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^mmmmmmm itfmMfmm August 30 19i: THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE BUSINESSCARDS Societies OKINUB AHTHUB L.ODUB, No, :tiK), A.F.A (^ A U.tneattiD tbt Mftsonicliall. Arm tro«R'a HlocK PlMb«rton, rv«ry Kridkv un betor* th« full moon. T. Henry, W. M. H. W. Hickliog, 8e<.re*.ftrr. CHOREN FUIBNDS KleaLertuu Couuri Cbown Friend* :<U luevix in Cluytcu'a Hnl tirtt »Dd tbiid \Ve<)neFd*\ o' ttcli iiiontb & h p.m. Pfty asHetiuente tu ItticitUr (u o bvfore the Aral dAV ol (ath montb. I'bie Councillor, W. H. Ifuut ; Kecoi iler, Uti. L.. A Fiaher. Dentistry Dr B. C MURRAY U O. S . deuUUnrceoo bcnoi Kr&duate of Toronto Univeraity and Acyal c'ollece ol Dontal Siirecona ol Ontario, Uaa aduiaiiilatered for teetb extraction tbce at reeidence, Toronto Htreet. Kleacertou. Medical JP OTTEWELli Veterinary Burgeon 3raduate of Ontario Veterinary College rMtideuce â€" aecoud door aoutb weet^OD laary atreet. Tbit atreet rani ontb Preabyterian Cbnrob. Cha*. E McLean, M O. C M, Specially â€" Surgery, Midwifery it Women's Diaeawes OFMiKr.â€" Kleskertun. Ii w Hcmie. I'ricciille-Ccipuiercial II. 'tl, '.I.*) t.> 1 p.m. Drug store in iMnniTliiiu witli ortkf. Ofticf Hours in KleRhfrtim.-We'lncwlay aiij Friday aftirnixm 'J to â- " \i.iii. Vhitbe meutaf^eN receiv-- prompt nttention at U'th office!. ir..Maylft I UCAB, KANEY * Legal hKMtY-HarriBt«rs. 6olicitorB,e»c.-I. ». l-uc«B, K. C: W. K, Kaney, K. C. ; W. D. Heui.v, II. A. Offlcee. roronto. WXJ-S Tiadora Kauk Uliic.. pbone main 1412; Uarkdale Lucaa Itloch. Pbone 2 A. brancb otiice at Uuudalk open every Saturday, WRIGHT, TELFORD A MiDONALD Harriatcr, Kolicitora, Ac. DUicea. (irey * Ftruce Klock, Uwen Bound. Stiiuilarit Hank block. Fle*bertoQ,iHaturdavi>i. W.H. Wiiubt. W. K Telford Jr. J. C. McDonald. U u U. Business Cakds y» CUUX3U0H & YOUNG ' haukera Markdala Geoeral bankini; buaineaa . Money loaned at reaaonable ratea Call on ua. DUcPHAIL, Mceoaed Auetionee fur tli<: * County of Grey. Teruja ujoderale and i-atia action Kuarauteed. 1 be arrautfenjeula and date*' of salea can be made at TtiE ADViiice olflce. KefeidenceaiiU P.O.. reyU.n. 1'eitphuiie cooDection. Dec. C, 07 lyM. KAITTINIl, icenaed Auiiiouetr foi ** tbe couotiea of tirey au<l ^inico«. Farm aad htock aalea a specialty. Terms moderate, aatiafaction guarantied. ArrauKe- uienta fur datea may be made at the Advance office, or ( 'entral telepbone ott'.ce tfverbliam or by addreaKinii me at Feveml.iiii;, Out. For Service I'or Horvlce on I it 12, co'i. 'â- â€¢, iLprt-y, one purebred ^^liorlhorii liull. Tenn'- I.WJ. Mnii one pure brod Vorkhhire Hoar, Terms tl.lK). All aoc.iuiit!i iiiuat be paid to FUKUTVLKH, Mai.aii.r. IS.,, Vii'untary enli-'iiiieiil h.n 1*1. en Ihousandx »f iikii frjiii otlii-e Work. Coiisciiiiiion viill t»ko more. Ilthcc lielp is settee will be scircer vi:y soi ii. Vuiiiii women and boj ^ unJc r iniliuiy Hjtf must till llii: vacaiil pi iCi's, «Iid they need Irainiiiir- In (lie very best p'acc to yel ,i ii.iiniii^ and prepare to lie p meet tlii' deiiiaiui for tralnnd otiice help. St udi nt s -iixy enter any any time. No incicnae in Ic is- Cieciilirn fiec on application. C. A. FLEMING. F.C. A., Principal, Dept. A., Owen Sound, Uakrio. Deering Implements .^NI) Gasoline Engines All kinds of DeeriHK Iinjilenients, r.iilr iilwiiyN on hand A^ent for llairie f.'ullers, JUiber Hiio(,'ifcH, Louden Litter Carriein, Hay Trackn, I'edlar aliiiigleH and Hiding. ThrNo IinplenieiitN re<iuire no retoininendalioii n,s they aie standard t'ooda and reogiii/ed ,ih the lient on the market. FUriTTHKES I lepreaeiit iIih.SIom tV' Wellington iiuiipry,and|will lie pleaheU III c:(ll if you send me a uard. ED. HUTHERFOhD Proton Station HISTORY OF SALONIGA CMTV HAS SELDOM ENJOYRD BLKSblNU OK PKACB. FOR SALE No. ,') Ifuckeye Traction tile ditching outfit ; on niHchino Ii an IS n.p. i;aa<iline or kerosene engine, all in liritelaax repair. Will be nold on luasonable lennH. Fur full (lartieulara apply vthera nmohino \» working, atmut two miles weat of Naugcen Junction, ( r -A N. I'UATT, Lrkurol I'.d , Ont. Three Heifirg! Strayed Sijiiyed from Lot 1, Con. 0, ()<prey, three yo^r-old heifers- two red onea wiih Noine while spota on them, and