i “ . shell fire which our boys put up; THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18,1917 — The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY aT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE . GREAT OMINECA Districr oF BrIvisH COLUMBIA. A. R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada ahd British Possessions, Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES; Display, $2.60 per inch per month: Reading Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion, Legal notices inyerted at B. C. Gazette rates. : Vou. VI. SATURDAY, AucusT 18, 1917 No. 5h will be conscripted in September. This step can receive nothing but the whole-hearted endorsement of all true Canadians, inasmuch as it is a step the consequences of which will show to what extent Canada is willing to ga into the war. We have been told time and ajain that.Canadian enlistments are being far exceeded by casualties among our forces at the front. There is but one remedy for this, and that is the supplanting of the volunteer system by that of conscription. The voluntary system has been given an extended opportunity of proving its worth in raising men for our needs at the front, and seems to have come to an‘end of its effectiveness, The Canadian armies at the front must be reinforced; the volunteer system has broken down, and its natural successor is conscription, Shall it be said of Canada that she was forced to withdraw the remnants of her armies, the heroes of Langemarck, Givenchy, Festubert, Ypres and Vimy Ridge, from France because the politicians at home were preventing the reinforcement of those divisions by making capital out of the only means of ensuring that reinforcement? A certain section of the people ure opposed to conscription on the grounds that they consider it unfair. They assert. that the drafting of men cannot be thought of without the conscription of wealth and resources. But the need for men is paramount, Jna comparatively short time our Canadian divisions will be depleted by casualties and lack of troops to fill the gaps, while those at home are arguing ona question upon which there Should be no conflict whatsoever—and doing nothing, ] has been announced that a new Canadian army of 100,000 men |. We owe it to the boys that lie under the soil of France and of |- Belgium; we owe to the boys. risking their lives in the trenehes today; we owe it to our citizens of the future to adopt conscription now as the only means of carrying our share of the burden in this great war for liberty and democracy. Putting aside all political aspects of the question, itsmust occur to the average thinker that conscription of men is vitaily necessary, and concerning the other phase of the case,that of the conscription of wealth and resources, can we not leave it to our inherent spirit} turn, as we feel they undoubtedly will be? ‘Mednwhile, let us get'the men, for should the Hun ever iand his hordes. upon the shores of our fair Dominion, we thay be sure that onseription (and with no appeals) would be instituted with an iron hand, and we should have no wealth-to form any basis for argument. : oe ar JACK BENNETT TELLS wait, At 5:27 the puns opened ' OE VIMY RIDGE FIGHT up asone, It was to bea three-} minute preparation and’ then. the Vie eats In a letter written from Sea- - ford Hospital, Sussex, Sergt. Jack Bennett,of the famous 16th Battalion, destribes the battle for Vimy Ridge, in which he was| over his second and third: lines and we were ‘to climh over and follow. Three minutes don’t off all men’s farnishings|| avery short time and it was here Igot pinked over. After the|f fury had passed on I got ¢ a stick, L and with the aid of it hobbled 7 back to the rear. | “It was a great start for the I going to bust right through, but Fritz is a tough proposition to | break up, i| ‘'T am-‘now a grenade instruct- }- or here, just temporary of course, || but I am geing to hang on as|p long as I can and show the young bloods how to wield the grenade,” CANADA AND U.S. | " MUST CONSERVE = Canada and the United States must cut down their normal con-|f