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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1917. POSED AS RETURNED SOLDIER ! A Cripple Arvested in Brockville -- Confessed to Fraud. ' Brockville, Aug. 22.---A daring fraud was stopped here yesterday with the arrest of Percy Tompkins, aged 18. who claims Toronto as his | Labor Conditions F ollowing The War which Cacaua wust fave at the Baltimore, The slogan of the labor OS of the most serjous problems. National Congress of Labor met at close of the war 1s the Te- Organizers of the period was the ne HUDSON BAY ens Se Jo a Insurance Company wrrangement of our affairs upos the | cessity for organizatiob so as to pro- FIRE INSURANCE Brain x will a £2 Sieh a WHITE- FISH AND TROUT All Kinds of Fresh Fish. A FEW LINES OF HEINZ 57 Pure Olive O11. Peanut Butter, Prepared Mustard, Pork and Beans. Spaghetti with Tomatoes and Cheese, Mustard Sauce. Kidney Beans (Red), P. H. BAKER Princess & Frontenac St. Phone 1016 ENA eA nn en | basis of normal civil lite, with the in- | geet American labor against invading heme, and H. Russell Learner, -al- cidental' question of labor unempioy- | foreigners, who were immigrating in eged to be an attache .of a travel-! {iarge nlmbe uring the five years ling show exhibiting here. During Mest » " Thal TS uring ng | Labor conditions in Canady to dd foliowing the war. - the past few days Tompkins worked | fn many respects, very similar 0! The plants established for the several of the manufacturing plants those which prevailed in the United! manufacture of munitions for the soliciting aid as a returned soldier | States during their Civil War 'snd Northern Army during the war | on lie strength of being minus one | po re-constroetion period. Our laber imarked the beginning of the factory arm at the shoulder and the other at| conaitions immediately previous to system, and the centralization of if. the wrist. On the strength of his| the war hid the same ciinctic aspect. dustry in the lirger cities. A con- ~Full of Interest to Many, | patronage. | apparent affliction, he collected large The start of the war first brought de- | tinuation of this system after the Ww The curfew law, whereby children! Justice Britton; of Toronto, Jf sums of money, besides having no! pressios In ingustry, followed by alwar had a further Influence in bring under sixteen years of age shall not| *PPRdIng a short time in town with | jess than $150 promised him at one| rapid return in the damand for labor | fog about labor or be allowed to loiter in any public | Felatives. - { munition plant if he would call on| as r-unufacture of munitions and! Canada has, since the openifig of } RAPIO place -after nine o'clock at night, , M8. Charles Root, South street, | gaturday next. This story created | other war supplies extended, and to- [the war, increased heér manufacture RAPIO is to be enforced in Perth. Is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clark Me-| ome suspicion and when arrested he | day in Canadas there is little if any lof staples and reduced her imports. con, The death took place last Thurs. CAIPin at South Lake, Mr. and Mrs. | yresented a veteran's button and also| unemployment and skilled labof is in Industry has been given an impetus tan day after a long illness of Mrs, Wil. J: D. Welsh spent yesterday after- an overseas discharge issued to Pte.| Strong demand. : that should mark a great em of de t At the close of the Civil War, the nstrated | ses 1 e ee STA tires me PERCY J. QUINN, . Manager, Ontario Branch, Torotte W. H. GODWIN & SONS GANANOQUE (From Our Own Correspondent) Aug. 23. The steamer Thousand Islander's excursion to Alexandria Bay last evening received a small CLIPPED = FROM THE WHIG'S MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES. In Brief Form the Events In The Country About Kingston Are Told THERABIGN Cis «LON KD THERAPION * 1S | noon i Kingston. Joseph Percy Brent, 52nd Battalion. velopment. We have demo OAL Ce liam Ewart, Carleton Place, aged 65! Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kelday, of | t § . { Mr. Mrs. ' Under cross examination at police| United States had ,a population of that many new lines be profitably Jours, frond hoes 2 sullorer from | po realo, are visiting friends in { headquarters, he confessed that both | about 33,000,000. The Union Army manufactured in Canada. We face Mrs, John Ferguson, aged sixty-[\was (iS. Vance, OFiSeitble. |yyiton and the papers were fakes and | at tHe Hide of Lee's surreeder pon this. Same dangers however, that eul three, who resided four miles. from | Wash, is the guest of Mrs. Hugh that his proper name was Tompkins. hered slightly more than 099/800. n Ed BY . h of 1573 n the Clayton; N.Y., on the Alexandria Bay | Wilson, Pine street. Miss Rose, of He accounted for his erippled condi. t was "estimated that Auotity nl iy es--the Janger .o Mechs road, died Sunday while out riding | Ottawa. Is visiting friends in Gunan- | oo by meeting with an accident lop meq Rud women nD ye ly dere on, w with her family in their automobile, | *41e 28d vicinity. i ¥hile attempting to jump a train in| 12 IB oritiefs Siates BD he nau rg Bon raped hat The bobasitne 8h tricken with