The Signal, 1918-5-2, Page 2.! TavnsDAT, MAY 2. 1918
THE SIGNAL GODERICH ONTARIO
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THUtt}DAY, RaY 2, 1918
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The l'. M. C. jl. is doing a grand work
airaxng the soldiers. Support it.
The farmers would like the weather
man to turn on a little heat, please.
The Germans are trying to squeeze the
Dutch. The Dutchman has a keen -edged
bayonet about his person, and the Ger-
man may suddenly discover he has
squeezed too hard.
The Globe ta.s the Mil tary Service
Act has produced' 18,365 fighting men.
What scorn and ridicule it would have
poured upon any man who before Decem-
ber 17th last had foretold such a fiasco'
and devotion to principle in public affairs
and Mr: Mooney is to be congratulated
upon being a member of such a commun-
ity. While we are not posted on the ins
and outs of political affairs in South
Bruce, we should imagine that the Ripley
editor should be well up in the line fur
political preferment at the hands of the
electors of that constituency. We should
be very glad to be able to write those
significant letters \LP., et M. P. P.. after
his name.
The stories of the raids upon Zeebrugge
and Ostend will make great r, ading for
B, itish boys in the days to come. The
spirit of Drake and Nelson is reincarnated
in the British tar of this present day.
Not much comfort these days for the
men who would rather keep his dol..
lars in his purse than send them forth on
errands of good. And that kind of man
is becoming rarer. we believe, as the war
goes on and needs develop.
Germany is making her last desperate
bid for world -power by the sacrifice of
hundreds of thousands of her men. The
more ruthlersly she uses up her man-
power, the more speedily will come the day
of exhaustion when she can no longer
maintain the tight.
The latest reports from Russia are
rather bewildering. Is the new revolution
under Prussian auspices, or does it mean
a return to orderly government and a
further effort against German domina-
tion ? It may be just as well for the
present not to "bank" much upon any
turn in the kaleidoscopic Russian situa-
tion.
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WHAT OTHERS SAY.
Damper is Rabbit Culture.
ratiwd Beacon.
In Auatralia learner sheep ranches are
being trpnsfrnted into rabbit ranches:
wire fences are being erected for then en-
closure. They multiply rapidly and are
considered a valuable food animal at the I
peewit time. The Food Board of Can -
da bas issued an appeal for their prop-
agation as a means of lessening the con-
sumption of perk and beef and releasing i
these for overseas. Belgian hares
are stated to be the moat profitable to
raise, being larger. and much more tasty
than the common variety. They are said
to be easy to raise if not allowel to roam I
•in vegetable gardens and kept confined. •
Just there is where the difficulty comes in.}
These animals may be raised on rancheem
in Australia or perhaps in the newer dos-
tricta of Canada, but The Beacon is not
convinced that it would b • well to go in-
to it on a Targe scale in Ontario at all
events. They have proved a nuisance in
some districts where they were intro-
duced in the past. This advice is about
00 a par with the exhortation to increase
the raising of pigs in towns and cities.
Much good advice is given by the Food
Board. but there must be common sense
applied in regard to the adoption of it,
and some of it may be rejected as not
likely to be safe to follow.
The German generals are going to a
great deal of trouble to avoid a fight with
On Canadians on the west front. They
are pressing forward to the north and to
the south of the sector held by the Cana-
dians, hoping doubtless to pinch them out
without a fronts) attack. The Kaiser's
man remember several occasions upon
which they came out second best in en -
'counters with the Maple Leafs.
A good example of the steadfastness of
tie French people is shown in the building
et a 450 -foot vessel, said to be the largest
freighter in the French mercantile marine
service, in the yards at Dunkirk, within a
few unites of the fighting front. The Ger-
mans tried by long-range guns, aeroplanes
and torpedo -boats to destroy the yards
and the vessel in construction, but they
failed. and a few days ago the boat was
successfully launched.
How About Your boys and purls?
Don't say that they have to
leave Goderich to seek work in our
large cities because they can't fieri
employment in this town.
