PAGE FOUR THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1917. The British Whig 84TH. YEAR. land that the leg Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH W§ PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. President +...» Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. J. G. Elltott Leman A. Guiid Telep Business Office .. Editorial Ro Job Office suUBSt (Daily Edition) delivered An city" if paid In advan by mat] to rural ¢ to United States Editi ony One year, One year, year, year, (Semi-Weekly year, by mail, cash .. if not pald In advan tor United States . R. Bru TORONTO REP HES F.C. Hoy, ... 10 Jess UNITED. ST ATE F.R.Northrup, F.R. Northrup, Attached printing o 0 Ass' n B 1d. one of the best tn Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is auth by the y Audit Bureau of Circulations. A POLITICAL Why It may AGITATION. the liberals these railie of be asked They are so many cals to the colours All indications an early election The min friends point to nd their ticians evervwhere talk about it' sters a The poli are being sounded on two The enfranchisement of the important proposals (1) wive and daughters of absent (2) the disfranchisement of the foreigners in the western provinces can have votes the federal Most of the women federal election if ep the in the government ace the provincial Where privileges w lists women have not, they stered for elee- equal the men can be especially re tion purposes, but the wives and daughters of the soldiers are express ly wanted because they are supposed to be particularly susceptible fo gov ernment influence through the pen- sion and patriotic fund svstems The suggested disfranchisement of | them having been the men, many of naturalized for many years, will chal- It will challenge government to operate Why the the alleged alien voters of lenge attention, right of the aginst any class. should foreigners, and Saskatchewan, or of Alberta Manitoba, be deprived of a affairs, any more than the foreigners of Que- Ontario, the vinces? at surely, the management of the public Pro- is not aimed and if it is the party which practises it will have occasion for re pentance Maritime Discrimination bee, and -- EVENTS WORTH RECALLING Both Frederick Palmer and Beaverbrook, (formerly Sir Max Afken), have given special chapters, in their books, to the performances of the Third Brigade in the fighting | which occurred in France in 19715, | beginning with April 21st, continuing until and through 24th was then hell." The details of these historic ev.) ents are being recalled in these days. Gas, used for the first time on April 21st, 1915, had driven the French Colonials back from the stretch which they occupied, of them gasping for breath, of them foaming. at the wards Langemarck.. They the Canadian line. "in the air" Through the four mile opening" in! the line the Germans pressed to-' wards Ypres, "the key to the whole western front." "They encountered the Canadians, who had from gas also, as the French. The Canadians bent around to a point at St. Julien woods,' and two battalions of the Third Brig-' ade were, during the night, brought forwar dto defend the breach. Gen. Mercer's brigade later charged the Germans. The loss was heavy, but the German trenches were taken and held until relieved two days later. On April 23rd, 1915, weak in num-| bers, and weak physically for want of food, .the Canadians fell bask to St. "Julien, and so bad was the situation' that one compaiiy, sent to relieve it, was compltely wiped out. On Apri 24th, the Third Brigade was gassed for the second time. Th Second Bri-' sade, under Col. Currie, had to fall Lord veritable described as '"'a mouth, left to- back to prevent the Germans getting © behind them, and then, reserves con ing up. the strain was litfed. Nel-| son's History of the War has an im-| perishable tribute .to the bravery, skill and success of the Canadian arms during,this period. 