6 THE BRITISH WHIG | 88TII YEAR. | | Published Dally and Sewi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED oJ G. BBIOtE i coviinniiiiins President Lemau A. Gulla Managing-Director TELEPHONES Business Office . Editorial Rooms ....:..4. Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES: f tation armament | tain means of (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city .. One year, if paid in advance ' One year, by mail to rural offices 'One year, to United States ....... 3.00 {Bemi-Weekly Edition) {One year, by mail, cash $1.00 One year, If not paid in advance §i.50 'One year, to United States. ...... $1.50 UT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATITES | yw Calder, 22 SL. John St, Montreal » W. Thompson ......100 King St. W. Toronto. { Letters to the Editor are published fonly over the actual name of the Writer. | t i ore to My us Sale The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG. is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. best job pe Patrick, boy; take {t from us. Freedom is only a state of mind, Blue laws are most effective in a fommunity where the people are Father green, We imagine a transplanted mon- kay gland would not always feel en- girely out of place. This is the season when the cur- gain is drawn en summer; and it's an futomobile curtain. There is optimism as well as pes- simism in the thought that things are not always what they seem. ' Those who realy must: holler in order to enjoy life now have their chance at the football games, Reports from New York alcoholic wards indicate that Wall Street isn't the only place where things are tight, : ' The contingous strategic retreat of the Turks seems to bear out the story that they werejgrained by German officers, , Getting tired of waiting for him to call around, pumpkins are coming to market without being kissed by Jack Frost. Harry Lauder displayed some genu- Ane wit when he welcomed the adop- tion of kilts by the lassies, Hoot, man, -------------- | . Historical note: Long, long ago, a girl became very indignant when a male person endeavored to hold her hand. Fewer drunks were arrested in [Chicago last year. Naturally, when he patrol waggons were reserved for Pootlegzing. i -------------- ' Pable: Once there was a farmer fwhe didn't think he could move to gown and run a grocery store and pet rich. ! 'The income tax wouldn't be such a fuisance if the government would ar- range to have the boss hold it out of bis wages. . The court decision that a man is ter of his home perhaps should be discussed in the presence of Khe young children. r Harry Lauder has arrived to make fis farewell tour, Harry is still a Young man, and probably will live to make several of them, Foolish was that man who built Bis house on the sand. Some credit 4s due him, though, for he at least had the sand to huild, stil. It there are actually eight million gmen idle in the United States, there almost enough men available to orce prohibition there, Autumn! The season of the year hen Adam gathered a gorgeous leaf the wardrobe of his sweetheart, @ first of the one-piece garments. et tell is May not the Kn Klux Klan be an 'enterprising plan to"rid the market a lot of nightshirts which were ted to shelves by the more ular pajamas?. i It has been assumed that the lay- sr ot thick-shelled eggs means that @ hens know a hard winter is com- Maybe they suspect that the are- going into storage for +.$6.00 fos] 2.50 J clates. Awhile, . POPULAR OPINION LEADS, The public mAd in Great Britain shows signs of getting in front of official action in the matter of a de- cisfon in the armiz nt conference called by the preside States. Popular opinion 'judgment spoken by prominence in the soci as the political world seems to be pro- nouncediy in favor of a dec a-Ehes one CEE formulating gramme to rescue the wreck zation. me nt of the United and the some n of s well as ive limi- of civili- pro- ! ¥ The Bishop of London, speaking in | ethic the name of religion an 3, pub- licly pleads with E 1d and United States to strike hands ang sal- vage the little that is jeft of tion, Lord Crewe, leader of the opposition party in the House of Lords; Lord Buckmaster, former lord chancellor; the | transpo! civiliza- | He sees no other solution. | marks handed over by Germany would inflict, German workshops are rushed with orders, and large profits are re- ported. It may be that these profits are meesured in paper money, but | praise; be thankful unto him, and | They demonsirate | less his name. For the Lord is good. | they are profits, that Germany fs prosperous in a way, A nation that is working and making a profit has no cause to complain of poverty. Probably if Germany is pointedly: advised shat: tire-deciining. mark is not dn excuse for dodging her obligation, her fiat evidence of value will begin to appreciate. THE MOTOR TRUCK. There. {8 no longer a monopoly of 't. Road and river have come i compat actively with rail- way. But-the motor was the first