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SCORE W.C.T.. PRESIDENT VETERANS DECLARE STATE- MENTS ARE COMFORT TO ENEMY Resent the Imputation She Made-- « Suggest More Time At Home For Women And Less Talking. Ottawa, June 25.---A vigorous pro- test has been made by the Great War Veterans' Association against the statements minde at the W. C. T. U. Convention by the president of the union. Colonel Pidgeon, president of the G,W.V.A. has lssued the fol lowing statement on behalf of association: "The blennial address of the Do- minion president, W.C.T.U., as re- ported in the press, contains both statements and policy which call for vigorous protest by the association, "In the first place, the president states: 'We have given our best and our bravest to help the Motherland!' It should not be necessary to point out to Mrs. Wright that 'we have glven our hest and otir bravest' in defence of Canada and the cause of right and lberty--that 'we hive given our best and biavest' in de- fence of the womanhood of Canada INA Pat NNN, Nfs tN tN PEE SE Se AT THE Maple Leaf Grocery Cooked Ments of All Kinds Baked Meant Loaf with Cheese) Pork Sausage; Cooked Shoulder) Headeheese; Empire Frunkforts) Jellied Tongue; Cooked Ham Ham Hologan; Jellled Hoek. Fresh assortment nlwsuyy on hand, Alex Potter, Phone 753. 12 Rigesm Wt NEW HARNESS STORE We are now open for busi. ness, carrying a chofce stock of Harness, Trunks, Valises, Brushes, Blankets, Whips, Ete. Also Automobile Tires. Repair work promptly attended to. Your patronage solicited. H. Swafhield 76 Brock Street. Prescription At Best's stores is second to none. That it 1s appreciated is amply proven by the number of doctors who Send their prescrip. tibns here and by the hundreds of satisfied eustomers. Bath at the main store and at the Branch a qualified drug- gist is always on the job, wait- ing to compound medicine which may mean life or death. This serviced means long, weary hours and careful, try- ing watchfulnegs, and it is really up to you to take advan- tage of it and take all your doo tors' orders to "Best's." the 18 WE er ap ra Gp Wu AFP in order that they might not suffer in a Hlke 'manner with the woman- hood of Belgium and France, It seems unbelievable, after four years of war, that any Canadian man or woman should speak of our fight- ing for England. "According to Mrs. Wright, while we hive given our sons to help England, England in return has we bauched and degraded these sors by liquor and its consequences, Ve would point out fo the Dominion president of the W.C.T.U. that we have been neither debauched nor degraded by. liquor or from other causes. We do not know if Mrs Wright is so fortunate as to have ven any sons in the defence of Canada and their mother, hut if so we feel quite certain that she would résent the imputation that their home training was such that they permitted themselves © to he de- bauched. "The War Veterans are busy see ing that our women are not de- bauched by the 'unholy Hun' but are safeguarded by the continuance of British institutions. Comfort To Enemy. "May we point out that such ut- terances as those of Mrs. Wright are a4 comfort to the enemy and, in eur opinion, should be dealt with as provided by the laws of this coun- try. .. "Mrs. Wright is unduly agitated at the thought of loving mothers and sisters still continuing to send tobacco and cigarettes to their dear ones in France. We would point out to Mrs. Wright that the home train ing received from our mothers is quite to our liking and the comforts {for which they deprive themselves to send us) are in no danger of fur ther debauching us. "Mrs, Wright asks 'when will the women of Canada realize the great destruction they are bringing the soldiers by sending them cigarettes.' "We would ask one question our salves: 'When will some of the wo men of Canada realize that good in tentions and good works carried t« the point of excess are as much in temperate as any other excess?' We ure of the opinion that 'such remark #4 'debauched' and 'degraded' are the result of intoxication by excess o° enthusiasm, and would suggest in the most kindly spirit that the W. C. T {!, become more temperate in their reutarks before they attempt to die tate to the world a policy of tem perange. "The slurs cast upon our sons, the protection given to our mothers, gis ters and wives, and the comfort giv én the enemy by such utterances a: Mrs. Wright's cannot be tolerated lin Canada, and a kindly suggestior to the women of the W.C,T.U. would be to apply themselves at home tc assist in our fight for Canada. A lit tle more time and effort spent in the home training of their sons and les: ll time in speechmaking of such a cali ble will best fortify those sons to re sist the temptations of war and mak¢ them the stronger for the fight. "In conclusion, we are of the opin ion that you eannot legislate a sou into heaven, but it must be traigec on the heavenly path at the mother's knee and assisted on its journey by it the kind thoughts and prayers of al good mothers and not thrust asfde by the intemperate remarks of ill fl advised and misguided women." MEDAL FOR ANNA HELD The Serbian Government Rewards Her War Work. New York, June 25.