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N ovember 3o, 1916
THE WINGHAM TiMES
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1916
EDITORIAL NOTES
Hon. A. E. Kemp, M. P. for East Tor-
onto, Minister without portfolio in the
Borden Cabinet, and Chairman since
May, 1915, of the War Purchasing Com-
mission, has been appointed as Minister
of Militia in succession to Hon. Lieut. -
Gen. Sir Sam Hughes.
The largest and most successful
annual meeting of the General Reform
Association of Ontario whichilas been
held for years was the one of November
24th in Toronto. Concentration on win-
ning the war, criticism of the govern-
ment for its failure to handle the war
situation adequately or even harmon-
iously wit;^in its failure to handle the
war and the Nickel question were the
principle features of the day's discus-
sion. Mr E. M. McDonald M.P. of
Picton, N S., Hon. George Graham and
Mr. N. W. Rowell were the leading
speakers. Mr. George Gibbons pre-
, „panted greeting from the Liberal Club
Federation. Mr. A. J. Young was re-
elected President of the Association.
The Boards of Trade of Ontario are
meeting in Hamilton this week. The
gathering is the most representative
of Ontario business, yet our Minister of
Trade was too busy to attend. Sir
George Foster was appointed by the
Prime Minister to lead the trade of
Canada. So far he has signally failed.
Personally he is charming. As a speak-
er he is the best cabinet. As a Minister
of Trade he is a joke. No man can
lead in any industry or calling unless he
's in close touch with that industry. A
real Minister of Trade and Commerce
Would have been present as every ses-
sion of "the important gathering in
Hamilton, that he might get in close
touch with trade problems. We are
▪ not carrying on a campaign against
Sir George Foster. or Mr. Burrel or
Mr Crothers, for whose many excellent
qualities we have the greatest admir-
ation but against a system that compels
. at Prime Minister to put the wrong
man.on an important job. It is unfair
to Sit Robert Borden and an imposition
on the country which elected them to
office, These are times when only men
specially fitted should fill these import -
and portfolios. Financial Post.
BUSIEST SPOT IN THE WORLD.
Thera is plenty of room on the earth's
surfaee for all the people who live on it,
if it would avoid crowding. It is only
when we all try to stand on one spot
tha, the world seems too full of people.
There is an acre of ground in London
that has been called the "city's nerve
centre," and which would seem to be
the worlds busiest spot. This plot of
land 13 bounded by the British Royal
Exchange, the Bank of England, and
the Mansion House. Across this space
it has been eatimiited, that, in the
course ofceach day, no 'fewer than
500.000 persons pus and repass, to-
gether With 50,000 vehicles. .The busi-
est corner of .a11 in this busy acre is
that - directly outride the Mansion
House. for across 'More thenhalf the
daily traffic pekoes. Moreover, the
crowd swarming put this point is
continually on the increase. The near
rivals in this tObtinent of the congested
apot in London are lotation in the cities
of Chicago and New York. Thus, on
Broadway, at its juncture with Herald
Square. it is estimated that including
both foot passengers and those on sur-
face carr.. 700,000 persons pate daily,
CANADA EAKENING?
(Guelph Mercury)
In the last month, in some districts,
there have been more men discharged
as permanently unfit than there have
been taken on as new recruits. And
this means, in cold fact, that Canada's
share of the fighting forceis becoming
weaker right at the very moment when
the nations are coming to death grips.
It means one of several things:
(1), That some other country must
put up the balance of Canada's waning
fighting force.
(2) If not. unless Germany's strength
is falling off proportionately, then the
Germans are in a better position than
before.
Not a nice thing for Canadians to face',
is it? Hardly a creditable thing to be
said of us, that. when the fate of the
empire hung in the balance, we held
back that which we should have put in.
Surely the young manhood of Canada
has not reached the stage of caloused
indifference where it can watch, almost
with snug complacency, the crippled
brothers come back from the baptism
of fire, and still say, by their actions,
"it is nothing to us."
DO WE EXPECT NO SACRIFICES?
With butter edging its ways eagerly
to the 50 -cents -a -pound point; with eggs
an energetic and dangerous second; with
the price of bread jealously emulous cf
its honors, and with the price of'ievery
eating commodity rising, we think we
are hardly dealt with. But upon sober
thought. upon comparisonawith the way
in which sacrifices and sufferings come
to other countries, we can see that we
are comparatively making no sacrifice
whatever—suffering no hardships.