the other H roan c .lor. I.ia8t seen about the middle «>f June. Any pertnn hearing or teeing •nythitig of theia, pbeno or write 8u» - (lAUNET MAGf;K JCugMiJA, ILB. 1. It Has Be«u Occupiod by Many Con- qwrora During Km Troubled Career, and the CUi»en.s Have Witnensod Every Kind of Warfare in Aucient Times and Now in tlie (â- real World HtruKgle. FKW cities which have he,«n Btorm centres In the presonl Kuropean war have h*! ii more tumuluous bi.story thitii Salonica, now a focal point of war events with the Kntente Allies in possession. A condensed yet graphic recital of the powers and peoples â- which have held sway over the sea- port is given by H. G. Dwight, who says: "Compared to Its (wo great neighbors, Athens and Constanlin- ople, Salonica Is relatively a modern city. Founded originally as an Ion- Ian colony, the place was (ir.st known as Thcrme or Therma from the hot springs which still exist in that east- ern district of the bay. U fell into ruins when Darius overran Scylhia and Thrace, and Xerxes reasssenibled his forces there preparatory to hi.>< Invasion of Greece. "During the great days of the Ma- cedonian empire the city played no notable role, for Philip and Alexan- der the Great, held their court at Pelia. The present town was found- ed about 215 B. C, by King Kassan- der of Macedon, and named after hip wife Thessalonike, half sister to Alexander the Great. The adjoining peninsula of Kassandra takes its name from the king himself, who foijiyjed another city on its ghore^ 'Tntfer T^e Romans', ^aTonica gFew greatly in importance. Made a free city, the capital of the surrounding region, it became the home of tuany Roman colonists, and not a few fam- ous names associate themselves with the town, Cicero lived there for a time in exile. St. I'aul was an- other temporary resident, whosu epistles to the Tbessalonlans we still preserve. "The Emperor Nero decorated th.-> city with a colonade, a few of whose battered caryatides were visibhi there until a few years ago under the picturesque name of las encaii- tada.s â€" the enchanted women. Thoy are now in the I^ouvre. Trajan erect- ed a rotunda in honor of the Cabirl. for they, with Aphrodite of the Iluths, were patrons of I'agan Salon- ica. Galeriiis, one of the associates of Diocletion in the purple, made Sa- lonica his headquarter.-'. I.iciniu.'), oo-emperor with Conslantine tht Great, died or was put to death then) In 32-I by his successful rival. Theo- dosius the Great also lived there in 380 in order to keep his eyes on the Goths. During the Byzantine perio I Salonica became the second city i,( the empire. Its situation made |t the commercial capital of the Balkan peninsula, and It rivaled fon,stantiii opie as a port of 1 raffle between east- ern Kurope and Alexandria. But ll.^-- wealth and it.s comparative remote ness also made it a fi»-Quent olijecl of attack, Avar.s, (lot ha, and Huns came time and asain to its gates. 'l"h« Saracen.s captured and .sacked It in 904. The .Normans descended ui>i)-i it in IKS,'-,. "And it 1." not iininteresiinK to re- call that anioiiK the most !i.ssiduou:> of these redoubtable visitors were the Serbs and es.iecially the lliilgais. These neighbors owed much to Sa- loniia, from whom they took their faith, and incidentally their ulplia- bel, for it was from Salonica that S. Cyril and St. Methodius went forl'i to convert and to eivillzi' the hai dy mountaineers of the Balkans. The hardy mountaineers, however, lost no oiiportunity to take more ineicli antable loot from Salonica, thou«.i the city Itself they never took fo, long. "After the conquest of (Constantin- ople in 1204 by the Kranks and Venetians of the fourth orvsade, .Sa- lonica fell to the lot of Boniface, Marquis of Moiitferrat, who made it the capital of an imaginary kingdom. In 1222 King Demetrius, son of Bon- iface, was driven out, with his Lom- bard nobles, by a Byzantine princo ^^^ Kpirus. The ensuing 200 years wore the most unhappy in the troublel history of the Thessalonians, « Im were fought over and bandie<l alxmt by Creeks, Bulgars, Serbs, Catalans, Venetians, and Turks. "The Turks llrst appeared upon the scene ia 13X0. They did not de- finitely take pOBse.ssion, however, until 1430. Then Sultan Mourad II.! father of the conqueror of Conslan tinople, captured the town from the Venetians, gave it over to sack anl massacre, carried off ",o(Mi of the In habitants into slavery, and changed many of the churches into mosques or lore them down for u.