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The Huron Expositor, 1918-03-15, Page 1OH :. 9173 The Style Store for Women l irmasmirrimoor Here is One of Our New Spring Coats TY -SECOND YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 2622 I • eldbanee Jre tins and Dress Goods are novv here r D'ress ring are L5old Here the colors that afire pular, are now here 'vom::en who like to Vaists, Skirts, early. "till you wish to take it, now.. You know it is often Ings go fret. ds Is il1 R YOU COME TO Wiggs ranted Greiff Clothing Co'y " Secondto .one " Grand Showing of Nein Ladies': Spring Goats Just in time for &ister O"R New Models ' in Coats are now ready for the in- spection of everyone who wishes to visit our show rooms and we promise a real treat for every visitor who find! enjoy- ment in looking over land fit- ting on garments of rare beau' ty and general excellence. The finecloths, exceptionally at- ractive design and the newest allPoP shular ades. We cannot attempt to describe the many different models,btt we extend a cordial invitation to the ladies of Seaforth and the sur- rounding comnrinities to -visit our ':‘t ire now vvhike this fine exhi hhition of New York Model Garments is at its best Prices no higher than other stores are asking, but 'we believe the standard of excellence is high- er COME AND SES. Greiff; Clothiiig Co SEAFOItTH a • 0 • 4 0 • 0 0 • •: • •0 • 0 0 • • • • • • 0 • 0 1 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • Amommummanismozoimmmilmmaimmia% ,Ntore Production Every Farmer should tap every- Maple tree ai ailable and produce as much sugar and maple syrup as pos- sible. He- will be . doing his country a great service. There will be a greater demand this year than ever be- fore . for sugar and syrup. " Keep the Home Fires Burning" and the sap boiling. This is a Qure way to =help win the war, and a duty well done. Sugar Makers SUPPLIES We carry a complete stock of ' long: and short sap pails, galvanized sap pans, Eureka and Beaver sap spouts, syrup cans, auger bits, mullets, cheap' braces. Sole agent for the Famous Buckeye Incubators and Brooders. We invite you to call and see them. Prices reasonable. We are carrying a complete line of poultry supplies in `stock. . The ¶Big Haraware Store II. Edge la Seaforth 7 t g with `25c SSt - PUUSSIANIZED GERMANY (A German -American View) From an address befor the Harris- burg,( Pa., Chamber: ott Commerce,,. September 26, 1917, published in The National.Review, London. Altho gh some of our readers may ly have read, these pages, no apology for reproducing. e. as Mr, Otto Kahn's repudi- , Prussianism is among the able pronouncements of the conceive, we maikE them ili.ei ation of most 'no war, !inspired as it is by the spirit of Lincoln. Americans are to be con- gratulated on arousing . such senti- ments among their adopted sons. We only wish that the innumerable Ger- mans wlo have made their homes in Engl nd and have been given the run of o country and its institutions al most Ito the point, of creating an Im- pulint. in Imperie threatening our political independence had found an equa eloquent and obviously sincere spok n at this crisis of our fate and t its, They wot h1 be regarded • w `th less l' suspicion. then many of them are. ---'National Renew.) I speak as one who has seen the se irit of the Prusa. an governing Class at work from, close by, having, at its dichosal end using to the full pract - cally every agency fci moulding the ,put lic mind. I have i watched it proceed with re- lentless persistency and profound cun- ning to itil into the nation the . de- .moniacal - obsession of power -worship and wor4ddontinion, to modify and pervert tiementality indeed, the very fib and moral substance --of the Ge n people, . a people which, .until misled, corrupted, and systemat- ically p�poisoned by the Prussian ruling caste, was and deserved to be an hon- ored, valued, and welcome member of the family of nations. I have hated and loathed that spirit ever since it came within my ken ,many ye- rs ago; hated it all, the more as` I; saw it ruthlessly pulling down a "Within the Law" • i\ ew �pc�i-•'s Most Sensational •Drama, in 4 Acts, to be repealed, by request, on St, Patrick's Day ,Ctailday, .larch lath, 1918 AT .3` O'CLOCK P,M,, SI3AB.P qARDNo's.O.PERA HOUSE, SEAF®RTII Admission --;;=Reserved: Seats, 5oc ; Rush, 35c., Reserved Seat plan _opens at Aberhart's Drug Store at 12 o'clock { Thursday, March 14th. Iris Music and Songs all Children not Admitted. Proceeds