THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, JU | (COUNTY COUNCIL UNDECIDED VETERAN RETURNS HONE ; | AS TO THE TAX RATE TO LEVY | WILLIAM BENSON WAS NINE- rHiS YEAR. TEEN MONTHS IN TRENCHES - Passes By-law to Expend $8,000 on | Saw Great Artillery Preparation _ | the Suburban Road Area--The| That Preceded Vimy Ridge--Says - City to Pay Half This Amount. | America Will Turn the Tide, | Warden McKnight } Wadertown, NY. Times | overseas . . who has been | * "l CUSHION ae of" is Canadas : | Ru the American Thursday after-! Sich } ue ! . "| years, 318 High street, Canadian not "Tee Xecn . | nineteen | deseribed *ouncil = continued to handle th A jo 2 Truscott, Spector aAsSKe( or 8 IN I r, ask A ol { for the front. veteran. who returned from { France a ing e | While I was at the front my wife hs' active service in night, to-day advoca- ment of a patriotic] ort of the families soldiers who leave { allowance [« At present » TeX received $45 a month," he said. I is net nearly enou the families of the i The property committee recom- in soldiers or sailors can live mended that these contracts be | salaries paid by the govern- awared to the Kir on Sand and with the price of food and ne Gravel Company: sand, $1.40 a| {es of life high. I have heard of whic yard; for cement, $1.50 a ope member of the local division of ibie yard. No tende were re-|ihe Naval Militia, who receives $17 a ceived for wood or coal, and the| month and has a wife and child to 18 + of purchase was left with |ggpport. How can they live? And Councillors Reed and Halliday. The| how can a man fight when he knows ommittee also recommended that | that his family is starving? With the a telephone be placed in the resid-| provisions of the Canadian govern- the county constable, Peter | ment, it is possible for any soldier's The recommendations were [family to exist in comfort. "When | arrived at Cape Vincent Monday night on my way home from Kingston I was called upon to pay a! head tax of $S. I have been a resi- dent of Watertown for 15 years and have been fighting during the past two years, the fight of the American people and her Allies, as a member of a Canadian battalion, and here I pave to pay $8 to return home. I'm not naturalized, of course. But even it { was, I would have to take take out papers again because of losing citizenship by entering the Canadian army I have a son in the Naval Mil- itia, and I wish I had a dozen to send, but it does seem unjust for a man who has fought as I have to pay an e fee to return home. It isn't $s; it is the spirit of the 5a \ ' was present at p a : 8) of nd for t I t- see how Give secure footing on slippery pave- ments. Ao - ¥(%A PAIR PUT ON A A AA MANN NSN YOU WILL ENJOY A spin to the lake. A trip to the country. A ride to the woods. Answer The Call of "The Great Outdoors." ence of | Ritchie. { adopted. The good roads committtee recom- | mended that $25,000 be provided | for road 'construction and $10,000 | for road repairs. The rate for good roads was fixed at 3 mills, The sal- ary of Superintendent R. H. Fair was fixed at $1,200, he to provide his own conveyance and pay his own | | expenses A by-law was passed for the ex- mmm TOR em mr i s 8 the June = BE S{."".> YOUR MILK IS DELIVERED ainy SEALED BOTTLES. All our # *'k is thoroughly pasteurized and bottled .ernNCE. Itis safe. Itis pure. | penditure of $8,000 on the suburban «+ Itis good. Vial 37a, 2 Do gon. hp Gi Phone B45 - Price's [ur iii ---------- RIDE A HYSLO Strong. Speedy. Safe. Beautiful Appearance. Manufactured by HYSLOP BROTHERS, Limited, Toronto OR BALE HARVEY MILNE, 272 Bagot St. A A A ea a - ~ AAA | proposed tax rate of nine mills { Several of the councillors wanted to | have it made less by carrying over sone patriotic fund debentures. The entrans matter was left over till Friday af- the pul H ternoon for settlement. "1 was disc harged, being 'medical- ly unfit for further service." 1 was fot wounded, but I am 56 years old and I had to say that I was 45 when 1 enlisted. Of course, the officers knew that I was over 45. I was a member of the 21st Battalion, A Com any. and served two years, three months and 18 days, 19 months of which was ia active service in France. | enlisted at Kingston, Ont. "1 have 'itpd in this city 15 years, and was employeu as night watch- man by the New York Air Brake 'Company. I enlisted -at Kingston, Ont I am a native of Woolwich, England, and lived for twelve years in Kingston before coming to this city. "In September, 1915, I went to France. 1 was at Ypres, St. Elois, the Bluff, Ypres salient, and then the Somme. | was at the Somme one month during the British offensive Then we went into winter quarters in : France at Bullygrena. | HI "The credit to the Canadians in the d ; recent success at Vimy Ridge must not be exaggerated. it-was the artil- lery preparation tha won Vimy Ridge for us, although the Canadians are to be commended. 'Thé Frenth did not have the artillery and it was nothifig™but flesh and blood against the German guns. Now the condition is reserved, for for every ten shells Fritz throws into our lines, we throw 40 back. We've got the most won- derful, magnificent guns. There are hundreds and hundreds and no scar- city of any kind of ammunition. The artillery fire from the German lines has greatly slackened since we went to France aud ours has increased over a hundredfold. The war can- not last two years more. ---- Salaries of Teachers. 