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PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH 'WHIG! S6TH YEAR. Published Daily and Semj-Weekly hy THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING | ©0,, LIMFIED, J. G. Elliott .. vevus oo .. President Leman A. Guid .. .. . Editor and ® Managing-D1 rector, Telaphunen: Business OMice . Kditorial Rooms, "es Job Office » SUBSCRIPTION HAY {Daily Edition) year, delivered in city 6.00 | year, \f paid in advance . $5 ae year, by mafl to rural offices §2 year to United States .$3. (Semi- Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash year, if not pald in year, to United States .. . Six and three months pro rata, One One One One 51.00 advance 3 50 50 One One One INTATIV BE Peter St New York Chicago MONTRMAL HEPRES R. Bruce Owen .. 121 ¥.R.Northrup, 228 Fifth Ave . ¥.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. "Hditor are re published Letters to name of the only over the actual writer. Attached 18 one of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circurattion of THE BRITISH Whig is suthenticmeg by the BO Audit Bureau of Olrculations. When the Germans sign the peace treaty they will find it will be on no scrap of paper.--Brockville Re- corder-Times, Canada's war estimates this year call for an expenditure of $360,000,000. National thrift on a large scale is still very necessary. for We have had meatless days, and heatless days and gasolineless days. Must we now prepare for butterless days? Assuredly so, unless the prices es soon take a decided drop. "Where is the Liberal party to be found ?'* asks an exchange. We can only reply that the best friends of the Liberal party are found Hning up on the side of Union Government. There is no doubt about the fact that the letter-carriers are under- paid, and the postmaster-general would do well to acoede to their de- mands and avert a general strike, Thirteen Ontario cities have taken advantage of the housing act, and fifty more will be added to that num- ber before July. Kingston must not be left out, but should get in on the ground floor. It is an old and true saying you can never depend upon the ladies. Three out of every five women in Chicago voted against pro- hibition, remarks: delightful uncertainty attached the sex, that It merely exemplifies the | to] Now that the Ontario legislature has passed a bill permitting women to sit in the assembly, our friends of the weaker gex wily probably tell us that the province is saved. We wish them better luck than 'the women in the last British elections. me ------------ The Chicago elesions show once again which way tne wind is blow- ing in regard to prohibition. The re- sult in Qaebec next will be eagerly watched by the prohihfbionists and the -antis. Ontario's chance comes next, and both sides are lining up for the battle. The provincial. government an tounces that it expects to place on the market this year 10,000 tons of peat. This will, in a small measure, help the fuel problem of Ontario. With the immense peat beds of this province it shoul not be difficult for the government to increase the avail- . able supply many Told. S---------- The Great Was Veterans are los- ing patienc: with the housing com- mittee of the city council. Little wonder. 'They have passed a reso- lution urging that Kingston should take immediate advantage of the! Ontario Housing Act, The _ city's progress is being impeded by the present lamentable lack of houses, eg the sooner the situation is im- proved the better, - "If Christ wose to come to the earth to-day." declared Peter Wright, _ councillor of the British Seamen's Union, in addressing a Toronto aud- 'fence on Sunday evening. "He ba found anywhere but in oo 243 os | jatame that Sat | will | created rion, As the Hamilton Spectator | AEROPLANI AS AN STATION. pring season KINGSTON of the war deal pur is a great r the nd pleasure h { in thewdyepti w appearing in the IL« 5 COmMes wspapers, which state ompanies now bui for recreation and And here In Canada we company trying out Hamilton and be aeroplane this year will see a activity in our are roplanes a between Teron There can no doubt of the that and the is | fact |stay, {great increase [own country Thus we have | vention perfected through the cessities of war being used to good | of peace that in air an in ne |advantage in the days 3 How far the development of the |aero plane eventually will go | matter of conjecture, but the time is a lis not far distant when they | flying regularly between Toronto Montreal. Kingston landing ground for the ships of the air be passing our city Ta | Kingston the .half-way house on an between the two large a feather in the cap {and Therefore, sult which land found a {able make line cities would be of whoever handled the matter, this suggestion in the taken up who reals aerial we throw out be citizen of hope that it will some progress izes the plane in the future