6 THE BRITISH WHIG [THE EMBARGO ON CANADIAN [structed and efficiently 'maintained | Luke McLuke. Ar tot 88TH YEAR, Tl | Wi 3 pn | M R Published Dally and Semi-Weekly py [and it threatens to be the PUBLISHING | poop THE BRITISH WHIG CO., LIMITED J. G. Ellloty , Leman 'A, Gulla .. ion Mavagi TELEPHONES: Business OfMce ditorial Rooms ob Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city One year, if pald in advance .. One year, by mail to rural] office One year, to United States .. (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, gash One year, if not paid in advahge' One year, to United States OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES F. Calder, 22 St. John St, ¥. W. Thompson 1% King Toronto. Letters to the Editor are etters to the Editor are published | (04 pionary measure, our cattle { only over the actual of writer. name __lin England a by-electio President | 2 Crees 321 rom the 39: The original reason for its imposition | We should not he content with a road $6.00 | Canadian cattle. . 3540 | mals were sent to Britain, there .++.3.00 an epidemic of the disease over there 1.00 and the doors were shut tight 1.50 | Canadian $1.60 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, I en cnn Quoth the silk shirt buyer: "Naver more." Truth and a hyphen erushed to earth will rise again. The Phillipine islands export more | cocoanut oil than any other world } section, Europe's ship is helmless, says an alarmist. Also, fortunately, helmless, One suspects at times that oil and water will mix about as easily as oil and diplomacy. The objection to splendid isolation is that there is no longer enough of it to seem splendid. "He don't drink" Is good grammar in. Chicago. But it poor example of veracity. is a very e---------- You never see a passenger pigeon any more, and even the passenger rates are almost out of sight Well, thank goodness, we'll be gone when posterity begins to com- ment on the mess bequeathed it, That English lady who thinks she | hears the crack of doom has probab- ly heard the world going broke. Wil- | CATTLE. The importance o in England ana | removal of the embar portation of Canadiar t | Britain is, perhaps, bein | of, owing to the trem national issues which I isen in Europe, That it-is an important matter, however, is ve {the fact that it cost the g ry evident from wroment | the coalition candidate the Min- {ister of Agriculture, and it 5 ¢ | ed a political turmoil in | ain which is likely to h | ing effects. The oppos | Beaverbrook to the en « events arising out of this, have it a question of great si each- rd atid the of L made ance, ibject of discussion at the Imperial Con- ference in June. The opposition to the embargo on or n | Director | this side of the Atlantic arises, not so | much from the fact that it exists, as i reason for the embargo. was the existence of disease amongst A few diseased ani- was against on this of stock purely The existence disease | ground 1} Montreal | 4MOngst cattle in this country was st E.| considered a menace to the stock in therefore, as a pre- were Great Britain; | barred from the country | No one, however, pretends that this | reason for an embargo now exists. [1t is 80 many years since there has | been any outbreak of disease in Can- |adian herds that this argument has | lost its force; and is no longer valid. | The embargo still stands, but it has become purely and solely a protec- | tive measure for the British livestock { breeders in 'The British markets, It janswers the same purpose as a high tariff wall, only it is even more effec- {tive than that would be. The need {for the absolute embargo no longer | exists, It is a matter of history, and { fairly ancient history at that It has been admitted by Lloyd George and by the British Secretary of Agriculture that there is no longer |any fear of disease being taken to {England by Canadian cattle. They {are agreed that there is no longer any | | cause for this slight upon Canadian | breeders. Why, then, does the em- | bargo still stand? {a protection to the home industry, | why does not the British govern- | ment eome out openly and say so? | The proper course, if a measure to | I'protect the cattle-raising industry in | | Britain is needed, would