In ----------_ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, D a ' ECEMBER 13, 1918. Fublished Dally snd Semi-Weekiy by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING ©Q, LIMITED, ° J. G. Elott .. ..... +» President ieman A. Guild .. .. . Editor ana ar Managing Director, Telephones: Susiness Othice ., ... ... £ditorial Hooms .. .. ... ... dob Utlies ... .., ..I SUBSCRIPTION RATES ¢ (Dally Edition) ' One year, delivered in city .. One year, if paid in advance .. , Une year, by mall to rura; offices One year, to Hutgd States .. $3.00 (semi- Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash .. ... . .$1.00 One year, If not paid in advance js Une year, to United States .., ... $1.5 Hix and three months pro rata, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE F. W. Thompson, 57 Mail Bldg. Toronto R. Bruce Owen, 123 St. Peter St, Mont- real, Ve F.H.NorthraD, 225 Fifth Ave, New York ¥.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago | Letters to the BAITOr are published Oniy over the actual name of the writer. Attached 1s one of the best Jub printing offices in Canada. e circulation of THE BRITISH gk Is Autheitieated by the AB A urean of Circulations, : re cn te fe ns 0 eT . Watch for the Christmas Whig on Saturday. The early Christmas shopper se- cures the best values, The replacing of the trains can- celled during the war period will be welcomed by the travelling pud- He. There is,an insistent demand that a better service be inauguraied without undue delay. ------------ Hon, C. C. Ballantyne gives an emphatic denial to the rumors that there is dissention in the ranks of the Union Government, No thought of a general aléction has been entertained, he declares, The experience of other Canadian cities in seeking to secure a higher type of civic representative has not --'been-very encouraging. In Guelph, to mention one case, the various public bodies failed to co-operate. The property owners should supe port a grant of $25,000 to put the fair grounds and: buildings luto habitablé shape and promote the ese tablishment here of a first class fair exhibition. There's money in the proposal. Anything = that es for the 'growths and progresd of Kingston Should be welcomed, whether it is a 'more business-like city council or a Tneasure of support to a rapidly growing fair association. We need Pass up nothing as being too pre- tentious, While Juck Canuck from Kings ton is keeping watch on the Rhine it fs/our duty to see that his child- rent have .a merry Chrisimas The Whig is trying to do its part, but that Kiddies' Christmas Tree fund is not growing as fast as it should. Your help is needed" Thousands of dollars' worth of beautiful Christmas gift' mercharn- dise has just been unpacked and placed on display 'in the Kingstca stores. Shop eanly, for help is searce, Aside from the moral obli- gation to make your purchases 'early, it's materiplly to your sd- vantage to do so. A , v ht The Board of Trade does well (o end R. J. .vair's suggestion, as expressed in his letter to the Whig t recent date, that the provincial 5 ss seeB487 4of the earth's political divisions. o has saved the world from Prussian | hdmi ------ -------- SHOULD NOY OBJECT, the pari o The Detroit Free Press in a wells! slur upon thought out editogial says that the They heiong United States should be slow to 0b-| thems Ives, i ject to the British sea power The lthe C.E.F., and have been tied down | sensible opinion is thus expressed: {in Canada, plesbecause of their | "If the past record of British great efficiency Every one of them | naval policy means anything, the Bis power 10 Zet to) stronger her fleet, the more pro. M3 pov 3 on 0d bable it is that an equitable work- army depart- | able freedom of the seas can be They are still maintained both in time of peace | of in ti if war { and in Hime of wa to the subject of | their expert knowledge must form the formation of a league of nw-|the nucleus of the regular forces of tions, as it Is affected by the Bri- | Canada which will be reorganized tish naval Jolicy, it is obvious that | when the peace terms are complat- the preponderance of sea power is : . hora 8 bound to reside either in some one {®d. In all justice and fairness to government or in some dominating | them, their value to the country as group of governments; whatever | professional soldiers must be recog- may be thought of the dogma as ap-| nized. plied to individuals, nations are not As regards the CEF. men wha created "free and equal." Whether| As regards the C.E.F. men, all the world henceforth is joined { never wore a' uniform except i» in friendship or disjointed by en-{ playing at soldfers in the days be- mities, there always will be domin-|. war, the Whig's assertion ant powers, Evidently 'Great Bri-| : 1 tain intends to be one of them. Ana [Still stands Many of them have We are quite sure also that the Un- taken shelter in headquarters staff ited Stated Intends to be another |positions. and it would have taken he one of them, And E the _ present dynamite to drive them out. They trend is toward the formation of a : small group of states, which natur-| Must go now, and their places mus: ally will include France, Blaly and |be taken by returned soldiers capn- Japan, to act as a sort of composite | aple of doing their work. For cleri- mother chicken for the remainder calipositions there are thousands of eligible war veterans, who could quite easily fill the positions now held by mien who, after enlisting on an engagement for overseas service have stayed at home in safety. An instruetor in the permanent force ean only be made by ydars of ha-d training, and his positipn cannot be easily filled, the work that the "embusquees" are quite cast any.