Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1916 — Versatile Canadian Statesman. [ARTICLE]

Versatile Canadian Statesman.

’ Gen. Sir Sam Hughes, Canada’s picturesque and efficient minister of militia, the results of whose untiring efforts for years past have been so manifest since the war began, has been in turn a schoolteacher, country editor, politician and soldier. Years ago he was, professor of , English in the Collegiate Institute oty Toronto, The mi 1 itia has long been his hobby; During the Boer war he obtained a commission, though his offer of a regiment was rejected. ;■ -A;*.