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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-3-16, Page 211.•••••••••.o. •GILLETT'S • `rN rjellpileeet -IAS NO EQUAL it not only softens the water but doubles the cleans - Ing power of soap, and makes everything sanitary end wholesome. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. aefie 11101 LYE &*g4ismg% IMIegfeeziismeemro..ams.eveamimmovpmmeawAr.iparersoraMinzvo. WHAT ARE SAFE FOODS? '4 BY CAROLINE L. OVERMAN. • Wmgroasnamoyamitv.atirdeveemsamaammameNtsammymmamei When you unpack the grocer's bas- ket bhe eans and packages look pretty much alike, so far as labels are CM - corned. All have the name of the product, the name of the packer or seller, and the fine print description of the contents of the package which the Government requires. Usually there is some additional descriptive matter about the goods, writes Caro- line L. Overman in To -Day. These packages are certainly mark- ed and we might infer hastily that they were all trade -marked, unless we stop to consider the true purpose of the trade -mark, when we shall see that many of them are not really trade -marked goods in the true mean- ing of the term. A food manufac- turer puts a trade -mark on his goods so that the buyer who is pleased may be sure she is getting the same thing next terne. He does not do this out of benevolence, but in the hope that he may gradually accumulabe a large number of buyers who will ask for his goods and definitely refuse to take anything else. To do this he must preserve an un- varying high quality in every pack- age that goes out identified as his. Otherwise his trade -mark becomes a warning instead of a guarantee. One of the ways in which we can tell whether foods are really trade- marked or merely labeled is to look at the eignature on the package. These are of two general classes. One comes out squarely somewhat in this form: , Packed by The Good Goods Packing Co., Squarotown, Mass. Note that it says definitely who makes or packs the foods and where the week is done. You can find the man and the place if you will take the trouble to do so. The other kind reads substentially hi this form: Packed for (Well-known wholesale house) New York City. This last form may be varied by having the name of your oven grocer and your own town instead of that of the wholesaler in the big city. At first thought this label would seem to be the safest of all. You know your gro- cer for an honest man and a good judge of food products. Why wouldn't a food paeleuge bearing his name be even better than one with the label of the manufacturer? The reason is that it puts the re- sponsibility for the purity, quality and cleanliness of the food in the wrong place—on a Man who cannot afford to aseurae this kind et respon- sibility. The grocer is selling goods under keen comp( titien. If he is a good grocer he want e to ECU the very best that his euetemers will buy; but if the mat across the street shows a fine looking brand of canned peas or a package of cereal at a lower price than his own goods he must meet that price. Ile must buy his merchandise wherever he can get it so that he can keep his trade and still mane a profit The keener the competition the fur- ther efited he meet go for his eup- plies. The courdey is full of food factories which make or pack foods and put on any label thab the purchaeer sends them. They have to do their work as cheaply as possible or lose their trade. Since 110 one knows where the goods are male or who finally eats them, it doge not pay to follow the expensive methods of a fireteelass factory. Mealtime; is a large Them in factory cote. Polity in finale is still more expeneive. An eppe,rentey email adul- teretion of a foodprodoet may make the difference of a large stem yearly to the magi who packs the food. How can we expect him to forego these advantages when his goods are sold with another man's name on the package? When every package states clearly who makes the food and where it is made, it practically establishes an GRADUATING DOCTORS WILL GO TO ENGLAND LP 11! Blakely A.13 . Jackson. E. E. Mc Pherson. Three more members of the graduating class in medielne at the university oi Toronto, who have volunteer. ed for service In the Orpingt on Military nospital or elsewhere. - open-door policy for that factory. 