THE DAILY BRITIS ' H WHIG MONDAY, MAY 24, 1920, THE B 8%th YEAR. forcani: earetul-tnotorist. TER RRO Euluned Dally and Semi. Weakiy by 'HE BRITIS WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED Managing-Direter TELEPHONES: ness Office ...i.«sn itorial Rcoms ... 0 veers 343 b Office : SUBSCRIETION RATES (Da dition) One year, delivered in eity ....36.00 year, if paid in advapoe .. 5.00 year, by mall to rural offices 2.50 year to United States $3.00 (Semi-Weekly Edit One year, by mail, cash Qne year, if not paid in adv year, to United States Six and three monaths pro reta. OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES " Mer, 22 St. John St, Montreal RITISH WHIG 2a | was the limit, cation | large towns and cities, a maximum { | | } | | ' h Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. | Tor : - onto. F.R. Northrup, 303 Fifth Ave. . Le only over the actual name of writer. 2 hed Is one of the best oO © Attac ', printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH | WHIG is authenticated by the A " There is another tag day about due. The best way to overcome coward- jce is to do something daring. Ask the grocer for a mickle's worth of something. Emma Goldman is homesick in Russia for the western hemisphere. And when she was here she was ever * damning its people and government. How contrary women generally are! Which would you do without first, a meal or a newspaper? There are millions who would sooner go with- " out a meal. This shows that a news- paper is "'a necessity of life." ~ Nathan Strauss, the New York mil- flonairesand philanthropist, declares that it is a disgrace to die rich. Well, Nathan, here's hoping you will re- member your good advice. The Simcoe Reformer is cruel en- ough to intimate that when Bob Rog- __ ers says 'the farmers are behind the old Conservative party" it is only for purpose of planting their kick in right place. Par)s women are wearing wooden hats. Nothing odd, for Canadian wo- * men are wearing some made of grass. The thing is to make them effective and beautiful, and Canadian millin- #rs possess rare art. nen . The Mennonites declares they have decided to go to Brazil. socially or otherwise with Canada, perhaps Brazil would suit them bet- ter is the comment of the Toronto "© Mail and Empire. Kingston merchants are going to fall into line and help the govern- . ment reduce its liabilities for the war. Canada has been saved from _ slavery and oppression; the cost has mot been as high as it might other- wise have been. ' a -------------- "12." It always suggests indiffer- ence and laziness. If we afl worked we would produce and cut down costs; If we don't we can still have something to talk about. There are | no "ifs" it people get down to busi- ~ hess. -- Nowadays it has become common to figure in billions, yet few people are able to visualize the amount which the term "billion" symbolizes. 'Some idea, however, may be had from the statement that a person thirty-two years and nine months old Bas only lived a billion seconds. "There have been many criticisms of daylight having, but a pupil of the Collegiate Institute voiced public very accurately when he wrote in an examination paper: "There are three kinds of time-- standard time, daylight time and a h------of a time finding out just what time it is." Free trade in newsprint respons- 4ble for the shortage in the United "States! That is what R. P. Andrews, ¢ t of the National Paper Trade Association, declares. At the of the reciprocity treaty ne- he says, the United States . to admit newsprint free of duty, with the result that many mills . forced out of business. Ve agree with [the Toronto Mail i Bmpire when it says that the al speed limit of twenty miles an for motor cars ia cities is too It a horse and vehicle were through the streets of a city at speed a panic would be created ™ Since. they | refuse to assimilate, educationally, | SSablished New York | nated. ¥.R.Northrup, 916 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago | nregcher who has an intense message | tters to the Editur are published to deliver will ever remain effective | | in the pulpit by his exposition and ap- job | Plication of the Word of God. There | tary of a trades { that in America, where the very idea n- the driver would be arrested I fif an hour fe unless actual stantly. When Ww utions car- ried more than twenty miles ty-five miles seems to be the prose- rate Wh children and vehicles abound on the streets of Now about twen- of twenty miles is more than ample | . MISPLACED SYMPATHY. According to a despatch from Cork, Thomas Johnson, acting secre- | * congress there, de- clared in a public speech that the workers of Ireland had no intention of establishing such a republic as | of personal liberty was unknown, | and where men and women were | sentenced to long terms of imprison- | ment for daring to say that the Unit- | od States was not a land of freedom. | This prompts the Buffalo Express | to remark that that is not the kind of thought calculated to win American sympathy for the movement of which | it és a part. Those who hold such | ideas should be appealing to Ger- many or to Bolshevik Russia for re- cognition, not to the, United States i CANNOT DOWN THE SERMON, | Some people, including clerics, | have come to the conclusion that the | sermon in the church service has lost its effect: and had better be elimi- | However, the eloquent is also a type of sermon that will never lose its effect and that 1s the exhortation in time of sorrow. 