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THE WINGHAM TIMES
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WHITE PINE RESOURCES
Through the invasion of the "white
pine blister rust," a virulent fungus
disease imported from Germany about
seven years ago, Canada is seriously
threatened with the extermination of
bar white pine resources, probably the
most valuable forest asset of Eastern
Canada. This disease hag destroyed the
white pine in Europe, has made serious
'ravages in the pineries the north-
eastern
n s in
eastern states, and is spreading in
Ontario and Quebec. Centres of in-
vasion are scattered from Maine to
Minnesota in the United States, and
from Southwestern Ontario to Southern
%luebec in Canada, the Niagara penin-
auto being the most seriously infected
district in the Dominion.
For its full development and for
transmission to the pine, the disease is
dependent on the currant and goose-
berry bushes. The fact that it cannot
spread directly from one pine to another
'offers a means of control and no effort
should be spared to combat the rust by
exterminating the currant and goose-
berry bushes in infected 'or exposed)
districts, or at least by prohibiting the
shipment from those regions of all
currant and gooseberry bushes and
fruit and by placing an embargo on the
importation of such stock. Unfortun-
ately, the wild gooseberry is equally
dangerous as an intermediary in spread-
ing the disease.
Any loss entailed by even the total
destruction of the whole currant family
is insignificant compared to the value
of the white pine in Canada. In 1914
the white pine production of Eastern
Canada, including logs and sawn lumber,
totalled $16,160,000. The cutting and
manufacture of this timber furnishes
employment to thousands of men and
supplies ;hundreds of industries with
raw material for which no satisfactory
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SUFFERED WITH "NERVES."
Many women become run down and
wom out by their household cares and
duties never ending, and sooner or later
find themselves with shattered nerves
and weak hearts.
When the heart becomes weak and
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pine is one of the most important tax-
payers in Canada and contributes no
less than $1,250,000 to the total re-
venue of about $4,000,000 which the
four, eastern provinces derive annually
from their forests. In view of these
facts it is evident that drastic measures
should be taken at once to eradicate
the disease which threatens this
resource.
Simple Christmas celebrations will be
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The gala dinners of old have been called
off and cheerful economy is the rule.
Thousands of Christmas puddings are be-
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Teutons Have Returner) to the Cruel-,.
ties of Historic Seentl-clvilizrtions
'While the British Act as Though
the Captured Huns Were Guests,
Even '1'htiugij They Are Very l,'n'
welcome Ones.
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said that in England the
interned German prison -
ars of war are being
treated as guests, even if unwelcome
ones, and that on the contrary the
British and Allied prisoners in Ger-
many are being rated as galley slaves,
contrast can go no further, The
world, indeed, is just beginning to
realize that the German system of
working its 2,000,00Q prisoners of
war is a return to conditions the an-
alogies of which can only be found
in past savagery or in the historic
semi -civilizations of the Orient, re-
fined on the surface but inhumanly
cruel throughout. In consequence
Doctor Curtin, the American corre-
spondent of The London Times, who
has recently returned from Germany
and is giving that paper the benefit
of his close study of German social
and industrial conditions during the
war, is doing humanity a public"ser-
vice in painting things just as they
are. Up to date Germany has been
more than adept in keeping the truth
hidden from the world at large, but
the manner in which this new form
of obligated slavery is carried on in
her prison camps cannot forever re-
main unknown, and any light at this
juncture is welcome.
As for the British side of the bal-
ance sheet, most people do not know
that, partly from humane reasons
and partly from the pressure of the
trade unions, England is not work-
ing and cannot work the prisoners
of war in her mines and factories and
her swamps and fields, as is done in
Germany. Moreover, not only has
the American Embassy in London
reported officially on the British
prison camps and given them a good
recommendation, but the attitude of
the press of Groat Britain is against
any reprisals even against proved
German cruelties. A typical editorial
runs as follows:
"Compassionate treatment of
prisoners of war has for centuries
been a British characteristic. At the
best the condition of prisoners of.
war is a bard one, and it is the duty
of a civilized State calling itself
Christian to mitigate their irksome
lot by every means in its power.
