THE DAILY BRITISH WHIGC. EE -------- nee THE BRITISH WHIG 1 89TH YEAR. i ll Ty f-Weekly by Fabiisbed Deity and Sem BRITISH WHIG ; Co,,. LIMITED PUBLISHING 4 -» 1.8. Ellfott .... xrs A. Guild ... Editor and 3 . Managing-Director TELEPHONES: : Ba Office 3 Oftlee ......... + President $1.00 Bet paid ia advance $1 to Untted States $1.50 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES ¥, Onder, 23° Bt, John St. Moptren! ¥. W. Thompson ....1 t. W, Letters to the Editor ap blighed ®hly over the &etmal 28.2 na writer. One of the best Joh ia Canada, . printing pr The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Cfrculations AA A The wife's 'paraphrase: 'Out of pight, out of hand." S-------------------- When the book agent calls, the line of least resistance is the: dotted dine. It's all right to take things easy provided they don't belong to some- pho else. Nature fits a few men to govern themselves, but most of them get married. 3 ga ---------------- Why tax the bachelor? The ef- fort to remain a bachelor sufficiently taxes his ingenuity. Only a people hardened by killing Armenians could produce a cigarette with that kind of smell. The farmers are warned, how- ever, that not all of those who go #8to politics are politicians, In this practical age nobody can hold a job without delivering the goods except the weather man. 'When you count the cost of hootch and the fine for speeding, small wonder it is called a high old time. And yet, no woman will "be satis- " Hled with a mansion in the skies un- fess it is generously supplied with ~elosets. ~e The funny part of it is that a mere Plicker can locate a swindler when fhe most skilled detectives are batf- And yet, you'll seldom find a man who _is too busy to stop and tickle vanity by giving you a little free ce. No North Dakotan has a large in- bme, tax figures show. Rainbow ng does not promote prosper- S------------ . At that, the goPernment doesn't ) taxes m frequently than yers imp on the "'govern- ht, / XN id the young doctor found three 3 patients who thought they "nerves" and lived prosperously afterwards, . EE ------------------ ou -see, freight rates are high go the railroads need the mon- What a perfect alibi for "the p man. the world needs is to cheer get on its toes." It might pme, however, to get on its intervals. at is one good thing about war. rs have the decency not to blic intelligence by making insanity, So ---------------- drivers frequently ex- they 'lost control of the Careful drivers never have to 'wizard makes thunder nical device," Most any company can raise thunder mil income. a JA --- I the sharper when isn oF adds pares who ily to offer them for nothing? i -- CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING, Since Hon,' Manning Doherty be- | came Minister of Agriculture for | Ontario, one of the chief matters to | of farm produce, He is an enthusiast | on this subject, as can be seen in his | having secured one of the leaders of | to give addresses on the project | | throughout the province. He has already organized the fruit growers of the Niagara district on the basis of a co-operative marketing organi- | zation, and he je planning to do the | same with the dairying and 1d stock | industries. His representatives all | over Ontario have been instrieted to | promote this plan to the fil Pextent | of their ability, and the prospeots are | that if he is allowed a sufficlently | his plan, There are several aspects of the | project of co-operative marketing | which are worthy of consideration. | In a provinces such as ours, the effect | side of the question, and the effect upon the consumers in the towns and citfes must also be considered. So far, neither side are fully convinced of the value.of the scheme. The farmers, with their usual caution, are taking it up slowly, although .it is certain that it will work out to their ultimate benefit, . The farmer, as the producer of farm products, is entitled to receive by far the larger portion of the price which Is paid for them by the consumer, but under the pre- sent eystem of marketing this does not always happen. Under ©o-0opera- tive marketing the expense of put- ting the produce into the hands of the consumer would be less, and the return to the farmer would be greater than 1f it had to pass through the usual channels. That is, perhaps the best bonception of the benefits of ©o-operative marketing, and this as- Dect is bound to please the farmers. But what of the consumer? The people wiro ultimately have to pay the priée for the articles naturally want to know how it is going to effect their pockets. The supporters ofthe scheme claim for it that it will