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The Signal, 1918-8-22, Page 22 TRU RSDAY, At•c. 22 1918 THE SIGNAL - GUDERICH. ONTARIO CHs SIGNAL PRINTING CO., LTD. Pt:MUSE M THURSDAY, AUG 24, 191!1 EDITORIAL NOTES. --- The casualty lists again remind us of the puce that is being paid (or the de- fence of liberty. The United States plans to have three million men overseas by next June. That will not be good news for Germany. Better weather conditions have mater- ially improved Western crop conditions and a wheat crop of 150,000,000 bushels is looked for. The Japanese are doing it, too. Serious anti -capitalistic riots have broken out at different points in the Flowery Kingdom. the high cost of rice being the Immediate cause. It is officially stated that 58,713 men have been secured under the Military Service Act. In addition there have been 19,477 voluntary enlistments since No- vember last. The tussock moth must be recognized as a scourge to be exterminated. Half- way measures are useleae. The campaign against the pest must be thorough if it is to be effective. Read the advertising announcements in The Signal carefully this week and every week. The merchants who advertise are those who value your custom highly enough to ask for it. Approximately 50.000 deaths have oc- curred in Canada's overseas forces during the four years of war. Another 50.000 have been incapacitated by wounds. ill- ness or by other causes. Pensions have been granted in about 30.000 cases. in- volving an annual payment of over 14.000.- 000. A war correspondent. describing recent activities of the Canadian force in France. writes: "Ever since the second. battle of Ypres tt has never surrendered a foot of ground it has once consolidated. and it has never taken a hne of trenches without. within the week. making itself absolute master of the no man's land beyond." The two Mount Forest papers have amalgamated and The Confederate and Representative is the rather formidable title of the paper that is now to be published by Mr. A. W. Wright, formerly proprietor of The Confederate. Mr. Wright in the past has wielded a good pen. and we trust that he will not unduly strain himself trying to please everybody as the town's one and only editor. While Allied forces are being sent to Russia to oppoee the Bolsheviki in the north and east. at Baku. on the Caspian Sea the Bolsheviks are co-operating with British troops in opposing the Turks. The Bolsheviki, of course, are not a well - organized body with identical aims in all parts of the count y: in fact. one writer states that almost every town and village throughout Russia has now a government of its own, independent of any central authority. ments up to the mark as fully as possible, and we do not know any way in which they can do this without concerning them- aelyes in politics and even interesting themselves in bye -elections. The fact that a very tonal votC was polled in Monday's bye -elections is not neces- sarily an evidence of patriotism: it is evidence either of gross indifference on the part of the electors or of lack of strong regard for tiny of the candidates. A Minister of the Crown who receives only about one-tenth of the number of votes on the roll cannot be the object of any great degree bf enthusiasm. even though his opponent received a much smaller vote. If Mr. Henry, the new Minister of Agriculture. is a worthy incum- bent of that office, it is to be said that 2s,000 voters of the riding risked lus defeat by not going to the polls. The two new Provincial Ministers. Hon. Dr. Cody. Minister of Education. and Hon. Geo. S Henry. Minister of Agricul- ture. were elected on Monday in North- east Toronto and East York% respectively. Veru little interest was taken in the elec. tions and the vote was small. the success- ful candidates receiving relatively large majorities. There were no regular Op- position candidates, Dr. Cody's opponent being a returned soldier and Mr. Henry's an independent. rather erratic. Conserva- tive. WHAT OTHERS !SAY. No More Pleasure Csrs in U. S. Toronto Mail and Empire. After a.nuary 1. 1919, American auto- mobile manufacturers must not make- pleasure akepplleasure cars. This is a ruling of the War lndustrics Board that is causing con- siderable agitation in the motor trade. and among motonng citizens generally. The reason for the restriction is that Uncle Sant needs the material that would be employed in the manufacture of pleasure cars, and also needs the motor factories and the motor mechanics for war purposes. The restriction will prove a serious hardship to many factories that have millions of doll us invested in plants designed especially for the manufacture of passenger cars. and Which cannot readily be converted for use upon commercial vehicles or others to be used for military purposes. They will also be resenteu by those people who buy a new car each spring as regularly as they buy a new straw hat. and by that army. numbenng tens or even hundreds of thousands. which graduates from the stleet car class to the motor -owning class each - twelve months. The latter will not be able to purchase second-hand car. in place of new models as freely as in the past, for the man who has a car must either cling to st or go a thout until there is a fresh supply on the market. 