____ PAGEFOUR The British Whig S4ATH YEAR. SA ° oN OE Be Pa -- | fp | i id WEE I ---- --- n = EE Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITIS WHIG PUBLISHING ©0,, LIMITED. , G. Eltott .., AR, A. Guild Telephones: 08 44s .e T ++« Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Ei on) year, delivered In city , if paid in advance .... $5.0 by mail to rural offices $2.5 to United States ..... $2.5 by mail, cash ... year, if not pald in vi 'ear, to United States $i x and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE . Bruce Owen 123 St. Peter St. RONTO REPRESENTATIVE F.C. Hoy ... 1006 Traders Bank Bldg. UNIT STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave. New York P.R.Northrup, 1510 Ase'n Bldg. Chicago Attached is ome of the best job printing offices in Canada. 0 0 The elrenlation of THE BRITISH WHIG is suthenticated by the ° without a public library and read- olin Ontario without an institution of puts the war and its needs in the first place in our thoughts. He tells | us plainly that unless our army is disappear from the fighting line in France. In the face of that declara- tion Sir Wilfrid Laurier strikes a mournful note when he asks for the suspension of the Military Service | Act until the people have had an opportunity . te vote upon it im. a special re- ferendum No, the blood of. the slain in a national cause, and the! voice of the army in distress, call] for action, and no other cry has any equal with it in ascendency and power. ue Five more days and the period of military registration will be over. Then the exemption courts will begin their work, and they will have to move quickly in erder to accomplish | the tasks that lie before them in a reasonable time. QOUNCIL GIVES A GRANT, The public library has been run- ning behind, and without the relief of the City Ccouncil would have had to be closed. A city in Ontario ing room would occupy a strange] position. It is a matter for com-| ment that Kingston is the only city | this kind. "In fact," as the Whig has been informed, 'of the two hundred and twenty-nine Associated Libraries in the province there are only four in places with a popula- tion of more than 3,500, and Kings. ton is one of them." The local in- stitution has been supported by a Government grant, subscribers' fees, | and a municipal grant, and these! ABC Audit Bureau of Circziations. AN APPEAL IN VAIN. The admirers of Sir Wilfrid Laur- fer in Canada--and there are very many of them--must regret that he did not see the liberal / party was drifting away from home and that he could not possibly rally it by an anti.conscription appeal. It must have pained the stalwarts who lov- ed him as no other leader has .ever been to différ with him on this most crucial question. But they have had to give utterance to thelr disap-| proval of his stand on the Military Service Act of 1917 in language the most touching. The men Who have | most felt the severance of their] {have been inadequate to continue it | efficiently. It has not been restrict- ed in the use which has been made of its facilities." The reading room 'has been open to all, and the books| have been read by students, pupils of the schools, mechanics and others. | The time may not have arrived when the Council can, by taxation, assume the maintenance of a public library. 'The contingencies of the war have been accepted as an argu- ment against any expenditure which can be avoided. But there does not seem to be a scarcity of money for anything else, and the library on its merits commands the public sym- pathy. Assuming, therefore, that the Council could not assume any new and permanent liability just recruited without delay Canada must |" | Russian: army. { put to the Kaiser! political relationships, on this one now there are many reasons why it subject at least, (and it is the all-|ghould increase its contribution so absorbing one for the time being), | that, added to the subscribers' fees are those that are most conspicu-!and the Government allowance, the ously concerned in the success of the | library could be kept open. The $800 Union Government, These knew |which was voted by the City Coun- What it was to disagree with their/cil at its meting last evening is a beloved leader: They conceded that vote that wil be sustained by public his had been a brillant career, and | opinion. his a most honorable record. Yet they had been forced to msswme an atti- tude on the question of the day which completely separated them. No one could 'posgibly perceive what the effect