to S.. James' Church Decoration Fund eey American. But, , if t be .possible to speak of a comparative degree con- cerning what is the highest as_ it is the most elementary attribute of citi- zenship, the duty may *host be said to rest with an even more - solemn and compelling obligation upu Americans of foreign origin than!; upon. native •In aid of Americans, For we American's of foreign antece- ' . The R�d " C1'Q►S dents are here, not by the accidental right of birth, but. by our own free choice for better or for *mit ip" We are your fellow-ctttenff because- The W h you accepted our.oath:: of allegiance as given in good ,faith;4 d: -.because, The world's greatest play in motion you have opened to u ,:generous trust the portals of Anieiicaar oppor- pictures. tunity and freedom, and• have admitt- i The screen version of the famous ornin . 1 us to .memaberahnp rn ='the :family play that ran for three years in Lon - thing ch was dear to me ---the old of Americans, giving vs equal rights don,England, and for over two seas - Germany to which.I was linked by ties in the great• inheritance.: which of blood, by fond memories, and cher- been created by the blood the toil ons in New York City. It was trans- ished Sentiments. " of your ancestors, asking =nothing from fated into French, Russian and other g... tongues, and always with enormous The difference in the degree of guilt 'us in return but decent cttisenship and as between the German people and success. their Prussian or Prussianized rulers and leaders for the monstrous crime of this waf and the atrocious - barbar- ism of its conduct is the difference be- tween the man; who, acting under the influence of a. poisonous drug, runs a- muck in Mad frenzy, and the unspeak- able malefactor who administered that drug, well knowing and fully intend- ing • the ghastly consequences which were bo d to follow The world fervently longs for peace. But there; can be no peace answering to,=the Niue meaning; of the word—no peace per ratting the ri atons "of the earth, gr at and small, to walk and unafraid—until the teach- ing and the leadership of the apostles of an outlaw creed shall have became discredited and hateful in the sight an people; until that peo- vd-a,wakened to a conscious - e unfathomable guilt of of the Gei ple shall h ness of t. those whom they have followed into calamity nd shame; until a mood of penitence and of a decent respect for British blood to fight against Great the opinions of mankind shall have Britain, as Lincoln called upon Ameri- supplanted the sway of =What Presi- cans of the North to fight against dent Wilson has so trenchantly termed their very brothers of the South, so "truculence and . treachery," Americans . of German descent are God strengthen the conscience • and now, summoned- to- join in our countrys the understanding, the will and the righteous struggle against a people of power, of the German peepie so that their own blood, which under the evil they may find the only road which spell of a dreadful obsession, and, will give to the world an !early peace Heaven knows, through no .fault of and in time lead Germany back into ours has trade itself the enemy of thin the family of nations from which it is peace loving nation, as it is the enemy now an. outcast. - of pease and right and freedom From each successive visit to Ger- throughout the world. many for twenty-five years I came a- To gain America's (independence way more appalled by the sinster transmutation Prussianism h a d wrought' amongst the people and by the -portentous menace I recognized in • it for the entire world. It had given to Germany' unparallel- ed prosperity. beneficent and advanced social legislation, and nota few other things of value but it had taken in payment t e soul of the race. It had made a ` devil's bargain." And when this war broke out in Europe I knew that the issue had been joined between the powers of brutal might and insensate ambition on the one side and the forces of humanity and liberty on the other; between darkness and light. Many there were at that time— and amongst them men for whose character 'I had high respect and whose motives were beyond any poss- ible suspicion -who saw their own and America's: duty in strict neutral- ity. mentally and actually, but per- i smelly I believed from the beginning of the war, whether we liked all the 1 elements of the allies' combination or not—and I certainly did; not like the I Russia of the Tsars—that the cause ; of the Allies was America's cause. adherence to those ideals.