6 : THE BRITISH WHIG | surerios is confined k 87th YEAR. spread to Asia, and the news ,des- patches now tell us that 30,000,000 Chinese are suffering from famine, | that one thousand deaths are occur- | conditions are!s rapidly growing worse. One of the | ring daily and that worst famines in the long history of Asia Is now devastating China, due | to a faflure in crops and to the civil wars that ave been, going on for some years. In Shantung and adjoin- | ing provinces the crops upon which | some 40,000,000 people depended for | their food have been an'almost total | faflure. An appeal has been made by '| Christian leaders resident in that | country for outside aid, as local fin- | anclal resources and H meet the requirements of the situa- | on. True, the Chinese government Published Dally ang SemisWeekiy..by Is doing what it can, but the mea- THE DRITISH WHIG PU €O., LIMITED pared with the great need that exists PLR President | and which is da itor am Managing Director | MOre and more a TELEPHONES: : Business Office .. helping hand. China's experience , Editorial Rooms ..220 Job Office 282 With a republican form of govern- | ment has been so far anything but successful. Her people are not quick i G. Elllote in « G Eman A, Guilq cute. Once more the SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) -- today. It has!a great Scotchman to say: "So much |put hi transportation' facilities are woefully inadequate to! BLISHING | sure of its assistance is small com- | y by day becoming | Christian world is called upon to lend | THE DAILY. BRIT mself in the same ss with Scotland has | Jack the Hugger, with the result that of her |@ happy home was broken up. And I know that malicious people will be unkind enough to say it was my verses did it. And the Lord, He knows I done it fer the best! THE KHAN. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. of what is great in sprung from the closeness fomlily ties. It is there that I sonie- t:mes fear that my country is being Christian Christian parents, vnconscious homes depend on and 8 to shape by! influence the spirit of child * the parents themselves must face life's disappointments, bear life's trials and accept life's joys in a confidential relationship which Walt Mason is eminently Christian. A man or THE POET PHILOSOPHER is woman who ignores the sanctities of | dees religion, who scorns the means or | PERIL. grace, who would rather run an au-| T fear to cross the village street, tomobile or play golf on Sunday than There sil tke autos wind 85d mis, Lav or I am shaky on my feet, and can ave 2 tare for Ihe religious lite ot do acrobatic Fricke, Yi tried this the children, who belittles the great | morning, just for luck. to dodge traditions handed down by noble across to Johnson't store, and I got men, can scarcely foster in children a tangled with a truck, and broke three living faith in a living God. If life 1s | Tib8, or maybe more. By modern tc be tolerable for the next genera- "25 I'm badly bored; I cannot : ramble near or far, but some one tion it must be strengthened, direct- | climbs me with a Ford, or spoils my ed and gently controlled by those into | person with a car. In olden times whose hands God has put the inesti- pen horses Jrew the Yohicles in i Which men rode, a man could wa mable joy and duty of parenthood {a verst or two. and BaVe ov SOIT In Canada we have the great advan- pWounds to be sewed. 'Then one could tage that the Christian home is still { cross the public way, according to with us. We must ask ourselves whet- his sane desires, and not to be her it is desirable that it should be | SIUashed beneath a dray, or wound the the ISH WHIG. aa aE a --_e | a 00 -- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1920. BIBBY'S I SEE OUR About forty Coats to choose from. St SEE OUR Kingston's Only Strictly Cash and One-Price Clothing Store. Sale of Overcoats $27.50 Overcoats yles are new: form-fit, .new waist-line, new form-fit and Chesterfield models. One year, delivered in city One year, if paid in advance One year, by mail to rural offices One year, to United States 00 | (Semi- Weekly | One year, by mall, cas One year, if not pajd in advance One year, to United States ...... Six and three months pro rata. Letters to jhe di op ares publianed | only over the name of the writer. EA | -- | Attached is one of the best job print- | ing offices in Canada. | 6.00 6.00 $2.50 3.00) 00! 