\ LY BRITISH WHIG. . WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1920, THE D Al {1050 fr 1 Sp 50 1% ona ee E00 Ld 6 THE BRITISH WHIG | iy man get away rather than t '87th YEAR. . 1 MUSINGS OF THE KHAKI} A WORD FOR THE MOVIES. rete} 0 | Fo | firewood he never washes himself. t | His religion h uch to do with == | his unhappy predicament today. He | believes that no one will go to hea- {of Lowell's, At a' tin {ship of mo ing deman j to-call attention to their good points las well as'thelr bad. In the movies {virtue always has its own reward. { There, to invert a well-known line wrong is forever on the n "| scattold, right is forever on: the J nl ll | a J Published Dally ang Semi-Weékly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING Cu,, LIMITED «+ President ditor and ging Director J. G. Elliott Leman A. Guild TELEPHONES Business Office ..........,... cess-243 Fditorial Rooms «s.220 Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) . 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Perhaps fra the bumper A bumper wheat crop"that keeps baker from' Peeling the shock'. the the ~ A Communist army algh. travels on its 'stomiach, and-thus discovers titat one cin't get very far on a flat. vif Most' of 'out hational troubles may be traced to the inequality of distr bution and the lack of retribution. Bryan seems to have falien upon hard times, when he is rejected by 'the stalwart Democrats 'of the south, Now they say Edison won the war. Well, his electrics} imventi helped. The phonograph kept the boys happy. B As we understand Lenine, univer | 'sal- brotherhood consists in getting" Anto a bad fix and being content with it. Proportional representation is gaining ground. It will be introduc- ed in a number of Ontario constitu- encles during the coming year. The opponents of Hydro received a Jolt as a result of the election in Northeast Toronto. It Is the first, but it probably #111 not be the last. The mild weather of this fall has been a benediction to many persons . . to whom coal is a costly item. And © Mmitea few have not the "money even to buy it, May the balminess continue, The Toronto Str: finds that the hodist church has increased four millions in nine years, yet it "+ hasn't heard of many Methodist churches having to use larger col- dection plates, 3 The girls who have been insisting 20 their friends that theéy..were but nlbeteen are not likely to exercise their franchise tn the coming elec- ~ #lons. If they do then there will De evidence of considerable fibbing. (There is one good quality about . Premier Meighen, for every Cana- dian can know where he stands on the many issues before the people. is honest and fearless in his larations. This quality even his "opponents will appreciate. The civil service {8 nof enamored With the way the classification and bonusing of its members is carried Out. There are inequalities that the government must most assuredly. ar-. Pange if harmony and successful Work is desired. The Kingston civil Servants are up in arms over the 'Way the measure works out. 3 2 The. Hamilton Times commends Premier 'Meighen for promising to Present a tariff in such definite form that an elector will know how %0 vote for or against the govern- ment. "This may not be a good Party move," 'says the Times, Whut it will ena the electors to give 8a intelligent vote on the question." 3 Pe -------------- : The man who carries firearms fs . @ll too apt to use them when the oe- «caslon offers. The tragedy in Essex county would never hive happened it the spacial ofticer Lad adopted the - Policy of the Windsor license inspec- for. That officer says he never car- Fled a gun, preferring to let the sus- ! serve Boa tecrisansensnne. 300] "ng { { throne. Scre | ways to represent the pollyanna of | [the arts. Nowhere elsé, not in books | of fiction, not on the. stage, not in | written virtue so care- poetry, is {fully guarded and so assured ot | | { triumph. | The "good may suffer in the | movies. They may be wronged and {led in sirange ways of misfortune, {but they always get the money and | the good clothes before the light | goes out. {. In books and in spoken plays a | villain sometimes escapes to show | that life is not a simple matter and | that "the victory is often to the | strong or the unscrupulous. But your bad man of the film is doomed {from the first flicker of the lanterns |to be disgraced, 'disowned, killed | under a railway train, shot in a | brawl or tumbled off a cliff, while | virtue, becurled and smiling, ' looks out victoriously from the last close- up. | This may not be art. It may not [ be life. But it is the movies. | | | THE SMALL INDUSTRY. Ten years ago, little attentipn was paid in Kingston to the small in- dustry seeking assistance to estab- |lish. To-day the great importance lof the small industry is recognized, |and the City Council did the proper | thing in agreeing to place before the ratepayers a bylaw to grantya two- | thousand-dollar site and _efemption trom taxation for ten years to a local company which is establishing {a moulding factory' on Montreal | street. Kingston must get all the {Industries possible, and in these days