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Uc- ecial gl'i`sh Geo. ` rrie. call oices Page `Seven . will very Eat, ltign |1-rife}, FOR Lure vies, in Hes .:ic'; ford 'GY, llier TC., iing, ich- "ii? nt,s rial AND yllier 3?; Is`. sea ['.'!-T- [Fig `nUl\JIJ J by 111;; "424 JUL! 01'. ((1 JLI'I. C St., Ln 9.; col Iioiiz I LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS From Pte. Chas. Otton 1-1. H. Oman has received sev- eral in1.m'est.ing' letters frum his nephew, Pt-e.'CTl1as. Ol,t.un, sun of J. A. Ott,0_n, wlm lnfl, VBaI'I'io al'n_m1I, twenty years ago. I.<"o1Im\7i-n_;>.' are exI,1_'act,s f1'm'1 two of l,1m.-se: \v V \'iv Nnv. 'H).--\V"~ll, we are in a quiet part. of the l_i11n now in tlw clay araaT:1n_d are in .so1_11h4-xrn France. The (mun!/I'y is Very pretty, thtwr.-. being 11x.1nwro11.'~' chateatxs in this district. I haw just come in. frmn patrolling` the from`. and am some sight. `Tam `covered with _n1udTf1'om head =tn foot, with :1 \w.n1{`s g`r()wl.h 0:_n1_v face. The winter has set, in and it rains 1 u>.arIy mm-y_day`an(1get.s -quil,r~, raw at. n'ig'hl... \Vo haw` settled down in the 1`n,;j.v'11la.1- / to forget; it?" Take the Canadian Patriotic Fund. It has been created to care for the families of our soldiers in those cases--and those only-where need exists. Experience has shown thaz-t`:-1'5; means in two families out of three. Up to. December 1, 1916, the people of Canada have _ given $16,500,000 to the Fund. That is `generous giving, isn t it? But the country is still at war; our armies are still growing: the soldiers families arelstill in need; the Fund still must be maintained; Andewhat do we nd: in every part of -the country men crying that they have given` enough to the Fund-that Gpllernment should now take the burden. lad in thetrenches is dead-tired, ready todrop in his tracks, does he chuckhis job, declare he has given enough; and call on Government to get another man? Given enough Is there a man i-n'anadawl;AVa's given enough if women and children are in need while he, the stay-ab home, has a dollar to spare? \,l J Iancb T A No! This Fund, above all funds, has a claim on every citizen who is not himself a pauper. The fact that Government has not assumed responsibility for it is the fact that makes every manrresponsible for it--even if he thinks the Fund should be maintained by Government moneys. ' 1. Government would have to treat. all alike.. The Fund helps Only th3 in n`1- If GV"mt Paidfl families of each soldier the average sum paid by the _Fund the extra burden pr! the country W`_11d 133 btWn 91% and nine million dollars yearly. Q. By paying the average sum those families in districts where cost of living is low-would receivemore than they need;.those in high-costareas would be paid too little._ T V 3. Costs of administration would be enbrmously increased. This work is now done, for the most part, by willing workers without cost. Of every hundred dollars subscribed, Ninety-nine Dollars and Forty -six Cents go to the E.__I-_I P__, , _ 1 1 0 in I 1 - v--v__ ....-_-v_.- -~v-w- vs -uvv-J ------- vs. -v----u ---_--.--v-, -w._.-. families! Never was a voluntary fund so econoneay administered. 4. The work would suffer. A There would be no more of the `friendly, almost paternal, relation now existing between the administrators of the Fund and the families. Government works automatically. The Fund s VlSltOl.'S are friends in need, therefore friends indeed. T3 n 5. Taxation would be unequal, for some counties and some provinces are already taxing their people for this _ Fund. Are they to be taxed again by the Federal authority? . 6. The richer classes would be relieved of work they are cheerfully doing. They are now bearing, and bearing because they have the nancial powenand the patriotic `willingness, the larger share of the burden.