x _ | - " rac to vem FRIDAY, AVHIL 10, 1931. DAILY BRITISH mira 6 THE THE BRITISH WHIG - 88TH YEAR. ~+question of prohibition and make a { --3-Teult, the-government 'must -carry-it-- | jout, ment of the dry laws wi severe penalties. In other words the pe are required to co 1 change in their habits of life j necessary, therefore, that |inform themselves regar ople dical is should ing the | definite choice only after mature de- | Itberation, because every and every woman will be bound to comply | with the laws that will gO into effect { The vote is supposed to express the | will of the people, and, whatever the man If the majority -is against im ~ | portation 'the Dominion Gover: Pablished Dally a Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED J. G. Elltete ... > «President Leman A. Gulla ..,. TELEPHONES: Businéss Office Editorial Room Job Office . SUBSCRIPTION RATES; (Dally Edition) One year, delivered in city ...... One year, if pald in advance aon S20 Ona year, by mail to rural offices $2.50 One year, to United States .......3.00 (Seml-Weekly kdition) Oue year, by mail, cash One year, if not paid in advance $1.50 One year, to United States .... . $1.60 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES ¥. Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal ¥. W. Thompson -1%0 King St. E Toronto. Letters to the Editor are published orly over the actual name of the writer. Attached {s one of the best Job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. Citizens who stay away from txe polls on Monday are shirking thew responsibility. 4 Another solution of the housing problem is to keep the movies run- ning night and day. Germany is beginning expensive as ultimatdms, In the new international pronoun- ciation of friendship, ths accent w placed on the last syllable. The housing problem doesn't trou- ble the birds; they/are able to buiia their own homes the same as usua. Happy birds. dion If there is no other way to cure the speeding habit, we might make the curves a little sharper on tne highways, "The old ways are best," declares the family physician; and perhaps o little bag of asatoetida would keep off Bolshevism. No doubt the Stillmans have mo- ments whep they wish'they had paid a little more attention to the first alf of their name, 'If stunts advanca the cause of se. ence, why doesn't some fiyer try to &0 high enough to fall without ule ting the earth? . Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to 'work like fury to pay for the dy- 'ing you did last year, ---- inn "It seems. impossible for an office holder to save anything for a rainy day." says one of them. The sams is true of umbrella holders. The people whose carelessness Sets the fires in the timber daneoy &re no doubt kicking on the high €ost of Tymber for building. The grandmother of to-day hasn't time to tell fairy tales and ghost stories, says the Atehison Globe. She is busy shortening her skirt, -------- In the course of time the ocean will become congested, and then the world's navies will fight for the In- Rlienable right to parking space, -------- The only good word we have for the ex-kaiser at this season is the hope that somebody is making him take sulphur and molasses. Stion the sound sense of the moy- Hero who always fights the villa ihe edge of a aliff. : Ee ---- Man is a funny animal, One gen- ; on fights for liberty, and tne ae Applies tar and feathers to those . don't agree with it. eta-------- i THE COMING VOTE. SVEry person on the voters' lists entitled to vote on Monday ld do so, for the question to be is one in which all of the 6 this province are vitally in- d. Unlike a city by-law or an n, this referendum affects the life of the people and, in the of prohibition carrying, brings the operation on May 1st the of the Sandy Bill, as a t to the OTA, most regulations for the enforce- to learn | that counter proposals are almost as { will be obligell to declare' it illegal {to import Mquor into this province [for beverage purposes and to take {Such measures as may be deemed | necessary to prevent violations of the { law, while the Ontario government, | in pursuance of its "dry" laws, will | diligently prosecute al persons found ..aitor and | LO be using Hquor as a beverage. The aging-Directoe ! Sandy Bill was prepared and passed for this purpose, but it could not be applied until the matter of importa- tion was decided, If prohibition does not carry this bill with its severe measures cannot be put into effect, | but it prohibition does carry the | People must be prepared to accept | they $1.00 the verdict and abstain from all | Hquor or take the consequences, | It is, therefore, seen how import- |ant it is that everybody should 'at- {tena 'the poles on Monday and cast {their ballots, The majority for the | whole province, in the event of pro- hibition carrying, should be an over- | whelming one, for no government | would be justified in enforcing such drastic legislation unless it was cer- | tain the people desired it and would | support it, Much activity is shown {on the part of those opposed to the | | prohibition of importation so that the =| result should be a far expression of | {the will of the people as both sides {ot the question are brought well to | the front, perhaps as never before. The poles will be manned by both parties and no efforts should be spar- {ed in getting every voter to cast his | ana her baHot. THE CITY MANAGER PLAN. A remarkable feature of municipal | sovernment in the United States and Canada in recent years has been the growth in popularity of the city | In 1914 only half a dozen small cities | in the United States had a city mana- ger, but the idea sprang into the limelight in that year when the pros- perous industrial city of Dayton, Ohio, adopted the plan and cabled to General Goethals, at Panama, offer- ing him a handsome salary if he would accept the plan. To-day there are over 150 cities--including Day- ton, Akron, Norfolk, Sacremento, Grand Rapids, Springfield (Ohio) Tampa, Wheeling and Wichita--in have city managers. H. 8. Gilbertson, one of the leading proponents of this method of civie government, has given a very clear statement as to how it works. In substance, it is as follows: The people elect the council, a representa- tive body of citizens, usually five or seven in number, who serve without pay or for purely nominal salaries, and give simply the time needed for council meetings. They engage, ana have the power to dismiss at any time, the qity 'manager, 'a non-politi- cal, sub-executive, who is their agent and subordinate, He appoints and supervises . the department heads, who, in turn, appoint and supervise the rank and file of the municipal administration, according to the by- laws and needs®of the city. This plan is very much like' a corporation, with its direct chain of responsibility. It is really the only proper way to organize anything, whether it be a Sunday school picnic or a great industry, The feature of the plan is its straightforward sim- plicity. Responsibility 1s clear cut and undivided. The council has full power to choose its manager from any source whatever. There is no excuse for not getting a good one, and it is a matter of record that in over forty cases successful managers of small cities have been summoned at increased salaries to the manage- ment of larger cities. It is a most significant fact that 00 manager city has ever gone back to the old form of government by means of a large, unwieldly body of elected aldermen and council commit- tees. All have found the plan work- able, successful, and better than the old system. It is not claimed that the city manager plan has brought an easy millenium to any city, nor that the city managers are super-men who can accomplish miracles. But there is an impressive and excellent record of successes, stories of lower tax- rates, debts cleared off, backward towns awakened, progressive towns speeded up, and governments made more modern and eager to serve. This record 1s so outstanding t the city manager plan is at least worthy of investigation and consideration by any city which still follows the old system, A MYSTERY (Hamilton Spectator) Juries are notorious for funny findings ;but why the fiend, convict- ed of murdering at least tem poor negroes in Georgia, should be rec- ommended to merey and receive only life imprisonment is a mystery hard to elucidate ' ' e | only | eyed." | less, giddy style; as jurymen we met | manager plan of €ivic administration. | twenty-four different states, which. in favor of beer and t also had a yen for st b nger stuff, | Walt Mason In his pome he praises wine about a iozén times and gives beer three or THE POET PHILOSOPHER It is very evident that ee oad | Near beer never hit Persia Anyway i Omar sobered up one day and wrote | and near the finish he | four boosts. THE NEW ERA. [the Rubatyat, Two ladies by the western sea has this to say: | shot up two geezers so they died; and { 'Oh, Thou; who didst with pitfall and when I heard I said, "Aw, chee, | with Gin they'll be acquitted when they're |pecet the road I wag 'tried, for they are smooth as dames | Toy wilt not with can be, so fair of face and starry- | round, For I grew up in ancient | wnmesh me, and impute m days when men thought women free i. . , from-guile;--and-if-they murdered" vagrant. jays, 'twas just their 'harm- | round our house land," | their gaze and wilted in their genial | Remarked young Mrs. Megas | smile. No man could hope to make | «on, Hubby, get some egg plants, and {a hit who'd put a lady in distress; We | we'll raise a lot of eggs!" always voted to acquit, e'en though | her crime she might Y%onfess; we | were such knights, you must admit, as used to ride in sheet iron dress. | Alas, the world has changed since then, our attitude no more survives; the women go and vote like men, men are but equal with their wives; and these two females in the pen | must spend the balance of their lives, | And they are not old shriveled crones, | all out of date and down at heel, not | hanks of hair and rags and bones, {but of an age to dance a reel; and {yet in flerce and strident tones the | jurors sprung their "Guilty" spiel. | The jurors all were weary guys to whom the suffrage stuff was new; | thought, "We've seen to wander ir predestination Hooray: there | is, some Write Your Own Head on This! | (Ad in a Cincinnati Newspaper) | WANTED ~~. Homer's "Iliard," 7 | author | | } a Dunham-Goed. Miss Helen Dunham and Wyeth Good Were married in St. Joseph, Mo. last week. Is That So! Tell me, dear Luke, I know you can, I'm just a little child Of all things else, I'd like to know What makes a wila cat wild? --~Jimmie. our | wives arise, demanding everything in i view; they're bound to have their | share of pies, and they must take the | soupbones too." Oh, Joy! | If you will ask Willis L. Divine, of | Providence, Ky., the name of Kis wife, | he will go into raptures and reply: | | "Iva Pearl Divine." | i --WALT MASON. | Our Daily Special. i Putting On "Dog" Means Putting ore'! | Creditors | i | i ---- | BITS OF BY-PLAY - | y LU c " ve | imma letters to the Editor The Cincinnati Enquirer. | -- The Trath, "Merozites." | Folks hate a loser everywhere, and | Verona, April 14.