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. \ / û i î . " OPINIONS ON WORLD PROBLEMS BY CHAS. M. BICE, DENVER, COLO. QUEBEC AND THE DRAFT. Canada's decision to adopt a draft is meeting with some opposition, at least in Quebec, if despatches are true. It is said that French Canadian leaders are openly fighting the proposed proposed measure, and threaten the big things they will do if the measure is enacted. This is getting dangerously near to treason, and it is to be hoped that the Dominion government will teach these anarchists a wholesome | lesson. It is difficult to get the j Frgnch-Canadian angle from which they view things pertaining to war. One would have supposed that no element of Canada's population would more loyally support the allied cause than these descendants of old France, whose lands are desecrated by the Huns. But the precisely contrary seems to be true, barring a few exceptions. exceptions. Quebec has apparently been the chief "slacker" of all the provinces. Men like Bourassa and Lavergne, with their following, were active in discouraging discouraging voluntary enlistments from the star£, so it cannot be said in their favor that they oppose compulsory methods of enlistments about to be adopted from patriotic motives. Long ago the work of annexing the Ottoman capital to the German empire empire was shrewdly undertaken, . and it was no accident that the kaiser's emissaries wove themselves into the fabric of Turkish politics, laboring, as they have incessantly to undermine all counter influences and to obtain valuable concessions. The inception of a German Bagdad railroad was the next step inspired by Germany and'developed and'developed by German capital and skill. Coincidentally Vienna was unsus- pectedly used to open the corridor through the Balkans--the essential link in the scheme to make Mesopotamia Mesopotamia a garden country for Teutoniz- ed middle Europe. Austria first obtained obtained railroad concessions from Turkey Turkey in the Sanjak of Novibazar, a strip of Turkish territory between Montenegro and Serbia, through which it was designed to build a Teuton Teuton road, first to Saloniki and then on to Constantinople. The viewpoint of these men is narrowly narrowly provincial. They say, "This is not Canada's war. We are for Canada Canada first and we will fight for her if she is attacked, but we will not fight for England and the old countries," | and so on to the end of like drivel, j They fail to realize that Canada is | already attacked through Great ■ Britain, and unless her arm is upheld ; it will be but a short time before the 1 Hun will invade Canada direct. * * * * Unfortunately, these men have held the Utopian dream of Quebec's inde- j pendence. They are "the Sinn Feiners ; of the Dominion, and wish to make a \ new France on the St. Lawrence and j extend westward. i They are so blinded and infatuated by this one all-absorbing ambition, I that they are willing to let the old ■ France die merely because England is 1 her ally. Still, they do not complain of any injustice has been done them, nor would they have any just reasop if they did, for their language is rev spected, even to the extent of making it official in the Dominion Parliament.! Theirs is the language of the Que- bec courts and legislature--it is j taught in all schools and even in the j British province of Ontario, at least, in the eastern portion, and indeed, ; the English speaking portion has had to fight against the submergence of English in the schools of the eastern ! counties. In short, the French-Cana- ! dian has enjoyed every right and ; privilege accorded to other Canadians, 1 and it seems to me to be an extraor- | dinary blindness that cannot see that the world is engaged in a battle to ; maintain the very liberties these men ! possess and enjoy, and that their ! conduct will give aid and encouragement encouragement to Prussian autocracy and militarism, militarism, and sow the seeds of absolu- 1 tism in their own beloved Quebec. THE BAGDAD EPISODE. One of the strongest incentives that actuated the Teuton in starting the great war was Bagdad. The lure of the Bagdad corridor and the undeveloped resources of Turkey mainly caused the war, and enabled the Kaiser to brush aside all the efforts efforts of England, France and Russia for peaçe in the start. Our ears still carry the echo of the big guns that bombarded Liege, and our sensibilities sensibilities still recall with indignation the trespass of the kaiser on the neutral soil of Belgium, but the first shots were fired from the banks of the Danube opposite Belgrade, which meant much more than most of us realized. It was in Asiatic Turkey that Berlin Berlin saw the opportunity for expanded empire, and this desire had become a passion with the kaiser. Years ago German diplomacy initiated its program program for control of the route that led from Berlin through Vienna southeast to Constantinople and its hinterland. Then came the annexation of Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina--an act that greatly disturbed the famous