dob Office meet "Published Dally 'everybody PAGE FOUR A--onsnn su THE BRITISH WHIG 86TH YEAR. { and Semi-Weekly hy WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED, THE BRITISH CO. J. GO. Elllett .. +e «+ President Leman A. Guia .+ +» «Editor and Managing -Director. Telephones: Business OMcs ,. «cv oo Baitorial Rooms . ae oe see FRR TNE TY Sh S SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered In city year, If paid In advance .. . year, by maf] to' rural offices $2.50 year, to United States .. ..§3.00 (Semi- Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash .. ... ,$1.00 year, if not pald in advance $1.60 year, to! United States .. $1.50 Six and three months pro rata. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE f. W. Thompson, 57 Mall Bldg. Toronto R. Bruce Owen, 133 St. Peter St, Mout. real. ¥.R. Northrup, 336 Fifth Ave, New York ¥.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual name of the writer. Attached I» grinting offices Une one Ome «$6.00 5.00 of the Canada. one best job in The circulation of THE BRITISH Whig is authenticated by the . ABC Andit Bureau of Circulations. A A AA SA A AAA The effects of prohibition are far- reachihg. Why, even winter has lost its "kick" now. A few more restrictive laws and will ba able to join In that grand old song, "Every Day Will Be Sunday By-and-bye." - ---------------- The members of parliament are agitating for an increase in salary. For all that some of them do their gorvices would be dear if they were given gratis. : ---- ---- In giving returned men the préfer- ence of their pulpits, the Presbyterian church is moving abreast of the times. These men alone are capable of correctly sensing the needs of men to-day. The question of the tariff promises to be the big bone of contention in Canadian polities during the mext few months. The western people are waiting anxiously to see what the budget will bring forth. F. B. McCurdy, M.P. for Queen's- Shelburne, wants the civil service to give returned soldiers the preference. This matter needs to be fought out ip the house, for so far the soldier has not beem getting a square deal from the civil service commission, It is rather strange that, after last year's splendid restilts, there should be any doubt about repeating the daylight saving scheme. The "Father of Daylight Saving" had bet. tor look out, or his child will die at an early age. France's losses during the war amounted 40 twenty billion dollars. If this is not made good by the ex- acting of} large indemnity from the Full repara~ The death rate from tuberculosis in England during the past few years has been cut down 509% by the erect tion of samitary dwellings in which] sunlight has easy access. This is one aspect of the housing problem that the local committee should bear in mind, ---- The plans of the government for 'settling soldiers on the and will not set with the approval of the-soldiers they have tg buy the land long as dvantage over fine pro-war home- MEN WHO LOOMED BIG. tention At has been drawn reg ss Kingston has sustained of death and retirement of citizens who business world. "Senator J. J. Hart) and Robert the people, 1 the of its loomed the Richardson and f large interests, leader of I d hence, while tne ion Harty and Cornelius Bermingham, men of large means and great influ- emcee, have retired from publicy and business life that made them leaders. Who among "Kingston's citizenship can measure up to these men and do for the what they did? Is Kingston not very city has reason to revere the memory of the departed and honor the two men who have retired to spend the rest of their days in quietude BRITAIN'S PEACEFUL TION. The labor changes in Great ain full of cance at the present time, European countries the masses of the people afe using means of bloodshed and violence to attain their ends The huge mass meeting recently hel REVOLU- Brit are interest and signifi when 1 turning point in the great revolution that has taken place in the national life of the The people had opened by the class country their ties have eyes war; and barriers been broken down, and the the working people have shown that they are the most potent factor in the life of 'the nation, and that they tend to be treated as such in the fu shorter working masses ol 1- ture. Their demands for working hours, for better and living conditions, and for better food laws and other re- forms vital to life, are all the result of the greater enlightenment that has come to them "during the war. But the significant part of the great upheaval is that it has all been accomplished peacefully, and with almost complete harmony on: both Apart from a few isolated result of strikes breaking of the a score of sides. disturbances as a there has been no law Such a state of affairs is a great tribute to the democracy of Britain and to the wisdom of not only the statesmen, but also of the labor leaders. While the countries of Europe struggle in bloodshed and destruction for their rights, the en- lightened and educated people of in an intelligent way, and their jus- tice is at once admitted, This is & great 'object lesson inthe powers of democracy, a lesson which should not be last upon the less fortunatg coun- tries of the world. -------------- FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY SCHEME. Kingston cannot hope for any re- lief in the library situation -«" way of the Carnegie Corporation. A letter meceived by dhe Whig states that until the abnormal conditions created by war have subsided, no favorable reply can be made to any request for a library building for Kingston. This. decision leaves open as the best scheme the pro ject of building a memorial library It is generally admitted that a me- mortal of some kind to the soldiers who have fallen in' the war should be erected, and no better type of memorial than a library could poss- ihly be suggested. ' The geducating of our citizens, both present and future, in the ' ideals for which these men fell fs a work of great