The Clinton New Era, 1917-05-24, Page 1r Established 1565, Vol, 51, No, 48
The New Era
CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MAY 24th, 1917.
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OF CANADA
Incorporated .1869.
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Capital Authorized $25,000,000
Capital Paid-up 12,900,000
Reserve and Undivided Profits 14,300,000
Total Assets 270,000,000
400 B R A N C H E S --With World-wide Connection
Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits.
General Banking Business Transacted.
R. E. MANNING, Manager . Clinton Branch
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CAFITAL AND RESERVE $8,800 000
96 Branches in Canada
A General Banking Business Transacted
CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT
BANK MONEY ORDERS
SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT
Interest Allowed at Flighest Current Rate
C. E. DOWDING, Manager: Clinton Branch
Beady-Cn-Wear
IB Clothing
Suitins for..
.
Ladles
Never in the history of our business have
we sold so many Suitings for Ladies as this
season.
They are beginning to appreciate the fact
that it pays to buy Men's Suitings instead of
the light weights usually shown for Ladies
Wear.
We are showing a large range of Blue,
Black and Gray Serges•—colors guaranteed.
All goods shrunk free of charge.
Now is the time to make your selections
—for the price will go much higher.
The Moors Clothing C9,
Agent for C. P. It. 'A`eiegr tph Co.
A Square .6":C1).1 tor Every Man
Try ° 'the Nt.iv
for Job Work in
Selective Conscriptilil Am wand for Cana
Premier Stated that Details of the Plans Will be Worked Out by the Militia Cotmcil;
Single Men, Without Dependents, will be Called on First; Local Boards to deal with
all Cases and Determine those in Class Order which are to be Conscripted; Classes
are Stated.
OTTAWA, May 18.—Selective con-
scription—the momentous pronounce-
ment by Sir Robert Borden at the close
of his speech this afternoon, had stirred
Parliament as it has- not been stirred
by any development of policy sbtce•the
war began. It is conceded on all sides
to be a bold and courageous stand,
induced by the stern recognition of the
real situation,
Sir Robert Borden, when asked to-
night by- the Free Press for details
stated that he was not yet in a position
to announce them, 1 -le said they are
yet to be worked out. That will be
left to the militia council. The com-
pulsion, however, is to be on the select-
ive principle—that is to say, sten up
to the physical standard will be chosen
witk regard to their age, the chaster
of their present activities and their
dependents.
SINGLE MEN WITHOUT DEPENDENTS.
It is certain that the young men will
be called first, the husky, single fellows
who have no dependents, no particular
home handicaps and nothing to prevent ,
their enlistment.
The next class probably will be the
single tnen who have some responsi
bility, in the line of dependents, but
not such as would particularly interfere
with their enlistment.
A third class would be married men
without families and e fourth married
Wren with families or dependents.
The national service registration, re-
turns of which are admittedly incom-
plete, show 150,000 men who have no
dependents and who are not engaged[
in occupations really vital to the state.
This is materially in excess of the num-
ber required in the present pian,
PAY ATTENTION TO
AGRICULTURAL NEEDS.
In the selections there will be con-
sideration to the class of work now
being done. Men who are engaged in.
vital industries chile not. exempt as a
class, wild be considered with reference
to the value to the state of their existing
occupations.
Attention will be paid to the needs
of agriculture, transportation of Milli -
tion factories and similiar activies but
there will be no sweeping exemption
of any one class, In England they
started that way and the slackersprolnpt
ly drafted themselves to safety first
jobs a....
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FIRST CLASS, 18 TO 25, UNMARRIED,
Possibly each divisional area play ��C._ 4.� Spopild 0 have to furnish its quota, but having
,regard to its past performances, Those
whose resources are already heavily
drained would doubtless be relieved
somewlsat from the onus which ptber-
wise would attach to them.
Very probably there will be Iocat
hoards to deal with all cases and to
determine those which in the class
order above indicated or on similar
lines, should 1e conscripted. .
'The first class called will be 18 to25, untnarried; the second class 13 to
30, unmarried, and the third class 18 to
30, married, without dependents, •
Sir rtobert do announccing ttte seiec-.
tine principal said:
"1 think that no true Canadian, reat-
bepri
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235 NAMES 3N HURON 'COUNTY. raeetttaesep,Be•ssr;ypeyr�rrtagraairameitherimk,
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Mr. Thomas Jackson is in Toronca
this week,
Miss Violet Argent has returned fronsher millinery position,
Mr. J. F . Wise made a business trip
to Toronto last week,
Mr. N. Curring, of Blyth, viascaller in town last week.
Mrs. W, R, Counter was visiting ia:Brantford for a few days.
