of human and apimol labour. And most of the development will follow the 'eomplotion of good roads every- where, say in 1921, when farmers with. in a 'radius of fifty or sisty miles from the city are able to pack their produce on five or ten ton motor trucks and take it themselves in a four or five-hour journey to the von sumer in the city. "Few of the his- toric aids to the advance of civiliza- tion," says Collie "have been of us great help as the completion of the portable' fountain of energy which, welghing only one-half as much as a horse, will do the work of sixty horses and keep it up without rest for practically an unlimited time." Our contemporary is not the first to see this wonderful transformation in the vision. The" Annals of Political Feo- nomy have magaified the place of the good roads and. the auto on the life and prosperity: of the farmer. The next ten years will be the farmers' era, and the wonder is that the till- ers of the soil, sniffing the breath of great success, do not take on more pride in the proiession, for profession 901it is and no longer a calling, ------ and Semi-Weekly by WHIG Fy UBLISHING Jour. § United tat - 0. Un! ates .. .... and 'three months pro ras, . (Bemi- Weekly Edition) Year, by mail .. . r;_to United St. olan ie Ion three months, pro rata. ttacned is one of the best job ting offices in Canada. ---- TORO! REPRESENTATIVR ne Np} ® .. .... 32 Church St, He 5 8. REPRESENTATIVES: i J A GIANT OAK FALLS Ww York Office 225 Fifth Ave.) Tyan Prank R. Northrup, Manager. The value of Lord Strathcona's life, OBbloago .... .... .... , Tribune Bldg. » value of his service to. the rank R. Northrup. Manager. and the value of his service to. he nation, cannot be accurately measured Many years from now, The tax for censaring the picture films will be increased so that the re- venue of the government whl be' at least $10,000 a year. Which means that the five-cent movie will soon he past, and may it have a peaceful death. a thing of the REMOVE THE GARBAGE at the present. What Kingston wants--and wants {when the work of his mighty brain very badly--is a Proper garbage sys-|has heen fully comprehended, his sta tem. The people desire to get rid of [ture will have grown, all waste promptly and reasonably, and | the they look to the City Council to or- ganize a scheme by which this may be acoomplished. . The Whig suggests that in the minds of people, to something like its cof? rect proportions, The chronicler will have given some of the bold facts respecting his rise in the Board of Works consider the ex- |the commercial, the political, and the pediency of inaugurating it at once, | Social world, and editorially and as a preliminary it suggests that | for the Whig to refer to 'only two or a deputation be appointed to visit three features of his remarkable char- Peterboro and witness its incinerator acter. The editor of the Whig recalls at work. * There would be no sense in the parliament of 1872 in 'which the examining -into the Toronto system, Pacific which is- approaching an annual cost of hall a million dollars. But there is Sense, dnd great wisdom too, in cx- amining info the Pgterboro plan and in acdupting and applying it in Kings- "ton. The miserable system which has . been in use here should be terminated 88 soon as possible. It has been but & makeshift at best, a poor one, and one for the perpetuation of which no oBe can take any particular credit. it is scandal received . an airing. Donald A. Smith was a member from Manitoba, with Dr. Schultz, ate of Queen's The debate [ which led to dissolution of the house was participated in Mr, Smith. He gave his opinion tardily jand in a judicial spirit. He against his leader regretfully, but as a matter of conscience. a gradu- College. a by voted It stamped him judgment and inde he as a man of rare pendence, These mised. Political features = varied in later years. Mr, Smith. knighted in 1886, was still powerful factor, in the public life of the North-West, and the chief factor of the pany. never compro sy _ Mr. Borden is said to contemplate another triuniphal tour of the great west. * The pity is he cannot go at once, with Alberta hot over the man- . Ber in which its deputation--the six- teen men with coon skin coats--was treated at Ottawa. Would the ~muer be impressed by the public content ? #oon. a Hudson's Bay com- As such he knew more about the wealth of Canada, in land minerals, became pre- dis- If 80 he