heart failure Miss Hilda Dewolfe, of Lans- South Carolina. Hes stated that he re unitions. gy & ® Was stricken art failure.) ;,wne. has been spending a short | oi pre Brent in Montreal, and he | fOUF Year period of t.. Civil War, [ation in Canada indicates that about Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Matthews, time with friends in Lansdowne. suggested his taking the pay ers and | \mmigration had fallen off, and re- [150,000 more "will be' required Stirling, announce the engagement of | yc Agnes Young has returned to | "V5E 8 pap cruiting had depleted the workers on after the war than are now employed their eldest daughter, Greta Anna- Montreal after a visit with Mr. and | CUtton in order to victimize the the farms, and drawn largely from (in Canada. This would about taks bell, to Clifford N. Baker, only son yc ww A Donevan. Mr. and Mrs, | PEDHC, Which would fall for the re- | the laboring classes in the cities. The care of the proportion of returning of Mr. and Mrs, Edward Baker, the Harry Brown and family, of Ot. | LUrned soldier game. The police think call for munition workers was sup- (soldiers which will require employ- marriage to take place early In Sep-| ana' are the guests of Mr. and Mra. | ZCrner was working Tompkins for a | plied from other branches of indus ment after the war. The problem tember. John Parmenter. Mr. and Mrs. Ford share of the receipts. oth have try, with the result that ordinary en- {then arises as to what we will do The home of Mr. and Mrs. R.|McCarney have returned to their | PeeD Sent to jail on remand. terprises were compelled to run with our munition workers--an esti- Thomas, Ottawa, was the scene ofg a | home in Ogdensburg, N.Y. " short-handed or pay a high premium [mated detail of about 200,000 Being | wiry the goods they ship, and fhe Gol. preity wedding on Saturday when : "IN THE MIDST OF LIFE--" for labor, Ih this. siteats Tmioyed, IB tis ork 2% preset gonial and Forelgn Markets they sup- thelr younger daughter, Jean Edna, Compared w t situation, we [fu 5% wi nu r w 5 thelr 2 the bride i. Stanley W. Can- find Canada's army of about 400.000 |called upon to fing other employment niff, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cannift, drawn from a population of about|when the war is over, Peterboro. - 8,000,000. It is estimated that some| We will also have the problem of A reception was tendered by the 300,000 men snd women £:¢ now en- (finding employment for those immi. citizens of Almonte to Private P. gaged in munition work. Only 12% grants seeking work, because it will James upon his return from the of our army, however, Iu® been en-|be dificult to restrict immigration to front. A certificate of honor was listed from 'the farms and more {han |those who wish to engage in agricul resented by Councillor McDonald Half of the total has been recruited [ture. Our greatest need today Is -- a gold signet ring presented by from amang the skilled and manual (more farmers and greater agricul Rev. Mr. Saddington, 4 laborers. The comparison shows the tufal production, as will readily. be same situation regarding the scarcity | recognized ffom the fact that our Ge} il fr r dea er or fri us. of one of labor for orainary enterprises, be- population half urban apd we con- '0 € : LE ---- ~~ THE LONDON DIRECTORY (Published Annually) enables traders throughout the World to communicate direct with English MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in each class of goods, Besides being » complete commercial guide to Lon- don and its suburbs the Directory con. taing lists of EXPORT MERCHANTS A pretty wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Armstrong, Iroquois, on Aug. Sth, when their youngest daughter, Alice Marieth, was married to Charles Al- Chaplain's Words at Graveside In- terrupted by Shell. One of the ptrangest stories of the war is that told by Pte. J. W. Valter, len, Lombardy. who receatly returned to his home William McKnight, Cadillac dis- on furlough tou the front. trict, Sask., formerly of Thomasburg For nearly a year and a half Pte. was killed when in a runaway the! walter was working In the Ypres plough share tore open his body salient and on one occasion was from chin to stomach, camped in an old house with quite a body of soldiers. As the men were talking a shell struck the building, STEAMSHIP LINES arranged under the Ports to which [i they sall, and Indicating the approxi- | mate Sailings; PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES of leading Manufaoturers, 'Merchants, ste, in the principal provincial towns! and industrial centres of the United 1H Kingdom, A copy of the current edition will bell forwanded freight paid, on receipt of Postal Order for 20s. { Dealers seeking Agencles can adver-|lli tise their trade cards for £1, or larger|} advertisements from £8, SALE Three Used Cars Ford, McLaughlin and Studebaker. BOYD'S GARAGE 129 Brock St. Phone 201. cause of the drain through the army sume more than we produce ® There completely tearing it to pieces, and | for overseas forces and munition will be great opportunity and a ory. burying all the inmates in fhe ruins, workers. , ing need for farmers and farm labor Two