i Roku 6 eee ER THE BRITISH WHIG a BE IT EC ig EF LL EE mr wi | - B hid cheessisinsines ys Pronident an Ar Suita saansesss ss Bl and Managing-Director TELEPHONES: OffICe ..vodinsvversnsnees 248 Bano, R 29 oria 00 "e s¥sescanentna 00 oe eau | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily ition) 3 year, deilvered in city oft 00 n An Soni 1 Us Fural oxioes 33.90 o year, 0 ru offices $2. ° year, is Upiled States re:8.00 year, by mall, cash ........$1.00 Year, If not Said in advance $1.50 Sat UT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIYES aides 22 SL John 5 Rancron: Sem Kly Editlo ga: : atl Fash fie year, to Unl a) 1.50 W. T ompson '-i...100 King St. W. 'oronto. are published Letter, Edi or') a {rr of the enly over the _sctus writer, Attached is one of the best job printing - offices in Canada. x The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is assthenticaied by the . ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. -- Food won the war, but it needn't be so stuck up about it, Still, if freight rates remain high- er, why should hire be lower? The first requisite for a peace that passeth understanding 1s understand- ing. & The most convincing argumen' ag- alnst present freight rates is the truck. Bragging on an employes _.. swell his head, but it will also swell his output, Fable: Once upon a time there was & man who didn't enjoy the sound of his own voice, Too much of the money cullected for those who are under foot goes to pay the overhead. The Zion City theory that the earth is flat is fncomplete, It should add: "On is back." --t---- It's a funny language, When a Man gets on the in the world, we Say he is well off. teat -- Well, if the reformers do suppress prohibition jokes, you can ship ou af- ter night and get 'em. We wonder at times whether a Saxophone is a musical instrument or a mental disorder, In all of recorded' history no tri- Umvirate has long endured except beef, iron and wine, a---------------- The cynics say Peking won't get a 10ok-in. This sounds like another re- Duke for Peking Toms. : ? ---------- - There are few marble palaces in this country, but we have a house composed largely of ivory, ¥ A EE------ Russia is beginning to have faith 18 the old saying that a good name is more precious than rubles. The only batter with & more loyal following than Ruth's is that used in making huckwheat cakes, An excellent figurehead for the mew battleships would be a formal design of a weeping taxpayer, Football doubtless has ity uses, but some of the world's moet offec- tive kickers never saw a college. Another fine thing about ruraj life is that people live so far mpart they can't hear ome another's phono- graphs, meet The world has go: to the )poin: Where it feels bored unless the dafty mention at least one new 9 | trouble. J 7 po 8 POOR VISION CAUSES WASTE. It is no new thing to be told of the commonness of defective eyesight. Repeatedly statements have been is- | sued by health aathorities concern- | i ing the measures necessary for keep- | ing the vision unimpaired. This ad- vice has been directed to individuals and related to the care of their own eyes, The subject is approached from another angle in a report which has just been issued by the Ameri- ean engineering council's committee on elimination of waste in industry, & report which merits the earnest study of all large employers of labor, The committee finds that it will be to the employers' advantage to pro- tect the eyesight of their workers be- cause of the increased production which will thus be made possible. There is much waste in industry-- avoidable waste--because the vision of employees is not conserved. Of 10,000 workers examined in factorieg and commercial houses, 54 per cent. were found to have uncorrected faulty eyesight, There were many rejections in all the various armies during the war because of eye Men and, women cannot do their best work when thus handi- "capped. Proper illumination is suggested as one of the ways in which improve- ment can be effected, That it pays to have the workshop adequately lighted has been shown by the experi- ence. of several factories, Betterment of the lighting system has increased output two per cent. in steel plants, and as much as ten per cent. in shoe THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. for making existence worth while. Then, it would seem, nature would bave to be given a Helping hand and the restoration of a balance attempt- ed through removing a lot of those who seemed to be living too Iqng. This, if the professor is right, would be followed by an increase of the birth rate, yielding presumably a