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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1917-5-10, Page 2•TIIMMIDAY, /LAY 1Q, 1$ f- every Englishman `+toyed is dermal' •in the hand -to -head as that boggy • wctrdonan, Alan Bek." Poor old Stevenson ! • MB SIGNAL PRINTING OU., lino. Early to bed and early to wake, Pvar.raasae Au hour or two with the hoe and rake, as _O.wat. leekdrkd 11 •w�is Th�sa_ tar, Street, o► (Nilsen Tot.p ono No o]a nascent -nor Asra—O•e Dollar and fifty Cents per year if paid strictly iD advisors One Doll= will M sonepted: to .ubsortbsru in the Dotted Stats sae roto le One dollar and MY Cents *trimly to Mystics Subscribers who Ail to reactive iiia dims •t. resatarly by mall will cooter a favor b so qivaiutlna t= publish - edl.. tact at ae ear adate aspanrbia when s•.. chance of addMetrvd. both old and Um sow address should be /DYAD. 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No notice lest than Tweet, - Ave O*sta Any •pec1a1 notice, the object of which is W poste{ary base& of any isdlvid• eo nal or aeoottos, to be considered an adver- tisement dverU.ement and aborted .eowdtody. oo d To COaar5IONDUJTa—Tke oo-OVUM e t eubenribers and readers is cooltoward. mottos Tea BroNat. • weakly Invit- ed record d .11 local, county and dl.trlctdana.. No nom. munieattsn will be attended to unless It 00o - the and address of the not s(io� arrtl tor publication. but se evidence Star woe not Inter h News items W.doesday Duld roach To0D stews west. THURSDAY, MAY 10. 1917 THE WAR OUTLOOK. The New York Tribune. inan article entitled "The Brutal Truth," warns people not to be led into the error of thinking that the war is nearly over because the French and British are making advances towards the Gersitan lines of defence. "Russia, at least temporarily, out, of the war ; France almost at the end of her resources ; Italy still incapable of enduring an attack organized by the German high command such as destroyed Rumania and almost cap- tured Verdun ; Great Britain strug- gling with a submarine blockade nut yet mastered and daill becoming more eerioi --0bia is tba'pisrre of the war situation as it now eras a." The Tribune considerately omits any mention of Canada, say The Toronto World (Conservative) in commenting upon this etatewent. The World con- tinues : "We are not doing as we should to support our nien at the front, and while braver sten never fought. and greater deeds have never been done than by the little band that swept over Vimoy Ridge and captured Fresnoy, their ranks are being thinned without any effort on the part Of the (I.w.anraenl here te.wpies ish time. •'So. we meat rely on the United States U. send the men over that may help to bring hoer the remnant of our Canadian army. Th:s reflection might sting, one itnagines, the people of Canada into some show of feeling which should elicit a response from the authorities. The unac•ccontable failure to realize the gravity of the situation continues to paralyze action, however, and nothing appears likely to be clone. The Trihnne voices the conviction of the United State... which ought to be nuts also, that. *we are in a war, the issue of which will infallibly b.' defeat unlearn we are prepared U. fight it av a war for our own existence, calling for our best effort and our ulti- ntat.• strength.' "This is what Canada needs to have taught her by leadership of an o•ffee- tive and prart.ical character. Other- wise we may look to Washington to guide us." WHAT ABOUT RUSSIA? Disquieting reports come from Rus- sia, where the Provisional Govern- ment which bas been •t the bead of affairs since the revolution appears to be not altogether in contiol of the situstion. A Council of Soldiers and Workmen exercises great influence, and ill leaders have attacked the Gov- ernment for adhering too closely to the cause of the Allies. There was some danger that Russia might enter into • separate peace with Germany and Austria. This would release a million or two of German and Aus- trian soldiers now facing the Russian army for service on the western front and in other quarter., and would al- most nullify the British blockade of German ports, as Germany could ob- tain vast gttar-titles of supplies from Russia. However. the crisis seems to bave passed ite worst point with the Provisional Government still in power, and s*stirances have been given the Allies that Ramis will remain &teed - fast. For a month or more hardly a shot has been fired on the Russian front. There are signs, however, that the Russian generals are not inactive. and as soon am affairs at Petrograd become more settled we may have better news from that quarter. tDtTORIAL NOTES. Pigging • garden In peaceful Canada bee ...ate pnlnts over digging a trench ik front of the German array in *wens. A newspaper se.