PAGE FOUR The British Whig 82ND YEAR. Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. - G. BIO revert President A. Guild ... Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. Business Office .. Editorial Roome Job Office . .e SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) One year, dellfVered in city .... One year, If pald In advance ....§6 One year, by mail to rural offices . One year, to United States 3.0 (Bemi-Weekly Edition) One year, by cash .. One year, if not n ad One year, to Und tates ves cedl Six and three months pro rata. "Attached is one of the best Job printing offices In Canada * TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H E 1 creirai 88 Chureh St Y EY TIVES Frank R. Manager. Chicago . Tribune Bldg. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. INDIFFERENT. Judging from the number of young men between. the ages of 18 and 22 or 23 that are still to be found pouring out of the many offices between five and six In the evening, there are many single men who have not yet enlisted. In the overseas battalions which have been formed during the past six months the percentage of married men, many of thém with families, is large. Men in charge of recruiting stations throughout the city of Toronto find that there is a strong feeling abroad that the young men are not respond- ing to the call as they should. Many married men complain that they know of numerous single men, with no ties, who are not thinking of enlistment. If they would do their "bit" the men with families to sup- port would not be "signing on" for overseas service. They say, how- ever, that the young men are indif- ferent. If this is true it is a severe indictment of young Canadian man- hood. But we cannot think that the young men are deliberately shirking their duty, even though many of them still fail to realize the magnitude of the stake for which the British Empire is fighting. CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA. Robert W. Speer has gone to Chi- na. He writes to his Presbyterian friends about what he sees there, the monstrous mass of human life in the city of Canton, the frantic com- petition among the boatmen of the river for the pennies of the visitors, the ceaseless struggle for life. Christian missions are doing a good deal in China; Dr, Speer says, a miracle for God, a monument to missionary faith and courage. At Northfield the other day, dur- ing a conference of Christian work- ers, there was a talk by Rev. C. E. Scott about the need for Christian work such as Dr. Speer describes. Mr. Scott's account of social condi- tions in the Flowery Kingdom does not make very pleasant reading. It doesn't resemble in the slightest de- gree that beautiful rhapsody called *"The Letters of a Chinese Official," whose admiration for Chinese life, as it turned out, arose from his nev- er having beef in' China. The country where every man is mar- ried, but no eng has a home, where the women lead a life of jealousies, poisonings and drowmings, in con- stant hatred of each other, where man may take as many concubines as he can support or can force to support him, where blind girls, who cannot find husbands, are led about the streets with ropes about their necks, for sale, where children un- der twelve are not thought to havé souls, where mothers are forced to kill unwelcome giri babies, is in need of help from. somewhere. There is but oné force that can China, says M; : | {and create a monopoly for themsel-| | ves at the end of the war. | Apart from this temporary loss,| the Kaiser has made millions out of | the war. He is the largest sharehol- | | der in Krupp's, and his enormous] | profits during the conflict have been | steadily semt abroad for investment.| At the beginming of the war he is understood to have icvested a large proportion of his disposable funds in| American munition factories; so that he is at present drawing large divi-| dends from the supply of mimitions) to the Allied armies. None of the] holdings are in his own name or in| the name of any identifiable agent; but the real holder is William, all| the same. Further, he has made, extensive investment in American and Canadian Jand. | Again, the Kaiser is in the spelter| ring. He has big investments in several German companies registered at Somerset House. 'The Kaiser is in no financial diffi-| culties, if Germany is. If Germany| had not been at war the Kaiser] would not have had a tenth of the opportunities which he has recently | enjoyed of enriching himself at Ger-| many's expense. nn EDITORIAL NOTES. The year bas proved how true it is that "its a long, long way to Tip-| perary." JU | It may be prophetic that in the] Manitoba - eléction "Sam Hughes, | Conservative," was defeated by 502. Nature has a way of evening up.