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The Wingham Times, 1914-08-27, Page 41itte •••••••••••R• TRE WINfilIA111 TIMES, U.U. Eld4101!.1, rl,tti.16411.11 AND PROPIF.TOkt 110••••••00.1, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1.914 11•00.0.1.01••••••••••••••••••••••••11.•111,•••111, EDITORIAL NOTES. vps,•••••••1••••••••,...... big line in red ink on its front page, finds its circulation increased about twenty-iive per cent. Some one sees a railway bridge on lire, a not uncommon occurrence in a dry summer, and spreads the rumor that the bridge is set on fire by a "for- eigner". Some equally hysterical news- paper correspondent wires the news to Toronto or Montreal. Another h5 ster- teal news editor, instead of telephoning to the railway offices to see if it is true, prints it in red on his "war -cry" and uses it as a basis for selling a few thous- and copies of an "extra special." This has actually occurred in Canada. This hysterical attitude will cost the Canadian people millions of dollars. The tourists who usually throng Canada at this holiday season hear these rumors and are afraid to come over. The big hotels in Toronto and Montreal are empty because of it. The stores that sell much to the tourists are without customers. Even the vendors of foodstuffs are taking advantage of the situation, and are stampeding people into buying quantities of sugar and flour that they do not need. Prices are being advanced unnecessarily. A heathen statesman strikes the sole note encouraging to Christians under conditions whieh are such a reproach to their religion and their reason alike. Premier Okuma at Tokio said on Satur- day that to king about a great peace a great war is sometimes unavoidable, The general disturbance in Europe, he thought, might resolve itself into the final war of the world, leading to a per- manent and universal peace. The divine beettitude of "peace on earth, good will to men," can be realized only through establishing the reign of human law. It may be that the punishment of the warring nations may now be so severe that with one accord they may unite against the scornful declaration that no great power in a dispute with a small one would. submit to be brought before a European Areopagus. Austria has been the world's greatest offender in recent years, and is ripe for reproof by all nations loving peace. Peace should be dictated, not lay the command- ers of war but by the leaders of thought and confidence. -New York Times. The rough estimate is that there are in the world some 500,000,000 professing Christians, Of the whole. some 300,- 000,000 are now by their rulers arrayed against each other in war. Russia has about 100.000, Germany some 70,000,- 000. Austria-Hungary 49,000,000. Ser - via about 2,000,000 and Great Britain and its dependencies some 60,000,000, with 9,000,000 in Belgium -quite 290,- 000,000 in all, or nearly three-fifths The heathen when not employed in Christian countries' armies, are living at fair peace with each other. There is no question about what relgion in its teaching lifts men to the highest stand- ard of human perfection. There is a falling away though in those who should try to reach the standard. -Montreal Gazette. NEW ONTARIO DEVELOPMENT The people have the remedy in their own hands. If they will refuse to buy "special extras" they will not be issued. If they will refuse to credit wild rum- ours, they will not be invented. If they will refrain from paying high prices for food, the high prices will not be de- manded. There is no need for all this excite- ment. In a few days, business will be proceeding as usual. The oceans are practically free of German ships and will soon be absolutely free. The world's supply of food is large and there is plenty for everybody. Canada can get the same amount of goods from Great Britain as ever,. Japan and China will shortly be shipping stuff here just as they have always done. The United States is mighty glad to sell us anything we need, as business has been none too good over there for more than a year. Brazil still desires to send us coffee and rubber. Why encourage the newspapers to print sensational des- patches and foment hysteria which will rob our pocket -books? It is high time common-sense reigned once more in our midst. Road work in Northern Ontario under the Northern Ontario development fund has been stopped for the season and hundreds of men, many of them with one or more teams, have been thrown out of employment weeks sooner than they had expected. It is alleged that this year's appropriation has already been expended. As a matter of fact, however, this find is under the control of the Cabinet -not the