Daily British Whig (1850), 27 Oct 1921, p. 6

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EM men mY BRITISH WHIG bt Daly pd Semicweek LIMITED He r CoO, Bem Cui ie am Manag ng-Director TELEPHONES: : siness Office . itorial Roomg ob Office Fesvtrasvrraneasnesa243 +$6.00 5.0 2.60 Semi-Weekly Edition year, by mail, cash . +3180 . year, if not pala in advance ® year, to United States 1.50 UT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIT ES » Calder, 22 SL. John St, Montreal " 'W. Thompaoy, 100 King St. W. nto, Letters to the. Editor are published "only over the actual name of lhe Writer. Pa "Attached Is one of the oro; best job ting offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticaied by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. "Business will hang fire until the | pations hang together. Winter will have to go spme to be pay harder than summer was. Divorce stiits are always pressed with the seamy side out. A Jot of kids ge' licked dn the early morning because dad's razor pulls. = Man's inhumanity #0 man makes oountless thousandé-Tripe for revolu- tion, ' ------p Whatever the spirit of universal Peace may be, it isn't the kind the Gum chewing miay be a dad habit, but it doesn't fatten the mortality rate like rag chewing, The heaviest tax now in captivity Is that imposed on the chap wha in- herits a taste for algohol, -------- With the number of tin lizzies In- Creasing every day, the highway is 8eiting to be a regular tinferno, It's nice to. ba poor and not have 0 smoke those high-priced cigarettes that smell like the fag end of dis- tress, 1 The differenence between socialism nd football is phat in football the Ikleking is done after the &ains are fade, k SE § ! Some men think they know it all, some try to help their twelve- children work school préob- > -- Chicago can't fool anybody. That arn about police peddling hootch is ed ng effort to" Incréase the n. A bachelor doesn't gof much pleas [ out of life, except reading the about wives who ehoot husbands, ------ The poor have one advantage. Whey don't have to worry. about Mmething to do between 9 a.m. and : fast time, d ------------ _ Wt 1s much easier to love your as yourself if he isn't an ic borrower or Jets you pay telephone bill, ------------------ ~ Philosopher: One who doesn't cuss the morning paper announces out of $300 in the price of the car ® bought yesterday. EE ------------------ Jack Dempsey expresses indigna- over the allegation that he has len up a family. All he does is up parts of families, 6 Portuguese government has med without bloodshed, showing hat [democracy is eminently practic- 'where wisdom is the better part or, 8 world's series it's a walk or jeout; in a railway row it's a it or a strike, That is to say, seems to make much of a § | of free trade. r i trade Britain built up a world-wide -» THE DAILY BRITISH WHICG. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 102%. ists FREE TRADE'S STRONGHOLD GONE. For generations Great been looked upon as the On a policy of free Britain has onghold commerce which was the greatest ever known in the world's history; she built up a merchant marine to carry her goods to al] parts of the | efforts of all other nations to usurp | her proud position as the world's greatest carrier of trade and com- merce. When all other countries turned to protection, Britain held fast to her policy of free trade, and found that the policy was a paying one. Under successive administra- tions the policy was upheid, Great Britain prospered, and her industries flourished, But these are changed times, and now the last stronghold of {ree trade has gone; and Britain is definitely putting into force a policy | Of protection for her industries. This change is a significant indica-~ 313 tion of the necessities of the after war struggle for commercial and in- dustrial supremacy, nay, for indus- | trial existence. Britain has been | forced nto 'this step by the competi- [tion of other nations who have al | ways had a policy of protection. In | order that her key industries might [be able to survive the trying times | through which they are passing, | there has been passed a "'Safeguard- | Ing of Industries Act," which comes {into force this month. In this act lit is provided that, "all imported | goods, if not grown, produced or manufactured in the British Empire, which are scheduled under this por- tion of the act (relating to key in- | dustries) will be charged hencefor- { ward with a customs duty df 33 1-3 | per cent. of their value." { This act means that Great Britain, compelled to put into force a high | Protective policy against all foreign | 80ods in certain extensive lines of { British manufacture. It has been | found that the old policy of free | trade is not suited to the present day | of keen industrial competition. While | the free trade policy lasted, Great | Britadn was flooded with foreign goods, mainly from Germany, made by cheap labour paid for in a cur- 'rency which had little or no value in the British market, while at the same time British industry was stag- nant, and millions of skilled work- men were unable to find employment owing to the factories being closed or on short hours. This change in Great Britain is of special significance to Canada at the present