PAGE SIX THE DAILY Ey WHIG SATURDAY, MAY, 22, 1020, THE BRITISH WHIG! | minister of the gospel who "Bis sors serv- 7th YEAR. by Published Dajly and Semi-Weekl THE BRITISH G WHIG PUBLIS C0., LIMITED J: G. Elllogt ....,.. Leman A. Guild cesses President Editor and Mansging-Diretor TELEPHONES: iness Ofiice ereseesddd {torial Ruoms "ren «229 | Job Office ........ PR SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, delfvored In oft year, delive nD ofty ee... "One y sid in advapes .. 0 rurh) year to Rhited States + $3.0 n jyear, by mail, eash ........§109 ® year, if not pald in advance, 134 , to United States ......31.5 ¥ and three months pro reta. 3 REPRESENTATIVES ooge v Montreak " ot i LP Bldg. 303 Fiten Ave, New York the Rdftor ~ ublished Rs the he any - or of the i. 916 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago eg ope of the best job ] offices Canada. I tt a a, , Summer is here, but we grouch 'mbout the heat. Are we.ever satis- fied? voit In planning your garden don't wis egg fruit, gar cane and milk weed. Farmers and janitors are the real independent mortals on this hemis- phere these times. ---- The uplifters! What have they to _sdy about it? Seems as if we had fallen on bad times. of The grass is wonderfully green and the cattle will fatten upon it. The Crops are coming along fine. And now for house cleaning. Some ladies, with a sense of pride in their i voices, say, "I'm through!" " Just now the citizens are not so u concerned about the price of coal as to where to get the coal. Carranza is likely to find a haven . in the United States, a country he flouted not so many moons ago. The average clerk hereafter will "have a splendid opportunity to work off his knowledge of arithmetic. The snail and the clam nave the call on most horrified paterfamilies-- | they have their own house always. And when you come to think of it, ~ we will have to pay the excise taxes 'with dollars worth only fifty cents. The days of extravagance must end' THe budget has decreed it and common sense backs up the demand. The Washington Star remarks that the Européan problem consists large- ly in encouraging Germany's indus- Arial talent and discouraging her militaristic impulsegr" been a wonderful advance in produc tion, but it is In the way of candi: dates for federal and state offices. This crop never fails until after elec- tion day. Twenty thousand barbers in New ork are on strike: Thrift may com- 'pel the residents to become Bolshev- ists. Think of the whiskers that 'would adorn our people if the Kings- ton barbers were to walk out! Byeryhody who has a plan to do the government on the excise dues should exploit it in the papers. The government is really anxious to know 'how it can be flim-flammed, and then It will devise remedies and penalties. A Kingston symphony orchestra should not have to struggle for exist- ange. Are there no patrons of music in Kingston who could present a thou- sand dollars a year to permit the or- chestra doing bigger things? Should "the city council not be one of the *The Farmers' Government at To- tonto has imposed a big increased on all amusements In the pro- including theatres,. 'movie dance halls, ete. This is a it hit at the towns and cities. To t, the government should that all country dances, con- etc., should Pay the same in- rate. | A esp st. the story told from a Kingston pit of a retired clergyman eighty- years of age seeking to offici- jo: at Sunday services as supply, in to augment his pittance of ay 'allowance to keep himself 'pititui. Over in the United States there has |- fed the church faithfully and well for many years deserves a more serens | evening of life, but the world's riches are too unevenly divided to permit of {1t. | A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE MINIS- TRY. At a lecture given recently at a college closing it was urged that un- Jess the churches took more interest in their ministers it would soon be difficult to man the pulpits of Can- ada. This was not because thé min- istry was not thought of as.an hon- orable calling, nor because the young men of Canada were not"as ready ta respond as they ever were to the ap- peal of a noble and heroic idealism. Nor, said the lecturer, was it due primarily to the fact that the minis- try was abominably underpaid. It wag chiefly due to the attitude of organized religion to the minister. He was thought of as a hired man. There were sentiments gathering around the office which precluded him from undertaking any kind, of