PAGE FOUR ° A "THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1915. The British Whig TN - ss EERE id EE | - l= Wil EE rata 4 _--- L + rn Published Daly and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, J. G. ElMott ..... President Leman A. GuiM ... Managing, Director and Bec.-Treas. 243 UBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, deliveréd in city ...... $6.00 One year, if paid tn advance .... $6.00 One year, by mall to rural offices 3 One year, to United States 3.00 IX and three months p BE -------- | ing the passing years, and the men |'who have begun f, by their timely [visit to Petrograd and closing of im- { portant contracts, will be sincerely | thanked by the people. ---------- THE UTILITIES COMMISSION, * The resolution which the Council | passed' some tipe ago, without dis | cussion, dsking the ratepayers to ex- | press through a plebiscite their opin- ion of the Utilities Commission, | prompts some comment. The Coun- cil presumably wants the return of the Utilities to its management, but {does not say so, and does not give reasons why the change should take place. While there is the presump- | tion or insinuation that something | is amiss, the Mayor, who is one of [the Commission, has declared that {the men who constitute it and are | his colleagues for the time being, are | most honorable and able and deser- | ving of the public confidence. Be- {ing able and efficient and honorable { why should the Commission be dis- | pensed with, and at a time when the | Utilities in most of the towns and 2 passing away, or have passed away, | from the Council's control? | The interview of a member of the 9 Whig staff with the Chairman of the { Commission has established certain facts. The Commission was called 00 | into existence by the Council, and on 1 not paid in advance $1.50 ear, to United States 1.50 X and three months pro rata. Attabhed is one of the best printing offices in Canada. re om------------r------------ eee eee TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H BE Smalipelce 22 Shiireh Bt. h / E8 New Yprk Office Frank R. Northrup, rank R. Northrup, anager ribune Bldg. Manager. JEWS GREAT SUFFERERS. When one reads the French-Can- adian press he realizes what a fuss the advocates of bilingualism can, make over a comparatively little grievance, The French are not to be ignored in their demand for re- cognition and the desire to have their mother tongue honored and perpetu- ated so-far as their children are con- cerned. But they are not content with reasonable concessions. In an English Province they want the French language made the equal of the English in the public. schools which the clildren attend. = This is a demand to which no political party can consent, The French-Canadians would com- plain less if they reflected upon what the Jews have suffered in Poland. In Russian Poland they have been de- nied the privileges of citizenship, but they have not been denied the na- tional characteristics of which they are so proud. It took a war -- thank God for that -- to make the Russians realize how far they were wronging the Jews, and the Czar, who represents all that is authori- tative in national government, has promised all manner of civic reforms AS soon as the war is over. The Germans have made no sign of any amends for the tyrannies they have practised upon a down-trodden and discouraged race in that part of Poland which they occupy. The Jews under German rule have been treated as an alien race, 'as unworthy of any consideration, and they have been ground under the heel of the German taskmasters and refused the opportunity to teach and speak their native tongue. Regarded in this light, the French-Canadians have really no grievance in Ontario on ac- count of their language, It is hon- ored, it is respected, and it is per- Petuated. The French should cease all they can reasonably desire. They their agitation. -------------- The White Way expensive? Sure- ly. Whose fault is this? Not that of the Utilities Commission. The Council was committed to the capital Investment before the Commission was called into existence. ------ GOOD THING FOR KINGSTON. There will be general rejoicing among the industrial classes over the activities at the Locomotive Works which must follow the large orders ® for engines for Russia. The Presi- dent. of the company, Mr. Jarvis, of Toronto, and the General Manager, Mr. Wheatley, of this city, left Can- ada shortly after the outbreak of the war, and made a circuitous and dif- ficult passage to the capital of the Russian Empire. What these men saw during their prolonged visit to Russia's business cegtre was satisty- ing enough. £ -| and its Committee. the motion of one who had been the Chairman of the Utilities Commis- sion and knew all about it. The Commission took up and carried to completion some of the heaviest financial contracts of the Council Without fee or reward, and most cheerfully, the Commission has given a great deal of its time to the business of the de- partment. In several respects the Commission 'has improved on the work of 'the Committee, in saving thousands of dollars upon supplies, in which saving the Council and the School Board have been permitted to share. The agreement so long desired with regard to the care of the streets, and excavations in them, was reached in the first year of the Commission's service, and is now be- ing faithfully enforced. There is talk of overlapping. There cannot be anything of this kind if the Coun- cil does its part and the agreement is lived up to faithfully. The one thing of paramount im- portant is this: that between $600, 000 and $700,000 of the people's money has been invested in the pow- er, gas and water plants; that