-ie in his own construction. Some of the marbles of Salonica were carried as far away as Adrlanople. "For nearly .100 years the Turk.-* remained in undisturbed possession. Vet It is, perhaps, not quite accurate to describe their possession as undis- turbed; for during the latter jiurl of that period the frontiers of the em- pire drew steadily nearer, while to- ward the end of it Macedonia became the scene of incessant revolutionary outbreaks. "In 1904 the lOuropcan powers at- tempted to solve the situation by making Salonica the seal of an inter- national hoard that administered the finances of Macedonia and organised a well drilled and well equipped gen- darmerie. Thlfl foreign Burvelllance, which threatened to tiecome closer after the historic Reval eonfcrenco of 1908, precipitated the Turkish revolution of the same year. "The revolution was organlted in Salonica and proclaimed there, the ofllcial ringleaders of thfl movement being Nyazl Uey and Rnver Bey now Enver I'aahn, Minister of War and guiding spirit uf the Young Turks. In 190!) the progress of the revolu- tion brought about the dethtoneraent of Abt-ul Hamid II., who was (here- upon exiled to Salonica. Nowhere eUe in the ampUw would it bare b«»n more dIfflcuU for bim to corrupt bli keepers or to escape, «aA be Meat three and a half years l^k srtaDoar In the suburb of Kalamatt*. "The outbreak of tbe Balkan war, in the autumn of 1912, made it ad- visable for the ex-sultan to be re- moved to Constantinople. He was most unwilling to return, howe-ver, and was only persuaded to do so by an emissary of the German ambas- sador, who took him through the Greek blockade in the despatch boat of the embassy. "A few weeks later the Greek army entered the city, followed closely by a smaller detachiuent of Bulgarians. The final treaty %i peace, sighed at Bucharest in 1913, adjudicated Salonica, with the re- mainder of the Chalcadice, and their strategic hinterland, to Greece. "But it Is apparently written that Salonica shall never long enjoy the blessings of peace. At all events, an army of the Allies, as we know, is now entrenched there. And he is a bold prophet who will foretell what may yet lie in store for the people of this historic city." Want I'ublJc Works. Despite the announcement of the Government that expenditures are to he cut to the bone and that the work on th- Wetland Canal and other big undertakings would cease, requests for the expenditure of public moneys for building railways and public works continue to come in to the Government. .Some of the requests show a surprising lack of know- ledge of conditions and make one wonder whether these people actual- ly know the country is at war. The British Government has made a request for 1,D00 miles of rails for urgent military purposes In Fi-ance and Canada is able to supply the ^.^.'l ^effiid It necessary without Impairing to any extenl her trans- portation facilities. This is the re- sult of the railway building pro- gramme carried on by the late ad- ministration. There is this justitica- tlon, however, that this extravagant programme was originated and de- veloped In the piping times of peace. To-day the Government is in re- ceipt of applications for subsidies not only for steam railways, but there is a demand that a new dcor of expenditure be op<>ned In the shape of subsidies for electric roads. In view of the tremendous burden of war expenditure the Government has Iven endeavoring to stop com- pletely the building of public works. It has been trying to concentrate the attention of the people upon the one thing worth .hile, ihe prosecution of the war. But the demands for railway building still continue to come in until wonderment arises whether the people who make such demands are not more intent upon these designs than upon the defeat of the Germans. \ Putriotic ctiiuaiimn. This pretty little story, which seems to carry the stamp of truth, oomes from an olllcer of the Cana- dian Patriotic Fund in British