be to make | to keep the | | taritrs of sufficient size | home mazket for the home producer. | We do not say this would be a good | We do not believe it would | i thing. meet with any favour in this country, but it would be infinitely better than | {having the Canadian cattlemen | slighted, by the perpetuation of an embargo on their produce on the | grounds of diseased stock. PROVINCIAL HIGHWAYS. In today's issue we reproduce a { map of Ontario showing all the pro- | | vincial highways already constructed | 1,800 miles. |and projected, in all yen. when. If it is needed as | THE | thoroughfares embodied provincial highways scheme, It cannot be denied that the blame for this situation lays With the re- presentatives of the ¢ and the municipalities | have not been alive as constitu The to the bene be derived from the highways and have permitted wester to dominate the governm cure the major portion of t} ACquitscenee-aadtosoperTon come from.the municipalit selves, and if they are going 4 Vance with the prosperity of the of the country they must wake up. | Where have This is a matter in_which the King- ston board of trade might well take : Initiative and study out a plan of construction for part of the province that would 12 the outlying important points » direet communication with the city and at the same time apen up avenues for a big tourist traffic This means a big thing to the city. and it will mean much to the district served as well. lighway another to Montreal hould have a high- rough the:county p with the towns to Ottawa and and Toronto, but way running back that would connect and west; effort townships and villages both east 1 we should make an the in an application for the government #ant If the other counties we will secure support of the construction, do the for its same be as well served in the east as the people in the west. ~ BITS OF BY-PLAY By LUKE McLUKE Copyright, 1920, by The Cincinnati Enquirer. } t 3 LE Poor Old Grandma! to our clothing sight is old faint The How | Grandmother's resents it to view strange when recollection j 8 of the days wh quite i't half-naked like girls # that Wore ing r up to thing to and you could underneath. But, rls were taught d to be modest y never went out rashful, the both thick she the dog- her sep not see her { then, in tho {to be basnful, for riodesty s s wearing gowns the that were | clotl.es that land opaque y Wore were Some "Thin! that man ed Brown thin, isn't - 'He "Why almo as in a restaurant ham sandwich." Jones ham agreed he's thin as the railpoad Striking, nd is a man remarked the Grouch of striking Old Fogy. "He's a Your frie perscnality,'" "Yes. labor replied the agitator" Roses Is Roses. hat she was$ a rose, He maYried Mary Grind; nd she is still a rose, he "he safiron yellow kind. ~ Bey, Paice the Hanging Committee? on w store in Windsor, Nova \ knows, Sign Scotia to! | | Oe -- DA a lot un } do not Wa grins when he Honk, Honk! the noise-ma ca vou to des started--to--tell --¥ou Ww d. Ott ? ) avenue, Where ? they 8 be a rule thought of them s of late Where are the things In gchool-- little round slate pe slate? I've 1 used lo use The neil and the Art Minz, Milwaukee. Well, Let's Try It! Dear Luke: If we Ww« the first '"a" in "Vacation" with an "o" we would soon have prosperity back in this country --R. J. 8. Gaffney, 8. C. - uid replace Oh, Joy. We have seen the cumbination box and folding bed and combina- tion bathtub and pool table, but a Cin- cinnatl man Khas evidently new article of furniture n a Cincinnati newspaper FOR SALE -- Combination and coal range { {ce Pipe this ad Shrig Sog. I'd glad the robid's here, by Jig For thad's, of course, a sigd of Sbrig I chadged by heavieg idto vids, ly legs are cold, so are by fids; Bud I'b berry, berry as cud be For Sbrig, sweed Sbrig, is here, you see. Do bore by Through thid shird air; By Nead, it feels lige & ballood You see, I took theb off too sood; But I'b berry, berry cud be, For Sbfig, sweet Sbhrig here, Reo tobcoad dow I wear I feel the sleeves is you ~Robert Griebling. A Testimonial, Dear Luke: I have been taking yeur ourse In "How To Be A Humorist," I| them tq; read pelled jokes and 1 am now a baseball catche until it * Our. Dally Special. Men NeveP Reach