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Home My WebLink AboutThe Signal, 1921-4-7, Page 7N Welters Ontar'Is But Commercial Soul CENTRAL STRATFORD. ONT Our winter term cummeucea Tues- day, )aiivary 4th, and students may register in our Commercial, Short hind .w Telegraphy departments at env time. Our courses are thorough «n1 practical, and we assist graduates t. positions. Get otifkfree catalogue. ik. MoLACHI.4N, Prtaelp•I. 1 When It's a Question of Electrical Goods call 011 ROBERT TAIT "The he Old Reliable" A full stock of Light Fix- tures, Electrical Household Utensils, etc., always on hand. Fdtimates given and con- tracts taken for Electric Wiring and Fitting. To Let : U nfurni§hed By L M. Strang. In Tim Presbyterian Whams. i ou a late March dey when snow still Ilugrrnd by the roadsides, and the !inhalant of the trees showed as yet uo ,,hint of stirring say nor swelling bud, 1 fared forth in the late wftenwsm to enjoy the first really sprlug-like day of the year, 1111(1 Incidentally to t4e stack of some of the summer edtIIE0 hi the neighborhood. t tverlwail the sky was blue and on all midi,. was heard what someone has so well venni- -The /nveetest sound the whole year round, The first robin of the spring." The cottage* were, bol eburse, still tin - occupied. and •1110Wt� sign of the life with ivlik•h the' era 'hit soon lw filled: but kis/wlug•C•u tl? a matter of only a few weeks WA-- ley would Int wnch more /MINIM to taste. I looked about 414 carefully. The first was a lenge, not too neat, hat distinctly eomt- fortable and homey -looking affair, high In tlw crutch of a shapely maple tnw: undoubtedly the last year's home of u flourishing robin family, anal With w IIrtle careful overhauling It %•111 easily r'' merrier. •e Ise made fit for another year's Maple an/I apple trees seem to he the prime facnrlteet of till. robin Conner - Min, though they often ohuuse a vine - clad verandah or gable. in a ladle lilac bosh set Zack w little from the sad, 1 spiel a very newt little dwell- ing, 111141 4,114 quite •similar in a syringe bush it few yards farther on. Here the deter Iralage of June days will screen the fawlly-life of a pair of song /morrows, or it may tut yellow waNdrrs. 1t might even tw the hone of the catbird. though 1 fairy hl. will prefer the close -growing ipnwe hedge. an 0111 falnrlte of his, Lucky Indeed is the garden whin• ho• drb(n$ 10 tiWPII! ROBT. TAIT West St. Next Postoffice ?hues: Store 82, Res 18 AMMIININIONIONEM Try a Want Ae1. in The tilgnal. HYDRO•Et.ECTRlc Use a "Hydro"\Vaeaum Cleaner and your house is al- ways clean. Does the work-: griCkly and makes no dust, A N I T A R Y E C 0 N 0 M I C A See our dispiav of hydro Lamps, Irons, Washing Ma chines. etc., at The Hydro Store Coderich Onbri 4 THZ II0>tkL Far out on the wide Hung branch of an old Nugllsh poplar Is ,lttateal perhaps the must attred4tive home of MI, but dtatltw(Iy exclusive In Its ueyaretlou trout the rest of the feathered world.— the ue.tt of a Baltimore oriole. do dulutlly yet too securely swung front the tip of a swaying bough, the inspiration surely of the familiar llue lu the quaint lullat/y— "Whee1 the wI1111 blown the cradle will rack." (111e 41,111(1 aft but blind to Phi homes of the ublqultou* English sparrows, these tlw tenements of Bird 1r1111, but even these marvellwa$ lu their con- atruction. A Mole 111 a nearby femw- psit rmgge.ted cun►fortable quarter' for a bluebird family, int one thought apprehensively of flit' terror that prowl. by night, the 4,wult re'writ cal ! As 1 ensiled along "ell in the soft apritne wvwttwr" with the prowls• of yet Iwtter things to 10me 1n the golden West, memory sllype t tack to early smuttier days agent In Muskoka, and of the hint nwlgldsors we hail known and loved there. Will Choose same eonHd- Ing IH11e chipping -sparrows build again this year in the young reipl(Ig wvnwly a yard from our Olen Witkolow•? WHI those fat and frieIMHy *obits rear an- other lineal In the empty hoz lying on Its !dile 011 an hupronedi1 shelf ? And what of 1141 rel -headed woodpeckers W110111 we watched daily in the Hollow trunk of a half-dead tree nearby T Once more the lung grass in the pas- ture field w111 slleIter the quiet little rester sparrow mother, awl 1 have not a 11044)1,1 that Mr. and Mrs'. !Mad*. wMb *gain 01•1.11py their tluy cottage 411 the Iww'm1 afoV4 the door of the lathing - hone•, whence they proteslwI v1 vehemently against the Int nasion of bluuderlug hpmans. Anil the dear wren* W110 might almost 111444' lawn