Daily British Whig (1850), 1 Mar 1922, p. 6

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Daily and Semi-Weekly by I rien WHIG PUBLISHING Co,, LIMI President Editor and Managing-Director TELEPHONES: Mice SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in eity (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash year, to United Statey .. "TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: Culder, 22 St, Joka St, Montreal W, Thompson .., 190 st. WwW, Toronto, Letters to the Editor are published only over the Actual name of the writer. Eu Attached is ome of the best jon Printing offices in Canada. F The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated 'by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations The wages of sin are never cut, help id A little four-power tact would fome, also. § ni m---------- Love of money is also the root of L Bll enterprise. It's the "unspeakable" things that fause most gossip. - Bilence may be golden, but some- 'fimes it seems fronical. " There are too many rocking the few Irish ship of state. ~ Baseball stars have adopted the Principle, "Ask and you may get it." " Now & Chicago "Ponzi" raked in $4,600,000. There is a new crop avery dey, Among the other tragedies of pro- ition list the frozen-up automo- radiator, The trouble with falling in love you never can {ell where you're to land. Toronto has to form a committee act as press agent, but Detroit Henry Ford, f No doubt just as soon as we get of this slump in business we'il 'a car shortage. Resignation of a cabinet now and i Is something China has learn- to meet with, resignation. No bootlegger ever comes into rt the second time who got what § deserved the first time. 'Having been reduced to a pulp, II as but a step for Murope to com- the pulp into paper money, That rum-running pilot whose ship seized by prohibition aeroplanes it have felt like an ancient mar "Uncle Joe" Cannon will retire 'congress, but it is, believed his rance record will stapd for some 3 | clergyman - sayw 'angels and | #peak in a telepathic code, 'satan does not posssss this pow- Poor devil, y monthly wage of many work- Moscow wouldn't buy a cake but this should not be class- not be hard to find anything young 'lady to whom §60,000 ste did not mar-| questionable, Where there fs smoke .| knotty points of international - AN IDBEALIST'S DREAM. Although Japan was one of the nations which rendered a signal ser- vice to humanity by its part in the Washington conference, Dr, Yoruzu Oda, the Japanese judge on the Per- manent Court of International Jus- tice, is not very optimistic regarding the prospect of future world peace, according to the sentiments lio expressed at the opening session of the court. Albert Thomas, chief of the International Labor Bureau at Geneva, had expressed the hope that this court would quickly settle the re- lationships, and that from its efforts would come a new era, but the Jap- anese representative did not agree. Progress, in his opinion, would be slow, and the golden age would not likely result from the establishment of the court. This opinion is interesting, not sd much because of itself, as by reason of the comment which followed it. The reasons put forward by Dr. Oda are worthy of comment, AS8 a prac- tical man, he said, he considered world peace a dream, an idealist's dream. 'But he was quick to add that he considered it a dream $5.00 00 worth pursuing. It is a fact that for 1,909 years world peace has been the dream of idealists. It was the dream of the young Nazarene who walked the shores of the Sea of Galilee and qall- ed the fishermen to be iis followers, it was the dfeam for which He lived and died, and it has been a dream for which His disciples laboured For all these centuries it has been a dream ever present in the minds of idealists and philosophers, but al- ways rudely shattered as generation after generation came and went with a never-ceasing tumult of warfare and strife. It is a dream which has ,|never come true because no real ef- fort was made to put it on a prac- .|tical basis and make it come true. When the great war began in 1914, it looked as if the dream would be completely swept away by the rush of nations at each other's throats, but out of the ashes of the war the dream was reborn, and reborn in such a way as to give hope that it may be brought to fruition. No dream can ever come true un- less the dreamer puts it into action and works to make it come true. Even idealists cannot make their ideals productive of results unless they are prepared to work for them. It is in this fact that there is hope that the dream of world peace may come true, The idealists have been seeking, and, in a large measure have found, practical means of work- ing out their ideals. It was in work- ing for this ideal of world peace that Woodrow Wilson sacrificed health, popularity and position. It was in an effort to put this 'deal into prac- tice that the Washington Conference was called together. It was in an effort to find a medium for the appli- cation of this ideal that the Perman- ent Court of International Justice was brought into being. The ideal- ists are becoming practical. They are working as well as dreaming, and there is hope that with all these new agencies for Internationa! harmony now in operation, the dreams of nine- teen centuries may yet come true. LIFE IN MOTION PICTURE OOLONIES, The one great profession which is in the Mmelight at the present time is that of the motion picture actors and actresses. During the past year there have been several unsavoury scandals connected with it, and the disclosures of the recent Arbuckle case, and the still more recent mur der of William Desmond Taylor, have brought the searchlight of publicity rupon many of the undesirable feat- ures of Me in motioh picture col- ondes, and the facts which have been Tand bare do not reflect great credit upon the profession. From all sides there has come & condemnation of alleged orgies of vice which are sald to be part and parcel of the life of the people who ane engaged in the of this profession. The many di vorces, the recent scandals, and any- i" THE DAILY BRITISH WHICG. pe ee eS jority are suffering for the sins of the few, and this is accentuated by the unfortunate fact that some of the offenders have been nationally- known stars. Their names were 'household words, their every move wag made known by press agents, and the result was that when they became involved in anything of die repute, the facts were told in detail, with full plans and specifications, in newspapers all over the continent. The activity of the press agents has 'been a boomerang, for, after making these stars nationa] figures, the