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The Signal, 1915-2-25, Page 2• TRORSDAY, TORIBOART 26. 11119 • Wald TIM SIGNAL PEUITILNO OU., POINANUnis Ton &L11csa.Tentzt t'lac:....)-2L"',..Ttrazi:arse .trigUsertsablisassis the yrurrerampLida; w =V: :AIL 11.4 :LZ:V17 rt wbe _ weer • ever „ZIA le resolve nen I. Tsiste ergatteeicote= Stri. boa, au mid Sbe.c.4,......bitti.vve. Ressitiaose• a arlimsTiiismWstl_ rs;14Pilperrev Als' .1vmaread =her =EA= Zi=sontie, en cents pee line ter are ineereles wed tear gaper Use ter web subsequent Inesreee. user, Tee Delors tor year Advertise- = ea Woe Swine' cords of Us line red by • sae et wed eespirell-t we've ir....« L. need. Stroved. fillestione I .s1beese Wasted, Roses. tor Sai ....s sr tor We et to Sect Artless Eicrs. Wet1=. set aseeeg elgbi ILO,. TWO1114/- 01411. •111/41 ineeetes t OM Dinar tOr ant =b.. Irtfts Leotefer acessiabeequeet wont& ssisertioNewete in =ton. An - Esteper bee. Se modes lees tasuitigeintg- norsueets is wean= Or= .:.ingui beds*, tb• eke= et is tee bawd% et way =divid- e weeeloOvs, Id oweektered an elver - sad awned seasedinge. Cosusnwoeurisra-Tlis seoescistion et ea enbese4bee• sad readere le cordially =slit el tieerard• waking Tau aloyiLL • weekly reword aeukew. cows= wed dietrlet doings. No corn sons=ecUen will be attended us osier it eon - fees tbe miaow= address ot tbo goiter. net assowartly for poldiceLlee. but se an "deo= grad baits. N•11,0, itese, ehould reset Ts= list odlee cot =ter Uses Wednesday nem et obrb brook le THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 5 IMP ED TORI AL NOTES. No w here are the Germans talk- ing about der tag day. 1 ght the Daughters of the Empire had • mon- opoly of it. Why should Canada place a tax ou goods imported from the Mother Country? Is Canada not'. port of the Empire? The Kincardine Repo r • truly: "This does not appear to be • good year to go West or anywhere else. If you have • good farm and get down to business you should make eome good big ooey this year." There is • vote of f 1f0. • yesr's estimates for the Tr ent (1110011 according to our friend The Orillia Packet. The Trent Canal job io the most venerable of all political jobs in Canada -and there is quite • large family of them. . The Winless= Titnes reports that Mr. George Spottoo in giving an ad- dress on the war to the A. Y. P. A. interspersed his reaurks with hum- orous "antidotes." That is a pretty neat way of getting back at the pub- lisher of the rival newspaper. Tt is said Chet the death mt. in tbe British army froni sickness is consid- erably lower than that of the ordinary civil popoiation at home. A veteran of the United States civil war hes letely died at the age of 103. Moldier- ing appears to be • particularly healthy job -if you live through it. Pumeley's "voice is at for war.' The first syllable of bin anie ought to have been Bull inst• of Pug.- Orillia Packet. Wouldn't it suit The Packet's idea better still if the Hon. "13111" should change just one letter of his name and be known as Bull Pugsley be people at this time which are necessitated rather by bad financial menagnemnt thee by anything coo- nected wi th the war. The See's Influence Tb• brine is la OW blood treat earn 11 1010. Assill sew In est e•re tes tuts • is The wove rums Uhreesh ego lerred• sad ear Aol persinstee • tbouwod 411•11/0 Wade; The messerr er oar ranee bland base le =one= witasit-ees wee cud ears tuba -Wiesen Talmud Ham. The farmers are asked to be pleased with the exemption of binder twine and certain classes, of agricultural im- plements from the general tariff in- crease. They may have about the same feeling as the man who finds. after hie wad has been taken from him, that he has • dime left in his vest pock's "The new tariff makes everybody pay something to provide money tor the war." This statement by The Exeter Advocate wroild be true if the last six words were cut out. Th.' w tariff makes everybody pay some- thing toward• the Florden Govern- ment's deficit in its ordinary ac- counts. The war expenditures nf the Canadian Government are met Ly borrowing. THU NATIONAL FINANOIS. _ While thit is not • time for the sc. centuaing of political differences, the people now aa et all times are satitied to know the truth about their govern- mental affairs, and espezially should they be warned and informed when the financial (octillions of the state are approacbing • point of acute dan• ger. The notional finances of Canada are Um mbject of w ditorial orticle In The Globe which discloses &natant). lag mate of affairs calling