nein fod RE TI THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1015. ____PAGEFOUR The British Whig 82ND YEAR. | gineer of the conservative party, | elections, | fessor had, in an Address before | that had been made by the govern- | ; RTI A ¢ ' : Rr " nl i Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by! THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. J. G. Elliott Leman A. Guild .. President ..Managing Director | and Sge.-Treas. Telephones: Business Office .... Editorial Rooms Job Office SUBSCRIPTIO (Dally Edition) One year, delivered in city One year, if pald in advance .... $6. One year, by mail to rural offices $2.5 One year, to Un Six and th 00 0 ted States 3.00 k months pro rata. (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash $1.00 One year, if not pald in advance $1.60 One year, to United States 50 Six and three months Pro rata. Attached 1s one of the best job printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. FE. Smallpeice ........ 32 Church St. U. 8 REPRESENTATIVES New York Office 225 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager Chicago Tribune BlMg.! Frank R. Northrup, Manager. { THE SUPPORT OF PARENTS. | Rev. Mr. Fitzlierald, in Toronto, and before an appreciative ' audience in Trinity College, paid a tribute' to the Irish school tedchers. He point- ed out how largely they enjoyed the confidence and support of the child- | This parental sup- | port is of the very highest conse: quence, and the teachers of . Rimg- | ston know how much they may de- | pend upon it as a rule. Of there are exceptions. There are some parents who are prone to find fault unreasonably, and' with the | teachers, under these |circumstances, the Whig sincerely sympathizes. Occasionally, too, a teacher ergs, and the writer recalls' the time he | had in hearing the grievance certain parents ventilated because one | téacher--from Ireland, ren's parents. course | affair--acted somewhat mprudently, | She detected the odour, one day, of | be amended so that frauds in gov- | onions, and insisted that any pupil | ernment contracts them should | punished. wh6 had heen eating | was an immediate | Rogers, who was leading the | at the | been made." | which the Civil | the outside | handing i wission, | the secretary of state, {an abject apology, and it will | observed whether he has the manliness | to do it. which | OWES SHORTT AN APOLOGY, The venoiln," the malice, the dictiveness of Hon. Mr. Rogers, in his vin- { attack on Prol. Shortt, is without a parallel. Mr. Rogers dislikes any one who does not see eye to eye with him. "He presumes to be Suave and courteous, but he is the political en- in and he has done some things that would lie heavilyjon the average conscience. The attack on Prof. Shortt came suddenly and ypexpectedly. The pro- the 9. - People's Forum, referred to the 000 dismissals and 10,000 appointments in parlia- the figures. explosion. ment, and Dr. Pugsley, ment, repeated Mr. house time, amid great disorder, and demands of "withdraw," ""with- draw," charged that: "no more dis- | | honourable, no more "dishonest, and no more unfair statement had ever He based the charge-- of which more is sure to, be said-- on the assumption that the profes: sor had not separated the missals'" from the "'resignations." The professor is awaiting a dication. He only says while : "It was George H. M.P. for Shéfiord, who asked House how many government vents had been diswissed and vin- the ser- how many appointments made since Octo- | ber, 1911," said Prof. Shortt. "On March 4th Hon. Louis Coderre, secre- | tary of state, laid on the table of the House dismissals ments, a return and over 10,000 appoint- Of these dismissals only two were made in the inside service, over has jurisdiction; the others were service, which is oon- { trolled largely by patronage. If the government 'thinks I have made any misstatements a parliamentary committee and ques- tioned," continued Prof. Shortt. The minister of public works for- igot himself for the time being and assumed that Prof. Shorit was out some information as chairman of the Civil Service Com- when Hon. Louis Coderre, was doing Mr. Rogers owes Prof. Shortt be this, EDITORIAL NOTES. ' A potato famine is on in Ger: y by the way, | many. going back to Ireland soon after the |/ The, Canadian Criminal Code is to What a pity that the am- make a confession of the fact, In fear | endment cannot be made retroactive, and trgmbling- a little girl . admitted | that she had partaken of them at | dinner, and the that there had to he a change diet at her home, and at once. It is | hardly necessary to 'adds that for | once the Irish teacher forfeited the | respect and oqpfidence of certain pa- | of | *| the The Militia Department consented teacher intimated bet change in the ' boot