importance, and the library is the one great channel through which this work 'can be done. In Kings- ton the library, in size, position and scope, is a disgrace to the eity, and it is essential that we have a mod- ern free public library. The cost of such a building, roughly estimated, would be about seventy-five thousand dollars, and that is the fund which must be raised for the meeting of, the city's needs in this respect. To raise such a sum means hard work, but in the cause of education, and as a me- morial to those who fell in the war, it is not by any means an unattaia- able objective. The library hoard is prepared to take the matter In hand as soon as it finds that it has iho support of those who can be of greatest service. Evely one is agreed as to the necessity of the library, and the only. point which needs consideration is that of fin- ance. : : The Whig is heart and soul with the library board in promoting the It is realized that THE for patriotle purposes were raised. to the William | Limestone City anything like| much the poorer without them? This in| in Londgn is unique in history as the | have] in-| E THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDN rolling in order] 4 wpe] Bitam's Part in th Wal. f ngston i | Genet eee seer ie $e Beloit { be No. 7. Britain's Share in Supplying Muni- tions. When the war commenced, the fac- gaged in the | sities, gs coniorim-~ It rt t ball a may have a credit to AN ANGLO-SAXON ALLIANCE FOR | PEACE. i liminary Peace Confer- | tories of Britain were « the League | production of the nec {comforts and the amenitic able to a pacific civilization. y it 1 een called, was drawn up | Throughout the whole length and by the pepresentatives|hreadth of Britain there were only » nations concerned. This is a | three national arsenals 1d the la- step the right direction. a bour employed in the 1 which will do much to presery ,{ of munitions was but a drop in the Which. ys of fl LO Preserve) cean of industrial effort With a tha world for genera-|supreme effort, however, Britain ad- justed herself to the new and unpar- alleled conditions, and effected a com- She be- nstitution of of N ;, or the League of Peace, | and approved | of | great in | the pe tep I ice of {tions to come Buf the peoples of the world must | The | Plete industrial revolution i came one immense argenal, her man is not an absolute cure for|,nd woman power mobilized, her in- So long as the contracting na- | dustries placed upon a war footing, ltions agree among themselves, it will her - every thought and energy con- | be effective, but there'can be no guar- | centrated upon. the one task of sup-| the that nations, with ideals and | plying her fighting forceg with their = ' ' : a als and | pggential needs instincts entirely different, will be| The very face of Britain articles of | changed New factories sprung up by the thousand, and where previous- fective only so long as every nation 1 there was nought but sleepy fields, a. 3 Y py OE acres of buildings, throbbing with the | within it considers itself bound by its | deep pulse of mighty machines, were | terms. Other treaties have been | built The number. of firms in | made, but, the world has seen, | Britain engaged on munitions con- | when the time came when one of the | tracts at the close of the war was | Co | { well over ten thousand, and the na-| | high contracting parties found that|tjonal arsenals had increased from | stumbling block, it became | three to more than two hundred. Al- So, | though some six million men were withdrawn from industry for service | with the jcolours, their places were | eagerly flied, ynd on munition work alone nearly three million men and women were constantly employed | not expect too much from it {league | war | was | | bound in perpetuity by the its constitution The league will be | | | | | | {treaty a | | 4 | | pearing | . | aspirations of those scrap of paper without ap to cast a wet blanket on the | who aré manag | ing the affairs of the world, it must | { be pointed that should | expect too much from the League | Nations | The greatest possible hope for the not of | out we nitions of all kinds which from this wholesale revolution Ww | stupendous s& to appear almost miraculous Represented merely in statistics, it numbs the mind and baffles the imagination One aspect as as BO | preservation of world peace, and for j the prevention of such a catastrophe | | as that through which we have just| may be illustraced best however, hy passed, Hes, not in the League of Na- |saying that, when during the tiong, but in an alliance of the entire | Somme offensive of July, 1916, Brit- n h_aneak i Ry | ain was issuing weekly to her armies English-speaking throughout on the western, front an amount of the world The Anglo-Saxon | ammunition equal to the entire stock to-day is the most powerful of all the available for her land service at the It embraces the entire Brit- | outbreak of war, during the battles of the fall of 1918, the British army fired daily more than double the vol-| {ume of shells that was expended in the whole month of July, 1916. And language but also of blood, are alike | at the end of the hostilities in No- in 'many respeets. They have the { vember the output was such as to en-; same ideals, the same lofe of free- | Sure that, had the war continued, sa li | this record would also have been left the far behind in 1919. race race races ish Empire and the United States of | These two great peoples, | America. bound together by ties mot only of | dom, same literature, the same | Great Britain make their demands would have to be al high standards of honor, and the same common interests Bound to- gether, not essentially by treaty, but by the ties of a close relationship, they hold in their hands the future peace of the world and the better- ment of the world's civilization. This relationship, then, one . which should be fostered and encouraged, until the two peoples become, in pol- jcy and interests, as one, having as their