ie PAGE EIGHT THE BRITISH WHIG RTH YEAR ll a UNE TEE aR Published Dally and Semi-Weekiy by THE BRITIS WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. nt SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) Jue year, delivered In city . ... Ome year, if paid in advance .... June year, by mail to rural offices Ome year, to United States .... (Bemi- Weekly Edition) Ue year, by mail, cash 00 One year, if not paid in advance $1.50 Ime year, to United States 1.50 Xx and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE Owen 5-123 St. Peter St. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE F. & Hoy ... 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. TED STATES REPRESENTATIVE: R.Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave., New York P.R.Nogibrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago ' Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual name of the writer, one of the best in Canada, a is job printing offices ie circulation of THE BRITISH is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. w J No matter how hot it gets we'll never complain again about the heat. My! but this city looks cold and dry to-day to those who have to work. Well how do you like Kimgston's heatless Saturday do far as it has gone? Quite a few tired citizens went to, bed last night in the fomd hope of, not waking up until Tuesday morn- ing. The Germans offensive on the western front seems chiefly to be gas attacks from the Berlin publicity | bureau, Perhaps the war is a chastisement | for the sins of nations. But what have we done to deserve this winter's weather? Food scarcity has its good as well as its bad side. Lack of meat is caus- . Ing owners of useless canines to do away with them. "Old Sol" will inevitibly solve the cold weather proble which now controls us. All will be bright in the spring sunshine. The Ford plant is preparing to turn out boats of the destroyer class for the United States at the rate of one a day. This is going some, - The coal drivers cannot do the Santa Claus act and- mysteriously . come down the chimney with your coal. You'll have to shovel a way in for them, : That "dumb thing" the man with the German hoe, after "the silence of centuries" shows signs of speak- ing and in a voice the Kaiser may quake to hear, ? The Union government having abolidhed the patronage system it will be in order for some one to ask the Ontario Government what it is 'going to do about it. : The" Brantford: Expositor, a staid and decorous journal has the hardi-: hood to say "the Wiboral opposition of the Ontario Legislature will now put its Proudfoot forward." ------------ The Quebec Opposition leader would leave the question of educa- * ting children to the "conscience" of the parents. Unfortunately there are some daddies who have none. EE PS ER ST Threats of being summoned to the police court are causing some promi- nent gitizens to get their walks shov- olled, who otherwise would never have a shovel put to them. om Down in Quebec they refuse to make education compulsory. It is such an "enlightened" province that the majority of "its legislators do not think its educational laws need any "improvement. ao + { Byerywhere in the empire, food cons} .|@8 their wives are with the broom, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918. ited and apparently | wuld be utilized to 1 tue needs of man- and power. | Cariade, unlic inexhaustible | give energ, i kind as to hea The Toront t { that fof { | furnaces on { tawa 11d country's su ing done by e mission, R and other cumbe pay roll. Right 3 A CO the in the various Hifl 4n Ot-| y inclease f fuel than is be- Conservation Com- Commission of the Ottawa ment the arch WEALTH GERMANY'S WAR AIM. That Germany started the present war as a purely business proposition ig the statement made in a pamphlet published by August Thyssen one of the wealthiest members. of Ger- many's business community. This pamphlet was suppressed, the author fined, a contract which he had with the War Office taken from him and the greater part of his business taken over by the government at a figure that amounted to confiscation, More than a year before the com- mencement of the war, according to Thyssen, a large number of Ger- many's leading business men were asked. to support the Hohenzollern war policy on the ground that it would pay them to do so. T I EXTENDING THE TERM. *» The Ontario Government acted wisely in agreeing with the Liberal Opposition in postponing a general election until after the war is over and the soldiers are settled again. The turmoil of the federal elections wearied and distracted people and put the war plans back for some time and a repetition of this in Ontario would have indeed been a calamity, Ontario lis thoroughly behind the Government in 'pressing the war to a final finish and an election would have only demonstrated what was shown in the Dominion contests, As Liberals and Conservatives in this | fair province were nearly all Union- ists, they would have shown the same {attitude in Ontario 