i 1 Pages: a | The Daily British EKINGATON, ONTARIO; WEDNESDAY, = ee ay ; » MAY i, 1918" YEAR B35. NO, 102 BUSINESS RUSHED BY PARLIAMENT Which Does Mort ln Seven Weeks Than in ~ Seven Months in Past. NO GRAND STAND PLAYS PARLIAMENTARIAN GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS. Ovder-in-Council ishing Exemp- el vised to Make Ottawa, My 1.---Uhless the budget debate develops a snag, which is not expected, i t should prorogue Wy May 24th. This goes 10 show what happens when a Government does nothing except business. No wind-jammigg, no bickering, no grand-stand plays for the newspapers, no pepper 4d WUStArd for the Ot- tawa correspondents, ne sialling, no marking time--just a case of getting down to brass $acks and staying there until the job is finished, The net result of ithis undis- tracted diligence is that Parliament has secomplished more in seven short weekd than it used to in seven long months, No ohe Is bold enough to say that &t will keep up this record next session, because next session-- at least one hopes so--the operating cause of all this complaisance will be removed. (With the war over or in sight of its finish, we may assume that the young Homs from Quebec who now sit behind Sir Wilfred Laur ier and are silent simply because the Old Man says so, will roar lustily. Weé may also suppose that Western opinion on free trade, public owner- ship, and such matters, which is mute. new in the face of the tragic events onthe Western from{, will break | and sweep over iy country like a mighty rushing wind. In a word Parliament Is good under duress. Everyone is a Tory because he has to be and submits to daily assaults on the constitution with as good grace as possible. When the Hun has ceased to thunder at the gate we count 'on being staunch democrats again and saving the pieces. It is then that the tendency to socialism and whiskers, which I see. latent in this Parlament, will hegin- ; .semoulding the soci : - fabric: of | eouniry.and nearer to jis heart's fa Meanwhile It is not vocal be- 'the authorities in rounding wp the guns in Europe rhetoric, stand up cause the roar ol 8 a competitor that no however sonorous, can against, Moreover, people re to anything but the iron of the war, If the most independent Parliament that ever came to Otiawa lets things slip through with a "me- 100" it is because its little noise would be lost in the universal caco- phony. Why should Parliament bid iiself discourse what there are no ears to enchant or when the ears are busily engaged elsewhere? Not that the right of free speech is ab- dicated! Not on your life! There is 4 motion on the order paper that Mr. Speaker edit Hansard with a view to cutting out groans of protest, means of anguish, stinging rebukes and other things members of Parliament fling about in the throes of debate. but I miss my guess if the motion is ever discussed. If It is disenssed it will be surely defeated, but it is 'more likely that it will be taken off the order paper and quietly shelved. Why should Mr. Speaker have the power to edit the impreprieties out of Hansard when there is always the closure at hand to head off the improprieties hefore they are utter- ed? This is'a Government dedicat- ed to thrift, and a Government cen- sorship of Hansard on tpp of a closure that is seldom or néver used is. making two bites of a cherry where one bite would do. Besides one fails to see what further im- provement can be made in a Han- sard already polished to the last degree by that genial connoisseur of belles lettres, Mr. T. P, Owen. The amendments to the Military Service Act, sweeping as they are, have not taken more than four days all told. Had this been the year 1913, instead of the year 1918 with; the emergency fully emerged, Dr. | William Pugsley would have held up these horrid innovations for a week | with hig own skilful hands. Que- bec would have fought for two months----closure or no closure. As it is, four days suffice. The order-in-council exemptions are rather vised to make Quebec pull her weight in the boat. is abolishing the exemptions. The old: registration of abolishing | Blood cleverly de: \ man-power fell! down because the replied, thousands' from forty thousand to sixty thou- sand men, Another tremendous matter that slipped through Parliament with the ease amd capacity of a used pig in a lane was the item f a billion dollars for war purpofes. Half a billion! Think of fi! And wt one murmur, not one complaint! Can't you imagine Bir Richard Cartwright and Alexander Mackenzie and all the other old-time champipns of frugal expenditure turning in their graves and crying through the super-in cumbent earth, "Lemine upl" The debate, it is true, did develop some friction, but it was not relevant to the half billion dellars Messrs, Nesbitt and Cockshutt got to