-- (To the Edi- { hate a whiner worse. Your troubles { tor): Would you mind giving me a | you should never share; see that your | gma) space to correct a typographi- | lips your purse. Though burdened with | cal error which occurred in printing yr . A ym- a lint Ot we, 398 Lone Joy oym- | my little poem yesterday. The verse » should read: The devil never sleeps, And so he always keeps His servants busy; Wherever liquor's soid His servant you behold, Not idle, is he? | pathy. las you go, and from you they will flee | Though you're in debt and fear dis- © | Brace, your tale won't make a hit For | {you will get the frozen face, and get | { the icy mitt. Though hard luck makes | | the present drear, to others do not | i groan. The old 'rawsberry" you will! Lear. ite Ha oe ure PTI hen | Yours gratefully, > sympathy don't stop. The chances are | JAMES LAWSON. | | they'll answer "Aw, tell it to al | | cop!" You 1 WAS AGAINST RECIPROCITY i Then It Happened. "lI wonder if you could?' Cheerful Idiot "You wonder if you could what?" demanded the Wise Guy, "Why, if you wake up with a fuzzy taste on your tongue, 1 wonder if vou could say that you feel down in the mouth?' replied the Cheerful ldiot. mused the | The Surprise That Came to Dr. J, W. Edwards, M.P. | In parliament on Wednesday when | the reciprocity amendment was up | Dr. J. W. Edwards (Frontenac), said | that Dr. Clark had been talking free trade for thirteen years, and had not vet had the courage to bring in a re- solution to test his theories. Dr. Edwards, continuing, said the great argument against any recipro- city arrangement was that the United States as well as Canada had vast exportable surpluses in those natural products which were mostly affected, such as butter, cheese, eggs, lard and milk. Nothing: surprised him more than that Dr. Clark, after speaking for years in favor of free trade, should declare in favor of such a pro- ject. 3 Naming fourteen agricultural im- plements, Dr. Edwards declared that the average duty throughout the en- tire range was at present 14.64 per | cent, If the reciprocity pact were sub- scribed to the duty would amount to an averdge of 17.33 per cent. On five articles the duty would be the same; ' on nine it would be higher, and on one it would be lower. Let the United States ship in her surplus of farm products, and Canadian farmers would have to be content with lower prices. "8.0.8 The Lighthouse Kaeper fell in love, He married Helen Heaping; And then he took his turtle dove "And went to Light Housekeeping. -- Mean Brute! "Anyway," said Mrs. Gabb,. "I .am consistent, and that is more than you can say!™ "You bet you are consistent," growl- ed Mr. Gabb. "You are consistent in the fact that you are inconsistent all of the time.' How To Start a Parade. Get a package about 12 inches long and about 4 inches in diameter, and have it wrapped so that one end comes down to a long, tapering point. Then put the package under your arm and start down the street. That's all! Up To Date. A modern maid is Mary Minn, She gads and gads; - And dresses like the pictures in The corset ads. Poor 01d Paw! Willie--Paw? Paw--What is it, my son? ------ eit Ottawa Grants Pardons Too Readily. Toronto, April 15.--Hon. W. E. light wines, |] mami m-- RTA Fu Something. very close Look about. here for a look. Don't be stam ing for Something fo margain of fair and square deal. dersell us. At this very ored Suits at $10.00 per being offered in the larger cities. > See what is_being offered. Then come in If we can't beat the head of them in price, qual- ity considered, then we won't ta ke your money. ~ [BIBBY'S ls ~WHERE YOu GET GOOD tareemriaim GOODS CHEAP Cheap Goods Are No Good at Any Price A POINTER Join the army of well-clothed men and buy here. We buy the very best that money can buy, and sell it at a profie always assuring our customers a e absolutely refuse MEN'S SUITS $15, $18, $22, $28.50, $32.50, $35.00, up. peded! Always keep in mind people look- r Nothing sometimes Get Nothing for time we are offering Men's Hand-Tail- suit less than same identical suits are to let any one un- BIBBY"S Willie--Does a seaside resort have a floating population 'n Summer? Paw--You get to bed, young man! You are getting too smart! -- Boy, Page Mr. Volstead! Something ought to be done about this Omar Khayyam, the tent maker, Who wrote a pome called the Rubalyat that is going the rounds considerable | the judiciary that pardons were re- these dry days. This Omar was not! ceived far too easily from Ottawa." RRR RRR Raney, in the legislature, expressed the opinion that there is too much leniency exercised at Ottawa in par- doning prisoners. M. M. MacBride asked what the attormey-general meant and the latter replied: *'I have repeatedly received complaints from The Wm. Davies Co., Ltd. Princess St. - PHONE 597 PRICES DOWN AGAIN Large consignment of farm-fed Veal has arrived to-day and we are offering the same to the public at startling low prices. '* LEGS CHOICE VEAL 18c. LB. LOIN CHOICE VEAL 14c. LB. We also have our usual supply of Prime Western Beef at Very Low Prices Jz RUMP ROASTS } OVEN ROASTS 25¢. LB. 18c. and 20c. LB. POT ROASTS BOILING BEEF 16c. and 18c. LB. 15¢. LB. CORNED BEEF BEEF DRIPPING 15¢c. LB. 15¢ LB. Wm. Davies Co., Limited FILLETTS VEAL 22¢. LB, FRONTS VEAL 10c. LB. * STEWING VEAL Sc. LB. INTRODUCING . Everlastic Slate Surfaced Multi-Shingles Made by the Barrett Ce., who over 75 years. 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