stabilize the markets 'by ensuring that no community will have a larger supply of any commodity than that community can absorb in a normal 'way. This would prevent the pos- sibility of any merket being glutted with any article, and would do away with the periodical slumps in price which are the delight of the thrifty housewives' hearts, but the despair of the farmers. A case can be cited of a certain eity in which, last sum- mer, tomatoes were selling one day at $1.50 a basket. The next day to- matoes were shipped in indiscrimin- ately from all over the fruit grow: ing districts, the supply was greatly in €xcess of the demand, and the price dropped to 36¢. a basket. Under co-operative marketing, this would have been impossible, as that ¢ity would have received just as much of the commodity as it could absorb. These are the two sides of the question. The case for and against the pro- Jeot can be summed up in this way: It the intention is to create a mon- opoly by marketing all farm products on a co-operative basis, thereby send- ing the prices to abnormal heights, then the scheme ls bound to fail, be- cause the public can no longer be bled for high prices. If the inten- tion, however, is to ensure that the actual producers will receive the largest possible share of the price which the consumer is easily able to pay, then there is a hope that it will be a success, The latter objective is a legitimate one, and it will bene- fit both producer and 'sonsumer. Mudh, of course, has yet to be done before the whole farming industry can be organized on the basis desired by the Hon. Mr. Doherty, but if the | project ds developed on sane lines which will benefit all parties, then he may achieve his object more quickly than seems apparent at pre-- sent, 'CONCESSIONS TO BILLIARD ROOMS; The local billiard rooms have pe- titioned the ity council for some al- leviation of their present burden of taxation, or, in leu of such reduc- tion from present taxes, the privi- lege to remain open till eleven- thir- ty at night, an extra half-hour. ; There is nothing much to be said against the local billiard rooms, In 80 far as we know they are conduct- ed in orderly agd business-like fash- fon and the proprietors strive to keep the proceedings in "perfect con- formance with the laws of the land and the city. y Yet there arises a doubt in the mind when the subject of allowing them an extra half-hour at night arises. Of course, it will add a little to the revenues of the owners and thus help to pay their heavy taxes, but it is to be questioned whether the danger from such a grant would not be greater than the benefits. Any billiard or pool player who bas not had enough of the game by eleven o'clock' should either get downtown in the 'middle of the af- ternoon and get an early start or purchase a table of his own. The extra half-hour could not amount to anything to him in one way or an- other, so that the fruly sporting side of the game would not suffer. { last week, it can be avoided, and, in local pool rooms are young men, a great many of them mere youths, and eleven o'clock is certainly late enough for them. to be out of their parents, especially mothers, their return. If an increased revenue for the | ard and pool room owners is ne- | co-operative marketing in Californie |Pilliard and pool roo cessary, let them raise their rates for the players. Their customers would pay, ten cents more on the hourly rate without much compiaint or five cents more where they are charged by the game, and this should surely give a greater return than one extra half hour at present rates, It would be a good. thing to see the proprietors of tfese establish- ments get a square deal and, if pos- |sible, better themselves, but it should | long term of office, he will succeed in {not be done at the risk of placing, op life at the High another aid to the downfall of the | young men of the city. | REWARD FOR OANCER CURE. In one year nearly 9,000 persons ee BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY THE REAL TEST: --Is it not to deal thy bread to the ! 25, without tacki extra half {hungry, ang that thou bring the poor engage his attention has been that of (Homes, without tacking an | ¥, and Eg p i ing whic ir | that are cast oyt to thy house? when 9 hour to the time daring which their |t 3 co-operative marketing of all kinds | [ton ar eo fo thy boise? when {him; and that thou hide not thyself {from thine own flesh?--Isaiah 58:7. | FINI rp a a a | 1 | | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL Their Idea of Reform. The thirsty folks don't want To make the world better, They would be satisfied To make the land wetter. Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. I kin remember when youngsters got jinore higher education and less Schoosl. Easy Enough to Do That. "I see they now are trying to get gold out of the air," remarked the friend. Huh! They never have any trouble | " upon the producing class is only one [in this country die from cancer, it | getting gold out of my heir," growled whose son is said. It is a. scourge which thus | the Saree Brann oe {far has baffled medical and surgical | science, except in its incipiency, and even then it often is not curable. The benefit which a remedy would | confer on mankind is inestimable. | The X-ray and radium have promis- | ed something that may be partially | realized, but on the whole*not much progress has been made in conquer- ing this disease, The "white plague' is no longer the terror it once was. As Dr. Bruce Hopkins, of Mowat Hospital, told the | Rotary Club in an admirable address many cases, can be cured when con- tracted. Cancer almost alone among the causes of premature death re- mains to reveal its secret, The re- ward which is awaiting the discovery of an effective cure 1s such ag to stimulate to the utmost. It lies not only in the boon to the suffering but | in material compensation to the dis- coverer, Lord Atholstan, of Mont- real, has made known an offer of $100,000 as a pride for a cure, and this offer lind been supplemented by an additional $60,000 by Sir William Veno, an Englishman. The offer is made to "the graduate og student of any recognized university who within the next five years is first to discover a medical treatment for the effective cure of cancer." ? It may be that anyone capable of conducting experiments into the cause of cancer is a graduate or stu- dent of some 'recognized univer sity." However, there might be cases where ome who is neither a stu- dent nor a graduate might happen on the desired revelation, We have no assurance as 10 that, hut it might be possible. it would Bave been better to have made the offer free to all, Steps being taken to guard egaimet fraud. If someome not a college man should make the discovery it woul be no less a benefit, Even so Jorge | a monetary prize may be insufficient to bring the desired result, but dt should have the effect' of further stimulating the study, though much is being done on that line already. Health is normal and disease is ab- normal. The task of man, then, is to find the cure for abnormality when it manifests itself Barring accl- dents, men should die only of old age, Medical and surgical and sani- tary science will not be perfect until that goal is reached. LONDON NEWSPAPERS START A PRICE WAR The Dally Telegraph Makes Reduction From 2d to 1d a Copy. London, March 28.---The Daily Telegraph announces that its price will shortly be reduced from 2d to 1 1-2d, This "going one better" than the Times, whose recent reduction in price to a 1 1-2d paper applies only to registered subscribers, casual buyers being charged 2d. On the other hand, the Times gives its readers free travel insurance, the Tele- graph so far, has kept clear of such commitments, and probably will be anxious to maintain this attitude. Altogether it looks as if a lively revival of competition betwoen the Times and Telegraph were due-- such as, just before the war, highly diverted those interested in such matters. The Morning Post will now be the only 24 London morning pap- er. What its intentions are with re- gard to price are unrevealed so far. The Daily Telegraph, in maleing its announcement, says that thdugh the price of paper has fallen considerably it is still more than double the pre- war price, and, generally speaking, most of the other costs of production show a similar ratio of increase com- pared with the eight years ago, The penny London morning papers still tumble over each other in at- tempting to catch mew regular sub- scribers with free insurance schemes. One or other of the papers puts out a new inducement almost weekly, lencamrnsn. Times Price Out, London, M: 28 ~FoNowing the Daily 's reduction of its price, the Times in future will cost everywhere 1 1-2d, to which price it was recently reduced for registered readers only, } ---- in parliament holds up the vote of supply, pend Plnation vf (hr Glineaing au eg. ~ a The majority of the patrons of the Did Willie Take the Bill For Them Along? (MeCreary County Record) 2 Willie Pryor, all dressed up in his spring su't, went down to Rugby Road to show his papa how nice he looked. How It Started. She began to smoke his cigarettes, What the Bfil Revealed. "That dentist pulled my tooth," Remarked old Silas Wess, "But drat the luck, I find He's also pulled my leg." She Just Completed the Job. Judge: "Why did you shoot husband?" 