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_ PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH WHIG! = of $1,840 of eaniished Dally an and Semi-Weekly "ny TH i BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING ©0., LIMITED. Leman A. Guild SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered in city year, if paid in advance «,.. year, by madl to rural offices year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, year, If pot. paid in advance $1.5 One Joar, to United States 1.50 x and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Ow 123 St. Peter St. TORONTO "REPRESENTATIVE Hoy ... 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. gaiTRD STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R. Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York P.R. Northrup, 1510 Ass' n BME. Chicago Letters to the "Editor are only over the writer. ® published actual name of the Aitached is one of the best dob printing offices in Canada. © tr ---------------------- The elrculation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. _-- Pieces of Russia, not peace with Russia, has been Germans object. a imeieripm-- If this kind of weather keéps up, we're going to move to Eskimoland / sand live In an igloo, warm, ° - where its Bver think how busy the record- ing angel must have been éver since August, 1914, writing down all the sins of the Germans? War weariness is beginning to show its effect upon all the Central Powers. The Anglo Saxon stick-to- ft-iveness .will once again demon~ strate its superiority. { Big things are expected .from George Y. Chown, the new Utilities Commission chairman, Kingston is fortunate indeed in having at the head of its public utilities for 1918 a man of his business ability. British airmen, in. twenty-four hours, dropped seven tons of bombs on or around the former German gruiser Goeben, stranded in the Dardanelles. Determined to make a thorough job of it this time, appar- ently, A note of high serenity, of pgs sionate attachment to England, was : expressed in a war poem by Capt. Dennys (who fell in the Some ad- vance), when he wrote "My day was happy---and perchance The coming night is full of stars.' i The German chancéllor demands that Britain must give up Gibraltar, Aden, Hong Kong and other strate- gic naval points scattered about the goven seas. Britain would' most tikely go down to defeat first. The folly of giving up Heligoland has been a good object lesson. Bx-Ald.: N. €. Polson was the member of the civic finance com- ttee who moved the resolution th regard to the city's objections » the work done on the Suburban ad Area work last year. Ald. G. Wright at the last finance com- mittee meeting moved the resolution 'requesting - the co-operation of the County Council in prevailing upon mission to do no work this r, spu red on by ex-Ald. no ounél added over $2.-. license fees and secondly by appointing an energetic police con- 'stable to make the collections. In © ° the past the collection of license} Tees had been negldcted and much Last your the li _ compared 1 possible for the Council to increass its license revenue this-year? the time to consider the matter, r in another six weeks the. budget witl be 'prepared. Billiard ang 2001 rooms contribuie amount to the Heense ac- 'Last year ten such places $1,565. There is no Teason r they sod: not contribute an- Tensury, for they are very proaper- licenses for 'Mines Branch at Ottawa, states that "equivalent to abodt This. new revenue, 'It le for the alder- could not } feés 'charged wietuallers and second-hand stores, each of which is now $25. Doubling this fee would yield perhaps an addi- tional $500 in revenue. Those in lines of business which are picking up easy money in these times should pay more for the privilege when 'hos- pitals amd other charities are in need, might be worth wh men to ons increase ti jer if they license CHEAPER FUEL 1S AVAILABLE. A few days ago attention was call- ed to the extensive peat deposits on Wolfe Island and the suggestion ad- vapced that this long unused source of heat and energy should now be utilized. The old Wolfe Island canal, onice profitably ' used by ~ ferry steamers plying between Kingston and Cape Vincent, traverses a region rich in.peat. Wide areas of what was once flat marsh-land have been reclaimed from watery waste and the dead vegetable substance has, in the- course of countless years, been converted by a provident nature into peat deposits against the day when mankind would have need for this type of fuel. Those who have. hunt- ed the wild duck, the plover and' the marsh hen in these waters and along the flats that border them, can bear testimony te the wide ex- tent of decayed vegetable deposit that cover this district and which is now available for use in the form of peat. In composition this fuel