'The to put his name on? With doors mere fact of excluding the public closed to outsiders factory practice UNPRECEDENTED would constitute a presumption of un- tends to drop below the high standard desirable methods, so most trade- maintained by the best firms. A WAR EXPENDITURE marked goods are made in factories cheaper class of labor is employed where you are not only permitted to and the conditions of work are less - examine the methods but cordially urg- attractive. The health and tidiness ed to come for that purpose. In some of employees is not scrutinized. The such food factories women visitors are main objeeb is to turn out as much not only welcomed but very gracious- work as possible in the least time ly entertained and shown every detail and at the lowest cost. Even a con - of the work. scientious manufacturer unable to get In a well-known factory in New the price commanded by a high repu- York State visitors are welcomed like tation finds that he must, turn out long -lost friends or strangers with a goods that will "take care of them - royal introduction. They find a sys- selves in the market" tem of faultless cleanliness and per- The most effective Pure Food law fect discipline. Preserves are made that can be passed would be one re- in silver -lined kettles; uniformed cm- wiring every food package to bear ployees fill cans or bottles at immacu- the brand of lbs actual maker and the late tables. Even the lavatories have location of his factory; but such a each an inspector who sees that em- law could be passed only after public ployees wash their hands thoroughly opinion on this subject had been et every visit. Skilled manicures are thoroughly aroused. Such brands de- providedwithout charge. A flood of hberately solicit their approval and light illuminates every corner of every repeated purchase. room. I A trade -mark is infinitely more This factory produces foods fam- important on food producbs than on ous for their excellence and flavor th cl. ' This is not an isolated instance. We splits or the watch goes wrong or furnish instances of this fastidious new stockings, it is pleasant to have have many fine food factories which holes come too rapidly in the heels of immaeulat eness. ; the guarantee of a reliable maker The housewife who has hesitated to that the matter will be set right and use ready prepared foods fearing that you will not be in the long * un a they might be less cleanly than those loser. If you haven't such a guaran-, made in her own kitchen should take tee you can still afford to smile and , time to visite one or more of these reflect that you will know better next : open factories where well-known foods time. In the case of food the matber are prepared. She will be forced to is mere g eri„,. admit that scientific cleanliness such Sam Weller ate veal pies only when1 . , ed in a domesticRm kitchen. aw a- His rule is an excellent one for the terials are submitted to laboratory modern housekeeper who wants to , tests for purity and quality. I save labor and money by the use of The magnitude of the operations is the many excellent package fowls she in itself an important element in finds on her grocer's shelves. It is , cleanliness. It keeps each utensil for not difficult, to keep on the safe side. a specific use and the great mass of You run no risk if you know the man food handled makes any appreciable who makes them, contamination impossible. The fac-; tory worker, unlike a domestic serv- THE FIRST PERISCOPE. ant, is always under the eye of a su- perintendent. The agency of the int?' _ man hand is eliminated as far as pos- ingenious Contrivance Invented byl sible. Cleanly machinery cuts, Rev. William Taylor. slices, grinds, packs or performs any The origin of the periscope is now other necessary task, guided by fin- under discussion, and the following gers which never touch the food. extract from the writings of the well - The factory has other advantages. known inventor of "Pepper's Ghost" Temperatures, employed for what- gives the credit to the clerical profes- ever purpose—baldng, sterilizing, de- sion, siecating or whatever the process may Pepper wrote soon after the Crim- b • under perfect as she finds there cannot be approach- he knew the woman who made them 1 nare can war: During the siege of Se - visited many food factories and talk- hastopol numbers of our best artillery - ed with other housewives who have men were continually picked off by gone over the same ground and there the enemy's rifles as well as by can - was never any difference of opinion non shot, and in order to put a stop as to the excellence of method in a to the foolhardiness and incautious - really good food factory. 