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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Star, 1927-06-02, Page 84 THIJIkWA" , yUDIR be. i1M' NAfirCri.e STR. GREYHOUND V. ANNUAL LOW PARE EXCLUSION eric i to DETROIT **J baiers THE BIG STEEL ST1 AMER GREYHOUND $4.40 SAYE, La N Round Trip WIlt V (OI»I(U ay r Tuesday, June 7th at 9:30 a.. m« Arriving Port Huron 1.10 pea., Detroit 5.30 p.m, Retwr*iag leaves Detroit 1 p.mt,, Thursday, June 9th The only boat trip from Goderich to Detroit this season, Child - M an friends and see ichi ren between S and `12, half care, Visit your M K big and busy Detroit. A delightful trip over the great international highway of lakes and rivers, Don't miss it. Last trip. Goderich to Detroit, Friday, June loth, at 9,30, a,m, MOONLIGHT OUT OF GODERICO UNDER AUSPICES OF WOMEN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY Gime and enjoy the fun MONDAY, JUNE 6th, AT 8:30 P. M. FINZEL,'$ •ORCHESTRA, for dancing in steamer's big new ball room Three hours on beautiful Lake Huron for 60e. Children 25e. PATRIOTISM (By ALLAN ('MORE) 'There surely" is imam other' than a mere material universe. There is that, for instance, of Personality.. Every pian is himself -.a... -world,. a microcosm, more important far than the univeraial mass of matter on which. • fora time he finds footing. Steadily there is gaining ground, too, the consciousness of a still finer, more vast and subtle Personallty then the htlman Personalty of which tee human is but sone faint copy. Personality or Universe in which the human is as some ksser planetary system with its varied suns and sya- • terns, But we had .better keep close to things we understand, however im- • perfectly, and think alone of some one of those worlds on worlds, each with its awn interests, its own at- mosphere in this universe of human Personality. •That wan the line of my thought as, after reading foreign. news, I sat at my desk the other night. Continuing. Sometimes, meteor like, these personal worlds we call men seem to flash through their hea- vens—as when a Ptolemy. an Alexan- der, a Caesar, or Napoleon appears and passes non. Occasionally there is friction or explosion in • or among them, scattering a kind of stardust thought and feeling far and wide— jest as materially happens now and again in stellar space. 13ut, for the more part, such worlds swing on in smooth and satisfactory relation one with another, unconscious often each of the 'other's existence. Yet in their ignorance of one another's orbits, perhape even .rebellious at times, against their own orbits, they are caved, apparently, from too great or final catastrophic. clash by that great- er Personality of which we have spoken, a Personality who, allowing the lesser personalities amazingly wide freedom, yet surely sets diem securely within certain •.iciundi by rigorous limitations. Always, of course, those of these personal worlds which are closest to one another—as, astronomically, are Earth, Venus °find Mars, for instance --take interest in their .neighbors' doings. But, strange as it may seem, and in moat un -astronomical way, whilst each world of the personal has its own appointed orbit, wide•npaeed as the eters, the human interest in the human has generally token on some character of jealous enennity; and many are the odd and objection- able terms by which one is known to another. No poetic, no religious nor any even healthy.utilitarian inspira- tion seems to have played here; noth- ing but dislike, disdain, hate. den- tilea, for instance,, one group„calls n the a o r, Dogs, Barbarians, °Goths. Vandals, heathen, Swine even end Devils.. Of late,however, Oe there h about soe new telescopic kind of sense ---adjustment, possibly, at this late date, of an 'instrument 'called Christianity. So that, just as anionic astronomers new state and groups of stars are being located, with bettor Understanding of the old, all vaet anti very wonderful beyond our: fathers' dreaming, en new peoples. and nsW personalities, with better understand- ing of the old, are being Brought, within range of a changed interest. And alt are aero to have such chne- acterietics, such values. such infinite pass; ilities as never in the bygone were a ined, Consequently new Y designations are being 'given to these newly discovered personal worlds, or the old are,being more appreelatively understood. They are coming to be thought of, according to their more permanent outward' cliaracterietice, as Yellow, White or Bleek; and they are