ve rd RF RRT FISH Or 1 [E DAIT ti disturb the inhabitants." was passed in pre-war days when the manager of cess street by having a gramaphone reeling off ragtime till late at night. Recently the City Council wiped. off its statute book the regulation pro- viding for the ringing of the curfew ibpell. It might also put the blue | pencil to the anti-noise by-law. WILL THERE BE AN IDMMIGRA- TION BOOM? During the war emigration to Can- ada from the British Isles and else- { where has been practically at a stand- still, but there has been a steady in- | flux from the United States, nearly {200,000 having crossed the border. } This law | humor; the old Bijou Theatre at- tempted to make a midway of Prin. | we caught and radiated the generous good-nature of your smile. We joined you--after you had poked fun .at our conservatism, or was it really our snobbishness?--in the simple songs that reached our hearts. And we felt for you when you re- ferred to the heroic death of your noble boy, who fell fighting "beside the Canadians," as you expressed it. Heart spoke to heart, there. We understood the tremor in your voice, as your mind went back to the sacri- fice; the flash in your eye and the squaring of your shoulders, as you | You, at least, have done your part. took a new grip upon your swaying emotions; the defiant attitude, the out-thrust jaw, words, with which you bespoke the British determination to smash the { man wherever the British flag --is the short, clean-cut | thing more than friend. The mess- age from your lips, which stirred your audience to applause again and again, was a message straight from the heart of a loyal Scot. You plead. ed, in stirring and eloquent tones, for ugion against the foe, who is strong and merciless. You asked us: "If Germany can concentrate everything she possesses for hellish. ness and cruelty, can not the British Empire concentrate everything she possesses for honor and decency?" She can. And we beileve she will, Free speech is the right of every flown. We can understand your re- sentment when your exercise of such a right is questioned on Canadian Men's and Boys' Wear Bem "Let's make assurance doubly sure, and buy a Bon Publivked Daily and Semi-Weekly by ue BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING w LIMITED, 5 a. EikioL Lt Levan A, Guild i Presider . Mapa ng rector d Bec.-Treas. Telephones: !1t may be better to draw the com-' | parison over a number of years past: Britist 59,790 1911 123,013 1912 138,121 1913 150,542 1914 142,622 1915 43,276 1916 8,664 1917 8,282 E. March 1910 Howineas Cf. ++» "nin Eo . 229 Jot 29 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered In city 5.00 if paid in advance .... @ yeol by mail to Jor offices 3:80 : 1.00 Ne s yo Ons 1.50 Une ol x and lk nan pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R.' Bruce Owen 123 St. Peter St = TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE F Be, Traders Bank Bldg. UNITE STATES RR ESENeATI= ER Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New Y Northrup, 1610 As#"n Bldg., Chicas Attached is one of the best job printing offices In Canada. 7 , __ The circniation of THE BRITISH ea is sathenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circziations. Watch the voters' lists. If you can't grab a gun, grab a Victory Bond. Of Sir Wilfrid Laurier it will be said: 'His sun has gone down while it was yet day." Put your money into uniform in the way of Victory Bonds and send it_on its mission to fight the Ger- mans. ' The foreigners in Canada who are ineligible to enlist or to be drafted ought to be taxed to the very linvit-- or sent home. Many correspondents are adding at the foot of 'their letters the line: "Support the Wnion Government." The idea is a good one. The Laber candidate in Bast Cal- gary objects to the Laurier endorse- ment. That's the kind of man we need in Parliament, The women voters 'in Kingston | should at ohce write their soldier re. latives overseas and appeal to them to support the Union Government. Branches of the Veterans' Associa- tions are everywhere endorsing Union Government. Lend them a hand. They know what théy are about. "When the British "decide to push on the enemy fails to hold them hack," says the New York Times in discussing conditions on the western front. That's a pretty fine tribute, When the British take Cambrai, which Haig is now assaulting, they will be only thirty miles from the Belgian frontier. The Hun will soon be. defending himself on his own territory. Many poople think Canada is fighting for England, that it is her war. If Canada was a nation by her- self she would be in the war, not for England's sake, but for prineiples of justice and mighteousness. The Unit- ed States is in it on those grounds. It 4s the world against militarism and brutality. 