occupation. He cannot ,for example, without hindrance to his work, en- gage in real estate in the city or 0 horse-trading or Shicken-farmiug in the country. ~ Of course, it may be pointed out that very few ministers wish to en- gage in these or other quite legiti- mate occupations, and if they do it is not from their love of money, - but from the sheer necessity of provid- ing bread for their families. Then again it should be remember- led that the minister neither sets nor negotiates his salary, nor usually is || consulted as to Where he shall live. He receives an appointment or a call, apd it is on other than economic grounds that he decides to accept it. But the churches are faced with a much more serious problem when they contemplate what to do with their worn out servants and how to provide for the men who live to be 'seventy. A minister, no matter how thrifty he may have been, is not able to provide for old age. One of the fruits of the Forward Movement, it is devoutly hoped, will be a' better provision for the older ministers. A more serious question still "is how the ordinary man is going to view the office of the ministry, what verence will be paid to it, what weight will be attached to the mess- ages which are delivered by these ambassadors of Jesys Christ. In a book none too frequently read by the average man there appears this wise and profound advice: "Brothers, we beg you to respect those who are working among you, presiding over you in the Lord and maintaining dis- cipline; hold them in special esteem and affection, for the sake of their work." It 'is worthy of the con- sideration of all God-fearing men. -- AY, HURRAH! "Tis Empire Day, 'Tis Empire Day, Hurrah! Hurrah! Our Empire's sway, None can gainsay--- Hurrah! Hurrah! A colossal fact--the British Em- pire. It is astride this old planet. It looms up in every part of the world. Its flag, symbol of Empire, our Union Jaok, is fanned by the winds of every clime, and is ceremoniously and re- verently saluted by many millions of people on the 24th of May Empire Day, the wide. world o'er. At the pre- sent moment, after centuries of in- trigue and struggle for the p ion of Palestine by rival nations, the 'Cross is above the Crescent through- EMPIRE D! cient and sacred city of Jerusalem Our Flag waves triumphant. Our Empire, after passing through the fiery furnace trial and the Geth- semane of agopy and suffering of the Great War, emerged not weakened but stronger, not lessened but in- creased. The British Empire was great before the war; it is greater still to-day. It occupies{more than one-quarter of the known surface of the earth, while more than one-quart- world lives under the protection of the Union Jack. It is recorded that summer and winter conditions are equally divided throughout our far- flung Empire, and also that daylight and darkness are as equally porpor- tioned. Thus, during every hour of the twenty-four hours of each day of the year the sun is shining on some part of Our Empire and saluting with his beams of light--Our Flag! Other empires have risen and fall-| en. Their glory is but 'a 'memory. They were great 'and magnificent. But it is an indisputable truth that of all the world's empires the great- est, mightiest and grandest is the British; and that, whether it be the Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian or Roman) they'one and all pale into Insignifi- cance when compared with Our Em- pire. Carplag critics, bemused with and snarl, enemies may intrigue and strive to lessen or destroy, but the British Empire "carries on" as im- perturbable as her Rock of Gibraltar and our flag waves undaunted around the world. world has ever known. Financiers attest that for many years before the great war the foreign trade of the United States and even Germany was Tostly financed by she bankers of business or engaging in any other thinker of modern times. respect is to be shown it, what re-. out the Holy Land, and over the an- er of the estimated population of the | envy or igroranec, may rail and snap | Our Empire is the wealthiest theq our Empire. It is recorded that when the war opened the people of the world owed the people of Great Bri- tain $20,000,000,000, a sum of $4, 000,000,000 in excess of all the gold and silver, coins and bullion, paper covered and uncovered in all the world. And though she had this huge sum loaned out, the Mother of the Empire still had a little in hand when she went fort4a (o aid Belgium and France, for she spent $38,000,- 000,000 