'One result of the order that will be of value to users of cars is that they .rvtll be compelled to take better care of them than in the past. and make whatever cars they stow have last until the end of the war. for it is extremely unlikely that the restriction will be removed as long as there exists a war demand for steel. The point upon which emphasis should be laid is the proof this latest order offers of the seriousness of the American Govern- ment and its determination to conserve every ounce of energy and necessary material for war effort. It is only fair to the United States to say that in this re- spect it has led all the Allies. It has no interest today but to end the war, and end it with a knockout blow. Impressions of an Onlooker. SPAIN HAS TROUBLES. G,. a.nophle Newspapers Speak 19i Civil War. MADRID. Aug. 20. --Germanophile newspapers. such as the A.B.C., the Tribune, and the Naclon, in coin - 'seating upon the note from Spain to Germany, the text of which 1s still unknown. publish articles resecting a threat of civil war in case of a rupture in relatlona with Germany. This has aroused an energetic pro- test from the press which is [deadly to the Allies. Although the country preserves its tranquility the majority of the newspapers publish alarmist articles and the taternational situation is the universal topic of conversation at clubs and cafes. Foreign Minister Dato has issued a denial to recent press reports that the neutrality of Spain was threat- ened. He said the Cabinet "would suffer nothing to turn it aside from a policy of neutrality." "As to the famous Spanish note addressed to Germany," the Minister continued. "it is impossible to pub- lish tt because it does not exist." He denied that Spain has sent a note to Germany concerning the al- leged torpedoing of the Spanish steamer Serantes. He said the sink - Ing was due to a are in the cargo of petroleum. There have been persistent and apparently well-founded reports dur- ing the last week that Spain had sent another note to Germany concerning the torpedoing of Spanish ships. Re- port. from Madrid were that a note had been despatched to Berlin and that as soon as it was received there it would be made public by Foreign Minister Dato. It had been reported that the note Included a notice to Germany that Spain would compen- sate herself for future losses from self -interned German vessels in Spaniah harbors. The Spanish steamer Serantes. loaded with 10.000 barrels of oil. was set on are by two explosions while anchored off 69th Street. Brooklyn. on July 13. There have been no previous reports that the Serantes was said to have been tor- pedoed. The War. Most of us have learned by experience that in our earnest desire to see the ter- rible world -war with all its horrors brought to a close we are apt to let our wishes become hopes. and our hopes become beliefs. and have conse- quently at times ventured the predict on that it could not last much longer. So often. however. has the course of events taken an unexpected turn. and new fac- tors have hail to be taken . into account, that even professional war cntics have grown chary of making confident predic- tions. Nevertheless the events of the last few weeks and a survey of the gen. eral situation seem to %arrant the hope that the great struggle is drawing to a close, and that this. the fifth year of the war. will be the last. and will bring peace again to a suffering world. We base this hope mainly on three facts: (1) The growing exhaustion of the re- sources of Germany and her allies. Bul- garia and Turkey have practically ceased to be aggressive. and Austria would be in a similar position but for the pressure put upon her by Germany, %hue the in- creasing evidence from the press. from prisoners. and from captured letters and mditary documents makes it plain that not only the German people but also the commanders. like Ludendorf, are feeling the strain and becoming discouraged at the outlook. In fact. to one reading be- tween the lines. it becomes increasingly evident that the Germans are determined to prolong the struggle in the hope not of victory, but that the Allies. wearied by the long continuance of the war. may grant them part at last of their claims. (2) The rapidly increasing numbers and the spirit and efficiency of the United States force in France. which war- rants us in hoping that General Foch will 'be able now to keep up a steady and practically irresistible pressure all along the western front. h-immering the Ger- man lines now here and now there: and giving them no rest till they are finally compelled to withdraw from France and Belgium into their own terri- tory. It must be galling to the Kaiser Japan has made enormous wealth out and his circle to find that he made just as of contracts for munitions for the Allies. great a mistake in sneering at the charac- and it has not been able to escape the ter and qua ity of U. S. soldiers as he did when he spoke of ' cushing General pains and penalties which accompany