of high costs of building and | keen competition, it has to pay the | price, | tries may develop into large ones | within a few years, and the people {will do the proper thing when they acquiesce in the bonus | submitted for their assent. The con- | dtions in every'case are most care- fully considered by business men, who have Kingston's future at heart, dnd the city's interests are | most adequately protected. For in- stance, if an industry does not make &00d, the land grant reverts to the | City; and po 10ss/is decasioned. Then | {again the 'establishment of 'one in- dustry". leads: "to the coming of another; asilip civié industrial com- mittee 48 Madfig out. The recent hestaHSEment. of a box factory here 13 going fo" ald other small, manu- facturers in locating in Kingston for the box factory 'products dre re- quired by some of those in which {the committee is interested, and the fact that a box factory will be able to supply their needs, will be one {factor in inducing thém to locate {in this city. | PROHIBITION AND BORROWING. | Strong contirmation of the effect | of prohibition in banishing poverty {and promoting prosperity among the | working classes is offered by the {records of the savings banks and | loan 'societies. The last government | report in -reapett to the chartered | banks shows a considerable increase |in savings:deposits. Similar condi- | tions prevail across the. line. At the convention of, the National Federa- j tion of Remedial Loan Associations {in Newark, N.J., reports from 'con- | stitnede dies revealed a remark- { able change in the borrowing habits {of the people. This change is in- dicated in the following excerpt { from the reports of the convention : "When formerly, delegates said, the security offered at loan offices consisted of a little furniture, kitch- en utensils and other home neces- sities, men and women now are offéring as security Jewelry, or even automobiles, Hitherto the majority of the loans were td carry a desti- tute family over some crisis. Now, more often than not, they are for the purpose of a home or a ot of ground." The closing of the saloon and the banishment of the destructive com- modity which it-dispenged have pro- Quced results that are readily visible to the casual eye. They have put an end to the outflow over the till of money thet, was needed for food, clothing and .the comforts of lite at home. This eurrént has been divert ed to its legitimate channel, the home, The man Who formerly borrowed money to relieve distress at home-- distress cauged by selfish indulgence d incapacity for work--is now re tov of the necessity for such bor- rowing. He does flot have to pledge the household furniture for méney with which to pay the rent of buy much-needed clothing for his chil- dren, . If he does borrow money, he pledges luxuries {nstead of neces- saries for it, and the loan is in- tended not to relieve distress but to help build up a home. In other words, the worker who formerly borrowed to keep body and soul together or the home from tumbling down is now borrowing for purposeg of legitimate and constfuc- tive Investment. It is a welcome change in our borrowing hadi, ' when stricter censor- | ng picture films is be- | d it may t be igs | pendence. A It may Dot be amiag {be under an obligation to someone | and | merely a type of vicious selfishness, | and selfishness is the devil. | tion, they would teach the 'n plays seem in many { 'twould benefit man | Ing the other. Our civilization will Scme of these small indus- | proposition - We Are Interdependent. | We pride ourselves on our inde- | is our training. To humiliation, a loss of dignity all that sort of thing. This is is a It, in- preaching sélf-detgrmina- people the | interdependence | y and much. The world is going mad over this | seif-détermination heresy. Tom, Dick and Harry form a self-determination league of three and their hand is against every man, and every man's | band is against them. If this thumg 20€s on much longer this earth will Le a vast Sahara, thronged with wild hordes of Ishmaelites, each plunder- stead of great virtue of break up in a great carnival of dog 'eat dog! : In: the pioneer days this country was & great commune. No Eldorado dreamed of by the most exalted So- cialist could compare with it. sYou couldn't get along= without your neighbors. Every man was neces- sary to the other and everybody was Guite as good as anybady else. This was because the pioneers were interdependent. You didn't put a man under an obligation by do- ing him a good turn in them days. Self-determination is another name for class legislation. A bunch of workers get together and self-deter- mine what hours they should work and what pay they should get and then they unhesitatingly wreck the nation in order to obtain their ends. Every loafer has the dictum that the world owes him a living. I don't know exaetly what they mean by "the world;"" but I know that we all owe our old mother earth a great Ceal. It is up to everyone of us to leave her better off than Wwe founa her. Satan advises his disciples to skin their neighbors. Another saith, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Which