4 PAGE SIX THE BRITISH WHIG 87th YEAR. and Semi- Weekly by WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED Publisavu Daily THE BRITISH "ou, J. G. Elliott Leman A. Gu TEL Business Office .. Editorial Rooms . Job GRICE +.....0vonne sesanenan SUBSCRIPTION RATES Edition 4.00 in 3-24.40 ed States Edition) enr, Six and three months pro OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES F. Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal F. M. Thompso 403 Lumsden Bldg. Torgate. : Letters to the Editur are published only over the actual name of the or. | best Job Attacoed 1s f the "printing offices $n Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG "1s sstiaticated by Whe © Audit Bureau of Circulations. It was ever thus: Life is made up of praying for rain end wishing it would clear up. The people who are taking their vacations have ample time in which to fret about the weather. In France they sing to the horses to make them work better, while in this country they swear at 'em. Reds deported to Russia can't find work, says a news item. That ought to be paradise emough for them. New Brunswick, by an overwhelm- ing majority, decides to stay dry. The blue-noses have no intention to change to red-noses. Patten, "king of the wheat pit," says prices of flour and other com- modities are coming down. , May Pat- ten prove a perfect prophet. Where are the old-fashioned chil- dren who used to walk out into the country to gather flowers? Probably waiting for a car to take them out acd back. It costs Bir Thomas Lipton over a million dollars each time he .tries to lift the America cup. A man whe tries so often and at such a cost de- serves to succeed. Here's luck to him. The things that hurt most in life are not the swordthrusts, but the pinpricks. great calamities.--London Daily Ex- press. Up to the end of June the Soldiers' Settlement Board had allotted 1,726,- 800 acres of free lands to Canadian returned soldiers. The country will benefit greatly by the increased pro- duction thus assured. Savings In Canadian banks, loan companies, etc., amount to over one and a half billion dollars. The do- * minion's financial position is an en- viable one, especially 'when compared with that of other nations. The railways are asking the Dom- inion Railway Commission for a thir- ty per cent, increase in rates, claim- ing that the advances in wages have | made this step necessary. The worst 1 of it is that the cost of goods must 80 up in proportion, \ Prince Albert; the second son of King George, promises to become as popular as his elder brother, the Prince of Wales. As a sailor and airman he did his bit in the war, and { mow he is gaining great popularity at public functions. ' A large number of experienced + dankers from the United Kingdom, and especially Scotland, are arriving in Canada to accept positions in our " banks. gret their departure, it is a pleasure to note that they are not being lost to the empire. Hotels at the Thousand Island re- Sorts asé® turning the people away dation. Clayton Teports that the need of a biz, modern hotel was never more apparent than at present. Isn't this the time that Kingston's ~ hotel project should be rushed through? Muck of this tourist traf- fie would come our way if we could [take care of it. . We are constituted by | nature to endure great sorrows and | While the Old Land may re- | {on strict enforcement of the peace | terms, it is to be hoped that they will | by the uncertainty which has prevail- through lack of sufficient accommo- | ed since the Allies began to make GOOD, OLD ONTARIO. How often are we here in Ontario held almost spellbound by the pic- tures painted by ready writers of the manifold - beauties of othér parts {of this far-flung' and wondrous dominion. We have repe@tedly been | told of the marvellous beauty of the western prairies when the spring | flowerg are in full bloom or when the golden wheat waves in the early From the apple- Jova Scotia to th vs of British Colum- bia, it has been one paean of praise. { But who has arisen to chant the beauties of old Ontario ? The Farm- | ers' Sun Gomes to the rescue of this province in a recent article that | merits wide publicity. It says: "It is hard to imagine a lovelier place than old Ontarro in these early summer days. The rolling landscape with its wooded slopes, lovely valleys, well-tilled fields and smiling home- steads 1s a never-to-be-forgotten sight. The recent rains have fresh- autumn breeze 229 | ened field and meadow, forest and farm land, until nature is smiling in {all her loveliness. "The country is a tribute to the powers of unseen forces. Yesterday --it seems but yesterday---the fields 1.08 i were gray and sodden ; the hillsides 80 | glistened with their snowy mantle and leafless trees stood gaunt and bare lfke grim sentinels. To-day they are quickened into life with the full foliage of early summer ; the earth thas awakened--it 1s the springtime of life. All this has been done jn silence. These forces are elemental and unseen, but they are tremendous and all-powerful. Sun and air, rain | and good old mother earth, are the great alchemists. They have re- made the world In a few weeks' time. | "After all it is the quiet and | hidden forces that we need to cul- { tivate and trust. The great things | in life are not man-made or machine- | Ifke In their movements. Faith and | trust in the Unseen and obedience to | His laws make for the healing of the | nations. 