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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1920-09-03, Page 1- • - •• • - 44.7 0.1GUST 27, 1920. ...••••••••••}1.. • immisraellsordi wieeideeetreit - FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR WHOLE NUMBER 2751 CANNOT MAKE MUCH MONEY eiling you a single coat or skirt this but we can lose a friends by seilitg a poor one.. have built up this ness by giving es so good that bring you . back in and again. ou have been wear - our garments, we ect you'll get your apparel here. ou are not acquaint - with the advantages store offers its high e you began toin- agate. ne and learn about new apparel now. mitommtuttuttintumumum GINGHAM DRESSES 00 :ess, in, a pretty and practi- se vacation dresses because I looking for --something that the essential fitting qualities liferent models trimmed with *S. HOUSE DRESSES PRICE OF $L75 ionstration value because we it is not at all necessary to viceable dresses as these can Gingham, trimnied in various coming and desirable styles. 2.50 to 85.00 h b.dt. Is there any reason y can be had. ready-made, at STORE TO HAVE Et UNDERWEAR THE ENTIRE R PERIOD Fummer ineli.rwear, you can 1-ile to secure what you want. k a simple matter to satisfy ights are still to be had, all e, and—bear this in mind— ralues as at the beginning of GS te Hot Spells of August and Set kismet by the Anwrican yeti will see he necessary for the het :Tells. elething the baby in keep- ixtrene het ---light, airy, a coole:"I:InVS, it should be y Ales baby :Lee- of utmost vie; eeeneeee. Prices, al- )RE SS ES. S. 1 .00 aele, sizes for ef a Tirev iidiehain that in qualities. 4VISH "lir u ii _w-M- fie —_iiiehe ---- sh- --, - ---- — ------- __ _----- ' 0 • . • Ret iring From . CI ()thing Business . , FINAL CLOSING Our SALE, See large bills/and note the un- precedented Bargains in our Grand Stock of Clothing, Furs and Fur- nishings unmercefully sacrificed for quick turn into cash. . Special Notice , After thirty years of continued mercantile business in the Town' of Seaforth, during which period we have conducted many big sales, we have positively decided to retire from mercantile business, and in so doing this Last Grand Final Sale shall eclipse all former efforts in every respect—greater volume of goods offered, as most of our new Fall Goods have been passed into stock as we could not cancel Fall orders. Prices are slashed as never before. . - We have terminated the lease of our store and all_ goods must be sold. The. Greig Clothing Co. p-eciai otice A We are in a, position to accept orders for Hot Air and Hot Water Heating Pumps and Piping Eave Troughing Metal Work Ready Roofing Bathroom Plumbing, including Pressure Systems, Leave your .orders at once. Estimates cheerfully given. I have had over 30 years' experience. in all kinds of building which enables me to plan your proposed bath- room and furnace work, etc. The Big Hardware H. EDGE 1 SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,1920. GERMANY TO -DAY • The following interesting account of present-day slife in middle-class• Germany, is written by a lady who has just returned to England after spending nearly six weeks in Frank- fort. Throughout her visit she stay- ed in private houses, so that she was more in touch with the domestic life of the people than is possible for the ordinary newspaper correspondent, who is generally restricted to hotels for his accommodation: All the gen conditions which have resulted from the war and which we are deploring here exist in Germany, only to a far greater degree. The, high cost of living and the consequent underfeeding, the social unrest and the strikes, the shortage of coal and its results, the' disproportion of pay, for manual and intellectual work, the profiteering, the superficiality sold immorality, the unemployment, the housing and the servant problem, the /shortage of raw materials and goods of all kinds, which we know in Eng- land': can be• multiplied iiy 2, by 10, or even by 20 to represent the condi- tions in Germany. There is not ac- tually much to tell that is new in kind; but the effect which a disorder of such dimensions has on people's lives is different, and with this effect, necessarily not a good one, we are, concerned for two reasistid. We want to face these facts in order to miti- gate some of thej suffering of thousends of innocent people as far as we are able, and, secondly, in order to avoid similar suffering in our country by taking timely measures. From the steps taken to solve the housing problem, for instance, we might learn something ourselves. No person in Germanys allowed to have two houses for his own use. There is also in most towns a proper system of billeting homeless people on those who have any spare room at all. Frankfort is one of the towns in which this is carried through most strictly owing to the great influx of Alsatian refugees and of students to the university founded therei just be- fore the war, There is hardly a mid- dle or upper class family which has no stranger living under the same roof. In the .case of big houses a whole storey has to be given up, and is converted into