for unmet protest by the 'representatives of the people in Parliament. The Webs says : The new editot 01 The Realorth News appears to be • plain-spoken gentleman. In • peregraph in hie paper last week he remark.: "In speaking of blind pigs the editor of The Parkhill Ciasett• says there are noes in Parkhill. We take his word for it. as we know hint well enough to know if there were any he would be acquointed with them." Are you • Pageboy Grit or • Gra- ham Grit P Well It depends. Wben you think how unimportant party polities are jute now in comparison with other things that are happeni,*. you feel like keeping the true.. loth Grabens. When ron eoneider bow the Torte of Um Rogers type are try - log to put see over on you under (rover cif the Wens* war feeliteg. you feel like flgbdog eelth Ptigeley. Governesente-sVoN. not make the war so theism for estrairegant expen- diture in departement• sot concerned with the war, &speedier, upon the petriotlem of the people to pay their tat WIN without nrembliag. Beth the lemberal Oomemment and the Ostario Ooverume.1 at seeking ealb epee 1 Tft sIGNAL GOOF:RICH (INTAKI41 found under the beading "Railway ilubedise." During tee Leurier Gov ernasent's term of Almon years la office it gramed railway subsidies me- aliest 111,140,000. lo the years 191*, 1913, sod 1914 the Bordem Govern- ment greeted railway Keith 1111&8110,000-•1osost as moo& for the railway promoter in 1ttss •e ce Borden mad White of Laurier and Fielding. Column aftw colunia the Secures show the sews thing. The Government of Canada has been spending mosey like •dranken railer, and now the people must pay for the debauch. They will have to keep oa paying tong after the plu04 generotton bee maimed to botbsr about taxes. The year ths Laurier Government cause low power the interest oa the public debt was 1110,645,000. When it went out fifteen years etterward it waa $124115,000. Mr. White tells us 'hot in Um year end- ing 11&rob, 1916, it will be 521,000,0W. Belot. such figures is it to be weedered at that tee country stands amazed ? As the people of Canada begin to understaod that the heavy burden of new 'elution is not imposed to pay the Dominion's war bill, but to meet a huge deficit in the ordinary •xpend- hues of the country, a feeding of amazement spreads throughout all clauses of the community. The few students of the Dominion finances wbo koew Lbe reoord of the Borden Gov- ernment were not surprised. orit00% knew that, wee or no war, • could not long be deterred. Now that the taxpayer begins to feel the effects a Um past three years of reck- less speoding at Ottawa be may be in- terested in learning why the smash came. The story Is beet told In the form of official figures from the Govern- ment's own tecords. A study of the public acoounu for the year ending March 31, 1914, pegs. 20 and 21, will show tha1 during the extraordinary period of expension between 1896 •nd 1911, while the Laurier Government was in power and Mr. Fielding was Minister of Finance, there was never an increase of the expenditure chterge- able to consolidated fund -that is, the ordioary expenditure of the country - greater than eight millions in any one year. The ordinary expenditure dur- ing the last four years of the Laurier Government was, in 1903, 1e78,641.060: 1909, 1184,064,000; 1910, $79,411.000; 1911. 1187,740,000. Tbe Borden Gov- ernment came in during October, 1911, end became responsible for the ex- penditures of the yew ending March, 4912, which were 1198,161,000 These expenditures were based in some measure on Mr. Fielding's figures, so that reeponsibility- may be said to rest on both parties for 1912. In 1913 the expenditure on consolidated rev- enue account went up to 5112,059,000. In 1914 to 11127,384,000, and for the current year ending March 31, 1915, Mr. White says it will be 8140,000,000. For the yeer ending M&rcii, 1916, he estimates that It will be the .me amount. Now what does this mean to Use taxpayer? Setting aside all war ex- penditures and all expenditures on capital account, the Borden Govern- ment. tem then four years in office, haa increased the cost of operating the ordinary services of the country and of paying intereet on the country's debt from 1187,774.000 to $140,008.000. Assuming that there are now eight and • half 'billion peopie in Canada, this means additional expenditure of 116 14 for every man, woman end child In the Dominion. Not all of this addi- tional expenditure comes out. of the taxpayer's pocket. Poeta' revenue ims increased almost., four millions, and receipts from Government rail- ways and kindred services over three millions. The great bulk of tbis col- ossal increees of fifty-two niillions in ordinary expenditure, boweyeg, hes come and must continue to (MG Troni taxes. In the year ending March, 1011 the country* revenue from taxes was 880,836,000. In 1914 it was 8127,- 478,000. In the current year ending March 31 there will be • great failing. 