PAGE FOUR mm - A ----------_----_ The British, Whi | TREN ILE nwy- - {ikl 45 and Semi-Weekly by WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. J. CG EMott ....o0000 % President Leman A. Guild ... Managing Director + and Sec.-Treas. Published Dail THE BRITISH Telephones! Business Office Editorial Rooms Job Offic SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) One year, delivePed in city , One year, if paid in advance $5.00 year, by mall to rural offices $2.50 year, to United States $2.50 (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, eash $1.00 year, if not paid in advance $1.50 ear, to United States _... . ..51.6 x and three months pro rata. Attached is one /of the best job printing offices in Canada. One The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the : Audit Bureau of Circulations THE NEW MINISTER. Hon. A. M. Kemp becomes the new minister of militia. He could hard- ly be overlooked in view of the fact that he assisted Sir Sam_Hughes in the militia department, and acted as his substitute when a crisis occurred. He is desired for another reason-- that he is a Toronto man, who, as an employer of labor, and a distributor of political patronage upon a large scale, can be expected to try the temper of the people under the best conditions. The government may be sure of electing him, and the Toronto Telegram says he is alright. But there is no telling what the people may do. They are certainly incensed over the nickel question, and Mr. Kemp's apologies so far have failed to appease them. It is a most unpleasant reflection that somehow, through someone's fault, or the fault of some govern- ment, the nickel is going from Can- ada to Germany and into the am- munition which i&b8Ing used to kill and wound and maim Canadian sol- diers. The Belleville man who gave of his means enough to provide a shelter for the Children's Aid Society, and two play grounds and equipment for the public schools, is the type of citizen one can admire. Every com- munity should have men of this kind, and they should be heard of every little while, MEN, NOT FORMS, COUNT. Verdun, which is really a part of Montreal, though with 'a council of its own, is submitting to a referen- dum the question of how the city should be governed, by a council or a commission. It will make very lit- tle difference in Verdun. The gov- ernment, unless composed of good men--men of conscience, of personal independence and probity--can do nothing. Montreal, the foster parent, stands before Verdun as a wicked ex- ample. No change of membership or form does it any good.. The commis- sion, like the council, is bound to be & failure unless composed of the best men, Dr. Brittain, who is head of the Bureau of Research in Toronto, be- fore the Associated Boards of Trade in Hamilton, made one thought very clearly, namely, that the form is nothing, and the man everything, in the management of affairs. He was referring to the council and the city Inanager as a high type of civic gov. ernment that has been giving great satisfaction. But an American city was showing how that form could be menaced when the people were not behind it.. The council was small and legislative in its quality. The manager earned a salary of $25,000 per annum, Council and manager bad co-operated, and to the end that the city had been given a splendid service. * : Yet the discontents were numerous and they were preparing in their own nefarious way to put the council out of power, and as It appointed the manager it was easy to conclude what his end would be. The form of gov- ernment is not always the essential thing. There is one form, however, that is favored above others, and this the delegates trom the Kingston Board of Trade to the Associated Boards of Trade will discus when they present their report next week. Er ---------------- The bread 'question is becoming very acute in the west. The bakers of London demand a change in the law, and to the effect that no inspec- tions be made outside of the fac- tories, that any weight of loaf be issued so long as this weight is mark- od upow the bread. Do the bakers of | wi Kingston agree? o| plans which will bring about telling \| ing the campaign to conduct it ac- mr ™ : : CHURCHILL AGAIN RESTIVE. | uneasy. He must talk about the war He inherits the family weakness. He must be in the limelight. Yet there is som& hing about "him that people like. He is mentally alert. He is original, nerisms. He is bold, and, in a sense, heroic. When one has said that he| has said about all that makes Mr.| Churchill remarkable. It was unfortunate that one, with his impulses, his desire to do some- thing, was the first lord of the Ad- miralty when war was declared. He was not all-powerful, but he exer- cised a powerful influence. Lord Fisher, recalled from retirement when Prince Louis of Battenburg re- signed, could mot stand Hon. Mr. Churchill, and early in the campaign again went out of the service. Mr. Churchill, who had expressed a desire to pick the Germans out of their fastnesses as one picks the rats out of their holes, presumably counselled the attack on the Dardanelles, an soon realized the folly of it, He ap- peased public opinion to some extent by-leaving the Admiralty, and a sue- cessor in office relieved the situation in a most desirable way. Now, after a period of which has been most appreciated, the Hon. Mr. Churchill reappears and demands "some new and striking silence results." He will probably be ad- vised to possess his soul in patience, and