of this cleavage on conscription could be. Both lead- «ors of the government and the op- position were opposed to it. Both had given pledges that it would not be proposed. Sir Wilfrid Laurier does not see that he can recede Looking back, (a 'failing or feel. ing we all inherit), it seems unfor- tunate now that the Carnegie offer of a public library, on the usual t¥mms, was not accepted in Kingston. A public institution can only be sus- tained with public money. CURFEW SHALL NOT RING. Some one has at last suggested that the Curfew bell should not be from this position even now with. | Tung any more, and it is at least re- out a mandate from the people. Sir| markable that the member of the Robert Borden, not less buoyant Council who moved for the annul- usually, but more hopeful in this in- | ment of the by-law did not know stance, has taken the plunge; and anything about it. The Whig has a perhaps it is as 'well that he did this very distinet recollection of the cir. without much consultation, seeing ' cumstances under which the curfew that the. issue was a touchy one and ' Was established. There were many| that sme of his allies would likely boys and girls upon the streets, un. balk over it. Mature reflection con- attended by elders or parents, at 'vineed parliament, however, that very late hours, and the moral sense Canada could not longer trust | to of the community demanded legisla- voluntary enHstmenits, and thus it tion which would drive them home became a national duty to put com. @t 4 reasonable time. The ringing pulsory service to the test. It 'must of the Curfew had the desired effect have been appavent to Sir Wilfrid for a while. Its first peals saw the Laurier that this was a subject on Youngsters heading homeward. In which parties could mot long or @ few cases the offenders--those seriously differ; and gradually there who did not pay any attention to the followed an alignment of the mem. Curfew--iwere escorted from public bers of parliament generally in its Places by the police and the parents support. It is to the everlasting 8dmonished to avoid a second of- credit of the liberal leader--for he fense. It was not long, however, un. is the liboral leader still, not having Hl the by.law became a dead letter, resigned--that before there was a ud seeing that it was not enforced, Yote on the Military Service Bill he the bell might as well have not been counselled his supporters to do as TUNE. Its silence mow is ominous, 'their consciences dictated, and with 88d of nothing so much as the dis- an expression of regret that it was Tespect shown by the rising genera- necessary liberal after liberal rose to lon for the laws that are supposed! give his approval to the measure. i regulate their movements. Ee ----. NOTES. ~~ That was the time that Sir Wil __frid should have retired from BDITORIAL = ; frida the Vou Hertiing, Germany' new . He could have made it s of a choice quite con: Chancellor, says his L ; all she wants. Yes, of the and and exeération of the world. i 1 creet; - and he have had the' consciousness ; SHI ot "the affections of the 'hese she can have the monopoly. His years had been : contempt | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1917. Turks in Asia Minor. Some men grow out of themselves, as it were, and General Maude is one of them. has come for fish. All the Kingston's cha a supply of fresh Couneil has to do is to arrange for | a 'place of sale and collection of fees. The people are entitled to all the cheap food they can get, Perhaps the sacrifice which Major Talbot Papineau made, jof his country, will appeal to his re- | lative, Henri Bourassa, as nothing else has done, The rebuke which the major gave to his cousin, not so long ago, will be painfully revived, The late Dr. Carman was a man of profound erudition, He was also a great preacher and a greater presiding officer. No one could be more genial in private life, and the Whig remembers him from the seventies, when he was the presi- | dent of Albert College in Belleville. Sir Hibbert Tupper has declined to offer himself as a candidate in the ensuing election. He will not op- pose Mr. Stevens, a win-the-war candidate 'in Vietoria. Besides he has had an experience of his own in parliament, and one that is perhaps quite satisfying. Some men know when they have enough. - | oORLC POON | » wd Gretting a Little Crimpy. (Ottawa Citizen) The frost is on the pumpkin, but it isn't a circumstance to the frost that | has fallen on the party machine since patronage was abolished. Good