moment. No clear thinking views might be, can surely stand on & platform and advoeate that Canada BO back to a.policy of free trade, when thé world's greatest free trade country has given it up because the trial supremacy is so keen as to make it an unworkable theory. There is no longer any country in the world which even pretends to believe in free trade, and while it is true that there may be limits to the measure of Protective teriff which .may be im- Posed in order to safeguard indus- tries, it is even more true that the country which thinks of adopting free trade In these hard times for in dustry is bringing upon itself a cer- tainty of defeat in the world's indus- trial markets, OGMING TO THEIR SENSES, Ontario became a power .in politics the other parties have been pointing to the system of recall as one of the weaknesses in the form of govern- ment which {s being proposed by the agrarians, They have always main- tained that the system ' whereby a member of the federal or provincial house could be compelled to resign because his actions did not please a handful of individuals, is a pernic- fous one, and one which restricts the freedom of members of these legisla- tive bodies, and ties them down to a very limited course of action. The very fact that a member's résigna-- tion Is written and handed over to an executive before he ever takes | his seat is bound to make him more or less héld down in many matters in which he may not see eye to eye with those who hold that resignation, and the result of such a restriction can never be, for the good of Canad- ian politics, There are indications, however, that the U.F.0. are beginning to come to their senses, and are begin- ning to see that the recall system is a dangerous one, As a result, they have changed their regulations for parliamentary candidates, by taking the power of exercising recall out of the hands of the 'executive commit- tees with whom it has hitherto rest- ed. By the old system, if the mem- ber's conduct at Ottawa or Toronto were unsatisfactory, he would be called to account, and his resigna- tion, which he had signed in ad- vance, would be sent by this commit- tee to the speaker of the house in which he was a member. Under the new system, however, things are slightly different. When the recall resignation is now signed, it will be placed in the hands of an executive committee, as before, but this committee will not have the bower of approval or disapproval of his subsecuent condust. If his con- earth, and she successfully defied the | hitherto for three-quarters of a cen- | tury a free trade country, has been | man, no matter what his political | struggle for markets and for indus- | Ever gince the United Farmers of | j duet is not satistactory, and he is not ! ble to give the committee a eatis- | | factory explanation, the delegates of | the convention which nominated him {will again be called together, the member will be required to give them any explanation he may have, and { they shall decide whether or not he shall be called upon to resign his | seat, This new system, although a little better than the old, is still far from being. in acdord with the accepted {principles of British government. { When a man is elected to parliament, | he is elected to represent, not merely | those, who attended the convention {at which he was nominated, but the whote electorate of his constituency. { It 1s, therefore, inconceivable that he | should be called upon to do only such things as will be acceptable to a {handful of the electors, when at the | same time hie may be serving the best interests. of the whole community. At all times ¢ircumstances may arise {in parliament in which it may be necessary for the member to go | salnst some of the desires of his | nominators in order to serve the best | interests of the country, and should | he do so, it is not right that the club | of a forced resignation should be held | over his head. While that club exists, [ the member {8s not a representative | of his constitueney, but merely a de- | legate from the convention which | selected him as a candidate, and as | such he is not fully and wisely repre- senting the people. The change in the recall system is | but a step towards its absolute aboli- tion, It may not be abolished by { quick steps, but its abolition is com- |Ing, and the sdoner it does come the | better it wil] be for the politics of | Canada. | PLAY IN EDUCATION, During the past week or so | Teachers' Institutes all over the prov- ince have been holding their annual | sesgjons, and from the reports of their meetings it is Interesting to note the amount of time and discus- sion devoted to the subject of play, as a branch of education. This, per | haps, is partly due to the fact that, |at the annual meeting of the Ontario { Educational Association, held in To- | ronto last Easter, at least four of the | chief speakers on the programme | dealt with the subject of play, or | school athletics, The place which play or athletics should occupy 4n the schoo] life is a | matter which has aroused a great {deal of controversy amongst educa- | tionists, particularly between the old | school and the new. The old school, las represented by the average type of rural school inspectors, are aghast at the large part