dni bet foi PAGE SIX THE BRITISH WHIG 87TH YEAR. [ed Lod i } 'RECKING RUSSIA, That the Allies are still far from | having any clear or intelligent policy | toward Russia is quite evident. After {two years of persistence in the policy jof military intervention, England and France, with the connivance of the | United States and the co-operation, { for her own purposes, of Jepas, have | managed to produce nothing but ig- |nominious failure on three fronts, | with the prospect that the Denikine adventure will Presently come to the same end. {this blood and treasure on behalf of |the "poor, suffering, enslaved Ris |sian people," we have succeeded {merely in making their sufferings : | worse, in starving thousands of them > Fabilshed Daily THE DRITISH W 00, LI J. G. Eillote President Leman A. Gu : TELEPHONES, Business Office .... Sdicorial Rooms ob Office a = SUBSCRIPTION (Daily Edftion) ATES ° if pald in advance .... Editor and Managing-Director resese 243 :332 | the fact that the policies of the Allies 1.50 lto desith! ahd, as one writer points | out, in- preventing an otherwise in- {evitable tendency toward liberalism { ment itself. It is hard to 'recall any | instance in history where ignoranes {and selfishness have achieved such { inexcusable, such terrible, results. In large part the tragely is due to ne Semi W »7 [and moderation in the Soviet overn- Wii PUBLISHING 8 MITED have been subject to no sort of popu- lar control, but have been worked ge year, delivered in city fio In secret by men who, as it now 0 ® year, by mail te rural offic One year to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) year. by mail, cash . . Year, if not paid in advance year, to United States ...... Six and three months pro rata. OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES F Calder, 22 St. John St Mgntreal « M. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. Toronto. .§1.00 'R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave. New York R.Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Letters to the Editor are published only over the wctual name o writer. Attached is one of the best Job Printing offices in Canada. De . The circulation or THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circnlations. A fine example of the "ultimate consumer' is a tippler of wood alco- hol. t Italy is leaning toward prohibi- tion--a' little. The sale of liquor containing more than twenty per cent. of alcohol is fdrbidden, on Sun- "What will happen when the rail- roads go back to private ownership?" asks the Literary Digest. Perhaps in that event they will show a profit instead of a defici® tea ---- The curling matches last week-- that is, the ice curling matches-- Were won by the married women by "& large. mumber of points. They knew how to sweep. ------------ « Kingston's federal member, the 'mnister of ' justice, announces a policy of economy. He is jneeed a brave man who has the courage to advocate economy these days, 'The cost of coal and gasoline has Just been advanced. Turst John D. in losing no time getting back the millions he donated to medical re- search with a little bit to the good. -------------- The Prince of Wales is shipping thoroughbred horses, cattle and sheep to his recently acquired Al- berta ranch. The prince seems to be 48 much interested in Canada as Canada was in the prince. -------------- By a vote of nearly three to one Ottawa has decided not to adopt the single tax system. Vancouver and Edmonton tried out the experiment, but soon found it impracticable. Like many another proposal, practice dis- Proves the theory. ~The public library is in reed of large sums to equip the new build- ing donated by Mr. Chown. Those upon whom prosperity has smiled should respond in a generous man- J Der. We can't all be Carnegies, but 'We all can help to advance the educa- tional interests of the city. The city industries committee has an excellent chairman this year in the person of Ald. N. B. Steacy. A better selection could not have been made, Much of the future prosper- | dty of the city depends upon the work of this coinmittée during the present J ------------------ The next session of the federal partiament, scheduled to open on Feb. 26th, promises to be a brief one. 'eontroversial issues are in sight, pl possibly that touching the ied Dominion Franchise Act. Henry Drayton, minister of "wants expenditures cut to 2,000,000, a proposal which will i ---- nt Legett, of the Eastern Dairymen's Association, de- before the amnual meeting of Ontafio, thanks, largely, excellent work done by the itor Derbyshire, of Brock- is pleasant to know that in respects Leeds occupies an position in tha province. 