PAGE FOUR wuitsava Daily » ue WIITISH WHIG PUBLIS 00. IAMITED, , Elon . ia cndats Preside dent «mar A Gui .e al ng r " . nd Sec. Treas. Telephones! Sugitiess Office .... Jditonia) C Dy SUSSORIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) Jue year delivered in city ne year, If paid in advance .. One year, by mall to rural offi One yent, to United States .... Sem}-Woekly Edition) One vi mal 1.00 cash On CAT, un not ha in advance 1.50 One Joat, to United States ... 1.50 8ix and three months pro rata. Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada, The cliveniation of Ep vig WHIG Is suthenticuica by the Audit Bureau of Oirculations SN CALL FOR SYSTEM. It would pay Kingston to have an official with duties akin to those of a city managef, but a manager the ¢ity cannot have under present conditions. The mayor, as the superviging officer of the council, cannot spent enough of his time in the city offices each day to see what is going on and check whatever, in the way of expenditure, is not authorized, Until there is some sort of direct inspection of the work there will be irregularities. There is no way at present of guard- ing against these irregularities. Emergencies arise. They have to be dealt with, Some official acts, in con- junctith with an alderman or com- mittee, and expenses are incurred. They have to be met. They may be criticised. They cannot be repudiat- ed. The Whig applauds the recommen- dation of the Trades and Labor Coun- cil. It asks for a judicial enquiry into certain expenditures, and only the county judge can make an impartial Investigation into all the facts. He can lay bare the defeets-of the pre- cont routine, and give the council the tip it needs in order to guard against further lapses. The Trades and Labor Council has, in the past, opposed the contract sys- tem in connection with civie improve- ments, But it is undoubtedly in favor of any course or policy which will guarantee to the city the fullest value} for all the money it expends in public improvements, ------ * Mayor Richardson is entitled to a second term, and he will get it from the independent electors. The men who are endorsing his candidature can elect him, eH A DEMAND FOR GINGER. The Toronto Star was attacked vigorously by a government paper, (that is, a paper which has enjoyed large perquisites from the government and is under obligation to defend it), because it lamented that the National Service Commission was unattended go far by very definite results. Many thousands of cards will be sent through the mails to the men between seventeen and sixty-five years of age next week.and these cards will call for a great variety of information. It will bear very directly upon the industrial situation. It will not help recruiting very much, however, if it will help re- cruiting at all. Industrial Canada deals practically with the labor question. There is a scarcity of the skilled article, Ma- chine hands are in great demand, and many have me machine hands by a daily repetition of certain acts. The tendency is to cause or create a com. petition that is disturbing in its tend- encies, and if a registration of the shop hands will guard against this it will accomplish great things. But the government is greatly to blame for its indecision, for its 'political timidities, for its fear of consequences when courage, boldness, even au- dacity are required. Industrial Canada calls for more ginger in the. government, and in all the departments of the public service. Industrial Canada ts non-political. It Selects 3 the mind and opinion of the industrial classes. The press ee Sian vey ear ae In in criticism of the government because it did not want. to appear as unsym- pathetic with anything that has been done in the interests of the war. But the outlook is such that neither the press nor parliament can afford to let i------ WANTED, BUSINESS ACTS. Alderman Hyghes wants the mayor's office, (for a year?), and his friends boom him for it on the ground that he is a business man He has made a success of his own business, says a {riendly critic. There- fore he must make a success of the people's business. Now the private affairs of any man are not a matter| {or public discussion. But what Al- derman Hughes does for the city, or claims to do for it, is another maffer There are three outstanding items in his public career: First. He does not attend to the, meetings of the civic committees of which he is a member as he ought to do. He was identified with the finance committee during 1916, and could only attend about half of its meetings. It cannot be said that he was heavily burdened with its duties and responsibilities. Second. He was the chairman of the property committee, and handed over to the works committee the building in' the fair grounds on which nearly $2,000 was expended without the authority of any com- mittee. He cannot evade his re- sponsibility