PAGE FOUR J wm------ THE BRITISH WHIG 85TH YEAR. Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING ©0., LIMITED, feman A Guild ....... Editor and Managing-Director. Telephones: Uffice ,... 243 a2 292 anions "ak oi STESCRIPTION RATES (Dadly Edition) year, delivered in city . year, if pald in advance .... year, by madl to rural offices year, to United Stated (Bemi-Weekly Edition) year, by mall cash year, if not paid in advance We yoar, to United States ...... § x and three months pro rata MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE KR Bruce Owen 123 St. Peter Bt. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE F.C. Hoy ... 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE F.R.Nomthrup, 226 Fifth Ave, New York P.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg 6.00 5.00 2.60 2.50 1.50 1.50 Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual name of the writer, Attached is one of the best job printing ofMices in Canada, et ---------------------------- The elreunlntion of THE BRITISH WHIG Is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. AA cl lt AN iP. 0st Abdul Hamid of Turkey is dead. We could almost exclaim: "Requies- kat in igni.," re the clos- Will they The American troops a est to the German border, be the first to cross? The only food product that hasn't advanced in price is the humble pea- nut, but it gets roasted just the same, : Man by the name of Acres has been appointed postmaster at Ot- tawa. He ought te cover the field pretty well. France has ordered footballs for her soldiers. Going to train 'em to kick the Huns across the Rhine maybe. The drift from the farm to ths city, so marked of late years, is re- sponsible for a part of the present food shortage. 'Back to the farm" ought to be a popular slogan to-day. ---------- Settlers may now bring farm im- plements driven by mechanical pow- er, including autos, into Canada duty free. The once rejected reci- procity is mow arriving by install- ments, 1,000,000 "Put alien enemies at work on farms, and, if difficult to guard, place returned soldiers over them," advocates Mr. 'Willlam Proudfoot, leader of the Opposition in the On- tario Legislature, That is sound ad- vive. Henry Ford says thay eventually the farmer will drive his limousine with aloonol tind from the pro- ducts of his own farm. If he {8 bibulously inclined he will. be fre- quently tempted '"to get out and get under" and turn on the tap. Canadians, including Kingston- fans, loyally observed the save-the- fuel order, thus - showing their anxiety to get on with the war. No let the Government take drastic ae- tion in other directions. The people are ready for it. They demand it. The President of China is the frankest ruler recorded in history. In a recent manifesto he says: I ex- amine myself and feel that I have * many defects. I am guilty of ignor- ance of men. . 1 am lacking in foresight." Here is engaging can- dor. 4 boa ---------------- . There is some good in everything it only we know where to look for it---bad weather included. For in- * stance, a western exchange says that the "lecture course number at the "Opera House Thursday evening was very punk. A small audience was Dresent, consequently not as many had to suffer as if the house had Ween rife EL i 3 et am nin. ECONOMY IN EDUCATIO 'Now eds UNE We have had education in economy and thrift--dnd it was needed. | Now: lei us, in turn, have economy ~~ and thrift tn education--for it is no needed. ; 'Labor, says Froude, is the inevit- able lot of the majoritys and the best -education J& that whieh will make thelr labor most 'productive. Thus 18 education linked up with greater production. another necessity the | importance of which is being im- pressed upon ns by the Government. What is the Government of On- " Chicago | J tarie, especially | Education, d | nomy, thrift nd { labe r? | preaches? {this province ample? A few demned the {of Education | sehool books this year | ed out that | time, with would impose upon justifiable and Department "of "encourage eco- more produetive t. practicing what it t tting the people of » and worthy ex- 18 not, Whig con- of the Minister twelve new It was point- ion during war- expenses it parents, was an- unnecessary. So strong became the protests of press and people that Dr. Pyne later an- nounced that he would issue only two new téxthooks for 1918; Why even two? > is abstlute- 1¥ no need of placir his additional burden on the shoulders of a peopla already heavily taxed war de- mands. In faet, it is nothing showt of eriminal folly. In these days of the great scarcity and the increasing cost of paper, cloth, leather, eté,, as well as the absence of skilled labor, why should thousands of finely { printed and well bound books be {thrown into the serap heap t0 meet the senseless wish of some educa- { tionalist? Ask any stationer to show | you the large stocks of text books | condemned by our Department of | Education, and the stupidity of the proposal 'will readily become appar- ent It may be argued that text books possess errors. True t are a few errors in them, weeks the neavy by these here But since { when was a text book published that | was free of errors? 