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The Signal, 1917-4-26, Page 22 TN13tSDAY, APRIL 26,'1917 THE • SI(:NALL GODF.RICH, ' ONTARIO • far as Gudeerich iatgooncerued-and . - - - _ I probably the same is true of other I places -the movement was started by as ntrgent merwege received from the provincial Organization of Resources Conimittee asking that some effort be made to hep solve the farm labor prob- em. The obvious thing to do was to get le town people and the country people ,gother to dioewa the matter, and is was done ; but the t nult has not Leen as satisfactory as might be wished, by a long way. Men who are woo king in the town at steady posi- tions are not going to give up their txsitions to help the farmers ; and the ferment do not rain • great deal for the intermittent help that is of- fered them. Perhaps the hest way is to leave the matter to the farmer's th,•niaelvr. They are keen business sten, most of them, and they follow the markets and realize what big crops this year will mean to them at the high prima that will proven, and real- izing thin they will do the best they can to pr,du;•e largely. Prol.ably a good many of the townspeople. expel: - hilly those who have country connec- tions, have already been "signed up" for fern) work at the busy seuaeons, and other town dwellers can do their part by oailtivating their backyards or rent- ing a vacant lot and putting in pota- toes or beans or tomatoes or whatever else they consider will yield s satisfac- tory crop. x'BR SIGNAL PRINTING OU., Peeemnaae 1 l'ga aN,NaL lr_ peW,4�hed e�reli�ta.. NMik tb. o os m,» 1a 71e natal Wow- Oodrioli3Outarto Telephone N uaeunterws Twins.--{Jbe Dollar and sots per ear; It paid strictly to ad roes Dollar will be aaoonted ; 10 dutecrlbers to the United state. the rate le One Owner cad Fifty Oen. strictly 113 advance. Subscribers wbo MD to manes Tru etusaL rwrnlarly by man .rad confer a tavor by e.garluUng las publW- of the tact at ee early a date as poeelble. When change et eddrar is &etre& both old nal t he caw addreee should be elven rterntttrooss way 1• made by bank draft. express mo0sy order, ,oetomos order, or registered letter %ab.crlalons ria eomenos at an thaw ezeour I$Ofa liosten-Rau. for display and .satreot advertisements will be given 00 apps o gles. legal sod other .natter advert Weenie. Ma Owls per line tor ant Insertion and tour ^eons per Ilse tor earth subsequent insertion. Measured by a male 01 rdld aooparofl-twelve noes to an inch Business card. of six lines sad under, rive Dollars per year. Adv.r Lw meet. of Loo. round, Buoyed. Situation. Vscott,$ttaaUen. Wanted, Roowe for Salecr to Resat. rsrm. tor Bale or CO Root. Articles for Wle, etc., not exoesdlst Web t line., Twenty eve('ent-each talwroioa; One Duller for a-. month. Fifty (.•at+t°, ewhsahe•aueot moon. Larger advertieem.nt* /n proportion. An oouncament, in ordinary reading type, Ten Cante per line, No notate Ire than Twenty e ve Geta. Any .,pedal wake, the ob)ect of which le the peouniery benefit of any inch vld- ualora.POciatloo, to be considered an ad% er Moment and (Merged ao•'ordlnsiy. To CoaararoanzNTa, —TDs 0000-�operation of oar saber-rlber• and r eWere U cordially tnvlt du.wnrdsmnkb.gTwo emit At. aweekl record of alt local. o0unty and dt.trtet denim. weekly oom inanimation will be rid tended to unless 1.t non Mina the name and outdrew of the writer, not oeoeearily for publication. bat se an centimes at good faith. New. Items should monk Tag Bie,a1, Oman not later thea Wdoedar aeon Of each week. THURSDAY. APRIL 26. 1917 EDITORIAL NOTES. 