The Signal, 1918-1-24, Page 22 THURSDAr, JAN. 24, 1918
I saying "I thank you," he might have
saved two-thirds of the effort and said
iOnali simply "Thanks."
iPHE SIGNAL PRINTING OU.,.Ilro.
PuBLraafaM
THURSDAY. JANUARY 24, 1918
The United States Governtq ille. s not
afraid to do things against the vigorous
protest of the "interests," as witness the
fuel conservation order which has just
been put into effect. This is the kind of
--- - Government we ought to have in Canada,
THE GLOBE IS UNCOMFORTABLE
Is The Globe beginning to discover
that it picked a lemon when It gave its
support to the Union Government?
Its leading editorial article on Friday was
a protest against the continuance of the
patronage system.
-Who is obstructing Canada's new War
Union Government in the carrying out
of its pledge to' abolish patronage and the
spoils system? Why the delay? What is
the meaning of the fact that political
associations are still 'recommending for ap-
pointment.' and that partisans are still
counting on • pull'? If the Administration
stands by the pre-election scrap of paper
•upon which it naked and received a man-
date from the people. it better get busy
at once. Action is overdue Until
Parliament meets, and the necessary
legislation is enacted to reorganize and
reform the whole system. the Cabinet
must move by order in Council under the
War Measures Act. That it should have
done before now. There is no excuse for
further delay. The order should issue
within forty-eight hours. The Ministers
are committed to it, and the country has
given themtheir mandate."
Another editorial article in the same
issue calls attention to the Quebec &
Saguenay Railway deal and demands
that a stop be put to the useless expend-
iture of money on this project.
"The Globe (earns that the work of
spending portions of this vote on con-
struction and other work on the Quebec
& Saguenay Railway has not yet been
stopped by the new Union Administration.
The order ending it should issue at once.
At a time when Hon. F. B. Carvell is
properly withholding public money need-
ed for war purposes from far more impor-
tant and necessary public works. Hon. J.
1). Reid has no business to be proceeding
with expenditure on an undertaking as
devoid of ustification as the Quebec &
Saguenay Railway."
Probably there are some members of
the Government who do not take their
orders from The Globe. and a lively time
is in prospect when Parliament meets
snd dixussion is opened up on these and
other matters.
a , AN UNNE$ESSARY EXPENSE.
The Department of Education has
under consideration the issuing of a num-
ber of new school text -books, to take the
place of similar books now in use. This
will mean a greater or less expense to
families having children at school.
The !)epartment would be well ad-
vised to keep the present text -books in
use until after the war. There is no
good season for making a change, except
perhaps in the department of science. and
the burden of the war is an imperative
reason for not imposing additional ex-
pense upon the people.
The I)epartment of Education is a
bureaucracy which should come in for the
attention of the Legislature at the first
opportunity. Its policy seems to be one
of constant irritation of teachers and
others concerned in the work of the
schools, and the consequences are the
hindering of the work and the alienation
Of the sympathy of the people with edu-
cat oral affairs. A shake-up of the
w hole Dursirtment, from the Minister of
Education down. would be in the public
interest.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The average ratepayer these winter
days: "Make the tax rate what you
like: but give us, oh! give us, a bagful of
coal.'.
All this literature on the necessity of
increased hog production may be boiled
down to the simple. homely statement
that "the pig is mightier than the
sword." 1`
The German Crown Prince says he
hopes to visit Canada after the war. We
move that Sheriff Reynolds and Mr.
George Potter be a ,civic committee to
arrange for his reception in Goderich.
•
Those who are inclined to sneer at the
banks should remember that they have
performed war services of the highest im-
portance. -Toronto News.
Who's been sneering at the banks ? We
should like to meet the man and pin a
medal on him "for distinguished bravery."
Many towns in Ontario have appointed
a fuel controller. isn't it time such an
official was at work in Goderich, with full
powers to control the distribution of every
pound of coal and stick of wood that
come into the town ?
. The motion for secession from Confed-
eration which is being discussed in the
Quebec Legislature will not likely come
to anything definite, but the very fact
that it is being discussed affords a com-
mentary upon the "Union" Government
which has been set up at Ottawa.
The mention of the name of Sir Wilfrid
Laurier is enough to send The Toronto
News, The Winnipeg Tribune. and some
others. into a blind rage. They can never
forgive Sir Wilfrid for refusing to deacend
to the political trickery which these
journals have supported and defended.