type that would be more serviceable in productive fields, humanity would once again begin to march around a circle. All of which seems to admonish us that while it is desirable to search out the secrets of mature, nothing is to be gained by striving to inter- fere with her fixed laws. Busybodfes work nothing but mischief, whatever field of endeavor engages them. BIOGRAPHY GOING TO SEED. Gossip is the smali change of so- ~lal currency, and the word more often has twenty nicke] anecdotes than a single dollar fact. This ex- plaing the charm of biography. Bio- graphy is an art, and a very fine art when it is used to enlighten for pos- terity the methods, purposes and achievements of worthy leadership. Biograph, of late, has been going to seed. Never were personal con- fessions so plentiful, and certainly never In such bad staste. It seems that reticence is in decay, that priv acy exists no longer for the diarist, and that the chief purpose of inter- course is to collect full-flavored aneec- dotes for a gossip book, factories. One estimate is that the loss in production due to faulty eye- sight is greater than the entire cost { of illumination in the country, and it Is asserted that the cost of providing {presse lighting in every industrial plant would be less than ome per cent, of the wages paid. Such a loss, attributed to bad eye- sight, is not to be ignored; and if it | | émall an expenditure as is indicated yIt 1s downright stupidity to permit it to continue, « "VERBOTEN"" DISREGARDED. A dispatch from Berlin says that fie Germans are taking delight in doing many things that are "ver- poten" and are getting away with it. | The laws, or the rules, have not been repealed, but the people disregard them. So long as the old govern- ment vémained, penalties for viola- tion of a '"'verboten" sign were swift and sure, and the average person would not think of defying it because the regard for the warning had been instilled through long practice. . Now that there is a less rigorous govern- ment, a people's government in name at least, like children, the people feel daring. Released from parental control, they want to cut capers, so they disregard "verboten" signs. They go in bathing where once they would not have dreamed of such an act, and laugh at the policemen who are helpless to deal with such a crowd. The situation is not astonishing. In fact, it is logical, The fear of the rigorous Hohenszollern rule having been removed, it might be expected that a bit of license would succeed repression. No longer held down by an arrogant caste, it Is natural that the common peoplé should have their day end do things that make the Junkers sigh for the old time when authorities were powerful enough to make members of the common herd keep to their places. It is not stated that they are doing anything very bad, only that *"verboten" no longer carries the authority it once swayed. The situation is en indication that liberty is gaining way in Germany, that the paternalistic feature of the | the peoples disregard it. Germany was the most * ten" place on earth under the Hohensollerns, It is well that it is changing. The dan- ger, however, is that the Anglo-Saxon countries are likely to succeed Ger- many as places where "verboten" will be the law of the land. We are rapidly drifting in that direction. BIRTH AND DEATH. A noted sociologist has recently made this confession: "Twenty years ago I believed in large families; to- day with changed condjfions . and years of deeper study of the subject I have changed my mind." He is now convinced that neither the present nor future generations would benefit by an increased birth rate, as the lat- ter " is accompanied without excep- tion by an increased death rate." Further, population is growing rapidly not because of increase of the birth rate but owing to reduction of the death rate. The reasonable®inference is that, to whichever extreme the people go in propagating the species, nature will take care of its own necessities and the populations requisite to per- formance of the world's work will be tained. Lowering of the death. 