'he preacher who can deliver words of | comfort will always leave an im- | pression upon the minds of his hearers, for in sorrow the people are one, and an exhortation delivered at such a time is more touching than a grand and lofty ritual. Some | churches would certainly be better | it they had more ritual, but the ser-| mon can never be eMminated. CHECKED BY THE PEOPLE. Discussing the country-wide price reductions now in progress through- out the United States, the New York World concludes that the orgy of ex- travagance and speculation has been checked by the people themselves. In a large measure this is true, though the curtailment of bank cre- dits at the instigation of the Federal Reserve Board has had much to do with the movement. Whether tire people have simply wearled of it or are no longer able to keep it up does not matter. Prices are beginning to count once more. It is the restora- tion of sanity on the part of the in- dividual that will gradually put pro- ductioff and business of every kind once more upon a legitimate basis. The one sure cure for present ills must be honest serviec and honest goods at honest prices, with every- body intent upon giving as well as re- ceiving the full worth of his money. THE DIVORCE CONTROVERSY. It seems to the ordinary citizen that all this controversy about the merits of divorce is entirely out of place. The question at Issue is not whether we shall have divorce in Canada, because divorce is already and has always been. The proposal to take the trial of divorce cases out of the Senate and place it under the jurisdiction of a regularly constituted court, where evidence will be subjdcted to judicial discrimination in accordance with { ces, our fisheries and our mines, to regular legal procedure, is not a retrograde step but a sorely needed | elevation of the trial of such cases. | We. have not heard it proposed to | increase the causes of divorce and until this is done we cannot see any reason for the heated controversy that is going on. If, by the establish- ment of divorce courts, we are to- substitute justice ror" expediency, policy, etc., then by all means let us have the courts and wipe out the national scandal of lobbying the Senate, and the publication of the details of domestic tragedies and the moral pervertion associated with such cases. | PUBLIC OPINON | ; i Better be careful nurder rs afterwards n't made peace yet ------------------ And Cranial Expension. ntinel-Review Admiral Benson says no navy ever | expanded so rapidly as did that of intry Perhaps he is the United 'States when that co went into the war. some of those connected with the | navy department. Should Make Provision. (Hamilton Times) In the matter of "hospital accom- modation, "the Drury Government should take some steps to have the countries and towns make some pro- vision for their sick. They should not be allowed to foist them on to the cities. | In Keeping. i (Ottawa Journal) { From being commander-in-chief of Canada's greatest army to belng commander-in-chief of Canada's | greatest University is a natural step | after all.'Sir Artfr will continue in! lose touch with the finest brand of! young Canadianism. ! A Reasonable Call. {Guelph Herald) We are asked for increased pro- duction. This does not mean for the individual more work or harder work, but it does mean more efficient work and a new attitude tewards work, a desire to make every stroke tell to the utmost. In a word it means willing, painstaking, and well-direct- ed effort, backed by capital and guld- ed by science, to bring our acres to the fullest fertility, to bufld up aad utilize adequately our forest resour- develop our waterpowers advantage- ously and to distribute widely the resulting power, to check reckless waste and encourage the effective | use of all resources, to the end that | we may establish better and more | satisfying types of rural life. The "Panic-Stricken™ Navy. (New York Evening Sun) From_August, 1914, to April, 1917, Great Britain's navy had kept the mastery of the seas, locking German commerce and the German battle fleet in