01! in culetonis revenue, and as • result an enormous increase in the public debt. In the year ending March, 1916, the people of Canada will have to con- tribute in taxes at least 1140.000.000 if they are to pey their ordinary current expenditure, apart entirely from the coot of the war. This amazing increase in taxation has been brought about by utter reck- lessness. in the conduct of the business of the country. An illustration of how expenditures are increased may be found in • return tabled in the Howie a Commons on Friday elsow• Ing dismkreds from and appointments to the civil service ..ince the present Government came into power. Al- though the return is not lomplete, and is dated last mring. the total number of dismissals given is 2,115, while the appointrnente reached the 'norms's= total of 10,576. In the Aericult oral Department there were 45 dismissals and 579 new men en- gaged. In the Customs, 271 dismissed and 1,649 engaged ; in tbe Depart- ment of Indian Affairs, 136 dismissed and 296 engaged: in the Department of Inland Revenue. 73 dismissed and 291 engaged; in the Interior Deport- ment, SOO dismissed and 1,861 en- g aged ; in the losmierratioei Depart- ment, 110 dismissed and 343 en in the Department of Justice, tills - missed and 268 engaged ; in Uwe Labor Department, 21 dismissed and 'raged ; in the Public Works Depart - meat 611 dismissed and 2.111111 en- ; in the Department of State, hoed and 1167 engaged: In tbe Department of Railways, 863 disordered and 1.070 engaged; le the Department of Mises, one dismissed and 108 .e - gaped; in the Department a Trade and Commerce, 18 dismissed and 49 ; in the Boys/ Northwest Mriuserdted Police, 11111 dismissed and 587 engaged. if... we bare a gv..t army 01' 0? additiomal oboidere on the public. Nome a Lees mem required to eiondest the Oldie boohoo@ selleleutly, hut it is sot too meth 10 .07 lhonsmode of them owe their ite an abu 01 Pak= jse tho and war. ea required % .eying OM of the eisin • berimens. ounapie of reeklees squa- d the coesiery's mosey is • ADVOCATES TEE LAND TAX. Weald Ham Idadt-fletter Remits thee Proem Methods of Taxation. Th. following letter is addreseed to the editor ot The Signal by the secre- tary of Um Single 'Tax Association of °Dtigiaritc: 1D8o,-W. respectfully call your attention to some of the cense- quenoes of the new taxes which have been suggested by the Minister of Finance. It &wears to us that in the desire for immediate revenue the effects of the taxes, which are of touch greater consequeoce than the taxes them- selves, have been entirely overlooked. The tax on letters, and especially on poetoarda, wlU inevitably reduoe ths number of lettere and cords being mailed and will probably reduce the revenue from this source to little if any more then now received and will certainly be a blow to the trades con- cerned in tbe making and selling of postcards and letter requisites. The tax on insurance premiums, railway tickets, telegrams, hank cheques, etc., all constitute additional burdens on teade and commerce at • time when business' is already seriously hiunpered by bad times in consequence of land speculation and the war. in Batista the boy would be pun - The increase in the tariff taxes will lobed by the master if he told on his riot only be an additional burJen to neighhor. In Prose* he is punished the consumer, who will have to pay if he does nn tell. The diffetence on the tax plus • profit to thoee who ai- this elementary point of morality pro- vance it in the tint place, but will duces an immense effect on charscter. Probably reduce the tariff revenue, be- Throughout thirty yews I hay. been ramie of the further restrictions on observing the difference of English and trade which it imposes, and the effect Prussian 'aloud judgment, and it serum will he a further burden on the people to be founded on the discipline of tbe without any corresponding revenue to school. The Prussian boy from the the Government. day be goes to school is taught to he It would oeem as if the new taxes an agent of government &oda reettain- were devised to produce the niininium ing force on the boy next him. of revenue with the maximum of