i i ia printing oMess fn carnal' Pert Job Difice .......236 Fifth Ave, R. Norihirup, Manager, ya aR e ribune Bldg. Manager "OUR TOWN" WAKES UP, The Whig's cartoonist, in this day's issue, makes a hit. It pictures "Our Town" as one who has settled himself down fn the park. Being aroused from a doze he discovers that a visi- tor has appropriated a large part of his seat, and in strétching his arm he makes a closed fist come with sur- prising force against the side of this intruders head. tier airing. It is a new exploit. 50 of the men that can be called up- The Public Accounts Committee has resumed the probe and already, at the start of another session, some ugly facts are coming to view. Gen. Allison; one of the Minister of Militia's pets, is absent. His whereabouts are unknown. His sec- retary is in New York. The Gener- al is mysteriously silent and he was a while ago very busy, very much in the limelight. Now he is wanted by the Davidson Commission and by the Public Accounts Committee and is in no hurry to reveal himself. The patronage list has had anoth- It is not, as a" matter of fact, a paper Hst at all, but a card case which con- tains a number of addresses. These are added to from time to time and t mes usually come from the ministers' offices. The minister of a department is the hoss of it. His imprimatur is enough and the names which are suggested in con- nection with any contract are those on and consulted. When a certain gentleman once, a Col. Morgan, wanted to get the ear 'of the Minister of Militia, he got a certain room in Ottawa, and it hap- pened to be a favorite resort of Gen. Allison, and here he had the samples of American-made clothing sent for inspection. . A competent tailor was employed to remove' the New Jersey labels and replace them and then the kit was shipped to Sir Sam Hughes. The man who has so much to say about the deception was veFy reserv- ed in the witness box. But enough has leaked out to bring homd to the Government this last miserable act in the distribution of patronage, and |. it is one which cannot be defended. There grows upon one as he con- templates the cartoon an apprecia- tion of the manner in which some people crowd into the territory which belongs to others. 'The trade of the , city, for instance, belongs to the lo-| cal merchants and traders. If is theirs to dev. of the people. To be sure, they must be enterprising and tactful, and must, as they usually do, anticipate the wants of the buyers. But hav- ing done. their best they can. very reasonably. expect the support of "their fellow citizens, "The town trader either must rent or own a valuable property. He pays He supports the public ti ' He uses the electric light and ghs and water. He contributes fo 'every fund, patriotic or philan- thropic, and does so with a cheerful spirit. - He is ready--as he should be if he is possessed of the commun- | Hy spirit--<to put Nis hand to any: | thing of a publie nature and help it along. : : "Our Town" may doze occasionally, It would not be surprising it he did, but he has a right to feel hurt when he finds that through the support of the people an intruder comes in to| #laim and secure and carry away the patronage that should be his. Co- operation should be the slogan of ev-| ery man, and when it is recognized the community plan is bound to suc- A CRISIS IN ENGLAND, Britain 18 preparing for a prolong. | od siege. ' The Government has pro- claimed, through the Chancellor of the Exchequer. that the people must abandon their luxuries, that they must realize a great struggle is on, that the future of the Empire is at stake, and that every wage-earner, every: manufacture, must save, and to the uttermost penpy. , The Allies will hold to their agree- ment and win or fall together, but from them Britain cannot borrow any money. In fact they have been 50 closely run 'financially that Bri- tain has had to lend to them. The r can only be continued with mo- | and it is the Central Powers against the Allies and their resour- + Lord Kitchener says, in a few wants more sqldiers, | without any li- for the present. He intimates the war will be a long one and meey Apd men only can win it. ! n to Canada is obyious. recruiting, but outside of Tor- slowly enough. . A thousand , day!™ Of the 500,000 men $00,000 have yet to be secured. and meet the wants | teen months, during which the war | substantial amount, jy hoarded, ap-| AUDITING OF COLLECTIONS. The British Government has taken | steps: to check or control the various | organizations which in England are collecting money for patriotic and charitable purposes. In the eigh- has been carried on, about $29,000,- "000 have been - collected in" Britain for benevolent purposes at home and abroad. "Doubtless," says the Lon- | don Chronicle, "the: most of this lafge sum has been wisely applied, but it is notorious that much over- lapping and extravagance have res- ulted from unco-ordinated efforts and unaudited accounts." .