Daily British Whig (1850), 30 Jan 1919, p. 9

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oi is 7 m-- YEAR 86. NO, 25 Send 12 PAGES | KINGSTON. ONTARIO, THU RSDAY, » . ¥ JAN big | PEs | SECOND SEUTION a ------ » bh By Hou. Heari S. Beland, M.D, MP. "My Three Years in 2 . " ' a German Prison La a a a LE Oe oo ho ceo : Copyright 1919 4 CHAPTER XXxv. Incidents and Observations. A few weeks after entering pri- son 1 was called into the office on the ground floor, where I found my- self face to 'face with a person en- tirely unknown by me, "1 am Mr, Wasserman, manager of the German Bank," sald this visi- * tor, in introducing himself. "Are you Mr. Beland?"" - Yes, sir, 1 am," 1 replied. "Theén be seated," he continued, "The day before yesterday 1 receiv- ed a letter from one of my fellow- countrymen who is resident in To- ronto. He informs me that he has learned from the Canadian news- papers that you are interned here, and he asks me to interest myself on your behalf. My friend adds that hg, himself, has not received the slifhitest annoyance from the Canadian Government. Will you tell me if there is anything 1 can do for you?" ; "You could, no doubt, obtain for me my freedom," 1 told him *1 would like to do it," he an- swered, "and I will do all that I can in order to be useful to you, but i really do not know to what extent I may succeed Is there anything else | can do?" i ' "Nothing that I know of." "I1s' your e¢éll comfortablel" "I occupy a cell in company with three others "Would it be more agreeable to you if you were assigned to a cell exclusively your own?" "It would, indeed," 1 said, "for then I could work with more com- fort." f ' My. Wassermann then left me, and afew days after our interview I ,was removed into a cell reserved for myself alone on the fifth or top floor of the prison. Here the atmosphere was purer than in the other cell, as there was better ven- tilution. It was brighiter, and I had a wider outlook of the sky. [ occu- pied this cell for three years . * » * The prison was heated by a hot- water system, which §was shut off each day at about tworg'¢loek in the afternoon, so that in the evening the atmosphere geaerally was very eld, so ¢old in fact, that frequently I would have to got to bed as early as seven o'clock, [iréctly the cells were locked, in order to keep myself warm, y - -. > We were allowed to write two jettors and four postal cards each month. This was a rule which ap- plied to all prisoners in Germany, without distinetion. A letter ad- * dressed to a foreign country wis de- tained for a period of ten days, and all correspondence sent by us or di- rected to us was minutely censored, detention of the letters and censure of the letters being practised as a "military measure." During the whole period of my imprisonment 1 never received one single copy of a Canadian newspaper, although 1 know now that quite a number wére from time to time addressed to me » * . * - . Courses of instruction in French, English and German were: given daily at the jail, but only on very rare occasions were there any re- ligious services, either Protestant or Catholic. [I recall dnly jwo or three occasions during the whole of my captivity on which I had the privilege of attending chapel, which was 'situated in another section of the prison. . * . 8 German newspapers of all shades of political thought were received in the jail, whether pan-German, Liberal, Conservative or Soclalistie in their tendencies But we were not allowed to rcad either English or French newspapers, tliough we knew the "big dailies of Paris and London were available at the prin- ¢ipal news stands in Berlin, This does not mean, however, that I did not get a glimpse at both English and French newspapers during my captivity It sometimes happened that one or other of the' incoming prisoners had either a London or Paris newspaper concealed in his pockets. There were other means also through which we were able from time to time to obtain news- papers from the Allied countries. Christmas is always celebrated with great pomp in Berlin, On Christmas Eve the prisoners enjoy- ed a small celebration amongst themselves. There was a Christmas tree, and two or three officers of the Kommandantur, accompanied by a few ladies, came and distribut- ed gifts, which were, for the most part, of the nature of provisions for the most needy of the prisoners On Christmas Eve, 1915, enough food was distributed to give each prisoner a good meal In 1916, when food had become scarce, there was no distribution of provisions, but each prisoner received as a gift an @#rticle of underwear or-a new pair of socks. In 1917, there was a Christmas tree, but no gifts of any kind. The economic situation in the internor of Germany had be- come such that neither food nor clothing were available for the pri- soners { ¥ Ee. (To be Continued.) Stills. Discovered Around Peterboro. Peterboro, Jan. 30.