| Published Dally and Semil-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, J. G. Bldote ||, Leman A. ve ++ President Editor and Managing Director Telephones: Business Office ......... Ed#torial Rooms Job OMes SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dafly Edition) One vear, delivered in city .. One year, if paid in advance One year, by mail to viral o One year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Pdition) year, by mall, cash $1.00 year, If not pald in advance $1.50 year, to United States £1.60 Bix and three months pro rata MONTREAL REPRE R. Bruce Owen TORONTO REP FP. 100 One One One soy... UNITED STATES F.RNorthrup, 2 F.R Northrup, i2:0 Ass'n Bldg, pw York Chicago thr the the Editor are published actual name of the Tottery only over writer, Seria - Attached Is one, of the pest printing ofMces in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the * BOC Audit Bureau of Circulations. . a A Fe The German fleet may come QUE, says a London despatch Yes, but will it evér be able to get baek again? A A Pir EE RdYM--s. & Gormany fo attempting, not much to break the line, as to break the Britksh spirit. Since when did a southerner place his heel on the men of the northern zone? 80 ~-- Bven Mother Nature waleomed: Daylight Saving by giving us sum- merlike days on which to inaugur- ate the experiment. The government is helping to support Bourassa's paper, (Le De- voir, by giving it. government ad vertising. Could foolishness fur- ther go? St ------------ "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Ger- many's pitimate. and inevitable doom is foreshadowed in these pro- phetic words. i "Escaped / Prisoner Married To- day," runs a newspaper headline. Now listen to some crusty old bathelor remark that such a fellow didn't 'know how to appreciate! his freedom. ! H.C. Nickle, Kingston's fuel con- troller, has resigned his thankless but most important task. He filled the position with ability and fair- ness, and a strong effort should be made to retain his services. How much longer must this conn- try tolerate such dangerous and disloyal leaders 48 Bourassa, La- vergne, et al? To employ the most temperate language, far better men than they have met their just de- serts. . Rev. "Billy" Sunday says that Germany would have torpedoed the «ark if the chance had 'ever come her way. The Brockville Recorder Times adds that the giraffe would bé the only animal to escape; it could use its neck as a periscope. Movie picture fans are now greatly intérésted fin: the _heart troubles of their 'pet heroes and heroine---Douglas Fairbanks and Mary iPcktord, with Mrs. Fairbanks a close. runner for first-place. Thus does the screen compete with the stage in furnishing food for gossip. The rapidity with which minds changed in regard to Commission government, following the 'confer- - ence on Monday might, between the "4wo governing bodies, affords a chaice topic of |conversation. It serves to remind us that acrobatic feats are mental as well as physical. granted in Quebec, where the tri- 'were in 'hearty sympathy the slackers. It will now be 's turn to "Stand and de- explanation of its require- mens and its aims has led to a bet: ter understanding = between the Ultlities Commission and the City : ill and free discussion | Varieties of the | ) " THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL. 1 » 7, 1918. THE GROUND GLASS SCARE. The ground glags"" 'hysteria p to have run its course. ued Ly Administra- " case put into Of tae after is one lated ave seams about According to : the United nefit Food j tion, only auther of ground glas food 8 | hundre { earefu sntionally covered reported a crease Hof tmpuritie and ldue to the stress of the times. The rise pr producers to adul turning out foods in order g the greater demand also figures. In the poorer quality of [ staples tempts ation; haste in to meet in the the canneries glass used and the breakage resnlt- ing are another factor Ground glass is the slowest, most Ineffective and most easily detect- ible form of poisoning. German spies would not be likely to employ it. Yet sifting of flour and careful telles strongly upefi the power of her propaga imong neutral and heili- gerent nati This method of war- fare si carried on with unusual! gkill a stence, seeking to un dérmine aken, if not to de- stray, the opposition of her enemies Most of the labor agair or ns peace talk, most of the unrest, most of the preaching t the sin of war, can be direc tly indirectly t red to the activities rmafi' 'a T'h agent tinct A iHvided into five di FIRST, there is the military who obtainy important 80 crets of great value to his country. In this class will be found the Brains of the German spy for the work is most difficult and dangerous With