differs from coal only in the relative proportion of its constiuents. It is cleaner than coal, can be handled without sofling the hands, and is more satisfactory for use in open grates than either coal or wood. Dr. E. Haanel, director of the there would be no danger ot fuel ghortage in Canada if the peat possi- bilities of this country were pro- perly exploited and developed. Within easy distance of Montreal, he says, there are bogs containing 23,500,000 tong of peat, while tlose to Toronto the peat deposits' aggre- gate 25,500000 tons. Added to this the peat bogs of Ontario Manitoba, Quebec and New Brunswick have an extent of over 12,000 square miles, with ar average depth of six feet. Given this average depth, a square mile will yield 774,000 pons of peat fuel, With a moisture content of 25 per cent. the 12,000 square miles will contain about -9,300,000,000 tons of peat, having a fuel value 5,400,000,000 tons of good coal. Government scientists affirm that unquestionably thas' peat can be made available for gPaéral domestic use. The cost of production is also an important factor. It has been shown that peat fuel, produced in the. County of Prescott, could be profitably seid in Ottawassnd Monts real at $3.25 a Compared with the present or prospective price of coal, the figure is very attractive. In view of a threatened.fuel famine in this country, no time. should be lost in instituting the development of the peat beds, so that a supply may be available before another winter gets in. It is a preblem that should engage the serious attention of the fuel controller and the Government that appointed him. THE RETURNED SOLDIER. os | The Whig has had the privilege of meeting many returned men. It has learned something of their en- durance, of their .. sufferings, and also of their hopes and aspirations in regard to the future. Many of the boys who have been: discharged, or are about to be discharged, as medically fit, are mentally very un- fit. Their nerves have been shatter. ed. They simply cannot "carry on" for any sustained period of time, and -therefore they fail to hold posi- tions secured by or for them. ' The fault does not lie in themselves, but is a direct and disastrous resnlt of life in the trenches, A case in point may serve as an illustration. The Whig was last week instrumendal In securing a position for a returned soldier. held the job only for a day. The work proved too trying. - He could not keep up the sustained effort re: quired of him. Yet this young man oy before the war been an experi- od ud, trious coal miner in apd What | provision is" being of man? 'Thousands of just such their number is daily increasing. The problem is a vital one, and, some solution must bé found. i Capt. R. T. MacKeen, vocational training officer for Quebec, stated! in a recent address at Montreal: "Returned men are walking streets of this city without bread because - they cannot hold ther | jobs. They went over to F you and me, to fight for a and they are back here ti they meed for a few months Ha} if they are not' making a good re- tutn for their labor, because. other manufacturers would not gturned soldiers at all. Men, who have peen shell-shocked or Ww nerves have heen wrecked in ti ferno "over there," cannot omen mind work they the power of in- itiative, and at once Mm good. Something should--some- thing must--be done for them Weeks ago the Whig suggested thas the Board of Trade or some other body might profitably establishment of some would give suitable employment to returned men. In Toronto. and Montreal there are many small tac- tories producing clothing, women's apparel, boots and shoes, ete, Kings- ton has none of Therefore thé city would be benefitted as well as the returned soldier by establish- ing a few small industries here, taken now, problem grows more hose in- po thelr on their tack cannot axe conaider the industry that these such Action and before acute. Another phase soldier's discontent presented. and receiving ranks should be y the of the Canadian might also be the brightest young men, appointments in junior holding the rank of N.C.O's. service companies, are utterly at loss to adapt themselves to Government regulations, or, more properly speaking, militia regula- tions, Consequently, they fail to make good, Aepriving the administrative department of the very best talent. Smart, capable men, who in daily business éxercise to the utmost their talents on their own initiative, find on entering mili- tary life that they through unnecessary submission to senior officers ' of limited' capacity. 