8 ---- THE RITISH WHI B 89TH YEAR. G Daily Sewi-Weekly by SH a PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED , ? le Gh BIMOtE ,.icovcviaivin... President Leman Gelld ........... tor and x : Manat Oreos UBSCRIPTION RATES: : ' Daily Bdition) 4S One year, delivered In eity ...... 5 Une year, if paid in advance .... : ne your, by asi to rurs| offices + F0ue year, to United States ...... 3 (Bemi-Weekly dition) Ono year, by mail, cash . "ee year, it not ald in advance ne year, to United States UT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES . Calder, 2% SL. John St, Montreal . W. Thompson ......100 King St. W. Toronto, Letters to the Bditer are published cnly over the actBal name of the writer. g Attached is ome of best job | printing offices in Can the ada. The circmiation of THE BRIVISH WHIG 1s authenticaced b; the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. £ Remorse: The feeling that distin. guighes the loser. The "ue" in demagogue is silent, "* Put that's/the only silent thing about ¢ Governments usually become ossi- {fled about the time they become | bossified. } {The taxpayer can't see much dif- { ference between a dreadhaught and | 8 juggernaut, i A ---------------- ; Tife is a short period during which one dodges automobiles, taxes and responsibilities, Well, well; let's be content with . The pen is less expen- sive than the sword. / ént may be good for the fd industry, but it will put a mp in the steal industry. War is : populations, anyway, There is the automobile, - = no longer necessary to re- ~~ The Near East needs relief, but the Far East hes been relieved of ts most annoying possessions. A business usually keeps right on g till it gets the notion that it customers won for life, * Eventually the English-speaking peoples will agree concerning every- thing except the English they speak. - Everybody thinkg Wells is a great Writer except the writers who try in "Vain to imitate his knpok of writ- Un - Our literature needs modernizing. 'Iistead of quiverng like an aspen Jeat, the heroine should quivver like Y i ------------_------ The nations undesstand clearly the pot at the end of the rain- of promises in the Fast is a . nS in that fights for more for a crowded population does- always get the land, but it thins population. ~ When a man says he can't see his in the matter, he means that he isn't decided which side will pay best profit, 'Debs may be astonished to disecov- + that during bis absence great lesmen have stolen his theory war isa crime.. . J SR -------------- { p a dle, but any col- boy 'will tell you that the fac- ¥ is still using the French motto: y shall 'not pass." A poet declares that . landscapes teach us much. At present they ch us mach concerning liver pills smoking tobacco. Tay They say the Wild West movies, : 'Burope. Well, it the old 's could see them, they astonished, too. 3 of a foreign power is not erican support" to a campalg of dependence. What would +: | same senators say if members of | British parliament sent message to the Filipinos if thé Tdtter fan : were in revolt? frank and colloquial, too '"'nosey." ously, and they pry into the business of foreign people as if everything in to sult these Americans by the mere expression of their opinions. While it makes outsiders either laugh tions, it makes some Americans a little bit ashamed that any of their statesmen, exhibiting freshness un- seeming to of authority are not their concern; speak with the voice office. WHOLESOME PLAYS. Recently a Canadian newspaper expressed its great pleasure over the production of a new play by Sir James Barrfe, the Scottish novelist and playwright, This play, it re- marked, was one of the most whole- some witnessed in some years, and it left sweet memories. It treated of a beautiful theme, and its chaf- acters were delightful. The man who conceived the story of the play, this newspaper remarked, must sure- ly have a mind that dwelt wholly upon things pure and lovely. of French plays were produced in Kingston last week by a company of English artists whose playing was simply superb, but the themes of the plays were of sex problems and div- jorce. They presented the sordid |and low side of life. One particular- ly left an unsavory taste when--she [long-suffering young wife decides to | break her bondage and deliberately | leaves home and sets out with the man she really. loves. This type of {Play does not leave the sweet Im- | pression of a Barrie production. It {1s a pity that the more wholesome | plays are not in the majority, but the sex problem appears to fascinate | the multitude. Some big magazines | deal with nothing else apd their eir- culation is tremendous. In the midst of it all there