Lh Niet , Mw ty Fim AAT, AVE grep THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1019." ITISH WHIG 86TH YEAR Id SEN | Laie Pablished Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING COs LIMITED .. President Editor and & AELEPRON t Rifle Office EPRONES torial Rooms ... ob Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in City .....+ gre year, if paid in advance ...: year, by mail to rural offices { One year to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) Dae year, by mail, hn One year, if not pa Dg year, to United States Six and three months pro rath. SOF-TOWN REPRE TATIVES cs Owen, 12 Ved . Montreal " migden Bldg. Northriip, 236 FIfth Aves New York B-Northrup) 1610 Ase Bid, Chicago, T = ters to the Editor are published] only over ne actual " name thy me ' Abthohed is ome of the best job printing oMjces in Canada. 5 nN » The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the AEC - Audit Bureau of Circulations. 3 M. Thompson, Food prices, both wholesale and tetall, are tumbling in Chicago. May the movement spread eastward. Strikes, like wars, are destructive. Phe world requires greater produc- tion if prices are to be brought down. One person in every twenty-five In this province owns & ¢ar. Doesn't {ook as if the high cost of livihg was' pothering the people of Ontario very much, he last of the band concerts in the Mty parks, which was enjoyed by many people last evening, is a re @inder that the good old summer Ame 1s fast drawing to a close, Actors in New York are on strike ind their Chicago brethren threaten fo g6 out' in sympathy. = They chose pportune time. : The public will mind Doing debarred from the eatres in sweltering August. 4 There 1s sald to be & tree which _ grows in Ashanti, West Africa, which produces excellent butter that keeps perfectly. These are the kind of ees that we should plant in the streets and parks of Kingston, Hon. 1. B. Lucas, attorney-general st Ontario, says he is ready to prose- tute the combines in the province. It hag taken him a good many years to get ready so that he ought to make a good job of it onee he gets started. Canada needs people, production tnd development. If we wonld cous tentrate upon these vital problems A multitude of lesser problems would | spirited? settle themselves and we would begin |, ~ prove ourselves worthy of the at heritage which we. possess.-- 8 fellow-service of war-time is demanded in peace-time, re- the Veteran, The lesson of ee, forever . emblazoned "ess they want » heave on the salary life-line. L.| puddle but mud? It's not easy to cheer ems to be played at your expense Four or five years of this will convince any rising JOUNg man of one of two things-- either that me isn't worth much or that he isn't appreciated. 'Which- ever decision he comes to, he is like- iy to bear a grudge against the insti tutions of society in his generation. And hence arises that typical pro. duct of starved pedagogy----the dis. contented school teacher . A man is contented only when he is measur- ably successful, and successful, as we count success, the teacher Is not Ji soviies more particularly to fors in rural schools, where the salaries are miserably inadequate. nourishing. at a& game that by inclination into the profession is doomed at the start to the most) wearylng kind of financial strugle Unless the school boards throughput the dountry want their teachers to fall in line with radical schemes, un- them to fill the| schools with proletarian ideals, they | will find it necessary to lift the | teacher out of the proletariat bodily | by means of a long, hard, upward -------------- POLICIES SHOULD BE DEFINED. The Toronto World (Conservative) strongly urges that party to hold a| national convention, but says that) the High Seif-Appointed Ones say | no. It points out that the Liberals, | the farmers, the labor men and otheg groups have recently organized, and | badds: "The Conservatives alone are unable to point to a. definite state- ment of their aims. Even a tyro in politics can understand that this is a4 poor way to face an &lection." The World can now point to a spe- cific case which proves its claim. The Conservative convention in North Grey was unable to gécure a candidate of its own political faith, 4 farmer winning the nomination from the present member of the leg- {slature. Partyism has lost much of its power during the past few years. Many of the best men of all political parties are taking a more independent stand. They are not satisfied with the performance of the old parties, and are looking for lead- ership that will be aggressive, honest, and in keeping with the changed con- ditions of the day. The best news: papers of the country have ' also adopted a more independent atti- tude; they have ceased to be mere party organs, and are devoting their energies in support of measures that make for the national weal instead of blindly following party leaders whose only ambition is to gain pow- ér. This strongly accentuated move- ment away from partylsm is a hope- ful 'sign, and one that augurs well for the future of thé Dominion. Let the Union Government and the Censervative party hold their conventions and declare their poli- cles ,as the Liberals did last week. The voters will then know what each party has to offer them, and will be able to make an intelligent choice. Education, A professor of a Western Univer sity has evolved a series of test qlies- tions for the educated which he avows are the "best evidences of a real education. If you can angwer "yes" to each and all the questions you are truly educated, the profes- 8Or says. Here are the questions:-- 1. Has education given you sym-~ pathy with all the good causes and made you espouse them? 2. Has it made you publiee 3, Has it made you a brother to weak? 4; Have you learned how to make friends and keep them? 5. Do you know what it is to be a friend yourself? 6. Can you look an honest man or a pure woinan in the eye? 7. Do you see anything to love in a little child? 8. Will a lonely dog follow you in the street? 8: Can you be high-minded and in the meanest drudgeries of dishes or hoeing corn is just as com- patible with high-thinking as playing 'the piano or playing golf? 1s Bre you good for anything Can you be Nappy alone? 