Co- lumbia. In a little town on the Fraser River lived an old Chinaman. Ho existed by doing odd Jobs. When the patriotic fund was formed in that town .lolin came to the chairman and said, • Vou calcliee me job, I givee to help soldier's wife." The chair- man, not knowing of any work for .lolin al the time, saiii that he was sorry but he could not give hiui em- ployment. A few days later John came iigain. Once more he said, 'Vou catchee me job, me givee to help soldier's wife," and once again no employment was forthcoming. The third time John came to the chair- man. Thi.s lime his request was somewhat different. "Y'ou givee me namo of six soliiirns' wives; me go cut wood, no iliarnee, ' said John. ".\Ie no ^;e| joli, me no give money, but me i-ut Wood." And so J<ihn is now civing a d;iy a week to cutting the luewood for .six soldiers' fam- ilies and thjs doing hia bit for his ailopied ;«and. The iMichit<an Speciiil Convi:ni»rn* Night Train for Detroit and Chicago l',-iilicuiar atienlioii IS called to ll,e .â- .inniuiit nii^ht iiiiiii operated vi>« tlm CsiMdiiiii I'Hcihc Michigiiii Ccntial Itoite to Dclioil Hud t hiciigo. Leave Toronto I1.;«U p.m., d.iily, airivc Detroit 7..')() a III. and Chic^uo;!.!!.) ji m. Klectiic Lighted SiHiidnrd Sleeper is i peratcu lo Detroit. F,iit/or iiHvtlculais from any t'anadiaii P.cihc Ticket Ai{.iit, or W. H Howard, District P is en-i r A,<eiit. 'I' ronto, ( )iit. Fall Fair Dates KI.KSMKUTt »N « 'i-'- " * « Markdah Oct. 1> & lH Cdedoii *>ct. :>&4 Clialswoilh Wept. LI & 14 Che-ilcy S«l"- l** '^' '•' 01,11 ksbuig S^'pt, ISA D» CollingKood S«|"- 1" '^1 Dundilk »»ct. 11 & 12 D.i ham Sept.20\CI Feu'isham Oct. i! il 11 Hanover SfJ"- -" * -• llolatein Sept. W London (Wesfein I'aii) Sept, 7 1.') Menfoid Sept. 27 & '28 Mount Koiest.... Srpt. 1!) A 20 (Iriiiigenlle Sept. ISA l',l Owen Sound Sept. 11-13 I'rioeville Dct, 4 A o lloeklyn Dot. 4 A 5 Shell urne Sept. 2.'i * 2« I'^ra *'«•• - «' >< Toronto (C.S,K ) Aug. I'S Sept. 10 Walkerlon No Fairlhia ye^if Waller's Ka'ls , .!?ei)t. 25 >* 2(1 Wiarton..,..,.,., S^"- 2.=) A 2f ^Demobilization Of^The Canadian Army W HEN tbe Huns are at last i pational proportions of our overseas | quale plans worked out well in driven back across the Uhine, I forces: | vance and admlnlatered by and tho Kaiser Is brought tn | Professions 12,0<X) have expert knowledge of labor^ try "enough"; when the thunder of jthe artillery ceases, and the boys in |the trenches pass along tbe joyous jWords â€" "Home again " â€" how will Canada be prepared to receive her 'great army of soldier sons from over- ,8««LS? • I Ti:e re-absorption of this great body ,of men at tbe close of the war pre- sents a problem more di.91cult than the one Canada solved In raising and ;out(ltting her citizen army and send- ing it to the aid of the Mother Coun- try. The fact that Canada's array is composed entirely of volunteers, obligates the Dominion with tbe duty 'of seeing to it that these men are properly cared for at the close of the war and judiciously guided back into civil life. Were the men represent- ing Canada in the trenches profes- sional boldiers, our obligation would be discharged with the last pay-day. Merchants and employers Clerical workers .. .. .^ Manual workers, skilled.. Manual workers, unskilled Students r,,2uo 42.000 128 200 53,300 8.4UU Farmers 38,300- Ranchers 2 601 * 2UO,0M The total enlistment since has been increased to about 400,000 but the proportions among the occupations of the recruits apparently remain practi cally tbe same. What Canada needs above every- thing else Is more farmers, for our consuming population is too large for cur producing population. It would, of course, be close to Utopian If every one of our returning soldiers could be transplanted at once to our vacant land areas and enrolled on thj producing side of our population. But But Canada's soldiers are not fight- jit would be folly to expect that any Ing for money, nor spoils. They came larg;e number of men who enlisted from the bench, the forge, tbe (ac j from the professions, the trades and tory, the farm, the mine, the office jthe clerical positions, would be able and the counting house, in answer lojto make good on farms or will have the call of the