THE SOLDIERS' AID COMMISSION has been incorporated Ly the Pros of Ontario for the purpose 16 reinstate Mecharged men in clvil life EMPLOYMENT. We cordta ] ansi officers co-operation of the public the important work of securing employment for solders who have been discharged from military service, : VOCATIONAL TRAINING. Classes for the vocational re-educa- tion of soldiers who have been so dis. fabled ap vo prevent then from resum- HE their former occupations are pro- vided frea of cost, and in addition, the support of the soldier and hig depead- ants ds provided during the period of retraining and for one month after Further infcrmation as to courdes foay be obtained from W. W, Nichol, Superintendent of Hduention, 116 Col- lege Street, Tovento, RELIEF FUND. Donations for the assistance of sol. dlers' fawmllies in temporary distress will be thankfully recelved and ack- nowledged, and should be made payable ta the order of the Commission, invite . 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Branch 2018 Fant Keeley Jr., M.0.D.0. 4 Those people (and they | are many) who dread the 1 ordeal of an eye examin- ation are agreeably aston- ished to find that, as made by us, it causes no pain, discomfort, or inconven- ience. 3 VY And We Use No Drugs. ; Keeley Jr, MOD. oa fate future everything indicates that {ished through anothap year of war, L.ther-reduction in the milk supply in DISTRESS 1S PRONOUNCED) FOOD SEFUATION HAS 1IE- COME VERY CRITICAL. THE Flonr Ration Reduced---Impossilie to Supply Towns With Theie Pro- er Quota of Meat. London, june 18 T} ation In Geritany Is eritical. Rations of t pensable articles of food ar or are no longer procy people are again beginning when there will be sufficient fo feed the population of the towns during the three months ahead. As to the situation in the immedi he ie iarge critical the period until the fruits of the new Larvest become available is likely to be one of grave anxiety and dis- tress for the German people. Only dire necessity could have compelled the Government to reduce the flour ration from seven to 5% ounces, and though the Germans expected great relief from the Ukraine they cannot hope to derive much assistance from that guarter. In this connection the Volkstimme says: "Kindky spare us Ukraine pro- mises. We have been fooled too of- ten with empty words. Tell the people tha plain truth." The Beplin Vorwaeris declares that the physical and moral powers of the population to endure priva- tions have been substantially dimvin- Chemnitz of the serious and that further reduction rations must constitute "'a danger." Meat is scarcé, and even now It is impossible to provide the large towns with their proper quota of meat. The whole cattle<breeding in- dustry of Germany is threatened and with -it the supplie of meat, milk and fat. In April there was a fur- certain large towns, including Ber: lin. The inhabitints of res] recently have received only ond ounce a week of butter and margas- Jfne together In order to make up for the shortage of food still more substitutes have been made, German newspapers recently pub- lished an advertisement of a «<peecial drug "for stilling hunger and enab- ling people to hold out till the next meal." In regard to the effect that the shortage of food is having on the health of the nation the great de- erease in the German birth-rate is a matter of interest. A report com- piled by the local Government Board of Infant Welfare in Germany show- ed that in 1916, 40 per cent. fewer babies were born than in 1917, and from 1915 to 1917 the total decreate was equivalent to 40,000,000 AUSTRIAN GUNFIRE CAUGHT OWN TROOPS Enemy Casualties Reckoned in Thousands While Those of British Are Light. London, June 18. Austrian troops who had as their objectives on the British front, the range of hills including Cima di Fonte, Pau and Caveletto, telegraphs Reuter's cor- respondent at Italian headguarters, were much discomfited before reach- Ing the British wire entanglements. In front of the Cesuna positions, the Austrians suffered heavily from the British machine gun fire, and they were also caught by their own artil- lery which fired short. The Austro-Hungarian casualties, the correspondent says, are being reckoned in thousands, whole those of the British are very light. The number of prisoners taken by the British has been increased to 400. Besides re-establishing their line the British patrols again are pushing out into no man's land. W. H. Somerville, A.L.A., has been appointed secretary of the Mutual Life of Canada, Waterloo, succeed- ing Charles Ruby, who was recently appointed manager, A . Baby's Skin What is so beautiful as baby's soft, smooth. vel- vely skin? And how is it to be kept free from chaf- ing, irritation and dis- tressing eczema? This is every mother's question. Many have found