HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-3-18, Page 3GERMANS LEARN' TO LIKE
BRITISH RULE ON THE RHINE
Get Fair Hearing in Court Cases and Generally Find Army
Regulations Better , Than Stern Teuton Laws.
A despatch from Cologne says: -
With certain obvious differences --
chief amox;g which are the reduced
size of the British army of occupation
and the attenuated exchange value of
the German mark life at Cologne,.
both among the 'foreign garrison and
the native inhabitants, remains very
much what it was a few months ago,
before the proem of demobilization
had begun.
General Sir Williair Robertson is
still the commander-in-chief ot the
now comparatively small force on the
Rhine, which, in case it became Hetes-
nary to take further military action
against Germany, would form the van-
guard and nucleus of the British con-
tubution to the allied armies. The
men under his command are mostly
young soldiers who will eventually re-
turn to civilian employment at home,
The conditions of their life here are
abnormal. When their few hours of
professional work and training are
over they have every day long :spells
of unoccupied time on their bands,
zsirirlt might easily lead them into
ntisuhied. Greatly to their -credit and
that of the commander-in-chief, and.
the many soldiers and civilians who
are working with him in their interest,
they have stood the test wonderfully
Their discipline and general be-
havior in public plaeee are exeellent
--decidedly better than when I was
last here, before certain undesirable
elements had been dealt with and re-
moved.
Many of them make full use of the
wide and w i e ..ci:etne of education de.
viF.ed by the army authorities for their
benefit, Theatres and the opera, box -
lug lug competitions and regimental foot-
ball matches, dances% concerts, cinema
shows, whist drives, lending libraries,
gymnasiums, and many other games
:unci amusements are commonplaces of
their existence. When they go home
they will find village and even town
life very tame :,t cainparisoa with the
delights of Cologne.
Some little time ago it was wisely
decided, thanks, I think, to the initia-
tive of thecotninander.iu-ehief, that
both officers and men who could af-
ford to support them would be allowed
to bring their wives and children out
to the Rhine. About sixty of these
children go to a school which has been
specially started for theta by the
Y. M. C. A„ where Yon niay see the
son of a general and the eon of a pre-
vats soldier learning their lessons and
singing and dancing side by side.
The highest testimony to the stand-
ard set up by both officers and men of
our . army on the Rltine is that the
Germans among whom they live ap-
pear to leave a decided preference for
our admiuistration over that of the
other Allied armies, It is not too
much to say -with obvious reserva-
tions -that they like it better, or at
least dislike it less, than the cast-iron
methods of their own military caste,
as they knew them before the war,
The arrival of our military police on
the scene of some local disturbance
with which the German police have
vainly tried to deal will at once re-
store order without rousing any re-
sentment in the minds of the public.
They iia} o learned by experience
that we are straight, and that our rule,
though strict, is neither petty nor
vexatious. In the thousand and one
cases that are constantly brought bee.
fore our administrative officers, they
know that they eau count on a fair
hearing. In our summary courts,
where offences against the regulatioue
of the army of occupation are tried,
ed,
•German barristers have more than once
been moved toepespublicly their
x r s,
i
admiration of tbe way in which•we ad-
minister
dminister ;Justice. Underneatlt that
feeling of appreciation there lies, of
course, a still deeper feeling of re-
sentment at the fact of our being here
at all. But if they have to put up with
the conqueror in their midst they
would rather have us than any one
else.
SYRIA DECLARED
A FREE STATE
Big Army in Readiness to En-
force Claims.
A despatch from London says: -
Prince I+'sisal, son of the King of
the Hedjaz, has been proclaimed King
of Syria, according to advices re-
ceived in Cairo from Beirut, says a
despatch to the London Times from
the Egyptian Capital.
Official advices state that the eit-
u:ation in Damascus is serious, Emir.
Feisal, son of the King of the Hed-
jaz, it is explained, has thought it
advisable to summon the •Sy1 fan Con-
gress, which intends to declare the
complete independencee of the coun-
try and proclaim him King,
Tile Emir, it is stated, succeeded
temporarily in fores""trilling such
action, securing the postponement of
the meeting of the Congress, which
had been called for March 6, but
the excitement is..saidto be sa great
that he probably will be compelled
to accede 'to the demands,
Much opposition has been evi-
denced in Syria over the proposed
arrangement for the future Govern-
ment of the country. It was report-
ed from Paris in January that
Emir (Prince) Faisal had reached
an agreement with the French Gov-
ernment, under which he would re-
cognize a French mandate for the
whole -of Syria, in return for which
France would recognize the forma-
tion of an Arabian State, to include
Damascus,' Aleppo, Heine and Ham-
as.under the administration of the
Prince. Later advices, however, in-
dicate that the Syrians were insist -
ng upon independence.
