Daily British Whig (1850), 15 Aug 1916, p. 4

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the werchan' who does the business. ihe Turks who are running In Egypt are in ha der luck+than the AusYians wh) dre running in' Gal- seis. The laitar get a chance some-] times to slide down hill. war, will stay there and cannot be supplanted. A great many men will seek continued employment in the army who had no thought or desire for military occlipation before the war." 80 attractive that it will be talked about everywhere. DID IT PAY? Passion is a poor counselor, and when rage is permitted to over-mast- er reason men gad nations are hur- ried into action by which they lose {more than they gain. The Prussian officials--the Kaiser and his entourage--who make final decisions in all important matters ap- pear to have a singular and surpris- ing propensity tp do the inexpedient thing. By killing Edith Cavell they built a monument to her in England and probably added some scores of thousands of recruits to Kitchener's army. In executing the British Cap- tain Fryatt, under war laws of their own, which other nations are too civilized to adopt, for sinking a sub- marine which sought to sink his ves- sel, the milithrists have steeled the hearts of their enemies and the de- mand is made in huge publig meet- ings in the island kingdom that the Kaiser, the Crown Prince, Von Tir- pitz and Von Bissing, who as gov- ernor of Belgium had Edith Cavell shot, shall before peace is made and as a condition thereto be hung as common malefactors, : In recalling these things the Ro- chester, N.Y., Post Express enquires; Did it pay to kill the nurse girl 9 | wham pity led to help escaping pri- circulation of THE BR uthenticated by ti The WHIG is ® JRrrisn ' A THE "BACK NUMBER." A merchant who fails to use news- paper advertising is termed a "back number" by Henry C. Brown, adver- - tising manager for the Victor Talk- ing Machine Company. He cites in- teresting instances of firms who would not part with the ownership of their trademarks for millions of dollars, It lies within the nower of any dealer to mount to great heights as a captain of industry if he will use newspaper advertising judiciously, he declared. All the famous commodities won their fame by advertising. The merchant. should tell the public throygh the newspapers something about his article, where it can be bought and how it can be identified. If he invents a trademark and ad- vertises it extensively and .properly, no 'thfluente under Wedven can de- prive him of profits. Advertising experts laughed at his company some four years ago be- cause it suddenly bought big space in the newspapers. They couldn't un- derstand how it could justify a sud- den swing from national magazines to local papers, but the wisdom of this course Aas been proved in en- ormous increases in sales. p----------_ DEWART IS AGGRESSIVE The Toronto World says if Hart- ley Dewart is returned to the Legis- lature from Southwest Toronto on Monday next it will be largely due to the aggressive campaign he is mak- ing on the nickel question and the hydro-electric situation. He told the electors in clear cut language his attitude on the questions. The ¢li- mdx of the evening, however, vas reached when Rev. John Bennett An derson, a Church of Englanl min- ister, rose to his feet and called out with passionate energy: I have been a Conservative all my life, but 1 can no longer keep silent. Mr. Dewart is right in what he says about nickel. | knew it ever since the war commenced. Canadian nickel has been going to Germany and it bas been coming back from Germany to Canada in the dead and mained bodies of the boys we have sent to the front." The scene that followed beggars description. The audience drose en masse, cheering wildly. Many sur rounded the venerable \Crergyman and fairly carried him to the pla.- form. The campaign this week will be full of vigor. VALUE OF BEAUTY. New York is going to spend $150,- 000,000 just to hide the unsightly tracks and coal sheds of a steam rall- way alongside beautiful Riverside Park Drive. The railroad company has agreed to spend $300,000 to make certain changes such as mov- ing away a high coal shed, and tun- neling under the hill on top of which stands Grant's tomb. The railroad has also agreed to do away with _steam locomotives along that stretch of road and use noiseless and 'clean electric engines instead. ; A model four hundred feet long has been built to show how the tracks will be hid from view of persons on the dr In places the tracks will be roofed over with acres of steel and concrete upon which earth will 'be put and Jawns and gardens laid out and trees and flowers planted. ! These alone will surpass in extent and beauty the historic hanging gar- : dens of Babylon, that were one of * the seven wonders