the answer in the use of Dr. Chase's Oinment. Applied after the bath, this sooth- ing, healing ointment overcomes irritation of the skin and prevents the development of eczema and annoying skin dis- eases, [world's ¢ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, JUNE "HAASENSTEIN UND VOGLER." German Plot to Control the Press of the World. Of the many world-wide prepar- ations made by Germany during the thirty or forty years preceding the outbreak of the present great strug- gle, in 1914 not the least significant was her effort to secure control of \he press. This effort had not, of course, been carried on altogether in secret. Those who knew some- thing of German history and German methods, especially Bismarckian his- tory and Blsmarckian methods, had no difficulty, for instance, In detect- ing the pen of the German armor baron in many articles that appear- ed, from time to time, in the French press, Like everything else, however, connected with the great an dream of world domination, ¢ ball was never told, and it is extrammly doubtful if. it has even yet been told. Be this as it may, an able Faench writer, who contributes to the col- umns of L'Homme Libre over the nom de guerre of Lysis, has let in a flood of light on the matter by ex- posing, with the most matter-of-fact completeness, the business methods of Haasenstein and Vogler. Haasenstein and Volger was in- deed no ordinary business firm. It was In the most profound agreement with Juliet that, after all, there was really nothing in a name. And so, whilst in Berlin it bravely spelt out its name Haasenstein and Vulger, in Paris it did business under the more acceptable title of tte Societe Euro. peenne ode Publicite, and in Italy, after the war broke out, .nder the unimpeachable Italian title of Unione Publicita Italiana. The concera cail- ed Haasenstein and Volger was os- tensibly an advertising agency. Its plan of action was simplicity itself Aiming to secure the monopoly of the advertisements in the paper which it got into its toils, it first approached the proprietors with the offer of cer- tain advertisements. This step was followed, later, by the offer of a very enticing contract to supply a full- page advertisement, and, later still, by one to save the newspaper all fur- ther trouble by taking over all its advertising, ke Now the contract which settled this matter contained ome significant and all-important clause. It provided that the firm of Haasenstein and Vol- Eger, or by what other name it might be called, should have the right of absolute veto over '"'all insertions which might be .considered prejudi- eial or inopportune from the point of view of the character of the paper." From this to exercising an absolute veto over what should or should not appear in the news col- umns of the paper was only a short step, and one which; ultimately, was in every casc taken. And so Lysis makes himself responsible for the statement, and supports it by proofs, that in Italy, before the war, Haas- enstein and Volger controlled the ad- vertising, and so to a large extent the news, of no. fewer than ninety-six Italian newspapers. More remarkable still, so little difference doe: the war make In the activities of the firm, that at the presemt time the firm of Haasenstein and Volger controls eighty-one Italian newspapers. Simi- lar work wag successfully carried on in Switzerland and in France, &nd yet evel that was by no means all, for, in the December of 1816, the Haasenstein and Volger agency is found to have been endeavoring to secure a footing in the press of the British Dominions, and maintaining, in efrculars tent out, that it was already in correspordence with all the important London papers. Fin- ally, io the July of last year, a cir- cular was issued from Paris to all the great American houses, telling them that a member of the Societe Eurwopeenne de Publicite would he in the United States In the following September, and would be glad of tha opportunity of conferring with the firm to which the letter was address- ed, as to the possibility of extending their sales in France and Continen- tal Europe. When it Is recollected that the di- rection of the whole of this vast or- ganism was from Berlin, and that so unsuspecting was everybody concera- ed in the matier that the outbreak of the war had no more effect upon the firm's activities than to cause a diplo- matic change of name, and in some instances of premises, the success, up to a point, of the German method may be adequately gauged. The Ger- man method, however, has one gar- dinal defect, a defect shared in com- mon with all other forms of decep- tion, namely, that it ceases to be ef- fective as spon as it is adequately found out. And German methods are being found out every day. The world is littered with their wreck- age, which is to