balance of power in Europe and threatened war. The power behind this Austrian aggression was disclosed when the kaiser, in the midst of the crisis, appeared appeared garbed as a war lord in Vienna, and declared that he had donned his shining armor in support of his noble ally. The unprepared "nations of Europe swallowed his arrogant threat and left Austria in possession of her spoils. But the plans of Berlin, progressing swiftly towards consummation, were suddenly overturned by the Balkan war. Turkey was driven from the Sanjak of Novibazar and her Macedonian Macedonian possessions. Serbia extended her boundaries southward. Greece reached east and took Saloniki. The Bagdad corridor was blocked to the central empires, and Serbia held the key. The"first Balkan war left Bulgaria Bulgaria aggrieved among the central allies, and Vienna, egged on by Berlin, Berlin, lost no time in playing to Bulgarian Bulgarian grievances. Sofia was urged to attack her Balkan allies in order to regain Macedonia. Thus the corridor might have been re-opened, but Bulgaria Bulgaria failed disastrously. The dream of a right of way from Berlin to Bagdad Bagdad was necessarily postponed, for diplomacy could do nothing with Serbia. Its aged King Peter's sympathies were wholly Slavic. His subjects bitterly bitterly resented the annexation of Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Teuton agent, welcome in Sofia and Constantinople, Constantinople, was anathema in Belgrade (Serbia). * * * n But Germany's opportunity came when the Austrian archduke was killed killed at Sarajevo. " A pretext for quarrel quarrel with Serbia was thus presented anew. That it was a much desired pretext is manifest from the peremptory peremptory ultimatum sent by Austria, backed by Berlin, to Belgrade, and the refusal of Vienna to consider any method of settling the quarrel other than war. The Bagdad corridor must be obtained obtained at all cost even if it involved Europe and the rget of the x^orld in war. Germany believed she could whip the world. She has tried, and in all her battling she has primarily endeavored endeavored to retain and make secure the advantage gained when she swept through Serbia and reopened the corridor. corridor. This is seen in Germany's proposals proposals for peace. She is willing to discuss the giving up of France, Belgium Belgium and Poland, but says not a word about yielding Serbia, which is her chief concern. Here, there is a conspiracy conspiracy of silence, and the less said the better--for Germany. REGISTRATION DAY IN THE STATES. Don't Have Catarrh One efficient way to remove nasal catarrh is to treat its cause which in most cases is physical weakness. The system needs more oil and easily digested - - cL, " liquid-food, and you should take a spoonful of after each meal to enrich your blood arid help heal the sensitive sensitive membranes with its pure oil-food properties. The results of this Scott's Emulsion treatment will surprise those who have used irritating" snuffs and vapors. Bet thifienuine SCOTT'S The test came on Tuesday, June 5, and the Ngrand response from the entire entire country demonstrates that the heart of this people still beats true to democratic principles, and is ready for any sacrifice it may. be called upon to give to maintain its ideals. Prophets of evil and pessimists were completely silenced by what took place in every registration district, district, the majesty of the law was upheld, upheld, and the patriotism of the people people grandly vindicated. The test was a severe one when everything is considered, for we must not forget that this is a composite nation. nation. Our immigration policy has ever been the most liberal, admitting from three quarters of a million to a million and a quarter of strange people people every year from all countries, and seldom of the best class of citizens, and so we have scattered all through this wide expanse of territory foreign settlements, using even foreign languages languages and which seem to have but a vague idea of American ideals and government. * * * * Then again, the call for an army is not to repel the invasion of a foreign foe hovering at the door, but to go over the sea to attack the" nations from which came many of the immigrants. immigrants. We are at war with a country country that has sent here most of the immigrants immigrants that have flocked' to our shores. They come with preferences and sentiments strong and keen for fatherland,/and many prophesied that there surely wodld be trouble and riot when the levy of selective conscription- conscription- was attempted to be forced# We are. at war with a country who for good or ill have had much to do with shaping American affairs, and there was much justification: for expecting' that the draft would be fiercely .resist-, ed on the day of registration. But, when the supreme moment came, all prophecies of evil and disturbance were shown to have been false and utterly groundless. Instead, the people came together as quietly and serenely as on an election day, and through their solidarity compelled