8 THE BRITISH WHIG [cavans NEEDS HER SOLDIERS. S6TH YEAR. @ | dier, he must not be employed at a Husiness Office Haitoris! Rooms ,. Job OMice .. ... UBSCRIPTIO TES (Daily Edition One year, delivered in Yue Spe Ona year, If paid in advance . One year, by mall to rural offices §2.50 One year to States .. ..33.00 (Semi- Weekly dition) One year, by mail eash . $1 One year, if not paid. B advance 31. 50 One , to United States $1.6 and three months pro gata, MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE ce Owen .. .. .123 H.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Totters to the Editor are published the actual name al over Of the 18 one of the Canada. Attachen best job printing offices in The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the Audit Burcan of Otrculativns. The Repatriation Labor Burean is justifying its existence, and the loss of the Soldier's Aid Commission will not now be felt, Herbert Hoover . says that the world will have tQ)go back to a war bread basis for d¢he next three months. In order to help to feed the Germans, we suppose. The London Advertiser finds cause for thanks in the fact that the Capadians do not claim that they won the war. As a rule those who do the most fighting do the least ialking. The Oswego Palladium offers this a8 a prescription for municipal ills Turn the city over to a non-partizan commission of business men, then let the commission hire & first-class * city'manager and let him alone. An Italian claim to the lower east side of Manhattan Island .on the _ ground of nationality would be quite as valid as the claimy to Fiume and would represent as equal measure of exact justice.--New York World. Soest Hon. Robert Rogers says that he has no confidence in the Union Gov: ernment. Still, that can hardly be counted as a condemnation, as no one would expect him to have con- ~ fidence in any government which _ did not include himself. It would be a great pity if 'the Queen's University Endowment fund fails to reach the miillion mark after the splendid efforts of Princi- pal Taylor to make it go over the top. Two weeks only remain of the time limit, so that some hustling (s necessary to'secure the balance, From information received from . officers who have returned from overseas recently, the reports of the Rhyl riots published in the Bri- . Hsh newspapers . and ; also in the n press were greatly ex- e--. Perhaps 'the overseas press were eager to find something detrimental to say about the Can- : adian troops. : rest. of the British Empire "enough for Canada. It is not 1something better. 'femployer is not a {ordered for him and {become an earnest earning ldeut. George Palmer, 1st Bat- talion," formerly of the Victoria Times, writes the following editorial for the London = Advértiser under date of April 26th: The returred soldier probes: is the greatest, fo my mind, that has to be faced in the immediats future of Canada. Canada needs ai! her | men, not just because they went and fought, and came back and were welcomed and were given a ticket home, but because every Can- adian is a national capitalization of $25,000 at the least. | His earning capacity is interest-bearing capital to that amount. in her returned must either have such as I have mentioned or the "bum" and the hand-out man. It is up to Canada to make her cholce, and In this sense 1 speak of each. individual Who employs men as "a Canada." Because a man is a returned sol- men, Canada lesser rate than the man who is about to leave the job to take That kind of an true Canadian. works for his not that He lg, the one who own selfish end and he does care if he does remember Tommy went to war for him, Canadian soldiers, as a whole, have become self-reliant men, and they do not need help, in the char- ity sense. What they need is some- one-to tell them there is a job at a fair present-day wage and 'they need this someone before they have spent their post-discharge pay. Every soldier has just come from a lite where everything has been he was tho- roughly fed up. Now he is free, and again his own man. All that is in him of independence and all that lurking incentive that has been sup- pressed by army routine is ready to break out of the dormant state and spring to life. He faces a lifé of action and is as eager as a race horse to begin--to or ragain. It is the duty of the business man to go out of his way to seek for th soldier and to start him in the right direction. The soldier thoroughly realizes his position. He 1s fully aware that the guarter-master is no more, that '"'cook-house" will not blow again, that he will pay his own train fare henceforth. He knows it and he is ready for it. | Thousands will settle down quickly as soon as the novelty of the holiday has worn off, and theso will take care: of themselves, for soldiers are great ' rustlers. "There are the minority, however, who must be lookéd after. Not by the municipal authorities or by the Government, but by the individuai who: can lend a helping hand, that will eventually help himself more than he may believe. In helping a soldier into a& steadfast way of life; he puts into force an earning capital of $25,000--a factor in greater | Canada's production, growth and ; prosperity. And # is on general community prosperity that indivi- + {dual businesses flourish. If employers take the trouble to help returned soldiers to jobs (not | necessarily in their own businesses), they keep the Canadian a Cangdian | ~he will not drift across the bord- er. In conclusion, it is all in a tow words, Canada needs all her men, and # is the part of each Canadian to vo. his personal bit to keep them Canadians and good Canadians. E HOUSING BY-LAW. oe housing by-law still lives. By moving that the committees of the! whols rise to report progress on! Monday evening, Alderman Rodger | gave his by-law two more weeks of | existence, and 'there is still a chance | that jt will pass. Some of the Ider- | men are of the opimion that it' would have passed had if gone to a vote! on Monday, but it was perhaps wise to leave it over until the next meet- ing of council in order to have it fully threshed out. We voice this, belief because.we feel day which passes brings home more | strongly the great need ior relief fu the local housing situation. Every day brings more and more appii- cants for houses, and ds there is no supply upon which to draw, the: aldermen who are opposed to the scheme may find that this is no! time for opposition to the housing | act. Tt might be a good plan if all; the people who are searching for' houses and cannot find accommoda- tion would 'apply to the mayor; or, Ibetter still, to Alderman Graham, 80 that he would have a clearer idea of what the city's needs are in this act. put forward'by