THE BRITISH WHIG 88TH YEAR. Published Daily and Semi-\Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED J. G. Elllett Leman A. Gullg .... - TELEPHONES: Business Office ..... essssnas Teanae Editorial Rooms Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city One year, If paid in advance .... Ona year, by mail to rural offices One year, to United States .......3.00 (Semi-Weekl One year, by mall, Ls One year, If not paid in advance One year, to United States $1.5 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES , Calder, 22 SL. John St. Montreit E W. Thompson 100 King St. W, Toronto. Letters to the Editor are published over the actual name of the . r Attached 1s one of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. The annoying part of the labor sit- pation is the lack of situations. Now that rolled hose is in vogue, where do women hide their money? The more expensive the cigarette, the more it smells like some kind of asthma cure. : Wonder some one hasn't thought of arresting that man Hatfield as a "dry" law violater. Many women 'are idle, also; but the dear creatwrés are .not without visible means of support. There will be a peace that passeth understanding when a statesman ro longer passeth the buck. A prophetess says France is at the beginning of her golden age. Not unless it is also a parentage. ' Ome thing that discourages build- ing is the fact that landlords can't put up houses and rents at the same time. When Obregon swats the bil + erowd, it Is only a question of time until the shock will be felt by the Jitney driver. While many of us are eager to be- gin our vacations, numerous others are anxious to end an enforced ces- sation from work. 'When you see a car taking curwes at fifty miles an hour, you' know the vacuum cup Isn't the #aly vac- uum on the premises. The automobile is sufficiently im- proved; what we need now is a set of quick-acting springs for the knee Joints of pedestrians. Perhaps the reason it takes some women so long to take up their minds is that they are tired out from making up otherwise, -- Dempsey: was not knocked out by Carpentier, but the tax man, bill collectors and divorce lawyers seem to have the champ groggy. There might have been another story if the devil had caught Jab on & dusty road without a spare and ar- ranged a blowout a mile from a shade tree. -- Toronto landlords are reported as charging prospective tenants $2 for looking at their apartments. Wonder 'What the fee is for merely passing " by? i --------s The Literary Digest says there are too many dam failures is the coun- try. It could have spelt the adjective another way without affecting the truth of the statement. . a ------ The domestic relations court in- « vestigator of St, Louis says men pay little attention to women's clothes, In this-era of great events, men aro not interested by trifles. 3 . EE ------------------------ ._ 'Small dirigible just right for two has been Invented in France and is fppealing to newlyweds. It is nat. . ural they should incline toward sohe thing that would take them in the direction of the moon. A Chicago newspaper photo- grapher was seit 'to get a photo- ETaph of a beach beauty, and eloped with her. The city editor no doub: will accept this as proof of the young man's ability to snap the subject. 90 | except the desire of =l ered {ts peoples Powerless RUSSIA'S PLIGHT. | Reports from Lemberg, by way of | Berlin, are to the effect that soviet government of Russia is about to send Maxim Gorky on a mis- sion to London and Wa | behalf of the stricken country that L ONCe Was the great Muscovite empire. REOrky, within the last few*days, {s- {sued an appeal addressed = "to #11 honest men,' stating that the drought and the. plague are-killing millions In Russia and that 'Europe and America must bring us immedi- ate aid." Now the government of Lenine and Trotzky\is sald to have tha United States in order to obtain help that is urgeritly needed it conditions are as bad as reports describe. The the throes of horrors even: worse than those ascribed to the revolution and industries closed due to feeble- ness of workers. ' Such a result of Russia's surren- der to the Godless schemes of its modern oppressors might have been foreseen. warfare, for which there is no excuse Lenine and Trotzky and their ilk to spread their vile power. It needs to establish 4 freedom of thought and political lib- erty, demand for which was the basis of its revolution against czardom. It needs an unfettered constitutiona? government also. Then if its eiti- zens really wanted to set up a com- munist state they could do so. Communism, no more than auto- tracy, can be tyrannical and sur. vive; failure to recognize that fact is what is causing Russia's present trouble. Disease and famine are bu* the natural results of a disorder of internal organization which has rena- to help themselves, Humanity will require that Russia gets all the aid she needs, and will permit her suffering population to receive, but the relief will come more quickly if it is preceded by a political change in that country that will permit such liberty of action should prevail in a