Use For Boots, (Toronto Mail) vr Russian agents have placed orders in the United States for a million and a half pairs of boots for the May those boots be Waste Must Stop. (Torento Star) Now that the people of Canada are to be put on rations for sugar, it is surely time to stop the waste of sugar In distilling. It is said that $28,000,000 pounds were so used last year. 2 = Faith in Ttaly. (New York Times) Italy has a constitutional govern- ment, and her people, intelligent and robust, has a passion for liberty. It 8s unthinkable that in this erisis the national life should crumble like a fungus, Keeping at the Switch. (Peterboro Examiner) Some one 'was® sleeping at the switch, when, as asserted by a win- the-war orator in Ottawa, "a well- known company got away with a profit of a million dollars in a sin- gle year." Talk Against Plottes (Toronto Globe) The Toronto Telegram speaks about Sir George's Foster's "conspje- uous uselessness to the country, the city; or the party." Evidently Sir 'George has been saying caustic things about the plotters against Union Government. . "Cheap Venison, (Montreal Herald) The Toronto Globe says the On- fario Government offers cheap ven- ison---Lundreds of toms of it--to the citizens of Toronto, who can no longer afford to eat Mver and bacon. Is it possible that there is any eat- able that the war profiteers have overlooked? in defence | * {contemporary opinion] | Glorifying Hindenburg. | Montreal Gazette. : In the eyes of the Germans nothing | | Is too good for Hindenburg, and, ac~ cording to a recent report from Ber- lin, there are those who say he should {be made a king of some 'state or { other, Napoleon, it will be remem- | bered, established his relatives, and | even his marshals, on various thrones {and the descendant of one of his of- { fiers reigns to-day in Sweden. The { Crown Prince of Germany is an ad- | mirer of the great Bonaparte and has !a fine collection of relics of him. It. | would not be surprising if he har- bored dreams of being another such | kingmaker on succeedng to the | throne of a victorious Germany. Roy- ialty sometimes has strange ambi- | tions, like commoner mortals. As for the Kaiser, he has six sons. The offective way of preventing any such | possibility as the creation of royal | seats for Prussian royalties and army commanders is to defeat their forces in the field. Who would like to have to render homage to King Hinden- burg, or King Wilheim, or King Eitel Friedrich? It is enough to make the most personal Mberty democrat shiver right to the hilt. Real Heroism Attractive, Toronto Telegram. Heroism always was and always will Ve less lucrative than Hogs. The country that trafics in Heroism cannot reward that Heroism as lav- ishly as the civilians who traffic in Hogs reward themselves. The ut= most that the country required of Sir Joseph Flavelle and other civilians were represented in the ex- pectation that they would cast all the efliciencies of great business or- ganizations into the treasury of a nation's need. These civilians were | doe to take out of that treas- ury the same rewards that these same business organizations had earned in times of peace. The least that the country expected of this wounded bell-boy and other soldiers was that they would cast themselves | into the treasury and take their per-| sonal reward in death, wounds, or 'hardships. The Elimination of Party. Peterboro Examiner. Personal ambition, party, feelings and personal and party interests can- not be entirely eliminated in the se- lection of candidates. The electors, too, may have individual opinions and preferences, and the selection of Faas Nes was Pin ra - Boys' Clothing Department style. Sizes 28 to 33. Full back, new two-way collar, patch pockets, cuffed sleeve, etc. $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, $16.50. young men's, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00. Bibbys Entire Second Floor. Special Attractions See Bibbys $6.50 Suits, new pinch bac): belted See Bibbys $6.50 Overcoats, sizes 27 to 33. See Bibbys High School Suits. Real beauties, See Bibbys big boys overcoats; same style as Boys' Sweaters Galore. Boys' Knickers. Boys' Reefers. win-the-war candidates does not ab-| solutely insure popular endorsation. | Neither the Umion Government, nor the Win-the-War - League can stampede, though they may urge and influence popular opinion and action; nor reckon with unfailing certainty as to how the great silent voice, in most minds a fight upon the old party lines is