NATIONAL SERVICE * ADDRESS GIVEN By R. B, Beanett, M.P., at Knights of the Grip Banquet. CARDS MUST BE SGD ACCORDING TO PROVISIONS OF WAR MEASURES ACT. Mr, Bennett Appeals for. the Support of the People to Those Who Are Doing Their Level Best in the Country's Interest. "For this great struggle in our na- tional life we are trying to put the round peg in the round hole, or the square peg in the square hole, or in other words, to make the man of twenty-five do, not work that can be] done by a man of fifty, but what he is best able to do." | This is a paragraph that bgst tells what R. B. Bennett, K.C.; M.P., Di- rector-General of National Service, wished to convey to those who sat | around him as guests at the seven- teenth banquet of the Knights of the | Grip. The banquet was held in the! Hotel Frontenac on Friday night. There were few speakers, but each was well versed and to the point in| what he said. | Mr. Bennett spoke for one hour | and twenty. minutes, When he | started his audience imagined that they would have probably twenty | i tnt | minutes of ordinary topics, but for] | eighty minutes he held his listeners' { spell-bound. No such important speech has beon heard here for a long time. It completely relieved iman of a misapprehension concern- {ing National Service. Mr. Bennett | was able at that one meeting to se- {cure the travellers' most earnest co- | operation, and it was given because of his ability to show the facts .in| their true light. i How Banquet Was Possibility. | In opening his talk the speaker] referred to the pleasure of a second | visit to Kingston and how especiajly | pleased at being a guest with such a { royal bunch of fellows. He showed | the audience the true significance of | the statement that Canada is at war and how by being part of the British Empire the banquet was a possibilty. Believing in the right of every man and every country to work out their own destnes so that the state may become a greater one, he mentioned the unanimous vote by Canada's Parliament that had brought Canada in. To-day we are confronted with peace talk. Nothing could be so fatal to our cause unless it was based on the absolute surrender of contentions for which we stand. We must maintain our struggle un- til we can make a satisfactory peace. |/ The end must come some time, and it means either defeat or victory. "Don't imagine that some doctrine called the Monroe Doctrine will save Canada if defeat should come--two! Germany Army Corps will settle that." Victory will bring no new ground. It will bring however the permanence of our institutions and the absolute consolidation of our Em- pire, it will bring fruits for our al- ready tremendous sacrifices. Key to National Service, To bring about this end we must Doctor Tells How To Strengthen Eyesight 50 per cent. In One Week's Time In Many Instances A Free Prescription You Can Have Filled and Use at Home. ra, ro you Wear K 8? you a victiin of eye strain or other weaknesses? If so, you will be glad to know that according to Dr. Lewis there is real hc for you. Many whose eyes were failing say they have had their eyes restored through the principle of this wonderful free rescription One man says, after try- ng it: "1 was almost blind; could mot see to read at all, Now I can read ev- erything without any glasses and my eyes d) not water any more. 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You should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and inflammation will quickly disap- pear. If your eyes are thering yuu even a little, take steps to save them now before it is too late. Many hope- lesly blind might have been saved if they had cared for their eyes in time. | er prominent Physician to whom t apove article was sub- mitted, anid: "Bon-Opto is a very re. markable remedy. Its constituent in. gredients sare well known to eminent eyé npecialists and widely p by them. The manufacturers guaran. tee it to strengthen eyesight 50 cent. in ome week" stances or refund the money. be obtained from amy mood an one of the very few preparations 1 feel should be kept on hand for regu t ahood Note: A nr use in almost every family." sold In Kingston by Geo. W. Mi and other druggists. . Price's . oe eo IN THE CITY. Civil and The BEST $15 Overcoat HAVE MADE OVERCOATS FOR 35 YEARS. KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. John Tweddell, Military Tailor. 