1917 -the year of victory. That must have been an awful done of gas Col. Currie got st St. Julien. He hasn't got it out of its system yet. A Seattle paper saya, rather clever- ly, that the idea the President is try- ing to hammer into the Kaiser's head is that the ocean is "fer boatio' " and not "verboten." A daily paper states that the human booty will exist as well cn twenty-four cents' worth of skimmed milk as on a dollar's worth of steal[. But who would want to live on skimmed milk P This year. welted a wwth equinoctial wind, but since the equinox the pre- vailing winds have been from the north and northwest. Nevertheless, next year we shall doubtless again hear the old saying that the direction of the wind at the equinox determine,. Its direction for the next threw months. Superstitions die bard. No, deer reader, the expression "free wheat" you hear and tar so often these daye does not signify that wheat is to be given away without price. The market quotation this week is sonne- where around $C2.40 a bushel, and one authority says It will be four dollars a bushel before it is twit dollers again. The prairie gelds will have an unmis- takable golden hue this year. Col. J. A. Currie appears to think that the only people in Canada who are dissatisfied with the present Gov- ernment are Hun sympathizers and people who are nut in favor of the war. ('tel. Currie is liv;ng in s cloud. The people who are moist keenly critical of the Borden Government are those who want to see the country given a better and more vigorous leadership in meet- ing war condition.. Most of the l:on.ervative journals swallow the Government's new ''Ince wheat" policy without a great deal of trouble : but not. so The Toronto 'fele- gram. It harks up and declares : "Free wheat. is a snare, a deceit, a Shalt'. a fraud, and a week kneed sur- render to the seat of longwhiskered /Canoe- P.rpulisn that triad to nm the United States and failed. and now imagines that it can xucceid in run- ning Canada." We are glad to see that the iown council, on motion of ('onncillor Wil- son, is taking up the matter of a Do- minion I)ay celebration. July let this year will be the fiftieth anniversary of the confederation, and an effort should be made towards aden mnstrntion he - fitting the occasion. We would sug. gest that the celebration comtnittee include mpresentaatives ,,f the echo ole and echtx,l boards, and that s program be arranged which would be instruc- tive to young Canadians and inspiring to a11. And it is not a bit too soon to commence the preparations. If the Borden Government wants a fnether extenaiom of the Partisnientae y term 3t wilL have to put a muzzle on Col. Joon A. Currie, M. P., who goes about the country slandering the Liberal party. (not. Currie came back t0 Canada after the battle of Rt. Julien under circumstances that have never been publicly explained, and eines th.•n be ham shown himself tnore&plitician than a soldier, and his politics are of a particularly mesa kind. While he is allowed to or, about, making s public dtdwnn a of himself and exciting part - ban feeling, the Government ran kar'dly hope to find the Liberals in the lushes Of Canneloni. in "»ja ,roen- O eesalL frame of weird am td l Wa.'e theemplives and give the Government esrta lelanelte for another year. Oar Mends the farmers appear to think the town people have been tak- ing too meets upon t.Iweme Iver in urg- ing then' to Increased prndurti.n and offering to belt them in the task. So WHAT OTHERS ewe. A Dilemma. • Guelph M.resry. They do tell that we won't have much waren weather now until the ice rooves out of the late*, and abo that the ice won't move out until we have warm weather. Now, how are you Ruing about it ? The Reciprocity Right -about-face. •+ Brrotto.d Expositor. • The Conservative p.tpers are having oi trying time explaining why re- ciprocity ie not "national suicide " to- day when it would leave beefs flee yeah ago. "ICxtraordinary tisane" says The Hainan. in $peotator. Yes, and a wove ertr•ordinay Govern- ment. When the Farmers Organise. TorsuoI • Cita/, The WVertere farmers are thorough- ly organ,ztd, industrially and corn- wercially as well its politically. The result is that they get what they went. They wano free wheat, and &Me-. struggling for six years to prevent it, Lbe Government sure.oder.. "Yet hecauee this widow Ir .ublet.) me I will avenge her, lest by her continual troubling she weal y we." Manitoba, Saaketcbewan and Al - bei t t will have forty hree votes in the next