LER EB - ©0, LIMITED. i AEE pod Telephones 1.00 Hise States ......51.50 ree months pro rats. of the best Canada. | Sob Fhe circulation of THE BRITISH authenticated by the SUBSCRIPTION RATES: dition) your, in advan w= year, his ral . (Botw'-Weekly Bdition) "es WHIG ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations PECULIAR INDEED ! John Bertram, chairman of the Shell Committee, of fragrant mem- ory, has been mae an honorary Col- onel and Knight; Herbert Ames, M.P.. of the Ames-Holden-McCready, Limited, the shoe manufacturers, who supplied a large part of the boot contract for the first overseas expedition, has also been made a knight. J. W. Allison, of the mil Hon dollar fuse steal, fs an honorary colonel. The Canadian Cartridge Company, of Hamilton, having com- pleted a contract to make a miifion eighteen-pounder cartridge cases for the British Government at the price pald other companies for the same work, has contributed the profits, amounting to -$758,248, to the Im- perial Munitions Board, for war ex- penditures. The Associated Press, 'in putting the transaction on the wire, does not even give the initials ¢f Mr, Baillee, president of the com- pany. The division of honors for Empire service in Canada is certain- ly peculiar, While on the subject the amount of profit made by this business company on this contract indicates to what extent the concerns engaged are profiting by their con- tracts. An automobile to every twenty- five people throughout the United States by January 1st is said to be the ambition of the republic. Won- der if as many own the houses they live in? PROUD OF ROWELL. Wonder is expressed in -prohibi- tion quarters that Premier Hearst has seen fit to endorse Norris in the coming contest in South Toronto as the government candidate, in face of 'his stand against prohibition and in favor of wine and beer licenses. The promier's attitude is described in temperance circles 'by such ad- Jectives as "vacillating" and '""wob- bling." It 'was expected that he would repudiate the candidature, under government auspices, of any- one with anti-prohibition senti- ments, just as Mr. Rowell showed his strength by expelling Evanturel from the liberal party when he be- came implicated with the liquor in- terests. 1 A comparison of the leadership of Hearst and Rowell in these days of war, is most illuminating. Mr. Rowell places his unequalled ser- vices at the disposal of the country in the matter of recruiting, with- out reserve; sacrifices himself to support his principles in the matter of the ' government tempegance measure, in order to aid in the suc- cessful prosecution of the struggle; and. sets himself to energetically grapple with the best methods for the solution of the problems which will arise at the conclusion of hos- tilitiés. The prémier, on the other hand, seems to lack all initiative, and simply follows Rowell's lead. The premier was at least expected to stand by his prohibition measure; but his temperance supporters are "how in fear and trembling over his astounding Norris. Liberals are proud of their lead- or and are staunch in their support: whilst there are many indications attitude in patronizing . evident from the-bye-election con. k that conservatives in the province are split|in their affilia- tions. 5 A ---------------------- As a matter of Tact the feat of the Deutschland is not new. Several 'trans-Atlantic voyages have been made by British submarines, and a '| chinery. Ever since mankind began'to use machinery the tradition has been that men were required to run It, be- cause womerr couldn"t handle mu- The women were mentally or tempéfamentally unfitted for work requiting mechanical skill. * And now comes a manufacturer of Day ton, O., named William Ohmer, testi- fying that women can handle indus- trial machinery beffer than men. Mr. Ohmer has a munition factory in which he employs 4,000 women. He calls himself the "best hated man in Dayton," because he has taken so many cooks away from the wonien and so many stenographers away from the men. - He began a year ago substituting wo or men in many branches of work, has been as- tonished to find what they were cap- able of doing. He pays them men's wages, and thus has been able to get women of intelligence. . And the fact that large numbers of them "never before did a lick of work in their lives" doesn't seem to prevent their beating experienced workmen at their own game. A training school is maintained for novices. At first the instruction was given by men; now it is given by women. And new girls seem to pick up the necessary mechanical know- ledge and skill with surprising ra- pidity. The newcomer usually learns her job in three or four days, though it takes most men far long- er, In three weeks, says Mr, Oh- mer, the average woman becomes as expert in the use of machinery as the man who has been working at the Job for three years. And the wo- men turn out more work, anywhere from 200 to 500 per cent. more than the men