THE DAILY BR ITISH WHIG. ~ JULY 9, 1931. * " Managing-Director (Daily Edition 8 Jour Sivoo advance a Year. by mail t rural oft @ year, io x ar, csssanes§L gn year, Ih not in advance iii @ year, to United States $L50 -OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES St. Johm St, Montreal i} King St. W. Letters to the are published ly over the a i$. name of the Writer. . Attached is one best job printing offices in Snes The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Cireulations. Add famous last words: "Is it hot Bough for you?" * The long green doesn't remain * With the green long. The only nation now free of all troubles and anxieties is imagina- tion. ------------ God give us men. And then teach M8 not to waste them as cannon fodder. One suspects at times that it is . much easier to be good if you can't See good. The plane girl may conquer the air, but the plain girl hasn't much thankte with the heir. ' ------------ God's prescription for mankind Will cure most human ills: "Take a little sweat before meals." ---------- It won't help much to have ships ®arrying the Canadian flag if they 'have: nothing else to carry. + i s---------- An optimist is one who earns $25 ® week and bays $75 suits on credi:. A pessimist is the one he buys from. ie ¢hief aids to philosophy are a calmsand untroubled spirit and a nice collection of tax-free securities. . _ THere's one advantage about a orkileg. When a mosquito presents a ------ 'When the family must choose be- tween beef steak and silk stockings tor daughter, it has bean soup for _dinper. | Citizens of ancient Tyre frequeunt- quarrelled at their nightly blow. outs, but they patched it up next i Ra ------------------ "It ig rather disconcerting, but the lion that knows the least about hy- is the one that contains the people. . -------- _ It will help some when each public contains the gigantic figure | & crutch instead of the gigantic Bure or + corer "Beer may De a medicine, but the 'only thing home brew will cure is the delusion that anybody can make it well as the brewers. A ------------ 'When the girl tells him that he ldn't spend so much money on ;, he knows that she and her otlier have decided that he will do. a -------- : Something out of the ord- Thus we find encouragement spies the mouth of an oriental well, worn in holes by the c ed knees of the women who came h : bear eloquent testimony ta the ship of being a drawer of water. If one were to use his imagina- were obtainable, if the present spel were to continue till all supply streams were dry and very lake began to dry up till ation of water as the gift of God. outing in the wilds of nature, might fund for poor children who will otherwise not know the joy of a week or two in the country, away from the things they see every day of the year, away from an environment which at best cannot be as helpful as God's 00 | out-of-doors. Let us thank God for water, the 00| greatest of ail His good gifts to man, thank Him also for the ingenuity of sible for everyone to have abundance of it, WOMEN IN POLITICS. PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTA- TION: We have traced in some detail in previous articles the growth of the feminist movement and reviewed its possible influence on and we have outlined the form of :| government which exists in the Do- minion of Canada and the electoral machinery provided for the selection of representatives. The evolution of {the present electoral system has Leen through representation by pop- | niafion instead of by wealth and in- | fluence, the trial of contestell elec tions by the courts and the punish- ment of wrong-doers by disfranchise- ment or otherwise, the ballot and the abolition of the plural voting sys- tem. Still, in spite of the fact that the representatives in p wliament and on the councils do really reflect the op- itions of the majority to a far great- cr degree than they used te, the per- feet electoral! system has yet to be devised. Some of the cities of Can- ada, notably in thé west, have made experiment with what is known as proportional representation, and the P.R. idea has rapidly gained popu- larity during tLe last few years, It is fdmitted that under the present sys- | tem minorities are not adequately represented and that when they are it Is due to chance rather than to de- sign. It may even happen under the present system that a parliamentary majority represents a minority of the electorate according to the votes cast. Such a condition arose in a provincial election in Omtario some years ag$. Another noteworthy instance was that when Gladstone was hurled from power in 1886 by a majority. Although the veteran statesman of Britain had a majority of fifty-five thousand votes throughout the coun try, yet the election machinery seat- ed a majority of one hundred and four members of the position in the house. It would difficult by any form of sophistry to claim that such a government represented and had a mandate from the people. Representation in any governing body to be proportional must give to each group of voters