•eunt of the rent, idavel engagement off Dover says Chet Pay your debts, and tell no lies— Then you'll be healthy, wealthy and wise. M r. Balfour on Saturday addressed the House of Representatives at Wash- iogtou. It was a unique occasion, significant of the spirit of cordial co-operation now existing between (creat Britain and the United States. Will Hritish Columbia politicians measure up to the .tatiderd of Imper- tinent which gives the people of India a voice in the councils of the Empire? We cannot expect India to be con- tented while a portion of the Empire declines to receive its people as fellow - citizens. To celebrate "fifty years of journal- ism in Orillia" The Times last week issued a twenty -page edition in which considerable space is given to early historical records of the Gown. It is en interesting number and reflects credit upon the town and the office which produced it. A United Stain commission which has been investigating the coal eitua- tion reports that there will be plenty of anthracite next winter and that present prices are unwarranted. The prudent man, however, will get his bin filled before it is time to light the fires again next fall. There are complaints of the Cana- dian pension administration, and in- stances are given of men who have been treated very shabbily in view of the sacriaces they have made for their country. The Canadian people will not tolerate this sort of thing. In- capacitated soldiers must not be cast off to spend the rest of their {Lys in penury. \. Hon. P. E. Biondin and others who addreiwed a re. r•uitin j meeting at Montreal the other night were hissed and Nodded. This ie the result of the latitude bawd to Douraasa in his unpatriotic speeches and writings. If the Government had put a stopper on him s year Or two ago conditions in Quebec would probably be very differ- ent from what they are. Potatoes seem to be the popular crop this year. partly, we suppose, be- cause everybody eats them and partly because they are s.. easily grown. 1f conditions prove favorable, there will be • tremendous crop ; if the season should be a poor one, s great deal of effort. will have gone to waste. Wouldn't it be well for a few people to grow something else—beans, or MITI, car tomatoes ? Canadian Cabinet Ministers are Boo- ing to Washington these days for con- ferences with the United States aut¢- orities ; they are borrowing atone - frnu the United States, and they have in respect to come important commod- ities let down the bars restricting trade between the two countries. This is very different from the spirit of 1911 ; but rather than dwell upon the inconsistencies of politicians we should rejoice that in a national emergency even men who were elected on a policy of "no truck or trade with the Yankees" are prepared to throw aside their past records and act as the real interests of the country demand. When protectionist organs speak of free trade an having ruined agriculture in Great Britain they are talking nnn- itense. The British farmer has at his doors a market which absorbs all he can produce at price* front which there is no deduction for the eoett..of trans- portation acmes the seas. and to this extent be has an advantage over the Canadian or Australian tanner who sells his products at the price fixed by the Old Country market. He has the farther advantage that he Fntyn him supplies in a free market. Under free trade manufacturing has developed marvellously in the Old Country. and the iner.arting population has been largely employed in the factories ; but undoubtedly the great cause of agri- cultural decline ham been the system of land tenure. tinder which fields once cultivated or used for pasturage have been converted into parks and game preserves for the pleasure of the wealthy landholders. Now that the sterol neeeesttten of war are forcing the cultivation of much land hitherto held in an unproductive state, agriculture is receiving an attention it ham not had for many rare, and after the war it. may be able to hold its own. . The British Weekly, just to hand, gives the Canadian midterm the first place of honor in 'ifs comments on the Easter Monday victory. it. loading article oowimanees : "Raster Monday. 