Literally that statement, might
be true. but not in a broad sense.
You can't expect Goderich
dealers and manufacturers to give
your sons ano daughters work if
you send to other cities to buy your
personal and household supplies.
Soend your dollars here. Madam.
not only because you can get better
and cheaper goods, but to help give
employment tosour growing rats
and daughters—yuan included.
You'll find all your wants adver-
tised in The Signal—read it care-
fully every issue.
Certainly Canada must do its utmost in
the present time of stress. "The last man
and the last dollar" is still Canada's
pledge to the fight for world liberty. One
may have some misgiving, however, as to
whether the best means are being taken
to scale Canada's best effort. There is
an honest question to which there should
be an honest answer: Does tl a Govern
mentis present action mean that, rather
than tackle the situation in Q relec which
results from the immunity of Bourassa
and his sedition -mongering journal. it is
prepared to wreck the food production
plans of thousands of Ontario farmers
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Nearer to the Boys
An Interview with Ralph Connor
by TETER McARTHUR
When I was told that if I went to a
certain office at a certain hour, I would
have the pleasure of meeting the Rev.
Charles W. Gordon (Ralph Connor),
onoto meet
accepted with joy.
him for two reasons. I wanted to meet
him bccau,e he is our mast distinguished
Canadian novelist, and also because in
Buy boyhood I wriggled on hard, un-
compromising bendies, listening to the
same stern ministers that be "sat
under " 1 had l istened to them in both
Gaelic and English, and a ondered if he
would have a fellor feeling for one who
had gc.ue through the same boyish ex-
periences. Asmyeagernesshadbrourht
me c..rly to the place of appointment. 1
had a few minutes to se :lit, and fell to
wondering what he would be like l'n-
amsciously i associated him with those
old time Free Kirk ministers and won
dered if he would 1 hke the Rev. John
Ross, , f Prucefield, r the Rev. Lachlan
MaePhersdn, of fast Williams. So
my surprise was complete when a brisk
man in kb .i uniform stepped into the
room. I:e did nut look enough tike
those cid mii.isters to make my heart
come into my mouth with terror as 1
faced him. Neither did he look enough
like a military martinet to make awe
click my heels together and come to
"attention " And there was absolutely
nothing to suggest the producer of "best
sellers " It took less than a minute to
discover that "Ralph Connor" is. first
of all, a fellow -human being, who is ready
to take a glance at anything from any
man's point of view.
It is said that an evangelist recently
told the people of a neighboring town 1
that if they wished to see the newspaper
man of that place converted the immede
ate payment of their back subscriptions
was the first step to be taken towards the I
desired end. Thai's a good. practical
suggestion. When a mar. walks into a
printing office and planks down the ash
for five years' back sunscription he's got
a genuine dyed-in-the-wool religion, and
it makes a profound impresaion an the
editor.
The eyes are the windows of the sou
and sometimes they look like stained glass
windows after the scrap is over.
Me. F. F. Pardee's letter to the farmers
of Lambton on the need for fighting rein-
forcements at the front strikes the right
note Victory for Germany, he points
out. would mean slavery and intolerable
taxation for Canadian farmers. The
struggle is for self-preservation as well as
for liberty —Toronto Globe.
This does not at all meet the case.
Farmers have been tolyl that victory de-
pends upon food production as well as
upon fighting. They cannot both farm
and fight. Does the Government really
mean that production is merely of second-
ary importance in Canada ? This is the
question to which farmers want, and
should have. an intelligible answer.
N3sy
RHEUMATISM IS
GONE." SHE SAYS.
ALL
Mrs. Yilley's Tribute to Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
Exploit's Harbor, Notre Dame Bay,
Nfld., April 29.—That Dodd's Kidney
Pills ate upholding their enviable reputa-
tion in every corner of Canada is evi-
denced by the statement of Mrs. Samuel
Milky, of this place.
"For several years i suffered from
rheumatism and heart failure. 1 used
twenty-two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pies
and my rheumatism is all gone. i know
Dodd's Kidney Pills are a wonderful
medicine. i recommend them td all my
Iriends who are not feeling wen and they,
like myself. speak highly of them."