be found everywhere from Shiraz to Buenos Ayres, and from Buenos Ayres back again to Shiraz. Haasensteln and Volger, it the change in metaphor may be for- given, are spent rockets, and they must take their place in that great and growing collection of . spent rocks, all the way from Bernstorff to Wassmuss, Unconsumable Fire, . The property of asbestos which renders il of economic importance ia that 4t is formed of elastic and flex- ible fibres. These are sufficiently tough to be woven into a kind of cloth which resists intense beat with. out fusing or burning. Such a cloth GERMAN BORDER ~ STATES A GOLGOTHA WHERE LIE BLEACHED BONES OF REST. Entire War Has Become a Family Affair the Hohenzollerns, Reichstag is Told, Amsterdam, June 18.---A scene was caus xd in the Reichstaw jo ter- day by D.:. Cohn, a Socialist mem=- ber, when, according to the Uotugne Gazette declared: "The border stiles have become a Golgotha, where "lie bleaching the bony, of tue best in the land whe have been slaughtered by the misled German scidiers." An uprcar followed this "esara tion, and Deputy Conn was called io < ar, but he continued: War has bechme a v affair of the Hohenzollerns. possible that -we may final v re main the «nly warriors in Bucope and the Eniente will have to suhmit, but Eurcpe will have become z con- tment beggars and we sha all suffer consequences of such a peace." Membo>rg of the Centre and the Conservative parties thersupon left the Chamber, it i8 reportel. "A BROKEN TYRANT, of of the The Statue of Napoleon Serves as a Symbol, There is a statue in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington that repays study in these strenuous days. It will restore high ideals and demon- Strate again the truth that unbridled ambition is foredoomed to failure. It is the statue of a man old, sick, powerless, alone, prisoner, dying-- Vela's presentation in marble of the last days at St. Helena of that almost- conqueror of the western world, Napoleon I. Napoleon sits in an armchair with a pillow at his back and his feet rest- ing on a cushion, His dressing-gown lies open, showing ome sunken and emaciated shoulder. A thin lock of hair strays carelessly over his fore- head. His hands rest, listless. But his face! In that look of his out over the imprisoning seas is the pent- up story of his life. "I was the man of iron," the look says; "yet here 1 am like this, and I don't, I can't comprehend." In his lap lies a map of Europe, just as probably it now lies constant- ly before another tyrant trying to slaughter his way to a Pan-European empire, "I was the great conqueror," that forceful chin and set line of mouth maintain, "I forced the haughty Austrians into my hand. I, a notary's son, bargained with the Spanish Bourbons and beat them. Prussia, the Rhine provinces, Bavaria, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, these too I brought under my sway. I could have made a French lake of the Mediter- ranean, if-----" And there the upper part of the face takes up the story. "lI am bewildered; I don't under- stand," say the baffled eyes. 'This map shows just how | was to proceed. What cared 1 for a million lives, or 4 million million? I would rather have opened the dikes of Holland and let in the sea than give her up! There were only the Czar and England left to subdue. How could my plans have failed?" And then ihe eyes and chin and mouth ery out together: "I was the man of iron. I was, and am, and ever shall be the strongest man on the earth, And since I could not con- quer the world, nobody can, nobody ever can." A marvelous monument to a sub- lime defeat! Soldiersand sailors, men and wo- men of every degree, all stop at the head of the splendid stalrway before the statue and linger, They look and look, Others press forward, and they give way unsatisfied. They sit on the bench beside it, if there is a space left, to await another chance. They tour the galleries and come back. That wonderful face draws like a magnet. Ils fateful message seems fairly to ring through space. "If 1 could not, no man can," it reiterates till it brings a feeling, a settled con- ¥iction, that history does move In cycles. And what comfort and inspir- ation there is in that conviction! For once again the wheel of time has brought a man who must be taught that his greed for power has led him to attempt the impossible. Straw In Brickmaking. Everyone is familiar with the story of bow Pharoah commanded his task- makers to increase the burdens laid on the Israelites by withholding from them the straw wherewith to make bricks; and doubtless many have wondered wherein the hardship lay. By most people, probably, the view has been held that the straw was added as a binding material, much as hair is used in mortar; but such an explanation is scarcely satisfac- tory when it Is remembered that