THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. 4 5 MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1922, THE BRITISH WHIG 80TH YHAR. 4 Pabllsned Daily and Semi-W. by ; BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING : C0, LIMITED SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) Year, One year, if paid in advance .... Ome year, by mail to rural offices One year, to United States } (Semi-Weqkly Edition) Ope year, by mail, cash ...,. One yearn If mot paid in adv One year, to United States . OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, F, Caulder, 22 St, John St, Montreal FW, Pson ....100 King St. W, Totonto. 5 Letters te the Bditor are published only over the actual mame of the writer. Attached is ome of the best Joh printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations AA A ms ata Work as a cure for unrest will never develop into a craze, ---------- Few men are wise enough to look wise and let others do the talking. The railroads may have coal to burn, but what they need is coa! to haul. own reward, but on the fromt Virtue may be its vice gets its picture page, Aeons of time are wasted by per- sons who are wrong, but want to ar- gue about it, i -- The only ambition some persons have is to become rich so they can snub the neighbors, It short skirts are worn to display feminine charms, some poor judg- ment is also displayed, Free air for tires is about the only worth while thing that has ever been bottled and given away, When John D. Rockefeller says it | is hard to give away a million, he is not speaking after having asked us. It was fine of prohibition to empty the jails, but the country seems a Httle in need of something to fill 'em | up again, 'i In England divorces are to be put || Within the reach of all glasses, but il thoy may not be wo desirable if not I exclusive. i A Bouth Caroline man claimed the till he was using was an heirloom, i} but the officers seémed to think it |! was a still stfil, Science declares men are animals, 8nd some men proceed to prove it by monkeys of themselves over +.» monlvey theory, A scientist says the earth is a big ball of jelly, and it sounds pleusible enough when one considers the num- Per of jellyfish running loose. "When looking at the eummer Myles for women it is not hard to #08 why the fabric mills are not as - busy as they used to be. It may be remarked in passing, however, that a wicked movie would lave to go some in order to teach the modern audience anything. There is always a fly in the oint- : If farmers get together and prices, think of the poor gamblers io will be thrown out of jobs. 7 -------- @ radio makes possible listen- fag in on ordinary telephone conver it is sald, but it will never the sewing circle as a spread- RAR Voliva declaring the world Kentucky outlawing the Dar- An theory, we expect any day to that some devout community Ave voted amainet daylight saving } year, Their neighbors will be advised tO ask the burgers to k up John III, 19, | THE EPIDEMIC OF SLANG. | The "orgy of slang," which seems" | to be eo characteristic of the neurotic | life of a certain class of young peo- { ple, is deplored by a popular writer, | who seems to think this is a disease, | when it is only a symptom. After | pointing out that many of the ex- | pressions in vogue had thelr origin in the gutters of experience, he ex- presses the view that If these "smart" young people could realze how low is the society they mimic they would blush in-shame. This is taking the matter entirely too seriously. That vagabonds and rogues use phrases current in the transient vocabulary of slang con- cerns the average youth mot at all. Boys end girls of to-day are very ed and self-sufficient. There should be no alarm, Slang there will always be, of course, and not all of it will be objectionable or useless, The present tendency to in- dulge in an orgy of unlovely speech will pass sooner or later, as all ex- tremism does, The more extreme the fad, whether in clothes or speech, the shorter its life. SPIRITUALISM. Sir Arthur Oonan Doyal has ar- rived in New York to tour America far less interesting in the character of lecturer on the morbid subject now engaging his attention than he was to the readers of fiction. As an author he gained a wide popularity, | for the plot-germ of his stories was worked out in logical sequence, se- | curing the acquiescense of his read- {ers. He was content to deal with | human emotions and impulses and | {as long as he remained within the realm of human experience he re- tained the interest of his readers. | That a man who exhibited rare gifts as a writer, and a medical man | as well, should turn to spiritualism | late fn life and devote his time to | preaching it as a new gospel, sug- | gests weakness of the mental fecul- ies asgociated with senility; and the unfortunate part of it is that peo- | ple are everywhere attracted to the | nonsensical cult merely because of | the prominence gained by a speaker {in the field of literature, | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's case is similar to that of Sir Oliver: Lodge. Neither of them are able to give any intelligent formula by which their hearers can verify their claim, but confine themselves to making absurd assertions. 