The Brussels Post, 1918-6-27, Page 7t
CANADA BEFORE CONFEDERATION
The Growth of the Colony Under the 'Union Jack Until It Ac-
quired the Proud Stature of a "Dominion" in
the British Empire,
When the capitulation of Montreal
of 1760 was confirmed there were in
Canada about 40,000 French descend -
ante. Later came another 90,000,
the Loyalists from the revolted Colon-
ies, But these were scattered in
Nova Scotia, Now Brunswick and
what later became Ontario. Both
races had to work for extension
through what was practically virgin
forest, How they did It is a tale too
vast anti too heroic to be fully told
in a newspaper article.
Yet what were the commercial and
other conditions in the years just pre-
ceding Confederation? It was re-
marked that the united Provinces
flouriahed in all except politics. Trade
had begin to grow with a rapidity
which it has rarely been surpassed
even since.
Coming of the Settlers
"During the quarter of a century
that elapsed between 1842 and 1867,
the crucial period of national develop-
ment," remarks Bourinot, "an indus-
trious population flowed steadily into
the country, the original population
became more self-reliant and pursued
their vocations with renewed energy,
and confidence increased on all sides
in the ability of the Provinces to hold
their own against the competition of
a wonderfully enterprising neighbor
Cities, towns and villages were built
up with a rapidity not exceeded on
the other side of the (American)
border. In those days Ontario be-
came the noble Province that she now
is by virtue of the capacity of her
people for self-government, the energy
of her industrial classes, the .fertility
of her soil, and the superiority of her
climate"—a summary of conditions
written over twenty yeare ago, whose
exactitude in every detail is only em
phasized to -day.
The Maritime Industry
inion, The terms on which New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia came into
the compact showed that they had
realized how important the Inter -
colonial Railway would be. Its sub-
sequent history, whatever one may
say of collective versus private own-
ership, has fully justified the fore-
sight of the eustorners then. In 1880
there were only fifty miles of railway
in the old Pruvinee of Canada. But
the Grand Trunk was commenced, and
by Confederation there was the highly
respectable total of three thousand
miles, including the tine Victoria
bridge at Montreal, which for the first
time linked up the American systems
with Canadian lines.
As in steam railroads, so on sea.
The Cunard line of steamships was
inaugurated by a Nova Scotian,
Samuel Cunard, who had been a suc-
•cessful builder of wooden ships in the
Maritime Provinces. At the sugges-
tiar of Icon. Joseph Howe he tendered
and secured the mail contract for the
transatlantic passage. His vessel, army is fighting is not the Red En- crosses lying side by side and proper -
the Britannia, started the floe at steam sign of the mercantile marine nor yeti 1
mail service from Liverpool on July 4, site
the white ensign of the British navy, arm the theuwhal tedbecomes red as. In the nd the
1840.. but the Union Jack, that we see "can- red becomes white. This is what is
In the same period the development toned" (to borrow a v ord from the meant by counter -changing. When
of shipping on the Great hakes took language off heraldry) on thou the two crosses were thus laced side
place. By 1870 there was a good nix'r n
steam river service from Niagara to corner nearest the staff of the reel by side, the red cross of St. Patrick
• Quebec, as all readers of William
ensign with which we are most famil_ fell on the blue field and it became
Dean Howelle know. In fact, in lar' neceseary to resort to another frfbria-
travel the coming of Confederation As befits perhaps the most vener- tion to avoid color on color. Hence
synchronized with the going of the able flag aruong ilia nations of rho the narrow white strip separating the
old stage coach and all it meant. world, a flag which has left its red part of each arm from the blue
Spread of Education print on the American Stars and, field. Then over all again was plac-
Stripes and on the flags of the Britished the cross of St. George, with its
" Then still more important was the Dominions and colonies, the Union! white fimbriation. This produced the
emancipation which free primary edu- Jaek has a long and complicated his-; Union Jack of to -day. Itis officially
THE BANNER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
The Flag That Flies Over One (Gartner Of the Human Race and
One-k'ifth of the ,Surface of the World,
The Union Jack, Symbolizing Three Centuries of History, Combines the
Crosses of St. George, St. Andrew and fit. Patrick.
