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:KEYNOTE STRUGK BY LLOYD-GEORGE Empire and Government Trust to National Sacrifice and New Premier’s Policies on Food Short-1 age, Profiting and Essential Indus. } triesâ€"Imperial Conference George, the new Prime Minister, that the first act of his administration was the rejection of the proposal of the Central Powers for a peace conference constituted one of the most momen- tons scenes which the oldest parlia- mentary veterans had ever witnessed. His Duty and Dangers Premier Llodeeorge rose at ten minutes past four and said: “I appear before the House of Commons to-day, with the most terrible responsibility that can fall upon the shoulders of any living man, as chief minister of the Crown and in the midst of the most stupendous war in which this country has ever Leen engaged; a war upon which its destinies depend.” Following are the chief points in his speech : -‘ "" ‘ f“- -_A-- â€"""â€"â€"V German Peace Proposalsâ€"To enter into a conference at the invitation of Germany. who is proclaiming herself victorious without any knowledge of proposals she will make, is to put our heads into a noose with the rope-end in the hands of Germany. The only terms on which peace is possible is complete reStitution, full reparation, effectual guarantees against repeti- don. New Governmentâ€"There are three characteristics of the new Govern- ment. We departed from precedent, and concentrated the executive i‘ a very few hands and chose men of administrative business capacity . rather than of Parliamentary experi-f ence when we were unable to obtain both for the headship of great depart- ments. We also gave a franker, ful- ler recognition to labor. Shipping and Minesâ€"The Govern- ment feels the time has come to place all ships practically in the same posi- tion as railways. The Government feels we ought to assume more direct control of the whole mining industry. Food Problem Seriousâ€"We must call the people to make real sacri- fices over consumption. Every avail- able square yard must be made to produce food. Let the nation place comforts. luxuries, indulgences, ele gances on the national altar. “?iefiteeringâ€"The Government has come to the conclusion that it cannot ask of the nation more sacrificee with- out taking more drastic steps to ur- rest unfair profiteering out of the war. Mobllizlng Labor Universal National Serviceâ€"It is‘ necessary that we make a swift, effec- tive answer to Germany's latest move. The War Cabinet has decided . that the time has come for the adaption of the principle of universal national service. Neville Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, has been ap- pointed Director-General of National Service. Workers in non-essential in- dustries will be invited to enroll in war lists and be ready to be used any- where until peace. The Director- General will have necessary powers for rendering the plans effective. -v- - 'â€" Irelandâ€"My colleagues and I will strive to produce a better amospher_e. Dominionsâ€"We propose at an early date to summon an Imperial Confer- ence and place the whole position be- fore the Dominions and consult with them more. Significant Victory Over Turks yond Suez Canal El Arish. 90 miles east of the Suez Canal. was captured last week by the British. The British official statement says: “The Egyptian town of E1 Arish was occupied by our troops after be« ing for two years in the hands of the enemy. From the fact that the enemy had constructed a very strong entrenched position covering El Arish and that a large amount of work re- cently had been carried out there it appeared that the enemy had every intention of oflering a stubborn re- sistance. They abandoned their posi- tion on Tuesday night and retreated to the east and to the southeast. It is a serious blow to the Turks from a moral and military point of view.” El Arish is a fortified town of Egypt, PEACE OFFER A NOOSE on the Mediterranean, near the trim- tier of Palestine. It is a_ town of 80.000 people. Following up their victory against the Turks in the capture of E1 Arieh, the British forces in Egypt have cap- tured