who military system, Capture means certain death. this class is the political spy or attempts to fix persons at- to the most important offices nation, thus establighing on information, "fixes tached in "leaks" The SECOND class of German spies are the destructionists, men and wo- the inspection of all uncooked foods should now be a regular part of the kitchen routine just becAuse the times, rather than direct treason, in harmful im- Xe A TWOLCENT PIECE, The suggestion recently made hv the Whig that the Ottawa mint should coin a two-cent piece has met with much approval. We out that, since nearly all the news papers of the Dominion now retailing ay circulation of such a vite the of purities, presence pointed were cents a coin would two copy, the be convenience paper-buying public that includes nearly everybody There is still another cogent rea- son for advocating a two-cent piece. When the minimum cost of anything in the least worth having one cend that humble but sufficient coin filled the 'general need. But now that the cost of so¥many necessities is rated with an irreducible mini- mum of two cents, the single copper bids fair to become only an auxiliary coin in practice For instance, tha raising of the price papers 'has shifted 80 to speak; the financial geo- graphy the every-day world is changed. One may regret the fact, silently or loudly, but the fact re~ mains, This is the most for the suggested coinage of a two- cent pice. The present shortage of ome-cent pieces can be filled, in time, but since so many transactions can be made with a gingle two-cent piece, the need of such a coin be- comes not less than actual. No doubt the coinage of a two- cent piece would make it easier 0 spend two cents where one cent has! been required heretofore; this is al regrettable circumstance; since it] one does not take care of his cop-| pers, his silver and gold accumulate | slowly. Yet in the cold light ofthe! fact that most things which used to] cost one cent now cost two, a cer-| tain saving in time, conveniences and nervous energy would probably he made by the circulation of a two- cent. piece. If one should be coined, it ought to be of a size and character easily distinguishable from exifting | coins. The twenty-cent piece, ow- | ing to its close resemblance to the Canadian quarter, . was a 'delusion and a snare; there should be' no such similarity between the present one-cent piece and the proposed two-cent piece. to and a great Of cou was of the news the sea-bottom, of forcible reason . HOW TO GROW POTATOES, When three hundred and thirty- two years ago, Sir Walter Raleigh in- troduced the potato from this conti- { men, whose sole daty is to realize by {fire and destructive scientific meth- {ods those ends, which the other mem- {bers of the system are unable to at- | tain, With aliens running | practic ally undisturbed, these agents have achieved a series of German vie- enemy . | tories by destruetion of foodstuffs and Included in this class throwers, war material | {are the bomb dynamiters and "torches." The THIRD class is composed of in- dustrial disorganizers, or organizers of industrial unrest, Their chief busi- ness is to foment strikes and other - afsordprs, 0 assist In delaying pro- dnction, to hamper methods of distei- bution, and confuse and paralyze in- A 'hun- operatives ean do more dustries whereever possible, dred of these damage than an army corps. The FOURTH class consists of {he Their - diabolical Vr pet en --- disease spreaders little | work already has resulted in untold damage. Included in these class are the spreaders "of germs, ,fake doe-] tors, and poison users, From ped-, dling poisoned court plaster to the farmers in Kansas and_the distribu- tion. of germs of foot-and-mouth dis- ease throughout the eentral west, the spreading of spinal meningitis, but one small step compared to some the German disease carriers are ts ing i The FIFTH class is the well-known | The pro-German pro-| pagandists' work felt) throughout the world. He is a finan-| cier, an organizer, a "dyed-in-the- wool" patriot, sometimes; a moulder of public opinion, and one of the most | cowardly and underhand personages) in the-entire German spy system. propagandist, has been THANKFUL TO KITCHRNBR For Refusing to Abandon the Ypres ? Salient, London, April 17.--It is realize with profound thankfulness ho sound the late Lord Kitchener was in refusing to respond to certain strong Canadian suggestions, voiced by Sir Sam Hughes, that the Ypres salient be abandoned. As Kitchener, Byng, and Haiag ail foresaw as a possibility, it is now! the key to the British position in the| northern section. The Canadians | know well how Ypres was held for} thirty months without . Messines | Ridge, ? Switzerland In Danger, Amsterdam, pril 17.