The Saltford Sage after a long silence
climbs out of the storm'cellar to criticise
Mayor Wigle's card of thanks to the
electors. The S. S. thinks His Worship
is tadttly wasteful of words. instead of
but haven't. A whiff of protest Wom
Toronto or Montreal against any pro -
final -and that;is the last of it.
01 nes. [herr u a paucity,
And am,a voluminusn y,
Because of frost's ferocity,
And .[nd's impetuosity,
And snot. fall's ponderosity -
The season's rtgurostty,
th,r mails make no velocity;
So curb your curiosity
And have nu annmusity
But pardon our verbosity
And lack of luminosity,
lit fact. this stoic mon.trosrty.
The above from The Mount • Furett
Confederate is an atrocity.
The Ottawa newspapers have been get-
ting after the Union Government Minis-
ters for their extravagance in the use of
private cars. They say that four private
cars were used to take four Ministers to
Halifax on the same train, and that a
special section of the Ocean Limited had
to be made up to accommodate them. If
the "Union" Ministers cannot travel in
the ordinary coaches with the common
people, surely they are on good enough
terms with one another to travel in one
private car when they are making the
same journey.
Figures intended to show that Canada
has not contributed as large a percentage
of her man -power to military service as
Great Britain has are not fair to Canada
unless the differences in conditions are
pointed out. Great Britain before the
war had a large leisure class whose mem-
bers could go into the army without at al
reducing the number of men engaged in
productive work. Canada had no such
idle class upon which to draw. Then, too,
the proportion of men engaged in agricul-
tural production was much larger in Can-
ada than in Britain. as compared with
those in industrial pursuits; and consider-
ing the much more extensive character of
farming in Canada. and the -necessity of
maintaining toast production. this is a
very important consideration in any
comparison of the war effort of the two
countries. We want to see Canada do
everything possible for the vigorous and
successful prosecution of the war, but we
do not like to see "odious comparisons."
Ms. Bonar Law. the British Chancellor
of the Exchequer, points out that since the
beginning of the war the proportion of
Government revenue obtained by direct
taxation has riven to eighty-two per cent.,
only eighteen per cent. being collected by
indirect taxation. in Canada practically
the whole of the revenue for Federal pr -
poses has up to the present time been
raised by indirect taxation: This is an in-
justice to the poorer classes, as indirect
taxation rests more heavily upon them
than upon the wealthy. Take, for in-
stance, the customs taxation, which ac-
counts for a large proportion n of the Fed-
eral revenue. A poor man with a family
pays almost as much in customs taxation
-though he doesn't know it -as the
wealthy man with a similar family; and
there Is no comparison at all between the
poor man with a large family and the
rich man with one lone chick or perhaps
none at all. An income tax bill was
passed at Ottawa last year. but it falls
far shirt of meet ng the situation.
Warning Note.
The Family Herald and Weekly Star o
Montreal are this week publishing a
warning notice that their offer of a great
war map is shortly to be withdrawn, and
also advising subscribers to renew prompt.
ly, otherwise they may miss a copy or
two, as the enormous increase in expense
of publishing compels them to cancel
promptly all expiring subscriptions The
Family Herald and Weekly Star at 81.25
a }•ear, including their great war map, is
wonderful value, and those who fail to
take advantage of this offer now are sure
to be sorry. There has been -an enormous
dernand for that paper and map this sea-
son.
THE 81
N - GODERICH, ONTARIO
HELPING THE SOLDIERS.
Capt. Will. Fingland Writes of the Y. M. C. A. Work
' in London.
We are glad to be able to publish
this week two letters received by Mr.
and M rs. John Fingland, of Londesb•xo',
from their son, Captain W. Fingland,
who is carrying on Y. M. C. A. work
overseas:
The Tivoli. Y. M. C. A..
The Strand, L.,udu.[ W. C.v.:. Eng
1)EAR HOME FOLKS, -It is -'Monday
morning and Monday at home is generally
a busy day, but here in this work things
are different -Saturday and Sunray are
two of the busiest days of the week. with
Monday as a sort of rest day. Had a
busy day yesterday. 11'e are specializing
on getting colonial soldiers in touch with
private homes here in London while on
leave. and Pu getting them to see the
English people at their best, It is prov-
ing quite a success. Yesterday we had
parties varying in size from two to seven
in seven different tomes. Most of the
boys come back and report that they
haven't had such an enjoyable time •since
they joined the army. Such a sentiment
all tends to cement the good feelings be-
tween the colonies and the Mother
Country. I think it is a work of national
value. I went out yesterday to the
Davidson home with some Canadians,
Australians and South Africans all of
them first-class fellows -and you should
have seen them enjoy themselves. It
is a great reli f after being in camp or
France for the to get into a real home
once again. It helps to hold many a
boy together who might otherwise go to
the dogs amid the temptations of London.
