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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1917-8-23, Page 22 TmTRfiDAY, AUGUST 23. 1917 f THE SIGNAL - GODERICH, a ONT'RIO Joe 1813 SIGNAL PRINTING CU., LTD Pgnueaaas THE 81UNLL W peb1Wbed every h red'. om the office las The Signal Dn(ldi Korth gtreet. Goderioh Ontar!o Telephone No SS 'vBMCRn'TIUN haat•.-tine Dollar and rfhy AAlarper year : It paid strictly In advance One lar will be accepted ; to subscribers in the United Butes the rate W One cloller and Fine Gents strictly In advance. tubeorlbere who (till to reoeive THE SIONLL regularly by mal artlloonter a favor by acquainting the publish of the fact at es earl • dere se possible. When ebwoge of Wdre-- 1.. desired, both old cod t he new address should be given. Remittance may tie made by bona draft. expense money 9abecrtp It one rerr oomweuregistered i oeatany umeetter. ADVKXTICINO T►Rra.—hater for display and ayt.traot edvertiremeuts will be given on appli- cation. 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No oom muoto$Uon will be attended to unto. it con- tain the name and addrees of the writer, not eoswart1y for publioetloo, but ae an evidence off good faith. New. Items should roach Tec Stamm canoe not tater than Wedoeaday noon Of *see week. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 1917 BORDEN ANU BOURNS/IA. The Prime Minister arose in the House of Commons the other day to repudiate his former allies. the Na- tionalists of Quebec. He said : '1 regard the attitude of the Nation- alist party of Quebec in this war as unpatriotic. and 1 consider that it is the first duty of myself and my friends to assist in defeating that party." And how has he gone about detest- ing that party 7s. By giving pledges that"there would be no conscription, and titer. without notification or ex- planation to those to .whom he had given these pledges, introdu.ing a bill that he Ifnew would be violently opposed in Quebec and that would gave Bourses& and his lieutenants the opportunity they were seeking of rousing their compatriots in opposition to the rest of Canada.. Bouraesa seeks the leadership of Quebec ; he cares little or nothing at all about Canada as a whole. He could not have prayed for a better opportunity to secure the position he covets as the champion of the French-Canadian people—if only Sir Wilfrid Laurier had gone in with Borden as the latter proposed that he should do. Sir Wilfrid, however, would not, for the sake of a place in a coalition Government, wrerk the work of unifying Canada to which be hal giveo his life. As The Montreal Wit - nese well expressed it : "It was not to keep his party together, but to keep his country together, that Sir \Vilfrid took up the cross of a dubious pcsi- Que." Boum ea would have alienated ebec altogether from any sympathy with Canadian war effort. Laurier would save his Province from this separatist attitude. and keep it. inline with --the rest of Canada. That, the Liberal leader has not been able to do more than has been done in Quebec is owing in great rneaeure to the mischief wrought by the Conservative -Na- tionalist illiance of 1911 when Con- servative funds financed the Nation• alist campaign The thickens have come home to roost, and no "repudia- tion of Boursesa in 1917 can clear Sir Robert Borden froto the conse- quences of his encouragetueut of Bouraeseism in 1911. Liberals who are impai of, with Sir Wilfrid Laur- ier'e attitude today should remember that he is meeting a situation that was not created by himself but was made by his /itical opponents who are now cla wing the support of the Cana- dian peo le. DUTY TO RETURNED MEN. The following letter appeared in The Blyth Standard last week : Dear Fditor,—By the aid of your paper I would like to draw the eaten ofof1 t to their tion the people $ h duty to rettn-ned soldiers. My husband, who came home three months &go with an honorable discharge, has been willing and able to work but hes not had a single opportunity to do so from a citizen of Blyth. He tried to do his duty for us all, now will not some one do something for him, myself and children 'r Max. Ugo. HAooiTT. There are some people very anxious to send men overseas who are not so ready to do anything for those who return from the battle-frontafter risk- ing their lives in the discharge of their self imposed duty. Is it any wonder the voluntary system has failed 7 ALL-ROUND CONSCRIPTION. •'"-- The Ht. Marys Argus, like The Signal, believes thatif there is to be conscription it shonld he an all -nand conscription, not simply the .ending ef pertain men to the places of danger while others stay at home in cumfoit. The Arens soya: "Conscription" tea word that 1. being used very positively and assertively these days. But to get a right idea regarding it we mtiet got well It�st' tended In our minds the fact tisat every citizen In be enentry should be • soldier in some form In 'this war. The idea that we should call up a certain number of men air oordlug to some "conscription scheme," and c pel them to train and then go abroad aud fight on land. on sea. or in the air at