A/r. Chas, Grusby, of Blyth, spent aro
few (tours in town last Thursday.
idis:es Elsie turd Mary (irielis, nl
Toronto, are visiting relatives anti friends
in town
Mr. and Mrs, 1 -tarry Twitchell lately
residents of 'Toronto heyu removed tryDetroit,
Sergt, (teorge Webber was up frost.London over the week end. Ile is a
welcome visitor.
Mr. Vert McEwen, of Medicine IIat,
Alberta, and a former grocer in town.
ryas calling on old friends in town last
Mr. George Cook, of New York, who
is head huyer for the Simpson Co., Tor-
onto there, was a visitor at the parentat'
Tonle this week.
ilirs. W, T. (J'Neil, F,ank Ralson„J. A. Satter and J. L. herr attenddivine at•rvice with the liru•.�c:field U'dci-
fellows on Sunday •evening
Mr. Oliver Johnston and Air. n;lrea
Porter, of Godert�at,' wine visitors it:
town Saturday. Clinton still has a warmspot in their hearts yet,
Doctor Thompson teas eallrd to St..
Mary's owin; to the death of d i Further reference to the fate Alr. Thi ptgson n:av he read c,n ,m,H,ee.?dr,11eletrope, teeer of the :%:,iron's
11:u,ft an s ns. 1 oronto this we. b and hasenti.ted wil'n the 1'uicerei't• 11. t!• - and
will juin a anon as he can ' e reliaveti.
1Brussels i'os: j—James and Airs 1 so.. -
ford and 1\{Isr Cle;u, ;tied \t'llAltdfatt motored ovrr front 1'lin:otSunday ;toil spent the day at Allan antiMrs, Lan:ont's
I'te. J. Yuuogsor, of Gotierich.
veteran of the gnat wtr sec a vioizortown over Sunday, The young soldier,'had the rni',forttte to lose his right leg
in the big light
Itcv, .1. E. and Airs. Hogg woretors at 1.nvl;roar ovrr f un.lay, while
liev. Mr. Hogg was preaching A ncivet•
sary sermons in the Presbyterian Churoe
in the Sepoys town.
Airs. I -Harriet Aliddlettt of "\,iaite,
Hall" Clinton, Ontario atnlounce the en-
gagentent of her daughter, 1matti,, to Mr.
George Stewart, Ooderirh, the marriage
to take place early in Tune.
The many old friends of Mrs ,l, Hod
gens, now .,f Toronto will be glad to
learn that after confinement to her
room with somewhat severe illness, she
is now on a fair way to rcccvery.
I\Vingltant Advancel—Friend; of Hal
McLean will be pleased to learn that ise
was recently gazetted as .Major. He is
an instructor in bayonet work and as
a private writing home puts it, "HHe ie
one of Huron's most popular officers.
Continued on Page 5.
urnished Chief Recruiting Officer in
Various Classes for Recruiting,
Although complete lists of names of
uten eligible 1'or military service, ac-
cording to' information furnished on
national service cards. have not yet
been received at tale districtheadquarters statistics have been com-
piled at the office- of Capt. tlincison,
chief recruiting .officer of London dis-
trict, showing the number of names of
the various classes that have been re-
ceived front Ottawa for recruiting wo1•xin various cities, towns and counties
in Western Ontario,
Huron County ds given as having 95
in 1A class; 25 in 2A class; 33 in 3A
class; and 62 ie 3B class; a total of 215.
Oxford hats a total of 212; Welling-
ton 139; Bruce 229;. Perch 194; Water_loo 301; Woodstock city has 528 in altclasses; Windsor .1861; Guelph 783;
Sarnia 928; Chatham 601; Kitchener
1321; Galt 676; London 3512.
In order that the lists may be un-
derstood it must be remembered that,
to put it briefly, Class 1.A., means men
between 17 and 30 years of age, with-
out dependents; Class 2. A., ages front31 to 45 without dependants; Class 3.
A., ages 17• to 45, single, but claiming
to have dependants, probably not sole
support, told Class 3,B., ages 17 to 45,
but married, and not more than three
dependants. Farmers are excluded froththe list, as well as those with store than
three dependants.
The totals for the entire district are
given as 2730; Class 1A; 1533, in 2A;
3040 in 3A; 5993 in 313; a total of
12002 in No. 1 Military district,
Births, Marriages cc'c.Deaths
Deaths
CO(iPER—In Stanley T'ow nship. on
Mond ty, Aiav :'1st, itlary •1nn Ili;gins
beloved wife of Atr, Job Cooper, aged
71 years and 7 mouths.
IIOYCE—In T.n•nnto on May °0th
Elizel:,eth tiwan, tries td 11.,mas Royce,
of 0, de,i,.h eldeet lau},hter of the late
Andrew Swann , of llrurefit d.
IIEAVY STORM SATURDAY.
'This section got store rain than was
necessary to start vegetation on Sat-
urday, A terrific dust stoma passed
through the main street about 11 o'-
clock Saturday morning, but about 4,15
a severe rain and lighting storm passed
over the section for half an hour or so.