on the ground, that he had nothing to do with the work. He ought to have had something to do with it. He should have held control of the property, and, if it needed improvement, supervise this in a business-like way. Putting all the blame for an irregularity on Al- derman Peters will not do, though Aldermen Peters must bear his share of it. Third. Alderman Hughes' commit- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1916. _ | PUBLIC OPINION | A Different Jingle, (Brantford Eapositor) is more jingle in the ai ) 1 less jingle in the pockets there was a few days ago. National Government. (Windsor Reed of opposition coming both parties is an argument n r of, rather than against, a na al government, rds he fact The Only Shrink, (Montreal Mail) The Premier says that Canadi:n® will shrink from peace now. It's aboyt the only thing they will thrink from where the Germans are con- cerned. War Ww ith Germany, (New York Times) If, as Mr. Lansing said in his first statement, afterward discreetly nio- dified, that "we are drawing nearer the verge of war ourselves' it is war with Germany. Will Require Plenty of "Jack." (Ottawa Citizen) The owner of the Havana race track has bought a newspaper in New Orleans, Here's where the rac- ing magnate will appreciate, for the first time, that money is-needed to make the mare go, Great Profits, (Toronto Mail) The British tax on excess profits produced $365,000,000 up to Decem- ber 1. The tax is, moreover, not on all profits, more than the average for the three peace years before the war, Mail by Alr Li ine, (Chicago News) tee undertook to buy the coal which was wanted for the City Hall and the schools. He made a contract for wharves--not upon it. coal arrived -there was no-way 'or plan for unloading it. Séveral days were spent in useless or fruitless ne- gotiation. Then Alderman Hughes abandoned the job. He was tired of it. The city and school officials got the vessel unloaded eventually at a dock near the old distillery, and the expenses, including the demurrage, (which .was only recently settled), ran the cost of the coal up to over $7 per ton. Now, Alderman; Hughes, it is safe to say, does not run his own business in that way. He looks after it. He does not let some one else do what he should do for himself. He does not contract for fuet, or anything else, for the broom When city. As a business man he is not making his claim good for the sup- port of the citizens. EDITORIAL NOTES. The United States Army Depart- ment is drafting a Universal Service Bill. Will it pass Congress? This is very doubtful. The members of Congress are baulk- ing over the Military Service» Bill. They see in it the nearest approach to the militarism whish the demo- cratic party so unreservedly condemn- ed. Kingston never witnessed so little intemperance as during the last week, and embracing the alleged festive sea- son. The Whig did not detect a single case of drunkenness on Monday. The British premier---the little man who has tackled so many difficult problems--may assume to put the liquor traffic under government con- trol. Is this the first step towards prohibition? Looks like it. Ontario will never know what pro- hibition in its entirety means until the federal house legislates against the sending of liquor into any province A which has voted against the traffic. Will the federal government be equal to the duty that devolves upon it? Quebec will see what it can do in| the way of suppressing the Jiquor, trade by rigid legislation and shorter hours for sale of liquor. One year of this will do. Twelve months hence will see the legislature ready for pro- hibition. The Ontario government contem- plates the prohibition of liquor ad- vertisements in the newspapers of this province. The Whig has no worry coming to it on this score. It abolish- ed the liquor advertisements because it was really a part of the Rowell policy for a suppression of the bars. That was a clever member of the W.C.TU: "who remembered that a Kingston paper advocated a reduction in the number of licensed places some years ago. If she had gone a little deeper into the subjeét she would have discovered that with a demand foy the abolition of the bars the Whig supported the closing up of all the Heensed places. This was some years ago, also. Brockville, Dee. 28.