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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-09-27, Page 4Page t our JOHN 4Q1I'PI', Proprietor A. c, $M1214, ilfenager THURSDAY, SI"L'V. 27th. 1017 FRANCHISE TO WOMEN 'fiat the women of Cairada appreciate the extension of the franchise to relatives of soldiers, and also appreciate the dif- ficulties in the way of a general enfranch- isement at the present time, is shown by the manner in which the Franchise 13i11 has been accepted by the women of the country and advocates of woman franch- ise. Sir Robert Borden has given a pledge without equivocation that he, if returned to power, will give the franchise to all the women of Canada. Speaking in the House on Monday, September 10th, he declared: "We are emerging to the point at which the women of this country must be entitled to the same voice in directing the affairs of the country as men, and so far as I am co*cerned I commit myself absolutely to P that proposal," Again, speaking the following day he declared: "I adhere entirely to the opinion that:1 have already expressed more than once in this House, namely, that the women of Canada generally are entitled to the fran- chise, and if the people of this country should give to me a mandate at the next general election I undertake to carry out the purpose that I have already proclaim- ed" The Ottawa Citizen, which is an earnest advocate of female franchise, and a paper none too friendly to the Government, praises Sir Robert's action in the follow- ing terms; "It is to the credit of Sir Robert Borden that he has done more for the cause of equal suffrage in Canada than any other federal statesman. He has taken the first definite sten by enfranchis- ing women relatives of the soldiers on active service. He has also extended the franchise to the women on active service on the same terms as the franchise to men soldiers. The cause of an emancipated woman- kind is part of the great cause of democ- racy for which the Allies, including the citizen soldiers of Canada, are giving their Ives. Clear -seeing women can afford to allow Sir Robert Borden a reasonable time to carry out the equal suffrage pledge he has given and not try to force the gov- ernment to enfranchise every Canadian woman in one step by the War Time El- ections Act." It is apparent that the Ieaders of the woman's franchise movement in Canada quite approve of the stand taken by Sir Robert Borden. The following which appeared in the daily press a day or so ago indicates this: Toronto, Sept, 13—A letter signed by Mrs. F. H. Torrington, Mrs. Albert Good- erham, Mrs. E. A. Steavens, and Mrs. L. A. Hamilton, and referring to war time election bill, has been issued. The ladies subscribing to the letter re- present the National Equal Franchise Union, the Daughters of the Empire, the National Council of Women, and the On- tario W.C.T.U. The letter says: "The result of numerous enquiries con_ vinced these. women, considering the pec- uliar conditions which prevail at the pres- ent time in certain provinces and the un- certainty of the results in granting a full franchise should be given as a war meas- ure in order that Canada may do her full part in the war and remain true to her sacred trust to the Canadian men now Igilting the battle of freedom." Qlorrle (Intended for last week) A number from here attended the western fair last week Rev. G, J. Kerr conducted anniversary services at White- church on Sunday his work being taken by Mr Wilkins. Miss P. King of the GOrrie Drug Store is having a fortnight elldays ani is visiting relatives at Toronto and Bowmanville her place is 'bang filled by Miss McElWarie. H. V. Holmes manger of the Bank of Hamilton is having his vacation attending the Toronto exhibition and visiting friends at Barre accompanied by Mrs Holmes and . her sister Miss Perkins. Ed. Krohh has disposed of his five 150 acre farm one mile east, of Gorrie to Robert Walker for the sum of 10,500, C. P. R. painters are applying coat of paint to the station and water tank quite an improvement. His honor Judge Dixon held division court here on Tuesday last. The only cause was that of Krohn vs Taylor an Action for damages and trete piss of the fowel of the latter. The recision was in favour of the detindent going to law does not appear to be the way to get wedress for the chicken trouble between neighbours. ammalaaanimmaamammalmaroommorama SYNAPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTH- WEST LAND REGULATIONS The sole head of afamily, or any male over tipl years old may homestead a quarter seotiou of availe.ble Dominiolt ]and in Maanitoba„Sask- ate��Dh�ewan or Alberta. Applicant must appear n Lands Agenoy or gal Agin X atany Domiinion Land y.ABr proxy M not Bdb.Agenap bn"certain Conditions). Demes-Bix months residence upon and eeitivation of the land in eaob of three ySears. ,+. benaesteader tank live within nine miles Tris emeetsad'on a farm of at least 80 acres, en e r 4ncondition/1. A habitable house is req. r except where residence 16 Asrformod in eh* *Solvay. y. 14.. stook may be substituted for cultivation