'NOTHING LIKE A For the sick room. to AT SARGENT' Cor. Princess and Montreal Streets. Telephone HOT WATER BOTTLE $3.00. : GOOD All prices from S DRUG STO! Clearing Out Odd Pieces During the month ever, thought of working out a scale | of punishment for those who refuse | atmosphere to encourage the filling ! has sixty per cent. of its population of British descent, but in Australia | that which he doing. THE DAILY nized effort, and that is the nal Service. National Service do not, however, mean miliitary service.. Mr, Bennett divi- ded the manhood of this country into three parts, . viz., fighting, working and paying. It has been found that men between the ages of 19 and 25 years are best fitted for infantry work in the trenches. Between 25 and 35 years the wastage through physical ailments is fifty per cent, and between the ages of thirty-five and forty years is 100 per cent. Then is the case of those who are to ur fighters in food, munitions, "If 1 were at liberty to tell you, the proportion of munitions that Canada is now making for the Al-| lies, it would stagger you," said the Director of National Seryice. Then | he referred to the basic' industries and finally the paying men who would have to pay eventually. To best organize this force cards and envelopes have been sent to every man between the ages of six- teen and sixty-five years in Canada. That part of the system was evolved by Hon. T. Chase Casgrain, who as Postmaster-General became known as one of the finest men in Ottawa. It is obligatory to sign these cards by power conferred on the National Service Board through the War Measures Act, "'We have not, how- haye orga key te N to fill them in. This highest form of defiocracy." is still the The out of these forms is being created by the sending out of 150,000 let- | ters to heads of institutions such as Boards of Trade and to doctors, ministers, lawyers, etc. In Quebec one person out of every hundred has received this letter. This Dominion the percentage is ninety-five and in New Zealand is ninety-eight. There are 100,000 Germans and Austrians in Canada's western provinces. We are ing to give every person one last opportunity to/ prove whether this is to be a free democrycy. Em | Equality of Service Impossible. | Mr. Bennett referred at length to the impossibility of equality of ser- vice--no sacrifice is greater than | that of a man's life in the trenches-- | and now universal service is aimed path at the at. i The work of this Dominion as | part of the British Empire is now 80 | vast that we must have organized ef- | fort. Every individual in this state | must do to the bdst of his ability | is most capable of Before closing, Mr. Bennett touch- | ed on a subject that is little discus- | sed just now. He said from a strict- | | they weuld be liable to push the road BRITISH WHIG SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1916. in coming. This motion was passed with great enthusiasm. ' W. F. Nickle, M.P., responded to the toast to the "Ladies," and after referring to the trouble he had ex- periénced in securing Mr. Bennett after the trip the Director-General magle with the Premier to the Pacific coast, he mentioned the heroic work being done by th# women of this Em- pire. A trip through England to the the front thoroughly convinced him of their sacrifice, and he was glad to say that Canadian women were cap- able of the same thing. G.-8mith, High Chief Gripman, presided at the banquet, and was pre- sented during the evening with a valuable meerchum pipe by M. Wood- cock on behalf of the Knights of the Grip. He made a most able toast- master. . During the evéiing songs were given by Messrs. Tompkins, Maunder, Saunders and Nelson. Letters to the Editor | Kingston, Dec. 30.--(To the Edi-|} tor): I am what you would call a neutral, so far as polities in a civic election are concerned, as I have vot- ed for Tory mayors and Grit Mayors, picking the man I consider the best for Kingston. In this coming election I am voting for Dr. Richardson be- cause I think he is a safer man to have at the head of the civic govern- ment here than Ald. Hughes. This is proven by experience. I am afraid that if Ald. Hughes and a few others of the enthusiastic sort got control of things at the City Hall, dear knows how high our taxes would reach, for paving business just a ttle too far. Road paving is all right, but Kingston cannot stand a continuance of it tili war is over. We require a man of Dr. Richardson's calibre to put on the brakes when the expensive road-pav- ing enthusiasts get too prominent. Our taxes are going to be higher nexi year, and the greatest care will be required on the part of the finance committee, of which the mayor is chairman. In my view Df. Richard- son is the man whom the citizens, ir- respective of political belief, should choose to be their mayor for 1917, City Hall and on the Utilities Commission. As to Ald. Hughes' business ability, I do not think he stands just so high as some of his enthusiastic friéndst declare, else he would have solved that coal difficulty for the city pro- perty committee of which hes chair- man this year. Surely such a clever siness man would not have allowed the 'city to have been stuck for over We are will stocked with SNOWSHOES, HOCKEY BOOTS, MOCCASINS and CURLERS' BOOTS Something Good for Every Kind of Sport. / / WISHING ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR Chocolates Call and sce our big variety in Yancy boxes and baskets. 