'It is pleasing to be told by Sir Arthur that "the only sensa- tion in death is one of delicious lan- gour;" but we kmow that that de- pends upon the circumstances, Thé spiritualist is under the necessity of presenting the pleasing side of death and he says: "It was lovely to see the etheric body disengage itself. There was a multiplicity of beautiful lights." It will be a severe blow to spirit mediums to know that their | services are no longer required, for | Sir Arthur, in his New York address, is quoted as saying further: "Spirits not only can converse with those on earth, but they can present them- selves in material form." The un- fortunate thing about his address was that he left the platform without telling his audfence how to carry on communication with the epirits. If he would give exact information on this very important point he could justify apostolship, but he cannot do it, A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. Speculation as to what radio will bring fifty or.a hundred years from now staggers the imagination, One of the possibilities is that it will bring the various peoples of the earth so closely together in speech and thought that they will eventu- ally all speak a common language." If prediction is possible, this is the promise: The passion for under- standing which must follow the uni- versal use of the radio ehall demand a universal language in which un- derstanding can be conveyed. A gen- ius, arising, for example, in China, overtopping the world with his science or his philosophy or - his humor, would pour his message-into the radio and the air would fling into the ears of the world an 'incompre- hensible babble® Then will come discontent} then wil come also the impulse to learn, or at least have the children learn, other tongues so that all these messages may be cap- tured. There have been attempts be- fore to impose a universal language on civilization; they failed simply because for the mass of mankind) there was no obvious impulse to adopt either of them. They had small anticipation of much travel abroad, and for them the home ton- gue filled all their needs. But now for. these masses, equally with the students, space is dissolved. The tongue of India speaks from the re- ceiver as glbly and clearly as the voice of the guest across the room. ,| The language belongs to the people, who control it in spite of the philolo- gists, Their desire may do what academies have fatled to achieve, be- cause invention has supplied the im- pulse in a form which stirs the im- agination and s0 breeds the desire for understanding. Then must follow common speech. Those who already enjoy the mir ale may reflect on the marvellous 8s ip which they are privileged to live, and may enhance this reflection x and lecture on spiritualism, but he is | With -the certainty that its posstbili- | ties are only beginning to appear. | The future contains things the im- | agination now can only grope after | in the conviction that wonders are to |e untolded just as fast as the mind of man can reach them. i : | TIME FOR ON ELECTION. | A careful study of the proceedings of the Ontario Legislature brings out one prominent fact, and that is that | the sooner there is a general election in Ontario the better it will be for | the province. This does not neces- {sarily mean that the province is be- | me mis-governed, but | have followed the doings of the legis- {lature for any number of years past {are agreed that never have the pro- much self-encompassed, self-contain- | ceedings of the house been conducted | | in the manner which is apparent dur- | ing the present session. Two things {stand out in bold rellef. First, there {is the absolute helplessness of the |government to get ahead with its affairs, and second, the determina- | tion of the Comservativd opposition |to prevent the government making | | any headway, The one bright feature is the attitude of the Liberal party {in the house, in trying to help the government to carry on its work, but | this is an attitude which cannot be | carried on indefinitely, The hopeless manner in which the | government fs struggling along is simply the result of trying to govern | without a majority. While, on paper, | Premier Drury has a bare majority {in the house, in reality his real fol- {lowers are less than half the number | | of 'members, The support of the { small labour group is always more {or less uncertain, and while the | Farmer members will always give | faithful and unwavering support to | their leader, they are powerless to carry him through the session with- out support from another quarter, The present session has shown the weakness of the government to a | greater degree than the two previous | sessions because the other parties in the house are now taking the duties | | of opposition seriously. Following | the election to power of the U. F. O.