trader certi,inoonditions, a certain dtstrtots�ta bomv.steadorin good Widelomestead, Price E.0000 r sets.Mons P�t eetet- eii Months residottoo in each of three v'earl after earning homestead patent: also 60 aures extra cultivation. Preempttoti pat.nttnay be obtained as soon ae homestead patent en certain conditions. A. settler tuba has exhausted s hie homestead tigtit slay take urchased homestead to cop• tate estvarlete. Price 13 per acre, Duties - Wadi raeide tit raontbesn.eaoh of three yyear& Is 1 ival,e sores and er ctra house worth 3300 ' ;Meanie Of a ntittvation le subject to value. *seta ease rough, sorubb or stony land tinder .r aln eondltlWoy�hp&titutod for cultivation W. W. (4' sag 6.141, GV, eputyof theMinteter oithe i c tor. W «a. Lltiautiiosiod .ub eat airble *firer win not be paid for4i , T. IE WI NGIUAM ADVANCE '! bursday Sept. 2 7 a 1917 Big Special fair Attraction The 8th. Wonder of the World Under the auspices of the Turnberry Agricultural Society TOWN HALL, WINGHAM Wed, Oct. 10th. Thurs. Oct. llth. Thi: Last Dor of the Dig Fair and the Day Following. .,.�.._. `Q. rid -""i'+ • MIGHTIEST OPECTACLE Ego PRODUCED Original Music and Stage Effects: Jules Brazil Leader of Orchestra Reserved Seats on Sale at The Rexall Store Secure your Tickets Early, Prices : Nights $1, 75 and 5Octs. Thurs. Mat. 75, 50 and 25cts. THE ADVANCE JOB DEPARTMENT is equipped with all the newest type faces and turns out the neatest printing. If you are in need of Letterheads, Envelopes, etc. ask to see our samples. • Asiga 4.1' tri„ Get ehilkd the Wheel of a Forii and Drive TRY it just once! Ask your friend to let you "pilot” his car on an open stretch. You'll like it, and will be surprised how easily the Ford is handled and driven. If you have never fell; the thrill of driving your own ear, there is some- thing good in store for you. It is vastly different from just riding --being a passenger. And especially so if you drive a Ford. Young boys, girls, women and even grandfathers—thousands of them— are driving Ford cars and enjoying it. A Ford stops and starts in traffic with exceptional ease and smoothness, while on country roads and hills its strength and power show to advantage. Buy a Ford and you will want to be behind "the wheel" constantly. Ceat*"14MINIONOWIPPO° 2 1E UNIVERSAL CAR • Runabout - $475 Touring - $495 $695 - $$90 Coupelet Sedan P. 0.13.FORA ONT. IYL CRAWFORD, Dealer, Wingham 'l`11i11'lil YEARS AND AMER (London Titres) After three years of the greatest war of all tine we cannot fail to pause for an instant in order to glance back over the hard and stoney road over which wo have traversed. We recall with a shudder the truly lamentable military situation in which wo found ourselves when wo were fore,'d, against our will, by the deliberate and planned aggression of the Central Powers, to take up arms. Au army which tit ars merely the armed police of a great Empire, neither de- vised nor fitted for aggression; and able at first to place in the field only a few divisions, contemptible ludeed in numbers and armament, but en- tirely the reverse in gallantry and devotion, Behind them our few re- serves, and behind them both an un- armed and untrained people, and a policy, common to all parties, of peace and limiting armaments to the strict- est minimum. Neither guns, rifles, munitions, clothing, equipments, nor a thousand other things needed for the adequate "expansion of the Arniy outside the regular forces of the Crown," demanded in vain by the Commissioners who investigated our military procedure in South Africa. For a fortnight in August, 1914, it rained ultimatums and declarations of war. We were stupefied for an in- stant. The day hed come. The day against which great soldiers had warn ed us to prepare without avail. We had lived so long under the menace of Gorman militarism that we had almost ceased to believe that its open) and avowed aim of mastering Europe would ever begin to receive practi- cal application. In a flash the truth was revealed that we had falsely es- timated the whole European situ- ation, and that the state policy of our front benches was bankrupt. We had not even thought out what we should do to create a great national Army in such a crisis, and our Committee of Imperial Defence proved as bank- rupt as the rest. • The military answer proposed by Russia to the German military laws of 1911-13 was probably the reason why the Gertnan military caste and the German Great General Staff de- termined on war, and won over the Kaiser and his Ministers to their views. Austria-Hungary had often projected aggression in Southeastern Europe, and Germany had restrained her. Now she slipped from the leash, with the murder of Franz Ferdinand as a useful pretext, and Germany took caro that nothing should arrest the course of hostilities when it had begun. She hoped for, and believed in a rapid and successful campaign, the speedy overthrow of Fracen, a transfer of German weight to the East and the immobility of England, or at least her impotence. An England un - Mina Every year from Consumption, Millions could haro been saved it only common sense prevention had been used in tits first stage. If YOU. ARE a Sufferer from Asthma, Bron- chitis, Catarrh, Pleurisy, Weak Lungs, Cough and Colds—all Dis- oases Ieadiug up to Consumption—, Tuberculosis, YOU ARE interested in Dr. Strandgard's T. B. Medicine. Write for Testimonials and Booklet. DR. STR_'1NDGARD'S MEDICINE CO., 203.265 Yong() Street, Teionto, EZEWIREMSENSIEWESEWIEMI CHIROPRACTIC Chiropractic accurately locates and removes the cause of disease, allowing nature to restore health. J. A. FOX D.C., D.Q. Drugless Physician. Consultation and examinations free, Phoue 191. Member Drugless 1'hysioians Associa• tion of Canada. 