ALLEN NOW PLAYING! CLAIRE ADAMS Riders of the Dawn Z ALLEN NOW PLAYING! CLAIRE ADAMS Riders ofthe Dawn YEAR 88 : NO, 53. he Daily British Whig KINGSTON, ONTARIO. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1921. LAST FEDITION. MAJORITY OF 25 FOR GOVERNMENT ~ Yote in the Commons at 4.30 am. Friday-- The King Amendment For a General Election Was Defeated. Ottawa, March 4.--By a majority of twenty-five in the House of Commons, the national Mberal and conservative government of Hon. Arthur Meighen was sustained on the first division of this session, taken about 4.30 a.m. to-day. Hon. W, L. M, King, leader of the The vote was on the amendment of liberal opposition, expressing want of confidence in the government and demanding a general election. The result was 91 for and 116 against. Another amendment, proposed by a "cross-bencher," J. A. Campbell, member for Nelson, Manitoba, providing for a general election "after redistribution," had been previ- ously defeated without division. After the defeat of the King amend- ment, the house passed the address on the speech from the throne on the same division, and adjourned at 4.45 o'clock. The majority proved a much hopeful of government supporters larger margin than even the most had anticipated. The result created great enthusiasm among the members to the speaker's right, who con- sider they now have a mandate to carry on until the census figures are available and redistribution is effected. shorter than last year, concluding The debate was much after two weeks of speech-making, whereas the debate occupied a month during the previous session. The government's attitude in not putting up speakers for two sittings had the effect of curtailing the debate, Major Andrews (Centre Winnipeg) and L. J. Gauthier (St. Hya- cinthe) voted with the government. house and did not vote. There was a tense atmosphere in the house. crowded, many women waiting for Sir Thomas White was not in the The galleries were the division. The government quit the debate cold, without replying to Hon. Mr, Fielding, F. F. Pardee or Ernest Lapointe. hand, and it let it go at that. Hon. Hugh Guthrie was the Its majority' was on last government speaker. Since then such able men as Ernest Lapointe, Hon. W, 8. Fielding, the vet- eran liberal statesman, and F. F. Pardee, the prominent Ontario liberal, put up arguments, but the government rested its case. PREMIER MEIGHEN 'Whose Government was Sustained majority of Twenty-five. NOTHING HEARD FROM BERLIN YET London, March, 4. -- Vague hints that discussions were go- ing on between the Allies regarding the possibility of bridging the gulf between them and the Germans were heard last night, Nothing tangible de- veloped, however, and members otf the German delegation told newspaper men at midnight that they had heard nothing from Berlin relative to the ad- dress made yesterday by Lloyd George in presenting an ultima- tum to Dr. Simons. "YOUNG TELLS OF RUSSIAN HORRORS if a Man Develops Glanders He is Taken Out and Shot. Vancouver, B.C., March 4.--Speak- ing of his work in Russia, Lieut.-Col. D. D. Young recalléd incidents that serve to tell of the horror that has overwhelmed Russia. On one of his journeys he brought relief to a train load of people whom he found lying in tiers of three along the cars and reduced to such a condition through want of medicine and surgical sup- plies, that they were operating on themselves and each other with Kkit- chen knives, without an anaesthetic. In another case, he found 2,000 men of Kappell's army in hospitals, with either hands or feet frozen off. Typhus is devastating Siberia, he said, and glanders, which is, known to the Russian as "sap." If a man de- velops "sap" he is taken out and shot, for jt is so infectious. Lieut.-Col. Young was formerly in the Royal Canadian Dragoons. It was reported from Vladivostok about a year ago that his Red Cross train had been captured by the Bolshevists and that he and others had been ex- ecuted. English and Scotch iron and steel makers have cut prices sharply, par- ticularly in shipbuilding steel, in or- der to capture the overseas mar- " kets. Roumania, Poland and Hungary ed a defensive alliance 5 FARMERS TO HAVE CHEAPER POWER A Bill Providing for Subsidy Ready for the Legislature. Toronto, March 4.