one dollar and ten mots a day, witbout any measure of con- scription being forced on the relit, is preposterous. If certain ones should be conscripted for that purpose, then all `should be conscripted for some purpose. Why cer,ain ones, on ae- couut of being ot a certain age. should face death and mangling at the front at $1.10 a day. while others, in many cares of the same age, but called "ex- pert workers," should stay at house getting trout five to seven or eight dollars a daymaking munitions, parser the c)mpremakingension of even tins most iutelligen. among us. Reals everyone should be conscripted and wade W work et soldier wages. And even al- though we might allow peace condi- tions to prevail among many liner of work, there eau be no doubt that soldier condition, and soldier wager should prevail in all those lines of work directly connected with the carrying on of the war, such as the manufac- ture of war materials. The thing is so self-evident that one stands in amazement at the fact that one man is conscripted to go to the trenches at one dollar and ten cents a day, while another is conscripted to work in e munition factory et five dollars & day. Yes, let conscription came in a sane, absolutely unpartial form like that la the United States, but let it extend to all the citizens, whether they stay at home to woik or go abroad to fight. EDITORIAL NOTES. Is "Bob" Rogers really out this time, or is there still a string attached to hint ? The Waive people thought they had salt on Mr. Rowell's tail, but they haven't caught him yet. We are all for union government. but it must be something better than the Bordeu Government with an outer garment of respectability thrown over it. Clifford Sifton is still at his game of trying to secure the dominance of a Government that will protect the Big Interests. It will he a pretty expen. sive game for the people of Canada if Sifton wins. Sifton pulls the strings behind the screen 'and the people of Canada are supposed to see only the patriotic act that is being pulled off in front. How tetany people are fooled by the at- tempted deception 1' If "Bob" Rogers is, really thrown overboard, isn't it rather aslalp in the face to those seventy members of Parliament who so recently expressed their admiration forhim ? Will Col. Lewis and Jas. Bowman, M.P.'s, stand for it? Some bureau of misinformation is sending out statements regarding the conscription act to the effect that it provides for the conscription of labor for work on the farms. it does nothing of the kind, of course. though that' might be a very desirable provision. Hon. A. G. MacKay, former Liberal leader in the Ontario Legislature,'now a meulber of the Alberta Provincial House, said when interviewed at Tor- onto the other day : 'This talk about the foreign population of the West being averse to Canada's participation in the war is • lot of nonsense. The West is just as solid for the winning of the war as the East." The Globe remarks that no stigma rests on the "conscripts" who have been called out in the United States "in pursuance of a system which aimed at organizing the country for ni txin um efficiency in war. " Certain- ly not. But in Canada, where con- scription has not been in effect, there is likely to be a wide distinction in the public mind between volunteers and "conscript/1." in fact, the argument most frequently heard. In support of conscription in Canada is that it will "get the slacker." On the other hand, it may be that the enforcement of conscription will be welcomed by some men who are now classed as "slackers" and who will be put tight before their fellow -citizens when their rases come before the conscription tribunals. This Advertisement 11 may induce you to try the first packet of but we rely absolutely on the inimitable flavour and quality to make you a permanent customer. We will even offer to give this first trial free if you will drop us a postal to Toronto. 8113 majority which these journals fear will be polled against the present Ad- tninistrstion. We do not understand why there should be so much trouble about securing a majority for- the Government. Why nut have an open vote, and instructthe returning of- ficers to reject all votes tendered for Opposition candidates'e Or stand all the Opposition candidates up against a wall and put thew out' of business before election day Just some simple little thing like that would do the trick. What right has anybody to oppose this Government, anyway WHAT OTHERS SAY. Men We Don't Want. Marys Argus There are outetaoding men whom all clause. might wish to see in the councils of state at the present moment. there are ethers whose names would worthily come moiler coosideratiou, and lastly there are wen who are impossible. Sir Clifford Siston is one of the letter. He be- longs to that group whose profession is to batten and fatten on the public. He went into politico poor and inside of a decade came out a millions ire. He went into this war a millionaire and already is many timer a million- iare through wheat and horses. Hs is a type that is the menace of dem- ocracies even when freed from the menace of emperor -despots. He be- longs to the profiteers. the whited sepulchre among the "patriots" and "toyalirts." He. like Mr. Willison, contracted a grievance against Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and, like Willison, knows no forgiveness. Accordingly he did what be could to oust Sir Wilfred from the premiership in 1911 and now is doiug bis beet to oust him from the leadership of the Liberal party. All to gratify a grudge. 