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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1919-8-21, Page 22 - Thursday, .August .1. 11119. t 1 r 1 Cs4 SIGNAL PRINTING Cu., LT), Pt7al.Is.rEHg 1'Iinr.day, august S1, 1(119. THE 4%N (W IWtsTINY. The Montreal Witness. which views national questions from a standpoint which appeals to a large section of Cana- dian public opinion, has some interesting comments on the recent Libeial conven- tion. It speaks highly of Mr. Fielding as the Liberal party's "wisest and most ex- perienced statesman, its knight without tear and without reproach. who had never carved his own private interests but had alaays,.sought the highest good of the state. and goes on to say The point on which the French Liberals differed vuh Mr. Fielding was on con- scription. Neither the French race as such, nor the Roman Catholic church as such. has any principle against conscrip- tu.n. It was uppuard simfyly because it linked Canta'a with Great Britain in the wars of the Empire. not to say of all civilization. Str Wilfrid Laurier had nut the remotest sympathy with that antip- athy. He gloried in the British constitu- tion. under which Canada enjoys institu- tours of unequalled popular freedom. But tor two reasons he had no choice but to side with h s people an the matter of con- sent tion One was that he had been denounced by the Conservatives through- out the Province as a conscriptionist bent on handing over the children of his race upon the navy that he was creating to England to be slain on distant seas. in wars with which they had nottung to do. He had had the greatest difficulty in con- vincing his people that no one was propos- ing conscription at all. and that he would never recommend it. He had it ori the word 01 the Conservative leader that no one wanted conscription. and d any thing was la; king to prove this attitude it was soon furnished by the elevation of the men who had gained their *eats on the antt-cunscnption cry to his Cabinet. The other reason was that. so thoruu+hly had the anti-British cry been promulgated. that had he, false to all his. enforced .protestations. turned round and supported conscription. he could not have been elected an any constituency. He would have been a prince without a people. and gone down to history as having been re- jected in his old age as a turncoat. 1t was his followers. however, and not he. who were the irreconcilables. and they are still in the wrong when they insist on maintaining that breach. Today. as before. the blame is soh the rank and file. and wan their romantic litterateurs and their r a tionary agitators and advis- ers. not with their practical leaders. That Premier Gouin of Quebec desired the nomination of Mr. Fielding is well known. but. as fhe W itI.,as state, the rack and Ne of the party. in Quebec pre (erred another. Of the choice of the convention The Witness says: With the greatest respect for both the o d party which had fought the tattles of political liberty. and for its Nestor: we could not b t feel as we have kept saying. that the leader who was to lead the new generate n must be ase soaked m the problems of the twentieth century. While eschewing any appearance of tak- ing a hand in party 'natters. se have indicated the place where the choice ought to fall. and where we have thought it ukeiy that it would have to fall. namely. on "the leader aha best shows the sanest sympathy with the progress of the people and with the union of the races i f Canada." There was in our mind no question to which of all the names before the country this pointed. Labor is the leading issue today. Mr. Mackenzie King has given his whole ; heart to Labor problems. He was the deputy. Minister of Labor under Mr. Lemieux. and later I lnuler of Labor under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and he has' spent the intervening time in intense practical experience of the Labor , problem as adviser of the younger Rocke- feller. an enthusiast in seeking to find a practical solution of the pitiable discord. He has been much reproached, for pur , poses of political detraction, with not having at the age of forty left this. the; highest possible form of service that he could render to mankind. that which he could do best of all men. to shoulde� a rifle. which he could no doubt have dotes as well as the next man. Only the narrowest of labor men will find fault with him for having accepted a service • which pointed him out as the fittest of men to blaze the pith of peace. We could not sish Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King to he a repetition of ha upsetting radical Scottish grandfather for whom he is called. But we have seen in the traditions -.f the man aho handled a rifle against the Crown at the same time that George Etienne Cartier did. and who was undoubtedly a i potent factor in securing full self government for Canada. the assurance that no other man could do so much, as Law ier's successor. to smooth the asperities which have grown so irritating between race and race. As these are Canada's two supreme questions today. we looked forward with quiet con- fidence to seeing the only man who could face them come. not by men's choice. but of necessity. to the front. Mr Mackenzie King has announced himself as "the servant of all for the common good." He has set forth as the motto for his policy the words of Pym: "That form of gov- ernment is best which doth actuate and dispose every part and member of the state to the common good." He certainly is nn the ultimately winning side iiho places his steady faith in the confidence "that good shall fall. At last. far off, at last. to all: And every winter change to spring." T>Z . $IOXAL Pure, Clean, I Preserved dt sold only In Sealed air -tight packets Economical I to preserve its native goodness. car. Used in Millions of Tea -Pots Daily AKCHiE MACGILLIVRAY WRITES OF SIBERIA. Interesting% Description of a Country Little Known Here. The fotlowmg letter to a firmer Sea- ; forth lady is from Archie MacGittivray, a former Goderich boy , but now of Van- couver, B. C. Mr. MacGillivray is a brother of Rev. Donald McGillivray. of Shanghai. China. He was for severs months with the Canadian forces in Siberia. Marpt$r..B. C.. Jt}ne 29. 1919. DEAR Mas. L..—Your very .welcome letter received by me on my re- turn to Vladivoatock. and am now replying to it. I wg= detached on special guard duty to proceed to Omsk about 3.700 miles from Vladivo- stock April 1st. and left for that place on this date, arriving back in Vladavostock in time to get the S. S. Monteagle leaving I for Vancouver. June 6th. which place i arrived at June 20th. receiving my dis- ; charge last Friday. and am free again once more. i Siberia is certainly hog and covers an limmense stretch of terntory. One point Lin regard to Siberia that is misconceived by many people is the beauty of the ' country. The political exiles in the past, the severe winter (fifty degrees below zero), the immense stretches of snow and the Bolsheviki outrages have done much ikon is carried at the head of the pro. es sion, followed by the carriers of flowers, then the priests in their rubes. then the pallbearers carry tog the coni -t on their shoulders followed by the mourners chanting their tunerat dirges. the whole party' on foot. Many refugees are living in huts dug in the ground. real cave dwellers of the twientieth century The Czechs Slovak; have some air planes and take nights quite often over the city. The l'ral mountains are not far from here. tIay varieties of precious stapes are found in these mountains and are on sale in Omsk at a very reasonable price:. The country for a long way around here is very level. being part of the Bar- aba steppe which extends to ornsk. Hardly a stone can be found over this whole area. Considerable stock raising. cattle and horses. also sheep are raised here. To the northwest of Omsk and off the railgay is Tobalsk. the city where the Czar and his family were exiled. Frum Tobalsh they were taken to Vekratresn- burg. some miles west of Omsk where it was the place of execution for the Czar and some of his family. This place was also the seat of government of the Ural, Sos•iets. A glance at a map wit help give a better idea of the place. The Trans-Siberian railroad is divided into several divisions. what is known as I the Omsk R. R. runs from Chelabnnsk to Nova Ntkolarevsk, 1.332 versts. The ''distance (runs Omsk to Nova Nikolarevsk i • to give a had impression of Siberia. It is ! is 537 4ertrts. )a verse is two-lh.rds of a mite). The roadbed is very good over this disisiun and pjises through very thought of by 'many as a dismal adder- ' nes infested y wolves and cutthroats, It is irur these things :sift, but there is another side as well. la winter rte- groves ;another white birches on the wide stretch of 1 pure snow is a beautiful scene. 