An assembly of twenty-nine Meso-
potamian notables now sitting in
Damascus probablywill . _ proclaim
Mesopotamia a State and form a
joint Government with Syria tender
the regency of Zeid, ` a brother of
Prince Feisal of the Hadjas, ac-
cording to The Daily Mail's Cairo
correspondent.
Palestine, Lebanon and Northern
Mesopotamia are included •in the
districts where the Arabs are voting
freely, apparently with the purpose
of forcing the Peace Conference tc
recognize Syria, under a threat of
co-operation with the Turkish Na-
tionalists if independenee is refused
them,
The Arabs claim to have 100,000
troops ready to co-operate with the
Turks in Cilieia and Anatolia. Ap-
parently they are willing to accept
French advisors,
MORE OUTRAGES
IN. IRELAND
One Constable Killed, Many
Wounded, in Various
Districts.
A despatch from Dublin says: -A
number of additional outrages are
reported to have taken place in vari-
ous parts of Ireland, Police Segt.
Nater was shot dead and Constable
Doyle was wounded at Rathkeale, 17
miles south-west of Limerick. In the
Pork district, Inspector McDonagh.
was dangerously wounded in the head
by a bullet from a revolver while ex-
changing shots with crowds which
attacked him and another officer.
One civilian was badly' wounded dur-
ing the fighting. •
In Limerick, Constable Murphy was
ambushed and shot and dangerously
wounded. At Kilbeggan, County West
Meath, 100: armed hien raided Durrow
Castle, a .private residence, for arms.
The family was absent, and only two
servants were in the castle. The raid-
ers gained entrance -to the building
by smashing the big door with sledge
hammers.
Britishers May Vote
in Canada
A despatch from Ottawa says: --Pro-
visions of the War Times Election
Act disenfranchising thousands of.
naturalized Canadians are not includ-
ed in the new Franchise Bill which
Hon. ' Hugh Guthrie, Solicitor -General,.
introduced in the Commons on Thurs-
day: All persons of British citizen-
ship, whether by birth or naturaliza-
tion, resident in Canada for one year
and in the constituency for two,
months, of 21 years of age and over,
and either male or female, are to be
permitted to vote for Federal candi-
dates.
CANADA TAKES PLACE IN LEAGUE
AS GREATEST NEW WORLD NATION
A despatch from :London says: -Tire
United States, having disassociated
herself from the League of. Nations;
Canada will now have an influence in
the proceedings of that body out of
all proportion to her •poulation and
much greater than was contemplated
when she entered it.
According to a statement by a Pro:
ininent
iro-
ininent member of the Secretariat of
the League, Canada' will practically
'take the place which the United States
would otherwise have dccupled as the
greatest new -world. nation.- _ Her 'in-
fiuence in continental affairs will be
based on het, impartiality, of view as
an extra -European country. The first
evidence of recognition . of her status
Xras been the appointment of ex -Mayor
Waugh el Winnipeg to the Saar Val-
ley Commission. The news of kr.
Waugh'snonination has' been well re-
ceived here, and it is hoped future
Canadian appoiutments will not be
few in number, since it is realized, in
the words of niy informant, that
"Canadians will be impartial and busi-
ness -like where European inattees are
concerned,"
Among the various important bodies;
to some of which. Canadians will be
appointed, are the, International High
Court of Justice, the Economic Loin
n 1s. ion, the Commission on Russia,.
the `Connnission on Transit; the Com-
mission on Armaments, and v•axions
social. and health commissions, The
Dominion es .almost certain- to have
representative on the e Coru:mrssron of
Inimigratiou.
Interior of the Legislative Ch amber, Toronto, where the first Ontario Farmers' Parliaxne
et on ;March 9, the first of its kind in Canada.
U.F.O. U.FW,O.
Au American writer of some note
states these as the requisites for the
triumph of any movement: a just
cause, thorough organization, co-opera-
tion, and wise leaders who cannot be
tempted by personal consideration to
swerve from the straight course. Does
this Farmers' Movement contain these
essential features?
The first and last of these are im-
mediate requirements. The second
and third ar mattersters of growth owt or d
e-
velopment which require time to
clove.
Is theirs a just cause -just to them-
selves, and equally just to outer class-
es in the community or factors of na-
tional life?
One of the chief lessons for us all to
learn Is that the workers In any or all
of the different branches ot industry
are not and cannot be independent of
each other. Legislation which. favors
any one class in undue proportion to
its status as a national factor is un-
wise legislation, and as such, must
and will lead to national disaster.