| force men. organization by | ! separate' from | Whiz to rmanent an has done : the front, but wise ment kept them here needed in Canada, and because "The United States should be the! slowest of all countries to object to {the British sea policy as outlined by Churchill. British sea supremacy despotism; It has directly saved this country from the grasp of the Teu-, ton. Its existence has been a bless, ing and a help to us so far, and no matter how ambitious we may be to take a place as a leading naval pow- jer, we need not be jealous of the "strength of the other great English | speaking state." MUST DEPEND ON COAL, The committee for Scientific and . | Industrial Research has just pub {lished a bulletin prepared by A. S. but | i ag doing can any returned man attitude which the easily be done And that Whig will continue to hold regard- by ig the ing their positions Dairymen's Meet ing, Foxboro, Dee. 13 One of the | PUBLIC OPINION | which . lpurpcse | | nount to, even though they run into the bil- when' they are placed beside totals? Hons, the The New Menace. (London Free Press) Watch out for a pew German pro- paganda----the endeavor to breed dissatisfaction between the Allies, in particular between Great Britain and the United Stafes. Unfounded rumor is thelr best and most subtle agent Germany's Doom. (Philadelphia Record) If England shail not recover Heli- goland from Germany, to which she coded it "from love and affection," apd as an evidence of goodwill, in 1890, it must be because England does not intend to leave Germany in a position to have a formidable aeVy- within the next half century. if England imagined that might ver be necessary to fight Germany again it would hold that island which commands the mouths of the Elbe, Weser and the Kiel Canal. A Fine Investment. tlondon Advertiser) the great trade expansion for we are headed is to amount to anything we must within the next few years supply our. factories, mills and wshops with thousands of rained workers. Canada will be asked to supply vast markets across the Atlantic and Pacific, but we are prepared to meet this nity with an army of skilled producers we would be hopelessly distanced In the fierce competition that is ahead. It has been suggest-'| ed that the Federal Government ap- | twenty millions for the technical education, and invesiment could be im- | If both unl un oppo progriate of no betier | L. Barnes, assistant engineer of th {| Hydro-Electric Power Commission, entitled, "The Heating of Hoyses, as 'Coal and Electricity Compared." It Occupied by J. A. Kerr, director is a carefully prepared 'treatise, con- padres ies were given by G. G. Pub 4 : the | 'OW, chief dairy Instructor for Kast taining a thorough afalysis of the ern Ontario, and A. D McIntyre, ¢is- question. His conclusions will be | .o representative, of Stirling A studied with Interest at this parti: | vopresentative of the provincial de- cular time when the heating pro- | partment showed three reels of mo- blem is engaging the attention of aii | Vie films, featuring the dairy coy, ? 4 : {end u-good musical programme was classes of people. The fuel pre- given, . A. Kerr was nominated blem has been especially 'studied by | as director for the Eastern Ontario the Research Council by reason of Dairymen's Association for Hastings the necessity of finding new sources | South. of. fuel supply for both present and future needs, securing adequate me: The Montreal thods of conservation and devising | r5rneg of the siriking employees ways for permanently meeting the! from thd police, waterworks and steadily Increasing difficulties of | garbage departments Thursday af, | termoon, making a tie-up of public | equalizing supply and demand. Mr. services practically complete. Barnes shows conclusively that a Asquith agrees with Lioyd-George more or less widespread popular on British supremacy of the sea and| conception' ds to the potential avail-) making Germany pay the cost of they : ) | war, ability of Canada s great water pow The British are now in full posses. -ers for domestic electric heating is sion of Cologne and the neighboring not tenable on scientific or economic | country, grounds. The future of water pow- best meetings in the history of Eastern Ontario Dairymgen' tion was held here he chair was | | { firemen joined the it mi ist Russian monarchists will proclaim er development in Canada lies rath- the « Good Housekeeping for December, | Good Housekeeping for December | | contains a number of very interest- | ing s'ories and articles. What is | haps the most striking story