House of Common... But even s n that w oldn n t hove availed if the farmers bad not been organised. There is a lesson here for Ontario farm, re. The rural populetiue of Ontario Is nearly 1,210,000 u •g ainst 860,000 in the Western wheat Prev.neee. 1f they would combine and organise they would control more meets, exercise ,nnre political power, titan rue farmers of the Wert. They could wake Ot- tawa sit up and linen. if they would stand t igether. A movement for un- ion is now in programs, and if carried on vigor molly i way crests some sut- primer for politicians. • A Whits Elephant.". Orillte Packet. As first Minister of the Province, Sir Jenks Whitney made few mis- take.. He did snake one, and of that the Oppoeiiem of [•.day is waking the snoet. The outlay upon our new Gov- ernment House W,ts out of all propor- tion to the need, end it, is difficult to understand Mir James, sanctinuing it. l'he cost of the building is nenesserily followed by a yearly tax for up -keep anything but tritl.ug. A residence of Powe magnificence at Ottawa for our Governer-Gen.ral would lin defensible, f , indeed, called for ; bu of we should Amuse our l.irl1Lenent-covet nor as well as the heeding residents of the city where he lives .re housed -mak- ing allowance for the,extre entertain- ing he is called upon to do -the le- quirementn of the case would be met. Prier Ms,.dfleld Macdonald in his day spent $I,000 In building a modeatfence around the old Government House, et the corner of Si.ncne and King. and he was hounded up and down every concession line in Ontario for his ex- travagance. If good old Sandfield's long .beep were only the sleep of a Rip van Winkle, and he 0ouln v aka up and return to Toronto today, how he would rub his ryes and 1111.4r'. Mr. Pie/ding's Vindication. The Globs. The Government's surrender to the tree -wheat policy is the vindiuetlon of • great Canadian -one of the most faithful steward. of the public bust - nem th. countryhas ever known- the Hop. W. S. Fieding. He was not the only Cenadlan negum hat. r of the reel. nrooit.v proposela of Hill, but •. Pitt- ance Minister he was esp. teeny loaded with obloquy by the men who raised the epurtou41 loyalty coy as an election dodge. 1t is begging the question to •.y that the 0anedian otder in -council ab oliabing the duty on what is not relatded to the Knox -Fielding p•et, but LO a later enact neat by Ceingr.s•. K v.ryone whoa. memory goes back to the events of nix years ago knows that free wheat w.. regarded as the back- bone of the reciprocity agreement. it was the termite bogey of ant(-rseiprn- ".fy writer. and orators, deet and West. Free wheat would destroy the tran.eoaUnental railway system.. it would di.rupt Confederation by turn- ing the cgtrents of trade frol- pnmna.r .vinetal rhaneele and amusing. thus to flow north and moth. 1Cocmon,le aheorpeinn would sap Canadian twdw- p•edenc. end Iced to pnlitiral afwenep- 1144 . Rush wag the fraudulent denier of politicians wbo now environs that they won moose* hy tale. 'w.t.nese. to that campaign of eaiunsn Mr. Fielding went down In defeat with his party. Mat his ro.putettewt end his 111sned poHatw survive. Threw who st•edert l hint nit of Parliament and out of ee steal Me polideal sentinte tend malt now o bids she theft the lebeL The Ultimate Verdict Taken in the aggregate Dunlop Automobile Tires— "Traction," "Special "-uni- formly give the 'ghest average of general 's - faction. .0 .0 0 .0 UNLOP TIRES l WHAT CANADA LACE I • Toronto Star. in V* issueot Tuesday, The Mall and Empire carne out* with an edit vial charged with g.eat force and earnest - nese calling for a deeper interest on the pout of the whole people of the cuunery tet the war. "Wont will stop a nation, all of whose people are moved hy one im- pulse ?",asks The Med en 1 Empire: -But before the nation can tie brought to that logo Wusion tbr'oughout its length and breadth. a few Wren must dome y in Berne,,�nVery 'ielndfffeees4nstr.xnt-w- porary The great body of our people ar,`at least halt in earnest in the matter of