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Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Germans now fear that Trot- zky is bluffing them. If he can olitdo the Huns at their own game he's much cleverer than the world gives him credit for. King George has offered three of his royal palaces for the use of the nation. The high cost of living is no respector of persons. If he has one palace left, why should he worry? A German salient in the Cham- pagne district has fallen hefore a French attack, supported by Ameri- 'éan artillery fire. The beginning of the spring offensive is encouraging. If the fuel and 'food problem grows much more acute we will be longing for a return of the good old days when the farmers. used to pay their newspaper bills In cordwood and vegetables. TE Judging by the importance our Board of Trade attaches to the bacon supply, the average citizen might be pardoned for harboring the belief that this war is to be won in the pig pen rather than on the tented fleld. Before calling up any further classes under the Military Service Act a speeding up of the machinery operating the first call should be in- stituted. The deserters and "appeal- ers' in Quebec provinee should be firnily and promptly dealt with. Quebec's population is about one- quarter that of the whole Dominion. She has supplied only one-sixteenth of the draft called up. Plainly, our sister province is not doing her duty under conscription any better than she did when the voluntary system was in vogue. The township of Augusta, near Brockville, has voted - $40 to daeh Woman's Institute or Red Cross So- clety in the municipality for the purpose of purchasing wool to make soldiers' comforts. That is a patrio- tic ael that other townships might copy. D. H. Tolman, king of ioan sharks, is dead at Montelair, N.J. He was not unknown in ICanada, having had at one time an office in Ottawa. Some years ago prosecutions were instituted against his representatives | in Toronto and Montreal. Not a few Canadians remember him with regret. i a The Agricultural Representatives Act, just passed by the Ontario Legislature, provides that in every county for which a representative 1s appointed the county council shall 1 1 - report as to the expenditure of this money niust be made to the council. er The Whig's propdsal that a tax be placed on bachelors as one means of | raising additional revenue is meet- ing 'with favor. An editorial deal- ing with this question was read by Chairman Corbett at Thursday's meeting of the City Property Com- mittee, and heartily endorsed. The matter has been referred to the eity solicitor. "Ald: Norris suggests, "Tax the ol: maids as well." | Why not? Ifithey have a vate they Should bear some of the responsibility. tee pt ans A LAND-LINKED WORLD. (Before the Turkish parliament is a bill looking to the construction of a tunnel under the Bosphorus or the! { ddeam of a tube under jof Behring Strait {sit burden {early victory. i Northeastern oir to happen next Great Britain and France now seem :] under the English channel from Dover to Calais. A tun- nel under the Straits of Gibraltar, ia, is possible, ailway sys- South America will nturous engineers the sixty miles to favor a tun: joining Europe and tems of be united ave tunnel, relieving antic sea tran- brought an futare it will without weak- of either table event either eould : shores, French A Dover-Cala Great Britain of In the be a bulwark of peace ening the defensive power nation, for in the of conflict betweer close the end resting Afri under leadership, is likely to renew its an-| cient prosperity, and development will be accelerated by getting rid of a sea voyage. A north and south railroad of the western hemisphere will open up a new era. If Behring Strait disappears it will he possible to have through trains fromy Halifax to London, { Much has been written about the negation of sea power that the sub marine implies--of the new peril to insular nations or those dependent on sea communication. The answer may be a land-linked world, OUR WATER SUPPLY. Isn't it about time that action was taken looking to a provement in ply? Every permanent im- the city's now water sup- and then the becomes contaminated, and Medical Officer of Health is strained to publicly favise the citi- water | the | con- zéns to boil their supply of drinking water, Such a condition of | existed again this week. As a con-| sequence of drinking of the polluted | supply a great deal of sickness has | resulted, especially among children The service in school buildings was | not cut off, as it well might have | heen, and many pupils, who disre-| garded the advice of the teachers, | paid the inevitable penalty of becom-| ing swddenly ill. At all times the water has to be chlorinated in order to render it safe for use, and this process is objectionable