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The Huron Expositor, 1918-01-11, Page 1alalfartaamM rl rY- SECOND YEAR. 'WHOLE NUMBER 2613 • SEAFORTH, Fl II Greig Clothing Co " Second to dligne January Clearing of Stylish Overcoats Every Overcoat in our store must be sold while the selling season is here. We've a large lot to get rid of and the prices have been reduced t� an ex- tent which will mean Quick Selling The Trench Coat 1 The lot comprises man different sales' French Coats )P i�. styles--French Young Men), Olsten; and: Chesterfields (for middle older men all made e splendid imported aged and o }, m de inp p overcoatings. Colors—Fancy Brown Mixtures, Greys and Blacks, and finished with or without velvet collars Men's. $IO$12 $15 Boys' $5 �7 to � Ladies Coat Prices Cut in Half. -.Think of these beautiful coats . of ours, a number of the very choicest we have shown during the season and admired by e v e r y shopper who saw them, but at that time price prevented the sale. BUT NOW THEY MOSI" GO. $50 $40 X30 S2.5 Coats for Coats for Coats for Coats for $25.00 $20.00 $15.00 $12.50 and so on down the scale of prices. COMMON AND - r REFERRED'. (�By1I mg Bacheller) There I are two kinds of superiority real a dinh e cited. All the troub- les of this World have come of inherit- ed superiority. '1 Of all the defects that flesh is heir to inherited superiority is the moot deplorable. It is •worse than inss.'ty r idiocy or curvature of the spi e. here are 'millions of acres of 1 nd in Europe occupied by. nothing but inherited superiority; there are (millions of hands . and in- tellects in Euro a occupied by nothing but inher ted Superiority, while bil- Iions of wealth !have been devoted to its servic and embellishment. A man who has ' vejn a small amount of it ,needs a f rce of porters and footmen to help im carry it around, and a guard to .keep , watch for fear that some one will grab hissuperiority and run off th it when his back is turih-. ed. 1 ' A fullequipment of inherited su- periority decor ted .with a title, a • special d alect, a lot of old armor and university junk, tuck out so that there wasn't room fo more than one outfit in a township.Most of : the bloodshed. has-been caused by the blunders or the hoggishness of inherited superiorty. It is the nursingbottle, of insanity and the Mellin's Food of crimeThere are ,two kinds of sense in men common and', preferred,. plain and • fancy. The co mon has become the 1 great asset of m nkind; the preferred j ' its great, habil'Our forefathers had large holdingsgen hof the common, e ria' kings it their favorites of the All Sweater .Coat Pi,ices.Cut large range to choose from in all A very g g the substantial colors—brown. khaki, navy, black maroon and slate. grey, ys Men's2.50 3.50 5.00 to p.50 Boys'...... ♦ .. 1.25 1.75 2.00 to 3.0 0 Greig Clothing Co SEAFORTH e in r an preferred. The Tref Bred represented an immnse bulk of inherited superior- ity and an alleged pipe line leading from the king's throne to paradise, and de's peopled and connected with the font of every nature of a lu_, blessing by the best religious plumb- not afford them, ers. It also drew • dividends, whether, to be lived any the common got anything or. ot. The conducted. It l JANUARY ir, 1918 Fou `and .k our _Friends are invited to attend The Old limes. Dance, in Cardrbo's Opera Hall on ' Tuesk y .. 'vening, January 22nd -in aid of the Bed Cross MUSICIANS-: . M. Chesney, Jr., P. M. Chesney, James A. Chesney, Abe F hi Henry Forsyth, Thomas Rands, Harry Stewart, Herbert Fowler, Joseph Storey, Earl VanEgmond , FLOOR MANA4F R.S-Harry Charters, Peter Cameron, Joseph Kale, 'Vtf illian � 'Donald, Ed. Rowland, Garnet Habkirk, William • Workman.