. PAGE FOUR THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1918. . THE BRITISH WHIG ANT 2 i=l: AOE Furlisned Dally sand Semi-Weekiy &) - SUELISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. Editor and Managing :Director eman A Guild Telephones: 0 ieee SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) Ome your, delivered im 'city if paid in advance . by madi to rural offi Ume year, to United States Seml- Weekly Edition) gr, by mall, cash Tr, If not pald in advance $1. Ome year, to United States . Six end three months | pro rata, MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen 123 St. Peter Bt TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE Ff, C. Hoy 1005 Traders Bank Bldg ITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE. R.Northrup, 225 Fif6h Ave, New York P.R.Norihrup, 1810 Ass'n Bids. Chicago ----ti Letters to the "Editor are Pm ublished only over the actual name of the writer, 4 is one of the best Atta job printing Sh in Canada, The eclireuiation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. a The kiddies want to Help win the war by introducing schéolless days. Sentiment in Kaiserlapd ik rapic- "ly changing, judging by the numer- ous strikes now taking place. The Italian drive is now going in the lopposite direction. That is the sort of reverse one can welcome. Secretary Baker's defence of the United States war department proves hini-to be a bigger man than his critics. Cheer up! The days are getting longer, and the. sun is getting" stranger, And Madam February came to town to-day. Returned soldiers are showing a desire to take up farming. Eleven of them are now taking an agricul. tural course here. That is a hope- ful sign. The automobile, once feared by the. railroads as a serious competi- for, is now in a position to be their . means of deliverafice from seripus over-congestion. It is a small contribution on bur part to give up bacon and most of our wheat, but it will go far to keep the people of Britain and our Allies from starvation. % , a 2 of "It it came to the worst--if all the rest of the Allies were exhaust- ed and dropped out of the game-- Britain and Amerlea could,' and would, carry on the struggle to vic- tory."----Oswego (N.Y.) Palladium. The letter, published in the Whig |- on Thursday; from F. W. Holland, an Amherst Island boy, is one of un- usual = interest. Fiction 'could scarcely hope to equal the facts out- lined by him touching his many thrilling and varied experiences in the great war, : : The new Food Controller wurges that every individual ould do his utmost. in the way of'onserving food. Bomething more than polite requests is necessary to the success 'of the campaign so far as the in- differeut and the selfish elements among the population are concern. Jed. There is still appalling waste 'in many homes, hotels and restaur- ants. : sues the war started Canada has manufactured and shipped $600,- 000,000 worth of munitions alone. The new industry is largely respon- sible for the prosperity we enjoy. The day peace Is declared will wit-] ness the disappearance of this great | ¥ . source of prosperity. Now is the | time to prepare against that day of ~ disaster is pot to overtake ouy in- aural enterprises. 2 --------t War, terrible beyond doseriphion as it 18, has some wholesome effects. ~The women of the world, while per "haps the greatest sufferers in the present 'gonflic:, will prove to bs tee greatest gawiers. They have se- cared the right to vote in England, 'United States and elsewhere, and have shown their capacity to "make 800d" 'wherever there is work to Ye done. $ other 1 I work, this year. probubly rot Germany to! season for {Uncalled' tito in oy | greater effort -known Can- | adian officer. has quoted to this effect. ; : | | Mr. Coffin, of the Aircraft Pros "duction Board, been mgre re- { assuring, though va The de; finiteness his assurances lacked is supplied by information Which -he has allowed te come out. American! airplanes are in the way of coming | forward in large numbers. The United States will not contribute al hundred thousand machines, but it| will make a great many for use in| 1918, and if the war longer the output promises to be adequate. Every problem of mechanics cor materials has been y satis- factorily with the possible exception of one. That has to do with the world-wide shortage of Irish linen, the best cqvering for plane wings. In England and France a similar deficiency has compelled the use of | material, and certainly QGer- many Rhas been obliged to get along without it. In sea f8land cotton a very good substitute has been | found. With regard to ne all-im- portant driving power there is is unl longer any doubt. The motor a pronounced success it] works admirably, and in respect of weight for power