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The Huron Expositor, 1920-03-19, Page 1"SAE. H 12, 1920. and se to Greet very Turn FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR WHOLE NUMBER 2727 SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1920. KcLMa Nes., Publishes's $1.50 a Year is Advance �itorial ford to be balled up with a corpus • delicti that way. Mr. Meighen's project was well conceived. He was going to disin- fect the Unionist party,, pack it in mothballs and call it the Moderate Party, but all this went glimmering. .when the Big Fellows put up their man to. say that the party they in- tended to revive was the Liberal - Conservative party and that the best the Unionist Party could expect was a two • years' reprieve. Thus and so were Mr. Meighen's great hopes crucified. He still has a career in the "Conservative party, but it is as Able Lieutenant. The Captain will ae somebody else.. -Enter Sir Thomas. The Captain has already declared himself. That declaration was the second significant thing in the debate on the address. It was done toward the end of the debate and' was • re- garded by all the wise men in the' House as Sir Thomas White's straight tip as to what party to bet on. The LiberalhConservative party, with its girth let out to take in the tariff Liberals—that'sthe horse for your money gentlemen. -The Liberal -Con- servative party with Sir Thomas White up. Make your bet's, gentle- men. Not that Sir Thomas said -it just that way. It is not in him to be brutal. He was gentle enough, but firm withal and though Mr. Meighen's face' dropped with a dull sickening thud as he listened to the words which stopped all new parties or sprightly disguise's for old parties so Iong as the Liberal -Conservative party was. able to do business at the old' stand, Sir Thomas went through with his task. He was cruel to be. kind: I think Mr.- Meighen flung- a- way' ambition right there—at any tably m during the coldest id day there is certainly a great :to shop in a comfortably warm im on the coldest days to have your shopping can, be done with S annoying to shop when one is take just as long a time as you inapection of the goods yens in- eses Sthot Spring .Coat8. for Girls and Women. smart new r Coat re are is a time see ew You'll rnfss seeing the Choicest Coats ever shown in Seaforth if you miss this stofe. We handle only the products of the best mak- ers of Garments in the Dominion, and we se-. lect only the best of their garments. Is it not reasonable to -suppose that you'll find some very attractive Coats here.? Try us. Price $15 to $65 . MENMOIR AMP MEV Let us make you a Suit to your order. Select your cloth from our splendid range of Suit- ings, all pure wools and will measure you and make your Suit just as in pre -:war days. The good old reliable cloth AN ith the good old re- liable make aInd trim to your own heart's de- sire. We have the goods—we have the abili.ty— and we have the conscientious ambition, to give eyery customer a better clothes deal than is a;vailable elsewhere. Prices $30 to $50 rate the ambition to break his head 1 against the stone wall the anterestsjment. However, with the disappear - have raised. Mr. Meighen must ance of the present Ministry, barely come when Sir Thomas rubs the able to stagger along as it is at this lamp. As for Mt. Rowell he aid moment, and its replacement by saner not even try to hide his dismay. Other Measures and saner men, such wrongs Unionists applauded wildly their im- and ravages may, in time, be repair - pending doom, but Mr. Rowell never ed, tliough it will be lopg, indeed, lifted a finger by way of praise. Mr. before the remembrance of them can Rowell is in hard luck. One day he be effaced. But, quite apart from the gets a facer from Sir Thomas White special impairment of ParlikandaVe and, next day the Hon. Charles prestige resultant from what we hold Murphy strips him to his Nessus to be the wrong and ruthless treat - undershirt of Uplift which he finds ment meted out 'to it by Union was financed by Toropto philan- Government, it is undeniable that its -thropists. It would perhaps be bet- stahaing in tae eyes of the Canadian ter for Mr. Rowell if he said less people is very far from what it about the sactificea he made to enter could be ' and should be, and very public fife and stated by'the good Old far, too, from what, if a benign Testament doctrine that he who Providence and the Canadian peo- serves the altat lives by the altar. ple's own resolution have, as we be - If he did we should probably hear lieve. they nhasvoe,esoomre be.,,,tter schenie less of this Murphy-Rayeell feud Of things i t r f u than obtains which, sooth to say, grows irksome. at preient, it may yet be. A Triumph of Tactics. , There are those who will say that why the Canadian people regard their The third matter of significance national assembly with less venera- was the farmer's attitude toward the tion than the British regard theirs Mackenzie •King amendment. The is that the former body does -not amendment was a triumph of tactics. possess the same august traditione It shows Leader King either a fine that preeminently distinguish the strategist`or well advised—perhaps a latter. We are far from saying that little of both. The amendment was there is no force at all in this con - devised for that very purpose—to tention. To the mind of an English - line the U. F.'s up where they be - An man with any imagination—a quality longed—with the Liberal party. immediate election? ' That was a by the way, in which the average Englishman scarcely excels—West- ruse. It was a pit that the farmers minster is still haunted by the shades were bound to walk into because they of towering Parliamentary figures of are . the only people that, would btne- , the past, of the two Pitts, of Fox, of fit by an election at this moment. have been 'watching the House ofi Burke,. and the reit. In such tradi- Commons from the Press Gallery for tions, we are, vety largely, lacking. Canadians have not grown many twenty years and never in all that time have I heard a speech that great orators. More than that, they changed one vote, much less an a- chave not produced a race of great mendment to the address in -6,. "Parliament men." It is possible which jolted twelve reluctant porleitpiAcj- that such a race would not be suited g P . to the genius of this country. We ant? Of course they were! Didn't think it open to question, for instance, Dr. Michael Clark wipe his boots on whether, if Gladstone and Disraeli the • amendment before he admitted had wrought and fought at Ottawa, that he would vote for it "on general instead of at Westminster, the Horn - principles."