THE \ DAILY BRITISH WHIG. a ---- THE BRITISH WHIG| 89TH YEAR. GAMBLING WITH LIFE. John Ruskin; but there are few of us who will pause to consider the | deep significance of that utterance. It comes to all sooner or later, in public and social life, in the profes- sions, in the industrial and financial world. . The startling nakedness of {should be no-speculatton in the pro | "There is no wealth but life," said {duce on which the people, rich and | poor alike, are dependent for their | very existence, such {from speculation, -- indeed, | some of them benefit very largely by | is struggling yi. py¢ whosoever shall lose his life! {for my sake and the gospels, the it, but the man who along on what fs barely a living wage finds his existence made very | the assertion strikes with blighting | precarious by reason of the opera- 4 then that the estimate of a life is | Lubltabed Daily and Semi, YW eenly by HE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING w LIMITED President Editor and Managing-Director TELEPHOMES: Oftice .. 4. G. Billett Leman A 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES; ; (Daily Edition) One year, in city .. $ year, if paid in advance .,.. year, by Innll le tus 4 One your, to tes. (sem l-Weekly Editi One year, by mail, cash .. «oe F100 Year, i wot paid ih adveace pg year, to United States ~OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, 's Ciaer, 22 St, J i) Montreal ¥. W. Thompeon .... ng St. W, § 'Torento, Letters tp the Kditor are published only over the actual mame of the writer. Attached is ome of the best Joh mada, printing offices in Ca The circulation of THE BRITISH iin WHIG is authenticated by the ABO | Audit Bureau of Circulations Ctvilization isn't cradled on politi- cal bunk. There's no excuse for a pretty spinster, One way to get back your health is to take more rest and less advice. If an easy prosperity encourages vice, posterity will be a virtuous set. Early to bed and early to rise, and you won't be molested by holdup guys. * . -------- The back-to-the-farm movement is 8 great success among those who urge it. 'Many a man who has a great fu. ture ahead of him is unable to catch up with it. ---------- An economist says that over-pro- duction causes low wages. Does the _ gentleman favor birth control ? People who keep on expecting the worst fail utterly to grasp the sig- nificance of the present. We are still waiting patiently for the soda fountain clerk who will say: * "This one's on the house." The greatest density of population is north of the equator. Also, we fear, north of the ears. es In Utopia love of country is so genuine that everybody cheers when the tax collector passes by. Since nations successful in war are called on to lend money to the ¥anquished, the losers are the wia- ners. -- The Japanese cabinet is not quite Satisfied about Yap, but a bargain is ® bargain when there is no way 'to gst out of it. : Having observed how enlightened mations act, it looks like China was _ determined to go through with the full programme. With girls bobbing their hair and }oys wearing. theirs in mops, about the only way to tell a boy frem a #irl is by his blushes, ~~ : ------------------ After fifteen years, girls devote all their thought to getting a husband 3 but you wouldn't think it after see. ng what some of them get. The candidate with his head in the ds may get the most cheers, but one with his ear on the ground the most votes. Me Prof. Hooton says monk ys hghed off from the human fam- That's reasonable. We know milies that are beginning to branch They say skirts will be worn long- this season. They will be worn ths longer if this year's Crops are 1 failure, id the more energy a man ex-| in talking the less he may left to assist him in making ee ee ee * reformers would feel batter it realized that few con the beac [RS attractive as the bathing-suiz on magazine covers. { man who brag: about his hon- usualiy avout as conn ky HR 1 who says tha: hs Ix the | time sho bas been k.siud. force the family of the provider ia the hour of bereavement, and it {is mmed up in relation to its respon- sibilities. Do we gamble with life ? This Is a question that should be consid ered with more seriousness than we are accustomed to apply to many problems with which we have to deal, and the answer is one that the individual must find out for himself. In an address delivered before the Life Insurance Educational Con- gress recently in Toronto, Chancel- | lor A. L. McCrimmon, of McMaster University, emphasized the dignity of the life insurance