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The Exeter Advocate, 1920-5-13, Page 3ERECT MEMORIALS AT HISTORIC SPOTS Eight Battlefields Are Chosen Where Canadian Heroes Fought. 'A despatch from Ottawa. says: - Memorials to Canada's fighting flea('. will ise erected at eight historic battle- fields in. France and Flanders if the recot..tmndations of the Special Com- mittee on War Memorials is adopted as submitted to Parliament. Representatives of Canada's •re- turuei( soldiers of Canadian colleges and 'architects' societies and Govern- ment officials have completed their investigations and submitted their proposals for war memorials. With the proposals are the report of Brig. - Gen. H. T. Hughes on military sites, and of Professor Percy E. Hobbs, pro- fessor of architecture at McGill lJni- versify. on the proposed competition in wh.ae designs will be invited, and fronxewhich the prize. design will he carried out. The total cost of the work is estimated roughly .at $1,500, 000. The committee, has selected eight sitesfor the memorials, 1n Belgium sites at St..Tulien. Crest Farm, 1'as svhoudaele and at Hill 62, Observe try Ridge have been accepted as gifts from. the Belgium Government. A•site at Bouriou Wood has been accepted as a gift from. Comte De Francqueville, Mayor of Bourton, and four other sites, et IIIl1 145, Viray, at the cross roads of Dury, at Couicelette. and at Hospital Wood between Calc' TO BREAK H.C.L. IN GREAT BRITAIN Labor Leaders to Break Vi- cious Circle of High Wages and Increased Costs. A despatch front London says: --The continuous demands tor higher wages in one trade after another are begin- ning to alarm the Labor leaders them- selves, - and they are realizing that they can only lead to disaster, The Executive of the 'Triple Al- liance" of miners and transport work- ers, which is now in session here, al- though it has before it several wage denxands, has embarked upon a deter-. xniaed effort to break the vicious circle of high wages and the increase in the cost of living. Another Big Three, the Parliamen- tary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, the Labor party and the co- operati e movement, are to be called upon to join the alliance in an ex• haustive inquiry into the reasons for 1 the high cost of living, and to evolve . a plan for its reduction. 'rhe members o[ the alliance dis- cussed, this question, which they re- gard a$ the -most vital affecting our . social life," for the greater part of . an ,ifternoan's ineeting. They will meet again at an early date to receive the report of the joiut body, incl their views will be hub- witte l to the Government with a view to the latter taking "such action as will substantially reduce the pre. sent 'high cost." and La, Quesnel have been acquire by tile committee at a total cost -o $1,500. GREEN d Over 435 006 Graves Have Been Identified f x A :Ieepaitth from Montreal says:--- In Prance and Belgium, up to mid- ApriI, there have been 43x,000 graves Protesting against civic positions being filled by other than ex -soldiers, representatives of the large Canadian Veteran Clubs paraded before Mayor of Toronto recently. Photo shows J. H. Flynn on left, organizing Secretary G.A.U.V.; J. V, Conroy, G.W.V.A.;' :and E. A, ',estrange, Army and s:avy Veterans. Shifting the Blame Some years ago a great merchant', called ore of Ms employees into his'. office, and gave him a month's salary, and discharged him. "1 like you per- sonally, Peters," he said, "but 1 can- the fire was the real culprit. So from not afford to have a man around me the very beginning men have sought who takes so much trouble to be al- to put the burden of their mistakes. ways right, on someone else, "Every time a. good thing happens The habit was never more in evi- in your department you are quick to deuce in the world than at the present SEEDING IN WEST 20 TO 30 DAYS LATE Plenty of Moi€ture Available to Carry Crop Into June.. A despatch front Edmonton, Alta., says: -The first semi-monthly crop and live stock report issued by the Department of Agriculture states that the seeding in Alberta is from twenty to thirty days later by the