418. Can you look out on the world ahd see anything but dollars and cents? t 14. Can you look into a mud pud« sky? +15, Can you see 730. Do you think that washing | dle by the wayside and see a clear £ anything in the |= PUBLIC OPINION Your Case. {Galt Reportir) It you are charging too much for what you sell don't blame the other fellow for the High Cost of Living. _ IncreaseiProduction. (Buffalo Courler) It will probably be found that in the long run the most effective way to lower prices is to increase produce tion. oem ---------- Does He ? (Buffalo Commercial) The Attorney General is to prose- cute the big packers. Who is: going after the little fellow at the corner ail price every time the wholesaler acks on a cent? He who drifts by accident or on i fo 3 who adds two cents to the res The Only Drawback. (Brantford Expositor) ; The railroad. brotherhoods of the United States have a grand scheme for the government ownership of the railroads with an equal division of profits, after paying fixed charges and operating costs, between the | public and the employers. The only drawback to the scheme is that un« der government ownership there are usually no profits to divide, Soldier And Gentleman. (Buffalo Counier) Canadians and Americans will greet with very real cordiality the young prince royal, not so much be- cause he is the Prince of Wales, but because he has proved himself thru the war a modest democratic and oa pable man, As the future heir to the British throne he will receive the welcome due his rank and station, but the real warmth and cordiality underly- ing the greetings will come for the feeling of the people that the Prince of Wales is at heart a clean, fine, companionable soldier and gentle man, What Is Innocence? Cynics say there's no such thing. Optimists insist there is. Whittmore, an 'artist, actually thought he had found it in a reform school for way- ward girls. Surely those pretty, lau- ghing creatures dancing around a may-pole must be sweet, innocent young girls! Particularly, shy Nad- ine. So he painted Nadine's picture. Rupert Hughes in "Innocence" tells what Whittmore found out. A good story for pessimists or optimists to read. POPPER EPI PBES IRM PRR * OORN AND PORK PRICES HAVE DROP Chicago, Aug. 15.----Radical down turns in grain and provi- sions prices took place yester- day.and the breaks were largely asciibed" to Seizures of food hoards and to other develop- ments in the war against high cost of living. Corn fell 8%ec. a bushel to $1.83 for September deltvory, and: pork $8.25 a bar- tal to $44 for September. RPP IPPIE Erber eY | BHI PPL Obese On Wednesday Rev. Dr. P. L. Righ: ardson, Brdckvile, united in mar- riage Miss Sarah Ann Jowett, Lyn, and ROY . Campbell, 'Toronto. "ig bh DOES FIELDING "BOLT" THE NEW PLATFORM 2 He Hopes the Convention Re- solutions Don't Mean What They Say. Hon. 'W. 8. Fielding in Journal of Com. merce, Montreal Democracy has its disadvantages, It must be content to have much of ity work dome hurriedly, and conse quently imperfeotly. A very small committee; with ample time at its command for the study of the ques- tions raised, would make a better platform than a committee of more than a hundred megbers, called upon. to frame in a few hours des claration of policy on many very ime portant questions, A very large coms mittee it the Otfawa Liberal Cons vention, facing such a situation was naturally obliged to deal, with little deliberation, with many resolutions gent to it, and the convention to which the committee reported had to treat 'some of the recommendations in the samie way. A smaller commit tee with ample time would probably have seen the wisdom of 'dealing with fewer gquéstions and giving them fuller cvongideration. Many of the delegates, it is safe to say, learn ed tor the first time through the newspapers of resolutions which had been adopted by the convention as part of the party platform. The reso lutions may be found to be all right. In some cases they may be regarded with less satisfaction' when ~ they come under analysis and criticism. Like the covenant of the League of Nations, the platform cannot now be amended. But, as Mr. Taft pro- poses in the case 'of the League some of its friends may feel obliged to receive it with "interpretations and reservations." One is reminded of the old story of the colored por ter of the Pullman car who remon- strated with his passengers for re- maining outside. "You shouldn't stay here, ggemmen," said Sam, 'that's not what the platform is for." "What is it for then, Sam?" "Platforms, gemman, is only to get in on' Neo doubt there were at the convention --a8 there must be at every Opposi- tion political gathering---many men whose first thought is as to the para mount importance of getting in, leav- ing the future to take care of itself. But there may come a day of settle ment, and those who are called upon to fulfil the agreement may Have cause to regret the largeness of the order that was accepted. The most important part of the platform is that concerning the tar. iff. It might have been wiser, with an eye to the future, to deal more in principles and less in details, In their general character the tariff declara- tions are substantially in . accord with the economic views which most Liberals have held in the past, If the Liberal ideas are being pressed fur- ther than in former days, it is be: cause events have made a large sec- tion of the party less disposed to mo- deration than they formerly were. The 'interpretations and reserva- tions," however, still leave room for | a belief that the resolutions do not mean the extreme and alarming po- licy that is being aséribed to them by some hostile critics. ie " George Corbett, accompanied by Oliver Sinpette, another 'pt made his escape via a cellar window from Arnprior jail in view of many people. They dre still at large. _ "less he doubts. The more a man doesn't know the Rhymes WAN a Ip ing : . x Sometimes things seem all disjointed, in this weary path we tread; we are galled and disappointed, |' and we wish that we were dead. habit, letting briny teardrops start; man should nevar |, be a rabbit; he should have a lion heart. If the lion heart is lacking, he can still pretend it's there, and his burden blithely packing, show no symptoms of despair. I am prone to vain repining, when I strike a vein of grief; it's my nature to be whining, and to paw around and beef; but by long and earnest acquired a cheerful front, and I chortle when, the fact actice 1've is, tears would seem the proper stunt.' Let the tin- 5 horn griefs assemble, they will think I'm not afraid; ' though my rabbit heart may tremble, I'll pretend I'm ayed. And the bluff will work, I'll bet you; "and "twill work as well for you; don't let worry scare or fret you; face the beast, and mutter Nerve's a thing that some inherit, easily all ills they've a greater merit who pretend we are not scared, - dared; but we show "Shoo!" 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