__ PAGE FOUR ~ The British Whig 84TH. YEAR. rm AP a ae These All departments of govern - it have been speeded up, and as far | are ca the mer as human energy can accompl thing the linfluence 1 tied Stages will make jut in the war the felt the experi of Canada boriy been dis offering to the nation, is experience ence. of ~ republic its have them » patriotic ones are s freely for service 1 eg it the masses are standing back or] d awaiting the force that must be used to compel them to action A critic the war in England, sécond ® year the New York the other measures who spent the first vear of continent, tells recruiting until on the Times that Old Land = failing and he se al dragged in all Consc ription »s nothing in was resorted to; but failure for the United States, for war, unless con- draft, has been There a feql very candidly that if a were a i A ly and Semi-Weekly by! ts preparation WHIG PUBLISHING its prepara scription, or selective put is ing pres President into operation . Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. J. G Elliott Leman A. Gulia .. ex extant and «l, namely, referendum ebiscite Telephones: Business Office Editorial Rooms ordered The risen 243) OF 2 { would people to the nation Their President be voted down have not of the America subs BSCRIPTI (Daily Editiony year, delivered In city One year, if paid in advance $5.00 One year, 1 to aur al offices $2.50 One year, to p .$2.60 | (Seml- Weekly One year, by mall, cash One if not paid in Ore to United States emergencies the vision is not vision of Wilson He sity neces- will which proposes con sight is not now the absolute "08 large army, and he bill, and will . «+» $3.00 for advance $1.50 $1.50 a stand by the if necessary, He nor is the scription it through Congress he making contrary looking for votes, He has the needs of succeeds ¢ Bank Rog dem on SENTATIVE New York , Chicago job the hour, and his a strength of of which possessed a little F Nn srthrup, realized F.1' Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bldg he with plans, will one of the best tn Canada Hl Attached Is printing offices give evidence of char acter and purpose he was believed not to be The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIU is authenticated by the ABQ Audit Bureau of Circulations. while ago Mic here Clark, M.P., wheat the the (Canada United calls the govern to br free decision of FOOD SUPPLY PERIL. As an expression of his views upon the Prime Minister has following the in "annexation of States by | ment the cil." The expression is unique agriculture, the of NEW SERVICE REQUIRED. The hotel men had notice of what was coming in the abolition of the They were blind, most of them, of the times, 'They could seriously letter to Council written cha kn Sir,--Sir Arthur Lee has refogpest to me, as a question of principle, the | nan a County nd: bar. to the signs felt that nothigg change "the sumptuary laws of the land, at least for many years. There might limitation of the local the extinction of it sud- doubt which you feel as to whether | you would be justified in giving up work as responsible chairman or member of important county commit. be but was not anticipated. | Then war came, and it introduced | | | a tees in order to place your services | the disposal of the Agricultural trade, unreservedly at denly executive of your War Committee, new experiences. unexpected and very radical results. The protection of the sol- from undue temptation and the excesses of the liquor trade, forced action which came as a great surprise, especially from a party that had set its face against the reform and used the'liquor party to fight it. Those who have hugged the idea_that when the war is_oyer | there may be a return to the delal rows and customs that formerly { These were wholly In view of the grave perils which meant threaten our food supply at the pres- time there is no other kind of which could compare | either in importance or urgency with | ent diers, county work from the campaign for increased food pro- duction. 1 therefore have no hesi-| tation in appealing to you and others | in your position to set everything else aside if necessary in order to de-| vote your, whole energies to this vital &hd urgent task. Yours faithfully, ; prevailed have been deluding them- D. LLOYD GEORGE. selves. return. The bar is gone, never to Rosé addressing the §tu- That is the confirmed con- the Methddist College jn | Viction of a very large majority of said the demand of the age | th® people. is for shorter and This fact should have been con- with templated, and it was not. The con- sequence is that the hotel business not undergone the transforma- which circumstances justify. The rooms in which men and women eat, and the rooms in which they rest; have not