--Farmers of FOMtaro 'are' to "Wave chesper power. A bill has been drafted and will be laid before the legislature within the next few days providing for a sub- sidy 'equal to thirty-three and a third per cent on rural primary transmis- sion lines. This is as far as the Hy- dro-Electric commission was prepar- ed to go, although at a conference last week between Sir Adam Beck and the legislature members, Hon. F. C. Biggs saw no reasdn why there should not be a banus to the extent of fifty per cent of the lines. The bill to be introduced will limit the annual expenditure in the direction named to a quarter of a million dol- lars. NEW AMENDMENT TO THE 0. T. ACT May Force a Trial of Strength in Legislature Next Week. Toronto, March 4.---Unless the government is successful in securing the withdrawal of an amendment to the amendment on the O.T.A. ap- peals issue, introduced into the legis- latura yesterday by W. E. N. Sin- clair, Liberal member for South Ontario, the first trial of strength on the floor of the House will take place early next week, Mr. Sinclair's amendment to the amendment would allow appeals to county judges under the Ontario Temperance Act. It goes farther than the proffered government com- promise in that it provides that the county judge "if he thinks fit may hear the evidence of such other witnesses as may be produced before him, or the farther evidence of any witness already examined." The government, in acceding to the de- mand for appeals to county judges, had definitely refused to sanction retrial by county judges except on police court evidence only. NEWS OFF THX WIRES IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Places Far and Near Are Briefly Recounted. The revolts in Petrograd and Mos- cow have been put down by Soviet troops. The Georgian Diplomatic Mission has heen placed under arrest at Mos- | cow. to Ottawa, 210 miles, in two hours forty minutes. : The first bread riot in Detroit, Mich., in a decade, took place Thurs- day. The police suppressed it. There was ten million less at the credit of the public in pest office banks in 1920 than in 1919. The bill amending the Dominion Election Act in regard to the Ontario prohibition referendum has received royal assent. The 'Crown withdrew charges um- der the O. T. A. against four defend- ants at Brantford, because the spot- ers employed are discredited. An aviator flew from Camp Borden | Colling: CAN GIVE AUTONOMY ONLY STEP BY STEP Prof. J. L. Morison, of Queen's, Discusses the Situation in India. Toronto, March 4.--'"'There is only one thing in front of the British as an imperative duty," said Prof. J. L. Morison, of Queen's University, dis- cussing the question, "Will Britain Hold India?" at yesetrday's Empire Club luncheon. "The people of-In- dia must be taught self-government, {but they must be educated to recog- nition and fitness for the discharge of their responsibilities. The Monta- gue scheme is the beginning of a self-governing India "The one thing for us to do, real- izing we are governing more than 300,000,000 people, is to give them autonomy step by step, We wil not he forced, and we will say to the Indian people : 'We must take our time--which is your time.' "It is too bad that the Prussians have spoiled force as a moral instru- ment," regretied Frof. Morizon, "In the face of dissensions, Bolshevism, propaganda, intrigue and domestic discord making for revolution, we must use force." DR. MICHAEL CLARK, M.P. Who says: "I am not concerned so much about the few people who grow apples as with the many who eat them." He opposes taxes on apples. A CRISIS REPORTED IN THE NAVY LEAGUE agree as to Its Policy and Functions. London, March 4.---A crisis has arisen in the British Navy League and five importangepesignations from the executive committee are announc- ed. While no official reason is given for the resignations, it is understood that differences in opinion have arisen as to the policy and the func- tions of the league. One group holds that its proper business is to con- centre upon the maintenance at all costs of Britain's supremacy while another group--which is at present in the ascendant--lays stress upon obtaining.at the earliest possible mo- ment a naval agreement between Great Britain and the United States with a view to limitation of arma- ments. A PRIEST BRANDS DIVORCE AS IMMORAL Admits Separation Permitted by Christ But Not Remarriage. St. Thomas, March 4.