'nose of the men a very ingenious con - The pride of the maker in a well trivance was invented by the Rev. known trade -marked brand is the William Taylor, the coadjutor of Mr. stone as oar own housewifely pride, Denison in constructing the first 'Big but infinitely meltiplied. Ms shining Ben' hell. factory is to him the same as a spot- "It was called the reflecting spy - less kitchen is to its. He makes bhe glass, and by its simple construction same unceasing effort for cleanliness rendered the exposure of the sailors and purity in food end gets the same and soldiers, who would look over the admirable result thought on a some- parapet or other parts of the works what larger scale. to observe the effect of their shot, per - Unquestionably the good food fac- fectly unrecessary; while another tory places at the housewife's die- form was congtructed for the purpose penal facilities and economies which of allowing the gunner to 'lay' or aim she cannot get any other way, while his gun in safety. saving her an incalculable amount of "The instruments were shown to time and labor. Lord Panmure, who was so convinced Unhappily all factories are not in of the importance of the invention thie class. Why should a food packer that he immediately commissioned put up with thenuieance 02 iam Taylor to have a when his product goes out unlabeled number of these telescopes construct - and unidentified for some other men 1 ed." ZIMISBIETV,701.574., rONV oVre astmgeramaggreae IIERBERTSHOHE TO KOKOPO. Spehri Fr Our Catalog Nol 18 re:flatly an represented in Illustration DINING ROOM CHAIR6 neefee...e..ee Five small and one Armchair, in solid oak and sad leather. Regular $20,00. the set. Special price $12.98 We defy competitionOur prices are the lowest in the Doininion of Canada, WRITE FOR OUR CATALOG 1118 fell of }Muse Pornishing Speclale. (ITV Mg 1..H/D FLIINNHING COMPANY ft:wrenee Itoulevard, Montreal, Que. qammaiilmmivr....txmx.wittrimlinatmwrommaglovmitvo , — Former Capital of German New Guinea Renamed. Ilerbertshohe, the name of the form- er seat of government of German New Guinea, has by proclamation of Colonel Pethebridge, the Australian Military Administrator of the portion of the German Pacific possessions un- der British control, been changed to the tame of Kokopo. This was the original and native name of the place. Herbertehohe is on the island of New Pomerania or New Britain, Herbert- shohe was named after Count Herbert von Bismarck, son of the famous "Iron Chancellor," It was Count Otto von Bismarck who annexed the unoccupied portion or New Guinea to Germany in the early 80's, and it was he Who founded the Garman colonial empire. Some years age /or strategic and sanitary reasons the German Government 115(1 shifted the seat of government from Herberteliche to Rabani. WILL NOT BE A LOSS IF SPENT IN THE EMPIRE. Brilaio to Raise a Further Hue Sum to Finance War's Demands. It is estimated if the struggle be bween civilization and kultur contin nes to the end of 1916, the total cos to all the belligerents will amount to approximately $60,000,000,000. The cost this year will reach 25 or 30 bil lions. Where is this money to come from and where is it to be spent? The basic answer to the first ques- tion is that posterity will inherit the burden of "paying the shot." We will supply the "credit" and sign commit- ments to the future. The present in- habitants of the earth cannot pay for the organized, scientific destruction going in Europe. The debt of Great Britain, amounting to 0,280,000,000 in 1913, was conbracted in the effort, happily successful, to exercise a merciful restraint over the first Napoleon. It was going down slowly during the last 100 years be- ing reduced notably of recent years by about half a billion. Suddenly the "insane Hohenzollern" sets the world in flames, and the debt of Britain goes up to $11,000,000,000 in the first year. She is now preparing to secure another credit of $2,500,000,000. Great Britain is massing her resources in every department to provide for a struggle as prolonged as may be ne- cessary. But where will the money come from? There is only a certain amount of actual "money" based upon gold in the world. When the limit is reach- ed, what then? Germany Uses Paper. meats been all sent forward. In Al- berta alone there are 5,000 private grain -bine filled with wheat, and it is estimated that not 50 per cent. of the crop has been moved out yet. The problem will be for the railways to get it out before the new crop commences to come. In Liverpool the estimate is made of the amount of wheat expected to be shipped the world over before July 1, 1916. The figures or Canada are set at 216,000,000, the highest in the table, the United States coming next with 208,000,000. With wheat at well over $1 per bushel, Canada, - at this rate, will receive $200,000,000 - for distribution through regular t business channels in the next four months. Canadian Pacific officials say that the demand for western land this year so far as a result of the market, for Canadian wheat, indicates that over double the number of acres will be sold this year as compared to last. In 1915 the C.P.R. sold $4,000,- 000 worth. In January alone this year $743,000 was received from land sales, I Trade Balance of $200,000,000. For the first ten months of the Canadian fiscal year, ending March • , 0 last month, the customs returns as is- sued from Ottawa show a trade bal- ance in Canada's• favor of $200,000,- 000. A year before the war at the height of our booming prosperity the trade balance was some $30,000,000, the other way. We have thus improv- ed our position by 000,000,000 since the war. Two more months will in- crease the figures by another $50,000,- 000. Exports of domestic products to- talled $595,265,000, an increase of 067,847,000 over 1914, or 80 per cent.' Agricultural exports amounted to ' 018,000,000 in the ten months, an in- i crease of nearly 100 per cent. Manu -1 factored goods exported amounted to $166,000,000, an increase of $105,000,- 000, or the almost unbelievable pro- portion of 172 per cent. Mining ex- ports were $53,680,000, an increase of $11,000,000, or 388 per cent. Similarly the exports of animals and their pro- ducts,'the products of the forest, and of the fisheries also showed increases such as before the war were utterly unlooked for. Imports increased also, as from our increased buying power they might be expected to do, but only to the extent of e15,060,000, which in itself is an evidence of whole- some national economy. Total trade in merchandise in ten months reached nearly $990,000,000, or almost as much in ten months as it amounted to for the full twelve, two or three years .ago. Whatever the war does to us it cannot kill our prosperity, so long as we keep working away. Big Order Coming. It must be remembered that money is only a medium end that the real exchange is in goods. Foreign coun- tries may demand money from us, but within the Empire credits can be arranged so long as we have confi- dence in ourselves as creditors. It would seem then that rather than send gold to foreign countries the Empire will get more and more into the way of depending upon its own resources, and that of the vast weir expenditure outlined for this year Canada will receive as much as she can finance. That is, Canada will have to give the Mother Country and the belligerents credit, using all her own available capital for carrying on the work in our own country. As goods are really what we pay our debts with, our exports can grow as large as they like, and the outlook is for a continuance of last year's in- crease, on a bigger scale than ever. Munitions, raw materials and food - tufts will be in greater demand than ever, and our duty is Le produce, and still produce. Now, as never before, the natural resources of this country and our industrial organization are called upon in the service of the Em- pire and the Cause. Work is the duty of everyone who stays at home and no man need be out of employe molt. The problem for 1916 will be to get the men, and ever as the bat- talions grow the labor problem be- comes more apparent. "There will not be a dearth of men from the farm for overseas," said Hon. James Duff at the luncheon of the Canadian National Exhibition Association the other day, and the fantail will do all in their power to keep the wheels of production mov- ing. "When the war is over," said Mr. C. C. James, Deputy Mimsber of Ag- iculture in the Federal Government, 'agriculture must bo in a stronger position than when hostilities cone - mended. In Britain agriculture is a , growing. asset, Their flocks are great. er, their acreage under cultivation is greater. Will we be doing our duty if eve,do not set ourselves to the seine task? Canada is being tried. You have done well, so far, but keep the Veleteries going, and this difficulty \oil he solved by you as well as by 1151- fightewe end the people," 200,050,000 Bushels to Go Yet, The western crop has not by any In this connection it is of interest to note that immediate prospects for further war orders are announced by Colonel David Carnegie, expert ordnance adviser to the Minister of Munitions. He reports that both Kitchener and Lloyd George ex- pressed high appreciation of the way Canada had bhrown herself into the work of producing. shells and war materials, a success the more remark- able in thalb this Sort of work was not done here previous to the war. Britain will look to Canada for sup- plies of "fixed" ammunibion in future. Previously Canadian manufacturers shipped the empty shells which were "fixed" or filled with the explosive in England, Canada has been doing part of this latter work for some bime now, and will do more of it A plant is now being built in Montreal which will be organized to turn out fuses and completed shells ready for firing. Colonel Carnegie announced an or- der for