made the most { attractive, they are the Dr dents of Montreal, Rev ~ better sermons, | worshipful Al appreciative more services result of the war, and an one. has TN | tion A FAV ORABLE REPORT. The Dominion government, ago, mission over a year appointed special report upon the The occasion of this was| losses that the application of the Canadian Nor- | thern Railway financial a com- | been and until have been to railway situation. Company for further it being impos-| sible to float railway loans during the | war The federal large powers, recommend assistance, made in certain hostelries of America English practices have been copied and the social spirit of the people has béen cultivated on an ex- a nationalization of the | tended, if not an elaborate, plan. transcontinental lines, and there are | The change has paid handsomely. a good many people who are in favor{ The Canadian hotel men must this course follow these precedents. The owner It remarkable } the and manager of one of the best government's commission has been |jpoyses in Canada declares that he at work, another, an entire ly| is through with the bar forever. He different one, has been e xamining in-| {never liked it. He never made it a to the affairs of the C. N. R. This | | gilded resort He néver put his private commission, composed of E. | money into the extravagant decora- E. Loomis, of the Lehigh Railway, tions. His house. outside of the bar and J. W. Platten, of the United | wae made popular and comfortable. States Mortgage and Trust Company, i ana now that the bar is gone he is with their engineers, have reported. | glad of it and never wants to see it They find tha§ the Canadian North- » again. ern has been soundly and economical- ly built, that it has been well plan- ned and located, that it has better grades and alignments than its com- petitors, that it could not be. dupli- -scated at double the cost. But it néeds-more motive power and rolling stock, a line to the Lake Ontario s-- front, a line to the steel and coal! Capt. Burnham's idea is that the ~-centres of the United Stat tes, and en-| pension of the retired or returned larged "and better terminals. | soldier should vary with the cost of The road can be rehabilitated, says| living. The desire is te put the in- the report, out of its net revenues, | valided soldier on Easy street. The but it needs capital for improve-| soldier would not object. ments, a three-year plan calling for : an expediture of $54,000,000, and a Mve-vear plan for an expenditure of $86,000,000, This certificate of viflue, from an independent commis. | Teceipts to the extent of half or more. sion, will be very helpful to the rail-| TRis would have two resultsiy It Avay comany at the present-time. Wil| WOuld limit the races and add im- it help parliament to a solution of its mensely to the receipts of the prov- railway problems? | Inte, | where has | if it sees fit, commission and may, of is that while and EDITORIAL NOTES. If Mr. Bickerdike has his way the | people_in the next election will vote on the question of capital punish- ment. Would they vote for its aboli- tion? It is doubtful The provincial treasurer says that he cannot refuse the race tracks their licenses. He can tax the gate Britain's interest on the.war debt. Germany's new outrage is the con- in 1916 was £107,000,000. What | fiscation of all the money the people will Canada's interest account be on! {loaned the.government, and all the a war debt at the end of this year on| government can seize and plunder. $1. 300, ,000,000° How much per] It is well that the Allies have some head? ppointing. | order-in-coun- , met with will] never be relieved. The Hotel World | | tells of the changes that have been | & ish any- | her | 1 | | and part of the| ion THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1917 | PRESIDENT AND CONSCRIPTION. | ionor of there w$uld not be much) critical times in Ameri-} use | tin 1 Cc waximum for eacn loth- nd fuel and « ¥'s example There gard t be ¢ appli gislature Domin- parli ent righ to them? what our His, the well-known po- litical writer, favors a republic for Britain The citizen the mpire empire gives to every largest meg of in- He republic ure could get no Then dividual liberty more under a why advocate a change? If taxes Bet bute a the war States it United government] the| orks must contri-| the $15,- 000,000 of profits which it has made] the profits should W entage as hlehem Steel large per of du first quarter of this yvear,! be rng and it will quite an item. | PUBLIC OPINION A By-word Surely. | (Har nt 108) | Though Jead, Von cing is¥a his-| sing 1 by-word in Belgium | | | | 4 | | and Going One Way. Tr » Gihabe) The Sritish are on the in France Naturally also are moving again direction move again the