compelled the few dissenters to silence and discreetness. The sporadic outbreaks here and there occurring before, the day fixed for registration, and that seemed prophetic prophetic of what might be expected to occur on that day, only proved the cohesiveness of the whole nation in time of stress. * * * * The people 1 as a whole realized that this was a necessary step to be taken in a cause which had its inception at the very formation of the republic; and though they understood that there was little likelihood of physical danger danger from the enemy, they gladly united for the cause of freedom throughout the world. It is remarkable, remarkable, and much to the credit of the foreign born, that they united with the native born to make this registration a success, that the voice of the nation without discord should sound clear and unmistakable for democracy the world over. . These men know full well that if summoned to the ranks of freedom's grand army, they should fall, that they have given their lives to the noblest cause that men die for, and that their memory and their heroism will not be permitted to'per- ish from the hearts of loyal men. The spirit that fought at Lexington and Gettysburg and Manilla Bay is the spirit that calls "upon the nation' to fight now. For 140 years the flag has never faltered when the cause of freedom called it, and it is calling now, as never before. Freedom is not tribal, but racial, and wherever it is assailed, a common cause is made for all who love her. Ten million young men came forward forward on Tuesday, June 5, and consecrated consecrated their lives in the grand cause of humanity. They know that if France and Britain, Russia and Italy, fail to keep back the merciless hordes of barbaric Huns, the hour will soon come when the peril they fought against in vain will be at their door. If America is to remain free, the world must be free. "HOW DELIGHTFUL IT IS. »r or Last Words ofGbneral Funston; By Henry PoIJc l^owenstein. How delightful it is to do one,a duty well. How delightful it is in théHoüse of God to dwell, How delightful it is, like Sheridan on his ride, With a heartful of hope, to swim to the Other side. How delightful it is, at -Country's call, To put on the armour and fight for all. How delightful it is, in a foreign land, To uphold the flag and for Justice stand. How delightful it is to slip out of the sod, And on the wings of music to fly to God, Listening to the orchestra playing a beautiful waltz -in the hotel where he was stopping in San Antonio, Texas, General Funston, speaking to a little girl nearby, said "How delightful it isl" and then ex-: pired, these being his last words. Copy- wrighted 1917. Copyright waived for newspaper and' magazine püblications during the present war. Dedicated to the Army and Navy of the United States. LIKES ENGLAND WELL. Signaller Floyd Dudley writes from Seaford Camp. Canadian boys all praise the lovely scenery of rural England. Well they may, for it rivals the present dandelion dandelion landscapes around JBowmanville. V^jiFare permitted to publish a few paragraphs from a recent letter received received by Mrs James C. Dudley from her son overseas--Signaller Floyd iL. Dud- lev. It is in Demand.--So great is the demand demand for Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil that a large factory is kept continually busy making and bottling it. To be in demand shows popular appreciation of this preparation, preparation, which stands.at the head of proprietary proprietary compounds as the leading Oil in the market, and it is generally admitted that it is deserving of the lead. We see on a paper from the West a good joke on a Bowmanville military man --a Lieutenant late of the 235th Battalion, who was on a short visit to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It seems that a Cavalry company is being recruited there and qne day as the 235th B. M. was briskly walking walking along the street alone he was overtaken overtaken by some 50 men of the Company on horseback. He saw them coming and took them for N. W. Mounted Police. Coming up to him chief officer discovering an officer called a "Halt" 1 The Bowmanville Bowmanville Lieutenant thinking he was commanded commanded to stop instantly obeyed and to his surprise was given the military salute which he as promptly acknowledged and passed on with his usual dignity. The joke of the affair lies in the fact that the B. M's first thought was. that he was a victim of mistaken identity and was to be arrested by the N. W. M. P. Aha! A . A new kitchen utensil binds, crimps and trims pie crusts by a single operation operation . Are You Tied Up Indoors? :S' If so, your whole system naturally gets tied up too. A lazy liver and constipated constipated bowels are bad things, dangerous things. Exercise as much as you can--rbut keep your liver and bowels up to the mark all the time. Take one pill regularly --until you are sure you are all right again. CARTER'S ItTTLE IVER P4LLS Genuine bears Signature Colbrless faces often show the absence of Iron in the blood. Carter's Iron Pills will help this condition. aS'I I :V- » ÏSS. Ü Seaford, April 29th.