auite . . ' Baitor ana # g-Director. 801 yorkshire knew better. 1.00 penny a pound, and was laughed at. TIVE iy aa ro ot Peter Bt. Sa A New York 10 Ass'n » Ohleago are published name Great Britain mas presented six destroyers to Australia. . What con- tribution is go be made to Canada 10 form the nuéleus of a Canadinp navy? i Presbyterian ministers are to re- 'e¢lve Increased stipends. That means that there will have to ba heavier collection plates on Sun- days. The Ottawa newspapers are grumbling because that city has only ong garbage collection every week. In this connection, Kingston, with Hs two collections, is ahead of the capital. SA---------- ~The G.W.V.A. has expressed it- self in favor of proportional repre: sentation in elections. This move- 'ment is rapidly gaining weight, and 1 ust soon be recognized, ¥ I It is a great pity that the pessi- mists ruled the city counell on Mon "last, for if ever Kingston need- ed action, it needs # to meet the sroat shortage of houses, mtr slit General Besnhardt says that the kalwer's only guilt was in not start- the war soon enough. We were always of the impression that he 'started it about a decade too soon the success of his plans, -------- ee iin ™m spite of the résolution' passed in the commons, | three 'more Can- "adians have been knighted. But as these three were all distinguished soldiers and - 'well worthy of the D not sven "Billy Nickle will bu reports to the House of is that the middlemen often a -- ry bg brought and confined within the limits of peace. Only thus-can the terrible pressure or economic competitions be prevented from driving whole continents into war." --=8ir Douglas Haig. > WASTE AND WEALTH. Thrift 18 not a hard practicality alone. There may be rich romance in it. Rubbish, waste, useless stuff that men threw away and paid to have carted off to the dump, Was the basis of one of the greatest for- tunes in England and the stepping- stone to a peerage. An English manufacturer who died the other day had a career which was one of the most remark- able romances the world of inven- tion and manufacture has ever known. As a& young man he was u spinner in Yorkshire, had mastered Phis trade and owned some mips, One day, when in London, he sme across a heap of silk waste mixed up with dirty rope ends, leaves and sticks, all knotted together. "What is that?' he aslkted. "Oh, simply rubbish. 'It is im- possible to do anything with #* was the reply . But the trained young spinner of He bought the great heap of waste at a halts For nearly ter years all the profit from his mills went into experimen- tal machinery for the utilization of this waste. Then came the startling announcement" that fie had produc- ed a machine which at small cost ® | turned the waste rubbish into beautiful fabrics. The result "is that to-day waste silk pours into the great Manningham mills from all parts of the world to come forth worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. * Te In nature there is no waste, It is only because of man's limitations that the world Is littered with what | seems to him rubbish, Some day a! ray of genius falls upon a dead heap of waste and tgrans it into gold. We are apt to look to fiction for our romances; but the richest ro- mances of human life are found in everyday fact. A. THE NEED FOR ECONOMY IN CANADA. The budget speech of Sir Thomas White has caused many people ta think seriously of the future of the country in a financial sense. The huge sums of money which were ex- pended during the war, and which are now being expended in the days of reconstruction have created a tre- mendotis national debt for Canada, and it will be a burden on citi- gens for many years to come. Sir Thomas White announced that the present national debt of Canada is in the neighborhood of twa billion dollars, an immense sum 'compared with the figure at which it stood In 1914. This is a debt which must ba faced, and faced with a firm resolu- tion to lessen it as speedily ag pose- ible. 'This can only be done by an exercise of the most rigid economy by every citizen of Canada. The war has brought about a great increase in the wages earned by the peoplegt Canada. True, the cost of living has advanced in like proportion, but the fact remains thiat the people of this country have had more money to spend during| THE DAJLY BRITISH WHIG( FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1919, | ammo | Treaty of Berlin , June 13th, 1878 Great Britain played an important part in the settlement of the terms of peace which were discussed at the famous Congress of Berlin which met for the first time under the presi- dency of Prince Bismarck forty-one years ago to-day, and the arrange- ments then come to between the pow- ers had a large influence on the his- tory of the British Empire during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The congress was called because the Great Powers were far from satisfied with thé terms of th Treaty of San Stefano, which had been signed on March 3rd, 1878. By this treaty the Russo-Turkish war had been "brought to a conclusion, but Britain was not satisfied with the transfer of power from the Sul- tan to the Russian