bur- rhe.e lent words seem at Bret to den on the people and apparently sound very well, and when in oonver- their effecta on economic condittins elation 1 have reached this point I dnd were unknown or ignored, that gamy pecple in England beat tily Tbe need for more revenue is ob- agree ; it ibeeLOb a model of patriotic vinus end levied in the right way the uaining that the boy should feel him - collection of the tax might be used a+ velf to he front infancy • fervent of a stimulus to increased production the emu and 11 restraint upon wrong. and heater' the return of good times. doing. In practice, I think, it works The best modern economists have badly. Tbe boy is not taught to de - shown conclusively that there is such velop his own iodividual character; he feels himaelf an agent of tbe Gov- ernment. Practically he cannot exercise any restraining taros uoder the school sys- tem. except by espionage. He is hedged in oo all sides by rules and cast-iron law. The whole of social life is to obey the laws iinpoited on the school. All that he coo do is to ob- serve whether his oeighbor breaks any rule. Tbe enforcing of the rules lies wholly with the masters. The hops THE NEAT STRUNLE Mainly Extracts from Leading British and American Papers Relating to the War. : : . . .1=1•••••, .+10•1•••••=1. HOW THE TWIG IS BENT IN, GERMANY. Mir W. M. Ramsay, tba distinguished archesologist., traveller mid writer. who is intioutely acquainted with Gennen lire and thought,. writes In part as follows in some articles on Prussian Espionage in The London Datil_ Citron icie. In iinuary, 1884. I came to Berlin to study. On that visit to Bei lin I saw • good way Americans. There was one who had welcomed his appoint- ment as attache et the Entheasy in Berlin because he had a high opinion of German education and hoped that his on might profit by it. The sou wae sent a Betio school. After a few days he mentioned that be had bee. punished by • master, and then, In reply to a question, exploined .bat the boy next him had nowniued maw miedsineanor. and lie had been asked if be had men the fault. He acknowl- edged that be was aware of it, and he was punished for not having reported the boy's misbehavior. His father told him thai he was to obey the law him- self, but he moan not. LO tell on his neighbor. Some days later be came beck from school with a letter from tbe headmaster. The rune thing had occurred &grin ; but this time the Auseecan boy pleaded his fatber's in- structions. Thereupon be was sent to the headmaster, wbo gave hini • letter to take home, informing his father that he must @hiller instruct his boy to ohey the laws of the school or remove hien forthwith. The boy was re- moved. • thing as a natural revenue, the tak- ing of which does not burden industry or take from enyone what rightfully belongs to him. Why 'Mould not Parliament recognizing this fact prove itself big enough to grasp • big prob- lem in • big way, by asserting this prio- ciple &ad levying on land values in the Dominion, for they are produced by Um people collectively and augmented by every government service. Such a tax would hays the effect of making the speculator, who by bolding land are goveined from above, and they are compelled from infancy to report the peocadilloes cf their neighbors. Thus every buy has firmly driven into him the duty of acting as a spy of go-vernment. of informing his •11p/f• kw* about anything and, everything that can he woeful to them. and of be- ing always on the outlook for inform- ation that may verve the state. The individual is crushed; the state is ail in alt Professional espionage is based on Um school teaching, but it has to be built up by further means. There is plenty of We -telling in schools outside of Germany; it is encouraged in many countries by school 1 etcher* as 11 means to make their teak easier: but it is not formulated and aystearatized there. In Prussia it le allied with the feeling of patriotism, and transformed into • duty ond a virtue. Every means of influencing the boy is employed skilfully to strengthen the patriotic sense ; geography, history, excursions, and so on, are used as agents to stim- ulate this feeling of the duty to serve Germany in every way. That duty ferent methods of amassing land val. oomes first, sod all else is secondary. ties, as • city whose per capita land Tbe basis however lite in the for of vidue was high would require • lower punishment. Tbe Prussian minter mill rate than a city whom per oapita ameasment was low. This tax would lie paid only hy those who had