- and prin- ciple which are - symbolized by the glorious flag of Atmerica. • Woe to the foreign born American who betrays the splendid trust which you have resposed in haln! . Woe to him who considers his A- ,inericap citizenship merely as a con- Watch for Further Announcements. venient garment to ` bet -worn in fair rged � for an - and stress! ' • erican so- Cardnos Opera House Fiiday and Saturday APRIL, 9 AND 20 weather, but to be exc other, one in time 'Of st Woe to the German, Mit; called who, in ilii sa tired wo for longed to the crineinaltclass. The Iii- a cause as high as arty ?f+nr vhi fl ever !tie son of the prisoner, his .a ed fath.- people =ok up a not feel a er and mother a dbrotherg hd ,. n Vis. wearing solenin urge,d'clesy lir 'an•`eager the King's uniform, were all feelingly determination to be in tbe'very fore- referred to. There was no allegation front of the struggle, does not prove that, he abused his wife Or was linea patriotic jealousy, ' in thought, in -faithful to her, He said that Canada action, and in speech, to rival and to needed every possible young man, to- otdo his native born fellow -citizen day, especially on the farms. He ask - in devotion and in willing sacrifice ed the judge to make the sentence as for the country of his choice and a- light as possible and give the young deptioti' and sworn allegiance, and of i man a chance to make good. The their common: affection and pride. , judge took half an hour to take the As Washington led Americans of plea of Mr. Robinette into considera- tion.' In passing sentence the judge said "by pleading guilty to manslaugh- ter You -are free from the, stigma of murder, but you confess that the wife whom you were to love and cherish died at your hands." He referred to -the seriousness of manslaughter, say- ing that the maximum sentence was life imprisonment. He then said: "James McCracken, you shall go to the Kingston penitentiary for 15 years." The prisoner took the sentence calm- ly' and walked with a firm ateut of the courtroom,though . he wad visibly to defeat oppression and tyranny, was , indeed to• gain a grin cause. McCracken shot his wife during a To preserve the un; affected. , to eradicate dispute, following a ride which she slavery, was perhaps a 'treater still, had `taken with relatives and to whom - To defend the very foundations of her husband is said to have objected, liberty and humanity, the very ground work of fair dealing between nations, ONTARIO DAY ON APRIL- FIRST the very basis of peaceable living to- After April let all Canada, with the gether among• the peoples of the earth exception of Montreal and a- few mun- against`the fierce and brutal onslaught of ruthless, lawless, faithless might; to spend the lives and the fortunes of this generation so that our descend- ant may be freed from the .dreadful calamity of war and the fear of war, so that the energies and billions of treasure now devoted to plans and in- struments of destruction maybe given henceforth to fruitful works of peace and progress and to the betterment of the conditions of the people—that is the highest cause for which anypeople ever unsheathed its sword. He who shirks the full measure of his duty and allegiance in that noblest of causes, be he of German -American, Irish -American, or any other hyphen- ated American, be he I.W.W. or Soc= iaiist or whatever the appellation, does not deserve ,to stand among A- mericans, or, indeed, among free men anywhere. He, who secretly, or overtly, tries to thwart ;the declared will and aim of the nation in this holy war is . a traitor, and a traitor's fate should be his. jI believed that this was no ordinary war between people for a question of 'national interest. or even national honor, but a conflict between funda- mental principles and ideas; and so, 1 believing, I was bound to feel that the natural. lines of race, blood and kinship could not be the determining lines for one's attitude and alignment, but that each man, regardless of his elm had to decide according , to his udgment and conscience on which Side was the; right, and on which was the wrong, and take his stand accord- ingly, whatever the wrench and an- guish of the decision. And thus I took my stand three years ago. But whatever one's views and feel- ings, whatever the country of one's birth or kin, only one course was left for all those claiming the privilege of American citizenship, when, after in- finite forbearance, the President de- cided