Empire, in order that | any desire to go onto tbe land. They lil>erty and democracy might prevail lack the knowledge. Their tempera in the world. They will expect to re-'ment and modes of life have been turn to similar occupations, and it is | quite different from those of ttie sue- our duty to see to it that they are pro- jcessful farmer. * perly assisted in doing so. # \ ^ recent survey of labor conditions According to figures obtainable, th? in Canada, which deals with present present recruited strength of our [conditions and the prospects for after- overseas forces Is about 400,000. the-war conditions indicates a pos- 1 of the war. As this number of large Taking it for granted that the warisible demand for aboift 200,000 more will continue for several months, and men after the war. It is quite rea duBtrlal and financial conditiv all parts of tbe Dominion^ Among the most practical pli suggested is that of making a care(nl| iensus of our overseas forces dlrecUyj after the war is over to ascertain thai employment requiremenlsg for th* uen upon their return to C an ada. Such a census would show bow ommk were desirous of returning to th* farm or uf taking up that class ot work upon their return; it would show how many carpenters, masons, nachinists, etc., would require em- jiloyment and when they would b6 available. There will be, as a matter of course, a number of men who will have posi- tions awaiting them â€" others will have relatives or friends who care f<ME tbeoi until such time as they hava secured employment Such men will not be a charge upon the ceuntry and could be mustered out among the first. But what of those wtio have no relatives to look after them and who have no resources upon which to re4j! during the assimilation period? ThA nation must certainly care for these men. and their number will be large, as shown by the enlistment from the laboring class. %• It Is estimated that it would r»- quire 400 large transports to bring back all of Canada's overseas forces within three months after the close that the whole of our present enlist sonable to suppose that T5';i of the ment, and even more. Is used in this , returning soldiers will require em- last drive against the Hun, what will jployment It is estimated there are we do with our men when the war is over and they retuii home? Will they be turned out to shitt for tliem- selves, and, if so, villi the country be able to absorb such a large numb?r without causing serious compli- cations in our industrial and fiuanciai programme? Only a superficial consideration of conditions In Canada makes It quite apparent that this problem cf carlo 200,000 munition workers now em ployed In Canada, and that only one- fourth of this number will l>e retain- ed in this and similar kinds of em- ployment after the war. Thus we find that Canada will be called upon to find employment for a large num- ber of her returned soldiers and for the larger number of the present munition workers, and that she will have to provide the machinery to for our soldiers after the war is on l' | properly distribute and care for this of utmost importance and even if our i large number seeking employment at Dominion and Provincial Govern 'the close of the war. if we are to ments, backed up by our leading maintain our prosperity and prevent statesmen and thinkers, give the pro- Iserious congestion of unemployed in blem serious attention during the re- .the cities and towns. maining months of the war, we will be none too well prepared lo success fully handle the situation. i Some of us are wont to belittie A majority of the returning soldiers will inevitably gravitate to the cities and commercial centres. Even the Civil War soldiers flo<ked to the .these after-the-\»ar problems with thcUities. and It was not until several remark that Canada will be able to! months after the mustering out be meet the situation and that the pro-igan that the men were absorbed in blems will solve themselves. They any great numbers onto the farms, ipoint to the fact that more than a It is <|ulte evident from this that it million volunteer soldiers were al>- will be necessary to put forth every , monstrated. Such a plan merely feeds Borbed In the .Northern Tnited State.