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IFOIII. IISCYS Lu efiectiveness. Thursday, January` 4, 19.17 Tis an old sa3flng--somctimeVs a hard one Take a present-day illustration. `Bi-iltivsh Ontario's burdens. She has sent to the front-t` _ , than has Ontario.` Therefore it comes _to pass; that we in Ontario are beingasked to help in bearing British Columbia's nurueuu by helping its soldiers families. It s a fair, a just, request. We `all are`in the same boat. We must bear one another : . burdens. And if one Province, not rich in money, makes heavy calls on the Patriotic Fund, the richer`Provinces_must help out their poorer neighbor. Under a plan of each Province caring only for its/own, the Province sending no men would spend no money. It would neither Fight nor Pay. - Ontario will need about six million dollars in 1917 for the families of its own soldiers. The Canadian Patriotic Fund is asking for that sum as a minimum below which the richest Province in the Dominion will not go. But._ as a matter of fact, the Fund hopes Ontario will do still better-will bear another s burdens by helping out gallant British Columbia. . ~. - - . n i .- _ _... _- __-2-_ 2.. . n1 :7 M..- ...:11:.-m rlnllnrs for the families of its boys at the A _ How stands the Western Province? It will require, front. That is one-third of Ontario's requirements. But Ont British Columbia asks no favors. With _only about 350,000 peopl and good red bloo_d--it is undertaking to raise One. Million Dollars . ? $2.86 perihead. Ontario, if it raise six million, will be giving about $2.38 per head. _ V ill still be short One Million Dollars. . Where is this sum to come from? Eastern hich its gifts to the Fund exceed Six in 1917, two million dollars for the families its ario has probably more than seven times the population. e-_-not rich inthis world s goods, but rich in pluck for the Canadian Patriotic Fund! That equals But the Western Province` w Canada. And Ontario, if it wishes to help, can do so only to the extent to w Million Dollars. , ' _ b V . A lot of money, isnlt it? Yet less than British "Columbia is giving, less if measured by ability to pay. There will be no difficulty in securing th ee 1.. If all County Councils make reasonably large grants to the _ ' 2. If all towns, whether_ separated from their counties or not, --_1--gut-an-no nII1\QlII':f\f':l'lf| _ if measured on a per capita basis, and far e Six Millions if three courses are followed: national Fund. will undertake campaigns for `I W 20 Wu-ctncl 33}-VHIUQCI-L IIUHI I-lvl\-Al vv-o---v~ v- -_-_, C voluntary subscriptions. 3. If all citizens, in town orcountry; contribute _fairly according to their means. . V, A V As to No. 1. The County Councils are beginning well. Simcoe has decided to largely increase its grant. For 1917 it will be the generous sum of $120,000.` Victoria, another county patriotic to the core, has doubled its grant, jumping it from $2,500 a month in 1916 to $5,000 in 1917. The majority of the County Councils will decideat the January sessions how large their grants will be. Public opinion will have great inuence on the Councils. `Every county ratepayer, sympathetic towards the Fund, should write or speak to his representative on the Council, gndorsing a liberal grant. The small tax of three mills on-the dollar raises a sum that constitutes a handsome con- I-ril-nrfinn- uuul. anus . ' tribution. lf ever you"\`;c">'% I'd` gunfvc-g_'__I_yg_ Bear Ye One aAn`other s Burdens alums :IuO| O tribution. As to No. 2. Many towns ignore the duty of holding `campaigns. s This applies particularly to towns which pay a county tax. Yet this tax never represents a fair or just contribution to the Fundfrom men of moderate or large means. Practically it is based on what the poorer men can `afford. , The richer should give much more, and they can be reached only through a popular campaign. To relieve anxiety these campaigns should be, held -in January or Febrnary. Will not patriotic men and women in every town take up this duty? They can get all information as to organization and methods by writing to the Canadian Patriotic Fund`, Ottawa. -'And the Fund will assist them also with a campaign of advertising. ` 1 ` ` ` " * -- H >- A ` I.