THE THR BRITISH Wh WHIG 0 C0, LIMITED. LS A. atid Telephoncns Bifior . Rooms . Job rica Ta: ON RAT (Dal Edition) gue year, delivered in city ...... year, if advance .... One year, by mail to Tura] offices . One year, to United Sf Six and bree 9 Sta 'Pro rats. tached is one of Lh best a offices in Canad » "Job Bn ip unin REPRESENTATIVE Smaliplece 32 Church St U. REPRESENTATI VES New York. Office 225 Firth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manag Chicago Trib "B Frank R. Northrup, ribune a. THE PAVING QUESTION. The council is going extensively into paving this year, much more ex- tensively than, the circumstances seem to warrant. The city has pur- chased a paving plant at a cost of about $8,800, and wants to use it. It is a natural inclination. There is something of j¢ boy about the aver- age alderman, and so he wants to try out his new machine; as the lad must put his toy boat or top or jackknife to the test. But paving is an expen- sive thing. It is easy to talk of put- ting down a concrete base in a dozen of blocks and of surfacing them with a suitable material later on. This material has not yet been de- fined or decided upon. It may be bitulithic or sheet asphalt, but what- ever it is the cost will be consider- able, and probably a good deal more than the council may want to spend this yean Two things have to be considered, and either or both may offer a hindrance to the carrying out of the work. Labor is scarce; that '§8'the labor that can be organized and worked as methodically and efficient- - ly as the machinery which it will be feeding. Money is scarce. At least the disposition of the average muni- cipality is to limit the public expendi- ture as far as possible, and to engage fn no contracts which can be conve- niently laid over until after the war. Some of the paving must be done, because the streets, in anticipation of it, have been allowed to fall into dis- repair, and their improvement cannot be deferred, There are some streets on which the work can be laid over for a year or two, and prudence sug- gests economy and caution at the present time. It would be gratify- ing to see what the new plant can do in & season, when fully and indus- triously operated. But an off year, (off the war), is to be preferred. ---------------- pr. . NO ASSURANCE OF CHANGE. The Whig redds that President Wil- son is inclinéd to accept. the explana- tion of Germany upon the submarine question, or the reply to his note de- manding a cessation of Germany's il- legal attacks on merchant ships and the inexcusable loss of life thereby. It is admitted to be irritating, but it is all that can be expected from the; Germans while under the stress of War. The impertinence of the reply calls for oriticlsm from the American press. It is not willing to let the indolence of Von Jagow pass without a challenge. But the president is . yeminded that the pith of his last note is really ignored. The Ger- man government does not condescend to discuss the Sussex case. It can- not be discussed, perhaps, without ac- knowledgment of wrong doing. In place of dealing diplomatically with the point at issue Von Jagow gives advice to President Wilson and Secre- tary Lansing with regard to Great Britain, The Allief have restricted the traf- fic of the oceans so far as Germany is concerned, and as Britain has the - navy she is blamed for conditions against which Germany has thus far protested in vain. Germany now wants the United States to become her tool and to be so good as to threaten serious things unless the British blockade is modified or lifted. Germany goes further and intimates that unless the United States rakes tho nuts out of the fire at her bid- ding, the promised suspension of sub- marine atrocities may be of short duration. "The 'American' press realises in the situation no change of heart or plan on the part of Germany. The presi- dent may see something on which he can rest content for a while, but his 's0 | ten hours each. em peace of mind will Jnot, be long con- tinued if he depends on anything he can find in Germany's official corre- spondence. SAVING OF DAYLIGHT. An immense momentum has been given to the movement for the saving {of daylight or the greater use of day- light in the working day by the action of the British government. The Whig recalls the rebellion which followed the introduction of the earlier day inte certain shops in Ontario. The desire was strong with- in certain of the working men to rise earlier and begin work an hour soon- er each day, the effect being to give a larger leisure in daylight for the pur- suit of such occupations as were en- joyed the more without artificial light. The innovation, so simple and yet so radical, was resisted by the-elder men. They refused to get out of the rut which they had followed, as a matter of habit, for many years, and the daylight saving scheme proved a failure. Briefly 'the proposal is to push the clocks ahead one hour on May 27th at midnight to Sept. 2nd at midnight. This gives one hour more of sunlight at the end of the day's work, which, at the end of the four- teen weeks amounts to ten days of The chief advan- tages of the system are three. 