# COMMnTTF. McKUlop Willi m► T De During -Int Mr, :Jamei ibbert, Joseph Murphy; ' Hullett, Scott Hawthorne; McKereher and Robert Dodds, Jr.; Tuckersmith, . tiers and Robert Gemm4ell, Seaforth, John Beattie, L. Dan. Shanahan and Charles Stewart. shin—Drawing for the Collie Collection, donated by Me, Lake Linden, Mich., in aid of The Red Cross. - Zfeiktg.'comirnences at half past eight o'clock bring cake or sandwiches Ladies Gallery, ops Gentlemen, $1.00 pectatord, 25c. A. D. Sutherland, Secretary hindered . and and emotion. Sentiment' ands+ ness inheritant Krupp proposed -t and abolish tel„ the time and. se They were facto was thetuse'of `e' ' by sentiment 1 bad got his feet in. the trough, and " was going to crowd the others out of oil were a need- it. He was the one and only.. And ehennzollern . and as l e crowded, he began to pray, and tient oat of life his Prayers come out of Ips which ears consumed had confessed : robbery and violated of the people. good faith and inspired deeds • of in- ipe>hciency. What human frightfulness. His prayers Overspilled milk .were therefore nothing more nor less than hot air aimed at the ear of the Almighty and carrying` with them the flavor. of the swine -yard. In' all this - Church and people stood by him. ' It would seem that the devil had taken both unto -a high mountain and show- ed how ed° them the kingdoms of ,the earth and their glory, and that they had yielded to his blandishment% Now the thing that has happened to the criminal is this: In one way or another, he loses his common sense.. He ceases to see things in their just relations and proportions. Tile differ- ence between right and wrong dwin- dles and disappears from his vision. He convinces; himself that he has a right to. at least a part of tiie property__ 'of other people. 'Often he acquires a comic sense: of righteousness. I have lately been in the devastated regions of northern France. .,I have seed whole cr�es of no strategic value which the. German armies,, had. des-. yedi ' dynamite ',fore .leaving. Wein sin a silence`like 'theft of ae;grav�e the slow -wrought walls of Old cath- edrals and public buildings tumbled into hopeless ruin; :the chateau, the villas, the little house* of the poor, shaken into heaps of moldering rub- bish, And I see in it a sign of that greater devastation, which covers the land .of William II= the devastation 0 of the spirit of the. German people, for where there is that moral grandeur of which Heine and Goethe and Schiller and Luther were far -heard compell- ing voices? I tell you it has all been leveled into heaps of moldering rub- bish—a thousand times more .rnelan- No. choly than any in France. Behold the common sense of Ger- many become the sense that is com- mon only among criminals! The soon- er we recognize that the better, They and moral are really .;burglars in this great house of God we inhabit, seeking .to e T_ ears •were in.the .„The poor could fe was not going ea—it was to be a be a kind of a preferred holde ran the pl 'nt and hurried Cook's tele Nobody would have to think :orifi All that would be : attended to- Ale' proper official. Life .auas to •be Creed •to • a merciless iron plait tike'' -t: of' the beehive-- 'the mast perfect�en►ple of efficiency insisted that the r held .a first mort- gage on it. When they tried to fore-- close with military power to back them, seine of our forefathers got out. ' We,. their sods,. are now crossing the seas to take; up that ancient issue between sense common and preferred and to deters me the' rights of each. We are fighting for the foundations of : democracy—the dictates of common sense. F For the, sake' of saving time, 1' hope my readers will grant_me license to resort to tali economy of slang.- A man might: do worse these days. There mo. e e er of, •corn n one a ti►o. , ist s Y Now hot air has j V 1 EJ}�I sense.- 't i ho e -T ' .i lie n � 2�,�.- t world on he A t e the First w o w a s a e Jins f. ho six. H e ers of � cons a t greatest , and his family and fronds 'took all that Great Britain mould produce — never, I am glad to`' say, a large a- mount, but enough to put James into business with the Almighty. To be sure, it was not a full partnership. It was no absolute Hohenzollern . mon- opoly of.mortal participation. - It was com,parively niodest, but its was en- ough to outrage the common sense of the English. After all, divine part- nerships were not for the land of Fielding and Sinollett and Swift and Dickens and ,Thackeray. Too much. humor there. ;Too much liberty