1t matters not that Sir With id has re- ceived ample vindication of his '1911 policy by the event bf the last few years. Hie policy of 1911 is the law of the lend today, aud, mnetesd of "no truck and trade with the Yankees," we have not only freer trade with them, hut we are companions in arms in civilization's cause. No, we want none ot Nitron and men of his clan. If he chooses to fatten on his coun- try then let him have the graoe to keep out of its politics, and out of its national affairs. As be has of his own free will gone t o his own place, like Judas, let bis stay there. Men whose chief end in lite is to exploit their c matey for private gain are nut the men we want at the bead of aff tin either ip times of peace or in times of war \ The income tax bill, while in itself a 'attach fiscal e addition to (. welcr om legislation, cannot take the place of a war measure to make the wealth of the country r ontrihute ani it ehnuld to the neceseit.iee of the situation. From this standpoint the bill has been criticized in the House of Commons by Oppneition members who demand an increase of theta: upon large incomes. A remark made by Sir Herbert Ames, in opposing these demands, throws a light upon the mental attitude of a certain type of people. "I have found patriotic rich men," said Air Herbert,. "who don't want to have &dollar more when the war is over than when it began." Perhaps if Mir Herbert. patriotic rich men had a taste of the trenches they would even be glad to get mit of the war alive and live on a pennon for the rest of their days. Journals like The Toronto Newe are very anxiouew that the Government before going into en election *honed load the dice so as to he sure of a majority on polling Ay. It is proposed that certain eleinefite nipprwed to le unfavorable to the Government be diefranehieed. that the soldier.' vote be manipulated. and that other ex peddienta be employed to overcome the t A Rotten Deal. London Advertiser. One of the rottenest deals ever laid to the door of the present Adrnin- halation at Ottawa is the C. N R. purchase. To the name of nationalize - tion of railways, the Uoveromeut will hand millions Upon millions to the omen who "hooked" the Provincesiaod the Dominion. aud saying, "You can't let us go," have come to the public trough again and been able to get through a bunch of willing politicians • deal that smells to high heaven. How much ,id it cost to put it over 'l The very absence or criticism of the deal, ezoept from a few members of the Liberal patty, would make it ap- pear that a good part of the prospec- tive millions have already beer spent. Toe members of the present Govern- ment never appeared in a more sinis- ter light than when they are showing a suspicious willingness to hand over a omen of the country's money that may reach $120,000,000, and may retch more. When an ordinary hostages concern goes bankrupt, as the U. N. R. has done, the promoters of that concern are entitled to not one cent. Why should the great Bill and Dan be per- mitted to toll up their sleeves and stick their arms to the elbow into the great pork barrel that is held out for them. Canada must appear a national "boob" in the face of ouch • raw piece of work. Vben \ the last deal was made the Finance Minister .tat -d that if the company defaulted again the road would be taken over. The coun- try would be protected. Sir Thomas White has • Toronto financial educe - tion and the whole Toronto influence seeress to have been at the beck and call of Bill and Dan. Canada, and not Mackenzie & Mann, have furnished the greatest amount of money that has gone into the entre- prises. and it in not up to Canada to pay the whole shot. it Is time that railway legislation in Canada coma mentos to attain • flavor of public aerviee and decency. At the present tinge Mackenzie k Mann are the mes- tere. NEW VOTERS LIST ACT. A Cumbersome Method of Making Up Legislative Lists. More light is toeing tbrowm on the new Provincial Voters' List Act every day since the wunicipel lists are being issued, and the new Act" is anything but pteaaing to the waoy overworked aud 'fi'ery often inadequately paid township clerks, who looted to the fees from voters' list courts to supple- ment their salaries. Under the new Act voters' list courts will largely dis- "upear, u the matter of adding L-g- idative voters, both male and bungle, is entirely removed from the province of municipal officials, and will be placed in charge of enumerators in each municipelit y, who in the nature of things will receive their appoint- ment as • reward for party services, unless the who Ie system of the anode belongiog to the victors a rtvolut un - Med. The voters' list is n ads up in two parts under the new Act. part one containing the names of those who have voter in both municipal elections and. elections to the Legislative As- sembly, and part two consisting of nou-resident owners, who have only a right to vote at municipal elections. In part one are found the name. of those married women and widows who own their own property or are tenants, and as usual the number is negligible. The elimination of part three, which formerly contained the names of elec- tors qualified to vote only at Legisla- tive elections, leaves room for some criticism, not only on the ground of cutting wuoicipal clerks out of their just terse, but to secure the names of the mule and female electors entitled to vote at L-gialative elections a cumbersome and expensive inethod is employed. A registration board for sash county, considtinq of the judges, crowo attorney, sheriff, registrar and local master, sits in judgment. They appoint a clerk of their board. and enumerators for each polling •ub- division in the county, whose duty it is to make a home -to -Mute canvase for thirty days or more, if necessary, and enumerate all the voters (male and female). not on the original voters' kat. wbo are entitled by age and citi- zensbip to vote, and after these are revised other voters' lista are issued for each municipality, then the two voters' lints—that issued by the muni- cipality and the other by the registra- tion egistryton board—are the oewbined list of qualified voters for each municipality. That is, instead of the voters in each voters' list bring determined by the assessment roll and the appeals upheld by the judge at the court of revision, after thirty days from the issuance of each municipal list, we have prac- tically the original machinery, and this new and wonderful county regis- tration machine witb its additional expense during a time when heads of Government, food controllers and what not are urging the people to save, save,save. Municipal clerks think that what they save is doubly spent on political heelers who will get the job of enumerating the voters. Instead of a cumbersome registra- tion hoard as provided under the Act, a board composed of the county judge. would be less li.hle to error and more likely to give entire satisfaction. In Essex county the judge's pilings in voters' lista appeals have been anques- tiooed.—Amherst burg Echo. Compensation. The rector of the Vanderbilt chur•,h of AsheivlIe. In the course of an ad- dress , before r cantata' reform emen- dation, said : "The subtle attacks are the most unexpected and the most wounding. You have heard about the clergyman and his aged parisbioner. "The parishnner said he thought clergymen should Is better paid. " '1 am pleased to bear yon say that, Bro. Brown.. exclaimed the youog man. beaming with good -will and hap- piness. 'It rejoices soy heart to hear pm ray that.' "'Yea,' resumed the pari.hoear, thoughtfully. •we'd get • better clave of woo then.' " bA RUSSIAN SINGER. VeoOraDlr Musician His le Laat (]teat Hong and UIed. Russian music belongs to all the people. Russians express themselves 1n melodies instead of words. Siber- ian exiles told their life stories in their songs and thus understood each other even when speech was forbid- den. Baroness Soulny In her volume on Russian Lite tells bow Votltchen- to, the Russian musician, collected and interpreted the old songs of war and love known to previous gepera- tions. Finding treasures everywhere, transplanting century -old melodies known only to a little group of peas- ants In some remote corner of Russia to the modern world, "Having heard of a hamlet far north In Siberia where lived an old peasant who knew songs forgotten by all others, Votttchenko undertook the journey, traveling many days to the isba where the venerable Ostap had passed his ninety-eight years. "The old man, not different from other old men ono wish to lengtben their days, shoot his head. He would not sing; the thin tbread of breath wnich still kept him alive might break. But young Votitebenko was stronger in his will than the old man . He had made the journey; be had to have his songs—songs forgot- ten by all, songs the old must give to him. Oh, yes, Ostap knew songs: oh, so beautiful that only the great men of his youth, nearly a century ago, could sing, and that nobody else could remember, and so the songs would die with him. The old man closed his eyes; he sank into les of the past, of his youth and vigor. All was silent In the modest isba. Peasants had entered silently to ,listen to the tympanon, which sang under the young traveler's angers, songs they all knew and loved. Very softly, not to awake old Ostap from his thoughts, he played the melodies, to which the people moved and hum- med. Votttchenko struck rich chords, d the little wooden house vibrated with the sounds of dance music, to ,e -songs. war -marches. "Ostap, as if awakening from a long sleep, plinked at tn. young mu- sician, brut forward, Itatening to the joyful. fiery songs, his little eyes opened wide, his wrinkled old face straightened as tit a tension. Sud- denly