one or more flats. People living in flats have to give up the attics belonging to them, and should the flat be larger than the size of the family actually requires, even rooms within the flat have to, be ceded. No spare rooms are al- lowed. Visitors must go to hotels, provided they can find room there. These , measures, though not yet completed, are carried out very thor- oughly. Committees visit every house of which they have exact plans, and decide on the number of rooms which have to be given up. Neither age nor illness is taken into account. A reasonable rent is paid for the rooms taken and an allowance is made for necesdary alterations and for the putting in of stoves and kitchen ranges; for the lodgers cannot de- mand the right of using the kitchen and bathroom of the ,owner, though it is often granted by private ar- rangement. In cases where circum- stances and social standing allow it, the lodger becomes a boarder to simpli- fy matters. This upsetting of the home and family life, with its many complications, is the despair of the housewives, for those who were not' wise enough to choose their lodgers themselves in good time often •get the most unpleasant people thrust up- on them, and must live with them in daily fear for such of their property as is accessible to the unwelcome guest. But the greatest problem whidh each family has to face is how to find the means of livelihood, to keep pace with the ever -rising cost of liv- ing. There as here the wages of the working-class have gone up tremend-' ously, and a certain class of business men is doing extremely well. But there as here the salaries of profes- sional men have risen very little, and though the Government is trying to help them by grants, salaries cannot keep step with the extraordinary rise of prices. When, to give an instance, the, price of a necessity such as fat can rise. from 15.50m. in October to 28m. in February, and when many articles rise to double their former prices in a few months' time, .it is too much to expect any small fixed income to be elastic enough to meet the case. If salaries and wages have risen to allow at least of some ap- proximation of income to expendi- ture, those dependent on. pensions and the interest on a small capital, ample enough before the war to assure a comfortable life to an old couple or a maiden lady, are now absolutely unable to maintain their former standard of living. All such people, and practically all -professional men and officials, are now living on their capital, and where the capital is small, are viewing the future with great anxiety. There are many re- spectable families who are slowly selling all their silver, and will not know what to dowhenthe last spoon has gone. • It is very sad to see this class of peopleegoing under, for it is going under by degrees, and may disappear entirely to make room for the new society. These nouveaux pauvres were the tree citizens who most con- scientiously obeyed the heavy re- strictions laid down in the rationing laws and who were the last to break those laws when it was no longer possible to keep alive on the rations alone, and when every other class had long taken to providing food by more or less illicit ways. They were the ones who gave up every silver and gold coin and all their braes NOTICE WE have got nicely settled in our New Flour and Feed Store in the old H.R. Scott stand and would be pleased to have you give us a tall. We have a quantity of Shorts on hand at present and only three tons of the Buffalo Fertilizer left, Who wants it at (Jost Price. W. M. STEWART ornaments and pans While others hid them; They were the ones who -in- vested their money in war loan to save their country, and navy a faith- ful servant with them who will have lost the earnings of a hard life. Is it surprising to find decent people bitter and cynical -when: they see how - virtue is .punished and selfishness rewarded, how only those Who hoard- ed food and managed to eat more than their share have kept in good health, how those who hid their coins now get far more than the former value for them? There is now a sort of freeinas- .onry between these nourveaux peauvres, whe' even talk of wearing some badge to show that, though they can no longer afford to wear good clothes, to go to theatre e and con- certs, they yet lay claim to belong to the educated class its distinguished from those nouveaux riches who as yet have not acquired the simplest forms of behaviour. There are a good, many humorous stories current abbut the leek of manners of people even in the highest positions. This change of society is very visible in any theatre, while the concert public is not quite so changed, concerts be- ing still comparatively cheap and ap- pealing te a higher standard of edu- cation. The cost of intellectual plea- sures has not risen in proportion with the rest. A seat in the stalls of the Frankfort theatres can' be got for 10m., a stall at the opera colts about 20m. Books are rapidly getting scarcer owing to the shortage of paper and the cost of produdtion. The quality of the paper is -.very poor. though what can be done 'velth paper is shown by thecoverings in