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PAGE FOUR The British Whig Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING 0., LIMITED. President Moning Director and Sec.-Treas. J. G. Elljott Leman A. Guild ,. Telephones: Business Office Editorial Rooms | Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) gre year, delivered in city ne year, if paid in advance .... § One year, by mail to rural offices One year, to United States (Beni<Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash One year, if wot paid in advance i 50 One year, to United States 1:6 Six and three months pro rata. MONTREAT, REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen ,.... 123 St. Peter St, SE ONTO REPRESENTATIVE F, Ho . 1006 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED SPATE REPRESENTATIVE: F.R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F.R Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg., Chicago Attached is one of the best job printing. offices {n Canada, : The clrenlation of THE BRITISH WHIG 1s Suthsntienied by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. IP mn A ct NOT A GOOD START. For the administration of the, law respecting food control an appro- priation of $2,600,000was made by the Congress, and the restraint re- moved that all appointments should be made in conformity with the civil service code. Party patronage and party favoritism will have a fine fleld for exploitation, therefore, in the United States. For the administration of the de- partment of food control in Canada "an appropriation has not been made by parliament. The expenditure 'will be incurred, it is presumed, un- der the War Measures' Act, and there is no Mmit to it, and no eco- nomy. At least that is the impres- sion one gets from the first appoint- ments which have beengpade under the director, Hon. Mr, Hanna, Two of the staff of the Ontario govern- ment, exceptionally qualified men no doubt, have been selected at sal- aries which have Jumped from $2, 700 to $4,500 and from $1,800 to nearly twice that sum, while the young journalist finds it convenient to act as secretary or deputy of the minister at $4,600 per annum. If all the salaries are scaled up or down accordingly the department will become one of the most expen- sive of the federal government, and it represents the thrift, the savings, the sacrifices, of the people. Patriot- ism Is an excellent thing in theory, but it does not work out well in the administration of laws of a political kind with political objects in view. The Toronto Globe will oppose thé election: of any mah who does not uphold the principle of compul- sory military service, and who would vote in Parliament for the Creation of an anti-conscription 'ministry, » PARLIAMENTARY AMENITIES, On Friday Dr, Michael Clark: of Red Deer, rose solemnly in his place) in parliament to say that he had the liberty of Mr. McNutt to péfer to what happened at a liberal" cancus. AT article in the Globe was "'highly- colored" and "untruthful." It com- tained a stitement that thé liberal caucus in Ottawa had authorized Mr. Graham to move his amendment respecting the conscription of wealth as an amendment to the extension of parliament resolution which was moved by the premier. On Saturday Mr. McNutt, the chairman of the liberal caucus, told the Commons that he had not re- ferred to Dr. Clark in*a statement he had supplied to the press, and that the resolution of Hon. Mr. Gra- ham was submitted to the caucus and approved, and was to be moved it. opportunity occurred, in amend- nfent to the extension of parliament resqlution. = Mr. McNutt gave Dr. "Clark's versioi"df an interview with him, "a distinet denial." . "Too much time has-been wasted in . 'the federal parliament in discussing 'questions of veracity and privilege, v and to what avail? No good pur- is sérved. "Win the war" is posed to be the issue, and all and sundry, on both sides of the hquse, are twaddling away the hours and offending the country with their foolish talk. For mercy's sake let us fave a resort to the closure and an end to the session of parliament. Viewing the advance of women suffrage, many men inquire, what are we going to do with woman? What is wonian going to do with us, would be more pertinent. I ITTLE MON EY FORTHCOMING. Three months ago the Government | announced that it had been decided. Ito give three months' pay and allow- [ances to all overseas men upon their | discharge from aetive service, and that this-would apply to the 15,000 | or more who were already home, It | was also announced that this money | would be paid in three instalments at the end of May, June and July. The natural result was that every re- turned man was on the qui vive for the extra money. The end of May failed to see its arrival, the end of June brought no Sheque, and with | July drawing to a close only a few returned soldiers have received.the first instalment of the promised money, and they complain that al- though the announcement said "pay and allowances," which invariably includes subsistence allowance, the latter has been omitted. It would have made matter ¥iuch more pleas- ant for the Government, says the eterboro Examiner, if they had with- held the announcement of the grant until they were ready to pay the money, and if they had. made no mention of allowances. The men will undéubtedly eventually get the promised extra remuneration, but the unbusinesslike manner in which the matter has been handled has had thé effect of making the gift less