4 ¥ g A uchea is ome of 6 THE BRITISH WHIG| 89TH YEAR. Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG CO, LIMITED President -. . Editor and] 5 Mrector TELEPHONES: Business Office Editerin J. G. Bllett Leman A. Guila . Ma 243 1 Rooms .. 229 «202 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) One year, delivered in city .. One year, If paid in advance Ome year, by m ted States .. Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash . ..SL0n One year, if not paid in 50 Ome year, to United Stites ..... $1.70 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: Calder, 22° 8¢." Johm St., Montreal! W. Thompson ....100 King St. W, Téronto. Letters to the Editor are publiishe]! only over the Actual name of the writer. $5.00 best , h ting offices in Cann st The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations A ------------ Good cqmplexions die young, also. | Love of country is the root of all} taxes. All work and no play makes Jack #8 rich boy. All good industrial projecis go to | Ford when they die, Business won't come back; have to go after it. you'll | Even an ordinary egg gets hard- boiled when it's stewed. Executive: One who knows what should be done and lets Geogre do it, The treaty may abolish spheres of influence, but not China's fear of , influence. After all, it doesn't matter much what a man stands for if stands four-square. he Another difference between death | and taxes is that death is a peren- nial not an annual. The lambs gambol on the green,| and the bulls and bears gamble at the expense of the green. A crisis is a sensitive thing, and| usually shrivels up and dies if it _ isn't given close attention, : to livé on crusts unless the wife per- Some plants thrive under the hot mn, but wild oats flourish most un- 'der the influence of moonshine. ' .&ny business man will tell you hat the kaiser isn't the only Bill scorned and neglected these days. Well, the German mark will soon be able to tell us whether the old place has changed much since Dante saw it, After all, it's no great hardship _ gists in making them into a bread i: : pudding. They have to introduce a bill in the house, but some of the bills that cume to our -hounss are oll acpnaint- Lot's wife looked back and became pillar of salt; and even yet, queer old backward-lookers become pillars if society. They called 'em "swagger sticks" during the war, but we understand | t the new hollow ones are called stagger sticks. "Beware the ides of March," | warned the prophet. us that there was an income tax in lb s time. . The novelist George says vouug| 1s should marry old men. This is| 8 bit of wisdom seldom appreciated | men under fifty. PUBLISHING | - land when the to rural offices $2.30 3.00 £0 | Which teaches {2 PUBLIC OPINION, large part of public opinion is developed through the Furthermore, most f cleanliness mould and education are mouided 208 developed through ad- Two hundred years from historian researching to get what we are really in- saments. ising {now the {at the facts of {like will find a valuable store of vert formation n our advert To-day's adv with ows of us, | There isn't a big {it a cake of soap that floats {cough drop that relieves the throat, that has not 'success through advertising; ad- vertising, until the mere mention of 4 bewhiskered pair of brothers or floating brings to everybody's mind the particular product represented need arises almost au- will ask sements are selling item, be or reached its coatinuons tomuatically the purchaser {for Ivory, or Smith Brothers. The emigrant arrives in this coun- try wiih a thousand Old World ha- | or if he and they newspapers. this bits, doesn't He learns to read- his children do actually "devour'" the They learn all they new land and they strive frantically to become "Canadians," become like their neighbors. Through the advertisements they learn the differ- learn habits of can about to ances in dress, they cleanliness, they learn the they learn how to arrange homes---what sort of furnishings go into the Canadian home. the advertisements they learn to be Canadians--they become "naturaliz- ed" 'quite as truly as by taking out jour citizenship papers. sports, their | The newspapers are a wonderfully | ithe forest to the finest organ in the | big factor in the education of men and women, boys and girls, all over this land and the advertisements are {fruitful with news. The merchant's {daily story is of greater importance | than the latest murder or divorce; | his story is read more eagerly and | | thoroughly than any social event. {that {pkes place. His story is de-| [retoning the race { SAVE THE TIMBER, The informing address of Robson ! | Black before the Kiwanis Club on | Forest Conservation affords abund- | ant opportunity for serious thinking | lon the part of the people of Canada. jie reveals not only the enormous | mber resources of this country but | the startling fact that they are not | | illimitable and that through