Bd dess-------- YEAR 83,7NO. 246 EEE EE 8 ee _--, AL >» Bi EERE suet} Phone IELD CAMP No. 1909 U KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1916 RE ALL THE NEWS OF ALL THE CAMP DAILY by OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE Free Bulletin Service at Press Headquarters, Next ENGINEERING AT THE FRONT) THE NEED OF MORE MEN FROM CANADA 18 URGED Lieut, K. F. Ettinger is Recruiting Officer--321 Men of Trades, are Required From Canada Monthly, Tdeut, K. FI, Ettinger, Kingston. recruiting officer. of the 5th Field Company, Canadian Engineers Sub-| mits the following article for the con- sideration of young men who may contemplate joining that branch of! the service; Engineering Work at Front. Now that the Allies are on the | oftensive on all fronts the war has taken on a new aspect. The world loves ation and in spite of the heavy casualty lists that roll in there is a better féBling everywhere, optimism is the keynote, not the latent optim- Jism that-has possessed ue with the feeling that we were going to win, but optinifsm that tells we are winning, that the smashing offensive promised us 8 now under way. But the same overconfide for which we British have had to pay so much in the past is likely to repeat itself. It has required almost superhuman ef-|- fort to bring the British fighting ma- chine up to its present standard, and if this standard is to be retained we cannot slacken in our efforts. An army entrenched for a lengthy indefinite period and practically on the defensive all the time, is tdtally different to an army that has taken the offensive and is moving forward on practieally every front. Tho first. line trenches today may he the third line trenches tomorrow and your camp Has beeh moved that much piv forward. It means that the old tity has to be abandoned and a new city constructed to accommodate Fur advancing hordes. It was because the Allies were on the defensive so long that the value of the military engineer in large num- bers was lost sight of. But now things have changed we have a new . order of things--and the engineer is the man in most demand today. They need him a= a carpenter to construet shelters and flald offices, they need him as a plumber to provide a water supply, they need him as a masou to - & build strong walls. In fact, they need him for almost everything in the way of construction, and all«the odds and | ends that make a camp habitable. Men of 'every trade are just as neec- essary in a military camp as they are; in any community, but more especial-| ly when that camp i¢ on the forward | move | When an army is in retreat it falls | back on already established lines, | but when its move fis forward its! new camp must spring up upon the | runis of the camps just deserted by | the enemy in their flight. So it is] a simple matter to see why thé en-| gineer (or sapper as he is called, | though he is not a sapper) is requir- | ed by the allied armies as he was never required before. Canada has | done well in gending such fine bodies of fighters to the front to guard the honor of our empire, but Canada has to do more che must in turn send | men to maintain her fighting units up | to the Wtghest possible efficiency. But without the engineer this is impos- sible. We are still suffering from the inconveniences of under-manned | plants, and feel that to let more men | go would be to cripple our business. | But unless we are willing to make | groater sacrifices than what we have | already done whl be done in vain, and disaster is certain to follow, i There are 321 men of trades re-| quired from Canada, monthly, to | cope with the increasing requirements | for engineers. Unless these men are | forthcoming the advance will be pro- | portionately retarded and the brave fellows who are on the firing line will | suffer accordingly. Let us look the] situation squarely in the face--it means a sacrifice---but the sacrifice we make industrially reduces the sacrifice of life. It is not a moral responsibility upon the employers of labor to release more men. to main- tain the efficiency of those already fighting for us? If we do not make this sacrifice now---a sacrifice only in the sense of personal convenience ---- our land will indeed be a land of mourning. Think this matter over and bring it to the attention of your employees. The need js great and men must be procured. MEN SHOULD KEEP THEIR VOWS LIKE GOD'S PROMISE | Sermon At Queen's by Prof. W. G. A Man's Pledged Word Is His Life. Sunday morning, Prof. W. G. Jordan preached an interesting sermon on "The Broken Treaty." He sald that the first verse of 11. Samuel XXI, would be better translated: "There is blood upon Saul and upon hig house." These words came in an- swer to an enquiry addressed by David to the God of Israel concerning the cause of a great calamity that had come upon the land. The reply is that the guilt of needless blood- shed rests upon Saul and clings to the members of his family. Our view would be seeing that the man who was really responsible is dead, all that can be done is to acknowledge She wrong and make, at far as pos- sible, * In Queen's. Convocation Hall on | tion for the | rae man ernment keeps their operati y of these ambulance expi on in the dark. ENGLAND BRINGS HOME HER WOUNDED FROM THE FRONT. Wounded British Tommies being rushed from the war zone to quiet England: How are run no one except officials know, and the Gov=- The seven sons of Saul are killed as an expidtion and sacrifice. Then of two of these young men, the silent sufferer caught in the tragic issue ot events over which she had no con- trol. She protects the dead bodies against the beasts and birds until there is given by the King's com- mand that decent burial which en- sures rest to the spirit and satisfies the sentiment of surviving relations. The story thus simply told is grim and earnest but there is in it nothing sordid or mean; it is a picture of men facing the problems of their i life in a serious spirit. We can re- {gard the narrative as a true state- Jovitap-on "The Broken Treaty" | ment of actual events and a correct |gayl broke a treaty. a promise given Part of | reflection of the thought of the time. |, another tribe, and surrounded no i There 8 no miracle to be explained; it is nature asx we w it and men like ourselves Tace to face with real facts of Hfe. Our business with such a