democracy. ---------- - CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING. Definite indications that conditions in the commercial and financial world are improving are not lacking, and one of the bright features of this phase of our national life is to be found in the government statement of the standing of Canadian banks for the month of June.' In this state- ment it is found that while the assets of the various banks in Canada have increased by several millions in comparison with the same month a year ago, the increase in liabilities amounts to only one and a half mil- lion dollars. This statement gives hope for im- proved industrial and business con- ditions in the near future, for the business condition of the country finds itself reflected in the standing of its banks. But from many other quarters assurances are coming that there is a much better tone in the industrial and financial world, Ac- cording to a statement issued by the National Bank of Commerce in the United States, the period of violent business disturbances is now prac- tically at an end, and the country is gradually settling down to a normal state of affairs. This same sentiment Was expressed by Herbert Hoover in & recent address which he made to a convention of boot and shoe manu- facturers in Boston the other day. There is one statement in the gov- ernment's report of banking condi- tions, however, which is significant and which may require some little explanation. The assurance is given that there is now no bank credit available for operations which are designed to hold prices at fictitious levels, This is very satisfactory, for it meams that from now on trading will have to be done on a fair basis of supply and demand, without any resources being used to withhold goods from their legitimate markets ia the hope of securing higher prices, But does-this statement mean that there formerly was a bank credit available for the use of operators whose activities were aimed at kbep- ing up prices above their natural level? If that is so, then it is a great pity that such a condition was allowed to exist, for it has been re- sponsible for the industrial'and busi- ness uncertainty which followed upon the sudden drop in the values of merchandise of all kinds. The fact that masketing must now return to its normal basis, however, gives rise to a feeling of optimism, and the outlook is considerably more cheer- ful than it has been for some time, as ---------- HE OPTIMISTIC PRINCE. While on his tour throughout Canada the Prince of Wales became very popular, chiefly because of the smile which he carried with him wherever he went. Since then the : Canadian people have been more than ever interested in his | \ and it has been noticeable that this cheerfulness is second nature to him. 'Wherever he has gone he has carried with him a spirit of irresistible buoy- where because he is a believer in the gospel of the smiling face and the cheerful heart. 'Not only is our Prince a believer In this gospel, but the other day he came fo the front as a preacher as rR -- hington in! madé confidential overtures to thé | unfortunate country is said to be in| itself, with transportation paralyzed | Russia needs to stop its | ancy, and has made friends every- well. At the annual dinner of the | London Chamber of Commerce given | a few days ago, the Prince gave a | | fine address which might be said to have been a sermon on the text "Cheerfulness is a duty," for it was {in these words that he summed up | the entire material of his speech: "There has been a great war," he said, ¥'For a moment I know busi- | ness depression fs_hanging: over us, Fbut Tam daring to hops that experts | | can already detect rifts in the clouds. | At, any rate, cheerfulness is a duty. | I can always remember the unquench- able cheerfulness which carried us, officers and men, and those bearing | heavy burdens at home, through the war. It should have taught us all how to face trials." The Prince has struck a note which needs to be developed and brought | more and more into practice in the life of individuals and nations. In | times of trouble and stress, the men | Who go furthest and come out of | difficulties which beset them, and | rise to the top, are the men who { face their troubles cheerfully, who smile in the face of adversity and by | doing s0 help to convince others that, | In spitc'of the dark clouds which may { be hovering around, the sun is still ! shining and there are brighter days in store, The man who smiles is a popular man, but more than that, he is the man who makes the greatest contribution towards the ultimate re- j covery of conditions which have | 8rown temporarily abnormal. Cheer- { fulness at all tines is g business as- | set. It has its value in cold cash, for | the man who is cheerful imparts his | cheerfulness' to others, and nothing i is so conductive to a loosening of | purse-strings as a cheerful spirit { No one ever found a pessimistic and | grouchy person who was willing to | spend his money unless absolutely pushed to fit. | The Prince's optimism is of the { right sort. It is not thoughtless and | ill-considered. He recommends the | same