used to. Moreover, they appear to do it with less effort, be- cause they relax, and economize their ene, . They are found to be spec- fally capable as instructors, and as assemblers of delicate machinery, It is mueh the same story that has been heard from European coun- tries where the scarcity of men has forced women into industrial em- ployment of all kinds, But it is more impressive because it is an ex- ample nearer home, under familiar conditions. Mr. Ohimer's conclu- sions may call for somewhat wider tests and more definite verification before they are generally accepted, but it is evident at least that men's mechanical capacity has been greatly underestimated. And 'ur feminists may be trusted to make the most of this revelation. wo~ The vital question is not whether it is pronounced . 'karkee" or "kaki," but how it would look on you. mn THE DEMAND FOR MUNITIONS, the end of a boom, and this boom in the production of war munitions, It has been without a precedent. The unpreparedness of Britain and France and Russia for war, and on a collosal scale, was a God-send to the great corporations of America. All the munitibn factories which the Allies could hurriedly jack-up and operate under high pressure were unable to cope with the immedidte and increasing necessities of the war, and so appeal was made to the United States and Japan and the other over- seas' Dominions. ; Through the commissions which the Canadian Government was forced to appoint for an enquiry into the ranker scandals in connection with the contracts, and scandals that in the words of a late lamented Can- adian purist,"smelt to heaven." Some idea has been gleaned of the cost of meeting certain rush orders, exorbit- because there did not seem to be any lalternative, For'a season the junk- ies made their fortunes. Some evi- dence of this was seen in the aston- ishing dividends that were announc- ed from time to time. Millions upon millions - were extracted from the British Government in its extremity, and many millions more were lost through the improvidence or incom- petence of the men on whom the government depended. There is no need to enlarge upon the operations of the syndicates through which Col, Allison operated for his large finan- 'cial benefit. For the time being everything went, at the expense of the British treasury. But a change has come, and nigpt day too soon. The Allies are able to provide, for their needs, in war ma- terials, rough their own factories and nals. No longer are Rus- sians compelled to retreat because their huge armies have no shells to hurl at the advancing Germans and Austrians. No longer are well-plan! ned offensives on the Franco-Belgian lines frustrated because the ammuni- tion has given out. No more will gterling exchange be depressed by the enormous difference between the vslue of British imports and exports. Orders for supplies have already ceas- ed with some American companies, and they are the sold out their e erican interests may not suffer too much. Thanks to the scare which wvercame the people! - The 'American press comments on|, ant prices were demanded and paid when the Germans were in ugly mood, and thanks to the competition of the political parties in the pro- gramme of preparedness, there 1s to be a great army and a great navy, and already between three and four hundred million dollars have been apbropriated for them. It is going to take time in which to build up a ponderous military and naval ma- chine, and during the construction period. the American manufacturer must be busy. Eventually much of the plant which Is designed and fit- ted to produce munitions only will be scrapped, and that time has not yet arrived--in America, -------- EDITORIAL NOTES? Each passing day separates Ger- many by so much from the victory that once seemed assured. wrote that competition is the life of trade. The theory generally act- ed on to-day is that it is the death of profit. PUBLIC OPINION | His Coat of Tan - (Detroit Free Press) An eastern psyohologist says it isn't the soldier, but the uniform 2 girk Kisses. Yep. It's his coat of tan. / | p May Believe Himself (Philadelphia Leader) If the Kaiser goes on saying that England conspired and attacked peaceful Germany, he may come in time to believe it. Canadians who enlist to-day will have every promise of participating in the final triumphs of the war. The Kaiser's Fate ' (Toronto News) i Great Britain and France punish. jed, and even beheaded their. un- worthy Kingd. Undémocratic Ger many leaves the task to others. The Kaiser should be in sight of a Franco-British scaffold. Belgium has some satisfaction in that Belgian troops are wresting much of German East Africa from the enemy. : . A These are Xo days in Rome, where the results' of Italian efforts in the war had been somewhat dis- appointing until now. : Anyway the "Tallies" Took It. (Syracuse Post-Standard) The Sun spells it Goritz. The As- sociated Press spells it Gorizia. The | United Press spells it