the French's contemptible little army." acquiastion of riches. The wealth has been (3) The corning back of Russia. it is absorbed mainly by a comparatively small evident that the Bolsheviki rule. estah- number, while the masses. living on scant bshed through German treachery, has practically come to an end. and that the wages, have had to pay increasingly high Russian people as a nation are beginning prices for food. The result is that. for to draw together again. and see that Ger- the first time since Japan entered the many is their common enemy. It may be months before anything like a stmng circle of what we call civilization. factory central government is established. but troubles have broken out in true western with help from the Allies in the far East. a style and mobs have been attacking the Baku on the Caspian Sea. in the Cauca - property of the wealthy and demanding a sus district, and in the North at Archan- new deal in the distribution of things. if Set. the Gerans, who have nono sol - Japan liable to diecover and to a to sparemto send East, will w be forced Dply to withdraw entirely from Russian terry the remedy for the condition in which it tory. finds itself. the rations of the west will If they are driven out of Russia on the have to sit at its feet and learn w•ir+dom. one side and nut of France and Belgium - on the other. the eyes of the German While, as The Glow saps, the people people—what is left of them—will be openale . they will waken as (ram a mad are not concerning themselves with dream. and. turning with curves on the politica, we do not know that this is alto- rulers who have so grossly deceived them tether a wholesome sign. An efficient and caused thorn such useless and need - Government can be a great help towardslegissm ' ailnut forthe their own' selfish , whole Htilienzol- the winning of the war, and an inefficient iernendfine«iii dri as fiscve Romans did with the Tar - Government a great hindrance. it is the quirts. duty of the people to keep their Govern - it is a rather curious fact that Lord Atholstan (formerly Sir Hugh Graham). the proprietor of The Montreal Star. is at present making his first trip to the Cana- dian West. Can it. be that. in spite of his high title. he has had to keep his nose to the grindstone like any ordinary news- paper man, and has never had time to visit Pile -o' -Bones, Rawhide Gulch. Medi- cine Hat. Calgary. Moose Jaw. Edmonton and the other centres of Western Cana- dian progressiveness between the Coast and the Red River. READY FOR FAIR. - Preparations Further Ad vnaipM 'Kuri In Other Years.. \\ TORONTO. Aug. 20.—Whet May- or Church and President T. A. Rus- sell, of the Exhibition. lead the members of the City Council in the final tour of inspection of the grounds Friday afternoon. they will in all likelihood find the preparations fur- ther advanced than usual. Last year when the committee in charge of the buildings made their first trip after the Duke of Devonshire had pressed the button they found only about half a dozen exhibitors who bad tail, ed to live up to Their Instruetions to have their exhibits complete for the opening ceremonies. This year the committee are mak- ing an effort to excel that record. and with this object is view are keeping close tab on the work new going on is grounds and buildings. ,Preparations appear to be even fur- ther advanced than a year ago and the grounds and buildings are alive with workmen and exhibitors prepar- ing for the reception of the first of the million crowd on Monday next. Manager Kent has been greatly encouraged by the enthusiastic man- ner in which the returned soldiers are responding to the invitation to become the guests of the association on Opening Day. 'Several of the branches together with the Ontario Provincial Branch have advised Mr. Rent that their members will tie pleased to help make the grist day a success. A typical letter received from Mr. F. G. Pratt, assistant secretary of the Ontario Branch, says: "Your ex- ttoniit towards returned men have been followed with great interest by the ofacers of this association end. Indeed. we owe our deep gratitude for the patriotic spirit shown by Yourself and colleagues to our com- rades." la addition to the local returned Ines 1t is expected that there will be a eery good representation from out- side branches. several communica- tions to thla effect having been re- ceived at the Exhibition omces. HIS SWAN SONG HALF AN ALIBI Ludendorff Tries to Explain His Failure. NO LONGER INVINCIBLE The Man Who Was Regarded as the Brains of the German War Ma- chine Dore Not Prove Convinc- ing When He Attempts to Give Reason for tits Defeat on the Marne. ONE effect of the German de teat In the Marne salient has been to bring von Hin- denburg tack Into the lime- light. For some months part he has been in eclipse. He was said to be Incapacitated. Ludendorff no longer needed his services as a stage war god. Into whose wooden Images the German populace was burning to drive gold and silver nails. But 1s this crisis he is weicouie again at Grand Headquarters, where he gravely echoes the after -the -event wisdom of the present head partner in the recoastltutest Hiadenburg- Ludendorff arm. Ludendorff has given the German newspaper correspondents his ver- sion of the Marae disaster. Of course. he didn't use the word disaster. 