There is, we believe, no criticism at
the contention that agriculture is, in
this country, the basic industry.
Eighty per cent, of the national wealth
is derived from this source,- and if or
when this industry deteriorates, the
Prosperity of the nation is serio isly
threatened. The "cause" for which
we exist is to establish .this industry
on a sound eoonomic basis. The whole
trouble seems to lie in the fact that
so few, either rural or urban people,
see in the industry a national factor,.
except In a theoretical sense, and the
main reason for this is that the work-
ers on the farm regarded themselves
as units and neither knew nor cared
about the national status of farming,
and, of course, the workers in other
lines accepted us at our own valua-
tion. That agriculture is not on a
sound financial basis needs no proof,
for people are not leaving the farms
for less lucrative work, and they are
leaving the . farms until in Ontario to-
day 30% of the people must grow food
for themselves and the other 70%, and
yet we wonder what is at the root of
the high cost of living. Every sale
bill you see on the roadside is con-
tributing that much more to the in-
crease of that menace which stares all
of us in the face. Labor seeks to
meet it by shorter hours and higher
pay, and as the scale of wages rises,
the price of food soars with it, for the
farmer who is producing staple food,
which is the primary business of farm-
ing, cannot compete with the other
industries, which can and do meet the
demands of the Hien for high wages:
and the only possible result is de-
creased production and higher prices
for food. It is a circle -or perhaps a
maze -and there seems no way out.
But a way out must be found and we
mustall work together to find it.
Pricers of food will never decrease un-
til plenty is produced, and this plenty
fairly distributed.
It is nothing short of a crime that
food should be held until it decays
rather than be sold at any price to the
consumer. Let a few extra cars of
hogs or ,cattle go into Toronto stock
yards and down goes the price to the
farmer. To the consumer also? Not
on your life!
Farming will never be on a sound
economic basis until the farmer con-
trols his ,business. He has got in the.
thinnest possible wedge ot control, es-
pecially in the West, through co-
operative organizations, a thinner one
in Ontario through our company, but
the fact remains that the prices are
set upon these products without the
1 producer having a voice in the matter.
Labor, organized, sets a price on its
I work -so much per hour, :for so many
hours a day. The farmer does not
seek to do that, His aim, crystallized
in the badge he wears, is a seeking to
accomplish the clasped hands of pro-
ducer and consumer, each meeting the
h r halfthe urban labor,
way. y But
I from the Janitor up to the highest paid
clerk; from the laborert othe contract-
or,
t e
or, front the highest to the lowest in
any branch, is thoroughly imbued with
the idea that it is the farmer who is
getting rich at his expense; he is
taught that, purposely mislead by
those who are profiting by these
things.
Have we a just cause? -Margery
Mills.
HEAVY ICEFIELDS
IN GREAT LAKES
Little Open Water Reported
by Weather Bureau.
A despatch from. Detroit says: -The
first ice report of the season for the
Great Lakes, issued here by the United
States Weather` Bureau, says:.
"Reports from regular and display
stations of the United States Weather
Bureau and Meteorological Servic: of
Canada indicate that the fields of ice
in Lake Superior are extensive, heavy
and windrowed; over the western por-
tion the fields extend out solid for
47 miles, while ,over the eastern por-
tion the field has remained stationary
since about February 16. St. Mary's
River is solid its entire length and is
covered with snow,
"In Green Bay the ice is heavy and
solid, In Lake Michigan fields are
moving slowly over the north-western
portion, and some open water extends
south to Chicago, while over the east-
ern side the fields extend beyond
vision, with no open water of couse-
quence visible.
"In Lake Huron the fields are ex-
tensive and heavy, and extend beyond
vision. St. CIair River is open for
about two miles below the mouth o2
Lake Huron and heavily packed be-
low this 'point to Lake St. Clair. The
ice in Lake St. Claim is heavy, and
probably ranges from 22 to 26 inches
in thickness; Detroit River is closed
with heavy ice from about Twelfth
Street to Lake Erie.
"In Lake Erie the fields are solid
along the south shore, and no open
water is visible.' Some open water is
reported off Port. Stanley. The lee is
reported as heavily windrowed,
"In Lake Ontario the lee in the har-
bors is heavy. Ice fields are reported
over the eastern and central portions.
"In comparison with the same period
last year, there is more ice in all the
lakes.
"As compared with the twelfth year
normal, there is au average thickness
at Duluth, and above the average at
Sault Ste, Marie and at Escanaba."
Take your needle, my child, and
work at your pattern; it will come
out a rose by-and-by. Life is like
that -one:. stitch at a time taken pa-
tiently and the pattern will coxae out
all right like the embroidery." -Oliver
'Wendell Holmes.