appreciated than it should be. Girls who spend their 'time frivol- ously in pleasure, while others equally as fair are toiling either in shop or field for the sake of Canada, are as surely butterflies as their companions represent the more sue- ful bees. IXAGGERATED LOSSES. Exaggerated stories of casualties among medical officers and men at the front have appeared frequently in magazines and newspapers. The most recent was to the effect that 60,000 British physicians have been killed since the war began, that 257 were killed in an hour, and that 400 were killed during a single engage- ment, If these figures were wot be the most startling phase of| iy a. Fortunately they are .. Upon the appearance of this true, fit not latest report, Col. T. H. Goodwin, of the British army, who has been -in the United States since the visit of the British mission and who is con- nected with his country's medical servire, cabled to the 'War Offiea for official figures. This is what he re- ceived: '"Total casualties agrong the medi- cal "Officers, on the western front from the heginning of the war: Kilied, 195: wounded 707; died of disease, 5." The official figures giv: the num- er vf surgeons and physicians with the British army as 12,000. The Toronto Star is quite - sane when it remarks ""thete is something wrong in the attitude of mind whioh allows partisan considerations to be even seriously discussed in this hour of the travail and peril of the world." HOPE THEY WILL SUFFER A piece of news Almost too good to be true is that Chicago speculators who put fifty-one million pounds of poultry into cold storage last fall realize now that they stand to lose and are trying-to unload. To this end they are conducting an advertis- ing campaign advising the people to demand cheaper poultry, their ob- ject being to force retail dealers to buy the frozen stock. Tt would be a pity to see so much good food kept until it is unfit for use; but nothing better could happen for the country than to see such greedy profiteers come to grief; EDITORIAL NOTES. Make hay while the sun shines. - rr Two courses for breakfast, Oatmeal--that's one course. in the United States. eh? The amount: of good food stuffs used ih making intoxicating liquors is said to be a staggering total. -- One sharp dose of 'alr reprisals by the Allies will probably be suffi cient to stop the ruthless raids of the Germans. Premier Borden has appointed a new Senator from Western Canada, but this will hardly satisfy western farmers who wanted reciprocity. The Toronto News is contemptible enough to again suggest that the Kaiser may be financing the Libe- rals-of Canada with German gold. ---- ----- "We are driven by no lust of conquest," said the Kaiser in open- ing the war, and Chancellor Michael: is repeats it almost three years lat- er. The Kaiser uttered it and drove his armies into Belgium; it is ut- tered again and more shells thrown into Rheims. interests 'require the care and thought of statesmen, organizers of labor, and social reformers. Their aim should be to raise the whole mass 'of humanity to a 'higher Jevel. Their aim is social justice. Such, t0o.. Is the spirit of such soeisl re- ormeis as Lloyd George, whe pro- It is the common people whose ; Motes legislation which, at least, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1917. great body of workers a measure of justice gives the The railroads of the United States have cut off passenger trains aggre- gating 16,267,028 miles of train ser- vice a year to facilitate maximum [transportation of freight for success- ful progecution of the war. Cutting of! this volume of passenger service, it is asserted, "will make available for other purposes 1,120,000 tons of coal." over It is safe to say that there are in phis land more aching backs among urban dwellers than ever before; the city gardener is finding the pen- alty of disuse of muscles long left in innocuous desuetude. On the whole this chastening ache in the interest of the nation's food supply promises much good, Tor it.is a part of an experience which will do a lot to create understanding sympfthy among elty. people blems of the farmer. | PUBLIC OPNON | Classic Authority, - (Cleveland Plain Dealer) . Jack Spratt and his equally well- known wife are models of efficiency under the Hoover regime, The Remedy at Hand. (London Free Press) "The Germans are said to be suf- tering from a shortage of fat." 'Well, why don't they Kaiser's goose?" A Maryland Instance, (North Castle Sun.) How can our girls be saved from insult on the streets at night? wails an agitated mother. Why, my good woman, by siniply keeping them at home after dark. A Suggestion. (New York Sun) In the hope of shielding them from submarine attacks, Great Britain has left off her hospital ships their dis- tinctive insignia. Now, if some way could be found to make the French cathedrals look like breweries, Just Watch. (Montreal Herald-felegraph) The Government had their terms of office extended by common cohsent for war purposes only. If they vio- late this non-partisan agreement by the flagrantly partisan distribution of senatorial plums, they will give a revelation of principles which should be instructive to the people to whom they are constantly appealing to rise above' party. An Anglican View, (Canadian Churchman) The Dominion parliament has, af- ter some opposition, decided to ex- empt divinity students from compul- sory military service, So far as An- glican students are concerned this was unnecessary as