calendar than it was last year, varying with locality. If quick general seeding were possible, the prospects are the best in a dozen years. There is a depth of from two and a half to four feet of moist soil over the driest parts a# the Province, and the report asserts that once the seed is in it has a moisture supply for germination and growth to carry the crop well into June. Central Alberta has made' scatter- ed beginnings on dry spots, Peace River is backward, except along the valley. The late season is going to curtail the wheat acreage, especially in the centre and north, but there are much better prospects for a good total acreage than people entertain- ed at one time. The feed situation has greatly improved since the cattle it into the fire and there eatr.e out an b rses a o have got on open ground. this calf?' A despatch from. Moose Jaw, Sash„ It wasn't Adam's fault; Eve Was to says; ---Seeding will be general in the blame. Aaron had no responsibility;' Moose Jaw district at the end of the week, according to the Government Bureau Agent, E. M. Hagen, who is receiving many applications for men from the farmers. h r' The. Alfalfa Weevil,. is made you have ten perfectly good 1'Tho's to blame for the high cost reasons why f l • �? Not I cries the farmer. Alfalfa as becoming one o[ Citta someone else. I Not I, cries the laborer, Not I, cries important pasture and fot=age crops" This is, espeaially so in Qatar#q *here "I want men who are so busy ae take the credit; every time a lniatake on tel o i} living? , de's 1 the fault belongs the capitalist., e,5 li Y js responsible for our social its merits appear to be better roma- eontplishing results that they have na roma- um rest our decreased. roduetion, and, nized, although some of the other pro• UP IRISH POST ideniil:ed and registered. In adclitior., at out dod in p winces art re, i 1 • inereaa th sera• >; time at all to think 8 g our wide -spread discontent . p d y ing e -�----- 147,000 burials have been reported. their share off' the blame for mistakes. harp of re has his own culprit to' age devoted to this legume. A state• New Chief Secretary Coldly Scattered and isolated graves tp tl;e I'in tired of watching you 'pass the r ortinates I mint cif the acreage eg this crag ate - number of 1.'8,000 have been attended , „ nom Pate, and nonan n Received by Dublin. buck. Self. aim- ing tate past five-year period aims to and re -interment made. Another Suppose for a month or two WO, flits Increase. A despite]' from Dublin says: Sir 100,000It's very deep -rooted --that habit o£ graves in other "theatres of , : _. Hamar Greenwood, the new Mier war have been identified, and another. dodging respone:bilite, of pa._srnK were to ou t blrtnrng each other and Secretary for Ireland, was sworn In 150,000 burials outside France and n i -? before the Irish Privy Council with Belgium hyet t b dealt vete, It seems to have world! own part in the present, so..ial s.tua t the buck '" as the common phrase goes. turn our undivided attention to our e started in the wor Dublin indifferent and cold toward These facts were be 1i�11t'. L. on about the second day, according• tion, j g y Suppose each one of us wore to j snake up his mind that the only solo-" hien, 'I'he Dublin. papers matte no Griffith, secretary of the high Com - comment upon itis arrival, except the missioner's Office, in London, Eng- Irish Times, which said: land, who is. here on departmental; "We assume that the new Chief affalrs. Secretary will take immediate steps -- j for the restoration of law and order." The fact is, however, that Sir Ha - mar is ignorant of the actual tate of affairs in Ireland, however good his intentions may be. Dublin generally believes that, 'even if matters have not gone. too far for any new regime to rime with, Sir Hamar' cannot move until' he has learned what he is up against, and 'that tuition,, it is evident, • will come from the same permanent oftleiela and soldiers who directed Ian 1iacpherson's course. Despite Sir Hatnar's hopes, nobody in Dublin expects any drastic er en- lightened change from tile old policies. Farmers Will Get $2.55 for Wheat .A. despateh