PAGE FOUR . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1918. THE BRITISH WHIG! "mx 85TH YEAR. and Semi-Week! THE BRITISH WHIG PUDLIS ©0,, LIMIT by ING | Q Bllott ... ..... ... .. President nA Guild ,...... Editor and - 5 Managing- Director. Business Office .. 243 Editorial Rooms gp 1 ig RATES thon) One year, delivered in city One year, If paid in advance One year, by mail 2 rural offices One yaar! fo United 8 . mi: Week dictons One , by mall, & year, if not an Ee advance $1.50 year, to United States .. $1.6 Six and three months pro rata, gq. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE MS 3 St. Peter St, Dire STA me RPT RENT ATIVE; F5 Romthwun, 226 F'**h Ave, New York R-Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Letters to onl over be actual the Editor are published name of the Attached is 6 of the best b prinving offices in Canada, fo The elreulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. imt----------t Even the unspeakable Turk finds the Hun company too bad for him. He is anxious to sever relations with his old ally. Due to thé need for fabrics, the German government has decided to configcate curtains in private homes. The time draws near when the Allies will ring down a curtain on the tragedy staged at Berlin four years ago. - "The exodus of Canadian cabinet ministers followed not long after the O.T.A. came into force," was a jocular remark overheard the other day. "But mo one expected . tha. Hon. N. W. Rowell would join the revellers abroad." The German commander in the Ukmaine has been killed by a bomb. Judging by the fate which is over- taking Hun leaders in various parts of Russia, that country has no more dove for the Hun than the rest of the world. Some idea of the United® States colossal ship programme may be gleaned from the recent announce- ment that there are now 118 fully equipped shipyards in the Allied republic, with fifty-four others partly complete. While one may regret the fact, it must 'be admitted that the Germans are conducting a masterly retreat from =the Solssons<Rheims salient. Only by a miracle can the Allies hope to capture any considerable number of men or guns. John Dillon asked, in the House of Commons on Monday, during the debate on the Irish question, if the government intended to support the principlés of '"self-determination." The Irish convention was based on this very principle. The National te 'and Sinn' Feiners have discard: ed "self" determination for "'sell- ish" determination. The nev draft treaties between the United States. and Great -Bri- tain and Canada will affect sowie 250,000 British subjects and over 60,000 Canadian subjects residing in the republic. Among the rein- _forcemonts thus ob 'are anany Canadians who crossed the border to escape conscription. = h 'AS one of the conditions of peace 'Britain must turn over her navy to | the Germans, says Count Roon. The last British man-of-war will go down fighting 'and with its colors flying before a ir is concluded deliver 0! Boston with { {ble supplies of coal. s Bernard Malleti's {now in its train comes another men- DE TROUBLES OF A MER CHANT." ire times t is prome to believe There merchar has more The nature that that he s share of troubles. of his business to have troubles enough--and to spare. How to avoid them is, therefore, of interest to To aid him in solving thid problem the Retail Merchants' As- sociation of the city have secured the services of W. H. Farley, of the Na- tional Cash Registér Co,, who will this evening, in the Y.M.C.A. building an address on the subject, "The Troubles of a Merchant," The lecture will be illustrated with stere- opticon slides and moving pictures, explaining the causes of business fail- ures and the latest and best methods of storekeeping. Merchants © ahd their clerks are invited. Never in its history has the local association been as alive and aggressive ag at present, and President R. J. Rodgers and his brother officers deserve credit for the progressive tendencies they display. Their efforts should be rewarded by a large attendance this evening. WHY A COAL SHORTAGE ? The Christian Science Monitor good reason asks why there should be a coal shortage next winter. If there is to be one, it de- clares that the United States Fuel Commission will be largely respon- gible. The more one thinks -of it, the less ground therd appears for a shortage of fuel next winter. Those who were given control of the fuel situation have had the greater part of a year to provide against the possibility of a famine The condi- tions of last year no longer exist. As the Monitor points out, the mines continue to hold inexhaust- Labor is bet- ter employed and paid; railroad equipment has been vastly improv- ed; there is a great increase in loco- motives and cars; there are many mora vessels; the weather has been favorable for coal distribution and the coal men are making large pro- fits. It does appear that in these cir- cumstances fthe. constant talk of a coal shortage next winter is .ather nonsensical. All will agree witn the Monitor that it is not the kird of talk to inspire the people with confidence in the future. If the Fuel Commissiong of both the Un- ited States and Canada really see a shortage ahead, is it not time that more than ordinary effotts were put-forth to prevent it? PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION. Anyone interested. in the educa, tion of the child---the future citizen of Canada-- will learn with interest that Hon. Dr. Cody, Ontario's new Minister of Education, is a believer in making the public school serve its full purpose and give a complete edu- cation in itself. Ninety per cent of the school children obtain all their education in the public schools. There they should get all the essen- tials. to fit them for earning their livelihood and standing forth as ex- ponents of the best citizenship. To do this will call for a limitation of subjects, a thorough grounding in the three R's, which, after. all, are the requisites™ the greatest number of needs. To read well, to write clear- ly, to calculate correctly will all tend to make men and women capable and worthy, In the past the children have been skimming over the surface of many subjects, knowing - little about them and forgetting them speedily when the fullness of, man- hood comes. Let us have concrete, definite, comprehensive teaching in elementary knowledge for the mass, and then we can expect an intelli- gent, helpful, uplifting citizenship. And in saying this we do not for one moment suggest that this is all that is required. The higher