re- ceived &:rectal privilege from tbe state, a vilege which increases in value withevery teepees., in Imelda- tion, and in the last analysis is abso- lutely dependent on the security of life and property which government confers. It 1. thin a particularly suit- able subject for • tax in support of a war in defence of these principle. of freedom for which the Empire stands. Yours reapectfully, S. THOMPSON. tiecretary. Toronto. February 19, 1915 idle was the prime factor in the bring- ing of bad times, get out of the way of the producer, thus opening up cot employment, increasing the de- mand for labor, adding to the pur- chasing power of the masses and hast- ening the return of good times. and this would mon bring the ordinary g wernment revenue back to norms' conditions. The tax itself would not take from those who pity it more than was re- ceived by the G.iverunient and it could be collected with the minimum of ex - ErZand the amount collected could tormined with mathematical ac- curacy. Suppose 541 100,000 is required for neve taxes, and assuming the popula- tion cot Canada to be 3,000,000, this would mean • tax of 86 per head. All that would be necessary would be to notify every municipality that they must collect • tax equal to 115 per heed of their population with their other taxes and to levy it against the value of the land only. There would he no need for adjustment on account of dif- Changes in Train Service Canadian Pacific Railway. Effective Monday, Mareh 1. - Trains Nos. 719 and 721 on the Elora subdiviaion will run its mixed trains Instead of straight paseenor, daily except Solidity, on the following schedule : 719 will leave Cataract Jet. 10.15 Erin 10.46, Hillaburg 1106, Orton 11.311, Belwood 11.56, Spier 1205. p. m., Fergus 1256, arriving Elora 1246 p. m. No. 722 will leave Elora 3.15 p. no.. Fergus 3.56, Spier 4.14, Beiwood 4.30, Orton 4.65 Hillshorg &IS, Erin 5.50, arriving Cataract Jct. 6.10 p. en. Effective same date -Trains Now 1371 and 672 now running between London and Windsor, daily *roma Sunday. will he discrintintied beyond Chatham. Further particulars from Canadian Prairie ticket ogee= or write K CI system knows the power of terror. ri dominates the boy's mind through few et the beginning, and then, bay- ing taken poineesion. it leads and g uides him and bolas him up by a very thorough education. What he learns is for the service of the state : his powers and knowledge are useful to nave the state ; the more he knows, the more power he hoe of 'seesaw what will beuseful to the state. One result of the Prussian system is that everyone works hard. • I *upper, tbere are boys in Pruasia that are naturally idle; what bernmes of them? They seem to be licked into shape. They hare to work or they drop out or die or commit suicide. The pien&lties tor failure are terrible. The boy's future is blocked; he must tithe his throe years of military me- wl°. like a peasant, for be ban not etualified to be counted in tbe educated class. Two qualities in the German P. facilitate the summit of the Prusett: policy. In the first pksee they are a very docile race, amenable to disci- pline and &empties tbeir teacher's Im- mo. as the anal truth. It is. as I beer, e asier to keep order in • class of fifty German boys than in a class ef five Scotch boys. 8o the spirit of obedi- ence, implicit aod unquestrboing, reigns In the *chord. A boy who show. any tendency to he unruly le crushed relentlessly, or has • mark planed erratum hie same which imam ruin to hie whole In the esersed plane the German ham a loges! mind, Wide\ carries out marphy. Di.trict AR." • prInciple to Ite setteemeet mule - I Toronto. without cheeky be sore yes give her and When you seeM a worms erbo moms sobeelsboLmidi Latiltst, falthilhd, lent =se with mafaitemTkie conies oat the of the it, to its. elnami plenty. comemormees. iibm aitypieal Soot Mee has • profound belief that his principle 1. right, and that all who differ from him ere wroog but his faith 1. i something that Mb has thoutrht °WI tor hinowilf, som•thing linat is pro. foundly lie beeper** snore ohotinate in hie faith, but be is not dangerous, heeause he is alone. The German serer • a principle that 1. be- lieved in by everyone : 'Germany be- fore everything." Deuteehland ueiter &Ilea To this every o.10,- principle sown give way. It is the highest goy. erning rule of morality. The ultimate question as toga, de every 071 1. "Done it benefit tierniany?" If it doge, ti. I. right. l'his doctrine le chempioned no mer.Iy by the crowd or the soldier or the pol