from Winnipeg says:- James Stewart, Chairman of the Cana- dian Wheat Board, announces that the value of the participation. certificates will" not be less than 40 cents per bushel. This, with 32.15 already guar- anteed, will bring the' price to 32.55. United States wheat averaged 32.1.4. iirany of the farmers believe that the price Yvill indeed be much higher than the most optimistic had hoped for, on account of the abnormal increase in the price of wheat from the time it �Tleft the fai`m until it was sold to Euro- pean buyers. Danes Helping to Repair Cathedral A" despatch from Copenhagen says: -More than one million francs, collected in Denmark for the rebuild- ing of the Cathedral) of Rheims, have been delivered to M. Claudel, French Minister in Copenhagen. The Minister thanked the Danish people, expressing his admiration of the fine result reach- ed by Denmark ahead of all other countries. South Africa Gives ` Franchise to Women A despatch from Cape Town, Union of South Africa, says: -The House of Assembly passed a resolution favor= jing extension of the Parliamentary franchise to women. Another Big Cache of German Anus A. despatch from Berlin says: - Discoveries of hidden arms continue in northeastern Germany. The Baltic Island of Ruegen has proved a regular arsenal of weapons.which had been secreted by Pomeranian monarchist plotters, for, in additioit to the 1,000 rifles already reported, another 500 have just been brought to Iight, to- gether with 50 more machine-guns. Bank of England to be Rebuilt on Big Scale A despatch from London says: -The Bank of England, known- the world over as "The Old Lady of Thread- needle Street," is to be rebuilt, The new structure, according to expecta- tions, will be many stories high and embraee-some wonderful architecture. Nine Airships to Be Gift to Canada .A. despatch from London says: - Nine non -rigid airships have been promised as gifts to Canada by -the British Government, which is dispos- ing of its surplus war. equipment. The airships include some used for coast reconnaissance and also of the zero type. South Africa is receiving a number of zeros. w French Coal Mine Again in Operation' A despatch from Paris says:- The first coal mine, wrecked during the war, to resume operations was opened at Ancier -early' this month. It has been equipped with the most mod- ern electrical machinery, and it is ex- pected its pre-war production will be eclipsed. �Missmanship. Officer (to recruit) -"Goodness' gra- cious, mean, where are all your shots going? Every one has missed the tar- get.' Soldier (nervously) -"I don't know, sir. They left here all right" to the best authority. Adam ate an apple from a tree whose fruit had been forbidden, and God straightway summoned him to account. Did he stand up and take his pun- ishment like a man? ' Be did not. will com Acres Acres 1915. 1019. New Brunswick ... , .. . 1,178 Quebec .••.-...„.... 860 28,488 Ontario 6 Manitoba Sasketehewein .,... Markets of the Wholesale Grain Toronto, Ma, tL--Manitoba w. --No. 1 Northern, $.2.8Q; bio. 2 ivo ern, $2.77; No. 3 Northern, $2,78, store Fort Witliam. Manitoba oats ---Ng. 2 CW,, 31.: No. 3 GW, $1.16%; extra. N. 1 $1.14'/x•; No. 1 feed, $1,14%; feed, $1.1.1•%, in store Fort Willi 11lauitaba barley.- No, 3 -i.81rl; Nq. 4 CW, ;1.66xfa'' reje $1.62; feed, 41.82, in store Fort liar'. American earn -No. 3 yellow, $2 nominal, track, Toronto, prompt mint, Ontario eats -No. 8 white, '$1.0 $1:07, .according to freights oats Ontario wheat --No. 1 'Winter; car lot, $2 to $2,G1; No. 2 do, 31.' 