Greater Goderich, 1918-05-08, Page 1"ALL TOGETHER FOR GODERICH "
GREATER GODERICH
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Citizens are Rallying to the
Big "Get Together" Campaign
Published
Published Daily During Campaign for a Modern Board of Trade
GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918
Board of Trade Has Adopted Business -Like Way
to Build City ---No Risk is Involved
in Expenditures
From all classes of citizens en-
couragement is corning to the cam-
paign to build a liv-wrre commercial
organization in Goderich. Offers of
financial and personal support have
been received from many persons with-
out their being solicited. There is a
st7, ng belief that the Board of Trade
is now on the right track, and that
there is today a brighter future for
Goderich than for many years.
There has been a noticeable change
in public sentiment since last week.
Then it looked like a "blue sky" pro-
position to many people, but today
they realize that Goderich has adopted
the most business-liku plan of all to
go forward. The element of risk is
practically non-existent.
The whole idea is to link the people
of our city together to work to a
definite end ; to work through an or-
ganization ; to have a competent man
to manage the organization and keep
it going throughout the . ear ; to have
PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD
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-Want, Curfew Regulations Strictly!
Enfor{ ed—Teachers Want Increases
The Public School Board met in the
boa''d room of the Victoria school on
May 6th, at 8 p. m. The secretary's
report showed the following accounts
paid since last meting : Samuel
Young, 2Y4 cords cedar, 88 ; Jas. Hol-
land, day moving desks, $1 : W. R.
Pinder, supplies, $23.07 ; The- Benson
Johnston Co., mdse., $1.50 ; J. H. Leach,
mdse., $6.83 ; Robt. Tait, supplies for
1/0
schools, $12.72 ; Saulis Goal Co., coal,
$341.33 ; Canadian Bank of Commerce,
' deposit box, $3 ; Fred Hunt, mdse. for
schools, $11..50 ; John Cutt, oil, 40c. ;
J. W. Craigie, renewal of policy, $4 ;
W. Campbell, taxes, $19.30 ; John Galt,
postage, $2 ; Bell Tel. Co., $2.14 ; Mrs.
Garrickson, supplying, $2.50 ; Miss A.
Nairn, supplying, $8...8 ; Bell Tel. Co.,
$13.25. Report received.
The principal of 'Victoria school's
report read as follows : Number of
pupils on roll—Boys 206, girls 182,
total 388. Average attendance—
boys 173, girls 151. Average total
324. Penny -Bank deposits for
April $47.66, depositors 27. March
deposits $58.59, depositors 246. Total
for 2 months $106.25. The principal.
reported that the caretaker was off
sick during the month of April and
the work was attended to by a substi-
tute. During the last 6 weeks 18 of
our pupils have moved out of town,
while 50 commenced in the lower
rooms.
The principal of ._ the Central
school reported as follows : Number
on roll, boys 99, girls 96, total 195.
Average attendance, --boys 80, girls 83,
total 163. Amount deposited in tira
penny bank during the month was
$37.16. Depositors 109.
The principal's reports were
eeived. ,
The following communication
received from Miss Ball :
To the Board,—The principals and
assistants of the Pontic School staff
assembled on Friday, May 3rd, to dis-
cuss matters of importance to them.
They appointed a committee of four
members to attend your regular
meeting on May 6th in order to ex-
plain to you the aforesaid matters.
May I ask on behalf of the staff a
hearing.
Yours very truly,
WINNIFRED BALL.
Miss Sharman, one of the delegates
from the meeting, was asked to ad-
dress the Board and stated that the
teachers had decided to ask for an
increase of $50 to include this year.
Moved by J. W. Craigie, seconded by
Mr. McLean, that the request be left
sufficient funds at its disposal so that
it may work to secure industries, and
can even pay out a small bonus or
purchase a site without calling on the
people for additional funds.
Except the • salary of the manager
and some other necessary overhead
expense, the Board of Trade Funds will
not be spent until there is a good reas-
on for .spending them. A board of
directors of the best known citizens
of our town will pass on every dollar
to be spent, and unless ;hey see where
the city is going to profit, certainly
they will not appropriate the money.
A business man can't enter a busi-
ness with a guarantee that it will be
a success. He has to make an invest-
ment first and take a chance. It is
just the same with a city as a whole.
It must first make an Investment if it
desires to go forward, and it has to
take a chance. Other cities, have found
that it pays to invest money in their
future.
to the Board. Carried.
Miss Sharman stated that the- in-
crease may be in salary or in war
bonus. Miss Le Touzel and Miss
Ball were asked to address the Board
but had nothing further to add.
Some accounts were presented and
referred to finance committee with
power to act.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the re,port of one of the princi-
pals found the_ same to be correct.
It was moved and seconded that it
has been reported to this Board that
certain immorality exists amongst the
children and we request a more strict
enforcement of the curfew regula-
tions.. Carried.
The secretary was requested to
send a copy of this resolution to the
Mayor.
It was agreed that tenders for coal
be asked for.
,The meeting then adjourned.
CALL CLASS B: MEN
Exemption Board Will Meet Beginning
Thursday, May 16 to Pass on Men
for Service
George Porter, local military repre-
sentative, has received notice to call
the exemption hoard to session be-
ginning Thursday, May 16, before
whom Class B. men are to appear.
They were automatically exempted be-
fore owing to their medical category.
The board will have its sessions at the
Court House.
A new list of essential occupations
is about to be issued by the govern-
ment, and many people are wonder-
ing whether _eating is to be included.
—London Punch.