Germans in the same] Empress Hard Up. (Toronts News To great hopes should not be based upon the action of the German Em-| press in pawning jewelry presented) to her by the late J. P. Morgan | Some C¢ (Wher A late spring means a better fruit s#Top and better gardens Every- thing is held back and not forced ahead to meet a destructive frast A Libel Indeed. (Guelph Mercury) Nothing short of criminal. ibel should be launched against the chap who claims he "kept an eight- room, house nice and warm on six tons of coal last winter." Perish the Thought. (Hamilton Herald) { There is a rumor to the effect the at the government at Ottawa may in- | troduee conscription as an election | measure. How much better it would have been if conscription had been | introduced as a war measure! KINGSTON EVENT: 26 YEARS ACO Convicts are engaged in repairing the hill in front df the penitentiary &, W. Dunnett, foreman of the Shea- ding Company, is home from a trip to Chicago Prof. Adam Shortt and wife have left on a trip to the cont nent. The Donnelly Wrecking Company was called to raise the sunken schooner Ryan at Desergnto. If gratified, work to vantage might of ad- desires instead our our injury { taining these words: | will lose its identity, | of the kings of the South. | overseas service do not want to come | Is Suffering Gunshot Wounds in His To bring about good luck it some- times takes genuine pluck SEVERAL ARE IN GREAT PERIL 5 Toronto Star / In Manitoba Legislature the Hon. Roger: Rogers moved a tion against reciprocity con- "Whereas it is expressed wish and desire of the people of Western Canada (6 muain- tain a high standard of grade for their chief agricultural produce, namely, wheat, and to prevent the mixing thereof to the detriment of formers; and whereas, as the,re- sult of the proposed agreement the identity of our wheat, such as will | find its way to the United States, will become subject to the mixing practices in that country." In his speech he quoted some poe- try in which the people of Canada in 1911 resolu the | were requested not to squander their | | kingship in the lure of an alien land, | { to bring them our loaves are our | fishes, and bow themselves under | their hand. Blindness, said the poet, | had stricken 'our nation," and the doom of our land drew nigh. Refer-| ence was made also to the treason that barters our birthright for the | gold of the kings of the South. | And. now to think that our wheat and -get mixed | with low-born American wheat, and | our kingship will be squandered, and | our birthright bartered for the gold | Mr. Rog- ers must surely be making the cab-| les hot with his protests, | | | CANADIAN DEFENCE FORCE A FAILURE | want tar The attempt to raise a Canadian Defence Force by voluntary enlist-| ment has not made miich progress, | and it is pretty well known in. mili-| tary circles that it never will. - One needs but look at the plan to see that it could not work. The plan contemplates that men who will not enlist for overseas sor- vice will enlist for the C. D. F., will pass the medical exam, proving that are physically fit for overseas , will throw up their employ- ment and quit their homes showing | that they are free to go overseas but refuse to go, They are supposed to | march about as soldiers who are frea to go and fit. to go and trained to go, but who prefer the blank cartridges of Camp Borden to the kind used at Vimy Ridge. Men who dodge enlistment for into the open like that.. They do not want to be assembled, organized, uni- formed and paraded up and down as the Safety First Brigade. SERGT. ALEXANDER WOUNDED. Left Shoulder. Word was received irr"The city on Thursday that Sergt. Robert Alex- ander, brother af Mrs. Ellen Perrin,| and a nephew of Robert Alexander, Albert street, had been wounded in action. He is suffering from gunshot wounds in the left shoulder, and was admitted to the Third General Hos- pital at Boulogne on April 14th. He went overseas with the 47th Bat- talion from British Columbia. His relatives here have received many letters of a cheery nature from him. Just the other day Mrs. Perrin had a letter. from him, .in whica he states that he was well and enjoying the life. Mrs. Perrin's husband went overseas with Queen's Field Ambul- ance Corps He served in South Africa, and for manpy-yYears was in one of the local batteries. He tried nine times: before he was accepted for overseas service, but was de- termined to do hisx"bit" if possible Random Reels "Of Shoes and Shipe and Sealin g Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." THE SLEEPLESS BABY. The baby is a popular form of continuous vaudeville with- out an¥ price of admission. It is generally understood among people who have never had any babies to speak of that if they are let alone