wrangling about the purity of their respective elections and incidentally expressed a desire to Knock each other's block off. Which was an in- teresting side light on the ultimate fate of the brotherly love which now prevades the Unionist ranks. The House raised no objection whatever when four Cabinet isters were made to grow only two grew before. The ter of Militia ame two, one h and one overseas: the Minister Inland Revenue be 1e one Face Nothing But - 'Running Sores FROM ECZEMA No rest day or night for those af- flicted with that ferrible skin disease, eczema, or, as it is often called, salt rheum. With its unbearable burning, itch- ing, torturing day and night, relief is gladly welcomed. There is no remedy like Burdock Jitters for giving relief to such sufferers; no other remedy has done, or can do so much for those who are almost driven to distraction with the terriblg torture. Apply it full | externally and it'takes out the sting- The clever part! ing, itching and burning, and pro- motes a healthy healing. Take it internally and it gets at the source of the disease in. the of them, 'were either insolent or mis- "blood, afd completely and perman- leading. addresses were also given. . There is no reason to believe that a new registration would fare better. But abolishing exemptions catches the slackers right where they live, be-] the tors' medicine, but it did good only were while I used it. obliged to give a correct description nothing but a running sore. in fin the paper what B,B.B. did for peo- iple, 1 took it, and today [ am free the' from thaeterrible disease; causp when they appealed to tribunals for exemption they of themselves, This evidence black and white is of great use to malingerers all over Canada. In Quebec alone the new draft will net J oir rd Wrong names and Wrong ently drives it out of the system, Miss Mary V. Chambers, Anagance Ridge, N.B,, writes. "I used Burdock Blood Bitters for eczema. | had it when an infant, but it left me. Two years ago it came hack. I used doe- At last my face was I saw Manufactured only by The T. Mil {burn Co.. Limited, Toronto, Ont. death or the resumption of the liquor traffic do them _part; aud two new Ministers, one of Coloniza- tion and immigration and another of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment, were created, both of tiem: needed if the problems rising out of the war are to be effectively handled. The two Ministers of Militia are another story. - It is a moot ques- | tion whether it wouldn't have been | hetter to have one Minister of Mil- itia wholly responsible for the war expenditure here and rather than two Parliament, while the other stays at home and says it is none of his business. Civil Serviee Reform, which has! been a subject Wf controversy {iffy years, seems to have got the statute book over night. It not in full flower yet, but it is a bud | beautiful promise Parliament did not wither | of great intention and overseas | ministers, one of | whom is too far away to explain to it with acrid speech, preferring to! let it grow or languish as the case might be and talk about -it wards. Woman suffrage also got by with ithe minimum of discus- sion, the Opposition no doubt re- lying on a compléte and rounded woman suffrage to restore the 'bal- ance of voles now turbed by ithe War! Act. The big things after- | ously dis-| mes Election through with a | rush, but ithe dittle opes stick, Day- | light saving is now the law of ti land, but. it rankles still in the bosom of ithe farmer members of Parliament who object to trading a good hour in the afternoon for a bad one in the morning. One sta- tistician points out that when Sir George [Foster monkeyed with. the clock he stole an hour a 'day from seven million people. Seven mil- lion thours a day for the six summer months is one bildon two and sixty million hours. One bil- lion two hundred and sixty. million hours is fiftystwo million five hun- dred thousand days, which \is one hundred and forty-three tjousand, eight hundred and thirty-##e yéars. The Kaiser's object is to restore the Middle Ages. At one stroke, Sir George Foster shifts backward the hand of time and aggregates con- sidered, gives ms the Cavboniferous Period of somewhere thereabouts. War certainly is what Sherman said it was. --H. ¥. GADSBY. Hun Preferred Death, Douglas, Isle of Man, May 1.-- Frederick Brandauer, a wealthy pen manufacturer, has committed - sui- cide in a German detention camp athe. than return to Ceormany. Brandauer had Mved in England for 30 years, but his naturalization had lapsed, In a letter to the camp command- er hie said that ihe agonies of death would he Hothilis' to what he wonld suffer if he submitted {0 | vepratria- tion which the Government proposed, ye AAA AAA AAA Y.M.CA. 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