to break the monopoly and everywhere as the great revolutioniz- remains | Ing force. Lord Shaw, official of the League of | Nations' union; Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge and Maude Royden, England's greatest women, variously express the same thought. Only among the veteran politicians of Europe is.the conference regard- ed slightingly.. All others frankly proclaim the belief that this meeting is one of the few remaining hopes of civilization, has been taken toward a condition which brings a shudder to the thoughtful. Evidently the inade- quacy of statesmanship is beginning to be feared in the places where con- fidence was strong and somewhat serone. WAR ON CATS. Every once in a while some new | = | motor 'vehicles have a waiting lst fad is sprung Jpon the world by peo- ple, who, for want of anything else to do, simply have to start a cam- paign to get rid of gomething. Some- times such a movement does succeed, as hag beén the case in the prohibi- tion movement, but many of them are doomed to failure. That, we are afraid, will be the fate of a campaign which has just been started for the extermination of cats. This campaign has been stapted by an organization with headquarters in Chicago, and it has been sending broadcast pamph- lets bearing the slogan, "Song birds forever--a catless world by 1925." As is apparent from the slogan, the primary object of this movement is to protect song birds. In the pamphlet an offer is made of a re- ward of ten cents each for the first bundred cats killed, This is a great incentive to gangs of boys to get started on a cat-kiling expedition; but the novelty will soon wear off and the campaign die out; The re- sult so far has been a large decrease in the cat population of America. One New York paper estimated that in the first ninety days of the cam- paign it had been responsible for the destruction of geven million cats. At this rate, with a reward of ten cents for each oat killed, the organization behind the movement would find it- self faced with a substantial financial problem, and then it would be good- bye to the cat-kNing campaign. In spite of the campaign, however, there .are few people who will be convinced that cats are a menace. They are rather annoying, of course, when they sit on fences or housetops while the neighbors are trying to sleep, and by their discordant howls keep everyone awake. But the aver- age family which owns a cat usually prizes the feline pet either as a good mouse-hunter or becausé of. some sentimental 'attachment. "A catless world" might not be such a blessing as the proponents of gat destruction imagine, unless they could also guar- entee a mouseless world. The fad may survive for a little while in some places, but it is not likely to end in the extermination of our feline friends. MIGHT PE WORTH TRYING. Like the "heathen Chine e," the German is wily and peculiar. Wal- ter Rathenau, the German minister of reconstruction, points out that a readjustment of reparations obliga- tions is necessary to save, not Ger- many, bpt the Allies and their asso- He. declares that Germany must continue her efforts to comply with tke burden placed on her, but he warns the world that others will suffer more. The more Germany works, he says, the more must others remain idle. He cites the value of the mark as proof that Germany cannot pay in coin, and he weeps to contemplate what Will happen to France, Great 'Britain and the United States if Germany pays in goods. While the disappearing value of the mark is perplexing financiers, may it not he just the course sought by the Germans? Tt provides such a good excuse for their pleas for re- vision of the reparations terms. The rate at which marks are being print- ed naturally would meke them worthless in comparison with gold, but for that to constitute a valid reason for sidestepping payment for the damages they inflicted on the world is to beg the question. It would be well worth while for the world to suffer some if that were the only alternative in order that Ger- many might be impressed with her inability to escape punishment by pleading the injury payment would do to others. We doubt not that France would willingly undergo the suffering that a few billion gold It it fails, they confess | to a conviction that one more step. one of | Britain is just facing this problem. The railways, emerging from govern- ment control, find that during the years just passed motor transport hag reached the point where the road vehicle gets the pick of the freight and not a little of the passenger traf- fie, through this competition is put at 6,000,000 tons, Wherein is the advantage? Ob- viously in fhe mobility of the motor vehitle, Choosing its traffic, its rates frequently are lower. But, not only in freight rates has it the edge; it can transport goods more quickly, and, what is vital to the shipper, with fewer handling charges. Thus, even where the- rates are equal or even slightly lower on the railways, the