-----Miss Anna ji ITeld, the actress, whose recent criti: flcal Hliness is attributed in part to il | over-exertion in connection with her 3 YY YY YY YY {Key Jr, 0D. relief work in Paris during the first two years of the war, was greatly cheered when Alexandre V. George viteh, secretary of the Serbian Lé gation in the:United States, brough' to her bedside yesterday a brome medal which has been awarded t¢ her by the Serbian Government i recognition of her efforts on behal of the Allies. Miss Held's conditior is improving daily. STRIKE IN WINNIPEG Men Demand Dismissal of Employ Who Ignored Strike Call Winnipeg, June 25. Machinists specialists and helpers at the Cana dian Pacific Railway shops walke: out on Friday afternoon as a reasul of the company retaining in its em ploy a non-union man who continue at work when the machinists walked out in sympathy with the strikia; civic employes recently. About four hundred men Jal down their tools. The men say the: will not return to work until the man, Stewart by name, is dismissed Removal is Only Temporary. Halifax. NS., June 25.--The Pre sident of the Board of Trade has re ceived a telegram from Hon. A. G. MacLean, Ottawa, saying that the removal of the Royal Cinadiap Naval College to Esquimalt. is only temporary, and that there is no ne- cessity whatever for any alarm ag to tlie college not being located at is erected or suitable premises se- cured: * : Dividend of 3 Per Cont. . Toronto, June 26. ~The MeKin: ott oi on nd divide ; T cent. 0 367.430, or. in ofh A STURDY PEOPLE, Newfoundland Does Not Attract a Casual Visitor, a The casual vistor who may journey along the black Newfoundland shores, perhaps as far as the Labra- dor, will wonder how any one could want to live. there. The rock-bound coasts, the great inland barrens, the seemingly ever-present fogs on the coast, and very limited opportunities for employment -- outside of fishing there is little enough to do for the largér part of the people--offer few [nducements for settlers, Bat it'Ts a hardy race that has made its home on its shores, built the little humes that border the bays and hang on the rocks of the tiny fishing ports. Some of these houses literally stand on stilts, supported along the steep clif- sides In the same way as are the plat- forms called "fakes" that the visitor wonders over as he sails into the nar- row entrance of the harbor of St John's, These flakes, for drying fish, are typical of the entire coast, You 'will see them along the shores of every little harbor. A traveller who goes no farther than St. John's, and drives out to Quidi Vidi, Torbay, Middle Cove, Portugal Cove, will get & good idea of the simple, limited lives of the fishing people. The fishing season is a very short one, from about June until Septem- ber, and the, catch for the small fish- erman is always a matter of specu- lation. The band-liners who jig cr fish with bait go out in their little punts in fair weather and foul, lie to (In the rough seas along the roeky shores) with a jigger sail set, and trust to luck. The cold waters, the ever-menacing fogs, and the floating feebergs make it a hardship for even the experienced, but it Is fish or starve for thousands, and even with good fishing the parest of livings. The Jong winters leave many of the fishermen in debt for supplies, and they start the new season with a handicap and with little hope of ever getting square. The middleman and he storekeepers own many of them body and soul. Passing a little fleet of punts bobh- bing about in the choppy seas in the gray of the early morning, here and there you will see sinoke rising from A boat, the sign of a breakfast of hot 'ea and fish, Some of the boats seein without. occupants until you get vdengside ard can look down Into them, and then you will probably see wo tired men or a man and a boy ying asleep In the bottom. (Every Newfoundland boy is'a skilled fisher nan and can handle a boat like an Mid sallor.): Four or five dollars & lay they may earn with fair luck, out there are many days when luck Is not fair. The work is hard, the ex- Josure to the cold fogs and the ley pray brings rheumatism, and the percentage of tuberculosis cases n 'he island is appallingly large. In ipite of Dr, Grenfell's effor's, the »eople have not yet learned that fresh sr Is their best medicine. In the winter many of the little houses are sealed tight, the indows never pened, A fine, independent, kindly, hos- itable, and honest folk, these New {foundlanders, splendid seamen in an imérgéney, real vikihgs of the bleak 1orthern waters. 