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DAILY EDITION

Thursday, Dec. 17,

EDITORIALS

on the wall

and,

Handwriting is

not always legible, when

it

me

interpretation of its
to be

than

is not,
is apt
rather

forecasting. The
elections that hace taken place
since the of Mr.
Heart to Premiership of
Ontario, supply speec-
the
wall that a man on a galloping
The figures
In West
Hendrie,
had

aning gruess-

work accurate

two contested

elevation
the
however,
imens of handwriting on
horse could read.
are extraordinary
Hamilton in 1911 Col.
now Lieutenant-Governor,
a majority of 1,800. In June of
1,488. Three
weeks ago his successor, Mayor
Allan, Mr.
Rollo,
Liberal support.
* *

this year he had
secured 39 against

a Labor candidate

Dundas county, in which al-

with |

}

most as great a change took
place in the recent election, |
when Mr. Hilliard was chosen)

to succeed Sir James Whitney, |
has been
seat for generation.
James’ later majorities were: |
in 1902, 504; 1905, 624; 1908,

914; 1914, 921; 1914, when Mr. |
Stewart Muir made a fine run,|
674. Now Sir James’ successor |
gets a majority of 59, as re-|
ported at the time of this writ-
ing. Mr. Campbell, the

candidate, immensely
lar,

Conserv ative |

Sir}

a safe
a

1s
count-
But the

no doubt
ed for a good

and that,
deal.

aes

Liberal |
popu- |

Telephone 98.

Oontract

1944.

 

|

Hamilton “and ‘Dundas elections

mean more than personal pop-
the

the tide

ularity or
that
is setting

Liberal

clear-cut

reverse
of
strongly

mean public
favor
ward the leader
the

policy of the Libera! party.

social reform
On-
tario preferred
Rowell despite Sir James
the ition of the
electors do not
to

average

op-
position to abo!
The

the same

bar
favor Sir
An

over of half as many votes as

successor. turn-
were changed from the govern-
to the in the
recent

ment opposition

two elections would
government

Giobe.

send the Ontario

headlong out of power.—
2. &s

of the
Dominion

talk
election
It
that a strong sentiment in On-

of an
the

shows

In view
early

above is interesting.

tario is revolting from the boss
rule of the Conservative party.
In New Brunswick the
servative has been
found guilty of graft by a royal!
and the whole
up in arms. In
Nova Scotia the Liberals are
strongly entrenched and will
give a good aceount of them-
selves in case of an election. It
remembered how the
big majority of the Conserva-

Con-
premier

commission

province is

will be
tives in Manitoba was reduced
the
and

to the vanishing point in
Alberta

are almost solid

recent election

Saskatchewan

GET YOUR
FLOUR

With This Trade Mark

Be sure the flour you buy
makers,
every sack. That will be

has
the Vancouver Milling & Grain Ce.,
your

the trade of
stamped on

is ROYAL

mark its

proof that it

STANDARD FLOUR, that you are getting the best flour

that can be made,

and that your money is being circulated at home.

AL STANDARD
dred families in
If neo

were

furnis!

other flour than that

used in this province,

be

that it is made

made

over

in British Columbia,

ROY-

es a livelihood for over a hun-
British Columbia.

British
families

in Columbia

2600 would

supported in British Columbia. So you see when you

use only British Columbia flour you are helping to build

up a big home

the

get a new one

industry.

more jobs there are

easier

Every industry means jobs, and
the
or to hang on to your old one.

BE SURE YOU GET ROYAL STANDARD

it will be for you to

FLOUR

Vancouver Milling & Grain Company, L'd.

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targets
mouths of the cannon,
miss would be well

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form in line
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whole
The centries look on, puzzled;

for the allied soldiers

 

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for the Liberals on account of
the demand for wider markets
and fer freer trade with the
States. British Columbia
ground to the dust under the
heel of MacKenzie and Mant
is anxious to be avenged

dis
gusted with the results of the

her betrayers Quebec

Tory-Nationalist combinat
ago returned to her
natural leader, the Rt. Hon
Wilfrid Laurier. With

things as they are no Li

has long

these
beral
need fear the result of an ele

the they

bring it on the better

tion, and quicker

MORE BRUSSELS SPROUTS.

 

“The street boys stiek
of their

practice

arrot through the top

hats and
streets,”

of

laid certain

prominent

in

a resident

Brussels in The Times

“Or up large
the

so that

they gravely set

twenty yards from
a
nigh impos-
“Favorite pastime of all, they
and at the word of
‘March! To Paris’ the

marches backwards.
if
here is one thing a German does

ommand,
line

not understand it is irony!”

40,000,000 CIGARETTES

GIFT TO ALLIED TROOPS

P. Lorillard Company Is Donor to

Red Cross Society.