-\;--_..;1.:....-3- `l-.u:14- an 3!-, ff hg :wilI'ngt with campaign or auvcrusuig. As to No. 3. Patriotism of the individual is the basis of the Fund. Eyerythingis built on it. If he evillnot make some sacrice for the sake of the mothers, wives and children of the men atthe front,,the` Fund suffers, and they suffer "with it. The average family on the Fund requires $200 a year from it. It is the_duty-it should be considered the Privilege--of every Canadian stay-at-"home to ask himself: For how many we'ek_s,`at "$4 a week, must `I, in self- e means that I am respect and in gratitude, take care of one of these families? If my county taxation for this purpos taking care of only 'one fa'mily for one week when I_ could do more. am I `doing the right thing? 7 `The ans'we'r't'o"the`se questions _will be found when hesits down` and mails his 3 gift to the Treasurer of his local Fund, or to `/ . . ` . F CANADIAN PATRIOTIC FUND, OTTAWA. Qntario is being asked to assure` the Canadian Patriotic Fun ah a.t it can depend having six million ax-Sin=1917 for .;_the {a.m11iea of One t`a.r1o's soldiers. . Uut., says-. Have used. . Kcndalvsfor ' manyyearsin my stable and ' house and it never has fail- .- _e_d us yet. _ , l`.J .Smith,` Spencedale, 0nt., says-. Have used g--sOmctimeVs one-but ` .-4. 3 beingasked bearing British Columbia's burdens nilies. vince, ghbor. a 7. Inn. A.....::.... 'D..c-1-:no-in LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS` L Fl-oI;I capt. Finlaysbn The following letter from Capt." F-inlayson, which appeared ,__1_1_ `I|l':L.'H.....A Dnnn luuyu. J.1l.LauuJ>a~.:na, -..-----.. _,_, ginelastv week s Midland `Free 3 Press, `gives. some? further Apar- iticulars -rega_rding the breaking. lup of the 157th Bn.. The 157th Battalion is praco.. . tical1y' going out Of existence , tomorrow and though we are all very busy in conneetionwith the WOI`k, I thought that somebody should write home so `you. will be aware of what is happening. We had been informed earlier` in the week that we were to'l;,e . used {as a Training Battalion u_n- til the Spring at least. This was not a `very profnis'i`ng prospect __ .11-..- ....,.n..n4 HUI: a. VULJ 14;`, ...... "5 ,_.,_.__.__,,, as it meant an `endless amount ofw0r.k g'e_tt,ing _inVnew drafts from time to time and shipping them out again, but it at least meant _that we were to be kept -t.oget.her to some extent and th Simcoe Batt. wou1d..n0t lose its_ identity. 9 V ': ` ` 1 -.._ ._, V, `Yesterday afternoon an `ortwler, came out that the Batta.lion was` to` be broken up, together with? six others in t_his Camp-and part; of this Bn. goes to the 1A7l.6tl1`Bn. and the balance to the 125th Bnl. seems to he very few required. Practically all` our Ollicers offer.-_i_ ed to go over in any capacity-3. even- dropping their ran}; to Lt.,: in order to get a chance but sol The 115, is COL Sharpevs Bu far none of us have been accep-= from Ontario "County. and the ted andihere does M 3.99"` to. 125, is Col. Gu_tG1ifTe s from themuch chance `for the olderl Brantford. At present we do not Ones: i i know where f`\D Company from- Under these circumstances it Midland is going," but I am tpy_'_seems likely that a large number` ing to arrange to have them of Officers will return to Canada`: sent to the lrl6th_ as I know COL either at once or in the near 1'u_'. Sharpe well and I am sure he_"t.ure._ They can, of course, re- Will do everything he can f(`)1\()u1"lT121lIl.1)Ol`e and do a l-itI.le'instruc- lboys. I think before this ]ef_,tej[`;tiO'[1al work, but as there are lots`. `is mailed I wi11,kn0_w_t,he divi-_of instructors it seems foolish: v I Ision that is being made and willito Stay` hem and keep the G0V-_l the` able to let you know \vhere`-1.'T1m(`T1t~ 3? the 0.