| The crops will come out all right and | the very important pasturage is as] flush as in June. 2,000,000 men. She claims to bave| gained 3,500,000 Russians, but she| can't use them for the same purpose. | Canada always comes back to Lib-| eralism. After the war it will need | a Liberal Government to 'take care of the Rogerization. of the present) cabinet. { In the old days a fellow made him= self attractive to the girls by saving up money and acquiring a bank ac- count, but now he gets ahead faster by borrowing money and buying an automobile, says the Oswego Times. Women's clubs, wealthy citizens and various commercial organiza- tions of = Washington are uniting in an endeavor to make the capital of the United States the successor of Paris as arbiter of the world's fash- fons. Their task, it is feared, wilk be & difficulty one. 5 On Friday the United States army will lose its last officer who fought in the Civil War, Col. "Johnny" Clenn, the "Drummer Boy of Chick- amauga," For many. years past Colonel Clenn has been professor of military science at Galesville Univer- sity, and is now retiring. He began at fourteen. | PUBLIC OPINION | Auto Axiom. (Putsburgh Post.) Knowledge is power, but it won't take the place of gasoline. Should Hand Him Jolt. (Toronto Star.) Just now while the Kaiser is look- ing so eagerly towards Warsaw would be a good time for Uncle Joffre to hand him a left hook. Great On Flying. (Buffalo Courier.) Great Britain's appropriation for aviation is said to be $45,000,000, France's, $20,000,000, and Ger- many's, $80,000,000. Lord, Lord, how this world is given to flying! Sam Hughes' Specialty. (St. Thomas Journal.) "This is a time for serious busi: ness, not for talking. Gen. Sam Hughes is quoted as saying. But somehow or other Sam will manage to combine the two with the talking as the leading feature. Mr. Edison And His Wife; (New York Tele h.) Edison' in a recent Ihterview, says he owes all to his wife. Imagine a man's wife inspiring him to invent a talking-machine. -------- Society Against The Hun. Toronto Star.) It there is to-day a European bidation against Germany fit is the result of ; | b Germany is supposed to have lost| . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1915. WISEAND OTHERWISE | Hard work brings success--some times. The man who is always behind never gets ahead. If you wantito make a lazy man tired offer hini a job. Some married men make danger signals for bachelors. good One can't always judge a man by what his neighbors say about him. Our idea of a real pretty girl is one who seldom has to stand in a crowded tar. The man who served a jail sen- tence long ago aqften is the first to kick the other fellow who finds him- self in the same predicament. Colorado Geyser. An irate old gentleman was eat- ing in a Denver cafe. Near him sat a youth who was loudly "inhaling" his soup. The old gentleman, in disgust, finally turned to the noisy diner. "Young man ,what are you--a Colorado geyser?" he asked.--Buf- falo News. % a------ ' He Never Disappointed. The Interviewer--Why did you as sassinate all your wiyes as soon as the honeymoon was over? Bluebeard--You see, I'd promised to love each one as long as she lived, and no matter what other sine I've committed, I never disappoint a lady. -- Philadelphia Bulletin. Security. A citizen took his little boy for a bath in the swimming pool. Notie- ing a small boy using water wings, he asked, 'Johnnie, where can I g-t some of those wings for my little yy?" "That feller over there will let you take a pair," replied the kid, "but you got to let him keep your pants for security." All Mixed Up: "Well, how did you come out with your jury duty?" "I don't like it,"" confessed Mrs. ombat. . "When the lawyer for the plaintiff got through, I was sure he was right. When the attorney for defendant finished, I felt certain he was right. When the Judge got through I didn't know who was right," --Pittsburg Post. De -- HIS ADVICE WAS IGNORED. So Lusitania Was Lost, Asserts Lord Beresford, London, Aug. 13.--In a letter which was read at-a meeting held to ask the Government to put cotton on the list of absolute contraband. Lord Charles Beresford said that if certain advice which he had ten- dered to Premier Asquith in April had been ' followed, the Lusitania would have been saved. Lord Beres- ford was to attend thé meeting, but sent a letter supporting the move- ment, wherein he said: * a "On the 65th of April last I wrote the Prime Minister on various mat- ters conneéted with the war, and showed how inefficiency brought about by want of organization and forethought was causing the loss of valuable lives, I stated further that the cause of all disasters mentioned were all avoidable, and that men's lives were heing sacrificed through criminal negligence. It the warn- ing advice which I tendered had been acted upon, the Lusitania would not have been lost. I have it in my power to prove that this statement is a fact, when the proper time comes." The Black Watch Annexed. New York Sun "The Black Watch are fighting so well in: France that even the Ger- mans praise them. Wonderful fight- ers, the Irish." The speaker was W. Bourke Cock- ran. He continued: "When I think of the valor of the Black Watch regiment I recall the story of Pat McCann. 