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{lic School and the Public Library, the © Jl { Legislature be approached with a view | [to amending the Library Act so. apply the the funds at present to the Public Schools (for library, poses), to the Public Library, || | enabling the Public Li [| videthe books required by | Schooi (except school text |se, in effect, make the Pi | {their families. In such pl } | Manilla and Zephyr this fact is increasing 'the lending of rural school libraries a communities in which - they are ved their usefulness, the libraries would more readily obtain the hearty tronage and support of the rate- - The following resolution explains itself: FE Hl Resolved--That as in the present = 50 that efficiency. Policemen. are very plentiful in rmany, but their main business not seem to be to maintain law i order, German people are law they have to obey such laws as 'authorities see fit to impose. roceed with this outline, it will | 'We solicit your abSount ih Oe oY > SAVINGS DEPARTMENT exiles T PERRY BRANCH H. G. HUTCHESON, Manager. oh ih MacF lishing their papers for such periods as the central authority may deem Teachers also find it pleasant and authority thinks. In fact, the German ' part. but frightfulness can only pro- duce deeper patriotism, greater cour- age, and more thorough self sacrifie. The schools in Germany are divided! As | convenient to think as the central into three classes--upper, middle and! (Jower--the distinction being that they ome evident what is the nature and | People might be said to Le all of one' are attended by the children of the tpose of thése laws that must be|mind, and that mind is located at upper, ved. That they do not include all | Berlin, so that when they want to! society oral law is evidenced. from the hat the number of illegitimate s | children born annually is shockingly . This is unimportant, however, the German authorities; The im- nt fact is that the population has increased, and incidentally the thers of the children have assumed Obligations that will 'hamper mili- service. : he chief work of the police is to BED a record of the lives of all the i "make up their minds" they know where to start. One begins to see what has made possible the highly efficient German war machine. = Obedience is the first law of German nature--along some lines. The next important factor is the thorough understanding of all the resources at the disposal of the central authority. Everybody and everything 1s tabulated. Forty-eight hours after middle and lower classes of respectively. When Professor Luck sent his little girl of seven to one of the upper schools after the war broke out, an order came from Berlin stating that the child must be expelled from that 'school and compelled to- attend the next lower grade school. A few days later another order uame: expelling the child from that school and compelling her to attend the school of the lowest grade. Here the principal took the trouble to tell the other children' that this little girl was zens of Germany, From the cradle{a stranger arrives in Germany, the|one of the hated Canadians, with the ihe grave, all their lives are known | police know all they want to know result that the child's life was made recorded, to public inspection, so that it is ple matter to know the financial ti 4 ing of one's. neighbors, i a ber with their ability and willi 'pay dkbts. It also helps possible' sons-in-law to size up the ed conld be served by them. In| dowries which ' prospective fathers-in. [items has ample opportunity way it 'is hoped that hawing|!aw are 8ble to give, and dowries are|fresh his memory, for he has to write the essenee of the agreement. Should it be shown in these records that an. offence has been committed against the law and the offender pun- ished that person's opportunity for official position is ended. In Ger- many this fact means much more than Gers) These records are [about that person--his name, bis age, | one of continual misery: his. nationality, his business, his religion, the business and religion of. his parents, how. much mongy- and property he possesses, how long he intends to remain the country, etc. A man. who, has forgotten any of these to re- four of these brief personal histories, one of which is promptly forwarded to to Berlin, One can readily understand how easy it was to locate and classify all foreigners at the - outbreak of the war, and to know just how they were to be condition of affairs, much seems tobe it could mean in Canada. There|treated. But right "at thls point Is needed in the wa of per instruction official positions are numerous. Many | where Germany's splendid system for 8 ini the salle Ty ies. that who do not actually hold office under | the control of power breaks. "down -- the Department ol Education be re- quested to furnish a competent in- structor whose duties will be to visit ch libraries annually to "méet the the Crown, are closely watched 'and controlled. Among the officials of the municipglities must be included the clergy. They are appointed by o | the municipal authorities to their re- dq spective churches, and their salaries o|2re paid from the taxes. Their ser- | | explanation and advice as to the se- lection and repairing of books by the tight person would be very valuable. Dr: Horace 1 his add ess elcome 0 the 'Whitby of the mons deal chiefly with doctrines and hair-splitting arguments about which it is perfectly safe to debate as nobody 1s interested in them. It is not necessary for the minister to consider the feelings or wishes of his congre- gation, as bis salary is paid, anyway, and the people feel that they are under no further obligation to the preacher is paid.Consequently ons are small and the in religious matters ig Re : / 0 see that such preachers useful to the Stute to friends and enemies 'were not easily distinguished by them, for the human mind cannot be tabulated, and what the German cannot tabulate, he does not know. Every German is liable to military service, and it is a mistake to suppose that the first year of the war has in any sense crippled her military power even though her losses may be rela- tively greater than those of tthe Allies, but the Germans still have millions o men. Another set of facts must still bc temembered--the enemy holds Bel: gium, and a' very important part of France. It is said that ninety pe cent' of the iron, coal and steel in dustries of France are in the hands o the enemy. This throws an additiona: burden on Britain in the matters of keeping up the supply of ammunition for the French soldiers. This inci- dent serves to show the wonderful System of control that masters the lives of all within the confines of the counfry--a system that knows the pettiest detail of each life, and uses that knowledge to further the purposes of the central authority, Prof. Luck found that German stu- dents were very brilliant in their work, but they were not desirable compan= ions as their moral tone was low. RE ------, War Summary » The biggest news of the day comes from a British court, in which the | legality of the seizure of certain meat cargoes from the United States is be- ing argued. To support the contention of the Government that the meat was intended for Germany's 'military 'ser- vice, and to give an idea of how much' meat Germany must consume in her military operations, a sworn affidavit was produced by Major Eric Dillon of the British Staff showing that the number "of persons serving in the erman. army and under the control of the German military authority ag- gregatesgten million. This conclnsion is startling. £It means that practically every German between nineteen and forty-five is now under arms. If Aus- tria is contributing her men to the same extent there must be at least 16,000,000 under arms. Beside these stupendous figures Britain's three millions are but a small army, and Canada's hundred and fifty thousand are as the dust in the balance. are unpleasant facts, but} they must be faced manfully if the Allies are to win, and we will 'win-- e freedom that has taken centuries ust not be sacrific- should then be in sub- out new forms Bowling - A couple of rinks of local bowlers took part in the tournament at Bow- 'manville. The following gentlemen composed the rinks: H. W. Linke, Jas. Carnegie, Wm. Graham and S. Jeffrey (skip), Wm. Murray, James a0, James McHoull, and D. Car-