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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1917-10-4, Page 2i!t 0 4 2 THURSDAY, Ocl, 4. 1917 THE SIGNAL - GODEIgCH, ONTARIO argialional /HS SIGNAL PRINTING Co., Lon Pcatossigxe Tux aleNaL Is pabll.hedverYy t'burdv ew the Ata .e w rhe tllaual Building. North eres. Uod»rich Ontario Telephone No St u.eestrrwN tt'aa1.e.–Oris Doilar sod Fifty .,out+ uer year ; if pard strictly to advent', One pvliar will be accepted: to subscribers In the Dotted Scat., the rate io One Ihdlar and Fifty Cents .trtetly in advance. 8ub,cribers who ( Tim ail renterta favor by iaoqualnttee the pub It ..h oft be fact ragweed, a date as peel ble. When change of addle.,. i. dewired. both old awl ►ht new adds..., should be Riven. Remittance - Way be made by bank draft. stereo+ money order, coot -Wilco order, or regteured letter. Qobocript ion. may cearmence at auy time. ADvaarININU T►Ryrs.–hates fur di+play and eau.trant ad ver uwmeuta w111 be given o.. appli o►uoa. legal and other Wattle: .4vert Lomeli to. len oeots per lir., for nr»t Monition and tour amts per line for each +ub..equeut loeerUou. Mra.ured by a Anal. of .0114 uou pared–twelve Mee. Wan inod nus/ue++ mind. of ds here and under. Five seller• per year. AdverUae- oentr nt Loot- Tumid. Strayed. Bi tuetlous Vacant, Situataono Wanted. Bou.e+ for Sale cr R-nt. M'.crms for Solo or to Rent, Article* Sale. etc.. not exceeding eight Ulla. for Twenty. five yens -.ace Went ion Oo..th. Cont.- ...ace Couto fo: ewe hea',•••queut month. Lenge, advert iseta.ut. w pro rtiou. au- Do�ncementN 1n ordinary tris ty�ppee,, Tea CJnt.. per line. No Dotine lore than Tweet., five Cent... any special' Do: toe, the object of which la the pecuniary benefit of any lodivid. eel or a..orlatiof. to be considered au 'dyer tleoment and charged aocordinghi. To t'ORReePOND[N'rM.–Th. 000pereUoo of cordi ar gird. loer• and reader. making Tax a e weekly towre ord •f all local. county and db.t riot dotngi• No cora munination will be atteuded to uole+a 11 con. Wns tho nsn.e and addreeo of the writer. not wecorwerily at faith., New. Pound whoa dublication. but ao arreach THE Sieteat race not later than Wednesday bona Of each week. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4 1917 EDITORIAL NOTES. Over three tons of fish were allowed to spoil in a Toronto cold -storage warehouse. Where was the Food Controller's nose The extent of the failure of the Ontano apple crop may be gauged from the announcement that Nova Scotia apples are being shipped into this Province for consumption This is the (all fair season. and the ed- itorial column must be curtailed for a week or two to make room for the prize lists. The horrible thought occurs that rt may be a welcome change for our readers. it is two weeks since The Signal asked The Toronto Star to explain its gross misrepresentation of the Opposition's stand R h regard to the C. N. R. deal. So far Th• Star has failed either to ex- plain or to withdraw its untruthful state- ment. We can draw our own conclusions. The Goderich Star last week gave space to The Toronto Star's article in reply to an editorial note of The Signal referring to the C. N. R. deal, but took good care not to give The Signal's reply to that article. although it had been published a week before. That's abtyut the size of the West street organ. A Toronto preacher in his sermon on Sunday evening declared that heal was the place for war profiteers. If these men were fit for heaven, he said. "then you will have to cut the fifteenth Psalm out of the Book." We'll warrant the fifteenth Psalm has been well read since the report of the sermon was published. D. Michael Clark. M. P., has failed of renomination in his constituency of Red Deer. A party convent,on is a poor place tor an independent man to show himself - the hustings and the polling booths are mor hearty in their welcome. Dr. Michael Clark ought to be in the next Parliament as an independent Liberal. - Toronto Star. Why doesn't The Star secure the nom- ination for Dr. Clark in one of the Tor- onto ridings? Surely The Star has as much influence in its own city as it has in a constituency two thousand miles away. Toronto Saturday Night says regarding the work of the Imperial Munitions Board in Canada. presided over by Sir Joseph FJevelle: "We are credibly infand will stand corrected if misinf ed. that un- der the old Shell Committee regime the office was administered at an expense of 1.7 per cent. on the turnover