being named, with lessening disre- spect, according to the land of their eativity, Japanese, Chinese or Eng- 'ish as the .cane .may be. Best of all where seems a growingly clear :dig- rernment of the fact that any one of Yes a case of "lam at first 6 sight” when your feet slip into Invictus Simms. Suck style—auch trona '�-r wear. "fliter • W. H E R N these fair metwede ie wawa the whole »tans of material world with whirl they are temporarily aneeeinted; whilst the old itaiveraally prevailing desigrtation of them by each other as "enemy" is giving way to the better, moire b..utiful end far more truthful term of friend or brother. New through this human universe I was being borne along in apace by a new, yet seemingly not unnatural power. Some releetial comrade whin - rd hie way beside me. And, as W. were about to alight on a certain world, to my *imminent I re,o,xnized it as the form and features of an old friend, I3rown by name. That was *at the term the angel uttered how- ever. He used some word the very sound of which suggested -such pos- sibilities as I bad never associated with any friend of mine. The word was reaily untranslatable in human language, I believe; so that all I could get was its sound. But this was enough, suggesting such a Brown es it did, 9 Taken up as 1 was with such vast variety of , country as we soared `above, 1 could not help noticing its ;potential possibilities. It wan not se • much that there were extremes of cheat and cold, as on our awn earth, it was rather that there were such extremes of possible good and ill. And the whole world; the whole Brownworld, that is, seemed strange - a ly ill at ease as though in some sore perplexity and pain, There mus a samenesu of popnla- tion, just as on earth, though here 'they were not called humans but corpuscles; sarin with all their general likeness there was great diversity of situation and eharaeteristie. We had approached the Brown -like world by way of Headland, a country far advanced • in the civilization of Thought. Then we glided, eaeiily as sea gulls glide, along great stretches of isthmus -like territory known as Neckland, a. country threaded by wonderful canals, and having, right down its coast line, through tunneled mountain passes, called vertebrae, close connection. with Headland's high civilization. Neeklan�d broadened out after a while into Trunkland, a coun- try of vast spaces., having high moun- tain ranges, great level plains, pla- teaus, immense rivers and lakes like inland seas; a country supporting many millions of population. Some f its dpeople appeared . somewhat backward, ar , busying themselves with mere material, matters of lower order. Possibly, though:, for I could not clearly see from our great height, they bad advanced tosuch ideal so- cial eircuinstanees as lead,- the most advanced' to take their turn oat even scavengers'' duties, giving thus time and opportunity for all to enjoy what higher activities they can. Any- how, right in the : midst of these peo- ple, though lying a little to one side of the territory, was a locality called iearthealth, having as fine or finer ei"ciization than that of Headland it - self. From Trunkland there are four far- reaching r0 tai s.s a n mon ie.. Two ofthese gp he are shorter somewhat than the oth- ers, and stretch away down by `rtunk. land's. sides pretty much as Norway and Sweden .drop down by the:north western side of Europe. Only on east rethere'is. not another Norway and Sweden drooping down by Eur- ope s ur-ope's eastern side to parallel the Armlands of Brownworld. The two longer pronontaties, named . 1 g lands, reach off' into space from. trunkland's lower extremity. And at the end of each of. these four projec- tinns are five lesser extensions, each with its own designation. and all in- habited by n sensitive mid high strung people having intimate relations barn with Headland and Trunkland. A marvellous system of canals links them up also with Uearthealth in Trunkland, and a still more m:arvel- loude telephonic system, if that be possible, links them up with JHead- land. It was all • a spacious, delicately re-' dated, and closelywoven world over which we Were flying, every ;.art workingapparently J' i g'h y l n appy harms ony with every other for the general good of the whole. Then I saw that. we were alighting, itt one of the extreme extensions, right epee Brown's ---second toe ieint, And a sorely swollen inflamed toe joint it slly, as All, -whilst from Thirdonia :stirring Naturally, as we alighted, ere