The flag under which the British ed." In each arm we see the two
"The Maritime industry of the low
er Provinces," the same genial chron
icler-historian continues, "was devel-
oped most encouragingly, and Nova
Scotia built up a commercial marine
not equalled by that of any New Eng-
land State. The total population of
the Provinces of British North
America, now comprised within the
Confederation of 1867, had increased
from a million and a half in 1840 to
three millione and a quarter in 1861—
the ratio of increase in those years
having been greater than at any
previous or later'period of Canadian
history."
There had been since the forties a
flood of immigration, from Scotland
and Ireland in particular. The first
Scottish settlers had sent back good
reports and personal influence in a
clannish race did as much then as
Provincial propaganda. later. In Ire-
land there were economic conditions
after the potato famine of 1848, which
benefited the Canadian Provinces, as
the Irish settlements in Montreal, St.
John and Halifax attest, About the
sixties the larger English influx be-
gan, when artisans rather than farm-
ers came in to the growing eastern
cities.
Perhaps it is not often enough re-
cognized how closely the date of Con-
federation coincided with that of the
blossom -time of railways in the Dom-
ght. The year 1870 is tory. Other nations have "scrapped' escribed as Follows: .
practically the world's turning point their former emblems, and set up new Azure: The Saltires of St. Andrew
in this. It was about that year that ones during the ehanges of their his_ and St. Patrick, quarterly per saltire,
Great Britain, France, Germany and tory. The Union Jack, on the con- eounterchanged, argent and gules;
Italy in Europe, with eeveral of the trary, can trace its descent to those the latter fimbriated of the second;
United States and some of the Re- dim times when knights rode in the surmounted - by the Cross of St.
publics of South America adopted lists; when the Cross of 9t. George I George of the third, fimbriated as the
- free and compulsory education for all. stood red against a white field, and
- Indeed it has been claimed that Nova flew victorious among the arrows of
Scotia, thanks to Sir Charles Tupper, Agincourt; when the flag of Britain
led the civilized world in this parti- met the "Bright St. Andrew's Cross"
cuter. A system was begun there in of Scotiand in mortei eembet.
1864. Ontario's record under Eger,
ton Ryerson is everywhere acknowl-
edged.
To Canadians and to the rest of the
world, who know nothing and care
Another national factor which can- less about the venerable precedents
and stern dictates of the ancient
not be over-estimated in the twenty school of heraldry, the Union Jack
years before 1867 was the facilitating teaches a particular lesson, namely,
of trade through the fine banking that flags are not the creations of
elates in Canada. By means of a color -loving committees and fanciful
facile paper currency and a sane me artists, but that they all have definite
thod of credit, this gave an impetus to origins, and every detail has a mean -
trade in the middle of the last ren -,Ing, if you can understand their
tury to which no tribute is too high' language.
to -day. Close study of the American
system enabled Canadian bankers; Story of Britain's Flag
then to avoid many of their errors, so So here is the story of the Union
that, combined with the stability Jack, containing in its carefully
which Canada enjoyed as a part of modulated stripings the whole history
the British Empire, there was estab-1 of a united Britain. It is a story of
lished a confidence which soon invited heraldic terms and details, but if you
investment of money within the Prov read it, you will know how to hang
inces. This has not ceased to -day, the flag from your house, and what
and it is possible that after the war, is more, you will not reverse it, nor
experience will still more be that yet hang it upside down as a signal
"trade follows the flag." of distress.
All this may be "as a thrice told The flrat "Union Jack" was adopted
tale," but its recapitulation can only' in 1606 soon after the union of Eng -
tend to fuller consideration at this land and Scotland under James I.
time of what it was that went to the (4 Jac. 1), end`the "Jack" is supposed
making of the twentieth century; to be a corruption of Jac., which was
Canada, with which we are all con-. the common abbreviation for Jacobus
corned.
The First of July.
This is a great anniversary day in
the history of Canada, one of the meet
brilliant 'members of the British Em-
pire, Canada is a bulwark of free-
dom, and her sone have fought with
magnificent courage in this great war.
Their deeds of valor on the Vimy
Ridge, and many another battlefield,
are now a matter of history. They
have shown the might of Canada and
the strength of the British Empire,
When the Old Country was assailed
in its defence of freedom, the great
Dominions were the first to make corn -
men cause with the Old Country, and
together they have shown that there
is more in the might and the muster
of the British Empire than ever its
enemies reckoned.
