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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1918-7-11, Page 2b• • v ..ment you tai. try. the first. p,a0k.4 of but we rely absolutely on the inimitable itable Havoulr quality to make you a permanent customer. will, even. offer to : give this first trial free if you will drop us a,:postal to Toronto���3 WAR'S INSISTENTCALL Tend 1'aash hozself how she can best help She doee net need to he a trained, in i.•inn earn M the, harvest of 1918. f emmette th.°nez if she is, it's all. THE OMEN OF CAA the better. If she is a city girl wile was brought TMs pp on the ;aril size .should be useful Canada :Appeals to lex: Daughters to billy to Her Aid in �.11 s the right Out on the land. Greatest Crisis in History—Enlist For Food SavingIf she is a gaocl lzousekeepel', she end rood. `,�duetinn. <:an voluzzteor• to help, the farmer's women in this country must take the • wife for t time. plaices of men to the limit of their With' the insistent note of a clarion hen weresuddenly called. to 'alrns and If she knov's of any male loafers, power when called upon. Farmers rs fail to service, the message has gone tx?o crops would hay=e t'ot±ed shad they. she can report them end have them muse recognize the noceesities of war • forth, "To the farms!" lint harvested thein that i;be women sent to ?<pastures mese' to pitch hay. and the public in general must unite For months past ithaswaveredfirs•h a e t ieir n tl aid roseto If she can take a man's blocs tern to save the harvest': arvest of 1913.E ,bowed l z et e 1 across the countpry, :end the echo has the, occasion voluntarily. As Lloyd poraril;� lir t}?.e city, then by all raisons 'UNEASY ,, . , been • let her do it and add one man to re- u EAS LIES ,LAIE HEAD 5 b caught time, and thrown it bails George said of them: l from time"They sieve the labor situation, to time, but now is as ir-, know their counti'Y i in the, The Army bed` is Really a Serious • . , Flanders,t xi. she can give up her holidays this'i with a direct challenge that is as grip of grim trlgedy. In Subject .at First _Acquaintance, resistible as the soldier's bugle call. girls harnessecitheznselves to heavy,year to work on the' farm,: she will be S 1 It sounds :from end"to end of the and)lei alongthe towpath,' ; doing a plucky' and patriotic thing. A mere civilian does not lnzow*what - baryes plod pabed is. '1'o him it is something soft ,. _ country. 1 . _ If she is a girl of leisure, it is up to �...,� ��s��, - ; � ,,; _,s,.,r�- ,�;�, . ; a,�a : ,��., mon and women are thanking God they've released—not z3 - and yielding, something the body can s; r : � G r Ir ihearkening.t ki`Phe a thinking tr a her to go out on the tenet or Send a 5 g' -,,. r. t .Y are it inking about man, but a ]terse to help in the ov. , snuggle in and the soul can dream in. ,. '., , Cr, 1 <� it; about it But1 i. and man from the city •while she fills his gg c4 ,. - �� i� , 1,, b there is no In Russia Italy the wgmen plow, `'hat a delusion! I speak from et- y time to )la battledore shuttle-and,•beautiful ,shoes. �' ���.� �`'play ttic•rloxc, and sow reap. Even on the y�ti� �v.. •+. � 't���� r 1 .� pc.zrence when 1 says that a bed is no cock with, such an issue. There must Riviera the shadow o'f ever has fallen, i I n short—every woman and every such ri thing. There s is only one kind be action -immediate, clear-cut, and the young girls in the work of teen-age girl can c o 50112ETH of bed nowadays—one kind, at least, whole -hearted action. transpoitxtion stagger orales legs, of during July and August towards as-- � The challenge is to men rind women wine or, water weighing eightyounds. Suring the country of the full benefit worth reckoning. It consists of cc:a , `r ` alike. Equality '6 pthree boards,a couple of low tressels, , It lity of service is demand,In Scotland, girls sxzgle, turnips, of those crops which Nature so bounti- 1 Arthur , ttrawood ;;;. Via, ed of them. Fe „ fully y}fids, war or no vvar. It is one a mattress more or less stuffed with, nplo,, ez. and eni 11oyc e tont Notatoes, ., 1 , 1. dr? -t l 