it is said to have no superior. All of its part 3,000, are standardized, and can be made in many factories, t suring abundance and facility of re- pair. In the vital matters of suitable lumber, properly lubricating oil, the United States | has done almost as well 4 1 been hag is | 8, nearly reby Jin-| seasoned, and | MOTOR 1 FIRE APPARATU S. Once again there is talk of orizing the fire department, of the fact that to-day dollars a week for the keep of horse. Five or six years ago the question was first broached in the City Council, Ald. Fair being the champion of the scheme, and pre- | senting the case in a vigorous man-| ner. Owing to the fact that Kings-| ton has such winters, the aldermen could not see how a motor- driven fire engine or ladder truck could make its way through heavy roads on a:winter's night, else the department would have had motor appatfatus installed long ago. A motor-driven engine may be fast, but the thoarse-driven one was thought, like the tortoise, to be mot- in view it costs five a | severe ation. Accidents may happen even | to horses on the way to a fire, but fronts, the horse still -retains an honored place as a beast of burden, doing work which the motor cannot do. a There has been a big Jovetopmert in the motor truck during the past few years, and it is used in all kinds of weather. It has acquired great power of locomotion, and even heavy snow roads cannot bar its progress. | The Fire and Light Committee does well to discuss the question again, for it woufd-appear that the time hag arrived when Kingston must follow in the footsteps of many driven apparatus for its fire depart- ment, JHE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. At this stage it is as yet hard to fully analyze the forces behind the great Russian upheaval. "We have had the spectacle of a huge mass of people throwing off the shackles of an autocracy only to find them drifting bagk again into an auto- cratic systetn of government under leaders who are- far from being qualified for oie enormous task of. setting up some stable fori of gov- ernment for this people who are struggling in the dark. The story of the Russian revolu- tion reminds one of the old Arabian Night's tale of the fisherman who. caught a black bottle in one of his nets. ed a thin smoke began to curl out of the neck. The smoke thickened into a dense clowd, and became a huge genie which made a slave of the fisherman. By the exercise ol his wits the fisherman finally suc ceeded in getting the genie back in- to the bottle, which he carefully egret. and thew back into the sea. reunsky fried despergtely to get the giant back Into the bottle, and everyone hoped he might succeed. ES his career as" dictator came to iy end, and no man has as found who is sufficiently ii to control' the people = and bring order out of the ehaos 'which bas resulted from thé newly found freedom of the Russian people. Up to dite there is little to indicate that the giant has begun materially to shrink. : Rireta Childe Dorr, an American Woman writer, went to Russia in May, 1917, to study the conditions arising out of the revolution. Her observations have been published in book form under the title of "In- side the Russian Revolution" (Mac- millan Company, Toronto), From fruits af, the revolution will not be Eathered | for some considerable ruling with an sltoeracy 'even for "January, t surer of reaching the desired destin- as is the case even behind the wa | | chanical side of their industry. other small cities ana adopt motor- : When the bottle was uncork-| her story one can surmise that the f time to come. Thé Bolsheviki are] {Sarva thus Shat which exua 3 | much benefit to Russia can be ex- | pected from Leénine Trotsky who are exposed as German agents The Bolsheviki propaganda does not expréss the and the find vs and wishes of Russian people. who will their true destiny and wil Ome one of the powerful demoeracies of the world. No hope tan } ld out that Russia will again take her place on the side of .the Al factor in the war. But the great- est démocracies 'in the world, it is the duty of the British Empire ani the United States to be patient with this nation which is struggling te see light out of the darkness, and £3 be ready to render all possible as- | sistance as soon as Russia shows that she is prepared to establish a stable govérnment. These arf the ohly conclusions that one can arrive | at reading this account of the state of affairs in Russia, written by on one who as a firm believer in the Russian people made a careful study of the conditibns existing there dur- ing the first six months of Russia's freedom. ------------------ Worth Every Cent to U.S. ( nah News) Our eredi to the Altles now reached the neat little $4,000,000,000. But we sho feel that we are