- | Labour government, there was an { Inclination on the part of the other | parties to give them a chance to | make good. Opposition was not so | strenuous as it might have been, and the premier and his colleagues were given every opportunity of carrying | on the affairs of the province in an | efcient manner, This session has {been a little different, and with a display of weakness on the govern- ment side of the house, and this | weakness is so apparent that it is | creating chaos in the legislative and administrative programmes of the house, ' The truth fs that the Ontario cabi- net has no real strength, Outside of Premier Drury and Hom, Manning Doherty, there are no members of it who really measure up to cabinet standard. Instead of being an asset to the premier, they are a burden which he has to carry, and this Is a burden which no premier can bear indefinitely, Mr. Meighen tried it and the result was disastrous, Matters cannot go on much longer as they have been doing since the present session started, The govern- ment seems unable to perform {ts functions in an efficient manner, and the multiplication of commissions does not appeal to the electors of On- tario. The government is apparently unable to take the responsibilities of governing, and when such a condi- tion exists, there is but one remedy, that of & general election, for an élec- tion would assuredly result in the re- turn of a stable government to power, and that is the only kind of government which is of any use to Ontario, Certain # is that there will be no more government by a minority, for the present session has shown that this system is a dismal failure, Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER 3 NO RELIEF. The statemen swing their battle- axes, and ory, "Give us the snaps, and we'll cut down the frightful taxes that cause your anguished yaps. Economy will be our motto, our watchword, it wa win; and if you vote, friends, as you ought to, reliaf will soon begin." When I was young and fresh and tender, I heard that stirring call; then statesmen came in pomp and splendor, and hired the village hall; they told us rubes how We were bearing the burden of the day; when they the offices were shar- ing, our griefs would fall away, Thus did they in the distant ages defend the public weal; and still I hear the windy sages put up the same old 6plel. And taxes still are mounting, mounting, the burden's far too big, and we're forever busy counting the bucks we have to dig. The tax col- lectors ,hot and panting are always at our heels, and still the statesmen, wildly ranting, put up the same old splels. And it is strange how we sur- render to every wordy hick, and think we'll eave some legal tender by helping Tom or Dick, Experience has tried to teach us thet statesmen merely joke; apd when the tax col- lectors reach us they always leave us broke, : --WALT MASON. It is rumored that Arthur Griffith is held by Irish republicans. Ho spoke at Sligo on Sunday. : those who | keen opposition, there is a glaring* BBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY BE KIND TO THE ERR-| ING:--Brethren, if a man | ! be overtaken in a fault, ye which are | spiritual restore such a one in the | spirit of meekness; considering thy- | | self, lest thou also be tempted.-- | | Galatians 6: 1. { mn, ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL | Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. | I kin remember when liquor was | aged in the wood instead | made from {t. | Drat the Pests. "Pa, what is the yellow peril?" ask- ed Clarence. 'The dern dandelions, son," pa, who was gazing at tinged lawn. growled | Problem in Subtraction, Eh? (From Court notes {in Wauseon (Ohio) Democratic-Expositor.) bers, action for divorce and alimony . Our Wenderful Slang. | A tree I seldom climb, So it seems strange to me How often I will find That I am up a tree. | Fool Questions, | debt' what would radio?' will be broadcasted as soon as we | get it Foolkiller"s Busy Day. cides occur on Monday," | Jinke. | "He's wrong. | drivers get theirs on | plied Blinks. | | Most of the reckless | Sundays," re- Floyd Can Blewn His Own Horn, (Inez item in Martin County (Ky.) Ad- | vertiser) Floyd Cornett, the hotel man, | completing his new livery barn. is | How It Started. She married a joke, but she lacked a sense of humor. | You Can't Explain Them. | When woman shows her form, | Of shame she shows no trace; | But If she shows her age, | She thinks it's a disgrace. On, Boy! "Wouldn't it be great?" 'Yee, what?" "With the present styles to have as many eyes as a potato and with | many | | wireless coming in to have as | earg as a stalk of corn. Sickness Often Does Improve Peo- ple. | (High Water Cor. Newark (Ohio) Ad- vocate) Mrs. Cora Smith is Improving from her recent illness. | welt, They Will or They'll Loge Their Mem- bership Carll. (George Balley in Houston Post.) We desire to know of President Sam Hill if Pink Cherry, the Atlanta groc- er, is eligible, and if the members of the Names is Names Club will rally to his shop. Oh, Doctor, a Prescription, P, D. Q. These doggone winter colds Have made me vexed-- And now I know Ill get Spring fever next! ~--8am HII Spring fever treats you rough, It's hard to beat-- But soon you'll need gome stuff For summer heat. rw ~Canton (Ohib) News. Every Man Does. 