inden THE BRITISH WHIG! 87th YEAR. Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING \ CO., LIMITED o J. G. Elliott Managing Director THLEPHONES; Business Office Editorial Jeb Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES : (Datl ion) Onb year, delivered fn city ...... @ year, if paid in advance ..... ne y | ms a -------- THE AVERAGE MAN. { The average man, or, in other words, the general public, suffers in | every conflict between capital and labor. Upon his shoulders the bur- den always falls. C. V. Young, in {the Power 'Magazine, raises his {voice on behalt of the average man {whom he takes to be the individual most affected by the upper and j nether millstones known as eapital land labor. The interests of society {as a whole, the Canadian Courier | points out, can never be determined by a system of trench warfare be- tween those who are called em- ployers and those who are known as tem which would make every man and woman a civil servant, 'Mr, | Young's plaint of the average man | puts the case trenchantly when he says : "Mr. Speaker, Honored Legisla- tors and all the Lobbyists within reach of my voice, I rise to interro- gate : Just where does labor leave off and capital begin ? after the rights of the disorganized { you-an'-me proletariats in between ? I belong to the Majority Party of the Mén-Who-Pay-the-Bills, and I o (2m getting sore on languid labor and corpulent capital. I don't wear overalls and haven't a silk hat. I 1.00 | can't afford to own a yacht, and I OF -TOWN REPRESENTATIVES . Calder, £2, St. John Bt, Montreal. #. M. Thompson, 492 Lumsden Bldg. Teronto. Letters to the Editor ony over the ' al' wr are pubiished name of the Attached ia one of the best job print- ing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. Ph This is Safety, Week. Don't be & Jay-walker. \ Few of these uprisings get far enough to be on the level. ----eis Still, a patriot's threat to starve himself is rather an empty boast. Italy has come upon an evil day, @nd communism won't make the dago. | Jitneys have come down, but the cotton twine needed to repair them 1s just as high as ever. ---------- And yet it must be admitted that the business of government includes the government of business. After that other great disaster, Noah planted a few grape vines in order to indulge in social unrest. A bitter-end wet says there will always be whiskey. Well, there may Always be something called whiskey. 3 "| When a man fs down his relatives Won't acknowledge him, but as he grows wealthy he begins to put on Belrs. When a building burns In Ire- land an outsider can't tell whether the fire was caused by patriotism or "religion. - The situation might be worse. The Japanese in California haven't yet appealed to the League of Nations for independence, : -------------- The average office holder will ae- Bpt the resignation of President Des- el as sufficient proof that he was little bit dddled. Lenine's situation is growing des- Brate. The people are growing rest- less and there are no property own- left to butcher. 'Now that the hunting season is , the slogan "Look defore you t,"" should be added to the list of ty Week admonitions. Every rose has its thorn. When get back to normal, likely ough one will find it necessary to | & normal day's work. is reported that Johnson and A have many things in common. A ly-discovered faculty for keep- Bg still is one of them, he broad way that Jeads to de- lop is still open to trdffic, but are fewer wrecks occasioned dding on the wet spots, t has' become of the old-fash- boy whose ambition was to a bicycle? He is probably hit- the high spots in a $3,000 auto. characteristic of the age Is credulity," said Disrall--in He was right; and it was the eristic '6f all' the ages that before him 'and of all the time 8t has come after.--Boston Tran: Rs ey 'sound body 1s not only the foun- on fora strong mind, but is also s of moral and economic effi- EY. No man or woman can make j.maximum contribution to the b, to business or to our country, ng from 11 fealth. oronte. il and Empire a to. Globe for blissful moment must have for- ten Union government when it $ of Canada: "Thera-ean be no ophe in a eduntry that has so | seeking their can't afford to go on strike, al- though I have worked hard fo: twenty years. or less respectable. I pay my bills on the first of the month ; likewise I pay town, state and national taxes. T have never been confined in a jail or in any institution supported by public funds.. I want to know what the government, apart from politi- cal 'necessities,' offers as a perma- nent and orderly cure for these periodic eruptions of strikes. If captial is to blame, what's the remedy ? If labor is to blame; what's the remedy 7" These are questions that many another average citizen 1s asking. They are questions that sooner or later must be satisfactorily