We know nothing of the stress and
strain, the intense enthusiasm and con-
centration of effort and sacrifice, the
surrender of mind and muscle and means
to the successful waging of the war
that obtains in the Mother Country.
We know nothing of the sufferings and
deprivation of ravaged Belgium, sore
scourged Poland. devastated Serbia and
slaughtered Armenia.
With the high prices prevailing we
ave no want; we do not have to hear
our children hopelessly cry for bread.
We have plenty. With high prices we
have abundance of highly—if not quite
so highly — priced employment; and
mighty few of us know what it is to
economize at our tables or in our homes,
though a little economy might be good
for us.—Peterboro Examiner.
AN ERA OF LUXURY AND ITS CURE
(New York Financial World)
The vision of the average American
is easily aroused. He can see golden
pots in rainbows with very little en-
couragement from thosa who have been
lucky. He has seen them in the wonder-
ful opportunities that have come to us
since the European war broke out and
he has sealed them, but at the same
time he has been careless of his success
as well. A period or extravagance has
been ushered in. Profits,, have been
used for luxurious living, with a
minimum of saving for the inevitable
rainy day. A gest surplus wealth has
accumulated rapidly for investment,
but it has rolled up in spite of tremendous
outgo at the other end of the spigot.
The ambitious clerk who has had his
income increased kicks about the high
cost of living and straightway buys an
auto, when he rightly ought to put ;a
third of his increased income into the
savings bank, a third on the backs of
his wife, children and himself, and the
remaining third toward meeting the in-
creased cost of living. The vulgar rich
bathe In ebampagne when common "eau
de cologne" ought to be sufficient to
meet their aesthetic tastes. They blame
the garage man for anadvance in
gasoline and add two courses to the
brilliant banquet they give at night.
The high cost of living is due, in part,
it is true, to the scarcity of everything
by reason of Europe's frantic buying,
but plus our own extravagance. The
latter is farbe;,ond what it ought to be,
A ten per cent. reduction is the cost of
extravagance, not to speak necessitiee,
would solve largely the problem of the
cost of living. We are producing more,
but also spending more, and that
foolishly, and saving no more than
when our income was less—that is, the
great mass of the people are following
this method. Corporations are doing
the same thing. They watt until the
prices of all materials are up to the
roof and then buy like drunken sailors
on a spree. '
Few people realize that the United
States is still in the heyday of its youth.
The counsels of the prudent get scant
and sneering attention and the result
will beat national jolt, some day that
will awaken us when it is too late if we
do not "pull in our horns." Big bank
era and great and far-seeing financiers
are scenting what is coming and wieelV
preparing so why should not the •great
mastes of the people do likewise? If
they heed the warnings ;the shock when
it cornea will'quickly be recovered from.
Bat a lesson may have to be adminiat-,
ered before the careless ones take heed.
AFTER GASOLINE, WHAT?
We May In Time Learn How to Rur
Motorcars With Alcohol.
Must we give up motorcars alto•
gether? Must we take back the horse?
No mechanical engineer will assent to
that. Motorcars we shall always have,,
but motorcars which will be driven by
some new fuel,
What fuel? Perhaps alcohol, per.
haps kerosene. Both have been the
subject of experiment. If either is em-
ployed a new type of engine must be
created.
Alcohol is a product of organic nab
ture. Every blade of grass, every
plant, ev.ery tree, whether dead or
alive, is a source of alcohol. Not until
the world has been stripped of vegeta-
tion—and that can never happen so
long as there are water, sunshine and
soil—will the supply of alcohol be ex-
hausted. And when that day dawns
man himself will perish.
Of alcohol we have made but little
use as a source of power. Coal, oil and
waterfalls have been too abundant;
they need not be manufactured. But
alcohol is not stored up in pockets out
of which it gushes at the tap of a
hammer. A mass of sawdust, a heap
of potatoes—in a word, some form of
vegetation—must be chemically con-
verted into a water clear liquid in
which is stored all the energy that the
sun bas poured upon the foliage of the
earth. Alcohol is distilled sunshine.
As the oil supply of the world nears
depletion, as the price of oil fuels and
distillates increases. alcohol will drive
more and more of our machinery. The
logs that we now permit to rot in our
forest, the stumpage that reckless lum-
bermen leave in their tracks, the dry
husks of corn that farmers now burn
in the fields—all these will propel the
motorcar of the future, in the form of
alcohol.—Waldemar Eaempffert in Mc-
Clure's Magazine.