1.50 The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit 'Bureau of Circulations. No man likes to be shown ne is wrong in certain actions; he much prefers to discover it himself. -- ee | The saloons may be dead but their | §pirits go roaming around the coun- | try in hip pockets and in the boot- | leggers' sack. e-------------- { Because they know much of the in- | side of houses woman architects | have 'taken the chief prizes for city | housing plans. | "Father's in the kitchen and mo- | ther's at the polls," may yet be a| reasonable statement of the little son on the sidewalk. Will the markedly great increase in railway rates give relief to the passenger who really wants to get the car window open! This is the gradation: "A garde- ner is a man who raises a few things; a farmer, a man who raises many things, and a middleman one who taises everything: The present weather makes one feel that a fine part of the holiday Season has been really missed. May | it continue fair and cool for many days. -------- The Boston Globe finds that the in- terest in the presidential election is mostly intense among the candidates. Same over here. And in both coun- tries-the campaign is surely dry en- ough. An election is the last thing any of the parties want just now. The lé&a- ers are camouflaging their real de- sires, An election will come after the census and redistribution. That's "time enough. 'What would your grandfather have thought of you had you told him lisp- _ ingly in 1876 that in 1920 women would vote because they could and men wouldn't ° likker-up because they couldn't? S-------- Premier Drury wants to see com- 'munity halls all over Ontario, a ga- thering and meeting place for the rural population. Good sized govern- ment grants are given to help on the profit. A library and a reading room are also desired in each hall. The stoppage of work on the Streets because of a shortage in re- Yenue only means a bigger expendi- ture next year and also an increase of sickness, due to filth baing blown @bout. The abominations are accu- mulating on the streets every day. Sir Henry Drayton does not find the west so intensely opposed to pro- tection as the newspapers and poli- _ ticans would lead people to believe. The westerner knows that revenue opposed to protection of a type t will produce revenue and Stimu- industry. If industry goes, so agriculture. _ The Hutterites, or German Luther- ns, of Manitoba, have complied with school law of the rrovinee and sending their chltiren to the pud- schools. The Manitoba Minlster of ication learned from personal ob- vation that the children were bwing proficient in the use of the lish language and the parents are well satisfied with the education the bh Jdren are recelyias. CHINA'S SAD PLIGHT, While war has laid its heavy hand Europe, where millions of little lldren are parentless and homeless id where tens of thousands are ed to perish for want of nour- ent and protection from the cold, Bot to that continent alone tha 5 ®ia to adapt themselves to new and strange conditions. During the last nine years the new republic has had five presidents, three constitutions, 1.50| three civil wars and one.forelgn war. | At present the political outlook is a little brighter, and there is said to be a prospect of North and South China composing their and once more uniting, KINGSTON FAIR GROUNDS. Application has been made by the fair directors to the city council for a three years' lease of the fair grounds, owing to the interruption of their plans this year and the financial loss, due to bad weather. The application has been passed on to the property committee for, con- sideration and action. While this matter is under con- sideration there are rumors current to the effect that some person pro- poses denying the granting of the application on the ground that the city should take over management of the fair, or at least form a fair committee to represent the city council, which should retain control of the fair. To such proposals the Whig takes strong objection as 'they are not in the interest of the fair or of the city. Tt is only necessary to refer to the past for guidance when this matter is discussed. The Kingston fair was hot a success when conducted as a civic enter- prise. It dwindled and died. At the same time the Township agricul- tural falr, originally held at Cata- raqui, flourished, moved in to the old race course and finally to the present grounds. It grew to its present proportions without civic interference. 