Daily British Whig (1850), 1 Nov 1921, p. 6

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i. 4 4 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. 'HE BRITISH WHIG 88TH YEAR. sass ensemmriR ny . Presiden crus ussss Editor and Alauaging- Director BS: cess amnanrareanses i243 .«329 292 suURsSC art i ' ® year, aailvede in oy sass 38.00 o year, if 5.00 year, by 2 e year, to 1 Wi Ee to ATITES 0 ine Montreal] F-TOWN RE £% aaa 22 "St. J ntread , Thompson «+... "100 Toronto. Letters to the are published sab over the act) h ""mame of 3a best job ew Th PR WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Clreulations. Attached is + pr oftists "NO MAN HATH FIRED vs. " | "I've had twelve weeks work in| | the last year," he declared almost | svithout bitterness. "It's a week | since 1 got anything-- --and that was only one day. But I get along. It costs me thirty-five cents a night for | a place to sleep, and I get something | to eat at back doprs and such. This" ~--he pafted the dollar he had just | earned---'/will put me over into next | turned up by that time, But if | you're too long without a job, you're | liable to get pinched and sent up | for three months." Friend Citizen, could you or I take unemployment as philosophically as that, live on the ragged edge of beg- gary and not turn sour against the system which keeps us therc? The | City js giving work to many. and I are responsible for the dozen or more who stand idle all day in the Government Employment Dur- eau. What about that garden that needs digging, that tumble-down fence, those double-windows? Call up 1178. A "PRISMATIC SERMON." The arts have a place«in religious service: when used for the glgrifica- mn of God and the edification of the aithful, but it Is difficult to see how any such purpose will be served by the innovation introduced into a church in New York city recently, o| Colored lights were thrown on the congregation as the rector preached, his idea being that by the use of pris- matic tints he could bathe the audi- ence an any desired atmosphere, "us- ing the subconscious suggestive power of diffused color as a support of and an inducement to a given congregational mood." Thus when he spoke of the phi- "TA tax a day keeps normalcy away. Soft times would turn away wrath, Necessity: Any luxury that is of- Jered on the fugigfiwen: plan, + There isn't any room in 'the same world for friendships and battleships, In times of peace, God is on the mide that has the lowest production vosts. And now comes the season When the wise hunter disguises himself as a deer. ° About the only things for the dear "= greatures to take off this winter is § freckles, At any rate, this will be a very _ severe winter for those who don't persevere. Herd times: A season during which mobody pouts and loafs and howls for . Bis rights. Some people are good conversa- fionalists, and some don't know .a . thing about golf. es A pessimist is one who suspects " that the gates of Hades bear the sign: "S. R. 0." The anti-tobacco societies may be 20 blame for cabbage leaves in the _ cheaper grades. The best cure for the fear that the world is growing immoral is a short fourse fn ancient history. We can beat the swords into plow-' faves, but what can we do with the @wivel-chair officer's spurs? the headlines would deal with it virtue were unusual. , a great deal of the world's work is handled by men ---- Af & men begins to wonder phen be Ara -------- 'the world ever becomes entire- the money invested in kitchens will be a total loss. lb say that beauty is only skin is only egother way of saying the good Sookers are shallow. s to all the capitals rn a * losophy of love, the lights alternately burned bright and faded into indis- tinet opalescent tints; when he told of the wonders that love has wrought in the heart of man there were flashes 6f purple and red and pink and yellow; he spoke coldly of those who have no appreciation of natural beauty, and the lights glowed In a cold blend of green and blue. This Jlustrates the system, of which great things are expected by its advocates. They talk of putting into churches "light organs" on which skilléd play- erg will render "color symphonies." Religious worship has come to a sad pass if It needs such adventitious aids as this for its promotion. Hap- pily, it does not; *"'old time religion," preached from the heart, without theatrical frills, still suffices to touch the souls of men 'and women. TRADE WITH FRANCE. 