--On Tues- day Mathew Lytle, a resident of Drummer township, pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping and operat- ing a still on his premises. Lytle was fined $200 'and costs, "and one month in jail; on default of pay- ment, six months. A second charge of allowing a still to be on the premises without license, contrary to the Inland Revenue Act, will be next week. The still, which was produced in court, was a crude af- fair - and consisted of a gasoline tank, which was used to hold the mash, and was put over the fire. The worm or copper pipe carried the xapor from the mash into a con- dense?, which held cold water. The alcohol came out through the. end of the worm in the bottom of the condenser. i ge conveying the sad mews of the death of a former resident of Brockville in James @G. Christie. The death occurred at Montreal Lake, Saskatchewan, where the de- ceased had been in charge of a Hudson Bay Co. post. He was a son of the late Hon. W. J. Christie, of Brockville, and was figty-four years of age. dealt with | J. Albert Page received a méss-| THE PROVINCIAL HIGHWAY Between Napanee and Kingston to A : Be Soon Started. Ap soon as the is out of the ground. in the early spring, the pro- vincial Bdghway between Napanee and frost Kingston will be started," The foun- dation will be macadam and the sur- face asphalt The Government has purchased stone quarry near Westbrook, will supply the stone A steam crusher has been located as the spot. The asphalt work will bé done by contract. The Ontario Government intends taking over the piece of road between Bagrigfield- and Gananoque in the spring and work wilt also be started on i before the year is out. With these two pieces of roadwily asphalt- ed, there (witl be admirable approach- es to Kingston. X Dr. J. W. Edwards, M.P., iS going to get the Dominion Government to complete the piece of rofdway from Barriefield hill to Gillespie's gate iis year. The Ontario Government has granted $20,000 for work on this road on condition that the Do- minion Government pay the balance. The road is about two and one-eighth miles In length and will Hkely be as- phalted. . . the which Two Years For Desertion, London, Ont, Jan, 30.--Pte. William«J, Arnott, a Londop mem- her of the Western Ontario Bat- talion, who deserted last summer on the eve of the departure of his unit for the front, was sentenced to two years at hard labor in peniten- tiary He was tried a week ago oh court martial and the sentence ori- ginally proposed to the Ottawa authorities was ten years' im- prisonment, the war fo Great Britain was approximately forty billion dollars declared Sir E. H. Holden on Wed- nesday. Five billion was loaned to the Allies. Germany's war cost, he said was thirty-eight billion of which only two billion was loaned to the Allies, [WAR PUZZLES] The cost of : home Wednesday ? THE RAIN - inition *The International Sunday School Lesson for Feb. 2nd, is, "The Giving of the Manna." -- Exodus 16:1-36. > GOMPERS GOMPERS DEMANDED That unions call off war supply strikes, one year ago today, January 30, 1918. . Find a workman. . YBSTERDAY'S ANSWER Right side down et left shoulder. How much are you paying ~~ for EGGS? You can"save Half 'baking by leaving some their cost- in' of the eggs out, often one-half or mere,and using in place of each egg additienal teaspoon of omitted an . | Try this method with all your bak- - ~~ ing recipes. Theusands ef women are using it with great success. i up A i SS, I was in Great Britain when Lord Rhonda inaugurated his food ration. ing scheme; and I shall always be glad for the experience. As every traveller knows, the British are fa- mous grumblers about their food; 1 have heard them grousing clear around the world. Yet when the rationing scheme was put into effect for all, from king to coster, I never heard a whimper. All men adjust- ed themselves to the rigorous regime cheerfully, for the sake of an ideal. It revealed the"truth that character has made great advances since the days of the whimpering Jews who would have exchanged their liberty for the flesh pots of Egypt. on under war's restrictions without a sense of pride in the wholesope, brave and idealistic spirit of our peo- ple. The spectacle is a discourag- ing one for pessimists. North Am- erica voluntarily rationed. itself in order to feed the world. With plenty in its hands, it denied itself for the sake of a service and a conviction. « Bread Lines, Old and New. This far have we advanced, that the number "of persons who will vol- untarily go hungry for the sake of an ideal is not small. The emanci- pated Jews were not among them. When the pangs of hunger attacked of liberty,. about the marvellous ¢rossing of the Red Sea, about the the remembered Passover and about springs at Elim, and only the flesh pot® of Egypt. preferred bread with beatings hunger with honor. either backward or forward. could not see beyond the weather. Past and future were blot: other ills. . ; 'Fi the Verities, A certain mild-spoken son of Think! Wouldn't ever The most wouldn't keep them away. OF By Willlam T. Elils J them, they forgot all about the joys miracles of the plagues, about the twelve They to One ailment of these wanderers, as of persons mot a few to-day, was their inability to take long views, They present. When 1 shivered in the cold pf Man- churia I thought that I would never again grumble at the heat; but in India a temperature of one hundred pnd fifty degrees smoté me just as hard as if I had never known zero ted out for these Israelites by the consciousness that they were hungry; if they gould only be fed, they fool- ishly reasoned, they would mind no a preacher remarked, in. commenting The Tie That Binds HE influence of music in the home cannot be Gverestimated. y member/of the family insist on being Alice Neilson was going to sing in your parlor next important event