for more rea- than one. What is the solu-| If it is an extension of the| intake pipe farther out into the lake, where the supply cannot be contami- nated by city sewage, then let us take up the problem and solve it without any further delay. ~ i affairs | sons tion? KINGSTON GOES AHEAD. | The increase in a city's school! population is an unfailing indication of that city's growth and progress. Judged by this standard alona, Kingston has cause for rejoicing at the advance this city has made dur+pfensive. ing the past few years. Macdonald school, a handsome and commodious | new public school, has been erected in Frontenac Ward. A large addi- tion has been built to school, in Victoria Ward.: The new home of 'Regiopolis Bollege, erected in the north-eastern part of the city, is a large and imposing structure These recent additions to the school buildings of Kingston are even now totally inadequate to accommodate the increased number of children de- manding education. In some of the! schools classes are being held in the Victoria 'greatly hamper the British. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918. } throughout the park, too} much sameness in the tree removal of a number of interests of greater fuel and replacing them with in the way of brusi right question 3 been a ght n = | ior sol | a greater | i the 1 the direction: the city some to he ved by the fuel supply It st the eity nothing to have the trees removed | trimmed vood will be years, and demand for will and for the sold at so much a cord If the Board of Worl at the fair grounds wood by mext fall, it the grandest exhibits fair king could fi for, er food production and must take else next winter, | an stow away | 100 cords ot | 1 he one of} Bushell the | The great- | the fuel ques- tion precedence of every-| administra- | niling of | roads and building of wharves must | thing civic tion Paying and give way to acquiring an increased supply of food and fuel i THE MESOPOTAMIA AND PALES TINE FRONTS. i The two brig t spots of the Allies were in | both been a 1917 operations f« Mesopotamia and Palestine In these theatres there has re- cord of The stigma | British army af- | ter the loss of Kut has been removed | runs some eighty Bagdad. After General Allenby | s of brilliant attack the teady progress, whic rested on the { and now the line { miles careful preparation northwest has made in Palestine, and in latter days of the ye sicceeded in entdring | Jerusalem t in clearing it "from | the rule of the Turks. Thus in these] two fields alone did the year end] in. a blaze of two fields the prospects for 1918 are! brighter than in any other theatre of | And in these) glory. war. | After a and mistakes | bungling the army in Mesopo-| tamia has heem put on a sound basis, | The line the Tigris Valley about eighty miles in front of Bagdad Opposing it is an! army of Turks which have been de-| feated time and again by the British armies, and have been convinced of their own inferiority in men, mater- fal and morale. long périod of now stretches across The British army is] adequate to meet any turn of events, and merely awaits the return of suit- able weather to continue its advance, The British have the necessary ma- terial, the lines of communication have been well consolidated, and all facilities for transport have been brought to a high standard of effi- cieney. The only probable danger lies in the German army which is said to be at Aleppo ready to rein- force the Turks and to take the of- But it is not likely that this army Is in sufficient strength to Ger- spare any large body of men for these side-ghows, but is forced fo leave them to her less effi- cient and 'weaker Allies. Therefore, the prospects are bright for a con- tinuance of the British advance, This | will doubtless commence early in the| spring, and will have for its aim the conquest of Asia Minor. At one time| it looked as if the Russians would! take a big part in this conquest, | They may yet do so, but the British will go' ahead without depending on many cannot {tamian advance is identified | theatres Aleppo their assistance, amd the campaign is reasonably certain to be TRCCOess- ful as the 1917 campaign " The campaign in Pals of the plan with which 6he is part Mesopo- in these the Turks will be crushed wil be eliminated from participation in the war In Pales- tine were and active scored the most notable successses of the latter part of 1917, After many delays and setbacks, the British army gained the upper hand, and succeeded in driving the enemy northwards, Jerusalem has heen captured and made secure as a base for future operations. Already the 1918 offensive has started by an ad- vance north of the Holy City, and by the initiation of a eircling movement intended to clear the Turks out of Jericho. The way will then he clear- ed for a