3.0) | begins to appear, failed in an aston- | ishing degree to acquaint themselves 1.80 | with the facts of the situation they 1.80 | sought to alter, For the United | States, thanks to the senate's delay {10 ratifying the treaty, this is still true, and that country may yet have |cause to regret it even more than at present. | r------------ { GOING TO COLLEGE AT SEVENTY, A few days 4g0 news despatches {informed us that Karl Dulman, one |of the Welland Canal { who had served a term in Portsmouth | penitentfary, "was going to take & | college course in the United States, {despite the fact that he had reached | seventy years of age. He is now ru- | siding in Philadelphig-- and, havin, won a scholarship against a large | tleld of competitors, is preparing tov | enter the University of Pengsylvania as a freshman next autumn. The {man of seventy is usualy regarded | { as having run his race, as having los: | his power to learn, as awaiting only | the "nunc dimittis" of death, | The face of this old man may be { wrinkled as are the faces of sept- { uagenarians, but it is turned forward | instead of backward. His heart 1» | Yoyng---and 80, evidently, is his | mind. | To all the talk about the renewal | of youth by the grafting of interest- {itil glands, and similar pseudo- * | scientific gossip, this winher of a | scholarship against a practically un- {Hmited field has furnished the only {right and reasonable answer. That |answer ds that the only way to be Young in old age is to keep young; to keep young by cherishing the | youthful point of view. There are plenty of men and wo- {men to-day who are old at forty. [There are also plenty of men and | women who are young at seventy. [Age is not so much a matter ot years as it is of point of view and of ate {tude toward life. Any man or wo- | man who fails to Keep yo wg In | these tremendous days or mental, | moral and physical activity and sti- {mulous has only himself or herself {to blame. Keep in close touch with { life, and the contact will keep old | age away from your heart and your { mind. | SYSTEMATIO GIVING. When tithing was required by law, it was a burden, whether amongst [the ancient Jews, or in modern coun- | tries, where a Christian church was | nationally "established." Such don- ations, regularly exacted and un- {willingly paid, certainly damaged the influence of religion, gave rise to {popular resentment against the {clergy, and checked the natural im- ! pulses of generosity. | - The churches of Canada are sup- { ported entirely by free will offerings, {and in general the revenue comes | from a very small proportion of each { congregation. ' The men who take {their religion seriously, who recog- {nize their responsibility to God for |the wise management of their re- { sources, give constantly and enjoy it. Some others imagine that they are | patronizing the church when they {glve two dollars. , A large number seem' to imagine that money and | Christianity ought not to be men- | tioned in the same breath. Yet the very auditorium in which they sit, enjoying these noble thoughts, is warmed by coal which costs §12 a ton. Undoubtedly, the free-will offering plan of church financing is the best, it all the members participate ace cording to their means. - The man who contributes a thousand dollars 2 year should have no more religious privileges than' the one who cannot honestly atford five cents. But the people who can rd to give, and refuse, whether could afford much mors for religious and benevolent objects. But it is de- sulticiently Interested in Christianity to join a church Id realize that the Lord bas prospered him." That » Professing to spend all | dynamiters | [means the laying aside every weak of : {a definite sum to be applied to the | |support of the home church, to the | { missionary enterprise of his com- | { munion, end to the worthy causes || Dominion Happenings of Other {recent public meeting, he sald: *If % | my church is not worth to me the ex- The First Library. { penditure of one-tenth of my income, . Ld rg no good." With magnificent public and insti- ! : { tutional libraries every where in Can- | Most of the financial difficulties {ada as they are now it is quite difficult { which are faced by the churches at ito imagine a day when ks were | |this time, owing to the declining {few and reading matter * difficult to [value of the dollar and the extra {obtain. But the early settlers sufferec i | {8 great privation from loss of books |ofdinary condition of international |, S50 FESR cabins while even the | exchange, would disappear if all the officers in the cities found it almost | communicants would resolve to adopt eially hard to secure leasunt Toad. i ethod of systematic giving. |ing. in 1779 Hal dimand, e joe he Dl. 5Y ¢ 4, Shaki i {Governor of Quebec, wrote to Richard Usually, the revenue o ® | Cumberland, the novelist, and urged not two per cent. of the annual wealth {him to collect some books and have | of the congregation--this, despite the [them sont to Quebec. After a long t that the ardent minority are giv- | delay five g cases of the works of | [Tae the ten per cent. basis. Some | the day arrived from London. They | DE. on the'ten p * {were a treat to the little colony and { members would need a table of deci- formed the basis of the fist ey | mals to calculate the proportion of |in the country, Later they passed into [their income applied to church ex- |the hands of the Literary and Histori- | {tension cal Society of that city. | | SRS OB. : tod In Montreal the garrison made frases may ot be directly connec! hervic endeavors to anmse itself, In | with the church. the same year they organized a | Voluntary "tithing" is ardently theatre but 3 Jacked very much | y iven it u {Properly trained ladies for the various {advocated by all who have give » | POD Samet dadies for the varjous falr trial. As a rule, it is not a bur- | Suiciontly large to accomodate the {den. The money accumulates 8ur-{srowds that came. Col. McLean asked | { prisingly, even overrunning the de- |for the use of the ns YEREEEENENE B gestibule of the ! 