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best, 'The oi : 4 certain extent, serves as a d | binding material, form that wears well under s ? "7 Yours truly, E " D. 8. CUTHBERTSON. | resull £5 Port Perry High and Public Schools will reopen on Tuesday, PF September #. is - 'Mr. and) Mrs. Ji C. Macnabb and | I Master John, of Uxbridge, and Mr, |efforts 'Merlin Letcher, of Port - Perry, are] importance. holidaying at Jackson's Point. all gentlemen of 1] ¥ insure magnificent Misses Eleanor and Hazel Boys, {all worked like bea cf Manchester, are enjoying their | do justice to the object summer holidays at the beautiful|superior efforts and home of Mr. and Mrs: Marshall, at{ much to do with Doe Lake, Muskoka, result, and the canvi We had the pleasure on Monday | return thanks to. the last of a pleasant call from a former | Who so generously ny towusman, 'but for thefly responded to" th past thirty years-has bev a resident Should there be any of the. United States, in the person nscaitacies in dhe; 0 GO x N. 2. Briggs, of 14 Glan e, ex will 'business has proved : exception . the-most successful re- wo Bothing 'worth untold millions ration, imaialy from Great Britain. 3 the flow of immigration been ible, Canada's prosperity, acre- age under crops, wealth exports and manufactures would' all .have increased in proportion, she could - have exported more food to. Great Bfitain and her Allies, and her con- tingents of troops at fhe front could have been doubled. {The patriotism and generosity of 'the' Canadians 'have astonished the. world, and these should survive after the war. It will be Work and Not GiFrs which the people at home will need. As Mr. Lloyd Geatge has pointed outa great pressure of unemploy- ment is to be expected in Great Britain on the conclusion of Peace ; and the provision of work will be needed for defence against starva- tion; poverty and physical deterior- ation. Then the best and most en« during way for Canada to aid the British distress which otherwise will be inevitable in that comity of na- tions known as the British Empire will be to take some of our surplus labor to work on her vacant acres, 80 that both may be employed to the fullest advantage. By this means she can increase our food supplies and keep down our Poor Rate, and at the same time provide for ber own defence by the intro- duction of efficiently trained troops, and reduce the burden of our War taxation by increasing the number of shoulders to bear it. The only way to avoid a War in the Pacific is by being prepared to a but due to _/mi- their tinie with the lost, and employment in the, towns will suffer ip consequence of lack of consumers. presentative extant. The first nine years he was identified with that wonderfully, progressive and reliab.e institution, by his extraordinary ine 1s the Empire to be one in Peace | dividual efforts and superior tact he. as well as in War? What.is Cana- | added to its coffers the magpilicent da's reply ? Those Canadians who |sum of $247,000,and so far distanc- cannot join the active forces at the|ed all peers that none were in front should now get ready to help | the same class, and he did not abate to receive the would-be setilers of|or relax his rapid transit mode of our troops so that the words of Sir | transacting business, and what is Robert Borden, uttered in the [still better, he possesad the happy House of Commons at Ottawa on |facufty of so transacting business April 10, 1915, may apply to the|that all with whom he came in Canadians' answer to the clarion of | contact deemed it a pleasure and Peace as it did to the toskin of | honor to negotiate their insurance War. Sir Robert said: No one|with Mr. Briggs, and the longer he of us doubted then when the end |continued in the business his pop- came the people of Cénada. would | ularity increased until the Compan be ready to respond. to the' call;|finally placed hin on the stperard- but we rejoice that in every Pro- [nuated list with a kingly annual vince, and indeed in every com-|income, doing at the same time munity in Canada, the response has | justice to the Company as well as been so warm, so loyal, so splendid- | the tecipient, and at the same time ly patriotic, that every ane of us|retaining his serviges in a capacity feels today more "proud than ever |that also materially increased the he did before of this great Domini- [recompense already rewarded. on," : During his short visit here he was warmly received. Mr. Briggs looks ] Thos, E. SEDGWICK | splendid and richly deserves a rest. 33, Oriental Street, He is proud of the Company he so Popular, London, E. long represented and considers it July, 1915. unsurpassed asregards being worthy of patronage, honor and integrity. Good Roads PriNCE ALBERT, Aug. 16, 1915. To the Editor of Tae, OpseRVER : Letter III. -- Peterboropgh Examiner : -- If there is one sentence of the 'Hon. George E. Foster's ringing speech that should be burned into the hearts of Canadfans it is this, "The Empire is "in peril. The term natural road-is. applied [that that we in Canada, as part of to any road formed on the natural |the Empire, are in peril, peril of the surface of the earth, {Natural roads | loss of our liberties, peril of coming