that ;our honor and safety de- manded that we take up arms against the Imperial German Government, and by action of Congress the cause• and the fight against that Government were declared" our, cause and our fight. The duty of loyal allegiance and 1111111111111.11111111r/i faithful service to his country; even unto. death, rests, of course, upon ev- SENTENCED TO FIFTEEN YEARS Mr. Justice- Masten at Goderich on Monday, sentenced James McCracken, the young Morris township farmer, to 15 years in Kingstoli penitentiary for the murder of his wife. Great interest was manifested in the proceedings. When the hour for opening arrived the court 'house .was crowded. At the':trial last fall the jury could not agree on a verdict. The grand jury had brought in, a true bill of murder and the jury had disagreed. T . C, Robinette, K.C., of Toronto, and Mr. Vanstone, of Wingham, ,who defended the prisoner, indicated that McCracken, was willing to withdraw his plea of not guilty and pleadguilty to a charge of manslaughter. The crown accepted this plea. Mr. Rob- inette then made a, strong plea for I niency on behalf of the prisoner, re- ferring to the sadness of the Tease, a young man of thirty years of age, of a good family,which in no sense be- icipalities in the Province of Quebec, will be governed by a "bone-dry" pro- hibition law, From that date the ship- ment of liquor containing more than 21/2 per cent. of proof spirits into pro- vinces which have passed prohibitory laws and municipalities which have adopted local option, will be illegal under -the order -in -council just pass- ed by the Federal Government under the War Measures Act. Manufacture of liquor, too, will be 'stopped on that date, except that in_ Ontario the mak- ing of native wine ' and in Quebec the brewing of beer, now permitted by the Provincial Governments, will be allowed to continue until the end of the year. After December 31st next, however, " the drought will be noticeable even in the City of Montreal and the aforementioned districts of Quebec province. - The Quebec pro- hibition law does not become operative until May 14th, 1919. Importation of liquor into Canada, however, has been prohibited and the manufacture even of beer, wily stop -on December imANIIIIMMIANIMAAMAAAMIW Seaforth Spring Stock Show SEAFORTH Friday, Apr, 5th 1918 at one o'clock- p.m., sharp Prize Lists and particulars later. D.Fotheringham, , President R. M. Jones - Treasurer M. Broderick Secretary McLRAN ERAB,, Publishers $1..50 a Year la Adv 31st :next. Consumers of alcoholic beverages will, therefore, be depend- ntt for supplies upon the existing 3. ock of intoxicants. Only 'for sacramental, industrial, .a'r=;stic,, mechanical and medicinal to .doses" will liquor be manufactured end shipped into areas subject to pro- vincial ormun:eipal prohibitory laws,. A inethod,bf selling liquor and provid- ing for "direct deliveries' in Ontario in spite, of the Ontario Temperance Act will be no longer effective. Hith- erto dealers outside- Ontario have been able to hold "to their order" at On- tario distilleries and breweries stocks of whiskey and beer. Upon receipt. of orders from Ontario customers such dealers have been able to telegraph the distilleries or breweries to deliver the goods directly to a carter for me moval to the premises of the pur- chasers. Transactions- -of this kind have been held by the Ontario courts to be legal under the Ontario Temper- ance Act. They will be illegal under the Federal Order -in -Council which en- acts that "no person after the first day Of April, 1918, shall either directly or indirectly sell or contract or agree to sell any intoxicating liquor which is in; or which is to be delivered in any prohibited area." Other provisions in :the regulations are: 1—Nothing in the regulations shall prevent a manufacturer from snaking or manufacturing intoxicating liquor for sacramental, industrial, artistic, mechanical, scientific', and medicinal purposes, in accordance with the terms of his license. 