i Self with THE BRITISH WHIG | 88TH YEAR. Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG CO,, LIMITED President J. G. Elltott Editor asd Leman A. Guild TELEPHOY ES: Business Office ... Editorial Rooms Job Office : SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) One year, delivered in city . One year, if paid in advance $5.00 Ona year, by mail to rural offices 32 50 One year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) One vear, by mail, cash . ++. $1.00 One year, if not pald in advance $1.50 One year, to United States .. .$1.50] ouT- oF TOWN R PRESENTATIVES FP. Cald 23 SL. John Bt, Montreal rw, Th magn . 100 KI ng St, I Tor on to Letters to the Editor only over the actual writer. are published name of the Attached is one of the printing offices in Canada best job The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC ~ Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Bolshie is discovering @btlity to run amuck doesn't provide ability to run a country. Future historiang will doubtless mention the Floed and the reignfall of 1919 in the same paragraph. A bad boy m may vg a good swim mer, but it does not follow that the | best dancers are the naughty girls. ---------- The snow crop in Canada may have been a failure this winter, but slaying seems to have been continu- ous. They say certain fish can open oyster. shells. Another kind of fish delights to guess under which shell the little pea is hidden. Children are whipped for two rea- Sons: becapse 'they need it, and pe- cause they are mot big enough to defend themselves. Occaelonally you find a man who is too busy to stop and write a cheque; but you never find one too busy to stop and receive money. gp ---------- The poor man likes to console him- the thought that Easy street is but a continuation of tho broad "way that leads to destruction. It is not permitted to feel at ease | now until Sir Henry Drayton has @iven out his budget for 1922. It ! may not be possible then ------ The small 'boy who received a ibright red sled as a Ohristmas pres- | ent is still wondering if he will ever ' Ihave a chance to tse it. If you are looking for someons worth while, take your choice ffom those who are in trouble. Most peo- ple can be gracious when the sun Jshines. 3 The longest stride that civilization has taken thus. far, remarks the {New York World, is marked by the vdisappearance of the comic valen- i tine, Funny how a renowned singer may {be attempting to sing her way into #he hearts of the audience while her manager thinks of nothing but their purses, ------------------ Still the old and wise guys con- tinue to deplore matrimony, but they might as well save their breath. Almost everybody looks down on sin, also, but have you ever seen a perfect man yet ? -------------- - Clemenceau is that rare type of politician who retains his sense of humor after his work is done. He Mow refuses to have his voice put on @ record because he says the people are sick of listening to it: e---------------------- Montreal man admitted to a fire investigation committee that the ashes accumulated in his cellar when ds wife was away. That is not the kind of accumulation that occurs 'in Ontario when thé wife is away, now is it? EE ---------------- Great- Britain, says an American _ exchange, was the first to propose a cancellation of war debts. She also, jit should not beiforgotten, stood to . {Jose most by the adoption of the pro- posal. Her aim was not selfish, but humanitarian, Yi during the PUBLISHING | Managing-IMrector | ? | master of six languages. $600! that | A PARADOX IN EMPLOYMENT. The upset in economic nditiens past five years | brought about many paradoxical {situations in the world, there have been few | Standing as that of an Oxford Uni- | versity graduate who carning a very ample living taxicap | driver. The hero of this Rudolph Rossiter, of Portchester | Square, Mews, Bayswater, London { He 48 at work daily, driving hi fares | to and fro, and collecting dues las shown by the taximete Accord- {ing to the dispatch in which | story is told, his car [s known as {the 'swellest taxicab in London." it is a distinctive grey; v quar- {ter landau body, deep | holstered in Bedford cord {vided with more than fittings, inoluding a barometer It outshines anything of in the business. When questioned, M:. Rossiter admitted that he was an | Oxtord University graduate, and theo Bug he has | no regrets on the steps he has taken, for the -~legance of his car has | brought him the finest trade in Lon- don; he is reaping a rich harvest, and, he says, he is a great deal het- iter off than if trying to live on six languages. This case may be a little { outstanding than the average, nas labor 80 Ooul- cases as a case is three-( seats, one pro- thirty brass { more ! but { .| is typical of the-state of affairs which has existed in the labor world since {the war came to turn things upside | down. While the wages of mechan- {ics, artists, and even laborers grew leaps and bounds. | fessional men stood still, cost of living advanced. Railway men | | earned more than college professors; | factory hands had larger salaries | than school teachers; miners were paid more than ministers; until it { became a known fact that those of the professional class, who qualified their positions only after long of education and training, | were in a worse position economi- | {cally than men whose work required little training and more physieal | labor . With a return to normal condi- tions, things 'may improve for the 'collar and tie brigade," as the pro- | fesstonal men are sometimes called. [They have had a hard row to hoe | | during the past few years, and { thair position has not been an envi- able one. Living on fixed salaries, { with living costs soaring, has been a | great strain, and it is not to be won- dered at that some of them have | by i while the for terms fitable callings. _ There is one commendable point in the philosophy of Mr. Rossiter. It means nothing to him that he is working in a more or less menial capacity, that he has stepped out of the class to which his intellectual attainments entitled him. fis main thought is not of the nature of hig