profession and the necessity for greater education | "Life Insurance," said he, "deals with life, the most important thing all this world. have camped on its trail; scientists have cut to the centre of its habita- tion to find it flown; the mystery of lite beckons on the inquirer with its interesting lure. We follow tha life principle into all the nooks and corners of existence, watching its' functions in plants and animals, un- til it rises to its highest expression in the personality of man. It is not only individual life that is at stake, but group life in family and in na- tion. These groups depend upon the individual. The material, therefore, | upon which life imsurance works is the most precious in the world. "The function of life insurance is reflected in the insured who be- comes stabilized and catches a view of the preciousness and sacredness of lifs. Obligation to his family and to his fellow men looms up before him. The sense of responsibility iy cultivated in his soul. The dearch- ing questions respecting his physical condition, his habits, his parentage, set hm thinking. On the other hand, the improvident man is head- ing toward a disrupted home. With insurance in vogue, the family ties are strengthened and the solidarity of the home is effected. The divid- end-earning capacity is perpetuated beyond the life of the individual. The good effect upon the integrity of the home cannot be gainsald. If there were more insurance there would be less divorce." The efforts of life insurance con- serve public health. It is in its in- terest to prolong the life of man, and it enters upon campaigns of sanita- tion and prevention of disease. One of the most characteristic phases of | modern economy is the.spirit of ha- manitarianism. The relief of the wretched, the care of widows and or- phans, assistance to the unfortunate, claim attention. Here life Insur- ance stands out as a dispenser of hu- manitarianism. The widows and om phans are the beneficiaries. Its nob's work during the late war was fully realized. The bereaved wives bless- ed its ministrations, and the warrior met his call from eternity in a quieter frame of mind because Le knew his widow and his children would not be without support. Society 1s further safeguarded against the loss of the individual and the waste of life both by the in- citement "to proper methods of live ing and by the perpetuation of earn- ing capacity through the capitaliza- tion of human life trom which bene- ficiaries receive dividends. -------- A WORLD WHEAT POOL. While the members of the Canad- fan Parliament were debating on the best methods of marketing the Can- adlan wheat crop, there was on the ocean nearing the shores of Canada a man who comes with a grea' wheat marketing proposition whica will af- fect not only Canada but the whole of the British Empire, if not tha whole world. This man is the Hon. A. K. Trethowan, president of the Farmers' Federation of Australia, and his proposal is for a gigantic wheat marketing. pool for the whole English speaking world. He is com- ing to Canada, in the first place, to Interview the Hon. T. A. Crerar on the subject, with a view to arrang- ing for meetings of the representa- tives of the wheat growers of Can- ada. He anticipates that the Can- adian farmers will heartily endorse the idea, and that with their co-oper- ation it will not be long before the world-wide wheat pool will be an actuality. Just what the details of the plan are has not yet been disclosed. So far, all that the Australian visitor has said is that one of the main pur- pases of the wheat pool is to elimin- ate the speculators and to maintain agents who will act with the mini- mum of interference hetween the farmer and the consumer. The pro- posal sounds idealistic to a certain extent, but there is no reasen why i: ghould not "be, successful, providing the right men are behind it, and i: is adopted on a scale suffigiently large to atiain the objective for { which it is aimed. = The elimination ie oii sen : cf the soeculator tn wheat will be a aroat step in advance." Speculation Nn stocks of fanaa .as about It ja tine of Immerailty, for there Philosophers | {tions of the wheat speculators in tha |Chicago wheat pit. If there is any possibility, then, | that the Australian scheme can ef- | féctively deal with wheat specula- | tion, and place the world's wheat in {the hands of the consuming publiz | with the minimum of spread between [the price received by the farmer and the price paid by the consumer, then [it is worthy of very serious