? His action was typical eric combats between them would of all Mr. Crerar's little band. They have fascinated and enthralled and hated to do it—but they did it. They inspired the Canadian national mind, as were dragooned into recognizing they did the British, for far more than their real friends. a generation. This vote on the amendment is the Be that, however, as it may, we are first step—and a long one—toward quite ready to admit that the absence the retepproachment between Liberals of tradition does, in part, account fox the Canadian people's taking less and Farmers, a natural alliance in pride, and a good deal less interest, in view of the fact that the Liberal in the proceedings of their Parliament tariff policy was good enough for the than the British take in the proceed - farmers before a little success at the ings of theirs. But that is only in polls turned their heads. The Liberal tariff policy is likely to be the, tariff part, and probably only in small part, the aemth about the matter. policy of the Liberal -Farmer coali- Farrther, it is beyond question that tion because it more nearly repre- eur Parliament has not been able to sents the common sense of the tariff issue,. and the Farmers are gradually attract to its service, to the extent desirablee the best minds of the coun- learning common sense. I say it try. Some men, of noble nature lead advisedly—the farmers are learning of noble mind, it has so attracted. humility. Five months ago' they Of one such, in particular, Canadian. knew it all—to-day they are not so Liberalism will never cease to think sure. Five months ago they were evangelical; to -day, from a Liberal with 'reverent affection. But, on the whole, we think it is true that Parlia- ,point of view,. they are almost orthodox. If you don't believe me mentary life in Canada has not drawn read their speeches in Parliament— to itself, anythipg like as fully as it particUlarly Mr. Crerar's latest one. should have done, the men. best equip - Few threats and less slaughter there. ped for rendering .public service of —IL F. G. high value to the common weal. This is, doubtless to a large extent, in - THE POSITION OF PARLIAMENT separable from the condition of a "With the re-assemaang of Perlin- country, there is eo much other work, mera for a session that may not un- work valuable, and even -vital, to be likely be fraught' with the utmost- done, and work which shows so much moment to the destinies of the coun- quicker results than does Parliament - try, the moment is,' perhaps, opportune ary effort, that men are apt* to over - for examining somewhat into the look the fact that the latter aeld of standing of Parliament itself in the endeavor affords the sublimest oppor- such a Franchise Act and accomplish goes to an . as the people of Great Britain look Ottawa, for example, noble way, called "doing good and tunity of what Burke, in his inimitably on it means waiting on the decennial P- there is still shelter in the Conserv- an people. DO they lnooke to e census next year which gives the ative party, though not as leader. government an excellent excuse for That proud eminence Eastern man of greater vision ana Parliament with the same kind of to Westminister? Do we regard our lingering a year after that. The GOV- more popular gifts than the member I Farmers' movement saves our life." for Portage La Prairie. Mr. adeig: I veneratipn as the British people—we ernment may well exclaim "The With two years of precarious ex- contaiuing the Unionist party, not so hen had nourished the proj t ee- °I , do not, 'of course, include the Irish, h t ties on the Government which is re- ' own_ He had his eye on the job of ' fraud and rti , much for the party's sake as for a on em p y sr istence ahead of it a deep gloom eet- ' first fiddler and had the party showed ings ee pa y ay -or , i these questions must be given in the fleeted in the faces of Messrs. rae very opposite of veneration Meighen, Rowell and Calder who be- ' stamina he might have carried his —regard theirs? If the answers to gin to realize that, whoever comes out plan through, and landed the job. a . case of suspended animation. Unionist party, but what's the use I Even yet he may be leader of the 1 negativ_ I must be if they are t bicsi true, thenY why are thee thi ° on tap, what he leads is nothing but e, as they uri nestionabl Brother Calder is probably the most ' when the word has Rhoda gone out 9 seriously impaired the prestige of 'our eational legislative and deliber- ative assembly. Under those blows the national pride still smarts, and will, for long, smart. Their nature of course, is within the memory of us all. The deliberate reduction, of Parliament to a nullity during a war that, above all -other wars, was sup- posed to be "waged .by, and on behalf of, the people—that is the principal count, though . there are numerous minor ones, in the nation's indictment ef Unien Government, in respect of its treatment of the nation's Parlia- d the New Dress es S THAT cEED The Greig Clothing C A REQUEST TO SIR OLIVER LODGE Call up the ghost of good Saint Pat, And bid him come again; The snakes have disappeared, but lo! They've changed into Sinn Fein. H. I. G.—In Toronto Globe. for the firg time in this town dusive and at this store only. wear the Springtime fashions KEEPING TRACK OF THE STRAWS The first division ina the new' build- ing will not soon be passed on to the litrkbe of forgotten things. It was full of significances. It showed how all the winds of opinion blew. The ;division and the debate that led up' to it showed first and fore- most that Union Government ihtends to hang on, accidents barred, until it perishes by effiuxion of time.