1 wish 1 could show you the many snapshot+ I have taken of the country.The summer, the most clow sus season of all is easy n largest rivers of sobers. It and its' Siberia. In early summer the whole land- scape is a bloom and Lir miles the hills that of Western Eurape, one and a and plains are sorted with gionous sold quarte mttliott square miles. It is flowers. \ello*,Crim» .n. purple and every navigable alm at throu(huut its whole color dowering in abundance. length. Quite'i long bridge spans this QR:SA. at the time of my Goat there, river just oefore entering the town. It ns was the recognized seat of govern- a typical Russian place. the church and ' merit u( what is known severally as station bring the principal outsanding new Rosian, Antt<nvier of Siberian C.,.- buildings. - i erne-.ent It is a city d considerable size. Fri m there to Irkutsk is what is situated on the nver Irtyah, a large known as the Tomsk division. Numerous , stream nay 'gable throughout almost its towns and villages are met with. The whole length. Quite a little community 10wns of Siberia are hardly more than • is collected around the main statanl, villages. The houses are usually built of where the trans -Siberian railroad passes wood •r brick and the streets are poorly ' through. but the principal town paved when they are paved of alt. In i with its government buildings and com- rainy ',teach r the foot passengers have ' mercial institutions situated a little die- to aade through the mud and to the heat', interesting country. much pasture land is seen. At Siva Nikolarevsk. which' means New Nicholas. the Bolshi teed to bring on a collison of two trains. but were fru traced in their plans. It is a city situated -,n the Iver Jae. one of the � tance from the main line. Connection is of summer they are half btin+fed with the i made halt -hourly over a short -line rail - 1 d[hvmg dust. The towns contain few or say first-class fare torts kopecks 2c second class 30 k ks (1#clam. and on no building of interest. The principal ' the steps nothing. This seemed to be the most popular place, for certainly this u • where you find the largest crowds col- lected. The buildings are many and vaned. ' The war office or government building is a large building quite distinctive from the other buildings around. Here the present government formulates its plans. This building is not far from the station. place on this division is Ttgah junctiena pout where the railroad runs to Tomsk -the umvrrsity city of Siberia. Int country around there and almost t Irkutsk is wooded, fir poplar and birc predominating. A great deal of trapping is done in the forest regions where they get weasel. (ox. rabbit. bear and wolf as well as the lynx and elk. Birds ind the grouse and partridge. The rivers it was sensed mainly by Austrian and have quite a variety of fish, carp salmon.' -ourgron, etc' German prisoners (o( which there are a great many beret. under the supervision train. but n t dinl ng pre on a t peasant of Czecho-Slovak soldiers. tram, but re all stations [bete are The office of the Minister of Marine is markets ah re bread, ohne-r. eggs. etc , situated in what sae last year Bolshevik,can be purchased. There is a mad p headquarters, when they controlled the aces bye when the train staph W these te city. I have certainly not seen anything places the people anxious to purchase in Bolshe•; ism to admire, but a tre chief town of the s er much eatables. to condemn, and have seen many avid- Erasnoparsk is quite an important city of this d ences `fence" diof their destructive abilities. I have sk dist. district. and the commercial brought home photos of some of their centre of the neighboring valleys, nch in atrocities mines. It is situated on the river Yene- Nearly all the all. rd nations are repre•' shi, another of the large rivers of Siberia rented m Omsk. Tither by armed force or with several tributaries. From Kras- diplomatic net ref resentatives. n oyarsk to Taishet is the part of the Some well-built buildings 'house the fine. at (•tine of writing. that moat d the important banking and commercial inti• Bolshevttli activities are oncoming in • buttons of the city. Like all Russian Siberia. An ideal country for guerilla' towns and cities it. hem its n -air mar- warfare with its wooded areas. Taishet inti where all kinds of goods are to be was advanced on during ouranp up here had for so many roubles or kopecks. by the Bolsheviki but their