fr sso * in a few words when he suggested | jem | that the women of this country raise }| thee own vegetables, can their own ¥ |.fruit, prevent waste in the home and |.inspire their men with a Ri | The waste of foodstuffs in this coun- Tors yO ht) try in one week, would feed the Bel- (Ji "We are 'cursed with a most In-| gians for a year, t competent Government, probably they worst since Confederation." | Three Years' War. (Toronto Mul) | The United States is preparing | for a three years' war, and some Con- 'gressmen are of opinion that the time necessary to prepare for a three M Viviani, at Ottawa. years' was is exactly three years. | "Ever shall I remember that event- ee | ful fourth of August, when I entered into the Frqpch House with the de- | claration of war that had been com- municated to me ag President of the French Cabinet by M. Deschoon on PAGE FOUR The British Whig commercial cgpital Marshal Joffre begat afresh the spirit of heroism which onght to grow and spread un- til it has brought the entire province under its spell. Quebec needed just such a visitation as Joffre has made, and in answer to his appeal, "Send us more men, we need-them all" there ought to be a response that will forever wipe out the reproach of recent months. | PUBLIC OPINION '} How mEN FORGET DIFFERENCES IN WAR France has put all of her available men in the field. She is depending upon the United States and Canada to come fo her relief with recruits. Is she to be disappointed? Are the French-Canadians, of Quebec espec- .Out For a Win. (Toranta Globe) The British Premier says that his | country is through blundering, and is! sesanssssessse President +++ Managing Director and Bec.-Treas. LS, Buon i Sieesae 343 Telephones: Business Ofice cennnassen 4 JOD O08 sys rasssanssnsssersssers 392 pT lon) Sus year, delivered in city ......38.00 ® year, r paid in advance .....$5.0 Soe year, Sta +" (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash One year, if not paid in advance One Jour, to United States 1. x and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE woe Owen ..... 123 St. Peter Bt TORONTO RES ENTATI VE F. C. Hoy, ... 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg, Chicage Attached is one of the best job printing offices én Canada, i The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is Snthentionted by the ( Audit Bureau of Circulations. Promo neem POLICY OF RETRIBUTION, "The growing certainty that Ger- many cannot win the war has not made her rulers, her army, or her fleet any the less disposed to com- mit atrocities," says the London Chronicle. 'On the contrary the frizhtfuiness of 1917 is beating all records for the previous years. At sea we have the sipking of hospital ships, on land the unparalleled de- vastation of the evacuated regions of France andthe detention of all their girl-residents as servants for 'German soldiers. We will not stop to qualify these crimes, whose au- thors are plainly imparviors to moral verdict, But Why are they not de- terred by fear of refribution?' The Chronicle said the Allies had occasion to protest against the viola- tion of international law, especially in the sinking of hospital ships flying the red cross flag and at night eéx- hibiting the lights and colors dictated by The Hague. But they had acted separately. They must speak col- lectively, in the opinion of our con- temporary, and get rid of the idea that German atrocities cannot be ade- quately punished. Tewns and cities have been sacked; the people have been massacred; art and sculpture and architecture has been destroyed; generally the homes of the people 'and the public buildings have been left in smoking ruins. "The penalty," says the Chronicle, "for the illegal destruction. of the Allies' towns and factories might be the destruction of twice the amount of similar German properties." There may be delay in executing these threats, but the time will come when the Germans must be taught a les- son they can never forget, They must be given to understand that they cannot purchase immunity from their atrocities. Ere the war is over the sentence of the Allies may impose capital punishment upon the men who have authorized or approved of these infamies and this would be absolutely just. "Hon. Arthur Meighen says it is not intended to change the Franchise . Act materially. Which means that the threat to disfranchise the foreigners in the west, who heve been natur- alized, will not be carried into ef- fect. 'Tis well. i ------------_-- THE EFFECT ON QUEBEC, For a day Montreal was complete- ly changed, The transformation was effected through Marshal Joffre whose presence seemed 16 represent France reincarnated or purged and purified by the War. He had not much to say. 'The most he essayed to do was to indicate by smiles and caresses the thoughts he was unable to express. He met some of the in- valided soldiers who had fought un- saw their de- der hint in France. He army. ially, to fail her at this time? A TRIUMPH FOR TEDDY. 