of these twain hath the greater congression to-day? - It seems to me that the pulpit has been helping Old Nick with his pro- paganda. For two generations it hath been teaching the people that if they have a big enough majority they can do anything they have a mind to--it matters not whether jt is British or Scriptural. They talk in lightnings and thunderings and in earthquakes, and no one can hear the whisperings of a still small Voice! While they are taking up the col- lection the choir sings, "Oh, put your faith in Raney and he will pull you through!" Do you think this is rey- erent, considerate, proper? Raney has got Ole Man Ontario by the whiskers and he is trying to pull him through--a knot hole. Between the two of them they are going to ruin the knot hole and wreck the fence. Raney has got the pore ole feller dragged through as far as his waist, but the ole gentleman has a crock in his hip pocket and his boot legs are full of home-made wine and raspberry vinegar, and I honestly don't see haw Raney can get him much' farther. The ole feller is prac- tically dead. I don't believe that €ven in death he would consent .to lose his-crock and his boot legs. It they ever get the ole gent through the knot hole there won't be a stitch left on him. I won't be sorry for this for one. It's about time we had a modern suit of clothes. I am sick and ashamed of that grotesque old monstrosity. Why this beautiful pro- vince should be persistently depict- ed as an old skeeziks, which never Was on land or sea, beats me, I know he wears a red flannel under- shit, I'm positive he does and, | Be ven only him and the folks who'go to the same meeting house he;does. When he prays, he prays: "Lord, bless me an' mj My son an his wife, . Us four--no more!--Amen."" ia Class legislation pure and simple This hth ied to a condition of af- fairs where the farmer is a law unto himself, the bricklayer is a law unto himself, the man in the gravel pit is a law unto himself. Not one of them cares whether school keeps or not 80 long as he gets more than he is worth. In the old pioneer days they used to have the, Ten Commantiments set up in the schools and over the Lord's tablé in the churches. You don't see them there today! THE KHAN. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont, ~ Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER wife. wg LANDLORDS. I am looking for a shelter for my dachshund and my wife, and 1 can- ter, helter-skelter, through the city's noise and strife. I woulg rent some humble attic two miles higher than the street, but the landlord plutocra- tic names a price I cannot meet. I would rent a rusty basement under- neath a squalid flat, but the land- lord, from his ' casement, names a price that lifts my hat. Oh, the land- lord is a pelter who would scalp me with his knife, and I wander, seek- ing shelter, with my dachshund and my wife. Up and down the streets I trundle, with my' money in my hand, but my paltry bundle doesn't seem in much demand: through the town I've roamed and rubbered, and I hunt for lodgings still, but one can- not rent a cupboard with a fifty-dol- lar bill. And the landlord, fat and greasy, pays no heed to my despair, to my haggard cheeks and creasey, to the snow that streaks my hair. He has no respect for sorrow; if I wish to rent a berth, I must £80 and steal or borrow more than his old coop is worth. When in summer heat I Bwelter, when the winter storms are rife, I must vainly seek for shelter, with my dachshund and my wife; and some morning you will find us lying in an alley dead, with our trail of smoke behind us, and a bitter sky O'erhead. --WALT MASON, tects, Church Going. Canadian Churchman. A man should not 80 to church ~--If he has made no mistakes and has no need of help to live right. ~--If he knows that a life would be truer, purer and nobler because it is kept away from Christ, --If he knows that his mother or his sister or his wife or his children would be better in a country entirely devoid of the influence of the church, --MU he knows that he is living above the message of the church and needs no help of her sacraments, --If he knows that death ends all and that 'spiritual things are a fool- ish peradventure. --If he knows that there is no | || After Seeing Low God, -~ mee -------- The best thing to be done when evil comes upon us is not to' resort to lamentations, but act; not to sit and suffer, but to rise and seek the remedy, my friend. A man who has no enemies has but few friends. 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These, if placed "In a bow] or Jardinier of water, baing Kept in piace with a few pebbles, will, lossom in & few weeks. and fill the house with fragrince. i Planted now will be in bloom for ristmas. Our Bulbs for out-door ate ex- eeptionally fine this year. Come early and get the choice, Dr. Chown's Drug Store Princess St. Phone: 343. Crescent Wire Works - Canada Foot Board Licsnds Ne. d.2248 Coal That Suits The'Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's . Celebrated ~ Scranton Coal The Standard \inthraette "The only Coal handied by Crawford "It's a bistk busines ' gn you whit " /