waste, hie great national asset may be wiped out n a single generation. | to compute how long the forest | wealth of Canada will last if it takes | trom 15 to 20 acres of spruce for a |single issue of a New York paper, 1e should give us pause when- we {consider that 250 good spruce logs {in the form of newsprint go through | the presses of a Montreal paper ev- ery day it issues. In a year this re- presents a half a million square feet {of timber which has been cut out jc anadian forests for one single news- paper; it is evident that the cutting is faster than the growth, and that {means that some day there won't be |anything left to cut unless some means is taken to reforest. Much can be done to protect what forests we have. Timber and pulp wood are of course necessary to keep the wheels of industry moving--- but waste is not only unnecessary, {it is criminal. It is destroying the | heritage of future gemeratibns; it is making it infinitely harde grandchidren to live; it is taking from them before they are born the means of industrial production. To waste the timber of Canada is to in- jure Canada in the vital region of her industrial expansion. But unquestionably the greatest waste in Canadian timber is through forest fires, most of which are pre- ventable and almost all of which are due to ignorance or carelessness. {One reads with dismay the appalling news that in British Columbia, where there are the largest und best timber areas now left in the world, that In the last fifty years twenty- two times as much timber has been burned as has been cut by all the mills of that rich province. Twen- ty-two times as much as all the log- ging camps, mills and factories have cut, used and exported. It will take {150 years to replace those gigantic | Douglas Firs. Observers tell us that they have seen a forest fire in Brit- ish Columbia, where the whole side of a mountain clear up to the timber line, has been left after three days trackless waste of charred stumps {and bare rocks. And beautiful tim- ber it was. How did it happen? Some campers and a 'party of fish- ermen were careless about lighting fires and leaving them without put- ting them out; some smoker threw jaway a lighted match, and Canada | was, three days later, poorer by some med -------------- One way to limit the influence of} movies would be to provide '# matron to keep the children while | parents see the picture. | "All great sentences lose their | meaning when we grow 'atctistonted £0 them." 'This is also true of the common saying: "Please remit." The reason There were fewer 'wrecks in. the old horsc-and- buggy | was because the driver didn't! wholly 'on his own intelli- [fifty million dollars; some woods- men left a fire still smouldering in the vegetable mould, and a week lak er Canada had lost more potential wealth than the capital of the rich- est man in this country., It is all $0 unnecessary, all done without in- tentional wrong doing--all done by people who wish this coungry- well | Som but who are thoughtless and care- less. This cou is growing very impatient of the man who pleads when a shooting accident occurs, that "re did mot know it was load- ed." . We must grow even more im- , health, | filled | a Phrough | | It only needs a little arithmetic for our | THE DAILY B BRITISH WHIG.' patient with the man who staris a forest fire and didn't think that any- thing serious would happen, if he did not put it out. There are practically no fqrest fires in Scandinavia, France and Germany, and this is due primarily ¢o an edu- cated public opinion. There need be nope in Canada |planes for forest rangers simplifies the location of a fire; and it brings the fire fighters to the scene with a minimum loss of time, there should not be a fire. In the last ten years half our forest wealth | Ihas. slipped through our fingers; in Saxony in the same ten years the forest wealth has been doubled. Much has been dome by the gov- | re- | The matter of | ¥ be | ernment and the press, much mains to be done, forest fire prevention should more zealously taken up in schools, it should be continually stressed in| the papers, it should form a topic of conversation in the corner stores | of the villages, in the lumber camps, | among fishing parties, among sum- | imer campers and among the sum- 'mer cottages which deck the shores of the Inland lakes through all Can- |ada. We have a glorious timber her- iitage, the richest in the world. i iwe let it go, through waste or fi due to criminal ignorance and negli- {gence we shall not be worthy to have {a country nearly four-fifths of whose land is singularly / suited to the igrowth of timber and those great dustrial concerns which require tim- ber and the water power in this {country is always found in the tim- ber belt. Let us save the timber. {In savirg it, we ara build'ng up the | greater industrial Canada. imears a job, for from the gant of cathedral every stey of the process {waeans work and