a , _PAGE FOUR A A tt ttt gt Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, SLL TITS, President a A. Guild ....Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. = Telephones: Business Office op ®Bditorial Rooms . dob Office SUBLSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) ® year, delivered In city ie year, If paid In advance ® yor, by mall to rural offle One year, to United 8 < (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash ..... Ome year, if not-paid in adva One year, td" United States . Six and three months pro Attached is one of the srinting offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE ¥. E Smallplece ........ 32 Shuzeh Bt. U. 8. REPRESENTATIVE few York Office 235 Fifth Ave. , Frank R. Northrup, Manager. Cliicago Tribune Bldg. Pranic R. Northrup, Manager, best Job ELECTION WORTH WHILE. The Ottawa people, in the last municipal election; pronounced in favor of proportional representation; and, if we understand the result aright, next year the Aldermen nom- inated for _ the whole city will be chosen by the Hare-Spence system. The minority as wel] as the majority will be represented, yand by such a distribution of votes as the law pro vides for. The quota will be fixed by dividing the number of candidates into the number of votes, then dis- tributing the surplus marked for any man over his competitors in the or- der. of preference indicated. Hamilton, says the Spectator, will have an opportunity to vote on the 'I per cent. not going to get any special benefit' from a new Welland Canal. Here was a bill of expense of a most imposing kind. . . ] { The new rural mail deliveries, | 695, added enormously to the expen- | diture under this head, but they have | contributed to the favor of the mem- | bers of Parliament who asked for { them, 'and expenses under these cir. | cumstances are a matter of no con- | cern, The revenue of the Depart- 'ment was increased from $10,482. 255 in 1912, to $13,046,000 in 1915, or 30 per cent. The expenditure was increased from $9,172,035 in 1912 to $15,961,191 in }915, or 75 The deficit does not re- quire, therefore, any explanation. It is the direct and positive refult of The report that five hundred Can- adians liave been hurt, sent out in Saturday's despatches, seems to have been incorrect. There has been no engagement in which any-lafge num- ber of men could be injured. There is, however, a heavy bombardment Boing on in the vicinity of Lille, and something serious may be the result. Sir lan Hamilton, when in Canada, as an adv'sor on military matters, wanted all the mtn of military age registered. Gen. Hughes approved of the plan. Why has it not been put into operation? Who has ob- jected to it? . 1s there amy higher turning a useful department into an authority. in'Canada on military mat- institution for the distribution of "ters than fhe Minister of Militia? patronage, - He { PUBLIC OPINION | Make A Swap. (London Advertiser.) Britishers own $350,000,000 worth of property in Germany, and Ger- mans own $500,000,000 worth in Britain. © Let's trade. The German blockade goes. on notwithstanding the protest against it, and in the interests of the neu- tral powers. These neutrals have been serving Germany long enough. Now the British navy says the block- ade running must stop, and it Is su- preme, i; , An Armag of Colonels. (Belleville Qntario.) Laying all jokes aside, the best way to end this war quickly would VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT. The English and Canddian' papers, in dealing with the alleged failure of the volunfary system of enlistment, refer to conscription as it was ap- plied, or experimented with, in the American war in 1861-1866. A writer in Blackwood's gives the data and in the contefaplation of it one feels that outside of Europe, of Ger- many, of Austria, of France and Rus- sla, it has not been satisfactory. It | may be that the experience of Amer- lion more honorary colonels. A Dark Suspicion, (Toronto Mail.) King Constantine of Greece pro- tests. that he is not pro-German or Pro-Ally, but simply pro-Greek. There is a suspicion that he is chief- ly pro-wife. ¥ 3 i » P Backs Belgium. {cia is neither decisive nor satisfac- The Pope ks Ie (Montreal Star.) tory, and for the reason that military No talk of 'peace till Belgium has organization under any plan half alheen reconstituted as a free people, | century ago was not advanced or per-| is the gist of a message ' from the | fect. Pope. His Holiness puts into words | America's first army, that is the) O° of the Allies' most fixed resolves army of the north, and fepresenting the strength and sentiment of the union, was made up of hurriedly re- La grippe must take its cue from |cruited forees. __ The longest term 'Some folks, whom most of ' | met, who grab hold of one's hand, was three years. The shortest term! and never seem to know when to let | was three months. All told they go. Of course, if it's a girl's that's numbered less than 50,000 men.