This day is also a day sacred to the
commemoration of those vrho died
untimely far from their homes in the
great Dominion, the men who fell
tortured by poison gas holding the line
at Ypres, the men who stormed and
held the crest of Vimy Ridge, and
were lost in victory. By their deeds
Canada has won an honor which
glorifies and sanctifies the triumphs
of peace. So the deepest note in
'Our Dominion Day celebration is the
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Other British Flags
The Union Jacic has a top and a
bottom. The cross of St, Andrew
came in befote the cross of St. Pat-
rick and takes precedence. Conse-
quently the broader white stripe, rep-
resenting the cross of St. Andrew,
should be uppermost next the staff.
The red flag with the Union Jack
in the corner which we see flying at
the sterns of steamships is known as
the "Red Ensign." It is the flag ap-
propriated to the use of the mercan-
tile marine. The British flag, the flag
used by the army, and flown on pub-
lic buildings, is the Union Jack—no
more and no less. Still another flag
is used by the British navy, It is a
white flag with the red cross of St.
George and the Union Tack occupies
the upper canton next the staff.
Thus In Flanders to -day the British
soldier, if he is from Old England,
sees floating above him the cross of
St. George, as the Scotchntan sees the
cross of St. Andrew, as the Irishman
sees the cross of that venerable saint
who banished the sna' , from his na-I
tive heath.
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CANADA'S CONSTITUTION IN THE MAKING
At the Westminster Conference, Held in London, in December,
1866, the Idea of Union Took Shape in The
British North America Act.
A Song Te• ("amnia.
[Written by Helen llevreg and recite
ed in leis Majesty's Theatre, London,
England, by Marie Mohr.]
They came in their splendid battalions
when the motherland gave the
sign,
from ranch and orchard and farrtr-
1 land, from factory, office and
mine;
From the land of the warm -hued.
I maple leaf and the flaming
golden rod,
Where a man stakes all on the task
in hand, and gives Isla soul to
God.
torn and broken battalione, when
you've played your aplendid
Part,
You will take back there to your home-
land a bit of Old England's
heart;
In the land of the warm -hued maple
leaf and the flaming golden
rod,
We shall face with you the task in
hand, and leave the rest to God.
Canada, Britain's Eldest Daughter.
Canada was the first colony of any
Empire in all the world's history to
come to national self-government
without revolution, without separa-
tion, and without sacrificing., tho beetles
ground of the nation's history, saga
the Toronto Globe.
Nos by the old way of war, and nett
at the cost of the alienations war ale
ways brings, but by a new and livitis
way, by the way of normal evolutios
and peaceful developmeut, camp
Canada to hold, on this continent, her
The Charlottetown Conference met fected by the union, and this to some Placa of national self-government and
on September :1, 1864, All the invit-; extent simplified the work." Mf^a4international co operation,- ythe
j
ed Provinces sent delegates, but the
oldest colony in the Empire, New-
foundland, was not represented. Tak-
I ing a later term in Canadian history
fit might be said that the conference
was one of "bonne entente" more than
1 of detail. Mr. A. H. U. Colquhoun
remarks in his book, "The Fathers of
I nConfederation,": "The Charlottetown
I Conference was an essential part of
the proceedings which culminated at
Quebec. The ground had been brolmn.
The leaders in the various Provinces
had formed ties of intimacy and
friendship, and favorably impressed
each other."
It was, however, in the Quebec
Conference that the working plan of
the union was framed. The confer-
!ence began its sessions on October 10.
There were thirty-threes represents--
:tives present. These are the Fathers
'of Confederation. After Bitting for
jfourteen days they agreed on a set of
seventy-two resolutions which were to
be submitted to their respective Legis -
j latures. The first, which was pro-
posed by J. A. Macdonald, seconded
by S. L. Tilley, read:
1"That the best interests and
the present and future prosperity
of British North America will be
promoted by a Federal union
under the Crown of Great Brit-
ain, provided such union can be
effected on principles just to the
several Provinces."
An Historic Gathering
It was a momentous gathering in
the old building in Quebec, now de-
molished. The thirty-three were in
deep earnest about their work. Their
sessions were held in secret. At the
time a good deal of rumor ran around
as to what went on in the chamber,
but the facts have since become pret-
ty well known. The gossipy, charm-
ing records will remain one of the
most interesting parts of Canadian'
literature. But they cannot even be
summarized here. The resolutions
were the essential outcome.