Maid to hare lived with urs, ser much a part of the verandah were their little homes ! One can lever eras• t0 mar - mJIIMEA9YDURiLr Tab liapelk Ists of water. Wd gig • nation of meat ban and our blood isflied with ono sad. sestilsksows auM authority, who wares us to be routes* oa guard against kidney trouble. The kidney, do their utmost to fres Mut beam weak this Dating acid. !nit overwork; tbe7 get sleggisb; We eliminative tissues slog aid thus the waste is retained in the blond to poison the entire system. When your kidneys eche and feel like tnm}e a! had. end you 4n stinging oohs 12 ilia bask or the urine is blends foody, tab d mewl eldiginS youto � relief during s irri- �; trios you have aver head - seam aid dingy spells, sleepless - seek mid stomach or rheumatism in bed weather, get from your ph•rmeaist shoat ford eaas s of Jed Salts; tab • tot is a glass of water before sad rooming g and la fine. a few This to m year kidneys will •d salts is made from �• � with d ei tratar ad kat" )aloe, enm (y rad has horn used 6w ges.rttoss to its+ sad 'stimulate obigged kilos s. to asetralisa the adds in nriiie so itisols ba,of irrl(atlne lbws and me d budder dt•on�ers. immured., aad eased{ hJ pmikes adeltaa tful nobody nm ss e4 le los s aeries • Is Canada to Bar The Door? Labor leaders and the Labor try of desirable immigration tate Press want immigration stopped. Canada. A constructivs pro�e} d Lobbyists have been busy at Ot• selective immigration is nt•ed.d aad tawa for some time picturing be- it is up to Canada to establish s oar for. members the fearful results in structrve policy based on • candid unemployment that would likely examination of conditions hem sad follow if Canada does not bar the abroad to the end that it may sate door to immigration. Th. unem- guard our interests and promote the ployment situation is not a new general welfare, regardless of aay �prroobiem. Winnipeg and Canada one class. have been dealing with it annually Canada needs new people, nods for the pant twenty years. Any ex- them badly, on the farms and In all au in unemployment at the present lines of industrial activity where it time is due to the fact that the pub- is now almost impossible to get asn tic stopped buying goods made dear to do the great amount of necessary by too high • cost of production, in rough labor to keep industry nom which labor figures largely. There inf. Certainly, there ars peon Is abundance of work in Canada and who ahouN not be permitted to eons there will be plenty for everybody into the country, because in the vein to do — immigrants and all — for nature of things their admittances years to come. The present dif- means conflict and radical modal [Nulty is that capital will not Ram- disturbance in our midst. Caney file en the present high cost of pro- already has its share of this dam. duction. Therefore it is not the Canada is not the congested mem- scarcity of work that is causing the try that Labor leaders would love trouble but the scarcity of capital. people think. Canada covers an eras The propaganda that Labor lewd- of 8,603,910 square milea. Now let ors have bun spreadingIn the Labor u■ deduct one-third, or say 1 r Press is of an entirey selfish and 000square miles of what might be class distinction. The phase of the classed at present, as undesiralis immigration question considered by unproductive arsaa. This towel• them, is how will immigration affect basis of approximately two aad a Leber supply, Or 10 be more con- half million square miles. Gonads" cede, flew will It affect • wages? could absorb the entire prpantion Labor leader speak of possible im- of the British Isles (England, Seca - migration aggregates that will land and Ireland) and then have Ma liked flood Canada, but they never less people to the square mils than eliminate tb• 10 to 40 per cent. of now exists in the Old Land / Mae- worsen, uswomen, school children, and under, Ing our present population at 10.- inehsdd in immigration totals. that 000.000, that means an a►erago of 4 de not enter the labor market. Sta-pie per square mil. to Caeoi' tistics show that of every twenty If this two-thirds of Canada waw male immigrants over 21 years of as densely populated as Franco, we age, the average is about three skill- would have a population of appswsl- ed laborm, ten unskilled worker mately 482.600000 people and rR and the other seven of professional Franco is not • densely popa wed and tadecellaneoos occupations. What country. 