- It is going to eat, drink and be merry for the day afters to -morrow it may get better. Wale and see—that is the cue. Its Ural, heart may be beating funeral marches to the grave, but the expectations are that the funeral will not -reach the cemetery for two years yet. The Government still has a major - the East will be a fitting crown to his career. There is that in his face which advertise a heart for any fate which will draw a salary as big as Frank Carvell's. Jim is full of sil- ence, serenely and sunshiny, because he knows that he will go the way all good Libetals go who leave Union Government for the higher life on some Royal Commission or other. Great Hopes Blasted. Not so Leader Rowell, who Nerish- ed at one time the ambition to lee premier, if only for fifteen minutes. But what is that premiership now? Ashes in the mouth! Dead Sea apples! Nothing to it aecause the Unionist party is appornted to die. It lives only se long as Sir Robert Borden says so. It hangs on his breeth, so to speak, and when, hie breath gives out or goes on strike, Union Goaernment is at liberty to hang itself somewhere else. There is no great pleasure in acting as the central figure of a funeral procession and that is the most Leader Rowell can aspire to now. There is no hornt, for him in the Liberal party—the home having mov- ed in the direction of the Farmers' ity of thirty-four between A and de- party which leaves even such a mile struction. There is little danger that tent crusader as Mr. Rowell a lone the thirty-four will melt away be- way behind. Mr. Rowell is sad and of choosing early in the season that will not be shown by ley are being used by the man- hildren's garments for Spring is a double incentive to Pur - Spring clothes in your leisure rour New Dress? at a New Corset earn that it is folly to attempt d corset. u first purchase a new model ae correct fashion tendency. aave just beea received. Cora- ls. Let us emphasize that you, idel just adapted to- your figure, sell you a corset at all, rather rye uncomfortable or one that individual requirementa. The ge from $1.00 to $5.00. ESE PETTICOATS AT $2.50 ral Taffeta, and such an excel - those very flounced and ruffled suits and dresses: Indeed, we one of these petticoats after as the number is limited. cause they know that when Union Government goes they go. Conse- quently they stick until death does them part. It is Hobson's choice. Their friends expect them to be brave and to do certain necessary but dis- agreeable things which, only a Gov- ernment dedicated to death can prop- erly do. For instance they can frame a Franchise Act neatly blended of rep -by -pop for the cities and propor- tional representatives for the country which willtake most of the fever out of the farmees' movement by making the city man's vote of equal value with his country brother's. To build avish th dispirited and does not show a cheer- ful colititenance to the world. Ile lacks Mr. Calder's adjustable phil- osophy. His zeal for public life i not surfeited with six years in the limeligrit. He would fain have mon, of it. A Judgeship in the Supreme Court, is worse than burial for such a flaniing patriot, and yet what else is there when the Liberal party waves "Good-bye" and the Conserva- tive party says "What's your hurry ? Here's your hat." Beyond doubt Mr. Rowell it down- hearted. So is Arthur Meighen— though not quite so downhearted as country in the making. In such a tone or in temper, if thoee who ere best calculated to raise at hold aloof from it? Rightly regarded, public work is, or should be, the highest, because the most disinterested, form of all work. "Yea, let al/ good 'things await Him who cares not to be great But as he serves,: or saveS theState." We need, each one of us, to lay to heart, whatever our sphere of op- portunity, , the full significance of these words, as applicable to the duty of those who are citizehs of no mean country. But in what we have so far writ- ten, we leave not touched on what is, after all, the main reason for the Canadian people's not exhibiting. to- wards their Parliament the pride and affection and interest which the Brit-. ish have long felt for theirs. To the Englishman, his Parliament is his national assembly in the very fullest sense of the terms. Indeed, the Imperialists have exalted it into something a good deal more than that. But, at any rate, it represents to him supreme and ultimate author- ity. With the Canadian it is other- wise with regard to. his Parliament. The advocates of double duties and divided loyalties have taught him that his Parliament is not, for him, the supreme and ultimate authority-. His Parliament has its foreign, rela- tions carefully regulated for it from Downing Street. Nay, if it wishes even to prolong its •own life, for ex- ample, it has, on such an intimate matter of domestic concern, to ob- tain the British Parliament's consent. In, short, in many- ways, the Canad- ian is made to feel that hii own Dominion Parliament is not a supreme power and is not possessed of su- preme power. Nothing but a full sense of complete nationhood, using. that expression not as a mere empty vaunt of party politicians, but as an unchallengeabTe and unassailable fact, can giye to the Canadian Parliament that position of prestige and author- ity which is the due of the regularly elected Parliament of a people who are fully free.—The Statesman. SHORTAGE OF FLAX During the period of the war, the Irish spinning Mills received orders for the manufacture of linen for the purpose of supplying material for aeroplane wings. The demand was so great that in order to supply the desired quantity ordered by the dif- ferent Governments, it was found necessary to almost discontinue the manufacture of linens for household purposes. The war is now over and won, and in order to establish industries back to their pre-war eonditions, and tea supply the ever increasing demands for linen articles, it will be necessary to keep on growing flax in this; country for a number of years as we understand that it will be at least five years before the Irish market will be back to normal. We understand there is quite a large quantity of retted flax straw still in the Province, that has to be scutched to supply the demands of the spinning mills, and towards this end, every mill large and small, are doing everything to keep the spinners going. We also understand that the Can- adian Flax Mills Iamited, the largest growers of flax fibre straw and seed in the Province of Ontario, and for that matter in Canada, whose mills are now located at Arthur, Essex, Drayton, St. Catharines, Wallaceburg, Harriston and Monkton are helping out considerably in -oartially meeting the , gieat demand for scutched line fibre. The Company's Mill at Sea - forth is now working day and night, six days a week, and they hope to anish working up their large crop of straw now on hand before the com- mencement of the -coming harvest. At Seaforth this year the Company are sowing 600 acres and the pro- spects are that there will be a very good `i -op. This acreage will give employment to a large number of Government had no mandate from the people after the war closed, and that they are a government of inac- tion and have lamentably fallen down on the reconstruction problems, and they have become very unpopular with the general public; but it is not my purpose here at this time to either affirm or deny those statements of the press, but if it be so that the electors of our Dominion desire to get rid of