1. Economy in artificial lighting. Assuming that people iwll retire at their usual time, the gas or electric fight bill will be saved in every house in the city for 98 hours, or the equiv- alent of twenty nights of more than four and a half hours each. 2. It will open the shops and facto- ries one hour nearer to sunrise, when the air is cooler .and more invigorat- ing, and close them one hour earlier in ne sultry afternoon. It will permit an extra hour at the 'end of the day for work in the garden, for sports, or for recreation in the country. The movement is not new. It has been in Germany and France for many years. Britain has endorsed it in her industrial centres and in over seven hundred cities, By royal proclamation the daylight saving scheme was pronounced a good thing when-the labor men clamored for it, and now it is declared to be a na- tional necessity in order to save in coal, in the production of gas and electricity, and to the estimated value of $15.000,000 annually. The United States and Canada have been least affected so far by the daylight saving scheme, and because no con- certed action has been taken by the industrial classes. The larger cities have experimented with it. In cer- tain of the cities of Canada west the people have come to recognize it as regularly and as readily as they do the earlier closing movement. Aus- tralia and New Zealand have adopt-| ed it, but they are always in advance of Canada, in public sentiment, and for some reason 'which no one has been able to explain satisfactorily. If no colony and no country had the earlier day it is worth an experi- ment, and in Kingston it is hoped Ald, Newman will revive his daylight saving by-law, and that the council will pass and enforce jit. EDITORIAL NOTES. Brandon and: Port Arthur have tried the earlier day, the daylight sav- ing scheme, and pronounce it a suc- cess. Alderman Newman will be glad to have this information. The Whig reads of one who lives sumptuously on dandelions, and pre- fers them fo any other seasonable lux- ury. Would that he had them all, including the splendid crop which Kingston will presently offer. The new Welland canal is expected to open in April, 1918. Will Kings- ton's improved harbor be ready for | the greater grain trade at that date? Not unless the government and the city council get very busy, and at once, x Kingston has a very good by-law, affecting the control or direction of traffic. It is not being enforced, however. During the camp season there will be serious mishaps unless she law ig reasonably and equitably applied. The Toronto News says that for twenty years the Liberals controlled the railway situation. . The Conser- vatives control it now, and will be re- sponsible for one of the worst deals of the age it they carry through the Saguenay railway scheme at Senator pForget's behest. The Toronto Telegram says that recruiting is running itself. That is, each regiment or district fs doing the best it can, without much, if any, help from Ottawa. How would it do for Bi» Sam Hughes to turn over 'this dusiness to his mascot, Col. John Wesley Allison? -------- Natural gas is. being supplied in| Saskatchewan at from 17¢ to 25¢ per one thousand feet. In Medicine Hat it is sold at 5¢ per thousand feet. In Kingston it could be sold for one cent per thousand feet if, at the council meetings, it could be safely reservoir- ed and put to practical use. The New York Commercial advo- cates the erection of state elevators at Oswego, Buffalo, and New York, in order to deflect the grain trade that] is expected to flow eastward with each recurring season of navigation. A federal elevator at Kingston is neces-} ernment's plan of national harbors. | PUBLIC OPINION | Unemployment 'at Ottawa. (Toronto New The 'mobilization of lawyers: at Ot- tawa begins to look like a rally of the unemployed. Will He? (Hamilton Times). Having 'succeeded in getting the! Kaiser to climb down, now watch Mr. Wilson point his diplomatic guns at