MONDAY, AUGUST, 16, 1920. ------ = A --------EET TT THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG TTT ------ PAGE THREE * GERMAN CHILDREN. ay, Fewer Juvenile Suicides Since FIX-A-TEAR Repairs a Hole or Tear Instantly ==in rubber and waterproof cloth ~--Hot Water Bottles. ~Bleycle or Motor Car Tires. Garden Hose. =~-Rubbers Footballs. 5 =Umbrellas. --Curtains. Canvas. ~-Shoe Linings, etc. \ A wonderful repair outfit. 35 CENT? For sale at all Drug Stores, or at Best's Drug Store 124 Princess St. Keeley Jr., M.0.D.0. Insure Against After Regrets by Using Glasses Prescribed, Made and Fitted by Keeley Jr., MLO.D.O. The optometrist of today to do good work must mot omly be equipped with the best mechan- feal apparatus but must have that knowl in its use WHICH ONLY LONG EXPERI. ENC¥ CAN GIVE. It is this combination of mind and machinery of experience and equipment that makes Keeley's service unique in Kingston. _ | TURKS LACK FRIENDS. NO ONE WILL SAY.A GOOD WORD FOR THEM. | Yet the Nation Which Is Now a Hated We are fully equipped to fill J 'Optical Needs - Promptly and Accurately. Doctor's Perscriptions carefully filled. and FRAMES repairs NEW LENSES and other quickly made. supplied Marriage Wedding WR 1 ' Licenses Rings i} © SMITH BROS. JEWELERS Established 1840 KING ST. «:« KINGSTON \ | Dalist depounces Turkey. Sh Outcast Was Once Great and the Men of the Race Have Proved Themselves In the Past to Be Brave and Adventurous. HEN there is no publicist to say 'a good word" for a country, it must either be very bad or have no friends. Such is the case with Tur- key. Nearly every mon-Turkish jour- is pie tured as a barbarous nation ih a state of hopeless deerepitude and utter po- Htical chaos. Her association with Germany in the war has ereated | ll additional prejudice against her. The | Armenian massacres have Post-Express. They certainly are a brave people, and if valor could | | make a race great, they should be | viewed as one of the greatest of races. The founders of the Ottoman Empire were only a section of a wan- | dering Turanian tribe. They had for | a long time to face bitter opposition | from races akin to them in blood or in creed. The Turks believed in the | sword, with which the Arabian pro- | phet sought to propagate his religion, | but in order to consolidate their em- | iron | pire they had to resort to discipline and political organiza- tion. The capture of Constantinople by Mohammed II. in the fifteenth century was a remarkable military achievement. One element in Turkey's Govern- | mental system was the creation of a privileged hereditary class consisting of Christian converts to Mohamme- | danism. From this class the officers | of the army and the members of the | administration were selected. The | Turkish-speaking Moslems had to be content with the modest career of a farmer, a merchant or a teacher. tl This state of affairs naturally led to THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY, HERACIBANLS for Bladder Catarrh. No. Brood and Skin Diseases. No. 3 doz Chronic Weaknesses. Sold by Jeaulng chemists. Price in England, Ss. Pr.) on Clere Med. Co., Haverstock Rd., NW. ht London. See Trade Marked OF »THERAPION" is on Brit. Govt, Stamp affixed to genuine packets. nn E BIG VALUES It will not pay you to overlook this sale, which commences on AUGUST 12th TILL 27th WE ARE OFFERING CLEAR 15% DISCOUNT ON ALL GRANITE AND ""ENAMELWARE. Don't forget this is preserving season, and you will need a new kettle. MCKELVEY & BIRCH, LTD. THE BIG BUSY HARDWARE W. A. MITCHELL, Manager Hardware Department. Prepare early | For your | We'wish to announce that we haves an expert demonstrat. or and service man direct from the Hoover Suction Sweeper Company's factory. He will visit all Hoover users and ser¥ice machines absolutely free, make home demonstrations with no discontent. among persons of pure Turkish blood. Selim II. and Murad III. Solyman's successors, were weak rulers. They allowed Turks without education to obtain official positions, and palace intrigues helped to de- moralise the Government. The ablest men now ceased to guide the des- es of Turkey. One result of this that the country's progress was retarded. There was no mechanism. for bringing about beneficial changes. Moreover, Vasco de Gama's voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, by ing the world's trade to shift from the Mediterranean to Western Europe financially injured Turkey. The burden imposed upon the Turks of fighting ajl Christendom Was a seyere one, and, as we know, mili is a two-edged sword. Even if Polish king, John Sobie- ski, had not defeated the Turkish army in a terrible battle, it is more than doubtful whether Turkey could have achieved hegemony in Europe in the closing years of the seven- teenth century. The leading minds in Turkey saw the need of adopting Western methods. In 1728 a print- ing press was established in Constan- tinople,. with the help of the Govern- ment. Since that time there has been a fierce struggle in Turkey between the old and the new. The reign of the Sultan, Mahmoud I1., was one of Strenuous effort and reconstruction.' He came to the throne when the em. Dire was almost disintegrated. The Janissaires, a powerful military corps, resisted all reforms. Owing to their aggresiveness, the provinces were disloyal to the Sultan. Mah- moud put