these plants have in interest and maturing liabilities all the load they can carry; that neither buildings nor extensions nor machinery, can be purchased without enquiry as to where the cost Is coming from; that a crisis was ap- proaching when the change of man- agement took place from the Council to the Commission; and that unless the consumers who do not represent all the people, or even all the taxpay- ers, are very careful, there will be oe- casion to repent of some public things in sack cloth and ashes. EDITORIAL NOTES. Twelve millions of money loaned to the farmers of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and invested in seed grain. What of it? Isn't the loan a first lien on the sanson's crop? No one hesitates to loan money when its re- turn is secured with usury. The Council cannot buy its fuel as cheaply as the Utilities Commission, and so the Commission buys the fuel for the city and the Board of Educa- tion. A saving of thousands of dol- lars is effected, and yet the Council wants the Commission abolished. How would it do to have the peo- ple vote upon this question: Which do you think would reader the city fhe best service, a Council or a Com- mission? It would be a mere ex- pression of opinion, .of course, since a Commission Is impossible just now. There is no law for it. The Toronto Methodist Conference dig a small thing when it reprobated the sending of tobacco and cigarettes to the soldiers at the front. Every- one smokes, we are told, in action. Even the chaplains and the nurses are liable to smoke, under the strain, and the Lord forgives them when they fall. Every man who is interested in a low fire insurance rate should thank his stars that the Utilities Commis- sion | ed the two main-arteries water tank. If the Commission had done nothing else, this work would have merited the people's thanks. ------------------ The Tory press has yet to find any evidence that the Liberals of Mani- Ra the pump-house to the | KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO George Smith angi -ard, sentenced at Barrie to a term in thé penitentiary for burglary, made a sensational escape from the police cells. Corner stone of St. Luke's Church was lal dto-day by the Bishop oi On- tario. and the contractor, J. Gray, mas- onry; W. H. Rogers, carpentering; -MeMahon & Company, painting and glazing; Elliott Bros., plumbling & heating. Five desperate men just released from the penitentiary, are accused of robbing the Renfrew Post Office. | The large elevator of the Mon treal Transportation Company hand- led 6,500 bushels of grain in minutes. WAR OPENS OPPORTUNITIES, | Raw Materials at Hand to Win and Maintain Supremacy. Washington, June 17---George Otis Smith, director of the United States Geological Survey, has for two years been studying the adjustments and readjustments of American in- dustries to meet new conditions, and! will probably get a V. C. for that, has come to the conclusion that "the mineral wealth of the United States is in largest measure the foundation of the marvelous growth of the last few decades," although he dees not ignore the value of the forést and soil. Mr. Smith's chief argument is that the industries of America are based on its ores and mineral fuels, and incidentally the income from trans- portation from the mines. He believs that the present war in Europe will give vast opportunities to make America mineralogically in- dependent; and he gives the follow- ing facts as proof of that assumpt- ion. Not only is this country a world leader in the output of coal, pe- troleum, zine, iron, lead, phosphate --and in three of them éxceeds all other countries put together-- but is in possession of the largest re- serves of many of the more import- ant of these minerals, in which no other country can compare." \ MISS (LIEUT.) JOAN ARNOLDI. Canada Field Comiforts Commission, worker, who is home for a short period. This lady was given a "lieutenant's" commission by the Government. Her duty Is to superintend the distribution of "extra" supplies sent to Canadian soldiers by Canada. TO FILL COURT VACANCY, Successor to Justice Teezel Will Be Appointed. Ottawa, June 17.--The Ontatio Supreme Court vacancy created through the resignation of Justice Tezel, some months ago is likely to be filled very soon. This is the vac- ancy for which W. BRB. Northrup, M.P., Belleville and J. F. Orde, K.C., Ottawa, have been mentioned. May Burn Bodies. Paris, June 17.--A special commit- tee of doctors and scientists has re- turned to Paris from the battle-front where experiments in the burning of bodies of soldiers and dead_ horses were conducted. 'The committee re- ports that this method of disposing of, the bodies of men and beast can be successfully carried oWt, and will indicute the manner in which it can best be done. e Premier of Bavaria to Resign Amsterdam, June 17.--The Ber- lin Lokal Anzeiger, a copy of which has been received here, is authority for the statement that the Bavarian premier, Count Von Hertling, will probably resign on account of ill- health and that he will be replaced by Baron Von Soden-Fraunhofen, Minister of the Interior. | Harry How-| The architect is Mr. Powers, | 29 HOW HE EARNED V.C. | WENT BACK TO TRENCHES TO| SECURE HIS BINOCULARS, Found Germans There--And Ended By Capturing the Whole of Them Single-Handed. | London, June 17.