THE THE BRITISH YWHIG 80TH YEAR = Wr RE - Published Dally and Semi THE BRITISH WHIG Pu CO, LIMITED by ¥ ISHING & 6G. Elfots .......... vo vani President | sous Haiter and ment Leman A. Guild ...... Managing-Director TELEPHONES: Business Office . Editorial Rooms dasnns Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Editiol One year, delivered in Tat One year, if pald in advance .... One year, by mail to rural. offices One year to United States '...:si.. (Semi-Weekly Edition) mail, cash One year, not paid in advan Cae year, to United States ... Six and three months pro r OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES Bruce Owen, 22 Bt, Joho St. Montreal Thompson, 402 LEM Toronto. F.R.Northrup, 235 Fifth Ave. New York 224 287 8.00 2.50 3.00 $1.00 §1.50 31.40 ¥F.R.Northrayp, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago | Létters to the Editor are published only over the wctual name of ihe Writer. Attached is ome of the best job Printing offices in Canada. Eo ------------ The circulation or THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the A } Audit Bureau of Circulations. A nt A Every man should make the cenc tary plant his favorite flower and the undertaker his worst enemy .---Thrift Magazine. A year ago just now Kingston was in the grip of the influenza epidemis, A recurrence this year can be pre- vented by taking the proper précaun- tions, * France is going to atfempt to har- mess the tides for power purposes. A move in there's not a chance in the universe of the moon going off Brike. If all the rumors are true, then the next mayor will be a man who is not at present in the city council. Indi- oations point to a dark horse being in the running for the honors, The news that some tine contracts have been received by the Liocomot- Adve Works is welcome in Kingston. There should be a prosperous time ahead for the people of this city. Over haif the Victory Loan has been subscribed all over the Deo- minion, but Kingston is yet far be- hind fts quota. Subscribe now and $5.00 | Lumsden Bldg | the right direction, for | It is a wonder | eitizasis : : who go thére in the hope of cases of this | Sieing amused and entertained for » Whege the 'three hours by our worthy adlermen. The high! ies are lable to ! bold the price of coal {that there are not nx kind, especially in Canad winters are so severe prices of many com i Rave done very little that has been many | worth while, and what has been done a severe 0 Cause : people. : i i : tmen of Justice at! The Department 5 oe { thitytive | blunders were made in awarding ®: NEL ol A ra and | contracts, blunders which were only yeT 8 i Now: York | righted by the influence of the peo- sy i ple, voice hrou I x throw of the | Pp deed through the columas of br ofes | the public press. The whole of one x | important department of municipal | Washington n i fore ign-language { magazines | which edvocate the ov } United States gove { If Washington perr m to con- | | . {affairs was handed over to the auto- j tinue their propaganda, won't it! 0 the auto . . j cratic government of one alderman | share in the blame for the trouble { who as entirely ignorant he po | thods necessary to carry on tue work, | Governor Smith, of New York, [80d a trained official was forced to | charges W. R. Hearst, publisher of | Hake a subordinate place to this i several yellow newspapers, with re- | @reenhorn. The council has this | sponsibility for stirring ' up unrest, | Year been dominated by one man, | breeding anarchy and crime and 2°d that a man who fought to the | breaking down respect for govern-| last to oppose schemes for the bene- i and the orderly processes | fit of the citizens he was elected to "There is mot a drop of |Tepresent. He was the leader of the published | they may cause? | thereof. 243 | Pure, clean, red blood in his body," | OPPosition to the scheme to provide | declares the governor. Decent Am-|Tiowses for the people of Kingston. { evicans were forced to admit the fact | He fought the granting of a sum of | long ago. | money for the building of a school, { {and indications are that the tenders i There are very few streets which {will got be Higher than they were | Rave been paved this year under the | six months ago. And the other | orders of Alderman Graham which {aldermen did nothing to oppose him {are not showing signs of breaking up in an effective manner. | already. Earl Street between Fron- | " The public are tired of this. They { terme and Albert fs going now, and realize that there #s too much dead- several parts of Princess street are | wodd in the city council At least breaking off close to the car tracks. two of the aldermen have to That ¥s the disadvantage of having | make their maiden an amateur to do work that needs | ten months of the year gone. This {1s not as it should be. The election is drawing near, and DEMOCRACY IN THE PALACE. | should begin now to prepare to take { Elizabeth, queen-of the Belgians, un active interest in it, so that when says that the war has taught her that! day comes, there will be a strong [there is no equality of the sexes. She | infusion of new blood into a body which needs refreshing. | was a nurse, she says, whilé her hus-, {band was a soldier, and she finds the | same distinction running through all | Between Two Fires, (Ottawa Journal) {lines of activity. She realizes that] | Belgian women must do much of the | Between those who want things 'one and those who don't want them : : | work formerly done by men, but she | done, the Board of. Commerce is- in janything but a popular position. 