of the warld. New York is doing this because she has learned that beauty is one of the ~ greatest assets a city can have, and that it is worth spending $150,000, soners, and the seaman whose crime was that he did his duty as he saw it? And has' it paid the militarists to carry off to Germany some thousands of French girls and young women un- der circumstances and for purposes which have called forth the solemi protest of the Pope? Has their use "lot liquid fire and poisonous gases paid? Did the Lusitania atrocity pay them, or the sadistic carnival of lust and cruelty in Belgium? Does any oneé believe that, human nature be- ing what it 1 these infamies will not be paid for, not in kind perhaps, but in a more relentless prosecution of the war, more rigorous peace condi- tions and trade boycotts when the fight with guns is at an end? Pro- bably the merciless men and nations always lose more than they gain, and bring their own destruction on them when passion overrides compassion and reason yields to wrath, THE BURDEN OF THE WAR. £. T. McGrath, who is the presi- dent of the legislative council of Newfoundland, writes to the Review of Reviews of the wonderful things Canada has doné during the war. This great disturbance of the world's international business found Canada, like Britain and France, and all the other Allled powers, unprepared But the call to arms was followed by extraordinary developments. In Oec- tober, 1914, this dominion sent 30,- 000 troops across the sea; in the spring of 1915 the number had in- creased to 60,000; at the end of a year there were 90,000 men in the service, or more than the mother country sent into the Crimea; at the end of a year and a half 120,000, or twice as many as the United States sent into the Spanish war; and in April, 1916, the Canadian army had swelled to 310,000, or a larger army than Britain sent to South Africa during the four years of the Boer war, and a larger" army than she sent into France at the beginning of the present struggle. : Mr. McGrath pays a high compli- ment to Canada's treatment of her soldiers, in the matter of pay and care, and to the efficiency they had shown. in all the engagements in which they had participated. In the matter of finances, 'the coyntry has assumed great responsibilities. The public debt was $336,000,000 in the year before the war. In February, 1917, it will probably. be $830,000,- 000, and when the war is over, if it ends next year, the debt will be at least $1,000,000,000. This means an annual interest tax of $60,000,- 000, and a pension tax of $20,000,- 000, a total of $70,000,000, or about half of the ordinary expenditure for all the public services in 1914. In anticipation of the strain of the war an appeal was made to the farmers in \1915, and they respond- ed with a will. The crop of 1914 was a failure. In 1915 over 37,000,- 000 acres of land was tilled, and the productions were valued at over a billion of dollars, or 50 per cent. more than was received for the pro- ductions of 1914. 'The industrial facilities were also Increased in order to meet the demand of the hour. Last year's exports were returned at $600,000,000, and about half of this amount represented the materi- als carried by war orders. Interest in the article centres in that part of it which deals with what will happen after the war. There will be less export, because there will be no more war orders; there will be less imports, because our soldiers will be home to provide for their own wants. For a few years there will be greater business' activ- ity, during the reconstruction in Europe, and then will come the period of greatest danger. The grand army of Canads may take form, in imitation of the grand army of the republic, because war will have un- 5 CS In the United States, in_the 60's, there was room for expansion in the western states, and large numbers of men were engaged in railway building. Canada has anticipated the future in railway construction. It has the land, however, and it will be occupied by the agriculturists of foreign lands. The centre of govern- ment will be shifted from Ontario to the prairie provinces and bilingu- alism will have ceased to agitate the people, for there will be a perfect babel of languages. One more the naval question will become an issue. Mr. McGrath does not discuss the Laurier policy of building, in Canada, ships according to its needs and resources. fers to the Borden proposal, of the gift of three battleships to Britain, which the senate killed. When the war _is GVer Canada must have a navy for her own protection and maintained at her own: expense. "Laurier's policy, now suspended, can | be revived and-carried into' effect. Of course this involves. co-operation with the admiralty, and these and other great subjects will call for statesmen who will be