Alderman Graham|" is that he is figuring entirely on thef mavimum of the figures laid down thorein, look at the other side of tha ques tion. He does not stop to think { a {hat there dre many men. who wish lo take advantage of it who 'wonld | need do borrow only one' thousand , or fifteen hundred - dollars. ese cases the monthly payments, | plus the insuratce and taxes, wonld | 'whon 'it come well under twenty dollars, In | ; who borrows Laatety of the public, He does not take {ime to J] THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, APRH. 30, 1919. willing 5 may be, 1s debarred trond taking advantage of it unless the council passes the necessary by-law. Some of : our city fathers are afraid -that there will be losses; some fear the expense of having to pay salaries to the members of the commission. A little confidence in future of Kingston would dis- pel the first objection, and the se cond can be met by pointing out that the increased revenue from taxes from the new houses wiil more than meet the cost of the com- mission. And even although the city does lose a little money on the start, the final, net result will be a gain. The citizens 'will be provided with homes. The standards of liy- ing will be raised by doing away with thd necessity of housing people in' dwellings that should have long ago been condemned, and the work: ing classes will be given a great op- portunity of owning their own homes. If our aldermen weigh their responsibilities to the citizens, and then compare them "wilh the advantages of taking action under the Ontario Housing Act, then we have no fear but that they will pass the by-law at the next meeting of council. the - | uc omen | a Auto' Speeds. (Belleville Ontario) Can a motorist have a car under control at all times when going twenty miles an hour? We do not think he can. It ig too fast for the 'ang if it costs one life the legislators responsible should never forgive themselves, A' Doubter. & (London Advertiger) Until we rid the Intercolonial of the political incubus that has bur- dened it from the start, and end in- efficiency and waste, it would be well to let other roads remain un- der private ownership, with suffi- cient Government<g¢ontrol to protect the public. A Patriotic Duty. ' (London Free Press) Jt is a patriotic duty to prevent fires. It is part of our right of citizenship to see to it that those in whose homes, barms, factories er other places of busiiess fires ori- ginate should be held responsible to the extent of proving that such fires are neither the result of gross carelessness, culpable neglect or mischievous intent, Fewer fires will make the fire tax lighter and Canada richer to the "extent of hundred of lives and, mil- lions of dollars. » | Eau Cala, Stn » Battle of Fonteray, April 30, 1745. -- "Some blame it on the Irish, Some say it was the Dutch," runs a popular rhyme that was framed to find some extenuating cir- cumstances for the defeat sustained by the Duke of C umberland, one hun- dred and seventy years ago to-day. at Fontenoy. It was during the war of the Austrian Succession that Cum- berland marched with over 50,000 meén--picked troops of the armies of England, Holland and Austria--to re- Heve the fortress of Tournal, which was besieged by Marshall Saxe. The French, on hearing of the advance of these troops, did not abandon the siege, but topk-up a strong position south of the town to cover their op- erations. On their right ran the River Scheldt, along their front a steep and narrow valley, and at their left a wood with forts. Yet in Spits, of the fact that the position seemed almost impregnable, the English and their allies, nothing daunted, pro- ceeded to the attack. The Dutch, led by<4he Prince of Waldeck, proved poor fighters, and after making a spiritless attack, they withdrew from the field. = But the mass of the Brit- ish and Hanoverian troops wen the heights opposite them, and must have retained their positions and won the battle if they had not been deserted by the Dutch. But Saxe, seeing his advantage, brought up heavy rein: forcements of fresh troops, and the British were gradually forced back, although they displayed the same steadiness in retiring that they had shown in advancing . The capture of Tournai followed the French vie- tory, and the appearance of the Young Pretender in Scotland soon after the battle caused the with- drawal of many of the British troops who were fighting in Flanders and paved the Zen for the subsequent campaign which proved so. disastrous to the Allies. On the French side 'at Fontenoy the Irish brigade fought against the English, and it is said by many to have been largely due 'to their courage that yictory perched on the French standards. Uniform Time the Need. (Brant fdrd Expositor) he Government presented country with a great muddle it turned down daylight saving. The confusion is daily becoming moré confounded. Whatever the time it should be uniformity the country over, and the Government should insist upon it. the when Valuable furs destroyed. Moth in furs, blankets, carpets, woollens, ete., means ruination. Keating's Powder sprinkléd over them when they are put away effectually pre- serves-them. Used quite dry it does no. harm to the most delicate fabric. Has no objectiomal smell, Keating's kills moth, Rippling Rhymes FISH The fish again are in the brook, from distant waters faring; and I must take a line and hook, and catch a cod or ways feel an idiotie and reel, where remarks, beat it; stay at home and eat it. "To streamlet shore go, buy canned salmon at the store, and herring. When spring arrives I al- longing to go abroad with rod other sports are thronging. My wife I beg that you won't You're always grouchy as a bear when you come home from angling; the way you cave around and swear sets all my nerves a-jangling." I know she's right; the fishing game I ought to call a ""halt on; 111 never duplicate Izaak Walton. spuds, or prune winter duds, and store them in the garret. the fame of good old "Twere--better. far -to_ plant soge the growing carrot, or gather up my And yet the mighty urge I feel would make the deadest swab stir; I'll have to try to catch an eel, a dolphin or a lobster. I ought to-trim that stately tree, whose life A {is Plainly failing; but oh, the brook is calling me, and I must catch a gray- ling. TF ought to. grind the reaping hook, and teil like thrifty brothers; that overy | but there are suckers in the brook, and wall eyed pike and others: So I'll forsake' the growing greens, and "leave the rhubarb dying, and go and 'catch some canned sardines, or break a fishpole trying. ' ~ Meat Market HAMBURG STEAK 20c a Ib. Cor, Princess and Clergy Phone 158. 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