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The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the o AB Audit Bureau of Circulations, The parliamentary vacancy in Kingston finds both parties unpre- pared for the fight, and there is much speculation as to how the nomina- tions will go. The minister of finance is organ~ izing for the coming peace loan. The people of Canada should begin now to lay aside their savings in order to make it a success. ; The Coco-Cola Company has changed hands at a price of twenty five million dollars. Just think of that the next time the hot weather chases you into an ice-cream parlor. During the past ten years no less than 170,000 undesirablés were re- fused admission to Canada. Even at that, quite a large number of the sate breed seem to have passed in all right. Up to the end of July over seven thousand soldiers had settled on the land. under the Soldiers' Settlement Act. That is one record . which gives us hope for a reduction in the price of foodstuffs. One of the London dailies is al- ready pleading for the disuse of the names "Hun" and "Bosche" in con- nettion with the Germans. No- body seems to object, for the change ofya name will not bring about a chitnge in their nature. : ne German newspaper says that although the Allies try the ex-kal- sep, they will never commit the ini- quity of sentencing him. Once more the proverbial "wait and see' Is the appropriate answer. Pe making of the Austrian peace tréaty seems to be arousing very tittle interest, probably because Aus- trig is of no account now that a set- tlement has been made with Gere many, the chief of the criminals. The men of Canada's army have done a great deal towards making gagd trade relations between France and this country. In fact, they were a living advertisement which is Boing to bring good results in the "tubure. i. tax on icecream ice créam cones in the United States has' been repealed. The principle of robbing the children of their ice- did not work for very long, for which they are no doubt vi thankful. as i Rabindranath Tagore, the t poet of India, has written to Merv S=%ing that he be re- of his title. Loo mivent has de sefded amatna titles. we wonder =the will do likewise Now that the | The farmers of Ontario have been receiving high prices for cheese this year, much higher than they re- celved last year although it was thought early in the season that the price would be fixed at about last year's figure. April cheese brought twenty-five cents, but owing to com- petition the price soared to thirty- two cents in June The Canada Food Board went out of existence on May 1st, and with it the Dairy Pro- duce Commission. With prices soaring in this country and the Brit- ish Government endeavoring to re- strict retail prices to British consume ers, the exporters were at their wits' end, for they stood to lose money. The price having been fixed in Eng- land, it was necessary for the Brit fsh Ministry of Food to establish an export committee in Canada to pur- chase cheese at a fifed price, and the committee was formed of the leading exporters at Montreal, who are paid a commission of one and a half per cent. to cover remuneration and es- tablishment charges and a consoli- - {dated 'rate of one-quarter cent per pound to cover all handling and ship- ping outlays to dock or railway. This arrangement was the only pos- sible way out .of the difficulty. The British Government was forced to take action, and the exporting houses were obliged to submit or go out of the business, as cheese was no longer an article for speculation on the British market. The price that could be paid in Canada was fixed at twenty-five cents delivered to warehouses in Montreal, freight and cartage deducted, all cheese being subject to public weigh master's and grader's certificates. The announcemant caused much dissatisfaction among Canadian cheese makers, and resolutions were passed at interference by 'the Canadian gov- ernment, A convention has been called to meet at Ottawa this week, when the matter will be thoroughly threshed out. It is difficult to see what the government can do about the matter, in view of the circum- stances, particularly the price of cheese on the English market, but our farmers feel that if the price of cheese can be fixed, the price of the articles they have to buy 'should also be fixed. "Why not fix the price of boots, for instance? Why should the farmer's profits be curtailed while other manufacturers are allow- ed practically unlimited scope? Every fair-minded man must see the justice of the farmer's contention, and would be glad to see the govern- ment take some, action to curtail the rapacity of profiteers everywhere. 