2 i m- | Jesuits, his production ing along the | | mands. The fadtvidea) it Rayer su Lines oF the "Edinburg theatre "The | barrassed by 3 subscription |attraction was a concert of vocal and | | knows exactly how much he can at- tinstrumental music and the play to be | ford, and he gives with pleasure. acted was Molieres "Les Fourberies | It is interesting to notice that the {de Scapin." It was the first occasion | churchmen who complain about the | that _ any of the great dramatists | { works were ever produced in Canada. | Insistent call for money are almost |y "C "0 event in the limited social ! invariably among those whose an-|life of "the little colony in the new | jauat contributions have a lean and land, eagerly anticipated and long bered hungry look in the annual reporis. Tam hepa which Too, cones ut} | The attitude of the tithers is best ex- {hela and hn Se gag Bd {pressed by a Toronto layman. In a | probably the first play ever vitnessed | {in the Dominion, ot | ------------ What Is Education? (New York Times.) The truth 4s that "education" is | finally and maturely picked up in the fields. and streets, among men and { The Reason Why coat, i. e., one with skirts, had a more | mal courses of schools and univer | sensible reason originally. At oie sities. However and wherever hit or | time the skirts of such coats were | missed, "education" is multiform and | made very long, and when the woar- | protean, hard to grasp or define. One | er. moved quickly the tails of the|of the best concrete illustrations of it | coat flapped about the legs and in-|{ was made by Lord Morley. terfered with progress. So an ingeni-|in effect, that i ous gentleman had buttons sewed on| knows when a thing has been proved | to the back and buttonholes mage In {and when it hasn't. rner of his coattails. en i e-------- | a was in a hurry he simply e Presiflent of the Swiss Re- | buttoned up his skirts and went hig publidyis opposed to the inclusion ol way comfortably. Vorarlberg mong the Swiss can- | ~--From the Book of Wonders. toms, | Published and copyrighted by the | S--srdrmo. Bureau of Industrial Education, Inec., Washington, D. C. 3 oF tion 0 J. J. Morrison, secretary of the United Farmers of Ontario, said on | Dr. Chinse's Ointment yi vellev you at his return from the west that a | I . 1 4 litical Sample box free if you Dominion-wide farmers po | Fort, Sample fox roo it » movement was inevitable, i Rippling Rhymes « THRIFTLESS. There's an ancient weary fellow working for me, i days and nights are bores. He is crippled and rheu- | an attic where the rain. falls through the roof. 1] could weep when I behold him: he'll be hopeless in has his long repose. And his youth was gay and | gilded, and he wildly spent his wage, while the wise Ih youth wrought and builded for the years of wintry | age. Once this old man was a master in the trade | that he had learned, but he blew his money faster than the ding-donged stuff was earned; and he made no wise provision for the days of want and dread; life was sunny and elysian--why should people look ahead? Why put down the shining shilling in a quan- tity of brine, when a sport could make a killing in | the haunts of cards and wine? Why consider a to- Be is under obligation to "give as morrow when today is good enough? Going broke, | a sport could borrow on his watch and kindred stuff, | Now around my house he tinkers, and no hope is in| CanadaEast and West |= in spite of (the limit- |g doing chores; and his lift is sad and yellow, and oH 1 ma,tic, and he plies a feeble hoof, and his home is in i] A ERR RENNER EOS EN rd AINA NINN ANN NNN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1020: a ---- -- BIBBY'S i 5 » Twenty-five dozen Men's Soft Shirts--sizes 14 to 16}--a few 17 and 18. Regular $2.00 and $2.50 values. SALE PRICE $1.37 EACH MEN'S UNDERWEAR SPECIAL AT $3.00 PER SUIT Penman's heavy ribbed, wool Underwear--shirts, and Drawers--all sizes. Young Men's Suits Correct models, nobby patterns, splendid- ly tailored--the Clinton, the Haig, the Ritz --extra specialvalue .......... . $35.00 YOUNG MEN'S OVERCOATS The Whiton, the Admiral, the Clyde--Waist Seam, Ferm Fit, Full Back models--real classy garment, late arrivals-- cannot be duplicated from the makers at the price we are offering them. Bibbys January Price aN OVERCOAT SPECIAL "wr SUIT SPECIAL NO. 2 About 37 sample Suits; safe, Sizes conservative models. 35 to 46. Special price $18.50 . 78, 80, 82, 84 PRINCESS STREET = ER Shirt Sale Men's Chesterfields, black or grey Cheviots; Young Men's Waist Seam models: dark Tweeds; extra special values MEN'S SOCKS Grey wool socks blue toe and heel. Special value 25 CENTS Special No. 2 -- plain black ribbed Wool Socks --special value 50 CENTS PER PAIR $35.00 NO. 2 $25.00 his woes, till the boneyard sods enfold him, and he Ean --Drinking Founts. se ~Drinking "Buckeye Incubators". THE WORLD'S BEST. Get your wants for the Poultry Show supplied now Zenol " Cups. --Metal Grit Boxes. ~--Leg Bands. ~Aluminum Bands. A Cup of Real Hot CO Sounds good these cold mora- ings. It will taste good too it made from our Java an] Mo- cha Blend. 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