I now have three other boys helping me
who are tine fellows and with whops it is
a pleasure to work. We meet with some
very interesting cases.
One of the biggest problems we have
to deal with is with men who are
"broke", mast of whom have been
drunk and robbed. Of course it is their
own fault and in a sense it serves them
right; but what is one to say when they
come with a story of "broke" and not
the once of a meal or ,,bed? It is very
hard to turn them, away and make them
go back to camp or France before their
precious ten days' leave is up. that leave
that has been months in coming. Of
course many oo the cases are genuine. I
am generally hit up two or three times a
day. i give veru little money. but
have worked out a system whereby I give
a man a ticket to get a meal or bet at
certain places and I pay afterwards. We
also gather in a kit of men in different
ways.
This Y. M. C. A. work in London has
many sides and it is new and interesting
and I like it very much. The city is also
full of interest. i am planning to attend
some courses of lectures on such things
as Commerce. Social Life, Economics.
Religion, etc.. in connection with the
University of London, which hak some
of the best brains in the English-speaking
world. It is a great education to hear
them. s The House of Parliament is in
session and I hope to be able to go there
sometimes - it is good to hear such men as
Lloyd George, Bonar Law (a Canadian),
Asquith. etc. The people here have a
great appreciation for the beautiful in
nature and God has certainly given them
some lovely spots and they seem to
appreciate lfis gifts in this way, and I
think I am catching or have something of
their appreciation of beauty in nature
and art - the world seems far fuller as a
result and a tar better place in which to
live. 1 owe a great deal to a Mr. Camp-
bell, an old bachelor of fifty-seven in
whom 1 have found a fine friend. He is
giving all his time and energy in voluntary
work for colonial soldiers and is a w
fully k and cheery man. 1 have been
staying with him in his two bachelor
moms for a week. He keeps a sort of
open house all the time and is a great
reader and very well informed and a
thorogigh Christian. We have some long
chats together.
1 suppose you sometimes read articles
about the food shortage here. Well, we
are not feeling any real pinch yet, though
it is difficult to get sugar, tea, butter -all
of which we are cutting out of our
bill of fare as far as we can and substitut-
ing as far as prssibii vegetables in place
of bread and tightening up a bit on the
Meat. There is going to be a great scarc-
ity vet, and it is up to the people in
Canada to save food and avoid waste in
every way. for there is going to be a
WORLD SHORTAGE. It is up to Canada
to do her beat for the mother country,
and one of the best things now is to
produce and export foodstuffs to the very
UTMOST of her ability. On that largely
depends w hether we win or the Germans.
The end is not in sight vet and we must
not allow ourselves to be cocksure of
such. There are great influences at
work both external and internal. 1 had
quite a chat with a young fellow, Mc-
Arthur by name, who had just escaped
from a German prison camp. He says
the people are getting very short of food
in that country. He was born near
Kilbride (Wentworth county) and lived
for a tims near Wingham a id was taken
prisoner at St. Julien in the spring of
1915, but is looking well and tit.
Another Letter a Memoir Later.
Many thanks for the parcels from
home. It was good to get a taste of
something "made in Canada". Both
parcels arrived in good condition and not
a cake was broken Or crushed. I have
been treating my friends to a taste and
you should hear the kind and compliment-
ary remarks. 1 have been kept very busy,
in fact getting busier all the time, as the
work herr is increasing. We have started
to build a new Y. M. C. A. for Can-
adians which is to be a large two-story
structure with eating ani sleeping acam-
modation for 200 men at a time: right in
the heart of London on one of its busiest
thoroughfares. the Strand. Another
man, Capt. Summers, is looking after the
erection and equipment, while 1 continue
on my own particular work. that of look-
ing after men in the city, getting them in-
to touch with homes of private people,
arranging for outings. meeting men at
stations, and fixing them up at hotels
and clubs, etc., advising them what to
see during their leave. furnishing them with
guides who give their time free, advising
them where to take trips out of London,
outlining trips for Scotland,taking care of
men who are drunk or doped or robbed.
Practically every day men come to me
for help who have met with these mis-
fortunes and we certainly get some bad
cases to deal with. It takes quite a bit of
money to carry on this work, but we
don't give tth men the money as a rule,
but pay for their beds or meals at a Y.