which play is allow- ed to ocoupy in the school life of the | boys and girls of to-day. They point to their own school days, to the days { when work and study alone formed their school activities, and put for- ward the usual plea: "We did not have any time for play when we were at school, and our schools then turn- ed out just as good men and women as the schools of to-day." They claim that play is now occupying the hours which used to be spent .in home study, and that the boys are spending 80 much time in athletics that they become so tired, physically, that they are unable to prepare their lessons for the next day. Such is the argu- ment of the old school, which cannot see the advantage to be gained by organized sports for school children. The mew school of thought, how- ever, is in the ascendancy. Its de- votees are convinced that education means a little more than simply teaching boys and girls in the curri- culum subjects so that they can pass examinations. They realize that true education means teacking boys and girls how to lve properly, and how to use their God-given talents and opportunities for the best good of themselves and their fellow men. In such an education games must play a part. Recreation {is a8 means of de- veloping self-expression and of stimulating the imagination. It de- velops self-control in those who take part In games, and, by giving some system and method to the play of the children, instead of simply having their play hours spent in a haphesard fashion, it acts as a stabilizing influ- ence on the school life of the chil- dren, The great benefit of the modern idea of school games, however, is that it brings a closer personal rela- mind of the scholar, and this feeling was so strong that it created a dis- | Jike for school and made the scholars glad when they reached the age limit, The modern method, with work and play judiciously intermingled, makes the teacher more a friend and mentor. and less of dn over-bearing tyrant. It creates in the minds of the chil- dren a respect for the teacher, born of a close knowledge of his or her good qualities, and not born of tear, and tends to make scholars take a genuine interest in their school work. While there may be a danger that ina, wetyengian, may come to take too large a place in school life, there can be mo doubt that it is of great benefit for pupils and teachers to join together in healthy, organis- ed sport, and to cultivate the doe- tring that e healthy body means a healthy mind. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, AN END TO WORRY: i " Be careful for nothing; dut | | in everything by prayer and suppli | ca'ion with thanksgiving let your re- | {quests be made known unto God. | And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shell keep your [hearts and minds through Christ | Jesus.--Philippians 4: 6, 7. { | 3 | EASY RIDING. My car's so easy riding it gives no | jar or shock, and in it I am gliding |at all hours, by the clock; and, as | might be expected, my chores are {oft neglected, and creditors, deject- | ed, are-wishing I would walk. And levery mile I travel provides. new, | * | Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER | pleasant thrills; but as I throw the] {gravel, and climb the sunlit hills, p |the morbid undertaker, the butcher |and the baker, protest that I'm a] | faker who doesn't pay his bills. All| {day you see me striving to make | | speed laws a jest, and if I cease my | driving to give the car a rest, I'm | boned by merchants princes for pay | for prunes and quinces, and every one evinces a spirit I detest. Oh, | why do men like tailors insist on be-| ing paid? And why so many wail- ers amid the marts of trade? Why | do they always chatter of things| that do not matter? © Why do they | splash and splatter in language that's decayed? "You ride in your) four-wheeler," the village banker | cries, "but you should pay the deal-| er from whom you bought your pies; | if one has paid the tinmer, the web-| ster and the spinner, the fletcher | and the skinner, joy-riding them is wise. But if a man be owing for milk and garden sass, he then is| wicked, blowing his coin for spark- ling gas; and this the hosts are do-| ing, all heedless they are choosing, | while owing for the bluing, alack,| and eke alas." | --WALT MASON. | i | ALONG LIFE DETOUR | BY SAM HILL His Specialty. He studied arts and sciences, too, And letters were his hobby, But when he put his clothing on "He never could look nobby. Yet maidens hung upon his words, And also 'on his neck For he could sign his name, child, To L O. U's by the Peck. dear That Is Just Exactly What We Would Have Said About It. (Newark, Ohjo, Advocate) After a girl gets over eating her Sweetheart"s candy, and he endures her first biscuits, there is no reason ETAOIN SHRDL shrdlu emfwyp-). Specialist Along That Lime. "You have congestion of the lungs", sald the Doctor. "Maybe I had better send traffic cop," murmured The Fiend, weakly. for a Motor Ose Ticket For Water Wagon, Please. When the sparkling hootch I buy, At prices .up to the sky, I heave a sigh, and then I cry, "Never again; I'll keep me dry." --M. J This Reads Like a Call for the S-P.C.A. (Hoagland Crossing Cor. Hillsboro Gazette) Frank Beets, wife and baby spent Sunday with Willard Burton and fam- ily. Women Is Women. "Not many women care much for out-door sports, do they™ "Oh, I don't know. 