Whatever the enemy may do or not
do, it is not for us to imitate his bad
example. Let it suffice that our own
duty is plain. We rejoice that that
duty is being performed in the right
spirit by the commandants of the in-
ternment camps in Great Britain and
Ireland.. In so acting they are main-
taining a noble British tradition.. of
which we have a right to be proud."
Indeed, the charge has even been
made in England that some of the
prisoners of war were pampered,
which again is in contrast to what
Germany does, since over there when
the British sent some prisoners of
war to France, where they are being
used as workers, but not under the
conditions obtaining in Germany, the
German authorities, though they
had been working the British pris-
oners since the beginning of the war,
considered the act outrageous, and
as a warning and in reprisal shipped
a Large group of prisoners into ser-
vice in Poland, a kind of Siberian
exile. Under the circumstances one
can well believe that German prison-
ers of the French or English write
)tome that their camps are "palaces,"
while it is incredible that any British
;prisoner in Germany who is housed
in the industrial camps, where their
service is parceled out very much as
the South has parceled out its
negro criminals, could declare that
his accommodations were palatial
unless he were unbalanced. And
while it is known that official Ger-
many is still contemptuously indif-
ferent to the criticisms of outsiders,
the work of critics like Doctor Curtin
will tell some day, and in the final
reckoning there will be an account-
ing for all the unnecessary and un-
provoked savagery of which any of
the combatants may be guilty. It is
unlikely the world has heard the last
of the German industrial prison
camps.
AUTOINTOXICATION
OR SELFPOISONE
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Which Produces Many Well
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Has Learned His Lesson.
Discussing the relation of the
United States to the European War,
President Wilson recently declared
that "this is the last war that in-
volves the world that the United
States can keep out of." He gave
as his reason his belief that "the
business of neutrality is ovet," and
that "war now has such a scale that
the position of neutrals sooner or
later becomes intolerable." He add-
ed that the nations of the world
must get' together and sit , "nobody
can hereafter be neutral as"`respects
the disturbance of the world's peace
for an object which the world's opin-
ion cannot sanction."
Financial.
A teller's story. Compound in-
terest is a powerful thing. Bill and
Jim, both in khaki, breasted the
counter the other day, and one
the financial member of the party -
asked: "Does this bank give com-
pound interest?" On being told
that it did, he placed 3d. onthe ma-
hogany and said, "Bill and me want
to know how long It will take this
tritybit to double itself, so as we et 31
both have a drink." It tonic only'
two minutes. -London Opinion.
lasts of Prisoners.
German 7risonerh held by the Ba-it-
ish ate. ¥uitary omeet's, 729;
other ranks, 16,166; naval efdters.
150; other ranks, 1,976; total, 39,-
030 British prisorze75 of sear held iax
Germany" are: Military onleers, 923;
other ranks, 27,770; naval oftfeers,
47; other ranks, 361; total, 30,101.
LETTER FROM ENGLAND
(Continued from Page 2)
AUTOS AiBT POP[TLAIi,
Fact is Indicated by Record Receipts
for Licenses,
The revenueDepartment of he t Dere rtme t of
Highways in Ontario for automobile
licensers for the current year will
amount to, a"out $630,000. This is
the largest amount a• aceived by the
Ontario Government from this source
in any year, and not much below the
total of all years up to 1915, Frain
the .time automobile licenses were'
first issued until the end of 1915 the
total revenue was about $750,000.
For some yearn those interested in
highway improvement have been urg-
ing tbaf the revenue from automobile
lice t es should go towards road
lnatntenance. But during the same
Period the Province expended on
good roads in old Ontario over $2,-
000,000, so the account is more than
square. It is the intention now to
apply to roads each year not only the
amount of the automobile revenue
but also such other sums as are ne-
cessary to carry the work along vig-
orously. This is the first year that
any grant has been made towards
maintenance of county road systems
under the Highway Improvement
Act. It is estimated that counties
operating under the Act have spent
$230,000 this year, and of this the
Government will pay 20 per cent. or
$46,000.