4 The passage of the French train, with its cargo of goods made in that country, throughout Canada on a tour of exhibition, brings out the great possibilities which exist for this country in trade with France. Canada needs new markets for her goods, since the United States market has, to a large extent, been 'taken away from her by the opera- tion of the Fordney tariff bill, and she needs to develop to a greater ex- tent those which she already has. In looking around for new markets, Canada would do well to consider France, for the trip made through this country by thé 'train, and by Senator Beaubien, the Frénch trade commissioner, ho Neot many people to thinking seriously upon trade with that country, Senator Beaubien himself has lost no opportunity of impressing upon those with whom he has come in contact the possibilities of a great volume of trade between the two countries. In an address to the Ham- fiton Chamber of Commerce, while visiting that city, he put the matter fairly and squarely before a large as- sembly of manufacturers and busi- ness men, The points he emphasiz- ed were that France needs almost everything that Canada" produces; that Canada, in return, could reci- procate by buying much from France, that the advantages of such a mutual trade errangemént would lie on Canada's side, as France with a population of 38,000,000, as against Canada's 9,000,000, would be sure to buy in greater volume,and thus the balance of trade would be strongly in Canada's favour. This statement of the position, as put forward by Senator Beaubien, is worthy of much serious oonsidera- tion and of definite aetian. The more Canada buys in other countries the less she would have to buy from the United States, and there is stil] bé- fore us the problem of equalizing jm 'our trade balance with the latter country in order to bring the ex- ¢hango rate back to normal. Trade 'with France would help both coun- tries, not only In a matter of dollars and egats, but also in that more in- tangible, but none the less important meatier of international goodwill. Both countries would learn to ap- Preciate each other more fully even than they do at present, for interna tional trade gives all nations an in- | ternational status, and has a broad- ening influence which cannot be ex-4¢ would indeed be regrettable 3 were \not to bear fruit. | week, and something else may have | You | what the result would be. THE EFFECT OF THE US. TARIFF, When the House of Representa- | tives and the Senate of the United {States put the Fordney tariff bill | through its various stages, there | were many in Canada who demanlied | thet this country should at once | take steps to retaliate, and should impose tariffs on many articles of common {import from the United | States to this country, in order to {offset the effects of the United States | tarift measures. Nothing of the kind was done, however, because there | were others who could not see that {the tariff would be of any effect upon the exports of Canada to the United States, and they preferred to' wait | until the tariff had been put into effect, so that they could see just Now the result is apparent, according to the current weekly bulletin of the de- partment of trade and commerce, and it does not make pleasant read- ing for Ganadians. During the four months period from June to the end of September the total value of exports to the United States of articles affected by the Fordney tariff was $10,070,068, as compared with $83,546,362 for the corresponding period in 1920. This means, in a nutshell, that Can- ada's exports of these goods is one- third what it was before there was any Fordney tariff, For the month of September alone, the exports of the same list of articles amounted to $2,934,873, as against a total of $11,133,869 for September of last year, showing that in the month of September this year Canada sent to the United States just one-fourth of the amount of goods as was sent in 1920. This list of goods includes a wide variety of products. Suger, molasses and derivities, butter, cheese, beef, mutton, lamb and pork, milk, potatoes, wheat, flour and semolina, and wool, all figure amongst the articles in which there has been a greatly decreased trade, and these represent many of the products in which Canada formerly did a very extensive trade with the United States. This is a matter which is deserv- ing of far more consideration than it appears to be receiving. Ata time when the exchange rate is against the Canadian. dollar, a condition which can only be changed by build- ing up exports and decreasing im- ports, it is something which must have & great effect upon the financial affairs of Canada, A solution of some kind must be found, whether or not it takes the form of a retali- atory tariff. It might not be a bad idea if the matter were to be brought to the attention of some of our cam- paigning political