4 What will be tbe immigration fig- "ing to this country as the land of il- {ures after the war? The facts of the | situation admit of but one interpre- oo | tatign. According to estimates pre- 30 | pared in the various belligerent coun- |tries, nearly thirty million men are funder arms in Europe and elsewhere. These men are the cream of their national manhood, and, whatever may have been thelr occupation pre- | ously, by the end of the war they ork | Wil have become thoroughly inured to an outdoor life. There will be millions of them whose eyes will turn longingly to Canada as the Land of | Opportunities. It is indeed a Land of Opportuni- ties. It is the Eldorado of the twen- |tieth century, to which'a man may bring his ambitions with confidence. ! Plenty of men in Europe are getting idea Into their heads, and in this connection it must not be forgot- ten that Canada has now hundreds of thousands of immigration agents over there. The possibilities of the agricultural development of the Dominion have scarcely been touched as yet. There are mines and fisheries whose wealth, has never been even estimated be- teause no man has visited - them: There are vast areas that will some !day be occupied by thousands: of cattle, by dairy farms, by fruit farms. Nearly thirty per cent. of Canada has not even been explored. All of these developments as they take place will make ever increas- ing demands upon the manufacturing plants of the Dominion. Agricultural {implements will be required, house- { hold and office furniture and equip- ment, clothes, shoes, luxuries as well as necessities of every kind, 'for a population that will grow by millions { where it formerly grew by hundreds fot thousands. i To say that the twentytieth cen- "tury belongs to Canada is a picture- sque way of stating . a demonstrable fact. The eyes of the world are tarn- that timitable opportunities, the land with a future whose limits no man can measure, National like individual growth ad- {vances unevenly. There are periods of apparent stagnation. There are periods of quiet progress. And there are periods when the country seems to grow almost visibly, when the na- tional energies appear to work by one tremendous impulse of development, when every business man in the country is inspired to put his shoul- der to the wheel. Canada is approaching ono of these periods, She will emerge from the war with a world-wide prestige, not merely for the heroism of her citizen rmies, but for the splendid work done by her civilians, her manufac- turers, her farmers, her workers of every kind. The opening of the dam that now holds back the flood of emi- gration from Europe will be like a match to the fire, and the whole American country will spring forward by leaps and bounds. "When war 2008 1 como, it's a crime In this connection preparedness to hit soft," declared Roosevelt at fOr peace is almost as essential as _ Toronto. "If you hit a man a little Preparedness for war. The big busi- he's going to hurt you. Don't hit a Ness Interests must foresee the com- man unless you are forced to; if you In& opportunities and make their do hit him, put him to sleop." Can- Plans to meet them. The govern- ada should put her share of German ™MeNlL Must see to it that the new- inifitarism to sleep, and it can only comers get a square deal in every soil.' You told us that a foreign paper--you couldn't read it----had on the previous day enquired"what right Harry Lauder had to come to its city and give advise on the Victory Loan and recruiting! Your reply went 402,432 straight to our hearts: "My God, I S53 have every right in the world, be- 48.537 | cause my only son died fighting in 75,374 | this great war!" And because of your loss, of the brave and smiling face while the heart must have bled, Other Countries Total 208,794 311,084 354,237 402,432 Hun, once and for all, whether it took two or twenty years. Scotland | of the stirring message you brought may be "a wee bit nation," as you |to us, we English-speaking Can- graphically put it, but she has a|adians extend to you the warm hand brave soul, and you interpreted her | of welcome and sympathy, and wave spirit aright last might. The Seotch, | to you a cheering_and hearty fare- we are told "love the jingle of the | well ag you pass along. pennies, but we believe the response of that large,audience was more pre- cious to you than any amount of silver and gold. Because it was genuine and surged up from the heart. You came to us as an old friend, one we admired and appreciated be- cause of his winning ways and un- usual talents. You go away as some- Another Blow. (Boston Transcript) In the interests of economy, Great Britain proposes to abolish the waist- coat. Another blow at the vested in- terests. What You Don't Hear. (Chicago News) When two or more women get to- gether, one of the things you don't hear is silence. ( = THE WOMAN WITH SILVER HAIR I glanced in her room as the 'bus went by: She was writing to someone she loved "out there." Q'it's many a lad would 'be proud --thought I-- Of that dear little woman with the silver hair-- To that mother with the silver hair! The lamplight shone, in that homely room, On a photo facing the mother's chair. 0, what if octopus arms of doom Should reach to that head with the silver hair-- Of that mother with the silver hair! There are thousands of -women, like her, who live In the homes that have memories everywhere, 0, happy the memories some of them give Of a dear little woman with the silver hair-- Of a mother with the silver hair! The 'bus roared on through the dark'ning street, And I though of the time when the lamps will glare. 