Dodd's Kidney Pills act di'ectly on the
kidneys. 1f the kidneys are weak and
sick they cannot do their full work of
straining the impurities out of the Wood.
To keep the kidneys sound is to lay the
foundation of good health. Ask your
neighbors -if Dodd's Kidney Pills d r not
cure sick kidneys.
We notice that Mr. George 11. Mooney.
editor of The Ripley Express, has been
presented by the Liberals of Ripley and
Hunan township with a handsome gold
watch, along with an address in which the
doors expressed their esteem and admir-
ation for the editor as a citizen and a Lib-
eral. To quote from the address: "Your
magnificent and courageous stand in the
re ent Dominit.n elections has shown us
that you were true to your convictions
straightforward and fair in presenting the
issues to the electors, and could not be
swayed by financial gain from your path
of duty." Mr. Mooney has a right to
pr.ze highly. at no doubt he will, this ex-
pression of confidence from his fellow_
citizens. It is not always that a man gets
due credit for standing by his principles;
it is not every community that w big
enough in heart and spirit to acknowledge
that the man who disagrees openly and
fearlessly with the dominant opinion of the
day dons more credit to that community
than the man who adopts the "safety
first" R tc'iple tet joining in with the side
tta.t make, the biggest noise. Ripley and
South Brace are to he congratulated upon
tett it recognition of the value of honesty
High Command lied something of the
attitude you suggest. But whenever
there was anything to be done to help
the boys the Y.M.C.A. was there to do
it and do it well. By its spirit of un-
assuming helpfulness the Y.M.C.A. has
won the hearts of both the officers and
men, no matter what their church con-
nectiens may be or may not be. It
gives and it does not ask anything in
return. Its sole reward is that it helps
freely all who need help. The thing to
emphasise about its work is that it
gives— it is an organized spirit of giving,
and it gives without a string to the
giving."
A reference to the old ministers gave
us an instant point of contact, and with
much laughter—kindly and reverent—
but still laughter—we compared notes
and exchanged reminiscences of the good
men who made the Scotch settlements
where we had both been brought up, the
places of stern discipline we remembered
so well. The hour that had been prom-
ised to me was gone and part of another
hour with it, before I remembered that
the man who arranged the meeting had
not done it out of pure kindness. He
wanted inc to interview Ralph Connor
about the war work of the Y.M.C.A.
By the time I remembered my duty we
had reached a point where I felt that I
could ask him about it from a rather
daring point of view. I began with a
straight question:
"What do you think of the work of
the Y.\I.C.A. in the war?"
He hunched his shoulders slightly and
slipped down a trifle in his chair. From
the expression on his lace I was afraid
that he was going 'to offer an unfavor-
able criticism. But his answer made it
clear that that was not what disturbed
hien:
'• It is doing a lot of work that the
church should be doing."
Now you can understand why my
question caused him a shade of discom-
fort. The minister in him—a touch of
the old Free Kirk spiritual guide that
made him feel the responsibilities of his
calling—made him regret to confess that
a purely lay institution is carrying prac-
tical Christianity to a point that is as
yet imposeable for the churches—"beat-
ing them to it," as the soldier boys
would say.
RALPH CONNOR
" But I often hear comments, not
always friendly—about the prices that
the Y M.C.A. charges for some of its
supplies."
"Such comments have no j tion.
The prices are as near right as they can
be made. If then is any profit en the
sales to the boys in the camps or back
of the lines, every cent of it goes to pro-
vide tninrs free—absolutely free—to
those who are in the front line trenches.
As a matter of fact. the canteens and
other organizations under the control of
the churches and chaplains have pretty
much the same schedule of prices as the
Y.M.C.A." ,,
"Don't misunderstand me," he pro-
tested. "The churches and their chap-
lains are doing a wonderful work, but
the Y.M.C.A., being without a propa-
ganda or dogmas, is able to adapt itself
instantly to any needs that may arise,
either at the battle -front or wherever
the boys may be located. It meets
them at all hours and in all places with
a spirit of good cheer, comfort and help-
fulness."
