+ 1 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG : : ¢ \ ; FRIDAY, AUGUST, 18, 1920, Publisnea Lally ang THE sirrisd Semi-Wee by WHIG PusLisilineg LIMITED "3 Gu ELUOIE o..........0000, President Leman A. Gaia..." Haitor ess Of] .e Bai Res ® ane veeeee B08 Edition) abd fH three months pro rata. P-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES g Calder 0 se. Jol St. Montical. Mg. M Thompson, is3. Lamaden 8 pul od lr a BT SL or. ' Attached 1 f the best 300 printing offices in Canada. ~ A eynle calls the radicals the sedi- pent of Europe. Huh! Sediment Béttles down. it each of us got all he desires, thore wouldn't be anything lef: for fny of us. It's a pretty mean kind of a wo- man who will give her husband a lawn mower for a birthday present. Now listen to Douglas Fairbanks singing his latest "0, What a Pal Was Mary." --Brockvillp Recorder-Times. ------, Pussyfoot Johnson ought to risk his other eye on the Windsor border, is the opinion of the Labor Leader, of Toronto. . . Now that flour prites are declin- ing, remarks the Baltimore American, - it is about time for another increase in the cost of bread, A woman's proverbial right to change her mind will strike a snag 'when she comes back thirty minutes after voting to change her ballot. ---- The gasoline supply is rapidly be- ©0ming exhausted, say the experts. In that event, joy riding, with all its attendant dangers, will share the fate of John Barlpycorn. By the time one figures up the Dew freight rates demanded by the railways and adds the demurrage, he will €ind it somewhat cheaper to let the railroads keep the stuff, **Ty Cobb will take the stump for Cox," says an American exchange. The Republicans will probably coun- fer by announcing that "Babe" Ruth will tour the country in the interest Harding. , ------------ 2 ---- ~The government, says the Labor Leader, proposes'to resis: the sale of moar beer, and adds: Personally we #on't care what they do with the darn TX line and help driye back the Rus- sions, says the yatertown, N.Y. Times. , But our American contem- porary doesn't insist that the great sation, which was thea years late in getting into the war, should take a man's part in this effort to defeat Bolshevism and all that Bolshevism means. AN IMMIGRATION FLOOD. A dispatch from Montreal that the ocean steamships cannot be- gin to carry all the immigrants who seek passage to Canada. The sus- bension or unsatisfactory recovery ot industries in many advanced Eur.- bean countries will turn the eyes of millions of skilled as well as un skilled workers toward the opportun- ities offered by the dominion. Against the danger of inaiserimi .- ate admissions Canada must be on guard. we want only the right men admitted. The right men are men with fron muscles, habits of indus- try and instincts of respect for Bri- tish institutions and the "princiy of orderly society. Such men Jan- ada wants. To such men she offers the advantages of Temunerative labo: and the boon of citizenship. The others--enemies of society, firebranas and instigators to violen:a --QOanada does not 'want and will not have. Such men must be rigidly ex- cluded from this country. ---------- THE MOVEMENT CITYWARD From all parts of the country come reports that the cities are continuing to grow in population at a much more rapid rate than the rural commun- ities. What has become of the "back to the farm" movement," of which 80 much was being ssid a year or so ago? Did it fizzle out or is it merely that the people are too restless to- day to iconcentrate on any one sub- Jeot? More Hkely the cause is to be found in the fact that agriculture has become, in a small 'way but none the léss decisiyely, an occupation in which capital {s required. In spite of higher wages for farm labor and increased costs of produc- tion generally, tertile land 4s worth more money to-day than ever before. The farmer has become a business man, if not actually a capitalist. - He keeps books, he studies market quo- tations and. he knows how to tell whether he is making a profit or Just eking out an existence. While farm profits are larger than in other years, it seems that the very fact of their increase tends to send farmers to the cities. The sons and daughters want ta.go to college, and when father becomes prosperous he either sells or rents his property and hies him to the city or the county town. All this is regrettable--not that the agriculturist makes money, but give up a productive career mrrely to become one of the mad and madden- ing urban throng. ---------- INSUFFICIENT MUNICIPAL RULE Recently the reeve of Iroquois had to face his trial before a Jury at Cornwall on a charge of mi ppro- priating moneys belonging to the municipality of which he was head. The charge was made by a fellow- member of the Iroquois counetl. Strange evidence was given at the trial and the reeve was acquitted. That a charge of misappropriation could be possible against this reeve shows that the Iroquois municipal system of government is faulty, as is also the cass in' many other nruniels palities throughout Ontario. If Iro- quois wants efficient local govern- ment the best thing it can do is to get rid of its present council snd Mtaff, eo long as they don' ask us drink ft. | i; "They tell me that a political Party was born in Ontario es a pro- Best against our action (the enforce mént of the Military Service Act). No arty with a birth like that can ever very M----Premier Meighen. Farmers have too big a stake in he country to chase after Reddism, declare the Farmers' Sun. They are truly the great sheet-anchor in our tional bridge across the De- river at Windsor. Has the Ze traffic grown to such propor- tions that the ferries are unable to 2 i i g ji il Hl elect capable business men. Any council that has held power for two or threes years and has not seen fit to put Into effect an efficient system of handling the people's money is no longer fit to represent a municipality, Leading residents of Iroquois are petitioning for a provincial audit of the municipal books to learn the true financial situation. All that has been done is that old-Pashioned audit of the books at the close of the finan- cial year, which is abou? as good as locking up the stable after the-horse is stolen. If Iroquois wants to learn something about municipz! auditing, its reeve and council should visit Kiagston and consult wita City Aud- dor Muir. Looting the treasury in the city of Kingston or the county of Froatenac is impossible, as is also crooked work in the civic or county éepartment of government. Sixteen years ago Kisgsioa Inaugurated a tyorcugh audit sv<ton by appointing a Dermanent auditor with an officé in the city hall. 