'Ex-president Roosevelt is a public figure which cannot be obscured in the kaleidoscopic changes of Ameri- can public life. He offered to lead 200,000 of his countrymen into the European war, and for service on the side of the Allies. A week ago this offer, (being termed incompatible with the government's policy of se- lective draft), was declined. . But only for a day. The House referred the matter back to the conference committee for a restoration. of the bill td its original form. This must be very gratifying to Teddy. It in- sures the passing of the Act which accepts of his offer and recognizes his importance in a most remarkable way. ented during the discussion of his offer in the committees of Congress. In one he was the leader of a mili- tary contingent which, projected into the war, unfitted for its strange ex- periences, suffered a prodigious loss. The other view featured him as the heroic commander who knows no fear, and who would captivate even the enemy with his gallantry. One thing is certain--the entratice of American troops into the Fonflict will arouse the people of the United State, and the sacrifice of any of them, to the liberty which all! Ameri- cans adore, will mark a new epoch in the progress of the war. ------------------ The laber department. received the brief of the city of Hamilton regard- ing a corner in fuel and food, an then declined to act . The L au will remember all these things in the accounting which is so close at hand. ENGLAND'S GREATEST SIN. The Commons of Canada spent a warm afternoon recently in diseus- sing the temptations and dangers of the canteaps: in: Bugiand. | A, protest was made against them in the name of Canada and her young men in the But the canteens are of small account or. menace when compared with the social evil. The London press is furdous because parliament has been %so neglectful of its duty in this matter. But at last action has been taken and immediate re- form is expected through the enforce- ment of recent legislation. Capt. Guest, M.P., at a recent session of Parliament, estimated that over 100,- 000. men had been laid aside through infections they had contracted in England, and™in France between 150,- 000 and 200,000 cases had been re-| | ported in the hospitals. Most re- grettable of all were the protests of Sir Hamer Greenwood, M.P., who, at a recent visit to Canada, his old home, had been reproached again and again because of the social evil of England and fis effects upon the Cana- dian soldiery. The drunkenness of the old land is evidently not its great- est sin, and the war has made this apparent in its most terrible way. NOTES. Russia ijn a state of disintegra- tion. the masses to realize what "true freedom means. i \ 9 A firm of engineers in Montreal of- fer to make artificial ioe delivered at $1.00 per ton. It is a question of capital, and in a place like Montreal, capital is the god. = 4 WE} iit dni inte The race track, it is charged, 1s largely in the hands of preflession- al gamblers; and it is for these our parliaments have a special these times of stress ahd » The larger part of Saskatchewan's Two views of him wére pre-}| right out.on the course. never won the first battle and never lost ihe last one. A Real Help. a (Montreal Star) The action of the Quebec manufac- turers agreeing to give selected em- 'ployes a month's: holiday at half- pay if they will give that to farm in every way comméndable, y ee rrp -- Value of Disguises. (Exchange) To evade German U-boats, British hospital ships now sail in their or- dinary guise, stripped of all tempt- ing Red Cross insignia. Which leads the New York Sun to suggest that the French cathedrals might be disguised as breweries, Women's Wark. (Washington Posf) Secretary Lane condensed a volume \ CHECKS The cheek is a promise to pay hard money which is perfectly good Lwhile in transit through the mails. Upon reaching its destination, how- ever,'it is'serutinized, weighed, mea- sured and tested for moisture by a bloodless functionary known as the credit man; who never accepts a cigar without examining it for the pure food label. The result is that a great many perfectly good cheeks, written in a bold, free hand, by people of honest intentions who are nursing an inflamed deficit, are returned to the makers with caustic words of re- proach attached to them in red ink. The check is one of the most con- venient forms with which to pay debts to people who live at a long dis- tance from the local bank. By the time a weak-lunged check has travel- led across the continent and has been found to have nothing back of it ex- cept a chattel mortgage on the cash register, an enterprising debtor can collect in enough money as financial secretary of three lodges tg meet it with a roll of cempact currency and with a surprised and pained look, For this reason wholesale houses sit- uated several hundred miles from the local Rating League greet checks with which they are not on speaking terms hogs and the yal my spine. It was a! German who said that the British! 'the work is well-designed, patriotic and] i unity, given us victory. If this great effort previous day. 