The Discretidn a few iends to my nose Vic Some THE POET PHILOSOPHER Walt Mason | THE MILLENIUM. Some day the - stand-off scheme will smash, a wise old seer has Sajp it, and all we'll buy will be for cash, and none will ask for credit. Col- lectors then won't bleck our way' and bluff and plead and beckon; and tat will be.a happy day for all of us, I reckon. We have to pay more for our eats, and find the poorhouse closer, because we pay the bills of beats who sting the corper grocer. The grocer sighs, "This Jagper Jones has jumped our lovely eily, atid he was owing forty bones, which seems a ghastly pity. He'll never pay me for my rice, he never more will greet me; and so I'll lave to raise the price from those who do not beat me." And when I go to purchase prunes to feed my children twenty, he's raised the price some picayunes, and soaks me good and plenty. The tgilor trusts a hundred men, and ten of them don't pay him, and I must ILY BRITISH WHIG. APRIL var. harder | ented a | bookcase | BIB Y'S - Style Headquarters fo nee ov re _-- Real Masterpieces ors' art. Fabrics West ful values. OUR GREAT $45.00 BLUE SUITS England pure wool, indigo Blue Wor- sted. We fit all forms. Sizes 34 to 46. These Suits are truly wonder- tail- are of Blue. them well. r 'Men, Young Men and Boys 'The Store That Keeps The Prices Down BLUE SUITS Same exceptionally good values, SEE BIBBY"S $24.75 BLUE SUITS Sizes 34 to 40. . Fabrice; an all wool Serge, smart models, perfectly tailored. SEE BIBBY'S $28.50 BLUE SERGE SUITS Fine quality Twill Serge Suit. Splendid valuo. SEE BIBBY'S $35.00 BLUE SUITS Pure Wool Indigo Worsted. Tailored by expert hands, who make a specialty of making smart elothes; Sizes 35 to 44. Shorts and regular type. 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Phone 20 and 990, "The House of Satisfactibm AA era mining FOR SALE 1.--Brick dwelling, Montreal street; 3 bedrooms; B. and C.; gas--83,000. 2.~Detached frame dwelling; Union Street; 7 rooms; electric light; stable and two extra lots--8§2,500. Farm for sale and one large farm to rent. | digTan extra yén to/ comfort him and stay him. And so it goes along the | line, in every kind of dealing; the | deadbeat adds to bills of mine until | my head is reeling. "Twill be a bless- | Lynch 'he Grocer. Applying coercive measures prob- ably won't do much good unless they are applied just back of Heinie's left | With the exception. of about 250 miles, all of these highways are situ- | ated west of Toronto where they Money to loan on Real "istate. ear. Some of the changes are made for the sake of convenience, and some to make last year's cars look out of date. » If the wicked brethren can't have { any fun on Sunday, they will prob- : ably make the day blue with lan- || guage. Any activity at Petrograd is call- i ed an uprising. She has reached a § point where there is no way to go # but up. } -- %° The reason Germany can't think , out a way to pay is because all her ; mental energy is employed devising ays to dodge. We don't know anything about the Iowa judge who ruled that a man is head of the household, but we surmise that he is a bachelor, The grand assault on tobacco has started in the United States, where most of our fads come from, Already several states have passed laws pro- hibiting the use of the weed. \ ; | Clergy street west, fronting Chal- mers church, is a disgrace to 'the ¢ity. It is full of holes and ruts, and in places the very bottom of the thoroughfare seems to have drop- 'ped out. Cannot the street depart- f ment do something to remedy this condition? ' "The demands of our young wo- matter of dress and decorations that men are becoming so great in the "B {ing links serving practically every | community of importance, These provincial and federal governments. A study of this map would give the | impression that central and eastern, Ontario for there is a single road running from Toronto to Montreal with bat from Kingston to Ottawa and Arn- prior and another from Prescott to Ottawa and from Ottawa along the Ottawa river to Montreal Why is it, that while western Ont- | ario is's0 well served, very little pro- | visten has been made for the rest of the provinee? There are no less than six highways running into