--Monsignor West of the Holy Angels' Catholic church of this city opened a series of sermons on the much-discussed divorcee question last evening, in a discourse in which he insisted that divorce and subsequent re-marriage was immoral and directly contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ, who, he declared, allowed the sep- aration of man and wife for one cause only. '"'But," he said, "sep- aration does not give the right to re- marry again, for, although separat- ed, they are still lawfully married. They are, as before separation, man and wife." CROWBAR PIERCES NECK. Workman in Manhole Meets .With Bad Accident. Toronto, March 4 ---With a large hole in his neck, John McKnight, aged thirty-five years, of 16 Bright street, lies in the Toronto General hospital in a critical condition. Employed by the city, he was at work at the bottom of a manhole on Indian road, when a fellow employee fell in on top of him with a crowbar, which struck McKnight on the neck. Woman Badly Burned. Brockville, March 4 --Mrs. Perci- val, an elderly resident of Frankville, had a narrow escape from death yes- terday, when her clothing took fire from a lighted candle. As it was, she was severely burned about the legs, and her daughter-in-law, in go- ing to her assistance, also suffered injuries. The newly appointed British minister of agriculture, Sir Arthur Griffiths Boscawen, was defeated in the Dudley bye-election by Wilson, labor. Jynior O.H.A. game : Stratford mein, iL hse. g wo Groups in n Dise WONT JOIN AN ALLIANCE Of Permanent Military Na- ture, Says President In - Inaugural. Washington, D.C., March 4.--Pre- sident Harding in his inaugural ad- dress today declared that 'the United States seeks no part in directing the destinies of the Old World, and is un- willing to become "entangled" in Eu- ropean politics. Nevertheless, speak- ing in behalf of the people of the United States, he expressed a willing- ness to associate with the other na- tions of the world in seeking an ag- reement for the reduction of arma- ments, in suggesting plans for medi- ation, conciliation and arbitration, in clarifying the laws of international relationship, and in establishing a world court for the disposition of justiable questions. "Today, better than ever before we know the aspirations of humankind and share them," he declared. lhe recorded pedicy of the United States, | Mr. Harding said, proved the wis- {dom of the policy of non-involvement in old world affairs. "We. will accept no responsibility except as our own conscience and judgment.in each in- stance may determine, No Entanglements. "Our eyes never will be blind to a developing menace, our ears never deaf to the call of civilization. We recognize the new order in the world with closer contacts which progress has wrought. We sense a call of the human heart for fellowship, frater- nity and co-operation. We crave friendship and harbor no hate. But America can be a party to no perma- nent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations or subject our decisions to any other than our own authority. "lI am sure our own people will not misunderstand nor will the world misconstrue. We want to do our part in making offensive war so hateful that governments and peoples who resort to it must prove the righteous- ness of their cause or stand as out- laws before'the bar of civilization.' ties of his family and physician, Pre- sident Wilson took no part in the ce- remonies, other than to accompany Mr. Harding from the White House to the capitol. Curfew Law Division. Fort William, March 4.--At the request of the local council of wo- men the city council a few days ago passed a nine o'clock curfew order, A deputation of eight mothers waited on a committee of the city council, protesting against the order, declar- ing they "would not be dictated to nor made the butt of some fad foist- ed on them by women who had no children of their own." The alder- men are considering, and have pro- mised another meeting, when both fides may be heard. -------------------------- TOLMIES 0.T.A. VICTORY W. D. Black Seeking Legisla- tion Regarding the Hounds of Hunters. Toronto, March 4.