We have the same protection es on
land and the same God. I believe that
the Saviour seems closer to you here
than on land. Anyway He is always
here. A great consolation. The army
is rough and you meet a number of
rough characters. but you can keep up
your good character, and the boys
honor you for it.
November 12th
I dn't write any more for I heard we
coul n't send it. but I'm going to take
chances. I was fine the last two days
on beat and enjoyed it but I was glad to
see land. ' I eat abmething every day
and kept it down. We arrived at
Liverpool about 3 a. m. Saturday morn-
ing. Then we didn't dock until 12 and
it was about 3 p. m. when we got off
the boat and 6.30 before the train left.
After dark the blinds on the trains have
to be pulled down so we didn't see a bit
of England. I was sorry for we passed
through many large cities including
Birmingham, Rugby and Old London
on our way to Shorncliffe.
The railroads in England are strange,
They are very small cars. Each car is
divided into five compartments and they
crowded eigbt of us into each compart-
ment. We had hardly room to breathe.
We were packed in there from 6.30 to
about 3.10. Then we had over an
hour's march to our camping gropnds.
I got two hours' sleep this morning so
I'm rather tired,
The second last day on the boat 1 was
able to take my turn in the hospital.
There were three patients, two with
pneumonia. I liked looking after them.
The country is quite rolling. If is
sandy here but not so sandy as Borden
but there isn't much mud. 1 think 1'11
like this place but many are kicking,
but they'd kick anyway. There are a
number of towns around. Dover is ten
miles away but out of bounds. The
English channel is two miles away.
We're south east of London. When I
get my pass I'll go to London I think.
Thursday night we were met by six
destroyers and one led us after that and
each boat struck out for itself. We
had a very careful captain. The crew
says he never takes chances and he
didn't. We were well guarded. One
time I counted five destroyers around
our boat.
There is some very beautiful scenery
around the north coast of Ireland and
many islands.
Our boat was repotted in Liverpool
lost with all on board and in New York
the ,betting was 60 to 1 that she had
gone down. She was in New York and
left for the old country, then came to
Halifax and got us, so as they didn't
know where she was, they thought she
was gone.
I hope you wrote before this do I'll
get it. I don't know how long I'll be
here. We are placed in tents but will
be tnn'ved to buts shortly. We are
placed lit quarantine, which is the custom
for two or three days. We have a
medical examination to -morrow.
I'll write about the Middle of the
Week again if I have time. Write
often.
Captured With a Football.
A prominent Paris paper, Le
Journal, records the impressions of
an Australian soldier, one Jack Bul-
lock, who was wounded at Thiepval..
He went out with five comrades in
an attempt to bomb into silence a
German machine gun. He says:
"Getting near the enemy block-
house, we threw all the bombs we
bad so as to leave the Huns before
us no respite. They were certainly
on the point of surrendering when
we found that our ammunition had
given out. What bad luck! Already
the Germans were showing their
noses over the redoubt. In the fear
that they would find out our em-
bar,•assment and profit by it one of
toy two surviving comrades -have I
said that three had been killed? -
seized a Rugby football which we
had dribbled before us from our
trench and made a motion as if to
throw it at the enemy. They, not
understanding the nature of the ob-
ject, and no doubt taking it for a
new and formidabl'e engine, held up
their hands, and we captured them
easily."
I1OW'S 1 hHS?
WOMEN'S NERVES
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tiring work and physical strain tax their, more delicate
nervous systems and bring premature age, and chronic
weakness -unless treated intelligently.
