The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-07-26, Page 5The July 26th
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Lower Prices
,And Increased Business at
the Isardr.
Stores'
Bargains tor Everybody
79c
Silk Cloves in Black,
Sand, .. d, Grey,.. values up to
.$1.25 for 79c.
$1.95
Clearing line of Dres-
ses, see them at $1.95.
25c
5 pieces, Cotton Crepe,
yard wide, reg. 50c, Bar-
gain, 25c.
75c
Children's Sateen Rom-
pers, reduced to 75c.
$2.98
"Prices cut to half reg-
ular price on •Broadcloth
Dresses in White, Yel-
low aid Blue, to dear at
$2.98.
1.95
Silk Slips in Rose, Sand,
Peach and Black, values
up to $2.50 for $1.95.
$6.75
Special line of Floral
pattern Voile and Crepe,
Dresses, see them, now
only . $6.75.
$1.49
Broadcloth, Smocks,
good quality and best
colors, reduced to $1.49.
90c
Bargain in Broadcloth.
Slips, now only 90c.
98c
Ilolse Dresses in good
in h fastcolors
gam, and colo s
now 98c.
50c
Bargains in odd lines
of Silk Hose,. now .only
50c.
49c
Clearing Fancy Voiles
and Organdy Dr e s s
goods, wide, sale 49c.
. 98c
Corsettes, new model,
now only 98c.
98c
Silk Bloomers in, white
pink, peach and maize,
reg. value $1.25, bargain
98c.
$2.90
Silk and Wool Sweat-
ers ip best colors, now
$2.90.
$5095
Dresses at half price
and less, J+ancy Printed
Crepe and plain Silk
Crepe on' sale at $5.95.
69c
A line of Silk Hose in
all the leading colors, re-
;.duced to 69c.
$1.39
Guaranteed quality
Supersilk Hose, leading
shades, cut price $1.39.
H. E . Isard Co.
Danish Jazz Late
Excepting a recent term at Wellesley College, these ybutig ladies,
Miss 'Peggy Letcher, and her 'sista'- Adele, have lived exel>isiveiy in ,
Copenhagen, capital of Denmark, where their father ip consul -general
for the United States, Herb they Ara sailing aboard the Cunarder
Aurania titan Montreal this simmer for "home". Denni.arlt,'s native
'Iazz" is not the best, and United' States Sox -trots are somewhat -late
arriving in Copenhagen, they 'said; but young Danes are admiralty
sociable, young women may vote, and the whiter climate is mild --all
of which offsets "jazz" •difficulties.. The seven 'livadrea passengers
of the big Cunard liner agreed that the diplomatic sisters were
om itteea8.ors of beauty as well as goodwill.
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' XNelii< .?N ADVANCI;«T.IME.Sr'
F1:
..,.n..qu ..,,n ".4GNWq:, atztcauic;,nz
of the Canadian 1'acific Railway for
the month of April,: issued frau*
headquarters of the company, show
net profits up $150,944.85 as com-
pared with April of last year. Net
profits for the fowr months to end
of April are shown increased by
$1,802,617,71 as compared with the
same period of 1927,
"TRUTH A1iOU'T THE WAR"
TOLD BY A CANADIAN
Maior Drew Answers, In Mc
Lea
n s
Magazine, $land'erous Attacks Qn
England in American Publications,
"In February of this year The Cos-
mopolitan commenced a series' ofar-
ticles; under the heading, "It's Time
You Knew the Truth," by Brig -Gen,
Henry J. Reilly, . In .the course of
one of these articles, Brig, -Gen, Reilly
tells us that the lack of allied success
on the western' front was' due to Bri-
tish failure to enforce a draft law and
theirrefusal to move their troops
away from the channel ports, This
is but a sample of Brig. -Gen. Reilly's
observation on the conduct of the Bri-
tish Empire during the World War,
but it serves to show his trend, says
Major George A, Drew, in particular-
ly vigorous article in a recent issue
of McLean's'Magazine, entitled "The
Truth About the War."
"An article • under the suggestive.
heading, "Who Won the. War," ap-
peared in Liberty, which told us that
a comparison by dates from the entry
into the war shows that we (the Uni-
ted States) put more troops more qui_
ckly in the face of the enemy than
did. the British, and that in the im-
portant last stagesof the war we had
more facing the nemey • than l they
had," continued Major Drew. •.,
"Garet Garret, in the Saturday Ev-
ening Post, sags almost the same
thing. 'In the moment of declaring
war we began to mobilize our fight-
ing power. Eighteen months later
we had on the front against Germany
more men than any nation, excepting
only France.'
"These statements are absolutely,
false and yet they are a fair conser-
vative sample of what is being pro-
duced for consumption by the read-
ers of the United States periodical
press. Unfortunately, we cannot ig-
nore the fact that the thoughts and
general information of a very large
percentage of Canadians are being
subtly moulded through the medium
of .United States reading matter..