equal to the demands of the hour. EDITORIAL NotEs Nobody loses a hangman, but the p.an who sprigs the trap under the | Kaiser will be envied by millions. | A big reduction in the price of | gasoline would produce about as He re-t | PUBLIC OPINION | ", A Blank Cartridge wa - Citizen) J / on (Otte e other m Dominion placidls ignore the report from Hamilton as being caueed by a blank cartridge. Great Bait (Gloucester Times) The published pictures of the bathing girls represent an unusual attempt this year to. lure defense- less mankind to the beaches. Not A Summer Resort (Guelph Mercury) They can say what they lkéfavout i Camp Borden, but we notice that Mister Sam Hpghes ain't summerin' {Hi} there. > Pity The Amcrican (Chicago Tribune) In parts of the world the American is afraid he will not be taken for an Englishman; in other parts he is in deadly fear he will be. ; knows whether he will get a punch or a kick. Two Irreconcilable Things (London Daily Mail) The peace they are discussing in Germany and the peace we intend to impose upon Germany are not only different things but irreconcilable; and deeds, not talk, wil decide which is to prevail, Wise Sweden (Pittsburg Gazette-Times) Not long ago Great Britain seemed to know the best thing to do with a week-end, but now the palm goes much joy in a' short space of time as anything we know of : A Pennsylvannia attorney had a| fee of $10,000 cut to $35. It is| better to have charged and lost than never to have charged at all. The long delay of the Bremen sug- | geats that all this talk of a great lleel of underses hoats carrying com | Ierce across the Atlantic wal mostly | German brag. ---------- | Quebec settles are obeying. the law which require: a permit from al raager before clearing fire can be sta cu. The foopération of settlers] and rangers has averted Janger. | It is a 'very noticeab's fact that the merchants wao do the most ad- vertising are at all times the live up to-date mer pants of every town. } = | to Sweden, where they close the saloons on Saturday and keep thie banks open until midnight. The Grass Widower's Plight (London Advertiser) It is not good for man to be alone. A citizen in a state of unhappy cook- lessness put two eggs on the stove and then went out to talk chickens. He ate his lunch down town later on. No Mystery (Montreal News) In depriving J. Wesley Allison of his honcrdry-coloneley, the govern- ment 'has. apparently done all that could be done to express its con- demnation of, this enterprising mid- dleman. It #8 somewhat of a shock after the manner 'in which 'General Sir Sam" ghes praised his Grand Panjandrum of Profiteers to have the lattef struck off the rolls of the Great Unpaid. There is at any rate no mystery about the cause of his losing his colonelcy, whatever there Random Reels "Ot Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Nongs." THE HOBO The hobo is a modest member of society who is too proud tc work aw to tired to bathe. One of the mo: refined acts of cruelty that can be perpetrated is to lead a confirmed hobo up to something that iooks like work or a shower bath and watch him faint dead away. The hobo is usually somebody who ran away from home in early youth in order to escape pailing a few cows or hoeing the potatoes. This tendency could have been re- moved at the proper time by love and a careful cowhiding, but the chances are that tha hobo's patents thought they were rearing apiece of mural decoration instead of a human derelict. The home where the children are g&pected to perform a few acts of kelpful industry once in a while is a poor recruiting station for the hobo army. The hobo goes South in the winter and flits North in the spring, aloug with the bow-legged robin redbreast. Unlike the robin, however, he does not go North to work, but to rest. There is not enough rest being manu- factured at the present time to satisfy the cravings of two stout, prohibition hobos, to say nothing of those who have been resung ever since the Civil War. 'All over the North, in the summer-time, are to be able-bodied *hobos who are three- fourths appetite and one-fourth snore. Now and then the hobo will sally forth to the home of some kind- hearted housewife, who imagines she is entertaining an angei unawares, and return with bulging pockets and stomach. If it were not for the ten- der heart of woman the hobo would vanish off the face of the earth faster found cosy rest resorts inhabited by than the Progressive party. The hobo is a great traveler, and jumps from place to place just ahead of the town marshall. There is only one thing he is afraid of, next to toil, and that is the double fisted freight brakeman, who has perfect control over his right leg. hobo, who is in need of encourage ment and a hair cut, has been kicked in a rude and circumspect manner from a