of | the year is contributed by Mary | | Raymond pe Shipman Andrews, the hor of the famous Lincoln story Tribute." Another with a humorous | "Major Bobbin, Spug." by Belle Houston. There is also fiction by James Oliver Cur- wood and Kathleen Norris. There is verse by Grace G. Boswick, Ma: garet E. Sangster and Grace Haz- ard Conkling. There are special ar- ticles by Dorothy Dix, Clara Savage, Henry P. Davison and Dr, Harvey W. Wiley. The agitation against German-made toys' makes especial- ly significant an article on play-| things by Sarah Comstock. There are 15 pages of very interesting household suggestions and articles prepared by Good Housekeeping In- stitute. There is an equal number of pages devoted to fashions. This 'department is edited in New York and Paris, All told, it makes a very atiractive holiday number. A majority of from 170 to 200 is expected for Lloyd-George's coalition Perfect story "The splendid twist Marg: is Grand Duke Oyril as Czar of Rus- sia. er in the direction of PIOVIAIRE | poms cheap power for transportation andl eontinue to be Canada's main re- liance for heating purposes. The broad facts as to the relative costs of heating by coal and by electricity industry. Coal, he concludes, must | oy . g government. t are clearly and succinctly set fortl, and the conclusion is reached that "It is, therefore, hard to conceive of a time when electric energy will] Compete successfully and on a large scale with coal, oil, gas, ete, for} heating." "The lesson to be drawn from his decision is that people must rely upon coal, and must therefore conserve it in every poss- ible way if suffering is to be avoid- ed. Things marc tidings there; thrones that are things. streams of gore ing rumor fails A THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE. In an editorial to the Whig on Tuesday last, there appeared th» assertion that not a single maa should be in khaki in Canada draw- ing government pay to-day who is not a returned man, This state- ent has attracted the attention of a Section of the soldier body to whom it was never intended to apply, namely, the permanent force in- structors who have not been able fo gab overseas because their services were far more valuable in Canada than they would have been at tha front, One of these instructors cali ed upon the Whig and pointed out this view of the question, and the Whig hastens to state that the sen'- ence in question was aimed at those who enlisted only after the out break of the war, and who have ever since occupied well-paid staff positions, and have repeatedly dodg- ed going overseas. There are many. such In Kingston. ' The instructors of the permanent forces, have, as is well k volunteered time anda again foriService at the front, anc have off to give up their hard earned rank, but on every occasion they have been kept at home owing to great value to the nation, In the words which Sir Sam Hughes, of militia, used at Val.| "Over there, an 'n- AN SA Junkman haul away a load cause we have to pay high - Copyright, GREAT DAYS not jarred by any news; there's can amaze, or make us tremble in our shoes, push ourselves aroumd the tewn, and hear the latest some mighty king has lost his crown; | we say, "Well, Well," or "I declare!" We hear of] ~~ knees, and hasten to the what he asks for cheese. pires; we hear the news, and say, then we talk of rubber tires, and gasoline, and kindred | We've heard THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPELI h so fast these fateful days, we are naught so strange it/ We of captains on their bended grocer"s store, to see just An ancient monarchy ex-| "By jings!" And [Ji no more, 80 many wondrous tales of | and wholesale death, the most exeit- |i to make us draw a longer breath. |i Perhaps in coming peaceful years we'll get our old [fi time poise again, and learn once more to sprinkle i tears, and shudder at a tale of pain. | We see the ll of sceptres, thrones and crowns, and beef be- | prices for our handmedowns. spective any more; we cannot grasp the news we read; we Blue: Front store, and let our whiskers go to Ee rrr ALT MASON. | -- ; wuss | Bibbys BIBBYS For Underwear i ys A 3 e . Style Headquarters For Men And Boys. Where Clothes Are Sold. . i TRY BIBBYS For Hosiery Society Brand * Society Brand Clothes ACoat o Superb Style Lines Gifts will be appreciated this year in proportion to their useful- ness. Useful gifts are easy to select. You will find in this store many practical gift men and young men of all ages. You'll be sure to please him if you nr suggestions for select his Christmas gifts here. . . $25.00 ~. $80.00 . . $35.00 .. $22.50 «$25.00 Headquarters for Men's Underwear and Hose. 78-80-82 Princess St. The Kenmore Overcoat . The Belcourt Overcoat The Belmont Overcoat . . . The Ashton Suit The Carlton Suit The Bud Sait ... .. .$27.50, $30, $35, $37.50 The Just Wright Shoe, Russian Calf . . $8.00 The New Italian Velour Hat ... .. .. .$7.50 New Tweed Hats... ..% 5% 00, $3.50 HOUSE COATS, BATH ROBES STOVE PIPE ENAMEL Extra Fine Glossy Black. WATERPROOF STOVE DRESSING Made and used by McClary's. BUNT'S HARD IN FOUR POUND TINS Strawberry, per tin . ..