cannot wee it too and in than any other man, and he the chief power in the new C.P.R. company which was formed in 1880. Into the gonstruction of the road he put all the money he owned. With its success he and his associates With its failure they The days. FUTURE USE OF ARMOURIES The secretary of the Layman's Mis- sion Movement, H. Kk. Caskey, thinks sesdhe cities; should look after their im- migrant settlers and give theif, as speedily as possible, the education they require. Ii, he remarks, the Sountry can spend $12,000,000 year in the military establishment, of 50,- 000 men, in Preparing sible armed defence, should provide any sum that may be necessary in order to equip mentally the 400,000 who reach Canada annual- ly and purpose to make it their home. The Whig bas reflected upon the pos- sible uso of the armouries which the minister of militia is erecting all over the country, and in conversation: with "the local member he suggested that they might become schools. Mr, Caskey has the same idea, and Col. the Hon, Sam Hughes - will "him for expressing it. "very arm- ours," said Mr. Caskey, "in the coun- try might well be a centre for super- vised playgrounds and community work with moving pictures as an edu- oational feature, musical events and pageants .by the * people themselves, addresses on sanitation, health, eiti- zenship, law and history." So that we neetl not despair of the armouries. They will "ome in usefully by-and-bye, whos the war drums cease to roll, when the battle flag is furled, and Col. the Hon. Sam Hughes has gone. to &he Hague aus a peace commis- sioner, 'were made men. were ruined irretrivably. enterprise had its dark men belind it had their sons. The Strathcona, riches that years. With he through many important engagements, the trusted one of all pgrties and men, and . finally becoming the high commissioner of Canada in 1896. At the queen's jubilee, in the next year, he became a peer, and had been, up. til his death, the doustant and pow- erful representative of Canada abroad.' Not only was he conspicuous in the counsels of the empire, hgnoured by the kin, and' enjoying his confidence, but in a thousand ways, by ness, his goodness, his and intense loyalty, great The gloomy sea- hopeful spirit no one was and came one envied the to Kim in after them for a pos- this country advancing years passed forgive his kind- discernment By his spectacu- lar giits to the cities of Canada and in defences of 'the he Has stood out as a great national figure, It sometimes happens that only one man of his type, visible at the time--a Macdonald, & Mackenzie, a Whitney, or a Strathcona--and that when he is removed there is not a sue- cessor. At least he is not recognized. Strathcona, in all his rugged integ- rity, a Scotchman whose . conscience was never daunted nor dulled, has not had an under-study", Unique in life he will be unique in memory, and we, of this dispensation, will certain: ly not look for his like again, ---- EDITORIAL NOTES. Peterboro is trying a police wo- man, with the idea that she will check, more than any man, the im- morality of the day. _Strange no bue in Kingston ever thought of this when the new policemen were being added lately. empire, there ig I ---------------------- The Toranto News chides the As. quith government with remaining in Power with the aid of the national- its' Votes. The leader of the 8h Spoeition. has sorrowfully) re. - the fact that not in forty years has the conservative party of Britain held office and power on its own account. In the intervals, when luck was with it, the nationalists were its allies. ! A WIT OF rROPEESY "Coliier's National Weekly takes a into the ' future, Ten years hence it will be in order to sum wp the causes that have contributed most to the development of the times, and the taithiul historian will be in- clined to give the largest' measure of credit to the gasoline engine. The Moutreal Mail has jumped into prominence as a purifier of the public morals. It has evidence of incre- dible corruption among members of the Quebec legislature and demands 8h opportunity to prove its case. It will supply the evidence. It. must wet its' chance, and the legislature must be purged. tested The Bureau of Research will hav® = i + | to develop into a school for muni- | replacing, happily, a great deal cipal officials. the vities and towns going to find their municipal experts ? The city's business "should be'as well run