were killed outright ahd ethers During the Civil War period, wages ers all through Canada after the war, injured, but Pte. Walter was unhurt. gradually Increased. Prices of com: [but unless proper governmental plan , That night the burial of the two men | modities also advanced. The laborer, [is worked out to direct our immigra- was to take place, but the bodies buwaver, skilled or unskilled, was tion into that channel, we face the The LONDON DIRECTORY 0©0., 144. || 25, Abchurch Lane, London, B.C. AR ECAR DOMINO} DURING THE LIFE oF Tis ADVERTISEMENT R CO. Ltd, Victoria, St., TORONTO, ONT., CANADA. imemssi. WRIST WATCHES FOR DEPENDABLE WATCHES. OUR STOCK AT PRESENT 18 COMPLETE, RANGING IN PRICE FROM $5.00 UP TO $50.00 OR MORE, WE ALSO CARRY LESS EXPENSIVE WATCHES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS AT $2.75 TO $3.00, OUR GUARANTEE GOES WITH EACH TIMEPIBCE, R. J. Rodger, SILVERSMITH "Where the Clock is on the Walk," 132 Princess Street. A FEW POLAR CUB FANS LEFT. $6.50 EACH. WHILE STOCK LASTS. Halliday Electric Co. Cor. Princess and King Sts. " ¢ bad to be taken over the shelled area. Pte. Walter, a young chaplain, and two or three other men in a car with the Canadian soldier driving, ventured out. A shallow grave was dug when they reached their destina- tion, several rods away from the ruins of the old 'building. Reverently the bodies were lower- ed, the erstwhile comrades standing close beside the grave, while sup- posedly safe in the distance the shelling of the enemy went on. In the slience the words of the service sounded distinclly from the chap- lain's lips. He had just repeated the words: 'in the midst of life we are in death," when with terrible sudden- ness the German fire was turned dpon them. Some of the men fell, ofe going into the open grave. Those who were unhurt ran fast for cover, Pte, Walter seized the chaplain's arm and pushed him into the ear, and with a comrade or two raced through the rain of fite till safety was reached. Pte. Walter was himself wounded and a few weeks afterward was in an English hospital ward. One day two ladies stopped near him and one began telling of her son, a "chaplain in France," who had been standing near an open grave and had just reached the words, "In the midst of life we are in death," when the Ger- man shells began flying about them. Bhs ended Ler story with the words, bi driver of their car saved my son's life." Y "I said, 'I'm the man that drove,' » was Pte. Walter's, remark, and he placed at a disadvantage because his danger of a flood of unemployed in wages did 'not advance in proportion to the prices of necessities. Even! with this situation, conditions were | better among the mechanics and | trades than among the clerks and! salaried people, whose incomes dia | not advance im proportion t6 the in-| creased price of living. When the Union Army started ta muster out in 1865 at the rate ou about 300,000 per month for the thrae summer mouths, there was for a time | a glut of the lzhor market. This | was but temperary, however, as 1866 witnessed an active industrial and agricultural revival. The returning soldiers, a large percentage of whom had volunteered from the farming districis, went back to producfig or migrated to thé nomestead lands in the newly opened Mississippi Valley States. This w.olesale yhomestead- ing brought demands for mew rail ways; more than 15000 miles of Thils were lald in the west during the five directly following the war. is railway work took up quantities of labor from the eastern centres and assistd to a marked degree tle set. tiers, who had gone into 'the new country without sufficient funds to tide them through the breaking and growing seasotis of the first yegrs. The first annual. report of the United States Commissioner of Labor Published in 1886, summarizes the Fetonstruction 'period. as follows: "The year 1867 can hardly be call. | troductioz. of new Mnes. our cities and towns, witle our farms remain undeveloped. Next In importance to the probletn of increased agricultural production Is that of the development of our vast natural resources through the exten. sion of existing and promotion 'of new industries." We' must the munition plants by util them in extending our present of manufactiire 40d promoting should prepare for fnereased 1 Dation in export trade after the 'Ww and should grasp the oppont her industrial development to the opportunity to be taken age of, now to extend in sophent 0 cout | ad The problem of capital is always | closely related to that of Statistics show that Canada ways been able to absorb {i tion in ret} 1 amount of foreign capital it able to secure. It 1s estimated during the six years C war, Great Britain invested 000,000 has <1 § ¥ gEf = from the United States and Choy oy i ) probably be willing to be od ane of financal panics or indus. (o a04 trial depressions, although hard times apparently prevailed. The stimulation to all industries result. CROWN CAFE --- NOW OPEN ---- BEST PLACE, GOOD SERVICE 203 Princess Street, Next to King Edward Theatre. Will be Open Daily from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m, Phone 2169. 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