'We never heard It is doubtful if th is in use even In Qiieen's University a text of one re book that does not include some mis takes in its pages Books are more infallible than the men no who sands of dollars worth of books for this trivial reason, when ev ery dollar is needed for more indefensible. A vital purposes, is correspondent in the Toronto supposed dignity of one or two offi- cials in the Department must force. this wasteful and expensive policy on the people. "If Sir Wwil- liam Hearst and Mr. Wil'lam Proud- foot, M.P.P., could get together for fifteen minutes on this textbook pro- blem, no more would be heard of it till after the war," is .this writer's conclusion. The same s¢orrespond- ent gives the following facts in re- gard to our "fully officered and well- equipped" Department of Educa- tion: Minister of Education Deputy Minister . . Superintendent of Education. 4,500 Departmental Secretary 2,300 Clerk of Records (Chief Accountant Registrar .. 'iat Assistant Registrar . . 202.8 General Editor of Text-books 3.400 'Historiographer 3,000 Inspector 'of Public Libraries. 2,400 Superintendent of Muséum .. 1,800 About ten inspectors and Ingpec- tors of Inspectors, at from $2,200 to $3,000, and a lange staff of clerks, assistants, ete, : In discussing this letter the Globe quite rightly calls upon Dr. Pyne to act promptly along the lines suggest- ed' by #ts correspondent. He must do so if he does not wish to call down upon his head the wrath of nearly every family in the province. An authority on the subject informs the Whig that 'the proposed change would "Trom the pockets $6,000 2,400 2,900 500 well over $10,000. The change would effect textbooks in the public, Separate and private schools, the Collegiate Institute and Regiopolie College. Millions of dollars, so {urgently needed for war purposes, will be wasted if this iniquitous change is permitted. Public schooi boards and boards of education should strongly protest against this contemplated action of ihe Depart- ment of Educaidbn. Another thing: The table of salar- ies quoted above would suggest that Ontario's Department of Education is sadly in need of the pruning knife, The Government could quite easily reduce this expensive force and thus money. And in the process the cause ol education would not suffer. ---------- THE ITALIAN PRONT. To the Italians belongs the credit of launching the first successful at- tack in 1918, and it is to be hoped that this good start will be followed up. The Italian front is, for the time being at least, one of the un- important fronts for the Allies, al- though as the year progresses it may become of great help to their side. As the situation stands at present the AustroGerman armies have penetrated well. into Italian territory, and have menaced the Venetian plains. 'Only a stubborn defence on the Piave River line kept them from capturing Venice and overgunning the northern plains of Ttaly. For a time the sijuation look- arrival of French and British rein. ale of the retreating Italians that lon, stopped.the enemy Austrians and Germans. Onde § write them. To discard many thou-| Globe of Tuesday declares that the 1glum, not | 2,200 | t of-3 rE Ta alone, this year, save the province a great deal of| ed bad, for the Austro-German arm- ies seemed to 'be irresistible, but the| forcements so strengthened the mor. they came back in' magnificent fash- advagte and inflicted" tremendous losses on the THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, bos | retreat was stopped, the ol and reorganizing the Italians began 80 speedily was this Italians were, able work with every hope of success Such action on this front will be of great 1 the (help to the Allies, and will prevent at the end of January, | the Austrians from sending any sub- an a } 1 ain stantial help to other theatres of ground, and capture abon thou-iwar. There will be no great Italian sand Austrians. {advances on the Northern front, but | Jut 'bad as the It it iation the summer ought to find the Austri- was during the closi hs of ang once more retreating over the 1917, itis now a great ( ghter. | mountains to their own borders, and The enemy arthies in athe Italians ought again to be ham- tight fix The closed | mering at the gates of Trieste. On down upon the mountains and the this front, which was recently a Alpine passes; through which all|cause of great anxiety to the Allied their troops' and have to Council, there is every reason to hope come. Between the bases and thelfor an early success. With well- battle liné rises a range of rocky, prepared united action here, a great precipitous mountains, which victory can be won. Doubtless this now covered with snow and ice. Be-lis well known to the men in charge hind the Itakans is an extensive rail-iof affairs and the public can look Way, system, with connection with with confidence to the operations in France, which has poured a {the Italian theatre of war. of reir" .reements, guns and all kinds of r material. : Behind thém are solid uefence lines and substantial reserves. An early offensive on the part of the Itulians, ---- of a great