p TT NMR ' RAS Crt stirring against it. Indeed, the | beauty loving citizen is resolved that the country shall not be marred and | | every lovely spot commercialized and | made hideous. { | The movement, however, while | | legitimate and proper, should recog- nize the fact that the billboard men | perform a usetul and necessary task and have rights which should be re- spécted, Only harm and injustics | can result from a crusade of perse- cution directed against them with the purpose of taxing their business out of existence, regardless of the man- | ner of exercise. On the other hand, | the profession would do well to { awaken to the situation and ewdeavor in every way to keep their activities | within the bounds of moderation and | good taste. =- 1 Ba a 'THE BRITISH WHIG| 87th YEAR. ge Ft Fh | LIT wih i a ol --------r---- SYSTEM LACKING. | The present method of conducting | | harvesters' excursions to western | Canada in the summer is very much | in meed of revision. When seemingly urgent calls are sent forth | Business oni LLEPHONES: 3 through the press and other- Editorial Rooms wise declaring that forty thou- | dob Office |sand harvesters from the east are needed to gather in the western | crops, when in reality there is not One year, by mail to rural offices $2.50 work for more than twenty thousand, | i NE Ey ne ft is time that a halt be called. The | ne year, by Zl. cash avast oe! bulk of the harvesters go from Ont- | One Joa ia ald in ac $1.50) arfo, and it should be the duty of Six and three months pro rata. the provincial government hereafter to see that there is not a repgtition | | of the occurrences of this passing | season when hundreds of thousands | ish beat job print | of men who went west could not be ; placed at all and had to return. Ontario suffers by the loss of so many | men at a very busy time of the year. | These men are attracted by the west- | ern haryest call of elght dollars a | day. According to some who went | west, the eight dollar offer fell to The Prince of Wales is called an $4.50 because the supply was far expert in lessening the distance be- greater than the demand, and when tween the people and the throne. the easterners were once in the dis- tant west they would have to take what they could get unless they had | {a fat pocketbook and had gone to | {the wheat field regions for pleasure Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO.,, LIMITED Frealdent Managing Director SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city 6 Qne year, If paid in advance $5.00 Letters to the Editor are published | only over the actual name of the writer. Attached | ing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bareau of Circulations. ---------------- In 1916 there were 16,000 million- aires in the United States; now there are 50,000. The war made them. In th 2s Lot dave Bow td Row pleasant it | 38 well as work. However, thous- 3 these hot days how p | ands of the harvesters probably took is to think of the price of coal and | cause cold shivers to run down one's | hi oy, Inte more Dan oul back. | ing ther destinations, and many of Whey the strong covet a thing these men were sorry indeed that they may be unable to find a text | they had not remained in Ontario to bolster their cause but they can |and taken five dollar a day jobs. The labor bureau of the Ontario govern- ment should keep this matter in mind next year and take pains to 'ascer- tain just how many harvest workers the west needs, and advertise the | fact, so that this provinae may not | be depleted of labor for two or three months. always find a pretext. Sooner or later automobiles will wear cowcatchers in order to toss pedestrians into the gutter and avoid messing up the streets, The Bell Telephone company is/ trying hard to convince Ottawa that talk is cheap. The luxury of years ago is a necessity now. ---------- THE JONES ACT. The policy laid down by the United States' congress in the Jones Act in directing the president witam ninety days to terfninate all treaty provi- sions that restricted the right of that country to {impose discriminating customs duties and tonnage dues was widely questionel at the time the bill was under consideration. The New York World poes so far as to say that, if enforced, it was clearly fore- seen that this provision would lead to general maritime warfare. No nation whose treaty rights were summarily abrogated by the United States could be expected to submit passively to such treatment. It was an invitation to the rest of the world to enter upon a campaign of re- prisals. It was a direct incitement to countries with which the United States maintained commercial rela- tions to seek to protect their interests through a policy of retaliation. If the United States