Maghdadah. taking some 1,100 prisoners. the War omce announced on Christmas. The official statement reads: “On Friday afternoon British mounted troops carried a strong enemy position at Maghdadah, 20 miles south-southeast of El Arish, after an engagement beginning at nine o’clock in the morning. Aircraft co- operated, attacking with bombs and machine gun fire from a low altitude. The total captures are now 1,130 pris- oners. at least two guns, and a large quantity of arms and war material. The enemy’s casualties were consider- able. Our aeroplanes continue to bar- rass the enemy.” BRITISH TAKE EL Major-General Masataro Fujuda, at the Japanese General Staff, and re- cently an observer attached to the French army, arrived in New York last week on the French line steam. ship La Touraine from Bordeaux. Dis. cussing the European war, Gen. Fu. juda said that his impartial View as a soldier was that the Entente allies could not lose their cause. Canadian homesteads in the West will hereafter be available only for Bntlah subjects and citizens of allied Marks of New Regime Dec-ember 28, 1916. Take 1,130 More Turks “Allies Cannot Lose" Forest Fire. a Big Contributing Cause -â€"Maku a Long Haul Necessary Independent of other causes operat- ing to increase the price of paper to Canadian publishers, the constant de- struction of spruce and balsam forests by preventable fires has played a serious role, says a bulletin by the Canadian Forestry Association. With- out question, there is abundance of woods to meet all demands of paper mills, but abundance and acessibility are frequently two very different things. Transportation, distances be- tween the woods and the mills is a factor of first importance, as not a few unsuccessful Canadian and Ameriâ€" ‘_ can paper mills have been forced to realize. Every additional mile a paper mill is obliged to travel for; logs, the cost of the paper products will reflect an advance. ' V' ‘O. Ovuvvv â€"â€" E. H. Backus, President of the Min- nesota and Ontario Paper Co. at Fort Francis, Ont., stated that the increas- ing inaccessibility of pulp limits from the mills is making paper dearer. Un- like small saw mills, the permanently located pulp mill cannot pack up its equipment and follow the retreating forest. Forest engineers are agreed, however, that with care in operating limits and thorough protection against fire, pulpwood forests can be perpetu- ated indefinitely; accessibility of sup- plies need be lessened very little. nâ€"_-.‘l- tin-UV Up to the present stage in Canada the lack of modern fire protection has reduced the near-at-hand bodies of pulp wood far more than the actual cut of logs. The Northern Ontario fires are an illustration of this fact. In the 1,200 square miles devastated were substantial quantities of paper making materials. In the same fire an Ontario paper company lost 400,000 cords of wood, ready piled in the mill yard. The forest fire record in On- “w v.â€" vâ€" vâ€"v râ€"r'â€" - Mrs. Jas. Tucker was called. to! ”mums“ PROSPER Essrzz‘tsssisgsay “‘97 Mr. Wilfrid: Barbour is home Id“. 0' Pet” vans." "a“ Mk” from North Bay Normal school forl b0" Wealthy the holiday. ' ‘ l l â€"â€" J g ' 1; Welcome to Peter Veregin, a Doulthobor, came to gagitfig. 3A.helfiwyr en c e, who Canada in 1903, Just after a 16-year ' f m _ have moved: across the line 1‘0 . exile in Siberia. For a time he en Glenelg to Egremuont. dured the hardships of a pioneer’s life . .. . on the prairies. Thirteen years later Qur WI teacher, M155 3- th‘! he lived for the time being in a suite , a 'b t was ; in the Fort Garry hotel, and headed weekothrroough 11111355, thu Ch 'st- 1 a community of 7,000 Doukhobors, back in time to add to e n ' possessing property value at about . ; ' ‘ , . 