'fneir enthusiasm and their uRefulness is thereby soon killed. These two outsiarding pro- bles which confront us, and which necessitate immediate attention, The man 'who has returned from the front and the man whom the Gov- ermment just required to dom khaki are both well worthy of our regard for their present and future welfaré. of business Some smartest or in thereby are hampered red-tape and are has PUBLIC OPINION _. | British Eynpire Gains. (Outawa Journal) So far, the British Empire has bagged in the war Egypt and half of the rest of Africa, Palestiné, Mesopo- tamia, and something of Australasia. Art Note. (Galveston News) Personally, we don't claim to take any | i to | know much about art, but we do be- | tieve that when an artist paints a picture off Beauty at the Baht, Be: auty t ought to he in the water up to her | neck. Ships Are Trumps. (St. Lon n t Secretary Daniels say win the war. General Wood says ships and guns. Henry Ford s ships and coal. Secretary says ships and food. Evidently ships are trumps in this game, I ships will Too Many Ritles. (Montreal Star) " In spite of the vigorous protests that come from Canada, somebody seems to have created the impres- sion that Canadians are yearning for titles and decorations. IT the pro- cess goes on much longer the man without a handle to his name will be an exception, and women are now being gathered into the titled fold. Melting a: Mush; (Valparaiso, Ind, Vidette) n Friday evening, Mr. Jackson Stone, of Chicago, and Miss Eva Mor- ris, of Hebron, were qhietly mar- ried. As sweetly as the blending of two light beams in the solemn hush that fell over the little company of friends, these two souls melted into edch other under the mystic words of union, spoken by the; officiating clergyman. - The Apotheosis of Extravagance. Carolyn Wells in Puck. Though I've saved upwa hoard, ~{hough money - ~~ fling, I've never felt I could afford To throw away a piece of string. goodly here and there I What knots I've patiently untied; Hard-twisted twine--and cotton stuff--- » ; Then neatly rolled and put aside, (I never seem to get enough!) My home is modern and immense, My car is fit for prince or king; Some day I mean to blow expense, And throw away a A jplace of string! Himdy Booklet, A. E. Ames & Co. Investment brokers, Toronto, have just issued a very valuable little booklet entitled "Canadian War Loans, Including Victory Bonds," A deep interesl has been taken in the recent govern- ment loans, and many enquiries are made concerning them. This book will answer all such problems, It in- cludes tables showing the funded '| debt of Canada, domestic war loans, Jlincome tax = tables, record of sub- scriptions to Victory Loan and other loals, United States' bonds, etc. The booklet also contains information which __ should "be of consid- emble assistance to the se-~ curity holder in aiding him handle his investment pro- perly. A copy of the book will Pe supplied free on request. Robbers brokq;a window in the stord of Kent's Limited, 143 Yonge street, Toronto, getting away 'witha thousand dollars' 'worth of watches and other articles, ar Rippling Rhymes ' MILITARY TRAINING Bill Jonah Tinkle worked for me, before the army got him, and such a slouchy youth was he, yearned to swat him. 1 often He walked with an ungainly stoop, he shambled and he shuffled, and didn't seem to caré a whoop whose minds were sorely ruffled. When in repose he seemed to slump, as though his joints were failing; he had to lean against a pump, ing or a railing... And when he went away to drill, 1 "will 'be a pity, if they have many men like "ogaid, Bill down there gangling gents, a build- near Junction City. An army made of swaybacked and doubje-jointed; will look in France, like twenty cents---Haig will be disap- pointed." saw this lad the other day, and he was slick and sagsy;. I hardly knew the blooming jay, he was so clea and classy. Erect, alert, well-groomed and slim, he walked with spring and vigor, as though his légs belonged to him, and not to some lay figure. The army took this reuben greeny and made him 'an t My 4 Apollo; oh, wo RTT al Tadow! p wondrous transformation scene----it beats The army has magicians beat; it takes the knock- kneed sinner, the man who is all neck and feet, and' makes of him a win- ner. --WALT MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN By GENE "y GOT THAT 3B THAT 1 " PROMISED BYRNES X CONGRATULATE You BOSS! YOURE ONE POLITICIAN WHO ALWAYS KEEPS HIS WoRD Houster ny | nuated Methodist minister, who had day. £ CHILDREN HAD THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FUESBAY, JANUARY 29, 1918. Bibbys Men's Indigo {| Blue Serges SPECIAL VALUES $18.50 Sizes 34 to 44. jd Cs Men's Sweater Coats SPECIAL VALUES $3.75 { 4 Men's Rubbers FIRST QUALITY 69c¢c Per Pair Try Bibbys for Men's Pie Wool Underwear | Letters to the Editor | A Mother's Thanks. Vennachar, Ont., Jan. 26--(To the Editor)---Being the mother of one who fell in the Vimy Ridge battle, 1 wish to publish ® word of thanks and appreciation to the members of he Militia Council Headquarters, Ot- thwa, for their honesty and their courtéousness td Canadian mothers. I thank them a]l for sending me the effects and the estate of my late son and through their straight-forward deal with me I can vouch foy their noble hearts as men. who are ably doing their bit for their king and country, and I wish 'them all success, MRS. ROBERT GREGG. - CANADIAN CHURCHES. Increased Gifts to Missions Despite the War, Toronto, Jan. 29.