---(Special to the Whig). There is chuckling in the lobbies over the victory of Tol- mie, of Windsor, in forcing the at- torney-general to back down on O.T.A. appeals. I wrote about this and said be hal Raney in such a hole Raney had to adjourn the debate and think it over, Result: Apreals to the county judge. This has enhanced the prestige of the Windsor M.P.P., who is a man to bes reckoned with as a leader, He has a nice parliamentary style, a pleasing voice and is always well informed on his subject, and sticks to it toc. I look upon him as one of the big men here. McBride, of Brantford, is also coming fast and is in nearly every big discussion. For a new man, Hall, of Parry Sound, is doing well. H> has a way of saying things definitely in simple language that is usually about right, W. D. Black, Addington, pays par- ticular attention to everything where fish and game is in question. He is considered an authcrity on hunting conditions. Ha is working out the question of having hounds without any tag strap on them while hunting, as many good dogs get tangled up in bush or roots with such straps on and cannot get loose, and die of hunger. - Some of the city people, who never were in the bush are against the use of hounds in Lunting deer, Next they will be against the use of rifies and possibly the use of fish 'worms. Black's bill provides that hunting dogs be exempt from tag rules during open season. It will likely carry. Briefly, Fel n claims they have nothing personal on in the tim- ber probe and he claims that his gov- ernment carries out rules and prac- tices inherited from Drevious govern- ments and that there has not and cannot be any substantial change. He finds fault that there was a press propaganda against him which has not fastened anything on even the BOYS OF FOURTEEN COULD GET LIQUOR Rev. Thomas Green Gives Evidence at the Dunn- ville Enquiry Cayuga, March 4.--Testifying yes- terday afternoon at the investigation into law enforcement and adminis- tration by Magistrate David Has- tings, Rev. Thomas Green, pastor of Dunnville Methodist church for three years, sald his church influ enced one-third of the population. Since importation' had been per- mitted again, things had got pretty loose, he declared. Liquor had been obtainable by boys of fourteen, and he believed sentences had been suspended in some . such cases that came before Mr, Hastings. Witness took the ground that the authorities and of- ficers were responsible for law en- forcement. * He had never "snooped around," but had given his moral support to the authorities. He was not satisfied either with the enforcement or ad- ministration of the O.T.A., and con- sidered the fines imposed were too light. HON. HUGH GUTHRIE Minister of militia, who asks: "What does Hon. Mackenzie King lead but the remnants of a on®e great party?" DOCKYARD DESTROYED, $5,000,000 Damage Done by Com- munists in Italy. Milan, March 4.--As a-reprisal for the - Trieste: labor chamber by the Nationalists, 300 communists armed with riflec over- powered the customs guard, seized the great dockyard of San Marco, flooded the offices and workshops with benzine and set the whole ablaze. At San Marco are the larg- est naval construction works in Jul- fan Venice, employing 6,000 persons, the adjoining oil factories which also were involved in the conflagration, gftording work for another 1,000. "~ When troops of the Sassari brigade were able to force their way in three hours later, $5,000,000 worth of pro- perty had been consumed, with all the supplies of material for the trans- Atlantic liner Duchess of Aost: which was in the course of construction. In the military assault an officer of the Carabinieri was shot through the heart and a considerable number of combatants were wounded, All the dockers captured inside the works were sent to prison in motor trucks. San Giacomo, the working class quarter, is being held by the military with armored cars. Factional] fights at Vercelli and San Remo have heen followed by general strikes in both cities, and the electric light supply has failed. THE GOLD PROSPECTS . OF ONTARIO BEST The Deputy Minister of Mines Urges Development of Canada's Resources. Montreal, March 4.