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REPORT on the operstiens of the Military Servien. Act "up to the end of March, pre | pared by the Military Service | Council and presented to Parliament, | contain this outstanding statement: | "There can be no doubt that the men available in Class 1, except in the | Province of Quebec, gre at the point | of 'exhaustion, and that if the stream i of reinforcements for the troops | overseas is to be maintained therg if EN O'S regulatesgtheyaction of the digestive and eliminative system upon which life depends. In fevers, biliousness and skin eruptions arising primarily from disorders of the liver it exercises a prompt and beneficial effect at once, soothing, cooling and _purifying. Comprised of the valuable elements of ripe fruit in a simple palat- able form, its action upon the liver is in évery sense as beneficial as the raw juices' of the fruits from which it is obtained. A household remedy for nearly 40 years ENO'S FRUIT SALT . Prepared by J. C. ENO, Limited, ** Fruit Sait Works," London, Eng.' Sole Agents for North: America HAROLD RITCHIE & CO., Limited, 10 McCaul St., TORONTO _ "ST. LAWRENCE" ALE AND PORTER A pleasant smile with every glass. h. Ring Phone 645 for a case, A. TYO, Agent, 473 Princess Street. RE A Pt MAAN ANN. Nr ANNAN PENNE TT | ed on September 3rd last. | result up to March 30th had been no alternative but to call out the other classes." The report covers al considerable | length the story of the orgamization { and operation of the machinery of the act since the Council was appoint. The nel that 31,295 men had been actually placed on duty, or 7,86 per cent, of the total registrations in Class 1. This 31,295 includes 11,059 wen in Category A, who reported for service before the men of their class were actually called out, and of these 2,347 afterwards claimed exemptions. The net total of thie wen actually drafted, therefore, is apparenily under 20,000 up to the end of March. And, not | withstanding this comparatively small number, the. Military Service Council now declares that the only | n ) alternative to stopping the stream of | the prerogative of bestowing honors| reinforcements is to call out men of the other classes, Ii may be noted, however, that since this report was written other action has been taken by the Government. Figures given as to the exemptions granted are of significance, in view of the Government's decision to abolish all exemptions for Class A men between the ages of 20 and 23, inclusive, of by the Exemption Tribunals, 30, 263 were granted temporary ex- emption, of whom 14,991 were given exemption later; 98,048 were ex- empted on the ground of farming and dairying; 1,936 on the ground of being mariners or fishermen; 4,171 a8 being railway employes; 1,633 as being civil servants, and 3,136 as being manufacturers, The total num- ber exempted on thé ground of em- ployment was 137,419. The total number placed in medical Categories B,C. D, and E was 118,763, of whom | On the ground 22,943 are B men, there were 636 of religious belief exemptions, and 3,493 were exempt- | ed under the provisions of the War- time Elections Act. The report notes that in every province, except Québec, the appeals lodged from the decisions of the local tribunals by applicants for ex- emption considerably exceeded the | number entered by the military re- presentatives. The small number of dppeals by the military authorities, outside of Quebec, IB asserted to be an indication that the tribunals did not err on the side of leniency, a view which is emphatically confirmed by the fact that in every district the appeal tribunals allowed a majority, and in some cases & very large ma- jority, of appeals by claimants for | exemption, while everywhere but in Saskatchewan and British Columbia Of 372,769 cases disposed | ¥ he Waz with a Gua Let us show (0 Se i you how to use it Stevenson & Hunter Phone 53 85-87 Princess St. RSs OB ROY This new biscuit made from whole wheat flour. -It has a nicé nutty flavor. Properly baked. ; Very attractive both in colo and shag : bi Contains all the nourishment of the wheat kernel. Try Them. Give them to the children home from | the majority of the appeals by the | military representatives were re- | jected. i { Dealing with the unsatisfactory | results in the Provinee of Quebec, the | report says that some of the judges | did their utmost to assist in the dis- | | position of appeals, and to give a | fair and reasonable effect to the pro- | visions of the act in regard to exemp- | tions, "but in some other cases the smoosh operation of the act has been much Impaired by decisions for which there does not seem to be any adequate ground." Statistics given as to appeals be- | fore the Central Appeal Tribunals up { to March 30th show that up to that | | date the total nuniber of appeals lodged was 7,735, of which 3,526 still awaited decision. Appeals by appli- cants for exemption dealt with by Mr. Justice Duff totalled 4,495.. Of these 2,109 were dismissed, 1056 were allowed exemption, and 881 aliowed conditional exemption. Of 114 ap- peals by military representatives, Mr. Justice Duff has allowed 113 and dis- allowed only 1. Comparative figures by districts as to the percentage of men who have been actually placed on duty com- pared with the total registration of Class 1, are illuminative. For Lon- don district the number of men se. cured up to March 30 was 2,583, or 9.59 per cent. of the registration; for Toronto district 7,351, or 11.91 per cent.; for Kingston district, 3,442, or 8.22 per cent.; for Meutreal dis- trict. 