undertook to im- pose discriminating taxes on foreign shipping, then inevitably American shipping must be prepared to en- counter discriminations no less et- fective in foreign ports. hen the United States congress passed the Jones Act and President Wilson signed fit they must have known that there was trouble ahead. The attempt to commit the United States to the subsidy system was | clumsy and f{ll-considered. The | most appropriate time for the presi- | dent to have interposed his objection to the repudiation of treaty rights guaranteed other nations was when through the regular means of a veto he could have returned the bill to congress for its consideration. In |effect, his present action is a belated | veto, of which the immediate con- | sequence is to shift discussion from the provisions of the Jones Act it-) self to his constitutional authority to set aside the plain instructions of congress. Meanwhile the rest of the world looks on with wonder, and pethaps some degree of amusement, to the political game as it is played in the United States during a presi- dential election campaign. ---------------- Mrs, Stephen West, left the family at dinner and disap- peared. The harbor was dragged put no trace has yet been found of er. The, authorities have forced 137 "Black and Tans" to resign for par- ticipating in the sacking of Bal- briggan, Ireland. The Fanad Head, a steamer from Montreal, which is docked at Dube lin, was raided by Sinn Feiners tol arms. The Welland Tribune and the Te- legraph have amalgamated, to be run as an fndependent paper. It is reported that Sir Geo. H. Per- ley will return to London as High mmissioner. abinet decision in the railway rates appeal is withheld for the present. - The price of admission to the Ti cost the people of Canada over $150,000 for the jaund of the Im- perial Press Union to see Canada Was this good business and good advertising? The ex-kaiser is giving a hospt- tal to Amerongen. Can it be his Presence there made everybody sick? In his time he kept many hospitals running overtime. People are evidently more concern- ed over the self-imposed starving: ot MacSwiney than over the war impos- €d starvation of thousands of Europ- eans. What an anomaly! 3 Sn -------- The city assessor has added sev- emal millions to the assessed value of the property of citizens. And yet there is no likelihood of a decline in the t rate; rather Mayor Nickle SugEestsN\t may be higher than ever next year. Sa ---------- The automobile prices are falling Just when everybody thinks of sell- ing their cars and calling the season closed. Just whea coal is most 'needed the price is the highest. "Twas ever thus! ; i ---- As a protest againat high prices in the restaurants, Toronto people #re carrying their lunches now. @staurants should be licensed, and then prices are unduly high the licenses could be cancelled. ~The farmer says he can turn over investment only once a year and needs a goci profit in view of the jot that the packers turn over theirs two weeks and the restaurant keeper overy day. mm re-- 'Someone said that in San Fran- CO as a result of prohibition the ks gained $666,000,000 in two d a half months, The Cincinnati lquirer adds: '"We don't know d6ther this is cited to show the ntage of prohibition or the way bootlegging industry thrived." Si J - THE BILLBOARD HIDEOUS. 'The battle which is raging in Mas- husetts between the Civic League i the billboard men awakens live terest in many quarters. In the ex- nent of the war and the turmoil the period of reconstruction the poster escaped general atten- but with the return to normal he has become again the tar- for the attacks of various civie janizations. ~~ ere is much to be ald 'against ugly signboard. Not only does ar the beautiful Jandscape on itly every highway, but it has so invaded residential districts and 8 80 obnoxious in its glaring [8 in parks and on. buildings Beaverton, SR | saint, or whoever it is we think has! | lions prayed just t | drizzle about ten o'clock { L was sayin,' | fay, 'Let the tail g | was good fer the wheat.' MUSINGS OF THE KHAN > bored and very tired. She pressed old { Bennie Sevenpiper's hand. "Goodbye, Bennie," she said, "I'll meet you in heaven--if it don't rain!' THE KHAN The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm Rockton, Ont. Jupiter Pluvius. | It is a blessed thing that we are oy Chrisgians. It is a fortunate thing that we have ceased to bribe the 9 gods to be good to us or bad to our WwW It M > enemies, After twenty centuries the a ason old custom.breaks out here and there. THE POET PHILOSOPHER When we get into a hole we get busy | &ee- 2nd promise the Lord, 'or our patron RA * ony : JOY RIDERS. ai 'm seated in my figtree's shade, the biggest pull with the Almighty-- | beside the public highway, and flies all kinds of plunder, | aesail me unatraid--which is /the It would be worth knowing now | air 8 vay. Be al day 10 the | autos scoot, in heedless haste many millipns of people prayed for | fore me; and all day long they honk tain this summer and how any mils) and hoot, and throw the gravel o'er he opposite. me. 