performing their part in the service that must he rendered if She war is to tee wundend time jSmpire and civilization are to be laved " Aod it hopes and prays for sowetuiug trotter than th, fifty per cent. earneet- DOM. Io giving err .ng endorostion to these views, The Mt. Cattail -ones Stand- ard (Con.) says : "Our leaden are tbiuk.n LAO much of m tUn nln � tat R puhtical• power un one hand and the gaining of it on the other.' There has been no unity, no real oo-opera- tion between our political leaders at Ottaws, hut, it 11 not t w Lite ye., urges The M ands r 1. In a letter from the front, Canon Scott, senior chaolain of the Filet Caundiaii Division (who hes lost a son o the wart, writes Ili pnwionste earn- est nein, contrast tog the daily life and ondnc of Canedtao* at the front and h.iewiaus at hoots. ' It *emus intr.-d- el.," he @nye, "that any wan wine hy 1 the name net0 cru sleep in his bed t night and let ether men out hole Med and die for hien." And the ntllionsires at home give money -hut whet does their giving Amount to ? 1 they could but see wh t. he has seen, hey would give s.-veufold. ()atom Scott WI Lee : "What a rnv"lolion to C.sna.liann it would be if they could rot *het the root. B.at, alas, Canada will never now whet her sous have endured. ay aper day, month after mei eb, tar after year, cheerfully end gladly hey have.•ndur.•d w'.d suffered` and c 0 m b f k D y t s d our men are acing here. We are go- ing to smash the Hun, but we err s long way from doing it yet. It will take the sueremeet effort of our whole Empire. Every man must put his shoulder to the wheel. even if it be a chs, lot of fire." Canon Scott has used strong words, and be has been criticized because of the force he baa put in some of the war verse he has written. But be has been at the war a long time. He has seen what he has seen. He knows what Canadians are enduring and with what cheerfulness they e000unter hardehip and peril. He has seen many die la•tvely. And he knows how, here at home, cities and towns and country di.tricu, enielded by the sacrifices of men from the warfare the'. ■preads death and desolation elsewhere, go comfortably on their way, apparently indifferent to the course of events and, seemingly, careless. as to the fate of the thousands of the country's, sone who are warding off disaster Iron, this and otberlande. The Mail and Empire stye that a few men must become passionately in earnest if the country is to beeome thoroughly aroused. Croon Scott .peeks of the revelation it would be if Canadians could all visit the front. [`heycannot not call d o this. los. Bu t their representatives have vistt.ed tot: front. The Pi true Minister has been there, several of hoe rolleagellite and several members of Parenista, t base been there -they have seen and tbey know. If • few men are to become pas- sinostely In earnest, thee• men, these elected Weiler. of the people, are the men who should lend the way. "One man who is wholly in earnest," says our contemp r.rv, "may make thous- ands and thousands of other men in earnest." If that one man, wholly in Barnes,, is the P..ime Minister, be cowld, in shout order, carry the whole country with him, and nothing could stop toe people moved by one im- pelw. There i. much (tti.n anger among soldiers because of the we ' g indif- ference of the count ey. They feel that after the war they will b• a race apart from those who .Loynd at home striving to reap riches out of the world calamity. or, if not making riches them+rleen, tolerating fn tune -mating by ()there. The feeling was illus- trated hy a returned soldier, who, having lost o kg, was offered a help ng hand hy • bystander- "No," he wed. "I'm only half s man, but I'm still w better ,nen then anyone who skulked at home while the war was n." This men'. attitude may have •en m fair, but the feeling is there end tetrre it will remain while the ought. If Canada ever furgets t .. i pen, my pray r is that she may go the dog.. Yeo will for give this et r h y animas.. ft has the merit of being incerr. The *pmtieg page of a (:am- ine newspaper i• t • ...e like a red rag to • bull, when I think at wb. 1' You pay less for this car but it gives you more en- joyment. more mileage and longer service than those which cost more. The Touring Car gives the utmost in automobile value, pride of ownership and economy. Buy a Ford this year and save money—when saving is a national duty. Wt. Oland w they are. The soldiers know tbaj the battalions at the front have been shorthanded, tart through bntu(( months they bey. dote doui esselea because of it. 