leaders, in order that they might tell the people of Canada just what steps they intend to take to meet the situation. There can be no doubt that the Fordney tariff was designed primarily for the purpose of curtailing Canadian ex- ports to the United States. The plan has succeeded, and it hardly seems right that Canada should take the resultant decrease in trade as a mat- tér of tourse end do nothing about it, : ' ---------- THE GRATUITY IS DEAD. After two and a half years of use- less struggling and a vain wasting of time, money, words and effort, the Great War Veterans' Association, at its annua] Dominion Convention held in Port Arthur the other day, has decided to drop the question of fur- ther gratuity and decide to follow some other lines of re-establishment for the returned soldier who has not yet been able to fit into his proper niche in the civilian life of Canada, through no fault of his own. This is a commendable step, and the only re- gret is that it was not, taken two years ago, instead of wasting ell the precious time that might more pro- fitably have been devoted to the con- sideration of other more deserving causes and more pressing problems. In their thirty months of effort to- wards securing a cash bonus of some kind, the veterans have hurt their own cause far more than they have helped it, for it was on the rock of gratuity | that dissesion rose and caused a/duplication of organizations which has been disastrous to the unity of the returned soldiers throughout the Dominion. : ( Now that the major arganization of veterans in Canada has thrown overboard the cash bonus plea, it can be taken for granted that it has been definitely shelved, for. there is no > other organization of Teturned which can hope to succeed rs the G.W.V.A. have. failed. To the credit of the Kingston branch of the association, it canbe sald thet it has never lined up with t of risorsh-ne about 16" admitted the BOLE THOUGHT FOR TR TO-Dky A SURE SUPPORT: --The ' eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.--Deut. 33: 27, wisdom of the stand they took om that occasion. With the great bone of contention out of the way, the G.W.V.A. can | now devote itself to other and more | worthy objectives, There are many matters to which they might well give consideration, matters which are of vita] importance to the wel- fare of the country at large, and in turthering the interests of Canada, the veterans are at the same time furthering their own interests. While the present generation lasts, with its large numbers of warsstricken heroes; with their peculiar and pres- sing problems, there will be a great work fon a veteran ~ organization. Whether that organization be the G.W.V.A. or a greater amalgamation of all the others with the larger one, it will find success only by adopting the same sane and logical measures as have been adopted by the G. W. V. A. in finally deciding to drop the gratuity question, and concentrate their efforts on other more worthy objects. | Walt Mason | t THE POET PHILOSOPHER THE SINFUL MINORITY.. You'd think from reading scare- head tales about the carnial of crime that all are headed for the jails, and few men tread the paths sublime. It's always pleasing to reflect that where one fellow wields a gun, a thousand men, with aims correct, are | plying bucksaws in the sun. Where | one goes forth on stealthy feet | croak a stranger for his wad, a | thousand gents are threshing wheat. | or plowing up the virgin sod. The | gunman makes the breezy tale that gives pale moralists the blues; the thousand farmers in the vale don't draw a sentence in the news. Wrong is the reader who believes that all the world is-on the blink bécause some libertines and thieves are fig- uring in crimson ink. A lot of us still go our way without a sandbag or a gun, and try our best, from day to day, to see some worthy action | done. A lot of us still live our lives as though there were a moral law; we jog along with our own wives, and sanely use the wage we draw. A lot of us still go to church, and bank upon the good and true, mor flinch its officers who search our cel- lars for a home made brew. The rascals kick up lots of dust, and they are insolent and bold; but all the time the good and just outnumber them a thousand fold. --WALT MASON. | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL A Request. Hit's 'simmon time, en frosty, Dey ain't no leaves o' green} Oh, Lor', send me a 'possum Foh @is heah Halloween! a Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. - I kin remember when a young man took his girl to church Sunday nights instead of tp the movies, and the col- fection did not cost him as much. as the war tax at