job, but the way in which he does it. His ideal is, that no matter what he is doing, he wants to do it well, do if just a little better than anyona else. The luxurious nature of his taxicab, its elegant appointments, and the service which he gives, are all part of his philosophy of doing his job as'well as he can, no matter what it may be, and his philosophy Is making money for him. It is a mighty good ideal to have, and if 1t | were found more universally, there would be less unrest and labor trou- | | ble in the world. THE PSALMS AGAIN. When you watch religion at work !you find a morality, when you con- verse with 'religion in thoughtful moods you find a theology, but when you get to the heart of religion you find a song. Morality may be cold. theology may be dry, but religion stands for something deep and vital, something of which our bset deeds are but shadows and our largest creed a broken and stammering story. That is perhaps the reason that the great hymns come nearer than | anything else to uttering the last deep secret of the religious life. They have in them that which is instruc- tive in religious convietion, vital in morality, basal in spiritual experi- ence. Therefore a church that does not sing is a decadent church. Some- times the church cannot sing. Some- times she has asked, how can we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land ? She could have recited the creed of Zion In a strange land, she might even have borne testimony to the faith of Zion, but to sing the glory of her history and destiny, to eet the great redemptive notes of was to lay bare their broken hearts ~80 their song remains unsung. And the unsung eong comes in a later day as a much richer, deeper experts grieved. For as Charles Kingsley somewhere points out, man did not make the laws of music, he has only found them out, and if he be self willed and break them, there is an end of music instantly; all he brings out is discord and" ugly sounds." So it has happened that the Psalm book has moulded the very language and desifées of all devout spirits, binding ancient and modern, eastern and western. It was our Lord's Hymn Book. Of the 283 Quotations for the New Testament from the Old, 118 are from the Psalms alone. + but the ! np- | those of pro-| turned to less dignified but more pro- | Hebrew faith ringing in alien ears,' ence; for the half of music is to be | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. 1 Jesus sang : the Psalms the night | which He was betrayed. His las terance is from the Psalms. In early church no man was admitt to the superior orders of the cit unless he could say the Psalms heart. Paul and Silas sang them on: In the time of Js Psalms could be heard in the and vineyards, the plough , reaper, vinedresser, boatmar galley slave sang the Psalms jtine, at his conversion, burst i the language of a Psalm. C hryso in Bernard on | Huss and Jerome at the stake {and BSavongnala sang comfort | themselves fn the Psalms Cromwall at Punbar gave out ihe 68th Psalm; th 1genots crowding in pris- Augu exlle, Xavier {the French prisons, dragged by the | women and young | hair and beaten; girls were mixed w | eriminals, and the Psalms were heir { | defence against oaths and foulness. | ! in| Psalms | assem- | Meeting among thee mountains { Scotland, the sound the | guided their friends to the | blies of the Covenanters; in Edin- | | burgh, at the beginning of the 19th | | century, avery | hear the sound of the {every dwelling. | | The Psalins give tensity to all those de! of morning one shape and ieate,' they gather our our bet- | | formed in the heart; | wide, profound experience, | ter and worse selves, into the search | God. They are not of any age; they meet the inner longing of every age. | be 4 | | THE POET PHILOSOPHER ! 1 | 3 THE SOREHEAD ? For years I went to Grocer Gregg's | to buy my prunes and cheese and | | eggs; I went ten thousand times, or | more, and 'wore a path around his | | store, till every. hoard I could re-| | call, and every nailhead in the wall. | And when each month of trade was | | rone, I always paid him hand made mon, and never said 'Please chalk | | it down until my goat comes back to | town." Then, for a change, I bought | | my goods, my prunes d cheese, at | Grocer Wood's. .1 thof@@ht I'd trade! there for a while, since change of | base is all the style, and then return | | to Gregg's once more as in the fes- | tive: days of yore. But, Gregg upon the street, and giving him a greeting sweet, he handed me a frozen stare, as grouchy as a griz- | 3ly bear. Oh, he was sore and full | of bile because I left him for a while: { he seemed to think he owned my | soul and had a mortgage on my roll, The good old years will roll away, and whiskers red will change to gray, and dynasties will rise and burst and bow-wows turn to wienerwurst be- fore I go to Gregg's again to blow my hard-earned iron men.- The mer- chants in this world of ours should always speak thelr thoughts with flowers; if they express their thoughts with bricks they drive off patrons by such tricks. --WALT MASON. BITS OF BY-PLAY By LUKE McLUKE Copyright, 1920, by The Cincinnati Enquirer. You Know Him! The fellow I'm roasting Deserves lots of roasts his deathbed, Lo | | She hag been ill, but Mrs could | Psalms from { | in- | lurking | | Instinets and cravings which lie un-| | | | 108. beneficent presence and pity ot | { ing to be meeting | 9 For he's always boasting That he never boasts | Mean Brute ! | "Why do you claim that women talk { more in Summer than they do in Win- ter?' asked Mrs. Gabb. "The days are longer in growled Mr. Gabb. Summer," -- Good Dope! . When you feel your anger growing, Let & grin replace your frown; When your temper gets you going Go away back and sit down Cruel and Unusual, The Pale Man and the Man were members of a party had just been through the prison, Red-Faced that State + $16.75. "My!" exclaimed the Pale Man, after itm t a sentence ir agreed the Ht--a ctgarer ive BUY NOW! ' 0 himself. b It Will Pay You. Knows how they shouigbe BUY Now: It Will Pay You. No Joke. i can't make out of mules' ears" Police ! 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