"Then you are of the opinion that the
man who supports the war work Of his
church is not doing all he can to help
the boys?"
"Assuredly. The Y M.C.A. is able
to go a little farther. Though the work
of the church may be nearer to the ideal
of what I want to see done, the Y.M.C. A.
gets nearer to the boys."
That struck me as a very important
point. and I decided to question him
from an angle that might not be pleasing
to a clergyman.
"You know." I insinuated. in a spirit
of half confession. "that there are a lot
of boys who would he inclined to look
at a Y.M.C.A. at home as a sort of
sissified institution, beneath the notice
of young men of the world who like to
affect a sort of manly wildness. Does
the Y.M.C.A. get near to them?"
"Yes. The helpfulness• of the Y.M.-
C.A. has won out, over every obstacle.
In the beginning, the officers of the
I could not suppress s anile at find-
ing my ancient runny the trust ne
"Gentleman's Agreement" appearing it.
so admirable a form. But I made no
comment. Instead, I asked a cosclud
ing question:
"Then I may tell the people that ir
its war work, especially in the matter c
creature comforts, the Y.M.C.A. i
nearer to the boys than anyone else?"
"Yes. It stands nearer to them the:
anything else except the military organs
zation under whose discipline they live
—and die. You see they are specially
organized. trained and outfitted for the
kind of work—and they ate a mighty
spiritual farce, too."
When leaving him; I stopped to talk
to several other clergymen who appeared
in the offing—it was n place of clergy
men—and he steppes! from the room
Shortly afterwards he returned with a
copy of his latest book. on the flyleaf
of which he had leritten in memory 01
the men we had known in our boyhood
"There were giants in those days."
It will he cherished as one of the mos
prized of a little collection of autographs,
first editions. And with it I shall cher
ish the memory of having spent a coupl
of hours with a se ell -known man who is
doing a noble work himself and is not
afraid to give the fullest credit to other
men who are doing a noble work—such
ns the officers and field workers of the
Y.11B.C.A., "who play such a great for-
ward line to the Church's backing in the
great, great game," as Connor said.
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A REMARKABLY GOOD LIST OF
SPECIALS FOR APRIL
SHEETING5
Heavy. twill bleached Cotton Sheeting, 37 to 38 inches wide. A. beautiful
quality and old stock, suitable for sheeting,
per yard 28C.
Flannelettes
36 -inch extra heavy Flannelettes and
Ceylon Flannels, light and dark colors.
'Worth 30c, at per yard --
Shirtings
Old-time black and white heavy Shirting,
very strong, and colors warrauted. This
is old buying and away less than mill
price. North today 40c, at per y-ard....11Us
Cottonades-
Best quality in a go,r1 choice
At per y and
of Katt
Spring Coats and Coatings
Some late arrival. in Coats and Coatings
just received, very handsome materials,
very teasonahle iu price.
gowns or underwear. Value at 35c,
Gossard
Corsets
They lace in front.
We have styles for
any � figure, and every
Corset is warranted.
A Gossard is so easy
to put on.
Prices range
$2.00 $2.50
$3.50 $5.00
$6.50
at
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Men's Work Shirts
Black and white stripe; heavy quality of
standard Black Hide Shirting, all sizes
1-4 to 17. At ...........$1.N
a.
White Cottons
Vard-wide, old stock, Loglidale Cambric,
entirely free from dressing. Enough only
for April yelling. Worth 30c, at per
yard tae
Habutai Silks
.iii -inch extra heavy ivory and whole
Wash _Silks, beautiful even weave and M
heavy, washes well. At per yard .. 11.011 .—
Silk Poplins
French Silk Poplins, 36 iucke_s wide, one
of the handsomest and most serviceable
materials we have ever show .Shades
of blue, browns, greys, burgundy, ns,
mauve, sand, taupe ar.d in At
per yard ...... . 11.50 E---
Carpets
=Carpets and Rugs
A large choice of Brussels, Tapestry and',
Wilton. Rugs, alt sixes, at priers beloav
what makers are a.s int u. today.