in the elector. ate who think together a number ot representatives in that governing body in direct proportion to their re- lative numbers in the total elector- ate. That is, a group consisting of twenty per cent. of the electorate should have twenty per, cent. of the representatives. If there are a hund- red men in the governing body that group should have twenty of them. It seldom does. Strange to say some of the first at- tempts to improve municipal govern- ments on this continent had a trend away from and mot towards repre- sentative democracy. The early char- ters granted to what were called commission form of government cities nearly always provide that the commissioners should be elected at large and 'Dy plurality vote. This abolished the ward system but mada no improvement in the direction of democracy. The commissioners did not even need to be elected by a maj- ority in most cases, and frequently they were hot so elected where more than two parties were in the field. Meant a large unrepresented minor- ity at least. But after a time the iz- equalities of such a system began to be wmanitest and efforts to improve them followed. The remedial plan proposed was Representation by Which each elector is given a single transferable vote. An elector marks Dis Ballot 0 rthe candidate whom he in the government, and to mark his second, third and as many other choices as be or she Cares to nominate. His vote counts for some one of these men whom he Prefers to represent him rather than $b others who might be elected. se If the first choice has already cured a seat by having received a er to draw, | tion a little and think what would {ed them. happen a city like this if no water | vote is never wasted as are all the hot | unsuccessful votes under either the | the | plurality or the majority the | based om geographical divisions. the | vote elects some one unless the min- | elements began fo melt witn rervent |ority whith it repressnts-is-so small f heat and man and beast and bird | that it does not succeed in getting tho | t torture of | quota necessary to elect one repre | lectures during the heat spell. Such wera passing out In great & a 115 the leveins foner > yall. Such body, it would give us a new appreci- | sentative. his second choice a can: | perature upon. dignity. ! | i | This form of governing body always | . or she wants to have represent him i full quota at the time one's Euilot is | » . | HEAT WAVELETS | reached by . the enumerators ard therefare does not need the vote then hard- | that vote is made to operate in favor ct the eleetor's other preferences in the order in which he or she has sta- |and he says that Hades has nothing | transferable [on the weather of the past few days. The single Each has named as And perhaps the need of so many |didate of ome of the larger par- fellow men and little children who | ties nearest in principle to his or her in these days are denied a plunge in {own ideas the vote will count to that the waters of the lake, or a summer | extent. Theoretically of course the ideal stimulate those who are better cir- | plan would be to constitute the whole cumstanced to inaugurate a fresh air | electorate into one constituency but the, ideal is not always practicable and it is with the practicable that we must deal. The plan of Proportion- al Representation will then retain provincial boundaries, but will form within each province groups of con- stituencies returning five or six mem- bers from each group. The method of counting the votes provides that the unit or quota une- men which has made it so easily pos- { cessary to election shall be ascertain- ed by dividing the total number of votes polled by one number mogk than the number of seats vacaa* and adding one to the result so obtained. Thus in a constituency returning five members in which ten thoussad votes are cast, the candidate roceiv- ing 1667 votes (which Is 10,000 ai- vided dy one more than five with one added on to the total) secures elec- | tion and the s..plus vote given to governments | him is then transferred to the candi- as his second choice,anyd the five candidates receiving the quota of votes have been selec:ed. I: all the remaining votes Weie given to the sixth' candidate he would fall short of his quota. Tn this way minorities are assured of representa- tion aécording to . their voting strength. The objections advanced against the plan afe that it tends to create instability of government by creat- ing groups in parliament to the de- struction of dependable majorities and that the manner of voting is cumbrous and involved. On the oth- er hand we have Proportioral Repre- sentation in Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, South Africa and in parts of Australia while the spdakers" con- ference in Britain in 1917 warmly supported the plan. The last ¢'ec- tions in Ireland were decided by this method. The scheme has not been tried out on a large scale in Canada owing to the conservatism of the province of Quebec which on the whole opposes P.R. and the failure of so many nao- ple to