'rate is attributed to improvement of the human race physically and bet- terment of the conditions of life in general. These advances are ac- companied by a inis . inclina~ tion to labor to produce those things of which humans stand in meed or which they prize. The ultimate effect will baa world populated by people who have found the medns to longer lite"but wanting adequate tacilities government is disappearing because | There is only justification for au- | toblography when the subject either | | has occupied a distinctive and {nflu- | ential position in public affairs or | has been brought into intimate con- | {tact with those who have. The sur- | | prising thing about every, or almost | | | every, current autobiography, is the | tremendous amount of information | each writer has about other people, | : {and the very little information he | can be avoided by so comparatively | | esty, and again it may be insignifi- | cance; we suspect the latter, It is said the golden bait for an- | | ecdotal memories is very enticing-- {so enticing that [Johnson has his watchful Boswell, | not always, however, weaving a halo | but occasionally forging a pronged [fork out of the malleable metal of scandal, When a biography is sought, [2 is sought with the expectation that there wil] be something quotable in the smoking room or in other cir- cles pf similar seclusion. Nor is the practice of revelation confined to the living may wake up 'any morning and find the world Yaugaing whispering over casional Romeo. While this state of affairs remins, the biography will languish in dis- repute among honorable letters. We have something to learn from the fe of Morley, but nothing that is wor- thy from Mrs. Asquith, and for one book equivalent to a Morley analyist there are twenty Mrs. Asquitps. More's the pity. WHY IT MUST GO. The Meighen government exists in deflance of the principles of respuns- ible governmen:. In a democratic coufitry like Canada the governmen: must derive its power from the con- sent of the governed, and this con- sent the electorate never gave. The govesnment of the day has no man~ date from the people, It assumed of- fice arbitrarily and held on until its majority became go small that no other recourse wag open, in order to avoid defeat in the house, except an appeal to the people. On almost every hand the opinion sas openly and emphatically expres- sed that: Sir Robert Borden should have dissolved the housefollowingthe signing of the treaty of peace. But he chose rather to retire and to ar- range that his mantle should fall upon, not a Unionist, but a Conserva- tive. Sir Arthur Meighen proceeded with the formation of a new cabinet, and almost the last vestige of Union- ism soon disappeared. One or two of the former Liberal ministers only were loft, Fearful of results, many of the old Censervaiive stalwarts de- serted the ship. Sir Georgé Foster. Hon. Dr. Reid, Hon. James Calder and Sir Edward Kemp found refuge in the senate. Though they had rap- resented strong Tory ridings, they preferred senate appolmtments rath- er than stay and face an outragea public opinion. In the new and en- elarged gabinet--it now consists ot twenty-one members--only one or two men are known outside of their own constituencies. They are not the type of men that Canada requires to-day, to guide the ship of state through the troubled waters ahead. The people have for some .years been clamoring for a change of gov- ernment at Ottawa, and they propose to secure it now that the opportunity has presented iiself. It would require & miracle to save the Meighen gov- ernment, and miracles are not hap- pening to-day. The government is doomed. It would, therefore, be fui- Iy for Kingston to elect as its mem- ber a supporter of a government that will soon ceass to function. The U.S. senate passod the house bill extending the emergency tariff, but amended so as to continue in effect until superseded by a perman- ent bill instead of expiring Feb, 1s Large families | would again become the rule, and | has about himself. This may be mbd- ] every unwilling | dead, as in a former age; to-day the | or | the color of his | shirts or his misadventures as an ve- | BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY THE SUPREME RULER: ~Exalt ye the Lord our { God, and worship at his footstool; {for he is holy.--Psa. 99: 5. -. 14 J | Walt Mason. | | THE POET PHILOSOPHER 4 ' | +. TRANQUILITY. --~ Though evils. burden this poor globe, and wrong makes right an also {ran, I do not yell or tear my robe, or | follow any noisy plan; I'd like to see | § { | | | | ja change, in sooth, to see the right in | | better luck; but years have taught | me this great truth--it never helps {to run amuck. The agitators who up- | rear on kegs and boxes in the mart and shriek that doom is drawing near unless we tear all things apart, | would never help us dodge that fate, | in case its solemn hour struck; one | thing 4s true, one truth is straigh:-- {it never helps to run amuck. I pin | my faith to wise old boys who makes | the good things come to pass, who | don't believe in empty noise, in boom- | ing drums or sounding brass. | straighten things that | i never