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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21 1916
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Fight or pay !
Germany's campaign in Russia is a
failure.
What can we do next In help in the
great fight for world freedom
II is a►wut time to resurrect that
slogan, "Do your Chrirtraa .b )pping
early."
The town council did the right thing
in voting B1,0011 to the British Red
Cross Society.
"Mrs. McClung attacks the bottle,"
ie a startling newspaper heading.
Thought she never touched the stuff.
it ie pleasant to see Huron's support
of the l'soadian patriotic fund *till
mentioned in outside papers as au ex-
ample :o be followed.
In supporting the Red Cross work,
either British or Canadian, we are
doing just a little for the heroes whose
sacrifice is securing our safety and
freedom.
A book agent In Stratford has been
arrested on a charge of obtainiog
money under false pretences. If this
sort of thing can be. the whole tribe of
book agents must surely be In danger.
Party politics r esposoLion with
military matter If16+lidttt Iso a rank
disgrace to those responsfble for it.
Liberals as well as Conservatives are
giving their lives and their money tor
the cause.
Did Germany play into the bands of
the Allies by stirring up fresh trouble
in the Baikens and giving Britain
and France an opportunity of sending
their troops through Bulgaria to Con•
stantinople:
The Teacher.' Aaeocietion of %Veet
Huron at its annual meeting but week
passed a resolution asking the county
council to secure the appointment of a
district .:griculloral representative
lot Huron county.
The Ontario Government has issued
an order for the closing of all ban in
the Province st K o'clock in the even-
ing. Being under the Canada Tem-
perance Act, Huron county has only •
alight interest in the change.
Speaking of contributions to the lied
Cron fund. Peter McArthur says that
au aasessment o1 one cent an acre on
the lands in old Ontario alone would
raise a million and a quarter dollars.
Bony a'mickle soak's a muckle.
Sir Edward Carson hes resigned
from the coalition Cabinet of Great
Britain. A mischief -mater above all
things, hite inclusion in the Cabinet
when at was formed occasioned much
surfeits and misgiving. IC is to be
hoped be is out to stay out.
The reports coming from every band
of the way In which the call of the
Brititb Red Crow Rociety is Meng
beard and heeded are splendid evi-
dence of imperial unity. The silken
thread of affection Is stronger than
any tuaterial bond could be.
At the Baptist convention at Lon-
don) last week one of the disadvant-
ages resulting from rural mail delivery
wee pointed out. A great many rural
poeU)fflces have been closed, axed the
oountry districts are thus deprived of
the community meeting -place to
which the prnblenRs of the township
and the state were wont to be threshed
oat In open delete
The British Government hats placed
a .tiff tax oo war profits, and Canada
might well follow its example. It la
said that won. of the big eonosrne ars
making very large profits : these they
should be enrepdled to divide with
the public through the medium of ■
spseial tag. Than oogbt to be as in -
nems tat 1a Camads. too. It M not
tight that the toilers of &is eoaaiey
should be tamed to Ilia Wt by eustomv
ditties, while others an waxing fat by
the very burdens that are placed os
those least able to bear them. It is a
tbowaed pities that Canada at this
j[s.cture bbl • Finance *lacer wbu
is tied up to the Big Interests -
An exchange completes of the lack
of respect for 'newspaper etiquette"
shown by WOW pspets which clip ed-
itorial articles from other papers and
publish them as their own. There is
• newspaper io Keefer n Ontario which
rseulaily clips practically the whole
editorial pea. of The Signal and re-
publishes rt without credit. But we
don't mind it • whit. 1f we are light-
ening the work of some overtasked
brother ed icor, the Recording Angel is
no doubt keeping track of it.
Senator Landry, by appointment of
the Borden Government Speaker of
the Senate, has come from the Prov-
ince of Quebec into Ontatto to stir up
the French-speaking people of Essex
county in resirtance to the school
policy of the Ontario Government. As
The Stratford Beacon remarks, what
• howl would be raised by the Con-
servative pies* write one of nit- Wilfrid
Laurie r's' appointees to ,come to On-
tario to advocate the ignoring of Prov-
incial law by a section of the people !