'Pat came home one night with a black eye, a broken nose and a split 'lip; a front tooth was gone as well. " 'Tim Sullivan done it," he told his wife, as he began to bathe his wounds in a basin of water. ** 'Shame on ye!' Bridget cried, 'A big feller like you to be licked by a little, hard-drinkin' cockroach like Tim Sullivan! Why, he----' " *Whist," said Pat from the basin. softly, 'Don't shpake evil of the dead.' " ' ---------- Archbishop McNeil, Toronto, is at Penetanguishene to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first Mass held in Ontario. ment will not be fulfilled." TAKES SERIOUS VIEW OF THE SOCIALIST SPLIT IN GER- MANY Elaborate System Of Espionage Es tablished To Prevent Organized Action.--Heads Of Movement Talk. London, Aug. 13.--The Daily Chronicle's special correspondent; who lately returned from Germany, dealing with the Socialist split in that country, gives a conversation he had with one of the officials of the new movement started by Edward Bernstein and Dr. Liebknecht in op- position to the so-called government- al Socialists. This official sad: "A split of the Social Democratic party, the prevention of which has been the chief aim of all leaders of that party for years past, cannot be averted any longer; indeed, it may be said it has already come about, "Those who are suspected of plan- ning or advising a strike are ferror- ized. They are shut out everywhere they go, Their letters are opened. In- fact, there is in existence such an elaborate system of spying as to make organized action on the part of the workers absolutely impossible. "The police take equally severe measures wth regard to Socialist lit- erature. Domiciliary visits are fre- quently paid in suspected quarters. Recently, at a town in Baden, twenty men and women were arrested on a charge of distributing Socialist pamphlets and treated as common criminals. ? "The future of the Social Demo- cratic party is not easy to fortell just now. Lam sorry to say, many com- rades in the army are yielding to the influence of thé general wave of en- thusiasm for the tax which is pass- ing over the country and are becom- ing plus royalists 'que le roi," but af- ter the war the party struggle will be renewed with increased violence, as it is quite certain that the prom- ises held out.to us by the Govern- The correspondent added the 'fol- lowing question: 'Assuming that the people'find out after the war that -it was not a defensive war, do yon think the consequences will be ser- ious?" "Our people," was the reply, "will never believe that they have been mislead. As for myself, I, too, be: lieve that' this war was forced upon Germany. But assuming that clear proof of the contrary comes to.light, Ido not believe that this will matéri- ally change public opinion for years to come. Ne<nation can possibly come to any other, conclusion after the continued pressure by word and pen which is being brought to. bear upon it now." The correspondent adds: "The statement of my informant clearly shows that as things stand now an organized labor movement would af- tect the manufdéture of war material or the general conduct of the war, or a movement for peace would not have the slightest_chance of success. Public opinion; wmorequer, 'would be strongly against such a movement, 80 much so that, as a German re- marked to me, 'Not ane .stone of their buildings would be. left upon another if they dared to interfere with the war.' A movement for peace can therefore hardly be expect- ed from these quarters." Two German Regiments Were Annihilated Basle, Switzerland, Aug.13.--Two Bavarian regiments were. annihilat- ed in the recent fighting near Thann, in Upper Alsace, according to in- formation received here from Muel- hausen . The French bombardment at Muelhausen is so intense that the thunder of guns can be heard here, twenty miles away. Dornach, a sub- urb of Muelhausen, has been evacu- ated by the Germans. Degrees Or Merit. London Answers. Victom Emmanuel, King of Italy, is a keen fisherman, and spends hour after hour with his rod, fhough the best of luck does not always attend his piscatorial expeditions.: Once, after several hours' angling had brought him only three poor fish, and he was returning to the castle, when he was niet by a peasant with a magnificent catch of trouts "You seem to he no great fisherman, to Judge by your catch," commented the peasant. "I should say you were about as lucky as the king." 3 "Why?" inquired his majesty. 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