sometimes comes a production that might be likened to a flower in a filthy room. It is a pity there are not more Bar-- ries, GENETICS. Professor Bateson has been talk: "|ing in Toronto about the science of origins and has pointed out that Canada lags behind in this import- ant branch of research. He says that thd United States has far out- stripped the rest of the world in the study of genetics, He urges that Canadian universities should endow their institutions so as to give pro- per equipment and advantage in all matters of research, Already much has been done in the world which has been of €nore mous economic advantage. Marquis wheat originated by Mr. Charles Saunders, Dominion Cerealist, Otta- wa, is a good example. It was intro- duced into the United States in 1913. Now it is the most widely grown of all varieties, is impervious to rust and drought, and has a higher vield than any other variety, Recently there was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural show {n London a new variety of carnation, more beautiful than any yet produced in the world, The study of breeding thoroughbred stock is another example of the api plication of genetics; and is of en- Qrmous value to a young country like Canada. ,Ind there is no field which cannot be touched, 41k luminated and enriched by the pa- tient efforts of those who give their unusual mental endowments to re- search work. But the English professor rightly warns us from trying to commercial- ize every new thing which appears, and to view ' research chiefly or mainly from fits immediate econom- ic advantage, He says that research endowments should be controlled solely to the end of advancing the study of the science. It is good ad- vice. Many a studemt in our univer- sities would be glad to devote | nis life to the discovery of origins. But it he is to accept a scholarship or bursary on the distinct understand- ing that, unless his Fesults are im- mediately available to economic ad- | vantage he will lose his opportunity for further study, he will not do his best' work and the world of know- ledge will be forever poorer. This is perhaps the one place where the un- iversities and "the country might quite well establish an aristocracy-- based not on birth or wealth, but upon mental endowment aud long and painstaking endeavour, Less able men than the pure scientist may easily be, found to apply the principles 'discovered by first- investigators, but ts acien- tists are extreme and every opportunity should be given such to pursue their work withou: undue interference or economic angiety. POISON GAS, ton haye outlawed poison gas in warfare. They have officially dome what the whole world did after the news of the Battle of St. when the Canadians held the line. 'The horror with wit the world learned of this diabolical method of { The trouble with some Amiericing | treating forces whoso faces is that they are, to be perfectly | blackened, whose features werd un-| They «take themselves so very serl- | In contrast with this, two versions | The Big Five Powers at Washing. | Julien' ® * THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. EE i ------------ an active hipgedn history is a fin- Whi thar the man- hich 7h advancing Canad- Rarer? Fushed into the "narching in the face of re- were | recognizable, whosa agony was past description. But nothlag also could {surpass the horror w:h which the { world heard the news that poison the world could be straightened out | gas had basen released as an engine} The firm had $100,000 tied up in lad- of destruction. Now fit Is banned. {But that may mean many things. [It ought to mear that the enormous and their machinery It ought to mean but a war { dismantled, { scrapped. i first step toward making all r | paralleled, interfere in matters that | seem not merely respactable, but ab-| | sojutely impossible. It ought to | mean that the might of the Big Five | because they chance to hold public will be turned against any country "You're crazy ag a loon!" shouted the | that either uses or produces this cn- | gine of torture and destruction. |ought to mean that those who out- | !law a thing will not do so merely on | | paper but will outlaw | who uses that thing, | The plain fact is that poison gas is |only one of the innumeranle things | which must be outlawel in future ! wars if war is to be no more. The | world must be taught to war against | war by every legitimate means. To | talk through the press, not--the | {next war--but peace and good-wi {To teach it in the schools, no: of one country but of all countries, to | preach it from all pulpits, to urge | {it upon all parliaments, to make it |a topic of conversation in all | { The world must be taught--all