11°i..ev and carts straw, and three blankets. .,���'' / rl `, are asked to help; ribs z•ich and the in'the fields, acid help in every l<ind-of of the biggest things ever asked of a �} ,• .....: 1 woman. It is for the sake of our "No of -water bottles this trip, tis :� ' - �. «} poor, the `bus} z Britain to -day, theresays the red -cheeped sergeant. is zzo intention that tai in i -y be' arem 000 0 woin en ain the laces Allies. Bert trioti of all—for our men Y �usriUrtc roc a t ,o an by a ea,til arrangement with 1`nos: strife industry be are 0,000;@ 0. }`on tg p „ „ it You grin, to show your apprec a- F rghro� lift in mn ya s put out of joint or business disorgan- of meal in various forms' of work.: "over there.. They Provide do the Toronto #� resistible argument tion of the point. If the sergeant y intention that There are 300,000 engaged in agrieul- g ment why every woman p g` ,T iced. There is ever rate should turn her hand to food conserve_says so, it is so. And then :you ex CHAPTER IX, !vices overvalued. Mrs. Donohue, all the resources of the country be to al work alone:amine the structure which is going ;after working briskly all the morning, judiciously used in malcin • the most The women of Canada ca dotheseruntion, to food prochict on or to both. g K Order tvas r•estored, the mills avers,3 g z n n s--•-�_- to titin youfronz.a flabby, namby- had suddenly collapsed with grief. In of: Canada's harvest tl.'ts year. The things. They have been spared the " , peroing full time, 1111regie wdswhic-;the stripped upper room that had held , I pamby, pully mollycoddle (the ser - had again, The regiment which.; zeal is imperative. e. Nothing can elf_ suffering and the humiliation of the this)into a real bei most sacred possessions site rock- T �4 ionfrol Cor Corner 'giant's phraseology, h^cl accomplished so much for the ed and lamented while the i;lnree chit- set this fact. women of invaded countries. They king camp—and on then le the woolen of Europe have have had few material privations, live man• discover,really ante day ai number of families vv re dren stood' about her, interested andThe boards, you are e : overawed..- - dune, to save,the crops is an old tale; even.in, three and a half . years of. wax, i moving away from their homes. t,13o.sheviki doctrines have brought boards. There is nothing yielding or Wareing . Its taking the Heart out of my Yet ever new In the wonder of it. They have worked splendidly and:" • - • • Pt a.hzve throu h the town for a :What• - Russia down from one of the greatest elastic about,; them. To look at them, last. , , body to. be taking me out- of this the women of Canada have done and again they -have i.eitexated _front survey, Roger Trask paused in food puoducing countries on the globe you might take them for innocent deal f .room,"Jerry heard her. cry as he in this line is negligible yet, althgugn tilers desire to. do ,everything asked of _ ront of a house that was being dis-;"'Twasto a condition of starvation. Drunk boards in need of a scrubbing. But 'Mantled. Chairs andclimbed the stairs..in this there has been sonic brave pioneeri ig diem by the Governnieilt. Indeed, „• curb, g stood room in. man died with .his head b e, with liberty, which they did not when �'ou have pent one night on on the sidewalk; at the curb, attached Y •, 1 Y m Eastern Qntuz.lo, and fez years past thfy hate pleaded: fo> a wider ii ,d of ii no - yonder window where lie could be G:. filled with idealist c fairly vivid notion to an open wagon, a gaunt horse eyed ,, in the Wesc. when no other labor was activity, I tion a understand, men, and them you have a the furniture dejectedly;looking to the sun in the west; and so obtainable, the farmer > . s bout the equality of n e , of how the ancient martyrs telt after a small boy, it was I ha•v:e been tntnlcuin• to die all � in dent eration rhe hao,e had the answer now. The jacking iudivhdual roduc el: stood of the horse's head, The thing enlist: d his wife's help in the outdoors. way :las been clearly indicated. initiative, p a course on the rack. that had caught Trask' these years