he rose, his big frame tremb- ling like a leaf from emotion. The other peasants, moving to a corner, were struck with awe, as if they saw a vision. Grandfather Ostap had not stood up for fifteen years; some of tate women crossed themselves, and a child began to cry. Old Ostap, as if tar away. began first with a, shaking voice, and then sang strong and loudly. Votttchenko excite ly fol- lowed the strange song, note by note, and at the third strophe could play it fluently. Old Ostap was still statld- ing, still singing—but suddenly, ex- hausted, he fell back tato his chair, his eyes stared, his heart beat no longer. The great old son of a war- rior had expired with his song; but the song, the forgotten song, lives, and will live forever." Do You Want a War Map ? Canadian homes will„no longer have ditflculty in following -the Canadian troops in France. There has juslrbeen iesued a map of the European war area that clearly shows every point of in- terest that hes teen mentioned in des- patches singe the Canadian force, first landed in France. It has been nude speciaily fur the great Canadian weekly, The Family Herald and Week- ly Sar, of Montreal, and is a credit indeed to Canadian enterprise. It is • marvel of detail aud yet not crowded. It is in, four colors and about 2 1-3 x 3 1-4 feet and folded into a very neat cover, about 5 x 10 inches. The map is surrounded by a border of the regi- mental badges and coat of arms of nearly every battalion that left Cau- ads, from Halifax to Vancouver. Every important point assn be recog- nized at once. That portion of the map covering France is in • soft 3olor with names of towns and battle scenes in black, easily recognizable. The map is endorsed by returned military expertas most complete and accurate in detail. The reap could not be pro- duced. except in such lerge quantities as The Family Herald will use, at less than two dollars a copy, yet it can be bad absolutely free with The Family Herald. The publishers of The Family Her- ald and Weekly Star for several months back have been fighting hard against the necessity of increasing their subscription rates, hut eventually had to come to it like most other papers. The increase, however, is • mere trifle—twenty-Ave cents a year. making their new rote $1.261—and with the year's nib.eription they will Include a copy of this gnat war map free of oharge. This it certainly a generous offer, and nee that Oanadians will appreciate. Many erpeeted a mneh larger increase In the subscrip- tion prim. of The Family Herald. and are surprised at the small eves amount cheered. The Signal's clubbing rate will iso $ 2 10 for The Signal, The Family Herald and Weekly Star and the war mdp. (beck Saved Kotnllof. It L not generally known that at one time in the present war, Lieuten- ant -General L. G. Korniloff, whose victories In Galicia have so aston- ished the world, was an Austrian prisoner of war and that be escaped from Austrian captivity with the aid of a Czech soldier, who forfeited his life to save his distinguished Slav brother. During the retreat of the Russian army from the Carpathians in the spring of 1915 General Kornlloff, then commanding the rear guard. was captured by the Austrians and interned in Bohemia. In the summer of 1916 be managed to escape with the help of the Czech soldier. Frank Mrnak. For several weeks the two fugitives were making their way stealthily toward the Roumanian frontier, hiding by day and travelling by algbt. But one day in August they were surprised by gendarmes. The general got away and finally reached Russia, where be command- ed the Petrograd garrison during the revolution. Mrnak was hit and cap- tured and later sentenced by the court-martial in Pressburg to be shot. It had been the Czech soldier's in- tention to enter as a volunteer in the ranks of the Csecho-Slovak lrigade, which has by this time grown into two dMsions. That his name and his heroic deed should not be forgotten, the commander of the bri- gade Issued an order to have Mrnak's name inscribed on the roll of Com- pany A of the first regiment of the Csecbo-Slovak brigade of sharpshoot- ers. It was further ordered that at every roll call when Mrnak's name 1s called the sergeant of the first N ud should answer:r: "Shot by Hun- garian court-martial In Pressburg for saving General Kornllof." Birthplace of Braes. Tarnberry Castle, on the coast of Ayrshire. Scotland, now but a bit of ruined wall oast the lighthouse. was the birthplace and early home of Robert Bruce, wbose father and mo- ther "combined In themselves the earldems of Annandale and Carnet of royal lineage—Abe titles still being retained by the present royal family of the United Kingdom." in ancient Wines this old castle was large and strong- In the early part of Bruee's career, Turnberry was bend by an English force. Bruce, throsgb a mistaken signal, came to take the old familiar place, though his mem were many toe few for the task. Dis- daining to stye It ap, however, be kept up as Irregular war, sometimes being driven to refuge in the moun- tain or eves 1■ the wilds of • dis- tant loch. At length be gatbered