~ Bevera] relief funds, conducted by English people, are markedly unsat- istactory. In case after case into which one inquired no balance-sheet is issued; there is no audit of ac-!| counts; sometimes there is no com- mittee, or if a committee exists itis never called together. Some of these funds have the sanction as pa- trons of an impressive array of emin- ent men and women, who have al- lowed their names to be used with- out proper enquiry. A list-of imposing names on a re- lief fund's circulars is no guarantee either of its worthiness or its effi- ciency. In some instances the working expenses bear an excessive proportion to the sum collected. Per 'contra'in one conspicuous case the working expenses are exceedingly small, yet most of the money, a very _parently for post-war purposes in| Belgium, despite the fact that there are urgent objects for which money is. needed now. . In Canada, as in England, there is a call to closer study of the man- ner in which these public charities and patriotic schemes are being de- veloped. There is generally a de- plorable absence of the care and ex- action without which there are bound to-be mistakes, to call the re- sults by no harsher term. EDITORIAL NOTES. Russia's war expenses are now $15,000,000 a day. Where is the money coming from? Russia does not appear to have it. : . Hay, oats, and wi have fallen in price. The people who would not sell these articles a while ago, bat held them for fabulous prices, made a very serious mistake. Ottawa's city auditor insists that the Water Department is unduly bur- dened with the cost of the engineers' and collectors' offices. Would the @ rocruitifg must be spurred up. But how? Music, the voice of the ator, the allurements of the ser- 'are losing their hold. A little pressure is needed, and later "people 'mrust be limited to 1' necessities. The $30,000,000 | cut out of the estimates must be auditor of Kingston be justified in putting in the same protest? " . Australis led Canada in providing a Navy which did her credit. Now she leads this country inevolving a plan under which the retired soldiers will be put upon the land and aided there to maintain themselves. According to Sir George Foster] Canada can quite readily supply the. Mother Country with a million men. ought to be interned somewhere for the sake of the country and his own safety. ; connection with its public buildings, its parks and streets? 'the Utilities Commission should give special attention to the subject. + The Liberals of Saskatchewan, af- demand for judicial enquiry cannot raider which has been operating in tell how he's going to change his is perhaps planning a steam laundry, Is the'Water Department really re- quited, for the water the city: uses in There is so much comment on this matter that mi: Andréw Broder and David Hender- son, veteran members of the Com- mons, have become Privy Council- lors. They can be addressed as "Hon." Why not make them ecol- onels and nominate them for knight- hood, which now appears to be in flower? ter showing how baseless were some of the charges made against them, appealed to the Government, and through it to the Lieutenant-Gover- nor, for the appointment of a Royal Commission to sift the scandals to the bottom. Men who lead in the be very much afraid of the results. I A | PUBLIC OPINION A Poor Risk. (Montreal Star.) Our idea of a bad marine insurance risk just at present is that German the Atlantic. Even More Serious. (Detroit Free Press.) Germany is said to be considerably worried about the decrease in the birth rate. The death rate ought to be giving her some concern, too. | Profound Secret. (Ottawa Free Press.) Sir Thomas White still refuses to company taxation bill, Sir 1homas submarine campaign on watered stock. Crown Prince Fails. (London Free Press.) | Von Hindenburg and Von Macken- sen are said to have advised against the Verdun attack. In which event they seem to have shown judgment Superior to that of the Crown Prince. He Should Know. | (Orillia Packet.) | Purists contend that the term is not "pacifist," but "'pacificist," says the Port Arthur News, Professor | Horning calls it pacifist, and we sup- | pose he ought to know the name of! his own family. Why Net? , (Ottawa Jo rnal) | Why in the world shouldn't Onta- rio, Quebec or any province have a divorce Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and British Columbia, ed demented," asks the Sun, "who have such courts. notice any of these provinces to be! ring during a fight?" court? Four provinces, Does anybody | the worse? | -------- Duty of the Hour. } Toronto Telegram Manitoba -and British .) Columbia | Speak to Sir Robert Borden. and tell| and the the Prgmier of Canada" in trumpet tones not to' run away from the duty | of enquiry into the charges against the Shell Committee in 1916, as Sir Robert Borden ran away from the RANDOM "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing, Wax, of Cabbages and Kings" Sn