` Why take from them this task, and give it to all, rich and poor? ' ~r-r-~- -- -- - ----- g-- v -- vv ----, ----_ .._-- (V... c ,,r` 7. ThsFund blesses. him that gives. It is a vehicle for public spirit-a channel for patriotic endeavor. The work of administering it has uncovered unknown reservoirs of unselshness and sacrice. Men and women have i thrown themselves into this work because they found in it the bit for which they l.ooked--their contribution to _ winning the war. Why stay their hand and stie their enthusiasm? _ -_- - . an 4 Au 8. Last, but` not least: Government eontrol _means raising the money by selling Government bonds. Govern- ment bonds mean future taxation. And that means that the returning soldiers will pay, through long years, a large share of the cost of caring for their fami1ies-a cost we, the stay-at-homes, pledged ourselves to bear. IIIEII r|I`t Iunruvv-U` vi VIVIQIIIVJ . Bend your backs once again to_this burden. , If you live inthe rural districts seeto it that your county councils make grants worthy of the counties and of the cause. If in the towns`; start campaigns for individual subscriptions. T And personally, taxed or not taxed, give as you can afford, give as your conscience tells you is your duty, your war- time part, in this day of -national sacrice. ' MEN AND WOMEN OF ONTARIO: tary oney ter- the d by nnnh , '.l`h_e l`1`und_'_y_ejuires s12.5oo,oo_o rot 1917. : .0: this Ontario is asked tn raise` $6,000,000, beingthe estimated require- ments of 0ntarto i`f`n1nilie's:' If:the`reiis.no-locnl Fund to whinh. Wu--can subscribe. send.your giftdirect to the Canadian n.....:-u- 1n.._.-I `1'nu....|.. 1.'l+_..:.- nu-M... ;;:.;a;;;z.'a;.;;;:a;;ee;:a;;;;;' V1'h`ursday, Janualr-y 25, 1911` Doing Our Bit All` of us cannot ght. All of ns--'rnen, women and chi1dren-can do something towards winning the war, Are we seeking that something, or are we evading it? Are we looking for the bit we should do, or trying 1 91% Given GOVERNMENT SHOULD %NOT CONTROL, BECAUSE- enough! the` Canadian l.l`l-}110ll war-l :11'(* for Lho, winter. I. saw 21 gmul aeroplane S(3l'3[) tllis Inu1fning' al'mul,' 8 o'clock. 'J`l11'eu -71.-`ul (7ic1`1i'1a11s and l'mu' ml` nur smlll, 1.)!-mics. They had :1 r'nm1in;_;z' battle for abmlt. 20 n.1inul,.-.-. A ,l`I(_)\\'(`.\'Cl', mm of t.l1e`IBO<'-lm.- lllzli.`-l]l'll(`..S dropped in 1.heiJ' own l'ii'1os. 1 Incl, _a D1`. (`)1-nk; Wlln was :1 nmn1hm' for L9 Pas, lVIanil.nba, and he want,- ed to lumwlif l was l'mm Barrie. He said ho \V':Ls ruisml-i`1i1.Barrie dist1'ict and knew you and falh- 0.1` quite well. Of omirse, this would he almiil lwnnly years ago. I-In iskwitli n ]<`iolrl`An1h11lanm~ nvm` horn and ix quiln :1 chamc- l..e1'., This `will be my `second Xmas fr-om hump. and as far as [ can ll2`l'Il"(`. mil we will be in Lries oney cur- EVA. nAre,;Yo`U In-Ining to insure this home against neeaz =1>A'mxm`!c% FUND front `line for Xmas: I `hope we are all home for `Xmas, 1917, A chap gets" rather "blue at times, and all we have over here is our- keen sense of duty. However, `the Boche is the `under dog now and we, can see his nish al- lthough it will he `a little time yet. Dec. 'l4.--I, have been working quite strenuously for the last three weeks in the front line" and feel a little tired but we will be out in.rest in another 24 hours. We have a rotten front = at present, `nothing but mine craters which necessitate num__ erous bombing posts and it IS quite a_ job at night patrolling _ l l the posts in` the mud.