of $75,000,- 000 of shells, whereas the Imperial Muni- tions Board on a turnover of $550,000,000 of munitions have expended over 5 per sent. . . . We do know, however, that in one building alone in Ottawa there have been employed by the Imperial Munitions Board no less than 400 clerks, and that there, is a total staff of some 1.200. We also know that the method pusued in whirling (urgings from one end o" the country and hack again has been wasteful to a criminal extent. These forgings have journeyed in the process of shell -making from Hamilton to St. John. N .13., there to be machined, and on the othe: hand other forgings have taken a railway journey from St. John to Hamil- ton. there in turn to be machined. (ht- tano makers of shell boxes have shipped their boxes to Quebec. and Quebec shell box makers haye shipped their boxes to Ontario. Altogether a more scandalous waste of money for freights alone has never been witnessed in this country." Fresh from the Gardens of the finest Tea -producing country in the world. 11 LA 11:I -AL B74 Sealed Packets Only. Try It—it's delicious. BLACK GREEN or MIXED. before that the farmer is not just a piece of his farm; he is a real person, with a limit+to what he can accomplish. and yet with eyes to see what is going on beyond the confines of his farm or even of his township. Having human limitations, he cannot do much more than one man's work, and when his helpers are lured away by the attractions of the city, and his sons leave to take up other duties, something has to give -and there is a I slackening in the product of his farm. When he looks abroad from his fields and sees what is going on in centres of popula- tion. where men sit in:ease and by manip- ulation o: the products of his own (arm make more money in a week than he does in a year with all his hard work. he does some effective thinking; and after a while the city people are surprised to hear that the farmers are organizing to assert their rights. Present conditions are dnving the ttuthistraight home that you cannot have farms without farmers. and the next lesson will be that you cannot have farmers unless you make farming a fairly attractive proposition. WHAT OTHERS SAY. Woman War Workers. London Adrerti+er. A man may be the most cnnging slacker who ever wore shoe leather. But unless he be of alien birth he will be given a ballot when the general election is held. A woman may have worked day after day since war began knitting socks for soldiers. But unless she has a soldier rela- tive she will not be given the ballot. This is the great objection to the new franchise bill. It pretends to give women the vote, but it makes war service at home no claim to the right of a voice in the elections. It leaves unrewarded the heroic efforts of thousands of women to supply thole needs and comforts of the men at the front. Many of the most prominent women workers in London will not get a vote when election comes. Through no fault of their own they have no near rela- tive at the front. It is the war work itself performed by thousands of women -sometimes per- formed to the ruination of health and the neglect of home duties -that should be rewarded. These women have the spirit of the trenches at home. In truest reality they have kept the home fires burning. They have done more than any men left at home have done.. They have done something that only women s hands could have done. They are the sokhers of the sewingroom. and the Government that withholds from them the right to vote commits a tremendous injustice. It is not a political matter. These women might all vote for Conservative candidates or for Liberal candidates. The fact is they will vote for both parties. it is not that one party might have an advantage. hut that just recognition of service that is beyond reward should be given. Does anyone suppose that the men at the front would withhold the franchise from the women who have been working for them day in and day out since August. 