N. ¥., Dec. 45 Ten
£20,000 worth,

Tarrytown,
nillion cigarettes,

have been offered to the Red Cross

in France

Miss Anne Depew Paulding has

announced that this gift has been
made to the Irvington and Ards-
ley-on-Hudson Auxiliary of the
Red Cross. The P. Lorillard
Company is the donor. The Rev
Cranston Brenton, of New York,
director of the Red Cross Society

 

 

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arranging for the
of the gift to France

is

forwarding

 

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LORD KITCHENER AS GREAT A

STATESMAN AS HE IS SOLDIER

IMPORTANT PART HE PLAYED IN EGYPT—SUGGESTED THAT

HE GO BACK AFTER THE WAR—BSRITAIN WILL
RULE NEARLY ALL AFRICA.

 

When the history of this great-
of all

war history comes to

ahead of his own time is the one/|ed by Cecil Rhodes.

time the mediator in chief
Parliament and the Horse
It is his office te create
to select the command-

to

army,

ng officers, furnish

supplies
and require Par-

liament to provide the ways and
means of payment

It

most awful erisis

this
history

that
her

was fortunate in

in

Great Britain had in Lord Kiteh-

this dif-
As-

the
fieult place,
quith the right man to select him
to fill it. A flashlight the
whole situation from this view-
point is afforded by the published
of the

Minister of Egypt,
wn country and also knows Lord

for

Premier

ener right man

and in

on

Prime
who knows his

opinion present

Kitchener. Rushdi Pasha as-
sumes to speak for the “enor-
mous majority of Egyptians”
when he maintains that Great

Britain's pre-eminence in Exypt
that country,
the

will

is a good thing for
it
great highway

because will

keep
the

open

to Rast,

j safeguard European financia) in-

and will
of Egyptian
to

su-

Kewpt,
integrity
This

Tureo-Germanie

in
the
territory.
that
premacy would be fatal to Egypt's

con.

is eqguivalen!

saying

chance of “
to

realizing its ambition

become an important state”;

same feeling has become
deeply seated in the minds of
Kast
Mohammedans,

all

intelligent Indians, whether

Hindus or as this

war has satisfactorily shown.
The Egyptian Prime Minister
lnas quite happily defined the

ground of Lord Kitchener's pre-

The observer who is |‘

eminence among the great men of

his time. “One does not expect

be written it will be seen in per-|great soldiers to be statesmen,’

spective how pre-eminent Lord/he said, “but Lord Kitchener has
Kitchener's personality really is | proved himself, by his clear-
among the crowd of men who are | sighted policy in Egypt, to be a|
actually participating in the fierce |statesmanh of the first rank.” How |
struggle in all localities and ca-| important it is that when Lord)
pacities. His is the outstanding | Kitchener is through with his)
figure for those who take she laseneat task he should go back)
trouble to comprehend the situa-/to Egypt, as the Prime Minister

tion, and who are therefore view- ‘suggests, is shown by the politi. |
ing it from the true historical/cal significance of the idea of the |

Jape to Cairo” railway project-

ples as by the British
themselves

ADMIRAL ‘JELLICOE’S REGRETS)

“Bome said Mr
“T had |

Jellicoe and

wus oo ago,
Churchill at the Guildhall,
a talk with Sir John
his admiral,
spoke to me of the
which they and the
watched

principal
distress
fleet

of
Bel -

great
the heroic struggle
in France and in

saw the awful

our army
gium,

them.
“They spoke of their keen de-

aid to bear with the
mighty weapon which they wield-
ed, and their desire
ral dseire

immediate

their natu-
to share more imme-
diately in the sufferings and the
losses of the the field,
but they said:

‘‘Lord Cornwallis was nearly
three years off Brest, and Admiral
Nelson was more than two years
off Toulon. We are only just be-
ginning. We must not be impa-
tient. Our

army in

turn will come.” ’

 

The
first
daughters

first
man

woman the

her

handed
but
handing

an apple,

have been

men lemons ever since.

It's easy to gauge a man's
telligence; draw him into
and if he
you he's sensible.

in-

a dis-

Cussion,

agrees with

 

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who understands his own time | ability, as one result of this war,
better than anyone else does.|German East Africa will become |
Neminally Lord Kitchener is Sec-'| British, and in this way Great)
retary of War: really he is Diree- \Britain will become politically
tor General of the whole British | and continuously supreme |
military situation, and at the/|throughout the whole of the |

length and much of the breadth |
| SRRARARAAAARA AAAS SARE RES

of Africa. Such a consumma-
tion “were as devoutly to be}
wished” by all the African peo-|

people i?

if
}
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:

and they |
with |

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sacrifices

;

demanded of them and given by |

sire to bring a more direct and |

 

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