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LEST WE FORGET
(From the December Furniture Journal)
We Canadians are sailing the perilous
course between the Scylla of business
and the Charybdis of pleasure. We
are prosperous and prosperity seems to
be wielding its fateful siren influence
upon the people. We are practically
"pleasure mad" and that in spite of
the sobering shadows of the greatest
war this country or the world has ever
known.
We have sent a quarter of a million
of our men across the seas to fight for
the greatest cause that has ever formed
a battle gauge. These men have done
honor to the cause and `their race and
thousands of them fill nameless graves
in a strange land, while we sit about
our comfortable firesides in our slippers,
and read tales of their wonderful
achievements; or throng the "movies."
The dead in France and Flanders
mutely appeal to us to fill the gaps
they have left. The living remnant,
with hands outstretched and voice of
agonized pleading, cry, "Come over
and help us." But our ears are heavy.
our eyes dull and our arms are palsied
by the curse of prosperity and the
We nff.r 0:e Flundred Dollars Reward
for any e..40 . f Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 25 years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus-
iness transactions and financially able
to carry out any obligations made by his
fi' m
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, 0.
Hall's Catarrh Cl re is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood anti
mucous surfaces of the system. Test-
imonials sent free. Price 75 cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.„
Take Hall's Family Pills for constip-
ation.
On Saturday the Toronto city archi-
tect issued the heilding permit for the
erection of the new union station, to
cost $2, 800,000. This is the largest per-
mit ever issued in that city.
Canada's exportable surplus of wheat
this year is estimated at 90,493,700
bushels, as compared with 264,173,000
bushels last year.
It is somewhat curious that the
places of the highest and the lowest
humidity in the United States, are
both in Texas.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTO R 1 A
Macready's Caustic Reply.
A scapegrace baron pawned the cor-
onet he had worn at the coronation oe
Queen Victoria. Having a slight ac-
quaintance with Macready, the trage-
dian, he wrote to the actor oddering to
sell the pawn ticket and suggesting
that the redeemed item of headgear
would be an interesting theatrical
"property." Macready replied with
characteristic sarcasm that if the
thing bad been owned by a nobleman
of mark who had got into straitened
circumstances be would have favor-
ably considered the application. But
he did not think his stock of "proper-
ties" would be improved by the addi-
tion of a gilded coronet that had been
worn by a numskull and pawned by a
profligate.
L.iont Signs in England.
Bons have always been and are now
very favorite signs in England -tions
white, black, red, brown, golden, yel-
low-red
eblow--red being the most common.
Probably the iced Lion originated with
the badge or John of Gaunt, duke se
Lancaster, who married the daughter
of Don Pedro. king of Leon and Cas -
ilk and who adopted the lion ram-
pant galea of Leon to represent his
claim to the throne. Under Richard
and John liens became the 'settled
arms of Eadland and were general,
taped by those who could dud any
claim. London Mail.
Your soli
JOHN C. HUTTON.
A glass Witmer that resembles horse
clippers and isoperated with both hands
has been patented by an Englishman.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
C A S T O R 11; A
blight of pleasure seeking. They
practically call in vain.
We encourage this cowardly faltering
with the belief that she recent heroic
sacriflees of these brave men and their
fellows in France have brought the end
of the war in sight. Therefore "on.
with the dance, let joy be unconfined."
Yet the war has only begun and it
belongs to the Teutons so far by all the
rules of the game. Who will dare say
what the next nix months shall bring?
Who will be responsible if the last ounce
of men and means fail to be placed is
the balancing scale?
In an important engagement in a war
waged in the laet century, a standard
bearer, far in advance of his company,
placed his flag on the very breastworks
of the enemy's fortifications. "Come
ba°ck," he was ordered. "I can't.
Bring up your men!" was his reply as
he fell dead at his post.
The cry. reaches Canada in the rhidst
of Christmas festivities this year in
clarion notes, "Bring up your men."
This is the message that is needed this
Christmas more than the angels' song
at Bethlehem. Will our preachers be
true to the needs of the country and
the world?
Will we continue to FORGET?
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