1914 The great volume of discussion regard. ing food, food prices food distribution - in fact. anything related to the food ques- tion -ought to be a lesson to the people of Canada as to the importance of the agn- cultural industry. A great many people in thea country have had the notion that, no ,natter what might happen, there would always be a steady stream of food- stuffs from the towns to the farms and cities. The farmer was supposed to be a sort of permanent institution. firmly rooted to the soil, whose part in the scheme of things was. without any question or demur. and an spite of any discourage- ment or difficulty, to product those things necessary for the sutwws*enoe of the peo- ple. Now it is being realized as never AN UNWISE MEASURE. The Presbyterian end Wc,.tn inter. It is hard to justify the war -time Franchise Act, which was submitted to the House of Coxnrnons on Thursday last. The Presbytenan and Weetminstet- has expressed approval of the Government's coos:notion bill and would have been glad to see :. National Administration formed and the life of Parliament extended. But since th it has been found .mpracticab e and the Government must go to the country, it is not right that it should pick and choose among the electorate, enfran- chising here. disfranchising there, before its re:ord and prop sats are submitted for judgment. The provisions of the Government bill are in brief: the 'disfranchisement of all Canadian citizens of al en enemy birth who have been naturalized since 1902 - an exception being made in the case of those w hoer sons or grandsons have enlisted; the disfranchisement of all who are enempted from the operation of the mili- tary service act by reason of conscientious obje.tion ; the enfranchisement of. women. but cnly these who are wives, widows, mothers. sisters or daughters of men who have served overseas. Every t ne of these proposals as they now stand is objectionable. Men who have been admitted intoCanadian citizen- ship should not be disfranchised solely on the ground of previous nationality, The war has mode a difference. but it is well known that among the nations subject to Austria-Hungary there are those who are far from unsympathetic with the Allies. Even among those who came from Ger- many are some who are opposed to Prussia and its works. If it is wise and right that Armenians and Syrians. though corning from Turkish territory-, should be exempt from disfranchisement, why might not these exceptions be safely extended by some such plan as challenging intending voters to declare publicly on which side their sympathies lay with regard to the war? Taxation without representation has an ugly sound in British ears. and .t sounds all the uglier when we remember the issue on which the South African war was fought. Yet it is proposed that men who are stili to be taxpayers. still subject to all the obligations of citizensh ip (save that of military service). shall be prevented from choosing the representatives who impose the taxation and make the laws under which they live and which they are bund tb obey. If these men should be found guilty of disloyalty to Canada, if treason- able acts or utterances should be proved against them, the situation would be changed. But the presumption should be in favor of their innocence, not of their guilt. The provision with regard to conscien- tious objectors is also unfair. It is not `denied that many of these people are among our best citizens. They hold cer- tain views with regard to non-resistance which are arguable from a Christian point of view. If they should be able by argu- ment r - ment to carry the judgment of a ma;onty they would have a right to make their views prevail. We think their views are wrong and we have no apprehension that they will prevail in Canada. But we shall not assist the triumph of the ideas which we believe to be right by disfranchising those who hold the contrary . The proposals with regard to the en- franchisement of women are the most indefensible of all. An ideal franchise is that in which the character and intelli- gence of the country are most fully repre- sented. From that point of view there is ' much to be said for the general enfranchise- ment of women. But it will not be claimed that the intelligence or the patriotism of Canadian womanhood is confined to those who happen to have relations at the front. The working of such a provision must pro- duce at least some cases of gross and glar- ing unfairness. If we are to hive woman suffrage it ought to be general and the exceptions ought to be based upon the same pnnciyles as apply to the case of men. We trust that the Government will pau e before deciding to force this measure through in its present form. In departing from the broad principle that the people at large have the right to choose their legislators they are setting foot upon dangerous ground. The proposed (ranches , we are told. is intended only for an election held in Soar time. But the Parliament elected may continue to legislate after the war is over. And if the principle of restricting and selecting the ele'torate is now admitted. arguments can be found kr applying it again by any Government which is determined to entrench itself in power. Many a convincing political speaker can't get a hearing at home. Duke of Connaught presents Military Cross to boy whose father wait killed at the front. MANY PRISONERS TAKEN. British Capture 5,111041 (Germans Dsr- ing, tieptember. LONDON, Oct. 2.