The Things Divine.
Thee are the thing. 1 hold divine
A dueling child's hand laid to glue
Binh brown earth and islud-le..eed tier.,
The tete of er.pen and the dross of beet.
A rhythmic gallop. tem Juneaa)..
At rove hedged lays and M) ern' Mr.
The wetrowe .mile on neighbor.' fare..
('oe, w id, hil4. and open rinse..
Breexrblown fielde°of .(Icer eye,
The will -.eat not. of a plover'. cry,
Prue .prwg shower,. sod scent of box.
The .eft. palet Int of the garden phlox.
Lila.-. biooti ,nr. • deo way noon.
A sight Masao and an autumn moon.
Hulling meadows and •toren-w..hed heights.
A fountains murmur on 111010.1 r bight..
A dimpled hawu in the forest hash.
Simple word, and the aoog of a thru.h•
Rat red dawn...nd a mate to shore
With comrade Jul - my gypsy fare.
A wsita,g fire whet. the t wilighl end..
A gallant heart and the ruk•e of friend..
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hector and seveety-four years of we.
1 was in a wmak, ru.-iown condition.
My deog=lat toed me about Viral 1
Mod ft and 1. • week noticed coneldsr-
mhb impeovomeat • I continued its use
mid mow 1 hsys gained twenty pounds h
.m: •�ei�e is sbns tw
der Viral strength
for old pespls, "-J�. A. Pawn.
Wo ensunnto•
. our &Nelms sod
weak iron
for
all s.illiese +'w'`
II. Q Dlulop, Drngglot, Ooderleh
Th• Old Orunsers.
Whoa you've marshalled year aeries era
.farted your all
to Ras latest tan Now K is reit lea sad din.
'fin llea la st sesta awe lie cart mooed.
Tae watchful be weitlttg. the menet M•aed,
The roast .utter Deead.oeght.. de•atie std
artea.
TLB thirty hoot oreleer. beth subtle sad ells
11. w.Rgbt .at the r.ca.s of each wonderful
rue
Remember the cruiser.. the oat• tsiste ends
en,
The onaxy oil crul.er, whom day . 'warty
done.
Built was uac before nineteen hundred sad
one.
You may look to the South. you may seek le
the North,"
You mar much from the F.Iklasd. as far .a
the forth -
Frees Pule unto Pole all the comas betweak
Patrolling, ptuteeUagi sowew led, somw,.
H7 uisht or by aread.7 the navy 1. then,
And the eilo(•date cruiser. are doing their
.ha • e.
S e.. an) where, evety when. under the .un,
You 11 And au old enders% an off the -map
, rubor,
.tu out of date Gruber whom work'. rover
done,
Bulli sous time befute noniseo bundled aril
ors. l
It may be you'll meet with bar lending it hand
lu clearing • way for tine soldier. to land -
[.curtius au army, sod feeding It, loo.
Or - i klug a raider (and wring her creel.
Ha.ekadIrtg by era or •ttac•king by dry hand,
Bombarding a coast or annexing an I.M.d :
Whose there. death lobe daring or itek to be
run
You may look fur the miner, the out -of date
. anter,
The (reeky old cruiser tbat barrio. tbrlHun,
1 Built .oma time before I.Ioeleen hundred aid
one.)
to wl(l Liable of winter. wheal ...vmly you
sleep,
Si. to plugging her wn).thruoih ate dark
and the d et p,
%Vial death Bit the bt:lowe whirlt eudie.a do
roll.
And the wind blow tug cold with the kir of the
Pale,
K'nile .a•a- .luppiog ,over lath frequent sad
[nava
forth un otrnlon exprr..ioo. r.1 spleen.
lH+dl the old kettle- award we the bun
To the out-of-date cnr.rr, the obsolete cruiser,
The creaky uld erul,ter epos imerk. neves dors,
Built .owe time before elegises huadrel and
one.
