'THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1920, "THE BRITISH WHIG | 87th YEAR. Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THR BRITISH WHIG. PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED 4. G., Ellfett an A. Guild veesss Editor and Maasging Director . TELEPHONES: usiness Office .... ces ditorial Rooms dob Office ............ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, delivered In city .. She year, if paid in advance 5.0 ne year, by mall to Tu offices $2.60 One year, to United Sta .0 igo] x seily Edition; ne year, b sh Qhe year, | One year, to United States ... Six and three months.pro rata. OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES ¥. Calder, 22 Bt. John St, Montreal. F. M. Thompson, go: Lumsden Bldg. oronto. Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual' name of the writer, . Attached Is one of the best job print- ing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. PP A ec ttt. The new catstep dance is difficult, and ono can't do it ualess he is feline weil "Cafe Patrons Held Up By Bandit," says a headline, Where is the news da that? Lenine is discovering tha: General Famine is a very unsatisfactory mi.i- tary leader. . 13 a, monarchy the king tells the other fellg¥ how he should live; in 4 democracy everybody does it. It hasn't occufred to the nations to impose the death penalty on any eciti- zen or official guilty of suggesting , War, In the American presidential con- , test, the politicians aré not saying it with flowers. They are saying it with mud. ---------- Montreal proposes to turn the pro- ceeds of its amusement tax over to the hospitals. The idea has much to commend it. Bandits who held up a Buffalo train got $167 from sixteen Pullman * passengers. It would have paid them better to hold up the portef. The Hamilton Times calls upon the League of Nationg to attempt to bring to a close the war between Germany and the Unité States. The reasom some people never make a success of business is 'be- , cause théy spend too much time ad- vising other people how to run théirs. eet . Before a woman jury in Indiars says the Montreal Star, the lawyers appeared in full dress. - Law Hbrar- fes will now carry books on etiquette, ease, 0 Kipling, what evils are commit- fed (n thy name! The New York 'World says that they are now calling the Canadian border the "far-flung bottle line." New York detectives are making very satisfactory progress. They have already established the fact that the wreckage in Wall Street was caused by an explosion, . Organized labor in the, United . States has endorsed Candidate Cox and thy League of Nations. Presi- dent Gompers, of the A. F. L., recog- nizes what war means to lahor and "1s using his best means to prevent its "recurrence. -------------- Hamilton, says the Toronto Star, will rest its chief future claim to fame on the fact that this is the place the annual plowing matches are held. The rest of the province 'thought that Hamilton's claim to reposed in its mountain. Beginning on Nov, 1st the govern- ment will collect the luxury taxes by of excise tax stamps. There ® growing demand throughout the un for the abolition of this tax. "The retail trade is strongly opposed it, : _ Premier Lloyd George has come proves another crisis with success. his shoulders have fallen many vy burdens. The strain must be even to one of his wonder- vitality and resource. Britain owes much to this wonderful little n. 'Some women never outgrow the 'desire to remain at sweet sixteen. 'The Topeka Capital tells of a woman Soave her age to the marriage 'bute to am unknown soldier, clerk as 72. She Igter ad- lushingly to. a welfare 88. license mitted b 'worker that she is APPENDICITIS. VANQUISHED? { Th discovery by Professor Pierre. | | Delbert of a successful treatment for | | | appendicitis by means of an antigan- | | grenous serum is a notable victory for | | the medical profession. In the past | | quarter of a century the advance in | surgery had | deadly disease of much of its terror. | A large percentage of operations to cure it are now successful, and 1{ taken in time there is no reason why | any save experimental cases should | end fatally. Yet the operation itself is a drain upon the patient's vitality. If he | be a sufferer from other ailments, he | may nét be able to withstand this | new shock. Moreover, often develops with .such that it is not possible to operate in time," The medical profession and the public will welcome, then, discovery of the noted French scien- tist, Time alone can gauge the value of his accomplishment, but if he has! really succeeded in conquering this | dread malady his name will rank | with those of Pasteur, Carrel and | Reed. 0 THE PESSIMISM OF T THE VIC- TORIAN. Frederick Harrison, reviewing on | his