attack was ; Values are very highly* inflated owing to met and repulsed by Cacho -S ovak great difficulties in procuring articles 01 troops here. quite a number of casualties commerce. N The pnncipal religion. or rather church, is the Greek Orthodox church. Some mag ifir•ent cathedrals are found in all cities of Siberia, and Omsk is no excep- tion. ()nein particular the priest showed OODUMII, 011e. ' of fresh aster in Asia and is .q enormous depth, the soundings in some places ex- ! ending 700 fathoms (4.200 feet). the average depth of the southern portion being 140 fathoms. The distance across ; Lake Baikal where bend of railroad begins is forty versts. the horseshoe bend is one hundred and fifty versts. Hiryuse is the name of a fish pe -u11 r to this lake. It is very tender and when exposed to the air I any length of time it almost melts. Thr ' lake was frozen quite solid in May when I passed around it. A great number of tunnels are passed through around here. thirty-nine in all. The scenery is very fine, the cnnibination of lake cerin mountain makes beautiful sCry. Ceunerta.'the capital of the Trans-Bailalia district, is an old Manchurian place. It used to be the seat of the old Mongulian Princes to days gone by. General Semenoff. famous Cossack Herman. resides mostly at this place. The river Chita runs through here At Karlums• kava the Amour branch of the Siberian railroad (olloas the Amour over, to Khaborovsk thence to Vladivostoek. Some beautiful valleys we pained before coming to Manchuria City, China, our divisional terminus. It .s the western, terminus of the Chinese Eastern railway. A Chinese customs place is located here. it being on the border of Manchuria and Siberia. It is quite sandy here, being on the edge of the desert country. It is a comparatively nes city. From Ortkutak t o here is 1.424 versts. The Chinese Eastern division runs from Manchuria City to Pogranichnaiya, 1.3/u vents. It rums through a bleak barren stretch of cauntry filr \a considerable distance. Near the riven flocks of sheep. tended by shepherds mounted on camels. can be seen. also cattle and horses in great numbers are met with. Harlin is called the Paris of Manchuria. situated on the Seingan river tributary to the large and important Amour river It has its Chinese town where you have as typical: a Chinese town as you could see anywhere in China. Its Russian section is a well laid out city. broad RI avenues. well paved and lined with trees. Braun• fully erectrdbuildings are here too it is a very cosmopolitan city and commercially is a very busy place as well. For quite a distance front Harbin large stretches of farming country can be seen. right dos n to the border of Siberia. the Chinese are certainly intensive agncul- tunsts and even the very mountain tops have their gardens on them. They use a slow moving. two-wtweled wooden cart. often drawn by oxen. Cmnese soldiers are stationed at all the stations. Great stacks of grain are piled in an orderly fashion. covered w th grass matting at many of the stationLwe stopped at. From t'ogranichnaiya to Valdivostock, the last lap of our journey. a distance of 220 versts, some hutly Country is crossed. The scenery also is very beautiful here. Nikolai is a good-sized place and from there the railroad branches to Khaboroysk. The railroad is single track from near Chita to Viac hvostock. A few hours' run brings one to the head of Amour Bay and in a short while Vladivostock. the marring of which is "Rue the East." and the end of our long trans -Siberian journey, 5.352 versts. or approximately 3.58' miles, all in our side•door pullman (box cart. Vhtdivostock is the only. Russian Pacitic seaport since losing Port Arthur. Powerful torts are all round it. aidRussia been a united' country it hd1! have been very difficult to take. It is under allied control at present. Set on a series or( hills with a magntfi.ent harbor. Ic Is a very fine city, indeed. in appearance. but also. I am sorry to say. a city of great wickedness. too. Many of its government and public buildings, as well as commercial institu• tions. are of the finest architecture. and in more peaceful days is destined (if Japan's ambitions can be cured( without doubt to -become one of the important cities of the h East. Now. 1 am afraid. I have tired you out with this attempt to describe the territory 1 have been over. i only wish someone ode I more gifted than 1 am could gine you a occurnng. , umerous