myself, with m� fingea:s tion in Russia has practically ceased, And the mattress! It is a snare , g s attention plucking at the sante ,quilt that lits Not even the deeds' of ,the thous- The greatest need of the: hour is for accordingtothe evidences reachingi was a white dove, a triumph handswentr' f i e s and •a delusion, It has lumps in it. of the tax%dermiet' i1 with staying and wandering, ands of men who are daily sacrificing labor on the farms. Mr. Henry B. the outside world. .Transportation me biglumps •anti small s skill, t th There are so p an about on and the same bit of sl.y - breast; ground of rushes and was encompass- to his, When you're old, you want ed by a gilt frame, Underneath the no change whatever to conic to you, bird in illuminated characters were and when you're poor, it's only -a change for the woiree that does conte Cream Wanted SWEET OR CHURNING CREAM, We aunply cans, pay express r1ii rd,c•s and remit da!ii', Our price now is forty-six cent; Mutual Dairy alike Dreamers Co.. 743-8 ]ring tit. west Toronto arrow thrust thrautrh its ' , and distribution is so disorganisedlumps, and there are also spaces sed the last light tom eyes as :.................. it reposed against :. ..........::.::.:...::•:•.,:..:...:,:'<;.•:<,.,:::::.:.:,:<:::»�:.;:::.:,::<�:..•.:;::::::..:::•� that even a re he easants of the. a befit-:• i , _. .:.... :: .. ,. a re t P _ whsle the top and bottom meet )-,v.-- ., .;: giO ,,lp' land producing' their usual amount of rough lack of straw. foodstuffs, the people in the manuthotill, with luck, you:occasionally facturing population would still be F fall asleep on the lumps, and dream without the necessary food supplies to y !Unless the 'people of Russia steady �' FF ,.that your ear is on Mount Everest,. sustain them in safety and comfort. your shoulder in the Thames Valley, and your 'legs .,on an escalator. But you need not worry. The dream won't last for ever. Thereare vari- ous ways of waking up. One is by suddenly strikinte the ground with your hands, 'for the tressels raise you only a few inches above it. Another is the collapse of the tressels them - out motive or initiative. We read of selves. wen, never mind! You have three - peasants in their anger against the blankets. property holding class of the late The civilian idea of a .blanket is aristocrat regime, destroying not only something white and fluffy and soft the personal effects of the nobility and warm. The Army blanket was and the owning class, but the "very crops which they had themselves not designed to fulfil these require under the former social organization irrent5. produced for the nation at large. In their re -action against property own- ing, they have destroyed the goose that laid the goklen eggs. We read of peasants in certain villages having' gone to such extremes as to seize thea cattle of the local land owner, now I deposed; flay them alive and turn , • them loose. ' Without the old motive of compulsion to cultivate the land for the land -owner. now that the land has' reverted to the peasants and they i themselves are the owners, they have neglected to work and to produce the necessaries of life. To such a pass is the nation drifting that recent"itis„ patches have reported that the so- called L,Y�.e•v;:,.;,. s„ ,Y_ b- g r C=overnment ' of present-day '•'"' �' w g '�`-''n, ::::.�..'' `:..: ::':.s:::•`:":":4rr�:i<.:''' `-�.I.11 1' �:: Russia'.are:-..sending' leno otentlaries. k.,•,, :' .'�..�n;:�;;::;�.>,.,;:::. <>x�r, :,'k;•:.k.,"-.�' .,.,..:r=�� >�••�::. :•.,. .� i to China, the 'formerly despised and :..r•!>•.•a:`:s:-�%.,i<••^ :,:�:,,: :•�:cz..\ t:.:�:;,;:..: ;.o.s so-called decadent: neighbor to'the k .,, ;::>y . ., L .. ..:. east to make ar •ir em it forpro- ' .