Czar. It the terms of the treaty of San Stefano had been carried out Russia would have been absolute dictator in the Balkan peninsula, 'while thé Ottoman Government would have been crip- pled for years to come financially. Austria and Great Britain were both threatened by the terms of the treaty, and by the combined efforts of the statesmen of both these coun- tries the congress of Berlin was as- sembled. The treaty itself consists of sixty-four articles, and provides for the independence of Serbia and of Rumania and Montenegro were rec- ognized. The boundaries of Bulga- ria were cut down, and she remained under the suzerainty of the Sultan,al- thongh with her own militia. The Porte agreed to carry out certain re- forms and to allow religious liberty throughout its territory. Lord Sal- isbury and Lord "do ard Dusen sented Britain with Lord 3RCONS- field, the then prime minister. CRISP COMMENT. He asked for a job and we gave him a cheer.--Ohio State Journal, In seizing Riga the Letts are driv: ing out 'the Bolsheviks, Let's let en. ---Boston Transcript. Of course, the passing of knight: hood in Canada doesn't mean the passing of knightliness.--London Ad- vertiser. No woman can love another woman whom she has seen casting a sympa- thetic glance at her husband ---New York Evening Sun. Having been compelled to discard guns, the Germans seem disposed to carry on the fight with fountain pens, ~=Boston Transcript. The Germans have been 'granten more -time, but no one can imagine what they expect to gain by it.-- Philadelphia Bulletin, If the working men of Brantford will not Hsten to James Simpson why should the working men of Toronto do so?--Toronto Times, It does mot take much of a metal Turgist to discover that the corner stone 'of Bolshevism is just bne big gold brick.--Anacobda Standard. If parliament were to attempt to pags some of the "labor tion" that is being urged upon it these days, at least twenty-seven farmers ing in the face of public opinion. would heard from in protests.-- Ottawa Journal. Some of the German delegates brought t gol clubs to Frances with them. \Bunt we can't see the French delegaes getting up any in ternational towrnaments to while the visitors' Sundays for them.--Cleve- land Plain Dealer. What Other Papers I : Are Saying. Varied views as to the action ot] he Senate in blocking the rights of he people: Hamilton Daily Times: Our advice is to kill the Senate entirely. It is a gross waste of money. It is a perver- ston of the rights of the people, and a menace to the liberties of the peo- ple. Hamilton Spectator: The Canadian] Senate as it exists at present is an anachronism, and should be brought up-to-date; we want no obs Sles set in the way of democratic gress, Guelph Mercury: The panty that will take for a slogan the abolition of the Canadian Senate will do more than merely win the election when. ever it comes; it will carb the cor- portions which keep their repre- sentatives in 'the Senate to keep up the high cost of living. It is an out-of-date, antiquated, obsolete in- stitution that can't be got rid if too goon, 5 Seas Hamilton Herald: ft would al most seem that the Dominion Senate were riding for a fall. Anyhow, it appears to take real pleasure in fly- Good Mother Nature, (London Free Press) Nature is the most reasonable and dependable of characters. Not al ways handing out of her bounties in the same measure and degree, yet when has she failed? Who in this land of milk and honey remembers the day of famine or mear famine? 'Who that has played the gamé with Nature has been permitted by her to go unrewarded? These summer days} are peculiarly emMlematic of the warmth of Nature's heant. The rolling stone never makes the journey without more or less blems ishes, Rids Feet of Corns. Removes Foot Lumps. "Sure and Painless What any corn néeds is the sdoth- ing influence of Putnam's Painless Corn and Wart. Extractor, which in twenty-four hours lifts out every rook branch and stem of corns. and i Just clean riddance to the d o fenders--that's - the way Put- nam's- Painless Corn and Wart Ex- tractor acts. = Refuse ' a substitute preparation for Putnam's Extracto, 25¢.. druggists everywhere. uh ~~ ie aia od "Riymes they burn each vited. large my hea . here po take you the last four years than ever before. The result has been that the wildest extravagance has prevailed. People. :jwho formerly had to be = content with the bare necessities of life have indulged in undreamed of lux~ uries, Working girls have spent al- most fabulous sums of money on dress, and wealthier people have "thrown money away like water on {things which were quite unneces- sary. Individual reached Its greatest height during 'the years of war, and the same [be sald. of national extravagarice. extravagance | by the clock," ¥ 'minutes then 1 gr there; 1 waited more than twenty; and I was sorer than a bear, for I had no cheap time to fol Bil would evening zephyrs, and see the babling streamhlets glide across the verdant country side, alti angled Belfers.. oe too dense to realize that ; and so he 8 sighs, and beefs about and does a spell of hating. an ! 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