--The' Vos- siche Zeitung, of Berlin, in a narticle full of mysterious allusions, says this spring will put Switzerland's neutral- ity under the severest test, the German troops will probably encircle, in the course of their operations, the republie, as Lieut.«Col. Blaylock Appointed. Toronto, 'April 17 At the meet- ing of ithe (Canadian Red Cross So- cibty's execntive Lieut "Col. Harry Blaylock was appointed commis- sioner- overseas in 'place of Colonel C. A. Hodgetts, C.M.G.. resigned. --- New York, April in the United States Sir Douglas Haig's General 8. C. Mew burn, Canadian ¢ "The ask you, ed and special vigor, with those who have fallen. himself Sir Douglas Haig's it is his privilege and duty ranks, '* 3 po 'MEWBURN'S URGENT APPEAL TO CANADIANS AND BRITONS 17.--An appeal to Englishmen and Canadians to make a personal application of Field Marshal special order of hasten into"the service, wag contained minister of militia, Ottawa, to the British and ecruiting mission, just made public here, call from overseas is such," one 'and all not merely to 'earry on,' Every man of military 'age is needed, ed now. Faith must be kept with those who are "May every Britisher and Canadian in the special order of the day and determine that to seize this opportunity and join the - the day addressed to all ranks and in a telegram from Major- said the message, "that I must but to do so with renew- and need- fighting, as well as United States take to At el Nola om soar Rippling Rhymes % grief. Towser's bone. excelsior. 4 the scheduled vittles, yblues, ing simple fare; I have a nent into Ireland, nobody could have foreseen or- imagined the immense part that it would play in feeding the world. It was nearly eighty years before the Royal Seciety of England took up the cultivation of the potato as a cheap food in case of famine. another eighty years, famine in Séot- land brought the potato into exten- sive notice as a cheap article of food. Another thirty years, saw France Inj full of 'hair a THE BLITHE SPIRIT Oh. Monday may be wheatless, and Tuesday may | be meatless, but I'll be happy still; foeman by skimping my abdomen, The luscious ham and bacon by if that's the proper move; and feed on bony fishes, That gent is not a winner ner is shy of pork or beef, tion, and grumbles of privation, Some day, perhaps we'll tougher than we have ever known; ended 'we may think shavings splend We may all get together to.eat a side | of leather, before and hollow, we may be Let's not pretend we're martyrs 'until we | chew our garters and eat our Sunday shoes; let's eat | and show no jots or tittles My health/hds been improving since I first started hooving, and eat- | better figure, and 1 am ful i | | | { | if 1 can swat the I'll do it with a will | me will be forsaken, | I'll cut out red meat dishes, and chortle while I hoove. | who kicks because his din- | who eats his wheatless ra- and airs a lot of | suffer; our diet may be | before the war is| id, and gnaw oid | we end the war; our persons lank. glad to swallow some boiled | of grouches, dumps or | 1 of vigor, my whiskers --WALT MASON. in, r i f taking notice of its value. Mr. W, T. Macoun, the Dominion Horticulturist, riefly explains all this in a hundred- page bulletin recently issued by the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, in which is also given complete and comprehensive information as to the eultivation of the potato. Mr. Ma- coun goes fully ito his subjects, dealing with the preparation of the soil, of the varieties of seedlings, of the manner and method of planting, of protection against insect pests ang diseases, of the time to plant, of the districts best suited to the different taken during growth, and of garner. ing, storing, and shipping. Partien- lars are -also given of results of experiments and tests : Expegimental Farms and © stations throughout the Dominion, In short, pretty well everything in the shape of information that is of value to potato growers with many exact and inter esting illustrations, is to be found in addressing the Publications Branch, care that should be| e at the| this bulletin that can be had free on} Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. | TAKE "TS AID OVE nd R wis SE vas] THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN ~~. Copyright, 2. REALLY CouLD'NT peop AND FORTY iS Core CiENcE SO HAS \ Hw N' HooP|n' AOUGH. > ¥, EIGHT Do > FO iM You'n » MONEY BE THROWN HORSE AND RAVE THE SE \S THE GLANDERS IF You S AWAY Tk ee) Food Board. \ delicious 'when well cooked. -- Canada . Potatoes are excellent and' Parametta.Cloths, sizes 34todd .~. . _.. The Chester, sizes 34 to 46 .. .. The Derby, sizes 34to 44 .. .. . . 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