Goriz, and sometimes Goritz. The Evening Post calls it Gorz, with an umlaut over Italy is not asleep. She has join-|the O. But however it's spelled, we the Eye-talianfs captured ~ ed the anvil chorus that is hammer- all know ing the Teutons into a proper frame it. of mind to admit crushing defeat. Oficial Red Tape : (Lestie's Weekly) It is all right to hit Germany in A man sent 10 cents in postage the pocket for the murder of Capt. stamps to the Patent Office at Wash- Fryatt, but Britishers will be con-| ington for two copies of a patent. tent with nothing short of the retri-| The stamps. were returned witha r tter saying that currency must be bution that hits the Kaiser & Co. in Jette a Sar a dime and at the neck. thee E | the end of a week was informed that {the copies of the patent were ex- {hausted and that the Treasury de- . | partment would return his money. not fight in the trenches with the| A week later the Treasury depart- soldiers and give his life for his|ment advised him that it would take country. Everybody else regrets it| three weeks to audit his account also. Perhaps he could get a divine and refund his 10 cents. dispensation to expose his divinely | 129 Spent six cents on postage and v 25 xpos 4 "7 | the Government twice as much. appointed person to the dangers and a -------- horrors which he world, i Hy . . The Kaiser regrets that he can- --"" " TXINCSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO Kingston is distant from Toronto! about the same distance that-Vien- The man |] {: - Bibby orl SEE BIBBYS NEW $15.00 FALL OVERCOATS The Duke -- Fancy Tweeds. 'The Gloiter -- Plain blacks and greys. The Acton -- Silver Grey Cheviots, SEE BIBBY'S NEW FALL SUITS | : The York, $12.50. \. Neat stripes and checks, tweeds. The Bud, $15.00 Grey cheviots, blue serge, fancy wor- sted. .. The Hudson, $18.00 Fancy cheviots and worsteds, plain blues, etc. The Bryson, $20.00 English worsteds, English tweéds, : English serges. \ ~ > A compan is being organized here ; | which will establish works for the herself as afe, but we should feel | grinding of mineral paints and phos- some qualm#® if the enemy armies | phates. The capital stock will numbering 'millions were at Toronto) amount to $50,000. and Kingston yas the national cap-| The barley crop is discolored tial. . y na is separated from the advancing Italian oye * Vienna may regard ow- ing to so much rain. \ The steamer Maud carried four 1undred people to Pictou to-day. The Bicycle Club held a ride out into the country to-day and on re- turn paraded the down-town streets.' 1 1 The Retail Associa- | tion, meeting at Winnipeg, has been! considering a' contract selling plan) "Random Reels ? Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings" Merchants' ~ 3 THE SUMMER COLD. The summer cold is a blood rela- tive of nature's criminal master- piece, the grip, but is not* ro fu! of enthusiasm and general debility os the latter. People can have the grip every winter and aftar a whiie 'will be able to tell it from an ulcer, ated\tooth without consuliing thé doctor, but the su-auer cold © entire families by fcrscv- i only to land on some loved member and cause him ic re- semble a hay-fever victim who has fallen heir to the pink aye, "The summer cold. is cansad hy trifiling with the laws of nature in the matter of underwear Why is it that a man will wear lvug, fever- ish - underwear until the Fourth of July and then change suddenly to the light, airy, onz-piare suit, only to run into nine days of weather that would raise hoar (ost or a pelar bear? If more wives would com- pel their husbands to waar thick, beaver-board underclothes the year around we would "not have many employees layiag off 1 L 8/ \the dog days with a nose lkh yieadlight of a Mogui en body ever heard of a Zu taking a cold in August because of wearing too little underwear, which proves that we have 2 lot (on learn from the .unlettered »ad riug-nosed heathen, The summer cold siarts wiih a s€1- fies of low, premonitory snaezes which sound like split:iv kind- ling with the knee zap. The sum-~ mer sneeze is a deceptive ariic and ebbs and flows with greai ra- pidity. It will remain n a lurking attitude for several hours and make the owner believe that the last quinine capsule has hit tle target, then will suddenly bogia to 2xplade in a high-pitched sta:cato, inter- rupting an important iulephoae con- versation and cafising eighty, conts' worth of overtime. This can be avoided by seizing the swiimecr cold in time and putting on a pre-shrank wool union suit that laps neatly about the ankles, : UPTON, DEAR , WOULDNT You LIKE A GLASS OF REAL HOT LEM=-.OM THERE'S A HORRID MOTH MILLER = % DOE, THAG GEW There is nothing that wills eom- pletely cure a summer cold axcept time, If a person is willing)to wait until about February 15tir Phe enh proved form of grip, eve? up. people go to a resort where mineral spring water can be rented hy the 'better to stay at home and go to bed with a late novel and a