and not interfered with by an open safety pin they can be relied upon to sleep for hours at a time, only waking up when refresh- ments are served. Tais is a greater error than the common belief that Cain married a maiden aunt of his first wife. A baby which is-perfect- ly healthy and is a¥so cutting teeth at a high rate of speed does not need any more sleep than a hoot owl and can sit up all night without feeling languid~and depressed in the morn- ing. The sfeepless baby is caused by a lack of drowsiness due to becoming unduly excited over something. One of the most painful revelations which comes to the young husband is the ease with which a five-weeks- old baby canibecome. gxtited. It is sleepless not a difficult matter to tell -when| this happens, as the baby at once be-| comes talkative and attempts to! swallow its left hand, wrist and el- bow. ' Nearly all babies which are afflict-| ed with acute and pernicious insom- | nia come down with their worst at tacks_.at night, just after a proud but tired father has turned in and] has begun to slumber in a noisy and | impassioned manner. We would like | to ask why it is that small infan-| tile baby will sit around on th® floor | all day and play with a owe-armed | doll, without uttering a single harsh] word, and then as soon-as the shades | of night fall insist upon being car- | ried around the house in a pop-eyed | condition and _bapish sleep from the! entire neighborhood? The only cure for the sleepless baby is time and plenty of it. Every| young husband should be required | to take care of the baby at night,| so that his wife can sleep and baild | up her complexion. 'If we had a law | to this effect there would be less galli-| vanting on the part of the male sex. i Rippling Rhymes Mosquitoes will hp it for public confidence, and, BE HAPPY ~ Be happy while you can; Oh, chortle all the day. and like the lambkins play. Full soon the flies will come, and redhot bees will him, the nights will be so hot, you'll tumble on your cot and say you'd give a heap for seven lines of sleep. soft and gentle strain that drives strong men insane. ~~' The days will reek with heat, and you will long for ~ sléet the while you wield your fan--be happy while you can, oh, melancholy man' fair and soothing is the air; there are no insect pests to:build on you their nests. but does not bake vou red. ries to show that she is wise to every human need; her work is smooth, indeed. The world is all serene, rejuvenated, clean, a pleasant world: to seal-+e happy while you can!- that is the better plan. be here to murmur in your 'ear the For now the skies are The san shines overhead, Just now Dame Nature --WALT MASON. 3 KING KING HATS $2.50 | Bibbys Limited { KING HATS $2.50 obb OVERCOAT ! See Our Pinch Back Style, Special Value, " $15.00. Navy blue or grey cheviots. New Slip On Overcoats, Fancy Tweeds and Cheviots. Special Value $15.00. New Chesterfield Overcoats. Plain grey and black vicunas and cheviots. Special Value, $15.00. Bibbys KING HATS $2.50 | --_ EEE ee Overland Automobile FOR SALE =i FT] FOR SALE 183 Acres, $6200 Four miles from city: Good buildings; well watered. W. H. Godwin & Son 89 Brock Street Phone 424 McI/AREN'S Invincible Products | Will 'be demonstrated in our store during the week April 23rd - 28th. | Jelly Powder. Quick Puddings Icing Powder Extracts JAS. REDDEN & CO. Phones 20 and 990. Four-cylinder touring car; brand new Dominion Tires; 2 Nobby Tread; 2 Plain Tread; electric lights. Car in good running condition. $400.00 This price is only for a few days. A great bargain. Moore's Electric Shop 206 Wellington Street. LTT ere Farm For Sale First-class farm of 37} acres, 4 miles from Kingston main road; good buildings; land all deep clay loam in high state of cultivation; a ve desirable small farm in splendid location. T.J.Lockhart Clarence St. Phone 1035 or-1020, | The Carleton Piace School! Board | | is in a serious way to provide accom- { modation for the pupils of the public | school. No less than sixty new pupils | | were enrolled in the primary classes | jon Monday. { F. J. Naftel, for nearly five years! | manager of the Tweed branch of the Bank of Montreal, has received inti-| mation that he is to be transferred to] an important city in the east | Heart, Failing | for 85. | dr OD ie rw oy OT El The Great English Remed Tones snd invigorates the w ra oe Vetaan makes hy y Blood | Debilil Mental ond B: rain Wore yt ity, Bnd Bn ra ore Ta dency, loss of Kmevay, Memory. pon pie per box, One will . six willeure. Bold by CEE CRAWFORD Begs to Notify His Customers that commencing May 1st. COAL. SALES Will Be For CASH At price current for the monih when the order is given. "The Coal situation in the United States compels this ac- tion, Foot of Queen St. Phone 9.