dis- ures, they were given more publicity than seems necessary. Simply be- cause they are movie stars, their de- partures from the paths of rectitude are blazoned abroad as typical of their profession. The bad deeds of the few are chronicled in detail, but | the circumspect, respectable lives of the many are overlooked. It ds unfortunate, for their sakes, that some of the leaders in the pro- fession allowed wealth and fame to turn their heads, but a few stars do not make the whole professfton, nor are the misdeeds of a few to be taken as an indication of the lives of the many, Taken in the mass, the mem- bers of the motion picture profession are probably no more wonthy of con- demnation than those of any other walk of life. They are simply vie- tims of the fact that they are ever before the gaze of the public, and are victims of the perverted attitude of the public mind which exagger- ates the evil and minimizes the good in everything. Censure on the actual guilty parties may be in order, but to spread the censure to the whole pro- fession seems to be a departure from the essentials of fair play and jus- tice, : Walt Mason THE PONT PHILOSOPHER GREATNESS. Our Leading Citizen is dead, the greatest man in Punkville, town; no {more we mark his gtately tread, no more we shrivel at his frown. He used to think--and so did we--that when he died all things would stop; oh, where would poor old Punkville be, without its anchor and its prop? And now he's resting in the shade. he's done with every mortal game; and Punkville reaches out for trade, and things go on about the same. Tin cars are scooting everywhere, at filling joints the gas is sold; men sit around the village square, and chew breathe the same old tale of love and sunny days to come, and Abner Jinks has gone to jail, accused of peddling stone-fence rum. The farm- er scours his rusty plow, the woods are full of candidates, the Blue Front store announces now a special sale of sleds and skates. A fire alarm still draws the throng, as does a ecrap betwixt two dogs; the solar sys tem humps along as though it hadn't slipped some cogs. Our Leading Citi- zen is dead, the pride and bulwark of our town, and o'er his calmly sleep- ing head we rear a saaft to hold him down. Oh, what an empty dream fs pride, and what a hollow thing fs fame! Our great man laid him down and died, and Punkville seems about the same, --WALT MASON. Our Canadian Question And 'Answer Corner Q.--What staff was required to take the Canadian census of 1921? A--It took 13,000 enumerators to take the Dominfon cemsus of 1921, workifig under 247 comimis- stoners, and having 400 compiling clerks to arrange the returns. Q--What was Canada's trade dur- ing the calendar year 1921? A A.--Oanada's total trade during the calendar year of 1921 was $1,- 602,004,418, a considerable reduc- tion over the fiscal year which was $2,450,687,000, Q.--How many bMnd are there in Canada? A.~--There are over 3,500 ragister- ed with the Canadian National lo- stitute for the Blind. ---------- their comment, That there is good reason for criti- clam of the morals of the picture profession seems to be un- We hear; of cheerful guys whe pay closures came, and, as national fig- | and agree as of old. The young folk | F BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY ETERNAL LIFE:--Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. This do, and thou shalt live--Luke 10: 27, 28. heat of the sun"---News item. And suckers, because of thelr greenness, enable the con men to collect and store up huge fortunes. He Deserved What He Got. "Pa," sald Clarence. "Now, none of your nonsense, young man." warned Pa. "Well, I just wanted to ask if a half-witted girl who had to sit alone at a dance could be called a walnut, in- stead of a wall-flower," whimpered Clarence. Then Pa oracked him one. -- Will Some One Please Tell Us? A household hint informs us that "rubbing the hands with a piece of celery after peeling onions will free them of the disagreeable odor." But what we would Uke to know is if after eating onions we rub our breath with a plece of celery it will also re- move the @isagreeable odor from that. Fool Questions. R. T. asks. "Did the disarmament conference make any provision for equipping the stage of the theater of war with an asbestos curtain in con- formity with our building laws?" How Awful (We Mean the Rhyme) He does not care For auto shows-- But he enjoys The Shanks' mare shows. Geod Morning, Judge. "The automobile has done wonders in enabling people to go places and see things they never would 'have begn able to with a horse and buggy. "Yes, and to meet people they never otherwise would have met. I have met more Judges and seen more jalls ¥ince I have been driving a car than I even dreamed existed." -- The Poor Sissy, His hands are soft, Hig clothes are dappesn He is the brother Of the flapper. --Detroit Free Press And may we add-- His head is soft, The poor fool has An empty loft. Bet He'll Find Her Tongue Wasn't Ex« tracted. (Ky.) Record) Mrs. John Boyatt has just had her teeth extracted, and folks, she's a, sight. We don't say anything to her teeth any more, Up Against It. Mrs. Slim: "In Persia, they say a husband can repudiat his wife if she is very thin." Mrs. Plump: "Dear me, what a ter rible time the stout women over there must have If they have to reduce in order to get a divorce!" Daily Semtemce Sermom. No man is as big as he thinks he is nor 4s small a8 his shemies think he is. ------ News of the Names Club. Well, Well! Now Mary really has & Lamb, for we just have learned John Lamb and Mary Smith have been married In Portland. Simplified Eaglish For Him. Judge: Rastus. you are charged with having maliciously. attacked plaintiff with a. blunt instrument, striking his cranfum with such force that sald plaintiff is now suffering from a serolus concussion. What have you to say in answer to this charge?' Rastus: "Jedge, if all dat high- futinest langwidge done mean, did anh bean dat no-account black man wid ah club and cave in his woolly dome, ah'll say ah aid. Yes, sah, ah surely BIBBY"S MEN'S AND BOYS FINE QUALITY CLOTHES At Prices That Defy the Keenest of Competition Glad to have AN INVITATION you stop in any time, and see what's new. Glad to show you without urging any purchases, It will be a mighty interesting visit. Yours very truly, BIBBY'S LIM HAND TAILORED SUITS Somethi $30.00--$3 genuine at .00--$37.50 " MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S * SUIT SPECIAL, $16.50 For eral wear--good-looking hon« est Tweeds; good style, well-tailored garments. The regular $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00 variety. 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