0 EAP A PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH WHIG)| 857TH YEAR. Daily and Semi.Weekiy by BRITS! WHIG PUBLISHING ©0,, LAMITED, LG. Bott ... (a0 oie A. Guin ..* President « . Editor and Managing -Director. Telephonen ness Office : sianie . 342 . 20 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Edition) One Year GeNv dn city .....es One year, If paid\in advance One year, by to rural offices 0 States $2 iy Bdition) cash MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE Bee Or ore 2B 23 St. Peter St, ES REPRESENTATIVE: FR Nomar. 225 F***h Ave, New York F.R.Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bidg., Chicago Letters to the Bditor are published onk over the actual name of the Attached Is one of he best job printing offices In Canad ---------------------------- teen The cirenlation of THE BRITISH WHIG is Authentietied by the Audit Bureau of Clirculations. A -------------- " "Thanks to Foch, the Paris people, can sleep easier o'nights. The cr~wa prince will have a busy time explaining it to father, The Marne must hereafter be a place of dreadful memories to the re The Germans who set out for Paris will have a long way to travel if they stick to the direction they aré now going. 2 The people who want more help and those who are looking for new and 'better jobs, both read the want ads. in the British Whig. Show the soldier that you appre- clate what he has done. Display a "Get In" sign on your car, and stop 'and take him in when he raises his hand. I People who are complaining of the heat to-day are probably the ones who found fault heretofore be- cause it was too cold. You just can't please some people. The 'housing 'problem has becorae an acute one 'in every Canadian town and city. Kingston citizens, aided by outside interestss, are seek- ing to solve it here. If they succeed they will be deserving of much credit. Almost starving for lack of food, with $1,360.27 in his pockets, an aged Torento man is now receiving a the Kingston General ie been without food hi iriy habits nearly Civie holiday (Monday, July 29th) is to be right royally celebrated in Kingston this year. An excellent programme has beén prepared, and if the weatherman behaves thousands of visitors will be present to enjoy the various attractions. -------------------------- Following a drowning some years ago an agitation arose for better life t along the water A few life buoys were pro- 'where are they to-day? + Monday's 'near-tragedy reminds us that precautions cannot m safety be a * © It you are a motor owner, join the } soldiers to "Get In" it they are] Paste a card to MEDICAL THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. : The amazing progress made by : medical science is' revealed by the excellent hygenic conditions. .pre* vailing in the vast armies of to-day. In past wars more men sucoumbed to disease than were killed in com- pat. This was true eyen down to the Spanish-American war. New gerums and antitoxins have been discovered and many preventative measures adopted. Even the once- dreaded Asiatic cholera is not now a menace. There is, as the New York Times points out, nothing par- ticularly alarming in the news that several cases of olera have ap- peared in Stockholfn as the result of infection brought from Russia. That {s because only in Russia, Turkey, parts of Austria and some of the Balkan states is it possible now for cholera to make ravages at all ex- tensive. The disease is one at thoroughly understood that in countries enlightened with regard to medical science and modern sani- tation it can be easily handled and soon controlled. Some progress has been made in curing the victims it attacks, but in prevention the tri umph has been so nearly complete that there are at least a dozen other and commoner maladies more to be feared than this one Formerly cholera was a devastating scourge wherever it was introduced, but to- day it does much harm only where ignorance and filth create the con- ditions necessary for its existence in epidemic form. It is, of course, perfectly at home in Bolshhevist Russia, not because there are no Russians who know how to deal | with it, but because all who do are in exile or reduced to utter power- lessness and inactivity. The menace of cholera will make the. Allies careful, but they will meet it easily, while of Germany's many troubles it will constitute about the least, in spite of the fact that the psysical state of her civilian population is such as to make their resistance to any such infection far jess than it ordinarily would be, * present so THE COAL SITUATION, Acting on the 'request of coal dealers doing business--or rather wanting to do business--on the river and lake front from Cornwall to Hamilton, United States 'Consul Johnson his forwarded to the Bureau of Transportation at Wash- ington the charges whidh allege unfair disérimination at Oswego, N.Y. It is claimed that the Ogdens- burg Coal and Towing Co. with headquarters at Montreal, and the Canada Steamship Lines, with head- quarters in the same city, control