W. Acheson & Son
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I mg proposition unless conducted on a
GODERICH TOWNSHIP. very large scale.
Bisset Bros., of Saltford Heights. are Fifty recruits are urgently required i
on their route again gathering cream. from military district No. 1 for the First I
The new conscription bill is going to Tank Battalion. Canadian Machine Gun
strip a good many farms of their produ- Corps. Recruits should be in category A,
ars and from nineteen to thirty-five years a i
I sono f 1 trrtCessar7is not that they should
Mr. Lavergne Churchill, ony age.
Mr. David Churchill of this township.
has enlisted in the Royal Flying Caps.
He had been teaching school out `Vent.
Will those who have saved old rubbers,
rags. papers magazines horsehair and
scrap iron for the United Patriotic Society
kindly leave same at Mrs. Jas. Johnston's,
Huron mad. or Mrs. Geo. Andrews', Bay-
field road. at an early date ?
The Farmers' Club will meet at the
Orange Hall on Wednesday. May ttth,
when the agricultural representative for
the county. Mr. S. B. Stothers, will be
present and will address the meeting. A
large attendance is looked for.
While Mr. Gilbert Mair and his sort
James were driving home along the 14th
concession the abutment of the railway
bridge gave way and horses and men
went down. One horse was killed and
Mr. Gilbert Mair was rather severely
bruised.
LOCAL TOPICS IN BRIEF.
be University men. but as a rule they
should have an educational standing simi-
lar to that of a University corps. A
knowledge of engineering and petrol en-
gines is useful, but not essential. Appli-
cants may apply to any authorized medi-
cal examiner in the district for medical ex-
amination.
Telephone
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ENGLISH WOMEN WORKING IN THE F1.AX FIELDS.
The flax industry recently started at Yeovil, by the Hoard of Agriculture and Fisheries. is now tieing
largely extended. The flax is ggrr cut. deseeded, and prepared for the rufous urea The fittest ilk ia
wed for aemplane wings. requMng lightness with strength. (kher flax is used to m+N Has—, 1-.1 t`te Harter
sort for rope and string. The photo shows women lac-; ! i.1i.ig u,t a wagon with the flax.
Mr. R. J. H. Delong is acting as care-
taker of the court house until a permanent
appointment ie made.
A number of young men in category 13
under the Military Service Act were at
Clinton last week for re-examination. No
results have been announced so far.
The thirty-fifth annual session of the
London Conference of the Methodist
church will open in Lincoln Road Metho-
dist church. Walkerville, on Thursday,
June 6th.
Attention is called to the announce-
ment in our advertising columns of the
standing field crop competition for 1918
under the auspices of the Goderich Indus-
trial and Agricultural Society.
Among the appointments made by the
Presbyterian board of foreign missions is
that of Miss Mary Fingland, B. A., to
Korea. Mies Fingland. who is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Fingland of Londee-
boro' (formerly of Auburn), stat pres-
ent at Hartford, Conn., taking a special
course of study.
Grass fires seem to be unusually preva-
lent this year. We have seen reports of
s'v.tral in the newsp.pers of the district.
At Kincardine the barn in the rear of Mr
1'. A. Makrrnson's residence was burned
and practically destroyed hy a fire which
caught Irom the grass. What set the
grass as fire in not known.
A writer in The Wingham 'Advance,
signing himself "i'ncle Josh," advocates
the formation of a new company Inc the
msemfseture of salt at Wingham "line
Josh', mast be trying to "josh" the Wing -
ham people. if lie will ink shout Mph.
he ,e111 find evidence" within his refit
county that the salt business is not a pay -
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necessary by careless handling.
9 A telephone instrument has more than a
hundred parts and is built like a watch. Rough
usage impairs its efficiency.
q Help us to conserve the supply of telephone
material and skilled labor by ahaaya hand-
ling your telephone carefully to avoid
costly breakages and repairs.
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