'it has substantially a would Canada have done in pre-war thrifty. farming population; it haat GODW> E.01rt. %el at the rotator of awlwly tlat pour* frown the thnwtet of these wee birds they pause before entering or Icav- lug their miniature ,IorWay$. Hr would be a rtllaln indeed who would betray the trust the wrens ser uuhrslt• atlugly display in ehawbig tis for their protectors. There in Muskoka, sur- rounded by the featbwrwl choir, 1 used to think dally of Mime rxqulsfte and unforgettable Vonss rd hefhrrl.w Tynan'{ : /bat made film birdie in a pleasant Insane • Tirol of planets and snna uta! Hr said, "1 Will add a glory to sum- uwr, Gifts for 'My creature, banished front Me." He had a thought and 11 wet Ilion stu11- lug, Itf the ah14pe of a bird (1111 it: 11lauc Ing head, Its dainty sir aril Its grace beguiling. "•1 will wake feathers" the lord said. Hr made the robin, 11e made the swallow, His deft (Willa Wn101111104 the shape to III. mood : The thrush, and the Iar6, and the tlueh ho follow, And laughed to 4e• that 1114 work' NOON goal. a score of picked men. but because (het was not his idea of sporting a had insisted that all should take a part. The result was the development of mane good men who would not otherwise have bada chancy. alb1 the end was that all the students had an opportunity to learn the principles of (airplay, self-sacrifice and endurance which all sporting events should teach, if they are to accomplish anything. A Horse IieaL An incident recorded by The Acton Free Press would seem to indicate that Heaven is nearei than we thought—in deed. that it is only a mile or so" from Actoo. The Free Press says ; An in- cident occurred a mile Or so out 01 town the other day which conclusively demon- strates the fact that personal loin is riot the primary aim of some of the citizens of this fair land of our. It stems that at a recent auction sale of farm stock on the first Zine ■ farmer residing on the second line purchased a horse for $90. In driving the horse home it became frightened at a train or some other disturbing object and was so seriously affected that it died two or three days afterwards. When the farmer who sold the horse heard of its dbath he proceeded at once to the sew owner and tendered him the nate he save in payment and asked for the bill paid to the veterinary surgeon who had treated the animal. The farmer who had bought the horse demurred; said the animal ap- purchpeared be sound and well when he ased him, and he had no thought that the previous owner was in any way responsible or liable for the loss incurred. Nevertheless Mr. T -- persisted that he would not see the purchaser lose by the transaction of a few days before. Kr. W— expressed his appreciation d the spirit manifested, and said he gould prefer at least to pay half the loss. No, said Mr. T--, 1 wish to return My walk ended, anal a %hay or two later a mune yrosaic quest led me through the business archon of the fawn. There In tlw large sloes• window of an enterprising merchant 1 saw otter warn—To let : t'nf,lrt,Ishwd Gln army of bird Mors ! Such variety ' Suit tlhswplw of architectural skill ! Such pretentious dwellings : Tlwy .ween• even balwlled nett the birds them- selves might wake no mistake& and sok to rise above their station In life; "Home for a Wren" showing a marked slmpalclty as compared with "Illus hind's Homme." The birds' tarter had !Well 4114111.1. 110y0rid quest(1n, and artisll•aHy catered tu, and yet—will the birds use the remit,. 't 11 fluky but that in the cities, w'(1/•r• trees are con- fined to perks and residential districts, they will solve the r,•al-estate problem for.. • of our feathereil friends, but I think In our generously spr 41 out luaus and r111ages, KIM 141104* 111 in the country, the old order w•111 tall. and trtura4 surrounding* prove the mare alluring—unless Indeed to the sparrow•; who Is an adventurer sworn. and is ever ready to rush In where his more-ta>aw-drwlrrd Modred fear to 1111111. years without immigration1 Where forests and large unoccupied areas: will Canada be if the resolution now If this two-thirds of Canada *ease bolero the Ottawa House `tial all as thickly settled u the United, a.e aI condition he .1apended oath • Kingdom. we would have • popular normal condition of affair is estab- Hon of over 65,000,000 ppo�oppflt� ''11i�kp.