--Prof. J, S. Mor- fan in an address to University Col- lege last night gave a remfrkable story of the winning of the Victoria! Cross. A young subaltern who got| the Cross had a pair of binoculars of! which he was very proud, Bind he| bored everybody by exhibiting them. | | The subaltern and others in this trench were on one occasion driven back by the Germans, and went into support trenches. Suddenly the subaltern cried, "Good God," and { ran back to the trench they had left, which was then in possession of the | enemy. A sergeant followed him, and came back shortly afterwards to | the commadning officer = and said: { "He has captured the trench, sir." | 'The commanding officer obtained | some support and went to the trench, | where he found the subaltern with a | revolver in each hand, holding a whole row of Germans, who had laid {down their rifles and were holding | up their hands. The commanding officer afterwards said to him: "You but it was a very foolish thing to do to try and recapture a trench single-handed." "But," 'replied the subaltern, "I went back for my binocalars, sir." A MENACE TO NATION Roosevelt So Describes "Peace Any Price" Men. New York, June 17.--Better mili- ary and naval preparedness on the {part of the United States was urg- | ed by speakers of national promipen- Ce at a mass meeting under the aus- pices of the National Security Lea- gue, at which twenty-five states were represented. The speakers included Jacob M. | Dickinson and Henry L. Stimson, | former secretaries of war; Charles | J. Bonaparte, former secretary. of the {navy; Judge Alton B. Parker, who is honorary vice-president ' of the league, and Dr. Lyman Abbott, Judge Parker declared that the present European war has taught this country that what was prepared- ness two years ago is not prepared- ness now. "We are not prepared to stand against a large power," he said, "An attack may be long delayed, but now we are following the president with bated breath, while he makes his de- mands upon Mexico and Germany." A letter from Col. Roosevelt read at the meeting said: "The professional peace-at-any- price men, who during the last five years have been so active, who have pushed the mischievous all-arbitra- tou treaties at Washington, who havé condoned our criminal activity as regards the quests raised by the great world war now raging, and who have applauded .our abject fail- ure to live up to the obligations im- posed upon us as a signatory power At an unlovely body of men, and, then as a whole, are probaly the most undesirable citizens that this coun- try contains." OFF TO SERVE TERM, ------ Emerson Shelly Sentenced For Nor- « wich Crime. Woodstock, June 17.--Emerson Shelly, arrested in Woodstock on May 12th for assaulting a thirteen-year- old girl near Norwich, was removed to penitentiary to serve the two-year sentence. imposed on him for the crime. The prisoner was in charge of Deputy Sheriff Sproat and Wallace McWhinnie. Upon the completion of his term Shelly will be tried for the murder of Christopher Schoup, of Walsingham. - Germans Ruining French Trees. Paris, June 17.--Not content with devastating France with fire and sword, says the KEclaire, the Ger- mans are now ruining the fruit trees and vines in the invaded districts. It was recently stated that the Gar mans were reploughing fields where corn 'was planted, because they han no expectation of being able to reap the harvest. The reported destruc. tion of trees by stripping them of buds and new branches is regarded here as a plan to ruin French agri cultural interests. Was Seeking Medical Aid. «Ogdensburg, N. Y., June 17.-- Coming to Ogdensburg for medical ald, W. G. Gordier, aged fifty-five, of Morrisburg, Ont., dropped dead in the reception room of the City Hos- pital while awaiting the arrival of the attending physician. . He was discovered shortly after he collapsed. The population of Syracuse, N. Y., is 144,791, a gain of 7,542 in a dec- ade. bauchery of the Provin%p. The cor] respondent" of the Orange Sentinel of The Hague convention, are at best 711k EES Pes F=.] Bibbys R. D. SLOAN, Sec. & Manager. Limited--Boys' & Men's Wear Store \ People who are in the habit of paying e on approval, will find tlis a profitable place We believe we are the only store in Kingston doing a strie to trade. ash and who do not want goods tly cash and one price business. There is a saving for youdn trading here. SEE BIBBYS NOBBY $2.00 STRAW + BIBBYS 50c SILK HATS HOSIERY SEE BIBBYS SPECIAL $4.50 GENUINE PANAMA HATS $4.50 SHOES. See Bibbys Special $4.50 Shoes, bench made in the newest lasts, rub- ber soles and heels, ete. Black or tan. piece; knee ankle length. arate White, Cream, Blue and neat Stripes. SEE BIBBYS $1.00 SUITS UNDERWEAR Combinations or two length or neem anc SEE BIBBYS $1.00 OUTING SHIRTS French euffs, soft sep- collars. Plain Suit Carnival at Bibby's SUITS, SUITS, SUITS, SUITS, SUITS, FARMS For Sale The following are some of our farm bargains. 100 120 150 150 $7,000 ++. Price $10,500 Price $24,000 For part! ulars consult 1. |. LOCKHART, Bank of Montreal Brilding, Kingston. Phone 1035 or 1080. daa HHEEEN RUPTURE (sEE DATES AT BOTTOM) LE A ---- BARB Of Clean Up Sale of Men's and Women's Oxfords and Pumps Men's $4.50 Gun Metal Women's $5.00 Pumps Women's $4.50 Pumps Women's $4.00 Pumps and Oxfords Men's $5.00 Patent, Gun Metal and Tan Oxfords ...............coiv even Now 3315 and Tan Oxfords, Now $3.48 and Oxfords ....Now $3.98 and Oxfords ....Now $3.48 ...Now $2.98 o™ Lots of Odd Sizes at Clean Up Prices. One Lot of = Women's Oxfords and Pumps. as to methods of doing business. When we "play ball" it gets our rivals guess- ing. All our sporting Goods and Games are the best offered and at the lowest prices ever put upon such high-grade |goods. Baseball Outfits for Clubs, Schools or Associations. In-door and Out-door Games of all kinds. Fishing outfits a specialty. Come here and get the best while paying the lowest. Hg Clean-up Price $1.00 Rubber Sole Shoes Not Included in This Sale. iia .= J." H. SUTHERLAND & BRO. The Home of Good Shoes. We're Proof Against Base Hits il i £8 3