the coal supply and the transporta- tion supply, with the result that the small fellow is unable to have his boat loaded at that port. The ves- sels of the Montreal Transportation Co. are coming .acrose.the lake to. Kingston Jaden with coal for ship- ment to Montreal, and have been do- ing so all summer. Meanwhile the Kingston merchants and those of other border cities and towns can- not secure their supply. that the reports as received by Mr. Johnson are to be investigated. Winter is not far away and a serious situation can only be avoided by our merchants being permitted to pur- chase their rightful allotment of coal. The shortage in the supply is also a factor in the situation. | The facts are still in dispute, but the convic- tion is growing in the minds. of most observers that the labor pro- blem is, after all, more serious than that of transportation, although none of the pronouncements, either official or volunteered by various investigators, carries very great conviction. The most careful sur- vey made by non-official seekers after truth indicates that about 35. 000 men have been taken away from the Pennsylvania coal Tields; of these; about 20,000 went volun- tarily in search of higher pay at munition works and shipyards, -and abot 5,000 were drafjed.' It may yei' become 'necessary to draft men to work in the mines. Nevertheless we ure told of occa- increases in anthracite pro- duction, and, what is even more en- gouragingg, of Improved milroad conditions. "it is- quite ceftain, however, that the predicted coal | ramine is no mere spectre of possi- bility. Whether the thing can be conjured out of existence remains 10°b6 seen. Ag far as one can learn, [the Otta government--or © the Lit whieh "has remained It is well b coal question? until the sufferings of the populace grow so acute and their complaints so bitter that the is forced to some he- lated action? If so, it will then be too late to remedy matters. Can- adian winters are rigorous, and it is a foolish and fatal course not to make provision for an adequate sup- ply of fuel A government that does not put forth some' effort at a time when it might accomplish something is going to receive--and severe condemnation. The situation' is rapidly becom- ing intolerable. It looks as if the public will have to suffer some this winter. The contributing causes have been outlined and the danger of inaction pointed out. Sir Rob- ert Borden _and his minnsters, in- stead of sojourning in Europe, should be in Canada giving their attention to the solutions of such problems as that presented by the shortage in the coal supply. A Shortage Still. (Detroit News) Washington reports 714,139,119 new pieces of money were coined this year. Well, where did they go? 5, FRR imsFegard to the Must we wait government deserve In Germany. (Advertisement in Cologne Gazetle y Cheap! Straw shoes with 7- -milH metre sole of ship's linoleum In all sizes for men and women. What Really Bothers. (Baltimore American) No one-will mind a tax on luxur- fes. It's the cost of necessaries that bothers! Some Sense Left. (Detroit Free Press) We'll say this for the Kaiser-- he hasn't so far attempted to give any of his six sons one of those jobs which call for intelligence. More Money In It. (Ottawa Journal- ross) Why should another line of busi- ness be able to take from one of the leading positions in newspaper- dom a particularly ables man? The answer is simple: the.other line of business phys more. Rich! {Philadelphia Record) The Germans, who invented poi- son gas and flame throwers and the practice of bombing the civil popu- lation, and even the wounded in 'hospitals, are greatly exercised over reports of the effectiveness of the "sawed-off-shotgun," with which American troops are partially arms ed. It would seem to be a little more humane to disable a man with buckshot than to kill him with rifle bullet, but it doesn't seem the Cologne Gazette, which de- nounces our barbarism and lpoks for tomahawks and scalping knives next. Here's richness, when the Teutons denounce barbarity in Nar: fare. . THE DAILY BRIT ISI or H WHIG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1918. Genius is only great patience.-- 'Buffon. i oe When we talk about we mean getting more Shrist never 'got on.' Price Hughes. * "getting on," 'money '--Hugh Ho is the freeman, whom the truth makes freo And all are slaves besides. --owper * -. If we knew our brother as God knows him, we should never dare 10 jespise him any more--G. H. Mor- cison. - . - And be ye kind ome to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each oth- sr, even as God also in Christ for- gave you. --Bph. 4: 33. * Don't sit in the corner grieving For the praise you are denied; Take new hope and be achieving What shall bring you fulure pride. - --8. E. Kiser. » * * Do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your DOWErs. