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ILY BRITISH WHIG THE DA IE NAVY THEN AND NOW By H. F. GADSBY. | The caucus cocked its eye at the | proposed navy and sald, 'not to- | day." Adiniral Jellicoe had present- ed @& most accommodating pro- 'gramme; all sorts of combinations from twenty-five millions down to "five, a sort of club breakfast hill of tare, but Canada had no appetite. No méal did not tempt bécause her belly is full of the national debt and she cannot relish any more hors d'- oeuvres until that lump is digested. The opposition hold no caucus on it, but there is every reason to be- Hevé that they heartily agree that a pavy is something that can be put off until the day after to-morrow. They are on record for a plebiscite when the navy problem comes up again and no doubt almost any gov- | ernment would welcome that solu- | tion éf the contentious subject. Pass- | ing the buck to the people at large | | has a nobler air than passing the | { buck to the various provincial gov- | ernments. may take ft for granted, 1 think, that there will' be | a referendum on the Canadian navy, | however modest the proposals. But not just now, brothers--not just now | --plenty of time when we. get our ebts' settled. : Rumor has it that Premier Borden | is the only person in favor of an im- | mediate navy. He favors it largely | because the others don't and i} | would like to have a navy as a monu- . CHOWN & CO. 252 Bagot St. ' Foot of Brock Street, Kingston Our mill is equipped with modern machinery, driven by electric motors with current generated at Kingston Mills, WE MANUFACTURE {~-- HUNGARIAN PATENT AND WHITE ROSE FLOUR, BUCK- WHEAT FLOUR, GRANULATED CORN MEAL, GROUND CORN, .GROUND OATS, CRACKED CORN, GROUND FERD, BRAN, SHORTS, FEED, FLOUR. ! ' Our Produtts are good and freshly made FOR SALE BY ALL GROCERS o . 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It is admitted on all sides that Admiral Jellicoe made an excellent report and stressed if anything the {dea of a home-made home-controlled Canadian. navy--the navy in short which Sir Wilfrid Laurier advocated nd which Premier Borden did also til victory at the palls put him on t d he went in for three dread- noughts just to do something differ- ent. The chances are that when we get a navy it will be a Canadian navy ofthe Laurier type, but that will not be for some years yet. Just now, ways we are more interested in. box cars than ever. The prairie west is strong on box cars too and as we do everything now for the tierce free trade farmers come from, ithe navy will have to wait over. | Common sense suggests that we.pay for the railways before we start pay- ing for a navy. : Incidentally the walt-a-bit policy of the government caucus rather hints that the British Empire has cost us & lot of money lately and that we don't want to buy any more war BAD COLD BRONCHITIS However slight a cold you have you should never neglect it; if you affected. Bronchitis is one of the mast com- mon affections of a meglected cold, and neglected bronchitis "the most general cause of consumption. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is just the remedy you require to cure the bronchitis. It does this by loos- enihg the phlegm and mucous, and stimulates the weakened bronchial organs, allays irritation and subdues inflammation, soothes and Heals the irritated parts and thus prevents it becoming chromic. Mr. R." P. Sundblad, Francis, Sask., writes:--"1 had a very bad | cold which left me with bronchitis. {1 tried several cough remedies and | oils of all kinds, but théy all failed. | At last I got Dr. Wood's Norway Pine . Syrup and after using two bottles I ' have never had a sign of bronchitis since. I therefore can honestly re- commend {it for coughs and'colds." Don't accept a substitute for Dr. Wowmd's. The genuine is put up in a yellow wrapper; '8 pine trees the | trade mark; price 25¢. and 50c. Manufactured by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. i yg THE MANUFACTURER ot pure food products does not object to Pure Food . ws. The responsible Banker does not object to "spection. : Government in- The henest promoter of industry does not object to Blue * Bky legislation. . The reputable publisher does not object to the verification . of his circulation statement __Circulations. . by the Audit Bureau of 1 The scrupulous busiriess man never objects to investiga- \tion. welcomes it. It protects him against unfair competition: He is willing to pay his share of the cost. The British Whig is a member of the Audit Bureau of Cir- "culations and contributes to its cost of maintenance. It isthe greatest protection that an _¢ah have. 4 : & The A.B.C. report on the circulation of the British * #will be sent to advertisers on request. 