general advance on this front, and it is looked forward to with the greatest. confidence. The Turks have been unable to stem the flood which has overwhelmed them, and do not seem capable of putting upy a serious resistance. They may be reinforced by fresh Turkish or German troops, but Al- lenhy's victorious army ean 'be look- ed to confidently to go on from sue- cess to will soon be hammering at the gates of Damascus success, and Although it may seem over-optimis- tic, it is not too presumptuous to ex- | pect that the end of the year may find the Mesopotamia and Palestine Expeditionary Forces united at Thus an effective will be in position the Kaiser's barrier to block forever eastern aspirations While there is doubt as to the out- come of the western operations, the end of the 1918 campaign will prob- | ably see the Allies in control of the Eastern situation This ends the review of the situe ation on all the fronts on lang, No where can be found any ground for the pessimism which is rampart at the present time. The military situ- lation is still full of hope, and 1918 3A will bring the "Allies a great &pal nearer to the victorious peace. for which they are united. PUBLIC OPNON | No Such Luck. (Ottawa Evening Journal.) When we were young there no such luck as closing down schools for lack of fuel, and doesn't indicate that the were always warm either, was the that schools Blame A La Germany (Rochester Post-Express) An exchange says that one of the peace terms should be an admission of guilt on the part of the mation that started thé war, No doubt Ger- many will objeet to this 'on the ground that she does not want to hurt Siam's feelings, A Fool Habit. (Guelph Mercury) nd No person starved aye i end because the stores were closed at noon on Saturday. To gee the rush down town on the usual Saturday night one would think that starva- tion, famine, and catastrophe not far rgmoved. It's a fool we've dropped into, habit "ye Montreal Star) If Franed and Britain had done no basements, where conditions are far | ~~~ mY from satisfactory. The Management | Committee of the Board of Educa-| tion now endorses the recommenda-! tion 'of Inspector Stuart that a new | ten-room school building, to take the place eof the obsolete four-room school, be erected in Cataraqui Ward. 'This would relieve the con- gestion in school attendance, the in- crease of which has been someyha! over 350 since the completion of Victoria school. It is quite evident that the meed of this additional school accommodation is imperative, These additions, accomplished or ad- vocated, reveal a development in the city's growth that is most gratifying. Kingston is increasing in popula- tion, in trade and in all that goes to make it a hustling twentieth century eity. ; NEXT WINTER'S FUEL SUPPLY. With the combined efforts of Kingston's energetic coal dealers and the City Council there should not be a serious shortage of fuel in Kings- ton next winter. One always looks to the future, and it is not so much the balance of this winter that peo- ple are worrying about, but what is winter. The al coal dealers can be depended upon to get a good share of the coal that is on the market, and with wood as an auxiliary supply, Kingston should be able to keep warm next winter, for it is fully expected that the war will be over before Ohrist- mas abd one will want to sit around the and hear from the Reroes who will have returned. The Board of Works is to be commended for taking up the Whig's sugges tion of some months "go to gather in a supply of fuel from the city streets and parks. At last the light is to be let in on some streets which in summertime are altogether too! shady 'and in wet weather too dark. Then there is the City Park which | Can spare a good many frees to the. woodman and his axe. This park | needs to be laid out anew. Of recent! years there has been some Improve. Dardanelles to link 'Europe and Asta, | ment In the way of planting bushes » Ag ene saner men, Rippling Rhymes wealth or other then fate hands one, my lad.) to the truth that They've fooled around the corner HARD LUCK MEN We've played in hard luck all our days," explain so many helpless jays. '""The Fates were frowning at our birth; the Fates don't care for sterling worth: they take a grudge against a man, and make of him an also ran, no odds how earnestly he tries to harvest prize." And it is true that now and out prunes to worthy men, and gents of talents great and rare have wasted them on desert air. (And if this metaphor is' bad, produce a better But it is true that many skates who charge their failure to the fates mi bett ad si ord and charge it e youth. reshed they have fooled old ch¥®stmats o'er and o'er; they've fooled arouhd with cheap harrangues, when wiser men went forth in gangs to shuck their crops of early peas and pluck per- simmons