'He's an awful Uar." "He certainly is. He says he never growls when his wife cleans house." What Are Chances of Liquidation Asks L. M., =H. , (From 8t. Louis Circuit Court Docket 41,983. Comnelly vs. Moonshine; de pos for deft filed. -- Firms Is Firms, J. B. Laws, of Knoxville, writes that thelr company has sold a bill of goods to Long & Shart, of Bulls Gap, Tenn. Write your own wheeze. + A Distinction. Friend--Well, how are you getting slong? Plenty of trials, I suppose? Struggling Lawyer--Ob, yes, plenty, but darn few clients of being | [= WE. CLAIM BIBBY'S F ine Quality Ready-to-Wear and Made-to-Measure Clothes 'O HAVE THE BEST $18.50 SUI IS THE BEST $25.00 i THE BEST $30.00 SUITS THE BEST $35.00 SUITS his .golden- | THE BEST $18.00 OVERCOATS in Canada THE BEST $25.00 OVERCOATs in Canada Ora Numbers vs. David K. Num- | THE BEST $7.50 BOYS' SUITS THE BEST $9.50 BOYS' SUITS THE BEST $12.00 BOYS' SUITS THE BEST $15.00 BOYS' SUITS "Dixie" asks If a wireless was in | The answer WE ALSO CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST $3.00 HATS THE BEST $4.50 HATS "A statisticlan says most of the sui- | remarked | THE BEST $2.98 SHIRTS "Sonie claim!" you'll say. Well, you will find us right here with the goods, BIBBY'S in Canada g WHITE ROSE GASOLINE --The clean Gasoline, --The Gasoline with the pep. L The gas that gives most miles from the pump that never pumped a gal- lon of anything but White Rose. --If you have not used White Rose, TRY IT. You'll not be sorry. If It Is Service Try Us. MOORE'S 206-8 WELLINGTON STREET Help! Though he does often shoot He never has a gun; But then for shooting craps He hardly would Mneed one. Daily Sentemge Sermon. Hustle and failure never travel the same road, S---------- News of the Names Club, Jesse Penny, of Fulton County, wanted more than Jesse Penny, for we see he won a suit for $150. Of course, if he is married he ought to cut it out, but anyway our Con- nersville correspondent says Will Sparks ilves over there. . Possibly he wouldn't, but A. P. C. says the wife of John Woodwork, of Michigan, is suing him for divorce, "* Our Canadian Question And Answer Corner Q.--Was there ever a reciprocity treaty between Canada and the Unit- od States? If so, when? A.--A reciprocity treaty was in force between Canada and the Unit- ed States from 1855-1866, arranged by Lord Elgin, in 1854, the terms of which were that the products of for- ests, fisheries, mines and farms should have free entrance and that both should have free use of each other's canals. ; Q~--What was the value of Can- ada's fish catch in 19207? . A~--The value of Canada's fish catch in 1920 was $49,241,339. BUCKEYE _INCUBATOR" re Wolfe Island Notes, Wolfe Island, April 15.--H. C. Hogan and family have moved from the village to his residene at Silver Spring cheese factory and will open the factory on the 15th. A large number of veal calves were shipped last week to Cape Vincent, N.Y., The Origin of ' Gall Stones They are simply dried bile made up of Crystalline constituents of that fluid. Very common is this disease among merchants, clergymen, shop girls, and those of sedentary habits. Prevention consists in maintaining correct action of the liver and bow- eis, and this is speedily accomplish- ec by using Dr. Hamilton's Pills. No person using Dr. Hamilton's Pills will bé subject to bilious fits. Sound digestion, good appetite, a clear color will evidence the health giving prop- erties of Dr. Hamilton's Pills which are safest and best for gensral fam- ily use. When a laxative is needed, when you feel out of sorts, that's the time to-use Dr. Hamilton's Piils of Mandrake and Butternut. 26c., all dealers or The Catarrhozome Co, Montreal. toroid dre, By Bc ve BUNT'S HARD WARE vit 300 sacks wed 653" Bick XN King St. George McDonald is getting the mat- érial ready to build a new barn. Miss Babcock, Sydenham, is visiting at C. Henderson's. Mrs. John Hogan, Sr., who has been fll, is much im- proved. The 'several schools on the island closed on Thursday for the Easter holidays. At Kapuskasing, Ont., potatoes were the most profitable crop pro duced at)the Dominion government experimental farm last year, * Vv YY - | For that dainty personal touch that goes with an Easter gift, you will find in our Perfumes and Toilet Waters French Ivory and: Stationery just what you require, See gestions. Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 843 THOMAS COPLEY, Telephone 987, Wanting anything done in the ea tery line. Estimates given on all of vepaive and mew work: alse wooed floors of all kinds. All will recefve ha prompt attention, § Queen Street. iy Farm For Sale OAL QUARTETTE PRING is a rather un- S certain sort of season. Tho violets make an ef- fort to bloom 'neath the Jyureying wheels of the coal while that villian, Jack Frost, sneaks into the home that let's the fire go out, Phone your order. &h e Crawford - Scranton Coal Phone 9. Foot of Queen Bt. our windows with I their numerous gift sug- | ordeg