—Several heavy attack. were delivered by the Ger- main; Monday 'agslnet British post - tions north of Ypres and east of the Polygon wood according to the om- etal communication from British headquarter. Monday night. All the attacks were repulsed with heavy casualties. except near the south-east corner of the Polygon wood. where the enemy entered two British ad- vanced posts. The communication of Monday follows: "At 5.30 o'clock tills morning the enemy launched a powerful attack on a front of more than a mile agalust our new positions north of the Ypres- Menlq road and east of the Polygon wood. The German Infantry, ad- vancing In three waves, suffered heavy casualties from our rifle fire and artillery barrage, and were driv- en back in disorder. We followed up the retreating enemy and captured a few prisoners. "In the course of the next three hours the enemy twice renewed his attacks with strong forces on the same front, and again was repulsed at all points, except opposite the south-east corner of the Polygon wood, where he succeeded in occ'ipy- Ing two of our advanced posts. "The hostile artillery has shown some activity to -day in the neighbor- hood of Bullecourt and south and north of Lens. "During the month of September we captured a total of 5,296 Ger- man prisoners, Including 146 omcers. We also captured during the same month 11 guns, including three heavy pieces, 57 trench mortars, and 377 machine guns." SERBIA IN REVOLT. Constantly Fighting Against Tbelr (Fuel Conquerors. LONDON, Oct. 2.—Fresh informa- tion of events In Serbia has reached us. It 1s not of a nature to comfort those Serblana fighting here whose kith and kin Ile at the mercy of the country's invaders. - The first reports are contained In a letter from a Serbian Insurgent. The missive confirms rumors of the continuance of the revolt against Bulgarian authority, which was offi- cially declared stamped out In Feb- ruary. As late as May 23 the writer was one of a band of Insurgents still on the warpath, and is able to alarm with conadenee ,that the re- volt will go on. It spreads contin- ually and cannot be suppressed by any force on earth." The letter reads: "May 23, 1117 —Here I am on a mountain that has become my dreary abode. On April 28 I escaped from a Bulgarian gaol, where I was Imprisoned after I bad been captured in the revolt In Kour- einegrad, In which we, to the number of 2,500, first gave battle to a whole German division and put it to flight. We were attacked by two Bulgarian divisions, supported by guns and mttratlleuses. In this bloody en- counter I was token prisoner with several comrades ted sentenced to be banged, but during the night our friends attacked the jail, killed the guards, and set us free." Russians Make Gats- PETROGRAD, Oct. 2.—Russian troops have made another advance In the Riga region. according,jo Mon- day's War Omer annouhdement. Ger- man posts were pressed back south of the railway to the Spitals Farm sector. the Rusalana advancing be- tween 800 and 1,000 yards. The text of the statement reads: "Northern front—In the region of Riga, four miles south of the rail- way, In the Spitals Farm sector, our vanguard detachments pressed back enemy posts and advanced between 800 and 1,000 yards. "Western and Roumanian fronts —There were fusillades. "Avfatlon—In the region of Koval on Friday our airmen dropped about seven hundredweight of bombs on enemy camps. In the region of Buc- sacs our giant airplanes of the Muro- mets type dropped about two hun- dredweight of bombs. Our non- commtslsoned officer, Saposhnikoff, shot down an enemy machine west of Radauts." Riot at Essen. LONDON, Oct. 2.—A demonstra- tion against the German Government Krupp works, In consequeroe of the decision of Chancellor Michaelis not to state' Germany'■ peace terms, Is reported In an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Amsterdam. Women formed a majority of the demonstrators, says the despatch, breaking windows of the Town Hall, and shouting demand/ for more food, for peace, and for the return of their menfolk. Tbe police and military were called out to quell the riot. Two women were injured and sev- eral were arrested. The whole of Essen 1s reported to be 1n a state of ferment. (Germany Supply Bae Captured. LONDON, Oct. 2.