THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. Fubtienes Daily and Semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED «s+. President «+, Editor tant} sing -Director TELEPHONES: er ee -------- MAXIMUM COAL PRICES. Ceming right on top of the declara- {tion of one United States coal opera- {tor that the public would have "o {meet the bill of costs of the coal strike by paying more for their fuel, | Governor Sproule, of Pennsylvania, | has issued a proclamation setting the {maximum price of $8.50 per ton of | 2,240 lbs. for the prepared sixes of i anthracite coal. As most of thepeople in Ontario, outside of those who are already well supplied with coal, are perturbed in regard to their winter's {fuel and its cost, this proclamation |is of great interest. This maximum | price was fixed by the Pennsylvania {fuel commission after an exhaustive | Investigation of the si'uation, and the |state authorities are prepared to en- [force it with the full power of the {state, If this is done, the price of anthracite coal, from Pennsylvania mines, during the coming winter should only be a little higher than {the price which prevailed last spring. In setting this price the commis- | slon apparently wished to safeguard cattle and building up 'he herd from the highest rated strains, | profits at the game time. While milk | {was sold by weight only "he most en- |thusiastic stock breeders faced the question of production fairly and | squarely, and tried to improve. Now {all are obliged to do 80, and they have [the sa'isfaction of knowing that their | Bnancial returns will be in direct pro- | portion to the ability and labor they | put into their work. Already the farmers are beginning io realize the benefits of The Dairy | Standards Act, and the cheese mak- ers, at first loud in thelr protests, now regard it as a great benefit, because they are not only able -to turn out cheese of uniformly high quality, but their work is much easier, The dairy | inspector, too, praises the act because | ne is no longer called upon to insti- | tute prosecutions against farmers for | contaminating milk by the addition [of water, and there has not been one | prosecution this year. Every year {hundreds were fined for putting Sass senses 292 (the public from having to bear the | Water in the milk to increase the 80.00 $358 | commencement of the strike. The | year, i mot in ad year, vo ine Btntes $ "TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, ¥., Calder, 23 8¢t, Johm 5t, Montreal hompson ....100 King 5¢t. W, Toveunto, ublished of the Letters to the Kditer are p BRIy "over the aetuul nnme | Writer, ¢ | Attached fs ome of ihe best Joh | printing offices in Canada, The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authienticated by the ABU Audit Bureau of Circulations : : " Tae AustraMan rabbit never knows Iwghether ho will be a felt hat or a tgealokin coat. Showers for the bride are simply 8 delicate allysion to the fact that abe will reign. \ Roman's inalienable right to work doesn't lessen the hurt when a picket eracks his head, Many men who hate the female of #he species are attracted by the fe- male with the specie, To the cynic, love is just a con- wiction that it is easier to get along with one than without one. 'There is always room at the top for "he man who has an uneasy feeling that he isn't earning his salary. ? Bafety first consists in assumjng that the driver you are meeting 'Hasn't any more sense than you have, A man may look for an hour and fail to find a lost collar button, but he can find trouble in a few minutes. "These professional rain-makers may not get results, but they seem about as efficient as the dry agents. 'When we sée one of those pain- fully dignified fellows, we can't help wondering bow he looks in a might shirt. Chiming bells move us to happy $houghts unless they do it while we are trying to sleep on Sunday morn- tog. 