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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. .
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We have terminated the lease of our store and all_ goods must
be sold.
The. Greig Clothing Co.
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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
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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
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Notice
We are opened up in our
Old Stand and are prepared
to supply your needs in the
Flour, Feed and Seed 'line.
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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
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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,
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