un- ietrams o£ some Marseillais came dulating hills, as epidermatic e;reases, ,' las WY Irsu Ifrs. 0. Sows, O.s..rt, Meas-, wrif e: --"I t..oisisd wink eery severe sad seoestlatee mea *early creole wi tiro. Os* flays fri.sd tete ms seems soft aeivieed me to give it a trial.2 d.clded to do so, wad atter taking titres bottler 1 foetid it had door aaa * world of good, ;ted 1 have*'t had the least alga of * Sas 1*eba for a long while." I'ut up oaly by The T. Ulibur* Qa., Gisaitee, Toronto, Oat. they had, been pointed out. They were military centers, Secondtonia was mobilizing. some time there had been strained relations between them and a neighltoring state called Thirdonia. Each had become jealous of the oth- er; though why I could not under- stand, seeing each had ite own abun- dant territory doing rich trade and commerce both with Headland and Trunkland. Normally none of these states dash, the Supreme Personality having seen to it that their interests lie in a healthy cooperative 'activity. But' there they were, these ,Secofid- tonians, all in a' fevered rush; whilst on one side of them lay a larger .;tate, on the other two lesser states, all looking�on and wondering just where the trouble would end -a kind of Bale' kan situation: The population of both lands were fairly divided into certain political'; groupings of red and white corpus soles. Man for man the people of Second* tonia seemed equal to those of Thir- donia, with just a slight preponder- since of population,—as, indeed, there was a slight difference in the size of their territories. It appeared that the rankling soreness of Secondtonia was because Thirdonia, with a lesser population, had dared threateningly to march right up to Secondtonia's frontiers and cause unpleasant fries tion there; though some of Second - bathes best citizens believed that the friction had been really caused, not by any of Thirdonia's men but by some secret foreign rower, the nature of which they did not understand. Brown's image came back to Inc for a moment, and I noticed a grain, of betweentwoof his toes! Could sand it be •:possible that this, I wondered, had given rise to the trouble between these hitherto peaceable people. But the :vision `passed. Here was• --here were: two great peoples on the verge of war;- Deliberate injury and insult had been done Secondtonia. Her honor was at stake. Ultimatum must be sent; and all were rushing things for what was surely coming. nut Thirdonia knew all that was Ming. She. was taking; nothing lying down. She had, indeed; rushed Dien to her frontiers But so had Second- tonia, her emergency troops being there swiftly as those of Thirdonia, and for the same reason, sensing Inc.i tion. So, seeing these latter, Thir- donia was swearing that she would die to the last man ins the sacred cause, defending home and hearth -- aye, more, for they were a spirited people, she would strike first and strike fiercely. Secondtonia • should. have eo chance to set foot upon her shores, Secondtonia heard all this again, of course. And now she was fully 'per- suaded of Thirdonia's ill -intent. But she was satisfied that she could sweep the would-be .invader into the sea. So a great wave of patriotism was sweeping through the land. Even as we stood there the lusty singing of patriotic songs could be heard on ev- ery hand. My Country, Secondtonin Rules the Waves, Seeondtonia Over shut out the larger view. And Brown was .quickly forgotten in the absorb- ing interests of what we discovered was the important land of Second - tenet. Intense excitement, pulsating en. orgy seemed everywhere. It took me some time to take in the situation. Then I saw, with the angel's aid and explanations, that there were certain renters of almost incredible activity. There was no mistaking theni once GODERICH,, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8th w _ 5P05. o 0 weS IVA 4 AJ;t eThshing in by wireless.. Mustering all her manpower, then, Secondtonia was concentrating every puree of strength upon winning the w .. whilst her fields lay all unsown and her factories were shut down, ill except the feverishly busy . muni- tion -making center". The chest of every corpuscle on her Streets stood out. The whites were even lining up with the reds --a kind of coalition government. There was no need for conscription anywhere. Every able-bodied man was rushing forward—which 1 felt was just as should 1* if the situation was actual- ly as it seemed. Thirdonia must be laid low. No one power must be per- mitted to