'While beating swords into plow- shares, it might have been a 'good to beat a few of them into - Our own guess is that after con- ering the world Alexander died of Page while trying to collect the in- demnity, <: _ Most of the chaps who handle the ller jobs wonder if an executive tell the difference when he takes [J 'What can a working girl live on? pil, she can live on the money wast- by those who tell her what she d live on. ------------ 'There are just two classes of work- those who keep an eye on the nan, and those who keep an eye the foreman's job. «a If you live to a ripe old age, yoa m get your picture In the paper, some people accomplish that by ng rotten while young. The grandson of a great Indian hief of Manitoba says there will be 0 cold weather until late December, ut straw hats have gone, is announced that the ancient made soap, but as thay no soap boxes they stood opt st radicalism for centuries, ------ is to be exempt from 3 stage, prob- f Because it Is fel: that the way gs have been going on there is a : x Ohio mayor who offers a re- 'for the apprehension of the son who threw a bottle of moon- fuse the bottle was expense of the strike, The figure of $8.50 is only very little higher than {that which JMrevailed prior to tha i men went back to work on exactly the | '$1.30 | same wage scale as existed in April, | 8! 50 that, from this angle, there is no increase in the cost of production. The spring price for the same class of coal at the mines ranged from $8.10 to $8.25 per gross ton. The price set by the commissioners, $8.50 per ton, is based on the fact that the cost of production is no higher, ex- cept for the fact that the state pro- ducers have to pay a tax of twenty- | six cents per ton which has come into | effect gince the strike started. | In view of this maximum price at the mines, the people of Ontario have a right fo'expect that their coal shall cost them only from twenty-five to forty cents more than it did in the spring. The only possible factor which might upset their expectations | is the Jaw of supply and demand, and [ this may cause an unnatural spread between the price at the mines and | the retail price, There is undonbted- [2 going to be a shortage of coal this | winter. The allocation to Ontario of { only sixty per cent. of ite normal sup-~ {ply is bound to cause the demand to | be greater than the stocks available, and there {8s a possibility that the dealers may try to outbid cach other in their efforts to secure coal for the jobbers, The whole situation lies in the hands of the consuming public, If they try to insist on full supplies of anthracite, then there will be compe- tition and over-bidding, and the price will soar. By making use of substi: tutes or other forms of coal during the Barly winter and the early spring months, however, they will be able to make the reduced supply suffice, and the price will be very little higher, Jhe whole matter resis entirely in their own hands, and if they would protect themselves they will pursusy the far-sighted and wise policy of conserving the anthracite supply in every possible way. ---------- HON. MANNING DOHERTY. The Kingston Fair was honored this year by the presence of the min- ister of agriculture, Hom. Manning Doherty, and there is more than usual significance in this fact. He is the first minister of agriculture to 80 honor our fair;"and he is one who had the courage of his convictions in setting at precedent while in office by putting into effect an unpopular measure, but one that he knew was in the interest of ihe dairy business of Ontario. This measure was the Dairy Standards Act, the provision sof which were revolytionary inasmuch as they called for an entire change with respect to the basis of the valu- ation of milk when sold to creameries and cheese factories. Farmers were formerly paid for milk by weight, but the new act made the butter fat con- tent the basis of value. At one stroke the minister put an end to the sur- reptitious addition of water to in- crease the quantity of milk--a prac- tice all too prevalent--eecured a purer and higher quality of dairy pro- ducts and stimulated a new interest in 'the breeding of dairy cattle that is destined to have a far-reaching in- fluence on production, No minister of the crown ever aé- complished more for agriculture, and the dairy industry in parifcular, than Hon. Mr: Doherty did In the face of the most strenuous opposition. For two years he had to meet defiance on the part of those determined to de- feat his purpose, and, while the en- forcement of the act was delayed for one year, he was not moved however unpopular he might become, He is reported to have said to friends who remonstrated with him and warned him against the resentment of the farmers: "I came into the govern- ment and I can go out, but I can go knowing that I did what was abso- lutely right." Just so long as the old conditions remained there was no prospect of improvement either in quality or quantity production, and the Cana- dian farmers would have little pros- pect of holding their own against