�.:�a r� ei s gI thing to rho. Got to. I've got;quite maybe that won't wait for a lazy Men Must Fight—and Women Must Reap. visions to tide them over next winter. a family to bring up and educate— man. ! • It is difficult to imagine China, one two girls and this boy. "I don't believe you're going to be themselves on the battlefields of Eur- Thomson,chairrhan of the'Food Board,' of the most densely populated areas in "Relatives of yours?" a cop, said Peter. nope have eclipsed the heroism, the en- has put it up to the men and women the world, living largely on rice and "Well', no," Jerry admitted. "But, WhY not • durance, the patience of the women of of Canada in no equivocal terms. ;very meagre f --are having sufficient the words, "At. Rest," This memorial ciziblem had been placed for the mo to you. rnent on a table. 1 `Well, there you're wrong now, e are you going,sun. Trask Jerrybroke in cheerfully. "Do you --her son?'' asked the boy. ; know what kind of a change ii coni- "Into the city." - ting to ni ? Wait till I tell you. I've "What will your father do here?"' just found it out this minute, from, `-the colonel of the regiment, him that' The father's' dead." ihanded Peter the five -dollar hiI that l The gulp that followed the words you cling. to so miserly. I'm to Have told Trask thatcuthe bereavement washthe look -in at the job of a cop. `It's' herecent rl -, occurrence; he touched the earing a blue coat and brass buttons boy's shoulder and said sympathetical— ly — and a helmet that PE he, with a small ` Oh, I'm sorry. Have ' club hanging at my side in great ?„ y you any i dignity. And from being a eon I'II sisters . "Two." "And a mother ?" "Mother's dead too." • "Who looks after you. all?" "O11 Mis' Donohue " lbs made a lieutenant, and then PIT -be. iacaptain, and after that, no doubt, a' general or an admiral or something of 1 that nature, with gold lace as well as' i brass buttons on my blue coat. And "Well, will you give this to Mrs.' you'll be a very important and re - Donohue and tell her it's for you and 1 spected family, so there's no use' your sisters?" He slipped a rive- whatever to sit here lamenting for dollar bill into the boy's hand. 1 the good old days. Get up now, and The boy looked at him, then at the i w'e'll go out and meet the grand good money, and said gravely, "Thank 'new ones. i y-ou." "What kind of a rigmarole is this Just as Trask was starting on his, that I'm hearing?" said Mrs. Dono- way, Jerry Donohue, carrying a rock- hue with asperity. "From a cop to, ing chair piled high with pillows and an admiral! If our ill -fortune has blankets, came out of the house. gone to your head, it's no more than' It's you, Jerry. What are your: I've a. right to expect." plans?" t "It's the sober truth I'm telling .Terry set the rocking chair down' you; it's the look -in at the, job of a and drew his sleeve across his moist cap that's promised inc. And he's forehead. i one of the most influential men in the' "I think some of getting a job in a i City., so they say. Nuw wor t you be blacksmith shop. I guess an iron the proud woman when first you see. worker might get a chance in such a1'me in uniform?" i place. If I don't, I'll find.something. i "When that time comes!" Yet in We've rented our house here to, a we_ • spite of her accent of skepticism Mus. man that's going to take in boarders.' Donohue's face had brightened; and I tell you, that's a load off our minds.; she rose quite cheerfully when Jerry Now that we've got to move, mother's said, "Now 1 merst be stealing the gti'te keen for going into the city. She .chair out from under you, for we've has a good spirit. Oh, I'll find some- got to be on .our way; it's a job" down and organize themselves or allow other authorities to organize them, there is the possibility of. one of the most stupendous disasters to a nation and a : great people that every occurred` in history. Without. authority for whom they have fear and respect, the Russian peasant seems to he with - they='ve got nobody else. --Hello, what;' "I,lrelreye ,you, Jerry," said Peten's France, Belgium and Great Britain. ' The. vomen can answer this call to, surplus to feed '150,000,000 people in you got there, Peter?" older sister;: Kate. a1 know you re They, have ` known the extremity of amts 'in one of two ways. Either: starving Russia. ='11e gave it to me," said Peter, going to ,be a cop. showin he bill. And what makes you know that?