{a different story. Re Then, in 1861, the President made a JA lsmpeee Sy call for a million men. A year later No Mora Nonsense, half that number had been enrolled. I ay Saonio, Ne for the Op | There was a second call. -This time tario Government to dissolve the for 300,000 volunteers, and in draft- Legislature and ask the direct judg- ing them in some of the States there Origin of Grip. (Hamilton Spectator.) News.) ment of the country on the regula- and deepening 'Kingston Harbor is] be for General Sam to create two mil-| us have | | Witat ignchemica Doing t French. | Montreal Herald. Me | Apropos of Archbishop Bruchesi's stirring appeal to Frehch-Canadians | to assist to the utmost of their pow- er in the fight for Empire and free- of what French - Canadians are do- | dom. it is instructive to take stock | | ing in this respect. There are now {two French-Canadian battalions in | Burope, the 22nd, which has already | i | done noble work in Flanders, and | fi {the 42nd, now in course of training | {in England. In Canada there are § | in course of formation the 67th, . in| | garrision at Quebec;. 'the 69th, in| | garrison at St. Johns; the 150th, ! which is being recruited by Colonel | Ji | Barre; and the 153rd, which Major | J | Asselin is organizing. In addition | | a French-Canadian Battalion is be-| | ing formed at Quebeg, under Colonel | JI i Readihaif; another at Rimouski, and! uarters for R arm Clot | still another at Threw Rivers, Au | Acadian Battalion under Colonel Dai. | Fgle, is being recruited in Nova Scotia! and there is talk of recruiting still another French-Canadian battalion lat Hull, In fact, it is expected that | the French-Canadians will this sum- mer form a complete and distinct di- | vision of the Expeditionary Force-- | | this without 'counting the numerous | | French-Canadians enlisted in other | J battalions. At least 2,500 of them | went in the First Contingent. CONSERVATIVE PRESS. 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Special price, with dome fasteners, kid bound; very comfort- able. INDEPENDENT PRESS. Free Wheat, lf Weekly Sun. The grain' growers of . Manitoba, |} "| determined to have free wheat, have! - ~ resolved, it is reported, to put free | | wheat 'candidates in the two vacant | | Manitoba constituencies. They have | also tabled, for further deliberation, | | | a resolution for a third, or free trade | | party. It would not be surprising | to learn that this action is meant to [4 | rebuke those Liberals who would en- | gage with the Globe's ideas. J We are authoritatively informed | : | that the grain growers seek free 3 | wheat not only for the advantage of | | the higher prices which usually rule | a { on the other side, but also to assure | another exit. They say that the BIBBYS $4.75 STORM COATS Heavy waterproof material; sheep skin lin- ing, fur collar; sizes 36 to 46. Special values, $4.75. 3 | PURE WOOL SWEATER COATS ~ See Our Special $2.50 Knitted Jackets, Dark Brows, Grevs and Ma- 1I'oefis. See Our Special $4.50 English Sweater Coats, Red,*Grey, White, Blue and Brown. I i ES A i 3 Bnwlis atural route for wheat is by Great tions to ensure adequate English | Malt : : teaching in the schools of the Prov- | Lakes, and by that the bulk of the & i crop will always go. But, in years | like this, it will be of the greatest | , RADNOR PERRIER POLAND question, but the opportunity is not | was resistance and even rioting. An desired unless the people have been |8Ppeal was made to the President, v ince. incidentally prepared for it by the | and as a last regort he favored con- The Military education which should have been conducted by the press or platform. Ottawa, through the Forum, which was made up or constituted of a number of thoughtful men, who met from time to time, and occasionally on Sunday, took up publie questions and debated them with a great deal of power. The nature of these dis- cussions in all their fascinating and fruitful effects, are apparent by the decision which the people reached with regard to their manner of elect- ing