0, I' wished, when her laddie comes home, I could meet, Her prayers fulfilled and her joy complete, That dear little woman with the silver hair-- That mother with the silver hair! --Trevor, in Lloyd's Weekly News. v 7 Rippling Rhymes of Self-interest As a matter of Patriotism, as a matter n to you Victory Bonds A doubled assurance of continued support to the men in the front line, and of continued prosperity at home. 'If we would give the fullest support to our Canadian fighters we must keep our industries providing the- munitions, "food, the cloth: ing so necessary for their success and comfort. If we would be assured of continued prosperity at home we must provide the motel. to keep the wheels turning. From every point of view it's up of Business, as a matter BUY VICTORY BONDS 'WHAT'S THE TRUTH ? War stories, always on the wing, I fear me, oft are fictions, and travelers come up and spring their! endless contradictions. 1 can't fmagine where we're! at,.as I compose this' sonnet; one man is talking through his hat, another through his bonnet. One' man, who's just returned from France, who's seen the | armies fighting, says, 'Kaiser Wilhelm's name is Pance----he's beaten at this writing." 1 go outdoors to celebrate, my soul is glad and sunny; then comes along another skate, who says, "Don't get too funny. The Kaiser's strength is unimpaired, in "fact, he's growing stronger; don't fool yourself and think he's scared---he'll fight for nine years longer." One day I read the submarines are knocked out the British; I prance like springald in his teens, I feel so gay and skittish. And then 1 read another tale, which starts the teardrops flowing; the efforts of the British fail-- the U-boat graft is growing. What is the truth? Where are we at? Produce the facts doggone it! One man is talking through his hat, another through his bonnet, & --WALT MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN By GENE BYRNES be done by united action under the Union Government. -------------------- "For God's sake mother get out and work for (eomscription--work for any old party that will send us the reinforcements we need so bad- This appealing ery cameo across the waters from a son in Flanders to his mother in Toronte, a former presi. dent of the Women's Liberal Club there. And she and thousands of other women will work so that rein- + forcéments already under mobiliza- tion can spestily go, way. If these and other essential {points are realized properly, Canada has a period. of incalculable progress just ahead. She has all the factors that count for success in nation- i building except ore, and the close of the war should give her the missing factor--~man power---in abundance. No other undeveloped country in the world has such an attractive pro- position to offer to the intending emi- grant, such an illimitable horizon of opportunity. The man who comes to Canada now comes to the business Eldorado of the Néw World, where A BROKEN CITY LAW, 4 |help. to build up @ great nation: ® Some of Kingston's by-laws are, kept about as well as the Ten Com- mandments. For instance: here is one passed in 1909 that mobody keeps or has any intention of keep- ing: "It shall not be lawfal for any person to ring a bell, blow a horn, shout or make any unusual noise or noises within the ¢ity calculated to link in the wnion of free nations that| ' TO HARRY LAUDER. Hail and farewell, Harry Lauder! You warmed the ¢ockles of our heart. - You set the heather of our patriotism ablaze once more. We he may make his own fortune and] laughed with you over your delicious Bon Marche Grocery Phone 1844. Cor. King and Earl LESS MEAT IF BACK AND KIDNEYS HURT Take a Glass of Salts to Flush Kid- neys If Bladder Bothers You. Eating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble ingome form or other, says a well-known authority- ity, because the uric acid in meat ex- cites the kidneys, they become over- worked, get sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of distress, particular. ly backache and misery in the kidney region; rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, acid stomach, con- stipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and urinary irritation. The moment your back hurts or kidneys aren't acting right, or if blad- der bothers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few .days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neu- tralize the acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending blad- der disorders. Jad Salts cannot injure anyone; makes a delightful effervescent lithia- water drink which millions of men and women take now and them to keep the kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease. x pharmacy; We Are After VICTORY BONDS Buy all the Victory Bonds you can, it is the best investment you man make and help to win the war. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE Phone 343 185 Princess VICTORY BONDS UNITED GROCERY Buy a VICTORY It is a first mortgage on ev. ery foot of land in Canada, on every tree in the forest, on every pound of ore in the earth. It is a promise to pay, en- dorsed by every man, woman ,and child, who has or will ev. entually have any interest in T.J Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance. Clarence Street, Kingston. Phone 1085 and 1020. BUY VICTORY BONDS Central Garage, Phone 2185. (CRAWFORD Foot of Queen St. Phone 9.