coal car by one of these base hirelings. who has no more heart than a gourd. : IM TiRED The hobo tendency could have been removed at the proper tive by love and careful cowhiding The hobo could earn §3.50 a day and board in the wheat fields, if he did net shrink from contact with labor. He has solved the problem of how to live without work and be happy without a toothbrush, which shows that he is a great deal smarter than many men who wear better clothes. a ® Rippling Rhymes street. knows » burn, and . front he wears. You may have men's plaudits you should earn, shirt, some flying rocks are bound to hurt. > The dog of high, patrician mein, of wéll-groomed coat and aspect clean, anakes quite a hit when down the street he travels his head 'we gladly reach, and we assure him he's a peach, and gently stroke his lustrous hair, and wish we had ten bones to spare, so we could buy a dog like that, and give him latchkeys to our flat. when a seedy dog his ear, a dog with eyes that do nat match, and fleas _ that make him madly scratch, we kick him swiftly with .our feet, and hoist him half way down the Men leave the office; store-and shack, to kick him round a block and back. human skate, for whom the rocks and roses wait, who on high stepping feet. To pat Bat comes near, a dog with sores upon 'Tis likewise with the or Sorrow bears, according 'to the sterling worth to but if you wear a seedy unition makers in the} He never Many a tired! f The Duke -- Grey cheviots, bl blu sted: The Hudson, $18.00 Fancy chevibts and worsteds, plain SEE BIBBYS NEW $15.00 FALL ' OVERCOATS Fancy Tweeds. The Gloster -- 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. - » a ue serge, fan: g wor- es, etc. - The Bryson, $20.00 English worsteds, English tweeds, English serges. : Bibbys, Limited may be about the manner in which he earned it, GSTON EVENTS] 256 YEARS AGO Té-day is Garden Island's "Civic" holdiday, and the busy little inlet wears a deserted look, as every man, woman and child is at Channel Grove, where a big picnic is being held. , Riley Smith purchased a lot on Pine street to-day for $400. Hay sold on the market to-day at $8 a ton. ; The County of Frontenac Agricul- tural Society has granted $170 to each of the townships holding shows. in THE RESIGNATION OF H. F. GARDINER. Brantford Expogitor. The announcement that H. F. Gardiner, principal of the Ontario School for the Blind, has tendered his resignation of that high office in order to devote his time to literary pursuits, will not occasion surprise to those who know his training, his lifelong associations, and his special qualifications in that direction. At {the same time there will be genuine and widespread ;regret on the part of the people of Brantford over the probable loss of a distinguished citizen, and more especially one who has been devoted to the interests of the blind population of the province and has labored industriously to im- prove the means of instructing them, Before coming to Brantford Mr. Gardiner had acquired for himself a foremost place among the journal- ists and writers. of the province, and was also widely known as a public speaker. With more leisure at his command, and vigorous health, it is easy to predict for him many years of usefulness as he treads pathways with which he is familiar and which have always been to him a source of delight. It 'is gratifying to have Mr. Gar- .diner's. statement that his resig- nation was not prompted from any quarter outside his own family, and that his relations with the Depart- ment of education have been entire- ly satisfactory. It is to be hoped government will be guided by no other consideration then that of find- ing the 'man best fitted for a po- sition which requires tact, patience, and a sincere love of the work, in addition to administrative and edu- cational qualifications. The appeint- ment is not one of local patronage, and therefore the choice is by no means limited. wv . THE. JINGLE OF the ICE 4 glass of 2e3 suunds goed Grow ' Our Own Special Blend \ makes perfect Iced Tea and the price the same as always. 5 35¢ the Ib. s that in choosing his successor the} The following prices be effective on and aft Chassis .. .. Runabout. . . Coupelet . . . Town Car . . Kingston for Ford cars will er August 1st, 1916. . $450.00 .. 475.00 Touring Car ., .. 495.00 C...695.00 _. .. 780.00 ... 890.00 f.o.b. Ford, Ontario These prices are 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 Deale For Cleaning Closet Bowls Only. Quick, Easy, Sani- / tary. I. Cleans Without Fuss or Muss. Pkgs. 25¢ each. f Drug Store Brock St. | ! McLeod's PROMPT vie pride ought To 30m hands JAS. REDDEN & CO. "Business jealousy is nearly as bad as the love kind. : A good many times imagination is ..& trouble creater. 5

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