COMMON SENSE 1S WANTED . . of, Government YEAR 85. NO. 117 KING PATRONAGE The Old Rascal Took a Lot of Killing Says Gadsby IN REGARD TO THE CIVIL SER- VICE ADMINISTRATION 3 ae------ 4 A Rap at Prof. Adam Shorti--The Present Civil Service Reform Will Hardly Please the Extreme Re- formers, Ottawa, May. 18.--~King Pats---Pat being short tor patronige--is dead, at Jeast officially. The oid rascal, who. has ruled this eountryftor fifty yews or more, took a ot of kiliing. There 3 a doubt in some widas Wiener he is thorougily dead yet. Conwlsive twitches wre stili to bs noticed in the remains of the de- ceased, particularly in the amatter rafiway envpioyees wid mdlitary" appointments whi do not come uwder the Civil Service Heforin Adt, i . However, King Pat ig dead---s0 Gong dive the new King, Civil Ser- vice Recobm, wido is dubbed by cer- tain of ithe jokers dn Parliament, who do not believe In the new oi- ded of dings, Chvil Service Reform. King Pat, as 1 said before, took a lot of killiog---thiree days In com- myittee----and even then there were signs that he might not be dead but sledping. For example, an apend- ment was id to cut out pull with the Ministers and Deputy Ministers in which thinid souls ores) tious bout five jungle of amily tree 500 3 f the recommoena- | i ete shill or [have to fwiaiteh, the Hocken amend- tng power from Mthe menibers Parliament to the Cabinet at Oi tawa---another pase «L ithe tralize everything in the Govern- ment; Ab 'any rate, patronage, as we know it. is dewd, and wnat strange, new dopm it nay take--M any--iv mpaing Lo be seen. at least be as good as Civil Service Reform as they have it i Englana, miners. the bragches of ihe ne hedged" about { tes of Oxtord and Canc wr rate' public 8 ba... We have Hed experts rapert cn the de feuts of Gur Ohi Seovice from time to time, but we have never asked them to report on ie deledis 3 ed heartily. In fact, the Opposition their own, Wilieh was perhaps best thing to dio i their word wes to cmry. any weght. 'Fhank heaven, the debate on Civil Service Retonm -sakl very Mutie adout Brit- ish precedent, winich, in my ex- | perience Ioiiaws Hs gamer rom distance. Ties 4s a Union Govern- anent, as Richardson, of Spring- field, well sald, and it can nuke ita own precedents, + For some years mow we have been trying to rewim the Civil Ser- vice--that is to say, 10 abolish patronhige--by akdmupistering gas. We had a Civil Service Commission headed hy a college proposer, whote ples was to make examinations «0 deadly that nobody could gel near the thing. Many a good mail clerk hag been kept out of the service by such as "describe the difference between phe homolous- eo of the Protestant rh on. This system of examinations, nitenipered by merit or anything bs Tasted A on 10 make was d to ives Department, where his historic semse will feel more at home. Wiha is wanted in a Civil Service Oommis- sion is cotton sense and that kina of Civil Sepvice fon we are ~supposed to have right now. The system it pursues is merit, tenvper- ed by reasonabld examivations, and its comnnroht sense ds inyplemented by the Civil Service Reform Act, which passed Parliament this week. Civil Service Reform embraces » both the inside and outside service. The Civil Service muy not be quite r which says rewarded, If as the other gO the pre'- ifs system, {3 tit the 25th inst. the first ms, ory hour will he a g rs: rooms from'ten to eleven Jy' Iren from the ages are invited. ; tens | te. kX the ground : osle's repre | @mendment slanted at he motives toe jpeviple's repre , de A an Ar and coh | which induced men to mun for Par | the (Civil Sewvice Ait, which ought Jivil Service Re- fomn, as we have Py HY wii promised that merit and not favorit- that ny [ree down by ia tremendous . is ps | The Jk aily British Whig KINGBTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY. MAY 18, 1918 ins ts own constituency he {well quit. There were other mem- j his own constituency he might us| § Well quit. here were other men- | bers who felt the same as Burnham, | only they were not so vocal. It is | x { time. that the job hunter is ma gréat | nuisance to the average member of | ---- i Pardament, three-quarters of whose j correspondence is devoted to stail- nig him off, but the is & nuisance wine may [be wery helpful at election ties. (He may be a cross, but Mr. | | Burniam and others ike him shoul- (der ham cheerfully. No oross, no crown---you remember the old anot- to. { pi Among those . (who tréated Civil Service Reform with a sort of grim fevity was Major-General Sir Sam Hughes, who suggested that ap- poiniinents to the Semate should be included in tthe act us being Gov- 'emyment jobs whlch (were held for life ir gocd behaviour. Sir Sam could afford to laugh at the Senate, but when the [Hoogken amendment 'was broadied Sir Sam took the ground that #t was mo joke to cur cat mepotism when there mright be families particulaily gifted for the civil 'or any other service. There are families fItke that, teeming as ft 'were witn accumulated skill, stuffed with projected efitclendy, gen uses Ly thelr wvery heredity, and the Hughes family, as every body knows, is one of them. So wien Mr. Hodken proposed that the names of those in the ICivil Service be published Crom year to year along 'with thelr relations by blood or warriage who might be ja Parlia- "meat or dn, the seats of the mighty Sir Sam was all for sudh things be- dng left multe and Inglorious so far «i Government folie books were con- vernal. x | Other members (who might have had or who expected to have rela-| 'mlons fn the senvice 'spoke in the! same vein. = [MeQuarsie, a new | meniber, with a sense of humor-- and. heaven knows this serious Par- | Hamient needs all the humor that can be infused