neutral or home harbors. | England was fighting the submarine | in the English way when the United | States went into the war, and the re- cord gives us as much support in be- | lieving the English way would Have! proved suécessful as It does in be- lieving it would have proved unsuc- cessful. It was Artemus Ward who! was willing to sacrifice all his wife's | kin to win the civil war. British ways | are not our ways, but certainly "helpless" and "panic" are strange words to use In the association in Nhieh they were used by the Presi- ent. Canada-East and West Dominion Happenings ot Other . Days. \ Queen Victoria ¥ On the 24th of May, 1819, Alexan- dria Victoria, destined to be kmown and loved as Queen Victoria--The Good---was born in Kensington Pal- ace. Her father was Edward, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George III; her mother was Victoria Mary Louisa, a daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld The parents of the Princess Drina --for it was by that name that the child was known in her earlier years --were determined that their child should be trained in everything that was good and noble. As a result, when the Princess came to the Throne of Great Britain in 1837 she was one of the noblest women in the world. For sixty years she was head of the British people--in an age when the world was making rapid progress and advancement. It was a day of shipping; of amazing wealth of liter | ary contributions, some of the bright- est lights in the political world shown | in her day; the 'dark places of the | world were explored and enlightened | while moral reformation advanced with a rapidity never known before. Before her death she had seen the world reach a new high level of at- tainment. When she had been sixty years on the throne the event was marked by one of the greatest jubilees ever held | tys=ehest-srpansion-olim the-wesld--- Ruleigiand royal rep fresentatives crowded 'to London honor the Gracious Sovereign of the British nation, while the colonies sent | their heads there to express their loy alty and 'devotion to the aged mon- | arch. She died in the early months of the new century but in all the Dominions her memory is honored yearly by services on the 24th of { May, while in Canada that date has i been made a national memorial to her | name. i FAMOUS QUOTATIONS _ AND THEIR ORIGIN wonderful discoveries in #éience, and i | HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. i A careful study of the history of | the world will soon convince any reader of the truth of %this familiar | saying. History does repeat itself | very frequently and sometimes with ! astonishing exactness. That there is | nothing mew under the sun was noted | by King Solomon in the book of Be- | clesiastes, and it is probable that this tendency to repetition of events im- | pressed: many other men of keen in- | tellect, throughout, all ages. The | first formal mention of the fact in literature is found in the works of | Thucydides, the great Greéek histor-| jan, (471-391 B, C.), who was the | first man to write history as devel- | oped from the situation and charac- | ter of the individual. His predeces- | sors had attributed all eveiits to the | influence of a power greater than | that of man. | & Thucydides says: \"I shall be content if those shall pronounce my history useful who de- | sire to give a view of events as they | did really happen, and as they are likely, in accordance with human na- | ture, to repeat themselves at some, | future time--if not exactly the | same, yet very similar." | Plutarch. (Greek 49-12 J says: i "It is no great wonder if in long | process of time, while fortune takes | her course hither and thither, num-| erous coincidences 'should spontan- | eously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought up- on be infinite, it is all the more easy | for fortune, with such abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results." . Michael de Montaigne 1533-1592) says: "is one and the same Nature | that rolis-on her course, and who- | ever has sufficiently considered the | present state of things might cer- tainly conclude as to both the future and the past." { | | (French 0000 CANADIAN. LUMBER HELD UP. 3 [-- > Car Shortage Keeps Lot of Lumber at the Border. Washington, May 24.