'No account can be valid until it is audited and marked CK. and all moneys must pass through the hands of the city tres. urer. This sytem applies also to water, gas and electric departments, and to the Board of Education, A few years agc the Frontenac council invited City Audtor Muir to install Kingston's audit system at the county court house, and now Frontenac also has the most modern kind of audit. Iroquois should take a lesson from : that his profits should cause him to Sl } MUSINGS OF THE KHAN Circumstantial Evidence. Why is the sun in heaven? To give us light and heat of course--some- body is always asking fool questions. But that is only two reasons why She sun is in heaven. There be a, thousand reasons, and to give heat and Mght are among the least of the. If you get up early enough to-morrow morming you wiil see the | sun rise. There will be no doubt | about it. He was not there a few minutes ago and now he is plainly' veible rising above the housetops, or the hills, or the trees, or up out of the vasty deep to the east. And if you watch him you will see him climb the golden ladder ol the sky, to pause for a fraction of time in the zenith, and then slip down the shin- ing toboggan of the west and drop soundlessly into the night. . Some spectacle that! And what do. We learn from 1t? That the sun do move ! Assuredly--abso-lute-ly ! And yet ofte of the reasons, and the reason, that the sun is in the 'sky is to teach us not to permit our senses to deceive us. We are told that Satan whispers his temptations Into our ears. He certainly does, Most of us have got an earful at Some time in our lives. Nevertheless, there be more people deceived through their eyes than their ears. There is an old proverb, "Seeing is believing." This is true only in the Sense that we believe something, even as when we see the sun com- plete his course in the heavens we believe that he hath risen and set, a8 we express it . We ought to appoint a royal com- mission to go over the list of pro- verbs common among the people and throw a lot of them into the discard, like : "Plow deep while others sleep and you'll have corn to sell and keep," "A rolling stone gathers no moss," ete, . The Lord knew that someone would be continually fooling us through our eyes, therefore He placed a great object lesson in the sky, repeated day after day from Eternity to Eternity, to impress on His people that they were to beware of circumstantial evide ce. Truth is never on the surface. u must dig for it. It is to our everlasting credit that the earth is pitted with great holes where men have been digging for the truth ever since Adam. The earth is part of the sacred Scripture, and the command hath gone forth-- Search the Seriptures. That's the rea- Son truth seekers are always in a hole. The rabble hath been busy aur- ing the ages filling up these holes, and they are not very particular whe? ther you are down in the bottom of the hole or not when they start to shovel in the sand. Joseph's brethren pitched him into such a hole, and he would have been there yet most pro- bably if the gypsies hadn't coma along. Tt is a good thing to be born with some of the lion in you, or the eagle, or the splendid python, or the resolute jackass. It is fine to ha some groundhog in you. If you hay a streak of groundhog in you they can't smother you to death shovel- ing sand into the hole where you hap- pened to be. That's right im your mitt. . I wonder how many more peoples We are going to hang in this country by the neck--mark you--and may d have mercy on their souls! One thing about us, we are explicit, ever it we are blasphemous. We make it plain that the party of the first part is to be hanged by "the neck." This be necessary instruction, -however, though you may not think it. The type from which the averxge hang- man is drawn might hang you any old way if left to his own resources. Indeed, to save trouble he might knock you on the head. I always thought it was so nice of us to ex- press the Christian hope that God would have mercy on hfs soul, or if we were in the dock, our soul. When I consider the fact that we | have hanged innocent men by the neck and prayed the Lord to have mercy on their souls I feel dis- tressed." Like my Uncle Toby, * wish, Tim, that I were dsieey." To sleep and sleep and so forget it. On what evidence did we hang these men? The evidence that the sun rose in the east in the morning and disap- peared in the west at night. * Any evidence is rebuttal? THE KHAN. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rook- ton, Ont, | PUBLIC OPINION | A Suffrage Peril. (Baltimore American) Many a man who thinks women should vote is going to be turned dead against it when his wife takes to betting hats on the elections. S-------------- More Dollars; Less Prosperity. (Ottawa Journal) It is true that there are more dol- lars in the world than in pre-war ys, and that most people are hand- ling more of them than formerly; but individual prosperity is only to be measured by the purchasing power of those dollars. Still. (Vancouver Sun) Bolshevism seems far from having run its full course among mankind. It is partly an economic theory and partly a mental disease. As a theory it can be examined, and confirmed or refuted. As a disease it is bound to continue doing vast mischief until it either dies out or is stamped out. Pl the Blame. (Brantford Expositor) There is now said to be talk at Washington of sending military aid to help Poland. If the United States has joined the Le. year ago, the need existed to-day. Most pf the trouble in Europe is due to the encourage- ment which discontented nations took trom the refusal of the United States to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. A Spiral, Not a Circle. (Woodstoek Sentinel-Review) The coal dealers are announcing that it is necessary to increase the price of coal to the consumer, be- cause of the increase in freight rates. The railways were compelled to in- crease in wages to employees. The employees may soon find it necessary to ask further Increase in wages be- cause of the higher cost of coal. In that event the railways will probably announce a further increase in freight rates and the coal dealers a further increase in the price of coal. In that event the railways will prob- ably announce 'a further increase in Ireight rates and the coal dealers a 'further increase in the p of coal. This is an illustration of what is called a vicious circle; but it is real- ly a spiral, not a circle at all. 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