on the war, of which $7,- 325,000,000 was loaned to her Al- lies. In addition, her factories cloth- ed the British, French, Italian, Gres cian, Serbian and other armies, largely equipped them with guns, rifles, shells and aeroplanes--even the Americans were uniformed from her mills. Truly stupendous! And 80, from every part of the land of the Maple Leaf, Canadians on Empire Day waft a special salutation across the wild waste of waters to the Em- pire's sea-girt {sle--Great Britain, the home of freedom and progress. Not only in material wealth, but in every branch of science, in litera- ture, in art, in inventive genuius, and in all that makes for enlighten- ment and the uplift of humanity, our Empire is beyond compare. A re- cent visitor to our shores from the Motherland, Sir-Oliver Lodge, is ac- claimed by learned authorities as the greatest of living scientists, and conceded to be the greatest original Among his many brilliant discoveries was that of the "coherer," and with this detector he dévised the first practical wireless telegraph sending signals over a distance of several hundred yards-- all done long before Marconi took up the subject, and the Italian inventor undoubtedly built upon the earlier discoveries of British genius. in literature. Where, outside of the British Empire, can be found an- other Shakespeare, and such a galaxy of profound and brilliant writers up- on every subject under the sun? In invention--to note only a few out of the immensely long list--the steam engine, the railway, the telegraph, and the telephone were invented by Britishers. And where can be found a nobler band of explorers, adven- turers and missionaries? Our Empire's defenders! The Bri- tish Tommy and his comrades from the self-governing ¢ompany. of na- tions and possessions. What tongue or pen can adequately describe the heroism, the endurance, the courage, the self-sacrifice displayed by the Empires' warrjors? Their exploits in many a long and hard-féught con- flict, against contending odds, is em- blazoned on the highest pinnacle of fame. When shall their glory fade? "Not till the sun grows cold, and the books of the judgment day unfold." Then there is the Empire's matchless navy, the sailor boys, who won for us the empire of the seas--the glori- ous, silent, ever-carrying-on navy. To-day the White Ensign is floating over the waters that lave the shores of the world, protecting the com- merce of traders of every cline, and assuring to all mations the freedom of the seas. Is this only idle and vain boast- ing! No! thunders forth from the four quarters of the world. It is the 'truth! Empire Day is our day of re- membrance, when we especially call to mind some of the aehievements Rippling There'll be and | is | Then |) WHETHER OR NO. creak and bust; who's salted down the dust! agree that present things can't last; soup for you and me, and soon we'll stand aghast. | may be that the seers are wrong, for prophets some-4 Ji times fail, and life may be a grand sweet song, and men may still have kale. chance, and when I have a bone, I do not down the main street prance, to see it spent and blown. it to the banker's vault, a modern vault and fine, and watch him put it down in salt, with other bucks i And it the: panic men foresee should come to fill its date, it will not put a crimp in me, or my glad smiles abate. Each payday, with a certain sum, down to the bank I tread; and if*the panic doesn't come, I'm just that much ahead. Te r---- that contributed to the bullding up | of such'a monument of courage, per- tinacity, and enterprise. On the 24th | of May all the peoples of the Em- | pire pause in their daily round of toil and gather inspiration from the past to help in the present apd the| future. And here, in our lovely and glorious Canada, in the budding May- time, the sons and daughtérs of the Land of the Maple Leaf look for awhile beyond their country of "mag- niticent distances" and in: their hearts join with their partners in Empire~--Australia, 'New Zealand, South Africa, India, and the numer- cus outposts of Empire scattered around the world--in celebrating Empire Day. - To Canadians the day will be a re- minder that Canada has won a pre- eminent position among the daughter nations of the Motherland, and that by the sacrifice of her treasure and the outpouring of her blood in de- fence of Home and Empire has at- tained to front.rafk among the na- tions. And, the raising of the Union Jack everywhere throughout our fair Dominion of Canada on Empire Day, will link us anew with every remote patt of one far-flung ~Bmpire, and deepen and intensity our purpose and resolve to be worthy of our mighty and magnificent heritage, .and to be loyal and true to our be- loved and glorious dead. They speak to us to-day in the wonderful words of that noble Canadian soldier, Lieut.