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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1917-10-18, Page 4PAX .A Fi uM keenest business men it) the whole eonlniry $ltit GENERAL MEWBURN Il 1t •x1 In the appuinlme it of Major -Genera Sydney Chilton Mewburn, C.M.G., as Minister of Militia, Canada is emulat- ing the Kiteltealer experiment in Bei - tails. She is placing at the head of the Militia Department for war -time • a practical soldier and lin etlicicnt or- ,ganlzer, Colonel Mewburn is a native of-1-f:tinilton, where be -has practiced • law since he was 21 years of age. ile ` enlisted in the militia as a pirvate be - 'fore he became a lawyer and rose to the. tank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 11e has always taken a keen interest in • military matters, and is reputed to be a tireless worker with a ren, cable. capacity for detail, Alter the outbreak of the war he succeeded Colonel H. A1, Elliott as Assistant Adjutant -General for the Toronto Military District. in August Last he was made a C, A1, G. He also possesses the long service medal and has been mentioned in despatches. He. organized the Canadlau Defence Force, which became absolute on the intro- duction Of the compulsory service mea- sure, General Mewburn's second son, Lieutenant John Chilton Mewburn, was - killed in action on September 1 5, 1916. General Mewburn is 53 years of age, A Man of Few Words 11 the Premier were looking for the antithesis to the ex -Minister of Militia, Sir Sam Hughes, he could scarcely have hit upon a better than than Major- General S C. Mewburrie It may be safely said that there will be no super- fluous parades or superfluous anything else under the direction of the new Minister of Militia, PREMIER SIFTON 1I# 14 1-lon, Arthur Lewis Sifton is a man with a magnetic personality, and men "stick" to him, tie is a constructive thinker, clear -seeing and •far-seeing' he is urbane. and erudite; he. has imagination and yet ;t shrewd. discern- ment of values; he is sure of himself and has great platform ability; he is strong but peculliarity tactful; he is is shrewd 'but honest, These things ;lade him a success as Chief Justice of Alberta, and to a greater extent as Premier of that Province. Ilun, Mr. Sifton loves method and precision; he abhors disorder and slovenly methods. lie avoids waste and he considers that his time is money. A Struggling Lawyer. The Alberta political leader is the elder brother of Sir Clifford Sifton, and son of Mr. John Wright Sifton, when resided at Brmdo,i, and who many years ago was Speaker of the Manitoba Leeislatul' . lion, Arthur Sifton was born 62 years ago, in a village near London, Ont, When he was seventeen he nosed to Manitoba with his parents. .Later the bob' Ar- thur was sent back Bast to Victoria University to finish his education. Here • in 1880 he graduated, and pro- ceeded to Winnipeg to finish his studies in law. For twenty years he had a most prosaic career. First he wept to Brandon, but this Western town at that time having little need for a legal adviser, he moved on to Prince Albert in 1885, Ile was not much more successful Isere, :Ind four years later he moved to Calgary at the age of 29, For almost ten years Arthur Sifton was a struggling lawyer and adviser i0 older men in Polities than himself, In 1898 he was elected a member of the Northwest Council for Band', Three years in that position brought him to the post of Commis- sioner of Public Works, Two years later, in 1905, he retired from politics to become Chief Justice of the Pro- vince. ,^ "We Must Pull Together" When a split occurred in the party in 1910 mens sought a lender, They remembered Arthur Sifton, and against the advice of his more politically ex- perienced brother, Sir Clifford, he ac- cepted the Premiership. At the stone time he assued the duties of Presi- dent of the Executive Council, of Pro- vincial 'treasurer, and in December, 1911, he was appointed Minister of Railways and Telephones. In 1013 he resigned as Treasurer. Hon. Arthur Sifton, even before becoming Premier of the Western Province, had as ills motto, "We must poll together." In accepting the Premiership, lion. Ar- thur Sifton became one of the excep- tions in (Canadian political life. He had a comfortable position as Chief Justice, but he chose that with the harder work, Usually it is the poli- tica; seeking a Judgeship, instead of a .fudge seeking political honors, 1I$ N. W. ROWELL 14 11: walk -oyer" type type s( 10(101' then be- lieved, From that ti ne to this he 1 as 1f one had, in legal form and phrase, to make an "indorsement' of Milli Mr, 0, W. Rowell's public service has been, it would deal with the inestimable work he has done for his native pro- vince since war broke out, 7'liat Mr, Rowell is a KK,C„ an able legal pleader, and that he has, since 1911, been Lib- eral leader in Ontario possibly every- one knows. Yet few know how 4uiCk- ly be Seized upon the salient fact, early almost as the coming of war, 'Oral the struggle was not to be of the devoted his energies unee•tsingly do, tag what one duan May to direct' thou- ght -1n this. Province into the channel of