a great boon to Canadian Workmen and their families. It .. is a' boon t i•Canadian merchants who; benefit. by the increased purchasing : -, power •of all these'families.. It is a boon to the enti country in dime; of war when living expenses are higher than ever before. And these employees have resporanied in like.meiisure to the Empire's. need foir'her people's support, Ford• City alone havin • made What •B is probably a .: record contribution: t: tris Patriotic Fund,off$34' er.capita. More than•300-Ford employees have enlisted for overseas. service, and'the •Company is spending thousands .of dollars in moving': pictures which are .offered free to assist' in recruiting work all over the Dominion.- '� is an immense expression o on • ence in e u ima : an unquestion- ''able success of British Arma and `the: allied cause was this great wage increase! • • pire,I3ut it was not the only evidence of the Ford Company's faith An the Ein • Before the outbreak ' hof ltosttlitiestlte••company-decided.tovreduce•the price of the car by $60. When the war came upon us the company night well have • :been pardoned for withholding this -reduction for a time. But they .never even cuusiilered it: • The reduction was made the same day war was declared. And you ean•realize how real this confidence in the victorious prosperity el Canada was when yore consider that the prices of Ford careareset1.' .act? .. --.. `ince-'Wit . t'hee.estimntr N d productitsn l;o�r the coming liscaI year and not by any . Means arethey based on the. profitsof the preceding year. .$652,000 has been spent nn new buildings in Ford Citsi_nce the war.beeari 'ver U0,000 -has peen spent on•newboird'ings�in four. Canadian cities• s31`,`0ince War began, a total'expenditur-e•fornew bunldings, of approximately • a million and three quarters. • • $1,000,000 htis been spent in .neve equipment since: war began. 900 men have been added to the pay roll since War began. ' 'And if there is needed, further proof of this company's absolute :conviction in the progress and prosperity of Dominion,, it may be found in the fact that another $60 reduction in the price of the ear was'made lad Aiiguet ;making a total reduction of $120.00 plow war began: . This new:price requires an output of 40;000 cars this year.. Then, too, the price of Ford parts has been. reduced by $1471ier ear -a re- duction'thnt means a big increased economy to Ford owners. Such irmnense ezpenditures and price reductions as these are of the great- est benefit to the general welfare of -the nation under existing conditions. They form one of the greatest possible influenees'towards'boosting the prosperity of Canada. .. - •Rpmernber• that all but $16.88 worth of the niaterial'that goesinto the construction of a Ford• car himght here in Canada --and it would all be bought - here if, it were possible to get it • ' • Truly, the Ford is; after all, a Canadian Car,,built by Canadians. Very few Canadian manufacturers are able to show such a' support to Canadian in - d 1TheCa' adian. Ford Conipan .i • ' y s basing this year's factory produr•tion .plans on just. double' the business done last year; C ,They stake everything on the conviction that Canada Is. bound to prosper. They place all on. the belief that Britain ned' her allies are bound to win.• , McGregor of Ford and his Canadian associates may be pardoned for fee',= irr prowl f'Sf this reread. RAWFO.RD & SON, Dealers, LUCKNO`Vir. WLV SM ITZER1 Sa1Qs Manager i We: are headquar- lers for ..ail sizes. arad kinds of;att tones for Engines, and Lighting'Pur- 6ses., Sap Pails St Spiles lit lowest p`'ices A -CAR- OF GENUINE CLEVELAND : ;CLE: ,.N � D COIL SPRING WIRE ON HAND GET. OUR PRICES Aci,E0D AIM 1'O PLEASE TE li. T s ORE WHERE YOUR ` M01`lEY. GOES- FARTHEST, • J Getting Time.- to Discard . Winter Footwear The soft, sloppy; clays wi Lsuon.:l-ie fiiere and Heavy', } Shoes' will 'be required to keep the f..etI }'.' 'We carry. Sterling and Williams Heavy. 'Shoes' which are second to none for wearing, qualities.:. ' Try a pair of ourFiue 1<tubbers-They keep 'your fiet dry,, ACKERT "A GOOD SHOE STORE FOR ALL THE FAMILY"; The Right Reading1 • 2. , ''The' home: news', tbetcloixags. of Pie People iin. this town; the' gossip. of •-our„own oinmuil•ity� . that's the first kind ofreading matter you want.: It ismore important, more interesting to you than that given' by• `lie paper; or magazine from the outside :world..'It is.the'rt .reading. ' matter you"•should' •buy," • Each issue of this paper gives you just whb,t you consider. .. ` • . .x� hied 0 We are in the 'market fht cre.im; stvdet or:sour, • We suPp l . twr t�10E• cach test received, oar patrons• -each,; cttil •• • .a state -meat, of the 1Ver-ght, test and- butter fat t.ti •.eat li : citn,' with the. em • t4 can returne e retei� you 't,o'anj-:1 a'nk as in oar standing. 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