-Col. John McCrae-- To you, from falling hands, we throw The torch. Be yours to lift it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though plies grow In Flanders fields. RT AND THEIR ORIGIN IT IS EASY TO ORITICISE. In these days of intensive politics, we hear much of "Constructive Criti- cism." By this is meant, of course, criticism that suggests something better to take the place of that which is condemned by the critic. *"Con- structive" criticism is admittedly valuable, but the other kind is far more frequently heard and said. What statesmen are saying now along this line was rather well said by Plutarch, (Greek 46-120 A.D.) In his essay "Of Hearing," Plutarch Says: "It is a thing of no great difficul- ty to raise objections against ' an- other man's oration--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extreme- ly troublesome." Francis ~ Bacon (English 1561- 1620) quotes Bir Henry Wotton as saying that "critics are like brushers of noblemen's. clothes." Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English 1772-1834) says: "Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians or biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other and failed; therefore, they turn critics." | Disraeli (English 1805-1881) says: | "You know who critics are? The | men 'who have failed in literature | and art." Laurence Sterne (English 1713- 1768) says: "Of all the cants which are cant- ed in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tor- menting." Rhymes | FANOUS QUOTATIONS a panic soon or late, and things will how happy then the prudent skate Financial prophets all fate's brewing It But as for me, I take no 1 take of --WALT MASON. / Pr-- LAYING OF THE 'Dufferin streets, The New Public School The Corner Stone of the Robert Meek School, corner of Bagot and ~ Monday, May 24th at2.30 p.m. The public is cordially invited to be present and assist in the proceed- JNO. MACDONALD, Sec.-Treas., Board of Education. ee TEL TR1 EEE SR A \ \ BIBBY'S oe . to reduce. Kingston's Cash and One Price Clothing House The Store That Keeps the Prices Down. Reductions We read in great American papers of the wonderful re- ductions in all lines of Men's Suits, Overcoats, and wearing apparel of all kinds. No doubt you think there is going to be a great fall in prices. But we say: DON'T BE DECEIVED! DON'T FOOL YOURSELF! Firms that offer drastic reductions to-day are the - firms who have had the goods marked away up and can well afford Our One Price Cash System of doing business beats them all. Try us! Look all over town before you come and you will say, with many others, *'Seeing is Believing!" Real goods at real prices are not coming down for some time, but believe us when we 5 say we allow no house to undersell us, value for value, price for price, quality for quality. Yours Sincerely, BIBBY'S LIMITED Men's and Boys' Wear Stores 78, 80, 82, 84 Princess Street : : : P.S.--We claim to have the best $25.00, the best $35.00, the best $45.00 Suits in Canada. } ° Bibby's Building BIBBY'S ~~ GARDEN IMPLEMENTS Hand Cultivators. Wheel Cultivator and Seeders. ~Field, Garden and Ladies' Hoes. Seta of Garden Tools. --~Ladies' Spading Forks. ~=BASIC ---Steele Briggs Seeds. SLAG FERTILIZER. Good assortment at lowest prices --Deéliveries to any part of eity, BUNT'S Special For Saturday 200 Ibs. Choice Stewing Beef Se. to 20e¢. per 1b. Choice 'Steak, Pork, Lamb and Choice Headcheese, Sausage i per 1h, Hi Quantity of Choice Corned Beef, QUICK'S VESTERN MEAT MARKET 112 CLERGY STREET ~. Phose 2011. soli, Boots, cee. of phone 1237. ry Sadétes, Bridles, ' Lines, prices paid for all kinds hold Furniture. Cali 45 Princess Street. A SHAPIRO CORNER STONE will be laid on Present hay crop throughout 'ing in Northern Alberta and North- era Saskatchewan, = : Colorite Colors Old and New Straw Hats ' ~-Easily applied. ~--Dries quickly. -(ives a permanent color. ~All colors. 30¢ Bottle ~~ DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE PHONE 348 AAAS Eo -------------------------------- PURE MAPLE SYRUP - PURE MAPLE SUGAR, With the real old- fashioned maple flavor. . Jas. REDDEN & Co. 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