'While the earth remain- oth, seedtime and harvest, and cold | and heat, and summer and winter, |-and day and night shall not cease.' " | ------ IN EARNEST AT LAST. After many months of muddling and granting of concessions, the Al- | lied diplomats have at last taken a firm stand on the peace terms. After! over a year of soft-hearted reling- | uishing of rights, they are in earnest, | and are showing the defeatted Ger- | mang that hey must abide by the! terms of the Peace Treaty. That is the one thing that stands out above | { all others in the Spa Conference be- | | tween representatives of the Allied governments and those of Germany. | The German envoys arrived at Spa hopeful of further concessions. Past | experience has shown them that they | might profit by discord amongst the Allies &nd might secure various other | lot less hard. They had a rude | awakening. They found they had a| different. bod y to deal with than | formerly. Instead of a round table] conference, with all the Allies' repre- | sentatives putting forward the views | of their respective governments, they | found a whited body with one spokes- man, Lloyd George. And Lloyd | George was in his most remorseless | mood, unflinching and implacable in | | his commands. Of course, he simply | voiced the wishes of the entire body, | but the Germans were surprised to | find this situation. They tried to | argue, make excuses and to start | general discussion, but they were | called up abruptly by the straights, forward demands of the British | premier. This change of aititude, is a wel-| come one to those who desire that! the fruits of victory shall not be thrown away. The Germans arrived | at Spa hoping to have the disarma-| ment clause shelved, hoping that the | repargtions demand would be great- ly lessened and modified, expecting to be able to induce the Allies to with- | | draw the army of occupation and pre- | | pare to ask for further concessions, | They were met with a determination' on the part of the Allies not to re-| cede ome iota from the terms of the treaty. The attitude of procrastina- | tion and philanderiig was thrown | aside, and, at last, the Allies are in earnest. | The result is that the situation Is much clearer. Germany will now know exactly what she has to face. Her people, their hope of concessions gone, will know that they wil have to submit to the terms of the treaty, and will able to face the future with a definite knowledge of thelr obligations. Generally speaking, they will welcome enforcement of the disarmament clauses, for they are sick of militarism and everything | connected with it, and will not ob- | ject to having their sons released | from the army. Now that the Allies have decided | not againerecede {rom t&%ir position. By maintaining it they will do more to stabilize conditions in Europe than concessions to Germany. Conces- sions have meant delay and disorder; strict enforcement means a certain knowledge of obligations and an earnest endeavor to meet them. For the good of the world, the Allies must continue to pursue-the latter course. | i from Honsberger. | it? | Honsberger. ! rades say he was a perfect fiend. The | revisions which would make their! THE DAILY BRITISH little known eating joint, and, like | a hunted animal, dart in the side} door. * You take a seat at a table. | Someone sitd down in front of you! and greets you effusively--it is the | man you didn't want to meet. You hang around the office until ! midnight and everybody is in bed, an! then you steal into the night. You don't go half a block before you | bump into the man you didn't want | to meet. . You would not mind so much were he not so genuinely glad to sea you. He will take your 'arm. he will look | slondiy inte. yous faceshe wiil-enquize | solicitously about your cold, or your { asthma, or your sciatica, and he will | send his affectionate regards to your | missus, or your sister, or your aunt, | or whoever has the happiness: of | MUSINGS OF THE KHAN EE AEE The Troubles We Have. My friend--{. us reasons I will not give his right name, so we will call him Jones. No, we won't either, we will call him McNab or O'Brien or something like that, I think it is high time that the Joneses had a rest. I have travelled much and .I have ever found the Joneges a good, lawabiding and, I i Qin; vid. lovable neonle, wR Hale dea lire therh as we do, particularly as I have found them as a family or people of a re- tiring disposition? They don't horn into the linfelight, they prefel the quiet of private life. Go into the keeping house for you. Legislature. Be there any Joneses | And the girl--any girl. My heart there? Nay! -Go thou also.into the | bleeds for her. Is there a girl in penitentiary, and how many Joneses i this land who hasn't got a man ac- are therein? None! Whether it is | quaintance whom she doesn't want the General Conference or a lunatic | to meet? She goes out on the street asylum, the Joneses are conspicuous | in fear and trembling. She won't go by their