John Bull Not Used To It. (Hamilton Times). Dr. Michael Clark is in the awk-' ward position of having the Tory newspapers say nice things about] him. s Properly Named. ATiyelph Mrs. Peter Shanley, of Elizabeth, presented her husband with twin| sons. Of course they'll call one of them Pete, and probably the other one Repeat. It Seems So. Ottawa Citizen) Each of the bilingual teachers on] strike has sent a bill for back salary to Mayor Porter, the total aggregat-| ing $4,000. Just now this is the height of flattery. Hard On the Farmer. (Toronto Globe.) Canada, has a perfect genius for selling her] wheat at a low price. oug practice is never imitated by the | grower. Costly Machines. (Hamilton Spectator) Germany's thirtieth Zeppelin was| destroyed yesterday by a British | cruiser, gides numerous other aircraft. Let the good work go on. Canadian Hit Hard. (Toronto Globe) Sir Sam Hughes told T. A. Russell to get busy on fuse calculations. Toronto manufacturer .did get busy at once, on's American friends meanwhile had | got all the orders. Is it any wonder Canadian manufacturers feel sore? Lincoln Must Go, (Toronto Mail) Lincoln, formerly British House of Commons, and a self-confessed German spy, must go| back to England to stand his trial for | forgery It will probably be found that somewhere in the statute books there is a penalty of hanging for] forgery. KINGSTON - EVENTS 25 YEARS AGD | put in service to-day. Webster ap- in 14th Open cars Compl. Charles R, appointed lance-sergeant Regiment. Oscar W. Daly receives degree of D. D. 8S. from College of Dentistry, | Toronto. Cataragui ward claims it has 300 more inhabitants than the assessor's] repagt shows, Reported that there is over $5, 000 of last year's taxes still un-| collected, ee "Of Shoes and Ships, and Seall MARC ANTONY Marc Antony was a distinguished Roman citizen whose principal busi- ness seems to have been to fall in and out of love. No record of the num- | ber of times Antony fell in love has | ever been keot, as there were no mul- tiple adding machines in those days, but from what. we know of him he made Nat Goodwin look like a twenty to one shot. Antony was one of the handsomest men that ever wore thé Roman toga draped gracefully about his fetlocks. Wherever he went he was recognized at once by his nose, which protruded from the rest of his face like some beetling cliff. Whenever Antony became enraged his nose would beetle in a very threatening manner, and cause timid people to regret having brought up the subject, He was a brave man, and was not afraid to die, and when he was not falling in love with somebody he could be found at the head of the Romar hollow square, charging into the very midst of the enemy with his aquiline nose at "pre- sent arms." Antony had a good chance to be- come dictator of Rome after Julius Caesar died in the impetuous manner so pleasingly related by the late W. Shakespeare, but about that time he met Cleopatra and fell in love again | Mercury) | | { | country deplore it. Mr. Sanford Evans says, | This ruin- | people who sell supplies to the grain- | This means a loss of fifteen | million dollars in Zepps, alone, be- | The | only to discover that Allis-| member of the | E7/RILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, MAY 9. 1916 sary and in conformity with the gov-| : LIBERAL PRESS. A Call to Borden.' Ottawa Free Press. We believe Sir Robert Borden is big enough and broad enough to deplore the workings of the patron- | age system when the business of the country should be conducted with a view only to efficiency and success; -- But, whether - through a lack of sufficient control by the Premier over his followers, of through other reasons, the patron- age evil has continued, Its tem- acles have extended amd closed Rpon war jobs and war contr t's { "ay be that Sir Robert Borica oul have the Conservative gn/- | ernment act ag Dr. Clark appeals to | the Liberal opposition to act, - but | there are men in the Borden min | istry -who still play the political game, There are dozens of follow- ers of the government in Parlia- | ment who are daily requesting them | to play it in their behalf. , There are plenty of big men in the Conservative party who deplore the patronage curse as inflicted by | the government upon the country | just as much as Dr, Clark de- plores the petty partizanship of ome of his colleagues on the Lib- ar side of the House. The mass of Conservatives throughout the Only the job- hunting, pap-seeking camp-follow- ers and the men who expect. the support of these camp-followers in the next election