WAYS OF THE COWBIRDS.
They Think They Can Sing and Won't
Build Nests For Themselves.
Just as a man is known by the com-
pany he keeps, so this bird is named
for the cows which he follows all day.
Why the bird prefers the company of
the cows has always been a mystery.
Once it was thought be ate Hies which
followed the cows, but recent examina-
tions show that the bird's favorite
food consists of weed seeds and grass-
hoppers. Yet hell follow the animals
all day, sometimes perching on their
backs to steal a ride. You've guessed
his name, the cowbird.
Farmers have learned to value this
bird very highly. He destroys millions
of harmful insects and quantities of
weed seeds. But then he should, be
able to do a lot of good work for the
farmer, because the bird has no family
cares.
Mrs. Cowbird, you see, instead of
building a nest of her own, lays her
egg in the nest of another bird, usually,
picking out the nest of a bird much
smaller than herself. She always de-
pends, too. on the good naturedness
of the owner of the nest to hatch the
egg and rear the young bird.
Sometimes the owner of the home
will push the strange egg out on the
ground. The yellow warbler often
goes to work and builds another nest
over the intruder. Other birds hatch
the strange egg. and then spend much
time and energy feeding the young
bird.
You'll know the cowbird by his brown
head and neck and glossy black coat.
Ere thinks he can sing and tries very.
hard. but you'll laugh at his efforts.
when you hear him. — Philadelphia
North American.
His Method.
The little girl who was visiting at a
neighbor's house bad gone out to look
at the horses.
"Here's one of them," she said, "that
has watery eyes and coughs and hangs
his head • just the way papa's horse did
last summer."
"What did your papa do for his
horse?' asked the owner of the ani-
mals.
"He sold him," was the innocent .an.
swer.—Pearson's Weekly.
Prune Little and Often.
Much of the beauty of roadside trees
and shrubs depends upon how skillfully
they have been trained.` Pruning•shatild'
be done on the principle of "a little and
often." From the start give them that
little direction from time to time that
will keep them in perfect form and no
allow forked main branches. All cut -
should be made with a saw and all
wounds covered with a coat of paint or
some other preservative.—S. T. May
nard in Tree Talk.
Optimistic.
Grubbs—I never realized until now
shat a thoroughly convinced optimist
Banks is. Stubbs—What made you form
your new estimate of him? •Grubba—
The fact that he is trying to raise chic!
ens, roses and two bull pups all on the.
same lot.—Richmond Times-blspateh.
A Large Truth.
"I 'wish' 1 .could earn a large toe.
tune."'
"You've got the wrong Idea, my boy.
Fortunes aren't earned; they're smell."
--Detroit Free Press.
No Safeguard.
"hat fellow is as dumb u ea
oyster."
"Maybe he is, but even oysters, dumb
as they are, find it hard tn•keep ant of
a etsw."—Baltimore Americas
Macaroni.
The word "macaroiir' .is taken tun
a Greek derivation, which means °Ilio.
blessed dela," lis allusion to. the air
dent custom of eating ot taapte far tie
Mal
mignt almost think that
three million miles of travel
would satisfy any man, but
Mr. Burton Holmes, the famous
American grobe trotter, wanted
more and spent three months this
Summer in crossing Canada from
coast to coast as the first stage of
his fourth million. The country
was new •to him, but it provided
him with such a wonderful variety
of beautiful pictures that he now
declares he never spent three more
interesting months in his life. He
is lecturing now to audiences of two
and three thousand at a time in
the great cities of the United
States;' urging them to spend next
summer either in the romantic,
historic centres of Eastern Canada
or the mountain fastnesses of the
Canadian Pacific neckties. Hits
moving pictures of Banff, Lake
Louise and the Yoho Valley are the
finest of their kind ever produced,
while the photographs inatural
colors taken by Mrs. t. Burton
Holmes are a revelation as to .the
possibilities of this new process of
picture taking. Canada has proba-
bly never been drawn to the atten-
tion of our American neighbors in
a more attractive fashion.
NICKEL
More light continues to be shed on the
nickel question and more and more does
the government show up unfavorably.
Among the public men who discussed
the question within the last ten days
are The Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfred Laurier,
Mr. N. W. Rowell, K. C., M. P. P., Mr.
Hartley Dewart K. C. M. P. P., Hon.