--Gold pros- pects in Northern Ontario surpass those of every known field on the North Am'erican continent, according to T. W. Gibson, deputy minister of mines for Ontario, addressing the 23rd annual meeting of the Canad- fan institute of mining and metal- lurgy in convention here. Further, he added that the province of Quebec had maintained during 1920 its uni- que record of having never permitted its production to fall below a pre- vious year's record. Progress this y depended on the group of mineral products known as "non-metallic" such as "clay, lime, cement and similar resources, which, in contrast to metal products, are realizing top prices just now _ It was stated that asbestos production in Quebec had netted in 1920 nearly $4,000,000 worth in excess of pro- duction the previous year. President Whiteside, of Coleman, Alta, spoke of widespread propa- ganda to rouse public sentiment to the realization that Canadian de« velopment rested on the fullest de- velopment of Canadian resources. A good attendance of mining and metallurgical experts from every part of Canada marked the opening. A brilliant fleld of utility for the Association was unfolded by Presi- dent O. E. 8. Whitesille in his an- nual address. He urged co-opera- tion with manufacturing and other such organizations for the better de- velopment of the Dominions mineral . : GUILTY AND MUST SUBMIT Lloyd George Says German Blame For War Finally Established. in his address to the Germans yester- day declared there was no intention of oppressing them. They must accept responsibility for the war, however, and interpret their obligations accordingly he said. "The German people are under the impression that the allied demands are intolerable and designed to en- slave them. We regard them as free. We contend that a prosperous Germany is essential to civilization slaved Germany as a menace and a burden to European civilization." Lloyd George declared the German counter-proposals were a mockery. "Yon Simons' statement was a definite challenge of the Versailles treaty," he said. "The Entente proposals were con- ciliatory. The German counter-pro- treaty. "The allies have established finally Germany's responsibility for the war and will treat it as a thing already judged." French Fleet Under Orders Paris, March 4.--A detachment of the French Mediterranean fleet has been ordered to prepare for "an un- known destination." The entire fleet was ordered by wireless to proceed to Toulon for coaling. Two criusers and three torpedo boats will the sail on a secret mission, It was assumed the ordeérs were issued in connection with the allied ultimatum on German reparations. It was reported previously that the British navy would blockade import- ant German ports if action were de- cided upon. DRURY MAKES FUNNY FACES Tells MacBride He Was Not Listening to His Speech. Toronto, March 4 --Resuming the debate on the motion for the adop- tion of the special report regarding the O.T.A., M. M. MacBride, South Brant, said that criticism throughout the province was not directed against the act, but against the administra- tion of the act. He deplored the fact that a minister of the gospel, Rev. J. 0. L, Spracklin, should have been selected to enforce th act on the Es- sex border. "A very serious and regrettable tragedy resulted. A widow and two fatherless children are there," con- tinued Mr, MacBride. "The prime minister smiles. I have sufficient of the milk of human kindness that § am unable to laugh at tragedies of that kind." "Mr. Speaker, I was not smiling at the tragedy," said Premier Drury, "1 was deeply affected by the tra- gedy. As a matter of fact, [ was not listening to what the hon. member was saying." # "Then I.am unable to interpret the many facial expressions adopted from time to time by the gentleman who pretends to lead the house," fir- ed back the member for South Brant. The member for South Brant con- tended that no man should be called from the pulpit to carry out such duties as did Mr. Spracklin, +W. E. N. Sinclair moved that shorthand notes of evidence taken by magistrates be provided for the county judge, and that, if none were taken, that he should hear evidence again. Premier Drury introduced a bill fo - its object the prevention of any pub- lic inquiries being held up by any injunction as is the case of the Rid- dell-Latchford Timber Investigation Commission, except vy consent 01 tne attorney-general. This bill would ¢over the case of the Spanish River Lumber Co., who have applied for an injunction. OFFERED NEW POST. W. L. M_ King's Secretary May Be License Board Officials Quebec, March 4.--The position of secretary to the Quebec liguor com- mission has been offered to Lucien Giguere, secretary to the Hon. Mac- kenzie King, leader of the opposition in she federal house. Mr. Giguere has not yet accepted the position. Geneva, Switzerland, March 4.