—Tbe War 0 • Sunday night announced a further' success agalndt the German forces In German East Africa In which the British troops occupl•.d an Import- ant supply base of the enemy. The teat of the announcement follows: "Our troops yesterday occupied Nobungo, as Important German sup- ply base 62 miles sostk-west of Kllwa, after eonslderabte resistance. Our advance in the LokelMt valley and the forward movement of the Belgians on Mabeags are coatinnleg stead Ily." A Chinese steamer was sank by a plunger off Ireland Tbe city's sevestees-sere plot of vegetables yielded a floe mop foe Niagara Fano elitism's. The CIv1Naa," the metal organ of the civil navvies, erlteelses the motley votes by PaiSplest to 1s- evesse salaries of Gsuiettsnia " ern- Mey+.e• HEROIC SAGRIFICE OF BELGIAN MOTHERS. Mr. Maurice Pate, representative of the Commission of Relief to Belgium, be- fore leaving the province of Hainaut summarized his findings on his last in-' spection visit as follows: "Since the declaration of the blockade on February lot and the consequent de-' crease of arrivals of relief ships at Rot- 1 terdam, food rations in Belgium have diminished on a rapidly sliding scale. "Sing ling out at random a number of homes of the working class, I made a careful examination of the conditions in each one and talked over the food matter with their inhabitants. "The people were practically subsist- ing on the C. R. B. ration and have little nourishment in the way of native food- stuffs. The C. R. B. rations were often eaten in advance, so that a family in waiting its semi-weekly bread ration was sometimes without food in the house dur- ing a day at a time. The women and older children suffered especially &um the fact that they were obliged to give a part of the daily bread ration to the father, sho needed this to have strength for his daily work. ' The large increase in the nuMber of clients for the daily soup ration is the barometer of the serious situation into which the population is falling. "Delegations kept calling upon us day after day, and the only answer we could give to their pleas was that we were deax.g our best to make known their condition and needs to those at the head of the C. R. B. On April 5th, a group of twenty workmen's wives from Pasturages came to lay their case before us. They were led by a woman whose face showed strength and character. In serving as their speaker the women broke down com- pletely from weakness before us." One of the most touching pictures is of even more recent origin. Mr. Pate re- ports that at the present time the daily ration of the people of all ages is a bowl of soup and a slice o( bread, and on oc- casions it is even impossible to supply this much to everyone. Naturally, the children are the worst sufferers, since the growing body demands more nourishment than can possibly be obtained from a bowl of soup and a slice of bread. and many children go in the last degrees of slow starvation. It is a touching fact that women with children whose development approxi- mates the normal had been seen to step out of the bread line in order to insure less robust children securing the meagre ra- tion, even though such ailing little ones might be strangers to them. With this in mind we can listen more' eagerly to the urgent pleas being made by the Belgian Relief Committee on behalf of the under- fed children CURRENT LITERATURE. The October issue of The Can adian Magazine contains a varied assortment of articles. essays_ and short stories. The first article is by the well-known nature writer, Mr. Hamilton McLaing, and is a delightful description of a summer passed in the company of little wild creatures in a Manitoba elm clump. Other articles. a p are "Getting the Men," a review of con- scription in England, by Lacey Amy; "The influence of Ancestry in the Present War," a consideration of racial tendencies. by Professor John Cameron; Canadian Women," a sketch of Carrie Matilda Derick, by Miss "Pioneer Professor Emily P • nuuuuuuuuumuuiununuuuuuuuuunumnuimmuuumunuutns! W. ACHESON & SON Reversible Floor Rugs A number of Reversible U Mon Rugs at 1.3 under present factory price. Greens and browns. Medallion patterns and neat effects. 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