seriousness which ;lust be prelim- inary to all united effort, Of iln,lish origin, h0 was born 'In Confederation, year 111 London town- ship; Middlesex, Ont, After education !in the histl schools and the °mark) Law 'Society, he was admitted to the Bar -with honors and the year's medal. rte has been a sliceessful 'Toronto law- yer for years, and a leader of eminence at the Provincial Bar, dere he found 1 the opportunity to develop a native gift of direct, convincing, though not spectacular speech; he is muster of that in court or on platloraL Mr, Row- ell was one of counsel 1n the famous Poster libel action in the city in 1910. THE CLINTON. NEW Erna., NOT ENOUGH CHILDREN ever receive the proper balance of food to sutliciently nourish both body and brain during the growing period when Stature's demands are greater than in nature life, This is shown in so many pale faces; lean bodies,`fregnent colds, and lack of ambition. For all such children we say witd unmistakable earnestness; They neea, Scott's Mmulsion, and need it now, It possesses 10 carieentrated forte the very food elements to enrich their blood. Il. changes weakness to strength; it make, them sturdy and strong and active. seott & pewee, Toronto. Out. Work For Temperance What Mr. Rowell dict for long years to prepare the ground for Provincial prohibition does not need emphasize 1111 The result is with us in the On- lal'iu temperance act, 10 gracefully adopted .8 year ago by his opponents in tete Legislature, But Mr, Rowell is entitled t1' much of the credit, Became Loader Suddenly The only dramatic thinglin ills ea- ree l' wait the wily in which he was while not even a member of the One faun Ligisl'iture, elected to be. lis Opposition leader, `I'l)ea lhe was elect- ed for North Oxford, All he has dour since the memorable, Oct, 31, 1 91 1, has given cause for' satisfaction to those voters who made the choice, I ills powerful platform style usually appeals More to the Intellect than to sentiment, His lidelity to the ideas of, Liberalism of the best 151)0, and his loyalty to Sir Wilfrid Laurier on all those things which concerned the .tinsmr..,:r, e' umta',m vi"N,b"'4v r x r ni+isz4n*S�>auarxc�r ws�. CANADA .Entillio GEORGE the FIFTH, by the Grace of God, of the %.'raked Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Don -,inions be- yond the Seas, Kinag, ; efender of the Faith, Emperor ,:s f India. To all to whom these presents shall come, or whom the same may in anywise concern -GREETING e A Proclamation calling out the men comprised in Class 1 as described by the Military Service Act, 1917. The Deputy Minister of Justice; Canada HEREAS it is pro- vided by our Militia Act of Canada, Re- vised Statutes of Canada,1906, chapter 41, Section 69, that our Governor-General of Can- ada in Council may place our' Militia of Canada, or any part thereof, on active service any- where in Canada, and also be. yond Canada for the defence thereof at any 'time when it appears advisable so to do by reason of emergency; And Whereas that part of our militia of Canada known as the Canadian Expeditionary Force is now engaged in active service overseas for the defence and security of Canada, the preservation of our Empire and of human liberty ; and it is necessary owing to the emergencies of the war to provide re - enforcements for our said Expeditionary Force in addition to those whose inclination or circumstanceshave permitted them tolvolun- teer ; And Whereas by reason of the large number of men who have already left agricultural and indus- trial pursuits in our Dominion of Canada in order to join our Expedi- tionary Force as volunteers, and by reason of the necessity of main- taining under these conditions the productiveness or output cif agri- culture and industry• in our said Dominion, we have determined by and with the advice and consent of our Senate and House of Com- mons of Canada that it is expedient to secure the men so required; not by ballot as provided by our said Militia Act, but by selective draft ; such re -enforcement, under the provisions of the Military Service Act, 1917, hereinafter referred to, not to exceed one hundred thousand men ; And Whereas it is accordingly enacted in and by the provisions of an Act of•our Parliament of Canada, holden in the 7th and 8th years of our reign, and known as the Military Service Act, 1917, that every one of our male subjects who cones within one of the classes described and intended by the said Act shall be liable to be called out on active service in our Canadian Expeditionary Force for the defence of Canada, either within or beyond Canada; and (that his service shall be for the duration of the present war and demobilization after the conclusion of the war ; And Whereas the men who are, under the provisions of the said last mentioned Act, liable to be called out, are comprised in six classes of which Class 1 is, by the provisions of the said Act, defined to consist of all our male subjects, ordinarily, or at any time since the 4th day of August, 1914, resident in Canada, who have attained the age of twenty years, who were born not earlier than the year 1883, and were on the Gth day of July, 1917; unmarried, or are widowers but have no child, and who are not within any of the following enumerated EXCEPTIONS :- 1. Members of our regular, or reserve, or auxiliary forces, as defined by our Army Act. 2. Members of our military forces raised by the Governments of any of our other dominions or by our Government of India. 