-- Former Em Zita of Austria gave birth to a girl baby Wednesday. Mother and child are reportéd to be doing well. This was the second child born to former Emperor Charles and Zita during their exile. The former London, March 4 --Lloyd George, and regard a discontented and en- | posals were a mockery of the peace | amend the Public Inquiries act, for CANNOT GIVE AN INCREASE i 'Board of Education Camnet | Meet Vides Collegiate A "On the request of the teachers of {the staff of tha Collegiate Imstitute, | that an increase of $400 be granted [to each teacher for the year January | 1st, to December 31st, 1921. "That an increase of $200 be grant- {ed in 1921, at schedule periods, in- (stead of $100 as specified by sched- |ule, provided the maximum permits {of such being done; and that the {maximum in no case be increased. | This would make an increase over the schedule figures of $1,160." The management committee of the {Board of Education made the above | recommendation at a special meeting of the Board of Education, held on | Thursday night, out an amendment i by Trustee J. G. Elliott, to have the {clause of the committee's report |struck out was carrfed by a vote of [11 to 4 with the'vote recorded as fol- {lows on the amendment. | Yeas--Trustees Bishop, Best. | Campbell, Cooke, Elliott, Farrell, | Mills, Henderson, Jones, Renton and {Smythe--11, | Nays--Trustees Anglin, | Macdonald, Newlands--4. These recemmendations of the man- agement committee were adopted: { "That another teacher be engaged {for the Collegiate Institute in Sept- | ember next, at an estimated salary of [$800 for the four months. [ "That the sum of $400 be placed [in the estimates for salaries in view | of anticipated changes in the Colleg- | iate staff during the September term. "On the request of the four male | Principals of the Public schools, viz, | Messrs. Ettinger, of Victoria school, { MacDougall, of Frontenac school, Scoit, of Macdonald school, and In- | man, of Central school, and Model | School Master, for increases in salary |for 1921: : "That Messrs. Ettinger, McDou- gall and Scott be granted $100 each in addition to that provided by sche- dule, and that Mr. Inman, who is not under schedule, be granted an In- crease of $100. This will mean a to- tal increase over schedule figures of $400, and make the salaries as fol ows; Mr. Ettinger, $2,400; Mr, In- man, $2,100; Mr. MacDo $3. 000, and Mr. Scott, $2,000." On the recommendation of the Playgrounds committee the board de- cided to have another playground opened, making four in all, and that the new one be operated in comnec- tion with Frontenac school. The cost will be, equipment, $360; salaries, $300, total $650. On the recommendation of the playgrounds: committee, no action was taken on the request of Rideau school Home Club for a playgrounds in connection with that school. Godwin, Salaries Under Discussion, Trustee Macdonald, chairman, pre- sented the report of the management committee. He said that the recom- mendation of the committee did not give the teachers at the Collegiate quite all they had asked for, but a majority of the committee had favor- ed the recommendation submitted. The committee did not know what the teachers would say to the reeom- | mendation, but the members favoring the proposed increage felt that in giv- ing this amount, théy were going just as far as they could. (Continued on Page 7.) AN ARMY COMPROMISE. United States Enlisted Men to Num- ber 156, 000. Washington, March 4.--Senate and house conferees on the army appropriation bill reached an agree ment to provide for an army of 166,- 000 enlisted men for the next fiscal year. The agreement was a com- promise between the senate figure of 175,000 and the house maximum of 150,000 and apparently insures pas- sage of the $385,000,000 army bud- get at this-session. WAIVE POWER TAX BY $250,000 GRANT This May be the New Policy of the Ontario Gov= ernment. Toronto, March 4.---The Star isays: Tha hydro electric legis- | lation, when it is brought down ia a few days, will provide, it is jesse} on high authority, for a grant $250,000 to lessen the burden of pro- viding the small urban centres and rural districts with hydro-electrie service. This will mean that the re- port of the committee appointed by the legislature will not be adopted in 50 far as it recommenced that a ren- tal of $2 per horsepower be charged upon power developed within the pro- ince. + . : Much controversy was engendered by\the committee's report in this re- and Sir Adam Beck strongly the proposal. The chairman