liaise. Even diatinguishld 11=0100Ln. maintain that it is right, that the interest of Germany is the one supreme consideration. and that any violence or fraud is right if it be for the good of the Fatherland. God idea. is above all; bin only on condi- tion that be be Gentian. This docurbie is e danger because it is aocepted by • whole nation and worked into the lite of the nation. There are rome pupils better, rouse w ore clever. some more energetic: hut the Leeching I+ believed hy all. Never has • doctrios so hideous been aeoepted and preached 11111011§C Pe professing to be civilised andle - cated. It is the negation of all moral- ity and of all juotice. Why should one be just to one's neighbor? The only,question is whether the act is good for Germany. Thom who take an kissl view would add that the good of Germany is the good of the world, and that German educatioo and diseipline are noes...try for the world, became. they alone are effective and successful. • • • EIGHT BRAVE BELGIANS. Every day along hundreds of milea of tronches, men &re doing splendid d -ed. of courage that will never be made public, for this is the war of -Unknown Heroes " A few days ago the Germans, after earefully ocouting along the Belgien lines by 'swimsuits, decided there was a Weak point little west of Dixinude .whicb might be broken. They made prepanitions to hack a way tbrougb, but they bad reckoned without the 13elgians-tbe phrase reads like a quotation. A patrol of eight Bel - giallo. with a machine gun saw e ntail column 01 Germans advancing to storm the trenches at the weak point. Instead of falliug hack to warn their comrades they decided on tbe better plan of tistowing them- selves in the pith 01 tbe Gennens and attempting ta delay their advance long enough for the Belgian line to be ced at the critical place. A small deserted tarothouee, bed- time' and lonely, stood beside tbe road the Gertnans must take. Tbe Belgians rushed in and quickly nude their preparations for • deeper - ate defence. Given heaps of fallen bricks and beams much can he done, and they soon had their machioe gun in position. Meanwhile the Germans pressed on, never 'messing that their approach hail been mon. In .olid formation they marched along the road until they were within MO yards of the fannhoues with its hidden helms*. Thus near they were &Dowel Lo come, for in the fieht of the few with tbe many every shot of the former must tell. Suddenly a rifle .bot rang out from the lonely farm that bad seemed so silent. A nue in the front rank fell with • surprised struaL Then the Belgian gun took up the song of death and led the chorus The Germans pressed on bravely, their officers urg- ing them forward with bowie cries, but there came • time when discipline bad tn bow to deatb, and the first rush was stayed. Behind their rough shelter the Belgians fired steadily. They knew that every shot must tell, and they aimed coolly. as men who fa°. a target for a prize. The Ger- man advance guard. with which they were now in &cilia, outnumbered them by at least twinity to one, bet this fact only put the more heart ioto them. A Belgian with a good mark to bit, and • chance to wipe out • little of a gallant nation's sorrow and pain. is • trying fellow for a German 10 1.01. Gormiess halted and the mad took meth bhelter as they could in ditches beside the road. Then began the next phase of the desperate fight. Every beiniet that showed itself. every arm that wae raised above the ground was the mark for • BeIrtien bullet. For two dbours tbe unequal flight raged ad still tbe Behriens picked off individual Germans or melted down any threittening rush with a machine gun spray. But the sod of the gallant little fort in the tannin:rum was near. When it be- came evident Ow to norm thie mere heap of bricks would met too dear, the Germans went word back to • battery. Presently shells began to fall around. The first two went wide, a third burst against a wall and killed one of the gallant Belgians and then • fourth fell right in their midst. The Germans raised a cheer and jumped to their feet. But they were too late; the men of the fermbouss fort had snatched safety for their fellows out of ooe 01 110 most critical moments of Use pain few weeks. and minfoseemeate bad now been rushed to the Belgian position. As tie Ger- mans cane on they were met by • terribie voUey, and a party of Beigian Infantry greeted them with fixed bay - meta There was a Mort sharp struggle, hot la is few moments the 00111111111 tatted* Mee • thing ne the SeralTheir hews of melting a semen thig a Womb for s bigger of mem agaMet the weak piece tome 101 10.. samteered. The Beigiesse eisteeed the ruined tilitlititif gel. bra" aa. the five who W. 