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PAGE FOUR | The British Whig 84TH YEAR. Ef aan 7 A EI AAAI] Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING " CO, LIMITED, J. G. Elliott President Leman A. Guild .,. Managing Director and. Sec.-Treas. Telephones: SUBSCRIPTION RATES hoaily Edition) years déitvered in city ..... year, if paid In advance .... year, madl gl offices $2.50 year, to United State ..... $2. year, > maf], cash .... , 310 year, if not paid in advance $1.50 One year, to United States 1.5 ix and three months prio rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen ..... 123 St. Peter St. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE F. C. Hoy .., 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R. Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Nort! , 1610 As#"n Bldg. Chicago Attached is one of the best job printing offices tn Canada. = - 4: The circulation of THE BRITISH [IG Is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circziations. A LOSS IS THREATENED. A member of the Board of Trade) who has been through the country and knows its conditions reported that without help in the digging there would be a great waste of root crops. There is a reason for this. Hay was a very heavy crop, without adequate help could not be cut at the usual time. | pathized with the boys. to it no objection can be taken. It involves, however, a lengthening of the school day by beginning a half an hour earlier in the morning and continuing half an hour and some. times three-quarters of am hour, in the afternoon: The school boys and girls talked over their grievances at.home. The lads appealed to their fathers with an expression of opin- jon, and the fathers, without know- a hoot about if, sym. The ten- dency of the day, the lathers re. marked, is to abbreviate the hours of service. Eight hours is long en- ough for any man to work. The school day has been one of six hours. It is proposed, in the inter- ests of a new idea or theory, to make itseven hours or more, and the small boy rebels. All his chums re. bel 'also. They organize a strike. They go .on_ parades and decorate with banners. When necessary to infuse the latent spirit and fire the lagging energies of the hosts some one essays ' the task of the curb stone orator, and, mounting a soap box, delivers his message. Oh this is a progressive age. It may be that the-Gary system is the-best ever, and designed to improve the training of the young, butt means a longer or 'caring o |day, and the striking and riotous juveniles of the Bronx will not have if. How the politicians of New York must smile as they observe the precociousness of' the lads and real- ize how apt they are in the study of and The result the political game. Lord Rhondda, food controller, says that Britain will require from America next year tem million tons of food stuffs, wheat, bacon and flour, at a daily cost of $4,000,000. Great news for.the farmers, A TIMELY EXPLANATION. It has been explained by Sir Joseph Flavelle that when he said "To hell with the profits," (a shock- ing thing for a good Methodist to suggest), he had refeyence to the munition manufacturers who would not launch out in the business, in. vesting a great deal of capitol with- was that somd of it was left until out some assurance that the invest. the grain-had been garnered, Then ment would pay. The Davies Com. a second attempt was made to save! the hay, with more or less success. Meanwhile the root. crops suffered. Some of them,«the larger portion in pany was not afraid of plunging in a business which turned out well. The company took some chances of a gamble---every business man does some cases, are still in the ground, | that who is competing in speculative The question has been asked, Are | trade in . troublous times--but it they to be lost? The farmers wiay | reaped handsome rewards. The de- have a grievance against the Great- | finition: by Sir Joseph Flavelle of a er Production Committee, egged them on to plant, to cultlyate 810% 18, of course, a larger acreage, and in that way | Very necessary, meet the demands of the govern- ment as they were expressed through ! the Organization 'of Resources Com. | miitee. The sentiment of one farm. or may be the sentiments of many. Said he: "I listened to the appeals of these men. 1 believed that they were in earnest. I acted upon their | inspiration. I plowed and harrow- jout in the next twenty years. | tionalism will by that time be dead. which | very ornate and unexepected expres. very ti v imely_ on Mr. Bourassa refers to.the Union Government as one which is largely composed of mediocrities with a pro- gramme which cannot be worked Na- THE LAST WORD. ing anything about the Gary system, | | "We have now reached the stage ed, and dug and planted. Nature | when the ordinary things of poiiti- helped, Providence was good. In cal life sink into insignificance by due time I had a larger crop tiffin |the side of the tremendous = issues I could harvest, I got some help 80 | I! But that was far as my hay was concerned. was grateful for it. all. Was that what the Greater Production Committee meant or in. tended?" The Whig 'recalls the castigation which the London Mail gave to the vernment in [England when it ap. that after inciting the agri. culturists to greater exertion, and dépriving them of farm help, there was a prospect of failure, The et- fect was marvelous. The adminis. trators have & wh me regard for the reproofs of Nort They have a proper regard for their word or promise. Here is the re. sult: Plant three million more aeres of Jand in 1918 with corn, potatoes and maogels; to add to hand. labor motor tractors, steam tackle, and fertilizers. . At present in England 'are 3,400 public tractors and 2,309 government owned, and 8,600 nord have been ofdered, half to be year and 'the Mother | cliffe's papers. | which are involved. I often think of the things we quarreled about} three, four, five, six years ago, and now I am amazed at the tremendous things we have in hand. The fate {of millions of men and millions of money hangs in the balance, and 1 feel angry when I see people worry- ing, barking and jabbering about the little things of yesterday, and thinking those are the things that] matter, and I say to these people: "Are your eyes not open?" 