interfere with the sovereign rights or sacred territory of another. Yet I was uneasy as I watched. Was what I saw the whole situation? The vision of Drown recurred. Was this thst I looked upon at close quarters but the swollen sorely inflamed toe ioint of my friend?' No wonder be aav ill. For all this wild patr!oti ni which was out to whin the world was but the militating pain he was badly feeling both in Heaolland and in Hearthhealth. But the vision passed. It seemed unreal in face of what was actually before me, en inteitllgent and really generous people so sure of themselves end of their cause. Then 1 saw the angel do such a tinee strange thing as, I fhppeute, only' an- gels ran do. Slipnini off. he left me in the gallery of the Cemmona of Seeondtonia. where 2 could a sea and I • MI sew himtenter the go and ari take; Ms seat ass a certain Hon So and So, who wan understood to be *broad at the time upon intpertant diplomatic jelled him him buiner's. 1 t forr the nerrry ttwld lemur hare inkle I , If hie eye an he took lace seat and l looked up. Feeling ran kigh, every speech, whether of government or on- nosition, wan intense be its potrietir I fervor. When all hod had their •Say. Ik and things had roost to a hese. i. ;saw i hie rise. Nobody apparently had no- tieml him befaae. New curry eye woo i turned hie war, and every ear woe'' *Dish*. Aad in a siisatea width was Nit. they knew that iaipostant utter. epe"s were *ear, "Fellow raantrintimee he berrsn. hi. 'soft "Weed d tees, "I've been tryiag I to Unlink thrn gh tale w e& v oter- t..ate sitsaties* again. as I knew we sal Wave. ,. Pa.aibiy, however, 1 Mir. Pool ,i aaaMewk.t Meer ehaireo then iisearais. feet eat we. to probe tin metier to beams. bavlat r NM ratueaed from Theme a s weer neve % 'flat mem* simply to asset lty their repetmedattvaaa frost thea, as .oar as 1 trieht rectal leaatorasatlas. 1 did a foolish tars, whirls yet stsy Save Yoe* * wives way to take. In disguise I mingled, at great risk, among ir- eallie us as oar of themselves, trying to find the ?wrest feeling of that int - portant personage known S. "the man in the street." I found his under- standing there to parallel precisely his br'other's among ourselves. Ile Wiley: that we are the culprits, that we rushed our forces to his frontier with deliberate" ill intent. And he is prepared to tiak all he has to resent what be accounts a gratuitous affront eat our part. Ile is himsself, I am sure, absolutely innocent of any , ill will toward us save such as he bait been generated by the late unfortun- ate trouble. "As to the gentlemen, their repre- sentatives,with whom I spent much time officially, they Are persuaded that the whole affair has come of some tragic, terrible mistake. What it is they frankly confess themselves unable to say. But they do affirm, on their word of honor, that their people were not in any least way responsible for the friction upon our frontiers. There was like friction upon their own, they say. And if we were not it; caua wh ch I assure them their some common enemy h s been at work. "If we persist, then they are pre- pared to fight, they feel they must fight. Their honor, too, is at stake, but they would rather a thousand times not tight. Not that there is any fear. They are of our own stock. To them as to us fear is unknown at times like this. And, just because. we are of 'the same stock, so much the more bitter will be the conflict if it must needs come. "But, they say, when we have wast• ed each the other's territory, who will be the richer? Each of us as sovereign peoples within our own borders'bave all we can do to manage our own affairs. Neither of us , can do the other's work, make the other's contribution to the world's health, or civilization, Whoever wins we both lose; and the world itself is more or less impoverished. The cosmopolitan people of Headland and of Trunkland, especially of 1 earthealth, will suffer. And long after our struggle, which will leave the question of who caused the friction still unsettled, there will be dislocation involving endless .read- justment of trade and . commerce. _ • And now, fresh from among them, after getting from their whole people what I know to be their absolutely. honest opinion and outlook, I want to say that we, from our standpoint and, outlook, are precisely where they are. Our patriotism 1$ fine as far as it goes, just as is theirs. But neither of us goes far enough:. What right have we, looked at in the light of future generations, what right have we tq