_ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY Y, JANUARY 7,1 tor and with four Cabinet: Ministers. [what Manitoba | has Talteady gone Canadian politician not in office. But When the Attorney-General decided through in (hig fbspect. the rumor is probably an exaggera- that it was his duty to protest against}: tion of some intended action in the the partiés mentioned in. the findings} John Thompson, K.C., deserves the| way of further restriction. {of the Royal Commission he was|Romage of the people. His public, , Councl 'Manager. : bound: to include Dr. Simpson. and gratuitous service to the State in| ntreal Gazette.) -'Dr. Simpson was Invited to return helping to clear up some of the War ~The of Ottawa, at their to Winnipeg during the enquiry and }® lies 'scandals recalls the unsel-| municipal elections, voted in favor of » fish and unadvertised work of his! the principle of 'appointing a man- gave evidence. He knéw he would i Sic. John Ti a | der to oversee the city's business. { be wanted before lie left thie country. iret the 11. n THOMPSON. | py, iq pq an approval of one of the new His absent" has boon Justified by 110, Nobility of the father 1s Being ideas of those who are looking for oui' the ground that his services duplicated in 'his' son. perfection in municipal administra are very much in demand. The tion. A municipal] manager has been The alderman in Toronto, who, in|tried in the nearby and considerable Winnipeg Free Press says that he is one of the staff at the Canadian Base reply to the stereotyped resolution of city of Westmount, and appears to regret at his defeat in the election, | 18Ye Elven fair satisfaction. Hospital at Etaples, seventy miles in the rear of the fighting line. The said that he could not remember military interests are paramount for KINGSTON EVENTS one word or one act hé would Jike to recall, must have a clear con- the present. 'No one doubts that. |gcjence, It is not every aldernian | . But unless the whole Conservative who can say that and he rejected. 26 YEARS ACO party of Manitoba represent organ-|fiow some men are misjudged. ized hypocrisy, in. that they did not Prof, Carr-Harris is preparing a mean what they sald when in the paper on sanitary mothers for the! most lurid language they denounced benefit of the Board of Health. = | : Mr. Bajus to-day out ice eleven inches thick, the Roblin Government and its con- : : ion. federates in crime, there will be no This Sommitige Save ita 'nttenition lo There were forty tons of hay on attempt made to stop the wheels 'of jSc¥eral municipal reforms, -and on the market to-day. Justice in this case. its recommendation the Council re- Z. Prevost' arrived home ferred them to the people. The|from a trip to Montreal. electors approved .of them al] but|business was lively there. one, namely, proportional represen- Thomas McAuley has purchased tation. Th 1 ded the residence of Mrs. Whitehead, : 2 peop e. nee more | King street west, for $3,500, a de-| ence the 'difficulty of 'recruiting with ight upon this subject. cided bargain. | the law as it now exists, One day 3 | a ---------- | PP -------------------- iy it is announced that the Militia Act RAISE EMBARGO ON HORSES. 1 is quite as effective as a Conscrip- PUBLIC OPINION tion Act ¢an be in marshalling into Order Put AA A eA A Wd, active service the men of all service- able ages who have been in any way Getting Wiser. (Toronto Mail.) Henry Ford says that he is wiser identified with the Militia. But ® Joponmo Rl ut when it is recalled that' the full then when he went to Europe. He seems to be sadder, ESENTA' strength of the Militia" is less than flew York of ih 438 ith Ave.| the first contingent that has gone to the front, and taken many of these May Stop Speeding. soldiers with them, it becomes a ser-| go (LOWSHIE Courier areal ding ious question. What can. be expected | js bad fof a pet dog's heart. This under the law?. ought to stop it, Toronto has been an active and fruitful centre for recruiting because it has been drawing men from all over the province, and the enlist- ments have been several hundred per day. - But that rite cannot be main- tained without some new and power- Tul leverage such as England has eu- joyed for some time. Lord Kitchen- er had too much to do when he be- eame responsible for the recruiting, and he was glad enough to" 1€t this pass: to another; and the right man was selected in Lord Derby. He is a _foréeful man and a great organiz: oppressive or 'There were protests when the agents of the Government set out for a registration of all- the eligible men in the Empire. It meant con- scription, and some 'people swore they. would not have it, if in resist. ing it they imperilled their liberty or life, . But it went on. Then Lord KINGSTON'S CASH AND ONE PRICE MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR. BOYS' NEW