kind of cheerful spirit as that { which carried the Empire through | | the darkest days of the war, and none | but. those at the highest places will ever fully know how dark these days really were. It was this spirit of cheerfulness that helped most to win the war; it'is the spirit which will | help to bring business conditions | | back to normal in the shortest pos- sible time. Walt Mason | THE POET PHILOSOPHER tp STEPPING HIGHER. I'm strong for things uplifting, I'd see the world improve; I'd hate to see it drifting into a punker groove; I like to see men striving to gain the heights ahead, but few will stand for driving, though many may be led. And nowadays reform- Ing is driving in disguise; we see re- formers swarming with fury in their eyes. When wearied by my labors, and jaded in my soul, I like to join my neighbors in games of crokinole. And though these games be sinful, as moralists declare, they soothe, when I've a skin full of trouble, grief and care. And if reformers sought me," with gentle dance and song, if pa- tiently they taught me wherein the games are wrong, and if I heard them saying their protests calm and meek, no doubt I'd quit my playing, and other pastimes seek. But no, they rant like thunder, and make théir noisy raid, and rend the board asun- der on which the game is played. They break the grape juice bottles and spoil my prized cheroots, - and maudlin anger mottles the maps of these galoots. They talk of jails and fetters, and statutes they invoke, and thus annoy their betters, and make their cause a joke. -And if they'd meet me kindly, and say to me, "Old Sox, the game you're playing blindly. will land you on the rocks," I'd think them sane-and able, I'd listen with respect, and playing- board and table promptly would be wrecked. --WALT MASON. quite Gets Penitentiary Term, Windsor, Aug. 4.--Arthur Bas- tien, Windsor taxicab driver, was sentenced by Magistrate Gundy to serve two years in Portsmouth peni- tentiary for having lured young girls in his cab and then forced them to enter Chinese resorts. Two of the girls gave cvidence against Bastien. Details of the case, the magistrate said, were the most horrible he had ever been called upon to listen to. A New York correspondent - de- clares that four days before Lloyd George read the King's message in the British Commons, H. Wickham Steed, editor of the London Times, disavowed the interview which has | 26,000,000 | charge of baby for caused such a mess. ~ NEW PRICES ON THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR | BY SAM HILL i ¥ v * Not That Kind. She insists on her puffs, 1-speak of our Jeanette But you're wrong she never Has smoked a cigarette Se - - Observations of Oldest Inkabltant. I' kin remember when a horse car | was considered rapid transit. Ok, Well, the Weather's Fine. Overheard in the smoking com- partment: { Trunk Salesmen: "How's busines< | in your line." | Shoe Salesman: "Look 'n your own | order book. Same here." _ i Those Pests. | "And there's the youth" | Said Hiram Duff Who prides himself | On being tough" | --Hastings (Neb) Tr bune. | "And there's the girl," Said Willlam Te¢MN, "Who pr'des herself = On being swell" - Sometimes It's Danger sre. "S1ep. Look and Listen," admon the sign at the raliroad crussir:s "Ntt for me," remarkel ta man. "I saw a peach coming the street the other day and 1 stopped to lcok and get an eye-full, and then I lisiered fo an ear-full from ihe huzzy. Hereafter I go straight ahead Laws Are Passed--'N Then. Passed Up. "Necessity knows no lau,' thirst" bootlegger. If She Doesn't Miss Her Guess. A Jurie bride may wed on a cloudy | day, but she hopes to see a little son | shine later on--Kazim-Kazan. Horrors of Prohibition, The people of Minneapolis are using | extra gallons of water | daily. M. Whe Desires a Recommended Raby? (Personal Ad. in London Times) Would anyone recommend or take | 12 months while | parents are abroad; age three weeks --Write "Regular," Box A 1568. Foel Question 71,153. | J. B. I. desires to know what tailor You go to to have a coat of tag and | feathers made. | It It Flti-- More people attempt to wrong a right than attempt to right a wrong. Another pest Tor whom there no longer any excuse is the "Peeping | Tem." About the worst fooled man in the world is the bird who thinks he is | Boing to enjoy hmiself while the wife | and kids are away on a three weeks' | visit. Love finds a way and after they are married he finds it is her way. Time flies and you will notice it never experiences engine trouble nor | does a tail spin. 1 If we were a yaung fellow with a | nice, big car, we would revise the old | bromide of "love me, love my dog" to "love my car, love me." We hate to see a girl chewing gum, but we hope she never will take to chewing the weed. We have to dodge showers enough with the men 'tobacco chewers, without the ladies adding to our troubles. Cranks may play an important part in machinery, but we never could see any earthly use for these human cranks. No excuse is better than none and scme of these speed fiends tell you if they drive slowly somebody is sure to run into them. They prefer to run into the other fellow. Just what flavors do these lip sticks come in? We would like to suggest to the girls having the right flavor may be' vital in holding the man. If some of these grocers would only have "eggs and vegetables as fresh as some of their clerks, home gardens would soon be a thing of the past. ------------ Burglars at Marmora, Marmora, Aug. 4.