1)1s - asters happen only to the enemy• it seems that the grandiose atth offen- sive failed only because "the enemy evaded us oa July 15." How did they ONLOOKER. Riofn In Japan. TOKIO. Aug. 20.—An Imperial ordinance authorises the Government to requisition all stocks of rice. The rice will be put on the market. The newspapers have been prohib- ited from printing reports of the pro- gress of the rice riots, and there in an ahsenoe of nein from the pro- vinces. A statement issued yesterday by Minister of the Interior Mtsunc says that the governors have assured the Ministry that the disorders are abating eteadily. The organisation of proprietors and editor. of newspapers have adopted a resolution declaring that the prohibition against news of the riots 1e an unprecedented and arbi- trary interference with the right of tree speech as granted by the con- stitution. They demand • cascelta- lion of the order. The Constitutional party declares that the order of the Government is harmful because It suppresses news of • national social movement vitally affectiag the people. Carmine Backed Dow's. WASHINGTON. Aag. 20. — A threatened crisis in the relattoas of Meek* with the Entente Allies and the United States apparently has bete averted by a modlacatios of the new Mexlean oil tax decree by Presl- deal Carmine. it was leareed 4har on Aug. 12 Carmine 1a sleet e•aostled provi- sions of the decree of July 21, under which undeveloped oil lands might be aeteed by the Mezinaa Govern - meat upon failure of tbetr *wears to make declarations and ,shed( to what they regarded ss steamer* tax- ation. THE FAITH OF SOLDIER& Sincerity or Nothing Is the Wattle. word of Boys "Over There." The most prevalent mistake made by observers sad writers is concern- ing the faith of the men. They seem to think that the religion of the sol- dier has undergone a mysterious change, when to fact the same tanks exist to -day in the army as in civi- lian life. These men are huge recep- tacles of feeling. They pre sincere. Their hearts are is the battle. It s1py be that they lack the power to ex- press this as splendidly am the Presi- dent can. but where one of them says. "Every decent chap ought to tight when his country is at war," he is saying In his way what more clever men express with smooth phrases. The faith of their fathers and mothers—that is the faith of our sol- diers. No man can get away from his early years. His training clings to him through all of lite. So It is with the soldier. He comes to the artny with his entire spiritual bag- gage. Perhaps he dwells more upon the thoughts of a hereafter than he did previously, -but I doubt it. He firmly believes that death is only a door to a future lite and he rests content with that. At feast, this attitude of mind has been nay experi- ence among them at all tiniest This faith. this religion. does be- come wrapped up In patriotism. to be sure. The men are conscious that there is a horrible evil in the world which is attempting to crush every decent thing known to them. They have heard of the submarine out- rages, the use of gas for the first time by the Germans. April 22. 1915; they know that almost every fiendish method to kill, Ape. and destroy has been put into effect by the German Government—it Is not strange. there- fore. that a faith should become in- terwoven with the aspirations of our country to combat and crush out such an evil. In most men this faith Is not often brought forward. There is no "lip service" in the army. Sincerity of nothing—that is the watchword.— Prom "The Faith of the Man in the Franke," by Lieut. Harold Hersey. OEN. LUDKNDOIWV. do it? Possibly because they (tidal try to detead their outpost Innes. That was hardly good sportaaianshtp• At any rate. they "evaded" annihila- tion and other things•they were due for. So It became Clear to Ludeadorf on the evening of July 16 that oper- ations must be broken of. As a mat- ter of fact, they weren't broken or until July 19. Thea they stopped short because Focb's counter offe.- sive intervened. Foch'e attack was reckoned with as likely to come os July 1g. says Ludendorff. "We were prepared for it." It that Is so, the German Grand Headquarters strangely neglected to transmit its expectation to the com- manders on the Germa■ right Saab. They knew nothing abut It uatll at - ter it was In full swing. "By the afternoon of the 19th we were masters of the situation." By the afternoon of the 19th Ludendorff had secured his lett, sank below Soissons and had escaped envelop- ment. But a retreat ,to the Aisne was taeeftabte. So "It 'was conduct- ed according to our regular plan." It seems, on the whole. that the fifth offensive was arranged for the specific purpose of giving Poch a chance to crush the Oermaa right flank and compel • retirement from a salient which Ludendorff was tired of bolding. In that case the world will agree with the chief quarter- master -general of the German armies that you can never catch