TUESDAY, DEC, 27, 1927. lis > -- DOMINION MEAT STORE OPP. YYM.C.A. FOR PROMPT DELIVERY PHONE 1268J. Theatrical : ---------- At The Grand. {cided to play "Parlour, Bedroom and | Bath" for the re-opening bill on | Thursday night, they chose a sure ire hit, and Grand audfences should greet the popular players with gen- wine enthusiasm. The play is-of the variety which appears most to the {average run of theatre-goers. It is Just as long as there are homes to protect the need of Life Insurance will exist. (| genuine farce and gives ample op- {portunity for the gales of laughter which will emanate from all sections lof the house when 'Rex makes. his {first appearance. The public never {seems to "tire ofthe genus "bed- {room farce" but this play evidently {has something to do with the pocket edition apartmient or flat. There |are three rooms mentioned. | At any rate there are very funny situatiohs Strange complications, a good deal of right-up-to-the-minute jdialogue, and a much worried hus- band. Also, there is a surprise in |store for the "Grand patrons. The regular cast is aigmented by the ad- dition of a talented and clever ac- tress, who joins the Rex Company and who will appear on Monday. | Miss Florence Winters will be a val- uable acquisition and will become in- | | | | | DISTRICT AGENT 151 WELLINGTON ST. 'PHONE 780w. Over Kingston Transfer .. 'Present Season Tickets to Jock Harty Rink Family ticket, for seven, $12.00 ~ .. Tickets for sale at Lockett's Shoe Store, Princess Streer, ~ Queen's Gymnasium and Rink. ee ~ 5 Christmas passed quietly in 1re- flan, except ip Belfast where some g and other disturbances oc- A yr ey 5 by stantly popular. Don't forget, Mon- day, matinee and night, at the Grand Theatre.--Advt, : "Shame." 'Shame', the William Fox special ia the feature attraction at the Allen theatre today coming from Now York, where it was acclaimed as one of the greatest pictures of the year during its run at a prominent Broad- Way cheatre. It was applauded as a tenses human drama and as an im- pressive spectacle, The scenes of "Shame" are laid in three countries, the last being Alaska ~~where the hero, in one of the thrill- | ing incidents, has a bare fist fight | with a wolf in defense of wife and child. of This prodiiction has resulted in fhe marked advancement of several persons of importance in motion pic- tures--notably Emmett J. Flynn, whom it served to place in the front rank of directors, and John Gilbert, elevated to stardoy by William Fox as a result of his impressive work in "Shame." Flynn, still in his twenties, established himself as a director of note with "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," the Mark Twain classic picturized as a Willtam Fox special. In the cast with 'Gilbert are Doris Pawn, Willlam V. Mong, George Stegmann, Rosemary Theby ani Mickey Moore --Advt, - At Tye Strand. "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," a picturized version of Ian MacLar- +. cAnnouncement The Northern Electric Company, Limited has acquired the Canadian Patents of the Automatic Electric Company of Chi- cago, Illinois, U.S.A., and now has the exclusive ri fasture pe sell STROWGER AUTOMATIC t to manu- LEPHONE equipment in Canada under these patents, which cover Private * Branch Automatic Exchanges matic Exchanges (C.A.X.), as well ag Central Office Ex- changes of larger capacities ( (P.A.X.), and Community Auto- MAX), Ameng these patents are the following:-- 145,308; 158,741; 166,116; 167,106; 1 : 178,672; 175,100; 176,902; < Arrange For High Interest Rates From January Ist, 1922 i When. the Rex Stock Company de-! THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. en's world-famous novel, was the magnet that drew an expectant crowd to the Strand last night. A Paramount picture, filmed in Scots land and England, its scemes have all the mellow charm of the Old Couns try in a former day. The cast is par- ticularly well chosen, most ' of the types being distinctive and thorough ly Bcottizh in general effect. Donald Crisp, fast becoming famous as a (producer, did aot merely direct the picture, he also took the . principal part, that of Lachlan Campbéll, the stern elder of the kirk, whose strict- ness mearly ruined his life and his own home: Mary Glynne, as Flora Campbell, Lachlan's daugh- ter, has a part just suited to her, and she enlists the sympathy of the audience and holds it to the end. Nothing was enjoyed more by the Strand audience last night than the beautiful rendering of old Scottish melodies by the Strand trio, exclam- ations of surprise and pleasure being heard on every hand as the music. lans struck up some well-loved song of Bognie Scotland. The other at- tractions at the Strand include "Tor- chy"s Promotion" a screaming com- edy, while the visit of Santa Claus in the afternoon delighted old and young alike.