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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1918-4-11, Page 2• 2 THURSDAY, APRIL 11. 1918 V''LS SIGNAL PRINTING OU., tiro. PUBJ.leaase THURSDAY. APRIL 11, 19l8 of THE SIGNAL - GODEIt1CII, ONTARIO -,.,2 HELP WIN THE WA R. With Britain and France on food ratans. Italy on the verge of starvation, the German submarines taking a heavy toll of the supplies shipped overseas, the issue of the war may well lie in the growing by Canada and the United States of such large supplies of foodstuffs that, in spite of the U-boats, enough will reach Europe to keep the soldiers of Britain, France and Italy well (d and the civilian populations of the Allied countries from starving. Wheat and meats. being most easily transported. are the things most urgently needed for export. Everybody cannot grow wheat or raise litestock, but every- thing raised in our fields°and gardens that can be used in this country instead of wheat and =at will release just so much more of the desired articks for export overseas. No person —man, woman or child —in Canada should be idle this year. EDITORIAL NOTES. and at the same time would help, rather than hinder, Mr. O'Connor in his work ? The Canadian pubbc wants Mr. O'Connor to stay; we don't know a soul alto cares whether Mr. Crothers is in Ottawa ur in Timbuctoo. The growing feeling against the confer- ring of titles upon Canadians found voice in Parliament this week. and the almost unanimous expression was in disapproval of these distinctions, and especially of hereditary titles. Mr. NicUe, the mem- ber for Kingston, moved a resolution praying that His Majesty the King may i refrain from conferring any hereditary titles in Canada. Mr. Richardson. of Winnipeg. moved that the practice of giving titles of any kind should be discon- tinued. The House was quite evidently I in favor of the wiping out of all titles con- ferred upon civilians, but it was pointed out that the adoption of Mr. Richardson's motion might be held to affect the grant- ing of honors to Canadian soldiers for distinguished service, and the debate was adjourned in order to give opportunity for the framing of a resolution that would meet the case. The Premier informed the House that the Government had already reached a decision to request the Imperial authorities to grant no more hereditary titles upon Canadians and to bestow other I titles (except those of a military charac- ter) only upon the advice or with the ap- proval of the Canadian Government. The Canadians took Vimy Ridge just a MORE FLAX NEEDED. ear ago—and they still hold it. _ _ The general who may have most to do with the issue of the war is General Famine. So the bank clerks are to be conscripted. As their customers can tell them, it's no use trying to dodge the draft. A PLEA FOR SANITY Word hes bate recedvetd et Ottawa that AN OVER Coll W kind 01 the Canadian Ex- — — Canadian Fla' fpr one Aeroplanes. DOSE OF CHLOROFORM la Deaka6 sat* lbs Quebec Saluda' peditioriary /claw hes been requested by l s^a« Seaforth Teacher Foaa4 Deal to —Canada Sasaki Be United 1 the War Office W proceed immediately W Her Room at Loudon. London. Oat., April 'nth.—`ins. The sympathy gaudFrancoParker, aged thirty-two n Burden in v►ew of the clash between uting aerupla years, .leacher of history at the sad in two races be has been called to (ovrrn. ; in the near future. Cglkgtate Institute was found dead in From the \luotreal Witness 4� to supervise the distribution of of all Canadians fibre x seed which it is anticipated *ill will be very strongly with Sir Rob it f be urgent?yy required to order to supply be w the the rnanufact sands for res The parallel between conditions inQuebec ' As the importance of t hese supplies her r&sn at the Elms of Professor Young. l asIii Oxford street, shorty after t3 o'clock' this teago s and those in Dublin just i cannot be a ted, u u rx rug1Y Sunday evening, when Mrs. Young went two years ago suggests both anxiety and desirable that t sail be cordial_co- A bottle of to call her for supper. extreme caution. Shoot a few of these operation between the farmers who will chlro(orm partly empty.lay beside her rioterss,.anss a man with a German name, sow this special film seed and Colonel ern the pillow. ( 1ronec Ferguson, after and there will be no more of this. How Wayland who will distribute the seed to investigating the circumstances, decided then about Ireland. A few misguided Le sown. Colonel Wa land has been em- that an inquest was unnecessary. Laden were slain slid their blood brought I powered to offer sou terms to tarp- It is stated that Mrs. Parker had fre- forth a rank growth o, Sinn Fein.