to- gether seeegk men to take Turnberry Castle, which art was the beginning of his triumphant progrtaa through Ayrshire and Stirllag•kire, which finally elided with Bannockburn's tremendous victory. It 1. bard to realise the old-time Importaaes of Turnberry. sow that the visitor must The learn .d man has a fortune that seanb long beta.. he can come he can't is bunkoed out of. across Its tea battered remains. W. ACHESON & SON STORE CLOSES WEDNESDAYS AT 1 O'CLOCK DURING JULY AND AUGUST Congoleum Rugs A splendid choice in the new moderate -price Con- goleum Rugs, in sizes 2x3, 3x3, 3x3 1-2, 3x4. Linoleums In 2, 3 and 4 -yard widths. Old values. Ranging in price per square yard 6oc to 75c Brussels Rugs Forty Rugs just received, a delayed shipment bought a year ago. English Rugs, Brussels, Tapestry and Wilton. Sizes 2 I -4x3, 3x3, 3x3 1-2, 3x4. Designs suitable for any rooms or halls. At prices away below what makers are asking today. Dress Silks French Silk Poplins, 36 inches wide, most service- able and most beautiful material for dresses or suits in the world today, black and in all leading shades and colorings, at per yard, special ....$I.35 Black Satin Duchess and black Pailette Dress Silks, at per yard $1.35 and SI, 50 W. ACHESON & SON .1 THE CO-OPERATIVE DL►(.IVERY. Article in Trade journal Says It Has Proved a Success is Godericb. The Canadian Grocer, the well- known grocery trade journal, has the following article in the current issue The system of co-operative delivery has been in operation in Godericb, Ont., long enough for tbs merchant to feel assured of its success Mon and more in fact has this system be- come the thing in the villages and medipm-sizers towns and cities. It solves so many of the difficulties that present themselves in counectiou with delivery, and solves theta on the whole iu a most setisfactoi y manner. i In Ooderich as in other towns, for the sake of convenience the town is Li divided into four sections. To each of these sections there are four deliveries dai,y, two in the morning rend two no the afternoon. with an added delivery on Saturday evening. The deliveries leave at • eertaio specified bout, and housekeepers have grown accustomed to the fact that after this hour bas passed there is no chance of their get- ting their goods delivered till the next delivery. They have gone even far- I cher than that and have encouraged customers to conserve the energies of the store ea far as poesihIe, so that a great deal of the abuse of delivery rigs calling at one hoose tato and three times a day is eliminated. The delivery business is conducted as a separate enterprise entirely die - associated from any of the grocery stores. Once the goods leave the grocer the delivery company assumes entire responsibility for their safe ar- rival, Four rig, are used in the delivery, one for each section of the town. Tbey differ little from the ordinary delivery rigs, except that they have three decks. which enables carrying is greater number of orders titan the average single grocery delivery would require. be grocers generally acknowledge that this delivery system is s great improvement on the old method. it does away with the persistent de- liveries that the merchant, when con- ducting his own delivery armour, finds it difficult to refuse. Moredver, in Goderich as in many other towns, petting men is one of the eenousitems . in any undertaking. Of course tnere are men driving these co-operative delivery rigs, but it is considerably easier to get four wen than two or three times that number. Now, as to the matter of coat, the new system also bas something on the cid. There in of course • sliding scale, depending on the business that the merchant is doing, but for a merchant in a good type of business the weekly coat of the delivery amounts to 1110, which is considerably less than oven the salary of • delivery boy in these days, and that is only one of the many charges involved in the delivery prob- lem in tiodericb, as in most other sections where the system has bees tried, the cooperative delivery is voted $ success. i predict • wonderful future for the Canadian fisheries.," said Major Wight, (ween. offieer in (shamppa of the fish supplies for the overseas Canadian army, and the imperial Board of Trade. "I1 the war ware to end to- morrow, the British flab trade would sot he reorganized for at least give year.. TTSSe((lanadian fisheries should praline. $1011,000,000 annually Instead of the 1194,O0),000 produced today." Eavestroughing and all kinds of TINWORK are right in our line Don't delay ordering necessary work done It -will pay you to have re pairs made promptly \Orders entrusted to us ttceive expert attention FRED. HUNT "THE PLUMBER" Hamilton Street Phone tS SEASONA 134.E FOOTWEAR\ BELLNQUALITY is never 'ttioned ; the name is sufficient Those who demand the hest footwear in either men's or women's fine Shoes should not fail to see the fine shoe- making and quality of leather that have so long character- ized Bell Shoes. The styles are always up-to-date and the priest; most reasonable. —REPAIRING Geo. MacVicar North side of Square, Godericb