Jelin .13511" (to Jonathan) : " 'Come and play. - Otherwise the other kids
ovef there. can't."
Jonathan 1 don't know whether 111la or not. The stakes are too
p Y
high."
Weekly Market Report
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I3readstutis, Provisions -Wholesale
Toronto, Mar, 16 ----Manitoba wheat- Smoksd meats --Roils, SGe to Ste;
--Ne. 1 Northern, $`3.89; No, 2 ;north- hams, medium, 36e to 38e; heavy, 33e
North-
ern, $2,77, to 34e; cooked hams, 50e to 53e;
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C. W., time. ; backs, plain, 49e to 50e; backs, 'bone -
No. 3 C. W., 94%e extra No. 1 feed, less, 52c 'to 560; breakfast bacon, 42c
94%c; No. 1 feed, 93Me; No. 2 feed, to 46e; cottage rolls, 33c to 34e.
32%c, in store Fort William. Barrelled meats --Pickled pork, $46;
Manitoba barley --Na, S (.'. tiv., $1.i mess pork, $45.
Glia; No, 4 C. W„ $1.5Qaa; rejected, Cretin meats -out of pickle, le less.
; ,. i i than smoked,
$1,3G,a, feed, $1,y6.a, in stare kart
William, Dry salted meats --Long clears, in
T I, I
2
1
tans 3,. c- in e2 c� clear
eases, 28e to 9
:, yellow,
, ,
,
r' c rn--- 1 0
Amo can o Ivo.
1
r
bellies, 27e2 fatbacks,c
to &. c 3,
No, 4 yellow,. $1.91 track Toronto,� �
prompt shipment. to 33e, ,
T
Lard-Tierces,30.-e
3Qc to tuns
O2,a co ding to 3 whsto, side. to 30,rec to 31e; pails, 30 c to 31e;
$1.02, according to freights outside,
Ontario wheat No. 1 Winter, per Prints, ipiQ es 31 e t to 32e. BcC-o Compound
to
ear lot, $2.02 to 52,08; leo. 2 do„ $198 , ,
to $'2;01; No, 3 da., $192 to $1,93, f.o.b.' 281st; pails,
28let to 28%,e; prints,
shipping points, according to freights.; 30e to 301r'ae.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, per
car dot, $2.02 to $2,03; No,'2 do,, $1.98Montreal Provisions
to $2,07; No, 3 do., $1,95 to $2.01, Montreal, Mar. 16.-Oats-Can-
f.o.b. shipping points, according to adian Western, No. 2, $1.17$x; do., No.
freights. 3, $1.13%. Flour -New standard,
Peas -No,. 2, $3,00, $13.26 to $13.55, Rolled oats, bag of
Barley -Malting, $1,75 to $1,77, ac- 90 lbs., 85.50 to $5.60; bran, 345.25;
carding to freights outside. shorts, $52.25; hay, No. 2, per ton,
Buckwheat -$1.55 to 41.60, accord- car lots, $29 to $30,
ing to freights outside.
Lard --Pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net,
Rye -No. 3, 31.77 to $1.80, accord- 31c to 313/3e,
ing to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -Government stand- Live Stock Markets
aid, $13.25, Toronto. Toronto, Mar. 16. -Choice heavy
Ontario hour. Governmheavy
ent standard steers, $18.60 to $14,00; good
$10.80 to 311.00, Montreal; $11.00 in steers, $12.60 to $133; butcher's cattle,
Toronto, in jute bags. Prompt ship -1 -choice, $12.50 to 13; do., good, $11 to
meat. $11.50; do., medium, $10.50 to $10.75;
Millfeed-Car lots -Delivered Mont-, do., common, $8 to 850; bulls, choice,
real freight, bags included -Bran, per $10.50 to $11.50; do., medium, $9.50
ton, $45; shorts, per ton, $52. to $10.00; do., rough, $7.50 to $8.00;
Hay -No. per ton, $27.00 to $28.00 butcher cows, choice, $10.50 to $11.50;
mixed, per ton', $25, tract:, Toronto, do., good, $9.50 to $10.00; do„ medium,
Straw -Car lots, per tan, 516,00 to $8.75 to $9.25; do., common, $7.50 to
$17.00 track, Toronto. $8.00; stockers, 38.25 to $10.50; feed-
ers, 310.00 to 311,00; canners and cut-
ters, 45,25 to $6.00; milkers, good to
choice, $100.00 to 3150; do., common
and medium, $65.00 to $75.00; spring --
ers, 490,00 to $150.00; lambs, per cwt,
$18.00 to $21.50 calves, good to
choice, 513.00 to 320,00; sheep, $ 7.00
to 413,50; hogs, fed and watered, to $1975; do., weighed off cars,
$19.75 to $20.00; do,, f.o.b., $18.50 to
$18.75; do., do., country points, 318.25
to 418.60,
Montreal, Mar. 16. -Butcher steers,
common, $9.50 to $11.00; butcher heif-
Country Produce -Wholesale
Eggs -New -laid, eases returnable,
54c to 55c,
Butter Creamery solids, 65e to 58e,
do., prints, 57e to 59e.