- But ers sowing this seed. is proceeding to quently used chloroform to ease the pain Sir Robert has to act The law has been I Canada at en early date and in the mean - of toothache. She went up to her room passed and is now law. He may have , time enquiries may be addressed to him in Sunday afternoon about 2.30. and was been inclined. as his followers of the rule- care of Grain Exchange, Winnipeg.sat wen ?tern. Some of her school by -force breed aver. to temporise with books were binide her on the bed, and the Province which did not give its man- QUESTIONS FOR EXEMPTED MEN. she had apparently been looking at date fur the taw. [t would almost seem so � -- from the smallness and lateness of the! them' cause that produced this riot. 11 that ' Case of Each Will Be Rttviewed to En- Moa Parker carne to London from Sea- 1forth three years ago. She formerly Allies Could Use Twsaty Times the Amount Available. A deputation from Western Ontario, in- terested in greater production of fibre flax to overcome the world-wide shortage, presented itself, by appointment. before the Ontario Government a few days ago. Through the pressure u( badness in the There is such a thing as local patriotism. House the Premier cou delft meet the it was rved b the The man who helps to build up his own deputatioMr.nM, aacdiaz ril Y lion. mid. home town is doing something worth The sonnies of Waterloo. Perth. a hile. Bruce, Huron, Middlesex. Laambton, Kent and Essex are practically the only flex- ile anniversary of Vimy Ridge finds growing portions of the British Empire Canada's boys in the trenches ready for other than Ireland. Mx hort- o(a fight. I age is serious, so serious that the Al* Somebody suggests that the Sinn Fein- could take twenty times the amount of fe ers be sent to fight the Boleheviki. The i flax which they are now receiv- ers other fellows would stop fighting to see 'Flax production in these areas in this scrap. I Western Ontario is far more vital than food production. What we want is a Descriptions of life in the warmer climes statement or intimation from the Gov - to the south have an alluring sound, but' ernment, or perhaps a campaign among after all it is the people of the north who the farmers surrounding the thirty-two flax mills in the nine counties, that they are doing the great things in the world.. •will be rendering as great assistance The war is showing once again that the to the Allies by growing flax as by pro - best fighting blood is in the northern during food. Invariably the reply we re - temperate zone. The late James J. Hill, ceive from the farmers to our arguments ofd rid the great railway magnate. is credited anything the Hun has tp offer in the way I The deputation declared that the situ- , anion with respect to the fibre S has been the case we are only at the be- ginning of the trouble, as the rest of the country or at least his special ipllowing iol tl demanding that the law be is that they cannot accept our w a that they intend to follow the call for with the saying: "You can't interest me greater food production. We hope with in any proposition in any place where it official assistance to increase the acreage doesn't snow. tot flax in these counties by several _ thousand acres," saki Mr. A. L. Mc - In the House of Commons last week, in Credie. a on the Quebec situation. Col. J. A. Currie. the Conservative member for' North,Srmcoe, protested against the sub- sidising of Bourassa by the Ottawa Gov- ernment. He said there were columns of Government advertising fin Le Devoir, sure Evan Administration of Act. taught history in the Collegiate there. One of the most significant of the many and was regarded as an exceptKx�ly s v en�yy arta ing evidences of that comradeship in arms good teacher. tier husband died tie G carried tit to the letter. He now existing between the great olemuc- !Nears ago. Her eleven year-old rxxn, ray th has more an French bitterness to racy to the south and ourselves is the Parker, resides with her stepfather, Wil - deal with. If anti-British sentim ant has I freedum with which each is borrowing I liam Goverllock, at Seaforth. from the notebook of the other. The risen in certain quarters to the point of rebellion, anti -French sentiment is largely the cause of the painful situation. Sir Robert Borden was unwise when he sud- denly declared for a measure which he knew to be opposed by a whole race w tie out seeking the co-operation of the leaders of that race in time for their good offices to be of any avail. His party managers were worse than unwise, they were un- patriotic. when they made the fact that the French were against the measure the leading and effective reason why it should Pad back with interest all the military be adopted, making their whole canvass an short-cuts acquired