PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH WHIG S4TH YBAR. Published Daily znd Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CY, LIMITED, E Leman A. Guild tor and 'Man Director. el SP hones Business Office .. Editorial Rooms Job Office ' . SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delfvered in city year, if paid in advance : year, by mail to rural offices year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mall, cash year, if mot paid fn advance $1.50 year, to United States 1.50 Six and three months pro rata. YUONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owe 122 $t. Peter St. TORONTO" "REPRESEN ATIVE F. C. Hoy .:!. 1006 Traders/Bank Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass' n Bidg., + Ohlcago Attached is one of the job printing offices fn Canada, One One One One One One One best | The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the AB Audit Bureau of Circulations. Shop early. Vote for the YOY this time; party- ism can wait. Remember the Cliristmas fund, soldiers' kiddies' Straw votes taken in battalions in England a solid support for the Union Gov- ernment, Canadian The coming of power within the next few days will mark another step in the city's ad- vance. x If Canada delays forcements for a year, while we take a referendum, the boys at the front won't require any assistance. The women of Kingston, who de- | sire a furlough for their husbands, | sons or brothers, can secure only by voting for the Government and candidate pledged to send ample reinforcements to the front, Kitchener nan apologized. and her best citizens have that to be proud of. here remains, however, the memoly of the cause of her disgrace. The lesson it taught may bear good fruit. i tf' you are inclined to oppose Union Government remember you are opposing a man as Minister of Public Works (Hon. Frank Car- vell), who has been an outstanding figure in the fight Liberals have been making for clean public life. "The man who by his vote and influénce delays the despatch of re- inforcements for our men in France is not far removed from him who betrays 'his country," declares T. C. . Robinette, K.C., a one-time Liberal candidate in Toronto. The Toronto Star puts the situa- tion very clearly in these few words: "Sir Wilfrid 'Laurier is not leading the Liberal party to-day in this elec- tion. He ig leading Quebec and those people, formerly of both poli- tical people, who think and feel as Quebec does at this time." The New York ble Society has sent to each managing editor of a New York newspaper a copy of the New Testament, aud our guess fis that some of them geed it. Bu! tae Syracv+' Post-Standard fears that . some of them may take it for a new bok and write a learned review on ie Should Laurier and the National- ists and the disloyal vote win, the whole of Canada will be placed un. der French-Canadian rule. The policy of the Goyernment is deter- mined in the caucus, and if Laurier is réturned to power It means that the caucus will be dominated by French-Canadian. votes, and policy must and will prevail. Is there a right-thinking British citizen who by his vote would knowingly and willingly bring about such a state of affairs? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The Whig has been in receipt of ® men. The opinion was number of letters dealing with the that the heavy casualties in the Brit- Sister Basil case and the work of the 'ish armies would seriously cripple, It could see. 'if' not force into bankruptey, practic. no good purpose to be accomplished [ally all of the life by giving wublication to those som-! ! panies in England. The losses have On the contrary, they {been enormous, and quite naturally would probably provoke countless re- this view point might prevail. plies of a harmful nature. Letters to Insurance man, however, exposed the Exemption Tribunals. munications. show almost | Hydro-Blectric | sending rein- | this | their the editor, if not too dealing with important topics, are welcomed. These, however, should not contain malicious or .slanderous tatements lengthy and Following its accus. the British Whig wil letters only of the author. tomed policy, publish over the name HELP THE UNIONISTS, The Union Government direct product of the war; most is the it is the available combination of hon. orable men bound together with the great object of helping the Cana- dians overseas by reinforcements, helping the heroes who have brought honor to Canada's pame, but who are being rapidly thinned. It was a mistake to have delayed Union Government so long, but it is now here, and if the country endorses it --and of which we have no doubt-- it will be strengthened to the point of not only being a war government, but also a business government di- vested of all the barnacles of patron age and other past evils which neither party seemed alone able to circumvent. FUEL LOST TO INCINERATOR. Much has been said in recent City Council sessions about the inciner- ator, instead of the city dump, being the place for depdsiting old paper THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1917, He said: med | fallacy of this reasoning. be generally ause the United Kingdom | has sed