six-inch howitzer carriages at a cost of $10,000 each, of which there will be a eonsiderablemumber. Correct Atiswer. "Why isn't a nautical mile the same as ordinary mile?" "Because it is knOt." We have riot our choice to be rich or poor, to be in health or sicknese, be we have our choice to worthy or Worthless. When you have lost money in the street every one is ready te help you look for it; but when you have lost your character every one learl:t to recover it as you can, CANADA HAS GAINED PRESTIGE THE DOMINION IS ADMIRED BY THE WORLD. Lord Northcliffe on the Part Played in • the War by This Country. ACROSS THE BORDER • WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN THE STATES. Latest Happerilnge In Big. Republle Condensed for BUOY Readers? Indiana farmers are eomplaining of motor car mail delivery in the middle In en interview published in the 01' the night Canadian Gazette, Lord Northcliffe Governor Whitman is having bil chidf proprietor of the London Times drafted for military course in schools and London Daily Mail, says: ; of New York State. I Farseeing people who look to the A special census report shows that • future see that the world will not be 573,114 automobiles were made in in the hands of the Pacifists. They .the United States last year. , know that the proved nations of Can William Lorimer former U.S. Sen- ada, Australia, New Zealand, South etor, is on trial charged with wreck - Africa, Great Britain, France, Bel- ingt a e chain of Lorimer-Munday gium and Italy will occupy a position banks. which is greatly reinforced by A man's intellect is best at a tem - manhood that has been through the perature of 30 degrees above zero, great test of a vast upheaval that says Dr. Austin O'Malley, of Phila- has shaken the universe. delphia, Pa. According bo German calculations, 't Prospect of a strike of seven hun- dred thousand coal miners looms big - Canada and the other dominions. ger than ever as conferences are were to have risen in revolt against England when we were drawn into about to begin, the vortex of a European war. Among "Read the newspapers thoroughly the things that the Germans are rub- if you want to keep well and live bing their thick heads about is this long," advises Dr, Stephen Smith, of great miscalculation. It is a mistake New York, aged 93. The proposed excise tax on muni - Turning to the already historic bat- that has cost them dearly. tions is being seriously considered by the Ways and Means Committee of ties in which the Canadian forces have fought, Lord Northcliffe said: the U. S. House. All the secret agencies of the Gov - battlefields which will Uv in the "Ypres, Festubert and Givenchy are eminent are at work to end the e"cam- future as greater than Waberloo. paign of frghtfulnesset against ship - Throughout France,. Great Britain, ping in New York. Belgium, and far away into Russia, Torpedo net makers in the steel and wire mills of the John A. Roe - C d tion of great commercial capacity, bling's Sons Company at Trenton, N. J , but as a people of immense courage ' have gone on strike. and vitality." , Theodore Marburg former U.S. Minister to Belgians is in London I Admired by Russia. 1 awaiting the arrival of his son, who 1 Upon the top of this reputation lost a leg in a flying accident in comes the • news that the Dominion, France. with a population of some 8,000,000, Serpents and wld beasts are harm - is about to increase its contribution less compared to New York's deadly to the war to a magnificent total of taxis and street cars, says E. C. 500,000 men. That news is alreaey Erdis, explorer, who has returned having its effect aU over the ,le from Soubh Africa. Prestige counts for everything. Can -I Fifteen thousand New York wait- adaresult that the Russian newspapers, aad Fifty-ninth streets, Third and ors in the area bounded by Canal even 1 avenues, are ready to s ike has aheady gained her prestige in the world struggle. I notice as the which were hitherto merely interest- 1 for a "living wage." ed in Canada as being a large place ' New Jersey would add $200,000,000 to the value of its taxable property at the top of the United States, are by getting rid of mosquitoes, R. W. now discussing the future relations of Canada and Russia. The Russians Giles tdld the State Mosquito Exter- evidently want to hearmination Association. more about the The Husbands' Welfare Associa- Canadlans. The vast Russian Empire tion, an organization for benedicts contains only sonie 50,000 miles of railway roads. They have begun to whose wives have the visiting habit balk about your superb transeontin- or who go to the country in the sum - ental systems, and are asking whe- mer, has been formed in Oakmont, ther the men who built those roads