THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1928. BRITISH WHIG 89TH YEAR. THE ' THRE ITP ae i Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING ; CO,, LIMITED J. G. Elltot Leman President Editor and Managing-Director SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city $6.00 One year, in advance ....95.00 Ohne year, by mail 30 Yuta offices $2.50 One year, to United States 3 (Semii-Weekly Edition) One year, hy cash a $1.00 i Ome year, if mot paid in advance $1.50 | Ome year, to United States $1 | OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: [* ¥. Calder, 33.8¢, Johu St. Montreal ¥.W. T :..100 King 8t. W. 4 Tofesto, Letters te the Editor are published the actuml name of the | _Attnched is one of the best joh orimting offices is Camnda, o -- The cisculation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations > A man can school himself to resist 'plmost any temptation except a seed Tatalogue, Some day Furope will learn that necessity is also the mother of re- conctldation, And many of the things a man does to broaden his 1ife serve only to ¢ shorten it, When men lose the capacity to ein and turn pious, they call it the wis- dom of age, Ian As a matter of fact, "darn" is just a cuss word without the courage of #ts convictions, { tates to accept the gift of Wrangel : Island. She already has a wrangle | island of her own. J 1 Up there the sheep and goats will be divided, but down here the sheep | are usually the goats, The other fellow's game has often been tried and has always been found to work to his satigfaction, The reason good stockings are cheapest in the long run is because { they don't run so frequently, The secret of success is not in ®oat glands, but én the sweat glands that are factory: equipment, Onde in polities, even those Who fre not genuine dirt farmers may get a harrowing experience, . Lenine is planning a flank attack ion capitaliem. Evidently he has giv en up hope of the fatted calf. + A recent theory that no man who Books office should be elected will hot be popular with polftictans, ~ Bvery norma} man passes through & period when he. thinks he could get sch df he could only patent some- thing About the only thing the nations 'in common is the. consolation the other fellow is in a bad fix, ~~ ¥t may yet become necessary for '4lie pedestrian to lay down a barrage _ Of tacks before venturing across the street, "It one 1s homely and good and the Biber a beauty addicted to rouge and Sanotine, the average man will choose 1 ass of two evils, 4 A Detroit woman wants a divorce on the ground that her husband dis- | Mikes ish. Chances are that the real Teason is because he is a poor fish Ahimselt. olncare says France will pay her War debts, but what he means is that ce will pay if she can collect it from Germany. Remember the recitation period in ol, when you stood up without ng what you were going to say? members of parliament are like In these days when so many drea- mers, simple-minded folk and fakirs : i we believe that classification qufte covers them: all--are preaching | tommunion with the dead; holding , Wpiritualistic seances and catering to gullible, the level-headed indivi- il is respectfully referred to the bu advice found in Dent. , 13, { EFFECTS OF WAR STRAIN, | Every day brings new evidences of | the effects of war upon the men and {ating deficit of $10,134,513 the year | | {officers who served overseas. Many of them were pronounced as physi- cally fit when discharged from tha | army, but later on disorders of vari- | ous natures developed, as numerous {cases in Kingston and other cities {all too plaimly show, The same | thing is happening in the United | States, where we are told that some lof the worst' physiological conse- | quences of war service are just com- {ing to light through tHé& Physical | examinations of officers of the regu- | lar army, now in progres§jté@ere. Ex- amining surgeons have found "clear- | cut evidences of physicajgdsteriora- | tion" due to "the straim incident to | the prosecution of the world war." | What must be the condition of offi- | cers and men suffering from wounds in addition to the psychic effects can not be imagined, and is probably be- tible increase in those of forty-five years or older and an equally pro- nounced lowering of blood pressure among the younger officers, those from twenty-five to thirty years. To 50 this is added an "instability of the nervous system characterized espe- cially by affections of the vasomotor system." An unnatural tendency to worry, fatigueability and a decided inclination toward