2—No person after the first day of April, 1915, shall send, take, transport into- or deliver in any prohibited area any intoxicating liquor or cause any intoxicating liquor to be so • sent, transported, or delivered. • 3—No person after the 1st day of April, 1918, shall either directly or in- directly sell or contract or agree to sell any intoxicating liquor which is in, er which is, totbe delivered within anytprohibted area. 4 Nothing in these regulations contained shall prevent a licensee or manufacturer from selling, sending, taking or transporting intoxicating liquor to a licenseee in any prohibited area, or prevent a conn;on carrier by water, or by railway, from trans- porting or carrying intoxicating liquor from being so carried through a pro- hibited area nor prevent a licensee in a prohibited area from selling and de- livering intoxicating liquor, for sacra - Mental, industrial, artistic, mechani- cal, scientific, and medicinal 'purposes. in accordance with the terms of his license. 5—If ,in any prohibited area there should be " no licensee uitli" `zed tri receive and selI intoxcti li- nor' q for sacramental, industrial/ artistic, mechanical, scientific and medicinal purposes, the Governor -int -Council may authorize one or more persons in such prohibited area -to receive and sell • intopicating liquors far such purposes, and any person so authorized shall be deemed a licensee within the meaning of these regulations. 6 --The carriage of intoxicating liquor from a licensee or manufac- turer to a licensee in a. prohibited area. and carriage through any pro- hibited area shall be only by means of a common carrier by water or by railway, and not otherwise. 7 -During the time any intoricat- ing liquor is being transported or carried infix or through a prohibited area, as aforesaid, no. " person shall open la- break, or allow to be .open- ed orbroken any package o vessel containing it, or drink or• use, or al - Towed to be drunk or used, any in- toxicating liquor therefrom. 8—The burden of proving the right to make or manufacture in- toxicating liquor, or cause intoxicat- ing • Iiquor to be made or manufac- tured, or to send carry, or deliver intoxicating liquor orcause intoxi- eating liquor to ` be sent, carried or delivered into or in a prohibited area shall be on the person accused. Infraction of the regulations im- poses liability and a penalty for the first offence of not less than ;$200 and not •more than $1,000. In de- fault, imprisonment for not less'than three months nor more than six months; for a second offence im- prisonment" for not less than six and not more than twelve months. Pro- vision is also made for the issue of search warrants. The regulations continue in force during the present war-- and -for twelve months thereafter. HURON NOTES —On Saturday afternoon,: March 2, at Knox church, manse, Goderich, Rev. R. C. McDermid, performed the, marriage ceremony uniting Miss j essie A. McMillan and Mr. James E. Oli- ver, both of Port Albert. —Mr. James Snell, Hullett's well known sheep breeder,has been appoint- ed to the sheep ' committee of the Western Fair at London. The Com- mittee meets at London on March 21, to adjust the 1918 prize list. --Two of Wingharn's popular young people were united in marriage at To- ronto ,recently, when Miss Rachael Rintouli daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ab. Rintoul, became the bride of Aviator Haffold Ross, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ross. —On Saturday evening while re- turning from Toronto, Rev. Mr. Hogg pastor of Willis church, Clinton, miss- ed connections at Stratford and Sunday being his closing Sunday of his first year, the reverend gentleman was particularly anxious to be home for the services. On Sunday nioring. he drove all (the way from Stratford and was able to take the work in Willis church on Sunday night. --There passed at the home oher nephew, John R. Haines, of Mods township, on Thursday, February 21, Margaret Inglis, widow of the late Edward llaines„ aged 77 years. The deceased was one of the pioneer resi- dentsfor many years near St. Helene After selling the farm there, Mr. and Mrs. Haines moved to Wingham and later to East Wawanosh. Mr. Haines died nearly -five years age. The remains of Mrs . Heines -were interred in the Wingham cemetery, Rev. D. Ferrite conducting the services. tee WALTON "Within The Law "—New\ York's moat sensational drama will -be pre- sented in Cardno's Opera Hall, Sea - forth. on St. Patrick's Day, Monday, March 18th. Proceeds to St. James' Church Decoration Fund. Sen Bills and large adin The Womeri's Institute.