3 » { X i R HE . k honest publisher = s he | having taken over a couple of rail- prairie west, where those | «| debate on the navy---the the vacangy ww 3 goods until we pay the bill for that {last spas. - Perhaps it is another {indication of that nationhood which { Mr. Rowell says we possess, that we | know we've had enough of fighting { Europe's battles. | Several reasons have been put for- {'ward why we should pdstpone our matter how cheap or nourishing, the | navy--to see what the United States | | does, to see how Japan behaves, to {see how the League of Nations oper | ates~--but the best reason of all is that we need the money for more uge- ful purposes. Even the Toriest news- papers are ' agreed that a navy is Something we can do without until times are a good deal better. What we want in the way of a navy, is not a4 war navy, but a merchant navy that will carry our export trade at rates which display more bowels of mercy than we can expect from the British shipping trust. These rates are strangling our ocean-born trade right now and Mr. Ballantyne doe: a good work wher he encourages the building of Canadian ships that will make us independent of these extor- tioners.. It is not likely that Mr. Bal- lantyne's shipbuilding statement will be seriously critised in view of our recent experience with ocean freights. What About Admiral Jellicoe's Canadian than the Canadians. He suggests a Canadian minister of the navy with a naval board of Canadian experts to advise him--the admiralty and the sea lords all ever again There are only two objections to this sdheme--we can't get the right min: ister of the navy and we can't get the experts. For people who have been obliged to drink so much water Lords, unstable element ag a medium foi floating battleships. Even Mr. Row- ell, whose past has largely been on the water, and whose future is likely to continué so, might well hesitat to become first Jord of the admiralty It is a department which is hedged i; with seasickness and rough weathe: It is true that Mr. Gilbert ha pointed out the quickest way to be come "ruler of the King's nav-ee"-- which is to stick close to your des! and never go to sea--but that applie only to England. In Canada we have a prejudice in favor of admirals who are good sailors and we can't lay hands on one of that sort in the whole darned country. What we would like as minister of the navy is a bluff old sea-dog like Sir Joh: Fisher, a knocker-off of official hats but there isn't anybody in sight who resembles him except Sir Sam Hughes, who still has the spirit, but whose fighting days are over, When all is said and done Bir Sam was @ great success as a pusher and there ids no reason to doubt that he would be as good an admiral as he eve: was a general. As for the present cabinet I don't know one member of it who would take the job of sea lord unless Britannia who rules the waves would agree to rula them straight so as to cut out the hiccups. The Fire is Quenched. . « The decision to let the navy drift shortens the sessipn, which will have a had job putting In its three months Navy talk would have taken up two possibly three weeks, what with re- criminations, tergiversations and equivocations from politicians on both sides of the question, not to mention imprecations and allegations from the patriots of Quebec. The last "emer- gency" navy--dwells in my mind as the hottest piece of life on the raging main' that I ever witnessed. The main raged that' night all right. Members shook their fists at each other, shouted, cursed. Newspaper men forgot their judicial pose, leaned over the gallery railing and swore. Mr. Speaker could not stem that tide of wrath, so he ran round and round like a chicken that had just lost its head. It was the only timg the closure was applied on a vital ques- tion and it certainly raised hell. Nobody dreamed that there was such fire in Rlue water. The sea fairly boiled with the hot language. I did not believe that the navy will ever again raise such « hurricane of pas- sion in tite house of commons, but I am willing to stave off the chance of it as long as possible. And what did it all amount to 2 Premier Borden got his three batt¥- ships through the house of commons, but the senate promptly scuttled them. It was the senate tat put the nought in dreadnought, Wants Itemized Bill Ottawa, March 25.--Hon. W. 8S. Fielding's interest in the League of Nations and Canada's share of the upkeep of that body has not been dulled by the answers to his ques- tions given during the present ses- sion, The former Liberal minister 'has filed a request to be introdiiced on Thursday, asking for production, under an order of she house, of all correspondence and documehts. re- lating to the apportionment of 'the expenses of the league andthe pay- ment,"in February, of $64,048.15 as . Canada's share of the expenses of the league. Is Theatrical Censor. r' Toronto, March 25.