municipal representatives, ) Every city should have a Forum, corresponding with that of Ottawa, and if its discussions are thoroughly 'directed, the training of the volers for the most effective service is as- sured. Our Council © could very profitably spend an hour-occasional- ly--in-debating municipal The discussions course with which should search, reforms. being attended of all | the information follow reasonable re- Proportional representa- tion next year, for instance, when all the members of the Council go to the polls, would do more, if put into prac- tise, to correct the abuses or defects | scription. The law admitted of | three alternatives: (1) Personal re- sponses, (2) substitutions, (3) com-: mutations on payment of 260. In the two' years following only 118,600 men had been secured. - Of these, {45,000 'were conscripts, and 73,000 were substitutes. The history of bounty jumping 'and desegtine consti- tute a black chapter the war. | P ing the violent exclamations | Conscription surely was: a failure, i | «newspaper organs of Sir Rqdmond but it helped in one direction; it put pap & adi | new life into the volyntary system of | enlistment, and as a consequence 1,- 076,668 men were secured. This is the result exactly of the at- tempt to enforce conscripfion in Eng- land. The modified plan of con- scription,which has been approved, is held in abeyance while another ap- peal is being made to the unmarried men of Britain, and the effect is sat- isfactory. All the eligible men will No apparently be found, agd the next pd class will be called, and the next class | after that, and the recruits foynd in { sufficient number to meet all the re- quirements of the state. ¢ The United States secured only | 700,000 effectives in a population of 123,000,000. Britain has enrolled Old Pals Arrested, (Manitoba Free Press.) Because Dr. R. M. Simpson will have to return to Winnipeg to stand forth in the warrant upon which he desirable that there should be news- stage. der to point out that, notwithstand- of the victim of persecution. mp -------- 'Canada's war date has totalled $145,000,000. r + "Of Shoes and Ships, and Seall THE BRAIN, The brain is a small, compact gb- ject which js located inside the head and sometimes refuses to venture out It is given to man to help dis- tinguish him from the brute, but at noble mission. EEA aay his trial upon the serious charges set | KINGSTON EVENTS was apprehended in London it is not ; paper discussion. of His cute at this] About 25,000 'bushels of potatocs| JAS. Redden & Co. It is, however, 'quite in or-| : | Ee . : . ing in the M. T. Co's. shipyard. Roblin and Mr. Rogers, he i& not | A- night 'school under the auspices of the Separate School RBpard bast expenditure to and eighty pupils have been enroll- -------- RANDOM - REELS times falls several yards.short of its TALLY-HO VICHY & GURD'S CALEDONIA IMPORTED GINGER ALE | 'IMPORTED CHAMPAG!NE CIDER | GURD'S GINGER ALE { GURD'S, SODA. WATER 26 YEARS AGO HH nsenesemmenennn importance to have another route, | | [have been purchased in this section! [for shipment to Philadelphia. Phones 20 and 990. There are one hundred men work-|% "~~~ | been opened in the Brothers' School ed * Toronto News: Just to prove that ! = | the O. H. W. style of hockey is much superior to the professional brand, | look how Gordon Meeking made good at Ottawa. i CARRYALLS Marie Star Many new » { men will likely be on the Copper Country hockey teams this winter, and some men from eastern Ontario have been signed hy Houghton and Calumet. For Nurses Going \ Sault Ste. np Wax, of Uabbages and Kinga® 2 AND thought. Sogue of our great have had their photographs taken while in the attitude of running down some thought which posterity would never miss, finally catching up with it and working it into-an ora- tion on our natipnal destiny. The brain of a mefber of congress is popularly supposed to weigh more men Frank G¥lch has signed a contract | to give physical exhibitions and par- ticipate in mat Qouts before circus crowds next sumnfer His contract callsMor $1,200 a week ' Shoe Store We Can Supply Your Wants In:--. MILITARY BOOTS TAN RUBBER BOOTS STRATHCONA BOOTS FOX'S SPIRAL PUTTEES LEGGINGS, SPURS, ETC. Overseas We Have: -- TAN AND BLACK SHOES RUBBER BOOTS STATEROOM SLIPPERS The brain is cleverly - concealed from view. by thefears, eyes, nose and 'back hair, and in many instances is $0 thoroughly hidden that its exist- ence is not suspected even by the immediate relatives of the owner. 