'Sakell's Next to Grand Opera House. and hoping that the Telephone 640. sunshine which fol- lows the dark nights IMRAN ERR RR RRR GREETINGS! of war may come bountifully to you during 1917. ly non-political standpoint, "the {$300 more than the coa. contract. He jeaple shivulg sive fipre honest and {would have found some means of hav- to, and Te-| of frain from destructive criticism of |\DE the coal unloaded. Mw dase n those who are doing their level best | that kind we Business uwillty 4 Tn in the country's interests." He men- [an I$ . We wish to extend to our patrons and many friends - i h {Ald. Fair is being pushed out of alder- tiohed the enormity bt the work that | onic office would have found a way land saved that money, which was sufficient to build a block of good macadam road. ----ELECTOR. fell on the shoulders of a country such ag Canada." Another realizativn that is needed is that for thrift. Luxury was the cause of the fall of Rome and the reverse was the rea-| son for the building up of the Scot-| tish race. ' The pensions that will] come to this country will mean one! hundred millions a year. That can-| not be paid unless new wealth is | brought into existence. Our duty is to save in very possible way. "I do not worry over returned soldiers get- ting employment, They will find the positions now occupied by those who | will not go overseas. This demo-| cracy is bringing up many questions. Help the men who are worgying over | them and help your country to a] realization of her ideals by doing] everything you can." The Toasts, The toast to "The City" was re-!| sponded to by Ald. J. M. Hughes and | Mayor A. W. Richardson. Hughes referred to his experience as! a commercial traveller, and the plea- sure that it has always given him to attend these functions. He was | proud of the subject of his toast, and | honored to be able to respond-to ft| before such a group of men. In opening his address, Mayor] Richardson referred to his experience | as a traveller to Prescott. Changing | from that he mentioned that he was down on the programme as a speak- er, and yet he thought he had over- come that trouble by getting his in- vitation to be present not as a com- plimentary but in the usual manner. "If you don't believe that I cannot | thake a speech," sald the mayor, "read the Standard. 1 hope, how- ever, that you have too much good sense to read that paper." Before closing the mayor referred g g ifs $232 2 ! #1 ! L iH i Fi | A Live Wire Here. Kingston, Dec. 29.--(To the Edi- tor) :--While some wards may com- plain of getting no service from their alderman, I would like to say' the public are at fault in some of the men they select. Fortunately, in Cataraqui Ward we have had one live wire at least, Ald. N. C. Polson. Last summer my cellar was flooded, and my landlord could do nothing for me. 1 went to see Mr. Polson, and in an hour the Board of Health Inspector was at my door, Same afternoon the City Engineer's De- partment was at work and my troub- les were over. Ald. Polson fights for his ward and knows how to get ser- vice when it is most needed. He is \going to get a vote in every home in my neighborhood, because the work- ing people know he is only in the council for the good he can do for his ward and his city. ---"ONE WHO KNOWS." Lilacs and Roses Bloom. The building that was occpied as the home of the famous Thousand Is- land outlaw, "Bill Johuston, still stands. Mr. Johnston was a passion- ate lover of the gifts of nature, and now, every season, lilacs and two or three kinds of roses bloom forth, the | roots of which were planted by His { hand fu 1840. In conversation with the candidate for Cataraqui Ward, the reporter was surprised to learn that Mr. Simmons' daughter was a nursing sister, and his only son was in the "Trenches in France." This is one of the old young men who is seeking alder- manic honors. x Miss Julia Barlowe, Sydenham street, has returned after spending in Gananoque. A great many soldiers left for their homes on Friday and to-day. Their leave extends to Wednesday. Miss Mae Powell has returned af- ter spending her holidays with friends in Gananoque. 'Maple Butter, 25c Ib. at Picke Campbell Bros. A HAPPY NEW YEAR Kingston's Oldest Fur Store. and a PROSPEROUS 1917. 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