consider- lation. Many efforts have been mada {to control wheat marketing in this | way, but none of them have been tully successful. There was always |some way in which either the farmer {or the consumer had to suffer, and | speculation went on just the same. Mr, Trethowan will find an attentive |audience in the Canadian farmers, | tor they have been worrying greatly during the past year regarding tho | marketing of their wheat crops. He {will find them willing to listen, and {if they find that his scheme, what- ever it may be, is a sound one, with | certainty of success, then he will find | them willing to go into it enthusias- [tically. But they must be shown | that itis a good thing, and that {they will not be victimized in any | way, and they must also be convine- ed that it will enable Canada to dis- rose of her great wheat crops to the [very best advantage. As one of the | greatest wheat producing countries {in the world, Canada has a vital in- terest in the proposition, but we feel tht if it is as"good as the Australian A visitor seems to think, then he | should take it up, not in an unot- | ficial way through the medium of | meetings of farmers, but in an of- | ficial way through the government { department which 1s Interested in {the matter. ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR | BY SAM HILL Too True. This coin is hard to get, But, gosh! what makes me weep Is finding that the stuff Is harder still to keep. Observations of Oldest Imhabitant, I kin remember when a girl's ple- ture was supposed to show her pretty face instead of her shapely calves and well-turned ankles. War A THE CHIGGERS ARE DIGGING IN!!! Might Help Some. "They broke the news gently." "Gee, I wish our cook would learn to break dishes that way." Badly Framed Picture. But when folks are unkind But when folks are unkind It always puts her in An ugly frame of mind. A Prise Fish Story (Warren (Mo.) Eagle-Democrat) Sell Johnson and son went fishing Saturday and caught a hoot owl Fool Questions. "Beatrice" asks: "What kinds of wool do people who knit their brows get?" May be it's the wool that has been pulled over others' eyes, Bea- trice. Even That's Dangerous These Days "To take a flve-mile drop, I do not care," sald Wink; "But if I could get it I'd like a drop to drink.® © Always Interrupting Him, "It says here that when reading a man usually gets through about 400 words a minute," remarked Mrs. Grouch. "He don't get through more- than four words a minute if his wife Ig in the same room with him," growled her brutal husband. People You Meet. Somefellowsruntheirwordstogether- likethiswhentalkingtoyou. and Others drawl like this. them out Poems You Ought Not To Misa. (Discovered in Western Contemporary by K.. L., of Piqua, Ohio) THE LINK You are large, and I am small, I don't know nothing at all, My old house is In the lane; Yours is high, and high again. I peeped thru my blinds at you Twining roses wet with dew.' (Down there where the chickens scrateh); I went down to my rose patch, Found a rose, a twining one; Pinned it on my torn apron. Now I'll come and dance with you Round the roses wet with dew! --Mrs. Lora Potter. Ouch! "I wonder why blondes are the ones who vamp the men," mused the Smart Aleck, ? "Probably a, case of like attractin like. Most men are light-headed," snapped the Brunette. Gives Us a Pain. Of things we hate There are a number, But hate the mist A darn cucumber, EC -- Them Was the. Days. "I surely do miss the dear old bar. tenders," said Colonel Boozem. "Why so, Colonel? You have a You want to drink, don't you? asked, his friend. "Oh, yes, but a Dbootlegger listen to you when yo& tell won't The rich suffer litua | mighty gocd bootlegger and get antl BBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY [3 SELF DENIAL: --Whoso- | ever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For who- soever will save his life shall lose! same shall gave it.--Mark 8: 34, 35. troubles in the kindly way the old- | fashioned barkeep used to," replied the | Colonel. { de | What's the Fare to Wilmington? | ("Dusty" Miller in Wilmington News- | g Journal) | "Whither do your footsteps tend?" | asks a Cincinnati Enquirer poet. | Well, to be honest about it, Just. now | ours tend toward the kitchen where | the cherry ple is. . | Daily Sentence Sermos. Playing with fire is the world's poorest form of amusement. News of the Names Club. C. O. Lector, of Miami, will find the "Nobody home" sign on the door When he calls at the clubhouse. 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