` We have 1 also been sitting on a large mine which the engineers advised` us ` would be blown at any moment. ' However, that was several days ago and it hasn t gone up yet, . so unless it takes place very shortly wewill be relieved. How- < ever, it isnecessary that we re. , main. on duty at all times and have to-ha've a numberof men ' ready to `wire. the crater whenl However, the ,the mine explodes. lBoche will get a warm reception when he comes over. We had a rather interesting day yesterday. It was a clear frosty day and the (lermans came over in their planes to ohserve---there being jten in all. Finally fteen of our planes came along in battle sformalion and the fun started. The air was full of shells and machine gun bullets . Five of the enemy planes came down and three of ours. iOne of the Ger- man planes dropped in our lines. We rushed. out to rescue him, ' and just before we got there he had crawled out of his machine and threw a bomb into his ma- chine, completely destroyingit. We found that he had both of his legs broken and one arm partial- ly severed from `fire. We had his legs set and bandaged him up but I am afraid he has since died of wounds. We all admired his grit. The (`rerman aviators are a much more ehivalrous class than the other branches of the `doing a/nything for the Roche, but we always give him his due. machine gun service. It is not very often we think of ;TI-`_lE B A::BAl'f|E T':xAnI`I|'IMEn nub sA1'unpAv nionuma .Pte. C. A.. .-Fi_rman, writing from. Bearwodfl, Awokingham, England, where he is recovering from shell wounds, to his bro`- t.her-in-1aw, Herbert j Ditchburn, Gr_aV:eIi'hurst.,' gives some inter`. esting `details. Pte. Firman is the second. son of Fir-man of Allandale. The letter publish- 'ed in last week s Gravenhurst Banner is as follows :- .-\-v . trenches there. JJCLILILUL 10 (1-7 1UllUV'VDoj' Received your letter 0.K., al- so cigarettes which 1 am very pleased to receive. Herb, you asked me to tell you of some of my experiences in France; I will tell you mine on the Somme. I only made two trips in the The rst one we did not attack because we reliev- ed the 2nd Bn., which took Mo- quet Farm. I did not see any farm, there was not a sign of it but shell holes. \Ve had to dig a little hole with our entrenrh- ing tool to get in. We lost two `hundred men going in. Fritz was shelling pretty hard, but I ;got in all right. VVhen"we were !there a little while -I had a look withmy periscope and could -W42 Germans carrying slretchers: one inthe lead was carrying a` white ag with a red cross in the centre of it, so I was pretty near taking a pot shot at him with my revolver, but my corporal would not let me. He said \Ve do the same, carry our wounded with a flag. _In the machine gun sec- tion we carry revolvers, that is why we could not be bothered with a -machine gun, and `ries and ammunition and spare parts for the Lewis, `in case anything breaks, so the Huns got safe that time to their trenches. a l I They certainly have ne dug- outs. Some of them are seventy feet deep, and a lot of cement ones. -I don t see how we ever advance at all. We were in.this trip four days and were relieved by the 5th Bn. and had three days marcliitig hack to the lit. tle village of Fiffees, and we stayed there for six days, then lJacl{"we started for t.h_e trenches. VVhen we got there we were pretty tired. It was a Monday night and orders came up that. -2 we were to advance in the morn- ing of Sept. 26th, that, was next morning. \Vhen morning came ,1 we were shown where our front. 