absence, and having due re- half a block before she runs into gard for all this, I will not--I am | him. He wil] pay her clumsy com- too much of a gentleman--I could | pliments--perhaps make love to her not call my hero Jones. { --and there is no escape. If she goes Mister O'Brien had but gne hatred. | to the Island, or down to the Beach, This was prior to the war. Since |or out into the country, he is there then he, like the rest of us, has a |--he is there, alas! he is there. At larger 'capacity for hate. When we {home the door -bell rings and her can't hate anyone else we hate our- | heart jumps into ber mouth. selves. Well, this here Mister Mc-|- 'A gentleman to see you, Nellie." Nab had one hatred, and its, or, It will be Jim, good, dear old Jim, rather, his, name was Honsberger. | come to take her out for a walk. He was a German, and he was lay- | She loves Jim. And so she pats her ing business siege to this country. | beautiful hair into shape, and slips He undertook to cultivate Mister |into her georgette, and dusts her O'Brien. Oh, how Mac did hate that | nose, and comes palpitating into the Dutchman! He tried to avoid him | parlor to meet--the man she didn't --to sidestep him---in vain. Wherever | Want to meet. he went he mef him, and affectionate And this fellow is always so re- and effusive Honsberger rushed to | Spectable. That's what I've got meet him and insisted on shaking against him. You cannot snub him. him by the hand He had a fat hand | You cant insult him. It would be a with nice curly hair on the back of | comfort to r'ar up and yell : it; and he had a sweet, moist mouth, | "Be on your way, you bum! made to say, "I lofe you." O'Brien | Weary me! You shock me! could not escape him." As the song in | nauseate me!" "The Doctor of Alcantra" hath it, | Alas, no! You must smile and "Turn where I might, he still was| smile and--be a villain still. there--he still was there." | Do you think I have overdrawn | The war came as a relief to Mis- | this picture? Put on your hat and'! ter McNab. It offered him escape | BO out'on the street, and you won't | Mac was one of | 80 half a block before you meet the the very first to enlist, and he got | man whom you didn't want to meet. great credit for his loyalty, patriotic| Do it now! fervor, etc., but as a matter of fact, that had nothing to do with it--he | wanted to escape Honsberger. They | took Mac over to England, and after | six months on Salisbury Plain they | shipped him across the Channel and lined him up at St. Julien. And who do you suppose was the first man | he met, neatly attired in a grey uni- | Harmless Now. form, cowhide boots and an iron hat | (London Free Press) with battle axe effect in the roof of | ,Pipling's "bear that walks You would never guess. It was or ob 18 TT TTT] You You_ PUBLIC OPINION FT] 1 a trap. Tn pe A Po Song. (London Advertiser) Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight-- Mister McNab spat on his hands, | fixed bayonet and proceeded to mas- | sacre Mister Honsberger. His com- way he carried on fierte. He seemed to bear a charmed | when prices were | life. He struck terror into a whole Let ma live afain =-y | Prussian army corps and he made a | : record for himself. He entered the f was something | fray as Private McNab, He came out | Maybe It Will of it as Major O'Brien. ' That's going | some. | Whether Croesus, x (Toronto Star Weekly) | } "WhHat's in a name?" may be an- | as | swered by Franklin D. Roosevelt as | are as rich you I hope you are, or|it was answered by Hugh John Mac- and which God forbid--there is someone | in this world whom you don't want! to meet. But you are always meet- ing him. Others see a lot to laugh at in this, but you don't. When you gd out to lunch you slip up a side street to an obscure and Rippling Rhymes THE CIRCUIT. Soon the statesmen presidential, candidates for | White House fame, in a heat that's pestilential, will pursue the modern game; o'er the country they'll be chasing, making speeches here and there, with the | 3 perspiration racing down their noses and their hair. And their collars will be wilted, and their shirtfronts | will be wet, and their neckties will be tilted, and their whiskers dripping sweat. Oh, 'twere better if we knew them at a distance, I maintain, for we're thinking, when we view them, they look neither safe nor sane.y Who can hold his admiration for a man whose neck | is red, who has dampened down the nation with the | lakes of sweat he'd shed? In the days when I was | younger men of presidential size had no flerce or frenzier hunger for the mob's approving cries. In the | distance, calm and stately, they remained through-all | the fuss, doing nothing, nobly, greatly, and they made a hit with us. Of the candidate collection whd would , tread the White House way, few will stand a close inspection on a redhot | | summer day. --WALT MASON. { whether you are as poor as I be--- | donald. | (Buffalo Express) i The Germans have begun the re- | storation of Louvain library. It will | cost them more than one million dol- | lars. That is quite a price to pay for an act of wanton vandalism. | wnt Fire! | is often caused by defective wiring. 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