as the buginess of any man, and how can it unless there is a way of mak- ing competint officials. "CFM." the initials of the To- ronto News' Ottawa correspondent, will not appeal to caustic eriticism of liberal politicians. He bas accept- od 'office and may now realize what it is to have some other fellow, with a sharp pencil, write smart things about him. Why do so many 'peo- ple envy these government jobs ? Jesse Cullings, who ia not familiar } to the politicians of the day, but who was a famous figure in British politics for many a day, retires from public life. Henceforth he will be liy- ing in the past and perhaps he will relish the land reforms of the day. He ought to do so, since his de- mand © for the 'peasant labourer of "three acres and a cow" will not forgotten. If tarifi reform be a good thing something to im- in England, and prove the times--and the unionists gay it is--it ought! to be a good thing 'in Canada, and the ' conserva- tives should tri it. lorden's idea in good roads, technical education, co-operation, and All good things but Meantime (ten years hence), wider markets. calculated to act slowly. the starving people may die. PUBLIC OPINION] Brantford Expositor. Ww When the end men of the Borden minstrels get off the old joke about the prosperity of the country let everybody laugh. A Popular } Ottawa- Journal of parliament million and a - said hali The opening to bring in: a dollars to Ottawa talk all vear, at 18 this rate Nearing a Crisis Toronto Mail, Mexico has defaulted on her bond interest, thus bringing the country one'step nearer the crisis that has been so long avoided They Are Chilly Toronto Stax The Borden government has decided to keep its naval policy' locked up for awhile. It tender and sensitive creature amywayv, and the winters at Ottawa are chilly: All Have Troubles Brantford Unemployment seems to struck Hamilton pretty hard. To Brantford we are not in quite as bad shape as in the sister city, but we have troubles enough of" our own. Expositor have The Contrast Saskatoon Phoenix Local tories revelled in Meighen's appeal for £35,000,000 dreatdnoughts, -while = outside breadnoughts enjoyed themselves the civic stone pile. However, that's ahout all thit one expects from tory ism. for the on Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. Three tenders have been put in for the purchase of the street railway. Negotiations are going on between the councils of Portsmouth and township of Kingston, for the open- ing of a road from Johnson street across the government property to the Forty Foot Road. |, The Orangemen have not forgot- ten the action of the minister of jus tice in refusing to allow the Orange men guards at the penitentiary to take part in the procession on Jul) 12th, 1887. They are about to peti tion the government to rescind the order. If this cannot be accomplish ed another mass meeting will be held to decide what action will be taken, | BIRTHDAYS OF NOTABLE MEN | Wednesday, January Twenty-First. The Hon. Jules 'Allard. minister of lands and forests in the Quebec gov- ernment, who is fifty-five years of age to-day, was born and brought up at St. Fran- cois du Lae, P Q. He is a law- | yer by proression but has long tak- cj en a considerable interest in public{ affairs. Begin- ning by being a school ecommis- i sioner in his na- tive village, he ected to the leg- islature. © For a time he led the government fore- es in the legisla- tive council, His abilities were re- cognized by Premier Gouin a few Years ago and he was given the port- folio of colonization and public works Later he was shifted to the depart- ment of agriculture and five years 420 to his present office. -------- John Henderson, for thirty-five vears a faithful employee of the Brockville Cemetery company, passed away Sat- urday evening, after an illness of three months, due to a madgnant cancer. It is agnin reported that the Mann mine at Gowgands has been sold te an English syndicate, with a number Otherwise where ars - of other prospects; one of which. is the Bartlett. We can stand the ; Prophecy. Small Boy (handing druggist a dollar)--"Pive five-cent cigars, give me the change." Druggist--"But, Bab, your father al- ways smokes ten-cent cigars." "Well, he isn't going to this time. -- Life. half and Upbringing. "Aren't you having your taught to play or sing "No." replied Mrs. Flimgilf, "T have decided that she shall have no accom- plishmenty Whatever, Instead