him nap- ping. Everything he does 1s in ac- cordance with prearranged plans. Ludendorff eat back. smiled ta- serutably and agreed that the whole operation was managed with wonder- ful "seoaomy." The troops are near- er their supplies—and nearer home. Everything was "plaamasig" — the unfailing German slibl. Rut what wax the Garman stage war god really thinking? Probably that Ludendorff, 1n giving Foch a chance. had also meant to gie him a chance. Next time if there Is any alibi to be manufactured he will maantacture It himself. Beauties of the Alhambra. The Alhambra is •n thej shoulder of a mountain. it overlooks the town. It was built by the Moors, and I take it that 1t was built overlook- ing the town for the usual reason. The ruling Moors lived therein, and S they wished to be in • position to give the non -ruling Moors what for a when they became too critical. There a is • lot of human nature in ruling people just as there is to ruled peo- pie. A beautiful place, this Alharn- ¢ bra. But to me its architecture ex- pressed decadence and weakness. There was nothing strong or massive about it. Whether a rare expresses truly it. character In architecture or not in not for me to say. To be able to give a reliable opinion as to this would necessitate ,the living of a life that lasted through a couple of thou- sand years. But certainly the Alham- ura did not suggest power and vigor. Beauty. yes. aad also fancy, but nothing more. But on the Cuesta de los Muertos (the Hill of the Dead), which was outside the actual palace of the Al- hambra, were three massive square towers. They expressed strength. i■ them had Ilved—centuries before -- the Mohammedan soldiers of the Guard) These powers Impressed me, sad I often went to see them in the moonligbt, for then there seemed to be in their strength and power some weird effect.—Bart Kennedy is the Wide World Magazine. 1 ammo mono emils wimp MINIM = MIMED I 1= 3 S 1 All Fanned 1t. The geese is it 'crowded bees is Loadoa. A soldier. back from the trenches, is sitting 1■ a conker near the entrance and puts his hand late his pocket for his fare, aid pelta out a shllltag aad nesse cis. The bus Jetm violently sad. to the sol- dier's dismay. the shilling slits frost his arises Just as lights go out, as they always do in Loadoa in these days when • hridOS le beteg crossed. The passeegeraINC; one accord he. gas to grope for the soldier's shil- ling. "'Frain It rolled off. mate.- says the conductor. Then the lights ge rip again, esti dloeovew three pac- esetters each holdlag out the shilling which they have touaL Eichhorn Well Hated. If the statements of the Ukraini- ans themselves are to be credited. Field Marshal Eichhorn was the most hated man In Ukraine. There had been (request threats against his life. That he had been spared so long from the vengeance of the Ukrainians was perhaps largely due to the strong guard with which he surrounded himself. To biro had been entrusted the "pacification." as Berlin termed it. In reality the sub- jugation. of the country after Ger- many had completed her phllan- tropic plan of the establishment of a "free and independent Ukraine." The Brest -Litovsk peace negotia- tions had scarcely been signed before von Eichhorn was in the heart of the new state demanding the stores of grain which he declared the Uk- rainian peasants had been hoardlag. Their refusal to accede to his de- mands resulted in constant armed conflicts. to order to give hint more power Germany made him dictator, and he undertook a process of extor- tion by placing a compaay of German soldiers in each Ukraine tows. Germany will not be able to call upon her friends the Bolshevik! to avenge the murder of von gichhers. for professedly their rule does not extent to Ukraine. The Finest Gentleman. The Spaniards of Audaluaia! They were the most charming people I ever met. Calm, gracious, easeful people who never by any accident did to -day what they could put off till lo -morrow. Messina! That sooth- ing. delightful word summed up their philosophy of life. They were wise enough to grasp the fact that they only lived once. and they adopted • course of action—or, rather, inaction —that was calculated to allow them to live as loag as possible. What they really thought of the tourists i know not. But they were kind to them; for (be Andalusian is the fin- est gentleman In the world. it mat- ters act whether be be beggar or Ilan — Bart Kennedy 1■ the Wide World Magazine. A Basi Mart. Bride—i'm so afraid people w111 and out that we're just married, that I'm made Jack promise to treat Me In public Juat as it he had no thought of anyone but himself. Mrs. i.oagwed–J[y dear. I adopt - that plan wheal I was married aad my husband never got over • IHMINUMMU W. ACHESON & SON Such Splendid Qualities of DRESS GOODS as You'll Find Here are Becoming Scarcer Every Day All -wool Serges, 42 inches wide, in navy. browns, greens, black. Worth per yard $2.50. For $1.50 48 inches wide, navy and black French Serge Suiting, all pure wool, beautiful, old value. Navy blue and black. Worth $3.00. At per yard $2.00 Knitting Yarns KNIT! 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