'In luxury the riders bask upon Christians it was six of one and half' the seats of satin; "Does no one ever a dozen of the other, but I don't be-| work?" I ask, in Choctaw, Greek lieve that Jupiter Pluvius paid the and Latin Old age is riding there, elightest heed to either party. Have| in gooth, In limousines that glitter, You ever stopped to think what rain | and at the wheel is gilded youth-- can do--how much it affects our|and at the wheel is gilded youth---and Whole Uteiime? OI thei I'm the only quitter; for now and then 1@ Junior Farmers he eir an-| | park my boat and strive to earn a uual fair on the parade grounds last] Ar pa. 2 from reason so re- Monday, and it rained. It varied 10/ mote that all the passers holler. Oh, an PL! all the autos travel forth, I hear drizzling away, drizzling away all | their aD _-- they "journey Hieron never rained real good) south, they scamper north, and east The women crouched in doorways or| and Se ay 19 whissing. The rudy Sder ig that would shed tie the world is playing except some tin- Pg Yo aa re YOY, grave andi horn also-rans who labor at their ana | The roads are black with hens huddled under a wagon during limousines, on idle errands going, a shower. Well, that's what they | i ' "(and wilted are the useful beans-- looked like. i They Suffered Satyr there's none to do the hoing. The om heroically. Each of them stood | very erect, like a hen does when it's, world 18 busy blowing kale, and ER; ADU Ce? thrift's a thing to banish; "Does no raining, but they didn't look so very | Br mad. 5 Rather Ys they inclined | he Dy orks ar in German, to be just to the sterner sex. Yemen an panis WALT MASON "My man told me to stay to home = ' --and I wishit I hed," said one dame | NO hae "My man h#'ll be tickled to death," | RUSHING CHEESE sald another. "He sowed wheat three STORAGE PLANT weeks ago an' it ain't sprouted yit, ---- an' he's bin prayin' for rain an'--* Old Seed House at Cape Vin 2 Dray HoAnow that your man was |." "gene Is Remodelody Tu prayin' body. "Well," explained the poor wo- Cost $25,000. man, "he wasn't 'xactly rayin' fer ~ rain, but was hopin' for iw an' that's| Cape Vincent, N.Y., Oct. 1. -- the next thing to 1t. What's the Taking into consideration the excel- use in prayin' if you don't hope to lent shipping facilities afforded, git what yer prayin' fer? Well, ag Which is of paramount importance in he has been canvassin' the cold storage business, E. W. Coon, the angels fer rain goin' on ten days, |0of the Coon storage, is rapidly re- an' I guess he got a tip it was com- |modeling and rebuilding the old in' fer he told me this mornin' fer (Howard & Underhill seed house, re- to stay at home, Ef I got drowndid cently purchased by him, and in time gettin' back and got my death he'd Will have an up-to-date cheese stor- 0 with the hide, it |age plant, modern in every respect. The building at the present time I am glad that the custom of offer-|is 100 by 40 feet, is four stories high ing presents and camouflaged brides and located on the south side of to Jupiter Pluvious has gone out or: Broadway opposite the New York fashion, for it would lead to rioting Central railroad depot. A spur of the | and very bitter feeling among dif- track runs across Broadway and | ferent classes of the community. alongside the building, this glving | Knowing how rain affects the attend- ready access to shipping by rail. ance the directors of the great Tor-| Only a few years ago Mr. Coon onto Exposition would most bitterly | purchased the Cleveland seed house, | resent any attempt of any clique, clan | located at the foot of Market street, | or class of people to induce J. P. to and on the St. Lawrence river. This | | start a day and a half or a two days' (lie transformed into a modern cheese rain during Exhibition time. And yet storage house, constructing a large | that rain might do 800d. During the dock affording excellent shipping | last Exposition the farmers would 'accommodations by. water. The have been' helped vastly by a few Market street plant and the new one | days' rain. under construction now will un- | If we were asked what was the |doubtedly make one of the largest most miserable time we ever put in |cheese storage plants in this section We would almost unanimously say it|of the country. was the time we went to a distant] Roughly estimating, the cost of fall fair and it rained all day. It's |remodeling will probably