specifica+ 8. Why? The change favoured contractors, and they imposed upon the government. What is the government going to do with the thousands and thous- vents, and it is sal¢ to say that she { ands of pairs of boots which it or will not again, any $n' w hat she has taken for din- | ner. SCANDAL UPON SCANDAL. | Mr. Galland, MP, Carleton county, and a supporter of | the government), figures in the Audi- tor-General's reports, in a most um pleasant way. He is not a tenderer | if 'mow teaching, ask | dered for the military, but the comtingent cannot wear ? Ah! So the newspaper correspond- | ents are going to the front, by con- (repropenting | sent of the British war office. The very "best sign that there is some | thing 1 at 'hand that will need des- | eribing. Jor government supplies--he cannotbe | 3 conservative paper says that Dr. --but he has in his service one Pow- | Pugsldy is gilen to the firing . of "ull whom he named as 'the agent for Paver & Black, Chicago manufactur ing chemists, who had dressings the 'Militia Department : usually "order to go to Powell, his employes. In the discussions that followed it was learned that the cost of the dressings werg 18c. each, and when 'the goods were billed at 23c. the di- blaik cartridges. Wonderful How "86 many on the government side of the house act as if he were throwing nAbsileen paper gives. the ide tails .of the war office af to what the people are to do in 'the event of an invasion. They are to take . of food and grain what they can car ry away and destroy the rest. ! There | "dis- | mean- | Boivin, | showing 2,138 | Service Commission | in | I can be called before will be properly | of millions of til father moves the rubber plant from the parlor to the verandah! So It Appears. Windsor Record It is easier fora girl to throw a young mdn over than it is for her to hit what she throws at isp The Proper Word. Hamilton Herald Toronto's fire department so reeks with scandal Shat it ought to ge To- ronto's fired department. No Doubt Of That, Brantford Courler It is announced that Countess Zep- pelin was born in Ontario. As for the Zeppelin aircraft, it was bornof the devil. A Certain Care, Toronto News. a Says an honest physician: "Most | people who think they need a tomie { need exercise in the open air.!' True. Let them 'run after street cars. A Rare Selection, Hamilton Times. | Hon. Mr. Hearst indignantly denied {in the legislature that Ottawa in- fluence wad used to get him the pre- miership. It seems that \he was pick- ed out froth the rump by the. Ilon. Col. Hendrie. | KINGSTON EVENTS | 25 YEARS AGO + | Work will commence on dock at once. The Chatham fire engine has only {to two fires in ten months. Real estate mep say they { usually bugy. Constable Timmerman has been very {ill He resumed his duties to-day. During February there were seven- | teen marriages,' thirty-five births and { forty-nine deaths. 'THE QUEEN ELIZABETH 3 the dry are un- 'The Fifteen-nchers of Britain's Latest Type Were Used: | on the Forts. * London, March 1.--The Admiralty | announced last night that during the ! | bombardment of the Dardanelles for- | tifications the battleship Agamenon | | had been struck and that three men | were killed. |" The admiralty announcement says | | that landing parties went ashore { from the allied fleet. With their | assistance three-of the four forts at | the entrance to the Dardanelles were | completely demolished and the four- th was badly damaged. | The new battleship Queen Eliza- bath, one of the largest members of | the British fleet, took part in the |-bombardment. This is the | time, it is stated, in which 15-inch naval guns have been in action. The | Queen Elizabeth, a vessel of 27,500 | tons, has eight 15-inch guns. Married at Soperton. The Whig's Lyndhurst correspond- |ent reports that the marriage took | place on February 25th of Miss Dina | White, diughter of Edwin White |and Ralph Goodbody, son of Char- | les Goodbody, Rév. Mr... Cal- | vert, Delta, officiated, the cere- | mony taking. place at Mount Pleas- | ant Church, Soperton. The bride | was attended by Miss Marion Ber- | tha White, while the groom was sup- | ported by Wilfrid Goodbody. The | church was decorated with white | Dells and an arch of evergreen. The bride was given away by her eldest | brother, James White. She was at- which | tired in a dress of pearl grey silk, | Kidd, {trimmed with pointed lace and | pearls. Her travelling dress was of | grey tweed trimmed with velvet. | She carried a.larga bouquet of white {roses and ferns. 