\'D`T1S9 Of `(N1-3'--I ,th*ey are going, Both these newiIinr_2vsala1'ies.' We will not lmnwg lBatta1ions are at", Witley C(1n'}p`:Whl.t is going to he "done with mac; 4 1- M A-.n..:nl1'mm-e-1"nr- mmw time yet. but Ig lsubalterns and even men were . xard worthy of all aocepttion. Columbia-out there under the segting sun--is helping to bear Eront-that_sheAll-torn front in France-a larger proportion of her manhood th Four million of these dol- lars must be secured from individual subscriptions. If i there is no Branch of the Fund in your town or county send your subscription di- rect to the Head Office. ~ Canadian Patriotic Fund. _. Vittoria street. Ottawa. 11 tvsrhoulde 'advisd o.f t.he fact iii-at` .the 13.11.. is going out o1`:.eXistenc`e, `and also the new. address of. the boys` from Midland. :17 __ 11.-...- `-1! 'I_ .__..l.l vLILlJJ` any--- ....v.-.....~.-. ! We are `h aving,the1n all` kept` "together and they Will go to one tBn._ zgndtl will let you know the .ddre's`s before I close this ice`..- ,.te1'.. , ' T L "(Hanna ,` __ 1 I-After nearly aAg year s' work w_ith the Battalion it is rotten luck to have it brokenup -in this ` way and everyone .is feeling very hluef. In the case of the Senior Ofcers it is particularly hardiasV` iwe never would have come over "f we had understood the` condi- _tions*and prospect.s. \Ve are as-` ~su_I'ed.'that weare one Of the bes` Bns. thatjever came to `England but it is junior in number am` accordingly being broken up,` and although some`_0_f them are: remaining in existence ef0r_' 2 short time they `will also he bro- ken up during the \Vinter or in the Spring asit seems to be oer- - ` tain that it will take all the re`- 7 inforcements that come over to keep the four Diirisions at the ' front" up to strength. vuu l P.S.--Si_n.ce writing the above ' 'I have been able to arrange for ,iI) Company and C Company !(Orj11ia) to go to the 116th B11. Don. Smith, Roy Irwin,ASa11dy '- Craig and Geo. Hodgkins are ap- `zplying for a transfer to the Cy- `,`c1i_sts, and I am trying to -help- them out tonight. "It is not likely to be a very brig.1`: t Christmas for amun-3 --V- cr Vhure, but I, supp.)-`-3 we wnll glrnc to put up with WW1`. 0-Ynos ism-! play the galne as best we. `Cab. 11 1 Relief was 48 Hours Late An interesting description of `Lthe Courcellette engagement in `which so many 76th "B11. men went down was published-in last iweolvs Orillia News : Letter. It, lwas w1'ilt.nn by Pie. A. E. Hill of 5B C<'i.,'76thlBn., and reads as { follows: 1 I u" HI 31-l c--~ ' `$31;-bd will tell." Blotches at} t protected l-lemishes, like murder,` _v_v1llj out, unless the blood 1s kept pure. - Its yurity is restored and ythe faithful use of w I willetry and give you some of `my experiences in the war. After learing Orillia we only stopped in England seveuweeks ` before we were sent to the, F1'0[I_1t. \Ve "crossed to Friancei about theiend of June to rein;| .ef orce the 4th Bn. About the mid-'| dle Of July We took up a position` in the trenches in the Ypres sal- ient.. Things were rather quiet gt-`here. and we only had a few, casualties. Mickey Mcoherts. waskilled about. '20_yarids from me. \Ve were out with a work- ing party and a stray, bullet` struck him. \7\7e were quite up-i h set, as he was the rstuof the` 76th to make the supreme sac-I `rifice. . Shortly aer rdturning! A -`- . ` `` ` `I```` '`-`] `I\ `l'lllL'vU. mml. mu. .., [to billets we were ordered to the `Somme front, and made the trip to Albert in omnibuses and by foot. When we went to the line `the ground was,praotic-ally all -ploughed up and the shell holes ran into one another. It-was some sight. \Ve went through the villages of La Boiselle and Lozieres. La Boiselle wasn t so bad, but there was not a brick - s'tanding .