-. oSTort to develop and increase all [the government land to the hands ot at the close of the CIvi! War, with- bran<hes of our industrial life to care speculators, without fulfilling the out causing any change in the econ for (his flood of labor that will be object of caring for the soldier, (omic conditions. As wo read back sure to Hock lo the cities and towns. Again, most of these returning men know little or nothing about farm- boats would be impossible to secure, it is quite evident that we cannot count upon returning more than a few thousand each month. The mus. tering out of the Union Army con- sisted for the mort part in sending regimental trains back to the place of recruiting, a task requiring only « few days duration. Canada cau hardly count upon the return of all of her men short of a year or more after the close of the war. The question follows, how are the men to be bandied after they return to Canada? It would seem to be d»- â- Irable that they be kept in camps OT mustering-out depots until the proper authorities are satisfied they can be provided with employment. Undet such a general scheme and with theii care on this side provided for by pro- per provincial or sectional depots^ there should be a minimum of dillt tulty in getting tbe men back ints civil life. t The proposed plan of awarding a free homestead to soldiers, regar* less of whether they have any agr^ lultural experience, is fraught witB many dangers, as Canada's expert cnce after the South African war do- ing. True, the outdoor life they have led will, in a large number of cMseft bring a desire for u continuation ot this life. But some specially design- ed plan for co-operative communitj farming is the only way in whlcb most of these men who lack agricul- tural education may hope to make a success a.s farmers. For those de- siring to take up farming, the Gov- ithrough the history of that great , After the surrender of l.*e. the struggle and the so-called re con- 1 Union Army was demoblllze<l at the etruction )>erlod. It might Eoem at [rate of 3oo 00(1 per month. Th-- larg- lirst thougtit that our cases are some :est return of soldiers «:,s made dor what similar and that what happen 'ing the three- months of M;iy. lu-.ie 'ed In the States will hapiKn in Can- 1 and July. IStt",. when close to TO t 000 nda. However, a r lose comparison were retiirueJ ti> their homcs> There of Civil War londitioiis and thosi' ' was for a time a general ro;piriiii: i«hlch prevail in Canada sliu.vs luany ' and ceh'tiratlon lo welcome tin- "Hoys •broad differences. < 'in Blue"; then came the slern realitv i The population of thel'niteil State? that those men must be prnvid' d with at the outbreak of the Civil War wa-" means of carnln;? their livlns?. Km jfrnment might well afford to main- ahoiit ::i.0ii0.0oo, of whotn something ployiiictit agencies for the nturnia? , 'ain them for a year at a sectional like ll.OOO.oeo lived in the Confcd.' j soldiers were o;iened In evcrv city icamp. even providing for the support rate Slates. The census llgiires o';and town. Many were received back;of their fainilles In or>der that they that period show that upwards of to their old posltior.s. Farms that , might be given the instruction neces- two-thirds of tlie poimlntion In tin remained Idle or only partially work 'sary to give them a chance to win Northern States was rural and this ed during the war were put under success from the land. Once the/ prciiortiim ali;u held in the Soutlicrii v ork. providing; einployment for tho. i- have secured this education and are jstales. Tliis was shown again in i!;- sands of returned soldiersi. Hut plasis i'lsced upon a farm, among rclghbora lenlistmenlH in the I'uloii Army, niade for the soldiv-rs were mo.stly |0f a similar type, there to receive where a large percntage were attest | ocal. In some plan; It was tuipos- continued advUe and Instruction and led from the fiirins. Up to the CIvlLslble to care fur mm | roperly. injKOidanie from Goverutuent experts, iWar period and for many years after [Other sections there was a need for j 'here is hope that a majority will the United Stales was emphatically i more. The country was in a serious succeed.