you can think of Alice Neilson will visit your home--not once, but every 'evening on your Columbia. She, or some other famous singer, will sing your favorite songs, but that isn't all. Charlie be fond of Creator's Band, Mary may have a friend in France and long for military Music, Billie would just love "Little Red Riding Hood." You can please them ail, The long' winter evenings have no dread for the family which owns ™ A COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA In the past possibly the lack of enlesfafnuient at home has been a source of worry to you. The Columbia has solved many a Tomorrow you will be passing ourstore--drop in and ask for Mr Johnston, styles and give a thorough demonstration of the Columbia little who will show you the different Grafonola. §Come in any time. THE J. M. GREENE MUSIC CO., LIMITED 166 Princess St. Stores RATIONS i and the bake-oven, instead of by rain from heaven? As Maltbie D. Bab- cock sang: il "Back of the loaf is the snowy flour, And back of the flour the mili; And back of the mill is the wheat and the shower, And the sun and the Father's will." Greedy and Grumbling. Loyalty i§ the mark of the good soldier. A really fine fighter is sure to be a man who trusts his leaders in adversity as well as in prosperity. 'The universal revulsion against the German outburst of whimpering and faultfinding shows that 'there is a wholesome and instinctive repug- nance in human nature against a lack of loyalty and stamina. In what glaring contrast it has been to the Spirit of that brave Englishman, Hen- ley, who sang, . "In the fell clutch of eircumstance, * I have not winced nor cried aloud; Nobody can contemplate the spirit | Beneath the bludgeoningsof- "jin which the allled nations carried rat chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed." Those * ungrateful slayes, "the whole congregation of the children of Israel," turned agaiust their leaders 4s soon as they felt the pinch of hard- ship. Hear them: "Would that we had died by thé hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, where we sat by the flesh-pots, where we did t bread to the full; for ye eve brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hun- ger." Poor Moses! He deserves the sympathy which every great leader always deserves and rarely receives; and especial commiseration should be extended'to him because he had to work with an uncommonly forget- ful, ungrateful, unappreciativé and rebellious aggregation of followers. Everybody finds it hard to work with people, and many are prone to say that they have the most uncongenial and difficult company of associates. But Moses really did have a rare lot of spineless grumblers on his hands. What a sermon he could preach on the grace of good nature! Among earth's martyrs must be counted tho ho have to live with complaining, fault-inding, whimper- ing and petulant persons. More un- happy Wemes are caused by nagging and fll-nature than by marital infi- delity. Just as this wicked habit (really, is drunkenness much worse?) turns the married state, which God meant to be a bligsful one, into a state of torment, so fretting, worrying and fear convert the Christian's rela- tionship with God, which should be a peaceful, confident thing, into a bur- den and a cross. John Wesley said that he would no more dare to fret than to swear; for he knew that both 'are expressions of impiety. The Rain of Bread. The grumbler would gra heaven, if a grumbler were mitted there. Jehovah to show the Israelites that the root their complaining lack of bread. Lh : 8 i The Home of Good Music at Peterboro, ather's problem, as it will for you. Belleville, Lindsay, Etc. Kingston to act as ohe of earth's messengers, "The Lord will provide" is the homely, tested teaching of this event, and of the history of all those whom Jehovah has 'called His friends throughout the centuries ys In a thousand ways during the war, by natural increase of haryest, by the appearance of unexpec al- lies and resources, by opportune fogs and rains, by the timely arrival of reinforcements, by the development of women workers, we have been taught during the war the old, simple and profound lesson of the good pro- vidences' of God. He is the Lord of the manna and the ravens and of the widow's cruse i As to the manna, we can only re- peat the exclamation of those whq first found it--' What is it?" It was plainly not a natural product: we only know why it was sent and the purpose it served. When God's people are in need He brings out of His infinite treasure-house stores new and old for their help They think lightly qf Him who say that He can do no more than He has done; Jehovah is a God of exhaust- less resources, Of late we have been surprised at the possibilities and. resources within ourselves, as a nation and as individuals. Who would have dared to predict, five years ago, that North América could perform such wonders in army-crea- | tion, food supply and conservation, | and financial resources for national service? With the stress of the times, and in a fresh spirit of rever- ence, our people have made great calls upon God, and not in vain. Whatever the new conditions, what- ever the peculiar circumstances, God can be trusted to indicate His Lord- ship and to take care of His own ty Counefl, M. B. Holmes, reeve, of Athens, was elected warden. 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