inconceivable, Premier Bor- den has intimated that he, as head of the Union Government, cannot re- cogmize as government, candidates any party candidates. The problem sent the comprised opinion of the two great panties, as thé Union Gov- ernment is sup | to' 'represent a similar compromise, Whether the Win-the-War League can do this is to be seen, Being presumably ab- seems 'then to be to hit upon a ean- | didate or candidates, that will repre- - WHEN YOU WAKE UP DRINK GLASS OF HOT WATER 5) mn Wash the poisons and toxins from system before putting more food into stomach, -- Says Inside-bathing makes ~ any. one look and feel clean, sweet and refreshed, ) ' solutely non-parti , can it speak the mind of the two greit panties in Peterborough and bring electoral Wash yourself on the inside' be- fore breakfast like you do on the UR OMS ~ FARMS Nt, Soldiers' Comforts Alr Pillows -- Comfortable and Serviceable. Colsnicen Combined Comforts +» Tollet Requisites in compact form, Horlicks Lunch Tablets -- Cone venient and nutritious, Abdominal Belts « All wool and chamois Hued. : Chamois: vestesWarm and sang fitting, Safety Razors and Rasor Strops. Foot powders and tablets, Founta'n Pens, FOR SALE ! =a 88 outside. This is vastly more impor- tant because the skin pores do not absorb impurities into the blood, causing illness, while the bowel pores Melvin Taylor, in the employ of|do. F. W, Smith & Bro, Napanee, as| For every ounce of food and drink watchmaker, for the past thirty|taken into the stomach, nearly an years, has severed his connection and | ounce of waste material must be will open a jewellery store for him-|carried out of the body. If this sell. 2 waste material js not eliminated day James & Reid's store, Perth, was|by day it quickly ferments and gen- burglarized and money totalling $50 | érates poisons, gases and toxins, opin to heel in unopposed support of the Union cangifate. the blood stream through *the lymph i ishment to sustain the body. Rippling A splendid health measure is to drink, before breakfast each day, a glass of real hot water with a tea- spooriful of limestone phosphate in Lit, which is a harmless way to wash these poisons, gases and toxins from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bow« trance was gained at the rear. > 4) =~ 5 TN ; In memory she you go footsteps quick down. And there you meet an ancient dame, who'd scare a burglar bony frame. ip 1alks 8 deep and rumbling bass, 2 + u she bitter brine, and lean aginst | Blue Front store, for you feel oy | To find your girl of love be- 'This is the saddest thing A be then Is beldam your lost Lenore! come 50 punk and fierce a bluff! nothing else so dad-blaihed tough! THE CHAMPION GRIEF You talk of mournful things, my friend; you say your woe's the one best bet; I'll tell, If you an ear will lend, the saddest thing that's happened you! meet your lost Lenore, or female of 'some other name, «the peach you loved in days of yore, when love was quite a fevered game. life, for youthful dreams go galley west; ih time you gathered in a wife, but always loved the old girl best. starry eyes, with curly hair and angel face; the lovely image never dies. back to your native town, where once, with els, thus cleansing, sweetening and freshening fhe entire alimentary ca- nal before putting miore food into the stomach. A quarter pound of limestone phos- phate costs but very little at the drug store but is sufficient to make anyone an enthusiast on inside-bath- ing. Men and women who are se customed to wake up with a dull, aching head or have furred tongue, bad taste, nasty breath, sallow com- plexion, others who have bilious at- tacks, acid stomach or constipation Are assured of pronounced improve. meat in both health and appearance shortly. ASK JAPAN FOR MEN J. L. Garvin Urges That She Be | | Called On to Help the Italians. . London, Nov. 6.--J. 71. Garvin, writing in the Chbeerver on the situa- tion created by the Halian reverse, it is to Somehow she drifted from your képt her place, the lost Lenore with And now that you are waxing old, and bold, you ran the fleet jackrabbit with her facé; she has a large und - --WALT MASON. taken from the cash registers. . En-| Which are absorbed or sucked into! ducts which should suck only nour-, Per HT DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 Princess St. Phone 348. || ' ~- TARIO WHITE- FISH AND TROUT All Kinds of Fresh | : "Fish. | EmmImmIm-------- Deion Fi Go cen whe wn For particulars apply to T. 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