2 out-of the alle Job | soldiers, and | the ' voice +n | and | April The Canadians fought in what! four-mile | some | some suffered | but not so seriously | PURGING *"The prine ntracts LEGISLATURE. firm whicl THE pals in the with the Great vay have left the and for evading y province 'olumbi the pur ntly mised to be couns davs refused ome what he had done dolars, ewhich, it for political divulge with | was charg was based upon money bel vice-president lature and counsel, had no right Hm as demand an accounting the lature insisted on left the legi enquiry Mr. Tate province The secretary-treasurer he com- told that he he i ed three for a total of $115,000, for purposes, declined pany cheques | campaign but he to say 49 whom the money The legisla- for calling stubborn witnesses to time this growing a liberal mem was given and at whose instance ture will seek out a way all Running scandal was those concurrently with | greater another gation of . to the effect Rly. Co. in two parts, and Northern $75,000, ber for Vancouver, go | that the Canadian had contributed to the liberal party, and that none of had present this money reached its déstina- The attornev-general £25,000 tion alleged to have removed hotel The direct the and money from a certain in which it had been lodged lie that charges, g.| attorhey-general gave the this | | member and said the given | to statement preferring ! the amplest others, would be their case and be | opportunity I It has been lapg | fore the last election, to prove suspected, that money, in for | large was being used > | political purposes in British Columbia, quantities, and these rumors are given j Lion with these charges. »| the "government is quite clear under the circumstances. It is to give the full The like the absolutely | est opportunity for investigation. premier of British Columbia, premier of Manitoba, is clean in politics, and can be relied up lon to the | legislature and the | party 'of any evil which may exist. urify EDITORIAL NOTES. China is said to be sending thou- sands of men to France, there to work the while the French out of their and end their deprivations farms, men drive the Huns [country | -- - ---- -- | Britain has collected £140,000,000 [from the excess profits of its manu- facturers. Can Canada show hibit anything so good as t} an ex- in its collection of excess profits during the war? The officers of the American army [must serve during training without [pay. The New York Times pro- tests against this. There is no lack- ing of for anything Why [should the officers in training be de- 'prived of their pay? | | money Two commissions will get at the |bottom of the railway scandals in [British €olumbia. The contractors cannot treat the government with contempt. They can be made to ac- [count for the hundreds of thousands lof dollars they appear to have squan- [dered in the elections. -- ---- Rule in Ireland is Ulster demands the exclus- fon of six counties from any measure that may be considered. Thc | | Home not the [nearer > Nation- jalists demand the inclusion of the | |six counties. In settling this diffi culty Lloyd-George is facing the is- [sue of his career. About 50,000,000 bushels of wheat are in the hands of the Canadian farmers. Of the oats, barley and flax, farmers hold 137,000,000 bush- 'els The farmers are, therefore, go- [ing to 'profit by the prices which run "the higher the longer the grain is held. Retired soldiers are to be paid for three inonths after they have discharged {rom the service. good. which has been" "réported. But the "broken" soldier deserves more than three months' pay. He must be per- | manently cared for according to his necds. [the The Belleville Intelligencer inti- mates that Sir Wilfrid Laurier is op- posed to the spending of $10,000. [000 on roads... But Sir Wilfrid Laur- der in 1912 only opposed the man-| ner in which the money was to be spent. the misuse of funds for political pur- poses. A census has been taken in New York State of the land that Was unde: tillage in 1916, and' its production, | and of the land that is proposed to put under cultivation in 1917, with special reference to the stock and the help which the farmer neefls. This is a proceeding that is bound "to give the highest satisfaction. i Perry Township Resident Dead. Warkworth, April 23. James Ew- ing, who had spent eighty-two of the | eighty- six years which he has lived in Perry Towrship, died here Yenter: day. Ex-Mayor David Ewing of Co- | bourg, is a brother. £ Magazine an ex- | pur- | from him. | | the | founda- | Fhe duty of! been | Very | It avoids some of the distress | He wanted to guard against | [BATTLESHIPS BUTET IN EALGL wo Writer Makes Manufacturers Sit Up. Hard ir 1 Metropo {arrived in t Engla industry, very rising from t newing its I have leship, a ship of t-cle and of mor than fi power, ing to the eet ready for action on the twentic of twenty- first which seen steam- the on month lay fr received the draw » I 1s Daniels pl a copy I talked who helped to bh notion that Eng workshop," had notl other countries That placency in England had body-blow. This engineer oughly familiar, with the with or the engi >'He had "the ng to learn from | sort received a was thor- writings of