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LIMITED Montreal Don't forget--there are no others! the firing line under heavy guard, and keep them in the front ranks till the last man of them had been shot. Then it would give heart prime youn to fall in voluntarily. The young men farms must not be taken--too many have already gone. I know of large farmers advertising for stock to eat up their meadows, no help to make hay for them. Take ail eligibles out of cities and towns that are lying round in wait to grab/ some man they had seen with money on him by the throat in some lane or alley they had lured him to for the purpose; shove them right through to the firing line with- out drill or ceremony. Then come at these college dandies playing pool and poker--and they exist in our country by the thou- sands. This is what is needed in all coun- tries to purify the atmosphere we breathe among those villains of crime and idlers. If you want democracy instead of autocracy, stamp out autocracy and it leaves democracy pure and simple. What kind of a country will we have after the war,with our best young manhood shot and the villains and laggards left for us to keep and breed from. Let the Government commandeer cheese, pork, and meats at a Hving price for all, and other things-- wheat, peas, beans, etc., and stop the slaughter of calves, for hay to-day is the most miserable price of all pro- ducts of the farm. There are hun- dreds of tons around me; No. 1 hay that there is no market for at $8.00 per ton. It cannot be raised for that price. Then why not the Govern- ment take over the raising of calves, by compulsion to feed up this sup- plus of hay accumulating. The livery stables being cut out by the gasoline motor and driving horses in general is one cause of hay being so cheap. Then why not put hay/ into young cattle to raise for cheese, butter and beef at prices 'within reach of the people. Mr. Editor, I am a farmer, and have lots of hay. first class, that can't be sold for $8.00 per ton, and calves of my neighbors are going te the slaughter house at fabulous os. You can print this letter with my pame. It is,--FRED, MEMBERY. to the manhood of our country brought up on geration. ceives $650 per year, and we will not dispute that, although, some may get less or some more, which is $12.- 50 per week for one year of fifty-two weeks. How many young women re- ceive as much? young women did, too. teacher gets twelve weeks, nine weeks; hours per day. of $15 a week?" Yours truly Digby Bell, sixty-eight years old. ter-attacks were all heavy losses, cyclone. advertises itself without words. adians is this week. The article states the teacher re- Some will say the teacher had to have months of training, but other Now, in regard to holidays, etc: and spare hours to sew, the average young business woman receives at most two weeks' holiday, while the as fol- tows: Easter ,one week; midsummer Christmas, one week; conventons, etc., one week; leaving forty weeks for $650, or $16 per week of twenty-seven hours or 5% Now, the above remarks are well known facts, and, if a teacher has to Mve in am attic to exist on her present salary, I would be pleased if E. D. Dunlop would write an article on, "How can a mam clothe, feed himself and family and pay reat for a house (mot an attic), on a salary --A CONSTANT READER. ! the comedian, died at a NeW York sanitarium after an illness of several months. He was The Germans continue to retire at many points; at others,their coun-| repulsed with If the dude could have a brain storm it would not much resemble a Current report may carry with it the grossest kind of slander and malice. The work of the good workman The capture of Lens by the Can- expected CASTOR:= tects it . . . S50 WRIGLEY'S goes to all parts of the world: high, low. hot. cold: in all seasons. to all classes-- And the contents are fresh, clean. whole- some and delicious. always. It aids appetite and digestion, allays thirst. gives comfort . . . and best of all The Flavour Lasts! Chicago, Jume 21.--A' statement calling attention to a shortage of medical men on all the Allied fronts, as well as in England itself, was is- sued here by Colonel T. G. Goodwin, sion to the United States, who is {touring the country to imspire the : volunteering of medical men for ser- ! vice 'abroad. Colonel Goodwin seeks medical men in addition to the 20. 000 required by the new American! army. i "It is not so much that Allied me- dical officers havé disappeared that' causes the shorfage, but the great | Egypt, SOLDIERS IN EUROPE -------- rd _ take care of 5,000,000 men on five fronts," Colonel Goodwin said. "More than 200.000 hospital "beds are being m¢ intained in the British Isles alone there are 27.000 beds in Malta, and many thousands more in Saloniki, Mesopotamia, India, and of course, in Franee." In some districts in England, Col- onel Goodwin said, the ratio is one medical officer, with the British miss- | increase in the emand for them to Migien to 6,000 inhabitants, . i