of , the tongue and pen. Too great a gift for ridicule. Where there is ridicule there can be no self_appointed coun- sellors of God, and handmade halos of divinity find their way to the garbage heap., Now, if we are to have sound corn- mon sense, we must have humor,' and if we are - to have humor we must have liberty. There can be no crown or mitered knave, no sacred,, fawni':g idiot, who is immune from ridicule; no little tin dietes who can safely slash you with a sword unless you give them the whale a sidewalk. Humor would' .take care of them; not the ex- uberance: that .is born in the wine- press or the beer-vat—humor is no by-product of !the brewery—but the ;merriment that comes when common sense has been vindicated by ridicule. Solernn ty is' often wedded to Con- ceit, and their children have committed all the crimes on record. You may alwaye look for the devil in the neigh- borhood ,.shoed of some solemn and conceited ass who has inherited power and who, like the one that Balaam rode, speaks for the Almighty. So, when the devil came back, he steered for. Germany. There he began to. destroy the common sense of a race with the atmosphere of hell—Prot ` ir. We have seen its effect. It - i stes the intellect. • It produces the eumatic rubber brain —the brain that keeps its friends busy with tkie pump of adulation; the brain stretched to hold its conceit: out of which we can hear the hot air leaking in streams of boastfulness.;The divine afflatus of an emperor is apt to make as much disturbance as a leaky == steam -pipe . When the pumpers cease because they are weary, it becomes irritated. Then all hands to they pumps again. Soon there is no illusion of grandeur too absurd to be real, no indictment of idiotic presumption which it is unwill- ing to admit. By and by it breaks into the realm of the infinite aid hastens to the suc- cor of God, for, to the pneumatic brain God is slow and old-fashioned. There- after it infests: the heavenly . throne _ and seeks to turn it into a plant -for the manufacture of improved morals, and so, as to insure their popularity, every agent for these morals is to carry a sword and a gun and a license to use them The alleged improve- ment consists in. taking all the nots out of the ten commandments. Nots are irritating to certain people who have plans, for murder, rape, arson, henzollern and Krupp Lord into partnership e Him lessons in eflic- r, they were not to be free lessons. he lessons were to be paid for, but th y were .willing to give Hiin easy term, for which they were to show Him how to hasten the slow process of evolution.. Evolution was in nature with R storage and ra one ever saw a; worrying about The' ideal of Ge c of the insect. nothing in the and the' nectar.: pian there wee World but German 'G4 ith no. wall` J'►etweeri the o •M M'i♦ll ::,din' the will caft the' Kais b' e two purposes of petuation. - No hedding leers . or order of a drone. y— wee to be that the bee th' cis t :bees, enemies, tors; to tier. Ger- nothing- in the einies a l loot. and ' sentiment e racc5Q' they ac�.l• i` �T' God •would n God ite d a be res eetedt The firm mould- pros-. per. > It is not the first Mme that con- ceit and, 1 idtur have bitched their wagon to infinity: It is the *old scheme of Nero and ` Caligula—the ancient dream ' of the g pneumatic prince. He scan rule a great nation, but `first he must fool it. 1 • You may think that this endangered the national •morals, but do not be has- ty. The morals were being looked' af- ter. f ter. Every school, every pulpit, every newspaper, every book, became a pumping -station for hot air: impreg- nated with the new morals. Poets, philosophers, orators, teachers, states- men, romancers, were summoned to th pumps. Rivers of beer and wine flowed into the national abdomen and were converted into mental flatulency. - For thirty years Germany had been rob it of its best possessions—Hin- on a steady dream diet. It took its denburglars! In this war we must morning hate with its coffee tand pray- ers, its hourly selfcontentrnent with its toil, its evening superiority with its beer and `. frankfurters. History was falsified, philosophy bribed, reli- gion coerced and corrupted] conscience silenced—at first by sophistry, then by the iron hand: Hot air was .blowing from all sides=. It was - no gentle breeze. It was a simoon, a tornado. No one could stand before it --not even a sturdy Liebknecht or an un- sullied Harden. Germany was inebriated with a sense of its mental grandeur and mor- al pulchritude j Now 'moral pulchri- tude is like a forest flower. It can - not stand the fierce glare of publicity; you cannot *die it as you would handle sausages! and dye' and fertilize.. Notice how the German military party is advertising its moral pulchritude— one hundred per cent. pure, blue rib- bon, (spurlos , versenkt), honest -to- God morality! , = ;the kind ,that made hell famous. I don't blame them at all. How would airy one know that they had it if they 'did not advertise it ? It is easy to accept the hot-air treatment for common sense—easy even for sober-minded men. The co- caine habit i$ not more swiftly ac- quireed and brings a like sense of comfort and' exhilaration. Slowly the Germans yielded to its sweet induce- ment. The began to believe that they were supermen—the chosen peo- ple; they thanked God that they were not like other men. Their first crime was that of grabbng everything in the heaven of holy promise. Those. clever Prussians had arranged with St. Peter for all the reserved seats- -no- thing but standing room left. Heaven was to be a place exclusively for the lovers of frankfurters and sauerkraut and Limgurger cheese: God was al- together their God. Of course! Was he not a member of the firm. of. Hohen- zollern and Knipp ? And, being so, other races were a bore and an em- barassment. Would he not gladly be rid of them? Certainly. Other races were God's enemies, and therefore German enemies. So it became the right and duty of the Germans to reach out and possess the earth and its fiullness. The day had arrived. There was nothing in the world but Germans and enemies and loot. and piracy. H had taken the and begun to gi iency. Moreov Isuch an issue, I declare myself ready to lay all that 1 have or may have on the old altar of our common `faith. My friends, be of good cheer. The God of our Fathers has not been Kais- ered or Krupped or hurried in-. the least, There is ne danger that heav- en will be Teutonized. "The shouting and the tumult dies --- The captains and the kings depart— Still' stands -Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of hosts be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget.” Lest we forget the innumerable dead. who have nobly .died, and the host of the living who with a just and com- monsense and love of honour have 1 sent them forth to die. Lest we for- get that we and our allies have not been above reproach; that there were'. sign's of decadence among us—in the growing love of ease and idleness, in the tango daice of literature and lust, in the 'exaltation of pleasure in a very definite degeneration sof our moral fiber . Lest we forget -that our spirit is be- ing purified in the furnace of war and the shadow of death. Do you remem- ber emember the protest of those poilus when .� some unelean plays were sent to the 1 battlefront for their :'entertainment? "We are not pigs": that was the message they sent back. Lest we forget that the spirt of man has been lifted up out of the mud and dust of the battle lines, out of the body tortured with pain and weariness and vermin, out of the close companion- ship ompanionship of the dead into high association on the bloody altar of liberty and sac- rifice. - Lest we forget that the. ,spirit of our own boys shall be thus lifted' up, and our duty to put oatr . house in order and make it a fit place for them to live in when they `shall have return- ed to it from the battlefields , swept, as a soldier has written, by the cleans- ing winds of God. The most sublime and beautiful thing the world has ever seen in t'he common sense of the common men and women of the civilized nations of to- - day. THE SOUTH HURON ELECTIONS Official Returns The following is the result of the of- ficial count made at Seaforth on. Fri- day by Mr.. Robert Wilson, Retina -lin Officer for the riling: Seaforth McMillan Mernei No. 1 . 