3. Men serving in our Royal Navy, or in our Royal Marines, or in our Naval Service of Canada, and members of our Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4. Men who have since August 4th, 1914, served in our Military or Navel Forces, or in those of our allies, in any theatre of actual war, and have been honourably discharged therefrom. 5. Clergy, including members of any recognized order of an exclu- sively religious character, and ministers of all religious denomina- tions existing in Canada at the date of the passing of our said Military Service Act. G. Those, persons exempted from military service by Order in Council of August 13th, 1873, and by Order in Council of Decem- ber 6111, 1898 ; .And 'Whereas itis moreover provided by our said Military to Service Act that- our Governor-General of Canada in Council may from time to time by proclamation call out on active service es aforesuid any class of men in the said Act described, and that all men within the class so called out shall, from the date of such proclamation, be deemed to be soldiers enlisted in the military service of Canada and subject to military law, save as in the said Act, otherwise provided ; and that the men so called out shall report and shall be placed on active service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as may be set out in such proclamation or in regulations ; but that they shall, until so placed on active service, be deemed to be on leave of absence without pay ; And Whereas it is also provided by the said Act that et any time before a date to be fixed by proclamation an application may be made, by or in respect of any man in the class to be called out, to one of our local tribunals; established in the manner provided by the said Act in the province in which such man ordinarily realties, for a certificate of exemption Irani service upon any of the following GROUNDS OF EXEMPTION - (a) That itis expedient in the national interest that the man should; instead of being employed in military service, be engaged in other Work in which he is habitually engaged ; (8) That it'ia expedient in the national interest that the man should; instead of being employed in military service, be engaged in other work in which he wishes to be engaged and for which he has special quedlfaeations ; (o) That it is expedient in the national interest that, instead of being employed ice military service, he should continue to be educated or trained for any work for which he is therm being educated or trained ; (d) That serious hardship would ensue, if the man were placed on active service, owing to his exceptional financial or business obligations or domestic position ; (e) 111 health or infirmity ; (f) That he conscientiously objects to the undertaking of combatant service, and is prohibited front so doing By the tenets and articles or Faith in effect on the sixth day of J'uty, 1011,a any organizer{ religious denomination existing ;lid well recognised rte Canada at such date, and to which he in good faith belongs ; And that if any of the grounds of such application be established; a Certificate of exemption shall be granted to such man. 4.111111 And Whereas moreover it is enacted in and by the pro. visions of an Act of our Parliament of Canada holden in the 7th and 8th years of our reign and known as the War Time Elections Act that certain persons thereby disqualified from voting with such of their sons as on polling day are not of legal age, shall be exempt from combatant military and naval service ; And Whei ey our said Military '3 Service Act tit is further hat applirovided c tions for exemption from service shall be determined by our said local tribunals, subject to appeal as in the said Act provided, and that any man, by or in respect of whom an application for exemption from service is made, shall, so long as such application or any appeal in connection there- with is pending, and during the, currency of any exemption granted him, be deemed to be on leave of absence without pay ; And Whereas our Governor-General of Canada in Council has determined to call out upon active service as aforesaid the men included in Class 1, as in the said Act and hereinbefore defined or described ; Now Therefore Know Ye that we do hereby call out the said Class 1; comprising the men in our said Military Service Act, 1917, and hereinbefore defined or described as to the said class belonging, on active service in our Canadian Expeditionary Force for the defence of Canada, either within or beyond Canada, as we may, in 011 command or direction of our Military Forces, hereafter order or direct. And we do hereby strictly command, require and enjoin that each man who is a member of the said class shall, on or before the 10th day of November, 1917, in the prescribed