- Sunday morning and l am sitting at my desk with nothing to do. We've had the most beautiful weather over here for the past two weeks one could imagine. Tne scenery around here is great all along the sea from Seaford to Eastborne which is a distance cf a- bout eight miles is a linë of hills, broken here and there for a creek or liver to join the sea. These hills are not very high, possibly 200 feet is the highest. They don't slope gently down to the sea but fall abruptly. This forms a series of cliffs all along the coasts for miles. These cliffs are a kind of white chalk in fact all the country around here seems to be one big bed of- chalk. To the rear of these hills the country is itist about the same as around home--gently undulating. The land on these hills does not seem to be much good as there is very little of it under cultivation. Tim only thing that seems to grow is a kind of bush something like the juniper bush and that grows in plenty. Just back of the camp is a golf-link so sometimes I go over and watch the big bugs playing. playing. It seeme to be big sport but there is a mighty lot of walking in it, believe me. Seaford is situated on a bay which makes a splendid harbour. All along the roa in front of Seaford is a promenade promenade with seats, bathing houses and little restaurants, etc. It is certainly a fine summer resort. I wish I could send you some of my sketches. Sheep-raising is one of the chief industries industries of the farmer in this part of the country, every farmer has three or four hundred sheep. It is a common common sight to see this immense flock of sheep grazing with only one man looking looking after them. The shepherd always has a sheep dog with him and carries a crook. It looks like some old fashioned fashioned pictures I have seen. Day War- nica and I went for a long walk over the hills the other day about ten miles. We walked along the shore part of the time, and I found some cockles, these are something like clams and taste pretty good when eaten raw. They taste a good deal like oysters, we made quite a meal of them. Day's cousin from British Columbia is in this camp. It was quite a surprise for Day to meet him. He is not eighteen yet and seems to be a pretty fine fellow. fellow. He has a bomb-proof (safety-first) job heré, for the present any way, He is an orderly at the Intelligence Depot. All the other boys are well. Pte. F. L Dudley, Signal Section, 6th Reserve Batt., Seaford Camp, Sussex, England. MOTHER'S DAY IN FRANCE. There's a place in my memory, My life that you fill; None other can take it: No one ever will. Dear Mr. James,--I have just received received the "Statesman." It comes quite regular and is appreciated not only by me, but by the other lads, too, as its a home paper. I saw you were hairing a Y. M. C. A. campaign. I've had quite a bit of experience with that institution institution and I must say its work cannot cannot be too highly or too often praised. There's one cup of cocoa, provided by the "Y", I'll never forget drinking as long as I live. I had been seven days in a famous bafctie last year and was in the last stages of exhaustion.--and not only I but the rest of the boys as well--when we got, to an old dug-out with the Y. M. C. A. red triangle sign on it, and they gave us a cup of cocoa and some biscuits and, believe me, I Î referred that then to a thousand dol- ars. This is one little thing out of hundreds. This very writing paper --specially issued for Mother's Day-- is a sample of the good work done by them. When the home people help the Y. M. 0. A. they help us fellows who are fighting for .Canada. We have had splendid Weather here recently and all are in the best of spirits. The French farm people behind behind the line are bubon the land working working and seeding, from sunrise till dark. Women are ploughing everywhere; in fact, women, children and old men are practically all one sees when back of the line, as France has all her eligibios where they are making history. I guess Canada will bè ni ighfcy.proud of her boys over here since Vimy Ridge was taken and all the credit we have received has certainly been well earned. earned. The country is looking beautiful now and one gets inclined to be sentimental, sentimental, until all qf a sudden one of the guns go "bang" and it puts a sudden sudden end to the sentiment. I can't tell thanking you for the paper, and look- [ ing forward to the time*; wtiën I shall see you in Bowmanville. Remember •me to all who know me thérè 'and in Darlington. - - _ PTE. H. Holwell, 1st Canadian /Division, Anti-Gas Scjhooi, 669206. B. E. Fi France. ---- : , THE WESTERN FAIR SEPTEMBÉR 9TH to I5TH. Prize Listof London's popular^ Exhibition Exhibition is issued. Management of the Exhibition Exhibition having this in mind have this year generously added $2,000.00 to their Prize List in order to * encourage the Farmers and Breeders to produce more and better Live Stock, Grains, Roots, etc. This brings the List up near the $30,000.00 point. Send to the Secretary A. M. Hunt, London, Ont., for a Prize List or any information information regarding the Exhibition. THE 235th OVERSEAS BATT. In publishing z the electro last week showing the officers of the 235 th Battalion we were then unable to classify thenp and say exactly who had gone oversea^. We have since obtained that information and again publish the list as furnished to us with a few names added to officers not in the. photograph from wlitch the .electro was made. Officers who accompanied the 235th Overseas: Lt.