the competition of Buropean countries in the butler and cheese markets. Now every farmer with a dairy herd find¢ that he must breed for Production, at by weeding out low producing & f bulk and weight, thus defrauding the {cheese factory and dairy while put- | ting the operator Zo the trouble of {eliminating the surplus water in the | process of manufacture. Hon. Mr, Doherty is deserving of {the highest praise for the Dairy | Standards Act, which is sound econ- | omically and scientifically, and marks |a distinct advancement in the dairy | Industry in this province. Its im- | portance is realized when we con- | sider the annual value of dairy pro- | ducts. The total for the dominion ex- ceeds $95,000,000, over fifty per cent. of which is produced in this province, But while there has been an improvement in production during {the past ten years there is {ll much [to be done to increase the product of the average herd. Dr. J. H. Grisdale, deputy minister of agriculture, Ot'a- wa, is quoted as saying that there is no reason why the average cow should not increase by more than fifty per cent. within the next three or four years, ---------- THE HIGH TARIFF IN EFFECT. With the signing of the long-de- bated, new high tariff bill by Presid- ent Harding, the United States amended tariff rates have gone Into effect, and there now exists between Canada and the country to the south a tariff wall which is higher than any which had ever been con- templated prior to the election of the present Republican regime. The bill, which was at first promised an easy passage through congress, was passed only after a hard fight in both the senate and the house of repre- sentatives, and after mueh smend- ment. The opposition came from both political parties, and although the measure was passed finally, in its amended form, it is by no means a popular one. The passing of this taiiff bill is a direct blow at trade between tho United States and Canada. Not only does it impose tariff rates which are prohibitive, but it aims them direct- ly at agricultural products, which, in the past, have formed a very large part of Canada's exports to the United States. In ome way, this will the Canadian west, who have hereto- fore been able to compete in the United States markets on a basis ot equality in price, but with an advan- tage in the quality of their products, This condition no longer exists, for the tariff is so high that, at the pres- ent price of wheat, it gives the Unit- ed States farmer an advantage of from twenty-five to thirty per cent. in price. There can only be one remedy for this from the Canadian point of view. New markets must de found for the surplus of the grain crop. The United States cannot hope to have wheat for export without the Canadian supply, and the loss of the foreign market to the United States gives Canadian farmers an opper- tunity to seize these markets and hold them. Canada will not altogeth- er be a loser by the new tariff, for In securing new markets tor wheat and the other products affected by it, there will be opportunities for further trade. expansion which chould be for the ultimate benefit of the country. In the new fariff rates the peaple of the United States are Hable to fina 2 two-edged sword which will cut both ways. No country can live to itself in an economic sense; and by raising a wall of prohibitive tariffs that is exactly what our neighbor is trying to do. It 1s trying to give its home industries 3> monopoly fn ts own markets and a measure of pro. tection far in excess of what they need. It means that the United States' produgers can increase: thelr prices by substantial percentages and still undersell their foreign com- petitors. Once again the consuming public will have to pay, for it is an accepted economic truism that every tariff is ultimately paid by the con- suming public. The of the United States are not likely 'to sub mit meekly to this increase in Hv- ing costs imposed upon them by the!r Oowa government, but when they elected the Republicans in 1920 they knew that they werd electing the party of high tariffs and the big f1- ¥ he will | | raise the average and increase his | be a heavy blow to the farmers of | A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY { Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there [1s no talebearer, th |=----Proverbs 26: 20. 1 et et tte sat ttt | nancial and industrial Interests, and [80 they have only themselves to | blame. In the final analysis, the United States will lose more by the high tariff than it will gain, and its effect on Canada will not be so ser!