property for Can- iada. But without the raw product | there will | sulting prosperity. STOP GAMBLING IN AIR. The tragedy of the '"Roma', fol-| lowing so soon after the collapse of the "ZR-2" is a solemn warning to the government of the United States | and to other governments, to quit gambling in the air, with the lives |of their flying men as pawns. The loss of a great airship, with {many lives, is deplorable in war. In| {peace such a tragedy is little short |of criminal. | Dirigible balloons are capable of | {development to a high point of safe- ty, The only great element of dan- jger, aside from that involved in their | {bulk, lies in the inflammibility of hydrogen gas. That menace can be removed. Helium, 92 per cent, as buoyant as hydrogen, non-indam- mable and non-explosive, ca be pro- duced in the United States in quanti- ties sufficient to the nation's need, but in Canada sufficient to the world's needs. To use a death-gambling gas like hydrogen when a safe buoyant agent like helium is available is a vicious disregard of human life. Yet that is exactly what represent- atives of the United States govern- ment did in the case of the "Roma." The ship had been flown, successful- ly and safely, with helium. Some- one, it is said, orderad the helium replaced with hydrogen, slightly more buoyant and infinitely more dangerous. The ship soared away, came down, blew up. Let us have more safety and =an- ity and less spectacle in the air ser- vice. Every other activity might well be suspended for a year and all the en- ergles of government aviation cen- tred upon increasing the production of héellum--of which Canada has more than all the other nations of the world combined. Walt Mason THE PORT PHUOSOPHER GOING TO PIRCES My years are ten and fifty, and when I meet my friends, I say I'm feeling nifty, my cheerful spiel as- cends. I cry, "Ach, donnerwetter, life's autumn js good fun! I wasn't feeling better when I was twenty- one!" I pravely make a showing of being free from cares; but I am al- ways going to some one for repairs. My molars dgive me nutty, and need the dentist's skill; he plugs them ud The use of hydro- | greatly | But | m- | Timber | be neither work ner re-| BLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY! THE ONLY CREATOR:-- | In the beginning was the | Word, and the Word was with God, {and the Word was God, All things were made by him; and without him {was not anything made that = was made.--John 1: 1, 3. pretend; but I believe it's better to spring a cheerful wheeze than talk of gout and tetter and foot-and- | mouth disease. i ~--WALT MASON. ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL ----_ Enjoy the Shocks--end "Stocks." We know we do lots of knocking, For things We see are most shocking; But though we're guilty of mocking, We never miss a silk stocking ---- Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. I kin remember when a girl didn't think' it was much of a kiss unless he had a mustache that tickled her. What Every Home Gardener Knows. "What ls the most important thing | do in order to make your home asked the ama- | garden & success?" teur. "Kill your neighbor's chickens," the grim reply of the suburbanite. was | You Guess. { Says Old Adam Breede: "Don't get careless about the condition of your | feet." We can't quite make up our mind whether Adam is trying to boost the shoe business, the. chiropodist or | the soap manufacturer. -- Human Nature, He says he'd like To trim my tree-- But what he trimmed Was really me. | ~--Sam Hill | | "I'11 break your heart Some day," said she, But what she broke | | Was really me. ~--Nashville Tennessean, | Needs No En-light-enment. | No real man is so thirsty for THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1923. BIBBY"S MEN'S AND BOYS FINE QUALITY CLOTHES At Prices That Defy the Keenest of Competition AN INVITATION Glad to have 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 LIMITED HAND TAILORED SUITS Something genuine at $30.00--$35.00--$37.50 MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SUIT SPECIAL, $16.50 For general wear--good-looking hon- est Tweeds; good garments. The regular $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00 variety. Our Special at $16.50 MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SPRING OVERCOAT SPECIAL $15.00 Smart style, All Wool Cheviots, neat- ly tailored. The $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00 variety. Our Big Special $15.00 style, well-tailored » knowledge that he objects to being left alone in the dark--if the girl is | PT etty. -~J. J. B. | Home, Sweet Home. | "What do you have for breakfast?" asked the bachelor. "A few words, usually, | married man. * replied the- Old Stuff For Them. WANTED--A man for floor service. Must have experience.