story is not to apologize for it or. explain it away, but rather {ao understand it as a vevelation of hu- man life and the movement of re- ligion. tpn A Strange Drama, This strange drama may be divided into three pirts. The primative in- terpretation of nature, Their view of the famine is not according to the science or religious teaching of our time. Our Lord has taught us that a '| the broken yow. instruction but we néw turn io 'our| specific task, which is to show that! there comes on the scene the mother: there is a moral idea in the story! From the applicable t ime. We know that the supreme gift of | Israel to the world is the truth of, one righteous God who rules the] world," and of many spiritual sug- | estions that lead to or spring out of this truth. The great prophets: preached this truth and applied it to { social and national life. As wp may see from this story the same" truth was in earlier days working at the heart of their religion. Science, the- | ology, and social customs have chang- (ed but here is something that abides. doubt by religious sanctions. He did this out of excess of zeal for his own land and people; as we would say he was carried away by his pat- riotism, his zeal for what he te- garded as the interests of his own country. For this the vengeance of his own God came upon his land and upon his children, Jehovah avenges As it stands then that seems very simple but it ig significant and far- reaching if we accept it in fits full o our own time and to all! DISCHARGED PROBATIONERS Tufantry School in the City Last Week. L. Clarke, 230th. H. Parent, 230, J. H. Summers, 230th. W. Baril, 230th. R. R. McKibbon, 207th. J. H, Fanning, 207th. T. H. O'Hara,' 247th. H. M. Latimer, 247th. J. C. Gamey, 247th, J. R. Hanning, 29th Regt. J. Barker. 8. 8. W. R. Creamer, §. 8. The draft of five officers and eighty men from Queen's Field Ambulance Corps has left the camp for work elsewhere. . Queen's Field Ambulance Corps is moving to the Old Collegiate build ing for the winter, ---- A NAAN Ni 8 3 AT THE FRONT The Eastern Unit Marched "to the Entertained--HNundreds Present to Say Good-bye, The 154th Battalion (Highlanders) has left Barriefield camp for further training elsewhere and the camp is deserted except for the departmental corps. The battalion marched thro- ugh the mud and the rain to the city about four o'clock on Saturday after- noon headed by the pipers band. accompanied by Capt. T. A'S Kidd, ADL, took the salute on the road in front of headquar.ers. : The battalion, leaving its grounds with every tent levelled, marched directly to the Armouries where they "camped" until train time. Here there wells hundreds hot friends who were Al .S2y good-bye to them. {The men 1 their Scotph¢ { caps and doublets were scattered the full {length otf the building in little groups tanxiously waiting for the order to {form up. The Battalion then march- !ed the the entraining point through crowds of people and were cheered fon the way went into their cars, The departure was made. perhaps wore quietly than that of any other | unit that has yet left Kingston. The ISAT BATIALION GONE IT HAS DEPARTED FOR SERVICE City on Saturday Afternoon and " Brig.-Gen. T. D. R. Hemming, G.0.C., | man, v L * The Naval Appeal. - | The British Admiralty: ask Can- | ada for two. thousand men; This is the Ags, Hime in history that such.a requ /been made. The reason for it must therefore be interesting. Naval affairs are regarded as so much a part of the higher strategy of the war that, even now, this suggestion has a certain amount of mystery about it. Why are these men wani- ed? We know two things: One, that these recruits cannot be wanted for the battleships of the grand fleet, be- cause it has never lost a ship or a , The second thing we know is that the Royal Navy has, according to Mr. Balfour, the First Lord of the Admiralty, added one million of ton- nage to its strength since the war be- gan. These two facts argue that the increase in new ships 'must be so large that in manning them, even ie greatest naval power finds « dif- ulcty. Eo i The appeal, ilieielore, #0 Vigo ously urged by the Hon. Rupert Guin- ness, is for a purpose so admirably calculated to renew our faith and trust in the sustained naval power of Great Britain, that it ought to stir us to action to i. It seems extraordinary that after two years of war and with the battle fleet unimpaired, save for threo bat- tle cruisers, we should be setting "men behaved themselves splendidly, about the manning of & new and ad- | ed in ma | CLOSE THE CAMP The Troo| { ¢lnse arout Tuesiay as there is only! ps Leaving the Grounds In cleaning up work to do. i Good Condition, In all probability the camp will} it has been | a splendid camp and the commandant | wishes to have as good an ending. paymaster of the 154th Battalion, The. grounds are to be left in the had a peculiar job on hand Saturday best of shape and for this reason the | afternoon. men of the Special Service Company | are busy on this task and will be j until the camp closes. : } 1 It Was Cancelled in View of Num ! Of Men Away. | There was no divine service at the camp on Sunday morning---the first time since the camp opened. In view of the small number of men it was decided that the usual-camp ser- vice be called off and the men be al- lowed to come to the city. i © NO DIVINE SERVICE | person else in sight un and this with the fact that few rela-| ditional navy, created sined the war tives of the men are in the city help- | began, and enabling Great king such a good showing.'te transfer back again to their legi- Britain timate business those auxiliary cruis- ers which have well madntained the prestige of the Royal Navy. SOLD THE REAR Capt. Nick Bawlf Sold Teddy to G. Mills & Company. Capt. "Nick" Bawlf, the Tar It was to of = big black béar that has been the mas- cot of the battalion. He offered to sell it to the Whig and to every til informed that perhaps Geprge Mills & Co. might have use for it. The animal was taken into the store and sold on the spot In a way that permianontly ended its military history, Lieut.-Col. Wilson has completed arrangements for the offices at the Armiouries (during the winter and everything is in readiness to move in. » nt » 'y To Investors THOSE WHO, FROM TIME TO TIME. HAVE FUNDS REQU _ INVESTMENT, MAY PURCHASE AT PAR NION OF CANADA DEBENTURE S or- .