Legislature - and they had the power to speud with- in the limit af $5,000,000. Up to the present less than '42,500,000 has been spent of the $4,300,000, the amount se- cured by the Government to carry on the work. The trouble is that, as admitted in testimony given before the Public Ac- counts Committee by tne Deputy As- sistant Provincial Treasurer this Spring the rest of this money has been spent for other purposes and is, therefore not on hand at this critical time. Other- wise the Government could have kept the men employed on the Northern roads until the very end of the season and thus have saved them from consid- erable distress. Unemployment is bad enough as it is, especially with the war and general tinaniciel stringency, and although the Government shows tardy signs of mak- ing an attempt to deal with the problem in the Province as a whole, it is unfor- tunate that in Northern Ontario at any rate they have made things worse in- stead of better. • HYSTERICS. THE FARMERS' PROSPECTS. With the political object of diverting attention from their grievances, the farmers are being encouraged to expect great advantage from war prices. This expectation, unless in the case of a prolonged war, entailing a serious limitation of food production next year, may easily be disappointed. Advan- tage will accrue to the farmers rather by the turniug f labor to the land, which having begun as jk a result of the commercial depression which had set in, Win be greatly accelerated by the war. If the United States, rather than the farms, be not the gainer, the farmers will be enabled to employ labor in the restoration of buildings, the eradication of weeds and the im- provement of cultivation, and they will be enabled to expand animal industry, which has been falling behind for want of labor. Labor will not remain on the land, if there is not a margin of profit large enough to duly reward it. In view of the paramount necessity of in- creasing the production of farm wealth, it is difficult to understand why poli- tics is not unanimously in favor of clearing the way. -The Weekly Sun The fonowing .article is god advice from the C.'enedian Courier:- Won:zee are sepposed to have a .rnono- poly cf byete:ies, but the men here breizen i 11131/11 tl-at mcnopoly recently. Tee newspspers zed the people ma.y divide the ersdit for this between .them. The 1-!,eapie get excite -3, buy every war. extra that comes out, riceept all silly turennrs that are en the street, .pey fancy prizee for foods =3 do all serts a foo.ieli things. The newspapers, anxicias for circulat'en, see that the peaele are xeitezi arel prozeed to tnrn that exeiteeret to Vddr reenetary nd- vantage. Any reeweeeeer that has 'HOW .CHILDREN GROW CIfild.ren grow ty nourishment -not verrd steraachs or title foods but qualiteee that are readily cenvetted ite rifeeseetaiiiieg blood; too often their digest': de powers tatriot procure these qualit. es teem otelinary foods: mieiclertralts in weakness, dullitese vied sieksiesa. /f roar &Meta are nrieZer-siee, under- weieeht, eatch eicld easily, are leeenel, beteketard, pale et freil, give, them teeetrs Emulsion whith iet pare ?ea-Ili:deal ne h- ment. It stoetpeee the aepetite fesel'e litaithe fleeIts Erni tretec.es Led -tree btaina-. for tbaldren. R fas, idealedie tateedetee. WHEN CIRCULATIONS BOOM. The circulation of daily newspapers has increased 10 to 25 per cent. since the beginning of the war scare. When pressmen are sleeping in the news- rooms in order to be ready for emer- gencies, it indicates a pretty consuming interest on the part of the public. Not only, in our opinion, does this increase he circulation more than offset the danger that readers will become too absorbed in the war news to read the advertising, but the fact that some ad- vertisers have dropped out affords all the greater opportunity to those wise enough to stiek. More people are spending more time reading news- papers today than at any time since the Titanic disaster. We place little weight upon the theory that readers are too absorbed in details of a foreign war to pay attention to anhouncements which affect their immediate needs. - From Printer's Ink. CANADA'S WAR FUND. ,THE WINGITAM 'MU, AUGUST 27,1914 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••,m•••••••,•••••••• ._ .... ... ._ Bank of Hamilton ,,,,it„, Authorize(.' $5,000,000 Capital Paid-up, 3,000,000 Surplus - - - 3,750,000 SAFETY FIRST • The money you save, instead of being.6a comfort, may be a care, ir you have to • w wry OS tO its safety. [lavish worry by depositing it in the Bank of limit - ton. which has safe -guarded the earn- inge of the te i e y for over forty years ia good times and old, hu blieg ; p, year by year, a dte plus z o v :5 p r cent. gzeater than its Capital. C. P. SMITH, Manager Wingham, Ont ,a- 11 - ii t ; t 0 P - -- „ _,..........k -,-._ .