Pa. President Wilson received a trbute cannot come to Russia and open up of the vast territories that are, so far, appreciation from the central corn - quite unreachable to each other. mittee for the relief of Jews as a re - They are hearing about your sult of his proclamation calling on wheatfields, your agricultural ma- Americans to contribute to the Jew- chinery. They want to know the ish cause. manufacturing capacity of Canada. To their surprise the allies are find- FUTURE TRADE WITH RUSSIA. ing that Canada can turn out an fin - Enormous Business, and it nlust Be mense amount of munitions, and if munitions during the war, why not Captured From Germany. machinery after the war? To say The total percentage of the prin- you eke a Canadian in Russia to -day cipal imports to Ruesia from the is to need no other introduction United Kingdom is only some 13 per whatever. Russia desires above all ceat, whereas Germany is represent - to shake off the commercial yoke ed by over 50 per cent., there is con- tnlomoitc, Germany ilsiasl opkuitng abroOundhe you tO sequently four times the volume of business to be captured from Ger- p. My pei-sonal acquaintance many alone, but if, the British firms with both Canada and Russia con- mean to take advantage of the oppor- vinces me that there are a score of bunity now presented to them to ex - reasons why trade relations between tend British business with Russia, you two vast territories would in the they must proceed on very different future be of such a nature as would lines from those of the past, writes gegatly benefit both countries. the British consul at Odessa in his , Bigger amid Bigger. annual report Sending, out circulars, nearly al - It is little more than 150 Years ways in English, and writing to the since Wolfe put Quebec on the map Consulate for the names of some per - of the Empire, and 30 years since sons likely to suit them as agents, the whistle of the transcontinental are, he proceeds, of very little use. ploacoloo.tivieb isevoanslyfiarsftewh eininoenl thono sintheoe onormouS, and itis worth epeuding The business to be had in Russia is "Ypres" was on the world's tongue. a few hundred pounds upon by as To -day it looms largest in the world's principal coming out to look up his history, and as the yeara go by it will agents, -or to appoint? agents and cap - grow bigger and bigger. I tura the market. 1 have met a few Canadians who This was the principle adopted by are not particularly enthusiastic over the Germans, who did not rely upon the war, continued Lord Northcliffe, merely circulars and letters, but sent bub I never met one who confessed qualified men to look up the mar - he would have stood by and kept kets in all parbs of the cottony, note aloof from this war. the requirements, conditions of bust - ailed an c utri y, too, has shone nese, and do all possible to cameleer I out like a great star in a dark firma- competition. It must be borne in mei it. Tho results of "Our " ' 0 Day" nenal that now, during the war, ie tug collections ahve amazed people the time to capture this market; not in Britain. But Canada's financial after the war—it will Lhen be too stability, her willingness to help fin- . late in most eases, ance the war, are two new lights on I .._.—ea.____.. the Dominion. For more than al 1 leLIND, BUT CAN Vie7CE. quarter of a century I have been au en meias ic visi or o, an an ad- inirer of, Canada, but I confess her efforts have surprised me. Some- times in many part's of Canada I have met men who thoaght the future relations were all North and South, not East and West. How wrong they were! Canada stands before the world to -day as a COMplebe antion, a na- tion which has sent a larger army a greater distance than any in the world's history, If Canada sends her 500,000 men 1101085, enlisted out of a population of 8,000,000, it will be a record unequalled. 1 • . "Prosperity has ruined many 0 man " declared the moralizer. "Well," rotoinscl dm demoralizer, "if 1 was 7,17-1 t, ipitiocl at all ra prefer pieepaity tu do it." Sightless French Soldiers Deromes 1 Among the unezpccitcci 000(01 cc nxpert With Iroil. taken to interest and pliovi•lo exercise . for ilrench soldiers who hems Ina their sight during the wae i, i Ito I starting of a fencing school at the rteuilly Institute, Paris, Thu m' are ' already twcnty.one pupils v ho -not , only fence with one another, but also : with fencers who can see and whom the blind manage to beat. One pupil has lost both his hands as well as his sight, bat manages very well With his foil rastm 1 m . his wrist, • o "The I3ible toile US we should 1e5-4 our neighbors," Said the deacon. °Ye4 but the Bible was c mum before our lived So ekste.," replied the imam) man. • -13