permit the men 'who are direct- cording to their own judgment. Frederick Palmer, one of the best war correspondents, the peer per- haps of them all at the present time, had an interview with Gens. Haig and Joffre before he left France for his present visit to America, .and they told him that events were trans- piring according to their plans. Isn't that satisfactory? Should that not be sufficient for Mr. Churchill? The sinking of the Britaunic with many wounded on board is the last frightful act of the enemy. "War is hell," said German Sherman, and all who participate in it now on the side of Germany are certainly acting like devils. BOOM IN SHIPBUILDING, Stevenson Taylor, the president of the American Society of Naval. Ar- chieects and Engineers, predicts that the next few years will be the bus- fest and the best ever known for shipbuilding. The normal tonnage of the world in the pre year is estimated at 50,000,006 of which 5,000,000 tons has been destroyed, 12,000,000 tons commandered by the natlons at war, and 4,400,000 'tons interned in neutral countries, leay- ing available for ithe regular Inter- ndtnonal Merchants' Marine Service about 28,000,000 tons, This is a little more than fifty-seven per. cent of what the tonnage would be if con- ditions were normal. At the end of 1918, should, peace be restored by 'that time, Mr. Taylor estimates that the minimum = mer- chant tonnage which will be needed, wil be approximately 55,000,000 tons, and to meet this demand he estimates that there be available about 48,000,000, which means a shortage of 6,600,000 tons. "From this it 'will be seen," adds Mr. Tay- lor, 'high freights and high. prices will continue and shipyards will be busy for some years to come, and it hehooves all concerned, the govern- ment, owners, builders, and shipners, $0 bee that we gbtain our shave." Capital is the first essential, and the Americans have all they want of this. In some respects they have more than they know what to do with, Those who were [far-seeing put their millions into war producing plants, and the public accounts of the last year show that they have earned inconceivable dividends, and there has been carried to rest account im- mense sums which await some new avenue of usefulness. Shipbuilding opens up the way for a profitable employment of a large part of this idle capital. It only requires energy, and skill, efficiently directed, to lead to the highest expectations with re- gard to shipbuilding. Canada has the iron, and the capi- tal, and it only requires the energy a Hon. Winston Churchill is again! of 1 | ies He is striking in his man-| ness with some men, to the exclusion] war and its effects upon busi- It is time there was a change. ! motto should be "Recruiting as * until the end of the war. he A. Warburton, the chairman of Committee of One Hundred, says the prohibition question. Are| they not? The government is not proposing to change its policy, and the liberals are not changing theirs.! Then why the anxiety or perplexity] of Mr. Warburton? Special interest centres in the suc-, cess of the experiment which is in; progress in Chicago. There six men and six women are living upon a cer- tain diet which costs 40 cents a day, or $2.80 per week, for food alone. Where is the great denial in that? Families of five and seven have to} live on $12 per week, or $2 and less; per week per individual, covering) clothing, rent, and all other expenses of life. Jue TON EVENTS| 25 YEARS AGO The public were given quite a sur-| prise. There were no tramps in the; cells last night. | T. Sullivan has been asked by the "Watchers" to run for alderman in| Frontenac Ward. A soup kitchen has been opened on Colborne street, in Mills' Row, under the auspices of All Saints'| church. Rev. Mr. Rayson is the main| mover in the scheme. Toronto World, Ind. If the nickel never left Canada it could never go to Germany, This is plain enough. But we are told that we must permit our Canadian ore to be shipped to the United States so that it can be there refined and de- livered to the American manufactur- ers, who are making munitions for the allies, But if we admit that some Can- adian nickel must be refined in the United States for the use of the Allies, does it follow that the present slipshod arrangement cannot be im- proved upon? The World suggests, and for the past two years has over and over again insisted that no per- son, firm' or corporation should be allowed to export any nickel from this country. If it be necessary, for any purpose to refine some Canadian nickel ore in the United States, let the Dominion Government purchase the ore and ship it to the American refinery as it§ property. It can toll and welgh the matte 'at the border, and it can see that every ounce of it is accounted for in refined nickel; and as soon as the nickel is refined it should 'be: brought back to Canada, here to remain in store as the pro- perty of the Dominion goverhment. Then, if ithe British government wants refined nickel the Dominion government can ship it across from a Canadian pott. If some aily country wants refined nickel the D minjon government can send it to that coun- try under British convoy. If some munitionmaker in the United States needs a certain amount of the refined nickel to manufacture munitions for the allies the Dominion government can ascertain his needs, can supply him with the necessary nickel, can THE FULL CONTROL OF CANADIAN NICKEL ; CL | for the allies, and that none of it | the political parties should