'They do not Meuse wbo le to blame, but they knoll that they row up when needed and went forth to do what was supposed t0 be every man's duty, and were not followed and supported as they should have been. The Premier. on his return to. Can- ada, can throw politica over board and force every moo wad newspaper In the country to do the same. fife is, be- cause of his position, the only man who can do ie. The efforts of others ars in vain ; the efforts of The Mali and Empire, The Sitar, The St. 0atb- arines Standard, and other newspa- pers can be of 'n6 serail in producing anything better than fifty per cent. earnestness, unless the Prime Minlrter exercised the leadership that goes with his poeltion. VICTORY OVER WOUNDS. Disabled Stadia* Come nick to Lives of Activity and lndependeoce. &Canada should be as proud of her wounded .oldiers' victory over their wounds as she is of the glorious fights in which they fell. Their struggle u p from the depths of diaahlement is of- ten as bald, and even as heroic, as their desperate defence of Ypres or their dabbing capture of the \'tiny ridge. We hear little, altogether toe little, of these hard-won vtcte,r.es won by disabled men, because they Pre fought out in the seclusion of a hospital, rant in the theatre of war with the whole world looking on. But such victories equellp deserve public recognition. 'tansy *bow the neaps spirit, the same pluck, sod .1.111 more indomitable per- sever,wce. A preacher on Beater morning was thanked for the inspiring sermon be had just preached on the resurrection. Hes said : "1 had my text sitting in front of me -a man in khaki, with an empty sleeve. He has had two resur- rections already. He was burled by a shell explosion, and was dug out only Just in Urtte to save his life. That was the first. He spent months in hos- pital, fighting his way back to health. That wee the second, "Doctoring and nursing of coarse did much for him ; ao diol the exercises and occupations that they provide nowad . ys-perhaps the beet pet t of the treatment. But the man bimselt was working out lois own testy rection, by resolutely putting hie own will power ipso the task. Now he is al moat ready to go out into the world, a belt •r and abler men, be sayer, than be wan before, in spite of his het era. "While the rest of 1.tn are thiwking of .. resurr.etien beyond the grave, he has won a resurrection this aide of its t, a new life of activity and iodepend- enre among bis fellow -countrymen." Autbeotic cases resembling this are not rate Ili (he recnrde of the Militaiy Htrpitels (3ommiieion. Here are a few that have just beencommunicated tried to its: A neechenic who enlisted in the Prinewu P■tr(c,a's Regiment was wounded. returned to Canada, spent three months in • convalescent hoe- pital, and now earns double his former pay, having taken fell advantage tet the mechanical drawing and e'itle met is chime, carried on there. Wilt- ing iit,- ing to tee hospital instruct v, be says: "When 1 enlisted, I was earning about Si a day et uty trade. At pres- sen, and since my discharge from ruil- itary service. 