'All winter the ice doats along the shores, great bergs ten blocking the entrances to the ittle harbors. Wait Became a Soldier, A somewhat unusual case has come to the attention of the Toronto au- horities in connection with the dis- ribution of soldiers' insurdnce. It 8 that of a young soldier, who in his 'hildhood was neglected by his own nother. The treatment he receivad n the parental home was harsh. Tne tory of his young life would read ike a page from Charles Dickens. He ecelved little to eat beyond an oc- asiondl crust of bread, was put out sf the house at nights, and often had © find a place where he could sleep. N3ar him lived another boy in a de- leate state of health. He was unable 0 join In the romps of his play- aates, and from a seat on the Loor- tep watched wistfully his compuan- ons at play. This boy's mother, al- bough poor herself and }aving sev- ral children of Ler own, befriended he little waif, One day the latter, eaving his playmates, quietly took iis seat on the doorstep beside the lelicate boy. "Gee," be sald fervently, '1 wish | 1ad a father and mother like yours." The delicate boy told his mother f the wish expressed by the street irchin, It appealed to ber sympathe- Je heart. She took him in to live #ith ber own children, clothed and 'ed him until be grew up to be n italwart youth, When the war broke jut he enlisted, fought, and was kill id in action. No objection was taken by hig rela- Aves to the boy being adopted by the soman, but a claim was put in for 'be $1,000 insurance on bis life. The poor woman who brought up the boy said that she did pot want 'he money herself, but objected to it foing to any of the boy's relatives. @ case ls receiving attention, and she will probably get it, as the city ns provide that any person who acts in loco parentis, or in the of a parent, shall be entitled 0 the insurance. Only Two Left: ; Halifax when a permanent building | streets Rooney on July 1st dis} poll GES BRITISH WOMEN'S PART MUCH WAR EFFORT DUE TO THEIR PATRIOTISM. Industrial Life. June ~Britain's great heen possible of British the male London war eftort through the pe sm women One-fourth of ed from military life with- out serious ( cation of normal businéss of production of army sup- plies British women have taken over the work of men enlisted in the army until at least fifty per cent. of the work formerly done by men is naw carried on with equal succes: hy women. The scope of the women's work is amazing On the land at feast 250000 are working to increase food production and reheve the tres mendous strain on British ocean transportation facilities, It is esti- mated over 1500000 women are en- gaged in industrial work of all classes, and although the personnel of the civil service has been tripled since the outbreak of the war, the number of of that date have been decreased hy fifty-seven per cent., that women now number six-sevenths of the employees in the Government offices, In industrial life women are successfully performing all kinds of skilled and unskilled la- hor In some factories as high as eighty-five pér cent, of the employees are women, who are making a success of the work. Women do all the car- riage and engine cleaning on the rail ways, work in shipyards, 'do much aeroplane construction, are stokers, and deliver coal the docks, are em gas works, in fact, skilled and unskilled civil O male employees sO clay diggers. load handle freight ployed in ron a in every field labor, Behind the line mm France the Wo- men's Auxiliary Army Corps num. hers many thousands, doing much work, permitting men formerly so em ployed to in the line. The Women's Royal Naval Service are em- ployed in thousands at every naval station, doing splendid work in re- pair shops ,dockyards and shipyards For the aenal service women do most of the aeroplane construction and at the aerodromes act as chauffeurs, clean planes and take wharge of the cooking and similar work. As in the navy, army and aerial corps, indus- trial life, farm work and civil service, SO it 1S In commercial service. In shops, banks and similar institutions women now do the greater part of the work The percentage of the women employed in this work has in- creased from 20 to 80 per cent. All classes are at work. Among the first engaged in muni- tions work was now Lady Kenyon Slaney, who served so successful an apprenticeship that she was put in charge of eight lathes that had to produce with an accuracy of two-hundredths part of a millimetre, In addition to the total in the ine dustrial army of nearly three million women, thousands are engaged in Red Cross, ambulance: and hospital work The effect has been to per- mit Britain's great war effort and maintain industrial and commercial stability. The women are well cared tor and protected . Matrons supers vise the living, wholesome food is fur- nished, and all are properly housed, One effect is the reduction by thous- ands of the unemployed who thronged London's streets, The opportunity of employment at an adequate living wage has proven the best method of improving social conditions in this vast city, To the women of Great Britain the country's great war effort is as much due as to the men. They have answered their country's call with equal alacrity and performed equal service, Serve Canadians Make Raids, (Canadian Préss Deapateh) London, June 25.