an unpopular government and cannot accomplish it, it is to my mind a sad reflection on our election system, which should be remedied. Then the question arises, what is the remedy? and I have failed to see a remedy proposed in all the press art- icles that I had read during many weeks. It seems passings` strange that none has been outlined, and yet the remedy would be so easily ac- complished if every elector *Oen the next Dominion' election is brought on' and the candidates appear . on the scene soliciting our votes to just tell them in plain, every -day English that unless they would support re- call legislation you would not support them. If every elector did that plain duty we would eventually get legisla- tion to fill the bill. I ask why should we elect any set of men for the period of five years and not . have any string on them; but that string need. not be used if they were living up to the platform that they attained power on; but if at the end of the first twelve months if their pledges had been violated then use the power of recall. A bill of that nature need not be necessarily comprehensive, but a petition ofelectors reasonably large enough addressed' to the governor - 'general and he would have no option but to dissolve the House and send them to their constituents. It is so simple the wonder is why we have done without it so long. Of course, I know the professional politician will say all sorts of things against - it, that is visionary and not at all prac- tical or workable, but I have an idea it would work for better legislation for "our" country. The thought of having to face the electors probably in a short twelve months would keep the boys at :Ottawa, and Winnipeg as well, in the straight and narrow path. I say to electors; let us insist on,, such an act and not sit back and joinin a` chorus, such and such a government are a useless bunch. W. BARBER. Killarney, Manitoba. resisting evil." But, allowing for all hands throughout the 'bole year. that, there la yet small roorn for doubt RA that our conscience and conscioueness as a people yet need to be a good RECALL LIKGISIATION deal more fully impressed than they The following letter written by Mr. are with a sense of the duty and dig- W. Barber, of Killarney, Manitoba, nity of public service. Not only appeared a ehort time ago in the from the Dominion Parliament, but . Wiimipeg Free Preas, and we repro - also from Provineial Legislatures, ' duce it here as tlie subject is of in - and from municipal bodies, do men terest to all at the present time and who could render such service hold also because Mr. Barber is well aloof in numbere far too large. Some known to the people of this district, , ' peo le sav that this is because we ' being' a brother of Mrs. G. M. Chesn.ey e ngs so . ; have suffered our public life of all of Seaforth, and a frequent contribu- resigned of the three. Feeling that -to kill it. -At the end of two years No doubt it is true that the heavy i kinds to be on an insufficiently lofty tor to The Expositor: his future in the West is largely past , or sooneiMr. Meighen would be drag- i blows which Union Government heel plane. And, again, there may be _During the past few weeks I have he seems to have settled down to the ! ging a corpse around. He is a young 1 sttuck at Parliamentary institutions 1 some truth in tlas. But how is that read ninny articles in the press of idea that a big Government job In. , man with a future and he can't Rf- end Parliamentary rights alike have ' public life to 'be raised, either in most of the provinces that the Union HURON NOTES —Thomas Coulter has sold his 120 acre farni 10th concession of Morrie, to James frells, of Hullett. The -price —James S. Armstrong, adjoieing Brussels, has two cows which have averaged $50 a month for the last four months at Stewart Bros.' Cream- ery. They produced 285 pounds of butter fat, which amounts to a little over three pounds of butter a day. —,10. Thomas Deans, who has con- ducted a successful draying business in Wingham for some years has sold to Mr. J. A, McIntyre, who will run the draying work in connection with his bus and baggage business. —Mr. J. H. Beemer, who has been station agent for the C, P. R. in Wingham for thirty 'years has de- cided to -retire and 'will probably lo- cate in Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Beerner and family have been most highly esteemed residents of that town and a large circle of friends will regret -to hear of their removal. —Laura Perdue, wife of Councillor D.'A. Lindsay, of Goderich township, passed away last Thursday morning, her death being due to pneumonia. The deceased lady was a daughter of the late William Perdue, of Goderich township, and of Mrs. Perdue, now of Clinton. She was born and spent all her life in the township, where she was very favorably known. She is survived by her husband and a family of six. —Thursday of last week William Annett died at his late home, lot 35, concession 6, Grey, aged 61 years, nine months and three days. The funeral took place Monday afternoon, interment being made in Elma Centre cemetery. Mr. Annett came from Thorndale, Middlesex County, about forty years ago and took a bush farm which he transfermed to arable acres. He married Miss Selena Gim- lett, 8th concession of Elma, and she with four sons, Percy, at home; Rus- sel and Albert, in the West, and Nel- son,. Detroit, survive. Deceased bad a siege of the flu followed by pneu- monia, which affected his heart. —An interesting event took place at the Methodist Parsonage, in Wrox- eter, Wednesday afternoon, -when Miss Emma Wade, of England, was united in marriage to William. Weals,ke, Rev. Mr. Stride officiating., They were attended by Miss Kathleen Westlake and William J. Wade. The marriage is the eutcome of a war romance, Mr. Westlake being one of the five Westlake brothers who saw extensive service all returning safe- ly. He first mei his bride while on leave in England. Ms and Mrs. Westlake will reside on the grown's, farm in Howick and have the good wishes of the eommunity for their happiness and prosperity. —Neightiors and friends to the number of thirty-five gathered at the home of Albert end Mrs. Cole in. Morris on the evening of March 3rd, to spend e social' few hours with them before leavink the farm to take up residence in, Blyth. One pleasing feature of the evening was a presen- tation An address was read by Angela Ray and Helen Grasby pre- sented Mrs Cole with a handsome silver -carving set while George fountain pen. —After a prolonged fight against failing health Frederick Ross Hay - croft, the only son of the late George