the straw fibre is a very weak one. Alex- ander Findlay says in his "Chemistry in the Service of Man': "About fourteen years ago it was found by Dr. E, G. Acheson, to whom we owe the discovery of carborundum and the process of making artificial graphite, that when clay is mixed with a dijute solution of tanmin, It | becomes much more plastic, and the strength of the dried brick is, more- over, greatly increased. Although straw does not contain tannin, it was found that when straw is treated with water, the extract obtained has tho same action on clay and the hardness of the brick being greatly increased." ~-Popular Science Monthly. or apricots for & meal; they onions as we eat apples Ad melons are in oo' N 18, 1918. Probs: Wednesday, fine and moderately warm. > Dainty New Wash Fabrics PRINTED VOILES rompers, etc. DESERTIONS HEAVY FROM BROCKVILLE Some of the Men Who Filed Across River Have Been Recaptured. 3rockville, June 18. --Uncle Sam's domains, eparaied from Brockville by the River St. Lawrence, has been, a. favorite . rendezvous for the sol- diers of the Engineering Corps sta- tioned here, numbering between 1,600 and 2,000. Some haves gone on passes to -their American homes and have not returnéd. An estimate of deserters in thig category is given as 20 per cent. of those sccorded the privilege of last leave. Report? would indicate also that there have been heavy out-and-out desertions from the colors to the U. 8. A. by way of the river route. The soldiers make use of small craft from the boat liveries, and these have been utilized in the get-away on the pre- tence of going out on pleasure jaunts, A large number are said to have crossed the line yesterday and to-day. Military police and im- migration officers were very active keeping an eye on the wen in uni- form, Half a dozen delinquents were rounded up in Morristown, the American village across from here, and were returned to Brockville in charge of an officer of the Engin- eers' unit. Just previously twelve men in uniform were noticed beat- [ing their way on a New York Central Rallway freight train leaving the American hamlet in the direction of New York City. Subsequently they were arrested at Redwood and turned over to a United States mar- shal. OATTLE BRING RECORD PRICE. Agincourt Drover Pays $16.75 Per COwt. for Prime Steers. Toronto, Juna 18---Four thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars was the price handed over to Thomas Crow for the first twenty head of fat cattle he had ever raised, an average of $227 per head. They weighed 272 hundredweight, and the price Jou per hundredweight is §16.765. Alfred Steer of Agincourt bought them. He stated that in all his thirty years of cattle buying they were the highest priced cattle he had ever handled. Mr. Crow; of the firm of Crow & Murray, although he had never be- fore dealt in cattle, has an interna- tional reputation as a horse ex- hibitor. He bought the cattle grade Durham shorthorns in the fall and fattened them throumh the winter. Montreal, June 15.--At a meet- ing, pointing out the necessity of rogistering, held recently in this city, Superintendent Registrar L. G. A. Cresse, K.C., wil his audiences séveral pounds of grapes, cucumbers, put every suppressing pro-Ally papers hrowing Their, oaitars into jail, eats, is and th YY Rg TY VV VV NNN mpeg ay We are now showing in our wash goods department a wonderful display of this sea son's newest materials. They appear in the most fashionable shades and weaves, and are moderately priced throughout, with various patterns to choose from, including sheer tex- ture fabrics of excellent quality for almost every type of summer frock you may be plan- This season's voiles are leading as a wash fabric more than ever. Our stock of this desirable material is most complete. Priced from 29¢ to $1.00 SCOTCH GINGHAMS Fine imported Scotch ginghams, exceptionally fine quality, wOov- en designs and colors. This material is adaptable for dresses, Priced 20¢ to 60¢ FASHIONABLE SKIRTINGS : Including a broad variety of piques, Palm Beach cloths, khaki kool, gaberdines, poplins, etc., in plain and striped effects. Priced from 60c¢ to $1.25 Steacy's - Limited NERRENREELNE ERAN RIE pr -------- : cv nd TY YY TTT YT YY YY YY REGISTRATION In order to help relieve the congestion on Registration Day, June 22nd, and as an accommodation to the public, we are open- ing our store for registration purposes every day this week, commencing Tuesday, June 8th. : Registration hours, 9 to 12 a.m. and 2 to5 p.m. ' We will be glad to secure the help of volunteer registrars. T. F. HARRISON CO., LTD Phone 90. Padua ded A 4 A 4 2 4 2 A 2a sa ada ddd a 4a 4 4 0 er PTIPIAPI ALBA PD ISMAILI 005. IPD D ad INI Government of Veneanels, | instigation of German inter Free Air Service With Tires. Agents for Gray Dort and Reo Cars.