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your Ww vk shall 32 no miracle. But you stall he a ndracle. Every day you shall won- der at yourself, at the ri'hness of iife which has come in you br the grave of God. ~--PhilHps Brooks THE ATRSHIP. Through the far height, by day or night, My ceaseless task goes on, O'er hostile coasts and marching hosts, Till the long war is won, The track I mark of that foul sea shark, The deadly submarine-- I spy his way to his destined prey, Beneath the waters green, I swoop from the shroud of a thun- der cloud Upon the startled foe-- cries From the salt sea deeps below. With hawk-like flight my foe I fight Up in the cloudland there-- And send him down with a flaming crown Through a mile of empty air. A day will come when my motors hum O"er the city of blood and sin With a rain of fire, and heaven's ire, On thy towers and streets, Berlin! ----Reginald Gourlay. Mrs. Eva Louisa Pike, wife of Clarence Pike, Rochester, N.Y., died Sunday aged forty-eight years. Mrs. Pike suffered a shock last winter, from which she did not fully recover and this was followed by another about two weeks ago. Mrs. Pike was the daughter of James and Mercy Johnson and was born in Morven, Ont., on November 3rd, 18690. For putting the finishing touches to concrete roads a machine driven by 'a gasoline engine has been in- vented that can fimish about 8,000 _|square feet a day. Rippling Rhymes ing heartwrung hé is sore and him; the sweat in accents mild phrases. ch troys the temper of the mildest; ly poise, and uses words the wildest. at other times of disposition sunny; his laughter rings Itke Easter chimes, he's prodigal with money. gloom, and starts a full-sized riot. toe everywhere, no hint of racket making, for Father'yl like a grizzly bear whose head is sore and aching. H< sits beneath the sunset tree and fans himself blazes, and it is pitiful to see his line of NALS He rubs his back against the shed, its itching afes and bothers, and says he wishes he were dead and planted with his fathers. He wishes winter would arise and come, with all its rigors; he reaches wildly for the flies sand burrows for the chiggers. HOT WEATHER It is a super-heated day on which I write verses, and people, as they go their way, are breath- these Excessive heat like this des- he loses all his saint- Tired Father is curses. But surley now, since heat began to swat is dripping from his brow, and prickly heat has got him. When mother says *'I need a broom" and quiet, he turns upon her eyes of « The children tip- like smoking a -- WALT MASON. THINGS THAT aR AL NEVER HAPPEN And the bubbles rise with his choking] | Summer Suits The Classy Kind. There's a something about our Outing in style, t tailoring, fabric and the Clothes final touches in designing, that gives them "that distinction not found in the ordinary A See Our Grey Homespuns. Two and three-piece styles $15.00, $18.00, $20.00. Fancy Cheviots Shield lined, the Banker, $25.00. Outing Trousers Cream serges, plain and with neat stripes. $5.00 and $7.50. White Duck Trousers, smart cut and style, $2.00. Lustre Coats Greys and blacks, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50. Special values in MEN'S BATHING SUITS $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 to $4.50. Special Values in MEN'S UNDERWEAR "At $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 per suit. Suriety Brand CLOTHES LOWE BROS. HIGH STANDARD PAINT is not a new line, as it has been made for 60 years. We can show you houses and are still in first class condition. painted five years ago with it, Sold only at BUNT'S Phone 388 orl C. H. Burgess & Co, Toronto, were the successful tenderers for the $67,000 worth of City of Brandon debentures. Cheese sold at Utica, N.Y., on Mon- day, at 23% to Be. Hardware King St. Farms ] for Sale .T have several: farms for sale, but not enough to supply the de- mand. At present I have on my lint Bn number of customers who want to buy but I have not got just what they want. If you wish to sell your farm lst it with me mew mo that I cam show It to prospective buyers while the crop is growing. 1 make an specialty of pelling farms and have sold thousands of acres in Kingston distriet. T.J. Lockhart, Real Estate and Insurance, Clarence Street. Kingston Ontario. \. Phone 1042. : Fl e Now is the time to put in a nice hardwood floor. Seaman Kent Co.'s make you can rely on. Allan's Lumber Yard : Yard: Victoria Street. Branch Yard: Place d'Armes. The | WE BUY AND SELL WAR LOW ISSUES ~ Bongard Ryerson & Co. Members Toronto Stock Exchange. AUTOMOBILISTS BICYCLE RIDERS MOTOR CYCLISTS THRESHERS, ETC. AMBER, SMOKG, BLUE From 50c to $2.50. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 18% Princess Bt, Phone 848 Sadia dh Try it for Breakfast ! We were fortunate in. have ing a good supply of coffees on band when the duty oy Lon and will continue to. Java and Blend . At 40c Per Lb. for the present. Roasted on the Premises. X Ground Hourly. Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phiones 20 and 990. Canada Food Board Liceune Nos. 6-459 and 1nd, a3 Save "Coal Use imported chest. 'nut coke for kitchen yanges. (Clean, no smoke, no clinkers, and does b not count i Jour coal supp