1917, will be remembered as one of the outstanding data In Europeen mil- itary history. Oa that day ties hems Canadian. swpported by pawerhd artillery. Stormed the tremendous for- tifications of Vimy Ridge, near Arras. from witch the Allies hail more them erase ham gong beer it enefws(ee. Their triumph haw bed fahewebing 000a.qu.eee..•' farther en in the same artiste a redlt Is gives the Reath Atricaasa ION Awtrallaae sad GM • THE SIGN "hoose" for Moir share in the vistaed, ke of course ribs Cana- dians bold only • sootparatively small portion of the British line. Thin, though, is the glory of the oapture of Vimy Ridge, the key of the whole position, and those who were Inclined to surmise that abs Canadian DOW, - papers, were giving an unwarranted prominence to the achievements of our own boy* will now realise that the reports were mot colored for Cana- dian consumption. Some of our (lode - rich boys were in that tight; ettime whom we knew fell gloriously, and we can have the proud consciousness that from one own little town went forth heroes who did their part in one of the greatest military triumphs of all time. WHAT OTHERS SAY. ,.x' Us and U. S. an Hcosomic Unit Toronto star. What is this we hear from Wash- iogton ? Who says that Canada and the United States should form r single economic unit ? Who speaks of com- plete rconowic co-operation between Canada and the United States in war? Who declares that "any plans for fix- ing pricer of wheat on the Nottb Awericau continent to be carried on j. bitty by the United States and Can- ada would depend on the extent of food control the United Slates Gov. moment. takes as it result of the bills now pending in Congress !e' Gentle reader, this is the voice, not of President Taft or any unregenerate Grit, but of Sir George Bulas Foster. It is the voice of hint who said six years ago, uttering the most solemn words of his life, that reciprocity would cut our country into sections, and every section would flow with blood. "Like Samson we world arise and shake ourselves and hod that our at rengtb is gone." An economic unit with the United States ! Why, that sounds as bad as "adjunct." However, we do not really suppose that Sir George is annexing us to the United States. He and oth- ers are just taking back a lot of non- sense which they talked in 1911. After all. it wee not altogether useless. As m device for getting into office it suc- ceeded very well. An economic unit ! Well, well. EDITORIAL GLEANINGS. At the Methodist lactones Train- ing Home in Toronto there awe maid to be more young ladies from the county of Huron in training than from any other county in the whole Dominion. Coal men estimate that the wage increase granted to 175,000 miners in the anthracite fields will ruse the re- tail primal hard coal an avenge of 00 cents a ton. The agreement signed last week by representatives of the operators and the United Mine Workers of America adds approxi- mately $10,000,000 a year to the mitten' wages, and it is the largest Increase awarded in the history of the anthra- cite industry. 1 he patriotic farmers of the State of New York, following the declaration of war between Germany and the United States, addressed Congress and President as follows : "We are solid behind the President and Congress in every action and measure defending and sustaining the honor of the United States and the dignity and rigbts of our citizens. We will strive to increase the production of ourtarms in the interest of all, Ind we are ready to respond to every appeal that may be made upon us." The United states seems to be going through the same social processes that Caoadv experienced in the latter months of 1914, remarks Toronto 8Dt- urday Night. Thin every second man had his own particular recipe foe the proper conduct of the war. The fol- lowing paragraph from The Christian Science Monitor will strike a familiar chord in the memories of all of us : "If President Wilson wishes to know how .to regulate food p, leen, manage the Government of the United states, or run the war, all he has to do la to sit in with any little gathering of men nowadays it makes no differ- ence whether it le in the restaurant, the barber shop, the store or the office, the only thing* discuesed are interuational affairs, and matters per. per- • 1. • 'RICH