enormous armies and | maintained millions in navy, the life in- | surance companies have been No 80. The losses t y called light, In e war losses of twenty-three ass that several the | that the losses to must ative British companies, | obtainable, were | 5 per cent. of the 1915 the known losses were 12 per cent. The 1916 figures are not available yet, but it is expected that the war losses ut the same as in 1915, | 1 cause of this general |{ mortality is that the British affect insurance at a more age than they do in America. average age of the policy-hold- | ers on the books of the British com- | panies when war started was nearer | forty than thirty-five, while the | in America is probably about | thirty. The reason for this is that men do noi earn much money in the United Kingdom until they are al- most middle-aged, and consequently they cannot afford life insurance at the same youthful age as the well. pald youngsters in the United States or Canada. whose 3 were only a little over In but total losses people mature and other combustibles. Certainly the incinerator is the place, but the experience of most householders has | been that the garbage collectors are! not inclined to take the little piles of papers and other combustible refuse left beside the garbage receptacles. It may be that the civic garbage com- mittee has directed that these ma- terials be collected, but it is not jdone in a great many cases. In fact this appears to be the general com- plaint, and the garbage committee might make a note of it and insist that the collectors do their duty. The householders are paying a mill | in taxes for the collection of their garbage and refuse of a combustible nature. The latter materials are of ! great value to the incinerator, and would reduce the burning of so much wood: ! PAUSE AND CONSIDER! Hon. J. A. Calder, to Liber- als of Saskatchewan: { "As a Liberal, I ask you to pause and consider why so many outstanding figures in our party have come boidly for- ward and taken their stand in the present crisis. Is it not because they honestly and sin- cerely believe that Canada, as-a nation, must see this war through, and that this can best i be accomplished by-a Union Government enforcing the poli- cies is stands for?" * { HABITS, G GOOD AND BAD. The ordinary housewife has many little domestic -habits that have be-| come almost as sacred as religious! devotions. The sugar bowl must be in a certain spot on a certain shelf in the cupboard, or the whole house seems out of order. The broom must) be in its corner, or there will be ill- temper. These are but a few of the in- numerable little habits that make up nine-tenths of our lives. Not an im- pression, not an emotion, not an opinion, not a'resolution, not an ac- tion is possible to us that is not in- fluenced, colored and directed by fixed conditions within ourselves-- habit, } Habits are not without their ad- vantages. They are formed by fol- lowing the lines of least resistance. When a man has once put on his left shoe before his right, it is easier next time to follow the same order. His muscles and nerves have a preference for a procedure with which they have previously become acquainted, Be- sides, it leaves his mind free. Many a man has employed his {mind in mapping out his day's work while his habit is putting on his shoes. Every habit is, of course, a limi- tation of the easy exercise of free will. Bad habits are chains, holding us as prisoners. Good habits are like a well-made harness, enabling us to do our work in the world without friction or waste of energy. A great many men have contracted the habit of voting as their fathers did before them. Again it was the easiest way. They supported their party in every election because it had become a habit--a bad one, we ad- mit. It required a great war--a world uphkeaval-- to induce them to break the chains of party and to dis 'eard the practise of sticking to their party, be it right or wrong. Thus another bad habit is in way of beng discarded. I ---------------- THE SAFETY OF INSURANCE. , An interesting point was brought out in a discussion carried on the other day by a group of business insurance com- An CAgain when war started the Brit- ish companies stopped the accept- | jance of insurance on the lives of per- sons of military age. They noW find | on their beoks clients mostly above military age who are not drafted for the army, "The war mortality that does exist is perhaps less important than the depreciation in assets due to the war. One of'the criticisms of British com. ! panies was that they hel too large reserves. The wisdom of their course is now made plain. When the war ends the British life com- panies will almost certainly remain second to nothing in the world in point of real strength." The many Canadian policy hold-! ers in British companies, who have ' perhaps feared that the war was go- ing to jeopardize their investment, will' breathe a little easier after this very lucid and satisfactory explana. tion. If interested in Union Govern- ment attend meeting at City Hall to- night. Lo bY PUBLIC OPINION Narrow-minded. (Brantford Ex sit He is a poor kind « way, who-demands t Liberal think as he does relative