—The We- nm's Institute will hold their reguier monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. A. B. Bruce on Thursday, Marth 21, at 2.30 Mrs. Gardiner wili take the subjest for the meeting., the topic being, 'Systematic Houseclean- ing." Everybody welcome. The sew- ing course held under the auspices of the Women's Institute was a great success. The twenty -free members of the elass are unanimoufs in their ap- preciation of the instructress, Miss McKay. On the -last night . of the course the appreciation was well ex- pressed by the President of the Ins- titute, Mrs. Bruce, and others,- a:t a little luncheon arranged in Miss 'Nfe-' Kay) honor. Miss Currah, bathe name of the class, presented Miss MeKWY with a bunch of carnatiens, The class will highly recommend this course to other institutbs. Red Cross Contest—The results of the two months contest just closed zonnection with the Walton Red Cross Union, betWeen the east and west sides of the gravel road were ' highly commendable to both side's, and showed the earnestness in twit -fell both sides work to accomprieh the maxi- mum amount of work possible. The West side won. by whir 2000 points. A recapituation of the work done by each is as follows: West Side, 363 pairs of socks, 108 shirts, 129.suits of pyjamas, 87 eaps, 244 ba.gs, 95 fami- lies working, money, $269.32; points 10,024: East Side -303 pairs of sock% 104 shirts, 120 suits of pyjamas, 63 taps, 73 bag% 75 families. workint, money $179; points 8,006. The total value of the work done was about $1750. The Kirkby family knitted the most socks. 47. Mrs. Jackson was the second, knittsug 43 pair her- self. Miss B. McDonald made the most number of shirts 34. Mrs. Mc- *Quaig and Mrs. jehn Watt were ties in making the most number of suits of pyjamas each making 24 suits Miss. B. MeDonald made the /nest number of caps, 19. Mrs, j`. BiShop matte the most number of property bags, 69. Mrs. Anderson eut the most • pyjamas suits, 124e In points the Kirkbytfarnily headed the list totalling 576. The Driscoll famtly and the McDonald family (in Grey) were ties for second place each making 560 points. There were also 11 quilts - made and sold. Some of the largest donators of money were Duncan Mc- _ Donald $25; T. and Mr. Turnbull $16, Mrs. Cunningham $11, William Mur- • • Butt—Glazier —A predy wedding took place at the home of Tilr. and Mrs. James F. Reid, Pegler street, London, on Wednesday evening, at 7 o'clock. when their nephew, Mr. 'Thomas W. Butt, of Tuckersmith, Was united,in marriage to Miss Mae Glaz- ier, of Clinton. The bride was attired in a dainty navy blue silk dress and carried a bouquet of roses and wore the bridegroom's present, pendant of diamonds. They were unattended. The ceremony was performed by Revt Dr. McCrae. After the signing of the register a dainty ltmclieon - was served The remainder of the evening was spent in games and musice iThe young couple left on Thursday for their future home at Enchant, Alta., the bride wearing a travelling suit of navy blue poplin twith hat to match, Vibe best wishes of a large circle of friends go with the happy young cou- p e to their new home in the West. Note% — Mies Mary McDonald, d ughter of Mr. and Mrs, William cDonald, of Tuckersmith, and who is o y • eleven years of age, has been making a good record for herself in the. 21111Sie line. under the teabhirig of Miss Foss, of Hensall. Miss MeDonald luta been successful in passing a Third e aniination with honors in piano, w *el -i is a very creditable showing for one so young, and also speaks well for Miss Foss as a teachen—Miss Mc- Kenzie, of Bayfield, is sidending a pleasant visit with her brother here, Mr. Alex. MeKenziee--Monday of last week was a busy diy in our village in. the moving line,- as three homes made changes. Mr. Harry Chesney moved to his new home in Stanley; Mr. John Workman moved into the house he recently purchased from Mr. Robert Dinsdale, and which has been oecupied by Mr. Chesney for some years. Mr. Workman. will have a cosy home. Mr. and Mrs, WesTey French, • Tuckersinith, who are retiring from the more active duties of farm life have also taken Up their abode in our village. Mr. and Mrm Virorkman and Mr. and MTS. French will prove the best of citizenm—Mr. W. M. Doig Ims rented his 100 -acre farm to Mr Rob - ere Stewart, of Tucketsmith. Mr. Doig is having all the farm seeded down to grass.—Mrs. Drake and daughter, of Alberta who have been visiting for t of her fat ier. Mr, William Anderson, in the villege, and with other friends, returned to their western home this week. Her many friends wish her a safe returm—The sympathy of many friends here is extended to Mrs. W. C. Sproat, owing to her continued he- vere illnesm but hope that the best of care and attention which she is receiv- ing will soon have its effeet and time before long she will be on the way to complete recovery.