A great many views have been ex
preased about the act which has come
to be almost universally known as the!
Constitution of Canada, Dr. Bernard
Flint, the Clerk to the Canadian,'
House of Commons, holds that the real'
"constitution" of Canada can only be
said to lie in the unwritten laws
which matte up the British Constitu-
tion. Prof. J. E. C. Munroe, pro-
fessor of law at Owens College, Man-'
Chester, looking at the British North
America Act with the impartiality
which distance givea, summed up the
effort, not of the Quebec Conference
only, but of the subsequent confer-
ences r.nd consultations with Colonial
Office officials in London, as follows:
"A study of the Canadian
constitution offers a special field for
the inquirer, It is a successful ef-
fort to solve the problem of uniting
distinct States or Provinces under a
central government. While the
American States had to create not
merely a central government, but a
government which, within the limits,
laid down, should be supreme, the
Canadian Provinces had to organize
a union, subject to a supreme Execu-
tive, Legislature and Judicature,
all of which already existed. The
executive supremacy of the Queen,
the legislative power of the Imperial
Parliament, said the judicial functions
of the Privy Council remains unaf-
outgrowthe of the Union Jack I
The influence of the Union ,Jaek
has spread far beyond the British'
Isles. It is safe to say that it has
or James. The Union Jack combined left its trace on every Anglo-Saxon
the ancient flag of England, the red emblem. The American flag, after,
cross of St, George on a white field, all, is nothing but the Red Ensign, they
thunder of the war for freedom. The with the ancient flag of Scotland, the red striped with white, the crosses e
glad music of the Doxology is n hymn white cross of St, Andrew on a blue the Union Jack removed from the
to honor of sacrifice. Our joyful field. The two flags were combined blue field
and steps substituted u on the
thanksgiving for Canada's marvellous blue field to represent the union of ;
achievement in the use and govern- by putting the cross of St. George the States. Australia, Canada, and'
went of her great territory has a with a white edge, or fimbriation as New Zealand, all of them bear the
deeper and nobler significance in the the heralds call it, representing the Union Jack or part of it cantoned on;
commemoration of, those of her sons white field of the old Engliah flag their emblems. The flags of the this -I
who have given up their rich inherit- over the old Scotch flag. The rules teen American colonies, the anti
ance and life itself for their loyalty of heraldry applicable to flags as well quarian will tell you, are all of them
and their faith in liberty.as to coats of arnrs did not permit outgrowths of the British emblem,
color on color or metal on metal. The containing the cross of St. George or
white represented silver, and in a for- other parts of the Union Jack. The
mal description of the flag is termed pictures in the U. S. grammar school
argent.' Consequently the fimbria. history books to the contrary, the flag
tion not only preserved a portion of that tete Americans carried at the bat.
the ancient white field for the .red tle of Bunker Hill had on it the cross
cross to repose in, but avoided the of St. George, with, as the heralds
heraldic solecism of placing a 'red spry, the pine tree of Massachusetts
d, Th fi
CANADA
1867-1918
Wild trackless land, where trod the
dusky race
Untutored those short years ago
to -day cross on a blue flee a rst Uruon for "difference." Many is the time
Stands forth our fair Domain and Jack was azure, a saltire argent, aur- that British emblem, its component
with a place mounted by a cross of St. Georgy parts, and its descendants have clash -
And name revered and honored far
away.
Thou country of broad acres, whose
ideal
Of Liberty and Justice days gone
by
Fulfilled that promise. So the dream
is real
To -day. And hearts are proud to do
or die. a
The way was lengthy, 'Mul the path
eared,
And bloody storms oft marked that
growth of years,
But with that faith of Home, and trust
in God
The way was clear'd, and smiles
ehone through the tears.
So stands to -day our monument of
pride.
Broad smiling land that sweeps
from sea to sea,
Whose eons to -day ere standing side
by side
On blood-stained fields to do or die
for thee.
---Robert Partridge.
".Ilia Dominion shall be also from
the one sett to the other, and from the
flood unto the world's end"—Peeohlt
72, 8.
fimbriated of the second (argent).