Canada's part in the world's war. The Outlook. (London Advertiser) Political weather forecast: From | December 1 to 17, stormy; Decem- | ber 18 some depression, but continn- ed bright sunshine for the country as a whole, to} Curious. (Montreal Star) The conscience of the conscien- tious objector will not let him fight, but it will let him sleep, while men whom he could: help are dying to save his skin. The conscience of the conscien. | tious objector is a curious thing. Liberalism Not Threatened. (Toronto Star) Nor is the future of Liberalism in ny way prejudiced by the union. Liberals who support the Union Gov- ernment are simply expressing their desire for vigorous prosecution of the war. They do not surrender or compromise any Liberal principles. They do not weaken themselves for the advocacy of the Liberal cause. Questions on which there is differ- | enc of opinion are not compromised, but merely postponed. Words Without Meaning. Hamilton Herald The magic words "Big Interests," "patronage," 'machine, ete. JO too precious to be discarded by the | political campaigners and ,newspap- | {ers which rely upon the hypnotizing | 'effect of words without meaning. | But it is fairly well known by this timé that the Union Governmeht nas | abolished patronage and has resolv ed upon the placing of the outside} civil service under control of the | Civil Service Commission. With these administrative reforms there 1s | nothing to fear from the aforesai: | evils. Their claws will have be: trimmed Still they are useful bogie-men. n| as To Hear a Case. On Saturday morning Col. G. H. Junter will hear a case in which two farmers living on Wolfe Island are involved. The row followed a threshing bee, and it is alleged that a pitchfork figured in the affair. Don't forget meeting, Cc ity Hall to- night. Good speeches. William Pieper, former manager of the Ogilvie Milling Company's grain elevators at Winnipeg, died at Kitchener in his sixty-fifth year. mn Rippling Rhymes SHIFTING WEATHER | | | | | The weather switches to and fro, from one ex-| treme to t'other; the next in heat we o'clock, all tranquil is the weather; there'd be a flock of balmy days together. one day we're ankle deep in snow, | smother When I retire at 9 it looks as though "It is the finest climate built," in bed I keep repeating, and kick off coverlet and quilt, because they're overheating. So! ig a pleasant frame of mind I soon become g snorer, | preparing for the morrow's restorer. And when the clock is striking three, wake from all my dozin'; and I'm three quarters frozen. grind with nature's sweet | 1 the snow is drifting over me, Oh, it womd bother any gent to know what traps to carry, when he goes | forth to pay his rent, to gamble or to marry. ster or a palm leaf fan? His ul-| His rubbers or his sandals? | This climate is too fierce for man, and weather sharps are vandals! A VALT MASON, _ 4 heat, and a en again pneumoney. next sunburn and freckles; and all the my shekels, i One day 1 wade around in sleet, and think this life is phoney; the next day I have prickly One day the weather gives me croup, the time I'm in the soup, and doctors get --WALT MASON. SAYS HOT WATER WASHES POISONS 'FROM THE LIVER Everyone should drink hot water with phosphate in It, before breakfast. To feel as fine as the proverbiai fiddle, we must keep the liver wash-' ed clean, almost every morning, to prevent its sponge-like pores from clogging with indigestible material, sour bile and poisonous toxins, says a noted physician. It you get headaches, it's your liver. If you catch cold easily, it's your liver. If you wake up with a bad taste, furred tongue, nasty breath or stomach becomes rancid it's your liver. Sallow skin, muddy complexion, watery eyes all denote liver uncleanliness. Your liver is the most important, also the most abus- ed and neglected organ of the body. Few know its function or how to re- lease the dammed-up body waste, bile and toxins. Most folks resort to viol- ent calomel, which is a dangerous, salivating chemical which can only be used oclasionally because it accumu- lates in the tissues, also attacks the hones. Every man and woman, sick or well, should drink each morning be- fore breakfast, a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phos- phate in it, to wash from the liver and bowels the previous day's indi- gestidble material, the poisons, sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and freshening the en- tire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. Limestone phosphate does not re- strict the diet like calomel, because it can not salivate, for it is harmless and you can eat anything afterwards. It is inexpensive and almost taste- less, and any pharmacist will sell you a quarter pound, which is sufficient for a demonstration .ef how hot wa- ter and limestone phosphate cleans, | vanting anything done In the ca stimulates and freshens the liver, keeping you Jeshing fit day in and day! out. THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987 ery line. Estimates given on all k ads if repairs and ncw work; also hard- pr Socre of all Kinds. iS orders recelve prompt attention. 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