THE DAILY BRITIEH WHIG, "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13;-1916. PAGE FOUR see fullest extent, that they must account | 500,000 pon pping,. to support agdr:| Pu THE BRITIS CO. J. G Blot ....c0v000004..,. Pregiden Leman A Guild ... Managing Director . and Sec.-Treas. S8SRD blished Daily and Semi-Weel by H WHIG FURLIS RING « LIMITED. Business Office BSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) year, delivered in city ......36.00 year, if paid in advance®. . 5.0 year, by mall to rural offices $3. year, to United States .......32.50 (Bemi-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash ..,...... One year, {if not pald in advance One Fear, to United States ,...... Six and three months pro rata. 1.00 1.50 1.50 Attached is gone of the best job printing offices ih Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is anthontithieq by the Audit Bureau of Circulations RS Ra CHEAPER ELECTRIC POWER, The Utilities Commission is to he congratulated, and also the manager and his operating staff of the power department, upon 'the very exceilent report which was laid before them at © the meeting on Monday. There is bound to be improvement, with con- tinued or guaranteed good manage- ment, and with these the commission has been favored during the last year. The essential feature of the report is the announcement that there has been increased output of power dur- ing the eleven months of 22 per cent., and a reduced cost of production of Je per kilo watt hour, without the advantage which must accrue later . through the use of Hydro power. The delay in connecting "the power for which a contract has been made with Mr. Campbell will be more than made up by the better service in 1917. The arrangement with the Hyro-Electric Commission" eannot be consummated for some time. Witness the period that has passed in getting into touch with the Campbell system, and from this figure upon the period which must elapse before the power gener- ated in the Trent can be utilized here. Meanwhile the/fuel question will become 4 more perplexing one. The cost of coal is bound to ineréase, and the Hydro power from Kingston Mills will fit into local conditions and act as an equalizer of expenses. The ex- hibit of the present is very good, ex- ceptionally so, but it would have been better had the Campbell current been turning the wheels of our industries all through the year. There are fifty millionaires in the United States to one in Great Britain. The Allies have helped to make this exhibit by pouring their millions into the United States for industrial achievement during the last two years. VAIN APPEAL FOR PEACE. The German government was quite spectacular in its presentation of peace proposals, and umder circum- stances which made their acceptance impossible. All the members of the Reichstag were required to be pre- sent. Chancellor Bethman-Hollweg had been with the Emperor rehears- ing his part, It bore, therefore, the stamp of the all-highest. At the same time, or somewhat in advance of thig, the neutral forces had been notified that Germany was willing to discuss the terms of peace. ; It is sigaificant to notice that while this was going on in Germany there was before the world the unpardon- able cruelties of German oppressors. Two things seemed to influence or impel the Teutons in their invasions. One was 'to Keep the Allies as far as possible from the Fatherland. - To lay siege to it, or any part of it, meant the collapse of the aign. The se- cond thing was to plunder the {nvad- ed territory, 'to rob it of its men, 'gum, Servia, Poland, and Rumania, have been stripped, in turn, of gvgrT- thing. : * . To talk of the face de this, e one has done, that the destroyers of life and should not suspend for the deluge of blood which ha: swept over the eastern continent. The appeal for peace i8 mot seriou ly regarded. It may have bee: prompted by the steps which are bL- ing taken in France, England, ar Ryssia, for a more vigorous prosecu tion of the war. The Import of then is that younger men are being all pressed into the national'service, with | the command of 'the Allies, with the desire to infuse into the conflict power and energy which will surely lead to victory. Every member of the new British government has resigned the director ships whith he had in business cor- porations. The imperial instinct very keen on points of honor, is CRITICISING THE GOVERNMENT. Is it dislo¥al to criticise the federal government, to intimate, however ¢ | midly, that it is not representing the mind or temper of the people? The question. is asked because men have been called to account because they have paused in their speeches to say that the conduct of the war, so far as Canada 13 concerned, is not satisfac- tory. The Whig hesitates to say even this much in view of the savage way in which Mr. Rowell and Mr. Grabam have been attacked by consérvative papers because they have dared to in- timate that the government at Ot- tawa has been tried on this war issue and found wanting. There is something assuring to the press in the trend of events in Eng- land. For two years the London Mail and London Times, owned by Lord Northeliffe, were unceasing in their criticism of