of strive ing for approval I want her to have the superior Pose that enables her to observe the efforts of others with tal- erant interest." -- Washington Star. daughter Danger of Soft Drinks. "Papa," said the small boy who had been listening to the latest gossip about the heads of the nation. "Is it wrong to drink soda water?" Fond Parent--=It whong, Willie, dangerous. is not exactly but it certainly is very Sontgof our Best statesmen began on soda water." Awful, What sent asylum? poor Reggy anh insane n/ of thought passed n"and wrecked it through Great Pdetic Lines. Heaven from all 'creatures hides the book of fate, --Pope. From the summits of yonder pyra- forty centuries: look down Napoleon. A shout, that taye Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the Night mids you.- upon reign of Chaos and old --Milton. = How will you £ler straighten up this shape; ah Touch it agli vith immortality; Give back the upward-looking and the a light; Rebuild it if the music and the dream? ----Markham RE Arthur , Love tuogk wi¥'the harp [ dwelt alone In 1 of moan, And my soul a wo wds a stagnant tide td «Poe. took" up the gl turn'd "it glowing hands lightly shaken in: golden. sands of Life, and smote on all its chords with might; the chord of Self, that, tumb- Love Time, and I in his 4 Every moment ran itsalr Simote ling, pass'd in music out of sight --Tennyson Our birth is but ting oul that rises with us, our life's star Hath had elsewhére its setting, And cometh from af Through trailing clouds of gl« we a sleep and 'gx forget- a The come wito is our home : --Wordsworth From God Dear as remember kisses after death, And sweet us those by ho 88 fancy feigned lips that love, On are for others; d&ep as Deep as first love, and wild with all re- gret; O Death in Life, more, the days that are no ~Tennyson PERSONALITY BEYOND DEATH. In justice to myself and my coworkers I must risk annoying my present hearers not only by Jeaving on record our conviction that occurrences now regarded as occult can be examined and reduced to order by the methods of science carefully and persist- ently applied, but by going fur- ,. ther and saying, with the utmost brevity. that already the facts 80 examined have convinced me that memory and affectionare not limited. to- that association with matter by which alone they can manifest themselves here and now and that personality - per- sists beyond bodily death. 'The evidence, to my mind, goes to prove that discarnate intelligence under certain conditious may in- J teract with us on the material side. thus indirectly coming within our scientific ken. and that gradually we may hope to attdin some understanding of the nature of a larger, perhaps etbe- rial, existence and of the condi- tions regulating intercourse across the chasm. A body of re- spousible investigators has even now landed ou the treacherous Nbut promising - shores of the Yor continent.~Sir Oliter Lodge. 3 A en -------- Hr. D. J. Foster, has. resumed prac: tice at Westport, BIBBYS UARY SUIT SALE Annual Inventory Clean-Up Sale JAN It's Inventory time again--and right before we commehce our "stock-taking" we always hold a Clearance Sale. We want no "carry overs,'"' and we cut our prices to the limit in order to make things move at once. In looking through the pa- pers you'll see all sorts of Clearance Sales advertised, but there's no sale as important as this one. Don't miss it! Men'h hand tailored Suits, So. ciety brand and Semi-Ready, $22.50 and $20.00 Suits for "$15.00 MEN'S HEMSTITCHED LINEN LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS Sale Price 5c Each MEN'S PATENT LEATHER SHOES Sizes left, 41-2, 5512 6,6 1-2, Regular $5.00 and $6.00 Shoes, for 1. MEN'S PURE WOOL HOSIERY Black Ribbed Worsteds, sizes 91-2, 10, 101-2, 11. Regular 25 and 35¢ values. Bibby 's January price, 17¢ per pair. BIBBYS, Limited 78, 80, 82 Princess St, Copyright 1932 Alfred Docker @& Colin Kingston Better Coal | Means Smaller » Coal Bills That is why it pays to erder Coal that suits, * P. WALSH -37 Barrack Street Ladies' Hockey and Skating Boots Our + Ladies' Boots have fleece lining in them and will keep the mn, pe | | | able." Low and spring heel, $2.00 and $2.50, "H. JEN King S-- | feet war mand comfort MONEY T0 LOAN I have private funds to loac on real estate NINGS, Street ee -- E WHIG WANT ADS only at lowest current READ TH rates. I. J. LOCKHART, » Kingston) Phone 1033 or 10920 ADVERTISE IN THE WHIG, vii Yo