2,698. or 3.77 per cent: for AWFUL ATTACKS OF HEART TROUBLE Eased by the Second Dose of MILBURN'S HEART AND NERVE PILLS. One of the first danger signals an- nouncing something wrong with the heart is the irregular beat or viol ent throb. Often there is only & flut- tering sensation, or an "all-gone" sinking feeling, or; again you may experience a smothering @ensation, gasp for breath and feel as though about to die. In such cases the action of Mil- burn's Heart and Nerve Pills in quieting thé heart, restoring its nor- mal beat and imparting tone to nerve centres, fs, the. H WHIG, FRIDAY, JU 1.64 per « 1,732, or John distriet, it; for Win- 16.88 per uver districte2,902, t.; for Regina dis- 5.99 per vent.; for 1,63%, or 5 per | Calgary 73 cent ee ie ------ hop at the Front. U. de Pencier, Bishop of B.LC., Has just re- > years of strenu- Canadian corps in de Pencler is the shop of the Anglican been overseas with He speaks Lt.-Col New - Westminster, turned after t ous work with France. Bisho only Canadian Church who bas > the chaplain service, highly of the eo-¢ ious religious representatives con- nected with the Canadian drmy un- der Col. the Rev. Canon Almond, of | Montreal. Bishop de Pencier has two sons in the and a third som intends to the Royal Flying Corps. AT WAR WITH SNOBBERY. rede Talk of Limiting Titles Dates Back to 1902. The recent action of the Canadian Government with regard to titles, | which will lead to a greater economy army join in snobbery in our young democracy, | | recalls the fact that other efforts were made in, the past in the same direction, ish understood Canadians as well as { they now do. The suggestion that ! the Canadian Government should ad- vise the crown upon the exercise of | and titular distinctions was put for- {ward in 1902, when Sir Wilfrid | Laurier was Prime Minister, At thaty == | time, however, the late Right Hon.| | Joseph Chamberlain took the posi- | tion that in all but exceptional cases | the responsibility of recommending | persons for honors rested upon the Imperial Government. He suggested { that if service of a political or ad- ministrative character rendered in { the sphere of the Canadian Govern- | ment was to be recognized that Gov- ernment might make recommenda-| | tions. In other cases in which it was proposed to confer honors the Dom- inion Prime Minister would simply be entitled to make such observations as he might desire upon a list sub- | mitted to him. It is interesting to note that at the | present time the list of Canadian {| peers to which it is proposed there { shall be no additions and which will | if the Government's proposal is car- | ried out become extinct, includes two |-earls, eight barons, two baronesses and ten baronets. Of that list only | four barons, one of them holding the | title of Baron de Longueuil, granted | by Louis XIV. of France, and recog- | nized. by Queen Victoria, and four | baronets, actually reside in Canada. | Lord Shaughnessy and Lord Athol- stan in Montreal, Lord Aylmer in the | Okanagan Valley, B.C., and Lord | Somers in Pickering, Ont. Lord Som- | ers, however, succeeded to an English | title before coming to 'settle in { Canada. ' ' { Five baronets live in the Domin- | fon, Sir Joseph Flavelle in Toronto, | Sir Bdmond. Johgfon Hunt, Col, Sir | Edward Murray' &pd, Sir Vincent | Meredith, of Montreal, and Sir { Charles Tupper, of Winnipeg. Sir | Edward Johnston and ' Sir Edward | Murray succeeded to titles conferred in 1755 and 1626 respectively. Should Finance Canada, While Canada is preparing for her new war credit we here inthe United | States can do nothing better for that heroic member of the allies and noth- ing better for ourselves than to play a large part in the financing of our neighbor. We need to do this to sus- tain one of the stoutest arms raining blows upon the advancing Germans in France. We need to do it to pre- at EEE eration of the var- | That was before the Brit-. NE 21, 1918. 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See: Our Ladies' Silk Poplin Dresses at Bargain Prices 'for Saturday Louis Abramson, The Up-to-the-Minute Clothier. 336 Princess Street EO EEE EA Ln TTT ---- , serve a foreign trade which, peace | or war, is worth more to us, withj { the single exception of the United] | Kingdom, than that of any other do-! main on earth. Consider Canada's population, her! | quick cash asseis, her distance from | | the fighting zone, and what she has| { done on the battlefields is thus far] | the marvel of the war. With a popu- | ! lation of only about 7,000,000 in! | round numbers -- lower by some | three millions than the population of | | the State of New York ---- she has | maintained at the front a superb | army of 300,000 men, whose fighting | power, man for man, has been un- excelled by any in the war. .She has { poured into the struggle upward of , @ billion .. 1 a hall of funded treas- {ure. 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