--1It is current- ly reported in Prescott that Hon. George P. Graham has been asked by the Liberal Sxecutive of Greville Hd- matters drift any longer. Ginger _ must come from some source, and it is for parlidment, when it meets, to insist upon this... > ng to contest the county agai Dr. Reid, M.P,, in the next election, ] Mr. Graham is well Known there and jin the county, as he spent most of his younger days in that vicinity. : . y { rz the delivery of a cargo at one of the] | the! The Postoftice De partment has asked Congress to appropriate $100, - 000 for experimental aerial mail service by the government, Under consideration is a plan for regular aeroplane mail service between New York and Chicago. MORE GINGER IN GOVERNMENT Cour r ia: "herself with a coalition government at the out- break of the war; Canada hasn't achieved that progress yet. England had conscription a year ago; Canada will make an appeal for voluntary national service on the first of Jan- uary. England solved the munition labor problem long ago by enlisting her munition workers and bringing them under control and discipline; in Canada thousands of dollars are fer o Industrial England | being spent on factory .as he! tising in an effort to alleviate contracted for the coal supply of the! newspaper adver-| the | labor problem of 'the munition man- ufacturer by a short-sighted plan| that will more likely add to hig dif- ficulties than lighten them. Eng- land long since took practical steps to enforce thrift; outside a couple of war loans, Canada so far has done nothing but talk. England has taxed every income in excess of $600, in some cases the levy being over 50 per cent,; Canada is apparently posterity, At Ottawa the Ginger Group 'is conspicuous by its absence, Sugges- tions pour in by the score, but in nearly every case a good excuse can be supplied why action is impracti- cable, Conscription is not to be thought of because of the large per- centage of foreign born, and the \ ' but on excess over $500 | satisfied to delegate the major por-| tion of her share of the expense to enormous frontier that would free] to be patrolled to prevent people | leaving the country, The enlistment | of munition workers as munition] workers is unfeasible because the] abor organizations might object. "The high cost of living has to be handled with gloves because qQne off fitue causes is the high price ol tural produce, such as wheat,| k, butter and eggs, and of course | would never do' to antagonize the| farmer, Unnecessary public works | -annot be closed down because of 1 reason the censor might forbid us to mention, Canada wants waking up, andj wants it badly. The government is to blame for not adopting measures| that will force the the stern necessities of war; the people are to blame for threatening the Government with their displeas-! ure if such measures are introduced. ! If the German commerce raider now' said to be roving the Atlantic would only bombard a few of our ports, and lif some Zeppeling would favor our inland points with the same kind of mementos tiey are accustomed to drop on England, their visits might easily prove a blessing in disguise. But as such. intervention ig not to be hoped' for, apparently the only thing to do is to possess our souls in patience and tr to the slow- moving machinery that the National Service Board will provide, people to realize WILL BRITAIN ADOPT PROHIBITION? Toronto Mail The breweries required for the ending last September 1,224. 000 tons of barley, 305,000 tons of other grains, 65,000 tons of rice, maize and bye-products; 119,000 tons of sugar, and 41,000 tons of molasses. That is a total of 1,708,- 0040 tons When foodstuffs are and high in Britain, and la- bor is short, and economy by every- one absolutely imperative, the spend- year my | See Our Men's Our Men's $2.75 Wool Sweater Coats See our Special . $1.50 Men's Pyjamas | MEN'S AND BOYS" WEAR ( | YOUNG MEN'S SUITS The Blitmore Special Value, $18.00 Advance style. New checks and overplaid cheviots. Rich Something en- tirely different. Sizes 34 to : BOYS' OVERCOATS Sizes, 28 to 33. Special - values $6.50, $7.50, $8.50, $10.00 and $12.00. colorings. 39. inept .$800,000,000 a year on drink naturally singled out, for attack. The grain used by the breweries is mostly home-grown, hut if it were available for other purposes the: country would need to import so much lets, Official figures put the saving in tonnage from the diversion of this grain and other materials to proper uses at 1,000,000 tons net of shipping. This represents about one- thirteenth of _the net tonnage of the ", marine is r NATIONAL SERVICE AND ITS DEFECTS liToronta Star. ] National service cards will be dis- | tributed in a few days. The object is to. take a census of effective men Be- tween sixteen and sixty-five years of age--to discover what these men are now doing, and what they are will-| | ing to do. All right so far as jt goes, Let the questions be answered, and let everyone show his willingness to help. But all depends 'on the use that is made of the answers, Merely tabulating them will not be enough. Men must- be shown what to do, { where they will be most useful. More men are needed for the Canadian army, others are required to make munitions, others for the production of food and other necessities of life. Which men should be assigned to each of these duties? It is for the Director-General and the Govern- ment to say. A girl is never in love if she knows why she is, . THE GOLD INLAY The