SHIRT WAISTS i Blue, Khaki, White and Cream; : p ali sizes. Special value, 50c. BOYS' KNITTED TOQUES The Ottawa Citizen congratulates ; and >. the Board of Trade upon the suc- 25¢, 35¢ 50c cess of its Municipal Committee. vr 00, EE pl BIBBYS $12.50 OVERCOAT SALE "IS ON to-day 243 He said Wesasvnashiaasavre rar 2 sense nasrnsnesnia COMPULSION IS NEEDED. tion) Canada is in a fair way to experi: n Buy, segues {8 wit) oibees : i ar, to Tail sarees (Bemi-Weekiy Battion) One year, ois \ ne year, i i pot 2 i : . o . hi to - Dnt ie ng three months bs Di Attached 1s © f th printing offices In Canada. BOYS' OVERCOATS AT WHOLESALE PRICES, Boys' Overcoats--Sizes 2 1-2 to 6 vears; special values, $2.50, $2.75, , $375 and $4.75. Big Boys' Overcoats--For boys 38 10 to 15 years; special values at $5.00 --storm collar, two way style." sold outs, ete. All hand tai- Sample Coats, last one of a line, ete. lored garments. Into Effect in April is Rescinded. | Ottawd, Jan. 7.--As the buying of | horses ih Canada for the flu otf Government has ceased, the embargo on their exportation has been raised. In April last at the request of British authorities an order was is- sued prohibiting the exportation of hotsés suitable for use in war to all destinations outside of the United Kingdom, British possessions andj} ' protectorates. Large numbérs were y subsequently bought in Canada, but some time ago the buying stopped, These Coats were made to sell for $18 and $20; sizes 34, 35, 56) 37, and 40. best job BIBBYS 69¢ SHIRT SALE $1, $1.25 and $1.50 Shirts for 69c. Boys' Winter Reefers--Sizes 24 to-33; Irish Freize, Chinchilla and Beaver Cloths. + Special .values at Sizes M 1-2, 15, 15 1-2 and 16. Every the Canadian farmer thus was pre- $3.75. Shirt first quality. vented from exporting to the United States, though the British Govern-| Ji 2 NOW IS THEIR TIME, _.. The women of Manitoba will pro- bably be given, according to the promise of the Government, the fran- ohise this session, They may use it. In the absence of the men, some of them not to return from the war, the women may have to run the school boards, the councils, and other pub. lic bodies. The women's day las come, and the men can only hope and pray that these women may not want to get back at some of their perse- cutors and make all of the male sex the sufferers. 1f the yomen can only deal with the enemy we could become. reconciled to amost any af- , fiction in the way of legislation. Cheap Freight Rate. (Toronto World.) And now comeg the "National Transcontinental under government control and shows how wheat- can {Ment had ceased to buy. be catrled at a reasonable rate hy|. The matter was taken up by the the al] rail route. The ten cent rate Minisior of Customs, gad through fon: wheat from Winnipeg to Quebec|him by Sir George Perley into the is here to stay. War Office. As a result the prohi- bition has been raised and horses can now be exported to the United States, British possessions and the allies of Great Britain. Washington's Pettifogger (New York Herald.) It is to be presumed that there will' not 'be mueh room. in the coun- ¢ils 'at the White House for pots foggers. "thre tor triming past, grim reality 'confronts the - tion. Germany has at last chosen and she is fixing the pace of murder in" the Mediterranean. y.S-- THE CZAR DETERMINED : 574Will Be No Peace Until Russia Cloar-|* i ] 'vd of Enemy. ; ir Petrograd, Jan. 7.=~The Czar, ad- ; dressing the Knights of St. George at the front, said: 5 Fes "Set your minds at rest. 1 will|, not make peace until we have chased the last soldier of the enemy. from our territory, nor make it except in|. entire agreement with our allies, to]. whom we are a by true friend-|. ship and blood." RADNOR PERRIER POLAND : TALLY-HO GURD'S CALEDONIA ALE GNE CIDER TWO BODIES AT WORK. The point which no Liberal can understand is what there is about the Advisory Committee which the wo Darty: has suggested that can be re- Fighting Don't Pay. (Windsor Record.) When will the grafters learn that the "game doesn't pay?" They may figure they are too smart: to Te jcaught. They may 'fall for money." They may 'cut a wide s garded as revolutionary and worthy of immediate suppression. It has been intimated by a Conservative pa- per that a similar paper is at work, appointed by the Government, and with orders to report at the earliest possible date. If the Conservative d66¢" tio See any impropriety or dis- loyalty in the acts of the Conserva- tive Committee, where can be the offences of the Liberals who are serv- ing the country gratuitously and 'probably quite as efficiently? Besides, these Government Com- missions are sometimes useless crea- tions. Who does not remember the bluff worked by the Government when it was demanded that the high cost of living should be examined into. Prof. Leacock; of M¢Gill University, Montreal, was willing