ONTARIO bnnbtNlbndato. QQuyea�tioosse than have thee 0a a• ed meets re quietly ell � satis- factorily disposed of by these Wichita oabineta." The muab-talked-abort American lmmigntion Act came into forte May 1st and is not nearly so formidahle as Ca adians were led to expect, says Tho Autber.tburg Echo. About the only difereuoe one experieows is to be stopped for a moment by a polite official who asks ; "Do you live in Canada ? Are you here to stay or re- turnlog todaysC. This oocupiee but a womeut, uulave asee person means to become • resident of Unele Sam's do- minions, when the required formali- ties mart be gone through and the $8 deposit orad.. Where more demiled iuterrogatlon is desired, the entrant it not allowed to bold up the crowd, but sent to the Immigration office on tbe dock to be questioned at leisure Later on, when they are received from Washington, idsnuflcatiuo cards will be banded out to persons who make regular trips to Detroit or other American points. THE BEGINNING OF FREEDOM. Western Farmer Appreciates the Free Wheat Concetsioe, het Wants More. The granting of reciprocity in wheat is looked upon by the IVeeteru farmer as only an instalment of what is due to bin in the way of releasing his busdneee from tariff burdens. A writer io Toronto Saturday Night ,aye that., while free wheat is highly appreciated as a move which promises to be of inestimable value In the de- velopment of Western Canada, it is invariably treated as a prelude to the removal of other tariff barriers, par- ticularly in toe way of agricultural implements. "The next logical step," says J. A. Moberg, president of the Saskatch- ewan Grain Growers Aaociatioo and of the Sasketmbewia Co-operative Eleva- tor Comp ray, "is to give the farmer the tame opportunity to purchase the necessary supplies required in the pro- duction of farm produce—this dome, the Saskatchewan farmer will be able to compete against the world, despite cheap labor in other wheat -producing countries. It will make certain for our farmers the doing of their share in cleaning up the war debt when this terrible conflict is over, .s no doubt the cleaning up of the debt will be Cased on our basic national industry, agriculture . " H. W. Wood, president of the United Farmers of Ai beets and presi- dent of the Canadian Council of Agri- culture, ave : "lf we cam cootiuue w have the Western farmer's rights re- cognized in inspect to the markets wherein he buys as well as those in which he Delhi, we will build up the necessary prosperity for a civilization in Western Canada which in • short time will be .tirpas.ed by none. 1 sin- cerely hope this is a sign Ottawa is getting a wider vision and will co-op- erate for a greater Canada. When the Goverowent gets properly pre- pared for this work it will find the West with coat off and both feet in the ring." "Of course," says Roderick McKen- zie, secretary of the Canadian Council of Agriculture, " ve still got to press for tree to the United States markets for oats, harley, flat, potatoes, end so forth. Our principal object is a^bieved, but we have still some demands which we must con- tinue to press upon the authorities." J. B. Musselmen, secretary of the Saskatchewan Grain GrowerAsso- ciation, states : "If free agricultwal implements may but be. added to free wheat such au impetus will be given to Western agriculture and agricul- tural settlement as could be given in no other way." Th. Latest News. The following story is going the rounds : An edit ,r in the Far West dropped into church for the first time in many years. The minister was in the very heart of the merman. The editor listened for • while, and then rushed to his office. "What are you fellows doing ? How about the news from the beat of war ?" "Wrist Dews ?" "Why, all this about the Egyptian army being drowned in the Red Sea. The minister up at the church knows all shout it, sod you have not • word of it in our latest. Bustle around. you fellows• sod get out an extra -special edition." 