3 yot | expert attention. | pleads that, as far as possible, they | be put at tasks fitted to their sex. | She wants a sharp differentiation bo tween the training given the two! sexes at school; but she is empha- tically in favor of saving women the ballot. It is too bad the reporter did not | Twa Awful Spectres, disregard etiquette enough to ask| mpe farmer at Ott on a Spectre the queen whether "unlike" or "in|that need not necessarily {comensurable" would not express her | Canadians who have lived through a | meaning better than "unequal." The, atime experience of the lawyer at {Ottawa., {latter word implies that one sex is jlnferior to the other. The unlikeness Of the sexes in mental habits as well as in physique is self-evident and so deeply seated that on some matters, at least, you can not try men and women by the same tests. "Feminine intui- tion," for example, is a quality which no rational man of mature years either denies or hopes to rival. This gracious, accomplished lady has brought no more interesting mes- sage to the Néw Word than the proof that democracy has invaded the royal palace furnished by her championship of woman suffrage. . Hearst's Consolation. (Guelph Herald) Whenever the Legisiature con- |venes Sir William Hearst has the | satisfaction of vealiing that it will not be from him that will come "the speech from the thrown." : PIRATES SEIZE SHIP AND ROB PASSENGERS Black Sea Ports Infested by Bands of Robbers Who Loot Vessels. Constantinople, Nov. 4---Pirates concealed in the steerage of the ship Maria overpowered the crew while the vessel was bound from Novoros- eysk for Belgium, and robbed the - passengers, obtaining 'fifty million ---------- A NEWSPAPER'S POWER. The influence of the daily press During the past ten nidntha they | | was PUL through only under the | { Pressure of public opinion. Glaring | epeeches, with | the people | affright | > § | CanadaEast and West | Dominion Happenings ct Other Days. "Le Canadien." { About this date in 1566 the first issue of "Le Canadien," a paper pring- ied entirely in French. appeared in Montreal. The journal was born in | stormy days, and its career was one {of almost perpetual trouble. ranging i all the way from petty p ution to suppresion by the authorities of the i time, | It appeared first at a time. when {there was friction between the Gov- lernqr, Sir | legislative There assenibly. was { much opposition in the assembly to | the presence of the court judges as | members of the legislative council. { Then Mr. Hart, a Jew, who had been {elected to the assembly by . Three! | Rivers, was expelled from that body { because of his faith. Three times { bis constituents returned him to his {seat then that body attempted to salve the situation by passing a Jaw j tion. A bitter controversy broke out {between the Governor and { French Canadian majority in the | province. jeikms of 'Le Canadien" that he sup- | pressed the paper and arrested some jot the sympathisers with the assem- | bly with which he-was clashing: Soon | after he was removed from office. i The paper continued its course un- {tll May, 1837, when trouble came jagain. This time it was the rebel- { Hon in the province, It pleaded for | moderation, although intensely loyal {to what it believed the interests of { Lower Canada. It urged the people { not to revolt, declaring that little | good could come from such a source, {but its words were unheeded, and | tortly there were many who had | itter regrets that they had not dc-| | pted fits sane message. For a | imber of years later it continued | iy with varying success until fin- | 8 stormy career ended to the | {ite [1% | gret of many and the joy of those hose wrong doing, or alleged evils, had flayed so fearlessly. 18 A QUEENS GRADUATE THE ADJUTANT OF WITLEY HOS. PITAL: RETURNS, | Major ' J. S. Fitzsimmons is Bac | After Splendid Service In Great War. Major John 8. Fitzsimmons, who was Adjutant of the Canadian Special Hospital at Witley Camp, has arrived from overseas and is staying with his parents at Rockport. He docked in Montreal on Oct 28, and was in Kingston on Friday evening. Major Fitzsimmons is the son of J. Pitzsimmons, collector of cus- toms, at Rockport, Ont, and is well known to many, who visit the Thou- sand Islands. He graduated from Queen's University in 1916, with the degree of B.A., M.D., and master of surgery, and listed immediately. He went ov with the rank of captain and bécame mediedl officer of the 3nd Artillery brigade. He was wounded early in the autumn of 1917 with a bullet through the leg and was shell-shocked the same day. For four months, ks 'was in hospi- tal and although he partially recov- ered, he was not. well enough to re- turn to France and was placed on the medical staff at the Canadian Special Hospital at Witley where he remained until the hospital closed. He became adjutant at the institu- tion and was later promoted to be James Craig, and the | that no Jew was eligible for nomina- | the | So sharp were the eriti- | i i AILY BRITISH WHIG | | EENENREENENESENNERSNRNRANENRA r TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1919. HATS BIBBY'S HATS | Men Who Stay Young Style Headquarters For Young Men And To make good, stylish Clothes requires master hands. In the making of our Cloth- ing, master designers, master cutters and master tailors are employed. Good style and right