'When this matter is considered fully it becomes a question as to whethér twenty-five cents is not all that cheese is really worth. Few of« the factories have cpld curing rooms and none have space for stor- ing any large quantity of the output. It is therefore necessary to get rid of it and store it elsewhere or sell it for the best price. If the prevail- ing market price or possible future prices do not justify storage charges then the enforced sale cannot be re- garded as any Injustice, but the best sale under the circumstances. Ar- tificial means might be employed {p support the market, such as cold storage facilities, by which delivery could be retarded, but if such were the case comsumers would he de- manding government regulation to prevent undue enhancing of prices. It is reported that the present cold storage eapacity at Montreal cannot hold cheese longer than one month during the summer when the output is moving forward normally. R. WILLIAMS DIES AT CARDINAL At Confederation Time Was a Reporter on Staff of the Globe. DR. J. 0. his residence, Cardinal, Ont., on Sat- urday, J. D. R. Williams, M.D., M.C. P.8., of Ontario, the eldest son of the late Rev. W. H. Williams and Phoebe (Rose) Williams. Tha late. Dr. Williams was in his : eighty-seventh year. For over forty years he practised medicine in Car- dinal. Previously he was interested in mining in Hastings county. Dur- ing the historical times of Confeder- at! he took an active part in poll- tical life and as reported for the Globe he reported the proceedings of meial parliament in On- . 'He took an intelligent in- terest in public affairs, reading the been at the front, ar- THE FARMERS COMPLAINT, many boards calling tor | Cardinal, Aug. 5.--There died at| Globe two hours before death. Two| sons, who had be THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1910. BEST OF FEELING BETWEEN / * DOMINION AND BRITISH TROOPS To Editor of New York Times: Since arriving home from France, where I have wveen for over four years in the Canadian Army, and be- ing in Canadian uniform for a certain time, | have been approached by many people, the great majority or whom were really sincere Americans who felt they wanted to speak what was in their hearts and troubling their minds to a Canadian soldier, On the other hand, I have been ap- broached by another individual who Wanted to tell me how "sorry he was for the great Canadian losses," giy- ing his reason as "the desire of the British to place the Canadian Army in the hottest places and save the English troops." Now, to a man who has watched the work of English-Scotch and Loy- al Irish troops, not forgetting our Welsh brothers and Australians, for over four years, this kind of intelli gence was somewhat of an ignorant field to continue a conversation in, and needless to say, I lost no time in baiting my 'informant to draw from his inner recesses what he was really driving at. In every case 1 have found that this type of individual was a pro-German at heart, and under the guise of a friend to Canada and a sympathizer for her trials and losses was trying to build up a camouflage animosity against the British. I need only remind my readers that as far back as 1915 the Hun in the trenches opposite Canadian troops posted noti- ces which read, "Canadian troops are used as screens for English," and a lot more which were put up to try to make the Canadian men believ they were being sacrificed to save English troops. For the information of those Am- ericans who have been our friends I would state that at no time in the war was the Canadian Army strong- er than four fighting divisions with one reserve division in England, and there were periods when the Canad- ian Army was held up for lack of reinforcements. That this was due to the British High Command placing Canadian troops in the hardest fighting areas is too silly to even dream about, for at no time was the Canadian Army command in better spirits than when in the thickest part of the fighting, and the glory of the Cahadian soldier was in "up and doing," his chief de- light being in getting nearer to the Hun. From official figures issued the whole British Army in' the many theatres of wdr exceeded 6,000,000 men. Is it to be supposed that the Canadian Army of four divisions was placed to do the hardest fighting for this great army? My readers will understand that it is not my desire to glorify one branch of the tree, the "British race," and forget the others. No man, no mat- ter what branch of the British Army he belonged to, could do this, for we all know that the placing of troops in the fighting was done with all equality. Canadians lost heavily; but if they did, they inflicted greater losses on the enemy. Canadians struck some of the hardest fighting in the whole war. Why? Because they wanted to, because they were purely and simply British, too. Canadians wanted to fight, and fight hard, be- cause they knew that "down the line" somewhere else, their brothers in arms, the knglishman, the Scotch- man, and the -loyal Irishman, were also fighting and, (although many pro-German papers were telling you that Canadians were again sacrific- ed. In any case, Canadians fought hard, lost many, never squealed; they did this just because they were Can- adians, and couldn't do anything else. The Canadian is a fighter, always