and Mrs. Haycroft, well known form- er Brusselites, passed quietly to the great beyond last Friday morning in his 30th year. He paid nature's debt hie uncle and aunt, with whom he had been rnakitig his home in Brus- sels' since returning ftom doing duty as a machinist in England during the war. At Dartford, in the Old Land, he suffered in being knocked down by a motor truck in which he had a leg broken and ids spite inaared from which he never fully recovered, al-. though able to get about last summer and fall, when he assisted his uncle in the gent's furnishing (jepartment of his- stores. But despite the best care bestowed and the pluck shown by the patient he gradttally wasted away until the end came as stated. —A quiet wedding was solemnized at the Evangelical Parsonage, Zuricha 'on Tuesday evening at seven p.m., when Miss Maud, youngest daughter of Mrs. S. McBride, of that village, was united in matrimony to Mr. Al- bert H. Schnell, of Calgary, son. of The couple were unattended and left for their home at Calgary on Wednes- day. They will, however, spend their honeymoon at London and Detroit, and go West via Chicago. --e-Mr. Richard Glanville passed a- way in Exeter on Tuesday in his 90th year. The deceased had been ailing for about two years, the infirmities of old age being the cause of death, He was a native of England and came to Canada about sixty years ago, most of that time being spent in Stephen. About ten years ago he moved to Exeter and has lived with his 5014. Lyman. Four sons and four datzglea ters survive. Mrs. Thomas Crewes, of Exeter, is a daughter, Frank afal Ida live in Stephen, and Arthur at Cromarty. —A very quiet wedding was solemn- ized last Wednesday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Errington, of West Wawanosh, when their daughter, Lily, was united in marriage to Mr. Lorne MacDonald, of LuclaiowS The ceremony was per- - formed by the Rey. Mr. Jamieson, of Calvin Presbyterian !Aurae St. Helens, in the presence of Only the inamediate relatives of the -contract- ing parties. After the ceremony a dainty breakfast was served. Tile young couple will make their home at Peterboro. —For the third time within three weeks death has entered the home of Mr. Albert Good, at Holmesville, this time taking away his oldest son, Goldwin. The whole family had been seriously afflicted with the fiu. The mother was the first one to go, then the daughter, Edna who died in Goderich, where she 'had been. attend- ing the high school. Golklwin had been ill for three weeks. About a week ago he seemed to take a change for the better and sonie hope was entertained for his recovery. But the disease had never altogether left him and he finalla. succumbed to it on Monday evening, March 8the —Tuesday afternoon of last week the postponed annual meeting of Brussels, Morris and Grey Telephone Company was held in the Publac Library Audience room, Brussela, with F. S. Scott, President, in. the chair. The retiring board VMS re- elected, consisting of F, S. Seott, R. Procter and W. Cameron. This com- pany does a large business and with the mounting prices of everything A is no easy job to keep down et- penses. There is continued growth in telephones, making a eervice of great- ly more value than when -organized. —Following an attack of pneu- monia of a week's duration, Jennie. Miller, wife of John Young succumb- ed at her home in Ttumberry Tuila day morning. Deceased was, in her sixtieth, year and is survived by her husband, a son John, and a daughter,. Jean, also one brother, Hugh Miller, and sister, Mrs, A. Doig. Many words of sympathy are expressed. for the bereaved in their great loss. Ow- ing to illness in the family ,a private funeral was held Thursday after- noon to the Wroxeter cemetery, Rev. C. Malcohn in charge. —Death relieved Mrs. He nr Mather of Morris, of a long and try- ing sianess on Saturday last. She has been, a sufferer from -cancer for over a year and bore her affliction with true Christian fortitude and patience. Her maiden name was Ella L E. Owens, and she was born near Bel - grave on September 7th, 1878. The funeral which was held froin her late residence, lot 16, concession. 1, Morriee to Bluevale cemetery on Tuesday_ af- ternoon, was one of the largest ever seen in these parts. The, late Mri. Mathers was a faithful member of Ebenezer Methodist church, azei the= funeral services Were conducted bY her pastor, Rev. Mr. Burgess, midst. ed by Rev. Mr. Tate, Presbyterian. minister. Besides -her so ituss band, she is survived by boys, one sister, Mrs. ran - don, of Belgrave, and brothers, and Heary, of the West, an& Robert Owens, who resides on the homestesd near Belgrave. —Because there was no_express or' freight service on the Huron and Bruce lines last week owing to the huge snowdrifts that blockaded the, road, casket for which an emer- gency call came to London from Bier - toe, wag forwarded to that town on a stewpfow. Early -Friday marling. the wife of the station agent at Merton died, and it was fotuid neces- sary to send. to London for a casket. The undertaker in London, to whom the request had come, placed the coffin in the hands of the Express Company before it was known. that the evening Bruce train was to be cancelled. It was discovered, how- to leave London. Tit eight oldie* in order to fight the drifts between there - and Wingham and an order was se•• cured from tie chief dispatcher per- Illittfitg forwarding of the shipment' by the plow. --- ,. - �- =Anc r hFence'Posts We have a \lar e ' car just to hand and would advise anyone needing Anchors to get some of r these good ones. N. CLUFF & SONS Lumber and Coal SEAFORTH - ONT. seriously impaired the prestige of 'our eational legislative and deliber- ative assembly. Under those blows the national pride still smarts, and will, for long, smart. Their nature of course, is within the memory of us all. The deliberate reduction, of Parliament to a nullity during a war that, above all -other wars, was sup- posed to be "waged .by, and on behalf of, the people—that is the principal count, though . there are numerous minor ones, in the nation's indictment ef Unien Government, in respect of its treatment of the nation's Parlia- d the New Dress es S THAT cEED The Greig Clothing C A REQUEST TO SIR OLIVER LODGE Call up the ghost of good Saint Pat, And bid him come again; The snakes have disappeared, but lo! They've changed into Sinn Fein. H. I. G.