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SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE - - - - PHONE 57 lived were desperately wounded. They were cart ied back to the Belgian lines and now lie in a bee. boepttal, all with e good chance of strikiog an- other blow st the enemy. Ask the five as they lie in their hospital cots and they will say, "It was nothing : we happened to be there -that is alL" -The Daily Chronicle (Loodon). • • • BEHIND THE TRENCHES BY NICHT. From a letter of an °Ricer published in The London Tim..: What a relied to be oot or the trenches! At night time one or two of us used to take the opportunity of getting out and stretchiug our lege. It was ionely doing it alone, and yet what a picture it was. When about 50 yards from your trenehei you would look towards them and the Germans only 300 yards In front; you could see the bright smoke from their fires ris- ing above the parapet of the trthehes .v.ry few yards or so all along the line tor 300 10 000 yards, and our own fires in our trenches eot 50 yards away. Perham as you stood a star shell would go up from the German lines lighting up the whole place and mak- ing you stoop so as not to he sees. Now and again in the pitch darkness tbe crack of • rifle rings out sod the bullet lands in the mod of your para- pet or goes by overhead. You turn and walk away over ploughed fields full of turnipetiont touched and mead- ows. beery ing is absolutely still aod not • f all or noise of any description, aad as you ersJk &Ion trueldenly thimble and find you have walked into • hot* made by the butein of a shell. of white there are hand • everywbers. You have an almost uncanny testi'''. Perhaps • farm will loom tan n front a roe, reply the skeletnn 41 the root left, standing, the totters bIaik evilest the sky. ou may sturihie easiest &l- ien trees shattered by a shell, or walk over a monod, end boodle, dolma you see • little white wood eroeseneMed to show that some am 010.t WSW. ISM 1. buried there. There is no burying ground. They are buried almost where they fail co away eiS sheltered corners of • fiel4. sad it would be an ungodly =an who could go be with- out uttering a short prayer for the P00 r cttap. no matter who be Is. Three mornings ago two denims with mie of our corporals appeared • about 3 a.m., and Ten you guess what for? They had come with *lades and picks to dig up their money and jewels that had been bnried in their hurry to get away. In a little cellar they dug down and unearthed a !siege Isix of money. We must have 'moon on it hundred of times. Then they went out to • wall and with 11. pick, am the whole farm id now nothing hut a huge pile of bricks, unearthed another box of jewelry. Three times they did this, then left. You can imegine %bet joy at discovering their little hoard cf wealth- perhaps all they had left. • • • DISHONEST CONTRACTORS IN ENO LAND. Thos.. who read the newspapers will 1 irimi from time, to time th•t res. treet,,. * INS V. 14•11141 prosecuted for m iking inoney by *implying had or late ior feiod to the army at the frooL Thus Messrs. 8. J. Wright es Co., pen- t:zee of the Roobartoo Batter and Factory, wail summoned at Taunton and need something like 1:90. This firee bad contracted to sup- ply 40,C00 lbof butter to the Expedi- thioary Yore., and it was found that • sample examined oontaleed 1 per cent, of added milk powder. The effect of this adulteration would be to make butter decompose more quickly Tbe irdinary citizen elm knows that in every war the Nadler, at the front ve suffered for the greed or the of cootraetors will surely 1.14 that It le nothing lase than ea outrage that men whn commit.; this earrit•J crime against the moles shotaki be punished with a fine. If this for of fraud exposes the Frailty to nothing mare serious than a linen eial peneity, which may ease to less than his irregular proem, it le high time LINA Parliament_passed • law to .nftIet punl.ttment. Why should it he less of as offence to rob the soldier in Use breeches of his food or his elothIng than It Is for a beak - Clerk to rob his employer or a servant to rob hie master v We hope that 13_111 question will be taken up when 1ParEaneset lemma, arid Utat a meow elm% will he made to pat an 1 end to a lose sad seitedialoas tradition of In prote.t4ng he safety ter in war. -The Nation (Leedom). None are so wicked the. Mere is not souse good ie then.