The Cross of St. Patrick
The union of Great Britain and Ire.
land (1801) introdueed a third cross
into the Union Jack—the red cross of
St. Patrick, which was a saltire, like
the cross of St. Andrew. Theee two
crosses were combined, an arrange-
ment which the heralds described as
"quarterly per saltire, counterchang-
ed on the field of battle, but to -day
the Union Yank has reached a unique
stage in its history. For the first
time every Union Jack in the world
has joined in a eommoe alliance
against a common enemy. The ermine
of the Union Jack have finally united
against the Black Eagle, which Glad-
stone might have justly tailed "the
negation of God."
The "Dominion" of Canada.
It was only after much discussion
of the question and after changing
their minds more than once, that the
Leathers of Confederation decided to
call the union they formed a Do-
minion. Sir John Macdonald was in
favors of calling it a Kingdom, saye
The Mail and Empire. In
some of the drafts of the bill which
finally issued from the Imperial Par-
liament as the British North America
Act it is provided that the Queers be
authorized to declare by proclamation
that the provinces in question "shall
form and be one milted dominion un•
der the natne of the Klugdonr of
Canada?'
"Dominion" was the term finally
adopted, not because it was altogether
satisfaetory, but because it was lees
open to misunderstanding. To some
minds the name Kingdom might sag-
gest the idea of eeparatlom, But . f was born the Dominion of Canada,
tine name "Kingdom" suggested too
soaring an ambition, the term "Dom-
inion" seemed rather humble. In
fifty-one years Canada has madeit a
term of dignity, one that the daughter
States of Britain throughout the Em-
pire have been proud to adopt. The
self-governing communities of Greater
Britain are now all "Dominions." That
term of distinction differentiates them
from the "colonies." New Zealand
formally adopted the name "Domin-
ion." The British Colonial °Mee
was reorganized some years ago and
a Dominions branch Ives eetablished.
It was in London, Eeglami, that the
Fathers of Confederation mot in 1867
--81 years ago --in a room of the
Westtninater Palace Hotel, which is
now in its club capacity inhabited by
many Canadians of the C,E.F. There
The London Conference
It was in London that the act was
finally shaped.
The Westminster Conference at
London in December, 1866, comprised
of delegates from the Canaries, New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, drafted
Ithe British North America act from
,the resolutions adopted at Quebec in
i October, 1864. The British Govern -
Imen t was now a thorough convert to
I the idea of the union, and Cartier was
Iable to tell the people of Montreal a
few months afterwards how loyally
the delegates had been supported.
' "It is a great source—/ will not say
of pride—but a great source of en-
couragement," he said, "to the public
men who then took part in that great
schema, that it was adopted by the
English Parliament, without, I may
say, a word of alteration."
"Provincial Rights" Battle
To understand clearly what has be-
come known as the "Provincial rights"
fight, it is well to recall that one of
the impelling causes of the Confedera-
tive movement was the fear that
"State" right would run wild as it was
believed it had in the United States,
causing, some thought, the Civil War.
In the constitution of the United
States the powers not specifically de-
legated to the Federal Government at
Washington are within the jurisdic-
tion of each State. The contrary
was the effect of the Canadian con-
stitution. Any powers not specifical-
ly given to Provinces are reserved to
the Dominion Government. How
this has resulted not merely in the
slow evolution of Provincial Parlia-
ments, Provincial courts of law and
other departments, and how the ap-
parent duplication of some of this
work had to go on under the Domin-
ion control cannot now be told. It
is a long story of the gradual fitting
of two sets of machinery to each oth-
er. In the end, though the process is
not yet finished, it can be said there
has been evolved a facile and work-
able scheme. Under it Canada has
grown in strength and prosperity.
In all this complexity one thing
stands out, It ie the high standard
of the Canadian Judiciary. To the
Judges of the land has time after
time fallen the decision of saying
what the Fathers of Confederation
aimed at in a loose phrase. The re-
sult, where there was so little light
to guide, has been such that Canada
may well be proud of the intelligence,
the independence and the integrity of
her lawyers.
In the strictly political arena there.
have been odd developmente, some of
then( far other than those anticipat-
ed, but which do not seem in working
to be attaining dissimilar ends than
those sought. For instance, in the
United States the power of the Senate
grew at the expense of the House of
Representatives. In Canada almost
the contrary took place the Senate
dwindled in influence and in publio
estimation as the House of Commons
extended,
Conditions, however, are so tactful-
ly observed on the one side, and con-
trol so mildly exercised on the other,
that, instead of causing- friction, the
actual limitations have become a bond
of sentiment and obligation; they
form that unuttered something which
gives the apt link of love to Kipling's
lines:
"Daughter am I in my mother's house,
But mistress in my own."
