PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH WHIG Published Dafty and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED, J G, Elont .. .. Leman A. Gulld . ++ «sv . President . «Editor and Managing- Director. « 5e. 243 ie. 229 «+292 Te, Business Office .. ... ... KEantorial Rooms + Job Uthee ... SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Datly Edition) Une year, delivered in ¢ity .. ..36.00 One year, if paid in advance .. .§5.00 One year, by mall to rura; offices $2.60 One year, to United States .. ..353.00 (¥emi- Weekly Edition) One year, by mail cash .. ... , .JL0 One year, If not paid in sdvance $1.50 One year, to United States $1.5 Hix and three months pro rata, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE F. W. Thompson, 87 Mail Bldg., Toronto R. Bruce Owen, 123 St, Peter St, Mont. real, } F.H.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Letters to the Rditor ares published only over the actual name of the writer. Attached printing offices in anion is one of the best job Canada. The circulation orf THE BRITISH Whig is authenticated by the ABO Audit Burean of Clrculations. he He The clown prince now thinks would like to go to England. would only last a minute-there. . Hearst ought to be in Holland and under guard, too. If he stays 'in New York he will Mkely have chills. How did you come through Christ- mas? Empty and full; empty in pocket, yet full in spirit and stomach. With George Bernara Shaw and Horatio Bottomley in the British par- Hament we may expect some hair- curling episodes. A Saved by a 'méck. "There = were splendid prospects on Tuesday for a green Christmas but that north wind brought snow and saved the day. If the time taken 167 explain why a certain thing cannot be done were utilized in doing the act then the foolishmess of the thinking would be very apparent. 5 Some despatches call them Spar- tacides, some Sparticusians, some Spartacusites. We agree with the Toronto Mail and Empire in saying, "We favor the word with most 'cus' in it." Just think of these for war prices in London: Eggs, $2.16 per dozen; potatoes, $2.50 a bushel. We should thank God we dwell in Canada and can live in comfort. But let us not forget those on the continent who are in dire need. + The Hamilton Spectator pute the whole difficulty in a few words, thus: Philip Scheldemann is calling' upon French and British Socialists + to co-operate with their German brethren. , "What separates us?" he asks. A sea of blood separales them from us. 3 "Americans fought this war for their own safety," declares Black and (White, of Detroit, "but they also fought it with the clear under- standing that. the might be wble to make #t the last war." * A League of Nations is the only way by which 'this ideal ican be realized. The Winnipeg Tribune, edited by R. L. Richardson, M.P,, smiles at the charges made by Hon. Walter Scott against the Union Government. He thinks He will' not 'be able to put it out of business, It says the Union "party is the superior of the old Laur- © It is interesting to' kmow that the best chairmen of the of Edinburgh, one of i people read those notices from the as- 0 of revision were chiefly a; THE DA ------------------------ ASSESSMENT SHORTCOMINGS. About the first of October in each year, every ratepayer of the muniei-| pality is served with an assessment statement indicating for what he is Hable in the following The statement tells him that has fif-, teen days in which to enter an ap-| peal to the local court of revision Possibly only ten per cent. the year he of sessor When demand for payment of their taxes Is made, then they be- gin to sit'p and take notfce. Many | declare they have been unjustly i charged on property or for business, income, statute labor or dog tax. But the time for appeal has' passed months ago, and they must pay the tax collector and take the chances of being allowed to make a plea before the court of revision, which they should have made long before. The lesson to be learned is to read your assessment notice when it is deposit ed in your front door, and not toss it aside as if it was merely the dry goods man's or the newspaper office bill which you have owed for months When an notice is left upon your premises where you lodge, it is legally delivered This vear the appeals to the court ainst stat assessment ute labor and dog taxes Because a | %! man has wedded a wife and taken a| couple of rooms he is not relieved of statute labor tax Every man he-| tween the ages of 21 and 60 must be | assessed, and If not for statude labor then it must be on business, income, or real property. Many men try to work the tenant game, when in real- ity they are only lodgers, but the| court of revision is wise to this y The dog question is like a thorn in | the flesh for the assessor When you thing you have a citizen "with hls back to the wall," along he will come and swear that he has not owned a canine for two years or more, and that the Sima seen making itself at home in his house did not belong to} him or anyone else living with him