'It may be difficult to explain, but it is a fact nevertheless, | | that joint control is not desirable. {The farmers must get in behind a fair, and unless they do it it will not succeed. During the last few years of splendid success the fair was entirely in the hands of the present directors, who are all men of ability and standing in their re- spective communities. Their initi- ative has a.great influence in those communities which are thereby brought into closer relation with the city and the business of the city. We want such men. It is a question of who runs the fair as well as the fact of the fair that makes a business success. The Whig is strongly op- posed to any suggestion to super- cede the present directord, or to interefere with their activities, and strongly endorses the application for a five or Six year lease of the grounds to them. FORWARD MOVEMENT AGAIN. The conferences being held all over the dominion by the leaders of the various churches indicate in very significant fashion the conviction that the least part of the Forwaril Movement was the raising of a peace offering of almost fifteen million dollars among the Protestant com- munions of Canada. Scarcely a re- ference has been made at any of the meeting to the money that has been subscribed. | 4; The emphasis has rather been rlaced on the world condition and the part the churches have to play. Their present position is being eager- ly canvassed. They are described as "all dressed up and no where to go" --or rather as not being quite sure what direction to take. Eminent jour- nalists, like the editor of the Man- chester Guardian, judges of juvenile courts and great publicists like W. H. Taft are convinced that the hope of the world lies in religion and that at bottom every problem, social and economic, is a religious problem. The churches have therefore made nc mistake in turning their attention to the Christian home as the place where disintregation begins and from which any hope of improvement must vmenate. There #s a feeling that the Christian home is being threat- ened. A pamphlet is before us which reads In this fashion. The new eco- nomic conditions which smother (many a soul in wealth and starve Cthers in poverty, the mad rush for intoxicating pleasures outside ' the ome, the divorce menace, the con- gested centres of population with their tenements and boarding houses, much literature which is destructive of the finest home ideals, the extreme. individualism of the age which often breeds a narrow gelfishness, causes ' differences J lions of years, maintained and strengthened, and if so whether we are prepared to make thegnecessary effort to give it a com- manding place in .the community's life. MUSINGS OF THE KHAN Toor Much of a Good Thing. Some years ago I wrote a little verses entitled, "Kiss Her Every Day," of which some of my friends were good enough to speak kindly. I preached the evangel of love and that to kiss her was the outward and visible sign of an in- ward and spiritual grace, if I may be permitted to borrow an exquisite | sentiment from the Book of Com- mon Prayer. It was about the time when our sisters were beginning widen their sphere of activity and, |incidentally, shorten their skirts. You remember that during the war we used to have a map of the west- ern front on the parlor table with little flags stuck along it to mark the then existing front. You recall how humiliating it was to have to shift them flags an inch or two every morning into sacred territory as the Hun host rolled inexorably down on our devoted troops. When |I saw the skirts shrink another quar- iter of an inch I felt just like that! The battle was going against us. {Trammeled with robes that she had to hold up out of the mire with one hand our darling was indeed the | "weaker vessel," if I may be excused for quoting a distinguished letter | writer who forgot more about women {every minute than any of ever know. I had concluded that |this was a materialistic age, but | that if we kissed her every day she imight see the error of her ways. A | poor dear little woman confided to | me that her man (Canadian for hus- | band) never kissed her under any | circumstances. | "Why," she said. "if he up'n kiss- ed me I would think it a miracle." Most people have a wrong concep- tion of what a miracle is. Long | ao, we are told, a servant of the |Lord smote a rock and waters gush- {ed forth. That was considered, and {is considered, a great miracle. Yet these same people see nothing won- derful in the fact that a servant of the Lord smote a land accounted to be harder than any rock, a land of snow and ice, the haunt of the silver fox and the coyote, and behold! a stream of golden grain gushed forth and hath been flowing for a genera- tion. n the year of our Lord 