-Col Scobell, O. C. Major C. Dunlop (2nd in Command.) Capt. B. F. Dickson, Capt. W. L. MacDonald, Capt. J. O. Buckley, Lieut. M. C. Lane,(reverted) Lane,(reverted) Lieut. J. J. Shaughnessy (reverted,) Capt. W. G. Clarke, Chaplain; Capt. E. H. McLean, Paymaster, Capt. Geo. W. James, James, Quartermaster, Capt. C. W. E. Meath, Adjutant, Capt. Lloyd, Medical Officer, Lieuts. A. C. Thompson, B. Meen, J. O'Niel, G. L. Edmunds. Lieuts. Cameron, Lamiter and Shaw of 247th. Officers who did not proceede overseas with the Battalion or were transferred to other branches of the service: Lieuts. A. E. Langman, F. H. Reed, W. H. Nicholls, A. B. Mills, H. Dodds, G. Atkinson, taking taking Captain's qualifications at Kingston. Lieuts. J. J. Mellor, Wm. Oke and. Jas. Skeaff, Forestry. Lieuts. R. H. Rickard and H. F. Clarke* Imperial Army. Major E. C.Southey,Lieut. G. Beith and Capt. F. H. Stewart, Civilian Life. Lieuts. H. R. Marshall, W. F. Salton. G. P. Armstrong, Royal Flying Corps. Lieut. E. W. Moss, Ottawa Sieges Battery; Battery; Lieut. C. S. Stewart, .unappointed, as yet, Lieut. E. Campbell, Guard at Trenton, Trenton, now Capt. NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF BOWMANVILLE HORTICULTURAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Subscribers may call during May at S. J. Jackman & Sons' greenhouses to make selections of plants coming to them as members. * Plants are now ready. Subscriptions Subscriptions --$1.00 per year--should be sent in at once to the Secretary, MRS. Edith V. Scobell, Bowmanville. TRIBUTE TO PTE. E. F. CARR Major W. L. Baynes Reed, Chaplain 75- th Battalion, " Canadians, B. E. F., France writes to Mrs. E. J. Carr, regarding the death of her son as follows: Mrs. E. J. Carr, - Bowmanville, Ont. Dear Madam: I regret to write and confirm the news of the death of your x son Pte. E. F. Carr, N£> 805034, B. Co. 75th Batt. He was killed in,action in the taking taking of Vfmy Ridge on April 9th. His body was recovered and buried in the II Brigade Burying Ground Vimy Ridge, grave 207. This is close to where he fell and "on the site of the struggle for the Ridge--the capture of which by the Canadians Canadians made possible the present successful successful advance. A cross has been erected and the ground will be enclosed and preserved preserved for all time. In all your sorrow it will be a satisfaction to remember that your son gave his life, made the supreme sacrifice while discharging his duty to ihe full to King and country and to humanity in their great need. Surely God will en- tervene to overule this cruel war with all the conséquent effects--which we cannot as yet understand fully--sorrow and suffering suffering and sacrifice--to the bettering of conditions in the world and the general uplift of humanity in some measure to compensate for personal losses. On behalf behalf of the Officers, N. C's, and men of the battalion I extend to you our sincere sympathy sympathy and with the earnest prayer that you may be sustained in your great sorrow by the consolation our Christain Father offers. offers. I remain, truly yours, W. L. Baynes Reed, 1 Major. * DOUGLAS FIR FOR NORWAY. you much as . you \gefc all the . news sooner than we do so; I'll quit for now Thought to be the Best Wood for Use in Reforesting Norway. Douglas fir is recommended by Anton Anton E. Smith, chief forester at Stavanger, Stavanger, for the reforestation of western western Norway, whose former wealth of oak forest was exhausted hunclreds of years ago. Mr. Smith is just, returning returning to Norway after a year's study of American soft woods for the Norwegian Norwegian government. He spent most of his time in, Oregon, Washington, British British Columbia and Alaska. The climate of western Norway is very similar to that of the states of the Pacific Northwest. Northwest. Accordingly, Mr. Smith recommends recommends Douglas fir, which, he believes, if planted in Norway, will attain merchantable merchantable size in about 80 years. Norway has been cutting very heavily heavily during the last decade, and the government has taken effective steps to safeguard the nation's timber supply, supply, both by encouraging reforestation reforestation and by limiting the cutting to trees above 6% inches in diameter, measured five feet from the ground. Both pine and spruce are employed for paper making, the principal uge to which timber is put. . 4* A recently invented farm motor is so small that it can be carried around in a wheelbarrow. 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