CHINA. ' China is a large, overgrown lemon entirély surrounded by missionaries, It is the oldest nation on earth; and Is thickly crowded with people who need religion and a4 manicure. eral attempts have been made Sev- to change the Chinese religion, which consists in worshipping broken-nosed idels, but all have failed, much to the astonishment of Americans, who worship money, clothes, society and somebody ele's wife, China is inhabited by a hardy race of people who live on rice and laun< dry work. Every year China sends to this country thousands of expert laundrymen who speak English on their fingers and compete with the If it were not-for this practice thousands of American communities would not know what a Chinaman looks like and would be. more inclined to increase their con- tribution to the foreign missiona movement. . 3 * China is very rich in natural re- sources and every year raises a bumper crop of heathen. It is not a warlike country, and could be over- powered in about thirty minutes by a regiment of German soldiers. An attempt was once made to take a cen Vote on the prohibition q | charge against the Government | ity of 498. | regulated ring bar biting, gouging eesti An Easy Job. Board had a big job on its hands in culling down the number of licenses, but if Ontario is going to on about all the board needs to do is draw its salary. Ottawa Citizen. The reckless way the provincials i eredit has been undermined and the brovinelal resources thrown away for the benefit of privileged interests, especially thé irresponsible practice of guarirteeing bonds and paying subsidies to railway promoters, has brought the province to a state of poveriy and economic bondage, Even a traditional "Conservative like Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper has -taken the platform in open opposition in protest, But in spite of All the country has been burdened with, in the form of subsidies to special pri- vilege, the barely elected minister of mines, Lorne Campbell, is actually speeding to Ottawa to urge the fed- eral government to open a new leak in the national treasury; namely sub. sidles to the ship-building interests! LIBERAL PRESS. Prove The Charges. Toronto Star. 2 here is a difference between charges made and charges proved. Any Ministry found guilty of ¢yrrup- tion must go. Any Minister found guilty of bribery must gO. Any member of a Legislaturg found guil- ty of corruption must @o. Every of Saskatchewan, or any of its members ought to be thoroughly investigated, and every man found guilty should be punished. The Roblin Government, in Mani- foba, went out of office, because charges were proved. The Scott Gov- ernment in Saskatchewan must abide by tha same test. ' EE I Sr rly KINGSTON EVENTS; 25 YEARS AGO | Br 0 ees, i Sir John A. Macdonald was elect- | ed, defeating Mr. Gunn by a major- Eggs sold at 19¢ a dozen to-day. Leading Conservatives are advo- cating G. A. Kirkpatrick for the Cab. inet, J. Delph made a speech on' the duty of enquiry into the McGillicud-| = dy charges in 1911. ; ; KINGSTON'S ONLY CASH AND ONE * { J Market Square to-day, declaring he was a Britisher, His ancestors were born in England, and he was determ- ined lo resist any party that would | have a tendency to belittle the old | flag. Would Bar Them Both, New York World. "Wouldn't a pugilist be consider- suggested changing the rules of the Surely! But to begin with, the rules of every well- and kicking. Sueh laws, adapted to | war, would bar both the sneaking submarine as a commerce-destroyex | women-and-children-raiding | Zeppelin. i Wilbert Dunlop, Lanark, has left || to commence work at the new Cald- well Mill at Perth, REELS '| a sus of China, but the growth in po-| pulation kept so far ahead of the | census-takers that it was abandoned. | The ehief products of China are opi~ | um, rice, superstition and sleep. It | grows more sleep to the acre than | any other nation, unless it is Spain. | For some time £hina has been op- | erating as a republic, but a vote of the upper classes was taken recently | and it was decided to change back to | a monarchy. The Chinese mind pre. fers a monarchy; as it 'was never able | to get used to the Australian ballot | or.the voting machine. The habil of voting the straight ticket originated | Ir China, and when they took the | circle off of the ballot everybody be- | came dissatisfied with a republican ! form of government, | The foreign nations have been us- ing China as a meal ticket for sevess al years, coming in through the open door and retiring choked with plun= der. Just mow Japan is taking a few copious bites of Chinese terri- tory, all of her neighbors being too busy with other matters 10 protest. Japan will exercise ga fatherly care over China, and will see to it that nobody else gets any of her money. This teaches us that therevare sone things worse than a standing army, with an unprotected hen roost. 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