And when the Day break• fur Whale amok. -
trail afar
We ariab the grey water, by .unlight sod .tar,
The day of Great glory -the splendor. the
gluSm.
The lightning. the thunder, the judrmealt, the
doom,
The breaklag of navle-, the ehakiug of kl-as..
\Vheal the Angel of Bottle mak. night with
h1 -wing. -
Oh. somewhere be -are. In the 'Ai, k of the fun
Tod wilt dud aio old ctuh.•r, • s.11ant old
-rinser,
A creaky old enaiaer wbo-e day is not done.
Built some nom before niootms hundred and
cue.
-From Punch.
• • •
BELGIUM L'NDERTHE GERMANS.
The Germane regard Belgium as a
conquered province, end are treating
Ras such. This is the dominant im-
pression i received from a recent tour
of the almost conquered country, and
I would be surprised if the Germans
dented that to be their attitude.
Whether Germany intends to incor-
porate Belgium into the German Em-
pire may. require an expression from
Berlin, but one need only travel
tbrolgh the country to see the signs
of imperialism everywhere. It has
two common physical expressions : the
black, white and sed sentry boxes,
which (teem always to figure promin-
ently in the landscape, no matter
where you stand in any Belgian city ;
and the great signs, fairly shouting
the German imperial ..dosoinioo,
"Kaioerliche Gnuveroment." These
Signe are to be peen over the doorways
of all German governmental offices in
Belgium, and they flown down on the
Belgian in a manner that is not to Ile
mistaken. The German• do not let
the Belgians forget for an in.tant that
they ate acooquered people.
And yet the Belgians do not in any
way admit it. They cannot escape
the adwi.sion that the Germansbave
defeated their attny and overrun their
land. The mailed Hst is far ton harsh
and owoiptesent to be denied ; butthe
Belgians have held firmly to the belief
that it le only • temporaryoccupancy.
and it has helped carry tem through
the severe oervous strain under which
they have been living. Two minor
incidents that occurred to me in Liege
helped me to get the Belgian point of
view. -
1 saw a street vendor selling little
buttons bearing the portraits of the
Kine sod Queen of Belgium, and. while
this would not have struck me as not.e-
wortby in Bruised', where nearly the
whole population flaunt. Its loyalty by
wearing the portraits of Albert and
Elizabeth, it was another matter in
Liege The Iron band is much more
prominent there. 8o 1 asked the ven-
dor if he was not afraid of offending
the Germans. He was only a street
vender, but be rose to the situation.
!slapping back and placing his hand on
bis heart with perfect dignity, he re-
plied witbon' • trace of heroics, "We
are always Belgians."
The other incident showed me the
subtlety of the Belgian point of view
and also ,pave me an inkling of the
subtlety of their activities. 1 Dratted
that the military authorities had taken
possession of the cityjiall and were
apparently carrying on ail
he det. of
city government. Wh I commented
oe it, the Belgian with whom 1 was
walking .toiled and replied : 'Tbs
Germane think they are running Liege.
For the present it may even seem so."
That way all he said, but the way be
wailed to himself made me feel the& he
could have told me a good deal wan
If ha had had • hind to At that
moment 1 caught a ei osetlimpes of
the German occupation of Balglum
that i should like to have the reader
keep in mind In all I say. it remml•ed
continuously in soy Wad. at lwt
t eine deeming the aha wash
Losisi p �� ttrllftt
the dr, there was a hallow lone.
ntmasbow im the lama .i tae O.esas
N..o..I fins that I was
as the eettes 1. IM ar•we
of a vala.M which might at any law
mast sltli maid boll over.Ithiginth misq_
in
spirit that 111. keptt from Latham re-
volt only by Nee hops that the Allies
will oma drive the U.rmaos out. The
ultimate feelings of the Belgians were
expressed by the solid little wits of a
school tesober la A.twesp.