A. E. Kemp and Hon. Arthur Meighen.
The last two were on the defensive for
the Goverments but they were laboring
under tremendous difficulties and failed
completely to shift the burden of res-
ponsibility. • .
Sir Wilfred Laurier at Ottawa .was
most emphatic that in view of the state-
ments that the "Deutchland" on her
second trip to _Germany was again
carrying Canadian nickel, more thorough
assurance than had been given up to the
present should be given by the Govern-
ment on the point.
Mr. Rowell at the annual meeting of
General Reform Association, as well as
in Tilsonburg, showed how the Ontario
Government had been remiss in the
matter on two fundamental 'points.'
First, they had voted down the Oppos-
isition's proposal that the production,
and•sale of nickel in the province should
be under governments control, and
secondly they had voted down the Oppos-
isition's resolution that the Internation-
al Nickel Company should be taxed in
accordance with the law and not allow-
ed to escape with a paltry sum.
Mr. Dewart created a sensation by
reading letters which he said showed
that the International Nickel Company
on their own admission in . a Tetter
written by their General Manager of
Sales stated they were handling all
their export business of metalic nicke
through their London agents add Mr.
Dewart showed that this agent company
had been dealing with the enemy, quilt-'
ing a judgment of the Admirality Prize
Court in proof of his statement
The Toronto World (Conservative)
commenting on Mr. Dewart's speech
said. "The, startling charges of Mr.
Dewart must be probed to the bottom
the flow of Canadian nickel to German
munition works must be' stopped. The
men responsible for it must be pun-
ished and all the nickel plated Cabinent
ministers must be retired to private
life. Hon. Frank Cochrane has close
affiliation with men who control the
nickel trust and Mr. Hearst and Mr.
Ferguson appointees."
• THANKFUL MOTHERS
Thousands of thankful mothers
throughout Canada — many of them
your own neighbors—speak with the
greatest praise of that splendid medi-
cine. Baby's Own Tablets. Many
mothers would have no other medicine
for their little ones. Among these is
Mrs. Albert Nie, St. Brieux, Sask.,
who says: "I have been using Baby's
Own Tablets for the past seven years
and they have done my four children a
world of good. I woul? not be without
them." The Tablets are sold by medi-
cine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a
box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., 'Brockville. Ont.
Gaspard Picard, a former Grand
Chief of the Hurons, and one of their
last descendants, died at Lorette, Que.,
aged 85 years.`
Mrs. John Staten, of Ingersoll. was
struck by a train and very seriously in-
jured while walking to her work in a
munition factory.
The Manitoba Court of Appeals ruled
that Mr. Justice Haggart exceeded his
jurisdiction in quashing Edward Beck's
committal for alleged contempt after
having ordered his release on habeas
corpus proceedings.
Major Wallace, 0. -C. 29th Battery,
Guelph, proposes to ask the newspapers
to publish a list of,. young men to be
called on during the week, afterwards
publishing their reasons given for not
enlisting.
New. Store
Now Opened
•In the -National Hotel Block where I
will handle all kinds of
Meats, Poultry, -Butter • andFggs
All orders promptly attended to,
Your patronage is solicited,
F'ARMERS—Bring in your Poultry, Butter
and Eggs. Highest market prices. paid.
W. J. A,tnour
Telephone 62 Wingham, Ont.
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NEW WINTER
VELVETS
are now being in a profusion ot colors in
plain and cords. It is an excellent oppor•
tunity for every lady to secure material for
Winter Dresses, Waists and Suits.
New Novelties in Sweater Coats
You can get better value if you come to
this store and a variety of styles to select
from at usually low prices.
Ladies' Neck Wear
New Collars in a variety of styles and at
Low Prices in the most wanted designs,
25c to 75c.
Ladies' Underwear
In this department we have a few . lines
at the same prices as last year, 3oc to $1,25
per garment.
Men's Wool Underwear
In this department we can show you good
heavy rib knit garments at $1.25. We also
carry a full range of Stanfield's Underwear.
Men's Wool Socks
These you will find here from 25c per pair
up to 75c per pair.
Men's and Boys' Suits
and Overcoats
Here you will;find' Men's Ready-made Suits
from $io to $22.
Men's good heavy Overcoats from $7
to $21 in good tweed effects,
Boys' Suits and Overcoats also at Special
Values.
J. A. MILLS
Successor to T. A. Mills
PHONE 89. W INGHANE, O►NT