'This is no time to bother.--Lloyd George in|" a recent speech; EDITORIAL NOTES. A writer' in the London Mail says| | the farmers of England are feeding their wheat to the hogs. Does the controller of food approve: of this? Sir Th Leeds and "Bi mons. 'What is to become of John Webster, who has represented this "riding? Is he being pushed aside or| provided for? The pay of the British army and White will contest} kville for he Com-| M.P., and a candidate for re-election, announces, that as a unionist, he has ®ot ahandoned his principles. No one expedited him to do that. What the liberals have a right to know===it he iy to represent them--- is whether he has abandoned any of his praetices a8 a tory politician, i Hom: Mr. Crerar wants it under- | the Union Government he | with "everything that the Borden {Government has done, or that he has abandoned amy of his liberal prin. ciples. can to win the war with a Govern. ment which is united upon the sub- ject. v Cry For Potatoes, © (Syracuse Post-Standard) New York is crying for potatoes. The crop is large and the price will be highly profitable. The only oublle hereabout js digging and shipping. Sir Oliver's Choice, (Brantford -#xpositor) If Sir Oliver Mowat were alive to- day, with his Impenalistic ,tenden- cies, he would undoubtedly be found supporting the Union government at Ottawa. Uncle Sam Free. {Windsor Record) Uncle Sam isn't worrying about "disrupting the unity of the coun- try" but is going right ahead with the organization of his draft armies, In Ganada it's different aol -------------- Teddy's Light. (Toronto Mail) Colonel Ropsevelt lost the sight of his left eye when boxing in the White House, it-eeems, but he has seen more With the other since then than most people see in a lifetime, He Certainly Had, {Toronto Telegram) The Teronto Telegram advises Minister, of Militia Mewburn to throw aside his military title and un!- form and administer his department without and fuss or feathers, Sir Sam had too many parades and sa- lutes, g Wrong City. . 8 _(Ptipwa Citizen) Sir William Meredith has opened a judicial enquiry in Toronto to de. cide the facts in an alleged extensive theft of power. The judge is in the Wrong city, according to prominent "Liberals"; the big job was pulled off in Ottawa. . Rr | conTEmPORARY OPINION doronto World, Vi treasures. helonging to .Ger- many which have been treated as thotigh held in trust, are to be com- fiscated. All the nickel which the Germans have hoarded willbe drag: ged into the light of day. Cotton, steel, copper, leather, oil, chemicals, stood 'that in becoming a member of | agrees | He is simply doing what he | and other war supplies, purchased by German agents in the sure and cer- tain' hope Of the kaiser that th Unifed States was scared { him an his spies, will be taken over as the spoils of war, and used against those who intended them for other uses. There is said to be a million bales of | cotton, worth $143,000,000, and the | Queen of Sheba would have been more astonished at the total of this {booty than at Selomon's. Nor is-Undle Sam going to permit the little neutrals who have been { holding the sponge and the towel and the lemons for the kaiser these three years past to contigue to run with the bare and hunt with the hounds. They will have to come to heel and acknowledge the master of the hunt. _ Food now becomes a prime neees- sity of war, Hodland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, «Switzerland and Spain have ceased to comfort the en- emy of mankind. They sold their food to Germany, and relied on the enemies of Germany to: feed them. Uncle Sam has settled this policy. The neutrals shall have no more food until they have constimed thel™ own. Famine must haunt the neutral board as well as that of the bell) gerent, A desperate world may see the necessity of uniting with those who wish to end this wretchedness by destroying its anthor--the kaiser. People Living Well Montreal Gazette. J Despite the high prices for certain foods, they are being bought as never before in every part of the city. The dearest meats and imported fruits and vegetables change hands quickly on the market. When potatoes 'were at their highest last spring they were bought in the smallest as in the lar- gest shops. At that time also straw- berries, tomatoes, cucumbers . and cabbages imported from the United States found a ready sale in the re- tail stores of the city, east and 'west, north and south. Luxuries of various kinds are everywhere in evidence. Pleasure automobiles are more num- erous than ever, ordinary workmen being included among their owners, Furs are in récord demand, despite their dearness. Precious stones, jewellery, undressed furs, fancy goods, musical instruments, perfum- ery, confectionery, etc, are being imported in heavy volume, as Gov- ernment statistics show: Millions of dollars are being spent on thefn by the Canadian public. As for amuse- ment which is paid for, theatres and moving picture