an- swered. KINGSTON'S ASSESSMENT. The report of Assessor Mooers shows that Kingston's total assess- ment for 1921 is about two million (dollars more than for 1920, or an increase of thirteen per cent. This is a better ghowing than the civie committee had hoped for, and the new assessment will yield an addi- tional revenue of sixty thousand dol- lars next year, which, according to Mayor Nickle, will more than take care of the additional expenditures the council of 1921 will have to meet. While Kingston's taxable assessmen: ig, close to sixteen million dollars, there is over five million dollars of property exompt under statute. This is a large amount, and until the On- tario legislature sees fit to tax church land, the exempted total will con- tinue to slowly increase, It is a matter of regret that the city's population has fallen off. The locomotive works strike of last year is chiefly responsible for this, as many families had to move away dur- ing that eventful summer. It ig most gratifying that the same works are now running full blast, or Kingston might have had to face a popula- tion loss of more than a thousand. A strike in a big industry has a very had effect upon a small city, and King- ston certainly felt the ill-advised walkout at the locomotive works. The loss of population is also due to quite a number of young men fortune elsewhere. What Kingston must get is more in- dustries, so as to keep its young men at home. The civic industries com- mittee has done 'well this year in se- curing three industries to locate here, Their efforts are most encouraging, and should be continued. More in- dustries mean the erection of more houses, and additional revenue to the city exchequer through taxes. There is every hope that Kingston this coming year will more than regain what it has lost in population. Through active work on the part of the Board of Trade and the city council, a big boom can be started, and Kingston will surely come into its own. ------ \ A NATION IN PROTEST. A wave of righteous indignation has spread across Canada as a result of the recent ruling of the Board of Commerce in fixing the price of sugar at 21 cents a pound plus freight. The board has been in bad odor before, but to-day it is generally regarded as a distinct menace to the welfare of the public. Its attempt to regulate the price of newsprint was a dismal faflure, just as all attempts (#0 regulate prices of any commodity must ever be. 'Markets rise and fall in accordance with supply and de- mand, and artiticlal restrictions al- ways do more harm than good. The board, however, did not profit by its experience in the newsprint matter, for it now seeks to interfere in the sugar market. Originally intended 2s a means of protecting the public from exorbitant prices, it now goes to the other extreme and throws the mantle of its protection around the sugar refiners. Why it should rnsh to their defence, neglecting the inter ests of the public, is a matter of no little wonderment. The 'board was wrong in hampering the operations of the refiners a year ago; it is no & foundation. less wrong in coming to their rescue employees, any more thar by a sys- | Who looks | "I have a family and I am more | |now. The refiners have been caught le ona falling market; a risk that every | business must take at times. But this fact does not justify government in- A { iterference, much as one may sympa- thize with the refiners. The prin- letple back of It all ig wrong and in- |detensible. There should be no in- tervention against the rise and fall {of prices. The consumers of this {country are aroused as seldom before, {and are flooding Ottawa with mes- {sages of indignant protest. The in- | terests of the people are vastly great- jer than the interests of those whom | the board seeks to protect, and the |government has done well to recog- nize and act on this assumption. ; That sugar should sell in the United | States at 11 'cents a pound and in Canada at 21 %tents, and that all im- ports should be prohibited under the anti-dumping clause in the tariff, ara intolerable conditions. No wonder the consumers are indignant. Pane: MUSINGS OF THE KHAN} The Ancient Order of Scouts. It you would wish to know why in winter or summer, baseball is peren- nially fresh I would venture to say that it is tem of scouting. revived this ancient and prehistoric many of us belong to this order---the only order that has any good right and claim to the m '"'ancient?" The majority of us belong to the Ma- sons or the Oddfellows, or the Knights of Pythias, or the prehistoric order of Chair Warmers or to tho Charme Circle of the Hot Stove, but which of us is a scout? The. potent ball organizations on this continent have scouts . on the road all season and it is just pos- eible that the game last week be- tween the Mudville Pie Artists and the Bullock's Corners