--The car shortage in this country is affecting | Canadian lumber exporting to the United States, it was learned at the | Department of Commerce to-day. { The American Consul' at New Brunswick reported to the Depart- ment that more than enough lumber, lathes, shingled and other building materials to lead 3,000 cars is being held in Campbellton and the vicinity of the border awaitng 'American cars, ---------------------------------- Despatches from Ecfistantinople state that Nationalists are recruiting in Anatolia by brutal methods. Mos- lems are brought into camp in chains and many have serious injuries from cruel treatment. P But nations™are played; the poets should be growing prunes, which is | Ji For prunes the hungry children cry, and stricken parents pray, while bughouse poets drool and sigh of temples in Cathay. Ten thousand agents seek our doors to sell us foolish books, and they'd be far more useful bores if they plied reaping hooks. The country's full of well dressed skates who grow no a better trade. vias, produce no pumpkins, . NON-PRODUCERS. Ten thousand statesmen fume and fret, upon the + well known stump, and tell how crises should be met, and carted to the dump. hot, and rant and tear their duds; and it would help things out a lot it they'd growing Burbanks here and distraught; we need potatoes more, I swear, than we need Gems of Thought. their lyres until they break the strings, and boost our altars and 'pur fires, our bulwarks and such things. ~ Rhymes They elocute until they're start raising spuds. By there, they'd help a land Ten thousand poets twang not saved by tunes, however nobly figs or dates--there ought to be a Mother's Influence. »s (Grenville (8. C.) Piedmont) Will mothers do as much with the! ballot for the elevation of humanity! as they have with the slipper? ---- More Correct. {Buffaio Courier) Economists say we have passed the peak of high prices. Wouldn't it be more correct to say that the peak' of high prices has passed us te Small Enough. aS Sentinel-Review) The new Canadian cent is consid- erably smaller than the old one, and goodness knows, the old one was small efiough, judging by its pur.) chasing power. : < ntford Expositor) If Canadian judges are not of suf: ficient eminence to decide in the court of last resort, they are not tompetent to deal out judgment in the lower courts. The sooner ldgal machinery is simplified to the ut- most the better for the country. : Fun at Uncle Sam. i « kville Recorder) Citizens of the great republic to the south still continue to be mur- " : rN rt --WALT MASON. In A ' BIBBY"S The Store That Keeps the Newspaper men give large spac ' May ed 10 to 25 per cent., and that we may for our coal. on and so on and so on, 'etc. particular good Suits at business and continue offerjng 'the B Kingston's Cash and One Price Clothing House Inconsistency readers that here and there everything points to lower prices, quoting: Mr. So So says that in the United States prices show a falling off--food, clothing, boots and shoes, furniture, etc. This is where the inconsistency comes in. The newspaper manager sends us word that commencing 1st, 1920, rates for this very space will have to be increas- atany time. The coal man tells us we must pay more money A The baker says he must raise the price of his buns, and sg, This is wheré you and | come in. . Early and judicious buying enable us to still sell some $25.00, $35.00 and $45.00 " No Tax on. these. Our motto is and will be to look carefully after sur own Prices Down. . e nowadays telling their expect a further increase EST FOR LESS. NEW PANAMA HATS. MEN'S UNDER- WEAR Special Values. $1.50, $2, $2.50 per Suit. \ No Tax on these. ENGLISH RAINCOAT Extra special value at $18.00 Rich plain grey Cravenette; double texture. Sizes 34 to 44. |BIBBY 'S BIBBY'S BUILDING GARDEN IMPLEMENTS --Hand Cultivators. Wheel Cultivator and Seeders. «Field, Garden and Ladies' Hoes. «Sets of Garden Tools. w=Ladies' Spading Forks. -=BASIC SLAG FERTILIZE R. ~Steele Briggs Seeds. BUNT'S HARDWARE King St. Phone 388 Good assertmént at lowest prices --Deliveries to any part of city. PURE MAPLE SYRUP PURE MAPLE SUGAR With the real old- fashioned maple flavor. Special For Saturday 200 ibs. Choice Stewing Beef 15e. te per 1b. ce Steak, Pork, Lamb and J el ' Colorite Chot Veal: holed Headcheese, Sausage 20c. per Ib. Quantity of Choice Corned Beef, atc. Straw Hats Dries quickly. QUICK'S YESTERN MEAT MARKET 112 CLERGY STREET Phone " «All colors. 30c Bottle WHOLESALE Retail Store... 117 z P. PETERS Flour: Feed and . Se e Wholesale Warehouse, foot of Princess, St. Phone 51. AND RETAIL A Brock St. Phone 217 Canadian Mounted Police. --Tenderloins. --Pork Sausages. Colors Old and New 7 --Gives a permanent color. ow. chowes bau stoke Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990 : ( BA -------- er ------ DAVID SCOTT Plumber Plumbing and Gas Werk a spestale , All werk . Swaranteed. Address ' ---- Chestnut Coke The Ideal Fuel for KITCHEN RANGES and SMALL HEATERS uick heat; clean; no clinkers; economical Sa Choice Western Beef Daniel Hogan Two houses, barn and An order-in-council has been pass- ed appointing the Prince of Wales honorary commandant of the Royal FOR SALE Jot. 1,200 fat gies sul. W. H. GODWIN & SON Sold only by:-- Crawford Foot of Queen St. Phone 9, large