form and manner, report himself for military service, unless application for his eirnsiption shall then have been made by him or by another person entitled to apply on his behalf ; wherein our loving subjects, members of the said class, are especially charged not to fail since not only do their loyalty and allegiance require and impose the obligation of careful and implicit obedience to these' our strict commands and injunctions, but: more- over, lest our loving subjects should be ignorant of the consequences which will ensue if they fail to report within the time limited as afore- said, we do hereby forewarn and admonish them that any one who is hereby called out, and who without reasonable excuse fails to report as aforesaid, shall thereby comm t an offence, for which he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years with hard labour, and he shall nevertheless, if we so require, be compelled to serve immediately in our said Expeditionary Force. And we do hereby proclaim and announce that ter 'the greater convenience of our subjects, we have directed that prescribed forms, for reporting for service, and for application for exemption from eerv- ice, may, at any time on or before the said 10th day of November, 1917, be obtained at any post office in our Dominion of Canada; and that reports fur service and applications for exemption from service, if obtained at any of our said post offices and properly executed, shall be forwarded by our postmaster at the post office from which the same are obtained to their proper destinations as by our regulations pre- scribed, free of postage or any other charge. And we do further inform; and notify our loving sul:,'c as that: local tribunals have been established in convenient luoali,iee ('Iron; ;out our Dominion of Canada for the peering of applicatlou,s :or exemption from service upon any of the statutory grounds, as hereinbefore set out; that these our lucid tribunals so established will heti, to sit in the discharge of their duties on the 8th day of November, 1:17, and that they will continue to sit from day to day thereafter, a,; 01,:y he necessary or convenient, ac Bach times and places as r':all he duly notified, until all applications for exemption from service shall have been heard and disposed of; also that men beloneinii to the class hereby called out who lava not previously to the Keel El; d"y of November, 1917, reported for service, or forwatded up-licaa.aus for exemption through any of our post offiees as nforeseia. may make applications in person fol exemption from service to •toy of our said tribunals on the 8th, 9th or lOth•day of Novrt. bur, 1917. And we do hereby moreover notify and inf.srm our 100±n'( subjects who are within the eters hereby called oat, teat if, on or before the 10th day of November, 1917, they report t"elemeelves for military service, or if, on or before that day, application for exemption from service he made by them or on their behalf, they will not be required to report for duty, or be placed upcn active service, as ace avoid, until a day, not earlier than the 10th day of December, 1917, which will, by our registrar for the province in which they reported or applied, be notified to them in writing by registered post at their respective addresses as given in their reports for service, or applications for ex- emption from service, or at such substituted addresses as they may have respectively signified to our said registrar; and we do hereby inform, forewarn and admonish the men belonging to the class hereby called out that if any of them shall, without just and sufficient cause, fail to report for duty at the time and place required by notice in writing so posted, or shall fail to report for duty as otherwise by law required, he shall be subject to the procedure, pains and penalties by law prescribed as against military deserters. 00 all of which our loving subjects, and all others whom these presents may concern, are hereby required to take 110000, rendering strict obedience to and compliance with all these our commands, directions and requirements, and governing themselves accordingly. In Testimony Whereof Letters have caused these Our I.elters to be made lat- ent, and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. WIT- NESS: Our Right Trusty arid Right Entirely Beloved Cousin and Counsellor, Victor Christian William, Duke of Devonshire, Marquess of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, Baron Cavendish of Hardwieke, Baron Cavendish of Keighley, Knight of Our Most Noble Order of the Garter; One of Our Most Honourable Privy Cottncit; Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and r1alnt George; Knight Grand Cross of Our Roynl Victorian Order; Governor-General and Commander -in -Chief of Our Dominion of Canada. At Our Government House, in Our City ,of OTTAWA, this TWELFTH day of OCTOBER, in tlse yeer of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and in the eighth year of Our Reign. By Command, l Under•Secretsey or State. Thursday, October 18th, 1917 That 1a the pen)ortlen of medt- eiOe .eoutal:•e+1 n n•It.:t, n'nd that Is why 7 t s 1, ,„ powers are '..9 '•1 c•t 1 1-.n t .. 