5arms AZ anted W e have frequent inquir- ies for good farms within reasonable distance of W ing. hale. If you have a farm for sale it will pay you to see us. Ritchie d� Cosens Insurance and Real Uetate Wipghaw artnetl and torn. by internal dissen- sions was to Germany the moat con- tetrtptiblo of antagonists, She count-. eel so much en our failure tq, March that she was not prepared for a war at sea, and a large part of her mer. cIntehanrnt fledeet. beealne goad 1"1"1"1"or was The dastardly invasion of neutral 13elgiunr by the German Armies was the immediately determining cause of the entry of England into the lists, and this act of infamy united opinion hi England and throughout the world against Germany as noth- ing else could se entirely have unit- ed it. But Germany's aggression a- gainst France was also treacherous and base; France had withdrawn all her troops ten Icllometres from the frontier in order to give Germany no Pretext for war, and it was at this distance from the border that the first Frenchman was killed. Italy de- terminedthat her alliance wtih the Central Powers did not compel her to march in a war of aggression, Serbia and Belgium resisted invasion with all their might. The uprising In England, and of her great Deminions, to met the Ger- man challenge was entirely spontan- eous, and cannot faithfully be attri- buted to the influence of any single great figure either in politics or war. If Lord Kitchener may loom large to history, and if our present Prime Minister has most completely embod- ied the fighting spirit of the people in presence of a great wrong, it was the people themselves , and all the people in all classes, who regarded the quarrel as their own, and almost before we knew how we stood a great national army was in the making. There joined by May, 1915, no less than 1, 239,312 regular recruits, and 469,611 Territarials, and the largest intake in any one week was in that ended on September 5th, 1914, when 174,901 Regular recruits enlisted. No question of compulsion could arise while this tide was flowing a,nd all home staffs were completely over- whelmed by it. Everything, from the commonest necessity upwards, was wanting to house, clothe, equip, arm and train these masses of men, who uncom- plaingiy suffered many hardships while all the things needed by them were laboriously collected. Tho want ofrifles, in ,particular, caused inmea- sureabie anguish, for 'our peace out- put did not amount to 150,000 rifles annually. It was soon found that the tools and gauges necessary for the construction of rifles could not he rapidly .provided, and for months, if not years, many battalions remain- ed unarmed. The tragedy of the rifles and the shells scarcely bears telling even now. It was not till May 1915, nine months after the dec- laration of war, that the first division of the new Armies disembarked in France, and it was not until after the lapse of two years of war that guns, shells, and other munitions re- quired to place our troops on an equality with the enemy in points of armament were found for them. It was on the question of high explosive shells that the Liberal Government fell, and it is to our present Prime Minister, who applied a match to the train of powder laid by The Times, that we owe, above all others, the perfecting of our armament and the victories that it has enabled us to win The co-operation of the British Ar- my with the French in certain events ualities had been the subject of con- versation since the year 1906, and all was prepared for the dispatch of our small Expeditionary Force to France. Mobilization and movements were admirably, secretly, and expedieiously accomplished. The Navy covered the movement. There is no proof that the Germans knew that we were in their front until August 20th, and our soldiers had taken wing without the general public et home being a- ware of what had happened. Thrown into the midst of the boiling eauldron of war, and opposed to the immense- ly superior forces and better arma- ment of the main operative wing of the German Armies, Field Marshall's troops fought like heroes, and even after a bloody retreat retained the disipline and the spirit which enabl- ed them th aid the French at the Battle of the Marne, to cross the Aisne, and then, side by side with General Foeh's valiant troops, to de- feat decisively the culminating effort of the enemy at Ypres, The administration of Lord Hal- dane had not only giyep ps'tile