the Imperial government. They were so pitilessly pointed in their attacks that at times, according to other papers in London, it was a question whether the government the Mail and Times and lock the publisher up somewhere for safe keeping. But the knocking went on, first on one side and then on the other. The gov- ernment was declared to be ineffi- cient and incompetent. The papers saying this were refused admission to some houses and public places. In other instances they were burned if order to express public resentment. But the assaults went on. They be-|, came very direct and forceful. There was no parrying them. The gov- ernment changed, It became national in place of liberal. The admiralty lost some of its distinguished heads. The war office found a new, direclor. He was of Neorthcliffe's nomination. He was criticised later and foreed to divide his duties with another. One phage of the war was disposed of only to find that another had arisen so that it was attracting public attention in larger measure. At last a crisis occurred---a erisis that has only pags- ed---and Northcliffe has been pro- claimed a great legder as well as a great dictator! There is a moral in all this, It is that this is no time for timid men and timid thinking. It is notorious that the conduct of the war is as faulty in Canada as it has been in England. The press may be accused of mischief- making - if it call attention to. this fact, and yet the more direct and em- phatic the demand for change or re- form the sooner it will come to pass. EDITORIAL NOTES, If the municipalities are to be so heavily 'burdened by Hydro-Electric enterprises, why should they not be represented upon the commission? The radial railways may be oppos- ed by the steam railway companies, but they are sure to come. They would pay very 'handsomely in West- ern Ontario, IKINCSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO Y.M.C.A. Queen's has donated $500 to the support of a missionary' | in heathen lands, R. Moore, Wolfe Island, has a three-year(old colt sired by "Donald Dinnie,"" Amherst Island. The colt has done his fall ploughing ana | weighs nearly 2,000 pounds. Rev. Dr. Wild lectured at the opera house last night on "Destiny of Britain and Canada." So croewd- ed was the house that a number of gegglemen lost their. hats in the crush leaving the building, | PUBLIC OPINION | Santa a Joker. Advertiser) Seems funny to pick up an ad- vertisement showing a bewhiskered old gent like Santa Claus handing some one a safety razor. (London Away With Churchill. {Ottawa Free Press) Lord Northeliffe says if Winston Churchill 'will go to the States to give lectures he will have the sup- port of the Northcliffe press, Just a mere question of banishment. Asquith Admired. (Exchange) Asquith has refused an earldom. We always admired Asquith, and his refusal has not made us mad a bit In fact, we are quite pleased with it. | Need of Revolt, (Montreal Mail) One hundred from Canada have been found enjoy- ing themselves in England on full pay. The recent nolsy militia admin- istration has a lot to answer for Queer Partnership. (Toronto Mail) Of all the strange partnership war has brought about none stranger than that of Lloyd-George and Lord Milner. It is to be hoped the latter has forgotten what Lloyd- George said of him al the time of the Boer war. $i A REVIEW OF THE MILITARY SITUATION the is London Chronicle The prime military responsibility in the Rumanian theatre has rested with Russia and Rumania. The roles open to the other Allies have been se- condary ones. They have been fully discharged by General Sarrail, who has detained on his front at least as many enemy troops as he was ever expected' to detain; by General Cad- orna, whose fine victory on the Carso was mbst admirably timed; by Gene- rals Joffre and Haig, who have done all tlie weather permitted to keep the Germans busy in France; and by the extensive dispatch of aeroplanes, guns, and technical services. There is no occasion for us to reproach our- selves. In sone quarters we are told that the only way is to send General Sarrail half a million more troops. Have the advocates of such a course reflected on the transport that would be required? From this country to Salonica is 3,000 miles, by sea, through waters in some of which the submarine danger is greater than any- where else. Shortened in respect of lis out of | {of the fire lieutenant-coloneis | tional troops at the end of such a line the question. On purely military grounds the eastern theatres have many advantages over the west- 1 What ties our main effort te the west is simply this problem of transport; but sinee it is unalterable, we had surely better resign our minds to make the best of 'it. FIRE-L0SS 1S VERY LIGHT KINGSTON HAS BEEN LUCKY SO FAR THIS YEAR. Loss To Date About $12,000--The Fire Committee Actually Has a Balance of $417 on Hand. The members of the civic Fire.and Light committee, which met Tues day afternoon, were tery much grat- ified at the result of the year's work department. According to Chief Armstrong's report there has been to date a fire loss in the city of only about $12,000. Kings- | ton has been lucky indeed" during 1916, The committee also learned that after the