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3 important factor in the war, has the Germans may be pushed to the "ply would guits probably be suffi- cient to go around. 'unnecessary losses resulting * fire losses. ~ and safling regulations may be gath- PAGE FOUR 2 > THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1918. Ce "THE BRITISH WHIG» S5TH YEAR, Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE Aria WHIG PUBLISHING ©0.,, LAMITED President eeise.. Editor and Managing-Director, PA EEE year, 1 paid in advance § 3 ear, to United States 50 x and three months pro rata, REPRE NTATIVE 3 St. Peter St. ENTATIVE: ». 1610 Aden Bidg., Chicago Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual name of the writer. Attached Is one of the best job printing offices in Canada, Se ---------------------------------------------- The circulation of THE BRITISH Whig is authenticated by the ABCk Audit Burean of Oirculations. Bob Bushell's big fair promises to be a hummer this year. Cheer up. The Germans have struck their last big blow Every day is moving day for Fritz just now, remarks the Sydney Record. i In view of the high price of wheat, is i any wonder that Wheat is highest In the National Baseball batting list? Even people from London, Ont. must obey the traffic regulations when they come to Kingston. It London is a lawless place, Kingston is not." This is no one-horse town. " The war must be near an end and good times coming or the Christian Seience Monitor, a daily Boston newspaper, would not be increasing its size from twelve to eighteen pages. Fuel Controller Magrath warns the people of Canada that a serious fuel situation is developing in this _ country, JThose who can secure a "supply of wood should 'not let the opportunity pass. | About time the police force an- nounced that it has gathered in en- ough fines froom auto owners to buy a patrol waggon and a few plea- sure cars for the use of the alert guardians of the law. City grocers are being deluged with orders for sugar, prompted by a report of its growing scarcity. It every housewife would be content with normal requirements, the sup- Oct. 9th has been set aside as fire prevention day. It is well that 'the people's' attenfion should be thus called to the alarming and totally from fires in this country. Canada still leads the nations of the world in Boome idea of ship construction ered from the fact that to-day a merchant vessel is leaving North Atlantic ports for Europe every forty minutes. The U-boat, as an em ------------ : Frank H. Simonds, the leading American military critic, says that it I§ within reason now to hope that frontier before the snow ( Simonds' figuring all © war has proven remark- [dealt military ace is in the Allied military they are enemies, then That is the Great It is service 6 they should be sound logk It War Veterans have asked for. interned." is 'what what the Whig has persisteatly ad- vocated. The government ought to delay no longer in introducing legis- lation to this effect. Failure to act may quite possibly result in more riots, such ag recently occurred in Toronto, t IN AUTOMOBILES. Ontario farmers own 23,409 auto- moWiles. Ontario merchants and manufacturers own 14,825 automo- biles. Ontario editors owning molor cars, says the Belleville Intelligen- cer, are too few to make a quorum, or even raige a good-sized dust. Seems strange, but the official re- cords show tliat in 1913 there were only 966 molor cars owned by farm- ers in Ontario, so that since the war began 22,443 automobiles have been purchased by farmers. Wonder If the increase in automobiles has any- thing to do with the high price of hogs and other apparently necessary evils? questions our Bay of Quinta o | contemporary. INCREASE A LACK OF GUIDANCE. The government has no monopoly of' the political and economic wis- dom of the country, and it has been further handicapped by what seems the quite unnecessary "absence of several ministers in Europe. No British. nor American minister, ob- serves the Veteran, has been able to snatch more than a few days' holi days during his period of office, but almost one-third of ours can find time for prolonged excursions and lengthy absences across the At- lantie. The result is a complete lack of guidance in our national af- fairs and all the vicious results of drift and compromise. A whole variety of problems. requires to be with immediately, and the government, which has protected it- self. from the perils 'of vigorous policies by the devices of commis sions and colorless statements, as a lady veils herself from rough breezes, needs the stimulus of mem- bers who come fresh from contact with what is now an anxious and crit'cal electorate. THE "WAR GOI GOES WELL. Every despatch from the front is to-day an encouraging one. Under General Foch, the Allied armies are proving their superiority over the Hun. The boasted superman is re- treating along a wide front, and is fighting desperately to prevent the retreat from being turned into a complete rout. The world now realizes that, man to man, the Hun cannot compare in stamina or fight- ing qualities with the citizen soldier of the free domocracies which are battling against him. Hilaire Be!