• liiiiied," is eenedueid. There is a ing Canada's greatest Imtigrolism general impression that the only year (1913) as a basis for comma - immigrants immigrants Caadse a me", are thoss tation, It would take over 250 yearn genie directly on tbei bacons*farms. That for this country to bacons* as thick - Is true, but will the immigrant com- ly settled u even the United States Ing to Canada directly to the —not counting the natural inereaes. fans? Mr. W. S. Bennett, member We don't have to go abroad too of the United States Immigration comparisons. I.et us take the paw Caeaissioa, who worked two and vino•, of Prises Edward Island a Lar!pars Investigating the ears- Neva Scotia. If the four Wasters; - tise of abroad, chat- provinces wooas tbtekly sound sr lenges any statement that the cities these two Eastern provinces, we are the wrong place for the imtl- Would have a -population West of groat, so fax as Om immigrant is the Great Takes of over 27,000,000 coacrrad. people and to settle this many peb- ble. ee Mr. Bennett gess on to say that I• it wounld oak• abflove 115 years the Immigretba Commission found with as gat •n inux as w• Led the feet to he that 9t 1>"* rent. of to the West during the banner years the immigrants in a general way. of 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914 — and sometimes very specifically, not even taking into account, the know what employment they are go- natural increase. Here Is the situs - Ing into before they leave their tion in so far as Western Cassia is homes, their wives and other de- concerned Speaking in round ss- ,ni fit era. The reason why the isa- bees, Manitoba has but six psplo migrant goes to the cities, Mr. Ben - to every square mile Saskatchewan.' nett sepiolite, is that he has a batter two to the square mile, Alberta howl chance to earn a little ready money than two, and British Columbia peas anal that there are also oppoetmhi- tkally only one to the saoaes mile. Hes for him, jf be is of a foreign Gluit.ng land everyand por.doeingssible allowaaeeoar ter tongue, tallk to of kis ow•n wasagates people, whoto {peekmen Lis langnap, reiluge down to ptrodnetive mem which Is most ss1.arnl daring the the very .0 r.stbn that hausigra- time that he 1. learning the Eng- tion should es ewrta0ed in any tee. lisle tangoage and the total situs•- stricHve capacity at a11, premiss d tion "It th• opportntritles on the no basis for argument. farm are greater than those offered The population r e square rune In the city, the immigrant will soon for Gorst Britain and :*eland is 174 find it out •nd act accordingly; The population of France taken u!!s� Mr. Bennett the census of 1911 gave 40,411,S Me. Bennett asks the gwatien or ■ population o� 191 persons to should anyone blame the newly ar- rived the *quare nolle. in 1912 the popo- immigrant for going to the lotion of Belgium was 7,610,418 ted place where he rinds eompatelots, • the population r aqua* wile was plass of wonhlp, end helpful sur- 658 persons. T1s• population of the roundings for him to %et the right In •new land. f he cannot German Empire In Europe in 1911 start speak Engllab. M haa an opportuni- was 60,100,000, or • population o>~ b t n S11 to the egpar• mile n • In face of the thou, t • a wider now its o wonder why the people of Great - dwtions frons people of his own birth lain, of Frame. and of Belgium, citieswho at' always to he when the the should not be turning thele eyes to migrant and first lends en. If when tit ta• country such as Canada whore or•V5 fi pend the re out on trainednot the the possibilities for the fetus see no or even ,equipped at 1 15 there any reason why as steles to settler . doled end . • apart et the Griot Beltish Empltre. living from the soil, what is the use p of f•,,d1ng him est there to become ws should those err gates h tit • disgruntled end dissatisfied eilti- people of Greet Britain 11y. saw? lmtwigratlon is •problem of or to the rb•ovl• of Trance, s greet consequence to the meet* of or the united Matas, Prem whose* Canada to-Ly.Olwim(g 'atfen 1111'11 50 many desirable eitlsons leere great influence nn industry and en comet w• should ((4 haver. is eeew f O arc p,espee t ewhich go It tate heels he countrties •ed net • restrictive pelley of ie menu ler the gnbo 4,stlt. The 1d11M generally, �� mi itin iaaMadtettga pieytra' Aasasta• was w valid sweie it �. r -- - b d th fist few moats o roti h bo i there ay k led f C,awadian remain. Ret HOW SPORT MAY BENEFIT. the note, and would like to pay the doc• ton's bill also. Mr. W— finally ac- cepted the kind offer, but insisted that he would pay the veterinary charges. This magnanimous act was certainly a very worthy one %Pdeed. FIA\ -GROWERS OKGANIZL Company Formed to Look After Inter - ash of Growers. Loudon. April 4.