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Vou..V. « Saturpay, JULY 8, 1916. (°° No. 45

One-of the most interesting writers on war subjeets is J. L,

’ Garvin, whose latest despatch we copy, in part, from the Province.
Not until it is “all. over,’ says the London writer, shall we
understand these times when, with serious souls, but with a pulse
hardly moved by the best of joy or the worst of ill, we passed
through things that will seem strange and incredible while the
“world lasts. Afterward they will be remembered for ever. Now
nothing is a nine-day wonder, so crowded is this pageant of state
with national. drama and personal tragedy, so hard do evenis tread
on one another’s heels: so urgent is the necessity, no matter what
happens, of giving instant thought to what may succeed. I suppose
this summer will be as momentous as any summer since man
imagined calendars or. the sun rose and set. In one week we
missed another Trafalgar, but flung back the. whole battered German
fleet into its harbors, and we lost Lord Kitehener in circumstances
more like an early saga or a medieval chronicle than any episode

‘we ever expected to see in modern life. . . ... The more real things’

are,the more prodigious in reality, ‘the less we feel them to be true,

’ Men who went through the hellish death and destruction off
Skagerak confess to having been in a similar mood while the action
lasted. We have no time to he self-conscious. We feel like detached
“Spectators of our own affairs and the illusion is that we are passive

and infinitely remote beings, though we know, in fact, that in our:

different spheres we are working with every fibre of body and mind.
, The young go as the leaves fall, By sea and ‘land,thousands of
our bravest lads have gone and all of us who are older wonder oddly
_ why we are left—we wonder, that is, when we have a “moment to
turn our minds from the immediate business that must goon.”
Yet, sorrow. is calm, stoicism unshaken, purpose unmoved,
judgment clear, effort not abated, but increased, and, if anything,
better. and more quietly ordered than before. °" ‘Truly, man is a
redouitabie being, unaware, at ordinary times,of his own capacity.
And with man I name woman—the mothers, the wives, the sisters
and daughters who are stricken, but make no pause in their duty.

No one talks inequality of the sexes Now, ' oO ~
_... Hf there.were any chances .before..that Britain ‘would. flinch
before this work was put clean through to a tolerable issue, there

is none now. All that has happened by land and'sea has hardened:

. the Allies, temper in the struggle, and above all, ‘has hardened
' Britain’s temper. She would : fi
hesitation, if she had to fight alone.
her to be what she always was.
as impressive ‘as that which is call
whieh I think will gradually prove
After all, we are incaleulably
that. Britain, in the past, went thro
have yet pressed us, -
not only against the ris:
.& strong faction ‘in Par

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“sreaey dT rofitain Hatele* =
Hotel investments in most parts
of Canada, and: particularly’ in,
Ontario, have. depreciated ‘very
much in value owig to the spread
of prohibition, and many owners
are in despair, ' . os
says an exchange. On the other
hand a new’and much better era
‘should now open, - Hotel-keeping
has proved to’ be, and may, in’
Canada,be made, one of the most
Profitable and reputable of: -busi-

field for business dévelopment
we know of today for ambitious,

jlions, a ‘year. .He worked’ his
{Way up from-the kitchen. . Fred

jand other. big American hotels, °
Jalso: worked his'‘way up through.

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capable young men, ©. |”

The trouble is,that ‘our hotels.
have been conducted on’ the
wrong lines. “The bar has been
regarded as -the chief object.
Most hotel-kéepers have not been
business, men but liquor handlers.
Lodgings and food havé merely,
been incident. Some of them
expected to lose money on their

tablés. The wastefulness was
appalling, yet. the supplying of

is one of the most profitable busi-
nesses in the world today.- In
Canada it. has been more or less
of a disgrace to be “associated
with, vor even seen in, an hotel,
In Europe and the United States
some of the richest and. most
prominent families socially are
investing in. and naming hotels
after themselvés-and‘the hotel is
becoming a social center...”
“The most successful hotel-keep-
ers are men .who began in. the
kitchen and. dining-room; who
learnt .the’ business’ from’ that
end. The Ritz, Hotel in. Paris is
probably the-finest in ‘the world
today. © Mr. °Ritz;"when the’

been promoted-ito: assist’ in the

London. “The. present:. general
manager. of. th¢:Ritz, Mr, Ellis,
was his head waiter. :.-Like many
successful caterefs,they are‘both
of Swiss birth. “George C.Bolt,

big hotels in’ the’ States, is the
largest hotel-owner in the ‘world,
with ‘a:net income of we}l over a:
million; * perhaps-a couplé.of mil-

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