railway carriages, hardly distinguishable from a strong lien materiale The aver- age cost of a book is 15-20m. The old middle class is dying out, for the health of thousandis under- mined through years of underfeed- ing. Their minds are depressed and worried by the daily struggle for life and the dark outlook, and every disease that breaks out, notably the influenza, which is again very rampant, takes a heavy toll of life. The new middle class which is spring- ing up so rapidly consists mostly of what is known as the "Schieber," the profiteer. Be he small business man, workman, or Jew, he knows how to take advantage of the abnormal con- ditions created by the rate of ex- change and the shorta'ge of food and other articles. Though he may not actually do an illegal thing, he acts in an extremely selfish and unpatriotic manner. His only excuse is that the temptation is very great, so great indeed that it is difficult for even the. very highest -principled merchant to resist the slow poison of selfishness which permeates the whole life of the nation, Only if one has seen the moral effect produced byyears of suffering and privation on respected and self-respecting people canone judge the sad results with some fair- ness. The loftiest -minded man had to come down- to things material, and now talks of food and prices like the rest. The unselfish have become -selfish and the selfish have become more so; The saddest change in. the, German people seemed thus to be this general lowering of the moral stand- ard directly caused by the hunger blockade. and break fast at a secondor third ' class hotel cost about30-40m., whereas a first class hotel will charge 60 -80th.. or more BREEDERS PREDICT FAMINE OF HORSES • Immediate demand far 'exceeding the supply, and prospect of a horse famine on farms within the next few years, is a subject brought into conversation by almost any horse- man one meets now -a -days. Natural- ly,the members of this important branch of live stock raising are 1'given to comparing existing condi- tions in their business With those that existed before the days of farm I tractors. Not that any attempt is made- to belittle the service render- ed the producers by the gas driven machine, although the claim is very generally made that where the power is supplied by flesh -and -blood horses, the condition 'of farm land is better 111111111111111111111111111111111111 Notice We are opened up in our Old Stand and are prepared to supply your needs in the Flour, Feed and Seed 'line. Call and, see us or PHONE N0.0. W. E. KERSLAKE 11111111111111•11.111111•1==. al11411111111=11.E111=1, than: where tractors are employed. However, it is not the advent of the tractor that is blamed for the existence of a horse shortage on farms to -day; the blame is laid on the war, which, with its extraor- dinary demands for c-rops and ani- mals suited for human foods, gave the farmers too much to do, in other lines, to allow of their keep- ing up with their breeding of horses, That the quality of the bulk of horses now owned on farms has im- proved, is generally admitted, and this fact is allowed to be, -to some extent, responsible for the high prices now being paid for work ' horses for city use. So attractive are Needless to say thatcrime in every shape is rampant. The aboli- tion of the censorship in theatres, kinemas, book' and postcard shops, does not help Matters. Robberies in the streets are so frequent that no lady dares to go out alone after dark, and successful attacks on jewel- Ic.rs' shops are carried out in broad daylight. No door handles, door- mats, stair carpets, rods, or metal plates are safe. The general atti- tude and the relaxing of police organization are illustrated by the fact that war cripples suffering from shell -shock sit begging in the chief thoroughfares, and that the town looks dirty, unswept, and uncared for. The - children of people living in suburbs are unable to attend school when the trams are not running. All trains are very much overcrowded,' as they are so much fewer. Local trains are run without heating and • 'lighting at night. Real fights for seats on some of the important lines are quite the usual thing, and the pub- lic has taken to entering a train by the windows, while the arriving trav- ellers are hardly able to Vet out by the doors. The cost of travelling 'was increased by 100 per cent on ;March 1. A commercial traveller Will therefore have CO ,aim at a higher profit if he wants to make i his expenses, for hotels also have raised their prices considerably. Bed • how's The Trend of Business What do the changing tendencies of bank clear- ings, - exports, imports, commodity prices, etc., - mean to you? Why do high money rates affect bondyields? What factors weigh in forming judgment as to real values? “The Income Builder" shows by means of "In- vestment Barometers" the current condition of busi- ness. A dependable, un- colored review, based on real values weighed by actual conditions. It will help you to 'elect securities, avoid pitfalls, obtain a larger income return; to buy or change investments so as to obtain a profit in addition to income; to handle your money