no students and management knew some- used by a had important American practitioners of scientific When he found "that I thing about the methods rtain firm in New England, I their latest results and to him , terest in frien manage- in organization existed very in Englard two years ago s to exist here now mightly I know a Canadian who spent many years in United States and there hecame greatly skilled in the methods of organization for factories and offi- ces He now has a large gffice, a large scientific-managemend school in London. He and his assistants con duct "surveys" and install "systems" and give courses of instruction for 11 he in Lc all over England and "very successful. Two years ago he would have been lucky to have one-tenth of his present clientele. He is very KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO 4 It was freezing in the shade to day Quite a today fer the Tho jundor classes school are crowded A will have to be opéned number of mechanics left United States. in Cataraqui new school Planting White Beans, Cobourg, April 23.--"Plant beans white beans," is ghe advice given by W. J. Westington, Hamilton township, vice-president of the West Northum- berland Board of Agriculture, to the promoters of the cultivation of back gardens and waste lands in the town | By this means, Mr. Westington af- firms, the amateur garderer will be doing considerable to heip the food supply. Beans, it is argued, can be grown upon almost any kind of soil, and are easy to grow. The surplus stock can be readily disposed of. They are good for table use in summer, and the ripened product will be in great demand until production returns to normal conditions Davidson, Toronto, died of heart trouble and pneumonia while visiting his brother in Napan- ce Dr. Davidson wasSunmarried. Dr. John L neers | {4 had to go to that firm and, | SA bbb ohhh Taylor and of Emerson and of other ¥ employers and for employes not only! ndon but in many other p, aces | Be | Press despatch from Washington to- 'day says: i | | : | \ 1 HUNT HIM UP IN HEAVEN American | Billy Sunday's Pro@ice told Time! Ball Player, "a N.J Mpril 21 "Jim" Mec- me Br seball player and pitcher for apy Lain Anson's "White Stocking illy was a-member of' fo, famous bs -tossers, received a letter from Sunday in whic >" evangelist promised to "hunt hi p" when he Heaven, McCormick, with whom Sunaay has kept up a cor- sponderce since "old days." has en confined to his bed at his home! Barclay street, y. for the two months, and Sunday's let- ter expressed sorrow over his old m-mate's nlight, but the evangelist sees salvation in the fact that "Jim" confessed the' faith. "You shall} have our prayers and you will be in our thoughts, even amid the great, throngs here in New York," writes Sunday. "So God bless you, old scout, and when we get to Heaven we will hunt you up." Pate rson, Sunday has orid's PEP RRRRITeTey *| of com- |% NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS. + : The Whig - gladly welcomes, letters from any of its readers *| In regard to questions of publie + In fact, we wish we more of them for many good ideas are evolved this way. However, the publishing of let- ters anonymously or over an as- sumed name frequently leads to trouble. The man who signs his name to an article takes the re- sponsibility for its publication, and will be more careful in what he writes than the one who can hide behind a nom de plume. For this reason the Whig has decided to discon- tinue the practise of publishing letters other than. those signed | by the correct name of the writ- + er. + interest. US. Fleet on Patrol Now. New York, April 21.- An Associated "It became known official- ly to-day that the American navy is rapidly taking over the patrol which the British and French vessels estab- lished on the American coast. This action followed the conferences last! week between Vice-Admirkil Browiting, of the British forces; Rear Admiral De Grasset, of the French navy, and the ranking officers of the Navy De- partment here. The scope of work' taken over by the American craft is withheld for military reasons " Can Only Retire. ('openhagen, April 21 In an arti- cle in The Berlin Vossische Zeitung, Captain Salzmann, military corres- pondent of the newspaper, character- izs the fighting raging on the Western front in France as a €ompetitive of strength in war mater- 'As long as the Entente Ales nave superiority in these," says Captain Salzmanr, "Field Marshal von Hin- denburg"s strategy is the only rem- edy, namely, the speedy evacuation of any front lines, Against superior- ity in materials no heroism can avail." Regiment of Ex-Conviets. Rochestér, N.Y.,, April 21.