32,01, No. 8 do, $1.92 to :$1.98, shipping points, according t fr Ontario wheat -No. 1 spring, car lot, $2.02 to ;2.03, No. 2 do, to $2.01; No. 8 do, 31.96 to 32.01, shipping points, according to fre Peas -•-Io, 2, $3.00. Barley MMMai,ting, $1.85 to $1.8 , cording to Frei to outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 31.75 t,, 3 according to freights outside. Rye -No. 8, 32-15 to 32.20, acco fng tot freights outside. Ontario flour ov meta era, 310.90 to 311, Montreal, $fl 8)1.10 Toronto, in jute bags, p shipment. h illfeed .Car 19te, delivered 2~ Io real freight, bags included; Bran, ton, $51; shorts; per ton, 358; feed flour, 33.75 to $4.00. Hay -•'o. 1. per ton, $30 to mixed, ltex ton. ;2G, track, Straw -Car lots, per ton, 316 to $ track, Toronto. Country Produce -e:4 holeeale, Cheese -•'-New, large,_ 20 to 3 twins 31 to 31%e; triplets, 81% 32c; Stilton, 34 to 35e; old, large, to 33c; do, twins, 33 to 33%e. Butter -Fresh dairy, .choice, 5; 59c• creamery printf;, 04 to 66e. Margarine 33 to 88a, Eggs -,-..New laid, 65c, Dressed poultry ---Spring chic -1;e 38 to 4.0e; mestere, 25c;.fowtx,els r.: turkeys, 63 to 606; deiklings, 38 tr. 10e; squabs, dozens, 54.00. Live poultry -Spring chickens, 30 to 32e; fowls, 85 to 40c• ducks, 35 to 40c' Beane---Canadian, hand-picked, busy "' 35; princes, 34.50; Japans, 35; Mad. 3,571 1d6, 90 gasear Limas, 1b., i5c; Japan Lana 3,671 5„81 lit., 11c. ,.. 2,620 ].1,526 Honey -Extracted clover, 5 -lb. Beier, 0 tion of the world s troublesa Alberta ........ . ..... 17,207 21,663 27 to 28c; 10 -Ib. tins, 25 to 26e: 60.th. not through legislation but through British Columbia 32100 13,331 tins, 250; buckwheat. 60 -lb. tins..'18 tom. increased production, more work, less with h acreage increasing- '20e; combs 16 -oz ;¢6 to $6.50 doz,t* will be subjected to 'tweet attack. The ap,e product yrup, per peri im- alfalfa -weevil (phytonomue pasticua) sal gal. ;11.60 to 33.75; per 6 imperial' is the moat serious of these Pelta. gals., 58,25 to 33.60. Smoked meats --Hansa, mea., 40 to The injuries caused by the weevil aro 42c; heavy, 82 to 34'; cooked,. 556.tao 59e; rolls, 81 to 82e; breakfast baccin w-_.., 45 to 6Oc; backs, plain, 60 to 5?er) boneless, 54 to 57e. , Curedmeats-Long clear bacon, 2g to 29c; clear bellies, 27 to 28c. Lard -Pure, tierces, 28: to 2$%e; tubs, 28% to 29c; pails, 28S , to lli► s""` - prints, 29x,4. to 30c; Compound tierces, 27'i,�,t to' 28c; tubs, 28 to 28i4e; pails,. 28% to 283 c; prints, 29 to 29=,4c. Montreal Markets. tall(, and greater thrift. i , tee acre a SO , 10 -oz., 54255 to $4.50 dozen. 'We farmers need this old-fashioned rapidly it is but natural that the plant M d ta--S "The woman thou gayest me," hey preaching less than many other folks, whined, and sought to phi the respell- but even we have our share cif need. sibility -on the tremblingshoulders of Let us set au example to the rest poor Eve. A pretty poor example for the father of us all to leave us; he was the first of the mace, and he started us oft' all wrong. A few hundred or thousand years later, Moses undertook to do a great work for the nienibers of his race, and chose Aaron as his chief associate. In the very hour when. Moses was on the mountain receiving the Com- mandments, Aaron, his brother, gath- ered the children of Israel together and made a golden calf for them to worship. "Don't blame rite," he cried, when Moses' anger flamed against him. "It. really Wasn't my fault. I gathered up the 'gold they brought me, and I cast of the nation of the *lily way n which relief from our troubles is going to come. Let us put our own houses in order, and ceaseto fret ourselves be- cause of evil -doers. Por thousands and thousands of years men have spent a big share of their days in the 'grand old pastipie of "passing the buck." And it really hasn't got anybody anything at all. The shortage of wheat for export in Australia will lay heavier demands on Canada and the United States. What are the friends of the St. Lawrence power and canal -deepening project doing toward its accomplish- ment? Its enemies are active enough. Housecleaning. I• D like to be an Eskimo and In an igloo dwell, and eat fried ice and scrambled snow, and go outdoors and yell. The humble Eskimo is glad, we see him dance and sing; his womenfolk don't drive him mad by cleaning house each spring. He isn't driven out of doors to hunt for frozen grub, the while the women scrub the floors -there are no floors to scrub. He is not chased, to beat the band, from out the divers rooms, by (fames with brooms and mops in. hand -there are no mops or brooms. Year after year he sits in peace, or lies upon bis back, Clothed in his wholesome film of grease, and no one cleans the shack. His treasured goods are not mislaid, as mine are, every year; and he can find his blubber spade, his corkscrew and his spear. .And if he spills -a cataract of ashes on the floor, no woman reads the riot act, no female heart is sore. I'll go to join the Eskimo when next a vessel starts, for I am tired of all the woo that cleaning house imparts. I'm tired. of sitting on the stairs, oppressed by fantods three, because the couches and the chairs are hung upon a tree. • "REG'LAR FEL' F: S" -By Gene Byrnes OH SEE. THE. PIGEoe-t IN THE- 1Nf i M DOW ptT' 11'4 11 HE'S LOOK IN ' RIGHT PI- ME! BETCH NE's - 4Q 4t,e.