Cellars were flooded and low lands
got a bad drenching. The lighting was
sharp but no damage was done. We
hada dreary day on Monday, dreary
cold and wet and .many a household
started a coal lire to take the chill from
the roosts,
{zing all that is at stakein this war,can bring hitisself to consider withtoleration or seriousness any sugges.tion for the relaxation of our efforts. I
;The months itttntediately before us nmay I
be decisive, event it the war should not l
end this ye:tr. Germany •is bringinginto play during the present season the ,
Inst ounce of her tamanlsood, What have iwe dune in this war. We have sent326,000 -uten overseas in the Canadianexpeditionary force. Including reserv-
fists in British and allied armies the .
men enlisted for naval defense, 360,000
sten at least have left the shores of ,
Canada. It is a great effort, but greater '
still is needed."
"lsitherto we have depended upon
voluntary enlistment. I nmyself statedto Parliament, that notlring but volun-
tary enlistment was proposed by the
Government, but I returned to Canada
`impressecd ;d once with the extreme
gravity of the situation, and .•with asense of responsibility for our ful'ther
efforts at the most critical period of ,
voluntary system will nut yield further
substantial results, I loped that it
would. The Government has tnade
every effort within its power so far
as 1 can judge, If arty effort to. stint-;
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SITUATION GRAVE.
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to-date? Then we
will call on you �nith our
• new Mates "Druck (just
see liow quickly. we can
do it) with I flllAlzt'%@ N'1sREe-
t hat (t hey
are nowat their be,3t) ar
IJak'a o,1 Vs i,gl', Calkt's.
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Local Men Heartily Approve of Enforced Enlistment, regretting Only that the Move was
So Long Delayed—Hope Expressed that Draft Will Include all the Slackers.
Unanimously Ieaders of thought and act-
ion in Clinton express their hearty approval
cif the n]easure to enforce enlistment.to raise
{
oo, two men, to reinforce the gallant Cana-
dians now in the firing lines, Coupled with
the pleasure they felt that at last the "slack-
ers" were t9 be called on to do their duty,
with a power behind the call, was coupled
regret that it had taken so long for the need
of the measure to be. brought home to the
,overnment. It was emphasized that the
step proposed, while giving the needed men
to the fighting forces, there should also be
a caliscriptiOn on war -profits and fopd sup -
opinions secured by The New Era
folio ;vs :•
Dr. C. W. Thompson, Mayor of Clinton:
"Mv opinion of conscription is now as it was
at the beginning '' of present war and even be-
fore that:—When our Cou;ttry declares war,
conscription should follow naturally. This
war is not being waged for the sake of the
hied lighting; nor yet for those. who have
fought told died. It is for principle, that prin-
ciple is namely freedom, 'Tie method Can-
ada took to raise an artily was extravagant
to say the least. The plucky young men of
our generation, those who should hlfve been
future fathers for the country were taken and
in many cases lives lost. Cowards remain at
'home to perpetuate their specie, and so pop-
ulate the country forfuture, 1 don't say that
all who remained hone were cowards, but I
do say urany who have gone and given their
lives would- not have been required with
honest conscription. Every man and woman
should be conscripted and made do the work
for best advantage for the country. The pre-
sent seletcive ages I believe, are wrong. It
should be 21 to 30 years, single men. This
lighting is a man's job, and boys should not
he forced while stalwarts 25 to 30 years re-
main in peace, Fond supplies should also be
conscripted and men not going to fight and
of proper age, should be p.ersonaliy taxed.
There should be no war-profits—blood.
money,"
Lt,.Col. Hy. Torr. Rance: "The failure of
the volunteer system, which is fundamentally
wrong, to produce an adequate army for,
Canada, justifies Parliament in deciding for
conscription. The former hits been a failure
both in ]ease and war, as much in one as the
other, tot' it is an unfair, haphazard, un-
scientific, costly. system, 1t seemed tit the
past to suit our loose ideas of protection, and
our Britishtradition,--That
to
- tt i
one volunteer
v l
Wits worth a dozen pressed -(nen," and so it
might still be, if enough men had volunteered
for the present conflict, but the magnitude of
the war in which 1ve are now engaged, has
shattered forever the stupid delusion that
volunteering had ever .been anything but an
idiotic chapter in our history. 1 an] mightily
in favour of universal physical anis military
drill for all boys between the ages of sixteen
and nineteen, at their formative period, and
when their time is not very valuable, 1f
every man in Canada was physically and
menially perfect, we could afford to laugh
at Barnhardi's boast that the Prussian is the
superman of the present century, and also
his remarks about the survival of the fittest.
if we had adopted the above years ago, there
would now be no trouble in introducing the
selective draft system. The only objectors
will be the slackers and insurgents, who will
be forced to do what their small-soula'd patri-
otism failed to teach then]." ,
Mr. A. T. Cooper, Secretary of Huron Co.