amount to always cold, too, and the chances about - $25,000. . ' are you are wearing your best clo- Both American and Italian cheese thes and they will be ruined. Stand- [will be handled. Mr. Coon pur- ing there shivering in some corner of {chases practically the entire output the wretched place you hate yourself | from surrounding cheese factories and everybody else, and you swear-- land transports it to this village for if you are in the habit of Swearing-- |storing, curing and shipping. A more that you will never £0 to another fall | advantageous point for storage pur- fair again, poses would have been hard to find. Our grandfat do so and so, G Our fathers such and such, permitting, \ We simply say we will do it ff it don't rain. It was a bedside scene, ing one was dying. hers said they would od willing, sald they would do health and weather Mayor Church is likely to be the choice of the Conservatives at the party convention to select a candi- date for North-east Toronto in the coming by-election rendered neces- sary by the resignation of Hon. Dr. The depart- | &. J. Cody 81 unconscionable time| Backus 18 to build a mill at Sar' Aon was somewhat Kenora. The Wm. Davies Co., Ltd. PHONE 597 We Have Exceptionally Good Values This Week "CANADIAN SPRING LAMB Fronts--Legs--Loins YEARLING LAMB Phe ss sisielvasininia tnin sine ere inlalnie FRONTS LEGS LOINS «ho eivtereereis CHOPS... cconmenionnss SIEWING ..... ......., SMOKED PICNIC HAMS PICNIC HAMS PRs rr nislelnlnin ninnin vininintnivintinininie Seabee sens ia o's s'8 8. 0.0 see an sve sama . he Se Ib WILTSHIREHOCKS ..... . . Cae 1,000 large tins SALMON . . ..... «x +. 2 for 35¢. DON'T FORGET DAVIES' TEA--ONLY 45c¢. and get results in the egg Fasket and in thriving chicks. This feed is one of our specialties and those who use it are its enth admirers. Try some and note the improvement in 'laying hens and growing chicks. W. F. McBr oom W-44 Princess Street. Phone 1858 Fubllc sentiment, is once more | United Btajes on now eight dollars. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. FRIDAY, OGroRER 1, R20 00 00 OO lid | BIBBY'S Style Headquarters for Men's and Boys' Wear " SUR IHR SALE OF RAINCOATS See our Parametta Raincoats at . . .$16.50 SALE OF SUITS $25.00. Young Men's First Longs--Men's Two and Three Button Style; neat patterns. Sizes 33 to 44. : qm SALE OF SUITS $35.00 Extra special value; fine quality Worsted; Blue Serges and nobby Tweeds: all new models. Sizes 34 to 46. Extra special values, SEE BIBBY'S PURE INDIGO BLUE SUITS We believe the best Blue Suit values in Canada. Prices $45.00, $47.50, $52.50, $55.00 and $62.50. BIBBY'S | ; 78, 80, 82 Princess Street. be = McCLARY'S GAS RANGES "The Finest Finished Ranges Sold in Canada" "FLORENCE AUTOMAT IC" OIL STOVES Endorsed by Good House keeping Magazine, Sold ati-- BUNT'S King St. Phone 388 IR Ur -- 5 NEWFOUNDLAND Canned Lobsters We have just received a ship- ment of these choice Lobsters. Sold only under license, and passed by the Newfoundland Government. For one pound flat tins, price, per tin «$1.00 Jas, REDDEN & Co. HARDWARE \, Gourdier's For FURS - Nuff Said CHOICE MEATS | ~--Spring Lamb, ~--Spare Ribs, ~--Tenderloins, --Pork Sausages. Choice Western Beef Daniel Hogan 882 KING STREET Phone 283 sill Lake Ontario Trout ] and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salm Had. dock, Halibut and Cod. Dominion Fish Co, Canada Food Board License No. 9.2248 NOTICE Cleveland, Hyslop and Humphrey Bicycles ----At Reduced Prices---- Bicycle Tires and Auto Traction Tread . Covers. Special prices. See window display. Carpet Cleaning and Laying, H. MILNE 272 BAGOT STREET msm For the 90 acres about 10 miles from ! Kingston on the York Road, 2 X "JIFFY Y PANTS" miles from Odessa, first class Pure soft rubber; absolutely water- -- Coal That Suits The Delaware, Lackawanna and estern Railroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite The only Coal handled by Crawford Phone 9. Foot of "agen 84, "It's a black busines. but we treat you white." ay buildings; about 80 acres good tillable tend: well fenced; well watered; price $6,500. A very valuable farm of 290 acres the Village of Harrowsmith; frame dwelling, two large barns with stables and other outbuildings; over 200™ucres of very fertile soil has been under cultivation; good fences; plenty of water; enough wood for fuel and some valuable building timber; a choice farm; splendid location; must be sold; a reasonable of- accepted. Phone '1035w or 17974. proot. SANITARY DIAPERS Washable--stain proof, Cen be sterilized. Made In three sizes of change. Pure Rubber. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE _ If we werk all as eager for bap. Porous world (his moraonsy what 'a slorious world this would ba. $85 PRINCESS YTREMT