rob or wreck the world for local' ad- vantages, be these never so great? Our patriotism must not be less but inore than ox it is, with. •. wider ..outlook and worthier motives, those .even of world advantage:. Winning this we winhe • lasting 1 sting local good; losing this whatever be .our local gain. we have won alone the shadow and lost the substance. A Nova Scotia Lady Was in an "We, with the men of Thirdonia, Anaemic Condition know nofear. Fight we will if fight we must. There are times when such Teems the only honorable way. But Before we takethenext irretrievable step, I move that we stay our war- like ways for a month, that we seek the creation of same league, council or court eomposed of representatives of Headland, Trunkland and ' 'other »ewers, that Thirdonia and ourselves. lay the whole situation before them as we see it, and that we loyally tibiae by the findings of such impartial tri- bunal" He sat down. It hqd been painful at first to watch the faces of his fel- 'ow members. The silence was pro- found. Then there was stirring, teeming provocation to heated oppu- sition,--opposition which yet Was somehow tongue tied in face of the amazing ,things they were hearing. Graduually the heated ` feeling died down. There was time of hesitancy, is though men hardly knew just what to think. This too ,passed. ..There began to creep into every face some. thing of approval. Finally relief ap- ;feared, as from . some dreaded night- mare feeling. ,Silence deepened, if that were possible, being prolonged into what were as painful ages. They were but moments, however. Then someone dant. Instantly the dammed back river of delight burst forth; and the House rocked with the wild arnlause. The galleries caught it up. It passed out into the country. Mothers hugged their bairns to their breasts, Youth caught the vision of, possible peace with honor, and re- joiced, of peaceand progressive co- operation. Wives rushed forth in riotous joy to welcome home their husbands. My companion was back beside me. I cannot understand it, but there, tro, in his seat was as th e real Ron. So and So, looking gravely thankful in senas ing some great crisis past. The council wax then convened. We stayed to nee the result. Such a result! Surely never did surgeon's knife' let loose, in any inflamed toe or elsewhere such dark foul flood of festering natter as did that council The Old True Saying A PENNY SAVED 15 A PENNY MADE We Can Save You Dollars We have a quantity of Coal stored on the Ocean House property, and it is going to cost fifty cents a ton to move it over to our Coal Yard, and we are going to give you the advawetage .of this saving. While it laasta we quoteChestnut delivered Coal at .04415 per ton, Stove Coal at... , $15.25 per Lan, delivered ARE YOU DOING ANY BUILDING? We are offering the material out of the Ocean House at the following prices: HEMLOCK --2 *4,2x6,2x8,2x10,and2x12, which is as good as new, for, , . , ,;35.00 per 1,000 feet Lath, at ....... ,a ,.....,.... .. —300 per bunch Pine Lumber Doors and Door iF'runes, Windows and Window Frames for equally as good values. For Hatrdwaire;'Past and Oils, Pltambinig and Heating, get our prices CHASM C. LEE The Hardware at the Wharf SHIP CHANDLBR PLUMBING and HEATING Electric Wain, Store 'Phone 22, House 'Phone 112.. But once poured forth and put away, all better possibilities began to play. And soon, in place of devastation and intensified hate, hand clasped hand in pledged perpetual .'peace; and men scattered to their homes, their fields, their factories, for Happy and prosp- erous normal living. Above all Headland and Trunkland, especially tlearthealth, rejoiced. As we rose awing, soaring aloft, I slaw the transfigured face of Brown. All pain was past.. He was having the time of his life; and the belle of all the world, Brownworld, were ring- ing at the.outeome,• at the triumph of right and reason over might and pas sionate prejudice, at the triumph of the nobler patriotism of Jesus over the narrow patriotism of Caiapha.a.: I awoke, the clock was just striking FOUND -EA. HEALTH AH. BUILDING I. G TONIC Men and women who do not sleep well and are not refreshed and etre*: ntlhened by a night's rest, are gener- ally suffering from thin, watery blood. The nerves fail . to get the nourishment they demand and hence - aches and a worn-out feeling is the result. Building up the blood is the one surestep to renewed health and strength, e feta, and for this.. purpose noth- ing else can equal Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. From first dose to last they enri„h and purify the blood, and in this way promote better ',appetite, better rest itt night, and renewed ;strength, Mrs. Mary E. 