advantages of road-borne freight are so compelling that the operators of | and can pick the loads they prefer to | | haul, leaving the remainder to the railways, Clearly, each mode of transport is essential, In long haulage and heavy bulk traffie-the railway is ob- viously the agent.of advantage; in short hauls the road vehicle is at its best. If each developes its branch of enterprise both will prosper, and each will act as a check on the other to the advantage of the public. That the railways will make a de- termined effort to meet road trans- port goes without saying. They will do this, probably, by cheaper rates, by economy in operation, by reduc- tion in terminal delays, and by im- provement in handling methods at the depots. In this way they will in- duce much traffic to return to their lines, Meantime the road vehicles also will be developing, for it is ab- surd to think that they have reached their maximum of efficfency. The overloaded motor truck always will be the object of repression on the highways, but the motor truck, in itself, is indispensable to Mdustry. Thus there is room for both forms of transport; co-ordinated, much that is uneconomie in the present systems will be removed. ROSES AND ROCKS. Our idol stands before us, and does some merry tricks, ahd we applaud in chorus this pm ice of joyous hicks. We watch his every antic, we laugh until we weep, our glee is almost frantic, our admiration deep. We say: "Oh, was there ever so comical a gent? W guy so wondrous clever at spreading merriment? We certainly adore him, he gladdens all our days, and if it would bore him our college yell we'd raise." But lo, he pulled a blunder--perhaps it was a crime-- Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER "Headache Recurring headaches usually tome from an exhaustion of the nervous system, and they do not disappear until the vigor of the nerve cells is restored by such up- building treatment as Dr, Chase's Nerve Food, Get the nerves right and the headaches will not return. Mrs. W. J. Pearse, Nunn St., writes TIFEEe Hi i The yearly loss to the rallways | 1] United Btates."--Scraps. a. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY| GLADNESS IN SERVICE : | | Serve the Lord with glad- | gates with | | | ness. Enter int ohis i | thanksgiving, and into his courts with __¥salm 100: 2, 4. i { and now we'ré trampling under the | chap we called sublime. We have no | thought of mercy as we apply,the | gaff to that form, fat and pursy, at | moral dudgeon we knock him from his feet, and call for ax and bludgeon {to make the job complete. No doubt | "whith We used 10 Tau In Hghir | we've done some evil, we truly moral | | guys: our record's full of weevil we | | do not advertise. Oh, poor old human | | nature, it always is the same; no | | court or legislature can change foolish game, We worship some one | madly until he makes a break, then, morally and sadly, we burn him at || the stake. The more wejused to love { him when he was in his bloom, the fiercer do we shove him and kick him to his doom. ~ --WALT MASON. ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL Observations of Oldest Inhabitant, I kin remember when the washing machine ther of six children. Looks Like a Cornfed Wedding. (Col. George Bailey in the Houston Post) . Hey, there, Sam HIll! Last Satur- day Minor Stout and Rose Di Fatta were happily married in St. Louis, 'N Gee! .How We Miss Em, Alas! Alack! This chilling breeze Now means we've seen é~The last of bare kneeg That's Overdoing ft. "She hag a very tender heart, hasn't she?" "I should say she has. She Is now worrying how the cooties get any- thing to eat since the boys got out of the trenches." These Hounds Must Have Records, (Classified Ad in Sunday's Enquirer) Two fine rabbit hounds, with plenty of music; price $15 each. Box §6, West Union, Ohio. Fool Questions. J. F. asks: "In what kind of a liquid can they dissolve Parliament?' All we know is England isn't dry, so We are sure it isn't water. Worked In Reverse in His Case. "Do you believe it is unlucky to postpone a wedding?" asked the Young Man, "My own experience has beén it is definitely," replied the Grouch. -- Odd Facts From Nowhere, course of a year the energy used by wcemen. In chewing gum equals 1,000,- 000,000 horse power, or enough to run all the factories of the country. Utilizing the hot air in the halls of Congress to heat the Government buildings in Washington is the ideal of a Mattewan patient. 