Increased intro- spection and exaggeration of irrita- 'thon and phyeical ills, is the general characteristic that is driving officers into the hospitals in a steady stream. Until the exact explanation for these effects are found and curative means discovered, the examining surgeons fear the conclusion must "| be that the war's effects have per- manently blasted thousands who en- dured the inevitable nerve strain which accompanied the greater num- ber of the war's operations. This is one of the costs of war with which the nation knows nothing except through an individuel case here and | there--yet.it 4s one of the highest | prices of military service, POLITIOATL DIVORCES NEXT. We have had occasion from time | to time to comment upon the serious- | ness with which our women take | their politics, Since woman suffrage | came into effect in Canada, and our women got into the political game and learned to play it as men have played it for ages, they have injected an animus into the sport that did not previously exist, except in rare in- stances. They carry the fight into post-election days; turn up their noses at their political opponents, especially of their own sex, and, in some instances insist upon permit- ting their political affiliations to dis+ turb or disrupt conditions In the home when the husband doesn't hap- pen to agree with them, But still worse consequences may be in store. Whether it is because Germans take their politics with more seriousness than we do, or ber cause German women are making political action snappier than the Canadian sorosis, the fact that po litical incompatibility has been re- cognized as a cause for divorce in Germany must be noted, It is not necessarily surprising. In fact, #t might have been looked for in Pots- dam where the political atmosphere probably retains something of its old royalist fragrance. And in Potsdam is where a court has admitted politi- cal incompatibility as cause for di- vorce when the offended party hap- pens to be a former high military of- flcer whose floce is turned with set attitude and fixed political expres sion to the extreme right, and his wife occupies a place on the extreme left, Herr von Techirschky wants his freedom because his wife has been gradustiy "turning toward fhe lett, and since the revolution has develop- ed radical tendencies which have at last carried her to the point on the political line as far from his as she | can get. Since Frau von Tschirschky became a revolutionary left winger, he has decided he cannot live with a woman of that kind, and with his ground of complaint recognized he may be spared further suffering. GOVERNMENT BAILWAYS IM- very pleasant thifig, therefore, for the people who are Interested to know that the report this year will be of an optimistic nature. The transportation branch of the bureau Of statistics has just issued a report for the year 1921, and this report shows that not only will the deficit on the railway systems be greatly reduced, but that matters have taken a turn for the better, and the time is not so very far distand when there will be a surplus instead of a deficit. It is not posstble to estimate at 'present just what this year's deficit will be, but it will cetrainly be much leas than it was last year, for in ev- ery branch of the system there has 'been a great reduction in the operat- Ing Toss, On the Grand Trunk Rell- "~ yond description, { . Ope of the outstanding features | | discovered is the effect upon blood ! 2 | Pressure among those subjected to extraordinary nerve strain, a percep- | way, the operating deficit was $3,- » 997,488, as compared with an oper- | previ | ern Railway the operating loss was $16,440,476, in 1920, in 1921, The other s also showed in 1920 was $10,- Ln ast year it was re- $5,587,298. In the figures roads alone there is Toom ism, for a total loss of 5 in operations for 1920 has reduced to $16,242,022, a {net gain of $20,782,843 over the figures of 1920. | Another promising feature f{s {ghown in the figures which show the | ratio of operating costs to operat- {ing revenue. This is an important | factor, for it shows exactly how many | cents have been spemt by each rail- way for every hundred cents col- | lected in revenue. This was one of | the blackest features of last year's report, and it is, therefore, cheering to compare this year's figures with those of a year ago. The operating ratio was as follows: 1921 per cent. 113.64 109.75 | reduced {to $8,574, | governmer | gain, for 449,876 duced to for these | for optir | 837,02 been 1920 per cent. 123.46 125.25 92.61 93.58 GTP. ... 