_PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH WHIG 80TH. YEAR Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WIIG PUBLISHING LIMITED, . President . Editor and Managing- Director. «243 +0. 229 . 292 suBstR ON RATES Daily Ea dition) One year, Pd in 'city .. ..$6.00 One year, if paid in advance ,. .$5.00 One year, by mall to rura; offices 2.50 One year, to United States .. ..§2.50 (Bemi-Weekly Kdition) One year, by mail, cagh 1.00 One year, if not paid in advance 5 50 Une year, to United States 1.50 MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen . 128 St. Peter St F.R.Northrup, Ses Fifth Ave, New York ¥.R.Northrap, 1510 Ass'n Bug. Chicago Letters to the Biter are published i hg the actual name of the Attached is one of printing offices in Can the best job ada. The circulation of THE BRITISH Whig is authenticated by the BO A Audit Bureau of Circulations. I PI TN Evrope is hungry; America must be the bread producer. hard to But ft Autoeracy fought ajit of the grave. down, kéep went November 11th is rightly describ ed as 'the greatest day since the dawn of civilization." Canada will come up to the scratch and with $500,000,000 in the saddle. One big push now! Is the German-made revolution only camouflage? It looks as if Germany wants to get easy peace terms. © Let the 'Allies beware. The bulletin hoards are hot as appealing now ag fn past days, But do you know thers are scdres of people 'who have 'ereated the habit. Canada must help feed the world, "And that means even great- er congervation. 'There are- 100,- 000,000 people added to the Allies' lst, x There - no better way of saving money than by buying a Victory Loan bond, the safest and best in- tarest-bearing investment in the world. Australia demy from Germa: ¥h Canada fy fi pay the AYN price will have a sobe him. should not Let the Hun fis. folly. It upon Is this the joker in the armistice terms: "No person shall be prose: cuted for offences of participation in war measures prior lo the sign- ne of the armistice." Does this let out Kaiser Bill et al? . Does it not seem strange that there hind to be four years of war to show 'the (German people that their view of God and of govers- ment was all wrong? It took a loi of {pounding to get it through their heads. . SR : re Nearly two bildons and a halt francs were extorted from Belgium ' 7 by Germany in four years. an in donatty. of 'wo. witifion francs dally, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, F FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1918. r winding up the war ! ngins Canada from a to a peace footing will dividends to their | vidends apart from ; in those paid dn ia- | on the bonds--ang whl make the general prosperity and | «5s of the country." by the Ottawa | war bring own pockel and greater terest for peaceful This Is tritly aid Journal finance her trade | with the outside world--and she has shown that she can--there "is | great business ahead. of her. France |, for instance is a splendid field for | has the industries | fier | If Canada can trade. Canada and the raw material to" meet needs. Victory loans are the sources | of our financial strength. If the| people put «wp the they can} make money. money RE-CONSTRUCTION. The need of the Victory Loan to provide funds for the work of ie-| construction is possihly the strong- est argument for the providing money. 3| duce the products ers will cease. and financial be, ve' collapse is to warded off, employment must found for between 200,000 300,000 persons that have beer on- and | tions, to say nothing of finding em- ployment for the vsturned France, Belgium and other coun- tries devastated by the war having to be rebuilt, will need Canadian products; but Canada will have to sell them very largely on credit; which means that those who pro-' sold to these countries' will have to be paid out of funds subscribed by the Canadian public through such means as the Victory Loan If Canada is to get her share of this business she must provide the credits, because other countries, such as the United States, are pro- | pared to grant them. Funds must also be provided to begin the work of reconstruction in Canada. They too must come through the same means. The call for 4 bumper Victory Loan is imperative. THE FUTURE OF WOMEN WORK: TAT 17 BOIETS, "England... 1 lemand | cent women the | replant its {of us. { draw of | With the war at an end war ord-! haps be even more in demand; bar 3 ial | ley, But, if an industrial | gaged in the manufacture of mumi- Northwest and the American grain P supply reased pro- STATISTICS. except mora wheat t ever from us, and now that pe he needs of oir ene 0 pe met. No one intends tc ve a defeatsd Germany erings of inno ldren ery out to Thus the penee 5 enormous. ccentuated, too, by the disbrganization of Russia and Balka It will be several years before full crops can be hoped for from stricken nations. The food must be supplied by Norta America and Australia, more serious than the instant food "will be the demand for seed. Not one of thesa European nations can possibly have nything like seed-grain enough to own fields to-day, when They will ask it Even Russia, Siberia, Ru- mania and Hungary will need to upon our seed supply. wheat alone that will Feed grains will per- war has tably de veo ATION AY. duction ations Reétrained © For New Oecupa- tions In Civil Life. 