- loc, perhaps the greatest military critic of the day, in summing up the past week's operations, ascribes tho victories of the Allies to three ela- ments, viz, the military aptitude of the French, the mechanical genius of the British as demonstrated in the effective use of tanks, and tha ardor of the Americans. He sees a clear field for military victory. We have the Hun backing up. The United States has helped to put spirit in all the Allied nations, be- cause the U.S. boys are fresh and untired and they are now 'over there" Well over a million strong, with another million in the back- ground. Let us all cheer up. Things are going better. The hard work is 'Beginning to bear fruit, and perhaps 'we may be surprised it a general break in Germany before long. It all depends on hard and constant hitting everywhere. It must have been a grand sight to see, arm jin arm at 'Montdidier, the linked-up Canadians, Austral- fans, Americans, French, British, Czechs, Poles, Portuguese, Chinese, Africans--nearly all races that possess civilization and virtue, go- ing up together against the Hun, as General Mangin phrased it, "racing as to a happy feast." It is the arrival of the United States in such force that has put such spirit in the Allles. "Who is the happy warrior " asked Words- worth. It seems'that the AlMed warrior is the happy warrior, now that he has been strengthened and encouraged by forces fresh from the New World. Canada's whole Work i the glory of a star that has no setting. She and Australia have really shown the supreme 'ghalities of the war, be- cause; though beyond seas, they vol- unteered to the full from the first. It is the ' supremest example of chivalry, and that is why, every- where in dhe United States, | Ameci- cans stare with eyes of pralse at an {Ansac or Cafihdian soldier. 'The spirited, dashing, well-equip- American is now in, and this Hits. the whole war from the slough | | different Being a heathen fonovan -4 from the idol. Victory tops Just "Gott," i I ng over the hitt- y ttle longer and all will be well Let every effort oe put forth mow, and the rout of the world's co on énemy will be utter and complet ? ne Serer sth PUBLIC OPINION Perplexing Inconsistency. {New York Sun) There is perplexing inconsistency in the British ruling « that women can vote but not be voted for. Yes, We've Noticed. (Macon, Ga. Telegraph) You've noticed [perhaps that gene- rally the fellow whe isn't worth the powder it would take to kil him, and couldn't hold a job of shooting flies, knows all about how the Gov- ernment and the war and everything else except his own aifairs ougit to be conducted. Must Teach the Huns. (Taronto Star) It is not enough, therefore, the Huns to get out of France vacate and restore Belgium. cannot be allowed to "make pay' at the expense of Russia have got to come out of this war knowing that war doesn't pay, but is 'the worst kind 'of bad business ever attempted. Talk is of no use in this matter. [They have got to be shown that war ¥s a thing out of which they emerge very bad losers Then they will settle down to a new way of thinking. for and War They he | Day of Rec Koning. rw York Globe The Ll fields and forests of France may be consoling to the sub- Jects of the Kaiser to-day, but when the last gun is fired the bill for damages will not be so consoling. Nothing that Germany can do ever will adequately pay for ithe suffer- ing ®he has inflicted on this world, but for the material damage done she must pay. [The man who would | lft his voice in favor of anything less must be bereft of all. sense of justice and ldecency. Iw hore is Karl? ? (Philadelphia Record) Where is our wold friend, Rosner, these stirring days? his imperial master, Wilhelm, wo ist er? ILet ms hope that these .con- genial souls are again in a tall tow- er, watching the rapid movements (backwards) of the'°great German army. [This # a subject on which the Kaiser's comments would really be worth'ipreserving for the historian of the future. We trust that Karl has a voluminous notebook and 4s missing no precious word. Wil- helm's reflections will be read with interest by a billion or two of Karl And In spite of restrictions imposed by the Oanada Food Board, in spite of the compulsory use of substitutes, the consumption of flour in Canada for purely domestic purposes has been steadily increasing, as indicated by figures prepared by the Labor Depart- "To hear somebody say, They | ment, "You DID It's good to wander back again, Among the old home folk; It rather satisfies a man To bear the same old jokes, "1 knew You when you were a kid," But some one alwayg tells you of The foolish things you did. Your heart beats lighter, as it did In long forgotten days, When at some wellsremembered spot Reflectively you gaze, But it seems queer that all your good And noble deeds gre hid, And people only call in mind The foolish things you did. They talk of others who've gone out Into some foreign land, , They tell of things these other folks Have done, and they seem grand, .But when it comes to talk of you Their minds eannot be rid Of the belief you'd like to hear The foolish things you did. You know you've done a thing or two Which show you've got