^ an agricultural nation, with inanufa,- Condition tlrandally a situation! AH these problems must be studied turliig limited to certain small disivvhii-h the slatestuen seetri:>d to think carefully Their solution will re- quire time and the best brains of our country The start should be made by the Goverument at once by the aiv polntment of a commission, compos- ed for the most part of civilians â€" for (riots In .New England and the .Nortli deni.-iuded more careful attention Atlantic States. Ithan that of luuking plans for the Against this situation, we find thatiCare of returnln!; soMiers. Canada's X.OOO.O'H) population is about | Taking it for granted that It wl!! evenly illvlded as bi-twetMi urban anJ be iiossible to return the Canadian | rural, while of on 400, OiX) soldiers army to our shoves in large numbers; It must be remembered that the pro- recruited to date only 12",;. came land within a short time after the blems of demohilization of a large from tho farms and ranches, and tak- end of the war. It would seem fromiarmy of volunteers has to do with in- 'ing It for granted that all of th^lthe history of the Civil War that it 'dustrial, labor and financial problems, farmers nnd ranchers will be re- 1 would be more desirable to turn this|and that the military specialists will absorbed onto the farms, what willlgreat body of men back into civil life. have completed their tasks and won we do with the remaining 88% of thigjonlr in such quantities ns the body the laurels when the virar is over. % army cf ours? | politic could assimilale.l This can ^ (Signed) J. 8. DENNIS., 1^^ it is iuteresllug to uote lbs occu jouly be accomplished through ade-| i\'. â-  ^ To Conserve Canac/a's Foorf '''•'«'"'""' ^°°'ji:"" *''•"''''" THK: Canadian Pacific Rail- way Co. has played an impor- taut part in the tnteretits of ("an- ada In the world war In a giia; tuany wayn, aii<l has again bren honored by tlie recent apixiini- meut of Mr W. A. I'ooper, one ol lis promiii-enl oft: lials, to the Food Con H e r v a t ion OomnUttee. .Mr. Cooper has had considerable . ex- perience In deal ing with f(Kids, liaving been con uected with the dining cars of lb* Canadian I'acillc for tvienty years. and his wide knowledge will bu of much value to the I'ouimlttee In the conserva- tion of OanAda's fooo stuffs. On this committer Mr. Cooper Is as Boc i a t e d with Judge Rose, Toronto; Mr W. Wright, Toronto; aud Miss Walsou of the Ouelph College. Mr. Cooper was born In 1871. After leaving school be commenced work with the Grand Trunk Railway as a Junior clerk under the lato William Walnvvright, tor whom later he aeud a* I'rlvale Secretary. Leaving that company in 1891 he joined the C-anadlau Paoillc Railway w^rvice as Chief Clerk to the Qeueral Superintendent of the East- ern Division, and subsequently as- sumed tbe duties of Inspector ot W. A. COOPER. Sleeping and uinlug Cars, from whlcb he graduated In 1897 tu Assistant General Superintendent, and in 190S was aiipoinled Superiuteodeut. In 1910 Mr. Cw)|ier was promoted to General Su|>erlntendent, and during the i>a8t four years baa been Manc^ier of the Dining. Sleeping, and Parlor Oars, operating also the station res- taurants, and train news servlcA. For the years 11)08, 09, and 10, Mr. Cooiier filled the position of Presi- dent of the American Ataoctattoa •! Ulnlng Car SufsrintendeBti. â€"-- Pour Ml NicoLL, a short pifasaut journey via Canadian I'acihc Railway, is thi) Oatewiiy to the Gre«t Lakes. Steam- ship Kxpresa leaves Toronto 2.1MI p.m. ea^h Wevlnesday and Saturday, makini; direct connection at Port MoNioiiU with either steamship "Keewalin" or "Assini- bjia" for Sault Stc. Marie, Port Arthur or Fort William P.iiticulars from any Cxnsdian Pacific Ticket .Agent c W IJ, Howard, Disliict Passenger .\gent, Toron'o, Out. Representative WANTED at once for FLESHERTON and District for Canada's Greatest Nurserie* Spring 1017 plauting list now ready Splendid list ol hardy Canadian grown fruit and ornamental stock, including, Mcintosh lied Apple, St. Regis Ever- bearing Raspberry and many other eadurs. New illuaU'^ited catalou^e sent on application. Start now at best selling time. Liber* :il profiositiun . Stone & Wellin§ten The Fonthill Nnrseriea. (l!4iUbli8hedlS37.) TORONTO - ONTARIO I-