'A great many their brain several hours each day of that body than anything the Whig 16,00,000 effectives out of a popu- can surmise: It would do more | lation of 45,000,000. Hence it may than anything else to Dut the politic- | be said to lave beaten all records in al machine out of business, since it | the success of its voluntary plans, : | and if Canada can 5 y would secure the election of the best d ada caw register anything i . | like as t a success ir wen without regard to party. { like as great a suce 1 the next pr 3 Donald Smith, of the Montrésl Wanderers, is still the leading goal getter of the N. H. A. with nine tal- lies to his credit. Malone, of Que- bee, is second, while Roberts, of the Wanderers, and Smith, of Quebec, than that ef the ordinary voter, but sometimes the voter is hard to con- vince and votes for somebody who is short on brains and long on bunk. i The quality of the brain cannot al ways be seen from the outside men who have to use Some of the brainiest meyr this coun- | are tied for third place. try ever produced did mot look as. if MH Sutherland & Bro.| The Home of Good Shoes. The President of the United States has put himself on record as against national service, The Secretary of War and the officials of the War De- partment have come out in favor of National Service. What happens of the-Government that, like the house, is divided against itself? THE POST OFFICE DEFICIT. * A. deficit of nearly $3,000,000 in tion of the Government. ' the Post. Office Department of Can- | For | ada is nol what was expected. many long years the Department was | not self-sustaining, but in _1902, un- der the Liberal ness principles were adopted and in every year afterwards until 1914-15 there was a surplus, varying in size, 4nd in 1912 amounted to $1,310,000. The change of Government is respon- | Sible for the change in the financial "Oudition of the Department, and be- | Cause it was exploited for political | PUTDoseg, | It wi ye remembered that the POStIANtery wore dismissed by the hundreds ang their places filled by "Abe partisan suygoriers of the Ad-| ministration, © xo attempu(EAs frst made to Justity he digmissals, com- missions' being SOpeinted to bigs complaints againsy/ gy, officials. In mo. case was therd sy. oo Sap port the charge/ and 13g employees of the Post Office Depae t Were dismissed, and 3,860 wep, taunt to resign, There Was a gn, oo ' '| presently be at an end. Government, bust the Remount Departmént, has been | due? ' $ - 'deepening it for the trade which is | year in the enrollment of the second | 250,000 men it will have done some- thing which will stand to its everlast- | ing credit. unhook it and hang it in a spare room on reaching home at where it' cannot be disturbed by the conversation of a faithful and lov- ----r * ing wife who has mot seen anybody One of the saddest sights on | EDTORIAL NOTES. all day but the hired girl. A brain Bilingualism in Munitoba will Thanks to | the Winnipeg Free Press. Its cam- | paign of education in 1912-13 was | most complete and convinving and | paved the way for the promised ac- boon to a tired citizen who would magazine than discuss the new min- ister's wife with & kind-hearted but garrulous-helpmeet. The brain is sometimes used to tT earnest thinker who is trying to lo- Mitchell, of Regina, one of the cate something that looks . like Government's pets, who committed a night, could carry. . wiich can be detached from its sur- gone of our great men mounts the A | roundings and put in cold storage stage lugging a once active brain| Season's hockey team, Carson Ken- without gathering moss is a great which has been run through a bfew-|4all, who has just returned from the think with, and is a great aid to an: I i IN CANADA had intellect than they, Lieut. Jack McManus, the well They may have had | known St. Michael's player, who wis| more of something else than they | expected to join the Toronto ATgo-! could carry, but it was not intellect, | nauts, is now laid up with an attack the | Of diphtheria. i American platform to-day sis when they more McGill's Dig defence man of, wath 7 ery, and then tries to wring a few, front, will figurg in the Montreal rather sink out of sight in a popular rotund sentences out of it. The hu-{City League fixture on Monday cven- man stomach can stand this strain|iPg at the Arena, when McGill meet | for quite a while, but the brain us. Laval. ually refuses to respond after the i ; oe third round, po ?