eighty-ninth birthday the "grave | evils and cruel loss" that have come | into the world together with material progress, declares, the midst of the political storm that {swept the rotten boroughs away. He has seen the enfranchisement of the | poor; lias seen free trade sweep away | (tariffs; | victory to victory. has seen liberalism go from and unity. He has welcomed the vast changes of the age of steam and the |age of electricity. He has seen disease conquered by science until { London led the great cities of the world in the lowness of its mortality rate. He has seen the slums of Char- tist times and the Irish famine of '483 become impossibilities. And now {it is the verdict of the veteran Positivist, who has labored with other followers of Comte make social'advancement a religion-- the religion of humanity--that the "incalculable mischief" on which he dwells outweighs the benefits of the period? He more probably thinks he he did when he published his essay Nineteenth Century." He then de- clared that nations and peoples had in many ways retrogressed, but that 'he hoped such retrogression was tem- porary. He has seen so much evil overcome that "I can imagine no re- form, no néw dispensation, as be- yond our reasonable hope." PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS. Socialism of all brands and hues hag this in common that it aims at the destruction of private property rights, declares Black and White, the clever little periodical edited by H. M. Nimmo, of Detroit. Private property is an ancient institution. There must be some good reason for it or it would not have bean here so long. What is private property for, anyhow? . To satisfy a man's wants, we suppose. If he can't use it to satisfy his wants we can't imagine Why he would try to acquire private property at all, whether it be a ham, or a farm, or a savings account. So when socialism sets out to destroy private property rights it simply seeks to destroy a men's opportunity for fuMilling his own desires. It would be more logical to destroy his desires. . As long as he has special seek some way of doing it. Tell'hlm in advance that no matter how hard he works with brain or hand he can have nothing that he can call his own and you have robbed him of all in- 'centive to work save only enough to keep body and soul together if he cares to live. ~ That is precisely what soclalism tells him, and that is pre- cisely why socialism cannot persuade him to work. Witness the Russian peasant who refuses to give yp his surplus grain te his socialist govern- ment until the Red guards come and he refuses to grow any more grain than he can eat. Witness any man of gumption anywhere, The ideal citizen of the socialist state is an in- articulate gland, or a slave such as Lenine has made of his workmen in a desperate but futile effort to get en to edt. Men want more vate property, not less. There more freedom in 'the socialist lock- step than in the German goose-step. OUR UNKNOWN DEAD. The British Empire, in paying tri- seeks thereby to render a measure of pat- rfotic devotion and appreciation to each and every unidentified man who laid*down his life on Flanders fields or wherever else the British flag was unfurled in the cause of right and liberty. The Brantford Expositor in an admirable editorial Says thet on Armistice Day, Nov. 11th, the great British Empire, which marehalled its battalions during the world war from all its dominions scattered over the seven seas, and already robbed this! appendicitis | rapldity | the | "I am a pessi-| mist." Frederic Harrison was born in | He himself did] much to establish the power of the | trade unions in elevating the masses. | In Europe he has seen nation after | nation struggle to political freedom | to | on "Christianity at the Grave of the | and personal desires to fulfill he will. take it away from him, whereupon Teanged i its far-flung battle lines on | eyery theatre of. cor will pay | honor to the long roll of illustrious, | | unknown, unrecovered and unidenti- | | fied dead, Whose bodies repose in| | known aad unknown resting places | | wherever the British standard with | its inspiring motto, "God and My | Right," was unfurled on the fields of | glory. | For this purpose a gorgeous pag- eant will take place in connection |'with the unveiling of the cenotaph | commemorating the glorious dead in the war, and the burial of an un- | known soldier in Westminster Abbey. { In the beautiful and historic abbey, | which enshrines the memorials of Britain's glory for a thousand years, | and where lie buried Britain' kings | and kingly dead, the body of the un- { known hero, with all the pomp and | pageantry of the empire's glory for which he died, will be lald to rest, there to sleep im that illustrious mau- | soleum to which