Cake Eaters was witnessed by a scout. Why not? Since the dawn of time one of the principles of the Ancient Order of Scouts is never to despise the little places. Once on a time it was neces- sary to find a king for a great people, but the Lord did not look for him among the aristocrats or-the mighty men of valor who thronged the city where was the Temple. Nay, He sent a scout away out into the wilderness, away on the other side of Nowhere at All, and found a boy keeping sheep. You would think that was the last place to look for a king, but there's no question about it there's where they got him. I am not saying that he was a great pitcher. In his yery first game he beaned Goliath, who was the Babe Ruth of them days. But he certainly could curve them over all-right. Horace wrote in a remote farm house. Shakespeare penned his im- mortal plays in an obscure tavern. I don't believe that either one of them ever saw the inside of a university. The only parallel for the baseball scouts of today are the people who go up and down Italy seeking out great voices. They do not confine themselves to Rome and Turin or Naples, nor any of the great centres, but they drift hither and thither through the fields and among the hills and at eventime they pause on the edge of an unheard-of village and listen--listen for the celestial voice. There's millions in it! The other night at a Harvest Thanksgiving festival I heard an alto that is worth a million right now. Oh, such a sound, smooth, full and velvety voice it is! It belongs to sixteen-year-old Lindy Sevenpiper and she does not know that she has the most beautiful voice in the world. No one else knows it. It is admitted that she has a nice voice and she can sing purty well. Lindy works in the Basket Factory. Her voice is going to be lost. Half a dozen golden fortunes are going to be lost with it, for that divine voice will never be heard outside 5 Gumbo. If the Lord were running this coun- try today a fine old scout would find his way into the Sevenpiper home some afternoon and he would look the bunch over and get them to open up the old cabinet organ and sing, "Pull fer the Shore, Sailor," and "Joy to the World," etc, amd, finally, he would say to Ole Jess Sevenpiper; '"'Are here all thy chil- dren?" and Jess would reply; "Not yet, the youngest, she's got a job in the Basket Factory. Siie"ll be home in & minute er two." and sure en- ough in comes Lindy. She had been in for half an hour, but her Maw laid for her in the lane and took her round by the barn and into the house by the back way so's to give the poor girl a chance to get into her geor- gette and give her beautiful hair the once over, and then she comes into the parlor so demure. She's an awful clip, but you wouldn't think to look at her that sugar would melt in her mouth. And her Maw says, "Lindy, this here ole scout wants to hear you sing something'," and Lindy says, "Oh, darn it, Maw, I can't sing!" and her Maw'sez, "Yas, yuh kin, too --sing 'Sweet Marie' for the ole scout," and after a lot of sidestepp- ing and clinching Lindy twirls the old-ti music stool and sits down and sings lke an 'angel, and the old scout comes across and claims her for the world of song. . . There's millions in her! . \ or ages men been about the yori ooking ras mines, seeking silver and platinum, That's the way to that There are men and women going to more than all the gold mines Klondike. We want to overhaul our great all-the-year-round game of politics. What kind of a scout was it who went about among the bush leagues last fall? Some of our play- ers on the first nine are not only Ineffective, but they are crooked. They won't play the game! The great- est player we have is kept on the bench--why? . In days gone by it was almost im- possible to get. out of a bush league, but now it is difficult to get into one. They -are exclusive. They may say what they like about the old rotten leagues, but them fellows could certainly play ball--but these ors saps go Srouked because they can't keep straight! = --THE KHAN The Wigwam, Rushdale arm, Rockton, Ont, in the because of the wise sys- | It is to the ever- | lasting credit of baseball that it hath | order; the most important order ever | organized among men. And yet how | waste in this country who are worth | is Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER fy > COMMON BLESSINGS. yo Deprived of teeth, I cannot chew, apd so I live on liquid glue, and bone- less soup and oatmeal mush, gnd ally varieties of slush. Strange longings | through my bosom fit, as in the din- ingroom I sit. My neighbors call for steaks and chops, while I refresh my- self with slops; the men and women | all around have molars firm and | strong and sound; they know no | Spasms when they eat large slabs of | beef and other meat; their laughter fills the diningroom while loaves and fishes