in the early days of ; appeal to anti -French sentiment, thus the alliance. One of the many ideas for cleaving the nation in two. And now tbe which we are already indebted to the I whirlwind of that deeply sown bitterness sUnited States is the questionnaire, de - is threatening us with evils ,that we do si to make fora uniform application not choose to foree r. That, of course. the Military Service Act. These ques- was not the beginning. A good surgeon tionnaires. following the practice em - when to has to use the knife does it with gioyed in the United States, will be 1 decision but as tenderly as possible. But mailed to all exempted men, who must re he is to blame if he does not know all he turn them properly filled in, without de - can about the nature and origin of the lay, a forfeit their certificates of exemp- trouble. Rack of this French opposition tion. Any change in address should be at is Mr. Bourassa and hark of Mr. once communicated to the district regis- Bourassa is the language question, trar, as failure to receive questionnaire and back of the language question is re- will be regarded es of the same effect as ligious antipathy on both sides. As The failure to return it properly filled in. The Globe says, Bourassa has been aided general public are invited to assist the and abetted by extremists in Ontario. In Government, to the fullest possible ex - fact one has only to read a little of the tent. in the even administration of the daily bullying of certain of the Toronto ' Act. newspapers to lose all wonder that young French-Canadians should be stung to /ell y. Let everyone who sincerely wishes to keep Canada's fighting efficiency up to the mark remember poor Ireland and poor Russia. and do all he can to put down race bitterness and prejudice in Canada. Let everything be done to heal the Quebec breach before it gets past heating. The mob's defiance of law and order was ab- solutely a cora, but no more lawless than large strike molt: have been at times. That the French mob was wholly wrong does not prove that the French had no grievance. But one thing is certain. If a house divided against itself cannot stand. it assuredly cannot fight an ex- I ternal foe. We say. "poor Ireland." , "poor Russia." and shall men have to say "poor Canada'" Let us cast blinding prejudice and race passion; behind our becks, and with calm and Christian statesmanship devote ourselves to fading the hest possible solution. Canada must tight the Hun or be overcome by him. When our purpose was to get the fighting element of both our races into ttie ranks of legitimate war- fare. c.ur earnest plea was that it should be done by methods that would commend Mr. Bourassa's paper, and holding up a Ikeche A Manon.Que., Apt it t (Special themselves to the loyal of each race. The —Among the many friends Dodds Kidney strong hand is now necessary; but the copy of the paper he pointed to an adver- Pills have made in this part of Quebec 's same should still be the guiding principle. ti ement signed by the Minister of Justice. Is it any wonder French-Canadians be- lieve the Government is only bluffing with the Military Service Act ? KNOW THI.M BY THE FRIENDS THEY MAKE. United States, as a lata entrant ito the � spring Impurities struggle for the maintenance of the free institutions of the earth. necessarily be- i gan as a debtor, in the matter of ex- perience. to the neighbor which had been i _—_ theran mniryF u . a Clog the Blood. in tight f the beg' B tIn certain sense it may be said that lite American Republic has already liquid- I ated this indebtedness. Certainly when the final balance is struck it will be I found that the United States will have Why Dodd's Kidney Pills Hold Their Popularity, The Toronto News admits, rather grudgingly. that Mr. W. F. O'Connor is a valuable official and that it would be un- fortunate if the people should lose his services because of a disagreement a ith lion. Thos. Crothers; but, it says. "the Minister must be supreme ir, his Depart- ment. ' Quite so. How would it do to replace Mr. Crothers with another man who would be supreme in his Department Dame Clement Collie a well-known rest- The alternative possibilities are unthink- dent of this place. "I received threat re- able. How Gertnany would crow to see lief from l�idd's Kidney Pills,' is the Canada in the same category with Ire - reason she gives for always recommending I land and Russia. Let us who are figh - Dodd's Kidney Pills to her friends. and ing for liberty and democracy abroad she adds that a great deal of her health work for it at home. and sacrifice pride and vigor is due to the help she got from to securip re internal cord and a united Schooner Sophie Making Good Money. Oliver