countless pilgrims throng from all parts of the world, The body will /be brought from France with all the honors of the | | Royal Navy, which, through' storm } and darkness, and unknown terrors, | and unspeakable atrocities, kept un- | ceasing vigil of the seas, transported | the soldiers of the empire and the sinews of war on all the lonely and dangerous highways of the ocean, and failed not in all the glorious and | chivalrous traditions of British valor and seamanship unto the bitter ed. | There will be a long processional. | route, the pall- -bearers being ad- | mirals, fleld marshals and generals. The illustrious pageant will halt at | the cenotaph, where the unveiling | ceremony will be conducted by his majesty the king. Then the procession will march on to Westminster Abbey, whose doors | have opened through the long cen- | turies to receive the nation's most | {llustrious heroes and honored dead, and with the king as chief mourner, | and representatives of the armies of the dominions, and the assembled | glories of the great British people, | the unknown dead of the British Empire will be committed to tha | | guardianship of this Temple of Im- | mortal Fame. | This is the most fitting, impressive and enduring memorial that coald be devised by a grateful people. The | | British Empire will do honor to the | thousands of unknown heroes, who in allegiance to the call of patriot- ism; duty and honor, sacrificed their lives, and lle in nameless and often | unknown graves, or are simply re- | | corded on the roll of the missing and forever lost. In the Canadian cemetries alone, one of the most pathetic sights the | pilgrims to the shrines of the brave Canadian dead will see, are the more than eleven thousand crosses mark- ed with the unending inscription. "Unknown," so full of lonely tragedy and sorrow. To these unknown heroes whose gervices and saérifices were equal to 'the bravest of the brave, who wore no medals or glit- { tering decorations, who wefe tenderly | {loved in their lifetime but in their | death, in numberless instances, re- ceived no martial warrior"s burial, "with never a grave to tell, or a cross to mark their fall,""--to these dauntless young heroes who died in the faith of their flag, with eyes fixed steadfastly on 'the goal of victory, the British Empire has forever dedi- cated and consecrated this tomb of fadeless remembprancé. within the precincts of 'Westminster Abbey. Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER 4 A YEAR AGO. A year ago to-day, no doubt, I had the fantods or the gout, or somg grim rief oppressed my soul, and made the scalding teardrops roll. But what it was that made me sore, I don't remember any more. A year ago, I wist and wot, my grumblings made the welkin hot; the burdens I was doomed to bear seemed greater than a man should wear; but what those burdens were that galled my shoulders till I wept and bawled, I don't recall; how can one say what chanced a year ago to-day? To-day I'm Weeping by the hour; the life I live seems lemon-sour; the govern- is on the blink, there's nothing for & man to drink, the baseball scan dal broke my heart, my ding-donged auto will not start. But if you meet me one year hence, and lean with me against'the fence, and look me in the eyes and say, "We met one year ago to-day, and you were shedding bit- ter tears, and had crape tassels on your ears, and sackcloth on your jaded frame, and ashes were your whiskers came; you seemed a most grief-stricken man; now, please ex- plain it, if you can," ah, who can re- collect the woe that jarred his soul a year ago? I have fresh troubles every morn; each hour catastrophes are born; I'd be a freak if I could say what hur a year ago to-day: "WALT MASON. PUBLIC OPINION ? (Hamilton Herald) : Eamonn DeValera announced some weeks ago that if Terence MacSwin- ey, lord mayor of Cork, should die in Brixton prison, he (DeValera) would emulate his noble example. Now it's up to Eamonn, . A Poor Guess, (Des Moines Register) A New York firm of coffee import- ers landed in bankruptey court the » other day. Probably plunged on the | hope that eliortage of booze would drive the folks to drink more coffee and learned that there is no short- age Nothing ;to Brag About. (New England Homestead) When the cities are boasting of their increasing population they want to remember much of this gain comes from the farms, 'and that farm folks who are in the Cities are nof produc- ing food for ity folks to eat. Idlying Over Lunch. (New York Cotrespondent) ; The European system of idling over lunch is growing in New York. Many of coffee houses re that patro tables eating pastry and drinking coffee. Five and six cups of coffee are not unusual orders for each luncher. Girls in Buciness. (Ottawa Journai) Lots of girls are not so