M. C. A. hostel or other club. We have
a car at aur disposal to pick up drunks
from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. 1 am working in
the International Hospitality League of
the Y. M. C. A., which means that 1
have to deal with all soldiers as they
come. Australians, New Zealanders, Am-
ericans, etc.. and of course Canadians as
well. So I work in close co-operation
with men from these countries and find
among them some excellent men, one of
the best of whom has just gorse to France.
One of the worst features of this job is
the night -work and the fact that it is
seven days in the week, but we are plan-
ning to take aday off each week, so I went
out of the city about twenty miles to a
quaint little old, old village. Its church
dates back to 1200 and several families
for successive generations have lived there
for 300 and 400 years. 1 stayed in the
inn, which is' 500 years old. a queer
rambling, quaint ofd spot. The village is
situated in a beautiful valley -an ideal
spot for a holiday. I expect to go to
Bramshott and Witley and will likely see
Frank. Had a letter from Murray a few
days a I am feeling fine and hope all
at home ellikewiae Wtu.
MyTurdays are meatless.
My Wednesdays are w heatless.
I'm getting more rattrap each day:
My home it [s header,.
My bed it is aheetler.
Tney're all sent to the Y. M. C. A.
The bar -rooms are treatiew,
-My.criffee is sweetieas,
Each day 1 am poorer and wiser;
My stockings are feeler,
ueraeera are feattear
Great Scott, how 1 do hate the Kaiser.
Not in the Running.
The judge stopped to have a word wish
the colored man -of ah -work, and asked
if he went to church.
"Yessuh. Ah goes to church every
Sunday," he said.
"Are you a member?"
"Yessuh.'
"What church?"
"Prespeteeryn."
"Do you believe in the doctrine of
election?"
"Yessuh."
"Do you believe 1 am elected to be
saved?"
"Law, jedge, Ah didn't even know you
was a candidate." -Argonaut.
The Supreme Test.
'It must be awful to have death staring
yoi in the (ace."
"Huh ! Did you ever get home after
midnight and have your wife stare at
you ?"
SNOW AND ICE BRiNG NEW YORK'S "POLAR BEARS" FROM UNDER (OWER.
These pretty Ifilar Hears are hissing the medicine ball amend on a snow -cowered trach at Brighton Beach. N. Y. These
pretty ladies ere -fond of swimming in any kind of weather, but the swimming they enjoy the most is during the days when the
r�rt'ury is trying to bury itself in the Duh at the bottom of the tube. and when the snow is covering the ground. Then the
Polar Bears are mit in force. every one of them as happy as a lark. This sort of exercise in the refreshing atmosphere is a aar'e
health -builder, and usually the ones wbo class themselves as "Polar Ban" are in perfect health.
High School Reminiscences.
Is u,,, of the Old
The recent withdrawal of Dr. Strang
from the old school and from the profet-
mon suggested some personal recollections
that may interest present-day students as
well as stir up memories for any old-time
students who may see these lines. The
writer had a somewhat varied experience
as student of Goderich high school, be-
ginning in 1875, when he passed the en-
trance examination, coming from the
Beneniller school as a pupil of Peter Can-
telon, then a very successful teacher, now
a merchant at Clinton. We wrote in the
Central school, North street. The inspc-'
for at that time was J. R. Miller, and the
principal of Goderich school was his'
brother, W. R. Miller. Students came to
the examination from all parts of the in-
spectorate. Ashheld to ('sxixrne. The
highest mark was made by Wm. Logie, of
Usborne. The youngest successful candi- •
date was Johnnie Robertson, from the
Goderich Central, now Professor Robert-
son of Victoria University.
The enrolment in the high school for
the fall term was seventy and the average
attendance about fifty, which was then
considered quite satisfactory. The teach-
era were Mr. Strang and Mr. Wm. Mc-
Bride. The latter was a hard worker and
Mr. Strang as usual was doing almost
two men s work. Boys, big and
little. whom i remember were: W.
Walker, W. Williams, Pa'. Carroll.
Will Law rence, George Gordon. Bax-
ter Runciman, John C. Robertson, Robert
Moir, Abe Cowherd, Will Swaflield. Wal -
oar McDonald, W. H. Field, Geo. Thom-
son, Charlie Davis, Jim Heale, John
Best and Loftus Dancey, the last two now
well-known lawyers, and Jim Whitely
and Edwin Wood, successful medical men.
1 have a photo of the new two -
roomed high school as it then was, show-
ing the boys and also a bevy of handsome
girls of the school, from whom I shall not
try to select representatives. A pair of
well-known boys are missing from the
group. They were on their way up to
the top that they might appear in the
picture on the mansard roof, but the
machine went off tow soon.