- ous as was anticipated when the measure was first introduced. BY SAM HILL . Atta Boy ! Our traffic cop declares That he is tired and needs a rest, But must stay on the job Because the gpeeders need arrest. Observations of Oldest Imbabitant, I kin remember when a man wasn't considered kind'a queer because he would get up and give his seat in the street car to a lady. Ah, Gwan ! "What 4s good for asked the Flapper. "Well, I bleached mine," former brunette, blackheads?" replied the Wouldn't It Be Nice "These POST NO BILLS signs would make a bigger hit with me," re- marked Mr. Hardupp," if they would only paste them on the post office and all the mail boxes." Oey +} Here's Poor Henry, Again! "Alas," sighed Henry Peck, i "My wife is not a flapper, | But I will tell the world She aurely is a scrapper® \ -- \ Call for the 8. P. C. A," "Pa, no boy should be cruel, should he?' asked Clarence, "No, of course, not," replied his dad. "Then why do you insist on my cut- ting the lawn and why does ma make me beat the rugs?' demanded Clar- ence. What the Sam HM! (Johnstown Cor. Newark (Ohio) Ad- vocate) The Johnstown Independent in an- nouncing the birth of a son to Mr. Sam Hill, who belteves in thrift and economy, opened & savings account for the young man with the Johns town loan a few hourg after his ar- rival" * » Fool Questions. F. G. asks: "Why is it Fall Prices never fall, but rise? We give it up. A Man's Farewell To His Old Bus. No more new tires for you, Old Car, You've given me the last hard bump; You surely need to be retired 80 I will park you on the dump. Safe Bet. "The first iron raliroad was laid in England in 1767." Newg item. And we suppose the first strike was called the day after it was completed. -- Ok, You Cute Thing! (Superior (Wis.) Telegram) The bride wore a gown of orchid organdy and lace and carried a bou- quet of sweet peas and asters. Mr, Diehl wore flesh-colored georgette W'th a corsage of sweet peas. Brute, It's not thelr husbands whe Make women rage. But Father Time, who makes Them show thelr age. "Daily Sentence Sermocx. Don't forget when you are: laughing at the other fellow he is Mmughing at you -- News of the Names Club. Charity Dear, of Detroit, is wel- come to-day, A. Finger, of 8t. Louis, is welcome, also, but he'd be more welcome If he Was three of them. Mercy. Rounder: "It states here they have invented a new swimming belt which Is flat under the arms and gives the swimmer the greatest freedom movement. It must be some belt it gives any more freedom of movement than the belt the women call one- piece bathing suits do." The Missus: "Yes, and if the Women start wearing them we will go to the mountains and not to the sea- shore next year." S-- Aha and Aha! We hear they're going down, boys! Yes, skirts are coming down, But we shouldn't worry or frown, For they will bring the tops with them, Ha Ha Lou. acres--3,000,000 less than in 1921. Q.--Does Canada use the Panama Canal, and in what way? A. ~--Canada uses the Panama Can- al, among other ways, for the ship- ment of wheat from Vancouver to million : FURNISH NO FUEL:---| e strife ceaseth. | | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR | S| { and Mrs. 'W. A. Ashbrook reports that | © | | | [ 18 i ppl ry YoU. 129% ONLY' A" LIMITED! QUANTITY _ COME IN AT ONCE WHILE OUR SIZES / ARE COMPLETE Blue} Serge*Suits THES FINEST W ALVES TRE WORLD'S BIBBY'S Kingston's One-Price Clothing' Store 78, 80, 82 PRINCESS STREET . MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED, = Tire These Tires are first Kingston. TOYS. MOORE'S ENDS SATURDAY, SEPT. 30th 30x3; '8.75 teed. Regular price $12.00. We only have a few. The biggest bargains ever offered in MOORE Sale quality and guaran- '9 We Are readquarters for | Russ. ; MATERNITY and SICK-ROOM SUPPLIES McCLARY'S "CANADA" BRAND ENAMEL WARE PRESERVING KETTLES in finest grade made. Mottled Blue out- side and white lining. A complete assortment and low priced. 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Phone 843 A sagt The Telgmany: School of . usic Piano, violin and other stringed in. struments. Alida V. Te mann, BE, teacher of Elocution and elsarte sys. tem of Physical Culture. Pupils may begin at any date. Terms on applica« 484 BROCK ST. ; Phone 2217). Two Cars Egg and | Stove Size Particularly adapted for Hot Air Furnaces and Quebec Heaters. Price 15.00 5 Crawford COAL Phone 9. Foot of Queen St s