'Did you ever see one who did not like to hunt bar- gains, fish for compliments, be in the swim, play a love game, make a hit with her clothes--" New Soft COLLARS 3 for 50¢ New Soft COLLARS 3 for 50c BIBBY'S SEE OUR NOBBY ULSTERETTES YOUNG MEN'S Bizes 34 to 40 PRY p-- 227.50 OVERCOATS $15.00 to $45.0¢ NO BETTER SUIT AND OVERCOAT | VALUE TO BE HAD ANYWHERE IN CANADA We are out to do a big Suit and Overcoat business, and are well away with a good start, The whole secret is this. We are offering the season's newest productions, real, snappy, fine quality Suits and Overcoats ~-made by the best tailors in all the land. At Particularly Low Prices Prices that will agreeably surprise you THE ELLWOOD - $45.00 THE MARMON - $30.00 THE HARLEY - $40.00 THE HUDSON - $45.00 THE ACE - $35.00 THE NEWTON $85.00 ENGLISH SLIP ON OVERCOATS Real Goma Heavy soft comfy Cheviot, pure wool, satin linings, expert tail- orings sold anywhere. McClary's Quebec Heater with Oven Also supplied with water back. BUNT'S Hardware, King Si Dutch Bulbs Beautifl large bulbs for Christ. mas, has indoor bloom or spring blossoms in the garden, Hyacinths Tulips Best and lowest priced heater Narcissus Freezias "'Senough! I wag wrong." Our Owa Beauty Chats. Wrinkles may be fliled up with putty and then covered with paint. Strong perfumes should never be used whén gong to a social function Unless you know the guests are to Wear gas masks. Hot water and soap are excellent for brightening up elbows and knees that have become discolored from over- exposure. A steam roller has been found use- ful for smoothing out a rough skin. -------- The Beginning of the Engagement. "I saw the sun pop corn in the fleld to-day," remarked the bashful Rustic. "I would rather see the son pop the question," hig girl coyly replied. And What Were Yours? The books that made My blood rum quick Were "deadwood Dan" And "Diamond Dick." ~San Francisco Chronicle. In youth those tales Our fancy took, Now we prefer The pocketbook. Fool Questions. J. K. asks: "What kind of a press do they use to print a kiss on the lips? You can get 'your answer, J. KEK, by some of the mushy X. by_suaring That's Variety, Anyway. i "Leaves Bride for Prisen," headline in Baltimore American. That's a novel- ty. They usually leave them for a soul- mate. .or chicken. Dally If you must carry a hammer, why Rot try malling a lie now and then? "Standard" MODEL Regular equipment on Leading C. MOTO METERS YOUR CAR DESERVES ONE Attached to your radiator cap in 10 minutes BOYCE oe wrens - m------ 6 J ior" "FORD" MODEL Regular equipment on smaller cars, $5.00 . ACCESSORIES WORTH WHILE MOORE'S Daffodils Paper White Narcissus Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess St. Phone 348, Everything for the sick and sick room, FARMS FOR SALE 1--50 acres, 6 miles out; frame dwelling and barn; 25 acres un- der cultivation. Price ...$1800 2___25 acres, Glenburnie, good buildings; orchard, Price serine wus see meses SEROU 3--60 acres, 7 miles out; 40 ac- res tillable. Price... $3750 4--200 acres, Township of Kingston, about 125 acres un- der cultivation; large maple bush and a lot of valuable tim- 'ber. Price ... uu 4.....89000 T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance We have removed our office to 58 Brock Street, Kingston MODEL Complete with nickle-plated rad iator cap. $3.50 THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Wanting anything done NE TOreiie md re Fond floors of all 111 veecelve prompt ™ Queen Street. TOIT club's Zoo, "Ike" hastens to tell us that Black Possum and White Coon live at Turkey Bottoms, Tenn. Observations of Oldest Inkhabitant, 1 kin regnember when the men wore large "puff" ties that would hide =a dirty shirt front. An Easy Job. When the twinkling stars I spy, Loafing round the azure sky, [ think If I'd no more to do Than that that I could sparkle, too, --Newark, Ohio, Advocats. When the sparkling brew I try, Loafing round the cellar dry, I think If I've no more fo drink Than It, Ill be a temperance gink. . | --Cincinnsti Enquirer. A friendly bootleg now 1 py. He knows that I am awfully ary; If it should prove to be Mule, Why! He's the wise guy. I'm the fool. --J. D. B, = a, Merey! How bi" She came walking down the street to- . day : - Amid the goof and jeers; She came In from the country and Was showing Both*her ears. . ---0. N. B. News of the Names Club. Here are more animals for the Sinn Fein declared unity bt Jre- land is essential, : mst STOVES Fire King Heaters ges. BUY YOUR COAL WITHOUT DELAY ? ! Quebec and and Ran, Nickle Plated Showers Basins and Tollets Lumber, Cement and Corrugated Iron. -- TTT: NS OAL QUARTETTE . GAIN we post a notice AA to the ete that cord weather is coming. We want to call your attention to two things. One fs that you'll need a bountiful sup- ply of coal this winter and the other 18 that we've got the very coal article you're in need of. Crawford Scranton Coal Phone 9. Fyat of Queen St. New Sweet Cider, New Table Raisins, New Table Figs, New California Walnuts, Dromedary Dates, noble Wain large Washed Corn. .\ Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phone 20 ang 990,

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