grasp its meaning. A study of the' question will dissolve many doubts and wipe Away many suppos- ea difficulties. . Se Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER Su . HOT ENOUGH. It's hot enough for me, my friends, my once blithe spirits sag; my coly lar's wilted at the ends, my shirt is like a rag; the sun, with many an angry curve, is baking land and sea, and I admit, without reserve, it's hot enough for me. Men me totter as I walk, all dizzy with the heat, and they inquire, on every block, in every glaring street, if it is hot en- ough for me--they ask this while I fry; and I'm so faint I cannot see to make a calm reply. The mercury is making flights that cause us much amaze; the days are torrid and the nights are hotter than the days; men wilt and wither and repeat their prayers for breezes cold, and he who yearns for greater heat should have his head half-soled. Yet ever in the scorching marts and on the sizzling plain, bores amble up and break our hearts with that absurd refrain. "Well, is it hot enough?" they ask, as they go swearing by, and ah, it is a Brievous task to make a-calm reply. For in the breast of palsied age and in the breast of youth, this question stirs a Berserk rage, makes us see red, in sooth. And would crush the questioneer, expunge him on the Spot, and fill his foolish tribe with fear, but we are too blamed hot. ~WALT MASON. Sig systems | The Printers' Devil ought.to know So grieve not, ye sinners. Nothing raises the temperature quicker than a political discussion on a hot day, ot - / ~ Btaid professors at Queen's Sui. mer school cast aside their coats at A pretty sight was the lawyer who pulled off his collar, kicked his heels up on his desk and ordered the of- fice hoy to purchase ice cream cones for the staff. The boss is some lad when the heat goes to his head. Maybe it was the bandit scare that induced a local ice company to brigh- ten up its premises on King street with some paint, Camouflage some- times is necessary when masked men want ice, One piece bathing suits are said to be no novelty for the girls but the boys look just the same. Foolish thoughts of the witless, Some people have been thinking about next winters' coal. JLo, the poor postie! Winter and SUljjes ke is the faithful servant of us all except on Saturday afternoons and other holidays. Summer colds seem to 'be the vogue but probably iced beer would be a splendid remedy barring acci- dents, | We may know where the flies go in | date whom the elector has designated the ime time, but do they come so on unty | COM ¢ © same place in the summer Some of the motorists seem to for- get that they might fill those big back still seats of their cars with the little kids who are sweltering in some sec- tions of the city. What a relief a cooling breeze and glimpse of the countryside would be! What a de- light to leave behind the squalor of the alley for few hours! Think, you who are blessed. , "Gee, it's hard to be respectable these days," said a young lady. All of which goes to prove that the girls do worry about their clothes--not so much the quality as the quantity. But then as the office cat says, "All the girls conceal now is their age." Speaking of heat wavelets we bave come to the conclusion that the best remedy for the heat is to get under a cold wave of Lake Ontario, Those young men who hang around the'bathing houses looking at the pretty girls are evidently obey- ing mother who says, "Go down be- side the water, Jim, but don't you dare. go in." * "Please, pop, give fan For the old palm leaf is an also ran." me. an 'eléctric 2 The police have stopped sunning themselves at the station door. Is it already too warm or are they on the trail, like the well-known blood- hounds, of the bandits? As the police reporter says, "No- body knows--as yet," Students of Italian are said to be reading Dante's Inferno at Queen's University. The atmosphere should lead to keen appreciation, Polly was a pippin but sweltered fit to bake, She took her pretty socks off and waded in the lake, 3 But then she took to slippin' and said, "For goodness' sake," And now she's got her hair wet and looks an awfu] rake. Behold the army of the faithful as they take their armour off and go forward to see the baseball battles at the cricket field. Hell hath no ter- rors for the fans. : " Talkative traveilers at local stores receive a warm reception these days in more ways than one. Imagine a man with prickly heat. Why does the city editor always smile when he writes the heading, "Kingston Is Coolest City in Can- ada," Extra comedy at the movies! A man tries to rise quickly from his seat and finds himself stuck, Des- perate manoeuvering and final triumph amid the hee-haws of per- sons who have not vst found that they are in the same predicament. Built for comfort, not for speed '| fits some of the men going down Princess street duringsthe heat wave, the weather. . pense. Y ¥ 1t's great life if you do week-end, "Lite is one long sweat after an- other," newspaper heading. 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