trains have been wrecked by the Bolsheviks in this locality Evidence that lumbering was carried on in this forest area could be seen at dif- ferent stations a •here lumber was being was at the time in the hands of loaded on cars' We passed through a me oven church decosatorh time mural paintings colliery town, Cheremhovo. where several on the ceilings and walls were magnificent busy. collieries cosi' r seen and all apparently ale and life -like in size and expression. The busy. From here to Isen. some, fine gold inlaid work around the altars and looking land couldfbe eeen, some ,of it candelabra gave a rich grand enect to all. unit[ useculd l r grazing for cereals. other para No seats or organ are in a Ru,<ian church, of it used Lor land. , the people standing and are led by the Lr begih.nning the end of the Tomsk division choir in their services. together watts the city of wideng df the Transstreets.es priests in their gorgeous robes. The ser- fcouy ds and rightsbank nk Angara was vice is very similar to Roman Catholic or river. near its exfrom kLakeh Baikal its High Anglican. No images are found 1069. It possesses the oldest buildingin inside, portraits. apparently. taking their Sjoeria, a fort inscribed with the dte place. At the outside beggars are await- 1661- it not only is an indystrial centre ing the worshippers asking alms and but a centre of intellectual life as well. receiving same. The whole scene A magnificent cathedral stands here. reminded me very much of pictures I The main town is, as i said. on the right have seen of old Jewish priest and sync- bank of the river. the railroad passing gogue. ()ther sects have churches here. through the smaller but newer town on too. i noticed a Roman Catholic church. the lett. The two places are connected alto a Molsem moseyys, but by tar the bs a pontoon bridge placed across the greater number of chufches are the Ortho- Angara. Numerous evidences are here of dos Greek church. At different parts of battles. most of the public buildings the city you meet wayside shrines where t bearing bullet marks. some in ruins and the busy passer-by may drop in for a I left as destroyed. it is said over 3 000 moment or ta. i lost their lives during this trouble here. A very powerful wireless station is A great many Czeecho-Slavak and Cns- oated here. which speaks with the Eiffel Sack troops are here as well as represents• ower in Paris. Admiral Kolto teak. head tives of the other powers. It is but a short run from irkutsh to Baikal station bated at the point or bend of Lake new conscription law, were beim` slid Aaikal. Last year this station was to the colors while 1 was there. They are I re) d bble verer the of being fitted out with British imperial , r,� with the purpose of destroying the uniforms. The *entree* are posted m taanserows tunnels in this section hent great numbers around the town and at (1( ed at thio place ;causing a great the Is ast prm ocatinn game. You an I wrKkage. Some gored sized rteamers hear rifle. popping all night long. You ve their quarter here. alto a large teaIse to mind your step in this place.ng dry-dock is hers. i sRw a funeral while here also. A large Lahe Baikal is the largest accumulation f' Ambitious young people who are inter' eated in commercial education should car 1 m respond with the Northern Business Col' t Sege. Owen Sound, the only school in cot Canada where the courses are direct.•d by a chartered accountant. Catalogue free. Fall term opens September 1. (+4.) A meeting of all members of committars of the Guklen (.ate Mrdwav will be held in the jury roan( of the court holm on Friday. August 22, at A p. m., to receive reports aria to wind up all buriness in conncetion therewith. the Governme t. has hes headquarters here. The new Russian army. under _:heir description of it. i am certainly glad to get back in civiel again, but do not regret my expedition to Siberia. It has enabled me to see strange lands and strange people. the 1 rgcr world beyond me and to realize God's greatness and His protecting care more than ever. I have learned to trust Him as our great Heavenly Father who watches over and cares for us. Beat regards to you a'I. I remain. Sincerely yours. ARCHIE MACUILLIVRAr, A Monument in • Scheolyard. London Free Prow. Looking out over grain fields and meadow in one of the best agricultural districts of Huron county, Ontario, is a tigure of a young infantryman. done in fine granite. The