---------:- _ -...=_. - . 1 THE DO INION BANK SIR EDMUND 5. OSLER, MP,, PRESIDENT, W. D. MATTHEWS, VIOE•PREVDENT. 0. A. BOGERT, General Manager. This Bank Offers Farmers a complete and satisfactory banking service. Sales Notes collected on favorable terms, and advances made on such notes at reasonable rates. The Savings Department is a safe and convenient depository for your money. Interest at current rates is paid on deposits of one dollar and upwards. One dollar opens an account in the Savings Department. . WINGHAM BRANCH: A. M. SCULLY, Manager. position was given Parliament. It shows that the revenue will be 335,000,- 000 less than last year, and the expendi- ture $60,000,000 greater. It also shows that the Goverement will save to raise 343,000,000 in some other way than through the customs or customary means of gathering Government "funds. How this will be done was not stated. These were the most striking features of the third day of Parliament's war session. There were other matters of interest. One was that "certain brew- ers, distillers and liquor dealers" had sought to avoid the war tax by taking large stocks of beer and liquors out of bond. Their foresight has been vain, for the Government has made the ex- cise and customs increases on alcohol date back to August 7, when the raid on bonded warehouses began. A. K. MacLean, from the Liberal side, suggested that with conditions what they are in Canada, the Govern- ment might have realized more revenue and made conditions of life easier by lowering duties on articles of food, in- stead of increasing them. Dr. Michael Clark, of Red Deer, ap- proved of increases on tobacco and liquor, but thought that an income tax would have been a better agency for avenue than increased sugar duties. WINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL. The final announcement of the results of the various matriculation examine- tions.were received last Saturday, and below is given the standing obtained by pupils of the High School. A com- paratively small number of pupils take these examinations, rnost of them pre- ferring those for Teachers' certificates, but those who have written have been very successful. In the Middle School Bessie Kennedy and Edna James secured complete Pass Matriculation in connection with their Entrance to Normal certificates. Dudley Holmes took an exceptionally high standing in Latin and French, and thus completes matriculation. Similar- ly Gordon Rintoul, by passing in Algebra and French obtains complete matricu- lation besides taking Part II of Faculty Entrance as previously announced. In the Upper School, Wilfrid Ander- son wrote on the Honour Examination in Physics, Mathernaties. French and Latin and was successful in all. He obtained First -Class Honours in Physics Second Class in Mathematics and Third- • Class in Latin and French. We under- stand that he intends to take a Political Science Course in Toronto IInivesity Nellie Nicholls, Verna McLaughlin Elizabeth Sanderson and Peter Muir wrote on the French of the Upper School in addition to Part I of Faculty Entrance. They were ell succetsful at both examinatioes, and this with Part II Faculty Entrante, which three of them have already taken, gives them complete Honor Matriculation standing. The sclateol seldom has A scholarship candidate, but this year Wilson Geddes attempted this work, and with gratify - A. war appropriation of .1.50,000 000 was voted in one minute, without dis- s sit or demonstration, by Parliament at Ottawa on Thursday. It was announced that theterai of the Duke of Connaught as gov erreor-general had been extended during the contin- *then of the war. Fitance Minister White delivered the budget 'speech in half an hoar. He an neunced tariff increases on sugar, canned fruit% cocoa, liquor, tobatco, and stele- sidery articles. Forty items in the customs tariff are affected. The chang- es ere expected to ticld ;1.000,C0O a troonth to the revenue. A :statement of Canada's fin leg suches.e. He stands sectind in Smence in the Province, anti fourth in Mathematics. He wins the Wellington Scholarthip in Iilathematimi and the Dickeoti Schoitribm in Stience, both from Trinity College. end is aleo award- ed the Fleet Edwerd Bletke Seholarehne in Matherneties by the University of Toronto. These scholarslehas give him four years' free tuition sutra substantial cash bonus. Ilia standing in General el Proficiency—eleventh ifl rder tf merit -is particularly good when it is considered that he wrote on only one