--Thieves efiter- ed the jewelry store of G. R. Hartley in this village, by way of a side win- dow, and carried off a Steward phonograph in a carrying case, and a few similar articles. A sum of money 4 is said to have been taken from the house of D. Wright, A Fordecar be- longing to Philip "Sopha, a livery- man, is also missing. The robbers no doubt made use of -the car in escaping. - Thirsty? Adanac Water, Poland Wa- ter, Radnor, White Rock, Ada- mac Dry Ginger Ale, Gurd's Ginger Ale, Gurd's Dry Ginger Ale, Gurd's Ginger Beer, Gurd's Soda Water. Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phone 20 and 990, « The House of Satisfaction --_-- queied reotied the | THURSDAY, AUG, 4, 1921. Sale Fine Shirts BIBBY'S And Plenty Cloth No. 2492 Fine quality, English| Dark Grey English Worsteds. Blue with| All Wool Worsted -- neat, fine, red, white| a neat, genteel Suit-- Cloth No. 474 hand-tailored. models. Where Prices Are Cut Good SEE OUR $40.00 SUIT SPECIAL Cloth No. 3055 Rich, medium shade of Grey English and green stripe, and| stout, slim or regular Worsted Sale of - Fine Shirts time. The Stanford Suit $25.00 The Roy Suits $28.50 Jur Price $40.00 These same quality Suits are being offer- ed in many places at $50 to $62.50. All hand-tailored garments, ready to try on, finished to your order in a few hours' Our Price $40.00 The Collegiate Suit ° See Bibby's $35 Blue Suits--truly wonder value, £ $18.00 A McClary's Gas Ranges The finest finished Gas Ranges made in Canada. 7 different styles carried in stock to choose from. HOT PLATES--1, 2, 3, 4 Burners. ' BUNT'S HARDWARE = SPECIAL TIRE SALE 30x375 Tires $13.55 Cord $32.25 $39.55 $40.90 $41.80 Tubes 1.85 2.65 $3.00 : $3.40 $3.50 $3.70 Non-Skid $13.55 $17.65 $18.75 $22.70 $24.00 $24.75 Size 30x32 32x31 31x4 32x4 33x4 34x4 SEE OUR WINDOWS Mail Orders promptly attended to. Cash with order. - "MOORE'S 206 Wellington Street BRISCOE CARS 4-34 Special Touring .,.........$1680 4-34 Standard Touring ..........$1550 4.34Roadster . ......5.........$1550 Prices f.0.b. Brockville and su his is a reduction of about bject to Sales Tax. 12% on this new model Briscoe, T Which is larger, more powerful, m ore handsome and more up-to-date in design than the former model, equal price on the market to-day. or indeed than any other car of - ANGLIN BROS., Bay St. MR. ROBERT W. ANGLIN, MANAGER PLEASANT WATER TRIPS STR. ST. LAWRENCE V 4 , August 3rd~--To Pict on and the Sand Banks. Leave Wedestay: Juss 3 am. Fare, 75 cents. Auto bus and auto- mobiles meet stéamer at Pict on dock and convey passengers to the Sand Banks. Fare: auto bus, 76c.; automobile, $1.00. Thursday, August 4th--Kingston Yacht Club private excursion to Alexandria Bay. 16 Boi ' Cavin Saturday, August S8th--Utica Phil harmonic jety from ayto among the Islands. Regular trip to Alexandria Bay cancelled. Sunday, August 7th-----Regular trip to Alexandria Bay, 2.00 p.m. i N ~ @ On July 21st, Miss Ethel ' Lise Clarke, Belleville, was united in ---- Our Complete Equipment enables us to do auto repairing in the shortest possible time consistent with good work. So if you don't | want your car out al Sows asioh : longer tha: 1s absolutely neces- oy send it here and you'll get it back again in so hort a time as 40' amaze you. y - J Scott's Garage "wR CW "THONe TNBEW, oN , daughter of Herbert cha fof Tamworth, at nee. : the vicarage, Napa- Coal That Suits om The Delaware, Lackawanna and Celebrated Crawford (Phone 9. 'It's a black business, but we Jiffy Baby Pants Ideal for summer wear for babies. Fits snugly, are of soft, pliable Rubber, eas- ily washed, Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess St. Phore 848. Farms For Sale: ! 1--A first class farm of 200 acres in tl Township of Kingston; acres under cultivation; large map bush and a lut of valuable timber. Price $10,000. 2--An excellent farm of 100 acres, on four miles good buildings; gvell watered; over 85 acres of deep fertile clay loam under cultivation; plenty of wood for fuel; a bargain at $7,500. 3--A good farm of 100 acres, quarters of a mile from the Village of Sydenham. . 4120 acres with fairly on good road about nine miles from Kingston, about 60 ed. 500. La We have a large list of farmg fe choose from. a T. J. Lockhart REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE about from Kingston market; three $7,000. good buildings acres cultivag. Phone 322J or 3797J. N.B.-~We have removed dir office te 58 Brock Street. Kingston at Western Railroad's Scranton | "Codd The Standard Anthracite The only Coal haadled by Foot of Queen St. |. treat you white" Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Gall and fame fly, on the eve of théir departure from' Ameliasburg "circuit to marriage to John Randolph Tucker new home at Colborne, were presen ed with an address, accompanied suitable gifts, th