War Auxiliary: "My opinion of conscription
is, that it is the fairest method of raising an
army, and while Canada has done remark-
ably well in securing three hundred and sixty
thousand volunteers it has been don,; at a
tremendous cost, and this money could have
been used to better advantage. Many of
those who have gone, would not have been
selected if conscription had been in force,
especially the men with large families, Who
should say that the life of one mint's son is
any better than another? and for that reason
all should be considered as equal, and no 'one
should be allowed to hide behind any parti-
cular occupation." -
Rev. J. A. Agnew: "1 an] in favor of
selective conscription and I believe that the
Government is taking a wise step. 1 think
that they should go farther and have con-
scription of wealth."
H. Wiltse, President of Board of '('rade:
"1 -lad that question been asked of me two
years ago I should have said we want none
of it. 'Today 1 an convinced of the absolute
need of the measure if we are going to do our
share to win tate war. If the proposed system
takes those best fitted for the task, and who
can best be spared from the different spheres
of activity it will have achieved sore than
can otherwise be done."
Rev. W. L. Rutledge, D, D.: "No"patriot-
ic Canadian, f believe, is likely to find fault
with the decision of the Government, re-
garding conscription, It certainly hooks like
the most feaaable method, and at the same
S
time, the too.justa
Most and worthy wO 1 method
in
y
securing adequate otces to meet the Conn -
try's obligations at this time, Those who
have complete confidence in the wisdom and
Continued on Page 5.
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Father Dead.
The St. Marys Journal seat the fon-,
owing obituary of the late 'Air. 'I'honap-
sou, father of Mayor Thompson, to The,
New Era.—
tie of the oldest, if not the oldest
m: in St. Marys, died at his home la
the Wes& Ward 011 Wednesday tast
when Joshua Thompson passed away
in the 940 year of his age. The de-
ceased was .born in Hraestown, near
Napanee in 1523, and carne to London
in 1845, living for a- short time witlS;
his uncle, Joseph Langford. On Octo-
ber 28, 1 S 5 3 he was married to Miss:
Elizabeth Walden and rived some 12
years in the Township of Biddulph,
after which he leased his farm and
went to Luean to reside. This was in
February 1866, While in Lucas, Mrs.
'lis'ssmson died, Two dears after her
death he returned to his farm in B€d-
dulph and two years after this again.
in 1876, he married Miss Margaret
Stewart, sister of the late William
Stewart of the 16th Con. of London:.
who survives hits. In 1802 he sold hit:
farts and Inas lived retired in St. M;u•ys
ever nce.
Air, Thompson was a well and widely
1:1; wn throughout all this section -a!
country, He was a man of greet ph;•-,
steal and intellectual strength and was
one of the: hest posted then on Teal
religious said general matters in the
district in which he lived. throughout
his day, Socially he stood high and
had many. fart friends among the gen-
eration lust passed. in later years as
weakness and deafness crept upon hitt[
he lost touch to a great extetrt with
the growing generation but he retain-
ed his mental faculties in a high de-
gree until tine last and knew uothin ;
of illness until the past few tnon1110.
i'nr long. years he has been almost
daily caller at The St. Marys Journal
()thee and his great delight was to h,;
given a free hand wills the exchanges.
Itis chem; word of weleosall w'iticlr
never tailed Atmwhether the d:nv was
bright or dull, will long be remember-
ed, Up until late years Isis advice. and
counsel on business matters was sought
by many and few who ct,nsulied lsiur
were not benefited by his advice, 14e
was a mans of fearless €nteririty and sier
ting qualities, his word being his bor•,3
with every nliui, rte did at 'll tinsel
what he believed to be his duty, re-
gardless of any other man's opinion
and throughout his entire life he was
never known to waver of any question,
His home life lits been a most happy
one. No man was more fortunate in
the Selection of his life companions.
And Ise esteem and affection that ex-
ists between the widow and the step-
children reflects nal only the loving
disposition of the stepmother but the
home training of the entire family,
Besides the widow the following elsilnl-
rcn survive: ---James 'Thompson, pen..
tictcn 13. 0.; Or. 0, A, Thompson,
Principal sir Hamilton Collegiate la-
stitute; Mrs. ,1. E. Murray, Toroptets
Dr, C, W. -f hompson of Clinton; Cleo.
A. Thompson, 13,A., Regina Sask. and
Bars. 11. S. Prduglc, Vicoria, B. C.
The remains were h,terrcd in St.
Marys
Conetery on Priday a
fternoon
the talltcarers being
ussr
s. Lca
Stewart, mos Stewart 0,Walden.
and Chas. Walden of London 'Powis-,
s€tip and the twa sons, Dr. Mien 'Thottt9
son and Dr. Chas, Thompson. ,