-in Lozieres. \Ve. did our little bit, suffering 20 cas- ualties, 6 being killed. Then we had six days rest and in, again, 10th platoon and we were ho1d- L ing an advanced trench in front of the village of Courcellette. `We had been in.for 96 hours. with only 48 hours rations. Should have been relieved, but things get mixed up, and our re- thirsty in my life. We had nei- ther foodnor water during the lasthalf of our stay, and I tried to `get moisture by sucking the grass,.but it was as dry as a bone; `Eventually our relief came, and I was just getting out of the trench when Iywas hit in the left leg and .the right -foot. The hole inymy leg was as big as my fist and the shin `bone was completely smashed. It stuck v out through my puttee. We hadn't any stretcher-bearers with us, so the boys gave me a "lift back into the trench and .promised'to, send in`: for me. No one came, however, so the boys g _.of the relieving battalion took me nuts hours later. As soon as I arrived at the dressing sta- tionthey promptly took off my leg._ I guess it `was my leg or my life. This.was_' on Sept. 24-,fand -_-_ u..- m-u~1..._ lief arrived 48_ hours late. I don t . think I was ever so hungry and when I got mine. I was in the , I116. .l.u1a~vvucu uu uvy... ..-, ...-._._ I was in England on the 27th. I am making good progress, but as `I have to -go through another operation, will be in hospital for another month or two. I sup- pose you will have seen by the papers that a. lot of B Co. of the old, 76th have gone under `and been wpujded." r Read vthe-1d1t (}o1'1-1mn. 7 lftany one personrhad all thel` money that is wasted inpostage `stzunps within a year, he could` `make faces at John D. Rock_e_ |[.l`e1ler and afford to run a coun-`_ `try newspaper. Large contribu-I ntors to this mountain of need- lessly wasted wealth zre those| people who `send .unsign`0rl let-! ters to `newspapers. Before an `editor publishes an article that is inany way _a criticism, he wants to know who the author of lthat article is. The name need! o Could Make Faces at John D. gwi @3035 _%ggc54:z99 .f;t3r'e. xgurity gestorea ana yt11efa1t11fu1` of; B5 EcHAM s PILLS 4 shows Anna Case, of Grand Opera", comparison that Thomas A. Edison s new invention L gnaw av vv .--yup _-,-.,. -picture " . rneans. i the Metro'olitan., P . -pvrfoving by actual` R`e-Creates her superb art with `absolute delity; 259 NEW 1EmSNx} H J AS; G. KEENAN, The musical critics of more than two hundred `Canadian and American papers stated that they were unable to detect any diiei-ence. To express this perfection-to cause the New Edison to stand out from the ordinary talking machine, music lovers coined a new title for Mr. Edison s marvellous success--Musio s Re-Creation-. I Every` letter or parcel. for your soldier friend should contain a few- bars.~ Appetite; diges- tion and esv_pirits_ re the better it. Wm. W ' 1eyAJr._' W y Bldg? , ( . . . Tha /iaiiour L: is no mere `talking machine, Its Re.-Creation, "and the living voice, are indistinguishable. Woh a Guinea 1: Box Diudioas of5pecinlVnluuoWoInennuwit|I3Vl1 Sold evrywllero. In Boxes. 25 cent. ' More than one thousahd different selections are at your pleasure. Come in and hear them. W n The Ha our This great little is full of vigour ; the jaded soldier; thirst, allays fatigue! newslife t_o enewatedjgg L But Comparlnng. I `\IIo, IJIJI , Toronto % .c.', 'I"-451:1`: Inot be published in -connection` iwith the article, but the editor must have the author s name asa_ a sort of defense should anyonrfs lcome in and demand an explai ation through the barrels ot}*a (shot gun. We receive these un- ,signe `articlcxs: every week` `and lwe imagine this is no less than lthe nine hundredth time that we 'have stated they are given no at: tention`. If the writer is afraid to assume responsibility, why` ask us to do so? Read the Ad1Aet Column. in ot:he1V'7..`_"gO1':ds, a great art1='st"singi\n gon the cdncert stage 1n . direct cmnparison with the Kfe-_C,reation of her .voicefby The- New Edison; ` This is . whit ` :-t,_}:e% BARRIE, om. -uy_.__1_1n.. a.......'.. ('V...u. knunnvn j '3 T3. Kendall's Spavin Cure has now been refined for human use. Its . pnetruting; power qg xickly re- mvess\ve1l1ngs,spmms,brui4 `sea, and all forms of lame- ness. It is ust whut_you need aroun the 11o':se._ 1 Wrifn fnr mnnv letters I 11 need arouna tut: uo':5u._ Write for many letters from users to prove its anpntivnnpss.