was; he comes from the same stock, the Briton, as the. loyal American, His entry into the war was voluntary because his vision was not hampered by Teutonic influence) He went into the war expecting no/ material glory, and Tie came out of it as clean in mo- rale as the new-born babe--in fact, he came back so much more clean in morale and discipline that he stuck by his Government against the fiery darts of the Bolsheviki and I. W. W. until today Canada is truly thé Cana- dian's home, tempered and made more solid by the fire of war. It ig well known that in the army there exists a certain jealousy be- tween regiments and divisions; men are always prone to return to a child- hood trait. They are in their own es- timation, "the only regiment in the field," the cream in discipline and deportment, and at no time will they think anything else about the. other fellow but that he is wishing he be- longed to the "Regiment Superieure." Such fis regimental jealousy, that un- written ynderstanding which all high officers in any army desire among their men, and which you will not find in army rules and regulations as covered by a protecting law--on- ly this; "that at all times men must be proud of the units to which they belong, and carry themselves as befits an officer and a soldier of his Maj- esty's services." This applies to Ca- nadians as well as English, and' with the Canadian it is upheld as much as with the Englishman. Never to my knowledge have 1 known any other feeling existing, the same feeling which existed and does exist today between men from Lon- :don and men from Liverpool; men from Ontario and men from Mani- toba; men from Melbourne and men from Sydney. All through the whole British Ar- mygyou will find this feeling; the feeling of men wrapped up in their own regiment and division, but as a whole you will find the British Army the most offensive fighting machine ever produced, because the man, the soldier, has a pérsonal pride and an individuality all his own, Then, again on the othér hand, I know that ike men of an English regiment who were jealous of the Canadians from a regimental standpoint, were the very men who were proud to be in lHaison with the Canadians and try to "go him one better" when the Hun made trouble, Those who read this should know that it comes, not from the pen of a Britisher, but from an Irish-Ameri- can who is proud to have been a sol- dier of Canada. HARRY M. MacSWEENEY, Late Canadian Army General Headquarters, France; New York, July 15th, 1919. Barn Is Burned, Brockville, Aug. §.--Fire at ten o'clock Friday night destroyed the barn of Lemuel Connell on his farm situated in the eighth conc¢essién of the township of Elizabethtown, near Dixon's Corners. The cause of the fire is as yet unascertained. Three horses were burnt to death, and a quantity of hay and machinery lost. Some in- surance was held on the barn, but there will be loss to the owner. Explosion of Gasoline Bomb. Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 4.--Oscar Lawler, former assistant United States attorney-general for the In- terior Department, was probably fa- tally burned and Mré. Lawler was badly burned, when their home was destroyed on Sunday by what the police believe to have been a gaso- line bomb explosion. Mr. and Mrs. F. Starr, Milford, en- tertained at tea, on Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Adams, Picton, and Captain, the Rev, Mr. Dodds and wife of Lindsay, former chaplain of the 155th Battalion. Mr. Adams and Mr. Starr were pleased to meet their old chaplain. put Rhymes July; I like to fron the sky; 1 while dr mas time; berries strewn The stormy clouds by winds are rolled across fake that ever was, the most alluring guy. see the crowded stores, where eager shoppers swarm, and though outside a tempest roars, in there it's bright and warm; and I behold the weary clerks who cuss old Santa and his works and clamor for reform. And I forget the summer heat, the weather that's a crime, SEASONABLE SONG. I like to talk of Christmas time, along in mid- speak of cold and rime, snow falling tke to tell of Santa Claus; the dearest I seem to of the crowded street at merry Chi¥st- see the wreaths of évergreen, with holly between, and hear the glad bells chime. the wintry sky; and tingling shoppers cuss the cold and bh 4 try!" they'll go, ecstacy shining track, fine presents 'wish it were July; be to sit beneath a "Ah, me," they sigh, 'how 'twould steaming tree and simmer bake and I see the children with their beds upon the gleaming snow; to dream of Kringle and his pack, of reindeer on their p to bestow. And dreaming thus of Christmas and soon, to divers little beds in day, the anguish in me dies; if dreams will drive one's grief away, I hold dreams are wise: and I take a gun, and shoot a dozen flies. look blandly at the sun, and smile a few, and i | | | | | - } - | I " wu " EEN CANNER EIEN ERE - _ Suit Cases ~ Club Bags BIBBY'S Kingston's One Price Clothing Store roarflee. 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