Many Canadians -,scout the idea that.
people in this country pay•any'atten-
tion to such stater en:s, believing
that their palpable absurdity nius im-
press anyone who knows anything at
all about the war. They forget; how-
ever, that the majority of those who
read these articles and see the films
know nothing of -the war and that
every year this majority will steadily
increase. When one looks at it in
that way, it is not comforting to real-
ize that Canadians read a great many
more United States periodidals than
their own, It must be presumed that
they read, what they buy, and it is,
therefore, a logical conclusion that a
very great percentage of what Can-
adians read concerning the Great War
comes from such unreliable sources
as have been quoted.
" It is time that an earnest appeal
be made to intelligent Canadians to
face the flood of mis-statenieuts which
is pouring into this country, and to
keep alive the truth concerning the
Great War; not with any idea of be-
littling the really fine effort made
by the American soldiers :after they
did come into the war, nor for the
purpose of glorifying ourselves, but
only that the vital lessons of the war,
which cost us so much in Hien and
money, may not be lost, and that
Canadians now andin the future- inay
feel the justifiable pride in the know-
ledge of a task well done which
should warm the heart of everyone
who calls himself British,
Answered Falsehoods
Nor is• Major Drew content with
accusing certain United States per-
iodicals of uttering slanderous false-
hoods—he answers each of these false-
hoods with facts; facts and figures
that should silence, once and for all,
;any American writer who has an am-
bition to belittle the British Empire's
contribution to the winning of the
Great War.
,First off, Major Drew pays his re-
spects to the author of the Cocniop-
olitan articles, Brig, -Gen. Henry J,
Reilly. He, quotes the Cosmopolitan
as saying, "For ten years America
has been waiting for someone to tell
the truth of our part in the World
War. A year ago The Cosmopolitan
selected Brig. -Gen. Henry J. Reilly
to go to original sources to sift out
tht facts from the mass of propagan-
da, exaggeration and half truths," and
continues:
"Now, that'is a fair•, method of ap-
proaching thequestion, and a Can-
adian naturally feels that facts pre-
sented in this impartial manner should
be given due consideration, It is pre-
cisely this seemingly ingenuous meth-
od of approaching which misleads, or
is inclined to mislead, the majority of
Canadian readers of such articles,
who have neither time nor the facil-
ities to test the truth of the state-
ments qley contain.
"The first' of Geri, Reilly's articles
written after he had sifted out the
facts from the mass of propaganda,
e eggerattons, and half truths, core
the following r information;
tams
`When Gen. Pershing landed in ;l;*.ur-
ope the British had not yet
nreal x law
adopted and enforced a r dafta
to put all their available man power
in the army, Yet they had Mien to
spare for expeditions to..Greece and
for a campaign in Turkey,. neither .of
which could possibly win the war,
The British thought only of protect-
ing the French ports along the Bri-
tish ..Channel, • th'ese being 'on the
shortest route to London from Ger-
many, Their strategy consisted only
in diifending the ground they had or
trying to get more ground in front
of these ports. Tliey . bad no idea
of leaving, this vicinity, no matter
what arguments were advanced to
prove that concentrations of troops
an' other parts of the 'western°`,front
would help whip the German army.
The Italians were only interested in
their own narrow front along the
mountains from Lake Garda to the
Gulf of Venice.
The French stretched like anover-
drawn'rubber band between the Ital-
ians, anchored on the right, and the
British, anchored on the left, with a
much smaller proportion 'of soldiers
and guns per mite of front than the
British ;and Italians, they toad to do
the best they could'; to beep the Ger-
mans from taking advantage of the
allied lack of unity of effort and
leadership.' And then Pershing came.
"Perhaps you will say, 'Well sure-
ly every Canadian knows that. this is
not true.' Are you so sure that even
the majority of those Canadians who
read The Cosmopolitan really know
whether it is true,or not?
"In the.second article of the series,
in March, Gen. Reilly gives some of
the fruit of his campaign for the
truth by quoting an anonymous mem-
ber of the German general staff chief-
ly in 'order to 'show what a very poor
effort the British really made. As
fiction it is interesting. A sample
will do. 'Britain had always kept at
home, and in 1916 and 1917 was still
keeping a considerable• force at home.'
But Gen. Reilly does quote his my-
sterious, German officerin at least
one statement with which we can a, g-
ree, ,'What does it all show above
everything i else? Something very
simple; that just as in a prize fight,
a war is won only by fighting.'
Men At the Front
"The United States did not have
more men on the front against Ger-
many than Britain and no one knows
better than any American officer who
was in France. At the time of the.
armistice the United States had 1,
950,000 on their ration strength in
France and the British had 1,718,000,
but the United States did not have I
1,950,000 on the front against Ger-
many at any time. At the outset, the
policy adopted by the American com-
mand was to send troops as quickly
as possible to France to complete
their trainingthere, and less than 1,
000,000 Americans were ready to go
into action at the time of the Armis-
tice. • The British troops who. were
in the sante state of training as more
than half of the Americans who were.,
in France, were still in England. Both
principles were perfectly sound. As.
the hien reached the point when they
were ready to go into action, the Bri-
tish were sent to France to the com-
batant units as quickly as the Ameri-
cans could be sent up from their
training areas. It was the logical
arrangement. If the number of ef-
fectives in the 'war zone' is to be con-
sidered then let him add /the British
effectives in .England who were pre-
paring for service at the front, be-
cause they were just as available for
service as more than a million Ameri-
cans back in their training areas. He
says .there were 1,300,000 at the tine
of the armistice in England. Adding
this number to those at the front
would give the British, in round fig-
ures, 3,.000,000 men as against 2,000,
000 Americans immediately available
for service. But that is not a very
satisfactory basis of comparison. The
only satisfactory basis is to compare
the, number of Hien that were actually
fighting, for, as Gen. Reilly himself
says, 'A war is %von by fighting.'