option, Science, and the French of the Moderns option. All those who stood above him took at least two complete options, and many of them three, thus having a possible advantage of from two hundred to four hundred marks. Wilson intends to take an honour course in Mathematics at Toronto University. Wingham can be proud of the growth and success of the High School since its organization eight years ago. Accord- ing to the laet report of the Minister of Education it stands fourth in point of average daily attendance among the High Schools of the Province outside of Toronto, and is larger than many of the Collegiate Institutes. The most noteworthy feature of the year just closed ha6 been the exceptionally large attendance in the Upper School, and the success of this Form at examina- tion. Outof twenty-six pupils enrolled, twenty-five wrote on Departmental ex- aminations, and twenty-two of these were successful. FALL FAIR CALENDAR. Atwood . . Sept. 22-23 Blyth Sept. 29-30 Brussels Oct. 1-2 Dungannon Oct. 7-8 Exeter . . . Sept. 21-22 Eordwich Oct. 3 Goderich Sept. 21-22 Harriston,... ...... Sept. 24-25 Kincardine .......... Sept. 17-18 Listowel ..Sept. 16-17 London (Western Fair) .. .Sept. 11-19 Mildmay Sept. 29 Mount Forest .. ...Sept. 17-18 Palmerston Sept. 22-23 Seaf or th Sept. 24-25 Teeswater.... . Oct. 7-8 Toronto (Can.National) Aug. 28 -Sept. 12 Wingham .. Sept. 24-25 Walkerton .Sept. 15-16 Zurich ......Sept. 23-24 Reduced Fares to TORONTO FOR Canadian National Exhibition Fare and One-third Aug. 31st to Sept- llth, inclusive. From all stations in Canada, Cornwall, Ottawa and West. Special Round -Trip Fares Will be in effect on certain dates. All tickets for return until Tuesday, September 1.5th, 1914. yalt pereentarsand reservations from H. B. ELLIOTT, Town Pag.eneer and Ticket .Agent, Pbune 4. \V. F. 117041GMAN, Sta- tion Agent. Phone 50. CANADIAN - PAC.' C Canadian National Exhibition TORONTO Fare and One -Third. August 31 to September lith, 1914 SPECIAL LOW FARES 'Tuesday, September 1st and Zed Ilinrsday.Zepteinber ard and 10th 11 rrcm r;; Ptiaord7rtht:17141,OWT.Siktig' tl;t4: 1.; vat Walk. cm Owenit'terutiar. J,„g11. ..SoTUend_.„Hotate'..are.1 • ;van: 1 bop, Belleviue aurneteritioniate statiat"s Wednesday, September 2nd and 9t1, Nelrosek o rt4t. Yobel to ihn.titation eSet or Tweed and iThatuscriville. Ringlon emet Waltham Onbrlivions rind all statems and Subdivisions on 'Eastern Division East of Eneoell Smith's rails and Itroekville. iteterre Limit -otlitirial etattiait peint must rearhain.)t later Man Tuesday, Sept. 114.12, IiI14. tir-AsIt any eanadian Paat,fin Tieltet Agent tor Beo,atet giving Eibibition program W. A. Eandereon, Town Afi_ent. ramie 47. a. EConust.titatiOn Agent, FnOsie Fl E: FIRE Water Water Opened Saturday, August 2211d AT 8 O'CLOCK A. M. The $12,000 General Stock of J. H. Baker (Kerr & Son's Old Stand To Be Slaughtered Regardless of Cost or value All Fire and Water Dam- aged Goods to be sold at a mere trifle. Other Goods at half price orless. This stock has been pur- chased by the Merch- ants Brokerage Co. at our own price. We will pay Railway .Fares up to 20 miles for those purchasing $12.50 worth of Goods. We will also provide dinners for two people for those driving in who buy $15.00'worth of Goods. -Ihis is no ordinary Stock Reduction Sale. Our business is to dispose of Bankrupt and fire stocks and then move on. We are not in Wingham to stay and not one dollar's worth of this stock will be moved out of town, hence it will be sold for some price, no matter how low. You will find everything marked in plain figures, so come along with your Cash, Butter and Eggs. Al produce taken as cash. Thousands of $ worth of Goods on Sale have never been touch- ed by either fire or water, yet they will be sold at Staggering prices. To quote prices here would be a waste of time. The proof of the pudding is the eating. You know a bargain when you see it. The fact of the matter is about $6000 worth of new goods have been placed on the shelves during the past three months. Just a few of the lines you will find here: - Men's and Boys' Over- coats, Suits, Rubber Coats, Odd Pants, Overalls and Smocks, Collars, Ties, Hats and Caps, Braces, Under- wear, Socks, Boots and Shoes for Men, Women and Children, Dress Goods, Silks and Satins, Corsets, Gloves, Hosiery, Laces, Embroidery Prints, Ginghams, Carpets,r1 Rugs, Oilcloths, Linoleums, Lace Curtains and Curtain Poles, Groceries, Crockery, Glassware and Chinaware, etc., etc., Everything Goes. Be here every day during this BIG SALE TERMS-- CASH OR PRODUCE ALL STORE FIXTURES FOR SALE The Merchants Brokerage Co. [KERR'S OLD STAND] WINGHAM ONT. • . • "...KAI.'