'affairs. The country is saved a heated campaign lows, imprisonment, tation, hunger and disease have people ig Austria than ti Conditions are broadly Germany, acording to bassador Gerard. The enough to eat, but the to die, jefore the Ger ved out, the million five men, two million Belg million prisoners of w counts picture conditic Central Empires is jt to be wondered dep re | 1 r in former Am- soldiers get old left s are star. ten | French- | 1d two are he says, starve Poles, million insistent popular demand? ly in Austria is life a horrid night- mare and' the Arbeiter Zeitung de- during a single month eannot be compensated any advantages, however considerable, derived from continuing the war. ' PUBLIC OPINID Strong Evidence. {Rbohesier Post-Express) As long as Germany's foes confine their several troubles to questions of means and' methods, leaving unques- tiongd\the will to win, the evidence stro points to the greater lasting powe Je e by in War. Extremely Dangerous. (Montreal Star) if there were anything like sounds public opinion in Canada on great guestions, public ownership would be the right policy for the railroads, but the log rollings and dishonesty that the publi¢. have been accustomed to for all fhe: Cabadian tremely dangerou railways #Times' Changes. (Guelph Mercury) And naw. all the food specialists are telling people to eat oatmeal. How times change. A year ago when a man ordered oatmeal mush at a hotel, and proceeded, in the good old- {fashioned way to eat the stuff and {spoon his milk from a cup, the wit- nesses of the gurgling party grinned {and hummed "Scots Wha' Hae." Now, {when he goes through the same per- formances, the crowd arises and shouts out "Patriot!" | {and saved much money, which can be {devoted to war purposes. To the | credit of the legislators all | agreed to an extension of the assem- { bly's life. 1 -- | | REPUTATION WORTH | MAINTAINING. | Canada is the standing' re- futation of all contemptuous German charges against overseas foes, says the De- troit News. Americans need claim uo superiority over Canadians to make Germany take notice, The Germans know the Canadian soldiers. They met them at Ypres and Vimy Ridge, Since then jibes about Canadian bravery and efficiency do not get over very well among the Germans. Naim -------- tai i | | | SIFTING OF ASHES. | The sifting of coal ashes is en- | gaging much attention and rightly | 80, for every day toms of good coal find the way.to the ash heaps in the | bucks, Ash sifting is not a pleasant task, but in these days of { coal scarcity it is a very essential one. There has been a marked economy in garbage sifting through- out Canada during the past two years and food waste has been reduced to a minimum. Why should not coal waste also be reduced to the lowest point possible. A householder, who did not sift his ashes last year and is doing it this winter, says that he has saved half a top of coal go far by the process, and 'will save 'another quarter ton before May is out. Shaking ashes in a sifter does not require any special training. Some citizens are as handy with the sifter and perform the task with a mint mum of dust. Now that so many citizens have this winter learned to wield the snow shovel, of which they were in ignorance before, let them now take a short course in ash) sifting and they will be able to keep their coal piles from dwindling so rapidly. ; CONDITIONS IN AUSTRIA, The Arbeiter Zeitung, of Viens, was suppressed for portraying coh- ditions as they exist in Austris-Hun- gary, but copies of the paper brought out through Switzerland show a horrifying state of affairs in the dual kingdom General Potoirek In command in Bosnia boasted that Re had signed 3,500 death sentences. In the prison at Sarajevo 10,000 pris dition to great ' numbers who were executed. In Celebic all the men be- tween sixteen and sixty years of age were shot without a trial, and an army doctor in Istria admitted that the best way of getting rid of them, trol is used as a political weapon, The nobles, the members of the court, were | -feate it if we oners have died mysteriously in ad] 2 he had given poison to prisoners as Germany The Glutton. { (New York Tribune) { ~ How futile it is' to say that we are |at war with the German ruling class- fes, but not with the German peo- iple! We are fighting what upto the | present has been a solidarity of the | Kaiser, the Kaiser's gunmen and the | Kaiser's 'people. But, above all, we {are fighting the primal cadse back of them----the ungovernable German appetite. We are fighting to eradi- an, and, if we cannot, to make-it too expensive for indul- gence--to force it under that judiof- ous control which civilization imposes on all primal appetites. | Somehow a man never discovers that he is a fool until long after his neighbors have found it out. | Storehouse for Souvenirs Situated f these ae-! truly in the | | Haig. i Headquarters flag, which he parried if peace at any price is becoming the! Especial- | flag as commander of the first army. i clares that the people's sufferings