1 un, technically, a bet- ter man all around ; I am able now to bold a job as foreman in • machine shop, with more than twice the sal- ary I was getting before. This benefit to me is g.eatly due to your practical information, and my only regret is that l was nnehle, atter my discharge, to nntinue .nsiruttlon with you as you had advi..ed." Another better received is fiom en ex -pi hate in the 13-h Battalion. Be- fore enlistment he was getting 112 a week as driver on a city milk round. "i always had a liking for drawing," he says- "and felt if ever I had the chance i would take up • course in mechanical drawing." This oppor- tunity came to him at one of the Commission'i convalesces t hospitals. After six weeks application to the work 1bete, he was able to secure an appointment with a salary heginning et $75 a month, with good prospects of ..d vatic• went, A locomotive fireman enlisted, w•a severely wounded, and lied to have his left arm amputated.;' Under the Commission's scheme of ye n.ducstJon, which is offered to ell igen incepacit- at.ad for their former woe k by service, he received special training in teleg- raphy and railway routine. A -s a resulm, he eecnred an appoit t•cent as station agent and despatcher, at x110 a trench. Mtill another patient, formerly a me- chanic, permed the Civil Service quali- fying examination after Instruction in hospital, and ear got a custom., home. position at ip0) a year, rising to 11,600. A man wbo bad been a guide and trapper, and had never bandied tools, r.turned from the front with one eye destroyed by • wound and the sight of the other eye impaired. In spite of all these old and new disabillti.e, by putting hie mind to it he became • first-class carpenter alter three .months In the hospit.1 workehop, $qu•Ily '.market'', is the Tarn of a Polish laborer. Be corse to Canada oda year. ago, and worked In • coal mitre 1111 he enli.e.d. At the front, hs was gassed and buried. Though he knew aheolutely nothing about car. Penn to begin with, after two months of instruction in hospital he was aide to heed his own with any or- dinary carpenter. lint every man, of snots, can "double his pay" But ewe of the most cheering faces proved by .xperi- .si.. durb.g the war hag been this - that al/neat all the d&Mbied men, in- cluding/ the very seriously wounded, esti be equipped once more with pow.► to s• rob i good living, And often, as Lord Shangbt ewp said the other dee, gree and trainlnp prosvl3sd by the military He.pit*ts pe��r�t.ssA ' t! dmhi talents midi, hen tl�.' jup did not know he pommies.: Dre.s may influence a wesaae, hilt it'. the Komar bat that dotdsakss hr' r .1 W. ACHEgON & SON FLOOR COVERINGS A very pleasing choice of heavy seamless Union Floor Rugs. Colorings are splendid and designs copied from the very high-priced Rugs. Sizes and prices as follows : 24x3 yards, $5.75 3x34 yards, $7.75 3x3 yards, $6.75 3x4 yards, 38.75 Wilton, Tapestry and Brussels Rugs. All our present stock ' at old prices. 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Mr. Porter lirue w eeott Browne, n of Norfolk, Conn., writes as (elbows to +The New Yotk Sun : "If we must have ((hod help us) en Americanis,n like that advocated by those human hookworms that aro trying to make us • melon of dirt- ; eaten (1 refer to Messrs. Bryan, Mann, Moore, Daniels, Voltam and their sort), let us et least he consist, -n•. I "First, let us change the national ' emblem from an eagle to a skunk. !Then let us drop the red, white and • blue flag that now tlo.ts over us, and replace it with a nice white one hav- ing a wide yellow r'redk down the middle. Following which we will tutu to the wall the pictures of Lincoln, Washington and (&rant, and the other poor rooghnecks who wire not tint proud to tight, and after all joining In the well-known anthem, 'My (:oun- try, 'Taint of Thee,' ave will extend a cordial invitation to Germany to come right in and murder our women and children on shote whets We drier. 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Over half the servicedifficultieswould disappear if distinct and direct speak- ing were practised. 1 T. speak towards your tdepbone from • yard et .o away. or to speak otr'o.a 1.t means Uansmissien- oft,. wrong numbers. mis- uand nderstanding Y e ••• avoidannoyance., �tt�rsrasbrwa,.,.r wine .finesaillels sad anneesses. by making sod Wrgef r into f nsesethple e, vide essisas bait is isak hr is ties. -Coed serails • e • me M Ione The BelliTel a hone Co.