—Tbe feature d a meeting held in the Tecumseh House on Saturday by the Ontario Flax Growers' Association was the formation of a com- pany formed under the Ontario Com- panies Act, to be known as the Canadian co-operative Flax Growers, Limited. The meeting was largely attended by flu growers Iron all over Western Ontario. The objects t.f this organization are to look after the interests of shareholders in the growing. handling and marketing of flax products, and to do anything inc- dental or conclusive thereto The auth- orized capital of the company is $10,000, divided into 100 shares of $100 each. The previsional directors are William Forrester. Mitchell; Arthur Deviney, St Marys; Owen tenger, Hensall; Howard Fraleigh. Forest, and G. G. Brunhild, Alvinston. F. 1. Lockhart, of Parkhill. manager of the Ontario Flax Company. addressed the meeting and gave an interesting talk on the flax industry in Ireland. Mr. Lock- hart, who has just returned Irom Ireland, stated that the flax industry in that cwntryiwas at a standstill. He stated that Irish spinner liked the Canadian flax ai.d will be in the market for it just as soon at' the trade industry opens up. He stated that the flax acreage in Europe for the coming year will be cu' down at least fifty per cent. Ireland, which last year produced 120.000 acres, will likely sow a very small crop. This is Tharsdty, Milt T, 1121.—T gang to mean a scardty of dm is the future and prices will in time coast mask from thew present low levels. in the meantime the Ontario grower 4M to bold on to his crop if be w:shl s to realise any- thing like its value. The proiortion cost in Ireland today Is tweaty4m per cent. below the presort coat for Canada. he said. The general flax conditions in OntNM are not very bright; The growers have all last year's crop on band and not more I than hall of the previous years crop been manufactured. Mixt of the mills in Ireland and the United States cl oaed down. as a utxtsequeoce there is no market for Canadian flax. Tike result i a decrease in prices far below cost of production and as a consegnettce 'theft will be little flax sown in Ottgad10 chit year. It is said that there will be ttb 5.000 acres sown as compared with 20,9ttt last year. Among tb se who attended the MeiltlYM were: Mr. Weller Bowmyptvtlk: hid Miller, Oshawa; Gj gel Wdts, Ca ; Amos Tipling' WI m; JamesMurchy, Blyth; Ogre Geiger, H J. Willard. Centralis; WlWarrl W*d. Lucan: Bruce Bradley. Chatham; Mt' Cutt, Lucknow; Howard Fralagh, Fast; F.1. Lockhart. Parkhill; Mr. Freeborn. Denfield; V. Stock, 'I'avistatko fns others. Deferens. ti Pubis Widest "Why should a man at Tt>Bf'Aelth. carr for money T" "1 don't are for It," protested Mr. ilustln Star. "11'. the izaporylafr that other people attach fo it Small makes the Indlvtdusa feel• it% desirable to have as tomb of it les powtble."- 1WaahIngton Star. Fortunate chaps—thole whose elllWl think their husbands are 'clatter Shia other men. But It Must Net Be of the Commercial Variety. Mad and Empire. Commercialized sport, as well as the kind which takes a stretcher and an am- bulance along with it. came in for some knocks last night before the Ontario Edu- cational Apeociation at the opening meet- ing at Convocation Hall, when Rev D. Bruce Macdonald, president of the Cana- dian Amateur Athletic Association. and Major-General Sir A. C. Macdonnell, K. C. B., commandant of the Royal Military College, joined forces in �o�rbla� deeming all sport but that strictly clean. The purposes of the ad- dresses were to show the benefit which clean sport can be to any community. and also the way in which commercial sport will defeat its own aims. so far as bringing any lastingbenefit to the com- munity is concerned. Rev. Mr. Macdon- ald dealt with the question at some length, showing how games and athletics of all kinds are essential for the welfare of the community, for the adults as well as the young. for. as he viewed it. an active interest in sports is necessary for the sanity, health and general wilt -being of ttie main body of citizens. By interest in spat he did not mean mere sitting by the sidelines cheering other on, but he meant personal participation. It was quite es- sential. he declared, that there should be laws which would give all citizens time to devote spare hours to sporting events. and this should apply to rural dwellers as well as the city folk. The average person might form the impression that sport is not necessary in the country to furnish exercise