'All the members standing, quivering with emotion; all the galleries filled with wives and mothers, who were going to send to Whe front their husbands or their sons; all standing; no more political 'parties, no mora groups--none but Frenchmen, reconc in their devo- tion to their country. And, as days followed days, all parties rallied to the same flag and 'put on the same uniform---Catholics = no more; free- thinkers no more, Socialists no more; Radicals no more, Conservatives no 'more, but all' ehildrén of 'the one France. As one man we shouldered our guns, -and ft 9s that wonderful that sacred unity, that that of ours should not be crowned with victory, then, I must say, never was there waged a war so disastrous to the nations of the world. What is at stake is not territorial aggrandize- to Hold me down. the ancient" blood within me hums. its sights, its atmosphere and rare delights. the grand free, street parade, | love the lukewarm lemonade, the gmynasts, india-rubber meén, the croco- diles from distant fen, the lovely girls with diadems composed of sparkling plate-glass gems. tigers in their cage, moth eaten lions in a"rage, the camels with their hilly backs, the snakes, the wart- ment; it is more than that: it is the freedom of the world." re NNN Random Reels "Of Shoes and Shipe and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages nd Kings" { with the haughty and disdainful stare of the head waitress during an Elks' convention. Checks are furnished by banks in small books' which enable the cus- tomer who owns an adding machine and a good memory to tell at once just how much he is overdrawn. The bank also keeps track for him, and sometimes its tracks do not harmon- ize with those of the customer, who immediately concludes that the banker ought to be learning the lock step at"the expense of the state. This is why 86 many bankers who are well thought of at home cannot get elect- ed fo the school board without run- ning on the labor' ticket and adve- cating the eight-Nour day. Checks have amr open, care-free countenance, and "are raised with great freedom andl' success by expert penmen who retire from the vicinity at a high rate of speed. This prac- tice is being discouraged, to some ex- tent, however, b¥' the check pro- tector, an aggressive machine, with stout jaws which dvrites out the full sum_and seldom )misspells a word. By the use of this device an active man who has had experience as a locomotive engineer can protect one of his own checks in less time than it takes to change a clincher tire. Rippling Rhymes ¥ THE GREAT SHOW The winter nearly killed me off ;it gave me grip and whooping cough, the mumps, the itch, the rheumatiz and gout and sich. I'm thankful that I have survived--the circus season has arrived! Today the first show came to town; it took three men es and the Men's and Young Men's Suits Mail orders promptly attended to. Send chest, waist and inside leg measure- ments. We will do the rest. «7; #, x = YOUNG MEN'S PINCH BACK SUITS In new Shetland Plaids, $15.00. YOUNG MEN"S FORM FITTING SUITS The Ritz, fancy tweeds and cheviots, $15. Men's 3 Button Sack Suits English Tweeds and Worsteds, $15.00 Tea ablets "1 From Pure Tea Leaf * * 100 Cups of Tea for 40c. An ideal overseas package. Horlicks Malted Milk Tablets Convenient and nutritious A day's ration, 25¢. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE * 185 Princess St. Phone 343. For.always when the circus c s I never weary of 1 love 1 love the 1 love the wild hyena's yell, I love the good old circus smell; there's nothing like that fine rich scent cutside the canvas circus tent. __ same old fragrance that I knew in youth; when all my skies were blue, and I played hookey that my eyes might see the tented paradise. And when I hear the circus growl, the mingled groan and roar and howl, the bark, the mutter and the whine, the same old thrill runs up The --WALT MASON. By GENE BYRNES -- THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN 'Carpenter and Builder W. R. BILLENNESS 8; lizsing Store Fronts snd ¥Fit- sn Remodelling Buildings of all troubles are made. right. Auto supplies of all kinds; cars washed and Le ered, Repair work a specialty; prices rea- sonable. CAll"ali@' give us a trial. Always open. DALY'S GARAGE ESTIMATES . EXPERIENCE Address 272 ty Ave. hy EE -- COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! On and after first of May Coal Sales will be for Cash Only. to Siylish Ap- fr . No other part of wo- man's dress.is more con- spicuous than her shoes. in its dealings and in its delivery. This | vice may be had at the UNITED GROCERY, 267. The groceries. It is a pleasure to deal The place where all auto |i with a man or store fair its methods, square in prompt is ser- 138 Princess St. Phone home of choice 'Honey 20c a Section At Thompson's Grocery 294 Princess Street, .. Phone 387. Ain * We Have a Nice Assortmen tnt of Pure CornSyrup In 2b. tins, 5.1b. pails, and 10-1, pails, which we are selling for one week only ac the old price. E. H. BAKER Cor. Montreal and Charles St, Phone 1263. Her shoes, therefore, play a very Important part of the style expres- sion of her costume. They make or