1,` extended and -at -12.35 we were ` to advance. It was about, a mile E 1. t c \ t to go. I had breakfast of bully beef and hard tack, and about 12 o`clock they dished us out some rum; it is,the real dope. \Vo were all feeling pretty good so along comes -12.35 and the order came downlto advaiiee, so over} we went. Fritz had a macliinel` gun going right, in front ofmewl` but he missed me. My comrades ;' were falling just like hail andl you ` could not hear yourselfg` speak: He-rb, some. of those poorl` fellows had legs blown oil`, and it their heads o`. Oh! it was hell.'g' VVe could not stop to help them, i` we had to keep going. When 1; got near the German trench a" Hun threw a bomb at me but it did not explode, lucky for me that it didn t.,`and I jumpe_d into the trench and shot three of 3 them. As soon as we got in 1 they put up their hands and ` cried Mercie Kamerad! ` We 4 didn t have any mercy; we kil_led them all, cleaned out that trench 3 and on we went. I just got near ` their supports when a shell ex- i ploded right in front of me and I did notknow any more until I woke `up at a dressing station feeling pretty tough. I had no- thing on me but my kilt and puttees and boots. I was in an ` awful state and thought I was going to kick the bucket. car ....-..,.,. I-ln.'n in nil `Fart {hie EUIILE |1L nlun lulu uuv : x u u n I guess this is all for this time. Give -my love to the kid- dies and thanks very much for the cigarettes. The doctor says I will make Canada. That is I nu~Jy lock, 111 (jklja; Lightens the Hardships Miss Mae McKinley of Mine- sing has received the following s01di_e1"s letter from Some- where in France:-- LL-..... knnrlonrnn winner W11U.l U 111. .111 nun.-u Received those handsome socks with name of knitter. Pleased ever so much, unable to. nd words to express my grat- itudeand thanks. It lightens 0ne s hardships to t.hink and know that the good ladies at home are doing all in their pow- er to help the boys in the tren- ches to win thiswar. I know that the ladies at home feel the effect of the war as well as do the boys over here, asa great many have a brother or some near relative fighting for liberty and justice . I hope the end will come in the near future with the Grand Old Union Jack the big in this world struggle. I appreciate your kindness for helping the boys. As to myself, I consider I m "lucky in getting those handsome socks as they come in very` useful, for the country is a bit wet. Dry oriions, pdrsnips, carrots. cabbage, winter squashes-,_Vp,ota; toes and full grown beets will keep in any dark, dry_pI ac_e.vBqyL them when they areoheap. ~ ' I -`ran : rte; c. A. rirman " came front, xheut 5 3. \\ o . I Hazehrouk, France, Jan. -18--i heen prohibited by the military autllerities in the zone occupied by t.he army. 'I`l1e decree an- neunces that the step has been taken `because of a 1'e(:1'udescenk:e of drunkenness in the zone in- )d S Velving'_t.lan'g`e1` to. the health of ,, ', troops and the e1vi1 population. mdet A . . . . . m,m_iBoth c1v1l and. mllltary a11tlmm_ chin. {hes had _c-0111pla111er.l`oflhe scm11'g'e _f_m0,as a hmdrance _01 the levelep- mdeSl1)`1(211t of preduetlen requlred for l I l i and gthe national defence. It was the` 1 H,Self:`11nan11ne11s msll oi the patrmlin pOm_;populat,iou of northern Fvmu-e, ;the de(*1`ee nsse1'ted, to have the hen_t.rafl`|c. 1*esl,r'ict.ed as the only them eITe_ct1ve means of ghting l(`0- hen Uhollsm. Natural \ViI1(`.S, beers ch aland cirlers are not affected. T1-attic in spirituous liquors has-` To the successful dealer there is no time when you can settle back and say I have gone far enough. Business was good. 1| 99` am going` to take life` easy now. 1'..___s-.._ __'4 L._-. ,..-L A- 1-....." \`U'\ Y0u ve either got to keep on going` ahead or. some one else will pass you on the road and. get the business you should lxawl 1.11;; D1.r.na;.c uu uuu--1.4 ---v vuuu --V. l 1 . 1 1 - 1 ...,_. , Until you ve got enough laid? away to keep youin comfort the! balance of your sojourn on this? terrc.sl.1'ial sphere, you haven l time to stop, for when you stop you stagnate. 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