aven- nes of scholarship must be pursued ~-and we think that if we start the ninety per cent. right they will at- tain to the further pursuit of know- ledge---by the tenth, and to them the high school and the university will be the goal. But the public school must Tihion the great principles that will guide and direct the larg- est body of our future citizéns. The Minister 6f Education has stated a conviction that évery thoughtful man Will agree with, that the public school must not be made a place where it is a mere'link in a chain which is. never completed. The public school must be a chain in it- golf to which the fuller and richer he is bound vital him tion can be safely added. Dr. Cody has hit a résponsive chord in the | hearts of those concerned in publi education. A NEW EUROPEAN MENACE. War's scourge has acconnted for "nillions of deaths ir Burope-- twelvd and a halt million is Sir estimate---and a0, 'the dreaded Spanish grippe _cableg brought the mev's the retail' is such! pel of: links of inspiration and investiga-| {Berlin alone were filled with doctorg and 1 it. It was triadHungary an epidemic « fluenza had and in Danzig. London reports that this dinflu- enza, wh has been So prevalent in Spain, where it originated, has entered England, spreading rapidly and has already reached the midland where schools have been and many mines are in danger of being shut dowu. War correspondents have stated that a German offensive' on the western front was held up because of the prevalence of this disease in the German army. . With such a considerable movement of ships and men westward across the Atlantic as is now going on, it is not likely to be long before the malady reach- eg the United States and Canada Owing to the better food conditions its menace will not be 'so alarming as in Europe. In the war stricken lands, where the population ig in no condition to re- its attacks, ithe disease has made serious headway. The au- thorities fear that many deaths will follow in its wake and are alarmed at the rapidly increasing extent of its ravages. PUBLIC OPINION Unanimous. (Brantferd Expositor) General Foch is in perfect agree- ment with von Hertling's statement that Germany will not retain Bel- gium, ATE the hospitals victims and all the ses were down, with reported that Aus- was suffering from tf typhus and that in- in Budapes: also appeared ch is counties, sod prevailing here, The "Juicy End." (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) An esteemed contemporary prints a ijearned explanation of "Habeas Corpus ab subjuciendum." The "Juicy end" of it was evidently what some of the lawyers had in view It Was Gone Long Ago. (London Advertiser the fruit growers chuckle when they read that jam is to be used this coming winter instead of butter in Canada? The last chance of any cheap fruit has flown. Won't "The Men From the North." (London Free Press) In his famous prophecy uttered shortly before he died, Count Leo Tolstey pictured the condition of the world in the throes of a ma- terialistic commerce that would lead eventually to this very war. At that time the great Russian de- clared that a man from the north," that is to say, a man of strength and power would came to save the peoples. The man has already any single colossal personality, though colossal personalities have appeared, but rather a young man- hood, the manhood of those races whose deep desire it is that the world shall be made free for demo- cratic forms of government and for unity among nations, come. Not CARDINAL GIBBONS' FIGHTY- FOURTH BIRTHDAY. No celebration other than Thanks giving Mass. He is enjoying ex. cellent health, taking long walks daily and celebrating Mass every mbérning. EVERY DAY. William Henry Dixon, in Brooklyn Eagle. Every day our lines grow longer, Every day our armies stronger, Every day!! Every day builds up' our forces, Strengthened from a million soure- es, Everywhere, courses--- Every where red blood day! day the Teutons weaken, day life's duties beckon, Every day! day the foé is failing, day our ships are sailing, we'll hear the Boches walil- ing-- Every day! Every Every Every Every Soon Every day our columns lengthen, Every day the long lines strengthen, Every day! Every day we're buiMing wiser To unmask the cheap Disguiser, Soon we'll lick the bloody Kaiser-- Every day! The Home Merchant. your trade to the merchants who keep the store' the year around. Buy of the man who stands at your side at the collector's counter Buy of the man who 'is your neighbor, your acquaintance, vour friend. Buy of the man who is a factor in the town you live in, who helps to make a mar ket fof the things you have to sell. Buy of the home meréhant that adver- tises in the home newspaper Explanation Needed. (Guelph Herald) Will the Union of Canadian Muni- cipalities please rise and state what it did at its recent meeting on the Pacific coast to jusfify holding a session during war, time. Talkfests won't accomplish = the work that such a wnion can do in offsetting the. soulless corporations that are ever on the job to bleed the municipalitices, yet joy-riding and banqueting appear to have been the chief object of a gathering that cost every- municipality sending a delegate a heavy outlay in rallroad fares. Rippling Rhymes planet. thinks th so idly amblind, vain and foolish rambling? trifling things, of laces and of collars, of blondied hair and diamond rings, and shoes at twenty dollars, war a horrid bore to which kings are ad- SLACKERS The men are driven forth to "work, pulleys humming, and any chap who tries to shirk will surely get what's coming. The lad who used to bask all day is busy as a gopher; doesn't pay to show up as a loafer. = thefr day Is v'er; if they've a kick they can it; man who has no useful chore must But how about the dame serene, through life to keep the in times like these. it Male idlers find ~the hunt another who. burns up tubs of gasoline in Her thoughts are still of She dicted; her heart of celluloid is sore that sugar is re- stricted. useful service; a they make her tired and nervous. ed dames, say to them, "Work or perish, t a sia silly games that they ignobly cherish. She sees her loyal sisters strain and toll in and sights like this give her a pain, Oh, let's dragoon " and drag them ffom the If Jack must use his strength and gkill to help preserve the nation, it's only fair that Sister Jill should work yut her salvation. -- WALT MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPE.:» By GENE BYRNES (M THE UNHAPPY MAN THE WORLD! 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