Surely the way of the hard. assessor is PREPARING FOR PEACE. The plans which Great Britain has adopted to solve her reconstruction problems and to take care of trade during the days that follow the con clusion of peace are worthy of caca- ful study in this country. Tho motherland i8 nothing if not tho- rough. A tremendous organization including over eighty committees has been created under the Minis! of 'Recondtruction. Prominep among the questions with which e new ministry is dealing is that of commerce after the war. © Fourteen committees are studying trade d»>- velopment. Twenty-one committees are conducting scientific and indue- trial research; eight committees are working on demobilization. There are six committees on raw materials, six on coal and power, two on finance, four on agriculture and forestry, two on intelligence, six on public administration, two on| labor and employment, four on housing, eight on education, two on aliens, three on legal maters and| three on miscellaneous questions. | A particular committee advises an expenditure of $75,000,000 spread over forty years to improve forests and plant new forests. it declares that "'the whole sum in- volved is less than half the loss in- curred during the years 1915 and 1816 threugh dependence on im- ported timber." One committee is preparing lists of possible man- factures to which he present muan!- tlons and other war factories can be devoted. Another committes is preparing to dispose of such mill- tary supplies as may be on hand. at the end of the war, and will be no longer needed. The close of the war presents tremendous financial problems, and these are being dis cussed actively py a special con mitiés. It is hoped that the gov- jetament will be able to furnish funds to factories to help tide them over the period from producing war supplies to peacetime necessities. Since a great rush of building is ox- pected, a system of priorities in building terials is being worked out. Coal mining is being studied to secure universal introduction of the most advanced methods, and the coal hs fuel for heat and power pro- duction are to be developed. We have touched but slightly on the manifold plans Great Britain has evolved to maintain her place in { British Navy can provide, most ecoaomical ways of utilizing]. the world during and after the re- construction period. Her policy is a wise and far-sighted one Ths dominions overseas can learn from it much ito their advantage. If Can ada Is to oceupy 'the place and posi- .| tion Mm the newly constructed world that her resources and her ambition || demand then she, too, must studyl| Be problems of the day, and, tio] the mother country, make her plans accordingly. The government | looked to to give aggressive leader- ship through its 4, Hi If you did Yative metho sent da t answer pre- A re is department leader- the hour ents. organizatior i under ew aggressive ship, is the nand Will the. ion Government be courageous gh to of make the i needed - eha ---- PUBLIC OPINION | " Hardly Suitable. (Ottawa Journal) yw or other "Spartacus n't geem a strong enough buneh of wild-eyed theor- fanatics, "The Next War." : ( Philadelphia Record.) The Germans still talk of "the next war." 'They say it, will be "won in the air." It Is one in the dir, a castle that we hope will never Some! group" name fa ists aud i beyond the dream stage. The Necessary Navy! (Chicago Tribune.) All British statesmen are for the league of nations--but! The British Navy must continue' to provide for the British Empire what only the is To "Flu" And Booze, (Hamilton Spectator.) Premier Hearst may have his opin- fon that the non-use of spirits had no influence in combating the "flu." He may find later that thousands of his former supportérs hold different view A Canadian Fault, Press.) of dhe 'profes tLondon Free We have sional «l eils,' whether | The re legal system af which the *Tuedical profe rights peculiar to themselves LOO many provincigi nr in our burdensome i the regulations sion rderal -or ult i give Flower Farms, (Orillia Packet.) "One Tarm of 40 nia is devoted almost enbirely growing violets." If it come boasting, think of the number farms in Ontario devoted almost en- Acres to the to of of tirely to the growing or Canadian thistle, Needed, ntreal S ) In this coufitry a n Reform Badly ( is punished for causing the spread of disease by| carelessness; but a person may throw a half-lighted match, a cigar butt, or a smouldering cigarette into a waste- paper basket and cause appalling { loss, yet be free from punishment. reset \ News From Morton, ! Morton, Dec. 23, --Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Henderson motored to Brockville on Thursday last. Miss Amy Coon is heme from Queen's, Kingston, for the holidays. Miss Jennie Henderson is home from Brockville for a few days, Mrs. J. F. Lynn, who has been ill, is able to be around again. Mrs. Burns Simpson, Jones' Falls, spent a few days last week with her parents, Mr, and Mrs, J. Stewart. George and Er- nest Roantree made a business trip to Gananoque on