the movies a -- Teo Many Bawls. A great baseball pitcher always shows lack of control when he be- gins to walk his colicky offspring in the mdidle of the night. Puybe It Jat Seemed Like a Week to John. (Sinking Springs Cor. Hillsboro (Ohlo) Gazette) Orville Roads and family were the guests Sunday a week of John Hein- ing and family at No. 5. - Even the Scientists Will Agrez With That. "Tio you belleve the world is flat?" "Well, since the war I have about decided it is flat on its back." -- Our Wenderful Language. Take this odd tip Without a frowaj if you'd get up Then don't lay dows. Easily Supplied. *"I'his fashion note says wolf fur is to te the mos: popular trimming for cuits this season." remarked the Wife. "AN righi, TI1 kill the welt at the deor 50 you can have some to trim yoor o11 crat with," answered the Husband, wh.se business was going cn the roeks. ---- + Fool Questions. "Curious" asks: "Could you say the bridal parily, following the bride and groom out of the church were going out with the tied?" Famous Partings. A fool ard his money. A rman snd his hair. A husband snd his wife. Civihes ard their buttons. Both Figuratively and Actually. "Prohibition does not seem to be much of a "success," ; Semarked the Man. EN wnt. thats 1s an awa) lot BIBBY"S SEE BIBBY'S YOUNG MEN'S ENGLISH ULSTERS Pure wool fabrics; new Greens and Heather shades; absolutely correct models. Last season's prices $37.50. BIBBY'S BIG SPECIAL at $27.50 and Boys' Wear OVERCOAT SALE Men's and Young Men's Models Slip-ons, Form-fits and Chesterfields -- in Green, Grey, Browns and Heathér shades-- in' Cheviots and Homespuns -- medium 'weight -- real Fall Overcoats -- samples; sold-outs, cancels, etc. Regular $28.50 and $25.00 garments. Sizes 34 to 42, BIBBY'S BIG SPECIAL $18.00 Sizes 85 to 42; new fabrics; new designs; 'at new prices. SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL BIBBY'S Kingston's One Price Clothing House NEW ULSTERETTES : smivg styles; $22.50 McClary's Quebec Heater with Oven Also supplied with water back. Best and lowest priced heater sold anywhere. BUNT'S Hardware, King St. SRR MOORE'S AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES TIRES, TIRE REPAIRS WHITE ROSE GASOLINE Best Quality and Service Moto Meters, from . ..........$3.50 up 34x4 Cord Grooved Tread . ... $25.00 MOORE'S 206 Wellington St, Dutch Bulbs Beautifl large bulbs for Christ. mas, has indoor bloom or spring blossoms in the garden, Hyacinths Tulips Daffodils * Paper White Narcissus Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess St. Phono 348. Everything for the sick and sick room. 3 FARMS FOR SALE 1--50 acres, 6 miles out, frame dwelling and barn; 26 acres un- der cultivation. Price ...$1800 2 26 acres, Glenburnie, good pulldings; orchard. Price ens abs sas sae teen 8-60 acres, 7 miles out; 40 ac- res tillable. Price. ......$8750 4--200 acres, Township of Kingston, about 125 acres un- der cultivation; large maple push and a lot of valuable tim- ber. Price ... «we «++. .$9000 T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance We have removed our office £40 THOMAS COPLEY FE 987. Wanting anything anything 4 ess 14 in 2 ment EN to bave his name changed because It sounds too much like a slang ex- pression. STOVES u a Quehge and na Tire King Heaters Nickle he we Basins and Tollets / Lumber, Cement and Corrugated Iron. / L Cohen & Co. 275 Ontario St. Phones 836, 837 Daily Sentence Sermon. It is better to show a good than to drink bad ones. spirit Help! "Yye had a hot time at our house last night" "What was the big event? get a cage of old Scotch?™ "No: I dropped the alarm clock in the grate fire" Dida you Great Excitement Prevails. (Shoopnsan Cor. McCreary County (Ky.) Record) Mary Anderson and Marie Baker walked up av Berry HIIl's store Sun- day afternoon. NEW GOODS New Sweet Cider, New Tabla Raisins, Néw Table Figs, New Saliforhia Walnuts, Dromedary Dates, Taragona Almonds, Gre- noble Walnuts, Sicily Filberts, large Washed Brazils, Popping Jas. REDDEN & Co. 'Phone 20 ana 990. Real Friendship. * What true consists in depends on the t of the man who has a friend. It is related that at. the funeral of Mr. Scroggs, who died extremely poor, the usually cold-blooded Squire Tightfist Was much affected. "You thought a great dea] of him, 1 suppose?" some ome pe FORD'S OAL QUARTETTER Aw the effect that cold weather is coming. We want to call your attention to two things. One is that you'll 'need a bountiful sup- ply of coal this winter and the other is that we've got the very cosi article you're in need of. Crawford Scranton Coal Phone 0. Foot of Queen Bt. GAIN we post a notice

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