figure surmounts a base also of stone. and altogether it is a highly creditable art work. Inscribed on the base of the monument are the names of the young farmers of the district who gave their lives in the nation's defence in the great war, and also those who enlisted and those who were wounded. What makes the monument the more stnktngQ Is the fact that it stands In the corner t>( a achoolyard. The three young men whose lives were sacrificed in the war were once scnolars at the little ahite beck school- house. They were the sons of farmers in the neighborhood. They played and Studied and worked by turns. Their schoolmates, many of them, are still.here. The homes from which they went, and in Which there is the vacant chair. ate repte- sentative homes. Many people motoring past this l's. borne township schoolhouse are impressed Irish the thought that no time has been lost by the farmers of Usborne in erecting this memorial to their fallen soldiers. Their judgment in placing it in the little scboolyard is universally approved. The children of the present and succeeding generations will look upon the monument and their lives will he molded by the • deeds to which the monument is a tribute. It would be well were it possible to place such memorials in all uur schoo:yards, that the boys and girls of Canada might the more closely appreciate the liberties they enjoy and might understand that these liberties were bought with a price. Hard Wood —AND— Light Wood From $2.00 to $6.00 per cord •fletivered to any part of the town. Also a quantity of KINDLING WOOD Phone lei.', Robert Wilson Hamilton St. Goderic h se' s • ti FORD Touring Ctrs and + Roadsters can now be supplied with new Ford electric starting and lighting systems as OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT. This electric equipment is a Ford product built by the Ford Company in their own factory, and consisting of Generator, Starting Motor and Storage Battery. It is as reliable and efficient as the Ford Motor, into which it is built. The Ford Standard Magneto also supplies ignition independent of the batteries. Fwd R..wa6..t, A6.. T.w..iy, care Oa spew ...dal. tie A...:,e S..n,ns W t+s.o.g FriwpamoRS Cave, /o,'i Sedan. t„•,. (nerd ...i l 10,,,e0 team& Jnr 5.0rtlna ...t 1.d.r6a. Tose. poke, sre f. s. b. Feel. Qw. , e.d . nw •.aid. W.. Tae 114 , 1 2J111111111111111111111M111111111111MIIIMIIIIIM1111111111110111111111111111111M1111110111 I WOOl)== st= W. ACHESON & SON First Showing of Women's Coats and Dresses for Fall Dresses Materials are Georgette, Satin, Taffeta. combinations of Satin and Georgette. Tricotine and Serge. Braid and Enn- broidety are extensively used. and Dresses are beautifully made. and prices moderate. One dress of Ai color or style. Ladies' and misses'. Prices $17.00, $20.02, $23.00, $30.00 and $33.00. Coats Materials of softer finish are particularly good: Silver - tone. Frostella; Tweels and Cheviots. Prises range $12 Of►, $16.00, $20.00, $25.00 and $30.00, Suitings All pure wool Serges, Broadcloths, Cords. Cheviots, getting back to the good old pure all -wool qualities, at per yard, $1.:,0 $t.'- (4'2.10 and Cl 311. All -Wool Challies • Finest all pure wool real French Challies, in ligh: anal dark grounds. exquisite patterns and colors fast will wash heautifidly. Goods :1.2 inches wide, worth $1.:.0, at per yard 11.00. Dress Silks a6 -inch Silk Poplins of splendid quality. Poplins are most popular and serviceable material one can buy. We via almost every color and shape. at per yard, special. $1.:41 andel .73. . Blau. and Colored Taffetas Yard- ode best French Taffeta Snits, quality guaranteed, Navy's. Blacks, rov ns, at mer yard, special, $2.50. Pussy Willow Taffeta Yard -wide. good aetght. in Black and Mid -navy, worth 12 00. at per yard, special, $1.50. Silk Foulards Yard -wide. in a large choice of neat tiros dr$gns just arrived—delayed in shipment. Regular $1 Of: areal $1.;3, per yard $1.00. Gossard Corsets at The original front -lacing Cerset. The Corset that nes er loses its shape. Every pair sold with highest warrant and guarantee. We hale .tyles for every figure. Price per pair, $0.50, $3 00, $:;.:,n. $4 110 and upward. W. ACHESON & SON A quantity of dry summer wood, 12 -in. long, at $1.50 per single cord or $2.00 delivered. Terms cash with order or C.O.D. We will sell only on cash terms; Orders may he eft at house or store. W. R. 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