to call to his ald a number of competent men and do the work frée of expense. © Mt was hard to turn down that proposition, but the Government found a way out © of the difficulty. It named several of its officials and told them to pro- ceed according to their own plans, and secretlyy No report has been made public until the day. The Com- anission may not report at all as the war has changed economic « condi- tions £0 much that comparisons and deductions cannot be made with any degree of satisfaction. Let the two political parties pro- ceed with their epduiries with res- pect to trade, production, distribu tion, immigration and other sting and it will be Surprising pe the Advisory = Committee which : serving - the. people 'fregly does. apt - pub the | "under many obliga: tions to them tor the: Faeelience, of their report. 2 HE bb. SIMPSON Case." One ¢an imagine how much the Dr. Simpson cusé way be misunderstood _ in Loudon by-the very limited infor mation which was in possession of : the officers of the Crown when he was arrested. Ove can 'see, tov, how easy it may be te work up the sym- pathies of the medical profession, and : how eager these Will be to prove that Dr. Simpson's services are of very great value at the battle front, That is the one view of it. An. other view will be presented when the official. representative(gf the Man- itoba. Government lays before the court the facts. as they have been col- lected and recorded by the Mather Royal Commission. Dr. Simpson was the agent of those members of the late Government who are now waiting trial in dealing with the contractor hose. extradition- from | aos Je being sought. In and 1,150,000 enrolled. Of course, Derby fixed a time When all single men of a certain age could ealist, for a time, but exposures come soomn- er or later and the grafter in invari- ably a loser in the long run. His ill- ajgotten gains take wings and his re- good many "conld not pass the. doe- tors. These were exempted from the service. Thepe.remained,' however, a large number who evaded enlistment because it was not compulsory, It is this feature of the case in. England that excites comment. Of the 2,838,- 000 married men who are registéred in the Old Land, 1,697,261 have en- rolled, and it ix argued that these should be spared until the supply of single men has been exhausted. Ev- entually all who are eligible and re- gistered can be compelled to enter the service. In Canada there is uo way hy which the shirkers can be forced to sefve the country. Sir John Eaton's Abolishing the Bars. putation is irretrievably destroyed. a If it be true that the Ontario Gov: ernment intends to close all the bars iti 'the province 'on May 1st; the ait wil] be a great triumph for N. W, Rowell--a triumph greater than any other that has been achieved by ai\ ytime and "Low Cost of Living 'Menus"~have béen removed to Page 10, where they may be found daily henceforth. x RANDOM REELS © "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Uabbages and Kiugs." protest against the registration of his employees' does not relieve' the The spine is a long, narrow tool box which holds nothing but an in? When «filled with quiet situation, the city have been corralied. tion outsid national - service. It seventeen months has Tong. betore thi. w CF ----toie . EDITORIAL NOTES. secret." referred to them. . nina nan have been laid before Parliament. nn a------ It is true, as he contends, that his hives of industry should not [the tire on a motor truck. be disturbed, by even an approach to dragoouing, unless the loafersabout Noth- ing can effect or improve the posi- t a Federal Act, and the Govepfiment will be playing with the subject if it thinks it can entice the young men of Canada into the taken to gather up 212,000 men, only some of whom, , about one half, are overseas: At-the >in lire, and has more todo with-and- < ing a man 0 al officg than yn _-- tous. ut apie as Pl aes ora--veloped spine can be more useful to men will be: reached, and let-us hope and pray that the war, will be Over head spine and: the Republican cam- X The attitude of the Federal Opt. position is. said to be "still a dark|. Very naturally. . The pro-, gramme of the session hds not been Parliament wil] open with a no- § tice that its lite ie extended by gen-!