and give the people fresh air. and while that might be the case, Rev. Mr. Macdonald still feltg that it is essential to give them the joy of living. For spat, as he looked at it, should be taken as a medicine, not merely for the sake of winning, but because of the physical, mental and moral benefit which it brings. Among other things, sport would teach self-sacrifice, self-con- trol, fair play. and when clean sport is properly enforced ,it would be certain to make for better manhood and better womanhood, and eventually would be of help to the state. Help Community Idea. tit Government Contra While, from the standpoint of the teachers. games on the school playgrounds man be of the first importance. Rev. Mr. Macdonald pointed out how it is the duty of the teachers to encourage a healthy interest in clean sports in all the citizens. With that aim in view they should take advantage of the cmunitidea by the Provwh ich i I is being encouraged Government, and they should get as many community recreation centres as possible near the school grounds. Though pointing out the general advantage to be derived frofn school and community sports, Rev. Mr. Macdonald insisted that commercial- ized sports do not attain the objective of the sporting idea The pp -tiling idea in to get evict) body interested. from the stand- point of taking a physical part in some sport. while commercialized sport. by catering only to the athletes and the perfected sportsmen, tendo to crowd out the weaklings. In view of that. he had but little use for the spat which tries to develop a Mw perfect performers, to sport, as he viewed it, becomes of little use to a community unless it gets in all who want to take a part in it. At the ease time, it ahnuid be the duty of the teachers to interest all. Major-General Macdonne11 took much the same attitude. though from his ex- perience in the army he was able to show how spat, when spread over the whole army. tends to make for better manhood. cleaner living and a greater call for fair PI General Macdoxhfxll regretted the tendency of commercialized sport to put a score a so of players in the field while it gathers thousands col onlooker at llhe sidelines. That was quite the reverse of the idea of epneting events. The some thing. he recalled, had worked its way into the Royal Military College. He had found a few hundred students gathered at the 'Melina watching the pe fomSoa a OR Prohibition ich Does Ontario Prefer? The issue in ' the coming Referendum is a clean-cut one between total prohibition and Government Control. To make an honest decision in favor of one or the other, every man womanin - twit Province should consider he effects of both. Look on This Picture Today the Ontario Temperance Act is being openly defied, and crime and criminals are being bred whole- sale. As long as there is a demand for liquor there will be a supply, and an attempt to enforce total prohibition is merely playing into the hands of the bootleggers, who would reap a richer harvest than before. Ten illicit stills would spring up in the place of every one existing at present, the drug habit would increase amazingly and the general result would be a lowering of the standard of morality throughout the Province, an ever-growing contempt for a law which is bound to be violated, and an increasing feeling of distrust and unrest. This is not rotnaneitng, it 1.2 a picture painted from life in such countries and com- munities as have already adopted—and regretted—so called total prohibition. And on This ` As an alternative the Citizen's Liberty League, which stands for moderation in all things, urges the peopls of Ontario to make possible the enactment of a sane, safe and practicable Temperance measure under which the Government would control the sale of every bottle of liquor. Government control respects the sanctity of the h it replaces the bootlegger, the illicit manufacturer= the drug peddler by a responsible body of men answer- able to the people; it assumes that you are a respect able citizen until you prove yourself otherwise; it places no stigma on the law-abiding man or woman of decent habits. There will be no more liquor in the Country under Government Control than under Prohibition and what there is will be pure. The bar will remain abolished under Government Control —which has proved its efficacy as the enemy of drunken- ness and the champion of True Temperance. Vote "NO" • rt in the canning Raltereadual and alp the Ontario TImpatMlfmte Mea e¢e1 for O vetteell1t 1 es i