'•If tie fertua.e of war should give
Beegiust to ase many." she said, "there
will be ,hellion Immediately, and It
Mil nes and mal the last Belgian
patript is esad. And 1 too," she ad-
ded, with sodden vindbtive.em. will
account fee at treat ow German sol-
dier, if I have to out We throat 1a kis
aMap • • • • • •
We have all board • great deal about
the marv'sBoue orgaoia talon of the
Osman army. 1 bare seen it in opera-
tion and marvelled at it too. But, in
spite of lbs organizetioa, then Nan
astonishing lack of personal discipline
in 1 b• German army/
At the beginning of the war, when 1
was following the German army along
with other American correspondents,
it used to surprise us to bane half a
dozen privates step out of the line of
march and each iuslst on ezawiuing
our passports Imwedlatel after they
bed been pawed upon by their coluoel,
but we thought it mere curiwuy com-
bined with • certain bumptiousness.
The amount of drinking in the Gentian
army also surprised us. But the lack
of discipline in the Oeronan army did
not impress me until after 1 had beim
with the armies opposing them in the
western theatre of war. Then, when
i returned to Belgium. I :.sold rest
how undiscipliced the Gentian troops
are.
It caste to me with a shock of sur-
prise. 1 was walkaug up the Grand
Place cit the seeuu)g of toy arrival in
Brussels, admiring the quaint ['wades
of the old guild houses. when I was
accosted by a rough, drunken voice.
asiing what I meant by staring at the
buildings. i turned to find the bulky
figure of s German sentry in fleece-
linedlealhercoat. swaying on unsteady
legs. He bad • nfle, douhtleas loaded,
and a fixed bayonet. His face was
flaming with rage which bis tongue
was too inarticulate to express.
it seemed incredible tbat he should
find fault with my stopping to admire
the buildings, but this sou ne time to
explain. Two days tater I would not
even have stopped without carting a
glance around to see if there was not
some figure tit hand. but now I had to
make my peace es but I could with a
drunken man carrying a dangerous
weapon. My anger lose, too, at the
•necessity, but I bad to hold it -in re-
straint while I turned his thoughts by
asking him the way.
He was the tint of fifty-three sent-
ries I saw in Belgium drunk on duty.
!lost of Gaeta were in Antwerp and
Liege, but there were eleven in Brus-
sels. In addle many others
not on dollops a drunk. They
were carrying their revolvers.
At this time the people of Brussels
had been eYprcti•g the lid to blow off
the kettle any hour of the day for four
months, and they fully anticipated
tbat the aeteof s drunken Gemman
soldier would start tt. That nothing
had happened was- doe to the self-
restraint the citizens of Brussels im-
posed upon thentselver. The admoni-
tions of Burgomaster Max before be
was taken to prison in Germany oleo
had their good effect. They alone
could have coatrolled the 910,-
000 Marolliana an Brusiels, a
race of habitual street fighters.
Of them the Germane as openly
fearful and not without cause.
During my days in Brussels 1 took
occasion to cultivate the acquaintance
of the M.rolliens in their own cafes,
aod, if they carry out one-tenth the
threats I heard, if it ever comes to re-
treat, the ,Darman garrison will have
to tight its way through the Marol-
lians to get out of the city.
11.wreadillwastjwrpossi,mpthe ems-
wd aro sa.staadw
high sato. Te bear this a seem
of times a day would have ban tae
w roth foe the Belstlaha if the Illaslf4
ha their ..tor. had mot tensed It kw
• jam Whenever a hs.&a
that mow It no lostger AY
aounity's iay..lon, but Iiia
the phew which ems be
best as "We are doss for."
iso, of oo•saa. a little besmear, tams
bthat.rou4tt, ads. jute that it iso. 4 W
1
t sadism t)uusolat ion.
1 the MaroUlaas moat have
tioogbt of It flet. They tars beem
reposolWe for mama tbesomb Nast.
1 bare no doubt that same of their
bees told. so I
will "them myself already tho tabes i heard
from tics Marollia.s themselves la the
°owes of loamy visits to Ibsir cabs.