WAS A MEMORABLE' DAY
Tune 14th 77 Years Ago Parliament
of Canada Met in Kingston
June 14th was a memorable day
in the history of Canada end Ring -
Ston, for it was on this day. 1.841, just
77 years ago, that the sitting of the
first Parliament of Canada was held'
in the small frame bunding next to
St. Paul's Chttreli, Quece st„ I�tng- I
story. In this building, which is still ;
ntuct and occupied, the members of
j
the Parliament of Canada went into
seasion to carry on the business of i
i
Canada, then in its infancy. The
speech from the throne was delivered
by his Excellency, Lord Sydenham,1
Governer -General of. Canada, and
after this event the Gazette du Canada
pa nelled its first extra in Kingston•'
The guard of horror to the Governor-
General was furnished by the 14th i
Regiment,
The live stock farmer can use fer-
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can any other farmer. His soils are
usually rich in humus and thins en-
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sfble use of fertilizer applied,
que place of strategy
service in all the English-speaking
world.
And not by inheritance alone, nor
by any happy chance of geography
or of history, but by the deliberate
and persistent choice of the Canadian
' people, was it determined that Canada
should stand up in North America, a.
tree nation embodying the democratte
idea. Through a half -century d
conflict, involving sometimes fierev.
'political struggles and sometimes evert
armed strife, the people of the colon-
ies of Canada came up to the rights
and privileges of national autonomy
eecured through the British North
America Act of flfty-one years age,
First by their representative com-
missioners in London, and then
through their own responsible Legis-
lative Assemblies, the people of
tCanada declared to themselves, to the
Government and Parliament of Bri-
tain, and then to all the world, the
!Canadian interpretation and applica-
tion of what history calls the Anglo-,
Saxon idea—the right of a free people
to govern themselves.
The coming of Canada from colonial
dependence to national self-govern-
ment was not only something new in
world politics, a tiring without a pre.
cedant or a parallel in the world's
achievements, but also it released in.
the world's mind a new idea. It pre-
pared the way for the conning of the
British commonwealth, and in the
mind of the English-speaking world
lit gave the idea of World common-,
wealth precedence of the idea of
World empire.
I Canada was the first-born in the
British family. The family has grown,
and is still growing. Australiacams
next. Then New Zealand. Then,
through the birth -pangs of war, came
South Africa. Newfoundland has
long rejoiced to hold itself a self-gov-
erning colony in the surge and Page
of the North Atlantic. And, marvel
of all, when this world war broke,
from out the farthest East, with
' pledges of devotion and with sacrifices
none but sons can make, came India
mysterious and mighty, an Oriental
empire of the most ancient fame,
standing up on the alien salt of Eur-
ope to serve and to dle in defence of
modern democracy against the latest -
born of World empires whose insolent
alternative was "World -power or
Downfall."
And all this marvel of the Agee, this
strange meeting of the East and the
West, this flowing together over the
plains of Europe of the life -currents
of the St. Lawrence and the Ganges
—all this is Freedom's supremest is-
sue from what wee so simply done
fifty-one ,yarns ago, The world's
democracy took a new atart when
Canada rose from being a colony and.
began to be a nation, and when Bri-
tain turned away from the false
mirage of Empire and began to be a
commonwealth of free nations, that,
on this fifty-first anniversary of
Canada's Confederation, 'swings round
the world singing together "God Save
the King,"
Boys, How About. It?
There are some 80,000 Soldiers -of -
the -Soil this summer enlisted to help
out on the farms so no to head off the
Hun. Are you one of them? If not,
why not? Boys from 16 to 10 are res
quired for this service and it is th
most important work a boy moo had
to do. It is backing up the soldiers
at the front. Plan to spend your hall -
days on the farm this summer.
Close the 'Stores Early,
Why not close the stores every other
day at noon and let the clerks go out
and help oh the farms? Why not lei
the townie employing, Including th4
town clerk, go out on the farm for the
harvest rush? Why not otos* tete law+
yens' offices every atternoot f W
cannot the Beheld iiashete telp On tit
farms during the holiday; f
Farmers in Kone' district hope
have a ear of oarly Euroka eaad pa
toes to e'hip out next yeas ,t