the | any nation | world 'must be taught--that war is a | hateful thing, that it is unchristian, | that it is unnecessary, that it never | accomplishes the end for which it/ sets out, that a victory Is only | slightly less costly and disastrous | than a defeat, that a man can love his own country without hating oth-| or countries, and that true patriot-| ism seeks the good of all peoples as a true Christian seeks the geod of his neighbour, As Lord Bryce referring to a pam- phlet entitled "The Church and a Warless © World," pertinently re- marks upon 'the tendency which huge armies and fleets exert towards making the idea of war so familiar that nations yield more readily to the temptation to-det themselves be drawn into war. The most effective factor in getting rid of armaments would be to substitute, for national hatreds and rivalries, a sense of the brotherhood of nations, such as our Lord inculcated upon individual men. <The idea that we are mem- bers one of another needs to be ap- plied % the peoples." y Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER Ste AGE BRINGS WISDOM. When I was young I plied my ton- gue with thoughtless, wild abandon: I worked by steam, there wis no theme I wouldn't take a stand cn. I lectured loud to every crowd, I thun- dered and orated; I sprinkled words until the birds were scared, and emi- grated. I'd criticise the learned and wise, and roast the useful voter; I vipped and. yelled as though propell- ed by twin six V-type motor. I knew it all; with splendid gall the public I instructed; I thought this land would soon be canned, unless by me conducted. The people groaned, 'he people honed to end me and my chatter, and, seeing red, they wished' my head were served upon a platter. And in my walks, quite often, rocks would spoil by Sunday beaver; and maddened skates would leaves their gates and chase me with a oleaver. And wearied hicks defaced with bricks the map that nature gave me, and in a sweat the village vet with liniments would lave me. Youth disapears, and passing years bring wisdom to a oritter; I hear the boys kick up their noise, and I send forth no twitier. In peace I sit and gently knit, my timeworn thumbs I twiddle, and they who prance and yell and dance must pay the guys who fiddle. $1 BY BAM HILL a The Boys That Make the Money, I'm tired of being poor, And feelin' like a beggar; I sometimes Wish that I Could be & Yootlegger! -- Observations of Oldest Inhabitant, I kin remember when folks got a lot of excitement with the Pigs of Clover puzale. : . -------- They Call Her Serambled Alphabet for Short. 4 t (Ia Salle, 111, Tribune) Mrs. Vince Haemfwypbbgkojans Claever and Justus Halm, of Chicago. Were guests of their parents over the holidays. 3 » (Lend us one of to weep in). B stands for bills {nat are crowding this month. I stands for ili that they make us. L stands Tor the '1 we'll get if we don't Pay 'em. a L stands for the 'lof & time we'll have doing jt. 2 8 stands for the sorrow of it all * Eagy "How can we make the students take more Interest in the' class in astrol- OKY?" asked the President of the Col. lege. "Let "em study about she movie stars your new 'kerchiefs Tl It partner, "but the women are. | money proving it is to be fashionable | motion what kind of a lunch should | | poor, official or nonofticial, saintly 'or (Dea of Poe or Hoffmann, or remind- BIBLE THOUGHT FOR T0-DAY | GREATEST IN THE { KINGDOM: -- Whosoever {therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is great- est in the kingdom of heaven.--- Matthew 18: 4. | instead of the heavenly bodies" growl- | | ed the professor of star gazing. ming a Cat. | les' underwear. I It looked like a dead losa. The senlor partner was for selling : th 1 1d wallowing the | Or swear, according to their disposi- | factories which produce it are to be | aem Jor o\d rags and s & the; loss. | The junior partner objected. He wag | a Wise young owl and knew a thing or | two. "Wait until the ast of June and I'll | double our profits. on them. In the | meantime I want $5,000 for | ganda." | senior partner. "Oh, no, I'm not," smiled the junior If they will wear furs In summer why net winter underwear? We'll spend a little to wear winter underwear next sum- mer and you won't be able to supply | the demand." One Thing They Won't Stand Fer. The surest way To start a fuss Is just to knock Your friend's old bum in| Books Are Nothing Like Chickens. { "Pa, what is & rare volume" asked Clarence. 2 "It's a book that comes back after you have loaned it," replied Pa. A / . Fool Questions. % B. M. asks. "When you entertain ¥ou serve it?" Usually it gets a lot of | tongue, though often they give it the! cold shoulder, » | . PR That Should Be Esough Class Distine- tion te Satisfy Any Nation, "Moorish society knows no class dis- tinction, except that a man is rich or ordinary."