--Advt, -------- House Robbed; Family at Theatre. Burglars are again at work in the city. On Monday night, the home of E. Luckin, on Victoria street, was en- tered while members of the family were at the theatre. e sum of $15, mostly in silver, was taken. This is the first robbery reported to the police in several days. -------------- Bay of Quinte Service. That theres is strong probability that a passenger boat service will be Inaugurated on the Bey of Quinte next season, is the information con~ veyed in a letter of the general traf- fie manager of the Canada Steam- ship Lines, Limited, L. A. W. Do- herty, to W. E. Schuster, of the Schuster Company, Limited, Belle- ville. Captain Schuster has been making efforts to have boat traffic on the bay revived and it now looks 2s if his efforts might meet with fruition, Strasbourg te Honor De L'lsle. It is a pleasant deta!l in the coming 'rection of a memorial at Strasbourg o Rouget de I'lsle and his "Chant de guerre de 'armee du Rhin," which he "ame "La Marselllalse," that the chair nan-.of the committee in charge bears the name and is a direct descendant of Mayor Dietrich, in whose house the song was first sung. Little enough when De I'Isle composed it did he fore lee either that his song would provide Inspiration for a French®revolution ot that time would bring him a perma: nent memorial in a Strasbourg that had passed out of French possession and come back ngain. The author him self suffered Foth by loss of his com: mission and by imprisonment, first be cause the adogition of his song by the Revolution made him suspected of rev: olutionary belles by what power stil) remained to the older government, and lpter because his lack of enthusiasm for the revelution made him an ob ject of an attack by the new leaders. Porpoise Killed Shark. How 1 bottle-nosed dolphin, a por poise' commonly called the seahog '| slew a 6-foot shark, !§ described by Galveston (Texas) fishermen, who say they witnessed the killing from the causeway which connects Galveston is land with the mainland. The seahog, according to the books. is a "most soclable and gregarious fish," but these fishermen declared there war nothing sociable about this dolphin When the shark was within a few feet of the porpoise the fishermen saw the sedhog chatge, a gray. streak in the water. It struck the shark squaiely amidships, they declare, ripped it open and then tore the body Into-pleces. The theory of the fishermen Is that the porpoise fought, to protect its single young one, which the shark was menacing. - ---------- His Caddie's Advice. Olergyman (playing at historic St. Andrew's for the first time, to caddie) --What is that yawning abyss in the distance, caddie? Caddie--That's hell, sir. a an--Indeed! - What a name to give a bunker! Caddie--You see, sir; it's called hell Clergyman ( Ing in the bunker calls for his niblick and plays a good shot out of the has- ard)---What have you got to say to that now? . _ Caddie--A' that IT hae to say, sir, daughter's | @ New Desolation of Constant Turmoil--Near East Threatens I.and French evacuation of Cllicla, where for months the military forces of the Republic have been all that has stood between the Armenians and remewed Moslem outbreaks, threatens further more , their lives in massacres at Hadjin, , and Urfa, armies of refugees are flocking into the 'goast, implozing to be sent to the Isiand of Cyprus apd other asylums of assured security. American workers of the Near 'Hast Relief who have been caring for the survivors of previous massacres re- port that throughout Cilicia native Christians are in the wildest panic of fear. With winter coming on, with the centres to which the refugees are Reeing already overcrowded, and with relief supplies inadequate, a terrible problem is facing the American relief workers in the care of these people, according to Lieut. J. M. Chankalian, Refugee Pamily Fleeing with Possessions from the Danger Zone. the fugitives, tashy of whom have left their Syria and cities on themsel confirmation of Chankalian's ments. allat Reports te headquarters New York tell of almost