- The Daily British Whig . PAGES 9-16 Officers, (left hand)--Lieut.- (command. Queen's University Stationary Hospital Corps Which Has Bone Overseas. Col, F, Etherington, ing), Lieut. Col. W. GG. Anglin Major W. 7. Connell, Major G, E Kidd, KINGSTON ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1915 ] SECOND SECTION Officers (right hand)--Capt. 8, M. Polson, Capt. Ernest Sparks, Capt. William Ballantyne, Capt. James Wallace, Capt, J. P. Quig- ley. SOME OTTAWA GLIMPSES | Special Oorrespondence by H. F. Gadsby. BOB---The Official Goat \ Ottawa, May 15. ---At a little din- ner in Montreal last week the Honor able Charles Doherty introduced the Honorable Robert Rogers as the "most abused but also the most popu- lar minister in the Cabinet." Which means that whenever a general elec- | tion is pulled off the Honorable Bob is to be the official goat in fact that is Bob's job--to go out in front and take the brickbats while his col. leagues stand around in picturesque attitudes and gather the floral trib- utes, Putting it up to Bob is about the best thing the Government does. When the Cabinet has decided on a course of action Bch can always feel sure of his share of public opinion. If it 1% a 'matter of approval his col. leagues take all the glory. if it is a matter 'of disapproval Bob takes all the blame. That is Bob's place in the scheme of things. That is why Se-- . | message. i through the telegraph wires, a high a he must have a hide like a rhinoceros and a conscience like a leather trunk, Without these qualities a Wicked Partner would not be worth his salt. | Bob is the one man band. He | beats the drum, clashes the cymbals, and does all the brass work because he has the brass to do it with. When the crowd is big enough the main tent is thrown open and the perform- ance begins To give him his due | Bob never complaing at the thank. less "task. He does it willingly, knowing that he will find his reward in another direction As a spleler there have been bet. ter hands at the job than Bob, The Minister of Public Works is not an engaging orator. He drones his The wind sighing church curate with a bad cold, a bumble bee with inflammatory rheu- matism---none of these has anything on Boh as a master of monotonous in Home baked wh 8 food - ARevival of Interest be- at home is more économical and can be unwholesome an eye to his page in history. | The Honorable W. T. White will | | diction, It's what he says that keeps people awake, not the way he School Children Take Interest "TOM" RILEY STILL SILENT, says it, for Bob is usually put up to tell the: worst that 'can happen. In double up in his two favorite parts the Wizard of Finance who plucks| another line of endeavor the thing [gold out of the fir and the Tired Bob, does is called "trying it on the | Atlas who complains bitterly ot the | dog." If the dog survives the busi- ness is gone on with Offe of Bols best gifts is a talent for gerio-comedy. He can say the most excruciating things with an abso- lutely straight face; He can ask {other people 'to believe what {doesn't belleve himself and blink an eye. Although he is a very rich man, he sometimes noises like a horny handed son of toil. The only thing lacking is the ring of truth, Bob has had experi. {ence. with many rings of one kind never burdens laid on the Government by Sir Geerge, Foster is the mellow himself. 4 Sir Geogge Foster ig the mellow! cynic who says "a plague on both! your houses," but sticks to the one | he | that happens to be on top. Major- General Sam Hughes will be the plain, blunt: man who loves makes | his friends and sees that any patriot who went to school with him gets ten per cent. off the top. Doctor Reid will be Bob's right hower, and the Hon. Frank Coch-! and another, but that ring he has | rane his left, neither of them whiri- | never been quite able to break into No doubt the Honorable Bob is earnest enough in wanting a general i election, but where falls down is in the matter of excuses The Lib. | eral press has misbehaved hat is { to say, it has published full reports {of the army scandals. The Opposi- | tion' in Parliament has been fierce- ly partisan. { followed up the graft in the Shoe Committee and Public Accounts Committee. When it was a ques tion of voting $150,000,000 for the purposes of the War the Opposition | was as keen to help the British Em- That is to say it has | pire and the cause of humanity as | {even Bob Rogers eould desire, but {when it comes to seeing that every [the success of his first {dollar of that one hundred and fifty | New York, has decided | miiNons does its appointed work Bob | hext year. Rogers is not as keen as thw Opposi- | June, with the expectation of cons | Newm wind speakers, but both office Na- poleons with Ontario in the hollow of their hands And so on throuszh the list All will appear in their favorite roles, but the Honorable Bob, as the villain in the play, will get most of the cat- calls. --H, F. G, T Plays and Players Granville Barker, encouraged b> sédson " in to return He sails for, home in| --y Watertown, N.Y., May 14.---A to The Man on Watch tal of 475 packages of garden and | lower seeds have been distribute + among the children of the Automobiles appear to be as numer- | State Street School by ous. in Kingston as dogs that da sot | Mumndod pal Improvement pay taxes. {The 1éague has started a movement F» The Lampmao supposes that the terest in gardening and residents . of Lower Victoria Ward |improvement. Packages of seeds would prefer.the erection of the garb. | were sold at one cent each in the age incinerator, in their midst, rather |8¢hools. than have their eyes suffer from the | Among the girls at sight of refuse piles on vacant lots in | Street School poppies full view of their doorsteps. the "State {seeds were favorites, while the boys {chose garden seeds, mostly cabbage Down south they burn negroes at |abdd. carrots, the stake, so the Germans had to go | them one better; therefore they gath- ered forty' British prisoners together Anticipation is one of the and set them afird. Hats off to: Ger- | gat pleasures in life. If we could many for doing the most fiendish | afford to buy a Jot of the things we things imaginable, | want, we wouldn't want them. ---- | This would be a happy world if Pay for what you get and don't pay | people could content themselves with for what you don't get, is the motto | wishing they had. the things they of "Christy" and "Dan," who do not want believe in allowing the Town Council | Napanee is to have a two team baseball league. Clarence Warner to soak them for carting away other people's garbage any more than to is the president and W. McKay the secretary. charge them for' supplying other peo- Pled meals. Rev. A. L. Howard and. wife, Nap- anee, leaving for Manotick, were pre- great- People who have la grippe now are out of style, and deserve no sympathy for not, having it when it was in fash- ion, says. the Lampman. net by the Presbyterians. Are. the bowlers hehind Councilman | ans daylight scheme ? the Lamp- the | League. | {to arouse the school children's in-| municipal | and flower | sented with a handsome china eabi- | Clergyman. A despatch from London, Ont, Says: Rev. H. H. Bingham, of ths Tal- bot Street Baptist Chureh, stated to- day that since he wrote to "Tom" Riley, nearly two weeks ago, he has | received no reply from the m=% who | was some time ago releases from Portsmouth penitentiary by mistake, "However," said Rev. Mr. Bing- { ham, "I am expecting a letter from Riley shortly, and may hear from him in the course of a day. or so, but as yet I' have not heard from him di. rectly." Members of the Department of Jus. | tice have made no move as yet to | bring Riley back since It was dis- covered that he secured his Hberty through a mistake. 'Those who are lin touch with the slayer of Black. burn believe that the Department | of Justice is waiting to see whether ihe will give himself up voluntarily | or not, The Canadian Northern Ontario { Rallway Co., have decided to place | their station, when they erect a new | one in Napanee, where "the track crosses the Selby road on Centre | street, 3 » EE { tion would like him to be. {ing back again in August, with new | { Another grudge of Bob's is the [Plans for the winter. t i Senate. The Senate made the | -- ! | votes-for-soldiers bill "unworkable." | Cecil B. DeMille has written many | {Quite true. The votes.for-soldiers | lever plays, but it was 'left His | bill as.amended by the Senate cannot [Splendid four-act "dramatic : trea, | be worked the way the Honorable | The Royal Mounted,"to carry off the {Bob has in mind. If the soldiers | honors. "The Royal Mounted tells {get 'a chance of voting the election {® story of our own Canadian North | should be an honest one. As far as | Wost Mounted Police, the scenes b:- jit. can the Senate has cut oui any [ing laid in and about Calgary, Al- slight.of-hand work with the ballots. | berta, - {To that extent the bill is "unwork- | lable." ~ The Sendte was a great dis- | | appointment {o Bob [ast session. He i figured that the Red Chamber would {throw the votes-for.soldiers bill out {and "give him apd his friends a {ehanee to wave the old flag. Instead of that the brave old Senate, which | reviewers can only be persuaded t» is. subtle as it is brave; got together | keep the secret, the New York pub-; and 'mad; he bill as nearly perfect lic will thoroughly enjoy as a novel: | as possib's, The Senaig is a great ity Jha it. would not tolerate as. a revival. : | obstacle to coarse work in the Low- {er House, and it's Bob that knows --- Rupert Harvey, a taletited Englisn actor, who has this season 'made ns-contin Some day, says thé New York Ev ening Post, an enterprising thanage.:! will vevive an' old sndcess withdu! telling the public that it is old. He! will change the name and lay the scene in 1914, and if the dramatic ii Hence these tears. . The real tronble with the Opposition, as Bob sees it, is its unbending patriotism, lar blaming the plumber for Ottawa politicians are not inclined to censure Bob for the poor ease he puts up. It is not his fault that it man asks. The men who play with | bowls perhaps wish to cut, down their lighting bill at the greéns by secur ing an extra hour af daylight. 1 Apparently many «of the rising | youths think that swearing and hase- ball are still synonymous. It used to be that when one wanted to hear nice line of swearing, all he had to do was lo sit near a Kingston baseball diamond. i The fellow in Fort Hemry who is asking a divorce from a Kingston girl should have no trouble in hat-| ing his wish gratified. The Lampman | is pretty sure that the old € ian | Senators will not waste much time in considering the. pros and cons of a | divorea petition when it is known that | a Canadian woman is unfortunate en- ough as to be joined to a German. | Every sturdy 3 man who has | time on his hands uld be a mem- | _ the 14th Rifle iment in | al hé should "best it" | tes twiew a week | maxim "Honesty is the best policy." lof his Imagination or the elasticity of his conscience, Passing of the Circulation Liar HE + is happily passed when & merchant offers a "cotton mix" for Ti woor, "enicors mix for coffee or anything for something only g : to the point where we recognize Xe have progressed p In years agone, we used to 20p or e ment in the Sunday school books and accept It ag & mora - fhe sata now thé business world has adopted it as a gdod business n- ciple and successful business to-day is conducted upon'that basis, It used to be the custom in every newspaper office to have an oficial known to the force at least as the Sinculation tine 4 a i ual ae sulation figu and his efforts were limited © ) to pack circulati gures The coat rey tiser accepted his statements even under oath at 590, 40 and 80 per cent, ff and frequently his deductions were not far from the mark. j At times there was found & publisher with a conscience, but his state inent was discounted because of the rogueishness of his fellows of the craft. \ But a change has come over publishers. They, too, have recognized that honesty in circulation statement is the best pelicy, but with the craft in bad repute, the question arose how are we to Impress the truth. You may invite an advertiser to audit your circulation but not one in a thou- sand would take the time or havé the disposition to accept the invitation. Happily for all concerned an Audit Bureau of Circulation was ongan- ized with headquarters in Chicago. is composed of three and the advertising agent. it nearly a thousand members. re cirettlation statement from its publisher mem expert dccountants and trained ecirew The result is a circulation: statement by oned.* It is made up or verified by a disin has come to be