'Disarled Canadian Soldiers tly the number of 1347 unable because of in- jury received in their country's ser- vice to go back to their former oceu- pations, have been retrained for new occupations and tablished in civil lite. This is the f » issued by the statistician of the vocational brafivh 3f the departments Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment, u r whose juris- dietion the work co ne 8 in addition to ie 347 men who have already 'been Bir ated from industrial re-education courses there are 1877 disabled men taking such courses at the present time. Inclu- sive of the above numbers, 5598 men have been approved and 265 men graduated, 'Since the work began ly 339 men, found entitled to such training, have refused to accept their sourses, and 558 men have discontin- ned for various reasons For in- stance there are at the present time, ne hundred and eleven men taking courses in agricultural production, sther courses having been suspended for a short fime to enable them to undertake this important national work. Many of these had already n given partial training in var- +s branches of farm mechanics. Others have had to discontinue tem- porarily owing to relapse.in health. , In addition to industrial re-educa- tion courses, the department con- ducts courses of training for occupa- tional purposes in the military hos- pitals, and the enrollment in these classes last month was 2004 conval | escent soldiers. This is an appre- ciable increase over ,the previous) month, and it is expected that as the; veather gets cooler, there will be further increases in spite of the fact that the hospital population is at the present time not sn high as it was last winter, due to the fact that fewer men have returned from over- seas during the past few months, PUBLIC OPINION The American public eat all wheat bread loaf may return to i table Many us not in time demand It will those and South But even call for the war is over. Nor he wanted. Is it oats and corn. seed as well gs finished feed product, # the of animals is to be restored. the land available and The great Canadizq 'the supply We have {| the money. fields could readily grow enough to whole world---if we had The returned soldier is to solve the latter pre- the the labor. quite likely blem.. may now The wheat Uncle Sam's Merely a Color Difference. (Ottawa Journal) . : i The red flag over Germany's flder | 'Steps will be taken to bring back isn't much improvement over the | the Canadian women and children pirate colors carried for some time, | NOW In the Old Land ---- ------ German newspapers their bitter denunciation of i terms of the armistice. else in, tbe] = continue the SL nforgetable. ew York Sun) We might forget much time, but not this---that the children of France remarked upon | it when they saw soldiers who smil~ ed Thin, Irritable Child Flesh, Stren Strength and Good Natare by Taking Vinol. Middletown, Conn.--*'I used Vinol for my little girl 5 years old for a run-down, nervous condition. She was thin, irritable all the time and had no appetite. In a week I noticed in improvement and now she has a Gained The Spirit That Won, {Woodstock Sentinel-Review) He was a braw Scot, and he stil hdd a cheer left, although the hour was late, and he had had an arduous day celebrating an event which, through no fault of his, had not yet ERS, The war is now practically over, | and soon our boys will begin to re-| turn to Canada. . Women workers, | who four years ago found that their! ald, either experienced or inexpert- enced, was appreciated in govern ment offices and various industries, are waking up to the fact that it is time for them 'to look around and to profit by what they have learned in that time. 'Recently there have been a large number of resignations of women workers, and the number is ever on the increase. Women have learned mamy things during their years of service in the offices and the munition factories and oth- er. places whete they have engaged on war work. "I acquired all there was to know on my job in_ threes months," said one of the most am- bitious, "and I find that commer-; clad life offers more scope, and con-/ sequently 'a considerably larger sal- ary. 1 am looking to the future." Many women are asking them- good appetite, has gained in flesh and strength and is much pleasanter o live with,"---Mrs C. B. Wilkinson. There is no secret about Vinel. It owes its success in such cases to beef and cod liver peptones, iron and manganese peptonates and glycero- phosphates, the oldest and most fa- mous body-building tonics known. Mahood's Drug Store . and at the best drug store in every town and ¢ity in the country. occurred. He was reminded that the armistice had not vet been sign- ed. . His reply was, "I don't gie a dem. We 'were told to stick to it." That was the spirit which won the war. At different times during the great struggle the Allies astonished their enemies by vefusing to see that they were beaten. They simpl¥ couldn't see that they were beaten. Their duty was t~ stick to it, and stick to it they did. i A A AN, SANA Nl i A tN Rippling Rhymes .THE HOUSEWORK PROBLEM Each day | meet some doleful dame who drags along her weary frame, and says, "It beats the band! This doing housework makes me tired; there oo damsels to be hired in all this war-struck lan I used to bask in gilded ease; but now I have to shell the peas, and dust the blooming chairs, and mop the ceilings and the floors, and manicure the walls andj' doors, and sweep the cellar stairs. 'And if by chance I get a maid 1 lie awake, I'!h so afraid that she will up and quit; but then it's no use to repine, we have to it selves what will happen when the men return and take up the ap- pointments they relinquished as the call to arms came, and many of them are not prepared to step back into the monotony of domestic life. A large number know perfectly well that they will be thrown out of em- ployment when the readjustment comes, and they are not prepared to settle down into a state of domesti- city even temporarily. What do they intend to do? . Thousands of them expect to carry on their paid employment in some form or other, and they are [fitting themselves for a new sphere. Clerical work ar 'ways attracts women in large num- bers, for they find that it offers pro: gressive openings, and that .a girl who has learned the routine of a office can devote herself to som special branch out of which she may rise to satisfactory conditions. Girl wage-earners have learned the value of money, and something of power. onomy has been practis- ed to a certain extent through force of eircumstances, but with nlany it {has become a habit to keep accoun's and save and invest 'money, and they y worker will itit herself for a bigger position, so that in the dave of re- construction she may find a place for herself in which she can advanr || to, he Umits of her ambition, : eb -------- i smile and fall in line, and try to do our bit." We must admire the stately dames who pass up all the idle games that used to take their time, and toil around the kitchen stove, and season pumpkin with a glove, to make a pie sublime. 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