we feel quite safe in saying that very few, if any, Rippling * with the pro~| cook the | ps | Students of military age are now left | in "our divinity colleges, who are | physically fit for service at the front. Moreover; we doubt if any man should be ordained who ts fit for mil itary service and does not offer to go voluntarily, -- ' ~ VETERANS MOVE TO PROTECT THEMSELVE Peterboro Examiner The Toronto branch of the Great War Veterans Association took a step yesterday that will increase their popularity and prestige when they sent a deputation to the Police Commissioners, asking for as3ist- ance in stoppihg certain firms: from using returnédd soldiers to exploit the public. The War Veterans com- plained that returned men were be- ing employed in selling publications and articles of dubious value and were being instructed by the firms in question to play on the sympath- ies of the public to get business. The G.W.V.A., of which ' Peterbor- 'ough has a flourishing and credit- | able branch, are to be congratulat- ed "upon taking this stand. One of the objects of the Association, as stated by the Veterans in" their ap- peal to the Commissioners, is to "do all that can be done to maintain | the dignity of the returned soldiers, and congerce the respect of the pub- lic for those men who have seen ac- tive gervi¢e in the great war." Their action yesterday will go a long way in achieving this object, and in showinig the public that the Veterans' policy 1s not only a square deal for the returned man, but jus- tice to all. TASK OF RUSSIA'S MINISTER OF WAR Toronto Mail He has an appalling task. Just as he takes over the Premiership, the Finnish Diet declares for abso- lute independence. The mainten- ance of Russian suzerainty can be asserted only by war upon it. Rus- sia is too much occupied at the | front to conduct such a war. The | Ukraine demands immediate abso- lute autonomy. Its demand brought on the Cabinet crisis last week. Some regiments at the front nave shown disaffection in the face of the enemy, and the Germans are taking advantage of it by beginning a big drive. Kerensky is the hope of real Russia, and of the Allies. before his task. : HOW DRAFT IS WORKING IN STATES : Watertown, N.Y. Times. The draft law was aceepted the mandate of-the people, only fair way of raising an army in a democracy. The Provest Marshal General is confident that the man- ner in. which the draft has been ef- A ------ ------------ Rhymes by Our family, wrangles; Sometimes our THE BIG FAMILY in times of peace, has many rows and it sometimes takes the town police to quell our little jangles. complains of which and t'other, and father reads the riot act, and sister nags her hrother. pans and skillets fly, heaved by indignant tosser, and uncle catches, with his eye, perhaps, a cup or saucer. Then. mother, dosing all her tact, Sometimes the grandma takes a broom and knocks the dust from auntie, and now and then we wreck a room, and fairly rock the shanty. sopks our door, with warlike fuss and blufiing, we But if a neighbor e our rows forevermore, and from him knock the stuffing. Forgotten every grievance then, all friction has an ending; the women line up with the men, our little shack defending. >In normal times this happy land _is full of noisy friskers, who see that harmony standing on a would think we hor's scalp demanding. But when o vited, we cease to thrash the private wrong, and we all stand united. THINGS THAT is canned, and pull each other's whiskers. A stranger height, our ways not understanding, 'lived to whoop and fight, some neigh- utsiders come along, to mix in, unin- --WALT MASON. 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Special > fected has left.no chance for either injustice. or fraud. There is abso- lutely no apprehension of serious opposition in any State. The men required for the regular army énd | National Guard will be placed as soon as thelr selection is confirmed. The remainder of the 687,000, form- ing the national-army, will he in their cantonments by September 15. With the departure of trained troops { for France, it will probably be ne- cessary to summon a second contin- gent of the drafted men to the col- ors before the end of this year. We are involved, through no fault of our own, in the most destructive { war the world has ever known, the future safety of free institutions as- sured without the earnest, courage- ous and self-sacrificing co-operation of every loyal citizen of the United States. Causes of Desertions. Brantford Expositor The'statement of the minister of militia that there have been 13,000 desertions in the Canadian army is a startling one. Under voluntary- scal® listment desertions on a large scale] are not looked for. The fault lies at the door of the militia department, which permitted battalions to be or- ganized. and then kept thew: in train- ing in Canada far too long, 'an :Sme cases for as much as two years. This vas lie cause of much unrest and consequent desertion. Officers, !oo, were often chosen because of pol- ftical pull and _ their inefficiency caused dissatisfaction among the men, which helped to add to the number of deserters. It is an un- fortun record--13,000 desertions but cipgfumstances in_most cases have been extraordinary and often quite éxtenuating. (Published Annually) enables traders throughout the World to communicate direct with English MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in each class of goods. 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