Thole quarter, with In steep, Mind-
ing. marrow s$raetm. Yuma taw IN on
which the raids de J.sdoe seamen
This impressive bundle( M • bsrrenks
D ow, and shortly after Brussels was
occupied two Tl -millimeter guns were
swung into position ear It, 000aloand-
ioa the Marathon quarter. Incidentally
they are there yet. A. mos as they
were placed. from every house la the
quarter when there was an extra
leogtb of stovepipe • dummy ca.•oa
was shoved 001 of • window.
The soldiers toads taw MaroUiins
take down the etovepipee, but they
could not arrest a quarter of • million
people.
Regular patrols were pieced in the
quarter then, eo the half-grown Yarol-
)tau boys organised to patrol the
streets also. bricking carrots through
the tops of old derby beta, they con-
trived fair imitations tet the German
belasets, and for aims they carried
broomsticks on to the ends of which
knives bad been tied. They patrolled
the streets as conscientiously as the
Germans and changed the guard oe
regutatly Every throe the German
governor issued an order the Mard-
laiu commander did likewise, and his
grime pastel up beside the other.
One of the orders issued by the Ger-
man governor was hardly more than
a piece of advice to the people to go
back to what wotk they could Hod.
It war not uol iodly meant. But the
Marollians posted an order directing
no one to return to work, giving as •
reason, "Brussels ty temporarily closed
!or purposes of enlargement."
When white paper was pasted over.
tbie, a group of Marollians kept *taring
at it until the German sentry asked
them what they were doing.
"We are Iiokiog wt a Wap of Ger-
many after the war," oneot them cool-
ly replied.
They were confining their attention
to Waning threats when I was In
Bruseels. In fact, they had beetst re-
straining their humor for solute time.
Tbeir last outburst bad been too much
for the Gorman,.
The boy* who were pretending to do
Sentry duty, varying in age from fif-
teen to eighteen, matched down in
front of the ti ntree one day, carrots
through their hats, broomsticks and
all, and drew up in parade formation.
"Direkt nach Paris," their Trader
cried. and they all did the goose-step
backwards up the hill. Most of them
are io jail yet.
The coal mines and the beet -sugar
factories were alone busy in Belgium
last winter. In the country districts
people hare been able to worry along.
The burned towns and the iodustrial
central present the chief problems.
The refugees are largely from the
turned dr•u icto ; and in Southern Bel-
giutn, particularly the Province of
Luxembourg. the country lies devas-
tated and deserted for wiles on end.
No one will turn a hand towards re-
building. Out of several thousand de-
stroyed buildings I saw in various
parts of Belgium, not one was being
t eplaced. Out of the partly destroyed
buildings I saw only • few repaired,
The owners were awaiting the events
of war.
Meanwhile the country is going
bankrupt Practically every one iu
Belgiuw is converting everything he
can into cash and getting that cash over
the Dutch frontier. The week I . otered
Belgium notices had lust b'en posted
throughout the provinces of !Flanders,
Antwerp and Limbourg calling upon
the farmers to rotate out lists of their
fares animals. Tbs farmers knew tbat
the next step was confiscation, so they
hastened to slaughter and take to
rnarket all their cattle. In conse-
quence there was a glut of meat, and
that meat will be sorely needed later
on. In many parts of Belgium cattle
are also being killed because the win-
ter feed was taken. Throughout the
country the farmers have been selling
every variety of food.
All flour and grain was being used
up about the time I arrived in Bel-
gium, but the grain from America.
sent tbrougb the Commission for Re-
lief io Belgium, was already beginning
to come. It was being sent by canal
boats from Rotterdam to Brussels,
Antwerp, Liege and other centre* of
distribution east of en imegivar., I'oe
running from Antwerp to Mons. West
of that line the people were compelled
to shift for themselves, as they were
living in the actual war zone.