° eral consent for a year. Sir Robert Borden had better defer his action on' this question until all the others, - The Russians are putting up a: terrific. warfare from the south, and' one does not hear a word about the! turmoils in the Government, in the Darfiament of the people, or in the, courage and a cold nerve, however, this tube is harder to puncture than The spine is surrounded by a brist iling object known as the backbone, | which sometimes produces nothing but bristles. You never can tell by the looks of a belligerent backbone in times of peace how it" will act when the call for volunteers comes. The greatest collection of simon-pure backbones ever gathered together in this country was assembled during te Civil War, and there are several lion niore just like them ready for immediate use. The spine is the secret of success , Many a man has run for Con- wii. with nothing but a valve-in- patgn, text book, and come off con- * queror because he began to organize for two years hence as Soon 'as the jes were closed. The man whose spinal cord cvan't stand a little grief without collapsing like a cream: puff will never startle the wholesale house into shippidg anything in his direc- tion without a C. O. D. tag on it. ~ It frequently happens that the "only spine of any consequence in the - household is owned by the wife, who inherited one of the New England [* type from "her grandfather. If there were more spines of this character led up to the marriage altar in a tulle veil,"there would b% less money spent on 25-cent drinks and . more on round steak and creamery but- ter. Also there would pe fewer wom- en supporting dupljcates of Dar- win's missing link by taking in oth- er people's washing. The spine of the nation is vested | in the President, who is supposed | -to supply what is Jacking in" Con-| gress. A President with a well-de- his country than a standing army, but it need not be so well developed that chips are sticking out. on each shoulder. This country doesn't need : IMPO J GURD'S: GINGER ALE GURD'S SODA WATER Jas. Redden & Co. Phones 20 and 990. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. Lamp Overturned Under a Oot ot| Little Patient. » New York, Jan. 7.--One. child was| burned to death and thirty-four oth- ers were endangered when an ajooho! 1 lamp overturned in the Obildren's Hospital on Blackwell's Island, Miss| Mary Abbott; a nurse, was badly burned in her effort te rescue Ben-| under jamin Bruso, one year old, whose cot the lamp overturned. The child, was suffering from pneumonia, | was terribly burned and lived but & short time. Attendants removed the; other children. to safety and quic kiy: extinguished the flames. | Men's Hurd Hockey Boots ....... Men's French Calf Hockey Boots--This is a winner at .. Men's Calf Hockey Boots-- Hurd Pattern . . Men's Muleskin Hockey Boots Women's Hockey Boots, Fleece Lined . {| Boys' Hockey Boots Youths' Hockey Boots 'll WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN HOCKEY backbone so much as it does balance, and if it has a } supply both, he 'earn A his salary. cester sauce LOSS OF APPETITE When Julia rang the dinner bell, 1 used to Jift > my voice and yell, and chortle and repeat; my feet i went weaving like a loom, until I reached the dining room and settled down to eal. The victuals all look- ed good to me, the Lima bean, the spud, the pea, the fragrant raisin' pie; oh, every mouthful tasted sweet, and 1 would sit and eat, and eat, and watch ns fly. But since I had that last attack of pink in the back; 'my appetite's destroyed; niusic of the dinner bell has all the pathos of a knell, and life's an aching void. The turnips taste Just like . ; the coffee tastes like washday suds, the tes like the greens; the rich imported Wor- reminds me of a total loss, the prunes iste Mike the beth, The women ex Frigid heads the the to, tempt my. SE thelr sk r bes Jane Stil s dent who can| ° Japanese For Canada's Army. T.--Fifty- ve Vancouver Japanese have signi- Joining raised in| €anada for overseas service and over five hundred applications have been received from elsewhere in the yre-} Vancouver, B.C., Jan. fied their intention of Japanese battalidn being vince. Skates Put On Free. the in fee New Issue ! ¥ xX Assemed Nien $850,000 ~ City of Montreal (CANADA) Catholte School Commissioners 59% Sinking Fund Gold Bonds Interest Tat December and June. \: Due fat December, 1945, 'Denominatiof : $1,000. Principal and - balf.yearly interest pagable Jin gold in Montreal, Toronto or New York Legal Opinion : _Mebsts. Smith; Markey, Skinner, Pugsley -& Hyde, Montreal. Legal investment, for Auposie w with Dominion and Provincial Insurance Departments. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Total Debentures. b Pebt VUncluding this issue) Fund... Principal And interest. are, by statute, payable by the City of Montréal, and the bonds are, therefore, and in effect City of Montreal Bonds. virtually PRICE-~-34 and Interest, Yielding Over 5.409, Full descriplive cron ar on regués t Sutherland & The Home of Good Shoes. Ring Out The old Ring In The New re -OOAL Ja | Ring in | Resolve now to Buy Your Coal Here during the New Year. Ring us up and order as much as you need for | the rest of the avinter. CRAW FORD, | Foot of Queen Siront. Phone 9. | if wishes were fishes, a lot of i pie. would want somebody to. | them for The shrewd wite usually prompts the dictation she recelyes from ju