A ARE IT in - cannot count fi "ed to examine into the 'Whole tion dd . " RATES: gue Aition) 00 year, res senses) year, in adv: Cass One year, mail rural offoss . One year, to United xr fii SAT, mail, cash ........$1.00 One Tear' B nin pid in advance $1.50 One Year, to Uniled States ......51.50 Six and three months Pro rats. Attached 'is one of the best fob printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE a 2s 8, RP HEBERT A New_York Office . 228 Frank R. Northrup. Manager: Tribune Bldg. Manager. A CHANGE OF TACTICS. A special writer in the New York Times, and in the Sunday edition, in & special article, froru which the Whig prints an extract in its news columns, outlines the tactics in war which have been adopted as a result of the council of war in France. There 18 now in constant session a body of experts whose business it is to study and plan tactics, and in fu- ture there will no new move. or any move, without their consent. They have apparently conceived the idea of making an advance upon the enemy via central and southern Europe and by a route "practically untouched by the war in the past two years." One can see the wisdom of this. The Russians are making great pro- gress in their campaign against the Turks because these have not been able to bar the way along a greatly extended frontier. And in the east and west of Germany. there is very little change for the reason that the earthy fortifications are simply im- pregnable. The Verdun disaster supplies the evidence (hat the trenches may be cut for u i¢w hun- dred yards, but a great army, even the hundreds of thousands which have been commanded bythe Crown Prince of Germany, cannot conquer. So the enemy is to be attacked in a new way and by a new route. The development of these will be watched with the profoundest interest. The federal government has paid, or undertaken to pay, $5,000,000 for a railway in Quebec, (the Saguenay), which, according to the Montreal News, can provide "trafic for the gulls and the crows." The deal is inexplicable, RAILWAYS IN DISTRESS. The financial necessities of two of the transcontinental railways point to the day, in the early future, when they will be owned and operated by thé government. They are in a bank- rupt condition now, and can scarcely escape from it in private ownership. The Grand Trunk Pacific Company has candidly conféssed that the po- sition of the road is hopeless so far as itis comcerned, and the Grand Trunk Company wants relief from it, and at once. Some day, under brighter suns and more propitious circumstances, the company may want the road again if it has been transferred to the government, and it must want this in vain, since so party would consent to the change. The Canadian Northern Railway represenis a persons! snergy and en- terprise that have besa simply won- derful, but a persons element that much in the face of the present di Ities. There is no talk of surrender in this case, but it is inevitable, The obligations of the company, guaranteed by the do- minion and provinces, amount to $208,000,000, and the unguaranteed obligations amount to $187,000.000. The feeling of some members of par- lament is that the sooner the road ' goes into liquidation the better; fn- deed, it is the feeling that the Grand " Trunk Pacific should also pass through a similar experience as a pre- liminary to oationalization. The process to this end is long and pain- ful enough, but it seems to be neces- sary. * Meanwhile the railways are to be aided with government loans to the extent of $23,000,000. This money is to be used in liquidating present obligations, (not in undertaking new works), under the direction of a com- ~ mission; and experts will be appoint. ov lo' situa- , | make them public. the government may later take over and manage the raflways. Who would Have anticipiated this result a few years ago? Mr. Mac- lean, M.P., was talking about na- | tionalization in bis own dreamy way, but no one else of outstanding per- sonality. Great have been the changes superinduced by the war, and great the burdens laid upon the rail- way corporations since it interfered with their development and financial affairs. When the Conservative Mail of Montreal protests against the Sague- naw railway deal it must be indefen- sible. The independence of the press generally is asserting itself and it is a most promising sign. GOES INTO RETIREMENT, Capt. Thompson, the only counsel in connection with the Davidson Com+ mission, and given to a most polite conduct of his work, has resigned. It is anonunced that this is owing to the fact that as a military man he must engage in active service and cannot undertake the new contract that has been referred to the commis- sion. This has to do with the am- munition scdndal which was partially exposed in the-Common:, on Saturday last. : In an incidental manner the infor- mation came to the liberals that there had been a great sale of ammu- nition, alleged to have been condemn- and this talk cannot be called lady- like in its quality. a ---------------- A million dollars a year wasted in public printing! That is the an- nouncement of Col. Currie, the chalr- man of the federal printing commit- tee, The remedy is a board of cen- sors who will cut ahd carve the pub- lie reports, stop all duplications, and give to the people only the informa- tion which they need. " Henry Ford would not mind run- ning for the presidency of the United States. It. would be a diversion for him. But he does not want to finance a political party. He suspects what that means. He has just gone through one remarkable experience as the financier of a peace commission, and his pocket book is not quite so ple- thoric. A---------- [xcs TOK EVENTS : 26 YEARS ACO Two prominent members of the First Congregational Church appear me THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, MAY 18, in Police Court, one charged with|g using grossly insulting language and the other with assault. An additional letter carrier to be given to Kingston post office. City Council decides to submit tax exemption question to the people. * Louis Cleaver, an old landmark of Kingston expired while eating break- fast too rapidly at the Stanley House, Partyism Was Wader, (London Advertiser.) There's at least one satisfactory point about the bilingual vote in Ot- tawa, partyism did mot have entire control, Ontario's Pork Barrel. A (Windsor Record.) The people of Ontario are not ob- jecting to the provincial war tax but they want the money applied for 'war purposes and mot to "pork barrel" projects, Wanted In England, (Brantford Expositor.) Mr. Lloyd Harris has been sent for by the British Government in connection with munitions work. This is the gentleman whom the Shells Committee treated in a cava- Her manner because they did not think he was big enough a man to handle a fuse contract. Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and' Kings." ed and under the most fel eir- cumstances. When the details were asked for they were declined, on the ground that it was not expedient to But the demand was repeated again and again and made most urgent, and after the lapse of months it transpired that Col. Al- lison, the middleman, had again got In his fine work, that the minister of militia had approved of the sale of millions of rounds at a price that was lower than it should be: Once more also it became remark- able that much of the ammunition had been disposed of to the British Admiralty, or British Government, and the sale could have been made direct and without the intervention of the ubiquitous Allison. A great deal has been heard about the deal, and a great deal more will be learned as a result of the probing by a com- mission. The liberals wanted the case referred to the Meredith-Duff Commisison, and the government, forestalling the debate. in parliament, had the matter referred to the Da- vidson Commission without reporting the matter to the Commons. At once there was objection. The government counsel, Capt. Thomp- son, was a subordinate of the minis- ter of militia. tI was inappropriate that he should act. He could not be expected to proceed against his superior officer, and the charge is that Sir Sam sold the ammunition which belonged to the people of Canada without the necessary order- in-council, and this order-in-council, though framed in January, has not been passed. Capt. Thompson bases his retire- ment from the Davidson Commission as counsel upon the ground that his military duties claim his attention, and his retirement relieves him of a most embarrassing position and one which the liberals emphasjzed in Sat- urday's session of the Commons. His judgment under the circumstances is to be commended. EDITORIAL NOTES, Hon. Mr. Graham thinks the rail- way deals of the federal government are ""monstrous," but they go through just the same. Sir Wilfrid Laurier is going out on a recruiting tour through Ontario prorogued. Will Sir Robert Borden accompany him? The Ottawa Free Press says that the mixing of politics and war in par- liament is not good. It means the has certainly not heen good for the country. A conseravtive print says there is nothing in the 'Kyte charges. Noth- ing for Kyte. He is not looking for money. There was a good deal in the Allison charges. As an inter- mediary, who was bobbing up every- where, he has benefited by hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to the London Free Press, Capt. Thompson resigned as counsel of the Davidson Commission According to the Montreal Mail he showed excellent taste and judgment in his action. Both are conservative papers. Which the more fully re- flects the truth? The United States government seems to have had an experience of its own with regard to shells. It has paid $15.45 to the Frankford ar- scoal for an article that cost, with private contractors, $25.26. There was an Allison at work, and as a re- sult the people's millions have gone to his account. The Meredith-Duft * Commission will examine the Hughes-Flavelle correspondence and select the parts that can be discussed ib public. Sir Sam seems to have talked to the 'chairman of the Munitions Board as the data upon which | he has talked to the auditor-general, and Quebec now that the house is| mixing of politics and plunder. This! he was unfairly criticised. | Horsepower Horsepower is a term which is used to describe the brute strength of the automobile when there are no hills or sand in sight, 'It is one of the most fluctuating terms in use, as the purchaser never knows whether the agent is referring to a Belgian draft horse or a Shetland pony. Before a new automobile is de- livered to the customer it is fitted up with headlights, trunk tray, motometer and eight-day clock, after which the horsepower is in- serted under the hood, where the owner cannat see it struggle. After the car has been driven for a few months this horsepower begins to ooze away im large chunks, which is very discouraging to the man who is 'demonstrating its pulling quali- ties to a friend who is about to buy. Many a man has lost a nice com- mission on a new car by taking out a prospect in his own machine and having it strangle itself 0 death on a nine per cent. grade The only place to demonstrate the horse- power in an automobile is on a paved street which starts from the top of a long hill, Some automobiles have more horsepower than others, but none of them can pull out of a mudhole without the aid of a farm team. One of the most ghastly sights in life is that of a huge, seventy-horsepower touring car which has sunk up to its hips in clay mud and has, to be yank- ed to the top of the hill by a span of mules. Why isgit that man can put the brawn and muscle of seventy Clydesdale three-years-olds into an automobile, only to have them sit down on their haunches in the mud and perform the functions of a steam dredge? If there were less horsepower in our automobiles and more rear tires with cleats in them like a Mogul tractor, there would be fewer mud bespattered pessimists roosting on a side hill awaiting the approach of the life-saving crew. Every automobile that is sold carries with it a certain' amount of "rated" horsepower which depends upon two things--the bore and stroke and the conscience of the salesman. It has been proven that only fifteen per cent, of this kind of horsepower ever gets close enough to the rear wheels to take hold, the rest being consumed in inertia and imagination. Sometimes a car will not develop anythifig but inertia and will have to be dragged home behind a buckboard with one solitary, stiff- legged horsepower. Horsepower would be better ap- preciated if it didn't need a scoop shovel and a rope and tackle to make it go. 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