--H. M. Wod- son, a newspaperman, was appointed by the police commissioners, chief theatrical censor of Toronto, to fill caused by the death of 7illiam Banks, senior, The salary will be $2,000 a year, instead of $2 - 250 as formerly. : : + eport is more lately we know very Httle about tha' other "worldly" amusements ipo Hp i ¥ CAMELS. | They Were Numerous In Ameries But Became Extinct. The camel tribe is represented in South America by four species of animals---the llama (commonly used 48 a beast of burden), the guanaco, {| the alpaca, and the vicuna. The "camels anciently so vastly | | numerous in North America, and | varying in size from that of a cotton- | tail rabbit to the so-called "giraffe" | | species (much larger than any camel | now surviving on the earth), vanish- | od long ago. Why they should have | become extinct on this continemt | nobody knows. | Camels and their near relatives the | dromedaries have been introduced in | this country from the old world at | various times. Some were brought | te Virginia in 1701. But,owingtelack | of knowledge of their habits and of | proper methods of caring for them, | these attempts have proved failures. | On a number of occasions drome- daries have been introduced into vari- ous parts of South America, and em- | ployed with some success for travel | on desert plains dificult for any other | animal to traverse. But they have not long survived. It has been asserted that without the dromedaries the intercourse of mankind over yast regions in Asia | would have been confined to districts | where abundance reigned. The pro- duets of one district could not have been exchanged for those of another; commetce would have been non- | existent, and tribes distantly separ- | rated would - have 'had little knowl- | edge of each other. , | A particularly desirable animal for | this country would seem to be the '"dooghdee," which is a cross between | the Bactrian camel and the drome- | dary of the plains. This hybrid is | short-limbed and very muscul&r, It onrries 600 pounds on level ground, or 400 pounds where the going is rough and hilly. Nearly as sure-foot- ed as a horse, ita greatest advantage a8 a mountain burden-bearer lies in the strength and development of the claw that terminates each foot. The booghdee is 'almost as, omni- | Yoroys as a goat, and browses cheer- | fully on desert plants of almost any { kind. In the Old World it is annu- | { ally shorn, its long fleece (equal in quantity te the wool ef four sheep) { being used for weaving. The fleece | i& nearly as soft as the wool of Tibet. i But the so-called camel's-hair shawls are woven from Tibetan goat's fleece, | and not from the hair of any tujnel, | The "Go Blow" Strike. { = Japanese laborers seem to have | discovered and put in practice some- | thing new in the relatigns of employ- {| er and employed, the 'go slow" | strike, and a writer in the Japan Ad- | | vertiser, exathining this form of pro- | | test against what the workers in any | | given plant have decided 1s an un- | desirable state of affairs, finds it | interesting characteristic of Japa | eae ways of thinking and acting. The "go slow" strike, which was not long ago effectively employed by some 17,000 employes at the Kawasaki dockyard, differs radically from the "walk out" of laborers that marks the beginning of a strike in western nations, for the Japanese laborers walk in as usual in the morning, bu having arrived they calmly and un- animously "go slow' by refusing to work. The resulting situation, says the andlyst, appeals to something which each side recognizes *'the feeling of loyalty on the one hand and of paternal responsibility on the other, both well-marked fea- tures of the natiomal character as it has - been develdped by a paternal- feudal system. To go to the factory, oyal and ready to work if only con- ditions are made just and fair, seems to the Japanese a nobler attitude than that of the arrogant western individualist who walks out and re fuses to work extept on his own terms." Chinese laborers in the war Sune, one seems to remember, initiat- ed a similar strike one day when their morning rations had nof been distributed. They came to the scené of their daily teil, and did nothing at all until food .was provi , and the strike ended. Apparently, too, the "go slow" strike in Japan has 80 far had the approval of the pub- lie, and the static unanimity of the great body of laborers, waiting and teady to resume work when condi- tons are made satisfactory, presents An emergency which the employer sees no way of meeting by engaging itrike breakers. The Biggest Pair of Tusks. It is said that in the stables of the Royal Palace at Mandalay, in Burma, may be seen an elephant with a re- markable pair of tusks, which tke Burmese declare are the biggest in ihe world. These tusks, it is averred, measure a much as seven feet nine inches on the outside curve, with a maximum Sslreum of no less than seven- feen inches. To naturalists th extraordinary point about thestusks, which are still being led by thei, owner, is that they virtually touch the ground and almost meet. cal curiosity the elephant. has natur- ally attracted wide attention and it is reported that several offers have animal should see fit to depart th world. --Tit-Bits. pa i. Holland Electrified. Electricity has received a big m in Holland as a result of the fuel 'shortage during the war, Of 140,000 houses in t , 1*=a0) are now provided electric lights, whereas before the hostilities started only 30,000 i making members who attend thea- tres, dance, play cards, or indulge in W. H. COCKBURN & CO. Corner Wellington and Princess Street. Phone 316. vr . Drink Charm Black Tea Sold in Packages Only GEO. RUBLK1SON & SON, Limited ol Hr, Lh CASTORIA For Infants and'Children. 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