--"I have offered my services to the Government to form a regiment of ex-convicts. There is some objection on the part Qf the army officers, who seem to feav that the rest of the army might be- come contaminated. Any officer who does not know that the ranks are filled with ex-convicts is not on the Job We make them lie now and enlis: fraudulently to serve their countr; said Thomas Mott Osborn, penologist ~~ ----. "Of Shoes and Shipe and Sealln g Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." Random Reels | THE BABY CAB. The round-shoulder- | ed vehicle which can be used | and over again with satisfactory [ sults, and usually is. | Very few homes in | appear with cheerful regularity at- | tempt to get along without a baby |*ab. This is because the average | baby cannot be carried for any great | distance without causing a fond | father to wheeze like a leaky accor- | baby cab is a over re- which babies deon. We have often wondered why it is that a wife who is a model"in other respects will allow a two-year- old baby to toddle down town, when she is shopping, and then compel the father to turn himself into a human hack by lugging the said baby hom® with both" lungs reaching out for more air at every step. In the early dawn of civilization woman was kept in a lower sphere | and was obliged to get along with- | out baby cabs and kid curlers and similar luxuries. The Indian wife and mother carried her baby on her back, in a neat crate, which was a A at PMA tA i. & sensible and satisfactory arrange- ment all around. Today, however, we see thousands of embarrassed young husbands compelled by their, wives to push a collapsible baby cab | through the crowded streets, wear-' ing a sickly look or resigned martyr- | dom. Baby cabs are built in several mo- | dels, and can be made to actommf | date twins or triplets with perfect | ease. There is nothing more inspir- | ing to all who love our country and | delight to watch it grow than the sight of a set of chubby triplets re- posing in a willow-basket baby cab | and ever and anon lifting melodious voicés in song. The twin baby cab is, alto a popular variety, and it can be propelled over frozen ground with | less danger of string halt than the | triplet type. | The baby cab, as used in many homes, is a sign of man's bondage to woman. and yet the average hus- | band remains cheerful and uncom- | plaining, whieh teaches us that | heroism is not always found in high | places. Rippling Rhymes end we see. by Hoyle; when once they stray, THE EX-CZAR My old friend Nick is now an ex; crown his brow bedecks. wearied of his| reign and showed him where to leave dy train. Al monarch with a head of bone should not upon a throne in troublous times when kings .must try to earn their salaries or die. { crowns remote the czar must seek his straying goat A kind and pleasant gent was he, this Nicholas, whose] But he would never use his head, and by false prophets he was led. at every chance, that he would come out from his trance, and reign according to the rules laid down! but knaves a head monarch's ear until he saw his doom appear. Now, stripped of all his that made him great, by loyal countrymen accurst,| he sadly wanders, verst on verst, o'er hill and dale Jan moor and fen, and hopes he'll find. his no more a The people perched { From palaces and | Great Russians begged, fools possessed the bone- | kingly state, of all the pomp, goat again. Buy royal goats, are gone forever and a day. --WALT MASON. RR ret | J See Bibbys ecial $22.50 ready to try on; finished in three hours. These suits are masterpieces of tailors' pass all sorts ofshard * 'exarrs," perts who know the "ins" of good tailoring as well "as the styles and finish that characterize correct cothing for men and young men. 7 £ s art. They are criticized by ex- PINCH- BACK, ENGLISH FORM FITTING, CONSERVATIVE 3-BUTTON MODEL FABRICS: FINE GREY WORSTEDS; FANCY CHEVIOTS ENGLISH BLUE WORSTEDS & CHEVIOTS, Bibbys E speedometer, sel dition. SN S------------------ Wood's Phosphodine, English Remed Tones sod invigorates the w aervous system, makes pew Blood { Mental anit Brag Worry. De. | Debility ental a rain We deney, * 1 oss of Knevgy, Palpitotion of 'Heart, Failing Memory. Price $1 per box, One will Dlanse. - Nill eure Bold by » d ste or mailed in plain pkg on 1 ceipi ruggists or i 3 REDiding cor FOR SALE 183 Acres, $6200 Four miles from city. Good buildings; well watered. W. H. 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