ive possibilities the ------------------------ THE PRICE BOOSTERS, hardship T hat person, and it is a anxiety to war was responsible for some food is ible, the most people. the rise in prices of But war and easily demonstr: the trouble hegan before hefore inflation become deliberate merely the consumer-cost has closely gain- per- wealthier, stronger and more knit together by the experience ed during the stress of the war iod. It has a good thing and knows it, and does not intend that the ever again allowed freely people shall be to feed themselves foods at reasonable prices, of eggs have been kept in until unfit for consumption. ands of tons of beef and mutton have been allowed to deteriorate into car- Millions of oushels of fruit have been bought up on the trees and allowed to rot rather tham be used to ease the situation and re- store the people's health. Untold quantities of vegetables have - been similarly abused; or dumped into the ocean. Yet one corvern declared an annual dividend of 180 per cent on these and Mke articies. And this only begins to tell the story. For years before the war wheat grown on good Millions Thous- nipeg was habitnally sold in Eng- land and on the continent for Jess than Canadians paid for it. Con sidering 'the long Treightage many handlings involved in ing the ocean, this was simply Sin- ful. Tdk® a local instance. Last autumn some sort of a public investi- gation was started wn order to deter- mine if there was justification for the inflated price of milk. We were gravely informed, in essence, that, after taking all the circumstances in- to consideration, were lucky in getting it at the price of, say, four- teen cents, and that the dairymen were a self-sacrificing and poorly paid lot. All of a sudden the machine slips a cog, somewhere, and down goes the price to ten or eleven cents. And, as Mr. Dooley frequent- ly remarks to his friend Hinnissy: "There ye are." The price-heosters have "Get-Rich-Quick" Wallingford" beaten to a frazzle. DR. H. J. CODY'S REPORT ON PUBLIC IABRARIES. Advance copies or the report of the Ontario Minister of Education have just been received, and the follow- ing item of great interest to King- ston people immediately attracts attention: & "The public library is developing into a powerful teaching agency, It continues education into the adult stage. It may be used by teachers and others as a means of popular educational extension work in the community. . The new Mea in the public Mbrary of to-day is the ag- gressive idea. The public library tries to get the right book to the right reader at the right time. It and Cross we storage a ser-|( here to! will "be | power it is | looked around | and | by | Aero | 'The high cost of Hving hits every| and | of the |phe undeniable| library n long | having And the orgauization which up to sei in| city on Canadian soil and milled in Win-|{N\, ) THE DAILY. BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, APRIL 11,/1919. An Empire Calendar. Treaty of Utrecht. April 11, 1713 ans have agreed in ra among the decisive b world, and there is no dc defeat of Tallard by broke the ambitious scl Xiv Blenheim paved the signing of the Peace of Utrecht, to which representatives of Great Britain, France and all the other Al- lies attached their signatures in nine distinct treaties, two hundred and six years ago to-day. And if Blenheim is one of the deciding battles," the Treaty of Utrecht is one of the epo- chal treaties of history By its terms the Protestant succession was secured for Great Britain, and the claimsvof the House of Hanover ad- mitted and acknowledged In addi- tion, the crowns of France and Spain were separated for all time, and the British colonies and plantations on this continent were enlarged Un- der its terms France ceded to the British Crown, Hudson Bay and Nova Scotia as well as Newfoundland and St. Kitts, and abandoned all claims to Gibraltar and Minorca Further it was stipulated that military works and fortifications at Dunkirk should be demolished, and that no part of the Spanish Netherlands should ever be ceded to France. The place in which this composite treaty was signed and where the destiny of the British Empire was moulded has been one of the historic centres of continenta! Europe since the earliest dawn of history Sitnated on the Crooked Rhine between Rotterdam and Amsterdam it contains the ruins of a_cathedral that dates back to St willibrod, and within a stone's throw of the birthplace of Pope Adrian Delegates of the seven Pro- testant provinces met in 1579 and drew up the agreement which may be called the charter of the Netherlands nation The history of Canada would have been written very differ- ently but for the victory at Blenheim and the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht 2 1 histor g Blenheim tles of the ubt that the Marlhorough 1iemes of Louis the way for Hbraf- s viging bet- fibrary 8y8 almost check have Ao