incredable suf. fering among the thousands feeling from their homes, particularly among the children who ferm a large pro- portion of their number. Relief agents in the field assert that unless imme- diate "assistance is fort the deaths from starvation and during the winter will run into the a veteran of the French Fersign Le- thousands. gion who has spent four years with the French forces in Chicia. "Almost beyond description," he de- clares, "are the acute sufferings of funds at | ul Major Nicol, head of he Near East Relief in the Cilicia area has eabled to New York asking that the f at his disposal be doubled. . BRITISH SUBM Here is the C3, high and d cently at Carborough on the Y ARINE ASHORE. ry after running ashore re- orkshire coast. | re te VN " FS IN THE WAKE OF INDI TN BN A'S LATEST REVOLT. Here are the smoldering ruins of a loyal-native who as- sisted the British troops in their campaign against the Mop- lahs in the Malabar. Codst Region. a pe is of the 's and, sweethearts "of the striking miners various pits and compelled non-union men to 3. 4 i Ri Le 15 sissies - -- "consideration of the taxpayers of Kingston: THE DOMINION | TEXTILE COMPANY Present the following few thoughts for the | A RIVER OF MONEY Money is like a river--and a city is like a mill on that river. The flow of money turns first the mill- wheel, : The mill-wheel turns a shaft. . The shaft turns smaller wheels: § The whole mill throbs with industry, It vibrates to the pulse of the river flowing by. So the producing industries of this city-- run by the flow of money from customers all over the land--are like 1. mill-wheel! Our streets are the shafts that carry the "power" to the retailers--who are but slight] smaller wheels--and from the retailer to still other cogs and wheels that go to make up the city as a whole. : - But remember! There must be a dam---if the hurrying waters of the river are to be held and diverted through the mill. : And 'there must be inducements--if the hurrying river of money is to remain harnessed to the mill-wheels of any particular town. Scenery isn't enough! Legends aren'trenough! Fine people aren't enough! Pleasant climate isn't enough! The dam that diverts the river 6f money in- to the "head-race" of a town's industries must be built of hard, firm, solid and practical busi- "ness considerations! i : A part of the river of money which flows through Ki every year and helps keep our population in employment directly and ine directly, comes in the form of orders for cot- .ton goods! These orders keep the D. T. Mill going. That means about $150,000 to its em- ployees--who in turn give work to others, who in turn give work to others -- and so on. It means, too, a certain amount of. work for the railway employees and others who help move J the raw materials in, and finished products | out. In other words, the cotton industry pro- | vides a not inconsiderable part of Kingston's | river of money! But one of the most important buttresses of the dam that still holds this flow of business | through Kingston rather than through the | larger cotton spinning and weaving centres of | rival Quebec--was the provision made forty | years ago for exempting this industry from a part of its local taxation! j Light taxes meant lighter costs of produc- tion! Lighter weight in the race for orders for | goods! So the founders of modern Kingston de- cided to forego a few hundred dollars of taxes in order to obtain for Kingston the many thousands of dollars in wages that the indus- | try would pay. . ey waived a small sum for the tr to gain a large sum for the city as a whole! In other words, by tax exemption they strengthened the dam that held back atleast a | part of the river that drives the mill of indus- try, that makes so much of the prosperity of the beautiful city of Kingston! : They Jonewed that exemption again in _ 1900. i : Now it requires t6 be renewed again, That is the meaning and the history of the By-law called the "Dominion Textile Tix Ex: emption By-law." 5, he If it is overlooked and accidently allowed So die--it means a little more taxes to the city for the time being, but it increases the costs of : ing cotton in Kingston, That, in iy poche orders for King- | ston Cotton. And if orders fall off -- work falls off --or comes to an endl. The che labor of Quebec gets the work instead of Kin ston! The dam on the river of is we ened by just that much! Some o Pow escapes! = > = De not let this By-law die for