comphor bot- 'tle. No one should laugh" at the victm of a summer cold, for i. liable to leap in the direction of the scoffer and cause him: to wish that handkerchiefs' were made as big as bedspreads, ad Rippling Rhymes DOG DAYS The sun trails on, across the brassy sky, the grass is brown, the earth is hard and dry, the 'trees are drooping in the yellow glare, the birds are swoon- ing in the torrid air, ind melting man cries-out--alas, in vain! I'd give three bones to see a good wet rain!" where moulting elms cast shade upon the street, re- late old tales, and say they will be durned, if ever yet they were so scorched and burned. The women rest in hammock and chair and with their fans attempt -- sense in heat that melts the knotholes in a fence. The and talk of prickly heat. The wilting dogs, for which these days were named, crawl in their holes, embar: rased and ashamed. Cheer up, sad hearts, and think about the coal for which you soon must blow the hard-earn ou then redeem your duds from pawn--the duds you'll need to ki our Systems warm, and shield your whiskers from the bitter storm? - Stn Dui Pies they exchange his could for ary ap-| Some | day or week and lave an overworked nose therein, but it is cheaper and | [E3 Men stand and gasp, apostrophize the heat, | to stir the air; in modest terms they say there is no| little kids don't play upon the street, but hang around! Full soon these days of torture will be gone---how wilf CANADA'S SOLDIERS "HAVE BULKED BIG." 2 db New York Sun ; The Canadian troops around Hill 60, Sanctuary woods and Zillibeke, | have repeated their valorous per- formance of St. Elpi, St. Julien and Ypres. The official° British statement describes their capture of a former British position over a front of 1,500 yards to the south-east of Zillibeke as "a gallant and successful assault." They continued their advantage until they had won back most of the ground around Ypres; they fought through the night, says the report; "doggedly bombing their way back to the position they had lost." The soldiers of Canada have bulk- ed big for a "colony" in this Euro- pean war, When they first, appeared upon the. field they were a mystery to the trained British trooper; their apparent loose discipline, their reck- lessnesssin the face of danger, their slang and their disregard of the English traditions of the camp and field puzzled him. He still tells of a body of troops returning at pight from the trenches that. were (chal- lenged by an English sentry. 'Receiv- ing no reply the sentry excitedly re- peated, "Who comes there?" "None of your damned ~ business," came from 'someone in the ranks "All right, Canadians, advance." The Englishman, however, EUS pected the Canadians could fight, and he found it out in the engagements raround Ypres. 'They were among the | earliest sufferers from asphyxiating [i as a war weapon, when the Ger mans on the first day of its use en- deavored to throw the Allies' whole { defensive in Flanders into disorder. | They held their line after the French | colonials had been overcome, and | they battled on for days. The rem- inant of the Princess Patricias, the best reziment Canada sent to the war, numbered but 100 when it was dug out of the trench-it had defend- | ed. 2 | rete | Alban Norris Dead. Alban Anthony, the seven months and eleven days' old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Norris (nee Rose Mary McGlade), died on August 10th in the Hotel Dieu Hospital after thirty {hours' illness of cholera infantum. { The funeral was on Friday morning {from the residence of his grand- (parents, Capt. and Mrs. Peter Me- Glade, 44 Lower Union street, General Tobias' Smuts, member of Parliament, is dead. General Smuts was a candidate for the presidency of t Transvaal in 1897 against Paul Kruger. Heftook) a prominent part in the Boer War.L = ° The Almanach de Gotha notes the morgantic marriage of the Ka'ser's fifth son Oscar, with Countess Basse- witz,- who) was made Countess Rou- pine. THE JINGLE OF 'the ICE fn a glass of ten. sounds good these Our Own Special Blend | makes perfect Iced Tea price the same as always. 35c¢ the Ib. JAS. REDDEN & CO. Phone 20 and 990. - / and the BE New Prices August 1,1916 The following prices for Ford cars will be effective on and after August 1st, 1916. Chassis .. .. .. $450.00 Runabout . . .. .. 475.00 Touring Car .. .. 495.00 Coupelet . .\.. ... 695.00 TownCar .. .. .. 780.00 ib f.o.b. Ford, Ontario J These prices age -positively- guaranteed against any reduction before August 1st \1917, but there is no guarantee against an advance in price at any time. € ANGROVE BROS. Ford Dealers #0 oe ~ QUALITY Pepsin of Cheese. For full information call ~~ or write. McLeod's Drug Store Brock St. Lessening the tax purden to be day fixed a flat rate of 10 per cent. borne by munition makers, Demo-|on the net Digits of all rms mak- cratic members of thy, United States | ing munitions or their component Senate Finance (omyittee yester-| parts. : : % '