iin that fortress during the German expect makes Government ownership ex- | flag 'in the trenches, and the { American flag to fly in France on |the Hotel de Ville, Paris, after the | national banners BATTLEFIELD RELICS. Near the Fighting Line. In a quaint old place a Hitle dist- ance behind the battle line of our armies in France are housed many interesting souvenirs of the great war, curious relies from world-fam- ous battle flelds and illustrations of phases of daily life in the trenches. Hepfe one may see the carved ocak table from Arras used by Sir Douglas Haig at his headquarters throughout the battle of the Somme. There are other memorials of Sir - Douglas There is the First Corps in the Mons retreat, and 'his first There is a British red ensign from Verdun, the gift of the commandant of the citadel, which was suspended attack last year, and the Union Jack which the Warwicks brought into Peronne and placed in the Grand Place together with their crest" and motto painted on a wooden panel. There are several other flags of gredt interest--of which one must not forget to mention the first Tank's flag, the first Portuguese first declaration of war by the President, In the mattér of flags, however, pride of place must he given to the great Union Jack unfurled in the early days of August, 1914, from the 'Hotel de Ville, Boulogne, to greet oud arriving troops, the first of our to be officially flown in France. Boche material is here in profu- sion--shells of every calibre, shell- cases and basket carriers, flammen- werfers, bombs, axes, knives, pistols, wire-cutters, and a unique collection of trench clubs, including one with a flexible handle. and a heavy steel head, positively devilish in its in- genuity. There is also to be seen a series of gas alarm gongs of differ- erent patterns, and a German field telephone with a history. Scattered through this are life-size mannequins in enemy raiment, whose facial lineaments lose nothing through having been! modeled and colored by a colonel who is also a Royal Academician, | One Boche affords a striking repre- | sentation of a mediaeval warrler, | even though he is clad only in the | steel armor and casque of A.D. 1917. | Over his shoulders he carries a crossbow, which discharged gren- ades in the winter of * 1914-1915, while behind him is one of our own catapults, which say service at Neuve+Chapelle. -------------------- museum [ A Returned Man's Record, 636429, Pte. G. Ogley, enlisted in January 22nd, 1916, in. the 155th Battalion in Deséronto, and trained in Belleville 'and - Barriefield 'camp. He accompanied the unit overseas in October of that year and' was station- ed at Bramshott camp, Hampshire. From there he transferred to the! 21st Battalion. in France, - landing | there on December 4th, where hel proceeded ta Aisne Compeigne and was in action at Vimy Ridge, 'where he invalided out from concussion and went to Boulonge: hospital, later he was in the . following hospitals in England: Northumberland: ; War hospital, Gasport, Eastbourne, Bus- hey Park and Epsom. He returned 5th. His home is in Napanee." Rippling Rhymes . in-the blast. 'wheat! A DAY OF SNOW It is a brutal winter day, as I conipose this death- less verse; the snow is deep, the skies are gray, and every hour is' growing worse... As from my window I look forth, 1 see my neighbors toiling past; the wind comes shrieking from the north, and they are reeling They're trudging through the drifts of snow, and they are cold and full of sleet, and yet they show no sige of woe----for this will save the crop. of "This storm is worth ten million they cry, as shivering they pass; for they are patri- otic lads, and aches neighbors have no fields of wheat, to raise a peck; but s and snowdrifts sliding down the neck, to me means rheumatiz; already, as I write this line, 1 feel the symptoms through me whiz, and tie a bow- knot in my spine. 3 although rheumatics I abhor; for snow will save the well known wheat, and wheat is bound to win the war. divers ways, some honest loyalty disclose; we'll suffer through all beastly days, if that will help to swat the foes. scads!"' they don't expect 11 they smile, with frozen feet, a chilbrains cut no grass. My The storm This snowy day to me looks sweet, Thus do we all, in WALT MASON. -- BIBBYS ---- 2 1$15.00 Overcoat Sale ! Men's and Young Men's Styles. Belter, Pinch Back and Balmaroons Coats that were made to sell for $20.00 and $22.50. Sizes 33 to 44. J Bibbys Price $15.00 Linen Regular 20c bollars values 4 for 25¢. Bibbys J TTT Hii | Solves the Milk Problems No Waste. No bottles to wash. No frozen milk. Good until used up. < Costs less than fresh liquid milk. Substitute It is genuine body-building milk solids in dry powder form. See KLIM Demonstration this. 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It is more convenient. It can be mixed dry with flour, sugar, coffee, cocoa, ete. Klim tastés ox- actly like fresh liquid milk. not turn sour. . > 1 1b. costs 85 comnts; makes four quarts. |Jas. Redden & Co, _ Phone 20 and 990.