Expe, ditionary 'pipe in perfected feena, but ilapt established behind it the Special Reserve as a feeder, the Ter- retorialsfieldarmyforce,and the as a Offeesupple'i'menrainttUgtary xd' Corps as a reservoir of young gft1cars, All parts of this machinery now cane into play and enabled us to carry on while the New Armies were maturing. Many a Special Reserve Battnljon hhs now given 409 officers and 15000 trained men as sir ftai ar}tl t1ieic ser- vices haye been beyenfl praise.The Territorials oek Aver home efense. served first as units, and, then in clivi- sions in rranpe, ffound our garrisons, notably in Yu ia, sepvpxi i}r other itis; tant fields, and soon bepan}e indist- inguishablp from the #?.egluars, Great have been their merits, and valued indeed have been their eerviceS, with, in the dreadfully Barrow }lrnits psi signed to it ljY Pelipy Aho finance the orgauixatlen Of the slid Ar1nm and its reserves wets excellent, and we mg look back upon it with Just pride, From the day when it first set foot in France until the present hour our Army has steadily grown in numbers and improved in armament. With these new advantages, and under the command of Field Marshall Sir. Doug- las Haig, it has become a very terrible instrumeut in battle. But the flow of volunteers began tO ebb in the year 1915, leaving us dangerously de- pleted at its close, and' we were event- ually compelled to pass the Military Service Acts in order to secure an adequate supply of men. Tile Service Acts permitted about a lttrlltolt 111en• who should have served r5 tre excepted, amongst others the eendpiei tieus objectors, who were aUtho fixed t}y 1;arlia,nrent to place prtvate'jt dgn ierlt above ,pudic duty., a plaint 111iflr0mec} 'of` la' any dtliel. state. The Beard e f Trade was gis, perinittefl tp circulate long lists et exempted traeles, *holt served to de- feat th'e intentions of parliament and the pioirntry, a .nil from the first 4, last iaeba tinei}ts poim'oined against the Arniy to deprive it of en: lYeypt' isfa, t y fo noir} at PY }ip It l WHICH EiCHQOl.3 All Bpaif}ess 1pgee are net alitxe. Choose eerertflly. ELLIOTT &MCS l,e Yong° and Charles Sts., Toronto. Is notes for high grade training for buslnesslite, Great demand nor our graduates, Enter fr,4w. Cat- alagrtesfree. W J. Elliott Prine1pal. $1,000siowsioneseeissmosiesomwenimpessesesweow .00 E_WARD tiewsweeeemeseweerreweerweeveso For information that will lead 4) MIO, discovery or whereabouts of tlyd person or persons suffering front any diseas,'s of the Nerves -Skirt- Blood KK. -snit 5.sthnnal i3rt eititia or Catarrhl 'who cannot be eared at the Qntorie :Medical institute, 2t3.205 5.'oirgo St,, Toronto, Correspondence invited. llas waiting bepn on a s (eptly ss, - cor tiro 1" iA1 i pf vie* to its })qt SQ new. Alt tfise ecCQpt 011e tt cl $xentbtiof4 lra,vo 11, d the r) ei't o lel�'illg tt`; t13° day With some four or v lniUtpn tblo-bodied. Men of military Age in Ova life as a potential reserve, end if the war gees en we shall have to chit ippon thel)1, TIp PtsIp pf lite age limit to the German statidaxd w also open to us, as well a5 the draft. Ing to the front of youths under 10-. The campaign in Trance has been tbo enly o)reof quip military opera. flans riesigf nt l»r th0 (e3lorhill Staff *Welt sank o oblivion ' 0l3 ppp leading soldiers Wetit almond, Lord Iiltehenev's predbininalace in the Cab. 6.4 Ie A 4 11. E. ISARD r 7,4 New Stylcs of Fall and L Winter Coats You aro invited to in- spect our laige range of Ladies' Misses' and Child- ren's Fall and Winter Coats. We sell the Gar- ment of Merit these coats have an attractive smart- ness in style and excel in quality though offered at popular prices. See our values at $15, $18, $2o and $25. alorelitoa GIRLS' COATS Fine quality cloths, well tailored, made in very smart style Com- plete range of sizes. Prices are $5 00, 6.50, 7.00, 8 00, 1.0.00 and 12.00, assellitea SIVEA TE7tS New Monarch Sweaters for fall wear. See our stock of new mod- els and colorings. Special value at $3.00, 4.00 and 5.00. eassellfre LADIES' SKIRTS Just received a new shipment of Ladies' tailored skirts. Special value in Navy and Black serges and panama cloths. See our black and white check skirts, pretty styles, all sizes. Our sale price $3 00. auwirfts FURS, FURS Big stock of the best makes and styles of furs, fur coats and fur lined coats.. See them. Wingham, - Ontario s\7n\XCXXXXX7c\Zia XXXXXXXXXI �1 inet then caused his to be the only military opinion to carry weight, and until October, 1915, the functions of our General Staff were virtually in abeyance. Within this period there were launched three great oversea ex- peditions, which have caused us heavy loss of life, money, war material and tonnage; have dispersed our resour- ces; and have not yet brought the war nearer to an end by a single day. The epic of the Dardnelles with its futile heroism, the suffering of our troops in Mesopotamia, and the long - drawn out tortures of Salonika, are stories of heroism and of constancy which will add many bright pages to military history. 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