1920 it is rolling past our doors into the sea. In another miracle we read that "Their nets did break with the weight of fishes." To-day we can't get vessels to hold and carry the golden tide that is pouring down upon the shore. We are told that they held up the hands of Moses and the 'sun stood still for two hours. That was a miracle, indeed, but not half so much a miracle as the fact that this very same sun hath been sweeping through space for aeons, for countless and uncountable tril- foliowed by his swarm the red-winged goose and her fabled goslins, and not one of the shining host ever slipped a COB or missed connection or had a puncture! Lang syne it rained quails and manna. Every evening this summer the blessed dew came down from heaven! What do you know about that? People have got it into their heads that a miracle must be some- thing unusual; as a matter of fact, miracles are so common that we have ceased to notice them. A mir- acle must be something ultra-un- usual. "I carried in the |of planets like kindling yesterday afternoon for Sar' Ann and helped her to churn, and I noticed that she avoided me the rest of the evening; she evidently feared that I was go- ing of my nut and might do some violent thing before bedtime. Now, there's that poor little woman I told you about. I heard that she had gone home to her maw, so I called on her to find out what seemed to be the matter. She was unwilling to talk at first, but finally she con- fided to me that she feared Abner was agoin' out of his head, a tigure of speech used by the common peo- ple in this country to denote going crazy. I asked her to describe some of the symptoms. "1 hate fur to tell it," says she, "an' I don't want fit to go no furder, but the other after- noon Abner he come in frum the barn an' he grabbed holt uv me an' kissed me. We've bin married going on twelve year an' he never did it afore. I'm sure his mind is affected. I wouldn't stay another night alone with him--no--not for a cow! And there you are." Abner had evidently come across my verses, "Kiss Her Every Day," somewhere and was impressed. He saw his fault and determined to lead a4 new lite, But like all or most converted people he did not proceed intelligently. You take the villain who gets religion and for a time he than he was before. It was the same with Abner. He sprung it on M'lissy too blame quick. He should have led up to it by degrees. , He few | us will | is a greater terror to the neighbors |. around some rubber tires. You laugh to scorn the old time ways, the horses and their sluggish fame; but trade went on in those brave days, and people got there just the same. And sports found just as much de- light in driving Dexter or Maud S,, | @8 speeders in their autos bright, who fill the country with distress. I'd like to cross the village street, to have a haircut and shampoo, but I'm no longer blithe and fleet, I can't out- jump a kangaroo. --WALT MASON, -------------- PUBLIC OPINION bona | * ntford iixpositor) eJicious bivalve is with us » which is a reminder that ask for an oyster stew you to be served with oysters two. ( The d To Do the Determining, (Cleveland Plaindealer) There is fine morality and unsel- fishness in the doctrine of self-deter- mination by small nations under the protection and guidance of friendly great powers. But there is also an intimation of inferiority which goes against the pride of the beneficiary nations. They would much prefer to do their determining without aid or advice. And this is what Czecho- | Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia and Rumania propose to do. They are strong for eelf-determination; and they 'have formed an alliance in order to make themselves strong enough to do the | determining in their own way. The Appeal For Unity, (The Christian World) When I first read the Lambeth Ap- peal, surprise filled my mind, but on a second and a third reading gladness | and hopefulness overcame all otner f feelings. This Appeal may yet be- come the best thing in modern church history, and some immediate response, similar in spirit, and as universal in its political conception, must be made by the churches to which it is addressed. I like the mea- sured orderliness of the Appeal, and its aversion to haste; and what fa rew in such documents is its gener- ous recognition of spiritual reality in the various ministries of other chur- ches. Anti-League Feeling Really Anti. 