82,000,000. Although he as s the idea Mir. Robt. Rumley of Manitoulin! is as old as the hills, r. Veregin {who is attending Knox College, ‘9 claims credit for promoting this com- spending .a fortnight at the home munit‘yl 113:8 which has proved such of his uncle, Robt. Barbour. It won e 1 success. As a young man . ' m formerl ' 0f , he endeavored to get his brother Douk- thififigtybrfigfl, is visiting at i hobors to band together in Russia and Mr R Meade’s . form a communit settlement, but he Miss Mabel Meade is home from alleges that the ussian government Toronto for the holiday. viewed his efforts With suspicion, and, Miss Haxel Bennett of Ottervill? regarding it as a political oflence, sen- is home for the holiday. tenced him to 16 years' imprisonment While Messrs. John Barbour and in Siberia. On obtaining his release Robt Rumley were having their he joined a colony of his kinsmen who ‘hristmas morning cutter ride. had located in Saskatchewan, and hg their horse took fright at an auto directed all their eflorts along com- and upset them and ran awav, but munity linesâ€"the 033 79331.98 for the no verv serious damage wasvdono taric and Quebec during ten years accounts for vastly more forest wealth than has passecl intojlumber and pulp. Without doubt, other causes than unheeded fires were at the root of the paper price advances in war time, but it remains true that since the first paper factory in Canada began to operate, the fire fiend has been laying his tax on the paper consumer. n 1 _ “n“ “1"“ . Y a mu lty ines the one working for the no very sen 0 us damage was don good of the whole. By 1916 there were : three settlementsâ€"at Veregin, 838- although Mr. B'arbour had on: katchewan, one in Alberta. and one at sprained ankle. “Inch may 5 l ‘ l 9 W811. Brilliant, RC. Messrs. Wm. and Robt. Lennox W Of E1b0“’, Sask., are on a f€\V weeks’ visit to their brother, Joe .. '1 man old friends. They have FEEDING THE BEES qpsp y (of the 200-acre farm WW . V they owned 1n the northern part Syrup made from the best grade of of Glenelg, thus severing one of white granulated sugar is a safe sub- the ties which bouni them to their stitute for honey in spring and stn, native county. But the chances are mer and a desirable supplementary that stronger ones will be form- food for winter. For autumn feeding at before they return. Syrup made from the best grade of white granulated sugar is a safe sub- stitute for honey in spring and stn. mer and a desirable supplementary food for winter. For autumn feeding use two parts of sugar to one of water, in the interior of Canada, and two and a half parts sugar to one of water at the coast. To get the sugar to dissolve completely, the water must be hot, and if the syrup i... made over the fire, the sugar must be added to the water in small quantities at a time and stir- red constantly until dissolved. to pre- vent it from settling to the bottom of the vessel and burning. Burned sugar is very unwholesome for bees and would cause their death during winter. To prevent the syrup from granulating, l9] “_-__ -v'â€"v-- a teaspobfiful of tai'taric acid may be added to every twenty pounds of sugar. WHYPAPERIS DEAR Ii n '1“ 9 mm: Hg, ..~ 0f fmit jar with very «4»- ns» kx' __ host. *‘nr cmninb‘ Whole < r k g» "("st :mh crnmes. ‘u fa v frying food sirst real it in 1]., LL31 o:- '(la'hel c rmth to dry it w. ldip in fag and 1011 m crnmbs a W x. \\ “lie lit!" hm ISH plants add a. li 2:» awe-wt milk [n the uater occasio unds of sugar. “mu“ -- ---_ - Compliments of the season i‘O , . . The Chronicle and its readers. 333‘ ‘f'lth Very The Ladies’ Aid is now in a :zmmn‘b‘ whole position to do ‘ With :rnmes. ° r-st r001 it in Thev are spending the money in Ms“ [0 dry it’ shitting and yarn, and have all '21 in crumbs a they can do at their afternoon mints add _ 3. meetings, and home Work besides. Water occasxo \V’hjle our first speculation is on our own council, we would also Misses Mary and Eliza Edge ate Christmas dinner with friends in VValkerton. . . 'V H SAUL LU“ 0 Mrs. J as. Stapl‘es of markdale is. helping to nm se her little grandau 41.51 '. er Frederica Staples who has been 11 l with preumunia. . .1 A- ‘I‘A knmn ‘ l' :1 VI. \ \Iblbv ------ Mrs. J as. Edge returned to the home of her bun Mr. \V.R. Edge after spend ding the summer with her daughter in town. _ . ‘ ‘ Misses Ethel Greenwood and Mar) and Alix Edge 0 are home for the Christmas Mr. {Lind Mrs. D. H. . shew. Chi-.stm'as “itb l). Firth. U. L‘ IL L ll. Mrs A. Firth and daughter Jean of OIHHb’t‘ViHH and Mrs. Carney of Grand Valley are guests of Mrs. R. Edge this “'PC‘k. Miss Currie McNaIIy has been under ‘17- Miss Currie McNaHy has been under the drizmrs care for a. week. We underamnd that, we IS chreatened w uh appcx_1diciLi6. 