----Aectivity was displayed - during last night by the German artillery in the region to the east of Amiens, between Villers Bre- tonneax and Morlancourt, says to day's War Office report. There was some artillery activity alsbd in other sectors, Raiding operations in the Arras re- gion by the Canadians resulted in the jeapture of prisoners and six machine guns. The text of the statement reads: "Canadian troops raided the en emy trenches last night at Neuville Vitasse and brought back twenty- two prisoners and six wachine guns, A few prisoners and a machine gun were captured by us in a successful raid south of the Scarpe river. The hostile artillery bas been active dur. ing the night between Villers Bfe- tonneux and Morlancourt south of fon (Leas region) and west of Merville (Flanders front), gas shells being freely employed. 'William Davidson, a prosperous Draper Township farmer, dropped (dead of heart failure in a booth at Utfington schoolhouse when about to register, | At Least Quarter of Million Women | Working on Land and 1,500,000 in| | population of Britain has been diverts Lady Mary Hamilton, | PAGE THREE Probs: Wednesday, fair and cool. Enpnge ; Charming New Frocks ofGingh We have just received out of customs from New York a number of exceptionally smart styled new gingham dresses that are enjoying great popularity in the style cen- tres for summer wear -- the styles and ma- terials are exclusive to us here and we would suggest and appreciate your early inspection. GINGHAM DRESSES PRICED FROM $3.50 ON UP TO $15.00. is a VERY FEW KHAKI VOTERS. Showing of Province of Quebec In Recent Election, The official returns of the last elee- tion including the cividan and mili- tary votes in North America and overseas, have been printed. Certain French-Canadian papers and Quebec members persist in their claim that the Province of Quebec did well un- der voluntary recruiting compared with the Canadian-born in the rest of Canada. The result of the mill tary vote exposes completely the fal- lacy of this position. It can be presumed that as large a percentage of French-Canadians as tnglish-speaking Canadian soldiers would cast their ballots, yet for twenty-two ridings in Quebec the to- tal number of military votes tast in North America, Great Britain and France was under a hundred in each constituency, The County of Joliette has the worst record. Only three soldiers voted in this last election who gave their home as Joliette County. In three other ridings, Bertier, Mas- kinonge and Yamaska only eight votes were cast, In eight more rid- ings the total vote counted was un- der twenty-five, For the twenty-two ridings there were only six hundred and eighty-nine votes cast in all, or Ontario constituency, In addition there were fifteen ridings in which there were acclama- tions, and in which there were no re- turns. Without doubt the vote if it had been counted in these econstitu- encles would have been little better. Following the total number of military votes polled in North Amer lea and overseas In these Queb ridings, also the Quebec comstituen-~ tions: Bagot, 19; Bellechasse, 16; Berth- ler, 8; Charlevojx, 30; Chicoutimi, 76; Dorchester, 15; George Etienne (Cartier), 10; Hochelaga, 10; Joli- ette, 3; Kamouraska, 15; Laprairie, Napierville, L'Assomption, 38; Mont- calm, 10; Lotbiniere, 256; Maski- jnonge, 8; Matane, 29; Moutmaguy, 24; Pontiac, 22; Quebec County, 92; Richelieu, 38; Temiscouata, 95; Vau- dreuil, 90; Yamaska, 8. Acclamation (no returns): Beauce, Beauharnois, Hull, Labelle, L'lslet, Megantic, Nicolet, Portneuf, RI- Hous. St. Hyacinthe, St. Mary, ontreéal; St. James, Montreal; Shef- ford, Terrebonne, Three Rivers. U.S. TRANSPORT SUNK. Sixty-seven of the Crew of 148 Are Missing, (Canadian Press Despatch) Washingtod, June 26.--Thy sink- ing of an American transport west- ward bound on June 18th _seven hundred niles east of laware Capes, reported to the Navy Depart- hient yesterday. 'The crew took fe the boats. The U-boat fired nine- feen shot: into the vessel Sixty- Seven of the ¢rew of 14% are mies fia 5 less than was polled in the average. New Pull-Over Sweaters ~ We will have ready for tomorrow's selling a limited number of 'attractive pure wool pull-over sweaters in all of the fashion- able shades -- specially priced at $5.95. J Steacy's - Limited UP-TO-DATE DINING AND LIVING ROOM FURNITURE Bee our stock and prices before deciding. Just received a large consignment of summer furniture, chairs and rockers, YY YY YY YY NINN VICTROLAS VY yy A complete line of records always on hand. AND RECORDS VY cies in which there were acclama- b y b aia T. F. HARRISON CO., LTD Phone 90. Aid Padua dh dh dh db 8 4 4 4 48 4 0 A ii Ca an i es Js Paris, June 25 Tne Corian tai re roads; RB wells r traveller, died ot heart trouble st his home in Ses forth, aged sixty-nine. . The mitway one of Waal Canada are ng a strike tie up the CPR. from Winnlpes the Pacific coast. pit x Jehan W. Coy, ror some years {deputy tibrarian of the Buildings, died in a hospital in SL Meatless weeks for Gerinany is a possibitity of the near future,