-RIN'' WHAT , M( t4 ME 15 o_- SUMPTNiN most apparent on. the first crop of the !season, when the larval feeding is at the maximum, and, again after the cut- ting of the flit crop, when the larvae attack the stubble and prevent the second crop from starting. At this time, seen frons a little distance, the • field has a distinctly whitened appear- ance, caused by the leaves being more or less riddled and whitened ow- ing to the killing of the tlseues be- tween. the veins. Various methods• have boon tried in an. endeavor to eradicate the alfalfa weevil, such as dry harrowing until the surface was covered with a fine I dust, but this was only partially suc- 1 cessful, and the .second crop was de- layed and reduced. The Utah division Iof the Entomological Branch of the United States Department of Agricul- ture, after careful investigation, re- commends the use of a solution of_ arsenate of lead, in the proportion of two pounds of arsenate of lead to 100 gallons of water. This, they claim, has been successfully used; it is cheap and easily applied. One hun- dred gallons• of the solution per acre, finely sprayed on the firet crop of growing plants, has been found, ef- fective ffective in destroying the insects and protecting the Crop. As the weevil is migratory, it may become a pest in the alfalfa fields of Canada at any time. It would be wis- dom on the part of alfalfa growers to be on. guard during .the coming season, as a little precaution may mean the saving of the crop. To themantvho rightly tries,all g y things are possible. The only cheap lumber is that which is offered for party platforms. Success does not depend so much upon. external help as upon self- reliance. The worst handicap every good movement has to suffer is the holier- than-thou man. Montreal, May 11. --Oats, Canadis western, No. 2, 31.28; do,'No. 8, $1.2 Flour -Man., new standard gra: 313.40 to 315.70, Rolled aatti, bag lbs., 35.50 to $5.60. Bran, $51. Shorts, 358.25, Hay, No. 2, per ton. car bots, 333 to ;34. Cheese , fine. easterns, 28i4e. Butter, c mice creamery, 62 to 63e. EggB, fresh, 55e. Potatoes, per bag, car rots, 35.75.. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, May 11. -Choice 'Ilea' steers, 314.50 to $14.75; do, .goodl 513.50 to ;1.3.75; butchers' ' cattl choice, 313.25 to $18.75; do good $12.75 to 313; do,'med., $11.75 to -' $12.25; do, corn., ;10 to $10.75; buns„ choice, 311 to 312; do, good, 310.25- 310.75; do, rough, $8 to 38.50; butch* cows. choice, ;11.25 to 312; do, good, iq $10.50 to 311; do, com., 37.50 to ;ask' stockers, $9.25 to 311; feeders, ;11 to. '` ;12.50; canners and cutters, f4.50 to 6.25; milkers, good to choice, ;100 to :t $165; do, corn. and med., $65 to75;. springers, $90 to ;165; lambs, year) • ings, $16 to 319; calves, good to choice 316 to 319; sheep, ;9 to 318; hogs, fed. and watered, 320.25; do, weighed off ears, 320.50; do, f.o.b., 319.25; do, do, country points, $19. Montreal, May 11. --Butcher steere, choice, .$15; com., $9 to $11.50; buten' heifers, med., $11 to :$12.50• coma, to 310.50; butcher cows, need.;;T.v c $10; canners, 36 to 35.50; cutters, to $7; butcher bulls, com., 8 to 1 .. Good veal, 314.50 to 316.50; fined., 310. to $14. Clipped .sheep, $10 to $12.5 spring lambs, $10 to 314; ewes $ , to 314. Hogs, off car weights selects,•, $21; •lights, $20 to $21; sows, '317. Sarcasm. Furrier-"Yes,sir; furs increase& in. price:" Mr. Jones -"I suppose because lit costs the animals so much more t , live. cm -t Loov.. Hg's GOTTA BRASS RING c*l HIS LEG y.JONDE'iz. WNAT THATSIoR.? die.,e_e