by sound, scientific methods. Write NOW and a copy will gladly be sent you AdFdreRfsEDept K RAIIAIM,SANSON INVESTMENT BANKERS Motaborn Toronto Stock Exchange SO 'Bay Street, Toronto siiiu these prices, in fact, that the farms have been. almost denuded of horses suited for- doing the farm work. The point is emphasized by breeders who are still in the game, that it will take as long as it takes,a foal to de- velop into a work -horse, plus one year, to bring the horse stock of the country up to the required number; that is, if breeding on a large scale is resumed at once. It is unfortunate for the horse - breeding industry in Ontario that the world-wide horse -shortage should have occurred just as the province effected the elimination of the scrub stallion—a move well calculated to improve the horse stock, and likely, even under existing conditions, to ef- fect much benefit in this direction. Enthusiasm for horse breeding is, however, checked to a large extent by the lack of importations, due to the extremely high cost of stallions in Great Britain. Horse breeding in Great Britain was well maintained during the war, but at abnormal ex- pense, which the British breeders are determined to offset by sale of high. class animals to the highest bidder. Horse raising in the Province of Ontario must increase in volume if agriculture is to prosper. Quality must also•, be kept up if a profit is to be reaped in the future. It has always been apparent that keeping up,, the standard of our horses, the heavy ones especially, necessitates frequent importations of good blood from Great Britain or wherever else the breeds may originate. So, rather than revert to the use of scrub stal- lions, or allow the lives of pure- breds to deteriorate, the Government of the province would do better by investing cash, even to a consider- able extent in the purchase, and importation of some of the best stal- lions obtainable, for mating with the very fair class of mares now exieiting as a result of hnproved breeding within the past few years, NEW PRICES FOR VICTORY BONDS It is officially announced that the prices for Canada's Victory Loan bonds have been reduced to the, fol- lowing. levels: 1922-98 and 6.37 per cent. 1923-98 and interest, yielding 6.15 per cent. 1927-97 and interest, yielding 6 per cent. 1933-96% and interest, yielding 5.88 per cent. 1937-98 and interest yielding 5.68 per cent. 1924-97 and interest, yielding 6-27. per cent 1934-93 and interest, yielding 6,24 per cent. The ,above prices bring all the Canadian Government issues well into line with world conditions,- even considering the abnormal financial demands of the crop movement period. -It is felt that at the new prices the demand will quickly absorb any floating supply of bonds. More than one hundred and thirty- five 'Wilton. of Canada's Victory bonds have been redistributed among inves- tors since the doe° of the last loan, thus affording an outlet for bonds' which subscribers have required to sell from time to ti e. The old prices and ields were: 1922-99 and iaterest yielding 5.86 per cent. 1923-99 and interes yielding 5.82 p'er cent. 1927-95% and interest, yielding 5.58 per cent. 1933-991,e and. interest, yielding 5.55 per cent. 1937-101 and interest yielding 5.41: per cent. 1924-98 and interest, yielding 6.01 per cent. 1934-96 and interest, yielding 5.92 per cent. interest, yielding THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Realizing the need of better facili- ties for the training of publie health nurses -for Canada, the University of Toronto has established a Department of Public Health Nursing. This has been made possible by the assistance of the Ontario branch of the Can- adian Red Cross Society, which organization has undertaken to meet the expenses of the new Department for a period of three years. The - course will metend over an academic session of eight months. The first term opens September 28th, 1920. Only graduate nurses may enrol in the Department. Applicants resident in Provinces or States in which registration for nurses is enforced must be registered. Applicants resident in Provinces in which registration for nurses. is not enforced must be eligible for mem- bership in the Cadadian National Association of Trained Nurses, For the first year the educational qualifications of the student will be considered by a special committee. It is proposed in the near future to re- quire for admission to this Depart- ment a certificate of matriculation in a Canadian University, or a teacher's certificate of at least second class grade. Registration is either as regular full time students• or as part time students. Part time students take one or more selected lecture courses. Applications will be received by the Registrar, 3, Brebner, B,A., L.L.D., University of Toronto on and after July lse, 1920. Application forms will be forwarded by the Registrar on request. It has been definitely decid- ed that registration shall be limited to fifty students. Successful applicants will be noti- McLean Bros., Publishers $1.50 a Year in Advance fied not later than September 9th, 1920. The tuition fee for the regular full time course is $50 