93 - 11 o - N. 65 o 3= . 22: ..y .ts.. 24 81 II68 256 • 29a 43 Clinton. No. 1 . 46 No. 2 64 No. 3 ...... 40 Noe 4 . • 33 No. give them the.. consideration due a burglar. and only that./ We must hit them how and: where we may. We are bouhd bv. no nice regard for fair play. We must kill the burglar or, the burglar will kill us. When 1 went away to the battle- front, a friend said to me; "Try to learn how this incredible thing came about and why it continues. That is what every one wishes to know.' Well, hot air was the cause of • it, Now why does it continue? My ans- wer is, Bone-head—mostly plumed Bone -head. Think of- those diplomats who. were twenty years in Germany and yet knew nothing of what was going on around them and of its implications! You say that they did know, and that they warned . their peoples? - Well, then, you may shift the bone -heads onto other shoulders, Think of the diplomatic failures that have followed: I bow my head to the people of England and td the incomparable valor of her armies and fleets. My friend- ly criticism is aimed at the 'one and only point in which she could be said to resemble Germany, vie , in a cer- tain limited ei ouragemertt of super- men. • . Now, if the last three years have taught us anything, it is this: the sup- ermari;is going to be unsupered. Con- sidering the high cost of upkeep and continuous adulatioe, he does not pay. He is in the nature, of a needless tax upon hu u n life ad security. Hit mistakes, even to use no harsher word-, have slaughtered more human beings than there are in the world. The born gentleman and professional aristo- crat, with a hot-air receiver on his name, who- lies in a tower of inherited superiority and looks down at life through hazy distance with a telescope has and can have no common sense. He has not that intimate knowledge of human nature which comes only of a long and close contact with human beings. Without that knowledge he will know no more of what is inthe other fellow's mind and the bluff that covers it in a critical clash of wits than a baby sucking its bottle in a perambulator. He fails,. and the cost of his failure no man can estimate. He 'stands discredited. Now is the time when all men must choose between- two ideals: That of Exeter 1 2! 4' No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 0 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 1 No. 2, No. 3 No. 4 177 25 80 41 26 122 Hensall • 105 Bayfield 21. Tuckersmith 66 • 60 49 76 7.4 59 McKillop, 384 172 116 98 101 74 .389 203 No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 .. . • Stanley. Usborne. 89 123 104 94 414 already been informed by the War 233 Qfce authorities that, your son, Pte. Morrison: No. 15285 has been wound- 113 ed, but knowing how shert of informs- 108 tion official letters are I take this en - 74 portunity to send you further details. 25 You son was wounded on the efterrioon _ of December' let. His wenn is. hap - 320 oily enough, not of a serious haracter. 198 The bullet : entered the flea ` part of therightg, leg, - penetrated the ame and 110 slightly touched the left leg. No 5 bones were touched I know that he arrived safely at the advanced dress- 108 ing station and I am sure he is now 87 in some comfortable hospital and on a good road to a speedy recovery. We 47 regret the 'teniporary loss of -Pte. 47 Morrison and express our' sympathy 2a with him on account of ,the sufferings 20 °that must necessarily follow the 33 wound. -Pte. Morrison . was a. very 36 efficient machine gunner and during the thirty months that he and 1 have 212 served our country togther, 1 . have always found him atrue friend and a soldier to be relied upon I hope you 1 will soon receive the news that your 70 son is fullyTecovered - If you wish for 37 any further information in this mat- es ter, write me under followingess-: Sergt. J. A. Ragland, No. 15131,Can. 186 Machine Gun Squadron, Con. Can. Bri- gade, B .E .F ., France, and I Would be poss- ible. to Yours ive you any J. A. IIA.GLAND. No 5 No. 6 JMCLEAN BROS." Publihhera $1.50 a Year in Adv uce .... e s .....r ♦.... . Mullett. No. 1 Oi,...ae..oaa<e No. 2 ................ No. 3 .. No. 4 ........... .... No, 5 No. 6 No. 7 • 27 70 19 43 158 , 373 215 74 - 42 51 60 41 28 49 63 27 29 46 27 47 36 335. 285 • Recapitulation Seaforth ..... 256 '299 Cl.,tort .. - ............ 177 410 Ex�ter 122 320 He sail 105 110 Bayfield .. . 21 108 Tucke with . , ... • 38* 212 McKillip .... ..... ..... 389 186 Stanley.... 218 263 Usbo 181. 349 . Hay 512 140 Staple n . ... 486 344 Gode 'ch Township .. • . 158 373 Iiulle ... ..... ,,. 88 285 3344 3399 55 THE HURON 'COUNTY COUNCIL. 1918. • The County Council for 1918 will be &imposed as follows: ,, - Seaforth--F.: Harburn. Clinton ---J A. Ford- Goderich--.ares Laith'wsite and Clark. ' 'gingham—A. Tipiing Hensall G . C. Petty Exeter—B. W. F. Beavers Blyth -N. A. Taylor Brussels—S. T. Plum Bayfield—A. E. Erwin. Wroxeter—John Douglas irteKillop–J, M. Govenlock Tuckersnnith--H . Crich. Usborne--Thomas Brock Stephen—W . R 1 Elliott and John Love Hay --w Stanley --J . 'McKinley Goderich Township—W. 11. .Lobb i'ullett—M .Armstrong Ashfield J. 1'. Dalton Colbe .e -G. Young Wawanosh,, West --J Mallough Wawanosh, East—N. 'Campbell' cirey-Robert' Litreigstotte and John M bb. `llforfs: W, Fraser TurnbefryaYT. K. Powe .iliowick — Spotton and ' R. thrtuag. FROM OBAN eThe: ,forlgwhig recently by Mr. J. Musson from the Sergeant ' the fat Gun Company with. which hia son, Morrison was serving in Franceat time of his second • eaaualty. l'tN. Morrison is also a nephew of 'William Morrison, of Seaforth: France, Dec. 94 1917 Dear Sir,—Undoubtedly you . have • 57 31 56 30 23 111 13 63 69 28 218 40 67 18 56 181 No. 1 . No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 768 8 No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 No. 9 Their great leader, in their name. had claimed a swinish monopoly of I the proud and merciless, heart on the God's favor. His was not the conten- one hand, that of the hunible and con-. No. do nof James the First, that all true trite heart on the other; between theNo. kings enjoy divine right -=-oh not at Hun and the Anglo-Saxon, between 1 No a11! Bill had grown rather husky and Jesus Christ and the Bevil. Faced i No. 1 2 26 3 39Q 4 18 Hays. 30 1-043 , b. 991 • 69 74 30 66 512 372 Stephen 15 16 70 101 56 81 67 ,... 24 O • • 1 • . • • . • .. re . . 56 486 -- 142 Goderich Township 29 claims s � —G. `�' . Pollard, of Ethel,c to hive 'out on 98 shoes in one day, _ single-handed, before retiring from 263 his blacksmith shop. 45 8th week Abram Bishop, of the 8th concession, of Grey, had the finis-. - 105 fortune to have his lefthand severely injured in the windmill. Two joints 55 122 of the first finger had to be amputated 67 and the second and thf'rd fingers were considerably damaged. 349 —On Thursday, December 27th, at 168 5 o'clock p.m. , a pretty home wedding was solemnreed at the home of the 23 bride's parents Mr, and Mrs. William 22 Rands, "Sunnyside Farm," Grey 34 township, when their daughter, Miss 11 Jennie, was united in marriage with Stanley Wheeler, eon of Lawrence 7 Wheeler, of prey -township, Rev. W. 16 E. Stafford, B. A.., performing the 22 ceremony, which took place under a 5 large flower bell, in front of a bank of ferns and foliage. The bride who 140 looked t.retiy in a gown . of white silk Eave c -ere, with trnnxnrngs of white 66 'satin, was given away by cher father, as the strains of the bridal chorus 52 from Lohengrin, wexc tieing played by 29 the bride's sister Miss Ella. :Ater 31 congratulations and the signing of the 20 register, the guests numbering about 20 ti5, sat down to a most sumptuous 23 wedding repast, prepared in the 50hostess' usual good style. The dining 53 room and tables were prettily decor - 344 with green and carnations. The 344 evening was enjoyably spent in games social chat and a musical programme. 83 The gifts, including furniture, silver- 58 ware, cut glass, hand -painted china, yen, etc., were beautiful testifying 69 the high esteem in which both 50 bride and groom are held.