124.03 170.34 This ell'round gain should bring a great improvement in the flnancial railway budget which will soon be presented by the Minister of Finance, The most optimistic part of the re- port, however, is that which relates to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the greatest of the government's white elephants, In spite of the fact that the freight traffic on the £.P.R., the G.T.R., and the other govern- ment railways, excepting the Cana- dian Northern, showed a great de- crease as compared with 1920, the freight traffic on the Grand Trunk Pacific increased by 41 per cent. The report says that this increase was due to the operatthg arrangements made with the Canadian Northern, but as that road also showed an in- crease of traffic, it was not entirely due to diverscion of freight from one road to another. This shows in a very decided way the value of an early co-ordination of all government systems. An arrangement between the G.T.P. and the C.N.R., according to the repo brought about a sub- C.G.R. C.N.R. G.T.R. se mess es sae the other roads showed large de- creases, the C.P.R. freight traffic he- ing 23 per cent. less and the Grand Trunk 19 per cent, less," Co-opera- tion between the whole government system would undoubtedly have the same result, for it would bring a greater flow of traffic all over the system, With all the rail .;ays work- ing together ,there is no reason why the system should any longer pile up deficits, buj should continue to gain ground, and in the very near future should show a surplus, That is indicated hy the report for 1921, and the Canadian people are sincere in their hope that the optimism ex- pressed will be justified. THE SPARTAN. The Spartan, sorely smitten, kick- ed up no angry coil, but murmured, "It was written that Ishould have a boil; and now said boil is growing, its throbbings never stillled, to alll the people showing a prophecy fui- fillled. I mew not like a kitten, nor whinney like a mare; things come as they were written, and man must grin and bear." I have a boil that's throbbing witk zeal beyond compare, and you may hear me sobbing around a city square, I have no Spar- 'tan training to cope with such a plight, and, bitterly complaining, I walk the floor all night. And neigh- bors come and chide me, and protests wildly make; they hate to live be- side me--I keep their cows awake. And peelers come and tell me I'll have to can my wail, or with their clubs they'll quell me and run me of! to jail. I'm civilized so vastly, in cot- ton wool so reared, that every ache seems ghastly and makes me rend my beard. And so I view the Spartan with something like disdain, though nothing can dishearten that martyr in his pain. Oh, he is sorely smitten, with bolls upon his brow, but sayy ke, "It was written, so why kick up a row} Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER ~--WALT MASON. 'wero Ontario's values in 1 ? A 's value, 1921, was $256,008,400, Ey Q--Our is arranging 'o plant shade t along several of the streets at the expense of the mu- nicipality. Is it considered gooa practice to plant only ome variety of trees on a single stréet, or to mix the ties to some extent. ~--By all means keep to ome type of tree on each street. The most On the Canadian North- | statitial Tncrease in traffic, while all | . BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY LAW OF | worketh no ill to his neigh- bor: therefore love is the fulfilling {of the law.--Romans 13: 10. | P--------. of Ottawa has nothing but elms for LOVE: --Love | | | | | beautifully shaded street in the city | {its entire length. It 1s easy enough | | to spoil the gppearance of a street by | | mixing such trees as mountain asn, | { burch, elm and others. Keep to the | hardy and long lived tree such as the elm and Norway Maple. | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL A Song of Spring. he birds are here, | 1. Their notes are blithe and gay, | But still we fear | That spring is far away. For winter, too, Seems fain to drag along | Though spring is due, And notes their cheerful song. Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. 