aim the preservation of peace on earth. is At the present time the relations of the United States and Britain are better than at any time sinee the days of the American revolution. The sons of these two countries have fought shoulder to shoulder on a common battlefield for the cause of right and justice, and these ideals have the first place in the constitus tion of both nations. The tie of a common speech renders easier the cementing of the bonds of friendship and closer relations, and the world's greatest hope for the future is that should be drawn still these bonds closer, We in Canada have a splendid op- portunity to bring about this happy condition. We serve as the imme- diate connecting link between Britain and the United States, and can do more than any other part of the em- pire to form the great alliance of the Anglo-Saxon race for peace It is Canada's privilege and opportunity to serve the world by establishing firmly, and increasing whenover pos- gible, the present good relations which exist. Even although the two nations have fought side by side, there is much that cam be dome to bring them closer to each other, and the people of Canada must be ever ready and eager to do their share to draw firmly together the two nations which. can do mere to ensure the peace of the world than any other human agency. ---- ------. The House of Commons had an- other chance to unanimously cheer another hero Tuesday afternoon when Col. Peck, V.C., D.8.0., MC, member for Skeepa, B.C., who was wounded twice at the front, took his seat On the Unionist side. 7 To make another comparison. Dur- ing the first five weeks of the Ger- man offensive which commenced in March, 1918, nearly one thousand of our guns and between four and five thousand of our machine guns were captured or destroyed, while the | amount of ammunition lost in dumps | amounted to about two weeks' total | manufacture. None the less, by the { end of April all these losses had been more than made good, and there were actually more serviceable guns: as a whole and more and more ammuni- tion available than there were when the battle opened. In aeroplane construction again the output has been accelerated and increased to a remarkable degree. Qritish factories last all were mak- ing in a single week more machines than were made during the whole vear of 1914, in a single month than in the whole of 1915, and in a single quarter more than in the whole of 1916 It is obviously impossible to zive the exact figures, but the output for the whole of 19i8 was several imes what it was in 1917. All this has heen done through the whole-hearted co-operation of labour, without which it would have been impossible to supply the vast armies with the tremendous amounts of ma- terial they required. The aid in mu- witions given by America in the early stages of the war helped the situa- 'fon considerably, but jt was more; than counterbalanced by the fact that when the American armies took the field every piece of artillery and ev- ary shell at their disposal came from the- munition factories of Great Brit- ain and France, and that only in the closing®days of the war did a hat- tery of American-made guns see ag- tive service That fact demonstrated once more that in this field also Brit tin was the greatest of all the Al-: lies. i Victor Marin, Calgary, was sen tenced to 4 month in jail for giving his wife a sleeping powder. Hg. said he administered powders so that she could not go ont nights, For Agonizing Corns You Can't Beat It. for nearly fifty years Putnam's Ex- tractor has been the standard rem- edy, the dependable' one, the sure kind that never disappoints. ' It's painless too, Think of it!}j Paint it on to-night, in the morning the pain is all gone, id Small wonder fhe sale of Putnam's dealers everywhere. i ¢ $ 2 ii : 3 i 1H Certainly not, "Putnam's" has 'em i all beat a mile, It's a marvel on corns | and foot lumps, acts like magic. Why Corn Extractor is so large, 25¢. at' SDAY, MARCH 5, 1919. Style Headquarters: Kingston's One Pfice Clothing Store. - Where the New Clothes Are Shown First A WISE OLD BIRD WAS HE Here | am. I just flew in. I'm here to stay. To-morrow, I'm going to have Bibbys, Limited, "doll" me all out and then watch me! Early Bird. TWO NEW ONES THE REVENHILL .. .. .. ...........$3° $35, $37.50 THE D'ORSAY oo vee ovo. +. ..$30, $35, $37.50 most popular models. If you e on every other man you are looking for. * Here are two of the season's want something that you won't se meet, either one of these models is what you d exclusive--but uld call Don't misunderstand--they are refined an nothing freakish about them. They are what you wo "distinguished looking clothes." Come and see them. TRY BIBBYS for the best $22.50 Suits and $22.50 Overcoats in Canada. SEE BIBBYS $18.50 Suits. Form fitting models, pinch back, belter models. SHIRT SPECIAL, $1.75 each. Neat pat- . JR tern in percales, soft, reversible cuffs, h separate saft collars. Sizes 14 to 161. IAL at $15.00. Good rain or shine. Neat Sizes. 34 to 42. Belted or full Coe wit RAINCOAT SPEC tweed rainproof fabrics. back models. We employ no runners or solicitors, pay no commission to out- side orators. We have one price and that price is marked in plain figures. we IBBYS 78, 80, 82 Princess Street J Limited Kingston, Ont. CANNED VEGETABLES Are Lower in Price This Season TOMATOES CORN PEAS BEANS BUOCCOTASH SPINACH \ . ASPARAGUS 1 BEETS. Get Our Bpecial Price by the - Dozen, Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 & 990 License Nos. 6-450, 8-184 BUCKEYE THE RERFECT INCUBATOR--60-120 EGG SIZES We ¢an sell you these as cheap as any mail order house. You don't have to wait till they are shipped from the factory, you can see them before you buy, And wo will show you how to run them, \ FOR SALE 1.~Brick dwelling, Alfred street, south of Princess; 10 / rooms; hot water firrace; lot 66 x 132. Price, $5500. | Charles Gordon-Smith, editor of the Montreal Herald, has resigned ord |! Foot of Queen St. Phos (To be Continued.)