the axe to the root. He destroyed the Janissaires -- a harsh measure, but in Turkey nothing can be done "by halves." He founded a newspaper. There already been several newspapers and periodicals in the Turkish lan- gnage. Sultan Mahmoud in his or- der for the establishment of a news- Paper said that it had long been for him an ideal. He gave it the name of "The Calendar of Events," and the first number wppeared on May 14, 1832. Ap article in this is- Sue stated that it was necessary to make daily events public to avoid Misinterpretation of them, and that it would be useful to the people to become acqaainted through such a medium with facts about science, the fine arts and trade. A Turkish weekly with the title of the '"Regis- ter of News" was established in 1843 by an Englishman named Churchill. The Crimean war gave an impetus to the Turkish press. In 1858 a group of intelligent young men, headed by a Turkish genpral named Husni Pasha, joined together in a demand for a Parliamentary system of Sev tut ale attempt failed al time, but the spirit of progress gd laken root 3 Juries. oung rk party arose in 1862. Kemal Bey became the leading Spirit of the movement. As Turkish newspapers now displayed a tendency to express revolutionary views, a law censoring the press was passed in 1865. As this.law had little effect, liberal newspapers were arbitrarily Suppressed. ne young Turkish pro- paganda stimulated a national con- Scloutucss ich I sustained. e defeat of France by Germany in 1871 a blow to Turk- ish 'progress. Ali a great Turkish statesman of the old school, died in 1871. Russia interfered in k affairs with unfor te re- Bults, fon set in. However, Turkish Nationalists were ed. Kemal Bey, after a visit to Eng- land, esta in Constan ple a newspaper called "Admonition." 1876 there were 47 Major Brunton, Toronto, sentence of thirty : McKee for indecent assault upon a girl of seventeen on the Don Mills passed At London, Ont., Police Inspector Robert Birrell was appointed chief of the department. A general strike at all Italian ports has been declared. ™N) been | | looked upon as a proof of the mur- | derousness of the Turkish character. | fl And yet much can be said.for the | i] Turks, writes Lucion in the Roches- | | ter French sympathy [ag not daunt- | End of War. > i | An interesting development of the | Orst after-the-war year in Germany | | i& the almost total elimination of the | amazing tendency toward juvenile | suicide which for many years pre- | viously had been growing throughout | Germany. | In the five years prior to the open- | | ing of the war, thousands of German | | school children had killed themselves, i and of these twenty-five per cent. | were under thirteen years of age. ! | For this-juvenile tendency toward | | suicide a hundred explanations were | offered by sociologists and German | sthinkers generally. The most popular | of these was the theory that the Ger- | man tendency to discipline was car- | ried too far in the school; the second | most popular explanation, and prob- | ably one which had no proper foun- dation in fact, was the theory that the school children were pushed too | hard and that the mental effort of | | keeping up with their allotted pro- | gram was so great that it took all joy out of their lives. The condition of German youth is not any better to-day than it was be- fore the war. Certainly, however, | discipline has been relaxed. | Various explanations have been | advanced and among these a British | observer seems most to favor the | thought that the decrease in the alco- | holic content of beer may have | been important. There is no pro-| hibition in Germany, nor is there | even an agitation for temperance in | drinking, but conditions of manufac- | ture, particularly shortage of raw materials, has weakened the average German brew by probably fifty per | cent, | This weakening of the brew un- | questionably has decreased the con- sumption of alcohol, whether or not | it has decreased the consumption of | beer, and it is highly probable, in | consequence, that the German brain | as a whole to-day is nearer normal | | than it has been for a long while. Among German school children an observer recently had evidence of that curious resentment which seems to be growing between Germany and Austria. When an appeal was made to German school children to help their starving little allies it was received with anger, contempt, and skepticism. An interesting detail of the effort made to arouse sympathy in England and France for Teutonie children, particularly Austrians, who were said to be suffering through lack of food, is the fact that the large number of Belgian children who were scatteréd throughout Germany at the time of the deportation have not had parti- .cularly ideal treatment. Hundreds of these little ones have been entirely lost by their Belgian families, and having been at the age of first language-learning at the time r.of Weportation, now scarcely could be distinguished from German children and therefore are likely to join the thousands of war orphans of un- known parentage who, during the next ten years will fill the German asylums or be "bound out" as part- tide workers in "German families. ii Trees 5,000 Years Old. A huge cypress tree in a church- yard near Santa Maria del Tule, in Southern Mexico, aceording to scien- tists, is the oldest living thing in the world, being between 5,000 and 6,000 years old. - : This age is based on"the gigantic pole 'of the treé and the slow growth of the species. These figures mean that when the seed from which the tree sprang fell upon the earth King Menes was holding the first reign in Egyptiof which we have any historic knowledge, 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Humboldt discovered the tree more than 100 years ago. He nailed to the tree a wooden tablet contain- ing his autograph and, although it is now partly hidden by the subsequent growth, the autograph is still legible. The last scientific measurements of the tree showed it to have the aston- ishing girth of 136 feet at four feet from the ground. It shows.