We had the usual public examination
before Christmas and in this case prizes
were awarded on the results of the writ-
ten examinations for the term. Mr. Wm.
Kay, chairman of the board, himself a
former teacher and a fine classical scholar,
and that other much -loved veteran trus-
tee, Rev. Robert Ure, were among the
visitors at the public function, and for
their benefit the boys of the Latin class
were put through their facings. The
youngster of the school, J. Robertson,
carried off the first prize in the junior
division.
The prize business was not one-sided.
for the night before the examination a
deputation of students waited on Messrs.
Strang and McBride and presented them
with several handsome volumes by way
of showing appreciation of their work as
teachers.
So much for ancient history. it would
be easy to recall names and incidents con -
fleeted with later periods of attendance,
but let this suffice for the present, hoping
the students of today will some time have
as pleasant memories o1 school days as
many of us older boys and girls have
It takes all kinds
make a world, and
queer kind.
of queer people to
you are
one of the
48 -inch all -wool Suiting Serges
at $1.50
Special sale of above-mentioned dress or suiting Serges.
Goods bought over a year ago and every thread pure
all -wool, in black and two shades of navy blue. 45
inches wide. Special at per yard 81.50
BLANKETS
Extra large size soft and full grey Wool Blankets, with
neat borders. Not all wool but nearly. Null
double bed size, at per pair ......... 88.50
='FLANNELETTE BLANKETS
Largest size, best quality, per pair 82.75
White Flannelettes, 28 inches wide, worth 22c, for..15c
Cream Flannelette, 36 inches wide, worth 3.5c, for20e
25c
46c
Galatea Shirtings, old indigo dye
Black and white Shirtings, 10 patterns, at.. ,
Cottonades, best quality made
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Our entire stock at prices which could not now buy the
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Tiro of Print.
"Mr. Smithers," said his wife, "if *I
remember rightly, you have often said
that you dislike to tree a woman constant-
ly getting herself in print.'
I do. said Smithers, positively.
"You consider it unwomanly and in-
delicate. 1 believe ?"
"Very."
"
you don't sloe how any man could
allow his wife to do anything of the
kind ?"
"Certainly 1 don't !"
"Well, Mr. Smithera, in view of all the
facts in the r -DP. 1 feel justified in asking
you for a new silk dress?"
"A new silk dress ? '
"Yea; for the last eight years I have
had nothing better than calico, and 1
want something else. I'm tired of getting
into print." --London Tit -Bits.
Settee than an Alarm Clock.
Exe-Why not have Bridget shut the
kitchen door mornings ? One can smell
the breakfast all over the house.
Mrs. Exe-Shut the kitchen door ' 1
guess not. The smell is all that gels the
family up.
A face that never wears a smile should
be avoided.
He who praises men and flatters a omen
has many fair weather friends.
No, Robert, the starboard of a steamer
is not reserved for the star boarders.
You eon make a mystery out of any-
thing that happens after 12 o'clock at
night.
END STOMACH TROUBLE,
GASES OR DYSPEPSIA
"Pape's WapepsIn" makes sick, soar,
pansy stomachs surely feel fins
in five minutes.
if what you just ate is souring ow
your stomach or lies like a lump of
bad, or you belch ;a" and eructate
sour, undigested fond, or have a feeling
of dizziness, heartburn, fullness, nausea,
1 ad taste in mouth and stomach -head -
.,,hr, you can get relief in eve minutes
I m utralizing acidity. Put an end to
stomaeh distress now by getting •
lir •, fifty -tent cane of Pape'a Diapepsia
fr, m any drug store. You realize• In
tie.- minutes bow needlea it is to suffer
`rum indigestion, dyspepsia or any atom-
s, disorder caused by food fermcntatios
d., to cxeeseive acid in stomach.
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Get Behind the Wheel
of a Ford and Drive
TRY it just once! Ask your friend to let you "pilot" his car on an
open stretch. You'll like it, and will be surprised how easily the
Ford is handled and driven.
If you have never felt the thrill of driving your own car, there is me -
thing good in store for you. It is vastly different from just riding --b ng
a passenger. And especially so if you drive a Ford.
Young boys, girls, women and even grandfathers—thousands of them --
are driving Ford cars and enjoying it. A Ford stops and starts in traffic
with exceptional ease and smoothness, while on country roads and hills
its strength and power show to advantage.
Buy a Ford and you will nt to be behind "the wheel" constantly.
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Runabout - $475
Touring - - $495
Coupe - 2 778
• - ;970
THE UNIVERSAL CAR Sedan
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Goderich