some sense, But every time they talk of you They's certain to commence With tales of "What a fool you were When you lived here--a kid" They have forgotten all except The foolish things you did. --Baltimore American, THE BOY WHO DIDN'T PASS, Christian Advocate A sad-faced little fellow deep disgrace; There's a lump arising in his throat and tears stream down his face He wandered from his playmates, for he doesn't want to hear Their shouts of merry laughter since the world has lost its cheer He has sipped the cup of sorrow, has drained the bitter glass, And his heart is fairly breaking the boy who didn't pass. sits alone in he --he's In the apple tree the robin sings a cheery little song, But he doesn't seem to hear it, show- ing plainly something's wrong; Comes his faithful little spaniel for a romp and bit of play But the troubled little fellow bids him go away. And alone he sits in sorrow, hair a tangled mass. And his eyes are red with weeping-- he's the boy who didn't pass sternly with his Oh, you who heast a laughing and speak of him as bright, And you who love a little girl who comes to you to-night With smiling eyes and dancing feet with honors from her school, Turn to that lonely hoy who thinks he is a fool, And take him kindly by the hand, ihe ddilest of 'his class: He is the one who most needs | the boy who didn't pass son OVE Napanee Notes. Napanee, Aug. 21.--Mrs. E. Boyle, Mrs. A. F. Reid and Mrs. Frank Van De Bogart motored to Picton vester- day:to spend a few days with rela: tives. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McGill and little son Donald, of Everett, Ont., motored to Napanee this week, and will spend a weék or two with} friends and relatives. Ross Sills left yesterday for Saskatoon, Rippling Rhymes I walked %z, and all-my me. lot of men were rooing. the beastly Hun his face with joy aquiver; MENTAL HEALING down town and awful uproar making; for I was full of rheuma- cried, "Gee whiz!" Joints were aching. [I groaned and swore at every step, my aches would not desert me; I had no ease, I had no pep, and every motion hurt Oh, 1 had ied on purple pills, I'd lived on drug and potion, and none of them relieved my ills, though swallowed by the ocean: house square, and wondered What was doing there; a At last I reached the court- dancing there, and yipping and hur- "Have you not heard the news?" cried one "our boys have whipped and chased him in the river." And then, though I am old and fat, I joined the boys cav- orting; kept the welkin snorting. "Your rheumatism's better? wife called. I whooped around and waved my hat, and When 1 got home my good You walk like one who has installed a brand new carburetter." _d un is getting his! The I sa time for rheumatiz or ahy punk diseases. n news from Europe pleases; I haven't ) -- WALT MASON. 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Nothi ut you on your Sn . > ly as a dose or two of ne in the World, 2 tg Dr. J. IS A.0.U.W. DOCTOR, Dr. E. Fraser Bowie is - New Grand Medical Examiner. Toronto, Aug. 21.--J. Lockie | Wilson, the Grand Master of the {Ancient Order of United. 'Workinén of Ontario, has appointed Dr. E. Fraser Bowie to the office of Grand 'Medical Examiner of the society. Dr. Bowie has been in active prac- tice in Toronto for many years. He is a 'Past Phistrict Deputy Grand Master Workman of the AO.UW. As the chief medical supervisor of the order he is successor to the late 'Milton Cotton, who filled the office for twenty-six years. A Wapan Rice. Tokio, Aug. 16--An Imperial ordinance issued to-day aulhorizes the Government te requisition all stocks of rice. The rice will be' put on the market. Bh i oo LEAR AAARALARE ONG NOTICE TO OUR | PATRONS Owing-to the scarcity-uf help handicapped in we have been our t, and have 3 been unable to the work out as soon as we expected. We now have a full staff of re pair men and assure prompt service in the future. Central Garage Ed Walsh, Prop. 8385 King St. aude dh hd hy YY TTY YY YY YY Rah a oo AUTOMOBILISTS BICYCLE RIDERS MOTOR CYCLISTS THRESHERS, ETO, in AMBER, SMOKE, BLUE From 50¢ to $2.50. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE ASK Princess Bt, Phone 348 Adhd dd a a 4 4 a Pw ; , FOR SALE Six General Stores In villages in Kingston dis trict. The annual sales in these vtores range from $8,000 to £50,000. For particulars, ap- ply to Summer Drinks Lime Juice, Lime Juice Cordial, Grape Juice, Gurd's Ginger Ale, Guard's Dry Gin. ger Ale, Imported Ginger Ale, Raspberry Vinegar, White Rock, Radnor, Tally-ho. Jor. Rodden & Co License Nos. 6-458 and TJ. Lockhart, Real fiste aad Insupanes, Ontario, -- Major Goodwill Transferred.' Cobours, Aug. 21.---Major Good- will, who has been OC. of the On- tario military hospital here, has been transferred, it is stated, to St. John, N.B., a# D.ADMS. of Mili tary District No. 5. 5 Schooner Wreck. Quebee, Aug. 21.--The schooner M. P. Connolly, wijich was launched 'here last October, ¥s reported a total wreck near Sable Island. Her cargo was valued at $250,000. Putting it just as it is, we are all After the'bi gent Pisce of anko on the plate, . & Save Coal Use imported chests nut coke for kitchen ranges. - Clean, no smoke, no clinkers, and does not count i