--Newg item. What do they mean then by "knows no class distinction?" The Home Guard Regime, "Fall back!" shouted the Colonel. "For the love of Mike, Colonel, if you want 'em to fall at all have 'em | fall forward. Every man Jack of 'em | oe Something in his hip pocket," hispered thé Major excitedly, Home, Sweet Homgq. "My wife, she likes the house Ht up, Said poor old Mister Bruce: i "And yet if I should get that way She'd raise the very deuce." ~--Cincinnati Enquirer, "My wife doth like stewed," Said wise old R. E. Morse; "And yet if I should get that way She'd sue me for divorce." --Hastings, Neb., Tribune -- Dally Semtence Sermon. You'll never get up by laying down. a ------------ News of thé Noames Club. The Frank Happy family, of Log Angeles, is frank enough to say they are not so. She is suing him for a divorce. her prunes well | ---- Nobody Knows, Now please tell us Why, in thunder We always get The wrong number} --e Don't Worry, Nome of 'Em Have Taken the Advice. (Canton (Ohlg) News) Children should mind their parents and parents mind their own business. Sam Hill. Why all thig hurry about ushering in the millenium? Can't Remove a Vacwam, "You doctors have got, 80 you cut out about every organ we poor mortals have except our brains, and I suppose you'll be doing that next," said the Joker, * "No chance, not enough people have Drains to make it pay," snapped .the tor. dar -------------- PARALYTIC BEHOLDS HIS WIFE TAKE POISON lines Contracted In Trenches Had 8apped Their Life's Savings. Paris, Jan. 12.---A poignant drama reading like a tale written by the ng ome in its tense horror of the Grand Guignol play, took place at Melun, near Paris, Living in a quiet etreet of the charming little old-world French burgh was a couple, with the name of Trouve, who but for the war might today still be living the contented life of the average middle class fam- ily, working hard and saving sous for their old age, when every man and woman in France dreams of re- tiring on a tiny pension. Already before the war M. Trouve, seconded by his devoted wife Pauline, had put by a respectable amount. Then came mobilization, Trouve, with other middle-aged mn, being called to do his bit. But the hardships and privation of the trenches proved too much, Early in 1918 he contracted an Miness at the front which resulted in complete impoten There's More Ways Than One of Skin. | propa- | ee ------ THURSDAY, JANUARY. 12, 1922. er -------------------------- | | | | BIBBY'S { i | | | | Something Doing Sale WE MEET AND BEAT ALL COMPETITION Every counter in our store is now a bargain v couriter, It will pay you to hold right ontight to your purse strings, until you have learned what we are offering. Everything marked in plain figures. Come in, look about, buy if you wish. We will be pleased to how, If you don't see what you want, ask for it. If you see it in our window, we have it in If you read about it in our adver- tisements rest assured we have it in our store. MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR our store. BIBBY'S Now that your car avail yourself ada. Call us on the D0 IT NOW. TIED TIRE SERVICE A REAL TIRE SERVICE that is not equalled anywhere in Can- call and tell you what real TIRE SERVICE means. Investigation costs you noth- ing; neglect wastes your dollars. - MOORE' is tied up, why not of our FREE "phone and we will "PHONE 815, MeO AT REDUCED "BUNT'S Hardware, King St. LARY' S PRICE .. Sap Running in Kent, them, Jan. 12.--Sap is run- ning in the rural districts of Kent. It is said to be flowing in some sugar bushes as freely as it does in the spring. The continued mild weather, however, is proving disastrous for the wheat! crops, according to the district agricultural representative. The fields are feeling the need of snow, and the alternate thawing and freezing, is pulling a great many of the plants out of the ground. Two are dead and scores were in- jured as the result of an eighty-mile gale with snow and sleet at New You uw pecial For =S STORE: Corner Wellington + HH blooming Primroses and Primulas . Funeral and Wedding Designs a specialty. 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We have consider-| able private funds to loan on real estate | only at lowest cur- | rent rates, T. J. Lockhart | ALL THROUGH THIS JANUARY----OUR COAL OAL QUARTETT : ES, our coal will make Y you merry in January © and also in February and you will forward March = to April in a pleasant fram of mind if you burn our coal, Now that is promising a lot but you just try it. ¥ Crawford Scranton Coal Phoue 9. Foot of Queen 81.