if paid in October, after October a penalty of $1.00 s. month. wili be imposed until the whole amqunt is paid. The fee for part time students for each regular lecture course covering two terms will be determined at the opening of the session. Courses of instruction will be pro- vided by the following departments of the University of Toronto: Public Health Nursing, Hygiene,. Medicine, Psychiatry, Household Science, Social Service. _ Full time students are required to give at last ten hours a -week to field work throughout the academie year. This work is arranged through the co-operation of the Department of Public Health and other Social and Health agencies of the city. The Ontario Branch of the Can- adian Red Cross Society offers ten scholarships of the value of $350 each. These scholarships are offered annually for two years. Five of these are to be granted to Canadian nurses. who have served overseas, provided there is a sufficient number of satisfactory applicants from this group. The scholarships will be awarded on a basis of genera quail - 1 fication. HURON NOTES —A natural curiosity was on the Programme in Duncan McTaggart's orchard, 16th concession of Grey, last - week, viz., a crab apple tree with fruit and six blossoms at the same time. Northern spies had been graft- ed on the tree and this variety of fruit was also in evidence. Ohl Dame Nature varies her, programme and it is never inonotonous,e —A special meeting of the county council was held in the Clinton town hall on Wednesday of last -week for the purpose of making appropriations for county road work and the general. expenditures of the county, it having been found necessary to supplement ` thd' grants made at the June session of the council. Nearly all the mem- bers of council were present and the necessary by-law was put through. —The Hunter Bridge a.nd Boiler Co. is now. rushing along the work on the new bridge and dam at Wingliam. The old material is pretty well eleetn- ed away and the excavations are be- ing made for the. new work. Mr. Wen. Hunter is in charge and is arranging. for a larger force of workmen so that the work ean be rushed dilong. —The comfortable home of 8, C, and Mrs. Wilson, Flora street, Bruin sels, has been sold to Robert McKim. non, of Grey township. Rumor says the Wilson folk may remove to Gode- rich to embark in business. Mr. Wil- sonisegoing would necessitate the ap- pointment of a new Division Court. Clerk and Mrs. Wilson's place in _ Melville church would not be easily filled. We have not heard what Mr. Wilson proposes doing with his 'grocery and restaurant in Brussels. —Cranbrook Red Cross workers have given the funds left in its treasury at the conclusion of opera- tions to the following causes:—$20 to the Children Aid Society, Gode- rich- $20 to Sick ChIldren's Hospi- tal, Toronto, 4320 to Armenian Fund; $25 to Muskoka Sanitarium. These sums of money have been very gratefully acknowledged by the dif- ferent institutions, —Buckingham bridge2 a new struc- ture of cement replacing the old wooden bridge over the Eighteen, Mile River in Ashfield, was declared com- pleted last Friday afternoon and will soon be ready for traffic, The bridge is of unique censtruction, the only one of its kind so far in the eourity, and: - is the creation a Mr. Roy Patterson, - the county engineer, who has received many compliments upon its design. The christening took place in the presence of quite an assembly of the people of the neighborhood. In the gathering also were Warden Petty, County Clerk Holman, Reeve Hackett, Ex -County Councillors Ford, of Olin - ten, and Connolly, of Goderich, and the county engineer, Mr. Patterson. After a splendid supper prepared by Mrs. Buckingham had been enjoyed ice cream refreshments were furnish- ed by the contraetor, Mr. Thomas Sandy, and it is doubtful if anything was ever so plentifully dealt out or so thoroughly enjoyed. —The Goderich Signal of last week says: Goderich has within its bore ders to -night a happy -looking bunele of boys from Cleveland, Ohio, who have walked here from London on the -annual "hike" under the auspices of the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. There • are forty-three in the party which is under the direction of Messrs. 3, B. Bethiirne, H. Radway, K. ICist and. L. Hawkes. Mr, Hawkes, by the way, is a Canadian war veteran. 'The boys crossed Lake Erie by boatmade the trip to London by rail, and from there are walking to Owen Sound and back to Hamiltonand will return to Cleveland by boat from Buffalo, They started on the "hike" from London Tuesday morning and reached Gode- rich about tide middle of the after- noon (Thursday). On arriving here they asked for and immediately re- ceived permission to camp in the fair grounds, and in the morning they will - resume their 17, kra I k to Owen Sound, -Owing to the fact that no notice had been received of their in- tention to visit Goderich, there was not time to do anything much in the way of entertaining the boys. Mayor Wigle gave the party such attention as he could on short notice; but the' townspeople would have liked to give the boys more of a reception if it had been possible, J.•