be as one! Lo "into" submarines for transport | son, Lieut, Alan Oliver, M.C., has THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1916. w - -~ v- ear-mark that nickel, and see by our} own men that it goes into munitions | for the allies, and that noné of It is shipped to Germany! If the dominion government owned the refined mickel it could deal it out to the American munition manufac- turers on its own terms, see that every grain of it went into munitions to Germany, or in some other way sneaked out to a professed neutral port. re A DEFENCE MUST BE MADE Toronte Telegram, (Con.) The International Nickel Co, must expect to be judged by the company it keeps. The firm mentioned by H, H. Dewart, K.C., M.P.P,, on Saturday is|}| no fit company for the International Nickel Co. "Silent contempt," and other forms of evading the issue will not acquit the International Nickel Co. of the responsibility placed upon that company by the character of the Lon- don firm chosen .as its medium of deal ing with the export demand for nickel. : It is just a question whether Hon. W. H. Hearst, Premier of Ontario, should not instrcot Hon. 1. B. Lucas, Attorney-General of Ontario, to pro- ceed against the International Nickel Co. on a charge of trading with the enemy, The facts cited by Mr. Dewart, K.C., M.P.P, in his able speech must be answered. These facts put the International Nickel Co. on the defensive. Why should the Inter- national Nickel Co. dare to maintain official business - relationships with a London firm that was convicted of trading with the enemy? : THE WAY OF DUTY. The furfher one gets into life the more emphatically is it im- pressed upon him that the only way of real satisfaction and comfort is the "way of duty. And the satisfaction and com- fort is quite irrespective of the fact as to whether duty is hard or easy. There have been multitudes of our young men at the battle front, men to whom their duty there has been a hard and bitter task in many ways, who have expressed themselves as finding a joy and exultation and content tha they had never known before, simply because they felt they were pouring their very life in- to duty as they had never done before. When one compares their experience with the -cow- ardly comfort of theslacker, he feels that it is as pure gold to dross. and refuse. The enly content and happiness' that is worth anything at all is that which a man earns by setting himself rigorously and un flinchingly to the tasks of life that are given him to do. They may be tasks to try his spirit and weary his body, but if they are in the way of duty they will at last give life and joy to his soul.--Christiap Guardian. PEP LPPFRPPLEPPIRPPPERPL RP LPP err erst bedd db SEPP PPR BRIE P PPT P POPP ree bbb ebb dd bb While the daté_has not been As for the bye-election in West Siiffe he the seat left vacant in the death 'of Hon. James Duff, it is unlikely that the election will be held until Jan- uary, @ Frank Oliver, Edmonton, has re- ceived word from Ottawa that his been killed in action. Random Reels "ot Shoes apd Ships and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kinga" THE RACING FIEND The Racing Fieid is an automobile maniac who passes everybody on the road except the rider on the pale horse. Since manufacturers began to turn out automobiles that will travel seventy miles an hour on a country turnpike and remain in an upright position part of the time, we have witnessed the birth of a new breed of light-headed imbeciles who can- not see anything two miles down the road without setting chase like a pointer pup after a guinea hen. This variety of speed maniac begins to hammer on his horn when within half a mile of his victim, who is thereby invited to step to one side or have the ribs of his touring car pushed in out of sight. When the ac- commodating driver pulls out to the ragweed, all that he sees is a sway- ing streak and a'cloud of dust which would choke a 200-barrel cistern. Once in a while some pert Racing Fiend will try to pass another with the same shaped head, and then the two will fight it out until they come to a box culvert. which will rise up just in tigie to boost the mortality records a couple of points. Death in any form is sad to contemplate, but we have often wondered why so many speed maniaes should be al- lowed to litter up our country roads, while many a man who never ex- ceeds twenty miles an hour will break a steering knuckle and lose the use of a faithful collarbone. After a while every town'of any size will pen up its Racing ds on the county fair grounds, and per- mit them to chase each other around the race track with their tongues out. This may cause more deaths, but they will be better distributed and cause more general satisfaction. : to make shipbuilding in C its most prosperous business. It is for thé captains of industry and finan- clers to get together and plan as to how they can seize the opportunity of making the most of it. ' EDITORIAL NOTES, Last year was the first in the his- tory of Canadas when theére was a trade balance in favor of the cofintry. This is a circumstance worth report- ing. h a Canadas need not worry about the way in which she gust yeovige for the immigrants after war. Will ther be any immigrants for a few years at least? ENMAN"S NDERWEAR | anid Bibb 'S ~~ | ARROW COLLARS 15¢c EACH k. J) Nobby Suits & EMEMBER vercoats Our Standard is to sell Better Clothes than {other stores sell for the esame price. 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