„ Bufferin;• "Very lurid of you,"They have tasted the dregs they can: go out on the ,land thein: Bolshevism is sometimes quoted in g c saidJerry.Jerry asked curiously, pausing with of war. They have lacked the stimulus selves, or they can release a man for: this country as an ideal, worthy of . � 'What are we going to bu with that the chair hung on one arm. i of the excitement of war. Yet they the .period of'the harvest. , imitation. The pass to which Russia y "I know that you'll always be what have nobly"carried' on." Even. as The farmers have done their share. has drifted is awarnin g that Bolshev- Peter? l Y Y lingering the fortune, Peter con-' You say you'll be." The trustful-1their men have fought, they have They are workin • like slaves, andism and insanity are not very far i { in : , ness. Kate's grayeyes was ascalm c v f5 cworked. their wives i They e 1 himself ato 1. e r , es are }cin i o less. 1: • n that . h se f a loss.capart. Thenatio will weather sg „r ` 1 . c T. I i .r 'r - p as n her vo ce "Shoes, m be t su e t.. ]What they did in the fields .Cur- responded c rce li �,te a o• ' Jer..slncdl o calfs , suggested yy p y t pp the storm of this war the best, is the "And a hat for Kate and a dress for! Jerry felt absurdly embarrassed by one temporarily staved off the wolf increased production earlier in the nation that organizes most efficiently Betty? Lots and lots of things maybe' the admiration of the little girl. "Much of starvation from the doors ofthe i' that we'll bu Onlyobliged, Kate;you're my friend" he s yearnwith and disciplines itself most strictly. y don't be losing S ,, " people. What they did in the muni -ed that there are now 2,600,000 acres .Production must be carried on to a it.: you'd be the wise 'fellow if you took said. Come on now, everybody, It in to niy mother now,"and set sail for the Cape of Good tion shops kept the guns supplied with more than last' year „under the princi- i limit of our pokier. Destructive The boseemed willing to earn a 1 Hope." ; shells. : What they did in office, in pal grain crops in Western Canada. i criticism and petty fault-finding are, reputation for wisdom at anyrate, he That amused Peter, who had recent -l factory, in work -shop, in every phase It stands to reason that if labor weaknesses and dangers. Unity of ` went indoors obedi nt walking l- rounded the Cape ingeography,' o'f industrial life, kept the wheels'of was scarce before the war, the greatly and constituted leadershipis e ly, walltim with Y P p:.purpose solemn ste s. not running like a boy ; commerce turning and steadjed the increased 'acreage, coupled with the'' essential. It' is a case of Ja strong >p, gand confirmed him in his 'belief that! at all. j Jerry was a, great jot<er, And at the fluctuating pulse AP an over -wrought, exodus of young men from the farms' pull, a long pull and a pull -altogether•. "You're a well -set-up fellow, Jerry." i same time it- made Kate even more nation. l to join the colors, makes the situation Men must be found for the army,, for observed Trask. "Why don't you try,' sure that Jerry always meant exactly ii'those earlydayswhen the -munition making and for food. )iodic foraplace on the what he said, It was i i i infinitely more serious. It has-been 5 1 police ;force .' Jerry rested his hand against the I estimated•that-over 100,000 men are tion. Non-essential industries must horse's flank and meditated a`moment. "I° don't know." "T would ]rind of like to be a cop," l CHAPTER X. "Has Dave found a job yet?", he said at last, "How would I o I At the corner half a block away "He has not, upon, and have responded gallantly. aboutTrask?" g Jerry" saw his familytake the trolley "I haven't either." Jerry tried hard it, Mr. ' x y t y Some thirty thousand Soldiers of, the "You'd have to pass a civil service car for the city, where they were to to conciliate her. "But`I guess we'll; Soil will help the farmers through the examination -physical and mental. I enjoy the hospitality of his aunt, both land something pretty soon.Is, haven't any doubt that you ' could—� Mrs. Murphy, until he should arrivDave at home