7 Prisoner: "He was always getting half shot.and I hate unfinished jobs." ---- otf" Modern Evolutfon. Matrimony. ¢ Alimony. your Fool Quesfions. R. W. aks: "Does a man have to be an aFtiet toYiraw on his imagination? The Joys of Spring Mud. | ¢ Rain, Snow. Sleet. Income tax. ' Ball games won 8n the training camps. = Tz There's Nothing fn a Name, Dear Sam: Lawless Brothers, doing business' in Chattanooga, are peacefull merchants, who never have broken the sow.--L N, -- Trimmed. He says he'd like To trim my tree-- But what he trimmed Was really me. ~Sam Hil. 'T'Il break your Hea¥t Some day," said sheg But what she broke Was really me. ~-Nashville Tennessesan.' He said he'd do = a good, sald Town, Alas, he am Me good and brown. ~--Hastings Tribune. Hew "You didn't buy anything from that bootlegger, I noticed," remarked the Friend. "No," replied Colonel Boozem, "I asked him to take a drink of his own Stuff with me and he refused." -- Daily Sentence Sermon. 'Tove 'oan find a way." So pluck. can ------ News of the Names Club, G. B. says when folks in Falmouth, Ky., want furniture they go to a dance, which is a Jot more sensible than going to one for what most of the young people do these days Ha! Ha! He made this boast "A wife shall not rule me® She smiled and sald: "Just wait and you shall see | Walt Mason | Dursued the common game, and they all denounced the weather as a bald and beastly ghame. But today I met @ gaffer who has comfort of his own; he's a sort of chronic laughter who is never heard to groan, "Yes," he said, "the weather's sappy, and the tireless torrents pour, but the Httie ducks are happy as they never were before. And I think we should not quarrel with the weather, though it's wet, for the ducks are highly moral and deserve the good they get.-With your groans aud hully-cheeings you disturb the public peace; yet I doubt The sultan continues to hold Con. stantinoples BIBBY'S Where Society Brand Clothes are Sold Ready-to-Wear and Made-to-Measure Come and see the new Spping styles! Styles have changed quite'a bit this spting, especially the young men's. They're than ever. Prices are lower too, and use you know So- he quality, better that's good news, ciety Brand keeps up t Beauties for-- $30.00, 435.00, *37.50, *40.00 The Sepa style--quit, ~NEW. SHIRTS Collar to match the rage for com. Ang season-----new fast colors, ""fabrics--neat stripes and dots, SEE OUR NOBBY $4.50 SOFT HATS in new Greys, Pearls and Fawns. Fine quality Eng- lish Hats. Dent's and Perrin's Tan Kid and Grey Suode Gloves--these are extra special value, : SEE OUR $1.50 FINE GLOVES L Agents for Harrogate Chlarantee d Blue Serge Suits--extra Special Value ......o. seiiisiiicitmseis ites: stamina neid i $37.50 a oy -- VULCANIZING TIRE REPAIRS It is cheaper to have good repairs than poor repairs. Our Vulcanizing 'Department is manned by experts and our repair work is absolutely guaranteed. Prices are reduced considerable. 30x3% Non-Skid $12.50 (Guaranteed) MOORE'S 206-8 "WELLINGTON STREET _. BUCKEYE INCUBATOR BUNT'S HARDWARE fare worn You ta uk ms Ep ll King St. scarcely more than der, there is weather for the hen swim and dive, ahd on droughty days | 687,697. wet, but they take whatever' . : + shin- {upon at an enthusiastic meeting of it human beings count for more than ; trade figures 7 ducks and geese, Ducks are fond of A--Canada's total trade for year ending January, 1922, was $1,546, Decided to Hold Fair, Brockville, March 28.---A four 8 | day fair, to be held on August 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 265th, was decided a8 | citizens from Brockville and the sur- loud repin- [rounding district, held in the Vie- ducks and [toria building to consider the ques- for the gan- [tion of reviving the Brockville fair - » Hat Dye Make old hats look . like new. 30¢. bottle All the popular dyes for Spring dyeing. Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 848 "THOMAS COPLEY ~ Tolephone 987, Wastin 4 dong in the Lk Entimates given on all w work alse hard. oe Tosatti ro ention, promp! [eS For Sale Brick dwelling--4 bed rooms ~Alfred Street--§83,500, Frame dwelling, Albert St, (south side of Princess Street) 5 bedrooms, electric light, gas, furnace, verandah--$3,500, Brick, Livingston bed rooms--$3,600, Several houses to rent. Money to loan. Avenue, 4 3:7) OAL QUARTETTE : VERYBODY'S got to be on the defensive in the wintertime. When + winter attacks you throw on another shovelful of coal and pat. You'll come through the cold months happily if you keep the fire 8. . Crawford Scranton Coal Phove 9. 'Foot of Queen St. |