-no signs of decay. -------- Incendiary Bullets. The incendiary buMets used during the war, mostly fired from machine guns carried by airplanes, were in ef- fect miniature high-explosive shells. Those supplied to our armies (mil- lions of them were made at the Frankford Arsenal) were of brass, hollowed out to hold a composition of which the principal t was barium nitrate. To set this off, each bullet hat a priming charge of mag- nesium and red lead.' An ordinary rifle bullet, of course, is solid. The incendiary bullet is of wholly °° different construction, though of 'the same calibre, being meant to carry flame. Its discharge sets fire to the explosive stuff con- tained in it. Measures and Records Vibrations. An English scientist is the in- venior of apparafus that photo- graphically measures and records vi- brations of buildings or machinery, Arthur Ecrement, former member of the Canadian house of parliament, whose name wass=drawn into. New York's "five-million-dollar bond plot," was secretly deported to Can- a. William O: Jenkins, former United States consuler agent at Puebla, Mex- ico, will visit the United States for the purpose of reporting to the gov- ernment on his alleged kidnapping. Hj ERROR SEER | birds flying over the city in a south- PROBS: --Tuesday, mostly fine and warm. --- On Mis With Autumn Just'round the corner 'tis time to plan the New Fall Wardrobe! Our displays are almost complete for the net Fall and Winter season--the styles are abso- lutely authentic and are correct in every de- _.tail. To start and try to describe them would be impossible, and would do the garments an Mjustice--you really must see them and try them on to fully appreciate their unusual charm. The New Dresses Are fashioned on straight lines with Oriental embroidery and pleated effects as the distinctive new features. The materials are Botany Wool Serge, Men's Wear Serge, Tricotine and Wool Jerseys f or street dresses, while Satins, Silk Jersey and Georgette Combination lead for afternoon wear. The shades include navy, marine blue, heather shades of brown, taupe, with a fair sprinkling of other tones. PRICED FROM $19.50 TO $125.00. The New Suits Our showing is replete with staple and novelty styles -- the materials most favored are Duvetyn, . Suedine, Velour, Silvertone, Wool Serge and English Wool Jerseys. The shades shown are navy, brown, taupe, sea green and black. PRICED FROM $45.00 TO $175.00. New Fall and Winter Coats Positively the greatest showing of popular priced Coats we have ever had --inclyded is' every new shade, material and style -- over 500 coats now on the floor ready for the wise early choosers -- they range from the plain misses' styles at $22.50 to eT fur trimmed, very much re-collared dolman, with its beautiful lining of French Pussy Willow at $195.00. The values are extra special; the prices being from 20 to 25% less than last fall. We want you 19 5 this range now while the assortment is most complete. Ask our sales- ladies to see our leaders at $2 5.00, $35.00, $45.00 $50.00. --No tax on these. Do come in and look around. It's not a bit too early to choose a Coat now and have it laid aside until you need it in another 'month, Steacy's - Limited | : "The Woman's Store of Kingston." | = TT CA in the district to get out coal which contains 12,000 heat units per i pound. This is 2,000 more unite " < than in the coal mined in the Leth- * bridge and Drumheller fields. It is PRINCE OF WALES FLOUR estimated that there are more than 25,000,000 tons in the district. In some places the seam is from four . $7.50 PER 98 LB. BAG wardly direction. Winter is not yet, ; says the chief game guardian of the § to fifteen feet in thickness. province. He thinks the flocks may | | \ ' . Wholesale Phone 51. Retail Phone 21 7. 3 FIND NEW 'COAL SUPPLY Fine Samples of Fuel To Be Mined Near Regina. Regina, Sask.,, Aug. 16.--Atl Lampman, Sask., within 100 miles of Regina, first-class coal will soon be mined. A company is being formed NOT WINTER IN AUGUST But Wild Birds in West Already > Leaving For the South. Regina, Sask., Aug. 16.--Some Regina residents are preparing to get out their fur-lined underwear, for they have observed flocks of have been ducks or some of the shore birds that start south very early in the season. ---- p : - A call for tenders; for a twe-mil-1Mon €. R. Mitchell, provineial trea- lion-dGollar bond issue, for the pro- Wm. Lacey, Niagara Falls, was crushed to death when caught by a cable at construction work at Twin ¢ surer. Bonds are for ten years, with Falls. ¢ wince of is announced (by {interest at six per cent.