can view it with- out distaste. The war to them is not a life-and-death struggle of the nation but an opportunity for selfish gaim, Dr. Michael Clark has sounded the call to the Liberal party. Let Sir Robert Borden and Hefi, Robert Rogers and the other members of | the mini istry, sound it for the Con- | servatives. And if an appeal to their | followers is useless, let them exer- cise their authority and stamp out this curse of patronage till the war is over. CONSERVATIVE PRESS. Party Should | Be Saved. Toronto Telegrant, | Canada admires the of Sir Robert Borden. The country never for one moment doubts the good intentions of Sir Robert Bor- | den. Sti Canada has a right to demand that the Premier of Canada | thiould be Premier. Sir personality | felowers in Parliament or his as- { sociates in the Cabinet to the size of office boys. Nor 18 Sir Robert Bord- en expected to permit himself to be | effaced as the authority of the prem- jer¢hip was efficed in the whole procedure of the Shell Committee. | The cbliteration of the premiership in the time of Canada's great need may be explained; by Sir Robert Bor- | den's lack of health. The country | should not be deprived of its indus- Ft ttt tte ttetattte=y | ria] Opportunities, the Conserva- | tive party should not be run the rocks because a leader lacks health and strength to fulfil the duty of the premiership. Sir Robert Borden should either regain fis health and strength or Sir Robert Border should make may for a leader who will not submit to being pushed into the hackground and made part of the scenery as the | 8 Shell Committee pushed Sir Robert and part | Borden into the background { made the Premier of Canada | of the scenery. Too many dollars in a man's pock= et have been known to crowd all the | sense from under his hat. The smile of fortune is better than J her laugh. Random Reels oy ng Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." with a low, vibrating gurgle. The Roman Senate did not like Cleopat- ra or the way she wore her hair, and they decided to expunge Autony from | the minutes of the preceding meeting. | This was done in 31 B.C., in a brilli- ant naval battle, during which An-! tony's fleet was sunk with consider- able ardor off the coast of Greece. Antony. escaped by pinning up his toga and swimming an incredible dis-| and spent the follow-| ing winter telling Cleopatra that she! tance on foot, wags the only pebble on the beach. The pictures of Cleopatra which show her leaning against a nine-fdot divan, wearing an incredulous look and not | much of anything else, were taken at this.time. Antony's finish came the following spring, when his army deserted, thus leaving his flank exposed. When this occurred Antony was seated on Cleopatra's divan, teaching her how to play "The Rosary" on the lute, and when he looked around and saw the condition his flank was in he was overcome with remorse. Uttering a graceful apology, he retired and soon afterward was found to have com- mitted suicide with both hands. The lesosn taught by the life, ser-| vices and public career of Marc An- tony is that love which flits from flower to flower is bound to get stung. Rhymes I'm able, we ra peas and maize, around him, an when wintry te plan by modern at the store he swallowed. He then didn't kill, of fare was rich back ferninst the stable. cot each man inaugdrated, and there he'd raise the TIN CANS In olden days, the which I praise, as warmly as ised our béans and other greens ont A garden plot behind his and vines with pumpkins weighted. There dad would teil, and slug the soil, his busy boys d he'd have beets and kindred eats mpests found him. This good old man, no more, alas, is followed; but blows his ore for everything that's used to pluck the garden truck, and east it fresh and juicy, and there was lots for all the tots, for Jake and Bill and Lucy. His grocer's bill it was ne grief to meet it; his bill and rare, and no hotel could beat it. In those old days the poorest jays set up the best of tables; but now Wan, eats his green and beets from cans with gaudy labels. pa = Robert | Borden is not expected to dwarf his| feed MATERIAL / Soin WORKMANSHIP New. Shirts For Spring and Summer Wear It's an excellent line of Soft Shirts we are offering our trade this sea- son. The materials are unusually good, and are eut by expert shirt makers over patterns that make them fit ¢orrectly. SEE OUR $1.00 PETER PAN SHIRTS Plain whites, neat stripes, cuffs, separate soft collars, coat styles; all sizes, 14 to 17 1-2. 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