3 A -- Who Said the Country Was Dry? "There are 49,000 drugstoreg In the And about 100,000 emergency stations manned by the bootleggers. Diary of Miss Opportunity, Wednesday, October 19. Saw A. Boaster yesterday. Thinks world m'ss- ing lot by his failure to get chance at big things. Refuses to be faithful over small tasks because of idea he was meant to be world beater. Shame to wake him up, but had to tell: him he never would be anything but bush leag- uer. -------- This May Be Rhyme, But It's Not News, "When a girl is little she likes dolls, but when they get older the boys:fall for them--Sam HIIL When a girl is little she like dolls, And for 'em she will holler, But when she wants to doll herself, She hollers for the dollars. -G. N, 8. Daily Sentence Sermon. There is a heap of difference between having a strong mind and being head- strong. News of the Names Club, Dr. Take prescribes the medicine for the sick folks of Valparaiso, Ind, but he dogsn't take any of his own. Then It Happened, "I wonder if you could? sald Cheerful Idiot, ii "Could what? asked the as _he looked for 'the former holder. » "Well, if an inmate of an asylum escaped, would you say the nut bolted?" the Barkeep cloveg ---- Speculating, The eggs In cold storage I view with alarm; But if I don't eat them They'll do me no harm. --Cincinnati 'Enquirer. And how I abhor-it-- "he restaurant pie; Dut if I don't eat it, I guess I won't die. --San Francisco Chronicle. LOOSE CHARGES MADE, Beaverbrook's Comment on Profit. eering Accusations. London, Oct." 20.--The Daily Mail for some time has been conducting a campaign against shopkeepers alleg: ing that they are guilty of proitecr. ing. Lord Beaverbrook's paper, the Daily Express, has taken exactly the opposite view. Lord Beaverbrook, addressing the Traders' Federation, declared that the first object ought to be the restoration of homo trade, 4 lower bank rate to cheapen money, extension of credit, and lower in- come, sugar and tea taxes. = These factors have been ignored, he stated, in making loose charges against the retailers, od its | } | i | | "| | only dish- | known was the mo- |! THE DAILY BRITISH WHIC. Stanfield's | Pure Wool Underwear BIBBY"S Pure Wool Sweater Coats ~ The desi See Our New Ulsterettes Bibby's Revised cemeeee Price eeeees $27.50 See Our Young Men's for $35.00 You may see coats like these elsewhere for $35.00 to $37.50. 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BUNT'S Hardware, King St. © A heavy, compact Range with four 9-inch lids; all fron lin- ings; 18 inch oven with thermometer; nickle;plaged oven shelf SPECIAL SALE PRICE $38.50 . Standard" MODEL Regular equipment on BOYCE MOTO METERS YOUR CAR DESERVES ONE . Attached to your radiator cap in 10 minutes "Junior" MODEL Regular equipment Pa smaller cars. jator cap: $5.00 ACCESSORIES WORTH WHILE MOORFE'S "FORD" MODEL Complete with nickle-plated rad- $3.50 Hen Lays Double Eggs. New York, Oct. 20.--A philanthro- pic hen in upper New York has set ebout solving the high cost of living by laying double eggs. She fools the profiteers by smuggling two eggs at a time into existence, artfully dis- guised as one. The second is con- cealed within the shell of the in ---- Barbers Cut Prices. J Toronto, Oct, 20.--The price of the hair-cut is on the down-grade. A number of barbers in the city have FOR SALE food stoond] - hand Lumber, rrugat Sheet Steel and other building materials, ° I. Cohen & Co. 275 Ontario St. Phone 837, redyced the rate to 3c. as inst the 45c.-standard that used to pre- -- > vail, and it looks as though this com- petition will force the others to fall in Mine. » Diplomas Awarded, Picton, Oct. 20.--Miss C. A. Fol-, ¥ard (L.R.A.M., Edinburgh) gave an interesting musfeal recitaj here be- fore a large audience, Fourteen pupils received diplomas granted by the Toronto Academy of Music, and Miss Folkard was presented with flowers. One of the latest vocations for women is that ot the professional NEW CHEESE Kraft Canadian Loaf . .45c. Ib. Kraft Pimento Loaf . . .43c. Ib. t...58¢c Ib Also the following varieties always in stock. Oka, uefort, St. Julien pa ' Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phone 20 and 990, house hunter, Dutch Bulbs | /Beautifl large bulbs for Christ. mas, has indoor bloom «r spring blossomp in the garden. Hyacinths Tulips Narcissus Freezias Daffodils Paper White Narcissus Dr. Chown"s Drug Store 185 Princess St. Phone 343. Everything for the sick and sick room. Farm For Sale A FIRST CLASS 'FARM of 197 acres close to good village, and thirteen miles to Kingston on & good road; good frame house, In good repajr; good cellar, cistern . and furnace; two large _ with stabling for 24 cows "horses; large drive house; class hog pen 15 by 48 feet; large granary and hen house; all in good repair; lots of fire wood; plenty of water.and good wind- mill; a good orchard; the build- ings alone would cyse more than whole farm, t farms in and § ; first the price of the $n , one of the the County. T..J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance We have removed our office to 58 Brock Street, Kingston "THOMAS COPLEY | Wanting anything done in the lime. Estimates gives on all tery % LINE iam? HE venanction Bhotvees cash and coal jand the telephone is jubt this-- if you want to et your money's worth of ¥uel in a hurry just phone fis. You'll get the , highest {grade of coal and the proped service. We've been talking you a long while about thid--why Crawford Scranton Coal Phone 9. Foot of St. not trye us out?