| Officers of the Brantford Hockey | There would be less brain fag in| Club have been striving hard for sev- this republic if more people would|®'@! years to put that city on the) + M ; they have made a very creditable J OUNtains not more than a few dozer ate get to bed before the milkman makes! 8Mateur hockey map. -- This winter] AAA Ai ar series of offences in connection with sentenced to two years' imprison- ment. When will the others on the Sir Charles Davidson list get their One of the highest authorities in England, and lately returned from the Western front, says the French can cut their way through the Ger- man lines at any time and advance |. into German territory, but with the loss of a million men; and France is not sacrificing her Heroes. { 'the snow Comes fun to. wade in Heck ! to the glowing A corps -of epgineers, from the United States' Army, has made a sur. Pd vey of Oswégoe Harbor in view of Ag ™ and all disea: and some oth expected from the new Welland Can- } _ Rippling Rhymes THE SNOW. The schoolboy shrieks with exultant glee, when | sense t try to put up the bluff, rheumatic aches ! sled, till curfew summons the kids to bed ! fun to fashion a ball of snow, and throw it straight as a boy can throw, and see it i grim's neck, and hear him quote from the works of | Cobourg. The snow means oodles of wholesome joyja six weeks' non-commissioned offi-| ¢ Snow means grief to the ancient gp, $ i » feeble, whose back is bent. ha aap is inside out, and he has the 8Tip and he has the gout 'and he slips and team} professional hockey players, the ama | showing. The intermediate | a - {has won, four games without a loss. f teurs Dumber thirty thousand. i Toronto Telegram: It is just as| President Johnson of the jeasy for Yankee clubs to play ama-.! can Baseball teur hockey with imported players ag that the American and amateur ball with players from the Wednesday, other side of the line. ence is that Canucks have too much of dates wherever possible, will | drawn down and enshrouds the lea. What | --- # ? Barney . the the dazzling flakes, without a fear of | Vice-President Woody Tegart of | senting the National League. "What fun to ride on a speedy | the Ontario Amateur,Lacrosse Asso- | What | ciation has enlisted, and is wearing | April 12th. he three stripes of a sergeant in the! ing end of break on He, will shortly commence | the' Senators would ront of every team iy 'Only 15 goals have been | the champions, vet they a _ Toronto Globe: The Ottawa Daugh-| pext to last, a oT . : | ters of the Empire were unnec rily | leaders, have he ever knew, the snow brings back, | exercised 'when they made teir de:itimes; Canadiens, the second teffin . ack, | claration against professional hockey. | 20, and Quebec, the third team, 25 s back, and the| They were misled by the dispropdr-| A well-known b soul of the Erowing boy. But the cers' course at Kingston. He coughs his diaphragm re, running ! ¢ deck ali) When will a corps of engineers . LAN 1 mowball thrown by the joyous kid, drives in his whis- tionate amount of space their local! considerable ref exist, who has had kers and spol I, and he calls the. blinkety blink blank snow !" Survey the Kingston Harbor -and start the work which the Govern- Ment promised? Without dredging wo , n ereei aloud, in a voice of woe, "Oh, blank | papers devote to the professional side! his A Statsd Wednesqer oi : y = of the game, and it may be valuable| when he ascertaing the, result of the . : t information for them . that, whiiel Toronto game, Canada has on this side of the Rocky tricks in their roe Senators had no ™ Ameri- | League said Saturday § | National {it is for Canadian ball clubs to play| League seasons doubtless would open The two The differ-| schedules, arranged to dvoid conflict! @p later by Mr." Johnson and latter repre- Ottawa Free Preks: If the attack- | ] the O tke. 4 some pil-1139*h Battalion, with headquarters at| was as powerful awa, Buckey team } how be out in the league. ¢ Foot of Queen Street. | . Ph counted on attack, and that por- his neighbor, High - Quality 4 coal" '|{{ Worth All 'Ts Gost The coal you be ant is full expended. buy here must value for money | We take no chances, | 4} We pay for superior -coul, and | [ we get it--always ! . g | Our deliv eryesystem is in Keep- | Ing with our eoal; it's high | satisfactory, y guly CRAWFORD, one 9, + Wanderers, the league Soooe TTT TTT ee) been scored upon 2 ia 3 bbb didi | | ton of the team never attempted any "inside' \stuff to deceive a defence, ' The world would be better if ev. ' ery man would try and be as good as