success. The Austrians, | Whether Gornony is + for with their allies, who are| her existence or not, it is clear that now decreasing iq numbers on this|the Kaiser is fighting for his front, would be driven back into the | = EE 5 fastnes that to make ndeed pe winter supplies are over steady stream -- tin miba PUBLIC OPINION , The Kaiser's Fight. a -- with their British and French rein- forcements, would have every chance | German | Germany's Plan. ses of the winter-bound moun- 8) where -. the elements | s that when to withdraw will try to take her. tajn pas from . Belgium she pe , | 1 Probably the |, ost of Belgiom w was | - the offensive the first of a guns of Italians. recent the Italians eries of sharp attacks | ] which will gradually the Aus-| They has EE rad) 2 500 trians the mountains towards | foahle-minded persons in Rochester the Austrian border {who need state care. When we read The Central Powers have evident-|the election returns sometimes, we ly shot their bolt in this theatre, and | '#N¢ y that humber too small of drive over have certainly gained. as much 8 { tight. there. | (Toronto Star) will not hel Titles are the top rung of the T 2 : patronage ladder--let the pledge of able to sow dissension in the ranks the new Government to abolish the {of the Italians again as they did be-l whole system of patronage include their great drive last Novem- | the greater with the less they can hope to gain German propagandists fore i | ber. { French Expeditionary Forces, com- I'he presence of the British and | It Might Have Been. (London Ngee Press) Uncle Sam cou have saved the lives of Wis Yaurdered soldiers on the Tuscania if he had avenged the lives of. the murdered American civilians on the Lusitania. But why speak of these things now? {posed as they are of veterans from France and Bel will have a strengthening influ- {#nce upon the morale of the Italian {army And while the strength of | the Allies is increasing there, the | strength of the Central Powers is Saved Coal at Big Loss. {waninig. Their offensive halted, the | Germans are now withdrawing from [ this theatre, and are transferring all | available reserves to the French {front. ' This will leave the. Austrians | pretty much to themselves, and it is |an apparent fact that, without the ihelp of German troops, the Austri- } ans are not nearly so effective as a fighting force. So the chances of an Austrian offensive are not very great. If it does take place it will find a united French, British and { Italian force well able!\to withstand all attacks. | the "battletronts of (Rochester Democrat) How heatless Monday works out in practice is illustrated in the case of a Grand Rapids furniture factory. Six tons of coal were saved, but at a loss of $22,000 to the owner and $40,000 to the employees, or at a cost of $10,333 per ton of coal. Civil Service Reform. (Toronto Telegram) Civil Service reform. and the aboli- tion of the spoils system 4s to be ap- plied to the thousand-dollar-pep-an- num jobs in the public service of Canada. Senatorships, judgeships and com: missionerships are to be retained in the gift of the Premier and his Cabinet and distributed among mem- It 1s practically sure that . the bers of Parliament and other party Italians will assume the offensive and personal favorites. A er A Ars Pir ; Rippling Rhymes | THE THIRD LOAN Now once again you'll have a chance to buy your- self a bond, and help the allies out in France, in Bel- gium and beyond. In February Uncle Sam will start another loan; and are you ready, as I am, to put up plunk and bone? It's little we old gents can do to help our armies win, but we can certainly - come through with packages of tin. When everything is said and done, "tis wealth will win the scrap; and there should be a flow of mon from every loyal chap. You are not asked to give away,'or sacrifice your dust; you lend to Uncle Sam--and, say, he's surely safe to trust! You are not asked to lend for fun; good interest you receive; if you've no bonds, when war is done, you'll rend your robe and grieve. Ah, then you'll hang your head in shame, and sound a doleful note; you did not help to. win the game and get the Prussian goat. But there is pore with soul so dead he will not ALT MASA, = | buy a bond, e'en though he has to cut out bread, and see his cookstove pawned. Let's march up cheerful, blithe and quick, and buy, and buy, and buy; for thus we'll make the Teuton sick, and soak him Ey --WALT MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN 1 By GENE BY Poi Abwp tatty LINEN COLLARS 4 for 25c. ew NEW BELTERS -- BEAUTIES FOR Bibbys First Showing of TRENCH STYLE. nt $20.00 SIZES 34 TO 42. FOR MEN'S UNDE BOYS' SUIT SALE IS ON. oe as $15.00 OVERCOAT SALE IS ON. ttt Bibbys RWEAR AND HOSIERY MEN'S RUBBERS, 69c¢ The Laugh Line. Far From the Battle's Din. First Captured Hun--Vot vos 'der barbed wire for, friefdt? Second Captured Hun--To keep us in,of course. . "First (with great astonishment)--- Who vants to gedt oudt?--London Opinion. Most: Considerate, "I don't mind lending vou this money, Glippings, but I'm afraid you won't pay it back." 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