'Uhlman, Williams- town, N.S., writes;—"I have received so touch benefit from Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, that 1 would feel myself ungrateful if I did not let you know. I' was in a. very, poor state of health and reached the stage where I had to remain in bed. A doctor was called in and he told me I had no organic trouble, but was simply run .down from overwork. I had been left with a family to support, which I did by dreesmakinef. The doctor said my blond had almost turned to water, and advised a rest cure. tI did net see how it was possible for me to take a very long rest, so I decided to try Dr, Williams' Pink Pills. Soon I found my strength returning and be- fore very. long I was able to go about my duties as usual again. This was a few years age, and my health re- mained good until about a year ago, when I broke out with humor of the blued. Again I consulted the doctor, who said my blood had become so thin that it had really poisoned itself. I told him I had bought several boxes• of Dr, Williams' Pink Pil1s,eand ' he told me to go on taking them nshe thought they were Just what I need- ed. I took eight boxes and again was in good health, I can therefore re- commend these pills to all in a weak or Min -down condition." Dr. Williams' Pink pills are told by all druggists or will be sent by mail, poet paid, on receipt of price, 50 rents a box. Try them today. a WHAT THE REbISDOCROSSING SOCIETY Theaaddress' ' byDr. o on the work of the Red3utleyCross Society which was given at the Model Theatre Wed. inesday night! May 18, illustrated by moving pictures, wag` certainly a ;revelation to many who may have had ;but a meagre coneepti6n of the work this organization is carrying on since the war. To start with there : are many soldiers who served in the war who have never been able to leave hospital since, many unable to raise themselves from their backs. These are eared for in such institutions as tho Christie street hospital. 'Then there are many more who become in- capacitated as time goes on from the 'effects of whatthey went through in , the war and the Red •,Cross hospital is the only place to which they cart go. The work of the outpost hospitals inN . o; thern Ontario makes it possible for the pioneer settlers to get assistance when someone ;n the family becomes ill. These are often many miles away and the Red Cross nurse must be ready to walk, drive, canoe or ride many" Iles often, but many lives are saved by this very valuable service the Society is render- ing in the pioneering sections. The junior Red Cross work has spread in the schools into 32 coun.• ties, with 1500 societies and 50,000 members, when the children learn health habits and how to serve oth- ers. in examination of. 1800 in our schools 1t3 per cent. were found to have some physical im- perfection, be it only a decayed tooth in many eases, the need of such work is seeneontagefor, as Dr. Routley pointed out, if 1800 animals were examined and 1 per cent..were found to have some 'physical imperfection, this would be looked upon as a large per. . It was, in .fact ' , the large per cents age of men who were found to he physically unfit for military service in the late war that awoke the auth- orities to the Door state of health existing and determined the Red' Cross to continue their, lruinanitarlan work during peace time. The Society is ready in case: of emergency, such as was caused by the Helleybury fire in 1922, to ship a completely equipped hospital into the district and has nurses and doctors who may be called on flu such an emergency. In all these services the Society has spent mililons of dollars in the past few years, and it is worth not- ing that a very large part of what is spent on outpost hospitals conies from the people in the regions served: Dr. Routley presented the work in n way to arouse the sympathies of his hearers and stimulate their interest in the work the Red Cross'Society is doing and we are sure that when the campaign for raining funds is put on the second week in June Goderich will do its share. Mr. Do, las Brown, secretary of - the Lions' Club, introduced Dr. Rout- ley to the audience before his address, which was given, through the kind - noes and co-operation of Mr. Max- well, between the two regular pro- erams of the evening at the Model Theatre.