from the trees. summer days discussing congress and its ways, when attive legs, snooped round the barn and found the eggs. Its They've fooled around on fooling round, it isn't fate, that puts the lid on tight and straight. KINDLY BEAT IT # OTOOLE i CAM 10 Sr Your DAVGITER RT Se NOT YOU - SO WILL You | ( WHY CExiAINLY --WALT MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN ~ & Ae OB gp OV were. rr BIBBYS Style Headquarters | -- ¢ ENGLISH BLUE $20.00, $22.50, $27.50. SUITS, $25.00 For Young Men and Men Who Stay Yeung Good Clothes| To make good stylish clothes requires master hands. making of our good clothes master designers, mister cutters and master tailors are employed. Spring Styles FANCY WORSTEDS $18.00, $20.00, $22.50, In the $25.00, $28.50. New Style Belter Suits. See Bibbys Special $20.00 Suit Values Large Stock to OVERCOATS Choose From. $15 to $28 JOHN TWEDDELL { 4 Civil & Military Tallor, 131 Princess St. One Door Below Randolph. | om more, and sacrificed no more and suffered no more, than Canada, the Kaiser would have been in Paris, and perhaps in London, a year ago, and Canada by now would have been a German Colony or another Belgium. Creatures of Habit. ~~ (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) We are all such creatures of hab- it the mere thought of a.temporary change in our ways makes us un- comfortable. We go through the same routine day after day, week after week, year after year, until the | floing df it seems to be Jhecessary pot only to our own lives hut to the well-being of the community, One Law For All (Chicago Tribune) ------ Talking Machines All makes of talking cleaned, repaired, adjusted. for all machines supplied, workmanship. machines Parts Expert Prices reasonable. JOHN M. PATRICK 149 Sydenham Street. Nujol for CONSTIPATION $1.00 Large Bottle A refined. clear mineral oil Tasteless and odorless. Pleasant to take. Does not upset digestion. Absolutely cures Constipa- tion, DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 Princess Street. Phone 343. eed 4 If You are Looking for the Best, and the I The individual laborer who shirks should be made to realize that in 80 | doing he Is endangering the lives of! the men who left his side to make a | far greater sacrifice than he will be | asked to make and who are making! that sacrifice for him and his. But | that is not enough. 'If the lahorer at home i8 to be asked to take ad- vantage of war conditions to profit unjustly, he should assured as far as possible that others will not be allowed to take advantage, CAPTURED A GARRISON, A Tank Corps Officer Performed a Gallant Deed. London, Feb. 16,--One of the most striking awards of the Victoria Cross is that of Capt. R. W. Wain, late of the Tank Corps, whose re- cord says: "For conspicuous bravery while in command of a section of tanks. During the attack the tank in which be was disabled by a direct hit near the enemy's strong point which was holding up the attack. Captain Wain and one man, both seriously wounded, were the only survivors. Though bleeding profusely from wounds, 'Captain in refused the attention of - stretoher-bearers, and rushed from behind the tank with a Lewis gun and captured the strong point, making prisoners of about half the garrison. Although his wounds were very serious he picked up a rifle and continued to fire at the re- tiring enemy until he received a fatal wound in the head. Wt was due to the valor of Captain Wain tha the infantry was able to advance." Norway Refuses Adequate Pledge. Washington, * Feb. 16.--Norway in her reply to the proposals of the United States for a food rationing agreement, by. Dr. Fridtiof Nansen, head of the Norwegian Special Mis- sion, offers to guarantee that no Am- erican products shall go through Norway to Germany but declines to! meet the full American d fori a restricted off Norwegian cause, it is sald, Norway needs sup- plies to be obtained from the Cen- tral Powers, i ~ products to the Central Powers be- Best is the Cheapest Go to the UNIQUE GROCERY and MEAT MARKET. Our Stock is Complete, C. H. PICKERING 190 and 492 Princess St. Phone 3530. National Breweries i Manufacturers of the Famous Dow's and Dawes LIGHT ALE & Stockholm, Feb. 15. --Russian sol- || diers are reported tobe committing shocking acts of terrorism on the Aland Islands. A Swedish fce-break- er was started immediately for the islands to be followed by rescue ex- peditions. The Aland Islands gre in the Balt of Bothnia, between Fin- Isnd and Sweden, and belong to Rus. sia. Most of the inhabitants are of / Swedish nationity or descent, Althongh Teas keep wtendily advancing In price we are still welling Our Own Special Blend and our Club Blend at 40c per lb. Compare this with the pricéd package teas, while the stock lanin, Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 290. high and buy t