to the Here landed 14T0E we librar stem Kingston, there while here in a 23,000 inhabitants, publigithrars This city 10 part in this great new The re Libraries propaganda s that the Public 1g with a I e for municipalities libraries. port Act jmakin recast view to far granis to what use|will that be fathers to make {of to Kingston our city use their a reas pur- act, aot to give library pres to set aside a lih- a mill under the grant for the large Under onal poses? ent has the ston power $6,500 King yearly for half But grudgingly 100 of over naintenancg exactly least the {sum Tary he dollar at instead » find allowance on | lof is city gi little k for an of $2 It is wonder that our library is held lack of expanid policy of the Mid rgom to {when the » city councibis such a mean one Minister of Edu fro nt Nis respect f the x3 10 the » report o the A library is what built by again brin | needs of our int In odern Ie It must be other, for | | Kingston ne | it Is an a some means or If approved the community absolute necess to our city. memorial library scheme is tifficulty will be solved, but made an 'excuse built hould ne be ee emt The Allies defended Odess: last but were compelled to being outnumbered ven to one the Bolsheviki Crown Diamond Pure House Paints, all colors, at Lemmon & Sons PN for It is) nd our 1 to the retire, by a memorial library our board of education a council to press to the vtmost for a library building In keepir with the needs and the size of our city ~-- Rippling Rhymes FIX UP | The long war made us sick and faint, we had no ! heart to hump; and so, alas, we did not paint the cowshed and the pump; we read long tales of bones and woe, and let our chores to thunder go, and now our houses look as though they should be at the dump. We had no 'heart to trim the trees, or bear dead cats away, when mighty legions; o'er the seas, engaged in bloody fray; and while these legions thun- dered on, the tin cans gathered on thé lawn, with bro- ken dish and demijohn, and heaps of leaves and hay. While still upon the kaiser's brow the tyrant's crown was seen, we had no heart to groom the ¢ow, or plant the pinto bean; we had no heart to decorate the lawn swing and the garden gate; we merely stood and rail- ed at fate, and cussed the submarine.' Now in a castle queer and quaint the mildewed kaiser sits; afd we should buy some rich red paint, and throw some clean up fits; for kalsomine of gaudy hue, to make the shack look good as new, for clover seed and blue grass, too, we ought to blow six bits. We've talked of war a weary while, of admirals and kings; now let's put on our peace time smile, and think of other things; let's fix the roof before ther's rain, replace the broken window pane; a lot of du- ties in its train this smiling sason brings. | --WALT, MASON. A SB AN AANA WA Looking Over Our Menu Is a pleasure in. itself. - There is such a wide range of seasonable and de- lectable dishes from which to choose. | It's simply a matter of personal | choice, but no matter what vou or- der you will be pleased with the way it is prepared and served. Come in and put our restaurant service to the test. GRAND CAFE 222 Princess Street Two Doors Above Opera House PETER LEE, Prop. ER DAVIES] For Good Values . IAEA invites the community to read. and to read the best literature. The not- able feature of the modern public department, where the story hour is a feature, and the emphasis placed library as a bureau of information. "Ontario has four byndred apd sight public Nbraries. in proportion C to population the largest number ¢ Hbrary in Ontario are the Children's|S Upon the reference service, i.e. thell mse a ARTA WERE WERE Sag s . Shirt Sale Is On Style Headquarters: Bibbys Snappy New Suits (2) 69c¢c Shirt Sale Is On Wher: Society Brand Clothes are Sold For young men and men who wish to stay young. They are the result of the closest study of proprieties and a long endeavour to provide the best without promoting extravagance. . The Aviator Suits, special value The Ashton Suits, special value The Dixon Suits, special value The Earl Suits, special values . . The Devon Suits, special value The Claude Suits, special values The Kirby Suits, special value . . The Digby Suits, special values . . The Midway Suits, special value The Ace Suits, special value .. .. .. . The Bud Suits, special value .. .. ..-. 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Price, $5500. 3 * Brick dwelliog, mearly mew, William street, 8 bedrooms, hot water furance, oak floors, bath nod W.C. on each flat; fire place: respect, up to date im every Price $6750, Brick awelling, Montreal sireet, 5 well buf't mud very warm. Price #2000. » 8 | FE E ESE We do not claim this | The ideal fuel for household | © purposes, I} the smoke and gas producing Ji It is coal with all to be | ] the best fuel because we handle | ~4t; on the contrary, we handle * it becanse it is the best. Crawford Foot of Queen St.