now,' Mgrs. `Scanlan?" as duous period abseil of them. v tell a little training and study. The with the furnituate an ••distribute it "He is. But he's not to be seen How" about the women?' Canada need he • daughters •a Police Commissioner calls on the Civil among the four rooms of the apart- by any one—neither him or his father. s > g s to rally Service Board for men as he needs:they thou "h,"—there .was, a now. .She needs the help and the in- ment that, had Hired. I' suppose, g them. and choose from the list of " As he drove past the Scanlans gleam of sly malice in the woman's spiration'of every one 01 them, There those who have passed :" house, he :felt thathe must run in for eyes;—"it's . really Nora that you`re is none so wealt` that° she cannot do sornething, and surely none so craven that she WOULD' tot do something No true,Canaciian,woman would let the grain spoil on: the stalk wore ;he actually to see it wasting befoee her: eyes—the grain that, is now more. pr•e needed to gather in this year's harvest. provide' men for essential .mdustfies. The teen-age boys have been called "It might be worth trying," Jerry just ' a moment and find out what Admitted. "Studying for it needn't in- Norahadin millet to do and bid her terfer•e with my working at some other good-bye; he wanted to let her know that suddenly he had some prospectg and that he would be working and waiting for her. So he stopped, his jo])?" "Not in the least, When you get settled in your new givarters, come and wanting to see?i' "Yes, of course I hoped to see Nora," .Terry said eagerly, "I've got to disappoint you. Nora's gone off this morning with her 'hus band. They're buying furniture for nwagon and ran up the steps, and their new house.'' gee me. I know the Police Commis sioner, and I Il get you all the informa- r.eseltl Mrs Scanlan opens the Nora s. not 'married! Jerry's , + y , } ' 1' y's eyes c'7 -0U5 t1An gold OTJUhIc:• tion Yon need.' door to him. Ther was even fessf no less than his voice txpregs'' Belt:Belt:when it begins t ..i r , ''well; I'll Jo that, Mr, Trask. And cordiality in her visage Than usual, dre ' lit 1- too late: T �. I the Ile you very kindly," and very much less charm; she looker{ r` jarl•ied she is, PIS the Reverend The time to act is n:y. They shook hands; turning the for-, eibss and tired, and her slatternly Fitch, who performed the ceremony It does not malt: i a Sig: c -nn, a nor 0 •few steps away, Trask looked dress arid disheveled hair betokened in this house last night, will be tell- woman is or ever twill lie, wI11i her !y ;rlr ani saw ferry carefully packing a rejected spirit. ing ou," berg' uecui anon nr 1•a, Yotl see we're movin ,'i r, _ '' y soaial status, / s th s mc�ix�orlal trove between. •tlii'o pl� g, said Jerry, ho? asked .xarr with an. ef- , ofthis tvorl,,l's c�ociu.•1, "61-e1,� Jon's if a little later he could have "1 thought I'd stop in and 's'a fort•, his voice sounded strange in share pcc.i rl :11110 the dismantled house end bye." good -lits Own ears. "Who Was it?" is a new' democracy abroad—a 'won Fie linri'd v -hat passed, Trask might have "It's soon said," replied Mrs, "Her husband you mean? '1 derful levelling of grades, Useful-' EY Oh, Moran both amused and touched, might Scanlan. She held_the door and gaye will be•no surprise try'you at all: I't's nese and service are the things that. he e left, too the compunction of the him 710 oppoetunity to enter.. • Charley Cprcoran." co -tint,. ..,:.c;; heizcf'ar:t.or° Atilt) finds his ser- "You're going to stay on here?" To be continued.) _ Every woman moat search her soul b v i continued.) a m• Tr. 'Tor ea r -g ams°h.�e $2,76 arra 13.26 MASE5'AAEAC IN 9 MINUTES Eliminates all cries, AtOrk, Makes light. wholesome bread; rolls me., without u •trouble. Styes eves (lour `'and helpsentente ';c cr e the Nalion's rood ouPP Y l . ..� F•.�='": Convenient, quick and clean —hands do not touch dough. 'Delivered 'all chnigea - paid to your home, o; through your dealer -- 4D c+` four loaf 617e $2,75. eight loaf site $3.25. E.T.WRIGHT GG. u.er. 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