[ - " Hee sey bby ==| The Daily British Whig [= BAA eh Yor 84: No. 261. Kingston, Ontario, Friday, November 9, 1917. Publicity and Progress Campaign. inna ssn | EO The British Whig's Fart at or 2 Publicity and > \ ¢ = E = E ES National rity feeds upon itself. Each period of growth i is the springing board for another. = But why a it comes? Why accept an intervening period of dull trade as part of the inevitable scheme of things? Canada is prosperous now as = ll never before. Why not go out now, while the inspiration of our present success is still upon us, and rope in another period of gilt-edged prosperity? pe = After the war, there is bound to be a certain amount of industrial dislocation while the boys in khaki are being replaced in civil life. Not only that, but = | the hundreds of factories that have been turning out war material and supplies of evry kind will have to re-adjust themselves to their former kind of work. Ln All this epells dislocation if, and only if, we drift. But there is a better word than drift. There is organization. There is preparedness for peace. We i have the basis of that preparedness i in our present prosperity. E During the last three years Canada's export provision trade to Great Britain has more than doubled. Canada' s trade with the United States has more = than doubled. Agriculture, dairying, fruit farming, all these industries are prosperous beyond anything recorded in the history of the country. Lumbering and iv mining and fisheries, all report unprecedented business, in spite of the general shortage of labor. Every mill and factory in Canada is working to capacity. Every ship that leaves these shores is freighted up to the safety limit. | This is the great opportunity for Canadian industry to carry the present boom forward over the after'war crisis, instead of accepting the hitherto inevitable dull period. Dull periods are not inevitable in a country with such tremendous undeveloped resources as Canada. They may be so in an old-established and ~ over-populated country, but in this land of suprefne opportunity they can surely be avoided. That must be the slogan of Canadian business men, to boost the E Dominion from one period of prosperity right into another, and thus absorb the heroes from overseas as fast as they are demobilized. It will be difficult. It will require careful organization, courage and enterprize and confidence. But Canada has shown time and again that she posses- ses these vital qualities. Three years ago shé.organized a great citizen army to help beat Germany. Now, both her national self-interest and her national i call her to organize another citizen army to conquer a new prosperity and help to realize that famous saying that Canada is the country of the Twen- tieth Century. ff . To Spon lr fg Ez Kingston i the Mamachrin | An Interesting Account of How Kingston Led ct Fire Records of th. Kind Than Any ber of Lines, And Has in Fact Other City in Canada. al Centre of Eastern Ontario The Following Information, Issued by the Bureau of Information and In- dustty Shows the Advantages of Kingston as a Location For Mang- Fasturig Plants. pulation of the city is growing steadily, not spectacularly so, but Mowii , which is far better. Situated midway between Montreal and Toronto, Kingston is a superior shipping point for the whole of Canada. 4 ore Records of the Kind Than Any A publicity number of a newspaper primarily issued to boost the city in which it is published, to attract manufacturers and capitalists and private residents, to send all over the country an account of its attractions and op- portunities. But the personal note cannot altogether be ignored. Kingstonians are justly proud of their famous little city. They are proud of its connection with the historic past, and they are especially proud of the fact that it led the way in such a number of national and provincial activities. "A notable First that stands to Kingston's credit--a double First, in fact-- is contained in the fact that it was the site of the first classical school and the first cathedral in the province, as stated in the memorial tablet in -St. George's Cathedral to the memory of the Rev. John Stuart, D.D. The in- scription may be worth quoting in full: To th ed : There is direct freight service over the three great transcontinental who Bn ais oY the Rev. § ohn Sivan D D. ie railways, and water transportation, north, south, east'and west, for eight | § Loyalist, and was known as the Father of the church in months in the year, via Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence Waterway, and the per Canada. He founded this cathedral, the first formed in Rideau Canal. province, and also the first school. He was chaplain to the A large acreage adjacent to the railways, is available for manufactur- garrison and to the first Laghlative -Couneil, and was 27 ing sites. years rector in Kingston ssociated with Thayendanega, Chief Brant, he translated the Gospel the Book of Com- mon Prayer into the Mohawk tongue. He was instrumen- tal in forming important missions from Cornwall to York. Universally beloved, this intrepid herald of the Gospel fell asleep August 15th, 1808, Kingston was also the : meeting place of the Fi irst Legislative Council of Upper Canada. There is a 8, pictute of the building as it stood at the time, in which it is described gia Cu Government House. was where Colonel ohn Graves Simcoe tive Council on May 17th, 1792, the first Parliament in piety Bi ot Er on i o modern notions, fk; aernized Paved streets and well-lighted thoroughfares are a feature 6f this mo- still stands in Queen street, just The co Se Paul's church. ized city, in' which all the citizens are working for the general good. When Upper and Lower Canada were re-united in 1841, Kingsto | | the fiat capital, aud wher the ter Fa i | Ideal Manufacturing Centre _ Prior to this-- - a ; admiably situated at the foot of Lake Ontario and the en " : b ! trances & Te wrence and Rideau Canals. With sple phy- ges, it i also the market-place f ] sabato The poration Hi wikin rads of 5 m Tax exemptions, fixed assessments and even free sites, have been granted by the city; #ach case being considered spedially. Labor conditions are favorable. ns, Rents, land values, and the cost of living are esomable, One of the largest farmers' markets in Canada is held three times a week. The Light, Power and Water services are municipally owned a hd op 7 erated under a Commission, and rates are almost at cost to manufact The city has as fine educational avantages as any in Canada, being the home both of Queen's University and the Royal Military College.