—In Toronto Globe. for the firg time in this town dusive and at this store only. wear the Springtime fashions KEEPING TRACK OF THE STRAWS The first division ina the new' build- ing will not soon be passed on to the litrkbe of forgotten things. It was full of significances. It showed how all the winds of opinion blew. The ;division and the debate that led up' to it showed first and fore- most that Union Government ihtends to hang on, accidents barred, until it perishes by effiuxion of time.- It is going to eat, drink and be merry for the day afters to -morrow it may get better. Wale and see—that is the cue. Its Ural, heart may be beating funeral marches to the grave, but the expectations are that the funeral will not -reach the cemetery for two years yet. The Government still has a major - the East will be a fitting crown to his career. There is that in his face which advertise a heart for any fate which will draw a salary as big as Frank Carvell's. Jim is full of sil- ence, serenely and sunshiny, because he knows that he will go the way all good Libetals go who leave Union Government for the higher life on some Royal Commission or other. Great Hopes Blasted. Not so Leader Rowell, who Nerish- ed at one time the ambition to lee premier, if only for fifteen minutes. But what is that premiership now? Ashes in the mouth! Dead Sea apples! Nothing to it aecause the Unionist party is appornted to die. It lives only se long as Sir Robert Borden says so. It hangs on his breeth, so to speak, and when, hie breath gives out or goes on strike, Union Goaernment is at liberty to hang itself somewhere else. There is no great pleasure in acting as the central figure of a funeral procession and that is the most Leader Rowell can aspire to now. There is no hornt, for him in the Liberal party—the home having mov- ed in the direction of the Farmers' ity of thirty-four between A and de- party which leaves even such a mile struction. There is little danger that tent crusader as Mr. Rowell a lone the thirty-four will melt away be- way behind. Mr. Rowell is sad and of choosing early in the season that will not be shown by ley are being used by the man- hildren's garments for Spring is a double incentive to Pur - Spring clothes in your leisure rour New Dress? at a New Corset earn that it is folly to attempt d corset. u first purchase a new model ae correct fashion tendency. aave just beea received. Cora- ls. Let us emphasize that you, idel just adapted to- your figure, sell you a corset at all, rather rye uncomfortable or one that individual requirementa. The ge from $1.00 to $5.00. ESE PETTICOATS AT $2.50 ral Taffeta, and such an excel - those very flounced and ruffled suits and dresses: Indeed, we one of these petticoats after as the number is limited. cause they know that when Union Government goes they go. Conse- quently they stick until death does them part. It is Hobson's choice. Their friends expect them to be brave and to do certain necessary but dis- agreeable things which, only a Gov- ernment dedicated to death can prop- erly do. For instance they can frame a Franchise Act neatly blended of rep -by -pop for the cities and propor- tional representatives for the country which willtake most of the fever out of the farmees' movement by making the city man's vote of equal value with his country brother's. To build avish th dispirited and does not show a cheer- ful colititenance to the world. Ile lacks Mr. Calder's adjustable phil- osophy. His zeal for public life i not surfeited with six years in the limeligrit. He would fain have mon, of it. A Judgeship in the Supreme Court, is worse than burial for such a flaniing patriot, and yet what else is there when the Liberal party waves "Good-bye" and the Conserva- tive party says "What's your hurry ? Here's your hat." Beyond doubt Mr. Rowell it down- hearted. So is Arthur Meighen— though not quite so downhearted as country in the making. In such a tone or in temper, if thoee who ere best calculated to raise at hold aloof from it? Rightly regarded, public work is, or should be, the highest, because the most disinterested, form of all work. "Yea, let al/ good 'things await Him who cares not to be great But as he serves,: or saveS theState." We need, each one of us, to lay to heart, whatever our sphere of op- portunity, , the full significance of these words, as applicable to the duty of those who are citizehs of no mean country. But in what we have so far writ- ten, we leave not touched on what is, after all, the main reason for the Canadian people's not exhibiting. to- wards their Parliament the pride and affection and interest which the Brit-. ish have long felt for theirs. To the Englishman, his Parliament is his national assembly in the very fullest sense of the terms. Indeed, the Imperialists have exalted it into something a good deal more than that. But, at any rate, it represents to him supreme and ultimate author- ity. With the Canadian it is other- wise with regard to. his Parliament. The advocates of double duties and divided loyalties have taught him that his Parliament is not, for him, the supreme and ultimate authority-. His Parliament has its foreign, rela- tions carefully regulated for it from Downing Street. Nay, if it wishes even to prolong its •own life, for ex- ample, it has, on such an intimate matter of domestic concern, to ob- tain the British Parliament's consent. In, short, in many- ways, the Canad- ian is made to feel that hii own Dominion Parliament is not a supreme power and is not possessed of su- preme power. Nothing but a full sense of complete nationhood, using. that expression not as a mere empty vaunt of party politicians, but as an unchallengeabTe and unassailable fact, can giye to the Canadian Parliament that position of prestige and author- ity which is the due of the regularly elected Parliament of a people who are fully free.