Then has been just one way to get
relief to the Belgians -through the
Commission for Relief to Belgium, of
wblcb Mr. Het best Hoover, an Ameri-
oso mining engineer living in London,
is chairman. He consigns the food to
Mr. Brand Whitlock, the American
Minister in Brussels, who te respon-
sible for it. He has made an agree-
ment with the German military auth-
orities in which it was stipulated that
none of it wan to be take• by the
army. When i left Belgium this
e greemeat had haven in operation ever
• mth and the Getman* bad\ re -
di it.
The ew German governor, Freiherr
von Biasing, took up bis duties in
Brussels about the time that 1 arrived.
Humor, heralding him, said that he
bad hewn appointed because his two
predecessors had been too Molest
with the Belgian.. Before accepting
this explanation I waited to ass what
he would do. 1
Ilomediatielp after h1a arrival he
posted an order announcing what he
considered the prerogatives of his of -
Ile., As "rhe German imperial Gov-
ernor of the Province of Brlalum," to
translate his own phrase, be sold be
'sported •.ail the presrsg•Nves and
p 'q�bites that were exercised by the
1[ing -
This was the first formal aunounee-
meet the people of Belgium hod ort -
salved that their country was oowsld-
ered a Germain province. It was •
hard enough blow to bear la mese..
The Belgians have as little personal
contact with the Germane as possible,
and are pointed in avoiding it. Let a
German soldier enter a este in Brus-
sels and in a few minutes eve, y table
near him is empty.
1 was told that I would see the ilas
trecism in full working order in the
more fashionable part of the town, so
1 took a No. 3 car running out on the
Avenue Louise. Then were three
women sltting in the first-class end of
the car when we reached the Rue de
la Loi, when two German officers got
aboard and entered. Immediately the
three womeo arose and stepped out on
the platform. They were not brusque
about it, because they were gentle-
women, but they rode tor many
blocks on the rear platform.
No other women entered while
the officers remained, and they
became very oonecious. Otte was a
fine type of man and who was ex-
tremely uncomfortable, but the other
did not seem to care,
(Coining back on the same car an old
lady little short of eighty was about to
get painfully off the oar when a aer-
mao officer standing then offered to
wrist her.
"Don't touch me," she said, sharply,
and received assistance from the coo -
doctor.
The officer was a German of the
•'gemuthlicb" typo. 1 doubt if he had
ever deliberately offended anyone in
hie life. Be was completely upset lit
the oocurrenoe and walked away.
1 got off the car os the boulevard to
watch a command of serine pose. At
tbeir bead was a good brass hand, and
as the started up from a bait they
flung their ze eir legs forward in the goose-
step and clapped their rawhide boots
on the pavement. An elderly Belgian
standingnear ins wee shaking with
laughter, so i asked what amused him
•o.
"Oh, It is very, very nossical," be
answered and ehnekled to himself as
he walked •war.
in Belgium's tragedy there is the
comic relief, and it bmlpa the
a little. On German staff an
t.omoM
then are flageolet players beside the
drivers, whit 04 bt be called the her-
alds of German imperialism. 1 shall
never forge. tb. $roc 'one of these 1
heard'ebolag through Loovala's men
row trt.s.tm. They played ellereet
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and they felt that be reference to
tbeir beloved Ring was rubbing it in.
Four or five days later another no-
tice wag posted placiog a war indem-
nity on 'the c )untry of 99,000,((0 (I0,-
000.001 francs • month. A "line" the
Belgians called it, but the notice re-
ferrei to it as • contribution for the
support of the army of occup►tinn. 1
happened to be near the postoffi:e in
Brussels *ben one of these notices
was posted there. immediately, of
course, a great crowd gathered to
learn the character of the new imper-
ial mandate. it took me only • minute
to get cluse eoougb to read, but already
it had been liberally spat upon. -
Arno Dosch, in The Outlook, New
York.
A smell special constable in Eng-
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requested by the conductor to come
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inclined to he •Mu.ive. R'luct•ntly
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fronted by • hue navvybout 6 feet
11 inches high and i feet broad. "There
he is," said the conductor: "ne won't
pay his fare." The small special con-
stable reflected, and then remarked
sadly: ••Well, i euppoee1 must pay it
for him."
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