---- is PAGE FOUR TR wn J us iL» ita ko i and Semi-Weekly by WHIG PUBLMHING 00, LIMITED, Editor and ng-Director. omer eponent vv swans wed43 ~|ot most people would bring, in re. 1 ih Advance 81. Ra Eng three 0 ates pro ra MONTRBAL REPRESENTATIVE FI Norshrap, 135 Fifth Ave, Now York + up, Ve. @' Tr ¥.R.Northrup, 1610 Asw'n Bldg. Chicago tor are published te ih only over ® actual name of the Attached is one of the best job Printing. offices in Csnada, The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG 1s auth ated by the B Audit Bureau of Cirenlations. A good Canadian 1s one who grows réd every time he sees a red flag. The sands ifi the hour-glass are fast running out for Germany. There are Gérmans who still de- clare the kaiser"s alm was for peace Well, he was a darn bad shot, The small boy is agin the tariff, at least that which puts a tax on soda water and makes castor oR "free, Anything to discredit Wilson, seems to he the attitude of the Re- publicans in the United States these | days. If one judges by the segments of meat, pie, ete., granted in the reslau~ rants, peace is still far away. Top war prices prevail, Summer is really here. taken the place of June. probabilities say We are more of it. July has And © tie to have Almost every class has had: a hand in strikes, except June brides. But "then they are so mild and pretiy afd patient, Just now, only. Sherman had the right view, At Aeast the German people are fully "convinced as to his contention. And, "believe us, we would like to see the Germans get the hottest kind of dose, » They spilled Ireland's beans. This what Irish 'Americans did with g¢haraoteristic Siun Fein impetu- osity. The Rochester, N.Y., Herald| "says "that' is what meddlers are al- apt to do." A Make 'the most of the daylight saving, for next year standard time will once more 'rule. The United _ Btates Senate has cooked the goose ; The United States railways gave Canada her happy hours (his The Buffalo Courler fs convincad t of the war's more gratify- drawing lo- ts of the two ple of common 1Medical Council, Paton has unconscjously dealt a se- vere blow to the high protectionistg. QUEENS MEDICAL ORED, Dr. J. Cameron Connell, dean of Queen's Medical College, Kingston, has Been honored with the highest position in the gift of the medical profession of Canada, having beer chosen as president of the Dominon Dr. Connell has a wide reputation not only as an eye, ear and throat specialist, but as the head of Queen's medical school, which has reached a very high standard under his direction. Dr, Connell's latest activity is in con- néction with the enlargement of the Kingston General Hospital so that instibution may be the means of re- taining the university medical school here, for Ottawa is still seek- ing the transfer of the Queen's medical department to the capital. DEAN HON- THE WHALE. The application of 'the psychologi- cal test for "reactions" in the case sponse to the word whale, the instant associated idea--Jonah. The popu- lar mind links the two, as inseparably as ham and eggs, Damon and Pythi- as, and jot and tittle. It regards the ¢iwhale primarily as the first submar-| ine, or houseboat: : Old man Jonah lived in a whale, In a Nttle back room, 'way down by the tail. But times are changing, and the whale is' In. process of changing with 'them, from being a container to a thing contained, Whale beef is ex ceedingly good, and 'has become popular in many places, It is used extensively throughout Canada, and Boston, it is said, has added it to beans and codfish as a staple of diet. Now we are told by worried west- ern papers that the Pacific whale fishing for food supply is being car- ried on so recklessly that whole herds are in danger of going the way of the dodo and the mammoth. It is hard to believe, but if true 'tis pity. Le us extend the game laws and conserve the 'world's cetacean supply. ORDER . OF PRECEDENCE. The interesting news comes from London that an" order-in-council has been issued revolutionizing the' order of precedence. Under the new decree the speaker of the house of commons, instead of tagging along after the dukes, the marquises and the belted earls, will hereafter precede them, In fact, the speaker will "follow im« mediately after the lord president of 'the council." Only six pefjons will now: stand between the fountainhead of royalty and the speaker of the house of com- mons, These six persons will be 'the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor,the Lord Arceh- bishop of York, the Prime Minister, the Lord High Treasurer and the 'Bprd President of the Council. The despatches do pot indicate what the order" of precedence will be for the Lord High Executioner, who made Gilbert's sparkling libretto famous. This upheaval in the order of pre in-council, has been made "in accord with the great dignity and Imports called, ? Thus a problem that has vexed some of the -most thoughtful minds in England is solved and the highest authority in the popular branch of the mother of parHaments gets the bulge ona long list of dukes, marquises and earls. The myriad ipeoples of the British Empire--in- cluding, no doubt.at least ome re- presentative Kingstonian--will be greatly relieved by the momentous cedence, it is explained in the order-|} ance of the high office" to which the! speaker of the house of. commons is long| Not Around Here. | oe niladerphia Record So far wh has' been Serio _ {injured oy the a drop" in {Prices of meat predicted by A THE BRITISH WHIG! et will mot be averlooked. Mr.l¢ | Letters othe Editor | Reconstruction of the Militia, Kingston, June 19.