qual- ity, variety and newness are the hallmarks of our Fall Clothing display. See Bibbys Indigo Blue Suits--$35.00, $42.50, $45, $48.50. See Bibbys Raverhall Suits in rich brown, green and pen- cil stripe Worsteds -- $45.00, $48.50 to $62.50. : See Bibbys Ritz' Suits, in fancy Cheviots and Worst. eds--$35, $37.50, $40.00, $42.50, $45.00. See Bibbys The Chester, $25.00. The Militaize,|$28.50, $30, $32.50, $35.00. The Primrose, $37.50. English Raincoats, $18.00, $20.00, $22.50, $25.00 and See 'Bib $35.00 and ee Bibbys two-piece. Good Stylish Clothes and regular Suits in pure wool Worsteds--$40, $45. Swell Overcoats See our new Hats -- the Strand--new greens--$5.75 wear--$1.00, $1.50 and $2. Try Bibbys for all wool nderwear, Union Suits and Stout, Slims Natty Neck- SHOES BIBBY'S SHOES - fl EE send the Limestone City over the top. has been well suminatized by Carl P. Johnson, a writer of national fame over the border, who pens this tri- bute: The power of the Press exceeds that of mighty armies in full pan- oply of war. The deily newspaper lights the way for men and nations along the roubles. On arriving at Batum officers of. the vessel made a report of the rob- bery to the British police, who cap- tured several of the pirates. Pirates frequently land along the shores of the Black Sea and rob villages. At Trebizond recently pi- rates boarded a Greek schooner and stabbed or threw overboard its crew of fifteen men. They also- captured the Russian steamer Constantion while the vessel was bound from Ba- tum to Constantinople. So -------- Hon. N. W. Rowell, in attendance at the international labor congress at Washington, is looking after Can- ada's coal supply from the United States. major. He qualified m a special course in straightémsag limbs and deformities caused by the war and also qualified in a special flying course, 2 78, 80, 82 And 84 Princess Street -~ a -------------- a ---------------- The soldiers of Australia are now being granted gratuities of $250 for each year of service overseas. But that country is not carrying the same finangial burden which Canada has. a German has been declared the RENE official language of Courland by a General Avaloff Bermont's West Ras- sian Government, SEs } suresel or | Pox" £0 to pay NEE NNN NAR N NNER NNNANE RENNER 7 z ctv path 'We are placing our money on the "girl who can cook and sew, and is willing to do both--Los Angeles | Path of progress. Times. But where, O where, are you | The newspaper is a greater edu- @oing to find that type of girl to- | cational institution than ail 'the col- day? leges of Christendom. i . Its doors are wide open to every Next Monday is Armistice Day. It | man, woman and child who can read. should be celebrated by '4 liberal jn< { The newspaper is the bulwark of vestment in the best security the | Mberty, the flaming sword of justice. world offers--Canadian Victory It brings wrongdoers, without fear Bonds. Buy them for the children, | OF favor, before the supreme court and they will appreciate it when they | of public opinion, from whose ver- grow up. - dict there is no appeal. re To an audience more vast than _ There is no Tory party in active | pulpiteers command, the newspaper operation in Canada just now, ex-| proclaims its great evangel---the cept in the Senate at Ottawa. It 18 in its patural home, its, permanent brotherhood of man. Modern elvilization could not eox- headquarters--permanent until a list without the daily newspaper. sountry, wearied of it, abolishes it.-- | Second only in importance to its Toronto Star. % | mission as a disseminator of news is crisis with alarm, it was a frightful thing to ses, it 5 : couldnt fail to wound and harm the bulwarks of our i estan its work as a builder of business. Be 1ibert: It erised and a da; t hi Many new words have been dntro-| advertising columns are the : ors arou ga 9 ay ol a, and | then 2 3 3 into the dictionary' owing to § 3 } p : : duced ty 9 digplay windows of merchandise . and called for wails and maudlin whoops. I've seen a the adoption of wartime slang |eaverly scanned trom day to day, in hundred crisis come and rear themselves on end and phrases. But there is not a word there yet which can be used to de- sordbe those who are responsible for Special For | The Season | Sweet Cider, Tokay Grapes, Al duds, Filberts, Brazil Nuts, . ornia Walnuts, Imported Walnuts, Hickory | LOWE BROS. . ALUMINUM PAINT abe. + 80c. sizes. . STOVE PIPE ENAMEL ne rs, OF paper and | ono me The crisis of a year ago looks flabby, now its days are o'er; but, oh, what fits we used to throw, when that cheap crisis had the floor!. We viewed that Phones 20 and 900, DAVID SCOT Plumber 'Plumbing and Gas Work a special. ty. All work guaranteed. Addregy 148 tense street, Phone 1 "his rents by| In a couple of months now the For Men and Women twenty-five per cent. Surely municipal elections will be over, and : . : nnn Sf in different colors, Chamois-lined i - «« Price $20,000 Price 16,000 PEamange Alions-of homes. go; I've neighbors stricken dumb by threats millions of homes. : of coming doom and woe. And still Newspaper advertising is the : along, and finds world's master salesman. : dozen things. Great is the daily newspaper. ; To a uu kh kd Bt tf dk Pema COMING MUNICIPAL CAM. : PAIGN, BONGARD, RYERSON & CO, IBS Phme 1TH ni Ba a : fig \ ANA over Denikine's newspaper, Uzenykrad, : § BRITISY P1 : says there is absolutely no coal of : A ETH Wood in Kbarkotf, and that at uight the stroets zre in darkness, er ¥