--The increased givings of Canadian church mem- bers to foreigm mission funds during last year more than covered the shrinkage in the financial support given by the churches of the United States, and swelled the grand total of contributions from the whole of he Nerth American continent t6 a peint showing. a small increase in spite of war conditions. The statis- tics, as given out at the annual con- ference of foreign mission boards of North - America, just concluded at Garden City, Long Island, show «headache, NOSE CLOGGED FROM. A COLD OR CATARRH Apply Cream in Nostrils To Open Up Air Passages. Ah, What relief! Your clogged nostrils open right up, the air pas- sages of your head are clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawk- ing, snuffling, mucous discharge, dryness---a0 "more strug gling for breath at night, your cold or catarrh is gone, " Don't stay stuffed up! Get a small bottle of Ely"s Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this "fragrant, antiseptic cream in your nostrils, let it penetrate through every air passage of the head; soothe and heal the swollen, inflamed mu- cous membrane, 'giving you instant relief. Ely's Cream Balm is just what every cold and catarrh sufferer has been seeking. Skin Suff erers You will sigh with relief at the first magic touch of D.D.D. the sooth- ing wash of oils. Many of our cus- tomers thank us for this advice.) You will too. Try D.D.D. today. We uarantee it." Mahood's Drug Store. {ingston. ' . that whilst the churches of the Un-, ited States fell $98,113 below their givings for the previous year, the urches of Canada increased- their ntributions by over $100,000, bringing the grand total up to $20.- 407,861, as compared with $20,405,- 493 for the previous twelve months, Of this amount the contributions from Canada were $1,240,997, as compared with $1,140,616 for 1916, "Rev. Dr. John F. Ockley, superan- been pastor of Toronto churches for a total of thirty years, diedron Sun- WHOOPING COUGH Whooping cough, at spec- made by society to assist this class| cases exist in Canada to-day, and}. ly consideration. Let there be' some sort of . industrial non-competitive' 'plant where these men ¢an go in and work as long as they feel able and be paid accordingly." The solution suggested by this officer is a sound ome. Obviously manutacturers cannot be expected to carry disabled soldiers on their payroli.in these days of competition, : ~ jally a disease of childhood, is by no means confined to that period, but may occur at any time of life. It is one of the most dangerous diseases of infancy, and yearly causes more agatha Shan scare fever, typhoid or more ymmon female than male {hildreti n Whooping cough starts with sneezing, watering of the eyes, irrita- tion of the throat, feverishness and cough. The coughing attacks occur frequently, but are generally more severe at night. On the first sign of a "whoop" Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup should be administered, as it helps to the bronchial tubes of the collected mucous and phlegm, "Mra. George Cooper, Bloomfield, Ont., writes: "It is with pleasure 1 dan' write and tell you that there clear | made than Dr. Wood's Norway Pine ly thing that seemed to = help! It loosens up the phlegm so that they could raise it easily, 1 will bottle; put up in a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark; Limited, Toronto, Ont. never was a better cougn medicine] Syrup. Our children had whooping! cough last winter, and that is thei never be without it." ! | "Dr. Wood's" is 25c any 5de 2 ID. 10D. Liquid Wash Fresh Haddock and Cod, Whiting, Tom Cods, Smelts, Oysters. 'Doninion Fish Co Ww. ae ams AGENTS, KINGSTON, ONT. It's just splendid. | Save Coal Run your fires by the ther- mometer; many places are kept at a temperature of 75 or 50 de grees when it hay heen proven that 68 degrees, with proper hum. idity, is a healthful DT Maintain " 'morn "yen tem-~ perfitures nf You¥ b 'store or bullding, n tise of our guar. anteed . "Ty c o' ' « Thermometers DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 Princess Street. Phone 343. OUR BLEND o JAVA and MOCHA COFFEE 15 STILL IN THE LEAD The quality the same as always, and no advance in price. 40c. x REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990. Jas. RM Balt ne, of Stratford, manufactured by The T. Milburn Co.,l denied the rumor that he was tof + Hegome assistant food. sonteefier, :