—The Statesman. SHORTAGE OF FLAX During the period of the war, the Irish spinning Mills received orders for the manufacture of linen for the purpose of supplying material for aeroplane wings. The demand was so great that in order to supply the desired quantity ordered by the dif- ferent Governments, it was found necessary to almost discontinue the manufacture of linens for household purposes. The war is now over and won, and in order to establish industries back to their pre-war eonditions, and tea supply the ever increasing demands for linen articles, it will be necessary to keep on growing flax in this; country for a number of years as we understand that it will be at least five years before the Irish market will be back to normal. We understand there is quite a large quantity of retted flax straw still in the Province, that has to be scutched to supply the demands of the spinning mills, and towards this end, every mill large and small, are doing everything to keep the spinners going. We also understand that the Can- adian Flax Mills Iamited, the largest growers of flax fibre straw and seed in the Province of Ontario, and for that matter in Canada, whose mills are now located at Arthur, Essex, Drayton, St. Catharines, Wallaceburg, Harriston and Monkton are helping out considerably in -oartially meeting the , gieat demand for scutched line fibre. The Company's Mill at Sea - forth is now working day and night, six days a week, and they hope to anish working up their large crop of straw now on hand before the com- mencement of the -coming harvest. At Seaforth this year the Company are sowing 600 acres and the pro- spects are that there will be a very good `i -op. This acreage will give employment to a large number of Government had no mandate from the people after the war closed, and that they are a government of inac- tion and have lamentably fallen down on the reconstruction problems, and they have become very unpopular with the general public; but it is not my purpose here at this time to either affirm or deny those statements of the press, but if it be so that the electors of our Dominion desire to get rid of an unpopular government and cannot accomplish it, it is to my mind a sad reflection on our election system, which should be remedied. Then the question arises, what is the remedy? and I have failed to see a remedy proposed in all the press art- icles that I had read during many weeks. It seems passings` strange that none has been outlined, and yet the remedy would be so easily ac- complished if every elector *Oen the next Dominion' election is brought on' and the candidates appear . on the scene soliciting our votes to just tell them in plain, every -day English that unless they would support re- call legislation you would not support them. If every elector did that plain duty we would eventually get legisla- tion to fill the bill. I ask why should we elect any set of men for the period of five years and not . have any string on them; but that string need. not be used if they were living up to the platform that they attained power on; but if at the end of the first twelve months if their pledges had been violated then use the power of recall. A bill of that nature need not be necessarily comprehensive, but a petition ofelectors reasonably large enough addressed' to the governor - 'general and he would have no option but to dissolve the House and send them to their constituents. It is so simple the wonder is why we have done without it so long. Of course, I know the professional politician will say all sorts of things against - it, that is visionary and not at all prac- tical or workable, but I have an idea it would work for better legislation for "our" country. The thought of having to face the electors probably in a short twelve months would keep the boys at :Ottawa, and Winnipeg as well, in the straight and narrow path. I say to electors; let us insist on,, such an act and not sit back and joinin a` chorus, such and such a government are a useless bunch. W. BARBER. Killarney, Manitoba. resisting evil." But, allowing for all hands throughout the 'bole year. that, there la yet small roorn for doubt RA that our conscience and conscioueness as a people yet need to be a good RECALL LIKGISIATION deal more fully impressed than they The following letter written by Mr. are with a sense of the duty and dig- W. Barber, of Killarney, Manitoba, nity of public service. Not only appeared a ehort time ago in the from the Dominion Parliament, but . Wiimipeg Free Preas, and we repro - also from Provineial Legislatures, ' duce it here as tlie subject is of in - and from municipal bodies, do men terest to all at the present time and who could render such service hold also because Mr. Barber is well aloof in numbere far too large. Some known to the people of this district, , ' peo le sav that this is because we ' being' a brother of Mrs. G. M. Chesn.ey e ngs so . ; have suffered our public life of all of Seaforth, and a frequent contribu- resigned of the three. Feeling that -to kill it. -At the end of two years No doubt it is true that the heavy i kinds to be on an insufficiently lofty tor to The Expositor: his future in the West is largely past , or sooneiMr. Meighen would be drag- i blows which Union Government heel plane. And, again, there may be _During the past few weeks I have he seems to have settled down to the ! ging a corpse around. He is a young 1 sttuck at Parliamentary institutions 1 some truth in tlas. But how is that read ninny articles in the press of idea that a big Government job In. , man with a future and he can't Rf- end Parliamentary rights alike have ' public life to 'be raised, either in most of the provinces that the Union HURON NOTES —Thomas Coulter has sold his 120 acre farni 10th concession of Morrie, to James frells, of Hullett. The -price —James S. Armstrong, adjoieing Brussels, has two cows which have averaged $50 a month for the last four months at Stewart Bros.' Cream- ery. They produced 285 pounds of butter fat, which amounts to a little over three pounds of butter a day. —,10. Thomas Deans, who has con- ducted a successful draying business in Wingham for some years has sold to Mr. J. A, McIntyre, who will run the draying work in connection with his bus and baggage business. —Mr. J. H. Beemer, who has been station agent for the C, P. R. in Wingham for thirty 'years has de- cided to -retire and 'will probably lo- cate in Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Beerner and family have been most highly esteemed residents of that town and a large circle of friends will regret -to hear of their removal. —Laura Perdue, wife of Councillor D.'A. Lindsay, of Goderich township, passed away last Thursday morning, her death being due to pneumonia. The deceased lady was a daughter of the late William Perdue, of Goderich township, and of Mrs. Perdue, now of Clinton. She was born and spent all her life in the township, where she was very favorably known. She is survived by her husband and a family of six. —Thursday of last week William Annett died at his late home, lot 35, concession 6, Grey, aged 61 years, nine months and three days. The funeral took place Monday afternoon, interment being made in Elma Centre cemetery. Mr. Annett came from Thorndale, Middlesex County, about forty years ago and took a bush farm which he transfermed to arable acres. He married Miss Selena Gim- lett, 8th concession of Elma, and she with four sons, Percy, at home; Rus- sel and Albert, in the West, and Nel- son,. Detroit, survive. Deceased bad a siege of the flu followed by