Donaldson, the Buffalo marine man who something more than a year ago sold his little schooner, the Sephie, to Capt. J. Beard of Weehawken. N. J., re- ceived a letter yesterday telling him that she is being kept busy in the coal and lumber trade between Weehawken and Nova Scotia, The little craft tarries 500 tons of coal at $5.50 per ton to Nova Scotia and on the return trip takes '25,000 feet of lumber at $7 per thousand. According to Mr. Donaldson she makes the run to Nova Scotia in fair weather in about one week. "The Sephie is a tidy little schooner and the is making good money on the coast," said Mr. Donald- son yesterday. The above paragraphs is from the Great Lakes Weekly of Milwaukee, Wis. The Sephie was built Goderich a ricilliam Maggd oo many years ago by and for years wasi„,known as ore of the trinunest sailing Left on the lakes. the Canadian kidney remedy. front, Dodd's Kidney Phos hold their popular- Greater Production Plans. ity not because of Qie promises they melds but because of the good they do. They are no cure-all. They are purely and simply a kidney remedy. The reason they are credited with cures of rheumatism. heart disease. dropsy, etc., is because all these diseases are caused by sick kidneys. Cure the kidneys and the cause of the disease is removed. A Tonic Medicir.e Is a Ne- cessity at This Season. 0r. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are an all -year-round tonic, blood - builder and nerve restorer. But they are especially valuable in the spring when the system is loaded with impurities as a re- sult of the indoor life of the winter months. There is no other season of the year when the blood is so much in need of purifying and enriching, and every dose of these pins helps to make new. red blood. In the spring one feels weak and tired— Dr. Will ams Pink Pins give new strength. In the spring the appetite is often poor — Dr. Williams' Pink Pills de- velop the appetite, tone the stomach and aid weak digestion. It is in the spring that poisons in the blood find an outlet in disfiguring pimp, eruptions and boils— Dr. Williams' Pink Pins speedily clear the skin because they go to the root of the trouble in the blood. In the spring anae- mia, rheumatism, neuralgia, erysipelas and many other troubles are most per- sistent becayyppee of poor, weak blood. and it is at thiallme, when all nature takes on new life, that the blood most seriously needs attention. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills actually renew and enrich the blood. and this new blood reaches every otgan and every nerve to the body, bringing new health and new strength to weak, easily tired men, women and children. Here is a bit of proof: Miss Anna Patter- son. R. F. D. No. 1, Thorold. Ont., says: —"My trouble was one of general weak- ness, which thinned my blood and gave me at times unbearable headaches, loss of appetite and also lass in weight. i tried several medicines, but without success. Then I heard of Dr. Williams' link Pills and decided to give them a (air trial. The result is that 1 feel like a new person. My appetite improved, 1 gained in weight, my blood is thoroughly purified. and my face cleared of some unsightly pimples which had troubled me. 1f one good turn deserves another then 1 have much pimire in recommending Dr. Williams' link Pills." 1f you need a medicine this spring try Dr Williams' Pink Pills-- they will not disappoint you. These pills are sold by all medicine dealers, or you can get thern by mail at 50c a boa or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.. Brockville, Ont. Back Yards and Vacant tots. Now is the time for organization. There will be greater need for pnduc- tion in cities, towns and villages this summer than ever before. Plan oat will do with that backyard or vacant Lt now. so that when the mason begins in a few week-. hence you will know what to do and will lose no precious time about it. Once the garden season starts it starts with a rush. There is no too µjf vegetable seeds except parsnips.-- hole - sale dealers have plenty ej tied its stock. Ontario will pant 1,000,000 acres more in cereals and cultivated crops this spring: Quebec 600,000, and the Man - time Provinces 400,000 acres extra. The farmers in Eastern Canada are called upon to plant five acres per farm extra. 