'Thn wedding march was played by Miss Eliza White. Drifting to Conscription. | London Mail {| In the vivid phrases of which he is still an unrivalled master Lord Dosebery on Saturday justly de- scribed Great Britain and. Germany as "locked in what was little less than a death cluteh." Vietory, he went on, such a victory as we de- sire, can only be achieved "by the pushing--there is no other word-- I millio men against the mil- ions of the Austrians and the Ger- mansi" and he finished by a thrill voluntarily. - Otherwise, he : al 3 -| tion must give way to the safety of | BOMBARDS DARDANELLES first | ing appeal to his countrymen to come forward snd to do their share IN MILITARY CIRCLES THE R.C.H.A. BATTERY IS NOW, OVERSTRENGTH. Marfhe Man Sends Lieut.-Col. A. E:! Ross 300 Dozen Pairs of Woolen | > Soc! For the Kingston Soldiers At the Front. Q. M. S. Brown and Sergt-Major| Peppiatt returned on Monday from | Toronto and Montreal respectively, where they have been recruiting for the R. C. H. A. Depot Battery. The} battery is mow overstrength and it) is likely that the extra men will be transferred to the overseas battery, to be mobilized /here. Major C. J. Bernier, Ottawa, is in| the city. S. J. Dickinson, Napanee, has been | taken on the strength of No. 3.de- tachment, P: A. S. C. & | Moving pictures only were shown in the militia Y. o. C. A. Hall, on Sat-| urday night. On Sunday evening Rev, Douglas Laing gave an inter-| esting address to the men. Miss) Edna Singleton. gave a solo. On| Monday night Dr. J. G. Evans will Give an illustrated address on "Val- cartier." On Tuesday evening, mov-/ ing pictures will be shown. On| Thursday evening, the choir of Prin-| cess street church will give a pro- gramme. i A well-known marin man sub-| scribed $5 to the Patrice Fund, and on Saturday sent to Liewt.-Col. A. E. Ross 300 dozen pairs of woolen socks for the use of the Kingston" soldiers | at the front. - -- Nine more recruits arrived on Sat- | urday evening for the R. C. H. de-| pot battery. On Sunday morning next,. the { soldiers will attend divine service in Queen Street Methodist Church. A number of soldiers took -com- munion in St, Mary's Cathedral on! Sunday. { ' -- The Oliver equipment with which! thé 21st Battalion has been issued! will not be used overseas. The Welsh | equipment which is better adopted for active service, will be issued. The 37th Battalion, 3rd C.E.F., Is to "be mobilized at Sault Ste Marie. | The militia authorities sidering the appointment manent recruiting officers lent parts of the country. At pre- sent the officers of each unit are responsible for that unit being kept | up to stremgth. This work takes them away from their other duties. are con- } of ~ per- | in differ- | ACKNOWLEDGE GIFTS Sent to 14th Regiment Officers ! i Wives Association. i { The 14th Regiment Officers' Wives | | Association wish to acknowledge the | | following gifts for the overseas men. ifts of socks, wristlets and small i comforts, such as tobacco, cigaret- | tes, gum, chocolates, etc. from -Mes- {dames James Richardson, Macnee, McGall, Connolly, A. B. Cunning- {ham, Frank King, Billings, Dall, | Pense, Hannaford, H. W. Richard- | son, Smallridge, Sweezy, Smith, Law- son (Herbert), W. Connell, Barray, Davison, Atkins, Ramsay, Edwards, Filtz, Litchfield, Treneéer, Shangrow, | Purdy's 3 5, Chute; Kein, Misses L. andy, : ers, 1. {| Ross, A. Macnee, E. Pense, Rose Nin, | F. MeGillivary, D. Maxwell, 8. Ham- | {ilton, A. Brown, C. Waldron, ¥. Wal- | dron, A. Richardson, M. | Richmond, Sanderson, A. Belhouse, N. | , M. Dalton: | Also. gifts to the association {Mrs. Sanford Calvin, Miss Callaghan, | | Misy Jolt, Mrs. J.'B. Carruthers, | + Mi . Shaw, Miss t Mnpingha i m, Miss | | May Ford, Mrs. Stuart Sutherland, | Awan, Mise Gracy Matin | Macnee; iss ude Pahgen berg, | | Denver, Col., formerly %of Kingston, | | sent one dozen pairs of socks; Miss | | Martha Neilson, $200 to help carry {on the good work, Prof. Kalmus | has to supply comforts to two | men hout she entire campaign. | { The seeyetary, E. M. Folger, will be {at the office, 159 Well street, daily (except Saturday) m 2.30 to | 4.30 o'clock; Saturda 2 Martin, from | pate i i WELFARE OF THE EMPIRE Demands Incréaséd Production In| Canada. ! While the war and the demand y from 10 until] Zz New Spring Attire Our . NEW SHIRTS. "See our new' $1.00 Shirts; neat Black and Whites. YOUNG MEN'S SUITS AT $12.50 Hair lines and Shep- herd plaids in fine qual- it Canadian Tweeds. All-woeol new' soft roll models; "plain or cuff models, ! store is fairly aglow with spring newness ! e, » ¥ EAT YOUNG MEN'S SUITS AT $18.00 New Tartan plaids, new-models; tailored by experts. Stouts; slims and regulars, NEW HATS. The King Hats, the Wolthausen, the great (Canadian Hat. rice . $2.50, - YOUNG MEN'S SUITS AT $15.00 Blue - Worsted and Cheviots. Pure wool fast indigo dye; hand | tailored new and correct models. . NEW NECKWEAR. New Flow Ends, Per- sian patterns, French : Bengalines. Price 50c. New Hook-on Knots, 25c¢. 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