pneu- monia, which affected his heart. —An interesting event took place at the Methodist Parsonage, in Wrox- eter, Wednesday afternoon, -when Miss Emma Wade, of England, was united in marriage to William. Weals,ke, Rev. Mr. Stride officiating., They were attended by Miss Kathleen Westlake and William J. Wade. The marriage is the eutcome of a war romance, Mr. Westlake being one of the five Westlake brothers who saw extensive service all returning safe- ly. He first mei his bride while on leave in England. Ms and Mrs. Westlake will reside on the grown's, farm in Howick and have the good wishes of the eommunity for their happiness and prosperity. —Neightiors and friends to the number of thirty-five gathered at the home of Albert end Mrs. Cole in. Morris on the evening of March 3rd, to spend e social' few hours with them before leavink the farm to take up residence in, Blyth. One pleasing feature of the evening was a presen- tation An address was read by Angela Ray and Helen Grasby pre- sented Mrs Cole with a handsome silver -carving set while George fountain pen. —After a prolonged fight against failing health Frederick Ross Hay - croft, the only son of the late George and Mrs. Haycroft, well known form- er Brusselites, passed quietly to the great beyond last Friday morning in his 30th year. He paid nature's debt hie uncle and aunt, with whom he had been rnakitig his home in Brus- sels' since returning ftom doing duty as a machinist in England during the war. At Dartford, in the Old Land, he suffered in being knocked down by a motor truck in which he had a leg broken and ids spite inaared from which he never fully recovered, al-. though able to get about last summer and fall, when he assisted his uncle in the gent's furnishing (jepartment of his- stores. But despite the best care bestowed and the pluck shown by the patient he gradttally wasted away until the end came as stated. —A quiet wedding was solemnized at the Evangelical Parsonage, Zuricha 'on Tuesday evening at seven p.m., when Miss Maud, youngest daughter of Mrs. S. McBride, of that village, was united in matrimony to Mr. Al- bert H. Schnell, of Calgary, son. of The couple were unattended and left for their home at Calgary on Wednes- day. They will, however, spend their honeymoon at London and Detroit, and go West via Chicago. --e-Mr. Richard Glanville passed a- way in Exeter on Tuesday in his 90th year. The deceased had been ailing for about two years, the infirmities of old age being the cause of death, He was a native of England and came to Canada about sixty years ago, most of that time being spent in Stephen. About ten years ago he moved to Exeter and has lived with his 5014. Lyman. Four sons and four datzglea ters survive. Mrs. Thomas Crewes, of Exeter, is a daughter, Frank afal Ida live in Stephen, and Arthur at Cromarty. —A very quiet wedding was solemn- ized last Wednesday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Errington, of West Wawanosh, when their daughter, Lily, was united in marriage to Mr. Lorne MacDonald, of LuclaiowS The ceremony was per- - formed by the Rey. Mr. Jamieson, of Calvin Presbyterian !Aurae St. Helens, in the presence of Only the inamediate relatives of the -contract- ing parties. After the ceremony a dainty breakfast was served. Tile young couple will make their home at Peterboro. —For the third time within three weeks death has entered the home of Mr. Albert Good, at Holmesville, this time taking away his oldest son, Goldwin. The whole family had been seriously afflicted with the fiu. The mother was the first one to go, then the daughter, Edna who died in Goderich, where she 'had been. attend- ing the high school. Golklwin had been ill for three weeks. About a week ago he seemed to take a change for the better and sonie hope was entertained for his recovery. But the disease had never altogether left him and he finalla. succumbed to it on Monday evening, March 8the —Tuesday afternoon of last week the postponed annual meeting of Brussels, Morris and Grey Telephone Company was held in the Publac Library Audience room, Brussela, with F. S. Scott, President, in. the chair. The retiring board VMS re- elected, consisting of F, S. Seott, R. Procter and W. Cameron. This com- pany does a large business and with the mounting prices of everything A is no easy job to keep down et- penses. There is continued growth in telephones, making a eervice of great- ly more value than when -organized. —Following an attack of pneu- monia of a week's duration, Jennie. Miller, wife of John Young succumb- ed at her home in Ttumberry Tuila day morning. Deceased was, in her sixtieth, year and is survived by her husband, a son John, and a daughter,. Jean, also one brother, Hugh Miller, and sister, Mrs, A. Doig. Many words of sympathy are expressed. for the bereaved in their great loss. Ow- ing to illness in the family ,a private funeral was held Thursday after- noon to the Wroxeter cemetery, Rev. C. Malcohn in charge. —Death relieved Mrs. He nr Mather of Morris, of a long and try- ing sianess on Saturday last. She has been, a sufferer from -cancer for over a year and bore her affliction with true Christian fortitude and patience. Her maiden name was Ella L E. Owens, and she was born near Bel - grave on September 7th, 1878. The funeral which was held froin her late residence, lot 16, concession. 1, Morriee to Bluevale cemetery on Tuesday_ af- ternoon, was one of the largest ever seen in these parts. The, late Mri. Mathers was a faithful member of Ebenezer Methodist church, azei the= funeral services Were conducted bY her pastor, Rev. Mr. Burgess, midst. ed by Rev. Mr. Tate, Presbyterian. minister. Besides -her so ituss band, she is survived by boys, one sister, Mrs. ran - don, of Belgrave, and brothers, and Heary, of the West, an& Robert Owens, who resides on the homestesd near Belgrave. —Because there was no_express or' freight service on the Huron and Bruce lines last week owing to the huge snowdrifts that blockaded the, road, casket for which an emer- gency call came to London from Bier - toe, wag forwarded to that town on a stewpfow. Early -Friday marling. the wife of the station agent at Merton died, and it was fotuid neces- sary to send. to London for a casket. The undertaker in London, to whom the request had come, placed the coffin in the hands of the Express Company before it was known. that the evening Bruce train was to be cancelled. It was discovered, how- to leave London. Tit eight oldie* in order to fight the drifts between there - and Wingham and an order was se•• cured from tie chief dispatcher per- Illittfitg forwarding of the shipment' by the plow.