they consume; and I sit ih a shaded place and pour cheap gruel In my face. And 'once I had such | teeth as theirs, and I could bite the rungs from chairs; and to that boon I gave no heed; all thoughtlessly I used to feed, and never gave a' word of thanks for my long fangs in gleam- ing ranks. We never prize Dame Nature's gifts until rebuking hand she lifts and takes some precious boon away, and then we cry alacka- day! The dentist's working hard and well, to make me teeth of tor- | toiseshell; he says he'll have them in my mouth before, the wild geese travel south, until which time In have to spill into my works all kinds of swill, ORR A HE ~--WALT MASON . -------- AUN 2 PUBLIC OPJON | Pop, ing Railroads, (Knoxville Journal and Tribune) If they raise the railroad rates again people will have to get reserva- tions three weeks ahead for a seat in the day coach. The Working of Providence in Als (Marion County News) Ike Strong has made him a barrel of sweet cider, Ike says there's mo law agin' it. He further says, if the cider gets hard, it's as much an act of Providence as if the lightnin' struck his cyclone cellar. Tr It Makes No Difference. (Philadelphia Inquirer) The government forecasts a bigger sugar crop than ever, but the predic- tion is merely of academic interest to the consumer, who knows what is be- ing done to him this fall after an in- creased production of more than fifty million tons of coal over the amount mined last year. A Near-Necessity. (Montreal Journal of Commerce) The automobile is halfway between a necessity and a luxury. The cheap- er it is, the more it aproximates to a necessity. If it enables a man to save its cost in car fare and house rent-- to live in the suburbs instead of squeezing himself into the central parts of town, or to keep his sons and daughters on the farm or in the | village by enabling them to get away to the town at will--then it is a ne- cessity. Every ten dollars knocked off its cost makes it a necessity to a wider public than before. ------ An Educated Man. (Sydney, N.S. Record) Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Presi- dent of Columbia University, names the six traits which make an edu- cated man. The first he says, is cor- rectness of speech, the: second, re- fined manners, the third, sound stan- dards of feeling and appreciation, the fourth, the power of reflection, the fifth, the power of growth, and last but not least, the ability to do efficiently without nervous agitation. The last, in Dr. Butler's opinion, is the rarest of all, How many have you? a -- Boys And Their Kingdom. (London Times) However other boys may occupy their minds, your London boy can talk of litthe but machine: There are few exceptions to the rie. He knows every type of aeroplane and motor car. He makes models when he ought to be learning his lessons. His highest ambition is to be a pilot or a chauffeur. Short of this he would like to drive a locomotive. For a gen- eration or two we have known such Jigs ¥ BIBBY'S Kingston's One Price Clothing Store--Men's and Boys' Wear So They We believe that it is the consensus of opinion among men who know, that this is the store for Good Clothes! If you should stand by and hear the conversation that takes place when Good Dressers get find the preference this store, pq. There's a Reason For It Come here, sir, and take a look at our excellent clothes; learn the fairness of our prices and Good Dressers like this store. We claim to have THE BEST $35.00 THE BEST $45.00 THE BEST $55.00 you'll be quick SUITS AND OVER- All Say! together you will is always given to discover why ( COATS MADE IN CANADA BIBBY'S | 78, 80,82 Princess Street. lm HHH { HARDWARE. \, EVERLASTIC READY ROOFING MADE BY THE BARRETT CO. IN 1 PLY, 2 PLY, 8 PLY . We have an exceptionally fine pfice on this line, BUNT'S | KING ST. PHONE 3888, Re -- boys, but there has never yet been a time whén all boys--for the ex- on machinery, Hard Times In Japan. (Tokio Times) London papers depict long queues outside the theatres and a general rush for amusements as ome of the features of modern life in the British Metropolis. It used to be 80, too, in Tokio during the war years; but the summer's economic dep n has brought theatre-going to a sudden etd, and people are now more con- cerned with how to obtain than how to spend it. Hard have hit Japan. The flush and opea- handed ways of war-time are no more; and all places of amusement and public resort, as well as dealers In luxuries, are feeling the pinch. EP ---- Gettin¥ in Ton the Best. Edward Everett Hale used to coun-| sel young people to converse every day with wiser publication contains so much from the writings al we a Toe Souk Conger: ¥ Ways as - lon. A constant reading of the paper a serial education of miud and heart. The Companion has nb age limit. 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