Hamilton | and four into London. Why this great disparity in the treatment of eastern Ontario compared to western Ontario by the legislature? The situ- ation calls for prompt actidh. A meeting of municipalities should be called for the purpose of discussing the matter and drawing up a high- way system that will provide ade- quate means of communication and dévelop the possibilities that lie within this rieh territory. Peterboro is' wakening up, and both the county eouncil and city council are being urged to put forth every effort to recover lost ground and secure a fair share of the large federal and provincial grants toward such desirable highways now being or about to be distributed. The lake shore is well served but there should be roads running back into the north townships that are as yet untouched aud probably never will be touched by railways. Kingston is the natural hub of a wide radiug including Fron- tenac and adjoining counties, and we '® an interest in seeing the means form a perfect network of connect- | [roads receive grants from both the |, comsisted of a wilderness, | three branches, one to Peterboro, one | Mean Brute!" i do not believe in eariy mar- said Miss Oldgirl not," replied Mr. Oldbatch. fool is usually a grandfather a4 wise man thinks of mar- { riages | "1 do A d---n } before ryigg." So hive, &e. One time when an upper) berth» is | better than a lower berth is when you |are going on your last long journey. -- ed day, gadzooks, when 'stand-off system' ceases, princes burn their the slate to pieces. --WALT MASON. ------------------------ An emergency proclamation is to | be issued by the crown. The*British | Government is to take drastic meas- | ures to dea] with the coal strike. when merchant | books, and kick | i G Hunter Ogilvie real and Toronto Stock Exchanges. ral Bonds for sale. Phones -: Shares can be i Write for particulars. You will be interested. W.A. MACKENZIE & CO. Limited Government and 'Municipal Bonds, Corporation Securities, 42 King Street West TORONTO - This accounts for the increasing investment interest in the King Edward Construction Co.- Limited Preforres 5) Th Preferred bought on a basis that pays 117, T. J. Lockhart Clarence Street, Kingston Phones 1035w. or 1797), INSURANCE ~ AND GENERAL BROKER In daily communication with Mont- Dominion, Provincial and Munici- 281 KING STREET . 368) & 1087 'Sheet Steel and other FOR SALE | Good second - hand Lumber, Corrugated building materials. - Lake Ontario Trout | and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had- dock, . Halibut and Cod. BOOTH FISHEIERS Canadian Co. Phone 520. 63 Brock Sts No. 9-3240. x Instruments THERMOMETERS MILKING TUBES HYPODERMIC SYRINGES TEAT SLITTERS TEAT DILATORS MILK FEVER OUTFITS BLACKLEG SYRINGES AND PELLETS Dr. Chown's Drug Store 183 Princess 5. Phone 343. Coal That Suits The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Kailroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthraefte The only Coal handled by I. Cohen & Co. 275 Ontario St. Phone 837, of communication improved. Such roads will stimulate trade and build up the communities 'they serve, for the motorization of vehicles has in- augurated a forward movement in > ; travel for both business and pleasure | ------ A ed by President Gompers, request and we should not be content to allow | . --_-- @ The Prince . Lads' Brigad of shania receiving the 3 Jewiy from President Harding amnesty for our resources to remain isolated and | ' persons convicted of wartime offense, | A A ----------------. A-- After a long and severe fliness borne with patience and courage, Alida Bristow, Picton, entered into rest on March 26th. She was born at East Lake in 1878. On March 26th, after only a féw hours' illness, Mrs. Andrew Davison. Picton, passed away at her homé on Paul street, aged eighty-one years. young men are unable to contem- plate marriage," declared Bishop Farthing, of Montreal, a few days ) ago. As it to prove his contention, je courts of that city are now im- posing fines upon bachelors who neg- ~ leet to pay the annual freedom ta of $18. : Crawford root of ueen St. mt "United States labor leaders, head- "tone O "it's a black busines, Sul we treat you white" inaccessible for waat of wollwoa-