houses all over the land are filled both afternoon and might, as a rule, and new buildings are being erected to meet the grow- ing demand. Both the necessities and the extravagances of modern life are in abundance, without a doubt. Who Suffer By the Raids? Everyman. Savage as we may feel at the thought of the inhocent people slain or injured by the raiders, it is mad- ness to compare the death of ten or twenty, and the injury of one or two hundred persons, to the casualties in the most insi t-action of the war. Ey A $e ; Let up think what the people of Frarice, Belghum| Sérbie, Russia, Rus mania and Polagdubaye suffered, and let us admit that so far ! islands have wscaped almost It is not, indeed, the t raise the great- sufferers by the air raids who Thy how they raise a prund on tick goes Bwigg; he useful labor. poorhouse they' _ hoard; some. 'twenty can every one now h near and far, past creditors disgusted neighbor; he's so enamored of his 1 See the long procession autos flitting, and wonder, as I ajch them flaw : ta v A rd to keep a Motor jaunting. . 'his car, no mahy so badly busted' Junting "THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN BEGGARS ON WHEELS I see a million autos scoot before my. dwelling daily; the engines hum, the honk-horus wheels are spinning gagly. who thus go whizzing past me, and say, "it beats me rns toot, the I recognize a lot of jays the wherewithal, dodgast me!" For there, goes Boggs, who doesn't pay 'the butcher and the baker, who's stapding off, from day to day, the patient undertaker.' And there goes Skaggs; | saw { him stiek a mortgage : on his shanty; he couldn't get 'twixt here and Ypsilanti. And there borrowed mon from very friend ahd fun, he's cut out 80, the tireless w, whit Kes a good] "not 'one 0 But that he can't junket ~WALT MASON,' be .. "An auto it's always. wai EDS navy, outside of the men who hold positions, has' i increased : by £50,000,000 a year. The aggregate i dine == "ove kt A GENERAL | RuAULING = Dont | MISTAKEN 7 0 1 i +and : Sigua nor back ay bi on, ished plastering } Hugh Filson' new house. Ne E. Me- sisters of the Hotel Dien, AL THE DAILY, BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1917. "SEE BIBBYS TRENCH STYLE OVERCOATS $18.50, $20, $22.50 SEE BIBBYS PINCH BACK OVERCOATS Dandies at $15, $18, $20, $22.50. x Tt SEE BIBBYS « BELCOURT OVERCOATS Special values, $15. in D D D Prescription * * . For . C------ Eczema for 15 years the standard remedy for all skin diseases. A liquid used ex: ternflly. Instant relief from itch. Your money back if the first, bottle does not bring you relief. Ask also about. D.D.D. Soap. Mahood's Brug Store, Kingston. * est clamour, It is rather gentlemen 'with exemption cards in the pocket, who regard it as the breach of a con- tract that they should find them- selves under fire. ot But we who know what our brave sons are suffering out there have an- other point of view. AMHERST ISLAND NEWS, Most of the Ploughing Will Be Done This Fall : Stella, Oct. 22--The heavy rain of Friday last has made loughing gen- eral in this district. It is behind for this time of the year, but with good weather it will be nearly all done. The annual school fair which was to have been held here on. Friday las had to be postponed on account ol the storm. The mail carrier, T. J. Beaubien, was unable tor make the trip to Millhaven with the mail on that day, 'the wind being so high, We have to record the death in the far west of a one-time resident of the- island in the person of Mrs. Ellwood Ballard, formerly Miss Emma Flem- ing. Deceased was born on the is- land, and lived here nearly all her life. She is survived by her husband and two small children, also £ brother sister, who reside here, Hartley Fleming and Mrs. R. P. Sanders. Rev, and Mrs. J. C. Dixon have re. turned to the rectory after a visit with Mrs. Dixon's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Hudson, Roslin. = Rev. J. W. Jones, Kingston, assisted with the service in St. Alban's Church on Sanday morn- Phe milk supply at Stella cheese factory is rapidly decreasing. The factory is expected to. close' early in Nov r. "Liquor License Iuspec- tor. Exley, of Napanee, paid a quiet visit to the island a few days ago, It is. reported that he carried a case im. r. ern & Co. are erecti a h for Norman Wemp crald, The made thei ual rounds here A r annual nds re last ew Raincoats English Trench Style. Nobby ones at $12.50, $15.00, $18.00. Headquarters for Boys Suits and Overcoats. . Try Bibbys for Underwear, Hosiery and Sweater Coats. Soldiers' Comforts Air Plllows = Comfortable and Servieeable, Colgates Combined Comforts + Tollet Requisites in compaet Horlicks Lunch Tablets ~~ Conn © venlentGand nutritious. Abdominat iets -- All wool and chamois lined. > Chamois yests--Warm and saug fitting, Safety Rgsors Rite. Strops. - DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE Phone 348. '185 Princess St, The old-time mixture of Sage Tea Narkenia gray, hair is grand- er's recipe, and folks are again using it to keep their hair a good, even color, which is quite sensible, as we are living in an age when a Hee panseen 85¢ t-------------------- aie tc CORRECT HATS Freres rerrr ar ererereet SEE BIBBYS NEW BELTER SUITS English Blues, $20, $22.50, $25.00. CA A A tna ttt "NEW BELTER SUITS | Brown 'cheviots, very rich shades, $20, $22 AAA A tA ir ENGLISH FORM FITTING SUITS Plain greys, fancy cheviots and tweeds, $20.00, $22.50 COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! On and after first of May Coal Sales will be for BOYD'S GARAGE Wb have the best. eq Agents for Reo Cars. Geo, Boyd, Prop. 1129 Brock St, 45e¢