08 ordinary ai i1.1ou but 5 par r, I'. 010:1:4-.; !NI t,i,t IIIA balanced r n i .ai ' .• 111', Anatol 1bvy e,, r a,y 0O, - Halifax 1 �, tlireo year I 01' 1 t eczema on Too 1: , 111,• 1 - ;I;g was ea leseeee e et 0 1 , awake at 11 -',. 7 . 11: 1:..,,.,11 .n:a `so•ealled a ,..:cat ' ,, 1> neo bettor wail I r.; ) l ..al nit Zam•1lu1'. The use o1 Till:, r• ful healer, boc'rx r leo; , °teety rid me of this 8 ❑F' r l Zam-11uk is 111,5o tato quickort t an1l surest healer in the nate of ring- worm, salt oh-ur.s, scalp sores, ulcers, abscesses, boils, pimples, blood -poisoning, 1>i1ea, cuts, burns, scalds and all skin injurlei. All dealers ar Zatn-Iln1. Co., Toronto. 50c, box, 8 for $1,2$, of the Federal Parliament, He Is 16 Alethodisl. and ptat:lees his profession as a btu r icier in Woodstock, 0.13, He is strongly opposed to ;subtle ownership, probably owing to the fail - sire of the Intereolonial Railway and the Patronage evils which exist in C0n- nee'iion wain tho operation u1' that road. ' dl PREMIER MURRAYlot 'Hurl. George tleuny Murray, Prem. ler of Nova Scotia, was l+urn at Grand. Narows in that province in 1861. lie was educated at the public schools in that locality, and un2111 graduated in law from Burton Univ r+11y, 115 has since practised his prole. ;ton with marked success, Ills political career extends back to 1889, when he became a Legislative Councillor of Nov,! Scotia. He resign- ed his seal to contest for the Liberal party that Cape Breton seat in the House of Commons of Canada He has been Premier and Provincial Secre- tary of the liberal Administration of his native Province since i81)6. "A national figure and the pride all. over the country of the Liberal party, who 0110 ,end ;ill recognize in hint, a pattern of quiet and patient courage, of wise and broad tolerance and far- seeing stat0n,auship," said Sir Wilfrid Murray some years ago. Dominion only, and those who had seen Sir Will'rid's esteem for Mr, Row- ell could ne0e0 have doubted the per- son:! attachment. $It T. S. CARVELL Mr. frank B. Carvell, who is to be a Cabinet Minister in the naw Union Government, was one of the most pro- minent Liberals is the recent Perha- nent, and was spoken of as the prob. able successor of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, as leader of the Liberal party, in the event of the latter rennin,. "Fighting Frank Carvell," as he is sometimes called, is never so happy as when exposing graft, lie had much to do with the resignation of General Sir San tfughs from the position of Minister of Militia, The Nem Bruns- wick Liberal conducted the rise for the Opposition, which exposed the pro- fiteering of J. Wesley Allison. Mr. Carvell is also responsible for the disclosures in connection with the St. Joann Valley Railway, which wrecked the Conservative Government in New Brunswick, and drove ex -Pre- mier Flemming of that Province from public life for many years. The new Cabinet Minister is a na- tive of New Brunswick, of United Em- pire Loyalist descent, and is one of the liberals who broke with Sir Wil- frid Laurier on the conscription issue, tle was born in 1862 at Bloomfield, Carelton county, and educated in pub- lic schools of his native Province and in (instills University. ale was elected to the Legislature of New Brunswick in 1899, and te, the (louse of Commons in 1904, and has since been a member Tit HON. J. A. CALDER 14. lion. Jomes A105111der Calder, Pre- sident of the Council, Minister of Railways sued Minister of Highways la- the Saskatchewah Government, brings to the Dominion Administration great- er and more intimate knowledge of Western political conditions than any other mann possesses. lie was born in Oxford county, Ontario, both of his parents being native Scuts, who came to Canada in their youth. Ile com- menced his education at the Ingersoll school, but while still a lad his pareats moved West and settled in Winnipeg, where he completed his education, u graduating from the Manitoba Univer- sity and subsequently being called to the Bar in 1906, Mr. Calder, however, did not long practice taw. His hobby was education, and, in order to deve- lop Isis experience and knowledge a- long practical lines, he became Prin- cipal of the Moose Jaw Collegiate in- stitute, and subsequently Government inspector of Schools for the Northwest Territories. It was as a result of his interest and experience in educational affairs that he first became attracted to pub- lic life. Ile became Deputy Commis- sioner of Education for the Northwest -Territories, and upon the creation of the Province, of Saskatchewan he en- tered the Scott Government as Minis- ter of Education. Mr. Calder is only forty-nine years of age and is a Presbyterian. Upon the retirement of Hon. Walter Scott he was offered the Premietsship of Saskatchewan, but declined 111 favor of Hon, W, M. Martin. '0 a ••^�-/y n7 2. 7 it„,-, Fx s i' tnt'4Se � r1 ,� 4. I.�; � 1^ "'+ � r �.' _.... h i id L.;4 T.6:,/ '¢ j 6,.,.r ., " t�,•+rG!�143 y i 'l'f,r4{$pa'?�'N "a'�' �R,3 .:3�q, r I i r7t;"�i+i, d N.lc i t.,,,... 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