1 kin remember when city folks { had to. go to the county fairs to see | the fatted calves. His Ups and Downs. Mabel "Does Jack still turn every Sunday night?" Gert "No, I turned him down." up Them Were the Happy Days. Progress is progress, but still, back in the old days a horse could cast a shoe without having to get out in the mud and rain to put on & new one before you could continue your jour- ney; and you never had to walk back ten miles to the mearest feed store be- cause old dobbin had rum out of bay. . How It Started. / She insisted on mending his" ways 'and not his clothes. One Job He Likes. A lazy man At work will always balk, But you will find He nevertdoes at talk. - Trouble With Most of Em. "What's the matter with your hus- band?" asked the friend. "Lack of gray matter," snapped the wife, \ Great Excitement Prevalls. (Stearns (Ky.) Democrat) M. A. Gibbs has a new pair of shoes --nice, squeaky ones. Fool Questions. O. M. says: "Could you say a man buying a fireproof safe is making a -safe investment?" Ome of Life's Necessities. 'We gu€ss no man Would ever lle If with the truth He could get by. --Sam HiIl There are some folks, I'm telling you, Who tell a lie When truth would do. ~--Cauton (Ohio) News. Laws, Dry One, For Instance, Work in Reverse, A society to mind your own busi- ness would do a lot of good, but how many would join?--W. 8. Adkins, Louis- ville Courier-Journal Oh, get a law compelling em to~--F. H. Colller, in St. Lodis Globe- Democrat. Wouldn't it get better results by passing a law prohibiting them from doing it. -- Safety First, "Fools rush in--" "Yes? "But a wise man stops to wipe his feet." Sure Thing. 8he's pretty and - She 1s well bred-- But she, alas! Just can't make bread. --Cincinnati Enquirer. She's protty and She's got the pelf, But she Is stuck Upon hergelf. ---Hasting® Tribune. Full of Holes, Toe. Blinks: "The Chinese are the only people on earth who eat no cheese." Jinks: "That's funny, for China, is the biggest cheese of all the nations in the world." -- Daily Sentence Sermon. A lost temper~is easily found, so don't lose it. -- News of the Names Club. A. Bachelor, of Excelsior Springs, Mo. writes that he thinks Clarence Rash, of that place, is, for he was married last week. And got & wife, He stole a kiss And now, poor boob, ; He's In for life. ------ Uses For Gas, More than 2,000 uses of gas for manufacturing purposes have been 3 wl BIBBY"S Where Society Brand Clothes are Sold Ready-to-Wear and Made-to-Measure Come and see the new Spring styles! Styles have changed spring, especially the young men's. They're better than ever. Prices are lower too, and that's good news, because you know So- ciety Brand keeps up the quality. Beauties for-- $30.00, 35.00, $37.50, *40.00 quite a bit this $2.98 NEW SHIRTS The Separate Collar to match style--quite the rage for com- ing 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- Hsh Hats. Dent's and Perrin's Tan Kd and Grey Suede Gloves--these are extra special value. SEE OUR $1.50 FINE GLOVES Agents for Harrogate Guarantee d Blue Serge Suits--extra Special VAIUE «.o.cviviiiomjinisinmiiioims ms sti veieree $37.50 It is cheaper to than poor repairs) VULCANIZING TIRE REPAIRS Our VulcYnizing Department is. manned by experts and our repair work is absolutely guaranteed. Prices are reduced considerable. 30x37 Non-Skid $12.50 (Guaranteed) have good repairs MOORE'S 206-8 WELLINGTON STREET 'aye wid 2 wear or one hi . BUCKEYE INCUBATOR From £; very Hatchable, King St. -- big BUNT'S HARDWARE lockout if music and dancing are abolished to escape the tax. .Joe Zel- lis, dance hall headquarters of the Americans and English; the Abbaye, Rat Mort, Pigalle's, the Royal, the Increase Their Salaries, Ottawa, March 29.---Ottawa alder- men increased their" salaries from $300 to $500 a year. Last year the controllers were boosted from $1,800 to $2,600 a year. The tax rate was struck at 28 mills on the dollar. This Includes the general and pub- lic school taxes. The Canadian government has re- ceived $6,314,600 from the British government toward the cost of the Canadian army of oceupation, Colorite Hat Dye Make old hats look like new, 30c. bottle All the popular dyes for Spring dyeing. Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 843 THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Wanting anything done in the tery line. Estimates given on all ri vl of repaira and mew work alee hard. wood of all kinds. Al prompt attention, hop Street. For Sale Brick dwelling--4 bed rooms ~--Alfred Street--$3,500. Frame dwelling, Albert St (south side of Princess Street) 6 bedrooms, electric light, furnace, verandah---$3,500, : Brick, Livingston Avenue, 4 bed rooms--$3,600. Several houses to rent, Money to loan, TN Ae lo OAL QUARTETTE VERYBODY'S got to , be on the defensive in the wintertime. winter attacks you throw another shovelful of fou and Sand pat. You'll" come through th e cold months happlly if you keep the fire going. v Crawford Scranton Coal Phoue 9. Foot of Queen St. T