year's operations it { would have a balance of $417 on | hand from its appropriation. of | this amount $287 was saved from | firemen's wages, as the brigade has | been under strength for various periods during the year owing to resignations, | Ald, Corbett did not think it very creditable to have a balance on hand. He thought it should have been given | the members of the fire department | who were not receiving a fair re- { muneratiofi. The recent schedule in- | crease adopted by the City Council | was very paltry. Chief Armstrong reported in part | as follows: "To date we have received and | answered ninety-nine calls, three of which were for the "'pulmotor" and four for fires outside the qity limits, As far ag I have been ahle to learn, the loss of fire within the city has been $10,744,327, on which there has been paid insurance amounting {to $7,779.39, while the insurance at | risk was $596,150, There are three | fires where I have not yet learned what the loss was. These will not to date will mot exceed $12,000. The loss for last year was $63,864, "The most serious fires of the year were March 25th at the Frontenac notel, July 19th, Government yacht Senator, and Oetober 20th, Boyd's garage, These fires entailed a loss of $7,033. "In only four calls did fire spread after the department arrived and in one case did it spread to another building." "The year just closing, has, I be- lieve, been without exception the worst' in the history of the fire de- partment in regard to changes in its )ersonnel, there having been one death, one enlistment for overseas and thirteen resignations, Four horses, having become unfit for fire services, were sold and four others purchased. "There are some miles of outside wire that needs to be removed, and when finances will permit, the old alarm boxes should be discarded and replaced" with reliable up to date ones." In conclusion the Chief spoke warmly of the admirable support he had received from Chairman OCon- nar during the year. The chairman had devoted a great deal of time to the affairs of the department. Representatives of Moulding Company were present to ask that a light be erected near their plant. The committee mem- bers agreed that a light was much needed down there, but referred the rant Random Reels | "Of Shaes and Ships and Sealy Was, of Cabbages and Kings." THE DIAGNOSIS, The. Diagnosis is something which takes place just before it is decided to operate on the purse and person of the patient. (Medical science has made won- derful strides in this country in the last fifty years, but when it intro- duced the seven-day Diagnosis to a suffering constituency it took a great load off the minds of millions of sufferers and also increased the sale of doctors' coupelets. Before the The war will be presently in the searching, fine-tooth comb diagnosis hands of the young men in all the na-| was put on the market few people tions. It is only a question of time until Von Hindenburg strikes the trail for his retreat. LT -- The Germans have never seen the inside of a tank, (the new British fighting machine), but they have in- vented a very good substitute, It is more like an automobile than a le- viathian, but it is fast and ugly in action. ! I ag A---------------------- -------- tchewan has done the only safe thing under the circumstances. It has abolished the dispensaries. Now liquor cannot be got anywhere ex- cept for 1and industrial pur- Poses. Its sweép fiw (he province has beén complete. = - -------------- Joffre to be retired? But wil bert must atohe for thelr sins to the 32 knew what was the matter with them. Thousands of patients were treated for something they did not have and were given medicine which did not fit any better than a cravén- ette coat on a bird dog. This creat- ed great dissatisfaction, and caused the medical fraternity to be referred: to in slighting terms by people who paid out good money to be cured of some ailment which\belonged to a néar neighbor. o It takes time to make a good Diagnosis, and it should never be at- ad tefhpted unless the patient is in the best of health and has called in all his. loans. The modern Diagnosis starts with the soles of the feet, and winds up with the discovery of a whistling noise in the top of the head. All of the symptoms which the patient carries about-with him are collected togéther and shaken vigorously, after which he is pinch- ed, slapped, pounded, rolled, probed and pumped until he begins to real- ize that under certain circumstances death is a precious boon. He is then informegl that if he will consent to bid faréwéll to his appendix; after 'long years of close association there- with, he will be allowed to return home and eat anything that his stom- ach does not object to. The Beauty of a thorough, pains- taking Diagnosis is that when it is over the patient is .not in fear of death or anything else. There is something about a Diagnosis conduc- ted by nine surgeons with Van Dyke beards, which will reconcile a man to anything, unless it is prompt pay- ment of the fee. exceed $1,200 so that the total loss: the" Relianée) See Scarfs for Ladies and Men, $1.00 to $5.75 USEFUL Dog Skin Glove $1.75. 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