Friday last. E. Jacob has returned to his home in Ohio, after spending a few days with his brothers Samuel and Alfred Jacob. Mrs. Moroughan, Elgin, spent a few days last week the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Deon. ¢ New Year's Cards, New Year's cards in almost as large a range as our Christmas cards at the College Book Store. R. W. Kimmerly had the misfor- { tune of losing five head of cattle, and Mr. Stapley, one, by drowning on the former's ranch at Sheldrick lake, near Flinton, Ri [ A get! asses ip our legislative coun-! in: Califar-| of wild mustard] 1 witne HAD INTERESTING CAREER | QUEEN'S MAN WAS IN MUCH OF ! THE HEAVY FIGHTING. | Was Acting Second In Command of the Company hie Battle of the High Woods, a Pt? of the Battle of the Somme~Served With 10thi Battalion, Warcestershire Regis i ment, | Lieut. Oswald Hicks, a Queen's tman whose death occurred at Lon- {don, Ont, a few days ago, had an in-| | teresting career. . He was well-known [to a large circle of Kingstonlans. He i enlisted with the 5th Field Company {of Canadian Engkieers, from Queen's | Univers asa sapper, and was ame jong the first to abrive ut Valcartier teamp, to go ovengeas with the first! {contingent. Before reaching England | {he had 1 1 to the rank of quarter] master sergeant, He was encamped | { with the Canadians at Salisbury] { Plains, In England was given {a commission in the 10th Battalion! Worcestershire Regiment,-and Kit-, chener's "fir?! hundred thousand." 'He qualified himself not only as a, | Hewtenant in the infantry, but also & lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps. He saw two service in the trenches, chiefly the Machine Gun Corps, i In the battle of the Somme, near {ly all the officers of the 10th Worces itershire Regiment were either killed {or wounded, and he was transferred 'from tho $8th Machine Gun Corps hack to his old battalion the 10th Waorcesters : { He wag acting second jn command of the company at the battle of the High Woods, a phase of the battle of { the Somme. In this battle he was | wounded with a piece of shrapnel | through the knee, and was also gass- After convalescing, he was for time training a machine gun with which he expected to but his health 1 las years' with {ed some | company return to the trénche did not permit this. H® returned te iis home in London in-January 1917, where he had bean an invalid for the past eighteen month His funeral took place at London, with full mill tary honors, > | | | i From the Front. | Bishop Fallon was talking { his trip to the front ed a mild quarrel at the { frant," he &aid, "between 1Wo young | chaplains of different denominations { The senior chaplain got thé better of {the quarrel." i | "Let us bury the hatchet, my brother," he said. 'After all, we are | both doing the Lord's work, are we not?' ' 'We certainly are," said the jun- for chaplain, quite disarmed. { " 'Let us, therefore," sald the sen- for, suavely, 'do it to the best of our ability, you in your way and I in His.' " about Visiting In Kingston { Mrs. C. English, 'Allistor, Ont., is spending the. hollidays with friends on Brock street, She has read the newsy Whig for over' fifty years and takes it mow. "Shé thinks she could not do without it. * f bard i WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE. The thousand things I could not say Before 1 crossed the sea pA Dear love, the werds I could not speak, i And all you are te me; The: thousand dreams I eould not dream When, Life for &bld-did dance, Are Life to me, dear love, since Death ! Became a dream, in Prange. oN i The thousand things I cannot write; The things that I would do Shall all be yours, dear love, when God Shall send me home, to you. | Rhymes ME UND BILL 'I'm glad I said, "I won't be kaiser," when I was |ff the job, but I was Hi asked, upon a ti wiser, and went on writing deathles: me; Bill took rhyme. Bill took | up lodgings in a palace, that glitteted like a sheet of; steel; he drank beer from golden chalice, and had a pie at every meal. His name was known from the Nyanzas up to the farthest wastes of snow; while I went cents a throw. a sway no mortal on producing stanzas that He had a boom that was surprising, brought me twenty, king eserves, and mednet monarchs watched him Kkaising, and tried to imitate his curves. Great was would have them bust a fender, or While I, a bard of poor condition, sang madrigals his state, and great his splendor, but he reater still, and he remarked, "I'll © the whole world's ruler, Bill." for pork and beans; the Jimit of my pale ambition was pink checks from the magazines. my shanty, my conscience working as it should; for gents like Shakespeare, me and Dante, have done no And Bill is sitting in the shadow, an outlawed, sick, ed chump; he thought to reach an El Dorado, and only reached t dump. All worldly splendors I'm despising; I love (kis hut Um. glad 1 didn't take up Kaising, when Prussia offered ALT WASH, 4 harm if little good. sore-he; the nea 1 call my own; me the throne. 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