1" -._|_1 1...,1 n“ ILll “F’Pull\$I\rlv-'- Uur meher Miss MC Donald had an unex'minment in the school on Friday afternmm In which the public were invited. 'Ihe school was prettily decâ€" orwted and two Cbxisnnan trees were adorned with gifts for the children. Mr. John Firth was called upon for chairman while the children furnished the _ prugrame. ‘ L‘ L ___.. A.“ “kt-:Qf- UIIC P‘I'filq‘.‘lv. Miss E. Edna ds of town ate Christ- ! mus dilllh'l' with Mrs T. Greenwooda'.i Mrs D Hummvoou and Miss Clara. at. Mrs. Moffat’s; the Bryon family with Mrs. A. J. Greenwood and the Scarf and. Ritchie families with Mr. W. J. Ritchie. The usual routine of business was transacted at our annual ' on Wednesday. Mo‘ffat was elected; in his. place. Mr. Hugh. Vaughan has the con- tract f-or supplying the Wood at $2.75 per cond. Howard Ritchie lights the fires, and. Tommy Morâ€" ris‘on attends the sweeping, dust- ing and scrubbing for 1917. ea 08 LUIC uLLJ A uâ€" -â€" Mr. Thos. Tucker gaxe his \11fe a handsome new organ for '1 Christma as box. The Chronicle saw it is noxx 20 vears under the same managemem 1 _ All: +A“ aha manager Of th) Christmas box. The Chronicle says it is now 20 vesrs under tne same management izncl as editor and manager of the. best local paper in the country. the time must have passed very “Mennnv and ouickly. Let us ask U'L‘bl. lUuax your”..- --_ - the time must have passed very pleasantly and quickly. Let us ask ourselves how it has been with us as correspondent. From the begin- CORNE R CONCERNS Edge Hill Greenwood. Listowel Alix Edge (if Torppto 'istmas vacation. Firth of Toronto his mother Mrs season 3.0-0 venture an opinion on neighbor iahand Barber of Normanby. He will take the SOlidl vote of his neighborhood, and when a man has the confidence of those who know him best, it is safe for 311 .u give him support. The 25 per cent. raise in the tax- es this year caused a big turnout at the nominations. It got spread around that an error in making up the estimates had placed a sir-- plus in the treasury. Y‘f‘.“f:'i'fitg 22' .1 .1-11...._,. 8311 thre Start the year backed: bV the can: fidence that 1 folks at home friends. You a Single‘Fareâ€"Going Dec. 30, 3} and January 1. Return limit Jan. - Fare and One â€"Third-â€"G0ing D 28. 29, 30 and 31. Return limit .1. L. I 9 adian Pacif- .‘r Railway. New Year’s Fares Single Fareâ€"Dec. 30, 31 and Jun. 1. valid for return until Jan. 2. Fare and One-Thirdâ€"Dec. 28, 29 30 and 31, v‘alid for return until Jan. 3 Above reduced fares apply be- tween all stations in Canada we of Port Arthur and to Detroit ani Port Huron, Mich, Buffalo. Black Rock, Niagara Falls and. Suspen- zsion Bridge, N.Y. Tickets now on sale at all G. T. R. Ticket Offices. G. B. Dingman, phone 3, Durham. ‘ .QfifibOu The Fund muires $12,500,000 for 1917. Of this Ontario is asked to rune $6,000,000, being the estimated “squirt menus of Ontario's families. If there is no local Fund to which you can subscribe, send your 33; direct to the Canadian htdotic Fund. Vittoria Street. Ottawa. , THE CANADIAN PATRIOTIC FUND 1" Take the Canadian Patriotic Fund. It has been created to care for the families of our soldiers in those casesâ€"and those onlyâ€"wi-ere need exists. E§pefience has shown that this means in two families out of three. Up to December 1, 1916, the people of Canada have given $16,500,000 to the Fund. That is generous giving, isn’t it? But the country is still at war; our armies are still growing: the soldiers’ families are still in need; the Fund still must be maintained. And what do we find: in every part of the country men crying that they have given enough to the Fundâ€"that Government should now take the burden. 11L uL'...’ LL \a‘uusyo ‘v - - - . to ten thousand. dbvllai-‘s. :1 ('J "l; lad in the trenches is dead-tired, ready to drop in his tracks, does he chuck his job. declare he has given enough, and call on Government to get another man? Given enough! Is there a naan in Canada has given enough if women and children are in need while he, the stay-at- home, has a dollar to spare? No! This Fund, above all funds, has a claim on every citizen who is not himself a pauper. The fact that Government has not assumed responsibility for it is the fact that makes every man responsible for itâ€"-even if he thinks the Fund should be maintained by Government moneys. Are 1. Government would have to treat all alike. The Fund helps only those in need. If Government paid the families of each soldier the average sum paid by the Fund the extra burden on the country would be between eight and nine million dollars yearly. 2. By paying the average sum those families in districts where cost of living is low would receive more than they need; those in high-cost areas would be Paid too little. 3. Costs of administration would be enormously increased. This work is now done, for the most part, by willing workers without cost. Of every hundred dollars subscribed, Ninety-nine Dollars and Forty-six Cents go to the families! Never was a voluntary fund so economically administered. q 9» § ”'0.“ 4. The work would suffer. There would be no more of the friendly, almost paternal, relation now existing between the administrators of the Fund and the families. Government work: automatically. The Fund’s visitors are friends in need, therefore friends indeed. S. Taxation would be unequal, for some counties and some provinces are already taxing their people for this Fund. Are they to be taxed again by the Federal authority? ' 6. The richer classes would be relieved of work they are cheerfuny doing. They are now bearing, and beafin! because they have the financial power and the patriotic willingness, the larger share of the bug-am. Why take from them this task, and give it to all, rich and poor? . 7. The Fund blesses him that gives. It is a vehicle for public spiritâ€"a channel for patriotic endeavor. The work of administering it has uncovered unknown reservoirs of unselfishness and sacrifice. Men and women have thrown themselves into this work because they found in it the “bit” for which they lookedâ€"their contribution to winning the war. Why stay their hand and stifle their enthusiasm? 8. Last, but not least: Government control means raising the money by selling Government bonds. Govern' ment bonds mean future taiation. And that means that the returning soldiers will pay, through long years. 8 13‘“ share of the cost of eating for their. familiesâ€"-a cost we, the stay-at-homes, pledged ourselves to bear. HEN AND WOMEN OF ONTARIO: Bend your backs once again to this burden. Ifyou live in the rural dish-1° 'cts see to it that your county councfl! make grants worthy of the counties and of the cause. If in' the towns, start campaigns for individual subscriptions' And pexsonally, taxed or not taxed, give as you can afl'ord, give as your conscience tells you is your duty, your war- time part, in this day of national sacrifice. All of us cannot fight. All of ur-mcn. Are we seeking that “something.” or are Given pnoughh! When the Canadian your friends > are still your :an Visit them GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT CONTROL, BECAUSEâ€"â€" Ll- 3-- "m“ year, yet it is a mistake that has been made before by some best council-s, but the mistake was noticed before it finally passed. I: :a cnmmgmi the error was made best councils, but the mis noticed before it finally passed. it is supposed the error was made through school moneys, and as our township has not placed itself on the same footing as some of the surrounding ones, of having school money ahead, We Would suggest the new council hand the â€"men, women and childrenâ€"can do something towards winning the war, or are we evading it? An: we looking for the “bit" we should do, or trying Snx'm'vig'n FH‘HU’ i Erin's“. Flour ! PHK’I'V 3‘ um i ‘ inn (Hmlc H U! ‘ 1 “MPH! Hats wamf: ht; i areal The Above are All Made fiom Szwci .l Rvdzzctiou on Fluu cm hard. Parmvrs and Stock Owners should lay m a quan- xity uf this Excellent Conditim-Aer for Spring and Summer yr... (13”,, thing {qua}: it. for Young Pigs, Calves, Etc. Mnkus .