--(To the Editor): Following the argument for reconstruction of the Militia, there is another réason which Mas been strongly emphasized in favor pf 2a change, and that is that for the ser- vice rendered it . was unnecessarily costly. Compared with the Swiss gystem, and even Australia, it would appear to be excessive and yet it could "not have been the fifty cents a day which the men received, which was not extravagant, but its propor- tion to tbat received by the officers, The Swiss system is a good system from the standpoidt of expense, Lut has some features im no way suit- able for Canada.' How to obtain the service needed on less outlay is the problem, and I can conceive of no plan that is not purely selfish that will obviate, or lessen the expense unless it is conducted upon patriotic grounds, Love of country and mot financial gain or remuneration is the golden key that will open the way to the solution of this diffienlt sit- vation. Britain is toe only country in the world that could have raised an army ofthe magnitude of that in the last war by voluntary enlist- ment. Even the great Republic to the south of us, with her hundred million of people, could not have ac- complished it, and knowing this they didi mot try but. reserted to conscription from the start. Universal military service bas been mentioned as the only equitable service for Canada, as under it-all classes would be treated alike. Ac- cording to the new articles of war instituted by the big four aio more armies are to be raised by conscrip- tion, and yet @ whole. volume gould be written in favor of such a sys- tem and the strongest argument in its favor is that it reduced all classes to a common level, The rich had nothing over the poor, if polities or pull were not allowed to interfere, but unhappily they did i this war and very many young men who went overseas never reached the firing line because their fathers had the pull, so they received positions in Britain,' not because they were bet- ter able to fill these staff positions but solely because of the pull their rich parents were able to exercise. Of course there were many excep tions but they prove the rule. Uni- versal service, since the big four have passed a law against compul- sion in' military matters, might af- ford controversial ground - for ob- jectofs. Compulsory service of any kind seems objectionable in a free country as some people like to ad- vance the threadbare argument of interference with the liberty of the subject and yet there are so many things in every free country that we are compelled to do that we for- get that our liberties are interfered. with. We are compelled to pay taxes, to 'send .our children to school, to obey the law, to wsspect other people's property rights and yet we do not consider them as in- terfering with our liberties. Prohi. Rippling > FS ie bition is nother law that eomg think interferes with their liberty, but as it is for the good of whole people it is as essential #8 dny other law upon the statute book of any country. wt GALLOWAY, fe Cat, | The Bla¢k Hole of Calcutta, June 20, 1756. : One of the penalties which the British Empire has had to pay for the position of India: has been that many brave lves have been sacrificed and many terrible deeds of suffering had to be endured by the courageous men tand women on whose shoulders the burden of conquest has fallen, - Of all the deeds of cruelty with which the early days of the Indian Empire are smirched, none is more tragic and none more terrible than the rec. ord of the imprisonment of British subjects in the Black Hole of Cal- cutta) which took place one hundred and sixty-three years ago to-day. On the other hand, out of evil came good, for the horror of their sufferings proved a stimulas to Clive and Ad- miral Watson to punish the malefac- tors, and Calcut was restored to British rule. he author of this crime was Suraj-ud-Duwlah, who succedeed his grandfather, Ali Kahn, in 1756, when a lad of nineteen years of age. His ungovernable temper early led to -a rupture with the British, and less than two months after he succeeded to the throne, he marched on Calcutta with a large army. The immediate cause of his taking this step was anger at one of his relatives, who, ho believed, had done him a terrible wrong, and was plotting to unséat him from his throne. As soon as the news ar- rived that Suraj-ud-Duwlah was on his way with a large force, the ma- jority of the English who were then resident in Caleutta fled down the river inrtheir ships. The remainder surrendered after feeble résistance, and were thrown into the Black Hole or military prison of Fort William. The room was only 16 feet by 14% feet in size, and contained two small windows, both of which were barred with iron. Béing 'the month of June, the heat of the night was mst oppressive, When the door of the prison. was opened next morning, only 23 out of 146 were found'to be alive. The Black Hole led directly to the battle of Plassey, which fis adopted by historians as the date of. the birth of the British Empire in the East. Russian Oruiser Torpedoed. (Canadian Press Peéspatch.) London, June 20,.--<The Russian ¢ruiser Oleg was sunk, on Wedness day, by a British sfibmarine, it is announced in a Ruseian wireless de the i§ spateh, Do not ILES ig Pha Pics, A FERC BE a WORKING In wartime' us we must work or fight, and so we worked .pr fought; the husky man the spoor of vandal Hun; the balance of us wrought, § We fat men léft our gilded lairs, our himmoeis and our éasy chairs, it's work or die, have 10 time for hours o mirth, for dreams or idle . games; we have no time for languid ease; we have to : work lke bumble bees around our quilting frames. labor we are face to face; alas, it is 4 groundhog case, we have fo work or die! we have to rustle for the bones; there is no place for dream. ing Sroses Heneath the bending sky. around and trilled our song, passing throng new curves in honest toil. is done," we said, "gadzooks, again we'll seek our in- glenooks, and bask on heds of ease; until shall come "that blissful day we'll grow our luscious bales of hay, and raise our bomb-proof peas." "tale that's told, the sword has rust, the guns are ¢old, no armies thunder by; but still we have to dig and hoe, and saw and split, an 8 long and dreadfnl night they told secured a gun, and sought and tilled the fertile sofl; we pawed and tried to show the "When war FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919. PANAMA HATS Bibby S HATS Men' s and Boys' Wear. Where Jy New Things Are Shown | irst Madras, silk mixtures; quiet or bright shades; carefully made and per- fectly. matched; fast colors. that will stand many trips to the laundry. Special values: Silk (fancy stripes) .. .. .$5.00 Silk mixture, very pretty . . $3.75 Madras (neat patterns) .$2.50 Percales (plain or fancy) . . . .$2.00 Panama Hats. Special value, $2.75 and $3.75. Two new shapes. Men'g Athletic Underwear. Special values, $1.50 per suit. Balbriggan, special values $1.50 per suit. Outing Shirts with soft reversible col- lars. Special values, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50. 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