getting st ans English e earne hat nmiuech b between us and He we ordered our unifor have sum of uld not y any alone standing land while ms and rifles The Despised Canals. (Philadelphia Public Ledger ' And now it is the despised canals that might have saved the coal sit- { uation last summer. But that's the | trouble; fit some person thing which g have done it that didn't do it which affords cold comfort, since the hard facts of 1918, are a little evident than the rosy possibilities of, { June, 1917. The 'Next Hundred Days. (Toronto. News The food production during * 1918 will depend a great deal upon what is achieved by Gov- ernments "and fpdividuals in the next one hundred days. If adequate preparations are not made for the use of all broken land and for the breaking of extensive new areas, the Dominion will fail in doing its w hole duty by the Allied people and arm- ies. We must produce more and eat less with a viéw to the achievemeiit of an ory. ) of Canada early wic- Survival of the Fiftest. (St. "Thomas Times) In common with the general busi- ness community, newspaper. pub- lishers have been confronted with large increases in the 'cost of the raw material required on the me- Théy have been affected evem more seri« | ously a vital | pert ¢ eign Mission Board; | Puc opmon | more ! hastening than eecurs In other branches of productionrbecanse, in their case, it 1s more than usualiy difficult to unload their losses, even in.part, on elr clientele. As an inevitable re- sult of -the growing financial strain, many. of the weaker newspapers that managed to éke out a scanty exist- ence in normal times have been compelled either to shut up shop or to sink their identity by amalgama- tion with a competitor. Indeed, the opinion has been expressed by ex- authorities in the newspaper {business that the day is fast ap- proaching when even comparatively | large communities will be served by only one public journal, since only by so doing can it furnish the news and perform. adequately the func- tion it is intended to fill. | ANXIETY FOR DR, ENDICOTT. Chungking Taken by Yuanese, and Brigands Command the Roads. Toronto, Feb, 1.--There is grave trouble again in West China, and it looks as though Pekin had lost con- trol, according to information re- ceived at the Methodist Book Room. There are no telegraphic commyni- {cations with Chungking, and. the whereabouts of Dr, Endicott, of the | Methodist Mission Rooms, who is in {West China on business of the For. are unknown, A cable sent from Hankow states that Dr. Endicott is alive, But there fare no particulars of the latest up- rising" Dr. Endicott got away from {Chungking the day before it was {taken 'by the "Southern Troops," | which term is thought to mean the Yuanese. Great anxiety was felt for Dr. Endicott by his friends here. For certain reasons of private busi- ness he was. to cable his safety to Toronto by a specified date. That date passed and only after weeks of waiting, following the sending of {private cables, was the word of his safety received, and that cable came (from Hankow. It is thought that {the message had been carried down the river to Hankow from Chunking by messenger, and sent from there in a letter received from Dr. Omar Kilborn, of Chengtu, Szechuan, dat- ed December 3rd, there is a slight clue to the situation. { 'Dr. Kilborn writes: "Civil war is still raging in the southern part of the province, and brigands are hav- ing the time of their lives on almost all the road and river. routes. 'Tra- velling is becoming more and more dangerous for all sorts and condi- tions of men. Dr, Endicott is in *Chugking . unless possibly he left there for Chengtu this morn- ing, travelling overland. The papty will have to have a strong scort of armed men to prevent losses and possibly maltreatment on the way. They-will probably come through in safety, but the outlook for the visit- ation of every station by Dr. Endj. cott. Is not very good." A board of three has been named to assist veterans in locating on the |land, consisting of Major E, J. Ash- ton, D.S.0." of Regina; Charles F. { Roland, of Winnipeg; and Samuel Maber, of the Department of the In- terior, Ottawa. - ~Robert Henry, ford, an ppponent in several elec- tions of Premier Hardy, died at his old home,"having lived in recent years in. Windsor. . Rippling Rhymes GOING TO EXTREMES My neighbor reads the papers daily, and he acts gloomily or gayly, according to the news; one day he whoops around ecstatic, the next he. sulking in his at- tic, a; victim of the blues, , Whene'er the Allies meet reverses my neighbor sits 4round and curses, a grou- chy gent is he; he stands upon and when the allies make a capture, his head in rapture, and shrieks of victory. 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