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Lloyd George to Answer Maurice
Important Military Information
Government Crisis to Come Thursday ---Allies CarrylOut Successful Minor
Operations on the Western Front
By special arrangement with the Great Northwestern Telegraph Co., this
publication will receive daily each afternoon a summary of the important news
from the front.
O iStill there is no news of the resumption of the German offensive in
France. There is some enemy activity in the Montdidier region, which
may or may not indicate a renewal of the drive upon Amiens. Weather
has a good deal to do with military operations and heavy 'rains have inter-
fered with the preparations of the Germans and may be responsible for
the delay in the renewed attacks which they are expected to make. For
the meantime, at least one German newspaper frankly admits that "the
German offensive in the West has been crushed."
There are indications that the people of the Ukraine are not disposed
to starve themselves in oder to provide food for Germany, and as Ger-
many is in desperate need of increased food supplies the mailed fist may
again have to be used to induce a proper state of submission to the Hun
demands.
Political affairs in Great Britain provide the most exciting news in
today's despatches. The Lloyd George Government appears to be in the
most delicate situation it has yet faced, and the outcome can only be con-
jectured:
The Latest Dispatches
Gen. Maurice -s Charges
London, May 8,—According to the
Daily Telegraph's lobny correspondent
Premier Lloyd George considers that
the situation caused by the charge
made by Gen. Maurice makes it neces-
sary to disclose facts and figures hith-
erto withheld for military reasons and
therefore he will give the House the
fullest possible information when he
speaks on Mr. Asquith's motion for a
selective committee to inquire into
the charges in question on Thursday.
- London, May 8,—Tne Central News
says it understands that the Govern-
ment regards Mr. Asquith's motion in
connection with the Maurice charges as
tantamount to a vote of censure and
that if the motion is carried they will
consider whether it is possible for
them to remain in office. -
The Official Statement
London, May 8,—Today's official
statement leads as follows : "As the
result of successful minor operations
carried out last night our line be-
tween the Somme and Ancre rivers has
been advanced a short distance in three
localities. We captured several pris-
oners. "The hostile artillery has been
active during the nignt between Locon
and Robecq and in the neighborhood
of St. Julien. Early this morning the
enemy's artille;y developed increased
activity in the Meteren-Kemmel
sector."
An Enemy Raid
Paris, May 8,—Today's official state-
ment is as follows : "There was very
great activity of the artillery on both
sides during the nigh: north and south
of the Avre. Raids attempted by the
enemy west of Montdidier and the
regions of Thennes ant:. Grivisnes were
broken up by the French, who took
prisoners. There is nothing to report
from the rest of the front."
The Kaiser's Movements
London, May 8,—A despatch from
Berne says Emperor William has re-
turned to Potsdam owing to the poli-
tical crisis resulting from the rejection
of suffrage reform by the Prussian
Diet. Count Von Hertling, the Imperial
Chancellor, the despatch adds, has been
summoned to Potsdam to report on the
situation.
Will Wait for Uncle Sam
London, May 8,—Hon. Winston
Churchill, Minister of Munitions, re-
sponding to a resolution presented by
the _ executive of the National Brass
Workers and Metal Mechanics' Union,
said the Anglo-French front in France
would stand firm and husband its
strength throughout the summer while
waiting for aid from the United States.
Must Preserve Unity
London, May 8,—Minister of Labor
Roberts today in an address to the
Association of Trade Protection Socie-
ties referred to the Maurice charges -
and said he believed the necessity of1
the hour, if unity was to be preserved,
was "not to allow disappointed persons
to embarass the Government."
Debating the Submarine Campaign
London, May 8,—T. J. MacNamara,
M. P. and Parliamentary Secretary to.
the Admiralty, speaking at Bristol last
night said the sinking of submarines
had increased steadily and the sinking
If you spend your money outside of our city, and
1 spend my money outside of our city,
What will become of our city ?
of merchant ships had fallen as stead-
ily. The output of tonnage month by
month he added was well ahead of
last year.
Australians Advance Line
London, May 8,—A despatch from
British headquarters in France says
the Australians last night pushed their
lines forward five hundred yards along
a front of six hundred yards near
Sailly Le Sac, in the sector east of
Amiens. They also pushed the enemy
back three hundred yards on a front
of five hundred yareitl west of Morlan-
court, just above Sailly Le Sac.
If we Goderich people don't work
for a bigger and better town, nobody-
' else is going to do it for
SEND
"Greater Goderich
TO:FRIENDS
The Board of Trade forward
campaign and this publication
mean that the citizens of
Goderich have made up their
minds to get together in the
upbuilding of their city. It is
an announcement to the world
that "Forward" is the big
word in Goderich today.
Every copy should be mailed
out to friends, relatives and
acquaintances in other cities.
It will be good advertising for
our city and it may lead to
some industrial lead that will
bring us a factory. It would
he real co-operative adver-
tising if all our people would
send out this paper.
A Western Canada city some
years ago sent out 150,000
pieces of literature in one day
through just such co-oper-
ation. The Board of Trade
there furnished the printed
matter and the envelopes,
while the people supplied the
addresses and stamps. -
Mianii, a little Florida city,
annually sends out tons of
thousands of pieces of such
advertising literature through
the help of its people.
• If the people here show
their willingness to spread
this publication broadcast,
the Board of Trade will im-
mediately make plans to have
more attractive little booklets
printed for such distribution.
Its the steady advertising pull
that counts. One man or a
dozen men can't do much in
this line, but a whole com-
munity can accomplish won-
ders in an advertising way.
Additional copies of each is-
sue may be secured free at
the offices of the Board of
Trade, so long as they last.
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