"The largest number of Americans
engaged in battle at any time in the
war was 896,000 -and this included all
combatant branches. This maximum
was reached between September 26,
1918, and the armistice, six weeks
later, so it willa \be seen that even
that maximuir number was engaged.
a very 'short: time, whereas the Bri_
tisk troops actively engaged on the
western front alone had been kept in
the neighborhood' of 1, 750,000 throu-
ghout the war,
"The truth is that at no bine right
tin to the, armistice did the Americ-
ans have more than half, as many
men in the face of the enemy as the
.13ritish did in France alone, And
remember, too, that tip to the armis-
tice the J3ritish had ,suffer el '3,679,'
264 casualties as compared with 800,
263 American casualties. And also
do not forget that another British
artily had coliquered and defeated the
Turk that another British arlity had
advanced from Saloniea'' against the
Bulgarians and had, been zhiefly in-
strumental in their defeat; that they
had alsof fought o inAfrica and were
Ais
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still fighting in Russia,
Mount Forest carried .i , drainage
by-law on Saturday by 127 to 87,
Amateur burglars broke into the
Wellint;ton Produce Co.'s store at
Wiarton, taking $200 in bills, but leav-
ing $20 in silver.
Mrs. J. C. Thompson. of Saskatoon,
is spending a month with old friends
in town.
Mr. and Mrs, 3. A. Mills returned
on Friday from a pleasant motor trip
to Quebec and Montreal.
Mr. and Mrs, A. A, Fleming and
son,,Walker of Chatham, accompan-
ied by Miss Agnes Walker and Miss
Leanore Carlisle of Toronto, are vis-
itingwith friends,
Miss Velma Johnston of London,
is visiting at the come of her parents,
Mr: and . Mrs. F. Johnston. ■
Mr. and Mrs. Albert McGinty and
children of Stratford, visited last we.k.
at thehome of Mrs. Tiffin,
Mrs. Earl' Cummins and children of
Toronto, are visiting at the home of
her mother, Mrs, M. Beckwith. Mr.
Cummins motored up over the week-
end.
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ttawa, Ont rio. -- Employment
stood ;at fit higher level in Canada h
April, 1928, than in any April as tar
back as records go. Returns from
6,191 em lovers of labor with" ork-
ing fore a aggregating 842,940 per-
sons, showed the employment index.
standing at 1.01.1, as compared with
96.2 in April, 1927, &nd 84.1 in April,
1926.
Winnipeg, Homestead entries in
the four Western Provinces for the
lir$t quarter of the year totalled
1,816, as compared with 1,030 in the
first quarter p11927. Pilings in
Manitoba were 107, as compared
with 138; in Saskatchewan 655 as
against 513; to Alberta 982, as coni -
pared With 367; and in British Col-
umbia 72, against 12,
The English Rugby League Foot.:
ball team, at the present time tour-
ing' Australia and New Zealand, is
scheduled to arrive at Vancouver on
R. M. S. Niagara, September 14, and, '
will play a game there next day,
leaving on the 7.lrans-Canada after-
wards for Montreal where another
game will be played September 20,
before sailing for. England ;on the
Ducbeas of Athol' next , ay.
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I MEN'S WEAR SUMME'
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Benjamin A. Ruffin
• Benjamin A. Ruffin was elected -RI
President of the International Asso-
ciation of Lions Clubs at the last ses-
sion of the twelfth annual convention ;Mad
of the Association, held in Des
Moines, Iowa, July 10-13, 1928. Mr.
Ruffin was born and raised in Rich-
mond, Virginia, which has always
been his home.
The new President of .% Lions In-
ternational
is engaged in the general'
insurance business and is a partner of
one of the leading firms of architects
of the city, and also a director of
many other companies. He is the
author of various insurance papers
and insurance forms which have been
adopted by the American Bankers' ;
Association and has spoken before
many bankers' conventions in various 1
states.
Mr. Ruffin has been associated with
Lions International for a number of
years, and due to his pleasing per-
sonality and eloquent oratorical
power he has been constantly in de -
Maud as a speaker at district conven-
tions, charter nights and everywhere
Lions have gathered.
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16 Suits in Blues, "Browns any Grey
Worsteds, Serges and Herringbones,
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Newest. styles in young men's mod-
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Sale price $16.50.
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Straw •Hats 95c to $2.95
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Fancy Sox W. .._._ 39c to 75c
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