sumption of wheat by 160,000,000 ||s bushels to meet the needs of ‘I Great Britain and the Allies, Hon. W. J. Hanna, Canadian Food Contreller, estimates that|; to feed Great Britain, France, and the other Allies‘and the men | at the front will require 1,105,000 | bushels of Wheat. This, means at least 466,000,000 will have to|ff the United States,’ ‘There will (fl these countries only 300,000,000 bushels surplus. for export, and so by special efforts in the con- servation of food the people of the United States and. Canada will have to make up a shortage of- 160, 980, 000 bushels. May Force Election i in Britain The Labor , mien may. force an| election, because Lloyd George | will appeal to the country if the|] party insists on sending delegates | to Stockholm. | Arthur Hender-|ff sun has been named by the Labor |/f party lo discuss terms with tire: enemy’s representatives, Anger the Tailor of British ‘‘fair play” to see that wealth and resources get their| . 25% | READY-MADE SUIT $15) Suit Made to Order---$35, 00 NEW HAZELTON - wounded for the third time, hav- ing been hit ulso on the historic Hill 60 and at Zillebeke during his two years of active service: “That was some show on the 9th. It Was’ the last thing in some contrast to Festubert, I can. * tell you. Our guns had been _ giving. it, them at. intervals’ for, nearly a weele, but the final three minutes before we went over wag \ ‘away when I think ‘of it, J terrific; it nearly takes my breath’ “We crept out into no-man’ 8:| land the night before and dug in: our:kicking-off trench, We were “well ‘dug in by ‘daybreak, ithén, wel waited. for thé “final, rioment to , We did not: have long, to. come. seem long, for:a bombardment, but it did the work alright, for there were tot tany Huns Jeft in his, front line or much of his front line left either. . The sur- ‘vivors were game though and did their hest. I hed’ the pleasure of lobbing a bomb between two! : of. them’ who Were still ‘firing as) we approached, them ‘up. shooting with my tifle after: we passed his first line. They could’ Ati ‘Bure closed *. be seen getting away in bunches! . = of froin. three: ta. a dozen in the}. thick haze ‘of, .atnoke, but: not many, Bot away, for our ‘bari “Thad a bit of good| toe commons: for this isi B.C, TON ‘The Prince Rupert Empire mati, who isa candidate for the. house “SM: NEV | first day and I thought we were | be importea from Canada and |i. be under normal consumption in|[f IF YOU CANT FIGHT YOU CAN AT LEAST | STAND BEHIND THE | _MAN WHO FIGHTS — - FOR YOU ! | 4 THE CANADIAN PATRIOTIC FUND. Which assists the wives and families of Canada’ S gallant, Soldiers, requires millions of dollars to keep the soldiers’ - home fires burning. ' District Treasurer: Stephen. A. Hoskins, Government: Agent Coe Hazelton Committee: °° =. 8 J. KE, Kirby, R. E. Allen, J. K, Frost, J..R. Barker, and J. G. Powell. Monthly Subscriptions are Solicited - So THE CANADIAN RED CROSS The. Hazelton. Branch requests the support of: all ‘in its -efforts to,assist in the noble work of this sreat bumanitation : : ; organization, ; Honorary Presidents: Mrs, (Rev, ) John’ Field; Mrs. (Re a W. Hogan * Chairman: Vice-Presidents: 5. H. Hoskins; Mrs, E.R, Cox; Ww. J Garr, Honorary Secretary; Migs J. C. Grant. - Honorary Treasurer: H. AL Little,. Manager Union’ Bank - a Executive Committee: ' . |. Mrs. H. C. Wrinch, Mrs, R. G. Moseley, Mrs; Chag, Reid; Miss Hogan, Rev; John Field, Rev, M. Pike,. H. H. Phillips — _ Large or Sinall Contributions will be Gratefully Reseived . ” Q 1 . nore, yoo : . 7 : - : . . vor SOLDIERS AID & Lov, ; COMMITTEE — Endeavors to/ ‘supply soldiers from Hazelton district wit. a | such comforts and’ neceasities as cannot be readily, oiitaihied 7 ‘ at the front, and will assist them to re-establish themselves in civil life when they. return, The Committife i ig. acting’ in . fi cq - operation with ‘the: Provineial | - Commission and the ilitaey Hospitata Commission. “Chairman? A. R. Macdonald engin Secretary Treaster: J. x Riding. |, - a. ithe man | “Dr ‘H.C. -Wrinch - soos a ; Returned Soldiers": Hf . . : .