bad as they are painted. It would be dan- gerous to specify, but . into most branthes of business they have wrought courtesy, considerable effi- ciency, and have fanned new life into the native chivalry of their male as- gociates., i MUSINGS OF THE KHAN One Thousand Dollars! Last week a well-dressed stranger came up with Jack in the Ford that carries the mail and he bore his suit case into the Temperance House. It' wasn't long before he was enquiring for Mister Isaac Brock Slocum and he had the whole community flab bergasted till it dawned on Sar' Ann that it was Ole Dad Slocum he was after, and sure enough that's who it was. Had the stranger looking for Ole Dad been the Grim Reaper great- er preparations could not have been .made for the meeting between them. Ole Dad was compelled to have a | weekday shave and Sar Ann stood around to see that he gave his fafe the twice over. The result was that Ole Dad he shaved himself not wisely, but too much. And he was invisible for a whole forenoon while the flour, allum, baking powder, washing soda, spirits of nitre, goose grease, coon oil and hot salt were applied to his many lacerations. During the ordeal he de- nounced the new heaven and the new earth in unmeasured and also in oth- er terms, Finally he was encased in a | Jean shirt and a pair of overalls { that had been recently washed ana he was permitted to go and sort ap { ples in the orchard and await events The mysterious stranger proved 0 be a lawyer from Rochester, in York pend three hours at the | State, and he understood that Mister | Slocum was the oldest inhabitant and was well acquainted with the history | of the neighborhod. Dad assured him | that he was bora on this farm and could prove it, and '* 'e'd recomember | the first steam trasher what come into the settlement. It was owended by a felier named Jim White--the dangdist feller that Jim White was. He had a white eye and a stoppage in | his speech, an'--"* "But did you know a family nam- ed Sevenpiper--seventh concession, Gumbo, and there was one of them named Melissa and Melissa had a lit- tle girl? Can you tell me where I can find this girl?" It turned out to be Orphie Seven- piper. An old lady had died in Rochester recently and left this Mttle gif one thousand dollars, Here was this waif who never had had the { same show in the community as a 'Ome girl picked up in the slums of London would have had--here she was rich beyond the dreams of avar- | ice! Orphie was an example of the | ia wol equilibrium---of balance. She | was a Sevenpiper, and at that she | was the most beautiful thing that ever grew up among our hills with the darkening swamp between. That thousand dollars has divided this community into two great camps, and prohibition, politics, religion, ta- xation, the good roads question, ev- erything is forgotten for the'time be- ing. You see it's this way. Orphie came to Sar' Ann by night with her problem. It was her ambitioh to take a University course with that thous- and dollars, but Jim Duckunder wanted her. It was a case of to be or not to be. Did she love Jim? Oh, yes, she liked Jim best. Jim had fifty acres with a thousand dollar morgus (mortgage) onto it and here was the | money, but she wanted to go to the university. "Well," said Sar' Ann, "you can't de both, Orphie; choose this day whom ye shall 'surve." Orphie is in a quandary, and so is the whole jing bang of us. One half the community eays;« © Jim Duckunder and raise a fambly." The other half says, "Go to the univer- sity and raise the status of the na- tion"--but none of them knows what a status is--I don't for one. - I am one of the Jim Duckunder crowd. If I were a girl I would ra- ther be Missus Jim Duckunder than a Bacheloress of Arts. I would rather be dressing young ones than address- ing conventions, Jim Duckunder needs a wife. Here's a chance for Or- phie to be an uplifter of the right kind. A thousand dollars would make then solid citizens. Jim set out a new oréhard last spring and he paid a hundred and fifty dollars for a pure bred Holstein heifer calf last month and he has got all his fall plowing done and he's building a new hen house at the present time. Orphie has all the education that's good for her or us now and that's why I'm a-root- in" fur Jim to beat the band. This is a rich country and i looks to me that we have so much money we don't know what to do 20 vin x. Aliens, foreigners, are taking pos- session of our land. We thought and believed at one time that we could | ~~ "assimilate" these people, We are 'finding out it was all a dreadful mis: take. They don's assimilate, and when enough of them get together in one spot they are insolent and An; i Ln ST AN 1 AT dy -- ES TO = BIBBY'S rE funn] it ed == =i SEE. 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