'Wilson, (Norman Hapgood in Yale Review) In this talk about Wilson's lLea- gue, and a one-man League, nothing ie said about Cecil, Lloyd George, or Smuts; nothing about ratification by the British parliament, the French parliament, the Italian parliament; nothing about the membership accep- ted by twenty-nine nations, some of them placed in as hazardous posi- tions as Switzerland, Holland, Bel- gium, and Denmark, all of them free parliamentary countries, and yet not one standing off and whining about responsibilities as our huge country miles of sea, No, there is nothing of all this. What is exploited is merely the hatred of one man whose fate it has beén to lead through more than seven years of infinite complexity; and that hate is perhaps not more bitter than was shown against Lin- coln in the summer of 1864. G. Hunter Ogilvie Offers For Sale a new issue of $4,000,000 8% Cumu- lative Participating Preference Shares of the Three Rivers Pulp and Paper Co'y, Ltd. This is a particularly attractive of- fer for those subscribing before the 20Lh of October, 1920. $100.00 for each preferred share, with a bonus of one of Common. 209 to - accompany application, remainder in 4 equal instalments, quarterly. 281 KING STREET Phones :: 568 & 1087 For Stomach Trouble If you have anything wrong with your digestive powers, then ' make them strong and healthy by taking Vital Tablets, the great French rem- edy. Don't neglect yourself, Vital will fix you. . Price 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, at all drug stores: ' The Sco- bell Drug Company, Montreal, Que. Sold in Kingston at Mahood's Drug Store. TAILORING Have your next Suit or Overcoat made by does, protected by three - thousand ' $35.00 Overcoats Splendidly tailored, from All-Wool Cheviots and Tweeds, Friezes and Meltons--all this season's models. cannot be duplicated elsewhere for less than $45 EXTRA SPECIAL! SeecurBlue Suit€'at oon... LL $37.50 and $45.00 Foxes English Serge; all sizes. v These Coats 00 to $47.50 BIBBY"S | TT £4 000 "The Finest Finished Ranges Sela \ McCLARY'S GAS RANGES "FLORENCE AUTOMAT IC" OIL STOVES Endorsed by Good House keeping Magazine, BUNT'S King St. Phone 3388 Sold in Canada.» ati Po Gourdier's | For FURS Nuff Said a4 ---- REPAIRS! REPAIRS! side-line with us. We, Euarinine our workmansiy SAU broken rts made as stron , Water Jackets and Crank Cases weld- ed without heating. KINGSTON WELDING SHOP 43 PRINCESS STREET. FARMS FOR SALE 90 acres about 10 miles from Kingston on the York Road, 2 miles from Odessa, first class buildings; about 80 acres good tillable land; well fenced; well watered; price $6,500. A very valuable farm of 290 acres adjoining the Village of Harrowsmith; frame dwelling, two large barns with stables and other outbuildings; over 200 acres of very fertile soil has been under cultivation; good fences; plenty of water; ough wood for fuel and some ' valuable building timber: a choice farm; splendid location; must be sold; a reasonable of- fer will be accepted. 2 doors from King Edward Theatre Style and fit guaran- teed. Own material Methodist and Presbyterian Sun- day school papers have amalgamated Dutch Bulbs 0 GIVE YOUR POULTRY OUR SPECIAL FEED and get results In the egg lasket and in thriving chicks. This feed is ome of our specialties and those who use it are its enthusiastic admirers. Try some and note the improvement in laying hens and growing chicks. W. F. McBroom | 42-44 Princess Street. | Crescent Wire Works Fencing, Guards, Baskets, Flower | borders, Wire Work of all kinds, masu-. factured by:-- PARTRIDGE & SON, 62 King Street West. fhone 1688 * For Fall Planting For winter blossoms there is noth- | ing so easily grown or more beauti- | ful than bulbous plants. Our stocks oY Holland Bulbs has arrived, and in- cludes besides NARCISSUS, HYA- CINTHS and DAFFODILS for indoor growing, splendid large TULIPS, CROCUS and FREESIAS fér spring blossoming in the garden. Come in and make your selection before the choicest varieties are gone. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE sual ABS Princess Street. Phone ee TT AREAS AAO J ~™ ee 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 ..8$1.00 Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones '20 and 999, CHOICE MEATS ~--Spring Lamb, ~--Spare Ribs, ~--Tenderloins, ~--Pork Sausages, Choice Western Beef Daniel Hogan 8382 KING STREET Phone 285 Lake Ontario Trout and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had. dock, Halibut ang Cod. Dominion Fish Co, Canada Food Board License Neo. 8.2248 Coal That Suits The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The only Coal handled by Crawford Phone 9. Foot of Oueen 8¢. "It's a black business, bul we treat you white."