11111111111111111111111 A CALL 7 0 CANADIAN. Coasts Scutt 1n The Churchman. It le a told, cold day in Frwos. The bround V (roam bud, and the memgo y with pinched no esand cold hands. The window panes of my onloe ratan with the sound of big gun, and before me lies a Canadian newspaper with a page devoted to sport, and full of re- counts of hockey matches, etc., etc. itis at such a moment w this that toe tingles with • .rt.es of disgust and shame. Sport I Hocks watches I Healthy young men, pbysieally 51. playing games at home 111111 m",usstble! Where is public eptrit ? Where is patriotism ? Where is the principle of manhood ? Ars those men content to eta at home and play games and live d eating, selfl.b lives, while their t low-Cruadians are out ben bleeding and dylog for them ? I blush for Canada, I blush for the crowds that throng the ricks and enjoy the sport. We have sport,, as far as we can, for ow men here. They have • right to thew. But to shirkers at home nothing but hisees are dee 1 1 know 1 aw writing strongly, but it is deserved. As tar as 1 am concerned, I never want to take the hand of any Mere wbo it physically fit and bas o01 volunteered to come to the front, un- less then has been some overwhelm- ing claim upon him of duty at home. It seems incredible that any man oan sleep in his bed at night and let other met out here bleed and die for him. Let Canadian mothers and wives know that they could do 0o greater injury to their sons and husbands than by holding them back and Dot allowing them to enlist It is an injury -which will last all tbrougb their lives. We need men. %Ve need every man In the Empire. This isno time for sport. If Some of the shirkers at home who go to see • hockey match could come out ben and vee a front dressing sta- tion during an action, they would have their eyes opened and ttteir hearts cbaoged. Man, and young men, at home, why do you not throng to the recruiting office ? There is the possibility of a crippled body it you do, there is the certainty of a crippled character if you don't, and that is tar worse• And then the millionaireit efCanada. What are they giving ? Nothing at. all adequate. Money has been sub- scribed. Red Cross subscriptions have flowed io, but more money can come. If • millionaire watts to know how much he ougbt to give to some war object., let bim picture himself on • cold, dark rainy night, lying in a wet shell -bole with both his legs blown off, acid no stretcher-bearers near. Bow much wodld he give then for help and protection and medical treatment ? Would it be a thousand - dollar subecrlptoo to an ambulance ? No, it would run up quicklyto seven figures. That thought wilgive bim • clearer idea of his financial duty. Other men have had ti lie dying in shell -holm for bis *aka. What • rev- elation to Canadians it would be if they could all visit the front. But, W as, Canada will never know what her sons have endured. Day after day, month after month, year •facr year, cheerfully and gladly the have endured and suffered and fought.. If Canada ever forgets these met, my prayer is that she may go t o the dogs You will forgive Ude strong language. It has the merit of being sincere. The sporting page of a Canadian news- paper it to me like • red rag to a bull, when I think of what our men are doing here. We are going to smash the Huns, but we are a long way from doing it yet. it will take the suprem - est. effort of our whole Empire. Every man must put bis shoulder to the wheel; even 111 be a chariot of fire. Misunderstood. The well-to-do manufacturer who made • hubby of archaeological re- search was travelling in Palestine when pews reached him of an addition to bis iamily. The manufacturer sac- rificed archaeological to parental joy.. Providing himself with some water from the Jordan to carry home for the chs ibtening, he at once set out for Kentucky. On the morning appointed for the baptismal ceremony he arrived at the church ahead of the rest of the family in order to hand over the precious water to the preacher. As he pulled the flask from his pocket the minister held un a warning hand. "Not now, not now," be said eerily. "Maybe after church is out."—Albany Times UDIEM. 4111111•11111111111 =MD W. ACHESON & SON 25 dozen only 23x36 hemmed Huck Towels, bleached, launder well. Special 6 for $1.00 50 dozen hemstitched Linen Huck Towels, splendid qual- ity, size 22x35. Very special . $ for $1.50 Table Damask In four patterns, heavy bleached double Damask Tabling, 72 inches wide, old stock, worth 11.00. At per yard .... Bed Spreads 28 only hemstitched, handsomely embroidered, larg , size, Irish manufacture. These were a special odd \, line. New and bought special. Worth each 15.00, at- $3. Floor Rugs Tapestry, Brussels, Wilton, in all sizes. Linoleums 2, 3 and 4 yards wide, at per yard..... .... lSc, 7k and 75c W. 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