400,000 farmer, in Eastern Canada can save the situation. Sons of the Soil. Under the auspices of the Canada Food Board, 25,000 Canadian howl from fifteen to nineteen years of age were called W help out this summer on the farm. To date, 23,000 responded in Ontario and the Western Provinces alone. Quebec and the Maritime Provinces hold their enrollment later. The road to knowledge crosses the plain; of ignorance. A ton of coal now a better than too tons ot granite hereafter. CLINTON. Clinton's tax rate this year will be 34 mills. James McMurchy. of Blyth, may be- come a resident of Clinton. Wm. Wiseman. son of J. Wiseman of Nen. is now in Egypt with the Royal Flying Corps. Mrs. E. Tasker has mold her farm in Hullett to T. L)ak and will likely remote to Clinton to reside. MCC W. ACIIESON & $0N 10 BIG BARGAINS For April Days Staples Best quality tottuaales, to 10 patterns, worth OW. At per yard Oso \Vhite Flannelettes, old stick, soft, full and free fr.nu dressing. 27 to 28 inches wide, worth Ur. At per yard 1 se Shirtings Black and white,Rockfast or Black Hide best. Hhirtinge. or for dresses tri• sk irta,worth tcxlay 45e. At per yard _Ilio Sheetings 72 -inch heavy Ideate/lied plain Sheetiworth 4k. A per yard *Oo Pillow Slips \Veil made, of good weight English Cotton, soft and even thread, in 40, 42, 44 - inch, worth SOe. At per pair ire • Towels :al dozen heavy half bleached Huckaback Towel, withbor- der, size 18x311. Special 8for lutes Congoleuin Rugs We are selling great num- bers of theme popular and handsome 1•"Irror-oaovrryeggss We have all sines up en 314 yards in stock, and special sale prices. Cotton Poplin White Ilepp or Cotton Pop- lin, 11th inches wide, for suits, skirts, middies', etc. An ex- tra quality, worth 40c. At per yard !so Dress or Suiting Serges Our ' se stock of all - wool Merges was bought, and paid for nearly two yon ago. The values now are extraordinary. We will give or send wimples to any addres.i. 40 to 12 -inch heavy all pure -wool navy blues and black. old dye Serge., worth 12 25. At per yard.._. $1 .1110 50 -inch all -wool Coating or Hutting Sergei. Real french Etanti old dye. Worth .tt per yard_ -__1/1.7f1 Floor Rugs Reduced Special reductions in''apes try and Brussels Rugs. y were bought long ago, but our stack is large and we will realize us' the ,.tock very quickly. Beet Tapeet' y Brussels Rugs in newest patterns and quality, deep heavy rich lustrrusle, size 3xh 1-2 yards 00. for__ -_$18.110 Size 3:4 yawls, for $22 and $as.ao Siete 2 1.2x3 yards, for --_-317 Gossard Corsets We are agents for this pop- ular and high -cissa Corset, all in stock. W. ACHES©N & SON MCC DOCPCCXXXIMX Word was received last week of the death of R. J. Rutledge, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rutledge of town, which occurred in a hospital at Pittsburg. Word has been received tat Mrs. (Dr.) Struthers, formerly Miss Edna and babe have arrived at Son 1' xo from Chi na. After visiting friends at Ontario. California, they will come on to Clinton. William Lucas, private banker, of Markdale, whoee death occurred strrl- denly last week, was the father of Mrs. Hovey and Mrs. Robison of Clinton. He was the elder brother of Hon. L B. Lucas. Attorney -General of Ontario. SEAFORTH. The induction of Rev. S. McLean, the new pastor of the Egmondville Presby- terian congregation. takes place today. A. A. Naylor. principsf of the public school, attended the meeting of the (ks- tario Educational Association at Toronto last week. James Hays and W. C. Charman, who have been conducting the marble works here for some time, have diseotved pert- aaahip, and the bu -Mess will hereafter he carried on by \Ir. Chapman. Harry Grieve, who reported (or mili- tary service at London lest week, was presented by his brother Oddfell ows, prior to his depsirture from town, with an ad- dress and an emblematic ring. Death removed a respected resident of Sea(otth on Monday, 1st inat . when David Davis passed away after a pro- tracted illness in his seventy-fifth •ear. The deceased came to Canada from Scot- land sixty years ago and (armed for -many years in this vicinity b.fore moving into town. tttl entrlmnlPm iii? oinm ‘41\14.4) DUMMY BRITISH BATTLESHIPS MADE OF WOOD WHICH FOOLED GERMAN NAVY. Two of the famous fleet of dummy battleshipe which were built by the British (.rnrnment to mislead the German navy, and which proved to be the greeted military since hoax sinthe wooden hoer of Trot, lying off the Harbor of Kephal o, in the Mediterranean, having been rank as a breakwater, after serving their puree* for owes month in rbwiving the Germans in the North Sea, and finally decoying them into the Digger (lank Battle. Telephone Fren.rns r IM!aallmllnnuNlnuihi Pa De pee practice Ir. Take Care of Your Telephone! MANY repairs to telephones are made necessary by careless handling. 11 A telephone instrument has more than a hundred parts and is built like a watch. Rough usage impairs its efficiency. / 9 Help us to conserve the supply of telephone material and skilled labor by always hand- ling your telephone carefully to avoid costly breakages and repairs. The Gell Telephone Co. of Canada da is • LJE !1