Gold Inlay is a painful effort on the part of the dental profession to discourage the sale of false teeth. When man was created he was given a set of teeth which it was utonded should last as long as his ite. It is getting harder and ty however, to find people who have the same teeth they car- { ried around with them in childhood's jhappy hour. _A man may own a prominent, de) t eye-tooth, which appears to be sound in every limb, and almost before he knows it, some | dentist with a prying fore-finger will discover that it contains a cavity which looks like the opening of a drive well. It then becomes neces- sary to insert something which will preserve the tooth and enable the owner to masticate in a contented, bovine manner, hence the personal popularity of the Gold Inlay. The Gold Inlay is caused by drill- ing 400 feet below the surface and Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships and Stuling Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." x -- excavating a last resting place for! $18 worth of labor and material. This is a simple process and does not hurt the patient any more than to gaze on the bill. After the hole has been made large enough to comply with the laws of the state dental as- sociation, a dummy inlay is made out of wax, and the patient is allowed to depart and carry the hole with him, When he returns the real inlay is installed with a mallet wield-| fl an inhuman female office as-|/ who could earn more money | | ed by sistant, swinging a sledge in a roand-house. Some people object to the shiny, conspicuous appearance of the Gold Inlay and prefer the porcelain variety, matched up by a color-blind dentist. It would seem that there ought to be a law compelling dentists to pass an optical test before inflict- ing the off-color porgelain inlay upon people who are gagged with the rub- ber dam immediately after landing in the chair. Rhymes store, with fell Quince held up mart, ens every night THEY SAY They say that Smithman spends his life in dodg- ing bills he ought to pay. : his wife, and feeds his children bran and hay. say that Jinx, the dry goods prince, burned ; his with its evil tongue, goes drifting through the busy and baseless, vicious tales are sprung, which wreck your fame and break your heart. scandal monger cries, "Of course the yarn may not he true, but still they say that Reuben Wise steals chick- town, becomes a shunned and lonely man; "They Say" has ruined his renown, and his clan. The scandal-monger rifts along, a accustomed noise: * They say that Biftkin De . intent. They say that Jasper Julius an orphan for a cent. Thus Rumor, The busy or two." Then Reuben in his native de him out from makes Young Men's Overcoats The Alton Special value, $15.00. New, form Fitting Coat, knee length, double breast- ed, silk velvet collar. The Best $15.00 Overcoat values in C anada.' style. ~~ 7 ~ Heavy Storm Ulsters. Full length, double breasted Large two-way collar Some tweed lined. Heavy Scotch tweeds and cheviots. | Prices $12, $15, $18 and $20 Boys' Blue Serge Suits . Sizes 30 to 34. Double Breasted, Reefer style coat. Special Values, $7.50. ~~ Bloomer pants. ~ BIBBYS 78, 80, 82 Princess Street "The Shop of Quality." DC IT ELECTRICALLY "4 _ LET US WIRE YOUR HOUSE NOW -- HOUSE and STORE LIGHTING A SPECIALTY. STOCK OF FIXTURES IN THE CITY. SEE OUR NEW DESIGNS. Moore's Electric Shop LARGEST NEW METHOD Cleaning, Pressing, and Repairing. Neatly Done. We make a Specialty of Ladies' Work M. F. Patton, Prop. 119 SYDENHAM ST. Near Princess St. Phone 214 \ FOR SALE Good, solid brick dwelling; good barns, underground sta. ble and garage, in village of Cataraqui. _Suap at W. H. Godwin & Son 89 Brock Street Phone 424 TT McLeod's Drug Store Brock Street. DR. HESS Poultry Pan-a-cea A remedy for the dis- eases of fowls, as pes, cholera up. Tope excellent tonic An egg producer, be Ab fod s Drug Store Brock Street. Sunkist Raisins 'First Car New Raisins Just Arrived. At all Grocers. Insist on SUNKIST I wish all my custom- ers and friends the Com- pliments of the Season. E. H. BAKER Grocer, Cor. Montreal & Charles Streets Downeys Garage Open Day jand Night. of All Kinds, Cars Stored Until May 1st: Smull Cars, $10.00. Large Cars, $14.00. Cars for Hire. Gasoline, Oils and Greases Always on Hand. 'We Store Furniture Segres Downey, Prop, 'Table geet Waters Pots tenSplits and i EE and Half Gallons. ichy-Celestin--Quarts. JAS. REDDEN & CO. . Phones 20 and 900, DALY GARAGE 335 King Street. Phone 363. We furnish saute supplies of all kinds; gasoline, motor oll, ete, Cars washed and stored at rea- sonable rates. Repair work promptly attended to. Satisfaction guaranteed. Weight? Yes! Walt? No! It's Too Big for The But--d ton of our coal is a gift that will receive a hearty welcome. COAL is our "stockin" trade Good old Santa recommends | our coal to those who insist. on real quality. CRAWFORD Foot of Queen St. Phone 9.