into it-- waxed face- $8 tol the Government ~ would The Quebec aiembers Tend passed, that the Hocken Hament--to (plant ' 'their relatives and possitly themsecives in soft jobs. Thre Japutition was scorned by seve tl menivers as a reflection on to be taken in good faith when it ismy would prevail. /Besidge, why tear open the graves of dead states- men wha were so devoted to Laeir | coum that they had stuffed the | "with jeousins to 'the forty- shloril degree? One bleeds for quag country first amd bleeds' ft ever ifs Suwande. © Altageoie the Hoaken amendonent had a hard Mabe. Tr was ma- Jonity, in which the Opposition join- saved the Goverment, not, perhaps, because it Joved the Government, but because I suspected that tie "ginger group' were playing old- | time Mory politics with the subject. Taus it hai"pens that we ' have Clvil Bervice Reform of a kind that will 'hardly (please the extreme pe- formers. That ds to say, tere is considerable of the anilk of human Kindness left in it yet. ~--H. F. GADSBY. | The Manon Watch | Although Kingston is drinking Doliamted water, the health of the community was never better. Kingston is declared glean by the police commissioners and not in: need of inspection. = Of course the conimiissioners mean c)eeu maiteri- ally, not morally. The City Council is nnconvinced as to the néed of a fuel controller, and it may remain unconvinced un- Iti the evil day comes. Oats for the Presbyterian (General Assembly dn London, Ont, and tea for the Anglican Synod. - If these feeds were continued long the Cal- vinists would surely emerge the stronger. : : When another general knowledge examination is held thé Lampman suggests these questions: What 'house in Kingston contains the most liquor? How long will the Unionist Goverment last? . | After having served twenty-one years as a member of the City Coun- (®il why does scineone mot come along and preseat AM. R. E. Kent! with a fife membership? : A visiting desturer to Kingston says the second world hag ended and we are ving in the third, 'Well, it According to the Napanee press, townszsople i> there play only | or Tits "poker is to be the proper piace tor the food | curds : 8 Bot In the front: windows Bhat Tn the kitchens and ere the memories be jouged { might as] A man who looms large in Canadian Political Life strolled over to the cigar st asked for Noblemen Cigars. He got them. A western rancher pulled up his horse in front of the Royal Café in Yellow Grass, He got them. : ] A "Commercial" staying overnight at the Roydl George Hotel, in Amherst, asked for Noblemen Cigars. He got them. A lacrosse "fan" entering the grand stand asked for Noblemen Cigars. He got them. And every man got the same blend of cigar. Whether you buy it in the East or West--from an environment of mahogany fittings or of general groceries, a Noblemen, mellowed with age, is satisfyingly rich and friendly to the nerves. Sa rule, a cigar is its own recommendation, You like ID you ever stop to think that the cleanliness of the a it, or you don't like-its-but Dag Sigan differ from all ; factory, the cheerful, conscientious, skilled workman. 4) others. Find the Davis blend \kat wits you and you "ship of contented employees and the almost unending $1 is no varia- § supervision and inspection of leaf and finished cigar, ih a One Noblemen cigar is like every other enter vitally into your enjoyment of the Havana weed? [922i | Noblemen. There is no choice between two On this vast floor, bales upon bales of selected leaf haa NEL § unopened boxes of Perfection Cigars. You KNOW are arriving trom Cuba, Sumatra and other proven what you will get on a repeat order. The secret of cigar soils. The tobacco, moistened so that it can be this uniformity is in the Davis factory and in the exact methods handled without breaking, is freed of every particle of the bitter that are maintained on its many acres of floor space. Let us take centre stem. The leaves are sorted and graded so conscientiously & mental tour of the Davis factory. that the top leaf in a bundle is an exact index of the whole bundle. d in the Chateau Laurier, and d asked for Noblemen Cigars. ui if ERE, then, at the foot of Mount Royal, stands the, spotless, sun-lighted, wide-windowed home of Davis # Cigars. The pure, fresh air blows straight across the fields, but to make assurance doubly sure, it is forced through pure water aid washed before it enters the factory. OW, then, for the curing--a slow, leisurely process ih the Davis factory. Six months, nine months, a year--the rule here is to take all the time required. Thorough curing means "body" brought out in a mild cigar, a satisfying smoke. You can readily see what this long process entails, when it is stated that the Davis investment in leaf being cured is never less than $600,000.00. : Every Davis Cigar is hand-made, made by skilled hands. Twenty foremen and inspectors check up every detail and every process before Davis Cigars are finally packed and sent to the Humidor for the final seasoning in the wood, befqre the boxes are sealed in wax paper, the last protection that ensures Davis Cigars reaching the tobacconist or the country store in prime condition. ; . Infinite care is the price of perfection. It is this infinite care that gives force and substance most sterling recommendation known to the Canadian cigar trade and the public--"It's a DAVIS CI A Few of the Davis Brands : Noblemen--~ Full of quality, rich, satisfying, mellow . ormotnd 5, on Both mild enough for an all-day smoke'. Grand Master-- Mild, mellow, of finearoma . . . 3for25 La Plaza-- Made to suit the Westem taste . . 15 Davis Panatela--Known trom East to West as an after-dinner smoke. 10 2 : ' 8. 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