helps to run amuck, Tac [tfanquil men who use their domes { will solve our problems, ohe by ona, while. Windy Willie rants and foams land says the nation's course is run; { the tranquil men will demonstrate the worth of quiet thought pluck; and this is sure as death or | fate--it never helps to run amuck. --WALT MASON. {ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR | BY SAM HILL Winter Woes. When chill November's surly blasts Come rippling o'er the hills, {It will be tough on all the lads Now running moonshine stills, | | Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. { 1 kin remember when it was the | height of a boy's ambition to carry one of the old coal-oil torches in a | political parade. en. Friday Had a Busy Week. | (Butler Cor. Rithmond County (Ohio) { Leader) { Jacob Friday transacted business at | Utica, Newark and Zanesville last week. | Ne Luck in That. | "Mrs. Brown's husband found a ten-dollar bill on the street night," observed Mrs. Growler. | "Doggone it. I never have had any | luck in finding things," replied | Growler. "No," retorted the Missus, "the only | thing you ever find is fault, and you | certainly have found plenty of that since we have been married." Sonim One Never Adopted. | 'This is the season when the sta- | diums echo with college yells, ,and {while some of them mre weird and | wonderful here is one we never have | heard of any school or college using: Rah! Rai! Rah! Study! Study! Study! Harder! Harder! Harder) Rah! Rah! Rah! A Business Transaction. Willie: "Pa, what ig & trade last®™ Pa: "It is & receipt for a compliment you have paid." ---- Approved by Amy Lewell, Sh-h-h. Hush, Portia! The cuckoo cackles. Get the egg, The glutenous zlobule, From the clock. But it is dark, Midnight. The clock struck Shall I find, then, fIn' the clock, Twelve eggs?--J. W. B Why Not Held the Jury Responsible, Then, Instead of the Woman? (Adrian, Mich, Telegram) Mrs. Lillian Harris wag held re- sponsible for the * death of Henry Doak, who died after having been shot by a Coroner's jury late Tues- day afternoon. S------ Better Search the Hospitals. "Why did you arrest this man?" ask- ed the Lieutenant. "I heard a man say he saw this fellow strike an Attitude," replied the new cop, who was trying £0 make good. + "Well" replied the Lieutenade, "you will have to bring in the Atti- tude to prefer charges against him or I will have to let him go." -- Hey, Cincinnati --- When riding by our Elsinore I tell you, friends, makes me sore To see in that Jupsd donjon keep A modern unrdmantic door. Friend. \ Fool Questions. B. U. G. asks! "What crime did the ploture commit thet it should be hung? . ------ Daily Sewtemce Sermon. The more you get into it the less danger there is of getting a swelled head. - - nm-- ~ The Battle Cry of the Republic. STICK TO THE HIP BOYS! i / Rosie. D-- Se It Gees! A man strives a hundred years A bale of "kale" to own; Through sweat and pain and tears He "salts" away the "bone." But, then, alas, too bad!--= The envied roll "in brine" Fate calls him to his "dads" -- His labors to the swine! ws Tod --M. J, Richmond, Ky. News of the Names Club. Rev. B. Pleasant is pastor of the Hanna's Creek, Ind, church, and we understand he always is. Etta Oyster. of Mt. Vernoa. siways They are amiss, | while agitators paw and buck, and | | watching them has taught me this-- | ana | | BIBBY"S OUR NEW ULSTERETTES New etc. All real value at $30.00 We's so many smart say: THE KILLWOOD $40.00 fancy back woollens, silk lined, OVERCOAT SWELLNESS It's here! And something besides that money cannot buy else- where--the exclusiveness of our "Classy Young Men's Styles." SEE OUR ENG- LISH ULSTERS Real snappy style, all wool fabrios, beauti fully trimmed. 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Regina, Sask., Nov, 10.--Wi<h the exception of distriets in north and north-west Saskatchewan, threshing 'Quebec and Fire King Heaters and Gag Ranges. . Nickie Plated Showers Basins and Tollets Jumbey, Cement and Corrugated r le IL. Cohen & Co. of "wheat is practically coniplet d, ac cording to provincial government officials. For the past fortnight the weather hes been unsettled all over the province and this has caused threshing to proceed slowly, but most of the work was finished on Sat- urday before the snow fell. = Confronted with what the leading | fmanciers consider thu inevitable col- lapse of German finances, ihe Ger- man government is contemplating asking the Allies for a period of moratorium for all reparations pay- ments. poy 3% The Riordon 'axes are simple mat- ter. says Bir Henry Drayton. 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