\‘¥ :h-h (‘nWS Milk and puts Horses in prime condition fur m-Pdit’g: in fact it. ma}: 9: «'vet-ything go that, it’s. fed to; spasm Urldu en's Celehmte Calf Mva‘. ‘~-_‘ . 2;; Evm-x th§ng in mxr lino at lnwwsb pl-i(-¢:.~'§fr‘t-(‘a.-h. AlLkindg of Gl'hll) lumgh and sold. JOHN McGOWAN TELEPHONE No. 8 KM}; 1t of Day) YOU helping to insure this home against need 7. ham: 3 mmntitv of tho:- celebrated Molassine Meal Flour and Feed in Quantities -~.â€"- money over to the treasurers of the various schools, and we Will look carefully after it. EVery Show and dance, who know of so much money in the treasury, will be aft-3r the mun-ell for a grant‘ bur no one ever thinks of asking a school board for any such thing, n' It was possibly never more plainly. demonstrated how poor“; a lot of excuses will substitute 3. tion, than with the oouncilmm at the nomination who was trying (U furnish excuses for not supporting the patriotic fund. He looked like thirty cents beside the men Who had made great sacrifices to let their sons go to the front. and helped in every Way to maintain them there. Owners should 'lay _in a quan- Bran, Shnrts Middlingrs. (Um: Chap l‘rm-kmi Vida-'51.” ('nm (.l'iilipcti {ht (,5 {HI' “01308 But-luv :em‘; WhPat (3110p MiXtd {Tho}, SoundlandfiVholeKG rains noun". « “IEDURHAM CHRUNl a. Edntel‘, and these ”rely had enough of of office to .step aSide “has have a chance. For twenty years known Durham, and d _...... the council was reevesihip, a posmon m. ihiuced to accept by a .m. the electorate. not \\'it 'n m the tart that hi? had n!) l'f‘ municipal experience. He 9.; e21 his duties well. slmwinq in his management of Um n flic- county' council. 311a 0 there were regarded rm so we have already said. he ne aired for office, and we we:- one to see him have anot‘n at least. At the nomina made a very clear prese of the year’s Work. He 91m _ honest facts. Without ego? bombast, and left the electo‘ the impression that he ‘ again be a candidate. W] not been told, why he failed his qualifications. and to 31 gave up in .diagust and i: ence to the paltry honor 4 office is only a mere c011 Mr. Calder was evident}; anxious for office. and he with a clear field. A8 to. Mr. Laidlaw’s as; for the nayoralty. we positive assurances of his a for the position. In fact. much as said. he had no i of running, and even yet no reason to doubt him. to heart by the electors. said. would have to pay t 88‘ anti to keep the law. stag e ? During the year a b}'-‘. introduced making it i: to have the. taxes paid 1 12th of December each add five per cent. An add five per cent. An the majority present at the closing meetings was nullify the byâ€"law. but M stood firm, and being 1 left the council table im disgust, declaring he \x‘c Clothing more to in Wit] may account large‘ly fn‘ fusal to be a candidate. em and. the others hoped the choice one- and that the 1 give us a fair Sha nicipal legislation. Of the elm" council honors Ther- are fWO mun be voted on. one ful off the shortage m and the other for § up the High Schunl Should. be carried. the payment 0 t tied. The compliments to the editor, staff '0! The Chronic-1L. Mar. and Mrs. T1109- Fort Frances are Vi‘ mer’s parents and M this vicinity: parents, Mr. anu Mrs. trance, Sr., and othvr ”hr. Johr; Eckhardt h ter wriers installed in by Babb Cox, of tow â€"â€" '“vâ€"â€"-â€"v Bornâ€"0n Thu'Fd 1} Mr. and Mrs. .135. I‘U‘d Mr. John Lawrencv. We to walk out to an ev‘gry day._ -' '\ __ "‘ ‘v‘d‘l ““3. Mr. and Mrs. Dan M .009 Of New Liskoard. “I! the holidays with 'Kelvie’s father and 0‘ u‘mlnd here. Mr. W. L. Dixon speI ”338 at his home herel My. Wells of Hanovoi heyday with Mr. and n‘ ‘ - Lu 1 micâ€"313625 into their 09_Mnnd.ay_ of_ _last me JLL rm; NOMINATIONS Lethodiag Mr. , John rsonagv- ficCaul and [Mahatma and during 3 council was grace acre of the illustrinu minfer that a 1) ham council would without Laidlaw, C; r, and these three d. enough of the 3* to step aside and , Editor and Propriet , Mr. Catt-on h?” a position he accept b}' a 1m!“ DECEMBER 2:: McVViiiial‘ {II the til W t W