--Classified ad in Hastings Tribune. Any married man ought to be qualified for this job, since all married men have had! so much experience In being walked | over. Spring Pomes. (First batch of horrible examples) The bleachers soon will bawl, "Play ball, bonehead, play ball" Alas, this pgst soon will be due, "Ic it hot emough, Bo, for you?" Get out of the hammock, dear, Love time is drawing near. Oh, John, put up the screeng And bring a mess of greens. We now will hear the cry, "Dont fail to swat the fly." By the Way, We're a Friend of Num- erous Citizens." Dear Sam: Can you suggest any place that is absolutely safe to hide a quart of whiskey so a dry detective can't find it? I recognize it is safe {f taken under the vest, but a quart stored therein at once is too much. --'"Numerous Citizens," Tiffin, Oho. (The safest plan is to divide It among your friends and let them each store part of the quart under their vests. N. B.--See headline.) We'll Bite, Who Does It? When a man is wed--he soon is dead, We have the swellest as- sortment of Marbles of ev- ery description and color and the prettiest Allies you want to look at. You better get a supply and be ready to play-- Spring "is nearly here, HELLO BOYS! HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW MARBLES AND MOUTH ORGANS ? PLAYING CARDS FROM 30c PACK UP MOORE'S 206-8 Wellington Street We have Mouth Organs galore. The new kind you have been waiting for and at prices that will Sure ! not hurt your pocket--from 15c up, His wife becomes the boss; But tell me, gentle reader, Who does Chili Sauce? --Holyoke. No Blue Mondays Have to Follow It. "Tuesday is said to be the only day of the week that by some peoples is not chserved as we observe the Sabbath." News Item. Considering the way most of us observe the Sabbath these days we shoud say Tuesday is a rather lucky say. me -- Dally Sentence Sermon. Because the Government taxes every fool thing is no reason for your taxing your mind with foolish things. > Newy of the Names Club, Minous Gall lives at Dunkard Ridge, Ohio, and we guess it is nothing against them to say there is plenty of Gall in his family. If Jones can do over his car himself-- $0 can you. Maternity Outfits and Everything for the Baby Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 843 "THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Wanting anyth tery tins. . ¥ aes Hives on ul Mads rcely: Bro prompt Afteation. orders For Sale Brick dwelling--4 bed rooms --Alfred Street--$3,500. Frame dwelling, Albert St. (south side of Princess Street) 6 bedrooms, electric light, gas, furnace, verandah--§3, soos Brick, Livingston Avenue, § bed rooms--$3,6 Beveral houses to rent, Money to loan, BUNT'S HARDWARE, King Street Agents for Lowe Brothers ' High Standard" Paints. with putty, and jars me with his bill. I'm sighing and dodgasting when I am all alone, for I must buy a cast- ing to fix my collar bone; as daily I grow older, some grievous want ap- pears; I need a wgoden shoulder, I need some new tin ears. The surgeon long has beckoned, the druggist brings his pill, and. I must go in sec- ond when I would climb a hill. Yet cheerfully I canter along the village street, and blithely josh and banter the delegates I meet. "I never stack- ed up greater," I cry, in hollow glee; "I'd whip an alligator, and make a bobcat fige!" Some men may say I'm dotty as on my way I wend, may ev- en say I'm naughty to four-flush and GETTING T00 FAT: t TRY THIS--REDUCE |. i Never Can Forget Them. (Canton (Ohio) News) The trouble with most couples who patch up their differences is they do 'mot use invisible patches.--Sam Hill If yeu den't notice the patches they will all attention to them. Well, Looks Who's Baek! Ycu talk of funny notions, Fut will you please tell me If Arkansas Mississippi Who did Tennessee? -G. MW, Out of Pocket. Brown. ients to pay their bills" ------------ "Why do dootors always say a patient who is convalescing will soon be out? Black: "Becausn they expect the pa- in Vancouver Island. Q--Who are the Ukrainians in Canada? A--The Ukrainians in Canada come from the Central European countries and include Galiclans, Bu- kowindans, Ruthenians, etc. They are said to number between 300,000 'jand 400,000 now in Canada. od People who dowt grow too. fat are the ferivnate t If you find the EEE a he Our Canadian Cat llow this Ayo fr Hlmola pres Brice the Wosid over SE reduce steadi eas iy. with Hives: Biwi diet oy 4 a _Q.--What sub-tropical STOWD in the épen air in Canada? thea, olives and figs are among grown in the open air in Canada-- ~ At St. Paul's church, Brockville, on Monday, Rev. L. E. Davis, unit- ed in marriage Miss Mary Helen Mc- Caslin, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas MoCaskin, to Oscas Beaulais, son of C. Beaulals, both of Brockville, Russell Clarke, aged seventeen and a girl aged fifteen, eloped from Belleville but were apprehended on INTE 5 OAL QUARTETTE] VERYBODY'S got to be on the defensive in the wintertime. When . winter attacks you throw on 'another shovelful of coal and through Msily 1 you keop the fire Crawford Scranton Coal Foot of Queen St.