Cheese -large, 29111e tto 30e;
twins, 30e to 30144.
Honey ---White, per lb., 68 -lb. tins,
net 21c to 22c; 10lietins, gross, 21efee
to 221%; 5-1b, tins, gross, 23c to 24e-
Live Poultry -Buyers prices de-
livered Toronto -Hens, over 5 lbs. 40c,
hens 4 and 5 lbs., 37e; hens under 4 ers, medium, 39.50 to 311.00; common
lbs., 35e; spring chickens, 30e; spring $7.50 to 39.00; butcher cows, medium,
chickens, milk fed, 35e; roosters, 25e; 37.00 to 39.50; canners, $5.50; cutters,
ducklings, 40e; turkeys, 50e; geese, 36.50; butcher bulls, common, 38.00
22c. to 39.50; good veal, 317.00 to 318.50;
Dressed Poultry Hens, over 5 lbs,, medium, $15.00 to 317.00; grass, 38.00
40c; hexes, 4 and 5 lbs., 37e; hens, to 39.00; ewes, 311.00 to $12.50; lambs,'
under 4 lbs., 35e; spring chickens, 30c; good, 318.00; common, 316.00 to
spring chickens, milk fed, 36e; roast $17.00; off car weights, selects, 320.50
ers, 30c; ducklings, 40e; turkeys, 555c; to $21.00; lights, $19.00 to 321.00;
geese, 24c. sows, 516.50 to 317.00.
Prince of Wales
In Privy Council
A despatch from London says: -The
Prince of Wales took his place last
week in the meeting . of the Privy
Council. Unlike other members, he,
was not sworn in, - but was merely
summoned by the King. Prince Al-
bert will attend the Privy Council be-
fore the end of this year.
Meanwhile Princess Mary is taking
a larger part in public life. While the
Prince of Wales is in Australia on his
forthcoming trip there many of the
duties of the Prince of Wales will de-
volve upon her. For this she has been
unostentatiously preparing herself and
has learned to speak in public with-
out embarrassment.
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A Frenchman is the inventor of a
flourless bread making machine that
converts whole wheat into dough.
New Zealand plans tospend about
$2,600,000 in the development of its
water power resources.
A Letter�
L. Fr -n LQ
Queen Mary has one of the finest
collections of flower pictures in; the
country. She is also fond of flowers
used in decoration, as, for instance,
the furniture of Princess Mary's own
room at Windsor, .which is hand -
painted with _tinware ie t1,i. French
manner. There are ueauti> ui tail
screens hand -painted with roses, by
Miss Van Heddeghem in Her Majesty's
own rooms. and many pictures by the
same artist, Miss Van. Heddeghen
was One of the Queen's "discoveries."
*
'People With wham Prince Henry
was brought into contact during his
recentvisits to Manchester and Bir
ruingham noted a great resemblance
in his boyish, frank manner to tbe
Prince of Wales, though Prince Henry
Promises to be taller. than his elder
brother, and is cast in a."more sturdy
mould.
se x 4
Ile is to remain at t Cambrrd e for
b o
the full course of four years, though,
were he given a free choice `in the
matter, he would prefer probably to
join his regiment, the King's Royal,
Rifles, at once. He has a real liking
for the Army, and desires to snake it
his permanent career. •
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The boon in music which marked
the latter end of 1919, is finding an
echo in the delight of individuals xi'
music study. Instruments previously
neglected are being taken upwith.
enthusiasm, Lord Leopold -Mountbat-
ten has, for instance, taken to the,
flutes The Royal Family is not u'
musical, and )roth the Queen and
Princess Mary are clever pianists.
* *•
Sir Ian Hamilton, who has now +•e.
tired from the Army, may be expected
to devote a good deal of his leisure
to, writing, for there is no soldier who
has such natural literary gifts. He
has written, besides professional trac-
tates, charming books on lighter sub-
jects. He' has more than the staff of-
ficers' equipment as an artist, and his.
dispatches from 'Gallipoli introduced
a new kind of despatch writing, at
least in the modern era. ---Big 13en
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